The Sun. — London, England, 1839-01-04 00:00:00

PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The arrest of Mr. Stephens continues to be the promi nent topic of the day. Meetings have taken place in Lan cashire and Yorkshire, as our columns will show, where the strongest feeling has been exhibited by large masses in favour of the Rev. Gentleman, and in condemnation of the Government, by which those extreme proceedings have been instituted. The Whigs are furious for the vindica tion of the law, and not the less furious because they see in the breach it—supposing a breach to have been committed —the consequence of tl.e example which they had set them selves, the practical commentary on their own approved and adopted system while it served their purposes. One of the difficulties in which they are plunged at the present moment arises from this circumstance—that the na tural sense of justice is outraged in every breast at seeing the same set of men adopting a certain course at one period, and denouncing and prosecuting it at another. How far this feeling may operate upon the decisions of juries it is impossible to say, but no Government acts a wise part which aggravates its own difficulties by exhibiting such gross inconsistency as that to which we have alluded. It is quite obvious, from what has taken place since the arrest of Mr. Stephens, that the popular feeling in the two counties we have mentioned is strongly in his favour. The source of this feeling is not obscure. It proceeds partly from the disgust at the position in which the present Ministers have placed themselves, by undertaking, or at least attempt ing, to punish what they once encouraged. They cannot go into court with clean hands. But, perhaps, the chief cause of the present excitement will be found to exist in the general odium in which the new Poor-law is held. With such topics as the enactments of that obnoxious law furnish to those who are capable of feeling for the mi series of their fellow-creatures, no language can be too strong for popular sympathy and support. We do not justify the use of violent appeals, which, pushed to their issue, lead to bloodshed, but we deprecate the policy which, in adopting inhuman measures, deprives itself of the respect to which Government as a means of happiness is entitled, arms the best instincts of human nature with a spirit of re sistance, and operates to a certain extent in reconciling men's minds to a tone of language which, under other cir cumstances, would be . universally condemned. Of course we do not presume to prejudge the case of Mr. Stephens by imputing to his speeches the character here described ; but so long as laws exist which violate the social feelings of the community, so long will violent agitators be found, and people to listen to them with applause.—Morning Herald. The accounts received last night from Manchester re present the manufacturing districts of Lancashire as being in a state of the greatest excitement, in consequence of the arrest of Mr. Stephens. We expressed, by implication, our doubts of the policy of arresting that gentleman, on the day on which intelligence of his arrest reached London. Subsequent events have shown that our doubts were but too well-grounded ; and Ministers themselves must ere this be convinced—at any rate every one else is—that they could not have advised or given their sanction to a more impolitic step. We have no sympathy with the phy sical-force men. No journal has more unsparingly or more requently denounced that party than the Morning Ad vertiser. But Government ; ought to have recollected that the advocates of physical force form but a mere fraction of the Radicals ; and that consequently so far frGm apprehending the commission of any serious out rage, either on person or property, there was a proba bility, Amounting to a moral certainty, that the violent language which a few reckless demagogues were in the habit of addressing to Radical assemblages would have proved to have been so much sound and fury, signifying oothing ; or, at all events, that it would have produced no inizirious results. Nay, there was every reason to expect th a t ,rest good would have ensued from allowing the violent personages to whom we allude to go on in their extravagant courses a little longer. There cannot be a question that they were in a fair way to cure the very evil which they had themselves created—to extinguish the very disposition to resort to physieal force which th e , had themselves implanted in ',the bosoms of some few hundreds of simple, unsuspecting men. They were oe ,erdoing the thing. They were, by their very ex cesses, caus:mg those who were formerly disposed to go to a certain leegth with them, to desert them altogether. Did not the Birminghaeo Radicals, at one of the largest meet ings ever held in that place, lately disclaim all community of sentiment with the physical-force demagogues _Have not all the Scotch Radicals done the same ? And wer e not the gre at body of Radicals in every other part of Ise country taking measures, when the unfortunate arrest of Mr. Stephens took place, to proclaim to the world that they would have nothing to do with the hot-headed preachers of physical force ? Why, it is but a fortnight since Mr. Lovett, the Secretary of the Working Men's Association of London, denounced Mr. Feargus O'Connor to his fade for incu;,,tating the doctrine of physical force ; and Mr. Lovett, it is td be remembered, may be regarded as the representative of the great majority of the Radicals, not only in the metropolis, but throughout the country. Had the physical-force orators been only suffered to go on in their own way for a few weeks longer, they would have ;had no one to listen to their inflammatory harangues. To have arrested Mr. Stephens, therefore, at the present time, would, under any circumstances, have been the most injudicious step which Government could have adopted ; tinder existing circumstances such a step is doubly impolitic. 'The price of bread is so high, and provisions of all kinds are so dear, that the minds of the poorer classes are necessarily in a more inflamed state than they would ander other circumstances be. To have recourse, there fore, to any measure which, like the arrest of Mr. Stephens, is so calculated to add to their disaffection, argues a want of judgmenti on the part of the Government for which we were not at all prepared. The rebellion of the tally, as Lord Bacon says, is the worst of all rebellions, With a factory population half-famish:d, owing to the ceas es already mentioned, any breach o f the public peace is espenially to be deprecated ; for were an outbreak once begun, no can tell when or where the end would be, it is currently reported that writs are issued for the arrest of five others of the physical-force leaders. We adjure the Government to recal these writs. They will, we suspect, discover ere long—if they have not made the discovery al ready—that though only one of their writs has been carried ink' effect, that one is one too many. If Government per sist in their intention of making more arrests, they will not only be ..euilty of an act of the greatest imprudence, but they will incur an amount of responsibility to their country which it mig..ht well appal the strongest nerves to contem plate.