The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-10 00:00:00

erribirbr Mbitton SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. PRICES OF SHARES 1.1 1 CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASK:MANOR AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 10. Dividend I Per Annum. Amount Nantes of Com panies. Paid. Share. per cent. 41. 44 10s. 4 per cent. 44 404 .135. 14 S& lit 1 -- 241. fid. .51. .I.lox. 94'. Jo'. 17 - 11 d. Jo'. Opercest. 2111 .51. 11. 10.. 154 82L 'Os. lOL 10s. cent. per cent. 4# per cent. per cent. Si. 10a. 5 per cunt. !. per cent. a% pet cent. 4 per cant. 4 per cent. I% per cent. IL Os. WI 18s. Id. per cent. 11. 7s. 3► 10s. 4 per cent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 36. Oct. pr lb U. ss. ci slim*. per cent. per cent. 4/30s. bs . IN per cent. 54 per cent. 5 per cent. (per cent. tper cent. 4s. Is. 6d. per cent. Os. 12 sh. k bs. 11. ss. 100. Oe. 5 per cent. Lper cent 5 per cent. per cent. 11. ss. 5 per cent. fNi, per cent. IL 44. D per cent. tE per cent P per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. tiler cent per cent. per cent per ecnt. 6 per cent. :Is per share 6s, per shire in per cent. per cent. Iss. U. ss. If. 7s. U. and bs. 4SI. and W. yer cent. ICcitL Ift/. 101. ti/ per ad 1.5 a per •h tl per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cant. 6 per cent 6 per coat 44 per cent. N. Its. '94 101. 9.i. Icis. U. 10s. tper cent. 41. 16a. U. 14a. IL p. 11. is. per cent !..4. per sh. 1111. 5s peT it/ Nl' cent i 4 per CCM. N. ss. per sit 11, 1 41. per sh. Ns. per sit per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. lgi. per sh pct sh. 11. 211. per share . Se Id per sh IL 17s. pr it 113 s per s& IL 1/. ss. 15s. g fit 7. ioa. Lb per cent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per colt. I. IL 31. Is. 6d. I. 10s. lOper cent. 10s. per sh. 14 IX per sh. IL 4e. IL 11.. !per cent. Spey cent. AIDE. and l 115.6 d. be. 'per cent. iper cent. per cent &per cent LIST OP SCOTTISH COM NOV 30, 1 Bank of 5c0t1ark1....... Royal Bank ..—........... British Linen Compny. Commercial Bank .... 014sgow Union Bank . Western Bank Central Bk. of Resat:4a Caledcmian.lnsurance Hercules Insurance.,.,... North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co, of Scott. Edinburgh Lite lnsur. Scottish Union losur.„ Standard Life Incur.... Dalkeith Railway Edin. and Glas. Railwy Glaw. and Green. Rail. Dundscand drln RaiL_ e_Per cent. - cent. POT cent. 6 Per gent 7 Per cent. Per cewt. SPer cent. 6 per cent. 7 per cent. per cent. 6per cent. (per cent. tper cent. 5 per cent. :i er cent. per cent per ceu t. Canals: Ashton and Oldham.. Ashby.de-ls.Zouch..ar Basingstoke Breckneck & Abergay. Birmingham, 1.16 th sh. Do. and Liver!). JuLe. Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry Cromford Dudley Danube and fdayoe.... Ellesmere and Chester Eyewash Grand Junction Grand Union Grand Surrey Grand Western...—. Glamorgansh. ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfield ..... 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Alfred Life Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marme Atlas Birmingham Fire......, British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eag1e........ Economic Life European Life... ..... - Ditto New ...... Freemasons... ..... —. Globe G1iardian........... ..... Hope Life ........ Ditto Fire. ... Imperial -Fi • e Ditto Life.... ..... . . Indemnity', Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Ditto Ship .. National Loan Furrt Neptune Marine Palladiutn Life Protector Life Provident Life Rock Life Ii yal Sun Fire Ditto ..... University Life.. Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint StIE flanks Australasi, ........ Ditto Ncw Bra North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New........ ..... London Joint Stock.-- Metropolitan Provincial of Ditto-New National of Ireland N , ,t. Provincial Englnd Ditto New Gloucestershire.......,... 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PRIVY COUNCIL.—(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF GUERNSEY. Mr. Burge having concluded his address, Mr. S. WORTLEY followed on the same sid,, but not having finished shortly after four o'clock, whoa their Lordships rose, the further consideration of the case was postponed till Thursday morning at ten o'clock. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROX THE EVENING PAPERS OP TRU DAY. GLOBE.—The Agitation attempted to be got up in the agricultural districts for the repeal of the malt tax is likely to prove abortive. The tenant-farmers — aware of the motives which actuate the landlords in prompting them to meet and petition for the removal of the tax—decline to move. The Essex Herald—a journal which devotes its advocacy to the landed inte rests—complains in its leading article of to-day, that " the movement for the repeal of the malt-tax does not proceed with that unanimity by which alone success can be secured." . . . "It is difficult," adds this organ of the Essex squirearchy, " to understand why this should be so; for, even admitting, as some con tend, that the repeal of the tax would do little benefit. to the farmers, it would, at all events, inflict no injnry upon them." The conclusion is not quite so obvious as the Essex Herald seems to imagine. The malt-tax pro duces an amount of annual revenue exceeding any sur plus which will be at the disposal of the Govern ment. To remove that tax would be to remove a single tax, in which one class of the community—and that a very small class—is immediately interested, at the expense of the great mass of the nation, from whom that surplus has been wrung by means of an impost at once odious and oppressive. It would do worse than this : it would perpetuate that impost. The amount of the malt duty subtracted from the revenue must be supplied. A substitute must be provided. Sir Robert Peel has already shown that his financial policy does not allow of giving up a pre sent source of revenue, however inequitable, to de pend on a contingent supply. He will have his quid pro quo in whatever scheme of finance he may submit to the House of Commons. The farmer and his labourers would partake of the relief which a diminution of the high duties on articles of ge neral consumption will afford to the nation at large. The removal of. the income-tax would be also a direct saving to the farmer. He would be also indi rectly benefited by the relief which the rest of the community would obtain by the removal of the im post ; seeing those who now contribute the respective quotas to the income-tax, would, on its removal, have the more to lay out in agricultural produce, and prices would be raised in proportion to the increased demand. These considerations have evidently been taken into the account by the farmers. The result is, that, as a class, they have declined moving in the matter of malt-tax repeal. Norfolk is more extensively inte rested than any other county in this question—seeing a greater breadth of barley is sown in Norfolk than in any other agricultural district. The Norfolk far mers met on Friday last to consider and determine the course they should, as a body, adopt on this question. The following letter, addressed to the meeting from the Central Agricultural Protection Society, and signed by the Secretary, was read : its reasoning and advice were concurred in by the Nor folk farmers. The meeting adjourned without taking any steps in the matter. " I will at once state to you that, with reference to the repeal of the malt -tax, the Committee having had their attention called to it some time ago, came to the determination of not raising that question on their own part, and of not recommending the agitation of it by any of the local protection societies. " They felt that. to begin to agitate for the repeal of the malt duties so soon after the formation of the society, on the virtual understanding that its object was the maintenance of the present scale of protection to agri culture, under its existing burdens, would involve an aggressive policy for which they were not prepared. " The prospects, too, of the property-tax being soon deducted from the items of the revenue of the country, did not seem to justify the remission of so large a source of income as the malt duties, unless some substi tute were proposed, of the nature of which, however, no unanimity appeared to exist either in the committee or the country. " This pretext for perpetuating the odious income tax is, we presume ' at an end. After this decisive opinion from those best qualified to know what is best for their own interests, he will be a bold man vtlio will rise in Parliament, and propose the repeal of the malt-tax, as called for by the tenant farmers, at the price of retaining every other item of taxation, in cluding the property and income-tax, on their pre sent scale. STANDARD.