The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1845. ~-.,---... -.............-... THE TURN-OUT AT HEY WOOD. FRIGHTFUL DEATH. On Saturday morning, as we stated would be the -se.- A PRISONER SUFFOCATED BY SETTING FIRE TO HIS CELL WITH INTENT TO ESCAPE. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES case, the hands at ten factories in Heyw ood did not IN RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND go to their work, in consequence of the expiration of OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. the notice which the masters had g iven a fortni g ht (From the Bath Herald, Feb. 15.) An awful occurrence took place at Chandos House, in From the Official List, previous, owing to the support afforded to the hands . this city, on Thursday morning, a prisoner confined in lately' working for Messrs. Hilton, Kay, and Son , th is eof the cells having perished by the work of his own PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. who turned out eight weeks ago for an advance of n , hands, in attempting to make his escape. His name was ---eme-- James Thomas, a man about thirty-six years of age, and lid. per cut. The following are the names of theLONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14. millowners whose mills stopped on Saturday :-Mr. who ear r for some time past has been living at Pipe House, n R6bert Kershaw ; Messrs. Harrison and Co. (two reshford ; he was brought before the magistrates RAILWAYS. dills) ; Mr. James Clegg, Fold Mill ; Mr. Moses at Chandos House on Tuesday last, under circumstances Cheetham ; Messrs. Clegg and Hall, Bowling Green which we shall detail below, and had been remanded Dividend Amount BIM ; Mr. William Hartley, Rochdale-road; Mr. until Friday (yesterday) for the production of further Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Stare. John Clegg, Vale Mill; Mr. John Hargreaves, and evidence against - him. It would appear that on the • Mr. John Wild. The hands in the employ of Messrs. night of Tuesday there were several other prisoners in £ s. d. £ s. d. Chadwick and Diggle, and also of Messrs. Hacking, the cell with him, but on the following morning they Aberdeen •••••• •• • • • • - - 200 2% Birmingham & Gloster 31. bs. perch. 100 0 0 100 0 0 135% were also out on Saturday, in consequence of the ma- were removed to Shepton ; . chinery having broken down. they informed the constable, Bindon, that the prisoner Brighton,Lews,&llast. - 50 0 0 50 0 716 - About ten o'clock, on Saturday morning, several Thomas had tried to persuade Bristol and Exeter.. • • 21.165. per sh. 100 0 0 70 0 0 83v them to attem tan escane Ditto and Gloucester - ,50 0 0 30 0 0 59' 2 hundred persons met near the Britannia p ublic-house that they would not agree, but that he (th p e constable Caledonian - 50 0 0 50 0 74 Wrigley Brook ; and, accompanied - -by a band of music, w hen he go t ha c k , se, had better take care what he was about with Thomas Cambridge and Lincoln for he was a desperate fellow, and had Chatham & Prtsmouth -- 25 0 0 110 0 34t - 20 0 0 1 0 0 proceeded through the principal streets, after which ' expressed his determination to break out of the cell. Chester and Holyhead - 50 0 0 50 0 8 Chichester & Brighton - - 5 0 0 54 they held a public meeting on a space of ground In consequence of this information, Bindon, on his re- Churnet Va11ey....... - 20 0 0 2 0 0 8% called Angel Meadows, near St. James's Church. turn from Shepton, leg-ironed the prisoner Thomas, Cornwall ............- - 30 0 5 About 1 000 ,persons were here assembled. A cart with the view to his greater security, and on the night Direct Northern. ••• • • lltrect Norwich • . - - 50 0 0 210 0 2% 20 0 0 1 0 0 1 1, 4 was provided for the speakers ; and Patrick Wall, aof Wednesday he was locked in his cell with the irons Diss, Beecles & Yrinth - 25 0 0 119 0 1% shoemaker, having been appointed chairman, advised upon him about seven o'clock. The room in which he was Dublin & Itedifast June. - 50 0 o 210 0 5% confined at night, was an inner room, the door opening Ditto fled Galway.. - - 210 0 234 his hearers to be firm and peaceable; he then intro- Eastern Counties ..,.. • . 4s. per sh. 25 0 0 25 0 0 174 into another chamber in which tile prisoners are allowed duced a shoemaker, named Brown, who complained Do., Perpetual, No.l 5/ per et . 613 4 3 I to be during the day time. Nothing was heard of Ditto, ditto, N. 2... .- - o 1 3 3 4 4 34 1 pm. . of the newspapers calling a person from Ashton, who - Thomas t he but Th during night, upon the constable going Eastern Union - 50 0010 0 0 19 had been amongst them at Heywood, " the noto- Edinburgh & Glasgow 21. ss. p. sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 64 to open the doors, about half-past seven o'clock on Ditto, Quarter Shares I Is. 3d. p. sh. 12 10 0 12 10 0 16 4 rious Pilling." His text was " five farthings, and Thursday morning •he discovered to his great terror, Ely an d B e df or d - 25 0 0 10 0 1% no surrender." The manufacturers were getting that the outer room ' was filled with dense and suffocat- Grand Connection •• • • 50 0 0 210 0 3d. per cut more for their goods than they got in ing smoke; after two or three attempts, he succeeded in Grand Junction Ditto, Half Shares • • 101. per et. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1124 1841-2, and the raw material was lower. It was his reaching and opening the window, and then he found opinion, the masters' intention was to reduce the that the door of the prisoner's cell was on fire. He G t D . s i t o t o u , t 2 e u r a n tr ir S e h s a t er r Shares 101. per et • 2 50 5 0 0 0 0 2. 5 5 0 0 0 0 12 operatives to the lowest pitch of poverty, whilst they opened it with all despatch and then found the prisoner Great North of England W. ss. 100 0 0 100 0 0 180 Ditto, New.• •••• • • • - 40 0 0 5 0 9 36 • themselves were rolling in their bottles of wine, riding dead upon the floor, a dreadful spectacle, his head rest- 71. percent. 100 0 0 80 0 0 17714 ing close to the burning door, his hair and scalp burnt off, GreattoWetern Half Shares • • 71. per cent 50 0 0 50 0 0 99% in their coaches, and heaping up fortunes for them- his face blackened and disfigured, and the floor beneath Ditto, Fifths 7l.per cent: 20 0 0 20 0 0 40 Selves and families. It was not in the spirit of E n Guilford Junction.- - " - " 50 0 0 35 0 0 him still smouldering. Bindon had procured the assist-lishmen to work for Bs. or 9s. per week ; they had g- Harwich - 20 0 0 1 0 0 2 once of police-constable Francis, and having succeeded Hull and Selby .• •• • • 51.55. pr et. 50 0 0 50 0 0 75% therefore to look out for a wife who was a good in extinguishing the fire. they be ga n , to inv t e h s a tiga th te e into __D en to l , Quarter lvc Shares - 12 10 01210 0 17% weaver, and the men had to stop at home and cook for its origin, when it soon' became appare nt tale. Hisun- K - 25 0 0 110 0 their wives and children. The speaker complained happy prisoner had himself kin dl ed the flame. Lancaster and Carli e s r l e e - 50 00150 0 29 1 and Bradford... - 50 0 0 5 0.0 21% of the combination of the manufacturers, and said the mattress had been ripped open,_ a portion of the straw Leeds Liverpool ,H ts f irch e es s tr . 1 1 0 0 1 4 per et. 12 0 0 0 o too 0 0 placard they had put out was not a fair average state- pulled out, and evidently placed under the door to set Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per e ct. ct 25 0 0 5 20 0 0 ment of of the eareings. The abatements made from it on fire, for fragments of burnt straw were found still Stock. 240 the wages of power-loom weavers were unjust. He lying upon the floor. The door itself, which is secured impittlol,Br•Nße w irm T i fi g r h a am 1 10 01 1 . . per ct. 32 -- 0 had never been in a factory but once in the whole during the night by a strong iron -bar, was partially Ditto, New 4 Shares 10/. per rr cc. e 25 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 3 4 0 4 consumed, about two feet of it being charred away but London and Blackwell - 16 13 4 -7% course of his life, at Oldham, and then the shuttles nothing in the interior of the cell had the fire reached; London and 31. Os. per sh. 80 0 0 50 0 0 56% and machinery had such an effect on him that he was • 5/. per cent. 10 12 15 0 4 0 10 0 0 13% the clothes of the unhappy man himself, who was London and'Green =ll- 11 tormented with the rattle of the shuttles for several even lying, as we before stated, with his head close to the Ditto, Pref.or Priv 5/.percent. ta 17 2 - 2416 weeks after. For his part, he would not work • in burning door and his feet s towards th e back of his cell, London and S Western 31 ssper h 41 610 80 a factory for a guinea a week. The trade he followed h a d not taken fire; the mattress on which he slept was Do., New C '-••' 8 . 40 0 0 - Ditto, New ous. Bths 6 0 0 25% - 50 0 0 2 10 0 12% was shoemaking, ,where there were never any abate- still uninjured, and his hat, containing the bread which -- - . sondon and Croydon • • 10s. per sh. 13 15 9 - 18% meets. The chairman then introduced a power-loom had been given him for - 90 0 40 0 4% London and York.• •• • - 50 0 0 210 0 7 weaver named John Matthew, who said they had found under the bed. Lynn and Ely •.• • • •r 1 - 25 0 0 210 0 5 met together that morning because the millowners Information of the dreadful occurrence was immed . 1- Manchester and Leeds 4/. 7s, 6d. p. s. 100 0 0 70 0 0 135 had prevented their going to work. The question ately transmitted to the Coroner, and Ditto, Half Shares.. 1/.175.6d.p.5. 50 0 0 30 0 0 61 now was between capital and labour. He hoped THE INQUEST Ditto, Quarter Shares Ditto, 4s. Sixteenths .• • - 25 0 0 20 0 14% 6 5 0 1 5 0 54 every one would be peaceable. Formerly men had Was held on the same day, at Chandos House, before A. et4 l o o _ 0 0 40 2 , 0 . 65 been imprisoned for what they had said at • public • H. English, Esq., and a respectable jury, of which Mr.. .' Vitt e , s o tr u'ar 4 ie j3 r ir g i r l et -21.-Pu fi4"e - 0 6 114 Midland ... •• • • ...... 41. 4s. per sh. - Stock. 12534 • Wisden was foreman. After having viewed the body, meetings, and for combining together in an unlawful the following evidence was adduced :- Ditto, Fifths .••• • • • - - - Ditto, Dim. &Derby 21.135. per sh, Stock. 