The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-04 00:00:00

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 25 minutes after 51 Evening 42 minutes after 5 On Thursday, January 10, in 3 vols. post Bvo. TOVE'S EXCHANGE; a Tale. By CHARLES BOYLE, Esq. " Sit you down, And let me wring your heart !"—Hamlet. Just published, THE HUGUENOT. 3 vols. By G. P. R. JAMES, Eq. London : Longman, Orme, and Co. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 40 minutes past Three a' Clock. _ 1 'r i g ' " - , , . ,-c t i l. _ 4 *, e .-- - 7 . 3 ._ _ ..._ j f. , 4 .....• i i:.., ...., A., : 2 .. , j ~..,;31. . .. -,........ )1t:11. WITH WHICH THE " TRUE SUN" IS NOW INCORPORATED. LONDON : FRIDAY EVENING JANUARY 4, 1839. Mr. STEPHENS is committed, and held to bail in 1,0001., and two sureties in 5001. each. His income has been stated to be 2001. a year ; as a Dissenting Minister, supported chiefly by the poorest classes, he cannot have more than 3001. a year. In the one case the whole bail is equal to ten years of his income, and in the other to his income for six years and two-thirds of a year. We consider this bail to be excessive ; con trary to the Bill of Rights ; and, being levied by a class to whom Mr. STEPHENS is opposed, to be most unjust. The Bishop of CLOGHER, with an income probably of 5,0001., was held to bail in the tenth part of one year's income, for an infamous moral offence. Such contrasts, occurring as they do every day, and on every Bench, disgust every reasonable man with the law, which is obviously the mere instrument of party purposes and class tyranny. We write this much less with reference to the indi vidual than to the general principles which, if violated in the persons of those who decry the Poor-law, may be equally violated in the persons of those who decry the Devil's laws. One country gentleman has already referred to his company of Yeomanry as a ready means of putting down those who may be driven by hunger to seize food ; and now we have other gentlemen send ing a man to gaol for speaking against what he also calls a Devil's law. We mean to make no apology for the language Mr. STEPHENS is accused of using ; we abhor violence of all kinds ; but we know not how the organized and systematic vio lence of the law, the cold crafty scheme of putting down all opposition, and all difference of opinion, by the bayonet, can be counteracted, and mankind rescued from the worst kind of slavery, if all vehement censure of the law, whatever may be its scoundrel origin and its diabolical design, is also to be stifled as dangerous within the walls of dungeons. We have great respect for the lives and properties of the Lancashire gentlemen, but we do not think they will be secured by the legal war they have renewed against the expression of opinion. Though the Scots man—the mild, calm, reasonable, thorough Whig Scotsman—qualifies its general doctrine in the case 'STEPHENS, on the unfair and partial reports which have been published of that gentleman's speeches, we hold to its general doctrine, and assert that it will be as dangerou s to violate it in the case of STEPHENS, and perhaps mOre dangerous than in the case of any except Mr. O'CorrstELL. The other man living, if W. , Scotsman of Wednesday Nst says— " We are of those who would allow to every man the utmost license of tongue and pen consistent wit'd the public safety. The fiery materials imbedded among the people are less likely to explode when left to burn openly ; and the liberty to say extravagant things belongs, we think, to a free and advanced state of society." The attack on Mr. STEPHENS is a denial of the liberty of saying what his enemies assert are extrava gant things ; it is an attempt to compress the volcano, instead of allowing it to burn itself out, and it will add, we dread, very much to the danger. Much evil has al ready arisen from the local attempts to distort Mr. STE- WilENs ' S speeches, and prevent the public from acquir ing a knowledge of his objects, opinions, and influence. Of the examination before he was committed we have nothing to say, for it was little more than swear ing the iwo former witnesses to the truth of their de positions, ai:d bringing forward another witness, who deposed, without having taken notes, to some very strong and unwarrantable expressions used by Mr. STEPHENS forty-nble days after they were spoken. It is a rule of law to require the best evidence, but .the committing Magistrates seem to despise the lades, when they have a purpose to serve, of their own grimgribber. At prese nt the art of reporting is al most perfect, and the reporter can swear to his notes and the words he takes down. With this known im provement in common use, for giving accurately what a man says, it is as unjustifiable to com mit a man on the evidence of memory, at such an iin;erval, as to commit him on hearsay. The Magis trate.s have not sought for the best evidence, and taking this in conjunction with their haste to commit, as said to be avowed on a former day by Mr. KEN WORTHY, with the excessive bail they have demanded, .and with the known feelings of hostility which per wade their class, we are bound to say that the whole 100.eeeding looks more like an act of inquisitorial malice and persecution than of fair and even-handed justice. " The facts elicited at the examination of Mr. STE PHENS," says the Scotsman, " particularly as to the possession of arms by large bodies cf the operatives — 'when taken in connection with the threats so frequently offered and the actual outrages committed--Jemand the most rigorous vigilance on the part of the author rities." These facts have generated great alarm, and the alarm colours, if it does not dictate, the decision of the Magistrates. But in what way is Mr. STEPHENS responsible for those facts ? Has he ground down the bulk of the people to the lowest stage of penury and dis tress? Is he the author of the Corn-laws ? Has he filled the hearts of the working classes with a thorough hatred of those laws and the Poor-laws ? Has he made the Legislature an object of general mis trust and contempt ? No. But he is to be punished because the mass of the people have such feelings, and are preparing to act on them. The real authors of such feelings are the land-owning law-makers, whose deeds are set forth by the writers in the Times and the 1-Jerald, in The Sun and the Scotsman, in the Morning Chronicle and Manchester Guardian, by Ebenezer Elliott and Cob 'Thompson ; and they ought to be punished for these feelings of the people, and for their collecting arms, as well as Mr. STEPHENS. We are aware how very difficult it is to distinguish in the combined emotions of terror and anger arising in the Magistrates and factory owners from such disclosures as those alluded to, and from conceiving that Mr. STEPHENS may have been the parent of the facts ; but at the same time we affirm , in the name of justice, that the analysis must be made, and that Mr. STEPHENS must be tried only for his own acts, and not