The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-09 00:00:00

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I t hoor , be e d 12 .1 „ n ook 1 - 11 frO 0 %0 ply the on ne ap te pre- ble ° t r ot nd 0 0 oted to boun t i f 6. ',l o t) rtilP o orl t of 3 Cireo pe,lo , f roi ;al h ion- it tbr ° - is ,`os : n tiv aicb ,cpr ..rre s, nd'L,oo v o ifeoe t!t. t: d h to lod e 3 t)le ( f oo l n, Rig' vs 0' 'rat - ter. of e°4r. 603 Tilt VO,I, of :1;oce 0 11 e h' peig f o ft u e n t 4 5e l li t be pt C 1 1 111( r ded e d )f 13° ,.; tbe taiV s P 14Ce.fl e' 2 t 0 0 1:;113, o,ll l ` - t be viL b tio jer let el; rot„ boo r 1%11;• --r.TING of the MEDICAL Pit • b E"SION TO OPPOSE SIR J. GRA lIAM'S numerously aVended atid most respectable • - ', cp .., .g lit the general medical practitioners in ev rna and Westminster, was held on Satordny in the ilanover-snare Rooms, for the two uobject o f f orm i ng themselves into an association f ox ".the better protection of their interests, and for the t ti l, hr ur r pef.tioning Government to grant them a Mr of meorp •Nitt , o. nong other gentlemen on the I,latVirtn we ived °rn °h illesirs..PennMgton, L Wright,;vies, Mai-ey, L e ''' Clay ton,Dodd, Craddock, Bryant, Perigrine, Item . tke. hie, p ennington was called to the chair. t• ~llr SECRETARY haviniz read a number Of letters rota friends to the objects for which the meeting was M a _• ed, added that it was in contemplwion to unite the ,3 1 ebone with the General Association. —(Hear.) " 1.112 CHAIRMAN then v e ry briefly explained the objects which had called them together. He adverted to probable eff-cts which would he produced by the si t l of Sir James Graham, and dwelt upon the 'leers .`Y for a thorough co-operation in opposing the mea t'''. Ile said, if the Pill were carried there would he j s l old to the respectability, as well ai the efficiency, of p " e k i nedicalprofession. it would be obnoxious to the uull e in other respects; but if it were only on that ;,'• r 9und alone, it rendered it imperative for the profes ls" to exert th emse lves to get up such ttn opposition ii 'hutild ultimately defeat the measure. lle call e d u pon those gentlemen who would address the meeting g • a ; ; ul : 11 to urue the necessity of an extensi ve or atilonst the general practitioners, and to '`vc r icate modifications in the Apothecaries' Act. ••• rftrit. then proposed the first resolution , this ini. , eting is decidedly of opioion, that prior 7”"si - ng of aiiY 131i1 for tile of the surgel'.y, ; it 4 tiv., .the interests of thc pohlic gew,ral I Vetitioners medicine, surgery, and miiwitery , v . : (ll d letaily recognized, arid placed in an inde- Ownt pos;ii.-r.: and the ex,cutiv;. , cr,,,,ronn-nt fur the i. r ' ,4 l, , ectfinly and c.-o..necirly regliested siisptrod l ei: C:.ll.:iderati-ti of the Labefore Carina vieht i•t the cltev of the ieot session, until this object has ie e ur t , attained." Which was se,crdt::d by c„.„'"f• PltonaaT ;, who strongly denounced Sit James ib . ""ant's Bill, and said they ought to have a charter r ... t h"-tnselves. Ore resolution was then put and carried unani mously, A-f r• MASS E Y, in moving the second resolution, That in furtherance of the object'of the for mer re 40 - lutiun it is the'oPinion of this meeting that an asso orlon should be i m mediately formed under the title 'T• he Association of General Practitioners in Medi- Surgery, and Midwifery,' " said, the principles contained in it needed no advocacy to make it be re • d y by that m e eting, in the most cordial mann er. ea 't. was seconded by Mr. SMITH, and, like the first, T M amid* acclamation. 11 1 41 % FULLER moved the third resolut ion :—" That association use its best efforts to .obtain a com reAirganizatiOn of the general practitioner s, for the se of a petitioning for a charter of incorporation, • ue, sanctioned by Act of Parliament , and for takin g tuck Other 'steps as circumstances may from time to t ne render necessary for the protection of their lute.- ~,,e st s," which was seconded by M. Tegart, and sup- Ported by Dr. Webb. the CLAYTON moved the fourth rethlution :—" That I ,4 . B `ieletv of Apothecaries be solicited to cooperate p i :" this Association, in furthering the objects of the G r .-ce ding resolution," which was seconded by Mr. r pt, and carried. T hat FRE EMA N proposed the fifth resolu t i on : b e "'A a Provisional Committee of thirty -one mem rai with power to add to its number , an d of which notth less than seven shall form a quorum, be elected by is meeting to carry the objects of the foregoing re- tut ttttou into effect ; also to frame laws for the consti hem and gove rnment of the Association, to be sub- Witted to a g ene ral meeting forits aroval. i l-pp • Ir. LUCAS seconded, and Mr. T. H. COOPER, sup ported it. H e h a d no t a t first intended to address the but a paper had been put into his hand from Lo 'en he th oug ht it advisable to read an extract , and he craved their undivided attention. It was d t racted from a medical paper, published in D ublin, an ,sPealcing of the Lancet, and the pr ofession in Eng . n u, • The writer said " The articles in the Lancet, both original and com municated afford a melancholy proof of the brutal and t r r a l ( led condition of the lower orde r of medical "tnen in England.—(Laughter and hiss es. ) We iir,„,' ( 12' 4 quite satisfied that the safety of the community tor tOs that such fellows should be placed under spirit control and surveillance, as the temper and :it they display fully proves that they are an igno be'itt llneducated?:-ungovernable race, utterly unfit to te ,eo.rtisted with the duty of soberly and honestly % eat ing disease, or to have the lives of people placed theirs mercy." xhe reading of the paragraph was frequently inter. Port e d y, by derisive cheers mid laughter. ni Zr. 13itowis movej—" That the Provisional Com . ,C ee be empowered to form an union with this • s s 4 ciation of the different societies of general prac titionersi in town and country, instituted for general 7ir,ets, and that upon its formation one of its first • 4 ties shall be to petition the Legislature against the "'introduction of Sir James Graham's Bill, and to u se every means against its passiog through Par- Latileist:" which, having been seconded, was adopted • L lrl ellitnouslv, and a Committee of Gri , i)tlonen was ap pointed to carry out .the objects of the foregoing After a vote of thanks to the Chairman, the meet ing. broke up. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. th ' e rrl E Nicw RAlLWA.YS.—Saturday last has proved mostst memorable 30th of November recorded in the history of the railway world-220 notices and Plana of new rails were that night dep o s ited on the shelve s of the Board of Trade. Such a hurried, des literate week, as the last of November was never 11° ". Engineers, solicitors, surveyors, litho rtPhers, engravers, slept only two nights out of six. lon g of cabs and carriages might be seen in i ... " g file at the doors of all en g a g ed in the f fo r ; and as evening closed in, these were e xchan g ed r travelling.chaises end four fleet posters , read y to ,ie as fast as hoof and purse would carry, to anti hate, if even by a second, the stroke of the mid tßitCht bell. Many of the plans have been de p osited in imperfect state—some have no, been deposited to all, or at; least too late. Bat on the whole it is not 1 1 much to say that so extreme haste in su rve y in g k ne s and getting ready for Parli ament, was n e ver before o r t . l rn. And tow, what are Parliament and the Board Trade to do? The latter have now to examine, un ✓arerstand, comp , consider, and decide , the contend -43 Claim s o f 220 lines. We have begun to lay some them down on our map, an I already it is a confused Totelligiblv maze. The question now is how to get of half or two-thirds of the lines. The Standing Orders will not do it, for people—aye, and good people bare actually subscribed all the m one y , and are re ady v e _ subscribe more. Besides some of the very n lines may be those which have not, in some re spects complied with Standing Orders. We hear t hat the Board of Trade are in despair, and that all Men are looking for some way out of the difflcul " sing from this deluge of schemes. —Railwa y Chronicle. - LEEDS fresh hreOESN, u sumnl e upon be further suf,e i s e e n c t in t i o t y r) , a y a n o d ff u t i h i l e e p s s u , b ltiocoerethdaittort,hoisf the unfortunate bank, A meeting of shareholders in the Marylebono Bank was called, and several of them gars notes of hand to a considerable amount. A portion of these were placed in the London and Westminster as security for the proposed loan of 10,000/., and the pay ment of these notes was still further secured by ee lodgment of the deeds of an estate worth about 50,0001., the property of Mr. Walker , one of the Directors. The defendant in the present action had given a note of 100/. at the meeting above mentioned. This note was subsequently placed in the London and Westminster Bank as security for a further advance upon overdrawn account. When due, it was unpaid, and Mr. Henderson, the manager of the City Branch of the London and Westminster Bank, sent the note, according to the rou tine of business, to Messrs. Roy and Co., their solicitors, without, it would appear, any specific instructions. And here it should be mentioned that in the meantime Messrs. Roy and Co., who were the solicitors of the London and Westminster .Bank, had become the solicitors of the ICommittee who were wi ndin g u p the affairs of the Mery lebone Bank, and it appeared doubtful in which capacity they . reeeived the note in question. This uncertainty was increased by the fact, that Messrs. Roy and Co., in demanding payment from the acceptor of the note, did not mention the name of their client. Payment, hew ever, not being made, Messrs. Roy and Co. applied to the London and Westminster Bank for permission to sue the party, the account being overdrawn at the time. The Directors of