The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. • GLOBE.—The iession of Parliament was formally closed yesterday. The Joint-Stock Cabinet produc tioa—design.Ated, by courtesy, "the Royal Speech"— was on this occasion read by the Lord Chancellor. This circumstance is a source of satisfaction. That so wretched a composition—in which the object and interest of its concoctors was manifestly to say nothing, and thus to cast a veil over their own incompetency for conducting the business of the nation with advantage—should have been placed in the hands, and passed from the lips, of our beloved Sovereign, would have excited regret. It is bad enough that the country should be cursed with so wretched a set (rf Ministers; it would increase the mortification, fur it would enhance the incessant mischief's they inflict, were the Queen to be exhibited on the throne, as their puppet, to speak a string of words of no meaning, such as the Speech of yesterday was constructed of. The session is described in the Speech as " laborious and protracted." It' it were " laborious," its labours were unproductive of-good— if protracted, the time it occupied in its sittings was unmarked by a single measure of national utility. The session of 1843-4 will be chronicled as devoid of interest. It would be well if the most prominent of the incidents which have occurred during its proceedings could be obliterated from the records of Parliament. Circumstances have occurred in the course of the debates that have tended to lower the House of Com mons in the estimation of the country. Weakness of purpose, shown by truckling to the dictation of the Minister, have brought its character as an independent branch of the Constitution, into discredit, if they do not brandit with disgrace. The divisions on the ten hours' claase of the Factory Bill, and upon the sugar dlities resolution, will remain—a proverb of reproach to the assembly in which the inconsistencies occurred. The Speech states, with more of swagger than is jus tified by the paucity of information it deigns to supply, " that, by the justice and moderation of the two Go vernments, the events which seemed likely to inter rupt the good understanding and friendly relations between this country and France have been averted." _ In the House of Commons Sir Robert Peel and Lord Aberdeen designated the conduct of the French authorities at.Otaheite " a gross outrage," for which " ample satisfaction" had been " promptly de manded," and " must be obtained." There is reason to believe that these "brave words" were all of bravery that the British Government displayed ; or that if they were used in the discussion between the two Govern ments, their tone was soon lowered to a standard more consistent with the craven courage which distin guishes the presiding genius of the Foreign-office. The " gross outrage" to British honour has been atoned for; and the indignation it called forth from the Pre mier and his Foreign Secretary has been propitiated, by the mere removal from the scene of outrage of M. D'Aubigny, the functionary who perpetrated the foul indignity on the British Consul, and the insult to the British flag. His dismissal from the French service, if required by the British Government, was refused. Mr. Pritchard, who suffered personally and officially from the violence of the French autho rities, is no longer to be entrusted with the func tions of a Consul. Without a single imputation upon his conduct, he is sacrificed by his Government at the altar of French sensitiveness. He was the victim of French violence at Otaheite. He is the victim of British injustice at home. This, in the language of the Speech, is "justice and moderation." Every where else it is spoken of as a paltry concession to French arrogance—a pusillanimous abandonment of rightful claims—a criminal indifference to the honour and interests of the British name and nation. Peace would not have been perilled by firm ness—it would have been preserved. Future causes of difference between the two countries would have been prevented, if in the discussions on the Otaheitan question between the two Governments, a tone and beaFing had been adopted more consistent with the position of the British nation, and with the nature of the "outrage" upon our flag and representative, of which we complained. The British Government affected to feel, as it ought, when :speaking on the subject ; but this feeling has apparently evaporated in sound. The paragraph in which " the result of the session" is summed up, is of the style usually designated "slap-dash." It was evidently contributed by Lord Lyndhurst, as his portion toward the Cabinet com position :—" The result of the session has been a completion of many measures calculated to im prove the administration of the law, and to pro mote the public welfare." The only pleasure which is specifically mentioned, as justifying this high-sounding claim to legislative wisdom and utility, is the Bank Restriction Issue Bill —a measure certainly not connorted with the " administration of the law ; ' while the extent to which it will operate to " promote the public welfare," is more easily affirmed than demonstrated. We gave it the aid of our general approval at the time it was brought forward. Ilre still think it calculated to place the monetary transactions of the country on a sounder basis. But who ever expected to see it paraded in the Speech, at the close of the session, as the ground of a claim on the part of the Government to a nation's praise ? How miserably deficient must the session have shown itself, when looking back upon their doings, the Cabi net, while concocting the Speech with which to close its " laborious and protracted " proceedings, could find nothing more important among them than this mediocre production, to mention by name ! The omission of all allusion to Ireland must strike every one. There is more eloquence in this silence than any words that could have been em ployed. We read , in it the deep mortifica tion inflicted by defeat—the distracting diffi culties with which Ministers feel themselves sur rounded. They are not only at a loss what to do— they are actually at a loss what to say. Speech fails them—confusion covers them. What ! not one word about Ireland ? Has not the dignity of the law been vindicated ? Has not the public peace been preserved and the advantages or social order secured, by the prosecution and condign punishment of those who at tempted to subvert them ? What has become of that part of the Speech in which the policy of Ministers in the government of Ireland was lauded by themselves, as demonstrative of their wisdom and enemy ? Where is now that well-poised paragraph ? The reversal of the judgment pronouncel upon .Mr. O'Connell has converted their wisdom into foolish ness, and rendered them the objects at which a nation points its finger in derision. They will be laughed to scorn by the Irish people; instead of being, as they otherwise would have been, the theme of their undying antipathy. fir Robert Peel will learn during the recess, that which he ought long since to have known and acted 'upon—that he cannot govern Ireland. The party with which he is associated, and which endures him as its head, will not allow him to act upon a generous policy towards a sensitive peo ple ; and that people will not submit to be nominally freemen, while the Ministers s:ek to govern them as though they were slaves. STANDARD.—The Times has this day an ill natured article upon the .Royal Speech. The tone of the article, which makes a commentary upon the Speech a veld.:de for a personal attack upon the Pre mier, will surprise no one who has had experience of the general " fault4inding" disposition of our morning Contemporary, and has paul any attention to its recent conduct towards her Majesty's Govern ment. The Times commences by an allusion to the announcement of " the re-establishment of perfect amity with France." Th!s must be a bitter do e to a journal which had laboured with so much assiduity to prove the improbability of such a " re-establish !pent of perfect amity,"• and, indeed, had done its part to render it improbable, if not impossible ; the dose being thus bitter, it is swallowed with all dispatch. The commentator then proceeds to commend the style and structure of the Rlyal Address, somewhat equivo .cally, as " something more than an average specimen of the ordinary featherbed style of composition, and the ordinary milk-and-water pieces of information which s rna uch docum en t s di s play." This contemptuous tone be employed in speaking of any State paper, whatever its merits, providod only that it has merits; such documents, if they are easy and clear in style, uo and communicate true and gratifying, information, which is at once requirements. Doubtless satisfy, w e presume, all if the Times had to write a Royal Speech, it would whowould season it with a few sneers to please thos e hate to hear any one, or anything, commend e d w i thout qualification, or with a few anecdotes furnished, perhaps,"naval offi cer " correspondents. fixed upon by i paucity of ‘ ts ' definite state ments" upon is, however, as the great defect of the Speech. What would our Contemporary h The Speech announces p eace abr oad and at lkn:ii 'L