The Sun. — London, England, 1839-12-24 00:00:00

vernment. Plague, earthquake, famine, any of these things, or all of them together, were a less curse to the British nation than the continued ascendancy of Romanist influence in the Government. This is the thing to be assailed—this is the thing to be rooted out— this is the thing which Englishmen must overthrow. This is a matter of a thousand times deeper importance, of a thousand times wicicr extent, than any mere party chancre (independently of this consideration) could be. Proud as the people of England may well be of those who head the National or Conservative party, still it is not with reference to them, or their views of party management, that the assault upon the Romanism of the Government should be made. The nation ought to be, and is, glad to have them ; but, even though it had them not, still the great duty would be the same, to op pose, root out, destroy the Romanist ascendancy which pollutes the Government, and endangers our greatness as a nation, and our liberties as a people. To put down political Romanism in Great Britain should be the national object ; treating with the utter scorn which its merits the threatened enmity of the Romanist multitude in Ireland. The Ministerial Papers continue to pour forth abuse of Sir Robert Peel with a furiousness of acrimony that seems little short of insanity. The fact is, we suppose, that dependents on Ministers are very nearly mad with fear of what is likely to happen ere a month passes over their heads. Had they not lost all discretion as well as decency they would rafrain from these displays of terror and of spite. Nothing is more likely to con vince the British public that the Government feels it self already beaten than the excessive soreness and abusiveness of the Government organs. If things were going well with them they would be in a far less irritable humour. But, while it is easy to account for the frantic and foolish vituperation of the Ministerial prints, it is not easy, nor, if it were, would it be rational, to ex cuse it. Whig-Radicals have a sort of customary right to be weak, foolish, and ignorant in matters where energy, sagacity, and knowledge are emi nently necessary : but that, along with the quali ties which render them contemptible, they should join calumnious clamour and personal vituperation, is rather more than can be borne without some notice and rebuke. We defy anything to exceed in absurdity the personal attacks which are made upon Sir Robert Peel, but, then, they are as dastardly as they are absurd. With reference to his career as a Parliamentary leader " shuffler," " coward," and so he is called '° renegade , " forth, though at . the very moment these epithets of abuse are put forth, the utterers of them are palpably in an agony of fear—and well-founded fear too—lest Sir Robert Peel, at the head of that powerful party to which he has belonged from the outset of his public life, shall turn them out of the offices of British Go vernment which they dishonour. This is sufficiently absurd. If Sir Robert be what they say he is, why be so much afraid of him ? Renegade indeed! To what party does Sir Robert Peel belong now ? Has he ever belonged to any other ? Did lie ever serve under Lorl Liverpool and the Duke of Wellington, opposing and even scoffing at measures of Reform whenever they were brought forward, and then, for the sake of continu ing in place, join the opponents of these Ministers, and take a part in the wildest measures of reckless innova tion ? No : Sir Robert Peel did not do this, but the Viscount Melbourne and the Viscount Palmerston have done this, and for nine years have been in the enjoy ment of place and power, and emolument, if enjoyment it be, through this base accommodation of themselves to opposite principles and views. And yet the fawning parasites of these men have the insolence and the folly to accuse Sir Robert Peel of being a renegade and a scruffier ! It is true that Sir Robert Peel consented to the repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts, and to the emancipation of Papists, after having been the sap porter of one and the opponent of th other. But it is also tree that the principle of action was the same throughout, and that principle was a highly honour. able one, namely, the promoting of the peace and security of the established religion of the country. With regard to the repeal of the Test Act in 1827, and the enactment of Romanist emancipation in 1829, it did appear to Sir Robert Peel and the colleagues with whom he acted, as well as to large majorities of the Protestant Members of both Houses of Parliament, that the time had come when the legal exclusion of Protestant and Romanist Dissenters from civil offices was no longer a security, but the contrary. Allow that judgment to be erroneous, as very many un doubtedly consider that it was, still in acting upon it there was no departure from a fixed principle of devotedness to the established religion of the country. Bat is it possible without a violation of truth to say as much for the present leading Ministers of the Crown, whose wretched hacks now dare to vituperate Sir Robert Peel? When they acted with the Tory party it is certain that they professed great friendship far the established religion of the country, and voted as if that friendship were sincere. Lit now, when they hefonc; to the party which was then and is still opposed to the Tories, they openly ad vocate heavy blows and great discouragements to the established religion of the country ; and they persist with a policy in which they are supported by the Ro man:las. although large majorities of the Protestant Members of both Houses of Parliament vote against that policy. Who, then, are the real " renegades"— Lords Melbourne and Palmerston, who have changed their party and their policy, and hare retained place and pay ; or Sir Pv)b , rt Peel, who changed his policy without changing his principle—who still belongs to the party he always !,'longed to, and who adandoned place and pay rather then make such a change as Lords Mel bourne and Palmerston have made ? Ae to Sir Robert Peel's supposed error o f j u d gmen t i n , consenting to the repeal of the Test Act, and to the enactment of the Emancipation Bill, let it be remembered that the failure of these measures, if they have failed, has arisen altogether from the perfidy of those who profited by them. If Sir Robert Peel erred, it was from having too much confidence in those who row reproach him. It was because he supposed they would, from shame if not from principle, have been faithful to their premises and oaths. Is it because, when now they join insolence to perjury, and when those who did befriend them are filled with a just resentment, is it, therefore, that their friends shall dare to brand as "renegade" the man whom they have so basely and so ungratefully disappointed ? We think we have new sufficiently demonstrated the absurdity and injustice of the calumnious epithets with which the parasites of the Melbourne Government assail Sir Robert Peel. We have a few words yet to say upon the peculiarly ita•English and dastardly character of these attacks. The miserable hirelings who skulk behind the broad sheet while applying these abusive personal epithets to Sir Robert Peel durst not for their very lives attempt any such thing openly. They take their fill of abuse now when they can abuse anonymously ; but 'et us see who will dare to come face _ . to face with Sir Robert Peel and tell him that he has been a renegade, or that his policy has been shuffling or cowardly ? No ; the wretches who use such langu.-ge I know right well that when their masters meet Sir Ro b:rt Peel in Parliament they must treat him with respect —the respect which his character and his talents, and his position as the foremost man in the British House of Commons, have a right to command, and do eom rriand. We call upon all Englishmen who love what is honest and fair and manly to mark with disgust, and to remember with indignation, these foul anonymous Mi nisterial attacks. "We trust," say these wretches, that he will be daily taunted when Parliament meets." They know well that not one of their party dare at tempt any such enterprise. Sir R. Peel, they say, should be " pressed to declare his views." Perhaps he may declare them somewhat sooner and more decidedly than they wish, but at all events they would as 3000 dare to press their hands into a lion's mouth as to press Sir Robert Peel. No, no ; the Ministerialists may fling out their foul calumnies in the newspa pers ; but when they meet Sir Robert Peel in Par liament they will be deferential enough, and woo his forbearance, as they have so often done before. We hope they will not be successful. We deeply respect Sir Robert Peel, but we have frequently avowed', and we avow again that in our judgment he has not ex pressed to a sufficient extent the indignation of the country at the truckling, dishonourable, dangerous . cha racter of the Government. He has been but too gentle with it, and far too ready to say flattering things of Ministerial men, who are worthy of anything but com pliment in the estimation of the Conservative public. We hop e all that is at an end, and that the rational in dignation of the country will be allowed to take its cours e in the House of Commons. If it be, down go the dastardly Romanist Whims, amid the execration of all honest and intelligent well-wishers of the public weal of England. ~.----- FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) Opposition makes a curious figure between its flints and dzuzgs at this moment. The flints, among whom w e count such champions as those who throughout the recess, have been bellowing for the repeal of the Act of Pop ish Emancipation, and denouncing the violation of the Coronation Oath in appoint ing Papists—after having b een suffered to try how far they could act the steam up by Ultra-Protestant perorations, rending our ears asunder —with gun, drum, trumpet, blunderbuss , an d thunder-. tee now admo nished somewhat uncc done their remoniously to p ac k up their wind-instruments, having Party all the service that is to be had out of them. " The re p ea l of the Relief Act," says the Times of this morning " would now he as hopeless in practice as it would be useless in principle ; and this is so . well k nown to public men of all denominations, that it would not b.: easy to find in either House of Parliament eve n so much as one couple of enthustas • ts to propose and second the attempt. There may be, here and there, a provincial skirmisher or two who fancy that such a revolution would be of service ; but the great mass of the Conservative party, including the whole of its 1 intelligence, would as so on propos e the enactment of Mr. O wen ' s ' soc i a l system .' " Th e same j ourna l asks, with a naivete which is perfectly irresistible—" If there had been a design among the Protestants to repeal the Relict:Dill, why should they have deferred that object till their restoration to government ?" Why, the pre cise scrape into which those whom the Times calls • for distinction the Protestants have been bringing themselves, is that they have not deferred their announcements of that object, but have keen making those announcements most lavishly at 'heir drinking bouts up and down the country. The principles of Opposition which have been put forth throughout the recess, not at one, but almost at all of these Con servative gatherings—have included, either explicitly, or by close inference, the virtual or actual repeal of Irish Emancipation, and indeed have contained little or nothing else than harpings on that string. Now, how ever, that the Session approaches, the "provincial skir nzisher or two"—that is to say, the whole band of Tory speakers, and applausive hearers in the provinces, are told that there are not in Parliament two such fools as to do their bidding, and that " the whole of the in telligence" of the party views them with utter contempt. (From the Courier.) To judge by the very contortions and ill-disguised panic of their organs, the Ministry would seem little more at ease as the session of Parliament nears, than some of their former hapless confederates now in Mon mouth, as the fatal moment approaches for reopening the adjourned Special Commission and effecting a gaol delivery. In the one, as in the other case, it is the closer prospect of doomsday which naturally inspires dread and inflames conscious delinquency into despera tion. Thus each are loud and loathsome in abuse of the prosecutors by whom they are about to be brought to public justice ; but the Chartist sufferers may plead in their excuse at least the monstrons aggravation of the pangs of expected condemnation through the active agency, if not by the evidence of ancient sworn associates, now turned Queen's evidence, or as of the Queen's Council strenuously labouring for con vfction and the sentence. Nor, although abuse enough there may be, and of the coarsest kind, in the Press of the Chartists, is it steeped, as that of the Ministry, their old allies, in the same stew of forgeries, falsehoods, and foulest slanders, day by day dished up and served out. Thus writhing in the prospect of the advent of Conservatism to power, Sir Robert Peel, its great leader, is variously challenged with compassing the death of her Majesty ; with the treasonable intent of deposing her from the Throne by means of an army of Hanoverians, led on by-the King of Hanover in person, or by Lord Stuart de Rothsay, a peace-loving diploma tist ; with the resolve to abrogate the Reform Bill ; with the foredoomed abolition of the Roman Catholic Relief Act ; with the dire determination to let slip the dogs of war among seven millions of Irish Papists and extermi ., nate them to a man ; and finally, after a catalogue rai sonne of these and other contemplated high crimes and misdemeanours, Sir Robert is pathetically appealed to— as if not already prejudiced and condemned by this banded clique of moral Thugs—about what really may be his views, and what the course he means to steer ? That is, after Jack the Giant Maker and Killer is swallowed and all but masticated, he affectingly demands from the Ogre an explanation of his real intentions. (From the Standard.) We have it upon authority, which we are no longer at liberty to question, how incredible soever the fact asserted, that Minsters arc at this moment soliciting the Irish Chief Baron Woulfe to make room on the Judicial Bench for M. Daniel O'Connell.' While the statement that such en outrage upon decency was contemplated rested upon Mr. O'Connell's unsupported assertion, we gave to it no more credit than to any other of the gratis dicta of that habitual " postponer of truth to the purpose of the moment " [we use the euphonism of his friend the Examiner] ; but now we hear the story from so many and such well informed sources that we can doubt no longer. The circumstances of the time, indeed, render less incredible what would generally seem impossible, and what, under any cir cumstances, is monstrous. The Romanist slave capita tion tax, " the rent," has wholly faired ; the best exer tions of the Romanist party at the Irish registries have not less signally tailed ; an old age of pauper ism stares the Mendicant in the face, and it is even doubtful whether he will be able to find a refuge from obscurity and from some of the most distressing consequences cf pauperism by the possession of a seat in Parliament. In the city which he now misrepresents he will certainly he defeated by a majority of more than 1,000 ; and it is by no means extravagant to suppose that he who lately gave away, or rather sold 40 seats, may be unable to shelter himself from a gaol in a borough, however mean ; such has been the effect of the noiseless exertion of the Irish Conserva tives in their registration courts. The Whig-Radical Administration, too, from which Mr. O'Connell might expect same harbour of rest while it should main tain itself, is confessedly about to fall, and he may be imagined desirous to avail himself of its subser viency, while it still retains the power to make a provision for him. Certain it is that he has applied for the office of Chief Baron in Ireland, anti no less certain that Lard Ebrington's Government has so far • accceded to his wishes, as to promise the appointment and to negociate earnestly with Chief B iron \V wife to obtain that gentleman's resignation. The Irish Chief Baron has been for some time in a delicate state of health, but he has recovered sufficient strength for the discharge of his duties ; and as he is a firm and high-spirited man, some difficulty is found in prevailing upon him to declare himself inca pable, and to quarter himself upon the public as an unprofitable servant ; but high bribes have been offered, and higher still will be added ; so that it must depend upon tlis gentl,!=n's sense of duty and honour whether the meditated outrage shall not be attempted, and attempted with success, if the loyal people of both islands do not exert themselves to obviate such a calamity and such a di'grace. DEATH OF A SINGULAR CHARACTER.— Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, at Chelsea, on the body of Miss Sarah Sheard, aged 60, a lady of independent property, who wee found dead in her bed. She was very reserved, and would not allow any person to enter her apartments. She was eccentric in her manner, and to prevent her being robbed had had the locks taken off the doors of her rooms, and others to her own fancy put on. Her daily fire gene rally consisted of a penny loaf and two eggs, or a small 'mutton chop. She had latterly been very poorly, but would not have medical treatment, as she was frightened at men, end at the approach of one would shrink hack. On Tuesday afternoon Mr. Turner, her landlord, not having heard or seen her seen the previous Saturday, and thinking something had happened to her, called in a neighbour, and forcing open her bedroom door, found her in bed dead. She had money in the funds. In her apartments were found a quantity of plate, furniture, and other valuable property, but no will had been discovered. She had no relative. Mr. Waklcy remarked that the body of the deceased was in a most attenuated state, and certainly presented every appearance of a person who had died from starvation. No such fact, however, had been established. Verdict—" Natural death." FIELD ACCIDENT.