The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE 1;ITBLIC - JOURNA.I S Before we enter upon an attempt to answer the Standard on the subject of the Corn-laws, we must be allowed to offer our excellent Contemporary a little friendly advice. Let him carefully examine the quotations which the Ministerial writers make, as well as the figures they produce, and not get into a passion about nothing. We give this advice in consequence of the very hard names (there would not be much difficulty in calling harder ones on the other side) which the Standard yesterday bestowed upon those who are opposed to the Corn laws, and that, too, on grounds that justified no such language. The quotation or representation which the Ministerial print makes from Mr. M'Culloch, and which has so disturbed the equanimity of our Contemporary, is not fairly made, and it stops short of the explanation which Mr. Mt Culloch and other writers have clseWhere given respecting the disposal of that part of the Corn-law tax, which does net go into the p }elects of the agriculturists, but is taken from the pockets of the auhlie. . Our Contemporary also should recollect that we, and, as we believe, all other orthodox opponents of the Corn-laws, are so fur from entertaining any hostility to the landowners, that one of our main points is that the repeal of the Corn-laws still he bent ficial, not injurious to to the landlords. We shall have some amicable wrestling with our Contemporary on this pon:t anon ; for the present, let us content ourselves with telling him how the quotation that has so misled him into anger should have been given :—" Attempts have son.etinas been made to estimate the pecuniary but den uhich the re strictions on importation entail in ordinary years upon a country. This, however, is a subject with respect to which it is not possible to obtain any very accurate data. But, supposing the total quantity of corn annually produced in Great Britain and Ireland to amount to 52,000,000 quarters, every shilling that is added to its price by the Corn-laws, is equivalent to a tax on corn of 2,600,000/. ; and estimating the average rise on all sorts of grain a t 7 s . a quarter, the total sum will be 18,200,000/. So great a quantity of corn is. however, con sumed by the agriculturists themselves as food, in seed, the keep of horses, &c., that not more than a half, perhaps, of the whole quantity produced is brought to market. If we are nearly right in this hypothesis, and in the previous estimates, it will follow that the restrictions cost the'classes not engaged in agriculture no less than 0,100,000/., exclusive of their own pernicious consequences. Of this sum, a fifth, probably, or 1,800,000/., msy go to the landlords as rent ; and this is all that the agriculturists can be said to gain by the system, for the additional price received by the farmer on that portion of the produce exclusive of rent is no more than the ordi nary return for his capital and labour. His profits, indeed, instead of being increased by thin system, are realty diminished by it (for proofs of this, see the note on Corn-laws, in my edition of the Wealth of Nations, vol. iv., pp. 358-361); and though the rents of the landlords be, nominally at least, somewhat increased by it, it is, notwith standing, abundantly certain that it is anything but advan tageous to them. It would require a far larger sum to halanec the injury which fluctuations of price occasion to their tenants, and the damage done to their estates by ever-cropping when prices are high, than all that is derived from the restric tions." The Standard defies his Ministerial opponent to tell how that part cf the money raised which does not go into the pockets of the landlords is disposed of, if it go not " to maintain the farmers, yeomanry, arid agricultural 13- bowers." The Ministerial writer will, we suppose, answer for himself. We tell our Contemporary that esen if the " balance of the payment," as he terms it, went into the pockets of landlords, instead of being distributed as he supposes it is, we should feel that we had much less reason to complain than we have now ; but it is, in fact, wasted, totally lost to tl e country, by mewls of the ruinous system adot tcd for forcing corn where the nature of the s gives evidence that grass only should be grown. They atate not " madmen," but men of experience and skill, that desire to alter this system. They who ask whether it is from " our spectre-peopled manufacturing districts that our fleets and armies can be manned," and who, while they put this question, refuse to put flesh up in the bones of these spectres by denying them cheap bread, seem much more like persons who have lost their wits. We will not ask, as our Contemporary would ask (if we may judge from what he said yesterday), whether such persons " exceed in hardness of heart or thickness of head ;" but we hope they rejoice in the latter, if there be anything in the Standard's monition of what may he dreaded from " the agri cultural peasantry when driven to despair,"—because the " clubs" with which the Standard arms them will most assur edly descend, if at all, upon the he ids of those who refuse them cheap bread, not upon the heads of men who are striving. to fill their bellies at the easiest rate. But our Contemporary has . not lost his temper with us, and we shall not lose our temper with him. We have a score to clear off with him, and we beg his pardon for remaining in his debt since yesterday. It is true that we merely alluded in our article of Saturday to the im proved tillage of Ireland and Scotland. Our object in this was to suggest an alleviation of the Standard's fears of our being thrown on our own resources in the event of a war. The Stan dard thinks this improved tillage too important a matter to be treated obiter—and so do we ; but neither that occasion nor the present afforded, or affords the opportunity of going fully into it. Our Contemporary, however, asks—" If the improved tillage of Scotland and Ireland has more than kept pace with the in crease of population, from a term when, as experience has shown, the corn of the United Kingdom was sufficient fur its support, what need then of foreign corn ! If it has not, then the home produce is relatively less than it was during the war—a bad argument for still further diminishing it, and fall. inn, back, in the event of war, upon an inadequate source of supply." We readily answer, that the tillage of Ireland has more than kept pace with the increase of population ; and we beg to add, that that part of the United Kingdom is not yet half cultivated. This ought to be an answer to the fears our Contemporary expresses ; and if there be anything in his ques tion, " what need of foreign corn ?" he is clearly answered, pro vice, by " what need of fear of foreign corn ?" The question, " what need of foreign corn ?" involves the whole question, and cannot be disposed of, as our Con temporary would say, " obiter." At the risk, however, of being thought by the Standard to speak riddles, we will add that the admission of foreign corn would prevent those fluctua tions in prices which have caused nearly all the misery that the agricultural interest has periodically endured for the last 18 or 20 years. Our Contemporary then observes—" The Times next proceeds to ask why is it more prudent or more necessary to maintain now the agricultural system that was permitted during the war than to keep up our naval and mili tary force at the war point?" We must respectfully observe that this is an erroneous analogy. A naval arid military esta blishment is but the development of the strength of a country, not the source of that strength." We very respectfully insist that the analogy is not erroneous; that both are developments of the strength of a country, though useless and unwise developments of strength ; for both would show how great burdens, albeit unnecessary burdens, the country could be made to bear in the one case,—has been made to bear in the other. The burdens imposed by the Corn-laws are nMmore the source of strength than the num ber of lashes inflicted by a cat-o'-nine-tails enables the sufferer to hear them. There is the development of endurance in both cases—nothing more. Again, the Standard complains that we were guilty of an erroneous analogy when we said that if it were necessary for a nation's independence that it should have the means of self-support, it must have the means of self support in every thing else as well as in raising corn. The Standard insists that there is a difference bete eon corn and other produce, and we are sure our Contemporary thinks so, for otherwise he could not entertain the opinions he expresses on the subject of the Corn-larva. He says that corn cannot be dispensed with. Who talks about dispensing with cern ? One would suppose, from the tone of our Contemporary, that the opponents of the Corn-laws had a scheme for taking away the land itself as well as the protecting duty on corn ; that we can have no war which is no t a war with the whole world, or at least a war against an enemy so powerful that our navy could not convoy vessels laden with corn in safety to our ports. Are we to legislate in all times for such improbable contingencies as these ? Surely not—especially when we know that for a time at least cern may be dispensed with, and that "an acre of potatoes will feed double the number of indi viduals that can be fed from an acre of wheat." We should he sorry to see potato diet substituted for corn diet; but in the case supposed by the Standard, that might happen without great inconvenience ; and under any state of things short of an actual blockade of the island there would be no dif ficulty in procuring as much corn a 3 we pleased. Lastly, the Standard says—a' The sentence which our Contemporary quotes from Lord Grenville is a remarkable sample of that species of empty eloquence which grew into fashion among the followers and admirers of Mr. Pitt—the imitators employ ing, as it were, the shells of the sonorous sentences of their great model, without a particle of their substance. 