that bank refused to sue upon the note, and chose rather to fall back upon the collateral security which had been lodged by Mr. Walker, as they were anxious not to be parties to any disputes or litigation that might take _place among the Shareholders of the Marylebone Bank. Mr. Roy finding that the Directors of the London and. Westminster Bank would not sue upon the note in ques tion, but chose rather to fall back upon the landed prow perty of Mr. Walker, which had been lodged as colla teral security, took the note to Mr. Walker and informed him of the circumstance. Mr. Walker sent Mr. Roy to his friend Mr. Richards, who gave Mr. Roy the money for the note, and immediately commenced the present action. The money Mr. Roy obtained from Mr. Richards he paid into the London and Westminster Bank specifi cally against the note. In charging the jury, the judge stated that if this note was given as additional security for the 10,0001. ade vanced by the London and Westminster Bank, they should give their verdict for the defendant ; but if they thought the note was given to raise an additional sum beyond that 10,0001., they should find for the plaintiff. The jury, after some deliberation, found for the defend ant, subject to some points of law, which are to be dis cussed hereafter, and which it is not necessary to enter upon at present. This case most strongly points out the advantage that will arise in future from the Act of last session, for fa cilitating the winding up of the affairs of unsuccessful joint-stock companies. Had the Act embraced the case in question, no action would have become necessary to compel an equitable adjustment of the losses sustained amongst the shareholders, the powers conferred for that purpose by the new statute being ample, and easily en forced. The bona fide question in the case narrated was precisely one of the description for which the Act pro vides, but it is not retrospective. POST.—It appears that Mr. nobler, the solicitor of Messrs. Rogers and Co., has suggested a mode of cesa ceiling the Bank of England notes recently stolen from. the firm, so as to render the property valueless to the robbers, and that some of the partners have, in conse quence, had an interview with Sir James Graham upon the subject—the Home Secretary being disposed to entertain the proposition. The public would, no doubt, rejoice in the success of any measure the effect of which might be to defeat the ends of the parties im plicated in this atrocious case. The cancelment of genuine Bailie of England notes to the extent of from 30,0001. to 40,0004 would seem, however, to be a matter that requires the greatest consideration before it is ventured upon •, and, with every wish to mitigate the injury inflicted on Messrs. Rogers and Co., the Bank Directors will, as they unquestionably are bound to do, feel the responsibility to be a serious one of adopting for that, or for any other purpose, a scheme which may, on their part, savour of repudia tion, and tend to create a distrust of their genrral paper issues ; for, in the event of a large amount being declared cancelled, though confessedly genuine, certain is is that the majority of persons having money matters to adjust will'be unwilling to have anything to do with the notes of the Bank of England. There would be another pal pable evil in the cancelment of the notes of the Bank. Such a step would be calculated to render bankers and others less careful than they have been of the reserves they retain on their premises from one day to another, a point worthy of every attention, for, the precedent being once established, it would look‘ invidious in -the Bank authorities not to extend the indulgence proposed to be allowed in the case of Messrs. Rogers and Co. to other 1 1 respectable firms who may be placed in a similar pre dicament. CHRONICLE.—A meeting of the soap trade, nume rously. attended, was held at the Landon Tavern some days since. The gentlemen presenreepresented the ma nufacture of 50,000 tons of soap annually, and the reso lutions passed, calling for a repeal of the Excise duty on this essential article of use and cleanliness, show in a conspicuous light the evil consequences to the revenue and honest trader that result from the high duties now levied. It appears that the recent discovery of frauds in large manufactories proves that it is impossible to collect a. duty. of 70 or 80 per cent. on an article so rapidly manu factured and so easily sold as soap. The repeal of this duty would be most beneficial to the health and comfort of the industrious classes, and would materially assist the efforts which are being made all over the country to improve their moral and intellectual condition. The noblemen and gentlemen who have taken an active part in promoting the construction of public baths for the working classes cannot fail to appreciate the truth of this observation, which is embodied in one of the resolutions adopted at the meeting of the trade, at which Mr. Wil liam Hawes presided, and will probably be disposed to afford their powerful aid in promoting the efforts of the trade in the next session of Parliament to obtain relief. The repeal of the soap duty would make the washhouses for the working classes, proposed in connexion with the public baths, far more useful than they can be while soap is liable to the existing oppressive exactions of the offi cers of Excise. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUERN'S BENCH, Dec. 7. ',Sittiugs at Nisi Prins before Lord DENsurt and a Middlesex Common Jury.) LEONARD V. THATCHER. This was an action to recover damages for an alleged malicious arrest and false imprisonment. The defendant pleaded that he was justified in what he had done, inas. much as the plaintiff had been guilty of felony. Mr. Platt appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. V. Lee for defendant. It appeared that there was a sum of money owing from defendant to plaintiff, and that o:te night, in the month of July last, the 'natter was to Wye been settled. The parties met, the on: bolding the money in his hand, and the other the receipt. The defendant snatched the receipt from plaintiff for the purpose, as he said, of seeing that it was correct before he paid the money. He in sisted on detaining the receipt, and eventually the plaintiff gave him into the custody of a policeman, On a charge of stealing a receipt stamp, and was locked up at the station-house all night, and taken before a magis trate in the morning and discharged. Two witnesses named Bates and Fry were called, who stated that the defendant had in the presence of Fry said to Bates, " You saw Leonard run round the corner?" To which Bates replied, " No, I did not; and I never said so; or if I did say so, it is not true." To which defendant replied, " If you will swear so I will pay you handsomely." For the defence Mr. V. LEE attempted to shake the credit of these witnesses, and said he should prove that the plaintiff had snatched the receipt and run off with it. This he admitted was not a justification, but it was ten dered for the purpose of reducing the damages. Lord DENMAN thought the evidence inadmissible. The plea was not that there was probable cause for the arrest, but that the plaintiff had committed a felony. Now, that could not be proved, - and therefore there must be a verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. V. LEE would not then call any witnesses: Lord DENMAN in summing up said, there could be la* doubt that the plaintiff had acted improperly in detain ing the receipt, but that was not felony, and he was en titled to damages for being locked up all night At the same time the jury were not to consider anything that defendant might have said to Bates, because,the plaintiff had not suffered any inconvenience additional, in conse quence, and this was an action for trespass, merely to recover damages for the assault and false imprisonment. The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 151.. ItiA3IE OF RAILWAY. Arbroath and Forfar •••• • • • Birl.iingham aria Gloucester • • • • • • • • • • Branaling Junction . • • .... • • • • • • Bristol and Gloucester • • • • • Chester and Birkenhead ...... . • Dublin and Droglieda• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Dublin and Kingstown . • • • • • Dundee and ; \rliroitth Durham and Sunderland .• • • • • • • • .• • • Edinburgh and •.;insgove • Eastern Counties and North Eastern.• Glasgow, Kilmartmck, and Ayr.. • •• • • Glasgow and Greenock.• •••• • • • • • • • Grand Junction • • Groat North of England • • • • • • • • •• • • Great Western . • • • • • • Liverpool . and Slanchester •• • • lomion and Birmingham . London and lilac wall .• • • •. London mid Brighton • • • • • • • • • • • .••• • Londom ~nd Croydon . • • • • Lon.lon ant Greenwich . • • • • • • • • • • • • Loutloil and South West Manchester, Lolton, And Bury • • • • • • Manchester and Birmingham • • • • • • • • !,tanchester, Leeds, and :lull Assoe• • Midland Co,yit ies • . • • • • • • • • • , • • • • : g 1,1 DarlinO.on . • • • • • • • • • and ( ..... N. \tcr,, , rie `.17 Cor","?, :1,! ••••• • • • • ; Ito•.• 1. •• .• • • •• • •• •• • t r; , -sr on and V. - yre•• •• • • • • .• •• •• •• • :;,unit and , ••tan••ll,:si,r•• ••.••• •• • • . • • • • ....... ........ Vartnout'd anci Nor. •• • • •• •• • • • vri ant? Nnrth •• •• •• • • . I.I.:4IYD'S LONI AN, liNc. S. to XL. . cloudy And t'rotty. DEAL. DEC. 6.--;Wind N.W., light.—Arrd. Ann, of New Providence, St. .Tohn's ; ?o :u Craig, Mekle, Quebec. 'Sid. Bangalore, China ; GaugeE. Calcutta ; Curraghinore, Madras and Bombay ; and M. Bivion, Ceylon ; Camilla, Thienos Ayres ; Pythagoras, Pernambuco ; ;Cybelo, Bcrbice ; 'Princess Royal (trans port, Barbsaoes ; Feronie, Jamaica ; Cuba ; Jane Lockhart, Doruinica. PORTIVICUTIE, DEC: 6.—Wind • E.N.S.—Arrd. Boy, Fernando Po, for Amsterdam. Sld. Brunswick, Cape and Bombay. • SountameTON, DEC. 6.—Sld. Aulahy, Ichaboe. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 6..L-Arrd. Catalina, Mutes, Deme rara ; the Experimental brigs from a cruise. FALMOUTH, DEC. 6.