The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENII.G PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The question of Land Allotments to the :abouping peoile has not, we think, been yet fairly considered under all its aspects. \Ve observed re cently that it might be considered as a mode of part payment for labour., It is a circumstance which never should be left out of recollection, that, till lately, the payment of agricultural labour formed a large item in p:risk rates. No doubt the system was a vicious one ; but it arose out of real difficul ties. Those difficulties recur on its abolition ; and the question is what new means can be found for meeting them. The late Lord Winchilsea, in a Re port to the Board of Agriculture in 1816, made the fallowing statements, which appear to us to throw light on the present question, as well as on the past state of things, from which we have not yet escaped in their consequences. 1 fis Lordship, speaking of the Causes which oppose all attempts to better the labourers' condition, mentions, as one great cause, the dislike which the farmers, in general, have to seeing the labourers rent any land. Perhaps, he continues— " Oae of the reasons for their disliking this is, that the land, if not occupied by the labourers, would fall to their own share ; and another, I am afraid is, that they rather wits to have the labourers more dependent upon them ; for which reasons they are always desirous of hiring the house and land occupied by a labourer, under pretence that by those means the landlord will be sure of his rent, and that they will keep the house in repair. This the agents of estates are too apt to give into, as they find it much less trouble to meet six than sixty tenants at a rent-day, and by these means avoid the being sometimes obliged to hear the wants and complaints of the poor. All parties therefore join in persuading the landlord, who it is natural to suppose (unless he has time and inclination to investigate the mat ter very closely) will agree to this their plan, from the manner in which it comes recommended to him ; and it is in this manner that the labourers have been dispossessed of their cow-p ures in various parts of the midland coun ties. The mount the farmer obtains his wish he takes every particlethe land to himself, and relets the house to the labourer, %ho by these means is rendered miserable; th&poor-rate increased ; the value of the estate to the lallflowner diminished ; and the house suffered to go to decay, which, once fallen the tenant will never rebuild, but the landlord must, at a considerable expense. Who ever travels through the midland counties, and will take the trouble of inquiring, will generally receive for an suer, that formerly there were a great many cottagers who kept cows, but that the land is now thrown to the farmers ; and if ho inquires still farther, he will find that in those parishes the poor-rates have increased in an amazing degree, more than according to the average rise throughout England." These statements, which seem to us to bear strongly on the present position of this question, bring the withdrawal of land from the peasantry in close con nexion with the rise of poor-rates. The same logic of facts would seem to show that the withdrawal of money from the parish should be followed by the re storation of the previous " land privileges:' It may be true that the peasanes character has been altered as well as his condition ; and that the peasant who kept a cow may now be imagined, in many districts, almost as fabujelus in his attributes as one of the Littlemore Englishaints. lgevertheless, the possibility of cow keepieg is not, ittppears, extinct; for Mr. Grev and the Rev. W. S. Gilly assure us that it still subsists in the North of England ; and that not only cows are kept on tl cottage allotments, but that the cot tage tenants kFep themselves off the parish. However, we do not present the north of our island as a la bourers' Utopia ; nor do we assert that the " hinding system" would be all-sufficient to restore " a bold pea santry." We believe that, in the southern districts, a peasantry of a very different character has grown up in many places under the old Poor-law, and is pinched under the new. The provident virtues were rendered useless and objectless ; and the improvident vices show their fruits. The system of allowance in aid of wages was introduced to palliate the effects of a real revolution in the state of the cultivators of the soil, produced by war-prices, changed habits, and agricultural speculations. The palliative was a quack-medicine, doubtless; it was not the pure milk from one's own cow ; parish provisb for families was a sorry substitute for indivlg dual prudence in entering on marriage; and parish pay had no principle of growth in it for the resources of its recipients—though it had for their numbers. Still, while agricultural speculation was ascendant, and the tide of prices rising, the system could go on. But when the tide had turned, and the old parish practices were abandoned, it became imperative to seek some substitute. The land, and property on it, still remain, in the last resort, chargeable with indigence. It is clear that it must either make an effort to throw off the population supposed redundant, or an effort to enable that po pulation to keep itself above indigence. The throwing off method has been most in favour—emigration the most " familiar word." But emigration is exceed ingly costly ; notwithstanding certain quack pro mises to the contrary. Emigration is exceedingly inadequate to transplant any great " surplus" from tile soil. Can the supposed " surplus " be put in the way of keeping itself where it is ? One reply to this question is extension of freedom to buy food with labour. This was long withheld, and is now only imperfectly conceded,—for the sake of those agrioultural speculations which have revolutionised the state of bhe peasantry. But it has appeared of late that agricultural speculation can neither support its own pauperism in idleness, nor set it all at work on sufficient wages. Yet, somehow or other, sup- i port must be furnished. Commerce is one aid ; are not allotments another ? Agricultural capital, it is said, is insufficient to carry on the extent of cultivation it undertakes to the high pitch to which it might, and ought to be carried. Well, but one grand portion of agricultural capital are the labourers' hands and arms. There is a sort of absurdity in those lying idle because agricultural capital cannot use them. They are themselves capital. The only indispensable pre-requisite to the operations of tbis capital is the supply of food to the labourers in whose hands and arms it consists. But that is im perative by law already. To say that men, who must be fed, cannot work to a profit, is to talk idly. They can, at all events, work to a diminution of loss. But is it true that these manual capitalists, supplied with a field to work on, cannot work profitably? The farming speculators, by their own account, cannot cultivate the land as it ought to be cultivated. So far as that is true, so far they are not its natural and proper holders. The lakd has been viewed too ex illusively as an object of moneyed speculation and monopoly. It ie, however, someth'w else than this, and something more. It is a grannational instru ment of production—an instrument pledged by posi tive law to the national support. That any given class of capitalists cannot operate to suit their account, is only a fresh proof of the necessity of calling in aid those who can. It is a gross absurdity to assert, in one breath, that the land would take much higher cultivation, and to assert, in the next, that the best Lite of national capital would be to make advances out of it for the expatriation en masse of the culti vators ! STANDARD.—We are conscious of no rancorous feeling to the Cabinet of 1835. On the other hand, hmakg done our part, however inconsiderable that may have been, in depriving them of the opportunity to pursue their evil course, and having witnessed their ignominious expulsion from office, we could willingly forget that England had ever been disgraced by such a Government—assured, as we are, that a repetition of the stain must remain for ever im possible. The indulgence of this forgetfulness is net, however permitted to us. As always happens, the malice of bad men proves too strong for the restraints of prudence ; and we are reluctantly compelled by the demands of justice—of justice to ourselves as well a 3 of justice to others—to recur to what posterity will consider the most odious of the crimes of the late Administration—the construction of the Court placed round the innocent and unsuspecting Queen, at horl'aceession to the throne, at the age of eighteen years! This is a topic upon which the bitterest enemies of the Melbourne Ministry might expatiate with pleasure; but it is one which we see revived by the retainers of that Ministry with an astonish ment qualified only by a recollection of the rage and heedlessness of malice. The writer, whose rash ill-will has forced us back upon the hateful topic, charges the Standard with having taken part in the denunciation of the Melbourne-formed Court The charge, like every other ebarge ever brought against this journal by the same writer, is false. We took no part in the denun ciation, cordially as our