for the feelings and acts of the con gregated masses amidst whom his lot is cast. He must not fall a victim to the Magistrates' and gentlemen's terrors. In the language of warning, the Scotsman says, speaking of the Corn-laws—but we beg leave to apply it to the case of Air. STEPHENS and the Chartists— " Already are the means of violence organized, and the Pile is ready for the torch. Open insurrection may be put down by the strong arm of the law ; but the se cret violence of desperate men cannot be suppressed, and the concentrated mass will but disperse in a million of incendiaries." Let the reader look at the speech of Mr. DEEGAN, in our Express from Manchester, and he will be convinced that violence has already found other advocates, and is making a- frightful progress. We are placed just now in a curious position. The Chairman at a dinner of commercial travellers at Dur ham, calls us Government toadies, because on Mon day we expressed a sentiment of pleasure at learning that Government has had nothing to do with the arrest of Mr. STEPHENS, " whilst it is known (says our Correspondent), to everybody in the North that he was arrested by Bow-street officers under a Secretary of State's warrant. For shame, Mr. YOUNG (adds our monitor)—you are either knave or fool—either of which unfits you as a public instructor !" We must leave this very important question, as to the interference of the Government, to the public deci sion ; but our Correspondent makes one glaring mis take, which makes us express a hope that he wrote after dinner. At the same time, we must remind our readers that the article of which a part is censured has gained us much approbation from the bulk of the Chartists. 'We present an additional evidence of it in a letter, which confirms Mr. O'CoNNoß's and Mr. RICHARDSON'S observations. By the opponents of the Chartists, also, we are accused of having gone over to them ; so that we are' assailed on different sides for contradictory faults. To all those who either praise or censure us, we beg leave to give notice that we shall pursue our own course. We protest against Mr. STEPHENS' persecution, as unjust and dangerous, so far as it is known to the pub lic ; but we are not one atom more friendly to the cause of the Chartists now than we were in the month of August, when we gave them mortal offence by advising them to take up the Corn-laws, and defer the agitation for the Charter till the Corn-laws were abolished. Other writers who then opposed us have since come round to our views, and we purpose, if we can find space to-morrow, to re-state at some length, with further illustrations, the reasons why we formerly opposed the Chartists, and continue to prefer the abolition of the Corn-laws to supporting their demands. The sneaking conduct of the KING of the FRENCH towards Russia seems to exemplify the doctrine of canine attachment held by some philosophical sports men, that the more you beat a dog the more he loves you. NICHOLAS never omits an opportunity, direct or indirect, of giving Louis PHILIPPE a cuff or a kick, while the latter Sovereign receives the honour with due submission and thankfulness. A striking instance of the feeling of contempt which the KING of the CALMUCS entertains towards his brother of the Barricades has just occurred. An almanack has been published at Warsaw by Imperial authority. In that part of it which is devoted to a description of the Royal Families of Europe, Louis PHILIPPE re ceives the following gentle hint that he is a usurper, though nominally a king. CHARLES X. and the DAUPHIN are represented as having abdicated in favour of the Duke of BOURDEAUX, under the name of HENRY V.! As a further compliment to the Mo narch surrounded with republican institutions, Bel gium finds no place in the Russian almanack. It is blotted from the autocratic map of Europe ; and, although the marriage of the Duke of ORLEANS with the Princess HELENA, and that of the Princess MARY with the Duke of WIRTEMBERG are duly noted, the marriage of the Princess LOUISE with the KING of the BELGIANS is concealed like murder. One would suppose that these insults cannot be very palatable to France, however they may be stomached by the pusillanimous Sovereign who at present sways the sceptre of that mighty kingdom. Louis PHILIPPE perhaps consoles himself with the re flection, that if the great KHAN spits in his face, he treats some of his neighbotirs with equal courtesy ; for though the title of Regent is conceded to CHRISTINA of Spain, Queen ISABELLA 11. is simply styled " Infanta." DONNA MARIA DE GLORIA has found most favour in the sight of the Scythian despot : she is actually acknowledged QUEEN of PORTUGAL. How very consistent this, after his virtual acknowledgment of that honourable and con scientious scion of legitimacy, DON MiGuEr, I The Paris Papers of Thursday are filled with copies of the :New Year's-day addresses presented to the KING by the Diplomatic Body, the Council, the Chambers, the National Guards, the Municipality of Paris, and we know not how many besides, with his MAJESTY'S answers. As their insertion would very much resemble the annual repetition of the pantomime of Torn Thumb, we shall omit them on the present occasion. The substance of the addresses and an swers may be given in a sentence. The people of France are hlefised with the best of KINGS, who has given birth to the best of PRINC E S, who, in his turn, has given birth to a Count who is the sweetest of babes, will be the best of boys, the most heroic of men, and one day or other, the best of Kings ; and his Majesty's royal and paternal heart is so big with gratitude, that he can only promise a continuance of his career of popu lar beneficence to the end of the chapter. Such are the addresses, and such the answers, which, on the part of the addressing and the addressed, vastly re semble an exchange of lumps of barley-sugar. The Journd!s announce, as a new proof of the observance of the Qu2druple Treaty by the Cabinet, France at the head the arrival of 300 horses from ers of the PRETENDER. quail t The i rc ::lmstance of a visit paid by M. TRIERS . the Foreign Office appears to have alarmed the chiefs of the Opposition, lest he might accept privately any overtures made him by Count MOLE to desert the coalition. The explanation given by the Constitu tionnel is simple and satisfactory. It was the wish of the Committee upon the Address, that a despatch re lative to the evacuation of Ancona should be submit ted to it. This was refused by the Premier on public grounds ; but he offered, as an act of courtesy towards M. TRIERS, who had preceded him in office, to allow that gentleman to see the document , and even to copy it, if he thought proper. Of this offer M. THIERS availed himself, and hence the report of his being clo seted with Count MOLE. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIA, JANUARY 2. Five per Cents., 109 f. 85e. 9oc. 95c. Four per Cents., 10If. SOc. 79r. s c. Three per Cents. 