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

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It would be worse than useless—it would be dangerous —to disguise the fact, that the present aspect of the country presents many features calculated to excite the deepest solicitude and alarm. Manifestations of the most minatory character are displaying themselves in the north, of which the arrest of Mr. Stephens is in some instances made the pretext, and to which the wrongs and sufferings of the people have been the remote stimulants ; but which might sooner or later be expected to arise from the excite ment for some time pervading the masses of general so ciety. On the other hand, the high price of corn, the dearth of employment, and the sense of wrong consequent on the wide-spreading diffusion of intelligence, would, in themselves, be sufficient to call forth demonstrations of an alarming character. From whatever causes, how ever, the symptoms indicative of convulsion may have arisen, they are such as demand decisive measures for their suppression. In alluding to decisive, let us not be sup- posed to imply coercive, measures ; these would only ag gravate the evil ; but we mean such a decisively liberal policy—the introduction of such decidedly liberal mea sures—on the part of the Government as will convince the people of the willingness of Ministers to coincide with their wishes, and restore that confidence Maids the events of the few last years have so lamentably impaired. We are not alarmists—we are not ready to cry out " the Wolf," the Wolf," unless we perceive certain indications of his approach ; but we do perceive ,in events passing around us indications which, unless prevented by a firm yet conciliatory policy, may lead to re sults of which it would be impossible to calculate the disastrous extent or nature. The crisis of which the alarm has, for the last four years, been from time to time sounded, is now on its advent. We are now on the eve of a decisive collision of parties, unless a liberal spirit in the Government and Legislature may allay the spirit of the storm. We cannot prognosticate the result—but we shall watch the progress of events with a vigilance proportionate to their importance ; and again would we impress upon the Government the necessity of taking measures for appeasing the present commotion, more congenial to the spirit of the time and to the circumstances of the country, than the arrest ofsuch men as Mr. Stephens. It is folly to dis guise the fact, that it is not by coercion, but conciliatioe, at—let us use the most expressive phrase—revolution can be stayed.—Morning Advertiser. The Corn-law repeal agitators are so anxious to press ail sorts of arguments into their service, that they do not scruple to make use of arguments which contradict each other. This shows great liberality in the use of their logical weapons. One of their grandest discoveries is, that through the operation of the Corn-laws a man is hindered from get ting as much food for his labour as he would get if foreign corn might be at all times imported free of duty. Now this can only be true upon the supposition that when foreign corn reached us it would be cheaper than home-grown corn, and wages remaining the same, more food would b.: obtained by the same quantity of labour. But another discovery, no less frequently insisted upon, is this—in con sequence of the dearness of home-grown corn the wages of labour are so high that our manufacturers are unable to com pete with the manufacturers of othercountries, where corn is much cheaper. Therefore, say they, let us have foreign corn at a cheap rate, that wages may be reduced, and that so we may be able to manufacture at a smaller expense. How do these arguments cohere ? One of them rests upon the as sumption that corn being made cheaper, wages will con tinue the same, or rise. The other rests upon the assump tion that wages will not continue the same, but fall ! One of these arguments must be false, and yet every day in the week we find both of them put forth as triumphant and unanswerable by the advocates of Corn-law re peal ! By the way, our widely-circulating Contempo rary The Sun was graciously pleased to be particu larly wroth with us the other day for, laughing at the cotton-spinning coxcombs of the Manchester Club, which calls itself the " Chamber of Commerce," and, by way of punishment, it printed all our bad jokes. The day previous to this infliction it was almost savage with us, for having gone into what was (for unlearned people like ourselves) a very close piece of argumentation touching wages, the price of provisions, and other unpoetical de tails, in which argumentation we showed, exceedingly to our own satisfaction, that the price of b;ead had not made, and did not make, a difference of more than one per cent. in the price of calico. We proved, gastro nomically, as it were, and as irrefragably as if we had been answering for a senior wranglership, that the dif ference between the labourer getting his bread-food for nothing, or paying for it twopence three farthings per pound weight, which it now costs, would not make a differ ence of more than a shilling in a hundred shillings worth of calico or cotton twist. The wide-spreading, far-darting Sun, which diffused upon its beams the atrocity of our jokes, did not scatter' over the earth the cogency of our ar guments, but OnViave the said arguments a bad name, to our great, but happily not lasting, discomfiture. Was this accident, or did The Sun not like carrying our matter-of fact statements into the manufacturing districts ? 0, potent Sun, remember that it is your duty to shine alike upon the just and upon the unjust.—Morning Post. It will be seen by a letter from Manchester, dated Saturday, which we publish in another column, that the simple folks in that neighbourhood are beginning to ask " Why Mr. Stephens is to be prosecuted when O'Connell has been permitted for years to spout treason and sedition with impunity ?" How very absurd a question ! We shall hardly be astonished now to hear of some simpletons in other parts of the country inquiring why Joseph Hume was not prosecuted for his letter to certain Canadian rebels, which Mr. Spring Rice publicly declared, in the House of Commons, to be treasonable. Of course the " honest" Whigs will not prosecute agitators whose votes sup port them in place and pay : and although it is quite true that if Mr. Stephens were to agitate for the next 0 0 years he would find it difficult to spout half the treason and sedition that Mr. O'Connell has already given utterance to, still, as Mr. Stephens is weak and powerless, he is pre cisely the sort of person whom the brave Whigs, - with Lord Little-John at their head, might be expected to select for a victim. We heartily congratulate the Whigs upon the in stitution of this State prosecution for a speech delivered a month ago. It has commenced admirably. Their agents, with the clumsiness so characteristic of all Whig doings, have made a signal blunder at starting ; but these worthies may be assured that their masters in Downing -street will miscarry on some more vital p o i n t, an d prove thmselves to be the real Dogberries after all.—Timea. The Rev. J. R. Stephens has been liberated on bail, and the examinations are to be resumed on Thursday next. There can, we should suppose, be but one opinion with, respect to the language held by this man at various meet ings, if the reports be at all faithful ; but though there may be good reason for believing the reports to be substan tially accurate, there may be difficulty in obtaining evidence. There is a general belief that the magistrates who have taken up the business have hitherto shown more good-will than ability in their manner of proceeding. And this must always be more or less the case where men are not specially charged with the conducting matters of this kind. England is now a very different country from what it was, when a country gentleman was equal to the duty of preserv ing the peace in his neighbourhood. We could have wished that greater care had been taken to obtain evidence than seems to have been taken in this case ; for it would have been better to have not moved at all, than in such a man ner as to afford anything like a triumph to Stephens. We have given, in another column, an address from Stephens to the men of Northumberland and Durham, in demonstra tion assembled, which we found in the Operative of Sunday last. He says, in this paper :—" What I found written in the law and the gospel, I spoke out boldly to an awakened, a thinking, and a determined people. I told them from the law books to arm for their own and their country's safety—and from God's book, if there should be need. I said to them, Remember the Lord, who is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives and your houses.'" He is quite astonished that this language should be called inflam matory.