nproved activity in manufac tures and com merce, a greatly g mented revenue, and the prospect of an abundantahudi: vest. Was the Speech to enter into particulars —to give the statistical proofs in support of all these general statements ? In that case we should compassionate all obliged to listen to it. Let nobody imagine that because these gratifying statements are necessarily gt neral, they are things of course. The experience of 11 years of Whig-Radical Government has taught us that they are not. They announce the enjoyment of those benefits and blessings for the absence of which the royal addresses from 1830 to 1841 had pretty generally to apologise or to express regret. This is a change in the style of the sessional addresses which will be appreciated by that rational portion of man kind who remember that the business of a Govern ment is in the first place to govern, not to change—to administer the powers confided to it for the promotion of peace, industry, and national prosperity, which if it does effectually, it unques ti ona bly f u lfils its highest function. If we could imagine on earth a perfect constitution of government, and a social state calling for ^o improveme n t, • • • the country enjoying. this constitution and this social state could be addressed in no other terms of congratulation than those up on which the Times affects to pour • contempt. It is a great step towards this. happy condition, that these happy topics can honestly and with truth be put forward in a royal address. It is not, however, pretended that onr social state admits of no improvement ; many improvements in that state are called for, but they must be gradually adopted, that they may not let in greater evils than they can cure. And, not withs!anding the slighting way in whic!i the Times speaks of the work of the session, we contend that more has been done in the last session to promote the prosperity of the country, than in any ten sessions before Sir Robert Peel's corning into office. We are not now going to enumerate all these measures • and it is quite unnecessary, fur the achievements of legislation are to be measured, not by tale, but by weight, and one good measure may preponderate over one hundred of inferior importance and value. COURSE OF EXCHA] Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 31 Rotterdam 2U. 12 6 Antwerp Hamburgh ➢I.B. 13 13} Altona Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine l2l Petcrsburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. ti. 3 M 952 Trieste, ditto Madrid 37 Cadiz Itiilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville — qGE.—(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice .. Naples 39 Palermo, per oz llB Lisbon 544 Oporto s4i Ilio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars. £3 17 9 rortugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 101 Silver in Bars 0 4 11 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Sept. 6.) Sucan.—The market has presented a firmer appear ance this week for all descriptions of raw Sugar admissi ble for home consumption, and merchants have offered only a limited quantity at public sale. There has been a largo amount of business transacted in all descriptions of West India Muscovado, grocers and refiners having been free purchasersat prices equal to those of Friday last. To-day West India Sugar was in excellent request for all purposes ; importers manifested firmness and ob tained rather higher rates, making the advance for the week 6d, and in some cases is per cwt ; the riso is more apparent on the low and middling yellow sorts. The total purchases for the week amount to 2,300 hbds and trcs. REFINED.—Prices have advanced for Refined goods this week, and a brisk demand has prevailed for all de scriptions from the home trade ; the quantity of Sugar remaining undisposed of is small, in consequence of the immense quantity taken by the trade during the last two weeks. Brown Lumps have been selling at 73s to 73s 6d, standard Lumps 74s to 74s 6d, Tittlers 73s to 78s, superior 79s to 83s, Hamburgh Loaves 74s to 81s, double ditto 82s to 90s, and wet Lumps 71s to 72s per cwt. The market has a firm appearance, and Refined is still cheaper in comparison than raw Sugar. Bastards 18s to 19s. Treacle is in request at Its 6d to 12s. In Dutch crushel Sugar sales free on board made at Amsterdam at 25s 6d for first quality, 24s 6d for second ditto, and Loaves 91b to 101 b, 27s to 28s. Bel gian crushed Sugar free in bond in Antwerp has been selling at 25s to 25s 6d, second quality, 23s to 245, and 91b to 101 b Loaves 27s to 28s per cwt. To-day there was a good deal of business transacted in Refined goods by- the home trade, brown Lumps at 73s to 73s 6d, and standard 74s 6d per cwt ; of Bonded Crushed Sugar there is still very little offering, and for mer rates are fully supplied. MAuarnus.—There has been no public sale, but a parcel is announced; good and fine yellow sorts have been much inquired after, and all the parcels on offer found purchasers at prices rather above those of the last auction: . This afternoon there was an in creased demand for Mauritius Sugar, and 6,603 bags at public sale were disposed of at prices Gd per cwt above those of the last public sale : low mid and mid brown went at 46s 6d to 48s ; low yellow 53s 6d to 54s sd, mid 55s to 56s 6d, good middling 57s to 57s 6d, good 58s to to 60s 6d, fiue Gls Gd to 65s Gd, and very fine Barbadoes kind 66s per cwt. _ EAST INDIA —An extensive demand has prevailed for white descriptions of Bengal Sugar this week, prices have further advanced and rule 6d to is per cwt above those of Friday last, yellow sorts are in better request, and stiffer rates paid. To-day Manila Sugar was sought after, and some parcels were disposed of at firm rates. making the private purchases for the week 8,000 bags, for refining in bond, at 18s 6d per cwt for middlinggreyisb, and small parcels of better quality at 19s per cwt. Ben gal Sugar met with a good demand, and 2,197 bags at auction were all sold at Very full rates, fine white fetched 645, good 62s 6d to 635, mid and good mid 60s to 61s 6d, low 59s to 59s 6(1, low yellow 53s to 545, middling 55s Gd to 565, and good 57s to 58s per cwt. Foamort..—There has been an increased demand for Brazil Sugar this week, and a good business has been transacted at firm rates; 180 casks brown Bahia for a near port at 17s 9d, and 300 chests brown Bahia on the spot at 18s to 18s 6d per cwt; none offered at public sale ; yellow pavannah rates on the spot at 18s Gd to 21s ; There is a disposition to pur chase largely at a slight decline in prices. The im proved rates previously established are fully supported for white Havannah, but there has not been much business transacted by private contract this week. FRUIT.— l'he accounts come to hand from the Islands and the Morea are rather more favourable for the Cur rant crop, and some Holders here are more disposed to realise ; the demand was limited at 40s 6d to 43s for Zante and Cephalonia, and 47s to 49s per cwt for Patras. COFFEE.—There has been no improvement in the de mand for West India Coffee this week ; although the supply is s:ill not large, prices are going down, and rule Is to 2s per cwt under those previously quoted. This afternoon 110 casks of Jamaica Coffee were brought to public sale, nearly the whole consisting of superior coloury descriptions; these were all disposed of at very full rates, and fetched 120 s to 136, for fine mid, 93s 6d to 108 s for good middling ; but of other sorts a part only found purchasers at lower rates ; middling went at 82s, low middling 725, good and fine ordinary 54s to GOs, fine fine ordinary 66s to 70s, low .:9s to 50s, triage 26s 63 to 39s Gd ; 103 barrels of Demerara were taken in at 60s for fine fine ordinary, and good ordinary 50s ; privately 300 bags of Rio were sold at 33s to 35s .for very good to fine ord. Ceylon met with attention, and buyers were compelled to pay 56s to 56s Gd per cwt for good ordinary by private c on t rac t, being again rather higher. TEA.—The market has still an improving appearance fur Tea,,merchants show firmness, and still retrain from offering any at public sale ; privately there is very little pressing for sale. Congou ord soun d a t 1 Id to 1 lid, and good common 114 d to is Oid per lb. Pouchong at 6d to 10d, and superior lOid to Is per lb. For Sonchong, however, there are still few orders. Twankay has been disposed °fat Is 2d to 1533 for common, ts 4d to Is 9d for brightish leaf, and is 10d to 2s 6d per lb fur Hyson kind. In Plain Orange Pekoe there has been a good deal done at prices that merchants could not ob tain last week. Scented Orange Pekoe at 3s 2d to 3s 5d per lb. For Flowery Pekoe the demand is getting frisker, but, at rreacint, rrices cannot be quoted higher, Imperial and Gunpowder fully sustain the improved rates of last week. Cocoa.—West India is wanted, but stiffer rates b ing required, large purchases have been prevented. Of Tri nidad some parcels have been disposed of by private con tract at 41s to 46s Ted, and 40s to 42s per cwt for grey ; only 12 bags of Grenada have been offered at public sale, which sold at 42s per cwt for common red. Foreign has been inquired for, stiffer rates being asked, business has been restricted ; and 240 bags of Bahia at auction were taken in at 33s per cwt for fine bright red ; there were purchasers at fair market rates. MOLASSES.