The Sun. — London, England, 1844-04-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 10, 1844. jug a widoWer for fourteen Years he married, in 1843, 1 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. the daughter of the late Lee Steere Steere, Esq., of FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. Javeg, in Surrey.- Lady Abinger had previously been STANDARD. The Three per Cent. Consols :carried to the Itev. H. J. Ridley, of Ockley. were yesterday at par. One hundred pounds in stock Lord Abinger retained the full use of his remarkable ii • se mg /or one hundred gold sovereigns. This marks and v igoreus.faculties down to the very day on which he an epoch in our history which suggests many im was attacked with the fatal disease that terminated his portant reflections. Ninety-fiVe valuable existence. lie was one of the judges of the years have passed Norfolk Circuit during the present assizes ; and being . since public credit occupied the same proud posi at Bury St. Edmund's he presided in Court on the see f tion ; the Three per Cent. Stock has not been at cond - of this month up to the late hour of seven o'clock par since 1749, and in 1749 the public debt was in the evening, going through the business of the day • little more than one-tenth of its present amount — with the same clearness, precision, and skill which dis- namely, ahout seventy--eight millions sterling. The in tingeished him in the prime of life. Within two hours ; an equivocal proof of the crease of the debt were but from the adjournment of the court he was speechless, and, increase of the wealth, even of those to whom the debt within the short space of live days, he breathed his last, having. reached the advanced age of 78, and having ac- is due, and the revers ' eof a proof of the increased wealth of those by whom it is due, were it depreciated aired, es a leading counsel at nisi pries, higher re wards in - fame and in wealth than have yet fallen to the in value ; but rising as it rises in price , it affo rds a lot el' the most fortunate amongst his contemporaries. grati demonstration of the enormously aug fying Hla eldest son, Robert Campbell Scarlett (now Lord merited affluence of both. The nation is now be - Abihger), was born on the sth of September, 1794. on lieved----and . the belief is all in such a case— the 19th of July, 1824, he married Sarah, the second as well able to meet engagements of 750 daughter of George Smith, Esq, Chief Justice of the millions, as it was believed able to meet 78 millions Mauritius. • The issue of this marrittee was two sons of engagements in 1749. As regards the stock and two daughters. The present Lord Abinger was sholders, therefore, the capitalists in the country called to the bar, and practised for a short time. I.le was have rndltiplied nearly tenfold in value in the retunied to Parliament for Norwich in 1835, and for 4 95 years; and the wealth of their debtors must have Horsham in 1841 ; and his elevation to the peerag e will increased at least tenfold also; but this is not an therefore occasion a vacancy in the representation of adequate view of the subject. The improvement in that borough. The second 'child of the deceased Peer the price of stock is not the work of 95 ears;y it is Lady Stratheden, the third is the widow of Sir Ed has been effected, ward Currey, the fourth Colonel Scarlett, of the sth and in a far greater degree, in Dragoon Guards ; and his youngest son, whohad been i just half the period. At the commencement of 1798, marshal and associate of the Noble and Learned Chief the price of the Three per Cents. was 47, Baron in the Court of Exchequer, has been recently ap- ; less than half the price at par, the present price ; pointed her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court many millions of the stock, now worth its full of Tuscany. price, was then, and for several years before and after, bought at half, or less than half, the price that • it would now bring. And at that time the public debt—the amount, in fact, of stock in the market—was little more than half what it is at present, confining the market even to the public stock ; not one-third, if we add the various other stocks on sale—all as it were bidding higher prices against the public stock. In the year 1798, then, the market offering certainly less than one-half the present amount of securities of all kinds, more than one-half, in fact not one-half, the present price could be obtained for the best among them. It is true that 1798 was a year of alarm. The French war was at the time at its height ; and the rebellion in Ireland, which the lately convicted conspirators have been labouring to repeat, was impending ; but the state of the stock market for - years before and after 1798 prove that the effect of the immediate alarm was not very considerable. The money was want ing ; the State wanted to borrow more than the people had to lend. The people are now, however, able to pay twofold what they borrowed 50 years ago. Whoever lent the public 5001. in 1798 has had six per cant. for his money for 46 years, and may now receive 1,000/. This is to support public credit, and public credit is strength and safety. But credit is not strength and safety only. The example which it has been our business to note this day—the example of a nation whose securities stand at par, after such augmentations of her debt, and such dangers and difficulties as Great Britain has had to struggle with during the last half century, this exam ple is a means of economy no less than of strength and safety. In no possible adverse conjecture can Great Britain ever again have to borrow at such a disadvantage as in 1798. A Whig Government could do much ; a Whig Government, in fact, not only checked • the upward progress of the public securities, but . even reduced the Three per Cents. from 92 to 88, in the 11 years between . 1830 and 1841 ; but we may almost defy a Whig Govern ment even to reduce the price of securities again much below 90. The ground has been - made good so far ; the capital is in the country, and, what is not less important, is shown to be in the country. It must he employed, and this we must all have learned, both by experience and by the discussions of the last few years, that capital not only grows faster than the population, but much faster than the means of profit ably employing it can grow, do all that we can by industry and enterprise. This opens a view as to the future—hitherto we have referred chiefly to the past. The Three per Cent. Consols have risen to par from 88, during less than three years of Sir Robert Peel's Administration ; and what is to be above all things remembered, they have risen concurrently with a prodigious outlay in railroads and other specula tions absorbent of wealth, and with a very great improvement in commercial industry and enter prise, as the financial returns attest. Will the price rest permanently at par ? We ask will the price rest permanently at par, because we can imagine many reasons that will operate to suspend the upward progress for a season. But upon what ground is it to be assumed that the elastic move ment which has raised the public securities 12 per cent. in less than three years, will not continue its force beyond the present point? We confess that we can find - no such ground Capital will continue to increase beyond the means of employing it, so long as the commerce and manufactures of the country shall prosper ; public credit, if capable of improvement, will continue to improve, and the time may. thus be brought on when men, unable to obtain two per cent. upon any Other secure investment of money, will gladly take two-and-a-half or even two-and-a-quarter, through the purchase of public stock. Itis thus that the "Eight hundred millions inscribed on the wall," so much an object of terror a few years ago, will be effaced_ or regarded as an object of indifference. Twenty years more of European peace and of moral improvement at home would effect it all, and what are twenty years in the life of a nation? Our readers will scarcely think these reflections out of place when they consider the occasion of them. GLOBE.