The Sun. — London, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

et Erb -Zitttott SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. PRICES OF SHARES 121 CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 24. Pi. ideal . PeT ILIMUSI. Amount Names of Com panies. Paid. Price. Share. p cent. Canals. As, / i and Ashby-de- la-Zouch_av Basingstoke Breckneck & Ahergay. Birmingham,l-16thsh. Do. and Liverp. June. Chelmer & Blackwator Coventry Crom ford Dudley Danube arid Mayne-- Ellesmere and Chester Erewash ..... Forth and Grand Junction..... -.- Grand Union Grand Surrey Grand Western Glamorgansh. ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfled .... -...av Kennet snd Avon ...av Lancaster ...... .....--av Leeds and Liverpool Leicester Leicester & Northamp Loughborough ........av Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire. Melton Mowbray. Mersey and Irwell._ Macclesfield ........ Neath Oxford ..... ..... ....... Peak Forest ~v Regent's (or London).. Rochdale Shropshire ...... Somerset Coal. ...... Do. Lock Fund Stack Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury Stourbridge Stratford.on-Aven...av Swansea ..... Severn & Wye & Rail. Trent & Mersey, 1 sh. Thames & Medway_av Warwick and Dimling. Warwick and Napton Worcester & Birming Wilts and Becks av Wtsbeach Wey and Arun...". 114 4i. 10e. per cent. 44. 401. .11M. 14 - ss. ... V 1 U d. .I.los. 24t. 104 .0 B. d. VT 10 0 119 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 A & 41. 100 1 o 41 13 4 100 — 0 e 100 1 0 101. 101. 160 15% 31% es All7aid 17.. Gd. 44 tor. 0 percent. 22 .51. 204 14 10.. 154 Rio.. 1. cent. per cent. 4{ per cent. 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per cent. L per cent. ij4 per cent. 4 per cent. per cent. 1% per cent. 11. 07. Bd. Its. Id. per cent. 11. 7s. 3. les. 4 per cent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 34. ftcLyr sh al. Sg. er share per cent. 3/. per cent./ 30s. ba.j per cent. per cent. per cent. Ajar cent. iper cent. '4. '24. 6d. per cent. :19s. II ih, i be. IL ss. b per cent. / 4 per cent. per cent. per cent. IL ss. S per cent. Pi per cent. 14 4i. 5 per cent. cent P per cent. 6 rer cent. 6 per cent. li per cent. (per cent. per ceat. per cent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. as per share 6s. per share IS per cent. per cent. 16s. 1/. Sa. 11. 7s. J. and bs. 'I4I. and bs. per cent. meat. In/. 104 61 per •h ifotper oh 6 per cent. 5 per cent." 6 per cent. to per cent, per cent. SA per cent. 12a. • IV. 10s. lae. 10e. /per cent. AL Ids. U. 144. 21.13.. p. .h. U. to. per Gent. se. per eh. 111 i. ss, per eh 10 per cent 314 per cent. 74. Os. per eh I 3 1. per sh. W.& per eh. per cent. he per cent. 10 per cent. /341. per sI tot. per •h. 11. 14e. raper share .314 d per sh IL 17s. pr 41 113s 1 zer sk 11. ss. UM. A 11 — s. 10d. JII peroen t, per ceaL 10 per cent. 10 per yeti t. if. 6d. .... I. H. per cent. Ioe. per eh. 11. 104 per •h. 11. ts. U. 13a. (per cent. ref COIL 180 . andl am.ad. be. epee cent, tpeT nil t. Pet cent riper cent Docks. Commercial East and West India London Ditto Bonds Bristol Do. Bnds, var. amounts St. Katharine . Ditto Ditto Bonds ..... Southampton Bridges Hammersmith. ..... Southwark, new Subs Ditto New of 714 pr e Waterloo.... .......... Ditto Old Ann. of 84. Ditto New ditto of 71 Ditto Bonds Vauxhall. av Assurances. Albion.— ............. ....i. Alfred Life Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine Atlas Birmingham Fire British Commercial Cler. Mcd. Sr Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life ..... European Life Ditto New Freemasons ....... Globe ......... Guardian-- ...... Hope Life .......... Ditto Imperial File Ditto Life-- Indemnity Marine.,„ Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National Loan Fun Neptune Marine... Palladium Life Protector Lite Provident Lite... Rock Life yal Sun Fire Ditto Life.... University Lite Universal Life Union Fire and Lite Joint Stk Banks Australasi ....... Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Wotrninstr Ditto New Leni+on Joint Stock Metropolitan. ......... Provincial et 11-el:m.4_ Ditto New National of Ireland__ Nat. Provincial Eng Ind Ditto New Gloucestershire Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight & Coke Bath British Ditto Provincial Birmingham & Statlrdb Bristol ..... ....... Brighten Ditto General City of London Ditto New Continental Consolid Ditto New....... Equitable Imperial Isle of Thanet Independent ..... Phoenix Ratcliff South Metropolitan.... United General ..... Wotmins. Chartered.. Ditto New ........ Water Works. Birmingham East London ..... Grand Junction av Rent ...... Nw Riv Len. Brids An. Manchester andSalford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlesex av Yrk BuldgCo.Les.Prop Iron Italliwayo. Birmingham & Derloy Birmint. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter...... Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Eastern Counties......„ Edinburgh Sr Glasgow Grand Junction_ Great North of Englnd Gre :t Western ...... Ditto Halt Shares Ditto Fifths Harwich (Braithwaite) Hull and Selby ....... . . Lancaster and Carlisle Leers and 5e1by......., Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Halt-Shares...„. Landon and Brighten Ditto Loan Notes London and BI•ckwall London and Greenwich London and Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds__ „ London and S. Western i London and Croydon._ Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchatr and Birming Midland Cou , ties . North British Norwi h & Brandon Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. 5/. dis Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen__ Rouen and Havre___ Stockton Sr Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich lork and N. Midland.., DUO New Shares Mines. Albic.n Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m Ditto Subscriptma Bolanos Ditt. Scrip Brazil. Imp. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coe. U Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian. ins. 54 p.m. general Mining Hibernian Imperial Slate Compy Mexican Mining Co. of Ireland. Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes R.hymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United Mex., iss.V. pm Ditto scrip Ditto New Scrip Literary. Londn, with Sin.Tieket London University Russell King's College Miscellaneous Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricnltur Brit. American Land, Canada Upper Canada Bonds Gen. Steam Navigation lberi.An Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., Mex. and Ei. American New Brunswick ;Land) New Zealand Pen ins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Land LIST OP SCOTTISH COM DEC 7, Bank of Scotland.., Royal Bank British Linen Compny, Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank National Pan[ Western Bank Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scott. Edinburgh Life Insur. Scottlah Union Insur Standard Life Insur Dalkeith Railway Edin. and WM. Raliwy G ug. and Green. R 4 Dundteand Aria RAIL. 6 per cent, 6 per cent, per cent. 6 per cent 7j per cent. $ pet cent Sper cent. 16 per cent. 7 per cent a per cent., ►purr tent. Aper cent. ►per tent. b per cent. A per cent. * per ant, pee n t 101. 10s. 12.5 0 • 145 I 0 79 9 8 100 0 0 20 9 3 50 0 0 19 5 8 100 0 0 100 0 • 78 8 0 67 10 0 105 0 0 110 0 0 100 • • Stock Stock 147 9 0 Stock 50 A • 50 • 63 it 9 50 • • 100 0 0 70 10 3 00 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 5 • $ H $ • 5 0 0 5 0 0 53 0 0 5 0 0 2 II 0 10 e 0 - 5 0 0 250 All paid 0 0 0 0 36 10 0 2 10 • 9 10 ( 50 • • 10 • • 5 13 • 18 0 0 2 0 • 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 1 8 0 10 0 0 10 e 0 6 0 0 6 5 0 0 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 20 0 25 0 20 0 • 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 • 25 0 0 10 0 0 17 10 0 15 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 5 25 0 0 10 • 0 le 0 0 18 0 0 10 0 0 5000 20 0 0 100 • • 75 0 • 31 5 0 2.8 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 • • 30 0 0 39 0 0 •• 0 • 25 0 0 48 • e 10 0 • 2.5 0 0 1100 0 • jlOO • • 70 0 I 5 • 5 • 0 0 0 50 • 0 100 0 • 100 0 • 75 0 • 50 0 0 12 • 0 2 0 50 0 • 10 0 0 100 0 e 100 0 0 50 0 • 50 0 0 10 • • 100 0 0 2 0 0 39 0 0 70 0 0 3 9 9 0 40 0 0 100 0 0 7 10 0 6 0 9 45 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 12 0 0 100 0 0 5000 18 0 0 5000 25 0 0 i 8 1 o 14 10 0 100 0 I , 25 0 150 0 0 21 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 75 0 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 0 0 140 0 6 SO 0 0 13 0 0 55 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 10 0 10 0 0 3 0 0 60 0 0 59 0 0 25 0 0 7 e - 150 0 0 SO 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 0 - - 2 10 I 75 0 0 - 100 0 0 109 0 25 0 0 - - 190 0 9 10 o e 100 0 ) 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 30 0 35 10 32 10 15 0 I 14 0 b 9 0 1 10 500 5 0 10 0 0 9 0 10 0 0 7 0 175 0 - 25 50 0 • 50 - I _ 100 • 0 1450 25 0 0 -20 O 0 O 0 O 0 O 0 50 0 0 50 20 0 Oj 20 'A NIES' PRICES. 