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....„. THE SUN, LUNIXIA, Ivitl IN 1J it 1 .iii VILIN J. ill LI, --- - SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mr. JARDINE would admit that, but at the same time he TIIE WORKING OF THE - CITY 'of men from Temple-bar to Aldgate, for the especial pur - - - - pose - of - putting down the nuisance complained of; and , GLOBE.-We cannot but think that matter of some knew of tic) remedy for the evilSexcept an action at law against POLICE, STATISTICS, Scc. the parties for a breach of contract, a proceeding which would for a time the plan worked so admirably, that 1 wonderment, and of some amusement - new occasion for The following communication has been sent to the Lord be attended with considerable expense and delay. Perhaps acknowledgments of its efficiency flowed into the chief looking upon our dearly beloved countrymen as tote Mayor aey the Commissioner of the City Police, and by his o ffi ce from every quarter, and in a little time the evil would penitus divasos orbe Britannos-will be supplied to conti- the better course to pursue would be to !make an application Lordship r esented to the Court of moron Council last have been abated. But I regret to say that the manoeuvres to the Court of Chancey for an injunction to restrain the . ~ • Thursdav when it was ordered to be printed :- nental Europe by the last fortnight of pleadings pro and persons frOm entering into an engagement with the propne- and combinations of the Insulters and their men, who felt the con before the Grand Inquest of the nation. ne whole tors of another theatre until the period for which their ser- To THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR, &c. &c. pressure of the plan, were regarded with so much favour in "MY LORD MAYO -I have the honour herewith to in-quarters whence steady co-operation was to be expected, and has, indeed, been somewhat in the character of Coroner'i vices had been engaged by the lessee of Drury-lane Theatre R, Tnquest on a defunct trial. The trial is no more.; the had expired. close, for the information of iourself and the Court of Com- our zeal and toil were met wit h so much coolnesa, approach . that he much feared a suit in Chancery mon Conne ll , the Statistical eturn.s of the City Police Force ing, indeed, in some instances, to censure, t e at the senoras all alive and kicking. The g rand convict, the Mr. coo " Anarch old" of Conservative enmity, is there in Per said, objectionableto the lessee than an action for the year 1843, with a contrasted representation of the impunity :of offenders trampled over all our ef would be even more at common law. weceding year. eles the present appears an appropriate occa- forts, and the plan was abandoned. Under your his place, reading the Minister, who had him con- Mr. J said , ifl unwilling to adopt legal slows° to do, I beg to invite your Lordship's attention not Lordship's sanction we are partially reviving the former sys- ARDLNE the lessee wasun ng victed of conspiring against the public peaCe, sage proceedings , the only course he could suggest was that he only - to the results which these returns afford, but also to + tem, which is greatly aided by the more frequent adjudi lessons on the dangers to that peace from Lord Devon's should give notice to the parties of whose con duct he coin- some suggestions, the growth of experience and observation, cation of the cases, and it would still further promote the commission, " unsettling the minds of the occupiers-,. - plained of the illegality of their proceedings, and to inform which I venture to think, with the sanction of the Corpora- object if the cases were disposed of day by day, as they arise. offering Sir B. Peel his " cordial assistance" for such them that if they refused to abide by the contract they had tion, may render the City Police still further contributory to Accumulated charges disposed of at i n t erv als, g i v e r i se t o and such objects-assuring him "he is not battling with entered intotaken the health and comfort, as well as the security, of the persons, singular stratagems; which defeat the ends of justice, and with him legal proceedings would be him"-adopting the tone of Minister Plenipotentiary against them. However ,. he . . . . had only to repeat that the case and their property, confided to our care. divert the constables from their ordinary duties. for the Irish people-and holding out the folds of his was not one ove r which he had any jurisdiction. "I am the more anxious to en Lo dsh' ' " The ' rtanof the other stateof gage your r ip s atten- . e imp ce robe ambassadorial with the option of peace or war. All Mr. Cooper promised to act upon the suggestion ; and, tion to these returns, as the most exaggerated statements streets-it is scarcely possible to overrate, and I feel assured having thanked the worthy Magistrate for his attention, have gone forth of the numberand magnitude of the robberies it will be gratifying to your Lordship to hear that it is at this is in somewhat amusing contrast with the nominal withdrew. committed within the City during the past year. When we the present time engaging the attention of a 'Board of position of the parties ; as well as with the great Agi- MARLBOROUGH-STREET. consider the vastness and variety of the property which is Health,' now sitting at tewydyr House. ~ . tutor's pathos about dungeons - and scaffolds - the other placed in our obscure warehouses, and exposed in our public " I have recently received and-answered a series of quee- A tradesman, named Key, was summoned last week by the night-upon other boards ; and, as . we said, we fancy - •s_ rt his shops ; the tens of thousands of persona , many of them tions bearing upon this measure from this board, to which I parish authorities of St. Giles' s, for musing to support continental Europe will hardly know what to make of it. grandchildren. strangers, who daily traverse our streets; the carelessness of subjoined an additional question sent to the inspectors of. the Do we object to the free and easy issue of- legal con- The parish prosecutor now said, that by subsequent in- their unanimousreply, I transmitted some, the vicious indiscretion. of others ; when we consider City Police, which, w ith victions, thus singularly illustrated ? No more than quiry circumstances had become known to him which dis- . . how many hundreds of persons, of both sexes, repair hither to Gwydyr Housee we object to the bloodless issue of threatening arma- inched the parish at present to press on the grandfather, daily and nightly expressly, and with the utmost practised "The questions transmitted to this o ffi ce were eight in dexterity,toseiz h 'ew at isunguarded, andto trepan theunwary ; number, .all having relation to the public health and com ments. Everything, we trust, tends to mitigation gay. The old man was very ill, and it appeared he was whenwe look at the • increasing evidence which these Returna fort, which were variously answered by our officers; but the of civil discords ; and we are nowise ashamed of just about to call his creditors together. As his ability toe lafford of deserted houses crowded with portable and costly ninth nuestion, which I added, 'Do you consider the tho the peculiarity which these __proceedings will exhibit support his grandchildren was therefore very doubtful, th property, to which may be added the censurable carelessness roughfarea wou ld be more free from nuisances if the streets in the eyes of Europe. We rejo i c e t h at in En g - ma g istrates would p erhaps advise the case to stand over ti ll with which persons are taken into confidence, respecting were under the inspection of the police ?' was at once and by land no party is ever to that degree dominant some evidence could be adduced affirmatory of his power whom little or no inquiry is made-I own it does appear to all answered in the words, 'Yea, most decidedly.' When that it can stifle the fullest possible utterance to aid them. me a matter of surprise, as well as of congratulation, that I returned t o the Board of Health, the answers to the of the views over which •it holds, for the time, The MAGISTRATE a g reed that it would be _ a: w ell to would delay no the total amount of property actually lost during the past inquiries I had been requested to make, I observede-' You the ascendant. We believe this character of - fair play fora month or so, ;by which time Mr. Kay 1, w Tear, the value of which is always appraised by the will perceive I have added a question (9th), which, with the doubt appear personally, and show cause why ,he or der for both. sides to be quite unique practically in theosers, for the most part under the influence of ex- answer, will be found to bear materially upon the objects of be made should not upon him. world.. Not in France, with all its nonsensical boastings G Ga r rett brought before Mr. Hardwick,charged corgis . was '• is less' that twenty pounds your in airy. The state of our streets generally , and es citement and alarm, a-day lOf the 1,229 robberies of all descriptions which oc- cially e narrow an d more confined streets, alleys,' and of social equality-not assuredly elsewhere in Europe- with having stolen a dog belonging to a foreign gentleman coed in the City during the year 1843, it will appear not courts, is very unsatisfactory, and calls for daily supervision, not, we believe, in America, can opposite opinions on named Calla, living in Portugal-street. The prisoner, it one amounted to 3001. in value ; only six exceeded 100/. ; which none could so efficiently give as the police. That questions so nearly touching the heart of empire as this appeared, was seen by police constable Russell, following a 607 not exceeding 5/., and 426 under 58. Of these petty rob• it would cast serious additional duties upon the police es- Irish one come forth with so little restraint-with so g entleman _ who had a little dog with him in Regent - street. beries it may be correctly remarked that the fargreater num - tablishment is obvious, but this Might to be no consideration little dangerous irritation-with such unlimited length The prisoner, who seemed an expert hand, adroitly . eon her occur among persons and in neighbourhoods in which when the public health is concerns and when great saving and latitude of discussion-as in much abused old England. trived to cut the string by which the dog was held, 11-• wit h ou t, small properties change possession with very slight regard to in the financial expenditure of the City might be effected.' And not, most certainly, could any such freedom belong being perceived by , the owner, and then downArgll-streei: r ig htful e claims, and at hours and under circumstances little "Should your Lordship