The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-20 00:00:00

en) irb Mtittton THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock ... . 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols New 3 1 %, per Cent . 1043‘ Long Annuities to expire Jan.lB6o 12 3-16 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 ... 12 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 ... 1174 India Stock India Bonds, 1,0004. Ditto under 1,000/. ......-. ..... Bank Stock for Account 213 Consolsloo ...,7 India Stock for Account 2BBli Exchequer Bills, 1,0004,110. 57 pm. Ditto 5001. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS. Columbian:Bonds 6 per Cent. l4°‘ Danish Bonds, 1825,3 per Cent. ... 8' ji; SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester, 100 paid 108% Bristol and Exeter, 70 paid Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid . Catodonian, 5 paid 4 !' 4 . Churnet Valley, 2 paid..... Dublin and Belfast Junc+' Jon 2 1 / 2 paid ...... r J Eastern Counties, 25 r .aid , 1 814 Ditto Perpetual, '' per,Cent, 3% paid, No. 1. Ditto ditto, _1:) s. 4d. p Edinburgh a* id Glasg ow, 50 50d paid lak 2 63 Great Wee cern, 75 paid 176 Ditto Half Shares, 50 p aid lO2 T i— } .to Fi ft hs, 20 paid 4O .'7..arwich, 1 paid... ll4 Lancaster and Carlisle, 15 paid London and Birmingham (Stock) ... .. — Ditto, Quarter Shares, 2 paid London and Blackwall, 16% London and Greenwich, 12% paid LOndon an.: South Western, 41a paid SO Ditto New, 2% paid London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. r aid ..... - lsb London and York. 2% paid Mancheti.er and Leeds, 70 paid Ditto Half Shares, 30 paid 55 Midland, 100 paid ... 132 Ditto New, 2 paid Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 100 paid 9S Newcastle and Darlington:Junction, 24 paid... 66 1 /. North British, 7 1 / 2 paid Northern and Eastern, 45 paid Ditto Scrip, 30 paid %. 44% Portsmouth Direct, 2 1 ,4 paid' Rugby, 1 paid South Eastern ;.nd Dover, 33h paid 4 B l;_ Ditto New-Shares, 4 paid 21:;?, Ditto, %Ilan' Yarmout,ii and Norwich, 20 paid York P.od North Midland, 50 paid Vitt() Half Shares, 25 paid FRENCH RAILWAYS. Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid Paris and Lyons, 2 paid JOIST STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster, 20 paid, 2i 1,4 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The proposal to inflict an income-tax on the nation, as a means of meeting the deficiency of the revenue in 1841, was a bold measure of finance. It took the country by surprise. The silence which en sued was not acquiescence —it was the effect of asto nishment. When the public mind had recovered from the amazement which had been produced by the coup d'etat of the newly-installed Minister, the dishonesty and iniquity of the proposed tax were denounced ; and the insult and injury which the obnoxious impost would inflict on the classes whose incomes were de rived from professions and trades, were loudly complained of. The question, whether the tax shall he allowed to expire, or shall be con tinued for a longer period, will necessarily be comildered in the next session of Parliament. The three years certain, for which it was ori ginally imposed, will then expire. The Budget of 1845 will be framed either on the continuance of the tax, in its present shape, for at least two more years --on a modification of its present scale—or on the principle of allowing it to expire at the termination of the three years; viz., in October, 1845. If the country be not prepared for an extension of the tax for two more yeas—with a high probability of being then re warder.l for its patient submission to vexatious inquiries int% private affairs, and injurious abstractions from c'xitinFent profits toad salaries, by a further continuance of the impost—the present is the most appropriate time for action. The organs of public opinion are especially bound, at the present time, to employ their powers, to rouse the public mind to a sense of its position with re ference to this tax, and to endeavour to bring the legitimate exercise of that power to bear upon. th e Government' and the Legislature. An inco,,ne and property-tax is too productive to be spontaneously parted with by any Ministry. Five millions of an nual revenue, collected with comparative ease, places a large sum at the disposal of ta e Govern ment, and thus enables it to cirery out many desirable schemes of its own. 'There is, there fore, little chance of the Y...inister of the day coming down to Parliamni, and making the grati fying communication that, out of their abundant grace and favour. Ler Majesty's Ministers had deter. mined on removing the property and income-tax from the shoulders of the people. There must be " eressue from without"—an " impatience of taxation which, though it may be designated " ig norance" by the Ministry, whom it disturbs and an noys, 'Rill eventually succeed. With a good grace, or with kndiscreet indications of having yielded to the very influence it affects to despise, the Government will gill, up the obnoxious tax to the demands of the country, and the " ignorant impatience" of the people will be rewarded with success. We are not, how ever, disposed to advocate the absolute and entire repeal of the income and property-tax. The finances of the country will not justify the removal of the entire tax. If the five millions derived from this source of revenue were to be abandoned, the deficiency which would be thus caused must be sup plied from other sources. The imposition of other duties, difficult to be discovered, and the levyi ng o f which would be productive of embarrassment and in jury to the trade and commerce of the country, would be the consequence. This will induce the Legislature to refuse its sanction to an immediate abolition of the tax, and will prevail with the considerate part of the community to concur in its decision. A calm and temperate view of the question will lead to a con clusion that the tax on landed and funded property might be advantageously retained—though on a scale more equitably adjusted than that on which these descriptions of property are now assessed. The tax on income derived from trades or professions, as at present computed and assessed, should be given up. It involves an inequitable distribution of the tax. In comes, which may cease in a moment, and the family of the individual be cast without resource upon the world, are taxed on an equal ratio with realised pro perty, which, at the decease of its present possessor, is available for the support of his family. This view of the question is demonstrative of the in equitable distribution of the tax. This has been re peatedly urged. It is, obviously, an argument with which Sir Robert Peel ought to be pressed. THE WEST INDIA MAIL. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY.—The Medway, Royal mail steam-ship, Richard Rivett, commander, arrived this afternoon, at half-past four o'clock, with the usual mails, which will be dispatched by the two o'clock •.M. train. Her dates of departure are from Demerara 21st December, Trinidad 17th, Jamaica, 23d, Barba,loes 21st, Grenada 24th, St. Thomas's 31st, and F'aval 13th of January. The Medway had a remarkably fine passage, with the exception of the last two or three days. She is only nineteen days from St. Thomas's, and has ar rived here one day before she was due. The Medway brings the following passengers : Major Rowland, R.A., and family; Mr. White ; Lieutenant Sillock, 48th Regiment; Mr. Lambton, Mr. Steinkoff, Mr. Cruickshank, Mr. Davcson, Mr. Hutson, Mr. and Mrs. Knox, Mr...Cipriani, Mr. Robert Lake, Capt. Dring, Mr. Valdez, Mr. Belligny, Mr. Le Febre, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Cooper, Mr. De Vera and servant, Mr. Rodrigues, and M. Francisco : also three shipwrecked seamen belonging to the schooner Truelove, from Berbice, with a gene ral cargo, wrecked off Guadaloupe ; and the captain and 13 others from the brig John Naylor, which was totally lost off Fayal. The Medway brings on freight 2,235 ounces of gold, 518 oz. of gold dust, and 8001. in British silver. The Teviot, Captain Allen, arrived at Barbadocs, from Southampton on the 21st December, Grenada on the 24th, an d proceeded to St. Thomas ' s with the Windward Island mails for the Medway. She took in eoals at St. Thomas's, and was to proceed to Porto Rico. The Tay left Grenada on the 25th for Jamaica, Havannah, and Mexico. The Medway does not bring any news of import • ance. The fever is represented to have been very had amongst the civilians at Jamaica, and was still raging when the Medway left. Mr. Freeman, C o ll ector 01 Customs at Kingston, had had a severe attack, and was not expected to recover. The military, generally speaking, had escaped, and the whole of the troops were healthy. The weather had been ex tremely hot, and one of the passengers, who had, re sided nearly twenty years on the island, informed us he ne ver remem b ere d it so oppressive in the month of DecembeT. The Swift, of Glasgow, left Fayal, with a cargo of fruit, for Southampton, on the 13th inst. The brig John Naylor, Captain Orr, reported a b ove as having been totally lost off Fayal, w as from Ichaboe, with a full cargo of guano, and belonged to the port of Liverpool. She was 283 tons register, and was in sured for 2,0001. In consequence of losing her rudder, she put into the is d of Ascension, he.ving previously thrown upwards of 100 tons of her cargo overboard to lighten her. The brig made Fayal on the 21st of December, and endeavoured to enter the harbour, but in consequence of her dis abled state, the captain could not effect his object. On the 22d she bore