The Sun. — London, England, 1844-10-21 00:00:00

NEW BELGIAN TARIFF. (From the Correspondent of the Journal des Debars.) " BRUSSILS, OCT. 14.—1 send you the resolutions come to here a few days ago, by which several modifica tions are to be made in the tariff of the customs of this country. It will not appear in the Moniteur Belge till to-morrow. With respect to all articles which can in any way interest the trade of France, an exception is made in favour of that country. England alone will be the sufferer. Printed cottons which pay 211 francs per 100 kil., are henceforth to pay 325 francs. The duties on bleached, coloured, or printed silks, which were for merly at the rate of 4 francs per kilometre, have been raised to 10 francs. With regard to France, the present duties ore maintained on cotton cloths during a year, and on silks during the period yet to run of the conven tion of 16th of July. There is no doubt that the effect of these differential duties will be to substitute the cotton manufactures of Rouen and Mulhausen in Belgium for those of Manchester. Belgian industry has suffered from the royal ordinance which recently raised the d uties on machinery on its entry into France. People cannot conceive here why, at the moment that France was ringing with the praises of the machinery exhibited at the Exposition, a duty should be laid upon fo reign machinery, which is tantamount to a prohibition, for the new duty, instead of being twenty-two per cent. as is pretended, is in fact forty per cent. The evi dent intention of the Belgian Government is to do away with all causes of jealousy or discontent on the part of France. If it limits the duration of the exemption in favour of France, it is principally in order to put the French Government and the Chambers in a position to come to an arrangement of as broad and durable a nature as possible. Whatever may be said to the contrary, the feelings of the great majority of the people of Belgium are in favour of France." " LEOPOLD, KING OF THE BELGIANS, TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, GREETING. " On the report of our Minister of the Interior and of Finances, we have resolved, and we hereby resolve, that the tariff of duties on entry be modified as follows : " Machinery.—French steam engines, 15f. per 100 kilog. ; steam-engines for navigation, 25f. ditto ; locomo tives, without tender, 35f. ditto ; all kinds of machines and mechanism, not specially denominated, 25f. ditto ; cards for combing, 75f. ditto ; tenders, boilers, gasome ters, &c., in iron or cast iron, 20E, in copper or any other metal, 40f. ditto ; detached pieces in cast iron, 15E, in malleable iron, 20E, in copper and other materials, 40f. ditto ; machinery in wood, at the rate of other wooden works. _ " Chemical Productions.—Alum, 4f. per 100 kilog. ; soda, &c., 61. ditto ; sal ammoniac, 20f. ditto. 'Tissues of Cotton.—Unbleached or bleached, the pre sent duty ; dyed or printed, 325 E per 100 kilog. " Tissues of Silk (excepting Ribbons, which continue at the present duty).—Unbleached or half-bleached, the present duty ; bleached, dyed, or printed, 10f. per kilog. " Tulles and Lace.—Cotton tulle, unbleached, as at present ; bleached, dressed, or coloured, 181. per kilog. ; worked, 121. " SPECIAL DISPOSITIONS. W " The metal cases in which /tin shall be imported are subject, according to the metal, to a different duty from the goods. " Engines and machinery may be imported by sea, by the Maese, and by the Custom-house offices attached to the state railroads. " The duties on machines or part machines are com puted on the net weight. " The declaration must establish, indepently of the nature of the machines and the general weight, the pieces of which it consists. " There shall be produced in support of that dQclara- tion— " 1. An inventory explanatory of the objects to which it relates, and indicating the number, the object, the weight, and metal of each piece imported. 2. A plan, on a scale distinctly setting forth the metals of which the machine is formed. " During a year, front the present time, the augmenta tion of entry duties shall not be applicable to French cotton cloths, the origin of which shall be fully justified, in conformity to regulations to be laid down by the Minister of Finance. Neither shall they be applicable to the productions of the Zollverein during the existence of the treaty of the ISt of September, 1844, between Belgium and the Zollverein, and from the present time, pending the exchange of the ratifications of the said treaty. " The present duty of 4f. is continued— " 1. On silk tissues of French origin, during the re mainder of the convention of 1842. " 2. On those of Zollverein origin, during the existence of the treaty of the Ist of September, 1844, &c. " The importation of unbleached and half-bleached tissues for the purpose of being dyed and printed and then re-exported will be allowed free of duty. ' The Duke of Portland has been confined some weeks at Welbeck by a painful and dangerous disease ; he is pronounced by the last accounts to be much better, if not entirely out of danger. IMPORTATION OF GRATES.—The Dutch steam ship Batavier, Captain Dunlop, which which was due at the St. Katherine's Steam Wharf on Wednesday morn ing, from Rotterdam, but which, in consequence of the boisterous weather experienced during the passage, did not make her appearance till the following day, had on board, in addition to a large number of Dutch cattle, poultry, &c. several hundred boxes of grapes, which it IS understoo d are imported for the purpose of making home-made wine, being very small in size and of a pale colour, and unfit for ordinary use. An immense quantity of grapes have been brought from Hamburgh during the last few days. They are remarkably fine in quality, being scarcely inferior to our own hot-house; and being in such profusion they have been exposed for sale at the markets and shops at the low price of Is. per lb. NOT TO BE " DoNz"—During the late Goose Fair a man went into Wombwell's menagerie, where his at tention was immediately attracted by the immense size and " knowing" tricks of the elephant. So pleased in deed was he with the sagacity of the enormous beast that he gave hire an apple, and afterwards permitted him to take another out of his cost pocket. Soon after he offered the elephant a third, but contrived to get it out of his reach before he could take it ; the animal, how ever, was not to be thus cheated, for marking the pocket into which the man had put the fruit, the next time he came within his reach he made a " grab" at the coat lap, and to the fellow's uncomfortable surprise, actually swallowed it, the apple, a silk handkerchief, and some halfpence into the bargain.--Nottingham Journal. THE ROYAL EXCHANGE FESTIVAL.—The Gazette of Friday contains an official notice from the Bank of England, that " Monday, the 28th instant, being the day appointei for the opening of the new Royal Ex change by her Majesty Queen Victoria, the Court of Directors, in concurrence with the committee of bankers, recommend that bills and notes due on the said 28th of October be paid on Saturday, the 26th of October, and that they will, for that purpose, give directions to their clerks to present them for payment on that day. The Court of Directors also give notice, that the offices for the transfer of the public funds, and for the delivery of the dividend warrants, will be shut on Monday, the 28th instant." DEATH FROM DRUNKENNESS.—An inquest was taken before John Williat Cowley, Esq., one of her Majesty's coroners for the county of Bucks, on the 14th inst., at Lavendon, on the body of Lydia Sparks, aged fifty-four. It appeared deceased was much addicted to drinking, and on Saturday morning last drank a quantity of beer. About half-past nine she, her husband, and her daughter went up stairs to bed ; the deceased, however, went down stairs again, and her husband, hearing her fall, called his daughter, who got a light and then went down stairs together, and found deceased at the bottom, quite dead ; neither of them touched her, but returned upstairs, dressed themselves, and then called in some neighbours, who took a more active part, by placing the deceased on a bed ; life, however, was quite extinct. Verdict—" Natural death, acc e l era t e d 40 by excessive drinking." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—WOOLWICH, OCT. 18.— The Dmdalus frigate is now ready for sea, and will be commissioned immediately by Capt. Peter M`Quhae (1835). The Black Eagle steam vessel, Master Com mander S. B. Cook, left Woolwich on Wednesday even ing for Portsmouth. The Apollo troop-ship, Lieutenant Commander Maclean, embarked the baggage of two companies of the Royal Artillery this afternoon, and the men will go on board at seven o'clock to-morrow morn ing, and the vessel will sail on Sunday for the Medi terranean. MR. Sar.omoxs.—A public dinner is to be given to Mr. Salomons on Tuesday next, at the London Tavern, by the inhabitants of the ward of Portsoken, for the purpose of testifying their respect for him. It is under striod that Sir Moses Montefiore will preside on the occasion. There will be illuminations, it appears, on a grand scale in the City, on the 28th instant, to celebrate the opening of the new Royal Exchange by her Majety, The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital have given 2002 in aid of the erection of a parsonage-house at Scremerston, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. They have also promised a similar sum towards the building of a new church at Nent-head, in Cumberland.