—It is no exaggeration to say that we are actually overwhelmed with letters on the sub ject of the distressing differences in the Church If we may judge from the nature and the enormous in crease of our correspondence, the nation thinks of nothing else but the attempt to enforce by authority what are practically innovations in public worship, and thinks upon the subject with an intensity of inte rest of which we have no recollection. Often when occupied in the painful task of perusing our volu minous supply of letters, and trying to make a selec tion of the most temperate among them for publication —often when occupied in this truly afflicting task— which lasts daily for many hours—do we wish that we could delegate the duty to some member of the Right Rev. Bench. There, a Bishop might see --what it is to be feared their Lordships are not likely to see, until it shall be too late—what is the real feeling of the country, and the degree of vehemence with which the country repro bates the late proposition to enforce innovation by authority. The innovations were an object of dislike to many, but of indifference or mere contempt to the majority, until authority was spoken of. The hint that they will be enforced, has, as every one who knows the character of English Protestants ought to have anti cipated, now raised the question to a question of the first order, a question of religious liberty, and has thus kindled a flame, in which the temporal este • blishinent of the Church will be consumed, if some thing be not done, and that promptly, to extinguish it. It is one of the most alarming symptoms of the pre sent agitation, that as it invades the people in wider and still wider circles, it raises new topics of discon tent ; this is what always happens in such a case ; what has happened before in the history of our Church, and what will happen again, if the agitation be not composed by a timely arrangement. Four fifths of the letters relating to the Church differences that we have' received, do not apply to the surplice question, though that unhappy ques tion it is that has provoked them. We will not, how ever, as long as _it is in our power to abstain, be parties to the re-opening more of those wounds under which the Church sunk before, than that one which we find already open. This explanation, we hope, will satisfy more than a hundred correspondents who have addressed us upon other matters—all, however. connected with supposed intentions to innovate authoritatively in Church affairs. 'We confine our selves for the present to the one topic. It is asserted by one, whose opinion we value highly, that the sermon is part of the Communion Service. We re spectfully dissent from this opinion ; and we could wish the right reverend person who has avowed it to apply his powerful mind to the question, and we are confident that he would see his error. In placing any intellectual exercises in the relation of whole and part, the first consi deration is the homogeneousness of the exercises in question, a consideration greatly more im portant than the consideration of order or even of time. The Communion Service is distinctly described in the Prayer-book, as "the order for the adminis tration of the Lord's Supper or Holy Commu nion." Now what, let us ask it with reverence, has a sermon necessarily to do with this solemn rite ? A sermon was no doubt originally an expo sition of the Gospel or Epistle appointed to be read in what was formerly called "the second service (a name 'certainly better suited to that portion of the Liturgy when no actual communion is celebrated), but the Gospel and Epistle frequently have no relation to the Eucharist. This is decisive with us that the sermon is not properly a part of the Communion Service, though it occurs in the time of the second service, or rather at the termination of that portion of the second service, which only is retained in use when the Eucharist is not in fact celebrated. That this has been the opinion of nearly the whole Church-clergy, as well as laity, is proved by the practice which it is proposed to change by autho rity, at the end of nearly two centuries' use. But there are many other arguments all leading to the same conclusion ; first, this, which may be called a crucial argument, the Church gives war rant for sermons, without any communion or second service, as at evening worship. The Church also gives warrant for the celebration id the Holy Communion without a sermon. Again deacons (and in the Universities even laymen) are admitted to preach,- but deacons or laymen may not minister in the Communion. We, for ourselves, though thoroughly convinced that the sermon is properly no part of the Communion Service, do not, however, attach any importance to the decision of that question. 'We see no im portance in the colour of the gown which the clergyman shall wear, either at communion or in the pulpit—provided that the garment be decent, sober, and such as shall not by novelty or association distract or disturb the minds of worship pers. Let the clergyman wear his white robe in the reading desk and behind the chancel rail, because it is the custom ; and let him wear his black University gown in the pulpit, because that too is the custom ; but were the custom to reverse the colours, or to use uniformly the white or black, as the case might be, no human being could object to either upon any rational ground. As to law upon the point, surely the law is binding upon the clergy in their private lives as in the church ; yet no clergyman, froth dreamtlia e o :l:2 t h o i t s i h n o ig p n . of Canterbury d ownwar d, ever the 74th ca non to the minute di rec ti ons o f Why, then, bind upon the backs of others a burden which themselves have cast off? It is vexatious to be obliged to treat of such things ; but, alas ! that the menace wad ever thrown cut— nothing is trifling when it is to be enforced by au thority, because once yield to authority without reason or qualification, and anything, however monstrous, may be forced upon you. We are Protestants, because we protest a inst the authority of Rome as well as the errors of Rome - ; but we shall be Protestants no longer if we do, not protest against the authority of any other church. to change our forms of worship, be cause the transition from form to substance is ine- vitable. The path has been already marked out by the Tractarians; and we know any other church, if ruled by the arbitrary will of men, is as likely to err as Rome. This, we must expect, even did we not see men preparing to import Romish errors ready made, and to import them wholesale. A protest on the side of the people is therefore now a duty, and even the Morning Post itself admits that concession : is a duty on the other side :—" We are not for strife on either side, nor do we see the use of insisting upon non-essentials with a high hand so as to give offence. But whatever error there may be in authority going further than occa sion demands, it is a hundred times worse when ignorant prejudice flames out into rebellion against authority, and is favoured and comforted in this mischievous folly by those who pretend to the es pecial patronage of the civil government." We give' the paragraph for the sake of the good advice in the beginning of it. We are not aware of the pretenders to the patronage of the Government, we know of no such pretenders. The Government, we believe pa tronises no writers, either in the newspapers or in any other vehicle. FLANDERS and HAMBURGH MAIL. BRUSSELS, DEc. 6.—ln the night of the sth inst. the mercury in the centigrade thermometer at the Observatory, suspended three yards above the ground in a north aspect, fell to 4 deg. Reaumur (23 Fahrenheit) below zero. In December, 1843, the greatest degree of cold was only '2 deg. 2 min. (1 deg. 8 min. Reaumur) below zero. The greatest degree of cold since 1833 was in the night of the 16th December, 1840—viz., 12 deg. 9 min. (10 deg. 3 min. of Reaumur.) BRUSSELS, Dac. 7.