The Sun. — London, England, 1844-05-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, lO.STDON, THITRSDAYMORNING, MAY 16, _1844. make up this deficiency from Cuba, the Brazils, and: The CHAIRMAN then introduced to the meetin g 1 that ni g ht, had it not been for—The vearniafclesire the markets of South America ; so that our refusing , i Mr. Turner, one of those tenant-farmers who had ,of his brother farmers, who . had_ requested him to take sugar, the produce of those countries, would attended at the agricultural meeting lately held in to speak his and their sentiments before the citizens not at all diminish the production of sugar in the Bridgewater, in Somersetshire, at which a resolution of London. Al l that he was anxious for -was to elicit slave States of South America. The effect would be in favour of a total repeal of the corn-laws was passed, the truth, and when the truth was elicited, to see it this, that sugar, the produce of slave-labour, which Mr. Turner, a farmer holding between 300 and 400 acted upon. The truth must out. There was no was not allowed to be consumed in England, ' would acres of land, being one of the most intelligent of his neutral ground to stand upon, for there must be either be shipped for Holland and Germany from the order, seconding the resolution.—(Cheers.) free traders or anti-free traders.—(Cheers.) There Brazils and Cuba in English ships, would be paid for MI:. TURNER then came forward, and was received I could be no doubt that lengthened tenure would be in English goo d s — wo uld be even imported into with loud cheering. He thought an apology was due beneficial to the farmer, and lengthened England to be refined here, and re-exported, from him, for venturing to address so magnificent an tenure was what free trade would give. and -yet the English consumer -would not be per- audience as that, which he then saw before him. He What they required was security for the investment mitted to use it. B u t he contended that by carrying thought he might, however, ask for some indulgence iof capital in land. He had lately been at some pro it in English ships and paying for it in English pro - and forbea rance , seein g that, with the exception of tection meetings, and the speakers there most cau duce, we should be just as much encouraging slave having proposed a vote of thanks to the Anti-Corn- tiously shunned the discussion of that subject—the labour as if we consumed it in England.—(Cheers.) law League, at a county meeting, that was the first instabilit y of the present corn-law. He had been to The West Indian planters had been paid a compensa - time he had ever attempted to address a public meet- one of those protection meetings, where the talking tion of twenty millions for the abolition of slavery. ing on any subject whatever. He could assure them was all on one side—on the side of protection, of The protection which was still continued to them that he was a bona fide tenant-farmer.—(Cheers.) He course, for they refused to allow any discussion whatever was considered small in comparison with that which I was one of those whose every farthing was invested I as to the benefits of free trade. The Morning Post had, in they had hitherto enjoyed, but still it was enormous. lin the cultivation of the soil, and it, therefore, might one of its recent articles commented in very sarcastic Twenty millions had been granted them as compen- be easily imagined that in advocating free trade prin- terms upon the ungrammatical language used by the sation for the abolition of slavery. Now, the pro- ciples he did not wish to injure the tenant - farmers of tenant-farmers who s p oke at the meetings of the tection which was granted to them on t heir sugar I the country. He must acknowledge that he was Anti-Corn-law League. Why, it was not to be won amounted to three millions and a half more per annum. , placed in some difficulty in having to follow such dered at, if these men were deficient in learning, '.lhey had received infinitely more than the amount i eloquent speakers as those who had that evening pre - considering t he sli g ht o pp ortunities of im p roving granted to them as compensation in the shape of pro- i ceded him, but he came forward on that occasion in themselves which they possessed, and the manner in tection—and it would have been cheaper to have ' the hope, that by his example others of his which they were ground clown and oppressed by granted the one hundred millions at once than to have order would be induced to come forward in support their landlords. information woner was that they ever continued these protective duties.—(Cheers.) They of the principle he was there to advocate.—(Cheers.) possessed so much as they did.—(flear.) would have been already several millions in pocket if There was a great difficulty in finding anything novel It was a matter of great doubt to him whether, if the they had adopted such a course.—(Cheers.) He upon this subject. The preceding speakers had re-, present corn-laws were persevered in, the farmer would now briefly allude to a question which had re- marked upon this ; and how much more should he would be able to give his children any education at cently occupied a great deal of the public mind—he feel a difficulty. There was one great objection to all. The Anti-Corn-law League had very much en meant the currency question. He would only make the corn-laws, that. they prevented those improve- lightened the tenant-farmers in his neighbourhood, a few brief remarks on the subject, and that only as ments being made which would undoubtedly take and their tracts were . eagerly sought after by the far as it was connected with the subject more imme- place under a lengthened tenure: - In the present un_ farmers of Somersetshire. They were anxious to be diately before the meeting. He did not intend to certain state of the law farmers were unwilling to informed on a subject which had been so much dis discuss the currency question ; but inasmuch as the take leases at the existing high rents, even if land- cussed, and upon which their interests so much de question of the currency was intimately connected lords were disposed to make them.—(Hear, hear.) pended. The farm labourers were at present in a with the question of free trade, and the abolition of But landlords were not so disposed, and why ? They most depressed condition, and many of them threw the corn-laws, he thought it not inappropriate to must be aware of the reason—to advance political the blame upon the farmers ; but upon a perusal of make a few remarks on the subject.—(Cheers.) purposes. The circumstance of being compelled to these well-digested pamphlets, they would see that it A great deal had been said by the Prime Minister on pay high rents induced the farmer to regard the was not the fault of the farmers that their wages the subject of the important question of the currency; price of the article more than the produce of the land. were so low, and their condition so had, but and whether the theory of the Prime Minister was To illustrate what he meant, he would suppose an era- of the landlords, who kept up high rents. correct or not, there could be no doubt but the ble farm which averaged 20 bushels of wheat per acre. These poor labourers would see that the wages which subject occupied the attention of the public mind at The wheat sold under present prices at Bs. per bushel. should go into their pockets went into the coffers of the the present moment. He would endeavour to follow Now if the produce of that farm could be increased landlords ; but if the farmers would stand forward, the example of the Prime Minister in treating this to 40 bushels per acre, would it not be better for the and, in a bold and independent manner, avow their subject, and to treat it in a popular manner. Now farmer to sell the grain at 6s. a bushel? Why the opinions, anti their determination to act upon them, during the last ten years the Bank of Engla nd had thin g was manifest. Notwithstanding what was the landlords would cease to exercise the tyranny they possessed the power of regulating the currency. called the low price, he would be a gainer of 2s. a at present practised. Another very erroneous opinion They professed to contract the currency when the bushel. Now this appeared to him so convincing a prevailed among these farmers, that the inanufac demand for bullion from abroad compelled the export fact, that he wondered the landlords and tenant - turers were their enemies. He was disposed to look of bullion, and to expand it when the importation of farmers had not before perceived it. They were all upon no man as his enemy, but he regarded the bullion enabled them to do so. Thus, when aware that the corn-laws had a tendency to create manufacturers as his best friends, because they were there was a disposition for bullion to Low out fluctuations in price, so that, as he had before re- working out that for them which they could not they contracted the currency so as to induce bullion marked, even where the landlords were disposed to accomplish for themselves.—(Cheers.) Without the to flow back again into their coffers, and by contract- grant a lease of seven years, the farmers were manufacturing population, it was impossible for the ing the issues they lowered the price of cotton, of in many instances afraid to accept it. He (Mr. T.) farmer to thrive. They were the home consumers, calicoes, of all articles of manufactures and produce, was one of those who held a farm on a seven years that furnished the best market for agricultural pro so as to induce foreigners to send back the bullion to tenure, and he knew well that the . landlords were duce. They were, in short, their best friends. He this country, by giving a greater amount of produce afraid of parting with the least portion of the power thanked the meeting heartily for the kindness with for it than they bad previously been enabled to pro- they now possessed over their tenantry, and which which they had heard him and, as the advocate of cure. This was what the Bank had professed to do, they so disreputably employed.