78f. 50c. 60c. 55c. Ditto Bank Actions, 2,650 f. 2,680 f. 2,670 f. Aente 8e Naples, 98f. 90c. 29f. Roman. Five per Cents ., 100 10)4 Ditto _IO9IA Spanish Acti - ves, 171,6 x 9 17 Si 9 4 Belgian Five per Cents., 994. Ditto Belgian Three per Cents. ' 137 f. ((k. 75c. Ditto 51. 0 E Belgian Bank, 550 f. Dot. 505E' Portuguese, Three per Cents. 19? y . EXCHANan ON LONDON.—One mOntn, paper,:2sf. 15c; money, 2sf. P:1,1,c; Tree months, paper, 25f. —c.; money, 24f. 97./ic. Brussels Papers of the Ist inst. state that Count SEBASTIANI has actually signed the last Protocol of the Conference of London, though the fact is care fully concealed from the 'peopl e o f France by the Go vernment till after the adoption of the Address by the Chamber of Deputies. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, on the 28th, the several iteril of the Finance budget were voted without a division. The marriage of M. VAN DE WEYER, the Belgian Am bassador at the Court of London, with a rich London heiress, is considered of such importance at Brussels as to be posted up in the Town-hall. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1839 THE CHARTISTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--Allow me, as one constantly taking in your piper, to return you, on behalf of tryseh and family, our hearty thank; for the excellent articles which have appeared in your late papers on the subject of Stephens and the ChartiAs_artictes alike honourable to your head and heart, and which have created a responsive feeling in the breast of every thinking and right-minded person. I was afraid, in common with many others, some time since, that you were about to enrol yourself among the enemies of the Chartists, which would in fact have been an enrolment among the enemies of the people ; but I felt and argued, in many private circles where you are read, and your proceeding commented upon, that you had not at that time correct in formation of the extent of the Conventionists—of their moral strength—of the class of persons—or of their ulterior objects; and I said that a writer eo well informed as yourself, would soon perceive the necessity of writing differently of the Chartists. lam indeed happy to have so soon seen my expec tation fulfilled. Go on, Sir, let me entreat you, in this course. Give the proceedings of the Chartists as they occur in the same fair and candid manner you have done, and are now doing, accompanied with those excellent essays which combine political instruction with the soundest moral truths, and which are earning for you golden opinion:: from those men whose opinions are worth hav ing, and whose patronage in a pecuniary point of view is most important. For, do not suppose (as many infatuated persons, unfortunately for themselves, do) that the Chartists are con. fined to a low or to any particular class of society, or that the rabble, the drunkard, or the vagabond, or thief, that are to be found at the tail of every public meeting, are a sample of the Chartists. On the contrary, I know many persons (myself among the number) who never attended a public or other meeting of Chartists, nor have, as yet, made any demonstration to show what are our opinions, but are ready and willing, at the proper time, to give our countenance, our support, our time, cur money, and, if necessary (which may the Almighty, in his great goodness, render not requisite 0, our physical energies, even to the last, to alter the cursed sys tem of misrule which prostrates the energies of the people of this country. Do not either suppose that this is the mere opinion or out break of an isolated individual. Test society, and you will find that this feeling is predominant in the breast of every indepen dent man. Try the man who repudiates the Chartists by the sure test of self-interest—you will find that he has some exclu sive or class interest which influences his opinion, and makes him view political and national subjects through the prism of individual aggrandisement. And, more particularly, try society in the provinces, and there you will find, where it dare be avowed, that the sympathies, the good wishes, and the kindest feelings are entertained towards the Chartists, and that the male population are determined, at the proper time, to aid them with such other support as circumstances may require. By the bye, is there any public subscription for Stephens in the Metropolis, where I can send such sum as I may think proper ? YOUR. CONSTANT READER. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK. The arrivals this morning consist of the French and Ostend mails, and ship letters from Havannah. LIVERPOOL COTTON -MARKET, THURSDAY.—The demand for Cotton to-day has been good, and speculators have again come into the market. To-day's transactions are estimated at 4,000 bags, of which speculators have taken 1,500 at former prices. The Ostend mail due to-day has not as yet arrived. We have received the Journal of Commerce of Antwerp of Mon day and Tuesday's date. We copy the following : " Brussels, Dec. 31, Two o'clock Afternoon. " On the assurance given by several of the Brussels Journals that the Belgian Bank would reimburse to-day their bills in circulation, a crowd of persons proceeded this morning to tl.e establishment; but, alas ! the clerks gave answer that they had received no orders for the payment. This event caused great disappointment to a number of persons, who fully relied on their bank bills being paid." We have just received the Journal of Antwerp of Wed nesday. " Brussels, Jan. 1. " We are assured that the law voted by the two Chambers for the 4,000,000 francs to be granted by the Government to the Belgian Bank was si g ned by the King four days ago." From the frontiers of Prussia, it appears that the Prussian troops have arrived at Aix-la-Chapelle. The Prussian Go vernment takes great care to hide her intentions. Dutch Funds 31st Dec.—Two-and-a- Half, 54 7-16; Five per Cents. 100 15-16. _ _ _ . _ . It is also stated that the first division of the Dutch army, under the Prince of Orange, has left its cantonments to con centrate on the frontiers between Hassel and Venloo. The Dutch Journal Stoat's Courant, of the Ist of January, publishes the law of the 21st of that month, concerning the levies of the National Militia for 1839. During the year 1838, entered at Amsterdam, 2,074 ships. THE FUNDS. Consols, which closed yesterday at 94i for the opening, opened this morning with an improvement, and may be quoted 94 4 ; Reduced, 934 Exchequer Bills. 64 66 ; India Bonds, 62 64 ; Bank Stock, 2025 2035 ; India Stock, 262 263. In the face of the hostile demonstrations, as regards Holland and Belgium, the Dutch Funds have come 5 per cent. higher from Amsterdam, which has alarmed the Bears of Dutch Stock this morning, and who are now buying in their accounts, fearing a further rise. Dutch Stock, which closed yesterday at 544 ex-dividend, may be quoted at present 54f ; Spanish Active, 164-1 ; Portuguese improved, closed at 31;} 32, opened 324 i ; Three per Cents., 214; Belgian, 99}; Brazilian, 77f 78 ; Colom bian, 255 26; Mexican, 235 ; Spanish Deferred, 75 ; Pas sive, 34 4. The Oxford is the next packet expected from New York of the date of the 19th ult. The Lisbon and Mexican mails which are over-due, have not as yet arrived, nor have the Dutch and Hamburgh mails. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank:Stock 203 , India Stock — 3 per Cent. Red. 9 3 14 14% i Ditto Bonds 64 C 5 pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. 3y, t per Cent lOOl4 Old Annuities Ditto Red. lOO Y 6 % New Ditto New 334 per Cent 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751... New 5 per Cent. Bank Long A nnuitiestoexpire Ditto 500 Jan. 5, IS6O — Ditto Small 64 67 pm Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial 5 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 — Ditto Advertised Jan. 5, 1881 — Bank Stock for Account — Aprils, 1880 — India Stock for Account Jan. 5, 1870 — Consols for Account 94% PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds' — , Peruvian Bonds Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds 0:tto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Account — Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, 1824 26 Spanish Bonds Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account — : Ditto Accou At. 16 34 51 Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent. —C. --c. Ditto Bonds, 1825... ......... Ditto Account — 3 per cent. Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent.... Exchange. —f. --c. Ditto Account — Dutch, 254 per cent. 54 1,,i % Ditto, 6 per Cent '23 Ditto Account 54 % Ditto Account Neapolitan —l Ditto Account IOIM, PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per share. British Iron Company Copiapo 13% 1,1 Great Western Railway Company 65 77% B r i g hton Railway 25 29% t.clonial Bank London a nd Westminster Bank 2O 23% 4 London Joint Stock Bank lO 13% DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, J N. 1. Money. Bills, Actual Debt, 2% per Cent Ditto% ditto 5 per cent. Anion syndic, 4% per cent ............... lOO 100% 94% 95 -. Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 7 94 79 , y: Commercial Company, 4 .., per cent 174% 175 Ditto (INI2 and 1833) 5 per cent. Loan MR, 4 per cent... Ditto 1837, b per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 05 11 97% :15: I t a l :UssEts , DLe.31. 53 R A n e t t h , h L D: d eh , i s t A , L. l.l .2 0 7% Loan ofTh i r t ; tia M ni . i perj' l l l S i wN e perC n °DS , lnC- 4 : per C ent. -- Cent 3 i>er Loanof t 133 ; )" 4 per ant . Society of COMmer , -; 4 'l2 per Cent 1 5a3 Bank of per Lem ..... —Brussels Paperi e Ja n ' 1 * B AUSTRIAN FLINps..--VirriNA, Dec. 2(1 rive per Cents. Mietalliques .......... .. .. .... ........ 10 . 7% FoKr per Cents. ..... ............. . ....... . . ... ... . , . 1!!0 Three per Cents , ... Bank Shares f) .. .. iv? "i - —AligemetneZeitung, Dee.2o. ST. PETRI:SIit/RCM, Due. 4' l . EXCHANGES ON LONDON. , Hmsitito, DEC. 23._13 ; two months, 194,; HALF --PAST ONE. NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 4.—. The rain has fallen in torrents throughout the day, which has Three months, 11 31-32. prevented the transaction of our out-door business. Little has been done in the Cotton market. The prices which prevailed last week are still the same when transactions are made. The Captain of the Reins Rose, who arrived at Bordeaux from Valparaiso, which he left the end of September, states that he fell in with a brig coming from Lima, from which lie obtained the following news " The Chilian army had evacuated Lima, and was encamped in the environs. President o t begoso had retired to the Castle of Callas, which had not been attacked, and it was thought that the attack would not take place. Guumavadt at the head of the Peruvian Gove rnment, The Generfid..iu-Cbiof of th e Chilian ar m y had put Gene ral against which the Consuls of the tree Powers had protested. General Santa Cruz was about forty-five leagues gica' Lima, with the Bolivian army. The British Funds have rather receded since the early part of the morning from -54 i to 941 for the opening. The Government broker purchased sib theusand Reduced at 931 ; Reduced at present 931; Exchequer liillw ' 64 67 • India Bonds 64 65 ; Bank Stock, 203. r- In the, Foreign Market some business has been done in the course of the 'w , orioin, in Dutch and Portuguese. Spanish Active, I. Portuguese 2f,?ached 33, at present 321 This rise may be attributed to the 'iczqvg4tion of favourable accounts being anticipates; 1 2v the packet, Belgian, no alteration, 99i-; Braznai, 7 7/ 78; Colonibian, 2.5.1 2tit ; 14c;r_ican, 231; Dutch, 5.1: 1 -, ; ex .,;,7;( 1091 ; per Cents., 10 1 i 4. The Share Market is inactive; prices much the same fl 3 yesterday. Five Consols for the Account, 944, THREE CL 0 .CIF. THE BIJOU ALMANAC. Schloss, Landon, 1839. A mournful inter, st o 1 -L':,nt nac—it ;s the last work , L. E. L.. • tains some of her latest and sweetest. poems ! Little this gifted young lady—for young, very young she was, i though her name bad been long familiar to the public— imagine, when she undertook the superintendence of this " Fairy Almanack," as she herself ealls it, that it would be the last work of the sort in which she would ever be en gaged, and that her sun which had blazed so long an , so brilliantly, was about to set in clouds and darkness in a foreign land. We could ill afford to lose her, for she was almost the only poetess of real ge nius that was left us. Hers was the truest inspiration, for it sprung direct from the heart. Whether she indulged in sportive sallies of wit ; in graceful, and subtle refleetk,n, worthy of a De Stael ; or in impassioned and imaginative musings, such as would be ;r comparison with any similar productions of the age.—whatever direction her versatile genius took, still the heart was its great prompter, and kept it in a right track. The literature of her country has sustained a great loss in her death—and the manner of that death, and the singular circumstances under which it took place—will not lessen the shock. She seems to have quitted England with high hopes and anticipations of happiness in the discharge of the riew duties she had imposed on herself; but we fear judging from the tendency of her last pub lished letter—that she was the victim of bitter disappoint ment. The little work before us, as being her last, will be sure to attract attention, and especially the poem which she calls " Farewell," which accordingly we subjoin : FARE WE-LL. My little fairy chronicle, The prettiest of my tasks, farewell ! Ere other eyes shall meet this line, Far other records will be mine, How many miles of trackless sea Will-roll between my land and me ! I said thine elfin almanack Should call all pleasant hours back ; Amid those pleasant hours will none Think kindly on what I have done? Then, fairy page, I leave with thee, Some memory of my songs and me. PALACE COURT.