The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDA Y, JANUARY 26, 1839. SPIRIT 01. , ' THE - PUBLIC JO URN ALt. O'Connell has been making a rabid howl in Dublin, and trying to persuade people that it was " a patriotic speech." It was no such thing. It was a short, half-stiffed, sobbing, hysterical ululation, a mockery of indignant passion ; but all, as any man who knew him would expect, no better than a dirty, tricky, calculating affectation of political fanaticism. Tile ungrateful hypocrite pretended to quarrel with the " Liberal press" of Dublin, because it has not of late been active or 'eager enough in swelling his vanity or in feeding the " rint." Why, what is this miscreant, but the child of Dublin news papers, their worthless, bastard progeny ? What would he ever have been, but for the reporters of Dublin newspa nrers, who served at once to puff his *riba;cl speeches, and so multiply by hundreds the meagre few that were on - many occasions pressed into an audience, and yawned while the vain demagogue was speaking at the press? The baseness of this znan is alike in all things; no being • ever did him a kindness without being scourged fur it ; none were his benefactors without being heartlessly betrayed. From the Duke of Wellington, who gave emancipation to the Ro man Catholics. from Lord Grey, who passed the Irish Reform Bill, and front Lord Melbourne, who has been suffocating the whole Papist and demagogue world with patronage wrung from the public necessities, down to Peter Purcell and the reporters—one and all has be attempted to trample on and sir grade. However, the Radical reporters have turned upon him, and will report the tyrant no longer. A Conservative paper has come in to the rescue, and gives us his last display of oratory, wherein he revives the old vituoeration of the " base and bloody Whigs," and careers along in a strain . of voluble frenzy, the overacted extravagance of which proves well enough that at the bottom of it he hes laid some lurking contrivance for the promotion of a knavish end. England, it seems, has been indebted to Ireland for " reform." Had he said that England owes to Ireland what ever of evil, in fact or prospect, has mixed itself up with the fruits of the Reform Bill, he would have been more nearly " The base ungrateful Whigs," he avers, bestowed " a stinted and limited Reform Bill" on " the people of Ire land." Bad as was the Bill, it swindled this country out of no less than five seats in Parliament, and bestowed them on the 4 . people of Ireland"—that is to say, on "the base and ungrate ful" Mr. Daniel O'Connell ; and an edifying use he makes cf ahem. Ile " charges the young blood of Ireland" to remem ber that the first th:ng " England did was to fling the insulting chains of a Coercion Bill over Ireland:" Yes, it was the best and wisest act, and almost the only redeeming one, of Lord Grey's Administration., that . ; very " Coercing Bill." inaseameh as without it outrage and anarchy would in another week or fortnight hale ridden rou,;11- shod over the island, nut even Mr. Daniel O'Connell being able t> control or mitigate them. The agitator, indeed, as much devoured by vanity as by any other form o! selfishness, has always over-rated his own restraining power over the people, whom it has been the business of his life, to inflame; and as the Coercion Bill put a check on his excite :merits to turbulence, it of necessity affronted and provoked him. Again, the agitator prefesses to " hate the union" as much as he does the Whigs. He foretells the failure of tire " experiment" he is now making to supersede the ultimo ratio of a " College-green Parliament," and is " consoled by" this anticipated failure—threatens that henceforth he will be a :repealer, and potting else; that repealer should be his name, and the word " repealer" on his tombstone. All mighty fine, no doubt. But, then, as to Lord Norznanby. " Oh," the dastardly letter (to Lord Oxmantown) " never could have been the production of Lord Nermanhy." Xt came from the "base, ungrateful" English Whigs. ties" would not submit to it," not he ! If he stood alone in the House of Commons next Session, he would himself move the dismissal of Lord Oxmantown. Lord Oxraantown's offence to Mr. Daniel O'Connell, and to the Landlord- Assassination Society, was to he deemed the offence tor Lord Normanbv, and of the entire Cabinet, so long as they -should leave the Lord-Lieutenant of the King's County in his office. What, then, it the, meaning of all this obstreperous and insulting bombast ? Is it that O'Connell is in reality one whit more bent upon a repeal of the union, or more in earnest about it, than before? Not one bit. But the rent tdags—the " people of Ireland " want rousing ; so here is a grain or two more of Cayenne pepper flung into the ordinary dose. Again, dote he really intend to quarrel with the Whigs, whom he thus so royally vilifies? Not a bit. He has some fresh object of personal cupidity to carry ; and all this flash and fury means just " serve out a little more of vour laavns and fishes, if you please." Daniel is an adept at this speeies of mystification.— Times. It is not for us to understand how Lord Palmerston may Teel, but we are sure there is no misapprehending how any other person in this station of a Gentleman, and in the posi tion of a Minister, would feel, after the notoriety given to tire correspondence between Mr. Urquhart, whom Lord Palmer '-ton dismissed from office, and Mr. Backhouse, whom the No- Ile Viscount has retained in office, by the Times of yesterday. There never was a fact apparently better established through this correspondence than that the series of official documents contained in the well-known publication called the Portfolio, were printed and circulated by Lord Palmerston's authority :and that his Lordship is responsible for the publication of them, both as a Statesman to the political world here and abroad, and as an employer, to the printers and publishers, for the pecuni ary charge attending it. How far it may have been con sistent with diploanatic morality to make such use of instru ments so obtained as those secret despatches had been, is one question. How far it may have been wise or prudent to let Russia see how little, after all, she was in the power of Lord Palmerston, is another question. But certain it is, that as re gards both the wisdom and the honour of attempting to shuffle off upon Mr. Urquhart that responsibility which Lord Pals merston must have been conscious that he himself had in truth, and after full deliberation, with his eyes open, and for his own especial purposes, incurred, there cannot anywhere, but in a department of which the Noble Viscount is the head, be more than one opinion.— Times. Our columns this day contain an ample account of the pro ceedings at the adjourned meeting at Manchester on Thursday last. Several excellent speeches were delivered on the occa sion, The Hon. J. Murray, the Delegate of Edinburgh, as a landowner, considered be derived no benefit from the Corn laws. In illustration of the advantages conferred on a country by maeufactures, he observed that his own county, Clackmannar.shire, was very small, only ten miles square ; that fifty years ago, its rental was not more than 5,0001. a year, 'Whereas now, in consequence of the introduction of mandactures, it was upwards of 150,0001. a year; and, after the county in which Glasgow was situated, paid more revenue than any county in Scotland. On his health being drank, he observed, that " for Scotland I will say that when evi dence shall be laid before the House of Commons, I for one shall be able to take there agriculturists —not men led by their landlords, and who one day vote for this person and another for that—(Cheers)—not men who have no opinion or idea of their own—(Cheers)—not men who bold only the opinion which their landlords dictate, hut a tenantry independent in circumstances and honest in - principle, who will advocate your cause, their own cause, and the cause of the whole country.—(Cheers.)" Mr. Weir, of Glasgow, stated that he had received a letter from that city, informing him that the petition to be beard by counsel on the subject of the Corn-laws, which was now receiving signatures there, had, on Monday last, been signed by no less than 20,000 persons. Honour to Manchester for having set so glo rious an example to the country. To doubt the success of the people in a cause in which they have justice on their side, after the determined manner in which they are advancing against the enemy, would be to libel human nature. The men of Man chester have struck the first blow, but they will be ably se. conded by the people of other towns. The landowners will not be suffered to ruin the nation in the vain attempt to make a manufacturing countr.o independent of commerce.