—Arrd. Johns, Fox, Quebec. BRISTOL, Ditc, 6.—Arrd. Anna Watson, Stirling, Cal cutta. Sailed 4th, Rankin ' not Rattan, for Mobile. LivEapooL, DEC.• 6. Wind S.S.E., light. - - Arrd. Eliza, Quebec. Sld. Eliza Johnson, Brazils ; Eagle, Ichaboe; Energy, Havannah; St. George and Rochester, New York ; Jenny Jon es, Legra. Off, George, Finch, St. John's, New Brunswick. THEDDLETIIORPE, DEc. s.—Nearly all the cargo of the Elf 'Gez , chwester, ashore near Hattoft, has been saved in good condition. Part of the Cargo of the 'blathers, about 30 0 quarters , has been undamsged,...also some of the ship's stores. CORK, PEc. Clecfrid, Ichaboe. CASTLETOWN, DEC. 2.—Arrd. Circassian, Duny, —, for Cuba, with loss of main topmast, Ste., having encountered a severe gale on the 28th ult., in lat. 52, lon. 12. LIMERICK, DEC. s—Shl. China, Savannah. CARNARYON, DEC. s.—The Portmadoe packet, from Liverpool •to Pwllhele, was.run down this morning, off Holyhead, by a large brig; crew saved. Suco.—Arrd. Dumanair,. Ichaboe, (21 days.) • HULL, DEc. s.—Sid.- Powdrell, Ichaboe. YARMOUTH, DEC. 6.—Several hundred red and white deals, varying from twelve to twenty-one feet in length, were washed ashore last night on Yarmouth beach; many of them are burnt. H AR WICH, DEc. 6.—The vesel reported ashore on the Sonflaer, is the Ruby, of, and from Newcastle for London; she ha's been got off to-day, and in here very leaky, and part of cargo thrown overboard. A large 1 barque got on the g untleet this morning, but got off and proceeded. MARYLEBONE VESTRY. The vestry having met on Saturday, at the usual hour, the clerk, after reading the report of last - week's meeting, called the attention of the vestry to a letter, complaining of the erection of buildin,gs in front of- seine ii,Late-i in Cottingham-terrace, New road. The letter was fn.in Mrs. Jennings, a lady having a house in Cot tingham•tcrrace, in front of which a , stable had been ereei , d, in consequence of which the rent of the house had cl.:jlen from 1301. to 901. ; and a similar fall had taken phini in the rent of other howes in. the. terrace. A VEsTarm.a.ti expressed his opinion that the vestry to interfere on this occasion. If the inhabi t,,:i,.ts of Cottin,gham-terrace were annoyed by buildings bet'Aecti them and dm road they c‘Aild the pro-- eeed ii:•.aiust the parties, as well as the vestry'. Mr. Gomm said that the vestry were [lot sufficiently aetiv.•in preventing suck nuitnnees ; that the erection of such buildings.ought to be interfered with before their completion; that persons might not be aware of the atity of such erections as those in question ; and if notice of the intention of thy vestry to take measures to remove them was sent to the parties in time, it would save them much expense and inconvenience. Mr. WILSON thought • that it was the business of the parties concerned, and.not the business of the vestry, to proceed against such erections, and , that the _vestry ought not to interfere in the matter. The conversation then dropped. • tIANCHESTER AND BOLTON AND AND MANCHESTER RAILWAYS. ite . 'I 4 NCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—This afternoon "'Pedal general meiling of the Company of Proprietors of the Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Carol Navigation at la Railway was held at Hay ward's Hotel, in Bridge street, in this town, - for the purpose of taking into consi . derat' um and deciding upon a proposed arrangement be ' ",. /r een the Map/sheaf er and Leeds Railway Compa n y , and t • Said Company of Proprietors jointly, if so agreed with the Hull u.nil Selby Railway Company, fur uniting; 414 consetlitlating into one concern the traffic and busi ness of the s::.:(1 two fi rst - me ntioned Companies, or, if so 4 1-:reed, of the said throe Companies, under one manage ',tent, and f or g i v i ng such owers and authorities to the of Management, iu reference to the terms of, awl for carrying out, tub proposed arrangemAit, the meetine: might think it ; and to authorise the `,; minuitte e of Management to apply to Parliament tor the requisite powev t. give Cull a &et to any arrange- Rout which might be come to between the said two fir st - mentioned C om panies, or between the said thre e '"mpanies ; and also for taking into consideration and Ileeiding upon the making of provisional arrangements tor the management of the traffic and other business of the sa id two first-mentioned Companies, or, if to agreed, of the said three Companies, in connexion with each other, until the sanction of Parliament could be ob tain'd or for such other period, and on such terms and eonditions, as at such meeting might be agreed upon. dames Braticker, Esq., of Liverpool, took the chair. The proposed.arrangement provided for the soint work ing I n Perpetuity of the two ra ilwa y s and navi g ation, from the Ist of January next, subject to the following • st ipulations —namely, each Company to remain pro- I rietors of their own railway and canal, and liable to their own debts and engagements. The joint concern t ! ) mansaed by an associated board of ten D irectors from the Leeds Board, and three from the Man- Cheater, and Bolton Committee of Management ; the Working stock of the two Companies to become the pro- Perty of the associated Company. The net profits to be the proportion of eighty 53-100 to the Leeds • Company., and of nineteen 47-100 to the Manchester and Bolton Company for the year 1845 ; and afterwards of seventy -eight 2-10 to the Leeds Company, and twenty rlsi 8-10 to the Bolton Company. The capital for future • branches or ex t ens i on o f e ith e r line, including the sub scription of the Bolton. Company to the Bury and Ros , "elide Company, to be contributed by the two Com , Panics in the latter proportion. The arrangement to be extended to the Hull and Selby Railway Company, if s o agreed. The CHAIRMAN moved that these terms be agreed on. Considerable opposition was shown on the part of the meeting to these terms • and, A PROPRIETOR mo ved as en - ainendment, that the latetb.. • be A OMORI to Ow eity %is *oath% THE Cueacit.—The Hon. H. Arbuthnott has pre sented the Rev. Alexander Ramsay, M.A., of Clare Hall, Cambridge, to the Incumbency of Tintinhull, So mersetshire. The Rev. Henry Thomas Cooper. Hine, M.A., Reader of St. James's, Bury St. Edmund's, has been presented to the Rectory of Quarrington, Lincoln shire, .on the nomination of the Marquis of Bristol. The Vicar of Greenwich has presented the Rev. John Young Hughes, of St. Catherine Hall, Cambridg e, to the Perpetual Curacy :of Trinity. Church, Greenwich. The Leal Bishop of Peterborough has instituted the R...v. Joen Neale Dalton, M.A., of Gouville and Caius Gni lope Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Greetham, Rut larelsbire. The Lord Bishop of Worcester has insti tuted the Rose E. W. Foley, M.A., Of Wadham Col k.:::c, tixi.rd, to the Vicarage of Great Malvern, vacant by the thfith of the Rev. 1)r. Card. The Rev. Henry - Chili') iloughten, M.A,, has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Peterborough to the Rectory of Markfield, L.sicestershire. The vicai•up of Geddington, North tuupton.,,hire, itas.lieccin6 vacant by the death ot the Rev.. .John Iltele; it is the gift; of the Duke of Buccleuch. ORIGINAL HARWICH RAILWAY.—It appears that this Compauy is the only one iu a condition to enter the lists next session. Whatever party may be successful, there ea be no doubt that the government plan of con verting Harwich into a steam-boat harbour must be highly advantageous to a railway.—Railtray. Record. STATE OF TRADE.—The demand, except with the houses who travel, is much in the same state, the orders received being very small. A great many hands are out of employ.. There is no prospect of any amount of business being done for the spring trade of the United States. Wool still remains firm, and' yarns are not selling, at reduced rates, to any extent:— Leicestershire Mercury. 'r the CATTLE Snows.--The first Sussex cattle show of season s s was ( w )n r b e . ( r i I n l e t fiu p ec l i he a c na e td on ni r T end u u. e m s Tuesday at numbers, l t ebLudetiwn dinner several s e The Ear l o asf stock SUICIDE BY INHALING THE. s t a h tr i ,, s , VAPOUR. OF CHARCOAL. Thursday afternoon, Mr. Walton, the Coroner for Chichester presided, and Sir. Henry Sheffner occupied . the Tower of London a nd its p recincts, held tin in- the vice chair. 'Between fifty and sixty persons were quest at the queen's H ead public-house, Tower-hill, present, including George Darby, Esq., MP, Mr. John ' on the body of Th omas Smith, aged 35,. late book -. Ellman, IL Blackman, Esq., &c. POlitics, which formerly quiry os•cupied the attention. of persons attending the dinner, seller at 2 , King - s t r eet, Tower-hill. The in lasted nearly three hours. were scarcely adverted to on this occasion. David Bates Lewis, stayinaker, 29, King-street, MILITARY FORCE IN IRELAND.—The foll Owing is had known the deceased for about nine months, the official return of the military force a,t present in but until lately , lied not had any conversation Ireland, Which completes the garrisons in that country with him, except on business. Last saw him alive for 'the ensuing winter :—Cavalry-2d Regiment of on Monday esening . about five o'clock ; but be- Dragoon . Guards, Longford ; 3d ditto, Ballincollig ; t w een nine and ten o'cloc k the same ' night witness 4th ditto, Ca,hir ; . Ist Regiment of Dragoons, Dub heard him talk to somebody. Did not see deceased on Tin u l l Bth Hussars, Dublin ; 10th ditto, Newbridge ; ditto, T u esday. Wednesday m ornin g witness's wife informed Dundalk. Infantry-Ist Regiment of Foot, Clare Castle (depot company) ; 2d ditto, En him that the street-door was not fast, and that she niskillen ; sth ditto, Belfast I - 4th y) d t .), did not think the deceased had come home on Tuesday Belturbet ; 15th, Limerick ;• 16th,( eruhampa2nith, night. Witness lives on the first floor of the premises, Kilkenny ;. 