'at con he the consumer of corn to the produce of his own country is to refuse to ourselves the benefit of that provision which Pro vidence itself has made for equalizing to man the varia tions of climates and of seasons.' Such propositions are false if they cannot be generalized,--that is, if the suppressed premises be not capable of universal appli. cation. In this case the suppressed premise is, that we ought not in any case to refuse • the benefit of that provision which Providence itself has made for equalizing to man the varia tions of climates and of seasons.' Now, ap;lly this to menu factut er, and you must extinguish all protecting duties_apply it to commerce, and what becomes of your navigation acts— apply it to national defence, and your armies must be filled by foreign mercenaries, your navy manned by Swedes, Portu guese, Negroes, and Lascars. Such is the value of Lord Grenville's well-roundod dictum." The dill Ile of our Contem porary to Lord Grenville and other followers and admirers of Mr. Pitt (which we are at a loss to understand) appears to have rendered him less logical than usual here. We deny that there is in the passage from Lord Grenville's pen any such suppressed premise as that " we ought not in any case to re fuse the benefit of that provision which Providence itself has made for equalizing to man the variations of climates and seasons." A distinguished essayist has said—" The happiest climate does riot produce all things ; and it was so ordered that one part of the earth should want the product of another for uniting mankind in a general correspondence and good under standing.' Will our Contemporary be so good as to tell us what is the suppressed premise in this sentence ; and whether, when we are told "to take the goods the Gods provide us," we must turn a deaf ear to the advice, unless we can at all times take all the goods the Gods provide us? As to our ex tinguishing "all protecting duties," that is precisely what we desire for protection in such cases means injustice, —it is the taking from one class to give to another class : but by our Contemporary's leave we will keep our own soldiers and sailors until we can employ our population more profitably in other occupations. We can produce men as easily as Sweden, Portugal, &c., and we shall be able to feed and clothe them better when the Corn-laws are removed. We have left ourselves neither time nor space to attempt an answer to the Standard's question, " What is to become of our agriculttual labourers "1" but, so far fr o m de iring to . avoid, shallwe - take an early opportunity of meeting our Contempo rary on that point. We cannot, however, flatter ourselves with the hope that, upon the principles by which this question of the Corn-laws should be settled, our Contemporary and ourselves can ever be brought to 'agree. What he calls " empty eloquence," we think good sense excellently ex pressed ; and while we would encourage those, whom neither danger nor distance deters front attempts to add to the com• forts and conveniences of life, our Contemporary seems to exclaim with horror— PRICES OF CAN ALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASzIEiR.ANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c. LO? DON, FRIDAY, JAN. 18. Number Dividend Pete of - .., • • CANALS i ,, r per Shares. Annum, Paid. Shire 1 , 7 66 7 per cent. Ashto Ad Oldham Average. 071. 18s. eh. 135 48 2 41, Ashby , .e-Is-touch Average 11111. Th. 73 1,260 /3.713ir estolte 1001.311. 1,005 5 : 7 . Lreeknock and Abergavenny 1501. sh. 90 8 ,0011-lesh. 9I 6s. Birmingham, 1-16th share M. & 71/. 218 4. 000 • Ditto and Liverpool Junct...l.N eh. 100 pd Z 600 NI. Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 64 400 4!. Cheliner and 111ackwater, , li 0/. sh. 101 500 ..44/ . Crwentry ....f;0/.311. 739 !" 5 1 5 -444 4% Croydon `*boui 4O . D s„ uiliey . IOU th. 1, 600 114. Derby 1001.:h. 135 L),001) 4rr cent. i/anune and Mayne 4ll. 13s. 4:1.4,41 zo 3,5751 3/. Ellomwre and Chester Average 132/,11. 81 231 62 , , Erowash. !001.40. 775 1,297 - ; NI. Forth and Clyde 2,-aye 4.W/. 6s. eh. 500 1,600 121. 113:old Jil4,-ty4r. 14401. eh. 203 2,8491 11, (.rand i.1040U 100/ , I, y 4 11,5 0 0 Grand S imy - .. "'Pt sh. t. , 0 0 .01:01. It. per cent. Ditto (optional) L o an ll3l. I 3 3 896 600 10/.125. 9 , c1. (11;.morgansh ire, Average cost 1721. 13•:, le tat 749 I!;/. Gran Clam 150/,••,ii. 2413 6,233 2/, os. Fl,,l)ersfield Avenge 57/. 6s. vi. sir. :36 100 Kensington '0 , 4,4h all pd. In 5 -328 1/. 53. Kennet i• nd Avon, Average 391. 18s. 10k1.81. 28 2 ,W.4.? 301. Leeds and Liverpool ' o ' 4 . , h- 740 5151 LI% Leicceter ' 40/. sh. 5221 1,897 6/., Os. Leicester an-i Northampton-. Aver 4:.3/. Os. 90 2.404) . 10/. Monmouthshire 100/.sh. 20, 150 10/, Melton Mowbray ' `. , 01.rb. 200 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell 'Olll, sh„ 5 60 3.01-0 !/. 10s. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all i - .d. 51 2417 171. N c•:.t h 100/.sh. 325 2,400 si. Peak k °rest Avli.ge about 78/. sh. 104 1,118 US. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331.16 g. Bd. rh. ;6 5,669 6/. per cent. nechdale average 851. eh. 108 500 SI. ti'f.ropshirc 0251. sh. 137 800 9/, 10s. Somerset Ccal 1501.,h. Ima 3,601/. 46 per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock 121. 10s. sh, 111 700 401. Stafford and Worcester 140/. sh. 710 500 9/. Shrewsbury 125/. oh. r.BO 300 9.', Stourbridge .......... - 14541.8 h. 14541.8 h. 330 3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ...Average 791. 9s.lsd. sh. 40 533 13/. Swvneea 1 001. th. 250 3,762 11. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway...Av 351. sh. 39 • 60 1 sh. !.121. 10s. Trent and !Mersey, I share 100/. sh 600 8.149 1 0410 s * . h 16/. Warwick alit Birmingham 100/.sh. 281 lono l sh. 930 15s. Warwick and Naotcm l'.)0/. sh. 9 0 a 6,000 4/. 0 5 , NVorcester and Birmingham...Av.7B/.88. sh. 71 - 5.000 255. Wilts and Perks .. Average 671. 10s. Bd. sh. 23 SOO 31. VV yrley and Essington 1251. sh 75 126 Wisbeach 1:05 li. Wey and Arun llol.xll. 221 DOCKS. 1: 0651 8 h } 3p. c Commercial . ~•!001. sh. 56 East and West India Stock 1161 3,239,31011. 553. p.c t. London --Stock 62 Ditty ilonds lOl " Nequiequam Deus abscidit Prudens occano dissociabili Terras, si tamen impire Non tangenda rates transiliunt vada."— Times. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. CF 11011 TILE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) CHRONICLE.—The gloom which began to sho;v itself on S..:turday in the English Stock Market has increased con siderably, and a marked fall in fact has taken place in Consols. Various causes are assigned for this depression, but we believe it is attributable chiefly to the state of political affairs in France, a change of Ministry being considered inevitable there, and the acceptance of office by M. Thiers as equally cer tain. This it is thought would lead to immediate inter vention in the affairs of Spain, which might p )ssibly, it is argued, place this country in a different position as re gards other European nations, and hence the reaction which has occurred in Consols, while the fact that con siderable purchases of Spanish stock have been effected, and that market having improved, is in some degree a confirmation of the correctness of the impression that the English funds have been influenced by tl-e situa tion of the French Ministry. It is also stated, but on no good grounds, that very unfavourable accounts have reached London from India. An overland mail has arrived, bringing advices of the 4th of December . from Bombay, but we under stand they merely mention that the arrangements for the cam paign were still going on. Others consider that the fall in Consols has been occasioned by the quantity of bullion which has been exported on account of purchases of corn; but this we also consider unfounded, and certainly the fall would not have been so sudden on this account. We think it will be found as we have stated above, that it has been occasioned entirely by the expectation that a great change will shortly ' take place in the policy of th e F renc Government. Consols closed at 92 buyers for the account, and 921 to for money ex. div. Exchequer Bills remain at 68s. to 70s. pm. The market for Spanish securities, as we have already re marked, is decidedly better, and an improvement has taken piece in it, the Active stock being lest marked at 18 to Portuguese stocks were heavy in the early part of the day, but improved afterwards, and closed firm. The Five per Cents. were last marked at 35.4 to 1; and the Three per Cents., 22+ to ; Dutch are heavy in consequence of the fall in Consols. The Five per Cents, left - off at 1011 to 1021; and the Two and-a. Half per Cents. at 54i to ; g -'. In the other Foreign Se curities there is no change. The market for Shares has likewise undergone a change for the worst, most of the different railway undertakings being quoted lower. Birmingham (old) were last ma: ked at 77 to 79 prem. ; ditto (new), 23. 