The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. 1 dered that our domestic i n t eres t s i n a ll th ese arrange - PROM TXX HYM N° PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. I ments were of primary consideration. I laid down the STANDARD.—The Chapter of the diocese of ; principle, that it would not be wise in us to punish Exeter hare addressed to the Lord Primate a memo- I ourselves, because other countries refused to adopt si rial, praying his Grace to consult with the Bishops miler arrangements as to their import duties. These rs to the best means of establishing uniformity in principles I laid down last year, and I adhere to them the order of public worship. The course pro- I still." The principle on which Mr. Baring cted is here Pied by the Chapter is no doubt open to some adopted, defended, and justified by Sir R. Peel. More objections, and objections of considerable weight favourable terms than those of Brazil towards us have been offered against it ; but, looking to the could not be proposed or expected, whilst Brazil evil consequences that must flow from the present had a right to expect more favourable terms from state of affairs if much longer continued, and us. Her tariff was an encouragement to our ma unable to discover any better means of correct- nufactures. Our tariff was a discouragement to ing that unfortunate state, we must express our her produce. Mr. Baring, therefore, did wisely anxious hope that the proposition of the Exeter Chap- in unconditionally reducing our Sugar duties, as a ter will be favourably received and firmly acted upon. preliminary to a renewal of a beneficial treaty with We have besides acomplete confidence that the Bishops Brazil, and which at that time was in our power. will decide with a full knowledge of what suits the In 1841, however, the members of the present Go age in which we li ve , an d d ec id e w i t h out pre- vernment refused to relax the prohibitory duties on justices and wisely. The characteristic of our foreign sugar, because a moral consideration was in time is practical common sense, which, with- volved, viz., the question of the slave trade! They out slighting imagination in that which is its pro- adhered to their refusal even in 1843, upon the mo per sphere, the sphere of innocent pleasures, rejects tion of Mr. Hawes to reduce the duty on foreign it absolutely from all the serious business of sugar to 34s.—the identical amount they subsequently life. This makes us severe and strict in all our adopted for their duty, on their miscalled free-labour graves concerns, and there is none so grave as reli- sugar; which, admitting it to be such, if imported, Fion. It makes also (though not in the bad sense) only opens the markets, to which it previously went, jealous and sceptical. Whether it has originated in to a corresponding supply of slave-labour sugar. our political inquiries or elsewhere, we will hardly FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. submit to anything without a reason for it, and a TIMES.—The result of the preliminaries for the elec good one. And in truth our best religious teachers tion of the President of the United States is no less in are somewhat to blame for this disposition, if the dis- teresting as an exemplification of the general effects of posAtion (which we are far from thinking) is one to elective and republican government, than as an indica be lamented. What are " Butler's Analogy," and tion of the particular policy we may expect to trace for " Paley's Evidences," but practical commentaries the next four years in the Cabinet of Washington. Is upon the Apostle's comma n d t o " rove all things ?” it, or is it not, a p ro b a bl e , if no t an i nev i ta bl e, conse p Now, this being the temp e r o f th e ti me, as i s wel l queries of universal suff ra g e , th a t men w ill c h oose a wea k gifted o w f their i th * wisdomo wnp passions, o n e s u , e r r a t hteor thanmeet known to the Bishops, we h ave no appre h ens i on that a t h e strong exi. instrumentruler their Lordships will not se e th e necessity of adapting gencies of Government ? Is it not an ancient and in their arrangements to it, and take care that while contesta bl e trut h , that in a pure democracy the highest public wqrship shall be conducted .." decently and in excellence is more apt to lead to proscription than to order," xso ceremonies shall be imposed that have power ? The choice of the citizens of America, not not the sandtion of uninterrupted usage or manifest only on this, but on some former occasions, is calculated utility ; sternly rejecting whatever is merely sym- to shake the confidence of the most ardent partisan of bolieal, or otherwise only calculated to work con- their institutions; for the position of a President is not fusedly upon the imagination. Such things, in this so exalted that his dignity shelters him from the keenest criticism of public opinion, and th rows on o th ers th e re mature age of the world, are o bj ect i ona bl e as puerilities—injurious to the grave temper proper s3ns elevated ib and ilit political yofthe rank withoutovernmet he any real emay ieva tainly not atoned for by th e i r k nown con- attain to for religious worship ; a n d th e i r puer ili ty i s cer- tion of character, and he may ri se t o p ower w i t h out . rexion with Popish errors, b o th i n th ose who respect. The principle of mo n ar c hy su ff ers not hi ng in a constitutional country from the occasional first introduced them, and in those who would now presence on the throne of Princes incapable of a full or revive them. We repeat our conviction that the proper discharge of the duties of government ; when- Bishops will see the necessity of restoring the order ever such a misfortune occurs it is justly attributed to of public worship universally to what it has been the accident of descent, and the Constitution provides a during the last two or three generations, without the remedy. But the Constitution of the United States ac knowledges the possibility of n o suc h acc id en t, an d pro least regard to ti me - repea l e d ru b r i cs, an d o b solete vides no such remedy. Th ere i s no thi ng o f t h eory i n customs. The worst o f revo l u ti ons, it was sa id by Lord Somers, a n d a ft erwar d s b y M r. F ox, the qualifications and dignity o f th e Chi e f M ag i strate i 3 a counter-revolution ; and the most offensive b o e f a t r h e e r Ir e f n i t o he n; S Mate they makes srn them to e . and instead whatever the de factoe ffi of office of innovations is th e renova ti on o f w h at has Mr. Polk being raised to the Presiden c y, th e P res id ency been long and deliberately discarded ; the is lowered to the standard of Mr. Polk. Nay, more, reason is the same in both. The counter-revo• whilst the President continues to exercise powers which, lutions and renovations are victories gained ever though temporary, do in some respects exceed the their former superiors by a lately depressed party, powers of a King of England, his personal importance and the history of the world tells how such victories may sink very low in comparison with that of members are always used. The Bishops will be cautious how of his own Cabinet, although he, and not they, is the they draw upon themselves, or, if they ar e care l ess practical and responsible head of th e Government. about themselves, as we truly believe th e y are, h ow Such was the contra s t b e t ween M r . W e b ster an d they draw upon the sacred E s t a bli s h ment of which Mr. Tyler ; such will prob a bly b e t h e contras t be they are the guardians, the odium of giving a triumph t o w n e e en f Mr h . Calhoun l an d d ita t e h l e . now t. P h re e sid a e u n t t hor elect f . to the Tractarian party, by setting up i nnovat i ons or the Aometrteeaupriac C pui n a stitution t a l ' e a s s oto the authors of to the Tractarian part l v, by setting up innovations or the American Constitution was to steer a middle renovations renovations abstracted ly dista4eful to the peopl e , an d course between the danger of investing the President rendered more intolerable by their apparent connexion with so much power as to endanger the liberties of the with Popish errors. country, and that of leaving him so little that he would GLOBE.