30th, Limerick ' ; 32d, Dublin • ,• 33c1,- arid deceased had a sitting-room on the second, and Cork (depot company); 34th, A.thlone ; :35th, Ne sleet in a back attic. 'Wednesday morning witness nagh (depot Company); 36th, Newry; 38th, Boyle (depot. went up stairs and, knocked at deceased's bed-room, cempany) ; 46th. Dublin ; 54th, Mullingar 56th, Dub but not receiving any answer, he pushed open the door I nn ; 60th ; Ist battalion, Fermoy ; 61st, Buttevant and saw deceased lying on his back on the bed, ap- 65th, Custlebar ; 66th, Dublin ; 69th Templemore ; patently dead. Witness did not ;o into the room at 72d, Cork ; 77th (depot 'company), Waterford ; 79th ditto, Naas ; the time but went and' informed . Mr: 0. Dowling, 81st do., Teinpleniore ; 82d do., Tralee ; .85th do., Londonderry • 89th d b 'd e ; 90th do., the landlord, living at No. 30, in the same street, Clonroel ; •93ti dSi ' o " New rl g and . bat .' what he had witnessed. Mr. Dowling and Mr. talon Rifle Brigadeo., rr ; 95th, Kinsale ; Tat The -1 accompanied witness to • (depot company), Athlone. Pringuer subseqtient y effective military force, including the Royal Horse and the bed-room, and having felt deceased's feet Foot Artillery, and Royal Engineers, now in Ireland, they found them cold and stiff. There was no is 26,000 men. Besides the above, are the recently lock on the d oor, and a large flannel bed-gown organised Chelsea ont-pensieners, whei are fullyequippecl, was fastened between the door and doer. post, and a end ready to be called out at a short. notice if required. brown cloth coat was found lying at the back of the The armed police amounts to about 10,000 men, stationed door, evidently fo r the p ur p ose of preventing the admis- throughout the coun EW HOS tr AL FOR CONSUNIPTION, &C. — y. sion of air. The most important evide nce g iven was standin N of the weather, the PIT the inclement that of Mr. Primmer, woks er, who deposed to his having Notwith . known the decease d between seven and eight years. rof the new . building at Brompton are proceeding rapidly, and it is sincerely hoped that in a few mont hs Deceased had given up his sho p in King-street about the western wing will . be roded in, and the interior per three weeks ago. . Had formerly been a grocer, tion in progress. During the past week the Committee schoolinaster, linendraper, and lastly a bookseller, i have received several valuable:donations, and at the last anti had accumulated a little money, which he had ini-eting of Governors, at which Sir John Hare, Bart., laid out in the purchase of a Dutch bond, said to he & e ., presided, the most enthusiastic feelings were ex- . for 1,000 guilders. Latterly he bad been getting pressed that the good work would be very speedily into debt. 1 summated; The annual income of the hospital from - NI r. John Hutchins, surgeon, Trinity-square, said subscription now somewhat exceetls:l,loo/.. he %vent to the residence of the deceased, and found A. PETEST ME WRETCH.--A miscreant of the* that, the body was partially warm, but in his opinion naine*Of Stokes, who has . been residing in Sunderland li: c . had been extioct between two and three hours. for tWoor t'erea years past, but who is a native some ••:.e.arched the room and bed along with Mr. Child, wiwre in tlt4 neighbourhood of London, has been com er; . • o ff ice r, hut could not find an i f nitted to Durham gaol by the magistrates of Sunderland, • .ie Airtni,oning rash-pan' c al to produce death, except an con- or adi gusting felony committed with a young man'' about twenty yearsofbe kept in house' . . I clierecal. Attributes • tail partially consume( with 11110. The details were so shocking that the magis and death to suffocation by the charcoal,.,_. ~b elieves, trate , could scarcely maintain the patience necessary to from the contents of a letter . Idr-sseii to Mr. the dignity of a court of justice in listening to 'the Pringuer, and the care which had been taken to pre- examination, and the wretch conducted himself with the vent the admission of air into the room, that deceased most brutal hardihood. He was in comfortable circum - had purposely destroyed himself. Two letters, sup- stances, and lived in a low part of the tewn, seldom if to he in the handwriting of the deceased, w ere , ever, feeling any inconvenience from want Of money. posedfound in his coat-pocket, the one simply addressed His remittances from the south were said to be punctual and liberal . for a person living in the low style in which " Mr. Pringeur,' and the other to " Mr. Ruff, •he indulged. The whole neighbourhood in which he re- Hysted, Sittingbourne Kent." sided seems to have been polluted by his example with The. CORONER called for the production of Mr. vice and . Pringuer's letter, as. wasthe jury. I Lich read to e crime. , The members of the Licensed Victuallers' Trotec.: was without signature or date. It commencee. " Dear tion Society, of Birmingham, associated with the So friend," and contained expressions of the most incohe- cieties of many other important towns, have determined rent kind, that life was not worth enjoying whenlicensed:cnvne a me'eting of delegates appointed by the sailed by adversity, and he tells Mr. Pringuer that victuallers throughout the kingdom, to assemble the "less publicity that is given to the letter the at Nottingham, on a day to be appointed, with a view better." of determining on an Address to both Houses of Perlis .. 'Verdict —That the deceased, being of unsound m su e e nt, _and of adopting such measures and organising mind, killed himself by inhaling the vapour of effluvia interests It plans as may tend to . best promote the permanent of the trade.—Birminghaes Pilot. • - . of charcoal. ---,----' E/CTRAORDINARY Lotionvirr.—Died, on Thum -----day, at Cra n CHANGE RINGING. —Yesterday (Sunday), on the g agour, near this town, at the advanced age of 110 . occasion of two sermons preached at St. John the years, Mr. Michael Considine. In early life he was apprenticed Evangelist, Waterloo-road, Lambeth, by the Rev. Messrs. ,He the tailoring business, and followed it for some time. Irvine and Johnstone, on behalf of the Penny Cothing and addictd tc. 'gentlee was always temperate in his habits, Society, a most beneficial one to the numerous poor of bath devotions at h exercise . lie attended his Sab that populous parish, the church ringers rang a true and lately walked intos parish . chapel within the last month, and complete peal of grandsire trebles, containing 5,040 this town and back to his resi dence, a distance of seven miles, changes in the short time of three hours and three mi- on the_ same day. All his faculties - were unimpaired ie t s o , nutes. The following are the names of the ringers : his long life his conductthe last, and throughout 1. Thomas Reece, treble ; 2. Samuel King; 3. Henry plary.—Clare Journal. and character were most exera- Day ;4. James Pratt ;5. Robert Jitneson ;6. James The funeral of Mrs. Crane ; 7. John Cox k. 8. Robert Wood, tenor. Blomfield, mother of the had Bishop of London, took place at Bury St; Edmund's BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, DEC' 6.—We have Friday. on a very fiat week in sugar, and the sa les reported are Large flocks of wild geese ha ve under 100 hhds; prices being with d i fficulty supported. beisallayini their air _ . f or some days put fau r. Rum dull Nothing doing in other descnntions o . g . ,.. • v 011 in moroom oambols on the coast between the tfllt gut tell COrtag is m aill "" agaa* Blip—Cumberland Paequet. . . THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1844. ‘• nds was taken up• 4.( the amentitn--and; - and • - to be carried by a futiji)rtty of five. A e'er demanded, and the ro:•sutt was fcir the agi r,.-ment:—Present, 1,248 , pr,mies, 1,256. pr, , ,nt, 576 ; proxies, 131 ; Finwing a Ina . Livour of tt.e reement of 1,797. cement was tThea carried, an : the tnet.t;ng se• 1' rate. . !. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, DEc. s.—Orders were received this . morning- from the Commander-in-Chief, addressed to the Lieutenant-Governor of this garrison, Major-Gene- 1 rat the lion. Sir H. Pakenham, to inspect the defences of this garrison, and indeed of the entire coast, and to re port to her Majesty's Government the expense of putting them into a complete state of repair to provide against any emergency. We believe Sir Hercules has from time to time reported to his illustrious relative, the Duke of Wellington, the state of decay into which the fortifica tions of this important fortress have been suffered to fall, anti it is consequent upon those reports that the present commission is instit: tted. Colonel Cardew, Commandant of the corps of K, , y al Engineers at Portsmouth, will join General Pakeretam in his labours. We believe it is the intention of the Government to remount the walls of this important position with guns, as of old ; the stone and earthwork will be strengthened, the moats and draw bridges rendered serviceable, the forts on either side the. harbour and approaches repaired and strenghtened, and the towns of Portsmouth, Pint-sea, and Gosport, put into a state of efficient detence. The round tower on the right, the Blockhouse fort on the left, of the entrance to the harbour, the Sallyport, and other gates of entrance, will also be looked to and properly fortified, and that strong and commanding fortress, Southsea Castle, will • once: more assume its impregnable appearance. We are glad the Government have at length been aroused to . the necessity of g uarding against eurprisal , for a more exposed or indefensible place than Portsmouth is at' present does not exist as a garrison. At the present moment there is not a ship carrying a gun at Spithead, nor a sail in the harbour capable of firing . a shot. A morning Contemporary has been misled in contra : dieting the report that some visitors to the Gomer, when in Portsmouth Harbour, broke the glasses over the por traits ce the King and Queen of the French. It is a fact titttt the e;asses were broken as alleged, and new glasses t y tile ft.: , v, , t4 were supplied by Messrs. Emanuel, Bro !. tilers, of Coniznon-hard, Pcrtsea, silversmiths to her Ma ! jesty. We cannot ico much admi re the p oliteness which I Will ' nOt confirm a statement so derogatory to the cha iracter of:eeir countrymen. 