The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-11 00:00:00

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PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—The Post—though utterly disapproving of the object sought to be effected—is " glad to find that the farmers of England are preparing to bestir them selves against the malt-tax." We showed yesterday tht, the " farmers of England" know better than to mate any stir for such an object. In fact, they refuse to move in the matter ; and that for reasons whit t are no l ess cogent than they are convincing to ;lie said " farmers of England." Indeed, our CeTetemporary, in a sub sequent part, of the same ',Article, limits the phrase, the " farmers of Eni,;and," to the " agricultural gentlemen"—that is, the landlords, as contradistin guished from those who cultivate the land. These " agricultural gentlemen" arc apprehensive that the present rents cannot be maintained under the new state of things which the Conservative Government they invested with power has managed to bring about. The tenant-farmers are complaining ; and, we believe, not without cause. The landowners are endeavour• ing, with their usual sensibility of personal inte rest, to work this feeling for their own advantage. They see—Sr think they see—an opportunity for se curing the - " surplus revenue" to themselves. The re peal of the malt-tax would be neither more nor less than a positive donation by the Government to the landlords of nearly five millions from the revenue of the country. The history of the: , malt-tax, and the conduct of the landed interest with respect to it, will assist to an un derstanding of the movement which is now sought to be got up for its removal. The present amount of malt duty is but a remnant of that which existed in 1815. At that period the malt duty, including the tax on beer, amounted to about 565. or 58s. per quar ter. No sooner was peace restored, and produce began to feel the effects of peace prices, than the agricultural interest in.the House of Commons obtained a diminu tion of the malt duty to the extent of 16s. per Winchester quarter. :.The agricultural-distress-year of 1822 was taken advantage of for the purpose of getting another re duction from the malt-tax ; and what was called " the annual dsfty" was given up. Next followed the repeal of the beer duty—equivalent to 12s. on the quarter of malt. The agg,tegate of these reductions—obtained from the governrne4its by whom they were relinquished through the influence" exercised upon them by the landowners— amounted to seven millions of annual revenue. Their ob ject was to keep up rents, by maintaining war-prices in a time of peace ; and to e. very considerable extent they succeeded , in effecting their object. A combination of new and concurrent circumstances—principally caused by the insane and cruel policy of wbat is falsely called "agricultural protection "—threatens the farmers with another - visitation of " agricultural distress." The land lords are On the qui vine. Repeal of the remaining portion bf the malt-tax is the panacea which is to re move the distress, and avert the pending calamity—from themselves I The trifling relief which the removal of the maltetax would afford to the labouring classes will at once be seen, if the amount of duty upon the quantity of malt required for the production of thirty-six gallons of porter—the favourite beverage of the labOuring classes —is computed. The amount of duty upon the quantity of malt required for producing that quantity of porter is 6s. ; being 2d. per gallon, or as nearly as can be estimated, one-third of a penny upon the pot. The price of the pot of porter would therefore be retailed at aid.—one farthing less than at present. And this is the reduction which the Post's "agricultaral gentlemen" advocate, on the pretext that it would enable the labourers to procure beer who Cannot now obtain bread. The absurdity of the plea is:too manifest to impose on any understanding which is not previously prepared to yield to the delu sion, is-an excuse for embarking in a project which is meant' to subserve the landlord's interest at the cost of - every other class of the community. The Post imposes on those who are disposed to follow its counsels, a labour equal to that of Sisyphus:— " The` farmers, who now think only of demanding a repeal of the malt-tax, may soon find courage to demand a repeal of the new corn-law, of the tariff, and of the Canada Corn Act. The same energy which will be required to get rid of the malt-tax would suffice to get rid of the free-trade measures of the last three years, and of the Currency Act of 1819 into the bargain." And yet thin was the kind of argument with which the far mers.; suffered themselves to be deluded at the last election.. The same oracle of the agriculturists com plained what it calls the violation of these promises, and "the consequent disappointment of agricultural hopes :—" Promises may have been made to farmers on the subject of the malt-tax, and those promises may have been violated. Nothing, however, was said during the great 'struggle in 1841 between the League and the agri culitiral body on the question of the tax on malt ; and the pledges—express and implied—which were given by our present rulers, and by the majority of their sup porters, bore reference, assuredly, to matters of infi nitely.greater importance." The " straw" is manifestly " moving"—not for the repeal of the malt -tax, but for objects yet more embarrassing to Ministers than any movement in that direction. STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle of this day commences a long article as follows:—" The friends of the Church of England may well be alarmed at her pre seni position. The Puseyite crisis exposes to the world the two fundamental defects of her constitution—the want of -any supreme governing body, and the vicious system of promotion, which has filled her high places with men destitute of that statesmanlike ability that could guide her through her present difficulties." We shalt observe upon the latter imputed defect first. We do 'not find that: the Divine Founder of our Church seltctedstatesmen as his Apostles. We have the qualities requisite in a bishop more than once distinctly enumerated by the inspired teacher of the Gentiles; but statesman shiOr political wisdom is nowhere mentioned among those qualities, which may be classed under the heads of piety, purity of life, and a meek temper —qualities in which no man will say that the Bishops of our Church, as it boily, manifest any deficiency. They may err, as all'men err ; but surely the common complaint has latety.been that they have erred on the side of forbear ance towards men who would bring in heresies. And if one or more of them manifested more energy than the rek it is the generally meek character of the order whiEli causes such conscientious energy to be regarded as turbulence. But as our view of the conduct of oilrers - takes a colour from our approbation or disap picbation of their end (the observation is as old as Aristotle) we are disposed to characterise as turbulence that energy employed in opposition to orit opinions which we would gratefully welcome as manly courage if employed on our own side. The con siderition, however, which we would press is that an excessive meekness, and superabundant charity, are the faults—the only faults—which can be charged upon the present Bishops as a body ; but these faults are Chris tian virtues, and better become the fathers of a Christian CEurch than the opposite virtues of statemen—vigilant distrust and some amount of unfeeling rigour. The first fierect imputed to the Church is one that really does not ex ist; and we are not a little surprised to see its su pp osed eid4ence matter of complaint with a Liberal journal. The detect in question is, " the want of a supreme go vtining body," explained as follows in the next para grAph.,:--" The constitution of the Church of England ,mserits the singular anomaly of an extended and com plicated hierarchy, complete in all its organisation, with :the one exception of a head. It has neither Pope, nor 0111161, nor general assembly, to wield the sovereign authority, and enforce uniformity of doctrine and prac flee- throughout its entire body." The want of a "ge % neral council" is one which the Church of England has endUred in common with the Church of Rome for ex eddy three centuries, the last General Council of the Rditlish Church, that of Trent, having been assembled in'lll4s. The want of a Pope i.;, therefore, the _ opt,aly respect in which we are at a disadvantage ,is compared with Rome. And this is made . ...matter of complaint by a journal professing upon all occasions to be the champion of civil and re _ # pus liberty. If, however, the Church of .. ' And acknowledges no human arbiter of religious f 4 _ . ;lot - tine—no despotic master of its ritual—it surely has _ tut equivalent for such human arbiter in the Holy bcrip ,..tuxes, and for such despotic master of ritual in the law the law, which is q u it e strong enough to ma i nta i n t h e liktliority of the Scripture s , so long as the people are free frobytter corruption, a nd to enforce or to amend its own ritua ,arrangements.the state of the Eng : :lish and Romish Churches Comparin g du the latter half of the tkree centuries that have elap sed since the a s l i est general P . &sincil—the first half was a con stant political disorder in Christendom, fro m m °3 tthe*finence of which religion could not escape— comps. We say, the state of the English and Romish Churches, Tll during the last 150 