10 0 10 0 0 10 0•• 0 10 • 12 10 0 1 • • 2 10 0 50 0 0 5000 2500 03 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 20v 0 0 40 0 F 1 50 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 6 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 77 10 0 5 0 0 0 20 0 0 20 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 75 0 0 1 50 0 • 50 0 0 50 0 0 2.5 0 0 30 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 56 • 0 50 0 0 54 I 01 25 0 0 100 e 0 41 13 4 100 0 6 SO ' 0 100 0 • 63 12 9 100 0 • 100 0 I 100 * U 100 I 0 50 0 6 25 0 0 50 • 0 ' leo 0 0 100 • 0 100 0 0 50 • o 20 • • 2U 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 • 100 0 • leo 0 0 50 0 0 50 • • 16 0 0 •16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 S 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 0 0 o 20 o'o 50 0 0 50 0 f , 20 0 0 20 0 u 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 o 50 0 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 159 0 0 n 25 20 100 2 O 0 O 4 O 0 THE LATE CALAMITOUS FIRE IN GUILFORD-STREET. , cially disposed, as they have ever been, to employ their power, and to exert their influence, to improve the condition of the Irish people, are discouraged. They see their endeavours scorned—ridiculed—coun teracted—by an influence which has held that people as by a spell ; and they suspend their endeavours until the spell shall be broken, and the delusion destroyed. Every indication of an approach to this better state of things will be hailed with pleasure by all who desire to see Ireland' in possession of tranquillity. Whether the desirable change be brought about by an improved course of conduct in Mr. O'Connell—whose power over the Irish people, if wisely directed, might now be, as it has formerly been, the instrument of achiev ing for them vast benefits ; or, persisting in a course of factious violence, he unveil his real character ; stand forth the confe ss ed demagogue in a patriots guise ; and thus disgust, and detach from his project, those well meaning men who were induced for a time to connect themselves with his schemes, in the hope that they would result in practical advantage to their country. By whichsover of these means the end be attained, is comparatively of little moment. We should feel re gret if the latter be the means. We would rather that the great leader, who conducted the Irish people from the ignoble and unrighteous bondage in which they were held by penal statutes enacted against their creed, should continue as their recognised benefactor, employing his acknowledged talents and indomitable zeal in their cause. But if Mr. O'Connell abandon that position—if, through mistake, or design, he set himself against, a n d em pl o y hi s influence to prevent, the attainment of substantial improvements—real and extensive recognitions and concessions which the Government has made to the Roman Catholic religion, the clergy and members of which Church were re cently proscribed by law—if this be Mr. O'Connell's conduct, and lie persist in pursuing such a course, then do we say, let the alternative be joyfully accepted ; let Mr. O'Connell's obviously diminished influence over his countrymen be the precursor of his total abandonment by them. He will then be the author of his own fall from power. Better that they should desert him, than that they should remain with him, to be the sharers of his deserved ruin, the victims of his recklessness of head or heart. The resistance which Mr. O'Connell has made to the Catholic Bequests Act, and to the formation of a Board constituted under its provisions for carrying out the objects of its enactment, have led us to these remarks. The agitation which Mr. O'Connell at tempted to get up against it, has signally failed. His denunciations of the heads of the Roman Catholic hierarchy who have accepted seats at the Board, and whose office in that Church are recognised by the Crown, for the first time, in the Com mission by which the Board is constituted—the reproaches heaped by Mr. O'Connell on two Ro man Catholic gentlemen of high rank and unble mished probity, for accepting seats at the Board— these ill-judged and injurious attacks have estranged hundreds, perhaps thousands, of the more respectable of Mr; O'Connell's adherents from him and his cause. The attempts to intimidate the Roman Catholic Archbishops Murray and Crolly, and the Roman Catholic Bishop Denvir, have failed. They re fused to be influenced by his threats, or to be cajoled by his persuasions. Mr. Blake and Sir P. Bellew were equally firm in their disregard of the agitator. They have accepted the trust created by the Act and offered to them by the Government. Mr. O'Connell has opened the eyes of the most worthy among his countrymen to the real character of his opposition, and the worth of his present political schemes. lie has caused a schism in his own camp. He has placed a gulph between himself and those whose countenance and aid are essential to sustain him under any future struggle with the Government. STANDARD.—It is to-day our task—a very un usual task with us—to defend Mr. Daniel O'Connell, and to defend him against the accusations of journals with which he has been intimately and long con nected ; though, like other friends, and ei en like parties more closely united than by the ties of friend ship, the parties have had their quarrels—we speak of the Times, which for about twenty years s( rved " the monster mendicant," and of the Morn:nw Chro nicle, which was his obsequious follower for a still longer period. The two journals named this morn ing agree in charging their late employer and patron with the commission of a capital mistake in taking the line which he has taken with regard to the Charitable Bequests Act. Now, we contend that there has been been no mistake in the matter; that in his late proceeding Mr. O'Connell has acted as cunningly as he ever acted in his life. It was not in his power to evade the difficulty in which he was placed by the wisdom and justice of the Govern ment ; but a moment's thought will show, that he has adroitly made the best of the perplexing position, from which it was impossible for him to escape. The charitable Bequests Act, as our readers are aware, is a law enabling Roman Catholics to make endowment by donation or devise to secure a provision for their secular clergy, but guarding the death bed from improper solicitation, by requiring that the endowment shall be executed and enrolled three months before the death of the ,lonor or devisor, as the case might be ; and in order that there may be no suspicion that the law is unfairly executed, a commission for the management of charitable bequests generally—Protestant and Roman Catholic in common—is provided, and it is onacted that five of ten members of the board shall be Roman Catholics. Nothing surely can be imagined more wise, just, and liberal than this law; but because it is wise, just, and liberal, Mr. O'Connell and his friends are embarrassed by it. The truth is, that they did not desire any Charitable Bequests Bill at all, though the want of a distinct law upon the sub iect of endowments seemed an excellent grievance— a handsome addition to the hacknied falsehood that the poorest people in the empire have to support two churches. The Roman Catholic clergy—the only efficient Roman Catholic party—do not desire endowments, any more than they desire a State provision, because they are much better off with the help of that elaborate system of taxation which they have wrought up to an exquisite perfec tion. While a priest can represent himself to be absolutely dependent upon the gratitude, generosity, and Christian charity of the poor ignorant creatures at his mercy, he may excise them at the rate of 3001. or 4001. a-year, the present average in eome of Irish priests ; but these gentlemen are sufficiently well aware of the native shrewdness of the most ignorant of their countrymen to know that if the proprietor of a comfortable cottage, with a settled income sufficient for his wants, say 801. or 1001. a year for a single man, were to call upon them for a penny, he would call upon them in vain. The secular Roman Catholic clergy are therefore exceedingly averse to any endowment of them selves ; and if any endowment is forced upon their Church, they would willingly push it away to the regulars, who sometimes are, by sheer poverty, compelled to trespass on the market for masses. The Charitable Bequests Act, however, makes no provision for the endowment of the " regular orders," for this good reason, that the law has already provided for the extinction of these orders. Here, then, begins Mr. O'Connell's diffi culty. The priests universally hate and dread the operation of the law, but they cannot avow the true reasons of their hatred and fear of a law so manifestly wise, just, and liberal. The lower class know nothing of the law, and hear nothing of it, except from their priests, and the priests and the lower orders are Mr. O'Connell's paymasters, and consequently his mas ters in all other respects. The intelligent and well disposed Roman Catholicshave reason to be pleased w ith a measure which must ultimately