The Sun. — London, England, 1839-03-29 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. 1 On this day, w hi c h i s h e ld b y a ll Ch r i sten d om as a day of high solemnity and great humiliation, we think it right to forbear from the sharpness of political contro versy, however provoked to it by a manifesto of our po i lit'Neal adversaries which now lies before us. Our busi -1 ness, then, upon the present occasion, shall be to an- I saver, but not to retort. We shall leave vituperation to l die of the poison of its own malignity, and abusiveness 1, to wither where it has been flung. For this • day we touch neither the one nor the other, but shall endeavour, i ass!Tsently as we may, to set right what has been per , versed in the article upon which we are about to offer seine remarks. Our readers may remember that two or ) three days ago, when alludins , to the objections now I brought against the Reform 7'la by its former friends, 1 we stated it as our opinion, that the real objection had been emitted—namely, that the Reform Act had been found inadequate to secure the present Ministers in the possession of official advantages, and in the di rection of political affairs. The Ministerialists, in -ir further attacks upon the working of the Re- Act, have, more fully than we could have expected, confirmed our view. They now say— " In the universal excitement by which the Reform Bill was carried, the nation delivered its emphatic niginest agninst the Tory policy to which, for so long seriod of years, it was subjected. It welcomed the form Bill as the means of breaking down that domi 'on : and now, after seven short years, we are await dii ision of the Howe of Commons on the most -is. ionable point of Whig Ministerial policy, the neat of Ireland, in which a few votes, some or thereabouts, hold the power of deciding for ;ainst the return of Toryism to office. The fact ough. In such a result there is a damning of of failure in the machinery by which it has en produced. We do not believe that under lc old system, the present Government would have wen in any such predicament, nor the fate of Ireland have been thus trembling in the balance." \ccording to this view of the Reform Bill it was merely ty rnoesure—a measure for overthrowing the power of the Tories. This is asserted directly, and inferen tially it is a=serted that the object of the Bill was to es tabli,ll the Whigs in that estate of power of which the Tories %vere supposed to be deprived ; for it is said that the now existing risk of the ejection of the Whigs from ---r, and of the defeat of Whig policy in Ireland, is a " proof of failure" in the Reform Bill. Now, ,prrd to the public whether this account of the Be e ii:l is not quite the opposite of that which was ;:r by those who so loudly promoted its enactment ? sw P declared that it was not, nor was intended to be, a ar measure. They maintained that it was essentially i 'ar measure. They affirmed that it contemplated P :tier the overthrow of the Tories, nor the upraising he Whigs, but simply the doing justice to the pee .e. They published to the nation that this Bill being once made law, the people would thenceforward have an adequate voice in matters of legislation and government, by means of a true and effectual re- pre,sentation in the Ilcuse of Commons. If this was hot the view taken by the present Ministers who pro moted the Reform Bill, they greatly deceived those who listened to them. If this was their view, with what sort of honesty and consistency is it that such a view as we have above extracted should now be given by the friends and advocates of Ministers ? If the fail ure of the Whig Administration is a proof of the failure of the Reform Bill—if the success of the Tory Opposi tion is a proof that the Reform Bill has not succeeded —then it would seem to follow, by necessary inference, that the Reform Bill was no better than a Whig stra tagem for the retention of power, and a stratagem so ill contrived that, notwithstanding the applause and tri umph which it achieved for a short time, a few years baser worn out all its virtue, and made it worse than nothing, even for the Whigs themselves. Is this really the view which Ministerialists desire that the public thould, now take of the Reform Bill ? Behold now miter objection to the working of the Reform Act : When has there ever been such an exhibition as that . arded by the last division on the Corn-laws? Every , rnher of the Cabinet in the House of Commons— firm or a Pr a of of 0 y, every individual in that House connected with the )1 ernment (except one) voted in the minority for going o Committee. And yet the minority is so small, d the majority so constituted, as to render the ques n hopeless. The former consisted of less than one rd of the representation, and the mighty barriers of ss interest oppose themselves to any prospect of its rease. And this happens on a question involving e commercial prosperity of the empire, the labourer's food, the manufacturer's market, the profit to sti mulate industry, and the ability to bear taxation." It is quite true that the Corn-law question " in volved" all that is above stated, but we do not see how the decision upon it is any argument against the existing state of the representation. The repre sentati:es of the people, seeing that the question involved all the above important considerations, de cided that the Corn-laws should not be altered, and they did so in order (to the best of their judgment) to secure commercial prosperity, the labourer's food, the manufacturer's market, the profit to stimulate in dustry, and the ability to bear taxation. The Mi nisters certainly were in the minority, but that is no evidence that the minority were in the right. If the Reform Act is to be regarded as a failure because the majority of those elected to Parliament under its pro lisions voted one way, and the Whig Ministers voted another, then it becomes more and more certain that the Reform Act is held by those who thus argue as a kind of charter to Whig placemen, which has been vio lated, and not by any means (what it was once called) a charter to the people of Great Britain. Our opinion is that the Whig Ministers arc not infallible, but very much the contrary ; and we therefore think that the majority of the House of Commons may have given, and did give, a sound vote upon popular principles in the Corn-law question, although that vote was opposed by all the Ministers. Let us bring forward one other instmice of very considerable mistake in the Whig ma nifesto :—" Our right is questioned to find fault with the working of that measure (the Reform Act), became we were amongst its zealous advocates. With quite as much reason might we deny the right of now championing it to those who pronounced it an entire subversion of the Con stitution. Our ground of complaint i s th e i r groun d o f satis faction—viz., that it is a failure. Because it is so, they are content to pledge themselves against its repeal ; and because it is so, we demand that it be strengthened by -- Mitional measures, and so enabled to realize its pur "To realise its purposes! What were its pur poses? Were they to make the majorities of the House of Commons always agree with the opinions and propo sitions of Whig Ministers, no matter of what talents or success? From what has been already said it will be observed that this seems to be the view of the writer who complains as above that the Reform Act has not realised its purposes. It is a mistake, or a contradic tion of the truth, to state that the parties in the country nho opposed the enactment of the Reform Bill, as the enactment of revolution, are now in any contra dictory sense its champions. They opposed the Reform 13W, but they did not oppose the Reform Act. It is a part of their political belief, that, how ever the proposition of a revolutionary law may be resisted, it becomes entitled to their forbearance and respect when it is made law. We are Conser- Natives of the established Constitution. For that rea son we opposed a violent change of the Constitution so long as it had not taken 'place ; but when it did take place, and in the regular form, by consent of Commons, Lords, and King, then our relations towards it were changed. The Constitution of the Legislature had, in deed, undergone a revolution which we would rather hare hindered, but, such as it was, we were bound by our principles to uphoid it, and to resist further change. The Conservstives have no d es i re t o pro l ong " agita. tion," or to spend their political lives— Inter spem, curamque, timores inter, et iras." Rather would they strive to extract even from the re• sults of revolution the elements of peace and of security They know that poses. " Grata superveniet, qum non sperabitur Nora." With respect to the Reform Act, they have returned good for evil, and when they might have rolled back the tide of popular commotion upon the heads of those who directed it. against them they have wisely refrained. In this they are consistent. If the present objectors to the Reform Act avow that their principle is that of perpetual change, then in like manner, their present ob jections would be consistent with their principles. But this they do not avow. They say they desire perma nency and tranquillity in public institutions, and yet at one time we find them violently agitatingfor the Reform Biil, and at another trying to agitate, as violently, against the Reform Act ! We need say no more.