The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. TIMES.—The various parties particularly charged with the national burdens have begun by common consent their annual outcry for remission. A motley group is already besieging the Treasury, proclaiming their several woes, and casting malicious side glances at every fresh competitor. Any attempt to settle their precedence cannot but be invidious. Each party has a claim which in itself is undeniable. Yet it is evident they cannot all be attended to ; for fiscal remission is by no means that illimitable thing some people seem to imagine. Tax-payers are a very grave kind of people, with solid apprehensions, and not easily put off with a joke; otherwise one might suggest to the Chancellor of the Exchequer to appoint one day and hour to all his deputations at this season, and, when he had fairly got all the heads of the hydra before him, to read a chapter out of Swift's " Advice to Servants." The Dean advises the cook, the butler, the valet, the coachman, and the gardener, each to spend in his own department his master's total income of 2,000/. a year, leaving other out goings to take care of themselves. In like man ner the servants in the national household, the pur veyors of meats and of drinks, the clothiers and other ministers to the public necessities, in the sin gleness of their vision towards their own depart ments, seem to lose all sense of other demands, and of the common responsibilities. It may, however, save disappointment to ascertain what must be done, and what, on the other hand, may be deferred. There are some broad lines of difference which must be attended to. Taxes on luxuries or on mere comforts stand on a different footing from those on the neces saries of life ; and among taxes on necessaries there is a plain difference between those which only limit the consumption, and those which press more directly on industry, find restrict or even prohibit branches of trade. In a country like ours, whose internal re sources are so limited that the Legislature ten years since found it necessary to pass a sort of declaratory Act to the effect that the land was not sufficient for the employment of the population, it is evident that raw materials for such employment are become ne cessaries of life in the highest sense of that term. When they can be got, they are as so much gained from the sea, or rather as so much manna from heaven. Coincident with the growing sense of our insular straitness of territory, it has become the policy of the nation to seek adventitious means of in dustry. By this time it is an established axiom that when the duty on raw material is found to exclude us from competition with foreign manufacturers, we have no alternative but to remove it. Encumbrances must be removed when they become destructive. Once afloat we must either swim or drown. The duty on cotton wool is an incumbrance of this sort. It has ceased to be a matter of choice ; the law of self-pre servation demands its removal. It is fast extending a prohibitory influence over the whole of our cotton manufactures. The cheaper the material becomes and the more our competitors acquire our manufacturing facilities—both changes in rapid progress—the more does a fixed duty become an absolute bar on our in dustry. It was at first imposed only as a temporary measure, in a season of great financial difficulty. Con fessedly impolitic at first, its impolicy has con tinually increased. The amount of its produce, which shows of course the amount of its injury, is the only reason why it has survived other duties of an exactly similar character. It remains after the duties on flax and wool and other raw materials have been re pealed, only because it is a larger sum to deal with. But, unfortunately, its yearly continuance entails more than yearly consequences. While our commerce is hampered, the commerce of other nations is making permanent advances. The duty, 5-16ths of a penny on the pound, was only 5 per cent. on the value of the material when first laid on, and now is 10 per cent. Meanwhile, the cost of manufacture has diminished in a still greater ratio ; so that the duty, which was a mere trifle at first, is now so great on the coarser cotton fabrics as absolutely to prevent competition in them with the American manufactures. !The Ame rican has, of course, great advantages over us to begin with ;—the cotton produced at his very door, at least in the southern states, where factories are fast springing up in the very midst of cotton fields. We must cover in some way the expense of carriage across the Atlantic, and other charges, amounting, it is said, to 7-16ths of a penny in the pound, before we can compete with him in the neutral market. This unavoidable burden we almost double. The result is, that in South America and other quarters, even in China—China, which our own arms have opened to the commerce of the world,—we are losing ground, which the Americans, with the assistance of our financiers, are now fast gaining from us. We impose ourselves on the produce of our own industry a differential duty compared with our greatest rival. We enter every port of the world with a difference of 5-16tha of a penny in the pound between English and American cotton manufactures ; a difference which we surmount in the finer descriptions, where skill and labour have more play, but which is quite insurmountable in the commoner and more domestic articles. The duty is said to be in effect 30 per cent. on the cost of " domestics," as they are called, the chief cotton export to China, among other places. Under shelter of this " differential duty," the Ame rican manufacturers are now making a greater push than ever, and other natious are following their example. Of course, they desire nothing better than its continuance. Indeed, if they had imposed it on us in the shape of an export duty at the American port, supposing that otherwise possible, it would not have been so much to be wondered at.. The case may be rendered more clear by an illustration which will come home to many a benevo lent mind.ElYears ago there were very great endea vours to devise some means of employment for the idle and half-starved women and children in our agricultural districts. All kinds of simple, laborious, and unproductive industries were projected for this purpose, adapted to the humble strength and expert ness, and no less humble ambition of that class ; all kinds of tedious spinnings, knittings, weavings, and plaitings. Suppose an ingenious clergyman's wife had discovered some material out of which rustic hands, with the assistance of our peculiar national skill, could procure decent employment and support, and become the benefactors instead of the burdens of the earth. The fair inventor would quickly have been installed in a niche between Mrs. Trimmer, of school celebrity, Mrs. Montague, the friend of sweeps, and other worthies of benevolence. Her cause would have been held sacred, and her proteges would have been preserved by their country's enthu siasm against all competition, but that of their own increasing numbers. If other nations had taken the hint, as undoubtedly they would, how jealously should we have watched the race, and seen that our own little ones had at least fair play, if not a little sly help ! If there was to be any difference of facilities, we should have considered it our place to set the balance against the foreign rival, and take care that the English runner had not to carry any weight beside her own. The much hoped-for vision has been realised, and that far be yond all possible anticipations, though not exactly in the place and manner in which it was schemed. " There is a Divinity that shapes our ends ;" and the provi dential supplement to our agricultural resources has been achieved, not at the cottage hearths of Bucking hamshire and Suffolk, but under the smoky chimneys of Lancashire—not under the pious attentions of elderly ladies and their chaplains, but under the more masculine auspices of Cromptons, Arkwrights, and Peels. We may not easily recognise the aspira tions of youth in the sober realities of age. We miss the picturesque outline and the Elysian hue. But there substantially is the thing we desired. Let the philanthropists of the last generation transfer their sympathies to the more successful undertakings of the present. What would they have felt if the Minis ter, driven to cruelty and shamelessness by his exi gencies, had suddenly put such a duty on the mate rial we have supposed the ingenious lady to discover, as should at once render whole counties of women and children helpless against foreign competition, and cut off half their demand ? It would have been thought madness. The case of our cotton manufac tures is only different in that it is vastly larger and more important, and its women and children, or rather the whole empire, are more thoroughly em barked in it. CHRONICLE.