The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORELIG PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. TIMES.—The meeting of Parliament being now fixed, th-s anticipations of the world are drawn to that important question on which it will be the first duty of Parliament to pronounce judgment; and never since the Peace did expectations more lively, or hopes more vivid, greet the Legislative Assembly. The dissolution of two Ministries, and the recon struction of a third within the brief space of 15 days, add to the interest which had already been created by the rumours of apprehended scarcity. And in the brief interval which must elapse, public curiosity is gratified by the revelation, or public spirit delighted by the developement, of a new policy ; every man is prophesying after the dictates of his apparent in terest, or his supposed intelligence. Innumerable are the versions of the Ministerial programme; vari ous are the shades of change which individual pre science foretells ; everything from a nominal to an extreme innovation, and from an innovation to a de struction of the corn-law, is reported as probable, or as certain, just as the prejudices of the informant be agricultural or ccmmercial, and the temple of his political cult in Bond-street or Manchester. But one thing is striking enough. The mind of every man is prepared for a change. Nobody seems to think that the corn-law can remain as it is. A conviction of an alteration being inevitable is as strongly impressed on the agricultural mind as on the manufacturing. It oozes out in the midst of bovine celebrations and shouts of " No surrender." Those who meet their tenantry to congratulate, or to condole, or to exhort—all equally manifest the same alarm, despite of every attempt to conceal it. They deprecate all exaggeratoons about scarcity ; they depreciate the reports of its existence; they say the state of our harvests demand no such sweeping change; but in the midst of these protestations they exhibit a consciousness of the necessity which must herald the advent of a change. To the rest of the community—that vast assemblage of human beings who owe no allegiance to, and have no interest in, the soil—whose only wealth is in their sinews or their brains—who trade on the capital of industry or ingenuity, and whose every hope of happiness is closely knit with the increased happiness of the hu man race ;—to this vast and motly crowd the repeal of the corn-laws has become a great and insurmount able necessity—a necessity which hardly tolerates the mention of delay, and which will scarcely brook the suggestions of a merciful compromise. In such a state of things what is a Minister to do ? The voice of the people calls one way, the in terests of a class another. Is it impossible to re concile the two ? Must the interests of a class—a large class ' and not uninfluential—be so directly hos tile to the behests of a people, that no midway line presents itself, on which their dispute may be adjusted without dishonour or detriment to either ? The people cry aloud that new avenues of commerce, and new channels of industry, be opened to their labour; the producers exclaim against the injustice which deprives them of their only market. They deprecate competition ; their enemies pray for it. The one class defies the rivalry of the world, the other shrinks from the emulation of a few remote districts. The one calls aloud to other nations—" Give us bread ; we will give in return the broad cloths or Leeds, the cutlery of Sheffield, the cottons of Manchester, and the wares of Wolverhampton. Feed us, and we will clothe you. We will enrich you with all that use can demand or luxury purchase from the loom, the wheel, and the steam-engine : we will enrich our own countrymen with the wealth which always flows from successful industry and unwearied toil." The other mutters, grumblingly, and in low accents— " This manufacturing interest is a fearful thing: it grows up like a Tower of Babel, and seems to threaten Heaven ; therefore Heaven will punish it, unless it is stopped in its growth. It presents an awful idea to every pious mind ; therefore, let us have no rivals in the bread-market, else we become very poor, and our lands pass away from us." Such are the two parties who are before the country. On their claims it will be the Premier's duty to pass sentence—a sentence which will be final or ephemeral —comprehensive and decisive, or short, variable, and of many changes—according to the terms in which it is couched, and the wishes which it satisfies. It may be that a scrupulous sense of fair play, or a feeling somewhat like a fear, and apt by hasty minds to be confounded with a fear, of a dominant class, will induce him to propose terms of capitulation so favourable to the worsted party, as almost to disguise the reality, and certainly to retard the enjoyment, of the achieved conquest. Ile ihay propose, for example, an intervening fixed duty so high in its assessment, and of so distant a termination, as really to deprive the people for years to come of the benefits which they may expect from the fulfilment of their desires. Or, ag tin, under the impression, or assumed impression, that a great change would be a great wrong, and that he is bound to compensate those whom he is about to damnify, he may introduce such a scheme of taxation as, by shifting the burden of imposts from the producing to the consuming body, may not only deprive the latter of the substantial fruits of their victory, but may also—when the temporary panic has subsided—raise the value of land to an undue amount. In either case the Premier will act in juriously to the country and his own fair fame. In either case, his policy can only be short-lived, and, after enduring a few years of bitter censure, would be condemned to an ignoble doom. Ten years ago a compromise was possible, was desired, was popular. But ten years have added three millions to our popu lation, but have not added the means of employment for three millions. There are many more to be paid and to be fed, but there are not commensurate means for feeding and paying them. We are arrived at that epoch in our commercial and manufacturing history when we must bid, and bid boldly, for the mercantile empire of the world, or consent to subside, with an increasing population and decreasing supplies, into a condition the most pitiable of all—the condition of a country where there are a few rich monopolists, and the rest are beggared idlers. The alternative is a fearful one; but one which the people of England have not only the opportunity but the heart and courage to ward off. It is to that people that the Premier must eventually submit his own decision for confir mation or disapproval. Be his judgment or his coun sel what it may, it is by their verdict that his policy must stand or fall ; and before such a court no just Minister, no honest statesman, need tremble ; for though they sometimes err in their opinions of men, or in their views of measures—though they may magnify the benefits or exaggerate the importance of particular schemes—their errors are neither lasting nor pernicious. The people cannot be deluded, ani will not deceive themselves, for a long time together. They have no love for mere theories, and avoid the pursuit of empty shadows. If they engage with zeal and steady perseverance in the advancement of any policy, depend upon it they have reason to be lieve that policy is necessary and advantageous. If - they petition for years and years together for any one boon, be confident that that boon is not a fiction, If they complain of any grievance, that grievance is not imaginary. More than this, and. above this—no sense of wrong, no desire of gain, blinds them to the sacred light of justice. They regard it as the noblest trait of their national character that success only makes them merciful; and that in the elation of victory, they can spare the vanquished. To just compromises—to equitable compensation—if the jus tice of it can be proved, and its extent assessed—they will not demur. Conscious that their own cause is just, they wid not condescend to tarni,h it with the pettiness of narrow injustice. Demanding what is right for themselves, they will not deny what they are satisfied is right to others. But they will resent an extortionate demand ; they will reject against an unjust assessment; they will repudiate with scorn the attempt to impose a new tax under the guise of eliciting a composition for an old one. They may sometimes be fretted, but never can be played upon with impunity. On Sir Robert Peel de volves the duty of proposing such a compromise ; hut its acceptance rests with the English people. Sir It. 