The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-25 00:00:00

TB SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, NOTEMBRA 25 1344. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. 26,196 23,334 " Here is a difference, in the deaths, of 2,862 indi viduals in one year, in nine districts only of the one hundred and fifteen comprised in the return. What can be the cause of this ? A sufficient answer to us may be found in the words of the worthy registrar for Little Bolton—' that it is chiefly owing to the im proved condition of the working classes.' It is a great and convincing fact of the murderous effect of the famine laws, and restrictions upon trade." But this involves a consideration of much higher import ance than whether manufacturers get little or great profit. Who are the individuals, those 1;662 indivi duals, whom this return proves to have fallen victims to these laws P—(Hear, hear.) Not the indivi duals who passed the law; not lords, not rich men, not people in comfortable circumstances; they are of a different order altogether —men whose only inhe ritance is the strength of their arm and the intelli gence of their head—the working class of this coun try.—(Loud applause.) Old men and old women, who might have lived years longer to watch the pro gress of their families, are cut off and hurried to the grave by this law.—(Hear, hear.) Aye, and many a poor unfortunate child, who came into existence during that disastrous period, which might otherwise have lived to have blessed its parents, has been taken to its grave, even those parents blessing God that he had removed it from the misery it was likely to share. And these men, who talk about State policy, and about expediency, and about the burdens upon land, and mortgages to be paid, and marriage settlements upon daughters—(Applause)—if it could ever enter into their minds that horrors like these were being perpetrated in every district of this country, their inhuman law doing its working, and doing it most faithfully, I ask you what must be the character of those men if they could resist the fer vent call made upon them, by the united working people of this country, for the abandonment of this system, and the liberation of the industry of this trampled and insulted nation ?—(Loud applause.) 13ut there is another point to which I would refer you. The people of this country are of an order who will not sink down and die without making an effort to save themselves. It is said " the mighty camel dies 'neath heaviest load ;" but man was not made for an end so ignominious and contemptible as that. —(Applause.) The people of this country will travel all earth before they will die of starvation in their own country; and, driven by excessive penury to seek a refuge in foreign lands, they find that bread under the Republican Government of America, which their own paternal Government denies them at home. —(Applause.) I have here a return of the number of persons who have emigrated from this country since 1838:- 1838 1839 . 1840 . 1841 . 1842 . 1843 33,222 65,207 90,743 118,502 128,344 57,212 Total How does it happen that all these facts come together and corroborate each other ? They are not picked out of returns prepared and got up by the members of the Anti-Corn-law League, but from returns fur nished by Government.—(Applause.) Arguments are as plentiful as blackberries in the season ; you may go to any district, agricultural or manufacturing, and I declare it is impossible to fix on any point, or get boll of any statistics but what will conduct to the same conclusion; they all condemn this infamous law.—(Applause.) The Hon. Gentleman referred to the circumstances under which these emigrants left, and observed that it was not like the sons of aristocrats going to make the grand tour ; they tore themselves away from associations as strong as any men felt, and for why ? That themselves and their chi!dren might obtain a maintenance. He had seen an emigrant ship leaving the dock at Liverpool, all weeping on board, and th e -ir friends on shore equally weeping, at taking their last leave of them. It was often remarked that Englishmen who had gone to America spoke bitterly of their own country ; but when it was remembered that they had been forced away by the Government, an I saw the, very wheat for which they pined locked up in bond in Liverpool, could it be won dered at that they left this land with a malediction in their mouths, to seek a living under a more just Government ? With respect to crime, in 1836-7, • and 1838, the commitments in England and Wales averaged about 22,000; in 1839, 24,000; in 1840, 27,487; in 1841, 27,760; in 1842, 31,309; and 1843, 29,501 ; thus rising so long as the pressure existed, and then diminishing; so that we were now becoming a people among whom less crime was committed. With these facts before them, how could any man withstand this evidence, brought forward by persons totally disinterested ? But beyond the preservation of life, the diminution of crime, and the checking of forced emigration, whence eame the great effort now making throughout the manufacturing districts to ameliorate the phy,ical condition of the working chases —an effort which wo u ld h ave b een a l together impossible three years ago, when bankruptcy stared almost every one in the face? These facts only proved that they had been right in the beginning, right all along, and right in the end, and that conse quently they were sure to triumph.—(Applause.) But it should be remembered how many had been swept away by the storm of destitution which had passel over them, how many children have been doomed to ignorance by the necessities of their parents at that period, how many men had bee n driven into unwilling pauperism, broken down in spirit, thus inflicting a wide-spreading evil on so ciety, as it infected their children and their chil dren's children.—(liear.) The past five years heing thus full of instruction—perhaps more so than any five years her e t o f ore —h e th oug ht th e publ ic of Roch dale would be r ea dily p ersua d e d t o g i v e their cordial co-operation to all that the League might do. The chairman had complimented, not flattered the inha bitants, and he hoped they would still go with the League in future. Great *ealth existed in this town : they were much of one opinion as to free trade; and under these circumstances he could not but hope that what they might do in future would eclipse the past. --(Applause.) The woollen trade was once the chief trade of this town, employing thousands, and yielding great wealth to the manufacturers. How was it that j that trade had not extended, that no more flannels i were made here than were made twenty-five years ego, and that the workmen in that trade were the worst paid? Assuredly from no other cause but our blind restrictive legislation, by which our woollens had been shut out of the American market. Had it not been that another was tra f de, cotton, had been intro duced h ere , w h ich almost entirely an exp o rt trade, the t own and district anuca alo t n e had been save d f rom m decay. The woollen manu f act ures were now almost all going int o th e cotton d because • they lik e d i t better, e b . ut Vhdi ? Not no field for them i n t h e i r ow' trade, o ne-half of which had been cu t o ff by the A tariff. And yet there were Teen in thi s town whno would not lift a finger to remove that tariff, and the corn-law which caused it.--(Applause.) Contemptible " The estimates are now in preparation, and when I am about to present them to you, I shall enter upon the financial condition of the colony, especially as bearing on the revenue. " E. EARDLEY-WILMOTT." ADVERTISEMENT. ANOTHER EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF ASTHMA BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS !—Patrick Casey, residing at No. I, Compton-place, Brunswick. square, had suff ere d f rom a c h ron i c asthma for more than three years. This poor man was so great a sufferer that he did not dare go to bed for fear of the phlegm choking him ; indeed, he could not even lay his head upon a table for half an hour lest be should be suffocated ; nevertheless, this person is now labouring from morning to night, s l ee p s as we ll as ever he did in his life, and, in fact, Sold is completely cured by the use of Holloway's Pills. (also Holloway's Ointment) at 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors of aledieine throughout the civilised world. fellows! Were all such as them the country would soon he in a state of anarchy, were it not for those who sought to lead the people into the right paths. They had heard the direction about to be taken by ' the League. They had been charged with sedition, and with stimulating insurrection. Abandoning everything which could countenance such a charge, they would lay hold of that truly constitutional weapon—the electoral franchise, and would lay claim to the county representation—(Hear, hear)—and if there were any truth in the opinion they had formed as to the prevalence of free-trade principle; the bulk of the middle and working classes would unite with them.—(Applause.) He was delighted to hear what an outcry there would be in a few months when they found the West Riding of Yorkshire and North Cheshire were wrested from the monopolists. Squire after squire, noodle after noodle—(Laughter) —would rise to protest against the unconstitutional proceedings of the League, and would call on the Secretary of State to interfere.