— Morning Post. (No inconsiderable portion of the popular support given to the Reform Bill was afforded on religious and moral principles. We speak of religion and morality in that exclusive sense which is most common in this coin try, and which classes even the terms " political ethics" amongst our importations. Good and devout men, not usually mixing in the conflicts of party, had been dis gusted by the gross immoralities that had grown up under the borough-mongering system ; and they united in the cry for some check upon corruption so intolerably offensive. A fraction of their desire has been accom plished by the disfranchisement of non-resident voters, and the abridgment of the duration of the poll. With this exception, and it is no unimportant one, the Reform Bill is not more entitled to the attribute of finality for its moral than for its political conse quences. In this, as in most other aspects, there is a degree and extent of failure that requires speedy amendment. The scenes of infamy that occurred at the last election have been much too easily forgotten. llose at Norwich were probably unparalleled even in electioneering annals. Many a poor family has bitter 1 reason for remembering them, in the degradation of c ‘ llaraete r , w hi ch :-, passes not away with the departure of the triumphant tempter to iniquity. In a moral view, electioneering is the power of a wealthy aristocracy, and I its unsc rupulous agents, to debase the morals of the ilext'lls. tTsrho. intoxication, the bribe, an d t h e f a l se vote, I 7. _ en_ifw. Atm , ent taintnilatietrwithadequate spreads ove r th e b e i ng . certainty be _ . brought to bear upon the crime of the temptation. The only reasonable course is prevention. It is superfluous to say that the means of prevention are not to be found in the Reform Bill. Want of political knowledge, want of political integrity, want of independence—these are vices deeply inherent in society. They infect the exist ing constituencies to a fearful extent. They give its prevailing character to our representative system, and determine the sort of men who are returned to Parliament, and the means which are frequently and successfully employed for the attainment of their object by candidates. It is certain enough that no laws can annihilate ignorance, senility, an unprincipledness. But there is no occasion to cherish these diseases of the social system ; and they are cherished to a rank maturity, by some abuses which the Reform Act left unredressed, and by others which it has generated. They are espe cially generated by open voting. Full play is given to every foul influence. Every form of dependence is made to bias the action, and separate it from the dictates of individual opinion. Even the principles of morality are perverted, to raise into sacredness that promise which the canvasser has no right to require, and justify the violation of that holier promise which, by implication, every citizen is under to his country and his conscience. The secret vote may be ig norant and erring, but it is ln Lust and independent. Bet the immorality of the system is much more enormous in those who influence than in those who are influenced. Open voting demoralizes the aris tocracy. It seduces them into the employment of base and corrupting means. It tempts them to become tempters, and sends them forth as missionaries of vice. According to the cant of the day their personal honour is unaffected ; and what is the personal honour of a man who makes drunkards, who makes liars, who makes citizens untrue to their duties through their fears or interests, and expands the agencies of moral corruption over whole districts ? He is personally tainted, worse infinitely than his victims, a plague-spot in society, loathsome and abhorrent, and not the less so for the unmeaning distinction of private and political character that enables him to sneak behind a pitiful conventionalism. For his own sake the means of mischief should be taken from him. The ignorance which his flimsy pretensions would de , wive should have its retreat in the Ballot. The un p-incipledness to which his inducements appeal, should have the opportunity of honesty in the secrecy of the Ballot—the servility on which he is low-minded enough to operate, should be raised towards independence by the Ballot—and thus deprived of the existing facilities of acting upon weaknesses and vices, he may himself be rendered a less noxious member of society by the Bal lot. The most efficient antagonism of all to ignorance, servility, and unprincipledness, would be an enlight ened system of national education. That would strike at the root of the evil. It would carry the Reform into individual character. But education itself is an ill-understood subject. The prevailing notions con cerning it are crude, narrow, and sectarian. It is beset by the blindest prejudices and the fiercest bigotries. And were any efficient and comprehensive scheme pro pounded, where is the power to realise it ? No such power does or can exist, till we possess a vigorous Go vernment, balked by the determined voice of a popular representation. Till then, Utopia may be educated, but not England. No voluntary efforts of the philanthropic or religious can produce more than a slight mitigation of the evil. We must wait. The intellectual and moral good of the nation must abide the strife of parties ; the best purposes of patriotism and benevo lence must remain in abeyance ; the broken down machinery of the Reform Bill stops the way. Those who desiderate an instructed community must com bine to remove the impediment of a defective re presentation. Popular confidence in the Legislature and the Government is essential to any rational prospect of the establishment of national education. It is a previ ous condition of practicability. A philosophical moralist tells us always to do the duty that is nearest. Such a Reform of the Representation as shall give it moral power is between us and national education ; and that step implies the cordial co-operation of all classes of ho nest and earnest Reformers. There is the nearest duty ; the nearest alike of those who are the most deeply in terested in the collision between Reform and Toryism as the watchword of party warfare, and of those who, comparatively alien from political strife, are only intent upon the intellectual and moral improvement of their fellow-creatures.—Morning Chronicle. It was predicted by Sir Robert Peel some years ago, that those who were most clamorous and vehement in support of the Reform Bill would, ere long, prove them selves the most dissatisfied with its operation. Respect ing some among the advocates of that measuse, the an ticipation of the Right Hon. Gentleman has proved strictly true. Those, for instance, who looked upon the Reform Bill as a convenient wedge, by driving which an entrance might be gained into our monarchical consti tution for the vast mass of outlying democracy, now find that the Bill has not answered that unholy purpose, that rabble government has not yet invaded the sanctuary of the Constitution, and that its ingress must be forced by some more violent means. That class of," Reformers," being indeed revolutionists, allege that the Reform Bill is an arrant failure, and that the popul ar , th a t i s t h e re publican interest, has been in no degree promoted by it, more than by the ancient boroughmongering constitution. Does this throw no light upon the real merits of experi mental change ? Does it effect nothing towards an ex posure of those who would remodel the institutions of a State for the sake, not of general, but of partial objects? The murmurers against the Reform Bill because it bas not "done enough," are not they who wished to super sede the old borough system, as being merely an unjust monopoly, but because it had aggrandized a different description of monopolists from those whom the present discontented parties would have preferred. The old monopoly was enjoyed by a limited numberof individuals, for the most part men of a certain rank and fortune, though with a large adulteration of low and lucky adven turers, to the exclusion not only of the middleand work ing classes, but of the great majority of proprietors throughout theland. Now, there were two sections of En glishmen calling themselves Reformers who desired the overthrow of that irregular and unnatural monopoly. The first of these sections were anxious for such a change as should disperse more equally amongst the educated and proprietary classes the constitutional rights of the elective franchise, and consequent influence upon the Legislature. To that section we ourselves claim to have belonged, and though in the details of the Reform Bill we undoubtedly perceive some not trifling or insignificant defects, it appears to us, as a whole, to have operated powerfully towards a production of the benefits most essential in any electoral reform, for it has greatly undermined the principles of monopoly, extending much, and apportioning more equitably, the political attributes of those of our fellow-subjects throughout the realm who are best fitted to exercise them for the public good. Such men, generally speaking, however they may lament that the early action of the Reform Bill, from peculiar circum stances and front a gross and monstrous abuse of con stitutional powers, has not in Ir e l an d a ff or d e d t o t h e world a creditable specimen of a reformed Parlia. event—such bona fide friends to the principle of Reform we say, are not seriously dissatisfied with the Bill as regards our English representative system, or at all hopeless of seeing a gradual and irresistible amendment in the course of its future operation. But it is not so with the ultra-Liberal or anti-Monarchical Reformers. They had no wish to annihilate political monopoly, but to transfer it to other hands. It was not the fair distri bution of power for which they agitated, but its concen tration in the mob. The Reform Bill did not effect this one purpose, therefore it is to be condemned and set aside as unproductive of any. The Reform Bill destroyed nomination boroughs. It extended the elec tive rights, hitherto vested exclusively in freehold, to property in copyhold, leasehold, household. All, or nearly all, Englishmen qualified to think and act with discrimination upon questions requiring a know ledge either of political principles or of public cha racters have gained by the passing of the Reform Bill. But those who now clamour for widening indefi nitely the provisions of that Bill forget their own former sentiments with regard to it. When the cry was " the Bill and nothing but the Bill," it promised no thing which it has not since performed. It abolished as many close boroughs as its first prospectus threatened with extinction. It opened the franchise to as many ci tizens as it had ever invited to expect the right of voting —nay, the qualification was eventually reduced below its original level. In what, therefore, has