—Morn ing Chronicle. Mr. O'Connell, it seems, has entered on a war with the Dublin Newspaper Press. We are not a little astonished at this. Can it be that he has already forgotten the conflict, end its results, which he had four or five years since with the Press of this metropolis ? If he have, others have not. Never did man stand in a more pitiable position than did the Hon. Member for Dublin on that occasion. We remember hearing him address the House of Commons on the subject, as if he had been labouring under emotions of the deepest sorrote at the course of conduct lie had pursued in the instance in question. We pitied him, and so we are sure did the ma jority of the Members of the House of Commons, when we saw the melancholy plight into which he had brought himself. It appears, however, that he is not one who can learn wisdom from experience. In utter forgetfulness, or, at any rate, en tirely regardless, of the humiliation he brought on himself on that occasion, he has now had the consummate folly and reck less temerity to enter on a similar conflict with the Press of Dublin. On Tuesday last he took it into his head, first of all, to represent the Press of that city as a corrupt Press, and then to endeavour to intimidate the Reporters present into the publication of the speech he was then making. Hear his ob servations on the point : "He could not forget that the Irish Press betrayed them_ (Loud clamour, cheers, and interruption.) On the present occasion they did nor. do their duty. Nothing was owing to them. One and all neglected their duty, and it was found now that they could be done without.—(Loud cheers and clamour.) There was a spirit abroad, and he told them that spirit would spread independently of them.—(Loud cheers.) They deserved castigation, and he trusted that the castigation they got would make them somewhat better to-morrow." And again— " Let them dare to emit to give this to the world to-morrow—let them abuse him in all moods and tenses—let them borrow every sarcasm against him that the Orange Tress had used, and make of it as unsa -you ry an olio as they pleased." Really this is carrying the joke too far. Of all men in the world O'Connell is, perhaps, the man who is most indebted to the Press. What would be have been without its aid ? Why, a person whose name might have been known to a few of his countrymen, but who never could have acquired a tithe of the influence and importance he now possesses. And yet though he is what he is actually through means of the Press, he has the ingratitude and wretched taste to turn round and heap all,man ner of abuse on it. It we re well for him if he were as exempt from corruption as the Press which be thus vituperates and belies. Does he think so himself ? If he do, others would be more disposed to concur in opinion with him, if-he were less in the habit of imputing unworth y motives to those who do not choose to be his tools. The Dublin Press, with a spirit which shows that its conductors are not the slaves that O'Connell would represent them to be, nor the sycophants or slaves Which the way in which he seeks to browbeat them, im plies that he conceives they are ; the conductora of the Dublin P re ss , We say, have resented the insult thus 'offered to them with becoming spirit. The Reporters that were present on the occasion, on hearing the Journals they 3represented vil- Med, at once, like men of honour, threw dosn3 their pens, and would not report a line more of what he spoke. They after wards passed . the following resolution upon the subject : " That, inasmuch as Mr. O'Connell, at the Metropolitan dinner this evening, used, in reference to the members of the Dublin Press, terms as insulting as they wereutdustifiable, and dared the omission of the report of he proceedings—Resolved, that having respect to our own character, and holding the independence of the Press to be the foundation of public liberty, and considering that a mean submission, under these circum. stances, would be a surrender of chose principles which Mn O'Connell professes a desire to establish, We hold ourselves justified in a total sup.. pression of all the proceedings that took place upon the occasion." We are glad to perceive that the editors of the various papers have also resented the insult bffered to them with be coming spirit. Even the Pilot, which was understood to be in a special sense O'Connell 's organ, says : " We pase the incident, however as one of those which men who mix in public life are subject to. We forgive and shall try to !beget it. Long since, indeed, should we have been driven into the more congenial pursuits of private life, were we not sustained by higher motives than any which inOiv!duals, however eminent or powerful, could give or take away —and our character and establishment founded on something more stable than individual friendship or gratitude. We are sorry far, not angry at, the incident. The prowlingplzee.hunting creatures, who lately turned patriots, and who earwig the great, have, we suppose, their way, in cawing Mr. O'Connell to quarrel with his old friends, that they may set up the paper of their own, which they have long been hatching, because the existing journals had too much regard to their own characters to publish all their foolish speeches and the puffs they convulsed for so indefatigably. This is the real secret of the affair." The Freeman's Journal thus remarks on the matter " As the gentlemen connected with the reporting department of the Liberal Press have seen tit to convince Mr. O'Connell that they dared to think and act for themselves, and that they dared also to resent the insulting and ungentlemantike treatment to which they were subjec'ed at the hands of their hosts—by suppressing the entire proceedings-- we have only to express our regret that the intemperate and unj,,st tirade launched against the body generally should have deprived our readers of the pleasure and satisfaction," &c. The other Journals express themselves in a similar strain. We hope the editors and conductors of the Dublin Press will continue to act as they have commenced. Let them frame a resolution, and rigidly adhere to it, not to report a single word he says, until he retracts his charges against them, an d mak , . a a satisfactory apology for the insult he has offered to them. Let them make this resolution, and act for one month upon it. and they will see hien fain to fall down before them in humble submission, as he did on a former occasion to a parish priest.— Morning Advertiser. Lord John Russell has informed his constituents, by letter, that in his opinion a moderate fixed duty on the importation of foreign corn, would be more adsawagenus than the present ascending and descending scale of duties. He moreover states that experience has shown that tips present system increases the high prices of dear years to the consurner, snd depresses the low prices of cheap years-to the producer. We think his Lord ship's opinion in this case is a bad one, and his stotement without foundation in fact. But the worst thing of all in this letter is the additional convietion it atfoNis the public of ti.e shabby, trimming policy of the principal Alinister of the Crown in the House of Conn - liens. If Lord John Russell has in former years entertained an opinion That the policy of the Corn-laws is bad, hew does it happen than he should have been Silent upon so very important a matter? There was no lack of opportunity fur bringing forward his testimony against that policy 1,, hien he now so epigrammatically denounces. The judgment c:' the public will undoubtedly be, that this opinion has been formed by the Naito Lord to suit the party exigencies of the day. His Lordship is afraid to withstand manfully, as he ought to do, the covetous clamour of the agitators for Repeal, and he is also afraid to put himself in hostility to the landed interest, by recommending that Legislative protection to British agriculture should cease. According to the usual practice of the feeble and the insincere, the Nebie Lord takes refuge in a half-measure—a measure which will not completely disoblige either party, but will give satisfaction to neither. There are, we know, a great many honest men who have long thought that a fixed duty would answer better for the various into tea's of this country than the present system, but there is no reason to believe that Lord John Russell is one of these.— Morning Post. per Cents , 354 to 36 ; ditto Three per Cents., 221 to 23 ; Dutch Five per Cents, 102/ to -; ditto Two-and-a-Half ler Cents., 55 to 4 ; Belgian, 981 to 99 ; Brazilian, 181 to 79 ; Coion:bi .n, 281 to 29 ; Chilian, 27 to 29; Mexican, 244 to 23 ; and Peruvian, 174 to 18.1. Shares are without animation or interest. Birmingham (old) left drat 76 to 78 prem. ; ditto (new), 23 to 2.1 prom ; Southampt )n, 42 to 43 per share; Great Wt.stern, 10 to 11 prem.; North Midland, par to 1 prem. ; Leeds and Manches ter, 19 to 21 preni. ; Birmingham and Derby, 11 to 10 dig. ; Midland Counties, 164 to 154 dis. ; Brighton, 4h- to 34 dis. ; Blackwall, 2 to 11 dis. ; and Greenwich, 161- to 17 per share. American securities are buoyant, :and a greet deal has been going on in the shares of the United States Bank at 25/. per share ex div. Alabama Five per Cents. closed at 91 ; In diana Five per Cents., 82 to 83; Illinois Six per Cents., 93, South Carolina Five per Cents. sterling ( Baring's), 954 to 96 ; Mississippi Five per Cents. steriirg, 93 to a ; Louisiana Five per Cents., 96 to 1; New York Five per Cents . 94 to 1 ; Penn , ‘lv nia Five per Cents., 95 to 96 ; Virginia Six per Cents., 63 to ; Ohio Six per Cents.. 98 to 99 ; and Ken. tucky Six per :tent!., 96 to 97. On 'Change to-day there was nothing particular going on. The r,t s on Paris are a shade higher, ar.d those on Amster dam a little lower. On Paris, short, the rote was 25 20 to 25 25; ditto, three months, 25 45 to 25 50 ; Amsterdam, short, 12 01 to 12 1 ; ditto, three months. 