—Last night the mercury i n the Centigrade thermometer fell to 8f deg. Reaumer (16f deg. Fahrenheit) below Zero. Since sunrise a strong north-east wind has increased Vie intensity of the cold. The navigation in the canals from Brussels to Wille • brook and Charleroy is completely stopped, and also the canal of Louvain. The ice is alre a dy s e vera l inches thick. The rivers Dyle and Senne are begin ing to freeze. The arrival at Brussels, of Mr. Deffandis, is not without importance. Iti has been long known that Mr. Deffandis . would be commissioned to stipulate tor the interest of France, in the commercial negoci ations that might be opened between the two coun tries. This step, therefore, whether it has been taken at the leave of our Cabinet, or spontaneously by the cabinet of the Tuileries, shows that notwithstanding all that has been said, the treaty of the Ist of Sep tember has not caused any serious difference between Prance and Belgium ; Al. Deffandi's may easily con vince himself during his stay at Brussels that on concluding the treaty of Sept. 1, Belgium by no means renounced its desire to form a close commercial connection with France as far as the interests even of Franco itself permitted. HANOVER, DEC. Majesty the King, ac companied by Prince William of Solms-Braunfels, Set out at eleven o'clock this niorniag by a special train, to join a hunting party of the king of Pr ssia at Quedlinburg. The Earl of Westmoreland, who, with his family, has been here some days on a visit to the King, and lodged in the royal palace, has now left us. ST. PETERSBURGII, Nov. 26.—8 y an Imperial ukase directed to the Minister of Finance, the Em peror, considering the expenses necessary in 1845 for the construction of the railroad between Peters burgh and Moscow, order that a Loan of twelve millions of silver rubles shall be opened abroad, on the same basis as that of the third Four per Cent. Loan. The inscription of 500 silver rubles each -are to be divided in 184 equal sections and to bear interest from the Ist of August this year. The repayment commences in August, 1846. The capital destined for this purpose is, in the year 1846, 125,000 roubles, and in the following year, 300,000 silver roubles, in 2f per cent. of the nominal capital of the loan. The realisation of the loan is entrusted to Baron Stieglitz, in Petersburgh. HAMBURGH, DEC. 6.—The Mercury in the ther mometer is now constantly below Zero. The greatest degree of cold we have yet had is 7 deg. below freez ing point (probably Fahrenheit). BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bnuosiu.s, Dec. 7. Actua Debt, 9% per Cent., ............. — Rothschild% Loan, Five per Cent. ..... ........... — Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.... .... NU ... _ Three per Cent........... .---- ...Thirty-seven Milli, ns, ditto ............. .......—.—.---_. (1849) 1.3% 1844....•..•“••••••• •••••••••••••••••••••••••• 102 X Loan of City, 1843, Four per Cent. ........... .........• 102% -----.----. .183 , Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent. Bank of Be ! ilium, Five per Cent.. ...... ................ Issue of 184 i..."...•...... • 060 •••••• ••••••••••••••••••••• —Brussels Papers , D e c. IL HAMBUIIGH BORSENHALLA Dec. 6. Sills. Money. Austrian S per Cents. •••••••••••••••••• ........... .... 113 Rank Shires..... ..—................. ..................... 1688 Anglo-Russian Loan ll4 Russian 4 Der Cent., lit series, Certificate lO5 103 Inscription, lit series — 1-5% Russian 3 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th Series.. Ditto in Certificates .......... ....... - ...... .......... 99 New 4 per Cent. (1840) SO% 90% Dutch .tctual Debt. 2% per Cent. ......... Ditto 5 per Cent. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. ... B7 P 63( SD.inish, NeW 5 per Cents. Polish Bonds New Tickets ... .Exchange on London. Hamburgn, One month ..... Two 13 73( LONDON GAZE' T.;'' (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, DEC. 4, 1844. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Allan Borman Heath, of Andover, in the county of Southampton, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed Thomas William Davies, of Leominster, in the county of Here ford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery, _ - BANKRUPTS. Thomas Rose, builder, Nursling, Southampton, to surrender Dec. 17 and Jan. 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's Arm's yard ; Johnson, Walcot-square. John Thomas Gibbons, grocer, Eaton, Buckingham, Dec. 18, atone, and Jan. 22, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Bell and Co., Bow Church-yard. John Brett, currier, Bury St. Edmunds, Dec. 20, and Jan. 22, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green,. official assignee, Aldermanbury, London ; Nettleship, Clifford's Inn ; Durrant, Bury St. Edmunds. James Ayling, cabinet-maker, Leeds, Dec. 17, at twelve, and Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-cham bers'; Torkington, New Bridge -street. Stephen Bucknell, carman, Hendon, Middlesex, Dec. 17, at half-past one, and Jan. 28, at one, at the Court ot- Bankruptcy. Graham, o ffi c i a l ass i gnee ; A b rahams, Lincoln's Inn fields. Josiah Martin, tallow-chandler, High-street, Shore ditch, Dec. 17, at half-past ten, and Jan. 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Walters, Basinghall-street. Caroline Maidstone, milliner, Cambridge, Dec. 17, at three, and Jan. 15, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street buildings ; Robinson, Half Moon-street, Piccadilly. William Starr Drury, ironmonger, Chester, Dec. 20 and Jan. 23, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Chester and Co., Staple Inn, London ; Hostage, Chester. Elias Needham, jun., currier, Little Houghton, Lan cashire, Dec. 21, and Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Man chester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Man chester ; Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, King's-bench walk, Temple, London ; Needham, Manchester. John Beale,-grocer, Cadoxton, Glamorganshire, Dec. 24, at one, and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis trict Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Beer, Swansea ; Short, Bristol. William Skinner Rendle, tea dealer, Penzance, Dec. 19, and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. llersaman, official assignee, Exeter ; Hill and Mathews, St. Mary-axe, London ; Terrell, Exeter. COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 61 Antwerp 25 95 Hamburgh M.B. 13 131 Altona l3 13/ 1'211.4,3 days' sight 25 70 Ditto, 3 vionths 25 96 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Frankfort on Maine l2l iNGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 95 Milan Venice 47 Naples 394 Palermo, per oz llB Lisbon s4i Oporto Rio Janeiro 24 Bahia 24 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight -- Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17. 5 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9i Silver in Bars 0 4 11 Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effee. 8.3 M 954 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36* Cadiz %lbw 36 Barcelona 36 Seville u. .... MARKET INTELLIGENCE. ;From the London New Price Current of_Dee. 10.) SUGAR —To-day the business transacted in all de scriptions of West India Sugar was limited, and the rates accpted were rather under those previously quoted foe brown and inferior sorts, but good and fine yellow are still fetching full prices on account of the short supply at market. A public sale of 96 hhds 4 tree of Barbadoes went off quietly at a decline - in prices of 6d for low and middling, but good and fine sustained the formes• currency, fine yellow fetched .'648 to 66s 6d, good 61s to 61s 6d, good middling 59s t 60s 6d, middling 55s 6d to 58s 60, and low heavy 53s to 54s per cwt. The total quantity of Sugar dives, d of amounted to only 350 hhds and tres. REFINED.-To-day Refined goads were taken spa ringly by the trade, brown lumps at 71s, and standard lumps 72s 6d per cat. Banded Crushed Sugar is e 93 fid to . 30s per cat ; there are extensive purchasers rather under these rates for forward delivery, but uo sellers are to be met with. Meemerses.-The market has presented a firm ap pearance for this description of Sugar, and nearly the who'e of 3,436 bags at public sale were taken in at easy rates, good mid yellow at 58s to 58s 6d, mid 55s to 575, low 528 to 545, good and fine brown 50s to sls 6d, mid 488 to 495, low 455, and common to mid grey 52s to 55s per cwt. The stock is on the increase, and the consumption is beginning to be interfered with by the low mid and mid grey and yellow qualities of Bengul Sugar. EAST INDIA.-This afternoon at public sale 1:778 bags of Bengal Sugar were offered, 916 of which consisted of damp brown, ti very small part only of which found pur chasers at 425 . t0 435, and inferior 41s 6d, the remainder consisted of yellow, and was all sold, but upon rather lower terms, s viz. fine at 61s 6d, good 58s to 60s, middling 55s 6d to 56 6d, damp and washed 50s to 61s. Of Manilla 1,323 bags at public sale were taken in above the value, ordinary grey at 19s, middling 20s to 21s, damp and washed 18s 6d to 19s 6d, damp white 26s per cwt. FOREIGN.