—Morne:% Advertiser. One of the melt opportune pamphlets ever offered to public attention—." Corn-law Fallacies, with their Ans wers"—is now before us. As our readers, no doubt, are already aware, it is from the able and independent author of " Catechism on Corn-laws"—Colonel Thompson—and amply meets the anticipations which that powerful and con vincing work was calculated to excite. The present pamphlet, in fact, completely exhausts the subject, and leaves not one of the numerous fallacies which a perverted and mischievous ingenuity could devise, unexposed or unrefu ted. So thoroughly is every fallacy demolished, that we consider it impossible for even the viciously fertile imagina tion of the rankest partisan of the landed aristocracy to suppose a contingency, wherein the powerful and pithy arguments of the pamphlet be not conclusive as ' to the evils which the country suffers from the present monopoly of corn. In support of the assertion that the pamphlet is most opportune in its publication, we need merely c:;te the average price of corn for the last six weeks, which was seventy-six shillings and one penny, and state, as we have been informed by some of the oldest merchants in London, the markets at the advanced prices have been " more firm" than they were at any similar season for the last twenty years. There is, too, every prospect of prices still continuing to advance, so that unless prompt and deci sive measures be adopted on the assembling of Parliament, we may expect the present political excitement to be aggra vated to an incalculable extent, by the stimulus—the most irresistible of any—of hungry stomachs. As to the rumour of the Bank contracting the currency, and thereby produc ing an apparent but deceptive reduction of prices, we at tach no credit to it ; for we cannot suppose any parties so ignorant or depraved as to have recourse to such a measure in the present crisis, when any check to employment— aud a curtailed currency would necessarily limit the de mand for labour—must produce a terrific accession to the :itnyending evil. Perfectly concurring as we do in most of the arguments of Colonel Thompson, we must object to his proposition of demanding retribution from the landed in terest, as being in the first place impracticable of attain ment ; and even if practicable, by gradually imposing a duty on home-g:own corn, would utterly fail of its o bj ec t —as a com p e nsation to the manufacturing classes. A perpetual tax on rent is a more feasible proposition, and one deserving of closes' consideration. The gallant and highly-gifted author makel 3 these propositions seemingly with the view only of eliciting from 'endow ners their own condemnation, by provoking then; to resist the adoption of at system against themselves which they have so long prac tised against all the other classes of the community. Wrongs, powever, should not be corrected by the infl i c tion of wrongs ; and therefore we deprecate the imposition of a tax on home-grown corn as much as, and more even, than we do that at present levied on foreign. Colonel Thompson has probed the subject too profoundly in all its depths not to be perfectly aware that any tax on agricul tural industry would place the country even in a more false and ruinous position than it is at present placed by the tax levied on the manufacturing classes for the benefit of landowners. No exclusive tax on one for the supposed advantage of the other can ever effect so much good for that one or for the country at large as would flow to all from the unrestricted action of each and reciprocity of freedom. We shall take an early opportunity of giving some extracts from the more striking and concentrated ay- guments of this excellent pamphlet, and in the meantime express our anxious hope that when foreign countries, Austria, for example, as evinced by the recent Imperial edict, are awaking to the good of unfettered commerce, Great Britain will no longer suffer herself to be de pressed and degraded by a system in every way so impo litic, inhuman, and atrocious, as that of the present Corn laws.—Morning Advertiser. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (FROM THE MORNING PATERS OF THIS DAT.) HERA LD.—lt appears that, notwithstanding the political troubles in Canada, a very great increase has taken place in the importations of foreign and British colonial produce, as well as British manufactured goods, the only decrease shown being in the articles of leaf tobacco and coffee. By a comparison of the quarters ending on the 10th of October, 1837 and 1838, it appears that the imports of manufactured tobacco had in creased by 53,2251bs ; leaf ditto had decreased by 114,7571b5. Coffee had decreased by 10,8781b5. Raw Sugars had in creased by 957,0651b5. ; Refined ditto, by 155,6841b5. ; Mo lasses, 7,080 galls. ; Rum, by 127,813 galls. ; Brandy by 44,850 galls. ; Wines by 44,350 galls. ; Whiskey by 5,850 galls. ; Salt by 40,662 bushels ; Tea by 136.0531b5. , and British manufactured goods in the value of 32,313/. There is no doubt but that a great deal of this increase in the imports may be attributed to the increased number of the troops at present in those provinces, but, looking at the long-continued distracted state of the colony, it shows that if the peace of the inhabitants had not been disturbed, and their useful avocations literally broken up by the fear of the lawless acts of foreign bucaneers and hot-beaded ignorant Canadian demagogues, that colony was steadily progressing in improvement, and in its increasing power of consuming the products of the mother country and her other colonies; whilst her marine commerce has always proved a good nursery for the British navy, render ing the Canadas a most valuable adjunct to Great Britain in every respect. . . . The British funds open rather heavily in consequence of the rumours to which we have already referred ; but the mar ket again rallied to about yesterday's quotations. The Go vernment Commissioner bought about 6,000 Three per Cent. Reduced at 93+. Consols closed at 94 a k for the openin g . The Three-and-a- Half per Cent. Reduced are 10(q a for money, and the New Three-and-a- Half per Cents. 10li a 102 for the opening. Bank Stock is 2021 a 203 for money, The premium upon Exchequer Bills is 64 a 66, and on India Bonds 64. The Foreign Market has been very inactive, Portuguese Old Five per Cents. are 70 ; the New Five per Cents are 31i a 32 ; and the Three per Cents. 20A- af. Spanish Ac tive Bonds are 161 ; and the Deferred 71; Brazilian Bonds are 77i, and Colombian 25,i- ; French Five per Cent. Routes are 110 f. 25e., with the exchange at 25f. 40c. Dutch Two and-a-half per Cents are 54 ex div., and the Five per Cent. ditto 101 POST. —Cc,nsols, which were done early in the day at 94k to 4 for the Opening, receded before the termination of the day's business to 94 to Exchequer Bills left off at 645. to 665. prem., and Bank Stock at 2024- to 3. Nothing remarkable occurred in the Foreign Funds. Five per Cent. Dutch Stock left off at 1014 to a, Brazilian at 774 to a, Colombian 254 to 6, and Active Spanish at 16i to : 4 1 . The market for Portuguese was again a little firmer. The Five per Cent. Bonds closed at 314 to 2. Great Western Railway Shares left off at 12 to 4 prem., London and Brighton, in which there were some extensive purchases, at 3to 2f die., and Blackwall at lf to 1 dis. per share. The " Rig" in the Cotton Market, and consequent ex posure of some of the manoeuvres which have been resorted to by individuals with the view of promoting it, seem likely to let the public a little into the secrets of the trade—a circum stance of which we trust due advantage will be taken by straightforward people. Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle, of Liverpool, were perfectly well aware of Mr. John Ingersoll, of Natchez, having published a circular, assuming to be their authorised agent for making advances on the article in the state of Mississippi, and binding them to hold it for sales during the next summer months, but they did not, it seems, think it of sufficient importance to give it any consideration whatever until now, when, at length, they discover that it has made so much stir in the United States, and that their more business-like friends, Messrs. Bevan and Humphreys, of Philadelphia, have taken upon themselves to give it some consideration for them. Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle confirm the disclaimer of Messrs. Bevan and Co. We are, therefore, to understand that the course pursued by Mr. Ingersoll, of Natchez, has been an ex tremely unjustifiable one ; yet it is declared in the New York Papers received to-day, by a friend of this individual, that he will be able to clear himself from the imputation which has been cast upon him as soon as time for the purpose shall have been afforded him. We extract the following announcement in his behalf from the .New York Enquirer of the 11th ult.:— " Messrs. Bevan and Humphreys, by a very shameful and blasting publication of this morning, having attempted to in jure John Ingersoll, of Natchez, for their selfish purpose, ab sent and distant as he is from the place chosen for this wanton calumny, I think proper at once to anticipate the notice he will no doubt take of it, by stigmatising it as it deserves, as suring the community that, in the contest thus provoked by Bevan and Humphreys, he will manifest that, for strictness of truth, integrity, and fair dealing, he has nothing to fear from collision or comparison with any one—certainly not Bevan and Humphreys. " C. J. INGERSOLL " Philadelphia, Dec. 8, 1838." As the reputed, and perhaps the real commercial agents of the United States Bank, Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle, of Liverpool, must have been well aware of the injurious tendency of Mr. John Ingersoll's circular. We cannot but think, therefore, that it behoved them, at the very earliest mo ment, to put the public right respecting it, and not to have left that duty to be performed for them by parties whose in terference was liable to be construed, as we see it has been, into an act of hostility arising from an unworthy feeling of jealousy. We submit Mr. C. J. Ingersoll's letter to the attentive perusal of Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle. They will see from its contents how much unpleasantness they might have spared their Philadelphia correspondents by a more prompt course of action, to say nothing of the losses which may have been sustained by many through the fair promises held out to them in their (Messrs. Humphreys and Biddle's) name by an over-zealous agent. DEFENCE OF THE CORN-LA WS.