The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE P ÜBLIC J 0 URN A L . In an answer to an address from the Mayor and Com mon Council of Toronto by Sir George Arthur (which our readers will find among our extracts from the American Papers) his 'Excellency contradicts the assertion made by the Prete...dent of the United States, " that disturbances had larokeu out anew in different parts of the two Canadas." ‘e I unhesitatingly reply," says Sir George, "that I am rent aware Vany. And so much struck was I with the inac curacy of this allegation, that I did not fail to invite the early attention of her Majesty's Minister at Washington to it, for the purpose of informing the Government of the United States of the very material mistake into which the President had been drawn ; a mistake, certainly, of no slight importance, as furnishing some kind of pretext, however unjustifiable that pretext may be, for the interference of the citizens of the Union in the affairs of this province, and by consequence tend ing in s o m e d egree to l essen the enormous turpitude of their conduct." The American people have of course much to answer for and we ore glad to learn from this document that it is in contemplation to demand satisfaction from the Government of the United States. Hanging the brigands is not enough. That State which, either from a wish to be spared the bur den of establishments to preserve order, or from defects in social organization, allows armaments to be regularly er rayed, and to issue from its territories to invade a neigh bouring grate, is in justice bound to make compensation for the injury done. Sir George holds out this hone of redress as a means of prevailing on the people of Upper Canada to abstain from reprisals. He urges his most anxious des're " that the spirit of forbearance which has been observed by the Government throughout this tragedy may bc followed by the whole body of the people, and that whilst the ban ditti who have fallen into our hands are made to answer to the offended laws of the provinces, you will leave it to your Queen and to your country to redress those great wrongs which, I am persuaded, all Europe will assent, have been done to the peaceable inhabitants of Upper Canada, and which it is my conviction that roe spectable citizens of the United States must now look upon with abhorrence, and as a most flagraet violation of their own constitutional principles." Tl:e Americans have much to answer for, not merely to this country, but to the people .of every country in the world. Absolute power everywhere, as a justification for refusing to comply with the . just demand s o f th e p eop l e f or R e f orm, says— " Look to ahe United States of America ; see the consequences of liberty—inability to execute the laws in the interior and inability to prevent aggressions on neighbouring States, which in Europe would lead to constant war, and only slobs not lead to such a result in America because, with teen exception, America has only savages and Mexicans for neighbours." Within the last three or four years these popu lar outbreaks called Lynch law, and the invasions of Canada, have lowered the reputation of America a hundred percent. in thie part. of the world. The inhabitants of Europe begin . to look to the futur e p ros p ects o f a people growing rapidly is numbers and physical strength, apparently exempt from due moral restraint, with fear and apprehension. Sir George Arthur, as we have seen, tells the people of Upper Canada—" Trust your Government : make no reprisals t those of the banditti who have not been destroyed will be brought to condign p un i s h ment. " What i s called taking the law into one's dvvn hands is generated by a despair of justice, and it is judicious in Sir George to afford no pretext for indulgence in this most dangerous of all habits---Lydelllaw, But we a re sorry to l earn from these who are yinti anately connected with Lower Canada, that there is not the same confidence in that province that the law will be executed. There is a belief among the British—right or wrong- we will not say—but there is a belief that Sir John Colborne's hands have been tied by instructions from Eng land, and that the rebels will not meet the punishment they deserve. Whil e Si r G eorge Arthur is resolutely en forcing the law in Upper Canada, the British population in Lower Canada see nothing done ; and fears are entertained that the twenty thousand armed volunteers in Montreal and its vicinity will resort to Lynch law, and do that justice which they despair of seeing the Government do. This, of course, the Government of Lower Canada will feel itself called on to prevent ; and we grieve to say that a collision between the Queen's troops and the volun teers is honked for as not beyond the range of possibility. In that case we may bid adieu to the possession of Canada. Wh trust, however, the apprehensions of the gentlemen connected with Canada in London are not justified by facts, and that no false step on the part of Government will place us in the predicament of playing for Canada for the last time, Certain we are that if Government do its duty at this time, these provinces may become a source of strength to the empire. We have trifled long —we must trifle no longer.--elforning Chronicle. Announcements of meetings for a repeal of the Corn laws are pouring in on us from all quarters. We learn from the Aberdeen Herald, that " a preliminary meeting for the formation of an Anti-Corn-law Association in Aberdeen, or to advise what other measures may be thought necessary, with a view to the change or repeal of the present laws af fecting the importation of food," was to be held yesterday, and it was confidently 'expected that it would be nume rously attended by men of all parties. " We know," says that journal, " many stanch Tories among our merchants and shipowners who are fully alive to the evils of the Corn. laws, and who will not hesitate to join any class of their fellow-citizens for the promotion of an object which they feel to be absolutely necessary for the preservation of our commerce and manufactures." In the Potteries, we learn, the subject of the Corn-laws is attracting general atten tion. On Monday week a numerously-attend e d meeting took place in Fenton, where resolutions against them were passed. A requisition is in course of signature, addressed to the Chief Bailiff of Hanley and Shelton, to call a meeting of the inhabitants on the same subject. On Tuesday last, the Mayor of Birmingham mentioned to the Council that he had received a communication from the Deputation of the Anti-Corn-law Committee in Birming ham, requesting him to convene a public meeting to con sider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the total repeal of the Corn-laws, and praying the Council to take the subject into their consideration. After some dis cussion the deputation was received, and J. Scholefield, Esq., M.P., who headed it, said he "trusted for the ho nour of Birmingham they (the Council) would not refuse to use the influence of their body, representing as it dal the feelings, wishes, and interests of this town, to remove that which affected the welfare not only of that, but of all the manufacturing towns in the kingdom. He asked the Council to give the resolution he presented all the attention which it demanded." Mr. Scholefield read the resolu tion of the Anti-Corn-law Association, and then laid it upon the table. We may then count Birmingham among the other towns now agitating for this great object. The next important facts stated by Mr. Rawson, a Nottingham hosier, at the second meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce at Manchester, did not find their way into the reports published in this or any other paper. He said that from 1814 to 1824, his house supplied Saxony with hosiery, when they were totally driven out by Saxon hosiery ; that from 1824 to 1834 they maintained a com petition with the Saxons in the United States of America, when they finally retired from the struggle ; that from 1834 to this time they had been importing an annually in• creasing quantity of Saxon hosiery for the supply of their English customers ; and the following morning he was about to give a large order to a commercial traveller from Saxony, on which goods he should pay 5 per cent, expenses, and 20 per cent. duty, and have a handsome profit remaining for he bought at 2s. 6d. what he could not procure at Not tingham for less than ss. He did not think that even the repeal of the Corn-laws would enable them to maintain a competition ; but for any others to think that anything short of a total repeal would do them any good, was merely delusion.