The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-13 00:00:00

The Queen's Advocate appeared on behalf of Mr. Clowes, and Dr. Adams for Mrs. Clowes. A mass of affidavits were read on both sides, for the purpose of first supporting an application on behalf of Mrs. Harriet Clowes for a restitution of conjugal rights by her husband, Mr. Edward Clowes, the son of Mr. Clowes, the well-known and extensive printer, which ap plication was met on the part of the husband with a charge of adultery against the wife, in consequence of which he claimed exemption from the discharge of any conjugal obligations. Such was the aspect under which the case now came before the Court, but circumstances superinducing this allegation and counter-allegation spread over a period of nearly five years. The following is a brief statement of all the main facts of the case as stated in the affidavits : It appeared, that in the early part of the year 1840 Mrs. Clowes, then Miss Harriet Jones, was an inmate of a boarding school, and an intimacy arose between them, the result of which was, that Miss Jones declared her self to be pregnant by Mr. Clowes, and he, after some hesitation, eventually consented to marry her. The husband alleged that she had contracted this marriage with him under a false impression, she being at the time about seventeen 3 ears of age, and he twenty-five years. During the time that Mrs. Clowes was residing at Ken nington, in the year 1841, she one day, during the tem porary absence of Mr. Clowes from home, had the infant, child of a peasant in South Wales brought to her, and upon his return she informed him that during his absence she had been confined of a fine male infant; showing him at the same time the child, which she was obliged to have procured under the circum stances first stated. They lived together after that event until the month of February, 1842, when he received certain information which induced him to suddenly leave Mrs. Clowes, who although she frequently made in quiries at both'the private house and business premises of her husband's rather, could receive no other information than that he had gone abroad, and was not likely to re turn. For a short time after the departure of her hus band, his father paid her a small weekly allowance, which he soon, however, withdrew. The family of Mr. Clowes then, through the agency of the police, tried to gain sufficient legal evidence upon which to obtain a divorce. A suit was instituted in the Consistory Court for this purpose the merits of which rested chiefly upon Mrs. Clowes having got married in a false name, but the Court decided that the allegation had not been fully proved, and refused the application. As soon as this case (which occupied the Court for nearly two years) was decided, Mrs. Clowes instituted the present suit for the restoration of conjugal rights which was met in bar with a counter-allegation, that the promoter of the suit had been guilty of adultery. The voluminous affidavits on the part of Mrs. Clowes, after denying the allegations with respect to procuring the child by fraud, stated that all those circumstances upon which her husband had sought to round the charge of adultery had been forced upon her by the fact of hav ing been abandoned by her husband and his family and left in a state of utter destitution. One case may be men tioned. She was compiled to advertise for a situation, when she was engaged as an attendant in a shop in the Strand, and upon going to the person who engaged her to take her in the evening to the premises, instead of doing so he placed her in a hackney-coach and caused her to be driven to a house of ill-fame in Gloucester-place. A mass of documentary evidence was put in to sup port the allegation of adultery against Mrs. Clowes, most of which was unfit fur publication. The last affi davit stated that Mr. Clowes was quite dependent' upon his father for support, and had not one penny of private property in his own right. The Learned ADVOCATE having been heard on the technical points of the case on each side, The further consideration of the suit was ordered to be adjourned. this day security in 201. that you will prosecute the appeal ; and if you do not prosecute it, you, or your security, must pay that 201. I have inflicted a very slight fine, when I had it in my power to inflict a penalty of 101. The defendant took the advice, and his promise to pay on Saturday next was accepted. A respectable elderly man, named Richard Hold ing, appeared to prefer a complaint against one of the crew belonging to the omnibuses which ply to and from Gracechurch-street. By some accident the wrong person was summoned, but that person also proved to have offended. His name was John Fox, and his badge number was 906. Mr. Holding, who described the affair in so lively a manner as to cause some mirth, said, " My Lord, as I was passing along the Cross Keys Inn, in Grace church-street, I saw several of the omnibus con ductors about the neighbourhood, and one of them, but not the man at the bar, came up to me, and, taking me by the shoulder, he said, ' I say, your name is Watson, ar'n't it ? Why, you are my father.' ' No, it isn't my name,' says I, and I'd be very sorry to have such a son.'—(Laughter.) So he shook me ,again, and said he knew I was his father. W e ll, I go away from that gentleman, but not far, wh en I saw e defendant, and who was one o f th e p ar t y . ' Wh ,' says the defendant, ' your name i s W a t son ; away I know it is. You are Watson. You are a lawyer. I hate lawyers:—(A laugh.) I again said that my name was not Watson. ' I know it is 'Watson, you old —,' says he, and he put his face up to mine ; ' and you are a lawyer, and I hate lawyers. Now I am no lawyer; I am a miller."—(A laugh.) The defendant, who had all the appearance of a larking gentleman of the omnibus fraternity, denied that he had said a word of an offensive kind. The LORD MAYOR—The summons charges the defendant with an assault, which was committed by another person. If you can find the party who shook you I shall deal with him, and if you had summoned this man for using language calculated to lead to a breach of the peace, I could now fine him to the amount of 21. As it is, I must discharge him. Mr. Holding said he should endeavour to bring the first offender, who called him father, before his Lordship. The LORD MAYOR informed the complainant that the police would render him every assistance. ......... CLERKEIV WELL. John Cayford, the driver of the cabriolet 742, was charged with having been drunk and assaulting Mrs. Louisa Meetyard and Miss Adelaide Knight, the wife and sister-in-law of Mr. Horace W. Meet yard, barrister-at-law, No. 3, Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn. Mrs. Meetyard stated that on the previous night, between six and seven o'clock, herself, sister, and husband, having dressed to go to a dinner party, she sent the servant for a cab to convey them thither. The prisoner came ; witness and her sister got into the cab, but they had not proceeded more than a few paces when the door of the cab flew open. The prisoner, jumping down from the cab, said witness's servant had damaged the door in shutting it, and thereupon used the vilest language. Witness, being alarmed, told him to drive on, an d s h e would hold the door. He refused, and said he would not go a step, and again used the most dreadful language. Witness, being greatly terrified, as they could not account for his frightful conduct, jumped out of the cab with her sister ; they had no bonnets on, and their necks were bare. They had not gone more than a few yards when the prisoner ran after them, and seizing her neck in his hand shook her. He seized her sister in the same manner; he demanded money, but she was so dread. fully agitated that she could not tell what she said. Mr. Meetyard at that moment came up. She had not refused to pay him. Mr. Meetyard said, when he came up the prisoner had hold of both ladies, and Miss Knight was just on the point of falling in the mud from his violence; both ladies were terribly frightened, and were crying all night. They had not gone 50 yards from his residence when this conduct took place. He was mauling about the ladies shamefully, and witness gave him into the custody of a police constable. Police -constable 97 E captured the prisoner, who was drunk. Mr. COMBE—What have you got to say, prisoner ? Prisoner—What do I say ? Why, I know I did not use any bad language; but I have no recollection of the assault. I wanted my fare (Bd.) for taking me from my stand. The prisoner's master was not present, but the yard- keeper came forward and gave him a good Character. , Mr. COMBE—WeII, Mr. Meetyard, it app ears thi s man has a good character. I suppose you don't wish him to be very severely punished ? Mr. Meetyard said he would leave it entirely to the magistrate. The ladies were shamefully pulled about. Mr. COMBE, after telling the prisoner that he had subjected himself to two fines of Si. each, and two months' imprisonment, with or without hard labour, sentenced him to pay a fine of 11. The fine was paid in half an hour after. MARYLEBONE. DISORDERLY PAUPERS.