—Neweastle Advertiser. The marriage of Viscount Loftus and Miss Jane Hope Vere, daughter of Lady Elizabeth Hope Vere, is definitely arranged to take place on Thursday next. The Duke of Wellington is expected to arrive in town on Wednesday from Strathfieldsaye, his Grace haring promised to attend the ceremony, for the purpose of giving the bride away. TOBACCO.—It is calculated that if the duty were paid on the whole of the tobacco at present in bond in London alone, including manufactured and unmainufac tnred tobacco and cigars, the sum would amount to little short of seven millions sterling. THE LATE WRECK AT Rusa.—Yesterday upwards of 100 country cars from the neighbourhood of Rush came into town laden with palm oil, which had been taken from the wreck of the ship that was lost on Tues day se'nnight at that place. The property was in charge of a revenue officer, and was deposited in the Custom house stores for the present.—Dublin Evening Post. BRIGHTON. —Fine autumnal weather has again set in. Yesterday was a most brilliant day, and our cliffs and rides were thronged with fashionable company. The late rains have only had the effect of making the town look more fresh and beautiful. In Brighton no sooner does the shower cease than the pedestrian and equestrian ;may again issue forth. The air has been peculiarly fresh eja d invigorating during the past week. The late gales have cleared it of all impurities.—Brighton Herald. M R . BRAHAM'S CONCERT. —On Tuesday evening last the celebrated Mr. Braham gave a grand concert in this town, on which occasion the highly talented veteran was assisted by his sons, Mr. Charles and Mr. Hamilton Braham. The concert was attended by a numerous and highly respectable company ; but not so many were present as availed themselves last year of the opportu rtity of hearing this great singer and composer.—Don osier Gazette. THE SUN, .LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 21, 1844. BATHS AND WASHHOUSES FOR THE LABOURING CLASSES. (From the Times.) The meeting at the Mansion-house on Wednesday, for promoting the establishment of baths and wash houses for the labouring classes, will, we can have little doubt, lead to beneficial consequences to the poor far beyond the limits of the metropolis. The scheme, which received so cordial an approbation from that meeting, has the advantage of being eminently practical, and, as experience has already shown, de cidedly practicable. There is a vile notion enter tained by some that " the poor love dirt." A fouler slander on the poor was never perpetrated. The poor endure dirt, they exist under the misery of dirt ; but they do so in those situations, and, as a general rule, in those situations alone, in which dirt is inevitable. Step into a cottage in the country, where its tenant is in the receipt of wages sufficient for his respectable maintenance, and what is the first thing that strikes the eve ? The furniture may be scanty, the accom modation may be of the homeliest order ; but there is an air of cleanliness over everything, which will be sought for in vain in the habitations of far richer men in large towns. The rural poor, in general, love cleanliness. They put up with dirt, when they do so, because they cannot help it ; and it is not till years of hard necessity have made them forget the delight of being clean in the anxious daily care of seeking how they may gain the means of bare existence, that dirt, rendered less offensive to them by long suffering, comes to be disregarded. The rich, when they pro fess their belief that "the poor love dirt," entirely forget why they themselves are so much cleaner. Your fastidious fine gentleman, with his ample supply of the finest linen, and the most luxurious appliances of the bath and the toilet, with the necessity upon him from his position in society of being scru pulously clean, and habitually regarding the slightest want of cleanliness as tarnishing his social reputation, finds his daily ablutions to be equally a duty and a pleasure. But condemn him for a single twelvemonth to hardships in any way approaching those under which many of the labouring classes constantly suffer, and how great would not be the change of at any rate his outward man ! Take, for instance the House of Lords, probably the cleanest assemblage of men which could be found ; condemn them to cold water and no soap, and to wash all their own clothes with their own hands in their own drawing-rooms for a single twelvemonth, and how would they look at its termination ? Isabella colour would, we suspect, become fashionable for shirt fronts, and white would yield to drab of divers shades. Can there be any doubt on this point ? Can any one man, whether peer or commoner, maintain that he, or any other in his station in life, would make any approach to his present cleanliness under the state of things which we have suggested ? The belief that he could do so, however good his will might be, would be preposterously absurd. We do not go so far as to assert that the rich would, under such circumstances, love dirt; but any man of plain common sense must see that they would learn to bear a far greater amount of it than they can now conceive it possible to en dure. The necessity which, amidst a choice of evils, compels dirt to be put up with, must be admitted by all to be a most important consideration in estimating the probabilities of the proposed baths and wash houses being resorted to by the labouring classes. Our attention has been called by a correspondent to the propriety of exposing the fallacy that they " love dirt ;" but, except as regards those whose ac quaintance with the poor is simply theoretical, we should think more than we have said on the subject a waste of words. _ „ .• That old habits of tolerance of dirt can easily be broken ; that men whose whole day is devoted to slaving for meat and drink, and who can scarcely find a spare copper once a-month for anything like an indulgence, will throng to the proposed baths from admiration of cleanliness in the abstract; or, that the evil consequences of long neglect of the poor by the rich can suddenly be remedied, we do not believe, and we should be far from readily anticipating; but that it is the duty of the rich, whose luxuries are the result of the poor men's needs, to make every effort towards mitigating the wretchedness under which they pine, we strenuously maintain.; and because we entertain a confident expectation that no endeavour to benefit them, which proceeds on an accurate ac quaintance with their wants, and is reasonably calcu lated to meet them, can fail of producing some good, we give our suffrage in favour of the establishment of the proposed baths and washhouses. But let not the gentlemen who are engaged in promoting their establishment flatter themselves that they are doing anything worth a name for the very abject poor. So long as the belly is pinched, the condition of the skin is a matter of mere secondary importance. The man who is half-starved will not give up twopennyworth of potatoes for the sake of a warm bath. The family which has nothing but rags to cover, and, perhaps, scarcely cover their nakedness, will give little trouble to what the Committee call washhouses,” but for which we think they would do well to substitute the far less equivocal, and equally well-known name, " laundries." By degrees, but working downwards in the scale of society, the practice of bathing may extend. At first, we can have little doubt, the baths will be resorted to principally by mechanics whose wages allow them to indulge in some trifling super fluities. Still, to such men, pent up in the midst of al large city, and deprived of many of the facilities for cleanliness which can be enjoyed by the country, a cheap warm bath once or twice a-week will be a great comfort ; and, even if no others should avail themselves of the establishment, for their sakes it would be worth founding. The " laundries," as we beg permission to call them, may afford temptation to a more numerous class. The cost of firing for a washing day, and the trouble, and frequently the expense of obtaining the needful supply of water—to the rich perhaps apparently light, but to the poor really heavy evils; but, above all, the constant serious inconvenience, and, according to the reports on the health of the poor, often the danger to health occasioned by all the processes of washing being performed in the one close room in which the poor man's family too frequently dwell— these distresses will, in all probability, send a far larger proportion of poor women to the laundries than of men, women, and children, to the baths. Even at the small and inconvenient establishment in Liver pool it appears that more than 305,000 articles of clothing and domestic use have been washed in the course of the year; and the applicants at that esta blishment are so much increasing that another is about to be formed in a different quarter of the town. We