The Sun. — London, England, 1845-02-17 00:00:00

T Mil BUDGET. MIRONICLE.—AIthough unable to-day to enter into a eon; sideration of the details of " the financial statement " fa t s 5. by Sir Robert Peel last night , we cannot allow the opportu pass of expressing our admiration of the bold and h c a o a m h pre a h n e m i 4V . principle upon which this large remission of taxatifotihat pee rinci pleas Nor is it so much with the present application o his that the public with its direct and inevitable tendency, cheers of will be pleased. The ominous silence of own snpporteedrs, in the t hofawa of the Opposition, and the [dismay so painfully pictured the Knightleys th e Inglises, the Reelibr oo kes, etc , were all preg nant conunentL it wonld ies upon they free-trade demonstration. We cannot, however, tee mach de p lore the obstinacy ( be rielien toiee to call i t consistency) which led Sir Robert Peel to In such an arrangement as he proposes involve himself of the sugar duties. From this part of subject lan, however, we Let he will be yet obliged to recede. The will be fully dis tenussed in the course of the ensuing week, serif we do not yet despair of ae.eing Sir Robert Peel sacrifice those hypocal pretexts by which the markets of Brazil and Cuba are threatened to be closed, to those round principles of commercial legislation to which he paid such prac tical homage last night. Sir Robert Peel may rely with confidence upon the support of the Liberal party in dealing with sugar and with corn, as he deals with so many other articles that were formerly pro tected. We owe Sir Robert Peel a deep debt of gratitude for the ex cellent purposes to which he is turning the monopolist majority who brought him into power. Should that majority turn restive, either in anger, in disgust, or in selfish apprehension about their own interests, we say again Sir Robert Peel may depend upon the support of his opponents. Several members at once recorded their approbation of the scheme. Some few objections were started, and Lord John Rus sell stated that he considered the Right Hon. Baronet's proposal as to sugar to be the most important andamost objectionable part of the sc heme. The Noble Lord said he should be ready to go into the dis cussion on Monday, on which day the Committee is to sit again. - Upon one question we hope Sir Robert will be compelled to give way. Surely, after the admissions of last night, a majority of the House of Commons should insist upon a repeal of the odious income-tax. While there is yet time, let the country make itself heard upon this question. Petitions should be sent iu from every county and town in the kingdom. POST—What our amiable and lively Contemporary, the Herald, wit: say to this, alter its elaborate commendation of surpluses and public works, we really cannot imagine. But the devices and re sources of the higher orders of genius are inexhaustible. When we take into account the great personal interest which the Minister has in the value of British land, and in the prosperity of the landed interest, we cannot but admire the dauntless devotedness with which he gives himself up to the promotion of the commercial and manufacturing interests, and the total absence from his conside ration of the interests of landlords and farmers. We mean, of course, their immediate interests. Doubtless, he expects that, in the end, what. ever enriches Manchester and Liverpool will benefit the farming inter esteromCornwall to Caithness. In the meantime, however, the case of the landowners and occupiers may seem to many of them to be rather hard. They pay the greater part of the property and income tax, yet that is to be kept on solely - (as the Minister admits) that a great experiment may be tried in the reduction of taxation for the benefit of the merchants and manufacturers. A million and a quarter Is to be added to the expense of the year, solely (as the Minister admits) to add to the defence of our increasing commerce, and not for national purposes independently of commerce. The army, as the Minister contended at great length, is mainly kept up for the sake of our colonies, and our colonies are necessary for the sake of our com merce. The army, therefore, and the expense thereof, cannot be reduced. So, then, expenses continue for the sake of com merce, and they are to ix; increased for the sake of commerce, and three millions a year of taxation are to be taken away for the sake of commerce and manufactures. It is all very well so far as commerce and manufactures are concerned, and these interests, we own, are mighty. But there is another great interest which pays by far the greater part of the property-tax, and a fair proportion of the income tax, and which is not now prosperous, whereas the commercial and manufacturing interests are now prosperous. Yet that great interest gets nothing but the permission to continue to pay what it has paid hitherto. It was a pity that, when the agriculturists had power to snake a Ministry some years ago, they did not make a Ministry which would at least think of their exietence upon national occasions of great importance. TIMES.--The pleasing nature of the Premier's task, last night, fully accounts for the joyous haste with which he has discharged it, that is to say, on the seventh night of the session, and for the early anxiety he had displayed to publish the preliminary document!. Bis eat qui cif() dat, thought Sir Robert, and resolved not to spoil his magnificence by delay. He was, too, in the situation of the traveller landing at a foreign port, and immediately besieged by the porters and commissionaires of twenty different hotels. " Close with one, and the Test will leave you," whispers a friend. The Minister has selected the objects of his favours, and we may enjoy a little peace for the present. In the first place, the Premier proposes to take another lease of the mine which has yielded him these golden opportunites. For three years longer he claims to sink his shafts and edits, to drive tunnels, and make all sorts of bores and cavities, in the dark recesses of our private affairs--to bring up, break, smelt, and run our means and ourindustry, as if it were so much rough ore, in quest of his precious three per cent. Now for the bright side of the picture. A very material reduction in the sugar duties takes the lead. " The temporary arrangement" of last session, as it is isdustriously called, gave satisfaction to neither party, and has been attended with very imperfect success. On a half enunciated principle of free trade, and still more, perhaps, on a point of honour, the Premier persevered in a serious reduction of the differential duties, which the state of his finances at that time did not allow bins to render more palatable to the Colonial interests. A more propitious moment has ar rived. The duty on both foreign and colonial sugar is to he reduced far beyond the expectation either of the South American or West Indian planter, while the protecting duty is diminished below even Sir Robert's of last year. This is a triumph to all parties. Even Mr. Miles has more than he asked for. Last year the duty on foreign sugar, the produce of free labour, was 11. 15s. Ode ' that on our colonial, 11 . s s. 3d. • leaving a protecting duty of 10s. Gut., which, it will be remembered, Mr. Miles wished to increase by 4s. odd, and on that question the Government was all bat overthrown. The day of tea has not yet arrived ; so an entire abolition of the import duty on cotton-wool is the next, and a very considerable relief to our manufacturers, merchants, and consumers. The tax amounted to 12 4 per cent. on the value of the raw material, being a great actual increase on its relative pressure when first im posed, which was at a time of public necessity; and it has lately operated to the absolute extinction of portions of our manufactures and trade. The necessity of this remission we have frequently pointed out, and we may suffer It now to speak for itself. Atter this, at one fell swoop, 430 items are struck off the list of " dutiable" articles. The greater part of these have returned very small sums to the revenue, and occupy the four lowest schedules in the lately pub lished expository statement, where they look more like a zoological or botanical index than a national tariff. An immensity of labour and expense is saved by this wholesale excision, while the right of inspection is not to be given up. The list includes many smaller luxuries and helps to comfort, taste, and even information, and will Abolish many of .the petty robberies now suffered by the home ward traveller at the moment ho salutes his native soil. Arts, crafts, and sciences will be allowed a facer use of foreign aids. The cabinetmaker will be allowed more - variety of materials. To take some ofthe larger items, the coopers are to be relieved by the free importation of staves, last year accidentally lost sight of in the amended tariff. The reduction of the Excise duty on glass is a bless ing to three million poor windows, in addition to half a million win dows returned to the assessed taxes, and millions of windows, single *windows, and double-glazed windows, yet unborn. What a luxury It is in continental countries, that you can thrust your elbow or your foot through a pane without being utterly ruined A franc repairs the damage which in England you would think cheap at 3s. 6d. Good news for householders, and, Sir Robert intimates, a hope even to the Irish cottier. 