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ni al Review, has thrown the Globe, if we stat at once that . Ar. Gladstone has no claims to its paternity. 'I that the Globe, of all paper s, should have.; fallen into so patent an error wfill amuse the 'initiated. Our Contemporary need Is, we fear, instruction on other subjects besides Brazilian politics." The Globe has an un lucky adhesiveness to its principles, which, we don't doubt, " amuses the initiated ;" and it follows naturally, that when one of its old friends gets into such shockinc , bad company as that of the Morning Herald and the Foreign and Colonial Quarterly Review, the Globe is not the first quarter to which he announces his deplorable condescension. For the rest, on whatever subjects we may happen to require in formation from the now official Herald, we shall no longer look for any satisfaction from that quar ter as to anypractical results whatever from the pre tended " reciprocity " commercial policy of the present Government. We were led to expect marvellous things not long back, in the way of reciprocity. Prosperity Freddy was to be no thing to Reciprocity Bobby. Now behold th upshot ! One nation alone has sent its repre sentatives to us to offer reciprocity. We would not take it—we would move no finger to preserve, upon equitable terms, a commerce, the value of which has been estimated from three to five millions annually. The envoy of Brazil has gone bac k to study the part of a Roland for our Oliver. We, on the other hand, have gone about pressing something we called reciprocity on continental customers, whom we had previously forced to bec,ome ma nufacturing rivals. We have taken nothing by our motion—except dragging the name of Eng land through the dirt—incurring the m'oun tebank shame of puffing to others nos'autns Ire eschew ourselves. We, examples of free trade to the world —we, whose present Admi nistration has taken up anew, with such .admired variations of absurdity, the old song of colonial all-sufficiency -- the old Spanish scorn of aliens! There is a want of honest and single purpose in the commercial measures of this Ministry, which renders their vaunts of li beral example to all nations simply disgusting. They had their organs everl.astingly blowing hot and cold with one breath. We have a right to :regard the Foreign and Colonial Quarterly on these matters as their organ, whether Mr. Glad stone or more recent recruits write their "excel lent" lucubrations. Well, - that organ, as we showed yesterday, with wonderful assurance throws the blame upon foreigners for the failure (hither to) of foreign commerce to supply the deficien cies of our home-growth of agricultural produce ! It talks of " the erroneous policy of the agricul tural States," as the cause which " prevents the increasing; capital of the agricultural States from being employed in raising increased quantities of raw produce, to be exchanged against the increased quantity of manufac tured goods broug:ht to market by the more rapidly increasing •capital of England." The erroneous policy of - the great agricultural States! At what period, p fist or present, have we given " the great agricultural States" a chance of regu larly supplying tP.s their staples of raw produce ? Excepting the l'.emp and tallow of Russia (whose policy in comtnerce, as elsewhere, is a thing sui generic), what great agricultural State have we suffered to engage in reciprocal commercial dealings with us? Has not the possibility of such :reciprocity been the great bugbear of our land owners? Has not the express scope of our corn and timber laws been to keep out their raw pro duce ? Has it not been by painful persuasion of political leaders less insane than their rank and file of adlieren ts, that even a sliding scale was at length substituted for total prohibition of the :most importa at raw produce till it reached starvieg prices? The 'Jther Foreign Quarterly Review (not Mr. Gladstone's own) has an interesting article on M. Tegcb orski's " Finances and Public Credit of Aasstria.": We find this official Austrian writer advocating the retention of some system of re st tiction on the very grounds which the English corn-laws have rendered too legitmate these shirty years ! " tie quotes unhappy Poland," cbserves the Foreign Quarterly Reviewer, " and -with justice states that she had nothing to export but corn, and could not cultivate that upon the mere hazard of a bad harvestin England. Justly does the author ask to what end an agricultural country is to go on producing corn without a market, and whether creating a manufacturing population to consume is nut a wise measure." Good Heaven ! and here was our " manufac turing population" ready created " to consume" --and here is Mr. Gladstone's organ, if not Mr. Gladstone himself, declaring that. nothing but lack of raw produce as returns for its goods is what causes its sufferings—here was a bread-store provided for English operatives—a market for Polish-tillers—and why did not these markets—sufficient to each otheN' wauts—find each other out ? Because that party, with which Mr. Gladstone and his new auxiliaries act, without thinking with them, enacted laws expressly to prevent the one surplus produce being exchanged for the other. Because there :was nothing our senators feared so intensely as the realisatiou ofthat abundant access to raw pro duce,which the Glsdstonc Quarterly now says was of all things most to be wished. Truly the Gladstone satellite sees the right, while he seconds the wrong. He sees what would have saved us our chronic malaise—but he won't see liefore him. Accordingly, he throws the whole blame, forsooth, upon ioreign countries ; as if our conduct in refusing what we wanted, and they had to go c, had no share in perverting their policy. And he gives no hint of repairing that grand pri mary crime and blunder. As if' our total refusal of a regular trade in that vital article were not enough to neutralise the whole effect of the mighty liberality of the Peel tariffon some seven hundred minor points, which not a soul, here or elsewhere, ever thought about. But we say, in the face of the Peel parasites who conduct the few journals faithful to the grand principle of the See-saw, which is the only one discernible in their measures —that the language and conduct of these men do not set foreigners any goad example what ever. They are continually oscillating between doctrines of free trade and colonial preference— holding out " reciprocity " with one hand, and sacrificing it to monopoly with the other. The last new nostrum is the all-sufficiency of colonial trade. We are in the fair way to teach all our colo nies the lesson we taught those we lost. We are in the fair way to teach them those peddling notions of this or that petty preference— of this or that privileged production—as preferable to tree com mercial interchange. We are setting up normal schools of future restriction against ourselves. We teach young colonies to lisp monopoly. Old colonies improve the lesson against ourselves. Indeed we need not wait colonial independence to observe the application of that lesson. We may soon experience Canadian gratitude for the monopoly of our American corn trade. IRELAND. THE STATE PROSECUTIONS.-STRIKING OF THE SPECIAL JURY. DUBLIN, JA N. 3.—This being the day fixed for the striking of the Special Jury ie the case of the Queen v. O'Connell and others, the parties attended at the Crown-office at twelve o'clock, when Mr. Brewster appeared for the Crown, and Messrs. Whiteside and Close for the traversers. In conse quence of the authorities having seen fit to exclude all but the Government reporters, we are unable to give a formal report of the proceedings, but can state that Mr. Whiteside at once ob jected on the part of the traversers to the jury being struck that day, and called on the Sheriff to adjourn till the Clerk of the Crown had furnished the traversers with a copy of the special panel from which it was intended that the jury should be struck. He reminded the Clerk of the Crown that when the order was made in the case, counsel said it was from the new panel the jury would be selected, hut it was manifestly im possible for the agents for the traversers to go on, in the ab sence of all knowledge as to the constitution of the panel. Mr. Brewster, on the part of the Crown, objected to an ad journment. An order had been made by the proper officer for striking the list, and he and his Learned Friend, the Attorney.. General, had made a minute calculation, and found that in order to have a trial next term, it was incumbent on them to strike the list that day. Mr. Whiteside asserted that his Learned Friend was mis taken. The jury could be struck to-morrow or next day just as well as to-day. Mr. Latouche, the Sheriff, said he had every disposition in the world to accommodate, but he was not a free agent ; he could do nothing in the case without the consent of both par ties ; but he had no objection in the world to furnish the tra versers with a copy of the panel provided the Crown eonsented. After a long and very desultory discussion, it was finally de termined that a clerk from each party should attend at the She riff's office at two o'clock, for the purpose of making out a copy of the panel, and that the jury should be struck in the Crown office at two o'clock to-morrow. It is said that an agent of the Conservative Society has been employed for the purpose of obtaining the signatures of such Liberals as have been returned on the special jury list to a sort of declaration against the course of policy pursued by the Go vernment in reference to the prosecutions., and that the signa tures will be brought before the Clerk of the Crown in the event of any of the writers being drawn on the ballot. The person employed on this honourable mission represented him self as an agent of the Repeal Association, and very many gen tlemen have been deluded into an act which may probably dis qualify them to serve on the jury. The novel of " The Unloved One," which has been so long expected, is to appear we learn in a few days. It is said to be a domestic tale of a most interesting character. Cor.nuaN's .NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR JA li A RY. —The New Monthly opens the year with as various and attractive a melange, supported by a galaxy of names as brilliant as could well be wished far by its warmest friends. A paper on Talleyrand in his retirement is worth half- a-dozen of the ordinary Magazine articl es ; and Miss Agnes Strickland's "Barak Johnson" is a nervous and powerful piece of writing. The Marchioness of Londonderry con tributes a charming nar rative of her late visit to the Courts of Vienna, Constantinople, Athens, and Naples. The curiosity of the Number is a beau tiful poem, by poor L. E. L. Poole, Barry Cornwall, Eliza Cooke, adn Blanchard, Horace S m ith, Mrs. Trollops, and other standard names, fill up th e s t er li ng mer it of this month's issue. —Morning Post. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY _MORNING, JANUARv 6, 1 844 CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) Joseph Redburn, 21, and Peter Peek, 19, were indicted for stealing a horse, van, and harness, the property of William Gadbury. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor is a car man residing in London Wall, and that he had a van, horse, and harness to dispose of. The prisoners called upon him and desired to try the horse, which was permitted, and they drove off with the whole of the property, forgetting to return, and no portion of the stolen property has been since recovered. The prisoners were found Guilty. The COMMON SERGEANT told the prisoners there were two other indictments against them for stealing horses and carts, under similar circumstances, but it was not necessary to go into them. It was quite clear they had been carrying on a syste matic plan of plunder, and the sentence therefore was, that they should be transported for ten years. The Court then adjourned until Monday, Feb. 5. see the manner in which the prisrn van endeavours to obviate the difficulty. The driver, a verb decent whip, takes a certain over-righting, the gates are openei, the passage cleared, an I, whack, whack, whack, the ani•oials—excited by whip and voice, PitlOES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE .&ND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. " As when the swift Camilla scours the plain," evade the dangerous quicksand ar. , idst the applause of those who regularly twice a day witness the extraordinary feat with undiminished admiration. On Monday last one of her Majesty's justices of the peace had a narrow escape of being swallowed up in the earth, like the Roman Curtius. Though aw are of the danger, from the experience of every day, as well 'Z'.3 from former disasters, Mr. Broderip, on the first day of the s-ew year, ventured to escape the mud by driving up in a light cab, but just as he got in front of the magisterial entrance dvr ln sank the vehicle through . the superfieies of loose shingle the subjacent bog. The horse, in endeavouring to save annself from a similar fate, made a bound on the asphaltic .00tway and slipped. The kicking and plunging of the animal, who was with much diffi culty treed from the harness, were more alarming than danger ous. The magistrate was immediately rescued from his un pleasant and almost ludicrous pos"ion, and the cab, which was stuck fast nearly up to the naves of the wheels, was, with much labour and the efforts of several strong men, ultimately placed on terra firma. Scarcely a day passes without scenes of this sort. Comment is superfluous. Mr. BALLANTINE acknowledvd the receipt of 51. for the poor-box, from "A. A." I LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 5. On Thursday Thomas Groves, a diminutive boy, 10 years of age, a foundling, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, charged with being found in the area of a house with an intent to com mit felony. The investigation exatbited the incorrigibly vici ous habits of a boy seldom cqualle It appeared from the statement of a Mrs. Groves, the wife of a wharfinger in very good circumstances, that several years ago it was announced in the newsrapers that a child was aban doned by its unnatural parents, and left in a basket at the gate of one of the metropolitan workhcases. Mr. Groves's former wife being apprised of the eircumnance, and being inconsolable for the loss of her two children w. - ,3 died about that period, on being made acquainted with the a Jove circumstance, and with the sanction of her husband, applied for and had the foundling delivered up into her charge. The child was adopted by the persons named, and at a proper age was sent to school, and, in deed, had every attention paid to it; Mr. Groves intending to spare no expense in the education :1 his foster child, as he usu ally termed him. The boy, however, as he grew up, exhibited many bad qualities, was in the habit of pilfering from his school fellows, and committing other pett it thefts. Every means were adopted to break him of such v:stious habits, but all to no purpose ; and frequently would abscond from the dwell ing of his protectors and go wandering about the town, and pilfering whatever he could lay 11;4 hands upon. Not a work house in London but he had been the inmate of, being usually found in the streets almost naked, 4n4 not one word he uttered was to be believed ; in fact, he necame so incorrigible, and robbed his protectors so often, teat they found it was quite a hopeless task to produce a reformation in so hardened yet so youthful a character. On a recent occasion, he decamped from home having first broken open a chest of drawers, from which he took some silver, and he was not heard of from that period until the preceding night, when a policeman on duty in Allen street, Lambeth, hearing a noise in the area of a house, on casting his bull's-eye lantern down the railings saw the prisoner crouched up underneath a meat sa'e, arid he got there evidently for the purpose of breaking it oper- When he was discovered, as usual, he told a number of falsehoods, but it was at length found that he had been away from llr. Groves's house for some days, and that in the interval he had parted with his clothes, and had scarcely any covering upt.n him. Mr. COTTI NG HAli said he shodcl commit the prisoner for a month, and suggested that when the boy came out of gaol, if he returned to his bad habits, it .vould be then incumbent on Mr. Groves, if he was robbed, again to prosecute him, and on his conviction the Judge, probably, instead of transport ing him, would send him to the It rison in the Isle of Wight, where he would be taught a trade by which he could earn an honest livelihood when he came ce:.t. The prisoner, who appeared qr.ite unconcerned during the recital of the above circumstances, was then committed. Six men, in a destitute conc'ltion, were charged with refus ing to do four hours' work for the board and lodging afforded them in Newington workhouse. It appeared the defendants ha , i been received in the above workhouse on the preceding night, and the next morning they refused to perform the work allotted to them. The defendants said that the - e had nothing but straw to lie upon, and that the people at th.s workhouse wanted them to go to work before they had any food. They (the defendants), however, were so exhausted from previous want that they re fused to work without first getting victuals. The porter of the workhouse said that the plan of giving there food before setting them tr. work was found not to answer, and that the guardians had therefore altered the plan. The MAGISTRATE, on perus'Ag the Act, said that the clause specified " destitute persons were to do four hours' work in re turn for the food and lodging provided them." Now, in the present instance the Act had net been complied with, and he should therefore not think of se iding the unfortunate men to e therefore discharged them all. FREE TRADE SOIREE and MEET ING AT BOLTON. A splendid s-)iree and meeting, in aid of the great League Fund, took place at the Temperance Hall, Bolton, on Wednes day night. Mr. Cobden, M.P., Colonel Thompson, Mr. R. R. R. Moore, and Mr. W. Evans, attended as a deputation from the League, and, on making their appearance on the platform, were greeted with loud and long continued plaudits. Mr. Henry Ashworth and Mr. Edmund Ashworth. members of the Council of the League, were also present. The meet ing was crowded; there was at least a thousand persons present. The chair was taken by T. Gregson, Esq., Mayor. Colonel Tsiostrson first addressed the meeting. He said to show the enormity of the corn-laws, to show their monstrous injustice, they might be compared to a law which should be passed to put an end to the wine trade with Portugal, in order that wine might be made from grapes grown in our hot , houses at home. He said the thing was perfectly practicable, and would, no doubt, for 1., time work well for gardeners, k joiners, and glaziers; but would the community stand it?-- (Cries of " Hear, hear.") Yet the law for " the protection of British industry" as it was called,— (Laughter)—was just such a law in effect. Such a law could not stand ; the agriculturists themselves began to see that, and were preparing to give up the game.—( Hear, heor. ) It was true, that a small knot of foolish men in Essex the other day made a feint of establishing a counter agitation to put down the League ; and, to show how much in earnest they were, they got one 50/. totesids it.—(Laughter.) But nothing had been heard of this Anti-Anti-Corn-law League since. If they have not given it up, they seem to be ashamed of their cause; and when people became ashamed, and began to despair of their cause, depend upon it that cause would not last long. Mr. COBDEN next came forward, and was received with loud cheers. After passing a high eulogium upon Colonel Thompson, in this cause, whose efforts, he said, had been directed to the subject long before either he or his friends were alive to' its importance, he said he did not come there to argue the questiiets that night. He thought the people of Bolton, after the suffering, destitution, and misery to which they had been so recently sutsjected, did not want convincing of the impolicy of the corn-laws. Why no class of men, even those of a certain partylin politics, but had long ceased to believe that the corn-laws were for the good of trade. But then tllky had another reason for holding aloof from this agitation ; and a few of them might be seen coming out of their mills when the question of repeal was proposed, and shaking their heads— heads never very remarkable for the quantity tit brains in them (Laughter)—and these men said, " Oh, it may be very well far us that the corn-laws should be repealed, it may suit the pur pose of those who have mill property, but what is to beconOt of the agriculturists ?"---( Laughter.) Now these were a fair sample of the sort of men, and their wisdom, who prided them selves on having stuck to their party and opposed repeal. These poor creatures had got a notion into their heads that it was im possible for all classes to prosper at once—they thought one class must of necessity flourish at the expense of another, and their saying was '• turn and turn about."