The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The revenue tables, which we published yesterday, ex hibit, on the surface, an appearance of prosperity, but be neath it, and upon a slight inspection only the usual fal la?.ies are to be detected, which must make us despair of ever obtaining from the Treasury a manly and straightfor ward account, such as is due to a commercial country. On the yearly return a surplus is declared of 1,075,0001., but as it is deduced from the comparison with a period, that of the year ending the sth of January, 1838, which exhibited a falling off of 1,900,0001., there will remain still a deficiency of 825,000/.in'earrying back the compari son to a prosperous period for the commerce of the country. Still it is not to be denied that a rally to that estent, if fairly and honourably mada out, tcould be a source of con gratulation, and lead to the conclusion that in another year at most the mercantile interest would be placed in the situation which it occupied previous to the late crisis. To show whether this has been the case or not in the present return, we must quote Mr. Spring Rice's figures which made up his aggregate of increase of income for the year ending the sth inst. They arc as follows : Customs Excise 69,776 Stamps 150:774 Post-office 7,257 Crown Lands 170,000 Miscellaneous 16,011 Repayments of advances for public works 325,870 £1,098,135 Deduct decrease under head of taxes 22,930 Tctal increase . £1,075,205 Of the preceding, the items of " Crown Lands," and " Repayments of advances," amounting together t 0495,870/. have no proper place a return of " revenue," and the in troduction of the pro6eeds of the Crown lands is altogether a novelty, the unfairness of which, as part of such an account, was . pointed out on a former occasion. The inte rest of the sum thus raised is all which could have any fit place in a return of national income. The increase under the head of Customs is palpably derived from the duties on grain imported in the course of the past year, and is a test, therefore, of the privations that await the country, rather than any indication of renewed commer cial prosperity ; while the other large item, the only remaining one on that side of the account, of 180,7741. for the increase on " Stamps," is at best of an ambiguous character. It has been maintained, and the argument is not altogether without weight, that a large issue of bill stainps may arise, more from renewals by shifty debtors, and " kite-flying," as it is termed, by fraudulent debtors, than from a healthy and improving state of trade ; but a certain proportion of such paper must always exist in the bill circulation of every commercial country, and although the practice has been undoubtedly on the increase of late it would hardly be fair to argue, that the whole of the present increase can have had such an origin, and that no part of it is to be assigned to commercial operations of a more legitimate character. We would not, therefore, take away from the present Treasury return all benefit from this item, though the only safe reliance must be the " Customs," if we would build any reasoning upon the revenue tables as to our commercial prosperity or otherwise. Giving to Spring Rice, then, all the benefit of such allowance, but deducting the other three large items in the supposed increase in the yearly income, amounting together to 824,3151., he will be left with a surplus of 250,8901. only on the revenue for the year just ended ; and a deficiency, if the comparison is carried back to the account of the year ending January 5, 1837, of 1,649,1101. There is a cir cumstance which ought not to escape consideration, though not of very great moment, in forming a just estimate of the comparative state of the revenue for the years ending Ja nuary 5, 1838, and Janury 5, 1839, which is, that the greater facilities by means of railways enable Mr. Spring Rice to include in this account one day's additional return from the collectors of the northern towns and outpoi ts, and to that extent, whatever it may be, there is another fallacy in the revenue return far this year and quarter. What has been said of the yearly statement of income may be ap plied, to nearly the whole extent, to the quarterly return. It exhibits an increase of 547,000/. ; but if the data above assumed are correct, the items of _ Customs Crown lands Repayment of advances Amounting together to £531,455 should have no place in it, and the presumed large increase will subside into a small sum of between 15,0001. and 16,0001. only. It is difficult to reconcile Mr. Spring Rice's account with the Bank of England with his general statement of the revenue. His " deficiency bills," which represent the advances he will require from the Bank for the payment of the dividends, amount this time to 5,680,000/. ; at this period of last year they were 5,878,0001. ; so that to the extent of about 200,0001. he is in a better pozition with his banker. As he exhibits, to adopt his own figures, an increase of 547,000/. on the quarter, his advantage should have been to the same or nearly to the same extent. This is not a point, however, of any great consequence. The defect, after all, which clings to these official returns is, that the very form of them, which admits of no proof, prevents the public at large from having any confidence in their general correctness. We need not charge the Treasury with wilful perversion ; it is enough that the form is one which easily admits of it, if the practice were thought at any time to be expedient ; for such as obsolete and im perfect form there can be no necessity, and it ought not to be suffered to continue. A Ministerial " hack," whose servile cringing in this matter we had not seen till after the above was written, states that the sums returned under the head of " Crown Lands" are the " produce of the income of the woods and forests, and most properly brought to public account:' To admit this will not materially alter the conclusions above drawn ; the item is a new one, there fore properly withdrawn from the comparison with former returns ; but the questions naturally follow, why it is now so introduced for the first time ?—and what has become hitherto of that source of income ?—Times. The time has come when the Press may speak more freely of those commercial treaties concluded since the last Session of Parliament, and opening to British enterprise and commerce the supply of a population of sixty millions, shut up previously by a triple wall of commercial prohi bition and monopoly, as well as of political jealousy. Ar rangements, as we learn from our Correspondents in Frank fort and Vienna, are now well nigh completed for fulfilling all the aims of the Austrian and 'Turkish treaties. The sanatory regulations, which proved so serious an obstruc tion, have been removed, and by the consent of the Porte bonded warehouses have been established on the hanks of the Lower Danube, which, with the opening of the Kustendje Canal, will secure an intercourse with those,7 to us, ',important regions. The purely commercial adv,mtages won by these treaties shall ere long fill for us many an ample column ; nor do the political advantages yield to these, giving England. as they do, similar and identical interests with the great g roup of n a tions, to whose commercial life the Danube is destined to be the great artery, from Ulm to the Black Sea. Many were the ways proposed of opening this sea ; diplomatic menace, warlike demonstration, underhand support of dis contented or rebellious tribes—all,, short of war itself, doubtful, and full at once of pettiness and risk. No one can dispute that the mode bit upon has been at once the best, the most effective, and most honourable. A commercial treaty with Austria, interesting the im mense population of South Germany and the Sclavonian States on the Danube, in keeping open the great and only channel of intercourse with which nature has provided them, is the most effective answer that could be git en to the Treaties of Adrianople and Unkiar Skelessi, as far as these obstructed the rights and interests of England in keeping up communications with the east of Eu rope. Nor was the work achieved by intrigue or under hand manoeuvres, by obsequiousness to the despotic prin ciples of despotic Governments, or, on the other hand, by caballing with the popular or revolutionary party in any country. The commercial treaty beiween Great Britain and Austria was won from the latter