The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-25 00:00:00

A NEW PLANET. r LATEST PRICES OF SHARES TO THE EDITOR OF THE TINES. IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM- Sir,-I have this day received from Professor Encke, PANIES' STOCK. of Berlin, a letter, of which I subjoin a translation. _____,...„_____ • There appears to be no rea s o na bl e d ou b t t h at the object From tle Offi c i a l Li s t, to which it relates is a new planet. As it is highly int- PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVRNING portant that observatio ns s h ou ld b e ma d e w i th the least LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23. possible delay, I requ es t th at you w il l have the good. JOINT-STOCK BANKS. , ness immediately to p u bli s h t hi s i n your paper. Dividend Amount I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price G. B. AIRY. _ Annum. Share. ..--..... Royal Observatory , Greenwich, Dec. 22. A s. d. A s. d. TRANSLATION. Australasia ...... •. •• 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 26% Brash North American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 47 On the 13th of December, Mr. Hencke, of Driessen, Comnterela of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 .0 0 24 gave notice that he had found a star of the 9th magni. c010nia1....... tude in a place where, b e f ore, th ere was none. H e gave Londn and Westminstr 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13% its position by reference to th e s t ar map of the Berlin metropolitan • - 25 007 10 0 Academy, 4th hour (which particular map was very Provincial of Ireland.. $l. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 45% carefully drawn by Professor Knorre), from which its D i t Ditto, , o f New......... reland .. cent.cen cent. 5 1 0 0 0 0 00 20 1 e • 19% 0 0 0 17% place appears to have b een -- National Nat. Provncial of Eng. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 36 December 8.-At 8 hours ; right ascension in arc, Ditto, New. ..... •• • 51. per cent. 20 0010 0 0 65 deg. 25 min. ; declination north, 12 deg. 41 min. Union of Australia.... - 25 •025 • 0 24% Yesterday, Dec. 14, we s oug ht f or it w ith our re f rac t or, Union of L0nd0n..... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 9 12 and found, by comparison with the star map of the Berlin WATER -WORKS Academy (which alone, on account of the fulness of its Dividend Amount details, could have enabled us to discover it) a star of Name of Company , per of ' ram. Prioe. the 9th magnitude, not marked in the map, whose place Annum. Share. ..-___________. - Was - Dec. 14.-At 6 hours 23 min, m e an ti me , ri g ht a scen - East L0nd0n.......... As, d. $k 100 0 0 I - 210 siOn irt arc, 64 deg. 4 min. 53 sec. 2-lOths. At 12 hours Grand Junction ...... 31. 4 6 13 4 - SO 43 min. mean time, right ascension in arc, 64 deg. 1 min. Kent ...........• •• • • 21. 10s. 100 0 0 - 65 10 ec. 3-10ths. Vauxhall .......• •• - 51. per cent. 100 0 0 - 57 S Weet Middlesex .... • • 41. 16 s . pr ct. 6 3 12 9 - 130 We then determined the following place s w ith t h e wire - micrometer, each place being the mean of fire ob- INSURANCE COMPANIES. servations. At 13 hours 34 min. 55 sec. and 6-Ioth s mean time Name et Company Dividend Amount , . per of Paid. Price. right ascension in time, 4 hours 16 min. 2 sec. 44 - 100ths; Annum. Share. - declination north, 12 deg. 39 min. 54 sec. 2 10ths. At .0 s. d. A a. d. 13 hours 42 min. 36 sec. and 5-10ths, right ascension in Albion •••••••••• •• • • 3/. 103 500 0 0 50 0 0 74 time. 4 hours 16 min. 2 sec. 8-100ths; declination north, Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 20 I 12 deg. 39 min. 53 sec. 1-10th. At 14 hours 33 min. 27 At t s itto Marine... .. . . 1 6 38 /..p 6 e d r cen t, „ 100 50 0 0 0 0 5 5 :I 0 1 6 0 % sec. and 1-10th, right ascension in time, 4 hours 16 min. British Commercial .. 7s. per • s P hare 50 0 sec. 20 'Wits; declination north, 12 deg. 39 min. 52 Clericl,Med.&Gen.Lift 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 69i I sec. 1-10th. Or, taking the mean,- At 13 hours 56 min. County .............. , 31. 100 0010 0 9 1 59 sec. 7-10ths mean time; right ascension in arc, 64 deg. Crown .............. 1 6i. s. s3 a . n b d s. j 40 0 0 b 0 I - t 0 min. 23 se c . 6-10th s; d ec li nat i on north, 12 deg. 39 Eagle • 6s. 50 0 0 50 0 su t min. 52 sec. 1-10th. Economia Life. i IP 3 e o r s t' I 0 0 0 The motion is retro gra d e, an d i ts d a il y amount, as Eng. & Scat. Law - -• • 51. per • cent. 50 1000 250 0 0 20 0 3 r f determined from the o b serva ti ons, 8 h ours apart, is-in European Life •••• • • 5% per cent. 20 II 0 All paid. 20 right ascension, 14 min. 21 sec. 2-10ths of arc; in decli- Free masons' .• ••••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 9 0 v nation it is quite insignifi can t. Globe . - 142% c Guardian .•.•••• • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 HI 0 51 1 Mr. Hencke's place of December 8 agrees very nearly Imperial Fire •••• . • - 121. per cent. 500 0040 0 0 240 with this. Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 olle 0 0 16% 1 indemnity Marine.... 11. ah. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 25 u The star is probably a new planet near its opposition. Law Life- ... . Vesta is pretty near it, and is also in opposition. Legal and General Life - 50 II 0210 6% On account of the difficulty of following it, I have London Fire ........ 10s. 25 0012 10 0 15% r thought it best to send you the news directly, and I beg Maine ship . . P _. ...... Si. l er N c • ent. 1 2 00 : : 1 15 2 1 : 0 0 1. 5 0, i v, you to make it known in E ng l an d , th at a sufficient num- Sl e d . l n vlid&• GI - in . .Life - 50 0 0 20 I 3 ber of observations may soon be collected. National Loan Fund • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 II 2% n Excuse the shortness of this letter, which is written National .dt m. Life......... el. per cent. 100 0 0 a 0 0 5% in great hate . Yours, &c., et a eeni 11 Life Si. per cent. so 0 0 2 0 I 21. 2s. tl e.. - - 210 Berlin, Dec 15. ENCKE. Protector Life.. -.• • • 51. per . cent. 20 0 • I 0 0 11. 3s. 1 ) : Provident Life -.. • • ]l.ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 , Rock Life.... ........ 4s. 5000 10 • .4q re THE SUPPOSED NEW PLANET OR Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - 189 Sun Fire - th COMET. Ditto Life . .. • 11. 6e. - - - IS TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Universal Life • Professor Schumacher, on Friday afternoon, at a b out LIST OP SC OTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. in e , nine o'clock in the evening of that day I di rec t e d my Dividend Amount five feet equatorial to the place of a supposed tow star, Nis " if Com p an y' per of Paid. I Price seen in the constellation Taur us, on th e B t h i nstant, by A nnum. Share. th Mr. Hencke, of Diessen, in Pru ss i a. X Nearly in the centre of th e fi e ld o f t h e te l escope I in- Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. s. d. 100 0 0 171 SetO 1 1 1 o r i y t i a s l h ß L a i n n k e n o f c S o c m o t p l an an y d stantly saw a star of perhaps the 10th magnitude Si 6l : p p e " r "nt. - 10 5 0 0 03 : 2 1 3 65 5 lying in the line, joining two stars of the 9th or 10th Commercial Bank ...• 61. per cent . -- 100 0 166 magnitude, and reckoning from the lower or northern National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 15% Al one, not quite half-way between them. Finding the W un e i s o t n ern ßag i olScotland NI. pr cent. - 50.0 0 94% sei 6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 14% , differences of right ascension and declination between North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5• • 7, nil thee two latter stars accorded very well with those Clydesdale Bank...-. 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 144 1111 given by Mr. Henske, I inferred that they were his Easte rnß Bank Bank 7 5 1 1 ;i pper, cent. - 2 10 0 6 P cent. - 10 0 0 114 Mt guide stars, aed that the star between th em was his re- Caled onian Edinb.& Glasgew Bank 6/. per cent. - 50 0 74 rel sumed new star; nor had I any doubt that it was idea- City of Glasgow Bank. 51. percent. - Bis 0 1514 gri tical with that which Mr. P e t ersen (P ro f essor S c h u- Scotti s h U n i on Ins. Co. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 14 80/ mother's assistant) actually did see, although it " Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per c en t. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% was so Incur. Co. of Scetlnd 5l. per cen t. 10 0 0 All paid. 1014 ", „, `i very faint he could assert nothing.' I did not, how- North British Incur 534 /. pr cent. ,200 5 e 10 0 o 28% na' - Caledonian Fin Insur lOl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24% an ever, think it right to send you any notice of my ob u n ii i i i n ni c rt: i f i l as L g i . f ß e a l ii n w su a r y . 6 5 1 ip p e e r r eent cent. 100 0 0 • II 5 1 0 0 0 0 0 L 9% sue Servatiun, not having had any authority from Profes sor SAtunacher to publish any part of his letter which Ditto, IA Shares. - • 51. percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 15 1 ,4 or hail drawn my attention to the su bj ec t ; b u t a coal. Edin., Leith, & G ran t n - 20 0 0 20 0 0 21% municatien from Mr. Hinde to you on the matter, which GI as, ts g -t w v L A r Yr ee s n h cr H ai t i. 51. Per ent. 50 0 0 All paid. 70 appeared in this morning's Times, and which announces ces ‘ c , `' Garnktrk Rail: 51. 21. per per cent. cent• . 2 2 5 5 S I „ O Al paid. 45 4 2 5 1 4 that he has not seen any star answering the description Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 6/, percent. 