—(Hear, hear.) But when those counties, the seats of the manufacturers, were secured, and the system was extending to War wickshire and other large midland and southern counties, the monopolists would take alarm, and would surrender the question of free trade, in the hope of preventing further progress in that direction; but he hoped that, having once obtained possession of a weapon so powerful, they would continue to use it, and that if there were any other right on which the working classes had set their minds, they would not rest satisfied till they obtained it by the sure con stitutional means.—(Cheers.) W. S. CRAWFORD, Esq., M.P. for the borough, next addressed the meeting, and was received with great and prolonged cheering. GEORGE ASHWORTH, Esq., moved a vote of thanks to the gentlemen wh o h a d addressed them ; which was seconded by Mr. JOHN PETRIE, and carried by acclamation. The CHAIRMAN acknowledged the compliment; and Mr. BRIGHT having explained some arrangements for enabling parties in Rochdale, so inclined, to be come purchasers of qualifications to vote for the county, the meeting separated. (From Sydney Papers of July 30.) The Lady Grey, from Hobart Tow n th e 25th i ns t., has brought our fi les of papers to the 19th, inclusive. Intelligence had been received of the safe arrival of Sir John Franklin and lady at St. Helena, on the 28th of last March. His Excellency Sir Eardley Eardley-Wilmott opened the Legislative Council on the 17th instant; which, from a few remarks made by the Colonial Secretary at the close of his Excellency's speech, was expected would be again adjourned sine die in the course of a fortnight. The following is the opening speech : " Gentlemen,—l have the pleasure of meeting you earlier in this year than in the last, owing to the late period of the year in which I then arrived in this colony ; and I hope it will not be necessary to detain you long from your domestic avocations. " The interval since we last met has been one of trial and of gloom ; but I believe a brighter day is now breaking upon us. " The time for forming accurate conclusions, as to all the causes which have mainly contributed to pro duce the present state of the colony, has not yet ar rived. Much less are we in a position to pronounce with confidence what their permanent results will be. Still there may be an advantage of no trifling amount in endeavouring to survey, even at the present time, the condition at which we are arrived, and the prospects which appear to be opening upon us ; and the more particularly do I wish to do so, because, distressing as these reverses have been, they have always appeared to me to have been regarded too gloomily ; owing greatly, I believe, to the present state of the colony having been referred, by a false standard of comparison, to a former period of prospe rity, created by fictitious causes, and to an unex pected concurrence of events which are not again likely to happen. " The two great staple productions of this colony are its wool and its wheat; and in proportion as these are encouraged, and bear a remunerating price, will the bonds which have fettered the energy and the in dustry of the colony be loosened, and the weight which has pressed down to insolvency many deserving persons be ultimately removed. " The fleeces of Van Diemen's Land were never in greater repute than they are at this moment; and though they may not realise so high a price as they did in former years, yet it is certain that the latest accounts from hngland are most encouraging as re spects this important branch of our trade. " The price of wheat has been for some time un deniably low—so low, indeed, as not to pay the cost of production ; but severe as the misfortunes are whieh have in consequence befallen so many settlers, yet I cannot regard the prospects of the agriculturists as dark and forbidding, so long as the merchants can make shipments to England, and so long as the ad vance on Van Diemen's Land wheat in the market of that country continues. " The real and inexhaustible mine of wealth in such a colony as this, is its agriculture; and it is to this and an improved system- of cultivation, assisted by extensive irrigation (which alone is requisite to give to our alluvial soils their full measure of fertility), that we must look for permanent prosperity; and it is on steady remunerating prices we must depend, and not on temporary though immoderate profits, for. merly derived from the fitful demands occasioned from time to time in New South Wales by unpro ductive harvests. We must look to the dawning prospect, now before us, of becoming producers of grain for the consumption of the mother country, in stead of being dependent on markets never opened to us by our neighbours, except by the inclemency of seasons, or by their own misfortunes. " To hazard the opinion, that under the circum stances which I have mentioned, prosperity will im mediately visit the colony, I am far from wishing to be understood. But to affirm, that, in a time of uni versal peace, with every advantage of soil and cli mate, with labour at command available during the whole year—in winter as in summer, and when freight to any reasonable extent may be obtained at a moderate rate, a British colony, capable of pro ducing wheat and wool of the finest quality to an un limited amount, does not possess within itself the ele ments of prosperity, as well as inducements for the investment of capital, is an assertion which no one versed in the history of nations will venture to make, and no one with a knowledge of this colony can suc cessfully maintain. " Causes unforeseen and accidental may retard this advance indeed; and causes of depression affecting individuals may offer temporary obstacles; but they cannot ultimately prevent a development of success, which is as inevitable as it is desirable. " I have mentioned the two great productions of our agricultural industry as relating to our exports ; but I cannot emit also the many means we have of supplying our own consumption with the neces saries of life. The cultivation of barley—even now sufficient to supersede the use of sugar in an Englishman's beverage—and the growth of grasses and green food, to supply our markets with native meat and cheese, are open to us ; and there only want energy and example to bring the riches of our soil into the coffers of the industrious. I cannot ex pect to witness this country's united enterprise ; all I can do is, to awaken science from her sleep, and lead her to the threshold of industry. I must leave it to another generation to enthrone her in the temple. " The true solution, gentlemen, of the present state of the colony, seems to be this : the temporary occasions of unnatural prosperity have passed away, and the degree of its future condition must depend upon the premature relations which it can establish with the English market, where I think it will be able to secure regular but moderate profits, sufficient to reward the industrious, though not perhaps to satisfy the desire of those who wish to be immediately wealthy. " In connexion with the well-being of the colony, I feel one duty to be especially incumbent on me ; namely, the protection of life and property ; and as some misapprehension still appears to exist on this point, I wish it to be distinctly understood, that when ever any criminal shall be sentenced to death for having broken into a house and used actual violence towards its inmates, I never shall interfere with the due execution of the law, unless some legal doubt shall be brought under my notice. "I am happy to say that criminal offences are at the present time few ; and though, in such an im mense convict population, occasional outbreaks and violation of the laws must be expected, yet I think that far fewer crimes are committed than could be an ticipated. " It is not my intention to lay before you many Bills during the present session, for I am averse to le gislature on paroxysms of national difficulty, finding by experience that partial tamperings with such mat• ters aggravate the disease instead of remedying it, and frequently create relief in one quarter while they in crease distress in another. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. POST.—It is stated in well informed circles that Mr Cubitt has bad a misunderstanding with the South- Eastern and Dover Company, and that he is surveying a line from Croydon to Maidstone and Ashford, in oppo sition to the South-Eastern, a line which he has himself executed. The county of Kent will give ample occupa tion to the Board of Trade, independently of all the other counties, and there it would appear to be this. the national utility of railways will have to be tested in con junction with the district between Rugby and Man chester by the Churnet Valley. We were quite right in stating that Mr. Robert Stevenson, of the London and Birmingham Company was appointed engineer of the Churnet Valley line, only that it is, as it turns out, with Mr. Cubitt also. This combination of scientific ability in its behalf is alone sufficient to show the im portance of the undertaking, for, were it regarded as an ordinary line, two such eminent men would not be found acti ng t oget h er i n i t. I t i s, i n reality, the key-stone to the national principle, and it is imperative on the London an d Bi rm i ng h am C ompany to deal with it openly, so as to satisfy the public that they look to the gen era l i nterest--short, direct, cheap, and quick communi ca ti on b e i ng deemed the life and soul of our commerce, and as indi s p ensa bl e to the extension of our manufacturing system. The published correspon dence between the Grand Junction and London and Bir mingham . Companies only goes more strongly to prove the necessity of the latter following the plan we have felt it our duty repeatedly to point out and to recommend. In the struggle for agricultural improvement and the maintenance of our landed inter es t, c h eap and rapid transit is surely essential, as much so, perhaps, as it is to our manufacturers, for there is, in fact, an evident identity of views and requirements. The const ruct i on of such cheap and direct roads as will give effect to the objects, both of the one and the other, may, therefore, always be safely urged a; the only ones that will, in these days of progress, be tolerated. The following correspondence on Spanish finance has been sent to us from the office of Mr. R. Thornton, as chairman of the committee of Spanish bondholders, and which is recognised by that gentleman as " establishing the exact amount of Three per Cent. Spanish stock at present in circulation." THIS COMMITTEE OF BONDHOLDERS TO THE LOWPOW AGENTS OF THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT. " Committee of Spanish Bondholders, Old Swan Wharf, Nov. 21. " Gentlemen—The attention of the Cominittee of Spanish bondholders having been called to sundry re marks from anonymous correspondents ',Web 44.vp ap peered in the daily papers, charging the Spanish yerninent with couTerting coupons into Three per Cent. I SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. ROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.' GLOBE.—Mr. O'Connell has returned to his first love. If we may judge from the warm reception he received at Limerick on Wednesday last, his " in fidelity" to " Simple Repeal" has been pardoned. His philandering with federalism, and 'his coquetting with rotatory Parliaments have ceased. Henceforth repeal is to be the mistress of his undivided affections, and to promote and further its attain ment, the one engrossing business of his life. Whatever the great Agitator may have lost in cha racter among thinking men in this country by his re cent inexplicable tactics—which involve inconsistency, and, for a time, evinced vacillation—he has lost little, if any, of that mighty influence over the mass of his countrymen by which he holds them captive, and moves them, hither and thither, at his will. The " great Munster meeting"—a procession and a ban quet on a grand scale, to celebrate his liberation, and that of his companions, will recal the scenes of Mullaghmast and Tara, and the other "monster meetings" of last year. As an exhibition of public feeling, the affair seems to have been impres sive. The experiment of getting up a public demon stration—somewhat hazardous, with O'Connell's speeches in praise of federalism still ringing in the ears of his followers—has succeeded. It will, doubt less, tend to recover whatever of public confidence O'Connell might have lost, and to re-animate the apparently abated fervour of the Irish people in their pursuit of the repeal project, which he now affirms is essential to the peace and prosperity of the country—the one panacea for the evils which press upon the great mass of its inhabitants. Mr. O'Connell's speech to the assembled multitudes was signally bold—we had almost said, daring. The passages from his speeches at the " monster meet ings," which were adduced on the recent. trial, as calculated to excite the passions 'of the assembled mul titudes, and thus endanger the public peace, were re produced, as though he courted the attention and invoked the vengeance of the Government. We now repeat, what we have said on former similar occa sions, that to set forth in the hearing of a pro miscuous multitude of partisans—and these of the lowest class—the numbers that are ready to employ physical force—to fight, to die, for a given object, has a direct tendency to endanger the public peace. Exhortations to refrain from violence—while the ex horter is sedulously impressing upon them their power of achieving the object which is set before them as franght with personal and patriotic advantages —may succeed for a time ; but it will, sooner or later, be in effectual. We can hardly concede to the individual who adopts such a mode of address the claim of sincerity. We deprecate—deplore—denounce —the employment of such appeals. To scatter com bustibles, which a spark may ignite, among materials such as those by which O'Connell is surrounded, is dangerous, and may be destruc tive. It is no excuse for Mr. O'Connell that he can refer to forty-one occasions on which he used similar language, and no breach of the peace ensued. If any outrage result, on any occasion, after such language has been addressed by him to the multi tude, it would be difficult for him to persuade an im partial jury that his speech was not an incentive to the act. Nor would his exhortation to abstain from using the invincible power they possessed, be consi dered as anything better than a subterfug4 to pro tect himself from the personal consequences of preaching sedition, and exciting the multitude to violence. STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle has to day an article of some length upon what it is pleased to call Sir Robert Peel's anti-Brazilian policy. Now the policy in question is anti-Brazilian only in this, that it gives first a preference to our own colonial sugar, next in order a preference to sugar the product of free labour, in whatever country grown. A British and anti-slavery policy (be they always united) it certainly is ; but in no respect is it anti- Brazilian more than it is anti-Cuban, or anti anything else. It is the Morning Chronicle that compli ments the Brazils by representing those countries as the embodied type of the accursed slave trade, the Brazils being also the special clients of "the League." The question of slavery apart, however, we have suf ficient proof that nothing less than the sacrifice of our colonies will satisfy the rapacity of the Brazilian Go vernment. Baron Langsdorff, the Envoy of the French Government, sent with a proposition for the renewal of the expiring commercial treaty be tween France and the Brazils—without any sti pulation in favour of free labour produce—has fared no better than Mr. Ellis. The Brazilian Government will listen to nothing less than an absolute monopoly of the sugar trade ; an d this monopoly M. Guizot is as little dis posed to grant, to the destruction of the French colo nies and to the ruin of the home manufacture from beetroot, as Sir Robert Peel to concede the sacrifice of all our tropical dependencies. The Brazils, there fore bid fair for a condition of commercial " isolation." This seems foolish on the part of the Government of Rio ; but, after all, that Government is, perhaps, not so much to blame for the folly. The free traders of this country have been for years exag gerating the importance of the Brazil trade to our manufactures, and the power of the Brazilian Government to exclude our produce to a degree to persuade the Brazi lians that they may dictate what terms they please to England, and as, it is plain from Baron Langsdorff's failure, to France also. Th e f o ll y , however pro duced, of Brazilian isolation, can be cured only by a sharp lesson, and that lesson is in preparation. The schoolmaster will be soon abroad in the unwel come garb of a smuggler, unwelcome we mean to the Government, but always too welcome to the people, and he will not be long in teaching the utter impossibility of withholding from the people what they want or desire, along a frontier of 7,000 or 8,000 miles at the very least. The Brazilians have the best imaginable means of knowing the impossi bility of guarding, by any expense of money, skill, and zeal, a coast of half the extent of their frontier; for they pursue their murderous trade of man-smug gling along the whole coast of western Africa, almost unmolested, notwithstanding all that England and France can do to interrupt it. If, under the advice of our " Leaguers," they persist in their ridiculous scheme of isolation, they will soon have their practices retorted upon them, though in an infinitely hu manized form. In the article to which we refer, the Morning Chronicle modestly claims for the Whigs the credit of the success of the British arms in China, and the acquisition of the China trade. This is somewhat more than commonly audacious. What was the state of affairs in China when the Whigs were dismissed ? They had undoubtedly created a quarrel with that country, in which, with their usual ingenuity and good fortune, they managed to place England in the wrong in the first instance, and having got the country into this quarrel, they, after their fashion, secured a sufficient quantity of reverses and disgrace. They were dismissed just at the moment when China threatened to repeat the tragedy of Affghanistan, and in China as in Central Asia, the Conservative Government just reversed their measures, and the condition of our affairs, substituting honour and firmness for trickery and cowardice—vic tories for retreats or defeats —peace and an assured hope of its continuance, for disastrous war and black despair. It is too early for the Chronicle to call upon the people to forget these things. " Total issued in London and Paris £6,458,063 0 11 " 3d. The amount deposited by the Spanish Govern ment with the contractors for the capitalisation was, we believe, 7,272,100 reels, or about 72,791 Z sterling, and that the guarantee which was delivered to us at the time in sealed packages still remains in our possession. "4th. We have received no intimation yet from the Spanish Government of the amount intended to be re mitted in