The Sun. — London, England, 1839-06-12 00:00:00

-EN-ING- EDITION. REHENSION OF MR. PETER. CRRAY M'DOUALL, A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL CONVENTION. HYDE, MONDAY, JUNE 10. This morning this little town was in a state of great Mr. excitment, in consequence of the apprehension of i I Peter M'Douall, Member for Ashton-under-Lyne n the National Convention, upon a warrant charging him with having uttered seditious language at a public meeting held in this town on the evening of the 22d of eepri . \ .1 This warrant was directed to Mr. J. Stanley s Barrett, high constable of the Stockport division of the county of Chester. The warrant was placed in the hands of a constable a few days after it was granted. The constable went to Ashton, where Mr. M'Douall was Then, on a sisit, and searched for him, but he contrived to get out of the way. It does not appear that from that time until Saturday last any attempt was made to execute the warrant. On Saturday last, how ever,"Mr. J. S. Barrett went over to Ramsbottorn, near Bury, where Mr. M'Douall resides, and appre hended him without the slightest difficulty. He was immediately taken to Stockport, the offence with which he stood charged having been committed in the county of Chester, where he was placed in prison. A person named John Bradley, of Hyde, clogger, who had oia• dated as Chairman at the meeting in question, was also apprehended, and placed in the Stockport gaol. The time appointed by Captain Clarke, R.N., and John Turner, Esq. (the Magistrates who had signed the warrant), for the examination of the prisoners, was eleven, at the Commercial Inn, on the road from Hyde to Godley, and at the appointed time there was a large concourse of people assembled. To their great sur prise on the high ground on the right hand side of the house were posted about forty or fifty of the 10th regi ment of foot, in a situation so as to command all the approaches to the house. The Magistrates were punctual in their attendance, but the prisoners did not arrive for a considerable time after the hour fixed by the Magistrates. At about twelve o'clock the prisoners arrived in an omnibus from Stockport, escorted by a troop of the 6th regiment of Dragoon Guards (Carabineers), and a party of the 86th Foot. When they arrived the mob greeted them with three cheers. Mr. Richard Cobhett, solicitor, of Manchester, ap peared on behalf of the prisoners. Mr. Hibbert, one of the clerks to the Magistrates, said this was an information against the prisoners, Peter d'Douall and John Bradley, charging them with having attended an unlawful meeting, which was held on the night of the 22d April. Mr. Hibbert, after alluding to the evidence which he should laybelore the Court, called John Gatley, de puty-constable of Hyde, and was about to read over the deposition of Gatley with reference to the case, when Mr. Cobbett objected to this course, contending that the - evidence ought to be then given viva voce by the. witnesses, and taken down in the presence of the priso ners. After the point had been discussed at some length, the Court overruled Mr. Cobbett's objection. Mr. Hibbert then called Gatley, and read his depo sition, which was to the following effect : John Gatley, deputy-constable of Hyde, said, about half-past seven o'clock on Monday night, the 22d day of April, a large number of persons- calling them selves Chartists, met at the Working Men's Institution, in Hyde, and formed themselves in procession. They proceeded towards the Cotton Tree, in Newton, with a band of music and banners, having inscribed on them " Equal laws and equal rights," " NO property qualifi .eation," " Universal suffrage," and other inscriptions which I could not distinctly read. The precession re turaed to Hyde, with Peter M'Douall, a little after . nine o'clock, and the numbers bad then greatly increased, and would amount, I should think, to between three and four thousand. They had then two bands of music with them, and held a meeting by the side of the Work ing Men's Institution, and Mr. M'Douall addressed the meeting from the outside of one of the windows of the Institetior. The first expressions I heard him use were in allusion to Government, whomhe condemned for posecuting Stephens, and he called them a blood-thirsty set of Whigs. He said, I advise the men, women, and children of Hyde to do as they are doing all over the kingdom, to get arms and be ready for the great struggle. He said he had been to all parts of the country to enlighten, the people, the same as he had done in this part of the country. He said the Chartists could easily take possession of the Tower of London with its 200,000 stand of arms, and there were plenty of gun-smiths' shops where;they,could get many thousand arms by a person going and kicking his foot through the doors. He said fifty determined men could arm all London, and that London Chartists would be ready to meet the people of this part of the country on three days notice ; the people shouted, " We are ready," and some one fired off a pistol. Mr. M'Douall further said, if the People's Charter was refused, he hoped to be with them at the great day of struggle and, after a short pause, he said, " But I will be with you, and stand and fight with you to the last." He said if the soldiers came down he would advise them not to go a few together, for the soldiers would fire on them if they did, but the people should all go in a body, with swords, pistols, and pikes, and face the soldiers face to face, and then the soldiers would not fire on them. M'Douall said they dare f not try Stephens, and again advised the people all to be ready, and said it was no crime to cuter a gun=smith's shop any more than it was to enter' a 6otton-factory. He said those who cannot get arms should get lucifer matches, and have them on their finger ends, for lucifer matches were very cheap. He said lie had been to London, Chatham, Sheerness, and other parts of the kingdom, and that five out of seven of the officers, both in • the Army and Navy were in the people's favour ; and that the soldiers were getting petitions in favour of the Charter signed amongst themselves, so that there was nothing to fear from the soldiers. M'Douall said he understood that Colonel Sibthorp wanted to know what the pikes were for? He said he would soon let him know what they were for, if they refused granting the People's Charter. He said about thirty good stout-hearted 1 farmers' sons, with bill-hooks, would do a deal of exe cution in a good cause like this. I-le said one stout man with a bill-hook, in a good cause, would do more good than a stamping fellow in a red jacket, hired for ten-pence a-day with either gull, sword, or pistol. He spoke much about rock: es, mor far claps, and other combustibles, and said they would be very useful. The meeting was addressed by two other individuals whom I did not know, who spoke much in the same strain as Mr. M'Douall, but as several pistols were then discharged, and much noise prevailed, I could not catch the whole of any sentence those speakers uttered. John Bradley, of Hyde Ciogger, took the chair. The meeting broke up near eleven o'clock. The depositions of George Nicholls and Isaac Brad shaw, con tables of Hyde, were then read. These tvitnesses corroborated Gatley in almost every par ticular. Mr. Cobbett dc:•clined sa) ing anything. Tie Magistrates, after consulting together for a few moments, Laid Mr. M'Douall must find sureti:'s, him self in 5001. and two sureties in 250/. each, to answer the charge at the next Chester Assizes. If the bail were satisfactory it would be taken at once, but other wise notice must be given. Bradley was ordered to find two sureties in f3O/., to answer the charge at the Assizes. This be did, and was immediately discharged. Bail not being ready for Mr. M'Douall he was com mitted to Chester Castle, but the Magistrates said they would attend at the Stockport Court-house to morrow and receive bail if the parties tendering them selves were unexceptionable. Mr. 'AP/Doc:ail was escorted under guard of the mi litary to Stockport. ITAYMA KET TII EA T RE.—Mr. Charles Kean appeared on Monday night in the character of Richard Ike Third for the first time at this theatre. The crooked-backed t)rant having been the most popular and unexceptionable of the cider Kean's performances, more than one theatrical generation must pass away before the remembrance of his peculiar excellence will be effaced by any other represen tative of the character. These recollections, while they predispose the spectator to applaud the efforts of the son, incline the critic to ascribe much of the fervour with which he is welcomed to his likeness to his father ; but his exer tions last night did not need any favourable prepossession to entitle him to the enthusiastic applause which he received from a crowded audience. The whole play was carefully and creditably presented. . . IMPRISONMENT OF MR. BAINES.—The fol lowing fact is furnished by a third edition of the Leicester. shire Mercury. " Saturday, Nine o'clock.—We stop the press to announce that the caption writ to immure our friend Mr. NV. Baines in a dungeon, for refusing to violate his conscience, was received in Leicester yesterday; but Mr. B. is in London, and returns this evening (Saturday). Men of Leicester, be on the look-out. Show him you - sympathise with him by accompanying him, and by an un. equivocal expression of your disgust of these Christian tyrants and persecutors. THE SOI-DISANT DAUGHTER OF GEORGE IV. AND MRS. FITZFIERBERT.-111rs. Guelph Sims, who applied to the Lord Mayor, according to the statement in our Paper of yesterday, for advice as to the course which it was most advisable to pursue to obtain what she had been assured by her late eurc'e she was en ti t l e d to as t h e ch il d of King - George the Fourth and Mrs. Fitzherbert, has forwarded to his Lordship severs letters ; some of them Purport to have been written by the Countess of Jersey, ) and there is one from the Duke of Wellington, which no doubt his Grace did write. In it the Duke says, " I have not any reason to believe there is any foundation for the statement that Sophia Elizabeth Guelph (Mrs. Sims) is the daughter of Mrs. Fitzherbert and George the Fourth." A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was bald on Thursday last at Newcastle, to consider the pre "ntatlln of a p et i t i on to P arliament relative to the trade . with Ci , r eassia. It w as we ll atten d e d , and led to a discus s)" full of mi nute an d va l ua b le details respecting the opening this afferdet! for the extension of our commerce in that country, Proving incontestably how keenly alive the merchants of that a Port its ad vantageer I the petition agreed to are is, to " For the - ado s .ptionThe p of prayer / f the petition agr to is, " For the adoption of such 1 m easures for asserting. theright of Great Britain to free-' d o n' t of . commerce with Circassia as will enable the British merchants to trade with security to the coast."