- This afternoon the market was better supplied with F-reign Sugar -at public sale 549 chests 176 brls of Rio, and 1,695 boxes of Ilevaiinah were offered, the former of sound quality was taken in at the previous value-fine brown at 19s to 19s 6d, good 18s to 18s 6d, middling 17s to 17s 6d, low 16s 6d, the damaged amounting to 220 pkgs were sold at rather lower rates and went at 16s to 18s for ordinary to fine quality. Of the Havannah 607 boxes consisted of white, and were taken in at the full value, flee at 30s. good 295, middling 27s to 28s, and low 27s ; three lots of damaged were however sold at 26s to 28a'61, the yellow of sound quality was taken in at the full worth, fine at 22s 6d, good 21s to 21s 63, low to mid 19s 6d to 20s 6d, a few lots damaged were disposed of at 18s 0(1 to 21s per cwt, being cheaper. hicesesses.- e -Their has been a good demand for West India, and previous rates are supported, the total quan tity disposed of has amounted to 350 puns since this day week; I'rinided fine at 22s 61 to 24s 6d; St. Kitts and St. Vincents 21s to 21s 6d per cwt. Holders show firm ness, and the stock is on the decrease. In East India the transactions are upon a more extended scale, at 143 to 17s per cWte Cueoe.-Foreign is wanted, but there is still little in the market, and 30s to 33s per cwt is the value. Prices are firm fur West India, and there are several purchasers, but the supply is not sufficient for the wants of the trade; none has been offered at auction, the stock is rather less than it was last year at this period. This afternoon at public sale 78 bags of Cocoa shells from Dunkirk were, sold at 15s to 16s per cwt. COFFEE.-This afternoon at public sale 130 casks 257 brls and 787 bags of Rio Coffee were offered ; t.hesuund was all taken in at moderate. rates, low middling colors' British Plantation kind at 48s to 525, fine fine ord 42s to 455, good and fine ord 27s to 295, ord 26s ; the sea da maged, of which the bulk consisted, was however all disposed of, but at comparatively low prices, Lt class went at 2.5 s 6d to 31s 6d, 2d class 24s to 28s 6d, 3d class 21s to 24s 6d, Sugar drainage damaged 13s to 31s, sea damaged and repacked 20s to 295, sweepings 18s 6(1 to 21s 6d. Ceylon moved off slowly by -private contract, and at public sale 149 bags were sold at a decline on former rates of is per cwt, good ord went at 513, and one lot of very good ord 535, sea damaged pea berry 70s. Of Mocha 32 bales were taken in at 65s for low mid mixed greenish, being above the value. 3i bags of Singapore Java were bought in at 45s for fine ord, being above the worth. TEA.-We have still to report a firm market for Tea of all descriptions, and again none has been offered at auction. Congou has been in very good demand h ere since Tuesday last, and full rates have been paid, espe cially for the common and best descriptions ; ordinary sound has been fetching 10id to 11d, good ordinary 1 lid to Is, but mid and mid blackish leaf is is id to is 3d, good and fine is 3id to is 7d, P. koe your Is 8d to 2s 6d lb. Pouchong at sid to Is pe lb. Souchong has been in request at the former currency Twankay of common quality at is 2id to Is 3id. Other sorts are fetching stiff rates, brightish leaf is 4d to Is Bd, and Ilyson • kind Is 9il to 2s sd. Young Hyson is fetching is 9d to 2s 6d for ordinary and good ordi narfeand 25 8d to 3s 6d for middling and good. Gun powder at 2s ed to 35 6d, and superior 3s 81 to 4s 6d. Imperial 2s 4d to 3s ed per lb. Scented Orange Pekoe at 3s 4d to 3s sd. Caper at 10d to la 4d. In Black Leaf end Flowery Pekoe the transactions are upon a more extended scale upon former terms. Hyson Skin at Is to Is 6d per lb. To-day prices underwent no varia tion for Tea, but there was less business doing on account of public sales to the extent of 22,000 pkgs being sud denly declared for Thursday. SPICYS-This afternoon two parcels of Nutmegs, amounting to ,50 packages, were offered at public sale and tint at a decline on forms r rates of 241 to 3d. Sin gapore brown -went at 3s 3d to 3s 9d, good and fine 3s 10d to 4s 3d,- limed 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; Penang brown 3s 5d to 3s 6d, mouldy went at 3s 4d, worm eaten Is to s ls sd. Of Mace 14 packages were only partly sold at 2s ed tei 2s 9tl for middling, and better quality at 3s to. 3s 2d, being much cheaper. Of Cloves 4 eases Bencholen were sold at 2s Id. Pimento met with little attention, and 80 bags at auction were taken at 4-id to 4ii-d for good - middling quality, being above the value. Pepper was little inquired for-268 bags of Sumatra at auction were sold at lid to lid for common light stalky and dusty, being barely former rates. Rem, 13RANly AND HOLLARDS.--Priees haie declined id to Id per gallon for Leeward bland Rum, but a good business has been transacted, 450 puns having been dis posed of at 2s bid to 2s 4d per gallon, proof strength; Jamaica, at rather lower rates-35 813 to 4s 2d is the value of 28 to 35 per cent, over?roof, and 4s 3d to 63 per gallon for fine and superior q ua lifi es; C a l cutta Reetlp.)eteniderfabrra 32 2 up p o e n r ee e b as t ie o r yer t p e r r o m b s t , not so firm, 2s 2id to 2s 3d havin g ;b een accepted ;parcels.snd for superior qua li t i es. B randy of for some bet . a 2 i s id ld 3s ha 2 v a in t g b 3s common quality is still little wanted, and prices are going down, but for the best sorts there has been a lively demand. Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns ss; do, 1839, hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d; do, 1840, hhds 4s I Id, puns 4s 9d; do, 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d; do, 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s sd; do, 1843, hhds 4s sd, puns - 4s 3d, common 2s Sit to s es lid, and middling to godd middlidg 3s to 3s 10d, Bordeaux common 2s ed to 2s Bd. Geneva at Is 9d to Is 10d for shipping, and fine 2s 4d to 3.3 6d per gallon. English Coan Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon, nett cash. To-day Rum met with little attention; proof Leewards are 2s 3id, Calcutta 2s 2d, and to arrive Is lid to 2s. Jamaica is dull of sale and prices are drooping; 3s 7d to 48 4d is the value of ord to good quality. FRUIT.-Fur Currants prices rule firm, and numerous parcels have been disposed of ; Fatras new at 49s to 50s, old 45s to 46s' I ,Zante and Ceph a l on i a o l d 445, and new 47s per cwt. n Raisins of all descriptions numerous purchases have been made ; Valentias at 50s, Denis 40s, I.exia, 38s, Smyrna black 41s, Red 45a to 475, Eleme 48s to 50s, Sultana 60s, Muscatels 55s to 100 s. Turkey pulled Figs are 45s to 75s per cwt This afternoon at public sale 8,470. drums of Turkey Figs were sold at 50s to 755. per.cwt. RICE.-Previous improved rates are fully supported for Bengal, wait is much wanted, but business has been restricted by private contract in consequence of the scanty supply at market, low white has been fetching lOs 6d to I Is, mid Ils 3d to Ils 9d, and good to fine 12s to 12s 6d per cwt. To-day Bengal- Rice met with ready purchasers, and-prices are still on the advance, mid white fetching Ils 6d to I2s per cwt. SALTPETRE.-To - day Rough was inquired for, but stiffer rates being required operated against business, and 400 bags of Calcutta at public sale were taken in at 25s fur FOOlll3Oll damp grey 12i to 114 per cent. refraction, being' Is per cwt above the value.. COCHINEAL.se-There has been a considerable increase in the demand : since we last wrote, and an .advance in prices of id has occurred. Oils.-The demand has increased for all descriptions of common Fish Oils, and a good business has been transacted at 341 to 34l 103 for pale Seal. 301 to 331 for yellow and straw, 291 to 291 lOs for brown, and at 291 to 341.f0r com to fine Southern. Cod at 311 to 311 10s per tun Sperm has been-taken sparingly,-and- holder s .experience difficulty in obtaining 871 to 90/ per tun for British. Lind t s b e e e s at pot, an t d h e w for lo forward rates of 2256 i l to 2 delivery ma 2 b s 9d per on ye contracts a c e w ts t have .been entered into. For Rape 34s ed to 35s ac cepted for pale, and 33s 6d to 34s per cwt for brown ; the supply greatly exceeds the demand. Cocoa Nut Oil .24s to 28s per cwt. Palm, good and fine at 25s to 26s per cwt. In Olive there has been a good business transacted. TALLOW 4033 d to 40s 9d per cwt are the current rates paid fur 1' Y Candle of first quality. For delivery in the first three months of next year several contracts have' been entered . into at 4is to 41s 6d , per cwt., Of Town Tallow the market has again been nearly cleared at the low rate of 41a per cat nett cash. With other sorts of Tallow the market has been liberally supplied, and a decline in prices has occurred. On Friday 560 pkgs of South American, 124 casks of New Suuth Wales , and 100 casks of East India will hi) offered at auction. Of New South Wales further arrivals are near at hand. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 9.—We have had a good market to-day, and late prices are well maintained. Brist o l a nd Gl ou cester, 37i ; London and Brighton, Eighth Shares, 21 ; Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 3} ; Manchester and Birmingham, 53 ; Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, (forty ponnd Shares). 41 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 96i ; Ditto, Quarter-Shares, 13 ; South-Eastern, 38 9 ; Ditto, New Creation, 7j 9.16 prem. ' • Birkenhead, Man chester, and Che s hir e J unct i on , 6 1 ; Churnet Valley, 31. 4s. 6d. ' • Leeds; D e w s b ur y, a nd Manches ter, 51 ; Ditto and 'West Riding Junction, 3 ; London and Rugby, 11; Manchester and Buxton 1 5-16; Sheffield and. Lincoln, ; West Yorkshire, 61 ; Bou logne and Amiens, 5i ; Paris and Strasbourg, 21 15-16. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THAME S POLICE. Yesterday, Henry Haseman, a young man, was charged before Air. Broderip with stealing a mare and harness, the property of a general dealer, named Ladd, of No. 9, Charles-street, Stepney, under very novel circumstances. The prisoner entered the prosecutor's service on Tuesdiy last, and on Friday afternoon, after deliver ing some goods, he , came home with his master's horse and cart, and it was dicovered the animal had lost a shoe, and his master desired him to take the mare to a farrier and have a new shoe put on her foot, at the same time giving him half-a-crown for that purpose. The prisoner . mounted the animal and role oil', but never returnfd•with it, an 1 Mr. Ladd ascertained he had never been to the farrier at all, and that his horse had been disposed of on the same afternoon in Smith field market. Yesterday morning a City policeman, named Harrild, was accosted by the pri-oner, who said he had committed something very wicked, and on Harrild inquiring the nature of his transgression, he said he had stolen his master's horse, and sold it in Smithfield for 1/. 195., which he had since spent. The prisoner; who appeared labouring under much agitation and grief, said he was a guilty man, and that he was driven by want and a series of misfor tunes to commit the felony. His father had recently died, and his business was ruined. His wife and children fell ill, and he could not obtain work until Mr. Ladd employed him, and gave him a bit of victuals, but no money to purchase bread for his chil dren. He was guilty, but his character was good, anti witnesses were in attendance to speak in his be half.--Remanded. ALARMING FIRE IN GLASGOW. On Friday morning, about four o'clock, a fire broke out in the Gsllowgate, to the rear of a thatch house adjoining Dovehill. The flames, issuing from a byre and stable, speedily coinmunicated with the front building, and, in a few moments, the entire premises were enveloped in fla nes—the inmates of the gar rets barely escaping with their lives. A cow, in the byre, was burned to a cinder, and the poor people in the whole of the upper part of the tenement—numbering four families —had nearly every article more or less destroyed. One of the ejected is an old man, about ninety years of age. Mr. Robertson and the fire brigade happily prevented the fire from communicating to the other buildings, be sides saving the under flats.of the front house. About eight o'clock the same morning,.an alarm of fire arose concerning a shop !situated in Argyle-street, near Mitchell-street, but it was extinguished without the assistance of the engines.— Scoteh Reformer's Gazette. ALARMING AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. (From a Correspondent of the Limerick Reporter.) KILKUSH, DEc. 4.—on Monday night, between the hours of eight and nine o'clock, an alarming fire, which threatened the most disastrous results, broke out in the:premises of Mr. P. M'Mahon, of this town, woollendraper, supposed to haveoriginated in the snuff of a candle causing some papers to ignite in the shop. The proprietor, who had retired to his family after the business of the day, alarmed by loud-knocking at the door, and the cry of " Fire" from the s tr ee t, w h ere it was first perceived by a young gentleman passing by, attempted to effect an entrance to the scene of conflagration by a door leading from the parlour to the shop, but was unable to do so, his beautiful stock being enveloped in flames. The front door was then broken open, and such was the violence of the devouring element, that many supposed it could not possibly be got under ; how ever, much to the credit of those present, no effort which, under the circumstances, could be resorted to, was spared by any one, and after much vigorous exertion it was completely reduced, not though, I regret much to add, until upwards of 7001. of unin sured property was destroyed. It is to be hoped the inhabitants, who have so much property at stake, will no longer defer taking proper steps for being better provided against such contin gencies than at present. had this fire broken out a few hours later, the consequences would have been frightful, there being neither watchman nor fire en gine in the town, nor even water, the very pumps, even the river, being inaccessible, padlocks guarding the former. stone walls the latter—what was used on the occasion having been got out of the different houses throughout the neighhotirhood. Those most interested would do well to convene their fellow-townsmen and take into their most serious consideration the necessity of not leaving an entire town in such an unprovided state. LOVESUIT TRAGEDY. (From the Preston Guardian.) On last Sunday . evening a very melancholy and unfortunate fatal accident occurred to a young woman, belonging to this town, under circumstanc es so peculiar s g o as to Thehave s created f tn quite e t r a a sen sationged3. am and ong a a fflc ll p t e i r r t n was at the canal, almost immediately beneath the Maudland-bridge. The young woman was the daughter of James Brown, a labouring man, residing in Bolton-street, and had been brought up at one of the factories in town. She was scarcely eighteen years of age. During the last few months her com pany and affections were courted by a factory lad, named Richard Talbot, and the most unblemished terms of intercourse and attachment existed between them. Talbot resides in a lodging-house kept by Mrs. Rigby, of No. 9, Mount Pleasant ; and on the Sunday evenings the two young persons were in the habit of meeting together in that house, and she was escorted home afterwards by her lover. Last Sunday evening they met at Mrs. Rigby's as usual, where they remained together about two hours, or until eight o'clock, and during this time the best terms of attachment and affection were manifested. After ex changing some frolicsome words, the young persons left the house on their way to Bolton-street, the re sidence of her father. The most secluded way to the young woman's home from Mount Pleasant is along the towing-path of the canal. The night was un usually dark, so much so that people could scarcely discern one another. In consequence of wet weather many parts of the towing path are very dirty and slippery; and in proceeding along it the young woman, to evade these muddy places, occasionally walked upon the narrow ledge of stone at the edge of the water. Talbot went along on the opposite side of the towing-path. When they were a few yards beyond the bridge he heard a plunge— her foot had slipped on the stones, and she was strug gling in the water. Talbot's presence of mind seemed to have fled from him instantaneously, as he merely stood gazing upon the catastrophe, and crying for as sistance. The first person who reached the spot was a weaver named Sumner, who' had been alarmed by the cry of " Help!" Talbot was at this time in the greatest agony, and, after a short consultation with Sumner, who also declined going into the water, he ran 'off to acquaint her parents with the circumstance, and bring other people to assist in rescuing her. After the lapse of some minute:, a number of people arrived, but a striking indifference or cow ardice seemed to prevail. Sumner declared he saw the body of the female in the canal ; and another weaver, named Walsh (who might, in some mea sure, he excused on account of his advanced years), acknowledges that he stayed on the bridge asking questions until a light was procured; and even the father of the young woman, when he arrived, lost his self-resolution, and merely commenced accusing Talbot of being the cause of his daughter's death. One attempt was made by an individual to rescue her by wading in the canal, but this failed ; and at