—(Laughter.) Why these men were absolutely to be pitied. The agriculturists, for whose benefit it was pretended the law, was passed, were going a-head of these men. The League had already the . oldest and best families of the aristocracy, the largest and most wealthy landowners with them—the Fitzwilliams, the Spencers, )4 the Ducies, the Bedfords, the Radnors, and the Grosvenors.— (Cheers. ) Yes, they had and would have the best of all classes with them ; they were fast flocking round their standard —every day brought with it an accession of strength ; and 114 having obtained the assistance of such men as these, what need they care about the rest? Mr. Cobden went on to speak of other topics, and addressed the meeting for nearly an hour, i% frequently interrupted by loud and long-continued bursts of cheering. Mr. R, R. R. Itlooax next addressed the meeting, detailing the proceedings of the League hitherto, and the course pro f posed for the future. He concluded a powerful appeal to the meeting by showing the futility of all the attempts yet made to /% counteract their agitation, from the calumnies of the press which attributed to them the turn-out in the manufacturing districts of last year, down to the nailing of their tracts on barn-dtors, and the burning of them by a veracious clergyman 1 in his church at Norwich, who declared to his congregation that they smelt of blood"—acts which, instead of answering 51,4 the end intended, but stimulated people's curiosity to read them.—(Applause.) He then announced the following sub scriptions, as already received in Bolton, and as intended to 0 , head the subscriptions in the room : Messrs. Callender, Bickham, and Cross (double their sub scription of last year), 2001. ; Messrs. H. and E. Ashworth, ' 2001. ; Messrs. J. R. Barnes and Son, 100/. ; Messrs. Robert ;)s and Jos. Lord, 501. ; Mr. Thomas 'Thomason, WO/. ; Messrs. Arrowsmith and Sons, 501.—Total, 700/. 14 Subscriptions immediately began to flow in from the body of the reom, and Mr. Moore announced the following:— Messrs. J. Crook and Son, 50/. ; John Cutler (or Cotterill), Market-street, 2/. ; Collected by ditto, 12s. 6d. ; Joseph Had dock, U. ; John Barnes, 11. ; Baxter, Blackburn-street, 1/. ; Hervey and Southwark, 5/. ; William Barlow, ss. ; Joseph Arrowsmith, 10/. ; J. and J. Brierley, 10/. ; Thomas Kirk ham, ss. ; James Shuttleworth 10s. ; George Mee, ss. ; John Mitchell, ss. ; and an immense number of names put down for small sums. Mr. Mooste announced at half-past ten o'clock that the subscription in the room had reached to 5051. 4s. 9d., making llfs with the 7001. to head the list, a total of 1,2051. 4s. 9d. The announcement was received with loud cheers. After votes of thanks to the Chairman and to the Deputa i Sion, the meeting separated. WINTER ASSIZES. CHESTER, Wednesday, Jan. 3. THE HIGH LEIGH BURGLARS. Thomas Riley, Richard Holbrook, and Joseph Holbrook, weavers, were placed at the bar, charged with having on the 14th day of October last burglarieusly entered the dwelling house of one Lettice Widders, at High Leigh, and stolen there from 50 sovereigns, her moneys. This burglary, as will appear by the evidence, was of the most atrocious desc-iption, per petrated in the middle of the night by armed men, with blackened faces, under circumstances of almost unparalleled atrocity. The Attorisey- General, with whom was Mr. Trafford, ap peared for the prosecution ; Mr. Temple conducted the de fence for the prisoners Richard and Joseph Holbrook, and Mr. Yardley appeared for the prisoner Riley. The ATTORNEY.-GENERAL, in stating the case, said, the prosecutrix was a widow, of the name of Lettice Widders , who lived at High Leigh. On the night of the 14th of October last her house was burglariously entered by persons armed with pistols, who on being surprised by the inmates had used threats and intimidations of a fearful nature, such as would be detailed by the evidence which he was about to call. In endeavouring to affix the guilt to the parties concerned, the prosecutor had been obliged to resort to the evidence of one of the prisoners' accomplices as an approver. Of course, it woufd be unneces sary to say, from the character of that witness, that his testi• mony should be received with caution, he being, as would be elicited, no doubt, by the cross-examination, a confirmed thief. Lettice Widders, the prosecutrix, was then calted, and she deposed that she lived at High Leigh, and when she went to bed on the night in question, she left the house perfectly secure. About one or two o'clock in the morning she was awoke by a noise in the buttery. The prisoners, when they were disco vered, called out for their pistols, which they then presented to me and my servant-man. My man fled from the prisoners, but found they had fastened the front door outside. The thieves had effected an entrance by taking out a window, and then had burst open the door of the buttery, and entered the room where the witness was. The witness continued—They had all black ened faces, and they said, "Do you know us?" They then asked for money, and I said I had not got any. They said they knew me of old, and I had got some. They said they would shoot us, and my man, being much frightened, said he had got nine sovereigns up stairs, and he would give them to them. Two of the men then went up stairs with him, and the other two remained down stairs with me. One of the men began to break the locks of the drawers, and to destroy . my goods with a poker. They found my money, which was In a box, and then they handed me up to bed, step by step. They took and ate even a few apples there were. (The witness, who was somewhat advanced in years, at this part of the recital, lost all self-composure, and repeatedly railed with indignation at the prisoners at the bar for the injuries she had received. The Learned Judge recommended her to avoid unnecessary excitement, when the evidence was continued.) I remained in bed until the robbers had left, and my money was taken away. Cross-examined by Mr. TEMPLE—I became exceedingly alarmed. I really could not tell from fright what happened. By Mr. YARDLEY.-4 cannot say I knew any of the prison ers at that time. Peter Street examined—Was servant to the last witness. Remembered the night in question when the house was broken open. Was awoke between one and two o'clock by a noise in the buttery. Looked through the roof, and saw men with blackened faces ; asked them what they were doing there, when they pointed their pistols to the place whence his voice pro ' ceeded. He then put the slate on the hole whence he was looking. He went down stairs and tried the front door, but found it fastened on the outside. As soon as he got to the door, he turned his head round, and saw the men following him. They said, if he did not sit down and be quiet, they would blow his brains out. They asked him if he had any money, and he replied " No." They told him if he did not im mediately deliver what he had, they would shoot him. They asked his mistress for her money also, and whether he or his mistress knew them. They said they did not. They brought down a sickle afterwards. Their faces were blackened all over. Two of the men went up stairs with him into the bed-room. They took 91. from him. He did not know any of them at that time. He had seen one of them since the robbery ; it was Kerfoot, the approver. As soon as he saw him, he said he was one. There were two sickles in the bed-room. One was brought down and put into the fire. His mistress asked them what that was for, when one of them took out the sickle, and shook it over his mistress's head. It appeared very hot. He saw them take the money out of his mistress's box. They afterwards broke open some drawers and a desk. They got hold of some silver spoons, and one of them said, " Put them down, they are marked." One of them made a prayer upon his knees, and said, " There, we shall do now; we will not come again this year, but shall the next;" and said, while on his knees, " The Lord have mercy on Tour two souls." A handful of ashes was then thrown into his eye's. When they went away, they told him what he had terAkiect if he offered any alarm or resistance; that they would leave two men at the door with the pistols, who would turn upon them and kill them both. Ralph Kerfoot, the approver, was then sworn, and said—l know the prisoners at the bar s I have known the Holbrooks from children, and Riley about five years. I went with them on the 14th of October from a public-house in Bridge-street, soon after nine o'clock. John, Joseph, and Richard Holbrook, and Thomas Riley, started with me to go to High Leigh. We went to a house that John Holbrook had arranged to rob. We arrived about eleven o'clock at the house where Mrs. Widders lives, and they then consulted which was the best way to enter. We entered by a small window at the back of the house. After that we fastened the door of the adjoining house with a cord, and, as I think, a thick stick. Riley then fastened the front door of Mrs. Widders' house. We then blacked our faces with some blacking which we had bought. John Hol brook came to us, and said somebody was going by, so that we desisted for a little time. Riley then, who had a chisel, struck out a pane of glass, and wrenched the window open. We broke some iron bars which were across the window. Riley got in first, myself next, and then the Holbrooks. John Holbrook remained outside to watch. Riley made a great noise by jumping upon a mug, which awoke Mrs. Widders. The man above said " Where's my gun ?" There was a hole in the room floor, and I thought some one was going to shoot down. We cried out " Get your pistols ready." They then broke open the door into the house, and found Mrs. Widders and the servant trying to make their escape from the front door: We went to them, and demanded their money. They at first said they had none, but we said we knew they had, and we were determined to have it. At that time Riley put a sickle into the fire which he had found. Joseph Holbrook and Riley then broke open the drawers. I then took the sickle out of the fire. Riley then went up to the old woman and said, that if she did not find the money in two minutes he would blow her brains out. We had two pistols, but Ido not know whether they were loaded or not. Joseph Holbrook gave me the pistol when be went up stairs to open the drawers. The servant then said he had a trifle, and Richard Holbrook and Riley went up stairs with him, leaving myself and Joseph down stairs. We then all went up. I discovered a box, and went round and pulled it out from under the bed. Riley broke open the box, and found a purse with 42 sovereigns, 41. or 51. in silver, and a watch. Some silver spoons, also, which I had in my hand, I was told by them to put down, as they were marked. Riley went down stairs, and returned with some ashes, knelt down, and, as I understood him , said , " May the Lord have mercy on your souls," and then threw the ashes to wards the young man's face, and said, " Come, now we shall do." We went down stairs, and struck off for the direction of the river, and then divided the money, and each received his share, some 101. and a few shillings each. Riley threw the watch into the river. We then kund a boat moored on the river, which we took, and passed over to the Lancashire side of the river. The three Holbrooks went towards home. Riley and myself went to Manchester. The dark lantern was pur chased by John and Richard Holbrook. I gave Joseph 91. 