90% 2 0 0 316 manner. He would not be entrapped. There was James Bindon-I am a constable at Chandos House, Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 110 0 17 no combination amongst the o • peratives. The and the deceased was a prisoner in my custody. He se ,. - ewestle& Dart. June. 6e. 25 00240 o. 71 weavers of Messrs. John Hilton, Kay and Son slept in the apartment in which he now lies ;he was North British .. - - 710 0 144 . had turned out for an advance of fire farthings committed ' for felony on Tuesday last. At ten minutes af ter Ditto, Scrip, iss.s/.d. Iss. 50 0 0 25 0 0 4G per cut, because their masters had demanded that seven o'clock last evening , I saw for the last time Di him ,Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 16% North Kent .. •.. ..... - 2 15 0 3% they should put four more picks to the inch than they alive ; he was in bed ; and I locked the door and left No D r rt • t ic o hV w ß .. re . nd . o . n . .. - 20 0010 0 0 toe bad done previously. The weavers had put 72 picks him. In the afternoon of yesterday, he broke - to 0 o eeso 0 314 of 39's weft to the inch for 11 d. ' cut ; the masters the windows of the room in which he was confined. PortsmCuth Direct,. .. - 50 0 0 210 0 2 had lately made the weft 3G's, and wanted four picks Last night was the first on which he had slept alone, there R Preston rd,lVy_re_ • • • • V E June. - - 50 0 0 50 0 9 20 0 0 1 0 0 3 having been other prisoners in the room with him up to I Rugbyli 11 . B''' ‘. • 1 0 4 t more to the inch for the same price; but the weavers , that time. This morning, at half-past seven. I went Ditto, 2d Pref., 1842 - - - 25 0 0 25 0 0 knowing there was more work in the latter, demande d to let him out • when I opened the door of the outer Sheffield and Lincoln.. - 25 0 0 15 0 ps an advance of five farthings per cut. When the manu- ! policeman • 'theft 11 & a room, I found it full of smoke ; a went in -. e t 1 tanchestr 5/. per cent. 100 0082 10 0 / sh D il t , t , t c o, l rrter Shares - 25 0 0 80 0 13 facturers reduced the number of picks to the inch, with me ; and after getting open the window of the Lel e ,o iv n .,Duennir - 50 0 0 210 0 6% they always reduced the wages in proportion. On outer room, I found the door of the cell in which de- South 50 0 o 10 o 0 16 the 17th January last, the millowners held a general ceased was confined was on fire, as well as the floor. South-Eastern . & Dovr -1/. Is. 33 2 4 - 48 meeting at the Queen Anne Inn, Heywood, at The deceased was lying on the floor, and there was south Ditto, New iss.lB/.dis - 50 0 0 80 0 234 some burnt straw lying about the room, which had been e tes•en l s N o ' l a i l 's es Pr . ; * ••• • • - 210 0 5% which they determined to send deputations to Ashton- ? a u:), - - 210 0 2% pulled from the mattress on which the deceased had been Thames and Med m n under-Lyre, to see what prices were paid there ; - 19 5 8 - 1014 sleeping. He was quite dead. On the previous night I Trent Valley • - 20 0 o 20 0 19 but they had never made the result of their in- Yarmouth & Norwich 20 0 0 20 0 0 264 had taken the fire out of the grate of the outer room •; - - qiiiries known. Some of them had said that, at Ash-Ditto, :New.. ...... 20 0 0 8 0 0 16% the deceased was searched on Monday night in my pre- York & North Midland 10/. per et. 50 0 ton, there was a bounty of is. paid extra to th05e5 2. 0 5 0 0 0 0 10,3 .. sence ; and when I wasgoi ng lock to him up, I missed Ditto, Half Shares.. 10/ per ct. 25 0 0 0 weavers who could bring out nine cuts in a certain a little poker, and on asking him for it, he said he had Do" searbro' Branch • - A - 20 0 0 44 given time. The speaker concluded by saying he it, and I found' it in • his bed, and took it from him. Ditto, Selby Scrip .. In Ditto, Extension.... - - 20 0 0 67 would advocate for the rights of labour according to consequence . of having been told by ot h er - - 25 0 0 1 5 0 124 20 0 0 2 0 0 5% the tenets of Scripture ;he would meet any manufac- deceased " was determined to make his escape • I put the tit. Northern of France - 20 0 0 4o 0 5% Orleans and Vierzon.. 20 0 0 2 0 0 12 - toter on fair grounds, in public or in private, and irons on his legs. There was no fire-place or fire •in the Orleans & Bourdeaux - 20 0 0 20 0 7 discuss the merits or demerits of Messrs. Hilton cell in which lie slept. Paris and Lyons • ....• - 20 0 0 20 0 3 Kay's weavers' demand.-The Chairman then came Mary Bindon, wife of the last witness, was next exa- Paris and Strasbourg.. - 20 0 0 20 0 2% i Paris and Orleans. • ... - ,20 0 0 20 0 0 44% forward and said, he understood it was rumoured mined :-Yesterday morning I took the wood and coal, Par is and Rouen ...... 2/. '2OOO 20 0 0 42% R in the neighbouring towns, that they were going in the absence of m y husband, to light the fire in the _Tten and Havre .... - 12000 12 0 0 30% to burn effigies ; •but the Committee of the turn.. room where the p risoner and another were • I left the wood, coal, and some straw, together with a lucifer JOINT-STOCK BANKS. outs denounced such proceedings, and he hoped no match ; I left only one match, and that I gave to a man one would attempt to do anything of the kind He who was discharged yesterday. Some time after, one of Dividend Amount would advise them to insult no person on any account, m y c hild re n c a m e to me and said the fire would not Name of Company. per of Paid. Price for a Committee would be got up in Heywood, by burn, and I took another match and some more stra w, Annum. Share. whom the conduct the other prisoner. Th e ----- £ s. d. £ s. d. would be investigated, and the result laid before the child said the men had asked for another matc h , as their the Australasia .. •• • • .... 8/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 44 Members of the House of Commons, as early a s fire would not burn. Yesterda y afternoon deceased Britsh North American 6/. percent. 50 0050 0 0 45 possible. The procession was then formed headed broke the window; he broke two panes. I told Mr Commercial of London 5 /. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21 i Colonial. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 by the band of music ;it consisted of about three Lovenbury, and ho had the deceased locked up in • the* Londn and Westminatr 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27% hundred femiles, and from five hundred to ide room. London Joint-Stock .• . Cl. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 The Coroner then proceeded to address the jury. Metropolitan - 25 0 0 7to 0 hundred men, mostly young, who proceeded through Though the evidence would o to show g that the de- Prrit in th ela N l e o w f Ireland • • 8 1 4 pe er r c c en n t t .. 11I' i l f l 0 0 0 0 25 0 0 44% the principal streets four abreast. Apprehensions had cease d' s d eat h was th e ac t of hi s own hand, they were not Nat i ona l o f I re l an d .. 5/: per cent. 50 0 0 1 1 7 0 10 0 0 0 161/ been entertained in some quarters of riotous proceedings justified in saying that he did it feloniously, with the Nat. Provncial of Eng. Si. pe r cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 3731 on the part ofthe turn -outs ; indeed, it was said they in-5/. per cent. 2 2 5 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 , 0 0 0 0 27 he view of committin g suicide, as the presumption was that Union of iN i. e i:t . r . a . 1i • e : : : . tended to march to Rochdale, and stop the mills there.had se t fire to the room with the view of effecting his neon of L0nd0n..... • 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 12:::/ i , We are inclined to believe that these rumours escape. As to the cause of death, there was the doubt, had little, one time an intention, which was afterwards aban- or both ; and if they were in an y doubt, and wished for doned, of burning some of the obnoxious masters in medical evidence upon this point, a medical man was in Dividend Amount effigy. During the whole of the dav, everything the room, by whom it could be readily cleared up. Name of Company. per of Annum. Share. Paid. Price. The jury decided upon taking the evidence of the me - was perfectly peaceable, though numbers of opera (Peal man, and W. A. Cox, Esq., surgeon, was then £ s. d. £ s. d. lives were strolling about the streets. Captain Wool- examined :-I was sent for between eight and n ine Albion Si. 109. 100 0 0 50 0 0 74 ford, chief constable, Captain Shepherd, assista n t o'c lock this morning, to Chandos House ; I found the Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0011 0 0 19% Ditto Marine... ... . 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 o 0 6% chief, and the superintendents from Bolton, Bury, and deceased lying with his head against the door of his atlas .•••• • • • • ....... 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16% Rochdale, together with a number of policemen from can. The scalp was off and his hands and hair w ere ' British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 0 0 7 Bury, were in Heywood• also burnt ; he was still warm, and my opinion is that ei •im d &G ' . 5 me ~ e . en. Life 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 63/ ,4 The hands at one mill were at work on Monday ; burns to so small an extent would not have been ffi su - County ....... ....... 3/. 100 0 0 10 0 0 9s. and and, we believe, continue so , in conse q uence of the cient to cause death, but that it resulted from suffoca- Crown .. .. .. .. .. .. / 6/. ss. 1)3. 1 40 0 0 5 0 0 10 notice there - required not having yet expired. The lion; I should think that the scalp was taken off p artly Eagle • .. 6s. 50 0 0 50 0 5% operatives paraded the streets during the day. At by his violently beating his head against the door, and Economic Life half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, a meeting of not altogether from burning; I should think he found * t &30s.bs. j Eng.& Scot. Law Life Si. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 2v the turn-out weavers lately in the employ (if Messrs. himself suffocating and endeavoured toget his John Hilton, Kay, and Son, was held at tile Britannia under the door to procure air. Freemasons' .. ..... . The jury consulted for a few minutes and returned a Globe - 142 public-house, Wrigley Brook, when it was resolved to verdict that the deceased died from suffocation, through Imperial n }:i • r • e • •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 continue the strike until they got the advance of fivel2/. t r 2 .r s. cent. 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50 10 0 0 00 19165 setting the door of his cell on fire with the intention of Imperial i ' Life... :: :: : : farthings per cut. It was also agreed upon, that a making •his escape. Indemnity Marine.- • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 30 statement of the proceedings at Heywood should be Law •Life drawn up as early AS po - • ssible, and forwarded to Messrs. Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 sv, Duncotnhe and Ferrand, Members of Parliament. THE WIIOLE DUTY OF WOMAN. London Fire •• - ..... London Ship 10s. 25 0012 10 0 16' 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 I y„my ear, I am going to offer you a At half-past five o'clock in the evening, • Sincere] ' d • g, a meeting of f ew Marine •••• • • • • Med. Invlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 the operative hand-mule spinners, and self-acting words of advice as to the conduct and behaviour most National Loan Fund. • AL per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% calculated to insure your happiness; and lam sure you N ational Life.• •• •• .• • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 9y, winders, was held in the large room at the D - uke of Wellington public-house, for the purpose of devising will take it kindly of me, considering the experience I Palladium Life... ..... 5/. per cent. 50 0020 0 2 - 3/. p. ct. & bs. - - have had, and your early time of life. What an ad- Protector ' Li means for the support of the operatives in those trades Life.. •• • • . 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 vantage it is to be told things, instead of having to find Fr rn ev ( i;l t el r tt i f s e during the strike, when it was agreed to send dole- them out! I wish I had had somebody to advise me Rock Life .....!• •••• • • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 - • •• • 4s. 5 0 0 0 10 0 4% gates to Manchester, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton, Oldham, when I was at your age. Of course, my dear, between Royal Exchange • • 51. per cent Stock. - 1921 Ashton, Hyde, and other places, to solicit subscrip- ourselves, almost every young woman is either married Sun Fire - - Ditto Life . • • ...,.. • • I/. 