and the Corporation entertain the to an Irish Parliament-le ft alone. •In this point of up and concealing it n his apron, he ran and gy culated to awaken the sympathy of the friends of morality suggestion of placing the supervision of the public streets The constable, however, was on the alert, he not only view, at least, the union produces fruits which could not succeeded .in capturing the prisoner with the dog upon him, and order. • . under the police, I should earnestly - stipulate for undivided survive its repeat; and we are glad to be able to sub- but he contrived to make the owner acquainted with the loss ' " The number of persons brought to the station-houses responsibility. Many of the great inconveniences and nui scribe to the closing sentences of the leading speakers he had unawares sustained. The prisoner was found to be an for . , i n terference , . - . upon charges , and under Circumstances too immaterial to call k fiances which are to .be found in the highways and byeways on both sides, and express our conviction that the spirit inhabitant of one of the streets in Spitalfields, in the very and largely of the City arise from th ! absence • magisterial is very great, the increase, which I think, in me of the times, which has proved so favourable to fulletnd centre of the locality where the dog stealers abound. As attributed to the inducements held out to theidle and dissi- - dance, andplenty of • for them, buttheir . unfettered discussion, will prove not barren of healing there were good grounds for believing that the prisoner was who flock from the remotest parts of the country to duties are undefined, an • their responsibility too measures. an old offender, he was fined 11., the value of the dog, and p ared, impression ... London, under the that food and lodging are easily general to be effectual. Though lam fully aware of the . 20/. for stealing it, and in default of payment he was sent for and ' . I • be obtained. That t accession of toilandtrouble it wouldthis gratuitous y. to many persons so .great LAW INTELLIGENCE. • six months to hard labour. coming are objects of merited commisseration, and entitled to office, yet if placed here, and suitable encouragement given, COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 24. UNION-HALL. less precarious regard, is obvious to all who have attended to: I will engage to give the citizens far greater satisfaction, at (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, beibre Lord ABLNGER . A case exemplifying in a remarkable degree the mistakes their cases, and lam induced to think that the places now considerable_ less cost, than does or can arise from the pre ' and Special Juries.) '. fallen into occasionally, with respect to the identity of per- open for the relief of the houseless and indigent are at once .sent _system. . . winsome AND ANOTHER n.• THE GRAND ,ruercencer RAILWAY. sons, came on before Me Cottingham, during the examine- too lax and indiscriminate towards imposition, and too tran- " I beg to invite your Lordship's attention to the Returns Mr. Martin and ' Mr. Cardwell conducted the case for the don of a man named Juivis, who was charged on suspicion sitory and indifferent to the claims and circumstances of un- also herewith sent, setting forth the number of officers and - plaintiffs, and thee Solicitor-General s with whom was Mr. of stealing, a firkin of butter at . Camberwell. The prisoner obtrusive and patient suffering. Let not even the semblance constables who have joined and le ft the City Police Force Crompton, appeared for-the-defendants. defendants. -' • • was brought to this Court a few days ago, charged with steal- of want be overlooked, once, twice, or even thrice; but there between the Ist of January, 1840, and the 31st of December This was an. action !to. recover compensation in - damages ing a firkin of butter,, which he was seen carrying on his is something obvio • usly vicious in the system, and extremely 1843 , .as it serves to silence the insinuations .of that portion from the defendants under the following .eircumstances :- shoulder; and when stopped he said that he had found it lying hazardous to the s ecurity of persons and property, which_ of the weekly press, which finds its profit in malignant mis- The plaintiffs are the celebrated carriers, and like many other in - the road, and was in the act of taking it to an adjacent inundates our . streets every morning with hundreds of representations. It has been asserted that nearly the whole private establishments of a. similar character have suffered, of shop ; bit this' statement 'being disbelieved, he was taken Perseus who force has been changed by dismissals, and recruited b their prowl about in every form of affected distress, y and seizing whatever may come in their way. course, very materially since the various railways have come into cuseody: The prisoner gave a similar account when be- seekin g restoration ; whereas it will appear that of 1,068 men, not a into their full force Of working. They furthermore complained fore the magistrate, and two persons in attendance gave him _ " Crime ought not to be so countenanced nor suffering so few of whom I found in the service, not places there aired to test the reten- exactly for their qualifications, n 1 176 have been y . dismissed, - that-, upon some of the lines adVantages are offered to some . a good character, and said that they had known him from slurred_over. Arran merits Tel t. _ _ sal• P Abo t while of their competitors - which are denied to them. In his youth, and never heard of his being in trouble before. sions of app licants attended ei ' leg' unate dispo • u 272, nearly all of. whom have been appointed by me, the present instance, it seemed that they had sent Two or three policemen, however, gave a very two years sinc e . with . a Board of Guardians at the retired expressly to assume superior situations, while , a quantity of . goods to the station at Liverpool for different . character of the prisoner, whom theyto this subject, d • 33 Western Union of the City, and, a view during four - years only men have , been • re- i ' theperpose of their being forwarded to Birmingham ; that a alleged had been convicted of felony, and trans- gg BU sated that every person who applied for relief a admitted, not one of whom had been dismissed, but wh second time should be - detained .and employed for a not having realised their expectations of • •ed f o ' improved fortune, 1 portion of such goods consisted of pork and other perish- ported for seven years. This latter accusation , able articles; and that they. were not forwarded and de- ' however, was denied by the prisoner, and he w as r emanded od ffi ' tl 1 Peri su e'en 3' ion to ascertain the truth of his restored, having parted with them in the hope that they 'ht be further narrative • and that instead of as • p sing persons to a great would better their conditions livered in due time. It further appeared that, in the present until this day,-with a view th at the matter Tling . division, attended, distance at ' a serious cost, suitable places in the vicinity of "As the c ost of the City . Police, instance, the- goods had been sent rte the railway steam investigated. Accordingly policeman 76, P . . especially when contrasted ht he hi . t the metropolis should be provided for their reception and oc- •h • • made the after four o'clock in the afternoon, and were not forwarded by . and on looking at the prisoner lie said t a too k min o w ith similar appointments, is also e subject of ani the goods-train that le ft at eight o'clock the same evening. custody in the year 1835 felony, for and that he was con- . cupation, at the charge of, - and enforceable against, the madversion it is desirable that the public, and especially the On behalf of the defendants it was contended, that inasmuch vieted and transported for seven years. parishes to which they belong, and when no local settlement rate ' ' din this respect. The total payers, should be disabuse ' as there were certain rules and regulations by which it had The prisoner declared that the policeman was mistaken, of . . . . such . can be traced, which is the casein many instances, the total cost of the City Police (including-some serious items which been found necessary to guide the arrangements and pro- and went on to say that a brother of his was tried some years expense maintaining persons should be paid • . it is hardly fair to place to our annual expenditure) ceedings of the railway, and that but that subsequent tbl b all th 'h • Eld dWal '4 l 3M/ h . h• 1 ding r • . officers d ntenced to transp ortation. a ra ea y y e pans es in ng an an es, is -, ---, weiceonc.o ...ommissioner,, an men one of them.waa to the ago.and se - effect that " all goods intended .to be forwarded •by the investigation e , . havin°' been entered into before the Secretary uon a return- to - be made to Parliament for that purpose (543 in a ll is 76/ per head ; while the cost of the Allaryle • , eight o'clock train must - be delivered at the station at Liver- of State, his brother received a free pardon. The ' ' l ofthis rule ' • * • ' * 112 1. head. If the f prinem e , • pool before four o'clock on the same a ft ernoon in order to en- The policemen still persisted in their tale. Ireland. Unless something of this sort be attempted, Lon- of the City Police were restricted' to the number originally su r e th e i r b e i n g d u ly f or ward and that as the plaintiffs Here a tradesman, who had known the prisoner since his don, and especially the City, will become the universal em- proposed (300), w h e n th e ama lgamation of the forces was had not acted in accordance - with such. rule, the Company boyhood, stepped forward, produced the free pardon of the Porium of misery and of wretchedness, as well as of merchan- under consideration, the total cost per annum would be many could not be held liable. prisoner's brother, and said that the accused had never been disc and wealth. t hou s ands p er annum less than at present ;so that in fact we Th e j ur y, entertaining an opinion favourable, returned a away from Camberwell a month together since he was born. "I am quite satisfied a plan might be devised by which have nearly double the st re ngth, at a far less average charge verdict for the defendants. ' This latter circumstance was con fi rmed by the shopkeeper the maintenance of the poor would be less costly to the rate- than what is imposed upon the imp ortant district of the wILLTAmS, ADMINISTRATOR, r. IIAY. to Whom the firkin of butter belonged which the prisoner was payer, and less harrassing and unkind towards the objects of metropolis just named. Mr. Crowder, Mr. Sergeant Byles, and Mr. Butt, appeared charged with stealing. . relief, and