25 0 0 All paid. 36 the of the supposed new one, induces me to send you this, Standard LifeAssitmce.l 51 per cent. 150 0012 10 0 $ of I as I car not account for his having overlooked it ; know- the ing, as I do, that he is an excellent astrono mer, th at hi s DOCKS. in 1 eyes are young, whilst mine are old, and that his tele- Dividend i Amount pla ' ] scope transmits more than t w i ce as muc h li g h t as t h e l Name of Company. p e r of Paid. Price. ' one which I used does, but whi c h ex hibit e d t o me t h e -_ occ star I wonted the instant I looked into it ; so that I , x s. d. ' Z a. d. Chi never took the trouble to appeal to any of my larger c E o . m e m a e n r d el ly al est ... - veri India 5%1. pr cent. Stock. - 1"U futi telescopes, although, in expectation that they might be East Country - 21 W tilted, they were planted ready for the purpose. L mdon .... ..... - 112 0 Fer the more certain identification, therefore, by St Katharine .... ••.. 5 per cent. Stock, - 101 %a co Southampton •••• • • • • 4l. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 30 others of the gu id e s t ars b etween w hi ch the star I saw POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday Captain Phillips, of the Waterman's Steam boat Company, was charged by Mr. Ryland, upon the part of the Navigation Committee, upon an information for having caused an obstruction on the river Thames. The case was precisely similar to the case into which we entered at full length last week. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Newbon represented the defendant, who was not in at tendance. .. Mr. Ryland, for the Navigation Committee, and Mr. Clarkson for th e d e f en d an t, agree d t h at t h e evidence in 3 4 the former case, which was decided against the captain of Waterman No. 8, should be read and adopted. Alderman WILSON, who sat for the Lord Mayor, con victed the defendant in the sum of 51., the lesser penalty, 'N but stated that he did not take into consideration the ,!4 right disputed, which would, no doubt, be tried in a % court of law, and set at rest. Mr. Clarkson said that no doubt the question would be very soon settled, as the City Solicitor had issued a ,% writ from the Court of Queen's Bench, to give the t opportunity of having the matter brought before the Judges. Williarn M'Math (policeman No. 377), one of the toe. men employed by the Na v i ga ti on C omm i ttee to prevent persons from landing from the Waterman's Company boats, was then charged with having assaulted some gen tlemen, who endeavoured to pass from No. 6 Waterman's boat to the pier. The assault was clearly proved, and the policeman was ordered to enter into his own recognisances to the amount of 10L, to answer the charge at the sessions. Mr. Newbon spoke in very positive terms of a trium phant decision for his client. A man of respectable appearance applied to Alder man Wilson for his interference to obtain money due from the Derby and Liverpool Railway Company. Alderman WiLsoN—Upon what ground do you make the application? The applicant said he had been employed by the ii agent to the ar c hit ec t ura l surveyor o f t h e projected rail road, which he believed was wholly given up, to give his labour upon false representation. It was upon the ground of false representations he thought himself jus u tifi-d in asking for the interposition of the magistrate. Alderman WILSON desired to know what were the false representations ? Applicant—l consented to give my time and labour upon the strength of the prospectus, which was handed to me as a genuine document, and 34 contained the name of a highly respectable City of London alderman, an alderman of Derby, and other re sponsible persons, as belonging to the provisional cora -1 mittee. I called upon the London alderman and was 1 assured by him that he knew nothing upon earth of the % railroad alluded to; and I called upon five or six others, 4.4 0, 4 who were quite surprised at the supposition that they IN knew anythi ng w h atever o f t h e speculation. Now Ido not know what is a false representation if that be not one. 14 j % Alderman WILSON said the agent was responsible for 2s. the amount, and if the alderman referred to actually I' belonged to th e com p any , every b o d y was perfectly aware of his ability to pay, as well as of his honourable cha q raster. The applicant—But be says he knows nothing about the company. Alderman WILSON said he could render no assistance in such a case, and that he could not think of issuing an experimental summons. The Lord Mayor and Alderman Wilson, referring to 'CS the unlimitted correspondence of Joseph Ady, whose _ name has been so frequently before the public, agreed to send an advertisement, of which the following is a copy to the newspapers:— Profe - ssor Schutriacher, on Friday afternoon, at abouk nine o'clock in the evening of that day I directed my five feet equatorial to the place of a supposed new star, seen in the constellation Taurus, on the Bth instant, by Mr. Hencke, of Diessen, in Prussia. Nearly in the centre of the field of the telescope I in stantly saw a star of perhaps the 10th magnitude lying in the line, joining two stars of the 9th or 10th magnitude, and reckoning from the lower or northern one, not quite half-way between them. Finding the differences of right ascension and declination between these two 'latter stars accorded very well with those given by Mr. Hencke, I inferred that they were his guide stars, and that the star between them was his pre eumed new star; nor had I any doubt that it was iden tical with that which Mr. Petersen (Professor Schu znucher's assistant) actually did see, although it "was so very faint he could assert nothing.' I did not, how ever, think it right to send you any notice of my ob servatien, not having had any authority from Profes sor Sehunaacher to publish any part of his letter which hail drawn my attention to the subject ; but a com munication from Mr. Hinde to you on the matter, which appe a r e d in this morning's Times, and which announces that he has not seen any star answering the description of the supposed new one, induces me to send you this, as I carnet account for his having overlooked it ; know ing, as I do, that he is an excellent astronomer, that his eyes are young, whilst mine are old, and that his tele scope transmits more than twice as much light as the one which I used does, but which exhibited to me the star I wonted the instant I looked into it ; so that I never took the trouble to appeal to any of my larger telescopes, although, in expectation that they might be wonted, they were planted ready for the purpose. Fir the more certain identification, therefore, by others of the guide stars between which the star I saw lies, I nil' state (by 'reference to a diagram coarsely made at the time, and which, fortunately, has not been destroyed), that parallel with these guide stars were two other stars of the I.oth or 11th magnitude, forming, with the two.guide stars, a long quadrangle, inclined to the parallel of declination, at an angle of 50 or 60 degrees, in the direction north preceding, or south following—the side of the quadrangle formed by the two guide stars extending at each extremity a little be yond its opposite, formed by the two stars of the 10th or llth magnitude; again, t:• ere is a bright star hang ing down to the north, which makes nearly an equila teral triangle with the guide stars. Nevertheless, there may have been some other star between the two guide stars on the Bth inst., as well as that which I most assuredly saw between them on the 19th, and as the existence or non-existence of a planet or comet in the neighbourhood is probably dependent on the star seen by the on the 19th being identical with the one seen by Mr. Hencke on the B.h, the matter ought not to be left in doubt. I have therefore thought it right to transmit to you data whereby any one with a little care may, without difficulty, direct his telescope to the spot where Mr. Hencke saw his star; and, by examining those stars in its vicinity, may have a fair chance of picking up the supposed planet or comet, if that which I have seen and described the position of be not Mr. Hencke's star. The stars in the head of the constellation Taurus resemble the letter " V," and which, when they are on the meridian (as they now are at about ten o'clock at night), is inclined to the hori zon at an angle of about 30 degrees. The lower side of the V is bounded by the magnificent star Aldebaran to the left, and by Gamma Tauri to the right ; whilst the upper side is formed of Epsil on Tauri on the left, and Gamma Tauri on the right. Between Aldebaran and Gamma is a group of stars composed of the two Thetas, and others, whilst the three Deltas and others are simi larly situat( d in the upper side, each group being nearly in the centre of its respective side—circumstances to be borne in mind, lest one side be taken for the other, as I have frequently seen done when a night glass has been the telescope in use. Direct, then, a night glass to the group of stars in the lower side of the V, so that Aldebaran and Gamma Tauri be s. en on the lower part of the field on the left, and fix upon a p which shall make with them an equila teral triangle, the apex of which shall point upwards, and that is the spot where Mr. Henske saw his star. It is moreeverrentlered remarkable by being just above the base of a isosceles triangle of stars, the apex of which is turned downwards ; and commencing this apex star, reckoni ng f rom r i ght to left, we have A or the apex star of the seventh magnitude, B of the fifth magnitude, and C' of the sixth. Hence, by reference to this triangle A B C the place which the supposed planet or cornet occupied on the Bth may be found, al though the field of the night glass employed be suffi ciently large to admit their being in it during any exa mination extended beyond the place assigned by Mr. Hencke to his star. But if' a telescope be wed whose field of view does not include some degrees, then, as the-stars Aldebaran and Gamma Tauri, by those who know where to look for them, are nearly as easily seen with the naked eye as is the planet Jupiter, all that is necessary will be for the obs, rver to fix. on a point in the heavens which being below them shall make an equilateral triangle with them, and that will be the place of Mr. Hencke's star. If he then directs his telescope to this place, he will see the triangle A B if not in his telescope, certainly in its finder, that is if the latter be good far anything, and may, b., its