—It is rumoured that Lord Ellen borough is going to the Admiralty. We sincerely wish he was there. His Lordship is so sure to do the contrary of what his employers wish and intend, that, ten to one, he might actively set about putting the navy into something like an efficient state. Guns, trumpets, blunderbusses, drums, and thunder have such eharms for him, that he would probably go to sea in propria persona, and find himself as much at home ou the quarter-deck as he was in the tented field of Gwalior. Lord Haddington some time since sent four vessels to sea on a cruise of practice and experiment—a melancholy ghost of what was a British fleet. But lest they should use powder, or get too expert, a spare Lord of the Admiralty was entrusted with the command, a sailor who never smelt powder, or, we believe, ever got under fire. There was a second in command who had ; but he would have been bat too capable of instructing Admiral Bowles, and consequently of putting him to shame. But, for fear that anything so very derogatory to the navy should take pla ce , C ap t a i n th e E ar l of Hardwicke was sent down, at the eleventh hour, to air his earldom on board of a man-of- war, and gather a s h are o f th a t instructi on which h e wa s incapable of communi cating. One t hin k would that th e o ld " h ear t s o f oak" on ou r li st of adm irals, if t oo superannuated to fight, might a t least be to in,truct, and to instil some share of that old use of which prevailed in deter erriVNithetl of Nelsen. 1.3:t th s T ha tr t ad l itir al 4.rr.,. ur navy shall not reeseTtntees M . : . _kirk ram in efficiency or force, ( 0 -- - N heard y th c o o n tn o s u e s . a one nayy,whie ade the world of waters, and, b j g ," ..- ., pen of, apd too, ours. We have -' _ ' )-:tif eke, officers at the Portstn:nth dinner de s- -- ...714 - 41k . ' . . t , : e exuberance of his i,t.art, that light ' THE SUN, LONDON, rITESDAY steamers had been got ready at Cherbourg and the northern ports to make a dash at Portsmouth and burn the dockyard, had war been declared. All we can say is, that there was nothing at Portsmouth to prevent the execution of the threat, nor is there. Were Lord Haddington and Sir Robert Peel Ministers of Charles 11., and bought by Louis XIV. to deliver up to him the naval power of England, to be crushed and insulted without possibility of defence, they could not have earned the money more fully than they have done. There fore, with all his folly, his petulance, his contempt of civilian and commercial interests, we should wel come Lord Ellenborough to the first Lordship of the Admiralty. In the Cabinet there are abundance of tame elephants to render the wild one harmless. But in his department Lord Ellenborough would at least bestir himself, and get in order and preparation those materials for a row, which, when copious and at hand, go so far to prevent other parties from provoking it. Even at the risk of strengthening the Tory Adminis tration, and rendering it somewhat respectable in these departments, in which it has fallen below contempt, we pray for the riddance of its somnolent non-enti ties. More than once have we been driven to the very brink of war, because Lord Aberdeen had dog gedly determined to keep on his night-cap, and not raise his head from his pillow. We know, on the most positive authority, that in the Morocco affair Lord Aberdeen was warned, six or eight months before anything occurred, of the inevitable difficulties that would arise, unless Great Britain took steps to ob viate and prevent them. Of this Lord Aberdeen was not only repeatedly warned by his own consuls and servants, but, we learn, by the French Government, itself! What steps di? Lord Aberdeen take in con sequence of this very fair warning of the French Government ? How did he exert himself? What did he do ?—Nothing ! We could point out another case in which English influence has suffered annihila tion, and in consequence of which English trade will suffer curtailment, in which Lord Aberdeen was most fully and fairly warned to exert himself, and obviate the evil results to his country. But this, as every other warning, his Lordship answered with his usual pooh, pooh And the French steamers would have been in Portsmouth harbour ere any other ejaculation more lively or to the purpose would have been elicited from his Lordship. With such facts before our eyes, we do ardently pray for the paying off of the present hulks which occupy the Admiralty Board and the Foreign office, and the substitution, if not of Lord Ellen borough, at least of some active clerks, who, if they do nothing to further the nation's interests and augment its force, will, at least, not act as checks and dampers. The activity of the French in their naval department is quite wonderful; nor do they make a secret of it. Day after day the Moniteur comes forth with a fresh ordonnance for docks, founderies, schools, and colleges for gunnery, hydrography, and every department of naval art. In addition to the money lavished on their dock-yards, their anxiety for raising a supply of well-instructed officers is prodigious. They prepare to officer fleets after fleets, making up her cadres of a naval force superior to our own. And all this time the Single-ship Administration of the navy is resting on its oars, with one flag-ship to guard three ports, and an experimental squadron under the command of the most inexperienced seamen on the navy list. In order to get up and bestow a kind of premium upon our Ministerial schoolboys for slum bering over their task, the Times puts forth a solemn boast that they have preserved peace. Peace, indeed The awe, so long and so wisely inspired by the power and the spirit of the British lion, has been up to this period sufficient to keep at a respectful distance the curs which bay at him. In Lard Palmerston's time the French talked of war, indeed, but they seriously thought of it as little as they did of restoring the Roman empire. It is only since the fall of the Whigs, and the reign of their pusillanimous succes sors, that the French have become emboldened, not merely to talk war, but to brave it. And we have not only borne this, but the Tories have provoked them to insult us, in order that we might practice meekness and habitually swallow shame. In Ota heite, our Prime Minister himself cried out that we had suffered a " gross outrage," and that he would have reparation. Well—he got no reparation, and he swallowed the outrage. And we are now called on to congratulate Sir Robert for keeping peace 1 The Times might as well congratulate the hound that has run to his kennel submissively, after a good horse whipping, for having kept the peace. Peace is always to be purchased—at first cheap enough —a spirited nation has but to abate its spirit and barter its honour in order to satisfy a rival. But the satisfaction is brief, for the cowardly pur chase of peace but emboldens the rival to ask each day for concessions more substantial. It is Otaheite, our Consul, and our missionaries one day— it is the occupation of Morocco another—it is the right of search given up next. In fact, since the ad vent of the Tories we have paid a yearly tribute, in one shape or another, to French ill-humour ; and that French ill-humour is not the least abated. The causes, and elements, and materials of war have aug mented with every year and every act of Tory rule. The policy has been to meet this with pusillanimity and obsequiousness, not with spirit. Now, we main tain that every concession does but embolden the French to demand more; whilst, had they been met from the first with spirit, we should have long since heard no more of either their caprices or demands. The result of Lord Aberdeen's policy has been to con vert one of the most timid, and cautious, and uneasily seated of French monarchs into a conqueror and a hero. We do not say that had Lord Palmerston remained in the Foreign-office, but even had any Tory of spirit and abilities represented England in that department, one of the two kinds of policy which were before a Minister would have been fol lowed with something like consistency and success. Either the maintenance of the old English tone of spirit would have defied and silenced clamorous brawling and empty threats ; or if the contrary policy of deprecating French wrath by conciliation were adopted, then a certain degree of vigilance and of address would have been employed to prevent those collisions and causes of quarrel which have been per petually starting up. The untoward and disgraceful events of Otaheite ought to have been prevented. The merest idiot must have foreseen such results from the way in which things were abandoned there, with authorities which must clash, and with the English 1 1 flag on board a " ketch "—a thing just sufficient to provoke insult, not repress it. The same story may be told of Morocco, of Greece, of Spain. No spirit, , no foresight anywhere. Ministers had neither the wisdom of courage nor the wisdom of timidity. They , on two occasions employed the language of the bully, and shrunk from it ere they could appreciate its effects ; and they showed the meanness of the sneak without even a sneak's prudence. There is but one opinion in all Europe with respect to the foreign po licy of the present British Cabinet, and that is, the somnolent pusillanimity of the head of the Foreign Department is only to be equalled by the total and dense ignorance of the Premier on all subjects not exclusively domestic. FROM THE EVENING PAPEES 07 TESTEEDA.Y. GLOBE.