12 24 to 12 3 ; Antwerp, 12 13; Rotterdam, 12 34 to 12 3; Hamburg*, 13 Si to 13 81; Vienna, 10 04 to 10 11 ; Naples, 404 to 401„ ; Madrid, 37i to 371; Genoa, 25 60 to 25 621; Trieste, 10 `) to 10 24; Leghorn, 304; Cadiz. ; Marseilles, 25 50 to 25 53 (and Frankfort, 1491 to 150. The price of gold bars, standard, is 3/. 183. 2d. per oz., and dollars 4a. 104 d. per oz. HERA LD.—Not only has rumour prevailed here to-day that the Cabinet are fully satisfied that the present fluctuating scale of duties on the importation of foreig❑ corn, whilst it has enabled speculators for their own purposes to flood this coun try, without due cause, with the comparatively untaxed corn of the Continent, which at the same time has scarcely, even in the slightest degree, contributed to the public revenue, but also the impression is that Government will propose a fixed duty. Much of this feeling may be ascribed to the publication of Lord John Russell's letter to his constituents on this subject. The opinion of the most respectable practical men is, that no scarcity has prevailed in the crops of the last harvest generally, at any rate not sufficient to warrant the late gambling on the corn markets of this country. It is therefore argued that if a fixed import duty upon fo reign corn had been the existing law of the land, as suming that its rate was commensurate with the difference in the amount of taxation in this country and the amount of taxation on the Continent, as it proportionably pressed upon the re spective agricultural classes, the consequence must have been, that whilst foreign corn would have contributed to the public revenue, the duty, if fixed at a fair rate, would have fully tested the question of scarcity or the contrary. There has been eo alteration in the value cf money for com mercial purposes this week, but advances and discounts are not so readily obtained. Sydney Papers to the 9th of September have been received here to-day by the Cecilia. It appears by these accounts that the pernicious influence of Radical principles had seriously undermined the peace of the settlers in Von Diemen's Land. One paper states that even many of the very oldest and most enterprising and deserving colonists, with large ann amiable families 11;rn in the colony, were deserting it, seeing no prospect of supporting themselves, much less being able to educate their children. While any Government and the pecple are divided, as they now appear to be in this ill. fated colony, we hers , no reasona'o!e hope to witness a better state of things. But let us hope to see our present rulers speedily take some effective steps to restore this once flourishing colony to its former improved state. The William Metcalf had arrived out with 220 emigrants in the most healthy condition, one death only haying occurred on the voyage. Great complaints were made of the lavish and misappro priate expenditure of the colony, and, to meet the deficiency, it was expected that the Crown property called the Paddock, at Sydney, must be brought to public sale. At the same time there were hopes expressed that the new Governor, Sir Gcorg,e Gipps, would reform the abuses which bad prevailed in the public disbursements. The price of wheat at Sydney was 7s. a 7s. 61 per bushel; at Hobart Town it was 7s. 6cl. a Ss. 61 per bushel. Good hills at Launceston on London were zt a premium of 2 per cent., in consequence of which the respective banks were on the qui vine to meet the demand. Dollars to the amount of 11,0001. sterling bad arrived at Hobart Town, to be invested in Treasury Bills at par to be sent to London to meet the Bank drafts in favour of the drawers at - Launceston. The Legislative Council of Van Diemen's Land was pro rogued to the 16th of October. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 25. ETON COLLEGE V. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. This was a motion for an injunction to restrain the Riilway Company from using a road at Slough, for the purpose of conveying passengers to a station formed there on the railway, contrary, as it was alleged by the bill, to the provisions of the Act of Parliament which incorporated the Company. The Solicitor-General and Mr. Bacon were heard yester day for the motion. Mr. Jacob was also heard for the Corn parm. Mr. Wigram and Mr. Osborne were heard on the same side this morning. They argued that the motion, if it succeeded, would merely compel the Company to set down passengers on the north side of the railway instead of the south, and that no possible advantage could therefore accrue to the College from the proceeding now adopted to prevent the conveyance of passengers from Slough to Windsor. The Solicitor-General having replied, The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment. His Lordship said he had no doubt that several of the Acts of Parliament were framed with the express intention of protecting the Col lege at Eton from being annoyed by the immediate proximity of a station on the railway, but that the question for that Court to decide' was merely whether the clauses so framed were sufficient to effect the object which the parties contem plated. The contract, if any, was contained in the sections of the Act, and to that the Court must look when it was called upon to adjudicate on the rights of the parties. The question was, whether the College could be protected by he clauses as they stood in the Act of Parliament. These clauses (the 99th and the 101st) prohibited the making or laying down of any tram-road, railroad, or any other description of road within three miles of the College, and also prohibited the formation of any station, properly so called, within the same distance. Now it appears that there was an old road at the place in question, leading to Stoke Pogis ; that this road was diverted according to the powers in the Act, and that no other new road was made. It could not, therefore, be said the old road was a new one laid down, or that it was a road constructed or laid down within the prohibited limits. If, therefore, it was not a new road constructed or laid down, it did not come within the prohibition of the 99th section of the Act. The road was, it appeared, the property of the Company; and being so, they had a right to make a medium of communication with their railway, and to use it as a path for passengers to pass backwards and forwards to the trains. It could not, however, on that account be called a railway or road ; nor because persons passed on this path to the railway, and were there received into the carriages of the Company, could the place where they were so received be properly deno minated a station. The question, then, narrowed itself to this—could the Company be prohibited from receiving or landing passengers on the piece of land which formed part of the ancient road? If they could not, then the injunction ought not to issue. The sections of the Act were doubtless intended to exclude the Company from landing passengers as well as goods within the prohibited three miles; but, in his Lordship's opinion, they were not so worded as to effect that object. They contained no contract between the Company and the College, and without a contract there could not well be a violation of the provisions of the Act with reference to Eton College. The Company insisted that, under these circumstances, they had a right to do all that was not expressly prohibited. His Lordship inclined to that opinion, and, under these circum stances, he thought the motion for the injunction must be dis missed, with costs. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JAN. 25. nu, CANADIAN PRISONERS. Mr. ROEBUCK said he was instructed to move for a writ of habeas corpus, addressed to Mr. Batchelor, the gaoler of Li verpool, commanding him to bring up the bodies of Robert Walker, William Alves, James Brown, and John Goldsbury Parker. He moved upon the affidavits—the separate affidavits of the prisoners, in which they swore that they had never been tried or convicted in any court of law ; that they bad been forcibly brought from Canada, and were now forcibly de tained in Newgate, upon what ground they were totally ignorant. The other affidavit was that of William Waller, who was clerk to the solicitor for the prisoners. He swore, that on the 29th of December, he applied for and obtained a copy of a warrant of Sir John Colborne, from the gaoler of Liverpool, who stated to him that the document shown him was the only one he held for detaining the prisoners. In that warrant it was stated that the prisoners had been con victed. Each of them positively swore that such statement was untrue, and that they had never been either tried or con victed, and there could be no doubt but that, if these affidavits were true, the prisoners were entitled to their discharge. It wes his duty to lay before the Court some ground of suspicion respecting the legal detention of these persons. He knew that it had been decid e d i n a cele b rate d case , h e meant t h at o f Mr. Ilobhouse, that th e wr i t he soug h t for was not granted as a matter of course, th at i t rested in the di scre ti on o f t h e C ourt and that it was the duty o f t h e party app lyi ng for the writ to show