or 200 years, we assuredly do not find that a Pope has, even with the aid o' the Inquisi tion and the temporal sword and the faggot, more effectually maintained uniformity of doctrine and ritual, to say nothing of political order and personal morality, than the Scripture and the law have maintained them all in England. It is, in truth, out of the happy tranquillity and implicit confidence arising from an experience of the operation of our English system, that the present danger, the magnitude of which no honest and observing man will dispute, has arisen. Indulgence on the part of the heads of the Church, implicit confidence in their clergy, had been nursed into inveterate habits by the calm, and steady, and glorious progress of religious truth. It was not that the Bishops slept on their posts, or that the laws had lost their power ; but there really was no fit occasion for the active interposition of either ; all was going on so well without the helpl jof either Pope or general council, that any rude interposition would be indeed a wanton challenging of danger. Such was the state to which the Christian liberty of centuries had exalted our Church twelve years ago, as every Englishman now living can attest. We say of Christian liberty, because the govern ment of law is liberty, and the only true condition of liberty ; and the government of law is most perfect where the law is least frequently invoked. Of liberty, however, it is a necessary attribute, that men may go strong if they are prepared to abide the consequences of doing so. And so it has proved in the Church. About twelve years ago, certain stupid, ignorant—we repeat it, most ignorant—conceited, and perverse men sought to introduce into the Church novelties of doctrine and of ritual by which they hoped to make for themselves a name. How were the Bishops or the Universities to deal with these persons, when they :saw the tares flung among the wheat? They might say at the hebdomadal board at Oxford, how many Bishops in their charges did say, "An enemy has done this thing." But the reluctance which all good men feel to awaken the sleeping lions of the penal law—the spirit of the parable referred to compelled them to wait until the wickedness or folly of the new heresy was fully de veloped ; besides that a precipitate course would risk the danger of presenting as martyrs those who were simply criminals. The forbearance thus manifested, though wise and just, and the effect indeed of the prosperity of the Church, has been, we admit, attended by this incon venience, that it has given occasion to doubts and scruples in the minds of some good men, which, though relating to matters in themselves indifferent, seem jto throw these good men, in some respects, into I the hands of the heretics. Poison is rarely adminis tered save in combination with something palatable, nr at the least indifferent, and the false doctrines of Tractarians were, in the usual course of these things, mixed up with an abundance of professed veneration for obsolete ritual observances. Some of these obsolete ob servances, however, unfortunately appeared obligatory on conscience, and though the real question is between pure Christianity and Romanising innovation, it has, at least in appearance, taken the form of a dispute about surplice preaching or the use of the offertory. Now while we entirely sympathise with the resolution of the people not to submit to authority, where the legal foundations of authority shall seem to be doubtful, and though we have no doubt that there is no au thority whatever to enforce surplice preaching, stilt we think that the dispute raised is one which (if the Bishops who enjoin surplice preaching unhappily feel bound to persist) can be determined satin. factorily only by the law. We say again, that we have no doubt how the law will determine it. In order, then, that the wound to the Church be promptly probed, let the question be at once referred to a legal issue, and, if ne cessary, prosecuted to the court of last resort, the Privy Council. Let some clergyman of the diocese of Exeter, for example, use his accustomed habit in preach ing; if he do so unmolested, the question is set at rest in that diocese, and the people well know that all who abandon the former usage do so, not from a necessity of canonical obedience, but from a bias towards the Romanising heresy ; if, on the other hand, an at tempt be made to punish the clergyman who adheres to the usage of two centuries, the people will support him in his successive appeals, up to the appeal to the Privy Council. This is the course which to us seems to be in all respects the best, and, if unhappily rendered neces sary, it is the course which we hope to see pursued. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) The intelligence of the complete closi- , g of the Elbe by ice, which reached this town on Saturday, has put a sudden stop to purchasers of yarn for Germany ; and the accounts from India not beingconsidered favour able, the yarn market has become exceedingly dull, though, as yet, without any material change in prices. The market for manufactured goods is also inactive, for which the season may sufficiently account. Yesterday there were some rather extensive inquiries for 40-inch shirtings at lower rates ; but, we believe, not much busi ness done. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 9 The Flannel market has been very similar to the two preceding ones, and something like an average quantity of business has been transacted at previous prices. There has been much more inquiry after wool to-day ; and some kinds, sue as noils and long wool, have realised a small advance in price. CORONERS' INQUESTS. An inspection being set on foot by the police, it Was fund that the deceased was the illegitimate child of Mary Ann Lucas, twenty-three years of age, servant to Mrs. Wix in that street, who said she had no idea of her servant's .pregnancy until the discovery of the body. The medical gentleman who was called in said she had no professional attendance at the birth, but he could not say whether it was born alive or not. The mother was immediately taken into custody. The jury in both cases returned open verdicts of " Found dead." ROBBERIES OF PLATE AT THE DUKE OF RICHMOND'S, &c.—Yesterday Benjamin Ewen, a respectably-dressed man, about fifty years of age, described on the police sheet as a servant, living at No. 6, Yeoman's row, Brompton, was brought up before Mr. T. Paynter, at the Hammersmith Police-court, for final examination and committed for trial, on a charge of having stolen a massive silver teapot, the property of the Duke of Rich mond. Mr. Paynter said he could not accept bail in this case. The prisoner was then charged with having stolen a dozen of silver table forks from the residence of R. H. Cox, Esq., of No. 8, Grosvenor-place and Hillingdon House, near Uxbridge. Tne prisoner was eventually fully committed for trial on this charge also. DEATH FRON STARVATION.—on Monday after noon a lengthened investigation was entered into be fore Mr. Higgs, coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, and a jury of thirteen inhabitant householders, at the Golden Lion, Lower Edmonton, on view of the re mains of a men, name unknown, aged fifty-two, whose death was occasioned by the want of food and expo sure to the inclemency of the weather. Richard Pugh, the keeper of a lodging-house in Church-street, stated that he had known the deceased for the last three months. He was a native of Essex, and was an agricultural labourer. He was in the employ of Mr. Boards, farmer, of Edmonton, but had been for some months out of work. He had during that period obtained a scanty pittance by vending Congreve matches, balls of cotton, &c. About Wednesday, or Thursday week last the police inter fered with him, and threatened to apprehend him as a vagrant, saying that his offering things for sale was merely an excuse for begging. Deceased was in con sequence very frightened, and did not go out with his basket again. He stopped at witness's house till the following Tuesday, when he absented himself, having till then, from the day the police spoke to him, lived upon stale crusts, which he got in exchange for congreves, and the dregs of the tea-pot when others had done with it. On Saturday night last, about half-past ten o'clock, witness was returning home, when he saw the deceased sitting on the ground in the street, crouched up in a corner. He asked him why he did not come to his house. He replied, be cause he had no money ; adding that he was very cold and thirsty, and had a pain in his side. Witne , 3s as sisted him home, when he made him some gruel, put ting into it half a pint of ale, which deceased swal lowed ravenously. Deceased was then put into a bed, and witness saw him no more alive. By the CORONER—Deceased, on getting into bed, said that since the Tuesday he had slept in hovels and open sheds, and had had scarcely a particle of food. Witness did not believe that deceased had ever made application at the workhouse, of which he always seemed to have a dread. Witness's opinion was that he died from want of food and exposure to the cold. Mr. Henry Samuel Lane, surgeon, Church-street, said that on Sunday morning last, about half-past eight o'clock, he was called to see a man at Mr. Pugh's who was considered to be in a dying state. Witness went about an hour afterwards, and then found the deceased dead. He was in bed, and laid out, and on inquiry he was informed that he had been dead above a quarter of an hour. There were no marks of violence. The body appeared much emaciated, and he considered that the deceased's death was accelerated by exposure to the cold. There being no farther evidence, after a few re marks from the Coroner on the distressing circum stances of the case, the jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased died from want of the common necessa ries of life and exposure to the cold." DEATH IN HORSEMONGER-LANE GAOL.