The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-18 00:00:00

-4--btrb Mbtrton THE FUNDS-(C DOSING PRICES.) FUNDS. !Ditto Bonds £l,OOO pm. Ditto under £l,OOO 73 pm. South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Es. Bills, 1,000/. I%d 57 pm. Ditto 5001. 5 '7 pm . Ditto 5ma11........, 57 pm Bank Stock for _A Consols for Opr .. ;. ..... 100% India Stock far Acct — BRITISI Bask 2083( 3 per Cent Bed .... ..... 100% 3 per Cent. Cons. — Per Cent. Red ...... New 35i per Cent. ...... 103% New 5 per Long Annuities to expire Jan. 12 1-16 , 4 Oct ..... Jan. ..... ....... FOREIG Austrian, 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent.. ... Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Chllian, 6 per Cent 1 70,, Colombian, 8 per Cent Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, l81!5, 5 per Cent Mexican, 5 per Cent Neapolitan Bonds, 1;, per Ct — Prussian Bonds. 4 per Cent — Peruvian 6 per Ct 3O Portuguese 'bonds, 5 per Ct 4 FUNDS. Russian, 7h per Cent..„.„ Metallic Spaniskl, 5 per Cent., 1840 25% .to, 1841 ......„„....» — Ditto, ........ Ditto, 1843. Ditto, 1844 Ditto, 3 per Cent 3'7% Venezuela Bonds, '2 per Ct — French, 5 per Cent....... —t c French, 3 per Cent —f. —c. exchange ....... —c. Dutch, '2% per Cent _— ,Ditto,.s per Cent 9914 SH A Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Caledonian (5 paid) Churnet Valley, 2 paid Eastern Counties (25 paid) Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 (.aid Great Western (75 paid) Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) London and Brighton (50 paid) Jo% Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid 12% London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid) London and York, 2% paid Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto Quarters ( ' 2 paid) .., ...... .. . ..... ••••••• '.... Manchester and Birmingham, 40 pP .. Northern and Eastern (45 paidl , South Eastern and Dover (•r i 2s ~, paid) Ditto *law Shares (4 - iaid) -"' 117 1 West" Cornwall, IL 5. ' York and North • ••• ......• 4 nidland (50 paid) — Ditto Half ',,iares (.25 paid) Ditto Sc.P: .r b oro , Brancn, 10 paid B 4 O ",_INIP:e and Amiens, 2 paid ..... ••... ',,an.' and Lyons, 2 paid 3IA f '....ris and Orleans (20 paid) earls and Rouen, 20 paid ••••••• ...... ....... ......... .... 40% Paris and Strasbourg, 2% p a id 3 RE& ...... 69% 4% PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) TEE LIEUTENANT -GOVERNOR OF GUERNSEY. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The Learned Counsel having concluded, Mr. BURGE proceeded to reply, but not having con cluded when their Lordships rose, the further considera tidn'of the case, was adjourned till Friday at ten o'clock. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PR:4)I THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—Mr. Justice Coleridge, in the course of his '4harge to the Durham Grand Jury on Monday lass made some strong remarks on the general mode of arranging the jury lists, which will, we tr us t, l ea d to an early imp rovemen t of the present system. His Lordship alluded to the exemption—by a custom which is unsanctioned by the law—of persons placed on the special jury -list from serving on common juries. When the heavy pecuniary expenses in • curred by a residence of several days in an assize town, at a time aben the price of food and lodging is increased by the influx of strangers, joined to the in convenience and loss to which the small farmer or tradesman is subjected by being removed from his avocation, are considered, the injustice of placing this combination of inconvenience and loss on those least able to sustain it, becemes obvious, As if to en hal-ace the unfairness of the system, th e spec i a l jury 'lien is paid a gui nea in every cause he serves on ; while the common juryma.'a receives only eight pence in every civil cause on which he is sworn, and nothing in criminal. cases. The distinction is manifestly unfair, and pointedly invidious and ought to be ra'ootished. " The ge n t r y," said Mr. Justice Coleridge, " to use a common term, never serve on coroanon juries." To he sure they do not. If, tbroup3a inadvertence or mistake, the officer of the coun ty has summoned one of the privileged orders on the common jury, he regards it as a per-. soma ) , indignity—an affront to his rank and sta. tir,o. We have occasionally witnessed the manifes 'tatlon of wounded pride with which one of the " gentry" will address the Court, and plead exemp tion from serving on the common jury, on the ground of his rosme being on, or his quality giving it a right to be on, the special jury list. The claim has been allowed—rather in compliance with custom than in conformity with law. Mr. Justice Coleridge has ripenly declared that the custom is " unsanctioned by law." His Lordship has also pointed out the injury idflicted on the administration of public justice by the practice, as well as the inequitable distribution of the inconvenience and expense of serving on juries, which it entails :—" If the special juryman," said Lordship, " had no right to be exempted from Berating on common juries, he was enjoying a privilege at the expense of his poorer neigh bour without the sanction of the law. In addi tion to numerous other reasons, he could not help thinking that it would be desirable, in many cases of an intricate character, that there should be a little - more intellect upon the common juries than was at present always to be had ; and he thought, therefore, it was absolutely necessary that the common juries should be drawn from the whole jurors' list of the county." If individuals of a certain class be sum monad to serve on a special jury, that service is inci dental. It is additional to the general obligation which ought to be shared in common by all those whose names are on the jury -list. It is therefore made the subject of special provision. Thencher suitors choose to have their cause tried by a jury chosen from a superior class of society ; and he pays for his preference. The special juryman receives his guinea for the special service he has bean called upon to give —not to the public justice of the country, so much as to the pre ference of the party who thinks proper to have his cause made "a s p ec i a l jury cause." Mr. Justice Coleridge also alluded to the frequent lack of intellectual competency in jurymen. "He could not help thinking it would be very desirable, in many cases of an intricate character, that there should be a little more intellect upon common juries than was at present to be had." To obtain this increase of intellect, the Learned Judge " thought it was absolutely necessary that the common jurors should be drawn from the whole jurors' list of the county." It is only necessary to enter a court of j‘ntice—whether of civil or criminal juris diction—in an agricultural district, to induce a , cordial concurrence in Mr. Justice Coleridge's remark. The clodpoles who are often to be seen in the jury -box, on whose verdict the property, the character, the liberty, possibly the life, of an individual may depend—but whose vacant stare during the proceedings evinces a lamentable lack of ability to understand the evidence, or their duty with reference to it—exhibit the danger, no less than the indecorum, of the existing system. Trial by jury is 'valuable because of the protection it affords to the li berty and property of the subject. But, to secure its effi ciency, juries must understand their duties. Ignorance may prove as mischievous as corruption. If the common jurors were drawn indiscriminately "from the whole jury-list of the county," there would be an infusion of instructed mind into the constitution of juries, which would give diFnity and efficiency to the administration of the law. "The glorious privilege of Englishmen, trial by jury," is often on the lips of men who, most inconsistently, shrink from taking their fair share of the duties connected with the privilege. To this in consistency may be traced the depl ora bl e incompe tency of the juries in many parts of England, and universally in Wales. Let the " gentry " no longer shun the common jury -box, as a place in which it is beneath their station to be found; and their humblbr fellow-citizens will, by their aid, become more com petent for the duties of jurymen. The reproach which is occasionally cast upon the most valuable institution of the country will then cease. STANDARD.