The Sun. — London, England, 1839-02-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We observe that Mr. O'Cennell, at a meeting of his con stituents on Wednesday last, announced the course he should pursue on several questions. He should vote for the repeal of the Corn-laws. With respect to the Canadas, he disapproved of the violent means to which the insurgents had had recourse, but he was opposed to all measures of severity against them. In the case of Holland and Belgium be should oppose the Mi nistry, and vote that the people of Luxembourg and Limburg should be under whatever Government they pleased. Fortu nately for the peace of Europe, Mr. O'Connell will not find any to join with him in abetting an attempt which would lead necessarily to a general war. With respect to the Ministry, he humorously observed that " he will support them on the same principle that Pat put his hat into the broken window— not because it let the light in, but because it kept the wind out." If the Government did not remove Lord Oxmantown, he would make a motion on the subject. With respect to the Chartists, he so far agreed with them that he was in favour of Universal Suffrage ; he was not, however, for Annual Par liaments. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman announced on the preceding day (the 29th), that this session would be passed by him as much in Dublin as in London.—Morning Chronicle. Of the discreditable supporters of the Whig Government, the most discreditable, beyond question, is Mr. Daniel O'Con .nell. We notice this infinitely contemptible person, on the present occasion, in his character as a " Repealer"—of the Corn-laws. At a meeting of his supporters, a few days ago, Mr. Daniel O'Connell adverted to the question of the Corn. laws in the following strain :—" An idea had gone abroad, that the agriculturists would be injured. No matter who was injured—the people had a right to cheap bread ; and he would vote for the abolition of the Corn-laws.—(Cheers.) The repeal would give two slices of bread to the poor woman for her children, where now she could get but one.—( Loud cheers.) He bad determined to resign, if his constituents were opposed to him on this point, but he was glad to hear that cheer. Then hurrah for a Repeal of the Corn-laws." Mr. O'Connell happens to be emir oltly unskilled in all those branches of knowledge that appertain to the business ofstatesmanship. His talents, besides, are of the most vulgar description. Cunning and treachery, an inherent and incurable falseness of disposition, impudence, and cowardice in almost equal proportions :—these qualities in combination with a large stock of animal energy constitute the ground-work of Mr . Daniel O'Connell's claims to distinction. A baser, or more contemptible assortment of characteristics never before met in any individual, possessing -to the disgrace of the age which produced him—the slightest influence over the movements of his contemporaries. On the miserable twaddle, therefore, of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, as to a repeal of the Corn.laws " giving two slices of bread to the poor woman for her children, where now she can get but one," we shall not waste a sentence. When, however, this honest gentleman observes, that the Corn-laws ought to be repealed, " no matter who may be injured," we are reminded, that if any one cause, above, perhaps, all others, could render Ireland a more miserable country than she is, at this moment, that one cause might be found to be a repeal of the English Corn-laws. A repeal of the Corn. laws would, in one moment, narrow the Irish labour market to the extent (it may be) of one-half, inasmuch as the produc tion of corn for English consumption furnishes employment to a very large proportion of the Irish peasantry wbo are lucky enough to find employment at all. It is scarcely, therefore, within the power of arithmetic to express the extent to which a repeal of the Corn-laws would operate as an aggravation of Irish misery. A repeal of the Corn-laws would, within an in credibly short period, reduce England to the Irish level of civilisation and of comfort. A repeal of the Corn-laws would therefore, as a necessary consequence, destroy in England the means of consuming Irish produce :—yet even if the means of the English community to consume food could be imagined to remain undiminished, after such a frightful revolution, still Ireland, as a producing country, would be altoge ther excluded from the English market. That market, in so far as it should exist at all, would be supplied by the corn growers of Lesser Russia—by a race of men who could supply all the corn that might be required for England, at a cost less by a third, than the corn-growers of Ireland could. In me lat.chy truth, however, a repeal of the Corn-laws would (as we showed yesterday), in a very fee years, lease England without the means of purchasing food for one-fourth part of her population. Mr. Daniel O'Connell is, of course, too ignorant a person to understand thoroughly the Corn-law ques tion in its more intricate bearings; —yet Mr. Daniel O'Con nell, dull and ignorant as he is in all that appertains to social and economical philosophy, is cunning enough to perce:ve bow a repeal of the English Corn-laws might aid him in his darling project--the subversion of the Protestant Established Church. We have more than once adverted to this important consequence of the present conspiracy—if that conspiracy shall prove successful—of the cotton capitalists against the agricultural industry and property of the kingdom. Let us once more direct the attention of our readers to this point. A repeal of the Corn-laws would, by confiscating by far the larger portion of agricultural capital of every kinre necessarily subvert. the Protestant Aristocracy of England. The saute cause which should, in the eireurneances suppoe subvert Protestant Aristocracy, would consign to beggary ni'e-tenths rf the Protestant farmers of the United Kinglorr. All tithe, moreover, would ho annihilated by a repeal of the Corn-laws ; no farther APPROPRIATION CLAUSE would, i n short, be necessary, if the cotton capitalists should succeed in their present designs. With the temporal sources of the Protestant Ecclesiastical Establishment's stren7th swept away—and with the roost important classes of Protestant proprietors reduced to beggary—Mr. Daniel O'Connell's chances of re-establishit g in England the suyemacy of the Church of Rome, would oe strengthened to a degree scarcely calculable. Instead of English Protestant landowners and farmer:, Mr. Daniel O'Connell would, in the event of a re peal of the Corn-laws, have to deal only with " exporting manufacturers" whose pursuits "owe no allegiance to our shores ;" and who would, in all probability, be much more anxious to save their mills from destruction at the hands of agricultural labourers whom their machinations had depriv e d of bread, than to struggle in behalf of any farm of religious faith. To tilt se " exporting manufacturers" Mr. Daniel O'Connell would gladly promise the protection of a " legion of precur sors" in the form of a rural and civic police, with his coura geous self to head them : the price of that protection being, amongst other things, the acquiescence of our " exporting manufacturers" in the re-establishment of Popery. It is not without strong motives—such as they arc—that Mr. Daniel O'Connell takes up his position amongst the Corn-law re. pealers. We shall, in our next number, advert to the argu ments which Lord Fitzwilliam, and the few other agricultural advocates of Corn-law repeal, have hazarded on this might) question. —Morning Herald. It tray be observed that all the advocates of Corn-law Re peal, and especially the unscrupulous Times Journal, treat the whole question as if there were no other ela-s of people in the world but those who live upon the profi:s of capital em ployed in mercantile or manufacturing business. In all their statements they absolutely put out of the question not only the mass of petiole dependent upon agriculture, but also the capi til sunk in agriculture. They treat both as if they were of no account at all, and not to be named in the argument. We hope the agriculturists will be so far moved from their remark ably dignified forbearance as to see that this way of consider ing the Corn-law question is not followed in the House of Commons as it has been in the agitating Journals. Thus the Times says that the encouragement of home cultivation making the people pay twice as much for bread as they can purchase it for abroad, such an encouragement is an unjust and wicked waste. Now, granting that such encouragement does make the people pay a much more considerable price for their bread than if they bought it abroad, where is the waste? The manufacturing part of the nation pays more, but it pays it to another part of the nation. That which they pay is not lost. Would it not be much greater waste if they paid the less price to a foreign nation, which bears no part of this country's taxation ? As the law stands, the nation has its corn and its manufactures, which are prepared to exchange for the corn. They are both produced at home—both en joyed at home. There is no want of what the nation has laboured to produce. But suppose we get our corn abroad, the manufacturers may be a little better off—supposing the possibility of other things to remain as well for them as they are—but the nation is not so well off; for foreigners, and nut our own people, receive and enjoy the manufactures prepared to exchange for corn. It is only the manufacturers, that is to say, the manufacturing capitalists who pay more. The people at large pay for their subsistence with their labour. It is most likely that the manufactur ing labourer would get less in exchange for his labour than he now does, supposing the foreign loaf could be purchased here for a penny the pound ; but it is quite clear that the agricultural labourer would