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TILE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MOfiNINCI, MARCH 20, 1844. came here to proclaim to the people of Coventry the I'll tell you what you would do; you wouldnot commitany wrongs of Ireland, and to demand, upon the part of the act of disloyalty—you would not do anything by which Irish people, your sympathy and support. You all have you would forfeit that allegiance and fidelity which you owe heard of the proceeding at Covent-gardenyou all have ' to our beloied Queen—(Cheers) —but the old spirit which heard of the reception which the Anti-Corn-law League ; was roused iii the days of Charles I. would be roused gave me as the representative of the Irish people. The again in the breasts of the men of England—swords people of Ireland have heard of these proceedings ; they t would tremble at the sides of the civilians, and you would have heard of the reception which I met with, not as an put down this injustice—without bloodshed, it is true,but individual, but because the principles of fair play and with infallible success, for England would not bear it. justice had been violated as regarded me.—(Cheers.) i England ought not to bear it, and Ireland ought not to I own I was for a moment to-day apprehensive that bear it. I have protested against this injustice, and, in fair play was not known in Coventry ; there were ! answer, I have been accused of conspiracy. Let them little symptoms which perhaps .I then thought would I send me to prison ; but will they, by so doing, lessen justify me in that suppOsition, but from what I ; the desire of the people of Ireland to have a Parliament have since witnessed I repudiate, I trample upon such of their own ? Will they remove the sense of injus an idea, and I rejoice that you have shown your- tice ? Will they, by sending me to a dungeon, diminish selves—what Englishmen always are found to be the influence which I have over the people of Ireland -really lovers of fair play, and that you have shown a I that influence over their affections which is astonishing firm determination to maintain those principles, and sup- Ito myself? They may immure me in a dungeon, but port the impartial .administration of justice. I have ; the affections of the people will smooth any mattrass of come amongst you to declare the sufferings of the people I straw, and I shall lay down my head on that mattress with of Ireland. It is stated by the Commissioners of Poor- happier feelings than the Ministers, who, by trickery and law Inquiry in Ireland, that out of her population there injustice, and partiality, sent me there.—(Great cheering.) are no less than 2,385,000 who are in a state of desti- This is the last crime they have committed against tution during a considerable portion of the year. Now, Ireland. In former times, when these crimes were that is a proportion of one-fourth of the w hole popula- committed against Ireland, the people of England, either tion in a state of complete destitution for a portion of the unhappily were active agents in the injustice, or they year.—(Hear.) Could anything, I ask, be better cal- stood by and looked on its perpetration with indiffe culated than that statement to enlist the best feelings rence. Thank God, the case is altered now—( Cheers) of the human heart in the cause of Ireland, and to de- —and a day has come when all good Englishmen of mand the best and most strenuous exertions of every class and persuasion are coming forward to evince every friend of humanity ?—(Hear, hear.) But the their strong sympathy for the people of Ireland, and evidence which I can bring forward of the desti- their determination to have justice done to her. Oh, tution and suffering of an immense portion of it is delightful to see such a sight as that which I now the people of Ireland does not rest there, for an witness,_. it is delightful to see such men as your res additional proof of that misery and destitution is to be petted Mayor coming forw and to express his sympathy found in the fact of the population decreasing at the for Ireland. I was gratified beyond measure when he was rate of 70,000 per annum, and there cannot possibly be forced to speak of himself, to hear all the qualities that any greater proof of destitution than that which is af- characterise the Christian and the gentleman conceded to forded by the retrograding of population, for population him by your universal acclamation ; and I could not re will continue to increase for a long time after a nation's train from saying, Thank God, such men are the sup prosperity has departed; but in no country, unless in porters and friends of Old Ireland.—(Cheers.) I have long one in a state of complete destitution, can the population struggled for the rights of the people, and lam delighted continue to decrease as it has done for several years in now to find such sympathy and support. I struggled for Ireland. It has been stated by the Commissioners of and obtained emancipation, not on any sectarian prin- Poor-law Inquiry that no less than 70 per cent, of the ciple, but on the broad principle that every man ought agricultural population of Ireland are living in houses to be allowed to worship God according to his con consisting only of one room—in huts which no farmer in science. It was on that principle we carried emancipa.- England would think of putting his pigs into.—(Shame, tion; and here let me boast of the support which I gave shame.) That is the state in which the agricultural the Protestant Dissenters of England. They were not population is described to be living; and what is the de- active enough in seeking their own emancipation; but scription of the condition of the town population of Ire- we showed the example, and they followed it; and there land? The Commissioners state in their Report, that is the hand which drew up and presented a petition, .30,000 of the town population live in single rooms. When signed by 28,000 Catholics, praying for emancipation for such is the state of Ireland, is it not, I ask, the duty of the Protestant Dissenters, and that petition reached every Irishman to proclaim it ? Is it not the duty of Parliament very shortly before the gates were thrown every Irishman to call upon the wise; and the good, and open to the Protestant Dissenters.—(Cheers.) I pre the generous of England, aye, and of every country and sented that petition on the same principles as those clime, for their sympathy anti support ?—to call on them on which I sought for emancipation for the Roman to unite in one voice of determination, to protest against Catholics of Ireland—the principles of civil and re its continuance, in such a manner as will frighten the ligious liberty for all—(Cheers)—of a perfect equality tyrants that now maintain it, and in a way that must of rights. It was with a view to obtain that equality succeed in obtaining the full and perfect rights of the of rights that I sought for emancipation ; but has people ? - (Cheers.) Let no one tell me, then, that I emancipation given us an equality of rights in Ireland ? am looking only for the abstract political rights of the No such thing. If we had an equality of rights, would Irish people, or that they complain of imaginary grief- the Catholics have been struck off the jury, as they had -antes, and seek for the removal of those grievances that been at the late trials ? After pointing out the unfair press so heavily upon them, and which are defended ness of the late Irish trials, he thus concluded :—I hale only by the haughty aristocratic advocates of oppres- detained you too long, perhaps—(No, no)—but I have sion. A gentleman, who made an - eloquent speech to left the monster grievance of Ireland untouched. I you to-day, said that I was not looking for " repeal of mean the Church Establishment in Ireland. In Eng the union, but for justice." Now, he was mistaken in land the Established Church is the Church of the ma his view of my objects, for, although it is true that lam jority ' in Scotland it is also the case ; but in Ireland, looking for justice to the Irish people, yet I see no the Church of 500,000 or 600,000 persons is the Esta prospect of justice—l believe there is none in any other blished Church, which 6,000,000 of Catholics are bound means, than by the restoration ofher domestic legislature to maintain. Is it not too bad that 6,000,000 of Ca to Ireland. If, indeed, the English Parliament were tholics should be forced to pay for the Church of differently composed—if it consisted of such men as those 500,000 ; but the Established Church in Ireland pro whom I see assembled to-day, then, indeed, there would duces other evils in that country—it is the Shib be a better chance of seeking for justice from that Par- boleth of a party which stimulates the gentry who are liament. 7 --(Hear, hear.) If the English Parliament con- looking for future promotion for their sons and sons-in sisted of men of humanity and liberality of mind, an4l law, through the means of that Church ; therefore, generosity of feeling, such as those I see around me, then I say, that the monster grievance of Ireland is the Este there would be more hope of success.—(Cheers.) But blished Church; and when I say so, do I want to gain is that the case?—(No, no.) Does any man doubt— advantage for, or to injure any particular religion? Do can any man for a moment doubt, that the Parliament I want to injure the interests of any of my Protestant is very differently constituted, and that the effect of fellow -countrymen? Oh! God forbid. No, if any one class legislation must be t o p reve nt the granting of jus- proposed the introduction of a law that would have tbr tice to the people of either England or Ireland?—(Cheer,.) its object the slightest restriction of the Protestant reli- What can Ireland have to expect without an Irish Par- gion, or the least interference with the rights of an y liament? Why, Sir James Graham said last year that con- Protestant, that Protestant does not live who could be cession to Ireland had already gone a sufficient extent, half so determined or strenuous as I wou ld b e i n my and that it could not proceed further. Concession to Ire- opposition to such a law.—(Cheers.) What I want is fair play, and that the Protest an t s , w h o are t h e r i c h er land! Why, that is just as if a robber took away your money from you forcibly, and would not concede to give persons in Ireland, should support their religion—that they should not call upon the Catholi cs f or th a t pur lastyou back one farthing of it.