—For West India previous rates are re quired, but less demand has prevail, d, and only a limit,d business hal been transacted by private treaty; at auction, 62 puns of St Lucia were taken in at 21s Gd per cwt fur middling quality, being above the valtp. In East India very little business has been transacted; 14s to 16s per cut is the value of Bengal. SPICES.—In black, Pepper purchases to a fair extent have been made by private contract this week at firm rat( s; 20 to 2i-d paid fur Sumatra, 2id to 214 for Pe nang, and 3d to 31d per lb for Malabar. This afternoon, I.7.cliests of Bencoolen Cloves at auc tion were sold at rather „lower rates, and went at 2s 3d to 2s 5d per lb for. fine bold bright. 24 chests 1 box of Mace sold at 3d to 4d per lb cheaper ; fine bright went at 4s to 4s 2d, good 35.5 d to 3s 10J, middling 3s 2d to 3; 4d, low middling 2s l.ld to 3s, low 2.; 6d. 18 chests 1 box Nutmegs were all sold at stiffer rates ; good bold brown Singapore fetched 3s 101 to 4s 3d, good mid 3s 6d to 3= 8 1 , rather small middling 3s 3d to 3:15d ; 20 bags of Pimento fetched 3 ; 11 per lb for common. RUM, 1311 ANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Jamaica Rum has met with ready purchasers this week, and in most cases importers have succeeded in obtaining an advance upon previous rates of Id per gallon. The total purchases are 200 puns— fair quality 30 to 36 per cent over proof at 33 8d to 3s 10d ; good 33 to 36 over, 4s to 4s 3d; fine 32 to 34 over, 4s 5d to 4s 8d ; 26 over, rather high flavour 4s 2d; and 20 puns very fine and rich, of a favourite mark, 35 per cent over proof, fetched the high rate of 8s Gd per gallon. Leewards at 2s 4:}l to 2s 5d proof strength. Demerara at 3s 3d to 3s 6d per gallon for strong descriptions. Calcutta 2s 2id to 2s 3d per gallon is the value of proof with certificate. The arrivals of West India Rum have been to a fair extent since this day week. In Brandy the operations have been limited. Cognac; .best branch of the vintage of 1838 selling hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s 111'. ' . ditto, 1839, hhds 5s ld, puns 4s I Id ; ditto, 1840, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ; ditto, 1841, hltds 4s 11d, runs 4s 9d ; ditto, 1842, hhds 4s Bd, puns, 4s Gd; mid to good mid 3s 2d to 4s 4d, and low 2s 10(1 to 3s per gallon. Geneva at is 10d to Is. lid ; fine, for home cansumption, is fetching 2s 6d to 3s 6d per gallon. English. Corn Spirits is lOs 4d per gallon, cash. SAGO.,-.There are few purchasers of Sago, and prices continue on the decline: , of 103 bags 210 boxes at auc tion, every sma ll part ' only was disposed of, middling small brown, Pearl at 14s, the remainder was taken in at 25s for fine small white Pearl, and good large bright brown at 21s per cwt. Tapioca is chea er, and 280 bags at auction were only p art l y sold at lid to 3d per lb. This afternoon at public sale 3 puns 2 brls 180 tins of Jamaica Arrowroot were sold at 61,d to lid per lb. RicE.—There has been less dem an d for Bengal, - and in some cases the rates taken are rather under those of this day week ; small parcels of good midwhite having been disposed of privately at Ils to Ils 3d. Foreign East India is less wanted, and little business has been trans acted privately—Madras yellow 8s to 8s 6d, white 9s to lOs Gd ;Java yellow 8s 6d to 9s, white 9s 6d to 11s per cwt. Cleaned Rice at 14s to 18s for Patna, and 21s to 9 Gs per cwt for Carolina. SALTPETRE.—This afternoon Rough met with less attention, and of 1,528 bags of Calcutta at public sale, only 360 bags were disposed of at 253 fid for middling dingy dry grey, 5 : 1- per cent refraction, and urfrefracted 245, being rather under former rates ; the remainder was all taken in at 263 6d to 27s for fine strong grey 41 to 3a per cent refraction. COCUINEAL.—There has been an inercasA demand, and the rates previously established are fully supported: Honduras at auction a ent at -is 5d to 5s Id for very ordi nary damp to very tine bold silvers, and 8 bags black at 5s 4d to 5s 9d per lb for middling to good. INDIGO.—A favourable opinion is still entertained to wards East India Indigo; for good and fine descriptions of Bengal the demand is brisk for exportation, and the rates paid are fully equal to those of the last quarterly sale, and in some cases rather above. For picked lots buyers are compelled to pay an advance of 2d to 4d per lb. Madras, Oudes, and Kurpah are wanted, but of such the supply is scanty. The quantity of Indigo sold during the past month was large, amounting to 1,400 ekests, and was taken chiefly by exporters. OlLS.—There has been little business transacted in any description of common Fish Oils this week; some importers are inclined to realise, and have accepted prices rather under those of this day week, pale Seal at 3415 s to 341105, Cod 331 lOs to 34/, and Southern at 271 to 311 per tun. Sperm, fine British has been fetching 851 to 86/, and American 811 to 831 per tun. Linseed Oil at 24s to 24s 3d per cwt on the spot ; the market is well supplied. Rape Oil 36s for pale, and 35s per cwt for brown. Olive Oil is held with firmness. Gallipoli at 451 to 46/, Spanish 421 to 44/, and Barbary 40/ to 411 per tun, but there has not been much passing; the con sumption continues good. Palm Oil, prime, has been fetching 27s to 28s per cwt. This afternoon prices gave way for Southern Oil, at a public sale of 80 tuns selling at 27/ lOs to 31110 s. TeLeow.—The market has been firm for Russian Tallow since this day week; a good business has been transacted on the spot at 41s to 41s 6d for old, and at 41s 9d to 42s per cwt for new P Y Candle. Holders are not disposed to press for sales. For delivery sales to a fair extent have been made, and 42s per cwt paid currently for the last three months of the year. Prices remain firm for Town Tallow, and the demand has been brisk at 40s 6d to 41s per cwt nett cash ; other descriptions of Tallow brought full rates, and have been in steady request. This afternoon at public sale 220 - casks North American Tallow were partly Sold at 37s 6d to 61s 6d ; 271 pipes 102 hhds 2 brls 96 srns 4 boxes South American 34s 9d to 40s, and 144 casks New South Wales 34s to 42s per cwt. _ _ THE SHIRT-MAKERS AND THE WORK-WOMEN OF THE ARMY CON TRACTORS. Some new terms have been put out for the prices to be charged for all work made for Government, and it will be seen whether the poor shirt-makers of the slop shops are not better off, or, at any rate, as well paid, as the poor creatures who have to work under the Government contracts, though probably the mem bers of the Government know nothing of the pro ceedings. The following are the prices, and many are the long faces and unshaved beards that carry the work home : Police.—For double-breasted great coats and lap pels, so that when one is worn out another can be put on, 35.; the profit to the middleman, who are responsible for the work, and give security for 501. to the contractors, being about 3d., while the labour in the work amounts to eighteen hours, they have to pay for their own thread, &c., and a tailor would charge 9s. Dress coats are the same, and occupy sixteen hours, tailor's price Bs. Trousers, undress, eight hours' work, 10d. ; the full dress, ls. 3d., which takes ten hours; the one being 4s. and the other ss. as the tailors' prices, and it should be rememb e r e d that men work at these. The Regiments of the Line.—The great coats with capes, 5d., after seven hours' work, the usual price being 3s. Gd. With fourteen hours' work a red coat can be made, and l Id. is paid for it; the tailors' price ss. Gd., looping is 7d. extra. The undress white jackets, sd. and 7d., with five hours' work, and usual price 2s. M. Trousers, white and grey, sd. and Gd., and it takes six hours to make them ; tailors' charge 3s. Drawers, linen and flannel, 3id., four hours' labour, 2s. by the trade. The Pensioners of the Army.—The old Chelsea pensioners, with their large red coats, lined with blue shalloon, are supplied by the poor workwomen at Is. id. each, occupying twelve hours in the making, and the tailors charge 6s. The trousers, which are heavier work than the Guards', are paid for at the same rate. Recently it was expected many of the old pensioners would be called out, and for that purpose they had a double-breasted coat, with stand-up collars and loops. 2s. 2d. was the remune ration for eighteen hours' work, and what ought to have been charged 9s. for ; trousers, Gd., and six hours' work ; wages ought to be 35.; shirts of linen for 3d. Cavalry.—ln the Life Guards and Blues, the very expensive leather breeches are made in the barracks, for which tailors are employed at 2s. 6d. a day, and it will occupy a man two days. A. tailor in Bond street would charge 30s. The chief contractors for the army work are the Messrs. Hebbett, of Pall-mall East; Prater, of Charing cross; Dolan, of St. Martin's-lane; Gilpin, Northumberland-street; and the proprietor of Paul's Wharf, Upper Thames-street. —Post. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1844. MR. J. C. BELANEY. We know of no similar case which has created such a sensation in the public mind, as that of the trial and acquittal of Mr. Belaney, for the murder of his wife, the particulars of which we gave in our last week's paper. Since that time, several articles have appeared in the papers, remarking, with more or less severity, on the conduct of the individual who has been acquitted, and that of the jury, who, to the asto nishment of the public, gave so unexpected and ex traordinary a decision Immediately after the trial, Mr. Belaney, accompanied by a friend belonging to Newcastle, set off from London for North Sunder land, where they arrived early on the Saturday morn ing after the trial, and at which place Belaney, with several friends, has been living since. During the week, in addition to the particulars stated in the other papers, there have been various exhibitions of the dis gust the inhabitants entertain of his witness, who gave evidence directly contrary to what their friends and neighbours anticipated ; from the fact of Belaney bearing a very different character from that elicited at the trial. The effigies of Belaney and his friend were again burnt on Saturday evening, and the hooting, hissing, and other marks of dissapproation sufficiently indicate the feeling of those who are well acquainted with this individual's behaviour to his re spected and amiable wife, and the degree of confidence they attach to the evidence of the witnesses and the decision of the metropolitan jury. The Rev. It. Be • laney arrived at North Sunderland on Saturday last, when he would witness the unto-da-fe of his brother and friends. The letters of "G. S." and " Inqui,i tor," in the Times, have been reprinted in Alnwick, and extensively circulated, with a few remarks ad dressed to the coroner and authorities, requesting them " to institute an immediate and searching in quiry into all the circumstances connected with the sudden death of Mrs. Skelly," in order to ascertain whether either of the causes alleged by Belaney—a " disease of the heart" (a family disease, too!) or " bilious fever"--to have been the occasion of death, was really the true one. The public also seem de sirous of knowing something about the " miscarriage" in 184:3, and what became of the child, &c., in order that the real facts of both cases may be properly and fully investigated.—Correspondent of the Tyne Mercury. RAILWAY FROM BIRKENHEAD TO MANCHESTER.— There are two plans of railways which may be said to he now before the public for connecting Manchester u ith B'rkenhead. The Grand Junction Railway Company, with the object of effecting a communication between Holyhead and Manchester, purpose running a line from Chest,r and Crewe terminus, through Altringham, going out somewhere near Stockport. The other plan is the one in greatest favour at Birkenhead. It is to commence, s at Preston Brook, cross the Wea-:er and Canal, and enter the Liverpool and Manchester line six miles on this side of the latter town ; from Prest, n Brook one branch will proceed to Chester, facilitating the journey to Holyhead, and another will join the Birkenhead and Chester line at Sutton, and thereby render the; distance between Manchester and Birkenhead within thirty-six miles. The advantages of this latter plan are said to be very great. The ground is a deal level ; no cutting, very little bridging ; no inconvenient gradiants, no ex pensive stations. The cost is estimated not to exceed 12,000/ a mile, or total outlay 400,000/. Double that sum, and still it would be a sate speculation. It is tn.- necessary to refer to its influence on the Birkenhead Docks. There are, however, potent interests involved in both schemes.—Liverpool Journal. MYSTERIOUS CASE.—The body of the young woman lately found on the beach near Ardrossan, and interred in the Saltcoats burying-ground, was exhumed on Tuesday for the purpose of being identified by her father, a weaver from Storey-street, Paisley. He was accompanied by the fiscal and superintendent of police from Greenock, and at once recognised the body to be that of his daughter, Margaret Knight, from some mark on her forehead. The manner of her death is at present involved in mystery. She had left her father's house some time previously, and had been residing in Greenock, which place she left for Gour,ck on Saturday fortnight, in company with another female, and a late steward of the Invincible steamer. From that time till her body was found on the shore all trace of her had been lost. — Glasgow Argus. THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA'S VISIT TO GUILDHALL. —On Thursday the Prince of Prussia arrived at Guild hall in one of her Majesty's carriages, and was con ducted over the principal apartments of the building by Mr. Temple, the Hall. keeper. Ile had dined in the Hall in 1814, when the Sovereigns were entertained there, and he expreised surprise at seeing that there were no galleries round the noble building, having no notion that such splendid galleries as were erected on that occasion could have .been merely temporary. He examined the painting of the royal entertainment in the reading room with great curiosity, and showed that he had a lively recollection of that brilliant scene. Having in spected the library, he wrote his name in the visitors' book. As he was leaving. the Hall, about five o'clock, the crowd assembled to witness the election proceedings gave him an immense cheer. PRICES OF SR ARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 6. Names of Coro pa.nies. Canals. Ashton and Oldham Ashby-de-la-Zouch-av Basingstoke eckneek & Abergay Birmingham, l-16th sb Do. and Livcrp. Julie Cheliner & Blackwator Coventry Crom ford Dudley ........ Der by ......... ' Danube and Mayne Ellesmere and Chester Erewash Forth and Grand Junction..... Grand Union Grand Surrey Grand Western......_ Glamorgansh., ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham 11 udders field ..... ....av Kennet r.ad Avon ..,av Lancaster , v Leeds and Liverpool... Leicester Leicester & Northamp Loughborough ........av Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield Neath Ox ford Peak Forest av Regent's (or London).. Rochdale av Shropshire ........ Somerset Coal Do. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury Stourbridge Stratford-on.Avon...av Swansea ..... Severn & Wye & Rail. Trent & Mersey, 1 4 sh. Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Birming. Warwick and Napton Worcester & Birming Wilts and Berks .av Wisbeach Wey and Arun Docks. Commercial East and West India London .......... Ditto Bonds Bristol Do.Bnds, var. amounts St. Katharine...... ...... » Ditto Bonds.: Ditto Bonds.. Southampton Bridges Hammersmith ••• VS.; : u aui t t txt h eohr w al Oo a mo r l k d , Ann. n e I. u . :a . ay. Ditto New of 7% pr c. Ditto New ditto of 71. Ditto Bonds.. Assurances. Albion Alfred Life - ... * • • Alliance Brit. ****** and* * ***** Ditto Marine ****** ....••• Atlas Birmingham Fire British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life ..... European Life Ditto New Freemasons • Globe Guardian Hope Life Ditto Fire Imperial Fire Ditto Life Indemnity Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National Loan Fund Neptune Marine Palladium Life Protector Life Provident Life Rock Life yal Exchange Sun Fire .... .. Ditto . .. ...... 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Birmingham & Derby Birmiug. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter....., Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Eastern Counties Edinburgh & Glasgow Grand Junction_,,, ' Great North of Englnd' Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths '...... Harwich (Braithvi•aite) Hull and Selby . . ..... ' Lanca ster and Carlisle Leech and Selby ... . . Liverpool ir Manchest; Ditto Half-Shares London and Brighton Ditto Loan Notes ..... London and ckwall London and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds....„. " London and S. Western . London and Croplon.. Al a nchest( r and Lead; Ditto New Shares..,,,, Manclistr and Binnin g Mid'ana Couaies... ... North British & Brandon Nor. hern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss.s/. dis. Paris and 0r1ean5.....,, P.ris and Rouen ..... .. R oue n and Havre......... Stockt. n & Darlingto South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich lurk and N. Midland... Ditto New Shares.,,.,. 100 0 0 100 0 204, 0 0 40 0 U 50 • El 100 • 0 100 0 0 100 0 • 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 • 10 0 0 50 • 0 100 • • 20 0 0 50 • 0 25 0 • 50 0 0 20 0 • 40 0 • 20 0 • 77 10 0 50 0 • 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 • 100 0 • 101 0 • 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 • 50 0 0 25 0 0 3000 5000 100 0 0 50 0 8 s') 0 • 5 0 0 0 5 0 • • 25 •N 0 0O • 41 13 4 190 I 0 3 000 100 0 63 12 9 100 0 0 100 0 I 100 0 0 1 00 0 0 50 0 0 2 5 e 0 5 0 e 0 1 00 0 0 100 0 0 1 00 0 e 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 • 0 5000 50 0 0 1 00 0 • 1 00 0 0 50.0 50 0 0 1 0 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 I) 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 n o o 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 2000 21) 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 Mines. Albi n Copper Alien Anglo Mex., iss. 5/. p.m Ditto Subscriptign Bolanos Ditt Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss. 51. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Cue. U, Do. St. John Del Key British Iron Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobrc Copper Copiapo Columbian, iss. 51. p.m General Mining ... Hibernian... Imperial Slate Compy. Mexican ..... ..... Mining Co. of Ireland.. Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes Ithymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United Mex., iss.2/. Ditto Scrip Ditto New Scrip Literary. Londn, with Sin. Ticket Loudon University Russell King's College Miscellaneous Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada Upper Canada Bonds Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., iss. 11. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick Land) New Zealand . ....... Penins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc South Austr.Jian Thames Tunnel Van Diernen's Laud 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 150 - 0 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 60 0 • 25 I yo 0 0 25 0 0 40 0 0 75 0 0 100 0 • 25 0 0 11. 4s. 11. 15s. 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 • 0 per cent. .t per cent. 4( B s. andl be. 15 0 0 5 9 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 fper cent. 7per cent. 50 - 0 . 0 IN per cent bper cent LIST OP SCOTTISH COM . AUG. 1, 1 Bank of 5c0t1and....... Royal Bank ........ Bntith Linen Compny. Commercial Bank ...... Glasgow Union Bank.. Western Bank Central Bk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance.. Hercules Insurance..... North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scotl. Edinburgh Lite Insur. Scottish Union Insur... Standard Life Insur.... Dalkeith Railway Edin. and Glas. Railwy Glasg. and Green. Rap. Dundaeand A rbr RaiL 6 per cent. 6 per Cent. 8 per cent. 6 per cent 7 per cent. 6 per cent. 6per cent. 6 per cent. 7 per cent. 0 per cent. per cent. f per cent. per cent. per cent. 5 per cent. k per cent per cen t 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 9 1 0 0 2 10 0 5000 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 9 0 O'CoNN Cogers' Hal stated to us, British law O'Connell II 100 0 0 2 0 0 32 0 0 70 0 0 30 0 • 40 0 • 100 0 0 2 II 0 4 0 0 45 • 0 15 • 0 20 0 0 20 • • 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 6 • 18 0 0 50 • 0 25 • • 31 0 l 4 10 0 100 0 (' 23 0 ( L5O 0 • 21 0 0 25 0 • 15 0 0 75 • 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 40 0 0 13 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 b 10 10 • 3 0 0 50 0 0 7 0 1 150 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 .- 2 10 0 100 - 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 C so 0 0 35 10 0 32 10 I 14 0 0 1 10 0 5 0 0 s 0 0 7 0 0 75 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 58 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 'AN lES' PRICES. ELL'S LIBERATION. -- The members of 1, established in 1756, have resolved, it is to public a dinner, liberty, ; the thecase f triumph o o f infavour id his fellow traversers. Amount Share. £ s. d. 97 18 0 il3 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 raid. Z a. d. no - ii o 41 13 4 1100 o 0 too — o o A IlTaid COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 6. (Before Mr. Conmiis.sioner FANI.) Ir. T. WIIITIIARSIfS BANKRUrTC V. The bankrupt w:ls an hotel keeper, hariPg one esta , blishment at Mackheath, and another in George-strvet, Hanover- square. Ilis debts and liabilities are said to be between 7,000/. and 8,000/., and his assets depend much upon the realisation of furniture, &c.—the fitting up of the hotels. An inquiry was entered into relative to plate and fur niture, but nothing of importance was elicited ; but an adjournment of his last examination for one week was allowed to institute further investigation if it were thought necessary. PALACE COURT, Sept. 6. (Before Mr. W. CORRIE.) The learned Judge was on Thursday specially sworn in by the Lord Chamberlain, as one of the deputy Judges of this Court, and took his seat for the first time. CHANCELLOR V. LADY MARY KING. :37 1153 w 101% 21 3 16 3 24 4134 129 18% '614 1634 6% 5% 400 1/..fas. 49% 1 63v 454 5% 15 15 2 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. Complainant stated that on Tuesday afternoon, about four o'clock, he was walking through Belgrave-square in company with a friend, when defendant came up, and pointing to his (complainant's) little dog that was fol lowing him, said he must go with him to the station, as 'he believed the dog to he the one which had been lost by a gentleman a short time ago. Complainant assured the defendant that the dog was his property, and offered to give him his name and address, but the defendant in sisted on it that the complainant should go to the station with him. Complainant refused unless it was in the road he was going, when defendant replied, that if he did not he should take him into custody and make him go. Defendant then forced him along by the arm, and on complainant stating that he was a rospt stable man, and did not like to be so handled in the public street, de fendant replied that he did not care what he was, and taking him by the collar, used hi m more roughly than before. After being treated in this way for some time, in the presence of a number of persons who had as. sembled, complainant insisted upon having a cab, and rode to the station with the constable. On arriving there to his great surprise, defendant did not say a single word about the dog, but informed the sergeant that there had been a robbery of fcur pairs of boots and a pair of shoes, that afternoon, by a man wearing a Taglioni coat, and he thought complainant resembled the description of the man, as the person in the boot and shoe case was des cribed as being about 5 feet 4 or 5 inches and complain ant was 5 feet 10 inch , s? arid defendant said, he thought he answered the description. Complainant was liberated and considered it his duty to bring the complaint, to de ter others from committing such an outrage. Defendant, in a strong Irish accent, observed—He said he'd knock my head off. Complainant —I was much excited at being treated as a felon in the neighbourhood where several gentlemen for whom I work reside, and I did say, when he was handling me roughly by the collar, that if it was not for his being a policeman I would knock him down. I made use of no bad language at that or at any other cunt'. Complainant's friend confirmed the greater part of his statement. Defendant, in reply to the charge, said he was never told the height of the person who was wanted fir the boots; and as complainant and his friend hitered about the square in a suspicious way, and aus veered the des cription, he took him. Complainant and his friend denied most positively that they had loitered. Defendant said—Yes, they did ; and looked in at shop windows. This was denied in equally positive terms ; and com plainant said, ho would show defendant's incompetency to be a policeman by his own admission. He (defendant) had called at his house that morning to entreat forgive ness, and said, " I have been a policeman for 12 months, and you are the first man I ever took up." Mr. Locke and Mr. Keyser appeared fur the plaintiff, and Mr. Beaden for the defendant. This was a❑ action brought to recover the sum of, 81. for damage done to the plaintiff's carriage, by the wil ful conduct of her Ladyship's coachman in insisting in breaking through the ranks, and endeavouring to take up out of his turn. The plaintiff is an extensive job master at the west-end of the towr, and he let one of his carriages for the season to Lady Charles Somerset. On the evening of the last Derby-day a select party was given by Lady Philips, at her residence, 12, Hill-street, Berkeley-square, to which both Lady Charles Somerset and Lady Mary King were invited. The party broke up at midnight, and Lady Somerset's carriage was called to take up by the linkman, when the coachman of Lady King, who had been previously called, attempted to " cut in," by which means the carriages came in contact with each other, the wheels getting locked together, and on the coachman of Lady King endeavouring to back out, considerable damage was done to the carriage of the plaintiff, the panel was broken and the wheels injured, so much so, that Lady Somerset refused to have it any longer, and another carriage was sent by the plaintiff for her ladyship's use. The Learned COUNSEL called several witnesses, who completely proved his case, among the number was th© linkman, who kept the Court in a roar of laughter during the whole time he was giving his evidence. John Mayer said, he had the honour of being ap pointed linkman to her Majesty's nobility for these last thirty years, and his son-in-law was his deputy and man of all work.—(Loud laughter.) He did not see the ac cident occur, but he heard the cry of " Linkman, bring your light," and ho then saw the two carringes con tracted together.—(Great laughter.) Lady King's carriage had smashed the panel of the carriage of Lady Charles Somerset ; her Ladyship's (the defendant's) carriage had come out of its turn and broke the ranks. The coachman had come the artful dodge of "cutting in," and witness told him that he had got in a pretty mess.