country by showing how immensely it was to her interest to do away with her old and absurd system of monopolies and prohibitions, and of adopting at once the principle of free interchange. It was a conquest of reason ; and too much praise cannot be bestowed upon those who so ably and successfelly pushed and achieved it. Most gratifying too it is to think that we have thus enlightened, and enabled to extricate herself from a system of routine which must have proved her de struction, a country which has been for so many ages, and during such trying crises our ally—a country on whose strength and independence must mainly hang at once our own security and that of Europe. It is extremely difficult to fathom the mysteries of Austrian finance ; but enough is known, and the very mystery proves this, to render it clear that the empire is, financially speaking, much in the state that France was in 1788—full of all the materials of wealth and prosperity, without being able to develope or make use of either. Even in peace her expenditure certainly exceeded her revenue, with nothing growing up to meet the deficit, and with pros ',sets that must damp her spirit, cripple her armies, and take from her diplomatists and statesmen that confidence which is the soul of success. And this, too, was the case at a time when Prussia, her great rival in Germany—so much th'e inferior of Austria in soil, population, position, and capabilities of every kind—was paying off her debt, and laying the foundation of a political and financial prosperity, Whieb had enabled her to extend her influence to the Alps. Fearful and awakening as was this contrast, and as were its prospeeig, it 1170 still no easy task to direct the views of Austrian Statesmen to its true cause, and to prove to those wary and sagacious men, that all might be remedied by removing the shackles that be numbed industry, and kept commerce and wealth from her shores. Fortunately, the abuses of the old system in Aus tria bad reached such a height that to expose them was to refute it. A more perfect specimen of the prohibitive system than Austria could not be found. It was, indeed, the pays-modek of that cherished school, organized by the despotic power of a Monarch, Joseph 11., who e.dopted and carried its principles to the utmost. Bent on creat ing national manufactures and commerce, he prohibited the commerce that existed, in ceder that manufactures might arise and give birth to a commerce of their I awn. (X' course, neither obtained birth but in his bib own imagination. As to commerce, the trading ;r1 each article was limited to a patented one or few, who enriched themselves indeed, but to the impoverishment both of the public and the State. To whet extent this was car ried may be judged from the tobacco monopoly, the facts concerning which are amongst the few thet have come fully to our knowledge. Our tobacco duty in England produces about three millions sterling, and is paid by twenty-four millions of a population the least inclined to the use cf the weed. The thirty-four millions cf the Austrian Empire are, on the contrary, inveterate lovers and users of tobacco, and the duty is far higher than in surrounding States. The produce to the revenue one would naturally calculate at from ten to twelve millions sterling. But, on recurring to fact, tobacco does not produce a revenue to Austria above 600,0001. From one example of the kind, all may be judged. And so gross have been the abuses, that it is not exaggeration to suppose that the re venues of Austria may be doubled in a certain time by the throwing open of her trade. Thus the great results of the treaty are net dependent upon any political ideas, subject to the changes of Ministers and parties. They are bound up with the prosperity of the country itself. Our own ad vantages, commercial as well as political, are scarcely less. From the tariff, some of the principal articles in which ap peared in a late number of the Chronicle, it was shown that the Austrian market has been flung open to our sugars and colonial produce, to our linen, cotton, and woollen yarns. Earthenware, Cape wines, British ale and porter, bobbinets, saddlery, wrought leather, brass, and copper wares, articles of India rubber, nankeens, bats, glass, and iron, are amongst the chief commodities now admitted. Let us particularly point out the destruction of the monopoly and reduction of duty obtained upon the produce of our fisheries, cod and salt fish being now admitted at a duty of two florins the centner of 123!b5., and train oils at 7d. the centner. The market is here from thirty to forty millions of Catholics. The advantages for our shipping interests, even by this clause, are, we trust, a suf ficient answer to those brawlers, still untired of exclaiming that the shipping and naval interests of Great Britain have been so grossly neglected by her Whig Ministry. We have heard from Vienna, what is curious to remark, that the ecclesiastical party there was greatly opposed to these concessions ; and that they seriously argued, that the sup plying of their flocks with ling and coefish in Lent from British shores was dangerous in the extreme, from the prin ciples that might ooze in along with said commodities. Alas! we much fear that if danger menace Catholicism, it is rather from the learned labours of German scholars, than from any ideas that the English Church or Universities are producin g . This argument, however, would lead us far astray. We only mention the fact to show with what diffi culties our commercial and diplomatic agents had to struggle —the combat being with all the old prejudices and per sonages of Church and State, as well as with Russian en mity and intrigue. But the approbation of Parliament and the country is an ample reward.—Morning Chronicle. Parliament is on the eve of assembling. In four weeks from this very day the Session will be opened—most pro bably by the Queen in person. It will, there can be no question, be one of the most eventful Sessions which the present century has witnessed. And yet the friends of Liberal principles, either within or without the walls of the Legislature, appear to have made no preparation for it. It were well if we could state, that though no preparations have been made by the Reformers with the view of taking advantage of whatever favourable circumstances may arise in the approaching Session for promoting their prin ciples, such preparations are now being made. We regret we have no such pleasing information to com municate. We do not hear of any of the leading Re formers, whether the representatives of the people or the represented, taking any measures for the purpose of deciding what particular course would be the most advisable to pur sue in the very peculiar circumstances in which the Re form interest is placed. Never was that interest, since the passing of the Bill in 1832, in such imminent peril as it is at this moment. The Tories are unit, d ; there is no dif ference of opinion among them as to the tactics they ought to pursue in the impending struggle. The Liberals, on the other hand, are all at sixes and sevens. N 6 two of them seem to be decided as to what were best to be done ; the great ma jority of them have not even bestowed a thought on the subject. Is this state of things to be suffered to continue? If it be, our indifference and inactivity must necessarily prove fatal to the Reform cause. The Tories will not even have to make an effort to eject the present Ministers from office ; the latter will, in the natural course of things, have to quit the region of Downing-street, and the Tories—also in the natural course of things—will step into their places without the slightest obstruction being offered to them. This apathy of the Reformers, with the certainty of so stirring and eventful a Session before them, is absolutely criminal. They will rue• that apathy when it will be too late. We, at any rate, have done our duty—we have warned them of the inevitable consequences of their inactivity.