—Morning Chronicle. We observe from the Patriot of last night that a deputa tion of Dissenters waited a. few days since on the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, with a view of ascertaining fi om the Right Hon. Gentleman what were the views of Govern ment respecting the abolition of Church-rates, and whether those who complain of the exaction of these imposts are justified in expecting that a measure shall be passed in the approaching session which shall afterwards exempt such persons from their payment. The Patriot adds, that . the result of the interview was satisfactory. It is not otten that we differ from our excellent Contemporary, but unless the deputation received from the Chancellor of the Ex chequer some other assurances on the subject, than the vague one that Government are anxious to see Church rates extinguished, we are constrained to say that we can see nothing satisfactory in the matter. The great error of the Dissenters, on former occasions, has been, that imagining in the charity of their hearts that other per sons were as honest and straightforward as themselves, they reposed entire confidence in the promises of public men.. Who doge not recollect how Earl Spencer, four years ago (he was then Lord Althorp), thought always having the reputation of being the most honest and candid Minister of modern times—who does not recol lect how he misled—to use the gentlest term—tine Dis senters, by his professions and promises on the subject of the extinction of Church -rates ? Relying on his assurances that they would be abolished in the course of the then sess i o n, the Dissenters abstained from all further agitation on the subject. Judge, then, of their surprise and dis appointment, when they found that all that Lord Althorp proposed was to saddle the Church-rates on the Consoli dated Fund /. We warn our Dissenting friend s aga i nst suffering themselves to be again deceived in a sim i l ar way . We have but little faith in the " anxieties,” and " wish es ," and "hopes" of men in o ffi ce; above all in the case of Chancel lors of the Exchequer. We haveseen too much of the slippery movements of such personages to be the same confiding, un suspicious men we once were. We have no notion that Mr. Spring Rice will repeat the game of Lord Althorp, and propose to throw the Church -rates on the Consolidated Fund ; but knowing, as we do, that w h ere th ere i s a w ill th ere i s a The police are almost daily receiving descriptions of children that have disappeared from their homes, and who, it generally turns out, have been decoyed away by infamous wretches for the purpose of being stripped of their clothes. On Saturday, at the Brentford Petty Sessions, a drayman, in the employ of Messrs. J. and W. Farnell, brewers, of Isleworth, appeared before the bench to an swer a summons at the instance of Captain Jelph Sharp, one of the Magistrates, for having caused an obstruction in Church -street, Twickenham, by leaving his dray, with three horses, without any person in charge of them. The case involved a point of considerable public interest, the bench not agreeing in opinion with their worthy colleague, that an off, nee had been proved to have been committed agains' the provisions of the Highway Act, under which the sum mons had been issued, unless some particular obstruction were proved. They, however, were unanimous in stating that draymcn, and the drivers of all other vehicles, are bound under that Act, and General Turnpike Act, not to leave their horses without: sonic comryaent person having care of them ; and they told the defendint that had the summons been taken out under the latter Act a conviction must have followed. •. way, we have our f ears l os t th e o bj ects o f the trtisti.ent'ates, in seeking the extinction of the:l6 ohnoxious and iniquitous imposts, be defeated by some other species of financial jug gluey. Let them rely on no man's promises or protesta tions, but trust entirely to themselves. They may depend on it that their best friends are themselves: We kiiow of no great triumph which has ever been achieved in their case that has not been effected through their Own exertions. We entreat them in the present inttabee to 'trust to them selves, and to themselves aloha Let the agitation in the shape of petitioes, " demonstrations," &c., against Church rates. tint only be continued, but prosecuted with redoubled vigour for the next two or three months, of this they may be assured, that the most iffeetual means they can employ to induce Government to introduce a measure for the bona fide extinction of these imposts, is to assume etch an attitude as will convince Government that they are de termined that those imposts mall be abolished.—Morning Advertiser. In a letter from Mr. Richard Taylor, which appeared in our columns on Saturday, and who is one of the City members of the Gresham trust s it is stated that we were misinformed as to the proceedings which took place rela tive to the question of competition. That gentleman says, " The first proposition, that, in obtaining plans for the re. building, there shoulc be a competition among architects, was at once carried unanimously, The secend proposition was intended to bring under full and fair consideration the question whether the competition should be wholly ettii ntited, or confined to a certain number of nrchilects, of a certain standing : and the dinition was, I believe, nearly what you stated," Our readers will recollect. we stated the division to have been 11 on one side and 6 on the other ; the former for competition., and the latter against it ; the majority being composed of eight Mercers sled three City men—the minority of three Mercers and three City men. It is one of the inconveniences attendant upon the private discussion of questions of public interest that it is very difrictilt in general to get t the precise truth of facts. What oozes abroad through the crevices of closed doers can hardly be expected to be as accurate as that which the press could have obtained through its accre dited agents, if such agents were allowed to be present at the discussion. In the present case, however, the inaccu racy is not so very important as Mr Taylor would represent it to be. Taking the fuels to be exactly as that gentleman states, they prove that there was a struggle in the Com mittee as to whether there should be free and open compe tition or not. That is the great point. As to limited com petition, we look on it as very like no competition at all. It is selection, not competition; or it is a mere compro mise between nomination and competition, to " designate which by the latter word is calculated to mislead. Whe ther the limited competition was to five or 15 candidates we care not. It is not the free and open competition fi,r which we contended when we alluded to the job bing system, which has been " the bane of architec tural taste and science in this country," and fol lowed up those observations by saying, " We have been induced to make these remarks at present from learn ing that an attempt is now making to exclude the principle of open and free competition among architects, in reference to the rebuilding of the Royal Exchange." Well, was there not an attempt made to i xclude the prin ciple of open and free competition? Mr. Taylor's own admission proves it. He voted for what he calls a limited competition, and consequently against free competition. It is also confirmed by the statement of the same member of the Committee that Mr. Horsley Palmer, as we stated, voted against an open unfettered competition. Is this what the public had a right to expect of these respectable mem bers of the Gresham trust ? As to the limited competition, we have said it is only selection—selection of aftw, by some arbitrary principle of choice, to the exclusion of the many. How were the select few to be chosen ? From an exhi bition of their works ? If so, how were they to be com pared with those of others, seeing that no others were to bo allowed to exhibit ? or were. the Committee to desiga nate them without any reference to their works ? That would be mere nomination—the close borough system, to which Mr. Taylor was in political life, as well as ourselves, so decidedly opposed. Or were the "select few" to be chosen