The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

THE DUTY OF GOVERNMENT TO THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES. (From the Sentinel.) The condition of the working-classes has now fairly and fully forced itself on the notice of the public. Newspapers of every shade of politics acknowledge the prostration of industry, however they may differ as to the remedial measures which ought to be adopted. , Poaching and incendiarism in the rural districts, suicide and prostitution in the metropolis, with the state of the unions both in town and country, have begun to alarm property, and the rich already despair of the conserva tive efficacy of soldiers and police. Emigration, allot ments, organic chemistry, free-trade, the confiscation of church-lands, a reduction in the interest of the fund holder, and even the total repudiation of the public debt, are among the various schemes propounded fur averting that direful catastrophe which all feel is fast ap proaching. The political avalanche is, indeed, impend ing over our heads, and gives signs of a speedy fall, threatening to sweep away the useful and the useless, the good and the bad, the pa lace and the workhouse. There is not a class in society free from uneasiness, while the vast majority are thoroughly discontented, being convinced that any change could not work more evil to them than they now endure ; and when that feeling becomes the faith of the millions, all the moral securities for order and govern ment are at end. Wealth can then only sleep with bolted doors and loaded pistols at his bedside. We believe that there is yet time to avert revolution and secure the interests of all, and with that view we shall venture to propound a plan at once simple and efficacious, which will give fresh guarantees to every de scription of legitimate property, and put au end to pau perism, poaching, incendiarism, and all the crimes and convulsions which follow in their train. All that we take for granted is, that Government is bound to pro tect property, and to recognise labour as property. Whence comes our present danger ? From the in ability of employing our working population at remu nerating wages ; and, as their numbers are annually increasing, their labour, that is to say, their property, is depreciated from year to year. On the other hand, they who now possess the fixed capital of the country, find that sort of property appreciated from year to year, since competition among producers must always tend to cheapen produce, and cheapness is equivalent to an in crease of wealth in the hands of those who consume, but do not produce. If no disturbing cause intervenes, this disparity between the two great classes, here indicated, must constantly become more and more unequal, till we behold the broadly-defined contrast of excessive super fluity and extreme destitution. When that point is reached, the war between iron and gold commences, and to that point we are tending. In the moral, as well as in the physical world, there are periods of destruction and restitution, and in both the catastrophe happens when the component elements in their constitution cease to be conservatively balanced. The great error, not to use so harsh a term as wick, d ness of our Government, has been, and still is, to legislate for the vested interests of the rich, to the utter disregard of those of the poor. Statesmen have affixed far too limited a meaning to the word " property ;" they have confined it to land, buildings, pensions, sinecures, and certain profits arising out of certain trades, which they have fortified by monopolies ; but, in their definition of property, they have never included labour. In reference to the masses of the people, the business of statesman ship seems to have consisted, first, in excluding them from all voice in making the laws ; secondly, in taxing them on all articles of their consumption ; thirdly, in taxing them to pay a standing army and police when ever they dared to protest against misrule; and fourthly, in depriving them of markets for their labour, in order that, by such deprivation, other kinds of property, be longing to those who make the laws, may be raised in value. In reference to non-producers, statesmanship has acted in a very different spirit. Whenever their vested interests have been infringed, compensation has been awarded to them ; thus the slave owners were compensated ; and the same rule has been invariably applied to pensioners and sinecurists. But when a tariff has narrowed the labour market, and de stroyed the vested interests of the working classes by depreciating their property, no compensation whatever has been voted to them by Parliament. When bread was made dear by law, and labour scarce, the Legisla ture separated a man from his wife for the crime of being ' hungry, after having put the loaf beyond his reach; and, if he ventured to trespass on the vested interests of game preserves, and seize a hare or partridge, then the Legis lature provided him a lodging in the county gaol, leaving his wife and children to the scant dietary of the unions. Now, this truly infernal system must be fundamen tally changed. Government must find labour for she unemployed. That is the remedy we propose. The details of the plan are not difficult. The Crown and waste lands would give occupation to hundreds of thou sands in bringing them into culture by spade husbandry; railroads would engage others ; public harbours would afford another field for industry. But how are these men to be paid ? Let us first ask those who put the que3tion, what they think of a Government who are so cruel as to tax its subjects, and so little skilful as not to be able to employ them ? Can they honestly tax labour to pay the fundholders, for example, and not tax the landholders to pay labour ? If statesmanship can only achieve such triumphs as these, let it be classed in the category of swindling. We say it fearlessly,—a Go vernment merits subversion which taxes the people, and declares itself incompetent to pay them for their labour. Why the law would scarcely allow a man to keep a horse and ride it, unless he fed the animal; and shall our Con stitution throw its shield over the brutes, and refuse pro tection to the sons and daughters of industry ? But the mode of payment is not difficult. Since we vote thirty millions annually to pay the fundholder, let us vote half that sum to pay the unemployed poor, and for that purpose issue Government notes, not bearing interest, convertible into gold at its market price, and receiving the character of a legal tender, being an ac quittance of taxes at the Exchequer. A single example will serve to illustrate the plan and the manner in which it would work. Suppose Govern ment were to determine on constructing a railway from London to York. It would invite all the unemployed to apply to the proper superintendents, every man re ceiving a fixed weekly salary, at a minimum of wages, which we shall assume to be two shillings daily. Every man who could not get work from private employers would repair to the public work, and all able-bodied paupers would be sent to the stations on the line. Toe first step, then, in the process would be the abolition of pauperism, and the emptying of the unions of all but the aged and the crippled, whose infirmities entitle.l them to a national asylum. In the next place, it would raise wages, permanently, all over the country, in every trade and calling, since private capitalists could never lower wages below two shillings per diem, which we have assumed to be the minimum. Of course all pri would rise to the great benefit of the producing classes. The wages paid at the various Government works would be distributed in the purchase of all kinds of commodities, and increase the home trade. Those wages would be paid in symbolic money, and being taken in payment of taxes, would discharge Customs, Excise, Stamps, and all other imposts annually due to the Go vernment, On whatever work the men were employed, that work would form an addition tb the real wealth of the nation when completed. If a line of railway, for i.i stance, were constructed on this principle, it would b - come national property, and all would benefit by the cheapness of transit, as it could be let to a company for a term of