in no place could the experiment be so appro- "These, my Lord, are only a few of the useful results whic h for the plaintiff, and Mr. Humfrey, with whom was Mr. E. Air. Correstenem said that the investigation of the charge priateiy m a de as in the City of L on don; The present system examination affords, and Ido hope that the notice recently James, conducted the case for the defendant. This was an showed that the policeman was mistaken as to the identity is bad, and becoming - alarmingly worse. ' given, but since withdrawn, by the Chairman of the Police action to recover the value of certain pictures, of which the of the prisoner , although he had spoken with such confidence " Two very material subjects have recently been brought C omm itt ee to inquire into the duties and responsibilities of defendant had possession, belonging to the Plaintiff as the ad- on the point. He (Mr. Cottingham) h a d no d ou bt th e police- under my notice by the desire of your Lordship, which had my o ffi ce, will be renewed ; for inquirer is alike due to the ministrator to the estate and effects of. the Rev. C. Digby, men were wrong, and it behoved constables to be mindful and Previously engaged my attention. I a llude to what is a pp ro- p ublic, the service, and myself-I have the honour to be , deceased. It appeared that the deceased gentleman had, cautious in their identity of persons, for had it not been satis- PriafelY termed the ' omnibus nuisance: and the state of my Lord Mayor, your most obedient servant, during his lifetime, been a great collector ,of pictures, and factorily proved in this instance that the accused was not our streets and thoroughfares. Ver y . shortly after my appoint- (si gne d) "D. W. HARVEY. that, having also been engaged in some mining transactions, transported, he (Mr. Cottingham) might have been led into ment to the office of Commissioner, I established a line " 26, Old Jewry." he had become embarrassed so much as to induce him to the enfortunate error of coinmiting an innocent young man ... . , que . the country for a short period. Being in bad health, for trial. _The Magistrate added , that he hope d the police- COMPARATIVE SUMMARY CF THE CITY POLICE RETURNS FOR THE YEARS 1 however,he had died at Wiesbaden, whither he hadproceeded man would take a warning for the future, and not speak with - • 1842 AND 1843. • for the benefit of baths. Whilst 'aosent from England lie such confidence of the identity of a person until he was quite NUMBER OF PERSONS BROUGHT To THE STATION-HOUSES FROM THE wrote to Mr. Francis O'Neal, with whom he was: engaged positive of it, and, at the same time Mr. Cottingham dis- IST DAY OF JANUARY TO THE 31sT DAY OF DECEMBER, BOTH Anno 1843. in the mining matters, authorisine him to pawn or sell charged the priSoner, saying that he left the Court without such of his pictures as - he might find it to be necessary any imputation on his character. . INCLUSIVE. 1842. 1843. Increase. Decrease , in -order to enable him to pay certain • bills which. were ap- CLERKENWELL. 502 540 - 38 preaching their maturity. With this view the pictures were Alfred and James Bevis (brothers), and a man named Per Offences against the Person sent to the defendant, a celebrated money-lender in Cateaton- ..,Property, committed with violence 4O 31 i ... 9 llurphy, alias Murray, were brought before Mr. Greenwood ~ ~ street, with whom a negotiation was commenced for the oh-Property, without violence • 1,960 1,661 i ... 299 for re-examination, charged with burglary in the dwelling- ~ tainment of an a • avarice amounting to 4,000/. After various house of Mr. Nathaniel Neville, boot and shoemaker, in St. For Malicious Offences against Property " 360 371 11 interviews the negotiation went off, and upon a subsequent . ••• Tohn-street, Clerkenwell, and also with attempting to murder For Forgery, and Offences against the Currency , 249 171 78 application the 'defendant refused to deliver up the pictures "4. that gentleman. • - For Offences not included in the above classesl,B3l 1,704 127 unless he was paid the sum of 700/., which he alleged he had ~ ••• On the previous examination it came out in evidence, that • advanced to O'Neal on the authority and for the benefit of last Wednesday morning three weeks, about the hour of six, Total number taken before Magistrates and disposed of as under..: *5,002 *4,478 524 the deceased. This authority was disputed on the part of the the prosecutor was awoke by a noise in his warehouse, when Number of Charges k• reasons assigned on the 0c- ••• not taken, for the plaintiff, and that was the question now brought under the he immediately went and found three men packing up his _ urrence Sheets - 2,783 3,894 1,111 . . consideration of the jury. On behalf of the defendant, it was goods. -They attacked hini, beating him most dreadfully c• proved that the deceas&l had written more then one letter to about the head with a " life preserver," until he was insen- w hen ca p able of hiking care Number of Drunken Persons discharged O'Neal, telling him to pawn or sell the pictures, for the pur - sible, and then they effected their escape. From subsequent of themselves , 973 2,202 1,229 •• • pose of raising money; and furthermore by the production. information,ethe prisoners were apprehended by Sergeant Number of Destitute Persons 1,782 1,464 •• • 318 of the cheques of the defendant, that the 7004 had been ad- Redman, who had taken them into the presence of the Number of Vagrants . - vanced to O'Neal by she defendant. At - the conclusion of the p rosecu t or , by wi l om they had been identified as the persons • -r defendant's case, at the suggestion of the Learned Judge, the th a t a tt em pt e d to take away his life and property. ' Total number of Persons brought to the Station - houses i I 10, 841 I 12,332 1,491 -- - case was referred. • Sergeant. Redrean reported that the prosecutor was still • HARRIS -v. HOWARD. too dangerously ill to leave his. room, and produced a certifi- , This was an action virtually to compel the defendant to • cate, of which the following is a copy •-•=" This is to certify *Taken Discharged Summarily Committed Convicted and Sentenced. - BillsnotFound deliver up eertain prints, drawings, plates and other matters, that Mr. Neville remains very ill in .consequence of severe into - by Convicted or for To To Acquitted. or not to which the plaintiff laid claim as being his property. Impr isonmen t . injuries of the head, 'and Tule unable to attend any public Custody. Magistrates. Held to Bail: • Trial. Transportation Mi. Kelly, with whom was Sir John Bayley, conducted examination.-H. Walter, surgeon, 59, St. John - street, Feb. 1842. 1843. 1842. 1843.1 1842.1 1843. 1842. 1843. 1842. 1843 , 1842. 1843. 1842.' 1843. 1842. 1843. the case for the plaintiff, whilst Mr. B. Andrews and Mr. 24th, 1844."-The prisoners were remanded again. : - - --- Ogle appeared for the defendant. The plaintiff is Majer • 5,002 4 ,478 2 ,682 2,465 11,871 11,626 449 387 111 67 243 220 58 69 37 31 Harris, to whom the world is indebted for a - most admirable work, entitled " WiktSports of Africa," and the defendant STATE .OF TRADE. .- Dismissed or with- 1843. is Mr. Frank Howard, the artist. It appeared that the FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEB.onvicted and EB. 23.-We oan -.-- - plaintiff, whilst in Southern Africa, being anxious to publish merely this: week confirm our last report. The demand SIJMMONSES. . drawn by order ot 1842. 1843. the work of which mention - has been Mile, commissioned a continues good, but stocks are light, and the choice only - Fined ' the Mag istrates. Incr. Deer. MSS Cornwallis in this country to make-arrangements with indifferent, . an artist to accomplish that object. The gentleman to whom'. ' 1842. 1843. "1842. 1843. ENGLISH WOOL M L . 23.-Sales - MARKET, REDS, FEB.EB. the lady was recommended turned out to be the defendant, • .1............ combing wool during the present week have not been - with whom she entered into ' an agreement, by which of • he was to be paid ' fift een guineas for - each of quite so extensive as for some few weeks past. Prices Underthe City ' 21 37 14 18 35 55 20 ... twenty-eight coloured plates, and five guineas 'each for the are - firm and stationary. Clothing wools are in good Carriage Act 979 1,060 354 262 iR, , '-' -3 1,322• 11 • • • " tail 'pieces" and vignettes. Subsequently to this's. second demand, and last week's quotations are fully realised. Against'Publie-houses, &e 49 .33 16 14 65 47 ... 18 agreement was arran g ed for It' second work, to which he was . WAKEFIELD. WOOL MARKET, FED. 23.-There is no Drovers • 49 31 20 • 12 69 43 ... 26 to supply twenty plates, at the rate of live guineas pet plate. further improvement in- the demand or price of wool - ' • , .. ~ . This sum. it was stated by the Learned' Counsel, was far since our last ; sales have been limited in all sorts, but Total Number of Summonses. .......... ;. .. • : ............ 1,502 1,467 ... 36 more than one of the Most able artists of the day would have prices are firm. charged. The defendant furthermore undertook to correct LEEDS.-We have nothing new to report of our Cloth . the letter-press portion of the -publication, and to act some- 1843. markets this week. The demand has a • b een b • gam risk .. ' MISCELLANEOUS. what in the capacity of Ka -publisher, having promised to for- 1842: 1843: . forlo priced low cloths, particularly in common blacks ; • ward copies th ereof to , the different subscriber* in In ' . • Iner. Deer. the course of time defendant was-paid 1;900/. on account of the for middle priced cloths there has been a moderate de- . ~.............. first work, an d 500!. for the -second, and e there. now re- wand, but fine goods oontinue dull of sale. There have Number of Lives saved by the Police ....... .. . ...................... ........... . .... .............. 36 41 5 maimed only- 891. -odd due to-- hinea The balance had been been good Markets for Tweeds, both on Saturday and Children found and restored to their friends, or sent "to the Workhouse... 44/ • 653 212 ••• 0 • 0 tendered, - but- the defendant refused- to - accept it, and Tuesday, and the stocks in the Halls are very low. Houses, Warehouses, &c., found insecure • 1,892 ' 2,415 523 ... to deliver up- the -plates; printing; &c., SSree - unlees he • There have been a good many wholesale buyers in the Fires discovered by the Police ......................... :. ' .......... : ..... . , ... . .... 1 .31 182 51 ... were paid 500/. -as` his commissiort upon. ohe transaction. town during the week, and business in consequence has Robberies s. ..................... 1,344 1,229' ... 115 Thee dim the plaintiff - deelined 'to acknoviledge, on the been better in the warehouses than for some time past. • ese ' ' se.