in that case get nothing at all for his labour, for who would want him ? All the corn growing work would be done abroad. Is it not then absolute nonsense to say that he would get his bread cheaper ? He would have nothing but his labour with which to pay for it, and the same legislation which would make the loaf cheap (measured by money) would make his labour so valueless, that the loaf would be dearer to him than ever. It would, indeed, be so dear to him as to be absolutely unattainable. He would starve amid sterile fields, because agriculture would not be worth following. Whether is it more waste (to the nation) that the manufacturing part of it should pay a little more for food, or that the whole mass of labouring power and of capital applicable to home agriculture should be thrown away, and ren dered of no value ? If we were a people beginning our na tional career, and having to choose between agriculture and manufactures, then—putting security, and the risk of being starved through foreign enmity out of the question—it might be very well to consider whether we had not better de vote all our capital and industry to manufactures, for which we have so many natural advantages. But that is not our position. We have accumulated a vast mass of riches in the form of improvements upon land, which riches are applicable only to agriculture. Must all this be wasted—must it be thrown away—must it be lost to the nation as a whole, be cause a part of the nation could buy a little cheaper from foreigners? Have the owners of these riches, upon whom so many of the national burthens have long been thrown—have they no claim to be protected ? Is their capital, upon which they do not ask to receive more than three per cent. as annual income, to be completely neglected by the Legislature, in order to show especial favour to the owners of capital who are not satisfied with less than an annual return of thirty per cent. ?Is this reasonable—is it honest ? We affirm that it is neither. The Times says that " Corn may be raised from a gravel walk, but is the community to bo called upon to pay for so foolish an outlay ?" That is an un fair way of putting the question. The gravel walk has been brought into cultivation at a vast national expense, will you now abandon it? No doubt it would be absurd to undertake the cultivation of an inferior soil expecting the community to pay for the dear crop, but if in the hour of need, when foreign supply could not be obtained, the capitalists have come forward, and changed this inferior soil into a produce tive one, at a vast expense, shall it then be said (and by people who advocate economy too !) that after this has been done—after all the capital has been expended, it is then to be abandoned ? Never was there greater absurdity heard of. But it never would be heard of were this question argued as a national question. It is not so argued. The manufacturers argue this question as if there were no capital, no interests in the country, but their own, and as if whatever was not vested in manufactures or in com merce had no right to legislative care and protection. This is one point more of gross misrepresentation which we cannot let the day pass without noticing. The Times says that the material wages of the British labourer—that is, his wages measured by the quantity of necessaries which his remuneration enables him to obtain—are less than the ma terial wages of the foreign labourer. This is either absolute ignorance or absolute untruth. Nowhere in Europe does the remuneration of the working man enable him to obtain as much as it does in England. The statement of the Times upon this subject is as untrue, as if it had been said that it was a consistent and modest journal, or that the Cathedral of St. Paul's was a mean edifice of brick, situated a mile to the west of Somerset House.--Morning Post. That the peace of Europe will be speedily broken up, as that of Asia evidently already is, there can be no doubt. The manifesto of the Governor-General of India, as to the causes which had led to the determination of extending the influence of the British arms into the kingdom of Affghanistan, will have pointed to Russia as an attire partisan in hostile move ments detrimental to the interests and even the safety of our Indian empire. The recent news from Persia of the retire ment of the British Ambassador, Mr. M'Neil, in consequence of the Shah's rejection of the last propositions of the English Cabinet, fully confirmed the determination with which that power, under the influence and support of Russia, was de termined to persevere in the cause of aggrandizement she has for these two years been carrying on. Simulta neous with these indications of a conflict for supremacy in the East, we receive in the semi-official organ of the Russian Government, called the Augsburg Gazette a docu ment the most extraordinary, and at the same time the most important we ever saw, in which it is boldly announced that a " War with a great Power is considered probable nest summer," and that power is England, and who is told, " it would be useless to attempt to spread the opinion that diplomatic efforts will allay the storm once more." Our readers, and the country in general, have for some time been perfectly aware that it would be impossible, unless Russia al tered the course she was pursuing, of destroying British inte rests in every part of the globe, and endeavouring to excite every nation with feelings of jealousy or hatred towards England, to avoid a conflict with that Power. But, aware as they were of this, they certainly could not have been prepared for the formal Manifesto, couched in the terms of insolence and defiance it is. That Russia has at last thrown off the mask we are not surprised, as the course of political and commercial events in Turkey, as well as Asia, has rendered it incumbent on her to abandon her treaties and alliances, or by arms to maintain them. Russia has chosen the latter. She consi. ders the moment most opportune, England " having other embarrassments on hand ;" and therefore, it " is the precise motive for Russia no longer to defer the contest I" Be it so ; and we way say that the sooner Great Britain commence the better. Every line—there is reason to believe—of that ex traordinary document had undergone the revision of the Im perial Cabinet, and there can be no mistaking of its authentic character. The whole document furnishes a - display of a tho rough knowledge of all our relations with the East, as fully borne out by what has appeared at different times in the columns of this journal. Had Herat fallen, it " would have become the central point of the Russo-Persian expeditions; and from that place troops might have been sent to the Indies with greater rapidity than England could have sent them I" We are told that in the " interior of India the English have before them none but hostile populations ;" that the alliance with Runjeet Sing is unhealthy ; that " a war with the Bur mese seems to be inevitable, and the inhabitants of Nepaul are only waiting for a favourable opportunity to make the attack." And who is , who has been for years at the bottom of all this ? Why, Russia ! I !—Morning Advertiser. The corn law meetings still continue to fill our columns. We recently discussed the pernicious results of the Corn-laws by practical and experimental arguments drawn from their fatal effscts, by causing a continually augmenting exportation of raw materials; by a similar exportation of machinery ; by the emigration of British artisans to other countries ; by the ex patriation of British capitalists; by the diminution of manu facturing profits ; by the decay of home trade, and the fearful languishment of foreign commerce. It we look at the matter briefly in a theoretical point of view, we shall be led to the same conclusions as to their unjustifiably oppressive charac ter, and as to the inevitable certainty of their ruinous re sults. Adam Smith has justly said " that the most im portant practical question which concerns a trading com munity, is the I?ight of Industry." The great object of the exertion of industry, all over the world, is now, and ever has been, to obtain food. There are secondary objects, but that is its principal object. Now the first duty of a Government is tel protect its subjects in this vital acquisition of the necessaries of life by the ezer ti,ns of industry. The Corn-laws interfere with that most sacred duty of Government. They compel it to betray its trust, and to violate the fundamental condition on which r.ll society has been framed. The rights of industry are the real ‘• rights if man." They entitle a man to work :it whatever occupation he pleases ; to gi't the largest remuneration he can for his work ; and to buy arid sell where he is most likely to get that remuneration. Now the Corn-laws tyrannically in terfere with this paramount right of all free citizens in a tree community. They denounce free trade as well as free industry. They compel consumers to buy their bread dear, when they might get it cheap, and exchanged for their work. In short, they oppress every descriptionof industry ; they starve the workman ; they diminish the wages of labour, and the profits of capital ; they injure our foreign equally with our home trade—shutting the Englishman out of foreign markets, and foreigners out of English markets ; and for what purpose is all this ruinous mischief acooniplished. Is it to bent-fit the farmer? No. It does not benefit the far mer in the least, as sae shall presently show. Is it to benefit the revenue? No. It brings the revenue little or nothing. The Corn-laws are merely intended to benefit the landed pro prietors, by yielding them high rents—or, in other words, by keeping bad lands in cultivation. The farmer, as we have said, gains nothing by the Corn-laws. The farmer's labourer gains nothing by them, (Jr rather suffers materially. Dear bread diminishes the profits of all capital, the farmer's capital