—Yester day an inquest was held before Mr. Carter, the coroner for Snrrey, at the Governor's room, in Horsemonger lane prison, on the body of Joseph Simmons, a most eccentric character, who represented himself to be Napoleon Bonaparte. The deceased had for many years swept a crossing at the end of Penton-place, in the Kennington-road, leading to the Zoolog ic al Gardens. He was half witted, and a l ways very singular in his conduct, but the gentry of the neighbourhood were very kind to him. He was i n th e h a bi t of procla i m i ng himself Napoleon, and hundreds of boys would congregate around the assumed emperor, and jeer him in such a manner, that he was continually in the custody of the police t or assaults on one or other of these urchins. On the 21st of November he was committed for one of these assaults from Union hall, in default of finding bail for three months. On Sunday week he was taken ill in the chapel, and removed to the infirmary, where Mr. Meymott, the surgeon of the prison, immediately attended, and found he was labouring under .paralysis of the right side. He was at the time almost speechless. He had re peatedly been in the same prison for similar offences. Mr. Meymott stated that the deceased had every at tention paid to him, and whatever food he ordered, but he had no hope of him from the first time he was called on to see him in the infirmary.—Verdict, natural death. MORE SUPPOSED INEarricrpis.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held two inquests at the Three Cranes, Church-street, Hackney, on the bodies of newly born children, who were found under the follow ing suspicious circumstances :—ln the first case Edward Potter deposed that on Monday morning, about ten o'clock, he found a deal box, nailed down, having the name of " Ross" marked on it, behind a brick stack in Hackney churchyard, which, on being opened, was found to contain the body of an infant. A medical gentleman was sent for, who, upon examination, found the body in such a dreadful state of decomposition that it was impossible to state whether it died from violence or not. The other case was that of a female child found in the soil of a water- Closet at the back of a house, No. 30, Ada - street, Hackney, Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock. paid for P Y Candle of first quality. For delivery in the first three months of next year several contracts have been entered into at 41s to 41s 641 per cwt. Of Town Tallow the market has again been nearly cleared at the low rate of 41s per cwt nett cash. With other sorts of Tallow the market has been liberally supplied, and a decline in prices has occurred. On Friday 560 pkgs of South American, 124 casks of New South Wales, and 100 casks of Bast India will be offered at auction. Of New South Wales further arrivals are near at hand. A , -- SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11 1844. LAW INTELLIGENCE. PRIVY COUNCIL, Dec. 10. THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OP GUERNSEY. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. BURGE, on behalf of the petitioners, spoke at great length, and having concluded his address, Mr. S. WORTLEY followed on the same side, but not having finished shortly atter four o'clock, when their Lordships rose, the further consideration of the case was postponed till Thursday morning at ten o'clock. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 10. (Nisi Prius Sittings before the Lord Chief Baron and Special Juries.) ewer v. O'BRIEN. This was an action for an assault. The parties are well known to the sporting world, and, judging from the crowded state of the Court, the case seemed to excite considerable interest amongst the persons connected with the turf. Mr. COCKBURN (with whom were Mr. Hance and Mr. James) stated the facts of the plaintiff's case very nearly as they afterwards appeared in evidence. He added, however, that the plaintiff, smarting under the wrong done him by the defendant, who was greatly his su perior in physical force,.on the day on which the assault occurred sent a friend to the defendant to demand that satisfactioa which, however improper, it was.,not unusual under such circumstances for one gentleman to receive from another. Mr. O'Brien declined meeting Mr. . . Scott, whether upon any assumed ground of superiority, or because he was opposed to that relic of barbarism, duelling, he (the Learned Counsel) did not pretend to say. Under those circumstances, Mr. Scott brought his action, and he had no doubt that a jury of gentle men would afford him ample redress for his outraged feelings. Mr. Langley was the first witness called.—He de posed that he was outside Westminster Hall on the let of July last, when the famous " Running Rein case" was tried, in which Mr. Wood was the plaintiff, and Colonel Peel the defendant. His attention was attracted by the noise occasioned by a scuffle, and he observed Mr. O'Brien following and striking at Scott, whom he was driving backwards. When witness first saw them both parties were on their legs, but on a sudden he missed Scott, and pre sently after, pressing his way forward, beheld Scott, with one knee in the gutter and the other on the kerbstone. Scott was holding up his hand as if to defend himself, and whilst in this position, O'Brien hit him deliberately in the face and other parts of the body. Scott was smocked cloven. Some friends afterwards assisted him to rise, and he was put into a cab and drove off. O'Brien had a blue ring on his finger encircled with gold. Scott's face was much cut about the nose, his eyes were swollen, and he appeared a good deal hurt. O'Brien is a much taller, stronger, and younger man than Scott. Cross-examined—Witness did not see the beginning of the affray. Did not know that Scott bet on commis sion for Running Rein. Knew that on the day of the trial there was betting going on outside Westminster Hall as to the result. Captain Hugh Brabazon Higgins stated that he was outside Westminster Hall on the Ist of July. There were a great number of persons assembled connected with the turf. Witness was walking with Captain Garth when Mr. Scott joined them. It was about two o'clock in the afternoon when witness observed O'Brien ap proaching. He seemed so much excited that witness re marked to Captain Garth that he looked very warlike. As O'Brien passed witness, Captain Garth and Scott, he said, addressing Captain Garth, " How can you walk with that wretch ?" Witness had no doubt the observe- tion was meant for Scott. Scott immediately re plied by saying, " What do you mean, you thief?" O'Brien then attempted to take a stick out of Captain Garth's hand, but did not succeed. He then rushed at Scott, struck him several blows, and knocked him down. Scott got up with an intention of defending himself, but was immediately knocked down again. In fact he had no chance whatever. Witness observed O'Brien take plaintiff by the hair of the head, and inflict on him se veral blows whilst plaintiff was stretched at full length o❑ the flagway. There was no further provocation tier the assault than what witness had stated. Witness saw plaintiff in a day or two after, and his face still bore marks of the assault. Witness had heard there was a dispute between plaintiff and defendant, which was re ferred to Captain lions, who had decided in Scott's fa vour. Witness had also heard that defendant had given the plaintiff the guarantee of a most respectable gentle man for payment of his debt. Was not walking arm-in arm with the plaintiff when the assault took place. Knew plaintiff, but not intimately. Had dined with him once. Also knew defendant by meeting him at Tattersall's and elsewhere. Scott was at Tattersall's the evening of the day on which the assault was committed. Mr. Travers, the eminent surgeon, was called to prove that he saw the plaintiff shortly after the accident, when his face exhibited some severe contusions. By the LORD CHIEF BARON—Witness did not know that the plaintiff was going to Tattersall's the same evening, or Alse he should have advised him, as matter of precaution, not to have done so.