—<Cheers.) Now, if in the Parliament it was declared by a member of the Go- pose, who, in addition to contributing to the vernment that concession had gone its full length, n hat Protestant Church in Ireland, su pp or t their own . hopes can Ireland have of justice ? But there has been clergy. That is an injustice, and we have a brought in this session a Bill, for the purpose of laying right to complain of it ; it is a grievance of the foundation of the robbery of our remaining rights, a most unfair and unjust nature; for nothing can small as they are—a Bill for the purpose of extinguish- be more unjust than to oblige a man with Christian ing the franchise in Ireland. It is true they do not call feelings to contributeto a religion which he does not be it by that name—they do not say that they have intro- lieve to be true.—(Hear, hear.) If I went to a man and duped it for that purpose—they call it a Bill for the im- said to him, " Father M‘Ghee is my priest ; he is an provernent of the franchise ; and—but, as I wish to excellent pastor, a good man in every respect, so Iwish call a spade a spade—(A laugh)—l denounce that Bill to that you would pay him ;" the man says, in answer, the people of England as a gross injustice to the Irish "He may be a very good man, but Ido not believe in people.—(Hear.) I will show you that it is an injustice the doctrine which he teaches." If I then said to him, t oTreland. It p ro p oses th at no man s h a ll h ave a vote i n " Oh, l am th e St a t e , an d w h e th er you b e li eve hi s d oe - Ireland who is not rated for the poor-rates at 10/. a year. trines or not you must pay him, for I believe him ;" if Now, the Irish tenant who is rated at 101. for the I spoke and acted in that manner, would not the man poor-rate pays at least 201. a year; and when it is recol lected that in Ireland the landlord pays half the poor rate, it will be seen that the tenants rated at 10/afor the poor-law would include those, generally speaking, who have an interest with 40/. a year, thus depriving the im mense number of small holders in Ireland of all chance of the franchise. Why, by this Bill no less than two thirds of the inhabitants of Tipperary, that is, all the small holders, will not have a single vote.—(Shame, shame.) Those who brought in this Bill, and wish to destroy the franchise in Ireland, were afraid, however, that the high rating would not be sufficient to answer that purpose, and accordingly they have introduced the principle of what is called the Chandos clause, which allows tenants-at-will to vote. Now; the effect of that will be to hand over the representation of the people ' of Ireland to the Orange landlords. That is the pur pose, and that will be .the effect of this Bill, and I an nounce it as my reply to those who will tell me to wait and see what an English Parliament will do for Ireland.—(flear,- hear.) This is the first time in my life that I have been enabled to announce to the people of Ireland that there is sympathy for them felt by the people of England.—(Cheers.) I have already informed them of that sympathy—l have announced to them the receptions which I met at Birmingham and in London, and I will have the gratification of announcing to them that at Coventry also there was a similar display of syin pathy with their sufferings arid determination to sup port them.—(Cheers.) I will be able to announce to - them that whatever feelings tending -to cause itritation formerly existed, they are now at an end, and that the people of Coventry are amongst those who will not par ticipate in any iniquitous design against the liberties of be Irish people.—(Lcud cheers.) Am I not right in 'oohing for a repeal of the union, to put an end to the injustice which Ireland has suffered ?—(Cheers). If, by looking for a repeal of the union, I sought a separation of the two countries, then, indeed, I would be wrong in seeking it—,-but a repeal of the union would not produce a separation—it would unite the countries more closely. - Why, Ireland had her own Parliament for 600 years without separating from England ; and although it be- came more valuable towards the latter period of its con tinuation, yet it never caused any separation. Ido not, therefore, seek any separation from England in looking for a repeal of the union—l do not seek any other King or Queen—l am satisfied with the dear little lady that rules over us.—(Cheers and laughter.) Ido not want to establish any peculiar religion. I only wish that Ireland should have a Parliament to manage her ovi n an s sirs—l wish to put an end to that system of centralisa tion which injures every country where it is applied; and in order to do so, I wish to have in Ireland a local Par liament for local purposes.—(Loud cheers.) Why should we not be allowed to manage our 'own affairs by a local Parliament ? There is not a small dependent province belonging to Britain that has not a local h-gis lature. Canada has a Parliament of her 'own, Nola 'Scotia has a Parliament of her own, Newfoundland has a Parliament of her own, Jamaica has a Parliament of her own, Barbadoes has a Parliament of her own—even Botany Bay has her own Parlian.ent—(A laugh)—and why,- then, I ask, shoUld Ireland not have her own Le gislature ?—(Cheers.) lam seeking to restore it to her: that is what I am struggling for, and nothing else ; and if I thought a repeal of the union would lead to a sepa ration, I here solemnly assure you that I would take no part in the struggle.--(Cheers.) Is it from a want of a fruitful country, . or from any other deficiency of natural resources, that the Irish people are in this state of misery which I have described ? Oh, no, there is no country in the world which possesses a more abundant soil, or produces more plentifully all the means of human subsistence -=the re is no part of the globe that furnishes in such abundance all the prime ne cessaries oflife—no country on the earth has greater ad vantages in a commercial point of view. Her geogra phical position, at the extreme west of the European world, and open to all the produce of America, ought to make her the entrepot of commerce ; her noble harbours, her magnificent estuaries, render her fitted beyond al most any other other nation-for commerce ; and her fa cilities of water communication are so great that their is not a portion of her whole extent thirty miles removed from the advantages of maritime transit.—(Hear) If I see her, then, possessing all those natural advantages. and ifanotwithstanding all this, I find her people suf tering extreme misery and destitution, am I not bound to raise my voice against it, and call upan you to assist me in putting an end to this state of things? Oh, it was not God that inflicted this misery I No. Providence has given her advantages with a bountiful hand. God blessed the land, but . the -wicked work of arussahas produced this affliction, and has trampled on those blessings. It may be said, however, to me, that the Irish are an- idle people, and that they do not suffi ciently cultivate the fertile soil with which their country has been blessed. Oh, give them protection in the cul tivation of their land, and you will find them no id!ers. —(Cheers.) Idle ! Why what town in England has not her streets crowded with them in search of employ ment. Idlers I 'Why, do they not throng in vast numbers to the manufacturing districts to obtain work, and thus make the union the greatest curse which can befal the English people, by reducing their wages — by enabling a griping disposition to reduce wages, or by enabling the master manufacturers, in the natural and fair pursuit of their profits, to lower the wages that are erYell to English workmen, by sending so large an 'amount of labour into the market ? Bad government is the real evil of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) The people are deprived of their just privileges and franchises.—(bear, hear.) Even the people of England have not a fair share of the privileges to which they are entitled. The man is a slave who cannot vo.e for a representative. You have a slave class in England; but yet you are, with all that ,deprivation, as free again compared with the peop!e of vland.—(Hear, hear.) I saw a picture of Charles I.' s ok iewhere in this hall to-day.—(Laughter and cheers.) to - whom I so addressed myself, if he were strong enough to do so, assist me to a quick march as soon as possible?—(Cheers and laughter.) Well, that is what is done in Ireland every day. A Protestant says to me, " You must pay my parson ;" and I say to him, " I'd rather not." "Why so ?" he asks me. " For a reason I have," I reply. " What is your reason ?" he demands. " Because I don't believe he tells truth," I answer.—(Great laughter.) " Well," he continues, " truth or no truth, you must pay him, and I'll indict you for a conspiracy if you complain."—(Renewed laughter and great cheering.) That is the fact in Ire land—it is literally the way in which the case stands ; and although I may cover it with the light colour of jocularity, as the custom of my countrymen is in many of their most serious sufferings, yet believe me that it is an injustice of a grievous and oppressive nature ; it is, indeed, the monster grievance of Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Is it not a gross injustice to compel us to assent and give our support to the propagation of that which we believe to be error ? As an Irishman, I abominate that in justice ; and, as a Christian, I appeal to the God of Justice against it. lam struggling for justice for Ireland, which would be obtained by a restoration of her Parliament. I appeal to you all, was there ever a Parliament from which I could have less hopes than the present, with its Chandos clause and its corn-law tax— that tax which makes the poor man pay a high price for his loaf, in order that the rich man may be made richer? —(Hear, hear.) Why, Peel and Roebuck both ad mitted that there never was so much bribery practised as at the last election, and that is the Parliament that declared, with one hundred majority, against Ireland. All I ask for Ireland, all I demand for her, is fair play. But what chance have I of that in such a Parliament ? —(Hear, hear.) There is no chance of it; but if you want to try and get the Repealers away from me, show the Irish a chance of justice, and, perhaps, you may get the Repealers to join you; but for myself such promifes or expectations would be of no use, for I am too old a bird to be caught by chaff—(Laughter)---and I look to an Irish Parliament for the only redress for the grievances of Ireland. I have no hopes but in an Irish Parliament, and I would look upon the obtaining its restoration as the most useful and important occurrence that England ever witnessed; for if we had our domestic legislature the attention of the English Parliament would be more concentrated over England, and that time might be devoted by Englishmen to their own affairs, which is now consumed in Irish bye-battles, such as that which occupied ten or twelve days of the present session.