it failed ? Simply it has not accomplished that which it was pro mised. It has not inflicted upon us Annual Parliaments, nor Universal Suffrage, nor the base and degrading Ballot. But who among the honest advocates of the Reform Bill, before the Reform Bill passed into a law, ever dreamed of its exhibiting any such metamorphoses in the British monarchy ? Why, then, is it now cried out against, for not breaking faith with the friends of constitutional monarchy, and for not abolishing those institutions which it only professed to reform ? The reason is this—that the present race of agitators for Universal Suffrage, Ballot, Annual Parliaments, &c., who call themselves the " movement," because they know no rest, were not sincere, or true, or honest in their support of the Reform Bill. They did not press for it bona fide as an improvement of the monarchy, but as an " instalment" of these further and unacknow ledged changes through which a fierce democracy was to be established, and the whole essence of constitutional monarchy was to be destroyed. These men rail against the finality of the Reform Bill, as they would at any other check to the infinite mobility of indefatigable change, pro ceeding by the law of unavoidable succession to the supre macy of numbers, the conflict of numbers to the anarchy of reciprocal and unrelenting persecution, all merging in the sharp -edged despotism of some one surviving tyrant. This is the remote end of all democratic yearnings. It is the immediate end of all triumphant violence, where a democracy tramples on old and naturalized in stitutions. It is what our " movement" blindly plunges after, and what stupid Whiggery smiles upon rather than forfeit a single week of office. But the ga charge of all again s t th e Reform Bill is, that it has ran not reformed human nature itself. " Corruption," forsooth, is carried on in spite of it—votes, even reformed votes arc gained by money—" tricks" and " rascality" have not been banished from the world by it, nor the Corn law repealed, nor simple honest men enabled to cope with shrewd and experienced rogues. Nor is " Liver pool purified" nor the perpetual expulsion of the Tories from power secured by it, nor the Whigs enabled to misgovern and disgrace the kingdom without a Parlia mentary majority made another 41fagnaCliarta.—Times. PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, ASSUR. ANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 23. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share 1,766 7 per cent. Ashtcn ancl Oidharn.. Average 97/. lBs.sh. 132 ..082 4!. Ashby. -e-lc-Zouch Average 11:1/.8h. 1,210 Basir , ,stoke lool,h, 1,1195 5/. Brecknock and Ahergavrnny 150% sh. 9,0001.-ICah. 91 6s. Birmingham, 1-16th sharp ......Fil. & 711. i 000 Ditto and Liverpool Junetl 9l !/. sh. 100 pd 600 3/. Bridgewater and Taunton .100/. sh. all pd 400 4!. Chelmer and 131ackwater KN. sh. 500 48/. C3ventry .10/.sh. 4,545 Croydon , Average 31/.28.10d. sh. 2,064 41. Os. Dudley lOO/.sh. 600 14i. Derby ICOLsh. 20,000 4 per cent, Oanune and M.tyne 3,574 31. Ellesmere and Chester... Average 133/.sh. 231 62!. Erewash 100/.sh. 1,297 28/. Forth and Clyde ....Average 4.001.165. oh. 1,600 12/, Grand Junction 100/.3h. 4,649; 1/. Grand Union 1001. sh 11,500 Grand Surrey lnez sh. 0,000/ 4/. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. 3 #196 ...... ... Grand Western 600 131.125. Bd. Glzmorganshire, Aver. cast 172/. 1: , .. Id. 749 10t. Grantham 150/. sh. 6,238 21. Os. Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. Ed. sh. 100 Kensington 100 sh all pd. 5.328 11. ss. Kennet ind Avon, Aver. 391. 18s. ice. sh, 2,897/ 30!, Leeds and Liverpool ' ON. sh. 54.51 131. Leicester l4O/.Bh. 1,897 61. Os. Leicester an , i Nort,:lampton Aver 13/. lirs. 2.400 16/. Monmouthshire 100/ .sh. 130 10/, Melton Mowbray 100/.Bh. 500 251. Mersey and Irwell lOW. sh. 3.060 11. ICs. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 24r1 171. Neath 2,400 51. Peak Forest "tver"gc. about 79/. oh. 1,418 128. Regent's (or London) Av. 331. 16s. Sri. sh. 5,669 61. per cent. Rochdale Average 5.5/. sh. 500 81. Shropshire 1'251. sh. 800 9!. 103. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 3,600/. 4i percent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 700 401. Stafford and Worcester l4Ol. sh. 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. oh. 300 92, Stourbridge 3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on-Avon Average 791. 95. Out. sh. 533 151. Swansea 100/. oh. 3,762 U. IS.. Severn and Wye and Railway Av. 35!. sh. .60 lan. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, i share 100/. shn 8,149 Thames and Medway Aver.l9/. ss. Sd. sh. 1,0005h.1 ~,, Warwick aad Birmingham lOO/.sh 1,000.,i5h. i '.. 950 150. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. :1,000 4/.os. Worcester and Birmingham A v. 761.85. sh. 5,000 255. Wilts and Perks Average 071. 10s. Sd. sh, SOO 31, Vii yrley and Essington 125/. sh I`6 ...... Wishcaeli lO5/. sh. 905 11, Wey anl Arun IIO/. sh. - - "0°8') 3 C lnal 1,06515 h p. C. .9 :rove. East and West India 3.233,310-1/. 555. p.ct. London Stock Ditto Bonds 2.209 2/. 19s. Bristol 68,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1.352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 2.500 Deptford Pier .Ol. sh. 201. pd DOCKS. BRIDGES. 1,600 Irs. flammersmAl! 50/. sh, 7,231 Southwark, Ohl 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 7; r: cent. `Fish. 5,000 Waterloo lOOl. sh. 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 81. (RM. pd 5,000 ICs. 4d, Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 10,0001 51. per cent. lMtto Bonds 5,948 171 Vauxhall ~ ~Avlrage 701. 10s. 3d. eh. ASSURANCE' t7OMPA.NIES. Albion 5OO/. sh. 501. pet 3/10g - - 50,000 Eslneic, i 5; ., } Alliance Britisn & Foreign 100/. sh. 10 1. pd 50,000 0 per cent. Ditto, Marin: lOOl. sh. si. pd 24,000 f 1 per sh. AC^ , 50/. sh. 51. pd 1,20013 h. 51. Birmingham 1 ire .50/. sh. 551. pd 20,000 41 percent. British Fire 2501. sh. 501. pd 12,000 01. per cent. tritirii: Conini,re‘al 5O/, sh. 51. pd 5,000 5/. percent. Cleri'cal & Me,1i...t1 Life, lea eh. 2/10s pd -1,000 21 lOs County 1001. sh. 10/. pd 20,000 _ ss. _ Eagle ,-, 00 SS per cent l Economic; Lite 1000!. sh. 250!. pd 57 5 . - Land 301 hs. S 2,271 225. per cent. European Lii • OOl. oh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, Ncw "0/. oh. V/. pd 11 1,000,000/. 71. per ct Globe Stock 145 - 20,000 Sl• Guardian lOO/. sh. 2701 pd 40 40,000 6s. Cd. Hope 501. sh. 51. pd 51 2,400 51. 7s. NI. Imperial fire 5001 sh. 50/. pd 137 7 , 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite . 1001. sh. 10/. pd 101 13,458 4/. per ceva. Indemnity :Marine 1(0/. oh. 8/.1,1 25 2,020 3/ lOs Kent Fire 50!. sh. all pd 82 Si. Ditto Life 79 10100 16s. Law Life 100/. sh. 10!. pd 231 5 tiro 10s. London, Fir.• '251 sh. 12/. 10s. pd 1:1 3,900 10s. London, Ship "51 sh. 191. 10s. pd 18 1,1)00,0001. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh. 500,000/, National Lean FuLd 91. ss.:pd 21 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Lilo 50/. sh. '2l. pd 2194 50,000 41. per cent. Protector Fite 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 16.0 d 2,500 1/. Provident Luc lOO/. sh. 104 pd 20 00,000 ss. Rock Life 201. sh. I/. pd 7 89,220/ 51. percept. Royal Exchange Stork... 229 6,000 5 per cent. University Lila TOOL sh. 5/. IA 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 5/. pd 71 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 8 percent. Agrie and Com. of Ireland 251. sh. 10/. pd 5,000 ......... Australe-ia 4O/. oh. 40/. pd 1 10,4)0 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 5(l. sh. 10/. pd 19,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank .. 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 31,000 5 percent. London and Westminsterloo/ sh. 201. pd ! 60,000 Si. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/. pd 1 .3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001 . s h . 204 pd 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd ! 100,000 71 per cent Manchester and Li v er-1 501.8 h. 15/ pd pool Distrizt 20,000 7 per teat. Manchester. 100/. sh. 25/ pd 20,000 Provincial Bank of Irelandlool. sh. 25/. psi , 50, 0 00 National Bank of Ireland 501. sh. 17 1 /. pd 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. 100/. sh. 3 . 6/. pd 1(1,008 ...... .. Ditto New lO/. sh. 10/. pa 19,000 Gloucestershire 5O/ sh. 10/. pd 6.000 10 per cent. Hampshire 501. sh. 5/. pd GAS LIG'HT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2 .500 110 s Od Bath .201. sh. 101. p 4 5,000 British 4O/. sh. 161. pd 5,000 r i a gl e g en 6l - 3 Ditto Provincial 201. s h. 19 pd 928 5110 s Birmingham 5O/. sh. 1,250 2/ Os Bristol 2o'. sh. 2,250 3/ 10s Brighton 2Ol. sh. 750 31 les Ditto, New 201. sh. IS/. pd 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd 4,000 51. 10s. Continental Consolidated 75/. (521/. pd 1 1,000 101. City of London lOO/. sh. all pd 1! 1,000 61. Ditto, New 1,000 41. 105. Equitable 5O/. pd 10,000 2i per cent. Imperial 800 5/. per cent. Isle nf Thanet ` , 51. sh 2Ol. pd 5' 2,350 61. per cont. Independent .30/. sh. all pd 4 9,000 4/. per cent. Phcenix 50/. sh. 39/. pd 5 1,000 4/. per cent. ltatcliff 100/. sh. 801. pd 5 4,000 South M'stropolitan 5O/. sh. 19/. pd 1 8,200 4/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 401. pd 2 210 5/. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 5 400 51. per cent Wakefield L 2,000 3/. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New . 511. ch 10/. pd 1 730 5/. per cent. Yarmouth 201. sh. 184 pd WATER WORKS. 1,800 9s. Birmingham 25/. sh. 251. pd 2 4,434 61. East London lOO/. sh. 17 5,500 21 106 Grand Junction Average 41/. 13s. 4d. sh. 6 2,000 2/. Kent 100 .sh. 4 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 32 1,500 21 100 New River London Bridge Water Ann 6 6,486 1/ 15s Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 5. 1,000 4 per cant. South London 1004 sh. 10 8,294 4/. West Middlesex Average 631. 