—It is no part of our duty to settle the relative . value . of the Standard's "authorised," and unauthorised," communications. Whether the latter .or the former be most deserving of credence, 'or Whether they be alike worthless, may be safely left to the discernment of the public, - aided by the experience which our Contemporary has supplied in the freqiient detections and exposures of his most confidently-affirmed and reiterated statements. The position which the Standard occupies with referenee.:to the National Board of Education in Ire land—the Irish clergy—and Sir Robert Peel, is evi dently one of considerable embarrassment. It has ,been positively and repeatedly affirmed, and is :generally believed, in Ireland, that Sir Robert reel has 'nth - aged that preferment will be, in „future, withheld 'from such "of the Irish clergy as persist in opposing - and counteracting the .operations,, of the national system of education in, that country. The Standard positively affirmed, ,with ,111 the confidence of authority, that there was not a single !word of truth in this statement. It now 1 sdmits that the contradiction, thus positively given, was not supplied by authority ; but still persists in i its truth: In the meanwhile the aspect of affairs sin Ireland tends to confirm the belief that some such determination has been come to by the Go vernment, and an explicit intimation thereof been made to those whom it specially concerns to comply , with it. The Parliamentary grant to the Educational Board in Ireland is increased ; and the 'allowance from the Ectilesiastical Conaniisaion to the parish clerks who act as schoolmasters in the schools, set up by the clergy in opposition to the Government schools, is withdrawn. But what is more remarkable, as confirmatory of the report which is reiterated by the Dublin Mail—the recognised, and generally ac ' curately informed, organ of" - the Ultra-Protestant party in Ireland, with which journal the statement originated—is, thatthe Government organ (the Dublin Pikiet) has - , ever since the report was published, em • ployed its most persuasive powers to effect an acquies , cetlee by the clergy with the supposed determination of the Government to maintain and extend the Na - tional System of Education. " A crisis has arrived in the affairs of the Church. The time has come when longer opposition to the National Schools t will be not only useless, but mischievous. Make , a virtue of necessity ; and submit with a good grace to that which, if an evil, is inevitable.' This, in substance, and almost in words, is the advice which the leading journal of the Irish Government addresses to, and urges upon, the truculent clergy with reference to the system of popular education they have endeavoured to counter act and destroy. In the last number of the Packet Iwhich has reached this country, we find the same subject discussed, and compliance with the Go vernment views. and purposes enforced, with increased earnestness. A few sentences will illustrate the al tered state of circumstances which the Irish organ of -the Ministry endeavours to impress on the clergy of the Established Church in Ireland : "Often as th e su bj ec t of National Education has at -- .4 , TITIIDE. — An En • glish merchant, of tracted the p u bli c m i n d, never was such engrossing in- CHINESE Gq terest . fixed upon it as at the present moment. We are the name of resided many years at Canton and deeply convinced that Yacao, where a.'sitClden reverse of fortune reduced him now, and . that the welfare of the Church of Ireland very there is a critical turning point from a state of affluence to. - the greatest necessity. A Chinese merchant, named c.l i hinqua, to whom he had for- s m e l l i f e a h t 4 t e lf*- f 7 a .c r e le a s nd difficult juncture. We are anxious, ends upon the manner in which she guides her therefore' merly rendered service, spat. fully offered him an im mediate loan Of ten thousand dollars, which the gentleman - io - n est e lo f ns th a i s s and fearlessly to discharge our duty as public monitor., to offer such practical suggestions flow accepte, and gave hii,bond for the amount ; this the from our' own most careful consideration mo- immediatidy threw into the fire, saying " When nientous question." you, my friend, fltsscame to China, I was a poor man, "it is seldom," says the wily inculcator of sub you took me by the-hand, and assisting my honest en- • miss- . on to the will of the powers that be—" it is . deavears, made Me :rich. Our destiny is new reversed ; seesom, alas . that a public man can act merely on 1 ace you pour, while laM blessed with affluence." The hystaiiders,i.ael the , abstract principles of what is best, per 4C. -:snatchel'the bond from the flames ; One point gentleman, tensibly affected "by • such werteresity pressed stems fixed—that Government will continue the his Chinese friend to take .) the eecurit which he did, ! National Board. All sides seem to agree on that. and then effectually destroyed , disciple of Con- Their resolution seems to gain force The and fixedness." fucius, beholdirr, oho said, h iveitld accept of hie distress it occasioned, Well, and what then ? Do systems change their ac a memorial of ei r or any little valuable, nature from evil to good as political parties rise and media tel'Y presented his watcb,lP. The gentleman - fall? Does the policy whiehwas fraught with mischief . n a n. nd ,, C2iinqua, in return,' .to the interests of - Protestantism, when administered gate him an old iron seal, say eI haitichiit wed, aopos i sgses Take this seal, it is ; a Whi g Government, become the source of blessing - laut,'as yeti-tire going to 'lndia to look o a l f n . t'insic value ' ' evlien acted upon by a Conservative Administration ? ,er your o w. Aletrupikceeneerris, should fortune further Let us ponder well the suggestions of the Government persecute you,• • draw n:ton - me fur any further sum ofmoney sou ma y scribe, who advises the most sturdy of the clerical op stau,d,inneed of sign it with your own hand, • and seal ponents of the National Board to consider their ways it settlk We s signet, and I will pay the money ."—I ' '• - • or es it and be " . . , " but, perhaps - , some will cry.out `shame 1' What FACTORIES BILL. While we will yield to none in zeal and determi nation for a Ten Hours' Factory Bill, as a measure for which the strongest case has been made out, and which has become the plainest national duty, we must, at the same time, be excused all the trammels of partizanship. We will not and cannot deny that the measure is attended with various risks; but only are we as sure as of anything in this world, that the performance of a national duty will not be followed by irremediable and immitigable evils. Time alone can show how far the measure will affect the profit able working - of the factories ; and time alone can show how far it will necessarily involve a proportionate or even more than proportionate reduction of wages. Let us hope for the best. It is the act of a whole nation that is called for; so all must expect to share in the possible sacrifice. Perhaps the nation will have to lighten the fiscal burdens of the manufac turer, the manufacturer to find himself not quite so able to meet sudden bursts of demand, and the operative's 'to be content with a rather lower scale of wages, though sufficient, and probably less fluctuat ing than under the present system. Meanwhile we will venture a few remarks, with a view to repress too sanguine expectations, and to show the depth of the question. Apart from some unnecessary aggravations, the must essential characteristic of factory labour—tedi ous mechanical drudgery—is as old as the world. Employment of mere manual strength and skill, is the portion of nearly all the human kind. There are perhaps few who have net, on entering life, a chance or two, an opportunity or two, of bettering their con dition and lifting their heads above the crowd. But few, however, avail themselves of these openings, and the mass subside into one great level of toil and sor row, which our'faith in the primeval curse compels us to expect ,must ever remain. Legislation may alle viate the miseries of this class—if only by undoing, in some instances, what it has done—but it cannot cure them. Such is the general helplessness and im providence, and perhaps we ought to add perverseness and degeneracy of mankind, that the mass will press into any employment which affords a regular and suffi cient subsistence, however miserable the subsistence, and miserable the employment. Times never were and never will be very much better in this respect. We will go hack to a very simple, age, long before the days of steam—before even the days of, the spinning-wheel. In the "Iliad" there is a most touching description, which might stand for the type of the wool-spinner to, the end of the world. The two armies having come to a stand still at the Grecian camp, neither party either advan cing or giving way, the poet likens their position to a woman, who works for daily wages and is true and just in her dealings, holding a pair of scales. She puts into them the weight and the wool she has spun, which she adjusts till the two scales are equally poised, that she may receive for her children the miserable, hard, and shamefully scanty pay,—for such is the force of the epithet employed. The in terest of this image is increased by a tradition men tioned in the most ancient life of Homer, that he is here describing his own mother, and that the genius which developed into the " Iliad" and the "Odyssey" was first cherished on the miserable, hard, and shame fully scanty pay of a female woolspinner. The Latin poet introduces another feature of the factory life in his list of