years at a competition tender, such company merely farming the power of conveying goods and ryLls sengers, the plant of the railway . remaining in the nation. Waste lands brought into culture undsr this system could ba let on perpetual leases at corn rents, which rents might be annually applied to the reduction of the national debt. New harbours thus created would be free of dues, or at most no more dues need be levied than would keep them in repair. The space to which a single article is limited forbids so fall an exposition of the details of this system, as we deem necessary—a defect which we shall supply in our next number. For the present we must be content with announcing the principle on w hich this remedial measure is based. We hold that a Government which levies taxes on the working classes is bound to find employment for the working classes, particularly such a Government as ours, which narrows the labour-market by deliberate legislation, and thus prevents private capitalists from giving that employment which they might be able to give, if restrictions on trade were abolished. We contend that poaching, incendiarism, rind nine-tenths of the offences committed against property, are instigated by those various Acts of Parliament which deprive men of food, lodging, and raimsnt, by depriving them of employment ; and consequently, that those who enact such unjust laws are more deserving of inearcera•ien than those who break them. Nay, more—we insist that it would be more humane to legalise infanticide, than to continue the laws which prevent fathers from earning wherewithal to support their children, who are doomed to perish for want of a sufficiency of food. We deny the right of the Legislature to employ soldiers and police far the protection of property, unless they also give an ade quate protection to labour ; and by " adequate protec tion," w e mean that the Government is bound to find employment for every man able to work, but who fails to find employment from private capitalists ; and we hold this obligation the more sacred in this country, where the working classes are taxed without being re. presents d. ENGLISII AND IRISH W OMEN.—The Irish ladies have always been celebrated for their beauty. They aro taller than those of England. I thought, when in Brighton a short time ago, that a greater amount of beauty, considering the number present, could not bo anywhere met with, provicb , d the ladies were brought accidentally together, than what I witnessed, evening after evening, on the pier and parade of that place. I will not say that among the same number of Irish ladies, brought by chance together, you would see a greater proportion of fine faces. The claims of the ladies in the one country and the other are, in this respect, so nicely balanced, that it would he difficult to say which cf the two countries carries off the palm. But this, I am sure, will be admitted by every unprejudiced Englishman who has walked, on a fine afternoon in August, on the promenade at Kingston Harbour, that he never, in any part of England, saw, in an assemblage of women of th e same extent, an equal number of fi ne figures. There is , o ? , in the car r i age an d manner o f th e b e tt er or d er o f th e t Irish ladies generally, a marked superiority to the Eng lish women. There a is d em:nparatively little in Ireland of I that cold reserve d istant demeanour which strike foreigners as so un favourable a characteristic of our ' English women. The av l o ri a s r h al l ' a l d e ies E ha ve muc h of the case, gracefulness, and vivacity of th Thc r . enFli, w it hout . any of not in the world their exceptionable qualities. a more modest race of women than re th l a e s n lasi l i ; a remark which equally applies to all ranks them.—lmpressions if Ireland and the Irish. among PEDESTRIANISM.—A man named Alabaster is no w engaged on Parker's-piece in attempting the ard uous task of walking 1,000 miles and the same number of fur longs in 1,000 successive hours. He starts from the New Inn.-.- Cambridge Independent. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 12, 1844. btrb Milton SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. PRICES OF SHARES --- - - - 1.1 1 1 CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 12. Div idend per Names of Com. , Annum. palsies. Canals. fri per cent. 4/. Ashton and Oldham". Ashby-de-la-Zouch..av Basingstoke ..... Br eckneck & Abergay. Birmingham, 1-16th sh. Do. and Liverp. June. 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FROM THE EVENING PAPERS Or THIS DAY. STANDARD.—The position of the affairs of Spain is most melancholy, and presents no immediate prospect of improvement. The fault is, however, as much that of the Spanish people as of their law givers, for where there is not the strong temptation to despotism which exists in that miserable country, the chances are undoubtedly in favour of rational liberty. For their present degraded condition, the Spanish people are clearly indebted to themselves alone. They have created the Frankenstein which now follows and torments them. Whenever they have exhibited firmness and decision of purpose they have invariably selected the wrong time for its display. They were pretty unanimous in driving Espartero from his place among them; although they had no grave accusations to allege against him. His govern ment was mild, and in the fullest sense of the term, constitutional. He gave peace to the country from the incessant intrigues of the Carlist faction, and had scarcely had time to settle down in his government, ere ha discovered the imprac ticable elements with which he had to deal. Having achieved all that military daring and foresight could be expected to accomplish for Spain, he had hardly time to turn his attention to the internal condition of the country ere he was driven from it a fugitive and an exile. Had he exhibited those qualities I which have invested Narvaez with almost su preme power • had he established a reign of terror, which forbad ' all political discussion, and planned opportunities of rendering his enemies amenable to his vengeance by originating, through his agents, conspiracies for the express purpose of afford ing him an excuse for punishing the parties they were intended to compromise; had he appropriated the scanty resources of the nation to the conciliation of the army, or the corruption of the priesthood, he would have been Regent of Spain at the pre sent moment. But he thought proper to despise those extraneous aids to power of which other less honourable and far less able aspirants have made such abundant use. If we except a single abuse of his power—only more conspi cuous, because of the usually moderate character of his government, an act forced upon him by the vin dictive disposition of the ex-Queen—his regency was characterised, not merely by a just, but by a humane, regard to the errors of the people over whom he was called upon to preside. Had he been better ac quainted with their character, he might possibly have acted with more promptitude and decision in his diffi culties than he did. But the Spanish people are rotten to the core. Even the army, which he had fostered, and which had earned glory under his command, deserted his cause the instant it began to fail, almost en masse; and that, too, under circumstances of meaner infamy than has characterised the refection of any similar body in the whole range of modern history. Officers and men alike sold themselves to the highest bidder. A small sum down, and promises which have never been re deemed, induced soldiers who had fought under his banners, and achieved on such occasions considerable military glory, to turn their arms against their bene factor, and they were among the first to join the movement against him. A brave man, and with ample means at his command, could he have re conciled the conduct of his successors to his conscience, he contented himself with remaining on the defensive, and thus lost not only the military advantages which were within his reach, but disgusted such of his followers as were unable to appreciate the motives of his forbearance. His successor, Narvaez, has been far less scrupulous, and consequently far more successful. He found a people wearied out with agitation, in the collapse, physical and