augur well from the spirit with which the matter has been taken up in the City. There was something far better in the meeting on Wednesday than we can find in the run of meetings for consider ing the condition of the poor which have been held in the country. There was no talk of driving the poor to emigration with a bell-wether of " a clever farmer's son" at their head. Instead of telling them to go to Canada and wash in Lake Erie, it was determined that means should be provided by the rich for enabling the poor to wash and make themselves more comfort able at home, and a handsome subscription was imme diately set on foot. Cheques for ten and twenty gui neas were immediately handed in by bankers, mer chants, clergymen, aldermen, and common council men, instead of wordy resolutions by magistrates, de puty-lieutenants, and sporting country gentlemen. The City meeting was held for doing, and not for mere palaver, and we shall rejoice to see the example set by men of business widely followed out of London by those who have equal means and more time at their command. For the erection of the four baths and laundries which the Committee propose to establish in the metropolis—three in Middlesex and one on the Surrey side of the Thames—large funds will of course be required, but we cannot anticipate that any diffi culty will be found in raising them. Why should not the Fleet Prison be converted into one ? The street is of such ample width there that the opposite residents would not be exposed to any perceptible annoyance, and the gift of such a building would greatly facilitate the progress of the scheme. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAILWAY.—On Friday an inquest was held before Mr. Chapman, at the Atlas Hotel, Oxford road, Manchester, on the body of James Carse, a map dealer, of Mount Pleasant, Rochdale, whose death resulted from the injuries received on the Old ham branch of the Manchester and Leeds Railway. It appeared from the evidence of Elizabeth, wife of William Leigh, hatter, of Rochdale, that she and Carse got into a railway train at Oldham, on Wednesday even ing, and were going to Rochdale, but on the arrival of the train at the Middleton junction, Cape opened the door of the carriage, which was a third-class, as the train was slackening its pace, and tried to get out, when his foot slipped, and he fell across the rail. The off-wheel (if the succeeding waggon passed over the unfortunate I man's thighs ' and he was removed to the Manchester infir mary within half an hour of the accident, but be survived the injury only till Thursday night, when he died about half.past seven o'clock. The witness stated that de ceased was in liquor at the time of the accident, and the fault was entirely his own. The jury found a verdict of " Accidental death."—Manchester Courier. A splendid brown horse, rising 5 years old, has been purchased from Mr. Joseph Clay, of this town, by Mr. Reynolds, groom to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, by orders of Earl Howe, her Majesty's Cham berlain. This beautiful animal is intended by her Ma jesty as a present to his Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Weimar, and was yesterday sent off to Witley Court, Worcestershire, for her Majesty's inspection previous to its being forwarded to Germany.—Shrewsbury Chronicle. The rate in Christ. Church, Blackfriars, has been carried by a majority of 129. EASTRItIi U 211027 RAILWAL—The works on this line have been commenced at Great Bentley; where there aro about 100 men at work, the operations extend ing to nearly a mile.—Suffolh Chronicle. A block of porphyry, weighing upwards of 50,000 lbs., has been taken from the quarries at Morlaix, to be used for the sarcophagus of the Emperor Napoleon. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. 7ROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—The Government organs evince con siderable uneasiness on the subject of Irish politics. The state of the Tories is one of conscious danger— with this additional source of alarm, that they are ignorant of the quarter whence the shock will come. Bewilderment is thus superadded to fear. It is plainly seen that the ensuing session will prove pregnant with embarrassment to Ministers. Their criminal neglect of means for improving the condition of the Irish people since they en tered upon office, has deepened and widened the dis affection with which the people of that country be held their assumption:of rule. Protestants, in whom the love of country is not wholly extinct, now openly avow their conviction that some organic change in the existing order of things is neces sary ; and manifest a disposition to merge their former differences with their Catholic fellow countrymen in a confederation, by which a radical change in the Constitution may be effected ; hoping that thus something may be effecte3 for their common interests. This state of feeling in those who were wont to deprecate agitation, and to eschew all desire to meddle with established institu tions, is among the most significant indications of danger to the Government. All confidence in the ability all hope from the wisdom of her Majesty's present advisers have passsed away, even from those who were most disposed to regard Sir Robert Peel's accession to power as fraught with promise of peace and security to Ire land. To a certain extent the vocation of O'Connell has ceased. Agitation for repeal—as a definite pro position for procuring for the suffering masses of Ire land a redress for public grievances, and a relief from the physical and social evils which per vade the great mass of the community is no longer in that state of fervid activity which lately seemed to defy opposition, and spurned all milder schemes as futile and treacherous. This stilling of the waves is accounted for on prin ciples which bode anything but peace or stability to the Government. 1 he great Agitator has retired from the stage to the repose of the domestic scene. But it is to avail himself of the quietude of seclusion to observe events as they arise, and to prepare, with more perfect adaptation to their objects, his own schemes of action. The party which has hitherto agreed to denounce and oppose the power of O'Con nell, and which has been actuated by one common effort to neutralise his influence and to extirpate his projects, is now divided. A manifest inclination to fraternize with him, in order to obtain from the Legislature a modification of his own scheme, is now evinced. The policy of O'Connell, under such cir cumstances, is obvious. Federalism is but repeal under another name—a duodecimo edition of the larger work. It will, therefore, gratify the ever varying taste of the Irish people ; and flatter the personal vanity of those who have broached the new delusion. To keep up the agitation for re peal while the new project is yet before the multi tude, with all the attractions of novelty fresh upon it, would be only to bring federalists and repealer& into angry collision, and thus weaken and eventually destroy both. Coalition is O'Connell's obvious desire. lle will pare down repeal to the dimensions of federalism ; if, by so doing, he can effect a junction of the disaffected Protestants with his followers. The sagacity for which Mr. O'Connell has been ever distinguished will not desert him now, when he most needs it. He sees, with intuitive perception, the bearings of his new position, and is per fectly content to shape his course in accord ance with the views of the federalists, if by so doing he can advance his own. The greater the num bers which can be brought to act upon the Govern ment, will press out of it the greatest amount of con cession to their claims. Repeal and federalism are alike impracticable as ultimate objects. Either may, however, be employed as paeans to an end. Agitation, under whatever name, is merely symptomatic of de rangement in the body-politic. Remove the cause of the disease, and the symptoms which indicate the presence of the varied maladies will disappear. The coalition which Sir Robert Peel will have to meet in the next session, and from which he and his adherents may well shrink with dread, will be a union of all who are are anxious to bring back the estranged affection of the Irish people to a reasonable and firm attachment to England—and English connexion, as the source of their own security and prosperity. To effect this, every nerve must be strained, both in and out of Parliament, to force remedial mea sures from or upon the Government ; or, in the event of refusal or resistance, to drive Ministers from their posts. The necessity is urgent, for the dangers of delay are great. The people of England are determined to maintain the union intact and in violate. They know, also, that this can only be done by making it manifest that the benefits of the union shall be felt by the people of Ireland, as well as talked of by their rulers. We have reason to believe that the Liberals will com mence the coming session with demanding from the Government an announcement of the mea sures they intend to submit with reference to Ireland. If Ministers have no specific measures in readiness, the Opposition wiil be ready to propose their plans; and thereon issue will be joined. What the result will be to the Government we cannot predict. That a very considerable amount of substantial benefits, tending to conciliate the affections of the Irish nation, and consolidate the scattered elements of Ireland's strength, will be the consequence, we feel assured. STANDARD.