last, after the lapse of about three-quarters of an hour, grappling irons were procured, two police officers having reached the place, and the body was taken out. And so, the girl was suffered to drown in about six feet of water ! Talbot was immediately apprehended by one of the officers on account of the accusation of the father of the deceased. It was found, on the body being taken home, that life was totally extinct. A medical gentleman was sent for and means were taken to restore life, but to no effect. Next day, various calumnious rumours were cir culated by idle people respecting the conduct of Talbot, and it was also noised abroad that the unfor tunate girl was pregnant. All these turned out to be totally unfounded. The deceased was a young woman of excellent character, and belonged to the Roman Catholic communion ; and Talbot is a very harmless and inoffensive lad, and bears a good cha racter also. In the course of the day, the street op posite the Town-hall was crowded by people anxious to know the result of an examination of Talbot. To ward& evening, in consequence of an inquisition upon the body of the deceased taking place, the crowd in creased, and the doors of the Town-hall being thrown open, it was speedily filled to excess. It is rather a singular coincidence that a brother of the deceased young woman was drowned at the same place on the 28th of October, 1838. He was only six years of age, and had accidentally over balanced himself. It is believed that this accident oc curred at precisely the same spot, by those who can recollect the circumstance. R. Palmer, Esq., our respected coron e r, h e ld th e inquest on the ody, at the Town-h a ll, a t f our o clock in the afternoon. The jury having been sworn, they proceeded to view the body at the house, and, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict of "Accidentally drowned." The remains of the young woman were quietly and decently interred in the burying-ground belonging to St. Wilfrid's Church, on Tuesday. A number of people, principally acquaintances and relatives of the deceased, were present on the occasion. Her lament ing suitor formed one of the mourners. THB WEATHER.—A decided change has taken place in the weather since Tuesday last. Previous to that we had a succession of fine mild days, but on Wednesday a keen frost set in, which still continues with unabated severity. The thermometer has been ranging from 25 to 30 degrees. The hills and fields are covered with hoar frost as with a mantle of snow, and all the shallow brooks and ponds are, of course, completely frozen over. It is almost needless to say that in such weather the condition of the ill-fed and poorly clad portion of our population cannot be otherwise than miserable.-Bcots man of Saturday. Taa BAPTISTB.—Last evening the Right Hon. Lord Tcynhant preached at the Baptist's Chapel, Myr tle-street, to a numerous and respectable congregation. His Lordship has been some months in Ireland, and is Low on his way from Dublin to London.—Liverpool Al bion of Monday. SIR R. PEEL AriD HIS FRIENDS. The following ie an extract from Mr. Ferraod's speech, made a few days since to his constituents at Knaresborough. No Whig was ever so violent ag4inst a Tory, 5s the Tory Ferranti is against Peel arid Graham. Our readers, however, will see that Mr. Ferrand occasionally draws a long bow : "It is now my duty to give you a slight sketch of the proceedings of the present Government dur ing the three years in which they have held office. They commenced by passing an income tax In time of peace, which tax was to last for three years. I, for one, at that time, and under the pledge from Sir Robert Peel that it should only last for three years—under the peculiar circumstances and the dangerous state of the financial affairs of the country, gave his proposition my hearty support. After they had obtained sufficient ballast to right the vessel of state by the aid of this tax, Sir R. Peel proceeded to bring forward his great measures which were to restore the nation once more to prosperity. lie first of all brought forward his new corn-law, and in so doing he made speeches by the hour, in which he quoted figures and made calculations to convince the ;agricultural interest in the Commons that his new sliding-scale would give a protection to agriculture to the ex tent of keeping wheat at the average price of 58s. per quarter. When I appeared before you at the last general election, I told you that I would not pledge my support to the then existing corn-law, but that if any measure were brought forward by Sir R. Peel which would give more satisfaction to the country, and at the same time secure that protection to the agricultural interest which they had a right to de mand, I would give that measure my support. Sir R. Peel, having declared in the most solemn manner that his corn-law would give that protection, I con sidered he had a right to require my support, and I therefore voted for it.—(Hear.) But he had scarcely got rid of his corn-law, when he introduced into the House what he call e d his tariff—a measure, in my opinion, which could only have been brought forward by either a lunatic or a traitor.—(Laughter.) What was the next mad step of which they have been guilty ? They have legalised the exportation of machinery. England, which possessed the best and the most perfect machinery in the world, has in this, the hour of peril, given it to foreigners for the purpose of destroying us.—(Loud cheers.) Their next step was to enforce the new poor-law with greater tyranny, oppression, and cold-blooded cruelty than ever the Whigs were guilty of. In their reign of office, the daily papers were never filled with such details of cruelty and oppression of the poor as is daily the case now. No; although they carried the measure, and attempted to enforce it, they did it with justice tempered with mercy in comparison with the rule of the present Government.—(Cheers.) I have told you, gentlemen, how the Government robbed the factory-workers of the Ten Hours' Bill, after a majority of the House of Commons had voted for it. Sir R. Peel is the most unconstitutional Minister that ever held the reins of Government in England.—(Cheers.) Twice in one year has: he made the House of Commons eat its own solemnly recorded opinions; twice in one session, at his bidding, have the representatives of the people forsaken their duty to their constituents and the country. It rests with the constituencies of Eng land to drag these men to the bar of public opinion, to make them appear before them—to drag them into their presence, and make them prove the rectitude of their conduct; or, if they prove the de linquency, to compel them to resign their seats.— (Loud applause.) Had I been guilty of such con duct I never would have shown my face here again ; had I been the base tool of a degraded Minister, who held the reins of Government, I should not have been before you this day. But, gentlemen, believe me when I tell you that I would sooner have forfeited my head than have thus sold the rights of my country men.—(Great cheering.) From the hour that the House of Commons thus degraded itself, it lost its hold of public opinion—it lost its dignity amongst the nations of the earth.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Gentlemen, Sir R. Peel, when out of office, promised to the colonies to continue that protection which they had in justice received. But what has been his conduct with regard to the 'West India colonies ? He has withdrawn the protection of Government from them, and by doing so has encouraged the production of slave-grown sugar. England paid 20,000,000/. for the emancipation of the slaves ; Sir R. Peel has now, by carrying out his free trade measures, once more given encouragement to the slaveowners of sugar-producing countries. (Hear, hear.) But what has been his conduct to the agricultural inte rest ? When he brought forward his Corn-law Bill he gave the House of Commons to understand that it was to be a final measure; not one word was then whispered of the Canada Corn Bill, although the Government had at that moment determined, after having clinched the agricultural interest under the Corn-law Bill, to cram the second measure down their throats. Lord Stanley brought forward the measure, and his speech contained such a tissue of misstatements as were scarcely ever made by a Mi nister of the Crown in one speech. I need not give the statistical accounts of the results of his Canada Corn Bill ; suffice it, that these two measures have chiefly aided in producing the following results : Yesterday, in Knaresborough market wheat sold at 403. per quarter, the weight being 36 stone 41b., or 18 stone 21b. to the sack. That is