—Last week while Mr. Fel lows, Mr. Vincent Eyre, Colonel Keightley, and Mr. Burrowes, were shooting in the woods of the Hon. R. Wilson, at A4iwellthrep Hall, in Norfolk, Mr. Bur rowes (brother of the county Member) accidentally shot Mr. Eyre in the lug, who has since been confined to his bed. It is hoped amputation will be avoided. Every exertion is making both at the Post-office and the Treasury to bring the plan of penny postage into immediate operation. It is thought it will be commenced within about a month or five weeks. The insurrection at Newport, and the continued absence from work of the disaffected, will have a serious effect upon the poor this winter in enhancing the price of coals. It is said that there are now a hundred vessels lying at Newport waiting for freight, and the supply of Welsh fuel being diminished, the prig - of that from the Forest of Dean is necessarily advanced and is already 235. per ton.—Canibrian. The distillers of Dublin have subscribed the sum of 100 guineas to the O'Connell Fund. DISSENTERS EXEMPT FROM TOLL.--At Hereford last week the Magistrates decided that a Wes leyan minister, going to perform chapel duty, was exempt from toll. SEVEN WIVES.-Sir Gcrvase Clifton, a gentle man, of Yorkshire, near Leeds, was " blessed with seven wives "—so the epilogue of his own writing says. Tne first three, who were maidens, he calls honourable. The second three, who were widows, he calls worship ful ; and the seventh, who was a servant-maid, born under his own roof, he calls his well-beloved. Each of the six agreed to the marriage of the next, before her death, and at that awful period were attended by their successors. Sir Gervase had several children by his last wife, some of whose descendants now enjoy the fa mily estate. He lies buried at the head of his wives. The executors to the will of the late Duke of Bedford are Lord William Russell (the only surviving brother of his Grace) and the present Duke. It is un derstood Woburn Abbey will not be the permanent resi dence of the Duke and Duchess, both of whom are attached to Oakley-house, no great distance from Woburn, where they have continued to rusticate, when absent from London, nearly ever since they were married. Lord and Lady Clarendon have just arrived in Paris, on their way to England. and arc at the Hotel Bristol.—Galignani. FAILURES IN LANCASHIRE.--A very strong sensation has been produced in this and the neighbour ing towns during the present week by the stoppage of a large worsted yarn manufacturing house of long stand ing, and which has hitherto had a high reputation. The firm has also an extensive establishment at Doh phinholme, in the neighbourhood of Lancaster, and the amount of their engagements are variously stated at from 150,000/. to 200,0001. This much-to-be-lamented failur e is attributed to recent heavy losses in trade. The Leeds mills belonging to this firm are still at work though on short time, and we fervently hope that ar rangements wilt be made to keep them in operation, as the immediate effect of their stoppage would be to ag gravate the prevailing distress by throwing seven or eight hundred work people out of employment in Leeds, and about the same numb er a t D o lphi n h o lm e .—L ee ds Mercury of Saturday. SUICIDE. EFFECT OF IMITATION.—The following just re marks, confirmed by every day's experience, are ex tracted from an article on suicide by Mr. Forbes Win slow, published in the Medical Gazette A frequent cause of suicide is a perversion of the natural instinct of imitation. In some persons we wit ness an irresistible propensity to imitate others. The commission of a great and extraordinary crime to this day produces not unfrequently a kind of mania of imi tation in the district in which it happened. Religious incidents have constantly been known to occasion simi lar events ; and what is remarkable is, that the scene or place of the first event seems to favour its repetition bylother persons approaching it. Thus a supposed mi racle having been performed before a particular gate in Paris, such a number of similar occurrences happened on the same spot in a few days, that the police posted a peremptory notice on the gate, " prohibiting any in vidual from working miracles on the place in question." This had the desired effect, and miracles ceased to be performed. Some years back a veteran hung himself at the Hotel des Invalides on the threshold of one of the doors of a corridor. • No suicide had occurred in the es tablishment for two years previously ; but in the suc ceeding fortnight five individuals hung themselves on the same cross bar, and the Governor was obliged to shut up the passage. If this principle of imitation is so strongly inherent in human nature,—if the publication of remarkable cases of suicide and atrocious instances of murder has so in jurious an influence on the minds of others as to tempt them to the commission of similar offences, the con ductors of the press ought certainly to exercise a little more discretion in publishing, with such minuteness, cases which ought to be concealed as much as possible from the public eye. The commission of one murder is often followed by others. Gall informs us of a man who, on reading in the newspapers the particulars of a case of murder perpetrated under peculiar circumstances of cruelty, was instantly seized with a desire to murder his servant, and would have done so had he not given his intended victim timely warning to escape. The English have been accused by foreigners of being the beau ideal of a suicidal people. The charge is almost too ridiculous to merit serious refutation. It has been clearly established, that where there is one suicide in London, there are five in Paris. In the year 1816 the number of suicides committed ha London amounted to 188 ; The population of Paris being some 400,000 less than that of London. From the years 1827 to 1830 no less than 6,900 suicides occurred— that is to say, an average of nearly 1,800 per annum ! The English, then, are not, par, excellence, a suicidal people. When the inhabitants of a country are indus trious and prudent, the crime of self-destruction will be rare. Out of 120,000 persons who insured their lives in the London Equitable Insurance Company, the number of suicides in twenty years was only fifteen! The Irish are said to be the least disposed, of ail na tions in the world, to commit suicide. Dublin and Naples are the two cities in which fewest suicides occur ; yet in both the poorer classes are poor indeed. Dr. Graves observes that an Irishman often murders his neighbour, but he has too high a sense of propriety to think of killing himself. The fact is, that the preva lence of murder prevents the necessity for suicide. The popular notion that more suicides are committed in the month of November than at any other period of the year, is founded on erroneous data. It has been clearly established that in all the Eu ropean capitals, when any thing like correct data can be obtained, the maximum of suicide is in the months of June and July ; the minimum in October and Novem ber. It appears from this that the disposition has most to do with high temperature ; for it has been proved that when the thermometer of Fahrenheit ranges from 80 deg. to 90 deg., suicide becomes more prevalent. SECRET SOCIETIES IN TRAINCE. M. Merilhou, reporter to the Court of Peers on the prisoners of the affair of the 12th and 14th of May, has presented to that body a very long document on the facts laid to the charge of the persons remaining for trial. As all the main circumstances relating to the in surrcction just mentioned are known to our readers, we shall not notice the first part of this report. The latter alludes to the connection of the attempt of May with the continuation of the publication of the Monilcur Re publicain, and the discovery of various seditious writings belonging to it. It then refers to the explosion in the rue Alontpensier, and mentions Beraud as having been arrested as one of the authors of that attempt. Several bombs and a quantity of gunpowder, it adds, were found at his residence, end upon his person was discovered a paper bearing the head : " In the name of the Committee," which was in the form of an inter rogatory of the republicans, of themselves as mem• bers of a conspiracy. The character of this paper may juked of by a single extract. " The right of governing belongs to us the labouring and productive classes. For us, so long oppressed, is reserved the glory of breaking the chains of slavery, de stroying the odious yoke of tyranny, overthrowing those brigands who bear the bloody name of Kings, and of plunging our daggers in their bosoms. Humanity has groaned too long under them ; it is time to do justice ; they have shared the people amongst them, and sold them as if they were cattle ; they have wallowed in the blood of the people, and the worthy imitator of such examples, the monster who oppresses us, the execrable Pidiippe, has followed in their stn ps. lie has slaughtered our brothers who asked for their rights, or who cried for bread ; but them he will receive the price of his offenct , s, Our poniards nil do us justice ; for no King is a King otherwise than by crime, and every criminal deserves death. Yes, death to Kings and aristocrats ! to all that bourgeoisie, that class of speculators, who have not in their souls a single generous and humane sentiment, who laugh at our misery, and at the hunger which tears our entrails." Another paper of a similar character, announcing the formation of the committee in whose name the interro gatory was drawn out, was also seized. The act of ac cusation then notices the attempt to assassinate a ser gent-de-ville on the Boulevard St. Martin, and con cludes by stating that whilst the doctrines of anarchy professed by these conspirators are repeated in modified terms only by some of the organs of the press and in secret societies, the evil can only be cured by a long and persevering union of the authorities and good citizens The Court of Peers terminated its deliberations yes' terday on this report, and the requisitoire of the Procu reur-General Franc-Carre. The Court gave their de cision at four o'clock. Eight of the prisoners agains" whom the Procureur•General had abandoned the acen t sation were ordered to be discharged. The Court de" dared that the charges aga i ns t th 34 others, three o" whom have fled, are sufficient for them to take theit trial. The day for the tlial is not yet fixed, but it it expected that it will be the 15th January.