—Morning Chronicle. " The resolute tone adopted by the Manchester manu facturers," observes the. Glasgow Ghronicle, " will no doubt be responded to by every city and town in the king dom. The question is one of truly awful importance." The Liverpool Papers inform us that steps are taking for having a meeting in that great emporium. It would be hard to deny to toil and industry the usual festivities at the depar ture of the old and the beginning of the new year ; but after this brief truce, not a day we learn will be lost in fol. lowing the example of Manchester. In an article in Tait's _Magazine, for January, intitled " How Do Poor Men Live ?" fault is justly found with the expression " Corn laws." —..— " The Corn-laws," says the writer, " is a misnomer for what is generally signified by them—namely the taxes on food. It should be familiarly known to every man, and woman, and child, who earns a shilling by the sweat of the brow, and in laying it out in food gives at least three pence to the landowners, who are the law-makers, that it is not bread, not corn alone, that is directly taxed for the landowners' benefit, but all sorts of:fbod. For example, fine new Dutch butter is now selling' in the city in which we write, at 10d. a pound ; but the import duty upon this butter is 25 per cent., which, were it an article of free trade, as it is one of universal consumption, might be bought fur 7d. a pound. Foreign cheese is so heavily taxed, that cheese for which the workings, man pays 6d. a pound, could be bought for 4d. The present duty on ham is we believe, 2Bs. per hundred weight. ' But there is also strict prohibition on the importation of all kinds of fresh meat, beef, pork, mutton, &c., and a duty on eggs and fresh fruits. From Belgium and Holland, and the oppo site coasts of France, the daily an d hourly supply of un taxed provisions to our great towns, tiy means of steamers and railways, would have an instant effect in reducing prices, which we need not describe. The Corn-laws, then, popularly mean the Mouth-tax, the Trencher and Pot-tax, the Food impost. . They comprehend the butter, the cheese, the ham, the hung-beef, the egg and poultry impost, fas tened upon the industry of the country, for the imme diate benefit of the landowners, and for their ultimate in jury. These laws mean as well the candle and soap laws, as the import duty which enhances the price of meat raises that of tallow ; so that soap and candles are first taxed in the raw material, and then excised when manufactured. Let us then give the Corn-laws their true designation--the Mouth Tax, the Food Impost. Men live not by bread alone, nor yet in this country by any one necessary which escapes the land-owners. Along with engravings and models of the different sizes of the loaf, which is of equal price in despotic Russia, revolutionary France, and in free and happy England, where the poor man's house is his castle, however slenderly it may be provisioned, there should be side by side, engravings and models of hams, cheeses, and tubs of butter, all so • beautifully less' for equiva lent sums of Englishmen's money. It is worse than idle to waste one word rnore upon British landowners. On this subject they are given over to the curse of judicial blindness. In la boriously undermining the manufactures and trade of their country, while they half starve their countrymen, they must be left to kill the goose that laid them golden eggs in their own way. Their sin will then find them out ; or the sins of the fa thers must be visited upon the children, if the iniquity last so long." . It i s not idle to waste words upon British landowners. Words are signs, and they may be made expressive signs. Powerful as the landowners are in the Legislature, they are not so powerful in the country as all the industrious classes united whom they now oppress. Let the people manifest, in a suitable manner, a determination no longer to submit to a system of legislation which is undermining the prosperity of the country, and the landowners must give way. This is the time for making the effort. There is yet hope that a return to a better system of legislation may save the country ; a few years' delay and the evil may be remediless. As men of business, the trading and ma nufacturing interests of the country must see the wisdom of striking such a blow as may be effectual now. Conti nued agitation canrot be borne, and therefore prudence dictates that short work should be made of the monopolists by a concentration of efforts. If ever there was a country in which the landowners were without justification for imposing a tax on food, this is that country. They have a constant protecting duty in the charges of importation to a consi derable amount, whilst they obtain all manufactured goods cheaper than the rate at which they can be ob tained by the landowners of other countries. The country which habitually exports manufactures is the best of all countries for a landowner ; for it enables him to sell the commodity which he produces himself at the highest rate, and to buy the commodities of which he is in want at the cheapest rate. He has besides a constant market for a number of bulky commodities which cannot be obtained from a distance, and which are consequently nearly value less as merchandise in the countries which export food. That the landowners of such a country should, in addition to the advantages of which they cannot be deprived, seek to tax consumers by forcing up food to a mono poly price, only shows that there is no injustice which men will not attempt when .they think it can be per petrated with safety. The landowners strive occa sionally to perplex the question with statements of the ex pense of cultivation, and the impossibility of competing with foreign agriculturists. They may make the expense what they please. If corn and other food be forced up to a high price, the farmers' expenses must of course be high also. The fallacy lies in first forcing up the food, and then basing all the calculations on this artificial price. The farmers' necessary expenses are the keep of his cattle, the wages of his workmen, and the tradesmen who make and repair his implements. In some parts of the country, and those the best cultivated, as in Northumberland, for instance, the ac counts of the farmer are much simplified ; for the labourer is paid by the food of his cow, his house, and a certain quantity of corn, the surplus of which, beyond his own wants, he sells ; so that the expense of cultivation reduces itself in a great measure to the iron, timber, and leather necessary on the farm, and a certain deduction from the produce for the keep of cattle and men. If landowners first artificially raise the price of corn to double the price on the Continent, the expenses of cultivation, calcu lated on the basis of such. prices, cannot be so cheap as on the Continent. But the landowner first makes his giant, and then kills him. If there be one class who ought to be taxed more than another, it is the owners of the soil ; for they originally received the land on condition of providing for the defence of the country, its police, the administra tion of justice, &c. These services were in time com muted ; and they have so contrived matters as gradually to make the tax on land nominal, and to throw their fair share of taxes on the industrious classes. The meaning of the life-and-fortune addresses, of which they were so pro fuse during the war, meant—we will spare our own for tunes, and apply the fortunes of all others without stint to the services of the State, and to the swelling of our rent rolls. It will be see . by a paragraph elsewhere, which we have copied from The Sun, that the manufacturers of that town have come to the resolution of renting an extensive room for the practical demonstration of their statements, by the exhibition of the productions of foreign countries, consisting chiefly of cotton goods, woollens, silks, hardware, &c., with the prices of such articles duty paid, as well as the cost at the place of their manufac ture, in juxta-position with articles of British manufacture of the same price. This will enable both masters and operatives to see what their prospects really are. We do not appeal to the honesty and sense of justice of the landholders ; but we appeal to their prudence. A crisis is approaching in which it will be dangerous to push the people too far. High prices of food and low wages are hard trials. The evil spirit must soon be roused. Let them take warning in time.