—If we were not well aware of the indisposition, not to say inability, of our order gene rally to deal with any subject upon comprehensive principles, we should be at a loss to understand the purpose of the leading article which we have copied from the Times of this day. On the 19th of October our Contemporary goes back to a discussion and decision at the end of June, the results of which dis cussion and decision are now unalterable, with no purpose that we can conceive but to raise a sneer at the reasoning of the Prime Minister. This purpose will, however, fail ; for the reasoning of Sir Robert Peel, whether the Times can understand it or not, will be perfectly satisfactory to all intelli gent men. The British empire is composed of many parts variously circumstanced, but all equally en titled to the protection and favour of the Government. The Queen's Government would not, however, act impartially towards all the Queen's subjects, were it to give to any one portion of them advantages at the expense of the rest. These are propositions, we suppose, open to no objection ; and the simple, clear, and satisfactory application of them in Sir Robert Peel's argument upon the sugar question is perfectly obvious. The population of our sugar colonies, whatever their colour or rank are entitled to the same care and protection with the population of Ike British islands, or of any other part of the empire, but no more. Now, protecting the population of the British colonies from the competition with the slave population of the Brazils and Cuba, gives to our own colonies that protection which they have a right to claim, at the same time maintaining the honour of the British empire—happily bound up with the sup pression of slavery and vindicating the liberty of the human race. To protect the British sugar colonies from competition with the slave popula tion of the Brazils and Cuba was, besides being a consistent, philanthropic, and religious act, the discharge of a just debt to the colonists, from whom we had taken the power to compete with slaveholders ; but to protect the British sugar colonists from competition with other free sugar colonies by more than a moderate duty would be an act of gross injustice to the consumers of sugar in Great Britain, Ireland, and elsewhere through the Queen's dominions, without ultimately benefiting the British sugar colonies themselves. In considering the comparative claims of different portions of the empire, we must! take into account the claims of the aggregate population of each por tion, not the claims of any particular class in it. The question, therefore, lies between the social condition of the British islands and the sugar colonies, each in integro, and it comes to this—are the mass of the British population in so much better a condition than the mass of the population of the sugar colonies, that it is just to raise prices, or to sustain high prices, against the former, for the benefit of the latter ? ought we to require from the British labourer, for example, who rarely commands 12s. a week, a high price for one of the necessaries of life (for such sugar has now become), in order to pam per the West Indian negro, who can command 245. a week, and who resides in a country where the demands of house-rent, fuel, clothing, and even food, do not, on the whole, amount to one-half of these demands in England ? This is the plain tt question, bioant oift t hi is and hn ontuehsceaelai unnecessary r n s ay w r t e ti fi r o to it is so very plain, e g s go y into w h i e t h h the veexraymbi high protecting duty, operating against the produce of many countries, might be and would be evaded. I If any one objects that it is not the con dition of the negroes but that of the planters we are to take into the comparison, our answer is that in the present state of the West India sugar colonies, the negroes are so completely masters of the market, that whatever advantage is conceded to the colo nies, must devolve to them, and to them ex clusively. The supply of labour is notoriously deficient, and they who are to furnish that supply can, therefore, command the terms ; but they will, of course, adopt no other measure of wages but the ability of the employers to pay, an whatever is given to the employers, by consequence, comes to them in the end. This is the explanation of the monstrous rate of wages at present in the West India colonies generally an abuse which operates more than any other cause to ruin these colonies, and which, if some corrective be not applied, must go on aggravating itself until the colonies shall be ruined irrecoverably. In con sidering the sugar colonies, we must constantly re- J member that we are considering regions in which the sustenance of mere animal life hardly de mands a moment's care. When, however, you throw high wages into the hands of the igno rant population of such regions, it is plain that you give them more money, much more money, than it is possible for them to consume in satisfying their moderate wants ; this money must therefore be expended in excesses fatal to health and morals, or hoarded with a view to obviate the necessity of future toil; but it is ha rd to say which of the two processes is the more efficacious in diminishing a labouring population, that is, in exasperating the disease by which the sugar colonies ar e a l rea dy sinking. This is a subject of deep importance, to which we have often before referred, and to which we shall again refer fully ; at present, however, we allude to it only to show that it is not by hi g h pro tecting duties the suga r colonies can be saved. LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFFS' COURT, Oct. 19. THE LUMBER TROOP. - ROUS V. GOODMAN. This was an action brought by Mr. Rous, the proprie tor of White Conduit House, against the defendant, who was styled " Colonel" Goodman, of " the Ancient and Honourable Lumber Troop, for the recovery of the sum of 181. 19s. 10d., for goods sold and delivered in the summer of the year 1842, when the " Troop" dined at the plaintiff's house. A number of the troop had formed ticket. themselves into a committe e, and saw Mr. Rous, when it was agreed that he should su pp l y a dinne r in three days diafterwards,nn dinner and each . person h fora wwi wino ieke e t. paying" Colonel" Draper 7s. 6d. for hi o came was to preside, but in his absence the defendant took the chair, and thus, it was contended, made himself liable for wine to the amount claimed, which had been drunk over and above the amount of wine tickets which had been delivered up. Mr. Lush appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Ryland for the defence. Samuel Fisher was the first witness called.—He said he was clerk in the employment of Mr. Rous. The stewards of the dinner to be bad by the Lumber troop agreed to pay 7s. 6d. per head for dinner, and ss. for tickets, which, upon being handed to the attendants, a bottle of wine *as brought to the owner of a ticket. All the stewards and " Colonel" Goodman desired that no credit might be given without the sanction of the chair man. Two persons were placed at the door of the dinner room, one Mr. Nicholson, the secretary, on the part of the troop, and the other a person named Seaton, for the plaintiff. " Colonel" Draper was to have taken the chair; but not being in attendance up to the latest moment, the defendant took his plate. James Seaton deposed that he admitted the parties, upon being told by the secretary that all was right. Thomas Higgs, who acted as toast-master, stated that a quantity of wine was given on credit, but not one bottle without an order from the chairman. Several other witnesses having been called in support of the plaintiff's case, Mr. Elmo's]) addressed the jury for the defence, and contended that Mr. Goodman was not liable, inasmuch as to enable him to perform his duties as chairman efficiently, a gentleman named Fellowes sat beside him to attend to all the details of charging the wine, &c. Although in the decision on the celebrated ".rump and dozen" case, one was liable for the whole, yet there was no reliance in this, because it was stipulated that no credit was to be given. The Learned Counsel called a number of witnesses for the defence. John Ireland, proprietor of the Falcon Tavern, Fetter lane, who described himself as the " Suttler" to the troop, said he was one of the committee who made the preliminary arrangements for the supper, and he con sidered that if Mr. Rous had adhered to the agreement he would have suffered no loss. Several other witnesses having been called, who gave similar evidence, Mr. Lusx addressed the jury for the plaintiff, and the Learned Judge having summed up, The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 61. 