3foreover, people tnay now experimentalise in glass, Make it as good or as had as they please, plate for palaces, and bottle reen for churches, and without paying for either fancy. We venture, Lowever,humbly to suggest that a repeal or modification of the window ten might, perhaps, have been more to the pointjust now. One whole department of the revenue is to cease. Export duties are to become a matter of history. The duty on coals constituted nearly the whole antler this head, and Its entire surrender presents the unusual fact of Sir Robert undoing his own recent work. He Is prompt, how ever, to make a virtue of what we believe amounted to a necessity. Fir Robert has been ingenious. To show that he has not merely yielded to clamour, he has looked for a tax that nobody had tor mented him about, and, strange to say, has found one. The auction duty is given up, not from pressure from without, but to the secret murmurings of the Excise. A duty from which there are 32 exemptions by special statute, and 500 evasions by pri vate management, is happily to be extinct and forgotten. The mounts and sum-totals of these several reductions our readers will find elsewhere, so we need not here repeat them. But they mount up so high that we can hardly believe our eyes that the Pre- I miler nevertheless proposing, what, however, we cannot doubt to be most necessary, a-considerable increase of expenditnre upon the navy. On the whole, we must congratulate Sir Robert Peel on his selection, difficult, and even invidious, as it must have been, when, as he says, every tax presents a prima facie case for reduction, 'which there are plenty to advocate. It would be hard upon not him, and human nature itself, to expect that he should do the thing rather grandly. It is not his fault that he acts the Goddess of Plenty, and wields his cornucopia with an air. It is his mission to confer felicity, and when he unfolds his budget Nature smiles, and even the four children with which Heavenas blessed the Royal union, are happy. The Queen is happy, and the people happy, and so too is Parliament, particularly when they are informed her Majesty asks for no increase of the Civil List. All is happiness ; but medio de forte leporuin Surgit amari aliquid." Id three short days—next Monday evening —the House Will be called on, with one short vote, to saddle the nation with a second three years of the Income-tax. Surely a little more interval of deliberation was due to the universal feeling that mere income should be spared a burden and scrutiny above its capacity, and suited only to the .solid rind tangible investments of property. SPIRIT of tht., PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—The Premier has taken a bold course. While he remains in office the income-tax must be continued. lie has no alternative, except giving up the protective system ; and as that would, in all probability, involve the imme diate relinquishment of office, it is to be avoided at all risks. On the whole, the most obvious inference, from a review of the statement of last night, is, that Sir Robert i painfully conscious of the failure of his financial schemes of the last three years. Nothing has been success ful but the income-tax, the imposition of which involved no financial ability beyond that which is every day displayed in the parish vestry—an estimate of the amount of income to he taxed, and of the per centage upon it which will yield the sum required. Even in this he was far from accurate. The produce was estimated at considerably less than 4,000,0001.—it yielded more than 5,000,0001. Vast apparent changes were made in the tariff with the ostensible object of largely dimi nishing the cost of subsistence, and so increasing consumption as to revive the ordinary sources of revenue. At the end of three years the cost of subsistence is found not to be sen sibly affected ; and any increase in the consumption of taxed articles, and consequently of revenue, is traceable directly to causes which would equally have operated under any system of taxation not involving an entire stoppage of our foreign trade. As a general rule, wherever the tariff has been altered, the result has been a loss of revenue. The duty on copper-ore smelted for home consumption, forms, we believe, the only exception. This, however, as it amounted merely to the removal of a prohibition, originally absurd, and which had long been found practically injurious to all concerned, and is, in reference to the great objects now in view, extremely trifling—would be unworthy of notice, were it not thus singular. A comparison of the tariff as it 1400(1 before and after the changes made in July, 1842, is sufficient to show that the reductions of duty were almost entirely upon articles (as, for instance, drugs and other things of a similar nature, used in medicine, and in various manufacturing processes) upon the price of which, to the ultimate consumer, the duty can never have more than a very slight effect. The inefficacy of such reductions, for the purpose of reducing prices, extending consumption, and so materially increasing the quantity of the article brought to charge, . cannot indeed be better expressed than it was by Fir R. Peel himself, some years ago. " I know," he said in his speech on the Budget in 1830, "from experience, and it is easily proved with respect to several articles the duties on which have been reduced, that the benefit of the reduction is enjoyed by the dealers, and that the price of the article does not decrease in proportion to the remission of fy.. Si r R o b er t' s d e d uc tions, from " experience," made fifteen years ago, have now been amply proved to be correct —not oit easily," if we consider that the experiment has been c conducted at the expense of three years' time, and a good _ , anY millions of money—but, it is to be hoped, sufficiently teol„convince all future doubters, and render any more of experiments unnecessary. The revenue from G o re ordinary elear than so an urces has increased. But nothing is sn sent Government havethatn toltie only measures of the pre producing such in had no share in the increased prosperity it has arisen solely from t ulted from the recent 2: of the country, which has re tension of our trade with foreign tuntries—hut that the increase from these sources would Dave been much larger, vie the real burden upon the country would not have been materially greater, had no alterations whatever been made. short, the " expository s tatement," lately published, furni shesconclusive proof that ix) inndification of our s y s , tein at findirect taxation which a Minister , supported by w can possibly effectare called the dS pro tected interests," 'ivtP renders the will furnish the means of dispensing with an income-tax.' bas now been continued to the point at which ordinary- income of the country permanently inadequate ex p e nditure. To rescue those whose int eres t s are ent to with " protection" from the growing influe nce o f a sound comm ercial policy—to preserve the vicious and absurd id ar rangement by which the effective weight of our taxation upon the productive resources of the country is more than doubled, recourse must now of necessity be had to a direct tax, admitted to be unjust, because unequal in its operation, and necessarily attended with the exercise of arbitrary and inquisitorial powers which nothing but the direst neces sity can j ustify in a country such as Great Britain. The result may not be immediately obvious ; but from this time forth the advocates of free trade need look for co effective commercial reform from the party now in power. In effect, it is now fairly con fessed to be impossible. Particular interests may be conciliated for a time by the removal (under the shadow of the income-tax) of imposts appearing to bear more immediately and exclusively upon th i lam ; but the real ittenbas—that which nor alone cripples the gigantic THE SUN, LONDON, MON D -A Y MORNING, FEBRUARY 16 1M45. The prisoners. on being called upon, said they were sorry for what they had done. They were remanded till Saturday next, to give time for tracing their system of imposition, which it is be lieved has been practised very extensively. LAMBETH. As Mr. Norton was about to leave the bench, a feeble looking old man, named Alexander Elder, entered the witness-box, and applied to the Magistrate for his in terference to have him admitted into Newington work house. From the poor man's statement it appeared that he had carried en business for some years in Aylesbury street, Clerkenwell, as a master baker, and that on the death of his wife in 1816, himself and his four children became possessed of 5,0001., in which his wife had pre viously a life-interest- One of his children died a minor, and two of the others got their shares of the money left, and a portion remained for his third child, who was a daughter. The last child had been made a ward in Chancery ; and by the trickery of two or three design ing persons she had been plundered of every penny ; and not only this, but the applicant, in endeavouring to pro tect her, had been incarcerated fifteen years, six years and upwards in the King's Bench, and nearly nine in Horsemonger-lane. On Monday fortnight he obtained his discharge, but so accustomed had he become to the walls of a prison that, when walking about in the public streets, he was seized with a giddiness, and was in momentary dread of falling head foremost. Mr. NoaToN inquired what he wanted done for him, and he replied that he had been to the Clerkenwell workhouse, in which parish be had a legal settlement, but they refused to take him in without a regular pass; and the parish of Newington had also some objection to take him in, as they thought Clerkenwell ought to do so without the necessary pass. Mr. NORTON directed one of the summoning officers to accompany him to Newington, and to request that the applicant might be tak en in and passed in the regular way. QUEEN. SQUARE. On Thursday, shortly before the closing of the Court, Henry Peacock Gray, of Caroline.street, Coleshill-street, Pimlico, horse dealer, was breught up before Mr. Burrell, in custody of a City officer, on charge of obtaining by false pretences from Thomas Reynolds, of Enfield, corn-chandler, two horses, twenty quarters of oats, and two quarters of beans, with intent to cheat him of the same. Mr. Steele, of Lin coln's Inn-fields, and Mr. Lucena, of Gray's Inn, appeared as so licitors for the prosecution, and Mr. Depree, of Lawrence-lane, for the prisoner. The prosecutor stated, that on the 9th of January last, prisoner, whom he had previously known, in consequence of dealings with his fattier, Mr. William Gray, of 130, Oxford-street, called upon prosecutor at Enfield, in company with a lame gentleman, whom he introduced as his brother-in-law, but whom prosecutor afterwards ascertained to be Harman Milton ; that prisoner d'd not mention this person's name, if he had done so, prosecutor would have been upon his guard immediately, and he believed prisoner was aware thereof, and expressly concealed the name. That prisoner requested to know whether prosecutor had got any horses lie could sell him, adding, that lie had married and gone into business on his own ac count for some time past ; that his godfather, Mr. Peacock, of Wel wyn, Herts, had advanced him a cheque for 2,0001., and he was to apply for more, as he found his business required it ; that he had purchased 40 horses, and paid for them all, and had already placed , several pairs of them on excellent jobs, with noblemen and gentle men, and that Sir Sebastian Smith had four splendid horses of his, i t paying 90 guineas per pair for them ; and that he, prisoner, was then enjoying a first-rate business. Prosecutor further stated, that prisoner's brother-in-law verified most of the assertions of prisoner, and congratulated prosecutor that prisoner had conic down, for that much good business might he done between them. Prosecutor, on these representations, agreed to sell prisoner two horses, 20 quarters of oats, and two quarters of beans, and on the next day, by prisoner's , directions, sent the horses to prisoner's stables, in a mews, situate in Caroline-street, Eaton-square, where they were taken in by prisoner and Harman Milton, and that some few days afterwards the oats and beans were delivered at the same place ; that shortly afterwards prosecutor discovered the lame man, whom Prisoner had introduced as his brother-in-law, to be Hanna' Milton, who had been charged at this office by one Mr. Kinkead, with fraud and conspiracy, practised at prisoner's stables, and indicted for the offence, together with William Milton, his brother, and a person calling himself Sir Edward Barry ; that upon hearing these particulars, prosecutor