the omens of a coming storm ; the spark ling of the lamps, and the heads gathering on the wicks, seen by the spinning girls at their night work : " Nee nocturna quidem carpentes pens puell Nescivere In the interior of Africa Mungo Park found the woman of the house, with the greater part of her. family, spinning cotton throughout a great part of the night, and lightening their task with songs, one of which is that extempore chant on the sad case off' the white stranger.they had taken in. The labour of grinding corn by the hand, imposed on females or on , captives, is uniformly described as being, what a de seription of the clurnsy process would certainly lead: us. to expect, a most cruel drudgery. At the present day, if we go into the villages of Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire, are shall often find nearly half the female population at the lace pillow, twirl ing their bobbins for many hours of candle-light at either end of the winter day.' The toil is so great, that it is scarcely possible-fur - " the , younger hands to sustain. it, .amid the . .diversions_ and distractions of"! home ; so they are. crowded into miserable little schools," where the light of four or five eta's sumptive-looking '" dips" is economically. transmitted and condensed thrOugh twenty glass bottle's to as . Many. lacemakers. A girl of fifteen must work hard to earn.half-a-crown a.week, and the sedentary natore.of the employment is said to give an unhealthy)] keenness to the appetite. In this case it is the-corn petition among the lacemakers themselves—the mense increase in their number—much more ; than 1 the . ; use .of _Nottingham net or any other externatl cause, which has lowered the remuneration` to that starving point. The lacemukers of Normandy work''] through a great part of the winter night - in .their''' stables, among the cows, whose fragrant breath and., huge warns bodies serve them for stoves., et ah this, we may say, is nature, at least a very slight: . portion of art ingrafted on rural life, certainly not.. the result of any great tyranny—no mighty soCial oppression--and almost utterly beyond the reach of. legislation. Why do we bring up' all this ? It" ri~ight; of course, seem to tell against us; but we have 'no fears on that head, and therefore only wished the truth to be seen as widely and deeply as the most unsparing research and the most self-denying 'can dour can make it. There are those who talls'en the great legislative question before Parliarrient,ai if all but continual drudgery was not the portion of man. It is his portion, and would not be so if it were not also his best and mo-t salutary portion. Nature: more than art is continually chaining man to the plough and the wheel : and nature works under a lord and master. Philanthropists who close their eyes to this great truth are sure, soon orlate, to defeat their own objects. - But civilization does also introduce its own evils, and those not the least. It is ; then, doubly incumbent on civilization' to mitigate, to diminish, to.soften man's necessary lot of toiland sor row. Whenever we meet with an enormous mass of sufrerin, brought to one head, with almost every eon ,- ceivable aggravation, -and that- in the midst of such wealth and pots er and luxury as the world has nO , 'where hitherto witnessed, there surely may be re cognized_a plain dtsty of national interposition. The "law cif surYtnring," as divines ha.V . e called it, may be pleaded for the : consolation o':* the sufferers,—for the oe.)asola:ion of nnauecessful benefactors,--but surely not in excise of wealthy, powerful; and luxurious apathy. What•we can do, we must .do. More than that is not Terired. 'Society shows- on its face a vast . superfluity or wealth and liawer,—enciugh to squander, enough to abuse; surely this - innntes - a possibility of relieving :that mass poverty anti labour with which it, Presents so Ofong, so strange a contrast.— TiaaeS% , - to go to his employment, and about nine, applicant was called in, and found the woman in her; parlour bleeding from a terrible gash in the throat. He had her conveyed to the hospital immediately. Mr. COMM said he could not see in what manner he was called upon to interfere. Long wanted to know what be was to do with the room in which she committed the act, which was co vered with blood. _ _ _ Mr. CoMBE ordered him to lock it up until the hus band's return. The applicant thanked the Worthy Magislate and left the Court. [The Reporter ascertained that the woman is sup posed to have committed the act in her own room on the second floor, as there is a large pool of blood there and a razor dyed with blood lying beside it. It would seem that she regretted the act soon after its execu tion, for she put a wet towel to the wound, and then, strange to say, walked down stairs to the parlour on the ground floor, which she entered. A woman who was sitting there was horror-3truck on seeing the gaping wound from which the blood was flowing; the unfortunate creature staggered and fell, but was placed in a chair and removed to the hospital. Her name is Maria Nave, and she is about twenty-eight of age. She has no children. Late yesterday even ing the Reporter called at the Royal Free Hospital, and was informed that she was still alive, in fnll pos session of her intellects, but in great pain. She had expressed her contrition for the crime, and a clergy man was obtained at her request. Her recovery was considered hopeless.] John Jones was charged with being concerned in stealing a gold watch, a gold chain, two gold seals, and a ring, the property of Mrs. Louisa Barnechini, landladyofthe Hole-in-the-Wall public-house, Kirby street, Hatton-garden. The prisoner and three others - went into the house of the prosccutrix on the previous day and called for some drink. The jewellery was lying on a desk be hind the bar, which had been left unattended for a few minutes. Immediately on the departure of the prisoners the property was missed. . Jones, who is an idle disorderly character, was arrested in the evening by Martin, police-constable 144 G. When the pri soner was apprehended he said he had attempted to destroy himself at London-bridge on Sunday evening, and that he would do for himself to-night.--Re manded. _ _ OUTIUGEOUS CONDUCT.—SIX labourers in Mr. Barlow's brick-fields, White Conduit-flelds, five of them named White, and a sixth named Pearson, were charged with assaults of a very aggravated character, on Mr. William Dennis, and on Mr. J. Price, builders, residing at Twyford Villa, Caledonian-road, Is lington. Mr. Price's face was bruised in a shocking manner; one of his eyes was quite closed up, his head was bandaged in consequence of the wounds which .had been inflicted on it by his brutal assailants. It appeared from the evidence, which was very voluminous, that on the previous day a little boy, in crossing the brick-fields, disturbed some of the sand 'which had been prepared by the prisoners. One of them; John White, followed the lad, and because he refused to return with them beat him cruelly, dashing him against the ground with all his strength. Mr. Dennis, seeing that the poor. lad was' fainting from the ill-treatment, told White to desist, but White immediately struck Mr. Dennis .on the, breast, and knocked him down. Mr. Price ran to the assistance of Mr. Dennis, but the other prisoners, and several other of their fellow-labourers, nut in custody, came running across the field in a body. They immediately attacked the prosecutors. Mr. Den nis received a blow on the head which rendered him senseless, and three or four other very severe hlows.on the chest. On recovering somewhat he ran into his own house, whicl-4 was hard by, but had no sooner reached it than his wife cried out " Oh, for God's sake go back, they are murdering poor Price." He returned with a stick, and saw five or six men beating Mr. Price, who was lying on the ground bleeding profusely from several wounds on the head. John White was crying out " Give it to the b—," and " Give me a knife and Twill soon knife him." A police sergeant came up; and Mr: Price was removed into his house, in a state of insensibility. Mr. GREENWOOD expressed his determination to send the prisoners for trial, and depositions were ac cordingly taken down. The case was, however, re manded for the attendance of the boy, who it is hoped will come forward. Two dissipated looking young men, named Henry and William Garden, were charged with the folloWing rageous conduct. . A decent -looking poor woman and her husband, re siding in' Milfield-place, Stoke Newington, were return ing hoine about twelve o'clock last night along the Lower-road. The wife caught hold of her husband's arm . to lean upon it. He in sport shook her off, telling her she had walked by herself all day, and must do so - then. At this moment the prisoners came up and made use of the grossest and most offensive language towards the couple.: The complainant desired them