— Times. LAUNCH OF THE LORD MAYOR'S BARGE. Yesterday th© Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayor ei-a went by water from Southwark-bridge, attended by the Water-Bailiff, the Aisistant Water -Bailiff, and other of the officers attached to the Conservancy, to the premises of Mr. Searle, the City Bargemaster, to witness the launch of the state barge, which has been for some time, by order of the Court of Aldermen, undergoing repair and modern decoration. In the front of the house, which is raised in the boat, are four Corinthian columns, close to each of which is a very ski Tully carved griffin. The gilding all round, and particularly at the head of the vessel, which is also finely carved, has been supplied with a most liberal ham!, and the effect is grand in the extreme. It was admitted by those who had seen the barge launched, immediately after sbe was built, that her appearance yesterday was far more attractive. When the Lord Mayor's boat approached the barge house, Mr. Searle fired a salute of thirteen guns, amidst the cheers of multitudes who crowded the shores and wharves of the Surrey side of the water to witness the launch. The props were then struck away, and the barge slowly and majestically descended into the water. His Lordship immediately afterwards entered the barge and examined the intericr, and after a delay of about half an hour took his departure amidst cheers and an other salute from the premises of the Bargemaster. The Lord Mayor's boat passed down the river, pre ceded by the Water Bailiff and other Conservancy Officers, and soon got into the romantic neighbourhood of the north country colliers, in which there appeared to be a complete stagnation of trade. Here and there were to be seen four or five gentle coal-heavers leaning over the side of a vessel, and spitting into the water, lnd a growl occasionally issued from a gang who were enjoying their " otium cum dignitate" ssitb the pipes in their mouths. His Lordship was evidently an object of terror as well as curiosity below bridge ; and the steam vessels, as if by magic, slackened their speed when he entered the pool. He observed with satisfaction that the orders he had given to the harbour -masters, rela tive to the placing of the colliers, and other arrange ments for keeping an expansive passage through the River, were scrupulously obeyed, and he was assured by Sir Chapman Marshall, who accompanied his Lord ship, and is to succeed him in the Mayoralty, that the admirable system introduced for the government of the Thames shall not be departed from, At foui• o'clock the Lord Mayor returned from the Pool to London-bridge, where he and the Lady Mayor ass, and a few of the members of the family, who con stituted the party, disembarked, and got into their carriages. The barge is to convey his Lordship and a large party, on the next Conservancy excursion, to Kent and Essex. MR. BANNERMAN, M.P.—Our City Member having occasion to be in Edinburgh in the early part of the week, took the opportunity of visiting Aberdeen on some private business. This simple circumstance has given rise to a great deal of idle gossip ; and, if a Contemporary may be depended on, has put Mr. Horatio Ross to the trouble of a needless journey. It was first asserted that Mr. Bannerman had accepted an Excise Commissioner ship—the slight fact that there is not one vacant being en tirely overlooked. Next, it was discovered that he had succeeded to the Chairmanship of the Poor-law Board, vacated by Mr. Shaw Lefevre, on his elevation to the Speakership—a thing which could hardly take place, seeing that Mr. Shaw Lefevre neither occupied that nor any other official situation. It is not difficult to trace these rumours to their true origin. The Tories are con vinced that Mr. Bannerman, from the influential position he has taken up in Parliament, might easily obtain a place, and judging from what their own feelings in such circum stances would be, they give him credit fbr a disposition to seize the first that offers.—Aberdeen Herald. TORY EVIDENCE OF TRANQUILLITY.—Again we (the Dublin Evening Past) publish the requisition for a meeting of the Queen's County to address her Majesty on the recent exercise of the Royal prerogative. This county, even from the name it bears, is peculiarly called upon to make a tender of its loyalty and attachment to the Sovereign at this juncture. We haze seldom seen a requisition more respectably signed, or bearing upon it the names of a larger number of men of property and station than that addressed to the High Sheriff, Mr. A. Weldon. Nevertheless, this Tory functionary, this officer of the Queen, has refused to convene his bailiwick, because he " diseents from the views of the requisitionists,"and because he is unwilling to disturb the county in its present quiet and tranquil state ! The Sheriff wanted an argument to justify his loyalty, and, having no better at hand, he pro claims the perfect tranquillity of the county, which the Orange Journals describe as almost insurrectionary. The evidence of the Tory Sheriff of the Queen's County must be peculiarly gratifying to Lord Roden, who would have the people of England believe that this country is inundated with Ribbonmen. The requisitionists have convened the meeting for Tuesday next. REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Sunday morning week, a young lady residing at Pusty-hill, near Wiseton Hall, was surprised by the appearance of three bee hives floating on the surface of the river which flows at the foot of the hill, and was still fvrther asto nished to find that they contained a quantity of living bees. Having called two men who were near, they made an attempt to extricate the bees from their perilous situa tion, but were, after some time, obliged to relinquish the undertaking. The young lady, however, judging that they were the property of some poor person in the neighbourhood, determined on saving them at all risks. After pursuing various schemes, she succeeded in landing the bees and their hives, having by this means placed herself in very great danger; she then called her father to her assistance, and they contrived to place the bees in their own garden, fortunately without either of them having received any injury. It chanced at the time to be the village feast; and the worthy old gentleman, while entertaining a number of guests in the good old. fashioned style in the afternoon, narrated the events of the morning, and frequently expressed his wish that the owner might come and claim his lost property. In a short time he did come, and proved to be a poor and honest labourer residing at Tiln, near Retford, and who having been lately employed to watch game, imagined that some malicious person bad thrown the hives and bees into the river. It is not known how long they had been on the water; but it is known that the distance from the place where they were lost, to that where they were rescued by the determined spirit and exertions of the young lady, is at least seven miles. The bees have suffered no injury whatever.—Doncaster Gazette. NATIONAL EDUCATION.—On Monday night a numerous and highly respectable public meeting of the inhabitants of Clerkenwell was held at eight o'clock, at the Seckforde Arms, Seckforde-street, Clerkenwell green, " to petition both H: uses of Parliament in favour of a measure of national education, without reference to sect or party." Resolutions and petitions to this effect were agreed to, with one dissentient, and it was further resolved that Lord Brougham be requested to present it to the House of Lords, Mr. \\retail' to the Commons, and that Mr. Duncombe do support the same. Thanks were voted to the Chairman, and the meeting separated at a late hour. ST. CLEMENT DANES' STEEPLE.—The seal foldies, for repairing the steeple of St. Clement Danes' Church being complete, the full extent of the diiapida tions can be seen. It appears that the first chamber, or belfry, is perfectly secure, as is also the one above, in which is the saints' or prayer bell; but the upper portion is very insecure, the cement between the blocks of stone having fallen cut. This may be attributed not only to the vibra tion of the bells chiming the 104th psalm every four hours, but because the clock strikes first on the saints' bell, and then on the large bell, thus making it appear as though there were two clocks. SENSIBLE TO THE LAST.—!I gossip, who had lost her husband, was expatiating on his many virtues to a brandy-faced band of comforters, whose syn.pathies she was awakening with gin -tea. " The greatest conso lation I have," said the almost disconsolate rib, " is, that he was sensible to the very last." On being asked whet evidence of that he had given--." Oa ay, he was that," answered she, " for just before he died, I wa, , blaming him fcr geing me lash, an' the like, and he got up on his elbevr and said I was an ill tempered jade.' "—AyrAdverliser. On Tuesday morning a distressing occurrence took place in Gallowgate. A middle aged female, who, fur some days previous had exhibited unequivocal symptoms of insanity, threw herself from a window three stories high, and was so dreadfully injured that she died a few hours afterwards in the Infirmary. Some of her neighbours, who were paying attention to her during her illness, were in the house when the circumstance occurred, and two females got hold of her gown sleev e a ft er s h e was outs i de the window. They held her for a second or two, but the sleeve unfortunately gave way before they could get a hold of her person.—Scots Times. PUBLIC PETITIONS.-The total number of petitions presented to the House of Commons, from the 6tb of February to the 4th of June, in favour of a penny postage, is 1,146, with 129,082 signatures ; for the better observance of the Sabbath, 20 petitions, with 1,455 signa tures ; against a Sunday delivery of letters, one petition, with 84 signatures; and in support of the Government of Ireland, 7U9 petitions, with 549,170 signatures. SINGULAR BEING. —At a place commonly called the World's End, near Keighley, Yorkshire, resides a man named William Sharpe, who will attain the age of 62 years in January next, who has kept his bed for a period of about 30 years, though neither lame nor sick. The cause of his first taking to bed is said to be from his father having at two different times taken from him three guineas which he had saved (gold being at that time very valuable), and on the second three guineas being taken from him, he declared he would never work any more, and took to his bed, which he has never since left He has his meals regularly four times a day, seldom refusing what is brought; never speaks, but generally lies rolled up in bed like a hedgehog, from which he is removed onc , .! a month, in order that clean sheets may he laid on the bed, &c. His beard is gristly, his hair silvery white, and most enormous teeth project from his lips. It is said that at his father's death he wes entitled to consideraLle property, but is prevented from enjoying it by his determined perseverance in this moat singular resolution. DARYANTHUS EXCELSA.