moral, which sometimes succeeds powerful excitement. He took advantage of this prostration of spirit to place his iron heel upon their necks, and after innumerable acts of severity, better suited to the leader of a tribe of sava•es than the servant of a constitutional monarch, he is about to consummate the treachery and cruelty which have marked his entire career by sacrificing the life of a man who was one of his most zealous coadjutors against Espartero. By the sheer force of military despotism, he has contrived to assemble a Chamber of Deputies, capable of any degree of submisston, how ever degrading, he may think proper to propose. Hence their acceptance of his late audacious articles for the reform of the Constitution. Hence the Spanish people are willing to revert to a state of despotism greater than has existed among them for more than a century. The trial of General Prim is proceeding with little chance of an equitable decision in his favour. The witnesses against him have been suborned ; the tribunal to which he is committed is evidently one which will have little scruple in condemning to death a man who has been guilty of the enormous offence of disputing unconstitutional mandates. Here, how ever, is once more a tolerably striking example of "poetical justice." General Prim was one of the most bitter and successful enemies of the Duke of Victory. He has even been charged with having endeavoured to assassinate him. His claim to public sympathy is therefore wholly unte nable. In either case he is a traitor and deserves to be tried as such. If the farciful account given in the Paris papers of Saturday of the intended scene between Narvaez and himself be correct, he will, it is possible, be a traitor again. He is, however, too able a man to be agreeable to Narvaez, and the great pro bability therefore is, that the proposed visit and re prieve will arrive too late. The conduct of Narvaez and that of the wretched victims of his tyranny, of whom the Chamber of Deputies is composed, are worthy of each other, and have given rise to the fullest belief that it would be imprudent in the ex treme to interfere with their concerns. GLOBE.—The selection of Mr. Erle, the eminent Whig barrister, to supply the vacancy on the Bench of the Common Pleas, has been the subject of varied comment by the public journals of this country. By the Tories it has been regarded with surprise, if not alarm. Still the acknowledged personal and professional merits of the new judge have deprived party attacks of their accustomed virulence. Though the policy which dictated the selection has been assailed, the unexception able qualifications of the gentleman selected, apart from party considerations, have been admitted. With such admissions, *the objections against the appointment are rather creditable than otherwise to the Govern ment. Except with the few whom party prejudices have blinded, or the disappointment of personal ex pectations has irritated, nothing is heard but com mendations. The best anticipations are cherished from an act which implies that, wherever else the claims of party shall be recognised, the judgment seat shall be kept free from their presence and influ ence. Not so, however, in Ireland. There the Orange journals are venting the virulence of party on the Government, whom they assail with renewed fury. The prospect of one, if not two, early vacancies in the Irish Courts may have some affect in pointing the earnest ex postulations and reproaches with which the Orange journals are filled on this subject. This " latest in stance of the Peel policy," is dilated upon in every* imaginable form of exaggerated complaint and con demnation. The passing over of that staunch Con servative, Mr. John Beatty \Vest's claims to a judge ship the elevation of Mr. Sergeant Howley, a Roman Catholic and a Whig—with other instances of Sir Robert Peel's ingratitude to those to whom he owed his recal to power—these are recapitulated and dwelt upon in illustration of the policy of which Mr. Erie's elevation to the Bench is only one among many instances. " It would be affectation in us," says the Dublin Mail, " to say that we regret that this instance of the Peel policy has occurred. It is not impossible that it may have a beneficial effect, by explaining to English capa cities somewhat of the nature of the feelings of Irish Protestants, when they saw a premature grave closing over Mr. West, and when they witnessed the eleva tion of Mr. Sergeant Howley into the number of those whom the Conservative Sir Robert Peel delighted to honour." In yet more indignant phrase the .'Mail proceeds : " Is is not preposterous that, as the head of a Conser vative opposition, he should turn out of office the Whig administration ; and that succeeding to their places, in himself and his colleagues, he should, as the head of a Conservative administration, fill up the vacancies in his own ranks, and in the several executive departments under him, by recruits selected from the ranks of his op ponents ? If the Whigs, as a whole, should not be al lowed to administer the government, why should they be preferred in detail for those offices, the aggregate of which finally constitute the administration of the country. ?" As though the worst forebodings beclouded the future, the Mail goes on :—" Conservatism hangs downirna ltlhe elevationiwt s hands, ay of to the Irish Pig benchot's[the,WonhitgheSnoelxictivtoarc-aGneeyn?ez ' With such retrospects and prospects, no wonder that the conclusion to which the contemplation of such th&gsll mencond muctsataht be sensible t the Orange journalist hatc o prt3can should a. be— Acon tinue to hold together in opposition to strenuous exer tions made by its leaders for it s di sso l ut i on. The Con servative party in Ireland is already dissolved into its elements—the cohesion of the same party in England is rapidly loosening. It Lecomes wise men to inquire and consider as to the combinations into which it is probable the dissolved elements may enter in the one country and in the other. This is the true moral to be drawn from the elevation of Mr. Erle, the Whig partisan, to the honours and emoluments of the Judicial Bench." Still there are gleams of sunshine, shedding light on, and administering consolation to, the desponding spirits of the Irish Conservatives. Mr. Napier has been honoured with notice by the Government; and, in the estimation of the extreme section of Irish Con servatism, Mr. Napier's claims to the honours and re wards of his profession are of no ordinary kind. The Dublin Monitor places Mr. Napier's merits—for which the Irish Chancellor doubtless counted him worthy of the honour he has put upon him—in a strong point of view : " We accuse him (Mr. Napier) of rank disloyalty—of having foully slandered her Majesty the Queen—of having basely asserted that her youthful mind was poisoned by contact—by personal association and in tercourse with the gambler, the seducer, and the adul terer. This is the charge we bring against Mr. Napier ; and we ask any loyal man, whether the party making such a foul and scandalous accusation against the Queen, should have been selected for the honour of a silk gown —for the honour of representing her Majesty at the inner bar, as her counsel .at-law." _ _ _ A speech delivered by Mr. Napier in 1841 is then cited, in proof of these allegations : " Let us now turn to the Palace, and observe the sort of people who have been selected as the advisers of our youthful Queen. By whom do we find her sur rounded ? By the gambler, the seducer, the adulterer— individuals whom no virtuous man would permit to enter his house. These are the advisers of our Queen — these are the men by whom she is surrounded. It is no wonder, therefore, that her youthful mind is poisoned —it is no wonder that her opinions received a tinge from such a contact. However, we are not without hope—her Majesty is not too old to learn." When Mr. Napier's good fortune was first an nounced, we were at a loss to discover the reasons which induced the Standard to devote an article to praising the discernment of the Irish Government in selecting Mr. Napier for the distinction. The reason is now explained. The Standard treasured up in its memory Mr. Napier's claims. Visited by one of its former inspirations,. when the Sovereign