means, move his telescope so that he may certainly view in it the guide stars to Mr. Hencke's star without difficulty ;- indeed, the. stars B and C are visible to the naked eye, if the observer know where to look for them. The diameter of the field of an ordinary night-glass is about six degrees ; Aldebaran and Gamma Tauri are nearly four degrees asunder ; Aldebaran is of the first magnitude, Gamma Tauri of the third. The apex star A of the triangle A B C is distant from B and C nearly one degree ; and B is distant from C nearly one degree and a-half. To find this planet (if it be one) a large telescope is not indispensable: it will be well, however, to have • four silver wires in its eyepiece, crossing each other so as to divide the circumference of the field into eight equal arcs, care being taken to insert such wires as from their thiekness shall be easily perceptible without artifi cial illumination when the telescope is directed to the heavens. By bringing then any star to the centre of the field where the wires decussate, there will be no diffi culty in !eying down an extempora neous map o f a ll the stars visible in the field of the telescope, and, this being amount referred to, a change of pl ace of any one of them of any will scarcely pass unnoticed. In such manner was it that, with an ordinary night glass held in the hand out of his library window, Olbers discovered Pallas and Vesta, the former resembling a star of the 7th magnitude, the latter one of the 6th. Whilst with an achromatic of about 2 inches aperture and about 30 inches focus, with which when at Gottin • gen in 183 4 I could see no trace of Jupiter's belts, and which would not show his first and second satelites with out &Ili ;ulty, Harding discovered the planet Juno, al though, as he told me, it had the appearance of a star only of the 9th magnitude. Hoping, then, that this letter may, by e.rawing the at tention of observers to the point at issue, lead to the correction of my okservatian, if it be erroneous, and enable others to find the supposed planet or comet, if either the one or the other exist, I remain. Sir, your obedient servant, Monday, Dec. 22. J. SOUTH. " JOHNSON, MAYOR. " Caution.—Whereas a person, calling himself Joseph A Ady, hath for some time past been in the practice of sending letters to various parts of the kingdom, stating himself to be in possession of information for their pecu ,4 niary advantage, and offering to afford the same on pay !.l ment to him of 205., and, in some instances, of 55., and " 4 referring falsely in such letters for his character, inte ,l4 grity, and responsibility to the Right Hon. John John -4 son, Lord Mayor of London, Sir Peter Laurie, Alder man, and other members of the Court of Aldemen who im ~0 have passed the chair, as voluntary referees, the public , Y g are hereby cautioned against paying any attention to % such references relative either to the character, integrity, 14 or responsibility of the said Joseph Ady. " By order of the Lord Mayor " S. 11. GOODMAN, Chief Clerk." Alderman WILSON observed that it was extraordinary that the newspapers, which used to teem with accounts of the impositions of Ady, had not adequately guarded the public. He thought there was scarcely a person in the empire who had not heard of the person com p 1 ai Thene d Loinagainst. m Mr Goodman addressedmanwasconsttoantthlye occupied in answering saidin gapp applications , Chief ,er tise mMagistrated c b o l e i c e c r o n n i s n i d g e A r e d d y .5 sufficient c h i e o n p t e hoped n t s h w e e ra in 3 future. 60 0 0 One of the communications of Ady to clergymen is 3i a copy of an Act of Parliament, "to remedy the evil consequences arising from the fact that a number of spiritual persons entered into trade." • The following was sent to the Lord Mayor by Ady:— lee. "My Lord M a y or ,— wants to entrap y ou i n t o his quarrel, and to make you look as foolish as himself. " Let him restore my books ; and if he has burnt them, pay their value. He knows well, as the City So licitor, that a City Magistrate has no jurisdiction in the Tower Hamlets, nor has a right to impugn or defame any man not legally before him. If you hear so many complaints against me, surely you might pick out one to follow up. " But the wary wants to get Jezabel's work done without Jezabel's pay. Oh, yes, he would like the City to pay again, and that accursed wretch can find five hundred false witnesses. By that advertisement you have appointed yourself universal referee for me. I am about printing something (not like you, gratis)—will send a copy as soon as able.—Respectfully, "JOSEPH ADY" Alderman WIL SON sa id th e impudence of Ady . was the most extraordinary he had ever witnessed. All the magistrates of London knew of him, was from the reite rated complaints of impositions, and the fact that the man was tried at the Old Bailey and convicted, and had since taken care to remove himself from the jurisdiction of the City magistrates. The LORD MATOR requested that the editors of news papers would be so kind as to acknowledge his receipt of the following sums for the poor-box :—the Grocers' Company, 10/. • the Goldsmiths' Company, 10Z; H. S. (a lady), 51. ; W. Thornborrow, Esq., 21. 2s. ; Charles P. Pearce, Esq., 51. ss. CANALS. e 3 Dividend Names of 0 Dividend ) Names of Price. . 7 . per Price. Companies. 1 per em P anies • .11 Annum. cc , Annum. cc - -. X; X Ashtn& Oldh 97 5/.55. p c 72 Monmouthsh 100 91. 160 Ashby-d-la-Z ' 1131 41. 70 llntgomrysh 100 51. 98 Barnsley.. • • 160 121. 110 M acc l es fi e ld . 100 - 95 Basingstoke.. 100. - - Neath .. .. • . 100 201. 265 Brknk&Abrg 1601 51. 85 Nottingh lun . 150 121. 268 Cromford.... 100, 181. 150 Peak Forest. 78 31. 40 Dudley lOOl V. - Regent's ... •33 11. 26% Derby .. .• • •ilOO, 81. 103 Rochdale ... •35 41. 84 Ellsinre&Chs 133, 41. 80 Shropshire .. 125 81. - Ererrash .• • ' 100, 321. 1 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123 Forth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.L kFdSt 12 6/. p. a. 11 GrandJunctn 100 7/. 100 (Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 440 Grand Union 100 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230 Glamorgnsh .'172 13%1. 210 Stourbridge.. 145 201. - Glstr&Brkly : 100 - - Strtfrd on Av 79 11. 10s. - Grantham ..,150 121. 100 Severn and 26 11. Bs. - Huddersfield., 57 L2O Wye Mail. liennt & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 22 Trnt &Mr- Lancaster ... ,47 11. 10. 40 sey, 14 sh. 150 30/. - Leeds& Livrp 100, 341. 425 Thams &Med 19 - 10 Leicester .. •• , 140 101. lO5 Worcstr &2 •,, 47. 49 Leicstr&Nth 83 41. 1 62 Binning .} ' Loughberegh,l42 701. 1850 Wilts St I% zks 67 11. 41. 11 LAMBETH. John White and James Whiteside were placed at the ar on a charge of attempting to defraud Mr. Ludlam, a ewsvender and tobacconist, residing at 33, Stangate street, Bridge-road, Lambeth. From the statement or the prosecutor it appeared that on the day before, at about twelve o'clock, the prisoner White entered his shop and asked him if he would buy a quarter of a hundred weight of smuggled tobacco. He produced a sample, which was of an excellent quality, and said he should sell him, witness, 25 lbs., at 25., and should deliver it in the evening. Witness suspected at the time that some trick was intended to be played upon him, and this was caused both by the prisoner's manner and the tobacco being of English manufacture, and offk.e,l at half the usual price, but h e gave order for the 25 lbs., whi c h th e prisoner promised to deliver in the course of the evening. In the interim he gave information to a . policeman of the occurrence, and mentioning his sus- Felons as to its being an intended " do," requested the constable would keep a look out and be handy in the event of his requiring his services. Shortly after five o'cock both the prisoners came to his shop, Whiteside carrying the bundle ; but having beckoned White into the parlour behind the shop he took the bundle with him. Inside he placed it upon the table, and pinching a piece of the side of the bag, drew forth a piece of tobacco resembling that which he had shown as a sample in the earlier part of the day. Witness, however, had still his suspicions, and sent for the constable, who se cured both men ; and the whole of the parcel produced, with the exception of about two ounces of tobacco, placed at the identical spot where the bag had been torn, was mere rubbish, and composed of sawdust and sand. In his cross-examination by Mr. Wontner, who at tended for the prisoners, the witness said he did not know who carried the bundle to the station-house, but when witness overtook them the constable had posses. sion of it. Police-constable Charles Revell, 175 L, deposed, that on being called into the shop of the last witness, he found the prisoners there ; Whiteside in the shop, and White in the parlour. He asked Whiteside if he had a license for selling tobacco, and he replied he did not re quire one. He then said, " I understand you have some smuggled tobacco for sale," but though both pri soners heard him, neither made any answer. He then asked them where they got the bundle, and Whiteside replied, " I shall say nothing about it. It is all right." Some days before witness received a bundle from Mr. Iles, a shopkeeper in Pleasant-place, Kennington-lane, which was made up of sawdust and sand, with a little tobacco on the top. Mr. John Iles, who keeps a chandler's shop at No. 18, Pleasant-place, Kennington-lane, deposed, that about a fortnight ago the prisoner White called at his shop, and representing himself as the mate of a foreign steamer, showed him samples of black and green tea and tobacco, all of which he had smuggled, arid which ho could afford to sell at a very low figure indeed. Witness bought as much of those articles from him as amounted to 41. 6s. 6d., but in paying the prisoner he found he had only 41. 2s. 6d. in change. The prisoner agreed to take the latter sum, saying he should some some evening and smoke a pipe with him for the (balance. On subse quently receiving the packages they were found to have a small portion of each article which they had been sold for at the top, and all the rest was sawdast and rubbish. The prisoners, who gave a very unsatisfactory account of themselves, were remanded until Tuesday next. THE POOR Box.