1 • 'The .I) , .varf steam-vessel, Lieutenant-Commander I Chanitoeriain, wac docked this morning, to have her screw altered. The Locust steam-vessel was undocked and masted RAILWAY RETURNS. RAILWAY TAAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the resp,etive, returns are made, together with the receipts of the same v♦e.:k in the previous year:--- W,ek Last week. g,4 V 4) De_ Nor.:3 Dec. 1 ov. 30 Dec 1 Nor. 30 Dec. 4 Nov. 29 Dec. 1 ov. ll e. 3 17: <~ .. oY. 1,006 43,) 4 29' 1,046 2,063 3,634 1,472 71; 6,963 1,567 13,281 4,114 13,693 7 :•••••• 3,8t46 1,09 762 s3C 2,97 5 6,rh 5,(34 1,031 1,40 1,,5Z;11 :i,'_ : `l C) :a • 201 1,632 to6B 337 700 1,831 3,024 1,199 €7e '662 6,630 1,261 11,134 3,841 13,371 618 2,942 b 39 4,879 705 2,517 5,30 7,126 1,3E31 3,fGO 3,325 470 2,9.01 6 this morning, . Felloorp , r, of Yr,rmouth, Edward Miller, inastel. - ; was run into amid-ships last night, abont six o'clool:, (If tie:leltey Ilead, when bearing E. by N., by the London,',Mosey, master, when the schooner sustaieed' se.riwas damage. The crew were saved by the pilot-heat. ‘.s.;el.-;en, of Cowes. The i - .,ar(pie!Brunswich:, of Loudon, for Ichaboe, Camp b:-11, Inkster, tell in with the wreck of the schooner Ro,e this morning, and towed her into this harbour. The crew of the latter v,ssel have since mutinied, complain ing of the vessel neire,; leaky and unseaworthy. The Rose lost her mast level with the deck, her bows were stove is (and wl!.ea we saw her the figurehead of the was in the aperture), the roundhouse and caboose unshipped, the bowsprit and jibboom clean gone, and the stem . stove in to the water's edge —indeed, the Rose presents a 11103 i, pitiable spectacle of a total wreck. Her crew cempistin of the treatment they received from the master - (Mosey) of the brig, us 'very unmanly and brutal. • In .Harbour—The St. Vincent, discharging stores, &c., for docking; the Excellent, Victory, Sparrow, Nautilus; Diligence transport; and the Comet, Fearless, and Echo steam-vessels. In the Basin—The Neptune, 120 ; Hastings, 72 ; and Scourge steam-sloop, In Dock—The Prince Regent ( the Victoria rarking), and Albert, Vengeance, Athol troop-ship (fitting for surveying service), and Dwarf steam-tender. At Spithead—No man of war. • SHEERNESS, THURSDAY.—The Hornet, 6, brigantine, Lieut.-Commander C. Seaver, arrived from Spithead on Tuesday, anct.passed up to Chatham to be paid off. The Porcupine steam-surveying vessel, Capt. Bullock, touched at this port on Tuesday, and having coaled, left on Wednesday for the sphere of her operations. The Goodwill, navy lighter, Pledge master, sailed this morning with stores for Devonport. The Crocodile, 26, late troop-ship, was docked on Tuesday to be fitted for surveying service. The Herald, 26. has been undocked, and towed into the basin for her fittings. In the harbour—The Ocean and Skylark. In Dock—The Hercules, Brilliant, Spy, and Crocodile. In the Basin—The Howe, Amazon, Vernon, and Vul ture, first-class steamer. .At the Nore—The Queen, 110, flag ship. FRENCH IMPORT DUTIES A royal ordonnance has been published in Paris, which makes material alterations in the import duties on various productions of India, and other foreign countries, brought to France by French ships, and also in the premiums granted by the Government on machinery manufactured in France, and used in the international navigation. The ordonnance is preoeded by a report to the King from the Minister of Commerce, in which he states that the greater part of the modifications have for their object to encourage French ships to bring home, direct from India and other countries out of Europe, cargoes of raw materials, and other natural productions employed in the manufactories in France. The follow ing quotations from the ordonnance will show the na ture and amount of the new duties, and fromthem it will also - appear that the premiums on home-made ma chinery are to be regulated by weight, and not ad valorem : The first paragraph of the ordonnance says :—The Customs duties on the undermentioned articles shall be established or modified in the following manner. All the duties are upon the 100 kilogrammes, except where otherwise noted : Wood and Roots' of the Barbery—By French ships, from countries out of Europe, 10c. ; from other coun tries, if. 50c. 9 • by foreign ships and by land, 2 f. Copper, with alloy of zinc or of tin, of the first fusion, in the mass, in birs or sheets, or from old articles de stroyed—By French ships, from countries out of - Europe, 10c. Badiana, or Aniseed, from China, in cristals—By French ships, from beyond Europe, 15f.; from elsewhere, 30f.; by foreign ships and by land, 40f. Volatile Oil, or Essence of Badiana—The same duties as on other oil or essence of aniseed. Nitrate of Soda—By French ships, from countries out of Europe, one moiety of the present duty. The premium on the exportation of nitric and sul phuric acids is reduced one moiety. Small Rattans, whole or split—By French ships, from India, 6f.; from other countries out of Europe, 10f. Bamboos, and other large canes—By French ships. from India, 60E; from other countries out of Europe, 80f. Flowers of Carthamum—By French ships, from coun tries out of Europe, 12f.; from other countries, or by foreign ships, or by land, the present duties. Cocoa Nut-shells—By French ships, from beyond Europe, If.; from other countries, or by land; or ;by foreign ships, the present duties. Lichens, for dying—By French ships, frOm beyond Europe, 10c.; from other countries, or by foreign ships, or by land, the present duties. Medicinal Roots not denominated—By French ships, from beyond Europe, 154; from other countries, or by foreign ships, or by land, the present duties. . Medical Fruits, not denominated —By French ships, from beyond Europe, 25f.; from other countries, or by foreign ships, or by land, the present duties. Balsam of " Copaiba—By French ships, from beyond Europe, if 20c. the kilogramme ;'from other countries, or by foreign ships, or by land, the present duties. Aloes—By French ships, from beyond] Europe, 501. ; from other countries, or by foreign ships or by land, the present duties. Benzein—By French ships, from beyond Europe, 100 f.; from other countries, or by foreign ships or by land, the present duties. Raw Camphor — By French ships, from beyond Eu rope, 50f.; from other countries, or , by foreign ships or by land, the present duties. Jalap Root—By French ships, from beyond Europe, 10E'. ; from other countries, or by foreign ships or by land, the present duties. Produce Imported from India—Lacher, in its natural state or in rosin, 50c. ; in dye or in trochisk, 25f.; mo ther-of-pearl, u nwrought or in the shell, 10f. tin, 10c. Limestone, rubble, and waste stone (dechets de pierre), Ic. Special regulation for Corsican iron ore, lc. The second paragraph is in the following terms : The premium allowed by the law of 6th May, 1841, to steam-engines of French fabrication employed on board French ships engaged in the international mari time navigation, shall be liquidated according to the pre sent basis, and the entrance duties applicable to steam.. engines of foreign fabrication imported by French ships." " LIFE IS SWEET."—On Friday last, the 29th ult. as the Lady Brisbane steamer was on her way from Stranraer to this port, when nearly opposite Lendalfoot the captain and passengers observed two of the feathered tribe flying towards them, the one apparently in deadly pursuit of the other. When first noticed, they were at a considerable distance seaward. Many a sudden wheel and hair-breadth escape the poor fugitive made ; and on their approaching nearer, the one was discovered to be a lark flying for life from its pursuer, which belonged to the hawk species. So close was the hawk on the poor lark, that the latter made a halt and sat for afew seconds on the surface of the ocean ; while the former wheeled past, and, making a circuitous turn, was just on the eve of pouncing fatally upon his victim, when it again got on the wing, and, flying on board the Lady Brisbane, actually alighted on the breast of the mate, who was at the helm, the hawk not being more than six yards dis tant. The mate took up the little songster, and brought it safely to Ayr, where he set it at liberty.—Ayr Observer. INCENDIARY FIRE ON THE FARM OF MR. ABEL. SMITH, M.P., AT WATTON.—HERTFORD, WEDNESDAY. —A fire broke out last evening at Bardolph's Farm, Watton, in the occupation of Mr. Kimpton. The fire was first observed in a barley barn, in the centre of the extensive farm-yard, at about half-past eight o'clock, and expresses were immediately sent off to the neighbouring towns for the engines ; and in the course of two hours the Hertford, Ware, and Stevenage engines were upon the spot.. .The flames had in, the meantime extended with frightful rapidity, and by the time that the first engine arrived five extensive and substantial barns, filled with barley and wheat, were on fire. It was at once teen that it would be utterly Useless to attempt to stop the progress of the flames on the buildings, which they already enveloped, and all efforts were directed to pre vent their extending to the stables attached to their barns, immediately communicating with the dwelling houses, and also to protect the ricks from the lighted fragments dispersed by the wind. The farm belongs to Mr. Abel Smith, M.P., and is not far distant from his farm at Bromfield, which was destroyed by fire about ten weeks since. While we write this account five barns are still blazing, and no portion of them can be saved. The loss to the occupier is estimated at 2,0001., and is insured to that amount in the Pbcenix. The buildings are insured in the Sun. No doubt is entertained that the barns were wilfully fired, and a labourer has been arrested on suspicion. The chief part of the agricultural imple ments were preserved. THE LATE EXPLOSION ON BOARD THE GIPSY QUEEN. —The sum collected for the relief of the families of the ten poor unfortunate persons who perished by thell, late exprosion on board the Gipsy Queen, off Blackwe amou nts to near 600/., and it is expected that ere the subscription closes 1,0001. w ill be obtained, The sur vivors of this sad catastrophe are rapidly recovering. The Marquis of Bute has disposed of his Luton Hoo estate to a gentleman of the name of Wall. The consideration money is stated to have been 180,000/. NOT TO BE WONDERED AT.