made further inquiries about prisoner of his stepmother (Mrs. Wni. Gray) ; also at the stables in Caroline-street, and in the neighbourhood, from which prosecutor be lieved that the representations of prisoner and Harman Milton were a tissue of falsehoods, and that the prosecutor could prove such if prisoner were remanded for a short time ; that prosecutor then ap plied to Mr. Burrell, the magistrate at this Court, for advice, who gave prosecutor the assistance of two constables ; and, under Mr. Burrell's advice, they went to prisoner's stables, and got the two horses away, but prisoner was not there, or to be found during the period of the three days that prosecutor watched the premises, in the hopes of apprehending him ; that prisoner was in Tuesday's Gazette as a bankrupt on lus own declaration, without the intervention of any creditor, and that prosecutor had been summoned to attend this morning before Commissioner Shepherd to be examined ; that prose cutor took a constable with him, and prisoner making his appear a .ce, prosecutor immediately gave him into custody, and was after wards examined by prisoner's solicitor before the Commissioner in prisoner's presence—the examination being conducted in a private room with closed doors, and no creditor being allowed to be present. Mr. Steele sand Mr. Dupree each addressed the magistrate, and the former denounced the bankruptcy as part of the fraud, and the ems mination under it as a hole-and-corner meeting, got up by the pri-,, soner for the purpose of intimidating the prosecutor, in consequence of prisoner having learnt that prosecutor was in search of him on a criminal charge. Mr. Burrell remanded the prisoner for a week, and - issued summonses for the attendance of witnesses to prove the false hood of the prisoner's statement to the prosecutor. Ultimately, by the consent of Mr. Steele, prisoner was liberated on his father, Mr. William Gray, becoming bail in 2001. for the prisoner's appearance next Thursday. . _ Miss Osborne, whose case has been so frequently before the public, appeared on Saturday at the above police-court. Mr. Clarkson was enge.ged for the defence, and on the en. trance of the lady impugned, accompanied by her relatives, the Learned Counsel said that he did not think it necessary to call witnesses, as he assumed that the Magistrate had already decided upon sending the case before another tribunal. Mr. BURRELL said that he had so decided. Mr. Clarkson—ln that case he begged through the medium of the press to say that as an impression had gone abroad, that his client had with the sanction of her family committed these acts, he was authorised to say that the young lady's education and her morals had been looked to with a most scrupulous attention ; and that, despite of certain eccentricities, she was as well con ducted as any young lady in her station. Recognizances were taken for her appearance at the Sessions, and she left the Court in charge o; her friends. FRIG , EATH COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) ROYALTY AND THE ISLE OF WIGHT. The term for which Osborne House was taken is nearly expired, and while all were thinking that from the expen-• sive alterations made in the house last season that her Ma jesty proposed purchasing it. and even the Barton estate also, notice is given that the house aid not be requ ired by the: Queen after the Ist of May next. Part of the linen , &c., ha's been packed up and sent off already. Some think that this has been done only to obtain estate at a cheaper rate, others that Norris is to be the Roy. • residence, while others point to Brighton. THE ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON. This great national nursery for seamen will be greatly in creased this season : there are more splendid yachts bnildiniC now than at any former period. RELIEVE THE DISTRESSED. The poor at this inclement season have a very serious; ground of complaint against many of their more affluent neighbours. In West COwes thew have been relieved nearkr every week—every poor widow, all persons with large families requiring aid, the aged and sick, have, unasked, r ceived coals. bread, and potatoes, from a fund which oril Pl nated with about twelve tradesmen at a convivial meetin g; they agreed to subscribe sixpence a-week each. From tiis trifling foundation hundreds have been relieved; the sub scribers have increased, and the fund has been aided hi casual donations. Two hundred families of the poor aria aged have been furnished with coals this week. There Is not a town or village in England that should be with° at such a society ;—if people knew the distress that prevras there would not be half the privations felt. The accumulations of the summer will surprise the do Ora as much as it will benefit the recipients. From the Com'es "Compassionate Fund" more than one hundred pounds lugs been distributedl this winter to the poor in this little to.vrn. Let other towns follow so good an example. LATEST PRICES OF SHARES IN RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHEit COMPANIES' STOCK. From the Official List, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 14. RAILWAYS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per I of rald. Price. Annum. Slare. ----- - X 5. d. ,Z s. d. Aberdeen............- - 2 0 0 2% Birmingham & Gloster 31. be. per sh. 100 0 0 100 0 0 1321% Ditto, New, iss. 71 dis. 155. 25 0 0 17 10 0 33 Brighton,Lews,&Hast. -- 50 0 0 5 0 0 7% Bristol and Exeter .. • • 21.16 e. per sh. 160 0 0 70 0 0 83% Ditto and Gloucester - 50 0 0 30 0 0 59 Caledonian ••••• • • • • • - 50 0 0 50 0 7 1 4 Cambridge and Lincoln • - 25 0 0 110 0 34t Chatham & Prtsmouth - 20 0 0 1 0 0 Cheater and Holyhead - 50 0 0 50 0 8 Chichester & Brighton -3% Churnet Valley ..• •. • • - 20 0 0 20 0 8% Cornwall .. • ... •.• • -.- - 30 0 5 Direct Northern •• • • - 50 0 0 210 0 2% Direct Norwich .. - 20 0 0 10 0 14 Piss, Beccles, & Yrmth - 25 0 0 110 0 1% Dublin & Belfast June. - 50 0 0 210 0 5% Ditto mid Galway • • - - 210 0 2% Eastern Counties ..... 4s. per Bh. 25 0 0 25 0 0 17Ni, Do., Perpetual, No.l 51. per ct. 613 4 313 4 1 pm. Ditto, ditto, No. 3.• • - - 0 13 4 % pm. Eastern Union ••.• • • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 19 Edinburgh & Glaggow 21. ss. p. gh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 64 Ditto, Quarter Shares 118. 3d. p. sh. 12 10 0 12 10 0 16% Ely and Bedford .•• • • - 25 0 0 10 0 1% Grand Connection •• • • - 50 0 0 210 0 Grand Junction ••• • •• 101. per ct. 100 0 0 100 0 0 224% Ditto, Half Shares • • 101. per ct. 5.0 0 0 50 0 0 112% Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 Gt. Southern &Western - 50 0 0 5 0 0 12 Great North of England 3/. ss. 100 0 0 100 0 0 180 Ditto, New.• .••• • • • - 40 0 0 5 0 0 36 Great Western Ditto, Half Shares • • 71. percent. ]5O 0 0 50 0 0 00 :4 Ditto, Fifths.. ••• • • • 71. per cent. 20 0 0 20 0 0 40 Guilford Junction. •• • • - 50 0 0 35 0 0 Harwich ••••••. • • • • • • - 20 0 0 1 0 0 2 Hull and Selby ... Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 17% Kendal & Windermere - 25 0 0 110 0 Lancaster and Carlisle - 50 0 0 15 0 0 29 Leeds and Bradford. • • - 50 0 0 5 0 0 21% Liverpool & Manchestr 10/. per ct. 100 0 0 100 0 0 Ditto, Half Shares lOl. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 London & Birmingham 101. per ct. -- - Stock. 240 Ditto, New Thirds lO/. per ct. 32 0 0 2 0 0 44 Ditto, New 1 ,4 Shares 101. per et. 15 0 0 2 0 0 30 London and Blackwell - 16 13 4 - 7Y. London and Brighton.. 31. Os. per ch. 50 0 0 50 0 0 56% Ditto, Loan Notes.. 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13 1 /,, Londoi. and Greenwich - 12 15 4 - 11 Ditto, Pref. or Priv 5/. per cent. is : 7 2 - 24% Londoo and S. Western 31.55. per sh. 4 1 6 10 - 80 Do., New Cons. Bths - 40 0 0 6 0 0 25% Ditto, New ••.• • • • • - 50 0 0 210 0 125 Condon and Croydon • • 105. per oh. 13 15 9 - 185 Ditto, Guarutd. sp. c. - 90 0 40 0 41 7 , London and York•• •• • - 50 - 0 0 210 0 7 Lynn and Ely .... • • - 25 0 0 210 0 5 Manchester and Leeds 41.75, 6d. p. a. 100 0 0 70 0 0 138 Ditto, Half Shares • • 11.175.6 d. p. a. 50 0 0 30 0 0 61 Ditto, Quarter Shares 45. 25 0 0 2 0 0 141 Ditto, Sixteenths .• • - 65 0 1 5 0 5 1 , _ Manchestr & Binning. 2/. per share 40 0 0 40 0 65 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 10 0 0 2 0 0 111 Midland - Stock. 1251 ' Ditto, Fifths .••• • • • - - 20 0 31 Ditto, Bi-m. & Derby 21.130. per sh, - Stock. 90! r Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 110 0 17 ) New cstle & Darl. June. 6s. 25 0 0 24 0 0 71 North British •••• • • • • - - 710 0 141 ' Northern and Eastern . 21. ss. 50 0 0 45 0 0 611 P Ditto, Scrip, 155.5/. d. 155. 50 0 0 25 0 0 46 ) Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 16 t North Kent..........- - 215 0 3 ] Norwich and Brandon . - 20 0 0 10 0 0 16 ' Ditto, New • . ..... .. - 10 0 0 17:0 0 3 1 • I'ortsmouth Direct .. • • - 50 0 0 210 0 2 E, Preston and Wyre •. • . - 50 0 0 50 0 0 Richinnd &W. E June. - 20 0 0 1 0 0 3 D Rugby - - 1 0 4 t Ditto, 2d Pref., 1842 - 25 0 0 25 0 0 ✓ Sheffield and Lincoln . • - 25 0 0 1 5 0 1 , Sheffield & Manchestr 51. per cent. 100 0 0 82 10 0 Ditto, Quarter Shares - 25 0 0 8 0 0 13 e Shrws.,Wolv.,Dud.,Bir - 50 0 0 210 0 6 South Devon • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 South-Eastern & Dovr 11. ls. 33 2 4 - 48 ,• s Ditto, New iss.lBl.dis - 50 0 0 8 0 0 23 South Wales .•••• • • • • - - 2 10 0 5 n Stevenson's Prtsmouth - - 210 0 2 11 Thames and Medway.. - 19 5 8 - 10 1 Trent Valley ••••• • • • . - 20 0 0 2 0 0 19 Yarmouth & Norwich - 20 0 0 20 0 0 26 ; Ditto, New.........- 20 0 0 8 0 0 16 York & North Midland 101. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 103 d Ditto, Half Shares • • 10/. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 51 , r 1 - - Do., Scarbro' Branch - 20 0 0 44 '''' Ditto, Selby Scrip • • - 20 0 0 67 n Ditto, Extension .. • • - 25 0 0 1 5 0 , 12 It Boulogne and Amiens. - 20 0 0 2 0 0 1 t Gt. Northern of France - 20 0 0 4 0 0 t le Orleans nod Vierzon • • - 20 0 0 2 0 0 12 le Orleans & Bourdeaux - 20 0 0 2 0 0 i Paris and Lyons - 20 0 0 2 0 0 1 I - - Paris and Strasbourg • • - 20 0 0 2 0 0 ', Paris and Orleans ,20 0 0 20 0 0 4 L ' , Paris and Rouen ... •• • 2/. 20 0 0 20 0 0 41 le lt,:.uen and Havre •• • • - 20 0 0 12 0 0 31 29 21% 14% 5 1 ,4 65 11 1 4 125% 3} 90X, 14i 61% 46 16• X 3% 16► A 3% 23M 5% 2%, 10 1 ,4 19 26M 164 103% 51% LLOYD'S SHIPPING. DEPARTURE OF FOREIGN MAILS. The next mails for Malta, Greece, lonian Islan't Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China, via Southampton, will be dispatched hence on Thursday morning next. The next mail for Ceylon, India, and China, via MO' seilles, will be dispatched hence on the evening of Mon day. the 24th instant. WEST INDIES, &C.—Forth steamer, for this mown. gts mail. AMERICA.—The next mails will be taken by the Cagy' bria, and will be made up on the evening of March 3- NEW SOUTH WALES.—The ship Peruvian is adre r. tised for the mails of the 28th instant. LoNDoN, FEB. 15.—Wind, N.W., fresh breeze and fi,,„,fle• . DEAL, FEB. 14, P.M.