----_ ground-that there had never-been any agreement wherein' . es • ReDFORP' MARKET,' THURSDAY.-Pieces are in good . such a thing as commission had been even hinted at. InOhe . ... ' 1843. request, and the stocks very low ler the season of the 1842. 1843. course of the statement of Counsel it appeared that, notwith- „ . - .. • - , Increase. Veer. Prices ar e` tending upwards. Although there is - standing so large a sum had been banded- over. to-the de- s • ....-----.............._ - fendant, he had failed in • applying it to its proper purpOse, not so much actual purchasing in yarns, yet the spinners X s• d- £ s. d. X s. d. and that several of the Parties who had been occupied under are all verY• busy with contracts entered into, and are Value of Propert y Stolen 6,559 7 2 8,353 1 6 1,793 14 4 him upon the work, retained certain parts in their possession not at all disposed to • increase their orders, except at . , _ Recovered 1,241 8 9 1,407 1 1 - 165 12 4 until their claims had been satisfied, • • • full prices. - There is hardly as much business doing as • ' Found on drunken persons arid restored on liberation 857 7 4 916 1 8 , 58 . 14 4 Eventually, as in the preceding cause,the casewasreferred. a few weeks past, and the holders are exceedingly firm, e ----. The jury, therefore, gave a verdict for the plaintiff, sub j ect as they- cannot -replace their stocks at prices that will AR 1843. to a reference ;the defendant, in the meantime, upon seen- • RETURN OF ROBBERIES DURING T HE YE enable them to get prime cost on the rates demanded More More More 71 rity being given, to deliver up those portions of the work .. • by th g r owers and cou ntry dealers' that were in his poaesesion, and to give orders for the deli- - - re . e very of the rest by the different tradespeople. - • • 'JUDE -, OF MANCHESTER ,. THURSDAY EVENING. ... ~_ _ . . .--I .-4 ,-.4 4 4 1 41 41 £5O, Bc. £lOO, £2OO, . 6 ; OS E" , - . ; I. ..... There has been little change in our market this week, t• I. I. t) . " te l lees '. & less & less 8 2 0 ro COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. 24, and. prices are nominally the same for all kinds. This DESCRIPTION OF ROBBERY. 71 V , ti rd ',S , cl• ,_ Ee 0 - o o a e ee---- 0 . o - than than than .0 e 4 (Sittings in London before the. Loan CHIEF. JUSTICE and a state of things' cannot long continue,'as buyers for '• ° 0 0 I ' - ' 0 P £lOO. £200.' £3OO. 44 . 0 . Special Jury.) , _ early spring shipments cannot much longer delay operations, . • _....-- - PKILLIPS a. IRVINE.. • -•- and' it ' will then be: seen, and perhaps not before , • - - - • 4 1 1 1 2' . ..• ••• 9 • This was an action of assumpsieupon a policy-of insurance, what complexion - as' regards prices will money ....• then wear. At - 1- 3 •• • 1 1 . ... ... 6 brought against the defendants as- directors of all insurance pregeht small and needy manufacturers Burgla ri es . Watches, Jewellery, &c. are not realising ' 3 company. . • . - • more than about one-half the advance on cotton. The Wearing Apparel The vessel upon which the policy was effected • was bound larg e' d w ealthy an houses are not sellers at resent Goods, or Stock in Trade l=B 2 _ .., ... .., • 3 . • 1 1 • ; - •• • .. • on a voyage from London to -Bombay, or. China. She was . . .sent rates.. • - • . examined previous to her departure from this port, and was Twist is without change, though in better emend. Fine Money •• '2l 6 6 10.. 10 .4 . 4 1 1 ... 63 considered sound, but a short time before her arrival at the numbers: secure and support firmly the advance asking,- - Robberies W tch 3 - - II a es, ewe ery, &c. - • 4- ... •• • . „, .., ,59 port - of destination the " cheeks" of her-mainmast were found Leeds Mercury. in Dwelling Wearing Apparel 27 25 26- .72 29 . 1 - ... • ... e + .., .., 180 defective. She underwent repairs in her Majesty's Dockyard ' ' • Houses. Goods, or Stock in Trade...... 174 60 52 92 - 38 • 1-3- - 4 - -... • ••• ••• 433 • -at Bombay, and was then -detained there for several months . C N ►' not being able to procure a remunerating freightage home . ' - '- ORO ER'S INctuesT.--eliroaoenonis.-On Satur- Carts, Carriages, Trucks, arc. •... •... ..• • 1 ... ... .:. ... - ..• •.• She at length started on her homeward voyage, but she day, an inquest was held at the Rising Sun public-house, - .. ~. , found still to be unsound, and her captain put into the Mawurr- Brookaly- street, Islington, on the body of Henry Baylis, a I Money . 18 39 18 3 '4 ' ".`.• ••• ••• 138 tiuse. It was there ascertained that the n • bricklayer, aged 31, who died from hydrophobia. James , Robberies Watches, Jewellery, &c. airs would have cost 7001. or 8001., and., this being more rep the Baylis, brother of the deceased, said that on Sunday evening from the Wearing Apparel - 24 1 1 3 .., .., ••• ... . ... ... 29 veseel was worth, she was abandoned as. for a total thanand last he complained of great pain in. his le ft arm and shoulder. Person. Handkerchief - 68 loss, S On , • Monday he was unable to go to work, and on that even- e . • ••• •..... ~ ,Purses, Pocket-books, &c. . The pleas put in on behalf of the insurers were unsea- ing he complaine,d that_ the. pains in his head were so great ' , ; - 274 werthiness, a concealment of rotten timbers,. a-deviation that he thought he should go mad. On the following day he - foundedrin her long stoppage at • Bombay, an d an i mproper wale eoeilh:that Mr. Bateman, a surgeon, was sent for, and • - Meney - proper ---4.' ... 3 . , prescribed for deceased.: At half-past eight o'clock that Robberies Watches, Jewellery, - &c. . ... ... , 2 1 ... ... .s. • ' •• • '• • 51 . , •At the conclusion of the plaintiffaecase e howev er , . evellieg deceased' became raving mad, perfectly furious, and 'in the ,Wearing Apparel - • • • ''' •• ' Sergeant Cue:oEu, for the defendants, admitted thatthe made so many attempts on . his own life and the lives of St Goods, or Stock in Thule 55 13 14 23 -7 • 2 ... 1 .., - ... 115 those about ' verdict must be against him on three of the pleas, and as to i ... Streets, &c. - him, that they were forced to place him : Horses; Cattle, - &c , • 3 . • .• • • • the stoppage at Bombay, he should. propose that the ques- e l ee fl str ait t.) waistcoat. lie continued in this state, with the 7 193 Carts, Carriages, Trucks,..&c. ... 1 1 5 • ... ... ' ... •• • " • •' ' - tam. being one both of law and fact; it should be reserved nest m o r n ing, of one or two lucid intervals, until eight o'clock --- for the Court. He should then contend that the stoppage for ~,,,t n, ., g L . 11 ,‘ , ..n5 :rip he suddenly fell down dead. Another Total . . • • • _ __----1 1 426 151 140 316 1141 33 115 1 6 I 1 . 1 ... 1229 NUMBER OF PERSONS BROUGHT To THE STATION-HOUSES FROM THE IST DAT OF JANUARY TO TILE 31ST DAY OF DECEMBER, BOTH Anno 1843. INCLUSIVE. 1842. 1843. Increase. Decrease , Per Offences against the Person ~ ~ Property, committed with violence 4O 31 ••• 9 . 9, Property, without violence 1 ,960 1,661 ... 299 For M a lici ous Offences against Property ' 360 371 11 ••• For Forgery, and Offences against the Currency . 249 171 .... 78 For Offences not included in the above classes ., Total number taken before Magistrates and disposed of as under *5,002 * 4,478 ••• 524 Number of Charges not taken, for the reasons assigned on t h e Oc currence Sheets - 2,783 3,894 1,111 ••• Number of Drunken-Persons discharged when capable of taking care of themselves' , 973 2,202 1,229 ••• Number of Destitute Persons 1,782 1,464 ••• 318 Number of Vagrants Total number of Persons brought to the Station - houses j 10,841 I 12,332 1,491 *Taken Discharged Summarily Committed Convicted and Sentenced. Bill snot F oun d into - by Convicted or for To To Acquitted. or not Custody. Magistrates. Held to Bail. " Trial. Transportation Imprisonment. 1842. 1843. 1842. 1843.1 1842.1 1843. 1842. 1843. 1842. 1843. 1842. 1843. 1842.' 1843. 1842. 1843. 5,002 4,478 2,682 2,465 11,871 11,626 449 387 11 1 67 243 220 58 69 37 91 Dismissed or with- -- 1843. Convicted and drawn by order of 1842. SUMMONSES. 1843. Fined- the Magistrates. Incr. Deer. • 1842. 1843. undek the City Police Act3s 55 20 ... Carriage Act 979 1 , 060 .. '1 37 1843. 1842. 14 - 18 354 262 1,333 1 , 322 ... 11 AgainsfPublic-houses, &c 49 . 33 16 14 65 47 ... 18 Drovers • 49 31 20 12 69 43 ... 26 . Total Number of Summonses. .......... ;. .. :: ......... 1,502 1,467 ... 36 ' 1843. - _ MISCELLANEOUS. 1 842. 1843. . • , Iner. Deer. ...........-- _______ . Number of Lives saved by the Police ....... ." ................................. ,„: ............. 36 41 5 ... Children found and restored to their f r i en d s , or se nt 't o the Workhouse... 441 • 653 212 ... Houses, Warehouses, &c., found insecure 1,892 ' 2,415 523 ... • • Fires discovered by the Police ......................... : ........... . ....... , ... . Robberies -.. ..................... 1,344 1,229' ... 115 . _::..-----_ . , ' 1842. 1843 . 1843. _ Increase. • ..........----................__ X s• d. £ s. d. £ ' a. d. . . . . _ . Value of Property Stolen 6,559 7 2 8,353 1 6 1,793 14 4 - • - 165 12 4 ' Found on drunken persons and restored on liberation 857 7 4 916 1 8 5B 14 4 R's CORQNER $ INQUEST.--7HYDIOPROBIA.—On Satur day, an inquest was held at the Rising Sun public-house, Brookaly-street, Islington, on the body of Henry Baylis, a bricklayer, aged 31, who died from hydrophobia. James Baylis, brother of the deceased, said that on Sunday evening last he complained of great pain in his left arm and shoulder. On , Monday he was unable to go to work, and on that even ing he complained that_ the pains in his head were so great that he thought he should go mad. On the following day he .W4.4. 1 1 0 ....i11i.that Mr. Bateman, a surgeon, was sent for, and prescribed for deceased. At half-past eight o'clock that evening deceased became raving mad, perfectly furious, and made so many attempts on his own life and the lives of in inext o a nt s : t tnsist r i a (o ! .ir t tn(a. li itnfe a gso l s u t tNe c o o , ! er t n . t those about __him, that they were forced to place him h‘Ne,Ro suddenly' uct e cd o i ed n n t l i n iyn u t ef e : v d l l a i ld n so, w this idl s e t ae a cLi t g e b , t i o t, lock Anothere came that on a t c h: oni ni p gl a t i t d : d f the b 2 a 4t d h o o g f , December bbeer said had dece f a Z d owed him from the Albion Arms. y The dog lay down by the fire till he went to bed., when, in speaking to him, he and fo ni m m en ed tel tflbeawduopg out,and b an it d d ro ec e eas rel e y d's w fi as ze d r te l l turned of 9, Church-row, Uugr - About a month ago the finger became very sore, and finger. 'POLICE •' INTELLIGENCE. geon was calledin. Mr. Bateman, (SATURDAY.) - ton, said he was called to attend the deceased, and had no that he died of hydrophobia.