The Sun. — London, England, 1851-01-01 00:00:00

intte iattton SPAIN. The Chamber of Deputies rejected on the 23d two of the six amendments against the grant of the authorization to levy the taxes after the Ist of January, and adjourned to the 27th ult. The. Clamor Publico announces that General Figueras would resign the War Department for the Presidency of the Supreme Tribunal of War and Marine. Count de Vista Hermosa would in that case succeed him as Minister of War. BELGIUM. The Belgian Senate on Saturday adopted, by 23 ♦otes to 8, the Bill for putting gold money out of circulation. Yesterday the Bill was promulgated in the Moniteur, with the King's sanction. The Indi pendance of Brussels says " Notwithstanding what was said on the subject in the Chamber of Representatives, and notwithstanding the already distant date of the measures taken for driving English sovereigns and Dutch Williams out of the country, there still remain so many in Bel gium, and there are also so many French pieces, that the Bill has caused a certain perturbation, and led to a loss which is not without importance. Since the presentation of the Bill Williams have fallen on the Exchanges of Brussels and Antwerp from 20f. 70c. to 20f. 50c., and even 201. 40c.; that is then a decline of from Ito per cent. Moreover, we have learned from a very good source that in the country distria.t, farmers can only get rid of the pieces they have in giving them at 201. No doubt, the Treasury is not touched by these little sacrifices, but they are not the less real ; and whilst it was necessary to combat the evil which existed, the Bill has aggravated it ; it has alarmed the public, who ought rather to have been reassured. En attendant the realization of the fears to which the Bill is owing, certain loss is imposed on the country. At the same time official accountants, taking advan tage of the new law, have either refused to receive French gold pieces, or subjected them to reduction. This, however, in only the commencement of the trouble and embarrassment which the new law will occasion. Soon, perhaps, the public will be able to appreciate the lamentable consequences, and to see that in the presentation and voting of it, there has been a precipitation which nothing justified." SWEDEN. The Cologne Gazette has the following from Stock holm, 20th :—" What has been long forseen has taken place. The equestrian order has rejected, by a ma jority of 316 votes to 89, the Governmental project relative to the representation of the people, and the order of peasants has rejected it by a majo rity of 87 to 18. The discussion on the mea sure was ♦ery animated and frequently very warm. The Hartmannsdorff pretended that the Bill would undermine the constitutional mo narchy, formally declared that it would never admit the principle of general elections, although it admitted that the present representative system required re forms, and promised to bring in a new Bill which would be more satisfactory. The order of peasants, in adhering to the opinion of the clergy and of the equestrian order, has completely separated itself from its old ally the order of the bourgeoisie, and appears to wish to prolong the rupture by proposing to revise the privileges of the towns." TURKEY. Constantinople journals of the 14th tilt. have ar rived. They announce that Omer Pacha was every where victorious over the Bosnia insurgents. The y Osservatore Delniato quotes letters from Vgrgoras of the 13th, stating that a week before the insurgents of Mostar attacked Rustan Bey, the son of Ali Pacha, who still defends the citadel within the town, called Saraj, armed with twelve guns. It adds that the assailants were repulsed with loss. The chiefs of the insurrection are three rich Turks, named Passe Bey, Aprnirovic, and Cis sissic. Ali Bey had marched from Vizina to meet the troops of the Sultan, and prepared every% here for their accommodation ; but having reached the fort of Gliubuski, which is in the hands of the insur gents, he could proceed no further. It appears from the latest accounts that the insurgents of Mostar have sent a deputation to the Seraskier, proposing the recal of the old Vizir of Herszgovine. The new Vizir of Bosnia having sent his secretary to Mostar, in order to inquire whether be might pass through that town on his way to Bosnia with a suite of only sixty persons, the in surgents refused, unless he was furnished with full powers to treat with them, and to remove their grievances, in which case they promised not only to receive him well, but to obey him also. The resolu tion of the Vizir was not known, but it is certain that he has proceeded to Buns, to confer with Ali Pacha. The corps of Mayas Pacha has disbanded; it is not known whether he has been killed, or has succeeded in making his escape. Eleven of his men have been sent as prisoners to S,2rrojevo, where the Seraskier is daily exp9cted. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY —Through a combination of causes, the previous liveliness cf our market has given place, since Thursday, to a general quietness, which has been particularly marked to-day. The extensive transactions of the last fortnight leaving the market bare of yarns and goods at large, would na turally be followed by a diminution of activity.. And the advance in the rate of interest must, of course, check operations for distant markets, based upon long-dated bills. Practically the rise is one per cent.; and as this takes:away the profits ordinarily made by the agency houses in the discount of such paper, they are not very likely to enter so readily, as has lately been the case, into that kind of business. Besides, there is the check of an increased difficulty of obtaining discounts even at the higher rate, and also the additional one of the possibility of its further enhancement. Certainly, the effect of this measure upon our staples is greatly lessened by the very fa vourable iposition of the producers; yet it is manifestly felt. Then, the American accounts, showing a tendency to enlarged estimates, and also a decline in cotton at most of the ports—at New York of to of a cent per lb.— have excercised a slightly unfavourable influence, which would no doubt be greater, but that that giving way is seen to have been mainly occasioned by the appa rent imminence of war betwixt Prussia and Austria. But for the quietness which has peculiarly charac terised this day's market, we have to thank the Liverpool brokers, whose statement of the cotton on hand shows there to be a stock exceeeding by 70,000 hales the quantity which ought to be held, according to their own weekly returns ; and what makes matters worse is, that the representations latterly put forth by some of them had led people to lock for a deficiency of 30,000 or 40,000 bales. This enormous excess over what was expected has caused all parties to pause, and inquire what its effect may be upon the value of cotton. These special circumstances have rendered this last day of the year one of very much less business than it would otherwise hale been. The trans actions, indeed, are altogether immaterial. However, the quotations for yarns and goods remain unchanged, and a general firmness prevails. 9s fair and im partial chroniclers of the day, we are bound to tell the brokers of Liverpool that they have been sub j ected, on every hand, to the most severe animadver sions, which, in most instances, impute to some of their body something much more culpable than care lessness or want of system; and they may depend upon it that it will be long before the weekly and monthly returns they make of the receipts-sales, and 30 forth, have any confidence placed in them, after what has so strangely happened in the way of blunders, in the gether. sam e direction, for two years to- ROCHDALE, MONDAY. The market to-day has been very quiet ; but this is generally the case at this season of the year. The 'w° ol trade is firmer, and higher prices are bei ng rp az CC LESFIELD, I. UESDA T . ---. We "lea; but only little doing. are unable to report any great business doing a mong factures, stock taking at this se branches dc is i n g th wart buyers operating, excepting for imme aaontheprmevaennut: te , although in some the trade, such as piece goods, a fair wand exists. The dyers are well employed, which is an indication that preparations are making actively for the spring trade. Sales of thrown silks have been to a fair extent, but prices are without the least ins provement as yet. In raw silk there is no alteration in price since our last. The market is quieter than it was. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—There;has been a good trade doing to day in the Cloth Hall, amongst fancies and woollen goods generally, for the American mar k e t. There have been a more than usual number of foreign buyers in town for the time of the season. Several of the warehouses have been very busy during the week for c'in tinental orders, and, altogether, there has been a brisk business doing. There has been rather a stillness in the wool market to-day. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—Our Piece Hall has been pretty well attended to-day for the last Saturday of the year, which is generally considered a " dead market." The chief business has been in fancy goods of which a fair quantity is now being manufactured to order. The yarn trade is more buoyant ; and the shipping houses give out order s freely, at advanced rates. There is scarcely so much doing in wool, and the quotations are very firm. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—The market has been well at tended ; and, considering the season of the year, as many goods have been sold as possibly could be ex pected. The woollen trade, generally, is ; .n a satis factory state. The makers being generally fully well L g-. ‘ s I espplevi, and as stocks are not l arge , pr i ces continue i ' l s, .. .4k with the commencement of the new y ear, c . * - 1 '.-:*•, '-- ' jam\ :, 4 ,c ;.. , :t . z. 7 t,,, , \ ti s '-''' t- .: ~.:13 4 ''' . I IP. .1 c f, -____, i - , 1,..1 . :.: , ,•-•, / ,0 ms's 1i THE SUN, will probably be better established, in consequence of merchants taking stock at present. Not much doing in the warehouses. CALUMNY AND INTRIGUE. A correspondent says :—" In the south of England there resides a family of very high rack. The lady is a Baroness in her own right, and a Marchioness by marriage. She was left a widow when young, and she married secondly an amiable and accomplished gentleman, a nephew of an Irish Duke, and who on his th'arriage adopted the name of his wife's ancestors. The noble lady and her husband took up their resi dence where the former (who had been left an orphan when an infant) had resided in her youth. Here they have lived in a style suitable to their rank, and have been highly distinguished for their charity and hospitality. Passionately fond of music, they gave a series of musical soirees to the neighbouring nobility and gentry, at which musical amateurs, even of ducal rank, were performers. Although the family are Liberal, almost ultra-Liberal in politics, this was not of course thought of while dispensing hospitality, and the whole of the Tory families of suitable rank in the neighbourhood participated in that hospi tality. From the influence which the family natu rally acquired in the neighbouring town, by means of their kindness and .wealth, the husband was solicited by the inhabitants a few months ago to become their representative in Parliamenn. This he declined, but he recommended an intimate friend professing similar politics as himself, who was, after a desperate contest, elected. In this contest both the noble lady and her husband took an active and conspicuous part. Now, the representation of this town had always been in the hands of the Tory families in the neighbourhood, and they were en raged beyond description to find it taken from them. They studied what insults and slights they could safely offer to the family that had supplanted them, so as to annoy and drive them from the neighbourhood. It appears that an attache of one of the most distinguished foreign embassies in London, and who is intimately related to a princely family, had been introduced to the lady by her husband's uncle as an eminent musical amateur, and one who was competent and would be willing to assist her ladyship in getting up her musical parties. He was of course treated with the utmost kindness by the family, and became a constant guest. About two months since he, presuming on the noble lady's frank and unsuspecting disposition, offered her a gross and unmistakeable insult. Astonished at the outrage, she summoned her husband, who was in a distant part of the house, to her protection, and he imme diately knocked the scoundrel down and kicked him ignominiously from the mansion. The lady's poli tical enemies have fabricated shameful insinua tions from this circumstance, but with such cunning as proves that their cowardice equals their malignity, and they have just now had the audacity t to exclude the lady's name from amongst the list of patronesses to a public ball. The great spite ball, as it is termed, was to come off last night. in the mean time the inhabitants of the neighbouring town have taken the matter up, and, one evening last week, when the noble lady (noble by birth and by many gifts and virtues) entered the Polytechnic Institution in the town, an institution of which she is a munificent patroness, the audience rose en masse, greeted her with the most enthusiastic cheering, and spoke un mistakeably what they thought of her enemies."— Daily News. HEALTH OFLONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Return.) The return for the week engling last Saturday shows that 1,196 deaths were registered in the me tropolitan districts; in the first three weeks of De cember they 1,004, 1,090 and 1,166. This increase is considerable, and must be attributed in part to the character of the weather, whic h has been unfavour able to the public health ; but, as in the previous week, it is also due to some coroners' returns, which were net completed, as regards registration, when the inquests were held, but have been accumulating till the end of the quarter. In the ten corre sponding weeks of the years 1840-9, the returns varied from 910 deaths in 1845, at a period of rather higher than average temperature, to 1,403 in 1848, when scarlatina and typhus were rife, and cholera had begun, these epidemics having succeeded to the influenza of the former year. The following comparative statement of deaths at particulari ages shows that while the mortality of the young was not greater than usual in the last week there was an excess above the average among persons of middle age : Average of 10 Weeks. Last Week. (1840.49). From birth to 15 years 512 514 From 15 years to 60 , . 423 378 At 60 and upwards ... 232 260 Amongst children, however, hooping-cough, diarrhcea, and small-pox appear on the increase. The deaths from the first of these complaints were 61, from diarrhcea (principally amongst infants) 31 ; while 25 children and 5 adults died of the small-pox. This direase still prevails severely in Lisson-grove, where it was again fatal in 7 cases between the 20th and 25th of December. Only one of the sufferers, six girls and one boy, had apparently been vaccinated. With reference to a death from small-pox; without vaccination, which occured to a boy in High•street, Shad well, Mr. Ross observes that " four other chil dren are suffering from the same complaint in the family ; the father refuses to give his children the protection of cow-pox, and such is the result ; but the mischief does not end here, for the deadly poison is disseminated through the neighbourhood.' Another death from small-pox without vaccination is recorded by the same registrar in a house at Elm row, Shadwell, and here also " four other children are suffering under small-pox, the father entertaining objections to vaccination." The registrar of Hag gerstone West mentions a family at Hoxton, in which the wife, son, daughter, and servant died of scarlet fever, all within a short period. A child in Chapel street, Woolwich, died, according to the medical cer tificate, of " miasmatic poisoning." The class of "diseases of the respiratory organs" comprises laryngitis, bronchitis, pleurisy, pneumonia, asthma, and other diseases of the lungs, exclusive of phthisis, and numbers in this return 264 deaths, n hich is more than the average. From bronchitis there were 120; from pnenmonia 90; the former showing an increase on the previous week, the latter a decrease. Three deaths are ascribed to privation of food or clothing, 11 amongst children to want of breast milk, 2to neglect, and 2to intemperence. The death of a girl aged 7 years is reported by the medical attendant as caused by " hydropericardium—fright produced by a boy wearing a mask." The births of 658 boys and 712 girls, in all 1,370 children, were registered in th e week. The average of five corresponding weeks in ]845-9 was 1,228. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. WHITEHALL, DEC. 31, 1850. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the undermentioned gentlemen, and the respective heirs male of their bodies, lawfully begotten, viz.:—Major-General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, G.C.8.; James Matheson, of the Lews, in the county of Ross. and of Achany, in the county of Sutherland, Esq.; and Richard Tufton, of Appleby Castle, in the county of Westmoreland, Skipton Castle, in the county of York, and Hothfield-place, in the county of Kent, Esq. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 31. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Sir James Emerson Tennent, Knt., to be Governor of St. Helena. Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint James Vickery Drysdal, Esq., to be Colonial Secretary, and Robert G. Me Hugh, Esq., to be her Majesty's Trea surer for the Island of St. Lucia.; WHITEHALL, DEL 24. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Leach Ni cholas, of Monmouth, in the county of Monmouth, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. CROWN OFFICE, DEC. 28. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR. LIAMENT. Borough of St. Alban—Jacob Bell, Esq., in the room of Alexander Raphael, Esq., deceased. BANKRUPTS. _ Frederick Young, cheese monger, North-place, Kings land-road, to surrender Jan. 3, at half-past one, and at the Court of B a nkr u pt c y. G ra h am , ( Wellborne, Tooley• street, S ou th war k. Feb.ffiei :1, assignee; a t one, Edwin Trent, draper, Sherborne, Dorsetshire, Jan. 9, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 14, at one, at the Court of of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall- Street; Hardwick, Davidson, and Bradbury, Basinghall latreet. James Ginn, builder, Bankruptcy. Ed- Feb. 11, at eleven, at the Court of . h 11- Nvardg, official assignee , Sambroo--cOu 9 1, rt Basing a Sudbury, Suffolk, Jan. 15 and coln street; Maraon, Care-sreet; Stedman, y shire, Jchn Hughe• beast jobber, Eacconby, La n . • , Jan. 10 and Feb. 7, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court, Nottingham. Bittleston cfficial assignee, Not- James Simons, horse dealer, IV ibtoft, tingham; Dibden, Leicester; Hodgson, Birmingham. Jan. 14 and Feb. 11, at twelve, at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Christie, cfficial assignee, Birmingham ; Gregory, Leicester. Joseph Haley and William Thomason Jan. 10 and 31, at , W eleven, rw i c k m .s a h n i r u e . , facturers, Manchester, at the Manchester District Court. Mackenzie, Mancheste r; Atkinson, Saunders and Atkinson, Manchester. William Atkinson, jun., shipwright, G, ole Yorkshire, Jan. 14, and Feb. 10, a t twe l ve, at the Leeds District Court. Edwardg, official assignee, Sambrook -court, Basinghall-street ; St amp, H ull; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. Ebenezer Lake, druggist, Okehampton, Devonshire, Jan. 14 and Feb. 5, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Ilirtzel, official assignee, Exeter; Bishop and Pitts, Exeter. INSOLVENT DEBTORS. Samuel Lench, jun., tin plate worker, Liverpool-street, Bishopskate-street. Edward Wright, Bennett-street, Fitzroy-square. LONDON, Stephen George Burridge, tailor, Clarendon-street, Wyndham-road, Camberwell. John Sharp, journeyman miller, New-street, Lower Shadwell. John Thomas Benest, master mariner, Hoxton Old Town. John Hartley, printer, Hackney-road. Henry Trant, Cambridge-street, Edgeware- road. William Holland, innkeeper, Pavement, Finsbury. William Mingaye, post-captain, Lyndhurst-street, Peckham. John Hardwick, farmer, Barugh Ambo, Yorkshire. Henry Thomas Walker, ship master, Gloucester. William Ansell, jun., cabinet maker, Cambridge. Ezekiel Tall, jun., agricultural machineman and la bourer, Witcham, Isle of Ely. George Jackson, ship and insurance broker, Low Fell, Gateshead: John Webb, tailor, Barton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire. George Davison, publican, Shotley Bridge, Durham. Firmin Potto, currier, Witham, Essex. Robert Barnard, jun., cattle dealer, Thaxted, Essex. John Brook, boctmaknr, Robert Town, near Leeds. Joseph Turton, flax spinner, Leeds. Matehew Staveley, victualler, Toxteth Park, Liverpool. John Smith, Heaton Norris, Lancashire. George R )thery, victualler, Liverpool. William Lupton, auctioneer, Brighton Waterloo, Lan cashire. William Hopkins, victualler, Merthyr Tydfil. Jarvis Clayton, tailor, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. In the Country. J. Horsfield and 'r. Horsfield, Wheelock, Cbe:ter, coal dealers, J sn. 22, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool — J. Smith, Liverpool, haberdasher, Jan. 22, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Wilkinson, etsekton-upon- Tees, Wharfinger, Jan. 23, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Wallace, Carlisle, grocer, Jan. 24, at cloven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne-- R. Fairley, Sunderland, chemist, Jan. 23, at half patt eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—G. Hornsby and R. P. Mould, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, builders, Jan. 23, at half-past twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon- Tyne—J. G. Thomson, Manchester, agent, Jan. 23, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Mellor, Man chester, haberdasher, Jan. 24, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. J. Clarke, Stourbridge, Worcester, grocer, 31d., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and three, at the offico of Mr. Whitmore Birmingham. B. Lawrence, Crown-court, Old Broad-street, mer chant, 7id., any Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Basinghall.street. J. King and J. F. King, Islington, builders, 9d., any Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Basinghall-street. W. Freeman, EdgewaT e-road, licensed victualler, 4d., any Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Bisinghall-street. J. S. Gowing, Ssvaffham, Norfolk, bookseller, 7id., any Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Basinghall-street. J. Hunter, King William-street, merchant, ls. 7d., on Saturday next, and three subsequent Saturdays, between the hours of eleven and two, at the offiee of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane. J. Burt and J. Burt, jun., and W. T. Watson, Man chester, commission agents, 3d., and 9id. on new proofs, on Tuesday, Jan. 14 or any subsequent Tuesday, be tween the hours of eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. J. Pierce, Chorley, Lancashire, corn and provision dealer, ls. 3d., on Tuesday, Jan. 14, or any subsequent Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. R. Birrell, Blackburn, Lancashire, linendraper, 9s. lOid , on Tuesday, Jan. 7, or any subsequent Tues day, between the hours of eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. H. J. Hinxman, Bury, Lancashire, apothecary, 2s. 7d., oa Tuesday, Jan. 14, or any subsequent Tuesday, be tween the sours of eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. C. L. Swainson and J. Birchwood, Manchester, manu facturers, 2s. Old. on new proofs, on Tuesday, Jan. 14, or any subsequent Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and one, as the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. J. Sim, Brathwaite, Cumberland, woollen manufac turer, 10d., on Saturday, Jan. 4, or any following Satur day, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. J. Forrester, Whitehaven, Cumberland, mercer, first and second dividend of 9s. 4d., on new proofs, on Sltur day, Jan. 4, or any following Saturday, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Ne ?I cas tie -upon -Tyne. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basingball-street. J. Savill, St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, draper, Jan. 22, at eleven. In the Country. J. Whittaker, Swansea, Glamorganshiro, druggist, Jan. 22, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. R. King, Oxford, coal merchant, certificate of the second class—J. M`Monnies, Liverpool, corn and commission merchant, certificate of the first class, after 21 days from Dec. 26—R. Battersby, Liverpool, ironfounder, certifi cate of the first class after 21 days from Dec. 27. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. C. Britton and T. G. Darton, Gloucester, iron merchants—J. C. Britton, T. G. Darton, and A. Thomp son, Gloucester, iron merchants fsr as regards T. G. Darton)—G. Hayward and J. Hayward, Whitstable, Kent, ropemakers—F. Green and T. J. Dennis, Angel court, Throgmorton-street, attorneys at law—J. S. Bickford and G. Smith, Illogan and Camborne, Corn wall, merchants—G. A. Ward and G. F. Wood, Down. ham Market, Norfolk, linseed crushers—T. Baker and E. Brookes, Manchester, attorneys at law—G. Robinson, J. Robinson, and W. H. Robinson, Halifax and Don caster, cork manufacturers (so far as regards J. Robin son)—B. F. Christian, sen., B. F. Christian, jun., and J. Christian, Deal, ironmongers—W. Lowther and F. Lowther, High-street, Borough, hosiers and outfitters— J. Berwick, J. Berwick, and T. Jamieson, Bradf Yorkshire, stuff merchants (so far as regards T. Jamie son)—C. 011ivier and R. W. 011ivier, New Band-street, musicsellers—H. Osborn and J. Dutton, Southampton, druggists—J. Coat and F. Chalker, Bridge road, Hammersmith, stonemasons—T. Beadell and R. Bruce, Oxford-street—E. Busch, H. Cox, and A. Pompe, Mark-lane, merchants—E. Busch, H. Cox, and E. Springmann, Liverpool, merchants (so far as regards H. Cox)—W. Groom, J. Groom, R. Groom, F. Groom, and Sarah Ann Groom, Martlesham, farmers—T. Rob son and R. Robson, Saltwell and Lobby-hill, Durham, horse dealers—A. Sandeman, T. Wilkinson, and R. Webster, Old Jewry, accountants—L. de Neumann and E. Beckh, City, merchants—H. H. Willis, H. Hooper, and A. Willis, Crosby-square, City (so far as regards H. Hooper)—F. Whiteford and D. West, Camberwell, tim ber merchants—F. Lonergan and W. W. Prole, London, wine merchants—H. L. Lindgren and J. F. Milow, John-street, America-square, City, ship agents—C. F. Guitard and D. Burwash, Birchin-lane, notaries public —C. M‘Bride and F. R. Nodin, Liverpool, ship brokers —H. Hancock sad W. Pearl, Conduit-street, Regent street, cord wainers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. William Allcock, Northwich, dealer in glass. John Sands, Lynn, baker. llnmmond Knight, Barney, Norfolk; blacksmith. William Rudd, Lynn, carver and gilder. William Kirby, Lynn, boot and shoemaker. Hugh Williams, Bangor, printer. John Hughes, Baogor, unman. Absalom Humphreys, St. Asaph, Flintshire, boot and - - shoemaker. Christopher Atkinson, Barnard Castle, joiner. Jonathan Abbott, Debenham, Suffolk, grocer. Samuel Robinson, sen., Sproughton, Suffolk, cattle dealer. John Pearson, Wigton, draper. George A. Pazke, Newton-market, Suffolk, clerk. Charles Brown, Ipswich, baker. Thomas Robson, North Shields, publican. Henry Whitmill, Northampton, boot and shoemaker. Robert Poole, Wellington, auctioneer. John Forster, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, watchmaker. Edwin Daniel, Stone, Staffordshire, surgeon. Joseph Clemitson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, draper. George Hedley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, draper. John Firman, Soham, Cambridgeshire, blacksmith. Samuel Ashton, Old Weston, Huntingdonshire, shoe maker. Thomas Davies, Bed wellty, Monmouthshire, farm bailiff. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. . _ _ _ _ A. L. Cameron, Lonsdale and Glasgow, bleacher, to meet within the Star Hotel, Glasgow, Jan. 6, and 28, et twelve. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Mary Walsh was charged with stabbing her nieco the previous afternoon. _ _ - It appeared that the prisoner called at the house of her daughter, who keeps a cigar-shop at 24, Brydges street, Covent• garden, and behaved in a violent manner towards both the niece and the daughter, with whom she was not on friendly terms. A quarrel and a fight oc curred, during which the prisoner seised a clasp-knife and aimed a blow at her head. The niece raised her arms to keep off the blow, and received several severe wounds in her hands, from which there was. a great flow of blood in consequence. Inspector Dodd informed the Magistrate that the house was a very disorderly one, and was no doubt a brothel. Miss Walsh denied this statement. The prisoner was remanded to Friday. Duncan M'Carthy was charged with stabbing James Clark. Clark stated that he was formerly a solicitor's clerk, but was now out of employ. About a week ago he was standing at the bar of an eating-house at 12, Great Earl street, Seven Dials (where he lived), when the prisoner entered the house intoxicated, and said that somebody had stolen his hat while he was in the house a short time previously. Witnaps said he knew nothing about it, and as he became very violent he was compelled to turn him out. The prisoner returned, knocked down the shutters, and kicked at the door. Witness went to the door, and the prisoner rushed at him and struck him with an open knife in the thigh. Ile also struck a man named Patrick O'Connor, who came to assist witness, and inflicted a wound upon hiss with the same knife. It appeared from the certificate of the house surgeon of King's College Hospital, that the wound inflicted on Clarke was a serious one, and had confined him to his bed since the occurrence. The prisoner said he was very drunk at the time, and was much provoked by the ill-treatment which he re ceivedr from Clark and Connor. which a tiz tt:t T ed eol:mniiLted him John M`Mahon was charged with stabbing Margaret M‘Mahon, his W u for trial. Collins, P proved that he heard screams, him to 8, Langley-court, Long-acre, on Friday night last, where he found the prisoner's wife in the arms of another woman, bleeding from a dreadful wound in or near her left eye. She said her husband bad done it, upon which he apprehended him. He had been drinking: As the wife refused to appear, he was discharged. WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1 , 1851. MARLBOROOGE-STREET. William Locock was charged with stealing three 5/. Bank of England notes, the property of Mr. Henry Renaud, prorietor of Limmer's Hotel, Conduit-street, and Thomas Harper and George Hawkins were charged with being parties to the offence. Mr. Henry Rentau,d said the prisoner Lccock had been in his employ as under•porter for about sixteen months. On the 31 of September he gave the prisoner a letter directed to Miss Renaud, at the Belle Vu© Hotel, Bangor, and he t.,ld the prisoner to be careful of the letter, as it contained money. In the letter sere three 51 bank notes, the numbers of which he knew. The letter never reached its destination, and he then communicated with the police. The three notes were afterwards paid into the Bank of England. Miss Renaud, of Willington, Bedfordshire, said her brother was to have sent her some money in September last, while She was staying at the Belle Vue Hotel, Bangor. The letter never reached her. Inspector Field, of the detective force, said that he took the prisoner into custody on the 23d of D.'cember, telling him that he was charged with steeling a letter, which contained three Si. Bank of England notes. The prisoner voluntarily said, " I'll tell you all about it. I broke open the letter and I took the nut=s out. The next day I met Hawkins, who was living with a news• vendor nemed Hutton, in Catherine-street. I told Haw kins I had stolen some notes, and I asked him if he would get them changed for me. He said he would, and I gave him two 51. notes, and he afterwards returned eight aovereigns to me, kc , e ing two for himself. I kept the other 51, note for some time, and then I gave it to Harper, a cabman, to get changed. I only got ss. out of the third note." Witness, on this statement, took the two other prisoners into custody. William James, junior clerk in the Commercial Bank, said two of the 51 notes were paid into the bank to Mr. Hutton's account in September last. The ptisoner Locock repeated the statement he made to the police officer. The other two prisoners denied all knowledge of Lo cock, and declared they had never rec.ived any notes from him to change. Locock was ordered to stand committed. The other prisoners were remanded, to find, if possible, some evi dence of their having acted in concert with Locock. MARYLEBONE. Yesterday Edward Smith, a well-dressed man, de scribed as a chemist, residing in Upper Seymour-street, Euston-square, was brought up in the custody of Lock erby, 180 S, and placed at the bar before Mr. Brough ton, on the charge of having forged and uttered two bills of exchange, one for luo/, and the other for 961. 16s. with intent to defraud Mr. Thomas Ilicken, pro prietor of extensive saltworks, and who resides at Droit wich. Mr. Hayter, from the firm of Davies, Son, and Camp bell, attended on the part of the prosecution. Lockerby produced a warrant for the apprehension of the prisoner. He received it on the 6:h instant, and it bore the signature of Sir Robert Price, M.P., a magis trate for the county of Hereford; it had been backed by Mr. Long, one of the magistrates of this court. Mr. BROUGHTON— Now, what evidence have you to give in this affair? Lockerby—This morning I was in Seymour street, accompanied by Mason, a brother officer, and I saw the prisoner, of whom I had an exact description, go into a public-house. He soon afterwards came out, and after going into No. 67 he walked on towards Oakley square. I and Mason followed him, and when he turned round and saw us he began to run. He made his way as fast as he could into Atnpthill-square, and on my calling out " Stop thief," he hailed a cab, the driver of which pulled up; he jumped into the vehicle, being at the time quite out of breath, and I jumped in too, after chasing him for a considerable distance. - I told him he was the man I wanted, and that I believed his name was Edward Smith, and the answer he male was, " Yes, perhaps it might be so." By my direction the cabman drove him to the Albany-street station-house, where I read the warrant to him, and he said " Its all very well ; I'm the man, but it's a conspiracy." He afterwards said that he ran away beca,se he thought it was a Sheriff's officer who was following him. The MAGISTRATE (to the prisoner)—Have you any thing to say in the present stage of the proceeding ? Pri soner—l was well aware of this matter, and I know all the persons connected with it. I was walking with my wife, and I ran away, thinking that it was a Sheriff's officer who was pursuing me. The solicitor, in answer to a question from Mr. BROUGHTON, said that he had no evidence as yet, in proof of the forging or uttering. Lockerby said that, by a telegraphic message, the at tendance of Mr. Hicken might be looked upon as cer tain on the next (this) day. Upon this understanding the prisoner, who made no denial of the charge imputed to him, but intimated that he should be able to prove his innocence, was remanded. WESTMINSTER. Just before the rising of the Court Mts. Eliza Denman was brought in custody of the police of the V division, charged with knooking and ringing at the house of her husban, Mr. John Denman, 5, Besufort-street, Chelsea, without lawful excuse. Upun the lady being placed at the table before the magistrate, Hunt, the chief usher, handed the New Testament, as usual, to Mr. John Denman, who had entered the wit ness box as complainant, but he refused to be sworn. Mr. BR')DERIP observing the delay, inquired its cause? The chief usher replied—This gentleman re fuses to be sworn, unless upon a Catholic book. I have offered him the one with the cross upon it. Mr. BRODERIP—Do you object to that? Mr. Den man—l don't object to the cross. Mr. BRODERIP—What do you object to? Mr. Den man—To the content.; of the bjok. Mr. BR(DRRIP-1100 Mr. Denman—This is the Cambridge edition, and it is nut the same as the Ca tholic version. Mr. BRODERIP—You are a Catholic, I [ rentme? Mr. Denman—Yes, a Cn.tholiu—a R , man Catholic. Mr. BRODERIP —W h :it possible objection can you have to be sworn on this book? Mr. Denman—l have the greatest possible objection—that I cannot be bound by it. Mr. BRODERIP —I never heard such an objection made before. It is the authorised edition of the New Testament, used in all courts of justice in this country, and I cannot see what difficulty you can have in the matter. You call God to witness that you are speaking the truth. Mr. Denman—My conscience must be satisfied. This translation is not in accordance with the Roman version. Mr. BRODERIP Can't you be Eatisfied by calling God to witness the truth on the ordinary book ? Mrs. Denman (with apparent astonishment) —Mr. Denman, you were educated for a Protestant clergyman. Mr. Denman— I am a convert to Itproani,m. Mr. BRODERIP—Do ) ou still re'use to be sworn in the ordinary way ? Mr. Denman—l do. Mr. BRODERIP—Then there is an end of the case. I have no other means of swearing you. As the police had no charge to - prefer against the lady she was dlscharged. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Mrs. Mary Verinder, the wife of a trades man carrying on extensive business in Crown-street, Finsbury, was charged upon an information before Mr. Arnold with having, under the following circumstances, unlawfully exacted and received a certain sum of money as an inducement and reward for compounding a felony. The proceedings were of interest, as serving for a caution to prosecutors in similar cases. Eliza Harbidge, a distressed-looking woman, who gave her evidence against the defendant with manifest reluctance, stated that about a week since her daughter was taken into custody for felony, upon a charge of stealing some brushes belonging to the defendant's hus band, and that after undergoing one examination at this court she was ordered to be remanded for the com pletion of the case. Her daughter was locked up in one of the cells, and witness, who was in great distress of mind at so serious a charge being preferred against her child, waited upon the defendant at her house with the object of inducing her to take a lenient view of the matter, when some conversation en sued between them, and in the course of it defendant in timated that he had no with to proceed harshly against her daughter in tha case, and was perfectly willing to abandon the charge altogether, upon condition that she received full compensation for the value of the stolen property, which she fixed at half-a-crown. Witness accordingly handed her that amount, and left the sh, , p, having been previously assured by the defen dant that the money should be returned to her, in the event of the articles stolen being discovered and re stored. On the day appointed for the final examination, her daughter was again brought up, but neither the de fendant nor her husband appeared to prosecute the case any further, and the prisoner, in default of their evi dence, was accordingly discharged from custody. When called upon for her answer to the charge, the defendant said that the witness had certainly given a correct representation of the transaction as it occurred, but she could assure the magistrate that she had been solely influenced in the course she had pursued by feel ings of commiseration for the acute anxiety and distress the woman had exhibited on account of her daughter's position, and that she was net at all aware at the time she was acting in any other than a very proper and humane manner. Mr. ARNOLD, however, told her that the offence she had committed was ono of a serious decription, and would inevitably, if tolerated, altogether defeat the ends of justice. She had rendered herself liable both to in dictment and severe punishment; but, as ho felt satisfied that in this case she had been solely actuated by feelings of kindness and humanity towards the prisoner's mother, he trusted that the position in which she then found her self placed would act as a warning to hor fur the future in any similar instance; and he should therefore make no further example of her than by ordering her to pay the costs of the present proceedings against her, and immediately refunding the money she had so wrongfully received. The money was, of course, at once paid, and the de fendant thereupon liberated. A gentleman called at the court, and Ili:vested the reporters to correct a mistake in the notice in the morn ing papers of a contribution forwarded fir the poor box by the Amicable Benevolent Society, Bath-street, City road, the amount of which should have been stated at 11. 103., instead of 10s. only. FATAL RESULT OF A RAILWAY ACCIDENT. , --ill the Courier of Saturday we recorded the particulars of a fatal accident which happened to Mr. Pearson, of Preston, colliery owner. The unfortunate gentleman died on Wednesday morning, at the Clarence Hotel, where he was removed after the accident. The body was removed in a shell to Preston the same evening, and was interred on Friday in Liverpool. —Nanebester Courier. THE EXCISE DUTY- ON PAPER Mr. T. B. Crompton has written a pamphlet on this subject, in which he thus places before the world the arguments in favour of abolishing the tax upon paper : There is no existing tax (he says) the repeal of which would so largely increase the employment of labour throughout Greet Britain as the duty upon paper. The manufacture of paper is one of the great branches of native industry; and, in order to promote its natural ex pansion and healthy activity, it is most desirable to re move all restrictions and imposts. It can hardly be necessar) to recapitulate the multi farious uses to which paper is applied, and the necessity for its cheapness and abundance, which has been created by the demands of a people increasing in civilization. It not only forms the material for books and news papers, for correspondence, for writing, for wrappers, the lining of rooms, &c., but enters in a consider able degree into the manufacture of a variety of articles, which can alone be produced at a price within the reach of general consun,ers, by paper being made available for the purpose. So important has this article become, so universal its adoption for comfort and conve nience, so indispes:able to all, that it is almost impossi ble to conceive the suffering which any deficiency in its supply would inflict upon every class, or to over-estimate the importance to the community of every facility being given to its production. Some years since the excise duty upon paper was three pence per pound for what was e tiled first class, or writ ing and printing paper; and threehalfpence per pound fa. second-class, or inferior paper, used chiefly for wrappers, piper hangings, &c. ; but so oppressive was this tax deemed, and so injurious to the extension of education and general information, that, at a time when the public finances were by no means prosperous, the duty on first-class paper was reduced to three halfpence per pound, by which the whole was placed on an equality. In ref. wing to evidence given before a C unmittee of the House of Commons, it may be stated that the paper makers, publishers, and others who gave evidence, ex pressed confident anticipations that the effect of the re peal of the duty would be to afford considerable impetus to the manufacture; and these observations have been more than realised even by the partial reduction which was made. In theyear 1834, the quantity of paper charged with duty amounted to 70,605,889 lbs.; while in the year 1846, it amounted to 127,442,480 lbs.—an increase of more than 80 per cent.—a proof that the stimulus, by a reduction in the cost of only three halfpence per pound, had been signally effective, and sufficient to war rant the anticipations now entertained of still greater increase by the repeal of the remaining duty. With reference to increased employment, it will be seen that this advantage will not apply exclusively to a manufacturing district or town population, but also ope rate in a highly beneficial degree upon agricultural dis tricts. The paper mills are spread over most of the coun ties of England, giving a considerable amount of employ ment not only to adult labourers, male and female, but also to a large number of children. In one instance it can be shown that where an extensive paper manu factory was established, the poor rates, which had for merly been very high, were reduced to almost nothing; and many similar results of relieving agricultural bur dens would be the certain consequence of abolishing the duty, because the number of mills and the amount of business transacted would be materially augmented. It is, therefore, to the repeal of this duty that atten tion is now particularly directed, on several grounds, each of which is entitled to serious consideration, as being for public advantage. The most important feature of this question is, the immense impetus which would be given to the employ ment of labour. It has already been shown that the partial reduction of duty almost doubled the amount of production ; and it is but reasonable to suppose that the repeal of the remaining three halfpence per lb., added to the total removal of all excise restrictions, would stimulate consumption by reduced cost in a :till greater ratio. This of itself would bring into demand a largely-increased amount of labour, in the manufacture of the article, not only of men, but also of women and children, for whom employment is not generally to be found, particularly in rural districts, where paper mills are commonly situated; but this is by no means the extent of the benefit which a re peal of this tax would afford, for there is no description of manufacture which, in its subsequent processes of adaptation for the uses of wan, affords so much and such varied employment as that of paper. Indeed, it is impossible to give even a faint idea of the thousand ways in which both manual and mental labour is en• gaged upon the raw material of paper, and any estimate of the additional amount of rovtive industry, which an abolition of this duty would call into exercise, would be deemed almost incredible. Upon a daily newspaper, consuming