14s. of my money, because I was going home, and was afraid of my wife seeing it. Joseph Holbrook told me that he had thrown my money into the river. He told me, also, that he had given it to his wife, hut when in Bridewell he said he had thrown it into the river. Cross-examined by Mr. TEMPLE—I did not keep my share of the money. I was taken up on the 22d of October. I was tired of the line of life I was leading, that was the reason why I turned approver. I thought it would be a means of breaking us up. I was never in gaol before, or ever caught. I have a very good-will towards the prisoners. I have never quar relled with any of them. By Mr. YARDLEY.—I am a power-loom weaver by trade. I have not done an honest day's work these three months. I have been concerned in four burglaries, and one attempt. I cannot recollect whether I have been concerned in any high way robberies, or other offences. Mary Houghtoa deposed to selling a dark-lantern to two men on the day in question, but could not identify them. Mary Gibbons examined—l keep a shop at Lutchford, and sold some blacking on the 14th of October, a half-penny worth, to a man of the name of Thomas Riley. Cross-examined by Mr. YARDLEY—I will swear solemnly that the prisoner Riley is the man. William Walton, the owner of a boat on the river, de posed to finding his boat on the Lancashire, instead of the Cheshire, side of the river, where he had moored it. John Yates knew K erfoot, and saw him with Riley in Man chester the morning after the robbery, and thought from their looks that they had been up all night. James Irwin, a constable, arrested Richard Holbrook. Went to his father's, and found two pieces of cord, which corre sponded with that with which the doors of Mrs. Widders' and the adjoining house had been fastened. James Jones, a deputy-constable it Warringten, on being sworn, said—l apprehended Kerfoot and Riley. The prisoner Riley said he had not been in Warrington since 1839, nor bad he seen Kerfoot for five months. Riley said in my hearing that he would not mind giving 101. to somebody who could pull them through the job. Riley said to me, as I was con veying him along, " Well, Jones, what is your opinion? had we better not plead guilty ?' It is a good job we are stopped, for had we gone on much longer, murder would have been the result. It has been suggested by one of our party that we should strike parties on the temple, so as to make them insensible." David Willis, policeman, on his examination said—The two Holbrooks admitted to me that they had done the High Leigh robbery. The evidence given by this witness in every respect corroborated the evidence of Jones as to the confession of the prisoner Riley. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. TEMPLE, for the prisoners Holbrook, laboured hard to prove an alibi. Witnesses were called, but they did not at all strengthen the defence. Mr. YARDLEY also addressed the jury for the prisoner Riley, after which The ATTORNEY-GENERAL replied. The Learned JUDGE summed the case up very elaborately, recapitulating most minutely the evidence that had been of fered, when The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The Learned Jonas after commenting upon the heinousness of the offence, sentenced them to be severally transported for eighteen years. John Dekenin was indicted for an abominable offence. The evidence was of such a disgusting nature as to preclude to possibility of publication.—He was acquitted. BATTLE WITH A BEAR.—The following skirmish actually occurred with two men and : a huge black bea ont.r a few weeks since , in the town of Sandgate, Verm The inhabitants of said town had quite a number of their sheep killed, as they supposed, by foxes : and one Mr. Sher man another person, took their guns and their dogs and went in pursuit of the sheep-slayers. The y had been out but a short time ere they saw a bear's track. The dogs were im mediately put on the chase, and but a few moments elapsed before they were heard to bark. Mr. Sherman and his friend pursued in the direction of the alarm in "hot haste," and in a short time they were in the presence of a large black bear, sitting on his hind legs, feeling no doubt annoyed at their presence, and the saucy dogs. Now came the tug of war. Mr. Sherman snapped his gun at the bear, several times, but it did not fire. The bear supposing they were poking fun at him, made towards them, determined on revenge. He came so closensi; nisv‘ and h that .irsm int t onhus h e embrace,t y hw w . e il r re. seined obligedshe hto defend themselves with their preventing rmta t n h e the muzzle n b a e p a p r e f r onf his i% gun s mreceiving d againnthem ds glin to gn h it exploded, tearing off the bear's und er j aw . Th e other man fired his gun at the bear, killing him instantly. Thus ended the fearful combat with the hear. He weig hed about 4001 b. This makes the fifth bear that has been killed at Sandgate within a few weeks.— Washington Co. (Vt.) Post. The Toulouse journals of Saturday remark that that town had been for 18 days in a continued fog, while Mar seilles and its environs had enjoyed an equal duration of fine clear weather. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HO USE. William Christey, a Custom-house agent, was brought before the Lord Mayor by Inspector Waller, upon a warrant, charged with having been concerned in frauds committed at the Custom-house. Mr. Hobler, jun., stated that he appeared by order of the Board of Customs, to prosecute in the case. The prisoner had been employed to enter goods at the Custom-house, and to pay the duty on them, and he stood charged with having paid duty on a smaller amount of goods than had been im ported, and with having charged the duty ~ .t) the full extent to those who engaged him to act for them. He ( Mr. Hobler, jun.) had preferred indictments before the grand jury at the Central Criminal Court by order of the Board of Customs, and those bills had been returned, and he subsequently obtained a warrant for the apprehension of the prisoner, which was exe cuted by Inspector Waller. The prisoner was, as the offence with which he was charged was a misdemeanour, entitled to be released upon giving bail to appear at the next session of the Central Criminal Court for trial. The LORD MAYOR having learned that there were three in dictments against the prisoner, said he should require two se curities of 2001. each upon each indictment, and the prisoner's own security to the amount of 6001. upon all of them. Mr. Alexander Christey, of Muscovy-court, Trinity-square, lighterman, and Mr. George Henning, of Artillery-court, Chiswell-street, were then examined and accepted by Mr Hobler, jun. as bail. These indictments cannot be tried any where but at the Central Criminal Court. The police gave good evidence yesterday of the wholesome effect of the Lord Mayor's positive directions to them regard- 1 ing the omnibus nuisance. Several drivers and conductors of omnibuses were brought before his Lordship, charged by the officers in various districts with having loitered, notwithstand ing the numerous examples which, to their knowledge, have been made within the last eight or ten days. The defendants tried, by every manwuvre of which they were capable, to get the penalties remitted altogether, or at least mitigated. In all their efforts they were unsuccessful. His Lordship inflicted the full fine upon every man against whom the charge of having loitered was established. Most of the defendants paid. A few pre ferred a taste of Bridewell. THE STATE OF THE STREETS AS TO CLEANLINESS.— Several gentlemen, amongst whom were some members of the Court of Common Council, waited upon the Lord Mayor, to inform his Lordship that, notwithstanding the activity displayed by him in urging the due performance of the contract for keep ing the streets clean, the contractor evidently disregarded all hints, and directions, and threats, and seemed determined to go on in his old way, not caring anything at all about the matter. Mr. Lott, of Cordwainers -ward, said he felt most grateful to the Lord Mayor for the attempts he was making to cleanse and purify the streets of the several wards, and he sincerely hoped that the cleansing and purification would reach his ward, which greatly stood in need of some strong process of the kind. He begged to be allowed to state that a scientific person had called upon him and exhibited some drain pipes, for application to under-draining wood and other pavements, as the mud in streets was, from the foundation, when wet and soft, working up between the block of wood or stone, of which .the pavement was composed. The LORD MAYOR advised that the plan should be sub mitted to the Commissioners of Sewers. Mr. Bracher. of Coleman-street Ward, said that Moorgate street, and the lanes and alleys adjacent, had not been touched with broom or the machine for a considerable time, so that some opinion might be formed of the condition of that neigh bourhood at the present moment. People as they passed along were covered with mud, and the shop windows came in for a pretty good share. The contractor had been applied to, and had promised to do all that was necessary, but he had done nothing. The Loan MAYOR—The best course you can adopt is to summon him before me. Mr. Bracher—l shall do so, my Lord. lam determined to follow it up.