—Morning Ad vertiser. HURRICANE AT LIVERPOOL. On Sunday night Liverpool was visited by a very awful and destructive hurricane. Innumerable buildings in the town and the vicinity have been seriously damaged, while at the moment our correspondent wrote not less than six persons had been ascertained to have lost their lives by the fall of buildings. The house, corner of Great George-square, in Nelson -street, fell with a tremendous crash soon after four o'clock. Two females and two gentlemen were buried in the ruins. Fortunately, through the exertions of the police, these were extricated, after an hour's labour, very little hurt. While the police were at work in Great Nelson-street, word was passed that the house of Mrs. Lawrence, in Cornwallis street, had fallen in, burying in the ruins five persons, amongst the others the old lady herself. The police were, after two hours' exertions, successful in extricating all alive but Mrs. Lawrence : she merely breathed and expired. While she was being carried to the house of a friend, the house of Mrs. Marsh, nearly opposite Dr. Rsfflcs's Chapel, fell in. Two young gentlemen and a servant maid, were in the fall crushed to death, being taken out of the ruins lifeless. The weight of the chimneys in both these instances broke the roofs down and carried every flier to the cellar. In the earlier part of the night the roof of a house in Clayton-square fell in, injuring a gentleman asleep in an upper story most seriously. About the same time a house in Shannon-street fell in, killing a men in the f,ll. A house also in Rodney-street fell in, and seriously injured a gentleman. A house in the Park also,' we have heard, fell in, killing a female. Mr. Quolter, of Sydney-street, was killed. - At Darlington's public-house, tnp of Leander-street, a chimney Wai blown down, and a lodger, who was in bcd in the room underneath, is killed. The large cotton-mill, on the Canal-bank, is one half un roofed. The cotton, which_svas in the upper rooms, has whitened all the space betwixt the Canal and Everton, as if there bail been a heavy fall of snow—even the trees are co vered with it. _ _ Part of the spire of St. John the Baptist's Church, Tox teth Park, has been blown down. The wall of St. James's Church h.s been completely levelled, and the trees uprot,tal so as to expose the coffins. The disasters in the River, the Docks, and the adjacent coast have, v e lament to say, been numerous and awful. At daylight, not less than 15 veisels, several of thorn large ships and brigs, were on shore in Bootle Bay, within the short space of a single mile. At eight o'clock most of them were high and dry, but, at the time R e write, we have not been able to ascertain their names or the extent of the loss of life, which, we fear, must have been serious. Ssvcral vessels, which were at anchor in the bay, rode out the gale till about eight o'clock, when one or two of them dragged their anchors, and could with difficulty be kept from running on a lee shore. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1839. BIRMINGHAM-MONDAY. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT. ) I presume you will receive accounts from all parts of damage and accidents from the storm or hurricane, which has continued from about one o'clock this morning and during the day ; between one and three it was the most violent. There is not a street in the town but more or less damage has been done; stacks of chimneys falling Lito houses—trees lyicg about the roads near the town, &c. 1 have heard of loss of life in two instantes. The top of the Town Hall is roofed with lead, nearly three.fourths of which is torn off. Sheets, weiging from 12 to 15 cwt. each, were blown from a height of 104 feet, 40 yards distance, against houses opposite. A newly erected chimney cf the vitriol works, upwards of 300 feet high (near Birmingham) partially blown down, &c. ANOTHER ATTACK ON GAMEKEEPERS AT COBEIAM.—A man named Somerfield was examined last week and remanded by a magistrate of Ripley, in Surrey, on a charge of deliberately firing a loaded gun at a game keeper, with intent to murder him. Prisoner had been detected trespassing, and, being pursued by the keeper, levelled his gun and fired, but fortunately without injuring his pursuer. Two men and a boy were yesterday examined at Union-hall police-office, and remanded on charges of having entered a house in Lambeth by means of skeleton keys, and stolen a large quantity of property. It is thought the pri soners have been concerned in several robberies of this kind in the same neighbourhood. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (I , IIO2.I'TNE MORNING TAPIRS OP TINS DAY.) CHRONICLE.—The transactions in the English Funds have not been very extensive to-day. Consols for Account opened at 941 to but closed at Saturday's quotations, namely, 941 to *. Exchequer Bills were 665. to 68s. prem. India Bonds, 633. to 655. prem., and Bank Stock 202} to 2031• In the Foreign Funds, generally, the fluctuations have been considerable. Colombian Bonds have improved more than two per cent., in consequence of a large shipment of specie from thence, for the purpose of meeting the dividends on the Foreign Stock, which had the effect of sepp ,- rtiag the other South American markets. Forte geese. Stock, after having been marked in the morning at 33' 4 1 - 1-f , , off rather lower. Spanish Active Bonds were last quoted at 17f to+ ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 321 to 33+ ; ditto Three per Cents . 21 to ; Dutch Five per Cents., 1011 to 102} ; ditto Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 542- to ; Belgian, 991 to 4 ; Colombian, 27i, to 28+ ; Mexican, 0 3A to 24:, ; Chiliar., 26 to 28; Brazilian, 77} to 78; and Peruvian, 17 to 18. There is nothing particular to notice with respect to the Share Market. Lohdun and Birmingham' (old) were last marked at 78 to 80 prem. ; ditto (riew), 24 to 25 urem. ; Southampton (old), 45 to 46 per share ; ditto (new), 20 to 21 prem. ; Leeds and Manchster, 19 to 21 prem. ; Manchester and Birmingham, i to I prem. ; Birmingham and Derby, 9to 8 dis. ' • Great Western, 12 to 13 prem. ; Brighton, 3i to 22- dis. ; Blackwell, to lf dis. ; Gosport Junction, 2to f prem. ; Greenwich, 161 to 17+ per share ; and Manchester and Birmingham Extension, par to f prem. The accounts of the revenue for the quarter ending on the sth instant have signally falsified the gloomy predictions of the Times, who so recently predicted a large deficiency, and even the necessity for a loan of several millions for the service of the present year : for it appears by these returns that there is an increase on the year of 1,075,203 L, and likewise an increase on the quarter of 547,3311., as compared with the corresponding quarter of the preceding year. It is, more over, gratifying to remark that the increase on the quar ter had not only been to the large sum of 547,3311., but that the greater part of it is on the Customs and Excise, proving that the manufacturing districts are in a state of at least moderate prosperity at the present time. This is owing almost entirely to the flourishing condition of. the American trade, by which so large a portion of the popu lation of the manufacturing districts is supported, and so long as the misrepresentations respecting the cotton and other im portant branches of American business have ao more than their previous influence upon the public mind, there is little doubt that the American trade will continue to prosper and extend. If against the exorbitant prices of the necessaries of life, the revenue has been enabled to be increased in the quar ter, it is impossible not to anticipate the most extraordinary consequences, whenever the abolition of the Corn-laws may be effected, and the consequent equalization of the advantages of our British manufactures with those of the most favoured na- tions of the world. _ The Cotton Market at Liverpool continues active, and the late advances in the quotations have been well sustained for the ►ast six days. In answer to the charges of " monopoly" and " preventing the natural operation of supply and demand," which have been made against the Liverpool agents of the Bank of the United States, we are enabled to state that that firm has disposed of no less than 75,000 bales of cotton within the last six weeks. Yet, in the face of this enormous supply, the market has not been depressed, a clear proof that the operations cf Messrs. Humphrey and Biddle have had no in fluence on the recent advance in prices, but that the more general influence of a really deficient crop has in reality been the cause of that change which has been so absurdly attributed to the monopoly of a single house. BANKRUPTCY COURT.-MONDAY. CHARLES NEALL'S BANKRUPTCY. EXTENSIVE SYSTEM OF FRALTD.