6s. - - tions from those who are employed in the same or intends to he. It is what we have to look to, poor U n i versa l Lif e . branch oF business. It was stated that the weavers at things! Now, in order to get married, my love , -on Messrs. Hacking's mill, which hail been stopped must learn to manaee yourself; and, after three weeks married, to marine your husband, and both • clainery• , , had commenced work that morning, but had wh a t I c a l l the whole duty o f wo man . As lon g as y ou Dividend Amount received a fortnight' s notice. The proceeding s passed are single and looking out, your first study Must Name of Company, per of r Annum. Share. Paid. Price. off in a peaceable . manner. The mill-owners have be to control your inclinations. All of us, 3ou know, - had. several meetings ; they maintain that have our little failings ; the great thing is to conceal £ s. d. kS. d. they • give fully as high wages for the them.. For instance, dear, suppose you have a hearty Commercial East and West India slid. pr cent. Stock. - _ appetite, you should restrain this a little in company • it- 142 same kind of work, as can be' go t at other is a thine' that ~, many gentlemen (particularly the most ' East Country London 1/. per sh. 100 0 0 ,41i/. pr cent. Stock - 21 - 11714 towns in the neighbourhood of Manchester, and • susceptible) object to ; and you can ' indemnify yo If arse.. St. Katharine .. • .... ; 5 per cent . • 118 they say that Messrs. 'Tilton, K , and Son, by nice ' • a 3 , on, a supper in your own room. You will thus, • , .. per , stook. - Southampton • • ...... 1 4/. cent. 15000, 50 0 0 have offered their hands an advance of three farthings dear, ple ase • the kind of men who make the best hus per cut, which they are of opinion will make their bands-those most easily managed. Alway s keep down WATER-WORKS. wages quite equal to those paid by other firms. The your temper, my dear; never speak sharply, or look cross, - masters whom hands are out had a meeting at the whatever you may feel ; and be cautious, my love, Name of Company. Dividend Amount per of how you talk scandal, or say spiteful things of friends Paid. Price. Queen Anne, on Monday evening, but what passed Annum. Share. behind their backs; many good catches are lost by little has not transpired. Many of the turn-outs assembled weaknesses peeping out. If, my dear, you have any per- £ s, d. in the street, opposite the inn, while the masters were East London.... •.• . .. 8/. 100 0 0 - 230 sonal blemish, or peculiarity, which you think would deliberating, but all was peaceable and quiet. prevent a certain person from liking you, hide it from (;!rand Junction ...... ; 3/. Kent . 46 13 4 - ' 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 - 90 65 Yesterday morning delegates were sent to various him ifyou can, an d let him find • .it out after you are est - 60 towns to solicit subscriptions for the hand-mule' married. If anybody is attached to you, never contra- w Mi ddlesex ...... 41.16 x. pr et. 63 12 9 I - 126 spinners and self-acting winders who are out. The diet him, dear, but fall in • h w ith a l l his little wishes and simple facts of the case relative to the general strike whims , however unreason able. In short, -devote your- LIST Or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. appear simply to have originated under the following self to him entirely • your turn will come. When you are circumstances :-There are hands at ten firms and married, de ar ou my ear, you should pursue another course Dividend Amount Name of Company. . per • of Paid. Price, twelve mills, including those of Messrs. John Milton, altogether. The ob . tof 11 hu s ban ds • jec a is, to put Ann Um. Share. Kay and Son, who are now on the strike. The upon their wives as much as they can, by making per fect sla ves of them, and stinting them in their pleasures weavers at Mr. Kay's mill turned out for an advance and en joyments, so as to have the more to lay out on n il e a se k al e ll f a S iXo tlfaSncdotland 6 6 / 1 .. per per cent. cent. 4 ••• 20 00 . 172 1 of five farthings per cut, on account of having four themselve Yu will will most likely find your husband very British Linen Company 8P per cent. -- 10 0 0 0 0 0 226 168 V2l picks more to the inch of three hanks coarser weft He near. e be trying to calculate how much you re- Commercial Bunk •. -6/. per cent. - 100 0 0 tes% than previous. The masters have offered an advance quire for housekeeping and will , want to allow you so • National Bank • ..... . • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 15% of three farthings per cut. The manufacturers much and no more. At the end of the week or month Bk of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. Union all .. - Western Bank ••• • • - 50 0 0 97 50 0 0 76 whose notices expired on Friday have offered to he will ask to look over your account-book, to see how North of Scotland Bank 6 /. per cent. - 5o o 7 allow their bands to resume work, on condition that the money has gone. Now, my dear, you will find that Clydesdale Bank - 10 0 0 14% they will sign a paper, by which they engage not to there are numerous trifling extrasthat will you want • ' Eastern P ank... - , Caledonian Bank ••. • • 6/. per cent. - 15 0 0 11% 2 10 0 ay, make collections in the mills for the support of the which you would wish him to know nothing a b out ; Ediub.& Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. - 50 o 7)i tarn -out weavers at other places; but the hands have little suppers when he is n absent ; presents to friends , City of Glasgow Bank. Si. per cent. - 815 0 13% as yet declined to accede to this condition. When and a thousand other odds and ends. You will make Scottish Union Ins. Co. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 DA Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Our re these up by putting 4ed. or ld. a-pound upon the tea or Insur. Co of Scotlnd . • 5/ per cent. 10 0 0 All • paid. 10 pert left Heywood, late yesterday afternoon, all was sugar, or by charging so much for imaginary soap or pearl- North • British • Insur.- 9/:per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 o 24% Peaceable and uiet , and prebabiwyn _ . q , there appeared every priceCaledonian Fire Insur. 101. per ash. And then, love, if you find him questioning thecent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 t flt.B • ' continuingso.-ManchesterGuardian. o f t hi s h" t ing, or inquiring about the quantity of that, you Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18% , G ,A las h r h . a ß r a e l s lway 414/. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65% must seem hurt and angry, as if he doubted or mis- E tc . ! ,41/.pereent. 12 10 0 All paid. 16u Qutes. TRaere erene trusted you ; and it' he persists in being inquisitive, you Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0020 0 - 0 15 with the followin ---G.-e-We have been favoured December 31, 18 Lez . ex tract from a letter dated Boston, should get into a little pet with him, slam the door, and 21asgw it Ayrshir Rail. 4% /. per cent. 50 0 0 All pald. 66 &G G am rele k k ß ß a a i ll. 5 2 1 1 . . per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 1234 ing, the 27th of I left Quebec on Friday morn- run upstairs crying. And observe, when there is a ti ff ois a g w v per cent. ecnt. 25 2.5 0 0 0 0 All paid. 28 Canaan, Lancaster, and Decemb erp bY way of the Gosfore-road, between you, never come to till he has made amends by Dundee es Arbrothßalf. 5/. per All paid. 32 where I Arrived on Monday, to Bogen, 346 miles, promising you something that you want-a bracelet, for with a day and a half to spare before 30th - of December, instance, or a new bonnet, or dress. Your husband will - CANALS. the January steamer. I would r fore taking passage by sometimes wish you to wear a particular sort of cap, decidedly the best, chew recommend this route as or other article or ornament ;if he does, let it be a Names of r_.: Dividenil l price. Names of Dividend P e4t, and most per Price. passengers from Quebec hence. I - expeditious for bargain between you for some concession or indulgence. Companies. 0 = Per Companies. . 0 t is 100 • tis Annum. Armin. tulles shorter He may not behave himself at all times as you could than the route by Three Rivera. Mr. Bailie, who wish ; in that case, dear, there are plenty of - iettys to £-- line of, stages from Canaan, will undertake ' runs a •I • - £ passengers from Quebec to Portland in 36 to enn „ y bring a man to reason. His buttons may be not sewn Ashtn & 01411 97,5/.55. p a 72 Sionmouthsh 100 it kithby-d-la-Z.113! . 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51 . . I: I hours, an d on ; his dinner kept waiting ; pickles or potatoes not - from thence to Boston in four hours. Barnsley.... 160 12/. 180 Macclesfield. 100 .. 'IS could of h ave provided ; and there may be nothing for him but a cold - coma in much shorter time; and when a lineßasingstoke.. 100 - 5 Neath stage s i s shoulder, when, he expects a hot joint. There are two lirkuk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham l5O 12/ • ' 5 established on this route, the expense from Quebec thi in 2400 100 18/. 164 Peak Forest. 78 3/. • Boston would not exceed 31. 10s. to 3/. lox. -Quebe c things, conclusion, love, that I would strongly im- eremsera.... press upon you. One i--nev rl t I b d e e your ius an have tu .r d i 1 , eY . • . ....... 1 .. 100' 41. 80 Regent's ... • 33 1/ Gazette. a latch-key, or he will ' too. 1 Si. 103 Rochdale •85 4/ . 24% take ob ndvantage of it to stay out. Ellsn y lre&Clis 1331 4/. 62 Shropshire .. . : 125 Si. 1 5 20 5 John Davies, Esq., hat manufacturer, of Chester- The other is this -tell field, who died a few days ago, has bequeathed 4,500/. my dear, that human n life ody your age •; for, recollect, Erewash 1 ... ; 1001 321. 440 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123 Forth & Clyd;100 ; 4/. 105 Do.LkEd St 12 6/. p. c. 11 Co. me a widow ; and, in that is uncertain. You may be- for the support of religious objects of strictly evangelical GrandJunetn 100 1 71. 157 Stffrd &Wore 140 28/. 480 case, find the disclosure a , disadvantage.-Punch. Grand Union:1001 IL 105. ;.25 , Shrewsbury l2l 151. 230 character and eminently useful tendency ;-2,000Z to the Glamorgnsh :1721 - 'lPir.• 210 ' Stourbridge 145 20/. 360' Derbyshire Congregation Union, for aiding in preaching --______________-....._, • Glstr &Brklyi '00; - 8 Strard on Av 79 1/. 10s. 30 the Gospel in destitute villages, supporting poor ministers, BRISTOL SUGAR -M ARKET, .. ARKET, FEBRUARY Grantham • . 1 1501 121. 185 Severn and 26 11. Bs. 30 UART 1 4.--About Huddersfield. 571 - 20 Wye Rail. j and erecting chapels i-2,000/. to the Congregational 700 hogsheads West India and 600 Union of the county of Salop, for the same purposes ; been disposed of since our last report, a m t aftrsomidaiurs itius have taeln'ettnts&terAvn 391 7 1 s i 64. 4010 'Trnt&Mr-} 50 30/. 465 and 5001. for the poor members of the Church in Os- per cwt. on the former currency ;no sales report.etd'oislsi364. Leeds& Livrp l loo; 34/. 623 T e h e ltx% V.lt h ied 19 - 10 Leicester ....1140' 10/. 139 Worestr &I westry, under the pastoraga of the ROY. Johu Davies.- gals, for want of supply. Rum sad 'molasses continua en " ve ry Leicstr &Nth 83 4/. 