The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-11 00:00:00

ABOLITION OF THE CORN-LAWS. (Abridged from the Glasgow Argus.) On Wednesday evening a numerous meeting of gentlemen, friendly to the total and immediate abolition of the Corn. laws, was held in the Black Bull. JAMES DUNLOP, Esq., in the chair. He called upon Mr. Weir to state his sentiments on the subject of the Corn laws. Mr. WEIR, after stating the circumstances which had led him to take a prominent part in the proceedings, continued_. We meet hero, not for the purpose of arguing with and con vincing each other, but for the purpose of concerting means for spreading our common faith to others ; and, above all, of bringing our opinions to bear with the force of conviction upon the Legislature of the land. Our object is not to search after truth, but to communicate the knowledge of the truth we have discovered to others. Our object is not speculative, but practical—not discussion, but action. Thus circumstanced, the main question we have to consider is, whether there be, in the present aspect and position of public affairs, any thing that holds out a better prospect of success, to a movement such as we contemplate, than has been found to wait upon our previous efforts. It seems to me that there are many signs which encourage us to be up and doing. First, there is the late deficient harvest—the scanty supplies which, under any circumstances, can be hoped for from abroad—and the panic fear of sharing our scarcity, which has already closed the ports of Belgium and Sicily. The second sign to which I adverted is the diffusion of the opinion of the inexpediency of the Corn-laws through the mer cantile and manufacturing classes of all shades of political opinion. So long as the pressure of these laws upon trade was less distinctly felt, attachment to a political party induced many to exclude from their minds an opinion contrary to the dogmas of that party. Our Tory traders would not for the world be so unpolite as to allow themselves to think that the laws eulogised by their political leaders could hurt them. A little pinching they could not help feeling now and them—a misgiving would from time to time cross their minds—but, like children frightened by a ghost in the dark, they re-assured themselves, and said—" It is nothing." That time has gone by. The pressure is too urgent—too real to admit of further self-delusion. There is mutiny in the Tory camp on the subject of the Corn-laws. To day a very striking indication of it has fallen under my own eyes. You all know the Chamber of Commerce—its excellent services in the questions of the bankrupt laws, weights and measures. and the like. But you likewise know the anxious fear of grappling with the weightier and more vital questions of free trade which has of late years characterised its Direc tion. Well—even in that focus of anti-free trade feeling, my friend Mr. Buchanan this day tabled a recommendation to the Directors to petition for the alteration or repeal of the Corn laws, and not one voice was raised against the recommendation. Nor is this confined to Glasgow. Mr. Williams, Member for Coventry, has declared himself actively hostile to them. He has told his Coventry constituents that, on a recent tour through the Continent, he has witnessed with his own eyes the efficacy of these laws in raising up successful com petitors to us. I have every reason to believe that Mr. Williams' hostility to the Corn-laws is of compa stively recent date t and I hail it, not so much as a vote gained in Parliament, as a proof that Mr. W.'s constitu ents—the silk and ribbon manufacturers—not long ago indiffer ent or hostile to free trade in grain—are now with us as a body. —( Cheers.) The third sign to which I referred will be found in the occasional indications of a willingness on the part of members of the landed interest, to admit that the Corn-law policy is a fair topic for discussion, or even of a willingness to concede in the rigour of their restrictive policy. They show a wavering--an indecision—a tendency to desertion in the hos tile ranks.—( Cheers,) Tbis is the moment for a decisive charge. A bold onset will make timid and disunited enemies give way, and half-friends at once throw themselves into our ranks. This is no time to be lost in argument ;It is the time for action. Entertaining these views, I have taken the liberty of sketching out not only a scheme of organisation, but a scheme of our first practical movement. This I will now take the li berty of reading and submitting to the consideration of the meeting. In doing so, it is far from my wish to have the appearance of prescribing. But I have always found that the deliberations of meetings like the present were most produc tive of geed when, by tabling a distinct proposition, form and method were given to their discussions. My plan is sub mitted to the meeting only as a means of originating discus sion. It is follows : " That the individuals composingithis Meeting, do consti tute themselves into an Association, having for its object the adoption of practical steps for obtaining a Repeal of the Corn-laws. " That every inhabitant of Glasgow, favourable to the total Repeal of the Corn-laws, be admissible as a Member of this Association, on payment of entry money. " That the Interim Office-bearers be directed to prepare, at the earliest period, a constitution for the Association, and submit it for the discussion, amendment, and adoption of a General Meeting of the members. " That the Interim Office-bearers be further directed, with. out delay— " Ist. To prepare, for general signature, a petition, in name of the subscribing merchants, manufacturers, traders, and others, inhabitants of Glasgow, to the House of Commons, offering to prove the destructive nature of the Corn-laws ; craving to be heard by Counsel, and allowed to produce evi dence, at the bar of the House, in support of this allegation ; and praying, in the event of their making good their case, for the immediate and total Repeal of the Corn-laws ; " 2d. To take measures for procuring to this petition the signatures of as many of our influential merchants and manufac turers, and generally of the inhabitants of Glasgow, as possible. " 3d. To take measures for procuring at the same time subscriptions to a guarantee fund, for defraying the expenses of employing Counsel and leading evidence in the event of that part of the petition being granted, to be uplifted only in case that prayer is granted. " 4th. As soon as a sufficient number of signatures, and a sufficient amount of subscriptions, are obtained, to intimate what has been done to the various Chambers of Commerce, Anti-Corn-law Associations, and the like, throughout the country, and to invite them to adopt the same course." Of the first four resolutions I say little. The nomination of the office-bearers—the suggestion and fixing of the en trance -money, is as of right left to yourselves. The de grse of interim organization requisite for immediate action alone is given. The form of the body can be matured at leisure. It is to the fifth, as most instantly urgent—as most claiming explanation and argumentative recommendation, that I more especially invite your attention. It is now seven years and more that I have been incessantly active in my hos tility to the Corn-laws, and during that time I have co-ope rated with many individuals and classes, and seen many different plans of agitation tried. All of them—lectures, public meet ings, petitions, debates in Parliament, have their uses, but all have also their defects. What seems to me the advantage of the plan I recommend is, that while it neither interferes with nor retards any of those other modes of operation, it gives a better organization to the public conviction and sentiment they are calculated to call into life. Public meetings vote resolutions and petitions, and each man returns home to nurse his grudge against the Corn-laws, but the Corn-laws are un shaken. Lecturers are listened to with applause, but with the same practical result. By both of these means knowledge is diffused, and a hostile feeling to the Corn-laws excited ; but something more is necessary to bring forth practical effects from that knowledge and passion. A debate upon the operation of the Corn-laws in the House of Commons—all that can be got by general petitions against them—leads to a wordy war, in which strong averments are made on both sides, each party voting at last in comformity to its previous