The Sun. — London, England, 1844-02-10 00:00:00

ettrli lattion SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE FUNDS=(C OSING PRICES BRITISI Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 3 per Cont. Cons 97i 311 per Cent. Red 1034 New 3i per Cent lO2 New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 Oct. 18.59 Jan. 1860 FOREIGD EI FUNDS. India Stock .. Ditto Bonds Ditto Old Annuities — Ditto New Annuities — E_. Bills, 1,000/. lid 67 pm Ditto 5001 69 pm Ditto Small— 69 pm Bank Stock for Acct — India Stock for Acct — Consols for Acct. .. f FUNDS. Al.:nail, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent. 75 Belgian 5 per cent — I Ditto, New Ditto Braailian Bonds.— ...... 79 Prussian, 5 per cent — B..ienos Ayres 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent ti per cent Ditto, Metallic . Colombian, 6 per cent... 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Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto Quarter Sharos ( 2 paid) Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Nerwich and Brandon (2 paid) Newcastle and Darlington Junctinn(ls paid` Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Quarter Shares (12b paid) North Midland (100 paid) Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Rouen and Havre ( paid) South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) Ditto Scrip (25 paid) York and North Midland (50 paid) .. Ditto New Shares (21) paid) York and Searboro' Branch (`24 paid) 62 691 10i -SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. .GLOBE.—We know not whether Lord Devoi's imperturbable negative on all remarks hazarded in the Lords on the Irish Land Inquiry is to be taken as equally pregnant with wise meaning as Lord Burleigh's shake of the head; but that the Noble and Learned Lord is wise in saying nothing of his task at present is evident enough. For our own part, though the language of doubt is injurious to the prestige of newspaper infallibility, we had rather say frankly that we do not quite know yet what to think about this Commission, than come out so strong as our formidable Contemporary the Times did the other day—only to draw our horns in again. The first and second articles of the Times have been in curious and amusing contrast. The following was the " thunder" of the Times in the first of these articles :—" Here is the case Lord Devon has to deal with :-.The peasant population of Ireland are in pressing want of land to raise food for their families. The immediate possession of every given five acres out of lease is essential to, perhaps, each one of some twenty individuals, having wives and children. They bid against each other, without exactly calculating the produce of the land ; they have a right to do so— a legal right. The landlord accepts the highest offer, which also, without professedly calculating the acreable value, he has an undoubted right to do. We say nothing of the moral right of either party—of the tenant to offer more than the land will pay, or of the landlord to accept it. But:if we must give an opinion on the subject, beyond all question it is as dishonest in the tenant to offer, as it is in the landlord to let the farm for, a higher rent than can be fairly made of it. But the differ ence is this :—The tenant is compelled by the iron hand of hunger—an excuse assuredly for deeper crimes than an untenable promise under pinching want ; whereas the landlord is not forced by famine, and is not to be excused by purblind cupidity, for demanding a rent which the most indus trious occupier could not pay—for which no solvent tenant, and none but a perishing despe rado, would have the face to pledge himself. What then happens ? The rents are not paid—eject ments are executed—the defaulting tenants are ousted, the incomers murdered in their beds. Is not this a true picture? Is anything exaggerated? And musts the reality last for ever? This is what Lord Devon has to deal with. Property is already out raged ; living men are sacrificed to the name of pro perty ; yet there comes in a vociferating lawyer— Oh ! take care you don't touch the right of pro perty t' hold sacred every blood-stained clod; let peasants by hundreds gasp in their own gore; let them, Lord Devon, manure the wasted soil with their bodies, but, above all things, protect the full purse—prey upon the empty stomach?' By yesterday the Times seems to have got aware that it had grasped at a subject too big and hot to handle, at least in the above summary style. Accord ingly it " aggravates its voice, and roars you like any nightingale :"—" As for Lord Clanricarde's pro found surmise, that if not an inquiry into the land lord and tenant' question, ' it ought to be term?d one into fixity of tenure,' we acquit Lord Devon of being such a mountebank as to undertake a grave examination into the merit of a thing which, like fixity of tenure,' if it have any significa tion at all, must mean unblushing confiscation of every landlord's property, and nothing else in the world. Fixity of tenure must be perpetuity of tenure —that is to say, if a tenant have his occupancy at will, or for a short lease, this new talisman called 6 fixity,' is to transform a short term into a long one, and the tenant into the owner of his farm." The Times has evidently become wary of pursuing its slashing style of Tuesday, about " the right to live, original and inalienable, against the right to possess, the creation of conventional society." Every relation between men, excepting cutting each others' throats, is the creation of society. What does the original and inalienable right to live amount to in the case, for instance, of the savage, %%ho has laid in no store of provisions for the winter ? We remember a description, in one of the recent voyages of Polar discovery, of groups of starving beings gathering round the travellers, who had made a cache of provisions for their winter use. These savages tacitly recognised "the right to possess, the creation," as the civili ed Times calls it " of conventional society,"—even when. it was exercised, as in this case, with inevitable inat tention to " the right to live, original and inalien able," in their own persons. Their supplications were mute; they fitted famishing, but not raging, round the food which they might not taste. In a sound system, there is no opposition betty een the right to possess, and the right to live. Indeed the former arises from the latter. There would be no living if there was no possession. Life would be reduced to its most precarious and lowest terms. Society' has, doubtless, an indefinite right to modify the tenure of possession ; but, in doing so, it must have constant reference to the stability essential to undisturbed pro duction, and to that unbroken confidence in law under which only the means of production will freely distribute themselves. We see what results even from the partial impairing of that confidence in Ireland. We see that the most attractive natural powers of manufacturing production, and great cheapness and command of labour—fail, however, to attract manufac tures to her shores. This is not now the fault of England. All our home and colonihl markets—all such channels of commerce as Belgium lost, when she separated from .Holland, lie open to the sister country, through the whole extent of the British empire and dependencies. W hat prevents her profit ing by them ? What prevents her profiting by out- Feta enviable to half Europe ? 