annually 3,000/. value in paper, there is employment given to tae extent of 15,000/. a year; and when to the increase of labour from this source alone, which would aids° from the abolition of the duty, there is added the large number of publications which would be called into being solely through the re duced price of the paper, which forms so material an item in the expenditure, the advantage in this respect would be enormous. It has been computed that the repeal of the paper duty would give employment to 40,000 additional people in London alone, besides a vast number in the country; and to those may be added a considerable increase in the various other persons employed in the busi ness of printing and publishin g , including folders, stitchers, bookbinders, &c. ; and comprising children and adults of both sexes. There nre also numerous manufacturers, such as millboard, cardboard, papier rr 6, buttons, ornaments, toys, &c., in which paper forms the principal ingredient, and to these a still greater stimulus would be given by the reduced cost of produc tion adding immensely to the employment of every description of labour. If the consumption of paper be traced through les various ramifications, and the Dumber of people be taken into consideration who are employed upon it in other countries where the ma nufacture is not subject to du'y, it is almost impossible to conceive the vast amount of labour which would be created by its application to uses from which it is now only debarred by the duty, so that the relief from this tax would materially augment the rational resources, and, in this point of view, produce a greater amount of practical and positive good than any other scheme which could by possibility be devised. Upon this point—namely, the relation which the paper manufacture sustains to the labour of the country—it has been most clearly elucidated in a recent letter to Lord John Russell, as follows: " This branch of trade is one of very great importance, as supplying a field of labour to an extent far beyond that of many others, and most astonishing when it is considered how smell in amount is the money value of the manufactured article. There are somewhere about 500 mills in the United Kingdom, paying an aggregate duty to the revenue of about 800,0001. a year. There are sixteen mills in the district around Edinburgh, which return to the revenue about 80,000/. a year, and the number of parsons employed in these works is about 4,000; if 4,000 workers produce paper chargeable with duty to the extent of 80,000/., the whole number employed in all the 500 mills to produce the duty of 800,0001. will be about 40,000/. Then, in this branch of trade we have 40,000 people actually em ployed; and taking this at the usual calculation of four to each individual, we arrive at this fact, that 160,000 of the population are sustained directly by the paper manufacture. " The total duty paid is 800,000/. This, on an average, may be taken to represent 20 per cent. of the value of the paper sold by the maker. This gives the total value of the paper sold at 4,000 000/. Here we have, on the one hand, the small amount of 4,000,000/. as the total value of that article ; and, on the other, the large number of 160,000 people dependent for their daily bread on that one branch of business, apparently so trifling in its results. Now, how is this? Just from the fact, that almost the whole sum (with the exception of the duty) is distributed in labour—the material in itself being valueless—wages and profits absorbing almost the whole. " Important as the quantity of labour so employed already appears, still this is not ell. The number stated are those employed directly at the various works, but a further question arises—How many are indirectly employed ? Now, this is a wide question, and embraces a great variety of labourers, workers, and artisans. In the article of coal alone there is a great consumption; but as the bulk of the large mills use steam power for various purposes, it must be very great; and I judge partly from the fact that in my own works we use 1,700 tons yearly.* Now, consider what a vast amount of labour is created in this particu lar alone hr carters, railway porters, engine-drivers, stokers, miners, canal boatmen, &c.; and if the coal proprietors of Great Ili itain were to consult their own interests they would do all that lay in their power to promote the prosperity of the paper manufacture. Then, as the wear and tear on paper -mill machinery is very great, consider what must be the amount of labour in this department amongst mill wrights, engineers, machine-makers, brass-founders, plumbers, &o. Then, again, the large amount of tonnage in constant transit from the mill to the various ware houses in London, Manchester, Liverpool, Dublin, Edin burgh, Glasgow, &c. Think, then, of the number of car tees, shore-porters, shipping-clerks, seamen, &c., so em ployed, and all involved in the shipping and carrying interests. Besides all this tonnege to the warehouses, think of the raw material in the same way in con stant transit to the mills, involving again similar labour to that just adverted to. Then, again, as ma chinery wears out and has to be replaced, the amount of new buildings and repairs this involves, and the ma sons, bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, glaziers, &c., this department of labour demands; and having done so, put all these items together, and I am sure there are at least as large a number of our population employed in directly by our paper manufacture as there are directly; and if se, there will thus be a population of about 320,000 dependent for their daily bread on the prospe rity of the paper trade. "But this does not exhaust the labour question. Think on the trades in connexion with, and dependent on, the paper trade—the stationers with all their assistants, the booksellers and publishers in all their diversity, the prin ters and their mighty mass of pressmen and compositors, the typefounders with their skilled workmen, the printing-ink makers, the bookbinders, the toolmakers, the goldbeaters, the leather merchants, and a host too numerous to mention, and, instead of having a popula tion of 320,000 depending on papermaking for their daily bread, there is at least a :population of half a million directly or indirectly interested, in a pecuniary sense, in thu prosperity of this branch of manufacture." GRIEVANCLS OF PAPER MANUFACTURERS. Without entering into the general question of compe tition as affecting the compa-ative position of the honest man trading upon his own capital and the fraudulent man trading upon credit with a certain prospect of the Bankruptcy Court, it will be found that this tax presses with peculiar hardships upon the former class. A document which was published la,t year by au- * The writer knows one manufacturer who commons not less than fifteen thoussud tons annually. thority cf the House of Commons contained the names of a considerable number of fraudulent manufacturers, of whom some had been heavily fined, some impri soned, in other cases compromises bad been made, while in others the offenders had absconded. Opposed to com petition such as this, the fair and honest trader has no alternative but absolute ruin; and such are the facili ties for fraud arising out of this tax, and the mode in which it is levied, that the temptation to act dishonestly becomes almost irresistible. The excise duty on the lower descriptions of paper amounts i❑ some cases to as much as 120 rer cent. on the cost of production, and, as is well known to every practical manufacturer, the evasion of this duty is so easy, that, pro vided the officer of excise is in collision with the manufacturer, it amounts almost to impossibility of detection. Nor is the improbability of this collusion so great as may be imagined, even without unnecessarily impugning the general character of the excise officers. Look at the position of one of these men, who, with a uet salary of certainly not more than thirty shillings a week, has to be the guardian of the revenue, which, in some individual cases, amounts to 20,0001. a year ; and when a present of 501 may secure the object, and add so much to the resources. of each party, it is not difficult to see that such a temp tation to a fraud, both upon the revenue and the honest trader, may break down the moral probity of the poor trader and the excise officer. It is a temptation to which no man ought to be exposed, and which is the greater in this case from the largeness of the gain to be derived and the facilities for successfully carrying it out. Innumerable articles are brought into the market to supersede the use of paper, so completely the same to all appearance, that even a manufacturer himself would not discover the dill-rence. These articles, in many cases, are made precisely from the same materials, and pass through very similar proces.ves, the distinction be ing no more than that paper is made in a wit, while the competing substances are manufactured in a dry state The latter the excise authorities have deemed it right to exempt from the payment of any new duty whatever, whilst the former is subject to a duty of 14s. 9d. per cwt., or one hundred per cent. on cost price. The raw material from which paper is manufactured is now being purchased by foreigners fir exportation, to be manufactured in countries where no tax exists, and the paper produced therefrom