up, the wind blowing a strong gale, and endeavoured to get to the leeward of St. George's Island, and on the following day was running down the land when her temporary steering machinery gave way, on the lar board side, and the vessel immediately canted with her head on sh ore . C ap t a i n O rr , thi n ki ng t o s. , ::;: e I her, let go anchon, but seeing no chance f.,`; doing so, ordered th-e boat out, and got eight of the hands, whP, were dreadfully ;11 of the scurvy, in first , and then nr,d' e - for the shore, a heavy ;aft running, w ith a t remen d ous sur f. i Th. e landing ‘Nas most difficult, and one poor fetow, in his anxiety to save himself, jumped into the Zater to swim for his life, and was drowned. The captain, on the boat striking, was violently thrown on the beach, and was much cut and bruised. Three others died on the same night from exhaustion and exposure to the cold. The vessel drove on shore on the 24th, and became a total wreck. The weather was so boisterous that it was impossible to get to her, and consequenty everything was lost. The captain reports that there were upwards of 400 ships at Ichaboe when he left, loading and wait ing for their turn. He supposes by this time the guano is pretty well exhausted. We feel a pleasure in publishing the following testimonial from the passengers of the Medway to Captain Rivett, the more especially this being the first voyage of that gentleman as a commander in the service of the Royal Mail Com pany. It must also be a gratifying circumstance to the Directory to find their officers spoken of in such terms of praise, and complimentary to themselves for the very excellent and liberal manner in which the passengers are entertained on board these splendid ships :--. " Royal Mail Company's steamer Medway, Jan. 18, .1b45. "Dear Sir,—Our voyage from the e West Indies being near its termination we, the undersigned passengers on board the Medway, under your charge, beg to express our high sense of the great attention which we in common have received from you and your officers while on board. " The table has been most amply and luxuriously fur nished, the attendance good, and every means on your part adopted that could tend to our comforts ; but it is not for these alone that we have to tender you our kindest thanks; your unremitting attention to the duties of the ship under your charge had given us such confidence in your skill as a seaman as contributed greatly to the pleasure and happiness of our voyage. " It will at all times afford us pleasure to hear of your welfare and prosperity; and we beg to subscribe our selves, dear sir, yours very faithfully, &c." (Here follow the signatures of the passengers.) THE SHAPWICK MURDERS. INQUEST ON THE BODY OF HENRY FREE MAN, HUSBAND OF SARAH FREE %lAN. SHAPWICK, FRlDAY.—lrnmediately on the termi nation of the inquest on the child of Sarah Freeman, the jury proceeded to investigate the facts relative to the death of Henry Freeman, who died about Christ mas, 1843; the result of which was that the jury again returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Sarah Freeman." PUBLIC RECORDS OF AMERICA.—The Legislature of the State of New - York have directed the trustees of the State Library belonging to that city, in consideration of a valuable acknowledgment from this country, to transmit annually to the Commissioners of Public Re cords here copies of the American session laws, &c. Nearly 200 volumes or these records of the United States arrived a few days since in a vessel from New York, ad dressed to "The Commissioners of Public Records of Great Britain," and will be delivered to that department, in pursuance of directions from the proper authorities, without payment of the usual duties on foreign books, being for the public service. BATHS AT CREWE.—The Grand Junction Com pany have erected baths near their works for the use of their workmen. We highly approve of this, as there is nothing so conducive to health and comfort as cleanliness of person. Nine-tenths of the diseases to which Eng lishmen are at present subject, " would take their wings and fly away," if our countrymen would only habituate themselves to general ablution at least twice a week. The Grand Junction Company deserves great credit far having constructed the baths, which are opposite the doors of their extensive workshops, and we have no doubt their intelligent workmen will avail themselves of the convenience. The proverb that places cleanliness next to godliness is a good one, and would be very ap propriate over every entrance to a bath. We hope soon to hear that there are no " unwashed" at Crewe. — Railway Chronicle. RAMSGATE.--The preparations for the railroad to this place have within the last week assumed an appear ance of great activity ; upwards of 100 men are now employed at saint Lawrence at a cutting. The chief contractor has, we believe, taken the late residence of Sir Thomas Gray, at the entrance to St. Lawrence, for three years. —Dover Chronicle. MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY POACHERS. Saturday information was received of an assault of a most deadly nature committed upon Henry Tebby, a gamekeeper in the service of Rousby, Esq., of Collisford House, near Bicester, Oxfordshire. The keeper, it appears, was proceeding to Hethe, about seven o'clock in the evening, for the purpose of engaging a man to work on the following morning, and was passing a plantation, when he heard the cry of a hare, as if caught in a snare, and, going to the spot, he met three men, one of whom he knew, and addressing him, he said, " Ah ! Jesse Willis, is that you ?—I• know you." The fellow instantly struck him down-with a heavy bludgeon, and as he lay on the ground all the three men beat him most dread fully, and then made off. He was so much injured as to be unable to move for some time, but at length made his way to the house of the Rev. A. Maguire, a Roman Catholic priest, find requested that some one might be sent.to Collisford to inform his brother and his master of what had occurred. The Rev. Gentleman himself immediately went into the village to look for a messenger, and on the way asked a man whom be met to go to Mr. Rousby's, at Collisford, and inform him one of his keepers had been dreadfully beaten by poachers. The man, how ever, who afterwards proved to be no other than Jesse Willis himself, declined the mission, and some one else was- sought for. In the meantime a constable named Harris had arrived, and from what Tebby told him he went into the village and apprehended Willis, and took him also to Mr. Maguire's; and the keeper, being asked if he knew that man, said, " Yes, that is Willis—that is the man that struck me." Mr. Jones, a surgeon, was sent for to attend Tebby, who he found to be in a dangerous state, frightfully cut, and suffering from a concussion of the brain. The poor man was afterwards removed to his own house, and the next morning Willis was taken before the magistrates at Bicester, and remanded for a week, a medical certificate being produced, stating the danger in which Tebby was. ATTEMPTED MURDER AT UXBRIDGE. Since 'Wednesday last the greatest excitement has prevailed throughout the town and neighbourhood of Uxbridge, in consequence of a most diabolical at tempt made by a young man, named Thomas Deck man, to murder his wife and child by means of poison. From the inquiries made into the circumstances by Inspector Cooke, T division, and other officers of the metropolitan police, it appears that Thomas Deckman, who is not yet twenty years of age, and is by trade a journeyman baker, was married to his wife, Eliza beth Deckman, last October twelve months, and they have one child six months old. For some time past the husband has been out of work, in consequence of which they had been compelled to remove from their lodgings, and took up their abode at the house of the wife's father. From the period of their mar riage they had slot been a happy couple, and the hus band had often threatened to do for her, and had on one occasion sharpened a razor, and placed it under his pillow for that purpose. On the morning of Wed nesday last the husband got up before his wife, and left the bed-room, saying he was going to enlist for a soldier. Before, however, he left the house, and while he was in the sitting-room, the wife heard a rattling of crockery, and thought that her husband was get ting himself breakfast. She afterwards got up, and made some coffee, and about nine o'clock sat down with her sister to breakfast. On adding sugar and milk to the coffee she noticed that the milk immediately became curdled, not withstanding which, she, however, drank the contents of the cup, and, in less than five minutes afterwards, was seized with a feeling of sick ness. She then poured out another cup of coffee, aiid again added sugar and milk, when the latter was again curdled, when her suspicions became excited, and she poured some coffee into a basin, and added some milk, and found that it did not curdle. She then tasted the sugar in the sugar-basin, and finding that it had a strange taste, she concluded that some poison had been mixed with it, and sent her sister with the basin and contents to the shop' of Mr. Chace, chemist, in the High-street, who, on tasting and examining the sugar, declared it to be mixed with oxalic acid. The wife was, during two hours after taking the coffee, exceed ingly ill, and it was only by administering emetics that the poison was extracted from her stomach in time to save her life. Information of the occurrence was immediately forwarded to the police station, when a search was made after the husband, but he could nowhere be found. A deserip , ion of his person was then distri buted throughout the police districts, vs hick re sulted in his app re h ens i on i n the course of the fol lowing night. On Friday he was brought up for examination before Mr. T. T. Clark, a local magis trate sitting at the offices of Messrs. Riches and Woodbridge, the clerks to the . magistrates at Ux bridge, and, after a short exami nation, Was remanded until the result of the analysis of the sugar remaining in the basin, which has been placed in the hands of Mr. Rayner, surgeon, of Uxbridge, to analyse, can be ascertained. The magistrates room and the road outside was crowded by hundreds of persons anxious to hear the evidence, and to obtain a sight of the pri soner. On Saturday our reporter ascertained from .