—The bankrupt whn for a short time carried on the business of . a grocer at Epping, has teen connected, it appears from the examination, with Parker, the grocer, of St. Botolph-lane, who, several months since, was tried at the Central Criminal Court for forgery, and ac quitted. Neall, the bankrupt, absconded, and was proclaimed. He was traced, within the last fortnight, to Coventry, and there taken into custody. He was found at a grocer's shop, having the name Browne over the door, the person represent ing himself as Browne being one Ballard, alias Ball, who had been in the Queen's Bench with the bankrupt, with whom he had bad dealings, and for whom be (the bankrupt) had given security for his release from that place. The bankrupt was brought up to town, and to-day was appointed for his exa mination. The conclusion of Neall's examination which disclosed a rare system of ramified villainy, was as follows Have you ever sold or deposited goods with any bidy in London, bought of tradesmen in London, such goods not hav ing been sent to Epping ?—Yes. With whom ?—With Benjamin Parker. To what extent?—To the amount of about 1,2001. They were grocery goods. Metcalfe bought their, and had given references to Parker. Several bills of exchange bearing the acceptance of the bankrupt were handed to him ; he declared that the accv tances were not in his hand-writing. Sir C. F. WILLIAMS—In whose handwriting are they ?—I believe them to be in that of Parker. Sir C. F. WILLIAMS—Did you call yourself Nicholson while you were at Newcastle? Witness—Yes. I (lid not a2cept any bill in the name of Nichohon A bill of exchange, bearing an acceptance of the name of Nicholson, was here shown to the bankrupt. He denied that it was his handwriting, and said he believed the name of Ni cholson to be in the handwriting of Parker. He did not see the bill drawn. Several letters were handed to the bankrupt, signed in his name. He said the signatures were not in bis handwriting. He was afterwards taken out of Court in custody of the messenger. UXBRIDGE PETTY SESSIONS. Yesterday a person of respectable appearance, about thirty five years of age, wearing mustachios, named Charles Attwood, was brought before Sir William Wiseman, Bart., the sitting Magistrate, for final examination, on a charge of forgery. The prisoner was formerly principal in the firm of Attwood and Beale, wholesale grocers, Little St. Thomas the-Apostle, and had retail shops in Tottenham-court-road and elsewhere. The present charge rose out of an attempt to pass off a cheque supposed to be forged on a Mr. Money, innkeeper, at Uxbridge. The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate to take his trial at the next Sessions of the Central Criminal Court, when, it is anticipated, other charges will be brought against him. POLICE IN TELLI GENCE. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday George Walker, a middle-aged man, and Wil liam Walker, his sou, a yowl' of W, were placed at the bar before Mr. BROUGHTON, and charged with having stolen a gold watch, a quantity of plate, and other valuable property, be. loncing to Mr. Waite, an old gentleman ; 94 years of age. The prisoners now looked wretched, but it was stated that the father, not many years sinoe, had a situation worth 4001. a year in a banking house, and that the son, although so young, had been employed at the St. Katherine's Docks, at a salary of 1201. a year. They were both committed to Newgate for trial. LAMBETH- STREET. The MagistratesaTtliisc;lice have received a letter signed with the initials " P.W.," enclosing' another 51., which the writer requests may be placed in the pop' , box of the establish ment, an,t applied to the necessities of such objects of charity. as they, the Magistrates, may deem fit. SOUTHEND FIER.—At the Essex Quarter Ses s:ons, on Thursday, an appeal was tried in the case of the Southend Pier Company v. Vundervoir. The Com pany, althoogh no pier for landing goods is yet completed, claim under their Act of Parliament to demand a toll for all goods and produce landed within certain limits of the site upon which the pier stands, and the local magistrates had convicted the appellant under the provisions of that Act. The grounds of appeal were that there was no pier, and that goods landed beyond the space laid down in the Act for the erection of a pier were not liable to toll. It was alto contended, that the depth of water, was sufficient without the pier, and that it was not in a state to be ser viceable to•the public. For the respondents, evidence was given of 122 vessels having landed goods, &c., at the pier during the last year, and that the depth of the water at high tide being only nine feet, the pier was necessary. The Bench confirmed the c onviction, stating that the Act of Parliament made it imperative on vessels to pay the toll. Tile case excited much interest.—Abridged from the Chelmsford Chronicle. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT ISLINGTON.—Between one and two o'clock Sunday morning a fire broke out on the premises of Mr. Jackson, hairdresser, Islington, near the Angel Inn, which totally destroyed the house and its contents, as well as did great damage to the adjoining premises. Various accounts are given of the origin of the fire, some stating that it originated frem an over-heated stove, others that it arose from a candle left burning on the staircase for one n! the members of the fancily who was out at a party. FIRE AT BRENTFORD.—On Saturday the soap manufactory of Messrs. Rowe and Berry, at Brentford, was destroyed by fire. The fire was discovered about one o'clTociki,EanGdAthLeEp:a YEST E RDAY.—Yesterday, of the engin es p rev ented it from extending t o the adjoining premises. from a very early hour in the morning, the metropolis was visited with a high wind, whi c h did not, however, cause so much damage as the similar hurricanes which recently occurred. Chimney pots and tiles were unfixed, but in no instance that has come to our knowledge was any person danger ously hurt thereby. A policeman of' the E division was struck, however, by a fragment of a tile, while on duty in Hatton-garden, and had his face severely lacerated. A similar accident occurred to a gentleman named Pittman, residing in Burton -crescent. In Pleaiant-roW, Lambeth, the back part of house was blown down, but the inmates escaped without sustaining any injury. On the river a number of vessels were detached from their moorings, but no serious accident occurred. The wind continued high throughout the day, with occasional showers of hail and rain. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 4. Number Dividend _ - of per per Shares. Annum. raid. Share 1,766 7 pet cent. Ashton id Oldham....Average 971.1t35.5h. 135 ~082 41. Ashby- .e-le.Zotich Average 11W.sh. '73 1,230 Basingstoke 10111.,.h, 1,005 5!. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150 i sh. 90 S,OOO I-I 6sh .91 6s. Birmingham, 1-16th share .811. & 711. 218 11)00 Ditto and Liverpool Junct... l9 "l/ sh. 100 pd `6 600 3/. Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001. sh. all pd 114 400 41. Chelmer and Blackwater MIL sh. 101 500 481. C wentry lOO/.sh. 735 4,545 ... Croydon 2 2 0001 4. Os. Dudley lool.sh, 64 GOO 14i. Derby 100/. sh . 12.3 ?0,00:1 1 pet cent. I..)anuoe and Vi vne. 1,57% 7/. EllesmereandCheoter Average 133/.!.h. p -23'1 62/. &awash , (101.5!:. 771 1,97 • 28/. Forth and Clyde Average 5.001.165. t n. Se( 11;00 121. Grand JUncti^r 100/. sh. 20: 1,849 i 11. Grand Union 1001. sh 1. 11,54.0 (4rand Surrey 10141 sh. 0,000/. IL percent. Ditto (optional) Loan IGO/. C 3.,0,, Grand Western lOO/. sh. all t,d I 6f)o 131.125. ltd. Glmnorganshire, Average cost 172/. 13s. Iti, •21 749 Ills. Grantham 150/. sh. 2( 6,238 I. Os. fluddersfield Average 57/. Os. Cd. sin Z .. 100 Kensing,ton 104) sh all pd. 5.. VS 11. ss. F..mrtet and Avon, Average 391.185. 10d. sl , 2,8371 241. Leeds and Liverpool I ON. sh. 7 545 f 131. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 2 1,897 (0. Os. I .,eicester an,4 'Sort ainpton... Aver 043/. In. 2.400 Iffi. Monmouthshire 100/ .sh. 2 150 101. Mellon llowbray I 04)I. sh. I rko 251. mersey sod Irweil 100/.sh. I 3.090 11. lOs. Macclesfield 1001, sh all pd. 257 0/. Neat!) 2,404) Bi. Peak Forest A vci . .g e about 781. sh. 1,118 Its. Regent's (or London) Aver. 31/. IN. Bd. sh. 5,669 6/. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh . 500 81. Shropshire VLS/. sh. 800 91. 103. Somecset Coal 150/. sh. 3,600/. 41, per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2l. 10s. sh. 700 40/. Stafford and Worcester 140/ sh. 500 91. Shrewsbnry 125/. sh. 300 9/. Stout bridge _ 1451. sh. 3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on. Avot....Averagc 791. 