that some suspicion attached to the detention. This would be an easy task in this case, for the only document which the gaoler of the borough of Liverpool had was one 'of the most informal that had ever been broug h t un d er t h e not i ce o f a court of law. That d, cement was addressed to Digby B. Morton, and set forth f acts to which the C ourt cou ld not give credence, since th ey h ad been positively denied upon oath by all the four pri soners. He would read the document and probably their Lordships would try to understand it. It ran as follows : " PROVINCE OF LOWER CANADA. (Seal) "J. COLBORNE. `Victoria, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c. Bre. " To Digby B. Morton, master of the barque Captain Boss—Whereas, under and by virtue of a certain warrant of his Excellency Sir George Arthur, K.C.H., Lieutenant-Governor of our province aof Upper Canada, and Major-General commanding our forces therein bearing date under his hand and seal of office at Toronto, in the said province of Upper Canada, the sth day of November, in the present year of our Lord, 1833, and in the second year of our reign—lra Anderson, James Brown, Randall Wixon, William Alves, Robert Walker, Leonard Watson, John Goldsbury Parker, Finlay Malcolm, Paul B dford, Horatio Hills, Charles P. Walroth, James Gammel, John Grant, John James 7,l`Nulty, Samuel Chandler, Benjamin Wait, Alexander rillLeod, James Waggoner, Garret Vancamp, John Ver sion, and Jacob Bcsimer, severally indicted and convicted in due course of law in the Courts of the said province of Upper Canada of i the crime of high treason; and Lines Wilson Miller, George Cooley, William Reynolds, and Norman Mallory, in like manner severally in dicted and convicted of the crime of felony, and Edwin Merrit (not sent to Quebec), in like manlier indicted and convicted of the crime of murder, to all of which said persons and convicts our gracious par don path been extended upon condition, nevertheless, that they and each of them be transported, and remain transported to our penal colony of Van Diemen's Land far and during the period named in the patents of pardon so as aforesaid granted to the said convicts and each of thorn. And whereas the said several persons and convicts are by and under a 'a errant in that behalf of his Excellency Sir John Colborne, our adminis trwor of the government of our said province of Lower Canada, in that behalf are now in the custody of our Sheriff of the district of Quebec, in our said province of Lower Canada, in order to their transportation as as aforesaid. And whereas we, being willme, that the bodies of the said Ira Anderson, Jas. Brown, Randall Wixon, Win. Alves, Roht. Walker, John Goldsbury Parker, Finlay Malcolm, Paul Bedford, Horatio Hills, Charles P. Walroth, James Gammel, John Grant, John James M`Nulty, Samuel Chandler, Benjamin Wait, Alexander M`Leod, James Waggoner, Garret Vancatnp, John Vernon, Jacob Beamer, Lines Wilson Miller, George Cooley, William Reynolds, Norman Mallory, and Edwin Merrit, and of each and every of them now in our common gaol of our district of Quebec, should be directly de livered to you, to be transported to Van Diemen's Land, being one of our penal settlements and foreign possessions, we have, by our writ in that behalf addressed to our said Sheriff', lately commanded our said Sheriff that he should deliver the said Ira Anderson, James Brown, Randall Wixon, William Alves, Robert Walker, John Golds bury Parker, Finlay Malcolm, Paul Bedford, Horatio Hills, Charles P. Walroth. James Gammel, John Grant, John James M`Nulty, Samuel Chandler, Benjamin Wait, Alexander M`Leod, James Wag goner, Garret Vancamp, John Vernon, Jacob Bearner, Lines Wilson Miller, George Cooley, William Reynolds, Norman Mallory, and Edwin Merrit, and each and every one of them to your custody, without delay to be transported as aforesaid. We, therefore, command you to re ceive the said Ira Anderson, James Brown, Randall Wixon, William Alves, Robert Walker, John Goldsbury Parker, Finlay Malcolm, Paul Bedford, Horatio Hil:s, Charles P. We' roth, James Gammel, John Grant, John James M`Nulty, Samuel Chandler, Benjamin Wait, Alexander M`Leod, James Waggoner, Garret Vancamp, John Vernon, Jacob Reamer, Lines Wilson Miller, George Cooley, William Reynolds, Nor man Mallory, and Edwin !Merril, and each and every one of them from our said Sheriffof our said district of Quebec, and that you do forthwith transport and convey, or cause to be transported and conveyed, the said Ira Anderson, James Brown, Randall Wixon, William Alves, Robert Walker, John Goldsbury Parker, Finlay Malcolm, Paul Bedford, Ho ratio Hills, Charles P. Walroth, James Gammel, John Grant, John James M`Nulty, Samuel Chandler, Benjamin Wait, Alexander M`Leod, James Waggoner, Garret Vancamp, John • Vernon, Jacob Beamer, Lines Wilson Miller, George Cooley, William Reynolds, Norman Mal lory, and Edwin Merrit, and each and every of them, to such part of the United Ringdcin of Great Britain and Ireland called England, as to us may seem fit, tO the end that the said Ira Anderson, James Brown, Randall Wixon, William AiVe.j,Bobert Walker, John Goldsbury Parker, Finlay Malco!in, Paul Bedford, Hordie Hills, Charles P. Walroth, James Gatnmel, John Grant, John James M`Nttity, Samuel Chandler, Benjamin liam Reynolds, Norman Mallory, and Edwin Met. - . Vernon,Na it ll j e a x c a o n b d er Beamer,lN`L leo d Li J n a e se s sn Wilson‘ 'V ff . ; o Garret eorg V e a c n J v‘. ,) , 'n i it may be thence again transported to our penal colony of Van Diemen's Lind' accord ing to the condition in our aforesaid pardons, severalty and respectively in that behalf contained, and that you do there deliver the Lodies of the said Ira Anderson, James Brown, Randall Wixon, WIT, Liam Alves, Robert Walker, John Go!dsbury Parker, Fii.lay Malcolm, Paul Bedford, Horatio Hills, Charles P. Walroth, James Gannel, John Grant, John James M`Nulty, Samuel Chandler, Benjamin Wait, Alexander M`Leod, James Waggoner, Garret Vancamp, John Ver non, Jacob Beamer, Lines Wilson Miller, George Cooley, William Reynolds, Norman Mallory, and Edwin Merrit, and the body of each and every of them into the custody of such person or persons a:- may be lawfully authorised to receive the same " In testimony whereof we have caused these our letters to be n - ado patent, and the great seal of our said province of Lower Canada to be hereunto affixed. " Witness our trusty and well-beloved Sir John Colborne, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, and of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, Commander-in-Chief of our Forces in our Province of Lower Canada, &c., &c., &c. " At our Government House in our City of Montreal, in our said Province of Lower Canada, the seventeenth day of November, in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-eight, and in the Second Year of her Majesty's Reign. " By command, " D. DALY, Secretary of the Province." Such a loosely-worded document had seldom been brought before any Court of Justice, especially for such important pur poses as the detention for life of a subject. The Court would bear in mind that the document was not any record of a Court of Law ; it purported to be letters patent, and set forth that the prisoners, after conviction, &c. Now it would be a very remarkable fact if the Court were to hold that the prisoners had been convicted on the faith of such a document, and that it was true, as set forth in his former affidavits that they had not either been tried or convicted. That would, indeed, be a remarkable fact to be put on the records of an English Court of Justice. Surely their Lordships would think that in a case of such vast importance to the parties there ought to have been some more formal averment that they bad been con victed, a fact which they denied ; but supposing the document even to have had any efficacy at all, be would contend that it lost all its power upon its arrival at Liverpool. He would fur ther contend that even if it had any efficacy or authority here, it had one fatal error; it did not bear upon its face the term for which the parties had been transported. Lord ABINGER—It is stated by reference to the pardon. Mr. ROEBUCK—But the prisoners swore that they had never been tried or convicted, and they denied the pardon altogether. According to the cases in the books, that was a fatal error in a criminal commitment. If the other doctrine were to pre vail, the document in question would be as good authority to the Governor of Van Diemen's Land as the gaoler of Liver pool, and the man who might have been transported for seven or fourteen years, might be detained for life. It was not a record of any Court ; it was a mere warrant of transportation, and it ought to set out the pardon, and not only the pardon, but it ought clearly to show on the face of it the period for which the party has been transported. From all that appeared in the covenant, it was impossible for the Court, the gaoler of Liverpool, or any one else, to say that the term of the pri soner's punishment had not expired ; it was totally silent on the subject. He thought he had cast sufficient suspicion upon the warrant, and of course, upon the detention of the four prisoners, to justify the Court in exercising its discretionary power. Suppose it had been a decision from any Court in