The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

PIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTEMAT. GLOBE.—We find the following sentences in the ferald of this morning e—" \Vhigs and Tories are of :cord that the allotment system at least deserves a sir trial. The Chronicle only doubts whether the indlords' intentions are sincere ; the Globe admits sat allotments, or some better plan, ought to be im setliately brought into general use. The only re taining dissentients are the League, the Times, and iy Lord Radnor. And as we believe that none of sese parties possess much influence among the tnded proprietors, we trust that we may expect the Kperiment to be fairly and extensively tried." Ve cannot but smile at the good fellowship with le landed proprietors into which the Ministerial organ rings us with our respected Contemporary the Thronicle; and the variance with them at which it laces the Times, which, at the last general election, sundered against our party expressly in behalf of le agricultural interest. These are the " revenges" rhich the whirligig of time brings about. But, sniffing these, it appears to us that the allotment uestion lies in a nutshell; and that the benefit of its iscerning application is not, at this day, mere latter for experiment. The rationale of the allot lent system—so far as it does not profess to ring about a revolution in property—is simply 'sat of a sort of agricultural truck system. It s part payment of the wages of farm-labour a commodities--or the use of the instrument land), by aid of which commodities are produced. Ve call this the rationale of allotments. We do not aean to say that this is the shape they have always aken. But we say it expresses the principle on vhich they are to be defended, as a general benefit to abourers. Looking at allotments from this point f view at once strips them of the prestige, vhether of exaggerated anticipations or exag rerated alarms. Labourers' allotments, of them elves, would effect no sweeping change in the resent rural economy. They would not (generally) .ffect the object, which we think highly desirable, of hrowing smaller parcels of land into the market, or ownership or occupation, than our present ?ropped-up system does. They would not, of them selves, replace the agricultural interest on its old na ;ural level. But the agricultural interest, willy-nilly, s rapidly subsiding to that level. The failure and re axation of monopoly—colonial and foreign competi ion—are doing that business for it. And it seems to us that the allotment system may ease the pre sent epoch of transition. And we do not wish ;o disguise our hopes that while labourers allot nents would give something of more stabi ity to the lowly footing of labourers on the lands they till—the extension of the system would also af- Ford opportunities to energetic members of the class to rise into a more independent yeomanry. Money has reigned long and exclusively enough in all landed calculations. We want restoration of the breed of men. The high pressure system has been tried and found wanting. I'he Herald observes—" Go through Lincolnshire ; observe how general the tenure of land by the labourer in that county is; and you will find also that it affords them that kind of independence which upholds wages, whie:h in that county are com monly 12s. per week." We ourselves cited an instance the other day from the Journal of the Agricultural Society, of small beginnings in the occupation of land leading to circumstances cf independ ence. There are, no doubt, other things besides allotments wanted to place land on the best footing, as the most important instrument of production of the prime necessaries of life. The undisturbed ownership of land is doubtless mainly essential to all improvement. But all the incidents and conditions of that ownership—all the regulations of its transmission, or succession, are within the competence of the Legislature. Property has its duties, as well ae, its rights ; and the State has the right to enforce its duties—so far as those duties admit of enforcement by general measures. A pro• prietary class should never be allowed to lose sight of these axioms. If a garden to every cottage is universally conducive to the labourer's elevation, the State would have an unquestionable right to enact that every cottage • shoul 1 have a garden. If game-laws, or any other laws, limit production in a degree nationally injurious, the State has an unques tionable right to devote game—or whatever else—to destructi6n. 'Otherwise, the nation exists for the sake of property—not property for the sake of the nation. The nation might be doomed to decay in the sinews of its strength at the will of proprietors— whereas all reasoners of any authority are agreed that proprietors are amenable to the sense of the nation for every general effect the exercise of their rights may have. That the benefit of such general effects greatly outweighs their evil, is the sole broad and sufficient basis for upholding the right of property. But wherever the evil outweighs the benefit,;the State, which sanctions, has a right to modify it. Such interference only becomes tyranny where it is exercised partially, or on other than general grounds. We have said thus much to show that no ulterior resulting change in the distribution of landed property would lead us to condemn allotments, merely as leading to it ; unless it could be shown that such ultimate change would be nationally injurious. Now we believe that con siderable changes might take place in the present distribution without being injurious, but much the contrary. Without denying the advantages of large farms, we see limits to these advantages. Those limits are found in the moneyed means of the tenants to keep their holdings in high condition. It is evident that when those means fail, large occupations become impracticable. It appears to us no less evident that the failure to support all the year round the la bourers wanted on the land, must be viewed as a failure of those moneyed means, and as having produced a state of things which Mr. Laing notes as existing on the Continent. " Agricultural improvement," observes that writer, " consists mainly in the judicious economy of labour. But on the Con tinent there is no outlet for surplus labour, or for a superfluous agricultural population, in munufacturing districts or colonies. The land must support the people either as labourers or paupers, so that large farms, with few hands comparatively living upon the produce, are impracticable abroad, as a general arrangement of the agricultural land." Now, is not this precisely the state of things which is taking place here, so far as we are told of a surplus popula tion in rural districts ? We require to distinguish in talking of that surplus. It may be a surplus over the numbers wanted for the highest culture of the soil. Or it may be a surplus over the means of the farmers to maintain them throughont the year It is this latter surplus to which allotments alone are applicable—so far as those allotments are meant as merely supplementary to the wages of farm labourers. It is only the labourer generally employed who can well be expected to pay rent for allotments. It is only to the number of labourers, therefore, generally wanted on the land that the allotment system, at present proposed, can well be considered ap plicable. If there is a surplus over this number (as in some parts it would seem there is), other means must be taken to relieve it, in dependent of allotments conceded to labourers. And these allotments, as we began by stating, may be simply considered as part payment in kind for la bour—or permission to pay itself in kind, For they result simply from the apparent inability of landed employers to pay their labourers sufficient wages in Money throughout the year. This is the plain state of the case—continually recurring to observation. It blazed forth in the fires of 1830, and has smouldered or burned on since. The New Poor-law did not create, though it has made it more manifest and fla grant. For it has docked off (so far as enforced) the money aids to the money deficit of the farmers. All parties interested in the land must put their shoulder to the wheel to get over this rut. And certainly the State should aid them, so far as relief from fiscal burthens can be given. Certainly the State should aid them, so far as it can open new outlets or fields for labour. We have been too pre-occupied by these considerations to take up the Examiner's renewed challenge on the subject of "Labourers' Prizes," and our (so called) " defence " of them. 