anticipation of the next dividend, and we can not therefore say whether it will exceed the sum actu ally required for the bonds in circulation, but we may mention that on former occasions the Government has remitted beyond, those wants, and has applied the sur plus to the payment of the dividends on the Spanish Indemnity bonds. "We decidedly bear testimony with you to the cour tesy and uprightness of M. Borajo, the Spanish financial commissioner here, and we may add that, both on the part of that gentleman and the Spanish Government, we have remarked the strictest regard to integrity and good faith as to the public in the present capitalization. We have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient servants, "REID, IRVING, and CO." EXPERIMENTS IN WARFARE. A second series of experiments in warfare was exhi bited on Tuesday at Mulgrave House, Fulham, for the purpose of bringing into notice the inventions of the Duke of Normandy. A considerable number of gentle men assembled in the grounds, among whom were Lord Ranelagh, Sir John Hare, and many naval and military officers and men of science. The experiments com menced with the almost simultaneous explosion of a ofbomb a similar shell s placedhell buried eight fee u tnud rg n e de r r ou th nd, the water of a rocket of the lake, fired against a bulk •head. The rocket was first fired, and as soon as it struck the bulk-head it exploded, and appeared to ignite two other rockets conducted by wires to the invisible shells, which both exploded with loud reports. The one underground threw up the earth to a great height and made a large excavation ; the water shell carried a mass of water into the air resembling an immense fountain. Two rockets without sticks were then fired at the bulk-head cased with iron, being directed to the mark by wires stretched horizontally for a distance of about two hundred yards. The in stant they struck the object the rockets exploded, tore away the iron casing, and carried off portions of the thick plank behind. A bomb shell was next allowed to drop into a hole within " a strongly con structed hut put together as firmly as possible. The im mense force exerted by the composition employed was evident from the complete destruction of the structure, pieces of which were carried to a great height, and one of the timbers was actually driven through the brick wall of a building about one hundred feet distant, and was left sticking in it. For the purpose of showing the safety with which these shells may be used, one of them, to which a percussion cap was fisted, was made to fall into a hole dug in the ground, when the caps exploded, and a quantity of gunpowder was ignited without ex ploding the shell. An alteration having been then made in the cap, by removing the guard, the shell exploded with terrific effect. Rockets on a similar principle were afterwards fired by throwing them on the ground, though when protected they might be knocked about without danger. One object for which these rockets are intended is to protect merchant ships from the attacks of pirates, for by throwing the rockets from the mast of one ship on to the deck of another it would be directly cleared, An exemplification of the force of the explosive compound was given during the explosion of one of these rockets that rather alarmed a portion of the company A part of the wooden rocket case was propelled with great velocity into the air towards the spot where many gentlemen were standing, and it struck the ground be hind them. Some bombarding rockets, without sticks, were also fired from a rocket case, which was pointed to an angle of seventy degrees, to prevent the rockets from going across the Thames. The first rocket took a very stea d y flight, and fell in the middle of the river, where it exploded on coming in contact with the water. Two others did not fly so steadily ; they fell within the grounds, and exploded on touching the earth. The ex periments concluded with the firing of the non-recoil cannon, which was fired by several gentlemen whilst holding pafeoidv ‘t..power rh The it r s mh in oo more their experiments destructivei r t hat tw hands, hee r et v i Ihna i av t i net h on o ggt u uoe t nrt hp a eoh n rwa y sdv ee r arr e ty. b c o os u ru n n c d mtc hea b esn e s n u g l d a ex periments there were no trials of the facility with which prevent e forc e ee vl lesnatl can iadecri rockets be d eknet st directed w r b e ue c tr t e ed thea d i rectedgai nst inventor m y e rs n ot e apte i ss - , andt b h e a c t a w u hi because the j canht oe place his shells either under ground or in the sea with the certainty of their exploding the instant an advancing ip passes ov er th em . army or a pursuing sh MARYLEBONE VESTRY. Thevestry met on Saturday at the usual hour, eleven, and several letters having been read, the clerk called the attention of the vestry to a letter from the auditors, in answer to a co mmunication made by the vestry on Saturday, Nov. 9. It will be rembered that on the day in question, the clerk read a letter which had been inserted in on n e th7e.impeasrtnoefwstphaePleter;tarr toounacbirnigdgaesuapnpdosmedutiinlatte theention accounts of the auditors before their publication ; and also a letter, in answer to that which he the clerk had sent to the Times, and which stated that the vestry had not made any such resolution as that which the auditors complained of, and on the same day the vestry sent a letter to the auditors disclaiming any such inten tion, and expressing their (the vestry's) entire approba tion of the conduct of the clerk. In the letters which the clerk read to the vestry to day, the auditors expressed great • pleasure at finding that the opinions of the vestry were so entirely in ac cordance with their own (the auditors). The auditors also expressed great regret for the mistake they had fallen into, and fur the publicity which had been given to it in consequence. Mr. RIDGWAY said that, in his opinion, the conduct of the auditors had been very imprudent, that having heard that the vestry had such an intention as to mutilate their accounts, they ought, instead of writing to a news paper to have written to the clerk of the vestry, for by the manner in which they had acted they bad caused a great public feeling of indignation against the vestry. He thought, too, that certain members of the vestry were much too willing to bring its affairs before the public, and some influential person connected with the Times newspaper was very much in the habit of in serting articles in that paper which would be much better left out. Mr. JOSEPH suddenly rose and siiid that the affairs of the vestry had been very much before the public for the last ten years, and, that it could not but be expected that they would remain so. After some further conversation, the clerk read a letter respecting a nuisance in the neighbourhood of All Saints Church, which had been received from the churchwardens this day. It appeared that for some time a certain house adjoining the Church had been inhabited by persons of a most dissolute and abandoned character, who had been frequently driven away, but as soon as one set of them had been compelled to leave the house they sent another 1 to take possession in their place. Lately a new door had been made leading to the gallery of the Church, which would prove a grea t conven i ence to the parishioners, but 1 that this very door was exactly opposite to the house in question, and no one could pass it without being shocked at the obscene conduct carried on there. After much discussion it was decided that the vestry olerk be desired to write to the rate-payers of the said house, and report thereon on next Saturday, stock (which coupons ought to have been cancelled) and the consequent creation of stock that should not exist ; and the letters from Senor Borajo, the Finance Com missioner of the Spanish Government, having failed to satisfy the parties making such charge, I take the liberty of addressing you, as agents for the conversion, to request the favour of your furnishing me with the ne cessary information in elucidation of the matter by an swering the following questions : " Ist. What amount of Three per Cent. stook has been issued in lieu of a corresponding amount of coupons due on the Active Bonds up to the end of 1840 ? "2d. What amount of Three per Cent. stock has been issued as an equivalent for Treasury bonds ex changed on terms agreed upon ? " 3d. What amount (if any) of coupons were deposited by the Government as a collateral security in the hands of the agents or contractors ; and if such securities re main intact and inviolate ? and "4th. As anonymous writers attempt to establish this charge against the Spanish Government by adducing, as a fact, that the amount to meet the dividends on the Three per Cent. Stock at present in circulation consider ably exceeds the amount previously required, it is of the greatest importance that this point should be satisfac torily explained. " in conclusion, I feel it my duty, in soliciting this in formation at your hands, to state that the contradiction given by M. Borajo to the charges referred to, and his voluntary offer personally to explain to and satisfy the most incredulous on the subject, is, to my mind at least, perfectly satisfactory, and I feel it only due to that gen tleman to state that the Committee havo on all occasions received the greatest courtesy and attention from him, and I place the most implicit confidence in his character for strict integrity and honour. Begging the favour of an early reply, I remain, with respect, gentlemen, your