included. The firmer and the farmer's labourer eat dear bread as well as others. We come now to complete the cir cuit of our argument. It is entirely for the benefit of the land lord that the Corn-laws subsist. They are the tax of the landlor d, and the landlord only is interested in maintaining them. But are they in reality for his interest? "'Flint is the question." ‘Ve deny it. We say that they are founded entirely on a mistaken view of the interests of the larded proprietors—engendered in barbsirous, ignorant, and unenlight. , ned times. The agricul tural interest and the manufactu,ing interest are inextricably bound together. The manucacturers are the customers of ihe farmers and the agriculturists. The Corn-laws, there fore, by depreciating the prosperity and cutting up the means of the manufacturers, destroy the customers of the very agri culturists for whom they were mistakingly made. By oppress ing the trading and mercantile classes of the community, they destroy the goose that lays the golden eggs. But there is a final " moral to point" this " talc" of ruinous absurdity and national suicide. Mr. M'Culloch calculates that the whole amount annually which the landed proprietors gain by the Corn-laws—i. e., in order to effect the equivocal purpose of re cipteical injury to all classes which we have just described—is not more thanl,Boo,ooo/. This is thewhole sum that goes to the land lorss by the operation of the Corn-laws. But the same statistical writer also calculates that the nation is taxed by the Corn-laws to the amount of 18,200,000/. So that all the surplus of the first-stated sum—that is, 16. millions sterling—is perfect waste to the country, as much so as if it were thrown into the British Channel. We think we have now said enough upon this important subject to rouse every man who has a bead to think, a heart to feel, or a hand to labour for his family and children, to exert himself to the utmost in agitating that great and vital question—the abolition .of the Corn-laws—until jus tice be obtained—until the sacred rights of industry be vindi cated, and the ultimate ruin of the country averted. It is their lffe which is at stake; for— " You do take my lfe When you do take the bread by which I lire." —Morning Advertiser. THE fAJN, LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1839. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (FROM TEE MORNING PAPERS OP Till DST.) A meeting of the shareholders of the Manchester and Liverpool Dis trict Bank took place on Wednesday at Magchester, which was attended by about 400 shareholders from different parts of the country. The business of the day was the election of Directors, and the reception of a report from a Committee appointed to investigate the circumstances connected with the late immense losses of the Bank by the two Insolvent firms of Brown and Powell, and Taylor, Gibson, and Co. The meeting Excited the greatest interest among those concerned as proprietors, as might naturally be expected on an occasion where such a mass of property was at stake, and such an enormous sum sacrificed in bad debts with two houses only. In the course of some sensible preliminary remarks, the Chairman acknowledged that they had "sustained A ►oss of 375,0001. That was a tremendous loss, such a loss as was never experienced by any bank before, and he was only war. prised that the confidence of the public and the shareholders had been manifested under such circumstances." The bank, however, was safe with an investment of 1,100,0001. "of its money." Mr. Gisborne, late M.P., in the course of some animadversions on the management, in respect of the losses incurred, went se far as to assert that " there was more property pledged to the security of every man to whom that bank owed a pound than there was in any other bank in the world." It ap. peared from the Report of the Committee, which was read, that the ac count of Taylor, Son, and Gibson, with the bank, was opened in 1830, and not reported upon to the Directors until April, 1832. The present general Manager of the Bank was not then attached to the head office, but immediately upon his appoint. meat he reported to the Board the "then state of this account, among others which appeared irregular." He afterwards again called attention to the "serious liability" incurred with regard to bills passed in to the account, which appeared of a very questionable character, and on inquiry turned out to be "accommodation paper of little or no value." It is stated, as an act of justice to the Board, that up to that time they were " utterly ignorant of any risk is this account," but it is difficult to con ceive how this can seriously be set up as a justification, excepting so far as to exonerate the Board from any suspicion of direct connivance at the overdrawing or discounting the trashy paper described on account utthe firm, which, collectively or individually, they could have no motive for, unless some one or more among them had in their indi ♦idual capacities trading and credit accounts with, and therefore an interest in, the support of the insolvent firm, with which they might be involved, at least until their own credits were cleared off. The blame feisty imputable to the Directors arises out of the very ignorance adduced is their behalf, for of course it is expected that nothing shall pass in the Bank which does not come under their own immediate notice and con troul, and more especially in cases of heavy risk, It would appear from certain statements made to the meeting, that various of the Directors were so little in the habit of attention to their duties, that when appealed to out of doors for information respecting the progress or proceedings of the Bank, they were obliged to confess their ignorance. On the examine. tion into Taylor, Gibson, and Co's affairs, which followed, it appeared to the Committee appointed to that duty that the risk of loss might be dimi nished, if not entirely prevented, by extending further support to the concern ; but in thus seeking to avoid a first loss by further advances, the bank got still more deeply involved by vrrious unfortunate casualties not calculated upon, as they should have been, in the course of trading operations; for a destructive fire rendered greater accommodation still necessary, the insurance of the premises, through the negligence of a servant of the house, not having been renewed by the due payment of the premium. The house, moreover, was saddled with all the debts of a bankrupt concern in which incautiously the liabilities of a partnership had been incurred ; and, to crown all, came the American panic, "affecting to a dreadful extent the solvency of the connection of this firm, and at the same time depreciating the value of a large stock" of goods on hand suited for those markets. In the course of these transactions, and since their conclusion, the conduct of Messrs. Taylor and Co. is spoken of in terms of commendation, as having shown " every disposition" to further the objects of the bank in the liquidation of the concern. Messrs. Brown and Powell are not so favourably mentioned, as it is stated in the report, that in pur suance of their objects the Committee of the bank had met from them " with every opposition," and that they " had uniformly represented themselves as possessing property beyond all their engagements." This, however, it must be borne in mind, is the representation of the par ties on one side only. But for the losses thus sustained, It appears there was a profit on the banking operations of upwards of 86,0001., of which above 45,0001. had been paid out in a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent. for the half. year ending with June last, leaving undivided something more than 40,0001. It was explained in vindication of the further dividend now declared, when fully known, that more than the whole of the reserved fund had been absorbed by the losses referred to, that many of the shareholders in straitened circumstances had no other means of support to look forward to than the expected dividends on their shares, and the case of one poor widow with 25 shares, was mentioned who had no other means to have recourse to. It may be doubted whether the declaration of a dividend, even under such circumstances of individual hardship or suffering, was justifiable in the state of the bank's affairs. Some severe strictures, and not more so than deserved, were made upon the conduct of the Bank Directors in embarking in trading ope. rations, as was the case when they took upon them to carry on the in solvent concerns alluded to at their own risk, and for the profit of the bank. The Shareholders, of course, understood nothing of all this, but conceived the bank-was carrying on the legitimate business of bank ing, for which alone it was constituted. To their surprise, as one of them observed, they " now discovered that they were not only bankers, but calico printers and woolataplers. They were not only calico printers without their own knowledge, and losing their mo ney in the business, but a great deal averse—they were doing the busi ness so cheap as to injure every fair trader." This is a clear view of the matter, and such a state of things as must often occur when bankers step out of their own business. The first loss is generally found to be the least burdensome in the end, and had the accounts and the concerns of the two hooks been wound up when the serious nature of the amounts and the risk was first only brought to the knowledge of the Directors, the bank would have been saved more than two-thirds of the actual loss now incurred. It is notorious that two or three years ago the credit of one of the houses was at so low an ebb in the Market, that credit could hardly be obtained for a bale of cotton, and this must has e been about the time when the bank ha] determined to make no further advances, and to call in those already made, and for which purpose proceedings at law were said to have been commenced, which were abandoned, when by an unfortunate arrange. ment the Directors were induced to take all the responsibility of the ins6lvent estate on themselves, and carry on a losing business. For the other creditors of the house, and for the trading public, it was fortunate that such an arrangement was carried into effect, as the bank cleared off all debts, and fresh credits could not be opened. In this instance the ready publicity of the stoppage of credit and the difficulties of embar rassed parties, rumours of which must always more or less quickly transpire where banking business is managed by a Board of many Direc tors, had the effect of rescuing the trade creditors and general dealers from loss, and transferring it, sole and undivided, to the account of the bank. CHRONICLE.