‘i r. Rayner that be had found in the portion he had al ready analysed, a quantity of oxalic acid. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jan. 18. EX-PARTE THE VICAR OF TWIVERTON. This was a petition by the vicar of Twiverton, other wise Twerton, Somersetshire, and the provost and scho lars of Oriel College, Oxford, for payment out of court of a sum of money paid in under the Great Western Rail way Act, and that the Railway Company might pay the costs thereof. The vicarage, with the garden, orchard, and offices belonging to it, was purchase d by the Great Western Railway, and the purchase-money was paid into the Bank of England, as directed by the Act, and laid out in the purchase of 2,8861. 17s. 9d. Three per Cent. Consols. The Act contained a direction that in case the Railway Company required the vicarage and land, the purchase-money was to be laid out in the purchase of other laads, or in erecting another vicarage-house. The vicar upon his house being taken, purchased land as a site for a new vicarage for the sum of 1,2861., which money was paid out of Court for that purpose, and the costs paid by the Railway Company. A new vicarage house had since been built by the petitioner for 1,7751. 16s. being more than the residue of the sum paid by the Railway Company for the original vicarage. The present peti tion was by the vicar and the provost and scholars of Oriel College, Oxford, who were the owners of part of the land about the vicarage, and it prayed that the re mainder of the snm of 2,8861 17s. 9d., might be paid out of Court for the building of the new vicarage -house, and that the Railway Company might be ordered to pay the costs thereof. Mr. Osbozue, for the Great Western Railway Com pany, contended that the Court had no power to direct the Company to pay the costs. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said he had nothing to do with the abstract juctice of the matter, nor could he speculate upon what the Legislature intended to do ; he could only construe a certain set of words con tained in the Act of Parliament. His Honour then read the 9th section, as before quoted, and stated that, in this case, the application was, not to have the purchase-money paid out of Court simply, but to have part of the money paid out to defray the expense, not of purchase of land, but of building the vicarage-house on land which had been purchased by the Government securities already paid out by order of the Court. He could not, there fore, allow his mind to be influenced by his personal notions of what was justice in the abstract. He could only say, that on the true construction of the Act, the case for which the vicar contended had been omitted or had not been provided for. The vicar must, therefore, pay the expenses; but as to the costs of this application he had a discretion, and he should not give the costs to the Company. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER, Jan. 18-. THE IPSWICH MURDERERS-APPEAL TO THE JUDGES. The judges assembled this afternoon in the Exchequer Court, for the purpose of hearing the argument of counsel on behalf of the two Howells and Shipley, who were sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Williams, at the late Ipswich assizes, for the murder of a policeman named MTadden. The error assigned was the inadmis sibility of certain evidence received. The evidence was the confession of the parties. Mr. PRENDERGAST, who appeared OR behalf of the prisoners, addressed the Court in a long and ingenious speech, contending that part of the evidence adduced on the trial was inadmissible; and in support of his argu ment quoted several law cases to show that the evidence in question ought not to have been admitted. Mr. GORDON arose and was about to address the Court, when Lord DENMAN, on behalf of himself and his learned brethren, intimated that they did not think it necessary for him to do so, as they (the judges) were of opinion that there was no argument before them to show that the evidence was not admissible. _ _ The decision of the judge who tried the case was, therefore, confirmed, and the unfortunate men are left for execution. CONSISTORY COURT, Jan. 18. BRITTEN V. BRITTEN. This was a case of divorce by reason of adultery, pro moted by Thomas Britten, Esq., against his wife, for the commission of adultery with Mr. Edward Henry Keeling, of the firm of Clark, Keeling, and Clark, wino brokers, in Great Tower-street, City. Shortly after the case was opened by Dr. Addams, the Court inquired whether it was a suit in prenam? Dr. ADDAMS—It is, sir. The COURT—I have no sort of occasion to trouble you. Dr. ADDAMS—I submit it is clear. The COURT—It is impossible that a case can be more clearly proved. It is quite unnecessary to enter into the circumstances of the case. It can do no good to the parties or to the public. Let the parties be called. The REGISTRAR—They have been called. The Court then signed the sentence of separation. SHERIFFS' COURT, Jan. 18. (Before Mr. Commissioner Buu.oczc.) FORD V. DAVIS. Mr. VALENTINE LEE, who appeared for the plaintiff, stated that his client is a bootmaker, on Holborn-hill, and had brought this action to recover 141. from the de fendant, Cyres Davis, the ex-pugilist and landlord of the Plough public-house. in Giltspur-street,West Smithfield. In the month of October last a watchmaker named Shimmell, being in want of money, deposited a gold watch with the plaintiff as a security for 141. Shortly afterwards, Shimmell told plaintiff that he could dispose of the watch, and it was deposited with him, the defen dant undertaking to pay the plaintiff the 141. in the event of a sale, or to return the watch. •Ford having ascertained that the watch had been raffled in a billiard room belonging to Davis, called on him and asked for his money in the presence of witnesses, and on that oc cusion the defendant said that he had forgotten the cir cumstance, but would settle with him in a few days. Several days elapsed, and no money being forthcoming, Ford again applied to Davis, when he guaranteed the payment of the money. High words then ensued ; the defendant calling the defendant a - liar, and, finally, putting down two 5/. notes, and offering to bet that amount that he had never made any promise relative to the watch or money. The plaintiff, in his excitement, was rash enough to put down a similar amount, where upon defendant handed the 201. to his wife, saying, " Here, old woman, you stick to this," and the same is still retained in spite of the interference of mutual friends, so that Ford is minus his 101. and his watch, or the value thereof. This action, however, was only brought for the 141., leaving the bet of 101. the subject of future pro ceedings. Two respectable witnesses were called, and they proved the promise to pay the 14/, and also the raffle. For some reason, however, unknown to them, he (defendant) handed the amount paid by the subscribers to the raffle to Shimmell. Mr. Lusn, for the defence, contended that there was not sufficient proof that his client was bound to restore the watch, or give 141. to the plaintiff. The defendant had the watch raffled, but he considered that it was for the mutual benefit of Ford and Shimmell, and he thought they would settle the matter between them. Mr. Davis was willing to restore the watch, and would have done so on the first application, but his son, who was the winner of it, had gone to the theatre with it on his person. On the following day it was offered to the plaintiff, and he refused to accept it. Mr. Shimmell was called for the defence, and, in his cross-examination, he admitted the receipt of the produce of the raffle, and the application of it to his own use, and that he afterwards placed in defebdant's hands a watch of much greater value as a security to repay the plaintiff, which watch was, to the best of his knowledge, in de fendant's custody. He added that he was present when Davis objected to pay the 141., and had recently heard him say that he would bet 101. that he never undertook to pay the 141. He saw each of them put down 101, and likewise saw the defendant pass the 201. to his wife, telling her to keep it. He believed that it was in her possession at the present time—in fact, he heard de fendant admit that such was the case within a very few days. Mr. LUSH here rose from his seat, and consented to a verdict for the plaintiff for the 141. Mr. VALENTINE LEE remarked that the matter would not end there, it being his client's intention to take other proceedings for the recovery of the 101. IN,I,OLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 18. THE HIPPODROME RACE-COURSE.