--The Chester Chronicle states that a quarter cask of gunpowder, which had been placed in the " bakehouse" of Mr. Car rington, of Rocklerry, had, by " some unknown means," exploded, and blown the roof off, besides destroying all the window's in the dwelling-house, and dreadfully burn ing one of his own sons, and injuring Miss Carrington, and a dressmaker at work there at the time. THE GAME Lams.—Report is gaining ground, to the effect that a Bill will he brought into Parliament• during theensuing session, to limit the price which game dealers are to charge the public for game, and that at a very low rate. This would be a most excellent measure; it would be a check upon those game preservers who " make a trade" with surplus game ; a check also upon the poachers, for it would not then be worth his while to poach, his profits so scanty, that the present temptation would be ended ; and a check too upon the dealer who purchases of the poacher, because he could buy as cheap of those who have legal right to sell as he could do of the poacher. It is high time something was done re specting the disgraceful game-preserving and the game law!. The cost of the game mania to the public is scan aalous ; let those who wish to have their tyrannical pet —for such it is—pay for it, not the community at large, they are taxed and oppressed enough without paying for the exclusive game propensity of the aristocracy.—From a Correspondent. FIRE AT NEWINGTON.—rriday night, between the hours of six and seven, a very alarming fire• broke out upon the premises of Mr. Beckett, a rope and twine manufacturer, Hen and Chicken-lane, Newington. The damage is considerable, but the property is insured in the Atlas-office. A spark from a lighted candle is sup posed to have caused the disaster. POACHING. —The poachers, or some person or per sons, at present unknown, have made a good haul of at least 500 pheasants from the plantations of Sir E. Ker gaon, round and near the O but the akley robbers have not yet Mansion. An investi ion has taken place, been discovered.—Norfolk Chronicle. Immense quantities of cod-fish have been caught off this town--about a mile or two out—during the pre sent week. They . have been sold remarkably cheap,—a fine fish, upwaids of 201bs. weight, .fetching only from Is. 6d. to 2s. Large numbers, weighing 161b5., have been sold at Is. each. —Brighton Herald. Hoaticink.-IVe regret to state that, on Wednes day night last, a dispute arose between two brothers-in law, in the town of Kilkeel, which had a fatal termina tion. The names of the parties are Kinney and M`Fadden. The altercation became so violent, and passion was so much excited, that the former lifted up a beetle and .struck the other a heavy blow, which killed him on the spot.---Down Recorder. NOVEL NOVEL FEAT. --A Plymouth correspondent fur nishes the following aquatic novelty:—" A great deal of curiosity and surprise has been manifested during the past week by those who have witnessed the manner in which one of the officers of the Caledonia, flag ship, now lying in Hamoaze, comes on shore. He descends the ship's side to the water's edge, puts on a mackintosh-dress, and inflates it with air by means of a small , pair of bellows. He then steps into the water, and immured nearly up to the breast, with two small paddles very rapidly works himself on shore. As soon as he lands he takes off his dress, and throw ing it across his arm, it being very light, attends to his duty or his pleasure as it may be. On Monday last he landed twice at the dockyard in the way , described and he now laughs at the idea of taking a boat. During the time the Caledonia was in a ny boat, landed at the Admiral's Hard, the Sound he left that shi p in a similar manner, and u nattended by Stonebouse, a distance of three miles. He carries the bellows with him in case of too rapid an exhaustion nf air. It has been told me that during the trial cruise of the ships in the Channel he passed by this extraordinary means from one ship to the other. I cannot vouch for this fact ; but the truth of the rest , may be relied on. Should it be generally adopted, it will be a very amusing trip for half-a-dozen to take round the Eddystone Lighthouse. lic dinners. The latter are, in a great meausure, made the feelers of general opinion, whenever a party purpose, or an object of peculiar weight in the eyes of certain individuals, is to be promoted. By the medium of toasts and speeches the required stimulus is conveyed to the guests, and they go away with the noblest impressions of the scheme to be adopted or the thing to be done. All, of course, are on one side, for who would attend at the dinner where he would be the sole opponent—the un supported dissentient from the voice of a whole company? Nothing, therefore, is more delightful, and more capti vating, than the undivided unanimity under favour of which every sentence is applauded to the echo, and every speaker cheered to his heart's content. Such assemblies may be necessary, they may be useful, they may be called for by the necessities of the times, or the peculiar merits of the topic to be discussed. We neither ridicule nor condemn them ; it would be quite unnatural to do so, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—DartmOnth was among the 'boroughs which were redeemed by the Reform Bill - from the degradation of nominal representation. Before that just and necessary measure was enacted, this little maritime town gave two seats in Parliament to the nominees of the Treasury ; in whom its close corpo ration invariably discerned all the requisite qualifica tions for the honour and advantages then pertaining to such legislators. The Reform Bill opened the borough, and assigned one Member to its constituency. Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. H. Seale had endeared himself to the inhabitants by his numerous virtues, and espe cially by the exertions he had used to break up the close corporation confederacy by which the represen tation of the borough hid been prostituted to the piar poses of private gain and political corruption. That gallant officer became its first representative under the new system ; and continued, without competition, to be returned as its Member to every successive Par liament. His death occurred a few days since, and his remains will be committed to the tomb this day. But scarcely had the breath left the body of the deceased Member than the Tories were on the alert to recover their lost influence in the borough. Electioneering agents of the Carlton Club, metro politan.and local, commenced operations. Their can didate was announced. Mr. Joseph Soames, Go vernor of the New Zealand Company, is to contest the seat on the " Conservative interest ;" and the Dartmouth Reformers, who have hitherto been faithful and firm to the principles and party which obtained for them their long-sought right to the elective franchise, are modestly " solicited" to exercise that right in favour of the candidate who, with the party which nominates him, would gladly deprive them of their votes ! The modesty of this attempt on the constituency is equal to the delicacy the Tories have shown to the memory and bereaved fa mily of the deceased member, in thus needlessly agitat ing the constituency before his funeral has taken place. Although taken by surprise by this indecent haste on the part of their opponents—and necessarily unprepared to engage in a contest while the solemnities of commit ting the remains of their deceased member to the tomb were yet unperformed —the Dartmouth Liberals will be found true to themselves, and to the cause with which they are identified. They have found a candi date worthy of their exertions in Mr. George Moffatt, well known to the Liberals of the metropolis as an eminent merchant, and as " a good man and true." Mr. Moffatt has already shown by works, as well as words, that he regards Parliamentary Reform as only the means to the attainment of valuable results. As the Chairman of the London Penny Postage Committee in 1838 he contributed, by his zealous and persevering exertions, to the attainment of that immense national benefit. Mr. Moffatt's opinions on the question of free trade are identical with those who advocate the removal of commercial restrictions, as essential to the extension of our trade and the profitable employ ment of our increasing population. Mr. Moffat will commence his personal canvass of the electors on Monday. We cannot doubt of his success. The Dartmouth Tories, by violating the decorum which the conventionalities of society pre scribe—and which, even when political excitement is more strongly felt than it is at present, are observed— indicate the hopelessness of the contest into which they are plunging themselves and the constituency. The constituency is small—not more than 250 will vote. Nothing but the employment of corruption and co ercion can prevent Mr. 11Ioffatt's return by a large proportion of the electors. The former is, happily, by the new election law rendered more easy of detec tion than it was. Let the Liberal voters be but proof against the latter, and Toryism will sustain a defeat at Dartmouth that will discourage any future attempt to seize upon the representation. STANDARD.