—This most magni ficent and gigantic plant is now in full bloom in one of the hot-houses at Dunkeld Gardens. It is a native of New South Wales, and to be met with in this country in very few collections, this being the third plant of the kind that has flowered in Great Britain. It is one of the four plants which were sent from New Holland to the Duchess of Athol!, twelve years ago, end the only one that has sur vived the voyage. The seapus or stem is upwards of twelve feet in height, from the top of which diverge seven stalks, each bearing nine large flowers of a deep crimson and pink colour. The formation of the stalks and outer petals of the flower remind one of the Crinunt Amabile, but much larger.—Edinburgh Paper. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1F39 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. JU.YE n. THE QUESSN V. HARLAND. A rule having been obtained in this case calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why a side-bar rule, calling upon Mr. Bailey, the Clerk of Assize for the county of York, to make a return of a writ of certiorari, should not be discharged, on ac count of the non-payment of certain fees due, Mr. NEW ON this day slawsed cause against the role, and contended that the Clerk of the Assize had no right to return the writ on the ground of the non-payment of fees, because a Clerk of Assize might demand t w i ce as much as he ought to demand, as had happened in the case of " the King v. Borth wick." Lord Mansfield had, i n g i v i ng j udgment, said that he should be exceedingly unwilling to decide that any Clerk of Assize had a lien upon the records of the Court for his fees, because great public inconvenience would arise in consequence. Collusions might take place between persons desirous of delay and Clerks of Assize, who might demand fees so exhorbitant that they could not be complied with. There was besides an error in the charge for fees, one of which had been charged twice over. But he would wish their Lordships to determine the case on principle. Air. Bailey came too late to have this side-bar rule discharged. He would ask, was the Clerks of As size to have the power of dictating to every prosecutor on what terms they would comply with the commands of the Court. Be sides, Mr. Bailey stated that he hail no interest in the fees, and thus put himself out of Court. It moreover appeared that it was nut an invariable practice to insist on payment of fees be fore making a return. This was not a writ of the prosecutors, in which the Clerk of Assize had the power of making terms as to whether he would comply with it or not, but a command of the Sovereign, and which must be obeyed promptly, without con dition and without bargain. He therefore submitted that the rule must be discharged. Mr. CRESWELL contended that the rule must be made abso lute. There had no unnecessary delay taken place in applying to this Court, and a side-bar rule being obtained without affida vit—it would always be taken for granted that the person applying for it had done all that was necessary. The fees were fixed by Parliament, and Mr. Bailey was bound to collect them for the Crown, and he had brought forward this case, in order to know what was his duty, as regarded the collection of those fees. With regard to returns being made, at the suit of the Crown, before payment of fees, that was not a case in point, because the Crown could demand a certiorari, as of right, which a subject could hot do. It had been held that a gaoler had a lien upon the body of a prisoner for fees due, then surely a party had a lien upon a record dins own drawing up, until the tees due to him had been paid therein. The Learned Counsel then cited several cases in support of his argume n t. H e wou ld submit that these were lawful fees,—that Mr. Bailey was bound to collect them—that there was no case on record, in which a Clerk of Assize had been called on to make this return before payment of fees, and on these grounds he submitted that the rule must be made absolute. Mr. ROBINSON followed on the same side. THE QUEEN V. 31R. BARON ALDERSON. Sir F. POLLOCK said he appeared on behalf of Mr. Baron Alderson to show cause against a rule which Mr. Newton had obtained, for an attachment against him for contempt, in re fusing to make a return to the certiorari which had been ob tained in connnection with the above case, the Court having considered it advisable to hear the foregoing case first, he had given way. He wished to bring this fact before the Court, that Mr. Baron Alderson had been applied to by Mr. Newton to know if he would accept the service of the side-bar rule on his clerk, as personal service, and that Alr. Baron Alderson hed signified his willingness so to do ; that it had been se served, and yet, notwithstanding this, Mr. Newton persisted in making personal service on him, which he thought was wanting in that respect which was due to the station he occu pied. He would submit that Mr. Baron Alderson was only one Member of the Commission at the time that side-bar rule was served, that he had no custody of the records, that he could not therefore be called upon to make a return, and that, therefore it could not be considered a contempt; that he took no step in consequence. The person who had the custody of the records,'Mr. Bailey, was one of the Commission, and ser vice having been made upon him, the plaintiff having made his election, he had no right to serve a rule upon Mr. Baron Alderson, more particularly in the manner in which he had done. Ile would submit that Mr. Newton had made his appli cation to the Court without any ground whatever. The affi davit of the Clerk of Assize, and of the Deputy Clerk of Assize, showed that Mr. Baron Alderson had no knowledge of this writ of certiorari, until he was served with the side-bar rule, and that Mr. Anderson, plaintiff's agent, was informed that the writs would be returned on payment of the fees. And Air. Bailey, the Clerk of Assize, says that the records were in his custody, and Mr. Baron Alderson had no power to make the return required himself, or to force him to do so, he being also a member of the same Commission. He contended that when the third personal service took place on Mr. Baron Alderson, and which service alone had been brought under the notice of the Court, the side-bar rule was spent, as six days had elapsed since the service on Mr. Bailey. He would ask if all the facts of the case had been fairly stated to the Court, would the rule have been granted ? He submitted that the rule must be dis charged. Mr. NEWTON could not understand why the rule, having been served three times on Mr. Baron Alderson, could consti tute any ground for discharging the rule. He contended that personal service was necessary—he never heard of any but two services on Mr. Baron Alderson. The argument as to the service being too late went for nothing, because the Clerk had acknowledged service on the 2d of May ; and if Mr. Ba ron Alderson contended that he had no right to make the re turn, he should have moved for the rule to be discharged be fore the expiration of the six days. He contended that against no oae else could he with propriety have moved for an attach ment, and submitted that the rule must be made absolute. Lord DENMAN, in delivering judgment, said that the fac , of the side-bar rule having been served on Mr. Bailey on the 30th of April, and not having been served on Mr. Baron Alddrson, the service relied on by the plaintiff, until the 10th of May, was ground sufficient for discharging this rule ; but it appeared dint when he was served Mr. Baron Alderson did that which was most proper--he gaze the prosecutor every possible advantage, and referred him to Mr. Bailey,who alone knew the reason of the eon-return. It appeared that when asked by the plaintiff, he admitted personal service, and did all that was necessary or proper, by sending a message by his clerk, and it would be highly improper to doubt that in any future proceedings he would have admitted the service. These facts had been kept from the knowledge of the Court when the rule was moved for—under all the circumstances, there did net appear to have been the least contempt on the part of Mr. Baron Alderson, and if he expressed himself strongly on the manner in which the personal service Was made on him, it was no more than what almost every person would have done. Under all the circumstances, he was of opinion that the rule mast be discharged with costs. With regard to the other rule, for the discharge of the side-bar rule against Mr. Bailey, as that involved a question of great importance, he could not give an opinion regarding it at present. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE and Mr. Justice PATTEsox con- cured, and the rule against Mr. Baron Alderson was ordered to be discharged with costs. • INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S COURT. A PRISONER AT LARGE.—An insolvent, named Thomas James Fellgate, was remanded on Friday by the Insolvent Debtor's Court, for a period of eighteen calendar months, for embezzling about 3,0001. the money of his late master, Mr. Thomas Harris, a brewer in the Hampstead-road. Fellgate is however, at large, .and supposed to have esc ape d t o B ou l ogne. By the new A c t ,Mr, Harris could not detain him until after the judgment was pronounced, as he was not in a situation to charge him in execution. The insolvent was taken to the Queen's Bench Prison, his discharge was obtained from the detaining creditor, and in a few minutes he was out of custody; he has not been taken, and, by a strange anomaly in the new Act, if he can keep out of the way until the judgment has ex pired, he cannot be again taken. The subject has caused a good deal of conversation, and the barristers in the Insolvent Debtor's Court have expressed their surprise that no notice has been given to remedy the several defective clauses in the new Bill. There is a Bill now before the House of Commons, but neither the bail, compulsory, or the clause alluded to are pro posed to be amended. - A " METAL COLLECTOR !"