'We pay our Contemporary the compliment to believe that it i s merely as bearing on public interests that he notices our supposed heresy.. And it is in continuing our discussion of those interests and the matter of La bourers' Prizes, as well as Allotments, in due con nexion with them—that we shall find opportunity to answer, so far as needful, the challenge to ourselves. STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle this day announces the retirement from the bench of the Common Pleas, of Mr. Justice Erskine. T universally regretted bad health of the excellent judge is the cause of his retirement, about which there is, we believe, no doubt. Our morning Contemporary, however, follows up its announce ment by an article which we think it must be extremely difficult to defend. Five or six distin guished members of the bar are named as can - didates for the vacant seat, without ony one of them, as we are firmly persuaded, ever having been guilty of the. ndelicacy of preferring a claim ; and Sir R. Peel is lectured as to the choice he ought to make among the five. or six presumed candidates. This is surely injustice tolne bars aud injustice to the individuals named—injus tice to th e b ar in assuming that the gentlemen named are the only members of the prof e ssion qualified for the judicial office—an assumption wholly contrary to the truth. Were we di s p osed to imitate an example so invidious, we could name a dozen gentlemen as- well qualified to fill seats on the bench with honour to themselves and a d vantage to the coun try as any of those named by our Contem P o raey, Some of those un-named gentlemen are well known to the public, some are not ; yet experience tells that among the class the very best judges may be, and frequently are, found. We have heard that when the late Lord Ten teiden, a great lawyer and an excellent judge, wee called to change his stuff gown for the judicial robe, the universal question was, wh that o 7.3 this Mr. Abbott ? And we remember 11 kS tt 1•4 0 14 DA) 1§I; .1 4 ESDAY MOttsii•tas NolrEm_nEß 5, 1844. the like question was in every one's mouth, when probably the best lawyer among the fifteen judges, and one in acuteness, firmness, and uprightnessi second to no judge that ever sat in a court of Mr. Justice Patteson, was elevated to his present relit. These examples, and w could multiply them to a large amount, prove that the very best judges may fre quently be found among members of the profes sion, of whom the public hears little or 110- thing. Let us not, however, be misunderstood ; we have not, at present, the slightest means of guessing the gentleman who is likely to succeed Mr. Justice Erskine ; he may belong to the class of the well-known or to the comparatively unknown. We have cited the examples referred to merely to show how unjustly the profession is treated by the publication of an exclusive list of candidates : how unjustly, indeed, the public is treated, for, as far as the publication is available for any purpose (and it is not made, we presume, without some purpose) the exclusive list must go to limit the selection of the best judge. The worst injustice, however, is that offered to the published candidates, and the injustice is nearly equal whether the party is named for commen dation—whether he is successful or unsuccessful in the competition. If commended and successful, he is degraded to the condition of owing his success to newspaper patronage ; if commended and unsuccessful, a numerous body are interested in showing that the pretensions assigned to him are fallacious ; if de nounced, we need hardly say how unfair it is to make a man a candidate against his will, for the purpose merely of abusing him, his family connexions, and his friends. aside the verdict as against evidence, and on the ground r of misdirection. The Learned Sergeant contended that on the trial it was proved that the plaintiff had com- Witted an aet Of bankruptcy in keeping out of the Way of the defendant tin eollettiiig day (that following the Attie/ and that the Learned Judge had misdirected in stating to the jury that his absence on that occasion did not amount to the bankruptcy imputed. This was the only point in the ease. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE concurred with the tettentd Baron who tried the case, as it appeared from the evi• dence of the defence itself, that in point of fact Mr. Blackburn sold his goods for the purpose of paying his creditors, and that he accordingly did actually direct the defendant to be paid out of the proceeds. The defendant acknowledged the impropriety of the imputation, when he withdrew the letter. The COURT was, therefore, agreed that the verdict was good, and their Lordships refused the rule. The Court rose at half-past twelve o'clock. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER; Nov. 4. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Baron ALDERSON.) 31`MILLAN V. SIMMS. Mr. Jervis and Mr. Ogle appeared for the plaintiff, Mr. Watson for the defendant. This was an action on a bill of exchange for 501., dated the 14th of March, 1843, for three months, drawn by a person named Webb on the defendant, and en dorsed by Webb to a person of the name of Chandler. Mr. JEavts stated that the plaintiff was a collecting clerk in the banking-house of Messrs. Drummond and Co , Charing-cross, and the defendant a clerk in the office of the Commander-in-Chief, at the Horse Guards. The following witnesses were then called by the Learned Counsel, to prove the case:— George Edward Cooke, clerk to Messrs. Cox and Greenwood, the army agents, proved that the bill was in the handwriting of Webb. The bill was made payable at the Commander-in-Chief's office. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 4. The Lord Chancellor sat to-day in his Court at West minster, shortly after 10 o'clock. John Basterfield presented the bill when it had become due at the office of the Commander-in-Chief He saw the defendant there, to whom he mentioned the business on which he had called. The defendant desired him to leave a notice of the bill, and told him that it would be attended to. _ MALCoM V SCOTT—JUDGMENT. His Lordship gave judgment in this case to-day, the facts of which we gave a full account on its hearing in July last. his Lordship affirmed the judgment below with costs. The Lord Chancellor then proceeded to hear appeal motions and lunatic petitions which occu pied the Court the whole day. Cross- examined by Mr. WATsoN—Had never seen Simms before nor since. Does not know either Webb or Chandler. M`Millan resided at No. 4, Oxendon-street ; he is a porter or messenger at Messrs. Drummond's bank, and is in the habit of taking out letters and bills. Mr. WATSON then addressed the jury for the defen dant. He said the defendant had held a clerkship in the Commander-in- Chief's office for upwards of twenty years. Mr. Webb had been for a great number of years in the same office. In the course of the year 1843 Mr. Webb, who had made some purchases of leasehold pro perty, was in want of money, and obtained the signature of the defendant to several bills of exchange by way of ac commodation—in fact, Mr. Simms put his name to a large mass of paper, and had had to pay on account of those bills upwards of 2,0001 The bill for which the action was brought was put into the hands of Chandler, for the purpose of getting it discounted ; but he (Webb) never received a single farthing. Mr. Webb had been unfortunate, ant was now an inmate of Whitecross street prison. When the defendant stated that the bill would be taken up, he did so in the belief that Mr. Webb, in whom he had confidence, would take it up. He (Mr. Watson) could not understand why so much time had been allowed to expire before the action was brought. The bill became due on the 17th of June. 1843, and the action was not brought until June in the present year. If the transaction had been a bona fide one, it was unlikely that the matter would have been allowed to rest for twelve months. He should call Mr. Webb before the Court. _ VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 4. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) Ili; Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England having on Saturday disposed of all his short causes, proceeded to day to hear unopposed cause petitions which occupied the Court the whole day. No case of the least possible interest came before the Court. (Vice-Chancellors Knight Bruce and Wigram are at present sitting in the Westminster Sessions-house.) (Before Sir J. K. BRUCE.) MALINS V. PRICE. His Ho!court pronounced judgment this morning in this case, which was heard immediately before the long vacation. At the conclusion of the hearing his Honour directed certain issues to be tried upon the question in volved, namely, the mode of working certain mines in Glartiorganshire. The issues having been tried before Mr. Justice Matteson, and the findings of, the jury not being satisfactory to the defendant, a motion on his behalf for a new trial was made before his Honour during the vacation, and on this motion the Court now proceeded to deliver judgment. His HONOUR, after enumerating in detail the various objections urged by the defendant against the finding of the jury, said he saw no ground upon which -those objections could be sustained, and he, therefore, thought himself bound to adhere to the finding of the jury, and to refuse the motion for a new trial, with costs. Mr. KENYON PARKER said that, in consequence of his Honour's decison, he must apply for the injunction to prevent the working of the mines by patchwork, as the motion for that injunction had, in accordance with pre vious arrangement, been kept in abeyance until his Honour's decision was known. Mr. George Webb was then examined. He said he was formerly a clerk in the Commander-in-Chief's office. He had been there 35 years. Mr. Simms ac cepted several bills for his (Webb's) accommodation, and he paid him nothing for them. He (Webb) took the bill to Mr. Chandler, who at that time was a bill discounter, and resided in Bury-street, St. James's. Mr. WATSON—Did you ever get one farthing for the bill ? Witness (emphatically)—No. Cross-examined by Mr. JERVIS—Is an inmate of Whitecross-street Prison. Was dismissed from the War office about six months ago. Why were you dismissed? Witness—Out of matters which arose out of these trans actions. Was it not for putting Simms's name to bills to the amount of 2,0000 Mr. Baron ALDERSON (the witness being embarrassed) —You need not answer that unless you like—it is a very awkward question. If you answer it in the affirmative you will be sent to Newgate. Witness—Am I obliged to answer it ? Mr. Baron ALDERSON—No. The witness accordingly did not reply to the question. The jury then returned a verdict for the plaintiff, for 531. 