—Verdict accordingly. ' - 130 TV-STREET. . .. Mi. Cooper, the stage-manager of Drury-lane Theatre, p plied to the sitting, magistrate for a summons against certain Tint CITY Pomcn FORCE.—According t o a state ment just published by Mr. D. W. Harvey, the City Police parties who were engaged by Mt. Bunn, the lessee of that Cammissioner, the total.cost of the City police (including establishment, in the capacity of chorus-singers, and who, some serious items, which. it is hardly fair to place to the there was reason to suppose, were about to transfer their ser- annual' expenditure) is 41,3511., which, including commis vices to the Italian Opera House. sioner; officers, and men (543 in all), is 761. per head; 'the ~ Mr. JARDINE inquired the grounds on which the lessee of cost of the Marylebone police .(181 men) exceeds 112/. per Drury-lane Theatre had come to that conclusion ? —Mr. head. 'lf the force 'of the - City police were restricted to the Cooper said, thepartiesntwhom ho complained were eleven number, originally proposed (300), when the amalgamation in number, and had been engaged by Mr. Bunn as chorus- of the force' was under consideration, the total annual amount, singers. for, the season. :. He had recently ascertained that would be many thousands less than. at present ; so that, in they i i aaattended.several rehearsals that had taken place of fact, say s th e R eport ,' we h ave near l y do u bl e the strength, at the.forrhooming performances at the nther theatre, which was a far less average charge than that of Marylebone. no d ou bt preparatory to their accepting an engagement a t th at Our market continues to be supplied with fish. of hotise, ftlaionolt they were-all the time in the service' of Mr. - ail kinds. The cod.fishing has just commenced off this coast, and, P f rom appearances , romiies BUM,: and paid a weekly Balary by him,-of course Mr. itinin . P an abundant supply of that excellent was 'anxious to put a stop to such a proceeding on their part. Commodity.—Mona Herald. Mr. JARDINE said he had a very great doubt whether the 1 It ,appears from documents just presented to the payable to the Clerks of Enrolment, the Six House of Lords, that the amount of fees and stuns of money case watone over which he, As a.police.magistrate, had any.' jurisdiction. 'The pay Act of Parliament...erhich gave a ma- i which became etTatiOnr. Is"dietieit in. the case of a breach 4 an . engagement '; Cierlis,'S*oia Clerks, and COMpirolier 0 the Hanaper, under between ml.jters.nnelser,:atAtiLapplied eXCIIISivgIY, to hands 7 ; the old"Conititiiti9ii of . ilieSii;. qeif ts ' 'o ffi ce, in the one year "29 1842 seas no 1 - - tb ' v ki,iiffsznef,. spek,es,.sini i ths: ,carpe Ora, Aie, AAil ;y4.l,lich.,gav 6 , ending filelqier , , esl. an 77,3191. 19s. Id. ikeeOtiyPi.iiiing parties . 44peedy relnedi in, case of any.breach 7 Also_ th4tthe ,ameunt of fees and additional fees received in of tlielqoptraet entered Tilto,between them. : theofff ceof . the Clerk's of enrolments, Clerks of records and • • • • r.. ecilifrr gta4that,it would be attended with very.conT irri 8,, tax of 26th October, iiideliallle inconvenience to the lessee or proprietor, of a theatre, '- fdilhe,year ending 29th October, 1843, ; was 77,0711.75. (ex ittperbena'whoseserv,iieS he had engaged for the entire sea- : chisiVe Of &lei, received in the offices of the Masters, &c.) ion tbuht abandon the contract into which they had entered The amount 'ol ;alariei,„ oite. expenses, and compensations tett hhii at tiny 'moment they pleased, and transfer their ser;. ' payable under the - statute 5 and 6 Tict. c. 103, Was 76,815/. Ir!aeis to another establishuient. i and upwards, for one year only I, . . . . .• . - ..,.... The pleas put in on behalf of the insurers were—unsea• worthiness, a eonceahnent of rotten timbers,. a.deviation founded-on her long stoppage at Bombay, an d an improper sale. - • . • At the conclusion of the plaintiff'acese,,however, Sergeant CITAXNELL, for the defendants, admitted thafthe verdict must be against him on three of the pleas, and as to the stoppage at Bombay, he should. propose that the ques tion, being one both of law and fact, it should be reserved for the Court. He should then contend that the stoppage for the. purpose of obtaining a remunerative freightage was a de viation, and would entitle him to move for a - nonsuit. Sir T. WILDE concurred on behalf of the plaintiff, and The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE accordingly directed the:jury to Lino a general verdict for the plaintiff. . . .r.A.TRAORDINAXY HOAX AT WAN - DSWORIII. --The town of Wandsworth has recently been the scene of an ex , traordinary hoax, by which many of : the tradesmen have suffered considerably. - For a period 'Of sixteen years .a man ,of the name of Bignell has resided in Wandsworth, and for the principal part of that time obtained his living as a brie::- layer's labourer. About ten months since, an advertisement appeared in some of the papers, stating that if a John Big! nell, formerly of Tunbridge Wells, but who was supposed to have enlisted for a soldier and gone abroad, would call upon a certain legal firm he would hear of something to his advant .age. The man Bignell, although an extremely illiterate fellow, had tact enough to _perceive that he might turn this notice to his advantage. He gave out that he was the per, son alluded to in the advertisement, : and Went up to town on several ocoasions ostensibly: to see the legal gentlemen con cerned in the disposal of the property. On his return from one, of those journeys he declared himself the heir to funded property little short of 14,0001., and from that day he discon tinued working as a bricklayer's labourer. Strange to say, a story wholly uncorroborated found credence in the minds of many respectable tradesmen of the town, and several not only gave him unbounded credit for goods, but lent him consider able sums, of money. All went on well till last week, when one of, the tradesmen to whom Bignell (whose real name is now ascertained to be Bearsmore) is indebted to the amount of 40/., pressed him closely as to the precise time when he was to receive his money. 'I he clever rogue, not the least - dio-, conurted by a question so plainly put, said it - was - now a' matter of convemenoe to himself when . Ire chose t o rece i v e hi s As be had no doubt his creditors were in want' of money, and appoint . the following Thursd a y f or ' ti V o or three of the principal to go to-town with him and receive it. Thursday morning came, but the " fortunate heir" was non inrentus. The -bird; after feathering his nest, had flown, leaA;ing his credit Ors to condole with each other upon thefact of being " done" by an illiterate swindler. That the trades- . men of other suburban towns may not be imposed upon by this. man, we subjoin his personal description t=He is about fifty years of age, five feet six inches in height, and has a , "very aimple” looking c9nntenence.. " • 77----"---------------------____ MANIPOLDING.—A few days ago, a person in HUB, carrying on an extensive business, hit upon the follow ing plan for raising the 'wind. He held a bank note for 50/., which he cut in two, and taking one of the portions to an ac quaintance, informed him that'-he had just received it by post, the other portion being to follow in the course of a day or two, but as he wanted the money immediately, ho could not wait for its arrival This friend in need, on receiving the half-note, advanced -the cash, and another friend . did the Satin on receiving the othlr half. Here were a hundred pow* vitae out of fifty ; but the business was not yet cern pl6ted. Taki.7o his hurtdred pounds to one of the banks, h e prozured a note for that amount, and having again recourse to the process of butting,' actually' obtained 2001., on the two halVeS, with which lie decamped, and has not yet been heard . I. SUJTOSEii INORNDIAItir f.—:floncaitter G'iczetfi. . • ,- . o Futß.--Joseph Lakin, of ~ . Sbeepshead, a youth of n 4940434 appearance, and rather a stn. ;Able: lad, about the age of lb, Wa s committed for trial at the Alleles on a charge 'of setting the to a wheat straw stack, on Or 21st Inst, on cha,secl by Mr, Harriman), a t • Sheepahead. The evidence is the premises of Mr. W. Jeclues (lately pur_ 11, w: 4;1 e do oe in o e io so li m ier e e rep 4,o2 4irs iil a g l . bet eireismstatitial at ' precept, and " the "deed is denied by ', the lad, who says he was nlt out that day un til of Mr. T6Oriihiii. ,breakfast time, when he ran with ' We bread and could, till he carrui . io the; cheese in bis . hand to tlw bell. house, beo2use they tsvheabyellsfr,omandthhee wheeini.thtooulsooe,kwohnen; he lie smiled, turned off , old went ng'it W' the churchyard and 'blacksmith's asked a la bo uri ng man at w,mlic li." . . are hapEy ay shopAN'hen he got there he saw a great blaze above i.re..thLeeusseiters,:iru.edarran .in the dl:ectioU of . its herd as he 'where he • tirmi. it wig, a ud aro ierliotl.!nee.ba. r P ti rt if o h n i ee kn p ez i m ted ha t t o was e the ma tt er 1., flames, and the man . then `cone PO slid said - the wheat.stack was We . , .rog , • 4 4 : : i c t i h d e a r i l y t I v 'serioush i ch eo uappeued to M. ' Line. usequencee. The ,stir co ons ,14iVe made a most favourable _report on. _the subject to, his frieildi ancl acipaintanceo.— t9i t ar e lsll,noir tttetnhdee ;u/i pani, ~, ~t _- ..... _ .n . y '.l~ , ~ i ~n:Jr t:~ .:r~-.. TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1844. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, FRIDAY, FRB. 93.: Names of Comm panies. Callals. Ashtei .311T1lam.« Ashby-de-la.Zouch..av Basingstoke ......... ..».. Breckneck & Abergay. Birmingham,l-16thsh. Do. and Liverp. June. Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry Crom ford Dudley ....... Derby Danube and Mayne Ellesmere and Chester Erewash ........... Forth and Grand Juncti0n........« Grand Union Grand Surrey Grand Western Glamorgansh., ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfietd Kennet r.Eid Avon ...al' Lancaster Leeds and Liverpool Leicester ""..........• Leicester & Northamp Loughborough ........av Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire...» Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield .....N Neath Oxford Peak Forest. ,rtv Regent's. (or London).. Shropshire ................. Somerset Da. Lock Fund Stock Staffbrd and Worcester 5hrew5bury,............... Stourbridge Stratford.on-Avon...av Swansea Severn & Wye & Rail Trent & Mersey, sh Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Birming. Warwick and Napton Worcester & Birraing Wilts and Berks......av Wisbeach ..... Wey and Arun....... Docks. Commercial ...... East and West India London Ditto Bonds 8ri5t01..