—We appeal to the memory of our readers to witness whether we have not anxiously abstained from the agitation upon ecclesiastical mat ters, which is now distracting the Church and the country ; or if our readers are so forgetful of our con duct, or so ill-informed of the pressure we have had to resist as to hesitate in acquitting us of a voluntary part in the agitation, we can appeal to hundreds— to thousands—of offended correspondents, whose fa vours we have. rejected or whose suggestions we have slighted, though heartily concurring in their opinions. We know our countrymen, and we best know that most numerous and most intelligent, as well as best disposed, division of them—the members of our Protestant Church. We know that they are slow to move, because they are religious, prudent, and just, and that they will not move at all except upon what seems to them a clearly righteous and an adequate ground; but we know also that when they move, they are determined, inflexible, and irresistible. When such men arise to action they stand much more in need of the curb than of the spur. We should apply the curb if we could hope to have influence; but though we might offer violence to our own convictions, and should certainly forfeit all our influence in the attempt, it would be an utterly vain one. Let us close our columns against the para mount topic of the day; and we may to-morrow close our establishment ; while the line we could conscien tiously pursue in perfect conformity with the uni versal feeling would be taken Up by some mere time-server, as indeed we see already some of the mercenary class pressing into it—the last and the decisive proof that the public mind has been defini tively made up. We copied yesterday with satisfac tion, from the Morning Herald, an announcement, of the correctness of which we have no reason to doubt, that the Bishops are preparing to interpose. We can assure their Lordships that there is no time to spare, and that they must make up their minds to interpose effectually when they do interpose. It is now too late to stand upon trifles ' • too late, indeed, to treat any of the disputed points as trifling ; every ensign of hostile innovation is an intole rable insult, and every rag of such ensign must be abandoned, if an honourable peace is to be obtained for the Church. Without the removal of every tatter of Tractarianism the people will not be satis fied—must we add, ought not to be satisfied. In short, if the Bishops will have an end to the present distractions, they must exercise their legitimate influence to bare the order of the Church brought back to what it was a dozen years ago, the most glorious era in the history of any . Church since the age of the Apostles. That glorious era ,it was which tempted vain men, who had no share in producing it, to turn the deep religious feeling of the nation to the account of their own ambition or foppish conceit. They saw the Church the object of a veneration only less than that paid to its divine head, and they hoped to exalt themselves Is priests of the Church - above all other men, and to render their persons " the observed of all observers," by fanatical dresses, gau dy church furniture, and antic gesticulations. 'Such men could not appreciate the true source of the veneration so universally paid to the Church—the ab sence of those personal vanities and passions, and of those profane frivolities with which they, in their stupid conceitedness, would desecrate the majesty of religion. , If . ..the Church is to become again. what the Church was twelve years ago, the object of devoted love and reverence to the people, all the innovations introduced by the self-seekers and coxcombs must be swept clean out. Men cannot be too firm, of we will say too obstinate, where prin ciples are concerned; but they who deny that the surplice preaching is a mere sign of novelty, as some bishops do, will admit that surplices are not prin ciples, and ' will surely surrender surplice preaching to the feeling of the people, who cannot help con necting it with the Tractarian innovations. If firmness or obstinacy upon questions of high prin ciple cannot be too much commended, obstinacy in things trifling or indifferent to principle cannot be too much despised. There are, it is true, the two cases in which a plausible apology may be made for obstinacy upon questions of secondary importance. An importunate claimant may be refused a trifle, because he is importunate-- because in his case every new concession leads to a new demand. This cannot apply to men who ask only for the status quo—their de mand limits itself for ever. They only ask to be left where they and their ancestors have been for nearly two centuries. The remonstrant Churchmen, indeed, give the best possible proof of their content ment with, and deep affection for, the Church, in ear nestly praying that its practical order and ritual may undergo no change. Arguments and answers fit to be .used towards import una t e aggressors un doubtedly do not apply to them. The second case where trifles may be obstinately maintained with some colour of reason, is when the concession of the trifle gives a party triumph • but the Bishops will sc arcely treat the whole laity and forty-nine fiftieths of the clergy as a party to 'balance a gainst a few hundred Tractarians ; to put them at all into opposite scales would be a triumph to the Tractarians immeasurably disproportioned to their real importance. No, the Church can have no triumph in being left to the peace ful enjoyment of her time-honoured usages; but the least concession of the least of these usages would be indeed a triumph to the Tractarians —a gross insult to the Church—an insult, we do not hesitate to say, fatal to the Church as a temporal e stablishment. his may be thought the language of exaggeration, it is, however, the language of our deliberate and sincere conviction. We confess the utmost alarm for the Church as a temporal establishment. A very few months have passed since every hand and purse of the nation were cheerfully openo for Church purposes. Money was collected for building of churches, for endowments, and for the erecting and support of church schools, by hundreds of thousands of pounds. How is it now The very men most active in promoting these noble contributions, and most liberal in contributing them selves, are now the very men who oppose any grants for Church use. TlME6•—This i 4 the age of public meetings and Rob- seeing that men are seldom, we may say never, so good-humoured, and so ready to take everything for granted, as after a festival of this kind. How ever, with all our readiness to do justice to the value of such entertainments, there may be, and there must be, certain occasions, and certain remarks to which those occasions give rise, which do not alto gether win our approbation or go odwill. Our readers will find in another part of our paper a report of a meet ing of sundry noblemen and gentlenien at Cirencester, at the annual commemoration of the Cirencester Agri cultural Association. There was indeed the abounding flow of sentiment, and the usual amount of speechifying. There was, of course, much tender pathos; a due ad mixture of the grave and gay to interest as well as to amuse the audience. The principal theme of the day, however, was one which all of every class now feel themselves imperatively obliged to consider ; —we mean the depressed state of, the labourer, and the best means of ameliorating his condition. The Hon. W. Bathurst seems to have been powerfully awakened to the subject. We must not forget," he said, " on an occasion like this, the agricultural labourer ;" and truly the company did not forget—to mention him at least, as how could they at such a dinner, and amid the recurrence of such questions ? This gentleman, however, unadvisedly as we think, strayed into one or two diversified branches of argument, which he might certainly have left unnoticed with much better taste and feeling than he showed by introducing and dwelling upon them. He made, in truth, a somewhat angry attack upon the manufacturer on behalf of the agriculturist population, neither well-timed nor exactly applicable Ito the whole state of the case. There was manifested throughout a pointed desire to accuse and overwhelm the millowners as the most selfish and heartless race of men—the oppressors of the poor laboufer whom they had taken into their employment, and who, when his toil had answered their purpose, and he was no longer use ful, or could no longer be maintained, turned him adrift at once upon the parish ! No doubt there is, and tit doubt can there be, that all the peasant wants is em ployment ; he wants, and is ready to do, " a fair day's work for a fair day's wages," than which no proposition more equitable or more reasonable was ever offered to the human understanding. He wants just what the lot of man enjoins upon his station—to gain his bread by the sweat of his brow. He asks this of his employers— he has a right to ask it ; although it is a portion of toil and privation, such as it is, it is his birthright, and can be no more justly withheld than the rights of his land lord can be refused. No wonder, then, that several of the speakers adopted this subject for their observa tions. It could Rot well escape their attention at a meeting so obviously connected with the cause of the poor man. But, we confess, how his cause could be advanced, or his condition mended, by flinging it with aggressive violence in the face of the manufacturer, is an enigma that it puzzles our ingenuity to solve. Whence this fiery emulation, this undisguised jealousy of the millowner ? Could not Mr. Bathurst, or any other speaker, find topics enough to dilate upon, and remedies of some sort to offer upon the bitter portion of the unemployed tillers of the soil, without arraying all his chivalry against the manufac turers ? Besides, gentlemen, you will permit us, if you please, to show you one very sufficient reason why, if any charge of the kind were made at all, it should I have been aimed elsewhere in the