—Galignanis DEATH OF LIEUT.-COLONEL HOLNIES.—It is our painful duty this day to announce the demise of Lieutenant• Colonel Holmes, Deputy Inspector-General of Constabulary, who died at his residence, Rathmines, yesterday, 19th instant, after a long and lingering illness. We regret to add that his son, a tine young lad, died of treasi.es on the day previous.—Dublin Monitor. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, DEC. 20.—The small quantity of good sugars on hand has excited the apprehensions of the buyers, who have taken eagerly what was offered at an advance of a full shilling. Other kinds are still neglected.—dliercztry. BREAKING IN OF A SEWER.—On Saturday night, as an omnibus was passing through Coventry street, Piccadilly, the sewer, which here runs through the middle of the road, suddenly gave way, thereby causing considerable stoppage, and creating much con fusion. The kg of a horse was unfortunately caught in the hole and broken in two places. The poor animal was dragged away and laid by the side of the pavement, where it was permitted to remain writhing in the great est agony for some time. A policeman, immediately on the accident taking place, lighted his lantern and stood by the opening in the middle of the carriage-way, for the purpose of directing different vehicles to pass on either side. In some instances they seemed determined to ruilt on to what must have proved their destruction, for though at first the hole was scarcely more than a foot square, in less than a quarter of an hour it was more than three times that size. THE FOR G ERY CASE A T B ATH .—O n Thurs day James Sealy, implicated in the charge of forging the deeds and leases for which the Candys were lately committed, was brought before the Magistrates for final examination. R. S. Cruttwell, Esq., appeared on be. half of the Stamp-office to sustain the charge of fraud against him, by the transfer of the stamp s o f o ld d ee d s to several f the forged ones, to which they had been attached in a very ingenious manner. It was admitted in his own voluntary statement, on his first examination, that he had done it in one of the deeds, and on being asked if he was disposed to make any further admission, he declined. James Lovenbury, clerk to Messrs. Taylor and Kingston, then deposed that the prisoner, on the 3d instant, when first brought to the Guildhall in custody, described to him - the manner in which he had removed the stamps from the skins. He said he applied a wet cloth, and let it remain two days, and then took it off. Mr. Cruttwell, on being asked if he wished the prisoner to be remanded till a competent witness from the Stamp-office could attend to prove the removal of the other stamps, replied that it would be quite unne cessary, as the evidence could be obtained before the trial, and received according to the forms of the Court at the Assize. The prisoner was then fully.coramitted to Ilchester gaol, to answer the different charges at Taunton Assizes.—Bristol Gazette. A servant girl, under whose pillow were found two bottles, labelled respectively laudanum and prussic acid, destroyed herself last Thursday night at Camden town. Upon the kitchen table was found a paper bearing the following lines in the deceased's hand writing : It is not the blood of my body I do wish to wear, heart t hc may ofj ames Roger s I d o w i s h to tear H Bu o t p e the ins. that never rest or s l eep or h appy b e Until he comes and speaks his true sentiments to me. E. A." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 23. SLATER V. HARTLEY. The further arguments in this part-heard case oc cupied his Lordship nearly the whole day. The prin cipal question in the cvse was as to the legitimacy of a person of the name of John Slater. His LORDSHIP, at the conclusion of the arguments, gave judgment, directing an issue to try whether John Slater was legitimate or not. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DEC. 23• His HONOUR was occupied the greater part of the morning with hearing the unopposed petitions, of which there were upwards of 120 in his Honour's list. PIM V. THE MONKS FERRY COMPANY. Mr. TEMPLE, with whom was Mr. R. PARKER, ap plied in this case upon motion for a special injunction to restrain the defendants from carrying passengers or goods across the Mersey from Birkenhead to Liverpool. Mr. Pim, the plaintiff, was the lessee under a gentleman of the name of Price, of an ancient ferry called the Wood Side Ferry, which was granted in the reigns of Edward the Second and Third, to the Monks of Birkenhead Priory. Upon the dissolution of the monasteries in the reign of Henry the Eighth, that Monarch granted the ferry to Ralph Workenhead, and through him it had descended to the party, under whom the plaintiff held the lease. The defendants, in August, 1837, opened another ferry from Birkenhead to Liver. pool, in opposition to the ancient one belonging to the plaintiff; upon this he brought an action against the Company for trespass, and obtained a verdict against them ; and upon a new trial being had a similar result took place. The defendants, notwithstanding these verdicts against them, still continuing to carry on their ferry, the plaintiff filed the pre sen t bill f o r the purpose of obtaining an injunction to restrain them from doing so. Mr. JACOB and Mr. SUTTON SHARPE opposed the motion, on the ground that although the plaintiff had obtained two verdicts he had not established his right to the use of the ferry at law, inasmuch as he had not obtained judgment. His HoNoun was ofommon that the arguments against the motion were well founded ; he should therefore make no order on the present motion, but would give leave to the plaintiff to renew it when he had established his right at law. His Honour then retired to his private room, to hear the further arguments in Searle v. Gray, and did not again return into Court. ROLLS' COURT, DEc. 23. The unopposed petitions having been disposed of, the MASTER of the ROLLS heard Mr. Pembertou's reply in the case of ATTWOOD V. BANKS, which came before the Court on Saturday, upon a mo tion to restrain the defendants from applying for a fiat in bankruptcy against the plaintiff, Charles Attwood. The short facts of the case were these :—ln the month of April last, the plaintiff, Charles Attwood carried on the business of a glass-burner, in partnership with a Mr. Hart, and the business of en alkali and soap-manufacturer, at Newcastle-on-Tyne, in partner ship with Messrs. Tulk and Banks. The partners in the latter business became indebted to their bankers, Sir M. White Ridley and Company, in the sum of 33,0001. The partners slid not agree among themselves, and Tulk and Banks were desirous of getting rid of Mr. Charles Attwood. For that purpose they suggested to the bankers a proceeding by which all the members of the two firms might be made bankrupts—a process under the Act for Abolishing Imprisonment for Debt. In order to effect that object, an affidavit was filed in the Court of Bankruptcy, and the notice required by the Act of Parliament was gieen. Mr. Attwood was willing to retire from the concern, and on the 27th of April an agreement was entered into, by which it was agreed that Mr. Attwood should retire altogether—that he should give up his interest in the joint property for the other partners, and that these partners should take on themselves the partnership debts and liabilities. That was not a sufficient protection to Mr. Attwood, and therefore application was made to the bankers who signed a memorandum endorsed on the agreement in these words—" We accede to and confirm this arrange ment so far as we and the district bank are concerned." Differences, however, arose between the parties, not only with respect to that which was to be considered partnership property, to be transferred to the partners who were to continue the busines, but also with respect to some of the partnership liabilities. Mr. Attwood, therefore filed in the month of September, a Bill for the specific performance of that agreement. While this suit was pending, and shortly after it was instituted, Messrs. Ridley thought they might treat Mr. Attwood as their creditor, just as if they had never agreed to ac cept the liability of the other partners, and in Nov.em er they commenced proceedings with a view of mai.leg Mr. Attwood a bankrupt on the footing of the debt comprised in the agreement which they had confirmed ; the present motion was to stop those proceedings. His Letelship the MASTER of the ROLLS, on the con clus;on of Mr. Pemberton's reply, gave judgment, ob serving that this application was cue of the " first im pression," as it arose from the mode of proceeding under the recent Act of Victoria, for abolishing imprisonment for debt. There certainly was no instance of an appli cation having been made to a Court of Equity to pre vent a party suing out a fiat of bankruptcy, nor did he (the Master of the Re:l3) think an injunction for that purpose could be granted. But the only question in this case was, whether the Court had jurisdiction to say that the parties, having entered into a particular agrcenialt with respect to a particular debt, were entitled to make use of that particular debt for the purpose of proceeding to take out the fiat. He bad no doubt whatever that the Court could in terfere ; and an injunction must, therefore, issue re -. strainirg the defendants from adopting or prosecuting any proceeding whereby, 'or in consequence whereof, Mr. Attwood might be deemed under the provisions of the Ant of Victoria to have committed an act of bank ruptcy by not giving security for the debt in question. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, DEC. 23. HARVEY V. NORTON. This was an an actio❑ to recover payment for goods sold and delivered. The AT TORNE I GENERAL said the plaintiff was a draper and carpet-manufacturer. carrying on business in the Westminster-road ; the defendant was a gentle man of high character and station, one of the Police Mnistrates of the metropolis. The present action was brought to recol cr the sum of 491. Its. 21d. for necessaries supplied to Mrs. Norton, the wife of the defendant. In 1827 Mr. Norton had married Miss Sheridan, one of the daughters of Mr. T. Sheridan, son of the celebrated Mr. Sheridan. They lived toge ther very happily for a number of years, but in March, 1836, they separated. At that time Mr. Norton had certain suspicions with respect to the conduct of his wife, which he had since acknowledged to be un founded. He did not suppose that on this occasion there would be thrown out the slightest surmise against the honour of Mrs. Norton. If there should be, he was in a situation to prove that the defendant had acquitted her of all imputations. The debt in question was contracted in January, 1838. The defendant, liv ing sera-ate from his wife, was clear;y liable for ne cessaries suitable to her station in life, he not imputing any misconduct to her, and not having settled upon and paid to her a separate maintenance. In the beginning of 1838 Mrs. Norton, being separated from her hus band, took certain apartments unfurnished, in a house in Bolton-street, Piccadilly. She came to the plaintiff in January of that year, and asked to look at some patterns of carpets and rugs. She selected the plainest and cheapest. During that and succeeding months goods were sent to the house in Bolton-street to the amount of 921. It turned out that part of those goods had been ordered on behalf .of Mrs. Norton's uncle, Mr. Sheridan, younger son of R. B. Sheridan, who oc cupied apartments in the same house with her. That portion had been paid, but a balance remained unpaid of 491. 11a. 21d. It would not be disputed that those goods bad been ordered, that they had been delivered, or that they had been used ; the only question then that he could see remaining for the jury to try was, whether they were necessaries suitable to a person of Mrs. Norton's rank in life. It was possible . that Mr. Norton might contend that those goods were not to be consi dered as necessaries, inasmuch as they were furniture for an unfurnished house. It could never be said that a wife must of necessity go to a furnished lodging ; on the contrary, any prudent person at the west end of the town would take an unfurnished lodging in preference. It would surely not be contended that such a lodging as Mrs. Norton had taken was too good for the wife of a man who was heir to a barony, who was in the receipt of a very liberal allowance as a police magistrate, and had recently succeeded to considerable property in Yorkshire. The Learned Counsel then called Hugh Wilson, clerk to the plaintiff, who remembered Mrs. Norton calling at the shop, in the Westminster road in January, 1838. She selected several patterns of carpets and rugs, and ordered them to be sent to 24, Bolton -street. On going there some time after wards with the account, Mrs. Norton told him to apply and was told that m invvil h to e n r_h st u r s e b e a t, nd. He inmay ca , lled at Mr. Norton's hfb,ooirru.pseayent to Norton would not be in town till September. He saw Mr. Norton in September, who declined receiving living rlie fero ofm the account, s a yi ng th at h e h a d already paid as many accounts of hi s w if e ' s as h e wo uld be justified in d o i ng , and that he wou ld pay no m ore. Mr. Norton a:so said he had a ss i gne d hi s w ife a separate maintenance, and that she sh ou ld never se t foot in his house again. were Crossthat-exaini Mrs. ned—examined separate. at the time the go o d s her husband ; th e y did no t l e arn that till afterwards. The patterns'w ere no t o f a ver y costly kind ; he had sold tbe ll s i e n m . e F q ir u e al ß it a y r f t o o r n sm ex a a l m ler in b ed ou_se l s y . as in the e Mrs. Norton. Had lived with Mr. and Mrs. Norton since their marriage. Could not say she thought that they had lived in a very stylish manner ; they had four maid servants and one man servant in Green -street. They received fashionable people at their house, and visited fashionable people. A separation took place in March, 1836. After that she went once to the house With Mrs. Norton to see her children. Mrs, Norto n remained there long enough to dress the children, and then took them out to walk. She went again i n August, 1836, with Mrs. Norton, when Mrs. Norton was refused admittance. The door was kept closed, the chain being drawn, so that they could not see the servant. Mr. Sheridan lives with Mrs. Norton at the house in Bolton-street, and is in the exclusive occupa- tion of apartments there. Cross-examined—There are three maid-servants nrid two men-servants at No. 24, Bolton-street. Mr. She ridan lived there with Mrs. Norton till they went to the Continent in September last. Mr. Sheridan used to sit sometimes in the drawing-room with Mrs. Norton, but generally sat in his own study. Will not swear that Mr. Sheridan did not sit in Mrs. Norton's rooms every day. They see company together. Remembers the separation in March, 1836. Remembers Mrs. Norton's going away early in the morning, about eight o'clock ; it vas not so early as six o'clock ; it was quite light at the time. Mr. Norton had three children, all boys. Will not say that Mr. Sheridan has part of the house in -Bolton-street to himself ; has seen Mrs. Norton at tea in Mr. Sheridan's room. Re-examined—When Mrs. Norton quitted her hus band's house in March, 1836, she went to the house of Lord Seymour, her brother-in-law. Fredetick Burton called—ls in the service of Mrs. Norton. Had been hired by Mr. Sheridan, and was transferred by him in October, 1837, to the service of Mrs. Norton. His wages were 14/. a year. There was not so much furniture in the house in Bolton-street as there should have been in a house of such size. Never saw anything about Mrs: Norton's establishment that appeared unnecessary or extravagant for a lady of her rank. • Colonel Leicester Stanhope examined—Hai been long acquainted with Mr. Norton, who lived in the first circles. Does not consider that Mrs. Norton's resi dence in Bolton-street was furnished in a manner more expensive than was necessary. Cross-examined—Mr. Norton's house at Storey's gatr was small ; not above half the size of the house in Bolton-street. The situation was more expensive. Houses in that part of the town are dearer than in Piccadilly. Believes there was a public-house next door to the house at Storey's-gate. Believes the expenses of the house were shared between Mr. Sheridan and Mrs. Norton. Understood that it was a joint establishment. Mrs. Sheridan examined—ls the mother of Mrs. Norton. Mr. and Mrs. Norton were married the 30th of July, 1827 ; they mixed in the first Circles. Had visited her daughter at Bolton-street. Thought the carpets were particularly reasonable. Sir W. FOLLETT, for the defendant, thought the jury must have observed that it was not the sum of 49/. I Is. that was now in question, but that they were now to decide whether Mr. Norton should be held liable for the claims of different tradesmen for any expences that his wife might think proper to incur. They had heard the answer made by Mr. Norton when this account was presented to him, " It is quite impossible . for me to pay it, I have already paid so many other accounts, and 1 cannot settle it ; I must send it to my attorney, and ask him whether in point of law I am liable or not." It was upon the advice of counsel that he was not liable to this demand that Mr. Norton had determined to resist the present action. A bill had been made out in the first instance to Mrs. Norton for the whole amount of 921. Afterwards furniture for part of the rooms was taken out for Mr. Sheridan and paid by him ; the other half was cut out and debited by Mrs. Norton. Upon the evidence before them, he had no hesitation in say ing that Mr. Sheridan had most distinctly taken the house, occupied it with Mrs. Norton, and let it furnished. They were then to determine the very important ques tion whether Mr. Norton was liable for debts incurred in