on a principle of seniority ? We suppose that is what was intended by the Opponents of free and open com petition, because Mr. Taylor says " the competition was to be confined to architects of a certain standing." To be sure this is equivocal, as it may mean a certain standing in public estimation, or a standing in years. If the choice was to be made by reference to a certain standing in public estimation, may we ask by what square and compass of moral mensuration was the exact amount of public fame to be measured in regard to architects who stand pre ty near each other in the opinion of the public ? If the " select few" were to he the senior architects of the profession, we fear that some superannuated favourites of a jobbing pa tronage, and some incapables, might be found among the number, and that many men of talent would have been ex eluded. The object of the Gresham trust is, or ought to be, not the sticking a feather in the cap of a fortunate an chitect, but the procuring the erection of the best building that English genius can furnish for the purpose of which that building is to be dedicated. How can the Committee be sure of getting the best design for the work that British genius can produce, if they shut out the great mass of British architect: from competition y How is youthful talent to make its merits known in the world if the principle be adoptCd, as to all public works, which Was advocated by the opponents of open and flee competition in the Gresham trust ? How can Mr. Taylor or anybody else say that, among the youthful architects thus to excluded, there might not be a young Wren, or Inigo Jones, or William of Wyckeham ? We contended for, and obtained, the recognition of the principle of free compe tition as to the building the new Houses of Parliament. On that occasion 95 architects sent in designs ; a very large proportion of those designs convinced us that knowledge and talent were not so much wanting in this country, to the re demption of architectural science from its present fallen and degraded state, as honest and intelligent patronage. Is such encouragement to be given either by shutting out competition altogether, or by cutting it down to less than one-sixth of the number of architects who availed them selves of the free competition to which they were invited by the Legislature and the Government on the occasion to which we have alluded ? We admit that on that occasion the good principle was greatly marred in practice by the appointment of so small a number as five persons, not pecu liarly well qualified for the task, to decide upon the merits of the candidates. In that case the chief prize was obtained by one whose standing does not give him a place among the 15 senior members of the profession. With such a limit :6°n Mr. Barry would have been excluded from being a compe titor at all. We do not charge either Mr. Horsley Palmer or Mr. Richard Taylor with knowingly lending them selves to a job. The misfortune is that members of the Gresham Committee of their respectability, taste, and intelligence should be induced by any argument to make common cause with those who dread the manly English fair-play of open, free, unfettered competition—th e simple and only sure mode of bringing into the field all the archi tectural talent of the kingdom, veteran and youthful, to strive for the honour of raising from the ashes of Sir Thomas Gresham'e building a Royal Exchange worthy the first commercial city of the world. Mr. Taylor says he will not answer for what may be at the Treasury (in the shape of an intended job)—nor will we. If the Gresham trust submits to Treasury dictation the shade of their great founder will have to mourn over another calamity be sides the burning of the noble commercial mart which his munificence created. The whole transaction will, in that case, benefit another " science" than archi tectural science, whose triumphs are to be found recorded in the history of " jobs." He adds— " It is time the public should be aware that it is by the Treasury that the work is most unwarrantably obstructed. This we believe to be the case. The Go vernment wishes to oust the Gresham trust of its proper functions, as it would oust the London Corporation of its privileges. In both attempts we hope it will be defeated. There is no question but it must, if the members of the Corporation and of the Trust stand to the assertion of their rights against the grasp of centralising power, as Englishmen ought to stand to them. Let us add, that it does great credit to the Gresham Committee that they have resolved to act upon the principle of free unrestricted competition, in obtaining plans and designs for the new Royal Exchange. We are sure Mr. Richard Taylor, as a man of taste and a friend of art, must feel pleased rather than pained at his having been beaten on that point ; and, for our own part, we are very glad to hear, upon that gen tleman's authority, that the question is not to be re-opened. —Morning Herald. LAW INTELLIGENCE. THE NEW POOR LAW. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 14. lIARDMAN V. ELLAMES AND OTHERS. This cause, in ,whith the, plaintiff seeks to, recovet certain land! in Laiicaihire ; as the heir-at law of a testator of the naale of Harditian; who died in 1755, was part bard: On Saturday John Winter, a boy apparently about ten years of age, was given into the custody of the police by John Ellis;,bootirt+ker, i ia, Mar lebone.street i for stealing a p a i r o f breeches. The boy WiiB taken to the station-house in Vine- Street, and he there told the inspettOr that e Bad taken the trousers, and given them to . his big sister to pawn, in order fci raise a trifle to buy food for his little sister, who was starving. At his mi.ser.lble repisitntaticin in behalf of his little sister, who, he said, was locked in the room, vtilthooi fond or ore, Inspector Jervis, with creditable humanity, sent early on Biin day morning to the place, and found the representations of the bey to be true. Having obtained admission to the room, the police found a little girl, dbotit ate years of age, lying in a corner of the room, in a clepletable state from starvation and cold. The child was taken to St. James's workhouse ; and, as it was a case beyond question of urgent destitution, she was admitted. Yesterday the boy was brought before Mr. Chambers and Mr, Hall, at the Marlborough-street Police-office, to answer the charge on which he had been held in custody. The prosecutor said the body had been in his service about nine weeks as errand boy. The boy during the last week hail committed several petty thefts. He had stolen two rings, and on Saturday last he had taken a pair of trousers. Mr. Cliakilgisa askid the boy what bad induced him to steal the trousers? liov (crying)—My little sister hadn't got anything to cat. I could'nt bear to see her cry because she *as hungry; so I tock the trousers. Mr. CiiatinEits--VVII did you not apply to the parish ? B Both my mother and my sister haitl applied to the over seer, but he won't do anything for us. My mother is ill ill et, James's workhouse, and has been there for a week. tin the lice-C'hancellor's and thb Rolls Court, a few cases were heard in part only, and these possessed no general interest. I COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jeri. 1 BRAYSHAW V. BATON. This WasAn of a tailor's bill, to which there was a plea of infancy, arid it repliCation that the things suppli e d were nec e s sa r y. Thh ca s h wa4 triedhetofe the Under-Slierift ror Middlesex, and a verdict found for the. Mr. JAMES this morning applied for a rule to show cause why the verdict should nut be set aside and a new trial bad, and why, in the event of a new trial being granted, the cause should not be tried befdro the superior Court. The Leah - 10i moved on tti ground of misdirection. He submitted to the Court, upon various authorities, that the plaintiff was bound to have proved that he had made reasonable inquiry into the position of the young man ; and that having failed to institute any inquiries, the Under. Sheriff ought to have non. suited hitti. The COURT granted a rule to show cause. GIBSON AND ANOTHER, ASSIGNEES, V. BENNET, . ... This was an action Id rOpotter the artlotint or a bill or ex change, Which the plaintiffs alleged the bankrupt to hive de livered to the dc'endant, in contemplation of bankruptcy. The case was tried at Guildhall, before tho Lord Chief J 1 s• tice, when there Kas a verdict for the eeendant. It appeared that the bankrupt had, long previous to ti-. 