go far to break down the intolerable tyranny of the 'dices of Maynooth, and which even at present protects them from those frequent robberies, by death-bed solicitations, to which they are exposed. The intelligent and well disposed Roman Catholics, we repeat it, have reason to be satisfied with the law, and are, in fact, highly pleased with it, as they have given proof. This fact, that the law is well received by the well-disposed and intelligent and, indeed, by all the proprietary class of Roman Catholics is important, because it ensures that an adequate minter of Roman Catholics commanding public confidence to work the commission will never be wenting; so as fully to justify Dr. Murray's expla nation, if not apology, that if he did not take a place on the commission, another, perhaps less zealous for the Roman Catholic faith, could easily be found, Nlstilo wo u ld be ld be no u t have ngene nroaus,y probably up lyu o n jnusttb,e to say that all or any of the Roman Catholic gentlemen who have agreed to act upon the eommhsion have been determined by this kind of pis-aller conside ration ; but it is a consideration which, used by any of them as a defensive argument, would be unan swerable. How, then, was Mr. O'Connell to pilot his way through the labyrinth of difficulty in which lie found himself ? If lie were to approve of the Bill, and boast, as the Morning Chronicle ad% i es —that it was " his thunder," the fruit of his victory and sufferings—the priests, whose bread he eats, and who in their secret souls abhor the rnsa- Catholic Commissioners. A few weeks will tell which party will lead the priests and the ignorant populace. Meanwhile it is most unjust to assume that Mr. O'Connell, who never in his life made a mistake where the main chance (money) was con cerned, blunders at that period of life when, as it has been said, all other faculties take leave, to set the party free to give his undivided energies to money getting. No, no, Mr. O'Connell has made no mis take—" an sic notus Ulysses?" There is no one living who feels more sensibly the force of the old rule : FINDING OF THE OTHER BODIES. (THIS DAY.) Between two and three o'clock the bodies of the police-constable, Wright, and Jenkins, the groom, were found in the ruins. They wero not far from each other. Wright's body presented a dreadful appearance; it was frightfully contused and flattened, and almost every bone in his body appeared to be broken. When the burning mass fell upon him he must have been in a stooping posture, es his limbs were bent. Jenkins was found lying on his face, and his body also presented a horrid spectacle. The bodies were placed in shells, and conveyed to St. Giles's Workhouse, to await the Coroner's inquest. "13e it for better, or be it for worst, Stick fast to the party who carries the purse." STATE or TRADE.---During the last two or three days, there has been an improved demand for most de scriptions of manufactured goods ; and prices, which had become a little unsteady, have resumed their former firmness.—ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 23.—The market, as might be expected at Christ mas, has been dull ; and the business transacted has been upon a limited scale, with no change in price. Wool continues to • be more inquired after, and broke wool and noils are lo king. up.—Manchester Guardian of this day. We are glad to learn that a pension —from, we believe,, the funds of the Civil List—has been conferred upon Mr. Thomas Hood, the author of, amongst other things, " The Song of the Shirt." 'TIE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, DEC. 21, 1844. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Dr. J. Henry Davidson to be First Physician to her Majesty in Scot land, in the room of Dr. John Abercrombie, decc...sed. WHITEHALL, DEc. 17. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert Drinkall, jun., of llowden, in the county of York, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery. DEC. 19. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Baker, of Abergavenny, in the county of Monmouth, Gent, to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. John Humble, chemist, Ossett, near Wakefield. Joseph Craven, John Hardman, and George Craven, dyers, Holme Dye-works, Wakefield. BANKRUPTS. John Peart Birley, plumber and glazier, Brompton row, Middlesex, to surrender January 10, at two, and 31, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, of assignee, Basinghall-street; Buchanan and Grainger, Basinghall-stret. John Christie and James Rodgers, stone-masons, Notting hill, Middlesex, Jan. 10, at one, and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin lane, Corohill ; Messrs, Richardson and Co., Golden-square. Elijah Brentnall, builder, Cold-harbour-road, North Brixton, Dec. 31, and Feb. 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Jenkinson, Cannon-street. John Walker Wood, wine merchant, Churton-street, Vauxhall-bridge-road, Jan. 3, and Feb. 18, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Mottram, Birmingham; Parkes and Co., Bedford-row. William Preston, builder, Monmouth-road, Bayswater, Ike. 31, at one, and Jan. 31, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch lane, Lombard-street; Hooker, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn. Henry May Waller, tailor, Foulsham, 'Norfolk, Jan. 7, at 'half-past two, and Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Court or Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's place, Old Jewry ; Flower, Bread-street, Cheapside ; Taylor and Son, Norwich. Henry Higgins, merchant, Leeds, Jan. 14;_and Feb. 11, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee ; Atkinson, Dibh, and Bol!ar.d ; Blackburn, Leeds ; Hay% kins and Co. Boswell-court, Chancery-lane. Michael Graham, attorney, Darlington, Durham, Jan. 9 and 25, at eleven,. at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Rushworth, Staple-inn, London ; Sanderson, Leeds. Nicholas Trevenen Hawke, grocer, Penzance, Corn wall, Jan. 7 and 30, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. llirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ; Hill and Mathews, St. Mary Axe, London ; Terrell, Exeter. John Peach Burdett, grocer, Uttoxeter, Jan. 6, and Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittlestoa, official assignee, Birmingham ; Welby and Co., Uttoxeter ; James, Birmingham. Joseph Harley, plumber, Wolverhampton, Jan. 8, and Feb. 1, at eleven, at the. Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Harrison and Smith, Birming ham; Clarke, Wolverhampton. sure, would owe him little thanks for such "inoptata tonitrua haud facientia comas"—they would rcject with rcorn such fruits of victory and martyrdom. And this is not all. Had he avowed approbation of the measure, he must have stultified his own Bill upon the same matter, and of a precisely opposite character. Finally, he must have sacrificed one topic of agitation, and condemned himself to show respect to one law of the Imperial Parlia ment—offerings to loyalty and common sense quite foreign to his metier of " monster men dicant." But it is said he has embroiled himself with his Church by condemning a measure acted upon by three of its bishops. He has, however, done no such thing; be ims a majority of the Roman Catholic bishops, and nearly all the Roman Catholic priests upon his side. It' any one can be said to be embroiled with the Roman Catholic Church in the affair, the parties so embroiled are the five Roman THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDA EVE G, DECEMBER 24 1344. RUM, BRANDY, AND lioLLANDs.—lmporter: of Lee wards Island Rum submittini , to a further reduction in prices has occasioned the demand to be good, and at 2s 2d to Es 3id per gallon, proof, several parcels have been diatosed of. Demerata has thet with little atten tion, 140 puns having been sold at 3s Id to 3s &1 pte gallon for 29 to 35 per cent overproof. Jamaica, common is 3s 6d to 3s Bd, middling 3s 9d to 3s 10d, good 3s lld to 4s 3d, fine and very fine 4a 4d to 6s. Calcutta at 2s 2d to 2s 24d per gallon, proof with certificate. For Jamaica prices are 9d to Is, and for Leewards 4d to 6d per gallon higher than they were on the 24th of December last year. The low acid thiddling description of Brandy have met with more attention, and for the best sorts a very good demand has existed. Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto, 1839, hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d ; ditto 1840, hhds 4s lld puns 4s 9d; ditto, 1841, hhds 4s 10d; puns 4s 8d; ditto, 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s sd; ditto, 1843, hhds 4a sd, puns 45 3d, common 2s 8d to 2s lid, and middling to good middling 3s to 3s 10d, Bordeaux common 2s 61 to 2s 8d per gallon. Geneva at is 10d to Is lid, and for arrival at is 91 to Is 10d; fine fit for duty has been selling at 2s 4d to 3s 6d. English Corn Spirits, lOs 2d per gallon, nett cash. TEA.