1 2 - to 24i prem. ; SJuthampton, 42 to 43 per share ; Great Western, 111- to 121 prein. ; Leeds and Manchester, 19 to 1 prem. ; Birmingham and Derby, 10 to 9 dis. ; Brighton, 38 to 3s dis, ; Blackwall, 1 to dis. ; and Gosport Junction, q- to 2+ prem. 2,209 21. IN. Bristol 6,3,324/. !V. p,:r ccmt. Ditto Notes, various amounts I i 3 1,152,75'2 5 1,-.r cztit. St. Katharine "ock 1071 5()0,V1 , 0 44 per cent. Ditto Bonds 20u.q)(:0 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds tor 10 years , 1004 1.500 ..... Deptford Pie! _ .._ `..J3l. sh. 201. pd 11 TIME S.—The reports in circulation respecting the un favourable tenor of the political intelligence from India, brought by the overland despatch, caused a depression in the funds, and Consols declined to 921 for Money, and 921, rather buyers, for Account. The commercial advices received, via Marseilles, by the overland dispatch from India, state the trade in cotton piece goods, yarns, and woollen goods, to have been dull in the lat ter place, accompanied with some depression in the price, the season being generally more favourable at the date for woollens in particular. The rates of exchange at Calcutta, after some fluctuations, had settled at is. Hid. to 2s. per Company's rupee, for bills on the Treasury at 30 days' sight, for private bids at six months' sight, or ten months' date, with docu ments, at 2s. to 2s. 2d., without documents at 2s. 2-id. to 2s. 21(1. Papers from Lima to the 14th of September, although not of so late date as the private advices lately made public, con tain some public documents, which serve to throw light on affairs in that quarter. They contain the copy of a decree of Santa Cruz, dated the 11th of August, at Cuzco, in which, in consequence of the defection of Orbegoso, the then President cf North Peru, the deposition of that chief is decreed, and in his place is named President provisionally, until the meeting of the Legislature, the Grand Marshal Don Jose de la Riva Aguero ; and for Vice-President, General Pedro Bermudez. The same papers have a proclamation of General Ramon Her rera, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the North, in which he announces to his troops his intention to march upon Lima, and drive out the Chilians. From a dispatch to one of the Peruvian officers with the Chilian army, it appears that Gene ral Nieto, who was the first "to declare against Santa Cruz, and was afterwards joined by Orbegoso, but who subsequently fought against the Chilians because they insisted upon (leen ing Lima, and was defeated, has now signified his desire to come to an arrangement with the Chilians and Gamarra, the President of Peru, appointed by them, in order to unite their respective forces against Santa Cruz, of whose resentment he was most in dread. POST.--Accounts of very late date were received horn India to-day by the overland conveyance, via Marseilles, and the are of considerable importance. They come down to the . 2lst of November from Calcutta, and the 6th ult. from Bombay. The report previously obtained of the raising of the siege of Herat is officially confirmed by this opportunity, but it appears that the Governor-General is determined not withstanding to proceed with the measures be had contem plated for the remnetil of Dost Mahommed Khan from the sovereignty of Cabul, and the re-establishment of Shah Shooja 00l Moolk in his former dominions. This determination can not, it is presumed, be carried into effect without some sacri fice on the part of the British. It seems highly probable, from what had lately transpired at Madras, that there would be war with the Burmese also. The Government, as we learn through a private channel, were already making crrangements with the owners - of steam-vessels for the conveyance of troops to the Burmah coasts, the British Representative at Rangoon haring been treated by the King with the most marked in dignity. 'Ph is intelligence from her Majesty's eastern possessions, coupled with the advices from Paris, which are thought to hold out a prospect of the return to power of the Spanish in tervention party, has caused much heaviness in the public funds. The agitation which continues to be kept up on the subject of the Corn-laws, has, however, again contributed in some deg: ee to produce such an effect in the markets. The commercial accounts from Calcutta represent the market there for printed cotton goods to have been brisk until within the last ten days, when, owing to the discoura g ing ad vices from the interior, it had experienced a check: prices were giving way again. The new crop of indigo was coming in freely, but it was not expected that much would be done in the article until after a sale of 250 chests of Bengal belonging to the estate of Messrs. Alexander and Co., advertised for the next day, should have taken place. The demand for raw silk for the home market was still active. The sugar trade had become less buoyant since the arrival of the September mail. There was but little doing in opium. The Money Market seems to have been very heavy till the beginning of the month, as hen a decided change occurred. Advances to a fair amouw., against shipments of indigo and silk, were ef fected at 2s. cid. to 2s. IZd. One advance to the extent of four lass of rupees was reported at 23. lid., with the con signment, making the exchange virtually 23. 21d., and from this time the exchange began to rise. The remittances brought out by the August and September overland mails amounted to about thirty lacs, the chief portion beiag in tended for operations to China, and for the execution of French orders for Indigo, which staple, in consequence of the failure of the crop, and the improvement in the Europe market, was, however, held at prices above the French limits. Bills on the Treasury at thirty days' sight are quoted at Is. 111 d. to 2a. the rupee. The Government had given its sanction to the proposed increase of fifty per cent. in the capit it of the Bulk of Bengal, making the gross capital 11,250,000 Company's rupees. The Directors had, therefore, called upon the Pro prietors to carry the measure into immedicee effect. Of the old capital, sixty lacs rtmained unemployed, and it was doubt ful to what use the Directors meant to apply the sum to be raised in addition. The last published statement of the work ing of the Bank showed a divisible profit cf nine per cent. per annum, and, as the period for the division (31st December) was near at hand, and there would be an advantage to Pro prietors in subscribing for the new stock at par, the shares had advanced to 3,150 rupees prem. ; sales were realised at this rate, though the holders generally were reserving them. selves until after the payment of the divid,nd and the issue of the new stock. Discount on the security cc Government bills was 4 per cent., and, on good private paper at three mouths, 8 per cent. Mr. Charles Dickens (Boz), Mr. W. H. Ains worth, the author of Rockwood, and Mr. Fester, the author of the Life of Cromwell, have been sojourning in this town since Saturday last. On Sunday the literary trio attendel Divine Service at the Collegiate Church, when the Rev. R. Parkinson, B. D. F., C. C., preached a most admirable sermon on the late hurricane.—Manchester Cow-hr. Yesterday afternoon, on the arrival of the Poole and Leamington coach at the Black Bear office, in Piccadilly, the coachman alighted and incautiously .eft the horses unat tended. The animals, alarmed at some p ass i ng no i se , star t e d off, and the wh ee l s o f the coach coming in contact with a carrier's cart, upset it. The progress of the horses was soon afterwards topped, without any ftu ther damage. The coach was crowded with passengers, who were, of course, greatly alarmed. SHEEP STEALING. —Several depredations of this description have lately taken place in the neighbourhood of Saffron Waldon. On Friday night, the 4th instant, a sheep was stolen from the premises of Mr. Downhall, of Chr;shall.