— (Hear, hear.) If Ireland had her own Parliament, the foggy muddiness which, arising from those Irish squabbles in the Imperial Parliament, now darkens the political atmosphere so frequently, and prevents the inte rests of Englishmen from being so clearly discerned, would then be removed, and Englishmen w ould have a better chance of obtaining justice from an English Par liament, with a closer attenti)n to their own affairs. It would be advantageous in every respect ; Ireland, if she were wealthy, would be a better consumor for English manufactures, and a more prosperous sister-country. By the way, it is rather an odd thing to call Paddy a sister.—(Great laughter.) If that were the case Ireland would be united more firmly with England, and her union would prove more advantageous—she would be bound to England with adamantine ties. If you are desirous of taking away Repeaters from me, give them justice, and try to remove them from me by that means; but you never can convince me that any other than an Irish Parliament will give justice to Ireland, and I will go to the grave with that feeling ; but let me call on you now to join in doing that which will be of benefit to both countries—in giving a strong pull and a long pull for England and for Ireland— for Ireland and for England a strong pull, a long pull, and a pull altogether. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman resumed his seat, amidst loud cheering. The Rev. Dr. ULLATHORNE then addressed the meet ing, which soon after separated. ANONYMOUS LETTER-WRITING.—A well-conducted female servant, who had been dismissed from her servitude in a highly -respectabl e family in Hereferd; for telling a false hood by denying she had a " follower," drowned herself in the Wye about nine days since, her body being picked up on Friday se'nnight, about a mile from the house of a relative with whom she had found an asylum. There is too much reason - to believe that this unhappy and ill-fated girl was the victim of the heartless calumnies of one of her own sex ! An anonymous letter, in a feminine hand, was addressed to prwofloirgsaecoyfutpohen them a i parta the mistress of the deceased, cautioning the lady of the equi servofatnhte Vocal characterhin hinting g d and broadly girl, which, if true, would have seriously affected her reputa tion. The contents of the letter were communicated to the at somethinga ctso f known to some of the other ser vants and the rest of the household, and its purport, as a consequence, was also soon slanderous imputations innocence of her nature, detailed the wants residing in the neighbourhood. The deceased, in the to her lover, whom she was happy whose reception, upon the prospect of a going to be married_ to, and unionfor taking place, a house had been furnished. . The infamous insinuation preyed so much upon her sensitive and out ! raged feelings, that notwithstanding her betrothed scouted the charge with sco rn , ye t lif e b ecame i n t o l era ble to the poor girl, and destruction of her own existence became (in a moment when reason was overpowered by despair) the only apparent means of escape from the fangs of her secret per secutors The infamous and cowardly practice of sending anonymous slandering l e tt ers h as latterly much prevailed in Herefod. It is to b 3 hoped the horrible consequence which has in this instance been the result, will bring the au thors to the most contrite repentance ; but we must add, that those who listen to cruel and malicious slanders so conveyed are themselves responsible for much of the guilt of this vile sin.— Gloucester Journal. COLOURED GLASS.—The proportion of metal used in colouring glass is so small, that we could hardly suppose that it could produce any chemical effect. One thousand grains of glass are highly coloured by one grain of cobalt, Polytechnic Review. ANTI-LEAGUE. MEETING AT ABERDEEN. (From the Aberdeen Herald.) A fortnight ago, when we recorded the miserable failure of the first attempt to get up a county meet ing in support of the corn-laws, we expressed our belief that, if the landlords and factors were deter mined, they might, by resorting to the same means they had used to procure signatures to the requisi tion, still succeed in filling the Court-house with their adherents. It would seem, however, that we gave them credit for more influence than they really possess. The great demonstration came off yester day, and, but for the presence of a number of people belonging to the city, most of whom are free-traders, the meeting, after all, would have been, comparatively speaking, a thin one. We believe we are accurate in stating that, of the five thousand requisitionists, there were not present more than from three to four hundred. Long after the hour of meeting, there was room both in the galleries and the body of the house (which holds only some six or seven hundred), and when, in the end, it was nearly or quite filled, an estimate of the amount of the hissing with which the resolutions were received showed clearly that there was a strong minority willing to express dissent, although prevented, by the constitution of the meeting from giving any other opposition. The general character of the proceedings was just what might have been expected from a set of men who have always been hostile to free discussion, and who, in this particular instance, felt that they had nothing but misstatement and sophistry to advance. A gentleman in the gallery wished to ask a question, for information, of one of the speakers, but he was immediately put down by the Chairman ; while Mr. Lumsden, of Pitcaple—to the great admiration of his chief tenant, the miller—got up in a state of the greatest excitement, and, ss ith a loud tone and violent gesticulation, demanded that the questioner should be put out. After all the resolutions had been passed —or rather, after they had been proposed in the slump, and a show made of passing them—another gentleman got up, not to offer opposition, but simply to direct attention to a point that had been omitted. With some difficulty he obtained a hearing to his proposition, but that was all; the Chairman immediately told him that he had no right to speak—for nothing, it would seem, could be introduced but what had been arranged in the programme. Even Mr. Forbes, of Boyndlie—as stanch a Protectionist es was there—was snubbed and put down, because, instead of confining himself to abuse of the League and support of the corn-laws, he ventured to throw out some hints illustrative of his currency crotchet or theory. A few of the tenant-farmers were ostentatiously brought forward to propose or second resolutions, but they did nothing more ; they hardly ventured a sentence to explain their silence, and as fur reasoning in support of the statement they had the honour of reading, they seemed to think that altogether unnecessary. The Chairman attempted to put a stop even to the sounds of disapprobation that were from time to time uttered ; but in this he did not succeed, although he went the length, more than once, of hinting at physical force as a means of effecting his object. This is the way in which the landlords choose to dis cuss an important and complicated question. Such is their novel mode of deliberation! Well, so be it. We have no wish to quarrel with the means which our oppo nests take to advance their cause. The folly of resort ing to public meetings and preventing open discussion must sooner or later recoil on their own heads. The real effect of such pi ocedure was indicated in the taunts with which their hurried separation was greeted. Men who pretend to give a reason for their opinion, and yet are afraid to listen to a word of reply, or even ex planation, will never carry conviction into the minds of their fellow-countrymen. The four thousand six hundred requisitionists who were absent, and the hun dred and fifty thousand inhabitants of Aberdeenshire who neither signed nor were present, will look with great suspicion on arguments that cannot bear ex amination. The first speaker was the convener, Mr. Grant of Tillyfour. If, as was obviously the case, he intended to make an impression by the quasi facts he adduced relative to the price at which foreign wheat and barley can be imported, he will, we sus pect find himself grievously mistaken. Were it true, as Mr. Grant alleges—borrowing from some dishonest pamphlets put forth by the wholesale furnishers of protection fallacies—that wheat could be imported into this country—better wheat, too, than we can grow in Aberdeenshire (but which, after all, is not saying much)—at 20s. or 255. less per quarter than we pay for it, what is to be thought of the law that robs us so monstrously ? Of wheat alone there is consumed, in the United Kingdom, twelve or thirteen millions of quarters annually. What do our readers think of a system that, according to Mr. Grant's state ment, takes the large proportion of from twelve to sixteen millions sterling a year from the consumer. and puts it into the pockets of the landowners, and this on one kind of agricultural produce alone ! The con sumption of other sorts of grain is upwards of forty mil lions of quarters, and allowing even that half of this is never brought to market, but reserved for seed, feeding the agriculturists, their servants, and their horses, we shall have another four or five millions to add to the landlords' tax. Had Mr. Grant been hired by the League to exaggerate the burden of the corn -laws, he could not have taken a better method than this fo show that they rob the consumers of a sum. according to his own esti mate, of from sixteen to twenty millions sterling every year. There has been grumbling about the twenty millions:granted to the West Indian slave-owners, and we still complain of the tax imposed by their sugar mono dy—which, assuredly, is no mean grievance, being something upwards of five millions a-year ; but both taken together are a trifle, compared with this perpetual drain of twenty millions a-year, which, according to Mr. Grant, is taken from the poor bread-eaters, LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 19. The House sat to• day to hear appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, Lord Campbell, and Lord Colborne. THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT V. TAYLOR AND OTHERS. The arguments in this case were resumed, and occu pied their Lordships the whole day. The case not being concluded at four o'clock, the further consideration was adjourned till Monday. SHERIFFS' COURT, March 19. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff KENNEDY and Common Juries.) SINGLE V. GLUMER. This action was brought by the plaintiff, an auctioneer and surveyor, to recover from the defendant, a builder, residing near Blackheath -hill, the sum of 7L 18s. 6d., expenses incurred in the sale in June, 1843, of a house, formerly the property of the defendant, who was employed to dispose of it by auction. A bill was produced in Court specifying various expenses incurred by the plaintiff, on behalf of the defendant, amount ing to 41. 