—The summons was then issued. MA R YL EBONE. Eliza Dutton, a poor-looking creature, clothed in rags, who has spent more than half her years in prison, was again placed at the bar, charged with drunli znness, and an attempt to com mit suicide in her cell. It appeared that after the fri son er had been locked up, the sergeant on duty ( Cummins) heard a noise in the cell, and looking in, observed that the risoner was making an attempt on her own life. She had, in the most determined manner, torn off the waistband of her dr - tss, fastened it round her throat, and had drawn either end so tiAtly, that Cummins had great. difficulty in cutting it with hi penknife. When released the prisoner was quite insensible, ~id a sargeon, who was called in immediately, was engaged si•veral hours before she perfectly recovered. Had assistance come a minute later life would have been extinct. The prisoner begged hard to be forgiven, but Mr. Lowe committed her for a month to the House of Cor rection, and a person was place. - in the lock-up cell, lest she should again attempt self-destruction. Matthew Thomson, groom :o Mr. Crawley, solicitor, of Fitzroy Farm, Highgate, was fully committed for trial, for having at various times stolen sdlit beans from the stable of his master. WORSHIP-STREET. Thursday a tall, powerful man, named Patrick Connell, ap parently a bricklayer, was charged before Mr. Bingham with cutting open the head of a youth, named William White, with a t odor's lion, called a " goose," and thereby endangering his life. The offence was fully proved, but it appeared that the pri soner's intellects were considered to be affected. The object of the prisoner's rage, who is a slender youth of 15 years of age, was ghastly pale, and so ill that it was with considerable difficulty he could support himself while giving his evidence. Mr. Courtney, the surgeon, described the injury as a very severe scalp-wound of great extent, and said it was altogether a truly wonderful escape from death. The prisoner, of whose insanity there cannot be the remotest dcubt,—as the unhappy man sometimes displayed the most apathetic indifference and at ethers the greatest violence, and for one half of the day was singing and shouting gaily, and for the other was on his knees devoutly praying,--made in his de fence an incoherent and unintelligible harangue, and Mr. BD./GHATS fully committed him to Newgate for trial. leaving it to a jury to determine the question of his sanity. LAMBETII-STREET. - • - On Thursday, after the numerous night charges had been disposed of by Mr. Norton, Nehemiah Shahspeare, a middle aged man, who had been upwards of seven years resident engi neer at the Lambeth waterworks, and who while in that situa tion enjoyed a handsome salary, was brought into Court and charged by Mr. Johnston, the principal in the firm of Johnston and Co., of Gloucester-street, Commercial-road, with having wilfully and maliciously caused the bursting of a steam-boiler on his premises on Tuesday morning last, by which the lives of upwards of 70 individuals were placed in the most imminent danger, and property to a considerable amount destroy ed. An account of this explosion appeared in the Sun of Wednesday. It appeared from the evidence of Mr. R. Johnston, that the accused had been engaged by him as engineer at a salary of 2Ss. a week. The accused had been engaged in preparing a slide for the engine, and witness thinking that he was slow in executing the job, told him that if he did not wish to do it to say so at once, and he would find somebody else to finish it. The prisoner made no particular observations in reply; he, however, finished the job on Monday. On Tuesday, the morning of the explosion, witness went into the engine room and saw nothing amiss. The witness described the manner in which the engine was supplied with water, for the purpose of proving that with oriLnary care all tie rangement from deficiency of water might be avoided. After witness had gone from the engine-house to the ware house he was alarmed by a violent rush of steam into the latter place, about ten minutes to 9 o'clock. The witness then de scribed the effects produced by the explosion of the boiler. When he first saw the prisoner afterwards he was standing by the side of the boiler in the yard. Witness said, "Well, Shakspeare, you have done a pretty thing,' and observing that he was smiling at the time, and instead of exhibiting the slightest grief or regret at what had happened, seemed to enjoy it as a good joke. Witness, addressing a friend who was with him at the time, said, " Look at the old villain, he has got a smile upon his countenance ;" and his only answer was, " No, 1 have not." While witness was in conversation with Mr. Good, a cigar manufacturer, the prisoner was about to leave the yard, but witness told him he should not leave the place, and that he (witness) would give hitr into custody. The prisoner merely replied, "Oh, very well," and requested he would allow him to go home for his jacket. Witness permitted him to go as he requested, expecting of course that he would come back, but witness saw nothing of him fr' m that time until this morn ing, when he came to the premises, and witness then sent far a constable and gave him into custody. When he saw the policeman he laughed. Finding he prisoner had kept out of the way, witness had called at thu prisoner's lodgings, and left word, as he was not at home, thar unless he came forward wit ness would send a policeman after him. John Williams said he had been employed in assisting the 1 prisoner in finishing the slide for me engine, and on Monday night he had occasion to get upon the top of the boiler, and finding that there was no water in It, he, addressing the priso ner, said, " Halloo, there's no water in the boiler ;" upon which be replied, " No, I should think not." On Tuesday morning, a little before ten o'clock, he (witness) was in the saw-house, when the prisoner came in there and went past him, and was returning, when the explosion took place. At the time the prisoner exclaimed, " Oh ! what's that ?" and the witness replied, " It's the boiler that's burst, and you must know it is." Its reply to a question from Mr. Johnston, the witness said that on Monday the stoker tried the cocks in front of the boiler, and found there was no water on. The prisoner declared he could not account in any way for the accident, but was satisfied it was not for want of a good supply of water. He further said that he was perfectly inno cent of the charge, and that it was quite impossible he could have thought of anything so wicked, as he endangered his own life as much, if not more, than any other ;and for his charac ter's sake, as an engineer, would aot have wished the thing for a thousand pounds. Mr. NORTON observed the case should undergo a much more minute investigation, and remanded the accused to a future day, consenting, however, in the meantime, to take bail for his future appearance. THAMES-. 1 OLICE. It is now more than twelve months since this Court was opened for tha transaction of pubic business, yet nothing can be so disgraceful as the state of each and every of the passages by which it is accessible. The approaches north and south by Ch ar les-street and Arbour - sq uare. when the weather softens in the slightest degree, are all but ankle deep in mire, whilst the two other modes of access, ooe leading from the Court to the Post-office, are altogether i:opassible except by wading knee-deep through the slough. .1p to last summer a stagnant pool, reaching from the footway 611 either side, lay directly in front of the entrance to the CoPrt. By way of remedying this the:water the water was balec out, the soil was dug up and carted away, and a parcel of loose shingle, without a particle of binding material, was thrown into the hollow. The conse quence is, there being no drainao,P, all the moisture in the neighbourhood oozes into the holl:.w in which the loose shingle is deposited, and the unhappy wiplat who hopes to escape from the mud by stepping on the stones feels his footing give way, and finds himself suddenly immersed in the subjacent pool, wondering the while what motive the constructor of a trap can have, the only produce of which is the increase of catarrhs. Wo to the confiding waggoner %Yr.°, trusting to the seeming solidity of the way, ventures his team up on the p assa g e ; once floundering in the slough of despcod, nothing short of unload ing will enable him to get out. It is amusingly provoking to Amount Names of Com- of parries. j Share. Canals. Ashton and Oldham Ashby-de-la-Zolich..av Basingstoke Brecknock & Ahergay Birnningliam,l-16th sh Do. and Liverp. 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We have, during the past twelve months, been enabled to ship manu factured goods at lower rates than at any previous period. The expenses of manufacturing are reduced by the improvements of machinery, anti low prices have induced continued large orders from tho-e markets which are the principal recipients of our exports ; but one fact must be borne in mind—it is notorious that our shipments have consisted of a great proportion of heavy goods, requiring but a small amount of labour from the operative in comparison with finer fabrics, which used to form the most conspicuous part of almost every invoice. Some important alterations of the tariff are justly expected during the ensuing session. The great benefits that were to ac crue from last year's measures have not yet been experienced; but, in one instance, where a leading article in every house hold was at tacked, and the duty placed on anew footing, great indeed has been the advantage—we allude to coffee, the con sumption of which is rapidly increasing under the influence of reduced prices. In this ease, too, the West India interest is still protected, at an enormous cost to the consumer, but the system is not carried out to that absurd and abominable length which precluded the possibility of admission to foreign sugar until the consumer has to pay ninepence per pound for the brownest description that the West Indies afford; then, and not till then, under the present system, is any relief afforded, and then only to prevent prices going higher. Let slave-grown sugar he placed on the same footing as slave grown coffee ; and great will be the change ; but let us go further, and treat it as we do slave-grown tobacco, and the re venue would receive an addition in the shape of duty of not less than five millions sterling per annum. Let us have some anal.,gy in our fiscal regulations, and we shall immediately have our commerce established on the best foundations. During the week there has been again some excitement in the cotton market; speculators will not leave business to its natural level, anti even in the face of an addition of 30,000 bales to the supposed stock, arising from some miscalculation in the weekly estimates, discovered when the actual stock in the port was collected, there has been a great business, at rather im proved prices. Money is cheap, and if it is to be thrown into such channels as the c otton market, it will indeed be found to:, plentiful, and may probably materially affect our manufacturing ; a favourable view is taken r s s are considered safe. trade. In all branches of business there is more disposition to get l i b) n ru u ic e ee s lively, and most of the leading improving prices. The advance i so n tf ot producekTh stock o s s e k bh oa o urg n ege hn tehir Market generally, t t ac nso o tdr f ii a t present prices, it is di cult to obtain more that has taken place in shares during the last few months is very great, and, than 4 to 4 per cent. for money invested in these securities.