-IN THE MATTER OP JACONI CONNOP. An application was made in the case of this insolvent, who had been connected with the Hippodrome Race course, to appoint an assignee before the hearing, with the view of making the property at Notting-hill available for the numerous creditors under the estate. The in solvent had sojourned among the Poor Knights of Wind sor, and a question was raised whether his residence in the Castle-yard, New Windsor, was for him a privileged place. He had, however, been taken in execution, and was now a resident in Reading gaol, and his case had been appointed to be heard on Feb. 7, before Mr. Com missioner Pollock on the ensuing circuit. The schedule filed by the insolvent for public inspection, of which notice has been given to the creditors, extends to many pages. The debts in the aggregate are set forth at 67,240/. 1 ls. 3d., and the debts owing to the insolvent, all of which are bad and doubtful, to 36,239/. 12s. The consideration debts from January, 1840, are mentioned at 63,232/. 95.; those without eon. sideration, 2,2001.; and those more than twice entered, to 1,571/. 2s, 3d. The insolvency is attributed to the insolvent not having had sufficient capital to work so extensive a building speculation as the Hippodrome, and farther, to his liabilities for three persons, inserted as debtors in his schedule. He was a bankrupt in the year 1829, when he obtained his certificate, and the debts still unpaid were in amount 80,0001. It seems that the insolvent's income had been about 2,000/. a-year, and his wife had a separate property of 2501. From a statement in the general balance sheet, it appears that the insolvent has an expectation that if the property be properly worked it would produce as much as 10,000/. over the debts due on the same. The debts due to various creditors on simple contracts, for work don© and mate rials supplied, amount to 9,000/.; and the charges on the buildings to secure debts to creditors, are in amount 40,3691. There are 106 creditors and nine debtors in the schedule. Mr. WOODRUFFE now applied to make the rule, which was granted a few days ago, absolute, for the appoint ment of Mr. R. Laurence, a builder, who was a creditor for upwards of 2,0004, as assignee. The Learned Counsel remarked that the insolvent had been lessee of the Hippodrome, and employed the various parties to erect buildings on the ground, which belonged to Mr. Ladbroke, who was 4112C10113 to benefit the creditors. The arrears of ground rent amounted to about 800 L, and work had been done by the simple contract crzditors to about 12,0001. ; and Mr. Ladbroke had it in his power to work a forfeiture, but he was willing to continue the leases on the payment of the ground-rent. The object of the application was, therefore, to clothe a creditor with the office of assignee, in order that the buildings might be completed and sold for the benefit of the creditors. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER asked whether the insolvent was in attendance ? _ _ Mr. WOODRUFFE said he was not, but he supposed be would like to be ; he was in Reading gaol. The Learned COMMISSIONER said he meant whether he showed cause ; he might have been out on bail. The COURT ordered Mr. Laurence to be appointed assignee. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) MANSION-HO U USE. BURGLARY.—Thomas Howell, Frederick Smith, and Robert Franklin, were brought up for final ex amination. It will be recollected that two of the pri soners were found concealed in a chamber at the George and Vulture, Cornhill. The depositions of the witnesses were read over and signed, and the parties were duly bound over to pro secute. Howell and Smith were then fully committed on the charge of burglary, and Franklin as an accessory. The prisoners displayed the most hardened indif ference throughout, Howell humming a tune the greater part of the time. Howell addressed his Lordship about the cab fare havingteen taken from his pocket. It was 4s. LORD MAYOR—Apply to the Court at the trial. Howell—Till then I suppose my wife must go with out. I never rode in the cab. It is not proved. The LORD MAYOR—I cannot interfere. The prisoners were then removed. GUILDHALL. A smartly-dressed young man, of the name of El;is, who is supposed to be some City warehouseman, was charged with having offered a dozen silk handkerchiefs in pledge, the same being suspected as stolen. Mr. Attenborough, the pawnbroker, of Fleet-street, said that on Friday afternoon the prisoner came to his shop, and desired to pledge a piece of silk handker chiefs for four shillings. There appearing something suspicious about his behaviour, he was induced to ask him several questions respecting where the property came from, and where he lived. The prisoner replied that he had purchased it in the early part of the week for l Os., at a public-house, and that he resided some times in Laurence-lane, and at Cole's-place, Com mercial-road East. He them requested him to walk with him (witness) to the former address, so as to ascertain whether he spoke correctly, and on their way there the prisoner stopped and admitted that he had told falsehoods respecting his address. Wit ness then, believing that the property had been im properly obtained, gave him in custody to the first policeman he met with. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE—WeII, prisoner, per haps you will tell me where you got the handker chiefs, and your right address ? The prisoner gave the same story as he did to Mr. Attenborough, and remarked that he should not have attempted to pawn them, had he not been pushed for a little money. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE wished to know whether the prisoner was known. The prisoner said his friends were highly respect able. He had two brothers filling very important situations in the City. A person here, in the body of the Court, cried out that the prisoner's friends were highly respectable, but they would not help him now he had gotinto such a disgraceful situation, as he had mixed with bad cha racters. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE observed that he could not part with the prisoner until some inquiries were made about him, and accordingly remanded him till Wednesday for that purpose. WORSHIP-STREET. Thwailes, a weaver, was placed before Mr. Broughton, for final examination, upon a charge of embezzling upwards of 401. worth of silk velvet, which he had been employed to weave for Messrs. Everson and Co., silk manufacturers, in Spitalfields. Mr. Humphreys attended for the complainants. The prisoner, it appeared, had three looms, and at different tines since September, received materials to make three pieces of velvet of thirty yards each, re ceiving, as the work progressed, a more than usual advance of cash on account of wages. Mr. Gascoigne, the foreman, visited occasionally to inspect the works, and on the last occasion, in December, the prisoner said, "if you come on Christmas-eve you shall have the whole. ' When he next went, however, he found the place empty and locked up, the looms and the whole of the property were gone, and the prisoner had absconded. Last week the prisoner was discovered at work at Loughborough, and there apprehended,' brought to London by railway, and delivered in custody at this Court. It was now proved that dur ing the progress of the work he had contrived to draw his wages in advance to the amount of upwards of 101. from his employers, whose loss altogether was little short of 501. The prisoner admitted having made away with the work, but alleged that he had been driven to it by the persons employed under him, who got from him more than he received, and reduced him to distress. Mr. BROUGHTON said it was a most aggravated case, and a person plundering his employer of even a twentieth part of the property, under other circum stances, would be liable to transportation, but he could only sentence the prisoner, under the Silk Act, to three months' imprisonment —a punishment wholly inadequate to the offence. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. An information against Mr. Hunt, the proprietor of Morland's Hotel, Dean-street, for keeping (as alleged) his house open for the sale of liquors after twelve o'clock on Saturday night, was heard before Mr. Hardwick, the sitting magistrate. Inspector Squires, of the C division, proved that he went to the defendant's house about half-past twelve o'clock on the previous Saturnay night, and on gaining admission he went up-stairs, and in a room on the first floor he saw nine or ten gentlemen seated around a table, with refreshments before them. Everything wore the appearance of a convivial and social meeting, and one of the party was singing at the time witness male his appearance. When witness entered the room he was told by the company that the society was a literary one, and that they were in their own club-room. Witness went over the defendant's house, but with the exception of one person before the bar, and the gentlemen up-stairs, there was no one in the house. The lights were also extinguished, and the house was otherwise closed. Mr. Duncombe, who appeared for the defendant, said his answer to the complaint was, that the police had intruded themselves into a place where they had no business to show themselves. A number of lite rary gentlemen and artists of celebrity had for many years rented rooms of the defendant. In these rooms they established a club, the members of which met to discuss subjects connected with literature and the arts, and to refresh themselves with a social glass. They had a right, he contended, to remain in their own room as long as they pleased, and to be exempted from the surveillance of the police. The information could not be sustained against the defendant, he being charged with "keeping his house open for the sale of liquors after twelve o'clock on Saturday night," be