—JOhn GeeVeS was opposed by a person called Joseph Moses. He was supported by Mr. WOODROFPE. The insolvent had rented several houses, and Moses brought an action for an alleged trespass. The insolvent had two houses in Eagle-court, Strand, which he rented of Mr. Hawes, M. P., and since he had been out on bail he had given up the lease to iVr. Hawes's solicitors. Moses said the houses were "valua ble," and would in a short time pay all the creditors. It appeared from Moses's evidence that he was the son of Emanuel Moses, charged with the " Gold Dust Robbery," he said. he was a metal collector, and not his father. He had fre quented a gaming -house, called the " Little Nick," but not as a " metal collector;" he merely went there to " play." Mr. WoonitoirE said he was sure the C our t wou ld g i ve Moses no .assistance ; and he could only say that if the houses ' were such as had been represented, it was disgraceful to all parties. 8,000 4,000 0,000 Mr. Commissioner HAtutts—Pray who is the landlord of the houses in Eagle-court? Insolvent—Benjamin Hawes, Esq., Member of Parliament, and Soap-boiler. Mr. Commissioner Haituts—lndeed. The COURT held that they must have some evidence as to the giving up of the lease to the solicitors of Mr. Hawes. The ii;solvent had parted with his property, and would not have his discharge on sureties enlarged. He was remanded to prison, and the case adjourned for the required evidence. MARCH OF DRUNKENNESS.—N o less than 41,536,188 gallons of alcohol, which is double the strength of what is called prool.spirit, are consumed in one year Forty one million gallons of rank poison! Who then can wonder at the amount of poverty, crime, disease, and death produced in this country? COMMITTAL OF FOUR MEN IN YORKSHIRE FOR DRILLING.,--.lt will be recollected that a short time since Lord J. Russell forwarded to the Lords Lieutenant of counties a letter, intimating that if respectable bodies of men chose to associate for the purpose of protecting life and property, the Government would furnish them with arms. In order to be enabled to use the arms effectually, these bodies of persons must, of course, be drilled, and since the publication of his Lordship's letter the Chartists have been on the look-out to detect any of " the Russell Armed Association men" in the act of drilling, for the purpose of Dying an information by way of retaliation for the committal of some of the Chartists for a similar offence. They have at length succeeded in their object, and at the Petty Sessions of Barnesley, on Wednesday last, four tradesmen who had been drilling were ordered to find bail to answer the charge at Rotherham Sessions. THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH._We have the best authority for stating that the accounts in the London papers, and copied into some of the Edinburgh journals, with regard to the Duke of Buecleuch's illness, are greatly exaggerated. His Grace had a smart attack of fever (but not in the least degree dangerous) in the early part of this year; and before any notice of it appeared in the public papers he was quite well. The last accounts are from Naples, dated May 16, when he was in perfect health. All the children had had the measles, and Lord Francis the ycurgest (as already noticed) had died ; but the three survivors were recovering fast.—.EdiOurgh Advertiser. A HUMAN SACRIFICE.—On Thursday morn ing, at half-past nine o'clock, the solemn and imposing ceremony of the reception of a nun was performed in the Presentation Convent at Ilennessy's-road, before the Right Rev, the R. C. Bishop of these dioceses, anume rous body of the city clergy, the religieuses of the con vent, and a large and respectable congregation, composed chiefly of ladies from the city. The youthful and beau tiful portulante on this occasion, Miss Kirwan, was led to the altar by two of her sisters in religion, preceded by the nuns of the community according to their rank and four lovely children dressed in white, bearing lighted tapirs and baskets of flowers— Woteijord Chronide.--1 . Surely this immolation of the young and beautiful is far worse than widows sacrificing themselves on the funeral pile of their husb,..nols in India. The agony of preparation may in that case last some time, the actual sufferings are soon at an end ; but the privations and 'suffetinga of the nun last through a long and weary life. The Hindoos are less in human than the Irish Catholica.—En. Stec.] QO,OOO /,500,00N. 2,000,03(1. 500,0.)21. 3,000,0004 54100,000,. 2,000,0001. 4,000,0601. PRICES OF CANAL, DOCK, A.SSUR- A NCR COMPANY SHARE 9, &e. &c. LONtic.:, 1512:3DAY . , JUNE li Nuninet '...-1,7i,:i-x.4 . eti-ke of per i., i: NALS. per Shares. An;:lnn. faia. Shaure. I,7pi 7 pet cent. ! . . - scts - •n ari•, :).;;;.1 -:..Al • .:,4c , f71. 0-z -, .. sin 4;:9 0180 4/. .` s!. b - , - .e..%".- 'A -• ~ - ..age 1l:., sh 70 i 1,‘,;10 /?4 , : ,- ~i•••ni.'• 1,4:- 5 ',:. li.--,,,,. - k ..•• • t', - -.,t,.. , I , •;r., 9 64,000 i•.: , ' , i. itt 6s. t,,,,1:-., 6 1,,,.,. _!(;,.: h:. r: .... .t..q:. 711. 22 .1. 000 ...,..... .1;00 f!/. :7 :-: ,T,I ' F . ~,,:' , !;:,-':,..,' i ' ' ' t . ; ' ; ‘ , ' , i t i i, n ' l . ! : : .1) . !. ' :1 -. .. 1. . ' .1 I P od ! ti soo 41. Chola:Qv:Sod tiia:kv. ati_r..... POI. sh • 101 50(1 181. C - ..ventry 4.545 C,•er ~ ,o n 2,4160; li. W. Dudley IN .1.511 ' ) 630 14, Derhy 11.0/..h_ 1:: 10,060 4 per cent Jarnin, ,iild 7ilayne . 41/.135. 42 ,vil 25. 3,575, 4!. Ell esmere and Chester A verage 1921.0.4 81.: 231 60 - . Elrew,,,r 001.c., 775 1,257 301, . Fart n•:: C1y,i.,..... Ave , rt.i , c 1•:•',01.lOs. :h. 615 ,600 le/ Grand Junct:m, lt l's. sO PO, 2,849 k I/. Grand Union 1001. sh yits :1,500 Grand Suvrey .... ..... . 1i.4/I.th. 23 O,OIW 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Loan 100:. 1 , 3 3 ' 1 95 ...... ... Grand Weetern '1)0/. sh al! Pd. 7"! (56) 131.125. Pd. Glamorgan:hire, Aver. cost 1721. 13,. Id. 2Sf 749 IN. Grantham I , tll, ih 203 6,238 21. Os. H udde rs 6f: id hverage 57/. 6s. 6d. sit. 85-1 100 Kensinr.7tun..... ........ . ..., ..... 163 *h. all pd. 101 5 2323 I!. ss. Kennet end Avon, Aver. 091. 18s. 10,i. sh, 2 2, 6 97; 301. Leeds and Liverpool 10:4. sh. 740 5451 1511. Leicester 1.01.3h. 228 1 . 8 97 61. Os. Leicester ac,! NortharriptonAver al/. ins. 110 2.400 101. Monmouthshire 100/.sh. 200 150 101. Melton Mowbray 1001.2 h. 200 500 251. Alersey and Irwell 1001. sh. 500 3,000 1/. 10s. Macclesfield WO/. sh_ all pd 51 247 171. Neath 1014.51,. 325 2,400 3 1. Peak Forest A vesuge about 781. sh. 104 1,418 Its, Regent's (or London) Av. 331. I tis. Bd. sh. ;21 5,669 61. per Cent. Rochdale Average 8: - S/. sh. 112 500 Si. Shropshire ~151. sh. 108 830 91.105. Somerset Coal ...1501.5.h. 151! 3, , ,001. 41 per cent Ditto Lack Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 111 700 40!. Stafford and Worcester l4O/. sh. 7101 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. .2.50 300 of. Stourbridge 3,647 2/. Os. Strati ortLen. A vol t 41. o .... erag e 791. 9s. :4.1. sh. 45 533 161. Swansea 100/. sh. 280 1.762 1/. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway Ay 351.',h. OS 2,1100 , 5 h. 92/. 10s. Treat and Mersey, 1 share 110/. sh. 5b5 solo l ' 4/00sh '} 16/. Warwick aad Birmingham 100/.sh• 281 I,ooolsh. gill 151. Warwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 9.61 6,030 41. Os. Worcester anc' Birmingham Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 724 5,000 255. Wilts and Berks Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh, 25 800 31, 1 rrley and Essington lO5/. sh 75 d 26 . Wisbeach lO5l. sh. 4a 905 G. Vey and Arun llOl. h. 22 1 DOCKS. 1,600 & 3D e. Corot:Jere al . . ,001. sh. 661 1,065011 J - ' .. ...... East and West India Sto c k 113 M39,31014' 555. p.ct. London Stock (17 Ditto Bands lOl 2,209 2/. 19s. Bristol 68,324/. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine Stock 1091 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds lOll 20(1.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOO 2.500 Deptford Pier "01. sh. 20!. pd 11 BRIDGES. 1,600 10s. Hammersmith 5Ol. sh. 21 7,231 Southwark, Old 1,700 IL 15s. Ditto, New, of 75 r, cent. ..... ..50/.sh. 14 5,000 _.. ...... Waterloo ..,.... 100/. sh. 35 5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6O/. pa 211 5,000 I9s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 201 10,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds l2O 5,848 17s Vauxhall ...... ....,,,Av 'nage 701. 10s. 3d. sh 251 ASSURANCF COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 74 50,000 i 5 per cies.n.t.} Alliance Illitisn &Foreignloo4 sh. 1061, pd 151 50,000 ti per cent. Ditto, Marilee lOOl. sh. 51. pd 61 24,000 (1. perch. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 5!. pd 141 1,000 ;}sh. 51. Birmingham 1 ire . 'sol. sh. 55/. pd 1075 10,000 4/ per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 501. pd 40 12,000 6/ percent. British Commercial 504 sk. 5/. od 6 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & 14ed,.,1 Life, ICOLsh. 2110 s pd 4 4,000 -21 les County 20,000 ss. Eagle 200 f 5 per cent. and 30/ 1 .1 Economic Li is lOOO/. sh. 250/. pd 400 2,271 225. per cent. European L. 2Ol. sh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New - 00/. sh. 21. pd 13 ,000,0004 6/. per ct Glob e S toc k 1 351 20,000 51* Guardian lOO/. sh. 075/ pd OSS 40,000 s. lid Hope 5O/. sh. 51. pd 55 2,400 5/. 7s. (14. Imperial Fins 5001. sh. 50/. lei 1374, 7,500 9s. I mper i al Lite 1001. sh. 10/. pd 101 13,458 4/. percent. Indemnity Marine VIOL sh. 81. pa 25 2,020 31 lOs Kei.t Fire 50/. eh. ail pd 92 31. . Ditto Life. 501. pd 79 10, 0 00 16s, Law Life 1004 sh. 10/. pd 295 5.000 10s: London, Fire 25/. sh. 12/. 103. pd 15 3,900 10s. London, Ship .51. sh. 12/. 10s. pd IS ,000,000/. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh. 500,00x1. 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Lite 501. sh. 2/. pd 21 Ss 50,00 s 41. per cent. I'rote'tor Fire 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd 16s Od 2.500 11. Provident Lite 00,000 ss. Rock Life 0 0/. sh. 14 pd 65 89,220/ 54 per cen t. Royal Exch..lige Stock... 227 6,000 5 per cent. University I.llc lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 5 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 54 pd 7 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 25,000 8 percent. Agric and Com. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10!. pd 5,000 Australasia 4Ol. sh. 40/. pd 69 10,008 10 per cent. Bank of His sningham st/. sh. 10/. pd 13 10,000 le per cent. Birmingham Bank 5O/. sh. 51. pd 10 3 1,000 5 percent. London and Westminstcrloo/ sh. 20/. pd S.Ts 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 50/. sh. 10/. pd 10, 0,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001. sh. 40/. pd 50 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 23! 50,000 '75 per cent Manchester and Livers} 5043 h. 151 pd 1 , 3 ' pool District 20,000 7percent. Manchester 1004 sh. 25/. pd 27 20,000 co,; 00 National Bank of Ireland 51. sh. 1714 pd 16 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. 1004 sh. 351. pd r6i 10,000 Ditto New ... 10/. sh. 10/. pd 105 10,000 Glouce s t ers hi re 5O!. s h . 