10s., which the defendant, by his solicitor, contended was the real amount in which he was indebted to the plaintiff; no further work having been done, and consequently no further expenses incurred. The plaintiff, however, contended that the letter in which the bill was sent specifying the above amount, viz., 41. 10s., contained other inclosures containing the full amount claimed, which, as it was not attached to the other bill, was not produced in Court. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 41. 103. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A young man, whose appearance was very much like that of a journeyman carpenter, and whose name was stated to be John Thirkell, was brought up in the cus tody of Daniel Forrester, the officer, charged by Mr. Muliens, of the firm of Freshfield and Muliens, solici tors to the Committee of Bankers for protection against forgeries and frauds, charged with having committed a series of forgeries upon the South vy ark department of the London and Westminster Bank. It appeared that, at the latter end of last year, Mr. Mullens having ascertained that a variety of forgeries had been perpetrated upon the Southwark department of the London and Westminster Bank, procured a war rant against the prisoner, and caused him to be appre hended. The present examination Was merely prelimi nary to sending the prisoner to Maidstone for trial. Edward Aiport Grattan, cashier in the Southwark branch of the Londai and Westminster Bank, stated that he paid the cheque produced for 151., dated 11th November, 1843, and signed Wm. Tubb, St. George's road, Borough, Southwark. Mr. Tubb, of St. G eorge's-road,- Borough, said that he kept an account at the Bank specified. The cheque produced was not signed by him, and the prisoner never had his authority to sign for Mr. R. Mullens stated, that on the 30th of December he applied to the magistrates at Maidstone, and obtained a warrant for the appehension of the prisoner, whom he believed to be John Thirkell. The prisoner was remanded. Aldeiman'Wn.soN took the opportunity of noticing that of late the railroad waggons and carts caused very serious obstructions in the street, in consequence.of their very great width between the wheels, and the manner in which they were loaded. He had frequently ob served how dangerous those unwieldy vehicles were, in passing through Watling -street, when parties walking with loads on their backs had to encounter the projecting loads of the waggons, 'and not seldom were jammed against the hcuses, and exposed to imminent danger. It was only that morning he perceived one of these waggons obstruct the passage of Cateaton-street, near Mr. Hall's house, and cause the greatest possible em barrassment and confusion for a full hour. In fact, another vehicle got entangled so completely with the waggon, that it became actually necessary to obtain the use of some machinery to raise the wheels, before th e annoyance en d e d. I t was i n d ee d, a hazardous thing for a man to hold up an umbrella in some places of narrow dimensions. He hoped that a representation would be made to Parliament through the Corporation. OTAHEITE. The following are two curious extracts from the cor respondence (just presented to Parliament) relating to the affairs of Otaheite. The first is a letter from Queen Pomare to Queen Victoria, and the second is a specimen of " Otaheitean legislation:"— " QUEEN PO3IARE AND CHIEFS OF OTAHEITE TO QUEEN VICTORIA. . " Otaheite, Nov. 8, 1838. " Salutations, greetings, and friendship to the mighty Queen of England. " That I, Queen Pomare, with chiefs and representa tives of my people, assembled to-day as one body and soul, to manifest to you, with the greatest delight, our sentiments of obligation your constant and Christian sympathy has laid us under. " That in doing so, we are not only fulfilling a duty transmitted to us by a generation nearly gone by, but that, accustomed from ehitdhood to cherish the name, we are following the impulse of our own hearts. " That since the first Englishman neared our shores in one of your vessels, we have praised you as the only nation which showed us a Christian heart, and now may you lend us a Christian hand. • " That the b!essings of your religion, which throfigh your pious exertions you taught us to follow, opened to us two new entrances to two new worlds, unknown here tofore to our poor people. " That with the assistance of Jcsus Christ and the pa ternal care of the missionaries, we may hope to secure one of these worlds ; b u t, th a t the other in which civiliza tion leads us into, begins to embitter our life, and will ultimately deprive us even of the domin:on of the graves of our ancestors, if we are left to our own resources.. "That the commerce yid industry which civilization attracts to our islands puts us daily into relations vt ith the white people, superior to us in mind and body, and to whom our institutions appear foolish, and our Govern ment feeble. " That we made our exertions, with the concurrence of what our poor experience and knowledge taught us, to obviate these difficulties; hut that if we have suc ceeded in enacting the laws, we cannot succeed in giving them the strength and force which they require. " That thus, in our utter impossibility to make our selves strong and respected, we are threatened in what we have dearest to our hearts—the Protestant faith and our nationality. " That we have nobody to assist us in our helpless situation except you, who implanted in our hearts, through your people, the love of Jehovah, the love of order and industry. " Do not let these good seeds perish; do not leave undone what you began, and what is so happily pro gressing; lend us your powerful hand; take us under your protection; let your flag cover us, and your lion defend us; determine the form through which we could shelu.r ourselves lawfully ender your wings; cause cur children to bless you, and to cherish your Christian feel ings as we do. . " May the Great Jehovah preserve you, and recom pense you for all you do in-our behalf. " Peace be with you, the Queen of Great Britain, &c. " QUEEN POMARE. " TATL " UTAML " PAOFAL " HITOTI. " P.S.—Should 'not what is written above be under stood by you, we refer you to Captain Elliott, command ing your Majesty's ship Fly. He is acquainted with our circumstances, and will make them fully known to. you. LAW PASSED BY THE OTAHEITEAN LEGISLATIVE BODY. " A Law concerning the Propagation of Tenets Incon sistent with the True Gospel:— " Let Otaheiie, and all the islands of the kingdom of Queen Poniare, Vahine the First, stand unique under that Gospel which the missionaries from Britain have propagated ever since the year 1797, that is, these forty years past. " When foreigners come from other countries to this, on their landing let th;s law be put into their hands, that they may know, if such persons persist in teaching tenets which are inconsistent with that true Gospel which has been of old propagated in Otahehite ; if they build houses for worship, if they congregate followers: in kinds of loacntdrin propagate ; uncultiv a t e d p l aces, t h at t h ey m i g h t teac h t h em a ll customs t h e s usual modes inds of w tr o a r n s aigfattehey trouble strange the sake of amusing that do notwith comport the written word of the God of Truth, such person has become guilty of breaking the law, and will be judged and awarded. This shall be his award. He will be sent to his own land, and shall not reside in Otahehite. "If any . Otaheitean shall propagate doctrines ilium sistent with the Gospel of Truth, such as are callel Manicsia, because they are doctrines inconsistent with those which have been taught by the missionaries from Britain, and with what . is found in th e wr i tten wor d of God, that person has violated the law ; if h e b e a person of rank or a common ma n, it is the same, he has broken the law, and will be judged and awarded. This will be his award. He will be sent to his native land to acco m plish the sentence of the law in, if it be public road, 50 fathoms ; if any other work , such as is found written in the laws. "If he persist in refusing to do it, he will be judged, and new work imposed on him. " Otaheite, Nov. 8, 1838." CLERKENWELL. Yesterday Mr. James, clerk 'to the Board of Guar dians of the Holborn Union, came before Mr. Combo, the sitting Magistrate, and stated that Daniel Murphy, a young man, whom the Magistrate had sent to the workhouse for admission or relief, on the previous even ing, had been refused admission. Murphy had been four times brought before the Magistrate for insubordi nation and misconduct in the workhouse, and the Board of Guardians had come to the following resolution. Mr. James then read the resolution, which was to the effect, that, considering how often and how grossly the prisoner had misconducted himself, and how " ineffectual, un equal, and inconsistent the punishment inflicted on him by the Magistrate had been," and how much disorderly and profane behaviour he was guilty of, almost every sentence he spoke being accompanied with an oath, they (the Guardians) would not be doing their duty to the 600 paupers under their charge if they did not decline admitting him, and they accordingly directed their officers to act on their resolution, and not to admit him. Mr. James added several instances of misconduct on the part of the prisoner, who had not been more than a few days out of the House of Correction, where he had been imprisoned for seven days for misbehaviour in the work house. Mr. COMBE—What are you going to do for the bo7 to-day—he says he is d es tit u t e ? M r . J ames :—W e can t do anything to-day for him. Mr. Co3IBE-Can't you give him work? Mr. James —We will not receive him into the house. Mr. CoMBE—I do not ask you; but give him some work, and, if he misconducts himself, he may be taken before the Magistrate, and punished. Mr. James—But although he has used the worst lan guage, and even threatened the lives of the officers, he has not been sentenced to more than seven days' im prisonment ; whilst a destitute person, who has been ad mitted as casual poor, and refuses to work for his lodg ing and breakfast, is sentenced to fourteen days, or a month's imprisonment. Mr. COMBE—I am not aware cf any such case, nor do I think the Board of Guardians ha% e worded their resolution very discreetly. lam not aware the pri soner has been before me hitherto, but I am sure he has been dealt with as he ought to have been. Magistrates cannot send persons to prison for an unlimited time. Regarding the charge of inconsistency- brought against the Magistrates by the Guardians, the inconsistency, if there be any, is attributable to the Legislature. The Act of Parliament prescribes twenty-one days as the longest term of imprisonment for misconduct in the workhouse, whilst it assigns 'a month for refusing to work there. I deny that I have ever sentenced a pri soner to a month's or a fortnight's incarceration for re fusing to work, unless there were other circumstances of aggravation. Murphy was destitute, and being so, the law gave him a right to demand relief, whatever his character was. _ After some further discussion Mr. James promised to give Murphy employment at the workhouse. Matilda Neill was charged with stealing a gold chain, three gold brooches, and three gold rings, the property of her. mistress, Miss Plant, the proprietor of a school in Cornwall-plaCe, Holloway. The evidence adduced was of a very unsatisfactory nature, and did no more than establish a case of sus picion against the prisoner. No portion' of the stolen articles had been found.