-(THIS DAY.) BARTRUP V. JONES. The plaintiff is the executrix of her husband, who was a corn salesman, and the defendant occupied stables at Pitt's Head Mews. The action was brought to recover 61. 16s. 4d. for corn, hay, &c., supplied to a person named Woodgate, en account of Mr. Jones, his master. _ _ The delivery of the goods was proved, and also a demand for the amount on Mr. Jones, on descending from the Taglioni coach, of which he was the driver, in Piccadilly. He did cot then dispute the bill, but said he thought he had paid it. lie was stated by the witnesses to be now residing at No. 1, Charles -street, Berkeley-square. Mr. LOCKE, whe appeared for defendant, said that he could have proved that the defendant in this case was not the per son to whom the goods were supplied, and that he never occu pied the stables in question, but unfortunately his witness had not arrived. _ _ The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount claimed. SURREY SESSIONS-THIS DAY. Ann Barton, a girl of fourteen, and a married woman, named Mary Wiggins, wer- indicted for stealing, on the 19th December last, a packet con aining one dozen of silk stockings, the property of Charles and J.,hn Bullock. The prosecutor, Charles Bullock, deposed that on the day named in the indictment the two prisoners came to their shop in the Camberwell-road, and asked to match some printed cotton. They had not brought a pattern, but stated they would know the pattern if it were shown them. He showed them a great many patterns, but none would suit. First Bar ton went out, and was soon followed by the other prisoner. Shortly before they came in, witness had made up four bun dles of silk stockings, which were to be sent to a lady for ap proval, and almost immediately after the prisoners left he missed one of them, which contained a peculiar kind of stock ing. The pair produced was one which was in the missing parcel. He sent his shopman out to look for the prisoners, but could not find them. He gave notice of the [robbery to the pawnbrokers in the neighbourhood, and on the evening of the 24th December, Barton was brought into their shop by Mr. Knowles, a pawnbroker next door but one to him. Mr. Knowles said Barton brought the stockings produced to pawn, and having notice of the robbery he took her to Mr. Bullock. Policeman, Pl, took the prisoner into cost dy. While they were amongst the other prisoners, behind the Union Hall office, Barton called him and said she would tell the whole affair, and confessed to the robbery. At that time Wiggins said nothing, though she heard what Barton said. Several respectable witnesses gave both prisoners a good character. The Jury found both prisoners Guilty, and The CHAIRNinti said he had no doubt the younger prisoner had been incited to the act by the other. The sentence of the Court was, that Wiggins be imprisoned in the House of Correction, at Brixton, for four months, and kept to hard labour; Barton to be solitarily imprisoned in the same place for 14 days. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DEAL JAN. 3. —Wind, W. S. W., moderate.—Arrived and proceeded for the River, tbe Eff)rt, Orfuer, from Messina ; Tom and Jessie, Leghorn ; Mic Mac, Anderson, Rio Janeiro; Prudence, Phillips, Youghal. Came down from the River, and remain with the outward bound, the Woodmanstcrc, from the Mauritius ; Joseph, Charlestcwn. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Wind W., strong breezes and hazy. —Arrived the Camille, Davison, from Sunderland ; John, Harding, from Bristol; Elizabeth, Robertson, Cork; Lord Russell, Yarmouth. Sailed the Norna, Bremer, London. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 3.—Wind, W.N. W.—Arrivals, none. FALMOUTH, JAN. 2. —Wind W., strong breezes.—Arrived the Vulcan, Evans, from London. Sailed the Levant, Cardy, fa-. London; Walburton, Gilbert, Southton. LIVEROOOL, JAN. 3.--Arrived the David, Adair, from the Cape of Good Hope ; Nelson Wood, Gardiner, Berbice ; Mary Ann, Menthe, Newfoundland; Euphemie, Alexandria; Triton, Scorge, Smyrna; Africa, Malta; Hannato Booth, Bess, Palermo ; Ferdinande, Castellano, Naples ; Berrill, Leghorn; Laura, Santander, Lisbon; Carl Hen drick, Valentin, St. Andrew's. BRISTOL, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Isabella, M'Graff, from Newfoundland; Voales, St. Übe's ; Minerva, Nantes. RAMSGATE, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Marie Francois, Albert, from London ; Sophie, Langlow, ditto; Mungo Park, An derson, Shields. _ _ SOUTHAMPTON, JAN. I.—Arrived the Idas, Holles, from Waterford. LYMINGTON, JAN. 2.—Arrived the Herald, Carr, London. TORBAY, JnN. 2.—Arrived the Prince of Coburg, Smith, from London; Polydor, Hamburg, with sails split. PENZANCE, JAN. 2.—Arrived the Tam o'Shanter, from Zahte ; Adolphe, Carnear, Rocheford. Sailed the Re solution, Davis, for Newport ; Magic, St. Ives. CLYDE, JAN. 2.—Arrived the Jessie Mitchell, Petre, from Gibraltar. HOLYHEAD, JAN. 2.—Arrived the Blundell, Campbell, from Cadiz. SCARBOROUGH, JAN. 2. Arrived the Reliance, Wallis, from Catalonia. SCILLY, DEC. 31.—Arrived the Rose, Richards, from Azores ; Superior. Shenisdo, and Nima, Duff, St. Michael's ; Happy Return, Seville. STANOATE CREEK, JAN. 3.—Arrived the Lord Aber cromby, from Malta ; Gulielmo, Mettle, 6irgenti ; Union, Norrner, Altea. DUBLIN, JAN. I. —Arrived the Duke of Cambridge (steamer), from London ; and Augustus, from Quebec. CORK, JAN. L —Arrived the Don Juan, from Barbadoes ; Venus, Carr, Leghorn, with loss of boats, bulwarks, &c. Off port the Cybele, from St. John's, New Brunswick. LONDONDERRY, JAN. I.—Arrived the Charles Airlie, from Riga. SHIELDS.—The Pomona, Wheatley, from Hull, got on Wheburn Steel, but was assisted off, with damage to keel. The Screen, Walker, has come into dock to repair, having grounded on the Gridiron. PADSTOW, JAN. 2. —A boat was driven on shore yesterday, near this place, and went to pieces—on the outside marked " Anthony of Scarborough ;" inside " William Headly." THE FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock '203 ~ India Stock 93 a!Ditto I3onds 3 per Cent. Ccos 3 per Cent. lied _ I Ditto Old A nnu iti es 65 3 per Cent 1003i' Ditto N ew A nnu i t i es 3y4 per Cent. Rod 100% Ex. Bills, 100/ 2%d 67 pm. New 3% per Cent . Ditto 5001 17 pm Long Annuities to expire _ Ditto 5001 67 pm, Jan. 1860 14 15-16 Bank Stock f or Ac t. — Oct. 1145 0 94Th Jan' 186° '''''' * ' ' ' ''''' — "i' ,Consols for O pg .... FOREIGN FUNDS Portuguese' Bonds, 5 per cent„ 70% Austrian, 5 per cent 33 INgign, 4 por cent 99% I DittO, New Ditto ‘• `" A pds • • ..• Tel . ' Prussian, 5 per cent' Brazilian o . m • . T.l, T . Buenos Ayr. s, 6 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent !Ditto, Metallic — Colornb.an, 6 per cent. 'Spanish, 5 per cent..„,..,•••••• A6r. Ditto, 1824 26 I Ditto, Cutv;nlidased .. . Danish, I pet cent' French 5 per cent.•••••• '' _ f.....e. Greek Bonds; 1825; 5 per cent. ,Exchange .......... •.." .. , .... Mexican, S per cent. . 'French, :3per cent ..77, Ditfil,ii per cent., 1825 . .. 23% Dutch 2% per cet3t, si,••• . 