opinion, and the " preponderant landed interest" of Lord John Russell of course gaining the day. Are we to go on, year after year, fighting with weapons which experience has proved to be blunt or fragile ? Are we to be, year after year, at the expense and trouble of getting up and forwarding petitions, only to be laid on the shelves of the Library, with a ticket of the number of signatures appended to it? By peti tioning to be heard by Counsel, and allowed to lead evidence, you gain, if the prayer be granted, this :—The opening state ment of the Counsel puts the question in a distinct, limited, and clear form. In the after discussions, honourable members can be kept to the question—prevented from wandering into irrelevant details. The statements of fact, by men like the Gregg and Cobdens of Manchester—and many of our own traders, to name individuals of whom would.be invidious —can not be avoided under a pretext of ignorance. They must be met, if met at all, by counter-evidence. That got up evidence of the landlords will have a very d.fferent effect, when sifted and torn in pieces by our Counsel and friendly members, than when put forth in fair language in a pamphlet, meant only to be perused by those who wish to be con vinced. Truth and fallacy will be brought face to face on a clear field, and who can doubt the issue ?—( Cheers.) So much for the first head of this resolution. In order to secure the granting of the prayer, it is necessary that the Members of the House be made to feel that a body prefers it powerful enough to make them feel its displeasure if refused. To insure this backing is the object of the second, third, and fourth sen tences. The whole mercantile body, if possible, must be amide to move in this one direction, But, before we can get merchants to move in other places, we must show them that we are moving in earnest ourselves.—( Cheers.) Therefore, it is proposed to have a Glasgow petition numerously signed, and subscriptions obtained to a fund (only to.be collected in the contingency of the prayer of the petition being granted) suffi cient to meet the expenses of employing counsel and sending np witnesses. This is what you find expressed in the second and third sentences of the fifth resolution. When this gua rantee of our earnestness is obtained, we will then be entitley to go forward and claim the co-operation of our mercantile brethren in different parts of the empire. With such vouchers for our go od faith in our bands as our petition and our guaran tee fund, we can call upon them to do likewise. This is the object of the fourth and last sentence. It is necessary, forthe success of such a orgy er, that it be offered up simul taneously from a great.nussiber o f our mercantile and menu tacturing staples. In order to induce all these places to move it is necessary that some one move f:.4t• Let us, in Glasgow, take the plunge. Not only is the prayer' more Likely to be heard, if emanating at once f rom many digeserent places. Each place can send up its own witnesses, and thus will the trouble and expense to each be es sent i a ll y di m i n i s h e d. T , ;:ere is one circumstance that renders this mode of proceeding more especially advisable at the present moment. . When on former occasions we moved by petition against the Corn-laws, our unenfranchised brethren moved 'long with us. They are tired out and disgusted—they are hopeless of obtaining until they, too, possess the franchise. They are as hostile as ever to the Corn-laws, but they refuse to petition against them because they believe it to be unavailing. Our array in point of numbers is on this occasion much diminished, as in point of wealth it is increased. We must act according to circumstances. We must make up by discipline for want of numbers. We must trust to the organised energies of the enfranchished class alone. The recusants will rejoice in our victory, but they will not move a finger to aid us. Under existing circumstances, however, I believe we can con quer without them, if we lay our shoulders with a will to the wheel. I confess that, should we prove successful—as they must share the benefit—it will be to me a proud reflection that we can say--" Why do you distrust our good will ? Here we have been labouring for you even more than for ourselves, at the very moment that you were loading us with reproaches and obloquy." One word more : the resolutions declare for total repeal, and nothing short of it. My reason is this : The question is, shall we have free trade in grain or restricted trade ? Between these alternatives there is no medium. Trade must be either free or restricted. Even those who suggest a compromise, regard it as temporary—a gradual transition to ultimate free trade. In this view, a low fixed duty has been recommended for some years. Believe me, if you grant a low fixed duty, you give the Corn-laws a new Tease of life. At present, Government derive no revenue through their operation : the whole emolument goes to the landowners. But a low fixed duty will create a reve nue from this source, and give Government an in terest in their perpetuation. At present—the land owner! alone have (or think they have) an interest in up holding the Corn-laws. Is their opposition to our efforts not strong enough, that you propose to give Government also a direct pecuniary interest in the continuance of the Corn. laws ? Of the danger of thus confounding commercial with fiscal considerations, you have a striking instance in our weari some struggle for post-office reform, &c. No Government likes the trouble of reforming even where it does not lose one penny by the reform : but once allow it to imagine that its revenue will be in the slightest degree diminished by the pro posed reform, to argue with the deaf adder were a lese hope less task. Gentlemen, the suggestions I have to make are before you. I have done my duty in bringing you together, and opening the discussion. It is your duty—and it is your in terest—now to buckle to the task with such energy as will en sure ultimate success, and according to the light of your own sound judgments. Mr. CRAIG said, they had heard the resolutions just sub mitted to their consideration by Mr. Weir, and he had great pleasure in seconding their adoption. Mr. Wm. GRAY suggested that, instead of confining them. selves to the question of the Corn laws, they should form an Association for the promotion of free trade in general. Mr. CRAIG begged to differ from Mr. Gray as to the course which he had just recommended. The question of the Corn laws, as they were aware, had been brought before the Cham ber of Commerce, but there was a great likelihood, in the es timation of many gentlemen that the Directors of that body would shelve the question ; and, if this was found to be the case, it was in contemplation by a number of gentlemen be longing to the Chamber of Commerce to form a Free Trade Association. It appeared to him, however, that the object of the present meeting should be confined entirely to the question of the Corn-laws, as the great and master evil, and that their time and attention should not be taken up with discussions on other points, but that the whole energies of their minds should be directed to the destruction of this great evil. Mr. DYKES agreed with Mr. Gray in so far as he thought the landlords would have good right to complain if they asked for the abolition of the Corn-laws, and did not at the same time ask for the abolition of these laws which benefited the manufactui er, and which increased the price of his lady's gown. Mr. Wfttft suggested, as the best mode of clearing up all doubts as to their being friendly to free trade in every thing, that an alteration should be made, on the resolution to the effect that the individuals composing the meeting recognised in their full extent the principles of free trade, and claimed no protection for themselves, in asking it to be withheld from others. This alteration satisfied the meeting. Mr. T. DAVIDSON suggested that the words " total and unconditional" should be omitted, on the ground that while they did not in the least strengthen the demands of the Asso ciation, they might have the effect of keeping back many who would otherwise willingly join them, and thus narrow the basis of their society. Mr. DYKES opposed any alteration of the resolution. By adopting the suggestion of Mr. Davidson, many might enter the Association friendly to what was called a modification of the Corn-laws. Now he held that anything like a modifica tion