—Wind N.N.W., ; Young, Romford, and Mary Ridley, Shearer, Calcutta; I ' ll "J Faversham, Welsh, Madras ; Unicorn, Mullins, Mauritius; John Brown, Thornhill, Ichaboe; Grace Darling, Mod ei f a. Put back, Anna, Robertson, for Madras. The Lady never sham, from Madras, got ashore last night in the C o ckle u s• came off with loss of rudder, and has anchored in the Dt,'Wnd PENZANCE, FEB. 13.—W fresh .- - A &, , S.S.W. to S.W. fresh . ,. Theresa, Virtue, Guadaloupe, for Havre, with loss o f sails, LIVERPOOL, JAN. 14.—Wind N.W., fresh.—Arrd.;lled, wood, late Kerr, China; Hope, Clark, and Mary WV :4, Plemer, Ichaboe ; Sheridan, New York ; Trewarths, the with damage, having been in contact off Tuskar with Titania, bound to Smyrna, since put into Waterford. r;d. u Sir R. A. Ferguson, Rhode, from Clyde to Malta , been ' a off Tuskar, 11th inst., two men drowned, having e— contact with the Hopewell, bound to Maranham, since put back. oar' GREENOCK, FEB. 13.—A ship, name unknown , Ira - Aden tially dismasted, Dec. 1, off Agulhas Bank, during a 511- squall, in sight of the Athol, arrived in the Clyde. KINGSTOWN, FEB. 13.—A barque belonging to Liv e s hoe, and a French brig, had been condemned and sold a t Ichs previous to the sailing of the Isabella, arrived here. a to THURSO, FEB. 11.—The Josephine, of Limekiln, hen Shields, has put back leaky, and must discharge. bcr HULL, FEB. 14.—The Hornet, Shiels, from i'did dles e sd rough to Yarmouth, was dismasted, off Flamborough 11,0 y; sth instant, and subsequently wrecked on Sand Na ll ed saved. The Rotherham, ashore on Saltcoats, has disc her cargo in ood condition. n ALMOUTH, g FEB. 13.—Wind S.S.W., fresh gales , a- T ,ater , weather.—Off, Victoria, Storey, Valparaiso; Phcen ix, '— Buenos Ayres, and sailed for Antwerp. frea b DEAL, FEB. 13.—Wind S.W. by W. and W.S.N , e s; breeze and squally.—Arrd. Amelia, Martin, Buenos ',,?;fced Conmaguid, Sprague, New York, for Hull, 31 days' exP e Zors o very severe weather. Put back, Madagascar, for w iog and Calcutta ; Ellen Boyson, New Orleans. It gbhblo 1.0 very strong, with every prospect of a stormy n snow squalls are ve severe. leW IC.INGSTOWN, FEB . 12.—Arrd. Isabella, Strickland, gi p, boe for Preston. A barque, supposed from North Am is in the Bay. $S' WATERFORD, FEB. 12.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Mers' sgs vannah. Arrd. Titania, Liverpool, with considerable claal having been in contact off Tuskar. 3 14 ' CORE, FEB. 11.—Wind N., light.—Arrd. Blonde, wsrd Ichaboe, in 55 days; Ireland, Moreton, Lusitania, F_l„boe; Mary Holland, Plemer, and Spruce, Clarke, all frota Sarah Henrietta, Chintie, Cuba. 2% 44% 42% 30% MARKET NEWS.-(SATURD - ' " COVENT-GA.3IO)EN. d ir ° The supply of Vegetables being small the denialloceti somewhat active at very full prices. All kinds of Fr ul a slow inquiry at late rates. 011 r The supplies of most kinds of produce wer e bu oto. rate, yet the general demand was inactive a t bare* tionary prices. I.4YOATNI A. rg D LEAD A 30' Adt 11) 01 There was a large supply of both Game and Pouilott° ° ' the general demand was heavy at late rates. — P rime, Veal and Pork sold freely, other kinds of Meat 510w1,2.0; quotations. Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2 s 8d toe' Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 6d; and Pork, 3s to 4s 6d per 81bs• NEWPORT. o ther Prime Meat is in steady request. at full prices; bu- . „4 1 wise the trade is dull. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d; 3111- 40 °' °`' 8d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 6d ; and Pork, 36 .„t per Bibs. manufacturing and commercial power of this country—the protective system—which every year will inevitably render at once more deeply destructive and mere difficult to deal with—will be continued. Peel and protection are now one and indivisible, and an income-tax their necessary attendant. STANDARD.—Sir Robert Peel's financial statement left night was characterised by Members of the Opposition as, in its propositions, "unexpected," "unlooked for," " surprising,' " bold," "gigantic"—and was generally admitted by all to be sound in principle, and eminently promising of good to the industrious and humbler classes of society. The state sent— otherwise a lucid and business-like detail, which ' rose into the higher order of eloquence only when the speaker I had occasion to refer to the "magnificent economy "of the Queen—deserves all that was said of it by the Opposition speakers; its propositions are indeed bold and gigantic, and directed principally to the permanent benefit of the humbler and industrious classes, amounting to the reduction of nearly three millions and a half of taxes, all pressing with undue weight upon the classes in question, while, concurrently with this relief, the defensive establishments of the empire are to be fully maintained, and the naval department augmented to the extent of 4,000 men. This is a proud and encouraging por trait of the British empire at this day ; and if we may so speak, the artist who had to exhibit it to the view of his fellow-subjects, gave the best proof of good taste allowing his work to speak for itself. Here is a reduction of nearly three millions and a half of taxes, the greater part of them very old taxes, reduced at a stroke, net in submission to popular clamour, for there has been no clamour on the sub ject ; not in pursuit of !popularity, for the Minister was never so strong in Parliament or in the country ; not in concession to public distress, for the country enjoys un exampled prosperity; but because the Minister can make the reduction with safety ; and he can make thi reduction with safety, because his measures have, in three years of their operation, converted a deficit of more than three millions annually into a clear surplus of five millions ; for so great will be the surplus on th sth of April. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Fel). 15. IN THE MATTCR OP THE LUDLOW CHARITIES. The further arguments in this part-heard case occupied the Court the whole day. The Lord Chancellor sits in the House of Lords on Monday and Tuesday next to hear appeals and writs of error. The Judges are also expected to attend. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Feb. 15. The Vice-Chancellor of England waa occupied the whole morn ing with the further arguments in the part-heard cases of Pearce o. Brooks. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Feb. 15. Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord DENMAN and a specia; jury.) BAKER r. LOWE. _ . . This was an action brought ,by the plaintiff, who is a sur geon, residing at Hampton, against the defendant, who is a half-pay officer, to recover a sum of 1931., for services per formed by the plaintiff for the defendant in his professional capacity—also for medicine. Mr. Chambers, Mr. Peacock, and Mr. Sewell, were for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Crowder conducted the defendant's case. It appeared that the defendant was attacked on the 16th of September, 1842, with spontaneous gangrene of the toe, being this period about sixty-one years of age, and in pre vious good health. At first he felt a severe pain, and in four days Mr. Baker amputated the toe. Inflammation proceeded, and on the 6th of December Mr. Liston was called in, and ordered a soothing treatment, a stimulating one, con sisting of brandy and wine, having been used by Mr. Baker. The gangrene bad extended so far, that the defendant lost his leg. Mr. Baker sent in his bill of 193/., but the defendant said that he lost his leg in consequence of the injudicious treatment of Mr. Baker. However, he offered to allow the plaintiff 94/., which was refused. The principal interest resulted from the different opinions of the medical men who were examined. Mr. Liston, Mr. Partridge, Mr. Perry, and Mr. Bransby Cooper were examined on the part of the plaintiff, who indi cated—some of them more cautiously than others—that ' the application of stimuli was not improper treatment, and that the application of the knife was right where what was called " the line of demarcation" was properly marked. On the part of the defendant, Mr. Lawrence gave a decided opinion that a stimulating treatment was improper in this case; that it was always better to leave nature to throw off the diseased part, and that it was impossible for the line of justify the to be sufficiently mar ked in four da y s to the use of the knife. Mr. Aston Key and Mr. Skey gave pretty nearly similar evidence The foot of the unfortunate gentleman was in Court to assist the surgical gentlemen in their operations. His Loßnsiiir having summed up the evidence, The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 138/. 14s. ; also finding that there was no want of skill in the plaintiffi COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 14. .Sittings at Nisi Prius before the LORD CHIEF BARON and Special Juries. GREEN V. PRICE. This was an action of covenant to recover the sum of 5,000/ Mr. Martin and Mr. Lush appeared for the plaintiff ; Mr. Jervis and Mr. Cowling for the defendant. The deed which formed, the ground of the present action was entered into between the late Mr. John Gos nell (to whose estate Mr. Green the plaintiff is executor) and the defendant Mr. Price, who retired from the busi ness of a perfumer, and bound himself in the above sum not to set up again within the cities of London and West minster, or within 600 miles from the same. The de fendant having commenced business at 28, Lombard street, it was alleged he had broken the covenant, and he was now sued for the above amount. It was contended on behalf of the defendant that no specific loss to the plaintiff had been shown to have re sulted from his recommencing business, and also that he was not within the distance named. 'Shortly after the opening of the plaintiff's case, his Lordship stated it to be his opinion that this question was one of law. It was then agreed that Mr. Jervis should tender a bill of exceptions to his Lordship's ruling, and that, in the meantime, a verdict should be taken for the plaintiff. Verdict for the plaintiff accordingly—Damages, 5,000. SATURDAY, FEB. 15. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. CLAY. This was an information filed for the recovery of certain duties which were alleged not to have been aid by the defendants upon cert ain silk g oods im p orted from France. The following are the particulars of this case : The defendants, Thomas and Robert Clay, were engaged in the silk-trade, which they carried on in a very exten sive manner for upwards of three years previous to the filing of the information. It was subsequently as certained that the defendants had imported silks for which the proper duties had not been paid. It ap peared that before matters were discovered, the de fendant Robert had retired from business, and the other brother, upon the fraud being found out, de camped. The defendant Robert, upon the information being filed, pleaded that he was ignorant of anything being wrong, for, during the partnership, he had paid all the necessary duties. Upon the books being referred to this fact was ascertained to be correct, and the result was that the Crown declined to go for more than one penalty, instead of three times the amount, to which it was entitled. After a short address from the Solicitor-General for the Crown, and Mr. Kelly for the defendant, a verdict for 1,2001. was returned against the defendant. LANGFORD V. SOLLY. This was an action to recover 51. 