9s. ocl. sh. 533 15/. Swansea 1001. sh. 3,752 11. Iss. Severn and Wye and Railway...AV 35!. sh. 2 601 en. 821. lOs. Treat and Mersey, 4 share PXI/. sh. 3,1 , 19 Thames and Medway...Aver. 19/.55. Bd. ah. 1,0305h.1 , 61 Warwick aid Birmingham lOO/. sh 1,0 4 07 sh. ' WO 15s. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 6,000 4/.os. Worcester and Birmingham...A v.78/.81. sh . 5,000 255. Wilts and Berko .. Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 800 31. NN yrley and Essington 125/. sh 126 fOi Is. Wey and Arms 1101. sh. CANALS. DO"KS. s sh. MOO& 11 gp" Commercial 1 1,065/st East and West India ....Stock 1121 3,23.5,3101/. 555. p. ct. London Stock 62 Ditto Bonds lOl 2,209 21. 199. Bristol 68,124/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll3 1,1352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 1074 500,000 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds . loll 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOO4 v. 500 ..... Deptford Pier "01. sh. 20/. pd 11 BRIDGES. 1,600 101. Hammersmiti , 5O/.01. 21 7,231 Southwark, Old .Av. 631. 2s. 80. sh. 2 1,700 IL 15s. Ditto, New. all ri cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 .. ...... Waterloo 5,000 I . Bs. Bd. Ditto Old Annuities of 8/. 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 7/ 40/. pd 20 1 1 nomot. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds l2O 5,848 175 Vauxhall Average 701. lOs. 3d. sh. 23 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 31 lOs Albion 5001. sh. 50!. pd 74 50,000 € s l: l r s nt i Alliance, British & Foreign 1001. sh. 104/. pd 141 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100!. sh. Si. pd 6; 24,000 1! per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 144 1,200 fah. 5!. Birmingham Fire 20,000 41 percent. British Fire.2so/. oh. 501. psi 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sh. 5!. pd 6 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medisal,&c. Life, ICOI. sh. 2110 s pd 4 4,000 21 ills County 1001. sh. 10/. pd 42 20,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 54 ass , f an d 301 per nt ./ Economic Lite lOO O/. sh. 250/. rid 375 '''' l 2,271 225. percent. European LI, • °O , sh. all pi 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New .0/. sh. 2 !. pd 14 1,000,009/. 71. per ct Globe '20,000 51. Guardian lOO/. sh. 2.741 pd 364 10,000 6s. H. Hope 50/. sh. 51. pd 54 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001 sh. 501. pd 130 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 1001. sh. 10/. pd 104 13,458 4/. per cent. Indemnity Shrine NO!. sh. 8/. psi 23 2,020 31 lOs Kest Fire 50/. sh. all pd 82 3/. Ditto Life. 79 10,000 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 28) SMU 10s. London, Fire 25! sh. 12!. 103. pd 11 3,900 10s. London, Ship 251. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 104 I,ooomol. ... ..... Minerva Life 100/. sh. 30,000 51. per cent. Palladium Lit. 5Ol. sh. 2/. pd 219 s Oel 50,000 4!. per cent. Protector Fite "01. sh. 2!. pd 16.0,1 2,500 H. Provident Lite 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 1/. pd 61 649,220/ 5!. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock... 2251 6,000 5 per cent. University Lite lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 54 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 1001. sh. 51. pd 71 JOINT STOCK BANKS 75,000 8 per cent. Agric. andeomm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 101. pd 5,000 Australasia 4Ol. sh. 40/. pd 70 113,X0 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham sfl. sh. 10/. pd 13 30,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 'O/. sh. 5/. pd 16f 31,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster...loo/ sh. 201. pd 24 63,00 0 5/. London Joint Stock 5 .1 . sh. 101. pd 131 3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 100!. sh. &V. pd 50 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd 2134 100,000 71 per gent Man' Nester and Liverpool} District 5Ol. oh. 15/ pd 2.1 20,000 7 percent. Manchester 100!. sh. 25/ pd 2'7 20,000 Provincial Bank of lreland 1001. sh. '251. pd 45 50,N00 National Bank of Ireland 6'!. sh 1711. pd 17 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. IOU sh. 35/. pd 314 19,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 10/. pd 20 6,000 lOper cent. Hampshire 50!. sh. Si. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1! Os 00 Bath 2Ol. sh. 161. pd 24 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 16/. pd 2 4 ns ,-, f 5/.pecent.l 50 ° . ' /and Bs. Os. j Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pi 24 4 928 5110 s Birmingham : 1,250 'llos Bristol 1,500 3/ lOs Brighton 2O!, sh. 11; 750 31 lOs Ditto, New 2,471 44 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all rid 17 1,000 5!. Continental Consolidated 1,000 101. City of London lOO/. sh. all pd 196 1,000 61. Ditto, New 4,000 41. les. Equitable .... "OL pd 30 10,000 2f per cent. Imparial 101. sh. 49 800 5/. per cent. Isle 0f Maims 251. sh. 201. pd 20 2,250 6/. per cent. ' ndependeut on/. sh. all pd 49 9,000 3/. per cant. Phseni a.. . 50/. sle. 39/. pd 23 1,000 41. per cent. Ratclifl' 4,000 South 5 4 etreisilitan 9,200 5/. per cent. Milted General 'O/. sh. 461. pd 2f 240 5/. per cant. Warwick 501. sh. 51 400 51. per cent Wakefield 2,000 3/, Westminster Chartered 6,000 123. Ditto New 5 (l. sh. 10/. pd 51 EGO Yarmouth .. Ad. oh, Itslosti WATER WJIIKS. 1,8,00 9s. Birmingham '2sl. sh. esr. pd •.;. 1434 61. East London NW. sh. 17 5,500 21 10 s Grand Junction ....Average 41/ 13s. 40. 2,000 2 /. Kent . lOO sh. 4 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 220!. sh. 32 1,500 21 lOs New diver London Bridge Water Annuities 6 6,486 11 15s Manchester and Salford lOOl. sh. 5 1,000 4 per cont. South Lonlon 1001. sh. 10 8,204 4!. West Middlesex ....Average 631. 12s. 9d. sh. 10 1,360 11 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1001. sh. 3 IRON RAILWAYS. 0,300 ...... ... Birmingham stint Derby 56!. pd 4 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 15,f O 0 ........ Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. 'f) pd 1 060 Calcutta and Saugur ..501. sh. 2!. pd 7,500 •••. Cheltenham and G.Western... 00/. sh. 204 3,000 ...... Clarence lOO/. rh. 1001 pd 12,0 1 ,0 9.000 ... Dublin and Kilkenny 10( 1 1. sh. 5/. pd 6 0 , , 100 ...... ... Eastern Counties 251. sh. 11/s pd ..... ... Grand Junction 100/. sh. I.oil. pi 2 1 - Great North of England 30/. pd 5,031) Grcat Western WO/ sh. 651. pd ' 2,0 0 0 liartlepool 100!. sit. 1001. pd 1 8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 201. pd 10,009 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/, pd •),100 31. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. • 1,500 IL5s. Leicester and Swanningten -.501. sh. all pd 5,103 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lo(3.Bh. 100/. pd . f. 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares .5/. pd 36,000 ........ London and Brighten ... ...... 50/. sh. 141 pd 12,000 . London anti Blackwell 501. sh 31 pd 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich "01. sk. 101. pd ',MOO Ditto Quarter Shares 51 pd ...... ... London and Southampton ....50/. sh. 50/. pd 0. ...... Ditto ditto New London and Croydon Trunk 'se../ sh. 20/. pi Ditto New Scrip London Grand Junction 031/. sh. 5/. pd Manchester and Leeds lOO/. sh. 501. pd Manchester and Birmingham 70/.14h. 101. pd North Midland 1001. sh. 55/. pd Northern and Eastern 1001. sh. 15/. I,d 0 ; 033 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 3 ' 1. p3 :39; 00 South Eastern and Dover 9/. pd 1,000 le/. per cent. Stockton and Darlingtoa lOOl. sh. 9,000 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 50/. sh. 2). rid 6,000 York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 121. pd MINES. 8,r03 Albion Copper 5/. sh. nit. p 4 4,000 11. ss. Alien 151. sh. 121. 103 pd .10,000 ... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pm.... 1001, oh. ail pd Ditto Subscription 05!. pa 2,000 1 1 . Linos Bo ISO/. sh all pd 10,000 !1. 10s Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm .35/. sh. 2111. pd 6,0+41 ..... ... Nrecanbas Sr. Cocaes United 251. sh. 21. pd 11,4100 ..... .. Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 141. pd 10,0 1 0 Bolivar Copper Company. 