—The Bishop of Exeter's judgment in the matter of the charges against Mr. Blunt, the curate of llelston, is a subject of too much conse quence, in various points of view, to be disposed of in a summary manner. The public will learn from it that a curate is right in refusing to bury with the Church service persons baptised by Dissenters--in re fusing to marry persons unless they can show that they have been baptised by clergymen of the Church of England—in refusing to pray—refusing to use the universal prayer of the Christian, with a pa rishioner and a fellow-Churchman, because the poor man had been baptised by a Romanist priest in Ire land? Not because we cannot be "in communion" with Rome—not because Rome is a false, or a cor rupt, or an anti-Christian Church, as vulgar low Churchmen hold—but simply because a Romanist in the United Kingdom is a schismatic, according to the interpretation which the Rev. Mr. Blunt, in the ex ercise of his " private judgment," puts on the legal effect of certain transactions which occurred three cen turies ago ! They will learn, too, that the more in tense the feeling of discontent excited in the minds of some Churchmen who have the misfortune to be under the care of such fanatics, by these wretched acts of bigotry—the more utter the disturbance and inter ruption of spiritual comfort to others, pious and humble church-goers, who take no, part in the theo logical contests of the day, by the endless succession of unmeaning changes in the ritual, by the monoto nous bitterness of weekly denunciations against schism, by the violence of manner and language, the brawls, the scandalous indecencies which are certain to follow the ministrations of such a man—the more determined countenance and support the clergy man is sure to find from his diocesan, if he have the felicity to be planted within the diocese which en joys the superintendence of Bishop Phillpotts. Our object to-day, however, was to compare what has passed at Helston with the goings on in another diocese. The charges against Mr. Blunt, brought by the churchwardens and a great body of parishioners, as we have said, were manifold : many wilful changes in the service, many practices in the peeformance of clerical duties which the complainants knew to be utterly unwonted, and believed to be illegal. They have been severely reprimanded for daring to make such complaints at all. The excellent eharge of their pro-Tractarian Prelate has been the subject of the Morning Post's leading articles of panegyric. Now, in a parish in Berkshire, the clergyman has thought proper to introduce one change—to establish the weekly collection of the offertory. This is con3uct of which, for our own parts, we disapprove, simply because we ! judgment,"n believe that on he pretext h t:i at , for any clergyman, of his own "private ttoinptrreodxut of his ownceinniovationinstferropmrettahtn the ordinary nary practice,the Rub a folly, t o ca l l i t no worse, which almost • 11C, is invariably leads to bad "Imequences ; as hundreds of 1 instances have verified. Still, of all the crotchets of , Tractarian gentlemen, our readers will probably be of , opinion that this is one of the least ungraceful and the least offensive to any common feeling or prejudice. Not so thinks Mr. Walter of Bearwood, whose soul Mr. Cameron has in charge. As the former gentle man has given all the publicity the press can afford to his controversy with his spiritual instructors and superintendents, we cannot be trenching improperly on personal privacy in making it matter of fair com ment ; and we promise, beforehand, to treat him with much more respect and civility than the leading correspondents of the Leading Journal treat the Bishop of London. We are acquainted, then, by Mr. Walter through the press, with the steps he thinks it right to take when his spiritual instructor proposes something he does not approve. We do not undertake to say he is wrong in his " private judgment." Far from it; we think that if individual clergymen may start innovations, indi vidual parishioners may resist them ; nor do we admit, in any case, even the collective right of the clergy to act as the Church, as if the laity were no component members of that Church. It is not for the purpose of censure, but of somewhat piquant contrast (to which we shall come presently) that we notice the case in question. Mr. Walter, then, "agitates" among his fellow-parishioners. He remonstrates with his spiritual superior about the change he has introduced. Mr. Cameron persists. Mr. Walter procures a legal opinion —he consults Dr. Addams as to the validity of the collection at the offertory from non-communicants. It will not be forgotten that one of the greatest griev ances of the Tractarian party is the presumption of lawyers in deciding questions of priestly authority ; no matter : Mr. 'Walter gets his opinion. And it is an opinion infinitely creditable to the astuteness of Doctors' Commons, at once saving the adviser's credit, and tickling the client, by giving an answer from which it is impossible to collect anything except that the Learned Doctor has doubts on the law, but quite agrees with Mr. Walter as to the bad taste of the thing. Fortified with this valuable document, Mr. Walter next complains to the Bishop. The Bishop of Oxford, whose part in recent controversies all know, and the great ma jority of the laity of the English Church deeply deplore, treats the complaint as was to be expected ; ho justifies his Tractarian subordinate, and be stows on Mr. Walter a rebuke resembling that of his brother of Exeter, with this only difference, that the Bishop of Oxford, whether he praises or condemns, always writes like a gentleman. How does Mr. Walter behave under the rebuke of his diocesan ? Does he thank him for his paternal chastisement, like an obedient son of the Church ? He appeals from the Bishop to his fellow-parishioners, and to the " Times." He undertakes to call a meet ing, and get the opinion of a " majority "—a ma jority of laymen in a parish to decide on the pro priety of a ceremony of the Church and, should the said majority be with him, and Mr. Cameron persist, he intimates, by a guardedly gene ral but pretty intelligible threat, that he and his friends will act as their " bounden duty " may require. Now, here is a case ;in which, not, we believe, the official representatives of a parish, but a party of parishioners, large or small, with a leading man at their head, oppose and thwart their clergy man, get a legal opinion against him, complain of him to their Bishop, threaten to call a " meeting" on him, show him up in the Times—practise, in short, all the methods of parochial warfare short of going to law ; all for introducing a single change into the ritual, and that a change recommended by the Bishop of London. We were anxious, we confess, to see in what way the Times would deal with these two' cases of Mr. Blunt and Mr. Cameron, happening, unluckily, to excite publie attention just at the same moment ; in what matter it might be possible at once to crush the rebellious churchwardens of Hel ston, and to support the rebellious parishioners of Hurst. Nor do we yet see how this feat of dexterity is to be performed. At present the last part of the task only has been executed. Mr. Walter is an ecclesiastical llampden ; Mr. Cameron an impertinent meddler—not, indeed, so much for changing the ritual on his own authority, as for introducing a little bit of Tractarianism before his audience was sufficiently " saturated " with " Catholio truth " to swallow the whole. The surplus bitterness of the writer is reserved for the Bishop of London. It is no business of ours to take up the cudgels for that active prelate; neither is it our pleasure to narrow a large question to a small newspaper con troversy. But the Times carries a weight of metal to the " working " of any public question, which renders it fair to point to its columns for the most signal illustrations of the real temper of any party it espouses. We have a right to point to the columns of the Times for proofs the most pregnant of that pervading inconsistency, which we have already denounced as characterising the whole Ultra-Anglican agitation. It is nothing astonishing that any individual should resist a parochial innovation. It is nothing astonishing that the Bishop of London's zeal of half-measures should excite discontent. But what is astonishing, or rather, what would be asto nising if human nature were consistent—is that the party who contend a routrance for the apostolic suc cession and sanctity of Episcopacy—are the party whose organs set any given Bishop at moat blunt de fiance—the moment his powers—sacred from all pri vate judgment—are exercised against theirs. STANDARD.