—Morning Chronicle. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (FROM TAY MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TIME S.—The English Stock Market remains extremely quiet, but an impression is prevalent among the dealers that an export of bullion is silently going on to the continent to a much more extensive amount than what appears upon the face of the Custom-house returns. Late in the day it is stated that a considerable sum in sovereigns was sent for to the Bank by an eminent firm for export this evening to Paris, where it is averted a supply of gold is required to meet the demand or run upon the banks for specie. Consols, however, were steady, at 94 to * for the opening ; Bank Stock, 2021 to 34 ; India Stock, 262 to 3 ; Exchequer Bills, 64 to 66 ; India Bonds, 62 to 66 premium. This being the settlement of the account and pay-day in the Foreign Market, the transactions in foreign securities were not of much extent. A trifling improvement took place in Penin sular Securities, Spanish Active, with the May coupons, be ing 164 to 17 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 301 to 31 ; the Three per ICents., 19i to 20A-; Brazilian were 77 to 4; Mexican, 224 to 3i ; Colombian, 254 to 6 ; Dutch were ra ther better, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. leaving off at 55 to ; the Five per Cents., 101 to 4 ; Belgian, 99 to i e The report of the Great Western Railway Company just published being looked upon in a favourable light, the Shares advanced to 14 to 15 premium; London and Birmingham were 78 to 80; Southampton New, 19i to 204 ; North Mid land, to 14; Manchester and Birmingham, 4to 1 prem. ; Brighton, 34 to ; Blackwell, 14 to 4 ; Midland Counties, 16 to 15 discount. Letters have been received in the City to-day from Buenos Ayres to the sth of October and Papers to the 30th of Sep tember, which merely relate to the state of affairs there, as al ready noticed under this head some days ago, according to the tenor of previous advices to the 7th of October, referr ing to the same and other more important manner. A most inconvenient practice prevails at the Post-office in regard to money orders from the country, usually very small in amount, and which seems quite incompatible with the least talent for business in that department. The practice is for a party wishing to remit a few shillings to London (the larger sums pass through the Local Banks) to apply to the Postmaster of this town for an order on the London Post office, which runs something in this way :—" Credit the person named in my letter of advice the sum of --, and debit the same to this office ;" which is signed by the country postmaster. Any one would imagine, from the mere wording of this, that some regular account was kept, or to be opened, instead of being an order for the payment of money. When received in London, for which the expense of postage, on an average 10 per cent., or ls. upon 10s., is in curred, the money will only be paid at the Post-of f ice to the party, or to his agent, to whom it has been remitted, whose endorsement to it has been required, and if the country post master should neglect to send his "letter of advice," it will not be paid at all. Surely it must be sufficient to describe this practice to put an end to it. The failure of a letter b y the General Post i s so rare an occurrence, that the chance o f that need not be taken into the calculation, and the proper course would be therefore to make all such orders payable to bearer, but to require, with the view of preventing their get ting into circulation as money, that they should be presented for payment within a limited time. There should also he a remission in part, or in the whole, of postage on such money orders, instead of being made a device, as they are, to swell the amount, and that by a tax which can only be understood by applying the principle of it to a larger amount, and sup posing that a country banker were to charge 101. as com mission for remitting a sum of 100/. to London. CHRONICLE.—Accounts from Quebec, two days later than the advises said to have been received on Sdturcay and published in a second edition of the Times, respecting the revolt of the militia, have come to hand this morning, and are wholly silent respecting such an event, which they would naturally have alluded to most particularly had anything of the kind occurred. HER ALD.—TLe private letters which have been re ceived from the United States do not add to the information which has already appeared in this Journal respecting the political movements in Pennsylvania ; neither do they bring anything fresh respecting the state of the m oney market at New York, as we have already given the details of the Bth current. It however appears that the banking mania is rapidly extending itself in the southern states of the Union. Several Bills had been laid before the State Legislature of Georgia for forming banks of large capital, amongst which the most THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1839 prominent is that of the Farmers' Bank of Georgia, with a proposed capital of 14,000,000 of dollars, whilst the aggregate of the other Bills to authorise the creation of banks which were laid before the Legislature, amounts to between 30,000,000 and 40,000,000 of dollars. These gigantic ope rations in banking appear to have originated in the example which Mr. Biddle has offered to the more northern states, by rendering the banking transactions of the Union more subservient to the promotion of a foreign trade in the agri cultural produce of the United States, and, as they proceed in their onward course with such rapid strides, it may be well that our pretended national financiers should rigidly watch the progress of these important undertakings, with our limited currency system, and the influence of our bank monopoly upon the commerce of the old country. POST.—The London line-of-packet ship Toronto, from New York, commanded by Captain Griswold, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday evening, with dates to the 11th inst , or one- day later than those received by the Hibernia, the Toronto having accomplished her voyage in the short space of seventeen days. The New York Money Market at the time of her sailing was in a state of calm. The preceding week's transactions in the various canal, railway, and other securities, would appear, however, to have closed heavily. United States Bank Shares are quoted 119 e. Delaware and Stor.ington bad each fallen one per cent. The Manchester people are, we perceive by the papers, beginning to manifest some impatience at the rise which has taken place in the price of cotton at Liverpool and in the United States, much of the speculative business carried on in the article having been based upon the false, representations cieculated respecting the crops, and on the support believed to have been afforded the shippers by the American banks and the agents at New York of the cotton holding firms resident in this country. The sales last week were again very large, and at a considerable advance of price, the purchases of more than half the quantity being on account of mere speculators. The Directors of th•• Mississippi Union Bank seem to have fairly entered upon the business of merchants. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC 28. I Number Dividend Pyle of per CANALS, per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share 1 1 , 7 66 7 per cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 971. 18s. sh. 135 t,082 41. Ashby-de-le-Zouch Average 1151.5 h. '73 1,260 Basingstoke lOOl.O. 1,005 51. Breakneck and Abergavenny 150 i .0.. be 2,000 I -16 sh. 91 6s. Birmingham, I-16th share 851. & 711. 218 L 000 Ditto and Liverpool 3 unct...l.N sh. 100 pd tAi 600 N. Bridgewater and Taunton ....1001 sh. all pd 64 400 4/. Chelnier and Backwater 100/. sh. 101 500 48/. Coventry 100/.sh. 735 4.545 Croydon 2,0601 4.:. 