9s. Counsel on the other side having stated that his clients were not prepared for the adoption of such a course—not being able to foresee the judgment of the Court—the motion was, in consequence, postponed. (Before Sir J. WIGRAM.) His HoNouß disposed of a number of cause petitions which were unopposed, and then proceeded to hear causes. HARRIS V. HARRIS. This case came before the Court on exceptions. It was a suit which was instituted by the personal repre sentative of a deceased partner against the surviving partner, for the accounts of a partnership which was alleged to have been entered into between the deceased and his father, the defendant. The statement in the bill was, that in the year 1834 Walter Harris, who was the husband of the plaintiff, entered into partnership with his father Thomas Harris in the business of jobmasters, postmasters, and omnibus proprietors at Richmond, and that the business was carried on between them under the style or firm of " Harris and Son," on the premises called " Wellington yard," from the month of June 1834 till the time of Walter Harris's death. The deceased made his will in September, 1843, and died, and the plaintiff was alleged to be his personal repre sentative. After the death of Walter Harris the de fendant continued in possession of the business, never having rendered any account to the plaintiff of Walter Harris's share. In the month of October he sold a con siderable portion of the effects of the partnership by public auction, and received all the moneys for them, and on being applied to for an aceount of these moneys, and for a dividend of the share to which she, as personal re presentative of the deceased husband was entitled, he denied that there was any partnership existing between them, consequently it became necessary to file the present bill, which was done in Dec., 1843. To that bill a plea and answer were put in. On the 29th of February, 1844, the plea was argued and disallowed, with liberty to the defendant to amend it. The defendant amended his plea, and the amended plea was set down for argument and disallowed on the Ist of May. Twenty-four exceptions were taken to the answer, and the first six were allowed by the Master. The Master considered that it was not necessary to hear any more, those which were allowed being sufficient for all the purposes of the plain tiff, and he, therefore, overruled all the others. To that disallowance exception had been taken, and those ex ceptions were now brought before the Court. Mr. Kenyon Parker and Mr. Winstanley appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Temple for the defendant. By the answer it was denied that any partnership had ever existed, the case set up being that the defendant had employed his son during his lifetime in the capacity of his servant. His HONOUR allowed the exceptions. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 4. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.) TEL ROMFORe BANK—IN Re JOHNSON, JOHNSON, AND MANN. This being the day appointed for the adjourned ex amination of the bankrupt, the ex-Alderman Thomas Johnson, the various interested parties were in Court, when, Mr. LANonsat, solicitor for the bankrupt, made an application for a further adjournment. He said that owing to the age and infirmities of Mr. Johnson, the ac counts were not yet in that satisfactory state that he should wish them to be in, when presented to that Court. Mr. Johnson had been most unremitting in his exer tions, and was keenly alive to the importance of ex hibiting the state of his affairs in the most plain and satisfactory manner. He particularly wished to do away with the impression endea voured to be prodnced on the last examination, that he had made away with (for his own purposes) bills to the value of 13,3831., and cash to an amount of 12,7351. He (Mr. Langham) was happy to assure his Honour that every shilling of those sums could be accounted for in the most lucid manner. He was instructed that these accounts could bear the strictest investigation. The bills already alluded to were in number about one hun dred and forty, and the question had, on the last exami nation, been put to Mr. Johnson, " What did you do with these ?" It was impossible that he could distinctly and at once answer for every transaction, and standing over a period of thirteen years, but he would on the next adjourned day be able to give dates and particulars for each of these. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN thought that Mr. John son's son, his partner, might have assisted in making out and arranging these accounts. Mr. LLNOHAM said, that unfortunately Mr. Johnson's son was of weak intellect, and, therefore, quite incompe tent to assist in the matter. In fact, he was under the care of a gentleman at that time. His HONOUR remarked that the creditors of the bank were rather unfortunately placed. Mr. Johnson himself being so unfitted by age and infirmity; his son, as they were then told, by mental weakness, and the other partner, Mr. Mann, from ignorance, to explain the proper state of affairs. Mr. LANGHAM said Mr. Mann was culpably negligent. His HoNotra requested that Mr. Lanham, standing as solicitor for Mr. Thomas Johnson, would refrain from any observations against Mr. Mann. What time did Mr. Langham require in order to produce the accounts ? Mr. LarionAm thought that in two months the ac countant would be prepared, and the official assignee would probably require a month more to examine those. After some further conversation, the matter was further adjourned till the 3d of February. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 4. (Sittings in Banco.) The Court heard motions in the early part of the day, and afterwards proceeded to hear arguments in cases on the new trial paper. No case of public interest came on in the course of the morning. BAIL COURT, Nov. 4. (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON. ) TELE QUEEN V. ALDRED-APPLICATION FOR ♦ CRIMINAL INFORMATION. Mr. MARTIN applied in this case on behalf of Mr. Marsh, the Mayor of Yarmouth, for a rule for a criminal information against the defendant. Mr. Marsh stated in his affidavit that he was Mayor of Yarmouth, and a magistrate of the borough, and that on the 10th of Juue last he attended at his office for the purpose of trans acting magisterial business, upon which occasion a person was charged with ringing the hell of Mr. Aldred during Divine service, and a constable produced a paper without any direction or signature relative to the offence with which the person was charged. The Mayor and the Magistrate who was with him were of opinion that they could not receive such a paper, and that Mr. Aldred ought to attend himself. The paper was re turned to the constable with injunctions to tell Mr. Aldred that he must attend himself if he wished to take proceedings against the party. This took place on the 10th of June. On the 12th of June, Mr. Marsh was going along King-street, when the defendant came up to bim, seized him by the arm, and making use of some very offensive expressions, demanded an explanation for the impertinent manner in which the Mayor had treated his letters. The Mayor replied that he was the chief magistrate of the town, that his hands were therefore tied up, and that he could not enter into any explanation then. Mr. Aldred then reiterated the ex pressions, and followed Mr. Marsh up the street, still repeating them all the time. Mr. Marsh after this sent two persons to Mr. Aldred, requesting him to consider what he had done, and whether he would not attend to make some apology for his conduct. Mr. Aldred did attend, but instead of making an apology, he repeated the observations again in a manner moat offensive to the mayor. After the first offence, the mayor thought to take proceedings against the defendant for sureties to keep the peace, but considered that the repetition of such conduct in open court was such an aggravation of the original offence, that he felt it due to his office and to himself to take other proceedings. One of the magistrates insisted on taking sureties, which he did two or thre e d a y s a f terwar d s . But he (Mr. Martin) a snot apprehended to deprive mr thatthecircum Marsh stanc on es of that thi u h s a c c a c s o e t were such of coming to this Court. Mr. Justice PATTESON—You do not put this as being a provocation to a breach of the peace ? Mr. MARTIN—It was an actual breach of the peace, for an assault was committed. Mr. Justice PATTESON—That was in the first instance. There was nothing but words in the second instance, but the magistrate was acting at the time in his magis terial capacity. Mr. MARTIN —It was so ; and they thought it also right to have an affidavit from the police-constable, who stated in his affidavit that he merely delivered the paper without any offensive expressions whatever, and the answer he received was, ' I)—n the ma yor and the magistrates ; what do I care f o r them? "—Rule nisi granted The Court afterwards heard causes at Nisi Prius. MIDDLESEX SESwIONS (Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE and a full Bench of Magistrates.) The October Quarter sessions for the County of Mid dlesex commenced yesterday, at the Court-house, Clerken well-green, for the purpose of disposing of parish appeals, and appeals against 'convictions pronounced by several of the metropolitan police magistrates, and to hear a few cases of felony which stood over, by adjournment, to this day. The number of appeals on the list amounted to 98. JUVENILE DEPRAVITY.