—Finding the fol lowing defence set up by one of the cleverest, as well as the roost influential, organs of the landocracy, we may perhaps fairly enough conclude that no better one can be devised : " How (asks the Hampshire Advertiser) has the manufac turing capital been increased to the enormous amount it has attained during the last thirty years, but by granting it the most sweeping immunity from taxation, while agricul tural capital has been overwhelmed by every species of irn post fiscal ingenuity could contrive. Look at the land-tax of 20 per cent., not of recent date certainly, but not the less intolerably and most iniquitously oppressive—a tax, the redemption of which has been partially effected by a confiscation of one-fifth of the landowners' capital. Can the maoufacturers in metal or cotton show a corresponding bur den inflicted upon them ? Upon the land also has been thrown ea lusively the burden of county and highway rates, and we may add also the support of the poor. The agri culturists support all the poor on their estates ; the mill owner, after extracting from the blood and sinews of thou sands of operatives the riches so vaunted of, but pays the most minute share of the cost of those ha has reduced to pauperism. Who, too, now pays the whole burthen of the tithes but the landowners ? They ar e compelled, by Act of Parliament, to redeem tithes, even if the redemp tion should be their ruin, Have the Chamber of Com merce gentlemen any, Oven the least sacrifice to make, to the clamour or the wants of others." Th CORN-LAW -LOVING LANDLORDS.---" The straw is being moved :" the Born monopolists begin to evince symptoms of excessive apprehensio n ; the y evidently dread the determination now so generally evinged throughout the country to put an end to the starvation systorn, and tremble, as well they may, at the prospect of the coming day of re tributive judgment. We congratulate the country on this early evidence of the people's w ell-directed exertion, In Essex, we see, the more short-sighted and illiberal of the predominant class have already issued orders to one of their most active advocates and loud-tongued organs to enlist all the farmers they can seduce into their service, The Essex Herald accordingly comes forth clothed in the panoply of false pretences and high-sounding declamation, and calls on the farmers to enrol themselves in defence of the Corn-laws —tile. Herald, by the way, may can, but will the farmers, simple as some of them are, come when called. ..g The Corn laws are attacked exclaim the gr anting class), rents are in . danger, our monopoly is menaced , the sta rvation s y stem 13 threatened, nay it totters, and will be razed to the ground by the ruthless hands of a hungry community, if " the agt ! i4 culturists do not rally round the standard—of dear bread Those landlords (we trust they are not a very nume rous class) who would sacrifice the countr y to their own little, base lust of lucre—who care not if the community is crip pled and starved, so that some miserable addition to their private purse be got—have reason to be alarmed : for an at• tack on their cruel and suicidal monopoly will be made in the coming Session, in comparison of which all former at tempts to rid the country of the Devil's laws have been mere child's play. This morning we see the Post, (a tolerably faithful representative, and a not uninfluential organ of its party,) re-echoes the cry of its country Contemporary and colaborateur. The Post's panic is an encouraging sign of the times for those who would destroy the dour bread monopoly. On Wednesday evening an inquest was held in High street, Marylebone, on the body of Ann Roe, aged 74. It appeared from the evidence that the deceased was one of the pew-openers at Marylebone church. On the previous morning she went to the church in her usual good bealti l, and was in the act of letting some persons into a pew about half-past eleven o'clock, when she fell down at the door. She was carriedinto the Vestry, where Dr. Gregorie and Mr. Thomas, surgeon, attended and bled her, after which she was taken to her residence, No. 47, High-street, where 1 she shortly after died, the medical gentlemen giving it as their opinion that the cause of death was the rupture of a blood-vessel near the heart. Verdict—Died by the visita tion of God, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1838 SOUTHAMPTON GIPSY FESTIVAL. ( Abridged from the Hampshire Advertiser.) We have always had great pleasure in recording the An nual Gipsy Festivals held at the house and grounds of the Rev. Mr. Crabb, at Hill. This excellent minister has for many years been engaged in his truly Christian task of re claiming the wanderers to habits of civilized life, and of turn ing their hearts to God. At our visit on Thursday morning to Spring Hill House, we found the play-ground occupied by the gipsy tribe, who were assembled to participate in the enjoyments of the day; the children amusing themselves with the gymnastic apparatus in the play-ground, and the men and women standing in groups in various parts of the grounds. Besides those who have been reformed there were a great number present, who came from a considerable distance to join their kindred and friends on the occasion. The appearance of the domesticated gipsies pre sented a striking contrast to that of the wanderers, although, but with two or three exceptions, the latter were decently at tired, and clean in their persons ; here and there a bit of gaudy finery was to be seen, but generally speaking they could not be recognised as belonging to that long neglected race but by their sparkling eyes and peculiar countenances. The total number of gipsies present was 99. Shortly after eleven o'clock the gipsies were summoned from the play-ground into the school-room, and the Rev. J. Crabb having taken his place at a desk in the centre of the room, the services of the day com menced by singing Bishop Kenn's Morning Hymn, which was followed by prayer. The " Gipsies' Friend" then addressed the assemblage ; he said that the number of gipsies in this country was computed at 18,000. But it was a remarkable fact, that there was no perfect account of their origin in all the world, or if there was it had not yetbecn found. The language spoken by the gipsies is very simi lar to that spoken in the East Indies. It was very probable that they were descended from the Hindoos. The gipsies were afterwards dismised to the play-ground, and Mr. Crabb read to the visitors who remained in the room the report. One general feature of the gipsy character struck all pre sent; namely, their ease and freedom of manner and apparent independence. All the families present bad by them copies of the Holy Scriptures, excepting one, who had not visited there before. One woman said that her bible was unclany by the wet getting into the tent, for which she was very sorry. SCOTLAND. We are glad to learn that the general trade of the West of Scotland, is in a highly satisfactory position. The revival of commercial activity in the United States has had its natural effect here; orders have of late poured in from that country upon our manufacturers; and now the stocks on hand, parti cularly of fancy goods, are lower than they have been these two years past. The Americans have, in fact, nearly cleared us out in several branches—particularly in those goods suit able for the London warehousemen. Manufacturers look for ward to a brisk home trade in the beginning of the year.— Glasgow Chronicle. DEER. —On Friday last a lot of beautiful deer, in a wooden conveyance, passed through Linlithgow and Falkirk, from Broxmouth, East Lothian, on their way to Dougalston Deer park, Stirlingshire. GRAIN AND CATTLE. —Barley sold on Wednesday at from 3s. 10d. to 4s. 6d. per bushel; but much of it was inferior, and bought more for feeding than shelling or distilling pur poses. Potatoe oats rated from 3s. 6d. to 3s. Bd. ; and as for wheat, we are not aware that there was a single bushel sold. The quality generally is very inferior, and few were so fortu nate as Mr. Smith, who, in a field at Cargenholm—thoroughly drained the previous year—had a crop of Chevalier wheat, which produced 40 bushels per acre, and sold at 10s. Five thousand bushels of barley, of the weight of 531b5., were im ported lately from Norfolk by Messrs. Edgar and Hunter for themselves and others. When we heard of this circumstance we at once said there would be no such weights this year in Scotland ; but in that we were mistaken, and we have since learned that Messrs. Dunlop and Stott grew, on their splendid farms in East Lothian, barley which weighs 571135., and wheat at the figure of 631bs. per bushel. It is a great blessing that all parts of the country are not alike ; and we happen to know, on good authority, that the Linton distillers found so little difficulty in purchasing good barley, that they have already in granary 100,000 bushels.—Dumfries Courier. The butchers are complaining that there is a scarcity of black cattle fed up to the proper mark—a vacuum which, we suppose, is occasioned mainly by the number of beeves shipped by the steamers to the markets of Lancashire. LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 3. The Court adjourned yesterday for the holidays until Fri day, the 11th instant. CONTEMPT.-IN RE WM. BLACKSTONE, An application in this case was made on the part of the as• signee, a Mr. Kingsford, to commit a person named John Harmer to prison, on an attachment for disobedience to a sub pcena. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER made the rule absolute, and ordered Harmer to be confined iii Maidstone gaol for one month. He hoped this case would by its publicity warn par ties in future, who were subpcenaed as witnesses. The warrant of committal was made out accordingly. This is the first case in which the Court has exercised their authority for a disobedience to a subpcena. CRIMINAL COURT-YESTERDAY NEW COURT. CONSPIRACY AND FRAUD.—William Norrington, aged 19, George Henry Keene, aged 50, Martin Caten, aged 19 (dressed in livery), were jointly indicted, with John Sidwell, for confederating, conspiring, combining, and agreeing toge ther to obtain from divers persons divers goods and chattels, with intent, by false pretexts, to cheat and defraud them thereof. Another of the many counts charged them with possessing themselves of certain houses with intent to defraud the owners thereof of the fixtures and chattels therein. The indictment contained nearly 30 distinct charges of fraud to a great amount. Sidford traversed until the next Session, the trial of the other three proceeded. Mr. CLARKSON stated the case for the prosecution at great length, and observed that it was one of greater importance than had been submitted to the jury during the present Ses. sion;. He said that it would be tedious were he to detail all the facts connected with the conspiracies and contrivances of the three prisoners in connection with Sid well, who was not on his trial. They commenced their operations in May, and continued their avocation in various parts of the town during the months of August, September, and October, with an in dustry unparalleled, and the consequence bad been that trades men had been defrauded. Norrington represented himself as the son of a Major of that name, Keene was his guardian, and Caten acted in the capacity of groom and footboy, and the other man ( Sidford) was a quondam friend. The particulars of this case have recently appeared under the head of Queen-square Police. The case for the prosecution having closed after the lapse of more than seven hours, the Counsel for the respective priso ners addressed the jury at great length. The COMMON SERGEANT, havinc , read the voluminous evi dence, remarked upon the case, and gave it as his opinion that the prisoners, by having put themselves off as persons of a standing in society which they had no right t) assume, had thereby conspired together to cheat and defraud tradesmen and others of their property. The Jury almost instantly pronounced all the prisoners Guilty. The COMMON-SERGEANT told the prisoners that he was quite satisfied with tie verdict. Keene was well known as a common swindler ; the sentence upon him was that he be im prisoned for two years. Norrington was a younger man, and perhaps in some measure a dupe—he was to be imprisoned for one year ; and Caten for six calendar months. —They were all ordered to be confined in the Penitentiary at Milbank instead of the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields. SENTENCES. The session having terminated, the Recorder passed sen tence upon those prisoners who had not received judgment in stanter at the time of their respective trials. Transported for Ten Years—W. T. Simpson and William Forbes, for stealing a cash-box, containing 28/., from the bar of the Crown and Sceptre, Old 'Change. The Recorder told the convicts that inquiries had been made respecting them, and the result was so unsatisfactory, that the Court was compelled to sentence them to leave the country, but not to the extent of the term the law imposes. Their ca reer of life was known to the Court from their earliest years. Imprisoned for One Year—Charles Pearson, John Yates. Six Months—William Hall, Frederick Williams, Henry Sampson, J. Ball, Charles Hunter, J. Williams, W. Ball, G, Holt, Ann Page, N. Suthmere, and Maria Smith. Transported for Seven Years—J. Andrews, M. Anderson, B. Hitchcock, T. Storer, H. L ew i s , John Robinson, and E. Johnson. Others were sentenced to nominal terms, varying from six months to ten days. The Court adjourned to the 4th of February. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. These sessions commenced yesterday before Mr. Sergeant Anags and a full bench of Magistrates. The calendar is a very light one, there being only eight pri. goners charged with fenny' ? the others having been committed for assaults, &c. The grand jury having been sworn, the Cfmngs.ri briefly explained to them the nature of the duties they were called upon to discharge. The grand jury having ignored the bill against Mary Ann Smith, The CHAIRMAN, on referring to the depositions, said the case against the prisoner was quite clear. He really was sur prised that the grand jury bad thrown out the bill, but it we not to be wondered at after the extraordinary proceedings the Court had lately witnessed on the part of grand juries. Last sessions instraxians weld given to prepare a bill against A. 8., C.D., and several strar.gars fpr r iot the cirk, who pre pared the indictment, wrote, instead of scypril otFangers,§a reuel Strangers, and the grand jury absolutely found a true bill Agaiysp awned Strangers, although not one of the wit nesses exatnk. l B4 Pf.4M l.hcel had ever mentioned such a name. _(A laugh,) After several petty larceny Cases bad been dispoge4 of, the court adjourned. The Wesleyan Centenary Fund reached the im mense sum of 111,000 i. before the close of the yea' ; and subscriptions are rapidly sowing i. The estimate of thu entire subscription is now 200,000/, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S-YESTE RDA r. THE DERBY. The subjoined quotations include so small a number of horses, and present so little in the way of change, as to render any intro ductory remarks altogether unnecessary; it will suffice to give the prices at the close of a dull afternoon :- 12 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Bro. to Bay Middleton—taken 13 to 1 16 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim 16 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau 22 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Accelerator 25 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Troc 35 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Brother