54 N. 101 X per.,,R, 1825 6i per cent...., 9:lttit" "t. PIS' . 1) A Y*) (CLOSINU 14RfCV, fp sHA 45.,0r , . , .._ ... . Great Western Rail wa 773 y.„---•••• . . .....- 1154 London and Bright on R:dlway ••••. r 4. London and Blackwall Railway •••• ..... • ..... • .... !"*".. ti,,,uon aii4 C T cypi l 1t..1;,1w1Y .n."•!""*" .! . , ... '" .'' Dindon and Croydon Railway (tv My Scrip)! ... ... •.•. •• .. - ' MR. TIIEODORE HOOK'S NEW NOVEL ) " cilirpey Mqrried," peeps d e4t i„4 t o r ival i 4 ppeo l 4 rity the famed Gilbert Gl.irnPY," to which it fOrms so admirable a sequel, " This is precisely" (says the Courier) one "of those work§ which so rivet the attention as to make it impeosible either to skip a page or two, or lay the book down. The picture prP3Pnied is a drawing from life, not a caricature, and as tilt; re4IIPF 3.PPs op he i ) ecomes more p r od more 4olcipt4 tp know how Gurney eittricate,s himge)ffroro the 4angers and difficulties with which the follies of his brother Cuthbert, and sundry other good-natured friends, environ him ; and all these perplexities are relieved by capital jokes, dealt out, pr rather showered and scattered, without stint," BRIGHTON. 77 , 117?..1 ,, ,Y -1 .t two o'clock, h. r Mpiestv Nu t(1 Giitcs hor: n,7 N 1r , her Maje , -t‘ her name announced for the Royal bespeak to-morrow even ing, "milled at Lord Melbourne. The Royal cavalcade com prised the Queen, Wironi , ss Le:,zen. qteot,n, :he May- quis of HeAfort, L-rui Alfred Pager, Sir Win. Luinl count Melbourne, Colonel Buckley, and Sro C. Qo st n. The Duchess 6f Kent, accompanier! by the Holt Ml , s Pat took a carriage airing this nuirni-K at twelve o'cltick„ The Prince-s Augusta, accomp-iiied by Lady L. Corow.il lis, drove out this morning ikt twelve o'clo'k. Lo.d Hill, Commander of the Forces, left the P-lace this morning for London. Lord Hill had an audience of her Ma jesty evening. The only invited guest to the RovA dinner table this even ing is thc Hon, C. C. Cav , :odisli, M. P. Among the calls at the PiOace this morning v:ere—Adiniral Sir John Wells, G C B. (from Bolnore), Sir Charles Blunt (Heathfield Park), Lieut.-General Sir Charles Egerton, Ad miral Sir Philip Durham, and Lieutenant-General Sir Thos M'Mahon. Yesterday evening the Dowager Lady Langham dined with he Princess Augusta. A Bachelors' Ball is to be given here shortly on a scale of great splendour. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Cambridge, accompanied by the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, and attended by Miss Kcrr, left town at nine o'clock yesterday morning, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at his seat, Belvoir Castle. Lord Hill, Commander of the Forces, arrived in town yes terday afternoon from Brighton. His Lordship had an inter view with LordGlenelg at the Colonial Office. Mr. James S. Stopford left town yesterday morning for Marseilles and Malta, with despatches from the Foreign De partment. The American Minister transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. The Russian, Turkish, and Sardinian Ambassadors trans acted business yesterday at the Foreign Department. Despatches from Sir George Arthur, Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Foreign Department for the British Ambassador at Hanover. Despatches were forwarded yesterday from the Colonial Department for Lieutenant-General Sir John Colborne, the Governor-General of the Canadas ; for Sir George Arthur, the Lieutenant-Governor of Upper Canada; and for the Offi cers administering her Majesty's Government in the British Dependencies in North America. The Duke of Wellington was to have left Strath fieldsaye, Hants, yesterday, for Belvoir Castle, to visit the Duke of Rutland. His Grace is in the best of health. The Marquis of Douro continues in town. BADMINTON, JAN. 2.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca, Baron Ostini, Baron Lowenberg, Earl Bathurst, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Codrington, Lord Granville Somerset, Hon. W. and Mrs. Talbot, and a large party are still staying on visits to his Grace. On Saturday next there will be a grand breakfast, and the hounds are to meet on the lawn. Breakfast will be laid for about fifty. The Duke of Norfolk is staying on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Surrey, at Littlehampton, Sussex. Lord Fitzalan, M.P., who has been staying at Athens, and visiting the neighbouring classical remains, is expected to return early in the ensuing month. Great preparations are being made for the approach ing season at Asburnham House. A series of splendid parties will be given by his Excellency in the course of the ensuing month to the beau monde. The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby left the Clarendon Hotel yesterday for Dublin. They went by the Railroad to Birmingham. The Marquis of Normanby gave a farewell dinner at the Clarendon Hotel on Wednesday evening. There were present Lord Torrington, Mr. Stanley, Mr. Charles Greville, and Colonel Yorke. His Grace the Lord Primate of Ireland and the Ladies Ann and Catherine Beresford, are on a visit to the Marquis of Waterford, at Curraghmore, Waterford. Mr. James Reid, the late Chief Justice of Canada, hss arrived in town. The Earl of Aberdeen will leave Haddo Castle early in the ensuing week for town. The Noble Earl will visit the Earl and Countess of Morton, Earl and Countess of Harewood, and several other distinguished friends en route to town. The Right Hon. Thomas Grenville had a large party to dinner on Wednesday evening at his mansion in Cleveland-square. The Duchess-Countess of Sutherland was among the guests. The Earl and Countess of Durham entertained a numerous and distinguished party at dinner on Wednesday evening at their residence in Cleveland-row. _ _ We regret to hear that Mr. Baron Bolland is very seriously indisposed. Mr. Justice Littledale, we hear, is about to retire from the discharge of his judicial funetions. Lord Stanley arrived in St. James's-square yester day afternoon from Knowsley, the seat of the Earl of Derby, to which he returned a few days since from a visit to Sir Robert Peel, Bart., at Drayton Manor. Lady Stanley will arrive in town this evening from Knowsley. DEATH Of TIIE COUNTESS OF BucitAN.--We regret to record the demise of the Countess of Buchan, which took place a few days since at Almondale, Scotland. The late Countess was the youngest daughter of the late John Hervey, Esq., and was united to the Earl of Buchan the 26th of June, 1830. It was his Lordship's second marriage. Her late Ladyship has left a daughter, Lady Elizabeth Erskine, born in 1834. O'Flannigan and the Fairies is highly attractive at the Haymarket, and Power's fighting, dancing, drink ing, bewildered Irishman keeps the audience in a roar of laughter from the commencement to the finish—his Irish lion is a roarer too. The Earl and Countess of Dur ham and family, Lord Castlereagh, the Earl of Chester field, Lord Jocelyn, Lady Seymour, Lord Ossulton, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, Charles Sheridan, Esq., &c. &c., visited the theatre last evening. BETROTHAL OF THE GRAND DUCHESS MARIA OF RUSSIA.