—(Loud cries of Hear, truth, would conclude in the words of the poet : but which it had not been enabled altogether to ac- hear.) The s gentleman who had just preceded him " To seize on truth, where'er 'cis round, coinplish. It had not been sufficiently powerful to had so indisputably demonstrated that the corn laws Among our friends, among our foes — accomplish this object, and what the Government restricted trade, that they were injurious to commerce On Christian or on Heathen ground— now intended to do was this : it was intended to and manufactures, that the one could not thrive where A flower divine, where'er it grows." create a body that should be powerful enough to the other did not prosper, nor the one be depressed The Rev. Mr. BURNETT then came forward, and carry out this principle to the most rigid extent. So but at the expense of the other, that it was was received with great cheering. He said that it that, whenever the exchanges turned against us, as they altogether needless for him to recapitulate was exceedingly gratifying to the free traders of London to see such numbers of the tenant-farmers would immediately—if they lost a million of ' bullion those arguments. Now, it must also be admitted, —they would immediately take two millions of notes that fluctuation in price prevented what was so de- come forward to advocate the "principles of common away to contract the currency. Now it was almost sirable—an adjustment of rent; so that the old pro- sense." The landlords said the repeal of the corn laws would be ruinous to the farmers. The farmers impossible that they could ever have any very lm- verb of " Live and let live" could not well be car said it would be serviceable to them. Now which portant derangement of the currency for any length ried into operation.—(Loud cheers.) Suppose that were they to believe, the landlords or the farmers — of time, except from a deficient harvest. The reason the land a g ent calculated on an average of the prices those who felt or those who spoke ? Were they to ' of this was that the necessity for b read was g reater of wheat for six years, in order to fix a rent, which believe those who had no exp neat deal of ex- erience whatever in than the necessity for any other article, and in order the tenant should pay for an arable farm. Did not reference to those who had a to obtain it, every sacrifice must be made. If the that seem fair and e q uitable ?—(Hear, hear.) Yet it p perience ? "Oh ! but," said the landlords, " the exchanges were to turn against this country, in con- was not so. And why? Because in nine cases out sequence of too great an importation of silk, or wool, of ten the crops of the tenant-farmer did not reach farmers are ignorant men." Then why should or cotton, or other such articles, it would be very the average price. The generality of farmers, he was they blame them for being ignorant when easy to contract our consumption, and by that means sorry to say, were needy. They had nothing to fall the pressure of high rents was the -cause ? The the evil would very soon become rectified. But, if back upon. They must sell at all risks to meet pre- gentleman who had just sat down had, with great bad harvests should come, a great amount of the sent emergencies. In short, the corn must be sold propriety and feeling, alluded to the mode by which .bullion would of necessity go out of the country, and as soon as thrashed. The consequence of this gene- the landlords contrived to extend their political influ a coresponding sacrifice in the exchanges and upon ral necessity , was, that between Michaelmas and ence, not only at the expense of the farmer's pocket, other commodities would ensue. Therefore, he con- Christmas there was a glut of corn in the market. but of his conscience also. Why should the British farmer be the slave of the British landlord ?—(Loud tended that, if there was a tendency upon the part of In these three months the prices were lowered; then the exchanges to turn against us, it must, of neces- in the six months which intervened between cries of "Hear, hear.") Was he not a freeman, and sity, arise from bad harvests, for there were no means Christmas and the period at which the harvest should he not possess the dearest privilege of a of guarding against such calamities. He was sup. arrived at maturity, only those farmers who had freeman—voting according to his conscience ? But ported in this opinion by all experience, for there had capital enough to meet the pressing emergencies of at present he was obliged to act like a slave. The fiequently been similar derangements. In 1838 there the harvest season were enabled to keep their corn farmer, like a mercantile man, entered into a contract was a deficient harvest, succeeded by another deficient over for high prices.—(Hear, hear.) There were with the landlord for a certain number of acres at a harvest in 1839. In 1839 the Bank had 9,000,0001. some farmers in the neighbourhood in which he re- certain rent, and when he fulfilled that contract, the of bullion in its coffers. During the whole of that sided (but they were not numerous) whose means landlord should have n 3 further claim upon him. He year they were obliged to import corn. They had no enabled them to keep the wheat produce of their could not conceive a more degraded position than that alternative ; they were compelled, necessitated to do farms over from one year to the other. of a landlord who forced a tenant to vote against so; and before the end of the year not a particle But these men had assured him that such was the his conscience in support of a system which of bullion was left in the coffers of the Bank, uncertainty and fluctuation of the corn market, was injurious to botear, hear, and cheers.) and they found themselves in a position that somehow or another they had been generally He cared not whether they wore a ducal coronet , Hof being obliged to borrow 2,500,0001. from the Bank losers, and fared worse than those who had been any other badge of high distinction. An accident of France.—(Cheers.) Regulations in the currency, obliged to sell their corn within the year. The po- might have thrown that coronet in his way, or he therefore, he contended, depended upon the necessity sition of the landlords was by_ no means enviable. It might have been born to it, and, therefore, have not of importing corn when they had a deficient harvest. was the natural desire of mankind to maintain a cre- gained it by any merit of his own—(Cheers)—or it Now, the measure which Sir R. Peel proposed was Bitable character with their fellow-creatures, but he might happen that amongst his ancestry there might this, that upon a turn in the exchanges, the currency was sorry to say the proceedings of this body did not have been sycophants who courted Royal favour by should immediately be contracted, to suspend the entitle them to be regarded in a very favourable bowing and cringing, or, perhaps, by deeds of their ,efflux of bullion, in order to make goods go out in- point of view, and the day would come when they own they might have shown that high talent which stead. Now, by this arrangement, the commercial would look back upon their conduct with feelings of elevated their family, and with honour ; but community would have to sacrifice their interests just shame.—(Loud cries of " Hear.") Again, he felt then they hurled themselves one and all from as much as under the old system. Let it be under- bound to say, and he said it with equal regret and this high pinnacle the moment they attempted to stood that he was not complaining of the measure of sincerity, that the corn-laws had been productive, of fetter the minds, opinions, and convictions of the peo. Sir R. Peel. It proceeded on a just principle, as far most calamitous results.—(Hear.) At the present mo- ple.—(Cheers.) It had en shown that the land au it went ; but _what he said was, it did not go to the meat the great bulk of the farmers were paying lords were deeply interested be nt he maintenance of the root of the evil, which it pretended to cure. Now rack-rents. Those who had capital were paying those present system. It was possible that reasons might be (Mr. Wilson) wished to call the attention of the rents out of it, and those who had not, were in a de- be adduced to prove that it Would be against their in merchant and the broker of Liverpool at this particu- plorable condition. These were facts that might be terest if this country were to became a manufacturing ear moment, and the merchant in London, the menu- relied upon. His knowledge of them was derived community; and that reason was, the aristocracy and facturer, shopkeeper, and trader of every class—the from sad experience. Those farmers who had not the squirearchy could not wield the franchise of the manu farmer, the landlords themselves, and the labouring command of capital were, as had been told them , by fa,cturers as they did that of the farmers; they could population above all, to what must be the conse- Mr. Summers, in a condition bordering upon insol- not drive the former to the poll, as they did the quences of this law, if stringently carried into effect vency. Mr. Summers' speech had been received with latter. Neither had they that threat to hold over them in the case of a deficient harvest. - Now, suppose a astonishment in the neighbourhood from where he in terrorem of granting no leases, serving ejectment., deficient harvest was to take place, as in the year (Mr. Turner) came, but he now came forward to cor- or driving them from their houses if they opposed them 1838—as no one could say that it would not—sup- roborate the statement of Mr. Summers.