of these laws would be to put matters on a worse footing than at present. The evils would be spoken of as so small that greater difficulty than now would be experienced in getting them wholly abolished. Mr. CRAIG believed, with Mr. Davidson, that by omitting these words they might add greatly to their numerical strength as an Association ; but he was afraid it would have the effect of enfeebling their operations. He thought with Mr. Dykes that by a modification of the Corn-laws they would be worse situated than at present. Mr, Oita said he had read in the Morning Herald an opinion given by the editor of that paper, in reference to an article which had appeared in the Glasgow Argus on the Corn-laws; and in which the editor of the Morning Herald observed, that the plan proposed by the Argus was the most astounding for the Aristocracy and the landowners that had over been proposed—that, in fact, it was a plan so well con ceived that, if carried out, he did not see how the landowners were to get over it. This he (Mr. Orr) thought exceedingly good, coming from a Tory paper; and it gave him so much confidence in the talented editor before them ( Mr. Weir), that he considered they could not do better than keep the resolu tions just as he had proposed them. Mr. Went said, the public mind was in a state of prepara tion on this subject, and he believed that if they took a shuf fling, hesitating, and uncertain course, as if they were looking for assistance from the quarters which had been referred to, they would weaken their cause, and prevent many who were coming round to their views from taking that decided step which an example of firmness and decision would encourage them to adopt. Their course he considered clear I let them fall upon a decided measure, and by that measure let them stand—let them plant their banner in the field, rally round it, and resolve that under no circumstances whatever would they draw back. And not only this, but let them be assured that all who went along with them were,;true men—let there be no division in the camp, and let them not be diverted from their purpose by the fears of timid and irresolute followers. It was these internal dissensions that did more harm to a cause than the assaults of its avowed enemies. Then let them come to a clear understanding as to what they wanted ; tell the world broadly what they intended to do ; but do not, by hold ing out false colours, allow any man to say that he had been deceived—that he had joined them under the impression that they were for such a thing, but that he had now found out they were for such another thing, 13y following such a course they would draw more in their train than otherwise they could expect to do, Some further conversation took place, when it was eventually agreed to leave out the word " unconditional" repeal, in order to obviate any impression which the use of this term might leave on the minds of the landholders, that they wished the repeal of the Corn-laws, while they at the same time were unfavourable to the repeal of the bounties on commerce. It was then agreed that the entry-money should be at the least is., though, of course, subscribers are to be allowed to give as much as they please. Baillie MITCHELL, in supporting the proposal that the entry-money should be is., said lie was for total abolition, and agreed entirely with what had been said by Mr. Weir on the subject. The manufacturing interest had suffered much from the Corn-laws, but the shipping interest was also suffering greatly—they were, in fact, paying double what the foreign merchants were paying for their provisions, and were thus ren dered incapable of competing with them. In the article of beef alone he (Mr. Mitchell) could get it at 13s. a cat. in foreign ports, while here he paid 455. to 505.--( Hear.) The other resolutions were then agreed to; Mr, Alexander Johnston was appointed Chairman ; Mr. J. Dunlop, Mr. Craig, and Mr. Mitchell Vice- Chairmen ; Mr. Weir, Secre tary ; and a large Committee named, with power to add to their numbers. Before the meeting broke up about 1501. was subscribed. We understand that several persons, who vote uni formly with Ministers, and who are in a position to obtain good Ministerial information, have been within the last week giving directions which imply that they consider a general election at no great distance. What is the ground of this expectation, or whether the dissolution is contemplated as an act of the present or of another Administration, we are not in a condition to state—but that there is among Mi nisterial Members an idea of the probability of a new elec• tion within a few months, we can state as a positive fact.— Morning Post. MURDER AT PRESTON.—A man named Wm. Bell, a sawyer, has been committed to prison, charged with the wilful murder of Alderson, a joiner, at Preston, on Wednesday last. It appeared, from the evidence ad duced at the inquest, that a quarrel took place between the patties at a public-house on the preceding evening. The deceased went home about a quarter before twelve, and his wife stated that he appeared in liquor. The witness then deposed that after he had been an a short time he got up off his chair, which was near the fire, and went to thedoor. Witness followed him, and saw him go across the street to Bell's door, which is opposite the house they lived in. She heard him try the latch, and call out to Bell, " Come out ; I want to pay you for what you did at me at the Wellington" (the public-house in question), and continued shaking the door. Saw Bell soon after open the door, and saw something in his hand, but was unable to discern what it was. Heard him say, " thou'lt come two feet further, I'll stick thee to the heart." Deceased went a little nearer, and said, " I'll try thee ;" on which a scuffle ensued. Saw Bell make two thrusts with his right hand at deceased. When this took place she had retired to the threshold of her own door. Imme diately after deceased came into the house, when she saw blood on his hands. He untied his neckerchief a nd un buttoned his waistcoat, when she saw blood running down his left side. She sent for a surgeon, but he died before he arrived. He died about a quarter of an hour after the scuffle. The Jury, a ft er a few minutes' consultation, re turned a verdict of " Wilful murder against William Bell." The instrument employed was a pocket-knife. OriaisTics OF WORKHOUSE EGGS.—At the meetirig of the guardians of the Poor of Uarylcbone on Tuesday, Mr. Kense4llsked why there had been pureba,sed in thirteen days, 1,300 eggs at the enormous price c.f 12s. 6d. a hundred, or lid. a piece, whep they might be had at Is. a dozen ? t was answered that 300 eggs were consumed in the Christmas pudding, and a hundred a day were used for the sick. The clerk said the workhouse eggs cost the parish 100/. a year. A Guardian—At this rate we must abolish Christmas pudding altogether.—( Hear, hear.) The egg business is to be inquired into. Some of the Guardians think they "nose" a job, THE HURRICANE. Accounts relative to the storm of Sunday night, continue to crowd in upon us from every part of the United Kingdom. We subjoin some of the more important reports : Yesterday evening, at 6 o'clock (writes the London corres pondent of a Morning Contemporary,) the Wilberforce steamer, Captain Agars, arrived at the St. Katherine's steam wharf, from Hull, after a somewhat tempestuous voyage. She left Hull at twelve o'clock on Wednesday, and encountered very rough weather in the early part of the passage, which this fine steam-ship rode out in good style, without incurring the least damage. Yesterday morning, at half-past eight o'clock, she fell in with the Duke of Wellington steamer, which left Aberdeen, for London, on Saturday afternoon, and the non-arrival of which had occasioned the greatest alarm. It appears that the Duke of Wellington was exposed to the tremendous hurricane of Sunday and Monday nights. The sea ran mountains high, and the steamer was buffetted about for several hours without being able to make any head-way. When the Wilberforce fell in with her, she had broken her la-board paddle shaft, and the whole was rendered useless. The Duke of Wellington hoisted signals of distress, and the Wilberforce bore down towards her and found the passenges in a state of much anxiety. She immediately took the Aber deen steamer in tow, and brought her in safety to Gravesend, where the Duke of Wellington brought up at three o'clock, and separated from the Wilberforce, which