'What prevents her obtaining capital lavished (lately): on Illinois, or Louisiana, or Mississippi ? Nothing but her state of internal restlessness restlessness, a misfortune, it may be, rather than a crime —but restlessness which, whatever may he the misfortu ne o f its origin, has produced 'habits which, most assuredly, the true friend of Ireland, while he would remedy all evils which law can remedy, would de nounce fearlessly—not less fear- Jessly than Dr. Doyle denouncedthom 7 than Mr. O'Connell has denounced them in former times. Re peal of the union, if attai ne d, or attainable, could remedy the effect of these h a bi ts, which, of, course, is felt most strongly in Ireland, b u t h as tinctured our' operative masses in England too (we refer, others, to the habit of violence in Trades' amongst - Unions, which actually drives old manufact ures out; and, unles curbed, must necessarily discourage the r i se of new` ones, and which Mr. O'Connell himself has repeatedly stigmatised with the strongest emphasis) —repeal of the union, we say, could remedy the effect of law . less habits in no other way than by bringing them (the restraints of English power removed) fairly to to head—curing agrarian and operative disaffec tion to law by letting loose its last extremes— exhibiting, in short, in Ireland, one more popular pargation of blood and fire—one more utter demo cratic revolution—to be followed—by the sort of regimen that does follow, when those volcanoes burn out. It is certainly not beyond possibility, that, some time or other, English power may be unable to prevent this Irish internal combustion. And Providence may doubtless, in the end, educe good out of evil. But a wise and far-sighted Government would seek strenu ously to obviate these extremites---not by one inquiry or one measure—but by every measure within its ttliE SUN, LOi\rDbN, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1844. power. We shall revert to some of the suggestions concerning the material condition of Ireland put forth by the Edinburgh Review—by Mr. Wiggins, the land-agent, in a volume just published, and by the author of a pamphlet, entitled " Remarks by a Junior to his Senior." STANDARD.—From the commencement of the state trials in Ireland, it has been our most anxious wish to avoid allusion to them ; but this wish we have not been permitted to indulge. Scarcely a day of the last two months has passed in which we have not been compelled to protect the interests of truth and justice by:exposing some direct falsehood or correct ing some misrepresentation put forward by those who embrace the party of the traversers. It is a sigoi ficant circumstance, but one which ought not to rt fleet injuriously upon the case of the gentlemen upon their trial—that throughout their professed friends have been the aggressors in this matter. From the party opposed to them in politics, no uncandid censures of their line of defence has been offered ; no captious objections to their evi dence or arguments have proceeded, though, if we had been disposed to take that course, we surely could not want occasion. The ut most length to which the Conservative press has gone has been to answer falsehood and the perver sion of indifferent facts; and even to this length we have proceeded with reluctance and pain. Had our adversaries permitted, the process would have gone on in the decent silence out of Court due to the administration of justice. We do not pretend that w e have not formed an opinion upon the case. No man, who has paid the least at tention to what has been passing in Ireland for the last year, can honestly say that he has not formed an opinion. The Opposition journals themselves, by the manner in which they magnified the importance of the repeal agitation, by their incessant taunts to the Government fer so long permitting its continuance, without some attempt to suppress or appease it, have forbidden that any one should be without a formed opinion upon the subject. They were suffi cient prompters of the prosecution if other prompters had been wanting; and it is disgusting to see them now cros-ing every step of the proceeding which, four months ago, they urged, whether directly or in directly, with such factious violence. Let them say what they may, they are as much responsible for the prosecution as the Ministers by whom it was instituted in their official capacity. The oppo sition journals, it is true, may have urged the prose cutions in the hope that they might be defeated by dis honest means, and their conduct for the last two months has been perfectly consistent with that design ; but they will scarcely avow a scheme so treacherous and disgraceful, and so repugnant to the best interests of the country. The Morning Chronicle of this day has another long article upon the subject of the ten Roman Catholics set aside upon the formation of the jury. It will be remarked that the:number of these Roman Catholic gentlemen is now reduced from eleven, the number originally stated, to ten—a circumstance not un worthy of consideration in a question where the perfect knowledge of the religious profession and political opinions of every person upon the panel, assumed to be possessed by the Crown solicitor, is the gravamen of the accusation. Hitherto, it has been alleged that eleven Roman Catholics were set aside, the number is now reduced to ten. There has, therefore, been evidently a mistake as to the religious profession of one gentleman, on the part of those who have had their attention earnestly directed to the sub ject for weeks ; but the subject of complaint is now reduced to the mistake of the Crown solicitor as to the political connections of two gentlemen, upon 24 hours of inquiry, with little motive to inquire with extraordinary diligence ; but it will, we sup pose, be admitted, that a gentleman's temporary poli• tical connexion is a matter less easy to be ascertained than the faith which he has professed through life. After many weeks of close investigation, the com plainants have mistaken one Protestant Repealer for a Roman Catholic, doubtless because he is a Repealer. The Crown Solicitor, having twenty-four hours to study the list, mistook two Roman Catholics, who are not Repealers, for members of the Association. Here is the whole of the case. BAIL COURT.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS and a Common Jury.) WESTIRMAN V. MADDOX. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who had been en. gaged as a flute-player in the Princess's Theatre, against the lessee, for an assault, alleged to have been committed on the 9th of No. vember last. Mr. Erle, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Pearson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Platt, Queen's Counsel, for the defendant. J. Lodes, examined by Mr. Pearson, stated the circumstances of the case. He said in substance that he was the manager of the orchestral department of the theatre. The plaintiff having been dismissed he came to the defendant on the 9th of November to claim money which he said was due to him for a broken flute and extra services'; Mr. Maddox, in the presence of the witness, refused to pay the amount ; words ensued, Mr. Maddox took a stick from the defendant, and on his refusing to leave the room proceeded to turn him out. Cross-examined by Mr. PLATT—The defendant had been guilty of impertinence during his engagement. During the defendant's absence at Paris, an order was obtained by the plaintiff from the Court of Bequests, which was reversed on Mr. Maddox's return. Mr. Maddox only used that degree of violence which was ucces. sary to put the plaintiff out of the room. After the plaintiff was ordered to leave the room, he kept on talking. Charles Henry Fountain examined by Mr. PEARSON—Was under.treasurer of the Princess's Theatre. Was present at the interview between the plaintiff and the defendant on the 9th of November, in Mr. Maddox's private room. His attention was first called to what was passing by observing the defendant take a stick from the plaintiff. The defendant afterwards took hold of him by the collar to turn him out of the room, having previously ordered him to leave it, which the plaintiff refused to do. Mr. Maddox did not shake the plaintiff. Did not hear Mr. Loder remonstrate with Mr. Maddox on his conduct. The latter put the plaintiff's stick in the fire, and part of it was burnt. Cross.examined by Mr. PLArr— When Mr. Maddox rose to take the stick the plaintiff had raised it on the other side of the table, and was near enough to strike him. The plaintiff, on being re peatedly ordered to leave the room, said he would have his slick. Mr. Maddox had first placed it in a corner of the room. Mr. PLATT addressed the jury on behalf of the defendant, con. telding that the action had been brought merely for the purpose of getting damages, and that one farthing was what the plaintiff was entitled to receive under