first instance. Who, we ask, was it that turned the agricultural labourer into the plodder of the factory ? Who first exhorted and urged the peasant to forget his original occupation, and bend his energies to another employment ? We do not underrate the earnestness of these speakers, but we really must refresh their memories with a correct representation of the circumstances under which they themselves are placed in this respect. How, then, came the manufacturers to find labourers at low wages ready at their hand? Surely it ought, in common justice, to be remembered that the, landowners themselves were the persons to encourage this exchange of toil ; that they-did all in their power to free their parishes and estates from the superabundant hands ; that they gave to the public highly-coloured re presentations of prosperity, making their 'own poor be lieve they would discover the secret of transmutation in this Eldorado—that they were to rise rapidly in wages, and enjoy all the contingent comforts of ample pay. All this may have been thought politic and judicious ; but, after driving these men from field labour, to which they were born, and bringing them into a totally different sphere of life, the landlords should not, in common fair ness, turn round upon the manufacturer and revile him for doing in after times what their own example has but too successfully taught him. And, again, though it may sound very feasible to talk to the farmer about the neces sity of finding employment for the poor on his farm, it is scarcely intelligible to ordinary minds how this can be done, when, as Mr. Kearsey, a farmer 'present, very justly ob served, so heavy was the taxation under which they suf fered, that they were driven to curtail their own expen diture, and this always operated upon the wages of the labourer. Really, no one who advocates any benevolent scheme ever seems to feel that the first effort should come from himself, and that if be wishes others to do good where he should himself set the example, he must prove his sincerity by so doing, and doing it qu ickl y . It never seems to strike the wealthy landowners at such meetings to propose a real reduction of their own rents, as a foundation for employing additional labourers or paying them more adequately. Thus, it is to be feared too many of the schemes of advantaging the lower orders fail'or fall to the ground, from the want of this great first principle of showing the way where we would wish to lead others. It is - no great praise to set tip for a humane c haracter at the expense of a neighbour's reputation ; nor is it any credit to the possessors of largo estates where a numerous population is without employment, that the master manufacturers treat their own drudges no better. MONEY MARKET and CITY NE 8. FROM THN MORNING riPEREI OF SATURDAY. TIMES.—This was the day for opening the tenders made for the fourth parcel of the Canada loan. At the close of business the general impression in the City was, that the applicants had received no answers, and it is considered probable that the tenders may not be deemed so satisfactory as upon former occasions. A new Dutch decree, dated the Ist instant, has been issued in English by Messrs. Raphael and Sons. The following is the operative part : " Art. 1. The fourth series of inscriptions of the na tional debt, bearing 5 per cent. interest, to be drawn for payment only, is fixed at 20,000,000 guilders capital. " This series can, however, be augmented to not more than 21,000,000 guilders capital, if it appears on draw ing, that such extension is useful to avoid division of a whole letter or a whole inscription. " Art. 2. The drawing will take place on Saturday, the 7th of December, 1844, in the manner prescribed by article 3 of our decree of the Bth of August last. " Art. 3. The payment of the capital forming the fourth series begins the Ist of January, 1845, on which day the iuterest on these Five per Cents. ceases. " Art. 4. The fifth series of inscriptions of the na tional debt, bearing 5 per cent. interest, to be drawn for payment or conversion, is fixed at 10,000,000 guilders capital. ' This series can, however, be augmented to not more than 11,000,000 guilders capital, if it appears, on draw ing, that such extension is useful to avoid division of a whole letter or a whole inscription. " Art. 5. The drawing of this fifth series takes place immediately after that of the fourth series, as fixed by the foregoing Ist and 2d articles, being Saturday, De cember 7, 1844, in the manner fixed by article 3 of our decree of the Bth of August. " If all the accounts that stand under the last letter drawn in the fourth series are not required for payment, that letter takes part again in the drawing of the fifth series, for the amount so remaining unpaid. " Art. 6. The price of inscriptions in the Great Book bearing 4 per cent. interest from the Ist of October last, to be issued in exchange for stock, forming the fifth series, is fixed at 971 per cent. ; and accord in g l y there will be paid for each 100 guilders so converted, 2i guilders, but without any compensation for the diffe rence of interest since the Ist of October. " Art. 7. Those who do not choose to exchange their stock, drawn in the fifth series, into Four per Cents., m ust declare to that effect on or before the 28 th of De - COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 7. cem ber, 1844, in the manner appointed by art icle 7 of RING V. SARSON. our decree of the Bth of August last. The p a y ment or This was an action for assault an d false im p risonment c onversion of the capital forming the fifth s eries begins under the following circumsta nces :—The p laintiff had on the Ist of January, 1845. The interest on the stock been a footman in a gentleman's family, and being con paid off ceases oft the Ist of January, 1845. victed of larceny is stealing pheasants and game fowl " Art. 8. The holders of stock drawn in the fourth or from his master's stable, he was sentenced to four months , fifth series, which has been already su bscribed in the imprisonment. At the expiration o f his time he returned. voluntary to his own family, who lived i n the nei g hbourhood of the conversion under our decree of the 6th of No- vember last, preserve their claim to the conversion on Regent's-park. One ev, ning, in September last, he went the foot of that decree." into the house of the defendant, who keeps the Windsor A project is on foot for establishing at Algiers a Bank Castle üblic-house, Park-terrace, St. John's Wood. , of Discount, with a capital equal to 40,0001. sterling, or road, a nd having taken a seat in the parlour, and dered 1,000,000 f. Of this sum 300,000 is to be laid out on a pint of beer, which was brought - him by tha w : :titer, mortgage, at 10 per cent., producing 30,000 f. per annum. a park-keeper of the name of George, ob. This forms a guarantee fund. A suns of 350.000 E is to the to the 'plaintiff's being allowed to sit be laid out in the same manner, producing 35,000 f. ; the room, because he had been convicted of theft. and the sum of 350,000 E is to be employed in discounts, It appeared from the evidence of the plaintiff's wit.. with three signatures, at 12 per cent., producing o,ooof. nesses, that no one else, an I there were several prssents The total amounts of these receipts is 107,000 E, which, at the time, objected to King's presence. On th: - - con.. after deducting expenses , amount in g t° 37,000 f., leaves trary, some of them invited him to drink with than. a net profit of 70,000 f. It is proposed, moreover, to I However the landlord insisted on his leaving the le 'use g i s sue notes of from s f. to 1,000 f., payable three days I a nd ultimately expell ed bins by for l ce, tearing his coat after sight ; and although the rate of discount has been and shirt in the struggle. Sarsen tacu gave him into calculated at 12 per cent., the present rate is estimated custody of the police, who took him to the s'ation. at 15 per cent. house, where, however, no charge was preferred strainst he was dismissed. For the forcible ex 1 ' This plan is given without "the slightest intention ofan dthe a• • 141 " cl 4 recommending it. Indeed, those who would be din- from the house, sr detention in custody him, and f'or the ' ' Cf.' of the posed to embark capital in such an undertaking should Polices this acttioTniiwraoubaDou , sts ‘ tea these be aware, that in the African countries, where there is a Mr. a Se d rgea a n de a forcible ' , l t P.ain 1 ' great disposition to form monopolies, many difficulties factds'hinandm injustice of ap erse cu ting Pfe a o the j; s e :., -a, to the may be found in the way of working a bank, which har d s hi p s life, p after he had a man wail infamy expiated an off - ~, e, not w ould be unknown in an European city. HERALD.—As the case, Richards v. Macey, tried of th e most heinous nature, by the punishment ti, ias deil in the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday last, involves hy‘tril..° Sergeantlaw• S , nta for th e several principles of importance to shareholders in joint- nu• defendant, insisted ,Isre stock banks, and also regarding the liability and trans. the propriety of the landlord's conduct in ender ,ou Isol fer of notes of hand and bills of exchange, we shall recall to keep his house free from persons of tainted character. the attention of our readers to the facts of the case. It The Learned Sergeant called witnesses to prove that the appears that the late Borough of St. Marylebone Bank plaintiff made a violent resistance to the defendant's at. had borrowed 5,000 L of the London and Westminster, tempt to remove hisi, and that Sarson did not give hire upon security, for the purpose of winding up its affairs. into custody until he was endeavouring to force his wag But this sum not being found sufficient, application was into the parlour again after he had been expelled. made fora fur.ther leap of iO,OOO/. This was refused, , Mr. Justice Eit.ix mimed up very muniteiy. Hi •