10/ . pd 20 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 51. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 i Ifis 0.1 Bath 204 sh. 16/. p 4 23 5,030 ..... .... British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 21 5,000 [5/alieir3es.er6ist..] Ditto Provincial 201. sh. 19 pd 25 928 5110 s Birmingham 5O/. sh. 98 1,250 210 s Bristol 2Ol. sh. 36 2,250 3/ lOs Brighton 2O/. sh. 111 750 31 10s Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 18/. pd 9 2,471 44 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 17 4,000 61.10 e. Continental Consolidated 75/. 6211. pd 100 1,000 101. City of London ....... ... .-.1001. sh. all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, New S 0 4,000 34 Os. Equitable 50/. pd 241 10,000 24 per cent. Imperial 800 51. per cent. Isle of Tisanes 251. sh. 201. pd 18 # 2,350 6/. per cent. Independent lOl. sh, all pd • si) 9,000 41. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 394 pd. IS 1,000 41. per cent. Batclifr 100!. sh. 801. pd 601 4,000 9,200 41. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 464 pd 345 240 51, per cent. Warwick „. 501. sit 50 400 51. per cent Wakefield 25/. sh. 221 12,000 31. Westminster Ch a rt ere d 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5Ol. s h . 101 . p d 105 730 5/. per cent. Yarmouth 20/. sh. 131. pd WATER WORKS. 4,800 10s. Birmingham 25/. sh. 251. pd 20 1,134 61. East London lOO/. sh. no 5,500 21 lOS Grand Junction Average 41/. 15s. 43. sh. 69 2,000 2/. Kent 100' sh. 454 372 10/. Liverpool Bootle 220/. sh. 3061 1,500 2/ 108 Now River London Bridge Water Ann 624 6,486 21 les Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 54 1,000 4 per cent. South London 1004 sh. 101 8,294 4/. West Middlesex Average 631. 12s. ikl. sh. 1031 1,360 1114 s York Building Co. Lessee Prop-.. 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 ...... ... Birmingham and Derby 7O/. pd 55' 9,5130 ... ...... Birmingham and Gloucester - ... 15,100 ... ...... Bri s t o l an d E xe t er 1 00/. sh. 25 pd 11 660 Calcutta and Saugur 501. sh. 2/. pd 0.4 7,500 Cheltenham and G.Western 100/. sh. 20/. FI 3,009 Clarence lOO/. eh. 100/ pd 351 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 100/. sh. 5/. pd 4 60,000 Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 164 pd 1c ...... ... Grand Junction 1001. sh. 95!. p i 205 Great North of England 301. pd 20 5,000 Great Western lOO/ sh. 65/. pd 741 2,000 Hartlepool 1(10/. a h. 1001. pd 125 8,000 Hull and Selby 50!. sh. 254 p.l 145 10,008 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd s 2,100 31. per cent. Leeds arid 5e1by........, 100 sh. 6ei 1,500 1/.55. Leicester and Swan nington .501, sh all pd '75 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchesterlo(l.sh. 1001.1.61 195 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 0 5/. pd 6 36,000- London and Brighton 5Ol. sh. 221 pd 11 12,000 London aiiii Blackwell 50/. sh. 111. pd 8 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich _2O! sit. 20/. pd 17 25,000 London and Birmingham 100/. sh. 90/. pd 16 , 1 Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. pd 29 • 30,000 . London and Seu thampton Av. 381, 17s.i' p t1 1 . 4 13 51 11,000 .. ..... .. London and Croydon Trunk 181, 6, , 00 Ditto New Scrip... 12,000 London Grand Juncti on 501 . s h . 51. I'd ei 13,000 Manchester and L ee d s ...1004 sh. 501. pd 64 s s 10,000 Blonchester and Birmingham 70/. sh. 15/. hr !Mt° Extension e i pd ‘s, North Midland 1004 sh. 651 pd tif Northesn and Eastern 1001. sh. 13/. pd 7 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 304 ski ssi :75,000 South Eastern and Dover "l2/. pd 1 1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/. sh. 240 0,000 ... ...... Thames Haven 5O/. sh 2/. 10s. pd 0 1,4181 Westminster and GreenwiclSso4 sh. 21. psi 0 6.000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 30/. pd 29 MINES. Albion Copper 54 it- 314 psi 12 11. ss. Alten 15/. ah. 12/, 1e pd 10 Angle Mexican, iss. 51 pm.lool. sh. al S d 1 Ditto Subscription 25/. pet S Bolsnos . 1504 sh all p I 70 Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm.... 05/. sh. 20/. pd 16 Macaubas & Cocacs United 251, eh, 2 , 4 pd 12 Ditto St. John Del Rey .01. sh. 111.1 pd 3 Bolivar Copper Company...2ol. sh. 20/. p d 5 ! Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. 10/. psi , s 9j British Iron 501. sh. 50/ pd 81 British Copper 5l. sh. 41/. p d 1 " Cata Branca T. i d 8 Candonga 7;l. pd 5 Copiapo ''"/. sh, 13/. pd 10 Columbian, iss. 51. pm.... 55/. sh. 55/. pd 3 i English l2/ Ks. pd 3 General Miniug Association2o/, sh, 1i,4 pd 7 Mexican Company 1004 sh. 5514 pd 41 Polbercu Consols .. ............ 10/. sh. Bi. pd 4 2 Real del Mcnte, Unregistered 16 1 Ditto Loan Nct es United Mexican, iss. 2 pax . , 405, sh l .all I, i d d Mtn. Scrip 2OBl Ditto New Scrip 5! pd 4 West Cerk 501, sh. 501 . pd 38 j LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. Ile. .... London, with Bronze Ticket......7sgs. sh. 16 London University 1001. sh, all pd 23 Russell 25gs. sh. 7 King' College 100/. pd I 9 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 155. Australian Agricultural.loo4 ah. 261/. pd 46 6,000 44 per cent. British American Land Company 2:31. pd 9 SO,OOO 61. per cent. Canada Company 100/. sh. 301. pd 29 290,000 51, per cent. Upper Cana Se Loan 9l City Bonds, 4 par cent lOO 11. 68. General Steam N av i gat i on 15/. sh. 14/. pd 4 2 10/.percent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,060 14 London Corn. Sale Room s A v. 75/. s pdp h d . 2 1 2 9 5* 8,000 Caoutchouc Company: New Brunswick Land Companyl 1 .5 2 0 1 1 4 . 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50c....100/. sh 100/. pd 130 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 85/. pd 118 4,(1:0 Thames Tunne' 5O/. ah, all pd g 10.000 6s. :Van DieAscre's Land lOO/. sh. 1714 --"^ 2,009 lot 10,000 U. 10s 6,1,00 ...... 10,000 10,000 20,000 6,000 14,500 .. 2,F , 50 3!. 20,000 .... ..... 6,155 3:000 11,500 39,000 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, :JUNE 1, 1839. BANKS. al. p. ct. Bank of Scotland ...83/. es. Bd. s h. all pd 18(1. 54 p. ct licyal of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 1041. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. all pd 238/. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 1751. sn. ct. National lool.lh. 101. pd 164 6/. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 50/. pd 04 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 401. pd 1. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250.0005 h. Rip. ct. Scottish Urion 20/. sh. 1/. pd 2Ss. 7,506 6i p. ct. Hercules lOOl. sh. 101. pd 12!. 15s 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .104 sh. all pd 10/. Os. 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd 2011. 1,000 sp. et. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 10/. pd 191. lOs 50;00 6p. et. Edinburgh Lire 100/. sh. 104 pd 14110 s 160,000 3,1 p. ct. West of Scotland lO/. pd 710 s MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 ........ Edin. and Was. Un. Canalso/. sh. all pd 1114 Ditto Allocated 901. sh. all pd 471. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stack Water 251. alt. all pd 351 Carron Iron Company ...2501. eh. all pd 44/. 4,oo(ish 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Younaery 501. sh 481. pd 53/. 10,000 3 per ceat. F.clinburati & ...eith Guns 20/. sh. 16?. pd 81. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas .25/. sh. all pd 501. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 251. 01. all pd 501. 75 ' 74 per cent. I..e.:th Coal Gas 20/. sh. all pd 501. 1.200 F.( l olvitel;:.,il Oalkeith Rar.wayso/. sh 37/ 3,0") 5 ner cent. vo, raid:. , nn,, r'n ~,,,,, ~5/ .st h. pc, 9. i iv. - - _ STATE OF TRADE.—'There has been a consi derable amount of busine,s done in yarn this week; and those who had previously submitted to sacrifices, in order to force sah s, have been enabled to command rather better prices; but this is the full extent of the improvement. NS hat has been c o n s id ere d a s the regular market price has remained unchanged for the last fortnight , notwithstand. For most the advance i n c o tton during the present week. must descriptions'of goods there is but li t tle d emand. It is generally understood. that the sp inners at B;abbrid ge and Ashton, who have been working short time for a munth past, will resume - full time on Monday next.—Manchester Guardian. - . EXTENSIVE FORGERIES THE MINISTRY AND REFORM. Great pains were taken in- all parts of the country, to assure us that Ministers had seen the impropriety of their former course, and were now determined to go forward—that they had agreed to various reforms, which would be highly satisfactory_and that they were ready to pursue a course likely to re-unite Reformers. Mr. Denison, in Surrey, Sir Lytton Bulwcr, in Lincoln —and all the papers in the confidence of the party, sung to the same tune. Those who expected to see this miracle, must now be &idly disappointed. The speech of Lord Melbourne on Friday night, satisfied us that such hopes were vain and illusory. Still there were some who hoped in spite of hope. The Morning Chronicle, for instance, was at great pains to soften down the effect of his Lordship's declarations : " he was cautious about com mitting himself in a hostile assembly,"—he "preferred leaving the explanations to the leader of the House at Commons"—and other equally convincing and striking reasons were given for the vague and unmeaning decla rations of the Premier in answer to Lord Winchilsea's question as to his future policy. We were told to wait for Lord John Russell's explanations, and then we should see—what we should see. Well ; Lord John has spoken, and his speech has opened the eyes of even the wiifully blind—a race to whom it is proverbially difficult to restore the faculty of sight. He has made a declaration of " finality" . that leaves not a loop-hole for retreat. He has made it clear to the " meanest capacity" that the present Ca binet is resolved to stand still—to continue in the do nothing course which it has pursued for some time—to resist all demands for extension of the suffrage—for protection to the voter—or for securing short reckon• ings between the representative and the represented. To a better system of registering voters, or even to a relaxation of the rate-paying clauses of the Briorm Bill, Lord John is willing to consent ; but beyond this he assures his followers, " the Cabinet," is not prepared to go.