70 Binning. j7B 41. 50 fihrfwesury Chronicle. di 1... &Miry. Lougt.borogh 142, 701. --,.......... 1050 Wllts & Brks 67 11. 4s. . Air Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Stare. . £ s. d. £ s. d. Aberdeen........... - - 2 0 0 2% Birmingham & Gloster 31. Os. perch. 100 0 0 100 0 0 13514 Ditto, New, iss.7l dis. 15s. 25 0 0 17 10 0 33 Brighton,Lews,&llast. - 50 0 0 5 0 0 71 % Bristol and Exeter •• • • 21.165. per sh. 100 0 0 70 0 0 8334 Ditto and Gloucester - 50 0 0 30 0 0 59 Caledonian - 50 0 0 5 0 0 74 Cambridge and Lincoln -- 25 0 0 110 0 34t Chatham & Prtsmonth - 20 0 0 1 0 0 Chester and Holyhead - 50 0 0 5 0 0 8 Chichester & Brighton - - 5 0 0 51 4 Churnet Valley.. ••• • • - 20 0 0 2 0 0 8% Cornwall .. ••.•• • • • .. - - 3 0 0 5 Direct Northern. •.• • • - 50 0 0 210 0 2 Direct Norwich • . - 20 0 0 1 0 014 Diss, Beccles, & Yrmth - 25 0 0 119 0 1% Dublin & Bedfast June. - 50 0 0 2 10 0 5% Ditto mid Galway.. - - 2 10 0 234 Eastern Counties ... • • 4s. per sh. 25 0 0 25 0 0 17% Do., Perpetual, No.l 5/. per et. 613 4 313 4 1 pm. Ditto, ditto, No. 2. • • - - 0 13 4 34 pm. Eastern Union - 50 0 0 10 0 0 19 Edinburgh & Glasgow 21.55. p. sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 64 Ditto, Quarter Shares I Is. 3d. p. sh. 12 10 0 12 10 0 16 1 4 Ely and Bedford .. •• • - 25 0 0 10 0 1% Grand Connection •• • • - 50 0 0 210 0 Grand Junction -• • Ditto, Half Shares • • 101. per et. 50 0 0 50 0 0 1124 Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per et. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Gt. Southern &Western - 50 0 0 5 0 0 12 Great North of England 31.55. 100 0 0 100 0 0 180 Ditto, New.• •••• • • • - 40 0 0 5 0 9 36 Great Western Ditto, Half Shares 7l. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 991 14 Ditto, Fifths..• ••• • • 71. percent. 20 0 0 20 0 0 40 Guilford Junction.- .• " - " 50 0 0 35 0 0 Harwich ••••••.• • • • • • - 20 0 0 1 0 0 2 Hull and Selby Si. ss. pr ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 75 1 14 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 17% Kendal & Windermere - 25 0 0 1 10 0 Lancaster and Carlisle - 50 0 0 15 0 0 29 Leeds and Bradford - 50 0 0 5 0 . 0 21% Liverpool & Manchestr 101. per et. 100 0 0 100 0 0 Ditto, Half Shares. • 10/, per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per et. 25 0 0 25 0 0 London & Birmingham 101. per ct. -- Stock. 240 Ditto, New Thirds.. 101. per ct. 32 0 0 2 0 0 44 Ditto, New 4 Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 2 0 0 30 London and Blackwall - 16 13 4 -7% London and Brighton.. 31. Os. per sh. 80 0 0 50 0 0 5614 Ditto, Loan Notes 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13% London end Greenwich - 12 15 4 - 11 Ditto, Pref. or Priv • • 5/. per cent. 18 17 2 - 24 1 14 London and S. Western 51. ss. per sh. 41 6 10 - 80 Do., New Cous. Bths ' - 40 0 0 6 0 0 25 1 14 Ditto, New .. •• • - 50 0 0 210 0 12% 7,ondon and Croydon • • 10s. per sh. 13 15 9 - 18% Ditto, Guarntd. sp. c. . - 90 0 40 0 4% London and York... • • - 50 0 0 210 0 7 Lynn and Ely •••• • • ' - 25 0 0 210 0 5 Manchester and Leeds 41.75, 6d. p. s. 100 0 0 70 0 0 138 Ditto, Half Shares.. 1/.175.6d.p.5. 50 0 0 30 0 0 61 Ditto, Quarter Shares 4s. 25 0 0 2 0 0 14% Ditto, Sixteenths .• • - 65 0 1 5 0 51% Mancliestr.&.l3irraing._.2laffr thue. 4P_ 0 0 40 0 65 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 10 0 0 2 0 6 - 114 Midland ... •• • • ...... 41. 4s. per sh. - Stock. 125, Ditto, Fifths .••• • • • - - 2 0 0 314 Ditto, Birrn. &Derby 27.135. per sh - Stock. 9034 Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 110 0 57 New cstle & Darl. June. 6e. 25 0 0 24 0 0. 71 North British .. - - 710 0 144 Northern and Eastern. 21. ss. 60 0 0 45 0 0 61% Ditto, Scrip, iss.s/.d. Iss. 50 0 0 25 0 0 4G Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 16% North Kent..........- - 2 15 0 3 3 % Norwich and Brandon. - 20 0 0 10 0 0 16 1 ,E Ditto, New.........- 10 0 0 170 0 314 Portsmouth Direct .• .. - 50 0 0 2 10 0 2 Preston and Wyre •• • • - 50 0 0 50 0 9 Richmnd &W. E June. - 20 0 0 1 0 0 3 Rugby • . - - 1 0 4 Ditto, 2d Pref., 184/ - 25 0 0 25 0 0 Sheffield and Lincoln.. - 25 0 0 1 5 0 1% Sheffield & Manchestr 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 25 0 0 8 0 0 13 Shrws.,Wolv.,Dud.,Bir - 50 0 0 210 0 6% South Devon • - 60 0 0 10 0 0 16 South-Eastern & Dovr 1/. Is. 33 2 4 - 48 Ditto, New iss.lB/.dis - 50 0 0 8 0 0 23 1 South Wales .•••• • • • . - 210 0 5% Stevenson's Prtsmouth - - 2 10 0 2% Thames and Medway - 19 5 8 - 10,4 Trent Valley Tort Di t Ditto, t&o, N Ni ar iv fh • Shares.. a . i • dr le . .. s ni di - 20 0 0 20 0 19 Yarmouth & Norwich 1 1 0 0 1 1 . . -ppeerr et. 20 0 0 20 0 0 26% 25 20 05 0 00 00 0 5250 8 00 0 00 0 150 16 31 . 11 - Do., Searbro' Branch - - 20 0 0 44 Ditto, Selby Scrip .. - - 20 0 0 67 Ditto, Extension.... - 25 0 0 1 5 0 12 1 / Boulog,ne and Amiens. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 534 Gt. Northern of France - 20 0 0 4 0 0 5% Orleans and Vierzon.. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 12 Orleans & Bourdeaux - 20 0 0 2 0 0 7 Paris and Lyons • ....• - 20 0 0 2 0 0 3 Paris and Strasbourg.. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 234 Paris and Orleans..... - 20 0 0 20 0 0 4414 Paris and Rouen ...... 2/. 20 0 0 20 0 0 421 Rouen and riavre .... - 1 20 0 0 12 0 0 30% JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. • £ s. d. £ s. d. Australasia .. •• • • 8/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 44 Britsh North American 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45 Commercial of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21 j Colonial. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Londe and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27% London Joint-Stock .• . 61. per cent. 50 0 8 10 0 0 14 Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland• • St. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 44% Ditto, New Bl. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 National of Ireland Nat. Provncial of Eng 5l. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 37% Ditto, New. •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia 25 0 0 25 0 0 2734 Union of London 151. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1234 INSURANCE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. tl. s. 0. Albion 3/. 109. 500 0 0 50 0 0 74 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19% Ditto Marine... 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 6% Atlas .•••• • • • • • ••• •• . 13s. 6(1. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16 British Commercial Clericl,Mcd.&Gen.Lifo 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6% County ....... Crown •. .••• • • .. •••• { 9s. and 6/. ss. bs. ] 40 0 0 5 0 0 10 Eagle • Gs. 50 0 0 5 0 0 5% Economic Life . j & 30s.bs. } 1000 0 0 250 0 0 Eng. & Scot. Law Life 3/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 234 European Life •••• • • • • 556 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' •. ..... •• • Si. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe Guardian Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 12/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 195 Imperial Life. •••• • • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16 Indemnity Marine.- • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 I 30 Law Life .••• • • • • I/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45% Legal and General Life 50 0 0 2 0 0 511, London Fire • ..... 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 London Shi •• 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 Marine Med. Invlid & Gen. Life h 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 National Loan Fund• • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 234 National Life ••••• • . •• 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 9% Palladium Life •• . ..... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2 Phoenix • - Prot e;.tor Life• •••• • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 Provident Life •••• • • • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 Rock Life.. ••••• • • • • • 4s. 5 0 0 0 10 0 4% Royal Exchange 5/. per cent Stock. 192)4 Sun Fire • Ditto Life . • . • • I/. Gs. Universal Life DOCKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of raid. Price. Annum. Share. I A I WATER-WORICS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of raid. Price Annum. Share. £ s, d. East London...—. .• . • , 8/. 100 0 0 230 Grand Junction , 3/. 46 13 4 90 Kent 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 65 Vauxhall ...... • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 60 West Middlesex ••• • • • 4/. 16s. pr ct. 63 12 9 I 126 LIST or SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per . of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ s. d. Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 1684 British Linen Company 81• per cent. 100 0 0 226 Commercial Bunk • • • . 61. per cent. 100 0 0 167% National Bank • ..... • • 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 15% Union Bank of Scotland 7 IA 1. pr cent. 50 0 0 97 Western Bank • • • • • 6/. per cent. —• 50 0 0 76 North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 7 Clydesdale Bank Eastern Bank... Caledonian Bank . • . • • 61. per cent. 2 10 0 31/ Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. 5 0 0 74 City of Glasgow Bank. Si. per cent. 8 15 0 13y, Scottish Union Ins. Co. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1% Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14►% Insur. Co. of Scotlnd • • 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North British Insur. 9/. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 24% Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18% Edin. &Glasg. Railway 4% /.per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65% Ditto, % Shares 4% /. per cent. 12 10 0 All paid. 16 1 % Edin., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 15 Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 434/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 66 Glasgw &Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 12 1 % Glsgw &Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 28 Dundee & Arbrothßall. 5/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 32 SPIRIT of th.- PUBLIC JOURNALS PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—The Premier has taken a bold course. While he remains in office the income-tax must be continued. He has no alternative, except giving up the protective system ; and as that would, in all probability, involve the imme diate relinquishment of office, it is to be avoided at all risks. On the whole, the most obvious inference, from a review of the statement of last night, is, that Sir Robert is painfully conscious of the failure of his financial schemes of the last three years. Nothing has been success ful but the income-tax, the imposition of which involved no financial ability beyond that which is every day displayed in the parish vestry—an estimate of the amount of income to be taxed, and of the percentage upon it which will yield the sum required. Even in this he was far from accurate. The produce was estimated at considerably less than 4,000,0001.