to go away, but they struckthem knocked the woman down, and kicked ber on the breast., The husband came to her assistance, and him too the prisoners felled to the ground, and treated him very roughly. Walker, 88 N, and several civilians came up, and the prisoners were with much 'difficulty secured. Two gentlemen named Laing and Grontage, who'sVit .nessed the occurrence, came forward and described the prisoners' conduct as very brutal. The complainant, when asked if he could account for the conduct of the prisoners, said the only reason he could assign was that they entertained. an old grudge against him on account of his resisting them in an at tempt to rescue a prisoner from the police twelve months ugo. The defence set up by the prisoners was that the male complainant struck their father; but . on investigating this allegation Mr. CONBE said that he believed it to be altogether a .fict NN i i t .m i e o rp u en s, sseo a nn n tme d necn t et h d a ju t tot i bit t, patiy gg o, a r ns ay . a fieu te oef d of lie 21 offence. each, r The P a ri m sP o n n e t r h s 's (e -rection. UNION-HALL. g a gl s :O a s m p a ir n ils from k v esse l i n th e river . was , *tight up, charged with T homas conv e yi n g c i s v m o u , The Excise officers being-on the alert the preceding afternoon observed a sailor lowering himself from the bows of a vessel into a boat abugside. When be gut into the boat,. the officers perceiving that he bad a largo bladder appareetly full of liquor underneath his jacket. rowed their boat towards hiin with the intention of securing him.. The prisoner, on seeing their object, pulled away with all his might to escape 14s pursuers, but, on finding they were gaining upon ilito, he jumped out of his boat into the river and swam towards the Stairs. • He, however, did not reach the stairs, but contrived to get into another boat alongside a collier, and jumped upon deck, at which time the officers secared him, but it was then found that the prisoner had very dexterously got rid of the bladder of spirits. Mr. TRAILL said that it was fortunate for the prisoner that the spirits were not foun d in his possession, for if i t had been, a conviction must have followed. The evidence g The e un i e n r co h m itu p h le e t d e up to his stdischarge.him being he was entitled his trousers, and seemed delighted to have escaped out of the clutches of the law. Another sailor named Johnson was charged with con veyiog smuggled tobacco.' This defendant, however, was not so fortunate as his fellow-prisoner. _ _ "Johnson, 'it appeared, was seen by Inspector Judge, Thames police, walking along Tooley-street wish some thing bulky underneath his jacket. When stopped and examined. Ms: of tobacco were found in his possession. The defendant, a stout-looking man, began to cry, saying that the tobacco was given to him, and that he was ignorant it was an offence to carry it along. Mr. MAUI. fins d the defendant 100/, and he was in formed that for any mitigation of the penalty he must petition the Lords of the Treasury. MARLBQROUGH-STREET. George Garrett and James Danford, a chandler's shop keeper, living at No. 2, Little Chesterfield. street, Mary lebone, were placed at the bar; the former charged with robbing his employer, Mr: Thomas W. Jefferies, of No. 39, Old Compton-street, Soho, butcher, and the latter With receiving the stolen property. It appeared that the prisoner Garrett was the pro-e -cutor's foreman, and such implicit trust was placed in him that he was allowed to transact the money and con fidential part of the business. Latterly, however, Mr. Jefferies's sister, who is residing with him as house keeper, suspected that Garrett was dishonest, and hay ing . placed herself on the watch, this morning she saw the prisoner Danford come to the shop at an early hour with a basket, the shop boy haling been sent out of the way by Garrett on a trifling errand. Garrett then proceeded to take pieces of meat, (one of them half of a salted t rUtind of beef) from different parts of the shop , w hich lw pu into Dunford's basket, an d he was going away ,with them when the police were called, and they were both . given into custody, on which Dunford offered to give a sovereign to soak the matter. The, prosecutor said from what be had sine ( ) ascer tained, he had every reason to believe that this system had been carried on for upwards of twelve months. The meat Dunford was carrying away was of the value of about 14s. 6d. The prisoner was fully committed. MAR YLEBONA. Bridget 11PCann, a young woman, was placed at - the , bar. charged with a series of aggravated assaults. The evidence went to show that the prisoner lodged with a Airs. Atkins, No. 4, John-street, St. John's Wood, and that she went into the latter's room yesterday even ing to pay part of her rent. Mrs. Atkins wanted the whole of it, when the prisoner got very abusive, and struck with great violence a young female who was sewing there. Mrs. Spell (Mrs. Atkins mother) came in to assist in ejecting the prisoner, when she was struck in the mouth, and tumbled down stairs. A policeman was sent for, and he on taking her into custody, was attacked in a very disgraceful and dangerous manner by her, and was now suffering from the injuries received. It was mentioned by Mr. Jones, the usher, that the prisoner bad been once before the Magistrate, on suspi cion of having caused the death of her husband, in a similar manner. _ The prisoner admitted having been in this Court on such a charge, but said she was belied, and that the case was dismissed. Mr. RAIi'LINSON said that it was 'very evident, from the seventy of her attack on the poli6eman, end her flip pant conduct before the, Court, that she was a dangerous woman, and nut sufficiently aware of the violence of her conduct, __die _shouldt thereforel endeavour to impress the fact up'M her. For the attack on each female she was fined 305.,0r, in default of payment, six weeks in the House of Coirection ; and he was sorry that, for her conduct -to the policeman, he could only inflict the penalty of 405.; or one month there.—The female. was then removed. John Turner, a „young lad, was placed before Mr. Rawlinsen, charged with having been drunk and an- noying Charlotte Thompson. The complainant said that some time since she had been keeping company with the prisoner, and he yester day came to her sister's house, where she resides, forced ,his way in,broke the kitchen door, and used the most infamous language to her. Fle did the same last Christmas. . A policeman was called in ; and he was given in charge. Police-constable 193 said he was bit in the hand, and tripped up by the prisoner. He had great difficulty in taking him to the station-house. • Mr. RAWLINSON—WeII, Sir, this is a queer way of making love . to the girl. Why do you go after her at all if she doe's not like you? I must fine you 20s. Prisoner•--I have no money. . Mr. RA.wmitpoN—Then you go to prison. GUILDHALL. Charles Freeman, otherwise Palter, was brought up in the custody of Daniel Forrester for re-examination, charged with uttering, at Messrs. Child's, the banker's, a forged cheque for 55/. 10s. 2(1., purporting to be drawn by Mrs. M'Pherson, of Cadogan-place, whose trustees have an account at the bank, and permit her to draw. The evidence already published was read over, to the effect that the prisoner presented the cheque as the busi ness was closing; that it was paid, after some scruples as to its genuineness, with three 101. notes, a 5L note, and the rest in cash; that the prisoner changed one of the 10/. notes' at a hatter's in the Strand, in payment for three hats; that two of the hats were sent to Mr. Kebble's, N 0.3, Dean-street,Sohn, where the prisoner was found by Daniel Forrester on Wednesday night last, the cheque having been uttered on the 12th of March. Daniel Forrester now stated that he could carry the case a little further, by tracing another of the 10/. notes to him, and shoring that he went to the banker's. Sir P. LAURIE asked the prisoner if any one was de fending him ?—The prisoner replied, no. Sir P. LAURIE asked if he meant to employ any per eon.—The.prisener said he could not afford to do it. Sir P. LAURIE asked if he admitted or denied the charge.