most obedient servant, "RICHARD THORNTON, Chairman of the Committee of Spanish Bondholders. " Messrs. Reid, Irving, and Co." REPLY OF THE ♦CENTS. "16, Tokenhouse-yard, Nov. 21. " Sir,—We have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of this date, referring to certain charges that have, from time to time, appeared in the public journals, respecting a supposed improper issue of Spanish Three per Cent. Bonds, and inviting our reply to questions, which we have now the pleasure to answer in the order in which you have placed them. "Ist. The amount of Three per Cent. Bonds and Provisional Certifi cates issued by us to this date, in exchange for the Five per Cent. cou pons to 1840, is " 2d. The amount of the same Stock issued in exchange for the Spanish Treasury Bonds, under the agreement of February last, is 366,136 8 5 Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD rose to reply, but was in terrupted by Lord DENMAN, who said, I am disposed to think that there has been no case made out which requires the Court to do anything. If the medical men had made an affidavit, that possibly might have afforded some ground for asking for delay ; but they have abstained from doing so. I wish that medical men should know that their certificate is really nothing. If they wish to come before the Court, they must come before it as other per sons do, on affidavit, and this they have not done in the present case. What appears to me might be a satisfac tory arrangement, Brother Talfourd, if you are inclined to accede to it, is, that the trial should be post poned, but that the judgment should not be postponed. If persons conduct themselves in the manner in which this defendant has conducted himself they cannot get rid of the corvequences of their conduct in this manner, but must suffer the punishment which they have brought upon themselves. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD—The prosecutor in this case leaves himself entirely in the hands of the Court. It was then arranged that the defendant should be brought up for judgment on Monday on the indictment to which he had pleaded guilty, and that the trial of the other indictment should be postponed until the sitting after next term. Tbe Duke of Brun sw i c k was i n C ourt, and sat in the Queen's Counsel seat, next to Mr. Sergeant Talfourd. BAIL COURT, Nov 23. (Sittings in Banco.) TEE QUEEN V. THE MAYOR, &C., OF DOVER. Mr. Witsrm.! . applied for a mandamus directed to the Mayor and Corporation of Dover commanding them to insert the name of John Mills :on the burgess list of the borough, he having been rejected on the ground that he had not paid certain poor rates. There were several objections to the validity of these rates, though if even the rates were good, he would contend that the non-payment of them did not operate as a disqualifica tion. The first objection to the rates was that the Town Council did not order the overseer to make the rates. The second objection was that the rate of 1842 was re trospective. There were various other objections be sides against the validity of the rate.—Rule granted. The Learned Gentleman then said that there were 24 other cases of a similar description in which he was instructed to move for rules.—Application granted. Mr. PEACOCK said h e was i nstructed to move for SEASONABL E REPAST FOR THE POOR.—After the 15 rules of a similar nature.—Application granted. ceremony of the consecration of the new church at Cam- THE UEEN V. WHITAKER. berwell, the p oor i n t h e workhouse were provided with Mr. COWLINGmo Q ved for a certiorari to remove the 411 coat:lu and ample dinne r o f roast beef and plum- judgment against the defendant, This was an indiot pudding, and a pint of porcer. The children belonging went for a violation of a local Act of Parliament, the to the charity schools had also a dinner provided for 11th of Geo. the 4th sec. 39, which required that no them, at the Grove-house Tavern, Camberwell-grove, of street should be made in Manchester of less width than which 300 partook. The Bishop of Winchester, the dis- eight yards. It appeared that the defendant in this trict clergy, the churchwardens, and other parish officers, ' ago made a court of only six yards in width, and fur this had 4 splendid entertainment provided for them in a ; he was indicted, but he stated in his affidavit that it was handsome marquee, erected An the lawn in fcont of the ' private property and was not a public thoroughfare. It S I M U f Storers (tip Vim) Iwo sko stated that in order IQ bive an impartial trial it LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN"S BENCH, Nov. 23. (Sittings in Banco.) THE QUEEN V. JENKIN JONES. The defendant in this case was brought up for judg ment. He bad been a clerk in the Poor-law Commis sioners' office for several years. About twelve mouths since he procured the appointment of secretary to an insurance company, and through his recommendation a person named Charles Buisson was taken upon trial at the Poor-law Office, Boisson having given defendant 1501 for the situation. After the period of his trial was ex pired, the appointment of Charles Boisson was not confirmed, whereupon he complained that he had been defrauded by defendant. An investigation took place ; a prosecution was ordered by the Government, and the defendant pleaded guilty, and was now brought up for judgment. Several affidavits were put in and read, both on the part of the prosecution and on the part of defendaat. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then rose to speak in aggra vation of punishment. The offence with which the de fendant was oharged was one of very grave importance. This case was considered of such mischievous con sequence to the public that the late Attorney-General, who had exercised his powers at least as mildly as any of his predecessors, felt it his duty to file an ex officio information, to which defendant had pleaded guilty. There were no circumstances of mitigation in the case. The defendant was in communication with a person named Marshall, who was now dead. A person named Boisson was anxious to get a Government situation of 801. a-year. Marshall offered to procure it for him for 2001. Boisson, who was a needy man, offered 1001, and it was eventually agreed that he should give 150/. Marshall then directed him to go to the Poor-law Commissioners' office, and ask for Mr. Jones, and say he had been sent by Mr. Angus, Who was connected with a morning Paper. He did so —th e d e f en d ant too k hi m i nto the oor-law office, and there could be no doubt but that Jones thought he had interest sufficient to procure him then a permanent appointment. Jones still continued a short time in the office. Boisson had not been there a fortnight before he was pressed for the money, and told that he should lose his situation unless the money was paid. Boisson, who was in great poverty, was com pelled to raise the money by borrowing it of a Mr. Hutton, and paid that money over to Jones. Shortly after Jones left, and on an account being called for of the names of the clerks to be returned to the Treasury, the name of Boisson was found there. The Commissioners inquired into the circumstances of his appointment ; Boisson was dismissed. He insisted that the money should be returned, and the law officers of the Crown ordered a prosecution. At that time Mar shall, who was included in the prosecution, was living, and the defendant pleaded guilty ; and now that Mar shall was dead, the defendant, who, in Marshall's life time, had pleaded guilty, now came forward and in his affidavit stated that Marshall alone had made the bar gain —that Marshall alone had received the benefit of the money—and that Marshall had lent him.(Jones) 100/. This statement was clearly contrary to his plea of guilty, and he called upon the Court to pass an exem plary sentence upon him. Mr. JERVIS then addressed the Court in mitigation of punishment, :and regretted that the Solicitor-General should have thought it necessary to impute falsehood to Jones. He had pleaded guilty, as he had stated, to the Commissioners in the lifetime of Marshall, for the pur pose ;of avoiding spublicity, and he had during the lifetime of Marshall made to the Commissioners an ample statement of all the circumstances of the case. He had repaid the money ; and he produced affi davits from persons high in authority in the office, from which it appeared that during seven years he had been a most useful servant to the public, and that his quitting the office was considered a serious loss. That publicity which he so much dreaded had taken place. Re would lose the confidential situation he now held, and he trusted the Court would consider that a sufficient punishment for his offence. Their Lordships having consulted together, Mr. Justice WILLIAMS proceeded to pass the judg ment of the Court upon the defendant. The Court had heard the arguments urged in mitigation, and they would have been very glad if they could have con sidered this case as any other but of a very serious nature. If he really had authority to recommend, he abused the trust reposed in him, and deprived the public of the benefit of compe tition, fur his own personal advantage. If he had not authority, and it appeared that he had not, then the fraud was quite as great. If Marshall alone had been the person who had made the corrupt bargain, and if the defendant had nothing to do with it, then that would have been an ample answer to the indictment. But the fact of his pleading guilty during the life time of Marshall proved that Marshal was act ing merely as his agent. The Court