'ben Peel resumes office under every fa vourable auspice. Ile resumes it disembarrassed of Asst promises arid past alliances. He resumes it with the eneoutagement of a nation's desires, and the confides of a nation's hop . It is for him to settle that han g ; a - spute which has survived the names and badges of faction. On his settlement of it hangs that prospective laurel which no great Minister ever y e t could banish f rom his inward contemplation. Let him at once propose a great and comprehensive mea sure—final in its kind, but parent of innumerable consequences—great and just at the same time—and the gratitude of all posterity is his. Let him play with this important business as a thing or shreds and patches, to be docked here and stitched there—his power is gone for ever. Does he ask for htere a i s sign on e atto guide him in his course ? Behold hand. Two days ago one single meeting at Man chester collected 60,0001. A week ago a bucolic meeting at Lewes scraped together 2001. Ecce Sig 'Wm ! Let him look to the spirit of energy, enter prise, and perseverance which the men of the North have displayed in this new crusade ; and let him not be deterred by taunt or menace, false shame or fear, from carrying out a scheme of policy on which men of feelings and lineage similar to his own have set their hearts. They will support him; the people of England will rally round him; and—should even a powerful party rebuke him—he may answer in the "bold language of antiquity—"Neque verU, Quirites, ego eratn, qui hoc tanturn Imperium, tanquam patri ciorum provinciam, administrare ALVERTISER.—It has often been our lot to eulogise the eloquence of the League at their meet ings in Covent- rden and elsewhere, hut never did ga that body or its friends make such a display of elo quence as that which electrified the people of Man chester on Tiresday. We do not allude to the speeches of Mr. Cobden or those of any other of' the gentlemen present. The eloquence to which we ;pude was not the eloquence of worth : it was the eloquence of deeds. In the verdict of sixty thousand pounds being returned in one brief hour, for the funds of the League, the monopolists will discern a a more powerful argument against the corn-laws, thin they would in twelve months' mere speechifica tion. Oratory is lost on the landed interest : they either cannot or will not feel its force. They are practical persons. Figures of speech do not tell with them. Plain stubborn facts, not flowery language, are the things to make an impression on their minds. A good round sum in the shape of a subscription to the funds of the League, will weigh immeasurably more with the landlords than the rounded periods of their most accomplished orators. The Morning Advertiser was the first journal to refer at any length to the intention of the League to raise a fund of 250,0001. for anti. monopoly purposes. We know that the idea had been deemed Utopian. Itwas our purpose to sh o w that there was nothing impossible or improbable in it. We argued at some length its peefect practicability. We expressed our entire confidence in the attach ment of free-traders to their principles, and glanced at their readiness to make great personal sacrifices for the triump of those :principles. We little thought that we should so soon be furnished with such splendid proof of the correctness of all we had said. Little could we have imagined, on Monday week, when calling on the friends of free trade to respond to the appeal which the League was about making to them—little could we have then sup posed that, within eight days of that time, more than one-fifth of their quarter of a million should be raised in one hour and on one spot. Yet such is the fact. It stands before us attested beyond all doubt. It is exhibited in all the public journals to men's wondering minds. It seems to us like a dream. What, then, must it be to the mono. polists? If it had been possible for any landlord still to discredit the popular report, that corn-law repeal was near at hand, there can be no such person now. The man who could still cling to the belief that the corn monopoly may yet be withheld, would be a strange person indeed. Cowper said he would go from Land's-end to John O'Groat's house, to see a soldier at his devotions. It would be almost worth making an equally long journey to see the man—if any such man there be—who still clings to the notion that the corn monopoly may be maintained for some years to come. The 60,000/. "great fact" will not be lost on Sir Robert Peel. He will hear a voice in it which he dare not disregard. If he has been meditating any half-measure of corn-law repeal, the conviction must now force itself on his mind, that half measures will not satisfy the country. The people are bent on total repeal, and will accept of nothing short of it. The Premier, it is true, m a y by means o f hi s l arge majority, carry a half-and-half measure, in defiance of the arguments and remonstrances of the total abolitionists. Still the conviction must be as strong on his mind, as it is on the minds of the rest of the community, that the corn-laws must, ere long, be swept away, root and branch. Whatever may be the character of the measure which the Premier means to propose in the coming session, it is satisfactory to know that in less than two years entire repeal must be carried. By that time we must have a general election. And as surely as to-morrow's sun shall rise, will that general election reverse the existing order of things in the House of Commons. A general election will give us, instead of the present monopolist majority of ninety, a free-trade majority far exceeding that number. Our hopes centre in a general election. The eyes of the country are fixed on it. It is for tunate, in one sense, that a general election is not likely to take place immediately. Such an event was deemed probable one short week ago. The impres sion now is, that we shall have another registration before a dissolution of Parliament takes place. That is just what is wanted. The League have always said, that though their gains on the registry have been very great both in towns and counties, the free traders are not yet so fully prepared as they could wish, for giving battle to the monopolists at a general electiou. The League are anxious for another registration before Parliament is dissolved. Their wishes will, in all probability, be granted. Let. then the free traders be making all the needful pre parations. And nothing can more substantially assist the League in their warfare with the corn-laws, than liberal contributions to the fund of a quarter of a million, now proposed to be raised. It is to be hoped that the noble example set by Manchester will prove contagious, and that before a fortnight has elapsed, we shall have to announce that the entire sum has been subscribed. HERALD.