—The prisoner replied he denied everything, ex cept that he bought the hats. eirP LAURIE, having looked at the cheque, expressed some surprise that it was paid, as there were inaccuracies in the spelling of common words. Mr. Shepherd, the banker's clerk, said there were • many such genuine cheques paid at banking-houses. The'imimtion of the lady's signature was good. Alexander Austen, a bookbinder, residing in King street, Long-acre, stated that he knew the prisoner, and met him about three weeks ago, about four o'clock, on a Tuesday. He said he was going to take some money, and should not be above five minutes. Witness accom panied him to the door of the banking-house close to Temple-bar, which the prisoner entered. Witness waited for him twenty-five minutes, and then left, as it began to rain. He saw the prisoner again the same evening, and was invited to be one of a small party; he intended to dine at the White Lion, Drury-lane. He accepted the invitation, and dined on the Thursday fol . lowing. Sir PETER LAURIE desired him, to state who was present. The Witness—There were Mr. Perry, a journeyman printer and comic singer; Mr. Kebble, a picture frame maker; Mr. Willett, a tailor; . Mr. Bartlett, a coffee house-keeper; and three others whom he did not know. Richard Watson, apprentice to Mr. Kebblee'deposed that he asked the prisoner about a fortnight ago to lend him a few shillings. The prisoner gave him a 101. note to get change, and he gut it changed at Mr. Rippon's, l i No. 400, Oxford-street, a licensed victualler. Mr. Rippon - identified a note produced by Forrester • from the Bank as the one he changed for Watson on the 16th ult., and Mr. Shepherd i:•lentified ,it as one of the notes he paid to the prisoner in cashing the furled cheque. Mrs. M'Pherson stated that the cheque was not signed by her. The prisoner was in her service for about a year, and left four months ago. She once sent him with a cheque for his own wages to Child's. A second charge was then entered into. Mr. Frazer, a clerk from Messrs. Child's, proved the pee/tent of a cheque for 35/. 16s. 9d., purporting to be drawn by Mrs. M'Phersou en the 19th of February. He did not remember who received it. He marked the num bers of the notes he paid on the back of the 'cheque. The 5L note produced was one of them. James Hodge, the landlord of the White Lion, Drury lane, stated that he changed the note produced for the prisoner on the 19th of February, and paid it on the same day to the brewer. He did not know the prisoner at the time, but found lie was known to a young man who frequented his house. He made the prisoner write his name and address on ,the buck of the note. Mr. Kebble, of Dean street, said he had known the prisoner from his boyhood. Be believed the cheque and the address on the back of the note to be in the pri soner's handwriting. Mrs. M'Pherson proved the cheque was forged. Sir PETER LAURIE inquired of the banker's clerk if the crime of forgery was increasing or diminishing? The witness said it was increasing. The prisoner boldly - denied that he had uttered either of the cheques. Sir Ecru LAURIE thought the charge was very clearly made out, and committed the prisoner for trial. EMPLOYMENT OP WOMEN IN AGRICUL TURE. In the course of the discussion which took place on Lord Ashley's amendment, cn Friday week, Sir R. Inglis said, " The supporters of the Ten Hours' pro position had been taunted with the sufferings of the agricultural population. They had been told of Eng lish women being kept labouring in the fields during seven or eight hours on a winter day, without the op portunity of change for clothing. He would be glad to hear the county pointed out in which that oc curred." We should be glad to know the agricultu ral county in which it has not occurred. If the Right lion. Baronet will only take the trouble to re fer to a report laid before Parliament last session, on the employment of women and children in agricul ture, be will find the following remarks, by Mr. Austin, relative to the female population of Dorset, Devon, Somerset, aid Wilts :-- " The clothing of women employed in field-labour would appear to be inadequate for their work; but th e deficiency is not complained of by them. A cange of clothes seeros to be out of the question; although neces .not only for cleanliness, but for convenience, end saving of time. The upper parts of the under-clothes of women at work, even their stays, quickly, become wet. through with perspiration, whilst the lower parts cannot escape getting equally wet in .nearly every kintrof -work they are engage in, except in the driest weather. It not unfrequently happens. that a women, on return ing home from work, is obliged to go to bed for an hour or two to allow her clothes to be dried. ..It is also by no means uncommon for her, if she does not do this, to put them on again the next morning nearly as wet as when she took them off. It does not appear that any ill conse quences to the health have been observed to arise from this cause, unless rheumat'sin be partly attributable to it." Here, then, is a statement as to the condition of female labourers in the agricultural districts which we would recommend to the special consideration, not only of Sir Robert Inglis, but of all those sup porters of Lord Ashley who have been so loud in their condemnation of the factory system, on ac count of the severe toil to which females employed in mills are said to be subjected. Mr. Austin seems inclined to believe the improbable statement, that working all day without a change of clothes has "no ill consequences to the health ;" hut there are others who hold a very different opinion. Thus we find, frown the report of Mr. Denison on the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk, and Lincoln, that, although all his informants (with one exception) agree that out-door labour is "conducive to health," the single witness to the contrary is perhaps more worthy of credit than the whole host of those who differ from him. The Rev. E. J. Howman, rector of Bexwell, in Norfolk, who is said to have paid great attention to the condi tion of the labouring classes, makes the following statement : "As as Ihave been able to form an opinion, lam satisfied thlt outdoor labour is prejudicial to the health of females ; and this opinion has recently received con firmation in the inquiries I have ravde on the subject amongst my medical friends. There are very few at the age of fifty ;4ho are not affected with rheumatism in its various shapes: A young man who has recently come from town to assist' one or our surgeons, was particularly struck with the prevalence of scrofulous complaints amongst the women." Much stress was laid by Lord Ashley and his sup porters on the ignorance of domestic duties among the females employed in factories ; but this evil we fear is one which prevails to quite as great an extent among the female population of Dorsetshire, and other agricultural counties, as it does in the manu facturing districts. In the report to which we have already referred, Mr. Austin, one of the assistant Commissioners, states that, " among the women of the agricultural labouring class, ignorance of the com monest things, nepdleworl,cooking, and other matters of domestic economy, is described as nearly uni versally prevalent. A girl brought up in a cottage, until she marries, is generally ignorant of nearly everything she ought to be acquainted with, for the comtbrtable and economical management of a cot- . tage." Mr. Awitin remarks, that in consequence of ! their ignorance of domestic economy, such girls are prevented from getting out to service. We rather fedr, that, even though they were ever so Well trained, it would still be impossible for them all to find situa tions in the country. The only two modes by which the great mass of them can earn an independent live lihood are in the field or in the factory. Lord Ashley and his followers seem resolved to exclude them from the one mode of occupation; but his Lordship obsti nately shuts his eyes to the obvious fact, that, by so doing, he would, in the first place, render the condi tion of the female population of Dorsetshire, and other agricultural counties, still more wretched than it is at present.—Manchester Guardian. The late Dowager-Countess of Clarendon has left by her will th 6 Penlline-Castle estate, near Cowbridge t - ) her husband's nephew, the present Earl of Clarendon and his heirs, on the demise of W. Flay ton Gwinnet, Esq., the . present possessor. are we to change our principles because a Tory Govern ment is in power ? Are we to veer about like weather cocks with the Ministerial gale, and call that right 1 under the guidance of Peel which we protested against I under Melbourne ?' All this is very tine in the way of clap-trap eloquence, and will go down with many as irresistible argumentation. But let declamation sleep for a moment, while reason speaks. Of course, prin ciple cannot charge with, or be the least affected by, ' the ruling Ministers ; but practical conduct must and oaght to admit of modifications from such considera tions." . . . . . • . • • • What was politic• and wise then (under the Whigs) is not so now. Every motive of prudence loudly suggests that it is only common sense to endeavour to make the best use of an institution, now that it is impossible to alter or suppress it, which it would have been most in expedient and impolitic to take any part in, as long as holding off seemed likely to produce such effects." Such is the advice which the Government, by the mouth of its servant, the Dublin Packet, addresses to the clerical opponents of the National Board of Edu cation. Is it not passing