feelings sympathised with it ; on the other hand, we exerted ourselves earnestly to restrain the public indignation, because though we knew and felt it to be just, we remembered that there are classes of crimes, to name which in the presence of a young and inex perienced woman is an offence ; and because we had full coilficlence that the native good sense and ad nimble education of the young Queen would carry her, even in a corrupt Court, through the danger of misconstruction the only danger to which her pure and lofty nature could permit her to IN. exposed. As we foresaw, so has it proved ; the Queen has passed happily through the danger spread round her. But is the guilt of ilioee who s p rea d the snares lessened by the vir tues of her for whose feethey were s et ? Are we the less bo un d to honour the men who, though un necessarily;. }, ‘ ..!ecesarily,. : and at the risk of offence, raised the t : leaping voic e f or her proteeion b ecause t h e b eloved --- `---,- - --,object o f th e i r care has -Pro'veal herself wort h y -J . ' - df such ready and absolute devotion. The time -;: K ---- !jai rived when we can, without scruple, render , .:. ----- ; _ ,.?7 ps to these truly loyal and devoted subjects ,;, fi / : --- . ' •.. Of 1 Queen. The exemplary and honoured j wif:, 1 - l i :1 ~,,1 4 y mother, can now look back not only with 1 ° `la' cpla ency, but with pride, upon the dangers of mis• - a ril c j construction to which her treacherous servants ex ' posed her inexperienced youth ; of pride not only in her own faultless course, but of pride also in the noble people who reposed upon her prudence an unbounded confidence, while they abhorred those riuz SUN, LONDON, 'WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20 1344. who had exposed it to a trial, terrible to any 7 11113 g woman r of eighteen—most terrible to a youth fulrhe matron Queen can now appreciate Qt."' en - . . her true frit. nds—can distinguish . between those who p "son _individuals unfit for female rashly raised their voices placcel about her need regret exposure society, and those who eN:7 8 -1 1 oriously passed ; against the profanation. None to perils through which they have and none, with a heart like our Queen's, will be un grateful to the friends who watched her progress through these perils with even an excessive anxiety. Dividend per Annum. 54 per cent. 41. CHARGE OF WILFUL MURDER. An inquiry took place at Navestock, last week, before Mr. Lewis, the coroner, and a respectable jury, touching the death of Martha Phillips, the wife of a labourer, who was found dead in a field in that parish. It appeared, from the evidence adduced, that the deceased was found lying on her back in one of Mr. Hicks's fields ; an umbrella and can of beer were by her side, and her clothes sere in disorder, and her pocket turned inside out. On her being removed some blood came from the right ear. There were appear- ances about the ground as if there had been some struggling. Rebecca Phillips, a daughter of the deceased, stated that she was in good health and spirits the day be- fore. She went out with a can for some beer for dinner at about half-past twelve o'clock. There had been no quarrelling. Her health was not generally good ; she complained usually of pain across the chest. Sach's beer-house, to which she went, was about a mile from the house of deceased. 41. 10e. 4 per cent. 41. 40/, .154. 11. 58. S 1 12s. Bd. .I.los. 844 101. William Milibank, a gardener, who was sitting at the beer-shop when the deceased arrived, stated that she called for half a pint of beer and drank it ; and that when that was done, she called for another. Two men, named Baker and Young, were there and had beer also. She "went away about a quarter before two o'clock, and took three pints of beer away with her in a can. She asked Young if he was going home to dinner ; he lived under the same roof in the family of deceased. Before she had got out of the yard Baker and Young followed. They were a little fresh but not drunk.: Another witness stated that subsequently to this he saw the deceased and Young walking together under an umbrella, and Baker walked on before. It wasi stated that deceased frequently got drunk, and would then fight. Baker deposed to having seen Young and the deceased go together into the field in which she was found, and lie down on the ground. When he; came out of the field he had a snuff-box, which he said she had given him. But he put a stone into it, and threw it away, and several times told him not to say anything about what he had witnessed. Young, who was in custody, stated in his defence, that as they were going along the road, the deceased made a proposition to him, and asked him if he would give her any money. He told her no; she then got over the gate, and he turned back. The CORONER having summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against John Young, and he was forthwith committed to take his trial.— Abridged from the Essex Herald of this day. 3)6 17s. tad. 101. 6 percent. 28 -51. 20'. IL 100. 151. 32Ciog. 104 10s. 1.45. cent. 4 per cent. 41 per cent. 4 per cent. Sl. 10s. 5 per ceist. L per cent. 4% per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. i% per cent. I/. Os. Bd. 188. Id. per cent. 11. 7s. 9t. 10s. 4 per cent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 33.64... pr sh 51.55. er share per cent. 31. per cent./ tc 303. 138.3 per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. 6per cant. Aper cent. 45. 24. 6d. per cent. :12s. .-- 12sh. & be. 1/. ss. 5 per cent. bper cent, 5 per cent. per cent. 11. ss. 4,. 5 per cent. 11%er cent. P/. 42. 5 per cent. 10% 5 r cent 8 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. toper cent. eper cent. per cent. per cent. d per cent. 6 per cent. fis per share 6s. per share 10 per cent. per cent. 16s. 11.58. I/. 78. 51. and be. 4%1. and ba. per cent. rcent. 101. 101. 6i per sh 158 per sb 21. 6 per cent. 5 per cent.; 8 per cent. 5 per cent, 8 per cent. Pi per cent. 12s. 24. 101. 9.1. 10s. 2/. 10e. per cent. 44 18s. 14 14s. 2/.135. p. sh. 11. Ls. per cent. ds. per sh. 2/. 5a per sh 10 par cent. ?.g per cent. 91.55. per sh 2%1. per sh. 128. per sh. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 1361. per sh 104 per sh. 1/, 14s. Bper share Be 4d per sh BL 17s. pr 1138 per st 11. sg. 158. U. IFs. 10d. 15 per cent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 11. 11. 31. 19. 6d. 1. 10s. 10 per cent. 10s. per sh. 11. 10/. perch. 1/. 4s. 11. 158. t per cent. 5 per cent. .4 ps. and 4a.6d. la. tiper cent. 7per cent. I% per cent taper cent 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 8 per cent. 6 per cant 7 per cent. 6 per cent diva cent. 6 per cent. 7per cen t. 9 per cent taper cent. 6per cent. .1 per cent. 5 ncr cent. PRICES OF SHARES a - 4 RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASBITRA AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 19. Names of Com panies. Can al s. dh Ashton and Olara... Ashby -de-la- Zouch av Basingstoke Breckneek & Ahergay. Birmingham, 1-16th sh. Do. and Liverp. Juuc. Chclmer & Blackwator Coventry .......... Crom ford ........".. Dudley Derby. ...... .". Danube and Mayne.... Ellesmere and Chester Erewash .. ........ Forth and ..... Grand Junction Grand Union Grand Surrey Grand Western" Glamorgansh., ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfle/d ..... .....av Kennet and Avon ...av Lancaster av Leeds and Liverpool... Leicester ......... Leicester & Northamp. Loughborough av Monmouthshire ........ Montgomeryshire ". Melton M0wbray........ Mersey and 1rwe11..... Macclesfield Neath Oxford Peak Forest .av Regent's (or London).. Shropshire ......... Somerset Do. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester 5hrew5bury,..„....,...... Stourbridge Stratford .on. A von...av Swansea...." Severn & Wye & Trent Sc Mersey, 14 sh. Thames & Medway..av Warwick and lirming. Warwick and Napton... Worcester & Binning. Wilts and Berks......av Wisbeach Way and Arun...... Docks. Commercial East and West India London ... : ........ Ditto Bonds Bristol.... ..... ...........ar Do.B nds, var. amounts St. Katharine...". .... - Ditto Bonds Ditto B:nds ...... ..." Southampton Bridges Hammersmith ....»...... Southwark, new Subs. Ditto New of 73 pr o. Water 100.........„........ Ditto Old Ann. of Si r Ditto New ditto 6171. Ditto 80nd5.............. Assurances Albion ••.. Alfred Life - Alliance Biit. and For Ditto Marine Atlas Birmingham Fire...." British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life ..... . European Life Ditto New Freemasons Globe ...........» Guardian Nape Life Ditto Imperial Fire ........ Ditto Life.... ...... Indemnity Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire.....„, Ditto Ship National Loan Fund Neptune Marine...." Palladium Life Protector Provident ...... Rock Life R , ,yal Exchange...." Sun Fire Ditto Life University .... Life Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk Banks Au5tra1a5ia................ Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New........ Landon Joint Stock Metropolitan. . . ....... Provincial of Ireland Ditto New..„ National of Ire land Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New ........ Gloucestershire... Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight 6. Coke Bath. ...... ..... British .. ~, _.... ....... Ditto Provincial Birmingham Binning. & Staffbrdsh Bristol Brighten Ditto General City of London Ditto New.... ....... Continental Consolid Ditto New Equitable 1mperia1........