—The " unequivocal expression of the public voice" is becoming daily more ridiculous. Scarcely any incident connected with them occurs without tending still more to strip the lion's hide from the League. The few cotton-spinners directly interested in the success of the cry for the total removal of protection are beginning to appear in their proper light, divested of pretence of expounding pub lic opinion, and surrounded by no other party than is brought around them by an interest like their own, or an interest in point of time more direct—the desire of each day's pay. The last exhibition of the Anti- Corn- la w League's power over public opinion was made by that body itself when, less wise than their fellow labourer and friend, the Irish free trader, they decided upon publishing their accounts. Mr. George Wilson, who has the unenviable task of listening to the ora tions at Covent-garden and elsewhere, is not, we would imagine, a very facetious gentlemen. We could not charge this as a fault, for the discipline to which he is submitted, especially when, as at the last meeting, Quaker Bright loses his place and is com pelled to suck an orange till he finds it again, would banish levity as effectually as one of Cromwell's exer cises. Yet Mr. Wilson must have been attempting a joke when he read the following statement as an ac count of " what had been done with the money already paid :" LEAGUE FUND, £lOO,OOO. Dr. (A) January 1, 184.5. To balance on hand £36,675 19 9 December 6. Subscriptions and Bazaar re- _ ceipts to this date 35,678 8 10 To discount and interest received this year B2O 4 H £63,174 13 Cr. By distribution of tracts, including expenses of distributors, carriage, &c. .., By expenses of furniture and fixtures By deputation expenses, including travelling expenses to attend meetings and Parlia mentary elections in various parts of the United Kingdom By grants to local Free-trade Committees By general salaries of office-staff, including all employed in London and Manchester on the general business of the League, weekly wages, &c., &c. By postage-stamps and postages, sundry office expenses, petty cash and incidental expenses, including repairs and alterations, coals, cleaning, &c By expenses of4meetings, including hire of roon s, erecting hustings, and all other expenses connected with public meetings 1,669 16 6 By salaries and expenses of lecturers, includ ing travelling expenses, &c. By rents, times, and, gas including rent of Covent-garden Theatre, house and offices, London and Manchester 8,992 1 8 By stamped publications, printing and sta tionery, reporting, &c. &c 6,854 9 2 By bazaar expenses, including wages of per sons employed during the bazaar, fitting up Covent-garden Theatre, and general expenditure in advertising, printing, tra velling expenses, &e. kc. By expenses of League newspaper, in eluding salaries of corductors, editor, and contributors, stamps, paper, and printing Deduct receipts for casual sale 1,227 6 3 10,161 7 1 By registration expenses, including salaries, travelling, and other expenses of registra tion agents, legal , expenses, wages of clerks, printing and stationery, expenses in registration courts, and general expenses on registration business Balance on hand 12,033 11 1 £63,174 13 6 WILLIAM BICKHAM, } Members of the Finance SAMUEL LEES, Committee. W. RAWSON, Treasurer. Examined and found correct. WILLIAM EVANS, Member of the Council. We should like to see an analysis by Lord Mont eagle of this statement, and more especially should we like to be able to see the distinction between the ittin " expenses of meetings, including hire of rooms," and the item " rents, taxes, and gas, including rent of Covent garden Theatre." Again, the ingenious Mr. Wilson charges at one place for "expenses of furni ture and fixtures," then makes a second charge for "erecting hustings ;" and, thirdly, after all " other expenses," charges for "fitting up of Covent-garden Theatre." Mr. Nilson would have made an excel lent Old Bailey attorney, especially in drawing in dictments. He has such a power of saying the same thing in different words that the escape from his meshes would be as difficult as the recall of any money given to the Anti• Corn-law League. His peculiar genius shines brilliantly in the ar ticle of " travelling expenses." The tract dis tributors (and considering the average number of pumps in each particular county, under which such gentlemen run the risk of being put, we would not at all object to their receiving proper remuneration), and the agitators, Cobden and the Quaker, and the " registration agents," all charge their travelling ex rpses, and Mr. Wilson, more suo, varies the counts. 1 - n the distribution of money to the latter class—that is, the " registration agents," we trust that the Leaguers have not forgotten their poor old dupe wilij am Worthington, of Cow-lane, Coventry. That respectable elderly individual was within a very nar row chance of proceeding to the Australian colonies, merely for swearing that he signed for the League certain notices which he did not sign. The forbear ance of the attorney for the Conservative s of War wickshire Sessions, leaves Mr. Worthingto n st ill the deems et tetamen of the Anti. Corn-law League at Coventry ; but though their paper designated him, be cause he was found out, "superannuated and in his dot age," that is all the greater real on why 50111 e portion of POLICE INTELLIGENCE. LAMB TR. John White and James Whiteside were placed at the ar on a charge of attempting to defraud Mr. Ludlam, a newavender and tobacconist, residing at 33, Stangate street, Bridge-road, Lambeth. From the statement of the prosecutor it appeared that on the day before, at about twelve o'clock, the prisoner White entered his shop and asked him if he would buy a quarter of a hundred weight of smuggled tobacco. lie produced a sample, which was of an excellent quality, and said he should sell him, witness, 25 lbs., at 25., and should deliver it in the evening. Witness suspected at the time that some trick was intended to be played upon him, and this was caused both by the prisoner's manner and the tobacco being of English manufacture, and offered at half the usual price, but he gave an order for the 25 lbs., which the prisoner promised to deliver in the course of the evening. In the interim heave information to a policeman of the occurrence, and mentioning his sus picions as to its being an intended " do," requested the constable would keep a look out and be handy in the event of his requiring his services. Shortly after five o'clock both the prisoners came to his shop, Whiteside carrying the bundle ; but having beckoned White into the parlour behind the shop he took the bundle with him. Inside he placed it upon the table, and pinching a piece of the side of the bag, drew forth a piece of tobacco resembling that which he had shown as a sample in the earlier part of the day. Witness, however, had still his suspicions, and sent for the constable, who se cured both men ; and the whole of the parcel produced, with the exception of about two ounces of tobacco, Owed at the identic.d spot where the bag had been torn, was mere rubbish, and composed of sawdust and sand. In his cross-examination by Mr. Wentner, who at tended for the prisoners, the witness said he did not know who carried the bundle to the station-house, but when witness overtook them the constable had posses sion of it. _ Police-constable Charles Revell, 175 L, deposed, that on being called into the shop of the last wit ness , h e found the prisoners there ; Whiteside in the shop, and White in the parlour. He asked Whiteside if he had a license for selling tobacco, and he replied he did not re quire one. He then said, " I understand you have some smuggled tobacco for sale," but though both pri soners heard him, neither made any answer. He then asked them where the) got the bundle, and Whiteside replied, "I shall say nothing about it. It is all right." Some days before witness received a bundle from Mr. Iles, a shopkeeper in Pleasant-place, Kennington-lane, which was made up of sawdust and sand, with a little tobacco on the top. Mr. John Iles, who keeps a chandler's shop at No. 18, Pleasant-place, Kennington-lane, deposed, that about a fortnight ago the prisoner White called at his shop, and representing himself as the mate of a foreign steamer, showed him samples of black and green tea and tobacco, all of which he had smuggled, and which he could afford to sell at a very low figure indeed. Witness bought as much of those articles from him as amounted to 4/. 6s. 6d., but in paying the prisoner he found he had only 41. 2s. 6d. in change. The prisoner agreed to take the latter sum, saying he should eome some evening and smoke a pipe with him for the 'balance. On subse quently receiving the packages they were found to have a small portion of each article which they had been sold for at the top, and all the rest was sawdust and rubbish. The prisoners, who gave a very unsatisfactory account of themselves, were remanded until Tuesday next. TUE. Pooa )x.