—Mr. Thomas Attwood, of Bir mingham, and the Morning Post have clubbed their geniuses to demonstrate a fact which has hitherto, we believe, escaped the observation of all other persons —namely, the fact that there is no such thing as rent in England. The demonstration is somewhat tedious and a little perplexed ; but here is the propositum laid down in the very words of our morning Contem • porary :—" We insert in another column a letter from Mr. Thomas Attwood, on the subject of the an nihilation of rent in England— a result which we 'lately attempted to show has been virtually ef fected by the action of Sir Robert Peel's recent industrial policy, combined with the action of his deadly Currency Bill." As we have said, the de monstration of Messrs. Attwood and the Morning Post is tedious and somewhat perplexed, and therefore we decline the task of replying to it in detail, which would involve the previous task of unravelling it; and we avoid the labour the more willingly, be cause there is, we think, not only abundance of evi dence patent to all, as well as a vast body of wit nesses easily produceable, to prove that there is still lingering a remnant of rent in this ruined country. If we wanted to convince a stranger upon this point, we should lead him from Leadenhall •street, via Cornhill, Cheapside, Ludgate-street, Ludgate-hill, Fleet-greet, Strand, Charing cross, Haymarket, Piccadilly, Regent-street, and so on to Portland place, a promenade, say, of about two miles, in the course of which he would see exposed for sale by re tail, more goods in value and amount than are in all the cities of all the world beside, and then we should remind him that all this vast amount of property was held out to tempt a class of the community said to isl2 ; AßSlTlWiejsettkr as the Leaguers admit that they, as "qiictill:N are only "summer birds" (hoarse . - ang - csirn• . .es), all the go o d s ex p ose d f or sa l e ' • • " 111 0 18th" e'f,Vecembe r must be intended for some e: . derivini t k their means of purchase, directly ;Indir.eotly,/fsom the land. in the same pro. menatie-the:,4ranger would no doubt see, if the time were betwe* four and six rat., more numerous and nsotespl'endid equipages than all the world could muster, and at least nine out of ten of these equip es would belong to the class said t o b e rentless, or to s cr e e of the classes immediately dependent upon that clam THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY E'EN This is patent proof that there still lingers a remnant of rent in England. And let us, by the way, take leave to remark that we have offered precisely this same proof before to the Leaguers, when they pretended, with about as much truth as Mr. Attwood and the Morning Post new advance their paradox, that the retail traders have no interest in supporting the landed interest, as certainly they would have none were rent annihilated. But this proof that rent survives, though as obvious and satisfactory as that of the philosopher who proved the possibility of motion by walking across the floor, is not in direct terms, and therefore we shall call a witness above ex ception—a gentleman known to the whole country, and deservedly respected for talents and integrity by all who know him ; a gentleman, moreover, whose com petency to give evidence upon the point every one must admit. Our witness is Ge,orwe Robins, Esq., who has probably transferred more landed property than any other man ever did. Well, Mr. Robins ; you frequently in a any sell three or four hundred thousand acres—f.'4o these acres pay any rent; and if not, what consideration do you offer for the 301. or 401. per acre that you not unfrequently obtain for the seller ? 1Y - e will abide by the answer of Mr. George Robins, 'We might produce a score or more highly res,ctable gentlemen, extensively engaged in the .-tlme line of business, but one of a class is suffi cient. We next request the evidence of the Commis sioners of Property-tax. We would respectfully ask of these gentlemen, from what funds do they suppose the landowners have been able to pay the millions that they have pain within the last two years ? But next, we have, indeed, a crowd of witnesses, honest and hearty - fellows, but a little boisterous in mirth or anger, and not likely to be put into the best of humours by oflering it as a doubtful question, whether there is any such a thing as rent ? Let the hearer prepare his ears for such a roar as never before greeted them, when the question is put to the farmers, "Is there any such thing as rent ?" That shout is decisive ; but, indeed, we need not go beyond the Morning Post's own article for proof of the ludicrous absurdity of its proposition. " Can landowners afford to hand over to the mortgagee the last acre of their possessions ?" asks our Con temporary ; but if its proposition that the land affords no rent be true, the question ought to be, can " mortgagees afford to take the land off the hands of its owners," paying or sacrificing a loan at the same time. There may be concerns, perhaps the Morning Post knows something of such, that no prudent man would purchase at any price, or even accept as 'a gift ; and we take it that land affording no rent is one of these concerns. But why should rent be annihilated ? The average price of the quarter of wheat is this day 48s. sd. The average price of the quarter of wheat this day ten years was 415., this day nine years 365.; so that the quarter of wheat is now worth 7s. in money more than it was ten years ago, 12s. in money more than its price nine years ago—through what leak is it, then, that rents have disappeared ? The populatioy has augmented one-seventh within the ten years; and, as no more foreign corn has been imported, nor are the people much worse fed than ten years ago, rent, instead of disappearing, must have increased in pretty much the same ratio, unless the cost of cultivation has become greater; but every improvement in agriculture, every additional outlay of capital upon land, renders the cost of cultivation much less, and it is notorious that many improve ments have been effected in agr i cu lt u r e since 1834, and that much capital has been laid out upon land. Must we then not, however reluctant to oppose such high authorities, come to the conclusion that Messrs. Thomas Attwood and the Morning Post are mistaken, and that rents are not yet either actually or virtually annihilated. STATE or TRADE.—To-day we have had but a limited business, and last Tuesday's prices were sup ported with difficulty ; this applies both to goods and yarn. The closing of the continental markets by the ice in the rivers, is one great cause of the present dulness ; to which we may add the usual quietue3s of the present season of the year. DALE FLANNEL MARKET, DEC. 1 6.—There has been an improved demand for goods to-day, and consi derably more have been sold at former prices. The 4- maud for wool is al so i ncreas i ng, an d pr i ces slowly A. the advance.—Manchester Guardian. THE LATE FATAL ACCIDENT TO Miss CLARA. WEBSTER.—The inquisition to be held, to investigate the circumstances leading to the death of this young and promising artiste, will held its sitting at ten: o'clock to morrow. ASIITON- UNDER -LYNE.—COLLIERS' WAGES.—On Saturday last, the notices given to the coal-masters, by the colliers of this district, for an advance of wages, ex pired ; when it was expected that a strike would take place at many of the pits in the neighbourhood. We are happy, however, to state that the matter has been amicably arranged between the masters and men ; the latter having received an advance upon their wages of twopence in ;the shilling. Coals hare been raised in price one halfpenny per hundredweight, which is thought by the manufacturers in this locality to be most exorbi tant ; and many of them have determined to get their supplies from other parts of the country.—Manchester Guardian. THE DIFFICULTY OF DIFFI CULTIES. (From the Sentinel.) In 1835, Sir liv. Peel announced to the country that his great difficulty was Ireland. That removed, he felt confident that he could maintain his adminis tration against all opposition. Ten years have won derfully changed the state of affairs. The difficulty of Ireland remains in undiminished force, but added to it is the difficulty of Britain. To make the revenue square with the expenditure—to raise that revenue without destroying industry—to provide employ ment for capital without disturbing vested interests—to liberate trade from the fetters of monopoly—in a word, to reconcile the rights of labour with the rights of property—this is the problem to be solved, this is the difficulty of difficul ties. It is one which does not affect Sir It. Peel alone; it lies in the path of every man who aspires to the rank of Prime Minister. Hitherto the solici tude of our statesmen has been confined to keeping faith with the public creditor; henceforward they must make arrangements to keep faith with the public debtor. With a general fall of prices, it will he impossible to keep up high taxes. With wheat between forty and forty-five shillings, which will be an average permanent price with average crops, cents must fall, and then the waters of bitterness will rise up and reach the Corinthian columns of society; then will come that conflict between the land holders and the fundholders which wise men have long foreseen, but for which statesmen have made no provision. "It will last our time," said the heartless George the Fourth ; but he had the sagacity to predict that when the proposed day of settlement did arrive, the consequences of violating justice would be awful to the wrong-doers. Already has the cry gone forth from agriculture that it sinks under the pressure of taxation, and a committee of 120 power ful and talented names, aiming at a repeal of the duty on malt, is a warning to Sir E. Peel that even those who placed him in power are now about to demand a recompense which circumstances must compel him to refuse, even should the refusal drive him from the helm of the State. We will submit a few facts and figures to our readers. They may enable them the better to ap preciate the real perils by which we are surrounded, and will give to our argument all the weight of a stern 4 and unaccommodating arithmetic. Let us, then, contrast the fiscal relation of a working man with eleven shillings a week with that of a landholder with a rental of one hundred thousand pounds. William Gladstone, a labourer, presented a petition to the House of CAnntnons, stating that he earned eleven shillings weekly, and that he cousumed one ounce of tea, two ounces of coffee, eight ounces of sugar, eight ounces of meat, eight pounds of flour, seven pints of ale, and one quarter of a pint of brandy. Of these articles, the untaxed price was 2s. 441 d.; the Excise and Customs charged on them was ss. 2id. Gladstone, therefore, paid out of his eleven shillings a week a tax of about fifty per cent. on his necessary food. Let us now inquire into the burdens imposed on the man with a rental of 100,0001. We can fix his land-tax exactly, because we know the rate of the as sessment. We can do the same with the present in come-tax. We can only do so approximately on his consumption of food and his articles of luxury, since these will vary according to his mode of living. Ne vertheless, we may form a pretty accurate estimate ; and this, indeed has been done by Mr. Macintyre, in his work on " Aristocracies." Availing ourselves of his conclusions without filling up our columns with his details and enumerations, we arrive at the follow ing result : Land-tax £2,716 17 11 Income-tax Taxes on consumption.. Direct taxes on articles of luxury, as servants, horses, &c .. of twenty millions, it would equal twenty-fi ye pe: cent. of this rental, for take away the monopoly the rental would [fall ;to 85,000,000/. Thus, the land owner, with a rental of 100,0001., stands thus : lie levies a private tax on the conga- mere of food of lie pays a personal tax to the State of 6,992 2 0 Net Annual gain ...