— Essex Herald. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.--The " Animals' Friend Society" has, we are glad to find, not been appealed to in vain by the inhabitants of Birmingham and Worce3ter, on behalf of the unfortunate barge asses. It prosecuted se veral barge men there, last week, for great cruelty to them, and one of the fellows named Charles Clark (who was fined 11., by Mr. Miner, King's Norton) declared that he knew that all the barge men who used CISSC3, ought to be fined for their cruelty. William Frost and Thomas Eade were also fined at Union-hall, at the instance of the Society, for ill-treatment to an 143. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1839. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. 21. ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. ELLISON. The object of this information, it will be recollected, was to set aside a lease to the Ellison family of the tolls of the Foss Dike navigation at Boston, on the ground that the Cor poration of Boston, :which had granted the lease, had not a beneficial interest in the tolls, and that the whole amount ought to be expended on the navigation H;s HoNot R Oelivered judgment. and dismissed the informA• tion with costs. AR(.I-IES' COURT. JAN. 21. GRANT V. GRANT. The Learned Juona gave his decision in this case. It is a suit for d:voree on the grout al ti adultery brought by letters of rrquest ffore the Comm i•s kry Court of the Lord Bishop of \Vim ell- , ster. I , is promwed Captain Alexander Grant. of Bright;et. i:i the county of Suss .x. a.:a'tist M The m ariage took place in NI (kits A;ie - ust. 1825, according to the forms of ton Scotch Church, f filch Me. Grant. is a tra-mher. The validity of the imirriaee is net. ,is puterl. Tie parties cohabited till 1838, the i sue b. ing six chib'r n. Sme let•f , rs, addressed I. Mrs, Ciptain Vincent, the alleged p iricees criminis ; living been found by that 1a.1 . - y's huAmed, a sep4ration took place, and the pre sent proceedings were instituted. The parties went fi cm thi,- country in 1835 or 1836 to the Eist in the Lird Lowther, the property of Captain Grant. which at the time was commanded by him. In May, 1837, they proceeded from Macao, in China, ar,d returned by the same vessel to England in November. Having stopped for some time at the Norfolk Hotel, Captain- Grant took a house in Regency square, Brighton, and there resided with his family. It is alleged that during the homeward voyage Captain Vincent, who had been appointed to the command of the Lord Lowther, paid marked attention to Mrs. Grant, and that adultery was committed between the parties. The Learned Judge proceeded to a lengthened enumeration of all the facts in evidence, observing, _in conclusion, that, after the return of Captain Vincent from Brighton, Mrs. Grant directed several letters to him at the Jerusalem Coffee house, which were deposited for him in one of the pigeon holes—the usual receptacle of letters for persa:.s frequenting that house. Captain Grant, who, as well as Captain Vincent, was engaged in the East Indian trade, happening to call in there, looked into the pigeon-holes for his own letters and then and there found the letters addressed to Captain Vincent in his wife's- handwriting. He took the letters, and haring consulted with his solicitor, proceeded with him and a friend to Regency-square, Brighton, where his wife was stopping. He shortly afterwards separated from her, and since that pe riod they have not cohabited. On arriving at his house he accused his wife of adultery, and made a search for any other letters which she might have received ; but certainly found none. Mrs. Grant, on that occasion, at first positively denied having written any letters to Captain Vincent save one, con gratulating him on his marriage, which she did with the sanc tion and concurrence of her husband ; but 'afterwards, on her letters being produced, she admitted that they were in her handwriting, but added that " though her mind had been con taminated, her body was pure." By this observation, though she still denied that the act of adultery had taken place, she showed what cleaning she affixed to the letters, and what she intended to express by the . r contents. On her own statement the Court could place no reliance. If, however, contamination of mind is alone' proved, the husband was not entitled to the sentence of divorce ; the surrender of the body having been held to be necessary to obtain a divorce by the Learned Judge's predecessor in the Chair, in the case of Hamerton v. Hamer ton. It would be necessary to advert to those letters. They extend from the 23d of December, 1837, to the 18th of Janu ary, 1838. The first in point of date was written on the 23d of December, the day but one after Captain Vincent had left her house. It is written partly in English and partly in French. The Learned Judge then read the whole of the letters, com menting on each after perusal. One of them ran thus—they arc all in the same strain : " Brighton, Dec. 29, 1837. "My dearest Arthur—[in French]—l could not pass these solemn days without expressing to you all the wishes of this heart, so devoted to you in every thing which is most exalted in love. I cannot contemplate without extreme emotion the state in which I was when you bade me adieu [in English] this very day week, I may say—fixed in her choice and faith ful, but in vain—see me neglected on the world's rude coast, the dearest, companion of my voyage lost. 0, my dearest Arthur [in French], when may I hope to see you again—if it were possible in your journey only for half a day, like the brilliant lightning which illuminates the uncertain steps of the traveller. I render thanks to that Divine Providence so infi nite in all the profusion of its blessings upon my sweet family. My husband is very good and attentive in all things which any other but myself would appreciate ; but lam not worthy _I have not the power (or I am powerless), you alone are enabled to bring me to reason, but at present all my weak nature is attached but in you alone. [ln English.] Adieu. Believe me yours ever most affectionately, M. G. Pray do excuse this in haste." The Court was sorry to say that, after reading these letters it could no longer entertain a doubt as to the commission of adultery. There was no evidence particularly to show that the act took place on the gist of December, or that Captain Vincent went during the course of that night to the bed of Mrs. Grant, or at what particular time and place the inter course was effected ; but the whole circumstances of the case left no doubt on the mind of the Court as to the guilt of the parties. It had been said in argument that this was the first case in which the Court was called up , n to pronounce a sentence of divorce merely upon a proof of adultery cffered by letters, in which the fact was not expressly stated; but this was a wrong description of the case, for the letters alone did not establish the guilt of M C 3. Grant, but in conjunction with all the facts and circumstances, they unquestionably did. The case of Hamerton v. Hamerton, which had been alluded to, was essentially different in two very material points—with re gard to the letters, which in that case came from the gentle man and not from the lady, and with regard to the situation in which adultery might have been committed. Under all t! e circumstances, the Court was bound, though i!s sentence would condemn Mrs. Grant to infamy, and separate her from her husband and her family, to pronounce that adultery had been committed, and that a divorce must pass, as prayed for. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANS; UN-HOUSE. On Saturday a man, named Wet. Reynolds, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged by Mr. Goldham, the clerk of Billingsgate-market, with having stolen four large plaice. Green, one of Mr. Goldham's men, stated that as he was or, the look-out at an early hour, he saw the prisoner " cutting along," amongst the ve s sels at Billingsgate, and he observed that when the man came ashore, he appeared to be very uneasy about the scat of his breeches. As fellows who in fested the market were in the haoit of thrusting stolen fish into their lower garments, witness had no doubt that the pri soner 1u:el a supply next to his skin. He accordingly got into conversation with him, and made him sit down upon a brick, when it was immediately seen that he had stolen goods about him, for they were quite alive in his breeches. The LORD MAYOR—What ! the fish were alive in his breeches? Green—Yes, please your Lordship ; these here four fine plaice,-as lies dead afore you, was alive this morning about his body. The Loan AIAYOR —Why, is it possible that he could have had theta in his breeches? Green—Next his precious skin, my Lord ; I draw'd 'em out myself. People that trades so don't wear no shirts, so the fish slips in and out easy— (Laughter.) The Lotto MAYOR—And is there much robbery in this way ? Green—Much 1 Plus , you, my Lord, there aint nobleman's table in London that aint had fish upon it out of the breeches of one of these rascals. and they always cribs the best. They von't take none of your gut-splitters. After all I have seed, I am ashamed to have a bit of fish put upon my table. It's horrid blasphemy to think of a genteel lady putting her knife into anything as comes out of sich a fel low's breeches.