pursued her voyage to London. The Duke of Wellington had one hundred sol diers on board, and their destination being Chatham, they were landed at Gravesend, and were quartered in that town for the night. It was expected that the Duke of Wellington would be enabled to resume her voyage during the night. The City of Aberdeen steam-ship, for Aberdeen, which left the river on Monday, put into Hull for a fresh supply of coals on Wednesday morning in consequence of the storm. The Royal Adelaide steam-vessel which sailed from Leith on Sa turday afternoon at three o'clock, did not reach St. Katha rine's until Wednesday evening, and the crew declared that they never met with such terrible weather before. The starboard paddle-box was knocked away by a heavy sea, and it was found necessary to throw her deck load overboard, consisting of several tons of beef and mutton, and a great many baskets of game intended for the London market. The greatest anxiety for the safety of this vessel prevailed in Lon don during the whole of Tuesday and Wednesday, and on her arrival the wharf and pier-head at St. Katherine's was covered with people who had given her up for lost. All the steamers which have arrived in the river during the last three days have been delayed and suffered much damage during the late gale. It is, however, a matter of congratulation that while so many unlortunate disasters have occurred on the northern coast, not a single vessel has been damaged on the Thames, nor any of the ships in the pool blown from their moorings. It has been stated that several tiers of vessels went adrift in the river during the storm, and that others were damaged and lost masts and bowsprits. Such is not the fact ; the shipping iu the Thames has entirely escaped the ravages of the hurricane. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 9.—The incidents of the recent gale, with which this day's arrivals have furnished us, have cast a universal gloom over the town. The Victoria steamer—which vessel, to the immortal honour of her gallant Commander, Captain Eccles, in the course of one day, in defiance of the fiercest gale which ever confronted the exertions of an intrepid and humane semen—succeeded in rescuing from the rigging of the wrecked ships upwards of one hundred unfortunate brings, at eleven o'clock last night, was sent on her dange rous errand with a reinforcement of twelve boatmen, two boats, and a life-boat. At daybreak her boats were lowered, and pulled in the first instance to the Pennsylvania. Previously to their arrival the Huskisson schooner had passed the bank, and her crew were horror-stricken with the heart rending shrieks uttered lay the helpless individuals clinging to the rigging, and who, during an entire night, had been ex posed to the pelting of the most pitiless snow -storm which ever whitened our coast. At imminent risk twenty-three persons were eventually snatched from the shrouds, utterly exhausted with fatigue, and paralysed with cold. Three corpses were left in the tops. The Victoria proceeded to the Lockwoods, and brought from her (with one exception) all who remained alive, to the number of thirty-eight individuals. About thirty persons were lying on the poop of the Lockwoods all dead, and several more were drowned in the cabin. The captain of this latter vessel promptly proceeded to Liverpool for assistance, had subsequently embarked on board the Vic toria, and was zealous and indefatigable in his exertions to save his crew and passengers. Upwards of eighty, with pain we add, perished. DESTRUCTION OF THREE PACKET SHIPS.—LOSS OF LIFE. —The statements of. the persons who reached our port this morning are more melancholy than, furious as was the gale, we had anticipated. It appears that the Pennsylvania, after having lost all her sails, and seriously injured her spars, was driven about the wild and foaming sea during two days. Her Commander was unable to ascertain her locality, as not merely was the light ship, the beacon on whose warning he could naturally rely, driven from her moorings, but the buoys were whirled from their respective stations. In this condition was the packet placed when the Victoria from Charleston was seen attempting to enter the channel ; no pilot boats could be descried, and the Commander of the Pennsylvania determined to follow in the wake of the leading ships. The Victoria (which had not a pilot on board), find ing the water shoaling, let go her anchor. The Pennsyl vania followed her example, but unfortunately the anchor did not catch, and the vessel struck on the North Spit. Her Commander, Captain Smith, foreseeing the catastrophe, which was fated to befall him, dispatched his chief officer in the long boat, which attempted to convey his passengers on shore. Of these one only was saved—viz., Mr. H. G. Thompson, of New York, who owes his life to the possession of a life-preserver, which he girded about bim. The list of those who took to the boat, whose bodies have been washed on shore, includes the names of Mr. Parsons, of New York, Mr. T. F. Barrow, and Mr. Douglas, of that city. The body of Mr. Tintour, of Carthagena, is the only body not yet found. The sea continued to wash the decks of the packet; and at the time that preparations were making to launch the long-boat, a heavy cask was hurled against the head of Captain Smith, who was immediately washed overboard, arid perished. He was one of the moat intelligent, skilful, and most generally respected commanders of whose services the packet line could boast. His premature death, in tile bloom of health and in the prime of life, is an event as deeply deplored indeed as is the loss of the noble vessel which he had, during many years, so ably com manded. Little did we dream on Sunday last, when we bade him adieu, that on the Uteri ing Wednesday we should have had this sad story of his fate to tell. We learn that during his short and ill-omened voyage, his appearance was so attenuated by anxiety and fatigue, that he seemed to have sud denly skipped over a space of forty years of his existence. His first and second mates perished in the wreck. The vessel will be utterly destroyed. The Lockwoods followed the Penn sylvania, and met a similar fate. After her came the St. An drew ; she beat over the North Bank in a disabled state, and is now on the Main. Her crew and passengers were saved, and havl been landed by the Victoria tug-boat. And now, for the first time in the history of Liverpool, we have to record the simul taneous destruction of three packet ships, a class of vessels which have generally been deemed, if not actually indemnified from, at least little liable to, misfortune or mishap—the Penn. sylvania, the St. Andrew, about which hopes are entertained and the Oxford, which we hear is abandoned. Our shipping return supplies us with the particulars of addi tional losses : and, indeed, it is a painful task even to glance at the returns which are daily exhibited at Lloyd's, A meeting was held this afternoon at the Underwriter's Rooms, the Mayor in the Chair—at which it was resolved to raise a fund to reward the exertions of the noble fellows who, at the risk of their lives, had proceeded to the wrecks, to esta blish an efficient force to meet such emergencies in future, and to relieve the sufferers in the late gale. In the course of five minutes 3001. were subscribed. Reserving till to-morrow the statements and observations which we have to make on this melancholy subject, we record, in order that we may state our cordial concurrence in the tenor of them, the words of Mr. Aitken, the opening speake r : " I say it with shame, that had the port afforded more effi cient encouragement, many might now have been alive whose corpses are now strewed along our banks." The Deck Committee, with praiseworthy alacrity, have de termined to send to the spot from which the Light Ship has been driven, a steamer well equipped with pilots and lanterns, Another is to be dispatched with lifeboats. The Avon mail boat arrived safely this morning, from Dublin.—Liverpool Standard. A meeting of the Directors of the Steam-Tug Company took place at an early hour in the morning of the storm, when it was " Resolved-- That the large boat, the Victoria, proceed im mediately to render assistance in the saving of life and pro perty. and that she call at the magazines for the life-boat to assist her," This resolution was im me di ate l y c (From Gore's Liv erpoo l Advrriiser of yesterday.) TWENTY Lives LosT.