The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-05 00:00:00

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(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) IN THE MATTER OF JACQUES BESSET. HABEAS CORPUS. In this ea. the prisoner Besset had been a mer chant, carrying on business in London and in Paris. He became a bankrupt, and the French Government demanded that he should be given up to them under the provisions of the extratradition treaty, as a person guilty of fraudulent bankruptcy in France, and who had escaped to England. He was arrested, taken to the Mansion-house, and committed to Giltspur-street Compter by the Lord Mayor, preparatory to his being surrendered to the French Government. Before that surrender could take place, application was fmade to Mr. Justice Wightman, at chambers, for a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that the offence of fraudulent bankruptcy was an offence un known to the laws of England, and that, therefore, it was contrary to law to arrest a prisoner, or to keep him in custody on such a charge. Afr. Justice Wightman considered the matter of such importance that he refused to decide at cham bers, and directed application to be made to the full Court. On Saturday Mr. Chambers obtained the writ of habeas corpus, and this morning the keeper of the Compter appeared on the floor of the Court with his prisoner. Mr. CHAMBERS, on being called on, moved that Jacques Besset be discharged. The return to the writ of habeas was then put in and read. It set forth the warrant of the Lord Mayor for his committal on the charge of fraudulent bankruptcy committed in France. Mr. JAMES said that an objection had been taken before Mr. Justice Wightman that the prisoner was not in a position to apply for a habeas corpus, he being a French subject, accused of a crime committed in France, and in custody under the convention. Probably it would be better to take that point first. Lord - DENMAN—Perhaps so. Mr. CHA➢fBERS contended that there was nothing to show that the prisoner was in a different position from other persons, and that the other side could not now raise the question upon affidavit. Mr. JamEs replied that he had a right to show by affidavit that the prisoner was not in a position to apply for his habeas. Lord DENMAN—The words of the Act of Parlia ment are, " that such person shall be committed upon such requisition aforesaid, and delivered up in case requisition shall be duly made." Now the words of the commitment are, " until he shall be delivered by due course of law." There is not a word about any requisition having been made. How can you explain that, Mr. James ? Mr. JAMES—There has been a requisition to the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State ILI issued his warrant, that has set the magistrate in motion, and he has committed the prisoner until he shall be released by due course of law, instead of until he shall be delivered by requisition. Such a discrepancy might or not be a reason for ordering a prisoner's discharge, but he contended that the prisoner being a criminal, a subject of another country, accused of a crime committed in another country, was not entitled to his writ of habeas. It had never been stated under which Act the application was made, the Act of Charles 11. or that of George 111. The prisoner was a fugitive criminal from another country, accused of that which is not a crime in this country. t y the Act Charles 11. the relief by habeas was confined to subjects of this country accused of crimes which could be tried in this country. Upon that point there had been an express decision in the case of the King and M'lntosh, 1 Strange, in which the Court decided that a person in custody for treason committed in Scotland was not entitled to his habeas corpus, because he could not be tried for it in this country. The Act of 56th George 111., was only an extension of the Act Charles 11., and enacted that persons confined for anything but criminal, or supposed criminal matter should be entitled to his habeas—thus remitting him to his re medy at common law. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—What is his remedy t 24 common law ? Mr. JAMES apprehended the writ of habeas ; but he submitted that at common law a fugitive criminal from another country could not be entitled to his writ of habeas. lie apprehended the question was, whether a person in custody for a crime committed in France was entitled to his habeas. _ _ Lord DENMAN—That is to say, whether our gaolers are to be gaolers for France without the con vention. Mr. JAMES submitted that the Court could not discharge the prisoner on account of the wording of the warrant—for to be delivered up by due course of law would be to be delivered up in conformity with the requisition, or in the event of their being no requisition, his being discharged under the provisions of the Act of Par liament. He also submitted that if the warrant were bad, and the depositions set forth a crime, the Court could remand him back to the same custody. Mr. Justice WiLLlAms—That is only in cases in which the prisoner could be tried in this country. Mr. JAMES admitted that the Court would be taking upon itself to decide whether a crime, according to the law of France, had been committed by a French man in France; but, inasmuch as the magistrate would have the power of issuing a fresh warrant, he submitted that to give effect to the Act of Parliament, their Lordships would remand him to the same custody. Mr. Justice CoLERIDGE—Setting the magistrate's warrant out of the question, have we, proprio vigore, the power of committal under the Act? Mr. JAMES apprehended that the Court had the power to remand, and that it could exercise that power, on finding a crime set forth in the depositions. He submitted that the depositions ought to be read, and the prisoner re-committed by the Court, in the event of any crime appearing in those depositions. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN—That is to say that we are to discharge him under the warrant, and commit him ourselves de novo ? Mr. JAMES—Yes, my Lord. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL attended by desire of the Lord Mayor not to oppose the prisoner's dis charge, but to submit to whatever the Court might direct. Lord DENMAN—It is a great misfortune that this, the first application made of this very important Act of Parliament, which may affect the administration of justice throughout the whole of Europe, should be made in such a very defective manner. We have no power to interfere. The gaoler has no power to detain this person, except what is given to him by this Act of Parliament ; and when we look to the wording of the Act of Parliament, we find that in this case the directions of the Act have not been followed. It is clear he cannot be detained. We have been applied to to remand him as having been guilty of some crime. We can know nothing of the commission of any crime except what appears upon the warrant. We have no power to take cognizance of any crime committed in another State, except under the provisions of the recent statute. It would have been unnecessary to pass that statute if we had possessed such a power as that which we are now asked to exercise. It should be distinctly understood that this writ of habias is issued under the common law, and not under the Act of Charles 11. or George 111. The writ was secured by the petition of right, and was known to the law long before those Acts were passed. The prisoner must be discharged. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—We are glad to add our own hearfy tri bute to the general satisfaction with which the ap pointment of Mr. Erie to the vacant Judgeship has been welcomed. Men of all parties confess that, in plain language, there was no one in the field whose claim ranked so high ; and through the very ram con currence in him of great powers with amiable and honourable qualities, there is perhaps scarcely a barrister on his side of Westminster Hall, however slight his personal acquaintance with him, to whom the news of his elevation did not convey the thrill of pleasure with which we receive the tidings of the good fortune of a friend. As to what are called party claims for preferment, lawyers, we be lieve, think little abont them ; the public, which has the substantial interest in the appointment of good Judges, still less; the Rigby, Tadpole, and Taper generation must settle this fresh ground of quarrel with Sir Robert as they may. There is one point of view, and one only, in which we hail the elevation of this accomplished lawyer with feelings approaching to regret. The vacant glace was in the Court of Common Pleas ; and thus the Court which has the least work to do, which from its admirable mediaeval constitution is expressly cal culated to do as little work as possible, re,eives a fresh addition of vigour at a time when the judges of both the other Courts are notoriously overtasked. This is the more vexatious, a 3 the same Court enlisted the last young and hearty recruit in the person of Mr. Justice Cress well. Both these juvenile and energetic spirits will vegetate in a region whose climate seems to render exertion as impossible as it is needless—the very Castle of Indolence, where " No living wight could work, ne cared even to pl:xy"— where the judicial pun falls rare and pointless, and the advocate fights as one who beateth the air. The prospect of such ease after a hard-working period of honourable toil may he pleasant enough to Sir William Erle • but for our parts, when we see youth and strength taking their ease in the Park at three o'clock, while the veteran part of the judicial corps is grinding on through its ever-growing heap of business till long after the candle-lighting hour of a London November, we feel continually reminded of that most unequal division of labour in the old apologue when th e son ro d e t h e ass w hil e hi s age d f at h er wa lk ec i I no y steps areseside.Steareon towardsuslyspea h k t in e g, a i b t ate is m ve e r n y t o fthis strangemthosatt All paid 120 123 11 480 230 3ro 101% 21% 26% 24 120 00 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 IL 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 0 0 5 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 I 5 0 0 250 0 0 All paid 2 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 6 5 0 0 0 0 40 0 0 40 0 20 0 25 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 7 10 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 17 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 18 0 0 18 0 0 19 0 0 50 - 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 3! 5 0 L'S 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 39 0 0 80 0 0 25 0 0 48 0 0 10 7 0 25 0 0 5 400 11.135. 49 !fi 1G IE9 27.1 45% 5% lb;) 4:3% 10 ItSW, 35% 25 12& 121 8f46 •1444 67 131,4 !,94: • 463 i 6 1 2 94 214 34 24 74% 16• h, 118 25 ,';;; 115 44 118 9 24% 4% 3% 4% 104% 2754 ges pm 4 5 '4 6 3514 104 16 21s. 50 66 12 1 4 275 real grievance. We all know that the business of circuit is literally too ()Teat fur the judicial strength —men endowed with no more than ordinary nerves and viscera can scarcely stand it. The latest example of failure is that of the excellent and amiable judge whom Mr. Erle succeeds, and whose health we trust will yet be restored to him, though he is lost to the profession, at least in his recent character. The least fatiguing por tion of their duties is that performed in London. It is really of no small consequence that their labours should be lightened as far as they can be, during this period, by equal repartition. It is of much greater and more obvious importance to the public that the avenues of justice, clogged as they are with delay and expense, should be disem barrassed, as far as possible with the aid of the present machinery, before we are forced to put on additional power. There is a very large amount of business, connected with the public interests, w hich can only be disposed of, according to existing law, by the Court of Queen's Bench. There is another smaller portion, which is appropriated to the Exchequer. The Court of Common Pleas—since the last apparition of the belted knights, who were wont to decide on pleas of land—enjoys a delightful exemption from all busi ness of its own; excepting some infinitesimal doses of work administered to it by recent statutes. The ad ministration of private justice 13 open to all the three. The Common Pleas, in common justice, should exe cute as much of it as both the others together. It executes, probably, not half as much as either. The great body of the bar are excluded from practising in it by an arbitrary and absurd regulation. Wil liam IV. tried to remove this, along with other anti quated nuisances. He carried Reform ; but he could not open the Common Pleas. The Sergeants made better fight than the Boroughmongers. There is not a single reason advanced, or attempted, in favour of the existing practice ; and yet—so powerful are the sons of Zeruiah—we feel almost tempted to prophesy that the Union will be repealed, the debt of Pensyl vania paid, Young England in power, and balloons made serviceable, before "the Court of Common Pleas is opened." STANDARD.—Mr. Erie has succeeded to Mr. Justice Erskine upon the bench of the Common Pleas. Mr. Erie's professional eminence fully justi fies his promotion, which gives great satisfaction at the bar; not less satisfaction because the Learned Judge's elevation cannot be ascribed to political prefe rence, inasmuch as his politics, as far as they could be known through the moderation of his demeanour, were opposed to those of the present Government. Nothing has tended more strongly to preserve the veneration of the country to our judges, and to sustain the cha racter of the bar, than the perfect impartiality with which judicial seats have' been almost uniformly bestowed, we should say with absolute uniformity, but for some deviations between 1830 and 1841. However, the character of a class is determined by the preponderance of usage in such matters, and the usage has greatly preponderated in favour of a total disregard of political and party con siderations in the selection of judges. There may be some young men, or persons with short memories, who regret that Sir Robert Peel and Lord Lyndhurst did not so far imitate the Whigs as to look for Mr. Justice Erskine's successor among their own political friends. In reverting to the old practice, however, the Ministers have best served the Conservative party, by placing its conduct in honourable contrast with that of the Whigs when in office. No party ever lost anything by a wise and just use of power, when it possessed power. It was the four months' administration of Christmas, 1834, that laid the founda tion of the Conservative administration of 1841, which has already lasted three years, and promises to last three times three and more. THE FOG.—So dense was the fog during a great part of this morning, throughout the metropolis, that gas, oil, and candles were called into general requisi tion, not only in the public shops, but in private houses, and the coach thoroughfares were so exceedingly dan gerous to travel, that it required the omnibus drivers, &c., to exercise the utmost caution in the management of their vehicles, in order to avoid accidents. COURSE OF EXCHAJ Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i Antwerp flamburgh M.B. 13 13 Altona l3 13 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Marseilles 25 95 Bourdeaux 25 95 Frankfort on Maine l2l Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 953 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36i Cadiz ililbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville — 5 GE.—(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice .... Naples ........ Palermo, per oz llB Lisbon 55 Oporto 55 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars..£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 81 3 Silver in ears 0 4 11 THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) DOWNING-STREET, Nov. 1, 1844. • The Queen has been phased to appoint Thomas Horne, Esq., to be her Majesty's Attorney-General, and Valentine Fleming, Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor- General for the colony of Van Diemen's Land. WHITEHALL, Nov. 4. _ . The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint Mark Napier, Esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff Depute of the shire or heritidona of Dumfries, in the room of Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, Bart., deceased. The Queen has also been pleased to constitute and appoint George Dundas, Esq., Advocate, to be Sheriff Depute of the shire or sherifidom of Selkirk, in the room of James Miller, Esq., deceased. Commission bythe a Lord Lieutenant of Dorsetshire. R. Brouncker, - Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Oct. 15 BANKRUPTS. JOHN CLARK, carman, Brunswick-cottage, City road, to surrender, Nov. 15, at eleven, and Dec. 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Tucker, Sun-street Chambers. GEORGE BICKERTON RUDGE and ARTHUR JEFFERY RUDGE, japan leather manufacturers, Gloucester-street, Curtain-road, Nov. 13, at two, and Dec. 14, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street ; Norton and Son, New-street-buildings. RICHARD EATON, butcher, Featherstone-street, City-road, Nov. 22, at half-past one, and Dec. 18, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings; Taylor and Wickings, Fins bury-terrace, City-road. J ONAS STAPLES, plumber, Cottenham, Cambridge shire, Nov. 15, at two, and Dec. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman street ; Johnson, Walcot-square, Lambeth. JOHN BEDFORD PIM, stationer, Tweed's -court, Great Trinity-lane, City, November 13, at two, and December 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Old Jewry ; Buchanan and Grainger, Basmghall-street. WALTER HOLBEIN, flour dealer, Upper Seymour street, New road, Nov. 19, at twelve, and Dec. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers ; Buchanan and Co., Basinghall-street. HENRY BRAGG, bottle merchant, Montague-close, Southwark, Nov. 19, at one, and Dec. 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Ashley, Shoreditch. WILLIAM HENRY FITZHUGH and ROBERT EDWARDS WALKER, ship-brokers, Liverpool, Nov. 20 and Dec. 17, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger and Blake, London-wall, London ; Dodge, Liverpool. MARK ISRAEL JACOBS, tailor, Ashton-under- Lyne, Lancashire, Nov. 19, and Dec. 9, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee, Manchester ; Reed and Shaw, Friday-street, Cheapside, London ; Sale and Worthington. Manchester. THOMAS CROSFIELD, scn.,l,nendraper, Kirkham, Lancashire; Nov. 18, at one, and Dec. 10, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Cornthwaite and Adams, Old Jewry-cham bers, London; Fisher and Stone, Liverpool. JOSEPH CLEAVER, jun., victualler, Coventry, Nov. 12, and Dec. 10, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Troughton and Lea, Coventry. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From. the London New Price Current of Nov. 5.) Suamt.—To day importers of West India Sugar ma nifested firmness, and obtained fully former rates, in deed good and fine yellow kinds in some cases brought prices rather above those of Friday. The foggy state of the weather preventing the trade from pro perly inspecting the samples checked business, and the private purchases were only 300 hhds, gro cers and refiners were desirous to purchase all qualities. At public sale, 130 hhds 20 tierces of Barbadoes went briskly, at prices Is above those of the former sale for middling, good and fine yellow, and 64 per cwt for low sorts ; fine fetched 625 63 to 66s 6d, good 59s 6d to 60s 6d, middling 57s to 58s 6d, and low 55s 6d to 56s 6d per cwt. The market closed with a firm appearance for West India Sugar. There was no public sale to-day of Bengal or Mauritius. REFINED.—To-day several purchases were made in Refined goods by the home trade ; standard lumps at 725, and brown grocery 71s per cwt. Bonded crushed Sugar is firm at 28s Gd to 295. Loaves are in excellent request ; Turkey 24- to 41bs at 36s to 40s ; Harnburgh 6 lbs 32s 6d to 335, 9 to 10 lbs 30s 6d to 31s, 13 to 14 lbs 30s, Tittlers 20 to 30 lbs 29s to 29s 6d, Prussian 40 to 45 lbs 28s to 295. Pieces are in excellent request at 22s to 25s ; Bastards yellow at 18s to 19s, and brown 17s. Of Treacle some parcels have been sold at 12s 6d. Dutch Crushed Sugar is fetching 26s 6d to. 27s 6d per cwt. ,MAURITIUS.--In consequence of a reduction on pre vious rates of is to 2s per cwt having been accepted for brown and inferior yellow sorts, of which the supply has principally consisted, buyers have been induced to purchase several parcels ; middling good and fine yellow have been in good demand at the former currency, and the supply at market has been in sufficient for the demand. At auction, 1631 bags were sold—low and low mid brown at 40s to 425, middling 443 to 455, good 47s to 48s, fine 50s 6d, middling grey 52s ; a few lots of yellow fetched 52s for low, 53s 6(1 fur mid dling, 60s for good, and 2 casks very low brown 35s 6d per cwt. 'There has been no arrival since this day week, and the stock in first hands is small. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Java Sugar was sought after, but stiffer rates being asked, operated against business ; 347 baskets. 1,000 bags, at auction, were only partly disposed of, fine yellow at 21s to 22s 6d, good 19s 6d to 20:1 6d, damp 19s to 19s 6d, washed 18s to 19s, good sound brown 16s 6d to 172, ordinary 16s, washed 15s to 16s, damp 14s to 17s per cwt. MoLAssEs.—Prices remain firm for 'West India, and a fair demand has prevailed for the better descriptions ; a parcel of good Antigua has been sold at 24s per cwt, but at present there are few purchasers of comnon sorts ; holders, however, are not inclined to press sales, prices ruling very low. In East India little has been done. For Jamaica Honey further reduced rates have been accepted. FOREIGN.—There has been little business transacted by private contract in yellow Havannah Sugar, and only 400 chests have been disposed of at 19s to 22s per cwt. To-day a floating cargo of 440 chests brown Bahia was sold, deliverable here for refining under bond, half white at 225, and the remainder brown at 18s per cwt. COFFEE. — This afternoon Ceylon Coffee met with eager purchasers, and further advanced rates were paid; the parcels offered at public sale, amounting to 1,257 bags, were mostly disposed of at a further advance in prices of 6d to Is, making the rise on good ordinary since Friday of 2s to 3s per cwt, ordinary pale at 545, good ordinary pale . 54s 6d to 555, fine fine ordi nary grey Demerara sort 65s 6d to 67s Gd, fine ordi nary 62s 6d, pea berry 70s Gd to 78s, low middling colonry Jamaica kind 70s to 75s 6d, broken and triage 50s to 555. With Mocha the market was better sup plied, but the trade operated with caution, and 579 bales 10 cases at auction, and nearly all taken in much above what buyers were inclined to pay, good mid long berry greenish at 755, low mid 66s 6d to 68s, common green Mysore 455; a few lots were sold at 60s to 61s for low mid green Mysore sort, 51s 6d for fine ord, and inferior 38s: 219 bags Bengal were withdrawn. 100 bags Padang were sold at 24s to 24s dcl for middling, being chesper. 88 bags Mysore sold at 40s for green. 5 bags Madras at 66s 6d to 70s for yellow. 9 casks 11 bags of Dominique were taken in at 58s to 60s for fine and fine ordinary and good ordinary 48s per cwt. COCOA.—This afternoon West India met with atten tion, 131 bags of Trinidad, and 22 bags of Grenada were offered at public sale; the former sold at stiff rates, m d red at 40s 6(1. to 45s 6d, and ordinary grey 39s 6d o 40s Gd, and the latter at 42s 6d to 44s per cwt. TEA.