—Some of our Contemporaries have taken a great deal of useless trouble to account ' for Mr. O'Connell's last step, dos-a-dos with the federalists, sliding back to simple repeal. Nobody, however, who has even slightly observed the course of the old Saltinbanco's capers and curvets can be at a loss for the reason of his last movement. Yesterday was the day fixed for his benefit, and as on every former year of the last 20, he prepared for it by .bringing out something very highly seasoned. Here is the heading of the an nouncement :—" The National Collection for the O'Connell Tribute for the present year 1844, is to be collected simultaneously on to-morrow (Sunday), the 17th instant, in all the parishes of Ire land." Then follows an appeal to " the ragged man," and to the starving man, to the husbands of the unclad, and to the fathers of the famishing for their halfpence and their farthin s ; and, honour to whom honour is due, the vile docu ment is signed by Sir John Power, Bart., and Cornelius INPLoghlin, Trustees ; and Vincent Fitzpatrick, Secretary. Does not this sufficiently account for the mendicant's abrupt " right about face," even had we not the evidence of twenty years' experience, that his rancour and violence always swell with the November storms, at the approach of bad weather and of privation to the poor and why at this particular season ? Because, if postponed to a later period, his unhappy slaves—dupes they are no longer—would have eaten up that which he extorts to feed his own luxury and avarice. Such public enemies are not to be reasoned with, they are to be punished ; because, to reason with them would imply a doubt that they are ignorant of the loathsome selfishness and utter shamelessness of their practices—a doubt which, after the experience of the last twenty years, it would be idiocy to entertain. We have already avowed our opinion that the time has arrived when such sys tematic robbery of the poor ought to be prevented by a stringent law; but until the Legislature shall adopt some such measure of protection, let the malefactors be at least punished by the loudest and most universal expression of public scorn. Thick-skinned as they may be —and in this respect the Irish mendicant can challenge a comparison with the rhinoceros—still the punish ment of loud and universal scorn will reach them. because it will awaken their slaves to the disgraceful condition of the thraldom to which they submit, and cause them to withhold their "halfpennies" and their " farthings." For arguments are necessary to persuade men generally to refuse to give money which they can ill spare; but the strongest of all arguments, with an uneducated people, is the assurance that all the world are laughing at their stupidity. Without giving the Irish credit for all that intel lectual superiority which they modestly arrogate, and which empty travellers like Mr. Grant and Mrs. Hall allow them, we must suppose even the most ignorant among them elevated in understanding a degree or two above " the beasts that perish," but to this elevation they can scarcely pretend if they submit to be robbed by such gross and transparent frauds as the O'Connell tribute and the repeal rent— frauds which never would have deceived them so of lr. his O' giantCon long if w e a ll h a d no t a id e d them, as our contempo nr a e r l s and d w t a h i thus a them,coverin g b y thenakedness A scheme of swindling. DEMAND FOR HIGHER WAGES. In many of the manufacturing districts there has been a general movement among the factory opera tives for an advance of wages. Th e f o ll ow i ng are the accounts from the provincial papers : AIIIITON.UNDER - LINB.—For several weeks past, various meetings have been held by almost every branch of factory operatives, at which preparati ons have been making to adopt some steps to obtain an advance. On Wednesday evening the power-loom weavers again met in the Charlestown meeting-room, where they were addressed by IL Pilling, " General" Lee, G. Hough, and others. The following resolu tions were agreed to, viz. :—" That it is the opinion of this meeting that each weaver is in duty bound to pay Id. per fortnight, for the purpose of enabling the committee to forward delegates to the out districts, to get up an agitation for the purpose of endeavouring to obtain an advance of wages. ' 2. " That it is the opinion of this meeting, that lists be obtained from other districts, and that deputations be sent for that ' purpose."—The meeting then separated. STOCKPORT.—The turn-out of spinners and self actor minders in this town, still continues to some extent, but not so generally as at the beginning of 1 the week, the hands at several mills having accepted 1 r J r n i e pi i n n n w er h s ic i h n \rk at the 1;, . -- —....._ "A s e r r i s :onl The y the price offered by the n st price, six twelve mills are fully at we partially at work • and there . the spinners are all out, two of \ which 8. re standing i n consequence of repairs. OLDIII.I4.—On Wednesday mot tin g last, the ope. ratives at the cotton mill of Messrs. - Wild, Moss He.,y, Shaw, Crompton, returned to their . employment; . 0 , the understanding that their wage s should be ad vanced about a; shilling per week ; but the d'ispute does not appear to be yet fully settlE 41 On SP.turday, the turn-outs at Mr. Wrijley's factory, Littlewood mill, Hey Side, returned to work at at i advance of about one shilling per week. On Saturday, the hands of Messrs. Milne, Travis, and Milne, . of Skaw, Crompton, struck work for the purpose . of obtaining an advance of wages, and they are still of it. WARILINGTON.—ifessrs. Hadfield and . Frost, cotton manufacturers, have advanced the wag es of their work-people ten per cent. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS,.,Nov, 18, (Sittings in Banco.) ECKERSLEY V. 13ARILER. This was also an appeal from the decis'ion, of the re vising barrister for South Lancashire. The vote was objected to on the ground of imperfect de.scriv tion of the qualification, and the barrister decided agar► Ist the ob jection. After hearing Mr. Cockburn for the appellant, and Mr. Sergeant Kinglake for the respondent, The COURT took time to examine the schedules„ QUEEN-SQUARE. On Tuesday Mr. Taylor, the second clerk, wrote to the chief constable at Hull to inquire into the truth of the statement made by Miss Hayes, whose case has excited so much sympathy, and yesterday re ceived the following reply : " Town Hall, Hull, Nov. 16. " Sir,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, referring me to a report in the newspapers respecting the case of distress of Miss Georgiana Hayes, and requesting me to inform you something of her history. " In reply, I beg to acquaint you that I was inti mate with the late Mr. Picard and the family of Miss llayes t and that the whol e o f h er statement 113 re- Porteal and detailed in your letter is perfectly correct. I have inclosed you a Post-office order for 205., 'flooded to me by John Bark worth, Esq., one of the magistrates of this place, after having read the state ment in the Times.—Your obedient servant, " A. M‘MANUS." The following note, addressed to Mr. Burrell, was also yesterday received:— " Miss Hayes, whose case has called forth so much deserved sympathy from the public, is, ere this, I have no doubt, better provided for, but the poor wo man, Carr, who took her starving from the streets, to share her scanty meal, and when she could no longer supply Miss Hayes with food, made known to you and the public her distressing situation, what sym pathy or relief has been afforded to her ? If she has not been brought up in the lap of luxury, she has been brought up in disposition which would do credit to those who have been better educated. Will you be kind enough to forward to Mrs. Carr the enclosed sovereign from one who much admires her kind heartedness and generosity to her former mistress. "J. A. S." In the course of the day two sovereigns were re ceived from J. H. and a trifling sum from D. D. for Miss Hayes, and 2/. for Mrs. Carr, whose conduct the writer much admired. UNION-HALL. RORIIRRY 137 A SERVANT.