and her Court were the standing themes of its invectives, the Standard rejoiced at finding the merits of one of its familiars recog nized by the Government, and his shoulders arrayed by it with the pledge and earnest of future honours. We concur with the Dublin journalist from whom we have quoted :—" We ask, is it creditable to any go vernment to select for honour the man, no matter how great may be his professional claims, who spoke that speech--who strove to defile the character of our Sovereign Lady by such base and scandalous slander —who, even if it were spoken in a moment of dis loyal forgetfulness and factious excitement, has never had the grace to make atonement for that speech ?" At all events the Irish Tories may take courage. There is no reason to fear that an Erle will be se lected to fill a seat on the Bench by the Chancellor who deemed Mr. Napier a fit subject for special favour. COURSE OF EXCH] Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i Antwerp 25 95 liamburgh M.B. 13 13 Altona l3 13 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Frankibrt on Maine l2l Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 953 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36i Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 .NGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice .... Naples 391 Palermo, per oz llB Lisbon 55 Oporto 55 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER oz. Foreign Gold, bars...f.3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9' Silver in Bars 0 4 116 Saville — THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) THE PRINCE OF WALES COUNCIL-CHAMBERS, I SOMERSET-HOUSE, Nov. 11, 1844. The names of those who were this day nominated by the Council of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, to serve the office of Sheriff of the county of Corn wall : Francis Rod& of Prebartha Hall, Esq. Augustus Coryton, of Pentillie Castle, Lg. John Davies Gilbert, of Trelissick, Esq. WHITEHALL, Nov. 11. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker, of Shenstone Lodge, in the county of Stafford, G.C.8., and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 11. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Richard C. Pennell, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary and Registrar, and John Doveton, Esq., to be Treasurer, for the island of St. Helena. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Nov. 8. Corps of Royal Engineers—Second Captain R. J. Stotherd to be Captain, vice Gregory, retired on full pay; First Lieutenant G. R. Hutchinson to be Second Captain, vice Stotherd; Second Lieutenant M. 11. Synge to be First Lieutenant, vice Hutchinson, Oct. 30. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Lancashire. John Talbot Clifton, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Oct. 30 ; William Trasure Redmayne, Esq., to be ditto, Nov. 2. tCommission by the Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk. First, or Western Regiment of Norfolk Militia—Cap tain W. E. L. Bulwer to be Major, vice Barnham, de ceased, Oct. 29. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Ross-shire. 96th Regiment of North British Militia—Sir A. Downie, Knight Bachelor, Doctor in Medicine, to be Assistant-Surgeon, Oct. 28. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire Militia—W. Cartwright, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, Oct. 25. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JOHN THOMAS WILDE and WILLIAM WILDE, merchants, Basing-lane, Cheapside. BANKRUPTS. JOHN COX, cabinet-maker, Norwich, to surrender, Nov. 22 and Dec. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Wood and Blake, Falcon-street, Aldersgate-street ; Durrant, Norwich. JAMES JONES, apothecary, Berner's-street, Ox ford-street, Nov. 19, and Dec. 17, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. F o ll e tt, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Hand, Chancery- R' two,Oilin oilman, Dec. 17, at eleven, William-street, SO George's Chancery lane. WILLIAM Nov.SiI Y9E, at West-square, So u th war k. e N o IL at the Court of Bankruptcy. G reen , o ffi c i a l ass i gnee , Aldermanbury; Morel,A JOSEPH SERET BURROWS, coal merchant, Wim bledon, Nov. 22, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 2, at one, at the Court of Ban kr uptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Og le, Great Winchester-street. JAMES am p p A a V n -IsS BATES, ginger -b eer manu f ac t ure r, Lower treet, St. George's-in -the-East, Nov. 22, at one, and Jan. 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bank. r brs ; Taylor, ueptcy*Tu No official s, assignee,Old Jewry Finsbury. Chain- ALBANY HOGGINS, merchant, Apollo-buildings, Walworth, Dec. 3, at one, and Dec. 24, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Ab church-lane, Lombard-street ; Hutchinson, Crown co ur t, Threadneedle - street. EVAN KINSEY, innkeeper, Newtown, Montgomery shire, Nov. 26, and Dec. 20, at twelve, at:the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee, Liverpool ; Sergeant, Norfolk-street, Strand ; Hughes, Llanidloes ; Evans, Liverpool. GRIFFITH VAUGHAN, innkeeper, Llanedy, Car marthenshire, Nov. 26, at t we l ve and Dec. 30, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Dutton,H official assignee, Bristol ; Jeffreys, Swansea ; Haberfield, Bristol. HERBERT OLIVER and HENRY HASTINGS, butchers, Cheltenham, Nov. 26, at one, and Dec. 24, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston, official assignee, Bristol; Packwood, Cheltenham. JOSEPH VAILE, wine-merchant, Cheltenham, Nov. 28, at one, and Dec. 27, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston, official assignee, Bristol ; Bubb and Co., Cheltenham ; Bevan and Co., Bristol. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Nov. 12.) SUGAR.—To day all descriptions of West India Sugar were in excellent request. Merchants manifested firm ness, and have obtained prices 6d per cwt above those of Friday ; the business transactee would have been to a larger extent, had the assortment at market been better ; the Sugar on show consisted principal'y of brown low gley and dingy yellow ; there are many orders unexecuted for good and fine yellow sort, the stock of which is smaller than has been the case for some years at this period. The total purchases amounted to 800 hhds, including a public sale of 100 hhds of Barbadoes, which went off at very full rates, and the biddings were spirited, fine yellow fetched 665, good Gus to 645, good mid 60s to 60s 6d, mid 57s to 595, and low 54s 6d to 56s Gd per cwt. REFINED.—Ta-day numerous purchases were made in Refined Goods by the home trade, and a further advance occurred in prices, indeed the market was nearly clearnl; brown lumps fetched 71s 6d to 725, and Standard lumps 72s Gd to 73s per cwt ; at these rates it was even diffi cult to purchase towards the close of business. For bonded crushed Sugar prices are again higher, sales having been made for forward delivery at 29s to 29s 3d per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon some parcels were sold privately, at prices rather above those of Friday. There was no public sale, and the stock is nearly all in the dealers' hands. The supply is not ample for the in creasing wants of the trade. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the only public sale of Bengal was that of 134 bags, which went at 57s to 57s 6d for washed yellow, 658 to 67s 6d for grainy ditto, 46s for sound brown, 403 for low ditto, 39s to 40s for damp and washed, and Gls for damp white. By private con tract there was a good deal doing at further advanced rates—white fetched 60s to 68s, yellow 55s to 635, and superior 64s to 70s per cwt. There was a better demand for Manilla Sugar by private contract, prices advanced f resi rnie W eurai snl e hl gsarpt haslndia been e se parcels, lelo nsbw,u o mtb f peol tlec o tge o l esd.b inclination a ab n r Tue d lsoyi ..n d fine feoas3rs ,rnqtt has former sell re i pe t l quality wele a oeea r wsn e s. apit6i:aed, transacted, speeoa,ltrfLieco MOLASSES.