this country, or was a warrant issuing from any Commissioner appointed under the Crown,— Lord ABlNGER—Suppose a writ of habeas corpus were issued to a gaoler, and he were to bring up the body, and return that the party had been convicted of felony at the assizes, would it be competent to show that the party had not committed a fe lony or been tried for it ? Mr. ROEBUCK said that that would be a very different case from the one before the Court. In that case there would be proceedings in a court of law. All that was before their Lordships was what was called letters patent from Sir J. Col. borne to Digby J. Morton ; to him they were authority, and he might take them to their destination, bet they were no au thority to the gaoler of Liverpool. Lord ABINGER—Mr. Roebuck, I think you have stated enough to entitle you to the writs. The proper time to con trovert some of your propositions will be when the return is made. Suppose you were to take a rule nisi, we can then avoid the inconvenience of bringing up the prisoners, and the matter can be discussed just as well, Mr. ROEBUCK —My Lord, I have very great responsibility thrown upon me in this case, and I should prefer to argue the question upon the rettirna The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was abont to argue upon the in sufficiency of the affidavits, when he was interrupted by, Mr. Roeauex, who said that the Attorney-General might show cause in the first instance, but the more regular way would be to have the return before the Court. It was then agreed that the return should be made to-mor row (this day), and that the argument should come on on Monday. It was also agreed that the prisoners should not be brought up. The improvements in Pimlico, west of Buckingham Palace, will be far advanced in the course of the ensuing spring and summer, when the Royal town residence will be completely insulated, and the appearance of the whole neigh bourhood completely altered and changed, and the approaches to the Palace in that quarter be or, a splendid scale.—Monsing Paper. [The "splendid scale" may well be dispensed with, but approaches knee-deep in liquid mud, such as the public have long been compelled to wade through, it is hoped will be amongst the " improvements." The footway through the Park is the wettest, dirtiest, and least passable perhaps, in the neighbourhood of London.] The stork which attracted so much notice on Wed nesday it► Westminster, after taking a bird's-eye view of the metropolis from the Admiralty semaphore, returned to its abode among the curious birds in St. James's Park inclosure. NATIONAL LOAN FUND AND ASSURANCE SO- ClETY.—Meetings were held on Tuesday. at the late Mr. Cow!and's room in this town, and on Wednesday, at the School-room, Broomfield, at which Mr. Wells, of the latter place, attended, and explained the objects of the Institution. We observe that a local board has been established at Manning tree, in this county, and various other places throughout the kingdom. Our readers are referred to an advertisement in our last week's publication, for information as to the benefits to be derived by the members of the Society.—ChelraVbrd Chronicle. THE CHARGE OF MURDERING A POLICEMAN. —Three youths were yesterday examined at Lambeth -street, on suspicion of having murdered police constable Barton, un der circumstances already detailed. Nothing material was elicited, and they were remanded till Wednesday next. Yesterday the police received information that a large quantity of plate, consisting principally of silver spoons and forks, had been stolen on the previous afternoon from the house of a gentleman named Platt, residing in Russ,Al - The articles had been used at dinner, and it is supposed that, having been left for a short time in the kitchen, one of the class of thieves known as " area-sneaks" had got unobserved into the house, and carried them off. Several robberies of a similar kind have recently taken place under the same circumstances. The police are on the alert to dis cover the delinquent. At Union-hall Police Office a woman was committed to prison for one month in default of paying a fine Of 20/ (idlicted under the Ist of Victoria, chap. 17, sect. 25), for having harboured a deserter from the Rifle Brigade. The prisoner pleaded ignorance of the desertion and of the law on the subject. FIRES.—On Thursday night, between eleven and twelve o'clock, a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Arnold, haberdasher, No. 305, Oxford-street, and did considerable damage. The property is insured. Last night, about half past eight o'clock, a fire broke out at the workhous,! of Saffron-hill. A plentiful supply of water having been obtained the flames were speedily reduced, and, happily, confined to that portion of the buildlng where tney originated. lie cause of the fire could not be ascertained, all being left apparently safe about half an hour before. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) POST.—The negotiatinns supposed to be in progress in the French capital, for the re-construction of the Ministry, have been almost the only subject to which attention has been directed in this part of the town to-day. At the Stock Ex change there seems to be still some hope of the return of M. Thiers, notwithstanding that Marshal Soult was understood to have been sent for to the Tuileries, and that it was generally believed at Paris the latter was the individual to whom the di rection of public affairs would be again confided. The hope of the stockholders of the re-accession of M. Thiers to the Cabi net is founded as we have already intimated, on the expectation that a direct intervention for the settlement of the Spanish yi.estion must prove the consequence. TIMES —Some ncticc has already been directed to the arrangements at the Post-office in respect to money orders, which were shown to be inconvenient and neealessly strict. The effect has been, it would seem, to induce the authorities of that department, by a stretch of power better suited to Turkey than to Great Britain or any free country, to increase, instead of lessening, the inconvenience and the strictness complained of. As this form of remittance is limited to 51. ss. in amount, the protection required for a banker's order of ten times, or a hundred times, that amount, might be thought sufficient, and the Post-office orders pass with the simple endorsement of the party in whose favour it was drawn. This was the course suggested when this subject was first brought into notice, in order to avoid the trouble of sending a person duly authorized by the original party to receive the money at the General Post-office. Instead of adopting this suggestion, the course now taken is to compel the original party to attend in person, and not to allow him on any account to receive it by deputy. The following letter may serve to illustrate its mode of operation "TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. " Sir,—l think that in the Times, about a week ago, there was some notice taken of a new regulation by the Post-office authorities respecting the transmission of money by Post office orders, that the amount could be paid only to the person to whom it might be transmitted ; and at the same time, if my memory serves me correctly you doubted the existence of such a regulation, and denounced it as mischievous, annoying, and inconvenient. " I can now inform you, that such a regulation has been made, and is now in operation at the Post-office. Yesterday I sent my son, a youth of 17, to the Post-office with one of these orders for a small surn, and endorsed lily name on the back of it. He was told I must go myself, as the money could be paid to no one else. " Now, it so happens that it is not only inconvenient but it is next to impossible for me to go for it; and as the amount is trifling, I prefer the risk of losing it altogether to the risk of losing much more than it is worth by going fur it. I shall there fore return the order to the country, and trust to receiving the amount through some other channel. " There are hundreds who will do so, if this absurd regula tion be persisted in. I need not point out cases—take the merchant, or the poor man ; the one may not think the amount worth his personal trouble, the other, if he live at a distance, cannot afford to lose the value of half a day's labour. The mischievousness and inconvenience of such a regulation must be evident to every man, be his occupation what it may. " Suppose the editor of the Times were to receive a Post office order for a small sum, would he go for it himself? The order itself, taken as a matter of business, implies no such mischievous condition. It says credit the person according to my letter of advice, &c.,' alid his signature on the back of the order was always considered sufficient, and is as much protec tion for the payment of the money to the right person as this ridiculous regulation can possibly be. " The Post-office authorities have lately made a merit of re ducing the per-tentage upon monies transmitted by orders, but did they not calculate that many —very many persons, would prefer returning the order to the inconvenience of going for it, when a clerk or any other member of their family going for it would do as well—that the additional postage of sending the order back might compensate