18s., for an injury done by the carriage of the defendant to that of the plaintiff. There was no feature of interest in the case, and the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 5/. 18s. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) BOW-STREET. John Pentland, the young man who was charged at this court on the Bth inst. with stealing some books from the London University, but who on that occasion re fused to give either hia name or address, was brought up for further examination, when it appeared that the police, from subsequent inquiries, had ascertained not only the name, but the address of the prisoner, land on searching his lodgings, found that he was a medical student from Scotland, but not a member of the London University, but had by some means obtained access to the library there, and they also found there some books which bore the stamp of the St. George's Hospital, and some instruments which, no doubt, belonged to the Middlesex Hospital. The witnesses, however, in the two latter cases, not being n attendance, the prisone r was remanded until Wednesday, for further examin ation. CLERKENWELL. William Shearsby, the proprietor and driver of a Camden-town omnibus, appeared to a summons to answer the complaint of Philip Sallick, jun., the pro prietor and driver of a Paddington omnibus, for having wilfully and maliciously obstructed him, whereby he endangered the lives of passengers, and also for having made use of abusive language. Mr. Robinson attended for the prosecution, and a so licitor appeared for the defendant. It appeared that the defendant had been in the habit of obstructing complainant, and annoying him on the road. On: Wednesday afternoon, the sth inst., com plainant was driving along Pentonville-hill at a mode rate pace, his vehicle being full of ladies and gentlemen, when defendant whipped and gallopped his horses, and crossed him, to the imminent danger of the lives of complainant and the passengers. He continued this sort of conduct until they arrived in the City-road, when he began gallopping his horses and crossed the road. Com plainant remonstrated with him on the impropriety of such conduct, when defendant commenced a volley of abuse, calling him most foul names, to the great annoy ance of the passengers ; and he drove on before him, jeering him ; and complainant felt it to be his duty to take out a summons against him. Mr. GREENWOOD convicted him in the penalty of 20s. and costs, for the abominably filthy and abusive language he bad used ; and for the wilful obstruction he would commit him to the House of Correction (without fine` for ten days. MARYLEBOIVE. Two very gentlemanly-looking young . men, of remark. ably good address, and who refused to give their names, were charged with having obtained various sums of money from the nobility and gentry at the west-end. Lord Henry Cholmondeley, upon whom an unsuccessful attempt had been made to obtain money, occupied a seat on the bench. Oswald Moseley, E sq ., an d M rs .B oc hi n , gave evidence of begging-letters having been sent to them, together with a long list of subscribers, most of whose names turned out to be forgeries. The prisoners, it was dis covered, resided at 56, King-street, Soho, where they lodged together und er the respective n e; of Montague and Ryson. It appeared that Montague was known to the Mendicity Society as connected with similar prac tices, for which he had bee n conv i cted in 1841. At the prisoners' lodgings a box was found containing a " Court Guide," and a vast number of envelopes and letters ad dressed to parsons in the higher rank . of society, an d also a book, in which was pasted genuine signatures of dukes, earls, clergymen, and other. THE TURN-OUT AT HEY WOOD _ On Saturday morning, as in Heywood would be the case, the hands at ten factories Heywood did not go to their work, in consequence of the expiration of the notice which the masters had given a fortnight previous, owing to the support afforded to the hands lately working for Messrs. Hilton, Kay, and Son, who turned out eight weeks ago for an advance of 10. per cut. The following are the names of the millowners whose mills stopped on Saturday :—Mr. Robert Kershaw ; Messrs. Harrison and Co. (two mills) ; Mr. James Clegg, Fold Mill ; Mr. Moses Cheetham ; Messrs. Clegg and Hall, Bowling Green Mill ; Mr. 'William Hartley, Rochdale-road ; Mr. John Clegg, Vale Mill; Mr. John Hargreaves, and Mr. John Wild. The hands in the employ of Messrs. Chadwick and Diggle, and also of Messrs. Hacking, were also out on Saturday, in consequence of the ma chinery having broken down. About ten o'clock, on Saturday morning, several hundred persons met near the Britannia public-house, Wrigley Brook ; and, accompanied by a band of music. proceeded through the principal streets, after which they held a public meeting on a space of ground called Angel Meadows, near St. James's Church. About 1,000 persons were here assembled. A cart was provided for the speakers ; and Patrick Wall, a shoemaker, having been appointed chairman, advised his hearers to be firm and peaceable; he then intro duced a shoemaker, named Brown, who complained of the newspapers calling a person from Ashton, who had been amongst them at Heywood, " the noto rious Pilling." His text was " fire farthings, and no surrender." The manufacturers were getting 3d. per cut more for their goods than they got in 1841-2, and the raw material was lower. It was his opinion, the masters' intention was to reduce the operatives to the lowest pitch of poverty, whilst they themselves were rolling in their bottles of wine, riding in their coaches, and heaping up fortunes for them selves and families. It was not in the spirit of Eng lishmen to work for Bs. or 9s. per week ; they had therefore to look out for a wife who was a good weaver, and the men had to stop at home and cook for their wives and children. The speaker complained of the combination of the manufacturers, and said the placard they had put out was not a fair average state .ment of of the earnings. The abatements made from the wages of power-loom weavers were unjust. He had never been in a factory but once in the whole course of his life, at Oldham, and then the shuttles and machinery had such an effect on him that he was tormented with the rattle of the shuttles for several weeks after. For his part, he would not work in a factory for a guinea a week. The trade he followed was shoemaking, where there were never any abate ments. The chairman then introduced a power-loom weaver named John Matthew, who said they had met together that morning because the millowners had prevented their going to work. The question now was between capital and labour. He hoped every one would be peaceable. Formerly men had been imprisoned for what they had said at public meetings, and for combining together in an unlawful manner. He would not be entrapped. There was no combination amongst the operatives. The weavers of Messrs. John Hilton, Kay and Son had turned out for an advance of five farthings per cut, because their masters had demanded that they should put four more picks to the inch than they had done previously. The weavers had put 72 picks of 39's weft to the inch for l lid.'per cut ; the masters had lately made the weft 36's, and wanted four picks more to the inch for the same price ; but the weavers, knowing there was more work in the latter, demanded an advance of five farthings per cut. When the manu facturers reduced the number of picks to the inch, they always reduced the wages in proportion. On the 17th January last, the millowners held a general meeting at the Queen Anne Inn, Heywood, at which they determined to send deputations to Ashton under-Lyne, to see what prices were paid there ; but they had never made the result of their in quiries known. Some of them had said that, at Ash. ton, there was a bounty of Is. paid extra to those weavers who could bring out nine cuts in a certain given time. The speaker concluded by saying he would advocate for the rights of labour according to the tenets of Scripture ; he would meet any manufac turer on fair grounds, in public or in private, and discuss the merits or demerits of Messrs. Hilton Kay's weavers' demand.—The Chairman then came forward and said, he understood it was rumoured in the neighbouring towns, that they were going to burn effigies ; but the Committee of the turn outs denounced such proceedings, and he hoped no one would attempt to do anything of the kind. He would advise them to insult no person on any account, for a Committee would be got up in Heywood, by whom the conduct of the manufacturers' combination would be investigated, and the result laid before the Members of the House of Commons, as early as possible. The procession was then formed, head©d by the band of music ; it consisted of about three hundred females, and from five hundred to six hundred men, mostly young, who proceeded through the principal streets four abreast. Apprehensions had been entertained in some quarters of riotous proceedings on the part ofthe turn-outs; indeed, it was said they in tendedaban- doned, to march to Rochdale, and stop the mills there. at oti We are inclined to believe that these rumours ha de time i I. if any, intention, fo which n at n iin fact.a afterwards There was cloned, of burning some of the o b nox i ous masters in effigy. During the whole of the day, everything was perfectly peaceable, though numbers of opera tives were strolling about the streets. Captain Wood ford, chief constable, Captain Shepherd, assistant chief, and the superintendents fr o m B o lt on, Bury, and Rochdale, together with a number o f ' policemen from Bury, were in Heywood. The hands at one mill were at work on Monday ; and, we believe, continue so, in consequence of the notice there required not having yet expired. The operatives paraded the streets during the day. At half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, a meeting of the turn-out weavers lately in the employ of Messrs. John Hilton, Kay, and Son, was h e ld a t t h e B r it ann i a public-house, Wrigley Brook, when it was resolved to continue the strike until they got the advance of five farthings per cut. It was also a gree d upon , th a t a statement of the proceedings at H eywoo d s h ou ld b e drawn up as early as possible, and for war d e d t o M es sr s . , D un combe and errand, Memb ers o f P ar li amen t. ®t half-past five o'clock in the evening, a meeting of the operative hand - mu le spinners, and self-acting winders, was held in the large room at the Duke of Wellington public-house, for the purpose of devising means for the support of the . operati ves i n th ose t ra d es during the strike, when it was agreed to send dele gates to