—There has b( en an increased demand for nearly every description of Tea since this day week, and the general tendency of prices is upwards. For the lower sorts of Congou there has been a brisk demand from the trade and speculators : common selling at 101(1 to lqd, good common I Id to 1 lid; in the better sorts the transac .. tions are upon a more extended scale at ratherhigl errates. but mid coarse has been selling at I lid to Is, but mid and blackish leaf is Old to is 2d, good is 21d to is 6d, fine is 6(1 to Is Bd. Pekoe Flavor is 9cl to 2s 6d. Pouchong has been in good request, and prices rule firm ; the sorts most in request are those from 5Nd to 9d. In Twankay, common selling at is lid it to Is 2d ; brightisk leaf is 3d to is Bd, and Hyson kind, is 9d to 2s sd. Scented Orange Pekoe 3s 4d to 3s 5d ,per lb. Hyson has been much inquired for, common fetching 2s Gd to 2s Bd, mid 2s 6d to 3:, and superior 3s 3d to 3s 6d. In Young Hyson the transactions are upon a more extended scale of still' rates, faint fetching 2s to 2s 21, and better qualities 2s 4d to 3s 3d. In Imperial several purchases made at 2s 9d to 3s 6d. Gunpowder is much wanted, and the par cels disposed of fetched 3s 3d to 4s 6d per lb. SPICES.—This afternoon, at public sale, 106 bags of Malabar Pepper were taken in at :30 for good brown heavy; 688 bags of Sumatra were only partly sold at 21d per lb for rather stalky, being barely former rates; 158 bags of white Tellichery, all taken in at 5d t o 5i for small Coriander sorts. With Nntmegs the market was better supplied; 22 chests at auction were sold at 3s 8d to 4s Gd for brown Singapore, 3s 3d for inferior. Of Mace 14 chests fetched 3s 3d to 4s 4d, low is Gd to Is 7d. Of Piemento 30 bags were sold at 41-d per lb. for mid. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The home and ex port demand has fallen off for Jamaica Rum, and the business transacted hae been limited since this day week, but there is still no decline in prices to notice. The totol purchases since this day week are 60 puns at 3s 10d to 5s 6d for 30 to 36 per cent over proof ; arrivals, however, have fallen off considerably of late. Leeward Island Rum at 2s 4id to 2s 5.1 proof strength; Demerara, 35 3d to 3s 6d for strong qualities. Calcutta at 2s 3d to 2s 3id per gallon, proof strength, with certificate. In Brandy large purchases have been made at firm rates ; holders are de cidedly less inclined to realise ; in France prices have opened higher than was expected. The quotations here rule as follows :—Cognac, best brands of the vintage, of 1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s 0.1; 1839, hhds 4s ' I Id, puns 4s 9d ; 1840, hhds 4s Ild, puns 4s 9d ; 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ; 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s 5d ; low 2s lid to 3s 3d, and mid to good mid 3s 4d to 3s 10d per gallon. For Geneva there are few shipping orders ; is 9d to is 10d is the value of export sort, and 2s 6d to 3s 6d for fine fit for duty. The price of English Corn Spirits has declined 2d ; it is now lOs 2d per gallon cash. CrivNamoN.—The quarterly sales of Cinnamon were brought to a close this afternoon. The demand through out was limited, and of the 2,300 bales offered, only 1,300 were disposed of at prices showing a decline of those of the last sales of 3d to 5d for good firsts, seconds, and thirds ; ordinary sorts went from last sales rates to 2d to 4d per lb decline. Java and Tellichery was all taken in; Ceylon, first sort sound sold at 4s to 5s 6d, second sort 3s 4d to 4s 6d, and third sort 2s 9d to 3s 9d per lb. RlCE.—lmporters of Bengal Rice are not inclined to submit to lower rates, in consequence of the stock here not being more than adequate to three months consump tion. Privately several parcels have been disposed of at full rates, rnidding and good middling white fetching 11 s to lls • 6d, and good 12s per cwt. Java at auction sold at and after the sale, middling white rather broken at lOs 6d to 1 ls, good bold 12s to 12s 6d, and sea damaged 5s to 9s 6d per cwt. Madras yellow sold at 8s to 8s 6d, and small parcels of white 9s to 10, per cwt. Cleaned Rice has been in good demand, Patna at 13s 6d to 18s, and Carolina 23s to 27s per cwt. The consumption of East India continues large. OlLS.—'There has been a better demand for common descriptions of Fish Oils since this day week, but no improvement has occurred in prices. Cod has been selling at 331, pale Seal 351 to 35155, Southern, good to fine 30/ to 32/ 10s, and low to mid 271 to 291 10s. Coloured Seal at 32/ lOs to 331 per tun. Of Southern the stock is rather less, and of Seal not above half of what it was last year at this period. Arrivals of Coi are near at hand. For pale Seal prices are 20s to 255, and for Southern 5/ to 71 per tun lower than on the sth of November, 1843. Sperm 88/ to 90/ ler tut) for fine British. Linseed Oil at 23s 6d to 23s 9d per cwt on the spot and for forward delivery ; prices are, however, kept low by the large supply. There are few buyers of Rape, and the crushers expe rience difficulty in ob:aining 35s 6d to 36s for pale, and 34s 6d to 35s for brown : the supply is good. Cocoa Nut 27s to 29s per cwt. Palm has met with a good sale at former terms. Prices are steady for Olive Oil, and several parcels have been sold, Gallipoli at 43/ to 44/, Spanish 411 to 421, Barbary and Levant 39/ to 401 per tun. FRUIT. —To-day new Turkey Pulled Figs were in ex cellent request at 655, and Sultanss 68s per cwt, being however, lower rates. Valentia Raisins met with eager purchasers at 503 per cwt at which the market is firm. In old currants there was an immense business transacted at 65s for Patras, and 42s for Island Fruit. At public sale 41 butts 12 caroteels new damaged Patras Currants were offered, and sold at 45s to 50s per cwt. INDIGO.--The demand for East India was good in the middle part of last week ; several purchases were made by the home trade and exporters. On Thursday 270 chests of Bengal, mark H F and Co., were disposed of ; since then, however, the market has been in a quiet state, and in some instances there are sellers rather under the rates of the last quarterly sale, in consequence of the accounts come to hand from Calcutta. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon the market was largely supplied with Cochineal, three parcels of Honduras amounting to 881 bags were offered at public sale, and nearly the whole sold but at rather lower rates, low to fine silvers fetched 4s Id to 4s 9d per lb. TALLow.—lmporters of Russian submitting to a fur ther reduction in prices has occasioned an excellent de mand on the spot, old P.Y.Candle has been selling at 40s 6d, and new at 40s 9d to 41s per cwt upon these moderate terms some of the trade are inclined to get well into stock. For forward delivery several contracts have been entered into, and 40s 6d to 40s 9d are the rates paid up to the present year. Town Tallow at 42s to 42s 6d nett cash. Other sorts of Tallow are rather cheaper. At auction New South Wales sold at 39s to 39s 6d for good quality, and South American at 38s to 39s 9d per cwt for good and fine. The stock of Foreign Tallow has been fur ther increased. BEST METHOD OF PROTECTING BUILDINGS FROM LIGHTNING. Were our houses, magazines, and ships, built of iron, or did they consist of a framework of iron filled up with stone, brick, or wood, they might bid defiance to the ravages of accidental or wilful fire, as well as to all the lightning of the tropics. Strike where it might, the deadly fluid would be conduct e d quietly to the ground. In the meantime, however, we must have recourse to a less perfect system of protection, till advancing knowledge and r ece di ng iron prejudice aswellironiron ships, roads, and iron bridges. As the conducti▪ ng powers of lead, tin, iron, zinc, and copper, are as the numbers, 1-2_ 2 4-4 and 12, copper is the best material for con ducting-rods. The quantity of metal in th e ro d should not be less than what iscontainei in a cyli n d er i half an inch and two tenths n• diameter. The me tallic rod should be flattened rather than rou n d, so as to have the greatest surface that is consistent with strength. The conductor then formed,, should com municate with all the detach( d masses of metal in the building, such as leaden ridges, gutters, and metallic pipes. It should be placed as near the wall as pos sible, and pass directly into the ground. It should be attached to the most elevated point of th e b u ildi ng, and if the structure is to consist of num erous ranges, such as the new Houses of Parliament, long, pointed rods should project from the IT OA prominent parts into the atmosphere. In place • adopting the usual method of external conductors ,we would recommend the introduction of a vertical iron bar into the thick ness of the principal walls of the buildi ng . Th ese bars should communicate with a horizontal wall-plate of iron uniting the whole, and from this wall-plate should rise all the external conductors which are to project into the atmosphere.. These iron plates and bars might be so united as to form a sort of c:4rpentry which would add to the strength of the edifice.