--There still continues to be ♦ery little doing in the English Stock Market. Consols have declined 6 per cent. upon yester. day's quotations ; but the premium on Exchequer Bills has again ad vanced Is. Consols for Money and Account were 02i to it; Exche quer Bills, 65 to 68 prem.; Bank Stock, 2021 to 203 ; and India Stock, 2541 to 255 i. The appearance of the Peninsular Securities was on the whole much firmer to-day, and Spanish Bonds rose about per cent. In the other foreign funds nothing particular occurred. Spanish Active was last marked at 201 to f ; Deferred, 8 J to 93-; Passive, sto 1 ; Portu guese Five per Cents., 351 to 36; ditto Three per Cents., 22} to % ; Dutch Five per Cents., 102} to 3; ditto Two-and.a.llalf per Cents., 543 to ; Belgian, 963 to 99 ; Brazilian, 791 to ; Danish, 76 to 1 ; Mexican, 24 to 3; Colombian, 28 4to ; Chilian, 26 to 28; Russian, 114 to 3 ; and Peruvian, 17 to 18. London and Birmingham Shares were 76 to 78 prem. ; ditto (new), 233 to 243 prera. ; Southampton, 431 to 443 per share ; Great Wes tern, 11 N, to l 2 % prem.; Leeds and Manchester, 19 to 21 prem.; Manchester and Birmingham, par to 3 premium ; ditto Extension, 1 dis. to 1 premium ; Birmingham and Derby, 11 to 10 dis. ; North Midland, par to 1 premium ; •lasgow and Greenock, % dis. to 1 pre mium; Portsmouth and Gosport Junction. par to 1 premium; and Greenwich, 161 to 17 per share. There is not much alteration in the rates of exchange this afternoon, as compared with those of last Tuesday. The rate on Amsterdam, short, was 12 0 % to 12 I ; ditto, three months, 12 3; Paris, short, 25 22 4 to 25 25 ; ditto, three month., 25 473 to 25 521 ; Rotter. dam, 12 31 ; Antwerp, 12 1 to 12 11 ; Hamburg, 13 81 to 13 83 ; Vienna, 10 I to 10 2; Trieste, 10 2 to 10 3; Leghorn, 30a; Frank fort, 150; Marseilles, 25 521 to 25 571 ; Genoa, 25 621 to 25 671 ; Naples, 40 1 4 ; Madrid, 37 % to 37 ; Cadiz, 371 to 371 ; and Oporto, 54 11E1; A L D.--The conuneri ial Money Market scarcely requires into observation, but there is no alteration in the rate of interest upon coal mercial discounts. There has not been any particular alteration in the rate of the conti nental exchange,, and Money still continues more plentiful than bills. On Paris the rates arc 251 41c. to 50c. ; on Amsterdam 13 3 ; on Rot t.rdain 13 3 a ;on Hamburg 13 a 9, and on Frankfort 149! a 150. LAW INTELLIGENCE. SECONDARIES' COURT, FMB. 1. COLLINS r. NORTH This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a shoprnan, against the defendant, a linen-draper, cal rying on business at Shore,lilch, for the sum of 81. l Os. 6d. for wages. The defendant had pleaded a tender and set.off, as to part of the: claim, and had further pleaded that he was not indebted, and that the plaintiff had repeatedly misconducted himself in a drunken, insubordinate, and immoral manner, while he was in the defendant's service. The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant. INSOLVENT DEB7'ORS' COURT, FED. 1. " Bishop Cranmer Sully" was opposed by Mr. Woodroffe on the part of Mr. Graham ; and Mr. Chamberlain, coAchmaker, residing in Great Newport-street, appeared in person. He was supported by Mr. Cooke. Mr. Woodroffe remarked Opt the famous name of the Insolvent should be known, as also his iiiofession and residence. He read the descripti:m of the Insolvent, which contained several places of residence. The Insolvent was described as a doctor of medicine, In the course of the case, Mr. WOODROPPE said that the names of the Insolvent were honouraole ; Bishop Cranmer Sully sounded well ; hut he might say that this Mr. Sully had sullied them.—( A laugh.) He contended that the debt with Mr. Graham had been improperly contracted, and he had been further injured by a vexatious defence to the action. The Learned Clime COMMISSIONER said the Court would not adjudi cate upon the case until evidence had been given of the property said to be assigned by the insolvent to his father, and respecting the mortgage of the pension. '1 he CAST was adjourned sine die. James Conway was opposed in person by a Mr. Drawbridge, and sup ported by Mr. Woodroflb. The insolvent, latterly a lodging.house-keeper, had been butler in the service of the Countess Dowager of Shaftesbury, who left him, under her will, an annuity of 501., which he had received from the present Earl. By the will an investment was ordered; but he had received the money from the Earl. Mr. Woodroffe said the annuity would pass to the creditors. The Court could restrain the assignees from selling it. The debts would be paid in about two years, and it would be a great cruelty to sell an annuity which was left, after a long service, by the Lady Shaftesbury to keep her servant from want. The creditor who appeared said he did not wish to sell it. the Court said the annuity passed to the creditors, and it would be for them to arrange with the insolvent to forego a portion if they thought proper. The insolvent was ordered to be discharged. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-FRIDAY. Lova L♦w.—Thls being the day appointed for Mr. Newman, the Barrister, to show cause why the recognisances of himself and his bail should not be estreated, the Court was crowded with persons anxious to hear the proceedings, which appeared to excite very considerable in terest. At the sitting of the Court, Mr. CLARL3ON said he had that moment seen an affidavit of Mr. New_ man's consisting of eleven pages, in answer to the statement made the other day (the 18th January) by Mr. White. Of course he was not prepared at present with any affidavits in reply to it. He should them. fore wish that the case should stand over to a future day, In the mean time the affidavit might be tiled. The CHAIRMAN then (addressing Newman) said—Will you undertake not is repeat the line of conduct you have lately pursued towards the prosecutor and his family ? You see the situation in which your conduct has already placed both yourself and the gentlemen who became bail for you. The Court has now the power to estreat the recognizance' entered into by you and them. Will you new, on your word as a gentlemen, promise,lneither directly nor indirectly , t o send to Miss Whit; or in any other way to annoy either her father or any of the family, during the period for which you are under recognizances ? Mr. Newman—Yes. I will undertake not to write to the young lady or any of her family, during the time I am under the present recognizance'. The CHAIRMAN said if he molested or annoyed them afterwards, he must take the consequences. Mr. CLAitithox inquired what he was to underteed was the re sult of the day's proceedings. The CHAIRMAN laid it was this—That if Mr. Newman again an noyed Mr. White or his f am ily the motion of Mr. Clarkson to estreat the recognizances of the defendant and his bait might be renewed, and the Court would then act in such a manner as tin. der the circumstances might be necessary. Mr. CLARKSON said then he understood that the case was ad. journed to the next October Sessions (at which period the term of the defendant's recognizance' would expire) unless in the meantime the prosecutor should file affidavits, showing that Mr. Newman had again annoyed him or his family? The CHAIRMAN replied in the affirmative, and said he hoped Mr. Newman was sensible of the very great indulgence that had been shown to him. Mr. ADOLPHUS said he hoped that the defendant would never again bring himself or family before the public in the manner he had recently done. The parties then left the Court. POLIOE-INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A RICII BIGGAR —An able-bodied, well-dressed, notorious impostor, MAYost, charged by Horseford, an o ffi cer o f t h e Mendicity Society, with having, alia s CaPtain Wright , was brought before the LORD if' nag of a begging l etter, o b ta i ne d the sum of 10s. from a named gentleman of the name of Oliverson. The LORD MATOR—I suppose we may have some persons here, if I remand him, to prove that they have been imposed upon by him. Prisoner—You'll do me a favour, my Lord, if you dispose of the case su mmarily. Commit me as a ro gue and vaga b on d, If you don't discharge me. Depend upon it I'll never transgress again. The Loan MAYOR—No, I shall remand you ; you are just the sort of impostor to do the greatest mischief to charity. Prisoner—Commit me under the Vagrant Act, and upon my honour will never transgress again. lam sure this will be a lesson to me. The prisoner was then remanded for a few days. By his boot► it appeared that he received 1561, 10s. from the humane, who give without inquiry, trusting to the address of the petitioner and their own discernment. . . . _ _ Croker, the mother of the girt who was sent off to the Cape of Good Hope by the Children's Friend Society, applied to the LORD MAYON, in the hope that his Lordship might help her to recover her child. A gen. tleman of well known humanity accompanied the poor woman, and stated that she would not be satisfied without consulting his Lordship on thesubject, although ;wormed that his Lordship could not render any assistance in a matter so remote from his jurisdiction. Some gentlemen connected with the Children's Friend Society