—Mr. Henry received the remaining half of a 5/. note sent by E. C. for the poor-box belong ing to the Court. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORN] NG, DECEMBER 26, 1845. 349 1 218 19 462 12 1,000 17 1,336 14 1,528 1 MOr•: COUNCIL. the plunder should be allotted him. But the most amusing item of all is, that of " the League" news- paper. Ten thousand pounds and upwards lost by a paltry weekly paper ! Where now is the pretence . of the popularity of th e L eague d oc t r i ne ? Th e pmt's, in all conscience, as to quan tity cheap enough—price 3d. ; yet it seems that so indifferent are the people of England to the doctrines which it advocates, that the speculation is a dead loss of upward of 10,0001. per annum. The ordinary expenses of such a paper are a mere trifle. The publication contains about half the matter of the Britannia, and that principally taken from the pages of the Morning Chronicle and the provincial papers which favour free-trade ; so that, in fact, its want of success must have been unex ampled, when the weekly journal which we have named, and which advocates exactly opposite opinions, is widely circulated and prosperous, while the League is a loss of more than 10,0001. per annum. The wisest act in Lord John Russell's life was declining to believe the pretences of these tricksters, when they said that they commanded public opinion. CHRONlCLE.—Superfluous as the admonition may seem in the present state of national opinion and feeling, we cannot be satisfied without again most earnestly and emphatically warning the people, that they must settle the great and anxious question now before this country. To themselves and their own exertions alone must they trust for their deliverance. Now, more than at any moment since the question assumed its present shape, is there need of unsleeping vigilance and unrelaxing effort and determination. Our statesmen cannot, or will not, help us, further than as we choose to help ourselves; That section of our public men who alone have given unequivocal evidence of the desire to realise national wants and convictions in a legislative form, have recently de clared, after carefully measuring their resources with the difficulties of the problem, that they do not possess the power ; and the Minister who pro bably does possess the power has, as yet, given no clear indication of having the will. We Ere most anxious that the people of England should quite understand this. We warn them not to put the slightest faith in anything they may hear, infer, suppose, or imagine as to Sir Robert Peel's in tention to deal plainly and boldly with the corn-law. Looking merely to the obvious facts and necessities of the case, there might, indeed, seem every reason for expecting that the Premier will meet Parliament with the simple proposal, at once to clear the statute book of a law whose principle he has repeatedly con demned, and whose egregious failure, as a practical measure, he has so explicitly confessed. In this he knows that he would be supported by his opponents, and by the country ; in anything less than this he has no definite assurance of being supported by anybody, except his own official colleagues and sub ordinates. It appears, on the face of the matter, a downright impossibility that Sir Robert Peel should attempt anything less. If he must, for form's sake, and from the force of habit, talk of " three courses" being "open" to him, it can only be, one would think, to show, all the more pointedly, that two out of the three are irrevocably closed. As for compromise, nobody asks for it—everybody repudiates it—there is nothing to show that any class or party would accept it. With landlordism, to all appearance, mor tally offended, finally alienated, and furiously irate— and with the heart of the country set on the total and unqualified abolition of monopoly, as earnestly and unanimously as it was once set on " the Bill"--it seems impossible that Sir Robert Peel should dream of any other course than one being now open to himself or any other Minister. And perhaps it may be so. But we warn the country not to believe it without evidence. These appearances are not to be trusted for an instant. Looking at the question, not as it is, but as it may very possibly shape itself in Sir R. Peel's mind, we tell the people to put no faith what ever iu any inferential probability that he will do that which it seems demonstrablycertain he must do. Nothing can he more fallacious than this sort of logic, when Sir Robert Peel is in the case. There is no real reason whatever for believing—and for our own part we do not believe--that Sir Robert Peel contemplates, or ever has contemplated, the simple. repeal of the corn-law. It is not his way to do anything simply. Mystification is his element—compromise is the law of his being. He has never so much as told the world the specific grounds on which he left office, and of course there is no knowing with what specific purpose he returns to it. We can only say, in general, that the intention which a current rumour has attributed to him, of buying off the landlords with " compensation" hush-money, has considerable antecedent and intrinsic probability. It would be very much like a stroke of Peel policy. It is not at all clear that the Premier looks on his quarrel with landlordism as final and irreconcilable. We are by no means sure that he does not intend—perha,,s he has intended all along—to use the terrible " total and immediate repeal" of his opponents programme, as a foil to set off, to landlord eyes, the merits of some half-way expedient of his own. It would be extremely like Sir Robert Peel to attempt patching up a reconciliation with landlordism on the basis of a " consideration"—and it would, beyond all question, he like landlordism to close with such an overture. Who knows but we may live to see the squires, after all, rejoicing in a heaven-born Minister who offers to rid them of the League and the tax-gatherer at a stroke ? We do not of course undertake to say that anything of this sort is in Sir Robert Peel's mind; but we do say that it behoves the people now, more than at any time these seven 3 ears past, to be on their guard—to take nothing for granted—to believe nothing but what they see—and to trust only to themselves. We say to the country, do not presume that the landlords' quarrel with Sir Robert Peel will last, or that he will he driven into the ranks of the free traders to find a locus standi ; do not presume that the landlords will refuse a compro mise, merely because they say they will, if the com promise is to consist in putting their hands into the public purse; do not presume that the Pre mier will be ashamed of trying another venture in the lottery of legislation, or of coming down to the House with a cut and dried estimate of those " peculiar burdens" on which he could never yet be got to say a plain word in his place in Parliament : presume on nothing, except the certainty that he will do that which, on the whole, under existing circum stances, he deems the safest and easiest to be done— and that it lies with you to create those circumstances which shall determine his opinion as to the matter of safety anti easiness. Without absolutely affirming that Sir Robert Peel intends to insult the country with so monstrous a proposal as that of charging the squires' taxes on the Consolidated Fund, and making the people buy up the landlords' vested rights in their own wrong—we do most seriously assure the country that it will do wisely to lose not an hour in marking the whole ground of compromise " dangerous." This question is now at a point at which the exertions of a few weeks may save years of agitation. If it be not settled now, it will drag on through an indefinite pe riod, accumulating at each stage of its course new ele ments of social discord and political discontent and ex asperation. Are we really to have another quarter of a million of pounds sterling spent in agitation 7—such agitation not being confined, as heretofore, to a single obnoxious statute, but spread over the wide surface of our entire fiscal system—becoming really and truly, that which the - leaders of the League have hitherto, to the utmost of their power, deprecated— a war of classes. It is for the country, by a decisive and overpowering expression of its will now, to avert a result so deplorably mischievous, yet so certain to ensue in the event which we have supposed. The Minister who should be madman enough to traesfer the agitation against monopoly to the subjects of the incidence of taxation, and the distribution of political power, would open the door to evils the end of which no man living could foresee. We fervently trust that the people of England will not spare nor relax those exertions which can alone secure them against so disastrous a possibility. Justice and policy, per manent interests and temporary exigencies, the pre sent and the future, the earnest Liberalism which seeks the statutory recognition of sound principle, and the prudent Conservatism which deprecates ever lasting agitation—all demand that this harassing and perilous question be settled—so settled as that not a shred of it be left to vex and embitter our politics with class jealousies and enmities. ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF COM- BILLINGSGATE.—Bower, 122; *Phillipps, 120; Curling 119; Rtherti 114; Knill, 112; Johnston, 110; Old, 109; *Williams, 87; Barnes, 85. This ward returns eight. BREAD-STREET.—Maughan, 78; Hawtry, 76; Bridge, 72; Duncan, 69; Dignum, 67; Poland, 66; Laurance, 64; Laurie, 62; *Murrie, 39. This ward returns eight. BROAD-STREET.—Corney, 107; Gadsden, 98; Tupp, 97; Wart: n, 94; Marriott, 91; Foster, 91; White, 87; *Baker, 10; *Kesterton 36. This ward returns eight. DOWGATE.—*Kibble, 54 ; Prior, 51 ; Brown, 51 ; *Harker, 51 ; White, 46 ; Cousins, 40 ; Mortimer, 37 ; Gandell, 33. FARRINGDON WlTHOUT.—Bedford, 364 ; Williams, 349 ; Taylor, 321 ; Obbard, 318 ; Anderton, 317 ; Ed kics, 316 ; Buckmaster, 310 ; *Lynch, 309 ; Prender gast, 307 ; limn, 310 ; Harding, 300 ; Isherivood, 297 ; Barnard, 293 ; Charles, 290 ; Stokes, 283 ; Hodgson, 258 ; Itamshaw, 248. This ward returns sixteen. PORTSOKEN.—Wright, 161 ; Christie, 151 ; Par ker, 146 ; Keelby, 143 ' • Judson, 138 ; Hayw a rd, 128 ; Thompson, 125 ; Durnfo rd, 106 ; *Scoones, 70 ; Vale, 69. This ward returns eight, QITEENHITHE.—TyIer, 60 ; Curtis, 60 • Gow, 58 ; Acocks, 57 ; *Rathboue 54 ; Sykes, 42 ; *Simmons, 35. This ward returns six. The new members have an asterisk attached to their names. FOOT RACE.—On Wednesday the race between the well-known runners. Inwood and Berry, came off on Wands worth-common. The men were matched to run a quarter of a mile for 101. aside. At the start, the men got away well together. At one hundred yards Inwood got ahead; Berry made an ineffectual struggle as his opponent ran in the winner by several yards. The quarter of a mile of road was accomplished by the winner in sixty. one seconds HAMMERSMITH. A young man, named James Hogan, his wife, Ann Hogan, and a lad named William Barnes, were charged with having by violence caused the death of Edmund Connell. Police-sergeant Clark, T 13. deposed that on the pre vious evening he apprehended the three prisoners at their residences, in Fenning's-buildings, High-street, Kensing ton, on a charge of assaulting and beating a man named Edmund Connell, on the 2d of November last, from the effects of which death had since ensued. Witness was present on the 21st of November, at Connell's residence, when his deposition was taken, and beard him say that the three prisoners were the persons who inflicted the injuries, from the effects of which Connell died on the evening of Tuesday last. The prisoners had been in custody before on the same charge, and were several times remanded, but at their last examination there being no anticipation of the speedy dissolution of Connell, they re liberated on their own recognisances. Julia Connell deposed that she was widow of the de ceased Edward Connell. She was with her husband on Sunday, the 2i of November last, at the Coach and Horses public-house, High-street, Kensington. There was a raffle or gathering for a poor man that evening. Her husband called for a pot of beer, which he paid for, and several others persons called and paid for beer. When her husband drank out of the pot of beer, the prisoner James Hogan, who, with his wife and the pri soner Barry, was there, told her husband to let the beer alone. Her husband refused to do so, a quarrel ensued, and Hogan kicked witness violently in the side. The temale prisoner then came to her husband's assistance, and when witness recovered herself she saw her husband lying on the ground, and all the three prisoners beating him. Mrs. Hogan was lying on him, and had hold of Mtn by the eyebrows with bur teeth. Mr: CUTE then remanded the prisoners to Monday next. WANDS WORTH. James Harris, an excavator, was charged with obtain ing a pair of spikes under false pretences, from Richard Callender, a blacksmith, on the plain, Wandsworth. It appeared that the complainant had made several pairs of spikes (used by excavators to secure a footing whilst wheeling barrows up an inclined plank), for men employed on the Richmond Railway works, and the pri soner was one of the number. As these men are proverbially forgetful of payment, the complainant would not dispose of his wares without the money. The prisoner took ad vantage of his absence from home, and asked the son, a shrewd lad, for a pair of spikes, for which he had paid his father on the previous Saturday. The lad told the prisoner that if he was telling a lie he should know him again, and let him have theta. The complainant sub sequently ascertaining that his lad had been imposed upon, went in search of the prisoner, up and down the Richmond Railway works, and at last found him at the Crane. He then had the spikes in his possession, and swore be had had them a fortnight and paid the com plainant for them. Complainant told him that the spikes were not hi t, that he had obtained them by fraud, ch T oi h e e e p o r f is p o a n y e i r n for them or being payin g in stating given P. t i v n e t o him u m s t o h d i y s . that they were his own property, and was accordingly charged. Mr. CLIVE asked the prisoner what his answer to the charge was ? The prisoner said that he had had the spikes a fort night, and had paid fur them, and said he had a witness to prove that fact. Another excavator was called as a witness, but possessing a little more honesty than his friend (the prisoner), he declined to speak positively as to the time the prisoner had been in possession of the spikes. Mr. CLIVE observed that he should send the case for trial ; the prisoner, he must say, had made the most im pudent defence he had ever heard. The complainant said he did not wish the man to un dergo further punishment ; he should be satisfied with the restoration of his goods, and some compensation for the trouble he had been put to. Mr. CLIVE permitted the parties to retire, and the pri soner was afterwards discharged. Mary Flemming, a woman of abandoned habits, was reexamined upon a charge of stealing a pound of fresh butter from the larder of the Rose and Crown lan, Wim bledon. _ _ The charge was established, and the prisoner was committed for a month, with hard labour. THAMES. Mr. Foster, the master of a vessel called the Hope well, was charged with breaking bulk of a cargo of coals before the dues were paid, by which be had incurred a penalty of 25/. Mr. Pelham appeared for the defendant, who did not attend. The real question in dispute was whether coals brought from the North to London, and not intended to be used as fuel, were liable to the City dues of 13d. per ton. The Hopewell discharged a cargo of 413 tons of coals, not brought direct from the pit, for the purpose of being consumed as fuel, but which were brought from a tram-road, laid down many years ago, and recently broken up. The coals had been subjected to the action of the atmosphere for thirty-three years, and when the tram-road was broken up, the coals which composed it were shipped for London, and consigned to Mr. Heron, a brickmaker, at Uxbridge, to be used in the manufac ture of bricks ; and it was admitted that before he could do so he crushed the coals, which had lost many of their qualities, in a machine. There was no intention to evade the duty, and Mr. Heron said, if the magistrate decided that a duty was payable on coals exported from the North for the purposes of brickmaking, he would not attempt to resist the payment of the duty on other cargoes. Mr. BRODERIP decided that sea-borne coals, for what ever purpose they were exported from the North to London, were liable to the duty, and inflicted a nominal penalty of 205., at th e same t i me expr e s sing an opinion that Mr. Heron wa s qu i te r i g h t i n rais i n g the question, The fine was paid, an d M r . H eron sa id he would pay the City dues on other cargoes of the stuff consigned to him. Earl Delawarr, w h o h as b een s lightly indisposed during the last few days in tipper Grosvenor-street, is con valescent, and yesterday left town, accompanied by the Countess and family, for Buckhurst-park, Sussex, for the holidays. OUTRAGE AND ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT BUL max.