—Carlisle .Journal. THE CHILDREN'S FRIEND SOCIETY. We willingly insert the following letter, because we believe this Society, formed for the best purposes, and with the most humane intentions, is anxious to answer all that ignorance, prejudice, and also humanity, though • misguided, can urge aga:nst their acts. What does the writcr mean by asserting that the Society intends to send children to any part of the world ivberevet they can find a market for them ? Is this " Guardian of Infant Poor" so simple as to believe, on the . authority of boys of depraved habits, one of whom, the other day, was committed by Mr. Rawlinson for robbing his em ployer and robbing his comrade, that the unfortunate children whom they take under their protection are sold as slaves? At the anniversary dinner which takes place to-day we have no doubt the writer, and those who raised the outcry against Captain Brenton, who fell a sacrifice to their wicked calumny, will get an answer. TO THE EDITOR OF TUE SUN. Sir,—As the Committee of the Children's Friend So ciety appear just now to be in a good humourto infcrm the public all they know respecting the Society—and some of them a great deal more than they do know—(God knows there are many of them know but very little on the subject)—as they are about to celebrate their anniversary dinner in a few days, probably they will on that occasion inform the public how the thirty children were disposed cf, who were sent out by the ship James Patterson, Capt. Grote, Nov. 16, 1833. That ship is said to have sailed for Swan River, under the command of Capt. Grote, taking out thirty children, twenty-six boys, and four girls, under the care of Sir James and Lady Stirling ; it appears by their report in 1835, that eleven of the boys were left at Albany, King George's Sound, Western Australia, and that the remainder accompanied Sir James to his destination (Freemantle), whence returns have not yet arrived, nor am I enabled to learn that any returns have been made up to the present day. If poor children are to be transported, and that for no other crime than poverty, it is but just to their parents and the public that they should know where they are sent and how disposed of. It appears from their cwn report that they were intended for Swan River ; but it Is very evident this Society intend to send poor chil dren to any part of the known world wherever they can find a market fir them -- byway of thinning the population of this once flourishing and happy isle. A GUARDIAN OF INFANT POOR. Banner-street, June 1 0th, 1839. iViETROPOLITAN CHARITY CHILDREN.- Thursday, pursuant to annual custom, the children of the different charities in the metropolis walked in procession to St. Paul's Cathedral, where a sermon was preached. The crowd of person; to witness the interesting ceremony was very great. The number of children amounted to above 1,000, and their neat and clean appearance attracted ge neral admiration, Considerable sensation was excited among the bankers in Stranraer, on the afternoon of Thursday the 23d, from a discovery that three forged bills for 501. each, had been that day passed at. the several branches, in the town, of the British Linen Company, Glasgow Union, and Southern backs, and that a fourth for 60/. had been tendered to Mr. C. Kerr, accountant of the British Linen Company's branch here. Mr. Kerr suspecting one of the signatures to the bill, refused to discount it, and immediately communicated his suspicions to Mr. M'Neel, the agent, which led to the detection of the forgeries. The four bilis were all of the same tenor and date, and purported to be drawn by Mr. Rose, parochial teacher of Glenluce, and accepted by the Rev. Mr. MgDouall, minister of the parish, with the endorsement of Alex ander M'Cracken, Esq., of Glenluce. The bills were brotight to the banks by two different boys, each bill being enclosed in a letter also purporting to be from Mr. Ross, stating, that having to purchase some addi tional furniture, and to incur other expenses for the new school-house which was building for him, he had pro cured the enclosed acceptance, the amount of which, he requested might be returned in a parcel by the bearer. Mr. M'Neel, on discovering the forgery instantly pro ceeded to Glenluce, where he had an interview with Mr. Ross, and was soon convinced that that gentle man had no knowledge whatever of the trans action. It was also ascertained that the boys had not come from Glenluce, and from this and some other circumstances, and the positive fact that the boys were known to be boarders at the school of Mr. M'Gbee, parochial teacher and session clerk of Leswalt parish, suspicion of course fell on that gen tleman, althongh his name no way appeared in the tran saction. It was late in the evening before Mr. M`Neel could return and make inquiries at the residence of Mr. M‘Ghee, when it was found that he had been absent from home all day. Police officers were immediately sent out in every direction, and he was traced to the Old Portpatrick road, where Mr. AP Neel and Mr. M'Dougall, Inspector of Police, spent a great part of the night in a fruitless search for him, though we are informed that they were once or twice at . but a short distance from him, and once had him actually in sight. To wards morning Mr. M‘Dougall was sent on to Port patrick, to prevent his escape by the packet. Mr. M'Ghee, we learn, spent part of the day at the half-way house, on the old Portpatrick road, where had ap pointed the boys to meet him with the money. On receiving it, he struck across the moors and came down on the back of Lcmalt, returning to his own house, which he entered by one of the windows, a little before daylight, on Friday morning. On the chance that he might return and be lurking in the neigh bourhood of his residence, Mr. Caird, Procurator Fiscal, Mr. M . William, writer, and Telford and Brown, police constables, proceeded there at an early hour in the morning, and at four o'clock the unfortunate man was apprehended in his house and brought in custody to Stranraer. On a search being made, the whole of the notes he had re ceived that day, with the exception of 6/., were found concealed beneath a chaff bed. During the forenoon of Fridy, Mr. M‘Ghee underwent an examination before Mr. Caird, Procurator Fiscal, and some of the Ma gistrates, the boys who had been his agents in the transaction being also under detention and examined, when sufficient transpired to warrant his committal to jail. Besides the forgeries already mentioned, it was discovered that other forged bills to a con siderable amount (between 400/. and 500/.) had been negotiated by the prisoner within the last two or three months, and the whole of them managed with the greatest dexterity, so as to secure the object without his own name appearing in any of the transactions. Of these forgeries we learn the Southern Bank has between 200/. and 300/., and it is probable that the full extent to which the system has been carried has not yet been discovered. It is supposed that Mr. M'Ghee meditated flight, had he not been appre hended when he was ; there appears, notwithstanding, an extraordinary infatuation in his remaining at home on the Friday morning, though he had learned that Mr. M'Neel had been there making inquiry about him. It is melancholy to reflect on the fate of a man so highly respected as Mr. M'Ghee at one time was, bearing as he did the character of being one of the first teachers in this, or perhaps any other country. So celebrated was the Leswalt School a few years back, that it was con stantly crowded with boarders, and boys were sent from all parts of Scotland, to have the benefit of Mr. M'Ghee's instruction. Indeed, we know that his pupils have always been distinguished for superior attainments and solid information. Latterly, however, in fact for some years past, Mr. M'Ghee bas addicted himself to the degrading vice of drunkenness, and with this irre gularity his school has rapidly declined. He was always remarkable for his perfect contempt of money, indeed there was no man who set less value on it, and it was always with difficulty that parents could get him to fur nish an account for the education of their children. It has not yet been discovered who he employed as his amanuensis in forging the several bills, and writing the letters which accompanied them ; it is quite certain that none of them were executed by himself.--Galloway Register. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Courier of last evening makes the following com ments on Mr. Gisborne's just published letter to the elec tors of Derbyshire:_," The views professed by Mr. Gis borne in this address to his former constituents, and the ability witla which he explains and enfsrcea them, render it a matter of regret that his resumptian of his duties as a representative of the people should be protracted for a single day. We find one or two points noticed here, in eoanection with the resignation -and return of the Mel bourne Cabinet, upon which little or no attention has alert° been bestowed. Mr. Gisborne examines the grounds on which Ministers resigned, acid strongly condemns their momentary abandonineot of their posts ; he contents that they had no right to resign ; that they ought not to have staked the existence of the Government on the Jamaica Bill ; that no principle on which they took office was in volved in that Bill, and that they sacrificed the great cause —f . or such we hold it to be—of good Executive Go vernment' in England and Scotland and Ireland, in a pet at the impracti ca bl e conduct of half-a-score Reformers.' Both ponies, he thinks, acted with equal absurdity." The Globe thus speaks of Sir E. Sugden's speech last night in the House of Commons:—" Sir E. Sugdeo last night put the patience of her Majesty's faithful Commons to a severe test. In a long, dull, dry speech, which par took more of the character of a legal disquisition than of an address to a popular assembly, and ta hich was heard with manifest impatience, the Honourable and Lear ne d Gentleman endeav oure d to prevail on the House of Commons to reject the first clause of the Bill for the better government of Jamaica. The object of the motion was—in the event of the continued re fusal or cessation of the House of Assembly to exercise its legislative functions, to limit the power conferred on the Governor and Council by the Bill to the revival or re-enactment of those laws which being passed annually had expired. The effect of this curtail ment of the Bill would be to leave the colony, under the exigent circumstances in whi c h i t i s p l ace d b y the changed relations of the inhabitants, without la ws or regu l at i ons f or the regulation of contracts for hired service in agriculture or manufactures, the prevention of vagrancy, and the pre vention of the !Hegel occupation of lands,' and other laws which the peculiar situation of the colony renders essential." The Standard contains the following rumour, or lie of the day:—" We give the following as the communication of a well-informed correspondent. We are disposed our. selves to believe the statements to be well founded, but we do not vouch for its certainty. The truth is, that Ministers not know what