—Three young women, named Turner, Elliott, and Knott, were charged with riotous conduct in the Marylebone Workhouse. Mr. James Jones, the master of the workhouse, stated that about eight o'clock last night he was told that the defendants were burning something. He proceeded to the females' ward and saw them burning the stuffing of their beds. They had broken up some of the furniture in the ward and were burning portions of it. Elliott threw the burning embers about and exclaimed " We will burn all the old devils (meaning the inmates) in their beds." They were committed for twenty-one days. Two other girls, named Tenfold and Sexton, were also charged with riotous conduct in the workhouse. Mr. Jones stated, that when he was giving the abovenamed females in charge, last night, the pri soners obtained a ladl e , and Sexton smashed twelve squares of glass with it, and Penfold four squares. They were committed for six weeks, the extended period under the amended Poor-law Act. WORSHIP-STREET. On Monday a dissipated-looking fellow, named Joshua Chatfield, was charged with a brutal assault upon his wife, a delicate little woman, in an advanced stage of pregnancy, and whose face was shockingly swollen and disfigured. She stated that the prisoner, who was by trade an engineer, and capable of earning 40s. per week, and by whom she had had eleven chil dren, was a most drunken fellow, and whenever in that state, which was of daily occurrence , i nvar i a b ly ill-used her. On',Saturday night he returned home drunk, as usual, and presented her with 55., which was all he had left of his wages, with 4s. of which POLICE INTELLIGENCE. he ordered her to redeem from the pawnbroker's his (YESTERDAY.) hoots, which he had himself pledged during the week MANSION -HOUSE. to procure drink, and with the remaining shilling told Yesterday Mr. Cooper, the honorary secretary to her to procure food and other necessaries for the Sun the Waterman's Company, attended before the Lord (lay. She begged him to give her more money, as Mayor to prefer a complaint against a man named the shilling was quite inadequate for their wants, on Young, for having carried fish in his skiff from a which he abused her with the coarsest language, and vessel in the lower part of the river to Billingsgate, commenced a most violent attack upon her, striking he not being free of the Waterman's C ompany , her about the ribs, and knocki ng h er d own an d ki c k- He stet( d that th e f ree watermen of 'Wool- ing her for more Ilan half an hour. Her cries at last wich and Greenwich, who had served their time, arrested the attention of a policeman, who forced his and were entitled to certain privile ges , f e lt i n way into the place, and found the woman crouched a severe manner the consequences arising from up and bent together in one of the corners of the the constant invasion of those privileges by men room, with nothing on her but her night dress, which who had no claims at all, so that if they did not meet was torn to pieces ; blood was flowing profusely from with protection from the magistrates of London, their her mouth, and she had every appearance of having means of support, already greatly diminished by a been most brutally treated. great variety of inevitable causes , mus t b e a l together Mr.BROUGHTON characteri se d th e case as one o f t h e THE MEDITERRANEAN AND INDIA MAILS.---The most brutal assaults th a t h a d ever come b efore him 2 following notice w as i ssue d on M on d ay morning from the extinguished. James Dowse, a free w ater man , stated that he re- and said he regretted that h e was not empowered General Post-offic e , St. M art i n ' s l e G rand :—The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malta ' sided at Greenwich ; that on the 21 s t o f O c t o b er l ie to send the husband to pri son f or a t l eas t s i x months, Greece, and the lonian Islands, will be made up on , observed the defendant go alongside a vessel which as he richly deserved that extent of punishment. Ile, Thursday morning next, the 14th instant, and for Egypt, had fish on board ; arid witness applied to the captain however, should punish him to the full extent of his India, Hong-Kong, and China, on the morning of the 3d for an engagement to do the work. The captain said power, and sentence the prisoner to pay 51. to the of December, via Southampton. By the overland closed he did not want any man, as he had one (the d e - ; Queen, and in default o f p a y men t h e mus t un d ergo ma il t o I n di a, & c., on t h e evening of the 7th of fendant). 'Witness said the defendant was not a free two months' imprisonment and hard labour in the September, via Marseilles. The West Indies, Sac.—The Waterman ; but the capt a i n did not care a b out that H ouse o f C orrect i on. next mails for Madeir a , th e W es t I n di es , B ermu d a, N ew objection, and employed the defendant, who took the The prisoner, who was astounded at the sentence, Granada, San Juan de Nicaragua, and V enezue l a , on t h e fish on beard hi s s kiff, an d l anded i t at Billingsgate, was afterwards carried off in the van. morning of the lathinstant, by the Severn s t eamer , v i a Southampton. The postage upon all letters posted in for which labour the captain paid him, next day, the THAMES the United Kingdom, and addressed to Venezuela, and sum'of 1/. Is. James Rich, a young man of wild and haggard The evidence having been confirmed by another aspect, was on Monday charged with having made a vice vers a , when conveyed direct by packet-boat,' is reduced to'the uniform rate of one shilling the half ounce free waterman, desperate effort at self.destruction by hanging himself t wo shilli ngs the ounce, and so on in proportion. The J. 11. Howe (of the Waterman's Company) was with his pocket-handkerchief in an outhouse attached postage, however, on letters dispatched from the United called upon to pr ove th a t t h e defendant was not a to his fath er ' s prem i ses. Kingdom must be paid in advance. The next mails for freeman of the Waterman's Company. The proof It appeared that he had been subject to fits from British North America, Bermuda, and the United States', was given ; and hydrophobia for the last eight years. As far back as will be made up on the morning of the 18th instant, and The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant what he that time he had been bitten by a dog, and exhibited hydrophobia, though forwarded by th e C a l e d on i a steamer , v i a Li verpoo l , decided sympt oms of had to say in his defence P—The defenda n t declared Halifax, and Boston. Letters and newspapers to Hol that he considered himself to be as good a waterrnan wounded parts were excised. When he was seized land, to be forwarded by the mail to Holland, will hence as any freeman of the Waterman's Company. It was with the fits his bark (it was stated) was scarcely I distinguidog. He also exhi- forth be received at this office, and at the branch offices shable from that of a and receiving houses in London, on the mornings of true he did not belong to that Company, but he had bited a horror of water.,. is Wednesdays and Saturdays, to be dispatched by that a license, which had been granted by the Elder Mr. BRODERIP-1 his a most extraordinary chaasvee. mail on those mornings, up to the following hours, viz., I I t h ' o a r C letters having - c a r t e s t a ir a a Londond old an a d n and e a! Brethren of the Trinity, who informed him that it I never ht'ardof such a one before, thou h I made him equal to any free waterman, and that he aid considerable . attention to . and re a , m tolerably g cor . i. rough branch offices, until 7, eat. At the chief was at liberty to ply his fare, and do everything else P versant with the subject. cMcceettiavuvrietnnintgnidl.sihsB o l h e u: .3 - sso e set Cavendish -street, tn i ~dt and F7 n d e For r. a o : nri .oet Borough g e e Lombard-streetahptabptrhearenac.newspapers.—At -hAo affirt ientehgs e, they did. Mr. Cooper said the Trinity-house license allowed cases where the symptoms were decidedly manifested the owner of boats to carry passengers, but not goods. hydrophobia terminated fatally. The LORD Mayors said there was no doubt what- 1 The prisoner was given up to his friends, who were until 7 30 A.M. ; at the chief office, St. Martin's-le ever of the violation of the law by the defendant, the cautioned by the magistrate to take great care of him. Grand, and at the Lombard -street branch-office until 7 LA MB E T II- S TR E E7'. very wording of whose license by the Elder Brethren 45 A.M. Letters and newspapers are dispatched every of the Trinity proved th a t h e was not empowered to I O n M on d ay C ap t a i n S amue l W ee k s , mas t er o f the evening (Sundays except e d) f or F rance and Belgium, carry goods for hire, whatever he might do with I Maria Louisa, a vessel lying in the London Docks, and vice versa. regard to carrying persons. As, however, the de- I and just arrived from Oporto, and James I?amfellon 7 HADDINGTON CHURCH—ATTEMPTED BURNING.