the circumstances of the case. He re. marked especially upon the circumstance that the stick had been valued by the plairtiff at 21., as showing the object of the action. In the whole matter, the defendant had shown no desire whatever to commit an assault. The Learned JUDGE, in summing up said, the plaintiff was un doubtedly entitled to the verdict, as the laying on of hands consti. tuted an assault. The simple question was what should be the amount, and that must of course be lett to the jury. The Learned Counsel, in opening the case, had mentioned amongst other things, that blows were given, but there was no proof of violence of any kind. If a person came to the private room ofanother, and was impertinent,or remained there longer than was desired, and after being requested to leave would not do so, the party so requesting him might use that degree of violence which was necessary to put him out. Although it did not cover the roasting of the tail end of his stick, it was a justifies. tion for turning him out of the room ; and if therefore the jury thought the plaintiff was impertinent, or intruded himself upon the defendant ih his private room, after being desired to leave it, that should be taken into account in considering the amount of damages. The jury retired to deliberate, and after being shut up several hours they were discharged by' the judge, there not being the least prospect of coming to an agreement. STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, FEB. 9.—There has been a considerable amount of business dune in foreign wools this w eek, and prices generally may be quoted a shade higher. This may perhaps be attri buted in part to the advance realised at the London 00l sales just terminated. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, FEB. 9.—The sales of combing wools have continued brisk this week; and prices continue to have an upward ten dency. Clothing wools sell more freely than of late, at a further advance on last week's prices ; but neither of them are equal to the quotations asked by the growers in the country. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, FEB. 9.—Although this week's transactions in combing wools have scarcely been so extensive as the last—yet they have exceeded the arrivals, and prices may be quoted a shade higher. Low clothing `cols are in brisk demand at advanced rates. LEEns.—The principal articles in demand at our cloth halls still continue to be for tweeds and cloths of low qualities, which have been bought pretty freely this week, and in middle qualities there has also been a little more done than for some time past. On the whole there is more business doing than for some years past at the same period of the year, and prices, particularly in low goods, are looking up. The ship ping houses still continue busy, and there has been many buyers for the home market in the town during the week ; in consequence a fair amount of goods have been sold in the warehouses. BRADFORD MARKET, FEB. B.—There is nothing new in the piece market since our last. A consider able business is doing, and on all hands higher prices are sought. Yarns continue to meet ready sale, and the bpuiners are unwilling to take further orders. There is no falling off in the demand for wool, and as the consumption is now considerable, it is not pro bable that any reduction can take place for a long time to come, as the large accumulation in the growers' hands has been brought to the market, and the holders here evince a disposition to seek still higher rates than last week's quotations. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—We are all out of joint here, arising out of the advance in cotton in Liverpool; the prices asking are so various that it would be absurd, or rather impossible, to quote the selling l price of an y ki n d o f c l o th except p r i n ti ng leo ths, which are in very great demand, and at prices quite sati s f actory to the manufactui ers, notwithstand ing the advance in the staple. The usually large buyers are literally doing uit ictur cttle or nothing, and as fa will stocks are now increasing, s e o r o s, n o b r o th s e ee b n uyers, whe ther the spinners and manufacturers, will first give way.--Leeds Mercury. CHABIL—TIGIIT LACING.—On Saturdaysre'npnilght, a fine blooming girl, aged fourteen, daughter o f m of the Crown Inn, after running a short distance, coinplaTleerd of a pain in her side, fell down, and died shortly afterwaids A post mortem examination was made by N. W. Spice r , F 4., and it was found that death was caused immediately by the rupture of a blood vessel on the lungs, induced by the exer tion of running, and the pressure of tightly-laced stays.— Somerset County Gazette. and be conducive to chastity, and greatly diminish the number of illegitimate children. Much discus sion took place in the other House of Parliament on the effect of this principle, and a power was given to the magistrates in petty sessions to make an order upon the oath of the female. But then a necessity was imposed for testimony corroborative of the oath of the mother herself. So the law stood till the year 1839, when it was thought unfair that the whole burden of proof should be thrown upon the female, and the public feeling entirely coincided with that provision introduced in the Act of 1839. He proposed essentially to modify the provisions of 1834, and of restoring to magistrates assembled in special sessions the power of making an order. He would now allow to magistrates assembled in petty session and in quarter session the power of making orders in cases of bastardy, where corroborative evidence could be given; this was a very great change. It was introduced in analogy to the law of Scotland, and he was sure it would relieve the law from a great deal of odium which now attached to it. This was one of the most important alterations in the law, for there was a very urgent cry for the necessity of some chan g e i n thi s respect. From information which he had received, he knew that the pressure of the law as it stood at *sent was severely felt in South Wales. He pro posed to place the mother of a bastard in the position of a destitute female. He proposed that, as be tween the mother and the putative father there should be a short summary process before two magistrates, by which upon application made within a certain time after the birth of the child, they could make an order for some maintenance as against the father. He proposed that application should be made within forty days of the birth, and -he pro posed that thirteen should be the age up to which they . should be supported, as that was the line drawn in:the Factory Bill between children and young persons, and he proposed that the order against the father of the bastard the at father,ardchi buldst against houldb his ens personot only —(Hear, s of as was the case-before the Act of 1834. Mr. HAWES asked how was the bastardy to be proved ? Sir. J. GRAHAM said by the oath of the mother corroborative evidence being given. This, as he said be fore, was the most important provision of the Bill, and he hoped it would be satisfactory to the public feeling He now came to another important part of the sub ject. He was sorry to say that in large towns a great hardship was experienced in consequence of there being no place of refuge for destitute per sons. They were at present obliged to shelter themselves under walls and porticos, where they were exposed to the extremes of want and hard ship, which was hardly consistent with the safety of their lives.—(Hear, hear.) It would be necessary, therefore, to introduce some provision to remedy this.