at. tended. It was quite evident that they sympathised with the mother, but they stated that they did not know what course to advise her to pur sue ; and that the case had already undergone the most minute investi gation before the Magistrates at Bow-street, who manifested the strong. est desire to render service. The gentlemen added, that they had ad. vised the poor woman to go out to the Cape herself, where she would be placed in a situation, and have the opportunity of witnessing the good treatment and prosperity of her child. The Lone MAYOR said it was frightful to suppose that children could be sent to a distant country without the consent or even knowledge of their parents. It was clear the Society were not at all to blame ; on the contrary, they were acting for the child's benefit; but the conduct of the Vcstry.clerk was highly censurable. GUILDHALL. Yesterday John Mackenzie, a clerk in the firm of Cook and Co., warehousemen, St. Paul's Churchyard, was finally examined, charged with robbing his employers to a considerable amount. The prisoner, who declined making any defence, was committed. BOW-STREET. Yesterday, Raywood, of the Horse and Groom, Bedfordbury, appeared at this office, to answer the complaint of Medlicott, the inspector of po lice, F division, for permitting drunkenness and other disorderly con. duct in his house, contrary to his license. Sir F. Ron—Under all the circumstances, it was a case in which lenity was necessary ; instead of fining Mr. Raywood in the full penalty of 51., he should mitigate it to I Os., the lowest penalty, and costs. Mr. Barton, Raywood's solicitor, hoped that no indorsement of con viction and fine would be put on the license, as it was clear that the mere omission of Mr. Raywood locking his outer door had allowed the three drunken men to enter and cause all the disturbance corn plained of. Sir F. Roe acquiesced in this suggestion, and Mr. Raywood accordingly paid the I Os. and 4s. 6d. costs. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. jsinkmT.—James Striven, who was yesterday brought before Mr. CuAnimas, charged with bigamy, was remanded for a week, in order to procure further evidence. Carter, the informer, summoned one of the drivers of Powell's Hampstead omnibuses before Mr. CHAMLICIIS and Mr. H►LL, for not wearing his badge. A person who attended on behalf of the proprietor said the defendant had been employed to drive an hour or two while the regular driver was engaged at Guildhall on a summons to that office. The Hackney Coach Act forbade a driver to lend his badge to any one, and another clause allowed, in case of sudden illness or unforeseen circumstances to employ any competent person to drive for him, whether with or with out a badge. Acting upon this the driver had employed the defend ant to chive for him until disengaged from Guildhall. The Act allowed the regular driver a period of 48 hours in which to find a substitute. Mr. CHAMBERS said he could not consider a summons to come within the meaning of an unforeseen accident. There must have been plenty of time for the driver to have procured a substitute with a badge. He inflicted the fine of 10s., which the proprietor would pay for him. A well-dressed young man, named George Tate, and who gave his address Charlotte street, Fitzroy-square, was charged with the following conduct in the Wesleyan Chapel, Sloane-street: — Mrs. Anne Fiddes, residing in Charles street, Sloane-terrace, stated that she was present on the previous evening at a centenary meeting in the Wesleyan Chapel, Sloane-street. She sat on a form which only held three persons, which were her husband, herself, and the prisoner. During the evening she felt as she thought the hands of the prisoner on her clothes, which was repeated several times. She then got up and went out of the chapel, when she found that her cloak, gown, and petti coat, in fact all her clothes, right through to her skin, had been cut with a sharp instrument. Her dress had been cut on the side she sat next to the prisoner. Complainant immediately turned back into the chapel, and mentioned what had occurred to her husband, who gave the ',d enier into the custody of the police, before doing which, however, the prisoner attempted to make his escape. The prisoner, who is a very sanctimonious looking young man, said it was a very unfortugate thing for him that he should have sat next to a young woman. But he was sure that he had not touched her clothes; he was too much taken up in listening zo the holy discourse even to pay any attention to a woman, much less cut her clothes. Mr. WitiTe said there was no doubt he was there for the purpose of committing a felony, and he would, therefore, commit him for three months to the House of Correction. During the day, a considerable number of young men and boys were brought to this office, charged with snow-balling and sliding in St. James's Park. They were mostly ordered to find sureties, but in those instances where attacks were made upon the police, fines of 20s. and 10s. were levied, or various degrees of imprisonment in default. MARYLEBOIVE. YesterdaylElizabeth GrUflths, a well dressed young woman, was placed at the bar, charged with having obtained a situation by means of a false character. She was tined 201. and in default of payment committed for 2 months. UNION-HALL. SHOPLIFTING. — Yesterday Jane Hurley and Ellen Parker, two well dressed young women, charged with stealing a piece of silk and a sbawl, the property of a linen-draper, in Crown-row, %Valworth,were committed GREAT ANTI-CORN LAW MEETING AT NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE. NV1e0.0 , 11)1.7, JAN. Z 0 A public meeting, called by public requestion to the Mayor, was held this day in the Guild Hall, to consider and adopt measures relative to the important subject of the Corn-laws. Twelte o'clock was the hour ap pointed, but long before that time the spacious hall, capable of holding at the least :1,000 people, was completely crowded. The Mayor pre sided, and on his left we noticed Mr. Nickol, J. P., NV, B. Proctor, Esq., Sheriff of Newcastle, J. H. Hinde, Esq., M.P., and on his left Dr. lit ad law, Mr. Alderman Lost), C. Allhouse, Esq., and the general company comprised most of the influential merchants of the town. The MAYOR on taking the Chair was greeted with applause. After reading the requisition convening the meeting, he requested for all who might address the meeting, whatever difference of opinion might be found to exist, a fair ant candid hearing Mr. Alderman Lush then rose to propose the first resolution, which was as follows That it is the undeniable right of every man to ex change the products of his industry, to the best advantage, and that all laws and regulations which restrict this principle have a tendency to lessen the demand forlabour,and are injui ious to ev eryportion of the community." The resolution, he observed, divided itself into two heads : first, the as sertion of a principle; and, second, the effects produced by restricting its operation, especially in reference to the Corn-laws. The principle, he had no doubt, woull be at once admitted ; and without dwelling on that point, he would trace the effect of those legislative measures which had restrieled its operatioe in this country. He then went into a his_ tory of the Corn-laws sit:ce their establishment, endeavouring to show that they had in no instance succeeded in accompli al ing the object which was cent2mplated by those who supported them. Ile was decidedly of opinion that both the farmers and landlords wou' I be benefited by a re peal of the Corn-laws. Mr. 11. ORMSTON briefly seconded the motion, which, on being put to the meeting, was carried unanimously. Mr. Nrcaor. rose to propose the second resolution, to the effect " That the Corn-laws, enhancing the prices of food, are unwise, im politic, and unjust, inasmuch as they extract from the industrious &asses an excessive amount of labour in exchange for the neces. saries of life, depress the commercial interests, and lead to the de crease of capital in the country." ftle observed, that on comparing the fluctuations of corn with those of coffee, the circumstance of the excess of duty on foreign coffee over colonial was not taken into the account. Colonial coffee was chargeable with a Carty of 6d.; and when the supply from our eolcnies was suddenly diminished, So as to require the introduction of foreign coffee, an increased duty of Is. :Id. was paid on the foreign produce, which he contended at once accounted for the extraordinary fluctuations which had taken place in that article. Corn, if imported under a fixed duty, he maintained, would be subject to similar fluctuations; and he therefore advocated their entire and un. conditional repeal. If we did not receive the produce of other coi, tries, we could not expect that they would give encouragement to our manufactures. He then proceeded to show that, by relief afforded in •arious ways, particularly as regarded the expenses of emigration, at present paid by the landlord, and the poor-rates, the landed interest would be materially benefited by a repeal of the Corn.laws. W. Baonswooo Paocroa, Esq., said he had great pleasure in se conding the motion ; ai.