Manchester, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton, Oldham, Ashton, Hyde, and other places, to solicit subscrip tions from those who are employed in the same branch of business. It was stated that the weavers at Messrs. Hacking's mill, which had been stopped three weeks in consequeuce of an accident to the ma chinery, had commenced work that morn i ng , b u t h a d received a fortnight's notice. The proceedings passed off in a peaceable manner. The mill-owners have had several meetings ; they maint a i n th a t they give fully as high wages for the same kind of work, as can be got at other towns in the ne ighbourhood of Manchester, an d they say that Messrs. Hilton, Kay, and Son, have offered their hands an advance of three farthi ngs per cut, which they are of opinion will make their wages quite equal to those paid by other firms. The masters whose hands are out had a meeting at the Queen Anne, on Monday evening, but what passed has not transpired. Many of the turn-outs assembled in the street, opposite the inn, while the masters were deliberating, but all was peaceable and quiet. Yesterday morning delegates were sent to various towns to solicit subscriptions for the hand-mule spinners and self-acting winders who are out. The simple facts of the case relative to the general strike appear simply to have originated under the following circumstances :—There are hands at ten firms and twelve mills, including those of Messrs. John Hilton, Kay and Son, who are now on the strike. The weavers at Mr. Kay's mill turned out for an advance of five farthings per cut, on account of having four picks more to the inch of three hanks coarser weft than previous. The masters have offered an advance of three farthings per cut. The manufacturers whose notices expired on Friday have offered to allow their hands to resume work, on condition that they will sign a paper, by which they engage not to make collections in the mills for the support of the turn-out weavers at other places ; but the hands ha ve as yet declined to accede to this condition. When our report left Heywood, late yesterday afternoon, all was peaceable and quiet, and there appeared every probability ofits continuing so.—Manchester Guardian. QUICK TRAVELLING.—We have been favoured with the following extract from a letter dated Boston, December 31, 1844 :—" I left Quebec on Friday morn ing, the 27th of December, by way of the Gosfore-road, Canaan, Lancaster, and Plymouth, to Boston, 346 miles, where I arrived on Monday, the 30th of December, with a day and a half to spare before taking passage by the January steamer. I would recommend this route as decidedly the best, cheapest, and most expeditious for passengers from Quebec hence. It is 100 miles shorter than the route by Three Rivers. Mr. Bailie, who runs a line of stages from Canaan, will undertake to convey passengers from Q ue b ec t o Portland in 36 hours, and from thence to Boston in four hours. I c o uld have come in much shorter time; and when a line of stages is established on this route, the expense from Quebec to Boston would not exceed 31. 10s. to 31. 15s."—Quebec Gazate. John Davies, Esq., hat manufacturer, of Chester field, who died a few days ago, has bequeathed 4,5001. for the support of religious objects of strictly evangelical character and eminently useful tendency ; -2,0001. to the Derbyshire Congregation Union, for aid i ng in p reachin g the Gospel in destitute villages, supporting p oor ministers, and erecting Union of the co un ty o f S a l o p, for the same purposes ; chapels ;-2,0001. to the C on g re g ational and 5001. for the poor members of the Church in Os westry, under the pastorage of the Rev. John Davies.— Shrewbury Chronick. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGI NEERS, Feb. 11. The President, Sir John Rennie, in the Chair. The first paper read was a description by Mr. Thomas Hughes, Assoc. Inst. C.E., of the method em ployed for draining some banks of cuttings on the Lon don and Croydon, and London and Birmingham Rail ways, also a part of the retaining wall of the Euston inclined plane. The method adopted wa s the introduc tion of Watson's drain pipes, which were made of the ironstone clay of Stafford-hire; their surface is pierced cloggeda n denl enlarging i w n i w t h a r n d u l y m , e w r o h u i : h a f p o e r r m t u preventsr e s ,sm all their exte r b n e al i n l g y earth, and allows whatever enters to pass freely into the pipe. In their application on the London and Croydon Railway a longitudinal trench, four feet deep, was dug on the crown of the bank at a few feet from the edge, and other trenches, about thirty feet apart, descended from it to the open drain by the side of the permanent way. On the London and Birmingham Railway the descending trenches were eighty feet apart, and varied from three feet to six feet in depth: the pipes were introduced into these trenches, and the clay which had been dug out was then laid over the pipes ; from the longitudinal line of pipes, upright pipes were occa sionally introduced for the purpose of ventilation. The panels of the retaining wall were drained by boring holes through the brickwork at given distances, with a power ful auger worked by a machine, and then inserting cast iron pipes of the same form as those of clay. This pro cess proved so effectual that the wall which before showed evidence of water being lodged behind nearly the whole length, was now evidently drying fast, and the water oozed out from the pipes at all times, even during the severe drought of 1844. The paper induced an animated discussion upon re taining walls, in which Mr. R. Stephenson gave an in teresting account of his views at the time when lie de signed the walls of the Euston incline, the changes which subsequent experience had worked in his opinion, and the reasons which had induced him to adopt the process of staying the walls with cast-iron beams stretch ing from one side to the other. The next paper read was a description of the Ouse bridge on the Hull and Selby Railway, by W. B. Bray, Grad. Inst. C.E. The Act for this railway was obtained in 1836, and it forms with the Leeds and Selby, which was opened two years previously, a direct communica tion between Leeds and Hull. They were both sur veyed and executed from the designs of Messrs. Walker and Burges. The river Ouse, at Selby ' is 196 feet wide and 14 feet deep at low water. The tide rises four feet at neap tides, and nine feet at spring tides. The bed of the river consists of silt, resting on a bed of quicksand, beneath which is a hard clay.- The foundation of the abutments were formed of piles driven 1 1 into the clay, and on these longitudinal sleepers and transverse sills were tenoned, the intermediate spa ces being filled with broken stone, grouted with thin mortar ; on this platform brick abutments with stone quoins, string courses, and copings were built : they were subsequently tied, by wrought iron rods, to heavy stone piers. There were six piers placed in pairs, which were founded on piles driven into the clay, and tenon( d to received the cap sills, on which cast-iron frames were strongly bolted, the ends being furnished with cut waters of cast-iron plates. The superstructure consists of six ribs of cast iron one-and-a-half inch thick, resting on transverse girders, one being placed under each line of rails, and one under each handrail, the rails themselves being laid on longitudinal sleepers, twelve inches wide and six inches deep. In the Act there was a clause re quiring that this bridge should have an opening arch, for the passage of steamers and vessels with fixed masts: this consists of two similar leaves, each keyed on to a cast-iron shaft nine inches square, with turned ournals of plummer blocks and brasses. The total weight of iron-work is 590 tons, and the erection of the bridge was let to Mr. Briggs, of Ferry. on-Trent, and the But terle Iron Company. The communication was .accom panied by a register of the tides at Selby during the year 1842, and was illustrated by a well-executed model presented to the institution by Mr. James Walker. Mr. J. B. Redman exhibited a portion of a fender pile which had been driven in the works of the New Terrace pier at Gravesend in 1843, and in which the terendonavalis or pipe-worm, had made great inroads. It appeared, however, that the ravages of this insect were confined to a space of about three feet above the level of low water spring tides, and that therefore if wood work was well defended by copper sheathing or scupper nails, at and The in meeting an situation. was below that point, no grea t inj ur y wou ld b e received by piles d to Tuesday evening, the 18th inst., when the following paper will be read : No. 760. " Description of tho Great Britain steam-ship, with an account of the trial voyages," by T. R. Guppy, Assoc. Inst. C.E. ASHEURTON.—A few days since, while a workman was engaged in cleaving a pollard-tree, at Grange Farm, he found, concentrated in the trunk, a cannon-ball, weighing 4 lbs.. On the above farm are the remains of some ancient buildings, which formerly belonged to the old Cistercian Abbey of Buckfastleigh, which was founded in the year 1137, by Etherwerld, the son of William Pomerai, in honour of the Virgin Mary. From the appearance of the tree, which has undoubtedly- stood for centuries, the ball was shot into it during a bombardment of the abbey, during the monastic wars. EXETER HALL.—The Sacred Harmonic Society repeated Handers Judas dfaccabetts on Friday, under precisely si milar circumstances as before: Madame Caradori Allan, Mr. Leffler, and Mr. Manvars being the principal vocalists. Mies Poulter made her second appearance, and was heard to much more advantage than upon her debut, her nervous alarm having in a great measure passed away. This young lady is likely to be a useful appendage to the Harmonic orchestra ; for her vocal indications are pr 911213114. aer v oice a soprano a MarelltlY =WWI C9WPOI. A PRISONER SUFFOCATED BY SETTING FIRE TO HIS CELL WITH INTENT TO ESCAPE. (From the Bates Herald, Feb. 15.) An awful occurrence took place at Chandos House, in this city, on Thursday morning, a prisoner confined in one of the cells having perished by the work of his own hands, in attempting to make his escape. His name was James Thomas, a man about thirty-six years of age, and who for some time past has been living at Pipe House, near Freshford ; he was brought before the magistrates at Chandos House on Tuesday last, under circumstances which we shall detail below, and had been remanded until Friday (yesterday) for the production of further evidence against him. It would appear that on the night of Tuesday there were several other prisoners in the cell with him, but on the following morning they were removed to Shepton gaol ; on the way, however, they informed the constable, Bindon, that the prisoner Thomas had tried to persuade them to attempt an escape, that they would not agree, but that he (the constable) had better take care what he was about with Thomas when he got back, for he was a desperate fellow, and had expressed his determination to break out of the cell. In consequence of this information, Bindon, on his re turn from Shepton, leg-ironed the prisoner Thomas, with the view to his greater security, and on the night of Wednesday he was locked in his cell with the irons upon him about seven o'clock. The room in which he was confined at night, was an inner room, the door opening into another chamber in which the prisoners are allowed to be during the day time. Nothing was heard of Thomas during the night, but upon the constable going to open the doors, about halt-past seven o'clock on Thursday morning; he discovered to his great terror, that the outer room was filled with dense and suffocat ing smoke; after two or three attempts, he succeeded in reaching and opening the window, and then he found that the door of the prisoner's cell was on fire. He opened it with all despatch and then found the prisoner dead upon the floor, a dreadful spectacle, his head rest ing close to the burning door, his hair and scalp burnt off, his face blackened and disfigured, and the floor beneath him still smouldering. Bindon had procured the assist ance of police-constable Francis, and having succeeded in extinguishing the fire, they began to investigate into its origin, when it soon became apparent that the un happy prisoner had himself kindled the flame. His mattress had been ripped open, a portion of the straw pulled out, and evidently placed under the door to set it on fire, for fragments of burnt straw were found still lying upon the floor. 