2(1. sh. '2Ol. lad 10,1300 ...,...,., Ditto Scrip 101. sh. 101. psi 20,0101 British Iron 6,060 Psitish Copper 5l. sh. 43/. pd ......... Cate Branca 611. d Candonga s 7Ol. pd ii Copiapo 20/. sh, 13/. pd Columbian, iss. 51. pm. English 12/ ifs. pd General Mining Association...2o/. sh. 17/. pd Mexican Company 10'4. sh. 55V. p i Polberou Consols. ii./. sh HI. lid Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes • 1501. pd United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ....401. sh. all pd Mts. Scrip Ditto New Scrip r a pd West Cork 50/ sh. 501. pd LITERARY I NSTITUTIONS. Landon, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. sh. Lend ,n University 10 , 0. r h. all pd Ilusss•11 ‘ , ..',gs• Oa. King' College 1001. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 155. Australian A gricultural....loo/. sh ea pd 6,000 4'. per cent. British American Land Company '23/. Istl 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 301. pd SCst,ooo Si. per cent. Upper Canasla Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent ss, as. General Steam Navigation ...151. ch. 141. pd 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 11. London Coin. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. 8,000 CaoutchouC Company: 1211. pd 500,1:001.. New Brunswick Land Company 'Ol. pd 2,754 51. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 1001. pd 2,623 51. per cent. Ditto New 10°!. oh. 75/. pd 4, 0(10 tis. Van Die.nen's Land 1001. sh. 171 pd 201.00 11,000 .. 00 12,000 13,000 10,000 10,1)tio • 31. .26,c , 00 11,501 50,14;0 . ..... . • . f,OOO 1,560 711 n _~~,. ~~ LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICE.F. DEC. 26. 1838. BANKS. 1.500 ,000 i. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland 631. 6 s Ed. 4h. all pd lEO'. 2,00,01(1. 54 p. ct. it , yal of Scotland 1604 sh. all pd 11.21. 500.0)C1. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. :.11 pd 240 t. 3,01,006/. 61. p. et. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/ pd 1771. 5.,)n0,1i00.. ~ .. et. N.F.tional lOO/. sh. 'lO/. pd Ifli e,00i , ,O;lill. 61. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 50/. pd 8.V.. 1,000,t'A.01. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 40/. pd &A INSURANCE COMPANIES. . __ . _ . . 25(..0005h rip. ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh, 1/. pd 204 7,509 fll p. ct. Hercules 1001. sh. 101. psl 161. 04 10e,000 sp. et. Insurance Co. of Scotland ...JO/. sh. all pil 101. Os. 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 10/. pd tOl. 1,00 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire M. sh. 10/. pd SO!. Os 5,030 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 1001. sh. 101. P 14110 s 100,000 21 p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd 71 Ca MISCELLANEOUS 4,610 Edin. and (Pas Un. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 101. Ditto Allocal - ed .90/. sh. all pd 471. 5,400 5 per cent. Edirib. Joint Steck Water...,25/. sh. all pd 3111 Carron Iron Company ........... sh. all pd 441, ,000 sh 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery ......... 50/. sh 4SI. pd 52/. 1 10,0(1) 5 per cent. Edinburgh fa Leith Glass —.201. sh. 161. pd 8 / 4,500 10 per csr.t. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd 6 5 1 6 1 4,450 10 per cent. Gl asgow G as . 251. sh. all pd/, 759 it, per cent. Leith Coal Gas ......... . . 2Ol. sh. all pd 80/. 1,200 • . 3 031 5 Der cent. Equitable Loan Company...-01. sh. pd 94 11 140 151} 11i 710 Irt 1/a 29f 15; 131 61 10: NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. ( From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, JAN. s.—Her Msjesty's . brig Termagant captured a slaver (328 slaves) off Prince's Island, on the 9th of October, 1838, and carried her to Sierra Leone—crow all well. Her Majesty's ship Melville was expected in the Bights for the purpose of visiting the squadron about Christ mas. Her Majesty's brig Lynx was off Lagos--officers and crew healthy. Her Majesty's brig Pelican was heaving down at Prince's Island to be re-coppered—crew healthy, expect ing to return to England in February. Her Majesty's brig Bonetta was employed in the River Bonny—crew all healthy. Her Majesty's schooners Viper and Dolphin are employed in the Bight of Benin. Her Majesty's brig Brisk was off Sierra Lcone, and had taken two prizes. Her Majesty's brigs Forester and Nautilus were on the East Coast and off the Cape of Good Hope. Her Majesty's ship Pvlades was all well, expecting deity to return to England. Her Majesty's ship Columbine, all well, arrived at Prince's Islsnd on the 9th cf October, and sailed for the Cape of Good Hope. The Fair Rosamond was at St. Helena en the 3d of November, having proceeded to that island to recruit her crew after the it late sickness. She was shortly to proceed to Ascension, refit, and return to the Coast. The other vessels of the squadron are to t0110.,v in turn the same round, to re-e,tabliTh the health of their crews, after the sickly season. The Fair Rosamond had lately captured, while at anchor at Accra, the beautiful schooner Constitueaa, fitted for carrying slaves, with a crew of 39 men, and mounting three long 18-pounders, one on a pivot. She was under Portuguese colours, but. her Spanish papers were found, which condemned her, together with her cargo, worth 4.0001. The Partridge, 10, Lieut. W. Morris, received orders yes terday to proceed to Portendick and the Gambia, for the protection of the gum trade on that coast, and will sail the moment the wind is favourable. The Prince George, 98, lately the Sheer Hulk in this har bour, is now being broken up at the rate of ss. 9:i. a ton, whi, h it is calculated will give the workmen six shillings a day. The Whitby has been taken up, to convey convicts from Dublin to New South Wales. John Kidd, Esq., is appointed surgeon superintendent. The Barone transport having been again got ready for sea, embarked the detachments for the West Indies, at Cork, on Tuesday last. A strong detachment of the 64th Regiment reached Cork from Dublin, on Friday last, for embarkation to the West Indies. The Quail, tender, arrived from Sheerness on Wednesday ; and the Dasher, steamer, from Weymouth on Thursday, both with newly entered alert for the Britannia; they returned yes- terday. The Adelaide revenue cutter has recently been twenty-three weeks in this harbour refitting, in which time she was re-cop pored, and supplied from London with a new set of rig ging. A continuance of such gross robbery on the Govern ment ought immediately to be remedied, and these crafts should be sent to the Dock-yard for stores and repairs in future. Had this been the case in the present instance, the . vessel in question would not have been delayed more than ten days or a fortnight. In the Harbour—The Britannia, Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Daphne, Cameleon, and Messenger (steamer.) At Spithead—Ganges, Partridge, Samson ( American packet), and Aid-de- Camp (merchant ship). The sum of 501. Is. has been remitted to Sir F. M. Ommanney, on account of the Dreadnought hospital ship ; the same being the amount of donations received trom per sons visiting the Britannia during the past year. PROMOTlONS. —Commanders—Edward Chappell, of the Packet Service at Liverpool, and Samuel Hellerd, of the Coast• Guard Service, to the rank of Captain. Lieutenant E. B. Westbrook to be Commander, Mr. Francis Higginson to be Lieutenant. Assistant Surgeons James E. Goodridge, Charles Praulx, and F. W. Le Grand, to be Surgeons. APPOINTMENTS.—Captain Charles Napier, C. 8., to the Powerful. Commander—George Dobson, to the Coast Guard Service at Weymouth, vice Heard, promoted. Lieutenants—Robert Duncan (Gunnery Lieutenant) and Walter Toby, to the Powerful. Purser—R. G. Diddam, to the Powerful. Chaplain—Rev. E. Moore, to the Ganges. Assistant-Surgeons—W. Moorhead, to the Britannia; Dr. Molesworth, L. C. Urquhart, and Andrew Coates, to the Se ringapatam ; W. P. Backs, to the Wanderer • Charles Da niel!, to the Colombia ; Alex. Barr, to the Griffon. Mates—Mitchell, to the Powerful ; Gladstone, to the Minden ; Wilson, to the Princess Charlotte ; Fisher to the Vanguard. Midshipman—Boyce, to the Talavera. Second Master—Bower, Master's Assistant of the Britan nia, to be Second Master of the Hercules. ROYAL MARINES.—Mr. Joseph Edward Wilson Lawrence, to be Second Lieutenant, at Woolwich. ( From the Devonport Independent.) PLYMOUTH, JAN. s.