«..«....«.....av Do. Bnds, var. amounts St. Katharine Ditto Bonds...—. Ditto Bonds Southampton Bridges Hammersmith............ Southwark. new Subs. Ditto New of 7)6 pr C. .... Ditto Old Ann. of 81,. Ditto New ditto of 71. Ditto 80nd5............. Vauxhall. ...... 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 .... . . Freemasons _____ Globe Guardian Hope Life .. . .. ..... Ditto Fire Imperial Ditto Life.... Indemnity Marine —. Law Life . . ... . . . Legal and General .I.lfe London Fire.... ....... Ditto Ship National Loan Fund Palladium Life...— Protector Provident Rock Life R yal Exchange......., Sun Fire . . .... Ditto Life— ...... University Life Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk Banks Australasi , .. .......... Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New London Joint Stock Metropolitan... .. Provincial at Ireland.... Ditto New National of Ireland Nat. Provincial Engl;cl Ditto New Gloucestershire—...... Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight dr. Coke Bath. British.. Ditto ProviircialZ Birmingham . . .. • Birming. & Stalibrdsh Bristol Brighton.... Ditto City of London Ditto New Continental Consolid Ditto New....... ..... Equitable Imperial.-- ......... •,••• Isle of Menet •••••••••••• Independent Phcemx..... ........... RatclitE. .... South Metropolitan United General.— Westmins. Charte red Ditto New."... e•••••• Water Works Birmingham East London Grand Junction Ay Kent •••,•••••• •••• Nw Riv Lon. ' Bridg An. Manchester and Salford Vauxhall late S. Lona. West Middlesex .av YrkKuldg Co. Les. Prop Iron Railways. Birmingham & 'Derby Birming. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter.... Cheltenhm & Gt. West. Clarence ........ ....... Eastern Counties........ Edinburgh & Glasgow Ditto New... . Grand .. Juncti0n.......... Great North of Engind Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths Hull and Selby Leeds and Selby Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares Ditto Quarter-Shares Loudon and Brighton Ditto Loan Notes London and Blackwall London and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Viiarter.Shares Ditto Thirds . London and S. Western Loudon and Croydon. Manchester and Leecia; Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Birming Ditto Extension Midland Counties North Midland..„ Do. 36-Sh., iss. 10 tbs Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss.sL die. Paris and Rouen Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Ditto New, iss. 25 dig. York and N. Midland Ditto New Shams. Mines. Albion Copper Alten ~. ...... Anglo . b 1 ex., iss. 51. p.m. Ditto Subscription.... Bola nos ........ ......... Ditto Scrip ........ Brazil. Imp. iss.U.p.m. Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U. Do: St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga. ........ Ditto Registered Cobre Capper Copi Columbian a in. 5/. p.m. General Mining Hibernian ..... ........ Imperial Slate Compy. Mexican ............ ...... Mining Co. of Ireland.. Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notse Rhymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United Max., iss.!il. Ditto Scrip Ditto New 1.10.. JO per cent. 10s. per eh. 14 104 perch. IL 44. 14 15e, (per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. andl u.5.6(1. bs. 6per cent. ;pet cent. 34 per cent G per cent. 100 0 100 0 0 20u 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 Zit erary. Londn,with Sin. Ticket 'London University Russell ........ King's College Miscellaneous Alaglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada ........ Upper Canada Bonds Capper Miners' Comp Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., iss. 1/. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand Penins. & Orien. steam Royal Mail Steam Reyersiontry Int. Soc South Australian Thames Tunnel Van Diemen'a Land 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 21 0 0 50 0 0 26 0 • 50 0 0 ' 2O 40 0 0 0 0 2000 77 10 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 SO 0 0 50 0 0 5000 50 0 • 25 0 0 100 • 0 41 12 4 100 0 • SO 00 100 0 0 93 19 9 100 0 9 100 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 soon 12 10 0 100 0 0 100 11 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 5 15 0 • 100 0 • 150 0 0 35 0 25 0 20 0 100 0 200 20 0 55 0 20 0 io 0 1 o 0 60 • 25 0 SO 0 25 0 40 0 LIST OF SCOTTISH COM FEB. 21, 1 Bank of Scotland Royal Bank British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Bank Central Pk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance. Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scotl. Edinburgh Lite Insur. Scottish Union Irma. Standard Life Insur Dalkcizti Railway .. " Ed n.. and Glas, Railwy Glasg. and Green. Rail. Dundeeand Arbr Rail. 75 0 100 0 25 0 1$ .9 Is 9 19 0 50 0 lo 1 2.5* o 100 0 9 0 32 0 t per cent. tper eent. per cent. t per cent. - .per cent. t pet cent. t per cent. tper cent. per cent. per cent. Viper cent. tiler cent. per cent per cent. 244 per cent. 2% per cen t TO 0 30 0 40 0 7 0 100 0 100 0 '4O • 4.5 0 15 0 20 • 1 100 0 50 0 25 0 50 0 20 0 $1 19 10 100 0 25 0 150 0 25 207 81 5S 80 I 0 67 14 DO 106 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 ,150 • 50 0 10 0 40 0 2 10 51`;34 110 15,4 42 114 8 227 26% '3B 1 1 $ 13 , 6 10 118 ' lOO 0. 100 0 0 15 0 • 8 9 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 • 100 0 100 0 25 0 50 0 20 0 10 0 SO 0 35 10 10 3 0 14 0 1 10 5 0 3 0 7 0 75 • 2b • 50 • 100 0 20 0 50 0 20 0 13% 13 90% 101 26 % 3lier 4 52% 2ti 104 'ANIES' PRICES, 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 1 0 0 2 10 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 2G 11% 17% 1 5 TUE LATE COUNTESS OF ELGIN.—The Jamaica -House of Assembly has evinced, by a unanimous grant . of 300 guineas for a tablet to be erected in the cathedral church of Spanish Town, to the memory of Lady Elgin, they high ?pinion entertained of her Ladyship by the memberw of that Howe. Amount of 1 Paid. Price. Share. ad. leo .... 41 13 4 100 0 0 [OO 00 Alf Paid Dividend per Annum 14 per cent. U. 4 per cent. 401. 81. 15a. 71. 11.5 x. 131 1 - 26. lid. 15t 11.104. 341. 101. 171. SOL 3 17.. 6 peiceat. 913 154 604 IL 10s. 154 321.701. 104 Si. lOs. 41. 11.4 x. 3 per cent. per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. 91.10 x. 5 per cold. 5 per cent. 6)6 per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. 1% per cent. 1/. Os. Bd. 18s. Id. per cent. 11. 7e. S. 105. 4 percent. 6 per. cent. 6 per cent. 1!15.6 pr sh Si. ss. 4 per cent. Ts. per share 5 per cent. Si. 6s. 5 per cent.l & 30s. bds. 53 per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 4s. 2s. 6d. 12 per cent. 191. • sh. & bds. 1/. ss. 10s. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 11. ss. 4r. 5 per cent. 6% per cent. 1/. 4s. 5 per eent. 10% per cent 51. R per cent. 6 per cent. 5 percent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. C per cenk per cent. 8 per cent. 8 per cent. ils per share Ss. per share 10 per cent. 5 per cent. 11. ss. 11.4 x. 51.-and ha. 414/. and ba. 10 per cent. 4 per cent. -104 101. el - •sh per Sas per it 2L 6 per cent 5 per cent.: 6 per cent. 5 per cent 6 per cent 43i per cent. SL 1511. Sl. 10e. 21. 10e. 21. 10e. &per cent. 41. 15e. 11. 14e. 10s. per eh 14 4s. 4 per cent. 24 10e. Se. per sh. V. Se. per eh 78 100 per ah 10 per cent. S% per cent. 3L As. per eh 2341. per sh. I2s. per eh. 4 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. nil. per sh 101. perch, 11.145. ',per share 3s4d par eh 91.175. pr sh 113 s ear oh 11. 51. 15s. 11. Hs. 10d. 15 per cent. per cent. 10 per cent, 10 per cent. 11. 1!. St. 17a. 6d. ss 18 8 85 0 0 12.5 0 0 150 0 • 12 10 0 140 • 0 0 125 0 0 145 • 0 79 9 8 100 0 0 28 9 50 0 0 19 S 8 100 0 0 100 0 0 78 8 0 67 10 $ 105 0 0 110 0 0 100 0 9 Stock Stock 1471 9 Stock 50 - 0 . 0 50 0 0 63 2 8 50 0 8 101 0 0 70 10 9 60 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 8 o 6 11 0 0 b 0 0 5 0 0 56 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 i 14 o 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 - 6 0 16 0 5 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 9 .1 0 0 10 '0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 6 5 0 20 0 • 40 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 200 0 0 25 0 • 20 0 0 20 0 • 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 • 17 10 0 35 0 • 10 0 0 10 • 0 25 0 10 0 0 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ADVANCED SHIPS OF THE LINE AT SHEERNESS.—TO the seventeen advanced line-of-battle ships complete at Devonport and Portsmouth, we are enabled to add the following reported complete at Sheerness :—Howe, 120; Waterloo, 120 ; London, 92 ; Asia, 84 ; Achilles, 76 ; Hawke, 72 ; Hercules, 72 ; Russell, 72. Total at the three ports, 25. The Cornwall, 50, is also fitted as an advanced frigate, so that there is now ready a frigate at each port. The Ganges, 84, at Sheerness, will be com plete on the 30th March. The Trafalgar, 120, advanced ship of the line at Cha tham, is fast progressing in her fittings, and will be ready to go out of dock by the end of next month. The Dee troop transport, Master Commander Thomas Driver, arrived at Portsmouth on Wednesday, from Ireland, last from Plymouth. She has been brought alongside the dockyard jetty to have several defects made good. The Prince George transport, Lieut. Ward agent, ar rived at Portsmouth from Woolwich yesterday morning, and came into harbour to embark a draft of the 20th Regiment for Bermuda, to which island she is bound with government stores ; she has also on board a party consisting of 60 men of the Royal Artillery and Royal Sappers and Miners, going out to join their respective corps, stationed on that island. The Scourge, first-class steamer, about to be built at Portsmouth yard, is ordered to be ready for going into the water by the Ist of September next. The Centaur, first•class steamer, will be laid down as soon as the Scourge leaves the dock in which she is to be built; in the meantime her keel and other timbers of her frame will be all prepared; she will consequently be ready very early in the spring. The Centaur is to be similar to the Scourge, excepting she will be longer ; she is to be 200 feet between the uprights. The Daring, 12, built at Portsmouth by Mr. White (the yacht builder), is to be floated out on the 29th inst. No man of war at Spithead. PRIZE MONEY FOR THE ACORN.-2,371L 14s. 6d. more prize-money is announced for distribution to Com mander Adams and the late crew of the Acorn, 16, being proceeds arising from the capture of the Portu guese slave-vessel Minerva, on the 31st of December, 1841. The payments will be made on and after the 6th of March next, in the following proportions :—Flag of the station, 1481. 