superseding, in our own colonies and other countries, British paper. The conse quence is that large quantities of the raw materials are shipped to the United States; and this not only advances the price here, but takes away the labour upon the same, which would otherwise be performed in Ecgland. It has been the especial policy of the country, in im posing fiscal burdens, totally to remove all those which bore directly or even indirectly upon home manufac tures; so as to stimulate to the highest degree that in dustrial activity upon which so materially depended the wealth and prosperity of the nation. With this view the duties upon foreign woods for furniture, and carious other articles which entered into our manufactures, were repealed; and so far was this system carried out, that even the small duty of five-sixteenths of a penny per pound upon raw cotton was also abolished, because it was supposed to affect injuriously the cotton manufac tures. And yet, while raw cotton is exempt from the small duty which only amounted to five per cent. of its actual value, the refuse of the same article, swept from the floors of the cotton mills, and which heretofore was burnt or thrown away, is, because it is devoted to a use ful purpose—the manufacture of paper, not less indis pensable than calico—burdened with a tax in the shape of paper duty, which actually amounts to three hundred per cent. on its value. THE INJURY TO THE CONSUMER. There are individuals who pay as much as 2,0001. a year for paper—the tax upon which is 50 per cent., or 5001. a year—and the whole of this paper has been consumed for wrapping up goods which had to be sold in competition with similar goods of foreign manufac ture, wrapped up in a paper free from any duty what ever. The writer of the pamphlet before alluded to fur ther says:— " Apart from the heavy duty charged on all papers, the excise laws affecting the paper manfacture—the mode of charging the duty, the surveillance of the ex cise officers, the delays in sending goods to market— caused by these rules and regulations, the weighing, la belling, numbering, re-weighing, &c., &c., beidea heavy penalties, which may very inadvertently be incurred— form altogether a most burdensome and oppressive yoke, adding very materially to the labour and expense in carrying on badness, and are such as no body of men honourably engaged in their avocations ought to be sub jected to, and which a wise and patriotic Government ought to be ready to listen to as an important element in the consideration of the whole question. "There are many respectable grocers doing a consi derable business, whose expenses for pecking-papers are large; indeed, there are many who use papers to such an extent, that the duty thereon is fully equal to their shop rents. A grocer in an ordinary business pays 1001. a year for papers to pack up his sugars, soaps, to ts, &c. On this quantity of paper the duty will be about 401. Now, the grocer either pays this out of his profits, or he does not. If he does, this industrious, hard-working man, is forced to give up a large proportion of his earn ings to meet the wants of the country, when he is called on, in every other way, to pay his full share of the ordi nary taxation. If he does not, then how is the grocer reimbursed? Most assuredly by an increased price on his goods, or by selling an inferior article at a higher price than its real value; and then on whom does this burden fall? Unquestionably on the working classes principally, who are the largest consumers of the goods requiring so much paper for their pecking; for, be it observed, that the man in goad circumstances who criers his fifty pounds of sugar at once, pays much less for the paper in which it is wrapped man the poor labourer does who buys his fifty pounds of sugar at fifty different times. Either way, this heavy duty is quite indefensible, and ought to be totally abolished. I know parties who have been paying these heavy sums for many years, a , :d who had b'en doing so in complete ignorance of the sum which this unjust law has thus wrested from them, and, when made aware of the real facts of the case, have expressed their honest and vehement indignation that such things should be maintained by the Government of this country. In fact, I might pile up a vast array of cases illustrative of this gross injustice, such as those of the manufacturers of Birmingham, Sheffield, &c., who use such vast quantities of coarse papers, and especially worthy of notice is the case of the button makers, who, when using the boards from which they make their moulds, of necessity produce a vast quantity of waste, in many instances nearly one half, but who, of course, pay duty on the whole, thus making the duty on what they use equal to 301. per ton instead of 151., as the law is said to exact, thus greatly enhancing the cost of the materials from which their goods are produced. The same remark applies to loom-weavers; an illustration of the extreme hardship of which is found in the case of Mr. R. Kerr, of Pai,ley, who, intending to compete in the article of shawl menu facture; I - tithe Exhibition of 1651, applied to the Lords of the Treasury for a drawback of the excise duty on the card boards he would use in the preparation of his designs; the cost of the boards, duty included (but ex clusive of preparation), would be 2701., which duty amounts to 921. 155., an expense from which his foreign competitors were entirely exempt; but his application was declined." The operation of this duty is also m os t i n j ur i ous to cheap literature, as it is clearly established that it adds more than the mere amount of duty t o a l most every work published. The price is so much beyond what it ought to be, that sales are curtailed, and the risks to the publishers increased. It is asserted that— " Messrs. Chambers, of Edinburgh, about two years ago, started a periodical which sold to the public a- id. This was carried on for some time, and at length abate Boned. The Messrs. Chambers last year petitioned Parliament for the repeal of the paper duty, and ad duced as an instance of the oppressive nature of that duty the fact that the periodical alluded to had reached the marvellous number of 80,000 weekly, and was abandoned because it did not pay; and they stated that had the duty on paper not existed they would have car ried on the work, because the duty onthe paper u se d would have afforded th e m a fair profit on the under taking. Now, thi s f ac t is a very striking one, and is worthy of consideration-80,0 00 , at Id. weekly, makes up a sum of upwards of 17,000/. a year—this large sum was in circulation for some time; and (with the i excep tion of 1,2001. of it, which was excise duty) was, n point of fact, neither more nor less than wages of labour —the materials being in themselves nearly valueless. Now, before this little work was started, the revenue had no existence, a large benefit, neither could have, as the thing did not exist. assuredly one of After it had ceased to exist the . reve . nue was . no worse, it s a t m oo ou d nt ju o s f t di:rrinbgy it, assuredly the blessings which we are constantly seeking to in creaselaabsoubrefavoarse ; ca b l u le t ti in this densely-populated country, and when it ceased to exist (the heavy duty being answerable for this result), all this labour ceased to be galled for, just one of those evils which we exhaust all our ingenuity to provide against." The claim of the public to a !epeel of the paper duty is not now raised for the first time. It has undergone the ordeal of a careful and searching Parliamentary in vestigation. Its policy has been admitt e d, an d i t i s put forward at the present time because fi nanc i a l circum stances warrant its remission without the slightest chance of injuring the national resources. It is now some years since that a Committee of the House of Commons, of which Sir Henry Parnell was chairman, was appointed to take into consideration the various du ties upon articles in general consumption, with the view of fixing upon those, the repeal of which would prove most advantageous to the public interests. That Com mittee, after a minute inquiry, decided upon leather, glass, and paper. The Legislature abolished the duty upon the two former articles, and the repeal of the paper duty was postponed, solely from the demands of the pub lic service not then allowing of such a remission. The claim is therefore sanctioned by the o.eliberate opinion of a Committee, whose report in other respects has received the sanction of Parliament, and upon which, therefore, no party bias can possibly be supposed to appply. There is yet another benefit which would arise from the repeal of the paper duty, not less important in its bearing and results than any of those which hale been named, and that is the social an moral effect of disse minating information of a religious and virtuous ten dency amongst the humbler classes. It has been shown by the most experienced and extensive publishers that the duty on paper is the sole bar to the issue of publica tions of an instructive character at so low a price as to bring them within the reach of the million, and many o f them, after having attained a very extensive c i rcu l at i on, were compelled t o be discontinued, owing so l e l y to the heavy losses which the paper duty inflicted upon the proprietors. The want of such works is severely felt in densely populated districts, where