strange—assuming that there has been no change of purpose, from infirmity to de cision on the part of the Government in this matter — that simultaneous with a statement that a decisive course was henceforth to be adopted—which statement had no foundation in fact—there should be all this waste of argument by the Government organ to recon cile the clergy to a state of things which had really no existence ? On the supposition that the Govern ment means henceforth to give efficiency to its own system of education in Ireland, by removing obstacles which have hitherto retarded and counteracted its success, all is plain. On the contrary hyplthesis, everything is confused and contradictory. Will the Standard undertake to reconcile the discrepancies ? In the meantime, tha High Churchmen in this coun try see, in the ecclesiastical measures of Sir Robert Peel, everything to alarm their fears. The system of exclusive privileges, civil and religious, of which they are by education and habit the advocates, they con sider as perilled by his policy. The Church and State Gazette has for several weeks poured forth its anathemas on the Government, and especially on Sir Robert Peel. In consistency with the distrust of the Premier which that influential organ of the Ultras in this country has long inculcated, upon all who desire to preserve Protestantism in both countries from threatened ex tirpation, 'we find in its leading articles of Saturday last, the tocsin of alarm sounded in the loudest notes. In one article we read :—" The Church, the House of Lords, the Monarchy, must all abide the furious trial. They may yet be saved ; but not by the policy adopted by Sir R. Peel. That is certain de struction to all ! Under it the House of Commons will become omnipotent, and, as in times past, will break down and trample upon the other forms of the Constitution." . CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. The Recorder sat in this Court and disposed of a num ber of cases of larceny, the details of which were of no public interest. In the course of the day the Grand Jury came into Court and returned the following kills, having reference to the alleged will forgeries :- 1. A true bill against William Henry Barber, Joshua Fletcher, William Saunders, and Georgiana Dorey, for felony. 2. A true 11-agamst the Gape' parties. 3. A true In to ihe - sdne: " 4. A true bill 'against Barti-'it, - Fleteltand Dorey. 5. A true bill against Susannah - Richards, Barber, Fletcher, and Dorey. . G. A true bill against these same prisoners. 7. A true bill - against Lydia Saunders, Barber, Flet cher, W. Saunders, and Dorey. 8. A true bill against all the above-mentioned pri soners. 9. A true bill against Dorey, Barber, and Fletcher. 10. A true bill'against the same prisoners. It will be seen that no bill has been returned against Griffin, and it is expected that he will be admitted a witness for the Crown. SURREY QUARTER SESSIONS. REIGATE.—ApriI 9. The general quarter sessions for the county of Surrey commenced to-day, at the Town-hall, Rei gate, before J. W. Freshfield, Esq., Chairmin ; IL Kemble, Esq., M.P. ; J. W. Denison, Esq., M.P. ; Sir R. Frederick ; C. Barclay, Esq._; A. K. Barclay, Esq. ; T. Puckle, Esq. ; H. Gorse, Esq. ; G. T. Nicholson, Esq. ; and a number of other Justices. FEES OF COURT. The usual routine business having been disposed of, Mr. JEFFREY, upon the report of the Visiting Jus- . tices to the county gaol being presented for confirma tion, •said he begged leave to bring to the notice of the Court a subject which he considered of very great im portance. He held in his hand the jaetition of a person named Ward, who complained that, being arraigned upon a charge of misdemeanour, and ac quitted, he was compelled to pay a fee of 10s. 6d. for his discharge. The petitioner complained bitterly of thiS proceeding, and of the hardship of a poor man being compelled to pay a heavy fee, after he was declared innocent of the charge made against him. He (Mr. Jeffrey) would not waste the time of the Court by any remarks upon the injustice of this" course of proceeding. He believed that the question had before arisen, and that the only plea urged in favour of the continuance of the practice was, that it had existed for a great many years, that the fee had been sanctioned by the judges, and that in point of fact a prescriptive right had been obtained. The matter had, however, been brought before Parliament, arid the Secretary of State for the Home Department had declared the practice to be illegal, and to amount almost to the offence of extortion at common law. Mr. Jeffrey then read an extract from a speech made by Sir J. Graham in the Houie of Commons, in which he declared all such fees to be ab origine illegal, and said that the order of the Court of Quarter Sessions sanctioning such fees, although they might justify persons in taking them, could not render them legal ; and, considering it a great hardship upon defendant, he felt it his duty to bring the subject before the Court. He believed that in Middlesex the practice of taking such fees had been abolished, and he thought it was high time that the same course should be adopted in the county of Surrey. The CHAIRMAN said he believed it had been the custom from time immemorial to take these fees, and this was the difficulty the Court would have to get over. Mr. JEFFREY said, that although this 'Might be the case, in his opinion it was illegal, and the Court were bound to interfere and stop such proceedings in future. The Cssapts ! taer said that if the fees were illegal, they could not be enforced. Did Mr. Jeffrey mean to make'any motion upon the subject ? Mr. JEFFREY said his Only object, on the present occasion, was to bring the *natter before the Court. He thought it monstrous, and contrary to every prin ciple of justice, that a poor Mau, who was acquitted of the charge made against him, should have to pay a heavy fee for his discharge. Mr. DAWSON concurred with the Hon. Magistrate, that it was a hard and cruel case for a poor man to be compelled to pay such a fee. A complaint of a simi lar nature had been made some years ago, and a me morial was submitted to the Secretary of State. He believed that there was, at present a Committee of the House of Commons sitting, for the purpose of con sidering the question of those fees, and whether it would not be• better to substitute a salary in lieu of them. As to their legality, he could not admit that an opinion of the Secretary of State ought to be of snore avail than the order of Quarter Sessions. Mr. KEMBLE wished to know who received those fees, and how they were applied ? By a paper which he held in his hand they appeared to be divided be tween the crier of the Court, the jury, and the sum moning officer. The Deputy Clerk of the Peace said that he had nothing to do with those fees. They were received by the crier, and he could explain how they were ap propriated. Mr. KEMBLE said this what he desired to know, and he put the question to the crier of the Court. . The Crier replied that ha believed the fees in ques tion had been taken for a great many years, and for 40 years he had taken them under the authority of the Court. The money was divided between the jury, the summoning officer, and himself. Mr. KEMBLE—An d these feei were received under the authority of the Court ? The Crier said they were. The CHAIRMAN inquired what was to be done upon the subject. Did Mr. Jeffery mean to give notice of any motion ? At present the discussion was pre mature. Mr. JEFFREY said he thought the matter was one of very considerable importance, and he should cer tainly give notice of a motion to take the subject into consideration at the next session. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) - CLERKEIV (YELL. I,SIIOCIUNG . OCCURRENCE. Yesterday morning when Mr. COMBE took his seat on the bench, a re spectable looking man, who seemed to be labouring under great excitement, came before the Magistrate, requesting his advice. Ile said his name was Long; that he was in the employment of Messrs. Ashton and Berwick, under takers, Gray's Inn-road. On that morning, about nine o'clock, a woman cut her throat in his house, No. 3, Robert -street, Bedford-row.. She was not dead, but nearly so. Mr. COMM inquired where she was ? Long—She is at the Gray's Inn-road Hospital. The surgeon told me there was no hope of saving her life. Being further interrogated by the Magistrate, the applicant stated that the unfortunate woman - is , the wife of a gentleman's servant, and that herself and husband have been lodging with him for a consider a'ele time. On Monday last they had a quarrel, but up to that time they lived very happily together. Yester o'Oock_, the husb and left home_ day.mornin at eight PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 9. Dividend per Amount Aimnum. Names of Com panies. Share. Paid. {Peer. Canal 3. Ashton and Oldham... £ s. d. 97 19 0 113 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 Z it. 41. Ashby-de : la-Zouch..av . -- Basingstoke Brecknock & Abergay Birmingham, 1-I(ithsh Do and Liverp. Julie --$ 15 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 ( 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 133 0 0 100 9 0 100 0 0 10) 0 0 DX) 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 17 - 2 13 4 100 0 0 150 0 0 57 6 6 -r 100 0 0 Chelmer & BlaCkwater Coventry . Crom foid Dudley Derby Danube and Mayne Ellesmere and Chester 4! 