03. Dudley lOO/.sh. 600 14,. Derby 1001. sh. 13: ,- ?0,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 4ll. 13s. 4d .pd 30 3,575( 11. Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. Rni 231 62/. Erawash 1001. sh. '775 1,297 '2' , /. Forth and Clyde Average 4.00 1.165. ch. 500 1 , 600 121. Grand Junction 100/. sh. 201 2,949 i 11. Grand Union 1001. sh v 4 11.500 Grand Surrey 0,003/. 41. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lOOl. 13 3 196 600 131.125. Od. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. 136.4 d, 130 749 101. Grantham 1501. sh. 263 6 ,238 21. Os. Huddersfield Average 571. Os. 60. sit. 3: 100 Kensington 500 sh. all pd. 10 5.329 11. 58. Kennet ;•nd Avon, Average 39/.lBs. 10d. sh. 27 2,5971 241. Leeds and Liverpool 100/.5h. 740 5451 13/. Leicester l4O/. sh. 222; 1,897 61. Os. Leicester an 4 N o rthampton... Aver i',3/. 10s. 90 2.400 101. Monmouthshire 100/ .sh. 200 150 10/. Melton Mowbray 100/. eh. 200 500 251. Mersey and Irwell 100/. sh. 560 3,000 1!. 7 10s. Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 52 247 I. Neath 2,400 51. Peak Forest Av et .ge about 78/.5h. 102 5669 percent. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 5,669 6/. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 109 500 Si. . Shropshire 1251. all. 140 SW 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 150/.5h. 1511 3.0001. 44 p,r cent Ditto 14ck Fund Stock l2l. 101. sh. lli 700 401. Stafford and Worcester 140/. sh. 710 500 91. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. nio 300 91. Stourbridge 3,647 21. Os. Stratford-on-Avon ..:.verage 791.95 ' tkl. sh. 40 5., 151. Swansea OW. sh. 250 3,762 11. I ss. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 35/. sh. 39 opuf sn. 321. 10s. Trent and Mersey, I share 100/. sh. 600 - 8,149 ... ...... Thames and 316dway... Aver. 191.5 x. 3d. sh. 2 1, 000 9 161. Warwick ald Birmingham 1001. sh 281 I,ooooh. 9 , 0 151. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 2DO 6,000 41.09. 'Worcester and Birmingh,m...Av. 791.85. sh. 71 5,000 255. Wilts and Perks .. Average 671. 10s. 9d. sh. 23 SOO 31. W yrley and Essington 125/. sh ' 75 126 2071 la. Wey and Aruu 110/. sh. 221 DOCKS. L M - 981 m h . 1 3p. c Commercial ,ioo/.sh. i;o6sisl East and West India Stock 3,238,3101 1 . 555. p. ct. London Stock Ditto Bonds 24209 2/. 19s. Bristol 63,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts 1,352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds .. 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 4,500 „ .... Deptford Pier S. 201. sh. 20i. pd BRIDGE 1,600 10s. Hammersmith 50/. sh, 7,2.31 Southwark, Old 1,700 IL 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 ri cent. 5O/. sh. 5,000 5,000 18s. Bd. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6O/. pd 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 60,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,943 17s Vauxhall Average 70/, 10s. 3d. sh. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3/10s Albion 5001. sh. 50/. pd 50,000 1-5 per cent./ Alliance,British & Foreign 1001. sh.loll. pd 1 . and 15s. 60,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 5/. pd 24,000 11. per sh. Atlas 501. sh. 51. pd 1,20018 h. 51. Birmingham Fire 20,000 41. per cent. British Fire 2501. sh. 501. pd 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sh. 51. pd 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medi .al, &c. Life, ICol.sh. 2110 s pd 20,. ‘, 000 4,000 21 les County 1001. sh. 101. pd and 5 ;1 bs.l EagleEconemic Liteso/. sh. Si. pd „,,,,, E 5 per cent.? • 2,271 225. per cent. European Lt'.: 0 01. sh. all pd 80,000 2s. Ditto, New .0/. sh. 21. pd 1,000,006/. 71. per ct Globe Stock 20,0 00 51* Guardian lOOl. sh. 2711 pd 40,000 6s. 6d. Hope 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 50/. pd 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 100/. sh. 101. pd 13,458 4/. per cent. Indemnity Marine NO/. sh. 81. psi 2,020 31 10s Kent Fire 50/. sh. all pd 31. Ditto Life. 10,000 16s. Law Life lOOl. sh. 101. pd 5.000 10s. London, Fira 251. sh. 121. 103. pd 3,900 10s. London, Ship '251. eh. 12/, 10s. pd 1,000,000/. ... ..... Minerva Life WO/. sh. 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Lite 501. sh. 2/. pd 219 s Od 50,000 4/. per cent. Protector Fite 2Ol. sh. 2/. pd 16s 00 2,500 I/. Provident Lite lOO/. sh. 101. pd 20 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 1/. pd 61 699,2201 5/. per coat. Royal Exch.inge Stock... 2251 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 5; 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life _ 1001. sh. 51. pd 71 JOINT STUCK BANKS 25,000 8 per cent. Agric.andComm. of Ireland 251. sh. 101. pd 5,000 Australasia 4Ol. sh. 401. pd 10,,00 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 101. pd 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 31,000 5 percent. London and Westminster -1001 sh. 20/. pd 60,000 51. London Joint Stock. 'M. sh. 10/. pd .1,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001. sh. 20/. pd 25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 100,000 71 per rent Manchester and Liverpool] 501. sh. 151 pd District 20,000 7 per cent. Manchester 1001. sh. 254 psi 20,000 fo, o eo National Bank of Ireland ...501. sh. 1714 pd 10,000 5 per cent. National Provincial Eng. ...lON. sh. 351. pd 19,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 101.1x1 6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 50/. sh. Si. pd GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1/ Os Od Bath 5,000 British 4Ol. sh. 161. pd 5, ,„„, (54percent} Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pd '"''-' /and Bs. 6s. 928 5/ lOs Birmingham 5Ol. sh. 5,250 "21 Os Bristol 1,500 3/ IN Brighton 201. sh. 750 31 103 Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 181. pd 2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 4,000 5/. Continental Consolidated 1,000 10/. ' City of London .......... .-....100/. sh. 604 all pd 1,000 61. Ditto, New lOO/. sh. pd 4,000 41.105. Equitable 50 /. pd 10.000 21 per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. 201. pd 2,350 6/. per cant. Independent 3O/. sh. all pd 9,000 3/. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sh. 39/. pd 1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 1001. oh. 801. pd 4,000 South Metropolitan 5O/. oh. 19/. pd 8,200 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 46/. pd 240 Si. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 400 51. per cent Wakefield 2,000 3!. Westminster Chartered 6,000 12s. Ditto New 5( 1. sh. 101. pd 860 Yarmouth 20/. sh. ISt pd WATER WORKS. 4,800 9s. Birmingham 25/. sh. 25/. pd 4,434 6/. East London lOOl. sh. 5,500 21 lOs Grand Junction __Average 411. 13s. 4d. sh. 2,000 21. Kent 100 /.sh. 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 1,500 21101 New River London Bridge Water Annuities 6,486 1/ 15s Manchester and Salford 1,000 4 per cent. South London lOW. sh. 8,294 4/, West Middlesex ....Average 631. 12s. 9d. sh. 1,360 11 148 York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1004 sh. IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 Birmingham and Derby 504 pd 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 15,100 Bristol and Exeter 1001. sh. '2O pd 660 ... Calcutta and Saugus 501. sh. 21. pd 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western lOW. sh. 201. 3,000 Clarence . 10 01. sh. 1001. pd 12,000 8,000 60,000 Eastern Counties 9 5/, sh. 101 pd Grand Junction 1001. sh. 951. pd Great North of England 304 pa 5,000. 2,000 8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sh. 204' pd 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. Si. pd 2,100 31. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 sh. 1,500 IL5s. Leicester and Swannington -.50/. sh. all pd 5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lo(4sh. 100/. pd 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares oss„ p d 36,000 ... ...... London and Brighten 5O/. sh. 14/. pd 12,000 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich ......:301. sic 20/. pd 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares 5/. pd London and Southampton....sol. sh. 50/. pa Ditto ditto New . 14,000 6,000 Ditto New Scrip 121/. pd 12,000 London Grand Junction 501. sh. Si. pd 13,000 Manchester and Leeds lOO/. sh. 501. pd 10000 North Midland 1001. sh. 55/. pd Northern and Eastern 1001. sh. 151. pd 2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. sh. 30/. pd 28,000 South Eastern and Dover .91. pd 1,000 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington 100/. sh. 9,000 1,400 6,000 MINES. 