18s. The Court was crowded with licensed victuallers and person connected with the " troop," the former to hear the decision, which was considered rather important so far as they were concerned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY. ) GUILDHALL. James Thomas Hamatty, a clerk at Messrs. Morri son, Dillon, and Co.'s, the haberdashers, Fore-street, was brought before Mr. Alderman Kelly, charged with embezzling 1301. Mr. Humphreys and Mr. Ashurst attended on behalf of the prosecutors. Mr. Humphreys explained the nature of the charge, and said he was apprehensive the case he should make out that day was not the only one, and he should re quire time for further inquiry. Mr. Edmett, a linendraper at Maidstone, proved that he sent the sum of 1301. in notes, by halves, for warded on the 23d and 24th of September to Messrs. Morrison and Co. He received a letter acknowledg ing the receipt of the money, which he produced. Mr. Dillon said the letter acknowledging the receipt was partly printed, but filled up in manuscript and signed by the prisoner. It should have been signed by witness, and then he should have seen that the money was entered in the cash book. The prisoner had entered the receipt in the memorandum book upon receiving the first halves, but he had omitted to account in the cash book upon receiving the counter parts of the notes. It was his duty to have entered it in the cash book. The prisoner, who offered no: defence, was re. manded till the 30th instant. :BOW -STREET. young man, named Daniel Grachey was brought before Mr. Twyford, charged with assaulting Mr. Skard, an officer of a Temperance Society, meeting in St. Mar tin's-lane. Mr. Skard came into the witness-box and said that he was one of the Committee of the Temperance Society in St. Martin's-lane. For some time past they had been annoyed by young men, who came to ridicule the pro ceedings of the Society. Mr. TWYFORD..—IB any body allowed to speak besides the Committee at these meetings ? Witness—Oh ! only those who have been reclaimed, like myself, from the paths of drunkenness, are allowed to speak. Mr. TWYFORD—Can any get up and advocate the cause of gin and water ?—(Laughter.) Witness, with dignity—Oh no, Sir, we are not a debating society. Mr. TWYFORD—Dear me, then it is a sort of preach ing society. The witness then stated that the prisoner was ridi culing the proceedings last night, and upon being re. monstrated with, he struck the witness. The prisoner denied that he struck the witness. He and a friend went into the room, and because they laughed they were given into custody. Mr. TWYFORD said the prisoner must be fined 10s., or go to prison for ten days.—The fine was immediately paid. CLERKEIV WELL. A little boy, named Bran, living in Fox-court, Gray's Inn-lane, was charged with exposing goods for sale on the footway, and obstructing the public passage. Police-constable, 72 E, took the prisoner into custody upon the charge of a tradesman in Holborn. The evidence of both constable and tradesman went no further than to prove, that the little boy, who was aged about twelve years, was in the habit of crying his fruit in a very loud voice. The tradesman said he was greatly annoyed by it; he was the complainant on this occasion. Mr. COMBE—Annoyed by what ? Complainant—By the cries. Mr. CoMBE—I do not see why that should annoy you. Complainant—Well, I do not wish to punish him. Mr. COMBE—But the question is, what right you had to give the child into custody at all ? The boy cried bitterly. The contents of his basket, which were not worth twopence, was all he possessed in the world. Mr. COMBE—WeII, really it seems very hard that this boy should be imprisoned. Why, you might as well imprison all those who cry " Cresses," vegetables, and all manner of things in the street., and which the Act of Parliament, though very stringent and specific, does not say one word about. Discharge the boy. WORSHIP -STREET. Samuel Edge, a tall, thin personage, and Charlotte Edge, his wife, were brought before the Magistrate by Sergeant Dubois, and charged with being part of the very numerous gang of swindlers who have de frauded tradespeople to an almost incredible extent in all parts of the metropolis and environs, and two parties, of whom seven or eight in numbhr are al ready in custody, at this Couri, upon many charges, The female prisoner was first charged with having been concerned with Henry Miller and Sarah Dewar, alias Miller, his reputed wife, in obtaining no less than seventeen very expensive bonnets, from Mr. Peats, a tradesman at Hammersmith. • Miller and the woman Dewar, who passed as his wife, had hired one of a set of cottages in t hat neigh bourhood, called Peter's- cottages, for three years cer tain, but after a few weeks' occupation, during which they kept up a dashing appearance, and gave extensive orders to all the neighbouring tradespeople, they shut up the house and removed away clandestinely in the night4ime, and afterwards sent the keys to the lodg ing by another of the gang named Smith, jun., who had the impudence to demand a sovereign for his trouble in delivering them, but was given into custody and the keys taken from him. The day before they so disappeared they obtained the seventeen bonnets from the shop of Mr. Peat, and upon their apprehen sion- lately in Harvey-street, Hoxton, two of the bonnets were found in their possession, together with a variety of silk and other dresses, false fronts and ringlets, &c., in which the females of the gang were in the habit of disguising themselves in their preda tory visits to the different tradespeople whom they victimised. Mary Anne Gibbing, shopwoman to Mr. Peat, identified the female prisoner now at the bar as having enacted the part of servant to the others at Peter's cottages, and received the bonnets. The two prisoners were then charged with having been concerned with the others in defrauding M r . Mussared, at Hammersmith, of boots and shoes. Miller and the male prisoner, whom he introduced as his nephew, first ordered boots and shoes for them selves, and when they were taken to the cottage fur ther orders were given for the females of the family, and a number of pairs of boots and shoes supplied, after which another order was given for some more, which were to be delivered_ by a particular day, but before the time arrived the whole party had dis appeared. Mr. BROUGIITON remanded the two prisoners for re-examination with the others. MARLBOROUGH-S7REET. Martha Lipscontbe, the young woman who at tempted to commit suicide by drowning herself in the Serpentine last week, and who had been sent to pri son for a week in the hope that a short confinement would produce in her a proper sense of her heinous offence, was on Friday brought before Mr. Maltby for further examination. The young woman, who apparently had not been able to command her intractable temper, said all she wished now was to get her clothes and her character from her last place, and go into the country away from her sisters, whom she never wished to see or speak to again. Mr. MALTBY said she did not appear to show a proper feeling towards her sisters, the married one having even ran into debt to keep her when out of place. The girl replied that was true, but she had always repaid her sister as soon as she got in service. Mr. MALTBY inquired if she now repented of her wicked attempt on her own life ?—The girl said she would not tell a falsehood about the matter. She did not repent of what she had done. Mr. MALTBY said Le had hoped that a few days' imprisonment would have produced in her a better state of feeling ; but he found that no beneficial effect en her mind had been produced. The attempt on her life which she had made rendered her liable to be sent for trial for the offence. The girl said that she would promise thus far, that she never would attempt to take away her life on ac count of a stupid boy. It was because she had been knocked abaut by this boy, and treated with con tempt by her sisters, that she had attempted to destroy herself. The sister said the defendant had never been ill treated by any one. It was her violent and intractable temper which was her only enemy. Mr. MALTBY said he could not think of discharging the girl after what he had just heard. He should re mand her for another week, and then determine how he would dispose of the case. An elderly man, of extremely respectable appear ance, who gave the name of John Williams, but who refused to say what he was, or where he lived, was charged with stealing two books, worth 15s. 6d., from the shop of Mr. Sharp, book-dealer, No. 14, St. Martin's-court. George Young, shopman, said he saw the prisoner watching the shop in the morning. About seven o'clock in the evening he saw the prisoner come to the window in which the books were placed, and take down the books and put them on a shelf. The pri soner went away, but returned almost immediately, and took up the books, placed them under his coat, and walked away. Witness followed and stopped him in the street with the books in his possession. The prisoner, who was very reserved during the whole of the proceedings, declined to say anything, and was fully committed. MAI?I'LEBOA E. On Friday, Count Grabouski, residing at No. 11, Bentinck-terrace, Regent's-park, was charged by Fitzgerald, 178 D, who stated that on the previous night, about twelve o'clock, he found the prisoner drunk in Oxford-street. He was reeling from one side of the pavement to the other, and as he seemed incapable of taking care of himself; witness