£18,007 18 0 We must entreat the reader to bear with us a little longer in these arithmetical demonstrations. By figures we can best prove the graspings of the oli garchy, and we will do our best to force truth even on the unwilling, and rouse even the sluggard from his deceiving slumbers. If what we are now about to transcribe fails to rouse our readers from apathy, they deserve to have a tax-gatherer permanently do miciliated at their firesides. From 1793 to 1816, the taxation raised was X1,560,000.000 Deduct expenses of country supposing we had been at peace 460,000,000 Expense of War £1,100,000,000 OF this total, Ih© Land paid f f Industry paid .£120,000,000 1,440,000,000 £1,560,000,000 Or, the tax on Property and Land was 8 per cent. The tax on Industry was 92 per cent. In these proportions, then, was th e national debt contracted : it was incurred to save the estates of the oligarchy, and they contrived, through their mono poly of legislation, to make the working classes pay nearly the whole cost of the protection. When the danger was over, by the fall of Napoleon, it might have been expected that industry would haye re ceived some compensation for the fearful sacrifice it had made in the hour of peril. Quite the reverse. The oligarchy first passed a corn-law to raise their own rents, and make those who had saved them from ruin, eat dear bread ; then they abolished the pro perty-tax, which drained their own purses • thirdly, they converted a paper d e bt into a metallic debt, and, by so doing, indirectly increased the value of their own rentals, by reducing the price of all commodities. Since then, the working classes have dragged on a wretched existence, at famine wages, while the middle classes have been racked in body and mind to maintain the respectability of their position. All sorts of fallacies have been invented to disguise the truth. Over-population, over-production, too abun dant harvests, and other similar absurdities, have been proclaimed as the causes of the distress, and the reme dies proposed have been just as stupid as the descrip tion of the disease. The people have been studiously deluded by newspapers, whose proprietors derived enormous profits by acting on the money market; and, whoever ventured to insist on a paper currency, was held up to ridicule and execration, as a bankrupt spe culator, seeking to serve his private ends by issuing " sham" money. That was the phrase. It was a " telling" phrase, and well has it served the purposes of Lombard-street and Capel-court. It is our duty to tell the working classes of this realm, that unless the taxes are taken off industry and placed on property, relief to them is utterly hopeless. Without this fiscal reform, all the enactments of the Legislature will be valueless as waste paper. Now, there are but two ways of effecting this adjust ment; either by levying directly the whole of the taxe3 on property, which would require a rate of about thirty per cent., or by an issue of taxation notes to the amount of the annual expenditure. If gold is continued as the standard and measure of value, and its price kept permanently low by Act of Parliament, profits and wages must remain low, for it is utterly impossible that they can rise above the standard by which they are mea sured. This truth should be ever present to the minds of the people. Only let the corn-laws be abolished, and wheat will fall down to a scale cor responding with that of all other commodities, and then the full workings of the Bill of 1819 will be felt by the farmers, and when rents fall from this cause, let the fundholders tremble. They will be robbed with the same coolness as the industrious classes have hitherto been robbed. Then the landlords will transfer all their affections from the public creditor to the public debtor. We have shown what they have done in times past, and what they are doing now ; in the same spirit will their future policy be dictated. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Dm. 13, 1844. The Queen has been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint William Gore Ouseley, Esq. (now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Rio Janeiro), to be her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Argentine Con federation. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to nomi nate and appoint John Fiennes Crampton, Esq. (now First Paid Attach 4 to her Majesty's Embassy at Vienna), to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation to the Confe derated States of the Swiss Cantons. The Queen has also been graciously pleased to nomi nate and appoint Francis Farrant, Esq., to be Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at the Court of Persia. DOWNING-STREET, DEc. 16. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Denis Benja min Viger, Esq., to be President of the Committee of the Executive Council of Canada. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Henry Sherwood, Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor-General for that part of the Province of Canada formerly called Upper Canada. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint R. Y. Cummins, Esq., to be Accountant to the Surveyor- General's Department for the Island of Mauritius. Her Majesty has further been pleased to appoint William Dudley Ryder, Esq., to be Assistant Secretary for the Island of Ceylon. CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 16. The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Fuller Boteler, Esq., one of her Majesty's Counsel learned in the Law, to be one of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, to act in the prosecution of Fiats in Bankruptcy in the Country, in the place of Edward Goulburn, Sergeant-at-Law, resigned. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. William Cowland Buttress, silk throwster, Steward stone, Essex. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Dec. 17.) Suros.a.—To-day there was more activity in the West India Sugar market ; a fair business was transacted, and bright yellow descriptions, which were the most in request, in several instances fetched prices rather above those previously quoted ; other kinds sustained the former value; the market has decidedly assumed a firmer appearance. The total purchases amounted to 420 hhds, Sze., ineluding a public sale of 100 hhds and 12 tierces of Barbadoes Sugar, which went off with more animation, and at prices is to 2s above those of the former sale for midd and good, and 6d to is per cwt for low descriptions; good yellow fetched 62s 6d to 64s 6d, good middling 61s 6d to 625, middling 5 , 3 s 6d to 60s, low 55s to 56s 6d, and one lot very low 53s 6d per cwt. The total stock at this port of all descriptions of raw Sugar, subject to the 24s duty and 5 per cent, is 7,300 tons more than it was last season at this time. REFINED.—To day several parcels of Refined Goods were taken by the home trade, and prices ruled firm— brown lumps at 71s 6d, and standard lumps 73s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar is higher, sales for forward delivery having been made at 30s to 30s 6d per cwt. MAURITIUS.—This afternoon there was more inquiry for Mauritius Sugar, and at public sale 249 bags were sold at full rates ; fine yellow at 665, good mid 57s to 57s 6d, mid 545, good brown 50s to 50s 6d, and very low 40s per cwt. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon 3,553 bags Bengal Sugar were offered at public sale, but in consequence of higher rates being asked the whole was taken in, and with drawn, mid yellow at 54s 6d to 565, good mid 58s, and damp brown 42s 6d to 43s per cwt; there were buyers at fair market rates. FOREIGN.—The market has presented a quiet appear ance for Foreign Sugar since last Tuesday. In yellow Havannah there has been only a limited business transacted by private treaty, but previous rates are sustained ; 1,000 boxes have been disposed of at 20s 6d to 215 6d, and a small parcel at 22s per cwt. White is not offered upon lower terms. Brown Brazil is held for the former currency, and a fair demand has existed at 178 to 188 6d for middling to fine quality, but white has been taken sparingly at 21s to 24s ; the small parcels of other descriptions disposed of privately have been upon previous terms. SPlCES.