—Her Majesty's ;hip Malabar, Captain Harvey, arrived on Saturday from St. Helens. She was towed into harbour, 'on Monday, by the Megmra steam-vessel. Every exertion has been made to unrig and unstow her, to bring her to the lightest draught of water, the tides having been taken off in consequences of northerly winds which acts as a check on its rising. She cannot be docked until the next spring tides. Her Majesty's ship Hercules, 74, Captain Toup Nicolas, was towed into harbour on Tuesday, by the Megmra steam vessel, but does not require to be docked, and is expected to sail about the 18th instant. Her Majesty's ship Inconstant, 35, Captain D. Prinz, hay ing bad her defect... , made good, went out of harbour into the Sound on W. dnesday, was paid advance of wages on Thurs. day, and will sa►l to-morrow (Sunni•+y) for the Cove of Cork, from whence she will proceed to Halifax with troops. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Megmra, Lieut.-o , lm. Gold smith, is to have her defects made good with all possible speed, the workmen employed on her having orders to work extra hours. She will be ready to proceed, on the 7th inst., for Gibraltar. The enlistment of seamen is proceeding rapidly at this port, above 300 extra are already on board the flag ship Royal Adelaide, and are hourly increasing. Ships in Hamo.ze—Royal Adelaide, 104, Captain T. White; San Joseph, 110, Captain J. N. Tayler ; Malabar, 74, Captain E. Harvey; Hercules, 74, Captain J. Toup Nicolas; Megaera, steamer, Lieutenant- Commander Gold smith ; Opossum; Falmouth and Goodwill lighters; Asia freight-ship. In the Sound—lnconstant, 36, Captain D. Pring. In Barnpool—Nightingale packet. The following are the ships ordered to be transferred from Sheerness to the Chatham Ordinary, viz. —The Redoubt able, Black Prince, Defence, Tremendous, Wellington, De vonshire, and Anson, of 74 guns each, and Tenedos and Venuq frigates. ROMANCE OF THE 19TH CENTUR7. DARTFORD ZINC ... MILLS. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) For the last fortnight the town of Dartford has been in a state of feverish excitement, in consequence of the siege of the zinc mills. One of the parties being determined upon an at tack, and the other as resolutely resolved - to defend themselves even unto death. Having had personal communication with both the belligerents, we were well aware that force would be used. The mills are in the occupation of a French Zinc Company, the principal of whom are the Comte de Mornay, M. Alfred Mosselmen (the original sole proprietor), and M. Le Hon, the present French Ambassador at Brussels, who, in June last, appointed M. P. KaVanagh, Esq , British Di rector and Superintendant. Some petty squabbles having arisen between him and the Paris Director, in which, we believe, Mr. K. acted with too much honesty, that gentleman, in the beginning of December lest, received letters of imme diate dismissal, and M. De Stains arrived to replace him, no provision being made for fulfilling Mr. K.'s responsihili.y, nor compeesation offered for his loss of situation. He, therefore, as he was etigegel for a 3ear 4 refused to give up possession. M. De Stains then [deem-a - ea the town, desiring no credit might be given to Mr. K., as he was not an authorised agent. Mr. K., however, still maintained his position, and having funds, continued the works. Still more inflammable placards were issued, and it was determined to obtain the works by force, fur which purpose a party of men were driven down by Brown, the go-cart man, a professed prizefighter. M. De Stains had himself, although but a young man, seen service, and been wounded. Mr. Kavanagh is a native of Ireland, a gentleman of great celebrity, formerly in the London lite rary stork, and has just published a poem, which in a Review last week is thus mentioned—" The Reign of Loekrin, a penal:, written in the most difficult of all styles ; nemely,Th Abe Spetismian • Stanza.'" Befere Mr. K. came to Eneland'in the summer, he hail been a Professor i' a French College; and during the last French Revolution was an active part eipetor in the affray. On Mr. K.'s side were arrayed the workmen, to the number of 22, who with one accord had signed a placard, in which they pledged themselves to support him. M. de Stains has, since the Bth of December last, been staying at the Bull Inn, Dartford, and having on one occasion provoked Mr. K.'s ire by calling fou, he, on going to the mills to seive a notice, was, to quote one of the placards, " driven from . his (Mr. K.'s) door a ith every mark of contempt, amidst the hobtiegs and hissings of the workmen." - GuardsavOre placed in positions command ing the wanks.. Three weeks elapsed, and no symptom of sur rendering was manifested, the storming party contenting themselves with mere reconnoissances, Nvell knowing certain death would be the fate of the first who set his foot Lion th e premises, Mr. K. being well supplied with munitions of war, muskets, bullets, end gunpawder. A fresh combatant ap peared in the fi. Id in the shape of a sr - die:tor, Mr. Maltby, who on F:iday last waited on Mr. K. to serve him with sun dry notices, and in the course of conversation alluded to, certain threats were used which Mr. K. repeated; adding that, fearing a night attack, his dagger had been at his bed side, and pointed to it on a commode by the wall. Upon leaving, Mr. M. immediately applied to a Magistrate for a summons, that Mr. K. might be bound over to.keep the peace ; and Saturday last was appointed for the hearing, at Mr. Hayward's office, befole the Rev. Mr. Davies, and the Rev. J. C. Frith. • Mr. W. C. hooks appeared for the defendant, w h o w ould not leave the works; and, in an eloquent speech, required that the summons should be dismissed. The Magistrates, however, after an investigation of four hours, decided that Mr. K. should attend on Tuesday next, and be provided with proper securities. Fifty-three new accounts . have been opened at the Devizes Savings Bank during the last year ; thirty-three of which have been for sums under 201., and with that class of persons for whose sole benefit Savings Banks were originally established, viz., the labouring class. TILE MARKETS PRICE 0 The highest price of Bread in the Onod Bread may be had at SEEDS.-Jan. 7. Per Cwt. Per Quarter. New English Red Clover6os. 84s. OSs St. Foin 40s. 4M 48 ". Old Ditto Ditto -s. -a. -s Rye Orals 23, 35; 40 0 New Foreign Di( t.= '6s. 80s. 05s Paeey Grass ..--s. 40; 453 , Old Ditto Ditto -s. 404. 60s. Linseed, for feeding ...465, 52.5. 56 4 . New White Clover (sos. 803. 90s. Ditto, for sowing -s. 58s. 63 0 Old Ditto Ditto Q 45;. 604 Ditto, for crushing s. 43, t:Os. New Trefoil ........ ........20.. 25s 110, Canary -s .4., ciBi. Old Ditto -s ISs 22, Hemp -s 38s. 42 , frefolium lOs lls 13s Per Bushel. english Carraway ...... -s 435. 46; White Mustard lls ~.• 154 Id. Foreign Ditto -s. 40s. 444 Brown Ditto ... ...... las (id. 22 ; ( 'd Coriander -a 13s 21s Tares 4s. 63 sd. Od Ran:sited, Ez4l-11 One :per Last) 3f31.138). . , .... Foreign 34'. 35). PRICES OF HGPS.-Jan. 7. Farnham Pocket'. (per cwt.) 6 Os. EV. Os. to PM. Os. East K• nt Pockets.. Ditto Bags 4 4. 51 104. to 7. 10 . Mid Kent Pockets 3l. 15s. 51. 55. to Qt " Ditto Bags 1 . 19, 4 lOs b. 7 7$ Suss , ‘ Yearlings 2l. 1(1s. 3/. :Is to 41. 4'. Old Olds PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPITALFIELDS York Reds (from vessel) 4l. Ps. to 5/ 04. per ton. Scotch Reds ditto . 4l. ss. to 4/ Lis ditto " Kidneys 1/. 1 s. to Si. •Os. Ditto Shaws PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb d. to d I Per lb d. 1 0 ! Crop Hides, 30 to 401 b each 11 13 I Horse Hides, German lO ‘,• ..--t (I 50 50 60 ... ...... 13 :8 ' CalfSkins,3oto4nb.(doa )814 . IS Bull Hides .. lO 13 4O 511 .15 ' 3 Butts, Vitriol - ' -' S English l4 26 : • 70 100 .15 19 . -1. ° reign Foreign Hides lO 12 20 21 Dressing Hides ----- - Shaved ..„ i 2 15 Basils 6 I I 6' Best Saddlers Hides ... ...... 14 16 Bellies Horse Hides, English • If rounded 2d. to 4d par lb more. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton, 43/. i'ls -Refine.% 44 10s.-Linseed Oil, 28 • 11 , 6 e, Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, .1000 , 141. 14s -Rape Cake, per ton, 0•: ' PRICE OF TALLOW. SOAP, &c per 1121 b. fown Tallow 6is Od. Yellow Soap Yellow Russia Whit e -s . Od. Curd .....s (" Snap Ditto s Od. Graves l6s. a Melting Stuff 5 9 5. ed. Good Dregs 5B. 04 ' Ditto Rough 34s Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) BREAD. Ictropolis is I IV. for the 41) Loaf; FRICE 0: PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles ir. the Retail Shops is as follows - Candles, per dozen, Bs. 6d. ; inferior, 7s. 61 Moul,s,lo, Oi. Sixpence per dozen discount for cash. COAL MAB KET.