9,080 'Albion Copper 5l. sh. 35/. pd 4,000 11. ss. Alten 151. sh. 121. lOs pd 10,000 .... ..... Anglo Mexican, iss. Si. pm.... 1001. sh. all pd Ditto Subscription 251. pa 2,000 ' 104 Bolanos 1501. sh all pd 10,000 1/. lOs Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm 351. sh. '2Ol. pd 6,01'0 Macaubas & Cocaes United 251. oh. 2)l. pd 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. 144fpd 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 204 pd 10,000 Ditto Scrip 10/. sh. 10/. psi 20,000 British Iron 501. sh. 50/ pd ' 6,000 British Copper Si. sh. 41/. pd Cata Branca 614 I d Candonga 7O. pd 10,000 1/ _ Copley() 20/. sh, 13/. pd 8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 5/. pm. 2,850 3! English 20,000 6,155 Mexican Company 100!. sh. 5514 pd 3,000 Polberou Consols . lO/. sh. Si. pd 11,500 ...... ... Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 30,000 United Mexican, iss. 2pm ...AO/. sh. all pd Ditti. Scrip Ditto New Scrip 5/ pd West Cork 50/. sh. 50/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. 1,000 1,5110 London University 100/. oh. all pd 700 King' College 1001. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 15s. Australian Aericultural....loo/. sh 2811. pd 6,000 4/. per cent. British American Land Company 234 pal 10,000 6/ per cent. Canada CoMpany 1001. sh. 30/. pd 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Cana ?a Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 11. 6s. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 14/. pd 101, per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 IL London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. 8,000 Caoutchouc Company: 1211. pd 500,0001. New Brunswick Land Company 50/. pd 2,754 51. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 1001. pd 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 751. IA 4,000 10,000 6s. Van Die...ner.'s Land 1001. sh. 171. pd 20,000 20,000 113 107/ 101/ 100 g 11 Si 1 240 0 0 20 9.1 3 671 101 4 I' 29 106 1 9-i% LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. DEC. 26, 1638. BANKS. 4500,0004 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland 831.65. Sd. sh, all pd 100:. 2,000,0101. 5f p. ct. Rr yal of Scotland 1004 sh. all pd 1524 500,0001. Sp. et. Briash Linen Company 1001. sh. all pd 2401. 5,000,0004 64 p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 1774 5,000,0004 :, n. ct. 's.iztional lOO4 sh. 104 pd 11114 2,000,0001. 6/. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250/, sh. 501. pd 841. 4,000,004 4 p. ct. Western of Scotland 2001. sh 40/. pd SW. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 256,0005 h 6}p. ct. Scottish Union 204 sh. 11. pd 30 s 7,500 ili p. ct. Hercules 1004 sh. 10/. pd 16/. Os. 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland —.104 sh. all pd 10/. Os. 50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 101. pd: '2O!. 1,000 sp. ct. Caledonian Fire 100!. sh. 10/. pd 201. 04 5,000 Ap. ct. Edinburgh Life 100/. sh. 101. pd 141108 100,000 31 p. ct. West of Scotland .... . ,. . -101. pd 710 s TIRE COAL TRADE. Every day supplies fresh proof of the necessity of a public resistance to the immense combination which exists to keep up the price of coals, and the Lord Mayor is receiving informa tion directly and indirectly ou the subject, calculated to en courage him in his exertions to conquer the monopoly. On Saturday, after the business in the justice-room was concluded, the Captain of a collier appeared before the Lord Mayor and Alderman Copeland, and complained that his ship had been damaged, and was in a sinking state at Gravesend, in consequence of having come in collision with another ves sel. He had, he said, applied to Captain Cousins, the har boor-master, at Gravesend, for an order to bring the ship up the river, but the application had been refused, because the coals were not sold. The Loan MAYOR—Then why do you not sell the coals directly, and he will give you an order instanter to bring up your vessel ? CAPTAIN—They cannot ba sold without going through the market. The permission of the factor must be pfocurcd. The vessel is making ten inches water every hour. Alderman COPELAND-1f your ship is in bad condition you can take her into dock at once. CAPTAIN—We want to get her up the river, and ought to be permitted under such circumstances. The LORD MAYOR—Oh, I see y ou are engaged in the com bination, and want merely to feed the public with coals to keep up the high prices. You have no right to ask my assistance. The power is in your own hands. Sell your coals or go into dock, and you will get your order at once. CAPTAIN—I assure you lam not engaged in the combina tion. lam only the commander of the vessel. We wish that the combination was broken up. if it were we should be greatly benefited by its destruction. We hive nothing to do with the coals but to bring them to London. Alderman COPELAND—To whom are they consigned ? CAPTAIN—Sir James Duke and Mr. Hill are the consignees. The LORD .'MAYOR—WeII, you can apply to Sir James Duke, and he will give you an order to sell. He is a member of the corporation—one of the makers of the by-laws. What would he say if I were to assist you in evading them? You are certainly a party acquiescing in the combination, otherwise why not get coals from some of those new collieries, and sell them out of the coal market without the intervention of either factor or Committee. _ _ Alderman COPELAND—It is evident that he acquiesces in the combination, for he says that it is impossible for the coals to be sold till they go through the market. The Alderman mentioned the case of a respectable coal-merchant who was obliged to become shipowner to supply himself with coals, and who had to struggle against the combination to his great injury. The LORD MAYOR—I have had two coal-merchants with me this morning, ono of whom urged me not to allow the new regulations to be at all interfered with, and expressed himself convinced that the strict observance of them would break up the combination. He says that the merchants do not require fac tors, and that it is the commission which the factors get that induces them to keep up the combination. CAPTAIN-Our hands are quite exhausted with pumping the vessel. We only want to bring her up, and lay her in front of a wharf, where she may ground till the coals are sold. Alderman COPELAND—GO to Sir James Duke, and give the Lord Mayor's and my compliments to him, and say if he will allow the coals to be sold it will be the means of saving your ship. He was Sheriff part of my time with me when I was Lord Mayor, and he is a Member of Parliament, and has the public interest too much at heart, I am sure, to uphold any system detrimental to the public good. The LORD MAYOR-I have had a gentleman with me just now, who stated a case of very great hardship relating to a contract he had entered into to deliver coals, which he was unable to fulfil in consequence of the regulations made by the Committee, through which he was compelled to break, or be a very great loser ; and as it was, he had to pay a heavy fine per ton, on all the coals unshipped, or he would not have been allowed any more coals of that sort. I asked him why he did not make such a case public, to which he replied that it would very much injure him in his business if he did, and that it would be unavailing in a few individuals to set themselves up against such a powerful combination, but for the existence of which the public would, without the least doubt be now purchasing coals at six shillings per ton cheaper than was now demanded. Alderman COPELAND—You may take your ship at once into dock, or go to Sir James Duke. He is the person to help you in this case, not the Lord Mayor. The Captain expressed his thanks, and said that he should directly follow the advice of the Lord Mayor and Alderman Copeland. SCARCITY OF WHEAT. " Yesterday the bill-stickers were busily circulating through the metropolis a large placard, of which the following is a copy SCARCITY OF WHEAT.