“l he would merely, in doing so, state one fact which he had just learned That was, that at the very time he was speaking a large quantity of machinery was being shipped at the quay, to go to Belgium for the manufacture of linen yarn in that country. The effect of this would ultimately be to diminish the demand for Bri. Ugh manufacture, and for labour in this country. The resolution was then put and carried. Mr. Jour( SnrXt. n, in proposing the next resolution, said that from his own knowledge he could confirm many of the statements of the previous speakers ; and he knew at this time, that one of the greatest manufac. hirers of machinery in this country was at the head of a rival este. blishment in Belgium. He concluded by moving—" That a longer continuance of the Corn.law impost would undermine the manufac turing, commercial, and asa necessary consequence, the agricultural in terests of the country ; and that it would produce decay, followed by ruin, misery, and destitution, not only to the landowner and capitalist, but to the industrious artisan." Mr. J. Nicaor, briefly seconded the motion, which, on being put to themeeting, was carried unanimously. Mr. Gaza:snow moved the next resolution—" That, to avert those dangers, it is imperatively necessary that the Corn-laws be immediately and unconditionally repealed:" which was seconded by Mr. EmEasos CITARKLET. Mr. T. DOUBLEDAY then rose, not for the purpose of opposing the re lution, but for carrying it a step further. He believed, he might say every word of what had been spoken by the various speakers who had preceded him, but, he also believed, much more. Not only was it necessary to repeal the Corn.laws, but it was necessary, likewise, to repeal the enormous mass of taxation which pressed so heavily on all classes of the community. The repeal of the Corn-laws, without a cor. responding reduction in the amount of taxation, would, he maintained be an absolute injustice to the farmer and the landed proprietor, whilst it would neither benefit the working classes nor promote the extension of manufactures. To show that a repeal of the Corn-laws alone would injuriously affect the landed interest, he referred to a series of tables prepared by a Committee of the House of Lords, and laid before Parliament in 1814. From these it appeared that ill* expense of cultivating one hundred acres of land in the year 1790, was, exclusive of rent, 393/. 9s. B}el , the average price of wheat at that period being 40s. a quarter. In 1803, the expense of cultivating the same hundred acres, exclusive of rent, was 4261. 81. 41d., the average price of wheat being 70s. per quarter. In 1813 the expense was 6101. 2s. Old., and the average price of wheat somewhere between 90s. and 100 s. Now if the price of wheat were reduced by free importation to about 405., the average price in 1790, he would ask would not the cultivator of the soil be injured by the great loss it would necessarily entail upon him ? The same land was now cultivated at an increased cost, and he ought to receive a corresponding increase in price for his produce. The cost of cultivating 100 acres of land at the present time, had been estimated by a farmer of great experience and information at 4741. exclusive of rent; which was much more than in 1803 when wheat was at 70s, per quarter. He maintained in the second place, that a repeal of the Corn-laws would not ac complish the objects contemplated by the manufacturer; and in sup port of this view he referred to the tables of exports to Russia in the article of velveteens, showing that during 1833, 1834, and 1835, the latter year especially, when the Corn-laws had been in operation, our exports to that country had still gone on diminishing. The de crease was not arrested by the low prices of 1835. He then pro ceeded to show that with reduced taxation a repeal of the Corn-laws would be beneficial to all classes of the community, and concluded by moving the following amendment :—" To avert those dangers it is imperatively necessary that the Corn.laws be immediately and unconditionally repealed, together with all taxes on the necessaries of life; that the present exclusive system of electing the House of Com mons gives the landed interest a preponderance, silences discussions upon those questions ; and the way in which the petitions of the industrial classes have been treated in that House proves that the great mass of the people of this country must be represented in the House of Commons, in order to obtain a repeal of their unjust and starvation enactments." Mr. E. BLAKIET seconded the amendment. Mr. HODGSON BEND; M.P. for Newcastle, then rose and addressed the Neeting. He would not take any course either in support of tl e resolution or the amendment, but he thought it his duty, as one of thL is Representatives in Parliament, to attend the ineettng, and-declare his. sentiments in regard to the question. He was favourable to a fixed duty. He had not sufficient information to state the amount, but as to the average price of corn, he thought it ought to be neither above nor below 60s , and would advocate a fixed duty, which would maintain it at that sum. Mr. LOCKET HARLE and Mr. HEPBURN also addressed the meeting ; after which the amendment was put and carried by a considerable majority. The CHAIRMAN thereupon left the Chair, and declared the meeting dissolved. He left the room amidst an overwhelming torrent of hisses. Mr. HEPBURN was then called to the chair, and the following resolu tion, propes:d by Mr. Lowrey and seconded by Mr. Are, was carried by a large majority:—" That this meeting is of opinion that the industrial classes of this country ought to have a voice in the Legislature, and that we never will have just laws till Parliament is elected by Universal Suffrage." Three cheers were then given for the Radicals, three cheers for Ca nada, and the meeting separated. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, JAN. 29, 1839. This day the Count Sebastiani, Ambassador Extraordinary from the King of the French, had an audience of her Majesty, to deliver a letter from his Sovereign : to which he was introduced by Lord Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by the Master of the Ceremonies. WAR-OFFICE, FIB. I 6th Regiment of Dragoon Guards--Lieut. Robert Francis Lord GM ford, from the 7th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Grogan, who exchanges, Feb. 1. 2d Regiment of Dragoons—H. M. Campbell, Gent., to be Cornet; by purchase, vice J. Campbell, promoted, Feb. 1. sth Regiment of Foot—H. W. De la Peer Beresford, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Locke, who retires, Feb. 1. 7th Foot—Lieut. G. Grogan, from the 6th Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Lord Gifford, who exchanges, Feb. 1. 19th Poot—Lieutenant R. Crosby, from the half.pay of the Ed West India Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Travers, appointed Paymaster, Feb. 1 ; Ensign H. Calley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Crosby, who retires; J. Phillipps. Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Calley, Feb. 2. 21st Foot—Lieutenant A. Blair to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bayly, who retires; Second Lieutenant G. Deare to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Blair; C. G. Brabazon, Gent., to be Second Lieute nant, by purchase, ♦ice Deare, Feb. 1. 29th Foot—Sergeant-Major K. Murchison to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice Donaldson, who resigns, Feb. 1. 48th Foot—Ensign H. W. Tobin, from the 77th Regiment of Foot, to be lieutenant, without purchase, vice Stubbs, deceased, Feb. 1. 57th Foot—Ensign E. Stanley, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Westwood, deceased, June 10; H. Steele, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Stanley, Feb. 1. 59th Foot—Captain W. Graham, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice W. H. Sampson, who exchanges, receiving the dif ference; Lieut. A. J. L. Peebles to be Adjutant, vice Mockler, vho resigns the Adjutancy only, Feb. 1. 60th Foet—J. T. Richardson, MD., to be Assistant. Surgeon, vice Leigh, who resigns, Feb. 1. 70th Foot—Lieut. C. Winter, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Grubbe, promoted; Ensign A. Rutherfoord to be Lieutenant, by pur. chase, vice Winter ; H. H. Lacy, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, ♦ice Ruthertiord, Feb. 1. 77th Foot—Lieut. M. H. Nepean, from the 41st Regiment of Feot, to be Lieutenant, vice Sutherland, promoted; Gentleman Cadet A. Aitken, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice Tobin, promoted to the 48th Regiment of Foot, Feb. 1. 83d Foot—Ensign D. Campbell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Egerton, who retires; I'. Downman, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, ♦ice Campbell, Feb. 1. 86th Foot—Captain H. S. Stephens, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice A. L. Macleod, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Feb. 1. 92d Foot—Ensign E. E. Haines to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vies Wemyss, who retires; W. Dalton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, ♦ice Haines, Feb. 1. Banvar.—Captain H. S. Stephens, of the 68th Regiment of Foot, to be Major in the Army; Captain W. Graham, of the 59th Regiment of Foot, to be Major in the Army, June 28; Captain C. Stoddart, upon halfpay of the Royal Staff Corps (serving in Persia), to be Major in the Army, Feb. 1. MEMORLNDUM.—The Ensign who is represented, in the Gazette of the 18th January last, to have retired from the 55th Foot, and in a Memo. randuns, in the Gazette of the 25th of the same month, to hare retired from the 85th Foot, was " Innes," of the 55th Regiment of Foot, and not " Jones." WHITEHALL, Fes. 1. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed un. der the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto Robert Laurie, Esq., Rouge Croix, Pursuivant of Arms the office of Windsor Herald, vacant by the promotion of Francis Mar tin, Esq., to the office of Norroy King of Arms. WHITEHALL, Fu. 1 • The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto William Courthope, Gent., the office of Rouge Croix, l'ursuivant of Arms, vacant by the promotion of Robert Laurie, Eaq., to the office of Windsor Herald. WHITEHALL, Jan. 25. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Boulger, of Reading, in the county of Berke, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. JOHN CHAPMAN, market-gardener, Isleworth. WILLIAM MAXEY, wharfinger, Royal Leamington Spa. AARON WOOLF, cabinet-maker, Brighton. BANKRUPTS. NICHOLAS CHARLES BIALE, merchant, Mary.street, Hamp stead-road, to surrender Feb. 13, at two, and March 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, Ironmonger.lane, official as.. signee ; Widdows, Copthall-court, Throgmorton-street, SAMUEL SMITH, timber merchant, Pump.row, Old.street. road, St. Luke's, Feb. 11, at half past ten, and March 13, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptoy. Clark, St. Swithin's-lane, official assignee ; Jenkins and Abbott, New-inn. THOMAS GREEN, bill broker, Abchurch.lane, Feb. 12, at half past eleven, and March 15, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. 'Fur quand, Copthall-buildings, official assignee ; Tilleard anal Son,Old Jewry. JAMES SHEPHERD, hosier, Leicester, Feb. 12, at eleven, and March 15, at two, at the Castle of Leicester, Leicester. Toiler, Gray'• Inn square, London ; Toiler, Leicester. GEORGE HAINES, grocer, Kilsby, Northampton, Feb. 13, and March 15, at one, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Newton and Eusor, South-square, Gray's Inn, London; Smith, Birmingham. JOHN HAYNES, manufacturer, Norwich, Feb. 11, and March 15, at eleven, at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich. Rackham and Cooke, Nor. wich ; Ling and Harrison, Bloomsbury-square, London. JOHN DA WKINS, builder, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, Feb. 14, and March 15, at ten, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington Priors. Lampray and Field, Leamington; Taylor, Sharp, Field, and Jackson, Bedford row, London. CHARLES PALFREYMAN, calico-printer, Manchester, Feb. 18 and March 15, at three, at the Commissioners'.rooms, Manchester. Milne, Parry, Milne, and Morris, Temple, London; Wintetettom, Heaton Norris; Jesse, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. Llwrence, Manchester warehouseman, Bucklersbury, Feb. 22, at eleven—V. Russell, dealer, Brighton, Fel'. 22, at twelve—S. and H. S. Crane, merchant, Stratford, Essex, Feb. 22, at twelve—T. Tye and M. Pearce, provision merehants, Little Eastchcap, Feb. 22, at half-past twelve—P. Gresley, licensed victualler, Golden-lane, Fe). 22, at eleven. 6d a 665, min 6486 d a 655, damps 645 6d a 655, 'tes we re taken in at 50s; fur bright brown two lots ord sold at 48s ;t. M anina was a ll bought in at late rates, mid to good brown at 22s 6d a .13s 8 d ps r cwt. Foasnort—Hetvarmah and-Brasil ere-heki for full prices. A.t public sale 50 chests Bahia of soft quality havebeen - offered, all of w; Bich was taken in, ord. brown at 19s, mid to fine 21s a 235, very low - Itea vy white 245, lo.v mid greyish white 26s 6d a 27s 6d. Mot.sssEs.—West India are held for 28s a 32s according tco quality. COFFEE.—Tbe ordinary and unclean descriptions of Briti 51 I Planta tion have met with a very dull sale, although offered at prices lls 6d to 24 under those of this day week; fer middling and good clean qualities previous rates have been supported: at public sale 285 casl ;lc 542 bags have been brought forwzrd, the principal part of which, cc insisting of low and unclean descriptions, was bought in ; Jamaica low middling at 104 s to 107 s; good to fifie fine ordinary 92s to 102 s 6d; mclean fine ord 88s to 90$ ; Dominica fine fine ord 102 s ; Berbice midd ling to good middling 104 s to 111 s, good to fine ord 953 to 98s; Denier ara unclean fine ordinary to middling 90s to 101 s 6d, good ordinary 82s to 855. East Ineia descriptions have maintained previous rate. , ; Ceylon good ordinary at 975. The transactions in Mocha hare be en lir nited. In other descriptions the operations have been confined to .a ptiblic sale of 405 Java, at the 9d duty, which went offat high prices ; ;hold 'even ye!low brought 72s 6d to 73s fid. For Brazil the demand is still partial; 1,200 bags good palish ord to fine fine ord colory have changed .han , Is privately at 42s to 478. St. Domingo is held firmly. This afternoon the public sales consisted of 349 bags ;Sumatra, 45 bales Mocha, and 593 bags Brazil, all of which were take in In, ord Su matra at 425, common green Mocha at 925, and fine tic Le ord,coloury Brazil at 46s 6d. Cocos.—Prices remain firm for West India, at public sale 225 bags 31 barrels Trinidad only partly found buyers, fair to good t quality at 421 a 46s 6d, superior was taken in at 50s. Foreign is not c .heaper. SPICES.—For Mace late rates have been fully supper fed; at public sale 46 pkgs found buyers, fine quality at 6s 11 d a 7s, go , Ml Os 4d a 6s Bd, mid 5s 3d ass 4d. Cloves at former prices ;25 chef Bencoolen at public sale sold at Is 8d a ls lld for good to fine quality ; 54 bags inferior Bencoolen taken in at is 2d. Nutmegs are held firmly ; at auction 33 chests partly found buyers, fine bold brovn Bencoolen at 5s 8d ass 9d, mid 5s als 2d; Amboyna 51 2d ass 3d. White Pepper sells more freely; 30 bags fair to mid quality at pub lic sale brought Is lid to Is 41. d; 230 bags Long Pepper were talorm 'in at 255. Black Pepper is held firmly. Cassia Lignea of good quality at 625. Pimento is held for full prices ; at auction 129 bags brought 311 for stalky rather coarse, and 3id for even quality. . This afternoon 1,866 bags Pepyer were offered at auction, and all taken in at full prices; good sifted Sumatra at 411 d, arid shot Malabar at 41d to 4d pet lb. PROTISIONS.—For Insiia and Mess Beef prices rat' tier above those of last week have been obtained. The Pc rk market is v ery quiet. In Irish prices have again slightly given way. Foreign, fine qualities have brought 108 s a 110 s. Bacon held for full rates. Lrird—in prices there is no particular change. RUM, BRANDT, and Horsens.-- = For Jamaica. Rum former rates have been supported: in Leeward prices `have given way a trifle; the transactions in the former have been onl3 , .50 puns. 30 to 33 per cent, over proof at ss; of the latter 250 puns have been told, proofs at Is 4d, 4 to 9 per cent. at 3s 6d to 3s ed. The arrivals since our last have been 490 puns, Ore. Brandy at late prices. G leneva 2s 4d to 2s Od. British Corn Spirits at les 9d. Rice.—For East India importers are inclined to submit to rather lower prices; at auction 2,397 bags Benigal were taken in at 19s Gd a 20s for good white, and 7,800 bags ord Java at 13s per cwt Carolina sells slowly, but no further decline in price has been submitted to. INDIGO.—A few of the bought-in lots has e been sold at the buying.in prices; at public sale 130 serous Guatemal a went off at fd to Is ad. same on the late nominal rates, and tather ni ore than half found buyers; Flores at 7s 9d a 8s 2d, Sobres mid to fine 4 s 3d a 7s Sd, Cortes ord to good 58 2d a 6s 9d per lb. SALTPETRE.—Importers of Rough have re fused to submit to lower prices; none has been offered at auction, bu t 0,000 bap are declared; British refined—prices remain firm. OILS.—In common Fish Oils rather low Cr prices have been accepted.' In Sperm there is no variation. Linseed OW is in demand at 295. This afternoon 220 tuns Southern at public• sale sold at 261. to 271. 10s. for mid to good, being rather cheaper. TaLLow.—ln the early part of the week Petersburg Yellow Candle on the spot was was 116 s 3d to 566 6d, but during the last few days prices have fallen to 54s 9d to 55s for first quality. For delivery in March and April a few sales have been made at 54s ; for the last three months the price is nominal at 51s per cwt. BREAD , . [etropolis Ild. for the 41. t. LoaL In the Country. T. J. Hart, maltster, Edwardstone, Suffolk, March 15, at twelve, at the Lion Inn, Hadleigh, Suffolk—W. Shorthose, jeweller, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire, March 13, at twelve, at the Lansdowne Hotel, Leamington Priors—C. Healy, grocer, Nottingham, March 5, at tvrelve, at the George the Fourth Inn, Nottingham—J. B. North, wine mer chant, Taunton, Somersetshire, Feb. 19, at twelve, at the Castle Hotel, Taunton. CERTIFICATES—Fab. 22. J. Bettridge, timber merchant, Birmingham—L. Abrahams, win merchant, St. James's.place, A Idgate. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. E. A. Greig and Mary Ferot, Doddington.grove, Kennington—M. Mainwaring and G. Hartwell, jewellers, Chichester rents, Chancety_ lane—R. and H. Brice, ceachmakers, Taunton, Somersetshire—T. Holmes and N. Parr, coach proprietors—F. and S. S. Laing, tobacco and snuff manufacturers, Portsea, Southampton—Wm. B. Dobson and S. Smith, brewers, Liverpool—G. Hatfield and J. Grave, jun., attorneys Manchester—W. Baker and T. H. Davis, carvers, High-street, St Giles—T. L. Boyle ani D. Breese, attorneys, Llanfyllin, Montgomery. shire—J. H. and S. H. Crosswell, wine -merchants, London—T. Fisher and A. Buck, brewers, Ripon, Yorkshire—W. H. Rushton and T. Coston, calico-printers, Manchester—E. and W. Williams, beer sellers, Liverpool—J. Thomson and J. Webber, eoachmakers, Belton.street, Long. acre—R. Taylor, sen., and G. Taylor, curriers, Newcastle-upon- Tyne—T. Wilson and J. Eyton, mercers, Liverpool—R. Inpe and C. Hindley, upholsterers, New Boni-street—R. Inpe and Co., upholsterers, New Bond-street (as far as regards R. Inpe)—W. Field and C. Houlton, brewers, Prstol—J. Dryden and Co., earthenware manufacturers, New castle.upon-Tyne (as far as regards B. C. Lownds —M. Hetherington and E Wilson, dress-makers, Davies-street, Berkeley-square—J. W. and I. Haime, linendrapers, Pillgwenlly, Monmouthshire—H. Sidebotham an, Co., cotton-spinners, Houghton, Lancaihire—R. Russell and R. Smith, plasterers, Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire—J. Gerdes and D. Pearson, chemists, Liverpool—J. Greenhalgh and J. Williamson, Bolton. le .Moors, Lancashire—J. H. Hummel and Co., tailors, Conduit-street, Bond.street. _ SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. PETER MARSHALL, bleacher, Hogganfield, Feb. 4 and 18, at one, at the Royal Exchange Sale-room, Exchange.square, Glasgow. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the New London Price Current of last Evening.) SUGAR.