4s. Bd. ; commander, 2771. 18s. 9d. ; first class, 95/. 13s. Bd. ; second, 57/. Bs. 2d. ; third, 28/. 14s. 14.; fourth, 191.25. Bd. ; fifth, 91. Ils. 4d.; sixth, 61. 7s. 6d. ; seventh, 31. 3s. 9d. CHATHAM CONVICT ESTABLISHMENT.—The whole of the officers belonging to the convict establishment at this port have been informed that their services will not be required here after the 31st of March next. Those whose periods of servitude entitle them to receive it will be recommended for superannuation; and the con vict guards, whose servitude is short, will have the op portunity afforded them of proceeding in the same capa city on board the Thames to Bemuda. 138 10834 7234 17i 5 15 6% 6% 5% 400 11.!131. 137;4 48 1 62 IS4 21 16 40s. 20s. 47i 170 205 12% Ibl 43% 40 13i 4l' 16 • 13%% 34 25 35 71ti 29 284( ) 65% :13 PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) The Penelope steam frigate, Captain W. Jones, passed Falmouth, on her way to the coast of Africa on Monday last ; the Prometheus steamer, for the same destination, called in at Falmouth, but proceeded on her voyage the following day. The Hydra steamer left St. Helena, for the coast of Africa, on the 30th of December. The Madagascar, 44, was at Ascension on the 7th January. The Tortoise store-ship, Commander Finlaison, the newly-appointed Governor of Ascension, will call at this port from Sheerness, to complete her stores, and take on board some officers and supernumeraries for the Afri can squadron. The Tortoise is to be stationed at Ascen sion as a depot for coal, for the use of the steamers on the coast of Africa. The Nautilus, 10, Lieut. Tringham, sailed on Tuesday for Brighton, to protect the fishery. The America, 50, has been commissioned at Plymouth, by Captain the Hon. John Gordon. The Caledonia, 120, was to have been docked on Tuesday last, at Devonport (but there was not sufficient water for her) to have leer copper cleaned and examined, and not in consequence of having touched the ground, as stated in our last paper. The Dee steamer, Mr. Driver commander, arrived on Wednesday from Ireland, for some slight repairs ; she will return to that station. The Styx steamer will be ready for sea by the 7th of next month ; the Lucifer, for the Irish survey, about the same time ; the Rattler steamer is still under experi mental trials with her crew. The six iron steam-vessels, contracted for by Messrs. Napier, of Glasgow, and Ditchburn and Mare, of Black wall, are to be named Lizard, Jackal, Bloodhound, Torch, Harp, and Myrmidon. The Prince George, transport, came in yesterday from Deptford, to take a detachment of the 20th Regiment from the Isle of Wight to Bermuda. We find the navy is to be reduced to seven sail of the line in commission ; that is, three first-rates for the Port Admirals in Englaud, and three second or third rates for the flags in the Mediterranean,. East Indies, and West Indies ; and one, we presume, for extra service. The Hastings will be commissioned for the next flag officer in the North American command. s s The following line-of-battle ships are reported com plete for sea service :—Britannia, Neptune, Royal Ade laide, Howe, Waterloo, of 120 guns each ; Nile, London, Vengeance, Powerful, Calcutta, Bombay, Clarence, Van guard, Collingwood, second rates ; Bellerophon, Foud royant, Edinburgh, Pembroke, Hastings, Achille, Hawke, Hercules, Russell, and Implacable, with the Cornwall, President, and Endymion frigates. The Scourge, a first-class steamer, as Firebrand, but with 190 feet keel, is laid down in this yard : she is to be completed as quickly as possible. The Daring, one of the new 12-gun brigs, will be launched hero in a few days. DEVONPORT, FEB. 23.—The Dee steamer, Mr. T. Driver, commanding, arrived on Friday from the Coast of Ireland, with 100 Marines which were left at Spike Island when the Caledonia returned to this port. The Drake lighter sailed with stores for Portsmouth last Saturday. The Express packet, 6, Lieut. E. Herrick, arrived from Falmouth on Saturday, and came into harbour to have her defects made good. The America, 50, was undocked on Saturday, having had her copper cleaned and repaired. The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain W. Jones and Prometheus steamer, Lieutenant Pasco, sailed on Monday for the Cuast of Africa. The Crane packet, 6, Lieutenant T. A. Lewis, (a) sailed for Falmouth on Tuesday, and will take out the next Bra zilian mail The Dee steamer sailed for Woolwich on Tuesday. The Netly tender, arrived from Cork on Wednesday. The Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane, arrived from Cork, on Wednesday. The Albion, 90, Captain Lockyer, was to sail from thenc e th e 21 s t f or Lisbon. In Harbour—Caledonia, San Josef, Resist ance, Express packet, Diligence transport, Confiance steamer, and Lancier Dutch schooner. In the Sound —Larne. Sir Richard Dobson's retiring salary from Greenwich Hospital, whore he was chief of the Medical Department, is 700/. a-year. Sir Richard was a Surgeon of 1797, and has been 20 years on the Staff of Greenwich. PROMOTIONS.--Lieutenants—Richard W. Pelly (1836), Charles F. Schomberg (1838), of the Tartarus, and Cos patrick Bailey Hamilton (1840), of the Winchester, to the rank of Commander. APPOINTMENTS.—Captain—The Hon. John Gordon to the America.. Lieutenants—George Marriott, from the St. Vincent, to the Formidable; C. E. Rowley, from the Queen, to the St. Vincent; G. J ohnston (additional), to the Pro metheus. Purser—B. Wickham, to the Tortoise, as Storekeeper of the Island of Ascension. Surgeon—John H. Steele, to the Resistance. Assistant-Surgeons—J. Gordon, to the Penelope, 'or service on the Coast of Africa; R. Douglas, to the Crane; H. H. Mackenzie, to the Caledonia; C. A. D. Newman, to the Lucifer ; John Reid, to Devonport Dock-yard, vice Newman, to the Lucifer. Clerk-in-Charge—John Bell, to the Lucifer. Second-Master—A. D. West, to the Lucifer. Mr. W. S. Fowler, to Excellent, to qualify for:Nayal Instructor. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. Mott, laceman, Regent-street, Piccadilly, March 15, at twelve—R. Champion, furrier, Friday-street, City, March 15, at eleven—S. H. Smith, coach maker, Cambridge, March 15, at half-past eleven—S. Chew, flour dealer, Clipaton, North amptonshire. March 15. at eleven—J. Martin, woollen ware houseman, King-street, City, March 15, at one—J. Whitfield, grocer, Tooley-street, Southwark, March 15, at half-past eleven—l. Hughes, shoe maker, Chelmsford, March 15, at eleven—W. Cock, grocer, Bungay, Suffolk, March 15, at twelve—G. H. Bush, upholsterer, Edgeware-road, March 15, at twelv e. CERTIFICATES te-be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. C. D. Leeder, cattle dealer, Billingford, Norfolk, March 22 .—W. Cox, - money scrivener, Daventry, Northamptonshire, March 15—J. Bell, ship owner, Greenstield, Northumberland, March 19—T. Bentley, cloth manufacturer, Rawden, York shire, March 29—W. Wood, screw manufacturer, Burton upon-Trent, Staffordshire, March 16—T. W. Jones, draper, Wellington, Shropshire, March 18—R. Pusey, baker, Abing don, Berkshire, March 15—T. Donkin, victualler, Cambridge, March 15—F. Barry, miller, Rye, Sussex, March 15--T. Thorpe, plumber, Chertsey, Surrey, March 15—T. Waters, hay dealer, I'illgwenlly, Monmouthshire, March 15—B. Mus grave, dyer, Leeds, March 15—C. Leaf, warehouseman, Wood street, Cheapside, March 15—J. Edmondson, miller, Marsden, Lancashire, March 15—R. Mason, corn dealer, St. Alban's, March 15--J. Hudson, calico printer, Gale, Lancashire, March 15 —J. Pearson, scut nail manufacturer, Darlaston, March 15—D. llague, paper manufacturer, Horsforth, York shire, March 15. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. and G. Mabyn, linen drapers, Bristol—G. and T. C. Dlackley, grindery warehousem en , New Inn-yard, Shorediteh —W. Curran and A. Thomas, stone dealers, Liverpool—J. Lomax and W. Wilson, ship builders, Liverpool—R. Titley and G. Bragg, wine merchants, Birmingham—J. Williams and C. Murcott, factors, Birmingham—P. Morgan, J. Mor gan, and W. Morgan, drapers, Madeley, Shropshire—G. Hemming and R. Steed, tailors, Pershore, Worcestershire— C. Tolley and E. Trimmer, brewers, Gloucestershire—B. A, Adams and H. Capell, grocers, Weedon Beck, Northampton shire—H. and D. Brook, cloth dressers, Upper Thong, York ahire—J. Fielding and J. Crossley, drysalters, Halifax, York shire—C. Alexander and W. Goddard, bakers, Brixton—J. Lowe and A. Grounds, shoe makers, Billinge, Lancashire—J. George, T. Sully, J. W. Sully, J. James, and T. Nicholson, carrying on business as the Park-end Coal Company—P. W. and A. H. Wagstaff, surgeons, Leighton Buzzard, Stafford shire—W. King, W. Chapman, and J. King, carpenters, Wells-row, Islington—J. Sherratt and J. Lomas, silk manu facturers, Macclesfield, Cheahire -- T. and . H. George, builders, 'New Windsor, SALMON FISIIING.—The fishing for salmon in the Tyne opened on the 10th inst. Several have been taken singe that time, but the price continues high. The fishing season com menced in the Tweed on Thursday last, In consequence of the melting of the snow up the country, the river was too mush swollen to admit of work being resumed at all the stations. At those, however, at which it did commence, the success was very encouraging; all of them having obtained fish ; some of them six and seven each.—Newcastle Advertiser,. THE NEW FACTORIES BILL. „ The manner in which the new Factories Bill wi ll affect employers and workmen in the country districth and especially in the woollen manufacture, is shown in the following letter from a highly respectable manufao• turer to a gentleman in office. We do not know hog it will be possible to work the Bill when the mills 2 11 , 11 be running only eight hours a day, as they w ere for three fourths of the year from 1839 to 1842 inclusive. The children can then only be worked four h ° l to let earn, the day I and for the pittance which this won] earn, their parents will hardly be induced et them work at all. We think the mill-ownerg in the woollen trade will do well to consider the stl gestions in the following letter ; and if they think them well-founded, to get up memorials and pet itions against the Bill, and to send deputations to repr esens their case to Ministers and Members of Parliament. TM Bill goes into Committee next Friday, so that there is D ° time to be lost. The following is the letter we have referred to:-- " Birstal, near Leeds, Feb. 17, 1 844 ' 9 " Sir,—l have received copies of the New Fectorie Bill from Mr. Aldam and Lord Ashley. The coun tr y mill-owners still entertain the strongest objection to tba half-time clause in the new Bill. A deputation veQu „ certainly be sent from Batley, if we could entertai n a ny opinion that our representations would receive attention' but all trading matters receive such slight attention fo ra , the Government or the Parliament, that all feel such , sense of injury that no one will troublehimself fu rther, except in cases where the whole country can be stirr ed up to take an interest in the subject. The clause which prevents the employment of wools; more than twelve hours daily, is a good and Y abl'ab f alteration. While I freely acknowledge and approve nd this change, I should be wanting in duty to myself , t h is those by whom I have been formerly deputed o n question, as well as to the labouring classes thems els ; if I did not protest against the half-time clause as I,P cable to woollen mills. The case of woollen peculiar, and ought not to be subjected to the same de r tail of legislation. Allow me, once more, to go °Y shortly the points of objection— eti " 1. In Mr. Saunders's Report the objection of inereasot expense is mentioned, but he does not allow it suffic ie the weight in the declining and unprofitable state of 0 woollen manufacture, which it is admitted can bear an ,„.