cause the principal witness himself proved the house for business purposes was closed, and that the only part of the house in which persons were found was a club-room, over which the defendant had no control. Besides, no proof had been given that liquors had been served after twelve o'clock. The proprietor of the hotel proved by the books of the club proceedings, that the room in which the ten persons were found by the inspector was rented of him by a number of gentlemen, who paid him a yearly rent, and who had appropriated the room to the pur pose of a literary and scientific club. Mr. llARDwrcx said it had been distinctly proved that the room visited by the inspector, although forming part of the defendant's house, was in reality in the nature of a separate tenement. The landlord received a yearly rent for his room, and therefore the right of occupancy was entirely vested in the members of the club. The renters of these rooms had a right to use them for their own purposes, and if they so pleased, to remain in them all night. He must therefore consider that everything done in these club-rooms was precisely the same as if done in the next house, or any house not a public-house. The members of the club had a perfect right to indulge their convivial tendencies, but then, if the landlord of the house supplied them with refresh ments after the hour of twelve on Saturday night, the landlord committed an offence and was clearly liable for:having violated the provisions of au Act of Parliament. The evidence before him went only to show that a number of gentlemen were in their own club-roomwith refreshments before them, but in a case like the present he c onsidered it was his duty, in order to justify a conviction, to have proof that the defendant actually served liquors after twelve o'clock. Inspector Squires said he had a witness who would prove that a person came out of the house with a pot of porter after twelve o'clock at night. Mr. Duncombe, with c onsiderable warmth, pro tested against the course pursued by the inspector. The inspector had closed his evidence, but finding he had not stated enough to ensure a conviction, although sworn to speak the truth, and the whole truth, he at tempted to re-open the case by introducing evidence of a totally different character. Had the inspector attempted such a proceeding at the Central Criminal Court the judge would have instantly ordered him out of Court. Inspector Squires said he had only partly given his evidence, when he was interrupted by the defence set , up by Mr. Duncombe. Mr. HaanwfcK said he actually thought the evi dence on the part of the police had ceased ; otherwise he should not have offered the remarks which he had just uttered. He did not see that he could with pro priety allow evidence of another character to be pro. duced, now that the peculiar circumstances relied upon by the police in the first instance had not been found suMcientte warrant a conviction. Mr. Hard wick then dismissed the inforthation, WINGER WORTH FARMERS' CLUB (Abridged from the Derby Reporter.) FIRST ANNUAL MEETING. On Tuesday last the first annual meeting of this flourishing Club was held at the house of Mr. Turner, Nag's Head, Wingerworth, near Chesterfield. At the appointed hour, a large party of members and friends sat down to a dinner comprising the usual delicacies of the season, and which was served up in a manner highly creditable to the host and hostess. The dessert and wines were also excellent. John Brown, Esq., Vice-President of the Society, occupied the chair; Mr. Samuel Denham the vice-chair, &c. After the usual loyal toasts had been given, The CHAIRMAN having called for a bumper, rose to propose the toast of the evening—" Prosperity to the Wingerworth Farmers' Club." It had been said that farmers' clubs were designed more for the benefit of the landlord than the tenant. lie (the chairman)• disputed this. No doubt in this, as in every case where the tenant learned to cultivate the soil upon improved principles, the landlord would reap a proportion of the benefit; but by improved culture the tenant derived increased pro duce, and ampler returns.—(Hear.) Farmers' clubs afforded facilities to farmers which they could not obtain from any other source. By assembling together, and communicating the results of their respective experi ments, they diffused a knowledge of schemes beneficial to the farmer within the range of a very large circle, and induced, by their example, a very general adoption of systems of improved culture.—(Cheers.) Some farmers thought that it was a great disadvantage to them for the landlords to learn too much; but he (the Chairman) was certain, that the more landlord and tenant met together, and discussed questions affecting their mutual interests, the better would it be for both parties.—(Cheers.) The late Lord Leicester, one of the greatest practical agri culturists of the age, knew how to appreciate a good tenant, when a careless or an ignorant landlord could not. In the one case the tenant was placed in a right position ; in the other he was placed in a false one ; and let the active and enterprising farmer not suppose, there fore, that his interests could be permanently promoted, unless his landlord was capable of appreciating his worth, his intelligence and industry.—(Hear, hear). Having offered these few very imperfect remarks, he would submit the toast for their approval, merely adding, that so long as he remained in the neighbourhood, the Win gerworth Farmers' Club should re eive his cordial sup port.—(Cheers). The toast was drank with three times three, and " one cheer more." The CrwastAN next gave the health of "The Lord- Lieutenant of the County." (Drank with musical honours and three times three). The CHAIRMAN, after passing a few complimentary re marks, which were loudly applauded, called upon Mr. James Brotherton to propose the next toast. Mr. BROTHERTON, on rising, was received with loud cheers. He said, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen—The toast I shall have the honour to propose, is one which I trust will meet with a cordial response from every indi vidual in this room. It commenoes with "Success to Agriculture." And, gentlemen, I know of no period in the history of this country, when that sentiment was more pregnant with meaning, or more suggestive of topics for calm and serious reflection, than the times in which we live.—(Hear, hear). For with the apprehen sion of supposed danger from without, and the existence of yet more formidable difficulties and hindrances within, it may well become a question of grave import to the farmers of England, how is the occupation in which they have embarked their capital, and by which they are striving to subsist, to be best maintained and its interests most permanently secured.—(Loud cheers.) With re gard to one branch of this question, viz., so far as it affects the mere practical cultivation of the soil, I am happy to say the difficulty is comparatively small. For in the improvements which have taken place during the last twenty years, and more especially during the last ten years, it must be obvious to every intelligent ob server, that an entirely new era has opened upon British agriculture. Science is now lending her powerful aid to combine sound theory with practice. New facts and principles are almost daily being developed, which worked out to their legitimate results, bid fair to secure to the agriculturists of England a position and a fame equal to any which has yet been enjoyed by those who are en gaged in the other branches of our national industry.— (Cheers.) Of the advantages of combining theory with practice in the cultivation of the land, few persons, now a days, will have the hardihood to dispute. But if proof were wanting, I know not that amongst a variety of ethers, I could select a more notable instance than that which is related of Lavoisoir, a celebrated French che mist. It is said that this intelligent individual (without a minute knowledge of the art of farming), by fol lowing an enlightened system, doubled in nine years the produce of his lands in grain, whilst he at the same time quintupled the number of his flocks.—(Cheers.) But, gentlemen, it would be impossible for me to give you even a faint outline of the numberless advantages which may be daily derived from the application of science to farming. Take one branch only. It is scarcely possible to enter upon any investigation in agriculture, without finding it more or less connected with the doctrines and elucidations derived from chemistry. For instance, if land be unprodnctive, and a system of amelioration is to be attempted, the only sure method of obtaining the ob ject is by determining the cause of its sterility, which must necessarily depend upon some defect in the consti tution of the soil, and which may be easily discovered by chemical analysis. Now there are some lands, as you are, no doubt, most of you aware, which, though of good apparent texture, are yet sterile and unproductive in a high degree ; and common observation, and common practice afford no means of ascertaining the cause, or of removing the effect. The application of chemical tests in such cases, therefore, must be obvious ; for it is evi dent the soil must contain some noxious principle, which may be easily discovered, and in all probability as easily destroyed. For example : are any of the salts of iron present?—they may be decomposed by lime. Is there an excesiof silicious sand ?—the system of improvement must depend upon the application of clay and calcareous mat ter. Is there a defect of calcareous matter?