—(Hear, hear.) The House would remember that, on a former occasion, he had proposed that children brought up in workhouses should have a distinct sch - 00l in the metropolitan dis trict 4, and in large towns. In the present Bill he proposed that there should be distinct asylums, which should be open one night in every week for the reception of destitute persons. These asylums were to be maintained at the common cost of the districts. The destitute per sons were to receive food night and morning, th only condition being that they should work fo four hours. He was sorry that he had no momoranda about him, or he would have en tered more fully into the provisions of the Bill. This, however, was a brief outline of the mea sure, which would be discussed out of doors ' which would enable the House, at a future period of the session, to mature the measure. At present he con fined himself to moving for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Poor-law. Captain PECHELL said that in common with the Right Hon. Baronet he was deprived of the use of any documents on the subject in consequence of the unexpected proceeding with the question this even ing. The Right Hon. Baronet's notice of not inter fering with the incorporations under Gilbert's Act, drew from him the expression of thanks to the Right Hon. Baronet. The Right. Hon. Gentleman did not mean, he supposed, to Abolish the Gilbert unions, if the Select Committee should not make any suggestion to that effect. He only regretted that the Right Hon. Gentleman had not, two sessions back, agreed to the appointment of such a Com mittee. With reQpect to the clause in the former Bill, relative to plurality of voting, he hoped the Right Hon. Baronet would abolish that system altogether. He hoped they had now turned over a new leaf, and as the Right Honourable Baronet had announced manylconcessions, he trusted when the time had arrived for showing how relief had been admi nistered under the Gilbert's Unions Act, he would find the guardians had done their duty, notwith standing the great prejudices and difficulties they had had to encounter. • Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that,' having twice moved the' House to inquire into the operation of the Gilbert Unions Act previous to any amendments being made in the Poor-law Act, it was with great satisfaction he heard the Right Hon. Baronet say it was his intention to propose the appointment of such a Committee as he (Mr. T. Duncombe) had moved for two or three years ago ; all they asked was to be allowed to prove that their system was more satisfactory to the rate-payers, and more humane to the poor than the system pursued under the new poor-law. If upon such an inquiry they could be satisfied that the new poor-law system was superior to theirs, they were ready, as they had for merly stated, to abandon theirown system and adopt the other; but if, on the other hand, they should prove that their system was more satisfactory to die ratepayers, and more humane to the poor, he hoped they would not then, for an instant, think of interfering with their present state, or with the prevent law. He was quite certain that nothing would render the part of the country governed under Gilbert's Act satisfied with the new poor-law, so m uc h as th e sor t o f relaxation proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet He thought the alteration in the bastardy clau , es were very valuable. But he was sorry to hear the Right lion. Baronet say that insurrection had been necessary to draw the attention of the Government to this subject.—(Signs of dissent from Sir J. Graham.) Ile had understood the Right lion. Baronet to say, that the recent occurrences in Wales had induced him to reconsider the subject.--(Hear, hear.) He thought the alterations proposed with regard to the relief of the destitute poor would be of great advantage, and would be well received.—(Cheers.) He hoped, however, that the four hours' labour would not be rigidly exacted from those destitute persons, as many of them were aged, infirm, decrepid, and sick. He would not, however, now discuss the question. The modifications, as far as they had been stated, would prove acceptable to the public; but he wished , the Right to see an end put to the system of plurality of votes, ISO and llox t.ro. Gentlement E h a v t E of x v o Nt forngn b Et e proxy.—(H ear hear.) N thanked alterations he .proposed to introduce into the present system, which he thought would meet the approval of his constituents, and make the law work much better. He wished to be informed more particularly as to the provisions of the clause providing for the education of the children in union workhouses. _ _ Sir WALTER JAMES thanked the Right Hon. Gentleman for the alteration he had made. He (Sir W. James) objected, however, to the principle of the pcor•law, as tending to undermine the foundation of human society, by depriving the poor man of Lis home. He wished to know if it was intended to inter fere with the local acts... Mr. FERRAND regretted that he was absent from the House during the time the Right Hon. Baronet was making his statement. He was glad to hear his Hon. Friend say that the people of the West Riding would be satisfied with the alteration pro posed ; but he feared that they would not go far enough. H e wou ld pos t pone putting the question to the Right Hon. Baronet, of which he had given notice, until Monday. Mr. S. DAVIS said a few words, which were in audible in the gallery. Mr. C. BERKELEY wished to know, with re spect to the bastardy clause, whether, if a mother re fused to affiliate a bastard child, the parish had any authority to compel her to do so ? Mr. S. CRAWFORD hoped that some alteration would be proposed with regard to settlements in Irish unions. Cases had occurred in which persons had been removed to Ireland from parts of the country in which they had resided fur many years. This was very oppressive. Sir JAMES GRAHAM would answer the ques tions which had been put to him as succinctly as he could. With regard to local acts, he was sorry to say that he did not in tend to propcse any alteration in the existing law—(Hear, hear)—inasmuch as the present law had been confirmed by the decision of competent judicial tribunals. The Hon. and Gallant Gentleman seemed to imagine that when the Report of the Committee should be made, the Government would be precluded from opposing the adoption of any of its recommenda tions. He wished that the Committee should befairly formed, and that the inquiry should be fully entered into. He felt a confident anticipation as to what would be the recommendations of the Committee ; but he would not pledge the G overnmen t to adopt, on its o wn responsibility, any rec om mendation of the Com mittee. He was sor r y the Honourable Member for Finsbury had so misunderstood him as to imagine that a violation of the law and a breach of the peace had been necessary to draw his attention to this subject. The attention of the Government had not been directed to the subject until after themajesty of justice had been fully vindicated in South Wales. What he had stated was, that he was aware that not only in South Wales and the north of Eng. land, but throughout the country generally, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before Four o'Clock. Several petitions relating to private Bills were pre sented. Lord CLIVE presented a petition from Shrews bury against the union of the sees of St: Asaph and Bangor. Capt. PECHELL inquired of the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman opposite if he had learned anything res pecting an outrage which had been committed at Brighton on the 31st of January last, by some soldiers, whereby considerable property was destroyed, which the town had to make good ;and if so, whether any steps would be taken to prevent the recurrence of such disorders. Sir H. HARDINGE said he had received no ac count of the matter, but that he would make it a point to institute inquiries respecting it. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD gave notice that on Friday next, upon going into supply, he would move an amendment, that the consideration of the esti mates be postponed. Mr. WALLACE gave notice that he would move, on Monday next, that the evidence obtained last ses sion respecting the customs frauds should be laid before the House. The Hon. Gentleman also gave notice of a motion, to the effect that the surplus revenue be applied to the r_ duction of the taxation which presses most upon the working classes. COMMITTEE ON RAILWAYS. Mr. W. E. GLADSTONE inquired of the Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Wallace), whether he pur posed persevering with his motion with respect to the not placing upon the Committee directors of railways and leading shareholders. Mr. IVALLACE said the course he intended to pursue was, to move an instruction to the Committee, which instruction he should put on the paper for to night, declaring the principle which, in his judgment, ought to govern the House in this matter. Mr. GLADSTONE said, under these circum stances he should move the appointment of the Com mittee. The SPEAKER having read the names of the gentlemen to serve on the Committee, Captain PECHELL said, that he had received in structions from his constituents, to oppose the ap pointment' of directors on railways to serve on the Committee. After a short discussion the motion was put, and the Committee was appointed. METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS. The Metropolitan Improvements Bill went through Committee. TRADE WITH CHINA. Sir G. STAUNTON said he had intended to put his question relating to their commercial relations with China on Monday, but understanding that it would be equally convenient to the Noble Lord the Secre tary for the Colonies to answer it immediately, he would put it now. He begged to inquire whether British subjects, acting in contravention of the spirit, if not the letter, of our recent commercial treaties with China, by endeavours to introduce into that country the prohibited article of opium, are to be considered to forfeit, by such acts, the aid and protection of the British Crown ; and if so, whether, in addition to such forfeiture of British aid and pro tection, they will be liable to specific pains and penal ties under British laws, or to any direct interference and obstruction on the part of the British authorities in China :—also, whether the article of opium will he allowed to be landed and warehoused at Hong- Kong for the purpose of re-exportation into China. He had been induced to put this question by the request of several merchants in the city connected with the China trade. Much difficulty and misunderstand ing would be prevented if it was in the power of her Majesty's Government to state in answer what was the course intended to be pursued with respect to the opium trade with China, and also the nature of their commercial regulations generally. Lord STANLEY said the question put by the Hon. Gentleman was one of great importance, and he should have no hesitation in giving him, if not the details, at least the principle by which her Majesty's Government intended to be guided. The Honourable Gentleman would agree with him that the suppression of the opium trade by forcible measures, considering the determination on the part of the people; of China to consume that drug, and on the part of the principal officers of the Chinese Government to connive at its introduction, was hopeless, and he thought the Hon. Gentleman would agree with him also, that it was an object of considerable importance to induce the Chinese Government, if possible, to consent to its introduction, and to legalise the trade, by imposing such an amount of duty on it. That was the object Sir Henry Pottinger attempted to bring about, with what degree of success he had not been able to ascertain. If it was impossible to prevent the introduction of opium into China, it would also be impossible to prevent its introduction into the island of Hong-Kong; but it was important to secure a legal trade in that island ; and as they were determined to act with good faith towards the Chinese Government in all the regula tions, the most stringent instructions had been given that no encouragement whatever, and such discour agement as they possibly could, should be given to any smuggling trade between the island of Hong-Kong and the coast of China. Of course they could not interfere with the Chinese police, but the merchants had been warned that if they chose to violate the laws of China; either by the introduction of prohibited goods into a legalised port, or the intro duction of any goods whatever into ports not legalised, they were not to expect the protection of the British Government, but must be exposed to the penalties inflicted by the laws of China. with regard to the introduction of opium into Hong- Kong, the Government had given discretionary powers both to Sir H. Pottinger, the late Governor, and Mr. Davis, who was appointed to succeed him, and than whom the Government could hardly have Fe lected a gentleman more competent for the situation, both by his intimate knowledge of the subject and his acquaintance with the pecu liarities of the Chinese character. The instructions sent out to the Governor of Hong-Hong were in substance these was their desire that the is'and of Hong-Kong should not be made a great nest of smugglers, fur the purpose of carrying on an illicit traffic with the coast of China. It was their object that it should become the great mart for the commerce of all nations, and for the ex tension of a legal commerce with China ; they did not intend to prohibit the introduction of opium into Hong-Kong for the purpose of consump tion. They were of opinion that the imposition of a moderate duty on importation without a drawback on exportation, would have the effect of preventing its being imported for the purpose of being exported again. He understood that there was a difference of opinion amongst the Chinese authorities on this subject, as they thought that the imposition of a duty was giving a kind of sanction to the trade. The Governor had power to act ac cording to his discretion, on this point, and might take such means, both for preventing smuggling and promoting the legalised trade, as would satisfy the Chinese Government that this was their only object. Sir GEORGE STAUNTON begged to thank the Noble Lord for the information he had afforded, and to express his gratification at the purport of it. But he was still not without apprehension that the opium trade would be likely to disturb their relations—their amicable relations with China. He shianid therefore reserve himself for a future consideration of the subject He thought the appointment of Mr. Davis was one that did honour to her Majesty's Government. POOR-LAWS. Sir JAMES . GRAHAM gave notice that he should, on Monday, move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the poor-laws. Captain PECIIELL said, that he understood the Factory Bill was fixed for Monday. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, that was so, and if the House were disposed he would now briefly state the alterations he intended to propose in the present poor-law.--(Hear, hear.) As it seemed, then, to be the disposition of the House that he should proceed, and as he saw that the HonouraMe Member for Finsbury, and the Honourable and Gallant Members for Brighton were both in their places, he would first allude to certain provisions which were in the Bill he intended to introduce the ses sion before last, and which were not to be found in 'the present Bill. The House would recollect that the two gentlemen to whom he referred, objected more particularly to the abolition of the Gilbert unions. He entertained a strong opinion that they ought to be abolished, but as there was a difference of opinion with regard to' the propriety of abolishing them, and the nature of their operations, he was not disposed to refuse inquiry on the subject—(Hear, hear)—and he did not propose to abolish those unions. —(Hear, hear.) But he should be prepared on the part of the Government to move, on another occasion, for a Se lect Committee to inquire into their operation. Having stated that point, he would now proceed to state the material; alterations in the present Bill as contradistinguished from the former Bill to which he referred. In; the first place, he would refer to th at portion of the existing law which -had long been a subject of much controversy, and which had excited warm feelings throughout England and Wales. Ile alluded to the bastardy law.