--- Builder. On Wednesday list, William Stiles a coal guard in the employ of the Great Western Railway, was em ployed im conveying a train of trucks laden with coal trom Dunhall to Exett , r, two trucks were left at Hale station, when Styles got off the truck on which he was riding, to perform his duties at the station, and the en gineer stopped the engine to enable him to do so. After stopping the engine, several of the trucks forward by their own force. Shortly after the engineer heard an alarm, and on getting off to see the cause, found the deceased jammed between the outside framing of two of the trucks. The deceased called to the engineer to go a-head and they moved on the engine as promptly , as possible and re!eased him. He was taken to the sta tion-house, and a surgeon sent for ; but before he ar rived the deceased begged to be taken home, and was placed in a chair on his truck and brought to Exeter. Mr. W. P. Kin don attended him on his arrival here ; ,4iis body was much bruised, his hands cold, and no pul sation could be felt at the The poor fellow died about twelve o'clock on Wednesday night.— Western Times. RAILWAY ACCIDENT IN BELGIUAL—On Monday evening, says the Independent of Brussels, a horse, which had strayed upon the railroad near the Soignies station, was run against by a train, and actually cut in two, without any of the carriages having been thrown off the rails, or even the rate of speed being relaxed. There was not a single arrival yesterday—a very unusual circumstance—at the port of Liverpool, and but one from a foreign port on Saturday.—Liverpool Albion. DESTITUTE CONDITION OF THE LABOURING POOR. A special session of Justices of the Bromley di vision was held yesterday at the Bell Inn, Bromley, for the purpose of disposing 'of a great number of summonses, &c., against poor people residing in Bexley, Bromley, Cudham, and other parishes, for non-payment of poor-rates. The magistrates present were the Rev. Sir C. Farnaby, the Rev. Mr. Scott, the Hon. Mr. Dashwood, J. Goodhart, Esq., J. Berens ' Esq., and P. H. Dyke, Esq. The first ease gone into was a summons against a poor old widow, named Evans, for non-payment of a poor-rate for Bexley parish. The poor old creature said she was not able to pay any poor-rates. She was herself at this time receiv ing relief from the parish. The overseer admitted that that was the fact. Sir C. PARNABY asked how it happened, as this was the case, that she was called upon to pay the rate ? The overseer replied that the vestry had heard the old woman had a son who was earning money, and they thought he ought to pay for her. Mr. DYKE asked the old woman what she received from the union ?—She replied one shilling a week, and a loaf of bread. The BENCH said they thought this was a case in which the party ought to be excused paying the rate, and Mr. Goodhart observed that the poor old woman ought to have an extra loaf given her for her trouble in coming to the bench. The next case was that of another poor widow, named Martin. She was summoned for six shillings. The poor woman said the. reason she had not paid the rates was because it was entirely out of her power. Her husband, when he died, left her destitute, and she had no means of subsistence but doing a little needlework. During her husband's life they had paid rates in the parish for twenty-one years. Mr. DYKE asked whether this case had been re ported to the vestry ?—The overseer said it had, and the parish authorities thought that, from the amount of rent paid by Mrs. Martin, the rate siould be enforced. Mr. DYKE—What rent does she pay ? Overseer —Three shillings a week. Mr. DYKE—People who pay 71. or W. a year rent must pay the rates. If not, they should t:tke a smaller place, or else a room. Mrs. Martin—l should have to pay as much for a room, and I have lived in the house with my husband a good many years, and don't like to leave it. She thought it was very hard, after paying rates for twenty-one years, that she should be troubled in this way. The BENCH said that they must order the payment of the rate. They would, hovv ever, allow her a fort night to make up the money. The woman said it was no use to promise to pay. She had not a farthing in the world. She had no thing to subsist upon but the produce of a little needle work, and everybody knew how badly that was paid for. Sir. C. FARNABY said the bench had n) alternative but to grant a distress warrant if she did not pay. Another poor widow, named Street, was also sum moned for a rate of six shillings. - The reason for the non-payment was sthat she had been left in very bad circumstances by her husband, and had latterly been ill. The rent she paid was three shillings a week. The BENCU said this was a similar case to the last, and the money must be paid in fourteen days. Mrs. Street said she could not pay. She had been lying ill of fever for four weeks, and was quite destitute. The BENCH said, if the parish enforced the claim, they must issue a distress warrant if the money was not paid. A man named Leamington, the occupier of a cot tage, which, with several others, it appears, is let on lease by the parish of ‘Vickhain to a person whose name did not transpire, and who underlets the pro perty to a number of poor persons, was summoned for six shillings. Leamington said that his landlord told him the pro perty was not liable to the payment of the poor-rate. Mr. DYKE said that as the occupier there was no doubt. 'le was liable. It frequently happened, how ever, that the landlords of cottages told their tenants they were not liable to pay poor-rates, in order that they might get more rent. The overseer said that one of the occupants of the cottages had told him that she paid additional rent, upon the understanding that there were no poor rates to pay. The BENCH said it would be a very good thing if the landlords of cottages and property of that de scription were compelled to pay the poor-rates. At present, however, the occupiers were liable, and the payment must be enforced from them. Leamington said that he and a number of other poor people had actel upon the statement of their landlord, and he trusted that under the circumstances the bench would not compel them to pay the costs. The MAGISTRATES said they could not remit the costs, which must be paid, with the rate, in fourteen days, or there would be a distress warrant. Mrs. Lawson attended to answer a summons for eight shillings. She said she could not pay. Her husband had not done a day's work for some months, and there were nine of them in family. Mr. DYKE asked what rent she paid, and she re plied, eleven guineas a year. The BENCH said this was a case in which the rate must be enforced. They had no business to keep a house of eleven guineas a year it' they did not pay the rates. The poor woman said that with seven children they could not get a house to shelter them for less rent. Mr. Dinks said that was their look out. Houses of that