—Mr. Henry received the remaining half of a 51. note sent by E. C. for the poor-box belong ing to the Court. HAMMERS,MITH. A young man, named James Hogan, his wife, Ann Hogan, and a lad named William Barnes, were charged with having by violence caused the death Of Edmund Connell. Police-sergeant Clark, T 13, deposed that on the pre vious evening he apprehended the three prisoners at their residences, in Fenning's-buildings, High -street, Kensing ton, on a charge of assaulting and beating a man named Edmund Connell, on the 2d of November last, from the effects of which death had since ensued. Witness was present on the 21st of November, at Connell's residence, when his deposition was taken, and beard him say that the three prisoners were the persons who inflicted the injuries, from the effects of which Connell died on the evening of Tuesday last. The prisoners had been in custody before on the same charge, and were several times remanded, but at their last examination there being no anticipation of the speedy dissolution of Connell, they were liberated on their own recognisances. CURLING MATC if AT EGLINTON CASTLE.—A challenge was given to Lord Eglinton, by a party of " crack curlers" from Dundonald, consisting of four, namely, Messrs. Gibson, G' )llennan, Dykes, Hillhouse, Guthrie, Crossburn, Aiton, and Fullarton, whose known celebrity justly entitled them to anticipate a glorious victory over his Lordship. On Saturday, the 13th current; the parties met on the Asphalt Rink, at Eglinton Castle, when, after a keenly contested game, his Lordship claimed the victory by a majority of one phor.—Ediaburgh .4clvtrtiser. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN.' NG, DI4]CEM BER 25, 1845. Julia Connell deposed that she was widow of the de ceased Edward Connell. She was with her husband on Sunday, the 2d of November last, at the Coach and Horses public-house, High-street, Kensington. There was a raffle or gathering for a poor man that evening. Her husband called for a pot of beer, which he paid for, and several others persons called and paid for beer. When her husband drank out of the pot of beer, the prisoner James Hogan, who, with his wife and the pri soner Barry, was there, told her husband to let the beer alone. Her husband refused to do so, a quarrel ensued, and Hogan kicked witness violently in the side. The female prisoner then came to her husband's assistance, and when witness recovered herself she saw her husband lying on the ground, and all the three prisoners beating him. Mrs. Hogan was lying on him, and had hold of him by the eyebrows with her teeth. Mr. CLITE then remanded the prisoners to Monday next. the plunder should be allotted him. But the 0 1 amusing item of all is, that of " the League" no' s ' paper. 'Ten thousand pounds and upwards lost by., paltry wee kl y paper ! Wh ere now is the pretence vs the popularity of the League doctrine ? The print in all conscience, as to quantity cheap enough—Prie s 3d. ; yet it see ms th a t so indifferent are th e people o t England to the doctrines which it advocates, that the speculation is a dead loss of upward of 10,000/ Fe annum. The ordinary expenses of such a paper elf a mere trifle. The publication contains about ha"' the matter of the Britannia, and that principallf, taken from th e p ages o f t h e Ill ornihg Chronicle go the provincial papers which favour free-trade ; so that, in fact, its want of success must have been unel . ampled, when the weekly journal vi hich we ha ve named, and which advocates exactly opposite opinions, is widely circulated aed prosperous, while the League is a loss of more than 10,000/. per annum. The vvies t act in Lord John Russe - il's life w as declining to believe the preten ces of th ese tr i c k sters, when they said t bSt they commanded public opinion. CHRONlCLE.—Superfluous as the admoniti al , may seem i n th e p resent state of national opin i on a l feeling, we canno t b e sat i s fi ed without again n os earnestly and emph a ti ca ll y warn i ng the peop l e, tbst they must s e ttl e th e great and anxious question e°''., before this country. To themselves and their 0 0 exertions alone must they trust for their deliveranc e ' Now, more than at any moment since the question assumed its present shape, is there need of unsleeping vigilance and unrelaxing effort and determinati on. Our statesmen cannot, or will not, help us , Curtner than as we choose to help ourselves. That s ection of our public men who alone have given unequivoc al ., evidence of the d es i re to real i se national wants 0 0" convictions in a legislative form, have recently de' dared, after carefully measuring their resource with the difficulties of the problem, that they d ° not possess the power ; and the Minister who Pr o '' bably does possess the power has, as 37,1' vi given n o c l ear i n di cat i on of having the "i We are most anx i sus t h at t h e people of Englan should quite understand this. We warn them not t° put the slightest faith in anything they may he y infer, suppose, or imagine es to Sir Robert Peel's tention to deal plainly and boldly with the corn-law' Looking merely to the obvious facts and necessiti es of the case, there might, indeed, seem every reason for expecting that the Premier will meet Parliamen t with the simple proposal, at once to clear the statute' book of a law whose principle he has repeatedly con; demned, and whose egregious failure, as a practiell measure, he has so explicitly confessed. In this l knows that he would be supported by his opponents+ and by the country; in anything less than this h° has no definite assurance of being supported by anybody, except his own official colleagues and sub; ordinates. It appears, on the face of the matter, , downright impo ss ibilit y t h at Si r Ro b ert Peel s hould attempt anything less. If he must, for form's sak e ; and from the force of habit, talk of " three c ourses being "open" to him, it can only be, one would to show, all the more pointedly, that two out of t he ' three are irrevo ca bly c l ose d . A s for compro mise! nobody asks for it—everybody repudiates it--ther; is nothin g t o s h ow t h at any class or party wou accept it. With landlordism, to all appearance, tn° r tally offended, finaliv alienated, and furiously irate - e; and with th e h ear t o f t h e country set on the tota l noS unqualified abolition of monopoly, as earnestly an it unanimously as it was once set on " the Bilr--T0 seems impossible th a t Si r R o b ert P eel should &li of any oth er course t h an one being now ope n t , himself or any other Minister. And perhaps it 1 1 be so. But we warn t h e country not to believ e without evide nce . Th ese appearances are not to u' ot trusted for an instant. Looking at the question, %, as it is, but as it ma y very poss ib ly shape itse lf in Si R. Peel's mind, we t e ll th e peop l e to put no faith "'set ever iu any inf eren ti a l pro b a bili ty t h at he wil l d o t' „, which it se ems d emonstra bl y certa i n he must do.NothAs when can he more f a ll ac i ous t h an t hi s sort of log i c , Sir Robert Peel is in the case. There is n ° s r s -al s t reason whatever f o r b e li ev i ng — an d f or our ow n la we do not believe—that Sir Robert Peel contemPl°,7', or ever has c on t emp l ate d , t h e s i mple repea l o f 'i f. corn-law. It is not his way to do anything sirup Mystification is his el emen t—compromise is the the of his bei ng . H e h as never so much as told world the specifi c groun d s on w hi ch he l e ft etn and of course th ere i s no k now i ng with what sP ecio . is purpose he returns to it. We can only saY' es s general, that th e i n t ent i on w hi c h a current rum o has attributed to him, of buying off the landloble with " compen sa ti on " h us h- money, has considers be antecedent and i n t r i ns i c pro b a bi l i ty. It well' t at very much like a stroke of Peel policy. It is ° ° i t h all clear that the Premier looks on his quarrel whi landlordism as final and irreconcilable. We a re he no means sure th a t h e d oes not inten d—perbs/LOl has inte n d e d a ll a l ong — to use the terrible 10e, and immediate repeal' of his opponents' p r ograr° o f as a foil to set off, to landlord eyes, the me l t some half-way expedient of his own. It vv 01 ) extremely lik e Si r R obert Peel to attempt patch a a reconciliati on w i t h landlordism on the basi s -f be " consideration"—and it would, beyond all quests °,4 0 like landlordi sm t o c l ose w i t h suchen overture.l' 11, knows but we may live t o see th e squires, after all, rejoicing in a h eaven -b orn Mi n i ster who offers to 0 rid them o f th e L eague an d t h e tax . gatherer at stroke ? W e d o no t o f course undertake t o s ay tha t . ; a n n u y t 't ‘ h v i e ng do o s f ay th t is ba s t or i t t i s in S peopleobe on Sir Robert °Peel"csv' more mind than at a n y ti me t h ese sev en 'tears past,d believe nothing b u t w h at t h ey see — an d to trust only to to their guard—t o ta k e not hi ng for granted — to to themselves. W e say to t h e coun t r y, do not presume Peel will the l an dl or d s ' quarre l w i t h Sir Robert s_ee, beho ves will last, or that he will he driven into the ranks r the free tr a d ers t o fi n d a l ocus s t an di ; do p ot presume th a t th e l an dl or d s w ill re f use a compr o. mise, merely because they say they will, if the con.' promise is to consist in putting their hands into the public p urse; d o not presume that the Pre mier will be ashamed of try ing another venture t lf: . the lottery o f l eg i s l at i on, or of coming down e the House w ith a cut an d dr i ed estimate o f tbo be s " peculiar b ur d ens " on wh i ch he could never yet__ got to say a plain word in his place in Parliament ill presume on nothing, except the certainty that be do that which, on the whole, under existing cirena l stances, he deem s th e sa f est and easiest to be done" ; and that it li es w ith you to create those circumsta nces which sh a ll d e t erm i ne his opinion as to the matte r ° f safety and easiness. Without absolutely affir nlin f that Sir R o b er t P ee l i ntends to insult the country with so m ons t rous a proposal as that of charg i ng squires' taxes on the Consolidated Fund, and making the peopl e b uy up t h e l andlords ' vested rights In their .