to Plenipo—taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Greatrex's Tontine colt—taken 50 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Valaincourt—taken 50 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Pastille colt—taken 1000 to 15 agst Lord Jersey's Cain colt—taken 2000 to 25 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Chimborazo—taken 500 to 400 on Cain colt agst Dulcimer—taken 300 even between Flambeau and Ilderim—taken 25 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot, and 1000 to 15 agst each of the three—taken INTELLIGENCE EXTRA. DONCASTER RACES, 1840. The following are the nominations for the Great St. Leger Stakes of 50 sovs. each, &c., which closed on Tuesday last:— Colonel Peel's b. c. Gibraltar, brother to Tarick ; Colonel Westenra's br. f. by Priam, out of Vat ; Lord Bruce's ch. c. by Actaeon, dam by Oscar ; Mr. Bristow's c. Janus, Mr. Pottingar's gr. c. Harry, by Zealot, out of Zoe ; Mr. Houlds•sorth's b. or br. c. Confederate, by Velocipede, out of Miss Maltby ; Lord Chester field's b, c. by The Colonel, out of Black Daphne - ; Lord Chester field's c. by Mulatto, out of Scroggins's dam ; Lord Chesterfield's c. Isaac of York, by Mulatto, out of Appleton Lad's dam ; Lord Chesterfield's f. by Priam, out of Rowlon's slam ; Colonel Anson's b. c. Nicholas, Colonel Anson's ch. c. Nightshade, by Comus, dam by Smolensk° ; Colonel Anson's b. f. Black Bess ; Mr. Crockford's c. by Bentley, out of Bamboo's dam ; Mr. Crockford's f. by Tire sias, out of Emma; Mr. J. H. Cookes's br. c. Charneau ; Colonel Synge's b. c. Polyda•trus, by Priam, out of Rose ; Mr. Thompson's Sovereign Lady, Lord Jersey's Glenorehy, by Glencoe, out of Cob web; Lord Jersey's Muley Ishmael, by Ishmael, out of Filagree ; Sir F. Collier's b. f. Katherine, by Camel, out of Jenny Vertpre; Mr. Critchley's bl. c. Dunstan, by St. Nicholas, out of Aglaia ; Mr. Sadler's Defendant, Mr. Sadler's c. Protector, by Defence, out •f Euryone ; Mr. Flintoff's br. c. The Plover, by Muley, dam,Young Mignionette ; Lord Westminster's c. Launcelot, by Camel, out of Banter : Lord Westminster's c. Maroon, by Mulatto, out of Miss Giles; Lord Westminster's c. The Shah, by Abbas Mirza, out of Laura; Duke of Richmond's br. f. Sherbet, Lord G. Bentinck's gr. c. Bagdad, Lord G. Bentinck's gr. c. Grey Milton, Lord G. Bentinek's ch. e. Capote, Lord G. Bentinek's b. c. Marmot, Lord G. Bentinck's b. f. Crucifix, Lord G. Bentinck's Dreadnought, Lord Sligo's b• f. Vengeanco, by Fitz-Orville, out of Veneer; Mr. H. R. Wegnelir.'s br. f. Donna Isabella, own Sister to Queen of Queens ; Mr. Mostyn's br. c. Trustee, by Sir Gray or Birdcatcher, out of Georgina ; Mr. Mostyn's b. c. The Princess Elizabeth, by Dr. Syntax, out of Queen Bess ; Mr. Worrall's Reindeer, Lord Exeter's c. by Jerry, out of Lucetta ; Lord Exeter's c. by Sultan, out of Marinelli; Lord Exeter's c. by Sultan, out of Datura ; Mr. Bleeck's ch. c. Warminster, by Ishmael, out of Malvina ; Mr. E. Peel's br. c. Drayton, by Muley, out of Prima Donna : Mr. Nevill's ch. c. Cupid, by Saracen, dam by Castrel ; Mr. Ne vill's ch. c. Merry Pebbles, by Saracen, out •f Lady Crawford ; Mr. Nevill's ch. c. by Velocipede, out of Amadon ; Mr. Nevill's b. f. Christinetta, Mr. Meiklam's br. f. Remedy, by Physician, out of Snowball; Mr. Greville's ch. c. Proteus, by Cetus, out of Peggy; Mr. J. B. Charlton ns. ch. c. Sculptor, by Langar. out of Miss Chantrey ; Mr. Wilson's b. c. by Mulatto, out of Silvertail ; Mr. Orde's b. f. Queen Bee, by Liverpool. out of Tomboy's dam; Mr. Blakelock's ch. f. by Curtius, out of Fancy ; Lord Stanley's ro. c. De Clifford, Lord Stanley's b. f. Betsey Austin, Mr. Clark's ch. c. Benjamin, Mr. Clark's b. c. Alonzo, Mr. Eddison's ch. c. Ruler, Mr. Eddison's ch. c. by Langar, dam by Whisker ; Mr. T. 0. Powlett's b. c. by Liverpool, out of Miss Fanny's dam ; Mr. T. 0. Powlett's br. c. Hawkesbury ; Colonel Crauford's br. c. Brother to Sinbad, Mr. T. R. Price's br. f. The Rose of Mallow, Mr. T. R. Price's ch. c. July, Mr. Robinson's b. c. St. Andrew, Mr. Ro binson's br. c. Snoozer, Mr. Speed's b. c. by Muley, dam by Long waist ; Mr. Newsham's b. f. Nancy Dawson, Mr. Jacques's b. c. by Physician, out of St. Martin's dam ; Mr. Cookson's b. f. own sister to Lanercost ; Mr. W. Ridsdale's b. c. by Bedlamite or Vol taire, dam by Whisker ; Mr. M. Foulis's br. f. Pillion, Mr. S. King's b. c. Mariner, Mr. S. Barber's ch. .c. Bellini, Mr. Bowes's br. c. Black Beck, Mr. Bowes's b. c. Middleham, Mr. Bowes's b. c. by Memnon, jun., Mr. Bowes's b. c. Morgan Rattler, Mr. Hall's br. f. by The Saddler, out of sister to Chancellor ; Mr. J. Scott's b. c. Mayboy, Mr. Singleton's b. c. Autocrat, Mr. H. Wormald's ch. c. Th• Vivid, Mr. H. Wormald's ch. c. Cognac, Mr. H. Wormald's ch. f. by Velocipede, out of Monica ; Major Yarburgh's b. e. Milksop, Mr. Osbaldeston's ch. c. by Winterfield, out of Mrs. Rye ; Mr. Osbaldeston's ch. f. by Belshazzar, dam by Whalebone; Mr. Gascoigne's b. c. Symmetry, Mr. Elmsall's ch. c. by I\ledora, dam by Young Phantom ; Lord Kelburne's ch. e. by Retainer, out of Eluding ; Mr. C. Attwood's b. c. Avicennas, Mr. C. Attwood's b. c. Parcelsus, Lord Eglinton's b. c. Doctor Cahn, Sir J. Bos well's ch. f. Queen Anne ; Mr. Parkin's b. c. Broadworth, Mr. Parkin's br. c. Naworth, Mr. Holmes's br. c. The Young'un, Sir IL W. Bulkeley's b. c. by Physician, dam by Caccia Piatti ; Sir R. W. Bulkeley's ch. c. Bangore, Eirl of Zetland's b. c. by Phy sician, dam by Orville; Mr. Smith's b. c. The. Jovial Bachelor, Mr. Howard's ch. c. Fitzroy, Duke of Cleveland's ch. c. by Lanai-, out of Emigrant's dam ; Duke of Cleveland's br. c. by Emilius, out of Maria ; Mr. Harrison's hr. f. Tornado, Mr. Harworth's gr. c. by Sheik (late Grand Duke Michael), out of Manilla; Colonel Peel's br. c. Brother to Barmaid, Mr. Shepherd's b. c. by Vol taire, out of Valentine. LAW SITTINGS. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings at Nisi Prius appointed in Middlesex and London before the Right Hon. Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Com. mon Pleas, at Westminster, in and after Hilary Term, 1839. Ix TERM NIIDDLESEX.—Wednesday, Jan. 16; Wednesday, Jan. 23, LONDON.—Friday, Jan. 18 ; Friday, Jan. 25. AFTER TERM. MIDDLESEX.—Friday, Feb. 1. I LONDON. —Saturday, Feb. 2. N. B.—The Court will sit at ten o'clock in the forenoon on each of the days in Term, and at half-past nine precisely on each of the days after Term. Tb• causes in the list for each of the above sitting days in Term, if not disposed of on those days, will be tried by ad journment on the days following each of such days. On Saturday, the 2d of February, in London, no causes will be tried, but the Court will adjourn to a future day. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Sittings at Nisi Prius in Middlesex and London, before the Right Hon. James Lord Abinger, Chief Baron of her Ma• jesty's Court of Exchequer, in and after Hilary Term, 1839 DEATH OF MRS. MACLEAN (L.E.L.) THE CORONER'S INQUEST. The most painful shock to the natural feelings of all who were acquainted, not with Mrs. Maclean herself—for these were the few—but with her writings—has been occasioned by the published extract of a letter from a Wesleyan missionary at Cane Coast Castle, furnishing a partial statement of the awful circumstances under which Mrs. Maclean perished, and giving the verdict of a Coroner's Jury, to the effect that she died from mistakingly swallowing an overdose of Prussic acid. We have no comments at present to offer on this oc currence. It is in the main correct; but as we were in posses sion of all the original documents relating to her death and the inquiry, we simply add here the depositions before the Co roner's Jury. At an inquisition held at Cape Coast Castle, the 15th day of October, 1838, before me, James Swanzey, Esq., one of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and others, the jurors of our Lady, Queen Victoria, upon view of the body of Letitia Elizabeth Maclean—Emily Bailey, being duly sworn upon the Holy Evangelists, and examined, deposeth and saith—That between the hours of eight and nine of the morning of the 15th inst., the deponent having received a note, addressed to Mrs. Maclean, from Mr. Swanzey, went to her room for the purpose of delivering the same to her, found some difficulty in opening the door, in consequence of Mrs. Maclean having fallen against it. That deponent, on entering