„ Isle of Thanet Independent Phoenix ON Oa Ratcliff South Metropolitan..... United General..,.. . Westmins. Chartered.. Ditto New................. Water Works Birmingham East London Grand Junction .av Kent ..... ........ ..... Nw Riv Len. Bridg An. Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlesex......av Yrk lluldg Co. Les Prop Iron Itailwayst. Birmingham & Derby & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter...." Caledonian ..... Chester and Holyhead Eastern Counties........ Edinburgh St Glasgow Grand Juncti0n.......... _„_ Great North of Englnd Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths ...... Harwich (Braithwaite) Hull and Selby Lancaster and Carlisle Leech and Selby Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares London and Brighton Ditto Loan Notes London and ckwall Londrn and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Birming Midland Counties North British Norwi h & Brandon Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. die. Paris and Orleans...„ Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre.....„ Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich lark and N. Midland Ditto New Shares, Mines. Albion Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos Dittu Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss.s/. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo ............ Columbian, iss. 5/. p.m. General Mining Hibernian .. Imperial Slate Compy. Mexican ....... ••••••••••••• Mining Co. ot Ireland.. Amount Share. X s. d. 97 18 0 113 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 Stock b 0 0 0 50 0 0 63 2 8 50 0 0 169 0 0 70 10 3 500 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 1000 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock 100 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 a 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 2500 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 29 0 0 77 10 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 6 0 100 0 0 41 19 4 100 0 0 30 , 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 • 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 92 0 0 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 50 9 u 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 2.5 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 Paid. 'Pric 150 0 0 Z s. d. ioo b o All paid A 7 0 Real del Monte, Unreg. Ditto Loan N0te5...... Rhyinney Iron . Santiago de Cuba United Aim, iss.2/. pm Ditto Scrip Ditto New Scrip 25 0 0 0 0 7c O 0 01 O 0 61, O ) 4 O 0 1 o o 14 O 0 56 O 0 2h O 0 111 O 0 12 o o 8' o 0 .4 O 0 O 0 6 O 0 1 O 0 O 0 20 O 0 s$ O 0 4' 0 0 1 100 0 0 211 20 0 2 32 0 0 3 I 70 0 0 11 30 0 0 40 0 0 ! 4 100 0 0 IC ( 2 10 0 80 0 1 450 0 s 0 0 & Literary. Londn,with Sin.Tlcket London University Russell King's College oo l F o o 26; O 0 3' 0 0 2: o 0 0 51 21 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 1 75 0 0 7 10 0 710 0 2 !40 0 0 2i ‘2O 0 0 13 0 0 55 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 • 20 50 0 0 10 10 0 0 3 60 0 0 59 25 0 0 i 7 Miscellaneous. Anglo Mexican Mint. Australian Agricultur. Brit. American Land,.. Canada ...... .......... ...... Upper Canada Bonds... Gen. Steam Navigation 31 0 14 10 0 1(X) 0 to 25 0 (' 150 0 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 20 0 o - .150 50 0 0 50 25 0 0 10 40 0 0 40 75 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Mot. Wond Pay., iss. 14 Mex. and S. American New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand ....... Penins. & Orion. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian O 0 0 O 0 O 0 O 0 00 O 0 O 0 O 0 50 71 0 9 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Thames Tunnel O 0 lii O 0 O 0 2 O 0 Van Diemen's Land L IST OF SCOTTISH COM NOV. 2, Bank of Scotland...." Royal Rank British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Balk Western Bank „„ Central Bk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scoti. Edinburgh Lite Insur. Scottish Union Insur... 210 0 1 100 0 0 ' Standard Life Incur.... 3 ;,,z :4 :::af. ilalkeith R_ .. ilww , 1 ,,, v , Ili - per cent Ellin. L''.ln - v,...,. ." w IN per cen f Glasg. and Green. ii;;;I. —. Dundee4nd Ar6r ItaiL I ! moo of i 10 0 0 L 30 0 0 4; 35 10 0 1 3110 0, .1! 14 0 1 10 5 0 3 0 7 0 75 0 25 0 50 0 100 0 0 ' lOOO 25 0 0 20 0 59 0 0 , 50 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 1 2 0 :3041 0 0 01 0j 2i 0 0 0 116:1, 0' 31 0 54 ANTES' PRICES. 10 0 10 0 10 0 10 0 12 10 1 0 2 10 50 0 50 0 9 5 0 o ! i 0 i £' I 11 9 2 0 CI rs« EXTRAORDINARY CASES OF LONGEVITY.—There are now residing near Hubberstone, Pembrokshire, a brother an d s i ster , H enry and Margaret Banner, of the respective ages of 97 and 101, the latter of whom can read well without the use of glasses.— Cambrian. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 19. (Sittings in Banco.) lIOWARD V. GOSSETT. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL resumed his argument in this part-heard case, and contended that, even if the Court should be against him on the points which he had submitted on Friday, still they must give judgment in favour of the defendant, inasmuch as the defendant was acting merely ministerially in acting upon that warrant, which, at all events, was a suffi -13•6 cient authority fur him, and th e r e f ore th a t th e act i on could not lie. He, therefore, submitted that upon this demurrer the Court must give judgment in favour of the defendant. • Mr. KELLY then replied, and contended, on the 1 4 authority of the King v. Elgee, that this Court could o ' look to the wording of wa rran t s i ssue d b y C ourts % of co-ordinate jurisdiction, inasmuch as in that case it , had decided that a warrant issued by the Court of Bankruptcy, a superior court of record, like ) the House of Commons, was bad. He also ; quoted the case of Christie v. Unwin, in which the validity of a warra n t i ssue d b y t h e L or d ' Chancellor had been questioned. He could not but ) regret that during the course of the last century some ) [ of the judges had laid down the law as if the Court ) could not interfere even to grant a habeas corpus in ) cases where persons had been committed ny the ) r House of Commons, but those di c t a o f th e j u d ges were contrary to the law, as it had been acted on both before and since. In the case of Lord Shaftesbury, in that of Hobhouse, in that of the Sheriffs of Middlesex, I i this Court had granted a habe as corpus , an d h a d ; looked to the warrants of commitment, and because 1 they held those warrants to be legal, and for that cause only, they remitted the parties to their original ) custody. The law of the judges of the last century ) ; was bad law, and all he asked th e C ourt to d o was to ) do what had been done in ell the cases to which he ) 5 had alluded—to look to the warrant, and see whether ) or not it was a good warrant ; and he would dismiss I i all these cases by saying that in every one o f th em ) the warrant of commitment set forth the ca use of imprisonment, viz , contempt. He apprehended that there was nothing in this warrant to show that the party was to be taken to the bar of the House of P Commons. It was a mere simple mandate for taking him into custody. The fact was the recital was so ) uncertain that it was impossible for the Court to intro duce anything into the mandatory point. Mr. Justice WIGUTMAN alluded to the case of the i% warrant for the arrest of Sir Francis Burdett, in which the warrant not only stated that he was to be taken to the Tower of London, but to be delivered to 1 the custody of the Lieutenant of the Tower. Mr. KELLY agreed that in that case it was clearly stated where the party was to be taken to, but in this case there was nothing in the warrant to show either , why he was apprehended, or where he was t o b e ''' brought to. It might be to the bar of the House of Commons, or before any one of the Committees. But ni even if it were aided to the utmost possible extent by 3lthe recital, it went no further than to say apprehe n d ; the plaintiff and bring him to the bar of the House of Commons, without stating for what. It was a mere 1% simple mandate of arrest without any cause assigned, 5 , and was therefore illegal. He agreed with a ll ' that had fallen from the judges in the case of Burdett and Abbott, and Stockdale and Han ) 32 . card, that this Court could not look into the cause of t imprisonment where it was for contempt, and if thi s )% warrant had stated that the imprisonment was for N contempt, he shouldhtfor u not have this warrant ave disputed want its was v not to ) What was sought I preserve to the House of Commons what it was ad -5 breach 5 7 l llt t 0 d of they theirprivileges, possessed, e o committingf power o f makingfor a 3 3 that law which w as no t law, and to arrest under an i% illegal warrant, a warrant which was contrary to Magna Charts. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Suppose the plea had ) set forth the warrant was issued according to the 1 ancient usages of Parliament, should we not be bound : to consider it legal ? Mr. KELLY apprehended not, unless the plea 1 'lt set forth that the form had been used at the tim e o f Magna Charta. If it had not, it was contrary to Magna Charta, and, therefore, unless legalised by Act ;‘i of Parliament, was void. Now, if the warrant were insufficient in itself, he contended that the defendant 6 ) could not go to the averments of the plea to help it. 1 % If a man resisted his arrest under a lawful ;,( 3 warrant, and killed the officer, he was guilty o f at murder—if the warrant were unlawful it would b e 1 justifiable homicide. Now, suppose the plaintiff had 1 , 36 resisted, and killed the officer, could it be said to him, 1. " True, the warrant is bad upon the face of it, but then there was behind it a resolution of the House 4 of Commons, of which you could know nothing, in. asmuch as it was not set forth in the warrant ; and, therefore, you must be hanged for murder." But, even suppose reference could be made to the aver s ments, he submitted that in these pleas there were no 1 6 averments which were sufficient to help the warrant. t 5 All that was averred was, that the warrant was 714 issued by the proper officer of the House 50 to the proper officer for service, but it left 73 the question of the form of the warran t corn -70 32 pletely untouched. Now he appereliended that the ss House of Commons possessed no pec u li ar pr i v il eges 20 co of pleading; they must plead like other people, and 76 40 therefore they ought in express terms t o h ave a ll ege d as that, according to the usages of Parliament, it was 34 their privilege to arrest upon such a wa rran t, an d even as 1234 that would have been insufficient unless it was also alleged that such usage had existed at the is time of Magna Charta. But, supposing the 15 warrant might be aided by th e averment, to so and that the averments were sufficient, then socame the question, had the House of C ommons t h e ps right to arrest a person to compel him to give evi- Zdente, or to arrest him upon a mere charge, without having previously adjudged him guilty of contempt? e He apprehended that no such power existed. They 8 had power to summon a witness, and if he refused to 4 % obey that summons, they could a dj u d ge h i m guilty ig .si of contempt for such refusal, tbe and imp r i son hi m f or tlhe contempt; and magistrates p ossesse d t h e same N power; but there was n o power to appre )s hend pa purpose of brin g i ng N in o c d rut o y for`s u t b oci t alyics courts had the power of compel him t o g i ve evi -1 deuce. h ii'l ul3 r" issuing a subpoena to compel the attendance of a wit lli ness, and on his refusal to come to attach him for 2 contempt, and punish him for his refusal by im prisonment; but they had no more power by law to 1. , ,„ apprehend persons and bring the m u p i n cus t o d y as flwitnesses than they had when they were b roug ht i n t o x t C h i e u t r o t r Lor.the application of c b t Y u — ally in Court and '54 refused to come forward, no doubt the Court had the 6 % power of compelling him to come forward, but the compel lf a witnesstlt em t o vvere spe a k a 5 5 Court had no right to send for him into the next parish, and arrest him to compel Mtn to give evidence, al -5 though it might adjudge him guilty of contempt, and 2 arrest and attach him for that contempt, but they 534 could not order him to be arrested and brought up to aIN , answer a charge of contempt. Th e power conten d e d oss iiq for on the part of s the Hous e o f C ommons was t h e 1 power of at once arresting a n d i mpr i son i ng any o f n 5% the Queen's subjects without an y cause assigned at all— :I a power which the Court would be slow in admitting. He denied that the precedents quoted showed the s immemorial existence of a n y suc h power, an d if si s claimed it ought to have been distinctly averred upon 3 the plea, in order either th a t i ssue m i g ht b e t a k en 4 7 upon it in point of fact, or that it might be demurred 5 34 to in point of law. The pr ece d en t s i n Il a t se ll wou ld 8% 5 justify the House of Commons in ordering two men to 2 ; ; be tied back and back upon a horse, with papers pinned on their breasts, for arresting a servant of' a Member. ° There was nothing, however tyrannical or however a ludicrous, that cannot be justified by the precedents I to be found in the journals of the Hous e o f C ommons . o % With regard to the case of Jay and :Popham, it should be remembered that neither Sir Francis Pemberton nor Sir Thomas Jones were judges at the f. 4 % time they delivered the opi n i on s quoted by the So a licitor-General at the bar o f the House of Common s , 5% and that it was evid en t th e y s p o k e under duress, a n d 3% were in a most degraded and disgraceful position, so 4 % that their dicta could not be taken to possess any legal authority. If the precedents were worth anything, I they would justify the arrest by the House of Commons 714, a% of the Judgss of this Court for the solemn judgments 8 delivered in this Court, and for declaring that to be the law which they knew to be the law. The right 5 % to arrest to compel a person to give evidence was 3X ) 1 here claimed for the first time, and he trusted the 2 s Court would not authorise the assumption of th a t , 34 power upon light grounds; and he submitted th at sr , neither the House of Commons nor any o th er s tribunal had the right to arrest or imprison any o f the people of this country without cause shown upon the face of the warrant authorising such arrest. Their Lordships having consulted together, Lord DENMAN said —We shall take some time to consider this, and we do not think it right to say anything upon the present occasion. Judgment postponed. TILE WEATHER IN SCOTLAND.—We still continue to cx.perience vGry boisterous weather, the wind blowing in fitful gusts, accompanied with heavy showers of rain. Yes terday morning it blew a perfect hurricane, which we are .09 afraid must h ave d one cons i derable damage, torrents of 7 94 7 1 ,, 4 rain falling at the same time. During the forenoon, ho w _ ever, the sun shone forth, giving indications of a change 1 fur the better, but shortly after mid-day the sky became overcast, and a pelting shower commenced, which con tinned for some time ; and while we write there is little or no appearance of our having dry weather. We learn that there are upwards of 200 sail of vessels still windbound in the Frith of Forth, which have taken shelter there from the 147 of the gale, and cannot yet put to sea , n consequence of adverso wiods and the extremely ' - of the German Ocean. The Cl unte, turbulent, . When vn her voya ge gale, a few miles this side of the 4 , which d her, vere :71--". cauolt by the la o t f e hseer istoa mong London toe she : was h frroomv e Matheson, ijiieerititio bulwarks and other damage.—.Edinburyli Evening Pest, Queensferry, with loss of a portion FARNBOROUGH PETTY SES SIONS.—TUESDA Y. (Before Viscount SYDNEY, and Messrs. WARD and I3za mis.) A young and good-looking woman, named Jane Butcher, was brought before the bench, in custody of Sergeant Leverick, of the R division of police, upon the charge of ill-using her illegitimate child, twelve months old, and with having threatened to destroy it. The sergeant stated, that on the previous evening he was sent for to the cottage of the prisoner's father at Kestor, and upon going in he found the prisoner's mother in fits, and her father, who is a hard-working labouring man, was in the utmost distress of mind, on account of the prisoner's conduct. It appears she has had an illegitimate child, and ever since its birth she has treated it in the most cruel manner, fre quently beating and ill-using it, and threatening to destroy it. On this night, after making use of very violent language to her mother, she threatened that she would do fin. the child before morning, and rushed out of the house, taking the poor infant, who had nothing but a shift and night-gown on, with her, and as they believed, with the intention of drowning, or otherwise making away with her. He immediately proceeded in search of the prisoner, and found her lying with the child in the naked state above described upon a dunghill, and he took her back to her father's house. Lord SYDNEY asked the prisoner's father and sister whether they would take upon themselves to swear that they, or the child of the prisoner, were in danger of any personal violence from her ? They both appeared anxious to screen the pri soner, notwithstanding her brutality, and they said they should not like to send her to prison. The Noble CHAIRMAN said, that as that was the case, the Bench could not take any proceedings, and the prisoner must be discharged. He, at the same time, observed, th a t th ere cou ld b e no doubt the pri soner's conduct had been very bad, and he cautioned her to be very careful, for if anything happened to the child through her neglect or ill-treatment, she would most assuredly be tried for her life. The prisoner left the bar laughing, and when she got outside the court she put her fist in her sister's face, and with an oath declared that she would " give it her before she got home." The officers separated them, and requested the virago to be quiet, threat ening to take her again before the magistrates if she did not, and she then walked a short distance, when she suddenly stooped down, and picked up a large flint stone, which she was about to throw in her sister's face, when the constables seized her arm, and conveyed her again before the magistrates. The sister was then sworn, and deposed to the threats made use of by the prisoner, and also declared her belief that she was in danger of receiving some violent injury from her. The BENCH immediately ordered the prisoner to find sureties to keep the peace, at the same time ob serving that so violent and dangerous a person was not fit to be at large. The prisoner's sister asked what was to be done with the child ? It had been under her charge all night, as the prisoner would not take it, and would not give it any nourishment. The BBNCH said that as the child was of such tender age it must go with the mother. The prisoner snatched the child from her sister's arms, and at the same time tore off a little cloak that was upon it, and threw it upon the ground, say ing it belonged to " them," and she would have no thing of " theirs." The sister tried to put the cloak upon the poor child, saying that it would perish with cold, but the prisoner with the utmost violence resisted the at tempt, and it was not until the sergeant of police said that the child was now under their charge, and in sisted that the cloak should be put on, that she al lowed it to be done. The prisoner was then removed, and was eventually conveyed to Maidstone Gaol. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday morning, an elderly man, of respect able appearance, who gave the name of Thomas Daley, described as a gentleman, residing at the Im perial Hotel, Covent-garden, was placed at the bar before Mr. Jardine, charged with stealing a news paper from Upton's Eating-rooms, 228, Strand,under the following circumstances : Charles Cole, a waiter, in the service of the prose cutor, stated that about eight o'clock on Monday night the prisoner came to his master's rooms, where he took some refreshment, and after delaying some time, he paid the amount of his bill. After he left the room, the Morning Chronicle was missed from the table at which he was sitting, and as he was passing down stairs, witness, accosting him, demanded the newspaper he had just concealed on his person, when he drew a parcel from his pocket and deli vered up the property, saying it was through inad vertence he had removed it. He was then given in charge to a constable. The prisoner being called on for his defence, said had a magistrate been sitting when he was taken into custody he would have been instantly discharged. Was it possible that a gentleman of fortune and high birth, as he was, would steal a newspaper! Thank God, he was possessed of thousands a year, and could it be supposed under such circumstances that he would steal such a thing as a newspaper, the in trinsic value of which was absolutely nothing. He had not read the Morning Chronicle nor the Times in the room, as he had seen them in his chambers in the morning, but it was the Globe he had just laid down, and was looki ng over an appl i cation made to him rom one of his estates, soliciting that he would continue his subscription to a charitable institution, when the waiter accosted him. He was a father, and even a grandfather of many children, and he should not have gone into a place of the kind, but was pressed on a former occasion to dine there with a very old friend, who was obliged of late years to live in a more frugal manner than he was accustomed. He had been to Gravesend during the day with his nephew, who was starting for India, and after taking dinner, in bundling up his papers he must have inad vertently put the Morning Chronicle into his pocket, under the impression that it was a provincial paper he occasionally carried about him. In answer to the Court, the witness said he stood behind the prisoner the whole of the time he was in the room, and he was positive he never attempted to take any paper of a private nature from his pocket. He could also positively swear that the prisoner stole another newspaper on Thursday night, which streng thened his suspicions on his missing the paper in question. There was no other person in the room at the time, and his reason for watching the prisoner's movements was, that he was apprised of the former robbery by another waiter. The prisoner said it could not be possible he could be guilty of such a thing, as he was well known to be a man of ample fortune, as would app ear f rom t h e articles the cons t a bl e took from him, consisting of about 601. in gold, with a quantity of valuable docu ments. Mr. JARDINM—Does any person know you at the Imperial Hotel, where you say you reside ? Pri soner—l was so shocked I did not know what address to give, seeing such a paltry malicious charge made against me. Mr. JARDINE inquired what led to the supposition that the prisoner had committed a robbery of the same•kind on a former occasion ? The waiter said the Standard was missed from the room on Thursday evening, immediately after the prisoner left the room. The constable here produced a parcel containing a number of letters addressed to Colonel Sewell, with other documents of importance. Mr. JARDINR asked the prisoner who were his bankers ?—The prisoner replied, he banked at the house of Messrs. Ransom, of L'all-mall, where he had been known for several years. Mr. JARDINE--I shall discharge you because I can't reconcile the conflicting circumstances connected with your case. A person of your age having such docu mebts and property in. your possession, could scarcely be supposed gu il ty o f such an extraordinary act, and as there is a doubt, although the waiter speaks in the most positive terms of the circumstances, I cannot see my way clear enough to send you to be tried, as I think a jury would not convict you. Under all the circumstances I am bound to discharge you, at the same time thinking no fault was to be imputed to the waiter, as the subject was well worthy of inquiry. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. Amelia Jarvis, a well-grown girl, fifteen years of age, but looking at least eighteen, was brought before Mr. Hardwick by her own mother, and charged with robbery. Elizabeth Knox, of No. 2, Pulteney-court, the mother, said the girl at th e b ar h a d t h a t morn i ng stopped her little brother and robbed him of two six pences, which he had just received for washing. The girl had remained out the whole of the previous night, and witness had not been able to obtain any trace of her until an hour or two ago, when she saw the prisoner in St. James's-park with a couple of girls of loose character, eating chesnuts, which she had purchased with part of the stolen money. The mother went on to say that she had been obliged to take strong steps against her daughter in consequence of indications of early and seem ingly incorrigible profligacy. Her daughter by her misconduct had nearly ruined her. She was a laundress; but, owing to her (laughter's reckless con duct, she was afraid she should soon loose her con nexion, and consequently her means of support for her family. The girl at the bar, about four months back, was a most hardworking well ,conducted girl, hut sinee that period she had got acquainted with some depraved boys and girls from Peter-street, and the result was that she had become as depraved and as reckless as her associates. She has stopped out re peatedly all night, without giving any account of he - self next morning. She had set everybody at defiance i and when she was in want of money she did not hesitate a moment at breaking open drawers and boxes ; rifling them, and pledging or stlling their contents. The only way to save the wretched girl from absolute destructicn was to adopt means to separate her from her companions. Mr. HAanwicii asked the mother what she if:- tended to do. Did she mean to press the charge of robbery? • The mother said she had no wish to deal harshly with her child. She thought if the girl had the awful consequences of her conduct pointed out to her, and if a short punishment were awarded by way of foretaste of what she must expect if she did not re form, that this might produce a beneficial result. Mr. HARDWICK asked the girl if she had ever re flected on her scandalous conduct? \Vas she aware that the life of infamy she was pursuing would pro bably lead to transportation ? The girl, who ex hibited complete indifference, muttered that she hail no wish to keep up the acquaintances she had recently made. The mother said when she found her daughter in the Park, her daughter told her she did not intend to return home again. _ Air. llAnacV - IcK said he would remand the girl for a week to see what effect a short confinement would have on her future conduct. The prisoner was then removed. THAMES POLICE. THE LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT.—Mr. George IValton, a respectable plumber and gas-fitter, of No. 5, George-terrace, Commercial-road, Stepney, and John Scaltock, a lad in his employ, were brought before Mr. Broderip, on a charge of stealing one of Deffrie's patent dry gas meters, value 71., stated in the police-sheet to be the property of William Cor mack, of the firm of Banks and Cormack, gas-puri fiers, of Church-row, Limehouse. Mr. Walton, who was much agitated, said that a few days ago he entered into an agreement with Banks and Cormack to fit up a gas apparatus for them, and after the job was commenced Mr. Cormack requested the loan of a meter which he kept in his shop, for the purpose of trying some experiments on a gasometer the firm had lately erected. He agreed to lend them a patent dry meter, on their promising to take particular care of it, and conveyed it to their premises. Having done work and furnished mate rials to the amount of 151., and knowing very little of the firm or their resources, he waited upon Mr. Cormack that morning, and asked him for an advance of money. Mr. Cormack refused to advance any thing, and he would not pay a farthing till the job was completed. He said he could not proceed with the work till he received an advance of 51., and Mr. Cormack immediately directed his foreman to pro ceed to the nearest gas-fitter's, and bring him to the premises to complete the fitting-up of the apparatus. He then said he should take home his gas meter, and took it up and gave it to his boy. Mr. Cormack im mediately sent for a policeman, and gave him into custody for stealing his own property. Mr. BRODERIP—Then you are in custody for merely taking away your own property, which Mr. Cormack refused to give up ! Mr. Walton—Yes, Sir, I lent it to the firm of Banks and Cormack for a day or two. It is my pro perty ; and there are persons in court to prove it. I have had the mortification of being taken through the streets as a felon, pointed at by my neighbours, and followed by a crowd of persons, to many of whom I was known, in open day. It is too bad, Sir. Mr. BRODERIP—Too bad ! it is indeed. (To the policeman)--You should not have taken these parties into custody at all. You should have known better than to have arrested a man for stealing his own pro perty, under such circumstances. What time did you apprehend them ? Policeman—About eleven o'clock. Mr. BRODERIP—And it is now twenty minutes past two. The man and his servant have been ille gally in custcdy for about three hours and a half, and no prosecutor has ventured to appear against them. The policeman said he took the parties to the sta tion-house to settle the matter amicably.—(A laugh.) Mr. BRODERIP—I must beg ofyou, Mr. Symonds, to mention this to the superintendent of the division. It has happened-before, and must not be repeated. The liberty of the subject is not to be trifled with in this manner. Every person engaged in the detention of Mr. Walton and his servants are liable to an action, and I have no doubt a jury will give the aggrieved parties very heavy damages. Ellis, the uglier, said he knew Mr. Walton to be a most respectable and upright tradesman. Mr. BRODERIP—He leaves this court without a stain on his character. It is a monstrous infringe ment of the liberty of the subject. The prisoners were then set at liberty, and Mr. Walton took home his gas meter. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Nov. 19.) SUGAR.—To-day the market for West India Sugar presented a firm appearance ; the demand was very good for all sorts for the scale and pan, the advanced rates pre viously established were fully supported; indeed for S agars worth from 56s to 63s per cwt an advance in some cases of 6d per cwt was obtained; the show has become small and very indifferent. The purchases reached 660 hhds, including a public sale of 100 hhds of Barbadoes Sugar, which went off with spirit at very full rates—fine yellow at 665, good 63s 6d to 645, good mid 60s to 61s, mid 58s to 59s 6d, and low 55s 6d to 57s per cwt. REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar met with ready purchasers for home consumption, and a further advance in prices took place, brown lumps fetching 72s 6d to 735, and standard lumps 74s to 74s 6d. Bonded crushed Sugar is with difficulty to be purchased at 29s 6d. In 10lb loaves, there has been an immense business trans acted at 31s 6d to 32s per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was no public sale, but 8,000 bags of the new crop are declared for Fri day, and which it is expected will go off well, as the trade are much in want of Mauritius Sugar. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon three parcels of Bengal Sugar, amounting to 5,427 bags, were offered at public sale, 762 bags of which consisted of strong yellow Dobah, and sold at former rates—fine at 68s, good 65s to 66s 6d, mid 59s to 61 6d, d amp an d washed 59s 6d to 66s ; other sorts fetched full prices, indeed in some cases, they were rather higher. for inferior and mid qualities—good brown went at 525, mid 445, damp and washed 42s to 51s, low ditto 40s 6d to 41s Gd, low sound yellow 53s 6d, mid 568 6d to 57s 6d, good mid 58s 6d to 59s 6d, good 60s to 60s 6d, damp and washed 50s 6d to 60s per cwt. Of Madras 155 bags were sold at 41s for very low heavy dark brown, being the full value. WooL.—The market is still in a quiet state for all descriptions of wool, and those parties that are inclined to realise are compelled to submit to rather lower rates: the arrivals last week were 1,828 bales, 506 of which consisted of Spanish, and 491 bales of African. FOREIGN.—To-day many inquiries existed for Foreign Sugar, but the offers made were such that merchants would not accept. There are large purchasers, at prices rather above those that prevailed prior to the intelligence from the Havannah. The Dutch Company's public sale of 50,000 baskets of Sugar, equal to 12,000 tons, went off with spirit at 11 florin advance, equal to Is and is 6d per cwt. At Hamburgh an advance has taken place of Is to 2s per cwt for Foreign Sugar. MoLAssEs.—There has been a much better demand for West India ,• the transactions have been upon a large scale at full, but not at higher rates—Antigua at 24s to 245 6d, St. Kitts 21s Gd to 225, and Montserrat 20s 6d per cwt •, at auction St. Viucents went at 21s. In East India Molasses there has been rather more business transacted, but prices remain low. Jamaica Honey, 16 cannisters at public sale fetched 69s to 70s per cwt. Of St. Kitts Tamarinds 13 barrels were taken in at the moderate rate of 30s per cwt. Of China Preserves 210 boxes at public sale were partly sold, bu at low rates—Ginger selling at is to is 3d per lb— Oranges Is 3d—Citron ls, but Chow-chow was all with drawn. COFFEE.—AII descriptions of West India have been in excellent request by the home trade, and the parcels offered all found purchasers ; the rates paid show an ad vance on those previously quoted of is to 3s per cwt. This afternoon the demand was brisker for Mocha Coffee, and 123 bales at public sale were all sold . at full market rates, middling greenish clean garbled fetched 68s 6d to 69s 6d, pea berry mixed 75s to 80s, .triage 48s 6d to 525, and inferior 32s 6d; of Singapore 170 bags were offered, and went as follows —sea damaged at 37s Gd to 44s 6d, infe rior 19s to 288 6d, fine sound yellow pea berry 52s to 52s 6d, and country damaged 365. Ceylon was taken sparingly by private contract, and 53s 6d to 54a per cwt is the value of good ord; •none was offered at auction. TEA.—There has been a fair demand for Congou since our last report, and prices have ruled firm ; com mon at 101c1 to lOid, good, common lOid to I Id, but middling rather-coarse 11+d to 114 d, rather blackish and blackish leaf Is to is 4d, strong blackish leaf and Pekoe kind is 5d to 2s 4d, and very fine 2s 5d to 2s 6d per lb ; the supply is small of commons and there is still a scarcity of fine Congou. Pouchong is still wanted, and several parcels have been sold at firm rates—clean fetching 51d to 10d, and superior lOid to Is 2d; the stock is still diminishing, and this is still the cheapest description of Tea. Of Souchong some parcels have been sold on former terms. Twankay large parcels of yellow leaf sold at is lid to is 2d per lb; the supply is scanty of brightish leaf and Hyson kinds, which are much wanted, and fully maintain late rates. To-day there was a brisk demand for Young Hyson, and several parcels were disposed of at 2s to 2s 6d. Scented Orange Pekoe was much sought after, and sales for cash made at 3s 3id to 3s 4d per lb. In other sorts of Tea there was not much doing, in consequence of the public sales advertised. SPICEB.—This afternoon Malabar Pepper met with attention, and 513 bags at public sale were sold at steady rates—shot fetched 31.1, half heavy 3id to 31d, a n d good light 3ad. 20 bags of wild Nutmegs went at is Gd to Is 8d per lb. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—holders of Jamaica Rum have shown less firmness, and accepted prices rather under those previously quoted for all descrip tions, fine and high flavoured sorts excepted ; there are few shipping orders, and the home trade have purchased with caution. Prices rule as follows :- 30 to 32 per cent overproof 3s 8d to 3s 10d, 33 to 35 over proof 4s to 4s 4d, and fine and superior 4s Gd to 5s Gd per gallon ; rather under these rates there are, ho , A ever, several purchasers. Leewards are more in request, awl prices remain firm, the supply being small ; a good demand has existed, and 2s 41 to 2s 5d per gallon proof strength paid f or some par cels, Demerara i s not to be purchased on lower terms, but at present there are not many buyers; 32 Per coat ov:Tproof is held for 3s 3d to 3s 4 , i, and 33 t..)3 9 per cent overproof for 3s Gd to 3s 7.1 per gallon: the supply is but a moderate one. Prices are going down for Calcutta Rum, and the market has been in a flat stale; 2s 23 to 2s 2FI per gallon accepted for proof w ith certificate. In Brandy th ere h as b een l i ttle doing, with out alteration in price. RICE.