value must pay the rate, and if the amount was not paid in fourteen days there would be a distress warrant. The poor creature said it was quite impossible for them to pay the rates. She had left her children at home with nothing but a piece of dry bread to eat, and if they took all they had got in the world they would not make up the money. Mr. DYKE said that if they were in such a destitute state they should have applied to the Board. She replied that it was no use going there, for if she did they would not give her a loaf of bread for her children. The BENCH said they would give her a month to pay the money. She said that if her husband got any work they would pay it, but if he did not, it was impossible for them to do so. She added, that when she went home she should not find a morsel of food, and the had not a farthing in the world. Several other summonses were then gone into, and the parties were ordered to pay in fourteen days. They begged hard to be excused from the payment of the coots, which in almost every case amounted to the sum claimed for the rate, but the Bench said they had no power to relieve them, and both the rate and the costs must be paid, or there would be distress warrants. John Masters, a poor, decrepid old man, was sum moned for four shillings. The BENCH asked how he got his living ?—He re plied, by shuffling about with a few coals and a cart and horse. Mr. DYICE—Oh ! if you keep a horse and cart you must pay. The old man said the horse was not his. It was only lent to him. the BENCH ordered the payment in fourteen days. The next case was that of John Vensels. He said he was a cripple, and unable to do any work. The overseer said this case had been before the vestry, and they thought the rate ought to be en forced, because the old man had a son who was earn ing something, and they considered he should pay. The old man said his son was a boy of nineteen, and he had only done three weeks' work out of 'the last five. He added that, if his son had not supported him, he must have gone into the union long ago. He had never received a farthing from the parish, and he did not want to have anything from them. Sir C. PARNABY inquired the character of the son ? —The overseer said he was a hardworking young man. The BENcx thought it was bad policy to enforce the rate from the father because the son was willing and able to work, and they expressed their opinion that the vestry ought to ri consider their determi nation. John Tippin was summoned for €s. 6d. due for poor-rates in the parish of Cudham. He appeared to be a strong healthy man. The reason assigned for no, p ;y:ng the rate was, that he had three small children, and hip wife was o ust about to be brought to be I of a fourth. He was willing to work, but could not always obtain it, and had had no regular work for three years. The overseer said he was instructe 1 by the vestry t ) enforce the payment of the rate. The man was in work now. Tippin said he was in work, but the farmers had lowered the wages to 10s. a week. Five shillin g s went for flour, 2s. for rent, an d I s . f or fi r i ng , an d he had only 2s. left. The BIINCII said they had no alternative but to order the payment of the rate, and ss. costs. Tippin said he hoped they would not make him pay any costs. The MAGISTRATES told him it was his own fault that there were costs ; he should have paid the rate. An order was then made for the payment of the whole amount in a month. GREAT PROTESTANT MEETING. A crowded meeting of the members of the Metro politan Tradesmen and Operative Protestant Associa tion, and others friendly to Protestantism, was held yesterday evening in Exeter-hall. The demonstra tion, if such it was intended to be (and the eve of the "Gunpowder" Plot would seem to imply it), was most successful. The large room was densely filled, and the platform was crowded with respectable and influ ential, if not distinguished personages. Among those present we observed the Rev. Mr. Benson, of St. Saviour's ; the Rev. Mr. Thelwall, of Bedford Chapel ; the Rev. Tennyson Cuffe, of Car lisle Chapel, Kennington-lane; and R. H. Binden, Esq., &c., &c. The chair was taken by J. G. P. Smith, Esq. The Rev. TENNYSON Curers opened the meeting with prayer. The CHAIRMAN said that to-morrow was the anni versary of a great national deliverance—a deliverance from tyranny—Popish tyranny and oppression ; and surely that deliverance was a greater one than any that could be obtained from any external aggres sion. That day was ordered, by Act of Parliament, to be commemorated in after times, and they would do so to-morrow, in the way most consonant to the principles of God's word, namely, by prayer and other religious observances. The Rev. A. S. THELWALL moved the first resolu tion. He had not intended to speak at that meeting, but he held that, as a minister of the Gospel by law established, he should be always ready to advocate Protestant principles, and that liberty which was dear to every British bosom.—(Cheers.) He had, there fore, readily conceded to the wishes of the Committee iu coming forward to promote this resolution— " That, in the opinion of this meeting, the spread of Popery among the operative classes arises from igno rance of the real principles of the Church of Rome ; and that, therefore, it is of the highest importance to promote sound Protestant information among them. This meeting, therefore, earnestly desiring the in crease and prosperity of the Metropolitan Tradesmen's and Operative's Protestant Association, pledges itself to renewed exertions on their behalf, trusting that by the blessing of God their labours may he useful in bringing many back into the good old paths from which they have wandered ; of confirming in the truth those who are halting; and of arousing in all that vigilant and prayerful spirit which, under God, gained for us the Protestant Refor mation, and which alone can preserve it in our land." The Rev. Speaker then went at considerable length into an elucidation of the political domination which, he maintained, had always been shown by the Roman Catholic Church. He contended that it was a prin ciple inherent in their tenets, and inculcated by their priesthood, to persecute Protestants whenever they had an opportunity. He cited the case of the Rev. Robert Kalley, of Madeira, who had been thrust into prison contrary to the Portuguese laws. And why ? In the hope that the dungeon would do the work of the scaffold or the stake.—(Cheers.) He also ad verted to the case of a female confined in the same island. She was a victim of Popish persecution be cause she had renounced that Church for the soul saving truths of Christianity as explained by Protes tants. But he hoped they would that night and to morrow make a demonstration that would ring through all quarters of the earth, and prove sufficient to open the prison doors of that unfortunate sister. Mr. A. V. ALLEN-It had been said by many—it had been boasted by Roman Catholics—that the doc trines of their Church was on the increase in England, and surely it was incumbent upon all right-thinking Protestants to unite in preventing the further exten sion of those baleful principles. That extension did not arise from an influx of Catholics, but it altogether had its strength in the apathy of Protestants them selves. It was time to arouse themselves, for now, alas, Popery had been intruded into the Church of England, and it would require much watching and much prayer ere they could get the evil eradicated. True, he y h Tracts for the Times" were now done away with, but the principles of those tracts were yet in full vigour, for they had now, written by a clergyman of the Church of England, tracts entitled " For the last day," and he would read them portions of one, to exhibit the manner in which this clergy man spoke of that Church of which he was a member. The speaker then quoted at considerable length from the works in question. Let them not indulge in vain regrets for the past, but, like true soldiers of Christ, fight the good fight of faith for the future, and with the blessing of God their efforts would be fully crowned with success.