regretted to hear that there was a family and an aged relative dependent upon his exertions, but it could be matter of regret only. Under the circumstances, the Court felt bound to pass a severe sentence upon him. The sentence of the Court was, that he should be im prisoned in the Queen's Prison for one year. The defendant was then removed in custody. THE QUEEN V. BARNARD GREGORY. Mr. Serjeant TALFOURD said that in this case his Learned Friend who appeared for the defendant had handed to him certain affidavits, which were anything but satisfactory, and that therefore he should wish to have them read. The affidavits, having been handed in, were read by the officer, The first was the affidavit of Mr. Lewis, the attorney for the defendant, in which was set forth a medical certificate as to the unsatisfactory state of the defendant's health, signed by Dr. Ayre, Dr. Hume Wetherhead, and Sir Ames Anderson. That cer tificate had been signed in the deponent's pre sence, but the physician had refused to make an affidavit, 'as being contrary to the usual custom of the profession. The deponent stated that he held an office on the Midland Circuit, to the duties of which he should have to attend at the approaching assizes, and that, therefore, he should not be enabled to prepare de ponent's defence to go to trial on the 29th. The affi davit of deponent himself was then read as to the state of his health. He also prayed that judgment might be postponed on the indictment to which he had pleaded guilty, because on the trial of the other indictments facts would come out which might materially influence the judgment of the Court. In opposition to the application there were read the affidavits of the Duke of Brunswick, the prosecutor, and his attorney. The affidavit of the latter stated that he had inquired of various medical men who had visited defendant in Newgate, more particularly of Mr. M`Murdo, the surgeon to the gaol, as to the state of defendant's health, and that the reply was, that although he was thinner, he was in as good a state of health as when he was first committed to prison. Mr. PLATT submitted to the Court that this was not a case of conflicting testimony. On the one hand, they had only the loose affidavit of an attorney, setting forth that he had made inquiries of different persons ; while, on the other, they had the formal certificate of the medical men who had examined the defend ant. He took it that their Lordships would not try an issue upon minute points as to the state of this man's health, when he pleaded want of health as a ground for postponement of the trial. If there were any doubt upon the subject they would give him the benefit of that doubt. It also appeared that by the rules of the prison he was not permitted to have ac cess to his private papers, which were necessary for him to prepare his defence, and that he was anxious to dis cover the address of persons who were material wit nesses. His attorney also, to whom he entrusted the whole conduct of his defence, was an officer of the Mid land Circuit, and must depart to attend to the duties of that circuit. He thought, therefore, that he had made out a case which would induce their Lordships to post pone both the trial and its judgment. He was under recognisances to appear to receive the judgment of the Court, so that the only effect of granting the application would be to postpone the trial so as to give him a fair and legitimate opportunity for preparing his defence. He, therefore, applied for the postponement of the judg ment until next term, and also for the postponement of the trial. ACCIDENTS.—The following accidents occurred, one of which terminated fatally. Shortly after seven o'clock, an old lady named Watkins, whilst crossing Kenniagton common, missed her footing and fell into a deep ditch, near the vitriol works. Her screams brought several persons to her assistance, who with considerable difficulty succeeded in rescuing h er f rom h er per i lous situation.— A second accident occurred on Blackheath, to a young man who was coming to town. It appears that he, by some means, lost his road, and fell into a deep hole called " The Devil's Dyke." He was released and conveyed to a surgeon's, and from thence to the hospital, he having received several contusions about the body, of a very serious nature.—A lad employed on one of the fishing boats moored off Wandsworth, fell overboard and was drowned. The body has not been found.—Another ac cident took place in the Old Kent-road, which was almost attended with the loss of human life. An om nibus came in collision with a town cart with powerful violence. The driver of the latter vehicle was thrown off his seat, and, on being raised from the ground, he had received a severe injury of the skull. lie was conveyed to the hospital, where he was placed in the accident ward, and promptly attended to. He is in a very pre carious state. THE RlVER.—Owing to the dense fogs which have prevailed on the river during part of W. dnesday night and on Thursday and yesterday, most of the steamers from the continent have either been considerably behind their usual time, or have been detained in various parts of the river, and prevented from reaching their destina tions. The Antwerpen steam ship, which was due at the St. Katharine Steam Wharf on Thursday morning►, from Antwerp, got as far as Blackwall, having run from Antwerp to that place, notwithstanding the weather, in the remarkably short space of nineteen hours; but it was found quite impracticable to venture with safety any further up the river, owing to the fog which prevailed at the time, and the vessel did not arrive at the wharf until yesterday morning, when her passengers were landed, and released with all possible dispatch. The Batavier Dutch steam ship from Rotterdam was more fortunate, having arrived at the wharf on Wednesday afternoon before the fog had set in. She had a large cargo of Dutch produce, including upwards of 50 head of horned cattle on board, which were landed immediately, and cleared for the London markets. Several steam ships which were overdue had not arrived at their va rious destinations yesterday evening, and it is feared that we shall hear of collisions havinc , taken place. The fog appears to have been very general, having extended down the whole length of the river and out to sea. THE YARMOUTH MURDER. APPREHENSION OF THE SUPPOSED MUR DEREK;,. Mr. J. B. Bales, the Sergeant -at-Mace at Yarmouth, having received directions from the Mayor of Yar mouth, arrived in Norwich on Thursday, accom panied by an assistant, with a warrant for the appre hension of a person named Frederic Boatright, sus pected to be either a principal or an accomplice in the above horrible transaction. It appears there was a very strong suspicion prevailing in Yarmouth in con sequence of Boatright's dissipated habits and previous character, that he was in some way connected with this horrible tragedy. From information Bales re ceived, he proceeded immediately to the vicinity of St. Lawrence, and met the man of whom he was in quest coming out of the Lord Howe public-house, at the top of St. Lawrence steps. On being in terrogated as to his name, and what he had been doing with himself for the last three or four days, he replied that his name was Nicholls, and that he could not say where he had been since Sunday night, except that he had not been in a bed. Mr. Bales then told him that he would be obliged to take him into custody on suspicion of being con cerned in the murder of Mrs. Candler, at Yarmouth, lon last Monday night. The prisoner on receiving this intimation appeared much agitated. and changed colour. He was immediately conveyed to the station house and given into the custody of Mr. Yarrngton, where he remained until a few minutes before seven o'clock, when he was conveyed privately to Yarmouth by the seven o'clock train to undergo an examination be fore the magistrates of the borough. The prisoner, who has returned from sea within the last eighteen months, is a man of between twenty-three and twenty- four years of age, and was considered a very bad character.— Norwich Mercury. We are sorry to learn that, in some parishes in Wilts, the current rate of wages has been reduced to 7s. per week.—Somerset County Gazette. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday night a fireman named May wood was killed within four miles of Birmingham, on the Birmingham and Gloucester Railway. The train was passing under Cleeve-bridge and the unfortunate man not being sufficiently on his, guard, his head came in contact with one of the iron pipa M. rs which support th e b r id ge , and he was instantly tilree or four years ago the pawnbrokers were the people who were doing ail the bin,ine. , s ; in some towns there was more poverty than the pawnbrokers could live upon.--(near, hear.) Now those things which had gone to the sign of the three balls are gra dually making their way back again to the cottages of the working people.—(Applause.) And when we consider how much there is in all this, how much there is in the improvement of trade of all that is im portant to a country and a people, I. think we shsll not judge lightly or unwisely in considering this question to be at this moment the most important that can engage the reason of intelligent and reflecting men.—(Applause.) Now, what is meant by improve ment in trade ? Most people think that it means that manufacturers are getting more profit. 