—John Harrison, a young urchin, about eleven years of age, whose head was scarcely visible above the railing of the dock, was in dicted for and found guilty of having stolen a quantity of wearing apparel, under circumstances of remarkable daring and cunning, considering his extreme youth. It appeared that articles named were exposed for sale outside the shop of the prosecutor, and the prisoner was observed lurking about the place for a long time. At length, availing himself of an opportunity when he thought he was unperceived, he cut the cords by which the clothes were tied, and ran off with two coats and a waistcoat, but was eventually Stopped at the corner of Gray's Inn-lane. In reply to the Learned Assistant-Judge, Lieutenant Tracy, the Governor of the Westminster Bridewell, stated that the prisoner was a most incor rigible young rogue ; although so young, he had been convicted of felony, under very aggravated circum stances, three times, and twice or thrice summarily con victed by the magistrates. The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE said, such being the case, the only course open to the Court was to send the prisoner out of the country. The sentence, therefore, upon him was, that he be transported for seven years. Three men, named Hughes, Welford, and James, were found guilty of stealing a large quantity of boots and shoes, and sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour, in the Westminster Bridewell. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. A. poor countr 0 I w 0 4 .1 - 0 0: a S t e E a . (YESTERDAY.) M that his name was Charles Harley, and that he Was servant to a brewer at Littleport, in the Isle of Ely, applied to Alderman Wilson on Saturday for a summons, calli n g upon the proprietor of the Bull I nn , Bishopsgate to account for detaining three boxes, containing wearing apparel, directed to William Daniell, the property of the complainant. The circumstances under which the application was made were peculiarly distressing, and Alderman Wilson immediately granted the sum mons, upon the representation of Inspector W oo d_ roffe, who behaved in a very humane manner upon the occasion. Yesterday the servant of the owner of the inn ap peared for his master, and the case was investigated before Sir Peter Laurie. From the confused statement of the complainant the following particulars were collected :—William Daniell, a man about thirty years of age, was, together with his wife, without the.means of support, in Ely, where Harley, who could not endure the sight of a man starving for want of work, gave him lodging and food. After some time, Daniel and his wife left Ely, but Daniel soon returned alone, and again threw him self on the humanity of Harley for the means of keeping life and soul together. Although Harley was in very narrow circumstances, having a wife and two COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 4. BLACKBURN v. PUGIL—LIBEL. This was an action for libel, under these circum stances:—The plaintiff carried on business as currier and leather-seller, in Union-street, in the Borough. The defendant having sold the plaintiff a quantity of goods on the usual terms of the trade—that is, two months' credit, and found on the day before the expiration of that term that there was a sale on the plaintiff's pre ' raises, wrote to the auctioneers, Messrs. Southey, cau tionimr them not to remove the goods after the sale, on the ground that the plaintiff was a bankrupt, and that his property was so ld to e lude his creditors. Subse \thquently,' howev er , e defendants, on being paid their account, withd rew th e i r l etter. B ut t h e plaintiff was not satisfied with th a t amen d for the injur i ous statement, and brought thi s action, which before Mr. Bar on P ar k e . The jury was found u tried in for the eSpurl plain n. , ... tiff, damages, 50i. Mr. Sergeant SELLA this day moved for a rtileito set • • children to suppoit, ..e c.4 , ...msetited to , givAt the assistance required, and took his needy petitiilnet into the house, as a boarder and lodger, a second WU: A bad return for the kindness thus shown was 6dpfenifted and ifceoifipiished by the pest, who, taking a ViffiatO ef the elisenee of Harley at night, on duty at the brewhouse, teeitteeci his wife, prevailed upon her to abandon and tab her husband and children, and *caused the acting of a scene or unutterable wretchedness. While Harley was at a public-hottst to which his wife had sent him, she and her paramour cantrived to remove all that was of any value in the house, and ac tually left the poor children, one of whom was only a twelvemonth old, and had been weaned no more than a month, with nothing but the bare boards to lie upon. Distracted at such an event, and being totally desti tute, he represented the facts to some neighbours, who cordially advanced what they could afford to enable him to follow and trace the fugitives and his pro- perty. He soon learned that the three boxes contain ing his goods were at the Bull In; Bishopsgate, and that they were directed to the very rascal who had so fatally plundered him. Under these circumstances he applied for the boxes of his property which he saw upon going to the inn, but the landlord refused to give them up, having received a letter from Daniel threatening to proceed against him if he dared to de liver them to any one but himself. Sir PETER LAURlR — Vk ' hat was the age of the woman who deserted you and your children ? Har ley—She wa3 twenty-six years old, and we had been ten years married. Sir PETER LAURIE — And what had been her pre vious conduct ? Harley—Very good indeea, your Honour; and she was particularly good and kind while she must have been planning to leave me and her children. I never in my life was jealous of her for one mo*ent. Sir PETER LAURIE — She was an attentive wife and mother until she met with the scoundrel you were so charitable to ? Harley—He was a scoundrel, your Honour (striking the table with his hard hand). I gave him bed and board when he had not a morsel of victuals, though he was a stranger to me. She left word with the neighbours when she was going to leave her home to tell me that she was gone off in haste to a dying brother, and she took with her all my wages that I had given her, except the sixpence she gave me to get me out of the way. She has left me in debt, too ; for the money I gave her to pay for her clothes she never paid to the tradespeople. The porter of the Bull Inn here said that his master had received the following letter from the person to whom the boxes were directed : " Cambridge, Nov. 2, 1844. TREMENDOUS SToRM. PARTIAL DESTRUCTION OP BIRKENHEAD MARKET. BIRKENHEAD, CHESHIRE, SATURDAY.—During the whole of yesterday the weather was extremely boisterous here ; but as evening closed in the wind blew with great violence, and eventually became a complete hurricane, sweeping along the Cheshire shores with the utmost fury, to the great alarm of the inhabitants of the several towns and villages which were exposed in succession to this fearful visitation — namely, Runcorn, Eastham, Birkenhead, Seacombe, Egremont, New Brighton, Liscard, &c. ; but, with the exception of Birkenhead, so recently the scene of high festival, on the occasion of laying the foundation stone of the new dock—with the exception of that raitidly-improving place, little, damage was sus tained beyond the blowing in o f a few windows, and the effects of no slightly-grounded apprehension. At about eleven o'clock this morning, the storm then being at its greatest height in and around Birkenhead, a large portion of the wall of a new market, now in course of erection in that town, gave way before the fury of the blast to which it was opposed, and fell inwards with a crash so terrible, that the shock startled ma n y p ersons who were up wards of two miles from t he s p ot at the time. It fortunately happened that most of the workmen were occupied in the central avenue at this juncture ; the vast descending mass, however, reached two of them, who %sere severely injured ; and another man, who had just mounted what is termed the second story of a scaffolding, was hurled among s t the frag ments of the shattered structure, and literally buried beneath them. He was subsequent:,' rese.'"' with great difficulty, but was quite insensible, d for some time his case was considered hopeless. „::: The Ai. cre rers were promptly conveyed to the Dispensary. wles:! every attention was paid to them by Mr. Stevenson, surgeon, and the house surgeon, Mr. Evans ; when it was found -that one of those first alluded to, named James 'Ellis, aged 32, had received a com pound fracture of the leg, and was otherwise much injured ; that the o-her. named Samuel Hughes, aged 22, was dreadfully contused on the head, loins, and other parts of the body. The unfortunate man who was thrown from the scaffold, named John Can non, and aged 27, was also bruised in a shocking manner, hut it was really wonderful that he escaped with life, considering the awful situation in which he was placed, with a weight of brickwork to sustain which seemed more than sufficient to crush the strongest mortal frame to atoms. The astounding nature of this fact will be gathered from a brief de scription of the edifice. All who have visited Liver pool must have seen St. John's market ; the erection mutilated by the accident just recorded is on the same plan, and nearly as extensive. It