them for the reduction of the per-tentage? This is not an over strained conclusion. " Gray's-inn, Jan. 23." It appears that this subject was brought under the notice of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the management of the Post-office department, and is referred to in their tenth Report, published in January, 1838. These orders %ere then under the management of a distinct office specially established for that purpose in 1792, principally with a view to the ac commodation of soldiers and sailors. Some of the clerks of the Post-office at that time participated in its profits, but it afterwards devolved upon one of the Presidents of the inland department who advanced the capital required for the purpose. The authorised charge for those orders then was at the rate of Bd. in the pound for sums above 10s., a charge of 6d. being made for any remittance under 10s., in addition to which a stamp duty of ls. was payable by the sender of money orders to the amount of 21. and upwards. The profits of this business were at that time about 4001. a year, but the Commissioners recom mend the remission of the stamp duty, that the business should fall under the 'direct management of the Post-office, and that the profits, if any, should be carried to the account of the revenue. They are of opinion, at the same time, that all notion of profit from this source should be given up, as con. stituting, at a very small sacrifice, a most acceptable boon to the loner classes ; and they believe, if that were the case, that instead of 3s. or 4s. for an order for a couple of pounds, paya ble in Scotland or Ireland, the remittance might be made for as many pence. We are not aware whether these recommen dations of the Commissioners have been acted on, but their Report contains no hint of the necessity of any such absurd re gulation as that which is now complained of. It only requires to be added, that the whole case may be put before the public, that these money orders are resorted to very extensively by the lower classes generally, to a much greater degree than by soldiers and sailors, and more particularly by Irish labourers. The transactions in the Funds were not of any importance. CHRONICLE.—As regards the English Stock Market there is nothing new to remark, both with respect to the quo tations and the general appearance of things. Consols left off at 92a to for Money, and 92} buyers for the Account. Three-and-a- Half per Cent. Reduced are 1008 to ; ditto (new), 99,1 to -; Exchequer Bills, 65 to 67 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2021 to 203; and India Stock, 254 k to 2551. Spanish Securities continue to be extensively dealt in, under a strong impression which prevails that a new loan for Spain will shortly be introduced, and the circumstance of the French Ministry having resigned at this eventful moment, has necessarily much strengthened the favourable feeling, as every one expects the disposition of the Cabinet will now be greatly changed as regards Spanish matters. A letter, indeed, from a gentleman in Paris, whose positicn enables him to know what is going on, states, "Je vous affirme que Louis Philippe a dit bier au toir 011 etait temps de rentrer dans Ia Charte, et de marcher avec Popinion nationale.' " It is, therefore, generally expected that Spanish matters %ill now be taken up by the French Government. The following were the last prices :—Spanish Active, 20 to ; Portuguese Five I MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the New London Price Current of last Evening.) Socks.—The British Plantation Market has again been ir, a very dull state, in some instances rather lower prices have been submitted to, but importers generally have refused to sell excepting at previous rates; at public sale 100 hhds Barbadoes brought 64s a 67s 6d. By private treaty low middling Demerara have been sold at 60s. rather better Jamaica at 61s, good middling Demerara and Grenxda at 62s 6d to 635, and in this propottion other qualities can be bought. 37s 21d was the computed average price on the 22d instant, 3Ss 21d on the 23d January, 1838, and 33s I lsl on the 24th January, 1637. This afternoon the demand was very limited from grocers as well as refiners, the purchases for the week are only 1,300 hhds and trs at prices generally 6d lower. REFINED.—Prices have undergone no variation. In doutle crushed we have no sales to report. Treacle at the advanced rates of last week. In Bastards previous rates hare been supported. Pieces at formi.' quotations. . _ _ EAST INDIA.—In Bengal, no further reduction in prices has been sub. mitted to. Manilla and Siam are held for late rates. This after noon at public sale, 800 bags Bengal sold rather cheaper; middling yellowish white at 65s to 665, washed 64s to 68s, damps 65s to 67. per cwt. MAURITIUS.—Previous rates have not been supported by 6d per cwt ; at public sale 2,742 bags sold heavily, good yellow at 63s a 645, low to mid 57s a 58s. 6d. Motassos.—Prices of West India have undergorie no variation; de mand has been confined to two parcels of fine Demerara at 325. TEAL—The biddings have been very animated at the public sales this week, large parcels have been bought on speciilation from the trade, there has been a good demand for both black and green Tea, and the prices paid are on a par with those obtained in October; the sale will terminate on Tuesday. 173,000 pkgs have passed the chair, 90,000 of which have been actually sold. COFFEE.—For British Plantation no further reduction in prices has been submitted to; at public sale 144 casks Ilerbice only partly found buyers, mid to good mid at 106 s to 109 s, good and fine ord 94s a 98s. In East India descriptions no change has occurred. Mocha and Ceylon at former rates. One hundred and twenty casks and 226 bags Havannah from the Cape, at 9d duty were sold at 65s to 735. In Foreign the operations have been confined to the public sales of 1,847 bags, 53 boxes, 18 serons from Valparaiso, and 111 bags Bahia, which sold very briskly. The prices of the former were as fol low : —pale yellowish fine ordinary, clean and heavy, like Batavia 46s to 49s 6d, coloury fine ordinary 53s to 575, superior even ditto 58s to 625; the Bahia fetched 40. 6d for mixed quality, and 42. to 44s for coloury good ordinary. This afternoon the public sales consisted of 2,695 bags Brazil, 52 casks and 71 bags British Plantation ; of the former about half was sold at is decline, good to fine fine ord coloury brought 42s a 475; of the latter only a small part found buyers at former rates. Good mid Berbice at 108 s 6d a 109$ per cwt. Cocoa.—The demand for West India has subsided; prices have re mained firm. In Foreign there is no variation. FRUIT. —Currants have been rather mere inquiredi after; Denia Raisins in baskets continue to be taken off freely at the quotations ; at public sale 29 quarter brls, 203 small do, 95 chests, and 145 half chests, Prunes, chiefly bought in at 24s ; 300 quarter chests Imperial French Plums 575, 144 one-eighth boxes do 78s, 114 spa boxes do 100 s, car toons, halves, and quarters do 1201; 311 brls Greek Figs 40s a 411; 33 boxes Cape Raisins 335. SPICES. —At auction 590 bags ungifted Sumatra Black Pepper sold as follows :—ord dusty 31d a 31d, greyish 31d, fair aid per lb. Th e better descriptions of Cassia Lignea are in demand, fair quality 60a a 61s, but for ord sorts there are very few buyers, and 120 cases mixed and in ferior offered at public sale were taken in at 55s a 565. Pimento is not offered on lower terms. ' nub :fternoon 2,350 bags Pepper at eviction were principally sold at stiff prices, cob znon Sumatra at 3id, the remainder was bought in at 4d PaovtstoNa.—ln Butter Market lower prices have been accepted; the best Irish Butter is to 'e obtained at from 96s to 100 s, and fine Friesland at 110 s per cwt, Lard ull, but not lower. Bacon cannot be purchased on easier terms than last `reek, prime qualities still being worth 51s a 54s per cwt. RICE.—For East India no further reduction in prices has been sub mitted to ; Carolina at the reduced rates of last week. HUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Prices remain firm for all descrip_ tions of Rum. Brandy at late rates, Geneva at the prices of 14. 8 t week. British Corn Spirits lOs 6d per gallon. TALLow.—The market continues in the same dull state as we have noticed for several weeks past ; for Petersburgh Yellow Candle on the spot hokiers have submitted to the reduced rates of 55s 3d a 55s 6d for first quality ; for delivery in February, March, and April, there are sellers at 555. For the last three months, the quotations are still nominal at 525. . OfLs.—For cemmon descriptions of Fish Oils prices have undergone no particular variation since our last. For small quantities of Sperm buyers have been compelled to pay the advanced rates of 901 a 911. Linseed at 28s. Rape is not cheaper. In Olive prices are looking down. East India Cocoa Nut is without alteration. METALS.