the temptations to profligacy, immorality, end drunkenness are irresistible to the uneducated, unless their thoughts are diverted from sensual indulgence to the innocent enjoyments which might be afforded by reading, but to obtain which cheapness is indispensable. It has oft en b een seen t h at the infant members of a family, coming from school, have drawn the attention pf their elders, and even of their parents, to what these children have been taught, and thus insensibly have led them to rsflect on better things than are suggested by their habits of life, aDdili many cases to reform them. If, therefore, the means of instruction are cheapened, in proportion to that chesp ness right principles will be disseminated, and that ill a way but little understood except by those wbo boa had opportunities of observing how this benefit hal worked as far as the means have been afforded. The remission of this duty is, therefore, pressed upon the attention of the Legislature for reasons more tan gible, more important, and more fruitful of advantages than the repeal of any tax which was ever submitted to their consideration. in the first place, there is a finan cial surplus; it has a priority of claim to repeal, the et"- feet of which would be to increase the manufacture; the tax is unequal in its pressure upon paper as compared with oilier manufactures; it is unjust and oppressive to the fair and honest trader; the repeal would give an ivy mense amount of additional healthy employment to labour; would confer important social and moral advan tages upon the population; and it would give relief to agricultural districts. More than sufficient has there fore been shown for the repeal of the duty, not on behalf of the paper manufacturers, nor of the printers and pub lishers, nor of the manufacturing interests only, but on behalt of every mln, woman, and ch►ld, interested in the welfare and prosperity of Great Britain. THE COUNTRY MAKKETS. IPSWICH, DEC. 31. Our market was only moderately supplied with wheat the condision of which is much effected by the weather' The trade was dull. Of barley there was a large supply' but the chief of it is of so ordinary a quality malstere are afraid to huy it; the sale was heavy, and a trifling decline was established upon last week's prices. Beans and peas dull, and in favour of the buyer. PER QUARTER. PER Wheat, red 3Bs to 42s Beans 2 R B Q sU At oRT E 3 :, Do., new oos to 00s Peas.. 2Bs to 0 0 s Do., white 42s to 48s Oats.. Do., new oos to 00a Rye.. ....... . 00s to 0011 Barley, malting 22s to 26si Malt oos to 0 05 Do., grinding... 183 to 21siFlour, per sack oos t o ON AVERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING DEC. 28. Wheat 847 quarters at 41s 3d. Barley Beans ... 31 „ 28s 2d. Oats Peas 45 ~ 28s 10i. HULL, DEC. 31. Messrs. Tay for and Bright's Circular states: —During the past week the trade has been quite of a holiday ells' ratter, and the business done not sufficient to alter our quotations. The weather remains unseasonably mild. Our own farmers to-day brought a fair supply of wheat for sale, the greater part being in moderate condition. Prices must be noted is per qr lower for inferior quality , but dry samples could not be got on less terms than lass week. In foreign wheat there was hardly any business doing. For spring corn of all kinds there was little do; mend, and we do not note any change in prices. Linseed and cakes remain firm at our quotations. Rapeseed tlry altered. Rape cakes continue in fair demand. The following are the present prices of grain:— B. B. Wheat, English, red 36 to 46 Peas, white and yeL 27 Do. white ..... - 7 !." Dantzic and Ko- Linseed, Black Sea 46 --- nigsberg 42 46 Do. Petersburgh ... 40 94 Pomeranian and Do. Riga& Archngl. 38 --- 41 " Hamburgh . 3B 40 Do. Konigsberg .... 37 Danish, Holstein, & Per ton. Friesland . 36 —3B Lins. c,Hull 7/ ssod to 71 1 2 Russian and Odessa 35 40 Do. fine for e i g n ........ 61 Iv' Oats, English Do. Danish.... l4 16 Rapeseed 26112s r s , Do. Friesland l6 18 Rape cakes...Bos Od to 00s (fa Do. Russ. & Odessa 14 16 Tares, English ....Ms Barley,malting 24 26 Do. foreign 20s : 0 " Do. grinding 2l 22 Guano 6/ to 101 03 Beans 26 30 Bones, do 95a Od to 00s 0 4 Do. foreign 26 28 Rye Meal . .. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 31.—At this day's market there was a limited attendance of the town and country trade , whose transactions were confined to a few small pa: chases for the supply of their immediate wants. Whew' a .d flour nominally maintained their value in the sales made. Oats and oatmeil were offered on rather tallie r terms without leading to much business. Barley, beano, and peas without change in value or demand. India corn met with little attention, but fine yellow could OS be bought under 31s per quarter. CORK, DEC. 30. Barrels. Currency. 0 White wheat OO5 Od to OOs Od OOs Od-20 stone 28 Red wheat . 17s 6d to 20s 0d (Os Od-20 do 17 Barley ICs 6d to lls 6d Ils 9d-16 do 2 Bere . 8s 10d to lOs Od Os Od 273 Oats .. 9s Od to 9s 6d Os Od —l4 do 68 Pigs 26s Od to 32s Od 28s Od per cwt Quantity sold at the Highest Prices: 0 barrels white wheat; 9 red ; 8 barley ; 1 here; 8 Wei 2 pigs. Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week Wheat, 266. Barley, 1,391. Oats, 3,210. Pigs, 598. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. CURRENCY. First quality Second quality Third quality Fourth quality Fifth quality Sixth quality Return of Cattle sold for the week srading Dec. 21:— Pigs, 1,021. Sheep, 413. Cows, 276. Flour—First 12s 6d to 13s Od; extra 14s Oa; seconds, 1 Is Oil to 12s Od; households 9s to 1 is Od; thirds, 6s to 90 per cwt. Oatmeal lOs 6d to Os; Indian meal 7s 3d to 7s 6d; wheat' meal, 10s to lOs 6d per cwt. Indian corn 71Cs Od to 7110 s Od per too. Bran 87s 6d to 90s per ton. Hay—Farmers 34s to 465; average 428; dealers 45s to 50s Od; average 48s per ton. Straw—Farmer' 221 04 to 32s Od; average 289; dealers 40s 04 to 90s 0(4 • average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 6/( 1 1 household loaf 5d to sid per 41b. Fresh butter, IRI to 12d per lb. Eggs-5s Od to 5s 6d per hundred. Coals—' Netcnort 16s Od; Lydney 17s ; Landore 14s ; Neath Cultes 13s 6d per ton. Tallow 39s Od to 40s per c W Whisky, 25 0. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat —Beef 4d to 4 d; mutton 40 to 6d; veal 4d to 5d ; pork 4d to Od bacon 7d to 84 ; sausages 54 per lht Hops 61 lOs to 0/ Os per cwt. Bangor slates 312. 6d to 315 s per ton. Bark—Barbary 71 Os to 810 s; Valonia 151 to 0/; French 61 Os ; Spanish 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 14s to 15s per stone; Hemp 32/ to 34/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 21s to 00s ; red ditto, 24s to COs per barrel ; Newfoundland, 8/ 0s to 10! pet ton. Timber—Memel, dOs per ton ; red pine, 31 lOs ; yellow ditto, 21 15s per ton; deals, 12s to 155 per 100. Hides— Market 23s to 325; salted 24s to 32s per cwt ; calf skin , 3d to 3id per lb. Potatoes, white lid to 10d; Minion. 10d to 120. Guano— Peruvian, 11/ 10s ; lchaboe, 8! to 91100 per ton. Tar—Archangel, 191 per barreL SEABORNE MAILS. When made up in .Fromwhat When PLACES. General Post-office port die due London. patched. Africa (West coast).. America (via N. York by British packet) •• *N January 3 .. .. Liverpool .. America (via Boston by British packet) .. N January 17 Liverpool .. ,Jan. 8 America (by United J anuary 1 0 Liverpool Sel States packet) .. • . N j Southampt. Belgium .. .. • . N Daily .. .. Dover .. Daily Brazil .. • • .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Jan. 24 Buenos Ayres M, 9th of the month Southampt. Jan. 24 Californiu(viaChagres) M 17th of month Southampt. 'Jan. 5 Cape of Good Hope N January 14 Plymouth.. Central America .. 11 !d & 17th of month, Southampt. Jan. 5 Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., & Fri.; Southampt. Tu. Th. Chili .. • • .. M 17th of the month Southampt. Jan. 5 France M& N Twice daily .. .. Dover • • Twicedalli Itamburgh N Tuesday & Friday ILondon .. Tues. Sat. Holland .. • • .. 111 Wednes. & Satur. London .. Mon. Thur. Honduras .. . N 17th of the month l Southampt. Jan. 20 Ireland .. ••M & N Twice daily .. Holyhead .• Twicedaili India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt. Jan. 28 India (via Marseilles) N 7th& 24th ofmonth Dover • • Arrived Madeira .. N Mediterranean (via Southampton) .. Si 20th of the month i Southampt. Jan. 26 Mediterranean (via Marseilles) . N 7t4& 24th ofmonth Dover • • Arrival Mediterranean (by French packet via Marseilles) Mexico .• • • .. 14i 2d of the month.. Southampt. Jan. 5 Peninsular.. 7th,l7th,27th of mo Southampt. Jan. 5 Peru • • .. • • • • 31 17th of the month Southampt.lJan. 20 West Indies .. 31 17th of the month Southampt. 'Jan. 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) Si 2d of the month .. ,Southampt. ,Jan. 5 * 31 / signifies that the mails are sent frona the General Post.ofllo6 by the night —and M by the morning—dispatch. Jails are sent from the morning—dispr [ADVERTISEMENT.] llolloWay'S Ointment and Pills have cured a Bad Leg after every other Remedy had failed.—John Eastman, Esq., of Buenos Ayres, states to Pro fessor Holloway, in a letter dated 11th September, 1850, that a native gentleman of that place hurt his instep some time ago, in consequence of which a wound soon formed, and gradually increased, until it spread from the foot to the knee. 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