• additional burden. As he admits, there will be " I . o ' crease of wages necessary to procure short time Pi eca t a as compared with full time hands, I need not go In the reasons for it. I may just mention that their -0v , garments is one, and that this will be an objection their attending schools for other children. " 2. It will be felt to be a great hardship when child who have attained to twelve years of age, are contr a ' to work for half-time wages. " 3. As our country mills work for hire, and are use e r r gularly employed, working generally during 'the e say months only eight hours, or merely during the light,—to employ children six hours, and that ouly be a w l er after noon, will subject them to inconvenience eeot.e loss. If we work only halt the day, and that only be` fip twelve, or after one o clock, we shall have to begin ea ' 9o ; and light up our mills at a great and needless ex,__,V ea t i n g if we begin at noon, we shall have the cost of j i b: to ol up at night. To be compelled to employ two ele children for eight hours' labour will be an intoleT o s grievance. During the last four years, our Mille t he not been employed more than eight hours daily for greater part of each year. 4,4, In times of good trade we found it difficult 0 00 min children for piecers, because their parents ea n , to earn a sufficiency, and will not trouble themsenliii send their children early . and regularly to mint og -ei difficulty will be greatly increased when only btu f are to be earned. frond"s. In our country mills, to which children coluetted all quarters, and from eonsiderable distancea, the school will often be impossible, and will be si:bar'l°er employment of children so situated. At present, n i :c e e the eight hours' system, where any number of elt n det are employed, schobls are kept on the premises the halftime system, this cannot be done better tbt as the may now be done; besides, parents will not be a t hel expense of making a separate provision of dinners o f now do. In populous towns the half-time sY 6 t ea g . work well, but cannot do so in our country situa t,n f the "6. Nothing can show the oppressive nature 0 0 present short time enactment in a more forcible no,Pobet than Mr. Saunders's own report, dated 20th 0e',.40 last, in which it is stated that, with an actual iocioL-90$ of 15,000 hands, there is a decrease in the ernpleY e 0 00 , of children under thirteen years of age of ab ollt - aria% Taking into consideration the condition of the lab ot e classes, this statement, properly understood, inuf vi olas their deteriorated state, and the oppressiee the short time clanks. " If is not practicable to retain the eight hours e l it at e l l i g l for woollen mills in the present temper of Govern , i; and the house of Parliament, I would submit thscio, would be for the benefit of all p ~,, ar ties to all° w , e ye dren to enter on full wo r k i n woo llen mills at c ei years of age. It would materially lessen the woollen - millowners,- benefit the parents; an of mote a more cordial attention to the efluesv°o t y i children, and lessen the inducements to infringe uls o e a,e correct observance of the Act. If this cannot be obtsu s to r clause ought to be inserted to enable children to 1/4 ployed eight hours, when.. the mills work .01 21 9, hours; at any rate during six hours of daylight ter, wlien the mills only work that time. f the . : op lf is enacted in its present ex t reme c h arac t e r, it W . ' al be produce a dogged sullen acquie scence , an d there w' no cordial effort made it will be felt to 'be g ate' e; rows, and an undue interference with labour. n od " The clause permitting the employmeat of cbuu'i eel alternate Saturdays the whole•day is oraitte ct , u otri there will be some difficulty about clocks; our 'l l i be e ehurch clocks are so irregularly kept, that .they w very imperfect guide. g „, i for from "I am at a loss what to say about comPenSa" — , froPi cident's it seems to me, unjust tq.require dieliag e o millowners not required from any .other dep t lese~ employment. Accidents generally happen-from eal;feeti ness and inattention, which millowners canno t P n wee I think there ought to be a clause restricting th e prosecution to cases of wilful neglect after nocc e :i.eor, We find that the workpeople in the neigh ndie of Batley are quite as strongly oppoeed til e re ree 4 tions of the new Factories Bill• as their eraPlo ha,o we know that those of Pudsey, Parsley, 8 0 . , pre,: same objections. They feel that the half-titatto sion will make the labour of their children of b l ot, efer t o, no value to them. The families of the poor__,.. f ys , since the commencement of the manufactnrimP bour,„ derived most important benefit from the ' li t tO . P' ' the children; which, when so regulated as 13° ;bi1d.. 4 jure their health, is a positive - benefit to the ' w ell', themselves, in giving them habits of industry, a fi cio tei% in providing for their better nourishment elu d e d et o The workpeople are, therefore, quite alarm chi prospect of the time being so arranged that the c the. 0 can never work more than six hours a day (°- oieg t o hour is merely put in to cover accidental overstePin the rule by a few minutes)—that general e: , el 4 woollen district, where the day's work is el ° a.* St they will only be able to work five hours sil o , 0 1 7 0 a-day,—and that in bad times, when the mils h° eight hours, they will only be able to work ly; t4 400;, a-day. We last year published a letter frora a s ing, in a large mill a few miles from Leeds, exP re t roPs l o l behalf of himself and hisi e ll ow - wor k men , the s te el objections to the proposed plan. We have int. 44 oeti d a communication from a meeting of the workito Batley, written in evident and lively alerni• - ...r0 te : 1 , 4 3 clearly how the Bill will affect both their emPlO themselves. The following are two or three , of their letter : " You are right when you say it (the -- nish the income of labour: it will to a great ,a7,, f itbS i e will be impossible for it to work in this distre s " An 10 d : ,7 a great disadvantage both to the labouriag cq l ca pie . millowners,_ more than anything that ever ett or operation before. In winter time, the chi ld ' . to,!), drawn out of bed at five o'clock in, the mornt o'ol°',4e (in order to complete six hours' labour before 003,---;'), and they then will have to play in the eft*.l. o iii o stroying the capital of the employer M light.' „or morning, to play the day-light away." ' v uosr They call the Bill "one of the Me! : weschemes that ever was invented by mail- t y wen It behoves the workmen generally, 0 co ncur. :1 12 1 ;li ployers in the woolen districts, if thet iit i on ely' - _, g e views. taken above to move instantly. e m bipie sent from Batley and the neighbouring to ,v e r lie ,, / 00 1 0 by all classes. But,, if any good is to be worLan id tions both of masters and of intelligent n s e see et be sent up to London, to wait on Ministers auf,n,itteer/ of Parliament; and as the Bill goes' into Cnol;iiiari,e• Friday next, the deputations should . lt el eber ° otherwise they will not be able to see the .1". fore the Bill has passed.—Leeds Mercury. ___.-----.—.------ th e - -------- tO. ~„ DEAL —Government has sent gratnitieS ini li , oi (li three boats' crews who so intro idly ventured tile - w d 01 , o k a few weeks back, to save the crew' of a brig Wr e .' . r",) ain ° eJ Goodwin Sand. A subscription was also eatered In t c ell the inhabitants, when between 30/. and 40/. 1,119 ' and distributed among them. ------' ..--- ----- oll e, IRTHS. On the 20th inst., Mr s. Joseph Dodson, White L igstr 6 , of Tottenham, of a daughter.Ca tilill On the 22d inst., at Reading, Berks , t he lady' oti rki Tupman, RN., of a son. . 'clt-O t i On the 23d inst., in Henrietta-street, Brutowl Mrs. James Ewell, of a eon. Ifog; MARRIED. 0 89 iott On the 22d inst., at North Shoebury,Essel, Cl'- n cot t p, Esq., surgeon, of Finsbury-place South, London, , 0 ,, of Benton, youngest daughter of Samuel Benton , •r" ' log, former place, gall , Jut e ' On the 22d inst., at the Holy Trinity Chard' , - y o rt , - - ,j, Gee, Esq., of Cottinghatn and Bridlington-W.IIY, 14013' to Elizabeth Jane, eldest daughter of Thomas "" ,i, • Esq., of Hull. he S ev hi'' On the 22(1 inst., at Trinity Churc h, Chelsea, thisdelP Ekins, 8.C.L., Reetor of Sampord, Essex, to 0 ,P 61 ' Jane, second daughter of the late George Hart PY _ 0 DIED. ; n Ger ° On the 11th of January last, at Mannheim, -- Captain William Payne. picV" . of On the 12th inst., at Leamington Priors, Mrs- ~ ,,bor On the 20th inst., Mrs. Phoebe Money, second ( 18 4 , the late John Priest, Esq., of Farnham. ~.-;Acert 9 On the 20th inst., Juha, the wife of John Wol". . ..ir of Hull. ° I S ew ' On the 22d inst., at Charlton, Mary, the ITife A Louglands, Esq. gboffi Id Willjr On the 22d inst., at Bolsover, near ,----- e . s- ~ n o le' ns °' C Joseph, eldest child of William Rose, Esq. r" On the 22d inst., in Caroline-street, Eat on-84 ..II wife of Mr. Henry Baker.. frolltr Anne On the third daughter 22d inst., r of the at Sto late E, Livke-by-Naylaneing, d, EPuliq , , ghte On the 22d inst., at Bishop's Hull, near Taun . t°l' 01 the wife of the Rev. Dr. Everard. d, ar e ' e t On the 19th inst., M. Joseph Almerie de St. Alti f n ri d c CO . / officer of the Guards of his late Majesty Louis 2CV1 1 ::„...." _ s i --, '- -- ' — ' --- yot i.G lP i' London : Printed and Published by MURDO tA . je No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office N 0.112,, 5 t ., 6 ,4,5. County of Middlesex, Moudtry, February 26, ' t"'"44, I 'vNt I, Pile, 8 e rg bkto