--(Hear.) at an election. If the landlords could just ash, well pose they were obliged to import a quantity of foreign The farm labourers, too, were in a most depressed drive one class to the hustings as the other, he corn, so as to cause the exchanges to turn against this condition ; they were in the most abject misery that doubted much whether they would set themselves so country, the Bank of England would be called upon it was possible for man to conceive. To picture to strongly against the manufacturers, or retain their at for a million of bullion, and then would arise a neces- them faithfully and truly the condition of these men, tachrnent so exclusively in favour of the farmers. The sity for contracting the currency by two millions of would be a task as gainful to his own feelings as it manufacturers were rather an unwieldy political notes. The Bank would cease to discount bills ; they would be harrowing to the feelings of those material, and the country gentlemen, well knowing would sell out their securities until they got in the who heard them. He was sure those who this fact, were unwilling to run the risk of letting go two millions of notes ; and the consequence of that listened to him, notwithstanding all that had their political grasp upon the. farmers, because they and measure would be, that the commercial portion of the been said about he national dislike entertained by the monopolists well knew that they could not regain community would be anxious to effect sales of their artisans towards agricultural labourers, would sym- it upon the manufacturers.—(Lowl cheers.) The variouec9mModitfe's,. and no buyers would be found. pathise deeply in the condition of those unhappy men. landlords were interested in this change, but not - There woold bean immediate, rapid, and sudden de- He had been frequently asked by his brother farmers withstanding the system could', not go on. They preciation in the,value of property. There would be if free trade would benefit them, and if there was any all had seen many changes during the last century. a sudden depreei4ion. in the value of all the manufac- probability of free trade benefiting their condition. They had also seen some changes within the last two ture,s of ,the country, and a sudden depreciation in the He had always told them that he believed free trade or three years, during which they found certain gen value 4 raw materials. Ruin, in consequence, would would benefit their condition ; and he felt convinced tlemen—Tories, and Ministers, too—coming forward come : upon the merchant, who, expecting a cargo of that it would do so. These men were now suffering to plead the cause of the poor black man, whom the cotton from America, had accepted bills to the full under severe privations, and he could not conceive people of England set free in spite of th,tio in value and amount of the cargo. What would how, by any possibility, they could be placed in a veigh against the system of Slayery. t in . general. be the situation of the merchant connected worse condition than they were.—(Hear, hear.) The Those charitable gentlemen sand if you; - set the with the East Indies, who, expecting a cargo fact was, these tenant-farmers were, for the most part, slaves free the consequence will be'that they all'ximst from Bombay, had accepted bills to the full uneducated men. They had been unaccustomed to perish. No person could have any- idee •-bf the inis; amount, when he found that the cargo, on its arrival, habits of thinking, and looked only to present chief which would be likely, - to. ensue - if - the slaves: was - depreciated. in value upwards of 25 per cent.? circumstances and their immediate results.— were to be emancipated. ANT therefore those gen-. A„depreciation in Se . value of manufactures also must - (Hear, hear.) But the Anti-Corn-law League tlenien at that time resisted 'every attempt to set of necessity ensue, and that depreciation in value had done much towards disseminating knowledge the slaves free. Now, they were still connected w ould ultimately reach agricultural produce. ,He did among them, and through the tracts circulated by that by the most kindly feeling towards theta' 'and- not mean to say that this would be the immediate useful body, they now began to believe that they anxious that nothing should occur which would be. effect of the measure which had been brought forward were in a position to compete with any of the corn likely to improve them, and consequently they took. by Sir Robert Peel. lie would, however, say this, growers of any other country in the world.--(Hear, them up, as they had m, up the farmers, and would allow no sugar to come in, except that rowan by free he hiped would cure fluctuations—a measure which; whether there were more mouths to eat than there was blacks.—(Laughter.) Query—was this kindness at he hoped, would secure the interests of trade, manu- corn to be had in this country ? Whether the pro- all manifested on account of the West Indian inte factures, and the working population—which would duce of this country was equal to the consumption of rests ?—(Cheers.) Well then, after the voice of the prevent a sudden depression and a sudden crisis— its inhabitants? It was apparent that such was not the country and humanity had been elevated so often and how a Minister of this country could propose a mea- case. Then was it not necessary to import corn from loudly against the vile system of slavery, those sure of that kind with such an object, and retain abroad? How was the surplus to be produced? philanthropic gentlemen became at length convinced the sliding-scale, and the corn-law at the bottom Must it not come from foreign countries? Some of that it was the voice of God and natur4, and they of all, he could not imagine.—(Loud cheers.) the farmers who opposed the repeal of the corn - laws ceded the freedom of the slave—by purchase. After The country could never be in a prosperous state thought that if there were a free trade in corn it would yielding to all those circumstances—circumstances while there was no regular trade in corn.—(Cheers.) flow into this country like, water in the river, forced upon them—they have found those very same It was b ecause t h ey h a d no t a regular and uniform without obstruction, and ' superabundant. These gentlemen coming forward to take up the part of the trade in corn that frequent derangements of the cur- people seemed to forget that, in this country atleast, freemen. But what were they to say to such hypo rency occurred. Th e gre atest amount of corn that there was an expense of 6/. or 71 . in cultivating an crisy as thii ? After - the Niger expedition, at a had ever been at one time in stock in this country acre of wheat. They did not calculate that it would. public meeting he chanced to be sitting next to Sir was six hundredquarters It. Peel—a strange • • only, about sufficient for cost anything at all abroad. They appeared to be- comcidence—(Laughter)—but eight days' ,consumption . The dealers in other corn- litre that corn grew in foreign countries spouts- still no secrets passed between them—(Renewed modifies could not carry on their business unless they neously, and that it could be picked up on the banks laughter)—so therefore he had no ministerial secrets bad sufficient fa- ten to reveal to the ireetin or twelve months' consumption of the rivers, without cultivation. If these men read . • g. But the Right Hon. Ba in their warehouses.—(H earhear.) A•ow, he had and considered for themselves, they would soon think ronet got up upon that occasion ; and to show that a no doubt that in the first Week that the measure of differently. In the report made by Mr. Meek, in sense of b shame was sometimes it in all Sir R. Peel came into operation—he meant the first 1841, as to the capacities of the different corn-growing minds, egan by saying that it was incumbent week in which its operation would be felt—which countries, the only country in which the cultivation who were not ' upon those would be, probably, in two years time , when ane of the soil was particularly , cheap, and from which to come forward and speak on behalf of the injured arise for African.. There must have been a twitch of conscience cessity should a counteraction df the cur • competition might be most dreaded, was Polish Prussia, i rency—he had not the least doubt that in and in Polish Prussia there were bad roads, no canals, . which affected the Right Hon. Gentleman. Now he that first week the merchants of . London railroads , Rev. Mr Burnett ) believed that if there was any and no and, in short, the expenses of carriage, (the • ex- Liverpool would lose more largely than the and the freight and other expenses of transmission to one monopolising interest concerned in this Niger A • huge sum which the Anti-Corn-law League ' this country, would leave the English farmer little to pedition, it would have kept that wily gentleman had this year collected, for the purpose of doing away ' dread.. Now in the Channel Islands, free trade prin- away from speaking one word in favour of the African. with the nuisance of the corn-laws.— (Cheers.) I t . ciples had been tested. In these places corn had been He would tell the meeting, therefore, to take comfort would' be well for the merchant to look to this —aye, I imported free of duty, yet home-grown corn had from this : they had one who, was sensible to the in it would be well for the landlords themselves to look I averaged 475. per quarter for the last seven years, 1 fluence of shame, and who, although steeled against to it. The Duke of Richmond had complained of his i which ' - circumstance clearly proved that corn would - many things, was not yet made of steel, and this That not losing 2,000/. a year on his salmon fisheries. i descend to so low a price as had been anticipated. showed they, by perseverance, would be crowned with Noble Duke attributed the loss to the, tariff.. It,l Then there was another great argument in favour of success. What did the aristocracy mean by pressing arose from no such cause, but from the diminished free trade principles—reciprocity of dealings, mutual their opposition so long? Did they intend to set the under the , intercourse, and extended 'people, for, connexion—he would not different classes of societ y at vari powers of consumption in the ance with each tariff, about 2001bs. only of foreign salmon had been . say with foreigners, he dislik e d th e wor d "f ore i gners ," other, and tell them that if one prospered the o the r imported. Why did they hear of fift een and . twenty ! but with their neighbours abroad.