—Since we roused the attention of the cease h to be the tlfcctive head fell the Stat e e. ef A t s h long as public to the state of our relations with Brazil there tabelecchiotiizceenosf t a h n e d c community u p n u a e dt upon gni ty of on the offic e e m w o as has been nathing but restlessness in Downing -street backed and reinforced by the private consideration of and Whitehall. The organ of the Board of Trade is him who filled it, bosh these dangers were well avoided. told to browbeat the Ministers of Brazil ; and forth- The period of four years is too short for dangerous am a' ith " insolent Brazil" is held up to scorn and bition to work in ; and the power of the President in indignation for attempting to profit by the foolish the hands of a competent Statesman commands a due and. selfsought perplexities of its surer-subtle pre- respect. Bet if the case be otherwise, the office gives silent. But this course being found inexpedient, little real power to him who is not supported in it by a large amount of personal influ e n ce an d p u bli c esteem : the apologist of the Foreign-office is instructed t o fold the language of conciliation, an d t o j ust if y even and if this influence and thi s es t eem b e en j oyed by others, who may be subordinates in authority or oppo the Brazilian tariff! Accordingly, we learn that newts of the whole Government, such a state of things " the sole object of it is revenue,"—that Brazil has ts m estly to bring the institution itself into eon no " hostile intentions towards ns,"—that she is ac- tempt. We sincerely hope that Mr. Polk of whom tuated only by one motive, " which Brazilian we know at present too little to have any ' . osscs Ministers are bound to make the law of their conduct sions against him, except those we derive - -- we mean the interest of the state whichtheygovern." extravagant language of his supporters, will show Now, this is all beside the question. The intentions in progress of time that he knows, not only how to of Brazil towards us may readily be supposed to be win a victory, but to use it well. He will have the d:cfated by her own views of her own interests, and advantage of coming into office at a time when the pros by a very natural desire to increase her trade, and, of perity of the country is reviving ; and he may be con course, her reeenne. Abo u t h er i n t ent i ons towards sidered safe f r o m an y p o li t i ca l tempests o f great v i olence, us, we may conc e r n ou r se l ves b ut li tt l e. T he ques- unless he has th e ill ju d gmen t to rouse t h em i n the wilds fo f Oregon or on the borders of Texas. In the present on the public i s i n t eres t e d i n i s, as to the intentions `fate ot h . the a Texan qrestion, when a new President, Mr. of our own Government towards Brazil, which, as , fsr as they can be gathered from existing in- i s o s n a e i s j to s h j e . n fi s t r n i b eeny• a e lected (. e d in o tthhaet independencecommonwealth, o f who i f! , ernation, have reference neither to the exten- country, it is exceedingly to be regretted that Mexico s:oa of our trade nor to the increase of our -rove. should entertain the project of re-invading her former nue ; but appear, on the contrary, calculated at once province. Whatever may be the immediate result of to narrow the one and restrict the other. The attempt such an operation, it can scarcely fail to kindle the now made to clothe the wretched policy of our utmost excitement in the United States, and in all pro- C,binet with a sentimental regard for the into- bability to extend the war beyond its original limits. rhe influence of E ng l an d, F rance , an d th e ot h er P owers rests of our merchants, we di scar d as a l together have recognied has already been exerted childish; as the last resourc e o f inert w h o, struggling n i t he shape of the liveliest remonstrences against these both against events they either did not or would not designs of the Mexican Government. T he success of a foresee, and principles they can no l onger oppose, atgn against Tex a s wo uld pro b ably be more in ju an 1 left s destitute of any intelligible defence of-th e i r ir em ius P to Mexico than actual defeat; for although it is policy, seek to disguise their failure under the possible that Santa Anna may penetrate into the chimerical pretence of peotecting our merchants frein country, he can neith T subdue it nor expel the Anelo the evils of over-trading anti over-credits. Their American settlers ; and lie must, in reality, pre course in opposition left them no alternative bit Pare for a contest wiili a far more considerable Power. to allow the Brazilian Treaty to expire without It is possible that the intell;genee of Mr. Polk's election waking any attempt to renew it, and to rig's the in- may suggest a more guarded course to the Mexican Ge neral; but, on the other hand, the veh emen t threats of' an jurious conseq uences t o our tra d e ; and it precluded vexation with which the de mocra ti c p arty h ave b rought. them from all fri n dly nego ti at i on w i t h a Power w;th a in their ca ndid a t e , ma y i n d uce t h e M ex i cans to strike a which we had l ong en j o y e d an advantageous trade in . in the next few months, before the new Govern tied very article which we still import, refine, and blow,merit is installed at Washin 00. Under these critical - export ; but which we are not allowed—in deference circumstances, it is not unreasonable g to contend that the to the political casuistry of the Board of Trade—to European Poe ers which have recognised the indepen et, ter for home consumption. We import and carry en dence of Texas are bound in good policy as well as in a 'erect trade in the article to the extent of 13,000 tons good faith to demand of Mexico, as well as of every se netalkes. We supply both our own colonies with other Power, that this new state be acknowledged and re:ineil sugar, and foreign countries with still larger unmolested. If we had a sufficient interest in this (pies• (r entities of raw sugar ; but not a pound may we cat 6"n to recognise Texas at ell—if we, in common with at. home I We may carry on an y amoun t o f t ra d e in, other stetes of Europe, are pr e p a r e d t o res i s t th e an “ed consume all or any o f, th e pro d ucts o f B raz i l— "ex ation of T ex a s t o t h e U n i te d S tates as an act o f rap i ne, her coffee, or her hid es , or h er t o b acco — an d even her calculated to dep r iv e us o f a use f u l a ll y , t o perpetuate slavery, and to create a rival maritime Power in the su4ar—provided not a particle of the latter find its Gulf of Mexico, it would a ppear to be no more than wey into the tea or ceffee of the labouring classes of just to maintain the independence of Texas t tl is country ! And, beyond even this, we may import against Mexico itself, and, above ail, by a declare fr-e-lahour sugar as it is —(absurdly as falsel e ) tiers of the principal States of Europe, to terminate c: lied from Jews, which now competes with the slave- this state of uncertainty and menace. H a d T exas tt .de sugar of Brazil in continental markets, and thus consented to abolie'i shivery, all her political difficulties increase the demand for the sugar of Brazil and Culat would long since have been terminated ; and, instead of the re; but to consume ourselves that which our policy being an object of mingled contempt and desire to the forces othsre to consume, is forbidden by the population or' the United States, she would have placed dictates of humanity ? H ence , as M r. M'C ulloch her whole s o c i a l condition on a high er an d more secure basis than theirs, and wou ld b e prepare d to play a eon observes, "though we do no t swee t en our tea w i th sn iar produced by Brazilian or Cuba slaves, we sP . ic u t o o u s steer partainn eventhe history e,rrc ofther.e t w ile woi'ld. It is not f of slave .. _ policy o _ clothe ourselves with wool, manure our lands will th a e cy United States and ;h u e ' free between policy ' Mexico or of Bones, and manufacture our paper of rags which are - England. But if there be in Texas men who look peid for with this very sugar ! It is obvious, there- honestly to the future welfare of the country they have fore, that in so far as buying their produce goes, we adopted, and who contemplate something more than the are ditect encouragers of slavery in Brazil. Arid base transfer of their national rights to others, they thus it is, that while our present syste m lay s our deserve to find support in Europe : and there is too trade with Brazil and Cuba under a disadvantage, much reason t o f ear , t h at un l ess t h e i ntervention of the angi obliges our peopl e t o p ay d ou b le its natural European Powers settles this question now, it will at no Price for an important necessary of life, it pro- distant period embr,,il the western hemisphere in war. nr,tos ,that very slavery w e a ff ec t to deprecate I " If, however, the independenc e o f T exas b e recogn i se d b y Such sophistry as that to which we have ad- Mexico,undersuitabl!conclitions, and with th e gtiaran vested has indeed only to be st a t e d, i n or d er to be tee of from Europe, everytl the ing but the nat iona l treachery existen c e ef of her that w stateenc itizens in t z s e safe s scouted by every intelligent and hone s t m i n d. And and the growth of her independent interests would soon what is the plea put forward-by the Government for place them beyond the reach of temptation. these absurd inconsistencies—put forward, too, by a CHRONICLE.—From all points of the compass, and paper peculiarly affecting a knowl e d ge o f mercant il e b y every post, arr i ve fresh proofs and instances of the affairs—that "it was indispensable that a salutary and ability with which our foreign diplomacy is conducted. foreseen check should be given to the export trade now The Levant mail of the other day brought news of the and for' the next few months"---and "to change the dismissal of Rifest Pacha, the Turkish Reis Effendi, the !dove*, a n d i n many i ns t ances d esperate s stem of only member of the Di van a t a ll courteous, conc i l i atory, doing ;bu s i ness now pract i sed i n Brazil ?" y or favourable to E ng l an d. H e was, i n f act, the only Corn- went upon such p uer il i t y as t hi s were wasted. It member of the T ur ki s h C a bi ne t w h om i t was our interest is further stated, that "if the Budget of 1841 had to preserve in office. Why was he dismissed ? the Fr k ankfort Journal, well informed on Turkish affairs, been adopted at the moment it was brought forward, w t e h s e t touble to inform us :—" Sir Stratford Can n would not have changed in any one particular the flin g th. ea subsequent policy of the Brazilian Government. Mr. vehaving h ad mnoocnenthteea3uosteh. of fhoe October r ish a represen e ta f - Baring proposed the reduction of the Sugar Duties the Sultan, to notify the birth of Prince an Alf u r d e l d enc ten o k absolutely and unconditionally; and no stipulation for advantage of the opportunity to hint to the Sultan that the renewal of the commercial treaty, or for the main- the march of his general policy might