—it yielded more 'than 5,000,0001. Vast apparent changes were made in the tariff with the ostensible object of largely dimi nishing the cost of subsistence, and so increasing consumption as to revive the ordinary sources of revenue. At the end of three years the cost of subsistence is found not to be sen sibly affected ; and any increase in the consumption of taxed articles, and consequently of revenue, is traceable directly to causes which would equally have operated under any system of taxation not involving an entire stoppage of our foreign trade. As a general rule, wherever the tariff has been altered, the result has been a loss of revenue. The duty on copper-ore smelted for home consumption, forms, we believe, the only exception. This, however, as it amounted merely to the removal of a prohibition, originally absurd, and which had long been found practically injurious to all concerned, and is, in reference to the great objects now in view, extremely trifling—would be unworthy of notice, were it not thus singular. A comparison of the tariff as it stood before and after the changes made in July, 1842, is sufficient to show that the reductions of duty were almost entirely upon articles (as, for instance, drugs and other things of a similar nature, used in medicine, and in various manufacturing processes) upon the price of which, to the ultimate consumer, the duty can never have more than a very slight effect. The inefficacy of such reductions, for the purpose of reducing prices, extending consumption, and so materially increasing the quantity of the article brought to charge, cannot indeed be better expressed than it was by Sir R. Peel himself, some years ago. " I know," he said in his speech on the Budget in 18.30, "from experience, and it is easily proved with respect to several articles the duties on which have been reduced, that the benefit of the reduction is enjoyed by the dealers, an that the price of the article does not decrease in proportion to the remission of duty." Sir Robert's deductions, from "experience," made fifteen years ago, have now been amply proved to be correct —not " easily, if we consider that the experiment has been conducted at the expense of three years' time, and a good many millions of money—but, it is to be hoped, sufficiently to convince all future doubters, and render any more of such experiments unnecessary. The revenue from the ordinary sources has increased. But nothing is more clear than that the measures of the pre sent Government have not only had no share in producing such increase—that it has arisen solely from the increased prosperity of the country, which has re sulted from the recent extension of our trade with foreign countries—but that the increase from these sources would have been much larger, while the real burden upon the country would not have been materially greater, had no alterations whatever been made. In short, the " expository statement," lately published, furnishes conclusive proof that no modification of our system of indirect taxation which a Minister, supported by what are called the " protected interests," can possibly effect, will furnish the means of dispensing with an income •tax. " Protection" . has now been continued to the point_ at which it renders the ordinary income of the country permanently inadequate to its expenditure. To rescue those whose interests are identified with " protection" from the growing influence of a sound commercial policy—to preserve the vicious and absurd ar rangement by which the effective weight of our taxation upon the productive resources of the country is more than doubled, recourse must. now of necessity be had to a direct tax, admitted to be unjust, because unequal in its operation, and necessarily attended with the exercise of arbitrary and inquisitorial powers which nothing but the direst neces sity can justify in a country such as Great Britain. The result may not be immediately obvious ; but from this time forth the advocates of free trade need look for no effective commercial reform from the party now in power. In effect, it is now fairly con fessed to be impossible. Particular interests may be conciliated for a time by the removal (under the shadow of the income-tax) of imposts appearing to bear more immediately and exclusively upon them ; but the real incubus—that which now alone cripples the gigantic manufacturing and commercial power of this country—the protective system—which every year will inevitably render at once more deeply destructive and mere difficult to deal with—will be continued. Peel and protection are now one and indivisible, and an income-tax their necessary attendant. STANDARD.—Sir Robert Peel's financial statement last night was characterised by Members of the Opposition as, in its propositions, " unexpected," " unlooked for," " surprising," "bold," "gigantic"—and was generally admitted by all to be sound in principle, and eminently promising of good to the industrious and humbler classes of society. The state ment otherwise a lucid and business-like detail, which rose into the higher order of eloquence only when the speaker had occasion to refer to the " magnificent economy " of the Queen—deserves all that was said of it by the Opposition speakers; its propositions are indeed bold and gigantic, and directed principally to the permanent benefit of the humbler and industrious classes, amounting to the reduction of nearly - three millions and a half of taxes, all pressing with undue weight upon the classes in question, while, concurrently with this relief, the defensive establishments of the empire are to be - fully maintained, and the naval department augmented to the extent of 4,000 men. This is a proud and encouraging por trait of the British empire at this day ; and if we may so speak, the artist who had to exhibit it to the view of his fellow-subjects, gave the best proof of good taste in allowing his work to speak for itself. Here is a reduction of nearly three millions and a half of taxes, the greater part of them very old taxes, reduced at a stroke, not in submission to popular clamour, for there has been no clamour on the sub ject; not in pursuit of !popularity, for the Minister was never so strong in Parliament or in the country ; not iu concession to public distress, for the country enjoys un exampled prosperity; but because the Minister can make the reduction with safety; and he can make the reduction with safety, because his measures have, in three years of their operation, converted a deficit of more than three millions annually into a clear surplus of five millions; for so _ great will be the surplus on th sth of April. HORRIBLE DESTITUTION. One of the most appalling cases of human misery came under the notice of th e po li ce en Wednesday morning last. On that day it was reported at the station of the V division, on Clapham•conamon, that a girl had been found in a dying state in a loft over an old and ruinous cow-house, in the Wandsworth-road. Several constables, under the direction of a sergeant, were sent with a stretcher to convey this wretched hu man being to the Wandsworth Union. On a heap of filthy litter in the corner of a loft over a cow-house, now in disuse, and situate at the corner of the Albion-road, Wandsworth - road, they found a being with scarce any signs of life, and presenting all the appearance of an exhumed corpse. Her apparel was but a bundle of rags, and wholly insufficient to conceal her person, much less protect her from the intense cold. Some weak brandy and water was poured with difficulty through her lips, and the police then proceeded to place her with extreme care upon the stretcher; they covered her with horse cloths and sacks, and then coaveyed her to the union, hardly daring to hope that she would survive the journey. Mr. and Mrs. Trine, the master and matron of the Wandsworth Union, received the unfortunate creature, and had her instantly convey ed to a warm apartment. Within five minutes of her anival she was undressed and placed between hot blankets. Her clothes, which swarmed with vermin, were immediately burned. An assistant to Dr. Conner, the surgeon to the union, was in the house :st, the time, and after examining the young woman, directed arrowroot and diluted wine to be ad ministered often, but with extreme care and in small quantities, as it was evident that her life hung, as it were, upon a thread, When this miserable object be came partly sensible she was minutely examined, and a more horrible and soul-sickening spectacle, perhaps, never be-`ore met the human sight. She is, it appears, not more than 16 years of age, but she looked 30. Her coun tenance was as pallid, and the skin as contracted, as that of a corpse. Her back was one mast of sores, her frame was frightfully attenuated, and her feet, swollen and frost-bitten, seemed to be fast approaching morti fication ; but the most appalling sight was the myriads of vermin that crawled over her person, and even exuded from her mouth. The walls of the room were covered with them, and the colour of the blankets and sheets on the bed could not be distinguished. Her head was covered with a mass of living corruption, at least an inch in thickness, and its appearance was horrid in the ex treme. The nurses, to whom the task of cleansing this miserable creature was intrusted, were, for the safety of their own persons, enveloped in sheets, whilst they per formed the necessary offices. Within a very short space of time nine blankets were placed upon her, and were removed, loaded with vermin, and immediately burned ; and to preserve the health of the house, she was obliged to be moved into another room, that that into which she had been first brought might be whitewashed and other wise cleansed of its impurities. During the night the poor creature was watched most assiduously by two nurses. Her constant cry, when sensible, was for food, which was given her as often as was compatible with safety. Yesterday morning a hair-dresser was directed to shave her head, and this he accomplished with difficulty, the stench being so horrible that he was repeatedly compelled to relinquish the task. In the course of Wednesday night this wretched being was enabled to converse with Jane Toplis, one of the nurses, and she informed her that her name was Mary Loveday, that she was 16 years of age, and the daughter of a gardener in the Union-road,Larkhall - lane, Clapham. She said her father, who had recently married again, turned her out of the house on the let of December last, and told her to go and support herself by pros titution, as he would no longer support her. The first night she slept in a sand-pit ; she then went upon the streets and wandered about from place to place. At last she came back to the neighbourhood in which she had lived • she found out the loft already spoken of, and as her clothes had become shabby she lay there all day and crept out at night, when she picked up what pittance she could. A number of carpenters and brick layers who were working at some new buildings in the Albion-road, and who knew her father, were aware that she had taken up her abode in the loft, as were a chaff cutter and a milkman occupying contiguous premises, but none of those persons attempted to remove her. On the contrary, they behaved kindly to her, and occasion ally gave her food and half-pence. On Thursday last she became too ill to leave her miserable bed, and from that day until Wednesday morning last no food or water passed her lips. On that morning she had some dim knowledge of one of the carpenters, accompanied by a