—West ca w s drsfp l Eo . rrtsehivi and middling sorts, and 20s to 22s per cwt have been For East India there has been scarcely any demand, and rather more demand for West India Molasses, and former rates were paid. SAGO has been in good request by private contract at firm rates; low at 13s to 14s, middling 15s to 17s, good middling and fine 18s to 24s per cwt. Of Arrowroot 95 pkgs Here partly sold at public sale; Bermuda at 8d to Is 2d; Jamaica, 4s to 6d; St. Vincent's 4A. to 6d. 201 brls of Tous-les-Mois, Gd. 96 brls of Tapioca 4id per Ib, and 10 chests Cuba Honey 34s to 38s per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day the inquiries were numerous for yellow Havannah Sugar from shippers and speculators ; the rates offered were 6d to is per cwt above those of this day week, but business of consequence was pre vented by the chief holders withdrawing their Sugars from the market. For 800 boxes common greyish yellow 21s have been paid. Holders of white are not inclined to sell at present. For all sorts of Brazil stiffer rates are asked, indeed several parcels have been withdrawn from the market; there are several buyers at former prices, but no sellers. That the Havannah Sugar crop has been much injured there can be no doubt, and the next crop is not :expected to be more than 600,000 boxes, whereas last season it was 8504)00 boxes. COFFEE.—This afternoon the market was much better supplied with East India Coffee. The public sales com prised 3,532 bags Singapore Java, 1,689 bags Padang, 108 bls Mocha, and 961 bags Ceylon ; the Java of sound quality was taken in above the value—good ord brownish at 38s, ord damp brown 335, very ord brown 32s ; the sea damaged, amounting to 182 bags, sold at moderate rates, first class at 28s 6d to 355, second 25s to 335, and third 21s to 29s 6d ; of the Padang 994 bags were sea damaged, these sold at low rates, first class at 23s Gd to 24s 6d, second and third 22s to 23s 6d, fourth 18s, sea damaged and repacked 18s to 225, but the sound was taken in at more than it was worth, good ord brouwn at 27s ; the Ceyloy went off quietly, and a part only sold 6d under former rates—good ord pale went at 545, good ord bold rather colory 55s to 55s 6(1, and ragged 48s to 51s ; the Mocha was all sea damaged, and sold at 49s to 675, being cheap. There is still little demand privately for Foreign Coffi , e ; at public sale 43 brls of Rio were taken in at 43s Gd to 44s for fine ordi nary colory. TEA.—The market has still a firm appearance for nearly every desciption of Tea, and none has been offered at public sale. Holders of Congou show firmness, and have obtained former rates ; there has, however, been less demand from the trade, and few purchases have been made by speculators—of fine the supply is scanty, and of ordinary qualities few parcels are offering for sale—common at Mid to I Id, good common 111 d to 11 id, but mid coarse is to is Oid, but mid and mid blksh leaf is ld to is 24d, good blkish leaf Is 3d to Is sd, fine Is 6d to Is 2d, Pekoe flavour is Is 9d to 2s 4d, and very rich 2s 5d to 2s 6d per lb. Pouchong has met with increased attention—clean has been selling at 6d to 9d. Scented Orange Pekoe is fetching 3s 4d to 3s 4A-d—the stock is nearly all in second hands. Hyson has met with eager pur - chasers, and further advanced rates are paid, common fetching 2s Gd to 2s Bd, but mid and mid 2s 9d to 3s, and superior 3s 2d to Ss 6d. For Imperial and Gun powder there has been a good demand. To-day there was not much business transacted in Teas, but prices were supported ; common swami Congou for cash was with difficulty to be purchased under 10Id per lb. S PIC ES.—This afternoon white Pepper was in request, and 50 bags good bold heavy at public sale were sold at 6,id, and one lot low middling 4d per lb, being the former value. For Nutmegs prices advanced ld to 2d per lb, and 39 chests two boxes at auction were all sold : Singapore fine brown bold fetched 4s 2d to 4s sd, good 3s 9d to 4s Id, good middling 3s 7d to 3s Bd, mid 3s 6d, damp 3s 8d to 4s Id, worm eaten Is 6d to is Bd, mouldy 3s to 3s 6d. Cloves were not much in request, and 32 chests Penang at auction went at rather lower rates, fine bold bright at 2s 3d to 2s sd, good ditto 2s to 2s Id, damp 2s 2d. Of Mace 13 chests were sold at lower rates, good bold went at 3s to 3s 3d, and mid 2s 9d to 2s I Id. Of Barbadoes Ginger 46 bags were taken at 43a. COCOA.—To-day West India was sought after, and stiff rates paid by private contract. At public sale 48 bags, and 6 barrels of Trinidad were sold at 43s to 44s for middling Red, and 42s per cwt for grey. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Jamaica Raw is not to be purchased upon lower terms, but market has still a quiet appearance ; there are few home or ex port purchasers ; the market is but moderately supplied, especially with the better qualities : 3s 10d to 5s per gallon is the value of 30 to 36 per cent 0. P., and 5s 4d to Os for superior high flavoured sorts. Leewards are held with firmness, but at present there are few orders ; 2s 44-d to 2s 5d is the value of proof strength : at 2s 4d there are, however, several purchasers. Demerara at 3s 3d to 3s 6d for strong qualities. Calcutta, 2s 2id to 2s 3d. For Leeward Island Rum prices are 8d to 9d, and Jamaica is to 2s per gallon higher than they were in 1843. For Brandy the demand has been brisk for the best description ; inferior kinds are in good request. Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds at 5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto, 1839, hhds 4s 11 4 s 9d d, p ; ditto, n 4 s 18 s 41 9 , d h ; h d d i s t t o 8 4s , ll O4 h d 0: puns 4s lid, ss 4s 8d 8 d puns dittn, 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s 5d ; ditto, 1843, hhds 4s sd, puns 4s 3d ; common 2s Iod to 3 s 2d, an d m id to goo d mid 3s 3d to 3s 10d per gallon. Of the vintage of 1843 the quantity in the market is small. Geneva shipping sort at is 9d to Is 10d, and fine 2s 4d to 3s 6d per gallon. English Corn Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon, cash. RICE.—A good demand has existed for yellow Madras Rice by private contract, and several parcels have been disposed of rather abova former rates, 8s 3d to 9s per cwt having been paid, the supply has become small. Java at 9s to 9s 6d for yellow, lOs to lls for white, superior would fetch 118 6d to 12s per cwt, but there is at present none in the market. Bombay Rice, at auction, at lOs 6d to ils for mid white, and 9s 6d to lOs per cwt for sea damaged, being the full value. Bengal middling white was sold at I Is, and good middling to good Ils 6d to 12s per cwt. Cleaned, at 13s Gd to 18s for Patna, and 23s to 27s per cwt for Carolina. For East India prices are 6d to is per cwt above those of last season at this period. FRUIT.—The purchases made in Raisins were exten sive. New Red Smyrna in barrels fetched 455, cases 465. Elemo in cases 51s to 525, Malaga 40s, Sultanas 655, and Valentias 503. The value of Turkey Pulled Figs is 60s to 130 s. Currants are much wanted : new Patras are fetching 49s to 50s, and old Island fruit 435. COCHINEAL—This afternoon Cochineal met with more attention, and 118 bags of Honduras at public sale were all sold at fully former rates, low silvers fetched 4s id to 4s 2d, and middling to good 4s 3d to 4s 7d per lb. INDIGO.— The dullness in the East India Indigo market has increased, and some holders are more in clined to realise, the home trade have purchased with much caution, and for exportation there are few orders, the rates accepted show a decline on those of the last Quarterly sale of 2d to 3d; indeed, one parcel of 40 chests of Bengal has been forced off to close an account at a discount of 5d per lb, but at this rate there are not further sellers. Spanish has been little inquired for. TALLOW.—There has been a good demand for Russian on the spot in consequence of importers again submit ting to railer lower rates, 40s 6d to 40s 9d were the current prices taken for P Y Candle to-day. New South Wales at auction went at 38s 6d to 41s 6d. South American at auction at 37s 3d to 40s for good and fine quality. OILS.—The common descriptions of Fish Oils are not much wanted, and prices are on the decline for all kinds; Pale Seal selling by private contract at 341 103 to 35/, coloured 311 to 33/, Cod 321 lOs to 331, and at auction 90 tuns of Southern went at 281 lOs to 311 15s for mid to fine, being 20s par tun under former rates. With brown Seal the market is scantily supplied at present. Sperm at 881 to 901 per tun for British. Holders of Olive Oil are inclined to realise on account of the heavy stock ; Gallipoli at 43/ to 444 Spanish 411 to 424 and Barbary and Levant 301 to 401 per tun. Cocoa Nut Oil is wanted, and prices keep firm, 61 casks at public sale fetched 27s Gd to 21s 6d per cwt. American Lard at auction went at 40s to 41s. Palm has been in good request at former rates. Rape Oil pale at 355, and brown 34s per cwt. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY.--Noo.ll. The Lord Chancellor took his seat in his Court to , day, at a quarter before eleven o'clock, for the pur. pose of hearing appeals. MATTHEWS V. BRIM The further aruments in this case, which were partly heard on I riday and Saturday, were resumed and concluded to-day. The case came before the court upon appeal from the court below, which had ordered the defendant to make good the value of a number of Exchequer-bills, which he had, as a trustee, left in the hands of bankers, who converted them to their own use, and afterwards became bankrupts. The defendant was also ordered to pay the costs. The facts of the case may be thus shortly stated :—A tes tator, of the name of Matthews, by his will appointed the defendant a trustee of considerable estates in Suf folk, with directions to dispose of them in a reasonable time, and, at the termination of a beneficial interest in the fund, which was to be enjoyed by his widow, to divide it among his younger children, of whom the plaintiff was one. The testator died in 1834, and the defendant sold a portion of the estates, and placed the purchase-money, for a time, in the hands of Messrs. Oakes, as his bankers ; he, however, shortly afterwards, for greater security, placed the money, which amounted to 7,5001., in the hands of the Messrs. Wakefield, the bill-brokers and bankers, in Broad. street, London. Negotiations were going on, with the concurrence of the widow of the testator, for paying the money out on mortgage, and in the meantime he gave Messrs. Wakefield instructions to invest it is the purchase of Exchequer-bills. The bills were pur chased, but the Messrs. Wakefield became bankrupts in April, 1841, and it turned out that they had felo niously sold the hills afterwards, and converted the produce to their own use, subjecting themselves to the provisions of the 7th and Bth Geo. IV., chap. 59, for the fraud. The money being therefore lost, the Master of the Rolls held the defendant to be re sponsible, on the ground that he had transferred to other persons the confidence reposed in him, and that having parted with the custody of the money, he must replace it, and pay all the costs. Mr. Bethell and a gentleman behind the bar ap peared for the appellant, and Mr. J. Russell and Mr. Chandless supported the judgment of the Court below. Or The arguments having concluded to-day, The LORD CHANCELLOR postponed giving judg ment till he had had an opportunity of looking into the papers and the authorities that had been cited. The Court did not rise till nearly four o'clock. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 11. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) lIUXTABLE V. THE STATE OF ILLINOIS. The arguments in this part-heard case were re sumed and concluded to-day. The case came before the Court upon demurrers put in to the bill by tho defendants, Messrs. Magmas and Co., and Messrs. Baring, Brothers, for want of equity as against them, they having been made, by the plaintiff, defendants to the suit, upon allegations that they were the autho rised agents of the State of Illinois in this country. The plaintiff; who is a married woman, by the pre sent bill sought payment through the defendants, ag Such agents, of a debt which she alleged to be due to her for principal and interest, accruing in respect to certain bonds of the State of Tllipois, which she had been induced , bef ore s h e married, by John Wright, of the late banking firm of Messrs. Wright and Co., with whom she kept a bank ing account, and before the bankruptcy of that firm, to purchase, and that at a time when Messrs. Wright and Co. were the accredited agents of the State of Illinois in this country, for the sale of the h o ,,ds of that State. The plaintiff by her bill further al leged that the State of Illinois, through its agents, Messrs. Magniac and Co., proved a large debt against the estate of Wright and Co. in respect of the bonds of the State entrusted to them for sale in this country, and that a sum of 15,0001. was then standing to the credit of the State of Illinois in the Court of Bank ruptcy, the amount of dividend already declared upon the debt due to the State of Illinois. To obtain pay ment of her debt out of that fund, the plaintiff filed this bill against the State of Illinois, making the defendants, Messrs. Magniac and Co., and Messrs. Baring, Brothers, as the alleged agents of the State on this country, defendants to the suit, for that purpose, and praying by the bill that the State of Illinois and the defendants, as its agents, should be restrained from receiving the fund from the Court of Bank ruptcy without first satisfying thereout her demand. Upon the conclusion of the arguments, The VICE-CHANCELLOR gave judgment, allowing all the de►nurrers, with costs, but giving the plaintiff liberty to amend her bill. COULSTR[NG V. COULSTRING. This case came before the Court upon a plea put in by the defendant to the bill of the plaintiff The plaintiff and the defendant are husband and wife ; they had lived together for some years and had four children. They quarrelled and separated, and upon that occasion the defendant, the husband, executed a deed, by which he allowed the plaintiff, his wife, twenty-eight shillings a week to keep herself and her four children. In that deed was a proviso, that if they should live together again, and thereby invalidate the deed, that upon any future separation another deed to the same effect should be executed. It appeared from the statements in the bill that the parties lived together again for about six weeks, and then separated, and the defendant refused to execute another deed. Upon this event taking place the plaintiff filed her bill to compel him to do so, to which the defendant put in his plea. Mr. JAMES, who appeared in support of the plea, was proceeding to open his case, when The VICE-CHANCELLOR inquired who appeared in, support of the bill ? A little dapper female here stepped forward, and said she was the plaintiff, that she had very little to say, and she therefore thought that she could do it as well as employing counsel. The VICE-CHANCELLOR (smilingly) said he was always happy to see the ladies, but he thought it would have been much better for her if she had entrusted her case to counsel. The lady, notwithstanding the good advice, pro ceeded in a rambling strain to argue her case, and the result was as might have been expected. His HoNouß ordered the plea to be allowed. CONSISTORY COURT, Nov. 11. STONE AGAINST STONE. Dr. Lusunewros gave sentence in this case, which was argued in Trinity Term last. It was originally a suit commenced by Mrs. Harriet Stone against Mr. George Stone, her husband, for a divorce by reason of cruelty and adultery. Mr. Stone denied both charges, and in return accused Mrs. Stone of adultery with Lord Sussex Lennox, and her adultery with Mr. Thomas Knox Holmes was incidentally pleaded. Mrs. Stone, in a third plea, charged her husband with connivance at her adultery with Mr. Holmes. The parties were married on the 23d of February, 1835, Mr. Stone being then a bachelor, and Mrs. Stone a widow, of the name of Hawkins. They had one child, and on the 24th of August, 1841, they separated. Mr. Stone is the partner of a well-known banking firm in the City. The adultery of Mrs. Stone with Lord Sussex Lennox, the Learned Judge observed, was proved to demonstration ; indeed, it could not be denied. Mr. Stone, therefore, would be entitled to the separation he prayed for unless barred by his own misconduct. To be deprived of remedy, he must himself have committed adultery, or have connived at his own dishonour, or have condoned the adultery of his wife after it had taken place. These, therefore, were the only questions he had to try. A great many circumstances might arise in matrimonial intercourse deserving of severe reprobation • but unless they bore