—the remedy is obvious. Is there an excess of vegetable matter in • dicated ?-..it may bo removed by liming, paring, and burning. Is there, on the other hand, a deficiency of vegetable matter ?—it is to be supplied by manure.— (Hear, hear.) Again—a question often arises concern ing the qualities of different kinds of limestone employed in cultivation. To determine this question fully and accurately, in the common way of experience, would demand a considerable time, perhaps some years, and trials which might be injurious to crops ; but, by the simple chemical tests, the nature of a limestone is dis covered in a few moments, and the fitness of its appli cation, whether as a manure for different soils, or as a cement, determined.—(Hear, hear.) Another example—. peat earth, of a certain consistence and composition, is an excellent manure ; but there are some varities of peats which contain so large a quantity of ferruginous matter, as to be absolutely poisonous to plants. Nothing can be more simple, we are told, than the chemical operation for determining the nature and probable uses of these and other substances of their kind. Now, gentlemen ,+ these, and numberless other instances— as cited by :Sir Humphrey Davy, Liebig, Johnston, and other great chemists—might be adduced to prove the desirability of combining science with the practice of agriculture ; but I am sure you are too fully convinced of the truth of the proposition, to render any further details on this head necessary.—(Hear,' hear.) But, gentlemen, great as the advantages to be derived from the application of science to the art of farming may be, high and important as the principles which it deve lopes undoubtedly are, unless preceded by other con siderations, which, in my opinion, are of paramount importance, they must, to you, as tenant farmers, be comparatively useless. And here, gentlemen, I ap proach a branoh of my subject, upon which I am anxious to offer a few observations, and to which I respectfully solicit your indulgent attention. But, first of all, allow me to state what I conceive to be the object and design of farmers' clubs. I look upon farmers' clubs as esta blished, not only to discuss and promote the improve ments which are more immediately connected with the practical cultivation of the soil, but also as afford ing to the tenant-farmers an opportunity to discuss, and so lay the foundation for removing, the obstacles which cripple their energies and prevent them from deriving that fair proportion of advantage from the prosecution of their trade, which they have a full and perfect right to expect.,—(Cheers). lam aware that in most of the farmers' clubs which have been established in different parts of the country, great anxiety has been evinced by certain parties to exclude the discussion of what they call (and I believe them), " obnoxious subjects"—such l as rents, leases, and game.—(Loud cheers.) But some how or other, in almost every club of whose proceedings I bare seen any account, these " obnoxious subjects" have crept in, in spite of all the shifts and manoeuvreswhich have been resorted to to keep them out.—(Con tinned cheers and laughter). And, gentlemen, I think it perfectly right that these things should be discussed.— (Renewed cheers). There are times when farmers must speak out, not only about guano and drilling, but about land agents, land valuers, and game preservers— (Loud cheers)—and indeed it would be no compliment to a landlerd to suppose that he would wish you to keep silence upon those topics which affect the privileges and just rights of your occupation, acd more especially upon those grievances which it may be in his power to alleviate or remove.—(Vociferous cheering.) For if it be desirable to discuss the expediency of the introduction of a new " drag" upon the land, surely it is equally desirable to discuss the propriety of taking an old one off it—(Cheers and laughter)—and one too which is much more obnoxious than even the new ono is beneficial.— (Renewed cheers.) If it be desirable to introduce a new presser on the land, is it not equally so to remove those older pressers which operate upon the farmers' pockets rather than on his land ?—(Cheers renewed.) W e il then, gentlemen, the first of these obstacles to improve ment upon which I shall offer an observation, is the te nure of land—(Hear, hear)—and upon this subject, viz., the relation between landlord and tenant, I will quote the opinion of one who is much better entitled to your consideration than any unsupported opinion of mine on such a subject could possibly be—l mean Mr. Low, the Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, who, in a work just published, "On Landed Property and the Economy of Estates," (a work I would strongly recommend to the notice of the club), says— " Not even the accumulation of capital, to the degree of stocking the farms of the country, will avail for giving to agriculture the means of successful cultivation and improvement. The owner of this capital must have the means of employing it with advantage, by security of possession, by the privileges required for the proper management of his business, and by that fair and lenient exaction upon his industry, which will enable him to employ his capital with a profit." Now, gentlomer, is not this perfectly true ?—(Hear, hear.) And yet there are not a few landowners who seem to think that if tenant-farmers can pay their rents and just rub along, they have tie right to expect more.— (Hear, hear.) Tell a landlord—of course there are ex ceptions, but the exceptions prove the rule—that any particular tenant is making a profit, and he will imme diately think, and not unfrequently act upon the thought, that the farm has been let for too little rent.—(Hear, hear.) Now let us see what has been the effect of these notions amongst the landowners of England. Upon this point Mr. Low says : "In the finest parts of England funds have been pro gressively accumulating for stocking the farms to a degree unknown in any other country in Europe ; but the essential conditions having been too often wanting, of security of possession, and a beneficial connexion be tween the landlord and the tenants, agriculture has re mained comparatively fixed, while every other branch of industry has been advancing." —(Hear, hear.) Compare this stationary state of agri culture with the onward progress of other branches of British industry. Mr. Low says : " The manufacturer of cotton, of wool, of iron, has the assurance that the machine which he constructs and improves for the purposes of his trade is his own, and that the more perfect he can render it the more profit able will the use of it become to him. The farmer who lays out capital on the great machine on which his all depends—the earth which he tills—has often no such as surance. It is the property of another, who in the end will profit by all the improvements which the skill of a tempo rary possessor can make upon it. The manufacturer re ceives, directly, the profit of his stock in trade; the farmer must share those profits with another, who undergoes no part of the labour and risk ; his industry is fettered by conditions imposed upon no other class of traders ; and the inconveniences of obtaining returns for a present expenditure more slowly than in any other profession are frequently aggravated by the uncertainty whether he will ever have the power of recovering the capital advanced." _ _ . —( Hear.) Now, gentlemen, we hear a great deal about " mutual confidence," " tenures," " tenant rights," and so forth. Listen again to Mr. Low : " The only fitting security for a man who has capital to employ in the cultivation and improvement of land is a written covenant, subsisting for a definite and adequate period. Tenancy at will, it must be apparent, so much extended over the richest parts of England, is in no de gree an adequate substitute for the lease, ensuring to the tenant his right of possession for a determiued period. Habit, indeed, may reconcile the tenantry of a country to such a species of tenure, and a kind of confidence may arise that a tenant will not be capriciously dispos sessed, nor an unfair advantage taken of his expendi ture 4 but this confidence, however great, is not to be compared, as the means of inducing men to spend capi tal on land, with that sense of security and indepen dence which is the soul of industry and exertion. It is impossible to divest the tenant-at-will of the knowledge that every improvement which he makes upon his farm gives it a higher value to another, and adds to the means of raising the rent against himself." —(Hear.) Now, gentlemen, who can doubt the truth or the justice of these remarks ? And I beg of you to give them your serious attention. We now come to the subject of rents ; and upon this point the Professor serves : " The tenant who takes land, and the landlord who lets it, should so adjust the rent, that the tenant shall be able to bear the pressure of deficient crops, or of low prices arising from favourable ones; and no prudent man ought to contract for rent which will nut allow him to meet that contingency of his trade which arises from a fluctuation in the amount and prices of his commodi ties. . . . The landlord who would secure a prospe rous tenantry, and improve his estate, must not trust to his per tentage or bounty on an audit day, but must place his tenants in the condition which will, enable them to fulfil the obligations under which they engage in virtue of a fair and well-considered covenant," —(Loud cheers.) Now, gentlemen, these remarks have evident reference to corn rents, and upon this subject just allow me to state the relative positions in which English and Scottish farmers are placed to each other; the Englishman paying a fixed money rent, the Scotch man, a corn rent. We shall take a farmer at 200 'acres at 255. an acre, money price, which, farmed upon the five course system, will, I suppose, have about 40 acres of wheat in each year. Adopting the general notion that wheat must pay the rent, then it will require at least two-thirds of the wheat crop upon the forty acres to satisfy the landlord for the rent of the whole farm. Let us now see how a corn rent will bear upon landlords and tenants. The English landlord asks, as I have be fore supposed, 255. an acre for his 200 acres, and the English tenant accepts the offer. The Scotch farmer, on the ether hand, bargains with his landlord to give him four bushels of wheat, or half a quarter of an acre. Now, supposing that these bargains are entered into with wheat at 50s. a quarter, as long as this price continues all parties, both Scotch and English, stand upon the same footing, paying 255. an acre rent. But let us suppose that wheat falls to 405., how will matters be then ? Why, the English farmer will continue to pay 255. an acre, whilst the Scotch farmer pays 20s.