furnishing a house taken, as far as appeared, by Mr. Sheridan, let by him, and the rent going into his pocket. He must say that this proceedin g bore upon it-the face of something like connivance between cer= tain parties, if he might use that term. Had it not been proved that Mr. Sheridan was in the entire and complete occupation of the whole house, that Mrs. ;Norton was constantly sitting with him, and that what was called her exclusive occupation of part of the house made no difference whatever ? It was not even pre tended that any distinct compact as to occupation had. been made between the parties. That being the case, he must say that Mr. Sheridan had no right whatever to seek to live at Mr. Norton's expense, occupying a house of which the furniture was to be bought with Mr. Norton's money. Further, he would - contend that no thing was more important than to hold the law strict upon the liability of husbands for goods supplied to their wives while living apart from each other. Lord DENMAN said, in this case it was clearly proved that it was by the wish of the husband that his wife lived apart from him ; there was no deed of settlement -shich might supersede the necessity of paying for the necessaries with which he was bound to supply his wife. But then came the question, whether the goods which formed the subject matter of this action could be regarded as,necessaries. It was submitted that articles of furniture could not be necessaries, inasmuch as the separation was merely temporary, and might at any troineut be terminated. Undoubtedly, separations .ot this kind must be viewed in that light, but it appeared to him that under the circumstances of this case, the defendant having desired his: wife to leave the house, end refused her admittance when she came back,it would be unreasonable to suppose that she would be likely to return to her husband in a very short time, and there must be a reference to this probability by the Ju r y when they determined w hether the ar ti c l e s supplied. in this case were to be looked upon as neces saries. A wife must be clothed by her hus band as well as fed, and that in a manner aerecable to their station in life, and there did not seem to be any 'reason why many articles of furniture ought not be sup plied by him to her in the same way ; but whether ar ticles of rich and splendid furniture, purchased for a house of such a kind as that of which they had now heard, could be considered as necessaries, was matter for the jury to determine. They were left very much in the dark as to the means which Mr. Norton pos sessed of maintaining his wife, and as to what might be considered a reasonable scale of expenditure under the circumstances of the parties. This was a matter wholly for the consideration of the jury. Having excluded his wife without assigning any reason, Mr. Norton was prima facie liable, but he was liable only for necessaries furnished to her bona fide, for the purpose of maintain ing her in a reasonable and decent manner, according to her station in life. The Jury, without retiring, found a verdict for the defendant. ROBBERIES IN A CHURCH.—On Sunday morning the congregation attending Christchurch, Black friars-road, were much surprised on taking their scats on ascertaining that their Bibles and Prayer-books bad been stolen from the drawers and boxes in their pews, where they had been deposited by the owners on the previous Sunday. The Church was opened three days last week for the purpose of undergoing a thorough cleansing previous to Christmas, and it is supposed the thief or thieves took advantage of the circumstance to s teal the books. • The drawers and boxes were all locked, and they must have bean opened by means of false keys. After the books were abstracted the drawers and boxes were again locked up, and the most valuable books only were abstracted. Those which had been long in use and the covers much worn were not re moved ; and the Bibles and Prayer-books of the Church, wardens, and those in Marshall's trust pew, with the words" Christchurch, Surrey," inscribed thereon, were not, removed, although the drawers had been opened. Some of the boxes contained the Bibles and Prayer books of a whole family in elegant bindings. The Churchwardens (Messrs. Loudan and Ainger) arc de termined to institute rigid inquiries into the matter, and have instructed the police on the subject. A celebrated Lancashire file-manufacturer is said to be a creditor of Mr. Cockerill, Belgium, for about 2,7001. A Sheffield house is also a creditor for LOU, chiefly for heckles, an article used in preparing flax for spinning. TRADE, &C.—Monday last, Mr. Brown, of Egypt Park, received from Mr. Hastie five pounds as his subscription to the fund for providing reeds and mountings for the weavers employed by the manufac ing AssociatiOn—a note accompanied it, that more would be forthcoming, if required. This Association has given work to 50 hands, and there are other 40 ap plications made, to meet which preparations are in a for ward state. Though we can say nothing cf bright prospects, we are happy to say, that they are l ess gloomy than they have been for several weeks past. Se. veral houses have been giving out work during the week, This work, we believe, is generally of a lower priced kind than usual, and some weavers, who would have to change their harnesses, would prefer waiting a little, in the hope that work suited to their implements, may ere long be issuing. The same cause prevents a number of weavers from taking out the plain work of the Manu facturing Association. Thursday, we are told, was the best day in Causeyside for sales that has been felt for several weeks. On the whole, though we cannot speak of any very marked improvement, we can speak of some, and can further say, that a pretty general expec tation prevails, that after the new year our prospects will. be much improved.—Paisley Advertiser. On Saturday afternoon last, about two o'clock, as the Countess of Eldon, accompanied by another lady, was walking from her Ladyship's house to Shirley Chapel, a distance of about half a mile, they were met by four men, in the dress of railway labourers, who stopped them, and laid hold of Lady Eldon by the arm, using the most disgusting language. An officer, who was at some distance, saw them, when they instantly ran away, but were followed and all secured. On Tuesday they were committed by Joseph Reid, Esq. Her Lady. ship is reported to be very ill from the abuse and alarm she experienced.--Sussex Express. Mr. Thomas Popham, tutor in the family of Mr. Nugent, of Bobsgrove, supposed to have been mur dered on the 13th ult., in the county of Cavan, is alive and dell.—Dublin Mail. [Thus briefly do the Irish Orange journals dispose of the contradictions of one of their own " State of the Country" lies.] FOLICE INTELLIGENCE. RULES TO BE , ORSERVED BY ALL MEMBERS OF ALL CLUBS 11 (From the John Bull.) 1. If you have walked to the club through the mud, never wipe your shoes or bcots on the mat. Being a member, the rich carpets are your own, and you have a right to do what y ou lik e w ith . them. 2. When you go into any room .ia the house, and another member follows you, always let the door swing into his face ; if he happen to be a Bishop or a Judge, so much the better—if it knocks his nose and makes it bleed, best of all. _ _ 3. It anybody is fool enough in a similar case to hold the door back for you, never take any notice of him. 4. Always in ‘N et weather put your legs up. on the sofas it will clean your boots, cud the mud wil! brush off from the velvet when it was dry in the morning. 5. When you go . into the dining-room where fifty or sixty people of the first rank and talent arc dining, walk up and down with your hat on, stop to speak to every body you know, and be careful to look at what they are eating—abase it, of course. 6. If you catch some unfortunate man, who, tired with the fatigues of the bar, the city, the House of Commons, or anything else, is getting a quiet cutlet by himself, draw a chair to his table, and either volunteer to join him, so that your modicum of dinner will come to table just as his dessert is put down or, baying dined yourself, order your wine to his table, so that while 1w is endeavouring to eat, you may sit looking at him. ..... 7. . Always abuse the Committee when you cannot get into it yourself ; always find fault with everything, and make a point of swearing at the waiters, if, baying sixty two people to serve between six of them, they do not all come to you first. 8. If you dine on the joint, hack it about just as you please ; cut out all the best bits ; if it be venison, leave no fat for those who are to conic after you. When you have tea, order one cup, with cream, sugar, and a muffin ; aad then order some hot water in a jug, and make it into two ; it will cost no more, and you can oblige a friend with the second basin. _ _ 9. 'Whenever you want to make an extract from a valuable book, tear the leaf out—it saves trouble ; and the book is your own, as a member. 10. If you have a cold in your head, or any complaint which renders an effort to relieve the lungs agreeable or necessary to yourself; always make it as loudly as pos sible. Always stand befere the fire with your back to it, so as to hinder the members dining in front of it from seeing it ; and make use of it to your own satisfaction. 