—Nutmegs have met with more attention, and although the market has been liberally supplied, yet previous rates are supported, and 63 chests 5 boxes of Penang at auction were all disposed of, fine bold brown at 4s to 4s id, good middling and good 3s 5d to 3s I Id, and middling 3s 3d to 3s 4d. With Mace the market has again been well supplied, and a decline in prices of 2d per lb has taken place. The supply of Cloves exceeding the demand, prices are still going down. This after noon at public sale 96 bags of Penang Pepper were taken in at 21d per lb for stalky. FRUIT.—This afternoon at public sale 34 butts of New Patras Currants, damaged, went at 43s to 50s, 12 caroteels 43s to 495, 34 barrels 43s to 49s ; 8,728 pkgs of sound Turkey Figs, in drums 46s to 65s ; 4-drums 66s to 60s, * drums 58s, eases 70s ; 22 cases of Greek Figs 36s ; 20 casks of Sweet Almonds, 100 i-cases of French Prunes ; 720 drums of Sultana Raisins, and 328 boxes of Eleme were all withdrawn. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Jamaica Runs is still purchased sparingly by shippers and the home trade; 28 to 32 per cent everproof is 3s 6d to 38 9d, 33 to 35 over 3s 10d to 4s, for fine and very fine 4s Id to 6i per gallon. Leeward Island is not cheaper, 100 puns have been sold at 2s 3id to 2s 4d proofstrengt h. Demerara 3s to 3s 5d accepted for strong descriptions. Calcutta at 2s 2d to 2s 2d, and at 2s to 2s ld per gallon for arrival. In Brandy of the best descriptions there has been a good deal doing at firm rates, but common and middling kinds move off slowly ; we quote Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; do 1839, hhds 4s I Id, puns 4s 9d ; do 1840, hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s Od ; do 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ; do 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s 5d ; do 1843, hhds 45 sd, puns 4s 3d ; common 2s 8d to 3s I Id, and mid to good mid 3s to 3s 10d. Bor deaux common 2s 6d to 2s Bd. Geneva is fetching 1 a 9d to is 10d for export, and 2s 4d to 3s 6d for fine for home consumption. English Corn Spirits at 10s 2d per gallon, cash. To-day there was little business trans acted in the Rum market, and prices are drooping ; proof Leewards are 2s 3d to 2s 3id ; a small parcel of Deme rara 29 per cent 0 P has heels sold at 3s ld per gallon. INDIGO.—The quarterly sale of East India will take place on the 21st of January. A large quantity will he brought forward; already 5,114 chests are declared. In Bengal 400 chests have been disposed of, at a decline on the rates of the last quarterly sale of 3d to 4d per lb, the chief part having been taken by speculators. Madras, Kurpah, and Oude are selling at prices rather under those of that period. Spanish is little wanted, and prices are little better than nominal. TEA. —Since our last report the market has been better supplied with nearly all descriptions of Tea, still merchants for the most part have displayed firmness. To-day there was a good business transacted in the Tea market, and prices ruled firm ; common sound Congon cash fetched 10d to Ild, and Twankay is 3d to is 3id for ordinary. The deliveries during the past week were large, amounting to 505,210 lbs. RicE.—Bengal is still attracting attention, and in some cases a farther advance in prices has taken place; low white fetching lls to lls 6d, mid 11s 9d to 12s, and good 12s 3d to 12s 6d : the lower kinds are wanted, the supply being inadequate to the demand. Holders of Foreign East India are not inclined to press sales, and previous rates are maintained, but little business has been transacted in the private market ; 9s to 12s is the value of Java. At auction, 684 bags of Madras fetched 8s to 8s 6d for good yellow, and 7s 6d to 85 6d for sea damaged, first and second class. In cleaned Rice extensive purchases have been made, at 14s to 18s for Patna, and at 23s to 27s for Carolina. MOLASSES—To-day several inquiries existed for West India Molasses, but large purchases prevented higher rates being asked. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The repetition of Handel's Messiah takes place on Friday evening. The increasing popularity of this, the clwf-d'ruvre of the great composer, was evident from the attendance at the first performance on Friday last, which was one of the most numerous ever brought together even in Exeter Ea. BANKRUPTS. Leonard Watson, smith, Rickmansworth, Hertford shire, to surrender Dec. 23, at two, and Jan. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's Arms-yard; Walters, Basinghall-street. William Alfred Worth, victualler, Hampstead, Jan. 2, at half-past eleven, and Feb. 18, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry•chambers ; Pyke, Liacoln's Inn-fields. Humphrey Charles Balne, gro cer , P oo l e , an d P. C. Henry - Mayor and Thomas Skinner, hop and oil mer chants, Upper Thames-street, City, Jan. 7 and Feb. 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street ; Shaw, Furnival's Inn. James Thorley, glass and chinaman, Northampton, Dec. 31, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 24, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Smith and Taylor, Basinghall-street. Francis Fothergill and James M'lnnes, lamp black manufacturers, Bell's-close, Northumberland, Jan. 7, at half-past two, and Feb. 11, at two, at the Newcastle-upon- Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, Newcastle upon-Tyne; Chisholme, Hall, and Gibson, Lincoln's Inn fields, London; Harle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Kent, Newcastle. Samuel Peach. grocer, Nottingham, Jan. 6, at eleven, and Jan. 28, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Maples, Not tingham ; Motteram, Birmingham. Richard Blockley, linendraper, Crewe, Cheshire, Jan. 3 and 23, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Putt, official assignee, Manchester ; Makinson and San ders, Elm-court, Middle Temple, London ; Atkinson and Saunders, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. M. Thompson, ironmonger, Saffron Walden, Essex, Jan. 10, at half-past one— W. Yuill, tailor, Cornhill, Jan. 10, at two—l. Isaac, army clothier, Chatham, Jan. 11, at eleven—H. Miles, woollendraper, Southampton, Jan. 11, at half-past eleven—T. Rowell, linendraper, Cambridge, Jan. 11, at twelve—A. Hay, coach maker, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, Jan. 11, at half past twelve—D. Button, pawnbroker, Albion-place, Battle-bridge, Jan. 11, at one—N. Blake, linendraper, Edgeware-road, Jan. 11, at half-past one—C. B. Bayley, draper, Abingdon, Berkshire, Jan. 10, at two—J. Battyo, linendraper, Courtney-terrace, Kingsland, Jan. 11, at half-past two—E. Walker, auctioneer, Newman street, Oxford-street, Jan. 10, at half-past eleven—G. and W. Noel, bootmakers, Jermyn-street, St. James's, Jan. 7, at one—J. Marshall, merchant, Birchin-lane, Jan. 16, at half-past eleven—W. G. Kelson, builder, Canterbury, Jan. 16, at twelve—T. Fraser, Italian ware houseman, Brook-street, Bond-street, Jan. 14, at eleven —J. Bird, watch manufacturer, St. 'John's-square, Clerkenwell, Jan. 15, at one—J. Richards, metal broker, George-yard, Lombard-street, Jan. 15, at two. In the Country. J. C. and G. H. White, music sellers, Bath, Jan. 10, at one, at the Bristol District Court—H. lletherington, tanner, Cross Canonby, Cumberland, Jan. 8, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—W. Bearup, joiner, Newcastle •upon-Tyne, Jan. 8, at twelve, at the Newcastle•upon-Tyne District Court G. Newton, hosier, Seaham-harbour, Durham, Jan. 8, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—G. J. Green, glass manufacturer, Birmingham, Dec. 10, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. R. Buckler, grocer, Portsea, Southampton, Jan. 9-- G. and W. Noel, bootmakers, Jermyn-street, St. James's, Jan. 9—F. Howard, publisher, Tonbridge place, New-road, Jan. 7—T. Benson, stationer, North place, Gray's Inn-road, Jan. 10—P. French, carpenter, Worthing, Jan. 7—E. Heron, butcher, Hartlepool, Durham, Jan. 9—J. Heron, ship owner, South Blyth, Northumberland, Jan. 9—E. Heron, ship owner, South Blyth, Northumberland, Jan. 9—J. Nichol], worsted spinner, Halifax, Yorkshire, Jan. 6—T. M. Morton, eating-house keeper, Bishopsgate-street Within, Jan. 7 —R. Marsden, woollen cloth manufacturer, Halifax, Yorkshire, Jan. 7—J. Jones, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 7 —H. Ford, hnendraper, Manchester, Jan. 7 B. O'Beirne, wine merchant, Bath, Jan. 7—T. Eldridge, coach builder, Upper North-place, Gray's Inn-road, Jan. 7—W. Bowen, grocer, Merthyr Tydvil, Jan. 7. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Bloomfield and C. E. Sayers, builders, Springfield, Essex—J. and T. Browning, wine merchants, Great Marylebone-street—T. Boulton and C. 11. Chapple, surgeons, Westminster-bridge -road—W. and N. Boag, music sellers, Great Turnstile, Holborn—G. and M. Eggleston, engravers, Humber-dock-walls—I. Mason, J. Cass, and W. Mason, painters, ICnaresbrough, York shire—G. Littlewood and M. Vickers, maltsters, Holy well, Flintshire—E. Ormerod, 0. Ormerod, and W. Ormerod, carriers, Rochdale Lancashire—W. Cyples, T. Barlow, and R. Cyples, china manufacturers, Stoke upon-Trent, Staffordshire —J. and F. H. Hawley, earthenware manufacturers, Stoke-upon-Trent, Stafford shire—W. Drummond and B. Hill, manufacturers of fancy coloured quiltings, Manchester—B. Gollin and P. Brinkman, watchmakers, Union -street, Old Artillery ground, Bishopsgate-street —C. Champion and H. am Holborn—J. and J. Y. Lashmer,Barh, millers, B , rig E h l t y o - n p-127, Bell, sen., and T. Ross, jun., elastic braid manufacturers, West Ham, Essex— J. Wood, W. Brownfield, J. Gerrard, flint grinders, Hanley, Staffordshire—T. Lupton, W. B. Lupton, and G. 11. Lupton, flax spinners, Leeds (so far as regards G. H. Lupton)--J. Jacks and J. Holmes, tailors, Liver pool—J. C. Mackay and J. Patterson, general agents, Manchester—W. Isdell and J. M. Lawton, fustian ma nufacturers, Manchester —W. and J. M'Vine, tea dealers, Halifax, Yorkshire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. George Moon, millspinner, Russellmill, Fifeshire, Dec. 20 and Jan. 10, at twelve, at M'Nabs Hotel, Cupar. David Scott, grocer, Dundee, Dec. 20 and Jan. 10, at one, at the Royal Hotel, Dundee. James M'Farlane, dyer, Glasgow, Dec. 23 and Jan. 20, at two, at Black and Lorimer's, accountants, Glasgow. Elizabeth Glass, printer, Edi n b urg h, D ec . 