—British Iron continues in good demand, and prices are on the advance. In Foreign there has been a fair business doing at fully late rates. In English Lead large purchases have been made at the ad vanced rates quoted. Spanish in parcels has been sold at 191. Spelter on the spot has been in good request, and 211 na a been paid. E ist India Tin in small parcels has commanded 78s to 78s 6d for Straits and SOs for Banca ; 90 tons have arrived this week. English Tin and Tin Plates move off steadily at the quotations. Copper is firm, and in fair demand. SALTPETRIL—Rough is held firmly, English refined sold steadily at former rates. This afternoon 3,000 bags Calcutta were offered at public sale, 2,300 bags were taken in at 28s for 8i to 5 per cent refraction, the remainder sold rather cheaper, refraction 4i per cent at 28s a 28s Gd per cwt. lantao.—For Bengal there has been a good demand at the quarterly sale this week, and the advance previously established has been fully supported, but Oude and Manilla have sold without spirit, and prices art not so good as they were last week. The total quantity passed the sale is 8,985 chests, out of which 5,542 have been actually sold. PracE OF The highest price of Bread in the Good Bread may be had at 9d, PRICE OF SE Per Cwt. New English Red Clover7os. UV, 112 014 Ditto Ditto —B. —S. —8 New Foreign Ditty. 6Es. M. t 9;. Old Ditte Ditto s. 40;. Ms. New White Clover tiOs. 808. 90r. 014 Ditto Ditto s. 455. 6052 Now Trefoil 2O: 25s 20s. Ohl Ditto —a. ISs. rrefolitins lOs I Is. 13s. rnglish Carraway ...... 435. 46s Foreign Ditto. —s. 40s. 44s Coriander -•-•8 13s. 21.5. Rapeseed, English line ;per Las PRICES OF ' BREAD. Metropolis is llid. for the 41 Loot ; Jan. 25. Fer Quarter. St. Foin 40s. 44. 4f,, Rye Grass 29s :35-; 4 0 Micey Grass 4O; 15s. Linseed, for feeding 4os, 52, 50,. Ditto, for sewing —s. 58s. tas Ditto, for crushing s. 435. 50,. Canary —8 00, 98s Hemp —s !ids. ++24 Per Bushel. White Mustard Hs. ;•;.. lss. Brown Ditto lss. 22s Iqi Tares 4s. 63 ss. Od ;tj 3+51. 38, Foreign 34 , . 30s. HOPS.—Jan. 25. , . Farnham Pockets (per cwt.) 6! Os. 71. Iss. to 91. 5,. East Kant Pockets., • 4l 10s. 51. 15, to 8, Os. Ditto Bags ~ 4l 4s. 51 10;. to 7' 10, Mid Kent Pockets " 3/ lss. Si. 53. to 8' 8^ - Ditto Bags ....: : r. 101. 4: lOs c.,, 7.. 7s, Sussex • ' 3s. 31 15 to 4 10,, Yearlings ot. 10 :31. as. to 4/ 4 . Old Olds O/. 183 ~. 103. to 2 2s. PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPITA LFIE:.D S York Reds (from vessel) 4l 10s. to 51 Os. pot 00 Scotch Reds ditto . 4l. 55. to 41. 15s ditto Kidneys V. 105. to 51.. Os. ditto Shaws 2 . 15s. to 3-- ss. ditto PRICES OF LEATHER Per lb. d. to d. Per lb d. to 0. Crop Hides, 30 to 401 b. each 11 13 Horse Hides, German lO 21 .- --An 5n l2 16 -- Spanish ...... 12 21 50 60 l3 :8 Calf Skins, 30 to 4Clb. (doz )• ;4 I's dull Hides Butts, Vitriol - --- 50 60 s)7 '.. , 5 - English. - 70 100 .15 19 - Foreign ......... ..,.... 15 22 Scal Skins, large 11 ll' Foreign Hides lO 12 Dressing Hides - Shaved .. 12 15 Basils 6 11 Best Saddlers Hides . . ... .... 14 16 'Bellies Horse Hides, English • If rounded 2d. to 4d. per lb more. PRICE OF OIL. _ . _. . ..... Rape Oil, brown, per ton, 431. lUs.—Refined,44l. 10s.—Linseed Oil, 28!.+'s Unified Oil Cake at the Mill, (1000), l 3!. y —itape Cake, per too, 7 oe. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, Sic per 1121 b. town Tallow s9s. Od. Yellow Soap Yellow Russia White —s. Od. Curd —es , ),i Soap Ditto —s. Od. Graves l6B 0 i Melting Stuff 48... Od. Good Dregs Ditto Rough 3ls Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sib. Price of Tallow (as stated toy the Tallow !Welters) 3s 4 , PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles ir, the Retail Shops is as follows Candles, per dozen, Bs. 6d. ; inferior, 7s. 6d.—Moulds,lo; el Sixpence per dozen discount for cash. COAL M ARKEr—Jan. 25. Per Ton. o. Adair's ifs 6 Holywell plain 22 0 Lease's Main lO 0 Willington ylant 0 Walls End Bewicke and Co , 22 6 Walls End Clark and Co l9 6 Walls End Gosforth 2' 6 Walls End Heaton 3 e'er ( - 7.1 Walls End Hetton ........ 23 3 v.alls En , ' ' Walls End Pemberton 2O 0 a; ; End ,tewar Walls End Whitwell 22 3 Walls End Barrett 22 Walls End Barrington Tees 2l 11 wai, End i Walls End West Tees 2l 3 Walls End Killingworth 22 ?, I Ships arnver Fine, I; I Brampton Main l7 3 laht market-day, 12 R l ' CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEi , K Per Quarter. Whea... Barley. iaiis. ,ase. • Ashburn 64 80 40 4u • 28 33 ; 50 55 •••• 4..singstoke -- 76 DO 30 37 21; 28 35 48 28 50 4)..th Bridewater —..... 64 80 22 26 21) 25 3'; 21 42 46 Bristol.---• •63 80 24 32 It) 20 !34 38 i— Chesterfield —...... 54 82 30 34 20 29; 44 50 •- Derby .---- ; '76 85 30 31 24 '2B 44 46 Doncaster 174 80 35 44 2O 30 136 42 80 130 21 40 165 81 30 36 !20 28 ;36 40 ;72 84 31 37 24 31 ;40 45 39 56 53 66 26 , 38 22 29 ;it) 42 4 e Leicester—.—.. 83 24 44 34 • ;56 84 35 47 21 52 34 48 34 44 Renisey i 84 30 34 24 '27 38 40 Shaftesbury • 80 30 25 • 41 Shepton Mallet 69 84 j3O 36 20 25 36 50 Sherborne.„---- 72 60 28 34 21 26 38 44 76 29 18 —. 36 Yarmouth 80 84 30 33 28 30 41 42 41 42 Ye0vi1..,,,,,.,.....,.,....,. 68 83 ; '2B 33 •20 * 26 ' 38 44 i'er Bushel. s. d. s. 0. A. d s. tl. s.d. s.d. a d Shrewsbury'....— 10 it 117, 50 56 36 44 00 00 00 04 BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, Jan. 24. Wheat, 62 lb. Barley, Imperial quarter lB 6 43 0 Do. Grinding, 49 lb. Oats, 391 b Old Beans, 66 1 41 b l6' 6 18 0 New ditto New White Boiltig Pease, 3 imp. bush. Ditto Grey ditto MR. WARD'S ESSAY ON ENTHUSIASM.—The third story in Mr. Ward's " Pictures of the World," just pul l . lished, is preceded by an " Essay on Enthusiasm," which seems likely to add as much to the fame of the author of " Tremaine," as any of his more extended productions. In reviewing the work, the " New Monthly Magazine" ob serves :—" We cannot take leave of this stirring and exciting story, without noticing the admirable Essay on Enthusiasm.' by which the tale is introduced. It is one of the most rich and felicitous illustrations we are anywhere acquainted with of that rare union of the highest attributes of the intellect. with the most gentle and g. vial impulses of the heart—the most masculine understanding and good sense, with the warmest and tenderest sensibilities. There is a class of readers—not the least enlightened among the various classes to which Mr. Ward's writings appeal—who will look upon this Essay as the most enduring - gem, the crowning feature of the whole work." BERLIN, JAN. 15.—A report which we would will ingly believe to be unfounded, but which seems to gain ground, has been in circulation for some days past in well informed circles. Count Von Sedinitzky, Archbishop of Breslau, is said to have sent to the Government, and through it to the Pope, his resignation of his high dignity. Mr. Backhouse, Under-Secretar4 of State, left town suddenly on Tuesday la,t for Lanca,sidr , , on aLeuunt ul the serious illness of Mrs. Backhouse, his mother, of whose de cease intelligence has reached town since his departure. -POR'''N( TELLIGEWC HUNTING Al'l'olll 7.. TAIEN TS. Her Majesty's staghourids meet on Monday at Red Hill; W nesday, at Lovell Hill, Winkfield; Friday, at Itichings Park-1 1. The Brighton hairiers on Monday at Patcham ; Wednesday, At the Race Course; Friday, at the Dyke—ll. The Brookside harriers on Monday at Newmarket. Hill ; Thu rs day, at Telscombe Tye—half-past 10. Major-Gen. Wyndham's hounds on Monday ax Blackdown C Jot tags; Wednesday, at Thakenham ; Friday, at Slbillinglee Par I: half-pa=t 10. The East Sussex hounds on Monday at Abbot's Wood; Thur &lay, at the Bat and Ball ; Saturday. at Muddleswood Gat e—qr. to. 11. Mr. Mute's hounds on Monday at Trundley Wood ; Thursday, at Livermere—half-past 10. Mr. Meynell's hounds on Monday at Cabley Turnpike; Thurs day, at Ing,estrie ; Saturday. at Blythbury—half-past 1% ). Mr. D. Radcliffe's hounds on Monday at Oxten G. seen ; Wed nesday, at the Kennel ; Friday, at Heeled House—half—past 10. M r . S. 1, ?ten': hounds on Monday at the 4th mile -sty one Church Stretton-ro;d; Wednesday, at Birch Coppice; Friday, at Cruckton Hall—half-past 16. The Thanet harrier,: on Monday at Acol-10. Mr. S. Hellier's hounds on Monday at Baddesley Clintoli; Fridays at Preston Bagot—half-past Mr. W. Horlock's hounds on Monday at Rood Achtis n ; Wed nesday, at Neston Park Lodge ; Saturday, at Pomero Wth Mr. A. Smith's hounds on lionday Oare Hill ; Tut sday, at Red Rice; Thursday, at Lower Wick Farm ; Friday, at k verleigh Lord Portman's hounds on Monday at Turnroocl ; Thutsday, at Minis Hill. Sir C. Constable's hounds on Monday at Preston; Vric.'ay, at Catwiek-11. The Cottesmore hounds on Monday at Clipsham • Tue sday , at Witchlev Warren ; Thursday, at the Bull , Witham dommo n-11. Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds on Monday at Elton New Close ; Wed nesday, at Old Weston Windmill ; Friday, at Oxney House- —lO. The Tickham hounds on Monday at Rodersham Place ; Thurs.- thy, at Long Beach—half-past 10. Lord Yarborough's hounds on Monday at Aylesby Mill ;; Wed nesday, at Roxton Wood ; Friday, at Hambleton Hill-11. Sir R. Sutton's hounds on Monday at Linrood; Tuesday, at Sminethorpe ; Wednesday, at Gate Burton; Thursday, at lgocton; Saturday, at Wellingore-11. Lord Petre's hounds on Monday at Marga.retting ; Thurs day, at Danbury ; Saturday, at Bulphan.Fen—half-pait 10. The East Kent harriers on Monday at Little Moagehar.f-p. lO . The M. H. on Monday at Doles Ash ; Wednesday, at S•tinsford. Cross ; Friday, at Longbredy Hut. LLOYDS SHIPPING.--YESTERD AY. DEAL, JAN. 24.—Wind N. W.