— fendant might not have known that he w as ac t ua ll y 1 a seaman on board his ship, were charged with smug• On Saturday afternoon, as the two beadles ente re d t h e transgressing, the p ena lt y w hi c h t h e mag i strate had g li ng. parish church of Haddington, to remove the c over i ngs the power to inflict should be greatly reduced. I Walden, a Customs' officer, found concealed upon , from the seats for Sabbath, they discovered th a t th e east - The d e f en d an t sa id h e f e l t i ncl i ned to take the case the first prisoner's per son t wo pint bottles and a small 1 door was burnt to a considerable extent, and had fallen A train of fire had been applied to the Quarter Sessions. decanter, all filled with Faench brandy. On the ! from its lower hinges. The co • mplam an t Dowse, said the defendant, and person of the other he also found a small decanter of I while terfered men similarly' • I had penetrated about half-way through the wood, situated, not only constantly in- brandy, and, near to the spot where he had been I to the door along the bottom, which, close to the ground, terfered with that privilege ' y b of the free watermen, but searched he found a package containing nearly added insult to injury a the inside, stones were found lying in the passage, which sonal chastisement uryonyththereatening to inflict per- pound weight of foreign-manufactured tobacco, which I ! around the lower hinge it had entirely consumed it. In had been thrown through the panes of glass immediately actual loss of the means p of living,T he injury was the the prisoner Rainfellon subsequently admitted he had I above the door, and Lucifer matches were found about the dropped. The LORD MAYOR said the defendant was cone The captain pleaded perfect ignorance of doing victed in the penalty of ten shill' foot of the door, which led to the suspicion that the fire The defendant repeated that h i e ng se s i h wrong in carrying so small a quantity his of own Sheriff and other authorities, were active on Saturday , had been wilful. The Provost, Procurator-Fiscal, The LORD MAYOR-You had bettaeto apPeal. stores out with him, though he admitted he had sailed and on Monday in taking the necessary steps to discolar if you appeal, produ ce London, before you appeal. You must, eree well for upwards of nine , years in and out of the port of , the origin of the fire. Suspicion, as yet, attaches to no I particular party.—Scotsman. The captain was convicted in the penalty of 51., and his man in 205., both of which the captain in stantly paid. George Ramfellon, the brother of one of the last prisoners, and who is a labourer belonging to the Lon don Dock, was also convicted in the penalty of 205., for having in his possession 1 lb. of tobacco. This prisoner was taken at the same time with the others, but less fortunate than them, and his circum stances being much more humble than the captain's, he was locked up and kept in custody till brought to this Court. He, too, paid the fine, and was discharged. WANDSWORTH. On Monday Maria Newton, an emaciated and care worn looking woman, was charged with deserting her child and leaving it chargeable to the parish of Wands worth. Mr. Unwin, the relieving officer, stated that he had adopted the only course open to him, that of charging the defendant with deserting the child, which was in the union, in order that both mother and child might be removed to their own settlement. SHERIFFS' COURT, Nov. 12. SALMON V. ISAILkY. This was an action for an assault and for the injury done to the character of the plaintiff, by a false accusa tion of an attempt to pass false coin. Mr. Bailey, the defendant, is a butcher, residing in Tottenham-court-road ; and Mr. Salmon is a coach maker, in the same neighbourhood. Martha Heed deposed that on Saturday, 28th Sep tember, she accompanied sirs. Salmon to market. That they entered a public-house together in order to obtain change of a sovereign. They afterwards went into de fondant's shop for the purpose of purchasing meat. Mrs. Salmon bought meat . to the value of 2s. 10. and gave Mrs. Bailey the sum of two shillings and sixpence. Having left the shop without her change, she returned to obtain it, when Mrs. Bailey, who had taken the money, did not deny that she had neglected to give plaintiff the change, but asserted that the sixpence was a bad one. Witness said that it was not a bad sixpence, and that the coin produced was not that which plaintiff had given ; she knew that from the fact that the money which Mrs. Bailey produced was black, and that given to the plaintiff was not. Mrs. Bailey referred to her husband, who said that the money was bad, and, after a great deal of altercation; turned the plaintiff and the witness out of the shop, and thrust the former out with such force, that if she had not been caught by a by stander she would have fallen in the kennel. He afterwards seized upon her violently, and shook her in such a manner that she feared she would lose some money which she had in her hand, and, when she persisted in asking for her change, he gave her in.charge for attempting to pass bad money. The policeman, E 98, deposed to having taken plain tiff into custody, and to defendant sending a message to the station-house to the effect that he did not wish to press the charge, upon which plaintiff was liberated. Mr. BALLANTTNE addressed the jury at great length, setting forth several circumstances in mitigation He said that it could not be denied that defendant had acted very hastily, but he thought the jury need not give more than nominal damages, as there were several circumstances which seemed to support the charge against plaintiff, although no one could for an instant suspect her or her friend, after hearing the whole of the circumstances. The jury found for plaintiff, with 5/. damages. There were this morning several other cases, but of no importance. The defendant said she had just got into a little work, and she was willing to take the child off the hands of the parish. If she was passed to her own parish she would be thrown among strangers, and should be obliged to return to Wandsworth. Mr. CLivs observed, that if the defendant, after being passed to her own parish a second time, re turned, she would be liable to imprisonment for 21 days. Defendant said she did not wish to go into the workhouse. She was willing to work and maintain the child. Mr. Unwin suggested to the defendant that she had better come into the lIMISd ; she would leave a situa tion of misery for one of comfort. The defendant again expressed her repugnance at entering the workhouse, and said she would prefer going to a gaol. Mr. CLIVE said this was a very melancholy case. Here was a woman willing to work and maintain her independence, and he did not like to give an order for her removal into the workhouse, to which she ap peared to entertain so great a repugnance. At the same time, she was strictly liable in law for me glecting to keep her child after she came out o prison. The defendant said she earned from Is. Gd. to 2s. a-day at washing and charing, and was certain o being employed three days in the week. Her eldest daughter, who lived with her, earned from Gs. to 7s. per week. Mr. CLIVE asked the defendant if she had since her confinement been enabled to purchase any fur niture ? The defendant replied that she had not ; ail she had in the room was a sack of shavings, upon which she, her infant, and her daughter slept. She trusted, however, that the should soon get round again. Mr. CLIMB thought that the defendant's case was one deserving of commiseration. He could under stand the feeling that induced her to keep out of the house. She was evidently an industrious woman, and preferred enduring the greatest privations to be coming a burden upon the parish. He thought, under the circumstances, he could not do better than , appropriate a portion of those funds placed in his hands by benevolent persons to her relief. He should, therefore, allow her as much as would purchase a few necessary articles of furniture. The child would be delivered up to her at the expiration of three days. The poor woman appeared most grateful for the kindness shown her. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 12. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.) • 4 IN RE HENRY CATON, BUTCHBR, HATFIELD. The insolvent applied for his interim order, but was opposed by Mr. Bagley, on the part of several creditors, and on the ground that the case was out of the jurisdic tion of the Court, the insolvent having been a trader, and the debts upwards of 300/. The schedule, however, eXhibited only debts to the amount of 284/. The insol vent had, it appeared, compounded with his creditors in 1843, and the composition had been paid up, in full of all claims. But afterwards it appeared that, through igno rance, the insolvent had entered many of those persons on his present schedule. He was therefore ordered to amend and exhibit it to his creditors, before coming up for his final order. HEAVY GALE AT LIVERPOOL. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. During the night we have been visited with a heavy gale from the north-west, and it still continues to blow freshly. A few disasters have occurred, not, however, of a fatal character : The Albion of this morning contains the following from a correspondent at Wexford : (Before Mr. Commissioner' HOLROYD.) Ix RE GEORGE FIELDING, OF TIIAME, OXFORD, Tho bankrupt, an ironmonger, in extensive business, was oppoared by Mr. Edwin James, for the assignees, on the ground that the accounts were not properly rendered. His Hozcona adjourned the further hearing, but or • dared that'the solicitor to the assignees should furnish the bankrupt's accountant with a written notice of what they required in good time before next examination. " Wexford, Nov. 8. "The weather during last night was very severe, blowing a gale of wind, and with rain. I regret to say. that the ship James Matheson, from Liverpool to Cuching, Hong-Kong, and Whampoa, went on shore this morning in North Bay, near Raven Ppint. The active agent for Lloyd's, Mr. F. Harpur, started this morning, at seven o'clock, for the scene of distress. I am happy to say the crew are all saved, the captain being the last to leave the ship. I very much regret the above melancholy occurrence, and it points out most foreib:y the necessity of putting a light-ship on the south end of Blackwater Bank, or adopting some other measure for preventing the loss of lives and property so fre quently occurring on this coast." A subsequent communication from the agent for Lloyd's states, that he expects to save the materials and cargo, though we believe in a damaged condition. The Troy, from New Orleans, which was on shore on the bar near New Orleans for some time, was blown on shore near Wilson's ship-building yards. We under stand she has got off again. The Santos, in coming in, went on shoe in the Rock Channel. She has got off. This fine wind will bring up the arrivals from foreign ports in double quick time. Already they are very numerous, The other prisoner said he had carried the brandy at the request of his captain, but the tobacco was his own property, as he had purchased it from his captain. Mr. HENRY inquired how it was that the charge against the prisoners had not been entered on a police sheet, and brought before him in the ordinary way ? 'Walden, the Customs' officer, replied that the fact was, that at the earnest entreaties of the captain, and his representing the great inconvenience he would be put to by being detained, he (Walden) had permitted him to go at large upon his pledging his word of onour to attend before a Magistrate on this day, and he had kept his word. • Mr. HENRY —Did you make any inquiries as to whether he was really the captain of the ship before you allowed him to go at large ? Walden (evidently much posed by the question)—To tell the truth, I did not, your Worship. I may have acted wrong, but as the captain told me he had to report his ship this morning, and would be put to great inconve nience if detained, I allowed him to go. Mr. IIENay —No doubt it is a great inconvenience to any person to be kept in custody; but the law does not give a person in your situation any discretion in the matter. It is your duty to detain any person found guilty of smuggling, no matter what their rank or station, until conveyed before a magistrate; and therefore you have acted illegally in allowing the prisoners to go at large, and that, too, without even making the slightest inquiry about the truth or false hood of their representations, though the vessel was in the dock close by. Walden—l judged from his appearance, your Wor shi, he was what he represented himself to be. In reply to further questions put to Walden, and a dock-officer named Fryer, it appeared that no repre sentation whatever of the transaction had been made at the police station-house in the dock, or report to the Customs' authorities, upon which Mr. HENRY remarked that it was possible, but from the fact of the captain and his man coming forward, that the public would not have heard anything of the case. The admission of the Customs' officer disclosed an extreme laxity in the present system, or rather want of system, which should be at once put an end to. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 13, 1844. THE DUTY OF GOVERNMENT TO THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES. (From the Sentinel.) The condition of the working-classes has now fairly and fully forced itself on the notice of the public. Newspapers of every shade of politics acknowledge the prostration of industry, however they may differ as to the remedial measures which ought to be adopted. Poaching and incendiarism in the rural districts, suicide and prostitution in the metropolis, with the state of the unions both in town and country, hare begun to alarm property, and the rich already despair of the conserva tive efficacy of soldiers and police. Emigration, allot ments, organic chemistry, free-trade, the confiscation of church-lands, a reduction in the interest of the fund holder, and even the total repudiation of the public debt, are among the various schemes propounded for averting that direful catastrophe which all feel is fast ap proaching. The political avalanche is, indeed, impend ing over our heads, and gives signs of a speedy fall, threatening to sweep away the useful and the useless, the good and the bad, the pa lace and the workhouse. There is not a class in society free from uneasiness, while the vast majority are thoroughly discontented, being convinced that any change could not work more evil to them than they now endure ; and when that feeling becomes the faith of the millions, all the moral securities fur order and govern ment are at end. 'Wealth can then only sleep with bolted doors and loaded pistols at his bedside. We believe that there is yet time to avert revolution and secure the interests of all, and with that view we shall venture to propound a plan at once simple and efficacious, which will give fresh guarantees to every de scription of legitimate property, and put an end to pau perism, poaching, incendiarism, and all the crimes and convulsions which follow in their train. All that we take for granted is, that Government is bound to pro tect property, and to recognise labour as property. Whence comes our present danger ? From the in ability of employing our working population at remu nerating wages ; and, as their numbers are annually increasing, their labour, that is to say, their property, is depreciated from year to year. On the other hand, they who now possess the fixed capital of the country, find that sort of property appreciated from year to year, since competition among producers must always tend to cheapen produce, and cheapn ess i s equ i va l ent to an in crease of wealth in the hands of those who consume, but do not produce. If no disturbing cause intervenes, this disparity between the two great classes, here indicated, must constantly become more and more unequal, till we behold the broadly-defined contrast of excessive super fluity and extreme destitution. 'When that point is reached, the war between iron and gold commences, and to that point we are tending. In the moral, as well as '1 the physical world, there are periods of destruction e restitution, and in both the catastrophe happens hen the component elements in their constitution cease to be conservatively balanced. The great error, not to use so harsh a term as wicked ness of our Government, has been, and still is, to legislate for the vested interests of the rich, to the utter disregard of those of the poor. Statesmen have affixed far too limited a meaning to the word " property ;" they have confined it to land, buildings, pensions, sinecures, and certain profits arising out of certain trades, which they have fortified by monopolies ; but, in their definition of property, they have never included labour. In reference to the masses of the people, the business of statesman ship seems to have consisted, first, in excluding them from all voice in making the laws ; secondly, in taxing them on all articles of their consumption ; thirdly, in taxing them to pay a standing army and police when ever they dared to protest against misrule; and fourthly, in depriving them of markets for their labour, in order that, by such deprivation, other kinds of property, be longing to those who make the laws, may be raised in value. In reference to non-producers, statesmanship has acted in a very different spirit. Whenever their vested interests have been infringed, compensation has been awarded to them ; thus the slave owners were compensated ; and the same rule has been invariably applied to pensioners and sinecurists. But when a tariff has narrowed the labour market, and de stroyed the vested interests of the working classes by depreciating their property, no compensation whatever has been voted to them by Parliament. When bread was made dear by law, and labour scarce, the Legisla ture separated a man from his wife for the crime of being hungry, after having put the loaf beyond his reach; and, if he ventured to trespass on the vested interests of game preserves, and seize a hare or partridge, then the Legis lature provided him a lodging in the