—a difference, be it observed, of 501. upon the 200 acres, or of 255. an acre on the 40 acres growing wheat !—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") 'l'en shilling a quarter is, however, by no means the limit of the fluctuation to which the farmer is liable. In 1835 the average price of wheat for the whole year was under 40s. a quarter. At that time the tenantry of England held their farms at a rent calculated upon the under standing that wheat was to sell for 60s. at least, which price it was believed the Act of 1828 would secure. We all know the distress which then overtook the English farmers, as proved before the Committee of 1836. But we also know that the Scotch farmers, paying corn rents, who were examined before that Committee, gave a very different account of their condition ; and one of the most intelligent farmers in the county of Haddington shire has since stated that he cleared more money from his farm in 1835 than in any year since. —(Hear, hear.) And the difference in the state of things in England end Scotland was caused by the difference in the terms of renting, for whilst the Scotch farmer paid 4001. to his landlord, the Englishman paid 6001. In fact the English farmer is now paying three times as much rent for his land as his grandfather paid about seventy years ago, whilst his wheat is actually selling under the price of that period.—(Cheers.) Now, gentlemen, these are facts which demand very serious reflection at your hands, and I think these farmers' clubs may be made very useful instruments in leading to a right understanding both upon these and various other topics in which your in terests are concerned. You begin to talk them over amongst yourselves, and having talked together, you will soon learn to act together. For, depend upon it, the want of unity of purpose and of action has been one great cause why the present vicious system under which you are suffering has continued so long.—(Loud cheers.) I had intended to say a word or two about game—(Hear, hear)—but I have already trespassed so long on your indulgence upon other topics that I must pass on.— (Cries of "Go on !") I have now done with agricul ture; my toast, however, goes somewhat farther, and embraces " Manufactures and Commerce." And, gen tlemen, I think I can by way of conclusion very briefly show cause why these two branches of our national in dustry are as much entitled to your good wishes as your own occupation of agriculture. For, gentlemen, great as your predilections and respect for the pursuits of agri culture may be—honourable, invigorating, and benevo lent as its principles are, dating from the very birth of time, growing with every growth of civilisation, and ad vancing with the advance of light and knowledge—in dispensable as are its aids to the public welfat e and the national greatness, I very much question whether you could conveniently dispense with the other ingredients of my teast.—(Hear, hear.) We are no longer able to become a nation of shepherds if we would. Manu factures and commerce have materially assisted in fixing our high position with the nations of the world, and so much so, that although, as was observed by an eloquent statesman, " the pipe has always been recognised as the pastoral instrument, we must rely on manufactures and commerce to help us to pay the piper."—(Cheers, and laughter.) Agriculture furnishes able and vigorous hands, but we must also rely upon commerce and manufactures for some of the open and capacious mouths.—(Cheers and laughter.) And gentlemen, the more we look into every employment and every interest that engages the various classes of man kind, the more we shall find that we stand in need of each other.—(Hear, hear.) Moreover, although I may be as ready as any man to cry " Speed the plough," I must recollect that ploughs to be used must be manufac tured, and though we read in ancient story books of the dragon's teeth growing up into a crop of armed men, I doubt whether any of the most sanguine competitors is drill or broadcast, could succeed in turning up a plough ready made.—(Cheers and laughter.) Gentlemen, I might pursue this subject, but I think that the few ob servations I have already made on this branch of my toast will be sufficient to establish the claims of com merce and manufactures to be allied with agriculture.— (Hear, hear.) They are the leading branches et in dustry, and when you reflect besides all else what com merce does to develope the resources and augment the welfare of the country—how much it does to unite the scattered branches of the human family—to unite nation and nation—clime and clime—man and man in one cemented bond—to soften the asperities of international jealousies—and to calm the savage tendencies to strife and to murderous war—l think you will agree with me that commerce ought to be associated in the same goodly fellowship—and therefore it is with confidence and plea sure that I now call upon you to drink—" Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce."—(Mr. Brotherton re sumed his seat amidst reiterated plaudits.) Mr. BiNsis (of Tupton Hall) was called upon to re spond to the toast. He regretted that it was not in his power to give expression to his thoughts with the same fluency and eloquence Mr. Brotherton had displayed in proposing the toast, to which he had been unexpectedly called upon to respond. If he had the power of expressing, with equal felicity, his own thoughts upon the subjects of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, they would be a complete reiteration of Mr. Brotherton's speech. — (Cheers.) Though a small farmer himself, his principal pursuit was commerce, and his experience had taught him how intimately connected were the real interests of agriculture and commerce.—(Hear, hear.) Sec how they mutually assisted each other. If the firm with which he was connected were deprived of the support which the operations of agriculture afforded them, they must cease to produce. The firm were indebted to the agriculturists for the consumption of something like 40,000 tons of lime per year; and on the other hand, the farmers of the district were equally indebted to them, for the firm paid in wages alone about 40,0001. annually, a great proportion of which was expended in the agricultural produce of this district.—(Cheers.) It was impossible, with any degree of common sense or notion of right, to separate the two interests. Mr Brotherton had alluded to the land agents, against whom a heavy score was laid. Now he thought that class of people were rather too roundly rated, and that more was fathered upon them than they were justly on. -----•--..--....----,....—............-----""s:;' titled to bear.— a ndl(Laughter.) Let them 100 k ,0 1 matter fairly. A land agent goes to the lor 0 ;14 says "My Lord," or " Sir"—as the case may P e llec t till?, times are bad, and it is impossible t hat I ea° ~o iia ce• full amount of rent ; you must mak e some s" ~ t hisill " Oh," says the landlord, " I can't L ear °loch ' tr od I have been giving fetes and balls i n Londod`looo laughter and cheers)—l have spent 100,0001, a" To spy have money to pay my debts."—(Hear, bear) COld hi a case what was the poor agent to do ? 1 1 °''' d s JP help himself, when he received imperial congno ° er o these ? Let them not be too hard upon the.slol Believe him, they had plenty to bear, and mole. tillor, at all times either convenient or comfortab'",, fr hear.) He perfectly agreed with Mr. Brothert°oo,. 00 marks upon the subject of tenure. In his o pinio. _ P o i impossible for the farmer, however industrioustng be, to carry on his operations either satisfae r" profitably, without a fair and reasonable assists:loo; his landlord.—(Much cheering.) A roan takes wo o his landlord for the time being may and the tenant has an inward conviction that h i e te " o " , pre be displaced, so long as he pays the rent ; bu t f , fel bably, he has to look forward to the c oming ° ,. r isti, heir to the estate, who may, from caprice, Or S • - sre sss motives, blight the prospects of the tenant at a .... : ( criel and drive him at a short notice from the faro' it ore , of " Hear, hear.") The industry of yea worth°the o#,l be a reasons..iii no lost to him; he receives no compensation _Asir. for the hardship he endures ; and can o btain 0 ° 7tileo r ' reason for the visitation brought upon b itri c o iciSe ile hear.) Was that state of things desirable, or e i.ort V to the promotion of the best interests of agriel9,loo (" No!") He had no hesitation in saying tool° of the landlords in this country were not ali os a er state of their tenantry. He (Mr. Binns) b at ' h o e°, gaged all his life with landowners; be ? as s :, ten' free from them now, and right glad he "is e be sr s j —(Much cheering and laughter.) He wan w- I thess to be placed on the right horse. He knew til o s 4' o agent had an onerous duty to perform, an d i s - c lact ° o: impossible that the agent could at all times ° ° " ti pier , , to ters to the satisfaction of both holder and oc e . tb , sau, less the former condescended to mix mor e w h i e lsit er ' o ff understand the position and requirements of, t, v ote, (Cheers.) Unless a tenant has a certain fixea . 