— Liverpool Mercury. THE :METROPOLITAN rotc JANUARY.—This :Maga zine, always taking rank among the most distinguised periodi vale, has commenc ed the Lew year with strong claims to undi minished favour. It has fifteen original contributions of sparkling talent , fr om the pens of eminent writers, besides a very copious miscellany, among which literary criticisms of keen dis crimination and sound judgment, constitute a valuable portion of its notices of new works. The following are among the original articles :—On the Approaching State Trials—The Palais Royal—Le Belle Blanche, by Mr. Crawford—A Vision of Time—The Brother and Sisters—Recollection of a Royalist Offi ce r—How will it End—Histories and Mysteries, with some beautiful poetry, fro m several distinguished pens.— Taunton Courier. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL.—HOSPITAL PRACTICE. —A case occurred on Thursday, at the King's College Hospital, which proves the superiority of London sutgeons. us do A man, from near Colchester, was adm Med on the previy with dislocation of the left humerus, or of the left arm, at the shoulder socket. He stateC to Mr. Steel, the house surgeon, that the dislocation toult place three weeks ago that he consulted a surgeon immediately after the recep tion of the injury, and was told by him that there was no dislocation. He then consulted two other local surgeons, who acknowledged the injury, end endeavoured in vain to remove it. One of the operations lasted nearly five hours, , causing the patient the most intense pain. Mr. Steel, asto nishedat the recital of these facts, particularly one of them, when the dislocation was so palprple, ordered the man into a warm bath, telling him that two o'clock on the following day Mr. Fergussun, one of the chief surgeons of the hos pital, would operate on him. Tr;a patient was kept on low diet, and an hour previous to the appointed time for the operation, took a second wa rm bath. The critical time arrived ; Mr. Roberts, pupil of I,lr. Fergusson, accompanied by several students, passed through t he ward (the Albert) in which the patient lay in bed, into the o p eratin g theatre with the necessary apparatus. Great interest was shown b y all the inmates of the ward for that success of the operation, rendered extremely difficult by r eason of the length of time that had transpired since the occeirrence of the dislocation. The presence of Mr. F ergusson , the operator, was announced , and the patient. rose fro m hi s b e d cheerfully , a nd walked into the theatre. The first att emp t failed ow ing to looseness of the apparatus, and the man w as brougtit back to his bed still con fident. A smaller app aratus h a ving been p rocured, he a g ain submitted to the painf u l operat i o n, and in less than 15 minutes the dislocation was reduced, to the infinite satisfaction of the patient himself, and to the joy of his fellow-sufferers in the Albert ward. This triumph of London hospital practice is an additional inducement to the benevolent to support the public medical metropolitan institutions. RicitAnn DADD.—The order for the t ransmission of this unhappy young m an to England is in the hands of the authorities here; hut it i s h e ld back from a kind and merciial consideration, and will not b e r ut in force until a few day before the commencement o f the assizes ; his im p risonment in the common gaol of the county will consequen tl y be ver y Very brief also will be hi s trial : evidence of his insanity for some time previous to its melancholy consummation will be given by one or two of his intimate friends, artists, sufficient to satisfy the jury, although forming but a small part of the proofs that might be adduced, if necessary, and the poor fellow will be at once removed to some lunatic asylum for the remainder of his sad life. Latest accounts cl3scribe him as in a bad state of health, but receiving unremitting attention from the persons under whose care he is placed at rontainbl eau.— Art- Union. TIIE LATE BISHOP OF CLOGIIE R.—There was not so much secrecy observ e d res p ec ting the latte r da y s of this miserable man, as our Cont e mporary the Sco tsman su pp oses. It was pretty generally k nown , that, at the tim e when he fled from trial, he was tra ce d t o B e lfast, where all kno wled g e of him was lost, for many years. S u bsequently, he was discovered to be residing at the house of his sister, at Donaghadee ; but none acquainted with the secret seemed to like the office of dragging the wretched creature from his hiding-place. He loitered about his relative's dwelling, dressed, generally, in servant's livery ; but under a fictitious name. After the lapse of some years, he became alarmed for his security ; and removed to the banks of the Clyde, within a short distance of Glasgow;— taking with him two or three Irish domestics, and assuming the name of Thomas Wilson. He then dressed in the rustic Highland garb, and used to wander about the streets, and the vicinity of the town. He kept up a regular correspondence with his connexions in Ireland ; and gave away a great deal of money in pretests to the poor persons who were kind to him during his concealment at Donaghadee. He lived retired; but, it is said, still preserved something like style at his table.-. Northirn Vs '. Dividend per Annum. 5,1 per cent. 41. 4 per cent. 41. d. ss. 131 12,;. Bd. / 10s. 341. 10/. 5/. 70/. 8/, 5/. 10/, 31)1. ,7s. tic!. 6 percent. 28 151. 20.7. 1/. 10s. 32/. 10s. 101. Si. 10s. 4/. 11. 4s. 3 per cent. I ,i, per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. !.1/. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. la;„ per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. L per cent. r. Os. Si. 18s. Id. per cent. 11. is. 3, 105. 4 percent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 13s. lid.yr sh 5/. ss. 4 per cent. per share 5 per cent. 3/. Ps. 5 per cent.l & 30s. hits. 5 , X, per cent. 5 per cent 5 per cent. ti per cent. 5 per cent. 4s. 2s. &I. 1.2 percent, 19s. sh. & bds. 1/. ss. 10s. 'los. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 1/. ss. 4?. 5 per cent. 6y 2 per cent. 1/. 4s. spe cent. lON per cent 5/. S per cent. 6 per cent. 5 percent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. C per cent. 8 per cent. per cent. 6 per cent. ?Is per share 3s. per share 10 per cent. 5 per cent. 16s. 1/. ss. 11. 7s. 5/. and tl. 454/. and 10 per cent. 4 per cent. 81 per 6h 3/5s I , er ‘2/. 4 per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent 1. per cent. 44 per cent. 3/. 12& 21. 10s. 21. 10s. 21. 10s. ;, , per cent. 4/. 1 Os. 11. 11s. 10s. per sh 1/. Is. 4 per cunt. V. 10s. Ss. per sh. 2/. ss. per s h 7s 10d per sh lo per cent per cent. 31. 53. per sh . 2 1 4/. per sh. Ls. per sh. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. per .h 101. per sh 11. 1 Is. 3/.per share 441 per sh 4/.175. pr sh 113 s per sh IL 11. 10s. I/. ss. 15s. 17. Ils. 10d. 15 per cent, per cent. per cent. 0 per cent. I/. 11. 3!. 17s. 6d. JO per cent. lOs. per sh. 11. 104 per ill. 1/, 4s, 11. 15s. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 11. Bs. anti - / es.6d. bs. tper cent. 7 per cent. 04 per cent 6 per cent. LIST OF SCOTTISH COM DEC. 27, Bank of Scotland...— Royal Bank British Linen Compny Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Bank Central Pk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance-. Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scotl. Edinburgh Lite Insur. Scottish Union Incur Standard Life Insur I)alkcith Railway lichn. and Glas. Railwy Glasg. and Green. Rail. Dundeeand A rlo per cent. (per cent. Eper cent. (per cent. ;per cent. I per cent. (per cent. .'per cent. 7 per cent. 0 per cent. t per cent. ( per cent. t per cent. fi per cent. 1g per cent. per cent. J. Barneby, Esq., M.P., has just resigned the Chairmanship of the Hereford County Sessions, in consequence of a decision mule on 3lomlay by the Bench of Magistrates relative to a question of gaol discipline, which involved a mis understanding between the governor and the surgeon of the county gaol. 12 13 10 All paid 33 16 85 0 125 0 150 0 12 10 140 0 125 0 145 0 79 9 100 0 26 9 50 0 19 5 100 0 100 0 78 8 67 10 105 0 110 0 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 Stock 30 0 0 50 0 63 2 50 0 100 0 70 10 3 500 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 250 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 1; 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 50 0 6 60 0 0 2 , 40 0 0 21 50 0 0 1 74 5 0 0 11 0 0 16 50 0 6 5 0 0 15 55 0 0 I I 50 0 0I 34 5 0 0 I 6 210 0 1 6 10 0 0 1 5 0 01 250 0 0 400 AU paid 2C 2 0 0 1 1/. 11 30 0 1 36 10 0 4 2 10 0 3 ( 210 ( 3 50 0 0 18, 10 0 0 I 1 , 5 13 0 2! o o 12 10 0 16 12 10 0 16 2 10 0 2 2 0 0 40s. 1 0 0 18s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 4 50 0 1 0 5 0' 1! 20 0 01 lb O 0 4: O 0 4; O 0 4 O 0 131 O 0 1: O 0 2 O 0 O 0 10 0 00 0 • 10 0 O 0 O 0 O 0 00 O 0 o 0 21 O 0 2 -2: 0 0 1 ' O 0 JSC 10 0 O 0 O 0 6 0 ofi 0 0 2 O 0 6C O 0 35 O 0 7C O 0 i 237 O 0 1 2ii 23 0 0i 2' 100 0 0 100 0 0 6: 70 0 0 6; SO 0 0 ' 2; 100 6 0 23 0 0 11 50 0 0 5' 12 10 0 1 100 0 0 20 100 0 0 8 65 0 0 U 50 6 0 7 12 0 0 1 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 21i 50 0 0 25 0 0 1 50 0 0 10 0 0 I 11 'lOO 0 0 2 0 0 32 0 0 1 4 So 0 0 30 0 0 4: 40oola 7 0 0 166 0 0 1 88 100 0 0 ' 9il 40 I 0 45 45 0 0 1 5:2 15 0 0 1 22 20 0 0 I 100 0 0 1 26f 50 0 0 25 0 0 : ( 50 0 0 , 121 20 0 0 5 31 0 13 10 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 150 0 0 21 0 0 25 0 0 1 1•2 15 0 0 11 75 0 0 7 JO 0 7 JO 0 ! 20 40 0 0 41 13 0 01 55 0 0 6 20 0 0 1: 10 10 0 3 0 0 59 0 0 7 0 0 130 el 0 1 50 0 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 2 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 o j 1 10 0 D I 1: 30 0 0 1: 33 10 0 1 32 10 0 3 3 0 0 14 0 0 t? 1 10 0 308 5 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 0 75 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 5 O 0 100 0 0 , 11 O 0 20 0 0 O 0 50 0 0 0 011 20 0 01 , ANIES' PRICES. 843. 