—(Loud and - pro must necessarily decay? Did they mean' to tell cent. having been returned last year u p on the I.traded cheering.) lie felt perfectly convinced that their respected Chairma n, t h a t if he succeeded, Mr. arm-rents a The simple reason was, that the! if We imported their corn, they would import our mer- Turner, who favoured them with his enlightened In fact, Mr . Gladstone power o f consumption in the people had chandise. _ . had already ad- views upon the operation of the corn-laws that even diminished. This was not, therefore, a merchant's ! mitted so much in the debate upon the tariff, ing, must be reduced to poverty ? Did those pro question on l y . It was a l an downer's question as well When the question of importation of cattle was in- phets mean to asser that if the one class were to a merchant's question, for the two interests were troduced, the answer to that proposition by the succeed the other should d 9 Such go own .an asser bound • d* 1 b m isso u l together. And he had no doubt , country gentlemen was that an exceeding loss would tion was most ridiculous. If those persons meant to that if the landlordsthe farmers. Now he (Mr. Turner) themselves were to consider, the ,be inflicted upon say that manufactures were to go down, he question calmly,and with out said that, if we were to import cattle from abroad, (the prejudice that the . Rev. Mr. Burnett) would tell them that he would sea that' the labours • v y we should export manufactures in proportion. Thi s would rather see or s the Anti-Corn-lawthe Whole face of England League were oil directed established, an admitted covered with y towards the general in- I appeared to him to be an manufacturing shops, without an terests of the whole - _ communit y---(Cheers.) • fact. He would not bare appeared among them acre of tillage, .and England supplying the world operation not only upon parochial 1 with the result of her industry, than that manufactures , SPIRIT of PUBLIC . 1 OURNALS: {would have, a beneficial . „ should be stopped for one year.—(Cheers.) In say- i FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. 1 authorities in general, who adopted the practice complained , but on those of Hackney in particular. It appeared froin MARKET NEWS—YESTERDAY. COZEN-EXCHaNGE. We had only a moderate supply of English the prisoner's statement, that lie had formerl - been eiwated : Although ing this he should also state that he should like to STANDARD.—There is something not altogether . °I; in an extensive way of , business and had fo )' • l'i•Fbl period maintained his wife and ' familythe demand_ was tolerably steady, at full prices. la . : reiga see the farmers prospering, because he knew that the satisfactory in the story of Mr. Gray's dismissal, alluded in comfortra eonsi , c in ed, re. ? ' Wheat more business was doing, and Monday's izza - V: interests of both classes of the community were mu • to lest night by Lord Norinanby, though we think that ' speetabilitv, but.had since, from unforeseen causes, become Isaurpopeorttrial. the iniports of foreign ..liarleyrtet.2. rf.,_ tually dependent on each other. The course of : the dismissal cannot be denied to have been proper and barley , trade . _ was s i teady,,at , full prices. _ _i , h , 2 _,_- l ai_: . even necessary. •• The story is this—a person named greatly- reduced in his circumstances, and frequently with- ' events showed that if the farmers and agricultural - ' • trade au inactive, e, at late ra.es. oa,s,lisans,audi easig'sy Osborne was seized in the act o f offering for sale out the means of obtaining food for his wife and family population did not join the League in their efforts : the turn higher. some seditious ballads in the town of Kilkenny ; he was that while in that state he applied to the guardians . • i t . for free trade they would become the laughing- convicted before Mr. Gray, a stipendiary magistrate, Hackney parish fur relief, who, after giving him some brew?, stock of all civilised nations.—(Hear, hear.) aria, in default of bail, committed for trial at the assizes, sent hint to break stones, and told hint not to apply to If any one entered the mansions of the aristocracy would loss, however, with the purpose of punishing h i m than them again, and that was all the assistance they extended to t , '\ ~. ,• . a hils they not find all the luxuries and comforts which were to secure his evidence against the primer of the ballads, a man who, with his family, was in a state of starvation, the production of manufacturing ingenuity and indus- one Moran. Mr. Gray. probably comeassionatieg Os- .. i s l i a l i a j t ee l o en i g a tl s i va ir o i t a of filt t. of i dr r pen t s i tion, a d fter h h i e and his family pleaded guilty. tunatelv led to the commission i:sio a n of the offence a*fiohwehNiVea: he enfhoard try ? But what evidence was there of the slightest aid, borne's condition, wrote to the. Government to solicit so far as the surrounding objects went, of agricul. the man's release, intimating that that indulgence He (the Chairman) hoped that the publiea would not x deprive the Crown of his evidence tam of ture ? But they said they did not want independencethis case would induce parochial officers to act with of manufactures; what they wanted was protection against Moran. The application appears to have a greater degree of mercy and consideration towards those been . answered by a gentleman i named Brewster, unfortunate persons who were compelled to seek for assist for agriculture. Why, protection for agriculture who in Dublin Castle occupies an inexplicable, rrespon- ff ante at their hands. meant nothing more nor less than protection for the sible, and not very constitutional, office, long familar to iA juryman said he could confirm the truth of the prisoner's landlords. \t as corn the only thing that would not Ireland, though we have happily nothing like it in this statement, that it was the custom of the officers of Hackney find its level ? ,Through all parts of the court- country—we' 11 it " A • -C eneral of the back may ca ttoiney parish to send persons like him, who applied to them for re try did Heaven bestow equal blessings; the light stairs.' Mr. Brewster, in his answer, declined to liberate i i ef i l l o e the stOne-yard. shone, and the rain fell, equally fur the just Osborne, intimating at the same time an opinion, that far con ( .4 - r i n k :i t3 tillaNsta9tkeimileeilvaofg g h lad that the juryman had so and the unjust ; but if the food was to be sluiced up other sufficient evidence against Moran might be easily portion of his statement statement u e n r m is e on t v e ; police., who. any like the waters, and prevented front a free current, he obtained. Such intimationsfroin official superiors, written ample Opportunities of making inquiries about P I * ;im, Wou ' ld thought the landlords of England would he answer- lon official paper and sealed with official seals, are always have contradicted it.. able for the evil consequences. He wotild say to the read as commands, and very peremptory commands too. The policeman who apprehended the prisoner here said, the re- that such inquiries had been made, the • Mr. Gray accordingly set to wo: k to (steam ... and statement of the meeting that by their attendance there that night a lured evidence against Moran only 0 - onia• so much pusolier found to be true in every particular He had arted they had manifested their determination to carry this 1 -1 . Mr. , ' rive'" c'.• ,• . ~. ! with every Veefiee'df.bis furniture * • . 1) , and he and his wife and urther than Brewster. as to specific rues . , great measure, and shown an example to all thechildren non'onterstenta on bare boards, but had not a morsel tions to a oliceman how "to do the trick"— i . . se fit iql. , nations of the earth. They should not tire in the namely, by P going to Moran's in disguise, and • toe at. . • --- truly great and good work, the consumation of \Shia trying to purchase the song from him, the police- wril:theeii I)T ro?J it ditio ' . here- h 7 Shid, that onEheing informed of the would open the prairies of America to England as a man being at the same time fuersished with a mane- i ishii . i cc ,:t e o Eostu a w o i Lt . t e h i e. nis r o so ne e r eti a t tl o d n hil in family-, so far from granary, and make the poor happy and the indepen- script copy of the song, to prevent mistakes. The d rop 4:. it, butvasinforined that p he could. not d ' o vas so a* . nxTihoues rtio• dent more so. People were each day becoming more policeman set out upon his mission, but, it is asserted, senor had been iriSrespeetable circumstances, had always borne P enlightened; mind met mind ; a new world of ideas improved so much upon his instructions as to Intee . the .a, ; good- character a and, therefore he most earnestly recom had been created, and the consequent religious, poll- song printed from his own manuscript ;eltus, in feet s - ent - mended hint to the merciful consideration of the Court. tical, and historical power would be found sufficiently ploying the printer to commit the offence fur which it -The prisoner said that since he had been in custody several sought to punish him. The progress of ersoe in the charitable individuals, who . had known him when in better strong to put down all the monopolies which now pre- wa. s . business reminds one of the growth of the balser'e" leg of circurnStanCes;'haefkiffilly offeredto give him employment as veiled. The present was not the time when rude masses soon as he obtained his liberty. mutton ; he buys a ver little leg of mutt6a,''substi of uncultivated and ignorant linen would rise 'together, tutes that for the smallest y sent to his oven, sttbsti.e . ' :The Cifeineette after some' further observations upon the influenced by passion and violence, to commit inju- tutes that in turn for the next in size, and so prOceeds t casenseute ec need he prisoner to be confined in the House of ries upon their fellow men, involving combine - upward, until the largest and best joint sent by any 1 one e rr we t en weep. , and there kept to hard labour, for the space *of tions in crime.—(Cheers.) For his .own part, he c us tomer, remains for the last, and to that the honest Another' still more g distressi • e was afterwards tried, in would not address such an assembly—the present was baker sits down with his family. So it was M r . Bre w- which an old man , ' aged sixty-four, ils named John Goodwin , not such an assembly.