—(A laugh.) Mr. Peel remembered being at Limmer's Hotel, in Conduit-street, on the 4th of June last. It was the set- ding day for the Oaks. O'Brien came in and inquired for Scott. He appeared much excited, and used threaten ing language as regarded Scott. Shortly after, witness met Scott coming into Limmer's Hotel, and advised him not to come in, as O'Brien was so much excited. Scott came in, however, and spoke to O'Brien, upon which a violent altercation ensued, the particulars of which wit ness does not recollect. Cross-examined—Witness knows O'Brien. Advised Scott not to come in. to prevent a row, but he insisted on doing so. Heard Scott say yesterday that he would fight O'Brien for 1,0001. This was at Limmer's hotel. Scott was joking about this trial. Mr. Gregory. M.P. for Dublin, was at Limmer's Hotel on the 4th of June, and gave the same account of the occurrence there as had been given by the last witness (Mr. Peel). This witness understood that O'Brien charged Scott with saying something prejudicial to his character. Mr. JERvis (with whom was Mr. Petersdorff) then addressed the jury for the defendant. It was now quite clear that Mr. O'Brien believed that Mr. Scott had been propagating reports on the turf prejudicial to his honour, and that he bad been anxious to obtain an explanation from him. Stung with these imputations, which were as slanderous as they were unfounded, and which went to charge Mr. O'Brien with being a levanter, and de sirous of escaping from his honourable engagements. Mr. O'Brien, uron seeing Mr. Scott walking with Captain Garth and Captain Higgins, did use the expres sion " wretch," as deposed to. Now " wretch" was an unmeaning word, it might mean anything; but the word " thief," which Mr. Scott used in reply, was far more offensive, especially when applied by him to Mr. O'Brien. The defendant could not receive a greater provocation, and he inflicted such chastisement on Mr. Scott, as any one, under such circumstances, might expect from a man whose temper was not under perfect control. As to the challenge to fight a duel, the action was commenced the very next day, and Mr. O'Brien could not be expected to treat a man as a gentleman who asked for gentleman like satisfaction with a writ in his pocket. The Learned Counsel submitted that the smallest damages would satisfy the justice of the case. The LORD CHIEF BARON thought that a gentleman who applied the word " wretch" to another must not be surprised if the word " thief" was retorted. There was no evidence that the plaintiff had previously done the defendant any injustice. It only appeared that they were Tery proper3lo ont e g a o s od et toter e b r r m i ns g b On ef o r t e h a e i w u he, y o ehe w , ho would thought award the plaintiff such damages as he seemed entitled to, not merely in regard to his physical sufferings, which were not very serious, but as a compensation for the injury inflicted on his feelings. The jury, after a short consultation, returned with a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001. RUFFLING V. NURSE, OVEUDEN, AND MURPHY. This was an action for entering the plaintiff's dwel ling-house without a search-warrant, ransacking his drawers, &c., and taking away a pair of spectacles, &c. Mr. Watson and Mr. Humfrey, were for the plain tiff ; and Messrs. Jervis, Chambers, and Rawlinson for the defendants. It appeared that the plaintiff, who was a person ad vanced in life, and who had formerly been in the army, was lately employed in the Polytechnic Institution in Regent-street; but, in consequence of some breach of the regulations of the establishment, had notice to quit. Some platina having been Missed from the rooms, sus picion fell, though without any just cause, as it ap peared, on the plaintiff, and on the morning of the 19th of March last the defendant Ovenden ; who was a police• man, accompanied by Murphy, who was also a porter at the establishment in Regent street, entered the plaintiff's lodging in Marylebone-street, whilst the plaintiff and his wife, who was in extremely delicate health, were In bed, ransacked their drawers, looked over their letters, be haved with some rudeness, and took away a pair of German silver spectacles belonging to Mrs. Surfing, because they were contained in a case which appeared to have been brought from the Polytechnic Institutititi. On the same day, between two and three o'clock in the afternoon, Ovenden, the policeman, returned with Mr. Nurse, who is, it appeared, one of the directors of the Polytechnic Institution, and a magistrate of the county. Nurse expressed a strong suspicion of plaintiff's honesty, and charged the plaintiff with having letters of his in his possession, which the defendant denied. The letters were then searched, but none addressed to Mr. Nurse could be discovered, but it turned out the spectacles had been fairly purchased by Mrs. Surfing from a vendor at the Institution, who stamped his address on the a rti c les sold there. drs. Surfling's health was so much injured by the proceedings adopted by the defendants, that her husband had to call in a medical attendant, who con tinued in attendance for some weeks, and whose charges amounted to 141, Bs. The defence was, that the defendants bad acted bona fide upon reasonable grounds of suspicion, and without any unnecessary harshness. The LORD CHIEF BARON thought that there was no case made out against Murphy, and directed his acquit tal. He was clearly of opinion, however, that Mr. Nurse and the policeman had acted illegally i n searc hi ng th e plaintiff's lodgings without a warrant. If Mr. Nurse was a magistrate, as stated, he ought to have known better. The plaintiff was clearly entitled to some com pensation for the inconvenience and annoyance he and his wife suffered at the hands of the defendants. The jury found for the plaintiff, with M, clamages against Nurse and °vend.— anu acquitted Murphy. ..aztalentnNT.—An astonishing cure of an in ward cancer in the lower part of the stomach.—Mrs. Quinn, residing at No. 4, Back-lane, St. George's-in the-East, had been in three hospitals /for about eighteen months, and was discharged from them as incurable. She.was in this state when the ointment was rubbed in all over the regions of the diseased parts, as salt is forced into meat, which effected a cure as speedily as though the inward part had been palpable to the eye. Any internal 6,zes, tumours, aches, or pains may be cured in the like manner. Sold at Professor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors of medicine throughout the oiTilbed mkt WINTER ASSIZES NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 9. (Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) His LORDSHIP sat this morning at the Guildhall, for the purpose of trying Joseph Steadman Maddison, aged 38, who was charged with having, on the 12th of June last, and on subsequent periods, being at that time a clerk in the employ of Mr. Swan, in the city of York, feloniously embezzled 101. and other sums, the property of Mr. George Swan. Tis case has excited a great deal of interest, not only in York but elsewhere, so that the court at an early hour was crowded in an unusual manner. „ Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Dearsley prosecuted the prisoner, and Mr. Bliss defended him. There were three principal counts in the indictment and numerous minor counts. To the second principal count Mr. Bliss took an objection—it stated three dis tinct receipts of money within the period of six calen dar months, but did not state the embezzlements to have taken place within that period. The Learned Counsel contended that this was not sufficient, and referred to a decision of Mr. Justice Patteson in the "King v. Pur chase," reported in Carrington arid Marshman, where that Learned Judge had so held. After a slight dis cussion. Mr. Wreresais acid he saw the objection, and could not contend with it. The facts of the case may be very briefly narrated. In 1842 crime was found to increase so rapidly in and around York, and with such impunity did thieves carry on their depredations, that a party of gentlemen esta blished themselves into a society for the protection of the lives and property caf persons in the neighbourhood, and in order effectually to carry out their laudable pur pose, they employed a police force of their own to act as patrols, within a circumference of 10 miles round the city of York. The prisoner, who applied to them for a situation, and whose application was backed with the highest testimonials, was appointed the superin tendent of the whole of that force, at a salary of 21. per week. At a subsequent period, to his other duties was added that of collecting subscriptions in aid of the society, and for this extra labour the prisoner was presented with a bonus of 101., and he was allowed 5 per cent. upon all subscriptions that he collected. All subscriptions it was his duty, immediately on their receipt, to hand over to Mr. Swan, the banker, of York, who acted in the capacity of treasurer to the society, and was also a member of the com mittee, and to furnish a weekly return of all receipts. Once every month also it was his duty to draw sums of money from the bank for the payment of the police, and he continued to draw from the bank for that purpose, up to the Gth of July last, between 701. and 801, per month. Since the month of January preceding, however, though drawing these sums out, the prisoner had paid nothing into the bank as subscriptions. When he applied there fore for more money on the 6th of July, Mr. Swan re fused to advance any more, and the consequence was that on the Bth ofJuly, two days afterwards, Maddison had disappeared from York. When next heard of he was filling the situation of Procurator Fiscal in the town of Dundee, where he had not been long, when finding that he was likely to be " wanted" (as was alleged by the prosecution), he wrote a letter to Mr. Anderson, who was the secretary to the society, admitting that he might be found to be in arrear with his accounts, and praying that the committee would grant him a short time to make all straight with them and his other creditors, which he hoped soon to be able to do, as he had obtained a good situation. Defalcations were found to exist in his accounts, and hence the present charge. Mr. R. H. Anderson was the first and principal wit ness called.