'The door itself, which is secured during the night by a strong iron-bar, was partially consumed, about two feet of it being charred away; but nothing in the interior of the cell had the fire reached; even the clothes of the unhappy man himself, who was lying, as we before stated, with his head close to the burning door and his feet towards the back of his cell, had net taken fire; the mattress on which he slept was still uninjured, and his hat, containing the bread which had been given him for his supper the night before, was found under the bed. Information of the dreadful occurrence was immedi ately transmitted to the Coroner, and THE INQUEST Was held on the same day, at Chandos House, before A. 11. English, Esq., and a respectable jury, of which Mr. Wisden was foreman. After having viewed the body, the following evidence was adduced : James Bindon—l am a constable at Chandos House, and the deceased was a prisoner in my custody. He slept in the apartment in which he now lies ; he was committed for felony on Tuesday last. At ten minutes after seven o'clock last evening, I saw him for the last time alive ; he was in bed ; and I locked the door and left him. In the afternoon of yesterday, he broke the windows of the room in which he was confined. Last night was the first on which he had slept alone, there having been other prisoners in the room with him up to that time. This morning, at half-past seven, I went to let him out ; when I opened the door of the outer room, I found it full of smoke ; a policeman went in with me ; and after getting open the window of the outer room, I found the door of the cell in which de ceased was confined was on fire, as well as the floor. The deceased was lying on the floor, and there was some burnt straw lying about the room, which had been pulled from the mattress on which the deceased had been sleeping. He was quite dead. On the previous night I had taken the fire out of the grate of the outer room ; the deceased was searched on Monday night in my pre sence ; and when I was going to lock him up, I missed a little poker, and on asking him for it, he said he had it, and I found it in his bed, and took it from him. In consequence of having been told by other prisoners that deceased was determined to make his escape, I put the irons on his legs. There was no fire-place or fire in the cell in which he slept. Mary Bindon, wife of the last witness, was next exa mined :—Yesterday morning I took the wood and coal, in the absence of my husband, to light the fire in the room where the prisoner and another were ; I left the wood, coal, and some straw, together with a lucifer match ; I left only one match, and that I gave to a man who was discharged yesterday. Some time after, one of my children came to me and said the fire would not burn, and I took another match and some more straw, and gave that match also to the other prisoner. The child said the men had asked for another match, as their fire would not burn. Yesterday afternoon the deceased broke the window; he broke two panes. I told Mr. Lovenbury, and he had the deceased locked up in the inside room. The Coroner then proceeded to address the jury. Though the evidence would go to show that the de ceased's death was the act of his own hand, they were not justified in saying that he did it feloniously, with the view of committing suicide, as the presumption was that he had set fire to the room with the view of effecting his escape. As to the cause of death, there was the doubt, as to whether it was caused by burning or by suffocation, or both ; and if they were in any doubt, and wished for medical evidence upon this point, a medical man was in the room, by whom it could be readily cleared up. The jury decided upon taking the evidence of the me dical man, and W. A. Cox, Esq., surgeon, was then examined :—I was sent for between eight and nine o'clock this morning, to Chandos House ; I found the deceased lying with his head against the door of his cell. The scalp was off and his hands and hair were also burnt ; he was still warm, and my opinion is that burns to so small an extent would not have been suffi cient to cause death, but that it resulted from suffoca tion; I should think that the scalp was taken off partly by his violently beating his head against the door, and not altogether from burning; I should think he found himself suffocating and endeavoured to get his head under the door to procure air. The jury consulted for a few minutes and returned a verdict that the deceased died from suffocation, through setting the door of his cell OA fire with the intention of making his escape. THE WHOLE DUTY OF WOMAN. Sincerely, Imy dear, I am going to offer you a few words of advice as to the conduct and behaviour most calculated to insure your happiness; and I am sure you will take it kindly of me, considering the experience I have had, and your early time of life. What an ad vantage it is to be told things, instead of having to find them out! I wish I had had somebody to advise me when I was at your age. Of course, my dear, between ourselves, almost every young woman is either married or intends to be. It is what we have to look to, poor things! Now, in order to get married, my love, you must learn to manage yourself; and, after 3ou have got married, to manage your husband, and both together is what I call the whole duty of woman. As long as you are single and looking out, your first study must be to control your inclinations. All of us, ou know, have our little failings ; the great thing is to conceal them. For instance, dear, suppose yo u . have a hearty appetite, you should restrain this a little in company ; it is a thing that many gentlemen (particularly the most susceptible) object to ; and you can indemnify yourself by a nice supper in your own room. You will thus, dear, please the kind of men who make the best hus bands—those most easily managed. Always keep down youetemper, my dear; never speak sharply, or look cross, whatever you may feel ; and be cautious, my love, how you talk scandal, or say spiteful things of friends behind their backs; many good catches are lost by little weaknesses peeping out. If, my dear, you have any per sonal blemish, or peculiarity, which you think would prevent a certain person from liking you, hide it from him if you can, and let him find it out after you are married. If anybody is attached to you, never contra dict him, dear, but fall in with all his little wishes and whims, however unreasonable. In short, devote your self to him entirely; your turn will come. When you are married, my dear, you should pursue another course altogether. The object of all husbands is, in to put upon their wives as much as they can, by mak i ng per fect slaves of them, and stinting them their pleasures and enjoyments, so as to have the more to lay out on themselves. You will most likely find your husband very near. He will be trying to calculate how much you re quire for housekeeping, and will want to allow you so much and no more. At the end of the week or month he will ask to look over your account-book, to see how the money has gone. Now, my dear, you will find that there are numerous trifling extras that you will want, which you would wish him to know nothing about ; little suppers when he is absent ; presents to friends, and a thousand other odds and ends. You will make these up by putting id. or ld. a- pound upon the tea or sugar, or by charging so much for imaginary soap or pearl ash. And then, love, if you find him questio n i ng th e p r i ce of this thing, or inquiring about the quantity of that, you must seem hurt and angry, as if he doubted or mis trusted you ; and i f he persists in being inquisitive, you should get into a little pet with him, slam the door, and run upstairs crying. And observe, when there is a tiff between you, never come to till he has made amends by promising you something that you want—a bracelet, for instance, or a new bonnet, or dress. Y our h us b an d w ill so metimes w ish you to wear a particular sort of cap, or other article or ornament ; if he does, let it be a bargain between you for some concession or indulgence. He may not behave himself at all times as you could wish ; in that case, dear, there are plenty of ways to bring a man to reason. His buttons may be not sewn on ; his dinner kept waiting ; pickle s or p otatoes not provided ; and there may be nothing for him but a cold shoulder, when he expects a hot joi n t. Th ere are two things, i n conclusion, love, that I would strongly im press upon you. One is —never let y our h us b an d h ave a latch-key . , or he will take advanta ge o f it t o s t a y out . The other is this—tell nobody your age ; for, recollect, my dear, . that human life, is uncertain. You may be come a widow ; and, in that case, find the disclosure a disadvantage.— -Punch. POISONING AT CAMBERWELL.—The inquest on the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Montague was commenced on Friday. The evidence of Thomas Froud, the servant boy, was received, which went merely to describe the circumstances, already stated, under which the deceased persons drank the tea which poisoned them. He was not aware that there was arsenic in the house till it was found. The inquest was adjourned tai wed ue ed a y nut, to um tale mums QS the gawky laned. - - -au JOINT-STOCK RANKS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. £ e. d. o. d. Australasia ••••• • • • • • 8/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 44 Britsh North American 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45 Commercial of London 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21 Colonial .