—There has been no arrival since this day week. In Cungou large purchases have been made, and the rates paid are id per lb above those of the la•t public sales, for ordinary and good ord descriptions; the better kinds fully sustain the previou currency; indeed, a small advance has been obtained; common sound 114 to I lid, rather coarse to rather strong I lid to Is Id, blksh to blksh rather strong Is 2d to is 4d, good strong blackish leaf :W Is 4to is 6d, fine Is 7d to i s 9d, and Pekoe flavour Is 9d 2s 9d per lb, of common and mid kinds which are the most in request; the supply is small. For Puu chong prices aro fully as high as they were on this day week, and many purchases have been made at 6d to 10d, and in some cases lld to is Id per lb. - has been paid. Of Souchong some parcels have been sold upon firmer terms. In common Twankay several purchases have been made at firm rates, is 3d to Is 3id having been currently paid and the market has been nearly cleared. Other sorts are wonted, brightish leaf has been selling at Is 4d to is 9d, and llyson kind 2s to 2s 6d. Scented Orange Pekoe of fine quality 3s 4d to3s sd. To-day purchasers in sound common Cungou cash were made at lld to 1i d, and Twankay ordinary is 3d to Is 4d per lb. The Tea market closes with a firm ap pearance. SAGO.—There has been a good business transacted in Pearl Sago by private contract, and the tendency of prices is still upwards, low quality has been fetching 15s to 163, middling 17s to 193, good middling to good 20s to 225, and fine 23s to 26s—the stock is still on the de crease. Sago Flour is wanted, at 183'to 18s 6d for good, and 173 to 17s 6d per cwt for middling quality, being the former value. Farina or Potatoe Flour is much in request. FRUIT.—The demand for currants has been limited, but the importers appear firm in their prices. Valentias are steady, with a small stock. Red Smyrnas and Chesme Raisins are in request at 45s to 4J3. New Turkey Pulled Figs, the fine kinds, of which there is but a small supply, obtain very high prices. INDlGo.—Holders of Bengal submittinc , to a reduction on the rates of the last quarterly sale of to 4d per lb has occasion, d the demand to be good, but speculators are the chief operators, and the sorts most in request low and middling. Madras, Oude and Kurpah in small parcels have been disposed of at prices a shade under those of the October sale. TALLOW.—The market has presented a firm appear. ante fur Russian since our report of Tuesday last; there has been a very good demand on the spot, and 40s 3d to 40s 6d are the current rates paid fur I'. Y Candle of first quality. Town Tallow at 40s 6d to 41s per cwt nett cash. For other sorts of Tallow prices have suffered no further decline. OlLs.—There are few purchasers of Seal Oil, and prices are still dropping : for pale 331 lOs to 341 have been accepted, 31/ to 33/ for yellow and straw, and 281 to 301 for brown. Southern at 28/ 10s to 331 10s. Cod net with attention, and several l arcels have been disposed of on the spot, and to arrive at 311 to 311 103 per tun. In consequence of lower rates having been submitted to for Sperm Oil, buyers are induced to operate more freely, and at 87/ to 891 per tun. Several parcels of British have been disposed of. The crushers are not so anxious to sell Linseed Oil ; the low rates that prevail are at tracting attention, and at 23s 6d to 23s 9d per cwt. Rape pale has been fetching 34s to 34s 6d, and brown 33s to 33s 6(1 per cwt. Cocoa Nut Oil 24s to 27s for low to fine. Palm is little wanted, and holders experience difficulty in obtaining more than 26s per cwt for the best quality. Lard Oil .101 to 411, and African Ground Nut Oil 331 to 33110 s per ton. Of Castor Oil the sup ply exceeds the demand, and 4d to 6i-d per lb is the value. Seal Oil is 40s to 60s, Southern 90s to lOos, Lin seed 80s to 905, and Olive 40s to 80s per tun cheaper than at this time last year, but Sperm is dearer than it was at that time by 13/. to 15/. per tun.: THE HERRING FISHERY.—WhiIe we congratulate our fishing friends on the success which many of them have experienced, we cannot look forward to the future without feeling considerable alarm. The home voyage has just terminated, and the catch has exceeded that of any previous year for a very considerable period. The boats have averaged twenty-one lasts each, and some reached forty lasts. Mr. Samuel George has two boats, which have made up 99 laits ; one of them, the Saucy Polly, having brought in, in one voyage, the enormous quantity of 151- lasts, or 201,300 herrings. This success would have b, en truly encouraging to our labouring population, where it not that they have been recently deprived of what afforded them a valuable addition to the precarious earnings of the fishery. For many years, even centuries, the town has provided a suf ficient supply of lint (the term here used for netting previous to being made into nets), and norsels (pieces of twine of a peculiar make, for use on board the boats) for all the boats sailing from this port. These have been hitherto manufactured by the women and girls of this town, who have thereby been enabled to obaTn an honest though humble subsistence. Of late large quantities of these articles have been brought hither from Bridport, which has almost annihilated the trade here, though we cannot learn that the fish owners are much benefited by the change; but that change has greatly aggravated the condition of the working classes here, and hundreds who formerly obtained their' livelihood by twine spinning, braiding, and making norsels, are without employment, and many to;ally destitute. The cost of manufacturing the raw material is about 601 or 701 a ton, so that the loss of this one branch of our trade withdraws about 1,0001. a year from the most necessitous families in the port. W. are glad to learn that one large shipowner positively refutes to use any other than Yarmouth manufactured net—an example we commend to his brother shipowners. We cannot contemplate, without alarm, the prospect of the poor for the coming wiuter. The number of boats from Yarmouth, engaged in the fishery, is about 160 No, folk Chronicle. THIRD-CLASS TRAINS.—We perceive that on the Ist of January next, third-class trains will run between Leigh, Manchester, Liverpool, &c., morning and evening. This concession is much enhanced by the Company allowing third-class carriages to be attached to every train between Leigh and Bolton. This is a matter of great importance to the small tradesmen of the former place, who are thus enabled to transact their trifling business without being compelled to be the Whole day from home.—Manchester Guardian. Yesterday evening, at about half-past eleven; a fire broke out in the steward's room of the bfillbank prison; by the prompt and judicious measures of the Governor it was, however, got under and extinguished ber..re one o'clock in the morning. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Mr. George Walter, of No. 42, Lom bard-street, was charged before Mr. Traill with com mitting a violent assault on Mr. John Young Aker man, Secretary of the Greenwich Railway Company. From the complainant's statement it appeared that on the 19th instant, he entered one of the first-class carriages of the above company, and had scarcely taken his seat when the defendant walked up to the door, and, a 'dressing him, used some irritating lan guage, and at the same time got into the same car riage. With the view of preventing any unpleasant consequences, which might arise if they both pro ceeded in the same carriage, the complainant alighted, and, on getting out on the platform, he was followed by the defendant, who was armed with a stick, and who having applied the epithets rascal and scoundrel to complainant, then made a blow at him with the stick, which he warded off, when he again repeated the attempt. Complainant, on finding him so deter mine." on committing violence, struck him in his own defence, when some of the servants of the Company interfering, they were separated ; and, for his own preservation, he considered it necessary to adopt the present proceedings against the individual by whom he had been assaulted without provocation. The defendant produced the stick with which it was alleged he committed the assault, said that it was a light bamboo cane, and that if a person were struck even with great violence with it, it would not produce much damage. Mr. TRAILL said that the indignity of even being struck slightly with such a stick, or cane, was exas perating to the feelings of any man. The Magi s t ra t e then asked the defendant what explanation he wished to give, or whether he was desirous of calling any witnesses ? The defendant said he wished to call a gentleman who Ns itnessed the whole of the transac tion, and who would be enabled to give a very diffe rent version of the affair. That gentleman, however, was not present, but if the magistrate would post pone the case he (defendant) would have an adver tisement inserted in the newspapers, as he did not know his address, calling upon him to attend to give evidence. The complainant said he had no objection to an adjournment of the case, but in the meantime he called on the magistrate to make the defendant find