11. Always talk politics to a man who never ob trudes his politics upon you ; it shows you know him. 12. Always talk loud in the library, especially if you see many people reading or writing. 13. While you are poring over one newspaper, keep another under your arm, and sit upon a third ; then you are provided for. 14. Don't be particular when you arc going away whose good umbrella you t a ke in e x change for your own bad one. If you cam e i n w ith ou t one , and it sets in wet, your course is obvious ; ditto as to cloaks. 15. Never pay your subscription till the latest pre scribed day. Why should you lose the interest of your money ? 16. Write all your letters at the club. pens, ink,. paper, wax, wafers, &c., gratis. If you are an author, write all your books there. If you are a Corainissioner, write all your reports there, and charge " stationery" to the Government. 17. Be careful about • pocketing sealing-wax and blacklead pencils—they are looked after ; do not pack up newspapers belonging to the club for your country cousins, and abstain from the abstraction of whitey brown. These rules might be advantageously imparted to the Aspirant, and perhaps will do for the present ; since a strict adherence to the m , an d an observance o f this system, will make him as aoTecable a member of a club as any gentleman need wish to be." THE MARKETs_.(yEsTERDA ritICZ Ur The highest price of Bread in a Loaf. Good Bread may be had at BitzAD. he Metropolis is 1010. for the Mr 9d. PRICES 0 SEEDS. Per . Cwt. ------ - --- Per Quarter. New English Red C10ver..,55i.90s St. Foin —s. 45s 60 ,, Old Ditto Ditto ' —s. —s. —s. Rye Grass ... 5 . 403. 44. s New Foreign Ditto ...—s. 66e. 303. ne.ey Gross Old Ditto Ditto —7. s. s. Linseed, .for feeding —s. 4,53. 52s New White Clover Xis. 655. 70s. Ditto, for sowing —s. 545. 565 , Old Ditto Ditto 2. —s. —e. Ditto, for crushing...—s. 425. 46s Neer Trcfoii —v. 18s. OW. Canary —3 70s. SOs Old Ditto —s. Ps. 2 0 3. Hemp —3. S3s, 40s Trefoliurn —s. 2!ls. 3 , 5. Per Bushel. English Carraway —s. 525. 561. White Mustard...lls. 04. 143. N. Foreign Ditto —q. 50s. 565. Brown Ditto I Ls. Od. 19,. I'd Coriander —s. tlih. 253. Tares - ss. 61. 7r. 60. Rapes.%d, English one (per Last) 23/.31/. Foreign 201. 251. PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d Per lb. d. to d. CropHides,r to4olb. each 11 13i Horse Hides, German... 19 22 -----4 n 50.. ...... l2 16 - - Spanish ... 1 3 •` 24 - --50 60. .... ... 13 is Calf Skins, 30 to 40Ib.(doz) 15 22 Bull Hides . Butts, V trio] ... ----- English ..,-- Foreign .. .-- 1,1 Foreign Hides . ..... ....,. 10 12 -- small ........... 2 -,, ‘l,; Dressing Hides ll 14 Kips ... ... ........... 10 -Shaved l3 17 Basils... ..... .... ...... ..• l ; 11 i. Best Saddlers' flide3... V 15 16.1 Bellies ....... .. .......... .. I ;:: Horse Hides, Eng;ish Calf Skins, if rounded 20. to 4d. por b. more. Farnham Pncket3 (p i : e ll r l e C w . E L . S ) . . O . . .... o f ! ° e P s 3 . . East ant Pocket's Ditto Bois 4l ICs. 0 5 1 / . . I n s e il t w o 0 6/ 1 . • KO r'' ' . 3: Ills. tn. - Os. to 42. 4'. /Oil Kcntlockets 3/. 10s. 41.105. to 5' lir, Kitt; Bags 3.. 10s. Oi. Os. t. 42. Or. Sussex Yearlings CI, Os. 31. 3s. to 31. 10., Old I)1,13 PRICE OF OIL. Rapeoll,brown, pe , ton, 341. los.-Refined, :351.0s --! i n seed rlii, 2F. Lina...ed Oil Cake at the Mill (10 , '0), 141. oc-Itape ( nice. per ton,,i. I'RICE OF TALLOW, SLAP, &c. per 1121 b. Town Tallow s2s. Od. Velliw Soap... ... ...... - 5 . M • Yellow Russia 505. tid. Mottled White Melting Stuff ... Ditto Rough ..... 26s Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stoneof 8P!. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Meters)23. Ild. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store ( smiles in the Retail Shops is AS follows :.- Candles, per dozen, Ss. Od. ; inferior, 7s. od. ; Moulds, 9s. 6d. Sixpence per dozen discount for cash. - _ COAL MARKET. g, d Bell. Robson & Co. Hartley IS ( Hebburn' Main ... .. Holywell .I)lain 2l 0 Ord's tZedb ugh Smith's Pontop l9 Tantied Moor Butes 2t, Willingon :22 4 Walls End (.race Walls rnd Heaton .. 22 :11 Walls End Hotspur ... 21 01 Walls End Killingv.rorth ... 22 :3 Walls End Walker 22 0 Walls Endßraddyll'sHet ton 23 . ft Ways End Haswell 23 9 Walls End Hetton ... ...... - 24 0 Ships arrived since s. d We's End Lambton '24 6 Walls End Pemberton Walls End Stewart's 24 6 Wails land Whitwell 23 6 Walls End Hartlepool 94 6 Walls End Kelloe 2l 6 Wang End t'arrington Tees 6 0 Wari:-.'End Seymour Tees 22 Walis - End South Durham 23 • Walls End Tees Hetton vl 6 Walls End Victoria 'fees Blythe l 7l 1 9 Nevill's (Janelly %Valls End Devonshire la stmarket-day, 3. Mr. Donthorne, architect, has been obliged to suspend the building of the Peterborough gaol, in conse• quence of the quantity of water preventing a founda tion being sunk.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. INSULT TO THE BRITISH FLAG.—The Na tional contrives to turn the affair, partly i n tentionally, intending to be serious; into ridicule. " partly The pre tended insult," it says, " cemmittad by the corvette, the Isere, to the English flag, was in point of fact only an affair of washing (blawhissagc) ; w hile, on the other hand, the gross outrire of the Greenlaw to the tricolour flag was, like most Britannic bravades, the offspring of laborious d !stion, and thefumes of grog." i,c 1.7.....1=,11,•WMPf1LME5P4351M1 ,14,7 M1CY , ff . " ..... - SILVER TEA and COFFEE SERVICES. Drawings of the newest patterns, will be forwarded to any part of the country, in answer to a paid letter, with full parti culars of size, weight, and price; or Purchasers will find a most extensive assortment of the Silver Services in the Show Rooms. Either Tea-pot, Sugar Basin, Cream Ewer or Cofee pot, may be had separately. T. COX SAVORY, Silver Smith, &c., 47, Cornhill (Seven doors from Gracechurch street), London. EIR IPC. On the 22d inst., at the Piaz T za, Covent-garden,Mrs• Ed mund Robins, of a still-born son. On the 20th inst., at Piehenhana Hall, Norfolk, the lady o f W. Wiggett Chute, Esq., ALP., of a son. of Seib On the 21st inst., at Clifton, the lady gnalay Thomas Cuthbert, Esq., of a son and heir. of a son, still-born. On the 20th inst. , at The Ilendre, 3Tenmouthsh;re, the lady of John E. W. Rolls, On the 20th inst., at Harleyford, near ;Marlow, Georgiana, the wife of William Capel Clayton, Esq., Coldstream Guards, of a daughter, still-horn. _ On the 9.2 c; inst. Esq., of a daughter. a t Fir Grove, North Brixton, the lady of Hyde, Dorset, the lady of C. J. Rad elyffe, Esq ,of a son.. 1 . On the 14th ins is, , in t le City of Dublin, the lady of Thomas Cas Main i:LeJ...2li's.ttl,aset.b, oautgaiil, Henry Ponsonb, s q* , a a son. ,i ll nE f s A th .:RIE D. _ On the 21st inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Nelson ------- E s q., of the Admiralty, Whitehall, to Jane, eldest daughter of the o l n ate th T e ho 2 nLas t the Hon. Richard Watson, tL • • - Ater of Lord e Chapel at Althor e avinia Jane, only daug George Quin. . On the 21st inst. T• ' Church, ~ at rmityChelsea, Robert Owen, daughter of New Bond-street, to Anna Maria, youngest ,5 of the late Bev. John Gentler, of Sloane-terrace. d- Houghton, • On the 17th inst., at the parish church of Ross, Herefor shire, George Stri-n, Esq t ~ M.D., of Hereford , to Charlotte, only surviving child of John Cooke, Esq., of the Ch ase, in be same ty coun. On the 21st inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Mr. Jam es Gearing, to Miss Southern, of Ormond-street. ~_.,,cis • On the 23d inst., at Marylebon i Church, Gibbs r rd_ Bent, Esq , only son of John Bent, Esq., of Oat HA; late field, Sussex,' to Emily Jane, youngest daughter of t I Mr. Thomas Coombs Hawkins, of Weymouth. MANSION HOUSE. Totory Burgun, an inhabitant of the parish. of St. Benet's Sherehog, 'was summoned for h:tving re fused to pay 51. 25., the amount of Church-rate. .Mr. Burgon, who is a Baptist, had objected to pay the Church-rate of last year, but at last yielded. The case was heard before his Lordship and Alderman Piric. _ _ The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant whether he had brought his summons with him Mr. IfUrgon—No, my Lord, I have placed the sum mons, as a testimonial of the piety of the 19th century, upon the blank leaf between the Old and New Testa ment.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—We can go on without it. Let us hear the evidence. Mr. Lyons, vestry clerk of the parish, stated that the Church-rate due from Mr. Burgon, amounted to 51. 