—ln his examination in chief that gentleman deposed to nearly all the facts as above detailed. Cross-examined by Mr. Buss—The prisoner had been in the service of the society from December, 1842, till July, 1844. I found him a diligent, efficient, and good officer. He left some account-books behind him in the office. lam not aware that he had to find horses at any time for his men. I am not certain that the prisoner said he had expended the subscriptions which he had re ceived in his travelling expenses. He might have said so. He did not, I think, say that his expenses amounted to above 2001. a-year; but he frequently complained of his salary, and wished to have it increased. The pri soner had on several occasions made verbal announce ments to me as to the state of his accounts, and has stated an account of subscriptions received, an amount of sub scriptions in arrear, the sum paid over by him to the bank, and the sum in his own possession. His expenses no doubt were heavy, and I have heard that he suffered some losses whilst in the service of the society. Mr. John Hexby, of Easing woll, proved giving a sub scription of 10/ to a policeman named Hare on the Ist of April last, to hand over to Maddison on behalf of the society. Hare deposed to having delivered that sum to the pri soner on the Ist of April. Mr. George Swan, the treasurer, deposed that it was the prisoner's duty to hand over subscriptions to him immediately on their receipt. He had not paid to him any subscriptions to the 22d of January. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. BLISS addressed a most able, ingenious, and argu mentative speech to the jury, and commented at great length on the letter written by Maddison to Mr. Ander son, and contended that, so far from being a proof of dishonesty, it showed an anxious desire to pay up his arrears. This was the case of a man, happening to be in arrear, leaving one situation to obtain a more profitable one. Immediately on obtaining it he writes to the secretary, communicating his address, stating his ap pointment and his salary ; admitting (without being questioned) his arrears, and begging that the committee would wait patiently hut for a short time, when he would pay up his arrears to the society, and make all straight with them and with the rest of his creditors. Was that like a man absconding after having committed the crime of embezzlement ? lie had been in arrear before. He had not always paid all up at least, and it was known at the auditing of the accounts, which from time to time occurred, that he was somewhat in arrear, yet they suf fered him to go on, and he did go on. lie was anxious to pay up his arrears, and he went to Dundee, that he might the better and the sooner do so. From January to July he paid no money into the bank ; the society must have known that he had received subscriptions during that time, and yet they asked him for no account. He put it to the jury whether,this was not simply the case of a man in arrear with his creditors, and not that of one feloniously embezzling the property of his em ployers. The Learned Counsel then called Charles John Scott, who deposed that he was clerk to the magistrates of Chester- le-Street. He knew the pri soner when be was superintendent of the Durham con stabulary force. He always acted honestly. Witness went went round to the magistrates on Wednesday last, and obtained a document in favour of the prisoner. Cross-examined--I have never heard that the prisoner had been guilty of forgery in Scotland. I never heard such a thing mentioned till this motnent. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE then summed up. There was no doubt that the prisoner had received money for the society, which it was his duty to pay over to the treasurer. There was no doubt that he had not paid it all over. The question for the jury to decide was, whether the prisoner had fraudulently kept back that money, and applied it to his own purposes ? The jury retired to consider, and after an absence of about three hours returned a verdict of Guilty, with a strong recommendation to mercy, on account of his pre vious good character.—Sentence deferred. Immediately after the summing up his Lordship left the Guildhall, and proceeded to the Castle, where the county cases were proceeded with as usual. The jury remained at the Guildhall, and came to the Castle in charge of an officer, as soon as they had agreed on their verdict. bat he was pursued and again knocked down. While en the ground several of his assailants tried to get at his pockets, and kicked and struck him violently for some time, during which he kept crying out "Murder" loudly. After they left the prosecutor he rose and ran to a hovel standing in a field by the road side, where he found that he had lost 4/. 125., which was safe in his pocket on leaving the Woolpack. The injuries which Richards stsstaincd were of a tolerably severe nature ; a considcr • able quantity of blood flowed from the wound is his head, and he was for some time incapacitated from pur suing his avocations. A great number of witnesses were called to substan tiate his testimony, but some discrepancies and incon sistencies were apparent in their respective narratives, originating probably in the obtuseness of their intel lects, occasioned by the rough treatment to which their heads had been subjected, and to the deep par tions they had•imbibed. The trial occupied the time of the Court nearly the whole day, and terminated at a late hour in the evening by a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners, except Willi a m Jon e s. John Joius then received sentence of imprisonment, with hard labour, for six months, and all the rest for the term of twelve menthe. Dec. 10, FOUR O'CLOCK, A.M. The business at thi: town had nut terminated at twelve o'clock last night, when his Lordship was still sitting ; there yet remain some forther unimportant cases for disposal, which will probably occupy some part of the day, whereupon the Leal ned Judge will proceed to Stafford this afternoon, this being the eommission day for that county. OXFORD C RC U IT.— Shrewsbury, Dec. 9. (Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) Richard Jones, aged 25, Thomas Jones, 21, Enoch Jones, 16, John Jones, 17, William Jones, 19, and Edwat 11 Turner, 24, were indicted for a highway robbery, in company, on the 20th of November last. Mr. Corbett conducted the proescution. Messrs. Phil- limore and Neale appeared foi the prisoners. Humphrey Richards, the prosecutor, an individual who, to judge fro n his appearance, and the manner in which he gave his evidence, was endowed with less in tellect than usually falls to the lot of even a Welsh labourer, on entering the witness-box, being asked by the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, if he could speak English, replied, without hesitation, " No, Sir, I cannot." This answer, as may be supposed, caused some laughter, when the witness, apparently recollecting himself, suddenly pretended that he could not understand any observation made to him; after some coaxing, how ever, and the manifestation of much dogged reluctance, he at length consented to make a sort of half-intelligible reply to the questions addressed to him; this he con tinued to do for about an hour, when his sulkiness and tacitunity put a stop to the further progress of the case, and it was found necessary to swear an interpreter, after which the business proceeded somewhat less tardily than before. It wad a matter of some difficulty to arrange, in an in telligible form, the c onfused and broken statement of thia however, seemed to be the sub man. The following, stance of his complaint : He resided at Gadon, in the parish of Llansillin, and on the 20th of November went from his home to the town of Oswestry, for the purpose of seiiiitg some oats, for which he obtained 51. as., and was return,:g about eight o'clock in the evening, with the cash in his pocke:;s, when he deemed it advisable to turn into the Woolpack for refreshment. Here he imbibed several pints of liquor, and remained over his potations for three or four hours, during which time several other parties came into the kitchen where he was sitting, amongst whom were some of the prisoners. It was proposed in the course of the evening, as an intellectual amusement and a harmless diversion, that the compauy present should try the strength of their respective skulls by what is termed " bumping heads," a proceeding to which the prosecutor apparently might have safely engaged with the owner of the thickest and hardest pericranium in the principality. In accordance with this laudable suggestion, the prose cutor and another man, in order to prepare themselves more readily for the encounter, took off their coats, and ranging themselves, as did several other sapient couples, on oppe , site sides of the room , at a given signal they all rushed together, and the weakest, as might be anticipated, and, as usually happens, " went to the wall ;" but the frequent re p e tition of this delightful sad ezhiliratins pastime was not , for tunatel y , attended with an m y anifestation of ill humour, its monotony alone probably, therefore, suggested its discontinuance, and about half-past eleven the men parted for the mowed purpose of returning to their respective homes. Hum phrey Richards walked some distance with a man of the n ame of Sides, when they were overtaken by me of their previous companions, one of whom challenged Sides to fight. This was near a house called Perkington Lodge. Six or seven men had at this time collected round, and Sides was knocked down ' and almost at the same time a stone was cast *% hich struck lliehard , •n the eye, and he received s imultaneously a blow on the back part of the head from a thick stick. This had the effect of cutting open his head and knocking him down. On rising be tried to run 02132010kb:10= of Oswestry, TUESDAY NIGHTS GAZETTE. - _ WHITEHALL, DEO. 4, 1844. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Allan Borman Heath, of Andover, in the county of Southampton, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Thomas William Davies, of Leominster, in the county of II re ford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. . . Thomas Rose, builder, Nursling, Southampton, to surrender Dec. 17 and Jan. 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's Arm's yard ; Johnson, Walcot-square. John Thomas Gibbons, grocer, Eaton, Buckinghamshire, Dee. 18, at one, and Jan. 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Bell and Co., Bow Church-yard. John Brett, currier, Bury St. Edmunds, Dec. 20, and Jan. 22, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alderrnanbury, London ; Nettleship, Clifford's Inn ; Durrant, Bury St. Edmunds. James Ayling, cabinet-maker, Leeds, Dec. 17, at twelve, and Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-cham bers ; Torkington, New Bridge-street. Stephen Bncknell, carman, Hendon, Middlesex, Dec. 17, at half-past one, and Jan. 28, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Abrahams, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Josiah .Martin, tallow-chandler, High-street, Shore ditch, Dec. 17, at half-past ten, and Jan. 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Walters, Basinghall-street. Caroline Maidstone, milliner, Cambridge, Dec. 17, at three, and Jan. 15, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings ; Robinson,lllalf-Moon-street, Piccadilly. William Starr Drury, ironmonger, Chester, Dec. 20 and Jan. 23, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Chester and Co., Staple Inn, London ; Hostage, Chester. Elias Needham, jun., currier, Little Houghton, Lan cashire, Dec. 21, and Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Man chester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Man chester ; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, King's-bench walk, Temple, London ; Needham, Manchester. John Beale, grocer, Cadoxton, Glamorganshire, Dec. 24, at one, and Jan. 21, at eleven , at t he Bristol Dis trict Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Beer, Swansea ; Short, Bristol. William Skinner Rendle, tea dealer, Penzance, Dec. 19, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter ; Hill and Mathews, St. Mary axe, London ; Terrell, Exeter. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy:,Basinghall-street. R. Collier, draper, Folkstae,-Kent, Jan. 3, at eleven —C. Altazin, upholsterer, Conduit-street, Hanover square, Jan. 7, at one—E. Brain, copper-plate printer, Rodney-street, Pentonville, Jan. 7, at half-past twelve— R. Dean, builder, Milner-place, Lambeth, Jan. 7, at eleven—A. and C. Duncan, merchants, Toltenhouse yard, Jan. 7, at half-past two—W. B. Gough, grocer, Newport Pagnell, Buckinghamshire, Jan. 7, at twelve— C. Newton and C. Worssam, engineers, Kingsland• road, Jan. 8, at eleven. In the Country. W. Boulton, jun., and W. F. Palmer, builders, Staf nrd, Jan. 10, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—G. Boddington, coach builder, Warwick, Jan. 6, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court—J. Glazebrook, carpenter, Birmingham, Jan. 10, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court— G. Hickinbottom, baker, Burbage, Leicestershire, Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. ._ - _ J. W. Snell, boolmaker, Motint-place, Mile-end-road, Jan. B—W. H. Williamson, tobacconist, Dowgate-hill, City, Jan. 10—R. Robinson, coal merchant, Strand, Jan. 10—H. Addenbrook, druggist, Dudley, Worcester shire, Jan. 7—J. Appleton, ship owner, Sunderland, Jan. 7—C. Mann, banker, Rumford, Jan. 4-11,. Watson and R. Morris, brokers, Liverpool, Dec. 31 —T. Humphrey, sen., and T. Humphrey, jun., shipwrights, Hull, Dec. 31—W. Woolland, turners, Exeter, Dec. 31 —M. Coghlan, woollen-cloth manufacturers, Almond bury, Yorkshire, Dec. 31—E. M. Good, farmer, Peck ham, Dec. 31—E. APLaughlin, hair merchant, Long- ane, Bermondsey, Dec. 31. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Collisson, E. Trimmer, and C. Tolley, brewers, Worcester—l. Booth and R. Blockley, mercers, Crewe, Cheshire—A. May and H. Stewart, smiths, High Hol born—G. and W. Tillett, quarrymen, Winterbourne, Gloucester—E. and J. Cawley, cabinet makers, Lam beth-terrace, Lambeth-road—S. Woolley and W. N. Bell, merchants, Liverpool—R. L. Rankin and J. Gleave, ma nufacturing chemists, Narthwich, Cheshire—J. Linsley. jun., M. Fatherley, and H. Fatherley, farmers, Wash ington, Durham—T. Booth and R. liornby, drapers, Blackburn, Lancashire—J. Stanfield and J. Palmer, booksellers, Wakefield, Yorkshire—R. Attwood and J. W. Hewett, attorneys-at-law, Fareham—H. R. For rest and F. B. Garty, merchants, Mitre-chambers, Fen church-street—H. Hargreaves and R. M. Gill, letter press printers, Blackburn, Lancashire—R. Bowman and W. Knight, jun., Manchester—T. Conway and J. Marden, drapers, Beaminster, Dorsetshire — T. lons and T. Leybourne, curriers. Newcastle-upon-Tyne F. Pawsey, J. King, and H. Ridley, ink manufacturers, Ipswich. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. John Wallace, grocer, Sorn, Ayrshire, Dec. 11 and Jan. 8, at twelve, at G. Dunlop's, Catrine. Robert Bros n, lime merchant, Cadder, Dec. 12 and Jan. 3, at eleven, at the chambers of M. Waddell ,Glasgow FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL l3Ru DIIC. 6.—ln the night of the sth inst the mercury in the centigrade thermometer at the Observatory, suspended three yards above the ground in a north aspect, fell to 4 deg. Reaumur (23 Fahrenheit) below zero. In December, 1843, the greatest degree of cold was only 2 deg. 2 min. (1 deg. 8 min. Reaumur) below zero. The greatest degree of cold since 1833 was in the night of the 16th December, 1840—viz., 12 deg. 9 min. (10 deg. 3 min. of Reaumur.) BRUSSELS, Dec. 7.—Last night the mercury in the centigrade thermometer fell to 8i deg. Reaumer (16/ deg. Fahrenheit) below zero. Since sunrise a strong north-east wind has increased the intensity of the cold. The navigation in the canals from Brussels to Wille brook and Charleroy.is completely stopped, and also the canal of Louvain. The ice is already several inches thick. The rivers Dyle and Senne are begin ing to freeze. The arrival at Brussels, of Mr. Deffandis, is not without importance. It has been long known that Mr. Deffandis would be commissioned to stipulate for the interest of France, in the commercial negotia tions that might be opened between the two coun tries. This step, therefore, whether it has been taken at the leave of our Cabinet, or spontaneously by the Cabinet of the Tuileries, shows that notwithstanding all that has been said, the treaty of the Ist of Sep tember has not caused any serious difference between France and Belgium : M. Deffandis may easily con vince himself during his stay at Brussels that, on concluding the treaty of Sept. 1, Belgium by no means renounced its desire to form a close commercial connexion with France as far as the interests even of France itself permitted. HANOVER, DEC. 2.—His Majesty the King, ac companied by Prince William of Solms-Braunfels, set out at eleven o'clock this morning by a special train, to join a hunting party of the King of Pr asia at Quedlinburg. The Earl of Westmoreland, who, with his family, has been here some days on a visit to the King, and lodged in the royal palace, has now left us. ST. PETERSBURG H, Nov. 26.—8 y an Imperial ukase directed to the Minister of Finance, the Em peror, considering the expenses necessary in 1845 for the construction of the railroad between Peters burgh and Moscow, orders that a loan of twelve millions of silver roubles shall be opened abroad, on the same basis as that of the third Four per Cent. Loan. The inscription of 500 silver roubles each are to be divided in 184 equal sections and to bear interest from the Ist of August this year. The repayment commences in August, 1846. The capital destined for this purpose is, in the year 1846, 125,000 roubles, and in the following year, 300,000 silver roubles, in 2} per cent. of the nominal capital of the loan. The realisation of the loan is entrusted to Baron Stieglitz, in Petersburgh. IIAmBuRGH) DEG. 6.—The mercury in the ther mometer is now constantly below zero. The greatest degree of cold we have yet had is 7 deg. below freez ing point (probably Fahrenheit). BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bstreme, 1320. 7. Actua Debt, 236 per Cent., Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent ....... .....«.« Lean of Thirty Minions, Four per Cent. 93>,( Three per Thirty-seven Mill 1( ns, ditto I VS Loan of City, 1643. Four per Fent. l O4 102 Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent — Bank of Belgium, Ave per Cent. ............. Issue of 1841...... « •••••••••••••• Russianßuasian 5 5 --Brussels Pa"per...r.ffeni:" ... HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Due. 6. Sills. Money. Austrian 5 per Cents. Cents . . ...........«».N....».».«.. Shares.... 1658 Anglo-Russian . « ...... .. 114 Inscription, Ist series D p e er r Ce Ce n n H ig o t p s e .e.d an .".. l 3; Co. rt , raaned......4.:tt 105 105 115% Series Huinhurgb, " Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (MO) . Dutch Actual Dan ..." 90 Ditto Per .........".•• 904 904 Anglo-Danish Lop- ......... 08 Bl+ Spanish. - per Cent. .......... ..... P o ne, „4 .1 11,!_tr Cent. ..... 57 90% N. p0nd5 ....... 19% 19 London. ....... • cha....... nenienth 18 7% A deputation from the West 'Yorkshire Railway 1204 an interview with Lord Dalhousie yeatarday. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Dec. 10.) SUGAR—To-day the buAness transacted in all de scriptions of West India Sugar was limited, and the rates accepted were rather under those previously quoted for brown and inferior sorts, but good and fine yellow are still fetching full prices on account off` the short supply at market. A public sale of 96 hhds 4 tree of Barbadoes went off quietly at a decline in prices of 6d for low and middling, but good and fine sustained the former currency ; fine yellow fetched 64s to 66s 6d, good 61s to 61s 6d, good middling 59s to 60s 6d, middling 55s 6d to 58s 6d, and low heavy 53s to 54s per cwt. The total quantity of Sugar disposed of amounted to only 350 hhds and trcs. REFINED.—To-day Refined goads were taken spa ringly by the trade ; brown lumps at 71s, and standard lumps 72s 6d per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar is 29s 6d ro 30s per cwt ; there are extensive purchasers rather under these rates for forward delivery, but no sellers are to be met with. _ _ MAURITIUS.—The market has presented a firm ap pearance for this description of Sugar, and nearly the whole of 3,436 bags at public sale were taken in at easy rates, good mid yellow at 58s to 58s 6d, mid 56s to 575, low 52s to 545, good and fine bruwn 50s to 51s 6d, mid 48s to 495, low 455, and common to mid grey 52s to 55s per cw t. The stock is on the increase, and the consumption is beginning to bo interfered with by the low mid and mid grey and yellow qualities of Bengal Sugar. EAST INDIA.-This afternoon at public sale 1,778 bags of Bengal Sugar were offered, 916 of which consisted of damp brown, a very small part only of which found pur chasers at 42s to 435, and inferior 41s 6d ; the remainder consisted of yellow, and was all sold, but upon rather lower terms, viz., fine at 61s 6d, good 58s to 60s, middling 55s 6sl to 56s 6d, damp and washed 50s to 61s. Of Manilla 1,323 bags at public sale were taken in above the value, ordinary grey at 19s, middling 20s to 21s, damp and washed 18s 6d to 19s 6d, damp white 26s per cwt. FOREIGN.- This afternoon the market was better supplied with Foreign Sugar-at public sale 549 chests 176 brls of Rio, and 1,695 boxes of Havannah were offered, the former of sound quality was taken in at the previous value-fine brown at 19s to 19s 6d, good 18s to 188 6d, middling 17s to 17s 6d, low 16s 6d ; the damaged, amounting to 220 pkgs, were sold at rather lower rates, and went at 16s to 18s for ordinary to fine quality. Of the Hayannah 607 boxes consisted of white, and were taken in at the full value, film at 30s, good 295, middling 27s to 28s, and low 27s ; three lots of damaged were however sold at 26s to 28s 6d, the yellow of sound quality was taken in at the full worth, fine at 22s 6d, good 21s to 21s 6d, low to mid 19s 6d to 20s 6d, a few lots damaged were disposed of at 18s 6d to 215 per cwt, being cheaper. MOLASSES.-There has been a good demand for West India, and previous rates are supported, the total quan tity disposed of has amounted to 350 puns since this day week; Trinidad fine at 22s 6d to 24s 6d; St. Kitt's and St. Vincent's 21s to 21s 6d per cwt. Holders show firm ness, and the stock is on the decrease. In East India the transactions are upon a more extended scale, at 14s to 17s per cwt. Cocoa.-Foreign is wanted, but thero is still little in the market, and 30s to 33s per cwt is the value. Prices are firm for West India, and there are several purchasers, but the supply is not sufficient for the wants of the trade; none has been offered at auction, the stock is rather less than it was last year at this period. This afternoon at public sale 78 bags of Cocoa shells from Dunkirk were sold at 15s to 16s per cwt. COFFEE.-This afternoon at public sale 130 casks 257 brls and 787 bags of Rio Coffee were offered ; the sound was all taken in at moderate rates, low middling colory British Plantation kind at 48s to 525, fine fine ord 42s to 455, good and fine ord 27s to 295, ord 26s ; the sea da maged, of which the bulk consisted, was however all disposed of, but at comparatively low prices, L t class went at 25s 6d to 31s 6d, 2d class 24s to 28s 6d, 3d class /lis to 24s cd, Sugar drainage damaged 13s to 31s, sea damaged and repacked 20s to 295, sweepings 18s 6d to 21s 6d. Ceylon moved off slowly by private contract, and at public sale 149 bags were sold at a decline on former rates of Is per cwt, good ord went at 51s, and one lot of very good ord 535, sea damaged pea berry 70s. Of Mocha 32 bales were taken in at 65s for low mid mixed greenish, being above the value. 86 bags of Singapore Java were bought in at 45s for fine ord, being above the worth. TEA.-We have still to report a firm market fur Tea of all descriptions, and again none has been offered at auction. Congou has been in very good demand here since Tuesday last, and full rates have been paid, espe cially for the common arid best descriptions ' • ordinary sound has been fetching 104 d to I Id, good ordinary 1 lid to Is, but mid eind mid blackish leaf is is id to Is 3d, good and fine is aid to is 7d, Pekoe fla vour is 8d to 2s 6d per lb. Pouchong at sid to Is per lb. Souchong has been in request at the former currency Twankay of common quality at is 2id to is 31d. Other sorts are fetching stiff rates, brightish leaf is 4d to Is Bd, and Hyson kind In 9d to 2s sd. Young Hyson is fetching is 9d to 2s 6d for ordinary and good ordi nary, and 2s 8d to 3s 6d for middling and good. Gun powder at 2s 6d to 3s 6d, and superior 3s 8d to 45 6d. Imperial 2s 4d to 3s 6d per lb. Scented Orange Pekoe at 3s 4d to 3s sd. Caper at 10d 'to 154 d. Ia Black Leaf and Flowery Pekoe the transactions are upon a more extended scale upon former terms. Hyson Skin at is to is 6d per lb. To-daj- prices underwent no varia tion for Tea, but there was bras business doing on account of public sales to the exten t of 22,000 pkgs being sud denly declared for Thursda:i. SPICES.-This afternoon two parcels of Nutmegs, amounting to 50 package'3, were offered at public sale and went at a decline on former rates of 2d to 3d. Sin gapore brown went at 3s S'd to 3s 9d, good and fine 3s 10d to 4s 3d, limed 2s 6 d to 2s 9d ; Penang brown 3s 5d to 3s 6d, mouldy a tent at 3s 4d, worm-eaten Is to Is sd. Of Mace 14 packages were only partly sold at 2s 6d to 2s 9d for mi ddling, and better quality at 3s to 3s 2d, being much cheaper. Of Cloves 4 eases Benchoolen were sold at 2s, Id. Pimento met with little attention, and 80 bags at auction were taken at 4i d to 44d for good middling cr vality, being above the value. Pepper was little inquired; for-268 bags of Sumatra at auction were sold at 24-d too 21a for common light stalky and dusty, being barely foss ner rates. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOU ,AxDs.-Prices have declined id to Id per gallon for Lees aard Island Rum, but a good business has been transact() 3, 450 puns having been dis posed of at 2s 3id to 2s 4d per gallon, proof strength Jamaica, at rater lower r ates-3s 8d to 4s 2d is the value of 28 to 35 per ma at. overproof, and 48 3d to 6s per gallon for fine and superior qualities; Calcutta not so firm, 2s 2id to Ss 3d having been accepted for some parcels. Demerara upon easier terms, 2a ld having been accepted for 32 per cent overproof, and 3s 2d to 3s 5d for superior qualities. Brandy of common quality is still Eta, wanted, and prices are going down, but for the best : torts there has been a lively demand. Cognac, best bran cis of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns ss; do, 188 fi, hhds 4s Ild, puns 4s 9d; do, 1840, hhds 4s 11d, puns; 4s 9d; do, 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d; do, 1842„ hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s sd; do, 1843, hhds 4s sd, pans 4s 3d, common 2s 8d to 3s I Id, and middlit ig to good middling 3s to 3s 10d, Bordeaux comma a2s 6d to 2s Bd. Geneva at Is 9d to is 10d for shipping , and fine 2s 4d to 33 6d per gallon. English Corn SO: rits at lOs 2d per gallon, nett cash. To-day Rum met - with little attention; proof Leewards are 2s 3id, Calcal tta 2s 2d, and to arrive Is lld to 2s. Jamaica is 4 lull of sale and prices are drooping; 3s 7d to 4s 4d iis the value of ord to good quality. FRUIT.-For Currants pi.' ices rule firm, and numerous parcels have been disposed ( is ; I'atras new at 49s to 50s, old 45s to 465, Zante and i >phsionia old 445, and new 47s per cwt. In Raisins oi f all descriptions numerous purchases have been made ; Yalentias at 50s, Denis. 40s, I.exia, 38s, Smyrna black 41s, red 45s to 475, Eleme 48s to 50s, Sultana 60s, Mu:a iatels 55s to 100 s. Turkey pulledfo publicße Bengal, 181 7 : iot 4 i s sd s rmu t urn o csi: 7s oow s wfa , per cwt Figs s is w af e t: e rn s o o o ld n a ll 50s to 755. per cwt. fully supported n w ted hit , e b h u a t s b b u e s e i n ne fe ss tc h h a in s g be l e o n s v c n oi l it ia ra il e , , t i . , a in nd consequence a the goo m d et to fine 12s to einandvance, pith li d ready . , scanty supply at market ; 1 -id:bnlyeivdioius private 3 improved rates are purchasers,l2s 6d per cwt. and p r T i coe-sd areay B still en g o a ri l t l h t fetching lls 6d to 12s per cwt. , SALTPETRE.-To-day rough was inquired foe but stiffer rates being required operate d against busisaa a ; d 400 bags of Calcutta at public 8043 were taken in at and refraction, for common damp grey I2i to 11.1 per cent, being 15 per cwt above the value. COCHINEAL-There has been it. considerable increase in the demand since we last wrot c, and an advance in prices of ld has occurred. OILS.