—This town and neighbo ur h oo d, and a large district extendi ng as f ar a s Manchester i n one direction, and Stafford in an o th er , waerteoerd ovis Monday, with one o f :Oited on the'ni g h t o f the e at wholehas been experienced in th e thy- most Sunday t last, during storms course of the present century. In this town, the loss of life, to say nothing of property, has been most lamentable : little, if any less, than twenty deaths having been reported to the Coroner. From the number of persons bruised and other wise injured, it is to be feared that that number, large as it is, will not include the whole of the deaths in Liverpool, and as for those at sea, and in the surrounding district, very little is at present known. As several vessels were sunk in the decks, and not less than fifteen were lying ashore in Bootle Bay, the probability is, that the casualties at sea will have been very great. From the fury with which the storm raged so far inland as Stafford, we should suppose that it would be felt throughout the whole kingdom, and probably along the whole southern and western coast of the island. peepte MZETlNG.—Yesterday afternoon a notice was posted in the Underwriters' and E xc h ange News-rooms, an nouncing that a public meeting would be held at three o'clock in the afternoon in the Underwriters' room, to concert mea• sum for rewarding the intrepid persons who had been instru mental in caying the lives of th e i r f e ll ow - crea t ures , f rom the vessels outside the pert, Upwards of 1,000/. was put down for the temporary fund, while WO remained iP the room, and the snbscriptiona to the mint* fund eptounted to a large slim, Posy-or'ricit gTP , !msRs--Two of these vessels, the Avon, commanded by Lieutenant Townley, R. N., and the Shear water, commanded by Lieutenant Smithett, imp out during du; hurri cute of Sunday night and Monday morning last. They, Of caws?, Axperienced the gale in its fullest fury, the Shearwater being oh her voyage to Dublin, and the Avon on her passage from that port to LVerpool. Lieutenant Town ley reports, that it was blowing a strong gale wh,en he left piton. 4bout 15 minutes past one on Sunday morning, the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1839. wind began to blow in furious squalls. From two to four o'clock it was a complete hurricane, with a heavy sea. They passed the wrecks early in the morning of yesterday, and ar rived at George's Pier about five o'clock. The engines of the Avon, we believe, have suffered some slight injury. The Shearwater was also much knocked about by the tempest, on her homeward voyage ; she yesterday morning passed the wrecks on the banks. The crew heard the poor sufferers on board crying for assistance, which they were unable to render. YORK, JAN. 7.—This morning a gale sprung up between three and four o'clock, from the N. W., which increased in a fearful manner until six o'clock, threatening the most fearful damage, and loss to both life and property. The strong outer wall of the House of Correction in this city was blown down, and some hundreds of pounds' worth of damage done. Fortu nately the prisoners were in bed at the time of the occurrence, or many would, in all probability, have suffered. York Castle, the Barracks, and the venerable Cathedral, were also injured. The loss of life has also been most serious. Many of the shops in the city have been closed, and public business is nearly at a stand. NEWCASTLE.—The damage to property is enormous, but happily no lives have been lost. SUNDERLAND.—SeveraI persons have received injury, and, lamentable to relate, four persons are killed. It would be im possible, within the limits of a single sheet, to enumerate all the cases of damage done to property. BANGOR.—The shipping in the port has sustained some da mage, many vessels having dragged their anchors and run ashore, with loss of boats, &c. ; others are missing. At day break on Tuesday we saw a South Wales schooner aground off Garth point, with her broadside to the ebbing tide, enve loped in spray, and the waves careering over her deck. We regret to add that the land communication with Anglesey has experienced a temporary suspension, a portion of the wooden road having given way in the bridge; some of the sustaining links are also broken. TIM PORT. —The Mary Aun, of Conway, sunk at the quay ; a sloop dismasted and sunk at the weir; the schooner Thomas Mason, of Liverpool, drifted out to sea without her crew, supposed to be lost. Another sloop was driven from the patch and went ashore at Beaumaris. Eight or ten vessels broke from their moorings at Hirael, and drove against the quay with considerable damage to themselves and to the new pier, two tiers of which have been much shaken, and the im mense blocks of stone displaced. Such was the violence of the gale that slates half a hundred weight were blown from the quay to a distance of 150 yards on the strand. There is a square-rigged vessel dismasted off Beaumaris Point, and three sloops on the point. From Carnarvon we learn that eight or ten vessels have been driven on shore, and that a vessel was on the bar and the life-boat unable to make her. WHITEHAVEN.-About two o'clock in the morning, and from that period till five, the Cimmerian darkness of the at mosphere and sky contributed greatly to the terror of the scene. This period, too, was the climax of the storm ; and we really think, as a scene of horror, it could not have been sur passed by any occurrence which the warring of the elements could produce, save one of those stupendous convulsions of nature, when the terrific earthquake buries the inhabitants of entire cities in one undistinguished grave. A strong vibration, or movement, slightly resembling the shock of an earthquake, was very generally felt in the town during the early part of the morning. WRECKS.-This unfortunate vessel,`the John Airey, which put into this port a few weeks ago, bound from Leghorn to Liverpool, with a valuable cargo, consisting of palm oil, marble, crystal, wool, silk, &c., dismasted ; and having in the meantime undergone the necessary repairs (at an expense of 5001.) she sailed for her destined port on Sunday last, but not being able to make much progress. and probably dreading the aspect of the elements, Captain Wilson put back, and moored his vessel inside the New West Pier, about six o'clock on Sun day evening. Captain Wilson, and his wife, who was also on board, left the vessel in the course of the evening, for the purpose of obtaining assistance in the town ; at least, such is said to have been the object of his leaving her. The desired assistance, it would appear, had not been obtained, nor did the Captain go on board again. The vessel continued at her moorings until about three o'clock yesterday morning, the hour at which the storm reached its height when she was forced from it by the fury of the tempest, and drifted upon the rocks near William Pit. The sea broke over the West Pier with such awful violence as to render it next to impossible to approach the vessel to render assistance, when in all probability aid was most needed. And, on the other hand, had every individual in the town been assembled on the beach when she first struck, the darkness of the night and the fury with which the en raged waves broke upon the shore would have rendered their efforts perfectly useless. There were four persons on board. At day-break the body of Mrs. Miller was discovered washed up near Messrs. Whiteside and Scott's building-yard ; and on the tide receding the wreck became approachable, where the first and second mates and Twentyman were all discovered lashed to the chains, and. though life was extinct, this would appear not to have been the case long, as their bodies were yet warm. In the course of the forenoon the corpse of Twenty man was taken to his house in New Town, where it was re ceived by a sorrowing widow and four children. In the course of the day a considerable quantity of the valu able cargo was secured ; but much of it, of course, in a da maged state. The vessel is a total wreck. In the course of the night the Buoyant, Winder, belonging to Harrington, and bound from Londonderry to Liverpool, probably grain laden—but this we have not been able to as certain—was driven so high upon the beach near the Salt Pans, betwaen Parton and Harrington, that her crew, on the vessel heeling over, dropped from the mast upon the beach, and were all saved. The third and last wreck is that of the Prince of Wales, Beatty, bound to this port from Liverpool, in ballast, which place she left on Sunday morning. After having been tossed about by the tempest the whole of the night she was driven on shore yesterday morning on what is called the South Head, near St. Bees, where all except a man named Sands, who had just completed his apprenticeship, succeeded in get ting on shore and scrambling up the rocks which line the coast. The sufferer, we are told, in his anxiety to gain the shore, slipped his footing, fell into the sea, and was washed away by the receding surge. The survivors were t a k en to Southfield, where every attention was paid to them that their exhausted condition required. The vessel has become a com plete wreck. Outside the harbour the casualties are nearly co-equal with the number of unroofed houses in the town, consequently are too numerous to particularize. STORM IN IRELAND. Of the effects of the storm in Dublin some account appeared yesterday in The Sun. The subjoined are some particulars from the Dublin Evening Post, regarding the hurricane in the country : TILE MAILS.-The arrival of the mail coaches was greatly retarded; the Cork coach at the usual hour; the Waterford coach at eight ; the Limerick at ten ; the Galway coach at twelve ; the Belfast coach at two ; that of Enniskillen at three o'clock ; the Derry coach at four ; the Wexford coach at half-past four. The Derry and Wexford mails were brought by the guards on horseback, and arrived shortly after. The Sligo:coach came into town at five o'clock. The Dun gannon and Omagh, which were due at half-past six, and the Free-trader at half-past seven, were not arrived at a late hour of the night. The most awful devastations are visible about the acountry. The cabins of the poor people were in many places swept away, so as scarcely to leave a trace behind. A gentleman who arrived in Dublin on Tuesday says : " As I came yesterday by the Limerick coach, I witnessed dreadful havoc and ruin along the line of road from the frightful hurricane of the preceding night, cottages unroofed and levelled with the ground, trees torn up by the roots, many broken in the middle, shattered and mangled in every way; some strewed across the road, so as to detain the Limerick mail full six hours. It is greatly to be feared that many serious injuries have been sustained, many lives indeed lost from the fall and ruin of cabins, and which call for the im mediate attention of the humane and charitable. Hay and corn stacks too I observed scattered and destroyed in a most deplorable manner. The Club House roof was thrown down, the Wellesley-bridge greatly injured, owing to the vessels in the river being driven by the storm against h— and there is little doubt but the first arch must come down. One man and two children were drowned at Coonagh ; the bank of the river there is destroyed. There is net a single ves sel in port that has not been injured, some of them worth no thing, as the timber is shattered to atoms. The old town suffered severely, it will take months to repair the damage ; there was over 36,000/. worth of property destroyed." TULLAMORE.-Th• coroner for this county P. Dillon, Esq„ came here this day to hold inquests after the storm of last night. It appears that several houses were burnt and blown down at Clara; also several blown down in this town. In fact, the destruction of property is beyond description and several lives have been lost. There were several houses burnt in Kilheggan, and a vast portion of timber has been thrown don n in this neighbourhood. From Thurles, Leitrim, Newry, Dundalk, &c., similar reparts of the devastating violence of the elements have been received. FIRS IN 1401.7011 REA.—The Dublin Evening Post publishes the following heart-rending communication : " LOUGIIREA, JAN. 7.—One of the most awful fires ever witnessed broke out in this town last night, about 11 o'clock, caused by the falling in of a number of houses during the hur ricane. The fire raged with undiminished fury until six this morning, destroying everything in its progress. The aid of man was totally unavailing ; but, providentially, about six o'clock, the change of the wind from north-west to west gave the flames a different direction, and the police and the inha bitants were enabled to cut off the communication with the houses, and thus the greater part of the town was preserved from impending destruction. " The police, under Sub-Inspector Lewis and Mr. Cannon, patrolled the town until eight o'clock this morning, to protect the vast quantity of property thrown into the streets. As far as I can learn, no lives are lost ; but I grieve to add that there are eighty-seven houses burned to ashes, and thirty blown down by the storm," Nearly six hundred human beings having been left totally destitute by this calamity, without a home, clothes, or food. A menting was held this day to afford temporary relief. Several person s , including Mr. Cannon, of the constabulary, received severe injury in the eyes, from the hot ashes during the conflagration. It is stated that there have been destructive fires during the storm ip Kells, Kilkenny, Moate, and other places. The Dublin Paper of Wednesday bring reports of almost numberless lamentable occurrences, both in town and country, The Mailhas more than three columns entirely occupied with details of casualties. The loss of life, as well as the destruc tion of property, oceasioned by the violence of the e l ements, i s great beyond all former periods. Fire, too, has added its ter rific and devastating effects to the horrors of the hurricane. The accounts from all parts of the country are of the most ap. palling character. The mails of course have been delaiecl. It was not until ten o'clock on Tuesday night that the Holy head mail, due on Monday morning, reached Kingstown ; the gale however moderating, enabled the packet, which was due at two o'clock, to reach on Wednesday morning, and the Liverpool mail arrived at two o'clock. The Cork Southern Reporter, the Belfast News, the Waterford Chronicle, &c. &c., all concur in describing the storm as one of unprecedented violence, occasioning a scene of desolation and a degree of wide-spread destruction never before witnessed. PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THURSDAY.) (Continued from yesterday's Paper.) PRIVILEGES OF THE SERE&ANTS-AT• LAIV. Sir W. FOLLETT-The Learned Counsel the❑ referred to the report of the Common Law Commissioners, which set forth that no inconvenience was experienced from the exclu sive privileges of the sergeants in the Court of Common Pleas, as the coiff was not refused to any member of respecta- bility at the bar who applied for it, and it secured the attend ance of a bar in that Court. In 1705 a proposal was made by Chief Justice Willis to bring a Bill into Parliament to abro gate the privileges of the sergeants. It was opposed by Lord Hardvvicke, and referred to all the Judges, and the result was that no such Bill was brought in. As the effect of such a measure would be to destroy the degree of sergeants altoge ther, it was proposed that any barrister of a certain standing might be nominated in the commission or the circuits. Lord BROUGHAM-Do the suitors complain of the Court being thrown open ? Sir W. FOLLETT—They often complain of Counsel not being in attendance when they ought. Lord BROITCHIAM-Then they have the remedy in their own hands. Sir W. FOLLETT—Whether it was expedient or not that the privileges of the sergeants should be done away with, he would undertake to satisfy their Lordships that the warrant in ques tion was not legal. From time immemorial all the fines in that Court were signed by sergeants. The Crown might as well direct that they should be signed by attorneys as do what it has done. Lord WYNFORD—But Judges may hear attorneys. Sir W. FOLLETT—NO doubt of it, or the clerks of attor neys. But if the Crown by its prerogative may direct such a thing to be done, it may as well direct the House of Lords or any other Court to hear no advocates but sergeants. Lord BROUGHAM—The Crown may direct the Chancery or any other Court to hear one Counsel before another. Sir W. FOLLETT—Yes, by patent of precedence, or by ap pointing him as King's Counsel. But then the exercise of the prerogative in that respect is inconsistent with the prac tice of the Courts. Lord Mansfield superseded the privileges of the Crown in that respect, by calling on the stuff gowns first on the first day of term, and that practice is continued in the courts down to the present day, except in the Court of Common Pleas. To satisfy their