bail, as he really went in personal danger. The defendant said he would give his honour that he would have no communication with the com plainant until the day the inquiry was resumed. The complainant said that even with that promise he would not be satisfied, unless the defendant pro mised to " take the pledge" (the reporter understood it), or the magistrate required him to find sureties. Mr. Timm, said that he felt it his duty to adjudge the defendant to enter into his own recognisances in the sum of 501., and find two sureties of 251. each, to keep the peace for twelve months, as a protection, against any injury to the complainant, and that the further investigation of the assault might stand over until a future day. The complainant, however, having expressed that he had no vindictive feelings against the defendant, and that he would be satisfied with the above sureties, the defendant said that he was aware he should have some trouble in finding the witness he alluded to, and that, therefore ; he was contented the matter should rest as it was, upon his finding the required bail. The defendant's solicitor, and another gentleman, entered into sureties, and he was discharged. Edward Edwards was brought up for re-examina tion, being found in Mr. Bright's house, at Ncrth Brixton, for an unlawful purpose; and Margaret Sheen, the nurse in the family, was charged with stealing a satin waistcoat, belonging to her master, and also with harbouring the other prisoner in the house. The circumstances attending the discovery of the prisoners at four o'clock on Saturday morning, lying together before a blazing fire in the complainant's kitchen, and of the female dropping her master's satin waistcoat on the way to the station-house, have already appeared in our police report of the preced ing day. Mr. James, the prisoner's solicitor, put some ques tions to the complainant, with a view to show that both their characters were good up to the period of the above transaction ; that Edward's father, who was in attendance, was a highly respectable man ; and that he, together with other friends, were in Court, pre pared to tender bail in his behalf, if it was found necessary. The complainant, in answer to certain questions, admitted that he had never missed any property but the satin waistcoat, which must have been taken out of his drawer; that Sheen had access to the pantry where the plate was kept, but he had not missed any; that she was in the habit of bringing up the key of the kitchen to her mistress every night be fore she went to bed ; and that on the night in question she brought up the key as usual; and that she must have left Edwards in the kitchen, and after wards gone down stairs to him when all was quiet; that the discovery would not have taken place but for the crying of the infant, which might have met its death owing to the neglect of the nurse while with her paramour in the kitchen. Mr. TaAtLn said he should send the nurse for trial for stealing the waistcoat if the prosecutor wished to press the charge ; but it appeared the garment was very much worn, and of little value, and he there fore doubted very much whether a bill would be found against her, as he (the magistrate) had very recently noticed that a strong representation was made by a grand jury on the subject of committing persons for trial for stealing articles of a trifling nature, deeming it the most proper course to have such cases summa rily dealt with. He (the magistrate), however, in this instance, would consult the feelings of the c,m plainant on the subject, and would either commit for trial or dispose of the case himself. The complainant having expressed a wish that the latter course might be adopted, the nurse (Sheen) was therefore committed for two months to hard labour for unlawful possession of the article, and Edwards was adjudged to enter into his own recogni sance of 401., and find two sureties of 201. each, to be of good behaviour for twelve months. HOUSE BREAKING.— Joseph Astelford, a man dressed as a mechanic, was charged with breaking into the dwelling house of Mr. Court, at Meeting House-lane, Peckham, and stealing three suits of clothes and other apparel. A brother of the prosecutor stated that at eight on Saturday morning he left the property safe in the bed-room of a small house attached to his father's residence in Meeting House-lane, where he and his brother slept. The front door was left on the latch, and could be opened with a common latch key. At the rear of the premises, which had connexion with his father's house, a large dog was kept which would not only make a noise but attack a stranger. At eight in the evening he entered by the back door, and proceeded into the bedroom, when he found that the drawers had been broken open and robbed of their contents. Ile also found the front door ajar, and he had every reason to think that the entrance was effected by that door, as it was seldom opened by any one. Constable, 47 M, stated that about ten minutes past eight o'clock he was on duty in the Kent road, when he saw the prisoner with a bundle under each arm. Ile asked where he got them ? He replied that he was employed to carry them by a man he never saw before. He afterwards contradicted himself by saying he had found them. After he had said so he dropped the bun dles, and ran away, but he pursued and took him into custody. The prosecutor identified the whole of the pro perty. The drawers and desk had been forced with some brass compasses and a pair of snuffers, which were lying about, and were broken to pieces. In answer to the charge, the prisoner said he picked up the bundles. A 3 for the robbery, he was quite in nocent of it, and did not even know where the house was situated. He wished to be remanded, as some clue might be obtained of the real offenders. Mr. TRAIL'. said he intended to do so unt. Thursday. THE LATE FATAL STEAM-BOAT COLLISION CLOSE OF THE INQUEST. The inquiry into the circumstances attending the late fatal collision oil* Greenwich between the Orwell and Sylph steatn-boats was resumed yesterday be fore Mr. J. C. Carttar, coroner for Kent. Mr. Wilkinson (of the firm of Cobbold and Wilkin son), and Mr. Cattarns (of the firm of Cattarns and Fry), attended, as on the previous occasion, to watch the case. The inquest room again was densely crowded. The first witness called was Dr. Mitchell, of Greenwich, whn proved, from a post mortem examination, that Sullivan d►ed from suffocation in the water, and Shepherd from the severe injuries he had sustained about the head and body. Commam!er Henry Smith, of her Majesty's steam frigate Rattler, being sworn, said I was a passenger on board the Sylph, on the afternoon of Tuesday week, and was standing abaft the engine-room when that vessel left the Greenwich pier on her way towards Black wall. The weather was so thick at that time that I was induced to remain on deck. There was a man in the bows looking out forward After proceed • ing a short distance I heard the noise of a steamer ap- pr'Oaching us. I looked out forward, but saw nothing. Immediately afterwards the man on the look out said something to the captain, when he called out " Stop her, go astern." I then saw a large steamer bearing down upon us, at about twenty-five yards distance. At that time a collision was inevitable, and when the captain saw the large vessel so close to him, he folded his arms and said, "By God, it is all over with us!" I could not see the shore on either side at that time. When the collision took place the motion of the Sylph was quite stopped, and if a boat had been under her bows we should not have injured her. I am of opinion that the speed was on the Orwell when the collision occurred. She must have been going at a good speed, because she cut quite through the deck of the Sylph, and from the position in which the latter was, it was impossible that she could have contributed much force to the collision. Mr. Cattarns here produced two models of the boats, that of the Sylph showing the extent of the injury she had sustained by the collision. Examination continued—l am decidedly of opinion that the Sylph was motionless when the collision took place. Had the Orwell put her helm astarbeard as the Sylph did, no accident would have occurred. I think the Sylph was going down the river much quicker than a prudent captain would have brought her, considering the fog which prevailed ; and I am of the same opinion as to the speed at which the Or well was coming up. In such a state of the weather there should be some regulation to prevent vessels from proceeding at more than half speed. My im pression was, that we were travelling much quicker than we ought to have been, and I kept on deck in consequence, fearing the possibility of an accident. After the collision I remained on the quarter deck of the Sy]ph until all the deck passengers were got off, when I went on board the Orwell. I then called out to the man in charge to back astern and get the two vessels clear, as I saw that the people were prevented from getting out of the cabin of the Sylph while