conveyed him to the station-house. The Count—l was not drunk ; what you state is all false. _ _ _ _ Ovenden, 80 D, here stepped forward and said that the prisoner was quite drunk when charged at the station. Prisoner ordered the first witness to fetch him a cab, and exclaimed, "You rascal, what did you bring me here for ?" The Count (emphatically)—There's not a single word of truth in what he says, and I can produce witnesses to prove that I was quite sober. Mr. LoNG—Are any of your witnesses here ? The Count—No, Sir, but I could produce them if I had the opportunity of sending for them. Mr. LONG—You are called a Count, and I suppose you are one ? The Count—Yes, I am, Sir. Mr. LONG — The evidence against you has not been disproved; and, for your drunkenness, you are fined five shillings. Count Grabouski, who seemed very much incensed, exclaimed—" If this case appears in the newspapers, I shall prosecute the two constables for a breach of the peace." Caroline Berry and Elizabeth Phasey were placed at the bar, before Mr. Long, for further examination charged with having been concerned in stealing articles of jewellery, &c., valued at nearly 4001., the property of John Goldie, Esq., 39, Baker-street, Portman-square. The particulars of what previously transpired appeared at some length in our paper of Monday last. Some additional evidence was gone into, and the prisoners (for one of whom Mr. Woolf, from the office of Mr. Flower, Hatton-garden, attended) were remanded till Thursday next. On Thursday afternoon, Michael Lee, who, on Tuesday last, was charged at this Court with having murdered his wife by drowning her in the Paddington Canal, was again brought up, after the termination of the Coraner's inquest, by whom a verdict of "Found drowned" was returned. He was discharged, with an understanding that he was liable to be re-appre hended in the event of the officers pusse3sing them • selves, at any future period, of more conclusive evi dence against him. THAMES POLICE. John Butler, a fishmonger, of No. 4, Duke street, St. George's-in-the-East, preferred a complaint against a pretty tall young woman, just out of her teens, named Mary Sandberry, of having illegally de• tained a shawl, his property. Douglas, No. 279 K, said the young woman ad mitted the possession of the shawl, and said it was given to her as a present by the defendant while he was courting her. The complainant said that was false. He had been a widower for seven months, and the defendant was his late wife's sister, and she borrowed the shawl of him for a day. The defendant —Please, Sir, it was was my sister's shawl—the false man : when my sister died, he said that I was welcome to the shawl, and said that it would grace my shoulders marvellously, and gave it me freely, and the first Sunday I wore it, he walked with me to the tea-gardens. The complainant—Yes, but I did not give you the shawl. I sent my boy over to your house for it after wards. The defendant—lt's all through jealously, Sir, be cause I walked out with another young man, and now he wants the shawl back. Oh, the mean fellow. Mr. BALLANTINE—What ! Has he been making love to you ? The defendant—Yes, Sir, he promised me marriage, and since I walked with the other young man, he has become as jealous as ever Othello was of his wife. _ _ Mr. BALLANTINE—Did it not occur to you that it was very improper to marry your own sister's hus band ? The Defendant—Yes, Sir, that was my ob jection. I knew it was contrary to law. The defendant admitted that he had taken a walk out with the girl, but denied there was any courtship in the matter ; was it likely that he should want to marry again ? Mr. BALLANTINE—It ' s not at all improbable, for you have been seven months a widower. I shall not interfere in this matter, and the young woman may keep the shawl. A few minutes afterwards the parties changed places, and Butler was placed in the dock charged with violently assaulting Miss Sandberry at the door of the Court. She entered the witness-box, sobbing loudly, her hair in disorder, and her gown torn. It appeared that she triumphantly placed the disputed shawl over another one, whereupon, said the girl, " He flew upon me like a tiger, dragged me some distance by the hair of my head, and took the shawl from me. My neck was torn, and I was thrown on the gravel." Police-constable, 333 K, and another witness, said the female was violently assaulted. The defendant said that the shawl was his property, and seeing the complainant put it on her shoulders in bravado, he tore it from her. Mr. BALLANTINE directed the shawl to be imme diately restored to the female, and said the assault was a very aggravated one, and fined the defendant 405., which he immediately paid, and then departed quietly. UNION-HALL. William Brocksopp, formerly in extensive business as a grocer and tea-dealer in High-street, Southwark, was brought before Mr. Traill on remand, charged by William Brocksopp, jun., his son, with stealing a gold ring, a gold pin, and portfolio, his property. On Wednesday last, the accused was given into custody by his son on the above charge, when it ap peared that the articles above specified were taken out of a box belonging to the complainant, and left in the care of the accused, who had been for some length of time struggling against adversity with a large family. The complainant on examining the box, and finding the articles mis.ing, ginstioned his father on the sub ject, and it appearing the latter had pledged them, and had objected to restore them, was given into cus- , tody by his son. Mr. TRAILL, who could not help expressing his , surprise at a son bringing' such a case before the pub lie, adjourned it over, merely making the accused enter into his own recognisance to appear this day, the magistrate and every other person in court, who heard the details, believing that an arrangement would take place betwe the parties, and that no more would be heard of the charge. In this expectation, however, a disappointment was experienced, for when the case was called on, the complainant immediately appeared, and, in answer, to , Mr. Traill, said that no arrangement had been en tered into respecting the charge, The accused then 1 handed in a note, of which the following is a copy, that he received from his son since the last exami nation : " 13, Norfolk-place, Kent-road, Oct. 16. " Mr. Brocksopp,—lf you are willing to deliver me the articles I claim, viz , the two rings, gold pin, and portfolio, or give me the tickets and the money for which they are pledged, I will drop any further prosecution. If they are not delivered up on these terms, you must take the consequences. If not settled by to-morrow by four o'clock, my solicitor has my instructions to make out the necessary brief.—l remain, Sir, yours most re spectfully, " WILLIAM BROCKSOPP. " To Mr. W. Brocksopp, sen." Mr. TRAILL said that he expected to have heard no more of the charge, when the complainant imme diately answered, that as the prisoner did not think proper to restore the jewellery articles, he should go on with the charge. He then proceeded to describe that the rings and pin belonged to him, and that the box from which they were taken was opened without his sanction by the prisoner. Mr. TRAILL said that, after all, the complainant could not produce evidence of the stealing of the ar ticles, the utmost being that of illegally pawning against the father. The complainant said that he was still willing to forego the prosecution, if the accused restored him the articles. The accused (in strong terms) denounced the con duct of the complainant, for the harsh steps he had adopted towards him, and said that, even if he was adjudged to restore them, he had not the means of doing so. The complainant said that, if he did not proceed with the charge, the prisoner would not stop until he deprived him of all his property ; that his father, some time ago, was the cause of preventing him from ob taining 2,0001. The prisoner denied the assertion. Mr. TRAILL (to complainant)—Then, I suppose, you have adopted this proceeding against your father out of revenge ? The complainant, however, declared that such was not the case, and complained loudly of his father's general misconduct. The accused retorted. The magistrate stopped the recrimination between the parties ; and, after some further evidence respect ing the charge, adjudged the accused to restore the gold ring and pin to his son, saying at the same time that if he did not consent to do this, an order would be immediately issued to compel him. The accused declared that he was wholly unable to redeem the articles ; and he was then informed of the consequences if he neglected to obey the order made upon IVilliam Batty, the proprietor of Astley's Amphi theatre, was summoned at the instance of Birch, the informer, for suffering certain exciseable liquors to be sold on his premises without a licence for that purpose. Mr. Humphries, the solicitor on the part of the de fendant, contended that an information of that nature must be laid by an officer of excise or some person authorised by the Board, and not by a common in former. After some discussion upon the point, it, however, was over-ruled, and the case proceeded. Birch then called his witness, George Pratt, who