—(Hear, hear.) Great dissatisfaction had been experienced with the operation of that part of the law as it stood at present in Wales and in the North of 'England. In the Bill of 1834, as it passed that House, the power of making an or der for relief in cases of bastardy, was absolutely put an end to. It was supposed that . such a principle would operate as a restraint upon the female, public opinion was very strong on the subject of the bastardy clauses, and that in deference to that opi nion, he had thought it his duty to re-consider the subject. He had not proposed to revert to the ancient law, but to separate the subject of bastardy alto gether from the subject of the poor law—an altera tion in which hP thought the House would acquiesce. He had two questions to answer, one from the Ilon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Berkeley). and the other from his Hon. Friend behind him. The former question was, whether parish officers would be justi fied in refusing relief on the ground that no order had been applied for ? Mr. BERKELEY—No. It was, would they re quire women who had bastard children to affeliate those children ? Sir J. GRAHAM said the claims for relief in such case would be decided in exactly the same manner as the claims of widows with children born in wedlock. He thought the answer would be sufficient for his Hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock (as we un derstood), namely, whether in the case of illegitimate children a different provision would be made to those children born in wedlock. In answer to his Hon. Friend the Member for the West Riding of York shire, he had to state that the schools would extend over a district of fifteen miles to each school. The Hon. Member for Rochdale had inquired whether, in the present Bill, there would be any alteration in the law of settlement, and he (Sir James Graham) had to state that, since the recent decisions in the Court of Queen's Bench, it had been determined to re-model the law of settlement, and to introduce a separate and distinct measure on the subject. Mr. J. S. WORTLEY begged to express his gra tification at the nature of the measure introduced by the Right Hon. Baronet, which would be a consider able relaxation in the present law—without believing that would entirely satisfy the Hon. Member, for Knaresborough (Mr. Ferrand), and others who were strongly opposed to the present law- 7 he thought it would be hailed with great satisfaction and he hoped a still further relaxation would be in troduced of that severe provision of the acts which en forced the separation of aged men from their wives. The question was then put from the Chair, and the Bill was introduced and read a first time. OFFENCES ON THE HIGH SEAS. Sir J. GRAHAM said, as the House had been kind enough to allow him to introduce the Bill, he would still further trespass on their kindness, by asking them for lehie to intr o d uce ano th er , which stood next on the paper. It was a Bill for securing the more speedy trial of criminals charged with of fences on the high seas. All these offences were now tried at the Central Criminal Court ; the consequence of this was, that on the arrival of vessels at the out-ports, the depositions were taken there and then sent up to London; witnesses were also obliged to be brought up to the Central Criminal Court at a great expense and inconvenience. By this Bill he proposed, in the commissions of oyer and ter - miner, to give to her Majesty's Judges of assize the power of trying these offences. Captain PECHELL thought the only ojection to the - Bill was likely to be made by'the country gentle men on the ground of expence. Sir J. GRAHAM said he intended that the pro secutions should be conducted as heretofore, at the public expence. Leave Was then given to bring in the Bill. , PRISON DISCIPLINE. Mr. DUNCOMBE asked the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for the Home: Department, whether he intended to bring in any Bill this session for the better regulation of the discipline of prisons. Sir J. GRAHAM said that he could not give a positive answer to the Hon. Gentleman; ,at the same time he should be sorry to say that no measure on that subject would be introduced during the pre sent session. POOR-LAW. Sir J. GRAHAM tdem brought ,in the Bill fur the amendment of the Poor-law Act, which was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday se'nnight. The RIGHT HON. BARONET also brought in the Offences at Sea Trial Bill, which was aead a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Mon day next. TITHRS. Captain PECHELL asked if any Bill would be brought in this session for preventing suits for tithes being carried into the Ecclesiastical Courts ? Sir J. GRAHAM had to state, in answer to the question, that the Lord Chancellor on Monday would introduce a Bill on the subject of the Ecclesiastical Courts in the other House. STATE OF IRELAND. Mr. ESCOTT begged to ask the Noble Lord the Member for London, whether he intended to bring on, on Tuesday, the motion of which he had given notice, relating_to Ireland—the trials not hav ing yet concluded, or at least no intelligence of Their having concluded, having yet been received. Lord J. RUSSELL, quite concurring in the pro priety of not having any debates in that House which would inflnence the verdict of the jury, still did not think it necessary that they should know the result of the.trials, before they discussed the affairs of Ireland. ' Sir JAMES GRAHAM said it was very important that the Attorney-General of Ireland should be present during the debate, and it was impossible that the Hon. and Learned Gentle man should be in his place on Tuesday. He did not wish this to influence what the Noble Lord might think his pubic. duty, but he trusted he would not think it unreasaonble if he asked the Noble Lord to state what would be the pre cise terms and words of his motion. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he should certainly lament the absence of the At torney-General, but he did not think that cir cumstance ought to induce him to defer for forty eight hours the motion tor which he now had pre cedence. 'With regard to the actual form of the motion, it would contain nothing more than what he had already stated, that the House should resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House on the affairs of Ireland. If the Government thought proper to agree to this motion—(A laugh)—or if it should be agreed to by the House, he should move a series of resolutions, some of which would strongly inculpate the conduct of the . present Government._ Sir JAMES GRAHAM said if the House should determine to go into a Committee of the whole House, it would certainly not be his duty, as a Mi nister of the Crown—(A laugh)—to oppose the reso lutions of the Noble Lord. 'l he House then Adjourned. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. Sewell, victualler, Charles -street, Paddington, March 1 at one—W. Carpenter, stationer, Southampton, March 1, at half-past eleven. In the Country. J. Porter, tailor, Nantwich, Ch es hi re , March, 2, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—J. Bell, hosier, Notting. ham, March 2, at eleven, a t th e L ee d s District Court—M. Harris, draper, Swansea, March 4, at twelve, at the Bristo, District Court—R., Jas., and John Potter, cotton spinners, Manchettei, Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court—R. Moon, sen. ' and R. Moon, jun., merc h ants , G reen . field, Lancashire, March 6, at eleven, at the Manchester Dis. trict Court—T. J. Whidborne, chemist, Liverpool, March 5 at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court—T. J. Fehr, draper, Birmingham, March 4, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. W. Carpenter, stationer, Southamptan, March I—J. Sewell, 'victualler, Charles -street, Paddington, March I—H. Congreve, dealer in patent medicines, High-street, Peckham, March I L Munn, corn chandler, Stanhope-terrace, Paddington, March 2—J. Why, haberdasher, Holborn-hill, -March 1-11. J: Nixon, upholsterer, Great Portman-street, O x f or d- s t ree t, March 2--W. Chamberlain, linen draper. Peckham, March 1 —.ll. Laybourn, ship broker, Ilartlepool, Durham, March 1-- J. Hill, grocer, Durham, March I—R. Gr4!enbow, iron master, Wrexham, Denbighshire, March 4—J. Jukes, nail factor, Westbromwi c h, St a ff o rdshire, M arc h 6—J. Sout hern, grocer, Birmingham, March 6—F. Peters, wine merchant, Manchester, March B—T. Fawcett and J. Muir, builders, Ilol lingworth, Cheshire, March I—W. B. M'Pherson, victualler, Rosemary Branch, Hoxton, March /—G. Z. White, stone mason, Southampton, March I—T. Martin, victualler. Pave ment, Moortields, March l—W. Rolfe, farmer, Therfield, Hertfordshire, March I—J. Swallow, sen., corn miller, Halifax, March I—T. Wright, cheesemonger, Blackmoor-street, Clare market, March I—J. Lumley, brewer, Kirkby-Fleetham -with- Fencote, Yorkshire, March I—J. F. Armstrong, coal mer chant, Blackheath. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. H. Lovatt and R. Taylor, soap manufacturers, Liverpool— J. Green and J. Jubb, jun.; woollen manufacturers, Basing hall-street—J., S., and H. Newbould, merchants, Sheffield— S. Reynolds and J. Woodhouse, pawnbrokers, Nottingham— D. Duggan and R. Jackso.r, cabinet makers, Birmingham— !. P. Hall and T. Wright, apothecaries, Dudley, Worcester shire—H. Hamer and R. Jones, linen drapers, Blackfriars road—J. H. Galloway, E. C. Bell, and C. S. Todd, attorneys, Kingeon-upon-Hull--H. Headley - and J. L. tudbury, sur geons, Cambridge—John, Jas., and H. Holden, farmers, Mitton-with -Crook, Yorkshire (so far as regards H. - Holden )— W. H. Barber and M. B. Bircham, attorneys, New Bridge street, Blackfriars—K. and W. Liversidge, wine merchants, Liverpool—W. Sowden and J. Withers, dyers, Salford—R, and F. Parke ; drapers, New Mahon, Yorkshire—W. Pomfret, sen., and W. Pomfret, jun., rag merchants, Preston—W. Angus and A. Reid, coach builders, Brompton—W. and W. Warbrick, machine makers, Dukinfleld, Cheshire—W. Good win and J. Fitton, spindle makers, Manchester—R. Bayley, and B. and P. Tingle, steel and wire drawers, Ecclesfield, Yorkshire—M. and A. Arthars, boot and shoe dealers, West bromwich, Staffordshire—J. Miller, H. Foy, and E. Kelly, coach builders, Huddersfield (so tar -as regards E Kelly )--). Allen and W. Nicholls, carpenters, Bristol—D. and J.liet ca lf, dyers, Leeds—J. Hands and J. Powell, ironfounders, Birming ham—J. A. Curme and E. Mondey, surveyors, Dorchester-- W. Kerr and T. Hamiltcn, drapers, Truro—W. IL L. Corran and H. D. Sap, wine•merchants, Liverpool—E, and G. Viccars, hosiers, Kingston-upon-Hull—S. Watmuff and D. Veit, merchants, Manchester—T. Robinson' and R. W. Pearce, flour factors, Swansea. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. COLIN MUNRO, bank agent, Dingwall, March 6, at lE, merchants, Fal kirk Falkirk. t j el A, v e l; a Ea t rsc t h l the 8, at atWlLLlAMNationalo ne, a H t t o h t e, Dingwal l. JAMES RGeldL iEons DONALD MACK AY and SON, merchants, Barnisdale, Isle of Skye, March 18, at twelve, at the office of D. 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Bper cent. ?per cent. 9 per cent. t per cent. eper cent. 4er cent. beer cent. .4 per cent. 436 per cen t Died on Thursday, in Porehester park, aged forty-nine, after years of ill heal of severe suffering, Isaac Newton Wievey, years M.P.for Brighton. : • 33 16 8 85 0 0 125 0 0 150 0 0 12 10 8 140 0 0 125 0 0 145 0 .0 79 9 8 100 0 0 26 9 3 50 0 0 19 5 8 100 0 0 100 0 78 8 0 67 10 8 105 0 0 110 0 0 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 Stock 60 - 0 0 50 0 0 63 2 8 50 0 0 100 0 0 ...... 70 10 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 20u 0 0 40 0 u 50 0 e 10) 0 0 100 9 0 100 0 0 N 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 O. 261 0 0 59 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 ,77 10 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 58 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 51 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 -0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 190 0 0 3000 100 0 0 63 12 9 100 0 0 100 8 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 8 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 0 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 11 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 35 0 0 25 U 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 CO 0 0 55 0 U 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 60 0 0 25 0 0 soon 25 0 0 40 0 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 • 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 15 0 0 5 9 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 50 - 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 O 0 00 u 0 O 0 'AN lES' PRICES. [4. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 1 0 0 2 10 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 Q 25 9 0 -place, Hyde ad}, aad mouths Esq., for teverul POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOVSE. On Thursday the Lord Mayor received the following note from the British Consul at Boulogue-sur-Mer: — " British Consulate, Boulogne-stir-Ater, Feb. 7, 1844. "My Lord,—l have the honour to convey to your Lordship two infant children, named James Stephen and Robert William, illegimate by Lydia Sanders, of Croydon, lately deceased in this place, and as they a re totally destitute, I h ave no ot h er alternative but to forward them to your Lordship, which I now do by the stewardess of the Emerald steam-packet, who 11 0 kindly taken charge of them. Inclosed are the cer tificates of their baptism.—l have the honour to be, Lai Lord, your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, " W. HAMILTON, „ " British Consul at Boulogne-sur-Me r • Yesterday Mr. Jopp, the r e h ev i ng - o ffi cer o f the CitY of London - Union, caused the children, one of whom ap; peared to be about five, and the other between two and three years old, to be brought into the presence of t he Lord Mayor, and stat e d, t h at h av i ng o b serve d that a warrant had been iss ue d f or t h e appre h ens i on o f one Lydia Sanders, upon s us pi c i on o f b e i ng concer ned it; one of the will forgeri es w ith other parties, i t o ccurred to him that it would be p ro p er to commun i cate t he fact der of the remarkable coin c id ence t o hi s L or d s hi p , in or that some inquiry mi g ht b e ma d e a b out t h e mo ther, for the sake of the pending investigations, as well as '`A ith the view of relieving the City parish in which the e ll ' dren were landed from the burden of maintaining th elo c i By the new poor-l aw it was regulated that from an after the year 1834, illegitimate children should folio! the settlement of the mother, and as it was probable that the difficulty of ascertaining the settlement of the 01 % ther in this case wo u ld b e very great, t h e children w°ll' be fastened upon the parish in which they were landed+ which was that of St. Magnus, London-bridge —au in c ; tolerable hardship up on th at p ar i s h, i nto which ala'°' all the steamers disgorged the poor and helpless of al nationS.' The LORD MAYOR desired to know whether anythl„ could be collected from th e c hild ren t h emse l ves as: their father and mother ?—Mr. Jopp replied that su e children could not speak a wor d o f E ng li s h , an d we re very bashful ; and all h e cou ld un d erstan d f rom they' • answers to the questions put to them was, that th eir mother was dead, and their father was iii Paris. Mr. Goodman (the Chief Clerk to the Lord May or ; said it appeared fro m th e cert ifi cate o f b apt i sm that °T,", of the children w as b apt i se d i n 1839, and the ot her ix. 1842. The LORD MAYOR expressed a wish that the British Consul had transmitted to him a certificate of the death of the mother. His Lordship did not suppose there wa s anything except the name t o warrant a susp i c i on that the mother of the children was the person charged wtu c i having been concerned in the alleged will forgeries, q t ., that the fact of the admitted illegitimacy of the chi dren confirmed the belief that t h e , deceased was n ot the individual about whom so much had been said, as the former was a married woman. Mr. Jopp said that the younger child was evidently in a bud state of health, and had a sore head. T he y were both without m o r e c l ot h es than they were vered with. The LORD MAYOR desired that the children should be, taken care of in the house, and th a t t h e parish offic er should forthwith write to the F renc h Consul for a i c e g r i e , cate of the death of the mothe r , an d every other a illation that could be obtained, relative to her, with view of ascertaining the precise place of her settleraell We believe his Lordship also directed th a t th e e lder 11 should be taken to the Giltspur-street Compter, into tm presence of Mrs. Dorey. 