-The demand has increas ed fir all descriptions of common Fish Oils, and a goo( 1 business has been r6edsßtteloic::. e• transacted at 341 to 34110 s for pale Seal. 301 to 331 for 1 yellow and straw, 291 to 291 10s for brown, and at 291 to ; 34/ for corn to fine Southern. Code it 311311 10 s per tun. 1 Sperm has been taken sparingly, at id holders experience difficulty in obtaining 871 to 90/ per tun for British. Linseed Oil at the low rates of 22s 6d to 22s 9d per cwt on the spot, and for forward delisnery many contracts have been entered into. For Rapes 344 6d to 353 ee -1 cepted for pale, and 33s 6d to 34s per cwt for brown ; the supply greatly exceeds the di mand. Cocoa Nut Oil 24a to 28s per cwt. Palm, good'. And fins at 254 t o 26s par cwt. In Olive there has 1 ken a good business transacted. I TALLow.--408 3d to 40s 9d per cw, A 4 arp the cwentut e , I • A CA!' ITA - LABOUR - COMPE- TITION—CO-O PERATION. (From the Struggle) I know nothing so fatal to the interests of the working class as the various attempts to set capital against labour, and to represent their interests at va riance with each other. There are certain agitators who seem to study nothing else ; and though they cannot point to any good they have ever accomplished , yet such is their combative propensities, that they seem to feel happy in pursuing no other course. Capital is simply accumulated labour. The legal p° s sessors of it cannot enjoy a single particle without conferring part upon others. Manufacturing in this country requires large capital in order to compete with other countries, and produce those cheap articles which are an advantage to all consumers. The legal proprietor is but a trustee ; while he lives he gets his food, clothing, attendance, and indulgences for his superintendence. All the rest goes, in one shape or other, to pay labour, and when he dies, those who succeed him must resume it upon the same terror , otherwise it will be useless to them. Wealth sunk in a mill can never be carried away, and can never be made productive without labour, and without the payment of labour. This hostility of labour to capital is a branch of the community system, which, though it has bin tried in various forms, has always proved abortive. There is no question that, if the co-operative plan could take the place of the competitive (as it is called), th . end would be gained, for very soon there would be no capital to fall out with. Co-operatio n, doing away with individuality of interest, w oul l produce an inactive, slothful, and jealous race ° people. Few exert themselves except prompted bf necessity. None work for the pleasure of working, when others, who work less, are to reap equal benefit' If we lived in a world where food and clothing wer e as amply supplied as atmospheric air, we might then co-operate, and enjoy ourselves in communities ; it is impracticable when every man's living dep ell r upon exertion. The beggar works none wil be he can live with begging. The weaver works hardes t at the latter end of the week, because he is forced; and the parson seldom makes his sermon till Friday or Saturday. It is, in fact, necessity that impels t° action. Man's invention and energies would be stsir nant, and the flood of labour in a state of backwater' if deprived of the stimulant of individual interest. The evils of competition are not such, nor ro rous, as are often represented. There may oc casion.: ally be two tea-shops, or two drapers' shops, exhihi' t ing the bitter feelings of opposition to each other, it. it is not common. So far irom - this invalidating th... individuality of interest, the greater number work 0 P amicably, and with far less suspicion and je slou l than generally obtains among the co-o r rator • With the exception of the time when a farm is take ! ) the farmers never seem to have the least feeling : r opposition to each other. It is the same with by Is is the greatest number of operatives ; and though t",. feeling is most manifest among shopkeepers, yet tw o greatest number of them, am confident, have 13 10 feeling of hostility towards each other. The syste m of individual interests cannot, in itself, produce 0 2 1 2 1 great degree of hostility. It is only when , by laws, the scope for a living or for profit becomes circumscribed, that these conflicts ensue. When pigs have plenty of potatoes, they enjoy and let etlitl e ; but if food for twenty be thrown among forty, t" the severest competition follows. The remedies for the evils incident to the ect, petitive principle are not to be found ill 1 .74 introduction of a system which, having been ti l l in a variety of provision establishments, ha s ways broke down, and often left the co - , o r; rators greater enemies than other people. might live on the community principle while tb stock lasted ; but finding little or nothing prod o s 3 when supplies began to run short, the social would soon snap asunder, and, like retreating solb?t from the field of battle, or like the members of 0;i Out, just broken up, every man, under an unnst tl oo excitement of individual interest, would care for DO D but himself. The true remedies for the evils of competition these. First, to neutralise the feeling by prov iti Lli plenty. I have seen lads, when nutting, alnins t „r, t ie each other's eyes out when they met with r fn 'ait bush well stored with nuts; but when each 11 10 ,,F0r with a bush, they were too much engaged with Pwise their pockets to annoy each other. When the 111/P s o, pie at the table is large enough to allow plenty t°,, iG every boy is satisfied with his own plate, t hong it may contain a less portion than others ; but o f is clear that some must come short, the symptn ° • a competitive &piing are not to be restrained. vela t 0 Another preventative is the influence of benevele to This is a part of our nature, and may be prol to i and matured by various influences. It is gio. o f , counteract and modify our conduct in the p ur l ' what might be considered strictly just. A n c if proportion as bad laws deprive the people of ho e fair share of enjoyments, for the time we. i t ifg nothing else to rely upon. Whilst the :legator feelings prompt us to acquire for ourselves, the "; c itb volent feelings lead us to share our substAnc! o ticg the poor. The same feeling tells us to ternfer•la with mercy, to avoid oppressing the ?max and defenceless. e 1, 1 01 1 Let these two remedies be adopted, and 11 acid have 'many of the evils of a competing I t hole modified or removed, without destroying springs of action which are essential to the Al merits of society. ------ -------- -- - THE COMIC MISCELLANY FOR 1845.—We are; quested to state that Mr. Colburn, of Great MVarlborood f W I street, has this day published " The Comic isc, for 1845," by John Poole, Esq., author of o hoto Pry," &c., in small Bvo., with a Portrait of the e mo tlf and an Illustration by Phiz, price 10s. 6d., e„ leF ijool f ' bound, gilt edges, which can now be had of e" 010 11 _,' sellers. Mr. Colburn has also just published th e o atg ing new novels :-1. Hillingdon Hall, a Tale of v 9 . 1 411 Lif?, by the author of " Handley Cross," 3 vole s he e a Palais Royal, an Historical Romance, by the xe if ,..-. 7 Henri Quatre ; or, The Days of the Leggue ," 3 v f ° l,l llli n i Young Love, by Mrs. Trollope, 3 vols.-4. Artht t aor "a i del, a Tale of the English Revolution. by t/2! t," n s_.° l ll " Brambletye House," &c., 3 vols.-5. rstr- 40' 11 0j' Widows, by the author of " Peter Priggine," P" . 6. Whitefriars ; or, The Days of Charles IL. -- torical Romance. Third Edition, 3 vols. '' BITHS% egells lo, On the sth inst., at Victori R a-villas, Avenue-road, ll o f park, Mrs. Edward George Cuff, of a daughter. -jag . ' On the 9th inst., in Great Marlborough-street, the Charles Marshall, Esq., of a daughter. of s f ° 2;: cl cO l On the 9th inst., the lady of H. Barnett , Es" - :.,atev On the 9th inst., in King Edward-street, Westin.— Mrs. James Richard Hance, of a son. MARRIED. nal C h o On the 12th of September, at the British Epise e . to io a• Buenos Ayres, Alfred Barber, Esq., of that piste:o,oPo , Turner, second daughter of the late Mr. S c hrolderbboles Of On the 28th nit., at Brussels, Monsieur Louie r' dOO mule Ippersiel, of Brussels, to Mary K e ith, wide William Love rove, E., surgeon, London. s o fs pari‘ .N On the 3d inst., at (a brook, Frederick It. . tt , g oe r KB, of Harpenden, Herb:, to Caroline lierrireorlie daughter of the Rev. R. H. Joh.:ason, M.A., Recto e, worth, and Vicar of Claybrook. Uicestershirc c , , t he P" On the sth inst., at St. Mary MagdalenChur u 10 1 6 Samuel Childs Clarke, 8.A., to Ame.lit", M,. 4 . 1 %, : Off ° daughter of the late W. Law, Esq., of Kialinb'w 1 —..----------" Ati i DIED. On the 23d ult., at Rome , Frances Mary'°°)Pe°* of the late George Lowther Thompson , Esq' 'clad _.. O lt' On the 2d inst., at Brighton , Jo hn Jacksont:4o IP. - . On the 6th inst„ at Brentford, Juliana Lydia' , at 01 viviug daughter of the late Mrs. Trimmer. ~,,._ 9114 On the 6th inst., at Torquay, Henry Dully!: A. A10, , residence of his brother, Major-General Ducht` l . o o, hi" On the 6th inst., in Chapel-street, Bedfnion. to the the youngest son of T. Penfold , Es q ., of Cr c l sevrher:flal w On the 7th inst., at Clapham , Surrey, Mrt iituj oe• On the 7th inst., Edward Wood, Esq., of Poll — # l4 ' Bronswicx ,s 4 o . street, Strand. On the 7th inst., in Henrietta-street. stageeth _. Charlotte Gent, youngest daughter of Sem" „ n at. , ' ick ''' of Clare, Suffolk. t Br ell/5°- ~,_frk On the Bth inst., in Great Coram-stres , Mr. George William Davis. Wand's° Ow' 1 On the Bth inst., at Molinere House, lite r 04 a ° a le On the Bth inst., at Uxbri g , Ham Williams, Esq., aged 82. 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