—Arrived, and proceeded for the River the Cecelia, Walker, from Sydney; Margaret, Parker, De merara ; Clyde, Kerr, Calcutta. Came down from the River, and ss Had, the' Agenoria, Dunn, for Marseilles; Kelpie, Lcnsdale, Canton; Ulysses, Riley, Calcutta. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 24.—Wind N. W. to N.N.W., fine.—Arri red ilia Victoria, Williamson, from Seaham, and has proceeded for ihr' west ward; Felicity, Windsor, London; Navigator, Stockton. Sailed, the Alexander, Self, for . Demerara; St. Croix, Bradley, London ; Young hall, Harris, Poole. PLVMOUTE, JAN. 23.- 7 Wind N.E.—Arrived, the Ann, Arthur,. from Cadiz; Albion, Clark, Galway. Sailed the John and James, Dal le, for Odessa; Dragon, Thacker, New Orleans ; Martha, Pearson, Sn iyrna. The Achilles, Verde, from London, for Sydney, New South Wale s, has put in here, making considerable quantity of water, having btren CR shore coming out of Portsmouth. FALMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Wind E.N.E. to N.E., moderate bre eges; ---- Arrived the Earl Stanhope, from London; Chilian, ditto; Trefusiss M`Kinnon, ditto ; Royal Adelaide, Vivian, ditto ; Lord O'Neil, Lea.. ditto. Sailed the Woodmanstern, for the Mauritius. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 24.—Wind N. W., Moderate.—Arrived the John, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Emerald, St. Michael's ; Flora, Doe , glas, Seville; Angelina, Lisbon ; Dinah, Oporto ; Cerf, Lason; Ageno* ria, Gijon ; Jamaica, and Fame,Bordeaux ; Star, Wexford; Valiant,New Tort ; Kitty, ditto; Criterion, London; Anne, Sydney; Charlotte, Newry. Put back, the Amanda, Anderson, for Naples; • Myvenheade Ostend; Auguste, ditto; Eleanora, ditto; Pauline, ditto; Actif, ditto. pgiaz,orc.e, JAN. 24.—Arrived the Fortune, Lizarda, from Cadiz. MILFORD, JA.x. 24.—Arrived the George the Fourth, Batten, from. Swansea, leaky, bound to Fayal ; Montcalm, Scott, Llanell y, leaky , bound to Marseilles. DOVER, JAN. 24.—Arrivesi off port Concordia, Borgman, l'antzic. MARGATE, JAN. 24.—Arrived off port Robert Newton, Taganrog. RAMSGATE, JAN. 24.—Arrivred the Charles Auguste, from London. DARTMOUTH, JAN. 23.—Arriveu i the Susan, from London for Dub lin, with cargo shifted, and must discharge ; Hector, Hondo/res. HULL, JAN. 24.—Wind N.W.—Asrived the Watson, Frost, from Riga; Mary and Ellen, Kiel. SHIELDS, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Maria Sophia, Jackson, from Kiel; Sigismunde, Schultz, Dantzig. WATERFORD, JAN. 21.—Arrived the Eagle, Buchanan, Newstadt. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 24.—The Industrie, Zreeloten, bound to Ostend, his put back, with loss of bowsprit and other damage, having been in contact with the Sir Charles Forbes, bcund to New South Wales, and must dis charge part of her cargo to stop a leak, caused by the author passsinge through her bow. COWES, JAN. 23.—The brig Fulmer, Collier, Maste, Is, from London to Constantinople, is coming in to have her bottom examined, having struck heavily on the shingles. WaverrweL, JAN. 24.—The Schmit, Brown, sailed hence sth Ult.. for Goole, and has not since been heard of. TaocoN, JAN 23.—The followifig vessels, which were st, randed durid% the gale, 7th inst., have been got nff :—Margaret, of Tra on ; Ariel, 01 Aberdeen; Margareqor Dundalk ; Betsey, (packet,) of Campbeltee o ; Elizabeth, of Bangor; Harmony, of Irvine; Endeavour, (v.r Holyhead. The Waterloo, of Belfast; and the Irvien, of Stringor; have both gone to pieces. BRISTOL, JAN. 24.—The Weenskapen from Cadiz, did ntotsail yester day as reported. REDCAR, JAN. 23.—The Enterprise, Berridge, from 1 rewcastle to Stockton, got on the South Gar, on the 21st., and sunk—drew saved: DARTMOUTH, JAN. 23 —The Ward, of Plymouth, was fl ilien in wit h on the 6th inst.. in tat. 45, long. 31, waterlogged, and abandoned, hi the Eliza, Follet, arrived at Vienna. SHOREHAM, JAN. 24.—The Willing Trader, from Riga, int cola - into harbour, got on shore, but without damage. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 24.—The Brunswick, Veal*, from London tO Malta, which put in here on the 21st., has been surveyed, and the the keel being much damaged she must discharge. Wzysiou'ru, JAN. 24.—The Commodore, from London to Elca te lr. which was on shore on Reswall Cove, has been got off, an d trough " into the harbour. MILFORD, JAN. 23.—Arrived the Malcolm, from Llannelly, Leak)" Enterprize, Thomas, Carnarvon. Sailed the Robert, Prett, Cronstadt. The Caledonia, bound to Trinidad, reported on shore on the Scra tcl'a touched the mud, but without the least damage, was soon afloat •LA proceeded. A quantity of wreck of a vessel, and a number of deals, were psE s ei on the 20th inst., N. W. of Scilly, the latter apparently not long in tl water, by the Albion. LOAD DURHAM.—The scenes of Russian life con" tained in Mr. liremner's work on Russia, we understand, are very different from most of those with which the English reader has yet been made acquainted, even by authors who had gone over the same ground. Instead of dwelling on the subjects which have occupied preceding travellers, the authors wo are informed, paints the bearded Muscovite during his holi day gambols in St. Petersburgh—the pea.aant by the way side —the boor in his sheepskin—the farmer in his field- 401 s'lepherdess surrounded by her motley .Iharge—the rude herdsman of the Ukrane among his beeves—tle Russian flro• ver on hii toilsome journey—the unhappy exi.le in his prison ani on his way to Siberian misery. But what will interest the English public at the present moment, more than all these, will doubtless be the long chapter, which we are told, is de.• voted to Lord Durham, and his conduct at St. Peta.rsburgh. = -- FLAT GOLD WATCHES, NINE GUINEAS EACH.—Some fine horizontal flat Gold Waistcoat "Watchenr jewelled in four holes, silver dials, hand ta mark the seconds, and double-back to the cases, warranted to perform correctly, Nina Guineas each ; or with gold dials, Ten Guineas each. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No. 9, Cornhill, London, apposite the Bank of England. LONDON MADE WATCHES.—T. COX SAVORY, 47, Cornhill ( Seven doors from Gracechurch-street) London, offers a very large Stock of Silver Watches at the Weg -. ing prices (Warranted) : Superior Watches on the Vertical Construction, jewelled, svith hand to mark the seconds , double backed engine-turned cases ..:£4 4 0 Watches on the celebrated patent-lever con struction, jewelled in four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, double-bottomed engine turned cases Either of the above constructions in hunting-cases would be 101. 6d. extra. Second-hand Watches taken in exchange. BIRTHS. At Beckett, on the 19th inst., the Viscountess Barrington, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at Hove, Brighton, Mrs. Daly, of a son. At Wandsworth distillery, Surrey, on the '22d inst., Mrs. Archibald Dunlop, of a son. On the 23d inst., at Trinity-wharf, Blackwall, Mrs. Jonathan Poulter, of a daughter. On the 24th inst., in Bernard-street, Russell-square, the lady of Richard Brinsley Dowling, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son- MARRIED. On the Bth inst., at Allhallows, Bread-street, George Selby, Esq., eldest son of George Selby, Esq., of St. John-street, to Ilas tha, youngest daughter of Thomas Wood, Esq. At Easterhill, Lanarkshire, on the 22d iust., the Rev. J. Web ster, 8.A., of Trinity College, Oxon, to Elizabeth, eldest daugh— ter of Robert Findlay, Esq. On the 23d inst., at St. Peter's-within-the-Tower, John Blogg, Esq., of Guildford-street, Russell-square, to Frances Jane, eldest daughter of Amos Hodgson, Esq., of th• Ordnance Office. On the 24th inst., at St. Mary-at-Hill, Henry Barnes, Esq., of Faversham, son of James Barnes, Esq., of Boughton-under-Blean, to Julia Esther, youngest daughter of the late Philip Les Vavas seur dit Durell, Esq., of St. Helier's, island of Jersey. On the 24th inst., at the Church of St. George-the-Martyr, Queen-square, Mr. Jonathan Barton. of Old Broad-street, to. Mary, eldest daughter of James Berkley, Esq., of Harpur-street, Bloomsbury. gD At Carruchan, near Dumfries, on Thursday, the 17th inst , after a short. illness, Mrs. Jane Maxwell, relict of the late Lieutenant- Colonel George Maxwell, of Carruchan, and eldest daughter of the late John Clark,. Esq., of Nunland. On the 25th inst., at his late residence, Preston Lodge, Lark hall, Clapham, Mr. William Bradwell, in his 67th year. On January 24th, at Bath, Christiana Cranstoun, the wife of G. C. Tugwell, Esq., aged 31 ; and on the same day, Thomas Cranstoun, and Charles, twin sons of the above. On the 23d inst., at Eton College, Elizabeth, fourth daughte of the late John Slingsby, Esq., of Windsor. On the 23d inst., at Burford Lodge, Dorking, aged 75, Mrs. Barclay, relict of the late George Barclay, Esq. On the 23d inst., Henry Hill, Esq., of Regent-street, Piccrs dilly, aged 57. On the 23d inst., aged 57, Charlotte, the wife of John Richards, Esq., of Devonshire-square. On the 23d inst., Sir. Richard Ward, of Great Russell-street Bloomsbury, aged 44. London c Printed and Publis'necl by :%1 U IWO YOUNG, o t No 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the county of Middlesex.—Saturday, January 26, 1839. t'" '.~`, cons Dk at 1 dor bet any HE Par. tui ip be; Paul Said C OT be l Ist As; an t Pu byt • T of L chit, .... It/ ln tit 5 tin Trlc Vo ta:l J