the result of Sir Ro bert Peel's protection to agriculture ! I say, gentle men, they have sacrificed the British farmer for one year of reckless competition in trade ; for what do we find in Bradford ? Why, that there are no fewer than 10,000 power-looms standing idle, which a month ago were in full work ; many mills have commenced run ning four days a-week, and others are not fully em ployed; hundreds of combers are either out of employment altogether, or have only half work, the unmarried men being sent without work, whilst those who are married have work given them according to the extent of their family ; and these poor men can earn no snore than ss. or 6s. a-week. This is the melancholy pro spect which is staring them in the face for the ensu• ing winter, and this is the certain result which will continue to follow Sir Robert Peel's mad career of legislation. But more fatal still will be its conse quences, and as sure as I have the honour of address ing you to-day we may look forward with dismay as to the future events which will happen to our country. —(Hear, hear.) But, gentlemen, reverting to Ire land, what has been Sir Robert Peel's policy ? tie has allowed Mr. O'Connell to gather vast assemblages in public meetings; he allowed him to parade the is land from one end to another like a triumphant con queror, setting the laws of the land and the Govern- menti of the country at defiance.—(Cries of • No,' from the Rom an C a th o li c priest.) He did this ; and O'Connell was allowed to go on until he was on the point of attending the last public meeting which he had convened, when the Government, at the eleventh hour, interfered ; the prosecution of O'Connell followed; he was convicted of conspiring against the Govern ment; and what was the treatment which he did re ceive compared with what he ought to have received ? The laws of our country know no distinction between the peasant and the peer in cases of violation of those laws. But how was O'Connell treated ? He was sent to what is called a prison, where he lived at his ease in the style of a country gentleman, holding daily levees, his whole time being spent in feasting instead of fast ing.—(Laughter and cheers.) Instead of having prison fare dealt out to him, as he ought to have had, he was treated in such a manner as convicted conspirator never was before. He happens to be the head of a strong party, and has numerous friends in the House of Commons, and the Conservative Govern ment quailed before him and them, and failed to do their duty. But how was Mr. O'Connor treated in York Castle?—(hear, and cheers.) Was he a worse convicted conspirator than O'Connell ? No. He never attempted to set the laws at defiance to the extent of a one hundredth part so far as O'Connell had done ; and was any mercy shown to him ? No. He had the cell of a conspirator ; he went through all the prison hardships and fare, and it was a disgrace to the Conservative Government thus to deal with a man who had been convicted as O'Connell had been. Until O'Connor and O'Connell are punished alike, let us not talk about equal justice. Now, then, gentlemen, in closing my address, I will just allude to your pro spects ; and I do not hesitate to tell you it is my firm conviction that there is nothing but ruin for the pre sent race of British farmers.—(A Voice, Landlords, you mean.' Mr. Ferrand, If you will stop, I will tell you all about the landlords.') If the farmers will take my advice they will well weigh the prospects which are before them; they will meet their land lords, and tell them that up to the last dissolu tion of Parliament th^v had sailed with them in the same boat, that the farmers had stood their true friends, and had returned them a majority to the House of Commons; but that when they had got there they had sold their interests, and now, being brought to the brink of ruin, they called on the land lords, as their pr o f esse d friends, to prove the sincerity of their pledge; for as sure, gentlemen, as we stand here to-day, the present race of farmers will be ruined, and one-half the land in England will in ten years change hands, unless Sir Robert Peel is driven from office, and that protection to agriculture is re stored which it has ever received since England bci- came a mighty nation.—(Hear, and cheers.) lam glad to find that Sir Robert Peel has a slight particle of conscience left. During the last autumn ke attended the Tamworth agricultural dinner, of which society he is the president; he certainly hung his ears and looked foolish. He could not tell what to say, under the peculiar circumstances and difficulties in which he was placed, but having mumbled out a higgling and haggling' speech of ten minutes, he gave the farmers a Consolation, and showed his desire to support agri culture by promising to keep for them a bull.— (Laughter.) This year Sir Robert Peel did not dare 160 1334 si% as 440 110 161% 25 100 0 0 Stock Stock 1.17 9 0 Stock 50 - 0 0 50 0 0 63 2 8 50 0 0 10 0 0 70 10 9 101% 8% 400 11.13*. 4 •Wv les) 27..4 IS% lb, 73 16 70% .218 121 148 89 ki 27N 67 13 213 PDX 50 ESX 9ii NY M 6 3IN 84 16% flu 10 , 104 5 1 ,4 12 51% 35 42 30% 22% 2g5% 103 513/4 20 2(1 6 4 10 A 4% 118 1311 5 1 4)4 20 I HiN 11% 2 8 1 14 18 11 2111. 50 to meet the Tamworth Society, and the consequen ce , has b(.en that there h as b een no dinner and therewil! b.. no ,firmer. is !be excuse ? bull s_ l l Tamworth is o u t o f re p a i r '— an d so i s t h e agr i c ullur' interest.—(Laughter.) B u t l e t me ca ll y o ur atte tion to a speech made by Lord Stanley, who. tile other dav, was made 8,,r0n S,aule, nd is n ow longer dep en d ent oil th e votes o f t he f armers o f North Lancashire f or th e p os t o f th e representat i ve of tb° t county. How did he treat and allude to his forme r friends ? He told them they mus t p u t their sh° lll ‘ ders to the wheel ; that it was not the old farmer, but the young o nes , w h o were now mos t co ncerneuf and that they must study chemistry, commencedrainins, and learn to grow wheat instead of weer This is the language of the man to those who placed him in power. It is a gross injusti ce ' But, But, gentleme n , wh a t i s th e i n t ent i on o f GGveile n towards yourselves in the ensuing session of ?arils' ment ? Sir J. Graham has determined on depriving you of the Gilbert Unions. He is going to pass 11 Bill to break up all the Gilbert Unions in the country His slaves, the majority of the House of Comm° l l will follow hi s "b ec k an d no d, an d you are to be hoar' over to the tender mercies of the Poor-law Comm td sioners.-- (A Voice, He's a had 'un;) Ah but you knew the cruelties inflicted on the poor in the south of England, where the population are scattered fa r and wide, you would th en i n d ee d t rem bl e for that whit e e is awaitin g y ou . A n d I wou ld appea l to wealthy, to those who hold high stations in this neighbourhood, to cons id er well what wi l t . be the result of the handing over the poor this neighbourhood to the commissioners. I have ° o hesitation in asserting that the Poor-law Comm'''' sioners of Somerset-house have dared to carry out tb o principle in England that killing the poor i 6 r. murder.—(Hear.) This is proved in the reports ~0 the coroners' inquests w hi c h ap p ear d a ily in , newspapers, which sh ow th a t th e poor are starveu ' death by the officers o f th e un i ons acting under tbo orders of the Poor-law Commissioners. In vain 111 , these revolting accounts published ; the Corm,: s .; sioners, with h ea rt s as ' h ar d as s t ee l, enforce W ei tyrannical and blood-stained l aw , by still daring to i; trample under foot the sacre d pr i n ciple of our B ib io and the laws of God in a Christian country. my duty now, as one of y our represen t a ti ves —as `l, representative of th e P ro t estan t s o f K nares b o roug —to tell you that it is my firm conviction that s i s , Sir Robert Peel betrayed the Protestant Chart in 1829, so he is go i ng t o b e t ry t h e P ro tests° s Church of Ireland in 1845. He keeps secret his in; tentions; but I say u n t o y ou , wa t c h, f or I c an Da' no confidence in a man who Obtained o ffice bi t fraud, and who dares to t ramp l e un d er f oo t the , b e , o s interests of his country.