13 4 Erewash leo o Forth ::nd Clyde Grand Junction Grand Union Grand Surrey - jOO 0 0 Grand Westrn ... C;Lunorgamb., ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersficid ..... ....av Kennet r.ad Avon ...av 59 18 10 Lancaster TV Leeds and Liverpool—. 47 6 8 100 0 0 110 0 0 Leicester Leicester it Northamp. 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SL 12s. 2/. 103. 2/. 193. V. 103. apes cent. 41. 163. lh 144. 106. per sh IL is. per cent tL We. Ss. per sh. fitl. ss. perch itlti per sh lo per cent ?}C, per cent. ss. per sh 2341. per oh. Itts. per eh. 4 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 10r cent. 11. per sh 101. per oh. 1/. 14s. Sl.per share Ss td per sh 9/.175. pr sh 113 s per ch 14 IL - 10 s. 1,. ss. 11. 111. 10d. 15 per cent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent.. IL 11. 31. I 7& 6d. 1; , Oper cent. 10s. per eh. 11. 104 per sh. IL 48. 1L Iss. f per cent. b per cent. 6 per cent. fle. and? ke.6d. be. tper cen t. :per cent. a 44 per cent t•per cent LIST OF SCOTTISH COM] APRIL 1, 1 Bank of Scotland...— Royal Bank British Linen Comply Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Bank Central Pk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance. Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scott Edinburgh Life Insur. Scottish Unionlnsur tper cent. j Standard Life Insur tiler cent. Dalkeith Railway 2 k per cent. Edin. and Glas. Railwy 214 per cent Glasg. and Green. Rail. ' Dundee:and Arltr (per cent. tper c-nt. 'per cent. per cett, per cent. ( pet cent. per cent. eper cent. ;percent. N per cent. 1 per cent. I (per ce2t. PROLIFIC FAMILY.---A person on Bolton Moor, named William Fiitcroft, received, on the 24th ult., the following additions to his family, within the space of two hours:—two children, eleven pigs, four whelps, and three. kittens,—in all, twenty-one.--Bolton Free Press. All paid 00 98 b o 9 3 0 0 58 00 100 0 0 78 8 0 67 10 8 105 0 0 110 0 0 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 Stock 59 0 0 50 0 0 83 2 8 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 500 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 LO 0 0 1000 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock 100 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 50 0.0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 44 Stock 100 0 100 0' 0 200 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 e 10) 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 • 2S 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 20 0 0 Ti 10 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 I 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 • 25 0 0 SO 0 0 50 - 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 25 0 0 NO 0 41 13 4 100 0 • SO 0 0 100 0 0 63 12 9 100 0 0 100 • 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 111 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 70 0 0 SO 0 0 100 0 0 23 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 12 0 0 50 0 0 1100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 100, 0 0 2 0 0 32 0 0 32 0 0 !1 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 0 50 0 0 50 0 A 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 70 0 0 SO 0 0 40 0 0 7 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 I 1 40 • 0 45 0 0 15 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 SO 0 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 31 0 13 10 0 100 0 0 25 0 ( 1150 0 0 150 0 0 35 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 21 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 6 75 0 0 7 10 0 7 10 0 40 0 0 13 0 0 55 0 0 20 0 0 10 10 0 3 0 0 59 0 0 7 0 0 000 55 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 6000 25 0 0 5000 25 0 0 40 0 0 130 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 t 10 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 100 7 0 100 - 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 SO 0 0 3310 0 32 10 0 100 0 0 15 0 5 0 0 .5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 3 0 0 14 0 0 1 10 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 0 75 0 0 26 0 0 50 0 0 50 - 0 9 100 0 0 2.5 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 PAN lES' PRICES 844. 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 0 25 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 6 6 55 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 210 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 250 0 0 All paid 2 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 C 50 0 0- 10 0 9 5 13 0- 10 0-0: 2 0 '1)- 12 10. 0 12 10 . 2 10 0 2 0.0 1 1/.0 10 n 10 5 - 0 0 6 5 0 R 0 • O 0 O 0 O 0 .... 00 28 - 8 0 100 0 0 75 0 31 5 0 ttli 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 b 20 0 0 30 0 0 see 0 80 0 25 0 0 48 0 0 10 0 0 2500 MARKET NEWS-YESTERDAY ECAYMAIZICETS. EmininELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 31; ful ditto, 3l 5s to 3/10s ; fine Upland ditto, 3/ 12s to 3/ 16s ; Clover Hay, 315 s to 5l; Oat Straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 8s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 10s per load. Supply c ery limited, and trade dull. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2116 s to 3/ 3s ; useful ditto, 3l 5s to 3l 12s ; fine Upland ditto, 31 13s to 4/ ; Clover Hay, Si 5s to 4l 15s ; Oat Straw, 117 s to 1110 s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 12s per load. A moderate supply, and a heavy demand.. _ WIIITECHAPEL.-Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 3/ ; useful ditto, 31 3s to 3/ lOs; tine Upland ditto, 3l 12s two 31 16s; Clover Hay, 3/ 5s to Si ss; Oat Straw, 1/ 6sto 1/ 8s; Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ lOs per load. Both Hoy and Straw sold heavily at the above quotations. COLONIAL. 107 3"' 65 620 125 15,2 11185 14 82 VS 141 1200 155 100 117 360 365 1r.C214 24U 62 120 140 1'72 122 :36% 112% 101% The Colonial markets being shut we have nothing to report under this head in regard to them, but we•give the stocks in the port of London. ' SUGAR.-April 1, 1844, British Plantation 4,790 hhds 467 tierces, against 8,317 hhds 1,099 tierces at the same time in 1843. The stocks of all other descriptions are larger than at this time last year. The deliveries of British Plantation are larger this year. Those of Bengal. have fallen off. The home consumption of British Plan tation from the East and West India Docks, last week was 466 hinds 12 tierces 147 brls. 21 3 17 3 24 72 ISX 5% 16 S 1 400'`,! COFFEE—British Plantation, April 1, 1844, 2,051 hhds, 1,573 barrels and bags, against 3,331 hhds, 2,024 barrels atld bags at the same time last 'year. ThO stocks ofForeign and East India rather larger than at this time last year. The consumption of Er:tisli Plantation has increased. 11.135. 140 . .48 I 63 ' 1 IE6 .5-, ,16}116 170 205 12% Ito 16% 14 34% 4)% 25 L u g 20 24 120 93 36 22 7i 22 22 66 13 25 WJ7 81 56 60 RUM.—April 1,1844, 11,704 punF, 2,821 hhds, against 17,238 puns, 5,229 hhds at the same time in 1843. TALLow.—P.Y. Candle, is 40s 2d to 41s per cwt on. ;he spot, and town 435. TVA.—The market is dull. X 7234 25 123( 65% IIN 4 57 25 2&S 20 Si . 6 10 30s inn 4 4 ther give way in price, but the demand hhsi;;;;:linite a. privately, and 329 bags of Trinidad at auction onlf partly sold ; low red at 48s to 49s ' Middling 508 6d t o 51s, and 45s to 46s per cwt for sea damaged. Of Foreigil some parcels sold privately at 28s 6ifto 29s 6d per cwt holders show firmness, and none ha been brought tO. MARRIED. On the 16th ofJanuaryi at St. George's Church, Cal„- a pp-i Cape of Good Hope, Thomas William Green, Esq., to Jane, youngest daughter of the late A. Barker, Pei': Waterford, Ireland. A hc o' On the 4th inst., at St. Mary's, Hornsey, George ,o— htst Esq., of Sewardstone, Essex, to Eleanor, eldest daug' Charle:. Perrott, Esq., of Highgate. m r . On the sth inst., at St. Olave's, Hart-street, -.: 0 01 13 -, Hurst, only child of the late Jr seph Hurst, Esq., of ''''rri l oOr ton-place, to Helen, second daughter of Mr. Thoralls '- son, of Mark-lane. e /o bis On the 6th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-stit, a , r ,;l. Lawrence, Esq., of Brunswick House, Windsor, to daughter of Henry Saunders, Esq., Winchester Toler' 14 sor Caste f of 10 On the 6th inst.., at Head:ev, Thomas Lacy, 4) „btef arms-yard, Esq., solicitor, to Marianna, eldest datt,f. Captain Gustavus Evans, R.N., of Headley-gu'.