—Caroline Taylor, a respectable-looking young female, was placed at the bar before Mr. Traill, charged with stealing five silver table-spoons, a German silver coffee-pot, a pair of trousers an album, and oth e r p ro p er t y , b e l ong i ng to Mr. Bird, of 13, Clapham -road-terrace ; and George Dean, a young man, was charged with receiving the trousers and album, knowing them to be stolen. The female prisoner had been in the prosecutor's service. On Sunday the spoons and coffee-pot were missed from the drawers in the parlour where they were deposited safe about three weeks ago by Miss Bird, after they had used them. No person had access to the room but the prisoner, who acknowledged that she had taken one of the drawers out, and put her hand in the one underneath, from which she had taken some cards. The plate was in that drawer. A gravy-spoon and a table-spoon were left behind. The male prisoner had been in the habit of assisting the female in cleaning the windows, and his having been found with a pair of trousers on belonging to the prosecutor, he was given into custody. At his lodgings was found an album belonging to the pro• secutor's son. Mr. TRAILL asked whether the plate had been found P—An officer of the P division said that he had searched the female's box, and the male prisoner's lodgings, but he could get no clue as to the plate. He would endeavour to trace it by inquiry at the dif ferent pawnbrokers. The female prisoner denied all knowledge of the plate. The trousers she acknowledged giving to the male prisoner, and the album was lent her by the prosecutor's son. She lent the latter to the sister of the male prisoner. As for taking the cards from the drawer, the daughter of the prosecutor was present when she did so. Mr. TRAILL said it was a very suspicious affair, and to give the officer an opportunity of tracing the plate, he should remand them until Friday next. Yesterday several persons were summoned by the P division of police, and amongst them some poor women for selling fruit in the streets. The evidence adduced against the defendants was that they had boards or stalls by the road side at Walworth, with fruit, and that they created an ob struction, and being warned to desist, and not paying any attention to it, were accordingly summoned for the offence. One of the defendants, an elderly woman, said that she had no other means of support, and that it was to keep out of the workhouse she endeavoured to sell fruit in the Walworth-road to support herself. She added that the tradesman opposite whose door she had her little stand gave her permission, and that being on the road side it was no obstruction to the pas sengers. Mr. TRAILL said that it was illegal, and that the tradesman had no power to give her such an authority. In reply to the Magistrate, she said she had been summoned before for a similar offence, and had been committed for seven days in default of paying the fine inflicted on her. Mr. TRAILL said that after such a punishment one would have supposed she would not have repeated the offence. The defendant said she had no other means of get ting her living, or she would not have resorted to it. Mr. TRAILL said that as she had again broken the law he should commit her.—Committed accordingly. Another woman, in defence, said she had five chil dren dependent on her for support, and asked what she was to do if she was prevented from selling a little fruit by the roadside—that the workhouse was staring her and her children in the faco if she was obliged to abstain from it. In reply to the Magistrate she admitted that she had been summoned before the P division, and that she, on that occasion, left off selling fruit, but being nearly starved she was compelled to begin again. Mr. TRAILL told her, that lot the consequences be what they might she must not be permitted to go on in that way breaking the law. She should assuredly he committed to gaol in default of paying the fine. That he should now inflict a fine of 20s, but should not impose it unless she was found in the same situa tion again. A third defendant said that she had a sick hus band, and that she tried to keep him and herself out of the workhouse by selling fruit, and if she was de prived of the means of doing so that must be their fate. Mr. TR.►ILL, finding that the defendant was not at all disposed to make a promise that she would remove her apple-stall, said that he was of opinion it would be a kindness to many of those persons who obstruct the thoroughfares by selling fruit to commit them to the House of Correction ; that it was an idle lazy way of living, and that those who pursued it ough to be•made to• try and earn their bread by different means, •r. Defendant,---I have no other means of doi ng so , your Worship. It is a very cold and harassing way of getting a living for those poor people, like myself, who are compelled to follow it; but what are we to do?. •. Mr. TRAILL disposed of the remainder of the sum monses by fining the defendants 20s. each, but said he should not enforce the penalties unless they were brought up again, and in that case they might de pend upon it they would be committed. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday Mr. Broderip stated that, in consequence of the reports which have appeared in this journal, several benevolent persons had forwarded contributions for the benefit of Isabella Powell, and her three young children. The generous and disinterested conduct of the young woman Harland, who pawned her clothes to raise sufficient money to pay for a cab which conveyed her afflicted neighbour to the London Hospital, and who afterwards purchased bread for the famishing children, had not been forgotten. The conduct of Mrs. Harland (a sailor's wife) was indeed beyond all praise, and, but for her kind interference, the children might have perished. He inquired of Douglas, the summoning officer of the Court, No. 279 K, the state of the sick woman and her little ones? Douglas replied that the children were recovering fast, but the mother continued in much the same state as before, and was not considered out of danger. Mr. I3RODERIP said it would be some comfort to the poor woman if she was made acquainted with the fact that money had been sent for her relief, and he requested the officer to do so; and also to inform Mrs. Harland that she would be rewarded on waiting upon Mr. Symons, the chief clerk. Douglas said the poor widow required some imme diate assistance, even in the Londo n H os pit a l, an d that the purchase of some under-clothing would be of great service to her. The young woman Harland was iu straitened circumstances, hut she had informed him that she would not accept of any remuneration for the trouble she had taken. Mr. BRODERIP said that Mrs. Harland had better attend and have the option of refusing or rejecting the money. It would be pleasant to her to know that her benevolent conduct was fully appreciated. Her disinterested behaviour was highly creditable. Among the contributions received, which the Ma gistrate desired might be acknowledged, was 2/. from Mr. Grant, of Richmond, for the benefit of the three destitute children ; 10s. from P. Q., for Harland, to assist her afflicted neighbour and her children ; a Post-office order for 2/. from X. Y., for the benefit of the three children, with the exception of ss. for Mrs. Harland; a half-sovereign from a person in the City, for the benefit of the widow and her children ; 10s. and 4s. from four little children, to be given to Mrs. Powell's little ones, but " should the poor chil dren have been taken charge of by the parish autho rities in consequence of the mother's death, the money to be given to Mrs. Harland." Yesterday Mr. Robert Horn attended the Court for the first time as inspector of the K division. lie has been promoted from the T division, of which he had been for twelve years sergeant. Lord Stgnley arrived in town lot evening from Knowsley Hall, Lucashim THE EXPERIMENTAL FIRING ON WIMBLEDON COMMON. Yesterday, Mr. Buckingham, of 20, South-row, New-road, St. Pancras, applied to Mr. Paynter, the sitting magistrate at the Wandsworth Police-court, for his advice and assistance under the following cir cumstances : Mr. Buckingham stated that he was the inventor of a new destructive projectile, called the " Victoria" shell, for blowing up towns and mines. On 'Wed nesday afternoon last he was making experiments on Wimbledon-common, in the presence of Dr. Ryan and other scientific gentlemen appointed by the Go vernment, and in the course of those experiments he subjected to trial two new shells, which were dis charged into a bank, but did not explode within the given time (three quarters of an hour). Two hours afterwards he began digging for those shells which had not exploded to prevent accidents, as they were of a very destructive tendency. In a short time he dug up either twelve or thirteen, none of these had exploded, indeed the principle of invention with re spect to all but two which were to have burst within the hour was, that they should remain in the ground twenty-four hours before such an event took place, nine of the shells were washed and placed in a bag, the remainder were lying loose on the ground, when a man named Taylor, who had formerly been in the Grenadier Guards, and who had been waiting upon Dr. Ryan, took up one of the loose balls which had some gravel adhering to it, and while in the act of washing it, the shell exploded, mutilating him in a shocking manner. The accident had such an effect upon applicant that for two days he was confined to his bed with the brain fever. He was unable before he left the ground to remove the balls to a place of security, but left the men to keep watch and prevent any persons approaching the spot. On Saturday morning he again visited Wimbledon common, and found that all the load e d b a ll s h a d b een carried ffin spite of the vigilance of the men left to watch them. Applicant becoming alarmed for the safety of the public generally, and it being most pro bable they might have got into the possession of per sons ignorant of their destructiveness, he immediately communicated with Inspector Busain, of the V divi sion, and through the vigilance of that officer he had discovered six of the loaded shells, but he was unfor tunately still ignorant as to where the remainder were secreted. His principal motive in coming forward and making this statement was, that it might obtain publicity through the p ower f u l means of the press, and thus be the