—The ceremony of the betrothal of the Grand Duchess Maria of Russia to Duke Maximilian of Leech tenberg took place at St. Petersburgh on the 18th ult. At half-past eleven all the functionaries and personages of distinction invited to attend the ceremonial were assembled at the Palace of the Hermitage, and thence accompanied their Imperial Majesties and the Royal Family to the Church of the Court. The Grand Officers of State led the way ; the Emperor and Empress were followed by the Grand Duke Constantine, son of the Emperor ; the Grand Duke Michael, the Emperor's brother ; and the Grand Duchess Helena, his consort ; the Grand Duchess, Duke Maximilian of Leuchtenberg, and the Ladies and Maids of Honour. On entering the Church, the Emperor conducted the Grand Duchess Maria and the Duke to their seats in the middle of the edifice, and the ecclesiastical cere mony then began according to the Greek ritual, The two rings of the betrothed parties were brought upon plates of gold to the altar, that of the Grand Duchess by the Em peror's Confessor, and that of the Grand Duke of Leutchten berg by the Arch-Priest of the army and navy. The Me tropolitan then placed them respectively on the fingers of the Grand Duchess, and Duke, and the Empress came for ward and made the exchange. At that moment fifty-one discharges of artillery were made from the fortress of the capital. The august personages thus betrothed were then prayed for by name, and on the ceremony being , terminated advanced together to offer thanks to their Imperial Majes ties. The rest of the Royal Family also appreaehed to make their congratulations. Tc Deuns was then sung b y the Clergy, and at the verse, "Donzine salpetnz fac Impera torum," thirty-one rounds of artillery were fired from the for tiess. The Clergy were then admitted to present their congratulations, and the cortege quitted th e c h urch, the Duke walking as they returned to the Pal ace , by the sid e of the Grand Duchess. The Members of the Court, the public functionaries, &c., presented their congratulations in the Palace. The ladies were all attired in the Court dress of Russia, and the gentlemen in gala suits. Great rejoicings at the same time took plaoe throughout the, capital ; the bells of the churches rang during the day, and at night there was a general illumination. The Bishop of Norwich says, " the most moral county in Ety,',,land, consisting of the most simple, happy popul a tio n , an d w h ere t hi eving and vice are littlelmown, is Cumbe r l a nd. I n t hi s country I find t h at th e proportion of the w h o l e population educated i s one -h a lf , leaving only one-h a lf une d ucated. " rural, no to the The Misses S m ith, a d vantageous l y known singing world h ere , seem great favour i tes a l so in Scotland. They are nieces of the Countess of Essex, who m t h ey resernle in tal en t, b ut st ill more i n tha blamelessness of their lives. AN EXPENSIVZ Prr.—A lady in this town has a pet P‘APPY, who. is furnished with the (` bump of destruc tiveness' (So p ecu li a r to the iofant branches of the can i ne specie s ) i n a pretty csw sclera degree. A f ew days o dropped he r p oc k et -b ook, con " his mi stres% v i nforitqAPAelY tßiaing two 5k notes and a half sovereign, on the aoor, sup posing that it had dropped into her pocket, " Rover" was, however, the fortunate finder of t1, , ,e prize, and in his usual way commenced OP, work of demolition. It would appear th m , aftcv haying torn to pieces the leathern pTo,tector of the treasure, he so completely destroyed 14 c'or4tents, that not a vestige remained to give ttla kliih,test clue by which the notes might be ideuti4d, ifaving thus luxuriated on the Preei.cu:i kepat, he left the h a lf- sovere i gn i n a corner, as if beneath his notice.--Brighton Gazettc MANCHESTER. (TuuRsDAYO T., IA kiLPORTEC. ,i• it o; Tie appearance of the streets tt , morning, and up to ten o'clock when I reached the New Bailey,,hare were em in r:ny of the principal r •,TS town dozen cx ra p .rsoos. No military or fore, wai vizil , le, a , d. to one unacqua nted with the !a, t h.it. the examwalion of the Rev. Mr. Svpliens was fix. d for to.day, Ivery t would h:aaa seemed to proceed in its ~ r,linary course. Th- shops were all open—the fac tories at work, and all the usual detai!; of traffic incidental to a lat7e commercial and manufacturing community were in full operation. During the night it rained incessantly, and this I beli-ve to be the best answer to the rumours which have inlustriously circulated from an early hour. th forge bodies of Radicals bad arrived in the nnddl- of the night, and were located in the houses of their friends h• re. In the immediate neighbourhood of the New Bailey there were we fi:ty persons assembled, although the morning was then fine, and it was within an hour of the time appointed for the commencement of the proceedings. Mr. Phillips, the Barrister, for whom a special messenger was despatched on Tuesday evening, will not come—the reply was that he was specially retained in an important case which was to come on at the Central Criminal Conrt. I understand that it had been previously arranged that even in the event of Mr. Phillips arriving, the conduct of the case would still be left in the hands of Mr. Law, and that Mr. Stephens would defend himself in person. At eleven o'clock the Rev. Mr. Stephens, accompanied by Mr. Feargus O'Connor, Messrs. Richard and John Cobbett, Mr. Willis, Rev. Dr. Fletcher, Mr. Richardson, Mr. Oastler, Mr. Williamson, his solicitor Mr. Law, Mr. Wheeler, and several other of his friends arrived. Up to this time the only persons admitted to the Old Court, in which the proceedings were appointed to take place, were the reporters for the public press, of whom there were nearly a score present. The courtesy exhibited by the officers to whom the duty of keeping the gates was confided contrasted very strongly in this respect with the course which has been pursued in similar circumstances elsewhere Mr. Stephens sat in front of the dock, immediately oppo• 'site the bench, with Mr. Feargus O'Connor on his left hand, and Messrs. Richard and John Gobbett on his right. Goddard, the Bow-street officer, remained close to him during the proceedings. Immediately afterwards the Ma gistrates began to arrive upon the bench. Among them were Mr. J. F. Forster, Mr. Kenworthy, Mr. Sanderson. Mr. Garnett, and Mr. Shakespeare Phillips. There were two or three ladies also on the bench, and foreigner, who, I was told, was Redschid Effendi, in the suite of the Turkish Ambassador. Mr. J. B. Smith, tbd clerk to the Magistrates, was also in attend ance . _ _ Mr. Brandt, the Barrister, who appeared for the prose' cution, desired the clerk to call upon the defendant, w ho immediately rose and answered to his name. It may be remarked that there were not more than .50 or GO persoue in Court at this period, and although the frequent and reiterated shoutings of the multitude, who had by this time assembled without the building, could be distinctly heard, within there was the stillness of the tomb. Mr. Brandt then rose and said, that as he observed there were several gentlemen on the Bench who were no t pre sent on the former occasion, he would shortly state whet had taken place on Friday last, when his Learned Friend Mr. Duck had appeared for the prosecution. Two wit' nesses were examined, and the evidence taken down —they were subsequently cross-examined at g reat length by the defendant, and that cross-examination , it appeared, was not taken down. He (Mr. Brandt) regretted that such had not been done, although be contended that a sufficient case had been made out, and one of the Magistrates had, indeed, so expressed himself. 