—.7sn. 7. A. s. d. I Per Ton. il Bensham 2 Walls End Riddell's ............ ~,, 5 ourdoti East Pe cy Hnlywell Main .. Orci's Redhugh fantield Moor ... 24 3 Walls End Lainbt.n ............ fi $ Townley lB 6 Walls End Stewart's ........... ,;., 9 .' ylam 2l 0 Walls End Whitweli ............ "tr, 0 Walls End Pell and Brown 2; 6 Cawpen 3 ", 6 Walls End Gosforth ' , 3 0 Walls End Cragwood . .......... , 4 0 Walls End Hilda .. 21 0 Walls End Brown Deanery.- ' Walls End Killinuwarth Ships arrived since 1, Per Ton. (ast market-day. 40, CORNWALL MARKETS. 'Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) ----' Wheat. Barley. (?: ... "1t.4 d. to r. d. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to to Truro Hel s tone St. Austell — 0 25 6 0 96 0 6 Bodmin 0 24 6 0 9 6 0 i Liskeard 0 22 0 0 9 6 0 0 Launceston 0 24 6 0 90— 0 6 Camelford 2l 0 24 0 — 0 10 0 7 0 ~ Penzance 24 0 26 0 0 ll 0 0 ' re MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. i Quantity of Copper Ore sold 4,175 21 Quantity of tine Copper 317 10 Average Produce 7% Amount of Sale, 25, 789:. 2s. 6d.—Average Standard It7l Bs. lA' 7% verage Standard It7l S. v"' BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, JAN. 4.--Stt; remain quite stagnant, and the transactions of the vveek',o been very trifling ; but as the importers refuse to a' leg lower prices, they continue steady. The show of sagg i o is exceedingly small, yet the indifference to purchase S. to be fully as great as the disinclination to sell.—.l l fa c T il LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 5. --- 7 10 11 Share Market throughout the past week has been " i d for most Railway Stock ; still an improvement was eff' e a ol on the previous week's business, both as regards den i te o and value. Grand Junction,. Brighton, and 11 , , s ' Counties, each were purchased to a small exte o "ot an advance on our quotations of Saturday last. v si err Westerns were also parted with for higher rates, and S'a o o appeared less anxiety amongst holders to sell. Wore. and Birmingham were somewhat neglected, as also ;IV Edinburgh and Glasgow, which were offered at a eL e " l o tif A limited quantity of the following shares were sold 5t 4.5 - i; Market to-day. Grand Junction, 208 ; ditto half , 56 1; Chester and Berkhampstead, : North Midland , Liverpool and Manchester, quarter, 48i ; Great W es •77-i ; and Eastern Counties, 81. • f tl l/ FARMER THIEVES.—Iii a Second Edition t ico Chelmsford Chronicle we have a report of the Coolleco at the Essex Quarter Sessions of the Hatfield /3 cprr Oak gang, wnese acts, as was observed- by the . , or, nide, unfold the most abandoned wholesale Pr . „,,„S, bushing system of robbery ever discovered. The risir the culprits are James Dodd and John Dodd, farrocr s ' Wm. Coe, their servant. The first charge was for 3 t e r ,' three heifers from Wm. Harding, of Eastwick, 10 - e s, er beidgeshire, James Dodd being charged as the 0° 1 ; 0 (1 The heifers appeared to have been stolen by John, t be: and Coe, when they went out with a load of corn, b° arw,cier were taken to the farm, slaughtered by a jobbing :rie and sent to London. Two of the hides were found.,,Peper in a field near the house. The Jury found the PrCo Guilty. James Dodd had been before convict' was then indicted for stealing 20 lambs, the propertl, ° poic! Bentall, of Margaret Roothieg, and John all (i . a ,st 3 ' Dodd were charged with receiving the same. Mr. bought the lambs in Chelmsford fair, on the 12th o r and saw them safe in the field that night, but in the ° t o ing they were gone. They were found in Dodd's fai lli „ d ' the Dodds, on being questioned, said they bought the i,e' Chelmsford for 18/. 10s. Coe, when taken, said 10 ; 3 0 0 trrs told him to take anything he could light o n °or, 11' tome, and they would give him a pound or two trouble. The Jury again found them Guilty. Ti?il e ,;o another indictment not proceeded with. The C'""Cc : sentenced James Dodd to be transported for life ; B ite fifteen years' transportation for the first offence, anu t. " for the second, to commence at thtexpiration of ti e s' sentence ; and John Dodd fifteen years' for the first 0 I and fourteen years' for the second LADIES' FINE GOLD NECK•C p J A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, No. 9, r ieti t j London (opposite the Bank of England), offer a large I "'a Ladies' Fine Gold Neck. Chains, of the matted, ring, * " ,tern. patterns, a yard and a quarter long, at the following price* 0 in' to the weight : s iA 0 The weight of 3 sovereigns,.. f.;,4, 4 0 Theiveight of 7 sovereig n- , 9 The weight of 4 sovereigns... 5 5 0 The weight o f 8 s overeign! Wit The weight of 5 sovereigns... 6 6 The wei4it of 9 sovereign! 11 The weight of 6 sovereigns... 7 7 0 The weight of 10 sovereig n ' et The most elegant spangled, star, and fancy link pattern'' Guineas more than their respective weights. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, No. 9, Cornhill, Lod en' SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVI u , s T. COX SAVORY, 47, Cornbill, London (Seven D °- t r e% t) Gracechurch-street), offers for selection an elegant and 1 10 % sive assortment of Silver Tea Services, varying in price fr°, - . 301., the service of Teapot, Sugar Basin, and Milk El" 01 el ground.floor, first, second, and third floors, are fitteu v og:j pressly for the display of Plate and Plated Goods, and a C` is given gratis, with Drawings, and a list of prices. SAVORY, Gol.dsmith, Watchmaker, and Silversmith, " hill, London. On the 3d inst., at Sutton-place, Hackney, Mrs. Georg e (1 ;: i , ifs son, of a daughter. On the id last., at Woodcott House, Oxfordshire, J' • Duff, of a son. On the 4th inst., Mrs. Gibbs; of Bedf or d- square , of ia sothe On the 2d inst., at Castle Pa r k, L ancaster , the lauY - Hornby, Esq., of a son and heir. I On the 3d inst., at Leyto n , E ssex , th e l a d y o f SarMl e Caprer, Esq., of a son. .11ARRIED. A li On the sth inst., at Christ Church, Blackfriars, Wright, of Hull, York s hi re , t o Anne, eldest daughte r Chambers, of 131Lckfriars-road, London. ' iloog o o On the 29th ult., at St. James's Church, Piccadilly , lo le, Perkins, Esq., surgeon, of Mortimer- str ee t, t o Miss ~ daughter of Steph en Sl a d e , E sq ., of Arfall-street. On the 31st ult., at St. Dunstazes-in-the-West , &ere, of Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, to Franc e 0 : third daught er o f Pitt Cobbett, Esq., o f Hounslow. d (in the Ist inst., at St. Mary's Chu rc h, B recon , David ov a.' Esq.. of Brecon, solicitor, second son o f t h e l ate D av id ievo Wellfield House, Radnorshire, E sq ., to Julia Sollnte° daughter of Thomas Batt, Esq., o f th e same town , a nd Majesty's Royal Fusiliers. „ ig On the 2d inst., at the PrePo-' ' Nicets..r? ,Cni liking Christians' IV- ts'„ St. John's-square, Mr. John Willi am St a th am, to 11,5-toge°'"' Ranger, eldest daughter of Joseph R anger, E s q., 5 Hastings. At the Parish Church of St. Luke, Middlesex, o n the re , 0 Samuel Wildbore, surgeon, second son of George Wild,, r of of Hackney, to Manonne Margaret &Elie, eldest daILAD"" ft io Baillie, Hon. East India Company's S erv i ce. OP On the Ist inst., at St. James's; Westminster, Mr. - Crave, of Sampford Peverell, Devon, to Ellen, younges t of Mr. Greenway, of Bampton. On the 26th of - November, J osep h W oo di n, Esq., (OE, ,/ Surrey, to Miss Martha Hamilton, of Greek-street, London : Printed and Published by 1111.711D0 YOILL`t. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in " of Middlesex.—Tuesday, January 8, 1830. On the 27th ult., at Brightlingsea, near Colcheste r ipet Mr. John Haynes, l a t e c f F enc h urch-street, Mark' sp Change-alley, Cornhill, London, attorne= i -at-law. 11 3 it On the Ist inst., in Shoreditch, Thomas Wallis 41 Commander in h er lajestz's RoyP!, Navy, aged 64. job ° On the 2d hist., agedYeanna, the wife of Mr. g ram phens, of Gibraltar-p, Cfnatham. On the 2d i ns t., at TOttenham, James Posrnall, Ems'' s st ge o and on the 4th, Elk/abeth, his wife, aged 89. ~„ it° On the 3d inst., in Southampton-buildings, J O , - „,e. Esq., of the Poor-law Commission Office, Somerset 1 1 °, - I s ts On the 3d inst., at Barnes -terrace, Mary, relict of t 4, 1 1 Foote, Esq., of Charlton-place, near Canterbury, aged i-. 0 e17 On the Ist hist , in Gloucester-place, Li e utenant- , " Earl of Carnwath, aged 70. Me the bei Tr LE" . four clai deft sori s'. ; the cord In La I la I J►n~ Ti le 1 Baia Jaw ftrei Ir Ilirl Gre. 1•614 f3;i Ltt, Scl dr( crc is Il