12s. 9d. sh. 10 1.360 11 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 3 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 ..... .... Birmingham and Derby COL pd 4 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 15,000 Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 20:pd 660 Calcutta and Saugur 501. sh. !l. pd i 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western 100/. sh. 204 3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 100/ pd 31 12,000 8,000 ... ...... Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. 5/. pd 60,000 Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 134 pd 1 Grand Junction 1001. oh. 95/. pd 20; Great North of England 30/, pd li 5,609 Great Western lllO/. oh. 65/, pd 61 2,000 Hartlepool 100/. all. 1001. pd 10 8,000 Hull and Selby 501. eh. 25; pd I, 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 2,100 31. per cent. Leeds and Seiby 100 ah. 6 1,500 11.55. Leicester and Swannington .501. sh. all pd 7 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchesterlo(3.sh. 1001. pal 20 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 6 36,000 ... ...... London and Brighton 5O/. sh. 171 pd 12,000 London and Blackwell 5O / sh. 31. pd i 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich ....9.01. sh. 20/. pd 11 25,000 London and Birmingham 100/. sh. 99/. pd 14 Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. pd 2 31,090 London and Seuthampton Av. 38/,175. fd. 4! 14,000 6,000 Ditto New Scrip.... '7l. pd 1 12,000 L on d on G rand Junction 1 01. sh. 5/. pd I 13,000 Manchester and Leeds ...1001. sh. 501. pd 6 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 70/.sh 15/. It l/itto Extension 71. pd .1 North Midland 1004 sh. 551. pd 4! Northern and Eastern 1001. sh. 15/. pd 1 2,600 ... ...... Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 30/. pd 3f 28,000 South Eastern and Dover 9/. pd 1 1,000 10/. per cent. St oc k ton and Darlington 100/. sh. 24( 9,000 ......... Thaoles Haven 5O/. sh 21. 10s. pd C 1,400 A N: Db ets ii t ot m tno i c n so g u t pb e r., r and Greenwlchj.s/. s. psi C 6.000 MINES. ' l l' A IL ss. Alten ... . ..... f. e r r .. i . p . t . .. ...... ...151. sil l ..l s 2 S l * . :314 1 1 : pd. 1 12 0 10,000 .... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.loo/. sh. a 1 'd . 1 1 251. 1.1 9 sD B il i r i : t a l et a z ao n i .. i l : b e: a s t . i J l ao m ben p o . ci i it s s iis s ßll / e. United i m t e . d . . . 2, 3 1 0 5 5 51 . 1 . . ss s ih r .. . ‘ 21 ):0 11 / 1 : . p p i P l d l 3 7 144 9 2. 10,00020 11.111. 6,600 11,000 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company...2o/. sh. 204 pd 5 10,000 ..•....-.. Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. 101. p 4 10 20,000 British Iron 5O/. sh. 501 pd 8 6,000 British Copper 5l. sh. 41/. pd 1 Cate Branca 6i/. id 8 Candonga 714 Pd 5 10,000 11 Copiapo 201. sh 13/. pd 10 8,500 ..- Columbian, ins. 51. pm.... 551. ah. 55/. pd 3 2,850 Si. English 20,000 6,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh. 554/. pd 4 3,008 Polberou Consols 101. sh. 8/. pd 4 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered .... ......... ... 9 p d Ditto Loan Notes 1504 pd 100 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm .40/. sh. all 11 Mtn. Scrip 2 Ditto New Scrip 51 Pd 4 West Cork 50/. s h. 50/. pd 38 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. ',OM London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs, sh. i s L,500 .... ..... London University 100 4 eh. all pd 23 WO King' College 1004 pd , 26 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 6,000 41. pe i r ss ient. B A r u i t s i t s r h al A ia m n e A r i g e r a i n c u L I t a t t n r d a 1 . C l O OO . /. p a s i h , . y 224 . p d 46, Pd 10,000 6/ per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh. 304 pd 23 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Cana,l.a Loan 9l Cit Bonds, 4 20,000 it. 6s. General Steam Navigation 13/. sh. 14/. pd 25 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 225 2,000 11. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 751. sh. 1 9 8,000 Caoutchouc Company: 124/. Pd 12 New Brunswick Land Compa•oy/...::0/ Pd 2,754 5/. per cant. Reversionary Int. 50c....1001. sh. 1001. pd 13 9 2,033 51. per cent. Ditto New 10v1. sh. 75/. pd 108 4,000 10,000 Cs. Van Dte.ner.'s Land......,.. 1001. sh. 171. pd 0 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, MARC 11 16, 1839. 1,500,00 BANKS. N. 6/. p. ct. Bank ot Scotland -831. 6s. Bd. sh all pd 118/. 2,000,0X1. p. ct. R. yal of Scotland 100/ sh. all pd 1631, 500,0.10/. Bp. ct. British Linen Company I 00/. sh. pd ‘37/. 3,000,0001. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 175/. 5.J00,000/.. sn. ct. National lOO4 sh. 10/. pd 16!. 2,000,000/. 61. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/ sh. 501. pd 831. 4,000,00/. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland - 2001. sh 401. pd 571. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250.0005 h. 6i p. ct. Scottish Union 9 0/. sh. 1/. pd 225. ,500 6p. ct. Hercules 1001. sh. 101. pd 16!. 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .10/. sh. all pd 0/. 17s. 50,000 6p. ct. North British .200/. ah. 101. pd 201. 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 101. pd 191. 105 5,000 Bp. ct, Edinburgh Lite 1001. sh. 10/. pal 14/10s 100,000 31 . et. West of Scotland lO/. pd 71 03 MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 .•• 00000 Edin. and Glas. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 10/. Ditto Allocated 911/. sh. all pd 471. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Watcr 25/. sh. all pd 381 Carron Iron Company ...250/. sh. all pd 441, 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundcry 50/. sh 481. pd 521. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Ghss.2o/. sh. 10/. pd 81 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd 001 4,150 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas ' ) 5/. sh. all pd 56/. 750 7 , 4 poi' cent. Leith Coal Gas 20/. sh. a ll pd 50/. 1,200 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Itarwayso/. sh 361 . 3,010 5 Per cant. Equitable Loan Company ...5/.sh.pd Sl.. Pit 'sky THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1889 ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS. NOMINATION OF CHURCHWARDEN. Yesterday being Maundai Thursday, a numerous meeting of the inhabitants of this parish was held in the Vestry-room, pursuant to annual custom, to nominate Churchwardens for the ensuing year. It will be recol lected that last year a long and angry contest took pLce between the two parties, and that during the struggle, or at its close, the polling papers were abstracted from the parish box, a proceeding which led to the most bitter acrimony, and it was quite evident yesterday it had not been forgotten. Mr. Churchwarden CUFF pre sided. After some preliminary business had been disposed of, Mr. Churchwarden Staunton was proposed as Senior Churchwarden by Mr. SMITH and Mr. BARRON. Mr. GAIIEGAN proposed Mr. GILBERT POUNCEY, which was seconded by Mr. WitsoN. _ . . Mr. LAING, of the Haymarket was proposed by Mr. JONES ; and Mr. HUDSON, of the Haymarket, proposed Mr. RICIIARD CORBETT.' After a long discussion, carried on with much warmth and party feeling, which led to no result, Mr. SiNtrsoN said he saw it was of no use going on further ; thPy had better adjourn and have two candi. dates each.—(Cheers, and cries of " War, war, on Monday.") The motion was put and carried, so that another vex atious contest must now take place. ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN. ELECTION OF_T HE COMMITTEE OF MA NAGEMENT UNDER THE LOCAL ACT. Yesterday forenoon the Rate-payers of St. Paw Covent-Gm - den, assembled in the Vestry-room of the parish church, for the purpose of electino• 27 persons to be the Committee of Management for the year ensuing, and to appoint officers and apportion the salaries of the officers. Mr. CHARLES WARDELL, senior Churchwarden in the Chair. Mr. MOSELEY, the Vestry Clerk, having read the minutes of the last Vestry, which were confirmed, of fered the resignation of the office. He observed that he had filled that situation nine years, and that he was compelled to resign it in consequence of the increase of his private business. He thanked the Vestry for the courtesy he had always experienced from the parish. Two lists being severally proplsed and seconded, it was agreed to select the third of the remaining names of the old Committee, which being done, eighteen new members were appointed from the second list. A dis cussion then ensued upon the propriety of increasing the salary of the Vestry Clerk, from 100 guineas to 1501., a-year, when a Committee was rppointed to take the necessary steps upon the subject, and report at their next meeting. Mr. WALKER moved that the Collector of the Rates should be paid 1 in place of 11 per cent., upon which, Mr. CRIBB moved an amendment to continue the old allowance. The amendment was carried, when the Vestry was dissolved. TfIE MYSTERIOUS DEATH IN LAMBETH.— Wednesday afternoon an inquest was bald in Carlisle-lane, Lambeth, on the body of Elizabeth Cuthbert, the wife of a journeyman tailor, a notice of whose death has already ap peared in 7he Sun. It appeared that on Monday morniros her husband left home, and on his return between nine and t. n o'clock at night he was unable to gain admit tance till he got in the window, when he faund the deceased lying on the floor, quite dead and cold. It was rumoured in the neighbourhood that she had been severely ill-treated by her husband, but, the evidence did not support the charge. Mr. Wagstaff, a surgeon, having made a post mortem examination of the body, every indication of the deceased having been addicted to drinking gin presented themselves. The immediate cause of death, however, was the rupture of a blood-vessel between the heart and lungs. Verdict accordingly. EXECUTION AT MAlDSTONE.