- - (Cheers.) But men wanted ster's hinted demand of evidence to be obtained was Was convicted of stealing a knife , value one shilling , and who to be taught, and these meetings were held for the a little wrong, though questionless it was wrong ; had been subjected to similar treatment by the officers of the purpose of teaching them.—(Cheers.) Let it be Mr. Gray's suggestion of a disguise and of a de- Lambeth Union, and who having been turned out of the remembered that those who wanted to maintain the mend was a greater wrong, not, however, much workhouse wandered siviai,enhdehr:d was unable f h r i o e n day to day in search of em com-lavvi had lost the monster monopoly:- of know- if re a tt i t L er ; H t o h w e ev p er ol i l c v eemm an a ' s s t lt r il o l ce t e li i t i i r k ig thatw a s A t i h r e B w r zs t I? ' Y from town to town, at w. length,a in a o fi b t t o ar de a s n p d er l a i t a i s o -i n n , a o s o w in -a in lk i e t d ledge.---4 Great cheering.) They bad lost also the - ted the offence of which lie was convicted. He was sentenced ster ought to have , foreseen the necessary effect of his monopoly of the knowledge of moral power e and hint. There is but one Safe and honourable course for a to a month's imprisonment, the Chairman promising to havingpro monopoly lost that, they -had ' lost the only cure his re-admission to Lambeth workhouse when the term Government officer such matters, Government or a monopoly which would have secured in that is, never, except in very grave cases indeed, to look perpetuity all other monopolies.—(Cheers.) The days for evidence. What is offered take, and that which is when wily politicians could wield the condition of a exhibited in the street orin a shop window is offered ; nation had gone by—the days of heroes, of warriors, but even a simple demand of a thing not offered for sale and fights had gone by—the days of the quarrels of is, in case the sale be a crime, a prompting to commit a nations had gone by—(Cheers)—the days of peace crime ; and he who, from any motive, prompts to any had come—(Cheers)—and the nations of the civilised crime is not free from guilt. GLOBE.—Ministers come with flying colours out of world looked to each other. France looked to the factory discussion; and deserve, as it appears to us, England— (Cheers)—England looked to France • ' great credit for the attitude they assumed. Whatever and even Spain was beginning to see that evils were party may rule.us, we do hope to see followed by those evils, and good was goo l.—(Cheers.) They were on whom rests the practical responsibility of administer looking to the beneficial results of good government, ing affairs, this example of resisting momentary pressure, and not to those transactions which had been a when they do not believe it backed by the sense scourge to countries, and only enabled those who of the country. What a premium on the nonsense scourged them to prey upon the ruins they had of the country, if this is not dared ? It would hence made.—(Great cheering, amid which the Rev. Gen- forth be matter of calculation what expenditure of tleman retired.) I' enormous lying' what staff of disreputable delegates The CHAIRMAN then announced that another —what organs, auricular and oral, of credulous Lords, meeting of the League would take place there next with feeble-humane ambition—what numerical force of Wroneheads of Old, and utter Addleheads of Young Wednesday. It might, also, be as well that he England—whatb'f'broadsides ofthe Times series . . o neck-or-nothing .. should:state that it was not likely these meetings with articles-in-aid from the Northern would be continued for a much longer period, in Star—would be required to carry any given project of consequence of the necessity of commencing the mob tyranny. We thank Ministers for a first resistance arrangements for the bazaar that was to be held in to the most senseless of all regimens. We thank them for that building.—(Cheers.) showing that the shallow frailty of a Commons' ma- The vast assemblage then dissolved after giving jority may disgrace incif—but not rule England. nine cheers for the League. Sir Robert Peel has carried a victory scarce less damaging to the prestige of power and principle in the House of Commons than Lord Grey carried over the Lords in May, 1832. Mr. Milnes anticipated (from an opposite course) that " the people would repose in that House such confidence as had never been reposed in it since the time of the Reform Bill." There is a little mistake in this: The Tory Minister has forced the Commons to eat the same humble-pie which the Whig Minister forced the Lords to eat on the former occasion. He has forced them to stay away from the division, if they were not ready to vote at his bidding. It is difficult to conceive a greater humiliation to any set of men. But—" On ne meurt pas de cela, comme vous savez, Mesdames !"—as the Frenchman said to another set of virtues. It has been much questioned whether the Minister has a right to impose this humiliation on Isis fol lowers. Now we hold that, in such cases, the right to do so is proved satisfactorily by the power. Whatever humilia tion an assembly %till submit to, it feels its due. We hope no hollow vote will escape a similar self-expos sure. We hope no Minister will fail to act on a similar confidence that pretexts are not realities. The Reform Bill would have been a great cala mity, if every piece of paltry competition between parties for momentary popularity were thenceforth to be embodied in Acts of Parliament. If Ministers cannot, since that era, prevent such votes being given, they must stake continuance in office on their being reversed. They have done so in this case successfully; and have set a good example (at no great risk to be sure to themselves) in what manner a vote of the House of Commons should hence forth be treated, when it is backed no better than by a pressure from without, worth, so little as in this case. How little that pressure was worth was shown to Mr. Ward and Mr. Bright ; and if the facts which the latter Member stated cannot be contradicted, we cannot conceive what leg the short time agitation has left to stand upon. It may be asked, if this measure is not de manded by the operatives themselves, when it is prac tically put to them, by whom then is it demanded, and what is the source of the loud cry that has been raised ? In answer to this question, we may say that it cannot be doubted that many working men, in arid out of mills (a large proportion, perhaps, out of them), believe that law can fix the minimum of wages, as well as the maxi mum of work—and that employment will be extended by curtailing the time and products of labour. But what is not so well known is the length of time a small k' of of persons, assuming the function of trades' dele gates, and living by the agitation they can keep up, have been employed in propagating the most extravagant notions on these subjects. Oats. I Flour - • 2,200 qrs. :2,900 sacks 25,800 1,700 Wh eat. 4,600 qra ARRIVALS. 1 Barky. 21:0 qrs 21 20,300 Malt, 3,61:0 tits mtr:, , ,Errzenarzi.. The demand or all kinds of meat, v;aB in a very sluge:t f state, at barely stationary prices :—Beef, from 28 2d to 3s * 4 4,; Mutton, 2s - 6d to 38 6d ; Lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 1 0 d; . . l e . - f a i' , 3s 4d to 4s 6d; and Pork, 2s 4d to 4s 2d per Sibs. by I . e carcase. English Irish Foreign. 9,80 STATE . OF TRADE. -. (From - the Manchester Gaardian of yesterday.) . The last arrivals from the United . ' States ha vin g brought intelligence of heavy receipts of cotton at ttie ports, and caused general belief that the total amorttlt of the crop will not fall short of two millions of bales; our market yesterday were somewhat depressed, es?' daily for yarn; which, in some cases, was sold at ratter lower,prices than last week, though there is. still .a.fair arLourxt of business doing.• ManufaCtured goods were' in rathc.47f . tess demand than last week, but there - was - 110 change in prices. Indeed, the manufacturers of inr fabricinre so generally engaged that no anxiety to /04:'-e sales is manife;ted. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, .MONDAY, MAY 13. We • have-had an improved .demand for flannels to-dqi and rather m.ore business has been- transacted. bute 4 i very low prices. There is very little change in the •p 0 market; the manufacturer - manifests no disposition :tv purchase beyond what is.required for immediate use. ROYAL ASIATIC SOClETY.—The . anniversary Me et ,: ing wee, held on Saturday, at the rooms in Grafton - AI .- pee d the Right lion. the Earl of Auckland, late Governor-Gea r . of India, President, in the chair. The report of the cou ncil gave a gratifying account of the Society's proceeding; which had been conducted without trenching upon' accumulated funds. Much stress was laid upon the d e d. ableness of obtaining public apartments free of expense , a n er for the Society to enjoy the same advantages as of h , public scientific societies. Amongst the, losses which the ciety had experienced by death was the Hon. J. R. MI, 0 son, interpreter to the English Government in China Hon. G. Tumour, late in her Majesty's civil service in '" 1 0 - 1 lon ; Dr. Rossellini, the celebrated Egyptian antiquar o o Pisa, &c. The progress made by the Oriental Trap r te Fund was stated as very satisfactory, several new '' . j -h r having been added to the list, amongst which was the bistan, an account from an old Persian author of all religiolll,. and creeds. This, which was considered a remarkable w, ' ° ,fig, is published in three vols. Bvo. A second donation of j, towards the objects of the Society, was announced V° e a Alexander, Esq. The Eail of Auckland was re..eleet president, and the various vice-presidents and officers l appointed. CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Tuesday afternoo n T. Wakle% , M.P., Coroner, held an inquest in one of the Ty. lours of Mr. Ives; Ivy-cottage, Ealing-common, Middle 49 on the body of Mr. Edward William Percy Sinnett, aged 9, years. The deceased gentleman, who resided at Sa; he Ehrenburg-place, Regent's-part, had, it appears, for ,a last twelve months been labouring under consumption, w'r, had latterly been persuaded to abstain from active el. e tel tion, and especially from night employment as the 10 ' i d, of the Parliamentary summary for the Morning Heraed For the last three days of his life he had comp l a ir 'a greatly of a giddiness in his head, and a few rninutes at s , his leaving the train, the station being but a short to tance from Ivy Cottage, he was seen by Mrs. Wa it , approach the house in a staggering m anner. door was opened to him by Mr. Ives, jun., and, on Do f e tering, Mrs. Ives said to the deceased, " eil, Sir, you l come back again." The deceased smiled and bowed , 0 went up stairs, but he did not speak. Within ten n o d afterwards the deceased's sister-in-law called Mrs. Ives , .