means of cautioning any persons who might retain possession of them, as their danger ous tendency now lay in moving them about after being fired from the cannon. Inspector Busain informed the magistrate that be ing applied to by Mr. Buckingham, and hearing the danger that, might result to the public, he exerted himself to discover who were the possessors of the missing balls. After some time he ascertained that a gardener in the service of a physician at Roehamp ton had been seen throwing some of the balls about in the tap-room of a beer shop in that village, and one of the balls was in the act of being put upon the fire, when the landlord, who is an old artillery-man, came in, and guessing what it was, got possession of it, and, together with others, buried them in the ground for safety. He subsequently discovered that a youth named Marlow had had another in his pos session, but afterwards threw it into a pond. He had informed the constables of that section of the circum stance, and they would make every inquiry after the missing balls. Mr. PATNTIM said it was by a remarkable inter vention of Providence that a frightful catastrophe had been averted, and he hoped in future more care would be taken to prevent the public getting such dreadful missiles into their possession. As the police had succeeded in discovering some of these missiles, he would direct them to redouble their efforts to trace out the remainder; for, until they were found, it was impossible to state what dreadful calamities might not ensue. Mr. Buckingham thanked the magistrate for his attention, and withdraw. THE LORD MAYOR AND THE BOARD OF GUARDIANS OF THE CITY OF LONDON UNION. Yesterday upwards of fifty members, accompanied by Mr. Watkins, the vice-chairman, and the clerk, waited upon the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, and presented his Lordship with the following ad dress : " The Guardians of the poor of the City of London Union take the earliest opportunity of offering to your Lordship their most sincere and cordial congratulations upon your Lordship's elevation to the distinguished and honourable position of Lord Mayor of the City of London. " The Guardians have reason to acknowledge, with pride and satisfaction, the indefatigable zeal and ability evinced by your Lordship as their chairman during a pe riod of nearly eight years • and the experience they have thus gained of your Lordship's character and talents, give them the highest confidence that the same ability and proficiency will be exercised for the benefit of their fellow-citizens at large, in the wider sphere of usefulness which your Lordship is now called upon to occupy. " The Guardians have no less confidence that those kind and humane feelings for the interests of the poor which have ever characterised your Lordship, as their chairman, will be continued and extended to the fullest degree in the exercise of your Lordship's authority as Chief Magistrate of this great City. And while they look for the most patient and benevolent attentions to the claims of poverty and misfortune, they have an equal , assurance that, under your Lordship's firm administra tion of the law, idleness and vice will receive the dis couragement they deserve. " In conclusion, the Guardians assure your Lordship of their unabated esteem and confidence, and beg to express their earnest hope that the blessing of Divine Providence may attend your Lordship through the ar duous and important duties of the coming year, and pre serve for many years a life of usefulness and benevo lence. " THOMAS WALKER, Presiding Chairman. " John Thomas Rowsell, Clerk to the Board." The Lord Mayor returned the following answer Gentlemen,—My election to the Chief Magistracy, after a year of severe persecution, prompted by those whose education and calling should have taught them better things, has been a source of congratulation from various friends IN:lo are kind enough to entertain a fa vourable opinion of my motives and proceedings. " I can truly declare that this pleasing testimony of your good opinion as my brother Guardians of the City of London Union, is doubly grateful under present cir cumstances, and a powerful incentive to exertion in the cause of humanity, as well as in the faithful administra tion of my duty. " You are so obliging as to approve of my humble ef forts as your Chairman during the existence of our Union. I feel I shall not be able for some time to give so uniform an attendance at the Board as formerly, but I haie the satisfaction in knowing that my lack of service will be amply made ,u , p by the zeal, and talent of my re spected friend, your exeellent Vice-chairman. ".I beg to, assure yoU that 'I shall dedicate my best energies to alleviate the sufferings of the deserving poor, but I shall strictly enforce the laws, so wisely enacted for the suppression of professed mendicants. "For your good wishes, so cordially expressed, for the preservation of my health, and that I may be enabled to fill the important duties to which I am now called, I heartily return you my best acknowledgments, and most sincerely do I wish that you and myself may have a year of happy success in our endeavours to dis charge with efficiency our respective trusts and obli gations." LLOYD'S SHIPPING. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals—Patriot Queen, Devey, from Bengal, at Li. verpool, sailed July 29 ; Peruvian, Black, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed June 30, St. Helena Sept. 24 ; Supe rior, Bell, from Singapore, at Liverpool, sailed June 20, Anger July 17 ; Agneda, Jaffray, from Bombay, at Li verpool, sailed July 5; Gilmore, Maw, from Port Philip, off Falmouth, sailed May 2, Bahia Sept. 8 ; Grecian, Watt, from China, in the London Docks, sailed June 20, St. Helena Sept. 28 ; Syria, Stroyan, from Singapore, at Cork, sailed June 22, St. Helena Sept. 11 ; Kilblain, Shaw, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed June 29, St. Helena Sept. 24. Arrivals at St. Helena—Mary Lyon, Davidson, Sept. 24, from coast of Africa, and sailed 26th to Cork ; Ma cassar, from Manilla and Batavia, and sailed 26th to Antwerp ; Osprey, Kirk, 25th, from Bombay, and sailed 26th to Liverpool; Gulnare, Chapman, from Batavia, and sailed 25th to Boston ; Orator, Chester, from Ceylon to London ; Laurens Koster, Reeve, from Batavia, and sailed 25th to Rotterdam ; Caledonia, Stephenson, from Bombay, and sailed 25th to Hull; Pilgrim, Rawling, from Calcutta, and sailed 26th to Liverpool; Harmony, Douglas, from the Cape ; Borneo, Hogg, 26th, from Calcutta and Mauritius, and sailed 28th to London ; Arrow, Walker, from Zanzibar to London ; Solide, Grasse, from Batavia to Hamburgh. Departures from Madras—Lynher, Browse, Aug. 22, to Mauritius ; William, Hay, 31st, to Moulmein ; City of Poonah, Slight, Sept. 1, to Cape and London. Arrivals at Ascension—Elizabeth, Morris, Oct. 8, from Bengal, and to sail same day to London. Arrival at Cape de Verds—Precursor steamer, Sept. 26th, from Southampton to India. SIR HENRY POTTINGER.—It gives us great plea sure to state that upon the occasion of Sir Henry's visit to this town. he will be presented with a massive piece or ser vice of plate by the great body of our wealthy fellow-towns men, who are interested in the opening of the China trade. The East India and China Association of Liverpool not only originated the idea of entertaining him . at the publi c banquet, but were also the first to give the initiative for the piece of plate, the subscriptions to which, however, will not be confinad to the members of that association, but will be thankfully received from all who are deriving benefits from the altered state of relationship with the celestial empire. Already several firms have p u t d own their names for 501. each ; and at 'Change hour yester day afternoon the munificent sum of 850/. had been sub scribed. There can be no duubt that the subscriptions will eventually amount to between 1,000/ and 1,5001., am. ply sufficient for the purchase of a piece or a serv i ce o f plate—and it will be left to Sir Henry to make his choice of either—worthy of the man, the town, an d ti n owe . eion.—LiverP9ol.l9lo744 of §sturdan UNIVERSITY OF LONDON. BACHELOR OF MEDICINE, 1844. FIRST DIVISION. Allchin, William Henry, University College. Browne, Henry, King's College. Edwards, William Thomas, University College. Evans, John, University College. Harling, Robert Dawson, University College. Hearne, Edwin, University College. llerapath, Wm. Bird, Bristol Med. Sch. and Ldn. Hos• Jemmett, Benjamin Lancaster, King's College. Marshall, Frederick William, University College. Parker, Nicholas, London Hospital. Parsey, William Henry, King's College. Redfern, Peter, 1, Surgeons'-square, Edinburgh. Routh, Charles Henry Felix, University College. Timms, Godwin William, University College. Webb, Henry March, Guy's Hospital. • SECOND DIVISION. Blount, John Hillier, King's College. Cannon, Henry Mills, King's College. Haines, Robert, St. Thomas's Hospital. Martyn, Patrick, School of Physic in Ireland. Scoffern, John, Aldersgate. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SUICIDE. Great excitement was occasioned in the village of Hawnes, near Bedford, on Sunday morning, in on; sequence of a respectably d resse d man being foul ) " hanging in a hedge quite dead. The following dal an inquest was h e ld b e f ore E zra E ag l es, E sq., woo' . for the county, and the following evidence. We s given : Josiah King, a labourer, deposed that on Sunday morning he was going up Mr. Armstrong's fields in the parish of Hawnes, and in the hedge . ; about A W I ,: dred yards from th e roa d l ea di ng f rom Wil s t e d Clophill, he saw something hanging, which at first he thought was a ma w ki n t o f r i g h ten t h e bi r d s but on going nearer he found it was a man. He was tied by the neck t o a n as h b oug h w i t h a h an dk er cbie and appeared to have been hanging there for so° time. He then told some other persons and the coo stable, and they removed the 'body to King's beet' shop. It was in a hi g h s t a t e o f putre f act i on. WV witness found the decea se d h e was on hi s k nees . I' was very respectably dressed. William Cole, the constable of Hawnes, depose d that the last witness fetched him on Sunday mor n : ing to Mr. Armstrong's hedge, to see a man hanging' He found the deceased suspended by the neck to as ash stem, with two handkerchief s . H e broke th e stem and let the body down ; it was that of a poll about sixty years old. H e exam i ne d t h e s k u ll, could find no fracture. The deceased had on a b1i 614 neckerchief, two s hi r t s , p a i r o f co tt on d rawers , 0 14 , black trousers, and a fa nc y fl owere d wa i s t coa t. J l3 ; appeared to have been a roun d-f ace d man . Hi s uPPe i, jaw was very round, an d th e un d er j aw rather sun; in. His hair was dark and rather curly and whisked sandy; they extend e d un d ernea th hi s c hi n . He VI on Wellington boot s cu t o p en up th e i nstep. He n' A white cotton sock s . H e h a d a bl ac k frock Ott" lined with silk, and a black velvet collar. Tb_As— was a hat hangi ng by th e s id e o f th e dece ase d in the stem of th e t ree , i n w hi c h were a r; of spectacles, a pair of scissors, a common ho comb, and a pencil. In the small-clotb! pocket was a piece of paper, on which °l' written in pencil, " I h am i n t ro bl e ," an d t h e figuiri 1844 and 1793 deduct e d, w ith 0047 b e l ow ; an d 1 8 7 9 and 1777 deducted, with 0067 below. And in coat-pockets was a playbill of Mr. Jackman's ci s pany of the perf o r mance o f C ato, and „1"11 Silent Family; another bill, "R. B re tt, b 7A and biscuit-baker, 55, Fl ee t- s t ree t ;" anot h er , ts o true Friend in n ee d," a pp ear i ng t o b e a relative to a friendly benefit society at Mr. J on es "► Backchurch-lane, Whit ec h ape l ; and part of anoth er bill, relating to another b ene fit soc i e t y , at Mr.Bowers_t Turnmill-street, Clerk enwe ll. Aft er th e clothe' had been removed, witness examined the body' there were no marks of vi o l ence; th e hsandkerchi e by which the body was suspended were figured cotton; Upon the black neckerchief the letters " WTh S sr " were marked in white silk. On his shirt CO d ID the letter " R." was marked in red co tt on . "i o five feet three inches in hei g ht, an d was a strange!. 0 witness. The body was not identified, and being 111 high state of decomp os iti on , was o bli ge d t o be burle d directly after the inquest. The jury returned an O .P e ,, verdict, to the effect that deceased was f oun d hanging —Hertford Reformer. MR. HUSKISSON'S b STATUE., 0 At a meeting of the Town C ounc il o f Liverpool: a Wednesday, the Town Cl e rk rea d a l e tt er which n been written by the lat e M a y or t o M rs . Husluss° and also a letter written by Mrs. Huskisson in rell; The Mayor's letter was t o th e e ff ec t, that the seta selected by Mr. Gibson for the erection of Huskisson statue in the Custom-house had been declined ; the Council expressed their regret that difficulties had thus arisen ; and that they suggested the long room of the Custom-house as a proper place for its creedal. Mrs. Huskisson's reply was of considerable 1042' She said she had been given to understand that th o light in the long room was defective, and that In° l4 than one spot could be found in the open area snr; rounding the Custom-h ouse f o r th e erec ti on o f a statue in bronze. She, therefore, requested permission to withdraw the marble statue of her lamented husban d for the purpose of having it cast in bronze, and, wh ell cast, erected in the area outside the Custom- 11 ( 0e ' the exact site being left to the selection of Mr. Gibson' The reading of the letter was followed by loud chea ( The MAYOR spoke in warm t erms o f a d m i r ation this liberal proposal. The following resolution was proposed amid 1 014 cheers : _ _ ___ " That the Mayor do express to Mrs. Huskisson feelings of gratitude that the Council entertain I' her most liberal proposal t o su b s tit u t e a b ronze R . OI marble statue, to be by her erected to the memory our late representative, and to intimate to her, tilt this Council will take care that the site that may be selected by Mr. Gibson shall be made suitable for 1.4 f reception of this magnifice n t g ift, an d th a t th e C o unt; would express its hope that the inscription to be T e a corded on the statue's base will not omit to renul l _ k the public of the party to whom it is so 11111u ' indebted." EXTRAORDINARY LEAP BY PONT.—The , 11 1, Captain Colgr ave w as d es i rous o f p ossess i ng hi m sel f - A - 0 a Dartmoor pony that was runnin g w ild amo ng ` 4 " 4 herd, which had a b a tt er a pp earance th an hi s feil°,l . 0 - He got the assistance of sev e ral men , w h o succe eded ;$ separating this individual from the h er d. Th e y drove!. upon some rocks by the side of a pointed hill, called I: that district, a Tor. One of the men followed the po, on horseback, while the Captain s t oo d on the io grounds, watching the progress of th e c h ase . The P . t r . animal being driven into a corner, and seeing no n e pect of escape, made a desperate leap, fairly cleared t_,P man on horseback; and flew with-such precipitation Ow the hill that he distanced his pursuers.:-. BIRTH& On the 10th inst., at Stoke Hall, Ipswich, the lady Of 11. Phillipps, Esq., of a daughter. On the 15th inst., at Esher, Mrs. Henry Neville, Of daughter. On the 15th inst., at Brunswick-place, Lewisham-road , lady of R. B. Stewart, Esq., of a daughter. If. On the 15th inst., the wife of the Rev. Frederick J. Reeves, East Sheen, Surrey, of a son. On the 15th inst., at Batheaston, Somersetshire, the l id! of Ctain Sdney Colpos Dacres, R.N. of a son. net. On the 16 t h inst., at Great Yarmouth, , the wife of the -- Henry Mackenzie, of a daughter. Of On the 16th inst., at Chiltley House, Liphook, the la dy W. Kenrick, Esq., of a dauhter, still-born. On the 16th inst., at Froy g le, Hampshire, the lady of t il. Rev. P. Aubertin, jun., of a son. On the 16th inst., in the Bear-garden, Southwark, the ' Wife of Mr. Andrew Clark, jun., of a daughter. On the 16th inst., Mrs. G. Aylwin, Brixton, of a daugh t n On the 17th inst., at the Steel-yard, Mrs. Cousene , daughter. On the 17th inst., at West Strand, the lady of Jacob De l3' penha, Esq., of a daughter. On the 17th inst., at Ickleford House, near Hitchin, the llon. Mrs. Frederick Ryder, of a son. eat, On the 16th inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. Charles Ber''' of a daughter. a of On the 16th inst., at John-street, Bedford-row, the "- William Smythe, Esq., of a son. On the 17th inst., at Earl's-court, Mrs. Thomas ye t. Reed (late Miss P. Horton), of a daughter. MARBLEIJ. At Portsca, Edward, eldest surviving son of the latc,.7( fardinge Gifford, to Rosamond Pennell, eldest doug h" ' William Pennell, Esq. On the 11th inst., at Antwerp, John Christian 80 15 % 6 14 Esq., of Guadalupe-y-Calvo, in Mexico, to Jeanna , daughter of Adolphus Hay, Esq., of Antwerp. rles On the 14th inst., at St. Saviour's Church, Chelsea, •---$ $. Herky, Esq., to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the W e Bawtree, Esq., of Whitehall, Colchester. On the 16th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury , to sixth son of John Copland, E sq ., o f Chelmsford' Es 3e— ,: e ll- Frances, third daughter of John Alliston, Esq., of PI" square, London. DIED. zabeth Haig, relict of David Greig, ... Ell' On the sth inst., at Melville-street, Edinburgh, IVO' „ r ice, On the 9th inst., at Witton, near Norwich, John x" e" Esq., aged 58. T.'Bllt e ' On the 12th inst., at Shirley, near Southampton, —l nant James Francis Browne, RN. Esq., of Hullgreig. On the 13th inst., in York-street, Portman-square, MO' Warren, aged 76. late On the 14th inst., at Clifton, Agnes, reliet of the genial, Archbold, Esq., of Ewell, Surrey. genial, On the 14th inst., at Hanover-crescent, Brighton, AA wife of W.. Klyne, Eq., of the sama. On the 14th inst., at s Durham, the e Rev James Frederic Townsend, B.A. .' of On the 14th inst., at Hastings, Samuel Taylor, rs‘,, -L' John-street, Bedford-row, London. Oa the 15th inst., at Portland-place, Isabella, widow late General Ross, aged 79. On the 15th inst., at Edmonton, Miss Mary glin t „ oi re, On the 16th inst., at Spencer-street, Northampton" Ann, the