% --- ---- DMD. - • , i ' 9 44 On the 6th inst., at Homerton, William Roberts° - ' , late of Kindence, Ross-shire, North Britain, aged B ., ° ',: c sac l ' On Else 24th of January, in camp at Gwalior, I'''''.- • et Macqneen, Esq., M.D., of h: r Majesty's 3d Foot. „0011„ On the 30th of January last, in camp, near 1 , .....,,au' 0 fic1b . Charles, youngest son of W. J. Thompson, Es(l-,. / !,, ,d square, of the 36th Madras Native Infantry..P 'tt"..t' JP' On the 12th of February, at Calcutta,if,l.t.: r - • 10 William Henry Pownall, aged 27. - - 4 .. Ch et On the 22d of February last, in Boml4Y, Captain . f Denton, of the Company's Service. 944' On the 18th ult., at Tours, Anne, wife of R. Rove* Stratford-grove, Essex. 'Ea t and Rev elef On the 29th ult., at Hast in g s, the Rty:,.-- ~noef Mitford, aged 32. On the 31st , ult., at Inchbrayock, near Montrosetreasi the wife of Major-General Archibald Watson, a the - Light Cavalry, ---f-------; 174 169% 422 21 84i 17% 1 4% 50 London: Printed and Published by 1411;1WO It' v r„ 1 1 '; No. 112, Strand, Printer, .at: he &ft' CEce• 12 1 Strand, in the Precinct of iho Savoy, in the Cel'W biiddlesex, Wednesday April 10, 1844. _ ~. (From the London New Price Current of April 9.) SuoAr..—There has been more activity in the home • consumption Sugar market, and prices have assunied'aa upward tendency for all descriptions ; for West - India the •prices paid were 6d above those previously quoted. for common yellow and brown, and Is per cwt . higher for bright yellow and strong refining sorts. iII."FINED.—To-day Refined Goods brought. lii.g)ler. rates, brown groccry lumps selling at 765, and standitrd lumps 775, per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar ranch. wanted, and is not to be procured under 26s per cwt. - •.2"- - • -24 2 ,kuatwitts.— A good demand has sprung up for 'nlE.:- d.eseOPtionti.and prices have advanced is to is 6d cwt. To=day s. , me parcels were sold privately at ratha 7 : higher rates, low to Middling yellow 59s to 645, good*.i-t;.•• fine 65s to 68s, anti brown 56s to 58s 6d per cwt. .!EAST INDIA.-'-Fur some Parcels of Madras full'..rattS: given by private treaty. JaVa.has been more in reeinOt privately. -_Manilla yellow at 18s 6d to 20s, and bri*Tr, 17s to 18s per cwt. To-day several purchases were maga ;; privately in Bengal, and prices are looking up; cominOra white 625't0 62s 6d, middling 63s to 645, good to fl 655 t0 . 68s per cwt. Fo.it*N.—Since our last report, the market haslire sented a firm appearance for all descriptions of Foreign , • 'disposition and none has been brought to public sale• tegood. 'ililposition has been shown to purchase yellow Ilt:Vannah. but holders asking higher prices, btisineis has been re- , 'Stricted. -T-his afternoon, several inquiries existed for- Foreign Sugar, and a floating cargo of Bahia was sold ;for the Balite; et 19s for brown, and 22s 9d per cwt fur s , • MOLASSES.—FOIt India rather lower te,tes lac' • ,eepted. Trinidad at 25e-fid,,Antigua, 27s 6d, Demerara ,ss, and imported indirect 24s to 24s 6d per cwt for goo& c - _quality. Bengal Molasses ailYs'to lis per;iwt. Fly ~1-loney has brought full rates, btiflaferior is cheaper. • COFFEE.—There has been little - a*sire.shoWn to Tur" chase West India Coffee since Tuesdayliat4:plean - quali - : ties ' of which the supply is still scanty, htifsttistintamed • the former value, but for unclean kinds pric'esktotegivers .• way. To-day the market for all descriptions of ,P,cge,e' was in a flat state, and prices are still going down-if . ,q: , o Ceylon ; good ord selling at 58 s to 59 s_ per cwt ; tat?? largo quantity to arrive cause the trade - to operate with much caution. COC:',A.—lmporters of West India have refused to fur- _ - public sale. TEA.—Since Tuesday last the_ market has presented a firm appearance for all descriptions of Tea ; purchase s to a fair extent have been made iii - black and green, WI full rates paid. Common Congoii,'cash, - has fetched good common is OAd to is old, Twankay, ordinal Is 2d to Is 3d, and Hy son common 2s 2d to 2s 4d per lb- To-day several parcels of Tea :Were disposed of. and the rates paid show a slight adranCe on those of the 101 public sales for the lower kinds ; common and g sound common Congou, cash; sold at Is old to is ur per lb. RICE.—The fine weather and the kite dull state of the Wheat market operates against the demand * fli t Bengal Rice : few purchases made privately, and peg" ° are looking down, mid white selling at Its 3d to Lis and good 12s per cwt none has been submit to public competition. For Java the demand has hen only for small parcels at lOs to . lOs 6d mid, and I is to Ils 6d for good mid white, being Tatte r cheaper. Madras has - been taken sparingly at 95 Ws 6d per cwt for yellow. In Patna the operations er e upon a small scale only at 14s 6d 4 to 18s, and Carolin a ' has been taken sparingly at 21s to 26s per cwt. To-OS, 1,000 bags Madras Rice Was sold privately at 9s pert!' for yellow. SAGO.—Prices are still looking down for this artio let the demand being limited and supply large; ordiseli e f, 13s to 14s, middling 15s to 16s, 'and good to fitieler , '", m . 20s per cwt. Sago Flour is scarce, and 215 to cwt paid. To-day svine parcels a common Pearl were sold sold privatilly at 15s per cwt. Ittir, BnANDY AND HoLLANDS.—Jamaica stiff rates; 30 to 32 per cent overproof has Melted to 3s 7d, 33 t 037 over 3s 8d to 3s 11d, fine 4s lb 4ssr" and superior rather highcliavoured - 5. s to 6s per -0 11( : ) : 1 ; P Demerara at 33 3d to 3s 5d for 35 to - 37 per cent.: o, Leeway's 2s 2d to 2s . lid . paid for poor, 7; mitts, Rum at is Ild proof, with certificate. For iitail".` holders display firmness Cognac, best brands Oa: vintage of 1838, hhds 5s lid, puns 5a 9d ; 1839, V I 5s 9d, puns 'ss 7d ; 1840, lihds 5s 7d, puns 5s 5d I hhds 5s 6d, puns 5s 4d ; 1842, hhds 5s sd, -puns mid marks 3s 6d to 4s Rd, and low 2s 10d to 3 8 :6$ Geneva for exportation•at is 8d to is ".9d ' • fine pale for duty is 2s 2d to 3s per gallon. English Corn Spa' is firm. • - • for INDIGO.—There has been a good export demand; 4 East India since Tuesday last ;, several purchases been made by the home • trade, and the rates paid 8.,. an advance on those of the last quarterly sale of sdk lb for all descriptions. OILS.—For Linseed Oil for immediate delivery. P g %e1 :, 4 8 have an upward tendency ; 27s to 27s 3d paid for i!,if e , parcels on the spot. Rape Oil in excellen t. : mend, pale selling at . 39s to 398 6d, o. o a , brown 38s to 38s 6d per cwt. For Olive of higher prices again paid, Gallipoli fetching 521, og 50/ to 511, Spanish 49/to 50/, and Barbary 481 to 481 per tun. Cocoa Nut Oil at 30s to 32s per cwt. F 64 Oil at 28s for good, 27s 6d for mid, and 24s to 26 0 for low and very common quality. Sperm Oil at 76 1 ,40 76/ lOs per tun for prime British. Headmatter mune. request. For common Fish Oils rather lower P -1 0,0 taken for all sorts. Pale Seal at 341 5s to 34/ 11 05 , Southern sold at 291 lOs to 29/15s, very low dark 27'' and Newfoundland Cod at 33/ 15s to 3 4 / 1 5S per too., • TALLow.—To-day a good business was teansactt,upt P.Y.C. for delivery in the last three months of this all ° 1 01 the first two months of next year at 425 to 42s 3d ; b a W , the spot the demand was dull—prices vary from 405 1 7 6 0 41s per cwt, according to quality. The accounts • St. Petersburgh state that prices had advanced for; low, and the supply will be less than last aeitiotl.,c Friday, 353 casks of American Tallow will be subsea to public competition. t • .EcoN ~dll be 41 OZAI *026 p c 'Vo cal 11 ' 1,1 Sig ••• 18. T e r Warelib d of the 11 4. L j nes this cow have b e , Dr .edtlet 1831 . " . 183 s The b e zl ° ,, e rY 2/ e . Riv . 3 or 49/ r 14. 1 13 '' nft . Arm' irc Arese:utt Ares ether mcers ".. .b e 0: ,„, Li A ~„ r. • wane te nsonan other ads n Pefer r , ' tim 4 Ile p i . kited • a Te n al o n foill 1 to public competition. 40 I - .-- 1-."-----------..-- ---a,.-.........r..-.----.-.....7.....-.....-ac--. BIRTHS. , I 0 , ;14 On the 31st ult., at Hamburgh, the wife of Cap t . Martin, Mexican Vice-Consul, of a daughter. • '' o gf 6 On the 4th inst., at Upper Seymour-street, Euston -01 l'i Mrs. Taylor, of a son. - ..1 et -0 1 On the 4th inst., at Reading, the lady of Majo:: 11 - 1 " ; , 1 C. 8., Tickell, Bengal Engineers, of a son. • - v .,...', fi ol° On the 4th inst., at Chester, the lady of SW L" 4 Walker, of a son. • ".. o l' • On the sth inst., at John-street, Berkeley:scuare! ' A ,. Harry Surman, of a son. :„.01, Of On the sth inst., at Kilburn, Mrs. Edward Hodgkin a daughter. . • A. 01 . ' 4 ' , On the sth inst., at Henlow, Bedfordshire, the Ir- - 78 Stuart, Esq., of a daughter. a. tte t On the 6th inst., in Montagu-place, Bryanaton-squa t lady of H. I'. Lipp, , , Esq.,'of a son. . - ...,,.' the • 'l4 On the 6th inst., at Gordon-plaze,•.Tavistock-sqw"' li lady of John Fenton, Esq., of a son,. , 4tocY On the 6th inst., at St. John's-terrace, Park-road , "' well, the lady of the Rev. A. Walbaum, of a daughte_l::>/ 1,10,.