'Well, it does mean that, and a great Baal more ; it means that the workpeople are better einployed, and getting better wages ; it means that now and then a man who is an overiooker in a factory or a workshop is finding the means to set up for himself; and that is one of the finest thino-s that can be found in any country. It is just one of those things that are never found in the agricultural districts ; but it is found here every thy. i —(hear.) But it means a great deal more than this. linprorement in trade means that there is a saving in human life; not that men are not cut off by the hand of the executioner, or by the sword, but that they are not cut off by the hand of famine—(Hear, hear) — which is about the most ruthless, mo , t relentless, and most cruel of all modes of disposing of the human ace.—(Loud applause.) It may not have come within your observation, but from the returns made by the registrar- general, it appears that the mortality in the district is very greatly diminished since the period of high prices of wheat ; and it has been observed in France, as well as in this country, and I believe it will be observed in all countries where any accurate statistical account is kept, that juse about in propor tion as the price of the staple articles of human food rises, just in that proportion the human animal sinks, decays, dies, and ultimately must become extinct.— (Hear, hear.) I have here an extract from the regis trar's report for the district which he calls the north west division, and I'll read you the number of deaths which were registered in 1840, when prices were very high, when there was great stagnation in trade, and great distress, owing to the very high rate of feed, anl the number registered in 1843. It is as follows : 1840. 1843. B3lton Bury 2,170 Rochdale Preston 2,637 Blackburn Wigan Prescot 1,155 Manchester Ashton 4,873 ADMIRALTY COURT, Nov. 23. The Court sat at eleven o'clock this morning, for the purpose of hearing cases of collision and salvage. THE JANE - SALVAGE. This was a proceeding instituted by the master and crew of a brig called the Dolphin, against the owners of the Jane, which was a Newcastle vessel, bound, with coals, to the port of London, for services rendered to her while in distress at the mouth of the Channel. It appeared by the affidavits of the salvors that they observed the Jane aground and otherwise very much disabled, when they bore down as close to her as they safely could without injury to their own ship, and then hoisted out boats, and, by the assistance of the crew, succeeded in getting the same off. The services rendered extended over about seven hours, and the salvors con tended that if the wind had at all freshened, she must have gone to pieces ; and they also stated that they exposed themselves to great personal hardship and dan ger. The sum claimed as salvage was 1501. For the owners it was contended that the alleged ser vices were not required, and that the vessel would have floated with the next tide. Eventually 701. were awarded as salvage. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 23. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.) There were a few cases put down on the paper for hearing, but none of them were of any interest. IN RE EDWARD BOUCII. The insolvent, a beerseller, applied for his interim order, but was refused because he had distributed his property unduly among his creditors. The Hon. COMMISSIONER remarked that it ought to be generally known, that the final order would be in all cases refused where the insolvent had paid one creditor and left another unpaid. The law had laid down the principal that the estate should be equally divided, and he was determined to see it so carried into effect. MARKET NEWS.-(SATURDAY•) COVENT-GARDEN. , Although the supplies o f b ot h F ru i t and v ege t&b were seasonably extensive, the general demanu a g steady, at our quotations :—Potatoes from 28 4s 6d per cwt ; Turnips, 2s to 3s ; Carrots, 4s 7, to Coleworts or Gre ens , 2 s t o 2s 9 d ; and Leeks, '-4j; 2s per dozen bunches ; Apples and Pears, 2s 0 61 Spinach, 10d to is 6d ; and Onions, is 6d W 2s r per half sieve ; Pine Apples, 74 to 8s ; Out-door lish Grapes, 6d to 10d ; Hot-house ditto, 38 to 01J Foreign Grapes, 4d to 10d ; Filberts, 10d to g Cobb Nuts, 8d to Is 2d per lb ; English Melons, 2 c l o k 4s ; and Foreign ditto, is 6d to 3s each ; Red, bages, 2s to 4s per d ozen ; H orse Radish, 28 11.1.Aki Brocoli, Is 6d t o 2s 6d ; an d C e l ery, 8d to 2s per bind; Mushrooms, 8d to is per pu nne t ; W a l nuts, 8d to Is and New Oranges, 8s to lOs per 100. HUNGERPORD. We had only moderate supplies of most articleseS: the demand was, throughout, heavy, at about last v i quotations. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (SATURDAY.) GUILDHALL. A young man named Cooper was charged with as. saulting Sarah Borah Bernot, Jane Myers, and Emanue . Solomons. Miss Bernot said she lived at No. 9, Field-lane, and that the defendant was in the habit of passing her resi dence frequently. She had been in the habit of annoy ing witness and Miss Myers for some time past without any reasonable cause ; the consequence of which was, that she was charged at this office a few days ago with as saulting Miss Myers, when she was held to bail. About 8 o'clock last night she came into her shop and saidshewanted to fight Miss Myers. She told her that she would fight no one there, and told her to go about her business. She immediately laid hold of witness's sister by the head, and dragged her out into the street, where she grossly as saulted her. A man who was in company with the pri soner knocked witness on the shoulder with so much violence, that she had had no sleep all night, and she be lieved it to be dislocated. _ _ NEWDATE AND 741ADENEALIP. , 5 4 Prime beef a n d M utton were i n good request , a t full prices. I n a ll ot h er ki nds of meat next to 060 was doing. Beef from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2 ,° 4 s; 3s 8d; Veal, 3s to and Pork, 2s 4d t o 35 luo ( 0 ) Blbs by the carcase. We had a large supply of ?g u yi and Foreign Gam e an d P ou l try, while the deviant' " heavy, at, in some instances, miserably low figures' NEW. The supply of Meat was not very extensive, f e ll trade was in a ver y s l ugg i s h state, at late correlj; Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 2s 8d to 31 Veal, 3s to 4s ; and Pork, 22 10d to 4s per BlbL Mr. E. Solomons said he was at the last witness's shop last night, and saw the defendant come in, and offer to fight Jane Myers, and witnessed the assault on Miss Bernot. Whilst endeavouring to part them, the defendant scratched his face in several places, and a watch-guard was stolen from his pocket. Miss Myers said she was in great danger from the threats and violence of the defendant. The defendant said that Mr. Solomons knocked her down. Alderman HUMPRERY said she must be bound over in sureties to answer the charge at the sessions. She was then locked up in default of bail. The lad named Edwards, who was charged on Thursday with having nearly murdered a fellow-appren tice during a trifling quarrel, was brought up on remand to-day. A certificate was handed to Alderman Hum phe ry, which stated that the boy was not yet out of danger, and could not therefore attend. Edwards was remanded till Saturday, when the lad, it is expected, will be called upon to attend. ZBI L IN GS . Very little business was tran GA sac T ted, E yet we an Doud very little variation in prices. There was rather more business doing in n3o9' f ~ r c, of Meat, yet th e ra t es ru l e d a b out stationary. BeV 40 1 2s 8d to 3s Gd ; M u tt on , 2s 10 d to 3s Sd ; Veal, 'l5 4s ; and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 10d per Slbs. E The prices of wheaten B A read D. in the Metropoll i j from 7d t o 7id ; o f h ousehold ditto, 50 to 6id Pa' loaf. NIXIE NEARZET. lef * Rawhides at per stow? of 141bs.—Best steers andbe l . 58 6d to 5s 10d ; middling hides, 4s 8d to 5s 4 11 0 tenor hides, 4s 2d to 4s 6d. Sheep and calf sk7o per skin.—Market calf, 6s 6d to 8s ; long if sheep, 2s 6d to 3s 9d ; short ditto, 2s to 3s. - RA ATAILICET£I SHITIIFIELD.—Coa Y rse Meadow Hay . , 31 12s to 4 , 5 11 , 5 1; Useful ditto, 41 16 s t o 5/ 33 ; fine Upland ditto, 51'10,0 5/ 12s ; Clov er H ay, 4 1 lOs to 61; Oat Straw, !` . s or 1/ 12s ; Wheat St raw , 1 1 13$ to 11 15s per lo ad. ply but moderate, and trade rather brisk. 1 16 g; CIIMBERLAND.—Coarse M ea d ow H ay, 3 / 15110 4 p Useful ditto 41 17s; to 5135; fine Upland ditto, 5 1 00 Si I2s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 10s to 5 / 1 8s ; Oat StravG A to 1/ 14s ; Wh ea t S traw, 1 1 15s to 11 16s per l ow fair average supply, and an active demand. 410 WRITECHAPEL.—Coarse M ea d ow H ay, 3 1 15 5 to Useful ditto, 4/ 16s to Si 4s ; fine Upland ditto, , 5 : 0 , 5/ lOs ; ;Clov er H ay, 4 / 188 to 61; Oat Straw, 14 'OOO l 1112 s ; Wheat Straw, I/13s to 1/ 16s per load. Hay and Straw sold briskly, at above quotations THE FOG ON THURSDAY. ROBBERIES.