10 0 0 ii 10 0 0 11 10 0 0 Ifl 10 0 0 E 12 10 0 11 1 0 0 1 1 2 10 0 50 0 6 80 0 o 25 0 0 25 0 0? MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY), FCORN—EXCHANGE. The supply of English Wheat on sale was very small, and !I4 we had a fair business doing in the article, at fully Monday's prices. There was a fair average quantity of Foreign Wheat L 3 n2 . offering, while the trade with it was tolerably native, and pre vious rates were well supported. Although the returns show on I arrival of upwards of 10,000 quarters, the show of Barley was small. Fine qualities were in demand at full prices, but in 27 other kinds little was doing. Superfine Malt sold at rather % 10 more money, with a firm inquiry. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Flour were unaltered in value. ARRIVALS. 22 Wheat. Parley. 1 Oats. I Flour English. 2,630 qrs 10,590 qrs. 5,190 ire I 4,590 sacks. Irish ....... 2,130 Foreign 440 - - - Malt, 6,730 qrs. STarriIIr'ZMIGICIL 1 m The supply of beasts on sale being seasonably large, and the weather unfavourable to slaughtering, the Beef trade ruled ex / cessively dull, at an abatement of `id per Blbs. From, Scotland nearly 200, and from Ireland about 70 beasts, were received. r Although the numbers of Sheep were only moderate, viz., 3,740, the demand fJr them was very inactive, at barely qa tionary prices. Calves were a mere drug, and quite 2d per Blbs / lower than on Monday. In Pigs, owing to the large arrival in the dead markets, scarcely any thing was doing at late rates. Milch Cows sold slowly at from 16/ to 191 lOs each, including IN their small calf. 0 0 1 13 B. d. to s. &I r. d. to P. d. inferior Beasts 2lO 3 0 ( Inferior Sheep ...... ... 3 4 3 ti becondlqusllty ditto 3 2 3 -1 ( Second quality ditto... 310 4 0 Prime large Oxen 1 6 38, Coarse.woolled ditto.. 4 2 4 4 Prime Scots, &C. Large coarse Calves.— 3 2 9 10 1 Large Hogs 3 4 4• 0 Prime small ditto 4 0 4 6 Small Porkers 4 2 4 1 Suckling Calves, each 19 0 30 01 Quarter old Pigs, exchl6 0 24 0 SU VPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. I :Sheep. I Calves, 1 Pies 913 3,740 197 350 TZMIX7G.A.TE AND LEAD MTT HAM L. The supplies on sale were very large, while the demand ruled heavy, on the following terms: — 5% At per stone„ by the Carcase. 5 s. d. to S. d.I S. 4. to s. d 3M Beef, irferior, 5 -- middling ... 210 3Oi -- middling..." 3:10 4 0 -- [.rime large ...... 3 0 3 2, prime ..... .... 4 2 4 4 ,V ---'mime small 3 2 34, Pork, 1arge....... 2B 3 6 " "1",a1 4 78 3 4 4 4 19 BOROUGH HOP IVICARRET. 6% The supply of both old and new hops offering is still unu ' 8 sually small for the time of year; while the demand for al 0 ~A descriptions continues active, at further advanced rates 59% COLONIAL. IL SUGAA.—There has been an improved demand for British Plantation, and a good business has been done at gradually ad- vancing prices, establishing a rise of fully 6d to r is on all de -174 scriptions. About 19,000 hhds have been disposed of. For 4 Molasses there has been a fair demand, and fully former prices • have been obtained. The transactions amount to nearly bOO puns, consisting chiefly of St. Lucia, at 21s, St. Kitt's at 235, l% Dominica at 245, fine Demerara at 265, and Antigua at 275. MAURITIUS AND BENGAL.—OnIy a limited business has i% been done privately, but for the parcels sold extreme prices have been obtained, and in same instances an advance of 6d to is iM may be quoted. FOREIGN.—There has been a partial demand for yellow Havannah at, the prices lately accepted, but owing to the firm ) ness of holders, the business done is confined to about 500 baskets 5 ) % low to good greyish yellow Java , w hich have been sold at =Zs 189 to 20s. % REFINED.—In grocery descriptions a fair business continues 5 to he done at fully previous prices, and in some instances a slight („ advance has been obtained. In Crushed f ew transactions have 71 . taken place, owing to higher rates being demanded by holders ; t small parcels have, however, been sold at 265, which is alshade dearer. COFFEZ.—There has been no demand for any descriptions , 3 , 4 z. admissible for home consumption , and prices generally might be g considered nominal, excepting for good ord Ceylon, which has been sold in small parcels only at 60s 6d to 61s. The public 54 sales have only offered 105 casks Berbice and 1 , 900 bags Ceylon, " which found buyers at and after the sale, the former at 84s 6d gto 99s 6d for low to good mid coloury quality, good to fine ord broken 57s 6d to 80s, and good ord pale to good ord colory Ceylon at 59s 6d to tils 6d, being about former rates, and about on a par with the prices obta;3ed privately for the latter de scription. The lower sorts o' East India have been only in partial demand, and the business done has consequently been confined to about 700 bags, consisting chiefly of good ord Ba tavia to good ord Padang, whion have been sold at 22s to 245, being about the previous value. Foreign sorts remain entirely neglected, holdershowever continue firm. Cocoa.-311 barrels and bags brought to auction mostly % sold at 42s to 53s 6d fur ord ge e y to good red. Rost.—For the parcels sold rather higher prices have been obtained. The transactions consist chiefly of 50 puns. Jamaica at 3s 5d to 3s 9d for 33 to 37 per cent. over proof of good quality ; 50 puns Demerara, et 2s 8d to 2s 9d for 34 to 36 per cent. over; and 50 puns Leeward, at is 10d for proof strength. Rtes.—ln the absence of public sales few transactions have taken place privately. SALTPETRE.—For the few •darcels sold about previous prices have been paid. A fair business has been 4one in Nitrate of Soda, chiefly afloat, at about las 6d. Setcxs.—Only a limited business has been done in Pepper or Cassia Lignea at previous prices. Pimento has been in quired for, but there are scarcely any parcels offering. COTTON.—There has been an improved demand for this article, and prices for all descriptions may be quoted fully id to id higher. TEA.—The market seems a little brisker at steady prices. The home consumption from London last year was 25,320.000 lbs., being an increase of above 2,000,0001b5. on 1842. TA LLOW. —P. Y.C. is 41s Ca per cwt. on the spot. Hestr.—Clean is 31s per cwt. 12% 20 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 77 10 I) 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 5Q 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 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 03 12 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 4) 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 A 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 I'o 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 5000 50 s 0 50 0 0 21) 0 0 100 0 50 0 25 0 0 50 0 25 0 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 15A 15 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 a 0 2I 0 0 S 0 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 00 • 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 40 0 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 15 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 C 50 0 50 0 0 240 4 44 (From the London New Price Current of Jan. SUGAR.—The home consumption Sugar Market has pre- sented a healthy appearance this week, the trade have been de sirous to do business, merchants have offered their Sugars sparingly, and prices have taken an upward turn. This after noon at public sale Barbadces Sugar went with spirit at prices fully Is per cwt above those of the last auction ; fine yellow fetched 66s to 675, good 64s to 64s 6d, and middling 63s to 63s 6d per cwt; 144 hhds ti 9 brls of St Lucia all sold, sad supported the rates paid by private contract ; good middli yellow fetched 59s 6d, middling 58s 6d, low 56s 6d to 57s good brown 55s 6d to 565, middling, 553, low soft Ms, washe and shifted 56s 6d to 58s 6d per cwt. To-day all qualities of West India Sugar were in excellent request, and better prices were again paid, making the advance for the week Is per cwt, and the total purchases 2,600 hhds and tierces, being a larger quantity than has been sild for a very long period during the, same time, the market closing with a firm aspect. HEFINED.—A brisk demand has been experienced for all descriptions of Refined Goods for home consumption this week; further advanced rates have been paid ; and the Sugar houses arc mostly bare of goods. To-day many parcels of Refined Sugar were taken by the home trade ; Standard Lumps sold at 74s 6d to 755. and brown Grocery 73s 6d per cwt. In Bonded Crushed Sug ar large sales have been made for forward delivery at 25s 9d to 26s per cwt. MAuairtus.—The rates given have been rather above these that prevailed prior to the holidays. This afternoon fine yel- 1604 163 ---ash - low fetched 66s to 675, good €3s • 6 d to 655, n fiddling 594 to to 63s low 57s to 583 64; fine g tey C 4 s to 61: 4 6d, middling , 595 to 61s, low 57s to 58s ; fine brown 565, got foxey 545, middling 52s 6d, end low 50s to 51s - 6tl per cwt. 67s to 695. EAST INota.-Bengal fine w hite has fetched' good 65s to 665, middling 63 s to 645, common ann ‘. fair 61s to 6d 62s , strong yellow Dobah 62 s to 675. low to raids. ylf Java at 57s to 60s, and low to fine brown 49s to 56s per cwt 18s to 20s per cwt. For Manilla 15s to 1 8s per cwt is t he value. This afternoon Bengal Sugar me t with.free purchasers, and 2,066 bags at public sale were sold at p rices showing an ad - Is . to vance on those that prevailed prior to the holidays uf Is 64 per cwt. ; fine white fetched 695;, good 66s 64 to as 6d, low yellowish white 595, mid strong yellovr 625, and low d: snap brown 48s per cwt. Foßmox.-Holders of Foreign are unwilling to submit to lower rates, and none las been brouwht to public sale. If .‘ sales were to be forced, lower prices we uld be the result, pi;r ticularly for white qualities. MOLASSES.-In West India large purchases have been made this week, but at no improvement in prices: ; ery low St. Lucia and St. Kitts at 21s to 23s ; the better sorts o f Molasses at to 28s per cwt. Bengal Syrup at 16 s to I,9ss per cwt. ' This 245 afternoon St. Lucia taken in at 23e for low yu, ; and Ilex. bice at 22s per cwt. COFFEE.-An increased desire' as been max `ifested on the art of the home trade to purchase Coffee of a, descriptions this week, and further advanced rates have bet 'n paid.; the small parcels of West India Coffee brought forward have found eager purchasers at an advance on previous prices s sf 23. per cwt. This afternoon the demand was brisk for noarly ea 'cry descrip tion of Coffee for home consumption. herb ice mid tiling at 923 to 935, low middling 893 to 91s 6d, fine and tine ordi, vary 69s 6d to 78s, ordinary 595, and triage 40s. Ceyloo was t sken in at 66s for good ordinary pale. Mocha was taken in a t 73s for middling greenish. Bengal fetched 60s 6d for dams ged pale yellow. Rio bought in at 6.5 s for fine fine ordinary, at td 50s to 56s for fine ordinary. • TEA.