—(Loud laughter.) A regular aristocratic coachman would have quietly waited until his lady called, and not have been out of the way when he was wanted, by which means he was sent to the bottom, and lost his turn. Cross - examined—Then, I suppose you are the " light of other days."—Yes, a very ancient linkman, and was first brought out in well bred society by a celebrated lady of rank.—(Laughter.) Didn't wonder at accidents happening now-a-days, they called things such rummy names, as wasn't illegitiwate.—(Roars of laughter.) They had Brougham , , buggys, flys, sulkys, and such like jiuncracks, instead of the re a l no bl eman ' s ill eg iti ma t e car riage.—(Convulsions of laughter.) My Lord Duke, or her Grace, in going to parties, was no sooner in than they were out again ; and that wasn't so when George the Third was King.—(Continued laughter.) That's the way these here accidents occur, for as one's coming the other is going, and that creates confUsion. There's always great smashing at the Opera. The Learned COUNSEL then addressed the jury at great length, and contended that the servants of the defendant were not to blame, and Lady Somerset's carriage drove up when it was not called. The Learned Gentleman called three witnesses ; but they totally failed to esta blish his defence, and the jury, without giving the Learned Judge the trouble to sum up, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, V., being the full amount claimed. On Thursday a messenger of the Great Western Railroad establishment was robbed of about 1,3001. in Bank-notes, sovereigns, and silver, in the following manner :—lt has been-for some time his practice to take a blue bag with a considerable sum of money in it, from the railroad station at Paddington to Sir R. C. Glyn's banking-house, in Lombard-street. On Thursday, at about three o'clock in the afternoon, he got upon the roof of the railway omnibus with his blue bag, in which were wrapped up in a leathern trunk 800 sovereigns and 500/. in Bank-notes. A gentleman at the station having occasion to say a few words to him, he got down, leaving his valuable parcel on the top of the omnibus, and the moment he was on the ground, five men mounted and occupied the whole space. These men got down at different places between the terminus and Marylebone Church, and the messenger, upon arriving at Lombard-street, took what he considered to be his parcel to the bank ing-house. He soon found that a very unwelcome exchange had been made, for the blue bag, which had been made to resemble his as closely as possible, wt s filled with old pieces of lead and copper. Imagining that his bag was still on the top of the omnibus, he ran after the vehicle to the Brighton station, but there, to his dismay, he ascertained that there was no parcel of any kind. The Bank-notes were ordered to be stopped at the Bank, and immediate intelligence was given of the robbery to John and Daniel ForreAer, the officers. BOW-STREET. Yesterday, a miscreant, respectably-dressed, who refused to give his name, was brought before Mr. Jardine, to answer the c h arge o f having indecently exposed him self to a little girl, 13 years of age, in St. James's-park, shortly after two o'clock in the afternoon. The charge was fully established, it being proved also that the offence was committed in the presence of two still younger children than the one to whose care they were entrusted. The defendant said he had no reason to .dispute the evidence which had been given, but he assured the magis trate that everything he did was with the unqualified consent of the girl. lie would not attempt to justify his conduct in a moral point of view, but he denied that he had offended against any law. He added that he was a gentleman livinrupon his fortune, and moving in a station that would save him from the imputation of having in dulged frequently in habits of this nature. Mr. JARDINE, after some hesitation, expressed his regret that he was compelled to believe that the child was a consenting party to all that he did and said in her presence, so that it was impossible to convict him of an outrage upon her. But; as the act of exposure in a pub lic place, frequented .by persons of high respectability, was an offence for which he thought it probable he might be proceeded against, without reference to the child, he should mark his abhorrence of such disgraceful and im moral conduct by requiring him to find two sureties in 401. each, and to enter into his own recognizarices of MI. to answer any charge that might be instituted at the next sessions, and in the meantime to keep the peace, &c. [Surely neither of the younger children or the park keeper, all of whom witnessed the disgusting offence, were consenting parties ? Could not a charge for the offence as against them be supported? If it can possibly be procured, we shall certainly publish the name and ad dress of this disgrace to human nature, that his crime may not go wholly unpunished.] QUEEN-SQUA RE. Yesterday Michael lll'Donough, police-constable B 66, was brought before the magistrate, charged with having apprehended Mr. James Lambden, a boot-maker, residing .at 39, St. John. street, Clerkenwell, and dragged him through the streets in broad daylight, without the slight est excuse for such conduct. Mr. BURRELL said that defendant had clearly, and without knowing what he was about, apprehended com plainant on two charges without there being a shadow of foundation for either. He should not impose a flue, but commit him for one month to the House of Correcti , ti.— Committed accordingly. WOYSIIIP-STREET. Yesterday a powerful fellow, named Samuel Badgery, was placed at the bar IR fore Mr. Bingham, charged with the following unprovoked assault upon a poor woman named Sarah Mullins, the wife of a labouring man resid ing in Richardson's-place, St. Luke's : The prosecutrix, whose face was mu , h contused, stated that while standing at the corner of Bath street, Old-street, near her own house, at one o'clock that afternoon, she saw the prisoner most shamefully ill-using a poor blind man who picks up a scanty living in that neighbourhood by selling tapes and laces, and after witnessing his conduct for son: e time, in the hope that some man would i n t er f ere f or th e blind man's protection, but which no one did further than giving vent to exclamations of indignation, she at length went up to the prisoner and told him that he ought to be ashamed of himself to so knock about a per son old enough to be his grandfather ; on which the prisoner turned round, and, telling her he would serve her the same, instantly struck her a violent blow in the face which felled her to the pavement; on recover ing from the effects of this violence, she got up and called for the police, and was a second time struck:to the ground ; her screams at last reached the ears of her husband, and brought him out to her assistance, but he had no sooner made his appearance than the prisoner furiously rushed upon him, and, knocking him to the ground also, finished his operations by giving him several violent kicks in the ribs with his hobnailed boots. Several of the male bystanders at length interfered, and, a constable being procured, the prisoner, who made a stout resistance, was overpowered and secured. Three witnesses corroborated the above statement in every particular, and described the prisoner's conduct as cowardly and gross in the extreme. The prisoner, who displayed great violence even while at the bar, and so rolled about the dock as to give grounds for supposing he was labouring under the effects of intoxication, flatly denied all that had been stated against him, and called a friend of his to make geod his assertion; but this person, so far from doing so, fully substantiated the evidence of the other witnesses. Mr. BINGHAM considered it a most cowardly and un provoked outrage, and sentenced the prisoner to pay a fine to the Queen of 505., or in default ordered him to undergo a month's imprisonment and hard labour in the 'louse of Correction. ELECTION OF CHAMBERLAM Yesterday the poi:ill's :went on at; a rapid rate for Alderman Brown, but Mr. freprel's friend shove° their opinion of-his etig-agit , g in the contest byrcolui n g forward in very Innlted niintl , eis indeed. At thre:.! o'clock the following numbers were el' hibited Mr. Alderman Brown Mr. Ireppel Alderman BROW N cam e f orwar d a midst 1 0 , cheers. He felt, he decl are d, mos t grateful, when be lo:dled at the state of th e p o ll, exhibiting, as it did, very remarkable contrast.—(Cheers.) He had been on the hustings but seldom that day, for he hail taken the advice of his friends, who a ppr e h en d e d that tu i i excitement might be greater tha n h e cou ld very we ll bear, and recommended him t o s t a y awa y. Ile bad a habit of -thinking aloud upon many occasions, and he thought that he came to the hustings' and looking at the board, where he beheld al l extraordinary difference between the two candidates' he represented to his friend Mr. Heppe necessary it was to keep up the show of a Na te ' t He thought that Mr. Heppe' most gravely replied till he persevered to vindicate the privileges of his fell° 11 : 0 Heppel how n , n t : Liverymen—(Laughter)—that he was resolve bait supply them with an opportunity of recordinc , tb, e votes for him. He thought that the Livery of L a onal most respectfully and gratefull feeling the obligati t % they were under to Mr. Heppel, who had upon his right hand Mr. Taylor, and upon his left Mr. Wans e q said that they would avail themselves of the honour ° t recording their opinions by proving that they did li d ° , want that candidate who had manifested such fond' ness for their privileges, but had selected an Ald er• man, one Anthony Brown for the office.