0 delivery of this bill to the defend..nt, been in insolvent circumstances, and had been in the habit of receiving advances from the defendart on short credit ; but he did not become bankrupt until about a month after the transaction in question ; and he had in the meantime endeavoured to make a compromise with his cre ditors, and to obtain advan- es from his bankers, Mr. HALL suggested to Mr. Chambers the propriety of mding for Mr. Bryant, the acting overseer. In a few minutes Mr. Bryant entered the Ate. Mr. biAMIJERS—I hate sent for you, Mr. Hr ant, ly awe here is a charge made by this boy which appears in some de gree to affect your palish. The boy is taken to the station honse, and he there states he stole the breeches to get food for his little sister, who was in a starving state, and who had been refused relief by youi' parish, Mr. Bryant—This case is quite new to me. The little gill is now in our workhouse, having been brought there on Sunday after being deserted in the streets. Inspector Jervis—No ; we found her in the room lying on some shavings, and she was immediately sent to the workhouse. Mr. Bryant —Where she was promptly received. The mother also has been ill in our workhouse a week. She is now di, charged. The boy's statement of having been refused relief is not true. The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up, kid the Jury that it was not sufficient for the plaintiff to prove the bank rupt's insolvent circumstances, nor that he contempla!ed a compromise with his creditors—nothing short of contempla tion of bankruptcy itself could be sufficient. Mr. Sergeant Nitta moved to-day for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had, on the ground of misdirection. He submitted that the Jury ought to have been told, that although the bankrupt might hope to effect a compromise, or to obtain an advance, still, if he gave away the bill, so that one creditor might be protected in the event of his endeavours to escape bankruptcy being un successful, the plaintiff would be entitle to their verdict. The COURT granted a rule to show cause. Boy—lt is. My mother applied some time age, and you said you would do nothing for her. When she went into tho workhouse my big sister was not able to support my little sister, and on Tuesday she went with her to the workhouse, and asked the person there to take her in, or she should be obliged to leave her. • She was told that the parish would not take the child, and if she deserted my little sister they would give her a twelvemonth and a day. Mr. Brysnt—l ask your Worships is it creditable that any parish offices would couple such a threat as that of giving a twelvemonth and a day to a person who applied for relief for a child so circumstanced ? lam certain such a thing never happened. Had an application been made to us, I am sure relief would have been given. The boy was ultimately discharged. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA Y JAN - VARY 15, H 39. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, .1421 r 14. HAMPTON V CROSS. In this action which was tried before the Lord Chief I3arcn at the Sittings in Westminster after last Term, when the plaintiff was nonsuited, Mr. 111.711 FREY obtained a rule to show cause why the non suit should ILA be set aside, and also why the eerendant and his attorney should not pay all the costs of the trial, on the ground of bad faith. It was an action brought against the proprietor of the Surrey Zoological Gardens to recover the sum of sixty pounds for a breach of contract in not al bwing the plaintiff to make two ascents from the Gardens in his balloon. FRASER V. BONN, Mr. HOGGINS applied for a rule to set aside the verdict in this ewe and for a new trial, The action was tried before Lord Abinges at the last sittings, and was brought against the lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, for arrears of salary due for services at that Theatre, and also at the English Opera House. The verdict was in favour of the plaintiff for 371. The Learned Counsel moved on the ground of misdirection by the Learned Judge. The COURT were, however, of opinion that the Lord Chief Baron had directed the Jury rightly, and the rule was refused. INSOLVENT DEB7'ORS' COURT, JIM'. 14. PROTECTION TO INSOLVENTS. In Bsil cases the insolvents receive a protection from the Court against further imprisonment until the d tys of hearing, and when their cases are further adjourned the term is marked upon the protection. Two insolvents, whose cases were ad journed, had not brought their protection with them. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER said the Court, in fu ture instances, would order them into custody, unless they brought their protections with them. Commissioner BOWEN remarked that they might be taken in execution, and not having the protection with them, the order of the Court would not avail them in the slightest degree. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. The Legislative Council met on the 30th of June. The opening speech of Sir John Franklin, at the opening of the Council, gave an outline of a scheme fol. the establishment of a general system of education, but we sadly fear it will not be found sufficiently practicable to meet the wishe s of its benevo lent projector. Sir John again refers to the subject of a reci procity Act for the mutual enforcement, in either colony, of writs and warrants issued in the other, and it seems he has again been in communication with the Government of New South Wales on the subject. The Legislative Council have decided that Mr. Lewis (who, it will be recollected, was illegally imprisoned by Judge Montagu some years ago), shall receive 1,7001., with interest at ten per cent., amounting in all to nearly 2,0001., by way of compensation for the injuries sustained by him from the illegal conduct of a crack-brained Judge. In common justice this sum should be taken from the salary of Mr. Justice Mon tagu, instead of the public purse. From the decision of the Council the Colonial Secretary dissented, and Captain Swan ston entered the following protest on the records : " It is with extreme reluctance and pain that I dissent from the motion of Mr. *Lachlan; but I cannot consent, and never will consent to sanction the principle, or establish such a precedent, as may this day receive the approval of this Council, viz., that any individual suffering from illegal acts of a public functionary, over whom this Colony has no controul, should be indemnified out of the Colonial Revenue. " I therefore solemnly protest against the voting of any sum of money, for such a purpose." The much-talked of printing monopoly is to be done away with, but the Government work is not to be thrown open to the trade; a complete printing and book binding establish ment is to be sent out from England, and to be placed under the superintendence of a competent person, with a salary of 3001. per annum. A Project has been set at Foot at Launceston for the pur pose of forming a joint-stock - company for establishing a steam tug and floating dock for the river Tamar. Application had been made to the Government to know whether and upon what terms they would build a steam-boat at Port Arthur—a favourable answer had been received. Emigration from Van Diemen's Land seems to be rapidly on the increase ; in addition to the large numbers that come to Sydney, the Isabella took away fifty-four persons to Port Phillip on her last trip, and about fifty more sailed by the 2ferope for South Australia the same week. From the port of Launceston alone upwards of 300 persons hare cleared out for Port Phillip during the last six months. The Hon. Mr. Elliott (son of the Earl of Tinto) a civilian, and recently aid-de-camp to Sir John Franklin, is appointed the command of the mounted police, vacant by the resigna tion of Lieutenant Munday. In reply to a question from the Attorney-General, asking for information on the subject of a civilian commanding a military force, the Colonial Secretary said that Mr. Elliott was' to superintend the equipment only of the corps, the command was vested i n th e m ili tary com manding officer, to whom the Governor transmitted the ne cessary orders. _ _ _ A Police Magistrate is to be appointed for George Town. Dr. Turnbull, the Clerk of the Councils ; Mr. Learmontb, a merchant ; Deputy, ,commissary General Moodie and Dr. Learmonth, have been elected Elders of the Se.ots' Church, Hobart Town. Mr. Dowling, cf Launceston, is re-publishing the cele. brated Pickwick Papers, in weekly numbers of 24 pages, a Is. each.