county gaol, leaving his wife and children to the scant dietary of the unions. Now, this truly infernal system must be fundamen tally changed. Government must find labour for the unemployed. That is the remedy we propose. The details of the plan are not difficult. The Crown and waste lands would give occupation to hundreds of thou sands in bringing them into culture by spade husbandry; railroads would engage others ; public harbours would afford another field for industry. But how are these men to be paid ? Let us first ask those who put the question, what they think of a Government who are so cruel as to tax its subjects, and so little skilful as not to be able to employ them ? Can they honestly tax labour to pay the fundholders, for example, and not tax the fundholders to pay labour ? If statesmanship can only achieve such triumphs as these, let it be classed in the category of swindling. We say it fearlessly,—a Go vernment merits subversion which taxes the people, and declares itself incompetent to pay them for their labour. Why the law would scarcely allow a man to keep a horse and ride it, unless he fed the animal; and shall our Con stitution throw its shield over the brutes, and refuse pro tection to the sons and daughters of industry ? But the mode of payment is not difficult. Since we vote thirty millions annually to pay the fundholder, let us vote half that sum to pay the unemployed poor, and for that purpose issue Government notes, not bearing interest, convertible into gold at its market price, and receiving the character of a legal tender, being an ac quittance of taxes at the Exchequer. A single example will serve to illustrate the plan and the manner in which it would work. S uppose G overn . ment were to determine on constructing a railway from London to York. It would invite all the unemployed to apply to the proper superintendents, every man re ceiving a fixed weekly salary, at a minimum of wages, which we shall assume to be two shillings daily. Every man who could not get work from private employers would repair to the public work, and all able-bodied paupers would be sent to the stations on the line. The first step, then, in the process would be the abolition of pauperism, and the emptying of the unions of all but the aged and the crippled, whose infirmities entitled them to a national a s y lu m . In the next place, it would ra i se wages , permanently, all over th e country, in every trade andrie gages calling,oe great since two shillings hbi p benefit ui n per diem, whi c h we h ave assumed to . Of co urse a ll pr i ces would of the pr o d uc i ng c l asses . T o h u e ld w b a e g carious Government wo r k s stt belowbhe t hte.t mnee ni e vete capitali s t s cou ld never minimum. lower t w e d s distributed a uted in the purchase of all kinds of commodities, and increase the ho me tra d e. T hose wages would be paid its symbolic money, and being taken in payment of taxes, would discha rge C ustoms, E xc i se, Stamps, and all other imposts annually due to the Go vernment, On whatever work the men were employed, that work would form an addition to the real wealth of the nation when completed. If a line of railway, for in stance, were constructed on this principle, it would be come national property, and all wou ld b ene fit b y t h e cheapness of transit, as it could be let to a company for a term of years at a competition tender, such company merely farming the power of conveying goods and pas sengers, the plant of the railway remaining in the nation. Waste lands brought into culture under this system could be let on perpetual leases at corn rents, which rents might be annually applied to the reduction of the national debt. New harbours thus created would be free of dues, or at most no more dues need be levied than w ou ld k ee p th em i n repa i r . The space to which a single article is limited forbids so full an exposition of the details of this system, as we deem necessary—a defect which we shall supply in our next number. For the present we must be content with announcing the principle on which this remedial measure is based. We hold that a Government which levies taxes on the working classes is - boUndicTfind employment for the working classes, particularly such a Government as ours, which narrows the labour-market by deliberate legislation, and thus prevents private capitalists from giving that employment which they might be able to give, if restrictions on trade were abolished. 'We contend that poaching, incendiarism, and nine-tenths of the offences committed against property, are instigated by those various Acts of Parliament which deprive men of food, lodging, and raiment, by depriving them of employment ; and consequently, that those who enact such unjust laws are more deserving of incarceration than those who break them. Nay, more—we insist that it would be more humane to legalise infanticide, than to continue the laws which prevent fathers from earning wherewithal to support their children, who are doomed to perish for want of a sufficiency of food. We deny the right of the Legislature to employ soldiers and police for the protection of property, unless they also give an ade quate protection to labour ; and by " adequate protec tion," we mean that the Government is bound to find employment for every man able to work, but who fails to find employment from private capitalists ; and we hold this obligation the more sacred in this country, where the working classes are taxed without being re. presented. THE ITALIAN OPERA AT PARIS.—M. Fatel, the manager of the Paris Italian Opera, is placed in in an awk ward predicament by Victor Hugo's persistence in terdicting the performance of Lucrezia Borgia and .Xrnan i , at Les Italiens ; and the author of Aornza has also for bidden the directeur to represent his opera. M. Fatel is at the same time involved in law proceedings with the well-known composer Conradin Kreutzer, which cre a t es much attention at the present moment in the Parisian musical circles. The litigation is owing to an agree ment having been entered into between the manager and composer, to the effect that Kreutzer's opera, U . ne Nuit a Grenade, was to be r e presented at the Paris Italian Opera this season. The parts being destined for Mdlle. Nissen, Mario, and Ronconi, which were subseque n tl y changed by mutual consent, to be sung by Mario, For nasari, and Mad. Persiani. The opera is now in re hearsal, but M. Fatel has allotted the characters to Corelli, Fornasari, and Mdlle. Manara, to which M. Kreutzer objeets, and has consequently brought the matter`before the Tribunal of Commerce of La Seine. ANOTHER FIRB AT WEST BERGYOLT.—We re gret to state that about half-past eleven o'clock on Sunday night a fire broke out upon the premises of West Bergholt Hall, the property of John Round, Esq M.P., of Danbury P a rk, an d i n t h e occupat i on of Mr. j. 9 Ward, when a large double barn, filled with wheat and barley, a cart lodge, and a granary containing co rn i n sacks ready for market, were totally consumed. Several waggons, tumbrels, &c., were saved by th e police, who exerted themselves in the most praiseworthy manner in preserving order and in the attempt to save the property The fire is supposed to have been wilfully oeen, j i me d . Essex Herald, PRICES OF SHARES L2l CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOY. 19. Names of Qom panics. Canals. Ashton and Oldham... Ashby.de-la.Zouch av Basingstoke Brecknock & Ahergay. Bi rmingham,l.l6thsh. Do. and Liverp. June. Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry ..... Cromford Dudley Derby........ ......... 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Lancaster and Carlisle Leech and Selby Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares....., London and Brighton Ditto Loan N,tes London and Blackwall London and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchatr and Birming Midland Counties North British Norwi. h & Brandon Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. Si. dia Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Stocktrn & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich lork and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Amount, or Paid. 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St. John Del Rey British Iro■ Candonga Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian, iss. 51 p.m. General Mining „, Hibernian Imperial Slate Compy Mexican Mining Co. of Ireland Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes Rhymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United Max., iss.2l. pm Ditto Scrip Ditto New Scrip 1. !O per cent. 10s. per sh. it. IGL perch. Literary. Londn, with Sin. Ticket London University Russell King's College Miscellaneous Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada ....' .. . Upper Canada . Bonds Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wond Pay,, iss. I/. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand Penins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Land , LIST OF SCOTTISH COM NOV. 2, Bank of Scotland Royal Bank British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Bank Central Bk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. •f Scott. Edinburgh Life Insur. Scottish Union Insur Standard Life Insur Dalkeith Railway Edin. and Glas. Railwy Glasg, and Green. RaiL DundPeand Arlar Wail. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 8 per cent. 6 per cent 7 per cent. 6 per cent. Bper cent. 8 per cent. 7per cant. 9 per cent. bper cent. 6per cent. t per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. lig per cent t 134 per cen Dividend per Annum. si per cent. 41. 41. 10.. 4 per Cent. 4/. 401. .15s. IL - ss. 8? 12s. Sd. 410 s. $l4 104 THE SCOTTISH CORPORATION. Monday, at one o'clock, a Special Court of the Governors and Subscribers to the Scottish Corpora tion was held at the hall of the Scottish Corporation, for the purpose of considering the propriety of remov ing the hall from Crane-court, Fleet-street, which premises have been in the possession of the Corpora tion since the year 1665, when it received its first Charter of Charles the Second ; Dr. Webster in the chair. Professor DONALDSON stated that a committee had been a few years in existence, which was app o i n t e d t o consider the expediency o f th e removal of the hall of the Corporation. The committee were unwilling to bike any measure without the consent of the Court. He had been in communication with the officers of 1 4 Woods and Forests to ascertain what plots of ground might be vacant in any of the new lines of street of the metropolitan improvements, and he found that there were several between Plumptre-street and Long-acre. Some had been disposed of for the erec • tion of churches and chapels, and, in some instances, the fee simple hadlbeen disposed!of. The question was, whether they would purchase a quantity of freehold ground, and if so, where they would choose a site. That of the Fleet Prison had been suggested, and, he believed that was now in the market, A long conversation ensued upon the propriety of removing, when Mr. NOBLE moved a resolution, " That it was ne cessary, for many reasons, to remove the offices of the Corporation to another site, and to have a new hall in some eligible and conspicuous situation." Mr. MORRIS seconded the resolution, observing that it would be for the benefit of the institution. It was now in an obscure situation, and he had known many noblemen who have alluded to the difficulties they have met with in trying to find out the hall. Several of the Governors expressed a wish to be informed what would be the likely expenses incurred in the sale of the Corporation estate in Crane-court, Upon which an amendment, proposed by Mr. LITTLE, and seconded by Mr. OamE, was agreed to, which was to the following effect :—" That the Com mittee continue their inquiry into the propriety of removing the Scottish Hall from its present situation, and report to a future Court." Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the Court broke up. • MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY.) 7 RAY 7/XAMICETS. SMITTIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 4/ 15s ; 1 % Useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5/4s ; fine Upland ditto, Si 5s to Si lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 105 to 6/ ; Oat Straw, I/ lOs to 11 12s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 13s to 1 15s per load. Sup -3 ply but moderate, and trade very at the above quo tations. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 16 s t o 4115 5; ; Useful ditto, 4l 16s to 515 s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 6s to Sij 12s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 5 3 t o 6/ ; O at S traw, 1 1 12s to 1/ 14s ; Wheat Straw, 1114 s to II 169 per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demvnd. Prices on the I advance. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 41155; >ft Useful ditto, 41 16s to Si 38 ; fine Upland ditto, 515 s to Si lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 616 s ; Oat Straw, 11 lOs to 11 12s ; Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 11 15s per load. A good supply. Trade throughout active, at improved currencies. COLONIAL SUGAR.—In the market for British Plantation there is N:1 more firmness, and a good business has been done, about 139. 600 hhds having been sold at fully previous prices, and d in some instances rather dearer. The public sales have 9% contained 115 casks Barbadoes, 9,154 bags 74 casks 011 Mauritius, 1,482 bags Bengal, and 1,658 bags Madras, 6 nearly all of which found r e ady b u y ers ( t h e l ower sorts 7,ss partly on speculation), and went off with more spirit than 5% for a long time past, at prices in some instances is to 2s 5% dearer for the low bro wn d escr i p ti ons, an d i n a l l cases at higher rates than were previously obtainable. Low to fine 2% greyish yellow Barbadoes brought 55s to 65; very low to good brown Mauritius, 42s to 525, low to fine soft yellow ditto, 52s 6d to 64s ; good to fine greyish yellow, Bengal Mauritius kind, 57s to 63s ; low to good yellow, ditto kind, 51s to 53s ; a few lots low to good white, 63s to 5 67s 6d ; and damp soft mid brown to low yellow Madras, 11 45s to 52s 6d. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 266 hhds 23 trcs 259 brls, and there were taken for home consumption, 1,238 hhds 191 trs 242 brls. The 7 stock in the same place is 13,113 hhds 1,807 trey L, 2,810 barrels. Russ.—The quantity landed last week at the East 1% % and West India Docks wa s 54 p uns 104 hhd s; t h ere were 5 taken for home consumption, 144 puns 42 hhds; and ex ih ported 153 puns I I hhds. The stock in the same places is 12,592 puns 1,483 hhds. SALTPETRE.-177 bags Calcutta sold at 24s 6d for 9} ;!4 per cent. refraction. SPICES.-500 bags Pepper at auclion sold at aid to 3-id for good heavy shot kind, which is again rather ' lower. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 40s 6d to 40s 9d per cwt on the spot, and Town 44s per cwt. TEA.—The market is very steady, with a fair con sumption. From the London New Price Current of Nov. 12.) Six:Art.—To day all descriptions of West India Sugar were in excellent request. Merchants manifested firm ness, and have obtained prices 6d per cwt above those of Friday ; the business transacted would have been to a larger extent, had the assortment at market been better ; the Sugar on show consisted principally oa% 23 of brown low grey and dingy yellow ; there are 60 many orders unexecuted for good and fine yellow sort, 3.4 % the stock of which i s sma ll er t h an h as b een the case for 76 13 some years at this period. The total purchases amounted to 800 hhds, including a public sale of 100 hhds of Barbadoos, which went off at very full rates, and the biddings were spirited, fine yellow Hitched 665, good 8 61s to 645, good mid 60s to 60s 6d, mid 57s t o 59 5, an d '5 low 54s 6d to 56s 6d per cwt. 0 REFINED.—To-day numerous purchases were made in 6 Refined Goods by the home trade, and a f ur th er a d vance 7 occurred in prices, indeed the market was nearly cleared; 5 brown lumps fetched 71s 6d to 725, and Standard lumps 7 72s 6d to 73s per cwt ;at these rates it wa s even diffi culta to purchase towards the close of business. For bonded crushed Sugar prices are ag a i n hi g h er, sales I % having been made for forward delivery at 29s to 29s 3d D per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon some parcels were sold 3% privately, at prices rather above those of Friday. There I was no public sale, and the stock is nearly all in the N dealers' hands. The supply is nor., ample for the in ) 3 cruising wants of the trade. )% EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the only public sale of Bengal was that of 134 bags, which went at 57s to 57s r 6d for washed yellow, 65s to 67s 6d for grainy ditto, 468 1 % for sound brown, 405 for low ditto, 39s to 40s for damp and washed, and 61s for damp white. By private con- IX tract there was a good deal doing at further advanced rates—white fetched 60s to 68s, yellow 55s to 635, and superior 64s to 70s per cwt. There was a better demand 'it for Manilla Sugar by private contract, prices advanced 6d per cwt. MoLassEs.—West India of good and fine quality are held for previous rates, but little business has been j% transacted, there has been more inclination to sell low • and middling sorts, and 20s to 22s per cwt have been I % accepted for small parcels, being barely former prices. • For East India there has been scarcely any demand, and rif parcels are offering at low prices. To-day th ere was ; )4, N rather more demand for West India Molasses, and former •% rates were paid. • Saco has been in good request by private contract at y 4 firm rates; low at 13s to 14s, middling 15s to 17s, good g middling and fine 18s to 24s per cwt. Of Arrowroot 95 pkgs were partly sold at public sale; Bermuda at 8d to ,% Is 24d; Jamaica, 4s to Gd; St. Vincent's 40 to 6d. 20} brls of Tous-les-Mois, 6d. 96 brls of Tapioca 4d % per lb, and 10 chests Cuba Honey 34s to 38s per cwt. FOREIGN.