—(Che ers) Such was his thought. He would now pass from it i n dream to reality. He exhorted the Livery to go and show the extent of their impression. He c °u not help saying that, although all personality had been disavowed, he felt that he was a persecuted that Mr. Heppe], without the remotest chance of stli cess, had thought proper to call for a poll. dl think that his feelings ought not to have been worked upon—that the business of the Livery sh° ll , be unnecessarily interrupted by one for whom scarc el ; r five hands had been held up in the hall.—(Cheer s " / He concluded by expressing his hope that, in a lei days, he should appear before the Livery to the' ) them for their exertions in hi 3 favour.—(Applause•) o Mr. HEPPEL came forward amidst mingled applau and hisses. He assured his friend Alderman 13raw, that he was influenced in the course he was pursuinb . , by nothing of a personal nature, and that if Alderman Humphery happened to be in the situation of Ald i e i l a man Brown, precisely the same line of conduct slip be adopted. He considered it to be his duty to 9 11 ° 08 the Livery the means of recordinc , their vo es for ° e , who was not an Alderman, and he declared that % veral of the Livery had expressed to him their en!!! A. approbation of the principle for which he contend he Mr. AMBROSE MOORE stepped forward. As was a great hater of all humbug, he w o uld encleav°.a to expose the fallacies in which Mr. Heppel had l it o h dulged.—(Cheers.) Ile charged Mr. Heppe' 1/ „,.. having gratuitously placed a ge n tl eman who had t formed the duties of Magistrate for upwards of tvre A l l years, in a situation by which a n ex pense of 6 v ch would be incurred.— (Cheers.) Upon ‘ what was, su ro . a proceeding justified? . If upon th e principle of P e e tecting the privileges of the Liv e ry, the Livery wi, certainly much obliged to him for hi s care and c l e it deration, but the Livery were w e ll a bl e t o protect t he own privileges, and looked upon the conduct ° f candidate as an unwarrantable intrusion. The Hall was then adjourned. COURT OF SEWERS. Yesterday a Court of Sewers for the Ca,; o f Liberty of Westminster, and p ar t o f the Coani-k. Middlesex, was held in the Sewers-office, g rl ibe street, Soho-square, John Donald son , Esq., in chair. cith The Court was occupied during the day ordinary business, the receivi ng o f collectors l i the clerks' reports, and the ordering of payments, t° contractors, Messrs. Bennett, and to other partl es 'a c li• The Court then sanctioned the b u ilding ° l, 1101. tional lengths of , sewer in Glo uc e s ter-road, w et, dington ; in Kensal-town ; and in Charlotte-s',ivg Bloomsbury; and, after some o ther uninter es ' business had been transacted, it adjourned. ---------- PHILANTHROPIC 80CIETY• he Yesterday the Quarterly General Courtf„doa subscribers to this charity was held at the P e- so. Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill. The objects ciety, which had been now established uPw er c ow thirty years, were to endeavour to ameliorate the ss itf sequent evils which arose from the social n ece j i ltig which existed for criminal punishments, by o P, e bee r an asylum, first for juvenile offenders whO had de g selves committed crime; and, secondly, fur ednea je it the offspring of convicted felons, who ar e destitute by the death or exile of their parents', l(. Samuel Rawsell, Esq., took the chair i.t two cloc_,. o f theas of , t ,pd DiP Amongst the gentlemen p resen t we noti ced Dr. Paynter, Mr. Baggelly, Mr. Bilke, and the Re v. Rice. After the disposal of some of the routine htisii) ti esg oo of the Society, the m ee ti ng p rocee d e d to the e lee t he of those children who were eligible to receive ea benefits of the charity, when t w o boys, who had diete already convicted of felony were elected for itne le ,i c ts admission; and the names o f s i x c hildren of ? °n. ne st were placed upon the li s t f or a d m i ss ion at tn e election. c nc ieo The report of the proceedings of the 1 " -- vis s from the Ist of April last to the 30th of June' received unanimously. Cha ir ' A vote of thanks was then proposed to t al tho ugh man, who, in r e t urn i ng th an k s , sa id that, n t to the Society did no t rece i ve th a t enc ourage m .. r e e a nd which it was e ntitl e d, by reason of the extens" o y to utilitarian nature of its objects, yet he was say that it had it se lf more th an fulfilled the Inebsesideo guine expectations of its founders, and had ~,,h h:# l been the parent of ma n y o th er soc ieties, wi a ,;-, c ting been afterwards formed, w ith th e view of 14 ' t hat similar objects. For himself, he could only s, s Y ro to he should never be wanti ng i n hi s humble en , ' forward the interests of the charity. After a few observations with respect to the mission of applicants, the meeting separate d ' lIISTORIC FANCIES. BY THE HON. GEO x GE SMYTHE, M.l'.---We are req ues ted to state `„ - blishe - Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, has ju st P - e , 8 0 ' a new edition of the abo ve work, in one voloa„ nook' price 12s. bound, whi c h can now be had of a"/ l ies sellers. "This book," observes the Court Jour , is quite out of the beaten track. The spirit by h fi nd it 3 inspired is fresh—its style is new—its inatteroooll; mode of treatment, are equally curious and neu roo sor It consists of abo u t fif t y different articles i n r st orie 9 ; verse upon a great variety of subjects, some some personal, some literary, some controversia bieb s a; bearing, as a whole, u p on th a t gen eral creed j iv e] o st° r ' , recently expounded in a more direct and 0 " n iugs b Yj shape by Mr. Disraeli, i n th e n ovel Of -i° We think Mr. Smythe's prose good, and `, -e h rY i c i:ro °l. ':. It is thoughtful and earnest, and teems with nor', high intellectual intelligence, and sincerity t int ' V ile But we like his poetry better. It is as 11 , 1 ' „., of t o geous as a piece of rich tapestry ; and die aof ° melody everywhere satisfies the ear, like a 110 table cathedral music." ANOTHER LADY THIEF.—A female of re e s s Pa p: cttl . b i l a 4l appearance call e d on M on d a y l a st, on ', r i ning' ) t o family in Carriage-hill ( a su b ur b of Paisley) , Es s g oil be j great distress of mind, an d p re t e nding she ;t e en o", ty , Neilston to see a friend. She said she br io pr°l 3e ,i i k in a tavern in High- s t r e e t, Glasgow, of all) od sj consisting of 2501. in cash, a fine silk bb) . s es, articles i. , which accounted for the rather s" i i e tow she then wore. The money, the plaid, Oa' she said, had been disco v ered—the thieves in ' d ther e. the plaid and money kept as evidence again st ta ble g e ,', - 8 further said she was niece to a highly resr e ' s lo ls cit tleman in Hurlet. With the exception of bro wnh er was otherwise genteelly dressed in a fine hot s 0 gown and Tuscan bonnet. The people 13 " e ft" So v o cre j s e e r called acted the part of good Samaritans. family about bur o'clock in the morning diSe c ', w ith b e , had been able to resume her , journey carrytu 4: a tot o , 5/. Bs., which her kind entertainers had 501f....-6 ther. The woman has not since been heard gow Courier. BIRTHS. the Yr- On the Ist inst., at Tissington Hall, Derbys h i re' Mai of William Fitz Herbert, Esq., of a son. the 4 q, in of A R t ob F e i r n t d D ra e s w si o e y H F o o u rs s t e e , l n ., eaErs. o Elgin f , IN,.ordtrhasßsire.itaionf,s 500 0 0 ...,fsbir e ' heir, on the 2cl inst. On the 4th inst., at Nether Seale Hall, L e icest er f t h e 0 Lady Gresle of son. lodi FrOcsannnctitsii:elle 5 5 i rt t sth , y i i En n s s s L t q . : , a , in a tf C a( :I l Cleveland-row , l ga Lodge, d to e - dr r i o e w, St. Jani e s ', at e, j . ,h e loci,' of Tritton, Esq., of a son. On the sth inst., Mrs. Edward Waßlketre,r;3 O sl°ll. gro cer i Hyde-park, of a son. ---- Re. t r MARRIED. On the sth inst.. at St. Pancras Church, by the i i n i s cor i William Dunbar, Bart., Minister of the English " - 1 , 1 tie ' Chapel, Aberdeen, Josiah Dimmock, Esq., of Stelooge Trent, to Helen Mackenzie, youngest daughter of u j Stephen, of Camden Town. On the 14th ult., at Nice, the Comte Theobald de '• e j csoeil de Parcien, only son of the Marquis de Parcien, to .‘l . s o Sarah, daughter of the late Captain Nagle Lock, h II' granddaughter of the late Admiral Lock. in 1 ' . • On tt e 4th inst., at Kessingland Church , CaPeta,, 's CillY Henderson, C. 8., to Elizabeth M ar th a , relict of the 14 tain the Right Hon Lord James Townshend, It•N• sso - ;111 0 0 f . DIED. On Friday, the Gth inst., after a long and Pain ful i lel, Mr. William A. Crowley, eldest son of Mr. W. crow Trinidad-place, Islington, aged 20. ~ e c ph I)4 ' Es O q . 