be better. How tenance of low import duties on British goods, was ever reserved this accusation against his Ministers was so much as required of the Brazils." Now, if this o spoken, te s u th h the u t n o g i g z u e ltai t was, i moved thereby, and spoke were merely the dictum of the Times, it might be al- n contradicting the argumentsac Pacha f w s h i o r adroitly, s instead of lowed,to pass without much consideration. But if it the blame upon Rifaat, and, accordingly, all be derived from any higher source, we hope the day is moderate an best intentioned of the Vinisteers mostw not far distant when we may find it confirmed in Par- dismissed." If , from Constantinople we turn to Alex " - liarnent by some one competent to speak, and having a andria, we see marks of the same ability and success. fall knowledge of all the facts of the case. We shall be The Governor-General of India, in passing through anxious to hear any one, speaking with the authority of Egypt, had won upon the Pacha, who promised to re the Board of Trade, sa y th a t th e re d uc tion then pr o - gulate the transit across Egypt both for letters and li g h t posed by Mr. Baring; absolute and unconditional as it merchandise rb in a sa f tis c f o a u cto se ry b m o a ts n t n in er. wi O th ur s de l a e r en all e ie n s ti was, " would not have changed in any one pardon- th e env , r l e es n t c n:e w sh er o e uld even r get our lett g ers through p Egypt far the_ subsequent policy of the Brazilian Govern- envy, more facility. The Marquis of Lavalette em thatment,"-4hat is, if we are to understand by this ployed, of course, all his well-known talents to defeat the reduction of the sugar duties then pro- and undo what Sir Henry Hardinge had done. It Was posed would not have enabled us to negotiate and re- a mighty matter to Egypt. To encounter the difficulty, new a. favourable treaty with Brazil, without that Lord Aberdeen sends out a post-office clerk, from the interruption to our trade which now immediately usual policy of being humble and matter-of-fact. The flows from the policy of the present Government. consequence has been, that Mehemet Ali has scarcely If, however, this, and this only, be meant—that Mr. , deigned to take notice of him, and that the French Baring's well-timed reduction of the sugar duties, have had influence to cause every obstacle to be thrown would-not have changed the old policy of Brazil to- in our way. The post-office clerk has done nothing for wards this country, which was singularly favourable to his office ; the Transit Company is to be broken up, and our trad e; th en we agree w i th the Times, and admit the superintenden c e o f s t eamers up th e Nil e, an d th e subsequent passag e o f th e d eser t li m i te d to T ur k s, to that su e t ) wou ld h ave been the case. We recommend our Contemporary to inquire further into this matter the exclusion of Europeans. In Greec e an d i n Sp a i n befor e it a• 1 itself pun ends to making random a sser ti ons France is as triumphant over us as in Alexandria. in both places, that is; in Athens and Madrid, the French upon le sulfa Min which it • But then, Bari Barin g e in 1841, made an absolute up his creatures in both places, and the first law of doubt he did. And whationdiof the sugar duties. No these creatures is to exile and proscribe every one sus in 1842, when he was courtin d S ' i. Robert Peel say pected of being friendly to England. The Esparterists to sustain him in his amendrn gentsreeofTrade ; were not pursued with more rancour in Spain, than the "slake every possible effort," said he the Tariff?— ' Mavrocordatists in Greece. Mavrocordato has been ciprocai advantages from other cotintri '. es " . th b °btain re- elected member for Carysto ; but his old friend Coletti, fail, you should not refuse to buy in the cheapestutinif you _l a te; the inspiration of M. Piseatory, will not even and sell in the dearast, for the purpose of punishing I the little C r h oc am or i ta r to at to k st ; and he . is proceeding to pack other countries." And again, in 1843, referring to tht 1 1°1°1 as the little Spanish t Cortex has on the same prin . - 8 has been packed, vi et Uncle pigiOd, he said, " I then declared that I consi- armi a . The French Court an d G overnment seem, in deed, to have the sumo rule of conduct in both Mil. 14,121,000 2,641,395 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 29 tries. They have taken for allies and proteges, both in Spain and Greece, the military party; these carry every thing by intimidation, and, if this fails, by murder. General Grivas, who so lately completed his political education on board a French steamer, is the Greek Nar vaez ; he is the bully and the blusterer for frightening timid deputies into the right way of voting. And when Grivas shouts his orders in the Greek Assembly, they have the same effect as those of Narvaez at Madrid, where people know that the hired informer, the dependent court-martial, and the executioner, wait on the word of the military dictator. We hear it rumoured, that the French Opposition is not to be so very violent against us, poor Englishmen, as it used to be. We shall be very happy to see any proofs of this ; and shall be eager to do justice to either journalists or Parliamentary orators who can be induced to part with those convenient and accustomed themes of invention and declamation, which afforded argument, force, eloquence, and apparent patriotism, at so little expense of talent, information, sincerity, or truth. But first let us see some indication of this improved feeling, and, above all, of its effect upon the conduct of the Go vernment. What interests us, however, far more than the tone, either present or prospective, of the French Opposition, is the actual policy 'of the French Cabinet, which, notwithstanding the visit of Loads Philippe and M. Guizot to Windsor, displays all the old jealousy of French tradition. The Cabinet of M. Thiers, even in its last days, never acted on so decided a principle of national rivalry at Alexandria, as that with which M. Guizot is now counteracting in that country our cer tainly not unfair or insidious efforts for procuring free transit. Even the mild Journal des Debais bristles up at the idea of a railroad between Suez and Cairo, and is quite as much haunted by the spectre of the perfide Albion, as its brethren of the Prease or the National. POST.—When Mr. Gladstone introduced his Bill for removing all fiscal obstructions to the exportation of British machinery, the Morning Post stood alone in de nouncing that measure as destructive of the manufac turing superiority of England. The Bill in question was supported almost unanimously by the free traders in the House of Commons ; yet now the free traders who com pose the Manchester Chamber of Commerce declare, in their elaborately prepared memorial, that unless Go vernment shall extend relief to them they must be driven from all the foreign markets which they at present sup ply. " Foreign competition," they state, "has already been increased by the free exportation of British ma chinery ; and so formidable are the indications of in creased competition with the very same implements that are used in this country, that if there were no other reason for the repeal of the cotton-tax this alone would be sufficient to render it imperatively requisite." The Manchester Chamber of Commerce declares that the tax on raw cotton is equivalent to a tax of ten per cent. in favour of the American manufacturer. Good ; but in the possession of better and cheaper machinery, the Eng lish manufacturer enjoyed advantages over his foreign rival, amounting to not less than twenty or thirty per cent. In his speech in support of the Exportation-of- Machinery Bill, Mr. Gladstone admitted this fact. "He believed," such were the Right Honourable Gentleman's words, " that since the foundation of machinery establishments in Belgium for machines, equal in execution to those of this country, the foreigner did not pay more than twenty or thirty per cent, more than the British manufacturer paid." Before the passing of Mr. Gladstone's Machinery Bill, the foreigner did, how ever, pay twenty or thirty per cent. more for his machi nery than the British manufacturer was obliged to do. This mighty advantage our free trade loving manufac turers and Mr. Gladstone agreed to throw away ; and now these modest manufacturers declare that the pos session by foreigners of an advantage to the extent of ten per cent. must utterly destroy our foreign trade ! Not merely did the patriotic Mr. Gladstone counsel the abandonment by our manufacturers of exclusive advan tages ranging in extent from twenty to thirty per cent., he declared, emphatically, moreover, that while, on the one hand, our machine makers might hope, by means of the action of his Bill, to monopolise " the machine-making of the world," our manufacturers would, on the other hand, suffer nothing from the influence of the measure. To our magnanimous Minister the sacri fice about to be made by our manufacturers ap peared, indeed, absolutely insignificant. "To pre vent their foreign rivals" —such were the words of Mr. Gladstone, " from having so slight an advantage was most invidious." If it was " invidious " to refuse to our foreign rivals the " slight advantage" of twenty or thirty per cent. on the price of machinery, must it not, according to the logic of our invaluable President of the Board of Trade, be still more " invidious " to refuse to our foreign rivals the slighter advantage of ten per cent. in the price of raw cotton ? The object of Mr. Gladstone was, as he proclaimed when he introduced his Machinery Bill, " to secure to England a steady and valuable trade." An