„ ( 1, asked her to procure some water, which that lady did; 1 7, b , on taking it into the room in which deceased was, she wo served that deceased looked very black in the face. 1 1 ° t immediately laid on Johnson, sofa, and Mr. a surgeon , l for, who promptly attended and bled him ; but human was of no avail. The deceased had been seized with an tack of venous apoplexy, after which he never spoke, anlbs pired about a quarter to nine o'clock the same evening. • o al jury returned a verdict of " Natural death from o ' l . l apoplexy." BRUTAL ACT OF CRUELTY TO A y ti co ORDINARY DECISION OF A MAGISTRATE.—On TneSdaY,t So , men of decent appearance, named William Smith , a' o i 76, Salisbury-street, Portman-market, St. Marylebone, ker. Richard Jeffs, of No. 13 David-street, York-place, 13 1 , of street, Portman-square, were brought up in the cut the police before the Rev. Dr. Walmesley, the sittinci gistrate at New Brentford, charged with having s",l aj ar and maliciously killed a lamb, the property of a P` f tw ie named George, at Hanger-hill, Ealing. It appeared the evidence that, about half-past four o'clock that inor!'„'ivg as Edmund George, a son of the farmer, was a 1 , 111 " . ,or the sheep, several of which had lambs, he saw th e .„ 6io soners come into the field, and Smith go up to the la '" 0 0 question, and strike it violently in a most brutal niannejtajo the head six or seven times, with the thick hedge : T i t o, produced. The lamb staggered backwards into a, on er 3 where it immediately fell down and died. The prl s T a r instantly made the best of their way in the direction 01,'"a row, and the boy ran and awoke Ms father, who 'noun es pony, and proceeded in pursuit of them. At Alpe% TI procured the assistance of police constable O'Nei l, t eel who accompanied him along the harrow-road until o , r overtook them, and conveyed them back to the stl.o_4, house at Ealing. The prisoners said they had been arwool ing until between three and four o'clock at a raffle , 't, then made up their minds to walk to Preston, near lio; to sober themselves, and Smith declared That, while p 55 through the field in question, his dog flew at the lainh , „ o b while knocking him off; be 'unfortunately struck the " 0 1 and killed it. The magistrate considered there was no p ig that the act was a malicious one, and, therefore ordered ' P cea to pay the value of the lamb, twelve shillings, with s e , shillings costs, or fourteen days, and Jeffs was discbarge;kbe THE SUSPECTED MURDER NEAR WINDSOR. --- mystery connected with the discovery a few mornings abet a woman's bonnet, cap, shawl, a front of false hair, and articles of attire, which were found in a field at Sar le Y'L ` d near Windsor, has been cleared up, by the pr o o lio' being claimed of the Superintendent of the Windsor p roc e by a respectable woman, named Pratt, the wife of a fs,,cie who lives at Maidenhead-thicket. Under the full CO' tion that a murder had bees committed, and, from the 0 proximity of the field in which the articles were W i r i f er , the Thames, that the body had been thrown him the, , the water was dragged for a considerable distance 1 0 0 order of the local authorities. The tale told by Mrs' to tiO, to Mr. Gillman, the Superintendent of the police, wa s m e effect :—She was returning across the fields to her ha s oca Maidenhead, in the evening of Saturday se'nnigh t ef o tee t she was knocked down by a man, who gave her 3 blow in the face, blackening her eyes. She ran one l ., o , and her assailant ran off another, and she saw no 0 :4 $ c him. She then ran her head into a hedge, and thus -" Sh counnted for being deprived of her cap and false curls:tred, fell down in a fright, fainted away, and did not reccnia ea:; , senses until the middle of the night, when she a wc i.e fancied she was in her own orchard. She then made wool! of her way to her own house, which she found she W 1 , 1! 01 0 further from than she expected, reaching home ear! 04* morning, when she missed her bonnet, cap, shawl, fsl' f and waistband. r, A SINGULAR COINCIDENCE. the r- - . 4 ar4 Harrow-on-the-Hill the offices of churchwarden, 4 : 1 : v Oa, vestry-clerk, parish clerk, sexton, and registrar of churchwarden deaths, are at the present time filled by five mernbersLcoil,l family, named Winkley. It is an old and respectable ,r 0,1). one or two of its members having uniformly held °P. the parish for upwards of a century. *lO [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A CURE THAT MUST aie per, THE WORLD, BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Mrs: . ing a small shop in Brick-lane, Spitalfields, badfelt ! , years suffered from piles, but more particu'er'Y r heto b ' l general and fearful bearing down of the body' h e bro lig, was conceived to be completely ruined, she Was -Aro ; almost to beggary, by doctors' bills ; when sh_ .0 6 7 5 CO P ,: menced the use of these miraculous pills, her frc a t i l eAl sidered her past cure, but in two months by the i 0 ;1 she was 'made as sound and as strong a wono n .,,, e ot) she was in her life. Sold (also Holloway's Ointr , (0 4 1 e,, Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Stranreree4 advice may be had gratis), and by almost 5 11 able Vendors of Medicines thro ug h ou t the " world. f 4'lr BIRTHS. cly o On the 11th inst at Kemp-town, Brighton, th e Is. J; William Follett, M.P., of a son. On the 11th inst., the wife of William Herbert ` Ar e, Esq., of The Hill, Laverstock, Wilts, of a son } L .Fci ti On the 11th inst., in Endsleigh-street, Ta vistec d' Mrs. W. Harmer, of a son. On the 11th inst., in St. James's-square, Box", o f J. W. Whittick, Esq., of a son. ~.se l ls On the 11th inst., at Guildford, Mrs. J• A° , ' tb° ° daughter. On the 12th inst., at Villa Etruria, St. Joa n lady of James M'Adam, Esq., of a son. as St ec , On the 12th inst., at Dulwich, the wife a Thorn , f 0 Esq., of a daughter. ; the On the 12th inst., in the Precincts, CanterbgrY, IA the Rev. G. Wallace, of- twin sons. 31 0 ' $ On the 12th inst., at Duncan-terrace, Isling ton ' of of a son. On the 12th inst., at Charlton, Mrs. Jolla o ,ll ' daughter. rtadalia On the 13th inst., the lady of Ramon del3e sta f* Esq., of a son. I On the 13th inst., at Southampton-stied, Fiord Mrs. William Humby, of a daughter. fa d, tot On the llth inst., the lady of G. W. Dun i/ Mornington-crescent, of a daughter. MARBLED. • dF ° ` On the 7th inst., at Streatham Church, Ed." . 3. Ilet c to Maria Elizabeth, eldest daughter m Fair Esq., of Hanover. square. Art" : a* On the Bth inst., at Frankfort-on-the-ruinertbane,, of Willia M.D., of Curzon-street, Mayfair, to Jessie,...t e ., ari d er a daughter of Lieutenant -Colonel Macdonald, U „ m r te On the 9th inst., at Walcot Church , Ba; f the la Cust, Esq., to Emma Matilda, only child o Chaplin, Esq. tb l DIED. B esi On the 7th inst., in the Close. Salisburn cl ea 'do wife of the Rev. W. L. Bowles, one of the Can on s _. bar ine, On the Bth inst., at Kensington-terrace! ;L%-"‘ of the late Rev. Dr. Rice, of St. Luke's, Finegsaribe• tb, s ei t o ci f On the 9th inst., at Tuntridge-wells,,ed Long LL-me daughter of the late Rev. R. Thomsen, tstr 1: all, Cambridge. On the 10th inst.,Norther°s.cl'e/tr of at Elm-grove, e 88th Reg an Da r ' Catherine, relict of Major Vowell, of th rue _ g rs . On the lth inst., at Bankstown, Shee • 54 11. /400 11 set' Corsindac, Aberdeenshire. On the 11th inst., at Bungay, Suffolk , _ ee „nt fvrir. d P e . v , o f the On the 11th inst. , at Richmond, n James Russell Deere, Vicar of Bures, On the sth inst., at G alwa y w o - s t r eet, UM' o Roberts, aged 90 . Th .i i eon, 44 , On the 10th inst., at Alfred-place, eat P .- wife of W. Langton, Esq• f th . On the 1 0 th inst. , in Gloucester-t_s!_eslee: ICePPm - sof. C. M. Bisset , wid ow of the late Dr...,ls'rdsugbter. On the 11 th inst. , So p hia, the eldest. T. Woodrooffe , He ctor of Calbourne,ltahlee late pZai-01Jew. On the 12 th inst. , Mar y , widow of t urg es, of the Hon. East. India Company' s gar LAW LiTEL.LIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, May 15. Sittings at the Guildhall, at Nisi Prius, before Lord DENMAN and a London Common Jury.) FERGHSSON V. CLAY WORTH AND WIFE. This was an action to recover damages for defamation of character. The defendant's wife kept a poulterer's shop, and the plaintiff's daughter havir.g gone in to make some purchases, was accused by defendant's wife of having stolen an egg. The defendant's wife fol lowed her out of the shop, and abused her in the street, telling the mob which had collected to witness the dis turbance, that the plaintiff got his living by robbing the public. The case having been proved on the part of the plaintiff, no witnesses being called for the defence, the jury found for plaintiff—Damages, 40s. Mr. Platt and Mr. Warren were for the plaintiff, and Mr. James for the defendant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. , A respectable young man of the Jewish persuasion, named David Symonds, was summoned before the Lord Mayor by a very sharp-looking hackney-coach driver, who called himself Alfred Marlams, No. 1,706, fur hav ing refused to pay for the hire of the said coach. The case attracted a crowd of fair auditors. PROMISSORY NOTES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. It appeared that the complainant having determined to leave the condition falsely called " single ilessedness," hired two carriages to convey the lady