—On the above night about eight o'clock, a young man named Cowper was crossing from the Al fred's Head, Newington-causeway, to the Elephant and Castle, with a torch in his hand. When a short distance from the kerb, he was pounced upon by two men from behind ; one of them took the torch from him, and put out the flame, while the other knocked him down, and rifled him of a silver watch and four shillings, with which they made clear off, and the fog was so dense that it was impossible to ascertain which way they made their escape. On the same evening a cart, in which were two men, drove up to the pathway in front of a cheesemonger's shop in the Walworth-road (nearly op posite the King's Head), where there were several firkins of butter standing outside the door. One of them got out of the cart and seized up a firkin of butter, which he placed in the cart and jumped in after it. The fog was so dense at the time that the cart was out of sight be fore any alarm was raised. Of course the fellows made their escape with the butter. Shortly after five o'clock the same evening, one of the clearing clerks of Jones Loyd and Company's bank, was crossing from the Poultry to the Mansion-house, on his way to the clear ing house, when he felt a heavy tug at his pocket be hind, in which he carried his case, containing bank notes and cheques amounting to upwards of 10,0001. He immediately turned round and perceived a fellow endea vouring to break the chain which was attached to the bo k, one end of which was round his waist. The fel low ran down Walbrook, and made his escape in the fog, which was very thick at the t;me. A large teadealer's shop, opposite Kennington Church, was broken open on the same night, and property worth 100 L was stolen therefrom. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—FRIDAL'iIer# The Wheat t ra d e h as b een h eavy to-day ; the 022,0 show littlo disposition to increase their stocks iivs reduction i n p r i ces, to wh i ch the holders are tint; ill to submit. B ar l ey met s l ow sale at a small deollost value. Oats and Shelling in limited request, at 110 1 week's prices. Beans remain without material alter in value. Per qr. of 601 b. to the bU EXTRA. 4 4 LA V Wneat Suffblk, Essex, and Kent ..„ Red . _to 46 - 9) ii Ditto ditto .... , White... A l -,! 45 4) Norfolk Red ...... ~... 45 0 Ditto ditto White... ou„ 45 41 Lincolnshire and Cambridge Red .—n46 it Ditto ditto White....— 50 40 0 Yorkshire Red '.4. 5 „, 45 s$ Ditto ditto White... D"' 41 )1 Foreiet tied —V ) Ditto ditto ......... White 52 lopeoro er quarts ..,,i 0 Barley, Norfolk anal Suffolk ...... . . - „,. 3°l 51 0 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire — ". 0 0 Grinding 34 -- 50 r ot Foreign ......... ... ..... ... ..... ..... . ...... .... — ~., a' 'al .. /::ir qr. ,f 631 b. to '" sit 0 Beans, Small ;Ine ••..... ....... .... .......... “•••••••••••••• ' 4 55 40 Ticks ..............»....».. 4 ' Foreign.... —.— Oats, Potato and P o l a . 55 ....... 41/ ...0. . d Maa1inr........ lOcl. to 12d., Fcrcign —d to —4:l - ". Pet S l . Shalling. ....... ........... .......... ......,.. :16s. to 2L Od. Pc: boo Milt ....... -................... 40.. tine 43a. Pe', ysti• Rapeseed.... ....... ............... 23/.os. 251.01. —I. Os. Pe t PETITION TO PLEAD "IN FORMA PAEPS° l§ i r k At the ope n i ng o f t h e L ord Chancellor's Court 0" tiso day, a p e ti t i on was presented to his Lordship to 0° the issuing o f t h at " writ of Right, " ,0 which ,: t ss, poor people," as t h e Act (21st Edward III.) 9 0 11 "shall be gi ven f or G od ' s sake, and upheld by t,ao// of counsel lea rne d i n t h e law, " in favour of the l',!0,01 Ackerley, n ow or about eighty years of age, the descendant of the Lord Chief Baron Sir Robert stn it ip Knight of th e B at h , w h ose race are now in °e.„-$lO (since h er r i g h t accrued fourteen years) of heirs ' fo ot from the Chief Justice Sir Edward Atkyns, the I C°r bor branch. The lady in question (represented bf u e younger son, the bachelor Captain, and sisters o is married) being the right "entail" issue in the to ti line from Robert (son of the Right Hon. Sir E u s , w a s s- Atkyns, broth er t o Si r R o b ert) and Elizabeth -r).„ubs, cumbe, sister of George, first Lord Mount Edgecu":os (" Trustee,") from which marriage emanate the r t liigh Chamberlayne s o f M augers b ury, the Leighs of „bed Leigh and Jodd re l H a ll , i n C heshire ; the aistinglll;sl Admirals Sir Charles and Sir Edward Hamilton, ot o Sir Graham Ha mon d, B aronets, and also the tresssis's, families of the late Admiral Chamberlayne, J"; t he the Rothchild Gowlands of • Buenos Ayres," an d St. present generation of the Earl (Jervis Twislleton) r id. Vincent, Lord Vi scount Hood, Nelson, and Baron 13 s r port. The Lord Chancellor condescended to sen d° , o l4, tisfactory i n ti mat i on , on the breaking up of his „ through his secretary, H. J. Perry, Esq. ec . SIGHT AND H EARING . -39 , Alb emarle street,- - dilly. Newly-invented spectacles, telescopes, °P e sit glasses, microscopes, &c. Patronised by Genera Edward Pa g et, Si r E van Lloyd, Frederick 314114 s M : ' t. Clayton, Gal wa y, G rosvenor, Morrison, Dyott, B o b son, and Mack enz i e ; M a j or - Generals Sir H. ,01 stone, P. Fyers, D. Macleod, Hamilton, and Wer a) sl, Lieut.-Generals Sir Henry Bouverie, Sir J. Macell Sir R. Barto n , Si r T. D a ll as, Lord John Hay ; Aar°, G. Sir Georg e C oc kb urn, S i r George Munday, Slr ols o cl Martin, Sir James H. Whitshed, Sir D. Gold, les , Ross. By the use of these newly-invented sPec t t' e d, imperfect vision becomes preserved and strength e n and very aged persons are enabled to employ their : 13 7 0 0 at the most minute occupation, and can see with, ch ef lenses of a much less magnifying power, nor 14' po require the frequent changes to further helps ; 0 0 newly-invented achromatic waistcoat-pocket tele°, e s, and opera g l asses . E very ki nd of telescope of 111 0se s, size with in creas i ng powers, for shooting, sea PI tbe and, upon s t an d s , f or astronomical purposes, w" a she same celebrated lenses, the powers are so greats lenses so bright an d b r illi ant, that minute objects, r t he extraordinary di s t ance are b rought completely iinu e i sill eye. Sport smen , tour i sts, and sea-side vis i tor s ve e have a gre a t t reat . Th e i r i nvisible voice conducto r c. f .. immediate reli e f t o o ld stan di ng extreme cases °f .d e ns ness. Cautio n —M essrs. S . and B. Solomons °O le 01 1 rs and aurist s , are not i n any way connected wit h sP e n or of' the same n ame i n t h e i r i mmediate ne i g hb our ho; i be in any p ar t o f t h e country. To prevent nlist s rlr cautious and ob serve , on l y to b e had at 39, Aluv— „ street, Piccadilly, opposite the York Hotel. IRTHS. On the 20th in s t., at ß The Elms, Solihull, Warw ickshil6 Mrs. James T. Bolton, of 3 son. 10 On the 21st i ns t., i n U pper Belgrade-place, piallico, H. Criddle, of a son . 10 On the 21st i ns t., i n P ar k -street, Notting-h ill , Mrs. C bl/1 Stewart Drewry, o f a d aug h ter. ____.----- MARRIED. willii ils On the 20th inst., at St. Mary's, Archt Wilson, Esq., to Ann Rodick, daughter of the late Corbett, Esq., of the above place. Walthamsto w., vitl der On the 20th i ns t., a t W a l cot Church, Bath, Alexan der Gordon, Esq., Surveyor-General of Hong Kong, t° 00 0 " A. Whitaker, granddaughter of the Chevalier de Forss gigs Mr. R. Harrison, currier, of Honiten, Dr y "' t° White, of Taunton, Somerset;hire. ____---------. DIED. ; elf - On the Bth i ns t., at Rothsay, Captain H. Downie,l3 Pll I 1 th Foot. On the 17th inst., William Spike, of upp er Pimlico, aged 72. rj SSP On the 18th inst., at Braughing Vicarage, } l ,e, rt b °, o in a te. eldest daughter of the late R. Nixon, Esq. of ' r oad, the On the 18th inst., in Rutland-street, HamPs tead - wife (if Mr. John E. Mivart• - ay .-, be , On the 19th inst., at the Vicarage, Thomas ------- bridgeshire, Anne Maria, wife of the Rev. Ebery.attee f t Waterua 00 / 1 01°17: G YOVSI London: Printed and Published by O o.i• No. 112, St ran d, P r i nter, a t Th e S a n Ote e 'o o o4l Strand. in the Preci nc t o f the Savoy, is W. 11144111,7 4 Dimday, November ils• 1844. would be necessary to have the case tried before a judge LLOYD'S SHIPPING. of assizes.—Rule nisi granted. LONDON, Nov. 23.—Wind N. to N.E., fresh b COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 23. and cloudy. The Court was o ccu pi e d t h e whole morning with mo- DEAL, Nov. 22.—Wi n d N . N . E . to E. —k rr d • tions of distringas and others, relating to points of Olesin, Buenos Ayre,, for llamburgh ; Prince, Que practice. Sld. Buteshir e , I c h a b oe ; Th omas King, Grena d a . 44 PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 22.—Wind E.N.E.—Sid• rpi thony, Batavia ; Glaphyra, St. Kitts ; Mediator, York. Off, Nautilus (transport), St. Helena. rro ol HARWICH, Nov. 22.—The P oco h ontas , Higgins, , LJ Rotterdam to Li ver p oo l, grounded on the Ship' Sand this mor n i ng , b ut was washed off on the flood proceeded. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 22.—Wi n d S . S . E ., A rt Pilgrim, Rawlins, Calcutta ; Conway (steamer), C von, with 730 packages of tea, ex Urgent, more O A damaged. Sid. Zenobia and Triumfante, Havef l a i, May, Afri c a. Th e J ames ( steamer), in crossinn:, river to Birkenhead last night, ran foul of the Rofo r . , from St. John's, N ew B runswic k , and was seve re') jured ; it i s f eare d i ome o f h er passengers were drool; The wreck that was fallen in with, 20th inst.. b/ Achilles (steamer), was seen yesterday at middsi t o tween the Isle of M an an d Liver - 001, in tow ez i steam tugs, by the Ad m i ra l (steamer), arrived he re i t yl third steam tug has been sent to the assistance ° 46 4! others : 700 pa c k ages t ea , ex U rgent, have b een 1 ,1 1 4 on the beach, a n d t wo b oa t s fill ed. The Erin go (steamer) was alongside the ship loading. f Ss / SHEERNESS, Nov. 18.—The Thomas, Price, Ht, derland, got as h ore l ast n i g h t on the outer Skerrrricrei Sound, and is expected to become a total wreck ; saved. NORTH SUNDE R L AND , N ov . 21.—The re! 1 0 0 Inverness to S un d er l an d, struc k on the Fern Is; o i l this morning, but was afterwards got off, and go ° at the entrance of the harbour, where she remains' 'p .