increasing trade in machine making for foreign countries can, it is obvious, become " steady' chiefly in reference to its effects in " steadily " diminish ing our export trade in all other manufactured commo dities. In direct proportion to the increase in the ex portation of English machinery, must be the decrease in the exportation of our cottons,:woollens, and hardware. In direct proportion, in short, to the extent to which we may augment the means by which foreigners may manu facture for themselves must, of necessity, be the decline in the foreign demand for English manufactured commo dities. Our foreign trade has for a quarter of a century been all in all in the eyes of all " enlightened commer cialists ;" yet these "enlightened commercialists," who have so long and so unweariedly asserted the paramount importance of foreign trade, have deliberately sacrificed that foreign trade, in the acquisition of which England has endured so many fearful sacrifices. In enabling foreigners to manufacture fur themselves, we have ob viously abandoned our cherished scheme of manufactur ing for them ; in other words, we have virtually aban doned our foreign trade. What, however, let us ask, may be the value of that trade in machine making which Mr. Gladstone hoped to gain, when weighed against the v due of the trade which we have consented to throw away ? Statistics for determing this question have been supplied by free-traders. Our manufactured annual ex ports, foreign and colonial, amount, as Leaguers are never weary of proclaiming, to fifty millions sterling. Ot these about thirty millions represent the extent of our foreign trade. The value of English machinery ex ported before the passing of Mr. Gladstone's measure, by means of smuggling, and of the " licensing" system, was shown by the free-trader, Mr. Brotherton, to amount to one million and a half annually. The value of the machinery so exported, when compared with the value of the goods which that machinery was fitted to produce, was declared by Mr. Gladstone to be five per cent. These estimates—estimates supplied by free traders —prove, that the machinery which, under the action of the " licensing " system, was exported from Eogland—machinery of the value of one million and a half sterling —represented an annual production of goods abroad to the extent of thirty millions sterling—repre sei4ed, therefore, a loss to that extent to English manu facturers of cottons, woollens, and hardwares. The whole of our actual foreign trade scarcely exceeds, as we have stated, thirty millions sterling. As, therefore, ac cording to Mr. Gladstone, the value of machinery em ployed in manufactures does not exceed five per cent. on the value of the commodity produced—and as, according to Mr. Brotherton, we did, before the passing of Mr. Gladstone's Bill, send abroad, by direct and indirect means, machinery to the annual value of a million acd half—it would seem to follow, that whenever Mr. Glad stone's Bill shall double our former exportations of ma chinery, our foreign trade must be annihilated. Our system of foreign trade is, therefore, doomed. We shall, hereafter, discuss the very curious question—why our manufacturing agitators in favour of " extended foreign trade," should have lent themselves to Mr. Gladstone's scheme for the overthrow of our foreign trade. HERALD.—The late anniversary dinner, to celebrate the acquittal of Hardy and Co. in 1794, has been too little alluded to. It is a new and a remarkable feature in our politics, that judges are now expected to sacrifice their own convictions, and act as the mob wish. This was avowed on that occasion. The health of Lord Denman was toasted as an honest judge, because he voted in a way to meet the approbation of the agitators. Those who agreed with him were praised as his sup porters ; those who differed from him were held up to the reprobation—" the contempt and scorn"—of the people ; the mention of them was received with yells and hisses. Therefore the judges are now expected to give their decisions, not according to their opinions, their consciences, and their oaths ; but are expected to give them on one side. This is quite clear; no judge can ever be the subject of praise or blame for giving his judgment according to his honest opinion ; he has no control over his opinion ; his reason is convinced by the argument presented to him ; he decides accordingly. To praise him for this, or to blame him, would be about as absurd as to praise or blame a man for saying that two and two make four. But, if a judge is to decide, not as he thinks but as the mob wish, then it is quite consistent for the mob to thank him. Now, then, we have, in the late meeting, a new and striking illustration of what we have so often maintained— namely, that the late judg ment . of Lords Denman, Cottenh am , an d Campbell , regarded by their party as an act conducive to the interests of that party. By the way, what reason could make the Hardy-men omit all mention of Mr. Justice Maule's opinion and ar gument against the agitators ? and yet he was one of Mr. O'Connell's members in the last Parliament, and he decided against him. The extraordinary, the wholly unprecedented step since taken by the Lord Chief Jus tice, adds force and illustration to the same position. When before did a judge ever appeat to the public through the press ? When did any of Lord Denman's predecessors ever publish his argument, and add page after page in support of his reasonings which he had not delivered in his place ? Lord Tenterden was so jealous on the subject of judges publishing, that he would not even give a new edition of his book on shipping with his name. We believe 'Mr. Justice Bayley had the like scruple as to his book on bills and notes. But what would either of these judges have said of a Chief Justice resorting to the press, and giving both a corrected report of his own speech in pronouncing judgment, and adding many pages which he never had spoken ? How can Lord Denman know that his delivering these arguments a m n i d g h s o t not ma d have e convinced t t o h f e r m e i v n e o r r: a y u o n f a t n h i m e l o a u w s Lo ? B r d u s, t, s t ha r e k s e e p t t he h r had been i se reasons nsf n an rom his affirmance, brethr h w brethren, and would equally enhow could he tell, that had he delivered them as he was bound to do, a reversal might not have been the result ? THE CASE OF INFANTICIDE AT WOLVERHAMPTON. CONCLUSION OF THE INQUEST. This investigation was resumed on Friday last, and adjourned on the evening of th a t d ay . O n Tues day the Coroner and jury met again, and after the examination of several witnesses, whose testimony added nothing to the general statements published last week, the jury, after ten minutes' deliberation, re turned the following verdict :—" That the said unknown female child was born alive in the month of October, in the year aforesaid, and died immediately after her birth, and was found dead on the 28th day of the same month, in the same year, in the night soil of a certain privy situate in the parish aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, and that her death was caused by ex travasation of blood upoa the brain, the result of ex ternal violence, but how or by whom such violence was caused, sufficient evidence does not appear to the said jurors." Mr. Sheriff was removed from the police station to Stafford on the night of his commitment, and Miss Rail ton and Mr. Hildreth early on the following morning ; but Mrs. Hildreth has remained in the town, in conse quence of the ill state of her health. DR. GLOVER, IN REPLY TO MR. LETHEBY, ON THE MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN BELANEY'S CASE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—The only reply to Mr. Letheby which I think myself called on to make through the public press, con sists in the correction of three misrepresentations of my statement. In a letter to the Medical Gazette I have re plied more fully. 1. Mr. Letheby accuses nie of endeavouring to prove that the taste of prussic acid " must be hot." Now, I only go the length of supposing this substance, when swallowed in a poisonous dose, to be capable of giving rise to a sensation which a person might term "hot," not being in a condition to "search for choice expressions." 2. He tries to found something upon an inference which he supposes me to make in Belaney's favour, from his apparent intention of using thelancet. But I expressly guard myself from drawing any such inference; and content myself with showing, that as bleeding is, in the opinion of most authorities, an excellent rem e d y i n suc h cases, and in the opinions of others the very best remedy which can be employed, it does not quite follow, as the Medical Gazette hath it, that Belaney took out his lancet in order to kill his wife. 3. He asserts that I dissent in toto from the opinion given by himself and Dr. Thomson in regard to the smell of prussic acid remaining for some time in a room where some of this substance may have been spilt. I express no such dissent, but endeavour to show the exis tence of circumstances which explain the absence of smell in the case in question. The position which I hold is so secure, that Mr. Letheby, like another opponent, in despair of being able to attack it with success, has fallen on points which Ido not hold.