Lordships that the privi leges of the sergeants could not be:done away with otherwise than by Act of Parliament, the Learned Counsel referred to authorities to show that the jurisdiction of the Court of Com mon Pleas was founded in common law, and that from time immemorial none but sergeants were permitted to practice there. By the common law, also, the Judges of the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas were taken out of the degree of sergeants, and the Crown had no prerogative to interfere with immemorial usage. Independently of the illegality of the mandate there was no precedent for the Crown to interfere with the rights and privileges of the Court of Common Pleas ; that Court was founded on the same authority as the prero gatives of the Crown itself—namely, the common law. Sir W. Fonum then cited instances of barristers having been compelled, against their will, to become sergeants, and offices having been imposed on them for refusing to accept the coiff. He also could offer instances of sergeants having been entirely discharged from the duties of that degree on becoming Attorney or Solicitor-General. It was clear from what was laid down in Fortescue and other authorities, that no other person than sergeants had at any time practised in the Common Pleas. It was said by that Court in the 11th year of the reign of Edward IV. that they might refuse to hear a sergeant, but that they could not deprive him of his de gree, yet the Court of King's Bench had suspended a barrister because he refused to act as counsel in a cause. Lord BROUGHAM-It is not now understoood that the Judges can suspend a barrister. I think it was so held in Wooller's case. Sir W. FOLLETT—The question there respected the ad mission only as a member of an inn of Court. He contended that not only the Court itself and the degree of sergeant, but even the offices of the Court, were founded in prescription. It was so decided in the case of " Scroggs v. Cholesley," where it was held by all the Judges that the office of exigenter was founded in a common right, and that the Crown could not in terfere with it. It was laid down by Lord Mansfield that the practice and usage of the Court was the law of the land, and therefore the Crown could not interfere with it. The Crown might constitute a new Court, the .Judges of which might lay down rules of practice according to the rules of com mon law, but not contrary thereto ; and the Crown could not interfere with such rules. If the Judges thought proper to say that they should hear only barristers, the King could not say, " You shall hear attorneys." I n f ormer t i mes such jealousy was shown 'ay the public about the interference of the Crown in the administration of justice, so much so that several statutes contained provisions that the Judges should proceed to administer the laws, and discharge their duty without being deterred by the Crown. Now, if the King issued an order to the effect that the signature of an attorney or of an attorney's clerk to a plea would be sufficient, it would clearly not be legal ; yet how did the order in question differ from such an order ? Lord BROUGHAM—Do you represent those sergeants who took rank under the King's warrant, or have you any tender to make on their behalf ; for those who took rank would have exclusive privileges along with their rank, if the Common Pleas should be again confined to sergeants ? Sir W. FOLLETT did not appear for those parties. That, however, was not the question ; but whether the warrant was a legitimate exercise of the prerogative of the Crown. Sup pose the Crown sent a letter to the Judges on the different circuits, directing that an appearance by a prisoner for an in dictable offmce by his attorney should be sufficient, it would be the same as the order in question, yet it would be clearly illegal. Lord BROUGIIA ht—lf the Court bad no power to make such an order, the Court of Common Pleas might not act on it. Sir W. FOLLETT—Very true; but they have not objected to it. Lord WYNFORD—Any sergeant might have objected to it, and then the Court must have decided on the legality of the order. Justice VAUGHAN—The letter was openly read by the desire of the Court, and the question is, whether that did not amount to an adoption of it. Sir W. FOLLETT—The silence of the Court and of the ser geants cannot affect the legality of the warrant. Lord DENMAN—Suppose the Court should now order that Counsel should not be heard in misdemeanors? Sir NV. FoLr.ETT—Or that the Court of Chancery should hear none but doctors at law; it would be precisely the same. Doctors have no exclusive right to be heard in the Admiralty or Doctors' Commons Courts, except that which is founded on usage and practice. This Court a few years ago recognized the exclusive right of proctors to practice in the Admiralty to the exclusion of attorneys. He would ask, could the Crown interfere with the practice of the Palace Court or the City Courts, where none but certain counsel are heard ? Yet the rights of these Courts are founded on prescription only. Lord BROUGHAM—I have practised in the Palace Court. Sir W. FOLLETT—Yes, they will allow a foreigner to come in when specially retained ; but then it will be only on condi tion that the full number of counsel belonging to the Court be employed also. Lord BROUGHAM—I really have no objection to a division of the labour. Sir W. FOLLETT submitted, on the authorities which he had cited, and the reasons which he had mentioned, that though the Judges of the courts might alter the practice, yet that the Crown had no such power by its prerogative, and that the warrant in question was an illegal interference with the rights of the sergeants ; and though the Court of Common Pleas had acted in obedience to the warrant, yet that did not affect its legality. Mr. AUSTIN followed on the same side, but The Cocar rose before he concluded his address, and the further consideration of the question was adjourned until the Ist of February. The Attorney and Solicitor-Generals were in attendance, but it is understood that they will not address the Court. _- WRECK OF THE BRIG ESTHER.--The Lord Mayor having been waited on by several gentlemen, who expressed a very anxious wish that his Lordship would sanction a subscription to purchase some substantial me morial of their admiratioh of the conduct of Captain Bo well, of the American ship Eliza Ann, in saving the lives of eight British sailors, twelve hundred miles from England, his Lordship sent for some of the Aldermen, in order to avail himself of their experience and advice on a subject which has excited much interest through the whole country. His Lordship said that he had received a mass of letters suggesting in the warmest terms the propriety of presenting Captain Bowell with some marked testimony of gratitude on the part of the British public, In these suggestions he perfectly acquiesced, and he was glad that he had been fur nished by the agents for the Eliza Ann, with the ship ac count of the rescue of the crew, given in the seamanlike, technical, unexaggerated style of one in the habit of saving life. The Lord Mayor and the other gentlemen who were most zealously engaged in the gratifying labour of carrying into effect the wish so loudly and generally expressed, after some further conversation, came to the determination to put forward an advertisement upon the subject, and Alderman Pirie, at his Lordship's request undertook to receive sub scriptions for a testimonial to the Captain and crow of the Eliza Ann, BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JAN. 9'--There has b een on l y a moderate demand for British Plantation since ourlast report, We now quote low to goo d b rown 555. rt,butprices have been fully sup ported for all descriptions. to 6 75., middling to good 58s. to Us., fine 655. to 675. No sales to report in Molasses. Rums being exclusively in the hands of the Trade, we have no transactions in the public market to notice. Nearly the whole stooks of Ginger and Pimento have been cleared off, at fair prices, for other ports, D ye - w oods of all d escr i pt i ons are much wanted, and very full prices obtainable for all imported. P.S.—Four o ' c l oc k, Wednesday afternoon. There has been a brisk de mand for Sugar to-day, and considerable sales have been made at prices which establish an ad vance of full is. to is. 6d. ppr cwt, on previous rates.—gazeqe, THE MARKETS COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. W heat. j Barley , ate. r; :4 S. Quarucr, !o.tos. ! 