—A most daring outrage was committed on Friday last, about half-past one A.m., at the house of 111 r. F. Stevens, a farmer, at Bulphan Fen, in this county. Three men, ma,ked, made a forcible entry, by breaking through a lath and plaster end of the building; and Mr. Stevens hearing them below, took the novel course of jumping out of the window, \Olen two of the villains attacked him, and one of them discharged a pistol at him, but happily missed his per son. Mr. Stevens escaping from them ran towards a cottage, when a second shot was tired at him, but fortunately without injuring him. The fellows then made off, taking with them a double-barrel gun, the only thing missing. Information having been given to the police, an active search was instituted in the neighbourhood, which resulted in the apprehension of a man named Freeman, residing at Iforndon, on suspicion of being one of the parties implicated in the outrage; Inspector Smith, who immediately went to London, succeeded, on Sunday evening, in taking into cus tody, in Ratcliffe-highway, another party, named James Scoble, who, from the description given, is strongly suspected to be the man who fired the pistol at Mr. Stevens. The prisoners have been removed to Brentwood to await, their examination before the magistrates acting for that division. —Essex Herald. BANK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.). An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 13th day of Dec/ember, 1845 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bank, Abingdon—Knapp and Co 25,857 Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co 13,555 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 11,157 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—R. and E. Copeman 5,287 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Rickford and Hunt Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade :laldeck—Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell... Barn itarie Bank, Barnstaple—Drake and Co Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Cole, Seymour, and Co. BetPoid Bank, Bedford-;--T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford— 'l'rapr, Halfhead, and Co. [lewd ley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and Crane Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—Tubb, Wootten, and Co Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham-- •Lewis, Moilliett, and Co Blandford Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co Bridgx • ter Bank, Bridgwater—E. & J. Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Parrett, and Co. Bury a7.d Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co Ball ury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb... Bail City Bank, Bath—Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett and Grant Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H. and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co Bridport Bank, Bridport—S. and W. E. Gundry Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— J. Worlledge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove—Rufford, Briggs, and Co. :lambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester —Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood cock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, 42,425 33,049 14,920 20,966 31,760 8,459 14,974 23,998 22,907 15,606 6,948 71,295 13,495 9,3R8 39,350 22,806 26,204 81,607 35,374 47,140 4,035 33,858 34,242 18,085 64,892 22,537 31,872 11,885 3,07 16,577 23,723 47,343 29,930 21,345 3,688 20,41 38,482 45,495 7,710 21.345 71,025 and Co.. Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. . Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co-. 24,707 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes, Locke, and Co 16,692 Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co 10,487 Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leathatn, Tew, and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster— Cook and Co. Dover Union Bank, Dover—Latham, and Co 9,040 Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, and Co 80,488 Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor man 1,798 6,861 8,825 Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. East 'tiding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hutton, and Co. . . 49,657 Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Walford, and Co. Exeter Bank,. Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Herefi)rd City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware— s. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey I larwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead — Smith, and. Whittingstall Honiton Bank, Honiton-Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharples and Co. Hereford, Ross, and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan and Hoskins Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexatlders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kinton and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J. D;tvies and Co Kiiiglitcm Bank, Knighton—J. Davies and Co. Kr.aresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, linaesborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and C Kettering Bank, Kettering-0 otch and Sons Lane E72d Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C llarti,:y and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and C Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. Laiitester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co f,;ohFeld Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co L; , ..niovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very —David Jones and Co. ouv'hborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle t, ins and Cradock Lytuington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis-- Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co NT anningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough —Ward, Merriman, and Hillier Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyums and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Aberomvenny—Baileys and Co Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark—Haudley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock. Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and llutlsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur- 52,061 30,405 19,855 8,539 12,936 4,974 5,548 17,505 12,238 29,004 34,624 neys end Co Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddeock and Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Harris, and Co New Srruni Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and (,o Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os wostrv—Croxon and Co •• Oxford B an k, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell Oxford jlcll.l3an'c, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Thompson . Old Bank Tonbridg e, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Well. and Bank, Tonbridge— Beeching, , , and Sons • •• _ 18,587 22,936 19,819 49,495 4,754 20,341 12,989 34,154 27,435 20,370 75,021 18,818 23,677 7,989 20,690 44,878 7,393 5 ; 553 52,0G5 35,743 3,497 29,143 40,750 17,910 89,018 27,740 6,347 4,284 40,724 14,180 11,360 6,224 16,390 10,902 10,032 18,059 26,486 15,436 8,348 27,988 50,836 33,889 21,175 3,060 42,103 70,311 9,059 5,266 21,741 12,757 28,345 16,073 13,553 32,837 12,160 Average Amount . Oxfordshire Witney Bank Witney—Williams, Clinch, and Co 10,165 Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 41,378 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 11,608 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Messrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson 10,157 Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven, and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 32,965 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co 37,F 71 Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton and Co 6,400 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co 4,148 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson B2 Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot ner and Son 3,535 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 15,909 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 12,865 Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 24,955 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co 13,790 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway 4,121 Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co 18,107 Scarborough Old Bank, 'Scarborough—Woodall and Co 24,346 Shrewsbury and Marked Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adan.s, and Co 9,860 Shrewsbury Old Batik, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury— Rocke, Eytons, and Co . Sittingbourne Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance awl S',n 3,203 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton —Maddirnn and Son Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank. St.. Alban's—J. S. Story 3,145 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 20,722 Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and King - 8,648 Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly ao.l Fall Stone Bank, Stont--W. Moore 6,560 Stourbridge _ Bati'c, Stourbridge —Raiford, Wragg, and Co . . Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 12,333 Stamford and Rutkull Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. . Stourbridge Old Bsnl,, Stourbridge—Bate and- Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 24,163 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Stuart 2,441 Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 26,725 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co 12,185 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rol ph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland 10,176 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. 23,229 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. 20,355 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, aid Co. 26,337 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract dank, Wakefield—Leathain, Tew, and Co 42,246 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 14,786 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester— Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bask, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. 12,421 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co. 80,354 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil kinson Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick 2,582 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 12,865 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank, York—Swann, Clough, and Co 44,787 JOINT- STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal . . Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 48,158 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford .... ~ Burton, Ult .- ixeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 10,878 County of Gloucester Banking Company, chel tenh am Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 18,477 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,649 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington igt, East cif England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 143,100 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax. 19,328 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 34,212 Hull Banking Company, Hull 26,913 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,636 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,429 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 21,272 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 25,079 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,843 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 56,632 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 44,845 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, Leeds 18,978 Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 13,953 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 10,431 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham... • 26,058 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 77,418 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 57,095 Northampt•nshire Union Bank, Northampton 76,918 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North- ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 51,490 Pares's Leicestt rshire Banking Company, Lei- nester . Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 4,215 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,155 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stann'ord Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang- port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Stourbridge and Kidderm►nster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and lialla,mshire Banking Company, Sheffield .. . .. 22,667 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint• Stock Banking Company, St, .Iliz'd Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond ... Stockton and Durham County Banking Com pany, Stockton...... Storey and Thomas's Banking Company, Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield .. Suffolk Bankint.. Company, Ipswich - Wolverhampton ait.lStaffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 35,745 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 12,427 Whitehaven Joint •Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick and LethwiLgton Banking Company, Leamington West of England and South Wales District Bank,Brtstol, ,„,,,,. 84,629 Average Amount. Wilts•and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 67,215 West Riding Union Banking Conpaliy, Hud • dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Bunking Company, Whitchurch . . 6,403 Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester... . York Union Banking Company, York 60,178 York City and County Banking Company, York 89,248 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns: Stamps and Taxes, Dec. 20, 1845. RAILWAY SRI ‘RE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Dac. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bideford and Tayi• stock, 18s. 6d. dis.—Buckinghamshire, r ar—Cambridge and Lincoln, 31s. 6d. p.—Derby and Crewe, 2 3 / 4 p.—Derehain and Norwich, 12s. 6d. dis.—Eastern Counties, Perpetual, No. 2,4 s 6d. p.— Edinburgh and Glasgow, Half Shares, 9% p• -- Grand Junction, 244—Ditto, New Quarter Shares, 34 P.- - Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3 3 4 p.—Great Westere. Quer. ter Shares, 13 3 A—Goole and Doncaster, par—Huddert.field Canal and Railway, 4 p.—London and Birmingham, Quartet Share, 23 p.—Direct Northern, 10s. dis.— Leeds and Think, 2 5 % —Lynn and Derebam, par—Manchester, Midland, and Great Grimsby, Ss. p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, landch r and Leeds, Fifth Shares, WA , 148—Ditto, 40.: Shares, 17 p —Northumberland and Lancashire, 12s. 6d.dis.- orth Staffordshire,. 3IA p.—North Wales Mineral, 4 p.—Preston and Wyre, 31—Ditto, New Shares, 3 p.—South-Eastern and Dover, Consolidated Thirds, Half Shares, 15s. p.—Cork and Bandon, 2s. 6d. p• —Central of France, 9 1 4 p.—Dutch Rhenish, 2 3 / 4 p.—Paris and Lyons (Laffitte), 7s. 6d. p. MANCHESTER, DEC. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Grand Union, ) 1 4 -- ' Leicester and Bedford, 27s.