-The purchases made in black and green Tea hare been to some extent this week, and at further inirrovt rates. To-day several purchases were made in Tea ; common sound Congou for cash was with difficulty to be had at Is, alad cora' mon Twankav at ls 2d per lb. • Cocoa.-the lower descriptions of West India at easier rates, good qualities at the former currency ; Trinidad, good red at 52s 6d to 53s 64, middling ~k9s, low 45s 6d to 46s 6 4 bold grey 50s, middlinr , grey 45s to 46 5 , and low 42s her cwt. Foreign Cocoa at. 28s to 29s per cwt. Setcxs.-For Black Pepper prices a. re firm ; White at 4d UP 7d per lb. For Casia Lignea rather hi, gher prices have been paid. This afternoon at public sale, `alabar Ginger of bold quality sold at 89s 6d to 90s 6d, and damaced 80s to 82s ; Nut megs, for exportation only, taken in at 2's for small limed; S"!!agapore sold at is 10d for low quality. BUM*, BRANDY, AND lIOLLANDS.-Jam aica Rum, go od quality 33 to 37 per cent overproof at 3s al to 3s 9d, aucl high flavour fine 5s per gallon,. Leewards tit ICd proof. Demerara at 2s 8d to 2s 9d for good . and fine qua lity 34 to 36 per cent o verproof. Calcutta Run' is 61-d to Is 7d per gallon /or proof with certificate' Brandy has been in much better denaand this i'veek ; prime have in almost every instance advanced )d per gallon, and late parcels have been disposed of. Cogna c best brands of th e e intage of 1838, hhds 5s 7d, puns 5s sd; ditto 1839, bbds 5s 4d, puns 5s 2d ; ditto 1840, hhds 5s 2d, p t ins 5s ; ditto, 1846 hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ; ditto 1842, hhds 4: 1 101, puns 4s 8d; inf and mid sorts 2s lOs to 3s 4d, and Exci. se Brandy 2s 8d to 2s 104 per gallon. Geneva shipping sort at I,s 10d to Gins 1_,4 fine pale 2s 4d to 2s 10d, and common Ham bn.rgh Gin Iso D to /s 74 per gallon. English Corn Spirits at 10st to 105 2d per, gallon cash. Scotch and Irish Grain Spirit 103 to lOs 2d, an° and Malt Spirit 12s 6d to 13s per gallon. To - t ma y Brandy a fully former rates ; proof Leewards fetched is 1( Id to Is lar per gallon. Of common Jamaica, 30 per cent ove rproof, some small parcels sold at 2s 9d to 2s 10d per gallon. RICE.-Bengal middling white at 10sfid to Ils, good neia' dling 11s 64, and fine 12s; common yellow Madras at 80 U P 8s 6d per cwt. ; Java at 9s to lOs 6d, cleaned Rice at 215 0 26s for Carolina, and at 13s to 17v per cwt for Patn a. SAGO at better prices; common 12s to 12s 6d, middling 13s to 14s, and good to fine 15s to 20s per ( - mt. Sago Floor IBs per cwt. Rio Tapioca, of good and fine quality, at 4d 5° 541 per lb. INntoo.-Holders of East India Indigo beit ig willing see, at low prices have occasioned i - nany parcels of 1 len g al to be cif; posed 'of during the week, at prices showing a decline oa te a rates of the last quarterly sale o f is to 1 s 64 per lb. The trifling purchases made in Spams'a since Friday• last have b ee " at low prices. COCHINEAL.-This afternoon .'he demand was excellent OS Cochineal, and 56 bags of Honduras at auction were all 50„ 1 ". at 4s Id to 4s 6d for low to middl:.n t . ; silvers, lacing Id per o' higher. TALLOW.-Holders of Russian Tab 'ow have be en desirous!! realise, and prices have declined to 4' Is 3d to s6d per el" for new P. Y. Candle on the spot. F 'or deliver yin the tile next. months 41s, for the last three mon the of the year 42s n e t cwt.- -Prices being low for Tallow occasi cals a good deman d ,. 40s 6d to 4ls per net cash. To-day, for R n ssian 'Tallow, prier are drooping ; 4ls have been accepted for . new 3?. Y. Cantl e ! on the spot. North American Lard taken in 'at 33s 9d to 3' per cwt. Oil e t OILS.-Cod Oil at 321 5s to 32 / lOs per tun ; Seal 361 to 36/ lOs per tun. Southern is wanted, 34/ to 371 1 per tun paid for common to fine quality. For Spe rm Oil rathe'd lower rates have again been accepted, 721 for A merican, at 731 per tun for British. Linseed Oil 28s per cwt t on the sped Rape Oil at 36s to 36s 6d for pale, and at 35 s to 355 fot brown. Palm Oil sells well, flue at 295, ant inferior 1 . 26s to 28s 6d per cwt. Cocoa Nut Oil at 30s to 33s per oll„ Olive Oil, Gallipoli at 451, and other sorts at 411 to 431 per kRKET last market.day,:74; COAL AU Ships arrived since 6. d. 15 01 linddle's West Hartley e. d. Walls End Hotspur ' . 1! Davison's West Hartley l6 Walls End Killingwor - Hastings Hartley l6 6 Walls End Riddell's... ....... n li n New Tantield Hour l4 ti Walls End Haswell... .••• ~6 4 Ord's Itedheiigh l4 6 Walls End Helton . ..... : io S Pontop Windsor ...... .. ... 14 0 Waits End Pemberton ... • ~,, 0 Ravensworth West Hartley 15 ( Walls End Russell's He :ton :;'. 3 Taylor's Hartley l5 6 Walls End &mat t's ......... ,) 1 West Hartley...... West Wylam l5 3 Walls End Adelaide ..., -••••• ' 0 Wylam . 19 j Walls End Clark and Co. Walls End Elo,:forth - 0 . Walls End Heaton lB 0 Cowpen ',, Walk End Hilda ... 17 6 Howard's W. Netherton .. PKICES OF SEEDS Per Cwt. . Per Quarter ca, 4 0 Sew English li ed C10ver...35s 56s St. Fein ..... v a s 4 0 Old Ditto Ditto —s s—s Rye Grass.. ....... ......... s Vv..0 1 New Foreign Ditto.— —s 35s 54s Pact'y G rass $ ....4 bf 4 01:1 Ditto Ditto —s —s —s Liiiseed, for feetlin_, ~ s his 00 New White ( 'aver 45s sfs COs Ditto, for sowing ..... s o '-' l' Old Ditto Di. to —s - s •—s Ditto, for crushiog .... • ~, 44 0 Nov Tref0i1...... —s 12s 2-is' Hemp ., 3" Old Ditto..—, —s —s —slCanary IN- 01 Jr loin= s —s —5l Per Bushel. Er glish Carraway —s 4 0 s 41s.White Mustard....los Od to , 0 1 4:0, Foreign Ditto —s 40s 46s Brown, Ditto 105 0 d 00 .0, C or i an der —s 14s 9.osTares «. 43 Cd to . COUNTRY CORN MA2lK:EllS :_ ____,, , 1 Peal', Wheat. Barley. Oats. ' Leans. 1 . _ .... ..,. --- --- 1 --- il Per Quarter. a. to S. g, to g. a. to S. a. to s. 's.to 4r Bostoa Braintree 45 58 29 3t . : 118 21 i 24 29 28 B. igh ton 4l &?. 27 31 i 22 .26 ! 36. 41 35 •g 0 Cambridge 46 52 23 -... 18 F 32 -- 4 0 Michester 44 52 28 511 19 22 40 42 26 01 Dunmow 42 55 24 33 18 23 124 32 23 99 ' 0 Grantham Grimsby 4O 50 28 33 18 21 136 40 I 'OP Hai!sham 46 52 23 32 19 21 1 30 24 l 4 24. Hitchin 4O 57 27 34 20 30 34 45 - 31 ) Ipswich ..... Lewes 4l 30 24 28 19 22 30 5.6 32 51 Lynn Maidstone 49 50 36 39 26 32 38 49 Norwich - 23 28-I 24 28 32 31 3 I 10 Petworth ' 47 51 28 30 21 24 38 44 %''' P A Romford 46 58 24 31 16 t:4 20 32 ~., 5: Sandwich 5O 56 50 33 21 '.. 4 32 33 w., 4.1 Thetford Wisbech Witham 43 53 23 31 19 23 24 28 v. Yarmouth 3C 55 130 321 20 23 ail 4G 5 . CHELTENHAM MARKETS. co' d.g Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d.' Per lb. Vvhtat 6 I Carley 3 0 3 9 Mutton Oats 5 0 3 9 Veal B..ans 7 P ,e 5 0 8 0 Lamb ..t Hay 11.55. to 41. 10s. Od. per ton. -- -- . NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. lied. Wld to' Wheat, Northunikerland 4ls. 485 4&„ 5 , Norfolk and Surlulk --- Berwick and Scotch 4os. 46s 44s. 5 4 6. --- Foreign ---1 . s ' 4 ' Rye, Norfolk and Su Belk 2Bs. 30s -..5. 1 ---s• A -- Foreign .. . Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk... 27c 49s —f• -•-'' •""* s ' /0 - Grinding and Feeding ...... ... k 2 3. 24,. -?. I; Malt, Nortolk and Suflelk 483 L2s —`•--''' .:1 , Beans, Small Vs. 34i.. --f• --- Tick" I3Ss. 40s. —• Pease, White Gray 36s. 325.......- - "• ..... -- f : 268. 28s —s. ..-s• Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ... ..... 19s. 21s - - s- 5 , ------- _— Feed l7s. 18s --s• ~, —Foreign 2os. 225 ....... — q • --- _, 5 . Hour (per sack) 3 ls. 37s --s• - - HULL CORN MARKET. (45, Wheat, White (per Quarter) s2s 54 5• 5 000 • . Is . Red Foreign Malting 2Bs. 20s. 3 '''' . Grinding , 2ss 278. '2. 8 t 6- ,ritish Foreign (in bond) l6s. 188. 2_,O s . Beans - 3Os 325. ;)',!' Pease, Grey Blue and White 36s. 385. , e . s .' Linseed., 46s. h s *A7, --- :, 37g. -x,...- Flour per sack Rapeseed (per 10 quarters) CANTERBURY MARKET ....: Wheat, white........... 50s. - to 565....... 01d...-. ...... s ,„ „..4 -- red . _ - 486. to 50.......... 01d............ 475. 1. • ,.#. , Barley, Ma1ting.,,...,. 275. to 321 ....... Gr.nding.. -5.1°, 0 5.• Oats 8ean5....,.............. 2'7s to 3'25. ..... 01d,,.,,..,,,,,,. .-s. s. Pease .......-.-...... 31s. to -s. ...... Grey.... 325. t" 0. "HADDINGFON CORN MARKET. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans First sss Ott 2bs lid Ws 34 32s 04 -econdi 4ss Od 25s 7d 18s 5d 304 Od Third-. 35s Od 21. s Od -16 s Od 28s Od Average. 2l. ss, Id, 7.l2ths• EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET. Per Sack of 2101bs. First Oatmeal .......£1 10 0 1 1 First O atmeal Second Ditto, 0 1 7 0 Second ditt0............ _ 1 Barleytneal Peasemeal . a S t t m on c e al of 141 b. ; xo i 1 4 0 Peasemeal ,.... v Pot Barley from 275. to 225. per sack. Barley, Oats, II i; ott Cs • ea 0 DALKEIT/1 CORN MARKET. r eav, Wheat. , Haney. I Oats. Pas e.First s lg Os I 30s 81 33s Od 22s Second 46s Od 26, rd 18s Od Od y sJr I $ hird F Aionimeor Pitl _I TEA -8 AT WHOLESALE 4. 44 Good Common Black 3s. Od. Fine Pekoe Souchong•ls:. 0 Strong Cor.gou 36. 4d. iluperior ditto ......... .• Fine ditto, Pekoe llavour 3s. Sd. Finest ditto imparted." 8d• COFFEE. „If* 041 , Good Common Ceylon, sound and sweet Is. Od. I Ditto Cuba ............ Fine do., recommended 2d. Finest Mocha ...... .•• • Finest Ceylon, rich and mellow Goods delivered in all Country orders amounting to 51. parts of Town daily. o' , 610 °8 ~ sent free to a ll p arts tain. Bucklersbury, Chesfsf, MANSELL and CO., 2. BIRTHS. k a eod' On the 23d ult., at Madeira, Mrs. Archibald Pas ;tree.— On the 2d inst., Mrs. Robert Brown e, Wale' Edge-hill, 3d instp. Liverool, of a dairAter. iof 11°1" On the , at Stone House, Berks, th e lady Hobson, Esq., of a daughter. ' tn , c aro br ate r MRIE. On the 4th inst., Philip A R S. Hudson D , Esq.s 01 isprts• id tor Ellen, only daughter of the Rer. T. Foulkes R(''''' of Llandulas, Denbighshire. - • DIED. a of I' lge l On the 4th inst., at St. Ives, in the Ilth Ye -- a y William Bishop, eldest son of Mr. Th moas UlPh;wbiteh es On the 2d inst., Richard Burman, Esq., ° I grove, Chelsea. 1(')S: London : Printed and Published Ott b y DiURDO 03"' No. 112., Strand, at The Su* Offi ce , No. 1119044. the County of Middleeess Saturday, -January 6 0 1"" RING 11081 count are, or prove Alaste! hildi t will be an AS bESI the ROC' interrn (* ro b e Reguli T 'orotni ties to 4. T of the for the foods sl 'Visitor *hall bi 1 .ios. N' lrmed profess Persot subser suburl bution cation Lea l 1i V to l o i ttio ll4 ti : e ° li t : X; . 11:11