the ♦essels hung together. By Mr. WILKINSON—The engines of the Sylph were eased before I saw the Orwell. It was the fact of her being eased that attracted my attention, and I then looked out forward, and saw the Orwell's bows close upon us. I judge of the speed of the Orwell by the nature of the injuries inflicted on the Sylph. I think she must have been going eight miles an hour at least. Capt. Smith was re-examined by the coroner, and again questioned by Mr. Wilkinson, but nothing im portant was elicited beyond that which is above givee. He declined to give an opinion that the commaeder of the Orwell was to blame, and at the same time said that he thought the captain of the Sylph had done all he could to prevent accident. Mr. George Edwards, of Sutton, Suffolk, being sworn, said, I am a mariner, and was on board the Orwell when the accident occurred. I wa4 standing near the paddle-box, on the starboard side, when 1. saw a steam-boat ahead about one hundred yards. The vessel appeared to be across the river, with her bow a little downwards. I heard Capt. Wrackham give the order to stop her and beck her astern. The collision took place directly after. I do not know what speed either vessel had upon her when the acci dent occurred, but the Sylph, when I first saw her, seemed to have headway. Capt. Wrackham was for ward at the time. By Mr. Wilkinson—l was nearer to the engine room than Captain Wrackham was. I heard no one give any order to the engineer. I could have done so had any one spoken to the call-boy. Robert Fuller, mariner, of Ipswich, said--I am a INQUEST ON THE BODIES. Mr. W T akley, M.P., held an inquest, at half-past three o'clock this afternoon, at the Angel Inn, Iligh street, St. Giles's, on the bodies of Robert Birkmire and John Wright, police-constables; Charles Jenkins, a groom ; and William Robinson, a clerk ; all of 14 hom lost their lives in the late calamitous fire at No. 67, Guilford-street, on the morning of Saturday last. The jury, having been sworn, proceeded, with the Coroner, to view the remains of the unfortunate persons, which lie in the dead-house of St. Giles's workhouse. The bodies presented a frightful appearance—that of the youth Robinson being burned almost to a cinder—so much so, that his remains could scarcely be distinguished as those of a numan being, the others were frightfully mutilated, and presented all the appearances of persons who Lad been suffocated, and pressed with considerable violence by some heavy mass. On the return of the Coroner and jury, Mr. Farey, the gentleman who occupied the house situated at No. 67, Guilftrd•st:eet, was then called, and was asked by the Compel if he could give any particulars respecting the .origin of the fire? Ile said he could not account :or ic, and that it was quite unexpected by him; when he was aroused from his sleep, he thought that the fire came from the back of the premises. But this he .:ou:d not positively state, as he was dreadfully excited et the time, and had great difficulty in saving his life, and the lives of his family and servants. This gentleman was not sworn ; his evidence was consequently not gone into at Lny length. There were several witnesses, including :he police and fire men, in attendance, but The CORONER suggested to the jury the adjourn ment of the inquiry until Monday next. He re gretted that he could not adjourn it to any day before Monday, as he had considerable business to transact, hich would occupy the greater portion of his time until the end of the week. He was, however, then prepared to go into the inquiry if convenient to them ; but he thought the best course would be to adjourn until that day. It appeared that the premises had not yet been examined by Mr. Braidwood, with a view to discover, if possible, by such means the cause of the calamity. In all cases of this nature the fullest investigation was necessary, and by that day the pre mi.•:;es would no doubt be thoroughly examined. lie therefore suggested to them the adjournment of the inquiry until the day he had named. The jury having consulted, informed the Coroner that they had no objection to adopt his proposition. The inquiry was then adjourned until ten o'clock on Monday morning next. MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. (THIS DAY.) FARRINGDON WITHOUT.-DECLARATION OF THE POLL. Sir JAMES DERE, the Alderman of the Ward, an• nounced the state of the poll as follows : Mr. Bedford 455 Mr. 15herw00d........ 330 Mr. Williams Mr. Obbard Mr. Taylo► Mr. Burn Mr. Buckmaster Mr. Barnard 360 Mr. Gresham Mr. }Akins Mr. Prentierg ist Mr. Ramshaw The sixteen first gentlemen were accordingly elected. T,,e Chairman then appointed Mr. Bedford and Obbard his deputies.—(Cheers.) On asking 'or a vote for the expenses, Dr. LYNCH expressed his gratitude to the ward lor the position in %%Ilia he had been placed, for ' , lough he was not placed in a majority, he considered his po sition on the poll a triumph, as he had not cross,(l a thresholdto ask fir a single vote.—(Loud ::hcors lie complained of the means used by his opponents t,, prevent his election, for, if he was elected, they knew he would endeavour to break up the my,t,ry which hung over the Court of Common Council.—(Cheers.` Mr. BEI)Foan, and the other gentlemen eleaed, re turned thank.. Mr. WILLIAMS, in returning thanks, said that tin rd was a great deal of mystery about the Common Council and the Corporation, which he for one would wish to see removed.—(Cheers.) Mr. OBBARD in returning thanks, said that there was I no information which could not be obtained by going to the Town Clet k's-office, and the liccordcr had declared that any one of them had a right to demand any in formation be might require. Mr. TAYLOR said that if there was any mystery in the Common Council, it was because they were not eacti of them omniscient. Mr. Taylor then alluded to the bigotry of the Court of Aldermen in rejecting Mr. Saba. mons, whose family had resided in the City for a century. and who had been himself a magistrate of two counties. It was owing to the most brutal and bigoted intolerance that Mr. Salomons was rejected by the majority of the Court of Aldermen.—(Cheers.) Other gentlemen then addressed the wardmote, and the wardmote broke up. COLEMAN-STREET WARD. The poll finally closed this day at one o'clock ; whcn he numbers were : Mr. Hall Mr. Allan 9O Mr. Perkins 8; Mr. Hale B9 Mr. Johnson 72 Mr. Phillips B9 *Mr. Single liB Mr. Davies I 88 This ward returns eight members. Those marked thus* are new candidates. BILLINSGATE WARD. CLOSE OF THE POLL. Mr. Bower 135 *Mr. Francis l,O Mr. Curling Mr. 0;d Mr. Johnson ll6 Mr. Williams Mr. Proberts llO *Mr. Roberts Mr. Knill PORTSOKEN WARD.—CLOSE OF THE POLL. The polling recommenced this morning at the Thref, Nuns, Aidgate, before F. G. Moon, Esq., alderman of the Ward. At the close at four o'clock the numbcr3 were— Mr. Wright, Deputy.. 177 Mr. M'Kenzie Parker Hayward ...... ... 132 Judsum Rilby Christie The first eight gentlemen were elected and sworn in members of the Court of Common Loma.;.. 7614, 17% I.'l 114 7•X 13 SPIRIT of the PUBLI:. JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPRt,I t THIS DAY. GLOI3E.—Mr. O'Connell's it-cent conduct has been such as to disappoint and grieve his best friends, and to gratify his worst enemies. We allude not here to his six eches at the repeal meetings; althou.,:h these have of late savoured more strongly of sedition, and been more freely impregnated with the elements of mischief, than any of his former harangues. These imprudent addresses to the prejudices and passions of an easily-excited populace have not been allowed to pass without censure by us. We should have been justly regarded as "approvers" of his offences had we refrained from rebuke and condemnation. Admit ting, as we do, the strong provocation which the pro ceedings of the Government have supplied, and the gratification which Mr. O'Connell's personal feelings may receive from the indulgence of vituperation against those whom he designates his "persecutors" —we cannot admit that this motive can excuse, much less justify, those unmistakeable appeals 5 to the ignorant passions of the rabble with which his recent speeches at Limerick and Waterford were interlarded. There is neither ;14 3 dignity nor patriotism in su c h h arangues . Th e y would ruin a good cause, and brand with infamy in delible a bad one. The repeal project is dying by ' inches under the blighting influence of Mr. O'Con nell's inflammatory orations. This would be mat ter for congratulation—affected by whatever means which did not include an infraction of constitu -17 176 f tional rights. But, unhappily, th e su b s t an ti a l 2nn wrongs—those prolific sources of suffering and dim .7o content among the Irish people, are permitted to 904 continue. Successive chimerical schemes for effecting 79 organic changes in the government are broached. 