—Yesterday morning at the usual hour the wretched man, William Seagar, underwent the last sentence of the law, in front of Maidstone Gaol. The unfortunate convict, it will be recollected, was tried and convicted at the late Maidstone Assizes, for the brutal murder of a female with whom he cohabited, near Otterden, in Kent, in the month of Ja nuary last. Seagar slept well on Wednesday night, and when awoke was perfectly resigned to his fate. He mounted the scaffold without the least assistance, and when the fatal bolt was drawn, he appeared to die without a single struggle. There were upwards of 3,000 present in front of the palce of execution. The commercial traveller, Staples, to whose mysterious disappearance from the Clarence Hotel, about a month ago, we have twice alluded, has not been heard of, although hand-bills offering a reward for his discovery have been extensively circulated. The last place at which there is any information of his being seer, is Hove ; and a hat having been picked up a few days since by one of the Coast Guard, near the Wish, it was at first conjectured that it might afford some clue to his fate. Neither the landlord, nor servants of the hotel, however, have any re collection of the hat which he wore at the time he left, and these is no mark or name on it by which it can be traced to him. The hat, which is a fine one, is broad-brimmed and turned up more than usual at the sides ; the binding is very broad, and its appearance leads to the presumption that it has been some time in the water.—Prighton Gazette. PROCEEDINGS OF THE CORPORATION OF LONDON AGAINST THE POLICE BILL.—Tile Lord Mayor has, at the request of Mr. Humphries, one of the Members of Farringdon Within Ward, ordered that the following motion should stand at the head of the paper for discussion at the next Court of Common Council :—" That this 1 Court do agree to petition both Houses of Parliament against the Bill now pending in the House of Commons, entituled A Bill for Regulating the Police Courts of the , Metropolis.' " Mr. Brace, another member of the Cor poration, has given notice of the following motion : " That a deputation from the Court be appointed to wait on the Right Honourable Viscount Melbourne, for the pur pose of recalling to his . Lordship's mind th e assurances ma d e by his Lordship on various occasions of supp or ti ng an d pro tecting the rights and privileges of the Corporation, and requesting, on the faith and dependence of each assurance, that his Lordship will counsel the withdrawal of the Bill, entituled A Bill for further improving the Police in and near the Metropolis.' " DEATH FROM BURNING.—AII inquest was taken before Mr. Payne yesterday afternoon, at Guy's Hospital, on the body of Jane M'Cleod, aged four years, residing at 24, Lynn-street, Southwark. It appeared that the parents of the deceased went out on Wednesday after noon for the purpose of supplying their customers with milk, leaving the deceased child and her brother, a boy six years of age, in a room by themselves. They began play ing with the tea-kettle, and the lid having got inside, the boy told deceased to get it out ; she got over the fender for that purpose, when the fire catching her pinafore, it com municated to her frock, and burnt her in a dreadful man recollected thats p ao fewse d weeps n e a d t e h r . It man ner. The fl ames h av i ng b een ext i nguished, she was con veyed to the abo ve h osp i ta l, w h ere she died at 12 o'clock the samenight. th a e go p , l a e a lad of of the name o f G eorge B ee l , was brought before the Lord Mayor,will lie whose mother,Verdict—Accidental was it supposed, inducing him to go into the Canal to look after golden fishes, intended to ha ve d estroye d h i m. Yeae-day, by order of the Lord Mayor, the l a d was taken to him' by Mr. Bookes, a parish officer o f t h e P ar i sh of Bishopsgate, being the intention of his L or d s hi p to place him in some charitable institution. It is stated that in this case h7sLord ship acts under the authority o f a personage high' in the land, who has promised to interest herself in the future welfare of the lad. Ten guineas were, on the occasion, given to the female, who fortunately preserved the life of the lad, and who had him under her protection. POPPING THE QUESTION.—The desperate struggles and flounderings by which some endeavour to get out of their embarrassments, are amusing enough. We remember to have been much del ghted tha first time we heard the history of the wooing of a noble lord, now no more, nat rated. His lordship was a man of talents and enterprise, of stainless pedigree and a fair rent-roll, but the veriest slave of bashfulness. Like all timid and quiet men, he was very susceptible and very constant, as long as he was in the habit of seeing the object of his affections daily. At the beginning of an Edinburgh winter he lost his heart to Miss —; and, as their families were in habits of intimacy, he had frequent opportunities of meeting with her. He gazed and sighed incessantlya--a very Dutnbie di herkes,but,theavterhybe ; e w h e a r da larger allowance of brain; he followed he felt jealous, uncomfortable, savage, if she looked even civilly at another; and yet, not withstanding his stoutest resolutions —notwithstanding the . encouragement afforded him by the lady, a woman of sense, who saw what his lordship would be at, esteemed his character, was superior to girlish affactation, and made every advance consistent with female delicacy—the winter was yet fast fading into spring, and he had not got his mouth opened. Mamma at last lost all patience ; and one day, when his l or d s hip was t a ki n g his usual lounge in the drawing-ro o m, s il en t, or u ttering an occasional monosyl lable, the good lady abruptly left the room, and left the pair alone. When his lordship, on essaying to take his leave, discovered the predicament in which he stood, a des perate fit of resolution seized him. Miss sat bend ing most assiduously over her needle—a deep blush on her cheek. Ills lordship advanced towards her; but losing heart by the way, passed in silence to the other end of th e face o room. Ile returned to the charge, bu t again without effect. A t l ast, nerv i ng hi mse lf like one about to spring a powder- m i ne , h e s t oppe d b e fore her—" Miss --, w ill you marry me ?" " With great pleasure, my lord," w as unfalter ingt he voice,answe while glv a d given, ino deeper l e o r w c , r somewhat tim e speaker. A n d a r i g h t goo d w if e she made to him. Twored in the R BODIES iver FOUNDThes terday a f ternoon t h e crew o f one of the gravel machines, moo off Barking Creek, disco_ am, IN THE sd id io but f the vered, app arent l y l y i ng on the mud, on the,s found Es sexto sidee, some linen. O n p rocee ding to the spot it vva the cloth es o f a man, w h o was co mpletely embedded ; n t h e mud, and had been for at least a week He was dug out and conveyed ashore. At about six o'clock last evening the body of a female child was picked up by some water men, off Deptford. It was given up to the parish. ACCIDENT ON TIIE RIVER.—About . half-p ast elev en yesterday morning, as one o f the iron steam-boats, called the Starlight, was proceeding up the river from Lon don -bridge to Hungerford Wharf, with thirty passengers, she struck upon a coal-barge which had been sunk in the bed of the river opposite Honduras Wharf, and b ecame a complete wreck. H e r cabins almost immediately filled with water, an d her eng i nes have been considerably dr. malted. B y t h e act i v i ty an d promptitude of a fe w gentle men on bo ar d, a ll t h e o4s3engers were got off caith sa f ety into hosts and skiffs, which lay near at the time. The sunk barge belonged to Honduras Wharf. 24 24f 93 33 ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT, KINGSTON. March 28. Upon the first day of the assize a gentleman named Fuller, who is the owner of extensive property at Rip ley, near Cobham, surrenthred to take his trial upon an indictment charging him with manslaughter. He was also charged With the same offence upon the Coroners ir quisition, but the defendant had ben at large upon heavy recognizances. In the oourse of the day the witnesses went before the Grand Jury, who ignored the bill. Mr. CLARKSON, who was instructed to defend Mr. Fuller, applied to the Court on Wednesday, and stated that the Grand Jury having ignored the bill presented to them, nothing remained but the Coroner's inquisi• tion to be disposed of. With respect to that form of charge, he had to take a legal objection, which, in his opinion must inevitably prove fatal. The inquisition imputed to the defendant that he had inflicted divers ruptures and fractures upon the head of the deceased of which he died ; but omitted altogether the word " mor tal." He, therefore, submitted to the Court, that in point of law the inquisition was bad, and could not be sustained, Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE having looked at the inqui sition, concurred in opi n i on w i t h Mr. Clarkson, and therefore directed an acquittal. _ _ Mr. CLAItKSON then said he felt it to be a duty he owed to his client, who was a young gentleman of great respectability and considerable property in the neigh bourhood of Ripley, to state, that if the case had gone to the Jury he should have made out a satisfactory answer to it. The fact was that the deceased was a young person, a servant to the defendant, and the alleged injury merely consisted of a slap on the head, but owing to the head being in a state of disease, of which fact the defendant was in entire ignorance, it led to effects which caused the death of the deceased : the blow, however, was only such reasonable correction as the law allowed a master to administer to a servant, and there could be no pretence fur charging him with the offence imputed to him. The defendant was then discharged. The case appeared to create a great deal of in terest. A great number of gentlemen were in at tendance on his behalf. CURIOUS CHARGE OF MISDEMEANOR.