to whom he was to be united, and himse!f and a . few friends, to the syna gogue. Although abounding with bridegroom feelings, he did not forget that it would be prudent to make a bargain with the drivers, and a bargain he accordingly made. The ceremony having been performed, the happy pair and their friends returned to Mr. Symonds' house, and upon their arrival a demand was made which he did not consider he was bound to pay, as it exceeded the contract, and was, in his opinion, evidently made as a draw upon the weakness of his altered state. As love had not quite blihded him in the matter of his pocket, and as he entertained no idea of being swamped by a mere driver of a hackney-coach, he re solved to have the judgment of the Lord Mayor upon the subject, and the driver summoned him, in order to ob tain the just amount he claimed, and in the hope that the decision would operate as a warning to other people of the Jewish religion how necessary it was for them to behave honourably to the whip fraternity. The complainant said the Jew gentleman, wanting to get married, engaged him to take some of the party to the synagogue, and after the knot was tied, which occu pied them nearly two hours, refused to pay him more than half-a-crovoi, four shillings or four shillings and sixpence being his regular fare. It was in vain that assurances were made that the money paid was much below the sum which the law assigned, and the affair was the more vexatious, as the driver of another coach, in which others of the party were accommodated, received five shillings from the bridegroom. He (complainant) considered that he was very ill-treated in the whole business. Sin,----The hostility that is manifested in various quarters to the promissory notes of country bankers is really unac countable; one might suppose that they formed the only peccant part of our monetary system, and that to get rid of them would be to create universal order and harmony ; this opinion is certainly not entertained by persons who make use of them, and who observe their operation in the districts where,they circulate. Let it be observed that Bank of England notes are the circulation in all the great mercantile and manufacturing towns in the empire, so that bankers' notes are at least guilt less of the speculations and adventures that are carried on in these places ; in many of the agricultural districts, where the largest amount of promissory notes is kept in circulation, a bill of exchange is rarely seen. It would be worth while for Sir R. Peel to inquire what amount of bills is discounted an nually by ten of the banks returning the largest circulation ; if I were to form a conjecture, I should say that a larger amount is discounted in one week in Liverpool, than in one year by an agricultural note issuing bank. How, then, are these notes put into circulation? They have been called into action long ago, and they pass to and fro in the ordinary transactions of business, circulating the various commodities which the population require; the amount is adjusted to the wants of the people, and in every such district a much larger sum is deposited with the banker than is issued by him in the form of promissory notes; he has received from his neighbours their savings, and he has xeturned to them a part of the sum in his own notes, with which to carry on their operations. Now such a circulation, whatever theorists may say to the contrary, is based upon sound principles—princi ples as sound as any deduced from the state of the foreign exchanges. If the customer of such a bank, having 1,001. deposited, chooses to draw it out and build himself a house, does it make any difference whether the bricks are paid for in Bank of England notes or in the banker's own notes ; in either case the circulation is increased without any regard to the foreign exchanges; but Sir It. Peel complains that the notes of country bankers fluctuate with prices. No doubt if 1,000 quarters of wheat are sold at 80s. it will take one-third more money to transfer them than if they had been sold at 605.; but is any body to blame for this ? Sir R. Peel is moving on towards one bank of issue; and the sort of objec tions that are urged against the present system may teach us what we are to expect under the new one. Of one thing we may be certain, that the practice of allowing interest on deposits will undergo some alteration, and as the Chancellor of the ExChequer is -circumscribing the savings' banks, and reducing their rate of interest, the working classes and small farmers must find out some other investments, as bankers cannot afford to allow two-and-a-half and three per cent. if they are not to issue notes. The large amount of cash which they must keep by them to meet the daily demands will se riou.ly curtail their profits, more especially where they are at some distance fiom the place of supply.—l am, your Ob - dient servant, BANQUO. Newcastle, May 8, 1844. Sir Jt art PIRIE—I slould like to know whether you and the other coachman were engaged together ? Complainant—No, my Lord ; I knew nothing about him, only that he got five shillings, and I only got half a-crown, though I carried the bride and bridegroom. Sir JOHN PIRIE—WeII, what has the defendant to say ? Mr. Symonds said that the complainant and the other driver had agreed to take the bridal party to and from the synagogue for five shillings, after having tried to get six. Upon the return of the party home he put into the hands of the other coachman the five shillings to discharge the whole coach hire. They both appeared to be going, when the complainant suddenly returned and said they had not received enough, and began to make a noise about the premises ; and, to prevent any further annoyance, he (Symonds) threw the man half a-crown, and then both went away perfectly satisfied. It was not therefole without surprise that he received a summons calling for additional money. Sir .1. PIRIE—Have you got any witness to prove the contract ? MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS CITY, TUESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 12 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 45i ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 55, it follows that gold is 0.38 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 485 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10Id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 10; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 10, it follows that gold is the same price at Hamburgh and London. 'rhe course of exchange at New York on London is 1084 per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.83 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days sight, the interest must be deducted from he above difference. MORE HINTS TO MAKE HOME HAPPY. To WIVES.—Your first consideration before marriage was how to please your lover. Consider any such endeavour after marriage to be unnecessary and ridiculous ; and, by way of amends for your former lab - our, let your sole object be to please yourself. ,Be at no pains to look well of a morning. Along when it is cold. ." Taking the minutes ; come down to break htiaiilretourset, tiresome, snearlyten particularly break fast, therefore, in curl papers, also in a flannel dressing-gown, and, unless you expect callers, remain in deshabille all day. Husbands are nobodies, and comfort is to be studied hefore, appearance. But are you to neglect your attire alto gether? By no means. Indulge your taste in dress to the utmost. Be always buying something new : never mind the expense of it. Payments belong to husbands. If you see a shawl or bonnet in a window, order it. Should a silk or a a jewel, st r ik e y our f anc y ? p u rchase it muslin attract - your eye, desi re it t o b e sen t h ome: Does a husband is astonished at the bill, pout ; if f instantlye a t h e eater .. a . r b f a y n o (I ! r he remonstrates, cry. But do not spoil your finery by domes tic wear. Reserve it for promenades and parties. It is the -admiration of society that you should seek for, not your •husband's. Be constantly seeing tables, chairs, window cur tains, and other furniture which you like better than your own, and insist upon their being got. Want to get rid of • your old piano, and have a new one. If your husband keeps •a•earriage for you, desire a better ; if he does not, and can not afford it, complain. Whenever your desires exceed • his• means look unhappy, and hint how much more advan tageously you might have married. Never smile and hope for better things, but- make your husband feel as keenly as you can the inadequacy of his means to support you. Practise, however, a reasonable economy. Take every op portunity of_ making a cheap purchase, and when asked of what use it is, reply that is " a bargain." Enjoy ill health, be very nervous, and, in particular, subject to fits, which you are M fly into as often as your husband is unkind; that is, whenever -he reasons with you. Make the most of every little ache or pain, and insist upon having a fashionable phy sician. There is something very elegant in illness ; a pretti ness-in a delicate constitution; affect this attraction, if you have it not ; men admire it exceedingly. Put yourself un der no restraint in your husband's presence; sit, 1011, or lie, in just-what-way you like,_ looking only to the ease of the posture; not to -its grace. Leave niceties of conversation and sentiment to- the single ; never mind how you express your self; why should wives be particular? When your husband wishes to-read or be quietkeep chattering to him; the more frivolous -and uninteresting the•subject the better. If he is disposed for conversation. be dull and silent; and when ever you see that he is interested in what ,he is talking about, especially if he wishes you to 'attend'to him, keep Yawning. Them are two ways of discharging your house hold duties. If you are languid and listless, you may let them alone; if not ab:e, you should be continually turn ing the house topsy-turvy, under pretence of setting it to rights. You can -either let your servants do just as they please; or you may be continually in the kitchen, looking after them. In the latter