„ own wrong— we d o most ser i ously assure the c ountry that it will do wisely to lose not an hour in mar king the whol e groun d o f compromise " dangerous. This f question is now a t a point at whi c h th e exertions 0 a few we e k s may save years of agitation. If it be not settled now, it w ill d rag on through an indefinite P . e' riod, accum u l a ti ng at each stage of its course new Or ments of social discord and political discontent and ex-, asperation. asperation. Are we rea ll y to have another quar t e r 0; million of pou n d s s t er li ng spent in agitation 2—'suc h .agitation not b e i ng con fi ned, as heretofore, to a s i n gle obnoxious statute, but spread over the wide surfac e pa of our entire fiscal system—becoming really a a truly, that which the leaders of the League 13,3v hitherto, to the utmost of their power, deprecate a war of classes. It is for the country, hy a decisive and overpowering expression of its will now, to ave h r; a result so deplorably mischievous, yet so certain o ensue in the event which we have supposed. Minister who should b e madman enough to tra' s' e r the agitati on aga i nst monopoly to the subjects (f the incider ce of t axa ti on , and the distrib u ti on of of power, would o p en th e d oor to ev i ls the end of whic h , no man living cou ld f oresee. W e f ervently trust that the people o f E ng l an d w ill not spare nor relax those exertions which can a l one secure t h em aga i ns t V disastrous a possibility. Justice and policy, per manent interests and temporary exigencies, the pre' .sent and the future, the earnest Liberalism va le seeks the statutory recognition of sound principl e, and the prudent C onservat i sm w hi c h deprecates ever lasting agit a ti on — a ll d eman d t h at th i s harass i ng and perilous question be settled—so settled as that not shred of it be left to vex and embitter our with class jeal ous i es an d enm i t i es. polities eloquence of deeds. In the verdict of sixty thousand pounds being returned in one brief hour, for the funds of the League, the monopolists will discern a a more powerful argument against the corn-laws, than they would in twelve months' mere speechifica tion. Oratory is lost on the landed interest : they either cannot or will not feel its force. They are practical persons. Figures of speech do not tell with them. Plain stubborn facts, not flowery language, are the things to make an impression on their minds. A good round sum in the shape of a subscription to the funds of the League, will weigh immeasurably more with the landlords than the rounded periods of their most accomplished orators. The Morning Advertiser was the first journal to refer at any length to the intention of the League to raise • a fund of 250,000/. for anti- monopoly purposes. We know that the idea had been deemed Utopian. It was our purpose to show that there was nothing impossible or improbable in it. We argued at some length its peefect practicability. We expressed our entire confidence in the attach ment of free-traders to their principles, and glanced at their readiness to make great personal sacrifices for the triump of those :principles. We little thought that we should so soon be furnished with such splendid proof of the correctness of all we had said. Little could we have imagined, on Monday week, when calling on the friends of free trade to respond to the appeal which the League was about making to them—little could we have then sup posed that, within eight days of that time, more than one-fifth of their quarter of a million should be raised in one hour and on one spot. Yet such is the fact. It stands before us attested beyond all doubt. It is exhibited in all the public journals to men's wondering minds. It seems to us like a dream. What, then, must it be to the mono polists? If it had been possible for any landlord still to discredit the popular report, that corn-law repeal was near at hand, there can be no such person now. The man who could still cling to the belief that the corn monopoly may yet be withheld, would be a strange person indeed. Cowper said he would go from Land's-end to John O'Groat's house, to see a soldier at his devotions. It would be almost worth making an equally long journey to see the man—if any such man there be—who still clings to the notion that the corn monopoly may be maintained for some years to come. The 60,0001. " great fact" will not be lost on Sir Robert Peel. Ile will hear a voice in it which he dare not disregard. If he has been meditating any half-measure of corn-law repeal, the conviction must now force itself on his mind, that half measures will not satisfy the country. The people are bent on total repeal, and will accept of nothing short of it. The Premier, it is true, may by means of his large majority, carry a half-and-half measure, in defiance of the arguments and remonstrances of the total abolitionists. Still the conviction must be as strong on his mind, as it is on the minds of the rest of the community, that the corn-laws must, ere long, be swept away, root and branch. Whatever may be the character of the measure which the Premier means to propose in the coming session, it is satisfactory to know that in less than two years entire. repeal must be carried. By that time we must have a general election. And as surely as to-morrow's sun shall rise, will that general election reverse the existing order of things in the House of Commons. A general election will give us, instead of the present monopolist majority of ninety, a free-trade majority far exceeding that number. Our hopes centre in a general election. The eyes of the country are fixed on it. It is for tunate, in one sense, that a general election is not likely to take place immediately. SuCh an event was deemed probable one short week ago. The impres sion now is, that we shall have another registration before a dissolution of Parliament takes place. That is just what is wanted. The League have always said, that though their gains on the registry have been very great both in towns and oounties, the free traders are not yet so fully prepared as they could wish, for giving battle to the monopolists at a general election. The League are anxious for another registration before Parliament is dissolved. Their wishes will, in all probability, be . granted. Let then the free traders be making all the needful pre parations. And nothing can more substantially assist the League in their warfare with the corn-laws, than liberal contributions to the fund of a quarter of a million, now proposed to be raised. It is to be hoped that the noble example set by Manchester will prove contagious, and that before a fortnight has elapsed, we shall have to announce that the entire sum has been subscribed. HERALD.—The "unequivocal expression of the public voice" is becoming daily more ridiculous. Scarcely any incident connected with them occurs without tending still more to strip the lion's hide from the League. The few cotton-spinners directly interested in the success of the cry for the total removal of protection are beginning to appear in their proper light, divested of pretence of expounding pub lic opinion, and surrounded by no other party than is brought around them by an interest like their own, or an interest in point of time more direct—the desire of each day's pay. The last exhibition of the Anti- Corn-law League's power over public opinion was made by that body itself when, less wise than their fellow labourer and friend, the Irish free trader, they decided upon publishing their accounts. Air. George Wilson, who has the unenviable task of listening to the ora -1 tions at Covent-garden and elsewhere, is not, we would imagine, a very facetious gentlemen. We could not charge this as a fault, for the discipline to which he is submitted, especially when, as at the last meeting, Quaker Bright loses his place and is com pelled to suck an orange till he finds it again, would banish levity as effectually as one of Cromwell's exer cises. Yet Mr. Wilson must have been attempting a joke when he read the following statement as an ac count of " what had been done with the money already paid :" LEAGUE FUND, £lOO,OOO. Dr. (A) January 1, 1845. To balance on hand ...... £26,675 19 9 December 6. Subscriptions and Bazaar re ceipts to this date To discount and interest received this year B2O 411 £63,17413 6 STATE or TRADE.—Though there has been . 1.10 great increase of business this week, there is a better feeling amongst both buyers and sellers; and thy termination of th e Ministerial crisis w ill pro b a bl y l ea d to some more d e cide(' improvement after the approaching holidays.