forms an oblong square, 430 feet long by 130 feet in breadth ; the outer walls, however, were only nine inches, or the length of one brick thick; and though this was strengthened by pilasters at intervals of 13 feet 10 inches on every side, yet, considering the height of the wall, which. is nearly 30 feet, such thickness, even with the aid of the bolstering afforded by the pilasters, 20 inches, is pronounced by competent judges to be utterly inade quate fOr that assurance of safety which the public have a right to demand, and which the lamentable frequency of fatal accidents of the kind renders it so necessary to exact. About 80 feet in length of this wall fell,--.and a large portion of it covered the un happy victim to whom reference has last been made. The fracture, however, extends to nearly the whole length of the wall, on either side of the formidable breach ; it will, therefore, most likely be found neces sary to rebuild the whole. Messrs. TOrs and Ren ders, it is said, are the parties with whom the contract for the erection of the edifice was made. " Dear Sir —I have seen William Swan and the police, and the boxes that are directed of my name at your )ffice are under my command, and no other person has no business with them ; and I give you to understand that they were booked in my name at Ely, and if you giva r thetp up to any person except me, I shall make yoPtinswerable for them; and please to send me a lettys:Vy return of post. - rag «W. DANDIOLL. " Direct NV. Daniel, jaittleport, Cambridgeshire." Sir PETER LAURIB+I wish Mr. Daniell was here before me ; his next appearance should certainly be at the Old Bailey. Such a compound of assurance and villainy is but seldom to'be seen, and I am happy, my poor man, that you have come here for assistance. The porter at the Bull Inn said that his master would readily give up the boxes upon receiving Sir Peter Laurie's order tle. that effect, as security against any measures Mr. Dat4ll might adopt, by the advice of some ugly professional. Sir PETER LAURIIi,."I shall give the order, cer tainly, to satisfy your master, but no danger of the kind is to be apprehended from villains .f this de scription. He will never call for the boxes. You will not see him again ; but I hope that he will be brought to justice. Orders were thenliven that the expenses of the disconsolate man and of the carriage of his property back to the place of his employment should be de frayed from the poor-box, and he left the justice room much affected by the commiseration so unequi vocally expressed. The steward of the Ocean steam-vessel, of Rotter dam, was charged with being in possession of a great quantity of smuggled tobacco. C. Atkinson Davis, a Custom-house officer, who is frequently engaged in apprehending smugglers, stated that having been informed that a large number of packages of tobacco were secreted on board the Ocean, he went to examine that vessel, and he found, secreted in a new, and most ingenious manner, a considerable quantity of the article. The packages were all pre pared so thoroughly in lead, that the water could not effect the tobacco, and they were suspended by strings between the timbers in such a manner as to afford an almost complete security from detection. The case, which has excited much curiosity in consequence of the ingenuity and extent of the plan, was appointed to be entered into in detail on a future day. A complaint was made by two respectable inhabi tants of the City of the success of the labours of a swindling firm, in which several victimizers are con cerned. We omit the details, as in all probability some of the Company will be brought up, an active officer of the City police force having received in structions upon the subject from Sir Peter Laurie. Some of the Liverpool papers published second editions this evening, giving a most exaggerated ac count H of the 'above affair, together with a statement of the number killed ; as these, however, are only news paper deaths, the Coroner will, happily, not be troubled to " sit" on the bodies. During the violence of the storm, it was not with out great difficulty that even strong men could with stand its force. ROMANTIC and AFFECTING TALE ing T , h t e he Co t ns ru t t itut h o ie f a : o c hfTuesday a contains t T h h e e fol f l a o c w ts, divested of the embellishments of the narrator, are as follow :—ln the early part of the Moilth a work man and his wife, returning to their lodgings -at about ten o'clock at night, found a young female lying insensible - in the street, and having a baby in her arms. Like good Samaritans they raised her up, and, after obtaining some refreshments for her, had the satisfac tion of seeing_ her fully restored to life and conscious ness, but, on addressing her, discovered that she was a foreigner, and unable to understand what they said. They took her home, and treated her with great kind ness, and then set about the means of ascertaining who she was, and what had brought her to the state in which she was found. In a day or two, amongst the friends of this kind couple, who, being acquainted with foreign languages, visited their lodg ing in the hope of being Aly to converse with her, came an old soldier who had been long in Spain, and spoke Spanish well. On addressing the female in that language, her eyes lighted up, and she told him that she was a naive of Valencia---Aliai .abbitt two years ago -(she is now only. twenty, and very beau tiful), she listened to the seductions of a . young foreigner, and; loving him, had at length committed a fault which compelled her to quit her father's house, and fly with him. to Madrid to conceal her sharhe. - At Madrid she remained with her lover several months, who • one 'day told her he was • compelled to go to England on urgent business, but would be in Paris on the Ist of the present xionth, and, presenting to her a purse well filled with gold, gave her the address of the hotel: at which he was to, be found, and requested her to meet him there. She startedlor:Paris,liut before she had arrived had"spent most-- of her money; owing to her'ineiperience in travelling and a delay on account of the illness of her child. This, however,was not her greatest misfortune ; she had lost the address i of the . hotel, and had no clue by which to find- her lover. As long as her money_ lasted she remained at a small hotel, devoured with grief, and when her pecuniary means were ex hauited, was driven into the street, where she had fallen from weakness, - the result of hunger. It was in this state that- she was fhund. Ile worthy couple, after haVing . heard her sad narrative, tookher to the Spanish -Einbassy, where she was interrogated by M. d'Aguileira, the Charge d'Affaires, and in' a few . days, her account being confirmed by letters from Valencia, in reply to inquiries M. d'Aguileira had made, he presented her with a sufficient sum for her journey home, and the Chevalier Roubio, the Spanish Vice-Consul, accompanied her to the diligence, in which were two Spanish ladies, on their return to Spain, and who, on hearing a few words from M. Roubio of the history, kindly undertook to attend to her on the way. Every inquiry had previously been made to discover her seducer, but in vain. The poor girl, although anxious to receive her father's forgiveness and bless ing, could hardly be, induced to leave Paris, until it was suggested to her that her lover was dead. She would not allow the idea of herhavingheen abandoned by him to enter her mind. - SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETT.—This society re commences proceedings on Wednesday night,- with the Israel in Egypt of Handel. The whole of last season glided away without one performance of this immortal work. The amends honorable is now made in selecting it for the opening of the present campaign. Are we to have it in the form which Handel gave it—or is its sub lime continuity to be broken by the introduction of irrelevant songs and duets ? Let us hope for the best. Let us confide in the F raduAl but easily discernible' im provement of the public taste, which is daily more fasti dious and severe. Restorations of Shakspeare to his primitive form have lately b-eome popular, both on the stage and in the library. Colley Libber and the com mentators have for ever lost their repute. Shakspeare, it has been discover. d, was a better man than any of them, and wanted neither their improvements nor their explanations. Why may we not hope for a similar res toration for the equal of Shakspeate—liandel ?—Musical Examiner. with coals. The three former have come oft t!±# two 1 UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. rafter, ternitin: CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 2.—At a Congregati on, j ust LlVEliPddi,; t&f: 1:-1t blew a heavy gale last night I held, the following degrees were conferred : and this morning front the isiti got. a,—lt is more Mastera of Arts—Joseph Walter Stockdale, Trinity moderate to. day, but still blowing a gale.—Diii Eletetor? , €)oll from Tampico, drove ashore near the magazines, and ti's., tf ' —e John William Irving , Trinity Coll e g e — Sea, Edwards, in Bootle Bay • both, however, came off Saittful Duria, St. John's College—Henry Fullelove s College—Alfred Wrigley, St. on the flood this afternoon without apparent injury. , Mogridge, ,!''',.. John's COltmi OM 31.—The Heywool, from Liverpool to i John's Colege—f.oVat T. Porcher Broughton, Clare the Coast of Africa, has put back to this port leaky, and Hall—William Clayton . Green, Clare Hall—Henry with foremast and mizenmast sprung, having encoun- 1 Grand Compaunder. Staverton Matthews, Clare lia;.:, - tered heavy gales in lon. 11. I Bachelors of Arts — LEITH, Nov. 2.