--( Laughter. ) The LORD MAYOR—But the thing 1 - ; quite incredible. Mr. Goldham—lt is the fact, my Lord. The mud-larks, as fish-stealers of this description are called, can, with the quickness of Grimaldi, dispose of any article about their persons. They call this mode of concealment putting on their bustle, from the gr,at increase of size it gives them be hind.—( Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—WeII, as your man says., Mr. Goldham, it is curious enough to think of the transfer of a fish from such a place to a Nobleman's table. Green—lts dreadful, please your Lordship, and these wil lains thinks nothing about it ; they laugh at it. I'd have sich fellows hanged without judge or jury, for stowing away vet's fit to be grubbed up by any baronight, or Duchess, in their breeches. It was only the other day I runned after a fellow as had a werry large bustle, and jilt as I come up to him, I'm Ll, ssed if he didn't, of a sudden, let fly half a bushel of viting out of it. The Loan MAYOR—WeII, prisoner, what have you to say to this extraordimry charge? Prisoner—Please you, my Lord, I'm weiry deaf. I can scarce hear a word, God help me. The LORD MAYOR (in a loud voice)—Where did you get the fish that lies before you? Prisoner—Thank you, my Lord. I'll take it home to my vife, and I'll cook it on some cheap coals I bought, according to your Lordship's•advice. The Loan MAYOR—Come, coma, this nonsense won't do. _ _ I shall send you to 13ridewell. You are a common thief. Prisoner—Please you, my Lord, I tried 'em over and over agvn in my own parish, but the relieving officer vouldn't do nothing for me, because your Lordship vaunt there to serve him out. Mr. Goldham—Now, Reynolds, you had better answer the question. Whcro did you get this fish? The Lord Mayor wishes to have it restored to the boat from which it was stolen. . Prisoner—Then, as I'm a living man, I can't tell nohow how they got into my breeches. If I know'd they vos there till your man pulled 'em out afore my two eyes, I hope I may go blind of one of 'em. The Loral MAYOR—Mr. Goldham, I hope you hive not many persons like this to deal with ? Mr. Goldham—Too many, my Lord. I trust you will convict this mar, under the llumboat Act, for having the fish in his possession without being able to account fur it. Mr. Hobler—You can do 'that, my Lord ; and it will be a judgment upon him, for ho hid his plunder in his breeches.—_(A laugh.) The Lotto MAVOR—Prisoner, I commit you for three months. I thi n k t h at w i ll teach you not to put other people's fish in your bre ec h es . W hat do you think yourself? Priso ner—Vy, please you, my Lord, as the lawyers say , you must ax that o f t h e tenant in possession. —(Great laughter.) BRIDGES. . 1,600 1 rs. tlaminersTrbi! --- 50/. slb, 21 7,231 Southwark, Old 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, 01'7¢, ri cent .... ...... 50/. sh. 14 5,000 Waterloo lOOl. sh. 3f 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of Si. M. pd 21i 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 401. pd 201 60,0001. 51. per cent. Dit'o Bona , . l2O 5,848 17s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 23 AS'ilillANCE COAIPANIES.. . ..... . —. .2,000 3110 s Albion 500/. sh. 501. pd 74 50,000 [ s l ) ,.7 l c iTtl Alliance British B‘. Foreign 100/. sh. 103/. pd :41 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto,. Marine 1001. sh. 5/. pd ft 91,000 €1 per sh. Atlas 1,200 }sh. Si. Birmingham 1 ire 20,000 41 per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40 1'2,000 61. per cent. riritish Commercinl 5Ol, sh. 5/. pd 6 5,000 Si. per cent. Clerical, Medi .c.l,&ic. Life, ICol.sh. 2/10s pd 4 4,0(10 21 :Os County 100!. sh. 101. pd 42 20,000 se. Eagle , nr , I's per cent.? Economic I.ii , • lOOO/. sh. '250/. pd 375 ''''' /and 301 bs. S 2,271 225. percent. European Li ••• '2ol. eh. all pd 22 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 3O!. sh 2/. pd 11' 1,000,0001. 71. per ct Globe Stock 144 20,000 51. Guardian lOO/. sh. 271/ pd : : ,01 40,000 6s. 60. Hope 500 sh. :' , l. pd 5: 2,400 51. 7s. 60. Impermi Fire 0 0)0 sh. 500 pd 120 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite (00/. sh. 101. pd 104 , 13,1523 4/. percent. Indemnity Marine 1001. sh. i'./. p 2 24 , .; 2,020 31 108 Kent Fire NH. sh. all pd 62 V. Ditto Life 79 10100 16s. Law Life 1001. sh. 10/. pd 281 :,000 10s. London, Fir, "M sh. 12/. l! s. p-1 10 3,900 10s. London, Ship ' l 5/ sh. 1 . .1. Ifs. pd 10,1 1, 0 00,0001. ... ..... Min : rya Life 1001. s h . 5 0 1),00(.1. National Loan FiroAl "1 ss. pd 2 4 2 00,000 H. per cent. Palladium 1.112 5Ol. sh. 21. pd • _'l9; 00 50,003 4/. per cent. Protector Fite. "0/. sh 2/. pd 16 00 2,500 1/. Provident I.lie. lOO/ sh. 10/. pd 20 00,000 ss. Rock Life "01. sh. 1/. pd q 59,220/ 5/. per cent. Royal Ex ch.nige Stork... 229 6,000 5 par cent. University I.ife lOO/ sh. 5/. pd 5} 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life ... lOO/. sh. 50 pd 71 JOINT STUCK BANKS 25,000 6 percent. Agric. andCumin.of Ireland 251. sh. 101. pd 50.00 Atistrala.ia 4O/. sh. 4.01. [kti 70 16,00 10 per cent. Bank of Bii iningliam Sri. sh. 101. pd 13 10,000 IA per cent. Eitmingham Bank .... . ......... 500 sh. 51. pd l) 31,000 5 per cent. London and Westminstir...loo/ sh. 20/. pd 242 6^,000 51. London Joint Stock s' l /. sh. 101. pd 13: .1,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 25,000 Liverpool 1001 th. 10/. pd 23: 100,000 71 per sent Manchester and Liverpool/ District 5O/.lh. 15/ pd 21 20,000 7 per cemt. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 27 20,000 Provincial Bank of 1 reland 100/. sh. 25/. IA 45 :(I,' CO National Bank of Ireland .4.1. sh_ 17'!. pd 17 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. lOO/. sh. 351. pd 3 1 1 10,000 Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 10/. IA 20 6,000 lOper cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. 5/. pd p GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 110 s Od Bath 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 16/. pd 2 1 Ann r5/.percent/ 5, ""' [ and Bs. 6s. j Ditto Provincial 9 01. sh. 19 pi 241 928 51 lOs Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 98 4,250 21 Os Bristol 1,500 3/ 103 Brighton 2O/. sh. 111 750 31 10s Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 18/. pd 9 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 201. sh. all pd 17 4,000 5/. Continental Consolidated 1,000 101. City 01 London .................1001. sh. all pd 191 1,000 61. Ditto, New 4,000 4/.los. Equitable 10,000 2i per cent. Imperial 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Tnanet 9 51. sh 2O/. psi 20 2,350 6/. per cent. Independent 3O/. sh. a'l pd 42 9,000 31. per cent. Phenix ... 5O/. sh. 39/. pd 23 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 4,000 South 19‘tropolitin 5 ,1. sh. 111. pd 17 8,200 51. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 46/. pd 29: 240 5/. per cont. Warwick 501.. h. 50 400 5/. per cent Waßetield 2,000 31. Westminster Chartered 0,000 12s. Ditto New 660 Yarmouth 9 0/. sh. 191. pd WATER WJIIKS. _ 1,800 N. Birmingham O5/. sh. °sl. pd 20 4,434 6/. East London lOOl sh. 170 5,500 21 lOs Ctr ind Junction ....Average 41/ 13s. 4d. sh. (19 2,000 '2l. Kent ,‘;() Lsh. 4i 372 10!. Liverpool Bootle "201. sh. 326 1,500 2110 s Now River London Bridge WatN*A nnui ties 62 6,-186 1/ /5s 51c.ochestei and Saltbrd ,100!. sh. 54 1,000 4 per csnt. South London 100/. sh. 101 8,294 41. West Middlesex Average 031. 12s. 9d. sh. 1021 1,360 11 Its York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1001. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 0,300 Birmingham and Derby 504 pd 41 9,590 Birmingham and Gloucester .......... 40/ pd 21 15, , 0 0 Bristol and Exeter 100/. sh. :0 pd 11 060 Calcutta and Saugur 5Ol. sb. 21. pd 04 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western 1001. sh. 201. 3,009 Clarence lOO/. sh. 1001 pd 40 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. eh. 51. pd 60,1100 Eastern Counties 25/. eh. 124 pd 11 i Grand Junction 1001. sh. 05/. p;1 205 Great North of England .30/. pd H 5,00 2,000 8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 204 pil 9 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 51. pd 2,130 31. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh 05 1,! , .00 11.55. Leicester and Swannington -.501. sh. all pd '75 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Mancliester...lot Lsh. lON. pd 205 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 01 36, ,, 00 ......... London and Brigh to:, 12,000 London and Blackwall 501. sh. 3/. pd 74 20,C00 3 per cent. London and Greenwich 2O/. sad. 20/. pd Ili 25,000 London and Birmingham ...1001. it. 90/. pd 163 Ditto Quarter Shares 51 pd 204 20, , 00 London and South ampton-.50/. sh. 511, pd 4:34 ; 2 . 