—Manchest er Guardian. BIRTHS. On the 22d inst., at Knott's-green, Lyston, Mrs. Muni Poore Cox, of a daughter. On the 23d inst., at Streatham, the lady of the Rev. Arthur C. Tarbutt, of a son. On the 23d inst., at Macklenburgh-square, the lady of R• Braithwaite, Esq., of a son. On the 24th inst., at Wokingham, Berks, Alm Charles Barrow, of a son. MARRIED. On the 6th ult. ' at St. Mary's Chu rc h, P oona, Li eu t e nant" Colonel Edward Harvey, 14th Light Dragoons, to Eliza Matilda, youngest daughter of Captain Henry Wray, 11•N r • On the 23d inst., at St. M ary ' s Ch urc h , I sl i ngton, Mi c has' Thomas Scott Raiinbach, M.A., to Margaret, younges t daughter of the late James Shape, Esq., of Chester. On the 20th inst., at St. Mary's, Cheshunt, A. S. Eddit Esq., barrister-at- law, to Elizabeth Mary, fourth daughter 0 1 Job Wi fight, Esq., of Ashgrove, Cheshunt. On the 21st inst., in Russell-square, John Teesdale; Esq. On the 21st inst., George Hunter, Esq., of Iforningto" place, Hampstead-road. On the 22d inst., at Montague-place, Hammersmith, Ann , the wife of Mr. T. Butcher. On the 22d inst., at Alfreton, John Cressy Hall, Esq., bar rister-at-law, aged 82. On the 23d inst., at Reigate, Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. T• Hart, solicitor. London; Printed aid Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 7'he Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, iu the Precinct of the Savoy, iu tha. Coma " Xiddletiez, Thuniclay, Pemba 24 1145. -~-~' NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—The Lizard steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Ty!den, having completed her alterations, left, yesterday morning, with dispatches for Admiral Inglefield in the River Plate. Soon after she had left the harbour signals were made from the St. Vin cent and Victory to recal her, but the weather was too thick to enable her to see them, at least we may surmise so, as she did not return, although four guns were fired to call her attention—two in the harbour, and two from the Superb at Spithead. The Polyphemus steam•ship, Lieutenant-Commander Spark, left yesterday, having replenished fuel, for Wool wich, to he paid off. She was afterwards recalled, and is now waiting further orders at Spithead. The Baretto Junior transport arrived at Spithead yes terday from the eastward. _ The Flying Fish, 12, Commander Harris, was at Arguin on the Ist of September; all well. The Hermes steam•sloop, Lieutenant-Commander Carr, arrived at Port Royal from Havannah on the 13th ult. The Fox, 42, Commodore Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart., sailed for Bombay fur the Persian Gulf on the 14th ult. The Pilot, 16, Commander Jervis, left Bombay on a cruise on the same day. The Driver steam-sloop, Commander Hayes, left Sin gapore for New Zealand on the 6th ult., with stores and ammunition. The following were in Victoria harbour, Manilla, on the 18th of October:— The Agincourt, 72, Captain Lyster, flag of Rear-Ad miral Sir Thomas Cochrane. Commander-in-Chief ; the Semarang, 26, Captain Sir Edward Belcher; the Vestal, 26, Captain Talbot; the Daedalus, 20, Captain Di'Quhar; the Minden, 20, Master-Commander Wellington ; the Royalist, 10, Commander G. Ogle; the Alligator troop.. ship, Master. Commander King; the Vixen steam-sloop, Commander Gifford; and the Hon. Company's steamers Medusa and Pluto. The Iris, 26, Captain Mundy, sailed from Hong-Kong for Singapore on the 12th of October. The Wolverine, 16, Commander Clifford, sailed from Hong-Kong for Amoy on the 17th of October. The Espiegle, 12, Commander Thompson, sailed on the 30th of October from Hong-Kong for Foochowfoo. The Nautilus, 10, Lieutenant-Commander M'Donald, remains at Spithead wind-bound. The Echo steam-tug went down to Cowes this after noon to assist in getting off a foreign brig, driven ashore by the violence of last night's gale. THE MOORS—CLOSING OF THE SEASON. (From tho Ross-shire Advertiser.) The shooting season for grouse, ptarmigan, and black game, ended on the 10th instant, and the moun tain solitudes are now left to repose under the snows of winter. The bygone season has proved a very bois terous one throughout to the sportsman ; hence, more than the usual stock of game remains for another year. On the Glengarry moors, C. P. Leslie, Esq., M.P., Lord Huntingfield, Lord E. Hill, and the 'lon. P. Talbot, bagged 1,724 brace of grouse, black game, and ptarmigan, 4 red deer, and 14 roe deer. At Perna kyle, J. W. Eyton, Esq., Mr. Goodlake, and Mr. Gat acre, shot 1,400 brace of grouse, 100 brace of ptarmi gan, and 21 red deer--nearly all stags. On the Achintoul shootings, S. Bateson, Esq., Mr. Wafter, and Mr. Beresford, shot 400 braco of grouse, and 6 stags. One of these, stalked by Mr. Bateson, had a noble royal head of large horns, of the most admired form. They were in length 34 inches, span inside of the bow 30i inches, space from tip to tip of top ant lers 35 inches, 4 brow antlers 10 inches in length each, forming a semicircle in front of the head. Colonel Tower stalked two stags with fine heads, at Aultna barrow. At Lochtreig, W. 11. Clarke, Esq., bagged 600 brace of grouse. Mr. Clive, Mr. Ince, and Mr. ;%lerrick, had 803 brace at Kinrara. On Lower Killin Moors, Mr. Eversfield, Mr. Ibbetson, and Mr. Tredcroft, had upwards of 1,000 brace. J. M. E. Jones, Esq., at Loubcroy, shot 2,000 head of game, consisting of grouse, black-cock, and ptarmigan ; also 2 red deer. The Auchinault party, Captain Chearnley, Mr. Chearnley, Mr. Flood, and th e Hon. C. E. French, bngged 3,700 head of grows, , ptarmigan, and black game. 9 red deer, 11 roe; and in one of the lakes Captain Chearnley caught, with a small rod, 70 pike. At Rose hall, J Jones, Esq,, and Mr. Cade, shot 550 head of grouse, am! 7 roe deer. At Inverbroom, Sir St. George Gore, Bart., had excellent sport on the moors; and from the deer forest he shot 15 stags an d 1 1 roe d eer; one stag was the largest seen in. that part o f t h e country—. his weight was upwards of 26 stone, an d the tops of his horns were broken off, either from combating an adver sary, or falling down a precipice ; the feet were uncom monly large, and part of the skin was of a deep brown colour, approaching to black. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. WANDS WORTH. James Harris, an excavator, was charged with obtain ing a pair of spikes under false pretences, from Richard Callender, a blacksmith, on the plain, Wandsworth. It appeared that the complainant had made several pairs of spikes (used by excavators to secure a footing whilst wheeling barrows up an inclined plank), for men employed on the Richmond Railway works, and the pri soner was one of the number. As these men are proverbially forgetful of payment, the complainant would not dispose of his wares without the money. The prisoner toil( ad vantage of his absence from home, and asked the son, a shrewd lad, for a pair of spikes, for which he had paid his father on the previous Saturday. The lad toll the prisoner that if he was telling a lie he should know him again, and let him have them. The corx►plainnet sub sequently ascertaining that his lad had been imposed upon, went in search of the prisoner, up and down the Richmond Railway works, and at last found him at the Crane. He then had the spikes in his possession, and swore he had had them a fortnight and paid the com plainant for them. Complainant told him that the spikes were not his, that he had obtained them by fraud, and gave him his choice of paying for them or being given into custody. The prisoner persisted in stating that they were his own property, and was accordingly charged. Mr. CLIVE asked the prisoner what his answer to the charge was ? The prisoner said that he had had the spikes a fort night, and had paid for them, and said he had a witness to prove that fact. Another excavator was called as a witness, but possessing a little more honesty than his frien I (the prisoner), he declined to speak positively as to the time the prisoner had been in possession of the spikes. Mr. CLIVE observed that he should send the case for trial ; the prisoner, he must say, had made the most im pudent defence he had ever heard. The complainant said he did not wish the man to un dergo further punishment ; he should be satisfied with the restoration of his goods, and some compensation for the trouble he had been put to. Mr. CLIVE permitted the parties to retire, and the pri soner was afterwards discharged. Mary Flemming, a woman of abandoned habits, was re-examined upon a charge of stealing a pound of fresh butter from the larder of the Rose and Crown lan , Wim bledon. The charge was established, and the prisoner was committed for a month, with hard labour. THAMES. Mr. Foster, the master of a vessel called the Hope well, was charged with breaking bulk of a cargo of coals before the dues were paid, by which he had incurred a penalty of 25/. Mr. Pelham appeared for the defendant, who did not attend. The real question in dispute was whether coals brought from the North to London, and not intended to be used as fuel, were liable to the City dues of 13d. per ton. The Hopewell discharged a cargo of 413 tons of coals, not brought direct from the pit, for the purpose of being consumed as fuel, but which were brought from a tram-road, laid down many years ago, and recently broken up. The coals had been subjected to the action of the atmosphere for thirty-three years, and when the tram.road was broken np, the coals which composed it were shipped for London, and consigned to Mr. Heron, a brickmaker, at Uxbridge, to be used in the manufac ture of bricks ; and it was admitted that before he could do so he crushed the coals, which had lost many of their qualities, in a machine. There was no intention to evade the duty, and Mr. Heron said, if the magistrate decided that a duty was payable on coals exported from the North for the purposes of brickmaking, he would not attempt to resist the payment of the duty on other cargoes. sir. BRODERIP decided that sea-borne coals, for what ever purpose they were exported from the North to London, were liable to the duty, and inflicted a nominal penalty of 205., at the same time expressing an opinion that Mr. Heron was quite right in raising the question, The fine was paid, and Mr. Heron said he would pay the City dues on other cargoes of the stuff consigned to him. HE QUEEN'S RIGHT TO WAL THAM FOREST QUESTIONED. At the last meeting of the Ilford bench of Magistrates on Saturday last, Charles Watkins, an assistant deer keeper, attached to the royal forests of Waltham and Hainanit, appeared to an information taken out against him by Mr. Edward Foster, a gentleman residing at Loughton, for being in a certain forest on the 24th of November, in the day time, called Waltham Forest, the property of her Majesty the Queen, in search of game. The defendant admitted that he was in the forest, hut he was not trespassing or in search of game. G. Hodge, Mr. Foster's man, said that on the 24th of November ho was in Longhton Forest, when he heard the report of a gun. He went in the direction, and saw Charles Watkins with a gun and two dogs, " beating" for game. Mr. Foster asked him whe gave him the right to shoot there, hut witness did not hear Watkins's answer. Mr. Foster corroborated the testimony, and said in ad dition that he held a " deputation" from