—lt is blowing a heavy gale at E.S.E. , Raymond BltiL t '.v‘"ayt, Christi and several vessels ill the roadstea d are drivin g . Corpus College—Thomas C. Childs, Sidney C;dlege. WORKINGTON, OCT. 29.—1 t has blown a gale the last The Seatonian prize, value 401., for the best &IF twa days from S.S.E. T,o E. lish poem on a sacred subject, has just been awarded to PLYMOUTH, Nov. I.—Sld. Camden, Ichaboe. And, the Rev. Thomas Rawson Birks, M.A., and Fellow of 2d. Pilot, Hall, Quebec. Trinity College. Subject—Esther. This is the second FALMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind N.E., strong breezes. year Mr. Birks has obtained the above prize. Arrd. Oberon, Montreal. Sld. Hiram, Madeira and ANATOMY.—The Professor commences his course Havannah. of lectures on the ana omy and physiology of the JERSEY, OCT. M.—Sld. Isabella, Rio Janeiro. human body on Monday, November 18, at one o'clock, SCILLY, OCT. 31.—Sid. Dispatch. Ichaboe. in the Anatomical School. LivEapooL, Nov. 2.—Wind E., gale; 3d, do., a mode- THE CHURCH. rate gale.—Sld. Ist, Esk, Bahia. 2d, Lucas, China ; The following appointments have taken place : Muzapore, Calcutta; Francis, Speight, Bombay ; Eve and Renovation, Ichaboe ; Plata, Buenos A y res ; ICY-The Rev. Josiah Pratt, M.A. , of Tri nit y Colle g e, son, Pernambuco ; Helen , Hami l t on, Trinidad ; Rodolph, to the vicarage of St. Stephen's, Coleman - stree t. Jamaica ; Huron, New Orlea ns ; Kin g ston, Savannah. The Rev. Ralph Clutton, 8.D., of Eaimanuel Col 3d, Governor, Jamaica ; Lea, New York. lege, to the vicarage of Saffron Walden, Essex. BEAUMARIS, Nov. 3.—Arrd. Columbus, Green, Per The Rev. Henry Foulis, M.A., of St. John's Col nambuto. lege, to the honorary prebend of Welton Westhall, OFF HOLYHEAD.—Amity, Bombay. with Gorehall, in Lincoln Cathedral. CLYDE, Nor. 2.—Sld. Lady Harvey, Ichaboe ; Agnes and Richard Brown, Trinidad ; Scotland, Demerara. CORR., Nov. I.—Arrd. Matthew Pearce, Ichaboe. LEITH, Nov. 2.—lt is said that the case of piracy and murder, with regard to the Pomona, of Glasgo w, in the Gulf of ? Florida, is without foundation. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Nov. I.—The sales of combing and clothing wools this week have been limited to the immediate requirements of the manufacturers. Purchases have been made by them with caution. We do not quote any alteration from last week's prices. FOREIGN IVOOL TRADE, Nov. I.—A co mpara tively limited business has been dune in foreign wools this week, but, since it is so generally known that the continental markets are almost cleared out of wool, and that the importations into this country must necessarily be very scanty until next clip, no disposition whatever exists amongst the dealers to give way in prices, but rather on the contrary to hold their stocks with the prospect of realising an advance. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Nov. I.—We have no new feature to report in this week's market, which upon •the whole has been a very quiet one ; the few sales that have been made are upon the terms of last week. LEEDS.—The demand for fine and middle qualities of cloths has been very dull at our cloth-halls this week, but in heavy winter goods there has been a little improvement over the markets of the last few weeks. Prices continue pretty steady. and the stocks, although on the increase, are lower than usual at this season. In finished goods there has been but little doing. Few of the larger buyers have been at the market' during the week, and the foreign houses are doing less business than for some months past ; on the whole, there has been much below an average business done in the warehouses during the week. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY —There is not the slightest improvement in the demand for Wool since our last, and what has changed hands during the past week is only in very small quantities, and at about last week's prices. The disposi tion to still further decrease the production is progressing, for the spinners complain of the great disproportion in the price of yarns with the raw material, and unless the latter recedes to meet the spinners, it appears almost certain that the upera tives are likely to he only very partially employed, ich is much to be regretted. If any thing a little more „; siness has been done in pieces to - day, - but the pricesa. a discouraging, and will in no way teed ts) stop the t i rs , gress of doing less, which is daily going on. EVENING.---We have MANCHESTER, Tai ,;loth this week, arising, had decidedly less doing :in •tes a.-ked, and this in some measure, from the W r ,crli f:: arising out of all but a general advance : n wages. It is doubtful whether the manufacturers suCCeed in realising an advance equal to that on wages. In t;i:St case the manufacturer will be in no enviable pias;:iun. A large business is. nevertheless, doing, and genera)); at previous rates. Yarns are still in brisk demand, and pricei, if anything, higher.—Leeds Mercury. MARKET -NEWS.—(YESTERDAY.) CORN EXCHANGE The returns for the past week, show moderate ar rivals of English Wheat, with a great increase in the receipts of all kinds of Berle), from our own coasts, as well as from abroad. Of Other kinds of Grain, the re ceipts were only moderate. Fresh up to our market, the supplies of Wheat, coastwise dud by land-carriage, were by no means large, yet we had a fair quantity on offer. The attendance of buyers being rather numerous, the sale for that article was very steady, at prices fully equal to those obtained on Monday last, and at which a good clearance was effected. The general quality of the Wheat was good. Of Foreign Wheat, free of duty, the show was not large. The best descriptions commanded a ready inquiry, at very full prices. In other kinds comparatiVely little was doing. All kinds of Corn, under lock, were a mere drug, but not cheaper. The supply of Barley was large, particu larly of Foreign, which, being of superior quality, is now attracting the attention of the maltsters. All kinds, from the extensive quantities brought forward, were heavy, at a decline of is to 2s per quarter, from the cur- i . rencies obtained on Monday last. The best Chevalier Malt maintained its value ; but other kinds were very dull. The supply of Oats was only moderate, while the trade was.steady, at full prices. In Beans—the business doing in which was not large—we have no alteration to notice. Grey- Peas were Is per quarter higher. In other kinds, as welras Flour, no variation was noticed. *CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. WHEAT—Essex & Kent, I MALT—Chevalier........ 63i to red 40s to 48s OATS—Yorkshire and - Ditto, white 6os to 651, Lincolnrh., feed i..,g3s to .Norfolk and Lin Potatoe coin, red ..... 3gs to 46s Youghall and Cork, Ditto white........... 40s to 536 black , ........ 178 to Is Irish, -red...—. 476 to 506 Cork, white Ditto, white ..... 4.96 to 345, Scotch, feed Res—Ol d 29s to New ~ . ..... :Ks to 38s. Pigeons BARLAY—Grinding 26ls to Us FRAN Grey ............... 31s to Xi. Malin 346 to 38s Maple Chevalier... . . ... 35s to 38s, White ..... 35s to 39. MALT—Suffblk and Nor- j Boilers - to 38. folk s6s to 626 Funia—Town made ... 44s to 466 Brow' Kingston and Ware 5611 to 62s Stockton & Norfolk 33s to 3i FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. WHEAT—Dantzic 4-6 to 56s BEANS ....... 206 to 26 - Hamburg h 36s to 40s,PKAs. 236 VI 27. BARLEY 3os to 33sinoua—American -234 to 25. OAT—New Feed 4s to 166 SMITHFIELD. The great importance so generally attached tt the importation of live stock fr , np abroad. for - our markets;. induces us, On the present occasion, and , more especially as the "season" will be brought to ciose.within a ua'uut.h or six weeks frohi this date, for this year. to play` before our readers the following review of such imports froth the period of the new tariff coming into operation to the present tune. It will, .no doubt, be recolketed that, on the passing of the above .measure, notwithstanding the . n - umerols opinions offered to the contrary, we intimated that (though some time must . , of necessity elapse) ulti mately the arrivals of foreign Beasts. and Sheep into this country WO - old be greater than many persons were led to ircagine, Recent - events are tending to confirm the cor rectness of our views,- not only , as respects the actual numbers imported, - but also their quality and. yak,. In order to show'the increasing importance td this trade ire s},all here direct particular attention to the fig urf , s given below, as they form (derived as they are from official sources) a feature of considerable interest' In 1842, the first year of the tariff conuil.g into op e r a ti on , the annexed imports took place in the various ports of England, up to the end-of November : Head • Oxen and Bulls 630 Cows Calves 6O - Sheep 330 • • . . Lambs • Swine and Hogs Total in 1842 1,570 head, Of the above, about 300 Beasts and 200 Sheep came to hand from Spain, the reinainder of the stock from Ger many, Holland, France and Zetland. . Amongst those from Vigo were some very useful animals, but those from other quarters came hither in, mostly, a half-fat state. The returns for the corresponding period, in 1843, shows an increase, though not to any material extent, in the imports, Compared with those of the preceding year, they having been as under : Head. Oxen and Bulls 6BO Cows Calves Sheep .... 