they arc doing, or what they will do an hour hence. This afternoon the current report is, that Lords Melbourne, John Russell, and Palmerston, and Mr. Spring Rice, will resign, and a dissolution of Parliament im mediately follow; on Thursday, it is expected, the Lords r will receive the intimation from the Premier, and the Commons from Lord J. Russell. It is not exactly known who are to be their successors, but Lord Melbourne hav ing bad several audiences of an Illustrious Person age s i nce Friday, and an extremely long one on Saturday, it is con jectured that a more Liberal Ministry will succeed them." The Times of this morning, recurring to the stale sub ject of the New Poor-law, says—" To talk of popular control as being in any one respect identified with the pre. sent system is an intolerable affront to the common sense of the country. The real controllers are at Somerset 'house, and nowhere else. In seven cases out of ten your Boards of Guardians are mere boards of tools—a motley assortment of saws, gimlets, screw-drivers, brads, hammers, pincers, and glue, to dissever, bore, nail, clinch, tear, cr cement, according to the job required. In many places, it is true, a disposition to demand a real - popular control has been unequivocally evinced. In parishes which possess peculiar rights, or where Gilbert's Act happens to be in force, a good deal of restiveness has shown itself. Indeed, the public generally have manifested as great a dissatisfac tion with the new Poor-law, es, under the pressure of a powerful antagonistic influence, could reasonably be expected. The disaffection in question is advanciag rapidly." The Morning Post observes, in reference to Sir Robert Peel's recent reply to Mr. Warburton in the House of Commons : —" Sir Robert Peel admits that promises of reform from the Government would enable the Liberal' party to appear better upon the hustings—that is to say, such promises would be agreeable to the minority of con stituencies in England which " the Liberal party" repre sent. This the Ministerial Radicals are pleased to con strue as an admision that promises of further change in the representative constitutions of the country would be popular with the electors of England I Can any thing be more impudently preposterous ? The Ministerial Radicals know very well, and to their deep mortification they know it, that the electors of England two years ago, in spite of all the wicked arts which were used to prejudice them, returned to Parliament a large majority of Members opposed to any further changes in the principles of the representative constitution." The Morning Advertiser makes the following remarks on Mr. Wakley's withdrawal of a motion, of which he gave notice last week in the Commons:—" Mr. Wakley has, to all appearance, and most jndiciously, withdrawn his motion for the production of the correspondence with reference to Sir R. Peel's negotiations ; and after all that has been said and written on the subject, we think the House might employ themselves more usefully for the public than in the altercations to which such a motion would have given rise, for we are afraid that neither party are yet sufficiently cool to argue the question on constitutional grounds alone." The Morning Herald thus speaks of the Beer Bill for 1330:—" It is the melancholy characteristic of vicious le gislation, that the mere repeal of bad enactments never can remove all the evils to which such enactments may have given rise I The Beer Bill of 1830 was essentially a most mischievous measure; and in its operation, that Bill has fully justified the apprehensions which those who. then carefully considered the nature of the principles on Which it was based, entertained and expressed. Yet it is im possible to deny, that the repeal even of such an act may give rise to misery and to forfeiture of capital ; whilst equally impossible is it to refuse assent to Lord Stanhope'sproposition that Parliament ought to inflict no as certainable injury without awarding suitable compensation." The Morning Chronicle, commenting on the question of the privileges of the House of Commons, says :—" But we warn the House of its danger if it hesitates one moment to vindicate its authority. It has often been said that the interval between the dethronement of a King and his death is a brief one. The interval between the acquiescence of the House in the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench, and the open contempt which will be manifested for it, will be brief indeed. And we entreat the public to reflect on the immense importance of the issue. If the people are prepared to see the House of Commons become a common jest, then let them applaud the judgments of the Court of Queen's Bench. We have had some experience of man kind, and we never saw any good result from timid resolves. The House of Commons ought not for one moment to suffer its resolutions to be questioned." THE COLOMBIAN DEBT. Advices from Bogota of the 29th of March, state that, n order to enable the Executive to furnish Senor Mos querar (who was on the point of leaving for London as Commissioner from New Granada, for the arrangement of the Colombian debt) with more ample powers, a law had been introduced into Congress, of whi::11 the subjoined is a copy. It had passed the Chamber cf Representatives, and also the first reading in the Senate. By the former Act of Congress, specific revenues were appropriated to the interest on the foreign debt, but this Act enables the [ n T e l c y cs i s n i:y tea f d ac t i l l le ta r t e eo f t a he fix a i i : . d r a n annual t s s u i n n , , E d x 3 j e c e h uti , c , - / e ili to of a London : ‘; The Senate and Chamber of Representatives, &c., whim a view to remove any doubt or difficulty which might present itself in the ratification and punctual fulfilment sf the arrangements referred to in the fourth article of the treaty entered into with Venezuela on the 23 1 of December, 1834, respecting the recognition and division of tiro Active and Passive Debts of Colombia, decree:— " Art. 1. Notwithstanding what has been ordered by Art. 3of the law of the 20th of April, leas—the applica tion, namely, of certain casual funds for the payment of in. terest on the Foreign Debt—the Executive, in the arrange ments about to be made with the foreign creditors, shall be able to fix definitely the application of a certain sum for the debt. payment of interests which become du o on t h e same " Art. 2. Should the provisions of the preceding article be acted upon, the casual funds' alluded in Art. 3 of the above- mentioned law shall be paid into the generi Trea sury (always provided that the sa;d provisicus do not interfere %sith such a course), and Con; re , s shall rote an nually the sum agre e d upon b e t ween t h e Executive and the foreign creditors. Fart. 3. Two million acres (fanegadas) of waste stids shall be appropriated to the payment of interests due or to the liquidation apart of the capital of the foreign debt. The Emecutive shall dispose of them on the following con ditions:— " 1. They shall be disposed of to the highest bidder. " 2. The waste lands thus to be disposed of shall be se lected by the creditors, but they must not fix upon more than 200,000 acres in any one province. "3. These lands must not have a frontage to the coast, too navigable rivers, or to public roads, of more than one fourth part of their depth. The costs of measuring, de marcation, &c., to be paid by the creditors or their repre sentatives. "4., If these lands shall be populated and colonised, the pe"OPe shall be subject in everything to the laws of New Granada; but if any concessions or temporal gua rantees are considered essentially necessary for the pros perity of th e sett l ers, they shall obtain such concessions or gwzrantees, immedi a t e l y on t h e i r b e i ng neutra li se d. which can Ve done by t h e i r establishing themselves i n t h e coun t r y, and signifying a wish to that effect. " Bogota, March 26, 1839." _._ = ,._.—.............,,......... mt HONESTY OF THE TURKS.—Mr. Fellows gives the following account of this primitive people :—" About three miles from the town of Adalia, my servant found that his great coat had fallen from his horse; riding back for two miles, he saw a poor man bringing wood and char coal from the hills upon asses, on ::eking him if he had seen the coat he said that he had found ii, and had taken it to a watermill on the road-side, having shown it to all the persons he met, that they might assist in finding its owner. On o ff er i ng him money, he refuse d i t , saying, h with great simplicity,d t 1 1 7 , t h i e t was quite safe wi t h t h e miller. My servant t h en rode to the house of the miller,ta that the coat huimmediately was his,gave it u also refusing to rece i ve any reward, An d sa yi n g, th a t h e should have hun g i t up at the door, had h e no t beer, about to go down to th e t own. The honesty, per haps, may not be surprising, but th e refusal of money i s cer t a inly a trait of character which has not been assigned to the Turks." FURTHER IMPROVEMENTS IN SMITHFIELD MARKET.—The completion of the improvement of Smith. field Market will take place in a few days, by a further en. largement of it at the north side. During the last few days workmen have been employed in taking down the houses at the end of Long.lane, which formed an ob. struction to a view of the extensive improvements which have taken place beyond it. When down, there will be still further accommodation for the cattle. 10,000 EVENING EDITIOI4. THE MARKETS.-(YESTERD4I (From :he London New Price Current of Jtitiell' l SCISAR.—ID West India Musc. I,i:does tie were Itinitcd on Wednesday and Tnursrtay, I F O - 01 ' gave way 6d per cat, but on Friday there was rather : business doing, at the rags ci previems day. , t l saes since our !ast ba•;ab:eti 1,000 hhds and tiete4 io princip a l part of ahich h.:s been taken by the grocerl; auctien ot BarnAco t :::r! . .) place 't O REFINED. —Since c ur p. ,, t the Refined A istO been q u i. t, b ut i n ' prices it.tle change tlaa oc cuireueat-- lumps f ele h ing 81s G d to 82.1. Crushed made from r ° " 0 1, Sugar is l ess in and, and i s u ff erc d a t 35s .1 0 %61 Pieces and Brltards, prices ..re rather lower. Dutch cti t ' Sugar at 34s per cat. car This arternooa Btstdrds and Pkee'; made frnm • ; I t o Sugar gave sold at 25s to 29a, and Cra,.ll(.d at 350 3 'd there arc not fin tiler sellers under 35s 61 For Ire -143 to 16s is asked J %d EAST INDIA.—A fai r d eman d has prevaile d for ...