25 Is I Thus the attention of the people is distracted from ft, their r ea l i n t eres t s , b y en d eavours to persua d e t h em i s ?, that nothing but those changes in the constitution of go. vernment can improve thei r phy s i ca l an d soc i a l con .. dition. Th e effect of these agitations upon the pub -3'4 lie mind in this country is necessarily injurious to the 1 best interests of Ireland. Those who are now espe- COURSE OF EXCH) Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 61 Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 13 Altona l3 13; Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Ditto, 3 vaonths 25 96 Marseilles 25 95 Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine l2l Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 954 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36.E Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville DAY..) Leghorn ... ......... 30 50 Genoa Milan . Venice . Naples ....... Palermo, ! , eoz II - Lisbon s3i Oporto . Rio Jami.." Bahia Buenos Ay . New Yu. dysaight .su tuoN PYJt ' Foreig.7.:. , ::l,bars..i3 17 9 fort' 64 ',Aid Coin 3 17 5 New .00ns .... 0 0 0 New 0 4 11 20 26 e 4!;, 10 4% 118 O 2 • aigs 01 01 0 0. 21 e; R 1 MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Dec. 24.) SUGAR. —The stock of British Plantation is now 5,636 hhds and trcs, which is 359 more than last year at this time. The stock, of Mauritius is 33,444 bags, which is 9,371 more than last year; the stock of Bengal is now 115,145 bags, which is 59,621 more than last year. The stock of other East India 125,909 bags, which is 56,328 more than last year. The delivery of British Plantation was 1,281 hhds and tierces, which is 22 more than last year at this time.: the delivery of Mauritius was 1,399, which is 873 less than last year ; the delivery of Bengal was 8,107 bags, which is 2,517 more than last year at this time ; the deliveries of other East India was 3,217 bags, which is 954 more than at the corres ponding period of last year. REFINED.—Tho home trade have purchased Refined Goods with increased freedom, and their being only a moderate supply, they are compelled to pay advanced rates—brown lumps fetching 71s 6d to 725, standord lumps 73s to 73s 6d, Ttttlers, low to middling 71s 6d to 735, good 74s to 755, fine and very fine 76s to 83s—Ilambro Loavev 73s to 81s double ditto 82s to 925, and wet lumps 703 to 71s per cwt. Of the low and middling descriptions the Sugar houses havo been nearly cleared. The con sumption is much greater than it was last year ; the dif ference between yellow West India Sugar and standard Lumps is only 5s to 5s 6d per cwt. Pieces have been in excellent request, and prices are sustained—sales of fine made at 67s to 695, good 63s to 665, and interior 56s to 62s per cwt. For Bastards lower rates have been accepted. ALTRITIIiS.—The business transacted by private con tract has been upon a more extended scale at previous rates ; at auction 1,145 bags were disposed of at and after the sale—good yellow at 59s to 61s 6d, mid and good mid 55s to 58s, and low 52s to 53s 6d. The stock here is nearly all in the dealers hands, the difference in prices of middling kinds of yellow and grey compared with those of Bengal is not so large as it was, and which may be ascribed to the falling off of the supply of the latter. EAST INDlA.—There has been a much better demand for all descriptions of Bengal Sugar, and by private contract the large quantity of 16,000 bags found pur chasers since this day week tit full but not at higher rates ; brown has fetched 41s to 495, low yellow 50s to 535, middling 54s to 575, good middling and good 58s to 635, fine and very fine 64s to 70s; white, low 58s to 69, middling 61s to 635, good 64s to 665, and fine 66s Gd to 69s per cwt; the principal part consisted of Dobah. None has been offered at auction. Foreign East India Sugar is still held with firmness. In Manilla there has been little passing by private treaty. FOREIGN.—Holders of all descriptions remain firm, and still refrain from offering any at public sale. The brown descriptions of Brazil have met with attention, and full rates are obtained. There are not sellers of yellow llavannah, excepting at fully former quotations, but there are few orders just now ; for ave rage parcels 21s to 21s 6d per cwt is demanded. In white th e tr a n s actions h ave b een tr ifli ng, b ut i n the value there is little variation to notice, low to middling is 25s 6d to 275, good 28s to 29a, and fine 30s to 32s per cwt. Other kinds of Foreign Sugar are unaltered in Table. MOLASSES. The low rates that prevail for West India have at length attracted attention, and an exten sive business has been transacted upon previous terms ; the purchases amount to 800 puns at 20s to 23s 6d for ordinary and middling St. `'intents, Montserrats, Nevis, Demerara, Antigua, Dominica, and St. Kitts. RzcE.—There are many purchasers of Bengal, and full rates hove been offered, but the market is still sparingly supplied : none has been offered at auction, but by private contract 5,000 bags have been sold, low at 1 Is to lls 3d, middling lis 6(1 to lis 9d, and superior 12s to 12s Gd per cwt, the chief part consisted of the lower sorts, and the demand principally to sup ply West India orders. Madras is wanted, and the rates paid are rather above those previously quoted. There are several purchasers of yellow and common white Java at 9s to lOs per cwt ; but the better sorts move off slowly at lOs Gd to 12s per cwt. Cleaned Rice at 23s to 27s for Carolina, and at 14s to 18s per cwt for Patna. ; COFFEE.—lfolders of West India are for the most part not disposed to submit to any further decline in prices, and have refrained from offering any at auction. Ins . porters of East India have manifested more firmness. The demand has increased for Ceylon, a'.id an advance in prices of Is per cwt has occurred for ordinary to fine ordinary. In Plantation kinds the transactions are upon a more extended scale by- private contracts at former terms. Mocha is held for Ate rates, but buyers are cautious in their proceedings : low yellow is 61s to 665, mid 67s to 70s, good mid 71s to 755, good 76s to 80s, and superior 82s to 86s per twt. At previous rates purchases to a fair extent have been made privately in Singapore Jav a at 30s to 375, and superior at 38s to 42s per• cwt, but in Company's there has been scarcely any business transacted, and the nearest value :is 49s to 51s per cwt, being the same prices that have p revailed fir some weeks: the consumption is interfered NI ith by other sorts of Cuffea which aro selling at com ratively low rates. Holders of Foreign Coffee are relucti.mt to give way in prices, and still supply the market spar ingly with all sorts. To-day the market was firm for C eylou Coffee, and a fair business was transacted private] !y, good ordi nary at 52s to 53s per cwt. the market sparingly w i t h al l sorts. T he Seicics —Holders of Gi nger s h ow firmne- A, and su pply and West India sold p r i vate l y were at fu] ra.tis—et auc tion 200 bags of M a l a b ar f etched 19s n sr t for good fair bold rath er wormy. The Roo" and fine bold par is of }list ce kinds of East India and Jamaica are sl ' anted little business has been transacted. In Mace prices r u l e very low in comparison with those • in. Cloves are not offered upon lower • . o f last seak are f e w orders. Prices are firm for - ,„erms, and but thereLi demand has existed at 3's to 3s • Nutm e - and a good to 4s 6d per lb for fine.. Th: c . mp s o ld for brown, . packages. and I , j rtation thi t It w as 488 8 year 1,,, 46 Packages, seaman on board the Orwell, and was upon the look' out in the larboard bow on the afternoon of Thursdsf week. I first saw the Sylph when she was witb ill fifty yards of the Orwell. I called out, " Stop hot- - go astern ;" but in less than a minute she struck 1 114 ; I think when I first saw her sh e was go i n g at fill' speed. The paddles were going ahead just bet . ° ll she struck. The Orwell had very little speed on het' and as soon as those on the look-out called out, tlle master in charge (Wig , :ins) stopped the engines. ri! called out, " Stop her—go astern." Th e Orwell Ilse! been eased previously, and was going " quite e asily at the time. She had been eased all the way fro' Woolwieh, and had come that distance about file of six miles an hour. We were about twenty you • frotn the north shore, and could see the edge of the bank very plainly. Ido not think it was pastible have avoided the collision, owin g t o th e spee d a t Ivili Ch the Sylph was proceeding. William Pullifer, another of the crew of the Or' well, gave similar evidence. William Linney, of Ipswich, another seaman ° II board the Orwell, said—l think that if the SyIPD; helm had been ported, instead of being put a starboard, the collision might have been avoided. Very fe ° seconds elapsed between our fir s t see i ng h e r and n' s collision taking place. By Mr. Wilkinson—lt is a general rule laid dol l/ by the Trinity-house, that when there is any danger of a collision b e twee n jtwo vesse l s , b o th s h ou ld pal their helms. Mr. William Wallace, shipbuilder, of Gravesen d ' a passenger on board the Sylph, confirmed the evi' dence of the other passengers. My impression, h e e