1: o t f he c 4 a t v h er i s n ii s a t. n , l A -r n is n e e :near youngestedaughter of J. w-e -,-,.t tre et ' On the sth inst , Mr. Amos C. T ucker , of .x , — -5 Brighton, aged 48. • - R f ii - On the sth inst., Mrs. Char les James Payne, St' court, Leicester-square. ,ondon: Printed and Published by 14UR1O Tow, S No. 112. Strand, Printer, at The Sun office, No . Of Strand, in the Precinct of the Savo y , in the C°"`" Middlesex, Saturday, September 7. 1844. CLERKEN WELL. Yesterday Sarah Bull, an interesting looking and pretty little girl, aged 14, was brought up in custody of police-constable Peck, 8 E, charged with being drunk and using obscene language. The constable deposed, that between four and five o'clock on the previous day he saw the prisoner reeling with drunkenness in the New-road, St. Pancras. His at tention was called to her condition by a gentleman who chanced to be passing at the time. On their way to the station she used the foulest language. The gentleman accompanied them thither, Mr. BROUGHTON—What, is it possible that mild-look ing little creature used had language ? Peck, who is a very respectable officer, said he had hardly ever heard such language from the worst prostitutes. Mr. BROUGHTON then read a letter from a gentleman of distinction, residing in one of the principal squares in the west-end, but who requested that his name might not bo made public. The writer said he was shocked at witnessing the condition of a child so young ; her lan guage, he said, was obscene and disgusting in the ex treme. He concluded by expressing an earnest hope that the magistrate might ascertain the names of the publicans who furnished her with liquor, in' order that their conduct might be represented to the licensing ma gistrates. _ _ _ - Mr. BROUGHTON interrogated the child, who cried bitterly. She said her father and mother were dead, and that she now lived with her uncle, Mr. Rogers, an extensive. and opulent builder, in Kentish-town. Being asked what made her drunk, she said—l took my share of two quarterns of gin and three .pints of ale between three of us. Mr. BROUGHTON—Who are the others ? Prisoner— Amelia Boyett and Anne Prescott. Mr. BROUGHTON—What ages are they? Prisoner— Amelia Boyett is 13 and Anne Prescott 12. Mr. BROUGHTON dispatched a policeman to request the prisoner's aunt, Mrs. Rogers, and the two other girls to attend. Some time after these parties were in attendance. Mrs. Rogers, a well-dressed woman, deposed, that she was the prisoner's aunt, and had taken her into her house about three weeks ago, but in the period interven ing between the death of her mother and the 20th of last month she had associated with depraved characters, and had become so attached to the streets that it was impos sible to keep her out of them. During the last week the came home twice in a state of intoxication. On the pre vious day she went out on a message, when she got her self into the beastly condition described. Mr. Broughton then had the children placed beside him on the bench. Amelia Boyett, an intelligent looking child, having been sworn, stated—Sarah Bull came up to me yester day, and I said to her " Won't you stand a quartern of gin?" She said, " Yes, go and fetch it, and I did fetch it in a tea-cup ; we drank it at the corner of the street. Anne Prescott came ; we had another quartern, and being thirsty afterwards we had three pints of ale, which we also drank. The beer was got at the Rising Sun, and the gin at the Dolphin public•house, in Kentish Town. The landlord of the former served me. Mr. BROUGHTON (to the pr'soner)—Why don't you stay with your aunt? Prisoner—Because I liked to be on the streets, and could not bear confinement. Mr. BROUGHTON—WouId you not like a good place ? Prisoner—Yes, if I could get on the streets now and then. Mr. BROUGHTON said he had never witnessed a case of more astounding profligacy. He would, however, make an effort to save a child so young and so favoured by nature from ruin—for she was on the very brink of it. The worthy magistrate then directed the police to ascertain and report to him the landlords of the beer shop and public-house. He directed the child (whom he discharged) to be removed for the present to the workhouse. HAMMERSMITH. A middle-aged lady of fashionable appearance, de scribed as Mrs. Susannah Folhard, residing at No. 10, Pelham-road, Brompton, appeared before Mr. T. Paynter, the sitting magistrate, to a summons at the in stance of Colonel Francis Holme, which charged " that he goes in danger of his life or some bodily harm from you—you having on the 23d day of August last, in the parish of St. Margaret, Westminster, unlawfully threatened to knock him (the said Francis Home)'dos‘n, and that if it were not for the law, you would do him a mischief, and use other threatening and menacing lan guage towards him." Mr. Humfreys, solicitor, of Newgate-street, attended with the defendant. Colonel Francis Home deposed, that he resided in Park-row, Knightsbridge. About half-past seven o'clock on the morning of Friday, the 23d ult., on his return home, he heard the defendant's voice, and in con sequence went into the parlour and locked himself in. The defendent then came to the door, and said, " if you don't let me in, I'll break the door." She afterwards, upon his telling a person that it was no business of theirs, and that her (defendant's) conduct was not re spectable, said " If you repeat that I'll knock you down." She then put her arm inside the door, and he Ras obliged to use force to remove it. Defendant, holding up her arm, guard, it's quite black now." Evidence continued—On the evening of the same day he was walking out when the defendant came up to him, joined him, and persisted in walking with him, and abused him by saying she would do for him, and would follow him. She also called him a blackguard, and was so annoying to him that he was compelled to go home. Mr. PAYNTEIt asked Col. Home if he apprehended personal danger from the defendant ? Col. Home said she had threatened to do for him several times, and he feared that she would so i rr it a t e hi s temper, and induce him, by her violent conduct, to act in a manner he could not answer for. He really thought she was occasionally deranged, and had been so for years, and it was impos sible to say what she might do in that state. Cross-examined by Mr. Humfrey—Had not lived with the defendant for the last eight years. lied never lived with her as her husband. Defendant had used his name against his express desire that she should not do so. His acquaintance with the defendant began about the year 1828. Had never heard that she had an income of 300/. Never did represent himself as her husband. Recollected that, once, when the defendant's father and mother left her some money the defendant implored him not to dis erace her in the eyes of her family, and he went down into the country with her, and signed a paper or deed as Col Home, and the defendant signed it as Mrs. Home. He did not sign a deed of release, but refuted to do so as her husband, but she got the money just the sam e . _ _ " Yes, you old black Mr. Humfreys here handed Col. Home a letter, which t he said would refresh his memory. • Colonel Home having attentively read the letter, said it had been improperly taken out of his desk some time back. It would, however, make no difference in his an swer, as ho could not tell, after such a lapse of time, what answer he had sent to it. Although defendant did at that time get some money, he knew no more than Mr. Humfreys what she did with it. He did certainly re ceive it so far ; it was put into his right hand, and with out looking at it he handed it over to the defendant, and was not cognizant of what she did with it. Did not be lieve that she ever had 3001. a year. Defendant had never, with her money, bought articles of furniture which were now in his possession, except, he believed, a kitchen stove. He dated his final separation from the defendant at the period when he ceased to have intimate acquaint ance with her, which was eight years ago, but she had continued to reside in the same house until the last three years. When he said Inr conduct was not respectable, defendant said, "Ifyou repeat that I'll knock you down." Mr. Humfreys then submitted that that was not suffi cient to warrant the magistrate in calling upon the de fendant to find sureties to keep the peace, inasmuch as it did not prove that Colonel Home went in bodily fear, the threat being a conditional one. It brought appearedronght b that defe e n defendant m t i had a r i st a ra p t r e ev f i o o r us a o n c n c o rt; i i n o g n been Colonel 11,,me, and bound over to keep the peace. defendant o an C t t a il g o a n i e n l e H n o te m ri e n , g if in h t o o w h o e u r l o d w b n e peace ? Colonel Home at first ed up his shoulders, but at last r s e a cti‘iosigfiri.endiz'anVYietNehTS t7epdtel tf ei n :h e )s a kh t ereu tl pg ie g defendant had kept her recogni caloebmnuorwi:eiedcigtei n ci d t : b . zance while it was in force. Mr. PAYNTER then bound the defendant in her own recognizance of 1002 to keep the peace for one year. STATE OF TRADE.—The hosiery market continue:- depressed ; the wrought cotton and silk goods are least in demand. The lace trade is also dull, though immea surably better than the hosiery.—Nottingham Review. D idend per Anßum. Di per cent. 41. 224 44 1 Os. cent. 4i)/. .153. IL Ls. 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