01 should now state the course he would adopt. He won)°, propose that the witn esses s h ou ld b e put i nto t h e box, and again sworn, and that the clerk who had taken down the depositions should read them over to the witnesses, and the° it was in Mr. Stephen's discretion to cross-examine them ill any way he pleased, and that that cross-examination should: be taken down, and it would be then his (Mr. Brandt's/ duty to follow it up by something else, leaving it to 1 0 Stephens to pursue whatever course he thought me 9l advisable. James Johnston was then called into the box and sw orof and the the evidence, in chief, which has been already PI lished in The Sun, w as read over to him. [The reading,. the evidence was i n t erru p te d b y t h e rus h of people ir the body of the Court, the doors having been, at this tit r ment thrown op en t o t h e pu bli c. I n a few minutes 19 e Court and gallery was crowded.] When order was 1 1 ' stored, the reading of the evidence was resumed, and th e witness was then asked by the clerk if it was true ? Johnston—lt is perfectly true, every word of it. Mr. Brandt said it was now competent to Mr. Stepbf n ' to cross-examine the witness, if he thought proper. Air. Stephens—At present I decline to cross-exatniri e this witness. If any part of the cross-examination on th e previous occasion had been taken down, then I would bo /e left it to the Court t o p ursue it s own course w i th respect to the case. William Coward was then called into the box and s woro' and his examination in chief, which has been already 0 1) ; lished, was read over to hi m. H e was then asked if t1.1,(1 evidence was true ? Coward—There is one clause in it wrong, with regard to buying arms. Mr. Brandt read the part of his evidence referred tol " The Druid Cl u b h ave d rawn out one pound a piece, t purchase arms." Coward—l don't know whether it was to purchase art s° or not.—(Great sensation in the body of the Court.) Mr. Brandt--Why, then, did you say so ? Coward—l said it was so reported. Mr. Brandt—Then that part must be struck out. Strik , it out, Mr. Smith. Mr. Stephens--I object to anything being struck out., Coward--I know th e y h ave d rawn out a pound eaclbi° one of the members told me so. A Magistrate—Are you a member of that society ? Coward—No, Sir. The evidence was then, at the suggestion of Mr. Brand t ! amended in th e f o ll ow i ng way —" I t was reported that tb_. Druid Club h a d d rawn out one pound each, to purc han arms," and the witness was then asked if the evidence s 9 ' true ? Coward—T o the best of my knowledge, it is true. Mr, Brandt--Mr. Steph ens , d o you w i s h to c rol r examine the witness ? Mr. Stephens—No, Sir, except that I want ever ytbia r that was said by him on hi s cross - exam i nat i on on the fortl'e occasion added. Mr. Brandt said Mr. Stephens might suggest v;b Bt should be added. Mr. Stephens —It is not my business to suggest to th e Court what course it ought to take. Mr. Brandt suggested that it should be stated by t b° Clerk that Mr. St e ph ens h a d d ec li ned to cross-examine t 136 witnesses. Mr. Law objected to any such statement being mad e ' There could be no possible ream for it. Mr. Brandt then called James Dean, who was sworn. hat Mr. Steph ens as k e d i f th i s was a new case, and w- Magistrate s he was appearing before, because h e folio in the Manchericr Guardian, the highest authority, he b e ; lieved, in that quarter, that the Magistrates had expresso their determination to commit him. Mr. B ran d t sa id h e meant to press the charge aga i n st al so have whi c h was set f ort h i n the warrant, and he would Ws",, have to refer to his conduct individually in other m attel; and to th a t o f ot h er persons who were i mp li cated. As the char ge was s h aped at present, it re f erred, as did theaddi' tional evidence, to what had taken place at the meeting a ready referred t o , an d what he p ropose d was, t h at the commitment s h ou ld be made out ; an d t h e i nference, which he would argue was fairly to be drawn from the evidenc e ' was that a conspiracy had been entered into by Mr. SW phens and others to oppose the due administration of the laws, more particularly that re l at i ng to the amendmen t the Poor-law. Mr. Stephens—This is a new warrant. ‘ i" Mr. Brandt— I. I No, it i s t h e same transact i on ; but , Mr. Stephens notic e t h at t h e i nd i ctment can be so ft" me a v and the commitment so made out, so as to prove - agaili him and oth ers a combination and confederacy atr.oncist of them, to prevent the due execution of the taw. a s ut in orde r t o satisfy the Magistrates of that, I have though t fit to call additional evidence to substantiate the c h ar ge. A Magistrate —I understand that it is not you r iota' tion, at present, to go into any further iacts ? Mr. Brandt —No, Sir. Magistrate —Then nothing is to be laid before us 131.1 what took place at that time ? Mr. Brandt—Nothing. Mr. Stephens—Am I to understand that this prose et!' inn is sanctioned by the Bench ? Magistrate—lt is. The examination was then proceeded with. James Dean—l am a joiner, residing at Leigh. I was at Leigh on the 13th November last. I got thew b e : tweon twelve and one o'clock. I was near enough to bear what was sa id b y M r . S tep h ens at t h e meet i ng. I beard him say s o m e thi ng respect i ng t h e P oor- l aw. I b ca rd 11110 _ say the Poor-l aw was no l aw at a ll , an d oug h t not to 11 obeyed ; b ecause it contra di cte d t h e l aw o f G od ; andhe that killoti a Poor-law Guardian in the execution c,f his du' did God religiou s serv i ce . R e f err i ng, as 1 styppose--(iff terrupted by Mr. Brandt). He mentioned the names Mr. Jones, Mr. Topping, and Mr. Pownall. I don't know whether th e y are G uar di ans or not. At t 1 1e close o f hls address he exhorted the people to purcha' ie arms, and to hang them over their mantle-piece, and not to use them un til, they saw him with hi s . i mp l ements i n his belt. Th a t wag towards the close of 114 address. I was tAt the ineetiog in the He as r Po( get tha and ink win dec he 1 ludl tak, wb E the ea whi kno pro, vitl Wks strE War c. 4 oil in be