25., and that it had been duly applied for, but was refused by the defendant upon principle. Mr. Burton said that he objected to the authority upon which ° the claim was made. He denied that in a case of the kind the law of the land could contravene the law of Scripture, in whose pages there appeared no authority to demand payment of any rate of the kind Fortunately he was a believer, and he objected to pay, the rate upon principle. The Loan MAYOR—If" you are a believer you can have no rational objection to pay what is a legal demand. Mr. Burgon—lf more were to do,as I do, there would be more Christianity in the world, for I consider that it is beyond all doubt that by the Established Church of England and the Church of Rome, the cause of in fidelity is chiefly promoted. The LORD MAYois—l think, Mr. Bur; on, you had better not pursue this courw. Mr. Burgon—My Lord, I address you as part and parcel of the head of the Church of England. You hold your office by the authority of the Queen, and it is better to discuss the matter here. The law upon which I am called upon to pay this rate is founded in error. Baptismal regeneration has no fotmdation in the Bible. A person who does not believe in Christianity is not a Christian, and an infant who does not under stand, cannot be said to believe in, Christianity. Alderman PZRIE said that he perfectly well knew the defendant's respectability, and that he did not refuse to pay the rate on account of the expense. Mr. Burgon must know, however, that the Magistrates can do no less than order the rate to be paid. The LORD MAYOR---I hope he will pay . the rate to prevent the disagreeable alternative of the seizure of his goods. Mr. Burgon thought if the matter were made pubic good would result. If he did not consider that it was his duty to refuse to parhe would never have thought of refusing. The people were generally acting under a delusion ; they thought that because they went to church the/ were religious. No delusion could be more gross. Alderman PIRIE said that it was not very charitable in Mr. Burgon to impugn the sincerity of those who were members of the Established Church. He (Mr. Burgon) was a Baptist, and it was rather unfair to say that than who were of a different way of thinking were labouring under a delusion. Mr. Burgon said that he believed there were many sincere and excellent persons who believed in the tenets of the Established Church, but he begged leave to say, that he ought not to be called upon to pay for the in struction of others in those things which he did not himself believe. Alderman PIRIE—We arc obliged, by the law of the land, to call upon you to pay the rate. Mr. Burgon—The Church is an endowed Church, and there are many in the parish who pay neither Church-rate nor Poor-rate. There is money enough to pay for the repairs of the Church, and the Minis ters' surplices and the elements, and we who have nc thing to do with the Church ought not to be asked for a farthing. I object for more reasons than one, but I know that the ecclesiastical law is watching for objec tors to pounce upon them for penalties, and prefer the expense of a few pounds to the expense of hundreds. Mr. Lyon said that Mr. Burgon in speaking of the endowed Church, meant the Church of St. Stephen Walbrook, to which large sums of money had been left for its support, but those bequests had nothing to do with the Church of St. Benet Sherehog. Mr. Burgon—The parishes are united. Mr. Lyon repeated that the parishes were quite distinct, as to the payment of rates. The LORD MAYOR—AII we can do Mr. Burgon, to issue an order for the payment of the rate. Mr. Burgon—l am very sorry to see you, my Lord, in such a situation. You will be obliged to seize my goods. The LORD MAYOR—I hope not. You will surely pay this rate as you paid the last year's. Mr. Burgon—No, my Lord, I certainly shall not pay it. Ido a good deal of business in flints, end it may be Nell to seize them, as they may be' made to assist in en forcing the payment of Church-rates upon others. Alderman Pima—l am sure Mr. Burgon that you will pay the rate. Whatever our scruples of con .icienec may be, it is the law of the land, and we arc all compellable. Mr. Burgon—No, I certainly shall not pay the rate under any circumstances. GUILDHALL. CAUTION TO NEWSPAPER PROPMETORS.-Mr. W. S. Palcman was brought before Alderman Sir William Heygate this morning, charged with forcibly taking away four dozen of ointment from the premises of M. Francois Julia, situated in Earl-street, Blackfriars. On the case being stated, the proprietor of the Greenwich Gazette stepped forvv_ard, and said that he was the employer of the defendant, who had acted by his direction, and he wished to state the facts of the case, in order to expose a system by which the newspaper proprietors throughout the kingdom were victimized by the proprietors of quack medicines. A person named Albinolo had advertized a quack ointment' in defendant's paper, and had become indebted to him in the amount of 121., when he was applied to for payment. Albinolo said he bad no money, but that he might take the amount out in ointment, and therefore he sent the defendant, by way of experiment, to procure'some of this ointment, which he intended to use for the purpose of greasing his printing machines. It appeared now that Albinolo was in prison, and M. Julia stated that he had purchased the concern of Albinolo, and given up wards of 2,0001. for it. Sir W. HEYGATE said he should certainly dismiss the case, and leave the parties to their remedy by action. M. Julia applied to. have the ointment given up to him. Sir HEYGATE would make no order on the subject. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a servant, Anne Brawn . , was placed at the bar, charged with robbing Mr. Ilo!den, her master, residing at 9, Bath-terruce, Camberwell New-road, of a quantity of valuable jewellery and wearing apparel, under the following circumstances : William Luff, sTiopman to Mr. Burgess, pawnbroker, 124, Long-acre, stated that between 10 and 11 o'clock the prisoner came into his master's shop, and offered a gold chain, two brooches, and two gold rings to pledge, and while he was examining the articles a constable entered to give information that a robbery had been committed. On comparing the jewellery produced with the list which the officer handed to him he found that it corresponded with it in every particular, and on asking the prisoner whose property the articles were, she said that one brooch, a ring, and the chain, belonged to her husband, but that the others were her own. Witness then handed her and the articles over to the policeman. Sergeant Pocock, 13 IT, searched the prisoner's In - dg. ings at No. 7, Brewer's -court, Bedf or db ur y, w hi c h s h e had taken only yesterday, where he found four gowns, a silk shawl, ant other articles of apparel, which the pri soner subsequently acknowledged were belonging to her mistress, and which, together with the other articles produced, she had taken the opportunity to plunder the house of during the time the family was at Church. She also expressed a wish that witness would communi cate the circumstance t i her mistress before he should take her to be examined before the Magistrate. The prisoner wept bitterly during the examination, and was taken from the bar in a state of insensibility. Mr. JARDINE ordered her to be brought up again this day, and in the mean time to give information of her being in custody to the owners of the property. QUEEN- S Q UA RE. ga ve Antonio Perocchi, a we ll-d resse d I ta li an , who brought his address Royal Hotel, Leicester-square, up in custody of Sergeant Otway, of stolen a and placed at the bar, charged with ht h iv e l marquis of seal, value 200 guineas, the property. of ft the Court of Clanricarde, the British Ambassador atrisoncr had re- St. Petersburg, in whose service the P cently been as courier. al s tolen was given to the A written description of the seal as described in length, highly being of engraved gold, the Magistrate. It was and thistle, weighing five ounces, of rn si r s ock, chased, with the rose, shamrock was of topaz, and bore the on the handle. The stamp .y. arms of the Clanricard at c ed ti that, on the 13th of Novem ber Otway stated duty at the headpolice station, ber last, he was oe when Viscount Canning came and in Scotland-yard, ,_. had received a letter from his brother-in stated that he law, the Marquis of Clanricarde, inf orm i ng hi m t h at a man, who had racentl y been employ e d by hi m as cour i er, left him at Petcrsdorf, i n had Russia, and taken with hi m a desk seal, value 200 guineas. No evidence of couch importance was given on the charge, and the prisoner was remanded till Tuesday next. DIED. Char- On the 21st inst., from a second attack of epileyssN. lotto, the affectionate wife of Mr. Key, surgeon, 13 !1 . 1 : he East On the 25th of August last, at Housingabad, 1 " the late Alexander Mundell, Esq., of Great George Indies, Lieutenant Hugh Innes Mundell, the youngest:ecotf, Westminster, aged 20. inst.,n cis th F e orb l e 9 s t , h ofthe Francis the late Alexander Forbes, of her Majesty's Customs, ag € 1 .,._" . ' D r a a t w i S n t g . _ o D in u c n e s , t Bankan's - l i o i 1 I f , England, n T g o l w a nedr: sestor,nc,,e,ot.,f No human Ferdinand Winckelman, aged 38. On the 19th inst., at Cumming-street, Pcntonville, oil' —,----- being, however exalted his rank and fortune, how everenlarged and cultivated his under- George Sadler, Esq., G Blackheath,Mr . • Miller, relict On ofthe 20th inst., aatgeT6tsle. Horkesley, Essex, Sarah, wife of On the Sailer, inst., at the rove, .. standing, Can ,_ be nappy without a -'t L'f • On tbe ladder on • purbui .ie is a 22d inst., Samuel, eldest son of William Hood Hern which we cling from ho and, by mans, Esq., Charlotte-row, Walworth, aged 21. ......,................ pe to hope, ex p ec n t ati? strive to ascend to enjoyments ; but he the Rev. John Miller. who of eili fancies t i t has of reached his l e li , s i l s ii n gt:: . piel;dzd.who London Printed and Published by AI URDO YOEIN ~_ miserable No. 112, ' Strand, at The Sun Office, No 112 Wand, ir. the county o Middlesex.—Tuesday, December 24, IS3f'. 1 EVENING EDITION. TUE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1539. EVENLNrG EDITION.