gentleman, coming up to her, and speaking to her, but she was beyond the power of utterance and soon after %;,,arde became insensible. The father, the mother-in-law, and the brother of the unfortunate creature visited her yesterday. The mother in-law did not seem the least affected, but upbraided the girl for not having gone to service. The father and bro ther were greatly grieved. The interview between the brother and sister was peculiarly affecting : he is a soldier, has been absent from his country seven years, and had only just returned home. The father and mother.in-law both assured the master of the union that their daughter might have come home if she had chosen so to do. It is certainly most extraordinary that the father especially should have permitted his child to have been so horribly destitute in the immediate neighbour hood of his residence, Dr. Conner visited the wretched girl yesterday after noon ; he ordered that the most nutritious food should be given to her, and that she should be kept quiet, but he has no hope of her ultimate recovery, the system being so utterly exhausted, and it is more than probable that her feet will ultimately mortify. This circumstance has created the most extraordinary excitement in the parishes of Clapham and Wandsworth. It is but just to the parochial authorities of Clapham to state that they were in utter ignorance of an indivi dual being in so pitiable a state of destitution and misery in their parish. SUDDEN DEATH OF M. MIDDLE TON, ESQ., OF HOPTON HALL. (From the Derby Mercury.) It is with unfeigned sorrow that we announce the awful and untimely death of Marmaduke Middleton, Esq., of Hopton Hall, on Thursday, the 6th inst. Mr. Middleton met Mr. Meynell Ingram's hounds at Ra,dborne, on the morning of that day,and had the mis fortune to be thrown from his horse twice in the field. By the latter fall his head was injured, and he was obliged to leave the hounds and return to Radborne, where he remained about two hours. He then felt him self able to ride home. He had proceeded about four miles, accompanied by Mr. John Hall, of Hopton, when (as is supposed from the effects of his recent injury), he again fell from his horse, and pitcbed his head on the hard and frozen road. He was taken up quite insen sible and conveyed to the nearest house, Mr. Webster's, Mercaston Hall, where every possible care and attention were shown to him. Mr. Hall (who had never left Mr. Middleton during the day, and whose conduct throughout manifested great kindness, judgment, and promptitude) then set off with the greatest speed to Hopton to apprise Mrs. Middleton of the accident and to get a carriage to convey Mr. Middleton home. He did not then apprehend that the injury was so serious as it eventually proved to be. The Rev. Mr. Rastall, a friend of the family, who was on a visit at the House, immediately went to Wirksworth with Mr. Hall, and accompanied by Mr. Poyser, pro , ceeded to Mercaston. On arriving there it was but too manifest that Mr. Middleton had received a mortal injury. He was speechless and insensible; his right side ryas paralysed, and he was evidently sinking from the effect of extravasation of blood on the brain. He survived their arrival but little more than an hour. Mr. Rastall and Mr. Poyser then returned to llopton, to comin.mi cate the heart-rending intelligence to Mrs. Metdietoe. who was expecting the arrival of her husband in the great anxiety. Her anguish and distraction it is quite impossible to describe. An inquest was held on the body on Saturday, the Bth, at Mercaston Hall, before Henry Mozley, Esq., coroner, and a highly-respectable jury. After hearing the evidence of Mr. Oastler, Mr. Hall, and Mr. Web ster's housekeeper, a verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGI NEERS, Feb. 11. The President, Sir John Rennie, in the Chair. The first paper read was a description by Mr. Thomas Hughes, Assoc. Inst. C.E., of the method em ployed for draining some banks of cuttings on the Lon don and Croydon, and London and Birmingham Rail ways, also a part of the retaining wall of the Euston inclined plane. The method adopted was the introduc tion of Watson's drain pipes, which were made of the ironstone clay of Stafford, hire; their surface is pierced with numerous apertures, small externally and enlarging inwardly, which form prevents their being clogged by the earth, and allows whatever enters to pass freely into the pipe. Ia their application on the London and Croydon Railway a longitudinal trench, four feet deep, was dug on the crown of the bank at a few feet from the edge, and other trenches, about thirty feet apart, descended from it to the open drain by the side of the permanent way. On the London and Birmingham Railway the descending trenches were eighty feet apart, and varied from three feet to six feet in depth! the pipes were introduced into these trenches, and the clay which had been dug out was then laid over the pipes ; from the longitudinal line of pipes, upright pipes were occa sionally introduced for the purpose of ventilation. The panels of the retaining wall were drained by boring holes through the brickwork at given distances, with a power ful auger worked by a machine, and then inserting cast iron pipes of the same form as those of clay. This pro cess proved so effectual that the wall which before showed evidence of water being lodged behind nearly the whole length, was now evidently drying fast, and the water oozed out from the pipes at all times, even during the severe drought of 1844. The paper induced an animated discussion upon re taining walls, in which Mr. R. Stephenson gave an in teresting account of his views at the time when he de signed the walls of the Euston incline, the changes which subsequent experience had worked in his opinion, and the reasons which had induced him to adopt the process of staying the walls with cast-iron beams stretch ing from one side to the other. The next paper read was a description of the Ouse bridge on the Hull and Selby Railway, by W. B. Bray, Grad. Inst. C.E. The Act for this railway was obtained in 1836, and it forms with the Leeds and Selby, which was opened two years previously, a direct communica tion between Leeds and Hull. They were both sur veyed and executed from the designs of Messrs. Walker and Burgos. The river Ouse, at Selby, is 196 feet wide and 14 feet deep at low water. The tide rises four feet at neap tides, and nine feet at spring tides. The bed of the river consists of silt, resting on a bed of quicksand, I eneath which is a hard clay. The foundation of the abutments were formed of piles driven into the clay, and on these longitudinal sleepers and transverse sills were tenoned, the intermediate spaces being filled with broken stone, grouted with thin mortar ; on this platform brick abutments with stone quoins, string courses, and copings were built : they were subsequently tied, by wrought iron rods, to heavy stone piers. There were six piers placed in pairs, which were founded on piles driven into the clay, and tenon«l to received the cap sills, on which east-iron freer e strongly bolted, the ends being furnished with cut waters of cast-iron plates. The superstructure consists of six ribs of cast iron one-and-a-half inch thick, resting on transverse girders, one being placed under each line of rails, and one under each handrail, the rails themselves being laid on longitudinal sleepers, twelve inches wide and six inches deep. In the Act there was a clause re quiring that this bridge choald have an opening arch, for the passage of steamers and vessels with fixed masts: this consists of two similar leaves, each keyed on to a cast-iron shaft nine inches square, with turned ournals of plummer blocks and brasses. The total weight of iron work is 590 tons, and the erection of the bridge was let to Mr. Briggs, of Ferry 7 on-Trent, and the But terle Iron Company. The communication was accom panied by a register of the tides at Selby during the year 1842, and was illustrated by a well-executed model presented to the institution by Mr. James Walker. Mr. J. B. Redman exhibited a portion of a fender pile which had been driven in the works of the New Terrace pier at Gravesend in 1843, and in which the termlonacalis or pipe-worm, had made great inroads. It appeared, however, that the ravages of this insect were confined to a space of about three feet above the level of low water spring tides, and that therefore if wood work wits well defended by copper sheathing or scupper nails, at and below that point, no great injury would be received by piles in any situation. The meeting was adjourned to Tuesday evening, the 18th inst., when the following paper will be read : No. 760. "Description of the Great Britain steam-ship, with an account of the trial voyages," by T. R. Guppy, Assoc. Inst. C.E. IMPROVEMENTS IN BLEACHING. About a century ago our manufacturers of linen used to send their clothes to Holland to be bleached, where they were steeped in potash ley, then washed, then steeped in buttermilk, and then laid out on the grass for several months ; so that the linen was thus out of the maker's hands for seven or eight months before he could bring it into the market. A process very similar next became established in this country; the goods being still several months under process of bleaching, but the transference to and from Hol land being no longer necessary. Next sprang up an improvement by the substitution of sulphuric acid for milk, whereby the same effect was wrought in one day which before occupied six weeks, and brought the whole bleaching process within a period of three or four months. Next ensued the discovery that a par ticular gas, evolved by the action of manganese on muriatic acid, had the power of destroying vegetable colours, or of bleaching; and about sixty g y a e s a r (ch a l g o o Br r , ne t ) i h n o l b l e l e t a e p h r i practically c a 11 y Next applied followed this i t snew h e in troduction of this method into England and Scot land, and the institution of experiments for facili tating the use of the gas in bleaching establishments. If used as a gas, the effects were. highly deleterious to the workmen; if absorbed by water, the water gave out a very offensive odour. Potash was added to the chlorine water, to remove the smell ; next, the cloth was passed through lime-water previou s ly t o the application of the chlorine; and next, Mr. Ten nant, of Glasgow, contrived the means of making a liquid chloride of lime, which was the opening to a field of vast importance. One more step was the devising a mode of pr o d uc i ng a d ry chloride of lime which should be capable of being easily packed reonly received yci Dr. i v b el a dn r ho r fo e wom l u s sr , not ecenist fourteen neoh h f frssrf i ntsheo c aea h stnuotariaennyxrts s dthn: h tefrehl oe o eoear i n‘dTaf i ,t c d mehApthlvh:iei r peeelrd e reci bs t tysedatl a p,seoal i draa n ywotanoc hcyh a lfdi s l gcttrsmohhr t yyan ma nufacturer, bleaching properties of the chlorine without its offen e sive odour, and which should be procurable at a &ie,ip rate. This has been done ; and the chloride of lime of modern times is presented to us as one of the most successful instances of chymical science applied to manufactures. islnstead of eight months, a period of a bleaching.fLe Lancashire hours cahi f d w m o i er au er ts e e i gliynnfrnoonla packedl raokwaeti up t p g h Tuesday , ea:cvnhed were e sentl distancevurhei thus made is a benefit entirely to be ascribed to the new mode of bleaching."