0. s. A. t.. s. 0. to 71 84 31 41 24 95 40 42 '6 74 24 21 24 3) 42 44 Cambridge.** 75 31 25 49 Chard 64 84 28 f. 5 18 22 138 41 Huntingdon 56 79 34 38 24 29 38 42 Long B.otton 5B 19 20 30 34 Louth 58 78 26 32 24 35 42 vnn—„ . 56 77 22 31 16 2t; i3O 32 Newark . (32 82 24 31 ! 19 28 31 43 No 1 tingharn 31 ' 19 23 35 42 th.•tk•thf ....... 59 82 ,35 42 22 29 38 48 Plymouth ._ . 39 34 20 2:3 Pot efinet— 43 Sle n aconl 65 80 i 36 138 22 28 41 13 Eppingham 63 81 124 30 'lB 28 j 32 44 Wisbeel) (;3 82 • 20 . 30 :32 DEVI Z ES COON MARKET. —Jan. 10 ~'••• EQ 8. is • as ?3 , 3 32 33 32 34 - 32 __....., Per Sack. s it. s. d ' Per Quarter. s. 11. s. d. First Wheat._ . 4l 0 to 43 0 Barley., 35 0 to 44 0 Second l7 il 39 0 Oats ; hird 155 S Sacks of Wheat soldl ..,.; I , Hour (pre t,g..., 58 60 0 at the average of ‘ - ; Bread liar ga11,),.. ) 8 ___ 0 LEEDS CORN MA RK ET. Jan, is Wheat, N•iffolk and Suili,lk, 6016 York. and Lincoln. 601 b. . ... , „ . 31 60 1 s '. I t o " 8 40 1 :.. 3 --- 1, ley, 'Norfolk and Sullitlk ---. Yorkshire and Lineol»sitire - Grinding Beans vats, Potatoe .. 27s. to 28.;.J 7 —Mcaling, For, l Id. toll,l,itt Eng. 12d. to 13. i. per stone Shelling 30.. to 33., rat load Rapeseed, English, 30- to 32, ... Fsireign, 30 lo 32' 'tier las L.VERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Jan, 8 WHEAT, English, White, per 71116 Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx ... 10 6 11 2 Irish, White lO 9 11 0 Red Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b. ......• 4 0 4 3 Irish Foreign MAXLEY, English, Malting, per I nip. quarter 43 A 47 0 —_— Scotch and Irish, per 6011 s. Feeding 5 3 5 9 Bemis, English, per Imperial quarter 5O 0 54 0 Irish, Sec. ..... 44 0 47 0 Foreign 48 0 59 0 PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 52 0 53 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 66 0 68 0 Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 35 6 37 0 INOIAN CORN, p(r 4401 h. ..... 3B 0 42 e RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter i IMPORT OP GRAIN the the Week ending Jana. Wheat, Oats. i Barley Flour. Oatmeal. Qrs. Qr s . Qrs. l l Foreign, 9rls. Irish, &c. 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JAMES'S WESTMINSTER.---The Committee appointed some time since, at a meeting of the parishioners in vestry, ..t0 take into consideration the most effectual measures to be adopted for the suppression of the numerous gambling esta blishments in this extensive and fashionable parish," have held several meetings on the subject ; but it appears that their labours are not likely to be brought to a satisfactory conclusion for some time to come, unless aided in their ex ertions by the Legislature. It was deemed necessary that the Committee should take evidence on the question, and and this, up to the present period, has proved a very g reat obstacle, from the difficulty they have experienced in pro curing witnesses of character, from whom the necessary in formation might with safety be elicited ; and it should hers be mentioned that attempts to mislead the Committee have been made, but fortunately without success. Happily for the interests of the parishioners and the public in ge neral the members of the Committee are " men of the world," and not to be duped by the agents of the lessees of these dens of iniquity. On one occasion a party, who styled himself a " gentleman," was particularly anxious to give evidence on the Committee, who consented to bear his testimony ; but, luckily, on his examination, some of the members made inquiries respecting himself, which proving not to be the most favourable, his services were politely dis pensed with. The Committee have also received with caution the correspondence which has been addressed to them with a view of affording information. 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His wife came forward and stated that the loss of the money would be utter ruin, as they were very poor, and had nothing else wherewith to pay their rent. The old man received a ticket of admission to the hospital to have his wounds dressed, and was discharged. PLATE.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS , Manufacturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, (opposite the Bank of Enjand), offer the best rich SHELL-BORDERED SILVER. WAITERS, of every size, with plain centres, at 9s. per ounce, or with chased centres, at 9s. 6d. per ounce. Price, with Chased Centres. Diameter. Oz. . s. d. .S A round !- ilver W a it er , w ith shell border, 8 in. 12 at 91. • 6d., A round Silver W a it er, w i t h shell border, 9 17 8 1 5 14 0 • A round Silver W a it er, w i t h s h ell border, 10 20 A round Sil v e r W a it er , w i t h s h e l l border, 12 38 910 0 15 5 0 A round Silver Wait e r, w ith s h e ll b order, 15 42 19 19 0 A round Silver Waiter, with s h e ll b order, 18 86 A round Silver 'Waiter, with shell b or d er, 10 124 40 17 0 58 Is 0 The Plate rooms of this Establish, lent, which are extensive, contain a large and choice selection ~ ,f Silver Plate, Plated Goods, and every article requisite to complete a service. List of Prices gratis. A, B. Savory and sons, Manufacturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England. - -- SECOND-HAND PLATE PURCHASED.—T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, Cornhill (seven doors from Gracechurch-street), London, informs Executors and others, wisb.• in to can dispose of Se con d-h an d Pl ate, that, from having a ready sale, he offer m.zire advantageous prices than can generally be afforded by the trad e . S trangers offering plate for sale are required either to give a reference, or to take a cheque crossed with their banker's name, which ever they may prefer. On the 20th o f December, MAßßlED at the Chapel of the British Consu late, Genoa, Gilbert Farquhar Grreme Mathison, Esq., to Eliza Gertrude, eldest daughter of Captain Gallwey, R.N., her Ma jesty's Consul at Naples. On the sth inst., at Bolam, Northumberland, the R ev . A n d rew Corbett, Rect or o f South Willingham Lincolnshire, t o M ar i anne , fourth d aug ht er o f t h e late Sir Matthew White Ridley, Bart., of Blagdon, Northumberland. On the 7th inst., at St. Nicholas Church, Brighton, Andrew Half hide, Esq., late Captain her Majesty's Service, to Eliza beth Mary, eldest daughter oft the late Thomas Noakes, Esq., of Wannock, Sussex. On the Sth inst., at Panfield Church, Essex, George H, Arm strong, Esq., of Jertnyn.street, St. James's, to Maria, youngest daughter of the late John L am b ert, E sq., of Penfield Hall. On the Bth inst., at St. Peter's, Eastgate, Lincoln, the Rev. G. F, Apthorp, Senior Vicar of the Cathedral, to Mary Barbara, eldest daughter of Charles Beaty, Esq., Lincoln. On the 24th of October last, at Lachine Grove, Lower Canada, Archibald Petrie, Esq., of Upper Canada, to Catherine, eldest daughter of E. P. Wilgress, Esq., late Lieutenant -Colonel Royal Artillery. DIED. On the 24th of November, at Barton Isles, Jamaica, aged 29, Frederick, fourth son of Ezekial Harman, Esq., of Theobald's Farm, Herts. On the sth of October, at Calcutta, Edward Henry, second son of the Rev. Richard Budd, Rector of Ruan Lanihorne, in Corn wall, aged 19. At daughter St. of the l Andreatew'sCaptain on the George Keir, 6th of Decemb ofether, A22d D nn Juli r a, only Command an t o f hi s Highness the Nizam's Horse. agoons, At Lisbon, on the 22d ult., Charles Higgs, Esq., many years a mo chant of that city. At Brosely, on the 2d inst., aged 55, Mr. George Evans, for merly of Islington. On the sth inst., at Simmonscourt, Dublin, Fann the wife of Georg e Howell Esq. y , On the Oth inst., at Brixton, aged 73, Ann, widow of the late Matthew Easum, Esq., of Stepney. On the 7th inst., Agnes, wife of the Rev. Dr. Moore, Vicar of St. Pancras. On the Bth inst., in Howland- street, Fitzroy-square, J. B. Ber nard, Esq., of Sidmouth, and Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, aged 53. On the Bth inst., at Hermitage, near Rochester, Helen, the wife of Robert Anderson, Esq., of Sudbury. On the Bth inst., Mary, aged 24, second daughter of Mr. Sanwa Parker, of Great Tower-street. Mrs. Elizabeth Hamond, aged 46, wife of Frederick George Hamond, Esq,, of Catherine House, Blackheath-rcad. On the 3d inst., aged ten months, William Lloyd, the infant soil of Me. William Wardell, of Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. London Priitted and publishe d 112, Stmacl, at The Am Office, Na 112, Strand, in the eetto*Y of MicNctea.—Friday, Tammy 11, 11311. I