—The Rev. William Newlands, James Spicks, and George Chandler, were indicted for a misdemeanor, in making a forcible entry into, and demolishing certain premises, situate in West-square, in the parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark. Messrs. CLARKSON and CHAMBERS appeared for the prosecution. The reverend defendant conducted his own case. Mr. CRARK3ON said the prosecution was instituted by a gentleman named Holmes, residing in \Vest-square, Lambeth, and within a short distance of the defendant Newlands. Mr. He;lmes was in possession of a certain stable and chaise-house, near his premises, to which the defendant laid some claim ; and in the evening of the 27th of June, during the absence of Mr. Ilolmes and his lady, several men were observed to go to the de fendant Newland's house, armed with pick-axes, saws, and other implements, and from thence they proceeded to the premises of Mr. Holmes, where the men pro ceeded to pull down and entirely demolish the stable and coach-Louse, and they then fastened up the outside gates. The servant of Mr. Holmes interfered at the commencement of the proceedings, and begged the parties not to persevere in the work of destruction in the absence of her master and mistress, but the defend ant Newlands told them not to pay any attention to her, and encouraged them to persevere and remained upon the spot until they had completely destroyed the premises. The defendants Spinks and Chandler were two of the men acting under Mr. Newland's orders in the work of destruction, and he was not in structed to press for a verdict against them under those circumstances. The Learned Counsel said that the reverend defendant appeared to imagine that he had some legal claim to the property in ques tion, but his client, Mr. Holmes, had for a long period been in possession of the property, and as he was in structed, was clearly the legal owner ; but, however the case may be, he was prepared to contend that the violent and outrages proceedings adopted by the de fendant to assert his supposed right, was entirely un justifiable, and could not be tolerated in a civilized Com munity. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to state that an action of trespass arising out of the same proceeding, had also been brought against the defendant when the question as to the title would be properly brought under discussion, and he was instructed to make a proposition to the defendant that if he would plead guilty to the present indictment, and enter into his own recognizance, no further proceedings should be taken until the question as to the title had been disposed of in a Court of Law. The defendant declined to accede to the proposition, and evidence was in consequence adduced in support of the statement made by Mr. Clarkson, and the facts as detailed by him were proved by the witnesses. The defendant made a long statement, in which he contended that he had merely committed a simple tres pass with a view to try his right, and that it was not a subject for a criminal indictment, and that an action having been brought against him no steps, be submitted, ought to have been taken until the judgment of the Court as to who was rightfully entitled to the pro perty, had been obtained. The Court was occupied with the diTosal of the case upwards of eight hours, and the Jury ultimately returned a verdict of Guilty of a forcible entry against Mr. Newlands, and acquitted the other defendants. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE then asked the defendant whether the nature of the action to be tried was such as to set at rest the question of the title, and on being informed that it was, he expressed an opinion that the judgment should be respited. The defendant complained of the verdict, and inti mated his opinion that it was illegal. The Foreman of the Jury said that the Jury had re turned a verdict consistent with what they considered their duty, and complained of the remark made by the defendant. Mr. CLARKSON suggested, that under all the circum stances the defendant ought to be called upon to enter into recognizances to appear to receive judgment when called upon, with a view to prevent any further breach of the peace._ The defendant struck the table violently, and ex claimed, " I would sooner die first." Mr. CLARKSON hoped the Court would not allow the defendant to leave the Court without doing so, and said that unless some restriction was placed upon him, a serious breach of the peace might ensue. The defendant then exclaimed, that in his opinion the indictment was bad, and that the whole proceedings were illegal. Mr. CLARKSON said that the Court did not desire to hear his opinion as to the legality or illegality of its proceedings. The defendant was then about to make some further remarks, and said that the prosecutor had, in his own pleas, admitted that he had no other:title to the property in question, but that of an adverse possession for a period of twenty years. Mr. CLARKSON said it was the privilege of a person who conducted his own case to make statements and assertions which no Learned Counsel, employed in his behalf, would dare to make in the presence of a Judge. After some further conversation, the defendant con sented to enter into his own recognizances in 80/., and find two sureties in 40/. each ; and it was arranged that he should appear on Siturday morning for that purpose. LAW INTELLIGENCE COURT OF CHANCERY, Mdltell 28. The LORD CHANCELLOR sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall, and took lunatic petitions and causes to-day. IN THE MATTER OF MEDHURST, A LUNATIC. This case came before the Court upon the petition of Mr. Francis Hastings Medhurst, the young man who has been committed to Newgate, on the Coroner's warrant, for the wilful murder of Mr. Joseph Alsop, at llayes, praying that the Court would order a sum of four hundred pounds to be paid over to him out of the funds in Court belonging to the lunatic for the purpose of en. abling him to cond uct hi s d efence at his approaching trial at the Central Criminal Court, and also to avail himself of the valuable assistance of the Attorney-General upon that occasion. The petitioner is the grandson of the lunatic, and tenant in tail or remainder, expectant, upon his death, of prcperty to the amount of between two and three thousand pounds a year. In consequence of his relationship to the lunatic, the petitioner had been allowed 2001. a-year out of his property. Great expense had been incurred in the proceedings that had already taken place, both before the Coroner and the Magistrates, and the Trustees of the property consented to the present application, provided the Court considered it a proper one to be granted. If the Court ordered the amount to be paid the solicitors of the petitioner were willing to account for its expenditure. • The LORD CHANCELLOR inquired what was the amount of property in Court belonging to the lunatic. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, who appeared for the peti tioner, said there was upwa r d s o f 10,000/. i n C ourt. The LO RD CHANCELLO R made the order as prayed, upon the solicitors for the petitioner undertaking to account. The Court, after disposing of several other cases totally devoid of interest, rose shortly after one o'clock. His Lordship will not sit again till Tuesday, the 9th of April, that day being the first seal before term. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. Mr. Barnard Kenny, late of Surrey-street, Strand, Surgeon and Apothecary, formerly of 337, Strand, in part nership with Mr. Stanton, Surgeon, &c., was opposed by Mr. Woodroffe, on the part of a Mr. Sweeney, and in person by Mr. Gibbons and Mr. Jones. He was supportcd by Mr. Cooke. An application in limine was made to adjourn the case until a Mrs. Stanton attended. It was resi.ted. It ap peared that the late Mr. Stanton was a bankrupt in 1518, and Mrs. Stanton, his wife, purchased the furniture. Mr. Stanton died in 1834, and left her by will all his fur niture. Mrs. Stanton had resided with her nephew, the insolvent, he kept the house in Surrey-street, and all the furniture was claimed by her. It was proved that efforts had been made to procure her attendance. It was alleged on the part of the creditors that the in- solvent had an interest in the furniture. Mr. Commissioner LAW said enough had been proved to require her attendance. Mr. COOK applied to file an amendment to the schedule. Mr. Commissioner LAW said it might be done. These bail cases he feared would he very defective from the haste with which the schedules were prepared. The case was adjourned to the 1 0th of April. The in solvent to remain on bail. ilenry Linging was opposed by Mr. Nichols, on the part of a Mr. Stone, and the executors of a Mr. Jones. He was supported by Mr. Cooke and Mr. Woodroffe. In this case a preliminary objection was made to the petition, under the new Act. The insolvent petitioned the Court in 1831, which petition was dismissed ; he again petitioned in 1832, when he was discharcd under the Act. Both petitions were in the name of " Henry Lorder Ling ing," but the insolvent said he had used that name since that period, and a vary little before. He said he was christened at St. Andrew's, Holborn, in the name of " Henry Samuel Linging," but he had never used the name, be had passed as ‘• Henry Linging." Mr. NicuoLs prayed, on these facts, a dismission of his petition. Commissioner LAW ordered the petition to be dis missed, remarking that the insolvent appeared not to know his name. It had been lately Henry Linging, formerly Henry Samuel Linging, and Henry Lorder Linging. A person should petition in hi s correct name ; an d, from the circumstances menti:ned, he should refuse any furtler ap plication for bail. The petition was dismissed, and the insolvent, who had been out on bail, was ordered into custody. WANDSWORTH PETTY SES SIONS_MAncii 23. DUEL PREVENTED IN HIGH • LIFE —CPptain Horace Pitt of the Royal Horse-guards Blue, was brought up in cus tody of Inspector Turner, of the V Division, under the following circumstances. The In , pector, on being sworn, deposed that having received information et a late hour on the previous night that a duel was to be fought at an early hour that morn. ning on Wimbledon Common, he proceeded there in com pany with two police-constables, and about half. past five o'clock he saw two carriages approaching, in the first of which were four gentlemen, and in the latter one. One of the former gentlemen put his bead out of the window, and perceiving himself and the two policemen he (the gentle theman) desired the coachman to turn back, which he did, and the other carriage followed. George Barney, a Police Constable of the V Divison, deposed to having been placed on duty that morning in High-street, Putney ; shortly after five o'clock, he saw a carriage and pair, and a post-chaise, which was also drawn by two horses ; suspecting that the