—To-day the inquiries were numerous for yellow Havannah Sugar from shippers and speculators ; the rates offered were 6d to is per cwt above those of IN this day week, but business of conseque nce was pre -1/6 vented by the chief holders withdrawing their Sugars from the market. For 800 boxes common greyish yellow 21s have been paid. Holds r 4 of white are not inclined to sell at present. For all sorts of Brasil stiffer rates are asked, indeed several parcels have been withdrawn from the market; there are several buyers at former prices, but no sellers. That the Havannah Sugar si s crop has been much injured there can be no doubt, and the next crop is not expected to be more than 600,000 boxes, whereas last season it was 850,600 boxes. COFFEE.—This afternoon the market was much better supplied with East India Coffee. The public sales corn y prised 3,532 bags Singapore Java, 1,689 bags Padang, ii 108 bales Mocha, and 961 bags Ceylon; the Java of sound I , t quality was taken in above the value—good ord brownish at 38s, ord damp brown 335, very ord brown 32s ; the sea damaged, amounting to 182 bags, sold at moderate rates, first class at 2ss Gd to 355, second 25s to i)si 335, and third 21s to .29s 6d ; of the Padang 994 bags were sea damaged, these sold at low rates, first class at 23s 6d to 24s 6d, second and third 22s to 23s Rd, 57i fourth 18s, sea damaged and repacked 18s to 225, but I KI the sound was taken in at more than it was worth, good 2 ord brown at 275 ; the Ceylon went off quietly, and a OS part only sold 6d under former rates--good ord pale 734 went at 545, good ord bold rather colory has to 55s 6d, pm and ragged 48s to Als the Mocha was all sea d amaged, L S and sold at 49s to 675, being cheap. There is still littls demand privately for Foteign Coffee ; at publii3 sale 43 brls of Rio were taken in at 43s IA to 44s for fine ordi nary comfy. TEA.—The market has still a firm appearance for ' nearly every desciption of Tea, and none has been offered at public sale. Holders of Congou show firmness, and hare obtained former rates ; there has, however, been less demand from the trade, and few purchases have been made by speculators—of fine the supply is scanty, and of ordinary qualities few parcels are offering for sale—common at 100 to I Id, good common 1 lid to Hid, mid coarse is to is op, but mid and mid blksh leaf Is Id to slid, good blkish leaf la 3d to Is sd, fine is tid to is 9*. Pekoe flavour is Is 9d to 2s 4d, and very rich 2s scl to 2s Gd per lb. I'ouchong has met with increased attention—clean % has been selling at 6d to 9d. Scented Orange Pekoe is fetching 3s 4d to 9s 40—the stock is nearly all in second hands. Hyson has me with eager pur • I L chasers, and further advanced rates are paid, common 4 % fetobing 24 Cid to 2s Ba, but mid and mid 2s 9d to as, ; and superior 3s 2d to 3s 6d. For Imperial and Gun. powder there has been a good demand. To-day there wa not much business transacted in Teas, but prices were supported ; common sound Congou far cash w as with difficulty to be purchased under 104 d per lb. fitssons.—.-This afternoon white Pepper was in request, and 50 bags good bold heavy at public sale were sold at 6id, and one lot low middling 4id per lb, being the former value. For Nutmegs prices advanced Id to 2 4 • 3,4 17s. 6d. la. 6 percent. 28 204 IL 10s. 15L 3‘21. - 10s. 1:1s. cent. 4 per cent. 41 per cent. 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per cent. per cent. 134 per cent. 4 per cent. i per cent. IN per cent. U. Os. Bd. 183. Id. per cent. 11. 7s. Ss. 10$. 4 percent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. Se. 6d. pr sh 51. ss. er share per cent. 3/. per cent.l tc 30s. be. 41! per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. per cent. tper cent. ?L 6d. per cent, 12 i - 11. - 8, W. 1/. ss. 5 per cent. per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. 11. ss. 42. 5 per cent. e per cent. 11. 4s. 5 per cent. 10% per cent 51 R per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. taper cent. per cent. per cent. 3 per cent. 6 per cent. Hs per share is. per share 10 per cent, per cent. 11. 5L 1/. '7g. 51. and bg. 4%1. and bs. per cent. rcent. IHI. 101. 81per 15s per oh 21. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 percent, 6 per cent. 46 per cent. 31. , 21. 10s. 21. lEls. 22. 10*. 5 per cent. 41. 16s. 11. 14s. 2/.131. p. ah. 11. 41. per cent. J. per 'h. V. ss. perch 10 per cent. 254 per cent. 9L ss. per sh NI. per ch. 12a. per sh. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 154• per sh 101. per eh. 11. 143. 231. per share 3s 4d per sh 81.175. pr st 1131 per a I. is 15s. 11. Ils. 10d. 45 per cent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 11. 11. sr. Is. Gd. Se 0 0 25 0 0 40 0 0 2 10 75 0 0 - 1 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 1; 10 0 100 0 600 40 0 15 0 Si 9 5 0 10 0 Si 0 10 0 0 L 90 . 0 0 2 5210 0 41 14 0 9 2 1 10 0 90e 5 0 0 3 0 0 _7 0 0 91 8 t 30 • 0 IWO e 0 20 0 0 46 4 6 20 0 0 31 1.4 'ANTES' PRICES. 10 0 0 10 0 0 1: 10 0 0 21 10 0 0 1 12 IQ 0 11 1 0 0 21 10 0 50 0 0 5( 50 0 0 04 25 0 0 1: 25 • 0 21 THE FISHERT.—The herring fishery, which at its early commencement appeared unpromising, has been better than for some years past ; and the demand for fish, both at home and up the Mediterranean, meals by far the usual arorAge. —,Norfo/k Chronicle, 1/. ts. 11. 15*. Iper cent. per cent. AlB.. andl te.dtl. be. riper cent. iper cent. 4 per cent Oper cent 50 0 0 WO 0 0 2? 0 0 SA 0 0 90 0 0 80 0 0 40 0 • 50 0 0 1 71 5 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 0 0 5 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 250 6 0 41 An paid 2 0 0 11. 9 0 0 1 2 — lO C 5 41 t 36 10 0 41 2 10 0 1 50 0 0 ISt 10 0 0 1t 513 0 21 19 0 0 4! 20 0 1 12 10 0 1f 12 10 0 1C 210 0 2 2 0 0 5 0 0 406. 1 0 0 21s. 10 0 0 24 10 0 0 5 5 0 0 6 5 0 0 0 0 40 0 0I 4 , 40 0 41 20 0 i 25 0 1 20 0 0 2 20 0 0 10 0 0 I 7 10 0 25 0 0 4, 10 0 0 17 10 0 1, 35 0 0 S 10 0 0 10 0 0 2 25 0 0 2' 10 0 0 1: 16 0 0 18 0 0 19 0 0 25 0 0 150 • 50 0 Iv 0 40 0 o 111 o o 2 of 4 I per lb, and 39 chests two boxes at auction all sold : Singapore fi ne b rown b o ld f etc h e d 4s pe g , 7i to 4s sd, good 3s 9d t o 4 s I d , goo d m iddli ng 33 , to 3s Bd, mid 3 s 6d, d amp 3s $d to 4s Id, worm eaten ; is 6d to is Bd, mouldy 3s to 3s 6d. Cloves were 14 :i I much in request, and 32 chests Penang at auction 10 ,1 at rather lower rates, fine bold bright at 2s 3d to 2 3 J 0 good ditto 2s to 2s ld, damp 2s 2d. Of Mace 13 e11e,, 5 4 were sold at lower rates, good bold went at 3s to 3 3 ')„, and mid 2s 9d to 2s I Id. Of Barbadoes Ginger 4 6 b 146. were taken at 435. C9cow.—To-day West India was sought after, 14 ,0 stiff rates paid by p r i vate contract. At public sale bags and barrel s o f T r i n id a d were sold at 43s to 44 fur middling red, and 42s per cwt for grey. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLliANDB.—Jamajca Rum y not to be purchased upon lower terms, but the wall oe has still a quiet appearance ; glere are few home or i port purchasers ; th e mar k et i s b ut moderately sup plied especially with th e b et t er qua li t i es : 3s od to 5s p 0 gallon is the value of 30 t o 3 6 per cent 0. P., and 5s 4° id Gs for superior hi g h fl avoure d sorts. Leewards are be' with firmness, but at present there are few ordersi 2s 4p to 2s 5d is the v a l ue o f proo f strength : ht2s ' i 1 there are, however, several purchasers. Demerars $ Ol 3s 3d to 3s 6d for s t rong qua li t i es. Calcutta, 2s 201 2s 3 , 1. For Leew ar d I s l an d R um prices are 8d to 9" and Jamaica is to 2s per gallon higher than they " er : in 1843. For Brandy the demand has b, ee d ; brisk for the b est d escr i pt i on ; inferior Old, are in good request. Cognac, best brands of the vin 44 l. of 1838, hhds at 5 s 2d , puns 5s ; ditto, 1839, 11°,,1; 4s I Id, puns 4s 9d ; di t t o, 1840, hhds 4s ild, y:ut , 4s Od ; ditto, 1841, hhds 4s 10d, p uns 4s 8 d ; u`4l: 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s 5d ; ditto, 1843, hhds 455, puns 4s 3d ; common 2s 10d to 3s 2d, and mid to gl e s mid 3s 3d to 3s 10d p er ga ll on. Of the vintage of l° the quantity in the market is small. Geneva ship n 8 sort at is 9d to is 10d, an d fi ne 2s 4d to 3s 6d per go°' English Corn Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon, cash. ~„4 RICE.—A good demand has existed for yellow MO', Rice by private contract, and several parcels have beef disposed of rather above former rates, 8s 3d to 9 3,P d " cwt having been paid, the supply has become small. . 1 __ 3 "" r at 9s to 9s 6d tin. yellow, los to 11s for white, superi e would fetch Its 6d to 12s per cwt, but there is at presc 4l i none in the market. B om b ay Ri ce, at auction, a t 103 ° to lls for mid white, and 9s 6d to lOs per cwt for sea damaged, being th e f u ll value. Bengal !D ial white was sold at ll s , an d goo d middling to good 1196 j to 12s per cwt. Cleaned, at 13s 6d to 18s for P atna , an 23s to 27s per cwt f o r C aro li na. For East India 104cey are 6d to is per cwt above those of last season at W period. Faurr.