232 Lambs Swine and Hogs servations, the; a great improvement has taken place in the quality of the Beasts lately imported. This was , never more marked than in the supplies brought forwardt here on Friday last, for out of the 135 head in the mar ket on that day, at least fifty of them were in what may be considered good condition; indeed, we saw several that weighed 160 stones I.Blbs to the stone) each. The Sheep were better than we have hitherto noticed them ; but there were none calling for particular observation. Strange as it may appear, not a single instance has co -1 curred—even though such experiments , bot h in p asture and stall, have been numerous--in which it has bee* found possible to fatten foreign 13asts in this count dry with advantage. Notwithstanding all the care en at"' tention shown, they—arising, no doubt, i?Pm change of l 'o , ,d—have gradually decreased in weigh t and very often been attacked by the epidemic. On irfquiribeing personal inspection, we find t hat the Beasts, and on slaughtered, die —to use a technical expressiOri. ex tremely well ; much better, in fact, than their touch and appearance would lead ns to expect ; consequent:a y they have become more in favour amongst the butcher* than they were some months since. The supplies of foreign stock here this morniog consisted of 40 Beasts an 60 Sheep—all from Rotterelam—and of fair saleable qual i t ,; , ; , while since this day se'onight the importation; for Lentipn and the various outpet:ts have amounted to 210 Beats aild 194 Sheep, which s olied to previous iln" ports, will give tLe following total : Beasts. Shoop. Total for 1344 „ 1843 ~ 1842 .......... esammo. head Grand totals 5,299 1,12.6 lc From the whole of those of ou r g razin g dista.tst whence the principal portions of our Bullock supper are usually derived at this period of the year, the Sr rivals of Beasts, fresh up to t his morning's marketp were again extensive ; but we scarcely ever recollect to' have witnessed such a miserable deficiency of quality al was observed to-day; in fact, nearly 3,000 of the above description of stock were in only a half-fat condition. Although the attendance of bt:.y ers was rather numerous, the Beef trade, genera.lly speaking, was in a very sluggish state ; yet the prunest Scots. Devons, Runts, and Herefords, were mostly disposed of at last week's quotations, but the yak' of all othe r breeds suffered an abatement of quite 22dikner Sibs, and c onsiderable difficulty was experienced in e.lecti n q 6 clearance of such, even at that amount of de). e res sion. and The droves from Lincolnshire, Leicestershire , Northamptonshire, comprised about 2,600 short bu.rnsP while from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshi e* we received 400 Scots, Home-breds, &c. , from the western and midland counties 400 erefords, Runts'' , Devons, &c. ; from other parts of England 300 of various, tweeds ; from Scotland, 200 horned and polled Scots ; and from Ireland, 40 Beasts, via Liverpool. The numbers of Sheep were moderately good, but not to say large. On the whole the Mutton trade was steady at prices about equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight, and at which most of the supply found buyers. Although the supply of Calves was limited, the Veal trade ruled extremely inactive, and Friday's depression of from 2d to 4d per 8 ibs was barely supported. Fine small Porkers were quite as dear ; but other kinds of Pigs were almost Irr 1 urinal in value. Per Sibs. to sink the oftaL ..d. toe. ( 1 . s. d. to s. Inferior Beasts ..... 2 2 2 Ai Second qualityditto.. f 2 3 1 . 0 Second quality ditto 2 6 2 Coarse -woolled ditto— 3 8 1 - 0 Prime largethren 210 3 6 z_ N outhdown Wethers 210 Prime Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 9 0 9 6 lart:e Hogs ..... 3 0 3 . 0 Prime small ditto 3 8 4 0 Small Pe r ke ri . 3 8 0 Suckling Calves, each 18 0 32 gi Quarter' 010 Pliltieach l6 0 Inferidr Sheep SUPPLY AT MARKET.. Beasts. Sheep. I Calves. . 4,01 I 30,900 31I) .V.UrciATX: 41. - 41) WWI X> altir 11 es , A-zu The arrivals of country killed meat up to .the.” market; during the week have been but moderate, the t in ri ~h year considered, and of very middling' quality. meat sh,ughterill in the metropolis, however, we CU tit l t, to be heavily supplied.. Prime Beet and Mutter , ' a'; commanding. A steady inquiry, at fully previous rat , ' s . ' but those of all other kinds of meat haVe declined quit 2,1 per Slits. Several carcasses of Dutchleasts and she? have been on sale. In the quality, a decided improve meta is noticed. since a corresponding advance in price has been obtained. A few of the former have realised 3s 2d per Sibs. At per stone, ny sae Carcase. • : s• 3 ' . s. d. to s. d . . i i (.3. -to .... is ..,ei, 1 nteno. . -- raids - lima ..... .... 2 6 2 8 . middling 2 8 t s prune large ..... 210 3 2 ----- prime . „:3 2 „ s --p• sine wall 3 2 3 6 Pork, ,arga............... 2 6 ° • 4 V ~... , . , „_,. , 'a 0 4 0--,lnuit — 3 4 ARRIVALS DURIN ti THE VAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs :tland 2O 290 18 l yo7) ,siiire 8 40 :,• 90 Nort", , iX Suffolk,4o Cambridb 10 30 . ' ohire 22 90 -00 1:0 Essex SO 120 9., 2'lo Surrey Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts .... . ..... •• 1 " 040 290 WW I Previous week's arrival ... ''''' lS 1,430 425 1,620 Difference since our last 75 4i:,0 145 3 60 ARRIVALS. Flea Wheat. Barley. 5.96 0 Bitglish 5,190 qrs. 6,390 qrs. I 1,030 Irish Foreign. ..... Malt. 4,010 era 'WOOL IK.A.M.ILET. The transactions,' in all descriptions of Foreign an., Colonial Wool, continue extreme l y unim p ortant, an ° prices, owing t.i the manufacturers being largely in stock are with difficulty supported. English Wool is a niers drug, and may be purchased on lower terms. The itnpor ti have been confioeti to about 1,000 bales, chiefly W. Germany and Russia. BOR.OUGIK AND SPIT.A.X.VILMDS. During the past week the arrivsls of Potatoes at all waterside have amounted to about 1,806 tons,. in condition. The best qualities have been in toler&blY (M g • request, at about previous rates, but all oth er kinds Mil' sok; heavily, on easier terms. BOROUGIit SOP MARKET. of Although , there is a good display of most k in d Hops in ouif market, the demand for nearly every cl!'; scription has rti!ed active , and the quo t at ions are att on the advance. Weald of Kent and Sussex rock, must be considered 5s to 7s per cwt higher. The ai l " is nominal at 130,0001. 1'A13;9 17 ". - This market may be considered firm, although tf! arrivals have been so heavy. There is now a very Is ir demand, and it is generally believed prices cannot To_ cede further; Fine new Y.C. is very scarce, and,,, sought after at 41s to 41s 3d, which is rather above 7,, q u o tation of this morning. Prices for the spring nino,i,th". 4ls 3d to 41s. 6d. Town Tallow 42 5 , nett cask. 1" wail due this morning has not arrived. COAX. MARKET. Prices - per ton at the cloie of the market ;—Buatt, West Wortley, 18s ; Dawson's West Hartley 183 ; ing's Hartley, ; Hollowell Main, 19,. ; Morri s°l L Hartley, 16s ; New Tanfield, 15s 6d ; Ord's Redheug7, 1 68 - '; 91d Tantield, 15s 6d ; Pontop Winds e r , 163 ; • 7 . Primrose, 1556il ; Tanfield Moor, 19s ; West Wy."l,-.7'.'"';; 173 ; Wy ' 17s ; W. E.. Clennell , • 188 9 d ; , W; Ht.t:t..n, 213 . 9 d ;W. E., Hilda, - 20s 6d ; E., 19s 6(.1 ;W. E.,- Corooder Tees, 21s 3d. ; E., moor, 19s 6d ; W. E. Ri,-har , :son's Tees, 21s L • .-:j Te,,, 23s 9i ; Lewes's : Merthyr, 21 , ; West fialw•'l. Net 11(41;4 4 185,.-•-Ships arrived sine: sin last weel, ()Mitts:din tu..t - iosort, W. E., Caradut, 245. ;4 1 t BRISTOL SUGAR AlithZ.FT7 Nov. I . — Th e the week are limited to 500 ht s. West India 0 114 ,.7,;5 Bertgais, w ithout;alteration priCes• •No tra nsact o 3 er report.:±(l in Al:lll46ns. The demand for rum has 1 :1 0 1 slackened but f , almer rates are fully ,upp:.rted . pu ot g . .iecis ire scnrc,, - ,and.ti:e trade are glad to rchr"eil thd pr?ient tricAlllate rates for forward delivery. u7„h and. piece. S in good • demand.--Bristol Mercury, ( fie MILAN, OCT. 24.-- Among the personages; c es eto tlnction htive visited the city during the P r f r y i month are the D. , wager Viscountess Galway, sir If rd derrick Treneh, Sir George Palmer, Lt;dy Wilmot and Lady W6rsley, Sir Wiliam Fol;ett end ~vjville~ Viscount Lewisham, General Islaphr, Captaill Sir Jatnes Strong, Prince and Princess Dorf Co' hilea. Prince Aldobrandini, the Duke de Serra.,ir prioda, Prince Poniatowsky, Countess Woronzoft; quis de Custine, &c. st 1 THE SHIRT-TREE OF AMERICA.