0 it. ol the land, he is a fool to expend his monefd°Plll, (Load cheers.) By proper cultivation, a ° o s S's good understanding between landlord and ten, intry land ought to become an exporting instead ° , - offs t r ing country,—(Hear, hear.) There was plelicioup 4 1 all that was wanted was cultivation, and a .1 0 so , die 51i plication of capital. It was an old axiom ti' t wo, g t meas ures would not grow good corn. S° far broil being correct, the coal measures were better s o is o f growing corn than any other geological stTiotins°lol country except the igneous rocks of the 00 11 4 Scotland, against which the coal rneasO a r t e r p s r dfio compete, though they ranked second. 11 " 1 " 00 gorP .01 upon these and other points some little time the plit: 00 1 Binns concluded by thanking the meeting f° r . ra idst attention they had given him, and sat devil' .'" 4 1 applause. A ths ' W O' TO' PO" The SECRETARY (Mr. F. Brown) he re to • of the Committee for the past year, whie b g,, ' " „ A A able account of the proceedings of the chu" oho m e ol , The Rev. S. REVEL moved the adoption° to 01 11 00 and made a few appropriate observations 0 0 0 10 Mr. LINGARD proposed " The Committelssa)4lll to them for their valuable services."---(APS- 110_40 Mr. HOLLAND (of Grassmore) respondei); stir, himself and colleagues, and, in doing so , °a r s the al 1 14 to experiments made by the Committee as , Of f , value of different manures. The results (as lied season would allow) were satisfactorP, . 1 . sos i s :J/ ought to use every effort to improve Os l o es l oo considering the diminished price of corn.. ° o 4 f i (Hear, hear.) If landlords would come lquistsloof tenants were in difficulties, and say "w e case by reducing the rent "—(Loud cheerlo 0 0 7 0 4 gles would meet with some alleviation. _ .. , th e t a: not the case. Instead of meeting them - " a l asi' s for on a tenant's complaining, the answer, i° L ' o pillilP ,cases, was, "If you do not like to sts : Ls for ie ef, -you may leave it ;we have plenty W"'-farmers oc_rj (Hear, hear.) Let the farmers then, 1 ° ,. T s , more upon themselves. He knew thi s, 4" 0 9 4 landlords who acted upon the prineief', 007 let live ;" but, unfortunately, theY ' ve la/0 0 01 . paratively.—(Hear, hear.) Farmers' ° II t ie h tend to unite farmers in one con° 3 . ° ,l i°,o , agreement in all that concerned their an s fs2i t They would be able to stand in their own, A r oi 0 more effectually than in their mere ind iv '' a t °° ' A —(Hear, hear.) What was of importalti., or, would produce more effect upon the lend ..piri Landlords who expended large sums in r° ° ; iffy should take heed and stop in time. T he " ¢ O- 40 of serious moment, and the shadow o f coat t bre; o ll . A upon them. He did hope, however,. the ri instrumentality of farmers' clubs, Nol ere e l ,afe'f ) well as improvements could be diseatt'o ai - 0 landlord and tenant would be brought,',.olol timate consideration of their mutual into s o rate he was convinced that such societi/oWolisolol to do great good, and if the farmers t h ey ifo o il T in themselves, he had no doubt that the) ? w ets to overcome the difficulties by which the sent surrounded.—(Loud cheers.) , nit, ' do., After several other toasts had been to l e " be t ie" Mr. LINGARD proposed the health e i .,' ts S sl‘ and thanks for his valuable services.--'.- poolk, honours.) ,„.ief s Mr. F. BROWN returned thanks in a w - o g ero vi tili gi concluded by saying that preceding sP e t ,>( .4 o/ left him a sin ,lo head of game to fire ,° " - t he no He gave " Success to the farmers' clubs l° " h is "" Song—" The jolly old farmer, s moking - 1 1 i Mr. Ramsden. to' 1. 0 41 ( 1 The Rev. S. REVEL proposed the nst r rs 4 : 1 111 4 1: the health of a gentleman whose charet ts kobi re eulogium, for he was known and apigre e ' ss e" VIP sent—" Mr. Hunloke."—(Drank with th',",,...bi Song—" The Old English Gentleroa° Aol'fil Chard. ... a orri f 1 Mr. RAMSDEN was called upon to Pr°,l7 h do 00 , and Corporation of Chesterfield," whicu " e ' speech.—(Drank with honours.) ot ~ , 0 Mr. LINGARD, as the oldest warn r present, returned thanks. ~ 0 6 , Mr. BROTHERTON proposed "The -Ire ° e°' or Chesterfield," and had great pl e asure " w ool it the name of one of the oldest 0 0 `„ . - ,..4 j i tradesmen of the town—Mr. Hew" ' r honours). Of fi / Mr. HEwirr responded. rarto e ....l ° 1 I Mr. BINNB proposed " The Tentont""iart/ land," and prefaced the toast with sone r , vations. j th e ' i; Mr. GILES proposed " Mr. Brown a° of'ji, Mr. BROWN responded. ' pie! Mr. RAMSDEN proposed the health of ° , tenant-farmers in the district-31r. S ib 01 1 —(Clapping of hands). 0 1V ., Mr. BACON was received with loud l': - . ) - fon", been a ploughman between 60 and 6d)oloiso#/j, handled the scythe in all its forms ; a rl t - t he fO a V were things to be improved upon 0 ' at i„ ' 's With regard to improvements, it was i ii 104 of a great many to do what they o°°,: io go,,:j /; self would like to do a great manY t' w aa,r s ef,,a l Brotherton had observed, the farmers, .:,-( 1 ) ...00 " 0 , curity for the outlay of their caPit a ,: s , 0 1" t i l l man was more willing to expend ra °° ;pd ~ ( 0 . 0 / than he was, with the proper ine 9 et cpp / curity ; but the want of means only rip , but many others whom he knew fror a : s t o j) I, wishes.— (Hear, hear). Now bes 14 :,. - he r d"' o h I things before their landlords.—( o° ,7, l oo o " s 1 f proceeded Mr. Bacon, we must cab "J e t ird r o h to lower our rent.—(Cheers). Let us ° to , o° o o .o f naming our distress. Mil high r e s „ D csl i s o cattle reduced one-third in value, 11° _„" t o '" Chesterfield Market-place, and soTircto- es' duce of farms lower rented at 0 ;: n i- a1 00: 0 04, 1 ( 1 1 Let us have asssistanee from our I '7 w e r h 1 e ; We are willing to do all we can, btd I 0 91 4 ,i5e ° 0 4 —what then ? " Help 1 help ! or ii ; g t* er g .1 , cheers.) It so happens that we are I:4„,iseci, li sify for our land in these parts that other s ; f ie ',* 'I, ing; how then, ai I before asked, e a d ",4ll o ,.ii j io them in the market ? I repeat we I:a i - ,ooP e' 19b from our landlords, and no doubt , i . r t higilf ir 11, 1 they will show a disposition to do e leg a te 0 " 09 „ o cessary to enable us to properly C" W ith ' ,"Al not, we shall be like a man in a boat ands ...n d j or steer him, going up and down 2 „, rl if w finally go to Davy's .Locker.--0 - i b l e nd 10'2 0 Mr. Chairman, I have spoken ins' I ° . '" s , no offence to any one.—(Cheers.) vai n P l Mr. BROWN proposed " The •"" i odds (Drank with three times three.) OP, The health of the Vice-Chairnaniesf, followed, interspersed with songs aners bi s .fd viviality of the evening was COi wit h 6 " The proceedings altogether went ° '— - --- -- 1 1?"'l re 4 1 0 1 BIRTHS. •obri c in o t to o en, sh o , tfh o ea f Mackintosh, of a daughter's On the 15th inst., in Prince's-street, ti./ ir I On the 16th inst ,at Kingscote, the La ' ,d, v 16th 5on. inst.,. at St. Marl . g hter• , civ et ° , 1 4%, , ~ d er ev o f le -Stran d der road, the wife ofW W. Dawson (C oilllfilin 4 4 , Castle), of a son. i i IifARIfIED., or ofi l 0 .10 I, aldi. O vce n eah t r lt ies e ii l eE 4 , dtEhiusghiun,rsogtf.h,D,auttunDiel‘.tirairey,.Tufert:::eti;.,rocld,stio:orriA.A, voi,kordf b ota ° On the 15th inst., at Christ v .11 t° 90 Thwaites, of Amwell-street, Penton/I ft e i r ists" di , f, daughter of the late Mr. S. Price, Bl it , c fbota ila 4te r C, On the 16th inst., at Kensington, t pile Esq., of Brighton, to Louise, Y°gltges el, T B 4 0. ennett,Kensington. C i vet v f it On the 16th inst., at the Catholic oottisiorept d M a o u u g s h le te y r , Es.sqit,uohfy,Haunton Ilan, Sta'v r iorif gi p S' ll' ,4 l On the lO t t eNh h iyoi i n n thts s ist t a.. . i , E a E t q C:m l;l b lA r E i ldvn g es7tteerrice'l4l+o4l4 fr 7l w Eus i po d eit o .no: w n,t)flu o l ei‘ f a i l h ols: e late Dr. Porter. Tha l° de pe f i i On the 14th inst., at CheltenbaP3' of ' di p ( ~„ w ife hs jamoOmi On the Ah t t , r ph h o eeft Camberwell.hllo66rtt p h h . inst., a n ng s set t .. d : l ' s4J Maria Caroline. Y oh r n k gtlnit I ' t ee : . e t Wife I i 1;1 ; 0 1 f OOl mon, Surrey, aged 77. On the 17th inst., in Bishopsga--.° solleitr°.j.6l i tillitt,,,n, ),•zio 011 ? On the 17th inst at Eveshers fes°als el . f ri Ma ~ r - y, the infant daughter of Bealleest, if, - let/ eia i 1 On the 17th inst., in KTPOr str Ad op " the youngest child of Mr. htipter. care, _0 On the 17th inst., in blontealliDoettot, i Ilollantd: treoSil''t oto„. second daughter of Archdeacon S it. ~ tbsl o tis ° di On the 18th inst., Francis Gibriddracr .4,r i Western, Esq., of Caroline -place' ititroo es 010# Lonaon: Printed and Published Oa No. 112, Strand, Printer, *ath ,000, e &rand, in the Preehlet_, l of — 2 O, ii 1. • &Waseca, Nada, jal , " - • • , • Taz STINs LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,- JANUARY 20,_1845