—Liverpeol, Ormskirk, and Pres ton, 3 3 4 c.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 795. Manchester and Birmingham, 74—Ditto, Quarters, 11 W-- Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 11 3 / 4 —North Staffordshire , 5/. 4s. 6d.—North Western, 47s.—Shropshire Union, 345. 6 0 : 1 . —West Riding Union, 5/. 19s. 6d. _ _ SHEFFIELD, DEC. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.— Theseles are—Midland, Sheffield, and Rotherham, 33 1 ,x—Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Share, No. 3., 5 th—Gransby Extension, 10e. p.—Leeds and Brad fbrd, 48—Derby and Crewe, 41. 13s. 6d.—London and York• 31. 19i.—Sheffield and Lineclnshire, 3—Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe, 16s. 6d.—Wakefield and Harro gate, I/. Bs. 6d. EXETER, DEC. 24. STOCK ExcitArrok—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter► New (in great demand), 8 1 4—Eastern Counties, 2054 -- South Wales, 34—Exeter and Creditor, 74. BRISTOL, DEC. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only sale was—Bristol and ElWe t ' New, 734. LEEDS, DEC. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—London and Croydon, 20 3 4—East Lancashire, No. 1, 15 5 ,4—Ditto, No. 2 (lato / 4 - crington), 9—Leeds and Bradford. 49—Leeds - and Dewsbury', 15%—Ditto, New Shares, 5 5 4—London and York, V. lam West Riding Union, 6 5 / 2 —Clitheroe Junction, 3—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, is dis.—Manchester, Buxton, 3 14 ,„t'' lock, and Midland, 38s.—Manchester and Southampton , 2 A —NorthWestern, 2 1 4—South Midlands, 21. 18s. field and Harrogate, 2s. Gd. dis.—Welsh Midlands, York and Carlisle, 2. lIULL, DEC 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The London accounts have gi ven more tone to our market, and speculators for a further decline show some anxiety to secure themselves from loss. Old lino are firm at London prices, and even higher rates. The sAle. s are-Hull and Selby (10 per cent. guar.), 100--North on tish (Carlisle), 2%-Leicester and Bedford, 11- 75.-Co ndo and 'York, 4 -Nottingham, Erewash, &c , 2-Notting h l and Boston, 1 3 4-North Staffordshire, Si. i&-South did land, 41. 18s.-Shrewsbury and Ilerefollshire, 17s. 6d- EDINBURGH, Disc. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Aberdeen, 4 4 158 %:, Aberdeen, Banff, and Elgin, 21.-Airdrie and Bat h g l 21.85.-Arbroath and Forfar, 25/. 1 -Ditto, Half Shares' 15/.-Ayr and Dumfries, 21 155.-Ayr and Galloway, 2/ bs• -Banffshire, 1/. 17s. 6d.-British and Irish Union , 31 33. -Caledonian, 121. 155.-Caledonian Extension, 21 -- 15s * Caledonian and Dumbarton, 31.-Caledonian and Northern Direct, 21. 155.-Clydesdale Junction, 19L-Direct Norther], 21.-Dundee and Arbroath, 35/. 103.-Ditto, New. 171:"" Dundee and Perth, 71,-East of Fife, 1/. 154.-East Lothian Central, 1/. 17s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Bathgate, 3/.-Edin burgh and Glasgow, 701.-Ditto, Half Shares, 161.11051:+ Ditto, Quarters, 161 10s.-Ditto, New, 131.__) din Glasgow, and Dumbarton 155.-Edinburgh and Leith 41.0 mospheric, 11. 14s. 6d.-Edinburgh and Leith Atmospheri Direct, 1/. 155.-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 211. Ditto, Preference, 181. 10s.-Edinburgh and Northern, -Ditto, Newport, 1/. 25.-Ditto, Lochgelly, 1 /. 10s.- 6d• burgh and Peebles, 21.-Edinburgh and Perth, 4 / . is. -Forth and Clyde Junction, 2/.-Glasgow and Ay rshire ; 70/.-Ditto, New Stock, 23/.-Ditto, Quarter Shares, 12s. 6d.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 2/. 45.-G1 3 1 5 1 and Dundee Junction, 2/. 55.-Glasgow and Garnkirk,• -Glasgow and Greenock, 21/.-Ditto, New Stock, WI. !ff . -Ditto, Preference, 2/. r,s.-Great North of Scotland, 21 01 . 11~ -Granton Junction 21. 2s. 6d.--Inverness and 155.-London and I Y ork, 4/. 55.-North British, C l ot- Halves, W. 10s.-Perth and Inverness, 1 /. 15s. tish Central, 13/. 155.-Scottish Midland, .51. 6 - d co"t 105. tish North Western, 11. 145.-Stirling and Dunfermline, 21. A r ri,g MARKET 1N TELLIG-D ll • MEAT MAILIC.EIO' 1 ; of fat stock SOUTHALL, DEC. 24.—Although the suPP.-es - ;0 here to-day were small, the demand was in a slugt _ state, and, in some instances, prices had a downward !!; dency :—Beef, from 3s Od. to 4s 4d; Mutton, 33 4d to Veal, 4s to 5-; and Pork, 3s 6d to 4s 8d per Sibs- ROMFORD, DEC. 24.—Prim Mutton and Pork solu',fre;ilS at full prices; otherwise, the t e demand was in : 4 1 1 "° s y t e s a te l, :- 33 B l e o e d f. to fr 4 o s m 102dsilOadnd Pork, 4s 6d „to 66; 6d ; Mutton, 0 _ gll* Suckling Calves, 18s to 30s; Quarter s -old to st 4 o s re lo p d igs, p7 l.a o cu tO . 19s; and Mulch Cows, with their small Calf, 161 to 19ir e - s HAILSHAM, DISC 24.—0n1y a moderate business was ' l.- Ad . ; acted here to-day, at our quotations :—Beef, from 3s to 45 ,: t o Mutton, 3s 4d to 5s 2d; Veals, 4s to 4 s 8 d; and Por k, 4s 6d per 81bs. ARUNDEL, DEC. 23.—Beef, from 2 s to 4s 6d ; Muttollt 3s 6d to 5s • Veal, 4s to 4s 8 d ; and Pork, 4s to 4s 8d per Blbs. A moderate supply, and a heavy demand. . CHICHESTER, DEC. 24.—We ad to-day for most kinds of stock, on rrynishe uckling Calves, 18s the slu f g o gi llotin i g nclu te 4s 8d ; and Pork, 48 to 4s 8d per Blbs. S _ . _ Beef, from 28 10d to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s ; Veal, 4s to Cows, with their small calves, 16 to 9/ ach. to 30s ; Quarter Old Store Pigs, 168 to 18s; and Mitch ------- CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the Week ended Dec. 20, 1845 made up from the Returns o f the Inspectors in the different Cities ' and Towns in England and Wale. per Imperial Quarter. I ---- ---- PEAS' WHEAT. 'HARLEY.' OATS . RYE. I BEA"' I 2 .5d PRICE .. 57s lld 32s 7d 23s 4d 34s 39s 6d 4 ' DUTY ..._ 141 Od 5s Od 4s Cd 6s .6d Is 6d 1. BLICKFRIARS-DRIDGE PIER AND THE W ri c l l; MEN STEAMERS.—A strong body of the Thames an - n i- t he Police are still stationed on this pier, in consecluelf e ; A: 0541 Wrn ateren steamers persisting to stop there. In In, e ,"e ye of Wednesday, Waterman No. 1 stopped, as usual, olk`" "but ral of the passengers made a rush to land on the 1? atop' were prevented by the police. While thus engaged in.sebrie ping the passengers from landing, two persons of resPe" bad appearance, got on board at the head of the boat, and t he nee the satisfaction of travelling to Greenwich for one e p eers each; several others were about to go on board, hu t a ve stopped. During the past week thousands of bills h been distributed, stating that the public might travel co the new free pier at Blackfriars-bridge to Greenwich Woolwich for one penny. r9th EXTRAORDINARY PRACTICE.—Oa Fll ay, til e aas instant, by an adjournment on Monday last, an inq ues 'las, held at the Bush Inn, Gornall Wood, before T. M. Esq., on the body of Hannah Collins, a married woniresd: about i fifty-four years of age. The deceased, it aPe es ,,d to l •orked as a nailer; and, on Tuesday a itb Maria Marsh, who worked with her, that she was tll (onto " a rising of the lights," and asked Marsh to give he r the shot to swallow, saying she had taken some before for same complaint, and they had done her good. marshone none; but next day Collins told Marsh she had takell,tter. procured from a neighbour named Abbiss ' and was V/ r J. She began to work again, but died on Tuesday last. ,nr i eet B. Browne, surgeon, stated that he had made a Pol,_l";,rht examination of the body of the deceased, and found tile e'ssb, lung in a state of ossification, which was the caus e of rs, Verdict accordingly.—[The swallowing of shot is, it aped iO r e a common practice at Gornall and the neighbourboo order to cure " a rising of the lights."]— Chronicle. 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A O , On the 22d inst. at Montague-place, Hammersmit h, the wife of Mr. T. 13utcher. bfr On the 22d inst., at Alfretcn, John Cressy Hall, Egl l rister- at-law, ageB2. On the 23d inst., at Reigate, Elizabeth, the wife of Hart, solicitor. r London: Printed and Published by BWR,DO YOU I4O Ne. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, e ta Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy , in the Co -f IliOalesex, Friday, December 26, 1845. th e the w 11 th e Am , TI hes,,