—We have still to report a dull market for West India Mus covadoes. Importers have generally submitted to a reduction in pre vious prices of Is making th• decline during the last two weeks Is 6d ; Berbice of fair mid yellow quality has been sold at sis ; Jamaica and Demerara mid 58■ 6d a ells 6d ; St. Vincent and Domi_ nica good mid 618 a 61s 6d ; Jamaica good 02s, tine is not to be pur chased under 65s 6d, and superior up to 68s ; the supply of these des criptions being still short ; at public sale on Tuesday 112 hhcls •f Bar badoes brought previous rates, good to fine 65s 6d a 08s. This afternoon the market closed very quiet; yesterday's prices were obtained; the purchases for the week are only 1,100 hhds and trs, in. eluding two auctions of Barbadoes. A public sale of 120 lihds 9 trs Barbadoes went 6d cheaper, and brought 651 a 66s ad for good, and 50s a 645. for low to mid. REFlNED.—Refiners generally are net inclined to submit to lower prices, some of them, however, have accopted 76s for standard lumps which last week were worth 77s ; the price of double crushed is un certain. For Treacle a fair demand has prevailed, 30s to 30s 6d for common, and 32s a 33s for patent and the best old make. Pieces are not cheaper. Bastards have met with a dull sale ; Dutch crushed Sugar is held for 32. s 6d. MAURITIUS.—Prices have given way Is for fine and Gd for other de scriptions; at auction 6,386 bags sold as follows :—Low brown at 51s, fine strong 56s a 575, mid to good mid yellow 58s a 603 Gd, good 61s a 62,, fine 63s a 63s Gd, good grey 58s Gd a 595, fine 61s, low mid 565. This afternoon 3,045 bags 53 brie were offered at auction, which sold generally at former rates, but in some instances rather lower; fine yel low went at 63s a 63s Gd, good 61s Gd a 625, good mid 59s 6d a 60s Gd, mid 58s a 58s 6d, good mid grey 57s 6d, low brown 48e a 54s 6d, mid and good 55s a s(is. EAST INDI♦ —ln Bengal former prices have been barely maintained ; at public sale 542 bags brought 65s 6d for low, 67s a 67s 6d for good white, and 64s 6d a 66s for damps. Siam is held for full prices, and the demand continues steady ; at public sale 1,279 hags sold at 28s a 30s for mid to good dry white, mid rather soft 27s 6d a 28s, washed 22s 6d a 26s 6d, sound yellow 251 6d. For Manila former rates are demanded; of Cochin China Ism bags have been offered at action, which sold at the full valuations, low mid to good mid soft white at 25s a 26s 6d, washed 22s Gd a 23s Gd. This afternoon the public sales consisted of 1,304 bags 170 casks Bengal, and 800 bags Manilla; the former in bags sold at previous rates, good calory white 670 a 07s id, goad mid 658 T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, Cornhill, London ( Seven Doors from Gracechurch- street), informs the Public that he has fitted up THREE SHOW ROOMS expressly for the display of a large assortment of superior SILVER-EDGED PLATED GOODS. He offers them at those low but fixed prices, which have been so successful in drawing public attention te the WATCH, JEWELLERY, SILVER SPOON and FORK, anti several branches of his trade. N.B. A pamphlet, containing a De tailed List of the Prices of Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or will be forwarded in answer to a post paid application. PRICE O . The highest price of Breadinthit (}ood Bread may be had at 9d, PRICE OF SEEDS.-Fe ~ I. Per Cwt. I'er Quarter. New English Red Clover7os. 901.112 s St. F0in....1 .. 403.44s 48s. Old Ditto Ditto s. s. - a Rye Grass.: 2Bs, 355. 405. New Foreign Ditto -;....k5. 90s. 995. PAcey Gras,. --3. 40s. 455. Old Ditto Ditt0............-a. 40s. 603. Linseed, Col* feeding 465. 525. 560. New White Clover 60s. 80s. 90s. Ditto, for. to , ...ring... .... -..-s. 565. 635 Old Ditto Ditto --s. 453.:603 Ditto, for . -in ishing -s. 435. 50s• New Trefoil ................20s. 255. 303. Canary.... . -s 901. Os. Old Ditto -s. lbs. 225. Hemp -a. 38s. 425. rrefolium 10; I Is. 13s. Per Bushel. lenglish Carraway -s. 435. 465. White Mu stare I Is. 04 . 15•. I'd• Foreign Ditto -s. 40s. 445. Brown Ditto .... ..... 15s. oa, 22.. od, Coriander. -3 13..215. Tares 45.6.1. 5, Oil. Rapeseed, English tine (per Last) 361. 361. Foreign 34/. 361. PRICES OF HOPS.- Feb 1. Farnham rockets (per cwt.) 6l 85. 71. 15s. to 9/. bs. East K....iit Pockets 4l Ills. 5/. 15, to Si. St. Ditto Bags 4l. 4s 51 10z. to 7/. IN. Mid Kent Pockets l3l. 15s. 51. ss. to 81 R^ Ditto Bags 11. 10.. 4! 10s t. 71. is. Sussex 4►• 3i. 01 15, to V.. 10, Yearlings 2/.. 10s. 34 fis. to 41. 4 , . Old /lids PRICES OF POTATOES AT : ;PIT.A LFIELDS. York Reds (from vessel) 4l. Ws. to 51 Os. per ton. Scotch Reda ditto 4l. Is. to 41. 156 ditto Kidneys IL Pls. to Si. Os. ditto Shaws 2 , . 15 . to 3:. ss. ditto PRICES OF LEATH/ :It. Per lb. d. t. d. Per 1i d. to d• Crop Ilides,3o to 401 b. each 11 13 Horse Hid es, German lO 21 ----40 50 ..... .... 12 16 .--___.- —Spanish 50 60 l3 !8 CalfSkins,,:3o to 4elb.(doz ) .14 1 8 Bull Hides -40 50 s, IS ',3 Butts, Vitriol - 5 English l4 26 W 100 .15 19 Foreign Foreign Hides lO 12 I-- small ........... .. .... , 0 2I Dressing Hides Shaved .... 12 15 ! Basils OW 6 1 Best Saddlers Hides l4 16 Bellies Horse Hides, English - • If rounded 2d. to 4d. per W. mort. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per tom, 431. Os.—Refined, 441. 10a. —. t, inseed Oil, 27 , I 1- Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, (1000),131. Ca —Rape Ca Ito, per ton, 71 °!* PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 112th. Town Tallow •Y7s. 03. Yellow Soap ( lo' Yellow Russia White s.' Id. Cued —s. Od. Soap Ditto —s. Od. Gra yes l6s. al. Melting Stuff 4Bs, dd. Good Dregs ........ ss. Ditto Rough Sus Pd. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of ER'. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow M titers) Ss. 4 PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of goosl Store Candles ir. the Retail Shops is as follows . Candles, per dozen, Bs. 63. ; inferior, 7s. 6d.—Mow 33,10: ed. Sixpence per dozen discount for cash. COAL MARET--Feb. 1. s. o. Adair's .lB a ..... Bute's Tanfield Moor 2.1 0 Garesfield 1 ,4 II Holywell Main Piston We't Hartley 2l 6 Willington ylam 2O 0 Walls End Chirton IS 0 Walls End Goforth 23 !I Walls End Killiny,worth Todd's Bensham IS 3 Walls End Walker 2l 3 Walls End Belmont Walls End Braddyll's Hetton 21. 9 Walls End Lambt ,, o ... 3 Ships arrived sine, Per Ton. sr at' Ttr, x. 4. WA:: Eni Pemberton .... '22 6 v'Sails Enr Ste , ,, , Rv•% Walls End Whitivell Walls En 4 Hartlepool 24 2 Wall; End : 3 1 trrington Tees._ 21 , Walls End North Hetlon "ll ~° w all- End ,n ato Du ch , im Walls End !Se vmour Tees Walls End W ost Iletton Walls End West 'Fees 2l 6 Walls End Tea want 23 rowpm 20 ° Hartley Nevill's blanel '-' ly Walls End Er. tkine Bl 6 last market.day „ 34. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK, Per Quarter, Wheat. I Barley. . 'ot ans• Ashburn 61 80 40 45 28 33 Basingstoke 76 88 30 37 20 28 Bath 70 81 30 33 20 22 Bridgewater 64 80 122 26 20 25 Bristol, w• 68 80 24 32 16 20 Chesterfield —. ,58 82 30 34 20 28 Derby 76 85 30 35 24. 28 Doncaster 74 80 35 44 20 30 Dorchester.,. . 80 30 21 65 81 30 36 20 28 G10uce5ter...........,, 72 84 34 37 24 34 Hungerford 56 156 26 38 22 29 Leice5ter....,..,,.,..., 83 y 24 44 Newbury......-- 56 63 35 47 21 32 34 4S Remsey 60 St 30 31 28 5: 7 38 40 Shaftesbury -- 80 30 ' 25 41 Shepton Mallet 68 84 30 36 20 25 26 59 Sherborne—.--. 72 80 28 34 21 26 38 44 76 j 29 18! 36 Yarmouth 80 84 30 33 !28 30 , 41 42 Yeovil ...»,- 68 83 28 33 20 k 6 36 44 Per Bushel. s. (1. col lg. d. s. (I s. (1. s. s. 6. s. d. Shrewsbury -- 10 5 11 9 5 0 5 6 3 6 4 4-1 0 0 0 0 BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, Jan. 31 Wheat, 62 lb. Barley, imperial quarter 3B 6 Do. Grinding, 49 lb. Oats, 39 lb. Old Beans, 66 1 ,41 b l6 6 New ditto New White noting Pease, 3 imp. bush. Ditto Grey ditto 51' 55 35 48 38 48 32 34 34 38 44 50 44 46 36 42 - 40 36 40 40 45 36 42 Pease. .38 50 42 4 6 42 46 37 4 ss 5 1, 34 34 44 --- 4 - 1 42 s7d. 1 cl. 0e 0 • LADIES' FINE GOLD NECK-CHAINS A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Goldginili t ts, No. 9, Cornhill, London (opposite the Bank of England), offers large variety of Ladies' Fine Gold Neck. Chains, of the matte•d, ring, and cable patterns, a yard and a quarter long, at the followi.9g prices, accord ing to the weight : The weight of 3 sovereigns... £4 4 0 The weight of 7 sevsereignalB 8 ° The weight of 4 sovereigns... 5' 5 0 The weight of sove.regns 9 g 0 The weight of 5 so vere igns... 6 6 The weight of 9 soverCigns 10 10 The weight of 6 sovereigns... 7 7 0 The weight of 10 soverei:Ms fi i i 0 The most elegant spangled, star, and fancy link pattents, at Two Guineas more than their respective weights. A. B. SAVORY anti SONS, No. 9, Cornhill, Londin:. BIRTBS. On the 29th ult., at Abbots Ann, the lady of Captain William Fanshawe Martin, R.N., of a daughter. On the 29th ult, at Kingston College, Hull, Mrs. H. R. Fran cis, of a daughter. In Regent-square, on the 30th ult., the lady of Philip Smith Duv.l, Esq., of a daughter. On the 31st ult., in Connaught-square, the lady of Henry Hugh Fraser, Esq„ of a daughter. :MARRIED. On the 24th tilt., at Exmouth, Captain William Charles Phil lott, RN., to Eliza, eldest daughter of William Henry Hooper, Esq., late of her Majesty's Ceylon Civil Service. At Taplow Church, on the 30th ult., John Ashley Warre, Esq., to Caroline Temple, daughter of the late Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. On the 30th ult., Mr. George P. Wright, of Glasshouse-street, St. James's, to Ellen, fourth daughter of Mr. James Barn, of Haverstock -h ill , Hampstead. 1)1P',1). On the Ist inst., in the Pair Mile, Henley-on. Thames, Mrs. Hickman. in the 79th year of her age. On the 24th ult., at Frome, Somersetshire, aged 43, Captain James P. Catty, late of the Royal Engineers, and of Stockbury, near Maidstone. On the 30th ult., Catherine Jane, wife of S. Lane, Esq., second daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Powys, of Fawley. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office. No. 112, Strand, in the county of Middlesex.—Saturday, February 2, 1839. lOs SI 43 0 4 0 4 0 18 0 14 6 31 0 15 0