the room, discovered Mrs. Maclean lying on the floor with an empty bottle in her hand—(which bottle being produced was labelled Acid. hydrocianicum delatum, pharm. Lond., 1836 ; medium dose five minims," being about one-third the strength of that in former use prepared by Scheel's proof), and quite senseless ; that on seeing this deponent went for her husband to call Mr. Maclean. She believed that Mrs. Ma clean must have been attempting to open the door to call for assistance when she fell. That her mistress was subject to be attacked by spasms, and was in the habit of taking occasionally a drop or two of the medicine in the bottle in water ; but had not herself seen her do so more than two or three times. She (Mrs. Maclean) had the spasms rather badly the previous evening, and wished to take a little of the medicine contained in the bottle to give her relief. She did not complain much this morning. Deponent was not present when her mistress was taken i:1; but had seen her about half an hour before, when she appeared well, and made her a present, as the deponent was about leaving tie coast for England. That Mrs. Maclean then told depo nent to retire, and shewould send for her when she wished to dress. Deponent had not seen her writing this morning; but she was so employed the previous evening,when she delivered to de ponent two letters for friends in England, and was affected at the thought of deponent leaving her. That when deponent saw her last she was in her usual spirits. The bottle found in Mrs. Maclean's hand was uncorked, and she (deponent) after wards corked it, and put it aside. She could state nothing more which could throw any light on the subject. [An unimportant deposition by the husband of the above deponent, who merely states his being called by his wife, his placing the head of the deceased on a pillow, and going for "the doctor" at Mr. Maclean's request, follows.' The next deposition is that of George Maclean, who de poseth and saith that deponent saw nothing particular about Mrs. Maclean this morning, except that she complained of weariness, and after having, as usual, given him some tea and arrow-root, at six o'clock went to bed again for an hour and a half. Deponent attributed her weariness to attendance upon himself while sick, and want of rest for three previous nights ; that she was very subject to spasms and hysterical affec tions, and had been in the custom of using the medicine contained in the small bottle produced, as a remedy or pre vention, which she had told him had been prescribed for her by her medical attendant in London ( Dr. Thomson); that on seeing her use it, deponent had threatened to throw it away, and had at one time told her that he had actually done so, when she appeared so much alarmed, and said it was so necessary for the preservation of her life, that depo nent was prevented from afterwards taking it away ; that he had been called by Bailey that morning, when he found Mrs. Maclean on the floor near the door, quite senseless ; that he immediately sent for the doctor, and assisted to carry her to the bed ; that the efforts of the doctor to restore life were in vain, and that d •ponent cannot assign any cause for her death ; that the letter, in the following words, now produced to this deponent is stated to have been found in Mrs. Maclean's desk this morning, is in her own handwriting, and that an unkind word had never passed between Mrs. Maclean and deponent : (LETTER.) " Cape Coast Castle, Oct. 15. "My dearest Marie—l cannot but write you a brief account how I enact the part of a feminine Robinson Crusoe. I must say, in itself, the place is infinitely superior to all I ever even. dreamed of. The Castle is a fine building—the rooms excellent. Ido not suffer from heat, insects there are few or none, and lam in excellent health. The solitude, except an occasional dinner, is absolute ; from seven in the morning till seven, when we dine, I never see Mr. Maclean, and rarely any one else. We were welcomed by a series of dinners, which I am glad are over, for it is very awkward to be the only lady ; still the great kindness with which I have been treated, and the very pleasant manners of many of the gen tleman, made me feel it as little as possible. Last week we had a visit from Captain Castle of the Pylades. His story is very melancholy. He married, six months before he left England to one of the beautiful Miss Hills, Sir John Hill's daughter, and she died just as he received orders to return home. We also had a visit from Colonel Bosch, the Dutch Governor, a most gentlemanly-like man. But fancy how awkward the next morning, I cannot induce Mr. Maclean to rise, and I have to make breakfast, and do the honours of adieu to him and his officers—white plumes, mustachios, and all. I think I never felt more embarrassed. I have not yet felt the want of society the least. Ido not wish to form new friends, and never does a day pass without thinking most affectionately of my old ones. On three sides we aro sur rounded by the sea. I like the perpetual dash on the rocks— one wave comes up after another, and is for ever dashed in pieces, like human hopes that only swell to be disappointed. We advance—up springs the shining froth of love or hope, a . moment white and gone for ever.' The land view, with its cocoa and palm trees, is very striking—it is like a scene in the Arabian Nights.' Of a night the beauty is very re markable ; the sea is of a silvery purple, and the moon de serves all that has been said in her favour. I have only once been out of the fort by daylight, and then was delighted. The salt lakes were first died a deep crimson by the setting sun, and as we returned they seemed a faint violet in the twilight, just broken by a thousand stars, while before us was the red beacon light. The chance of sending this letter is a very sudden one, or I should have ventured to write to Ge neral Fogan, to whom llbeg the very kindest regards. Dearest, do not forget me, Pray write to me, Mrs. George Maclean, Cape Coast Castle, care of Messrs. Forster and Smith, Si, New City Chambers, Bishopsgate-street.' Write about your self, nothing else half so much interests your affectionate, "L. E. MACLEAN," On reading the above most affecting letter it will at once be conceived that it must have produced on the minds of the Jury an impression as to the tranquil state of mind of the writer, and of her having, therefore, perished by a most deplorable want of caution on her own part. But we here feel it due to truth and justice to state that letters previously written by ths, same hand, a few hours, a few days, perhaps a m on th br ore, give evidence that that most affectionate and nobles spirit was not always so tranquil. It should also be distinctly stated that she had never been known by her friends its England to have resorted to the use of the deadly medicine in the case of spas modic attacks. In justice to Doctor Thomson, whose name is above introduced, and who was one of the most faithful, the most dear and estimable of Mrs. Maclean's friends, let us say that lie furnished her medicine-cheat, and took the utmost pains to mark everything it contained, so as to prevent (ap parently) the possibility of her ever making a mistake. This, without any communication with Dr. Thomson, we can con fidently state. The next deposition is that of William Cobbold, surgeon, who states that he " was called upon to attend Mrs. Maclean, and that on his arrival be found her perfectly insensible with the pupils of both eyes much dilated, and fancied he could de tect a slight pulsation at the heart, but very feeble, and which ceased in a very short time after his arrival. Knew that violent action was going on, and immediately administered a dose of ammonia, which happened to be in the room, and directed frictions of the same kind to be applied." The deponent then goes on to describe that he was preparing other remedies, "before which could ba effected lite was extinct. Was strengthened in his opinion that death was caused by the improper use of the medicine, the bottle of which was found in her hand, from learning that Mrs. Maclean was in the halo's, of taking it occasionally for spasmodic) affection, to whicSa She was subject. The body after death was perfectly natur a l . Imagined that Mrs. Maclean, not havia.is experienced the usual benefit from the prescribed quantity, may have been in duced to exceed it, or that the