case, scold them frequently, and in an audible voice, so as to be heard up-stairs. Never think of looking to your husband's shirt-buttons; leave that to the laundress; or, if you mutt attend to his linen, superintend Your washing in person, and have frequent water-parties; and, especially in winter, always have the clothes dried be fore the parlour fire. If your husband has to go out to a business dinner, or to the play, never let him h ave the latch key ; and should he, on any occasion, stay out late, send the servant to bed, sit up for him yourself, and make a merit of the sacrifice to " the wretch." Have a female confidant, who will instruct you in all the ill qualities of husbands generally, and will supply any deficiencies in the above hints. In conclusion, bear these grand principles in mind—that men must be crossed and thwarted continually, or they are sire to be tyrants—that a woman, to have her rights, must stand up for them—and that the behaviour - which won a man's affections is by no means necessary to preserve them. —Punch. Here a man stepped forward, who stated that he heard all the particulars of the agreement, and that the defendant had accurately described what had occurred. Sir J. PiniE—l see plainly how it is. The driver thought he had the• Jew upon the hop. It was a ma nceuvre between the two whips to do the bridegroom, but he has resisted the attempt. They thought that a Jew in such a situation was easily to be imposed upon, and that he would not stomach any question of his liberality; but he has very properly refused to submit. 'discharge the summons. Complainant—My Lord, I do assure you I knowed nothing of t'other driver. I hope you'll give me my ex penses at any rate. Sir J. PIRIE-I'll give you no satisfaction, except that of telling you that the complainant is discharged, and that you have failed to do the Jew as you -expected. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. SENTENCES AND SESSIONAL RESULTS. Subjoined are the principal sentences, 'as corrected at the termination of the session Sentenced to Die—W. Crouch, for murder. Transported for Seven Years—W. Holme, G. Holmes, G. Fowler, Mary Allen, J. Lawson, Emma Dennis, Harriet Wendover, Thomas Wendover, Ann Cranston, G. Fuller, G. Emery, J. Turner, W. Littleton, W. Curnell, T. Lucas, W. Smith, W. Feltham, W. Jacobs, J. Williams. For Ten Years—Catherine Green, W. Curlings, Sarah Euston, T. Sharpe, T. Renshawe, G. Thompson, J. Thomp son, T. Anson, Susan Doherty, G. Wettenhall, J. Coulwell, J. Sheffield, Sarah Niers, F. Ward, J. Honner, John Smith (19), John Smith (26), .'l'. Wilson, B. Hill, J. Williams, B. Bennett, - C. 9 Gill W. Kelley, T. Scott, J. Wood. . _ For Fifteen Years—MarY A. Jobbing, Roger Grady, Lawley, J. Sherburne, Mary Murray, Mary A. Brown. Imprisonment and Hard Labour—For Two Years—J. Wil• son, W. H. Goore. For Eighteen Months—H. M. Whitfield, B. Whitbread, G. Williams. For One Year—Susannah Richards, W. Mountain, T. Wil l. ams, W. Stephens, J. Rathbone, J. Scott, N. Critcheson, J. Secret, I'. Willis, T. Gray, J. Brown. For Nine Months—T. Smith, Catherine Bryant, C. Do nally, J. White. . ~ • - - For Six Months—R. Wood, E. Savage, Jane King, alias Hart, G. King, W. Cotton, Eliza Thompson, Elizabeth Monck,. M. Galvin, G. Greenand, A. Rose, G. ;Wright, G. Barn, J. White, Henry Fox, B. Morton, T. Jones, H. Harding. For Four Months—W. Phillips, Mary Newells, C. Wil liams, T. Jones, C. Hodges. For. Three Months—T. Nelmes, T. Sparkes, W. Sparkes, Charlotte Hodge, Eliza Skeggs, E. Lee, J. Harris, M. Welch, J. Lemas, J. Williams, G. 'l. Taylor, J. Townsend, G. Sam brook, .M. A. Payne, T. Jobbing, J. Long, T. Tayldr, J. Harnreth, Ann White, W. Moody, T. Wilson, Mary Young, J. Johnson, J. Miles. For Two Months—B. Jambs, Emma Waite, J. Woods, W. Clark. Seven were imprisoned for one month, and several inlNew gate for 14 days and under. The grand jury only - icnored two bills t viz., those of Elizabeth Lawless arid - Jane ayler, a circumstance which never before occurred within tt e me mory of man. Joseph Flower and W. B. Newenham t (charged with abduction) were remanded to the next ses sions, which commence on the 10th of June. j - An "extra Sun" iof New York of April 13, con tains an elaborate hoax, or joke , entitled'" Astounding News"—" the Atlantic crossed in three days."—" Signal triumph of Mr. Monck Mason's Flying Machine," &c. & c . In the details there are some happy hits at the amusing minuteness with which aerial travelling has occasionally been narrated. It is well got up, the headings with notes of admirations occupying half a column ! • The showers of Thursday last have had a most beneficial effect. on the appearance of the country. As a proof of the earliness of the season, we may mention that we have just now before us a bunch of rye, fully barbed, and in ear. It was taken from a field of eight acres on'the farm of Millburn, Dumbartonshire; and we almost regard it as an' earnest of a plenteous harvest. —Glasgow Herald, May 13. • you P•rlg, L o ndon: Printed and Published by 1‘11.710)0 e $O. No. 112 , Strand , Print er, at The Sun Ott-cstor Strand, in the Precinct 1 o 6 f the S 844. avoy, ill • &liddlialx, Thursday, May 1, MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. WALESBY and a full Bench of Magistrates.) On Tuesday Alfred Matthews pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a piece of pork, the property of John Marst.all. After his plea had been recorded, the prisoner Minded he a paper which the Chairman on perusal stated, if true, showed that the case of the prisoner was one of a most heart-rending description. From his statement, it appeared that when taken before the committing Magistrate, on the above charge, he stated that distress had driven him to the commission of the offence, and that having previously applied for parochial relief, he was sent into the stone - yard, and received some bread, with an intimation that he must not apply to them again. In reply to questions from the Court, the prisoner said lie could not obtain more than from 6d. to Bd. a day by breaking stones—that being a kind of work to which he had never been subjected—that he had a wife and three children to support—that lie belonged to the parish of Hackney, and that it was from the officers of that parish he had received the treatment he complained of, some observations the The CHAIRMAN said the case was one of so painful a upon natu itre tbleiarotrehheefpelatssietdhsiesndtuent3e,etoupmonaktehse prisoner--in hope that their publication through the medium of the pros CLERKEN WELL. Owen M'Carthy was charged with assaulting police-con stable 195 G under the following circumstances : It appeared from the evidence that on the previous night, at eight o'clock, the constable took a person into custody in Red Lion-court, Saffron-hill, for creating a disturbance there. An immense crowd of disorderly characters assembled —4OO or 500 persons. The policcman sprung his rattle and seven other constables came to his assistance. The con stables were proceeding with their prisoner when the pri soner and seven other persons seizing 195 G by different parts of his dress, dragged him fifty yards along the street. At length he was with much difficulty rescued by his brother constables, and the prisoner removed to the Bagnigge Wells station-house. _ Mr. CODIBE inquired what sort of character the prisoner was ? Inspector Barton replied that he was an idle dissolute fellow, who 'constantly associated with vary low characters. The prisoner was sober at the time of the occurrence. Mr. COMBE asked the prisoner what he had to say to the charge, and having nothing to urge in extenuation, was sen tenced to seven days' imprisonment in the House of Correc tion without the power of relieving himself by the payment of fine. • UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MAY 11.—A Fellowship is vacant in Magdalen College, which is open to graduates of this University who are natives of Lincolnshire. It will be filled up on the 25th of July next, being the festival of St. James. Gentlemen who desire to be candidates, are requested to call on the Pre sident between the 18th and 21st of July. They must bring with them' opy•gf.their baptismal register, and a testimo nial of good Continct from the College to which they belong. There' :vift eielkises in the Divinity School, for the degree o,Baclfelbflri — Divinity, on Monday and Tuesday next,z4li three o'clock. Respondent, the Rev. T. Nichol', of Worcester College. Subjects-1. Our Lord Jesus Christ came not to destroyzthe. law, but to fulfil it. 2. The mi racles of Our Lad 'are a satisfactory evidence of his divine mission. On Tuesday, the 21st instant, a convocation will be holden to elect a scholar on the foundation of C. Viner, Esq., to pro mote the study 'of common law. Stipend, 301. per annum, tenable for ten years.. At the next meeting of the Ashmolean Society, Dr. Dau beny will read notes by Captain Widdington and himself on the Natural History of Spain. 'The Rev. T. L. Claughton, of Trinity College, has been ap pointed an Examiner in Theology, and the Rev. P. C. Claughton, of University College, and the Rev. E. Cockey, of Wadham College, Examiners in Arts in the University of Durham. The Lord Bishop of Exeter has presented the Rev. H. G. Adams to the Vicarage of Cornwood, Devon—value, 4051. per annum. The Rev. H. W. Rawlings has presented the Rev. Dr. E. Everard to the Perpetual Curacy of Bishop's Hall, Somerset shire—value, 1221. per annum. The Rev. E. Goddard has presented the Rev. T. L. Fel lewes to the Perpetual Curacy of Lingwood, Norfolk—value, 551. per annum. The Earl of Lichfield has presented the Rev. J. Gunton to the Rectory of Marsham, Norfolk—value, 2811. per annum. H. Holloway, Esq., has presented the Rev. 0. Sadler to the Rectory of Brancaster, Norfolk--value 9791. per annum. The Hon. J. Talbot has presented the Rev. C. W. A. Na pier; to the Vicarage of Evercreech, Somerset—value, 2261 per annum. Sir E. B. Smyth, Bart., has presented the Rev. W. W. Hobson to the 'United Perpetual Curacies of Hales and Heck inghata, Norfolk—value together, 631. per annum. elccf~. stati( exc r y retai horIQ 41 Prc ELI, 'l t' the! Tio au, lir,