•--;bt from the Grocers, and the better qualities have b r°g °, e t previ , ..us rates, but ordin ary sorts have been sold on terms ; at auction 5,000 hags were all disposed nis„ br : to at 636 to 63s Gd, low whit e 65 s 6d to 665, mialigs, good middli n g 663 Gd t o 67a 6J, good to fine 689 damps and washed 64s to 683; 2,400 bags ate WO for Friday. This afternoon the public sales consisted of 11 0 , 0 1 Bengal, and 1,443 bags 235 cases Manilla, which P full prices, the former at 67s Gel for white, and clatg li k - o washed at Gss 6d t o 66 s 6 d ; the latter fetched 2wl 24s 6d for middli ng b rown an d good grey, one 15t•251, damps 23s per cwt. Maur:rms.—ln the middl e p ar t o f last weeibett gave way a trifle, but towards the close of the we" beo was a better demand, and prices show little var iation 11 4 compared with th ose o f t hi s day week, the fall not li c i e more than 6d ; a t auct i on 5,000 bags went at 63i ad , gi 67s for low middli ng to good yellow, and fine b r o - 62s to 635. oft' FOREIGN. —All d escr i pt i ons of Brazil are he ld f i n vicus rates ; 60 chests low soft white Bahia have be ee bee s at 263. In white Havannah previous rates ha ve I; obtained for th e sma ll parce l s which have been oust yellow has brought full prices, the private purchases °oh to only 250 chests, ordinary and middling at 261 6a to go and good at 29 3 . A sma ll parcel of ordinary Ye Muscovadocs has been sold a trifle above 935. per CIV t. k, MOLASSES. —West India, in the early part of last 7'o prices gave w a y a li tt l e, an d the principal part 0' 64, puns. at public s a l e were ta k en i n. St Kitts at 3,1111 and Demerar a an d C arr i acou at 33s to 33s 6d; goo" gas, fine Antigua and Montserrat have brough t 35s to and St Kitts 33s 6d per cwt. COFFEE. —British Plantation has been in steady recl n ..e i p • and full prices have been paid, particularly for clean q 730 ties, which hav e b een t h e most in demand; at auction casks and 170 barrels and bags, were all sold, Berhio.e, Rat for middling at 113 s to 114 s 6d, m iddli ng 115 s, fine an d hoc fine ordinary 109 s 6d t o 112 s, i n f er i or unclean 93s toliiirit Demerara fine ordinary 105 s to 1063 6d, low Pi u 1103 to 112 s 6d, ragged 933. ' 4 00 This afternoon thei e were t h ree pu b lic sales, Tit. 700 bags Java from th e C ape, 185 b ags Samarang, alr.-01(1 bags British Plantation ; the Java was damaged, and at 70s 6d to 765, the Samarang went at its full value , is fine ordinary at 71s to 71s 6d, the Plantation v ras take ° is at 1003 for fine ordinary unc l ean. Th e private 021 1 1 , to Foreign today are 800 b ags goo d s or di nary R i o at , 45s per cat Sli 4 SPICES.-- This afternoon 567 c h ests C ass i a Ligne- elat 728 bags Bengal Ginger were offered at auction; oo d former went is to Is 6d under the rates of Friday, gere middling sold at 635, middling 603 to 61s, some lots u p t taken in at 63s t o 66 s f or good; the latter was bog' at 17s for middling quality. be ll Rom, BRANDY, AND H OLLA NDS.FIIII prices have ntil paid for the lowe r d escr i pt i ons of Rum. * The transac"A in L, ewards hav e b een 400 puns, proofs to 3 per cent:„ 0" 16 at 3s 6d to 3s 7d, 6t o 1 0 over 3s 8d to 3s Jo r t, 14 t o sj over 4s 2d to 4s 3d, 20 to 25 over 4s 5d to 4s 9d, 2 6 to 6d, over 4s 10d to 5s 2d, 33- to 36 over 53 3d to„, 0 5,9 37 to 39 over 5s 7d t o 5 s 8 d ; of Jamaica 201":117d have been s o ld, 28 t o 32 per cent, over at ",j to to 5s 9d, 33 to 36 over 5 s 10d to 6s, stronger 65°0 63 3d ; the principal holder will not sell p roo f Lee r under 3s. 7d. For B ran d y t h ere are sellers on ratheree.o terms. Geneva at previous rates. In British Cern fie there has been more passing. a rts PROVISIONS. -- Foreign B ut t er remains stea d y, finer ;the have declined t o 88 3 to 903 per cwt . Lard is - s li• cheaper. Ba con , f ormer prices are realized for all „- ties. Beef and Pork do not find a very ready sale. .01 SALTPETRE.—This afternoon 2,385 bags Madrid' , ws , 400 bags Calcutta were offered at auction, the former , o i taken in at r e d uce d pr i ces; middling. grey, refract i o n 1 1 . 4 per cent at 23 5, t h e l atter sold 6d lower, viz. tub i grey, refraction /I.id, per cent, at 23s 6d to 24s per C,'/ .t. 3 ,1 TALLOW.—Pete rs b urg ye ll ow candle on t h e F p o t, 41 1 to 47s 6d are th e quotat i ons f or first quality ; f or deli°l in the last thr ee mont h s 46s 3d is asked. South Altaicis Tallow at 42s 9d to 46s per cwt. RlM—This afternoon 1,307 bags Bengal at W I. / sold rather cheape r , very goo d middling and g ood whil° 14s 6d to 15s per cwt. iS DEAFNESS.—At length thi s d rea df u l mals4 hi • completely obviated, w i t h out torture and serious ref medical treatment. The Messrs. S. and B. Soloe o °', 39, Albemarle-street, Pi cca dill y, h ave constructed a Vt.; Conductor, the size o f a seven - s hilli ng p i ece, which, voe fixed into the cavity of the ear, is soft, easy, and not uncomfortable nor perceptibl e t h an h av i ng a p i ece of slyy . I in its place ; a n d th at w hi c h i s d eserv i ng the public eta tion and approbation is, that an individual in company le , place it in th e ear an d remove i t unobserved. It p o urs Into the ear the general conversation to such an extent that, I in most severe cases, sufferers are enabled to bear the slightest whisper at a public assembly. Their newly-in. vented Spectacle Lenses, immediately they are placed before imperfect vision, bring it at once back to its original and natural state, and the most minute particle is seep, either by day or candle light, with exact distinctness- Those valvable improvements in the materials are seFr t to themselves, and are solely confined to their establr ment, 39, Albemarle-street. CRANMER. BY A MEMBER OF THE It 2 I t ; VRGIIE CLUB.—This romance will, we suspect, not 0 1 1; the first inst a n ce o f a "M em b er of the Roxburghe having excited a strong interest and curiosity in tbe rary world. Wh et h er t h e ce l e b rated " Bibliomanis ea the writ er o f " C rantner " b e one and the same ind i v idual' is more than we are a ll owed to learn ; nor is the sea s , likely to tr ansp i re , as t h e novel consists, in a great cell sure, of true, and not too tenderly drawn pictures of "r life," of our own d ay. The whole plan and style of t he work are of the most singular and original character., l ',7 it includes a var i ety of topics which are rarely tott.'..doe° upon in works of this nature. LUDLOW ELECTION. —Another Liberal ine ill ‘ ber has been elected in Ludlow. When the twelve th rFd presentaes of this c ounty were all Tories, it was sat.% that the late L or d Li eutenant jocularly called them "1- " Twelve Apostles." Two of those apostles, howevcri were crucified in Bi s h op ' s C astle by the Reform Act; °lli two have been since crucified in Ludlow by the Libe' opinions of the Electors in that spirited town. Tbia, llls( !' t has been a c hi eve d, i n consequence of the Reform Art; , cannot, ther e f ore , b e sa id , that that Act has entirely f a ded in giving the power to honest electors of superseding a I t urinated candid ate b y one of their own choice, By t " - strenuous exertions of the electors, the borough of Ludlow has now resumed its honourable position as the consi,teet supporter of Liberal Opinions. The Clives, of Styc he ' were formerly Whi gs; and Ludlow was well represcorl D a patr theiot, and a scholar, Mr. Payne Knight, ° ownton, friend of Chatham aud Fox. — Shre w sbury Chronicle. In our Queen-square Police-office report of 3 1 °" - day, the name of Mr. Chaplin was erroneously inserted, instead of that of Mr. Winch, as the defendant in a CO° of assault. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE THAMES.- 1911 Monday evening, about ten o'clock, as Messrs. Robing)° , Junes, JiLb, Hart, and Davis, belonging to the firm of Honeywell:and Bl ac k, were returning from the Wh i t° House, Battersea, when about to pass through on e o f the arches of Westminster-bridge the waterman (Hawkins) , findino• a great resistance from the tide, which was running ve r y high at the time, endeavoured to back the boat, when it was dashed against a barge, and immediately upset, pre cipitating the whole party into the water. Several boats put off to render them assistance, and after some time fear of the unfortunate sufferers were picked up and taken int°, the Swa n tap, and Mr. M'Caun, surge on to th e Royal Humane Society, was sent for, who quickly arrived, and employed the most active measures for restoring animation , which he succeeded in doing to all of them ; unfortunately , Mr. Davis was drowned, and his body has not yet been found. ARSON AND ROBBERY. -Information was re ceived by the police that some thieves bad broken into an unoccupied house, No. 16, Princes -street, Rotberhitbe , and stole nearly all the sashes and glass, and had after war ds set fir e t o t h e h ouse in several places, but will', had fortun a t e l y smou l dered away without doing nine. damage. A reward of 20/. has been offered for the disco very and apprehension of the delinquents. SILVER EDGED PLATED DISHES' T. COX SAVORY offers for selection, arranged in his Show Rooms, a most ex t ens i ve var i ety of CORNER DISHES. The Set of Four varies in price from Seven to Ten Guineas. T. COX SAVORY, Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watch .naker, 47, Cor n hill, L on d on (S even Doors from Gracoe h n r c h. street). _ N.B.—The Handles are made to remove from the Covers. The Covers may thus be used as Dishes ; and the Set will form Eight Dishes, when required. BIRTHS. On the 11th inst., at Dover-street, the Duchess de Coigny, of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at Torrington-square, the wife of Natha niel Powell, Esq., of a daughter. On the Bth inst., at St. John's, near Exmouth, the Het. Mrs. Laurence Shawe, of a daughter. On the 9th inst., at Brighton, the lady of Thomas Edwards, Esq., of Hertford-street, May-fair, of a eon. O the lOth inst. at Eaton-squ are, the ladyßoifeAl.ar. S. Kelly,PPerkins, kin of s a son. On the 9th inst., at Cleveland-rovv, M rc Esq. n , o f a daughter., MARRIED. On the 6th inst., the Rev. J. H. Woodward, incumbent, of St. James's Church, Bristol, to Olivia Fanny, daughter of the Rev. J. W. Cunningham, Vicar of Harrow-on-the-Hilt. On the 6th inst. at St. George's, Southwark, James Calder Stewart, Esq., of York-terrace, Regent's -park, to Rosins, eldest daughter of Alexander Campbell, Esq., of West-square, Lambeth. D lED. — On the 7th inst., Mary, the wife •f Lawrence Reynolds, Esq., Paxton Hall, Huntingdonsbire. On the 10th inst., in Bolton-row, i l lajor-General Sir Ben jamin Charles Stephenson, G. C.H., aged 73. On the 10th inst., in the King's-road East, Chelsea, Lien tenant Charles Blood, of the Chelsea semaphore, aged 54. London: Printed and Published by 1%1 URDO Y OUN • , of 112, strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Straw, 19 the county of Alidcllesea.--Wednesday, June 12, 1,14314.. . tl Ali A (Twel Great in the vt i u Alden PO CORI or HE EX eight ST ther night, Go Eut. Place, ap Picea Leads ftpr past flier that eirel dent Put Oro obt, N o , eati At strt