5 , n i(}) / 1 . 1.. sh. . 1 . 2 : 11/ ), ' i d dd Ditto ditto New ......210i/.1.11.1),d Ira3i)" 1 1 ,0(10 London and Croydon Trunk 201, sh. 2 0 1. pd 14 6,' 00 Ditto New Scrip 1,11i;0 London Grand Junction 50/. sh. 5/. pd 04 1;3,000 ..„..... Manchester and Leeds lOOl. sh. 501. pd 7' I 10,ouo „„„., .... 111,;nchester and Birmingham I' 01. sh. WI. pd 104 North Midland 1001. sh. :{5l. pd 50 Northe , n and Eastern 100/, sli. lot. Pd 74 2,020! Preston and Wyre 501. sh. 30/. rd 364 .;f3 , 1T0 ...... .. South Eastern and Dover 0/. pd 34 1,0011 IN. per cent. Stockton and Darlington IOW. sit. 240 i;,000 Thai' Haven 51/. sh 2/. 10s. pd 0 1,400 Westminster and Greenwich 50/.'h. 21. pd 0 6,000 MINES, 8,10) Albion Copper 5l. sh. 34/. pd 12 4,000 IL ss. A lten 151. sh. 121. 10: pd I 1 10,000 ,„ ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5L pm.... 100/. sh. a 1 ' l ,l -, . - . , 1 Ditto Subscription '5/. po - 3 * 2,000 1,./. Bolanos ~ 10,000 IL lOs Brazipan Imp. iss. 51. pm 15/. sh. 21)! pd 15 C.,1)• (I Macalo,as er Cocat , s United ...251. si t . ` 3 ',l. I:d 11 11,00.) Ditto St. John Del Rey 10,000 Bony::: Copper Company 10,000 .......... Ditto Scrip.... 'U. sh. 101. 1,4 Ioi '20,000 British Iron 0,000 British Copper 5/. oh. 4 1 1. p.l I ' Cata Branca... Candonga 7ll. pd 6 10,000 11 Copiapo •.?.01. sh. 1:34 pd 10 8,500 . Columbian, iss. Si. pm. 2,850 3/. English l2/ 11s. pd 7 20,000 Pd 124 0,155 pd 4 4 3,010 PohJerou Consols .84 pd q 11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered ................ ... 'O4 General me.icanc Mining o,it,l ),,, A 3, ss oc i a t i 0ni.07,211.01/51..hs sh. I i 5 . 5 ) 3 7 14. Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. lid 100 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2pm ....401. sh. all pd 1; att.. Scrip ....... . ................................... 24 Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd 4 West ('ark ............ . .............. 50/ sin 501. lid 38 LITERA RY 1 NSTITUTIONS. 1,000 1,500 London University ...............100/. sh, all pd 2:34 700 Russell "sgs. sh. 5 King' Coll ege 1001. pd 26 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian Agricultural....lool. sh 204/. pd 46 6,000 4/. per cent. British American Land Company 234 lxl I I 10,000 61 per cant. Canada Company ...............1001. sh 301. pd 251 200,000 5l per cent. iit l: l p s p o er n,s C ß ar a l y a •: 5 a ,t0 L c 0 k a . n .......................... ......... 91 City Bonds, 4 par cent lOOl 20,000 1/. Os. General Steam Navigation ...151..h. 141 . Pd 2 I 0. viiihnanm(loens 2,000 1/. 8,000 Caoutchouc Company:-.: ..... 12,l 1. pd 12 New Brunswick Land C:oarlixey ' , W. pd T C u o n rn n . e s i ale Rooms ......... Av. '75/. sh . 19 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Int^restSoc...loo/. sh. 100/. pd 134 2,033 5/. per cent. Ditto New ' lOO/. sh. '75/. pd 96 4,000 5O/. sh. all pd SI )01. sh. 17L pd 12 10,000 Die...ner.'s Land ............ It LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. DEC. 26, 3838, BAN 000,00 % 61 . p . c t . B ank ol Scotland 83/. Os Bd* ah all pd 100:. 2,000,0X4 5 4 P. ct 11, yal of S cotland 1004 sh all pd 1C24 500.00 e/. Bp. et. Bri ash Linen Company lOO4 sh. :•llpd 2401. 3,000,0004 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100!. pd 1771. 5.,00"0, , o. et. Nztional , . .. ~ ,100/. pd 1611. 2,000,0001. 61 p. ct. Glasgow u . ,,i 0 1; ........... " 2504 sh. 501. pd 84'. 4,000,04,04 4p. ct. Western of Scotland ..- . . 2001. sh 401. pd 501. INSURAN CE COMPANIES.. 250,0005 h. 61 p. ct. Scottish Union 204 sh. 14 pd SOs 7,509 op. ct. Hercules ... ... . •.- .. 100/. sh. 10/. pd 16/. 04 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co: ..... ............. ....10/. sh. all pd 10/. Os. 50,000 6p. ct. North British 200/. sh. 101. pd ::04 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100/. sh. 104 pd =ol.os 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 104 pd 14/10s 100,000 31 p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd 710 s MISCELL ANEOUS. 4,810 ... ..... Edin. and Was Un. Cana1...50/. ch. all pd 101 . Ditto Allocated 9a sh. all pd. 471. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint hteck Water 25/. sh. all pd 1;0/ Carron Iron Comp•%ny .250/. sh. all lx! 44 /. ?,000sh 15 per cent. Shotts Iron F oundery... ...... 50/. sh 461. pd 521. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass ....20/. sh. 16/. pa 041 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Co a l Gas .51. sh. all pd 6 1 4 1 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gag 251. sh. all pd 561. 75t1 74 per cent. Leith Coal Ga s 201. sh. all pd 50/. ,200 Edinburgh :,nd Dalkeith Rai'way...so/. sh 98/. 004 5 ner cent. Etidtable Loan C0mpany...544 , 4.0 W. 110 MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A LATE FATAL PRIZE FIGHT. Samuel Evans, better known as " Young Dutch Sans," a pugilist, was yesteriay brought before Mr. CHAMBERS, charged, on the Coroner for Hertford's warrant, with aiding and abetting in the man slaughter of William Phelps, otherwise Brighton Bill, who was killed in a prize fight with Oki en Swift, a pugilist. Since the fatal issue of the fight, the prisoner and others implicated in the proceeding have been staying in France, but owing to a r.-e,:nt 'affair in tli neighbourhood of Paris, connected with certain EngtHipriv fighters, the TrAiunal of Police have taken effectual niear.s...t,) obse, the3e hireling boxers who had taken re'uLT.o . iu Frcucli territory. • Policeman Gray having met the pri:,-;) he immediately took him Into ~.ustody Mr. CHAMBERS the pritioner w,s entitled to put in ba] before a Judge. He should remand him to Thuriday, order to procure the signature of a Hertfordshire to the warrant ; after which he should send the priF,Jner t The sc,licit,)r asks .a if th his client ?. Inpector 13:t OtheT C r ., r . i iu then assault on pilicenum It Wiil be recollectt'd that Ow prisoner some t located the lilioulder Cit policecnan ikhekenzie fv merit of some of his aristocratic friends with I,yl company, and with whom he had been drinl. lie :aim ite thcn i s ;1,1 I }s ht _ - . The charge of having absecnded from hail in tli.• b.st affair wis r , t ,t proceodal ;Is it wes considero.l for the prescnt to hfAd the prisoncr in c..E..tody fur the more serious offence. THAMES OFFICE. Yesterday Mary Compton and Elizabeth Ann Valley, mother and daughter, were brought before Mr. GREENWOOD, on a charge of uttering six counterfeit shillings to a pawn. broker in High-street, Shadwdl.—Ultinutely the prisoners were discharged. ALLEGED CLAIMS TO IMMENSE ESTATES. The sensation created by the recent proceedings against Mr. W. A. Campbell, of Wilton-place, who was charged with stealing a map and procuring numerous deeds, purloined from the offices of attorneys, to be copied for the purpose of prosecuting, as alleged, imaginary claims on the estates of a great many gentlemen, has induced some further inquiries into the strange matter. It appears that a person of the name of Cook claims, we do not pretend to say whether truly or fats ly, to be the htir of Mr. Henry Cook, of Mile-end, who died about the year 1 7 79, possessed, as asserted, of estates and property producing a rental of 300,0001. yearly. The claims of Cook were taken up by a picture-dealer named Woodburn, who placed the matter in the hands of a respectable solicitor, named Rankin, which gentleman, on investigating the grounds of the claim, became satisfied they were not tenable. Mr. Campbell became acquainted with Cook,. and took the matter up by attempting to create a joint-stock com pany for the purpose of prosecuting the claims to the large proverty alleged to have been left by Mr. Henry Cook, a Go vernment contractor for gun sponges. A statement of the alleged property was drawn out, in which Cook claimed estates in the posee,;sion of Sir Robert Wigram, and an immense property left by Sir George Colebrook. The ground on which the Bank of England stands was claimed as part of the Colebrook property, together with several Dock Companies' ground; and it was farther al'eged that a sum of 400,0001. had been paid into the Bank of England by the renters of the property, for the use of the true heir to the estates. It is already known, in consequence of the pro ceedings against Mr. Campbell at Marlborough-street Office, that a great many copies of deeds, relating to va'ious es tates, were surreptitiously made, through the instrumenta lityOf Mr. Campbell. By their help, and other plausible s'atemente a Mr. Pook was induc d to purchase a share in the venture for 1,4001. Finding, however, thst a document had been concocted in order to in duce him to part with his money, he obtained a true bill for conspiracy against Mr. Campbell and Butcher, for merly a clerk in the office of Mr. T. Rhodes, of Davies-street. A portion of the property to which