—She was discharged. • A young ma n, dressed in the gar b of a sa il or, who stated that his name was Henry Williams, and that he was a carpenter residing at Plymouth, was charged with the following artful fraud : About two o'clock on the pyevious day the prisoner went to the house of Susannah Hayes, a poor woman, living in Peter-street, Saffron-hill. He said he had ju , t returned 'from Rio Janeiro, where he had seen her son, who is a seaman, and went out, on board the Blenheim. to China, at the commencement of the war with that em pire. The young man has since left the Blenheim, and -become attached to the Castor. For his services in the storming of several towns he received batta money, and with all these circumstances the prisoner seemed per fectly conversant, and told the mother that her son had entrusted hini with a letter, and t%% o valuable lace shawls wrapped in brown paper,.in which the ktter was likewise inclosed. When the ship reached Liver pool the parcel was seized upon by the Custom-house officers, and detained for 14s. 2d. Custom duties, and until that sum was paid the parcel could not be released. The officer of Customs had, he said, broken open the letter, and he had seen an order addressed to his mo ther for " batta money," payable by the East India Company He concluded by saying he was going to Liverpool on that evening, by the six o'clock train, and requesting of the prosecutrix to give him the money, swearing in the most solemn manner he would forward the parcel to London, when he had released it. He ob tained the money, but having been seen in the company of two girls of the town ahout two hours after, he was given in charge. He made a desperate effort to escape, threw away the money, and knocked down two persons who endeavoured to stop him. The prisoner was fully committed for trial on this charge, but remanded, as 'Tate, the constable, expressed a belief that several other charges of a like nature would be brought against him. BOW-STREET Two boys, named Ford and Fitzgerald, were sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment each, for stealing coals from the wharfs along the Adelphi. It appears that great complaints have been made by the wharfingers of the depredations committed by boys. !ley go down to the vessels which are laden with coals, and, under the pretence of playing about the barges, kick from time to time pieces of coal into the water. As soon as the tide re cedes . their gambols cease, and their labours commence, each being provided with a bag, in which they deposit the coals they find in the mud. The persons in charge of the barges state that they lose several tons of coal weekly in this manner. UNION-HALL. Thomas Stiff and John Peacock, two young "sprigs of fashion," with riding whips and spurs, were charged with being drunk and furiously riding along the streets. The defendants, it appeared, had been at the London Docks, " tasting" wines, on leaving which they got on horse- . back, when one of them (Stiff) in riding along East-cheap, was thrown into the road. He was picked up, and having re-mounted his steed, they both galloped over London bridge, and when they got to St. George's Church, Stiff was thrown off again and stunned, and the policeman, seeing they were both und er th e i n fl uence of liquor and very abusive, took them into custody. Mr. TRAILL said that Stiff had been before him on three other occasions for furiously riding in the streets. He - fre.• quently had observed him gallopping along the town to the danger of the passengers. Stiff said that he lived on his property, and that he " tasted" rather too much wine at the London, Docks ; that his horse shied, and that was the way the accident happened. The other defendant said he would not visit the London Docks again for some time. Mr. Duni, held Stiff to bail to keep the peace ; and the other defendant was held in his recognisance to be of good behaviour. Amelia Grant, a young woman, was charged with at tempting to commit suicide. The defendant was supported by some of the Thames police into the Can't. From the evidence of two men, named Weller and Duncan, bargemen, it appeared that about four o'clock this mprning they were aroused from sleep on board their barge, lying near Waterloo-bridge, on hearing cries of "a woman in the water," and had just time to jump into a boat alongside, when they rescued the defendant from drowning. It ap peared that she had jumped off the bridge, and was, seen by two gentlemen who were at some distance from the spot from whence she precipitated herself. Mr. TRAIL', said the bargemen deserved the rewards from the Humane Society. He then held the defendant to bail, herself in 401. and two sureties of 20/., and in default com mitted her to the county gaol. PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISION 5. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, MARCH 18. FACTORIES BILL.-(IN THE COMMITTEE.) Interpretation Clause :—" And the word night' shall be taken to mean from eight of the clock in the evening to six of the clock on the following morning :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out " eight," in order to insert " six," instead thereof :—Question put, " That ' eight' stand part of the Clause :" The Committee divided : MINORITY—AYES, 170. A'Court f apt. Fitzmaurice, W. - Neeld, Joseph Aldan), William Flower, Sir James Nichol' Right Hon Arkwright, Geot ge Forster, Matthew Norreys, Sir D. J. Bailey, Joseph, jun. Fox, S. Lane O'Ferrall, R. M. Halle, Colonel H. Gibson, T. M. Owen, Sir J. • Balfour, J. M. llisborne, Thomas - Paget, I ord W. Baring, Hon. W. B Gladstone, W. E. Parker, John Baring, F. T. Gordon, aptain Patten, John Wilson Barrington, Viscount Goiriburn, Henry Patttson, James Barron, Sir H. Graham, Sir J. Peel, Sir Robert Bellew, R. M. Hamilton, Wm. J. Peel, Jonat ran Bentinck, Lord G. Hardinge, Sir H. Philips, G. R. Blakemore, R. Hardie. A. Pollock, Sir Fred. Bolder°, H. G. Hay, Sir A. L. Pringle, Alexander 'letfield, Beriah Herbert, Sidney Protheroe, Edward Bowes, J. Hinde, J. H. Reid, Sir John R. Bowring, Dr. Hobhouse, Sir J. Ricardo, J. L. Bright, John Hodgson, Frederick Rushbrooke, Colonel Bruce, Lord E. Hodgson, Ft Sanderson, R. Bruges, W. H. L. Holmes, W. A'Court Scoriae, R C. Buck, L. W. Hope, Charl s Scott, Robert Buller, E. Hope, G. W. Scrope, G. P. Cardwell, Edward Houldsworth, T. Shelburne, Lord Carnegie, Captain Howard, P. H. Smith, T. B - C. Castlereagh, Viscount Hume, Joseph Smythe, Hon. G. Childers, J. W. Hussey. Thomas Somerset, Lord G. Chute, William L W Hut:, W. Sotheron, T. H, Clay, Sir W. Jerrayn, Earl . Stanley, Lord Clayton, Rice It Johnstone, A. Stanley, Edward Clerk, Sir George Johnstone, Hope Stuart, Lord J. Cockburn, Sir G. Jones, Cap tain Stuart, Villiers Colebrooke, Sir T. Kt atchbull, Sir E. Strutt, Edward Collett, W. Bickford Knightley, Sir C. Sutton, Hon. H. M. Corry, Henry Labouchore, H. Tancred, H. W Craig, W. Gibson Langston, J. H. Tennent, J. E. Cripps, W. Leader, J. T. Thesiger, F. Darner Colonel Lemon, Sir C. Tnompson, Ald. Darby, George Lennox, Lord A. Thornely, Thomas Dawson, T. V. Lincoln, Earl of Thornhill, G. .13,nnistoun, J. Lockhart, William Tollemache, F. J. Dick, Quintin Lyall, George Trelawny, J. S. - Dived, E. Lygon, General Trench, Sir F. W. Dodd, George , Mackenzie, Thomas Vivian , John Ennis Douglas, Sir C. E. Mackenzie, W. F. Wall, C. B. Douro, Marquis of M'Neiil, Duncan Walsh, Sir John . Duffield, T. D. Manners, Lord C. S. Warburton, H. Dugdale, W. S. March, Earl of Wellesley, Lord C. Duncan, Viscount Marshall. ,W. Wilbraham R. B. Duncan, George Marsham, Viscount Williams, 'I. ? . P. Duncannon, Lord Martin, C. W. Winnington, Sir T. Egerton, W.g. Master, T. W. C. Wood, Colonel Eliot, Lord' • Masterman, John Wood, ColonelT. Elphinstone, Howard Meynell, Captain Wyndham Colonel Escott, Bichkam Mildmay, H. St. J. Young, John , Estcourt, T. G. B. Mitcalfe, Henry Evans, William Mitchell, 'l'. A. TELLERS. Flelden, W. Morgan, Octavius Fremantle, Sir T. Filmer,:Sir E. Mundy, E. Miller Baring, Henry ' MAJORITY—NOES,. 179. _ , Acland, Sir T. D Farnham, E. B. Mintz, G. F. Acland, T. D. Feilden, J. Murray, A. Ainsworth, Peter Fox, C. R. - Napier, Sir Charles Antrobus, Edmund French, F. Neville, Ralph Arundel, Lord Fuller. A. E. Newport, Vi count Aidell, William Gardner, J. D. O'Brien, A. S. Bankes, George: Gill, Thomas Ossulston, Lord Bannerman, A. Gladstone, J. N. Packe, C. W. Barclay, David Gore, M. Paget, F. Beckett, William Gore, W. Ormsby Paget, Lord Alfred Beresford, Major (Gore, Robert Pakington, J. S. Bernal, Ralph Goring, Charles Palmer, R. Blackstone, W. Granger, T. C. Palmerston, Viscount Blake, M. J. Gregory, W.' H. Pennant, Colonel Borthwick, Peter Grey, Sir G. Plum'stre, J. P. Bradshaw, Jame; Grimsditch, Thomas Polhill, Frederick Bramsten, T. W. Grimston, Lord Pollington, Viscount Broadley, Henry Grogan, Edward Praed, William T. Brocklehurst, J. Guest, J. Pusey, Philip Brother ton, J. Hall, Sir B. , B.amsbottorn, J. Browne, Hon. W. Hanmer, Sir John Rashleigh, Wm. Bulkeley, Sir It. B. Harcourt, G. G. Rendlesham, Lord Buller, C. Hardy, John Repton, George J. Busfeild, W. Hatton, C a pt. Villie rs Ri char d s, Rich ar d Butler, P. S. Hawes, B. Ross, David R. Byng, Hon. G. S. Hayes, Sir E. Round, C. G. Cavendish, Hon. C. Heathcoat, J. Russell, Lord John Cavendish, Hon. U. Henley, J. W. Ruisell, J. 1) Cayley, E. S. Hindley, Crier es Ryder, G. D. Chapman. A. Hollond, ncbert Sandon, Viscount Chapman, It. Hope, Alexander Shaw, Frederick Cnctwode, Sir John Hornby, John dibthorp, Colonel Cochrane,.Alex. Hersman, Edward! Smith, Abel Colborne, W. Ridley Howard. C. G. W— Smith, J. Abel Collett, John Howard, Lord Smith, R. Vernon Colquhoun, John C. linwink. Lord Smollett, Alexander Copaind, Alderman Humphery, J. Standish, Charles Cowper, Hon W. Ingl a, Si, R. Staunton, Sir G. Crawford, W. S. James, Sir Walter Stewart, John Cresswell, A. J. B. Jocelyn, Viscount Strickland, Sir G. Currie, Hines Johnstone, Sir Jame Sturt, H. C. Curteis, H. B. Kemble, Henry Taylor, Edward Dalrymple, Captain