—(Cheers.) He had great happiness in seconding the resolution. R. H. BINDEN, Esq., rose to move the second reso lution. Popery did not aim at destroying the spirit of the Constitution only—it would destroy the Con stitution itself.—(At this time the Rev. Hugh Stowell, of Manchester, entered the Hall, and was greeted with enthusiastic cheering. Silence being restored, the speaker proceeded.) Popery had been the same in all ages. She was the sairy now that she had been when expelled from this island to her own home—the city of the Seven Hills.—(Cheers) Why had they got rid of Popery ? Was it not that she tried to make the intellects of all, kings or vassals, succumb to the power of a foreign mercenary ? Would she not do the same still ? She would, for the canons of the Church declared it.—(Cheers.) It was her principle that the spiritual shots!d . coerce the tem poral power by every possible means. Was it not the policy of Protestants, therefore, to confine her within her present bounds ? If Popery were once to gain an ascendancy in this country, where would she rest ? The speaker quoted from many Catholic works to prove the intolerance of the creed, and then instanced the experiences of many individuals as proving the same. If they had any love for their country or their Queen—for Popery could not tolerate a Protestant Mo narch—they must withstand the spread of Tracta rianism, for what Papists were in the middle ages Tractarians were now.—(Cheers.) The many mo nasteries and nunneries that were now building in many parts of England afforded ample evidence of the active spirit of P.:pery, and, therefore, lie said, that it behoved them to struggle as earnestly, and the Lord would assuredly be on their side to help them.— (Loud cheers.) He proposed the second resolution-- " That the struggles of Popery in this country are unprecedented and alarming, and call for the most strenuous exertions of all true members and friends of our reformed Protestant Church to oppose and counteract them." The Rev. Ruch STOWELL then rose to second it. He said it was worth hastening from Manchester to witness a meeting like that he had the honour of ad dressing. They, in the country, were accustomed to look to the metropolis as the heart of the community, and if the life-blood flowed healthily and steadily through the heart, they were pretty sure that its cur rents would be felt even to the extremities.—(Cheers.) Yet he could not conceal that there was stagnation among them. They trusted, he was afraid, too much to an arm of flesh, and neglected that higher power which could only lead them on to victory.— (Cheers.) They trusted to party politicians, and found that they leant upon a broken reed. They found themselves deserted on the day of battle--for- saken in the hour of need.—(Cheers.) But now they had got rid of those recruits, and they had only in their ranks sound and Protestant spirits; they had lost rank, and, it might be, talent, but they had re tained sound sense and religious consistency.— (Cheers.) He would not diverge into party politics, but he would say that the pious ministers of the Church, and the noble-minded among the laity, had their confidence in the present Ministry sadly shaken when they saw that, despite the earnest remonstrances of their Church, the Dissenters' Bill was passed, con cessions made to the agitators of Ireland, the grant to the College of Maynooth doubled, in spite of the eloquent denunciations of a Sullivan and a M‘Ghee.—(Cheers.) Well might a friend of his say that " God was indeed doing all for them, and man doing everything against them:: Their pe titions had been indeed slighted by a Ministry whose governing principle was concession, but were those petitions slighted at a throne to which their earnest entreaties should ever be directed ?—(Cheers.) They were charged as wild enthusiasts, who produced more schism than unity in the church of heaven ; but let them remember that but a few clergymen carried the Reformation. Let them think of Luther, who walked forth alone with his Bible under his arm, against an embattled world, and, in the name of the Lord of Hosts, fought and triumphed.—(Cheers.) Let them take an example from their antagonists in their industry, in their buildings of monasteries and of nunneries in the face of Protestant England; not that he would compare these doings with what their own Church had done, and what she would yet do.— (Cheers.) But it was of interest to observe the bold front that Rome now exhibited in old Englaul. Time _ was when a Rom an C a th o li c proces sion dared 11t ' exhibit their ab sur d p ara ph erna li a i n the broad lig ht of Heaven; but now—as lately at _M anc hester- 413 1 poured their l ong l eng th th roug h t h e s treets, and ° the site of their intendA church they planted a cross seven feet high, the emb! em o f their gross sun stition. He would give them a scene wm c occurred not long since i n M anc h es t e r. It had beeniti announced that high m ass wou ld be said the chapel, and that prayers would be offered up 1 . O'Connell (Cheers a n d hi sses .) A d e tachment a ,(4 l ' regiment there were accustomed to go to that chaP!; and the officer in those circumstances took the ad vi o, of his captain, who s a id th a t h e mus t a ttend his °l e and if anything occurred w hi c h th e y s h ou ld not see a hear, he was at once to march his men out e tii ; they went there, high mass was sa id, an d thee priest commenced an harangue upon the wrong s . d Ireland ii , and he went so far that h e as much as „,-„ that O'Connell ought t o b e Ki ng o f IrelatTo (Cheers and hisses.) At that momen t the 1311 officer started up, and in a stentorian voice c allen " Attention"--(Laughter)—" face about"--( : re d nued laughter)—" march ;" and then the ii3as s i o tramp of the men formed the fitting cl° se irlies scene so ludicrously unexampl e d.—(Ch eer s.) , ',,„ o f all parties were combini n g some f or th e abolit i l e it the corn-laws, some for their retenti on , so me for the seven points of the Charter—should not theio friends of truth and Protestantism, combine fig s ? , an open foe, or secret enemy, or perfidious friends. ns t (Cheers.) Should they not take their .stand sgto a false expediency—(Cheers)—a truckling to f fte i and pelf, and say, emphatically, and with W e/ hands, " We shall have no more concession to B eill t io not one step further down the pre c ipi ce —no Moreo r crificing to man or devil ?—(Cheers.) Our 00 , h word shall be, " The Church f or w hi c h our ci el fathers so nobly bled, uncontaminated and unrewb o d in its fair proportions."—(Cheers.) Praise to. they had not a Tractarian on th e B enc h of .8 15 , 11 # 1. and it was creditable, at least to her Majesty s h visers, that, in their app o i n t men t s t o th e Chaf e England, and still more to their appointnieo in the sister country of Ireland, they 13 ,0 not advanced one of Tractarian principles. a t id Tractarianism, he was happy to think, was zenith, though, as sappers and miners, they lo be still endeavouring to injure the church of The Rev. Gentleman continued in a strain of the ' l l thrilling eloquence, interrupted at every senten ee t y the most general cheering, to expatiate upoly duties incumbent upon the membe rs o f the Churn England in that crisis. He commented, in writhera terms, upon an amalgamated system of educW te i which, consisting of all religions, really incuPly none. He concluded by ex h or ti ng th e m to be 11l and watchful—to make no c ause w ith an y of the _r4 sects who called themselves Protestants, but to tr ot to a power, all-wise and infinite, whose instrelio might be found in the Script ures an d i n the 1 -I °, t9 tt er, of the Church. There mi g ht b e s p ec k s in the but there were specks on th e sun , an d they 113 „; depend upon it that they woy.ld be found a s ubstsn i i shield in their