—(H ear , h ear .) He is' ll6 l 6 willingly sacrific e d th e r i g ht s , th e lib ert i es , a nd lives of the poor, by sanctioning the new poor-117' will not hesitate, if you keep him in office, to usery fice the religion whi c h h e p ro f esses . A n d I 11,13fi n j full well that there is no t a P ro t es t an t i n Ene • but believes he is stealthily b u t f ur ti ve l y a iming j, deadly blow at the Protestant religion of Irela r et But it rests with the Pr o t es t an t s o f England wheth—of they will forsake their Irish brethren in the hourio need. I have now, ge n tl emen , t ouc h e d upon all t ,i, topics which, as your representatiie, I have c°, t P " dared it my duty to do. I h ave ex t enuate d nots ll l and set down naught i n ma li ce , b u t h onest l y belit y P e every word to be true w hi c h I h ave ut t e red, 1 ' done so to the best of my ability." —(Hear.) i FOREIGN SP IRITS IN B OND. —Th e L or d s n Treasury having had under consideration a metnol.l y praying that the duty may be remitted on the deSot` o ties which have taken place in several cas k s of Gen e t el warehoused at Brewer's Quay, the war e h ouse s conna te ' with which bein g o f extra secur i ty on l y, an d not 61re cially approved. as in the case with the bonded ° gl oo houses at the Dock, their Lordships have authorion VA ,; • tar e Commissioners of th e C us t oms , i n t h e present O(1,41 mit the duties on the deficiencies of Geneva, P l9 y r oto their officers are s a ti s fi e d t h at t h e same h ave ar i s en jo , natural causes, and that no abstraction or improPe r r e terference has taken pl ace , an d i n a ll s i m il ar cases,ll.boi commended by their report on the subject. This order_.,4. been communi ca t e d t o t h e o ffi cers o f t h e severa l clsP;;„, ments in London, and to the collectors and 0 41 trollers at the diff eren t ou tp orts o f t h e ki ng d om for w o ,„ information, with di rect i ons to govern theinse lves_ A cordingly. With ref erence t o th e regu l at i ons i n reSI - si to deficiencies in b ran dy, conta i ne d i n the geneo minute of November, 1843, viz., to make an s ill y , on account of deficiencies in excess of the legal qua n Aot beyond the allowa nces regu l ate d b y t h e T reasu ry n.. e 1l of January, 1839, accor di ng as th e c i rcumstance s of e t r - o , case might appear t o j us tify, w i t h out spec i a l applic,boos being made to the Bo a rd f rom th e outports, 'tor cases in which the deficiency in excess, if the legs' 4 , , j 0 tity shall not. exceed three gallon s p er cas k, obser o that they first satisfy themselves that the deficienoi n a arisen from natural causes, and that no abstracti o 3le o improper interference has taken place ; and that a to application is to be made to the officers by the part t es each instance. . 1 1 of WILL OF THE EA RL OF KniToau,—The Anthony Earl of Kintore, late of Keith 1-1611, I .`" Britain, has just been proved in Doctors' Comninnt o r John Blackie, E sq ., one o f t h e executors, power of F;;ro, ing hereafter being reserved for the other exe cu l o ts, The will in a very few words directs that his g a d household furnit u r e , carr i ages, horses, &c. &c., be for sale to his eldest son, and in case he decibel r o ts chasing them, divided, with the whole of his ° o l d amongst his family. The will is extremely s hortl ue the amount of prop er ty un d er i t w hi c h i s proved itim;ol don is only 3001 (a mere nominal sum), for the purr, 2l .ore obtaining an invest men t o f t h at amount. The wil, of ever, when proved in Scotland, will include the wh ole his estates there, which are very large. elr To THE L ADIES . — Th e hi g h an d un i vers al o r brity which ROWLAND'S RALYDOR continues to 0 1 ,01 tain, as an activ e y e t m ild an d soot hi ng ext i rpa toro va l impurities of th e s ki n , i s , d ur i ng t h e present period ;if, pleasingly evinced. This preparation em i nen tly bob: f o r restorative, and invigorating, i s equa lly ce lebrate o e safety in applicati on , as f or unfailing efficacy ill re in in .- % 0 ing all impuriti es an d di sco l srat i ons ; and impart 0 0r healthy freshness to the skin and complexion• r is', verbally great d eman d exc i tes t h e cupi di ty o f 10 0) ." cipled Shopkeepers, who give the title of " Geou i o, KALYDOR to some compounds of their own manufer e O rsl of the most del e t er i ous c h aracter, containing °II a tringents utterly ru i nous to t h e complexion, boe their repellant ac ti on en d anger i ng h ealth. It is, !word' fore, imperativ e on p urc h asers to see that the "O " ROWLAND'S KALYDOR" are on the wrapper. All 0 are FRAUDULENT COUNTERFEITS ! FIFTH FUSILIERS.—This regiment was i'it r gd few day s ago by an " o ld c h ap " who had been disci",se from it for being worn out and unfit for further 0 0 vice, in the year 1784 ! The poor old fellow . h e o , peti pension; cons e qu en tl y , t h e o ffi cers, non-commot,•o officers, drumm ers , an d privates — to - their credit TO' told—after th e y f oun d, b y compar i ng his tattere".6 ps currents with the regimental records, that he Wa s hit* humbug," made up a handsome subscription for ne e which enabl e d hi m , not on l y to step i nto & able cookshop, and take a lesson in the " of living," but to " rig" himself, " from top to to e ' v e4 comfortable winter apparel, which very much iroP r° ol l both the inward and outwar d man . H e t h en reckoned is residue of his coin, which, we understand, amonot[ no tr twenty-eight sovereigns ; put th em , care f u lly and ingly, into his breeches pocket, and took his der ti o for the South, whi s tli ng " Th e B oys o f Kilk enn y,' 1,04 he occasionally c h ange d to prayers, b ot h 10n 4 f./ deep," for the prosperity o f th e " Fi g h t i ng Banner of Ulster. The theatre in Manche s t e r i s expecte d t o be 60i 11 7 , 1 in Easter week. The cost will be 23,000/.---P`" Chronicle. - --,.... BIRTHS. Re/f. On the 7th inst., at Farnham, S urre y, th e l a dy of th e H. R. Julius, of a daughter. orth jiM On the 7th i ns t., a t U pper T oot i ng, M rs. Alf re d M of Burton-crescent, of a daughter, Se, On the 6th inst., at Grove-lane, C am b erwe ll, Dire• ,of of a daughter. be l eu,i On the 6th inst., a t L yme R eg i s, D orsets hi re , t W. H. Hussey, Esq., of the 67th Regiment, of a V ll %OlO l On the 7th inst., at Albi en - p l ace, L onsda l e - squ are, fr of Anthony Coiling Brownless, Esq., of a son. leaf On the 7th in s t., a t Al exan d er - square, B romp ton, t h : ( of Charles Han c e, E sq ., b arr i ster - at-law, of a daugh, t f w ife e On the Bth inst., at Brought on Rectory, Hants, the the Rev. Haniake Lee, of a son. 0 0 g e On the Bth i ns t., at Upper °lepton, the lady o f Ed ° Parson, Esq., of a son. f SOO" On the 9th inst., th e l a dy of Henry Adams, Esq., °__,, street, Hyde-park, of a son. MARRIED. 00)4 William H. Sherwin, E sq ., t o M ary Ann Bonne r, daughter of the late Mr. J o h n C. Bonner, of Ipswi eb ;;droul i On the sth i ns t., a t B arn b arroch, Wigtonshire , Mr f' Richard Jeffreys, E sq ., M a j or i n the 88th R e giment , t u o daughter of th e l a t e C o l one l V ans A gnew, C. 8., of n roch and Shenchan. Fle tci t On the 7th inst., at Malden, Surrey, Thomas l i te - Esq., to Julia Margaret, youngest daughter of the Fillingham, Esq., of Guildford -street, Russell-39% 3re , On the 7th i ns t., a t St. George's, Bloomsbury , ffl'irlier of kill, of E xe t er , t o S usan Brooking, youngest daug Square, Esq., solicitor, Kingsbridge, Devon. DIED. bile °II ii On the Bth inst., suddenly, at Southill Park , l e 9614 visit to the late Earl of Limerick, Martin TuPP e ,4 /elf F.R.S., of New Burlington-street, London, in the """ of his age. ,gber' On the 28th of September, before the fort of 8 1 113 „r o lit Lieutenant W. Powlett bhakes eare, 2d EuroPea n „„ — t Indl e c l i On the 17th of October last P at Cawnporet i ' -- • ise t Captain Charles W. James, of her Majesty' 50th Begin Foot, aged 37. ~,. Joh° On the 24th u lt., a t B a lli ntaggar t, co unty ICil d4r— d Bonham, Esq., aged 75. On the 26th ult at Amiens, James Mullett, E ec l" lite W illi° Nelson. terrace, Sto ke ' Newington. At t t Angerstein, Esq. ts P r. t W u o r o to hn n. e c r re L s c c d en g t e : Hampshire, the infant son of William Hamilton, of Broad-street. of relict the 7C411 i .. / , of On the 4th inst., Charles John Humfrey, 4 -•'' , ." bits Foot, aged 19. t he of On the 4th inst., at Basingstoke, Martha , reli ct Robert N. Cumming, Esq., surgeon, Chelsea. , ~.t Qu een On the sth inst at th Of Vi lesra street, Holborn, Alfred Bird. wife 'O - e Freemasons' Taver n ' urc— On the 7th inst., at North Brixton, Mary , ' •gr e Charleton, Esq., of the Coal Exchange. ne va, .7 On the 6th inst., at the Parsonage, Torbryan, , 7 9, Wolston, the widow of the late J. Wolston , Eecl .gi ., aged ) On the 6th inst., at Islington, Edward Eyre, of the la -- - o °l RDO 1 l,l Il a ' Lontit.n : Printed and Published by If rr -- a t e o• 0 1 BNtor.anld. in the l2,Stra reci ndp,Prninet of th Printer, ateTaavoykeß7 ir ? thi soti Middlesex, Tuesday, December 10, 1844 50 0 I -io k pa • lh %P. at '~~ : VZ • kikt It, • -~-~. 1 ._~4d «ea 441 1 I ,~ e ~~