25 an d J an. 22, at two, at T. Stevenson's, Edinburgh. THE SCOTCH BANKS. ----- We refer, with much satisfaction, to the highly important meeting of the county of Lanark, held on Friday at Hamilton, and to the very able resolutions deprecatory of all interference with our present currency and banking system, which were unani mously adopted. The requisition to Lord Belhaven, in compliance with which the meeting was called, contained upwards of two thousand signatures ; a fact which we trust will not be without its influence upon the Government. The whole proceedings were, moreover, characterised by the most cordial unanimity—another fact which ought also to have its effect in the proper quarter. There was not much oratory at the meeting. Those who attended it were men of business, who met to transact business ; and as there was not one among them who had not made up his mind upon and thoroughly understood the question, there was no necessity for any displays of elocution to convince the wavering, or enlighten the ignorant. The resolutions which they passed are the most clear, able, and com plete expositions of the real state of the matter that we have yet seen, and might, with great advantage, be taken as models for all future meetings that may be called to consider this subject. The county of Lanark, the wealthiest and most populous of Scotland, feeling the importance of its unanimous voice upon the question, has set to work in a vigorous manner. We are informed that every parish in Lanarkshire will be called up to sign the petition—and in addition to this, copies of the resolutions and petition are to be for warded to the Convener of every county in Scotland, with a recommendation to get them adopted, and signed in every district. Were this plan carried out, as we trust it will be, an opposition to the inter ference of Government would be raised, as powerful as that of 1826—the old national spirit of Scotland would be awakened, and the Minister would be com pelled to l eave us a l one in the enjoyment of a prospe rity which hi s t h eor i es might shake, b ut could never have created.— Glasgow Argus. TIIE LATE HIGH SHERIFF OF DURIIAM..--It is in contemplation to erect a monument to perpetuate the stering Fublic and private worth of the late Henry Thornton Maim Witham, Esq., High Sheriff of the county of Darhatn, and the plan :suggested is not to raise the mere useless pillar, or " flattering - narble," but something in accordance with his practical character, his benevolence, and active regard for the education of the middle and working classes. Tho erection ce: a hand some building, expressly inscribed to Lis memory, is projected for the use of the Barnard Castle Mechanics' Institution, which the late Mr. Witham originated, and for the success of which his efforts and labours were unceasing. 358 11 8 £6,992 2 0 Thus we perceive that the man with 100,0001. per annum pays seven per cent. to the public revenue, while the labourer, such as William Gladstone, pays fifty per cent. If the injustice stopped here, it would be sufficiently infamous ; but the crime against industry is as yet only half disclosed. The landowner, by virtue of the corn laws, compensates himself for the seven per cent. he pays to the State. He does much more, as we proceed to show. We are again indebted to Mr. Macintyre for the following deeply interesting facts. In the British Islands there are 46,522,000 culti vated acres. If the corn-tax only amounted to twenty millions annually, this would increase the rent of those lands Bs. Bd. per acre. The rental of this sur face of soil is computed at 75,000,0001. If the bonus, through the corn-laws, be taken at the low estimate NG, DECEMBER 18 1841. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 17. (Sittings at Nisi P;ius, at the Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN and a London Spesial Jury.) TOTTIE V.IIOLMEB AND ALLEN. The plaintiff in this case is a civil engineer, and the defendants are attorneys, carrying on business in lied= ford-row. The action was brought to recover the amount of a bill sent in by the plaintiff to the defendants of 1,8061. 13s. 9d., for engineering, which he alleged he had been employed by the defendants to perform. It appeared that somewhere about the latter end of 1842, the defen dants, who were attorneys, thought it would be advan tageous to form a railway to be called the Middlesex and Surrey Grand Junction Railway Company, and en tered into communication on the subject with the plain tiff, who was to be the engineer to the proposed company, and with a Mr. Smith, who was to be the secretary. The original plan was for a railway from Southall to Twick enham, with a braneh to Richmond. Tottie was at that time about to leave the service of the Eastern Counties Railway, and be undertook to make the survey. He then suggested that it would be advantageous to extend the railway so as to make it a junction railway, joining all the railways approacihng the metropolis. The propo sition was acceded to, and the surveys were made for the formation of a line from Harrow to Reigate, thus con necting the Birmingham, the Great Western, and the Dover lines. These surveys were deposited with the clerk of the peace. During this time the defendants had paid plaintiff 501. a month according to agreement, and he had received from them 630/. in all. The company was formed, and plaintiff was appointed engineer, but the scheme was finally given up in the beginning of the present year, and then the plaintiff had brought this action. The plans were put in, as were various letters which had passed between plaintiff and defendants. A witness, named Burleigh, who had been employed by plaintiff, proved that the work had been done ; and Mr. Braithwaite, the engineer to the Eastern Counties Rail way, deposed that the plans were moat carefully exe cuted, and that the charges were such as were usually made. For the defence, it was contended that the 6301. which had been paid to the plaintiff by defendants was all that he was entitled to by agreement, inasmuch as it was proved from his letters that he had agreed to take 50/. a month, as the amount of his expenses from the de fendants, and that he looked for his profits to the pro posed company. He had undertaken to make the sur veys in the hope of being appointed engineer to the company, in the same manner as the defendants had undertaken the legal portion of the business in the hope of becoming solicitors to the proposed company, and as Mr. Smith had executed his duties in the hope of being appointed secretary ; and therefore he had no claim upon defendants beyond the 501. a month, which he had agreed to accept for the expenses incurred, and which they had regularly paid him. In the course of his speech, Mr. MARTIN, who ap peared for the defendants, read several documents signed by plaintiff, one of which stated that he should look to the Provisional Board of Directors, as soon as such should be formed, for his remuneration ; and another, that, in consideration of a note of hand from Messrs. Allen and Holmes for 1001., which he had received, he exonerated them from all liabilities up to that date. At the conclusion of Mr. Martin's address, the jury intimated that they were prepared to deliver their ver dict; and a hint was thrown out by Lord Denman as to the possibility of coining to some settlement. A con sultation took place, and it was ultimately arranged that a juror should be withdrawn. Mr. 'Watson conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. Martin appeared for the defendants. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) Hew Byrne, the captain of a merchant vessel, sur rendered to answer an indictment passed under the Act of Parliament of the sth and 6th Williatn IV., commonly called the Merchant Seaman's Act, charg ing him with having unlawfully deserted Charles Robert Rowe, one of the seamen on board his vessel, at Port Nelson, without lawful cause, and not having a certificate from the authorities of that place autho rising him to do so. Mr. Ryland conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the defendant. From the - statement of the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, and the evidence of the first mate of the vessel, it appeared that the defendant was the captain of a barque called the Himalaya, and in the beginning of 1843 he was about to sail on a voyage to New Zealand and South America. Rowe, it seems, was a lad eighteen or nineteen, and having a strong desire to go to sea, contrary to the wish of his friends, they at length consented, and his father placed him in the charge of the defendant, and he was rated as an ordi nary seaman, and sailed in that capacity; Nothing particular - occurred until the vessel arrived at New Plymouth, when Rowe went on shore, and, on his not returning, it was found necessary to send the con stables after him, and he was brought by force on board the ship. He then expressed his regret for what had occurred, and promised amendment ; and he again resumed his duty and sailed to Port Nelson, but on the way thither the crew broke open a cask which contained a quantity of bottled porter, and the complainant was found to be drunk in the hold, and a bottle of the beer was dis covered on his chest. On his being remon strated with by the captain he was insolent, and said he would not do any more duty ; and upon the vessel arriving at Port Nelson he was taken before a magis trate, and charged with neglecting his duty and getting drunk, and the magistrate fined him twenty shillings, and in default sentenced him to be impri soned for ten days ; and at the expiration of this period, as the complainant did not come on board the vessel, the defendant sailed without him. In cross examination the witnesses said that the complainant had repeatedly said, while at Port Nelson, that he would never go on board the -- ship again, and that when the constable attempted to take him down to the beach, he resisted him, and got away. It was admitted that the defendant had not obtained of the magistrate at Port Nelson the certificate which would, in law, have justified him in leaving the man behind. Mr. CLaaxsoN, in his address to the jury on be half of the defendant, commented, in his usual able manner, upon the facts that had been disclosed in the course of the case, but at the same time said he was fearful he could not rescue his client from a verdict of guilty, inasmuch as he had not acted up to the strict letter of the Act of Parliament, in obtaining a certi ficate of the magistrate at Port Nelson. He argued, however, that it was perfectly clear the complainant had virtually abandoned the vessel, and that he never intended to return to his duty, and the extent of the offence imputed to the defendant was, that he had neglected to apply for a certificate to that effect, which he would, no doubt, easily have obtained, and this would have entirely shielded him from the present charge. He said that his client was exceedingly anxious for the sake of his character that he should lay before the jury some evidence in support of this statement, and although he, the Learned Counsel, was fearful that it could not weigh with the jury in their ultimate de cision, yet it would be a satisfaction to the defendant and his friends to have it shown that he was not guilty of the wanton and reckless conduct of wilfully deserting one of his seamen in a foreign land. Mr. French, the surgeon of the vessel, and other witnesses were then called, and they deposed that when the period of the complainant's imprisonment at Port Nelson had expired, endeavours were made to get him on board the vessel, but he refused to go, and repeatedly, with an oath, declared that he would never go on board the ship again, and that he resisited the constable with considerable violence when he at tempted to convey him on board. _ _ E.R. Arthur, the owner of the Himalaya, proved that the defendant had sailed in her for five years, and had, during the whole of that time, conducted himself with very great propriety; and also that he was particularly humane and attentive to his crew. Several other respectable witnesses also gave the defendant a high character for general good conduct, and particularly for humanity and attention to the wants of his crew. The RECORDER, in summing up, said there did not appear :to be any imputation upon the character or conduct of the defendant out of this transaction; but it appeared clear, from the evidence, he had not ful filled that duty the Act of Parliament under which the indictment was found, and which had a very im portant object, required of him. It was very neces sary for the protection of seamen engaged in the merchant service, that the Act of Parliament should be strictly carried out ; and if the jury b e li eve d th e evidence, it was clear ie defendant had infringed its provisions, and that he had neglected his duty in not obtaining a certificate from the magistrate at Port Nelson, stating, if it really were the cese, that the complainant had deserted the vessel. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty, but at the same time strongly re commended the defendant to the merciful considera tion of the Court. The RECORDER sentenced the defendant to pay a fine of 20/. to the Queen. The fine was immediately paid, and the defendant left the Court, accompanied by his friends. In the course of the day, the grand jury returned true hills against Joseph Elder and William Burgess, for the forgery upon the Bank of England. DETENTION OF A HOUSEBREAKER.—A namesake of the celebrated Jock Sheppard was on Monday lost apprehended by Superintendent Russell, at the llen and Chickens, in this town. From information received by the superintendent, he thought it advisable to pay a passing visit to the house in question ; accordingly on the evening of Monday last he " dropped in," like Paul Pry, " hoping he did'nt intrude," and in a short time dropped on a very suspicious-looking personage, who, with his female companion, had been domiciling at that establishment since the previous Thursday. At the sight of the officer the veritable " Jack" became alarmed —and this circumstance, combined with the finding of seventeen skeleton keys and two jemmies, made out a case sufficiently strong to warrant the super intendant in apprehending him. This he accordingly did, aad the next morning he was taken before the bench of magistrates, wi,o comi,lering " prevention far better than cure," dispatched the worthy to grind corn or wind, as the case might be, at the celebrated Northleach ' mill, for the term of three calendar months.--Cheltenham Journal. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday Mr. James James, saddler, No. 8, Bentinek street, Berwick-street, was summoned before Mr. Maltby, by Elizabeth Heslam, for an assault. The complainant, a good-looking Yorkshire girl, said she had lived with the defendant as servant for some weeks, during which period her master had made many amorous ottrtures to her, all of which she had rejected. Her master had also offered her money on several occa sions—first a shilling, next half-a-crown, and lastly a sovereign, which, acting under her mistress's sanction, who was put in possession of the defendant's proceedings, she consented to receive. On Friday last her mistress was sent for to attend her father, who was very ill, in order that she might remain all night. Before her mis tress left home she (complainant) told her she did not like to remain alone with her master in the house, but her mistress told her not to mind, but to take care how she allowed anything improper to occur. As soon as her mistress had left the house, the defendant came into the kitchen, and, after placing himself in a chair, began to pull her about. She resisted, and the defendant then got up and shut the door. The defendant gave her a sove reign, which she took, and lie proceeded to attempt further liberties. The defendant was only induced to leave off his improper behaviour, on complainant telling him that some one was coming. As soon as complainant got rid of her master she called one of the boys, and told him she was going out of the house, and should not re turn all night. Complainant accordingly left the house, and did not eater it again until the next day, by which time her mistress had returned home. She immediately told her ,mistress of her master's behaviour, and also made her acquainted with the fact of his having given her a sovereign. Her mistress told her to keep the money, as nothing was freer than a gift, and then sent for her husband, that he might hear the charge against him. A soon as the defendant entered the room, com plainant said she began to tell the particulars of his con duct to her on various occasions, but the defendant would iwt let her proceed, for he shook his fist at her in a me /lacing manner, and then took her by the back of tke neck and pushed her violently out of the place. Com plainant, at the suggestion of her mistress, applied for and obtained a summons for the assault. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said there was no truth in the girl's story. He had never attempted to take liberties, nor had he given her money at any time to induce her to comply with his solicitations. The fact was, that the girl came to him with a message from her mistress that she wanted a sovereign.: He had given the girl the sovereign, and the girl had then gone out and had stopped away the whole night. Having ascer tained that the girl's mistress had not sent to him for the sovereign, and being very much irritated the next day when the girl made her appearance and trumped up a story to his wife, in order to cover her misconduct, he certainly did push her out of the house. Mr. MALTBY asked the defendant if he positively de nied having ever acted improperly to the girl ?