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, ROBERT M. GLOVER, M.D, 12, Northumberland-street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, November 27. MR. HURST'S AFFAIRS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—A grossly exaggerated statement in reference .0 the affairs and pecuniary embarrassments of our pre sent Member, Robert Henry Hurst, Esq., having gone the round of the principal newspapers of the day, copied from the columns of the Brighton Guardian, which from the evident vindictive feeling exhibited in the article in question is calculated, not only unnecessarily to wound the feelings of Mr. Hurst and his connexions, and in flict a deep and lasting injury on the junior members of his family, but also create an unfavourable impression in the minds of strangers as to the tradesmen who are al luded to in that article —we, the undersigned tradesmen of the borough of Horsham, with many of whom Mr. Hurst has for years past been in the habit of principally dealing, feel it our duty, in justice to Mr. Hurst and ourselves, thus publicly to deny, so far as our knowledge and interests are concerned, the truth of the statement inserted in the Guardian reflecting on the character and conduct of Mr. Hurst in reference to any debts con tracted with ourselves, or of which we have cognizance with any other tradespeople. Our accounts have been always fairly and honourably paid at the usual period of the year for discharging the same, and we hav e every confidence that our claims for the current year will be discharged in like manner. So far from Mr. Hurst's " disappearance" from Horsham being sudden and un expected to us, it was a matter of common notoriety for .ome considerable time previously to his departure. With regard to the alleged intended sale of his house hold furniture, farming stock, &c., the only disposition of such property advertised is the ordinary sale of farming stock, &c., by a gentleman quitting his farm and declining to follow that occupation. We are, Sir, your obedient servants, W. Lintott, grocer. W. Aldridge, plumber, gla- J. Stanford, draper. zier, &c. C. Knight, grocer. G. Waller, gun maker. H. Razell, saddler, &c. R. Collins, tailor. C. Rowland, stone-mason. J. Honywood, builder. J. Penfold, smith. T. Honywood, builder. H. Stanford, baker. T. Redford, butcher. J. Herring, druggist. J. Rowland ' J. Potter, baker. B. R ow l an d , bricklayers. Webber and Taylor, buil- J. Clarke, printer and book. ders. binder. G. Rich, upholsterer. S . Stovell, brewer. H. Mitchell, brewer and coal G. Clark, coachmaker, merchant. Horsham, 20th Nov., 1844. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 28 , CADERIX U. LITTLE. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) The jury, after about an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff on all the counts—Damages, 405., which, in this action to try a right, carries full costs. WINTER ASSIZES. _HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, Non. 28. (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) SINGULAR CHARGE OF Aasox.--John Wilson, alias Rowland Howell, aged 30, described as a tailor, was indicted for feloniously setting fire to a stack of hay, the property of John Stephens, at Farnborough. William Stephens, the prosecutor's brother, deposed that he had a farm at Chelsfield, in the parish of Farnborough, and between two and three o'clock on the morning of the Gth of September he was awoke by an alarm of fire. On getting up he found that one of the haystacks was in flames, and before the fire could be extinguished the greater portion of it was consumed. He afterwards saw the prisoner in cus tody, but he knew nothing of him, and to the best of his knowledge had never seen him before. Wm. Tompsett, a police-constable of the R division, who is stationed in this neighbourhood, deposed, that upon hearing the cry , of " fir e ," h e got up and went towards Mr. Stephens s premises, and when he got close to them he met the prisoner, who told him that there was a haystack on fire. He asked the prisoner which road he was going., and he said to London ; and witness asked him to give information of the fire to any policeman he might meet, and request him to come and assist, and the prisoner promised to do so, and proceeded on his way towards town. Witness then proceeded to the stack -yard, and found the stack in question on fire all over. Cross-examined by the prisoner —The place where I met you was in the high road from Sevenoaks to London. should wish the sergeant to be questioned with regard to his treatment after he was removed to the Sidcup police-station, and whether he was not placed under restraint ? The sergeant said he was not aware of the fact, but there was no doubt that it was considered all along that he was not in his right senses. The prisoner asked whether the surgeon who exa mined him at the station did not say that he was at the time labouring under delirium tremens The witness said he could not speak to that fact. This was the case for the prosecution. The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, apologised to the Court for the time he had occupied in questioning the witnesses, and said that with the permission of the Learned Judges he would read a few observations he had reduced to writing in answer to the charge. He then proceeded to read an excel lently worded defence, which commenced by ob serving that poverty prevented him from producing any witnesses, but still he trusted the facts as they already appeared would warrant the jury in believing the statement he was about to make. He then went on to say that he had been confined in a lunatic asylum for two years, and was only liberated about a year ago; but his mind had been wandering since that period, and, for some time before this occurrence took place, he had been in a very low and desponding state. At the time in ques tion he had been to Sevenoaks to look for work, and, being unsuccessful in obtaining it, increased his despondency, and passing by the place at the time of the fire, he was induced, in a moment of delirium, to make this groundless charge against himself, and for which he declared there was not the slightest founda tion. He proceeded to state that, ever since he had been in custody, he had been treated as a person not in his right mind, and, while at the station-house, under remand, he was not allowed to use a knife or fork, and• his neckerchief was also taken from him, in order that he might not do himself any . violence, and similar precautions had been adopted since he had been in Maidstone gaol, where he had never been left by himself, but was continually watched. He begged the Court would explain to the jury the different result that would follow from the event of his being acquitted on the ground of insanity, and an unconditional ac quittal; and he said, that rather than the former verdict should be returned, which would probably have the effect of immuring him in a lunatic asylum for the rest of his life, he would retract his plea of not guilty, and plead guilty to the charge; although he at the same time declared that he was entirely inno cent; and that he only made the statement he did to the sergeant under the influence of an excited ima , gination. - Mr. Justice WILLIAms asked the prisoner whether there were any witnesses connected with the gaol whom he wished to have examined ? The prisoner said he should like to have the go vernor of the gaol called as a witness. Mr. Jossph Bone, the governor of the gaol, was accordingly sworn, and in answer to questions put to him by the prisoner, he stated that when he was brought to the gaol he appeared in a very weak state, and in consequence of some communication that was made to him relative to the prisoner having once before attempted to destroy himself, he was placed in a coil with two other prisoners. He added, that he believ'd the prisoner told him that he had once before att , in . pt3d to destroy himself. I ris >ner—Was it not in consequence of the dis covers of a mound upon my person which I had in flicted, upon my being examined when I was brought to the gaol ? The governor said it might have been so, but he did not recollect the circumstance. He added, that the fact of the existence of the wound, if it really were so, would appear by the books of the gaol. The books were sent for, when it appeared that the prisoner was described as having a wound upon his person. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS then summed up, and he remarked upon the singular nature of the case, at the same time observing that there did not appear to be the least evidence against the prisoner, except his own statement. It was for the jury to say, under all the circumstances, whether they believed that statement was founded in fact, or whether it was, as the pri soner alleged, merely the effect of an excited imagina tion and weak mind ? The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON, &c.) Edward Faithful, a man apparently about 30 years of age, respectably connected, married, and with a family, was indicted for a rape on the person of Sarah Alice Nott, aged 18. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Ballantine attended to prose cute ; M. Clarkson and Mr. Wilkins were engaged for the defence. The prosecutrix, a young lady of engaging appear ance, and of fashionable attire, who gave her evidence with the most perfect self-possession, was examined at great length by Mr. Ballantine • and cross-e xam i ne d at still greater l eng th b y Mr. Clarkson. The circum stances, where they can be given, are briefly these : The prisoner rented a house from the young lady's father, in Alfred-place, Old Kent-road, the neighbour.. ing house being the residence of the landlord himself, where the young lady lived. Mr. Nott being engaged in the brewing-house of Reid and Co., was obliged to leave for his employment on Monday, the 21st of October. The same day was granted to the servant for a holiday, and Miss Nott was in consequence left alone. The prisoner called between eleven and twelve o'clock, on pretence of having some business with her father, and after some conversation on indifferent sub jects, he kissed her, and then it was a ll ege d comm i tted the offence charged in the indictment. A labouring man, named John Hogan, a messenger from the father, called between twelve and one o'clock, with some zinc, and change remaining from half a sove reign. The door was opened by Miss Nett, who took the change, and said, " It's all right," the pri soner at the time being still in the parlour. The wit ness saw nothing unusual in her appearance at the time. Mr. Nott returned home about two o'clock, and was informed of the outrage, and between five or six in the same evening the prisoner was taken into custody in his own house. After the surgeon's evidence had been given, Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury at great length, and in the most able manner analysed the evidence, and pointed out to the attention of the jury the sang froid which was so remarkably exhibited in the man ner of the prosecutrix, and some seeming discrepan cies in the statements of the principal witnesses. He then concluded an able address by beseeching their merciful consideration for the unhappy prisoner. The Learned JUDGE then summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, but expressed their abhorrence of his profligacy. Baron ALDERSON—He is certainly a profligate man ; we are all agreed in that. The trial occupied the time of the court for above five hours. 344. examine the complainant with a view to show that the casket of jewels was given to him by his mother for the express purpose of presenting to Miss Elizabeth Forbes, and that with respect to the articles of furniture he had also made the young lady a present of 181. The complainant, however, said in answer that his mother, who resided in the French capital, was not even acquainted with Miss Forbes, and that what she said on giving him the casket of jewels was, " These jewels are family relics, and I give them to you to present to your wife on your wedding day." Now he could positl%-ely swear he had not given the defendant the jewels, but merely lent them to show her cousin, and that he ex pected she would have restored them afterwards. He admitted that had they been married he would hare given them to her. The defendant, however, contradicted the statement, and declared that they were given to her as a gift, and as she was not the cause of the breaking off of the intended nuptial ceremony, she did not see what right the complainant had now to demand a restoration of them. After a great deal of discussion pro and con., Mr. COTTINOHAM, addressing the young lady's friends, who were present, advised them, at all events, to deliver up to the complainant the articles of furniture named in the summons, and that, with respect to the casket of jewels, the possession of them might be retained by her until the complainant's mother was written to on the sub ject, to ascertain whether they were given to her son for the purpose of presenting to the young lady, to whom he was paying his addresses at the time. The summons was therefore ordered to stand open until that information was obtained, and the parties left the court. i THAMES POLICE. Returned to the Bank of San Fernando for Reals. the October loan To the clergy To reproductive expenses, justice, &c 12,094,945 81,004,603 The following table shows the application of the loan of 50,060,000 reals received by the Bank, together with the balance due by the Bank on the previous month's re ceipts, amounting altogether to 52,044,785 reals : Beals. Beals, One month's payment to the Queen One month's payment to the Infante Don Francisco 2,333,333 William Leverick, a sergeant in the same division POLICE INTELLIGENCE. of police, deposed th a t b etween two and three o'clock MARLBOROUGH -STREET. on the morning of the fire, he was on Farnbury- FELONY.— Wm. Popjoy was charged with having common. It was shortly after the alarm had been stolen 150 yards of Orleans clotk from the premises of given ; and he met the prisoner coming towards him Messrs. Garrard and Co., linendrapers, Leicester in a direction from London. The prisoner accosted square. him, and said, " Sergeant, are you going to the fire ?" Charles Thomas, a port er i n t h e employ of Mr. Bray, Witness asked him where th e fi re was, and he repl i ed ironmonger : Cranbourne• s t reet, sa i d he was passing that it was just through th e v ill age. through Leicester- square yesterday, when he saw the He then asked him what the fire was, and h e rep li e d i n a h ay-stac k . prisoner take up a p arce l o f goods which was standing inside the doorway of th e p rosecutor ' s shop. Suspecting 'Witness asked him one or t wo o th er quest i ons, and that the pris o n er h a d no aut h or i ty to remove the pro he at length sa id, " 'Ti s no use your going any fur- perty, he went into the sh o p, an d on mentioning what he ther. lam the ma n w h o se t it on fire.' Witness asked had seen, was i n f orme d th a t t h e pr i soner had committed him why he had d one it, an d h e sa id hi s ob- a robbery. The prisoner was immediately pursued, and ject was to be sent out of the country, the property was found in his possession. lle then asked him how he had fired the stack, and Mr. Garrard identified the property. he replied with a lucifer match. Witness then told The prisoner, ls7ho is %ye?: young df man, appeared so much affected his while stor making not us ntr e ne ence n a e s to induce a him that, after what he had stated, it was his duty to g said he was a take him into custody, and he accordingly did so, and had been y paid off about u a . . and month ago from the locked him up in the station-house • and shortly after-sailor, belief ' Childers, vessel of war, and then he had 100/, in his pos session. Having spent all but 251. he came to London wards he sent one of the constables to take charge of him. On the same day, in the presence of a consta- by the train on Wednesday l ast w i th that sum in his ble, he asked the p r i soner w h e th er h e recollected pocket. Being a stranger in London he was unfor what he had said to him in the morning, and he re- tunately persuaded by a loose woman to accompany her Plied that he did, and it was quite true. When the home. In the morning he found himself stripped of prisoner was in the station-house he gave the name every farthing of his money, and all his stock of linen, Of John 'Wilson, but afterwards, when before the except what he then had on. Feeg himself quite magistrates, he said thi s was not hi s rea l name , an d re c kl ess h e t h ought the best course for lin him to take would that his right name was Rowland Howell. be to do something that would ensure his being trans- Mr. Justice W ILLIAMS as k e d t h e pr i soner w h e th er Ported, and it was with this vi ew th a t h e h a d l a i d hold of he wished to put any ques ti ons t o thi s w it ne ss ? the first thi ng w i thin his reach. The prisoner replied that he should wish him to be The prisoner was fully committed, asked, whether the magistrate before whom he was UNION -HALL . examined Miss Elizabeth Forbes . , of Camden-villa, examined did not entertain a belief that he was in- Peckham, was y summoned for refusing to deliver up the possession of a casket of jewels and some articles of sane ; and request him (the sergeant), in consequence household furniture, the property of Mr. W. C. Richards, of that belief, to make inquiries in London respect ing him ? of Langton -place. Vassall-road, Camberwell. The sergeant said the magistr a te certainly did en - The complainant st a t e d th at a short time since he was tertain that opinion, and requested him to make some in partnership with Mr. Forbes, at which period he was inquiry, and he had ascertained that the prisoner had paying his a dd resses to h i s daughter, and they were to been before charged with some offence, but was ac- have been married, the banns having been put up for Seterirteen CLUB CATTLE SHOIV.—On Wednesday quitted on the ground of insanity. that purpose. In August last the complainant, having was the last day on which entries were made for the Mr. Justice Wiereems—What was it induced the occasion to leave town for Paris, gave Mrs. Forbes 18L, forthcoming show at Baker-street, and these, particu magistrate to believe that the prisoner was not in his his purchase some furniture for the house intended for larly for implements, were more numerous than on any right mind? 'Witness—From his appearance while bride, and while in Paris his mother gave him a casket previous occasion. Amongst the names of entries for he was under examination, and his conduct at the of jewels to present to his wife on his wedding day. On stock, was that of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, his return from Paris he found the furniture had been who last year exhibited some pigs which were commended time he was apprehended. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—State to the Court the th e bought acrreeably to his wishes, and having exhibited by the judges,but who this year has entered into compe '7jewel's to :Miss F or b es s h e as much pleased with ACCIDENT titioisin the cattle class. The tarpauling to cover the whole of what occurred. o he s i h r o b w ri t l o lia a n y c o y u , n a g nd la r d e v q , u h e e s r te c d o h us it i n n. to C le n t m h p e i r ai h n a a v n e t them area, for the accommodation of the cattle, has been corn- ACCIDENT FROM THE I N CAUTIOUS USE OF FIRE- Witness—When I first met him he appeared very I t t could pleted, and is well arranged with the new ventilators, ARMS. On Wednesday afternoon a dreadful accident oc- much ex c it e d, an d no t lik e a man in his right mind i not refuse so reasonable a request, but circumstances which have proved of such comfort to visitors onntilators, the pri gon board a fi s hin g -sm a ck lyi ng off Billingsgate, ,He was flourishing a large hedge-stake about, and at havit e s s i nce occarr ,d to break off the match between vions oecasbsn of the show being held at, this Bazaar. to a lad named John Carrier, aged 16, belonging to the first I thou ht he was going to strike me, but he did them since of course applied for the restitution of the jewels The last day for taking in implements is to morrow not attempt to do so. When he got to the station- and also the furniture, but he met with a refusal, and was week, and stock is to be taken in on Saturday week. vessel. The poor fellow, it appears, had been cleaning a fowling-piece, and had broken a piece of wood house, he put the stick down in a er,rner, find sail therefore compellt dto have r . ecourse to the pr , -sent pro- The extent of accommodation in the carriage, depart which he used for the purpose in the barrel, in order ," I don't think I shall want you any more." The ' ceedinies to compel her ! deliver un hi.,: prop' rry. b: tr of the aallery , lia.. been much eidere, ,on u,,,connt of to remove which he poured some powder into the 1 . witness added that he was fearful the prisoner would ' The defendant's so lic it o r sai d t h at t h e j ewe l s and th. rest additional number of implem. ?Its which have gun, and then foolishly dropped on to it a hot cinder. 1 also the money for the furniture were the seonteneoes l e . e -nte,ed for exhibition. attempt to commit some violence upon himself; and he . - . . . , , ' • ~ ~, . gift of the com pl ainant on hi eheet, st:d he tht re ,; 3 1 t , r r . k a! 1110, 1 , 1 / 4 , . (! , imbrid he explosion which took place shattered his right hand ~ teee to pieces, and dreadfully lacerated the arm. He was therefore placed a constable to watch him. i not see that it e ti, t•I IV, ill' , ly on eer pert te deliver "P attended by Baron lineseutee, lea town yesterday conveyed to Guy's Hospital, and was immediately at- 1 The prisoner, who was an eXceedingliivell-ipoken i the possession, although the match was broken off be- morning for Paultons, Hants, to honour Air. Sloan e I tended by Mr. Edward Cock,.whoperformed amputation and apparently intelligent 111411 , here observed that he twain the parties. The solicitor then proceeded to cross. Stanley with II VW. at the illifitjOiLlts n 9 iftd, ii 111 411 44 WU Qi rtn9TOTY• 291,666 2,624,999 To the Senate ~ To the Congress 29,593 52,041 81,634 Minister of State Privileged obligations Active class 500,000 130,000 630,000 Minister of War. Ordinary privileged obliga tions Extraordinary obligations Privileged obligations Passive class 28,358,485 140,686 44,270 1,052,016 2 9,595,457 Minister of Marine. Privileged obligations Active class 2,120,000 230,000 2,350,000 Minister of Finance. Coast guard Land protective force against smuggling Active class of employ6s—in the departments of Finance, Interior, Grace, and Justice Ordinary expenses of the above departments Passive class (or pensions) Madrid Sundry obligations 787,401 2,602,396 8,548,757 1,013,479 600,000 569,467 Minister of Interior. Prisons Police force, and sundry pri vileged payments Roads Charitable fund 1,170,271 911,124 100,000 60,000 Total 52,044,985 Times, Captain Hew Burn, the master of the ship Himalaya, in the South West India Dock, was brought before Mr. Billantine, charged under the 3d and 6th William IV., c. 19, sec. 45, commonly called Sir James Graham's Act, with having " wilfully and wrongfully abandoned" a sea man named George Robert Rowe, one of his crew, at Port Nelson, New Zealand. Mr. Bisgood, solicitor, of Carey-street, stated the case on the part of the father and friends of the seaman, who, he said, were highly respectable, and sought redress for one of the most grievous injuries that could be inflicted. The seaman, Rowe, contrary to the advice of his father, who was in a situation to maintain him in comfort, joined the ship in August, 1843, and she sailed on the 25th of that month on a voyage to New Zealand and other places, and was to recivo 2/. 10s. per month, his name being entered on the articles. The ship had recently re turned without the young man, and on application to the captain respecting him, he gave no satisfactory rea sons for his abandonment, and was unable to produce any certificate of the functionaries at Nelson that the seaman had disappeared or deserted, and could not be brought back, which he was bound to obtain by the 42d section of the Act. The 42d section declared that, with the exception of entering into his Majesty's naval service, "no person of the crew shall be discharged, either with or without his consent, at any place abroad, unless with the sanction of a public func tionary, where such functionary can be found." If it was proposed to discharge any of the crew at any of her Majesty's colonies or plantations, the master was bound to obtain " the previous sanction in writing of the go vernor, lieutenant-governor, secretary, or other officer, appointed by the Government there." There were other clauses in the Act for the protection of seamen, and to guard against their being abandoned during a voyage at the caprice of the commander, while the clause impos ing a punishment of fine and imprisonment, the 45th, recited that " great mischiefs have arisen from masters of merchant ships leaving seamen in foreign parts, who have been thus reduced to distress, and thereby tempted to become pirates, and otherwise misconduct themselves." The youth wrongfully left behind at Nelson might, at this time, be suffering all the horrors of starvation, or, perhaps, he was no more, and he called upon the Magis trate to put the law in force and send the case to the sessions. Mr. BALLANTINE said the defendant ought to have sent a boat for the youth, and that he had violated the Act of Parliament. lie ordered him to And bail, him self in 80/, and two sureties in 401. each, to answer the charge at the sessions. CRUELTY TO A SEA APPRENTICE.—Yesterday Capt. Archer Whaley Owen, the master of the ship Fairy Queen, appeared before Mr. Ballantine, to answer a charge of assaulting Edwin Davis, an apprentice, on the high seas, in a very brutal manner. The complainant, a well-behaved and intelligent lad, stated, that on the 22d of June last he was ordered to wash the carpenter's shirts, and when he had done so the captain said they were not washed clean enough. He made answer that he had not shipped as an appren tice to wash shirts ; on which the captain ordered him on the poop, and rope's-ended him across his back and shoulders until the blood came. He had nothing on but his flannel shirt and his blue shirt at the time, and his back was sore for four or five days afterwards. He was repeatedly flogged before and after that ; and upon the 12th of July he cut some lanyards from the rowlocks of the gig in mistake, and the chief mate was ordered to flog him, and he was flogged with a nine-thread rope in a most unmerciful manner. James Cobblestone, a seaman on board the Fairy Queen, said he had been at sea fourteen years, and never saw so much rope's-ending in his life as on board the Fairy Queen. tie saw Davis unmercifully flogged by the captain and mate. The poor boy rolled about while the mate was flogging him, and he " paid " him as hard as he was able. The weals and bruises were as thick as his thumb, and were fore and aft, and athwart his breast and his back. He took upon himself to remonstrate with the captain, and say it was improper usage for the boy, and that he ought to obtain redress for the ill- usage, on which the captain said he knew who he had got to deal with, and reported that Mr. Ballantine, the Thames police magistrate, was a particular friend of his. Mr. BALLANTINE—I shall send you before a jury. You will find bail, yourself in 401., and two sureties of 201. each, to answer the charge at the sessions. RECEIPTS OF THE BANK OF SAN FERNANDO. The Madrid Gazette of the 9th instant, con tains the account of the receipts of the Bank of San Fernando for October. The total amount fixed by the Minister of Finance was 60,000,000 reals vellon, and the total received is 56,163,877, leaving a difference of 3,836,123 reals, or about 39,0001. However, with the receipts of the lotteries and mines, the total is 57,769,925 against an advance of 50,000,000, leaving the Govern ment creditor with the bank on the month of about 78,0001. sterling. Of the provinces 27 have paid in more than was required of them, amounting together to 1,800,428 reals. Amongst these Madrid appeared for the trifling sum of 24,317 reals ; but even this Is re markable, as Madrid has hitherto been always in arrear. Nineteen provinces are in arrear for a total of 5,636,551 reels. Amongst these Barcelona figures for 1,383,558, which must be attributed to the results of the war. Se ville, Cordova, and Granada, are among the next largest in arrear. The total amount received by the Govern ment for October is officially announced as 81,004,603 reals, or above 820,0001., while the total amount of the budget of receipts as presented by Calatrava in 1843 was only 69,097,918 reals for the year. The distribution of this sum is as follows : [ADVERTISEMENT.] AN EXTRAORDINARY CURE Or AN ABSCESS ri g THE KNEE, BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILIAL" Henry C ro ft, res idi ng at 18, Castle-street, Southwa rk' was an in-patient at St. Thomas's Hospital, for an In. seessed knee, an d came out as i ncurable on the,l6 l June last year, after being there three months. 