said, at the time was that the captain of the Sy' exercised great presence of mind in the position which he was placed. By the CORONER—Had the Sylph been goingie l. viously at half-sp ee d, I thi n k th e acc id ent mighOsf s been avoided. The f o g came on very thi c k alt at once, just after we left the south shore. Henry Rogers (the call-boy on board the Orwel l ) proved having given the engineer orders to go " Quits easy," after leaving Blackwell, an d t o " St o p," P i ' before the collision took place. Joseph Sutcliffe, the engineer in charge, depos ed that on the passage up fr om Bl ac k we ll th e eng ine 14 , i made about seven revol u ti ons p er m i nute , her fa' speed being from 28 to 30. He was standing hyt l : usual in foggy weather, bet ween th e eng i nes , she he heard the order given to " St o p h er ," an d ." ~ astern." He did so, and after the engines had roes . two revolutions astern the colli s i on t oo k p l ace , awl "" then shut the steam off and ca me on d ec k. It oce ll ° . pied about 15 seconds t o s t o p th e eng i ne and ask the two revolutions astern. James Wiggins, a brother of the master in charg e ' and supercargo on board the Orwell, was next el: amined. He was at the ‘v heel whe n th e co lli s ion too' place, and his evidence differed in no r e spect from that of the other parties on board the Orwell. hid The CORONER remarked th a t h e th oug ht they - now got out all the circumstances of the case. The foreman, on the part of himself and broth el jurors, said he thought therhecLakeadv heard q uite enough to enable them to come to a conclusion on subject. The CORONER then commenced summing up, g e l through the evidence in his usually clear and pet e t te t cuous manner. He remarked particularly on the ', a , that the Sylph was shown to have been proceerileb; at full speed until within a very few moments of t o collision taking place ; while on the other hand it ci „, not attempted to be set up that the Orwell had P ro t ceeded at anything beyond a very slow rate Ol t passing Blackwell. The jury after an absence of half an hour's `fie7`l tion, returned the following unanimous verdict- - consider that the deceased persons met their death s' - ' e f dentally; but we are of opinion that the captk n . e h the Sylph was highly to blam e f o r th e s p ie d at sr° l ll l he had previously b ee n go i ng; w e b e li eve the &n th , to have been the moving power t o th e death °h e t deceased persons, but consid e r th e pa r ti es o n boar vessel used due caution, and did all they could to Sr' p the accident, and the jury are unanimously of Op that Captain Sweisland should be severely ter mended by the Coroner." tient The verdict appeared to give g eneral satiiinn, and Captain Sweisland was suitably admonishe d Mr. Curttar. COLLIERY EXPLOSION NEA I/ MORRIsTON. (Abridged from the Cambrian.) Soon after the workmen entered the P en b tre l felin Colliery, the property of the Swen se , n cisy, No .i Company, situated near Morrist on , on s ir they were alarmed kr an explosion of f°ll in one of the headings, ignited by a collier 11 7, 0 Thomas James, who was most severely burnt. the , workmen immediately proceeded from all parts °' , are pit to the scene of the lamentable occurrence, VIrP,;," they found the three lifeless bodies of J o h n Ho & aged 20, Matthew Fisher, aged 20, b o th o f w h o " were unmarried, and Thomas Morgan, a boy, t e : years of age, who had been most shockingly_ dl y ; figured, his head having been detached from the T, by the violent concussion of air consequent up* bu" explosion, nm the An inquest was held on Monday and ' r f e - r t un evidence it appeared th a t the pit had be en that' the worked during Sat ur d a y an d Sunday, 50d lovedto deceased boy Thomas Morgan, who was em w as turn the fan which cleared the mine of fou air, im too young and t oo wea k to wor k the fan effec ruil and that the worki ng th e f an , had only commence u few minut es b e f ore t h e men entered the pit. A A of The jury, havin g d e lib e r a t e d, r e turned a Te lr ' l ; t he "Accidental Death," with a n o pinion, "that her on fan been worked during Sunday night, or WC' or Monday morning, the ex pl os i on would not ha ve ro n curred ; that there is blame attached to the o ver d, for not havmg seen that the pit was properly clow n and fur n u t h av i ng em pl o y e d a person su - ffic i° strong to work at the fan." • ANOTHER ATTEMPTED ROBBERY AT T HS KATHERINE DOCKS.—We stated, in The Sum a We days ago, that robberies bad been very frequent o le o at the great lock establishments, and instanced ° t ort than five cases hich had occurred in the e diof space of a fortnight. It appears, that no twithsta n sd, the amo un t o f sus pi c i on caus .-d by t h e cases e ntaner v es and the great additional precautions which have e 3 of taken by the Dock Companies to prevent occurrenedett a similar kind, another daring attempt has been m i ld/ the ht. K a th e ri ne awls to steal a' quantity of l',7 l ,ich from a ship loading there at the present time' happily has not been attended with any degree of , t oe cess, the same having been discovered in suffici e % is' to prevent the thieves from carrying their felonOri e ss' tension into effect, in a rather singular m anner. n joo ral cask s o f brandy h a d b een remove d f rom the ii? ",: e seot Docks by c r a ft, and s hipp e d on b oar d a ves sel at P'. - fier loading in the St. Katherine Docks. On SundsY t the noon, the whole of the ship's crew being absent cell time, the Customs officer in charge, who was the eine person on bo ar d, heard th e w h ine o f a dog ' „ he for e place adjacent, and was in the act of walking sofr i e part of th e vesse l, f or th e p ur po se o f g i v ing h''' in slo, bones, the remains of his einner, when he o ° l r ase' over something which, on further examination , A P b e es to be several bladders containing brandy, that he a im' pillaged from one of the cask s recently s hipped., to V mediately called assistance, and caused informat ion e so s ' given to the d oc k aut h or i t i es , an d by thi s s imple "- bee no doubt, another extensive robbery of spirits h * ,, g as t t o prevented. No clue has ~bee n obt a i ne d with re g r n - fer the parties concerned in the affair. It is a matt er tin t treme surprise, considering. the strict watch at 11 : 1 ', 1 ,i supposed to be kept at the docks, how those th' ll P. be accomplished, or even attempted. \ VICTORIA PARK.— SALE9F BONNER'S HALL' o f fr es , terday a sale by auction took place, by order a ith i : Commissioners of Woods and Forests, of the , e ;bire, residence of Bishop Bonner, called Bonaer's Llab' ur . o is situated on a part of the site now is the ~c ° 1 , -- a of formation of Victoria Park, at the East-end. -1 " - dth j e tion remaining, which is stated to have been nn,f ao' wings of the original Palace, is about One hunn"" t „, th: twenty feet long, and about twenty,feet in ww,l o stel external walls being the same that were first % r ite" The building has for several years past been seP ho o s e' into five houses, one of which was a publi c- t o th e These hav e b een i n t erna lly cons t ruc t e d accordirlettlo fe modern style of architecture, and there is very 11 th B denote its former state, but it is expected tha t i ll be course of the demolition of the premises, there iv b the found some memorials to connect the locality wt possession of it by its celebrated owner. BIRTHS. Se th On the 15th inst., at Brvntirion, near Wrexliftl i '' Wales, the l a d y o f C apta i n R. Jones, of a son. ,y CO ' On the 19th inst., a t Eat on -pl ace , th e wife of GN I. ° Elwes, Esq., of a son . . On the 21st i ns t., at Orchard-street, Portman.s4lll&r-e li 1•10 ' i # Nathaniel William Kinderslev, of a son. .., t On the 21st inst., in Stritford- place, Oxford -1014 ;( wife of J. Rad c liff e B arrett , E sq-, o f a d aug hter. ,b e if' s On the 21st i ns t., a t Will ow - wa lk , K en ti s h-torn , ' II of Henry Wood, Esq., of a daughter. TlO ril On the 22d inst., at cpper Clapton, Mrs. Jam e 8 A y of P Hawes, of a son. On the 22d inst., at Golder's-hill, Hendon, the 14-- • • Bradford, E sq , o f a daughter. 14 40244 On the 22d inst., the Litly of Commander 11 . J ' R.N., of her Majesty's ship I3aring, of a daughter. d 1). 4 ' On the 22d inst., the lady of Charles Ring, E Bcl________ ' tors'-commons, o f a son. t)e r lf RRTED. t t On the 19th i ns t., i n t h e Cathcilral, SalisbutT% Re Joseph Phillimore, Esq., D.C.L. , to Charlotte Ann e, sister of Evelyn Denison, Esq., M. P., of Ossingtoo county of Nottingham ____-------_ 'f , D r ' On the 21st i ns t., Willi am Tyler, the second son ° f ~ i Smit h t h e 2 Bolton-street, Piccadilly. Ti e Onlst inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbard , of file `-'• o f Nort-road, foxto, aged 80. On h the 22d 1 inst., n Charles 31olyneux Keay Lock , ° 4.1 • Upper Cheyrie. row, Chelsea. On the 22d inst., in Park-street, Grosvenor - sq uat e i: ° Sophia, eldest daughter of Sir Charles W. 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