her Majesty to shoot in the forest, and when he asked the defendant what right he had to shoot there, he was very abu sive, and told witness that he and his man killed all the game in the forest, which was not the fact. Witness then warned him off the forest, which he had a right to do. In answer to the charge the defendant said he was an assistant keeper to,his father, and had a cer- tificate for shooting. Mr. Fo s t er sa id t h e defendant was only assistant to his father as a keeper of deer. Mr. Maitland, one of the Bench—Oh, yes, he does something else besides keeping deer ; he has been fre quently employed under my keepers to kill game in the forest. Mr. Cotton, the chairman—You had better not say too much, or you will lay yourself open to an infor mation. Mr. Maitland—l don't know who claims the small game upon the forest, but I think those gentlemen whose manors form a portion of it have as much right to the game as the gentlemen who hold deputations. Mr. Cotton—That is a question of l aw . M r. Maitland— This forest was disfranchised as belonging to the Crown, and therefore the Queen had no titl e , an d consequently no right to grant deputations. Mr. Cotton—That we know nothing about. The law with re s p ec t t o tres• passing on an y o f her Majesty's forests in search of game, without the party had a legal right to do s.P, was very clear, power being given to the magistrates to inflict a fine of not more th an 2Z Th e mere holding of a game certificate did not give that right, and with respect to the defence set up by his brother magistrates, that the forest was not the Queen's, that was not the tribunal for the quest i on to be tried. After some further observations, the majority of the Bench was of opinion that the case was proved, and fined the defendant 2s. 6d. and costs, amounting to 13s. 6d. Captain Somerville, one of the Bench, said that the gen tl emen w ith " deputations" h a d driven all the old proprietors off the forest, but he thought it was not worth while to go to law about it. Mr. Foster said the holders of " deputations" were quite willing and ready to try the question. TITHE OF FISH. LOWESTOFT.—On Wednesday last the case of Mr. Roberts came again before the magistrates for hearing Mr. Cu nn i ng h am, t h e vicar, conducted his own case. - Mr. Tillett, of Norwich, appeared for Mr. Roberts. Mr. Cunningham's claim was for lOs. 3d., the value of a pro portion of the mackerel taken during the fishing voyage of the boat Wesley, belonging to Mr. Roberts, which proportion is called th e " h a lf-d o l e ." I n support of his claim, Mr. Cunningham called three fish merchants, whose evidence showed that within their knowledge the half-doles had been paid for forty years, and that they themselves had paid them during the whole period they had been connected with the trade ; they considered the claim was just, and paid the demand as they would do any other debt. They had heard at various times opinions stated with regard to the origin of the custom, which were to this effect--that the half-doles were paid at first voluntarily, at a time when the vicar's income was slender; but they did not think these opinions to be of any authority. They had known these claims to be made under all circumstances, even when there was a positive loss to owners, and showed that the men employed contributed their share to the amount as well as the owner. Mr. Cunningham pro duced the accounts of his predecessors from 1677, thus carrying back evidence of the fact of payment for 168 years. Mr. Tillett remarked that these entries afforded no proof that the payment was any other than a volun tary one; and upon an examination of the books be discovered two papers, one a letter written by T. Tanner, a commissary at Norwich, to his brother John, vicar of Lowestoft. This letter related to a dispute about the tithe of fish, which arose in 1709, and stated that the case must be tried under the pro visions of an Act of the 2d of Edward VI., which requires proof that the custom existed forty years before the date of that Act (i.e., in 1509). This Mr. Tillett had insisted upon at the previous bearing. The ether paper was entitled "Thoughts on the Tythe of Fish at Lowestoft," having special reference to the mackerel fishing. This old document positively stated that the vicar " accepted what the merchants were will ing to give." Mr. Cunningham then read a paper pur porting to be a copy of a document in the Rolls' Court ; but this was not received as evidence because it had not been authenticated. This paper declared that " twenty years before the 9th of Elizabeth," there was a tithe of fish, called " Christ's dole." On this Mr. Tillett re marked, that as the document was "upon the decay of the vicarage," the language used was a fair pre sumption that at the date of the document there was no such custom. This ended the vicar's case. Mr. Til lett contended that the claim had not been substan tiated, and then pressed some technical objections, one of which was to the information, which declared that these tithes were " arising in the parish of Lowestoft," whereas they clearly arose in the sea, which was not in the parish of.Lowestoft. The magistrates overruled the objection, and thought that sufficient evidence had been given to prove the legality of the custom, and there fore ordered payment. It may as well be stated that the order for payment was made out by the clerk to the magistrates before the case had been heard,---9u elk Chronicle. PROM THIS MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. TIMES.—The meeting of Parliament being now fixed, the anticipations of the world are drawn to that important question on which it will be the first duty of Parliament to pronounce judgment; and never since the Peace did expectations more lively, or hopes more vivid, greet the Legislative Assembly. The dissolution of two Minis ries, and the recon struction of a third within the brief space of 15 days, add to the interest which had already been created by the rumours of apprehended scarcity. And in the brief interval which must elapse, public curiosity is gratified by the revelation, or public spirit delighted by the developement, of a new policy ; every man is prophesying after the dictates of his apparent in terest, or his supposed intelligence. Innumerable are the versions of the Ministerial programme; vari ous are the shades of change which individual pre science foretells; everything from a nominal to an extreme innovation, and from an innovation to a de struction ef the corn-law, is reported as probable, or as certain, just as the prejudices of the informant be agricultural or ccmmercial, and the temple of his political cult in Bond-street or Manchester. But one thing is striking enough. The mind of every man is prepared for a change. Nobody seems to think that the corn-law can remain as it is. A conviction of an alteration being inevitable is as strongly impressed on the agricultural mind as on the manufacturing. It oozes out in the midst of bovine celebrations and shouts of " No surrender." Those who meet their tenantry to congratulate, or to condole, or to exhort--all equally manifest the same alarm, despi'e of every attempt to conceal it. They deprecate all exaggeratoons about scarcity ; they depreciate the reports of its existence; they say the state of our harvests demand no such sweeping change ; but in the midst of these protestations they exhibit a consciousness of the necessity which must herald the advent of a change. To the rest of the community—that vast assemblage of human beings who owe no allegiance to, and have no interest in, the soil—whose only wealth is in their sinews or their brains—who trade on the capital of industry or ingenuity, and whose every hope of happiness is closely knit with the increased happiness of the hu man race ;—to this vast and motly crowd the repeal of the corn-laws has become a great and insurmount able necessity—a necessity which hardly tolerates the mention of delay, and which will scarcely brook the suggestions of a merciful compromise. In such a state of things what is a Minister to do ? The voice of the people calls one way, the in terests of a class another. Is it impossible to re concile the two ? Must the interests of a class—a large class, and not uninfluential—be so directly hos tile to the behests of a people, that no midway line presents itself, on which their dispute may be adjusted without dishonour or detriment to either ? The people cry aloud that new avenues of commerce, and new channels of industry, be opened to their labour; the producers exclaim against the injustice which deprives them of their only market. They deprecate competition ; their enemies pray for it. The one class defies the rivalry of the world, the other shrinks from the emulation of a few remote districts. The one calls aloud to other nations—" Give us bread ; we will give in return the broad cloths of Leeds, the cutlery of Sheffield, the cottons of Manchester, and the wares of Wolverhampton. Feed us, and we will clothe you. We will enrich you with all that use can demand or luxury purchase from the loom, the wheel, and the steam-engine : we will enrich our own countrymen with the wealth which always flows from successful industry and unwearied toil." The other mutters, grumblingly, and in low accents—. " This manufacturing interest is a fearful thing : it grows up like a Tower of Babel, and seems to threaten Heaven ; therefore Heaven will punish it, unless it is stopped in its growth. It presents an awful idea to every pious mind ; therefore, let us have no rivals in the bread-market, else we becOme very poor, and our lands pass away from us." Such are the two parties who are before the country. On their claims it will be the Premier's duty to pass sentence—a sentence which will be final or ephemeral —comprehensive and decisive, or short, variable, and of many changes—according to the terms in which it is couched, and the wishes which it satisfies. It may be that a scrupulous sense of fair play, or a feeling somewhat like a fear, and apt by hasty minds to be confounded with a fear, of a dominant class, will