--Holders of E. I. man if es t fi r mness, and non e of any kind has been sub m itt e d t o p u blic competition . Of Bengal several parcels have been disposed ef by private contract ; middling white at lls, good middling to good lls 6d to 12s per cwt. Madras at 8s Gd to 93 per cwt for yellow. Java at 9s to 9s Gd for yellow , and at lOs to Ils 6d per cwt for white. Cleaned Bleed has secured a good sale. P a t na a t 13 s 6d to 18s, an d Carolina 23s to 27s per cwt. FRUIT.—The demand for new and old Currants 111 been con3iderable---old Zante a nd C e ph a l o nia 43 5 , ( Patras 43s to 465, new Zante, 475, new Patres 493 to 5 03 ; the demand for Valenti, Raisins continues brisk at 5 0 ! ; New Red Smyrna in barrels have sold freely at 4'ag, eases at 465. At publi c sa l es 62 cas k s o f old Zal te Currants sold at 42s to 435, and Imperial French Phu° in cartons 104 s to 140 s, half car t ons 100 3 to 1505, claar ter cartons 106 s to 130 s, eighth cartons 112 s to , eighth boxes 90s, and qu ar t er c h es t s 75 5 . ' ew half chests Prunes were taken in at 38s. 13,121 drums new Turkey pulled Figs were also put up, but being much out of condition were mos tl y ta k en i n f ro m 4Ss t 655, but a great portion w e r e t a k en b y t h e trade after the sale. 1,600 drums Sultanas were withdrawn at " to 655, a few since sold a t th e l a tt er pr i ce. 20 barre ls new black S:nyrna Raisins were tak en i n a t 408, and 35 barrels of old sold at 325. SALTPETRE—There was little business transacted.% private contract to-day i n R oug h. A t pu bli c s ale ° bags of Bombay were off ere d, an d so ld at a bout t“" L, former value ordinary damp grey 16 per cent ; refracti an , went at 23s 6d, 15 per cent ditto 245, 13 t o 91 per cent, mid damp grey 255, 3i. per cent good ditto 26s fid un refracted lOs to 17s per cwt. English Refined W.' been taken sparingly at 29s to 29s 6d per cwt. INDIGO.—The business transacted in East India L s : been limited, and at a r e d uc ti on on t h e rates o f the Quarterly Sale of 2d to 3d per lb, there are few P il ' ; chasers for home consumpti on or s hi pp i ng ;. a t preset i l d not many parcels are off er i ng f or sa l e ; if prices silati come down a little lower it w ill b e t h e cause o f spec '' . lators making investments. OILS.—The home trade have purchased all descr i l tions of common Fish Oil w ith caution s i nce T us sm , , last, and for exportation ver y lit t l e b us i ness h as bt transacted, in the value h owever li tt l e var i at i o n 11 71 taken place. Pale S ea l h as b een di spose d o f a t lOs to 351, coloured 301 to 33/, Cod 32/ 10s 33/, and Southern 281 to 321 lOs per tun. There i 9 ,1 11 good consumption of Fish Oil go i ng on. A rr i va l s of , are corning more freely. Sperm, fine British at 881 ". ~ 901. Linseed Oil has b een i n exce ll ent request on ta ll spot and for forward delivery, several purchases b are „ , been made by shippers, an d p r i ces rule firm at 23s 6 a 23s 9d per cwt. For Rape there are few 1 ) : 11 : chasers, sellers of pale a t 35 5 , an d b row n . per cwt. Palm, first quality, at 26s to 26s Gd. Cocoa Na t ordinary went at 26s per cwt. In Olive there has bee n little business transacted, and prices are still loOkt, down, Gallipoli selling a t 431 t o 431 103, S pan i s h 411 421, and Barbary and Levant 391 to 401 per tun ; . 1- prices are 20s to 60s und er th ose current i n 184 3. value of American Lard Oil is 401 to 411 per tun. TALLOW.—The market has been firm for Mussl Tallow ; on the spot th ere h as b een a brisk de03,35,.0 from the town and country t ra d e , 40s 6 d to 40s 9d A; the current rates paid for New P Y Candle. For to" livery up to the end of the year several purchases W e t been made at 40s 3d to 40s Gd and for Spring months $ 41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow at 41s to 415 6 d nett cash. COURT OF ALDERMEN. The first Court of the present Mayoralty was held yesterday, when the Lord Mayor, on taking the chair, said he should rely with confidence upon the support of his brethren in performing the duties of his office ; that he should punctually attend Courts of Aldermen on the days marked in the calendar; and that he was convinced he might depend upon the punctual attendance of other members of the Court, by observing which the public business would be greatly facilitated. Sir PETER Lamm than moved a vote of thanks to the late Lord Mayor, Sir Wm. Magnay, Bart., for the faithful and honourable manner in which he had discharged the various and important duties of the Chief Magistrate; for his impartial, patient, and hu mane administration of justice, especially for the firm ness and judgment displayed by him throughout the protracted and difficult investigation of the charges of the forgery of wills, which resulted in the conviction of the parties accused of crimes de vised and executed with great artifice and cunning, and which had entailed serious loss upon the public ; for the courtesy and ability with which he has pre sided over the deliberations, and maintained the pri vileges of this Court; for the cordial and liberal hos pitality which (while depressed by an accumulation of domestic bereavements) the late Lord Mayor main tained throughout his year of office ; and this Court offers their best wishes that he may long enjoy the - honour bestowed on him by his Sovereign, and the well-merited approbation and esteem of his fellow citizens as a magistrate of this City, and the represen tation, in this Court, of the ward which was presided over for many years by his much-respected father, with 'the same independence and integrity which mark the conduct and character of the son. Mr. Alderman LUCAS seconded the motion, and after some complimentary remarks from the other members, the motion was unanimously agreed to. Upon the motion of Sir Peter Laurie, seconded by Alderman Humphrey, the motion was ordered to be published in the morning and evening papers, and a copy of it was ordered to be presented to Sir 'William Magnay, Baronet. [ADVERTISEMENT.] PRICE'S PATENT CANDLES. We have been requested to state, in reprinting the following from the Manchester papers, that Messrs. Richardson and Roebuck are one of the largest and oldest retail firms in the midland and northern coun ties, having a connexion among families of the upper classes such as is possessed by few other traders in England; their opinion, therefore, on the matter in question, is entitled to very great weight. The extent of their candle trade may be judged of by the fact of their purchases of the Patent Candles being to the amount of five thousand pounds sterling at a time. " Richardson and Roebuck beg to state, for the in formation of the public, that the chief cause why the Composite (Price's Patent)Candles burn better thaw any other is, that they contain a very large proportion of the hard substance obtained by pressure from cocoa nut oil by a patent process. It is a fact known to chemists for some thirty years past that cocoa-nut oil contains more hydrogen in proportion to its carbon than any other oily or fatty substance, and that it therefore gives a bluer flame, and one more absolutely without smoke, and less injurious to the eyes (in consequence of its greater 'similarity to the beautiful, bluish-white, light of day), than the flame of any other substance used in candle making. Believing' Price's Patent Candles' to be in comparably superior to any of the many imitations, at whatever difference of price, Richardson and Roebuck continue to recommend them to their friends ; and they are happy to announce that they have made such arrange ments with the Patentees as will enable them to reduce the price.—Market-place, Manchester, Nov. 15. 1844." Price's Patent Candles burn without snuffing, like the finest wax, and are cheaper, in proportion to the light given, than the commonest tallow ones. They are sold by respectable dealers throughout the country, at or under one shilling per lb. ; and whole • sale, to the trade, by Edward Price and Co., Belmont, Vauxhall; and Palmer and Co., Sutton-street, Clerken- Purchasers must insist upon being supplied in the shops with "Price's Patent Candles," or they are very likely to get some of the imitations, on account of the greater profit afforded to the dealer on these latter. HILLINGDON HALL; OR, THE COCKNEY SQUIRE. BY THE AUTHOR OF " HANDLEY CROSS."—Who is the Duke of Donkeyton ? is the question that will be imme diately asked by the reader of the new novel, " Hilling don hall ;" all that can be gained from its pages being that he is a nobleman of large possessions, most seriously intent upon the acquisition of popularity. The Duke and Duchess of Donkey ton, with their fascinating son, the Marquis of Bray, form a most entertaining group in the novel ; and their aristocratic doings and sayings are well contrasted with the characters of the rival village mammas who so anxiously endeavour to entrap the im prudent young Marquis into matrimonial bondage with their amiable daughters. But the hero of the story is the Squire of Hillingdon hall, whose whole career as a Landlord, Justice, and Member of Parliament, forms ono of the most amuiing pictures of human character that have been produced since the age of Fielding and Smollet. The exploits of the Cockney Squire bring him into con tact with all the notabilities of country and county life— a contested election included—and, from the Anti-Corn law Leaguers and their orators down to the mysteries of guani r all come in for a share of the author's broad, satirical humour. DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE.---NINE LIVES LOST. —On Thursday, the 7th instant, a boat belonging to the Island of Eday left Kirkwall for home, about three o'clock, P. 31., with nine persons on board, viz., three brothers, named Garrioch ; two brothers and a sister, named Tulloch ; a young man, John Fotheringham ; a girl, named Elizabeth Garroch ; and a girl, named Hercus--all belonging to the same island. It is thought that, finding the Stornsay Firth rough, the boat may have returned, and that she was upset in Kirkwall Bay, or near the mouth of the String, off Shapinshay, as the boat was found next morning near Saverock, driven ashore, with the body of one of the sufferers in it. The watch found on the body had stopped at half-past five, when the accident had likely happened. The three Gar riochs were the principal support of a feeble father and mer.—Scotch paper. DREADFUL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—An accident of a fatal nature occurred at Dalziel Colliery, near lla milton, belonging t , ) the Messrs. Wilson, on Saturday last. Three brothers of the name of Laird were ascend ing from their work, when, owing to some mismanage ment on the part of the engine -man, the cage was drawn up to the hurls, of the brothers, named George, was dreadfully mangled, and a - few mi nutes, another had his hand split up, and the third his leg broken ; another man, named Philip, was also in the cage, but when he on a level with the surface, seeing the danger h: o c w m a as ta : o in n , e ra n the risk of jumping off, and was caught by V -head, which pie_ vented his falling down the shaft, The menttlatrite.ins!get sufferers' parents, on finding themselves in of the almost deprived of their children, was 11 engine-man has since been apprehended, but bailed out. Culedonian Mercury. 41 13 4 I erg; 100 - 0 0 100 - 0 0 0000 40 0 0 5000 7 5 00 H 11 00 H 50 0 ( 5 00 1( 550 0 5 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 a 5 0 0 250 0 0 44 All paid 2 0 0 11.' 30 0 ' 141 36 10 0 4 2 10 0 2 10 ( i ( 50 0 0 I£3( 10 0 I 1( 513 0 21 10 0 0 41 20 0 1 12 10 0 IC 12 10 0 1C 210 0 i 2 0 0 5 0 0 40s. I 0 0 21s. 10 0 0 24 10 0 0 5 5 0 0 6 5 0 0 0 0 40 0 0I 4' 40 0 41 20 0 25 0' 1 20 0 0 9 20 0 0 tool I 7 10 0 2500 10 0 0 ii 17 10 0 li 35 0 0 3' 10 0 0 1' 10 0 0 25 0 0 to b 61 I 16 0 0 18 0 0 19 0 0 500000] SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. - DONCASTER RACES, 1845. f Since the last Donc as t er meet i ng, the corpora tion .. 0 .,- that town have request e d th e mem b ers of the R a ci'* Club to reconsider their resolution of the 18th of Ser,,i tember, with respect to the days of running, and to se ° ,s the alteration first proposed, viz., that the races shoei.., commence on Tuesday, and finish on Friday. There b!,,' been no opportunity of taking the opinion of the Club collectively, but several members have approved of proposal, and as the extension of the meeting to Same day was determi ne d on i n d e f erence to t h e wishes o f th e corporation, who were at the time unwilling to k it t the meeting curtailed t o f our d ays , i t i s presume d 1 01/ d the plan now proposed will be generally acceptable, a n „f the stakes are therefore advertised, with the sanction the stewards, for a meeting of four days. THE ASCOT CUPS. His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Russia ba.l iti t g o expressed a desire that the piece of plate given by hin nr be run for at As co t s h ou ld b e a we i g h t for age ra ce ' e the best horses, it has been determi ne d th a t this Frill shall take the place of the Old Asc o t C u p, w hich If% be discontinued, and th e money hi t h erto a dd e d to from the fund will be appropriated to other races. Di e Majesty's Vase will b e run f or on t h e fi rst d a y, and the Emperor of Russia's Cup on the third. The condition of the above prizes, with particulars of the other na" closed stakes at Ascot, will appear at length in due time' A case was submitted to the stewards of the Jockel f Club at the last Houghton meeting, by the purchaser-" ° the colt, now called Perkin. Warbeck, which ran I"; Ascot under the name of Bl oo d stone, i nvolving the Oh,: lowing questions : -I s t. Wh et h er the forfeits due u t the entries of Mr. N ewman ' s ch c Bloodstone , Bubastes, out of Romaike, attach to the said Per e Warbeck, so as to disq ua lify hi m f rom starting wil they remain unp a id. 2d. Wh et h er i t w i ll not b e CO petent to run him in 1845, as being then a maiden ,(' years old, belie ve d t o b e b y B e i ram, out of Roinab „ To the first question the answer was--that as it proved that there was a colt by Bubastes out of W.);maike, maike, of the right age , f or w hi c h t h e other horse 1471 substituted, the forfeits are d ue f or t h e B u b astes ct ali do not att a ch t o th e h orse w hi c h ran at Ascot by the name of Bloodstone. To the second question, the 01119 ;f answer the Stewards gave was , t h at the race at MC t did not disqualify th e h orse w hi c h ran there as Blood stone for running as a maiden horse. COURSING. THE UNION (SOUTHPORT) CLUB , N 0v.14 AND 15' The Scarisbrick (16 d ogs ) was won by mi.. Parry ' Beeswing; Mr. Edwards's Carmelite ran up. ~r r, The Union Cup, f or 16 puppies, was won' by Robinson's Emilius (late Rob Roy) ; Mr. Garver' Gimblet ran up. The Fleetwood Cup, for S all-aged dogs, was WO Mr. Ridgway's Rhodanthe ; the Claret, 8-dog 0 ' 1. '7: by Mr. Slater's S c ot ; an d t h e Ch ampagne, 8-dog st3'i by Mr. Unsworth's Unicula; Mr. Robinson's Rattleso s ran up. A Cf 9) BASHALL, Nov. 14.—Th e M oreton S ta k es ,4 Ovei; were won by Hall's Hawk; and the Bashall D iv Stakes by Mr. Garnett's Gipsy Queen. RACES TO COME IN 1845. The following dates of ra; appointed, or are so establishe probable that they will be alte March 12. Coventry. 19. Warwick. !es in ; 1845 are either spec -$ll d by custom as t o m ake it ~1 ;red : July 8. Newmarket Jab' Meeting. 16. Liverpool ditto. 25. Northampton. 26. Catterick Bridge. April 14. Newmarket Craven. 22. Bath. 28. Newmarket First Spring Meeting. May 6. Chester. 13. Newmarket Second Spring Meeting. 13. Manchester. 20. Gorhambury. 27. Epsom. June 10. Ascot. 18. Hampton. 23. Newcastle-on-Tyne. 25. Bibury Club. 26. Stourbridge. 23. 30. 16G1 N . oe Brightonlowvd ow o i n. oro e d. r h a. nipton, August 6. Harwich. 28. Tiverton. Sept. 2. Warwick. 10. Leicester. 16. Doncaster. - 0 ., 4 30. Newmarket l'. l „ — d t October Afee tl " P 'd Oct. 13. Newmarket Sec°ll - Mee h , 27. Newmarket Ilo tl e ton Meeting. Mr. Higham, Secretary to the Commissioners for t tonal Debt, had an intervii the Exchequer yesterday, and Comptr o ller-Gen, er3l he Reduction of the I Ns i ew with the Chancellor BIRTHS. t ber' On the 17th inst., at Ashl e y-p ar k, S urrey , L a dy F• 1 e -c of a daughter. e-ing' On the 17th inst., at Park-crescent, the wife of J. --- Es On q., of a daughter. mit (If the 18th inst., at Park-street. Notting-hill, the -- t e r Thomas B. Penfield, Esq., of the late Naval East India vice On , of the 18th inst., at ' Putney, the wife of Anthony ,-:‘• '- bridge, Esq., of a daughter. A uth' On the 18th inst., the lady o f L ou i s C o h en , E s q., of -° street, Finsbury, ef twin sons. 0 1 On the 10th inst., at Cadiz, the lady of Frances L0ne..,3 Esq., On of a son. , v uden the 17th inst., at Kepp e l- s t ree t, th e l a dy o f t- , ° 1. -' H. Luxmoore, Esq., of a son. ca tlh On the 18th inst., Mrs. Henry Dru Drury, of 13 10 " of a son. u r eo rg e On the 18th inst., at B uc ki ng h am, t h e w if e of Nelson, Esq., of a son. RIED. On the 14th inst. MA R , at St. Saviou 's Church, 0 1 ° r Charles Sterky, E sq ., to Mary Ann, eldest daughter 0' late Samuel Bawtree, Esq., of Whitehall, Colchester- , sir- On the 14th inst., at L e i g ht on , Sampson S. Lloyd, $. mingham, banker, t o E mma , third daughter o f the is' Reeve, Esq., of Leighton House, Leighton Buzzard. „ al io On the 16th inst., at Haggerstone Church, Be* p - White, of Bishopsgate, t o M ar y H e th er i ng t on Clarkseletf4.6.t..ioaaes, daughter o f W. H et h er i ngton, Esq of Watt s-bu i Kingsland. ' DIED. rh rlott ° On the 19th inst., i n Upp er G rosvenor - s t re et, Ml'S' --a Milner, relict of the late General Milner, aged 92. I ou ise On the 7th in s t., a t sea, on board the Oriental, 'hor Eliza Lomer, youngest daughter of R. Macdona ld Step son, Esq. ;,1 nw of th° On the 14th inst., at Ramsgate, Elizabeth, w` -- late Captain G. W. Bourn. R.N. Biler ° ' On the 14th inst., Sar a h, th e w if e o f Mr. William -- of Landsdowne Cottage, Old Kent-road. k gog es, On the 15th inst., George Harry, son of Frederick E of Down, near Guildford. ' ..,_., /i k CO ° On the 15th inst., at Turnham-green-terrace, xi' Bellis,aged 32. John h O ci n.n, Harrison,t f h A e 1 1 b 6 i t o h E i s n tsr s cie t .. :, to. l: f l u r F s 3o . , dx it el .e a p ; : r rg i Harrison, rove, Beading,fursy. Berks. teve os, On the 17th inst., Richard Brande, son of R. G. ' of On the 18th inst., Frederick Charles Rawlins° f Friern-place, Peckham-common. bort On the 18th inst., at L ec hl a de, Gloucestershire, Hebert, Esq., aged 74. k, gal On the 19th inst., at Cambridge-street, Hyde-Par .....4 Inkersole, aged 55. - 0 1 Y L9n4on: Printed and P u bli s hed by 3111RD00,, O No. 11 p No. 112,. Strand, Printer, at The Sus ie 0 the 7coupty Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , Middlesex, Wednesday. November 20,1844.