10' A CASE OF GREAT DISTRESS.—Mr. Haru , iug, f Obbard, and several other gentlemen of the C o urt ° Common Council, waited u p on th e L or d M ayor to present the case of four p oor h e l p l ess c hild ren , w'' b i e father, Mr. Mark A n th ony H arr i s, l ate l y a respeet9'fol merchant in this city, but utterly ruined by the aw yt fires of Hamburgh, p o i sone d himself' in a state of insa l3l , occasioned by extreme distress. The mother o f di d, poor young creature s —th e e ld est o f w h om, they did, was not 12 years of age—died about six years ago , the ,unfortunate father, after having struggled ag ll ', e l that heavy affliction, whi c h was d rea df u ll y aggrav,ajoe by the calamity which reduced him to such a eondi a d, as not to be able to pr ocure th em a morse l o f br e ' o% sank under the weight. O n th e t a bl e o f hi s bed-r°t°lo the following, in his hand-writing, as proved upon Coroner's inquest, was found Christi:ries-day, 1843.e1 " There is no hope ; no more. Oh God, forgive tip lam in despair I Wh a t w ill b ecome o f m y dear ea dren ? God will protect them—l cannot. But the fortunate father can only bless them.—M. A. a " sf The LORD MAYOR said the circumstances of the It o caused a most fearful sensatio n i n t h e City, in ' °)1 0 1 the character of the deceased gentleman was well W. 0 to be respectable, and he should feel much gratifie o „, in rendering the po or or ph ans any serv i ce i n his poWe' it , Mr. Harding declared that they had not a relative this country, and they were without even a chaugeh, e OO linen. There were th ree g i r l s an d one b o y, a nd he ' sure that if the benevolence which so abounded'in f metropolis were attracted to the deplorable conditio!.if.. the destitute daughters and son of the unfortunate 04 Harris, by his Lordship's charitable interposition, t's appeal would not be ineffectual. The LORD MAYOR—I shall most willingly receiv e subscriptions for the benefit of the orphans, and any other service in whatever form which th e j u di c iousii directed benevolence of those who are constantly quest of deserving objects, may render ; and I have IP doubt of the willingness of the public press to give its powerful aid even at this time of pressing and importan t business. The applicant thanked his Lordship in the dame of the poor orphans, and stated that subscriptions woul d be received, not only at the Mansion-house, but at flai r som's Bank, No. 1, Pall-mall East ; and by Mr. ,112r ding, at 164, Fleet-street. CLERKEN WELL. Joseph King, the driver of a cabriolet, badge 8,14 1 , 8 1 r was charged with the following outrageous conduct Mr. Samuel Warren, a barrister, residing at 35, WobOirr Place, Russell-sq uare , an d 12, Ki ng ' s B e nch-ws" Temple. last Mr. Warren deposed that, on Monday evening -- „yr he engaged the defendant in Chancery-lane to . ron - 3 him to his house in Woburn-place ; when they:arrivbee there witness handed him a shilling as his fare. T a y defendant murmured, and used abusive language,: :;10 ing, " The next time I catch you in my cab I WP` , 2 ' you." Witness remonstrated with him, but he bau' - i a more insolent, exclaiming that a shilling was not elig for driving such a distance, and through the snow• ness asked him to show his badge, but he refused d i f,d, so, and when the footman seized the horse by the o'er • the defendant said he would cut him with his v- 0 - ;,1; after much difficulty witness succeeded in taking v• 9 o• the number of the badge, and then the defendant Olio lently demanded his card, which witness refused to V ero telling him that was his house, and that he knov, vi do on to find him. Witness w as go i ng up t h e s t e ps to hi s se lf 11 ' ! 31 when the defendant r an b e f ore hi m , an d p l a cing e ss 101 0. in the door-way, ref use d t o a ll ow hi m to en ter. asked if he meant to pr even t hi m go i ng into his led house, upon which he demanded 4d. more, and ¶ e him, complainant, from th e d oor . Aft er a steuq w ife ness succeeded in getting into the hall, and, as u ti.tber was nervous, bolted the door in order to prevent'c,it it annoyance. The prisoner, however, rushed agaig-toti shoulder foremost, and burst it in. Witness was, ' eat er ing near the door at the time, had he been an in eu ,! - coar, he believed he would have been killed by the d° ° ' v ieo ing in collision with his head. The defendant reile his insolence, and a policeman was sent for, who O W° him with much difficulty. la The prisoner acknowledged the offence, an d , to bitterly, entreated of the Magistrate not to sen u r bi nu , prison. His wif e h a d b een i n Hanwell Lunatic As t a ke for the last two years, and there was nobody t o e d, care of his three littl e c hild ren if h e were i t oprisn n d the Boyson, the warrant: officer, said he hel,ieve the sure t - ar man's statement was corre c t ; w h en h e served mons he saw three little children in the prisol; l u° t P aa ment in Eagle-street, Red Li on - squ are, witu vest body to take car e of th em . Th e place seeing. wretched. .„ Was Mr. Wilkes, overseer of St. A n d re w's, Holbn., r _l ss ios sent for, and he re c oll ec t e d- h av i ng o btained gal" for Sarah King, two years ago, at Hanwell. tbe Mr. Warren said that h e did no t wish to p rom s 2, charge against the pris o n e r un d er s uch circunis t ' ili foons The prisoner's master and other res pectsble gr• came forward, and gave him a good character, 4111 w hich' COMBS, in consequence, mitigated the penalty) 51, C O sv ts6 he had in the fir s t i ns t ance i mpose d, t o 10s. and the Gibraltar ................. . .. . Leghorn . .......... ••••••• 2 5 96 Genoa ............ ....• Milan . .................... .41 Venice ................ •••• 3 91 N a pl e s .............. • •••, is & P a l ermo , per os .......... f isbon ..... ........... Oporto ................. •• Rio Janeiro ............... Bahia ..................... Buenos Ayres .. ...... . New York, 21days slg Phil a d e lphia ................ tames or nur.tiox, 1; Foreign Gold, bara4 6 Portugal Gold C01n.,3 i A , . New Doubloons t 9 New Dollars... ......... lit Silver in Bars... ..... COURSE OF EXCIIAN Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto,,at sight Rotterdam .2 U. 12 6i Antwerp : 25 90 Ilamburgh M. B. 13 15 Altona Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Hour deaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine 122 Petersburgh, 3 Us 361 8er1in............ 7 Vienna, effec. 11. 3 Al. 965 Trieste, ditto 9 56 Madrid Cadiz Bilbao • 30 Barcelona Seville • .- - • BIRTHS. F ra nce, ady aG ~ ntit io On the Ist inst., at Quiniperle, ra nce, the lor Hughes, late of the Bengal Artillery, of a son. On the 7th inst., Mrs-. Henry Kingseote, of a son. , a • On the Bth inst., in Salisbury - squ are, Mrs. EdiCinP'. daughter. 0 ,04 On the Bth inst., at Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy - in Mrs. W. Bradley, of a daughter. OD ~,„ „,,., On the sth inst., in Neweastle-street, Mrs. WriVilih— of a daughter, - __.----- MARRIED. m It* P e . On the 20th tilt., at the Governme nt Chapel, ..-‘1„.,0 Arbouiii Hunter, Esq., to Fanny M aria, third dog" Samuel Christian, Esq., of Malta. On the Bth inst., at St. George's, Southwatk , a Douglas, of Walworth, surgeon, to Louisa, eldest dtkr' Mr. James Careless, of Cornhill. • , pis DIED. On the 26th tilt., in Edinburgh, C a ptain T. Inner, I' P On the 26th of November, 1843, at Mussoorie , in .013 Indies, Captain George Ellis, of the Bengal ArtillerY , - tb i On the 6th inst., at Working, Surrey, Sophia, 1611° Rev. Charles Bradshaw Bowles, Vicar of Woking.. 29 ; On the 6th inst., Charles Mitchell, Esq., M. A. , age,"l7ool On the Bth inst., in Manchester-street, Ca-ptalit " Webster, R.N., aged 63. • 'Of London : Printed and Published by MCRDO No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Oißee, N.. 112, St r a n d . 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