—The defendant declared he never had touched her, or made improper proposals to her. Complainant—You know you have, many and many a time. When mistress was out the other day, did you not try to get at me in the bedroom, but you could not because I had locked the door ? Your worship, he never could pass me when I lived in the house without pulling my frock or laying hold of my neck. . I was so disgusted with his behaviour that I told mistress about it. Mr. MA.LTBY—You say the defendant gave you money, and you took it ; for what purpose did he give you this money ? Complainant—He pretended to pity me at first. lie said I was a poor girl, without frier.ds, and if I wanted to buy myself some clothes he would give me money. He told me he would give me a sovereign any time I liked, and that he did not care about spending a hundred pounds to obtain anything he had set his mind upon. I told my mistress everything he said to me. The defendant called an errand boy as witness, but no thing of any consequence was elicited. At the suggestion of Mr. Maltby,lthe defendant con sented to send for his wife. The wife, who has much the advantage of the com plainant in point of :personal attractions, entered the Court and was examined. It was quite apparent that great reluctance on her part existed to state any matter unfavourable to her husband. She denied that the com plainant had taken out the summons at her request. She admitted, however, that the complainant had told her about the money offered by the defendant, and the de fendant's declaration about spending 1001. to have his mind. She also admitted that she had told the com plainant to take all the money offered to her. Mr. MALTBY said he was satisfied that the complain ant's statement was true, and he should therefore inflict a fine of 5/. or three months' hard labour. The defendant immediately paid the money. A Lieutenant-Colonel, who writes from Tunbridge, sent IL for a poor distressed needlewoman, named Ed wards. 51. was put in the poor-box, at the request of the members of the Stock Exchange, being part of the money subscribed for an impostor named Carr, whose case ap peared under the head of Thames police. It was stated that the subscriptions for this woman and her family ex ceeded 2201. MAR YLEBONE. Yesterday, Philip Baker, a gunner and driver of the Royal Artillery, stationed at Woolwich, was brought up in custody:and placed at the bar before the sitting magis trate, Mr. Rawlinson, charged with the following outrage : _ _ _ Witay, a constable, in the employ of the London and Birmingham Railway Company, deposed that on the same morning, at a quarter past nine, the prisoner came very drunk into the booking office at the Euston•square station, and insisted, although he had not taken a ticket, to pass through to the platform, with the view of going by the train ; he was told that he was not in a fit condi tion then to be allowed to enter either of the carriages, when he became extremely outrageous and abusive, aid kicked witness with great force upon the groin. Inspector Challenor said that hearing of the assault which had been committed upon M'Kay, he caused the prisoner to be conveyed to the Phenix-street station house, and while the charge was there being entered in the book by Sergeant Shaw, he suddenly seized hold of a poker, exclaiming, " Now I'll let you know who I am," and would in all probability have seriously injured him (the inspector) had not a man on " reserve" duty closed in upon him and wrested the poker from his grasp. The prisoner's excuse for his conduct was that he had partaken too freely of drink. He hoped the magistrate would be as lenient as possible. The MAGISTRATE fined him 405., or, in default of pay ment, a month's imprisonment. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday, Sarah Smith, a middle-aged woman, un derwent a lengthened examination on several charges of robbery. Prisoner had been for the last four or five years en gaged as charwoman at the houses of several resp-ct able persons at Chelsea and Brornpton, and availed her self of the opportunity so afforded to plunder her em ployers to a considerable extent. Information of one of these robberies having been given to the police -sergeant Skelton, of the B division, he went to the house of the prisoner, who hid the reputation of being a very poor woman, and there found upwards of 50/. in gold and silver, an acknowledgment for 110/. lent by her to a friend, a gold watch, some gold rings, and a great deal of property of various descriptions, among which were many articles identified by her landlady, and some of those who had employed her. Mrs. Elizabeth Ball, of 4, Queen- terrace, Marlborough road, Chealsea, said that the prisoner had been employed by her twice a week during the last twelve months. She had missed property at various times since the prisoner had been in the habit of coming backwards and forwards to her house, and identified six handkerchiefs, a pair of gloves, and other articles produced, as amongst the things she had missed. Mrs. Sarah King, of No. 1, Hive-street, Chelsea, baker, stated that prisoner had lodged in her house for eighteen months, but had left some time prior to her ap prehen.don. During the whole of that time she (witness) was continually being robbed of bread, flour, linen, and other articles. She identified some knives, spoons, and silk cord, and, to the best of her belief, a wedding-ring pro duced was the one she had lost, and which prisoner pre tended to assist her in looking for at the time, express ing much sorrow for the distress she exhibited on the occasion. Mr. Todd, of No. 3, June-street, Chelsea, builder, proved that prisoner had been employed at his house, but had been sent away three months ago in consequence of repeated losses. Prisoner had thrown suspicion upon a girl who was in his service, in consequence of which the latter was discharged. He identified three pieces of satin paper, a silver pencil case, a gold snap, and other articles. sergeant Skelton proved finding the articles above spoken to by the several prosecutors in prisoner's room. Mr. BOND inquired whether there were any other pro secutors in attendance? Skelton replied that the lady who owned the gold watch was not present. lie had a reticule belonginv to another lady, who did not wish to prosecute. Prisoner was then committed for trial on the three eases above stated. On the application of prisoner's professional advisers (Mr. Miller, a barrister, and a Mr. Williams), the former of whom had cross-examined the witnesses, without eliciting anything favourable to his client, 201., was or dered to be given over to the prisoner out of the money found in her rooms. The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a meeting yesterday at the office in Whitehall place. The Commissioners present were the Arch bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Dean of Westminster. DUNKELD.—AFFECTING INCIDENT. On Friday evening se'nnight a very melancholy and affecting cir cumstance happened in the little village of Cotlea, nearly opposite Murthly, on the north bank of the Tay. A wedding party belonging to the neighbourhood were passing through the village, some of whom, according to a most dangerous and foolish practice that still prevails in some parts •t the country, had pistols along with them, ter the purpoic of ann )uncing the happy event of a marriage by firing them opposite every house they passed. When the report of the pistols was heard, several of the villagers of Cotlea, with candles in their hands—the even ing being dark—came to their doors to witness the gay party. When it arrived, one of those who had a pistol, either accidentally, or wishing to blow out a candle which a young woman was holding, discharged it, when the contents—wadding and powder—poured into her eye, and completely blew it out from the socket. The sad event has caused a deep Gloom over the whole neigh bourhood, and, what renders it, :if possible, still more dis tressing, the young woman was 6W - tiding beside her sweetheart at the time. They were both intimately ac quainted with the bride and bridegroom, and were shortly to have been the principal actors in a similar joyous party themaelves. NEW REGULATION OF TUE POLICE-COURTS. The Gazette of last night contains an Order in Conlo putting in force the Act of last session " for Regtlistin-r -the Police-courts in the Metropolis." The following the now arrangement of the various districts BOW-STREET POLICE-COURT. 111 , Lir . From the boundary of the City of London a l 0 ,. on the Thames, in a line running all: the said boundary as far as llolborn hill; thence we" . ward along Holborn, including both sides thereof 41 King-street ; thence northward along the centre the ' and of Southampton-row and Woburn-place to the Nen road ; thence westward along the centre thereof 'l' Tottenham-court-road ; thence southward along tb centre thereof, and of High-street, Great and Little' Andrew-streets, and St. Martin's-lane to Traffor:„, square ; thence westward, including the said square, Z Pall-mall, and along the centre thereof, and of Cleveland row to the boundary of the Green Park ; thence along the boundary thereof, and of St. James's Park (iilcloth,* Buckingham Palace and grounds) to Storey's - b' l° 3 thence along the centre of Great George-street •f. Bridge-street to the river Thames, on the north sid. e Westminster-bridge ; and thence along the said ric to the Temple-stairs aforesaid ; this, from and after tbe 28th of December instant, shall constitute a police -Wi l t division, and be assigned to the police-court called 1 3 " . street Police-court. -QUEEN-SQUARE POLICE-COURT. From the Thames on the south side of Westroins%" bridge, in a line running westward along the bouna7; of the district assigned to Bow-street Police-cour t ' far as Ilyde-park-corner ; thence along the centre the Knightsbridge-road, and of Queen's-build in g: Brompton-row, Michael's-place, and the Fulham-road' Stamford-bridge ; thence southward along the Nosh§ ton canal to the river Thames ; and thence along said river to the south side of Westminster -bridg e, ., aforesaid ; this, from and after the 28th of Deco nn ; instant, shall constitute a police-court division, an cl . o . assigned to