claim was laid is situated in the parishes of Hackney, Shoreditch, and Haggerstone, and in September last, at a sale of the Nicholl's propel ty by Winstanley, Cook made his appearance, and cautioned those who might choose to purchase any of the lots. An assurance of a clear title havin g been guaranteed to th e b u y ers , th e sale proceded without further melestation. Half the county of Berks was likewise claimed b> Cook, and several gentlemen holding large estates were apprized that proceedings were in contemplation against them. The filmes were mostly treated with disregard, but in some instances they succeeded in in spiring the occupiers with reasonable alarm. Mr. Walter, of licrewood-house, Mr. B de Bouvoir, and Mr. Palmer, Holme Park, M. P., were among those who received ietimation that claims were about to be prosectred to dispossess them of their Berkshire eroperty. The proceedings and the expose which have occurred at the police-office will, however, have the effect of stopping the extraordinary astern that was recently in ac tive operation. TILE BREAD TAX --A Mr. Michael Irish—whose not very logical letter, in the Brighton Gazette of to-day, would lead to believe that, after all, there must be some thing in a name—amongst many most extraordinary assn tions, and a still more curious process of deduction, tells us that the manufacturing population is considerably less in numerical amount than the advocates of fice !rah in corn put it down at ; and, moreover, that it is in them, the aforesaid wanufacturers, either a vain conceit; or an un principled delusion, to declare that a diminution in the price of corn will enable them to export their manufactures at a much cheaper rate than at present. Mr. Irish in- dulges in some other equally marvellous assertions, and, by way of a clincher, appends to them a tabular tail-piece in support of his views. From any mer:t which the con structor of the tables may have, it is no detraction to say that they prove nothing for Mr. Irish's argument (?), since the age of miracles has passed away, and no one now ex pects the parformance of one either by or without tables. A gentleman from Cheshire states, that such was the severity of the late storm, that his windows were covered with salt, and that his woods were white as with hoar frost, which on tasting, and examination with a micros cope, he found to originate in minute chrystals of salt, the d stance from the sea being 30 miles in a straight line. A woman, named Winter, residing in Seymour place, Church-way, Somers' -town, has been apprehended on suspicion of having murdered her illegitimate infant, the body of which was discovered on Sunday morning in the soil of the water-closet.• A medical examination showed that the child had been born :live. Amongst the drunk and disorderlies at Queen square Police Office, last week, was a member of the Tem perance Society, named Bull, who, while drunk, at eleven on Sunday morning, went to the station-house and insisted on being locked up, which he said would ‘ appease his mind." He was fined a shilling and discharged. The young girl who drowned herself last week in the Serpentine, proves to b. a Mary Harrison, niece of a publican in North A wiley-street. No cause could be assigned for the act of self-destruction, unless it w ere th a t her friends disapproved of a correspondence which.she car ried on with a servant out of place. Verdict—Temporary insanity. SHREWSBURY RAILWAY.L—An important meet ing—important both in its object, and in the highly respect able company who assembled to discuss it—took /lave last week in the Guildhall in this town, in pursuance of a rc qusition to the Mayor, to sanction a Deputation being sent to Dublin, to obtain the assistance of the merchants of that City in carrying a line of Railway from Snre , .vsbury to Port Dynllaen, and erecting a Harbour of Refuge at that place for the shelter of vessels overtake , ' by storm on the east,rn coast of England. The chief Nobility and Gentry of the County were present. at the meeting. including Lord Cli.e, Lord Hill, Lord Dungannon, Hon. It. Give, Hon. Kenyon, Sir R. Hill, Sir B. Leighton, Sir F. Hill, Sir J. Edwards, and a long list of Gentry —Shrewsbury Chronicle. At the meeting of the E'.sex Magistrates at Hal stead, on Tuesday, William Jones, a gentlemanly-looking young man, was charged with working an illicit still io a very great extent. The proofs against him consisted of several neighbours recognising his voice loan uninhabited house in which the still had been found at work. The Magistrates fined him in the lowest penalty of 30/., and committed him to prison for three months. The prisoner prayed that his hair might not be - cut off. The Magistrates said, that Lord John Russell had sent a general order that the hair should to cut off close to the skulls of all men and women sent to -prison, and that they had not the power to interfere. This circumstance and the denial to him of any but the scanty prison allowance, seemed greatly to affect the prisoner.— Chelmsford Chronicle. QUACKERY.—CURE. OF Coss um PTioN.—The following is taken from a letter addressed to the Editor of the Medical Gazette :—Some legislative enactment may Iro bably regulate ere long the sale of patent or secret med'ciacs, so as to prevent or diminish the mischief, nay murders, tolr rated merely for the sake of the paltry pittance of 50,0001., as an additional item in the revenue of this vast empire. The notoriety of St. John Long and Morison will soon remain a mere matter of history. Dr. Jam' s Johnson, at the West minster Medical Society, stated the mode pursued by a cer tain physician in " cwing" consumptioh. Thi s p h ys i c i an in structed his patients to inflate and distend the lungs by mecha nical expansion, by which force Dr. J. believed that inflam mation around the tubercles was increased, and their develop ment in many cases hurried. lly had seen patients dying with consumption, whom that physician, two or three days before death, buoyed up with promises of recovery. Most practi tioners have had opportunities of confirming the oblervationsof Dr. Johnson. Yt:sterday an adjourned inquest was proceeded with by Mr. Carter, the Ccroner, at the George Lin, Morton, Surrey, on the bodies of the two unfortun.tL sufferers; Richard Mills, agod 40, and William Hutton, aged 13, who perished at the late dreadful fire at the Crown Inn, Merton, which oc curred on Thursday morning last. Verdi( t, " That the de ceased persons were accidentally burned at the late fire at the Crown Inn, in the parish of Merton ; but how or by what means the said fire originated there was no es.idence to show." THE TEA TRADE, MONDAY.—The tea trade is not very brisk. The deliveries last week amounted to 372,8001b5. The public sales are progressing much the same as previously. LONDON MARKETS. Pit BLI Tee hugne, Bread in the Metop,:iiis is i Ind, for the II Good Bread mar Old, E Ul:' ;','F:E'DS.—Jp.n. IS. t'er Quarter. Nw Eng lis! - : :led Clover'7o3.oos 11'.?s St. 'FOIII 403.4' 'IS'. OW Ditto Ditto —s. —s. —s Rye Grass 2es 1 , 5,' 404 New Foreig.l Duty 6ts. Ws Ws. r.seey Gass . - s. IC , -. 5 4 • , . ...,, O!d Ditto Ditto ..... ....,..—s. 40s. 60s. Linseed, tor ;ix-ding...41%1 :v. ".."-.. • New White Clove; ~....r.0., 80s. 995.11? to, for sowing ...... ... . • --. -•:'-' OP Dil 'z.4 . 1./itto . s , isss. 60s Ditto, for iTushleg......- F, i,' ,. ' l 7' .. tie, 'z'a.:.;'" , . ......... ......'21,... 258. 30s, i t..".fln.iry; • • ."'!• " 3. , Oi:' ;• , •.1.. , ........., ...... —,.. 1%- - ;s 423. Hem,: i'i,.• -..;, . ...,. ...... .10s. lls. 135.1 Per Btuhc... 2en,::: .:.- . ..-..,,:........ ........ .--.. 435. 465. •! White Mustard......ll, .', ; l'o" - - : • .4) , Lt• . ....—s. 40s. 11s. ' !'o - owil Ditto ... ...... 1. - ',.- 2 ' , .. • ' (ol; ' .1 ,, - L...,,,, .-".', .I";iiiii.h cane Cper 1..r. , "0.):ki:. 38 1 .. pItICE3 OF /30P,i , ' , . , ---,Tan. is, .. , - (per c.vt.) 6; Ps. 7/. 15.;. Lo 9'. 5, Ea.;t ; Ditto 31. Iss. 51. SA. t. 4: 10, - tt, 3-. Li, to 4 Qt. tali; C?. an. to 4 I'. !Os. to ?. )F POTATOES AT sPITA ves',el) 3s. to -I?. (J} s 2.13. to LIIATHER:' 1 H , . 2 . .. it.1t).,,!:), ;4 Etats, Vitti, :r; 11 ' --- 50 • ~" ,' i :5 ... II 26 ----70 1: , 0..... •l5 9 1 .- ~..,. 15 22 Seal Skins, Ltige....„ ... II l' .118. In 12 ' .."................ small £o 2 , ~; .... ..... .. 11 14 . Kips ,2 21.1 Shaved .... 12 15 Basils 6 I I Be,t Saddlers FlNes ... ...... 14 16 Bellies for e Hides, English • If rounded 2d. to Id per lb Ittore PRICE OF OIL. Rape (MI, brown, per ton, 43/.os —Relined, 44'. les.—Linseed :., i 2B ''t Isn,eed Oil Cake at the MIII,(1000, 13/, re —Rape Calt,, per t 0,., 7 (Y• - ---.. 2 'oceign Foreign Hides 61 . tissing Hides PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, sr, per % 121 b. sown fallow sBs. 6d.' Yellow Soap Yellow Russia ... s6s 6d. Mottles , 6,1 White --s. Od. Curd Soap Ditto —s Od. Graves !Gs al> ... Melting Stuff . ..... ......... 