—Sydney Gazette, July. 29. The following announcement appears in the news papers, and exhibits a love of economy in the Royal house. hold as praise Worthy as it must be popular :—" It has hi therto," says a correspondent, " been the practice of the Steward of the Royal Household, on every occasion re quiring the attendance of the Guards' band to perfor m at the Palace, to regale the men composing it with a sub stantial supper and a pint of wine each. On Thursday an order was issued by the Commander-in-Chief, and read publicly to the respective bands, implying that they were no longer to expect this allowance to be continued, the present Lord Steward, the Duke of Argyll, being of opi nion that from the sphere of life in which the persons composing the bands moved, they we re not in the h a bi t o f drinking wine, and that it was a superfluous and unne cessary expense, when one quart of ale would be quite sufficient, and which is appointed as its substitute. Most of the persons composing the Guards' band hold situa tions in the metropolitan theatres and other places of amusement, and when they are called upon to perfor m at the Palace it is at a loss to them of 7s. or Bs. per night."-_ John Bull. On Saturday afternoon a labourer named Thomas Haines, while at work at the building of the new Trinity Church in the New North-road, Lower Islington, fell eff a scaffold about twenty-four feet high, and pitching on his head on the ground, so dreadfully fractured his skull that he was killed on the spot. His body was removed to toe vaults underneath Islington Church, and remains awaiting the holding of a Coroner's inquest. The deceased was quite a young man, and unmarried. There is a rumour that O'Connell has been offered the Mastership of the Rolls, in Ireland, which he of course refused. On hearing which a wag remarked, " How could the Whigs expect a man to accept of rolls, whose loaves were so large already %"—Tory Paper. A few days ago the officers of Hatton-garden Police Office apprehended a man and woman at a house in Carrier street, St. Giles's, on a charge of coining. Various implements for carrying on this illicit trade were found in tncir possession. The man made a desperate resistance, and on being overpowered, attempted to stab himself. They were taken before the Magistrates, when the woman was discharged, and the man fully committed for trial. ' HURRICANE. The whole north and centre of England seem to have been exposed to the devastation of the most furious gale within the memory of man. A convincing proof that this storm has not been equalled within living memory, is furnished by the fact, that most of the accounts, though from widely different places, represent it as altogether unparalleled. In London south ward, and Edinburgh northward, the storm was violent, but not of unprecedented force, nor attended with much destruc tion. One of the most remarkable proofs of the force of the wind in Yorkshire is the fact, that at Leeds, which is seventy miles distant from the Irish sea, as well as at Huddersfield, Hebden-bridge, and other places which are nearer to the wes. tern coast, but all separated from it by a high ridge of hills, there was a saline deposition, which must have proceeded from the spray of the sea caught up by the wind and carried to so great a distance. The salt on the windows was very percep tible to the taste. The depression of the barometer was great. In Leeds, be tween eight and nine o'clock on Monday morning, the mercury stood at 28 inches 3-10ths. It is worthy of the attention of philosophers, whether the still greater and almost unprece dented fall of the barometer some weeks since, was not the evidence of an extraordinary disturbance of the atmosphere in ;me remote part of the world, greater than was experienced here at the time, and with which the recent gale may also be connected. The rapid fluctuation of the barometer within these few weeks favours the conjecture. Between nine o'clock A.M., on Monday, and ten o'clock P.M., the barometer rose a full inch. On the nights of Friday, Siturday, and Sunday there were vivid flashes of light ning, and again amidst the storm of snow on Tuesday, all of which facts show the electrical state of the atmosphere to have ben much disturbed. A very distinct lunar rainbow on Thursday evening, also deserves to be mentioned in this con nection. A scientific friend at Liverpool informs us that he conjec tured the wind at that place to be travelling at the amazing speed of a hundred miles per hour. We are not without fears that the deficiency of the late harvest may be aggravated by the very extensive destruction of corn-stacks in this and the neighbouring counties. Im mense numbers of stacks were thrown down, and their con tents scattered far and wide ; and we apprehend they could not be gathered together again without much waste. Many lives have been lost, but fewer thin might have been anticipated from the numberlesi dangerous downfalls of build ings, chimneys. roofs, &c. The tempest was the most fatal at Liverpool, where not less than one hundred and sixteen liras were lost in the town, in the Mersey, and at the mouth of the river; many ships and vessels were wrecked, swamped, and cast ashore; and many buildings reduced to ruins ! The following is a list of the number of lives lost at different places, as far as we have heard : . - LIVES LOST FROM THE HURRICANE.—At Leeds 1, Halifax 3, Leighley 1, Hull 6, Driffield 4, Boston, 1, Gainsborough 4, Liverpool (land) 9, Liverpool (drowned)* 106, Manches ter 4, Staley-bridge 2, Preston 2, Carlisle 2, Newcastle 1, North Shields 1, Sunderland 4, Shrewsbury 1. Dublin, &c. (land) 10, Dublin (drowned) 3, Belfast 2. Total of lives lost, 170. Houses blown or burnt down in Ireland, 177. * The accounts report 14 wrecked by the Brighton, 14 by the Pennsylvania, about 53 by the Lockwoods, and 2 in the sloop Convoy, 4in a flat, 7 of the crew of the Runcorn steamer Bridgewater, 1 in the steamer Eclipse, 3 riggers swamped in a boat, 2 in the Seacombe steamer. EMBEZZLEMENT AND FORGERY David M'Nin, who was charged by the house of Messrs. Lizardi and Co., agents for the Mexican Government, with having feloniously embezzled genuine Mexican bonds, and also wi;11 having forged the name of M. de Quintana, one of the partners in the house, to a number of new Mexican bonds, was brought up for final examination. The Justice-room at the Mansion-house was crowded with members of the Stock Ex change and other men of business. 117 De Quintana, one of the partners in the house of Li zardi and Co., upon being called upon to sign his deposition, was questioned by Mr. Clarkson, who afterwards said, that as regarded the charges of forgery he had objections to make, as might be .supposed from the questions he had put to M. De Quintana, on . a point of law; but he was quite aware that the subject must be argued elsewhere. The case of felonious em bezzlement, in which the old Mexican bonds were sent by Mr. Vyse to be converted into new stock, was then proceeded with. In that case the prisoner had received the old bonds, and marked on the paper of acknowledgment that the new bonds would be ready on the 12th of November. He afterwards, however, met the clerk and altered the date to the 21st of No vember, and in the interim decamped. The prisoner was ordered to be brought up on a future day ;o be formally committed to Newgate for trial. DEATH FROM WANT.---Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Guy Earl of Warwick public house, in Belton-street, Long-acre, before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, on the body of Elizabeth Sheppard, aged forty six years, whose existence terminated under the following melancholy and deplorable circumstances :—The Jury, hav ing been sworn, proceeded to view the body, which pre sented a heart-sickening spectacle. It appears that the de ceased for some time past had been allowed, from feeliegs of charity, to sleep in the cellar of one of the common lodging-houses in Buckeridge-street, St. Giles's. She had previously been wandering the streets of the metropolis in a state of utter destitution and starvation. The house in question is, as many others are in the same street, the re ceptacle of juvenile thieves, prostitutes, beggars, and the veriest scum of society. The house consists of six rooms, and between forty and fifty persons nightly lo cated themselves there. The deceased had stated to a fellow lodger in this abode of vice and infamy, that she had been turned out of St. Marylebone workhouse, the parish officers telling her she was able to get her living, She was then destitute of procuring even the ensu ing night's lodging, and had since been unable to obtain any means of subsistence. Latterly she had com plained of excruciating pains in her legs and face, and also that she suffered much from want and exposure to the weather and insufficiency of clothing ; but she stoutly re fused applying to the parish for either medical or other as sistance. During last week she became so bad that some of the inmates of the house procured the attendance of the medical officer of St. Giles's parish, who found her in such a state that he immediately ordered her to be removed to the parish infirmary. She loudly exclaimed against being taken there, and on being placed in the sedan-chair, she said, with much passion, " you may order me to be taken to the poor-house, but depend upon it I shall die before I reach there." On setting down the chair at the workhouse door she was found to be a corpse. Mr. Burgess, of Lascelles-place, Bloomsbury, surgeon, stated that the nose, lips, and the legs of the deceased were in a mortified state, brought on by the continual want of proper food. He had also no doubt hut that she was suffering under some severe internal disease, which greatly impeded the circulation. It did not appear in what station of life the deceased had for inerly been, Verdict—" Natural Death." MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (FROM THE MORNING PAPERS Of THIS DAY.) CHRONI ;LE.—Affairs in general in the English stock Market present no particular feature, and remain exactly the same tiA oh Saturday. Business in shafts Continues unimportant, and not extensive, se that there is scarcely any alteration to notice in the quota tions. Bii'mingharb railway shares (old), left off at 77 to 79 prem.; ditto (new), 24 to 25 prem. ; South ampton (old), 44 to 45 per share I ditto (new), 19 to If' prem. ; Great Western, 13f to 14} prem. ; North Mid land, 2 to .1 prem. ; Birmingham and Derby, 9to 8 dis. ; Leeds and Manchester, /9 to 21 prem. ; Midland Counties, 16 to 15 dis. ; South Eastern 6 to 9 die. ; Brighton, 3 to 2i dis. ; Blackwall If to dis. ; Croydon, 1:4 to per share ; ditto (new), 2 to If dis. ; and Greenwich, 16i to 11 pershare. The only advices this morning beyond the regular daily mails, arc from Lisbon, where things are represented as going on satisfactorily. The most important portion of the news is the spirit of conciliation manifested by all the leading mem bers of the Chamber, showing the favourable and desirable effect produced by the coalition. The Transit steam-vessel, ashlch is expected to-morrow or Wednesday, will bring the first vote, which it is said will show a great majority in favour of Ministers, and set at rest any anticipation of difficulty being in the way of the present men in office, or of the pro gress of national measures. The revenue continues to im prove, and is collected in money, a most important change for the better in the aff%irs of Portugal. Of the 70,0001. received by the Custom's in November about 3501. only were draw. backs and ex-paper money s and which arose from some old pending transaction. Portugal was everywh( re tranquil. The prides of the various securities were :—Five per Cent. paper and metal, 10 to 73 ; Four per Cent. ditto, 56 to 58; Four per Cent. metallic, 41 to 45; shares in Contanca Corn -I:any, 27 per cent. prem. ; and Bank shares of 500 ra., 000 (toners, are quoted at 570 rs., 000 dollars. HE R LH.—Papers have been received from St. John's, New Brunswick, to the 16th of December last, from which it appears that the Governor of Nova Scotia has removed the restrictions placed upon the sales of Crown lands, by the direction of the Earl of Durham, late Governor-General, the completion of the arrangement contemplated by his Excellency having been interrupted by his return to England. Commercial advices from Smyrna, to the 16th of December, state that for the month previous commercial affairs had been tolerably active. Wheat, owing to the short supply and the demand which has arisen in the various parts of Europe, more particularly in England, has been and was still the object of continued transactions in that market, and many contracts for immediate delivery were on the point of being effected; the last prices quoted being 31 a 32 piastres for Ouchac, and 29 to 30 do fur the other descriptions of Anatolia wheat, all free on board in the port of Stnyrna: The market was much better stocked with the productions of Anatolia than it was a month anterior. Cotton, though the crop was less abundant than was first ima gined, was plentiful there in all qualities, and found buyers for Europe at pricci which, though they appear high, have never theless been paid—vit., far Sauboujac 250 piastres, for Kis kagaz 230, for Cassaba 228 a 239, and for Kinia 228 piastres. In other articles of import there had been no change, a few sales were made daily, and it was hoped that business would be more active in 1839. The exchanges had been stationary, which was expected to last for some time, as bills on Europe were in greater demand than the wants of remittdr2. Money has been rather more in request in the commercial circles to-day, and discounts have been effected, even at the high rate of 4 per cent., on very good paper. On the Stock Exchange there has also been a much griater demand for money, arising out of the circumstance, that the arrangement of the account for the Foreign Market, and the settling for the opening in the British Funds and other English securities, takes place so immediately together, the days fixed respec tively being, for the 15th inst. in the foreign house, and the 16th inst. in the English market. The immediate approximation of the settling in the two markets has induced rather more business in both. The British have closed firmly, and the Commissioners for the Savings' Banks have purchased about 3,500/. in Three per Cents Reduced, at 93g. Some doubts are, however, enter tained that a portion of the late purchases which have been made in their name has been on an account not directly ema nating from those establishments, inasmuch as it is doubted whether, at this season of the year, the deposits could have accumulated so much as to have allowed fully the sum of 25,000/. per week for so long a period to be withdrawn from theEe useful institutions for investment in the public funds. Con?ols left off at 944 a for the opening, and 924 a j ex. div. The Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Reduced Annuities are l 00.? a money, and the New Three-and-a- Half per Cents 1001 a ex. div, Bank Stock is 202+ a 203, for money. India Stock is 256} a 257 money ex. div., and 262 - time. The premium upon Exchequer Bills is 66 a 68, and on India Bonds 65. POST.—Further purchases of Consols were made to-day by the Commissioners for account (as it is said) of the savings' hanks. These operations are beginning to be viewed by capitalists and others with some suspicion. They have now been continued for a very long period, and to so great an extent, that many persons have an idea that they are not ex clusively for the use of the savings' banks, but that the Chan cellor of the Exchequer must have some concern in them. The official reports published within the last few days on the subject of the revenue, show that Government have still an important deficiency to deal with, and, as it cannot happen but that extraordinary expenses to a large amount will have been in curred for military purposes in Canada and India, it is difficult to see from what source the needful supplies of money arc to be obtained, unless it be by means of a loan. The unfunded debt is already inconveniently large, and a fresh issue of Exchequer Bills to any great extent does not seem to be considered likely. A loan might, it is thought, be the most ready and practicable expedient to have recourse to, and, from some circumstances that have been noticed in connection with the purchases to which we have adverted, it has become a question whether Mr. Spring Rice has not in reality come to the determination of proposing one on the re-assembling of Parliament. The investments made by the Commissioners have been in portions of about six or eight thousand pounds daily, and not in large amounts; but