the police-court now established in 0 1 `` 0 , square, Westminster, until the erection of a court - h on the north side of Vincent-square, Westminster, 0110 immediately upon the completion of such courtA,:ip the said police-court shall thenceforth be holden at ' fe , cent-square, by the name of the Westminster P i " court. MARYLEBONE POLICE-COURT. -„r From the Victoria-gate, Hyde-park, in a line nil; eastward along the boundary of the district assige eu Marlborough-street Police-court as far as Tottering's; court-road ; thence along the centre of the New-road rd the corner of Upper Seymour-street ; thence north/ I° ,o along the boundary of the district of the Clerkeno Police-court to Maiden-lane, near the North Cenietes ' j te thence south-westward to Shoot-up-hill ; thence ( e „ including Kilburn ; thence to Westbourne-green eluding the same) ; thence along the Green-lane 5, Pickering-place to Queen's-road ; and thence along, same to Victoria-gate aforesaid, after the 28th of r f comber instant, shall constitute a police-court divi s hn l 0 . and be assigned to the police-court called Marfl e v - Police-court. MARLBOROUGH-STREET POLICE-0010 1 - From the Victoria-gate, Hyde-park, in a line ranr r li c e eastward along the boundary of the park to 01 10 street; thence along the said street (including both ' - gbl thereof) to Regent-street; thence northward along,, e , centre thereof, and of Langham-place, Portlanr l l,„ i 'i and Park-crescent East, to the New-road; thence efr7 e . the centre thereof to 'Tottenham-court-road ; ib along the boundary of the district assigned to Bow''neg Police-court, as far as Hyde-park-corner ; thence a pe the centre of the Knightsbridge-road to the perk 1;c opposite the Camden Arms public-house ; thence Icor the boundary of Kensington-gardens, including sington-palace and gardens, to Victoria-gate dal; e from and after the 28th of Dec. inst., shall constit o rt police-court division, and be assigned to the pollee called Marlborough-street Police-court. CLERKENWELL POLICE-COURT. From the boundary cf the City of London ill S i r; str e et, in a line running northward along the boil, 0 of the district of the Worship-street Police-co w-re is Stamford-hill ; thence westward along Hanger -I° e Hornsey-lane, and along the same to Maiden -1 ,4 thence along the same to Camden-road ; thence gl'oes the centre thereof to the Red Cap public-house ; s ot along the centre of High-street, in Camden-0 ,0 40 of Upper Seymour-street, to the New-road ; t ß ire st along the boundary of the district assigned to Bel / J -5 0 0 s_ Police-court to the boundary of the ity of Lonu s de d Holborn-hill; and thence along the said City bo n tl a n t j, to Bunhill-row aforesaid, from anti after the, en° Dec. inst., shall constitute a police-court dirie lol3 ' 1 ,01 1 he assigned to the police-court called the Clerk ° Police-court. WORSHIP-STREET POLICE-COUR%"hisr From the boundary of the City of London in . 10 0( chapel High-street, in a line running eastward 7 4 04 the boundary of the district of the Thames Polia:l'ere to the river Lea • thence northward along the 1 0 704 an Eastern Railway to High-bridge ; thence wee: wn ee to Stamford-hill toll-gate (including the stime); southward to and along the centre of Kingsland -r 7, to the Regent's Canal ; thence westward along the ee;4o, Ashley-crescent ; thence along the centre $l. Vaughan-terrace, and Shepherdess-walk (incltion i th• Luke's workhouse); thence along the centre 0 1 „ i nt• street, of Bunhill-row, and of Type-street, to the e e dary of the City of London ; and thence along th: e iter to Whitechapel High-street aforesaid ; from e n '. ;00 0 the 28th day of December instant, shall coset l `...l. police- court division, and be assigned to the police' called the Worship-street Police-court. THAMES POLICE-COURT, STEPNE Y ' ruir From the river Thamesrat Tower-stairs, i n tirtio" ning along the boundary of the City of Loadote P" cen tre chapel High-street; thence eastward along th e ro o to thereof and of Whitechapel-road and Mile-end" m the Globe-lane ; thence along the centre thereof n ee southern side of the Eastern Counties Railway ; i l e a eastward to the Hackney-cut ; thence southw ard the same to Bow-bridge • thence along the rireT A r iver the river Thames ; and thenee along the 1 0 4 1 . tee , Thames to Tower-stairs aforesaid ; from and e en tl 28th of December instant, shall constitute a poli c e _ ski division, and be assigned to the police-court ow Thames Police-court, Stepney SOUTHWARK POLICE-COURT. s. bit From and after the 28th day of December je:ectoi removed therefrom to a certain building /a Ot• in Blackman - street, Southwark, in the par ' .. ,; ( isbie . George the Martyr, in the county of Surrey, su" e pee the metropolitan police district, and shall be helitoce there holden by the name of the Southwark Lot court ; and that the space included within the fa; pre boundary, the same being within the metroeo litsi ee 0 0 lice district—that is to say, from the river Tha n the south-east side of Waterloo-bridge, in a line rit e i e ne o southward along the boundary of the district st a rdsrf to the Lambeth Police,court, till it mee ts the b°' ol 4l ll of the Greenwich Police-court district ; thence 11 ot he ward along the said last-mentioned boundall tb,/, river Thames ; and thence along the said river, e le south-east side of Waterloo-bridge as aforesair4o the constitute a police-court division, and be essign ed e t, police-court to be called the Southwark Police - co if ' hereinbefore mentioned. LAMBETH POLICE-COURT. , of St' The police -court now established in the pain 9 0' Mary, Whitechapel, and known by the name efo both- street Police-court, shall, from and after the to 0 day of December instant, be removed therefretejons, certain building lately erected in Kenningtoitieret. parish of St. Mary, Lambeth, in the county of S lo g and within the metropolitan police district, ena.„.. fe s be thenceforth there holden by the name of the n, Police court ; and that the space included 1/ 11 1 0 010" following boundary, from the river Thames, on tn,e ve tt west side of Waterloo-bridge, in aline running elf e lle centre of the Waterloo-road, the London-road , ti` o f $l O Kent-road, and the Kent-road, to the boundarY,4oo district assigned to the Greenwich Police-court ; 11;•07 westward along the said boundary in a straig h l • g roti the boundary of the Wandsworth Police-court 0.11,e00 thence along the said boundary to the river Tonolr_ and thence along the said river Thames to the4 o le o west side of Waterloo-bridge aforesaid, shall cor: 0 00 police-court division, and be assigned to the pon y ' to be called the Lambeth Police-court. ht l4# ted Mr. Murphy, Mexican Minister, transacl ness yesterday, at the Foreign-office. __-____,_______-_.____ BIRTHS. C Ol/11te' On the 16th list., at Mount-street, Park-lane, the of Enniskillen, of a son and heir. rr 10 346 On the 14th inst., the wife of the Rev. John •• Christ's Hospital, of a son. I',.rorill On the 15th inst., at Bryntirion, near Wrezbe in ' 6 Wales, the lady of Captain E. Jones, of a daughter. ,_ l$ C On the 16th inst., Mrs. Clifford Craufurd, Chatila— oo,;, Camberwell-grove, of a daughter. o ft I'.' On the 16th inst., at Eltham, Mrs. H. R. Baioes'„/ 9' On the 16th inst., in Kensington-square, the ladY" Harper, Esq., of a daughter. e -------- MARRIED. icli, .4r On the 10th inst., at St. Margaret's Church, IPs , 0 0 " bert Cobbold Perry, Esq., to Matilda, on l l,fOr l ' ter of the late Thomas Lincolne Barker, eg. , p place, both of that town. ptij, On the 12th inst., at the parish church, Tottellh a 4s be F. Robins, of Tokenhouse-yard, solicitor, to Marf,,, (laughter of William Trewheela, Esq., of Stoke Ne' vl ' O° DIED. T, ay On the 16th inst., at Hampton Court Palace, - -4 0 1.. 0 ff Culling Smith, daughter of Garret, Earl of Morain," M.,6. On the 24th of September, at the Cape of Good 0 5:6 0 Anne, wife of Arthur Grote, Esq., of the Bengal ci vi At Brompton-row, Mr. David Rigge, aged 86. so 4 l:•tr On the 4th inst., at Woolderingfold, James White'to ; I On the 7th inst., at Ballymacoll, Meath, Aug'ls' • A ill gerald, youngest son of Baron de Robeek. 11 On the Ilth inst. at Edinburgh, the Dowager 1,11( o r say, of Balmain, widow of the late Sir A. RainsAP„ r 's-e u On the 12th inst., James Kierman, Esq., of D oe,,- fir' mons, and late of South Lambeth, aged 87. ill ° On the 12th inst., at Dover, Henry Pitman, Ems'' rack-master,l2th inst., aged 88. 1. On the at Woolwich, Major John 3 1, 3-n A, .. 1.1 " On the 14th inst., Mrs. Ward, relict of the late at e Ward, of Plaistow, Essex, aged 86. i t.nr,, 11$. On the 14th inst., Mary Jacintha, the wife of"' Esq., Duncan-place, Islington. R eb er, }`' , On the 14th inst., in Jermyn-street, Mrs. SOO v on of On the 14th inst., at Lewes, Richard, youngest 2 Cash, of Peckham Rye. rrAc ar d On the 14th inst., Mies K Gearing, of Coborn-te BO On the 15th inst., at the Crescent, Peckham BY e ' . 4 , Henry Gray, Esq., aged 71. O c n ,eg t o hrelestFliaritranislt, aged t.,inUpp 7 ,e 6 1: Brook-street,Groseen°l-6eer Sir hi ' cli 4 On the 15th inst., Agatha Wells Shedden , e ldest o's o of Robert Hawthorn, Esq., of Gower-street. lea On the 16th inst., in U n i on - p l ace , Lambeth , 311.5. Blanchard, aj;ed 41. ' .... ... „....,-.''' ,f ........---........---!-r.-- ~,b. - 40, • - yOu" jl l ' London : yPrinted and Published by MURDO lgo._, pi No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sea Oiricd'conti Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , in the Middieeexl Weilleidah December 16, 1844 - i th 4le !sam, Ati ti e Ta