• • 5l. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 Londe and Westminotr 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 271( London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland • • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 44% Ditto, New fil. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 National of Ireland .• 51. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 16% Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 () 37% Ditto, New..• ••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 Union of Australia 25 0 0 25 0 0 2 7 1 / 4 Union of London.- MIA? cent,'o .50 0 0 10 0 0 12% 51:10 .1 • Cm __„ . l ': ' ‘ INSITI4DrusO iourivirANZES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. --• £ a. d. £ a. d. Albion ••••.•• • • • • • • • 31. 10s. 500 0 0 50 0 0 74 Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19% Ditto ..• • • • 61. .• 61. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 6% Atlas 13s. 6d. pr eh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16% British Commercial .. 7s, per share 50 0 0 50 0 7 Clericl,Med. & Gen• Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6% County • .... ...... ... 3/. 100 0 0 10 0 0 Crown .. ••• • • • ...... 1 9s ' and 1 40 0 0 5 0 0 10 61.55. bs. Eagle . • Economic Life t& 30s.bs. Eng. & Scot. Law Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2% European Life •••• • • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' . ..... •• • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe - 142 Guardian • Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 12/. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 195 Imperial Life.• •••• • . • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16 Indemnity Marine •• . • 11. eh. & be. 100 0 0 513 1 30 Law Life 3l. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 0 45% Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 5% London Fire •.••• • • • . 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16 London Ship •.. Marine .•••••• • • • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 Med. Invlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 National Loan Fund 5l. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% National Life ••••• • . • • SI. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 9% Palladium Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2 Phcenix Si. p. et. & be. - - Protector Life •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 Provident Life-- • • Rock Life .• .. .. .. .. Royal Exchange 5l. per cent.. Stock. - 192% Sun Fire ......... - - Ditto Life . 11. 6s. - - Universal Life ROCKS. Dividend Amount Name or Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. .£ s. d. :.£ s. d. Commercial •31. per cent. Stock. East and West India 5341. pr cent. Stock. 142 East Country ..... • • ll. per sh. 1 100 0 0 21 London .... • ....• • • 414/. pr cent. Stock. 117% St. Katharine •••• • . • - 5 per cent. Stock. 118 Southampton • • ‘VATMZ-VIORXS. Dividend Name of Company. per Annum. Amount , of Paid. Share. East L0nd0n.......... Grand Junction .. • • i Kent• • • • • • • • at. 108. Vauxhall . West - Middlesex ••• • • • 41.165. pr et. X s, d. 100 0 0 46 13 4 , 100 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 LIST or SCOTTISU COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. X s. d. X s. d. Bank of Scotland Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 168% British Linen Company 81' per cent. 100 0 0 226 Commercial Bank 61. per cent. 100 0 0 167% National Bank. ..... 61. per cent. 10 0 0 15% Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 97 Western Bank ••... • • . 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 7G North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. 5 0 0 7 Clydesdale Bank.... • • 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 14% Eastern Bank • ••••• • • 3/. per cent. 15 0 0 11% Caledonian Bank EdinbA Glasgow Bank 5/. per cent. 5 0 0 7% City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. 815 0 13% Scottish Union Ins. Co. 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1% Hercules Insurance Co. 7/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% Insur. Co. of Scotlnd• • 5/. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10 North British Insur. • • Si. per cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 24% Caledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 18% Edin. & Glasg. Railway 4% 1. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65 % Ditto, % Shares •• • • 4%1. percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 16% Edln., Leith, & Grantn 20 0 0 20 0 0 15 Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 4%1. percent. 50 0 0 All paid. 66 Olasgsv & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 12% Glsgw & Garnkirk Mill. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 28 Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 32 CANALS. Names of g Dividend Names of 0 Dividend ,-, Companies. .4 . per Price. Companies. 4 r 5 Annpeum. Price. crs Annum. ~L X . , X Ashtn&ol4ll 97;51.55. p . c' 72 Monmouthsh 10 ,, 81. 168 Ashby-d-la-Z 113' 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 81. 98 Barnsley.... 160 12/. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - 15 Basingstoke.. 100 - 5 Neath lOO 20/. 365 Brknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Nottingham l5O 121. 260 Cromford.... 100 181. 164 Peak Forest Dudley lOO 4/. 80 Regent's •• • • 33 1/. 24Y, Derby • • Ellsmre&Chs 133 41. 62 Shropshire • . 125 8/. 120 Erewash •.• 100, 32/. 440 Somrset Coal 150 71.105. 123 Forth & Clyd 100 41. 105 Do. Lk Fri St 12 61. p. c. 11 GrandJunctnlloo 71. 157 44tfilid &Wore 140 251. 480 Grand Union 100 11. 10s. .2i Shrewsbury.. 12 Is!. 230 Glamorgnsh . 172 13%1. 210 Stourbridge .. 145 20/. 360 Glstr &Brkly 00 , - 8 Strtfrd on Av 79 1/. 105. 30 Grantham 115. 30 Huddersfield. 57, I - 20 Wye Ran. 26 11. Kennt & Avn 39 Is. 6d. 10 Trnt & Mr-1 so 30/. 465 Lancaster Leeds& Livrp 100, 34/. 623 Thams &Med 19 - 10 Leicester Leicstr&Nth 83' 4/. 7O Birming•J Loughborogh 1421 701. 11050 Wilts is Brlus 67 11. 48. 401........ Prim 230 90 63 60 126 BITAXNGSGATE. a t* The supplies of Fish continue extremely large , a ll which the quotations have declined to some extent. WECITECHALPAIL Wer e %' We had rather an inactive demand, yet prices 53 ' ported. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2 s Sd Tio., Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 6d ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 45 4 d per 8 fr°ll% AD. The prices of Wheaten ßßE Bread ii n the Metropolis 31.6 7d to 7id ; of Household ditto, 5d to 6id per 41bs lea f ' HIDE DIAMICET. ge iler* Raw Hides, at per stone of 141bs :—Best Steers sa d i n feri t ' t 5s 6d to 5s 10d ; Middling Hides, 5s to 5s 4cl Apr; ditto, 4s 6d to 4s od. Sheep and Calf Skins , at P er 3s f k i r Market Calt; 6s 6d to 8s; Long-woolled SheeP! ~ OP' . ss; Short ditto, 3s to 48 ; Latilb Skins, Is 6 d t o ls 9", lings, 6d to Bd. EMT tiVi.lit.A.AZTis. A,' 15 3 ' SwumEr.n.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/103 to t 5/ .;; ful ditto, 41 16s to 5135; fine Upla nd ditto, 5/ 11 Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 11 163 " s tesw Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21 per load. Trade tolerabli at our quotations. CUMBERLA-ND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 12s , K rto useful ditto, 4116 s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto. 5' " 0 l llB 6‘l Clover Hay, 4/ 108 to 51 16s; Oat Straw, 1/ 163 tso Wheat Straw, 1/ 183 to 21 per load. SuPPIY 11°derli „ 03; trade steady. to r g4 WILITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5/ 48; fine Upland ditto,t PP; Si lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, ...., 11165 ,:d Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21 per load. Both JOY a nd off slowly, at previous rates. PROMISSORY NOTES 004 (From Friday Night's Gazette.) o f PO be es An account of the Average Aggregate Amount b ete /re . gory Notes payable to bearer on demand, whict o k of ; oa r in circulation by the Banks in Scotland, by tio : m„, tile , go land, and by all other Banks in Ireland , donlousny weeks ending the Ist day of February, 164 5 y P the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 :--- 05 5 SCOTLAND. 1...3 07 0 r Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks ' 05° IRELAND. 3 9 83 '066 Bank of Ireland ................................. '.15, 3, 1 Private and Joint-stock Banks ............ ........,....--5 Xlo, l6B ' l o' Total .. ~10.6 H. L. " Stamps and Taxes, Feb. 14, 1845. BANK OF EN (LA ND ' An Account,( p F u r r o s m uan F t ri t d o ay th N e iAghett's7tGhaaznedite.stl of e gtb detosiriag' cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, °I February, 1845. ISSUE DEPARTMEN T. 0 0 t Notes issued ...... 2R -'447,835 G°Go°tllll:d-ueenrcrl3oB..ein:nc.u.eau.nr.i.ttdid.esbew:l..:22l:'°sB4sl2ss:'°l9°:ol Silver bu11i0n...." 08 ,447• 836 h ; ,lARSHALL,C--e Lary, 18 £28,447,835 M. Dated the 13th day of Febr MING D. Proprietor? capita 114,553,000 Rest Public deposits (in eluding Exche quer, Savings banks, Commis '% goners of Nation al % Debt, and divi dend accounts) 3,715,171 Other deposits...... 9,732,193 Seven day and other bills 3% ------ T :PARTNEN • erovernmen t see rities (including Dead Weight 13'475,966:16 „ Other securities... 1;1,28,3,5u Notes .......... ... ,a Gold and ''silver 7 00,7* . ' .... c0in........ 1.32,371A14 RSIIALL, Chief Collier. 'ar.Y, 1845. £32,371,21 6 I,i 1 M. MA 1. Dated the 13th day of Fein% bO O X ._____fr._---- ---- BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET, biasFEEIRViatT-rititig Pic!. 70 0 hogsheads West India and 600 mats s to 1 5 , i • 4 . been disposed of since our last report, per cwt. on the former currency ; no sales .-s - Ontione i gals, for want of supply Rum and molasses c dull.—Bristol 211 ercury. at from i n P:ery O un n t t h h e c 1.1 . 3 7 . " ' 10 , of A Mr. 1 .6 0 : n ri I :.ithe6.fi.l eO l i t: dh i h solicitor, n t. inst., , a t firs. v h altGreenwood,son.ch I , s b j.r C o p h set: i t e r r e 7 1 of daughter. - • the WI/ I=:i I VOZZ : daughter. Marston, Esq f A t , Dark, 31r3. , 0 a son. Is HenryOn the 11th inst., at Cambridge -terrace, !IPA'. H Howlett, of a son. iquile Fri' °f A -I Tb°°3° the lad Y.. MARIUS!). On the 4th inst., at St. Marv's, Paddingtowlia'y, Orel; Henry, fifth son of Robert Sutton; Esq., of 11°,95the late rkhamstead, Herts, to Caroline, daughter or William Dick, Bart., Pulteney-street, Bath. —____ _ f til e Out he Sill hist a' I.lri V s h J. A. Gil Main, Da " . aged "5 ' & no t Piri° ' On the 9th ins.ti'atSoiniers. et place, 61,15b wife of the Rev. P " . Mac Merland. yir• I 0 06 On the 11th ' hter of inst., Ellen, the infant daug Sheffield f Hackney , 0 ......._ ______......--- ....-", ~., 0 1 --' , yril 1"n0 . ,/ , ~., ~. '41113P1.1. lio, d , -,..,....—., •l a li bb: 77. sun. of)::40,001 . ghtoll Catherine, rel,ct o la': Stra d nd, in the PreCi-Bei Of the Savoy, in w e - ' 4441" it ligudsh Febsvavir 174 ISA