Knight, H., G. Taylor, J. A. Davies, D. A. S. Law, Hon- C. E. Tollemache, J. Dawnay, W. H. Lawson, Andrew Tombne, G. Denison, E. B. Lefroy, Anthony Towneley, John D'Eyncourt, 'l'. C. Legh, G. C. Trotter, J. Dickinson, F. H. Leveson, Lord Troubridge, Str T. Dougla , Sir H. Lindsay, H. Tufnell, H. Duff, James Lowther, John H. Vane, Lord Harry Duke, Sir James M'Geachy,; F. A. Vivian, J. H. Duncombe, T. S. Mahon, Lord Wakley, Thomas Duncombe, .0. Mainwaring,"T Walker, R. Dundas, Admiral Mangles, R.b. Wawn, J. T. Du Pre, C. G. - Manners, Lord J. Williams, W. Easthope, Sir John Martin, O. Wilshere, W. Eaton, Richard J. Maxwell, }lon. J. F.. Yorke, H. Redhead Ebrington, Viscount Miles, P. W. S. Ellice, E. Miles, William Ellis, Wynn Milnes, Richard &nlyn, Viscount Morris, David TELLERS. Ashley, Lord Wortley, Hon. Johr.S PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. MONDAY -4 ROD 18. Norwich and Brandon R a ilway Bill—reported; Report to lie on the table, and to be printed. North British Railway Richard Hodgson and Mr. Forster added to the Commit tee. Delabole and Rock Railway for making a Railway from Mellorn, in the parish of Minster, to Rock, in the parish of Saint Michael in Saint- Minver-Lowlands, in the county of Cornwall," presented, and. read a first time. Northern and Eastern (Newport Deviations) Railway Bill —read a second time, committed, and referred to the + Com mittee of Selection. London and South-Weste rn Railway (No. 1) Bill—" to amend the Acts relating to t tie London and South-Western Railway, and to authorise an extension of the said Railway and other Works, at or near the Nine Elms station," pre sented, and read a first time. Eastern Counties Railway - (Brandon and Peterborough Extension) Bill—read a second time, committed, and referred to the Committee of Selection _ _ Garnkirk; Glasgow, and Cbatbridge Railway—petition for Bill reported, and Bill ordere4 to be brought in by Mr. Lock hart and Mr. Oswald. West London Railway—lx:lid= for Bill reported ; Report referred to the Select Committee on Standing Orders. General Steam Carriage Company Bill—" for establishing and regulating a Company to be called The General Steam Carriage Company,' and to enable the said Company to pur chase certain letters patent," ;presented, and read a first time. Bolton and Leigh Railway—petition for leave to present a petition for a Bill ; referred to. the Select Committee on Stand ing Orders. IRELAND. TULLAMORE, THURSDAY, MARCH 14.—Dowling, who was convicted yesterday for the murder of Mr. Gatchell, stands for execution on the 26th. '.The case of this wretched culprit is, in some measure, illustrative of the landlord and tenant 'system, and the crime and misery attendant upon the insecurity of tenure, and the extraordinary power vested in the hands of landlords. Dowling's father held a dear farm, upon which he made some improvements, and was in rather comfortable circumstances, until a change in the times, caused by additional local taxation, and a fall in the price of agricultural produce, rendered him unable to pay his rent : he applied for an abatement,to 'Mr. Gatchell, who was agent over him, but his application was rejected. He then wrote to the landlady, but she said she could not inter fere with the agent. It is said that Gatchell was displeased at this communication, which he lOoked upon in the light of a complaint against himself, and he seized upon all his little property, which was sold for the arrears of rent then due. The sale left a balance of some six or seven pounds behind, and for this he was processed, decreed, and ultimately sent to gaol. The day he was arrested his wife was exceed ingly ill, without even a sufliCiency of, food, or an atom of property left. She died soon after the husband was sent to prison, and the wretched old man petitioned Mr. Gatchell to allow him home to his wife's wake, and that he wouldreturn to gaol after the funeral, but his request was not complied with. A son and daughter of his then took ill and died, it may be said of starvation, for ,in their illness they had not even enough of bad potatoes. His other son, who was convicted yesterday, was married to the sister of Dunne, the approver, who, as alleged, was also treated by Gatchell with cruelty, and, according to his account, they had come to the determination to shoot Mr. Gatchell, as the . only means of preventing his total ruin, as well as that of the Dowling family. There was something peculiarly revolting in a man swearing away the life of his own brother-in-law, and leaving his sister a widow ; but the same causes which lead to the concoction and perpetration of atrocious crimes, can hardly fail to eradicate every moral sentiment, and convert the best feelings of the heart into a degraded selfishness, regardless even of the ties of consanguinity : partners in guilt can never be partners in sympathy or affection towards each other. The facts I have stated here are beyond all con tradiction; they are known to all who reside in the neigh bourhood, and have been stated in the sworn deposition of one of the witnesses who was examined for the prose , mtion. After the total ruin of old Dowling, and the death of three members of his family, he consented to give up possession of his land, and was then let out of prison : he is now a wretched mendicant through the country. I should, per haps, have stated, that the arrear of rent due was of four or five years standing, that it had accrued during two very hard years for farmers, and that it was suppose I by the tenants it would never have been demanded." TUE MARQUIS or NORTHAMPTON'S SOIREE.—The Marquis of Northampton, as Presided of the Royal Society, held his third conversazione on Saturday night, at his man sion in Piccadilly. It was the fullest meeting this season, above 500 Fellows of the Royal Society and visitors being present. We are happy to say the Noble President was suffi ciently recovered from his recent indisposition to be able per sonally to welcome his numerous friends. The assembly was somewhat enlivened by the presence of a great many Mem bers of Parliament coming from the Speaker's levee in their uniforms and Court dresses. By eleven o'clock the rooms were crowded, and in consequence of the heat occasioned by the numbers thronging the apartments, the Noble President was obliged to retire. In the several apartments the tables, as usual, presented numberless objects of interest in_ different branches of science and art. The three days' balloting—Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday —at the United Service Club, has p asse d Over without black-balling. Sixty candidates were elected. We wish this improved system of ballot was adopted by a kin dred club, and likewise by another in the neighbourhood of Trafalgar-square.—Naml and Military Gazette. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —THE LORD MAYOR AND HOLLOWAY' PILLS AND OINTMENT.--jatneS Stanley, a gentleman's servant, residing at Long Dittos, made an affi davit at the Mansion-house (which his Lordship signed) to the effect that he (Stanley) had twenty-six holes in one leg And fourteen in the other, and that he had been so afflicted for two years and a halt; and lately could only move by the use of crutches; and from thi s s t ate he made oath he has been miraculously cured by Holloway's Pills and Ointment, after a host of surgeons and one hospital relief. Professor Holloway had failed to give him dispenses advice gratis at his Es tablishment, 244, Strand. —These remedies are sold there, and also by most respectable Medicine Vendors Throughout the civilized world. --PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER - COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 19. Dividend per Annum. 54. per cent. per cent. 41. 81. 15s. 71. 11. ss. 31 12s. 8(1. 15s. 11 lOs. 34/. 101. 17/. 301. 334 17s. 6d. 4/. Si. 101. 6 pe , cent. 28 151. 2O:. 1/. 10s. 154 321. lOs. 101. 84 10s. 41. 11. 4s 3 per cent. laper cent. per cent. 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 134 per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. IN per cent. 11. Os. 81 18s. Id. per cent. I/. is. Si. 10s. 4 per cent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 13s. 6d. pr sh 51. 4 per cent. T. per share 5 por cent. 5 per cent.'] & 30s. bds. 534 per cent. 534 per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 4s. 2s. 6d. 12 percent. 4 sh. & bds, 11. ss. 10s. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 11. ss. 4q. 5 per cent. 03. per cent. I/. 48. 5 pe. cent. 10% per cent Si. - R per cent. 6 per cent. 5 percent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. per. cent. 8 per cent. 8 per cent. 6 per cent. 21s per share 6s. per share 10 per cent 5 per cent. 16s. I/. 5s 11. is bL and bs. IS4L and bs. 10 per cent. 4 per cent. 81 per sh 315 s per sh 21. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent 6 per cent. .114 per cent. 12*. 21. 10s. 2/. 10a 2/. 10s. sper cent. 41. 16s. 14 14s. 10s. per sh IL 4s. 4 per cent. 21. 10s. t3s. per sh. 21. ss. per sh 7s 10d per eh 10 per cent . per cent. 3L ss. per sh 2%1. per sh. 12s. per eh. 4 per cent. JO per cent. JO per cent. 10 pw cent. 130. per eh 10/. per Eh. 1/. 14s. 31. per share 384 d per sh S/.175. pr sh 113 s per sh 14 IL lOs. IL ss. 155. U. Ile. 10d. 15 per cent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 11. 11. Si. 17s. 6d. Names of Com panies. Canals. Ashton and Oldham... Ashby-de-la-Zoneh..av Basingstoke ............... Breckneek & Abergay. Birmingham, 1-16th sh. Do. and Liverp. Jut.e. Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry .... Cromford .... .... Derhy........ ........... Danubeand " Mayne.... Ellesmere and Chester Erewash Forth and C1yde......... Grand Juneti0n.......... Grand Union Grand Surrey Grand Western Glamorgansh., ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham fluddersfie , l ...... av Kennet :.,n1 Avon av Lancaster 39 Leeds and Liverpool... Leicester Leicester & Northamp. Loughborough Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire. Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield Neath Oxford Peak Furest cv Regent's (oi Londun).. Rochdale 39 Shropshire Somerset Coal Do. Locit Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury, Stourbridge Stratford -on. A vo n...av Swansea...—. .......... Severn & Wye & Trent & Mersey, i sh. 1 hames & Medway—av Warwick and Birming. Warwick and Napton Worcester & Birming Wilts and Berks av Wisbeach Wey and Arun Docks. Commercial East and West India London .......... Ditto Bristol as Do. Bnds, var. amounts St. Katharine Ditto ..... Ditto Bonds ....... Southampton Bri A dges Hammersmith ...... ...... Southwark, new. Subs Ditto New of 7)6 pr c Waterloo .... . .... . Ditto Old Ann. of Si Ditto New ditto of 71. Ditto . 80nd5........ Vauxhall. ,21,V Assurances Albion Alfred Life Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine ....... Atlas Birmingham Fire British Fire British Commercial' Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life European Life Ditto New Freemasons Globe Guardian Hope Life Ditto Fire.......... Imperial Fire Ditto Life Indemnity Marine • Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National Loan Fund... Palladium Life........... Protector Life Provident Rock Life R yal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto ..... University Life.. Universal Life - Union Fire and Life.., Joint Stk Banks Australasi7 . . .... .. Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto London Joint Stock Metropolitan. . ....... Provincial of Ireland Ditto New National of Ireland..... Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New. ....... Union of •Australia' Union of London Gaslight do Coke Bath ' British Ditto Birmingham Birrning. & Staftbrdsh Bristol - Brighton • Ditto City of Lond9n Ditto New Continental Consolid.: Ditto New Equitable ' Imperial ' Isle of Thanet Independent .. . ...... Phoenix Ratclifr South Metropolitan..... United General .. ... Westmins. Chartered.. Ditto Water Works. Birmingham ••• East London Grand Junction .av Kent Nw Riv Lon. .gdg An. Manchester and Salfbrd Vauxhall, late S.'Lonel. West Middlesex .av Yrk Buldg CoJLes. Pr op Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Birming. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter.... Cheltenhm & Gt. West. Clarence . .. . • Eastern Counties —. Edinburg, h dr Glasgow Ditto New Grand Junction.— Great North of Englnel Great Western .. . Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths ...... Hull and Selby ...... Leeds and Selby ... . . Liverpool & Manch ee t ; Ditto Half-Shares Ditto Quarter-Shares London and Brighton " Ditto Loan Notes London and BL ckwall Londen and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds London and S. Western London and Croydon., , Manchester and Lees Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Birming Ditto Extension. Midland Cou- ties North Midland Do. 34-Sh., iss. 10 dis. Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss.s/. dis. Paris and .Stockt , n & Darlington South East. and Dover Ditto New, iss. 25 dis. York and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Alines. Albic n Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss. 51. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos Ditt Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss.s/. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coe. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian, iss. M. p.m General Mining Hibernian Imperial Slate Como , Mexican Mining Co. of Ireland Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes Rhymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United Max., iss.2/. pm Ditto scrip Ditto New Scrip Literary. Londn, with Si n.Ticket ;Loudon University Russell King's College Miscellaneous Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada Upper Canada Bonds Copper Miners' Comp Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay:, iss. I/. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand ........ Penins. & Orien. Steal Royal Mail Stearn Reversionary Int. Soc " South Australian Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Land 2 - - I 5 q . 7 I tis 10 co 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 Amount Share. Paid. 'Price. A a. d. 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 - 0 0 - • 100 0 0 t 0 per cent. 10a. per sh. 11. 104 perch. 1/. 4s. 11. 15s. f per cent. b per cent. b per cent. J. Bs. and/ bs. tpor cent. per cent. 4ii per cent b per cent LIST OP SCOTTISH COM MARCH 5, Bank of Scotland...— Royal Bank British Linen Compny Commercial Bank .. Glasgow Union 1 3 €11 1 1.c Western Bank .... ( C 7 o a i i i ed tr o a n l Hercules Insurance i P a k n . l o n f s Sc u r ° a t n i a c n e! North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scot!. Edinburgh I.ite Scottish Union Insist Standard Life Insur I)alkeith Railway Edon. and Glas. Railw Glasg. and Green. Rail, Dundeeand Arhr HAL (per cent (per cent, iper cent per cent. per cent ( pet cent. ( per cent per cent. ?per cent. P per cent. tiler cent. (per cent. per cent. L per cent. 2 44 per cent. 234 per cen t 8 3 4 17% 1 59)4 At Enniskillen Petty Sessions ifv-t weak, two attorneys who practise in the Court so flar forgot the statut able title of "gentlemen" as to cOmmence Voxing iu open Court. The magisteates viniteil 'them with a severe repri mand, and bound.thent.oyei to keep tin pcaoe. Owadisimich and besidq 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 Stock 5430 0 50 0 0 63 2 8 50 0 0 108 0 0 70 10 3 100 0 0 100 0 0 20t, 0 0 40 0 o 50 7 e 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 77 10 0 5o 0 0 20 , . 0 0 20- . 0 0 20- 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 e 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 25 0 0 190 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 . 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 .16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 SO 0 0 100 0 0 23 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 12 0 0 50 0 0 1100 0 0 100 0 0 50' 0 0 2500 50 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 2 0 0 32 0 0 3200 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 (1 70 0 0 FO 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 u 50 6 0 50 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 TO 0 0 30. 0 0 40 0 0 7 0 0 100 • 0 0 100 0 0 40 0 0 45 0 0 15 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0, 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 31 0 13 10 0 100 0 0 25 0 ( 150 0 0 150 0 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 21 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 75 0 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 40 0 0 13 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 10 10 0 3 0 0 50 0 0 7 0 e E 0 o ' o 5.5 0 0 20 A 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 60 9 0 25 0 0 5000 25 0 0 40 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 2 10 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 ' lOO - 0 0 100 - 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 30 0 0 35 10 0 32 10 0 100 0 0 15 0 0 5 g 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 3 0 0 14 0 0 erg 1 5 1 0 0 0 0 30s pm 30 0 4 70 0 4 75 0 0 4}6 26 0 0 50 0 0 52% 0 0 1 29 i I 04 0 0 0 01 5% 0 ; 50 — 0 e 100 0 0 ' lOO 25 0 0 20 N 0 0 50 20 0 0 20 'ANIES' PRICES. 844. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 105 31% 65 1200 155 100 117 360 100 11 620 900 30 1(P 112% 101% 21M 3); 1756 S 24 20)6 72% 181 5% 15% 636 63( 5% 400 111.13.. 140 48 16} q 184 16 16 2 40s. 9as . 4% 173 205 12% Ib9 25 207 81 58 60 64 1 4 16% 231 9 7 9 112 2:8 111% 54 11 44 5 238 28% 41 16 i 116 48 MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDA Y ' SatintrrEi.D.—C IT oarse AYATARKETS 2/ 153 to 3 / . , Use" Meadow Hay, ful ditto, Si 3s t o 3/ 10 s ; fi ne Upland ditto, 3/ 123 to 31 15s ; Clover Hay, 3/ 5s to 51. Oat Straw, 1/ 6 s to 11 Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 10s per. load. Both Hay a°' Straw met a very dull sale, at about stationary prices. use „ l a CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ 18s to 3/ 5s ; ditto, 31 5s to 3/ 10s; fine Upland ditto, Si 128 to 3 . ., 1 tu:.l Clover Hay, 3/ 5s to 4115 s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 7s Co 1/9s • w t'"d Straw, 1/ 8s to 1112 s per load. A full average suPP 'l 7 , a sluggish demand. WHITECHAPEL—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2/ 15s to 31 useful ditto, Si 5s to 31 lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 31 129 to . 0 3/ 163 ; Clover Hay, 31 5s to 51 5s ; Oat Straw, 11 6 118 s ; Wheat Straw, 118 s to 1/ lOs per load. Supply g°'' s and trade dull. (From the London New Price Current of `abet SUGAR.—The dullness in the West India market has fur to , increased, and there being a better and larger shovi of sen> l l ) 4 o prices continue to give way, and rule 6d to is per cat raele those of Tuesday last, making the decline from the h g point this year . Is to ls 6d. ; To-day the West India sugar market presented 11._,.ev.hJulie pearance ; the purchases made for grocery and ree u r4 . tl 1 poses were trifling ; prices are still going down , 11 ." Fri purchases amounted to only 130 hhds, at a reduction on day'sEFINED. rates of Although t 6d r cwt. ak e ' R— hough further reduced rates have be en s ad for Refined Goods, still the grocers operate with caution,,,, the market is much better supplied. T o -day the trifling,no7o ness transacted in Refined Goods was at lower rates,cl;76. grocery lumps selling at 745, and s t an d ar d lumps 75 6 t . sad per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar little inquired aft' ' 25s 9d per cwt is the a fternoon k price. - - °O r Ala ultlTlUS.—This the trade were little di .. s l ) tlie r to do business, and the public sales went offheavily at J u t s io, decline in - prices of 6d to is per cwt ; low brown sold a roo d good 565, low yellow 58s to 58s 6d, mid 59s 6d to 6 15 6 7 7641, 61s 6d to 62s 6d, fine 65s to 665, very fine bright 67; to .„, good and middling grey 58s to 61s, some lots were taken far EAST INDIA.—The market has b ee n in a dull ea:, Bengal Sugar, at rather lowe r t erms; goo d white vren. t ci gO O4 to 665, low to mid 62e to C4s, good yellow, 61s to 610 b ' o va brown 54s to 565, mid 53s to 54 5 , l ow 50 s 6d, damp and 7 0 , loye 50s to 56s • 50 casks damp brown sold at 503 per c ct ,,, Oc t ' quality, white damp and washed went at 62s to 64s 6 0 . ur Foreign East India is wanted, and the tendency of P r gavill i ' wards. To-day a much better demand prevailed f or 'neer ., _ r Sugar, partially on sp ecu l a ti on , an d s tiff er ra tes paid' j at rather lower rates; good white at 655, danipen," A c iao* 62s to 655, good yellow 62s 6d to 63 5 , middling b B s and washed 57s 6d to 61s :per cwt. 0 01 FOREIGN.—To. day the market far Foreign Sugar to bu r a fi rmer a ppearance. Two floating cargoes of white bur g al sold at 235, deliverable at Trieste, and one for Gotten_ a r , 23s per cwt, being fair prices. There is more desire," Tor chase yellow Havannah, and holders less inclined to eel' s ,' ui as small parcels of brown Brazil stiffer rates aid • there public sale. . • 11 4* MoLAsses.—Prices have declined ls per cwt for Wept to 40 Demerara fine at 26s ; St. Kitt's, fair, 24s 6d, fin e m r; afte r ' per cwt. • Bengal syrup is 18s to 19 s p er cwt. • noon fine Demerara Molasses at 251, being Is lower- T r ial" Cocoi.=--West India has been in excellent request- 'O . leg dad fine red 58s to 60s, goo d 56 s t o 57 5 , l o w to ' V ° to 555, and grey 49s to 54 s pe r cw t. F ore ign at 2es per cwt. trierj -T , was soun -EA.