—Knight's Weekly Volume —British chymical Manufactures. We understand that a meeting of the members of the Liberal party, convened by circular, was hold yes terday, at the residence of Lord John Russell. The object of the assemblage was, we learn, to hear Lord John's de3ision as to the course which should be pur sued on Monday's discussion in the Commons, and to concert the most advisable course for defeating the Ministerial proposition for the reduotiou of the sugar dutiesei-clbsereen - • LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Feb. 15. ;Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord DENMAN and a special jury.) BAKER V. LOWE. _ - This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a sur geon, residing at Hampton, against the defendant, who is a half-pay officer, to recover a sum of 1931., for services per- formed by the plaintiff for the defendant in his professional capacity—also for medicine. Mr. Chambers, Mr. Peacock, and Mr. Sewell, were for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Crowder conducted the defendant's case. _ _ _ _ _ It appeared that the defendant was attacked on the 16th of September, 1842, with spontaneous gangrene of the toe, being this period about sixty-one years of age, and in pre vious good health. At first he felt a severe pain, and in four days Mr. Baker amputated the toe. Inflammation proceeded, and on the 6th of December Mr. Liston was called in, and ordered a soothing treatment, a stimulating one, con sisting of brandy and wine, having been used by Mr. Baker. The gangrene had extended so far, that the defendant lost his leg. Mr. Baker sent in his bill of 1931., but the defendant said that he lost his leg in consequence of the injudicious treatment of Mr. Baker. However, he offered to allow the plaintiff 94/., which was refused. The principal interest resulted from the different opinions of the medical men who were examined. Mr. Liston, Mr. Partridge, Mr. Perry, and Mr. Bransby Cooper were examined on the part of the plaintiff, who indi cated—some of them more cautiously than others—that the application of stimuli was not improper treatment, and that the application of the knife was right where what was called " the line of demarcation" was properly marked. On the part of the defendant, Mr. Lawrence gave a decided opinion that a stimulating treatment was improper in this case ; that it was always better to leave nature to throw off the diseased part, and that it was impossible for the line of demarcation to be sufficiently marked in four days to justify the use of the knife. Mr. Aston Key and Mr. Skey gave pretty nearly similar evidence. The foot of the unfortunate gentleman was in Court to assist the surgical gentlemen in their operations. His LORDSHIP having summed up the evidence, The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 1381. 14s. ; also finding that there was no want of skill in the plaintiff. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 14. ;Sittings at Nisi Prius before the LORD CHIEF BARON and Special Juries. GREEN V. PRICE. This was an action of covenant to recover the sum of 5,0001. Mr. Martin and Mr. Lush appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Jervis and Mr. Cowling for the defendant. The deed which formed, the ground of the present action was entered into between the late Mr. John Gos nell (to whose estate Mr. Green the plaintiff is executor) and the defendant Mr. Price, who retired from the busi ness of a perfumer, and bound himself in the above sum not to set up again within the cities of London and West minster, or within 600 miles from the same. The de fendant having commenced business at 28, Lombard street, it was alle g ed he had broken the covenant, and he was now sued for the above amount. It was contended on behalf of the defendant that no specific loss to the plaintiff had been shown to have re sulted from his recommencing business, and also that he was not within the distance named. I shortly after the opening of the plaintiff's case, his Lordship stated it to be his opinion that this question was one of law. It was then agreed that Mr. Jervis should tender a bill of exceptions to his Lordship's ruling, and that, in the meantime, a verdict should be taken for the plaintiff: Verdict for the plaintiff accordingly—Damages, 5,000. SATURDAY, FEB. 15. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. CLAY. This was an information filed for the recovery of certain duties which were alleged not to have been paid by the defendants upon certain silk goods imported from France. _ _ . The following are the particulars of this case : The defendants, Thomas and Robert Clay, were engaged in the silk-trade, which they carried on in a very exten sive manner for upwards of three years previous to the filing of the information. It was subsequently as curtained that the defendants had imported silks for which the proper duties had not been paid. It ap peared that before matters were discovered, the de fendant Robert had retired from business, and the other brother, upon the fraud being found out, de camped. The defendant Robert, upon the information being filed, pleaded that he was ignorant of anything being wrong, for, during the partnership, he had paid all the necessary duties. Upon the books being referred to this fact was ascertained to be correct, and the result was that the Crown declined to go for more than one penalty, instead of three times the amount, to which it was entitled. After a short address from the Solicitor-General for the Crown, and Mr. Kelly for the defendant, a verdict for 1,200/. was returned against the defendant. LANGFORD V. SOLLY. This was an action to recover 5/. 18s., for an injury done by the carriage of the defendant to that of the plaintiff. There was no feature of interest in the case, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 5/. 18s. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) BOW-STREET. John Pentland, the young man who was charged at this court on the Bth inst. with stealing some books from the London University, but who on that occasion re fused to give either his name or address, was brought up for further examination, when it appeared that the police, from subsequent inquiries, had ascertained not only the name, but the address of the prisoner, !and on searching his lodgings, found that he was a medical student from Scotland, but not a member of the London University, but had by some means obtained access to the library there, and they also found there some books which bore the stamp of the St. George's Hospital, and some instruments which, no doubt, belonged to the Middlesex Hospital. The witnesses, however, in the two latter cases, not being n attendance, the prisone r was remanded until Wednesday, for further examin ation. CLERKEN WELL. William Shears 4; the proprietor and driver of a Camden-town omnibus, appeared to a summons to answer the complaint of Philip Sallick, jun., the pro prietor and driver of a Paddington omnibus, for having wilfully and maliciously obstructed him, whereby he endangered the lives of passengers, and also for having made use of abusive language. Mr. Robinson attended for the prosecution, and a so licitor appeared for the defendant. It appeared that the defendant had been in the habit of obstructing complainant, and annoying him on the road. On Wednesday afternoon, the sth inst., com plainant was driving along Pentonville-hill at a mode rate pace, his vehicle being full of ladies and gentlemen, when defendant whipped and gallopped his horses, any' crossed him, to the imminent danger of the lives of complainant and the passengers. He continued this sort of conduct until they arrived in the City road, when he began gallopping his horses and crossed the road. Com plainant remonstrated with him on the impropriety of such conduct, when defendant commenced a volley of abuse, calling him most foul n2mes, to thC great annoy ance of the passengers ; and he drove on before him, jeering him ; and complainant felt it to be his duty to take out a summons against him. Mr. GREENWOOD convicted him in the penalty of 20a. and costs, for the abominably filthy and abusive language he had used ; and for the wilful obstruction he would commit him to the House of Correction (without fine for ten days. MAI?YLEBOIVE. Two very gentlemanly-looking young men, of remark ably good address, and who refused to give their names, were charged with having obtained various sums of money from the nobility and gentry at the west•end. Lord Hanry Cholmondeley, upon whom an unsuccessful attempt had been made to obtain money, occupied a seat on the bench. Oswald 'Moseley, Esq., and Mrs. Bochin, gave evidence of begging-letters having been sent to them, together with a long list of subscribers, most of whose names turned out to be forgeries. The prisoners, it was dis covered, resided at 56, King-street, Soho, where they lodged together under the respective names of Montague and Ryson. It appeared that Montague was known to the Mendicity Society as connected with similar prac tices, for which he had been convicted in 1841. At the prisoners' lodgings a box was found containing a " Court Guide," and a vast number of envelopes and letters ad dressed to persons in the higher rank of society, and also a book, in which was pasted genuine signatures of dukes, earls, clergymen, and others. The prisoners, on being called upon, said they were sorry for what they had done. They were reminded till Saturday next, to give time for tracing their system of imposition, which it is be lieved has been practised very extensively. LAMBETH. As Mr. Norton was about to leave the bench, a feeble looking old man, named Alexander Elder, entered the witness-box, and applied to the Magistrate for his in terference to have him admitted into Newington work house. From the poor man's statement it appeared that he had carried on business for some years in Aylesbury street, Clerkenwell, as a master baker, and that on the death of his wife in 1816, himself and his four children became possessed of 5,000 L, in which his wife had pre viously a life-interest. One of hi 3 children died a minor, and two of the others got their shares of the money left, and a portion remained for his third child, who was a daughter. The last child had been made a ward in Chancery ; and by the trickery of two or three design ing persons she had been plundered of every penny ; and not only this, but the applicant, in endeavouring to pro tect her, had been incarcerated fifteen years, six years and upwards in the King's Bench, and nearly nine in Horsemonger-lane. On Monday fortnight he obtained his discharge, but so accustomed had he become to the walls of a prison that, when walking about in the public streets, he was seized with a giddiness, and was in momentary dread of falling head foremost. Mr. NORTON inquired what he wanted done for him, a g ed he replied that he had been to the Clerkenwell Workhouse, in which parish he had a legal settlement, but they refused to take him in without a regular pass; and the parish of Newington had also some objection to take him in, as they thought Clerkenwell ought to do so without the necessary pass. Mr. NORTON direete.l one of the summoning °facers to accompany him to Newington, and to request that the applicant might be taken in and passed in the regular way. ASHBURTON.