spasmbser:nayswhaallvoewecd7He Had when she was in the act of tablng the medicine, and thus in voluntarily a greater quantity may have no hesitation in ascribing her death to this cause. Ten drops would be sufficient to cause death in ten or fif. een minutes, to a person not in the habit of using it. Was so fully convinced that the medicine was the cause of her death, that he did not think it necessary to opon the body." An unimportant deposition from Mr. Brodie CriliAa s lat k closes the evidence. He merely siwearilsgltaonhd f v Maclean the night before "in her usu a l sp i rits . h and t A o i 7 aeen o M ha r v s. ing promised to take some letters a L The inquest is then given, I t recites havinrw her t a ken " b e f ore me , James Swanaey, member of the Council of the Government, and one of her Majesty's Justices of the P eace in and for the British S ett l ements on the Gold C oas t o f Africa, acting as Co s our, upon the view of the body of Letitia Elizabeth Maclean, then and there lying dead— Lyon the taihs of William Topp„ John Jackson, Robert Jap'ason, William Edwaial Stanley, J o seph Clouston , James Henry Akhu rs t, 1 4- I senu s m i th, s p i n ks, and Thom as Hutton, P 134 and lawfal men of Cape Coast Castle, ak*S.ssasta as welt] as upon the oaths of James Morley, master of #l.O let Governor Mad . % ixeolio; John G ar di ner bolo'''. ; and B ro di e CriaieVsl'ank' m a a s , te F r ra o n f ci t s il S o w b au ri a g e y, Os. .-,: of of Annamahee, who, b e i ng sworn and ch atrge d asa i n quire on the part of our said lady the Queen, sXheas, where, and after wlvit manner the said Letitia 44stbeth s came to her death, do upon their oaths, say that on the day and year stWesaid, and at the place afo,reaaid, the death o f tl e gala Letitia Elizabeth was caused by her having incasatipassly taken an over-dose e,t pAIS:ale acid, which froya. ol4denee it appeared she 1 414 been in the habit of us ;w:: z; a remedy for spasmodic attections to which she waF., It will sot fail to be remarked, and it wiA 4 Cm b tless b e l a. tad' that only this written evidence, as:as taken. B u t on this poi nt we forbear to comment,, atli considerations are in deed, for the present merged in profound grief for the loss of one who was as, wo i rthy to be loved as she was wort h y to, bt, a dmired.— courier, IN TERM. MIDDLESEX.-Ist Sittings, Tuesday, Jan. 15 ; by adjourn ment (if necessary), Wednesday, Jan. 16; 2d Sittings, Wed nesday, Jan. 23; by adjournment (if necessary), Thursday, Jan. 24. LONDON.-Ist Sittings, Monday, Jan. 21 ; 2d Sittings, Monday, Jan. 23; by adjournment (if necessary), Tuesday, Jan. 29. AFTER TERM. MlDDLEsix.—Friday, Feb. 1. LONDON.—Saturday, Feb. 2, to adjourn only. •rn at ten o'clock. The Court will sit during Te i THE NEW POOR LAW. The case of Mary Dodd, the destitute girl whom the over seer of All Hallows-on-the -Wall was fined 51. for having re fused to relieve, was finally settled on Wednesday, and in the very teeth of the bragadocio's rejection of her claim upon the parish of St. Luke's, by the relieving overseer of that parish. The LORD MAYOR having given instructions to Brand, the Marshalman, to collect the necessary evidence to prove that the girl was born in the parish of St. Luke's, that officer went very actively to work, and on Tuesday brought the mother of the claimant before his Lordship. The' Lord Mayor received the following note from Me. Wilks : " St. Luke's, Middlesex. r, R ow l a nd Wilks presents his respectful compliments to the Lord Mayor, and on behalf of the other parochial authorities, has felt much pleasure on an application to him this morning in relieving his Lordship from any further trouble in the case of Mary Dodd,' by receiving her into the workhouse, where she will be properly clothed and a suitable place of servitude pro vided for her. " R. W. begs to assure the Lord Mayor that he shall be most happy on any day by investigating into the facts as to any poor person found within the City claiming to belong to St. Luke's, to relieve his Lordship as much as possible in his most philanthropic and Christian labours. " Finsbury-place, Jan. 2, 1839." The LORD MAYOR, upon reading the note, observed that it was most grateful to . his feelings to see the case of a destitute fellow-craature terminate in a manner which he was sure would meet with the approbation of all good men, CHATHAM.—An order has been received at this yard to get in readiness, without delay, those fine frigates the Thalia, of 46 long guns, and the Winchester, of 60 long 32-pounders, which we understand will be commis sioned immediately. RUSSIA".—The Commerce publishes a letter of the 15th ultimo, from St. Petersburg, stating that Admiral the Count de Kupresnau, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian naval forces in the North American possessions of the empire, and who lately displayed so much zeal in favour of the Canadian insurgents, had been named by the Emperor Governor-General of those possessions, Commander-in- Chief of the troops stationed there, and Knight of the Order of St. Wlademir. The troops were to receive a reinforcement of five thousand infantry, a regiment of hus sars, another of dragoons, and a brigade of a rtillery, alt - gether about 7,200 men. Thirty young officera, eleven of th e m natives of Poland, belonging to t h e imperial En, gineers, had been authorised by the Czar to entet" tilts ser vice of an American Power, for two y ears , ostensibly with a view to perfect the mse l ves in the science of fortification,. though W4411(.01110 persons stated that they bad keen privately instructed to serve tile Canadian insurgents gratis, and that dying their a hsence from the Alussian army they were s till t o rece ive their Pay, and retain their right of promoti on . I t was generally helieled in at. V'etcit7 burg that these measures,, w hich Were looked ti?,cm as the commencement of hostilities with England, were adopted by Russia by way of reprisal against England for having furnished supplies to the Circassians, and that .t 7, lop s they cßutintlei Ooze 4upyliCs 0 1" . ? Russian Government uanada. The Cz ar h a d' would favoilr t 10' itpurrect4QA ordered the new Governor-General of Russian Cer,-01;4a to make every effort to gain the friendship of Plaek Hawk's three sons, the eldest of whom, aged forty-eight, had suc-, ceeded him in the Chieftainship Of hii THE MAR COUNTRY CORN MARKI , A'S DURING THE. WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. 1 Bea..s. Pease. Per Quarter. ' s. to s. Blandford 74 SO S. S. 22 35 24 26 s. to s. A. to s 25 27 37 46 24 31 42 44 25 40 20 221 42 44 24 29 i3B 42 16 20 3') 34 ‘.:4 135 42 16 20 130 32 19 28 31 43 19 28 35 42 22 29 38 43 20 23 - 27 43 22 28 41 43 18 28.32 44 20 130 32 S. ' t() 5 grigg £6 74 Cambridge—. — 75 Chard 64 84 Huntingdon —... 56 70 30 32 28 34 34 38 38 40 Long Saton-- 158 78 Louth 58 68 ynn 156 67 Newark 162 72 26 32 22 31 24 31 28 31 35 42 30 34 - 43 36 38 24 30 Nottingham 64 79 Peterborough --. 59 72 Plymouth 5B 70 67 SleaforO 65 70 Uppingh am 63 74 Wisbech—.....—. 63 72 32 34 - 32 DEVIZES CORN MARKET.—Jan. 3. Per Sack. s d. s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. s. d. First Wheat... 42 0 to 43 0 Barley 3-1 0 to 42 0 Second . '47 0 40 0 Oats 2l 0 27 0 Third L-,(54 sacks of Wheat sold? ,-. 0 ,-, Flour (per bag) 5B 0 60 a at the average of ".' Bread (per ga11.)... 1 8 0 LEEDS CORN MARKET.- Jan. 1; Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Sullblk - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, l'otatoe . -llleating, For. I Id. toll 4d. Eng. 121. to 131. per stone Shelling 3 0 ,.. to 335. per load Rapeseed, English, 301. to 321 '9rcign, 30, tont. per lag.. L.VERPOOI. CORN MARKET.—Jan. 1. -- WHEAT, English, White, per 7,110. 12s 6,1 to 133.3,4 ------ Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White lO 9 11 0 ---- Red 9 3 10 3 Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 4510 3 9 4 3 Irish Foreign 0 0 0 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 4O 0 46 0 --. Scotch and Irish, per 60103. --- Feeding 5 3 5 9 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 5O 0 53 0 ----- Irish, &C. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 52 0 56 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 28010. 66 0 GB 0 Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2411th. 36 0 38 0 INI , IAN CORK, per 44010. •— 3B 13 42 0 RYE, per Imperial quarter ' - '6 0 40 0 MALT, per Imperial quarter I , i IMPORT OF GRAIN tor the Week ending Dec.3l. Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, &IL Irish &c. Scks. Loans. I Clatineal. 12,4598 18,145 1,650 7 ,4140 10,983 HULL MARKET.—Jan. I. Wheat, Old 158 s 70s. 725. New figs. 70s go., _ Foreign —s. —s. •-• ln bond... —s. —e —s. Oats, Poland . s. 20s. 9.2 s Old . - —e. 2.35. 245. Small or Feed.... —s. 17s. 18s —s. s 20s. -- Foreign —s. —s. —s s to ...I. Barley, Norf. & Suf ... 3us. ns. 335. Linc. & Wold —i. 20s. 33e.. -- Foreign ...... - a.-- 6. —O. Beans 36s 38s. 421. Foreign '26c. 263. 30a. Pease, White...,... 365. 38s. 40s. Grey 265. 48s. 30s. Tares 365. 41s. 42s Foreign s. —s. —4., Rapeseed. In bond none Free, per last 21/. Os. 331. BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, Jan. 3. Wheat, 62 lb. Barley, imperial quarter Do. Grinding, 49 lb. Oats, 391 b Old Beans, 66 1 / 41b l6 6 18 (► New ditto New White Boling Pease, 3 imp. bush. Ditto Grey ditto The Wesleyan Methodists have purchase , a the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgatf...-street, for the sum of 1.5,0001. A part of the spacious building, which is free hold, is to be appropriated to meetings for business on their missionary and other benevolent undertakings—a portion being reserved fei; public worship. ST. PAUL'S, COVENT-GARDEN.---The new se?- 1 001 house, erected in Hart -street, Covent-garden, cost r, ear ly 2,0001., towards which the Duke of Bedford has I .lberally contributed. The school will comfortably accommod a te, on three separate floors, 300 boys, 200 girls, and 200 'infants, on week days ; and 400 children are instructed by 5 '0,5 gratuitous teachers, on Sundays. An elegant time-piece, in a glass case, of the value of 301., was presented, at a meetino. teachers held on N ew Y ear ' s --d ay , to M r. James Crossley', as as a token of esteem for that gentleman's exertions in pro• moting the erection of the institution, Mr. Renry Althans presided on the occasion. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT NUNGERFORD MAN' KET.—.Last night, at a few minutes after eleven o'clock, tlaks inhabitants residing in the vicinity of the West Strand aucl Hungerford-market, were thrown into a state of much alarm from the circumstance of the sudden outbreak; of s most destructive fire at the eastern angle of the market' The first person who discovered it appears to hove been! lodger of the Hungerford Arms public-house, in-Villiere street. He was about retiring to bed, when his attention was attracted by some sparks issuing from the roof of some buildings at the back. He immediately hastened down stairs, apprised the landlord of the fact, who bad bevel); time to reach the hay-market, before an immense volome 0 1 flames burst from the lower part of the stables in the occu pation of Mr. Fair, bottle merchant, nearly opposite this Dolphin public-house. The excitement that ensued writ very great. The stable doors were w ith ou t d e l a y burst or.tn, and several valuable horses extricated. By half-past e levets o'clock the work of destruction had caught the adjoining stables and storehouses of Mr. Rickman and others, wEich were soon gutted and their contents consumed. The &ones were not safely allayed till nearly two o'clock this morning- The smoke that arose from the burning mass was„ a m ost suffocating description, making it a matter of th e grea test difficulty for the firemen, however experiences they migbt b to approach the burning premises. 'heir exertions were, as usual, highly creditable. A large body of the F division of police were in attendance, and kept th e m oll) back. The full extent of the loss c,culd not be a e(r a;:rva this morning. The buildings are insured in the W es t of England Fire-office, but whetlier the persons who tenanted them were or not was unlinOvVn. We heard of n o lives being lost. DESSERT FR T .IIT KNIVES AND _____,........-____ Plated on 'St ee l. Silver• FORKS. 12 knives and forks, plain ivory handles £3 ~ s 0 12 ditto carved ivory handles 12 3 . 16 0 ... ..... o g : &tit) finest plain pearl handles 4. 17 0 12 ditto carved pearl handles pairs, with or without a neatly fitted mahogany case A. 0' SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, Lou doe' opposite the Bank of England. DIAMONDS.—T. COX SAVOI -- I,T -- ----(,having put' chased very advantageously a choice PARCEL of BRILLIANTS, most of them of the finest water, informs purchasers that they hat ° been merrifted in Single-stone Pins, Gentlemen's Sing i i e _stono Rings, also Ladies Hoop and Cluster Rings, whi c h h e can offer at vP_rylow prices. The Prices of the Pins vary from Two t o Fifty Guineas; the Single-stone Gentlemen's Rings from Three Gtli" neas to One Hundred Guineas; the Ladies' Cluster Rings &van Five to Thirty Guineas; and the Ladies' Hoop 'Rings from FllO to Thirty Guineas. T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, &c., &c., No. 47, Cornhill, London. (Seven Doors from Gracochurch-street.) BIRTHS. On the 30th ult., at Stonehouse, Devon, Mrs. r fomkyns, clf Norton-street, Fitzroy -square, of a daughter. On the Ist inst., in Southwick -street, Hyde-pr.rk, Mrs. Eciwarcl Clark, of a son. On the Ist inst., in the Park, Blackheath, Airs. G. J. Jackson' of a son. On the Ist., the lady of the Rev. Edward Woodhouse, o f Esher, Surrey, 0 a daughter. On the 31st ult., at Waterfoot, Cumberland, the lady of Copts° . Salmond, of a son. On the 14th ult., at Polmont Bank, Stirlingshire Mrs. Walker' of a daughter. Thom __________ MA RRIED. On the Ist inst., at Rothley, Leicestershire, the Rev. &hel l Thomas 'Vaughan, M.A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambri,de' t° Mars second daughter of the late Rev, Joseph Rose, 31- 6 .° Vienr of Rothley. ch On the 27th alt., at Beccles, Suffnlk, the Rev. George Cu'e, er, M,A., Incumbent of St. Benet's, CalLb' do:ught er o f th e l ate G . W. B. Bohnn, Esqmbridge, t o Sucar.n. On the 29th niece ult. to , atJohn South Kellow, Es ampton, Mr. John Mordaunt .1, 3 31i 9 ; Nursling.q., of Southar j pt on ILO Emma On the Ist inst., at St. Helen's, Worceste r , M r. J Ben oval Balmer , Cox, of St. of the former placn-street-road,e. to , third d aug h ter of m r . moms° ber, at Nether Stow D1E15, ----- - E --------.:fr all, Warwickshire, the Hon.. Mrs. Bridgorna P Simpson' Stowed, Somerset, A. , --' rhelsea on the 80th ult., Eliza, ,"of C°l# At YPu•4est daughter T . 'A g uilar, aged 15. On the 17th o:_ ,..4e Dz 7 c 7 em . A., _ On the 30 th ult., Elizabeth, relict of 1.1. 1 e late John Baeleortl i '' d A m t un ß d a ß to l n ake li , E, q ., of Tranby House, near Hull, ag' A ./9, On the Ist inst., at Reading, aged IP_,, John Rhodes Crickitt, e Dccters'-commons, and Blackheath Park, Kent. On the Ist i nst., F rederick, yo, An pest son of James apm P . erso , of 31ark-lane, aged 8. On the Ist inst., 3- I - .l °' I- T. ' - A 'Ruston, of the Corn Ei..ebang e ' London, and Meopbatr, Ken' A . On the Ist inst., tlarga,,-et. Hilditch Johnson, fourtiA daught er of Daniel Turton Jghnsor . ,, E,sq., of Clapham, aged 18. On the Ist inst., Ev cline, the wife of V a l en ti ne 33 artholornevel Esq., of Foley place, 'And Only daughter of the late eminent musie° professor Joseph Ni colasHullmaudel, Esq. On the 2d inst„, Mr. John Holdsworth, of Tottenham-court' road, aged 38. On the 30th, ult,-, John Fanner Gresham, Esc., of Bruce-groper Tottenham, aged i 9 On the. 30th ult., in 'Wilton-place, Joset t th Hockley, E s q., f or „ upwareis of 30 ye ars town-clerk of the borougl.l of Guildford, aged bx. On the 31st ult., aged 63, Wm. B. Tart,utt, Esq. On the 24 „th ult., Sholto Douglas, Es ~ late Major in the 6. 3 - Regiment. q On ' , e 30th ult., at B et h na l -green, aced 86, Elizabeth, relict of t' A e late John Bromley, Esq., of 'fotten ham, kaide.lesex. , At Kenti s h -t own, on the 28th ult., Sophia,. the -wife of - lsi Wlag ) Abington, Esq., late of the East India House / . At Brighto n , on t h e 28th nit., William P,edford„Esq.• aged 66'.....0 On the 28th ult., at Erme Cottage, Mary, -wife of Tho'w Boardman, Esq., of Elwell Cottage, Totn , .. At Hastings, on th e 30 t h u l t., Rose, the -wife of Robert liktiO Byass, Esq., of Fenchurch-street. On the 18th nit., at Dunkirk, Philip SheDpard, Esq., aged 71 ... ...4 ~,..,-,-,..„--............—.. 10' London Printed and P u bli s h e d by MUII.DO YOUNG of 1 112, Strand, at The Sum Offiee, No 1.114 Shwa) in tine 444 of Middetez.—Friday, January 4, leo s.