—The purchases made in Raisins were e%tef sive. New Red S m y rna i n b arrels fetched 455, eases4l Eleme in cases 51s to 525, M a l aga 40s, Sultanas 655, a% Valentias 50s. The val ue o f T ur k ey Pulled Figs is 6t"' to 80s. Currants are much wanted : new Patras fetching 49s to 50s, and old Island fruit 435. COCHINEAL—This afternoon Cochineal met with i attention, and 118 bags of Honduras at public sale Ne all sold at fully former rates, low silvers fetched 4s ld s 4 ' 4s 2d, and middling to good 4s 3d to 4s 7d per lb. eu INDIGO.—The dullness in the East India Int, market has increased, and some holders ars more ro, clined to realise; the h ome tra d e have purchased , much caution, and for exportation there are few order` the rates accepted show a d ec li ne on those of the 1.0 quarterly sale of 2d to 3d; indeed, one p arc el of nl chests of Bengal has been forced off to close an ace' ) at a discount of 5d per lb, but at this rate there are° further sellers. Spanish has been little inquired for. , 10 , TAELoW.—There has been a goo d d emand for R a ssi l. on the spot in conse quence o f i mporters again sub le ting to rather lower rates; 40s 6d to 40s 9d were .o current prices taken f or P Y C an d le to-day. ,ilet) South Wales at aucti on wen t at 38 s 6d to 41s 6d. li've American at auction at 37s 3d t o 40s f or good an d quality. OILS.—The common descriptions of Fish Oils are much wanted, and prices are on the decline for all kir s 4 Pale Seal selling by p r i va t e contract at 341 lOs to 3 . coloured 31/ to 331, Cod 32/ lO s to 33 4 and at atletioo 90 tuns of Southern went at 281 lOs to 311 15s for In l u, ol fine, being 20s per tun under former rates. With bro, Seal the market is scan til y supp li e d at present. Sped at 881 to 901 per tun for British. Holders of Olive are inclined to realise on account of the heavy stor k ' Gallipoli at 431 to 444 Spanish 411 to 42/, and Baru — j and Levant 391 to 401 pe r t un . C ocoa Nut Oil is wavte.; and prices keep firm, 61 casks at public sale fetched 'P 6d to 28s 6d per cwt. A mer i can L ard at auction "'eo at 40s to 41s. Palm has been in g oo d request at for , ; ar ,, rates. Rape Oil pale at 355, and brown 34s per cwt. I ' l seed Oil 23s 6d to 23s 9d on the spot. In addition to the numerous munificent donation s t owards the establi s h ment o f baths anti was hh ou ses te a :he poor, the East India Company have co ntribute i 0 [OOl., and the Bishop o f Wi nc h ester 304 towards W stateellent undertaking. Mr. Sergeant Howley, in addressing the Gran d Jury for the North Ridi ng o f Ti pperary, gave t h e lowing account of the state of crime in that county He said, that from the calendar that was then befe" Lim, and the list o f p ersons out on bail, he found that ,", there were 55 cases t o b e sent b e f ore them, i n w hi c h _ persons were charged with various offences. He lou_l 4 not call that a light calend ar , and when he looked at the character of some of those cases, he must say that it is! a heavy one. There were two riots, in which 17 sons were charged ; 15 cases of petty larceny, in wrii‘" also 17 persons w e r e c h arge d ; 8 eases o f rescue o f cll' 9 tress for rents, in which 30 persons were charged cases of forcible possession, in which 55 persons W__,'" charged ; cases of rescue, wh ere se i zures under decr y of the Civil Bill Court had been made, in which 18 p er bons were charged ; 6 gr i evous assaults, in which 8 pe r ~'" sons were charged ; an d i t would appear from the , mations that all those cases were of a very serious Luf, ture--that serious injury was d one to the part i es s' vaulted—that stones, those dangerous and effective Ivec pons in the hands of the peasantry, were used—and one case, that there was a deliberate waylaying efr party assaulted. He only spoke of them, then, as t L i'l appeared on the face of the informations. When w e , came to be considered, and the evidence examined, th e ', would be better able to judge of their character. V e n t ', were four cases of cornmun assault, in which five pers e " o f were charged ; one of highway robbery ; one case rescue of a seizure for county cess, in which three Per . sons were charged ; a case against a soldier, for obtla n ; ing money under f a l se p re t ences; and one case of rese w of a seizure under a coroner's warrant—making in a 1 155 cases, and the number of persons he had mentioned. WooDcocics.—We never remember a season whe n this bird was so plentiful as at present. In price, they are moderate, selling from 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. T hrace. Their increased number is supposed to arise frog) the great number of young plantations that have recoltil sprung up in the country, but it is certain also that stances of their breeding in this country are now cow,: mon, compared with what they u se d to h e .—Carlas Patriot. * MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.--A sad aceide n t occu well i-„ two days ago in th e F au b ourg St. Antoine. One of t h e apprentices o f a t urner i n wood having brought to t"u4 shop a fowli ng - p i ece w hi ch bad been given him, vi.,"l: amusing him se lf b y snapp i ng the lock with the heads °f. chemical m a t c h es i nstea d of capsules, at the same trrno pointing the piece at his companions. No a cc ident curred until th e mas t er hi mself took the gun, and dictil'•6 same thing, pointing it at the apprentice to whom it o , e : longed. Th e gun , w hi ch happened unfortunately to v," loaded with lar ge s h o t , t hi s t i me went oft and tir e youP fell dead.—Galignani. [ADVERIISEMENT.]—A POOR MAN'S LIFE SAV° : :. BY HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Jeremiah La ug hli n, a port s about the quays of Dublin, was afflicted for years vr". shortness of breath, spitting of phlegm, night perli rations, and general weakness of body, a wa n t of aPP,. e ; tite, sick head ac h es, b esides suffering much from t's". liver. This man was in the second stage of eonsurf e tion, and no t expected to live three months, when ' commenced the us e o f H o ll oway ' s wonderful pills, e ' lj j by their means alone he is now as strong, as hale, °° as well as ever h e was i n his life. —Sold (also Hollo•ivai,l d Ointment) a t th e esta bli shment of Professor Hor.tolftc 224, Strand ( w h ere adv i ce may be had gratis), and almost all respectable - vendors of medicine th tough ° ' the civilised world. ' ' BIRTHS. On the 4th inst., at Ostend, the lady of G. a Godbo ld ' Esq., of a son. On the 7th inst., the lady of J. Ingle, Esq., of a son , spr t, On the Bth i ns t , at D enmark-hill, Camberwell, birs..llo"' Elliot, of a daughter. On the 9th in s t., a t B exley, Kent, the wife of Major Cro3. shank, of a daughter. On the 9th inst., the wife of the Rev. M. Wilkinson, 15 1 0 t e a r of the Marlborough School for the sons of clergyman others, of a son. On the 9th inst., Mrs. Lewis Engelbach, of Oki Dorset place, Clapham-road, of a daughter. On the 9th i ns t., at Mil ton-street, Dorset-square, the ladl of J. Samuel, Esq., of a son. On the 9th inst., at Norwood, Mrs. J. Maitland, o f a sop:. a At Minterne House, D orse t, L ady Theresa Digby, aughter. On the 6th i ns t . , at Gi llingoase, near Falmouth, the lady °I T. M. Hortford, of Li ncoln ' s Inn, Esq., barrister-at-law, ° f daughter, RRIED. On the 7th i ns t., at ll- St. John's Church, Paddington Lionel T. P ons f or d , to E l i zabeth, only daughter of the , Li te T. Lewis, Esq., of Porehester-terrace, Bayswater. On the Bth i ns t., a t N orthfieet Church, Kant, 11,ort.a io ; fourth son of the R ev . Willi am Pace, 111. A., Captain, •114,, army, to Jobi na , thi r d d aughter of William H. Styles, ~, of New House Farm, Northtleet. DIED. In September last, at Soorapoor, in the East Indies, 3r .a r 4 the wife of C a pt a i n M eadows Taylor, of his Highoe e Nizam's service. On the 17th of September last, at Kamptee, Lieutenan t C} ril AndiellS Brown, of the 7th Regiment Ma'aras Nat ive InfAntry, Or. the 19th ult., Louisa, the wife of John, Lewis Salmo n ' On the Ist inst., in Finsbury-circus, Mr. Adolphus Flea' On the 4th inst., at Clapham, James Hannay, Esq. F. On the Bth inst., at Hammersmith, Sarah, relict of J. Hilditch, Esq., aged 72. On the Bth inst., in Conduit-street, John Steyeasion, E g g" the eminent surgeon-oculist. On the Bth i nst., at Trinidad-place, Islington, James Thomas, the infant son of George Athill, Esq. On the 9th inst., at N ew Bond-street, Mr. Hardwick . On the 9th i ns t., at W ilton. place, Adam Bromilow, barrister-at -law, aged 41. On the 9th inst., at the Rectory House, Upper Stondctrp Beds, the Rev. John Hull, Rector of that parish, ag ed77 2e a r t t On the 10th i ns t . , at Hanover-terrace, Pec kh am , the , daughter of A. Johnson, Esq. At Blackheath, M art h a, the wife of Mr. Edwar d Upton, of queenhithe. On the 11th inst,, Amelia, the infant daught e r of D ' Meinertzhagen, E sq ., of Devonshire-place. _ r 49 t . London : P r i n t e d and Published by MUF.I)O TOI 1,2, No. 112, St ran d, Printer, at The ENX Office ,Ce. ,„, of Strand, in Vaa Precinct of th.e Savoy, in the Cowav taiddlosex Wednemw / •loyember 13, 1844. 5 0 15 0 [OO 0 151 0 15 0 25 0 20 0 100 0 28 0 °O 0 55 0 20 50 0 10 0 60 0 25 0 14 10 100 p 25 0 150 0 dap, th e to I of t Nv, T 4, T h , 4, '4,