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Conductor, Sound Magnifiers for deaf persons, give 1 , . meth Ito r e li e f to o ld stan di ng extreme cases of d e af nes --Caution. M essrs . S. an d B . S olomons, Opt ic; so/lutists, are not i n an y way connected with a Pest tle same name in their immediate ne i g hb o urb7 4 in any part of th e country.'oprevent miste k , DI cautious and o b serve — on l y to b e had at 39, A' , o marle-street, Piccadilly opposite the York HoteL _ A Dispatches f rom th e G overnors o f S i erra Leon e a nd Malta were received yesterday at the Colonial-o% BIRTHS. On the 16th inst., at Heavitree, Devon, Mrs. Christopher* of a daughter. On the 27th inst., at Hyning, near Lancaster, the lady of the Rev. George T. Berkeley, of a son. Mrs. Jo ys On the 27th inst., a t th e s tag Brewery, Pimlico, Zull, of a daughter. On the 27th inst., at Streatham-hill, the wife of Wi llis° Carpthael, Esq., of a son. ~, Or. On the 27th in s t., a t P ag l es h am, the wife of the Ae" A. Francis, of a son. OP On the 28th i ns t., a t N o t t i ng -hi ll, the lady of J. A p Esq., of Penang, East Indies, of a son. grs f. On the 23d i ns t., a t B roo kl an d s, Wandsworth-roa d,' W. Branston, of a son. On the 25th in s t., a t D unraven Castle, the Visoo— .l2 Adare, of a daughter. On the 26th inst., at Alwington Villa, Cheltenluun' the lady of Lionel Place, Esq., Lieutenant, R.N., of a son. is dy On the 17th inst., at Richmond. terrace, Clifton, th e of William Stacey Coast, Esq., of a son. oe * On the 21st inst., a t D ur h am, t h e w i fe of M a j or W of a On the 1 daughter. er' 9th inst., the lady o f G. F oun d er , E sq ., of ffe' r fordwest, of a son. —..... MARRIED. ota' On the 26th i ns t., a t St . P eter ' s C hurch, Guernsey, 'm a ns, nant-Colonel Trafford, of Panthoel, Carmarthen, • W a r gro se, second daught er o f J o h n L e M erchant, Esq. , o r Jurat of the Royal Court of that Island. Jsd is ' On the 26th i ns t., a t Ch r i st Church, the Rev. Jo hn , joe Vicar of Flumbleton, in the East Ridi ng of Yorkshir e, Ann, daughte r o f the late E. Hopkins, Esq., of klack DIED. Mang' d On Tuesday, N ov . 26, a t Li verpoo l , age d 25, . s aild daughter of John Smith, E sq ., one o f th e ProPne ,,-- editors of the "Liverpool Mercury." lofts On the 22d inst., a t Chillinton, the Lady ',— GiOn ffard the 26th inst., Hester, wid ow o f the late Charles field, Esq., of Bury St. Edmund's. valeske , On the 27th bast., in Park-lane, Piccadilly, Lewis . Esq., aged 88. dough"' - On the 26th inst., at Putney, Surrey, Jane Graite, of Patrick Charles .D. On the 27th inst, in Norfolk-street, Strand, 4- - Phillips, aged 95. Age On the 27th i ns t . , a t H en l ey-on -Th ame s, Catherine, ~, of Mr. William Coor auctioneer. f y ,i folir'' On the 27th inst. atEltham, Kent, Katherine PaYhisle daughter of the Rev. Francis Wollaston, late Rector o f t, burst, in the same county. wife of WilliOn On the 27th inst., Mrs. Ann Blaxland, -d 86. Blaxland, Esq., of Spencer-street, Clerkenwell, age,. William On the 27th inst., Charles Ashley, younger son 0 ''' Miskin, of Broad -street, St. John's, Southwark. ___, bake r On the 27th in s t., Mr. William George blidlsw Dorset-place, Pall-m all East. ir. A lger ' Oa the 2Stli ~ Francig, vntlngest child of A • Julth-street, Be,lf,rd-rw.v. 3 ~. , yousa , t., 11171 3 P ° Al 2, 1., .:. , 1•04‘4,4, 11/1 .ole iPf Strand, in the Pre ci nct of the Savoy, ix bk • " v- ILiddleen, Friday, November 39, 1144 P CORONERS' INQUESTS. THE LATE FATAL OCCURRENCE AT A MASWERADS! —Last evening Mr. Payne, the City coroner, and a mns/ respectable j ur y, assem bl e d i n the pup i ls ' L ecture -room of St. Thomas's Hospital, to investigate the cause of death of Mr. William Henry Slade, aged 23, the unfor tunate gentle man w h o l ost hi s l i fe i n conseque nce of injuries rece i ve d at a masquerade, at the Mon tpelier Tavern, Walworth, on the night of Monday last. Mr. Woollen, solicitor, of Bucklersbury, in whose establishment deceased was, attended to watch the pi'e' ceedings on the part of his friends. Rebecca Gatland was first sworn. She said she re sided at 24, T ra f a l gar - street, Walworth, and k ne w de ceased, whom she met on Monday night, or rather On Tuesday morning, about one o'clock, walking in al! grounds of th e M ontpe li er Tavern, Walworth. Akin"' ten minutes after she saw him he left her, and she then saw him ascendi ng t h e sta i rs wh i ch lead to t h e bah' room. Those stairs were outside the building - , erecte d . in the gr oun d, an d were composed of wood. There I T eof; a man nam e d P assmore at the top, thrusting p down by the sh ou ld ers as f ast as they came up. W, ness was thru s t d own b y hi m, and as he was doing God' man heard a cras hi ng no i se, and exclaimed, " My Ou`" man ! the bannisters are breaking." She got down on e fast as she c ou ld, an d t h en saw Mr. Slade with one fn" on the top landing, and the other on the top sta ir ' In an instant after she saw two or three of the bah's' trades of the gallery fall from the top landing, an ird, mediately some more , an d t h en the body of decease d fell Ellen Gatlin, of C o t tage - p l ace, E ast -street, Walworw' stated that she was standing by the side of deceased oi l the lauding of the staircase at the time of the ocnui r i: rence. There was a great rush of persons into the ball" room, but the on ly one a d m i tted was a tall man i n ou masquerade costume, and the man in custodyWSS PUS" • ing the peopl e d own sta i rs. When the man in costum e went in, the man in custody went in also. 36 a M i na ° after some man p u t his hand through th e d o or, w hich was half open, and shoved the people back. The landing was full when this took place, and the pressure of the people caused th e ra ili ng to give way, and then deceas and another ge n tl eman f e ll to the ground. She afa r, wards saw the man i n custo d y on the ground, and hea rd a man charge him with being the cause of the 0 0 ,.. k tir. rence, to which h e ma d e no answer. She did not think the deceased wa s so b er at t h e t i me. In her opinion the bannister wa s b ro k en b y the pressure of the peo ple against it, when the man from the door pushed them. Mr. Willi am M un d y, o f No. 53, Bow-lane, Cheapsine' printer, deposed that he acted as eheek-taker at tho Montpelier Tavern on Monday night last. At the time of the occurrence there were about eight persons on al e landing struggling to get in. That was as many as t he „ landing wo u ld h o ld. T he door was pushed open '4' those outside, and then violently closed. The bannister) as well as the rails were gone about ten minutes before the occurrence. There were several persons inside wil t ° the door was f orce d b ac k , and the pressure cause d VI deceased, and the oth er gent l eman, Mr. King, to fo'' over. The CORONER, at considerable length, summed 12 P' and, after s ome deliberation, the jury return e d a yer c cY cf Accid en t a l D eat h , expressing regret that there he l nothing movin g t o t h e cause of de ath, they could 0 s return a deodand. The inquiry lasted upwards of three hours. SUICIDE FROM POlSON. — Yesterday afternoon, 31r ; Baker, the Coro ner , h e ld a most lengthened inquiry at the Green Gat e , H ac k ney - road, touching the des a l, ! Mrs. Louisa Winterborn, aged 40, th e w if e o f M r . Du; Winterborn, surgeon in the above road, who died fr°"' the effect of poison, under the following circumstances< Mary Ann Irons stated that she had been servant4' the deceased for the last year and a half, who appes'i,. to live very h a ppil y w i t h h er husband. Her mind O the last six m on th s h a d b een rather desponding. as 1311. ‘, thought, throu g h l os i ng h er mother. On Moo ds / morning the deceased got up about half-past sece.ll i t and on witness co m i ng d own sta i rs she found her lac in the yard. Deceased kept retching very much (11 1: ing the morning, refused to have any dinner, and '— the course of the afternoon laid down on two pill, in the sitting-room. Deceased still continued vete ! ing, and about eight o'clock in the evening ki-; Winterborn informed her that he feared his s ql - had taken poison, and requested her to take a note .f' d ° . Mr. West, a neighbouring surgeon, calling in his i ll . The errand-boy was a l so f orwarded to a Mr. Hale, sli' geon, in Paul- s t reet , Fi ns b ury, requesting his imraedi llta' services. Mr. H a l e arr i ved f i rst, shortly before r 0 deed o'clock. M r . W est came after ten. The decease d c h at four o'clock on the following morning. Mr. Hale, s urgeon , o f P au l- street, Finsbury, was to u r „ sworn, and stated that he visited the deceased at au?" half-past nine o'clock on Monday evening, after bail requested to do so by Mr. Winterborn, who inform him that she had taken poison, and that he had *da l ; nistered to her some li me - water as an antidote. Witnes s asked him how h e k new s h e h ad taken poison, an d o L A remarked that she h a d con f esse d to him that she 'l3 taken arsenic. Wit ness t h en i nqu i red of her how mild she had tak en , an d s h e repl i ed about as much as cover a sixpence. He then asked her where she gc%. from, and s h e answere d f rom an old dirty bottle i n surgery. He then showed her a bottle which contain ed small particles of th e p o i son i n quest i on, and w h ic h said was the one she got it from. By the CORONER—He was certain that she had sta ted that she had taken it. The CORONER, after some unimportant diseasstilj commented upon th e me l anc h o l y f acts of the casejiiet the jury, after a bri e f d e lib erat i on, returned a " That the deceased had destroyed herself by pnisou.mo whilst in an unsound state of mind." es , to, telp b ..,„, A, .