warfare with th e Romanists. pd them show that it was Popery they hated, an d the souls of those who professed that principle' they them treat their antagonists with love, speak t°o(i in love, and pray with and for them in the sPro love and mercy. L e t th em h ope th a t as it ‘' h glorious British Queen who fostered their Chu rc t ioi its infancy, so another Queen would a t that hod nurse, and foster, and succour her, now in t_b i e t of her struggles. The sp ea k er sr.t down atni",'", loudest applause. S evera l more s p ea k ers adu r a the meeting, and some resolutions were propos e IS seconded, and after tha n ks •h a d b een v oted t e Chairman, the meeting separated. SLAVERY IN ALGIERS. , el l From a correspondent at Oran we have rec ‘ ,e ll o lo l , translation of an address to th e D u k e o f Isly Bugeaud) from the Institut d'Afrique at Paris, v o jet lation to the slave-trade notoriously carried on ° e ll French dominion in Algeria. The address does g et credit to that body, and must, we s h ou ld think, "' o il powerful effect. We trust it is only the fi rst te, series of steps which will be taken by the Instittiryf further measures should be f oun d neces sary in ors to efface this foul blot from the f a i r f ame of t 11 1131 r Since writing the above we h ave seen Marsil geaud's reply to the address of the Institut d'Jt,„` r o clo! on which we cannot at th e m omen t ma k e anyel t ' so' remarks. It is, strange to say, in the negativ e ' o stis pleads strongly for the conti nuance o f the slave: Sc i Algeria! Of the arguments which he tirg e i p l ioni right and benevolent men can form but one ° „P e 'or It is evident, however, that h e i s n ot actl" - 0 1 16 with the facts of the cas e . H e wr it es , for 0 5 as though the pur c h ase o f s l aves was co nfined tOO6 ct i,ei Arabs, and seems not to know th a t it is P rii ag by Frenchmen. Many proof s o f this have a irs Or appeared in our columns; but we give another, plied to us by the last letter of our co rresponde,,,n o ver Oran :—"A captain of the chasseurs, a Mons. litJ sier, now resident here, has just purchased black boy for 200 francs. An English 1 / 1 4' 113 7 captain if he was not af ra id o f hi s G ov grone,_ l " . old he replied, 'I pur c h ase d hi m at my ow n c lO runs away, the law does not per m it me to re fie him. This is my punishment. "—Anti-Slavery porter. pt NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " Caoss."—The author of " Handley Cross" is ag'„iiri to come before the p u bli c w i t h a new work, en " Hillingdon ; or, the Cockney Squire, u Country Life." The Quarterly Review, in noticieetil writer's former production, observed, with much o f' that " the author o f 4 H an dl ey C ross ' i s a writer o o4 common promise. The e a sy s tyl e i n w hi c h he a t to il and draws out his characters, satisfies us that he ' if he pleased, take a hi g h pl ace among our mod," velists. He has a wo r ld o f k now l e d ge o f lif e a nd lt ° ' / beyond what most of those now in vogue can prg',oo ll ' and a gentlemanlik e t one an d sp i r i t , per h a p s ev e 'llY t , among them." We understand that "Hillingdon 09.,1 is a work which i s lik e ly t o answer t o t h e f u llest e ftr iov the expectations thu s expre sse d by th e fi rs t o f our' I , o 'o I authorities. KINGSTON, OCT. 24.—During the late hea v ii , the Spey has been much s wo ll en , and has destrer, 0 0 1 perty in thi s pl ace t o a large amount. No few e po d four dwelling-h ouses h ave been entirely swept a : - i of seven or eight others deserted, in consequenu - w tr j course the river h a s t a k en , w hi c h i s di rect ly agf 1 , 1 ,190 1 , soft beach, up on w hi c h t h e t own i s b u il t, an d whic`i 0011 being gradu a lly was h e d off. A great quantity factured timber has also been lost, and even tht s to: i so mixed that it must be difficult for the mere't know their own. The inhabitants represented the b, l to his Grace the Duke of Richmond, and reque s re gil e j interference in altering the course of the river -4 t ll which, we are happy t o sa y, h as b een most prolliP,tesPrs honourably granted, his Grace having desired a 71 11 0 on Saturday first, to consider the most judiciou s r proceeding.—Elgin Courant. A LIGHT CIGAR.—A passenger recentlYpi in the St. Katharine's Do c k s , in the ship P er ifec°l from Bombay, had amongst his baggage and e b ,11,4 cigar, weighing no has than one pound and a i fIT moderate specimen, certainly, of the article Byron attr i b u t e d suc h varie d comforts an d li c i e cl One might suppose that the article was int eli •on, 0 show o n ly, h a d no t t h e owner ma d e a d e larat h l., order to obtain its deli ver y, th a t it was for -I re' private use. , es _ 1 MISS BURDETT C OUTTS .—I h ave to-0,7 11 0. 0 4 ; piece of intelligence which I think w ill take the vast( readers of newspap ers , b o th h ere an d i n the t' s with some d e g ree o f surpr i se . I t i s sa id t hat 1 ; 1Is hos i o dett Coutts has at length fixed on an individua l eJ bless with possession of her hand and immetl e di 01 and that the fortunate winner of the golden 0 10 1 0 young surgeon, the j un i or p ar t ner o f a house in r the Burlington -streets.—Private corresponden t Hampshire Independent. BIRTHS. IP A 4 On the 3d inst., at Wimpole-street, Lady Mary daughter. ' On the 26th ult. in Sussex-square, Brighton, the idi ? J. W. Fitz Patrick', Esq., of a daughter. At . i, On the 29th ult., at Eccleshill Hall, near Braw° lo o.oo shire, the lady of G eorge St o dt, E sq. , o f a son ancl, ,On the 31st ult., at Camden-te rrace , Camden-t 0 s i William Dalton, of a daughter. ii , ai. . , On the Ist inst., at Avenue-road, Regent's-Par' fy of Joseph Haynes, Esq.. of a daughter. _ 44 00 6 On the Ist inst., at Tavisto c k-pl ace , T av istoex _ Ae rii , lady of G. J. L. Noble, Esq., o f a daughter. k.r - On the 2d inst., at Gloucester-road, Hyde-p er ., 1.1 Mrs. Grainger, of High Ireby, C um b er l an d, of a sl i ftk On the Ist inst., at Commerci a l- roa d, L a mbeth , Wheatley, of a son. 17 0131 ' MARRIED. itis elL,bi On the 2d inst., at All Souls' Church, St., to f:elgef Mr. Joseph Crush, of Mountnessing Hall, Ess, t e ,:sy P second daughter of J. Bennett, Esq., of Flu" - • re*"' Enfield. on ,ttle llet e : On the 2d inst., at St. John's Church, Padding t ..,,h C O , O William FredericWingfield, M.A., of Christ CliuSio' Oxford, to Charlotte, second daughter of Ge orge _-- Esq., of Hyde -park-street. ../ ii , DIED. IVio r Y I til On the 28th ult., at Ki ngs b ur y, W arw i c kshire; wbyt e, ~ beth Med ora , d aug ht er o f Li eutenant -C o lonel ei l' Ifussars. rothe r° el On the 28th ult., at Boulogne-sur4iler, Sel liu 01 4 Le On( Es 27t q. Henri' On the h ult., Charlotte, the wife °f' o l l' of the Lodge, Breconshire. h h. Wil li— e l On the 28th ult., at Somercoates, Derbys---e' JO verwood, Esq. On the 30th ult., a t B ur t on - upon -Trent, Ch Ly nn Li eji Allsopp, Esq. ro be -t- , s ie,i- On the 31st ult., a t Ch e l sea C o ll ege , Mrs- E c u out h ii It , 0 On the 31st ult., A nn J en ki ns , f orme rly 01 .°,,,,, c y, li / r On the 31st ult., a t D u k e s t ree t, Adelpiu , Pratt, 0, Mr. William Owen, of Bromsgrove. r J-A f ' ii, On the Ist inst., An ne , th e w if e of lk.r Berners- street. „ A ., toark . g.. v el' o f On the Ist inst., at Stanhope-terrace, 1 1 .,"',.,rj. 1.1 3 ', v Miss Janet, eldest daughter of the late CaPt - s jun., ''' 1 On the Ist inst., Jane, wife of Charles W r i''; . d. _ t .o. P' Georginia-terrace, Kender-street, Old Kent -r° hter 11 ' On the Ist inst., Ellen Maria, eldest daug °ro ve' Mortimer, Esq., of tipper Tooting, Surrey- re' On the Ist inst., at G r o ve . hill, Camberwell, lict of the late Claes Grill, Esq. 0 I°ll Llndon: Printed and Published by 11 oe* 14° 4 0 N. 112, Strand, Printer, at The bus , he 01 Strand, in the Precipet of the Savoy, Middlesex, Tuesday November 5 1844' ./,1 30 100 6 63 12 100 0 THE gtIN, LONDON% TUESDAY EVENINTG I w NOVEMBEfrc is 44.