—A few days since, while a workman was engaged in cleaving a pollard-tree, at Grange Farm, he found, concentrated in the trunk, a cannon-ball, weighing 4 lbs.. On the aboVe farm are the remains of some ancient buildings, which formerly belonged to the old Cistercian Abbey of Buckfastleigh, which was funded in the year 1137, by Etherwerld, the son of Williatn Pomerai, in honour of the Virgin Mary. From the appearance of the tree, which has undoubtedly stood for centuries, the ball was shot into it, during a bokubardment of the abbey , during the. monastic ware. HAMBURGH AND DUTCH MAILS. BERLIN, FEB. 3.—A report, which has been for sotne, time in circulation, that the King had commissi flea_ several statesmen to draw up a constitution for tlo s Prussian monarchy, seems to gain credit; this imp, subject being seriously discussed in the higher cir les: and not contradicted by men in very elevated positionrs. great joy is felt here on this account. If the rer should prove true, a brilliant prospect will Le opencel4 Prussia, and for all Germany, and the name of his jesty will be distinguished among the gre atest in IP annals of Germany. went HANOVER, FEB. 7.—We learn that our Govern : has granted several considerable advantages to Swcw s, and Norwegian ships in the Elbe, placing them on a7 same footing as those of great Britain and H amburg ;. „ FRONTIERS OF BOHEMIA AND SAXONY , JAN' 'rid Commissioners_ have been appointed at Dre sden Vienna for the definitive regulation of the frontiers or Austria and Saxony. „ taken FRANKFORT, FEB. 4.—Some steps have bee.. to, in our city towards the formation of a Christian AP lie Catholic community. The notion is much aPPr ° t ,, by the middle class of the Roman Catholic inhabitse4s The higher classes manifest but little inclination to and the lower are withheld by worldly considerations•,,h BERLIN, FEB. 6.—We learn that the negotiations li`o, the Danish Government respecting the Sound -toll , broken off for the present, and our Commissioner:et turned from Copenhagen a few days ago. e re " it that the endeavours of our Government have failed , sl a b dces not seem to agree on any one point with the Ps n Government. : kncler HAMBURGH, JAN. W.—The Hamburgh ship --- t be mache has arrived at Cuxhaven from China, bell first of our ships that has visited one of the ne wl f ey— ports of that empire. id ° PoLISH FRONTIERS, FEB. 2.—Accounts are Env have been received from St. Petersburgh, that th ttes J peror is suffering from the jaundice, but is able to! o i,; to business as usual. The health of the Empress Is to have become worse. 4 01 THE HAGUE, FEB. 12.—Our journals contain Severe, notices of the return of the frost, which is pretty s e at 21 the mercury in Fahrenheit's thermometer being deg., or eleven below freezing point. t THE HAGUE, FEB. 13.—The Dutch GovernMein oat ing discovered at the beginning of the year 181;0 there was au extensive manufactory of Da"; otoc copper coin at Birmingham, took measures to P0",7, 7 tba to the evil, in which it was zealously seco nded 1, English Government. „, pot The exertions of the police at Birmingham °pers a stop to this coining ; and the Custom-house "dills at Liverpool have seized a considerable quao titi bou nd base coin, which was already on board a vess el Sincapore. Instructions have been sent to the Governor'aetnneld to direct all the colonial authorities to do the ir : eoi. A ll ' to prevent the circulation and sale of such ha - , fe lt In consequence, the Government has alread.crfeitieee an official notice issued by the Government of a Wales's Island, Sincapore, and Malacca. of 11 '' The Government has answered the observ i itions r eel section of the Second Chamber, respecting thelpeol of law for the execution of Art. 6 of the Fue. i , Law treating of the right of voting, and of el eei ' ° " . The ChambLirs not sitting. HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, FEB. 11. to ol' Bills. 113 Austrian 5 per Cents • •• • • • - 1141 Bank Shares ........................ 1655 Anglo-Russian Loan Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 10 5 '4 WI, Ditto Ist series 1n5cripti0n............ 99! Ditto, Kops and Co., 3d and 4th series • • 994 49 Ditto, in Certificate.... • • ............ 9 9 4 i New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. .... .92 90S Ditto Stieglitz SPanish.New 5 per Cent.- Ditio n a per Cent • 41 Anglo... Portuguese Loan, 21 per Cent • • • Duteh Actual Debt, 2% pp' Cent.... • • 63 : 4 , / Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.. • • 87 6 1 1 an Anglo-Dish Loan, 3 pi' Cent ...... 5178 1 4 `' National Bank Shares. Exchange on London. Petersburgh, Three months Bremen, Two m0nth5....... —Hamburgh Borsenhalle, Feb. 11. DUTCH FUNDS.—AusTrapam, FEB. 14 ' 15 111 4 4. money 64 Actual Debt, 214 per Cent...... .. ititto, 3 per Cent .. Ditto, 4 per CenL ..............98h,, Ditto, 5 per Cent.-- 994 1 0 ,, Amort Syndic, 4 4 ,6 per Cent.... .. Ditto, 314 per Cent.• •••• • • • • Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • • 147 East India Loan, 4 per Cent ••••• • • • • • ' • Exchange on London, one month Two months 12 2 0 At sight. 6 0 On Hamburgh • • • • ........ 35 51 Two months. ... • • • • • • • On Paris ••• • • - Twomonths. • • • • • . • • • • • • •• —Dutch Papers. Feb. 15. !AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, F .l3 ' 7 'lll 5 per Cent. Metalliques • • • 102 4 per Cent. ditto. • • • • is 3 per Cent. ditto.. •.. Ditto, 1839 • •• ••• 162 Bank Shares ••••• • • • • Esterhazy's Loan ..... ....• •••• • ' • RAILWAYS. is/ The Northern, or Ferdinand • • • • •• • • •• •. 136Li g . Gloggnitz • 10/"‘ •• Milan —Ailgemeine Zeitung, Feb. 10. 00 / V pet I 4 PRUSSIAN FUNDS .— BEEiIN, Fl 4 5 31 * 1 . I 9. 4 a s 3 111 St. Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent •.• • • • • 1 00 •••• • • • • 1 -6 / Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent • • Exchange on London, 3 months. ... —Prussian State Gazette. Feb. 12. 3 1 13 -15 6 13 .... - ~; -171.5121,11 .1.41A3 lxiLLetite. K eo. iz. SPORTING INTELLIG 1 4 C . E INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. WARWICK, 1845. lb. st. The Warwick Handicap. 8 Mosque, aged ................................. 8 4 Queen of the Gipsies, 5 yrs ...... . ........ 8 4 Yardley, 5 yrs ................................. s 1 Porto Bello, 5 yrs .......................... • 7 0 Inheritress, 5 yrs ........................... 7 0 Bashaw, 5 yrs ................................. 7 3 Fleslington, aged ..................... . ....... 7 Schoolboy, 6 yrs .............................. 7 ': Babylon, 4 yrs ............................ •• 7 ' b Wasp, 4 yrs ... • -1 0 .............. Wotton (h b), 4 yr€, ........... . .......... •• ~ 3 COVENTRY, 1845. aP Entry for the Trial Stakes; po is Wild Roe, 3 yrs-Celeste, 4 yrs-ga rs.- yrs-Dash (ate Corodino), 4 yrs. .0 ✓ / The Handicap Stakes. , Dird , 6) , , ri; Glideway, 4 yrs-Hooton, 5 yrs-Tr,"eipste, 4 ,; , 0' Wild Roe, 3 yrs-Aurungzebe, 5 yrs- L i e- ilof Inheritress, 5 yrs-Mosque, aged-P o rto J 3: y o. f Fama, aged-Dash, 4 yrs-Lanristina OP Kt The City Stakes. , atr . 5 as r, s Confab, 4 yrs-b Tll by Alundig- la'llier/•iie by Bolero, 4 yrs-Chevy Chase, 3 Y r- 5 yre Hunter, 4 yrs-The Bird, 6 yrs-Osca r ' le r° Y fi° l , lo 4 rs. The Hurdle Stakes. b ... „ f bi a ,' , - Mantrap-The Darling-The Orplia ll ~ sg e out of the Queen-Isaac, aged-llue°°'-' Light of other Days-Victoria, aged. ~o . „ l oos HUNTING APPOINTNIFircia, Ca' bol a Surrey stag hdi., Tues., at Fickle 's Sat. Reigate. y . 116 4 ce l,, South ' Berks hds., Tues., Aldworth; IT Albe r a Green; Fri., Theale-1 oi. Fr i '' °rf Craven hds., Wed., Bedwin Brick -kilo ; r " e sl ; Chase; Sat., Benham Turnpike-4°j' pi.. .0 Hambledon hds., Wed., Basing Par ' ; 1 4e/4t' House. 6st•l e•r' Sir J. Gerard's hds., Wed., New fla il ; oolt l Bridge. „ m old ,„ N. F. H., Tues , Brocklehurst Bridge; •'''' , A l."' wood; Sat., Alderholt Park-14 , I s 4l ''' 11. Tiverton hds., Wed., Drayford Briag e ' or' Castle-101. vo.er Vine hds., Thurs., Paul's Wood; Sat., "•• . ife e United Pack, Thurs., Monkhopton--9; 00'0' Norfolk harrs., Tues., Thuruing; Fri'' " row--11 • tra --___---------- cte rn w e r e re' Dispatches from the Governor of . i . 311 e- r itiaSl • and also from the Governor of the 0' ceived on Saturday at the Colonial -office' k 10 . i itifr' BIRTHS. Ore' oa r d' On the 11th inst., at Cambridge - t eraCe ' 0 0 0r a , Henry Howlett, of a son. ail ved i • Bisd e ' et , ..$1 On the 12th inst., the wife of Captain,. ~,o s -strc jo or On the 12th of February, at Great .4. - Fe row, Mrs. Samuel Hayne, of a daughter. of t he 4 01 On the 12th inst., at Bath, the wife ne rr Mansfield, of a son. 'leg e of On the 12th inst., at Cumberland-terranee.' 0014 the lady of Richard Jennings, Esq., of 3 St titre et) el l ' On the 13th inst., in Upper Grosvenor James Weir Hogg, Esq., M.P., of a son.,rg. joi, pli tpe On the 10th inst., at Upper Tooting, x 0 . tol lii of a daughter. tCa o lde f il r. s tree-, - o On the 11th inst., in Camden- , j oy wife of Professor De Morgon, of a daugn" t I L/IS, - lie bter• re On the 11th inst., at Boyder's-hill, if . a du lo , $l l H. Molyneux, Esq., Commander, B•N•lj.receleSl34 „to; On the 11th inst., Et the parsonage , " , s , 9 5° e ery lu the wife of the Rev. Robert D. Buttoner, i ta. ra . ji On the 11th inst., at Upper Clapton, •"' feci Hulbert, of a son. ; MARRO:II' ..galph et e e r r uef w On the 11th inst., at Uxbridge, Qeergeonly daub' ~,,t eh of Sydenham, Kent, to Elizabeth Fry-,,,5e5.. _ if.F4 ll late Rev. Edward Cropc, of Colches 1 -' .10 0 ' € Jer Ovent - o r 0. • On the 13th inst., at St,. Paurse, Iciest c laligh lv . st :o r tig ettl i; of Manchester, to Sarah Eliza, Kirby Lock, of King-street. ' Soutbsvarl!o, a __ot e On the 13th inst., at St. Olave 1, 1 ,_ Jan e, ), _ l 7 . of 0 0 grew, Esq., of Deau-street, surgeo to S °ll l 1284 '11e Vt ter of T. Evans, Esq., of Tooley-stre Geor ge , Atln , ro f t On the Bth inst., at Ashford, d daoghte ..00, s econ Dol ( Island of Antigua, to Charlotte, vielde , Ow' T. Tappenden, Esq. • the do to cathe s o rfoll'• On the 10th inst., at St. Martin's-°' riae, Massey, Esq , of Stoke Nevvington,_ 3 vrence , Il eil ' Mr. Samuel Baker, of Beeston St. I , ' o f th e D/ED• .f ot Son the '° a / 14 3 ' ,ir , On the Bth inst., at Brighton, ye. 0 EA . ' lib s 41 ' Hanbury Tracy. On the 10th inst., at l3ath, .i .__ Bom bay , A11b 415 , On the 10th of December, 18446 n. ic 1 Secy. e " pia - 0 1 of Metcalfe Larken, Esq , of th Mid dlesex,:o:Port Eoeoto 00 1 9 On the 9th inst., at Southill, Vera Drury, R.N. On the 9th inst., Carlton Grallha,noitcond,orio•t o f tb e Mr. Richard Nicholson, wine - m ere , i t sa bcll 3, r'" lit On the 9th inst , at Kennington ~ eirl'ol' e ~„,3 0 .•, _, , W. Senior, Esi., aged 75. On the 9th inst., at Marga ret, w ife • o lroonw „iic 4 bee' v g On the 11th inst., Margarete, ~,:110 all, i sa • fs ll Markham-suare Chelsa, surg ° in n , _ear v . e .. On the 11th fast., at Cottingi. n .I'. line, tli P' of the late W. Kaye, Esq., C h arlton, 51 On the 13th inst., at Charlton, „Ts' Caro <6 1 1 vOr • l o t daughter of John James :a 1 22.,........-- dell '._,___ L" 0 ), a , -—-- - - AitTgr i . o *_l 4i dati 1., '-----------'----- 2.;.-lon : Printed =1 Pa 11.5.1414 w ii e s,„ the vP- No. 112, Strand, Printer. 1 1 : L.`, .., o v, ill ' Straus, in the Preciuct of the i ri g i o . Middlesex, blonde rebr uarY ' „ • 441. 4 e, r~`: