The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

ebtrb Xltetton SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 26. Dividend . per Amount Annum. Names of Com panies. Paid. Share. ki pet cent. 41. 4/. Ws. 4 per cent. 41. 401. .15s. I L ss. S 12s. Bd. .ss. .1. 10e, 41. 101. 334 _ 17s. tid. toi C percent. 28 1102. 11. 10e. 151. ..... 321. 10s. I. 4s. cent. A per cent. •1 per cent. 4 per cent. 31. Ws. 5 per ceMt. L per cent. t% per cent. 4 per cent. • per cent. 1% per cent. I/. On. Sd. 183. Id. per cent. 11. 7s 9►. 10s. 4 percent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 3a. 6d. pr sh 51. 51. er share per cent. 3L per ceut. 3as. bs. 41! per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. eper cont. per cent. 2s. fsd. pfrcen t. ' 'l9s. 12 ih. & bs. U. ss. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. 11. ss. 5 per cent. I}4 per cent. 11. 44. 5 per cent. W% per cent SI 8 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. tiper cent. per cent. per cent a per cent. 6 per cent. Ils per share 6s. per share 10 per cent. per cent. 16s. 11. Ss. 11. 7s. M. and be. 1441. ind bs. per cent. scent. 101. 10/. VI per 9h ISs per ih C per cent. 5 per cent.: 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 04 per cent. 31. IYs. 'll. 10s. 21. 10s. 21. 10s. tiler cent. 41. 16s. 11. 14S. 2/.13e. p. eh. 11. 4.5. per cent. Ist per eh. fill. 5a per ,11 Jo p 4: cent B}6 per cent. B 4 ss, per ca ft 1. per eh. Ns. perch. per cent. JO per cent. 10 per cent. per ah LW. per sh. U. 14.5. 13/.per share .:35 4d per sh 91.175. pr st 113 s per st IL 11. 51. I3s. IL Ils. 10d. L 5 per cent. i:er cent. JO per cent. 10 per cent. U. I I. 9/. is. 6d. Canals. Ashton and Oldham , Ashby-denla-Zouch_av Basingstoke ecknock & Abergay Birmingham, 1.16 th sh Do. and Liverp. Jut c Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry Cromford ......... Dudley ....... Derby Danube and Mayne Ellesmere and Chester Erewash ....... Forth and Clyde Grand J Grand Union Grand Surrey Grand We5tern......... Glamorgansh., ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham ...... Huddersfield Kennet r....(1 Avon ...av Lancaster ...............av Leeds and Liverpool Leicester Leicester & Northamp Loughborough ........av Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield,— ..... Neath Peak Forest av Regent's (or London).. av Shropshire .......... Somerset ....... Do. Lock Fund Stock Staffbrd and Worcester 5hrew5bury,.......,....... Stourbridge ........ Stratford.on-Avon av Swansea Severn & Wye & Rail. Trent & Mersey, sh. Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Birming. Warwick and Napton... Worcester & Birming. Wilts and Berks......av Wisbeach Wey and Docks. Commercial... ....... East and West India London Ditto Bonds Bristol ar Do.Bnds,var.amounts at. Katharine.... ........ . Ditto 80nd5..„... Ditto Binds Southampton nridg - es Hammersmith Southwark, new Subs. Ditto New of pr c. Waterloo...—. ..... ..... Ditto Old Ann. of SI,. Ditto New ditto 81'74 Ditto Bonds...—. ....... Vauxhall.--.... av Assurances. Albion Alfred Life ...... Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine. ........ Atlas Birmingham Fire........ British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle ...... Economic Life ..... European Life Ditto New Freemasons... ....... Globe Guardian Hape Life Ditte Imperial Fite.-- Ditto Life... ....... . Indemnity Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National Loan Fowl Neptune Marine Palladium Life Protector Life Provident Rock Life R yal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto Life...—. University Life— Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk flanks Australasi ........ Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New ....... London Joint Stock-- Metropolitan Provincial of Ditto New . National of Ireland.... Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New Gloucestershire ~.. Union of Australia..... Union of London Gaslight & Coke Bath •••• British ... Ditto Provincial......„ Birmingham Binning. & Stairordth 8ri5t01......—. ..... Brighton Ditto General City of London Ditto New. .. .. .... .. .. Continental Congolld.„ Ditto New Equitable. Imperil Isle of Thanet Independent Phenix Ratcliff: South Metropolitan__ United General ...... .„. Westmins. Chartered.. Ditto New............... Water Work Birmingham East London Grand Junction av Kent .......... Nw Riv Lan, Bridg An. Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middiesex av Yrk Buldg Co. Les Prep Iron Railways Birmingham Sr Derisy & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Eastern Counties Edinburgh & Glasgow Grand Junction... Great North of Englnd Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths Harwich (Braithwaite) Hull and Selby ....... Lancaster anti Carlisle Leeds and Selby Liverpool & Manchcstr Ditto Halt-Shares London and Brighton Ditto Loan Notes__ London and Bh.ckwall London and Greenwich London and Tlitinitigh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds... London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchestt r and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchatr and Binning Midland Cougties North British Norwi h & Brandon Northern end Eastern Ditto Scrip, its. St. dis. Paris and Orleans Paris and R0uen........, Rouen and Havre....... Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich lork and N. Midland... Ditto New Shares Mines. Altolcn Alten Anglo Mex., iss. 51. p.m Ditto Subscription Mario: ............. Ditt-, Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss. 51. p.in Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian, ism. 51. p.m General Mining ..... Hibernian ........... Imperial Slate Compy. Mexican ............. Mining Co. of Ireland Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loa❑ Notes Rhymney Iron Sal:nag° de Cuba United Mos., iss2l. poi Ditto scrip Ditto New Scrip /. 10s. tOper cent. 11)L per sh. 11. /W. perch. Literary. Londn, with Sin. Ticket London University Russell Kiug's C011ege...... ...... Miscellaneous. Anglo Mexican Mint.. Australian Agricultur. Brit. American Land,., Canada Upper Canada Bonds... Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Preperty Met. Wood Pay., iss. 11. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand Bening. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steals Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Land 1/. 4s. 11. lbs. (per cent. ts e . : cent. A . awn gs. 41. Gs. .1 tiv.r cent. iper cent. M{ per cent taper cent LIST OP SCOTTISH COM . NOV. 2, 11 Bank or Scoiand„,..„, Royal Bank . ... British Linen Compny. Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank., Western Bank Central 13k. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of ScotL Edinburgh Lite lnsur. 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NOVEMBER 26, 1344. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) ROBERTS V. TAYLOR. The jury having remained out of Court more than an hour, found a verdict fur the plaintiff-10/ for the as sault, and 51. for excessive distres—thus allowing the defendant 251 for rent. BARROW V. FRANKLIN. In the course of examination it was elicited from the plaintiff's witnesses, that the ill-treatment on account of which Mrs. Franklin left her husband, consisted mainly of vulgar and gross language, which, his Lordship ob served, however shocking to a female who had been ac customed to more refined society, she might have ex pected to endure when she allied herself to a man of the class to which the defendant belonged. It also appeared that before the action was brought, Mrs. Franklin had returned to her husband, and that his conduct towards her had, from January last till the present time, been unexceptionable. Her father deposed that he, and not the plaintiff, had maintained her during the separation. The jury, after a short deliberation, found that the lady had had sufficient cause for leaving her husband, but that the board afforded her by the uncle was not furnished on the husband's credit, through her pro mise.—Verdict entered for defendant. Pric 160 13% 165 SIU 440 110 161% 25 CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY, OLD COURT. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) George John. Paye, a wheelwright, in the employment of the South-Western Railway Company, was charged with having stolon some brass tubes, &c., of the value of Cs. 9d., from that Company. Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Johnson for the defence. iou ' 640 158 71 1110 160 The evidence proved that the property was found on his (the prisoner's) premises, and the servants upon the railway identified it. _ _ _ The jury found him Guilty, but in consideration of a previous good character, recommended him to mercy. The RECORDER said that, owing to that recommenda tion, he should limit the period of his imprisonment to two calendar months, with hard labour. 120 123 H 480 230 WO COURSE OF EXCH./ Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13131 Altona l3 131 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Frankfort on Maine l2l .NGE,-(THIS DAY, 240 30 495 10 167 152 Gibraltar — Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice ........ Nap1e5....... Palermo, per oz llB Lisbon 55 Oporto 55 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 953 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36} Buenos Ayres — NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia — PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9 7 , Sil'for in ears 0 4 ng Cadiz 101% Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—We are glad to see the standard of re volt raised in the Church itself against the priestly ,pretensions of Henry of Exeter, and his congenial curates, and against the " holy innovations" of the Peel of the Church, Charles James, Bishop of London. The standard of re volt may be considered:rather a fierce phrase. But, after all, it is only revolt against revolt— revolt against individual or clique caprice, setting itself up as the authorative organ of English Church inanship. Now, very unfortunately, English Church manship has no organ just at present. Every English Churchman, "high" or "low," is "thrown on his own resources," and compelled to choose his own ground. The charge of irreverence to authorised in terpreters of orthodox doctrine or discipline must come with a very indifferent grace indeed from the original Church agitators. The sometime editors of Froude's " Remains," or of the British Criti c — suc h Gracchi of the Church as Mr. Newman or Mr. Ward —are the last men in the world to be listened to in complaint of the sacerdotal sedition, Bishop Phillpotts doing the honours of his diocese to the suspended Saint who had given name to Puseyism, Bishop Blomfield setting aside all ecclesiastical usage (which, as the Rev. Henry Raikes, Chancellor of Chester, most justly observes, "in ecclesiastical matters is but another term for law")—these " holy innovators," we say—betraying, moreover, in all their innovations a degree of ignorance of the law of the land, and the law of the Church, all but incon ceivable in undeniably acute and officially elevated men, speaking from a seat of authority—have begun that process of unsettling men's minds, which never yet ended in favour of implicit obedience to the power that provoked it. It is very strange that it should not have been felt, in those days of inquiry, that unreasoned deference can only be paid to pre scriptive—habitual—claims on it. Men will readily take for granted that there is some reason at the foundation of any practice, which comes recom mended to them by the fact that it has subsisted from century to century. And some reason, for the most part, there is. It is the crudest of all proceed ings—and that which has most usually been objected to hasty Reformers—to ascribe nothing of weight to usage, and everything to some fancied fitness. Wise men would have begun for instance, in the great gown-or-surplice question, by supposing the vesture obnoxious to their zeal innocent, till it was proved guilty. They would not have ridden off on seine nonsensical hobby of the sermon being part of the communion ; they would have traced the poor gown back, and would have discovered its real and original conformity to the whole system of Protestant worship, Accordingly the decent and primitive gown (we, of course, speak as Protestants) would not have been discarded by a prelate professing not to he ashamed of the name of Protestant, whatever might have happened to it at the hands of the Puseyite Bishop Phillpotts. And, we imagine, even that pole mical prelate, with all his fine instinct of discord, would have hesitated to indulge it (in the matter of burials) in defiance of the law of the land—if he had happened to know that law a little better, before he talked about it. In this state of things, and with this incredible levity in some high places, every Church. man must feel the fate of the Church possibly de pendent on him. Whether, or not, there are " ten righteous men " in the city, may fix its doom. Whether, or not, there are sufficient numbers of clergymen not drunk with a dream of power— to retain the general confidence of the laity in something like sane spiritual guidance—is the question which every clergyman's conduct and lan guage go so far to answer. There can be no scruple about speaking out, when the modern monkery speaks out so loudly. There can be no scruple about dis senting from bishops, when the modern monkery insults therm, and they truckle to it in meed of insult. Any one who requires proof of this is referred to Mr. Ward's " Ideal of a Christian Church" — and with regard to the truckling which has followed all this insult, on the part of some prelates—what are these " holy innovations" (never thought of before) but concessions to this modern monkery ? What are they but concessions, and most blunder ing ones, to the spirit which now avows its entire unity with ltome—while, most prepos terously—though accepting " the whole cycle of Roman doctrine"—denouncing every exercise of pri vate judgment in matters of faith as a sin—declaring his Holiness " head bishop on earth," and his dogma tic decrees infallible—declaring our Church "vitally" and utterly "corrupt"—and declaring elsewhere, that Churches thus corrupt are not Churches at all--the modern monkery of Oxford clings nevertheless—like sombre and stifling ivy—to the Church of its fellow ships—the Church of its coterie-influence—its tea and " relics." The modern monks believe Rome in all things—except when Rome tells them they must join her. In this ridiculous and self-stultified position let them by all means rest. We would not make a martyr of a single man (we beg pardon, monk) of them. We would let them go on reviling fur wiser and far better men than themselves, and enumerating amongst the signs of saintship the harbouring of vermin. But we would not let them dictate charges to Prelates, and ce remonies to Protestants. We would let them call us heretics to their hearts' content, but not palm on us their heresy. We would let them anathematise all private judgment, but not substitute theirs for ours. For, in fact, to private judgment the al peal is made, after all, on both sides. The Newman and Ward party, indeed, would dethrone reason from all judg ment on faith. But they are compelled to restore Reason ad interim, to supply arguments why they themselves stay out of Rome. It is universally received in the Roman communion, that no salvation is to be ebtained out of it—and that nothing but " invincible ignorance" can be pleaded for any yet within its pale. Mr. Ward declares that he looks to Rome for instruc tion and model, and exults in adding that numbers, like himself, are possessed with the whole cycle of Roman doctrine. But this doctrine—the keystone of the arch (for it is this which stamps Catholic authority) this, the most imperative in " the whole cycle of Roman doctrine"— these Ox ford heretics boggle at. And why ? Because all other Roman doctrines are good weapons of attack and aspersion on Protestantism. But this one doctrine demands the sacrifice of station and influence by themselves. We ascribe no motives of sordid in terest to this very curious party. But it is clear, beyond all mistake, that they feel consistency would consign them to insignificance. We hope an ener getic (not exclusive or persecuting) reaction of Pro testant independence amongst clergy and laity (which is surely as justifiable as insurrection against Protestantism) will do just the same business for them—consign le them, namely, to that insignificance to which some remnant of common sense withholds A as N 3 D 'et A. f it ro p m .__ c_o „ n T sig h n e ing vi t s h c e o m un se t iv A es b . believe, is still in London." Upon this short and e nmaerwgulttntednotttfmulorteextthathneaMeoorinuttn-ngn Chronicle i hangs that some important change in the sugar duties, 21% 103 3 26 3 24 120 6% 5 400 IJ. j& 493,, i 6h 189 27!. 15i lbo 10 16% 3'7 173, 27 some change much more important than that proposed by the Whigs and rejected by Parlia ment in 1841, may be looked for at the hands of Sir Robert Peel. We assure our readers that the Morning Chronicle has no other datum what ever to support this extravagant expectation, but its own belief that " the Viscount Abrantes" (the Brazilian envoy) "is still in London." Now, dis missing the uncertainty in the case, and taking it for granted the Viscount Abrantes is still in London, we must dispute the necessity of our Contemporary's in ference. The Viscount Abrantes is, like every foreign gentleman and every foreign minister with whose country we are at peace (now happily the case in reference to the whole world) at libefty to remain in London as long as it shall seem plea sant to him ; and if he came here with the peremptory and extravagant propositions that have been ascribed to his Government, his lin gering here is a proof, in addition to many others, that his propositions have been, as they ought to be, firmly rejected, and that he waits a modification of them from his own Government. Shopkeepers per fectly well understand from the hesitating retire ment of a customer who has in vain attempted to cheapen an article, that he will, in the end, come back and purchase it. The customer as well knows that the shopkeeper who follows him into the street will, ultimately, accept his price. It is just the same thing in diplomacy. The party that shows an anxiety to keep the nego tiations open as long as possible, is the party that knows he must give way at last. If the Brazilian Government had not in fact had so much common sense as to see before the failure of their negotiations with France (of which, by the way, the Morning Chronicle says nothing) that this is their situation, why was the Viscount Abrantes sent here ? The ultimatum of England was obtained from Mr. Ellis— why then send a special envoy, if there was no new proposition to offer? It may be, that the Brazilian Government may, like others whom the League and its journals hare cheated, have been for a moment puffed up with an inordinate notion of the importance of the Brazil trade to the European nations, to France as well as to England, and may, during this delusion, have miscalculated its power, or rather forgotten its utter inability to exclude European goods. A few minutes' conversation of its representative with the better informed and more prudent Ministers of England and of France would soon expose the true state of the case, and apprise the Brazilia n Govern ment, that highly as it may think of itself and of the commerce of the country which it governs, the first rate and most commercial nations of Europe are not yet quite prepared essentially to change their whole commercial policy, to conciliate the one or obtain the other, more especially as the whole commerce (f the Brazils, such as it is, may be obtained upon much cheaper terms—obtained without the cost of any sacrifice, save the loss of its revenues to the Govern ment of Rio. This, no doubt, is the melancholy ten dency of the report which the Viscount Abrantes has made to his superiors, and it is awaiting the modified propositions which such a report must suggest, that " the Viscount Abrantes we believe is still in Eng land." The Morning Chronicle " engages for it that the Viscount's demands are of a Sibylline character, and have not been diminished by so long an armistice." Upon what does our Contemporary found this very rash engagement? The Sibyl did not linger still in Rome ; but, though she returned, she took her answer and departed ; she did not stop to " higgle and haggle," if we may use the Parliamentary dialect. Again, there has been no armistice, except the expiring treaty is to be regarded as such. It may be that the Brazilian Government will be so silly (though we do not expect it to be so), as to make more extrava gant demands, be cause th e less extravagant are refused, in order to get in a higher style out of the affair, just as Mr. O'Connell prefers the more obvious impossibi lity, repeal, to the less obvious impossibility, fede ralism. "In for a penny, in for a pound," accord ing to the proverb. When people resolve to claim what they know they will not get, there is dignity and grandeur in insisting upon something very great. The fact is, that our Contemporary's article is from first to last mere moonshine ; an abuse of time, type, and the patience of readers, of which we cannot rea sonably complain, seeing that we have nearly filled a column in replying to it; for which we ask pardon. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current fof Nov. 26. Suos.n.-To-day the home consumption Sugar market presented a quiet appearance ; there was no public sale of Bengal or Mauritius, and little business was tran sacted by private treaty. For West India Muscovadoe the demand was limited for the scale and pan, middling to fine yellow and strong grey qualities sus tained the former value, the market being scantilly sup plied with such, but for inferior and brown sorts the rates taken were generally Gd per cwt under those of Friday last. The total purchases are 450 hhds, &c., including a public sale of 100 hhds 8 tierces of Barba does, which went off at former rates, excepting for low sorts, which went 6d to is per cwt lower, fine yellow brought 655, good 62s to 645, good mid 60s to 61s 6d, mid 57a to 59s 6d, and low 54s to 56s 6d per cwt. REFINED.-To-day refined goods were in excellent re quest by the home trade, brown lumps at 72s to 735, standard 73s 6d to 745, and wet lumps 71s per cwt. Some of the refiners have no goods to offer for sale. The market is firm for bonded crushed Sugar at 29s 6d per cwt, and the supply is very small. MAURITIUS.-There has been less inclination mani fested to purchase this description of Sugar. The bid dings were languid at the public sales of 5,811 bags 232 casks of the new crop ; the principal part, how ever, found purchasers at fair market rates, but the prices obtained were not so high as were expected -fine yellow sold at 64s to 67s 6d, good 60s to 63s 6d, good middling 57s Gd to 595 6d, low to middling 52s to 563 6d, good brown 48s, low to middling 42s to 455, very low 40s, grey 52s to 58s. The principal part consisted of good middling and good bright strong yellow descriptions; a few lots of the old crop went at 49s 6d per cwt for brown. Arrivals aro near at hand, and the stock is larger than it was last season at this period. EAST INDIA.-Bengal has been in very good demand for home consumption, and an advance in prices of Is to Is 6d per cwt has taken place for white descriptions ; brown and yellow kinds have sustained the former cur rency, and of such the supply chiefly consists. At public sale 6,578 bags were principally disposed of-fine white at 66s to 69s 6d, good 64s to 65s 6d, low to middling 61a to 63s Gd, damp and washed 60s to 695, fine sound yellow 62s to 63s 6d, good middling and good 58s 6d to 61s, middling 55s to 58s, low 51s to 54s 6d, damp and washed 50s to 63s 6d, sound brown 44s to 525, damp and damp and washed 40s Gd to 51s per cwt. For Java the demand has been extensive. Manilla is held for the former currency, but less demand has existed. Of Singapose, 534 bags were taken in a 19s to 20s for fine damp yellow, 18s to 19s for washed, 16s for brown, and 15s to 15s Gd per cwt for washed. FOREIGN.-To-day an increased desire was shown to purchase all descriptions of Foreign, and Foreign East India Sugar, and very full rates were paid. The private operations are 400 baskets of Java at 23s to 23s 6d, 500 hhds of old Porto Rico at 19s, 3,000 bags of mid yellow Manilla at 19s, some parcels of yellow Havannah at 20s 6d to 22s 6d, brown at 18s to 20s, and a large parcel of Bahia, but the price at present has not transpired. The market has a very firm appearance for all descriptions. COFFEE.-There has been a very good demand for West India for home consumption, the moderate rates that prevail causing the trade to be desirous to get well stocked, particularly with the ordinary good and fine ordinary descriptions. In Ceylon there has been little business transacted by private treaty, ordinary and good ordinary pale descriptions have sustained the former value, but for the lower qualities of Plantation a decline in prices of 2s per cwt has occurred; the better kinds, however, have sustained the former value. This after noon there was little desire shown to purchase Ceylon Coffee. At public sale 360 bags were only partly dis posed of at a decline in prices of Gd per cwt, good ordi nary pale selling at 53s 6d. There was a better demand privately for Sumatra at 22s per cwt. MOLASSES.-For West India a brisk demand has sprung up, and the large quantity of 500 puns have been disposed of at firm rates ; Antigua has fetched 245, and Tobago 21s :to 21s 6d per cwt. The deliveries aro still exceeding the arrivals. In East India not much business has been transacted, but holders refrain from pressing sales ; 14s to lis per cwt is the value. TEA.-The market has presented a firm appearance for every description of Tea since this day week; a good do mand has existed by private contract for Congou, and full rates have been paid-sales made at 10-id to 10,1 d for common, and at lid to 112 d for good common. Twankay at Is 2d to is 2id for yellow leaf. Scented Orange Pekoe at 3s 4d to 3s sd. Pouchong 6d to 10d. Fly son and Young Hyson are in very good demand, and stiffer rates are paid. G unpow d er an d I mper i a l are much in request, and prices are still going up. In other i - asn T adl h lt i ht s aek a s t e l on e u r in ni a o to n f2 B i l d ae 4to k oo P 2ida p g p fsoe r r met with little sorts_ of Tea some parce l s h ave b een sold at firm rates. a a t u t c b e t i ? P i o i t i n o E n w s , o g f oo S d um lig a h tr t a bu a t t stalky, being the full value, sea damaged sold, Gist class at 2d to 21d, second class 2d to 2d. Of white 60 bags were mostly taken in at 41d for middling, two lots sold at 41d. 29 bags of Bengal Ginger were taken in at 16s per cwt for ordinary worm. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLA NDS. - Importers of Ja maica Rum refusing to submit to lower rates checks business, and only small parcels have been disposed of at the former currency. The market is firm for Le ewar d s; the supply is rather small, and a fair demand exists at 2proofss transacted, strength.ansaetle(, and h InDemeraramer chants 3 there i to areas 2 s been askingd p littler 3 gallon s d t busine o 3s 7d for 32 to 39s per c en t. over-proof, and Calcutta at 2 s 2 d to 2 s 2 id per gallon there proof with certificate. To-day there was a brisker demand for Leeward Island and Calcutta Rum, in consequence of the Go vernment contract for 100,000 gallons of Rum adver tised to be taken on Thursday, and prices are firmer ; sales of the former made at 2s 4id to 2s 5d proof, and and the latter at 2s 3d per gallon with certificate. In Jamaica there is at present not much business doing.. For Cognac Brandy of the vintage of 1842 there is a large demand at 4s 5d to 4s 7d per gallon. FRUIT.-This afternoon at public sale, 50 barrels of red Smyrna Raisins went at 465; 555 drums of Sultana 635; 12,919 drums of Turkey Figs 46s to 575; 14 casks 103 brls 209 boxes of Greek Figs - 34s to 38s; 56 butts of New Patras Currants, part damaged, 45s to 48s, 49 crtls Ditto 46s to 50s, 22 brls Ditto 50s 51s; 50 hf-chts of new Prunes 388 ; 450 ;half cartons of new Imperial French Plums 9/ to 7/ 10s, 1,368 quarter ditto 61 to 6/ lOs ; 216 ditto 61 Bs, and 100 quarter o to 765. RicE.—Bengal is much wanted, but the market is still sparingly supplied, and prices rule firm, sales by private treaty of mid white have been made at 11 s, good mid at lls 6d, and good 11s 9d to 12s per cwt ; none has again been offered at auction, and a further decrease has taken place in the stock. Of Java some parcels have been sold privately at full prices, but at auction the sound of 1,698 bags was taken in at lOs to lOs 6d for mid broken white being above the value, the damaged, however, sold at 5s to 9s per cwt. Madras has met with ready purchasers by private troaty, at 8s 6d to 9s per cwt for yellow ; indeed, the market has been nearly cleared. The Millers are still issuing a large quantity of Rice, notwithstanding the low rates that prevail for Wheat. The market is firm for cleaned Rice—Patna at 13s 6d to 18s, and Ca rolina at 23s to 27s per cwt. WooL.—There has been a better demand for nearly all kinds of Wool, purchases to a fair extent have been made, and at steady rates ; the accounts from the ma nufacturing parts of the country are of a more favourable nature for the article. The advices come to hand from Sydney state that prices had advanced for Wool. The arrivals of Wool from the first January to the 31st of October have been as follows ' • in London 36,179 bales of Foreign, a n d 72,364 brls of Co lonial. Into Liverpool 33,600 bales of Foreign, and 9,736 bales of Colonial, and into Hull and Goole 60,199 bales of Foreign making the total 130,698 bales of Foreign, and 82,100 bales of Colonial. The arrivals last week were 3,274 bales, 1,445 bales of which consisted of Colonial. INDIGO.—The export demand for Bengal has been limited, and for home consumption there are very few purchasers ; prices as compared with those of the last quarterly sale show a decline of 2d to 4d per lb. In Oude and Kurpah little business has been done. For Spanish the demand is trifling. TALLow.—Previous rates are fully sustained for Rus sian Tallow; on the spot the trade have purchased largely at 408 6d to 40s 9d per cwt for New P Y Candle of first quality, and merchants are not inclined to press sales. Town Tallow has been in excellent request at 41s to 41s 6d, nett cash. New South Wales Tallow at auction sold at 38s to 41s 3d for mid to fine quality. South American at public sale at 35s 3d to 39s Gd for common to fine quality. OILS.—The common descriptions of Fish Oils have been taken sparingly, and previous rates are with diffi culty supported. For Pale Seal 341 to 351 have been accepted, 301 to 331 for colored Seal, 32/ lOs to 331 for Cod Oil, and at 28/ to 32/ for Southern. Sperm 88/ to 901 for fine British. Of American Spor macetti 85 boxes at auction fetched is 2d per lb in bond. American Lard Oil is fetching 40/ to 411 per tun. Prices are still going down for Olive Oil, 421 to 43/ hay • ing been accepted for Gallipoli, 401 to 411 for Spanish, and 39/ to 39/ lOs per tun for Barbary ; at these low rates, however, buyers are more inclined to operate. Linseed Oil at 23s 3d to 23s 6d. This afternoon at public sale 11 tanks 107 pipes 166 hhds of Ceylon Cocoa Nut Oil were bought in at 271105, and inferior at 261 per tun. TIIE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 25. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John Ross, as Consul at Malta for the Grand Duke of Meek lenburgh-Schwerin. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and of the City and County of the City of York. Second West Reg went of Yorkshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet J. Brooke to be Lieutenant, vice G. H. Brooke, resigned ; J. T. Armitage, Gent., to be Cornet, vice J. Brooke, promoted. Nov. 1. Hussar Regiment of Yorkshire (West Riding) Yeo manry Cavalry—Lieutenant J. 'l'. Wharton to be Captain, vice T. Fairfax, resigned ; Lieutenant F. 11. Wood to be Captain, vice 11. S. Thompson, resigned ; Cornet W. B. Ferrand to be Lieutenant, vice J. T. Wharton, promoted ; Cornet A. Brown to be Lieutenant, vice F. H. Wood, promoted ; the Hononrable G. F. S. R. Viscount Goderich to be Cornet, vice W. B. Ferrand, promoted, Nov. 2. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. NCH2, 1844..5 MICHAELMAS TERM.—EIGHTH VICTORIA. This Court will sit, at a quarter-past nine o'clock in the morning, on Wednesday the 4th day of December next, and will give judgment in cases then pending ie the new trial, special, and Crown papers. BY THE COURT. IN THE EXCHEQUER OF PLEAS. Michaelmas Term.—Eighth Victoria. Monday, Nov. 25, 1844. This Court will, on Tuesday, the 10th day of Decem ber next, at ten in the morning, hold a Sitting, for the purpose of giving judgment in cases pending in the New Trial and Special Papers, and also to give judgment in all motions for rules nisi for new trials. or otherwise, in which judgment has not yet been given. BY THE COURT. Read in open Court, Nov. 25 , 1844, Sarni, Dare, Master. BANKRUPTS. JOHN BURGESS, farmer, Cratfield, Suffolk, to surrender Nov. 29, at half-past one, and Jan. 3, at one, at the Court of - Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Wilde, Rees. Humphrey, and Wilde, College hill, London. JAMES JOILNSON, apothecary, North-place, Gray's Inn-lane, Dec. 30, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 8, at half-past one, a.t the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Lindsay and Mason, Cateaton-street. JOHN FREDERICK FIGGE, merchant, Dunster court, Mincing-lane, Dec. 5, at one, and Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry- chain, wrs ; Nicholson and Parker, Throg morton- street. JAMES TOMLIN, ship-broker, St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill, Dec. 4, as two, and Jan. 10, at twelve, at the Court of Bankraptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall street ; Desborough and Young, Size-lane. BARTHOLOMEW VANDERPLANK, warehouse man, Love-lane, C.;,ty, Dec. 5 and Jan. 13, at one, at the Court of Bankrutptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; James, Basinghall-street. WILLIAM CLARKE, builder, Sheffield, Dec. 10 and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Le e d s Di str i ct C ourt. Y oung, official assignee, _Leeds ; Moss, Cloak-lane, London ; Blackburn, Leeds. JOHN HUMRLE, chemist, Ossett, Yorkshire, Dec. 10 and Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, of,cial assignee, Leeds ; Gregory and nay-, Leeds. P H MEUGENS, broker, Danster- London Wavell, Halifax ; Courte cCootill'r'Eti,3TePdfifßnbcridnj-gr;wai, City, Dec. 11 and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Court ofßank ruptcy,Basingliajl-street. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Nichol son and Parker, Throgmorton-street. JOHN COOPER WHITE, draper, Canterbury, Dec. 11 and Jan. 7, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy, Basinghall-street. Groom, official assignee, Ab church-lane ; Sole, .Aldermanbury. WILLIAM COX - , general dealer, Crown-street, Soho, Dec. 5 and Jan. 7, at: eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. .I3elcher, official assignee, King's Arms-yard ; Pain an d Hatherley, Basinghall- street. JAMES lIASEL DEN, cotton spinner, Bolton-le- Moors. Dec. 10 and'. 30, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ; Milne, Parry, Milne , and Morris, Temple, London ; Winder and Broadbes it, Bolton. JOHN HALL, ouwkeeper, Wallsend, Dec. 5, at twelve, and Jan. 7, at two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wall ley, official assignee, Newcastle upon-Tyne ; Wilson,, Sunderland ; 8011, Brodrick, and Bell, Bow. churchyar.l London. ELEANOR ROBE:NSON and WILLIAM ROBIN SON, bakers, Swin f ord, Leicestershire, Dec. 6, at twelve, and Jan. 10, at half-past twelve, at the Birming ham District Court. 'Valpy, official assignee, Birming ham ; Mash, Lutterl4l firth ; Smith, Bedford-row, Lon dun ; Motteram, Birmt;righam. JOHN BROWN, painter, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Dec. 11 and 31, at elei en, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, offic •ial assignee, Birmingham ; Har rison and Smith, Bier( lingham ; Jackson, Field-court, Gray's Inn, London. ROBERT WATT,. merchant, Lime-street, City, Dec. 19, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Court of Bankrupitcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Sigar Verulam-buildings. CHARLES lIENRN HAMBLETON, licensed vic tualler, Northampton—street, Bethnal-grean, Dec. 11, and Jan. 7, at eleven., at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assigmee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry; Mahon and Trollope, arey-street, Lincoln's Inn. JOHN QUINCEY HARRIS, hat-manufacturer, Winchester-place, Southwark, I)ee. 6, at eleven, and Jun. 8, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, offi c i a l ass i gnee , 'C o l eman - s t re et -buildings; Parker, Lincoln's Inn-fields. GEORGE STEPEEN, scrivener, Skinner's-place, Sise-lane, City, Dec.. 5, and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basing hall-lane; Cox, Sise-tane. THE LATE Romany AT MESSRS. ROGERS AND CO.'S, IN THE CITY.—Up to two o'clock to-day noinfor mation had been recalved by the City police authorities on the subject of this extraordinary robbery. It is con sidered by those shoal the banking-house, that the rob bery was committed about the middle of the day on Sunday, and the rea'onable inference from that con jecture is, that the th ieves started by railroads to the several ports from which steamers were speedily to sail to various parts of the Continent. Messengers were sent off by Mr. Hobler to France, Germany, Belgium, and other places, and. the several telegraphs were set to work. It is unnecesaary to state that thegreeaxtepsetreiexneere tions are being m a d e b y M r . H o bl er , whose and activity lead the members of the plundered esta blishment to hope that detection may soon follow.-- [We are informed that her Majesty has offered a free pardon to any accomplice concerned in the ab ove affair.] GUERNSEY.—WhiIe Jersey is in a state of excite ment on account of the proceedings in the Wilson case, the sister island of Guernsey has a little affair of her own to furnish a topic of conversation in parlours and clubrooms. Four British gentlemen have fal'en into what is familiarly termed a row. The circumstances are briefly these :—Mr. M'Donald, who has been a re sident not many months in the island, became a candi date for admis3ion into the " Civil and United Service Club" of Guernsey. Upon bing balloted for, according to the rules of the club, he was blackballed. He was na turally vexed and indignant at the result, and endea voured to discover the cause of it. His suspicions at last rested upon Mr. Armstrong, a member of the club, who, he believed, had made statements prejudicial to his character. Mr. M`Donald, on entering a billiard-room, was heard to say—" He (alluding, it is supposed, to Mr. Armstrong) is not here—we must go and find him and drag him out of the house and give him a licking." This being mentioned to Major Rybot, Mr. Armstrong's friend, the Major went to the constable's office and got Mr. M`Donald bound over to keep the peace 'towards Mr. Armstrong. Mr. M`Donald, fired at this interfe rence, wrote an offensive letter to the Major, and re ceived a similar one in return. Meeting Major Rybot and Mr. Armstrong in the street, M`Donald asked Major Rybot what he meant by his letter. The reply was, that the letter explained itself. Mr. M'Donald then flourished his stick over Major Rybot, and told him to consider that it had been laid across his shoulders. The Major returned the compliment, desiring that Mr. M`Donald would entertain a similar agreeable idea. After a variety of further courteous expressions, the verbal civility came to more substantial marks of good will, and not only Mr. M`Donald, but Mr. Dundas, a gentleman in his company, fell upon Major Rybot in a very un- English style—two to one ; the Major, however, fought so gallantly that he had the best of the battle until his can. broke. Ile was their rescued by the inter ference of others. We are acquainted with none of the parties in any way implicated in this affair, with the ex ception of Major Rybot, whom we know to be a highly honourable man anti a true gentleman in his manners, and we think that his conduct in this unhappy matter re dounds gretvly to his credit. The business was brought before the Police-court of Guernsey on Tuesday last, when Mr. M`Donald and Mr. Dundas were sentenced to a fortnight's imprisonment, and to be called upon at the end of that time to give bail in .50/. each, with two sure ties of 254 each, to keep the peace 1-wards all her Ma jesty's ::objects in Guernsey for one year.—Jersey rrnes. A GAMEKEEPER SHOT.—On Saturday night last, Mr. Green, gamekeeper to J. S. Lescher, Esq., of South Weald, was wounded by a gun shot, in an attempt to ap prehend a poacher, who escaped. Mr. Green lies in a dangerous state.—Essex Herald. MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN THE CASE OF BELANEY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MEDICAL GAZETTE. Sir,—Will you do me the favour of inserting this letter in as early a number of your journal as may be convenient; it is an answer to one I have just seen, and which appeared in the Herald of the 17th inst., purporting to be a review of the medical evidence given by myself and Dr. Thomson at the late trial of Belaney, and accusing us of having allowed ourselves to be directed by general evidence, of having assumed wrong premises, and drawn conclusions from them which were not warranted : three charges sufficiently grave and serious to call for a reply, especially as they are put forth by a medical professor under the form of a scientific dissertation. I can, and do, sympathise with the Rev. Mr. Belaney, and hope that no word or act of mine will give a tone to the general impressions which are everywhere formed respecting the unfortu nate death of his brother's wife ; and I assure him that I was actuated by the same feelings when I entered the Court to give evidence at the trial, being con vinced that general reports neither did, nor could, come within the scope of my inquiries, which had reference merely to the medical facts; and for the purpose of arriving at these, and removing every tittle of doubt or objection which ingenuity might raise against them, I had instituted experiments under every variety of form and circumstance, the results of which, and not of any readings or hearsay, I detailed honestly and as clearly as I could to the jury, never allowing myself for one moment to be swayed by a double-meaning question, or by any party feeling ; and it must also be remembered that I was not unac customed to such investigations, but that the circum stances of my position had for many years demanded an almost daily examination into them. Among the wrong conclusions with which Dr. Glover charges us, are the following :—He says, I had no right to assume that the cry of Mrs. Belaney was a shriek, or that it was the effect of the poison. Now I do not know that I have anywhere made such an assumption. It is merely asked of me, whether animals, under the influen ce o f p russ i c ac id , d o not cry out? To which I answer—yes, that it is a con stant effect: and then it is inquired of me whether, after this cry, there would be a possibility of walking to bed and telling the cause of the disaster? To which I reply, " Certainly not ! fur after the shriek all sensibility and volition cease." And Dr. Thomson confirms my statement. This was no answer given hastily and inconsiderately, but sought for amidst multitudes of experiments and observations ; nor is it in any way invalidated by the case quoted from Christison, or, indeed, by any case within my know ledge that has ever been upon record. There can be no doubt, as this and other cases show, of a capability of speaking after the exhibition of the poison; but this is not the argument ; it is, whether there can be Conversation after the shriek—which I maintain is impossible. With respect to the other question, whether Mrs. Belaney's cry was a mere call to her husband, or a scream resulting from the poison, I have never offered an opinion, although Mr. Garrett stated in his evidence that Belaney told him it was a scream. Again, according to the husband's statement, Mrs. Belaney called the drink hot; and I am asked, if prussic acid has a hot taste ? and reply, " No; that its taste is bitter." I have tasted it again and again, and on two occasions in quantities sufficiently large to produce faintness ; yet Dr. Glover maintains, by an unnecessary, an inapplicable, and a most unlearned dissertation upon the chlorides, bromides, and iodides of cyanogen, that it must be hot,—though I cannot see how this affects the matter of fact arrived at by myself and another, who is nearly the only individual who has lived to record that its taste is inexpressibly bitter. In next part of the review Dr. Glover pronounces our answers to be an outrageous piece of cruelty. It was known that Belaney, although he called himself a medical man, used no efforts to recover his wife, and we are asked whether the remedies for prussic acid are generally known in the profession ? To which we reply, that they should be, inasmuch as they are everywhere taught ; and I think that we were warranted in making such a reply, when it is re membered that for sixteen years or upwards they have been publicly and emphatically taught in our schools, and are constantly being brought before the profession in one form or another; that we have professed works and journals, and charts, to teach them to us; and if Dr. Glover's " old and young acquaintances, who are in active practice," do not happen to know them, it can surely never palliate, or in any way remove the culpability of the charge of gross neglect and ig norance ; nor can it be admitted as an argument of the universality of sueh ignorance : if it did, Heaven knows, there is necessity enough for reform in our profession ; but most singularly, when Dr. Glover finds it convenient to make Belaney a judicious looker on, he argues for the propriety of his conduct, and says, that when he stood by ready with his lancet, he was acting in accordance with the views of Orfila, Christison, Magendie, and others. And why, may I ask, did he not further act in accordance with common affection and common honesty, and try to save her ? To crown the whole of this part of Dr. Glover's review, he tells us that we do not know the remedies ourselves ; notwithstanding the whole tenor of our evidence, that she might have been saved. Lastly, as regards our opinion, that a smell would exist for some time in the room where prussic acid had been spilt, Dr. Glover expresses his dissent in toto, although it has been stated that my conclusions were drawn from experiments made under circumstances as nearly as possible like those of the case in question ; and in conclusion, without staying to comment on the pseudo-scientific character of the review, meant evi dently to catch the popular ear. I will merely ex press a wish that it had been written with a more " conscientious spirit." I am, sir, your obedient servant, HENRY LETIIEBY, M. 8., Lecturer on Chemistry at the London Hospital. 12, Tredegar-square, Oct. 31, 1844. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. CAUTION TO MARINERS. Extract of a letter from Lloyd's agent at Workington. " Liverpool, Nov. 22, 1844. "Captain Trunion, of the brig Middleton, of Mary port, requests me to report that, on the 7th of March last, when on his passage from Buenos Ayres to Valpa raiso, in lat. 40 deg. 22 sec. S., lon. 55 deg. 13 sec. W., out five days (the latitude and longitude given as per chronometer), he discovered rocks, on which broken water was run for a quarter of a mile north and south—they were about that distance from them when seen. Captain Trunion, on his discovering them, was then taking an observation of the sun. He supposes they must be the Ariel Rocks, although there is a considerable difference in their latitudes and longitudes; that had his attention not been particularly drawn to that quarter whilst taking his altitudes, they might have been passed unseen ; and he can vouch for the accuracy of latitude and longitude of ship when these rocks were discovered." Com. Impunivica.—Rather more than seven years ago, a light•fingered Irishman, named Sweeney, was convicted of stealing a box of tinned plates from a ship in one of the Liverpool dooks. On his conviction he was sentenced to seven years' transportation, which punish ment was duly inflicted. A few days ago he again made his appearance in this town, and one o f the first places he visited was the office of the firm to whom the tinned plates had belonged. Neither of the principals were within, but he at once proceeded in the coolest manner to introduce himself as Mr. Sweeney, the gentleman who had suffered for appropriating the tinned plates. He said that his visit to Australia had not been either dis agreeable or unprofitable ; that he had soon obtained a good-conduct ticket, and a good place as a gardener, in which he had saved money. Having now fulfilled all his obligations to the law, he had retOrne4 home, and determined to claim his rights, among which 1‘7,9 thQ box of tinned plates for which he had been sent to Botany Bay 1 This he considered clearly his own, and begged that it might b© given up to him. We need scarcely say that Mr. Sweeney's story and his request threw the whole office into a roar. The clerks not feel ing themselves competent to decide on so curious a claim in the absence of their employers, begged that the gen tleman would call again, which he promised to do, though he has not yet fulfilled his promise. —Liverpool Chronicle, SUCCESS OF THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM AT WIMESWOULD, LEICESTER. ' A very interesting meeting took place at this vil lage on Tuesday evening last. The allotment sys tem appears to have been carried out there on a rather extensive scale. There is a considerable quantity of what is called feofee land, and two or three years ago it was determined by the feofees, in conjunction with the Rev. Mr. Alford, the incum bent, who, we understand, was the principal mover in the scheme, to let it out in allotments of from a rood to half an acre, In addition to this, several gentlemen of the n i hbotirhaed encouraged the system, and an allotm t: formed—the re sult of whose exertio neat quantity of land, which before w• V 7 en waste, is now fruitful and productine,s,'' been determined upon to celebrate the ;tut . , l. -1' 416 e Society by a supper, the meeting ikas lisit-atsth'e Infants' School room, which was t Asti--"idly7;dicoraf. d for the occa sion with laurel and (-vergreenS. We noticed io the assembly the Rev. Mri4rlford; Pre4dent of the So ciety (in the chair), Is 4+ l ! Manners, M.P., Jones, Esq., Cstir6k, E4:,!_*S. B. Wild, Esq., Messrs. W. Ella, Brown, 'l'. R. Potter, Henson, Bos worth, G. Kilby, and several other landowners and occupiers. The rest of the company, mustering up wards of 130, consisted of the allotmenters and their friends. The Rev. CHAIRMAN gave the usual loyal toasts, which were responded to with great enthusiasm. Mr. T. R. POTTER rose to propose the health of the Noble guest, Lord John Manners, and took the op portunity of entering into a statement of the " rise and progress" of the allotment system in Wimeswould. There was at first considerable opposition to the plan ; but he himself felt confident that it would be productive of immense advantage both t the rich and poor. He believed it would be fraught with benefits both to the giver and receiver, and he thought he could say that that had been the case there. He believed there was no poor man there who would not say that his situation had been much im proved by it ; and the farmers and ratepayers generally must indeed be short sighted if they could not see that the allotment system had in some degree diminished their burdens.—(Hear, hear.) But he would mention an allotment on his own ground. He let a field in portions of from one acre to half a rood ; it was an unmanageable piece of land, situate about two miles from the village, and with a shocking bad road to it. It was, indeed, in so wild a state, that he could not restrain his tenants from using the plough ; but having an adjoining field he put the spade into that, and dug up from thirteen to twenty inches deep, burying the twitch and rubbish ; and the consequence was, that he got the land completely subsoiled, and the surface, instead of being a heavy dead mass, was now a light spongy soil.—(Cheers.) That land, which he might say had never borne a germ of useful vegetation from the time of the flood, was now fruitful and productive. The speaker here mentioned, in terms of high com mendation, the names of several of the allotmenters, whose example, both as to industry and the quality of their work, he said, might afford a valuable lesson to many of the farmers themselves. He mentioned those men by name because they had not, as yet, tried the system of bringing them out by emulation. They had had no prizes—no perambulations of the allotment ground. He hoped, however, for better things another year. He hoped they should institute a prize for digging, which would be as interesting as prizes for ploughing matches, offered by the Agricultural So cieties. All those things, he had little doubt, would come in time, kind feelings would be induced, and all classes learn how much they depended on each other. There was another thing he wished to men . tion ; their parish was half manufacturing and half agriculture. He thought there had been a consider. able increase of right feeling, and a decrease of mis chief and disorder—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—and from year to year he hoped that would go on. There were other results of their Allotment Society—that meeting was a result : their noble guest was an other result—(Continued cheering)—himself a la bourer in a very wide field, one of the noblest that could offer itself to a scion of the house of Rutland— the renovation of the great mass of his fellow-crea tures.—(Loud cheers.) He would give them, then, the health of their noble guest, Lord John Man ners, with many thanks to him for his condescension —no, he would not call it his " condescension," his " good sense " in coming amongst them, to see how they lived, how they breathed, how they worked ; and if that nobleman wished to form a good senator he could not do better than acquainting him self, and identifying himself, with the wants, the wishes, and the rights of his fellow-men. The toast was received with very great enthusiasm, and continued rounds of applause, which having some what subsided, Lord J. MANNERS rose and said—Mr. Alford, Mr. Potter, and Gentlemen,—When I yesterday received your kind invitation to be present at this gratifying assemblage, I was most anxious, if possible, to accept it, because I have lately, in various parts of the country, attended meetings, which, in different ways, all had for their object the amelioration of the con dition of the people, and I was anxious to witness a similar scene in my own native county. —(Loud cheers.) Your kindness has enabled me to do so, and I beg to assure the gentle man who, much too flatteringly proposed my health, and you who have so kindly received it—l beg you all to believe that in coming amongst you to-day, nothing could be so far from my thoughts as that which my friend would at first call a condescension— such an idea never entered my head.—(" Bravo" and cheers.) There may be some gentlemen to whom an allotment supper of this kind may seem only an unin teresting affair—l am not one of those ;tome it pos sesses an interest, and has claims upon our attention, such as I may safely say no other meetings can pos sess ; for, gentlemen, that which we have heard this evening, that which we have seen, and that which we are to hear, gives us—while it naturally places before our fancy the dreams which we may suppose were real ised in the merry days of old England—gives us hope for the future that our country will continue to pros per and progress ; and that the true old English spirit is still alive amongst us—(Cheers)—uniting the dif ferent classes of society in one common bond of cor dial good feeling ; and instead of self-interest predo minating, leaving us all to act upon, as well as to profess, our belief, that we are the common children of one common Father.—(Great applause.) To vou, the allotment tenants, who have had now two years' experience of the benefit this system confers upon you, it is unnecessary to say anything in praise of it. You are all well aware of the advantages you derive from it; how, when perchance hired labour may fail you have that savings' bank in the earth upon which you may fall, and into which you may deposit with a certainty of finding your contributions returned to you with ample and compound interest. You know what it is to be able to improve your children, and to give them an agricultural education—not only free of expense, but with a certainty of return. Yeu know what it is to be able to keep out of the union workhouses, and to feel that owing to this sys tem, if you be only commonly industrious and honest,* you need entertain but small dread that you will have to enter them. But it does seem extraor dinary to me that, while you are all agreed as to the benefits you derive from this system, th ere are par ties in England—though, thank goodness, not in Leicestershire—there are men, feeling the greatest interest in the welfare of the people, who deliberately set their faces against this system. They tell us it militates against the true principles of political eco nomy—that it makes us dependent upon labour, and then refer us to the results of the Irish cottier system. Gentlemen, in the first place we are told that the allotment system militates against the true principles of political economy. All that I can say to that is, that it would matter very little if it did. The only question we ought to ask ourselves is—does it work well or ill ?—(Hear, hear)—and if experience proves it to work well, then all the dogmas of political economy may be whistled down the wind for what we care.—(Tremendous cheering.) Oh, but they say it prevents the labourer, who would other wise work for the farmer, work only for himself. Now, this system has been tried for many years in various parts of England, and I would ask, has it been found to work ill in any place ? I believe there will be but one answer to that question—it has not been proved that it has, and experience is totally the other way. But suppose, to show the complete ab surdity of the thing, that it be true. Now, we find this argument of the bad working of the Irish cottier system brought forward when we propose any system for improving the condition of the people, and re moving the weight fr om th e i r shoulders. They say it is all of no use; it is a surplus population, and until we get rid of them all the measures you can intro duce will be unavailing. Suppose this to be well founded; I say it is a most inconsequential and ab surd argument; because, if the labour market be overstocked, that ought to be an argument in favour of, rather than against, the system. Well, then, it is said, Oh ! it makes the labourer dependent. Now, in another place I sometimes have to attend--the House of Commons—it has been my fortune to hear a considerable quantity of fustain talk all about inde pendence and freedom ; but I venture to say such nonsense was never talked on these two fruitful to pics as it must be to say this system makes the la bourer a dependent being. The man who lives in some low cottage in a large village or small agricul tural town, who receives eight, ten, or eleven shillings per week, but has lit the crop of cabbage or poti toes he can call his own, nor a garden to himself—he i s i n “ § t o t o pf independence ; although, if his labour fail, be has no resoiiiee but the workh ouse; whereas the man who has these savings' banks, according to these theorists, is a dependent and degraded being.— (Hear, hear.) Dependent, gentlemen, he is truly, but it is on the mercy and goodness of Prn_ Itce, and not on the m ercy an d capr i ce of his employers . (Cheers.) Well, th en , w h en all these phil osophical objections are refuted, as refuted they must be by any man of common sense, the objectors adopt another course. They leave Erdand, its diminished labour market, its diminished labourers, and take us across the channel. Oh (say they) but have the goodness to look at Ireland; see the miseries which the cottier, system has produ ce d th e r e , an d w hi c h y our allotment system must produce in England. Now, it is rather curious, we seldom have these Irish arguments intro: duced upon any other subject. We are generally told that there is a great difference in the character of th e people—that what is good for one would be bad for another, but in this particular point we are told if .a, certain system has failed and pr o d uces a bad rasa!! in Ireland, it will fail and produce a similar bad result in England. Now, I would say, though I think the argument of a difference between the two peeidel pushed beyond its due limits, that there are g reasons for concluding that even if the system nib have failed in Ireland, it limy flourish in Engler" Are ,h0.,,e theme aware of the rack-ren t i , an.l of the terrible comp e titi on f o r land ? they are, I would say they are dishonest' if they are not, I would say they are ignorant reasoners. But it has been my fortune, gent, l , e ,' men, during the past we e k on ly, t o rece i v e inte," v e geuce from Ireland, whi c h wou ld s h ow that sweeping accusations levelled against the occupiers sinall farms is not just. I have heard lately of 30, acres of land which have been colonised by La': G. Hill, and upon whi c h a bl a d e o f grass s ix year s ago was not to be seen. It now maintains no less thal 3,000 people in comfort—(Hear)—small farmers , ' d you will—occupying from five to twenty acres, an ~a there is no doubt that in a f ew years th e populatti will be increased. Simila r resu lt s may b e p r od by similar means. I say, th en , l e t English gentle men do their duty, and th e p easan t s b e actuated ' that high and commendable spirit which has hither: l ' o actuated them, and we shall have no reason fear that this system will produce anything ° good to the English peopl e . It i s no won d er , that that you have assembled here to-day to ea ir brate the successful i n t ro d uc ti on o f th e sys t e m ink your parish. It is no wonder that, as we came di here, we heard the church bells ringing merrily. was no wonder that, when I entered here, I sew w thing but smiling faces and h appy countenancr ,A around me; nor is it any wonder that I can easily alr preciate the motives which brought you here. W e i; eluding the observation s I h are ven t ure d to o btrit upon you, I shall ask you t o d r i n k—l was going.tt. say with three times thre e , b u t I f orgo t t h e resol l m tion—" The allotment te nan t s an d success t o sn husbandry."—(lmmense c h eer i ng , w hi c h con tinue d some minutes.) GEORGB HARRIS, an allotmenter, rose and said' Your Lordship and ge n tl emen a ll—l r i se t o re o you sincere thanks in th e name o f every a llotine tenant for drinking their good health upon the PI; sent occasion, and I sincerely wish you all may eld e , a good state of health, be favoured with a long and prosper.—(Cheers.) Mr. W. ELLA had the greatest pleasure in drsWi the attention of the me e ti ng t o th e t oast h e was tio to propose to them ; one which, he was sure, eve n one there would do justice t o . It was th a t o f a n ob man who stood at the ver y t op o f t h e tree in o neighbourhood. He did no t go h a lf way up, but;(o the very top, in everything he took in hand. I le _ m r, a capital landlord, a n d a s t anc h f r i en d to the 1)7,4, He begged to give them " The health of the Lu t h, - , Lieutenant of the county, the Duke of Rutland (Continued cheering)- and, if he might be allowr:, he should like to do it with three times three', l (Great applause followed this sentence, which i l ot increased by Mr. Wild r i s i ng an d say i ng, "1 Woe we must break through our chairman's regulation s dt this occasion, becaus e we s h a ll not d o j ust i ce to °P - ii feelings unless we d o ."—(H ear, h ear.) Three t° three vociferous cheers were then given.) A 0' Lord JOHN MANNERS returned thanks, an - 1 sured the meeting th a t th e b rea ki ng t h rough the fo in this instance in responding to the toast, was bf_. o more gratifying to him than if it had been the 7 / with regard to his own. His father was sincere anxious to fulfil the responsible duties of the situs! to in which Providence had placed him as he ough",bsi do. No man had more at heart the welfare of 7 0 labourer, and the suc cess o f th e a ll otment systern,,,4l a proof of this, he would state that at the present .. l ". o , he had not less than 1,000 or 1 , 1 00 allotment ten'o —(Loud cheers.) He should take care to con e l s elq him the intelligence o f th e manner i n w hi c h his ns.eep had been received ; a n d h e was sure h e spo k e the 10 ings of his heart when he said that there was tin P where he would rather have his health drank in manner it had been tha n i n a Leicestershire /T,le and such, he was sure , wou ld b e t h e case tr4ri)l latest period of his e x i s t ence . —(C ont i nued cheer! n nO; Lord Joust MANNERS immediately rose again 00 4 propose a toast, which, in a few words, he fain' AO veyed more meaning than all the philosophical theo-i t i and political dogmas put together— ,, A fair did wages for a fair day's work."—(Loud cheers, cries of "That's all we want.") Several other to as t s f o ll owed, and many id interesting facts were brought before the rael which soon after wa rd s separated, every one app'arlir on the very best t erms w i t h hi mself and his nee hours, and looking f orwar d w i t h pleasurable $01:",j, pation to a re-union next year. We should add that th e very b est order an d le most respectful behaviour was obse rve d by the bourers throughout the evening. QUALIFYING FOR Tin COURTY.--1110 friell - League are exerting themselves with great slor --- sr inducing the free-traders to qualify for the counti el o pecially for South Lancashire, North Cheshire , m oi Riding of Yorkshire, and North Lancashire. A u i r ;fld was held at Mr. Cat on ' s C ommercial Hotel, on Thu f.O evening, attended by a deputation from M a nehestt ol i, this purpose ; at whi c h reso l ut i ons were passed in it of this object, when many agreed to get freehol'e persuade their f r i en d s to d o the same.—Preston Gu aP eo ll TIIE ECLIPSE OF THE Moox.—During the hours of last night the firmament was extensiv e LO scured with " lazy-pacing," thin, flocculent ci - 110 through which th e moon was but aintly visible spy have prevent e d th ose w h o wished to make felwar/0 c oO l observations from using their instruments, at the „ mencement of the eclip se , w ith a ll the effect that Cl sirable. Shortly a f ter ten o ' clock the clouds ,u1:101/ away, and from th a t ti me t h e moon was unobscar oe 1 by the earth's s h a d ow w hi c h passed across its 511 r ~d The appearance of the moon when about three P7 g fee t ! scured was beautif u l. Th e progress of the eclipse 101 l closely with th e ca l cu l at i ons. It commenced .or thirty-eight minutes past nine o'clock, an d 00100 about twenty- e i g ht- an d- a -h alf minutes past one morning„—Liverpool Albi on o f M onday. l e j SIR EDWARD CODRINGTON ON DRUNILION.-- 4 " FLOGGING IN TH E N AVY .—Th e following , testimony as to drunkenness being the rAiref 0 :rot flogging in the navy, is borne by the (?aslant 1 , •`: 0 Sir Edward Codrington, in his trilrate of Pl ij ,„ Sr, Father Mathew, accompanying a contribution.,'",,t fund now raising for his relief 1—.." Chertsef, ecr i 1844.—Dear Sir,—l have read of your being in 10.1", at a meeting to promote a subscription fo r y eslu r Mathew, and as I very hi g h ly honour him for his, exertions, and no le ss hi g h ly value those exertiol 4 o the benefit they w ill produce amongst seamen, I Or, ob'ige me by contributing five pounds for me t f,e c to atit I inclose you a cheque. But for the vice of u r 0 0 1 ,5 nese, we should scarcely ever be called u pon O s ft/ j, lash in the navy, a duty which is always perform jo i disgust. —Very faithfully yours, EDWARD CoDsf , ' To J. S. Buckingham, Esq." BIRTHS. So ti On the 21st inst., the wife of George Walter, Fig" id° street, Greenwich, of a son. On the 21 s t i ns t., th e l ady of Charles Main 1, rth , Upper Montague -street, Montague -square, of a daubadsir - On the 22d inst., th e l a d y of Dr. Golding Bird, "if square, of a daught er . Ou the 22d inst., at Rectory Villas, West Hack 1' William Maxwell, o f a son. ti T. On the 22d inst., a t C am b r idge -square, Mrs. • AC jun., of a d aug ht er . of err On the 22d in s t., th e w i fe of G. M. 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