—Every means is now in pro gress by disaffected demagogues, by rich and interested dealers in foreign corn, by persons connected with the continent, and by those money monsters, the overgrown manufacturers of Lancashire, whose object is to get parents and their poor children to work for their profit at one-half their present wages. All the above named are declaring wheat must be higher, and encouraging the holders of corn in Holland, Hamburg, Dantzic, London, Liverpool, &c. &c., not to sell at the present prices ; and if the English farmer bad left of growing corn their plans would now succeed, although the present beneficial Corn Law Bill admits wheat free of duty, say at only one shilling per quarter as a register. What should now be done to soften the present dispensation of Almighty Providence ? Let all her Majesty's Mi nisters—let all the Nobility —let all persons of wealth— and let all charitable and large establishments immediately oblige their servants to diminish consumption of bread and flour ; and those who live luxuriously should with meat use potatoes instead of bread. There being plenty of fine barley and oats, let millers make them into flour, and let all whole some substitutes be brought into use. The farmers of Great Britain having short crops this year, foreigners take advan tage at present of our distress; but let us only lessen the con sumption of wheat and the present Corn-law Bill w ill operate in two or three months to punish all those who bold wheat from sale, and endeavour thereby to starve the poor. A FRIEND TO THE LABOURING CLASSES.'" This is a specimen of the tricks of the landowners and their friends. They wish to persuade the people to submit volun tarily to semi-starvation in order to escape present apprehen sions. As bullying will no longer serve their turn, they are to coax the people to remain in misery. The lying, absurd, impudent charge that the manufacturers want, by repe a li ng the Corn-laws, to get parents and their children to work for half their present wages, is so similar to the language used by the Post on Thursday last, which alone publishes the pla card, that it possibly knows something of its origin. LABOURERS' WAGES IN ESSEX.—The Chelms ford chronicle contlins, from a correspondent, a contradic tion of Mr, R. Johnson's assertion, which was copied into our paper on Tuesday, that in the parishes of Wickham, Goldhanger, and Great and Little Totham, the wages paid to the labourers were only from 7s. to Os. per week. I know," says the writer, " of no able-bodied me n working at a less sum than from 10s. to los. per week by the day, and when taking work, which is the custom in those parishes the earnings are from 12s. to 14s. per week." The wreck of the Magara, Robert, master, of Newcastle, came ashore at Silwick, off Sandsting, north of Zetland, on the 3d instant. On the previous nigh t a light was s, en in the offing by the people on shore, who also felt the smell of the coal-fire on board of the vessel. At day light the wreck was partly drifted ashore, and the name of the master, the vessel, and her port were seen on the boat's stern, which is all the information obtained. The fate of the crew seems too certain and deplorable, though none of the bodies had drifted ashore. On Wednesday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, a serious gig accident occurred in the New-road, St. Mary lebone, to two young men named Attwood and Skinner, who were thrown into the road by furiously driving the wheel of the gig against a coal waggon, which overset it. They were conveyed to the infirmary, having received serious injuries on their heads. The gig was broken in pieces. On the same day a horse, which had been left standing in a chaise, unattended, at the door of a house in Whitecross-street, Finsbury, started off, and coming into contact with a post at the corner of the street, was so severely injured as to drop down dead a few minutes after ; wards. It was a valuable animal, and belonged to a gee tleman named Sexe, residing in Stonecutter -street, St. Luke's. The chaise was not much damaged. MISCELLANEOUS. 4,810 ... ..... Edin. and Gias. UnTeanal 50/. ah. all pd 101. Ditto Allocated 961. sh. all pd 471. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water 25/. sh. all pd 391 Carron Iron Company 250/. sh. all pd 444 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 501. sh 481. pd 52/. 10,0(10 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 20/. sh. 161. pd 811 4,51,0 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25!. sh. all pd 6111 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas '251. sh. all pd 56/. 750 71 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 201. sh. all pd 50/. 1,2C0 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway...sol. ah 381. &ON 5 per cant. Equitable Loan ConiPanY 3 51 . sh•ixi I ll' ::: 1114 SPECIAL COMMISSION IN TIPPE- RARY On Monday we announced that the Judges appointed to preside were to go down on Saturday next, in order to Open the Commission at Clonmel on the following Monday. All the requisite preliminary arrangements had been made. The Hon. F. A. Prittie, High Sheriff of Tipperary, had issued the necessary notices to the Grand and Petit Jurors, to be in attendance at ten o'clock on Monday morning. The issuing of this Commission has been for a consider able time determined upon by the Government ; and we understand that the naming of the day was only delayed until the informations for the prosecution of the persons charged with the murder of Mr. Cooper were considered by the law officers of the Crown to be in a fit state to pro ceed to trial. It was only on last Thursday that the infor mations in this case were deemed sufficiently satisfactory ; and, accordingly, on the afternoon of that day, the Com mission was issued for the 7th of January. We have now to announce that the opening of the Com- mission has been postponed from the 7th to the 14th January. There are, we understand, two causes for this delay—first, the holding of the January Quarter Sessions in the meantime ; and, secondly, the necessity of complet ing the informations in one of the most important cases set down for trial. The additional time thus gained will ena ble the prosecutors for the Crown so to perfect their ar rangements, that all the persons charged with the more heinous crimes may be placed upon trial during the Com mission, and thus the principal object of this most impor tant proceeding may be carried into effect much more extensively and with much better effect. —Dublin Evening Post. LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, DEC. 31. ACCOMMODATION DILLS. An insolvent, named Wm. Rees Knevett, who had formerly been a Lieutenant in the 11th Regiment of Light Dragoons, came up for juegment. In this case the debts were large ; they were stated in the schedule at 63,5141. Of this sum 63,2651. ls. 6d. was " without consideration." The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER inquired of the insol vent in what manner he had incurred the mass of debts ? The insolvent said he had drawn a number of bills for Lord Edward Thynne. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—Oh, they are his bills, are they ? ( A laugh.) The Learned COMMISSIONER asked him if there was any other person be had obliged with his name? The insolvent mentioned Mr. Duncombe. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—Oh, Mr. Duncombe as well 1 In solvent—Yes, Sir. —( Another laugh.) He added he believed Mr. Duncombe's bills had been settled. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—SO your debts are 0n1y,387/. ; but, with these bills, amount to no less than 63,5141. I suppose you got nothing ? Insolvent—l got 201., which was paid me by the agent of Lord Edward Thynne. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—Pray how often did that come round? Insolvent—Only once, Sir. CHIEF COMMISSIONER—I see you have put down that 201., and also a gift of 401. from Mr. Duncombe. Insolvent—l hare, Sir. The insolvent was asked about his wife's income of 250/. a year, over which he had no control. In his balance•sheet ap peared the gift from Mr. T. S. Duncombe. He was discharged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HA7'TON-GARDEN. Yesterday a young man, of sallow complexion, with mus tachios, and wearing a pilot coat, who represented himself as a medical student, residing at No. 53, Torrington-square, was placed at the bar, before Messrs. BENETT and BURRELL, charged with outrage and assault. The office was crowded with the friends of the prisoner. John Kent, a lad, 18 years of age, being sworn, stated that on Sunday evening last, about half-past seven o'clock, he was standing in the company of his brother in Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square, when the prisoner, with two other persons, came up and knocked off his hat with a stick, and when he was about to pick up the hat the prisoner again struck him. Prisoner then picked complainant up, and said, " Oh, dear Sir, I hope I have not hurt you." Witness threatened to give him in charge, when he repeated his violence, on which several persons came to witness's assistance, when the prisoner ran off, but was stopped and taken to the station house. The Magistrate severely censured the prisoner, and con victed him in the penalty of 51., or two months' imprisonment. The prisoner, with nonchalance paid the Si., and claimed the sword• stick, which was restored to him, and' he quitted the office with his friends. He gave his name Alexander Smith, which was said to be assumed. QUEEN-SQUARE. William and Mary Faulkener, alias Potts, were yesterday placed at the bar for re-examination, charged with being the persons concerned in a highway robbery committed about two years since at Walsall, in Staffordshire. Mr. GREGORY thought the suspicion strong against the prisoners, and remanded them. A lad named Barnes, errand-boy to Mr. Obbard, a news vender residing at Westminster, was yesterday re-examined and committed, charged with embezzling divers sums of money received by him for his master. W OR SHIP-STREET. Yesterday Thomas Goldsmith, who was described as a la• bourer, was placed at the bar before Mr. BROUGHTON, chargee with having attempted to stab his son with a table-knife. He was held to bail, himself in 301., and two sureties o 25/. each. THAMES- OFFICE. Yesterday a creole was committed by Mr. COMBE for re examination, charged with burglariously entering the dwelling. house of John Tingay, a sandman, of Henry-street, Limehouse, and stealing a suit of clothes and a clock therefrom. Yesterday a fellow named Thomson, in the garb of a sailor, was committed by Mr. COMBE for final examination, charged with robbing several mariners of their wearing apparel in a very audacious: manner. This day is the anniversary of the Irish Union in 1801, and the birth-day of the late Edmund Burke, who was born in 1730. On Tuesday evening, as Caroline Morris, a poor woman, living at No. 6, Hereford-street, Lisson-grove, was crossing the New-road, near Baker•street, she was knocked down by a gentleman's carriage, the wheels of which passed over her. On being taken up she was immediately con veyed to the Marylebone Infirmary, where, on examination. it was discovered that her skull was fractured, her right leg broken, and that she had sustained other serious injuries. It is not known to whom the carriage belonged. On Saturday last Samuel Lennox of Low Hesket, in this county, innkeeper, was committed to our gaol on the charge of having been concerned in the murder of Thomas Hunter, a carrier, who our reader will remember was cruelly murdered in November, 1837, near Orton, in Westmoreland. The charge against the prisoner Lennox was heard before Major Wilde on Tuesday last, when it appeared that the sole accusation against him at present was confined to his voluntary confession of the crime, which, it is alleged, he made several weeks ago to one David Little, of Low Hesket, and with whom it would appear that the prisoner was not upon very good terms. David Little, in his examination, said—l have known the prisoner, Samuel Lennox, since a little before Whitsuntide last He said he had shot the Kendal carrier ; he said John Wills and Ed ward Sissen were present at the time, and were as bad as him. Nobody was present when he told me this. After the examination had been taken the prisoner was re moved to the Appleby Gaol. Wills and Sisson are both in custody.—Carlisle Patriot. AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.—We stated, a few days ago, that in Sussex the wages of the agricultural labourers had been raised. It may be considered, there fore, as a well-conducted county ; yet we find in the Brighton Patriot of Tuesday the following paragraph " A sheep was stolen a few nights since from a field in the occupation of Mr. Mills of Herstmonceaux. The robbery was committed within a few yards of the dwelling-house. On Saturday se'nnight a sheep was stolen from a field in the possession of L. Upperton, Esq., of Thakeham, near Storrington. No clue has been obtained to the thieves, who left a portion of the slaughtered animal on the spot. On the previous night a tea-dealer travelling between Mayfield and Frant was waylaid, r en de re d insensible by a blow he received from the foot-pad, and robbed of twenty six shillings in silver. The thief escaped. On the 15th instant, as Puttock, a carrier between this place and Til lington, was returninghome from Brighton, he was attacked by two men, when near Wiston gate, dragged from his cart, in which he was riding at the time, and robbed of what money he had about his person, ampunting to several pounds, and with which the men got clear off. On Thurs day last a young woman was brought before Mr. Seymour at our bench of Magistrates, charged with endeavouring to obtain articles of food from a grocer at Kemp Town, under false pretences. The prosecutor n o t a pp ear i ng to urge the matter, and the prisoner pleading that great di stress drove her to commit the crime, the worthy Magistrate directed that she be discharged, and that the officers lay her case before Mr. Thorncroft, the Assistant Overseer, with a view to obtaining relief f or h er. On Thursday ' night the farm-yard of Mr. John Gray was robbed of some fatting chickens and fowls, and eggs. On Friday night the house of Mr. Norman, grocer, of Falmer, between this place and Lewes, was broken into, and a quantity of wear ing apparel, some silver spoons, British wines, two loaves of bread, and other provisions, stolen therefrom. On the night of Saturday se'nnight, two wether lambs were stolen from the premises of Mr. Homewood, of Littlehorsted. The animals, which were skilfully slaughtered, were killed on the spot, and the entrails left behind. Notwithstanding an intermediate sessions was held at Lewes for the trial of prisoners only so lately as the 08th ultimo, there are now thirty-four prisoners in the Lewes House of Correction awaiting their trials." LONDON MARKETt r+ ----~~ PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is Hid. foi 4 . ;the 41; L vat , Good Bread may be had at 91d, PRICE OF SEEDS.—Dec. 31. Per Cwt. Per Quarter '. NewEtiglisli fled Clover6os. 84s. 93s I St. Foin .40,, 44 ; 48.. OM Ditto Ditto ., , _... a r t ve Grass .284, 3: )3. 40s New Foreign Ditto t6:. 80s. 955, rag., , 5 , Grass ---,- 4' Os, 455. Old Ditto Ditto — s. 40, 60s. Linft xl, for teeding... 465 , . )2s 56 ,. New White Clover fiOs. 80, 90s. Ditto, Cir"wing .". 58s 63s D DittoOlditto _ _ 45:. 60s Ditto, fo,' crushing --a, 43i 50s. New Trefoil 2O. ~, fq); (Canary (11d Ditto... -- ~ .._2.. Hemp ...... .... ............. - ' 1 ; frefoliurro Nos Its 13, • Pt T . Bu,tiol. inglisli Carraway --s. 435. 46. White Mustard • ..... ) /1 1 . 1.4. 15 1. , ( i . Foreign Ditto -s. 41 , 5. 445. Brown Ditto Coriander -8 13:. 21s. Tares ... 4s. ( Li Ss. Od •Rapeseed,Eagli h tine (per Last) 361.38/. PRICES OF HOPS.-Dec. 31. F.trnham er.. , ckets (per CWi ' East K. 14 Pockets.- Ditto Bags 4l 4s 5/ 10s. tt,' 1 7 1 JO . Mid Kent Pockets 3/. 158. 51. ss. to " 11 . u " Ditto Bags '3d. 104 4/ 108 to '7. is Sussex T 3-. flr Wto 4' UP.. Yearlings 2/. 10s. 31. 3s. to ' .41% 4 , , Old /)ids PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPITALFIELL 5 York Reds (from vessel) 4/. Os. to 5/ Os, p ir tot:, Scotch Beds ditto 4l. 58. to 41. 158 d .ttO - Kidneys 4/. 11.3. to 51. Os. d itto Shaws 2 . 15s. to 3L ss. ti ittis PRICES OF LEATHER. JO, 98s. " 3135. •f 2s Per lb. d. to d. Per lb d. to d. Crop Tildes, 30 to 401 b each /I 13 I Hone Hideo, Clerruan . .„ 10 ;It 4"1 511 ..... ..• 12 lel .50 00 I dull Hides Butts, Vitriol - English l4 'A - Foreign ......... la 22 Seal Skins, la rg,,," .. 11 15 , _ sh av ed ~„ 12 15 basils .. 6 11 Best S.nldlers Hider Hove Hides, English . If rounded 26. to 4d, per 16 more , PRICE OF OIL. I, ressing Hide. %ape oil,l4rown, per ton, .1 - 2/. 10, —Renned,43'. ted • Oil, 27%. Os., Linseed Oil Sake at the Mill, (1001)‘, 15'. 03 —Rape Cake , per ton, 6. 10a PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1I fown Tallow Tid Yellow goal, Yellow Russia ......... 61s Oe. Mottled . —s. White --s. ud. Curd Soap Ditto —s. Od. Grave, Melting Stuff' Od. Good Dregs Ditto Rough 24t Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sll Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles ir. the Retail Shops is a t follows -- Candles, per dozen, Ss. 6.i. ; inferior, 7s, iid.