wife of Robert Dawson, Esq., aged 72. • i ridos r On the 16th inst., in Russell-square, Hannah Marta, of the late Rev. Dr. Richards, of St. Martin's. of the et London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOu' No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Be" Office, No. a r Strand, in the Precinct of the Styo2l SI . Weloam Tut ciiy, Nereastiir 19,1144, CUALING V. TOMS. The appellant in this case having objected to the qualification of the respondent as an elector; of the borough of Totnes, the revising barrister refused to entertain the objection,. on the ground that the notice served upon the complainant was not sufficien t. Mr. COCKBURN, for the appella n t, s t a t e d : th at t h e no tice was sent by post, in strict accordance with the 100th section of tho Act, which provides that at the ti me o f posting the notice a duplicate should be pr esented with the letter to the postmaster, who, on con sparing that duplicate with the notice itself, should put tihe post-office stamp, with the date upon both documents, and that the production of the stamped duplicate should bo proof of the service of the notice. The revising barrister held that the evidence of the person who delivered the letter to the postmaster was necessary. That decision he (Mr. Cockburn) submitted was directly opposed. to the letter and intention of the Act of Parliament. Mr. Sergeant Ii INGLAirot contended that the words of the Act required the notice to be presented to the post master by the objector himself, and that it was not com petent to do that by a third person ; or, if so, that third person should be called to prove the service. The COURT was of opinion that the Act had been complied with by the objector, and they reversed the decision of the barrister. Their Lordships then rose. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 18. (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLINQUE.) IN BD TOLLEMACIIIi, LORD ISUNTINGTOWER. This day having been appointed for the final hearing in this case, his Lordship attended in Court, accompanied by his solicitor, Mr. Lewis. Mr. EDWIN Jaime applied for a futher adjournment. His Lordship was placed in. the somewhat singular posi tion of an only son to a wealthy nobleman, but yet who was altogether dependent: upon his mother for his pecuniary allowances. He hoped to be enabled, however, to pay all creditors, and at the next hearing he should be competent to say in what manner, for as to-morrow was appointed for the judgment in another court in a suit for an increased allowance entered by Lady Dysart against her husband, which suit ought and was likely to be decided in her favour, she would be enabled to spare more to her son than at present she could possibly do from her limited allowance of 3,0001. per annum. His Lordship's father, with an, income of 50,0001. a year, had not expended one shilling upon his son from the day ho was sent to Eton, where of course he was obliged to live as did his equals. Upon that ground he craved a further day, before judgment would be given by his Honour. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE said he wonld rather rest on the justice of the father than the affection of the mother. Mr. CRANIUMS attended for some of the creditors, but as they i only wanted their money, he could have no hesi tation n acceding to Mr. James's proposition, as it seemed a very reasonable one. The case was then deferred till the 20th of January. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. A young woman, named Edith Bloomfield, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having committed a felony. Mrs. Hughes, the wife of a haberdasher, in Graces church-street, stated that the prisoner purchased a table-cover in the shop for three shillings, and pre sented a sovereign to be changed. A boy, who at tended the shop, handed the sovereign to witness, who was at a desk, and who gave to the boy a half-sove reign, two half-crowns, and two shillings, to hand to the young woman. The prisoner said to the boy, "You have not given me the half-sovereign." The boy, who was a stupid fellow, had not counted the money, as he ought to have done, and he stated that he dia not see the half-sovereign. The LORD MAYOR expressed some surprise at the idea of charging a person, under such circumstances, with a robbery. Mrs. Hughes said that she had never given the prisoner into custody. The prisoner insisted upon being searched, and in that manner she got into the custody of a policeman, who brought her before his Lordship. The prisoner declared that she had never received the half-sovereign from the boy at all. The Loan MAYOR—There is not the slightest im putation upon you, and the policeman acted very foolishly in taking you into custody. There is foun dation for an action for false imprisonment in such a case, and I regret very much that you have been subjected to such annoyance. Mrs. Hughes very readily gave the full change to the prisoner, who respectfully thanked his Lordship for so marked an interposition. Since the Lord Mayor sentenced five young women for being disorderly, and breaking the Mansion-house windows, to imprisonment for two months in Bride well, and intimated that it was his intention to punish every window-breaker to that extent, there has not been a single case of window-breaking in that exten sive district. The following letter, inclosing a Post-office order for 51., was received by Sir Peter Laurie at the Man sion -house, and Sir Peter handed it to Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk : " The Rev. Thomas Strong presents his compli ments to Sir Peter Laurie, and having read the very affecting case of Charles Harley, from Ely, whose wife robbed him, and deserted her children, in the Britannia, of the 9th inst., takes the liberty of re questing two sovereigns may be forwarded to him, should Sir Peter not have lost sight of the poor fellow. Mr. Strong begs to inclose a Post-office order for this purpose, and requests Sir ;Peter will put the remaining three sovereigns into the poor. box—a fund so kindly and liberally expended that Mr. S. only regrets he has not more to contribute to it. Mr. Strong would feel obliged by, Sir Peter Laurie ordering a note to be sent to him, per post, acknowledging the safe arrival of the Post-office order. " Southernhay, Exeter, Nov. 15." BO W-S E ET. Yesterday, after the night charges bad been dis posed of by Mr. Hall, the Court was somewhat puz zled by an application in broken English, from a stout hale-looking Frenchman, considerably advanced in years, and attired in rather seedy habiliments, who represented himself as one Buchoz Hilton, to whom Louis Philippe was indebted to the amount of several thousand pounds, for alleged services of an extraordi nary nature in the " Revolution of July." He pre sented the Magistrate with some printed copies of an address to the Queen of England, whose intercession in his behalf he earnestly implored, and then produced the Time: of October lOth, to which he said he wished to direct his Worship's particular attention. The paper contained a report of a similar visit by the Frenchman to the Marylebone-office, the reporter having added, that the same party was taken into cus tody nine or ten years ago for collecting a mob oppo site to the residence of the French Ambassador, in Manchester-square, where he had stationed himself on the back of a donkey, and offered to sell blacking made of the blood and bones of Louis Philippe's satellites. The MAGISTRATE—What do you wish me to do ,hen ? Applicant—At de beginning, your Lordship, I wish to know if it is necessaire to have a license in dis country to stick up de bills for show in de streets of London ? The Times newspaper is so much in love with Louis Philippe, that it is always writing lies and nonsense for to please him ; and for what it has said of me, it deserves to go to the madhouse.—(A laugh.) Here is the Times, which says, that nine years ago I was riding a donkey. It was not me, at all, for it was, a—what you call a gallows, with the King sus pended—and I was only walking by the side. The MAGISTRATE—Let me look at the paper. The Frenchman handed it over, arid continued his story.—The Queen of dis country is too good and too generous ; and if it had not been for the lies in the Times, she would have said to Louis Philippe, " Ah, before you come to me, you must settle dis business; you must pay Buchoz Hilton what it is you owe him." But she see the Times, which has done me great in jury, and is all not true. I shall show you that Louis Philippe has been to me a traitor, and he may come with his long sword, on which is the words " Ge mappes, Vainly," and he may bring his son " John Veal" (Joinville), the giant-keeler, who I skill prove is a " poltron " and I shall— The MAGISTRATE--Nell, I can't assist you. You may put up your hills wherever you can get permis sion to do so, if there is nothing illegal in them. The Frenchman bowed very politely, and then withdrew, apparently very well satisfied with the re sult of his application, the nature of which neither the Magistrate ) nor any body else, bad been able to imagine.