induce him to propose terms of capitulation so favourable to the worsted party, as almost to disguise the reality, and certainly to retard the enjoyment, of the achieved conquest. He may propose, for example, an intervening fixed duty so high in its assessment, and of so distant a termination, as really to deprive the people for years to come of the benefits which they may expect from the fulfilment of their desires. Or, again, under the impressi on , or assumed imp ress i on , that a great c h ange would be a great wrong, and that he is bound to compensate those whom he is about to damnify, he may introduce such a scheme of taxation as, by shifting the burden of imposts from the producing to the consuming body, may not only deprive the latter of the substantial fruits of their victory, but may also—when the temporary panic has subsided—raise the value of land to an undue amount. In either case the Premier will act in juriously to the country and his own fair fame. In either case, his policy can only be short-lived, and, after enduring a few years of bitter censure, would be condemned to an ignoble doom. Ten years ago a compromise was possible, was desired, was popular. But ten years have added three millions to our popu lation, but have not added the means of employment for three millions. There are many more to be paid and to be fed, but there are not commensurate means for feeding and paying them. We are arrived at that epoch in our commercial and manufacturing history when we must bid, and bid boldly, for the mercantile empire of the world, or consent to subside, with an increasing population and decreasing supplies, into a condition the most pitiable of all—the condition of a country where there are a few rich monopolists, and the rest are beggared idlers. The alternative is a fearful one; but one which the people of England have not only the opportunity but the heart and courage to ward off. It is to that people that th e Premier must eventually submit his own decision for confir mation or disapproval. Be his judgment or his coun sel what it may, it is by their verdict that his policy must stand or fall ; and before such a court no just Minister, no honest statesman, need tremble; for though they sometimes err in their opinions of men, or in their views of measures—though they may magnify the benefits or exaggerate the importance of particular schemes—their errors are neither lasting nor pernicious. The people cannot be deluded, and will not deceive themselves, for a long time together. They have no love for mere theories, and avoid the pursuit of empty shadows. If they engage with zeal and steady perseverance in the advancement of any policy, depend upon it they have reason to be lieve that policy is necessary and advantageous. If they petition for years and years together for any one boon, be confident that that boon is not a fiction, If they complain of any grievance, that grievance is not imaginary. More than this, and above this—no sense of wrong, no desire of gain, blinds them to the sacred light of justice. They regard it as the noblest trait of their national character that success only makes them merciful ; and that in the elation of victory, they can spare the vanquished. To just compromises —to equitable compensation—if the jus tice of it can be proved, and its extent assessed--they will not demur. Conscious that their own cause ie just, they will not condescend to tarnish it with the pettiness of narrow injustice. Demanding what is right for themselves, they will not deny what they are satisfied is right to others. But they will resent an extortionate demand; they will reject against an unjust assessment; they will repudiate with scorn the attempt to impose a new tax under the guise of eliciting a composition for an old one. They may sometimes; be fretted, but never can be played upon with impunity. On Sir Robert Peel de volves the duty of proposing such a compromise ; but its acceptance rests with the English people. Sir Robert Peel resumes office under every fa vourable auspice. He resumes it disembarrassed of past promises and past alliances. He resumes it with the encouragement of a nation's desires, and the confidence of a nation's hope. It is for him to settle that long dispute which has survived the names and badges of faction. On his settlement of it hangs that prospective laurel which no great Minister ever yet could banish from his inward contemplation. Let him at once propose a great and comprehensive mea sure—final in its kind, but parent of innumerable c onsequences —gre a t and just at the same time —and the gratitude of all posterity is his. Let him play with this important business as a thing of shreds and patches, to be docked here and stitched there—his power is gone for ever. Does he ask for a sign to guide him in his course ? Behold there is one at hand. T wo d ays ago one single meeting at Man chester collected 60,0001. A week ago a bucolic meeting at Lewes scraped together 2001. .Ecce sig num ! Let him look to the spirit of energy, enter prise, and perseverance which the men of the North have displayed in this new crusade ; and let him not be deterred by taunt or menace, false shame or fear, from carrying out a scheme of policy on which men of feelings and lineage similar to his own have set their hearts. They will support him; the people of England will rally round him; and—should even a Powerful party rebuke him—he may answer in the bold language of antiquity—"Neque verb, Quirites, ego eram, qui hoc tantum Imperium, tanquam Petri ciorum provinciam, administrare ADVERTISER.—It has often been our lot to eulogise the eloquence of the League at their meet ings in Covent-garden , and elsewhere, hut never did that body or its friends make such a display of elo quence as that which electrified the people of Man chester on Tuesday. We do not allude to the speeches of Mr. Cobden or those of any other of the gentlemen present. The eloquence to which we allude was not the eloquence of words ; if was the Cr. By distribution of tracts, including expenses of distributors, cauriage, &c...... ' By expenses of furniture and fixtures ... By deputation expenses, including travelling expenses to attend meetings and Parlia mentary elections in various parts of the United Kingdom , By grants to local Free-trade Committees -- By general salaries of office-staff, including all employed in London and Manchester on the general business of the League, weekly wages, &c., &c. By postage-stamps and postages, sundry office expenses, petty cash and incidental expenses, including repairsand alterations, coals, cleaning, &c By expenses ofi meetings, including hire of noir s, erecting hustings, and all other expenses connected with public meetings By salaries and expenses of lecturers, includ ing travelling expenses, &c. By rents, taxes, and, gas including rent of Covent-garden Theatre, house and offices, London and Manchester By stamped publications, printing and sta• tioncry, reporting, &c. &c By bazaar expenses, including wages of per sons employed during the bazaar, fitting up Covent-garden Theatre, and general expenditure in advertising, printing, tra velling expenses, &c. &c. By expenses of League newspaper, in cluding salaries of conductors, editor, and contributors, stamps, paper, and printing Deduct receipts for casual sale 1,227 6 3 10,161 7 By registration expenses, including salaries, travelling, and other expenses of registra tion agents, legal expenses, wages of clerks, printing and stationery, expenses in registration courts, and general expenses on registration business Balance on hand . 15,534 4 1 12,033 11 1 '63,174 13 6 WILLIAM BICKHAM,/ Members of the Fi nance SAMUEL LEES, Committee. W. RAWSON, Treasurer. Examined and found correct. WILLIAM EVANS, Member of the Council. We should like to see an analysis by Lord Mont eagle of this statement, and more especially should we like to be able to see the distinction between the item "expenses of meetings, including hire of rooms," and the item " rents, taxes, and gas, including rent of Covent-garden Theatre." Again, the ingenious Mr. Wilson charges at one place for " expenses of furni ture and fixtures," then makes a second charge for "erecting hustings ;" and, thirdly, after all "other expenses," charges for " fitting up of Covent-garden Theatre." Mr. Wilson would have made an excel lent Old Bailey attorney, especially in drawing in dictments. He has such a power of saying the same thing in different words that the escape from his meshes would be as difficult as the recall of any money given to the Anti-Corn-law League. His peculiar genius shines brilliantly in the ar ticle of " travelling expenses." The tract dis tributors (and considering the average number of pumps in each particular county, under which such gentlemen run the risk of being put, we would not at all object to their receiving proper remuneration), and the agitators, Cobden ,and the Quaker, and the " registration agents," all charge their travelling ex lenses, and Mr. Wilson, snore suo, varies th e coun t s . n the distribution of money to the latter class—that is, the " registration agents," we trust that the Leaguers have not forgotten their poor old dupe William Worthingto n , of Cow-lane, Coventry. That respectabl e elderly individual was within a very nar row chance of proceeding to the Australian colonies, merely for swearing that he signed for the League certain notices which he did not sign. The forbear ance of the attorney for the Conservatives of War wickshire Sessions, leaves Mr. Worthington still the decus et tetamen of the Anti- Corn-law League at Coventry ; but though their paper designated him, be cause he was found out, " superannuated and in his dot age," that is all the greater reason why some portion of 349 1 7 218 19 0 462 12 4 1,000 17 0 1,336 14 6 1,528 1 6 1,669 16 6 2,320 4 9 8,992 1 8 6,854 9 2 5,712 13 4 ~~~ ~~,,,, e ~~ A41,4 : 11 , ALL iO le ll el ' L 4-01 tomliat attb.e' aL tt, th' Nblntte rIE the oketA tin s ,. ix te bi Ap -RI4 ktot, T i p kei Nit:i 21 81 ? hkati -qtß o Co lt .p , Mac It ] lirti; his G 4tOrge ht I Caw *er e On htth e '4ece ! gnu Th %um, 8