the sum taken is, upon the whole, very considerable; and may not these daily trans actions upon a small scale have been resorted to, it is asked, for the purpose of acting upon the market, and of enabling the Chancellor to come into it to the greatest advantage ? We merely repeat what has been suggested by others as not im probable to be the course the Right Hon. Gentleman will take in the existing emergency, and without pretending to be in any way answerable for the impressions that hints of so equivocal a nature may be calculated to convey. At the same time we must confess that when the very awkward situation in which the country is placed, with respect to her financial af fairs, is duly considered, they appear to us to be not unworthy of public attention. The result of the day's business in Mark lane has been looked for by commercial men with great interest this after noon. It was expected that the late advance in wheat would induce holders to bring large quantities to market. This does not, however, turn out to have been the case. Ou the con trary, the supplies continue very moderate. Some depression was observable in English wheat, more especially towards the close of th ,, day; but this has arisen from the bad condition of the pars offered, rather than from any other cause. In foreign there was certainly a decline of Is. or 2s. per quarter on day 's prices. TIME S.—By letters from New Orleans of the 30th of No vember, received by the last packet from New York, it ap pears that the operations of the Union Bank of Mississipi in cotton, to which notice has been already directed, are taking a most extensive range, and threaten to rival those carried on through the United States Bank and its agents. This is a matter of vital interest to the manufacturing districts of this country, since the effect of these operations is to enhance ar tificially the price of cotton, and also, if successful, to reduce many of our cotton mills to short work, or perhaps even to compel them for a time to cease working. To make the casa worse, the portion of the American banking interest thus hos tilely arrayed against our manufacturing industry is supplied by us, for the most part, with the capital requisite for the pur pose. In the instance of the United States Bank, as was shown a short time back, more than half of the shares arc held here, and in that of the Union Bank of Mississippi, which is becoming its great rival in the trade, the bonds of a new loan of 5,000,000 dollars, recently taken by Mr. Biddle, are at this moment selling in our market. So that English money is em ployed to assist American banks in making cotton dear, and crippling that branch of our national trade which is admitted to be one of the prime sources of its prosperity. These American banks do not content themselves with buying up cotton and making large advances to the planters to enable them to hold back their stocks of the article, but they employ every kind of artifice to mislead the public and cause it to be believed that the crop now coming forward of last year's growth is a very deficient one. That may be so or not, for the means of judging accurately are not easy of access ; but, if mistaken in that respect (such is the enormous amount of the cotton product of the United States), no power of the banks can ultimately sustain the price, and they must pay th.. penalty of error just as much as any private speculator. This danger, to which they are exposed, creates a strong induce ment to that perversion of the facts rela, ive to the state of the new crops to which allusion has been made, and their object will be to get rid of their own stock before the whole truth can be known in Europe. Thus a double mischief to English in terests may arise out of these operations—if the American banks succeed, the cotton-spinners are punished; if they are very extensive losers, those who have supplied them with capi tal may fall short some day or other of a dividend. As there is no stopping these operations, however dan gerous they may be in principle, even to the banks them selves, and directly injurious to the mercantile interest of both countries, the point to which attention may now be most usefully directed is to ascertain whether or not the American cotton crop is, as the emissaries of the banks assume, a defi cient one, or whether it is, on the contrary, as many disinte rested persons believe, an abundant one. If once the assur ance could be created in our manufacturing districts that the crop is not deficient, they will at once take the proper steps to embarrass the monopolizers, by putting their mills on short work, and not accumulating any more stock than they require for present use, and this is understood to be already the case with many of the Lancashire manufacturers, who are too crafty not to distrust the statements of a deficiency which arc so industriously put into circulation. We shall be gratified to find that they are in the right, for the sympathies of every one possessing a spark of English feeling must be on their side, while bearing uo against this confederacy of American " ragmen" to oppress and injure them. in the cntten-growing ,`:',.t.4l;:s of America opinkr, not at all run in favour of a deficiency in the crop of cotton. An intelligent merchant of New Orleans, engaged in that trade, whose letter is now before us, says—" After carefully considering the short-crop statements,' and my pri.'at• ad vices from the various cotton districts, and after malt in g due allowance for the prejudice of inter2sted parties on bo tb sides, and comparing them with similar statements promul sated to a greater or less extent during more tiran twenty yea. :13 that I have been actively and for the most part extensively ?,ngaged in the cotton trade, I cannot help arriving .at the co nolusiou that there will be no deficiency to warrant present prices, which of themselves are a sufficient inducement for planters to pick closer, for high prices have ever given :4uffic. lent supplies.' THE ARBITRATION SOC WTY. It will be in the memory of our readers that two weeks ago we spoke of a Society under the above name b 'sing in the progress of formation in this town, and that its obk 'et was to be the cheap and equitable settlement of differences arising from disputed accounts or otherwise, without the ex pensive recourse of applying to lawyers. Twelve arbitrators vere to be elected from the genera: body of the members ; anei when eny dispute was required to be settled, the parties con cerned were each to select one from the twelve ; and in case the two so selected could not agree in their decision, they were to se lect, as umpire, smother of the arbitrators, whose d ?vision should be binding. This paragrah, we are glad to perceive, has excited consi derable attention from our Contempo% - aries, and in The Sum of Wednesday we find a leading article upon the subject. We' are glad at this, because it will tend tc.' fulfil the hope whic h we then expressed, that such Societies w,ould become general throughout the kingdom, and thus prevewt the ruinous effects which legal quibbles and litigation are continually producing. That such societies will soon become general, w e can scarcely allow ourselVes to doubt. Let our :On tisne 11 then exert themselves. and be the first to esta,ilisll, as they hale been the first to project, an Arbitration Societe. The whole scheme is of such a highly beneficial tendenc), that they must make haste, or be disgracefully beaten in the tzetteral avidity to adopt it. We have not before us a copy of all the laws already made. or rather proposed, but we believe there is one to the effect that every member must enter into a written agreement to abide by the decisions of the arbitrators; and that, in every' case of dispute, securities are to be given, note to appeal front that decision to a legal Court—securies, too, of such ample amount as may be considered sufficient to prevent, or severely punish, any dishonourable attempt to break through this agree" ment.—Preston Observer. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 111 d. for the 41b 1,0 Good Bread may be had at 9d, PRICE OF SEEDS,-Jan. 14. ter Cwt. I . er Quarter. New English Red Clover6oi. 84s. 983 St. Foin 44/s 441 411 , 01,4 Ditto Ditto -s. -s. -s Rye Orass 28s 355. 40. New Foreign Ditt,. ......r6s. 80s. 955. 1"...e.ey Grass -s. 40.. 455. Old Ditto Ditto -s. 40s. Cos. Linseed, for feedir. , g ...465. 525. 36'.. New White Clover 60s. 803 90s Ditto, for sowing -s. 58s. (13s Old Ditto Ditt0............ --.,,. 455. 60s. Ditto, for crushing -a. 435. Uts. Nero Trefoil . 20;. 25s 30s. Canary . ............. -s si pis. Old Ditto - a, - 3,58• 225. Hemp s"refolittm las 11s. I3s. Per Bushel, Fnglish Carraway ,. 43,. 40s. White Mustard lls. cd. 15s. rd. Foreign Ditto -s. 40s. 441 Brown Ditto 15s. lid. 22, ed- Coriander -s 13s. 21 s. ) , Tares 4B. 6d. is, O. Rapeseed, Engli, h tine :per Lass) 3‘.' /, 38 '• Foreign 34'. 36' PRICES OF HOPS. - Jan. 14. , Ftrnharn Pocket,: (per cwt.) 6, Os. 7/. 151. to 9/. sz. East K-nt Pockets. Ditto Bags 4l. 41. 51. 104. to 7.. li . Mid Kent Pockets 3l. 155. . 54 5 •• to " Ditto Bags 31. 10s. 4/. 10 s. to 7;. 7 1 Sussel 'P. 3.. 31. I r '. to 4'. 10s, Yearlings 2l. 10s. 31; 3s. to 41. 4s. Old Olds PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPITALFIELDS. York Reds (from vessel) 4l. 10s. to 51 Os. per t. on. Scotch Reds ditto 41. ss. to 41. 156 ,ditto Kidneys 4/. Vs. to Si. Os. ditto Shaws PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d Per lb d. to d- Crop Hides, 30 to 401 b each ;1 13 Horse Hides, German lO 2 1 -.......-.....40 Ni ---- dull Hides I.:0 60 13 .. 8 CalfSkins,3o to 401 b. (doz.)• I 4 IF I. 10 13 ' - 40 30 •IA 23 Butts, Vitriol ........ - -50 00 ..... ..•"•.•17' - English - Foreign .... l5 22 Seal Skins, 1arge............... 11 1r Foreign Hides lO 12 --.-.-- small 2 O, 2 1 Dressing Hides - Shaved ... 12 15 i Basils 6 71 13c4 Saddlers Hides l4 16 ' Bellies .... ..... .. ....... .......... 0 fi Horse Hides, English • If rounded 2d. to 4d pas lb. mere. PRICE OF OIL. - - -- - Rape Oil, brown, per ton, 431.00Refine71,44i. 10a,—.Linseed Oil, 28 GO. Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, (1000?, 141, 14s —Rape Cake, per ton, 15."., 1.114 PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. inwn Tallow s9s. Od. Yellow Soap ...... —s. !Nl+ Yellow Russia White —s. Od. Curd ...... ..... ..13. Od. Soap Ditto s Od. Graves... Melting Stuff Ditto Rough 3ls Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sib. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters)... ... . 33. 60, PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles ir. the Retail Shops iL , as folio ws - Candies, per dozen, Bs. 6d. ; inferior, 7s. 6d.—Moul, l B,loi. hi. Sixpence per dozen discount for cash. CO A L MARKET— Jan. 14. , s. . Jeer 1 CIL d Adair's 19 3 Walls End Lambtrai ....... 23 9 , ..... (..'arr's Hartley l9 6 Walls End Russel's Hettori... 1 3 Chrster %i,,in Holy well Main .22 6 fan geld Moor :l4 3 Walls End Hartlepool ...... .... 9% 0 Townley lB 6 Dixon's Butterknowi lB 1 kkylim .O n Walls End Barrington Tees.... 22 1 .: W,.11s End Killingworth ~ Walls End Neur,,, cell. 219 Walk End South Durham.... 22 0 W,118 End Riddell's Wails End Bradtlyll's Helton '23 9 Hartley - 110 9 Ships arrived since last market-day, 4. Per Ton. An inquest was held last night, in Crown-street, Soho, on the body of a child three years of age, whose death, as appeared in evidence, arose from having drunk quantity of boiling water from a tea-kettle. The Coroner and Jury strongly censured the negligence of parents i allowing their children to have such opportunities.—Ver. diet, " Accidental death." COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—TERMINATION THE INQUIRY.—The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of Mr. Taylor's mind, on Satrsrday brought their labours to an end. The alleged lunatic underwent anodic: lengthened examination, in the course of which he loudly complained of the treatment he had rece;ved from his sons. The jury pronounced " Mr. John Taylor to be of unsound mind since the month of October, 1836. Mr. Taylor has between 3,0001. and 4,0001. in the Three per Cents., and some houses at Ball's-pond, Islington. His father was three times Mayor of Henley-on-Thatnegr and an Alderman of that town. Mrs. Baxter, the lanel• lady of the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Strand, is his niece. It is calculated that the expense of working thi4 commission of inquiry will amount to 2,7004, in addition to the costs, which will necessarily accrue on the suit in Chancery between the lunatic and his son Richard. There werc three dissenting jurors, namely, Messrs. Tulle Whisken, and Smith. LADIES' FINE GOLD NECK-CHARS-- A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, No. 9, Cornhill, London (opposite the 13ank of Eneand), offer a large variety of Ladies' Fine Gold Neck. Chains, of the matted, ring, and cable patterns, a yard and a quarter long, at the following prices, ancora' ing to the weight : 1 The weight of 3 sovereigns... £4 4 0 The weight of 1 sovereigns .£8 IF The weight of 4 sovereigns... 5 5 0 The weight of 8 sovereigns 9 O'' The weight of 5 sovereigns... 6 6 0 The we i g ht o f 9 sov e re i gns 10 10 The weight of 6 sovereigns... 7 7 0 The weight of 10 sovereigns 11 11 , The most elegant spangled, star, and fancy link patterns, at Tug* Guineas more than their respective weights. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, No. 9, Cornhill, London. PATENT LEVER W A TCHE S. With silver deuble-bottcm cases £6 6 a With silver hunting cases 6 16 6 This celebrated - construction (the most accurate on which a watch can be made) is offered, with the latest improvements, i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes, capped. hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintaining payees' to continue going while winding up, at the above price, by T. COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, Lpndon, (Seven doors from Gracechurch•street). N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the 11th inst., in Upper Gower-street, the lady of S. Bush Toiler, of Lincoln's-inn, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a sou. On the 11th inst., at the Vicarage House, West Tarring, Sus sex, the lady of the Rev. John Wood Warter, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at Ashley Park, Lady Fletcher, of a daughter. On the 14th of December, in the island of Madeira, the lady of Lieutenant-Colonel D'Arcy, K. S.L., of a son. On the 13th inst., at Syston Park, the lady of H. R. Yortu, Esq., of a daughter. On the 12th inst., at North Wraxall, the lady of the Rev. T. Wyld, of a (laughter. On the 10th inst., in Montague-place, the lady of S. R. Bosan quet, Esq. : of a son. MA RR IE D. On the 11th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Paddington, Mr Charles Viner, of Oxford-street, to Sarah, only daughter of Mr. George Hobbs, of Bayswater. On the 10th i ns t., at Chiswick, Lieutenant Charles Henry Hors ley; of the Hon. East India Company's Service, Madras, to Anne Isabel, eldest daughter of the Rev. J. Jennings Smith, M.A., Turnham- green. On the 10th inst., at the Cathedral, Salisbury, James Hussey. Esq., to Henrietta, eldest (laughter of John Grove, Esq., M-D-, of the Close. DIED. On the 4th inst., at Frankfort-on•the-Maine, Charles Robert, the eldest son of Charles Battye, Esq., of the Gore, Kensington, aged 28. On the 7th inst., at Hannington Rectory, Hants, Frances Eli• zabeth, infant daughter of the Rev. Robert Dunn. On the 10th inst„ Benjamin, eldest son of Mr. Benjamin Coo• per, of Clapham-road-place, Surrey. On the 10th inst., in Dunster-court, Mincing-lane, Mr. Harry Norris, aged 62. On the 11th inst., Mr. George Smith, of Little Britain and Bermondsey New-road, aged 30. On the 1I th inst., aged 87, John Hare, Esq., of Firfield House, Knowle, near Bristol. On the 12th inst., Ellen, the wife of Thomas Callaway, Esq., Wellington-st:eet, London-bridge. On the 12th inst., Marianne, wife of Mr. Ainger, of Doughty street. At St. Alban's, on the 29th ult., Jane, daughter of S. Hawkins, Esq., M. D. On the 12th inst., at the Somerset Hotel, in the Strand, Geo. 13ragge Prinn, Esq., of Charlton Park, Cheltenham, and of Yeo vil, Somersetsbire. On the 12th inst., aged four months, Emily Frances, daughter of Thomas Camel!, Eq., of Sevenoaks. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, •f No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the county of Middlesex.—Tuesday, January 15, 1839. T' the E, eial Li; noon, RE : OI He him, th yoy erni those fr Tam GE At a ; th e GE 7. held at I Church Th e f e u ( 1 - Th appointe( trious CI Lard, on Forenoon Th; out the tiers may witho u t lirtningh tim e and signature Rent coil( Jou3rnal. Tha Scotstna'il tri g h ton Tru e sun tirmi n TH gir Peter Andre w S Thoma s ' Y Geor ge John Barn W. Sutl M. 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