48s. Od. Good Dregs ss. Ditto Rough 3ls Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 811% Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Nlelters) 3s. 4,3, PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles ir the ttetai! Shops is as rollout; Candles, per dozen, Si 6d ; inferior, 7, (1,1, - Motil.:,lo. 01 Sixpence per dozen discount for cash. COAL M ARK 4.1 —Jan. Zl. Per I or,. Adair's ly Holywell Main South Hartley IS 6 t' ylain Walls End Bell and Brown Walls End Clark i and Co 2u 6 Walls End Hilda Walls End Newraarch Walls End Northumberland 2l t) Walls End Perkins Todd's Bensham lB 0 Walls End Beimorkt Walls End Braddyll's Hetton 23 6 Ships arrivef.3 ... ~. .• . . Walls End Hett,n , 2S 6 -'., , 1i , E. 1.-Anebt~n --- ,'1• Fnzi . .l'evrar.'s ~_ . „ Y3 O Walls En. 4 Hartlepool ...... .... * 2 s 0 '..v,:ti • E ,d. ':ousils I),:rivila—• If. 6 Walls End S e y mn , ur T ces .... ' 2 2 3 W , "" d Ties ..... ..,... . l'' I Wills End Tennant 0 Ek . 4 warci's Nethe r t on Main - 6 Walls End West Tees 22 , 21 ° Stavcley Mains ... last market-day, 3. The Mei& dii Nord of the Bth (20th) Dpcembet slates that the pay of the general officers of the Russian oral to be considerably increased from the Ist of January, IBA They are to receive nearly the double of what they were hi' therto paid. The officers attached to military schools and other establishments of military instruction are to be treated with special favour. After five 3 ears' sera ice their pay is to be le' creased by one-half, and in ten years more it will again be doubled. The Russian journal merely announces this fad , without stating what was the motive of the Emperor in giving the army this new mark of his solicitude. RAILWAY TRAVELLE RS .—M essrs. S m i t h a nd George, of Church-street, Shoreditch, were, during the pa° week, charged at the P o li c e -office, Birmingham , with having been found in a fi r st- c l ass carriage of the London and B:P mingham Railway, wh en t h ey had only paid the fare for * journ, yin a second.class carriage. The policeman of the Company said that the parties on being applied to said the had paid a sovereign (the s econ d c l ass fare) in Louden, an d refused to pay the difference, 10.3. The penalty tor tbi§ offence was 40a. The defendants stated that it was by i ` mistake they had entered the wrong carriage, and upon being informed that the first-class trains were all 30s. fares, they for that reason did not leave by the eight o'clock train, b ut waited for the nine o'clock second-class train, the fares to which, they were informed at the Euston-square station. wire all a sovereign each. The Magistrate said, if they had COn' mitted the offence in ignorance of the by-law of the Compel' he was sure that body would not press for the penalty. l it " must, however, require the payment, of the difference as be: tween the two fares. After loudly declaring against the rig!' ii ` of the Company t o c h arge t h em t h e larger fare, they the sum, at the same time denouncing this act of the Cumpoi as a vile imposition. - According to a letter from Dresden, the celebrated singer Madame Schroeder Devrient has entirely lost her voile by a disease of the lungs, under which she has been suffering for five months. The King of Saxony, although this lady bad not been attached to the Royal Opera more than OW; months, has granted to her, out of the funds appropriate d to the fine arts, a pension for life of 1,000 thalers, or sho at 3,600 francs per annum. Madame Schroeder Devrient i"; tends to go for some time to the north of Italy, where, n' d hope, the genial influence of the climate will produce a go° effect not only on her health, but on ber voice also.—Galig nani's Messenger. STEAM CARRIAGES ON COMMON ROADS.- plan is said to be in agitation to establish trainloads by II; side of turnpike roads, capable of competing, for all ordina r J purposes, with railroads, and at an infinitely smaller expens e ' AS well as risk. The plan is said at this time to be in oper a ' tion at Llanelly, in Wales. The coat, it is said, w ould 1 $ 1,3501. per mile. Thus tramroads might have been m ade t? Birmingham for 146,0004 ,while the railroad bas cost 6,000,000• SUPERIOR GOLD WATCHES' - LONDON MADE. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No. 9, Cocni l4 London (opposite the Bank of England), submit for selection c very large STOCK of GOLD WATCHES, the whole of which are made and finished under the careful inspection of experience' workmen cn their own premises, and each is warranted for correct performance. SIZE FOR LADIES. Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, in engine -turned gold cases and gold dials, warranted Fin 3 Vertical Watches, j ewe ll e d, w i t h double-barked engine-turned gold c ases an d go ld di a l s, warranted 12 12 0 Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in four holes, with d0u1,741 backed gold cases and gold dials, war ranted 14 14 0 SIZE FOR GENTLEMEN. Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in four holes, 0 secondS, and double-backed gold cases, warranted , 14 14 Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in six holes, seconds, double-backed gold cases and enamel dials, warranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jw!welled in six holes, seconds, do.ble-backed gold cases and goli 0 dials, warranted Either of the Ge n tl emen ' s W atc h es may ba had in gold huntlPP cases for 31. 3s. each extra. N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange, 17 17 g T, COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., 47, Cornitt London( Seven Doors from Grac,church-street) informs the Publie; that he offers SILVER WATCHES , on the celebrated PATEN T LE VER CONSTRUCTION (the most accurate on which a watch can be made), for SIX GUINEAS EACH, with the latest irlY proyements, i. e. the detachod escapement, jewelled in four holes' capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamelled dial, and maintain" ing power to continue going while winding up. N.H.—lf in Hunting Cases, 10s. 6d. extra.—Second-har d Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the 19th inst., in Bruton-street, the Right Hon. Lady Cot tenham, of a daughter. On the Itith inst., at. Spalding, Lincolnshire, the lady of George Augustus Moore, Esq., of a son, still born. On the 18th inst., in Caroline-place, Mecklcnburgh•square , Mrs. Fitzwilliant Comsn, of a son. On the 19th ir.st., Ylrs. J. Bank's Friend, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., at Bodryddan, North Wales, the lady of tll Hon. IL T. Rowley, of a daughter. •i RRiE;i. On the 15th inst., at Matlock, the Rev. Henry Ranks Hall, 1 11 " cumbent of Risley and Breaston, Derbyshire, to Elizabeth, young . " est daughter of the late Rev. Georg ,e Sanders Rector of Wrollatofs and Trowel, N o tti ng h ams hi re. At. St. Anne's Church, Joseph Frings, Esq., of Cologne-sur" Rhin, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the Rev. Edward Croker, Rector of Croom. On the 19th inst., at St. Pancras, Charles Lewis Gruneisem Esq., to Emma Jane, daughter of John Moore, Esq., of Upper St. Mart in's.lane. On the 16th inst., at St. George's, Middlesex, Mr. Thomas Jefferies, of Swindon, Wilts, to Frances Trapfitt, second daughter of J. C. Hopke, Esq., surgeon, of the above parish. On the 16th inst., at All Souls, Mary'Phone. the Rev. Frank Hewson, of W orcester, e l dest son of the Rev. Robert Hewson, of St. Colman Glebe, county of Kerry, to Emily, third daughter or John Hardy, Esq., of Portland -place. DIED. On the 14th of December, at Demerara, Alexander Esq., of Green-street, Grosvenor-square, aged 49. • On the 7th inst.. at Dorchester, Dorsetshire, Ellen Ann Eve' sham, aged 14. On the 14th inst., at Truro, Arthur Edward, son of James Trower Bullock, Esq. On the 17th inst., aged 29, Mr. Wm. Stanley, late of Hounds ditch, nephew of the late Richard Stanley, Esq., banker, Sheffield , On the 17th inst., at Brighton, Harriet, the youngest daughter' of the late Thomas James Esq., of South Lambeth. On the 17th inst., at Barton -court, ar Canterbury, Sara) relict of William Houghara, Esq., aged 81. On the 18th inst., at Dawlish, aged 17, Cyril William Webber, second son of the Rev. James Webber, Dean Ripon. On the 18th inst., in Grafton-stter:t, Mrs. Margaret Urquhart, widow of the late David Urquhart,, Esq., of Braelangwell, North Britain. On the 18th inst., Julia Sarah, the i n f ant d aug h ter of Ri char d Wollaston, Esq., of Tottenham-green. On the 18th inst., Mary; the wife of Mr. John Smith, of Lud' low, and youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas Grounds, of Wisbeach.• On the 17th inst., in Berners-street, James Lo•asdale, aged 62. On the 18th inst., aged 59, Sarah, wife of 1 1 `_,Ir. B of Rate! iff- hi g h way. On the 18th inst., Mary, the eldest da - aghter of Mr. Burrup, o f Vassall- road, Brixton, Surrey, aged 1&.., On the 18th inst., in Vauxhall-road, Pine ico, Mr. James liar• ris, aged 7.9. On the 16th inst., Elizabeth, wife of Mr.._ Samuel Savage Wool' latt, of Holborn-hill. 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