—Moul di ; 10; Id. Sixpence per dozen discount for cash. - COAL M A RKET.—Dec. 31. S. e. ?or To' IS 6 W - Ils End Newm; Per Ton. ensham ~ns._ Bunion Chester Main East Pe• cy Garesffeld l5 0 1-tebburn Main 22 6 Picton l7 6 Pontop Windsor 3l 0 Prudhoe Main - 2L _O South Beaumont ll4 6 South Hartley lO • 6 Townley l9 6 vvylam Walls End Clark and Co :211 6 Walls End Heaton !. . ,3 Walls End itilda Walls End Hotspur d 21 9 , l e -lard 's Walla End Belmont Walls End Bradolyll's Hetton 24 9 Walls End Hamel/ . Walls End Heston Walls End Lambt,ri Walls End Stewart's Walls End Whitwel' 1 23 9 Walls End Hartlepo. tl Walls End Clarence T. ~es Walls End Seymour Tees :1;., End I Walls End Victoria '.i Pees TS 3 Nevill's Llanelly Staveley Main ... . Walls End Devonshi to ~ ?2 0 IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT ACT.—( ionsiderable doubt appears to have arisen in the minds of the legal pro fession, whether by the recent Act, the power a arresting . a debtor at the coninzencement of an action has, in all cases been taken away, or whether an action may st.ill be com menced by an arrest, as formerly. The 2d set:tion of the Act directs, that " All personal actions s ball b e commenced by writ of summons ;" and this would put the matter com pletely beyond doubt, were it not for the IT vords of Section 5, in which we find " that any such special order (viz, the order for arrest) may be made at any tim e after the com mencement of such action, and before final judgment shall have been obtained therein ; and that a d fendant in cus tody upon any such arrest, and not previous sly served with a copy of the writ of summons, may be i lawfully served therewith." The latter part of the section ( the language of which is very ambiguous)seems to provide tha t when a party is already in custody at the suit of one plain tiff, he may be served with a writ of summons at the suit of another. It certainly seems rambling from the mark to I le. compelled to issue a writ of summons in the first instance, when an arrest is required to be made instanter; yet, ita Ars scripta est. The action, however, having been comment ted, an arrest may be made at any moment, and it seems to. be the pre valent opinion in the profession, that an order for arrest may be obtained, and the writ on such order :sued out im mediately after issuing, and before service of tbe summons, when the defendant may be arrested immediate ly on serving the summons. FLAT GOLD WATCHES, NINE GUINEAS EACH.—Some fine horizontal flat Gold Waistcoa t Watches, jewelled in four holes, silver dials, hand t o mark the st •conds, and double-back to the cases, warranted to perform correctly, Nine Guineas each ; or with gold dials, Ten Guineas each. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, . . _ Watchmakers, No. 9,Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England. Just published, to be had Gratis, NEW MUSIC.—A Quantity of MUSICAL BOXES, playing upwards of 400 Airs, Overtures, &c., being for Sale, a List of the .Alusic is now published ; also the prices of the Musical Boxes. The List can be sent by _post, as a single letter. May be had gratis. from T. COX SAVORY, Goldsraith; - Silversmith, Watchtnakec &c., 47, Cox nhill, London ( Seven Doors from Gra cechurch-street). BIRTHS. At Stockwell, Surrey, on the 25th ult., Mrs. ;Robert Goddard Jones, of a son. On the 21th ult., at Lindsey-row, Chelsea, Mrs. Gale, of a son. On the 28th ult., at Wilton House, the Countess of Dunmore, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 29th ult., at St. George's Church, Hanover-square, the Rev. Sidney Henry Widdrington, M.A., eldest son of General Sir Latimer Widdrington, K.C.8., to Harriette Holman, only daugh ter of the late S. Holman. Esq. DIED. At Badegherry, on the 4th of October last, Captain Thomas At kinson, of her Majesty's 13th Light Dragoons. At the Manse of Erskine, on the 26th ult., the Rer. Andrew Stewart, M. D. , F. R. S. E., &c., aged 68. On the 27th ult., at Chelsea, Emily, second daughter of the late Thomas Barnard, Esq. On the 28th ult., in the Vassal.road, North Brixton, 111 r. Rich. Johnston, of St. James's-street, aged 73. On the 28th ult., William, the third son of the late Edward Hodges, Esq , of Clapham-common, aged 31. On the 29th ult., Mr. William Smith, surgeon, of King-Wil ham. street, London. bridge, aged 34. On the 29th ult., in Upper Gower. street, Mr. William Tait, jun., of Cheapside, aged 23. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. Generals—Mackelcan, late R. Eng. ; Hawker, G.C.H., Col,. of 3d Dragoon Guards. Lieut.-General—Corner, E. I. Company's Service. Major-Generals—Sir G. M. Cox, Bart., E. I. Comp. Serv. W. Brooks, do. Lieut.-Colonel—Hall, h. p., 103 d Foot. Majors—Wilks, late R. Art. ; A. Cameron, R. Art., Canada ; Delhoste, 35th Foot, Mauritius; Gray, 62d Foot; Glevr, k p. York Chass. ; W. H. Foy, E. I. Comp. Serv., Cape of Good Hope ; J. Cameron, C.B. E. I. Comp. Serv., Hydrabad, Mar, dras ; Benj. Bl a k e , E. I. eomp. Serv., Egypt ; Smallpage, E. I. Comp. Serv., Mirzapore, Bengal. Captains—Kelly, 13th Foot, Kurnaul, Bengal; Barron, 3& Foot, Hastings; Wynn, 58th Foot., at sea, on board the " Wolff;'" Pearson, 89th Foot, Trinidad ; Blundell, late R. Art. ; F. Lam bert, h. p., R. Mar. ; Jarvey, late Bth R. Vet. Bn. ; Adams,. h. p., 14th Foot • Horsley, ditto ; Rotton, h. p., 60th Foot ; Nor ris, h. p., 64th Foot; Gcale, h. p., 98th Foot ; Ruggles, h. Nova Sco. Fen. ; Parry, h. p., Wall's Corps ; Fitzgerald, h. p., Kingston's Levy, Rathgan, near Dublin ; Heslop, Unatt. ; Baron During, h. p., sth Line Germ. Leg. Lieutenants—Lomax, 16th Foot; Viney, 39th Foot, Cudcl3- lore, Madras ; Beatty, 62d Foot, Moulmein, do. ; Costobadie,. 70th Foot, Grenada ; Johnson, 83d Foot, killed at Prescott, Upper . _ Canada; Hodgson, 84th Foot, Portsmouth; Tarleton, 96th Foot;; Beecher, Ist W. I. Reg. ; Barbadoes; Heyliger, Ceylon Reg.„ Kandy, Ceylon ; Weaver, h. p., R. • Art. Driv. ; W. Cookson, h.p., R. Mar. ; J. Smith, h. p., 4th Foot; Ensor, h. p., 82d. Foot; Green, h. p., 86th Foot; Money, h. p., 2d Gar. Bo.; Lamphier, do. ; Gyhon, h. p., 3d do. , Easterby, Unatt. Second Lieut. Cornet, and Ensigns—Croad, h. p., R. Mar. ; Fawkes, h. p., 9th Dr. ; Carey, 15th Foot, Chambly, Lower Ca nada ; Roe, do., do. ; Dillon, 64th Foot, Jamaica; Bradley, late 3d R. Vet. Bn. ; Patterson, h. p., 39th Foot ; Burton, h. p., 104th Foot; Borough, h. p., Armstrong's Rec. Corps. Paymasters—Anderso n , h. p., 25th Foot ; Winter, h. r ., 46th Foot. Adjutant—Hay, h. p Perth Fen. Cay. Quarter Masters --Gibson 41st Foot, Bellary, Madras ; Day, • h. p., 71st Foot ; S an d ers, p., Princess of Wales' Fenc. Cay.; Kell, h. p., Rutl. F enc. C ay . ~ Commissari a t Department—Ass. Corn. Gen. Thos. Hill, h. p. Medical D epartment— S urgenn G o i ng, h. p., I s t D r . Gd s . ; Surgeon Bannerman, h. p., 109th Foot ; Surgeon Stringer, h. p., Staff; Apoth. Morris, Mauritius ; Assist. Surg. Duncan, Staff, . Trinidad. Deputy Barrack Master—Putman, h. p. Q UAR TERL Y NArAL OBITUARY. Flag Officer—Vice-Admiral Sir John T. Rodd, K.C.B. Captains—William H. Byam, Thomas Coe, Hon. George Dougl as , James Stuart, George.W. H. Knight, Th omas M. M ason , John Pole. Commanders —Henry S. Butt, Sir John Sntyth, Bart., Hugh Pears on , Reuben Paine, Horatio S. Nixon, James Gom, ret., Theophilus Salwey, ret., William Bush, ret., John Langdon, ret., Nathaniel Belden, ret., George Bettesworth, ret., Thomas Wing, ret., James Moriarty, ret. Lieutenants—Epward Clarributt, William Hooper (a), John C. Snell, Francis Henley, Gill Huggett, John Ramsay. Masters—Charles Duncan, William Brown, - Walter Broad, Thomas Mann, John C. Rutter, Charles Tozer. Chaplain—Rev. John Taylor. Surgeons—Gecrge Roddam, Nathaniel N. Bordman, Henri Williams, John Rodgers. Assistant - Surgeons--William McGill, James Selleck, John T. Louthean, William Rodger. Pursers —Henry Phillips, William B. Felton, Thomas F. Haw kins, John Bowman, William J. Smith, Isaac Wilcocks, William Hood, Richard Hayes. ROYAL MARINES. Major-General —Robert IP Cleverty, K. C. H. Lieutenant-Colonel—George Peebles. Captains--Thomas Pearce, James Maxwell, Francis Lambert, Edward Bathurst. First Lieutenant—William Cookson. Second Lieutenants—John M. Croad, John Gunn, Thos. Hugo. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No, 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, aitrand, in the county of Middlesex.—Tuesday, January 1, 1539. 1