—In the lore--:o.ht Oronook there is a tree which often attains the 13,110 of 50-feet. The natives make shirts of the bark coud tree, which requires only to be stripped off, and W a t to deprived of its- red and fibrous parts. The shirt it of formed without seam. The head is thrust throur4 / 0 end, and lateral holes are cut to admit the arms. ral to wear these shirts in rainy seasons, which, accorditgew Humboldt, are equal to any of our Macintoshe s lb" ing out the wet. BIRTHS. of ric. On the 31st ult., at Islington, Mrs. J. B. K' daughter the . .40 , °I On 31st ult., the wife of Mr. S. W. H. Brir . at Royal Hill, Queen's-road, Bayswater, of a son. On the 31st ult., at the Paragon, Blackheath , - Bruce Turner, of a son. fie tiler Oa the let inst.. at Hyde-park-square, Wo n,Mrs. ington, of a daughter. Oa the Ist inst., at Lansdowne-villas, Notting- bill ' )Cll5 T. W. On the Ist in Younghusband, of a son. o f rt. T. P t* st., at Bayswater, the wife Browne, Esq., of Launton, Oxon, of a son. Total in 1834 One of the principal causes which preyented any larger increase in the arrivals in 1843, over those of 1842, ap pears to have been the rapid falling off in those from Spain, arising from the great losses sustained by the im porters from that country, even though a larger portion of the Beasts were purchased in the neighbourhood of Vigo, as low as from 61 to 7L per head. The freight of these Beasts, or, exclusive of the duty, landing, &c., about 51 lOs per head, was decidedly against speculation; hence very few persons are found willing to purchase either Beasts or Sheep in Spain for our markets; consequently we are not expecting any extensive supplies of stock in future from any of the Spanish ports. The efforts, how ever, which have been made by the German and Dutch graziers, the results of which are now developing them selves, to improve their stock by larger imports of slime of our best breeds of Beasts, Sheep, and Pigs, lead us to ---------' gr. the conclusion that it is from those two countries that DIED. L • nc oluell if6 we shall henceforth be principally supplied. It is a On the 23d ult., at Somerby, near Brigg, - 1- i s rh Henry B o n, ged 37. niorP somewhat singular fact that the short-horns, chiefly On the r 2 w 6th a tilt , Mr; Francis Slater, of MOOD - g. grazed in our northern districts, were originally derived Dir• Clapham-read. . vrin• dier , from Holland ; yet the stock lately imported thence (we On the 28th ult., in St. Alban's-street, v , st op are now moderate s spimilarity toeaking of ththe e easts in articular) bears but a oore, the 29th ult.. in Bennett-street, Bath, aed 86. obert. yeter 11 e Beasts in particular) bears but a Moore, aged 86. moderatc similarity to the original The Sheep al- MOn most exactly resemble the old litnts both in size an d s h ape . th e i nfan t son o f A. H. J o h n F orss mann, Beci.'Bo( st niter, i The increase which is observed in this year's imports- burgh. Willi Blll Lions must not, we find, be attributed to English specu- On the 30 th ult. , at High Wyc ombe, Esq., aged 77. lators, at least three-fourths of them having been under On the 31st ult. at Croydon Anna, rel ic t the auspices of certain moneyed parties, moving, it is , Price Es q. aged 7 i . 9 _______ ; - .140, 1 said, in the highest circles abroad, who have actually had " ;;n 00, yOu 11*, their own salesmen offering the sto c k f or sa l e i n this London : Printed and Yublis y bed b MUll y .P.,' •ty . 06. market. This circumstance has, as might be imagined, ' N o. 112 , s tran d, P r i nter , a t The ,suP G o d the caused nolittle surprise here ; but of course there is no I Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy t remedy for it. We have remarked, in the foregoing ob- Bilddleeez, Tuesday, November 0, 1844 MARRIED. 0 1 O P h i r ale fft On the 28th ult., at St. George's, 13loomsburIt and Rev. Henry Montague Villiers, Rector, illis'? s oli second son of the late Admiral Butterfield, to Mar l* A daughter of G. B. Ashmead, Esq., Hayes, Middlesel: A, •T• On the 31st ult., at Christ Church, Blackfriars -roau. "4 „ Ivison de Viale r .Esq., eldest son of Fletcher Ivi so P,: l aiii oP. Cadiz, to Mary, second daughter of the late John A . ' Esq., of Penrith, Cumberland. tch Cb ur tA On the 31st ult., at St. Andrew's National S c o t eh of London, the Rev. William Cameron, Minister of tir.f,b . ter Lochbroom, Rossshire, to Martha Isabella, eldest E r L i shr the late Rev. Alexander Cameron, Minister o f th Edderton, Rossshire. liff' den, Os On the 29th ult., at S4lter's-hall Chapel, 1 , _„° 1.1 _,. cattie r Davies, of Crown-street, Finsbury- square , to Macleod, of Stoke Newington. LLOYD'S. SHIPPING. --- LONDON, Nov. 4.—Wind this day at noon, northerly, fresh breeze, and cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind N.E., fresh.—Arrd. Brightman, Hoof, Antigua ; her Majesty's steamer Vesuvius, Mediterranean; Blixten, Virginia, for Rotter dam ; Afra, Villa Neva, for Amsterdam, leaky, with loss of sails, and two men overboard. Sld. Margaret Parker, Tobago. WEYMOUTH, Nov. 3.—The William and Mary, Beale, hence to London, drove ashore on Porthind Beach last night; she has received no damage, and is expected off when the weather moderates. The revenue cutter Ade laide came ashore on the Sands this morning, but was assisted off with damage" and is now in the harbour. BRIDLINGTON, Nov.. g..=-LFor the last four days it has blown a gale from S.E. by E. This morning it rs blowing a heavy gale at E. Several broken spars, some branded " Cygnet, of Whitby," have come ashore. The Duncannon, of Sunderland, from St. Petersburgh to London, drove on the beach half a mile to the southward yesterday, and is expected to become a wreck—crew saved. A'yessel, ketch-rigged, is riding heavily under the Smitick Sand. HARTLEPOOL, NOV. 2.—lt is blowing a heavy gale from S.E. The Eleonora, from Gothenburg, got to lee ward of the Channel in making this port, and drove ashore this afternoon near the entrance of the harbour. WARKWORTH, Nov. 3.—The Iris, of Whitby, from Dantzic to London, was driven ashore on Boulrner Rocks this morning (luring a heavy gale from S.E., and is likely to become a wreck if the weather continues stormy — crew saved. FISHGUARD, Nov. 2.—Two brigs and three schooners anchored in this bay yesterday, it blowing strong from ee.st and -by north. One of the brigs and one of the sehooners are ashore on Gooclwiek Sands. The life boat has gone to their assistance. The other brig and schooners remain at anchor. YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, NOV. 3.—The Osprey. from - Port Talbot, to London, ashore on Pennington Spit Ist instant, got off yesterday with trifling damage. It is blowing a gale at east. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 2.—Arrd. Pacha steamer, Gib raltar—left 25th ult. Sid. Tay steamer, West Indies. 3. Great Liverpool steamer, Alexandria. OF/ TORBAY, OCT. 31.—Toy Torch, Madeira, out twenty.eight days. DARTMOUTII.—Arrd. S. Gravenhaage, Mulenaar, Ba tavia, for Rotterdam. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 3.—Wind N.B. E.—Arrd. Equa tor, Kurst, Surinam, for Rotterdam. Bencetax, Nov, 2.—The Two Sisters, . Wood, from . Shields, to Axmouth, parted her anchors in the bay during a heavy gale at south-south-east, and drove. ashore at Elbury Cove, where she lies waterlogged and embedded in the sand; part of : materials saved. HOLYHEAD, Nov. 2.—Last night, and to-day it has blown a gale from E.S.E.—The Eclipse, Cook, from Ipswich to Liverpool, sank ,in the harbour last night, supposed to have struck on an anchor. The Liverpool sloop Endeavour, and Fairy Queen, of Woodbridge, are both making much water, having stranded in taking the ground. SHEERNESS, Nov. 2.—lt blew a gale last night and this morning, at E.S.E.—The Navarino, Harris, from London to Lynn, lost anchors between the Maplin and Middle lights, and is now riding in the harbour by an anchor and chain supplied her. FALMOUTH, Nov. 3.—lt blew a violent gale with tremendous squalls yesterday from 4 A.M. till noon, when it moderated, veering from N.E. to S.E. The shipping in port rode without accident. MILFORD, Nov. 2.—The George, Shearer, from New port to Dublin, struck the ground during a heavy gale from S.E. yesterday, became leaky, ran for Hubberstone Pill, missed stays off the point, and drove on the rocks, where she filled—crew saved. It is blowing a gale at S.E. Souniaomil, Nov. 2.—The Barnard buoy, with b a ll and staff attached, has been washed ashore at Gaston, also a wreck buoy, supposed from a vessel sunk in Barnard Channel. It has blown a heavy gale from E.S.E. since Saturday. The Traveller, Talbot, i s ashore on the south beach. crew saved. Two casks of oil and a number of Wore koops have come ashore during the night. Geismar, Nov. 2 —The.Newport, of Montrose, from Stettin to London, with grain, came ashore this morning about four miles to the N.W. of this port, with loss of Hamburgh,imoeouost anchors, and two feet water in her hold, but is expected off after dischargin g p ar t o f h e r cargo. dNov.rove 3 ashore .T h e here jo 3 h e a s il t e n r day Cain , during and from a heavy gale from the E., and has become a total wreck ; crew, stores, and part of cargo saved. HULL, Nov. 3.—lt is blowing a gale from E.N.E.— The Bull floating light broke from her moorings yes terday, and is now rising in Grimsby roads. A schooner is reported ashore at Clee Ness, and another at Stalling borough. SHIELDS, Nov. 2.—The following ships drove on the bank at North Shields last night and this morning during a !wavy gale at S.E.:—The Magnet, of Bristol, fur Cal mitts with a general cargo ; the Sovereign and Gren ville Bay, both heuca coal laden, for Londun ; the Alberdine, of Brake, and the Elswiok;of this port, both A " 1 Capi THOMAS BL, The Right HOD 4 b•rdeen Ric 4e All app ...._,_!2,12:3cter, 41. t i 41.0) 14nd de ePtre or the , trkd eon. OfteL ah et th 4 tiro Do kr und Mc) Ittl e Ito 'AN - Ila 6 18 0 li4 r4ble a l ja N eo rr * it A.0,..,t1f, The ES SU 41JB ERII lAr . that tl DISPOSED b 0 INP oR TAN , liou st . o tip W the that t en ged tv t CON 6t h and it R AC r ein dence, , 4 : l jeted to l e ; itZch..eTetOroi atm. - 'Mitt MR. ACT ate ttonr w , rt Lia‘libutidin: t r .., he TYuc 4,7°,1ar, eTi , oi erkea ny. In„f lbl e eon dar,_ Plar ited fait, stute$ t ute *hole U "il plantZ n ta l i agrreeater part of er ada pte4 re „ Teri trio due of th, Uti '4044 ten an within l O nt a few u P h ro Ito tai a Plan, * °Pe t tinst "rere er. , "" nen 2 T gTeail 4r. 5 .000 Obierv e Price i t , article ex L. Hy nethee,,, Mooti ng Dress Coa " b 4 out t ,7 1 , 4 ck Tr ( ack v i „ ! we ed Fang Zuckeltin 111 T unic 8 Hussar st ~to l eakin Ditto ve otnce Chesterfl Drove cc S , 4, tout i —ta c k 41 Paghion One heat ,lorL