-To-day, the business transacted in Tea and ;prices are drooping ; Is Old taken for conull, Congou cash, is Oid for g o od (common, and Is t° Ao sai lb for ordinary Twankay ; a publi c sa l e o f 798 pkil l `" declared for the 2d of April. ses j Rica.-Bengal Rice at lls 6d for middling ot ite l ' Oi damaged first class went at lls to lls 6d, second diw'c o rsir2, to Ils, third and fourth ditto Ss to 9s 6d per cwt. decline 0' East India Rice is held with less firmness; Java at a j 114 6d per cwt ; common yellow mixed with Ps" 8, ;, at 8s to 9s, very inferior 8s 3d, and - .damaged is 6d to c , ,o pc private contract Sc 6d to 8 8 9d accep t e d for Lornhoe lt; fl to 11 Rice is in good request, a n d p r i ces fi rm. P at na at , '- and Carolina 2ls to 26s per cwt. • OPP lf , - Co7Ex.-Prices are sus t a i ne d f or W es t I n dia. t he ". bss'n being very small and st oc k n ear l y all in the deale r ' 0 0 ' Today the transacti on s privately in Ceylon were t° r a d ipsrf extent only at 67s 6d to 68s per cwt for go•cl pub holders generally show l ess firmness,. there was sale. Mocha is wanted, and several parcels sold bss" upon former terms. Of Si ngapore J a va, 5 7 n e 0 were offered at public sale, and taken in at 455 for v or eig" - yellow, being . Is above the value. The demand for3sobse Coffee was brisker, and stiffer rates paid privately . ; fL ir ,200 1)41 , of fine ord bold Rio 35 s p er cw t g i ven , b ut at a uction 1 ! Rio were bought in Is to 2s above former rates, 14 of t ord green at 375, and good ord at 35s ; 2,262 b . a gb r is b tlfi a Domingo, nearly all damaged, were offered and wen t to stiff rates; first class at 29s 6d to 31s 6d, second clss% 4 l 2P 30s 6d, third class 27s to 28s, sea damaged repan n ' s 29a ;42 bags sound fetched 31s to 325, and black Iu • per cwt. Stiffer I 20; 4 Spicis.-This afternoon S uma t ra P e pper at doi sc common very dusty went at 3d t o Sid, first c lass sea of flu` e 2id to 3d, second and third 'lid to 24d; 121 11 4_„ A _' sold id ltrwer, and went at sid to sid per lb for g o od ' So ° i' SAGO.--Rither lower rates being accepted for Pit several parcels have been disposed of privately. ‘ 2 l in lively request, and ' Is to 28 higher ; 474 bol es a r iot"' fetched 20s to 20s 8d for middling greyish white ; P 21s to 21s 6d paid for good quality. I k e Iworno.-Spanish at improving rates. To-day 101v /- was in increased request, and Bengal at prices 3d. an e a cases 4d, per lb above these of the last quarterly sai e j be que o d RUM, BRANDY, AN D HoLLANns.-Prices cam° ri ,er higher for Jamaica Rum, f or ver y fi ne 34 per cent' 5 ,4 a high flavour 7s 3d given, 50 puns sold at 30 2d t° n ualiti to rather foul 27 to 32 per cent. over p roo f, and heal f 3, at 3s 6d to 4s per gallon : 200 pu ns a t 3 s 4d to 5s 6 " d, pr , ' ° , o l fine quality, 30 to 37 per cent. overproof. Lee/t ar t o ,erEr ip 2s 2d to 2s 21 t d per gallon. Demerara 35 Peir ce r ft e etts at 3s Id, and 37 over, fi ne 3 8 3d per g allon. """ f e treil t r request, and 200 casks sold a t i s 104 t o is 11d. Po ° 3o ll o ' For Brandy, holders r e m a i n firm.--Cognac, best h hds T s sd, vintage of 1838, hhds bs I Id, puns 5s 9d; 10 °Z; bilds . „' o lo puns 5s 6d ; 1840, hhds 5s 6d, puns bs 4(11 18 41 ' ling 11 puns 5s 3d ; 1842, hhds 6s 4d, puns 54 2( 1 , I °7 per e;:s 1 3s 6d to 4s 6d, and inferior. 2s lid to, 3s r fo r as`l a pil Geneva, shipping sorts, at Is 9d to Is 10d, and P lie los :R l ' ffe r 2s 3d to 3s per gallon. E n gli s h C orn Spirits a t Ibis a o d, Gin 22 per cent. underprciof at 8s 8d per Ole n ' 1,1 re f° JP r oof 3 5 for noon for Demerara Rum 38 per - cent ever p o f. Leewards proof at 2s 2d, and Calouita at is lld Pr ° We maim, prices are firm. . bolder' 3. 3 ,„ On.s. -In common descriptions of Fish Oils „ % oe Se" th e shown firmness, and obtained 84/151 to 351 for s iT it hero ; t po.' 10s to 341 for Cod, and 33/ to 341 for , fine S 0 5s OP latter, of low to good quality, fetched 30116° to 3_ to 77.. Sperm 70/ lOs to 71/ for good; , Headmatter 76159eed 0 , 1 1 ;0 Linseed Oil at 27s to 27s 3d on the spot ; 11 °P1 2 85 t° li 2 ,,, at 35s 6d, and brown 34$ 6d per cwt ; Palm 6ne'tct • • 11.'1.'44 per cwt. Cocoa Nut Oil it gBs 6d to 32s per 6 ' 0 ,1 firm, Gallipoli 471 to 47/ 10s, Spanish 431 to 444 v 1 1. C. 421 to 431 per tun. - t. fo r TALLOW.-Prices are firm for Russian on the,rd e lif , rd c ot , of first quality at 40s 6d to 418 3d per cwt ; n' A • o , per 6os the last three months of the year at 41s 9cl t ° , l 0° South American sold at 30s to 40s 6d for I ° l l l e tchevivil hard quality ; very inferior soft 2tis to 29s ; 'br a ' o t. r olls ; to 41s 3d, and New York 38s to 39s 6d Pe t ?. Y. for , 4 Tallow at 41 8 to 428 net cas h. Thi s after no o ° od aod of prime quality in {good request, at 41s to 1s 0 deliveryin the last three months of th‘ year. i f BIRTHS. D• t the f e On the 12th inst., at th e C res cent, Kenslog t 11, 0111° A. Parker, Esq., of ft daughter. Ws. On the 13th inst., at the Rye, Peukha r° ' ir* SaVory, of a daughter. On the 13th inst.; a t th e Vi c arage, SWat ont o f J. the lady of the Rev. H. K napp , o f a son. t he 1 01 : f .' On the 14th inst., a t Coley-park, Reading, , Bligh Monck, Esq., o f a d aug ht e r. of Ste✓-rf C 4) On the 14th i ns t., at B romp t on , the la /• th H. Jackson, of a son. -Enaor On the 15th in s t., a t th e Vi c arage, cs 4 of lady of the Rev. B. 13. Bockett, of a soil C . srit h On the 15th inst., the wife of J. • Viini Lynn, of a daught er. DO ° On the 15th inst., at Clapton, the Vit'a of come, Esq., of a daughter. of the On the 15th inst., at the Rectory, the Wiie c rbt r• L is o avenshaw, of West Kington, Wilts, of a daut, ethe On the 16th inst. at Great Ealing, Middles , e ia t g htefi of a& Anthony Mayhew, Esq ,of Glastonbury, ( d . T. Ile On the 17th inst., in Fir . ; 6 - per f ..equare, M rs ' a son, still-born. it T yr ------- MARRIED. On the 23th of December, at Ferozepore , Irwin, Bengal Engineers, to Caroline A n g elo, sec° QHr of :Major Angelo, of the 3d Bengal Cavalry. .. 010 11 On the 9th u lt., at St. Vincent , William Gei:ti to pe Esq., late C a pt a i n in her Majesty's 29th Reglaleugosot Caroline, eldest daughter of John P eraberton on Solicitor-General of that island. J olllll4i lft ec On the 14th inst., at St. Grogory's by St. , - a L id dattC + Simpson, Esq., surgeon, of Staines, to Emma , " n - sz aerl n a Zor of the late .k,iin Chandler, Esq., surgeon, of the v,,t• son g tl-1 16th 1114 ' 1 tiangliter of Captain S. C. Stiles, R.N. 17. N., a Old Broad-street, to Ellen Mary , at St. Pancras Churcb, Herbert ___.-------------- Artfi fie, . DIED. 1 Mari On the 16th inst„ in Oxford-street, Liverpocut - /.a wife of Thomas Lundie, Esq., late of Jamaica- . late ei.,--aa`', On the 13th Inst., Andrew Richard FitzHenry', . On the 15th inst., at - Waterloo -place, La inbigth' ...i. gfr Ibs, perbyshire, Esq., a (rp t in Bridget Mitehell t 76. , coltr: On the 15th inst , m at Ma , ' - tl ark, Mrs. Ju dt- r oue On the 13th inst., krrs.l4a4rhyeaCa-Prpenter, at Ma',oo e ggi' Pleeet AValworth, ag it% On the lthh inst., at Ralston, Robert Carte - ,,,' , , Ba ( ll.,diek,k - " On tile it7th of January, at Satinatarrir,n, East P o ' d , gtfr' the 18th year of his age, Ensign William lialu ni° Regiment, Bombay Native Inf antr y . 0 ..,e Pi A ' a On the 13th inst., at Catherine-plc.ce, Bath , s-e s rali' „ Lieutenant-General and senior officer in the BOW' , ,0 __-4v-iat , London i Printed and Published ,by MURP O 1 2(o- 11 00 No 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sea Onicepti Strand, in the precinc t of the Savoy, in the aliddleeezt WedneedaY, ]Ankh 10, 1d44. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—There has been scarcely any business done i ll , British Plantation, only about 100 hhds having been B° l(l .f i e b rather lower prices, and the market is heavy. The p ly sales have contained 3,933 bags Mauritius, 334 bags s °,:;;li Bengal; 278 chests and 81 boxes and barrels Brazils. Ir he rs the whole of the Mauritius and Bengal were taken ill, tm aio being no buyers at the previous value. The Brazil w as g ood chiefly bought in at 16s to 18s for mid brown to io,c Bahia Maceio, and good brown to good greyish Ye l h o Bahia at 18s 6d to 19s 6d, being about former prices, 11 , A at which there were not purchasers ; a few lots low to goy - . white Bithia sold at 21s to 23s 6d. The only transaction; which have taken place privately consist of about 30 0 c h ,, e :ds old white Bahia, which have been sold at 21s, and 150 Cuba Muscovado at 19s 6d. The quantity of British P ll 7 O tion landed last week at the East and West India Deck i f o r 1,259 hhds, 66 tierces. 100 barrels; and there were take The home consumption 890 hhds, 73 tierces, 45 b ar rels, is. barre ye stock in the same places is 4,036 hhds, 345 tierces, 840 COFFEE.-261 bags Ceylon and 658 bags East India ba 69 , been brought to auction : the former was disposed of a t fu il to 70s for very good ord quality, which is a decline of , for is; nearly all the latter found buyers at 35s to 399 ord and common mixed to good ord Singapore Jall „ 11 9 Z o o fully the comparative value ; a small portion of go. Sumatra or ord Padang taken in at 325. PtivatellLfor parcels of Ceylon have been disposed of at 68s to 68i r . good ord quality, which is a further reduction of fullYfina Rum.—The quantity lauded last week at the •Ess" m o West IndikDocks was 170 puns, 131 hhds ; there were 115 for home consumption 314 puns, 27 hhds, and exP°:Z d nu o. puns, 2 hhds The stock in the same places is 9, '"' 1,858 hhds. - SALTPETRE.—Of 761 bags at auction only a few lots w ,. .e r cb e disposed of at 27s 6d for good 3i; per cent refraction, Yiul is barely the previous value. ; sd R1CE...351 bags Bengal sold rather cheaper, viz. , a t • -5 for d wh. T mi ALLOW. ite —P.Y.C. is steady at 40e Gd to 41s 3d per cwt on the spot, and town at 43s 6d. rime TEA.—The market is steady, but not very brisk. • - liveries continue good. - m a rch 10 - All paid 60 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 250 0 0 A paid 2 1l 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 6 5 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 • 17 10 • 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 6 25 0 0 10 0 0 16 0 0 18 0 0 19 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 31 5 0 111 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 3000 39 0 0 80 0 0 25 0 0 48 0 0 10 7 0 25 0 0 5% 118 39% 101 s s` TRE Coi 14 t aetr E kNOß 2it a .e' U ENER: p a t instan daQ t, a tY MEICIY, , r 94 16 I r a ) l y i ina P ) ,...a tin F our % At ..Pnty. 4l , orer '4ellt,tvening); a t )414 an ( held A b iN e . 4 L /a YI the if Ntleh birt etc , * " bY . the •Pv ow ri b e Tl4.4 th Lists of nt. eB, „ bp *1 111 .! an Aet 4 ter, Lll b e S F µ "tta f o , ealei 44 44 Weict (!, by htezi cc -rty ~ 4 e Qeasio a torg.„„,„_ L ondon, or StOci m . 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