parties were about to fight a duel, he followed the carriages, but was unable to keep pace with, and ultimately lost sight of them ; almost immediately afterwards he met the defendant near Cut-throat-lane," on Putney heath. Ile had a carpet bag with him. He (witness) asked him what it contained, but he (defendant) refused at first to satisfy him, but ulti mately delivered it into his possession, and on examination he found it contained a brace of duelling pistols, powder flaslc, bullets, &c. He then took him into custody. The defendant, was called upon to enter into his own security in the sum of 5001., and two sureties of 2501. each. Lord George Gordon, and Drummond, Esq., of Bel grave-square, became the sureties, and the party left for town shortly afterwards, in a post-chaise. The names of the other parties, although known to the Police, did not transpire, nor the cause of the in tended duel. POLICE IN TELLIGENCE. MANSION HO USE. A young man, named John Brown, was finally examined on the charge of having robbed a respectable elderly man, named Morton, of 2001. The prosecutor, who keeps the Horse and Groom public-house at Edmonton, in which Mr. Calvert, the brewer, had humanely placed him, upon hearing that he had been robbed of the 2001. which was all the money be had in the world, stated, that on the 2d of January he went to the London Do c k s , an d an e ld er ly man as k e d , him what he was looking for, and directed him to a vessel he in quired for. As he was leaving the Dock, the prisoner Brown came up, and all three entered into conversation, and repaired to a public-house in the neighbourhood. The prisoner in the course of some talk which they had in the public-house, said that he had been lately returned from Bedlam, where he had been confined because he roasted an ox whole in Gloucester on account of the enor mous sum of money bequeathed to him by old Jemmy Wood, and that the person who got him out of this disa greable place was his friend Matthew Wood, one of the executors. The prisoner added, that what on earth to do with the money he had he did not know, and he pulled out a heap of bank notes. The other person also spoke of his fortune, and both seemed to have a great desire to give cash to witness from their reliance on his judgment in the charitable diffusion of it. They all agreed to meet next day, and the witness was to bring some of the proper evi dences of respectability with him. Having four fifty-pound notes at Calvert's brewhouse, where he used to deal when in business, he drew the money and met the two gentle men of fortune, who succeeded in robbing him of it by pretending to put it safely into his fob, into which they con trived to substitute a piece of brown paper. The waiter at the public-house into which the prosecutor and his two new acquaintances had gone, to make a cha ritable disposition of old Jemmy Wood's property, identi fied the prisoner as one of them. The prisoner denied most positively that he knew any thing at all of the prosecutor, arid said that he could dis tinctly prove an alibi. The officer who apprehended the prisoner at Bristol, stated that he heard a conversation between the prisoner, and a man who was in prison on a similar charge, in which they spoke of old Jemmy Wood, of Gloucester, having left them money. Their object was to impose upon the farmer, but they failed. The officer found upon the per son of the prisoner notes upon the Bank of Fashion, or " flash notes," for 2,5001. The prisoner was committed for trial. 2,000 MAR YLEB ONE. SERVING A WRlT.—Yesterday Mr. Malcolm, livery stable-keeper of Craven-hill, was charged at the Maryle bone police-office with assaulting a Sheriff's officer. In answer to the charge he stated that the plaintiff, who was unknown to him, met him in the street and thrust some thing into his bosom, and, on requiring an explantion, the answer was that the slip of paper would tell all that was necessary, upon which he thrust out his hand and pushed him away. Mr. HARDWICK said that this mode of serving a writ was highly objectionable, but as more violence had been used than was necessary, he should require the defendant to pay the costs, ss. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of March 29.) Soon a•—The animation produced in the sugar market by the alleged unfavourable advices from the West Indies, has now entirely subsided. The market for West India Muscovadoes has presented a very dull appearance this week; on Tuesday the sales were only 150, and o❑ Wed nesday and yesterday 200 hhds, &c. A board of fine Ja maica has been sold at 71s per cwt. The deliveries last week were 135 hhds, &c., more than in 1838 during the same period. The stock, when compared with that of last year, shows an increase of 5,046 hhds and tierces : the arri vals since this day week have been 1,022 hhds. and tierces. There will be no market until Wednesday. REFINED. --.The grocers have purchased sparingly of re fined goods, and in some instances rather lower prices have been submitted to, but the reduction is not sufficient for us to alter our quotations. For shipping nothing has been done in British crushed, 365. has been paid for crushed made from Manilla. Treacle has sold steadily at former rates. Pieces and Bastards have been in less demand, and prices are rather lower. Dutch crushed Sugar is held for 35s 6d, but there has been less business doing. MAußtri grocers have come forward less freely; from the refiners there has also been less demand, and im porters have supplied the market freely, prices have given way ls. and in some instances is 6d, for Sugar above 645. At public sale 10,900 bags found buyers; fine yellow at 66s a 675, mid to good mid 63s st 65s 6d, good to fine dry brown 62s a 62s 6d, good mid 61s, very ord 54s 6d a 55s per cwt; fine yellow of favourite marks at 68s a 695; 143 brls good yellow sold at 65s per crVt. The stock is 24,029 bags larger than at this period last year. The deliveries last week were 2,061 bags less than during the same time in 1838. At auction yesterday 1,474 bags sold heavily at previous rates, low to good yellow. 63s to 65s Cd. per cwt. EAST INDlA.—There has been less demand for Bengal for home consumption, but importers having supplied the Market sparingly, previous rates have generally been sup ported, in some instances a reduction of 6d has been sub mitted to; at auction 705 bags white sold at 66s a 67s for good middling to good, and 65s 6d a 66s for damps and washed. The operations in Siam have been to a fair ex tent at the advanced rates of this day week. At public sale yesterday, 1,021 bags Bengal met a dull sale, good white sold at 66s a 675, middling gray 63s a 64s Gd per cwt. By private contract, 4,000 bags Manilla were sold at 23s Gd a 24s 6d per cwt. FortErox.— White descriptions of Brazil are held for prices, hut have commanded is advance. At public sate 400 chests Bahia of the new crop have been offered ; white qualities were nearly all taken in 2s above the general va luation ; low to good grayish at 29s a 345, a few lots sold at 32s a 34s fur good ; 170 chests grayish brown, part of the above, found ready buyers at the advance noticed above, and the principal part was taken for refining, ordi nary at 23s a 245, middling to good 24s 61 a 25s 6d, one lot 265. By private contract yesterday, 30 chests low to fine brown Bahia sold at 22s to 24s per cwt. MOLASSES —Prices generally cannot be quoted lower for West India, but the demand has been confined to 100 puns. At public sale 74 puns. ord. and mid. St. Kitt's sold at 303 a 31s 6d per cwt. COFFEE.—The grocers are still ready buyers of British Plantation, and have been compelled in some instances to pay rather higher prices. By private contract mid. Ja maica has been sold at 116 s a 1208; Berbice 114 s a 116 s ; ord. Demerara 90s a 955, good ord. 1003 a 105 s. East India descriptions have brought rather higher prices; 354 bags at public sale sold readily at ad a is advance, good yellow brought 103 s a 1033 6d, ord green 102 s, black 35s a 365; Mocha has sold steadily, but prices cannot be quoted higher. At public sale 100 bagsßrazils sold briskly at 91s 6d, a few lots rather better, 94s 6d a 103 s; 200 bags of Java went rather higher, good yellow fetched 77s a 77s 6d. The purchases in Brazil have been 2,000 bags at 43s 6d a 47s for ord. mixed to good ord. coloury, and 800 bags St. Domingo 46s 6d a 49s for ord. to g ood ord. A car go of Sr. Domingo afloat, about 3,600 ba g s, has been take n f , .r Trieste at the high prices of 49s 6d p er cwt. T he public sales of yesterday consisted of 2,192 ba g s Ceylon, 16 ba!es Mocha, 472 bags Brazil, and 150 bags sea damaged Do mingo. TEA. —Ordinary sorts are still neglected, but there has been rather more business doing . in good d escr i pt i ons of c ,:Ind the obtai;, , d ecral to tkoqe e‘ the last qua , terly sale, several breaks .1 Coa;par.) have been sold at is 2d; 7,633,938 lbs are declared for EVENING EIIiTION COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEB, ticat. barley. I Oats. 13ea..s. L,r,elos: Printed and Published by 1.411RD0 ira % c i ' "to io. 112, aL The San Otiiee, No. 112, e the county of M at ISSL auction—being somewhat above the amount of that which was put up in January last ; it nevertheless contains nearly an equal number of breaks. fol lows :—Very ord gray at 365, mid 39s 6 ( 1 . a 43s 6d ° h T i e COCOA.—At public sale 350 bags Trinidad so ld as red 48s. In Foreign a few small sales En.2ve -e en Ina at late rates. Ga- RtcE.—East India has maintained previous 1. rolina is not cheaper. At auction 350 bags Java we. e -- at 14s for middling quality. -ed PROVISIONS.—The demand for Irish Butter contuan • extremely dull, the fine qualities only being saleable, e at ` these bring full prices. Of Foreign we have none of fi ne quality on hand, and prices remain nominally as befo re quoted, et 118 a to 120 s. Bacon cannot be pieo . .aseel easier terms ; prime salt meat 47s to 49s per cwt. Lar d dull of sale, but not cheaper. ites.ta on ken SALTPETRE. —At public sale 2,000 bags sold at rather higher prices, refraction 81 to 4 per cent. at 26s 63 to 275; the bulk went at the firmer figure. Seicas.