upon the questions of adultery, connivance, or condonation, they were not properly within the cognizance of this Court. In consider ing the charge of adultery brought against Mr. Stone, it was a great relief to his (the Learned Judge's) mind, to be able to dismiss altogether the allegation of a connexion with the sister of Mrs. Stone, which had been abandoned, and of which, in his opinion, .there was not the slightest evidence. The first charge of adultery against Mr. Stone respecting which evidence had been offered was, that in 1839 he had gone to the Lyceum Theatre, and accompanied a woman to her apartments, where he left his banking-book, keys, and a sum of money. No direct evidence of this charge was produced, but it was stated to be proved by the admission of Mr. Stone himself—a species of evidence of the highest kind, provided always that it was accompanied by certain requisites, namely, that the party reporting the admission was credible, that the expressions were clear and distinct, and that the admission was sincere. Only one witness was produced to prove this charge, Ann Knowles. What had she been brought to prove ? Why, that Mr. Stone at a subsequent time (about a twelvemonth after) acknowledged the fact in her hearing and in the presence of his wife and of Mr. Holmes. (The Learned Judge here read the deposi tion of Ann Knowles upon this article of the allega tion.) Now, laying out of consideration for the pre sent the degree of credit due to Ann Knowles, was the statement quite consistent with probability and with all the other facts of the case ? Assuming that Mr. Stone had been guilty :of the fact imputed to him, was it very probable that he should have ad mitted it in the presence of three persons, One his wife, another the person with whom his wife is accused of having committed adultery, and the third the nurse of his child ? If he had done so, he would have been guilty of the grossest imprudence, unless it could be supposed that it took place with the knowledge and acquiescence of the wife, and that this was a habit of the husband, for had this been an isolated transaction, in all human probability it must have been concealed by him. But the charge was highly improbable, from the statement of the witness not relating all that passed, for nothing was said as to any observation from Mrs. Stone. It was impossible for the Court on such evidence as this, so inconsistent with probability, to hold that• the offence was established. If such a charge could be established upon the testimony of a single wit ness, the circumstances must be probable, and the witness omni exceptione major, and this, looking to the testimony of Ann Knowles upon other points, could not, with propriety be maintained. Consider ing, therefore, this charge as not sufficiently estab lished, he proceeded to the next charge,—that Mr. Stone had been infected with a certain disease. Of this charge there appeared to he an ample field for evidence, inasmuch as several men were vouched. But the testimony of Mr. Liston, the surgeon, who attended Mr. Stone professionally, pronounced the symptoms to be equivocal ; and when a professional gentleman of eminence and of great medical skill declared the point to be doubtful, it would not become him (the Learned Judge), who had no medical skill and none of the opportunities afforded to Mr. Liston, to come to a different conclusion. Mrs. Knowles spoke to the same point ; but it would not be safe to credit her, even if her evidence were not opposed to that of the medical witness. The evidence of Mr. Scanlan to an alleged confession of Stone showed that it wanted one of the requisites, namely, sincerity, and that of Mr. Martindale did not go to convict Mr. Stone of matrimonial infidelity. Upon this point, therefore, the proof was not suffi cient to satisfy the Court. The only remaining charge of adultery was that alleged to have taken place with Mrs. Cole, his housemaid and housekeeper, at Mr. Stone's house at Fulham, in 1842, which rested upon the evidence of the gardener, Maxwell, and his wife, the only other servants in the house. The Learned Judge went into a very minute exami nation of the details of their evidence, commenting upon the inconsistencies and improbabilities in their statements, and upon the fact that Mary Maxwell did not believe that adultery had taken place at the time, though she had come to that col - 1(1414m since. - Whilst there was no proof of any improper familiarities be tween Mr. Stone and Mrs. Cole, still less of any act of adultery, the circumstances stated by the witnesses as affording an inference of guilt wero consistent with innocence. It turned out likewise that the facts al leged in three articles of the wife's plea, which ap. peared to be separate and distinct, all occurred on the same day. The two most essential oireumstancer were Cole's being alone with Mr. Stone in his bedroom, and her being outside his door in her night clothes, in toxioated ; the door, however, being locked. The latter circumstance could not be taken as evidence against Mr. Stone, and it was ad m itt e d b y M ary Maxwell that Mrs. Cole had occasion to g 0 into Mr. Stone's room in the ordinary fulfilment of her house hold duties. Under such circumstances the Court could not infer guilt; it could not give way to sus picion ; it must be governed by the legitimate results of legal evidence. There was not a single act of indecent familiarity directly proved ; and, had there been a criminal intercourse carried on between the parties, he (the Learned Judge) could not co nce i ve that there would not have been more direct evidence. He rnnst, under these circumstances, pronounce th e charge of adultery against Mr. Stone not proved. He had now arrived at a stage of the investigation which eptitled him to say that the adultery of Mrs. Stone with Lord Sussex Lennox being Prect'eci, and no charge of adultery against Mr. stone being estab lished, it followed that he was entitled to a sentence of separation from his wife, unless he had condoned' her offence, or had forfeited his claim t o re );,, ,, connivance, It wqs vitlnelv.3§ary - ---• °Y 1p al 1)„,a„„ . uetine what in _..nt by the term " connivance ; it might be sufficient to say, that the conduct of the husband might be most reprehensible and yet not connivance, He knew no authority for holding that coarse and bi utal words, obscene and disgusting language, and an entire disregard of decorum, would alone constitute connivance. Such conduct, though most derogatory to a gentleman, and offensive to good feeling, even though accompanied by cruelty, and even the desertion of a wife, would not amount in the eye of the law to connivance, though it might have a direct and necessary tendency to lead her into a course which would expose her to the commission of adultery. The Learned Judge then stated briefly the facts upon which the charge of connivance was founded. An extract of a letter from a lady named Price, was communicated to Mr. Stone, wherein the intimacy of Mrs. Stone with Mr. Holmes was repre sented as the subject of observation, and it was alleged that notwithstanding this warning, he promoted their intimacy. But there was no proof of adultery be tween Mrs. Stone and Mr. Holmes, and could the Court act without evidence, and assume a fact which was essential to establish the charge of connivance ? The letters discovered by Mr. Stone in his wife's re positories were not produced, and their contents were not known to the court. There had been no case in which connivance had been established where the adul tery was not clearly proved. Even though the husband might be supposed in foro conscientm to be guilty of connivance, in the eye of the law there could not be connivance without proof of the adultery and of the conduct of the party with relation to it; and there was not a shadow of proof in this case. The last topic in the case was the conduct of Mr. Stone on the 24th of August, 1841, on the discovery of the letters from Mr. Holmes to his wife. The facts alleged against Mr. Stone were, that he took his wife and child on that day, after the discovery, in the carriage to Fulham, and treated her with great kindness and attention. The evidence of Ann Knowles upon this point was highly improbable, and was inconsistent with the fact of the separation on that day, and w ith the letter of Mrs. Stone. Upon the whole case, he acquitted Mr. Stone of all legal culpability w hich would bar him from obtaining a separati on . lie (Dr. Lushington) was not called upon to give any opinion how far Mr. Stone's gross and offensive conversation and demeanour, and his permitting his wife to asso ciate with persons not of the best or purest character, might have led to her abandonment of all delicacy of feeling, and so have paved the way for her violation of the marriage bed. Such matters were not within the cognisance of this Court; and he rejoiced, in this case, to be relieved from the responsibility of passing his judgment upon them. He pronounced for the divorce. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday a dissipated-looking fellow, named Joshua Chatfield, was charged with a brutal assault upon his wife, a delicate little woman, in an advanced stage of pregnancy, and whose face was shockingly swollen and disfigured. She stated that the prisoner' who was by trade an engineer, and capable of earning 40s. per week, and by whom she had had eleven cbil' dren, was a most drunken fellow, and whenever in that state, which was of daily occurrence, invariably ill-used her. 014 Saturday night he returned honle drunk, as usual, and presented h er w i t h 55., w hic h was all he had left of his wa ges , w i t h 4s. of w hic h he ordered her to redeem from the pawnbroker's 11.14 boots, which he had himself pledged during th e w eek to procure drink, and with the remaining shilling too' her to procure food and other necessaries for the SO' day. She begged him to give her more money, 0 the shilling was quite inadequate for their wants, which he abused her with th e coarsest l anguage, and commenced a most violent attack upon her, striking her about the ribs, and knocking her down and kick ing her for more than half an hour. Her cries at 1 1, " arrested the attention of a p o li ceman, who forced po, way into the place, and f o u n d th e woman. crcucbecl up and bent together in one of the corners of the room, with nothing on her b u t h er n i ght dress, w hich was torn to pieces ; blood was flowing profusely fral her mouth, and she had every appearance of having been most brutally treated. Mr. BROUGHTON characterised the case as one of the most brutal assaults that h a d ever come before hit and said he regretted th a t h e was not empovver'''' to send the husband to prison for at least six m0n 1 .1 15 1 as he richly deserved that extent of punishment. P however, should punish him to the full extent 'of br a power, and sentence the prisoner to pay 51. to th e Queen, and in default of payment he must under two months' impriso nmen t an d h ard la b our i n the House of Correction. The prisoner, who was astounded at the sentence/ was afterwards carried off in the van. THAMES POLICE. James Rich, a young man of wild andtinge! aspect, was yesterday charged with having made cr desperate effort at self-destnic . tior. by hang ing hi n se with his pocket-handkerchief it an outhou se attacb`"A to his father's premises. It appeared that be tied been subject to fits A ll / hydrophobia for tlle last eight years. As far back!" 4 that time he h a d b een bi tten by a dog, and exhibi t decided symptoms of hydrophobia, though .f fj j wounded part s were exc i se d . W hen he was sell 4 with the fits hi s b ar k (it was stated) was scareed, distinguishable from that of a dog. He also Ow bited a horror of water. Mr. BRODERIPLYiIis is a most extraordinary oil; I never heard of s uc h a one b e f ore, though 1111,, paid considerable attention to and am tolerably C versant with the subject. I always understoodithiltj cases where the sympt oms were d ec id edly maniffes'q hydrophobia terminated fatally. The prisoner was given up to his friends, INho vi, e/4 cautioned by the magistrate to take great cr.re of DP' UNION-HALL. Lucy George, a respectable-looking girl, about .0 1 was placed at the bar before Mr. Traill, charged t l , r , stealing the sum of ss. 2d., the property of her moul f , The mother, a hard-working middle-aged fettl e( stated that on Saturday evening last she gave : 1 1, ss. 2d. for the purpose of paying a tradesman's v i ,„ c l Not returning home, she made inquiries, and yo u 'd she had not paid the money ; she then gave inforr; tion to the police, who took her into custody at o'clock on Sunday morning. She was sorry to that she had fre q ue n tly ro bb e d h er, not only of mo p but anything s h e cou ld l ay h er hands on. She P been charged at this court on several occasions % sp y received the admonitions of the magistrate, w'notj her solicitation, liberated her. She had endea,vot, all in her power to reform her, but she was quite corrigible, and she was now determined to have punished. Mr. TRAILL asked the prisoner what she ha , . t 138 say in answer to th e c h arge ? Sh e rep ' Aied that 5 had spent the money. Mr. TRAILL observed to the motner that it ' 641 useless to deal leniently with the prisoner. She vl i ;1 a hardened thief, a n d th e b est way would be to Se p her to the Old B a il ey for trial. He would, tiowov",'-f ► remand her until to-morrow. The prisoner, who displayed the utmost 'aidiffere lice was accordingly remanded. We are sorry to have to announc e the death of l iff s ; Wm. Grieve, of Drury-lane Theat , , e , w h ose talent o a painter of the highest rank have, on so many occasl%g. been appreci a t e d by t h e pu b l i c. lie died this morn' A more upright man never liv'ed. lie has left a Wl ° and several children. BIRTHS. _ A" o & On the 4th inst., at Ostend, th e l a d y of G. B. Ge' Esq., of a son. On the 7th inst., the lady of J. Ingle, Esq., of a son- On the Bth inst., at Denmark-hill, Camberwell, ..., Elliot, of a daughte r . On the 9th inst., at Bexley, Kent, the wife of Molfor LA -- shank, of a daughter. o e! „r On the 9th i ns t., th e w if e o f t h e R ev. M. Wilki•json, 0 g tto of the Marlboro ug h S c h oo l f or the sons of c'Aergyme' others, of a son. r ot' On the 9th inst., M rs. L ew i s E ngelbachs of Old 0° place, Clapham-road, of a daughter. Of On the 9th i ns t., a t Mil ton-street, Dorset _ square, t h ° of J. Samuel, Esq., of a son. a , On the 9th in s t., a t N orwoo d , M rs. J. Maitland, of foof At Minterne House, Dorset, Lady Theresa IVO' 41 tughter. di ° 1 On the 6th inst., at Gillingoase, near Falmouth, the 11 o f , T. M. Horsford, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., barrister-at -1 0 ' daughter, MARRIED. gr• On the 7th inst., at St. John's Church, Paddingt_o l t late Lionel T. Ponsford, to Eli za b e th, on l y d aug h ter of tiA v T. Lewis, Esq., of Porchester-terrace, Bayswater. go ttio , On the Bth inst., at N or thfl ee t Ch urc h , Kent, goirP _, fourth son of th e R ev . Willi am Pace, M.A., Captain , l yyq army, to Jobina, third daughter of William H. StYl e* of New House Farm, Northfleet. DIED. In September last, at Soorapoor, in the East Indite th. the wife of Captain Meadows Taylor, of his Hig ll° `" - Nizam's service. OO P On the 17th of September last, at Kamptee, 1 "" e- iz t 211 0 Cyril Andreus Brown, of the 7th Regiment of Madras Infantry. c a i lori• On the 19th ult., L ou i sa , th e w if e o f J o h n Lewis "" - r ie s. On the Ist inst., in Fi ns b ur y- c i rcus , M r . Adolphus " - On the 4th inst., at Cl a ph am , J ames H an nay, Esq- J. F. On the Bth inst., at H ammersm ith, S ar ah, relict o f Ili Onlditthe ch, E Bth sq. i aged 72. EA' nst., in Conduit-street, John Stevea wn ' the eminent surgeon-oculist. Jam b On the Bth inst., at Trinidad-place, Islington , Thomas, the infant son of George Athill, Esq. On the 9th inst., at New Bond-street, Mr. Hardwick' p, 4 , On the 9th inst., at Wilton- place, Adam Browner'', barrister-at-law, aged 41. Stondoe, On the 9th inst., at th e R ec t or y House, Upper 7. Beds, the Rev, Jahn H u ll, R ec t or o f th a t parish, age. d 'i n fant On the 10th inst., at H anover -t errace , Peckham , tile dartf;bier of A. Johnson, Esq. uptou , At Blackheath, Marth a , th e w if e o f Mr. Edward Queenhithe. °f On the lltb inst. ; Amelia, the infant daughter 4 - 44 " 1411 agekl. Esq., Of I)eVOnSili RDO : Printed and Published by M s o , 11% A s s offica , of No. 112,. 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