stated that he was a watchmaker out of emplop and that, on Tuesday night last, he went to Astley s Am phitheatre. While in the theatre he went into the pit saloon, and was served by a female with a glass of gin-and-water, and some time after had a repetition of the " dose," when he observed a lady taking a glass of wine, and two gentlemen called for a glass of brandy-and-water, with which they were also served. He added that he was acquainted with the person of Mr. Batty, and saw that gentleman going into the private entrance of the theatre, when he (witness) was going into the pit. Mr. Humphries said it was incumbent on the in former to prove that the defendant was the owner of the theatre. Birch immediately drew forth a bill of the play, to prove the fact ; but this description of evidence not being considered sufficient by the magistrate to sus tain a conviction, Birch then said that he had no other means then of proving the fact; that everybody knew, since Ducrow's death, that Mr. Batty was the pro prietor. I thOught, added Birch, that no objection of this description would be urged. Mr. TRAILL said it was most important to prove the ownership of the premises where the alleged in - fringement of the Act took place. Birch then said that he procured the bill of the play to save the trouble of applying at the Lord Chamber lain's office ; that in case the magistrate considered the allegation not proved, he should obtain other evi. dente. Mr. TRAILL—You must before I can convict. The summons was then ordered to stand over for the above purpose, and on Mr. Humphries applying for the costs, the magistrate, in reply, said that he should be guided as to whether the informer should pay all the costs on the final decision of the in formation. Thomas Hobbs, a groom, was charged before Mr. Traill with stealing a horse, the property of Mrs. Heath. a stage-coach proprietor in the New Kent-road. It appeared that, on the preceding day, the prisoner was employed in exercising some horses belonging to the complainant, and that having been paid for his day's work, he left the premises in the evening. Jessup, the horse-keeper, went away from his master's premises in the evening, having locked up the stables. This morn ing, soon after six o'clock, the witness, on going to the Stables, found them broken open, and a valuable mare stolen. It further appeared, that between two and three o'clock that morning, a policeman on duty in the Kennington-road, met the prisoner on horse back. The moment he saw him, be put the horse into a trot, and tried to get away, but the policeman followed and stopped him. When the prisoner was questioned on the subject, he said that he was in the employ of Mr. Wailes, the knacker, in the Wandsworth road, and that he was taking the mare to his master's yard to be killed. The policeman doubting the truth of this assertion, took the prisoner into custody, and it was subsequently ascertained that the horse had been stolen from the complainant's stables, as above described. The prisoner, who did not deny the charge, was com mitted for trial to the Central Criminal Court, the busi ness of which commences on Monday next (this day). EXETER COURT of BANKRUPTCY. PURITY OF ELECTION IN CORNWALL. IN RE ROBERT EVERY. The insolvent, a farmer of Callington (Cornwall), was opposed by Mr. Whiteford, of Plymoutls, for a debt incurred by judgment against him, in an action for " malicious" trespass. He had rented a farm called Castlewick, of Dr. Penny, and forcibly kenrit possession, on the expiration of the lease, against the new tenant, after his furniture had been removed. After a long examination he was remanded. A curious electioneering anecdote came out in the examination. Captain Poade, of Slades, son-in-lawo the late Dr. Penny, was latterly insolvent's landletd. During the election for East Cornwall, insolvent said he met Mrs. Poade in the street at Callington. She asked who he was going to vote for ? " I &at know," said he. She said, "To be sure you votetror Lord Eliot." He said, " Why have you not done as Lord Eliot has ?" (His Lordship had recently:ke mitted part of his rents, and insolvent complained that his rent was too high.) She said, " This is no time for such a discussion as that." He answered, ",You have used me:very ill." She took a blue ribbon from her reticule, and tied it to his button-hole. " There," she said, "go along and vote for Lord Eliot, and you shall have no cause to complain." "And so," said the insolvent to the court, "I did go and vote for Lord Eliot, and this is the way she has served me." MURDER.—A case occurred on Sunday, which leaves little doubt that murder has been done in this city, Glasgow; and the particulars of which, so far as we have ascertained them, are as follows:—About seven o'clock in the morning, a person named George M'Naugbt, a packing-box maker, residing at 100, Havannah-street, alarmed some of his neighbours, by stating that he could not arouse a man who had spent a part of the night by sleeping in the same bed with him, and that he was afraid he was dead. The first effort at resuscitation was by pouring whisky down the man's throat ; but as this did not awake any symptoms of life, the neighbours then sent for a medical man, who was immediately in attend ance. He at once said that the man was quite dead, and on turning the body, discovered the cause of death-in a chisel, which was sticking to the depth of an inch and a half in the right side of the deceased, immediately below the ribs. The instrument, which is called a three quarter of an inch chisel, had perforated the trousers head-band and shirt of the deceased ; and it has been ascertained, we believe, to belong to M'Naught, the landlord of the house. The name of the deceased is Neil M'Kinnon, a dyer, residing in Dalmarnock-road, whose character of late years has been none of the best. 'lVNaught, who had himself given information at the Police-office in the course of the morning, that a dead man was lying in his room, was immediately sought for and taken into custody. Beyond stating that M'Kinnon came, to his house about half past four o'clock in the morning, • and lay down in the bed with him, he denies, we believe, ail knowledge of the cause of the man's death. There is no reason to doubt, however, that M'Naught, the deceased, and some other persons, were drinking in the room during the night ; and some of the neighbours were a:arined by the noise of a serious scuffle in it bet'. da 104.—Glusgow Herald. COLLILRY ACCIDENTS.—It is well known to those resident in mining , ilistriets that accidents have frequently occurred from the dangerous practice of smoking in coal pits. The Netvcastlf! Advertiser of Thursday o ,ntains the following case, in wiiich three persons were convicted and sentenced to be imprisoned in the House of Correc tion for tampering with their Davy lamps tor the pur pose of pursuing this practice :—" John Marshall, Them s Lockey, and 'I homes Thompson, pitmen, work ing at the Elemore pit, Hetton Colliery, were brought before the magistrates at Easington, a few days ago, the two former charged with having drawn the flame through their Davy lamps to light their pipes, and the latter with having unlocked ar,d unscrewed his lamp for the same ,purpose. After a long and careful investigation, it api*Ared that, at the part of the pit where this shame ful and dangerous offence was committed, there was no immediate danger from foulness, and the magistrates therefore, with the utmost leniency, only sentenced theinAei three weeks' hard labour in the House of Cor- MARKET NEWS,--(SATURDAYO C OVEN T..GARD EN. For the time of year our .market was heavily supplied with both Fruit and Vegetab, l es, yet the general inquiry was steady, at mostly full prices :—Potatoes, from 3s to 5s FT cwt ; Onio ns , Is 6d to 2s 6d ; Turnips, 2s to 3s ; Carrots, 4s to 6s ; Coleworts, or Greens, 2s to 3s 6d ; and Leeks, is 6d to 2s per dozen bunches ; Onions for pickling, .18 61 to 5s ; Spinach, 8d to is 4d ; Common Plums, 2s tai 3s 6d ; Apples and Pears, 2s 3d to 4s ; and French aeons, is 6d to 25 3d per half-sieve ; Pine Apples (Eng:iis h), 5s to 7s . 6d ; Out-door English Grapes, 4d to 8d; hothouse ditto, 4s to 5s ; Foreign Grapes, 4d to 10d. ; Filberts, 8d to Is; and Cobb Nuts, 8d to 10d per lb ; Pine Apples (Foreign and Colonial) is 3d to 3s ; Eng' . fish Melon s : 2s to 5s ; and Foreign ditto, la 6d to 3s each ; Red Cabbages, 2s to 5s 6d ; and White ditto, 3t.1 to 2s per dozen ; Horse Raddish, 2s to ss; Brocoli, is to , ',2s 6d; and Celery, 8d to 2s per bundle ; Mushrooms, 8d io is per punnet ; English Hazle Nuts, 4s to 5s per bushel ; English Walnuts, 8d to is per 100. NMIXTGATE AND X.E.S.DMNEULE.L. • le There was rather an extensive supply of bleat,vvlLl the trade was steady at full prices. Beef, from 2s 4cl 3s 4d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s 8d; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 4d to 3s 10c1 per 81bs by the carcase. NV . e . had an extensive supply of both Game and Poulry, owing to which the demand was heavy at barely late rates. :17,;11 . 17.rp0 R.T. Prime Beef, Mutton, and Veal were in demand, but in all other kinds of Meat very little was doing. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 6cl ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 4s per 81bs. BILLINGSGATE. et Only a limited business was transacted in Fish ; prices may be considered about stationary. HITNGEUPORD. We had only moderate supplies' of most articles, yet the demand was in a very sluggish state, at previous currencies. WHZTECBBPZL Considerable business was doing in Meat at our quota tions.—Beer, from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton. 2s 8d to 3s 8d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d ; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 10d per 81hs. BREAD. The prices of wheaten Bread in the Metropolis are from 7d to 7FI ; of household ditto, 51d to 6id per 4th loaf. HIDE MARKET. Raw hides at per stone of 141b.—Best steers and heiters, 5s 4d to 5s 10d ; middling hides, 4s 8d to 5s Od ; terior hides, 4s Od t', 4s 6d. Sheep and calf skins, at per skin.—Market calf, 6s 6d to 8s 6d ; long woolled sheep, 2s 8d to 3s 6d ; short ditto, 2s to 3s. RAY PaltaitlCETS. SMITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 10s to 41 lOs Useful dito, 41 12s to 5/ ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 3 5 I ° 5/ 8s ; Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ 6s ; Oat Straw, aB5 1/ lOs ; Wheat straw, 1/ 10s to 1/ 12s per load. A fal average supply, aLI a steady demand. Prices fully stationary. CUMBERLAND.—COarO Meadow Hay, 31 I Os to 4l 85; Useful ditto, 41 10s to fine Upland ditto, 513 s VP, 51 lOs ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/; Oat Straw, 11 8s to 1 ‘ 10s ; Wheat Straw, 11 lls to 11 13s per load. SUP ply moderately good, and trade very firm, at full cur' renews. WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, S 1 i2S to 4110 3 ' Useful ditto, 41 12s to 5/ ; fine Upland ditto, 5/3s t. 51 8s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 10c to 6l lOs ; Oat Straw , 1 1 8 d• it to 11 lOs ; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 11 12s per los Both Hay and Straw sold readily at full prices. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FRIDAY- We have again to report a heavy arrival of Wh ell 'r the sale of which has been very dull to-day, upon barelf so good terms as last week. Barley also meets a 8 1 ° ,1 sale, best samples nearly support last week's prices , middling qualities must be noted lower. Oats 8 • 11 , 1 Shelling in limited request, also at lower prices, P' - • - Beans are rather dearer. Per qr. of 601 E x b . t r o l t k h . e b u a t ! 1 ;1 0 . 44 Wneat Suffolk, Essex, and Kent Red to 49 4 ' ' 0 51 Ditto ditto 49 White... 53 ; , 45 Norfolk Red . .... 48 l,‘ 49 Ditto ditto White... 52 41 ' 4.5 Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red...... 47 ir 0 --Ditto ditto White... 51 l , , 45 Yorkshire Red 47 .' 45 Ditto ditto White... 51 V s 6 Foreign hed 49 I 50 Ditto ditto White... 52 '" oil. Per quarter irnPe 57 Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 3 . 2 54 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 35 # Grinding 90 9i Foreign 39 041. , Per qr. of 631 b. to the WI op Beans, Small en- — 40 37 09 # Ticks Foreign 37 33 ...4. Oats, Potato and Pola' d —s s ... . Mealinr .. 10d. to 12d , Foreign —d, to —d. pet stool Slolling ~. 25i. to 26s Od. per' e 2 T Malt a 40s. fine 433. per R tpesved STATE OF TRADE. . 44 FOREIGN WOOL TRA.DE, LEEDS, OCT. 18.--The mand for Foreign Wools has been somewhat inane mate, this week, and sales not very extensive. Pri ces ' however, are very firmly supported. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, OCT. 18 The mauufacturers have bought very sPer iv g n ' of wools this week ; but as there is " t ag o general reduction in their consumption, their stoc. of wool are decreasing ; and it is expected they Wlll. Price§ shortly be in the market again as purchasers. in the country are very firm'; and higher than th e rates at which the partial sales which have lately be et ' i .. made in their markets, have been effected. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, OCT. 18.—There ig a dullness in this branch of business, and scarcely any' sales passing, but from the continued absence of eel': turners, dealers are lad to hope that shortly the. must see them again in the market as buyers. LEEDS.—This week we have had two of the du lleit markets which have been held during the autule i n s : This applies more particularly to heavy winter goou :0 the stocks of which are on the increase, but there to' no alteration in prices. Rather more business b a been done in finished goods than for the last wee k ," two, by the home buyers, but the foreign houses Pi -- doing little. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—There is no isn' provement at our piece market to-day, and the el; plaining of the manufacturers is g reater than we c ent remember, and the total stoppag e and abridgm e , of the time of the w o rki ng o f th e looms is % n o , siderably on the increase, and without some decided D' tr ration for the better, we fear the prospects for the witig will be discouraging. Yarns are not so ready 4 : 4 7 I , as a few months past, to meet which there to growing disposition on the part of the spinneyf stop machinery, for they complain loudly that the, cannot realise prime cost. There is still a slow u s ,. mand for all kinds of combing wools, and the 00 d actions during the week are extremely limited , ell last week's prices barely maintained. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.--The.. 4.- ,3 been an unprecedented demand for cloth this We e a buyers to a large extent for India and China ba, v . t iv t re been numerous • shirtings, in consequence, are a . 1 4,be higher, whilst all sorts are firmer and buoyant. It advance in wages has now become general. t he hoped the demand will continue, so as to justiff advance. There never has been so completeoo clearance in our twist market as at present ; sti ll very decided advance can be noted. The market 111 ,, be called firm, with a strong upward tendency' Leeds Mercury. MR. HAMPTON T:IIE 2EeoNAur.—We are fisPr-40 say that humanity afid good feeling has prompted s er e of persons to come fbrvOrd and aid in the good cau;, o s relieving Mr. Hamp!On from his deep embarras s o cawed by the destruction of his balloon. His fir et ne r on Tuesday, we are informed, was to c a ll upon th e of sons whose housesWcre injured by the conflagrationtio the balloon at 134 View A venue, and arrange r , f tral repairs of the injgry done to their premises. S e pos t gentlemen have 1 ft their names at the Evening g o office, int!mating their readiness to subscribe as so° - committee shall beformed.— Dublin Evening Post 1 ,49 [ADVERTISEMENT.]—A POOR MAN'S LIR% P ... ,,J 4- r ier BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS —Jeremiah Laughlin, a r;itlt about the quays oflDublin, was afflicted for years shortness of breath, spitting of phlegm, night Per s ,,P t ite, tions, and general weakness of body, a want of aPP;i f er. sick head-ache, besides suffering much from the P,(l This man was in the second stage of consumptioth;ej not expected to live three months, when he coaloi e tho ir the use of Holloway's wonderful Pills, and 11,;pas means alone he is now as strong, as hale, and ag ever he was in his life. Sold (also Holloway's Oit i c ' r aoct at the Establishment of Professor Holloway, 244, P t t 0 11 (where advice may be had gratis), and by airt l inised respectable vendors of medicine throughout the world. MARRIED. sled AA On the 10th i ns t., a t Wi c h nor -p ar k, Hugh lu° l3 Totbov Campbell, Esq., of the R o yal S c ots Greys, to Oeir Matilda, youngest daughter of the late Hon. Ro be ' v nedy, and niece of the Marquis of Ailsa On the 15th inst., at Buxsted, Sussex,. 1 Mr. John —13 011; 1° Walworth, Surrey, to Fanny, third daughter of Du' p apa' Markwick. On the 16th ult., at New York, Mr. George Fociviarit mouth, Kent, to Ann, second daughter of Joseph Esq , St. Paul's Churchyard. DIED. fit , SO ° On the 16th inst., at the Vicarage, E as t Brent, ' shire, the Hon. Mrs. William TowryLaw. TOW On the 16th inst., Edwin Ellis, Esq., of Lover of ° 1( Su OnWi rre. On the 16th inst., in Grafton-street east, Harriet, ci4 Andrew Cochran, Esq., 'ate of St. Petersburg ~,,ttal as On the 16th ult., Mary, second daughter of Cap il , to ill* Mrs. W. S. Moorsom. t P On the 16th inst., at Newington-place, Kenner , F. the wife of Mr. Henrye, Hicksthe infant daughter . of °P. On the 17th inst.,Al: Cowell. of Iligh- street, iouthwark. I re . Vtoll l/ On the 17th in s t., a t C ro yd on , Ch r istian Talc - 000 On the 17th inst., n ear the Heath, Hampstea d, s oi Maria Slater. On the 17th inst., the infant son a MaioG ° 1 Mrs. Frederick., Londm : Printed and Published by 11 0 tie „, O 1 plu m y° jo._ Officet 00 N 3 112, .Strand, Printer, at T Sus - 00 the 1 S rand, in the Precinct of the Sayg, in 1 hliddl eau, Monday, Ott9bll 211 If.‘ .%;/ . y TRO 11.ei Ab ertlee 4nk e A C 4, IRTHS. On the 20th ult., at ß Cadiz, Mrs. W. C. C. Bra ek of a son. iv V On the 16th inst., the wife of Henry Gerard Oliry ' of Hackney, of a daughter. 1 0411 On the 16th inst., at Bury St. Edmunds, the lady 0 , 0 Wilson, Esq., of Stowlangloft Hall, Suffolk, of a dallg,;,patP On the 17th inst., Great Cumberland-place, 1: 1 9"" the lady of Henry C. Hamilton, Esq., of a