—ln black Pepper prices have improved ad per lb, the lowest point of the market for common Sumatra is 40: at auction, 854 bags Sumatra sold briskly at 40 a 4d for ord to mid quality. Pimento has been sold pally for exaortation, common at 4d, mid to good at 4d a 4 : 1 ,-d. East India Ginger sold at "i ; West India held firmly; :30 packages Afrean, at auction, were taken in at 70s. Cloves and Nutmegs at late rates. Cassia Lign"' the lowest price of middling quality is 60s. The public sales yesterday consisted of 200 bags Pimento, and 1, 058 bags Pepper; ordinary mixed with mouldy berries at 4d; ordinary stalky Sumatra at 4id, and a few lots at 40. , Rust, BRANDY, AND lIOLLANDS—RUM has maintain ed the advanced rates of last Friday, Jamaica 26 to 32 over proof has sold at 5s to 5s 2d, good bs 3d to 53 5d • Lee wards 5 over proof 3s sd. Brandy is not cheaper.. Geneva dull of sale, end prices have given way to 2 s 2(1 to 2s 3d. OILS—For common Fish Oils a fair demand has !of; vailed for home consumption at former prices, pale So; rather lower. Of Sperm, the purchases have been limitcw still holders have refused to submit to lower prices. Lin seed Oil said at 275. Rape dull of sale and rather cheaper. Olive has sold slowly. Palm is not cheaper, at auction 136 casks partly sold at 41s per cwt. INDIGO—'Tie demand is still limited for East India; th e purchases this week have been only 100 chests, prinCi pally for Russia. at prices generally equal to those of the last quaff tsrly sale. TOBACCO—There is more business doing for exportati on, and aOO hhds Kentucky and Virginia have been sold for the Southern markets at 8:1d, 10d, and is per lb. pp•le e. Le Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. ! s. to s. ; s. to s. Blandford (hi 74 35 37 i 24 F 6 ; 40 44 f'o 74 24 20 24 31 42 44 73 I 25 Chard 64 70 34 38 50 39 j4O 42 liuntingdon —1 56 70 34 38 24 29 3$ 42 Long 30tt0n.... , 53 73 10 20 30 34 Louth ,58 78 20 32 •LO 24 35 42 ynn 56 77 22 31 , 16 90 311 32 Newark 62 82 i 24 31 19 28 31 43 Nottingham 61 '79 28 31 fl 9 22 25 42 Veterberough . 5)) 82 35 42 22 29 33 411 Plymouth .—...' 58 80 30 34 20 23 Pontefract —• 77 43 27 43 S!eafr.rd 63 80 36 38 2'2 28 41 43 Uppingham 63 84 24 30 la 22 32 44 Wisbech-1 63 82 20 i3O 32 DEVIZES CORN MARRET.—March 28 S. 4 P Per Sack. s s. 8. Per Quarter. a. 40 " First Wheat... ..... ra oto 27 6 Barley 41 ItS • I Second 4 , 0 35 0 Oats 2O I Third 821 Sacks of Wheat :fold/ 34 2 Flour (per bag) 55 0 at the average of Bread (per ga11.)... 1 5 -- A -- 3: 5 4. _ 3 - 7 ! 11 2. ••••• , --. I .... ....' .;•• L.VERPOOI. CORN MARKET.—March 26 O c t, WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. I Is, tid, to 12 3 . 5 -- Red 10 X II -. scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White le 0 J° --------- Red - Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 45ib 4 0 4 - - Irish 0 6 - Foreign Ifiartmy, Engi:sh, Malting, per Imp. quarter 43 0 47 " - Scotch anti Irish, per 001bs. Feeding 5 X 6 i BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 5O 0 64 g .....--- Irish, &c. - Foreign PEASE, Englisn, per Imperial quarter 52 0 01 ' o - Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2SRb. sa 0 71 0 - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 32 6 II 0 INDIAN Cont, per 44011,. .. 44 0 4i o RYE, per I inperal quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter GREENWICH FAlR.—Preparations on A 1 1; extensive scale have been going on here for wale ",', l past, for the reception of the holiday-making folios o ' part of the fair-ground has been taken, shows, and P 9 'l o were obliged to be refused for the want of those /I re have for years catered for the amusements of the publie!J again . at their posts, ready to display a series of nove! i : t ., surprising fetes for the amusement of your regular slg,uj goer, and to strike with dumb amazement the joskills'" their lasses. .1.5 HOUSE SURGEONS IN HOSPITALS.--b ti a j ; course of an inquest held ye s terday, b e f ore M r . W a klel , , tv the University College Hospital, the Co rone r strictlf t ' te terrogated the house surg e o n e xami ne d as to the 1 10 pursued in that hospital in the appoint m ent of par " t bst fill that important office. Th e h ouse surgeon replied t o all who filled the office in that hospital underwent at t ire), examination before appointment, and it depended end to on merit. The Coroner said the reason he wisu e o r e elicit the mode of appointment in hospitals was to rele is a prejudice in the minds of juries as to i ncom petenc9 oo parties possessing so juvenile a n a pp earan ce. He got glad to find that merit was necessar y to th e a ppoint ol , in that hospital, and he hoped the example would be lowed throughout the whole. DREADFUL ACCIDENT BY NTACHINERVI On Saturday last the wife of Mr. Middleton, engineer, °, Stoney-lane, Borough, was l ean i ng over the sha f t O ; steam-engine, for the purpose of watering some flowe r ,' when a part of her dress was drawn in by the machiee r ;', and her foot was literally torn from the leg. She wail with great difficulty extricated, when several surge.," promptly attended, and it was deemed necessary to aler t ; tate the - mangled part, which the' unfortunate lady b ° with great fortitude; she now lies in a precarious state. A BLAZING BRIDGE I—On Tuesday w ee r , when the afternoon train from Newcastle to Carlisle a e r rived at one of the wooden bridges across the Tyee , , e f t e Hexham, it was found to be i n a com pl e t e bl aze , anu,.. - e e train was consequently stopp e d. A ss i s t ance having u e o procured the flames were soon extinguished ; and it " found that the bridge had sustained but little injury.- Tyne Mercury. QUIES IN CiELo.—A lady dying, who e ' er much given to scolding, p ar ti cu l ar ly a t t h e ser vants, t er husband caused an achievement to be put up agair et Tso house, with the common mott o o f " Q u i es i n C ce lo. lo g coachman asked the undertak er ' s a pp ren ti ce the mean i ng of the words, and on being info rme d it was " There is rat in Hea,ven," answered, " Then I' m stare mistress be there.' IRISH RAPPEE.-- A few evenings sg°' „ $ rather genteel-looking man ent e red a lodging-hotiee , town a few miles from Belfast, and r equ ested a bed for er night, which was readily gran t e d. I n a s h ort time aft h .; he expressed a desire to g o t o b e d, an d was shown t o room. A few minutes after, he returned to the kitebefj' and said that, as he now knew where he was to lie, 11 ,.:A had seen that his bed was clean, he would not go to be at present. After talking for some time, he inquired 11 . 0 g could get some black turf, and a sowen sieve, and these b ei r given him, lie again retired to his room. This proceeding 'el cited the attention of the family, and one of them lise te° o o into an adjoining room, where, th r ou g h a c hi n k, the es t c o was perceived actively employed in r u bbi ng the turfs si ) each other, the dust or mould thus procured falling or e , a handkerchief spried to receive it. The dust was t ole carefully passed through a sieve, and filled up into sot, • neat made-up papers, which he d rew f rom his Poe k „ e ket This accomplished, he put upon th e t op o f each Pa" it about an once of black snuff, and then dropped 11 P1- e lf something from a bottle, o n w hi c h eac h parcel masted' tied up. Thus p re p are d, t h e w h o l e were t i e d in a "-biol kerchief, and he sallied out ; his former spy keepivB ( bia at a respectful distance, anxio u s to l earn th e result keeping, labours. In his progress he entered none but the 18r b,. e a shops; and, on his inquiry if they sold snuff, he introduld his parcels as Scotch Rappee, which he had just sreuggd by the last steam- boat. In three instances he e ffete je sale, with pei sons supposed the most knowing deale r :so the town, who, on the discovery of the cheat, have be e to prudent as to keep the secret of their good Largo° themselves.—Belfast Whig. IRTHS. A On the 26th inst., at Gro B ve-cottage, Clapham, the 1240 f C. J. Shobbeare,'26th in st Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. _ z oo, On the ~ at Barton-under-Needwood, Stafford s t o ok the widow of the late John Wilson, Esq., whose dea th place the day previous, of a daughter. DO I ' On the 27th inst., Mrs. Thomas Robinson Leddancly street, Southwark, of so. Georg e On the 28th inst., a in a Russell-square, the lady 0, , Pardoe, M.D., of a son. __...-----"' D IE t On the 23d inst., Mr. Hawkins D. lall -Iso4l' Ebbs, of No. 9, •L' strest, Mile End Old Town, aged 79. ti 3 Esq'' On the 27th inst., M ar th a, w if e o f Th omas Charni — ' Marshal of the Queen's Bench. Job° On the 18th in s t., a t T ou l ouse, H enry , son of the R e/ ' ' Edwards, Bury St. Edmund's, aged 19. y, Wira" On the 23d in s t., t h e Rev. John Raymond, vicar of bish,"Essex, aged 77. y e of On the 23d inst., at Plumstead-common Mary. the II Mr. Charl es Ellis, of the Royal Laboratory,' Woolivich-..., " o'o,0 ' 0, On the 23d i ns t., a t Croydon, Mrs. Catherine S ' aged 86. . Wrig ht On the 24th i ns t., S ara h, d a u g hter of Mr. Edw ard Anderson, aged 12. t Tho° lll On the 24th inst., at Clay.hill, Beckenham , Ken-, Carey Palmer, Esq., aged 58. On the 24th inst., Thomas Croome, Esq., of Cainsc rosg, nest Stroud, Glocestershire, aged 70. 3fr•O the 27th i On the 23d inst., in Museum-street , BloemsborrY. John Briggs, age nst., 3 at Enfield, Mary, the daughter d 7.0 f the la te —... Robert Jacomb, Esq., of Bull's .cross , aged 88. LADIES' GOLD WATCHES , The following Watches are London made, of very superior lily, and warranted to perform correctly. GOLD WATCHES Engine-turned•cases, with elegantly chased gold dills, the movements highly 10 0 finished and jewelled in two holes Ditto ditto, double-bottom cases, i. e. to wind at 9 0 the back PATENT LEVER WATCHES in engine turned Gold Cases, with elegantly finished Gold Dials. The lever construction is the most accurate. These Watches are with the improve ments (nad have a detached escapement), i o jewelled in four holes Ditto ditto, double. bottom cases, i. e., to wind at 14 0 the back T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Watchmaker, &c., No. 47, Cornhill, Lona°. (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street. ) N.B. Second-hand Watches Purchased in Excharle.;oo