The Sun. — London, England, 1845-01-22 00:00:00

ebtrb lEttition THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced 3 per Cent. Consols ........... 1001.4 New 3 1 4 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 121 3-1 e Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 Ditto 30 year?, Jan. 5, 1860 India Stock South Sea Stock Ditto New Annuities 993 / 4 Bank Stock for Account. Consols Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 60 pm. Ditto 5001. Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent — ' Ditto A ccou nt 6 0 1% 'Spanish 5 per Cent. 1844). Ditto, Account 2B‘, 4 ‘, Ditto, Passive Ditto, Deferred l 7 l' Ditto 3 per Cent. .. • Ditto Account Dutch, 21,4 per Cent Ditto, 5 per Cent 99 • SHARES. Bristol and Exeter, 70 paid 7614 Catalonian, 5 paid Chaster and Holyhead, 5 paid ..... 7 Churnet Valley, 2 paid Cornwall, 3 pain Dublin and Belfast Junction, 2 1 / 2 paid Eastern Counties, 25 paid... Ditto Perpetual, 5 per,Cent, 3% paid, No. 1 l l4 Ditto ditto, 13s. 4d. paid, No. 2 8 Eastern Union, 10 paid..... 11 •8 Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Ditto Quarter Shares, 12% paid 161% Great Southern and Western (Ireland), 5 paid 11 Great North of England, 100 paid Ditto New Shares, 5 paid 274 • - Ditto New, 2 paid .‘.l Great Western, 75 paid Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid lOl Ditto Fifths. 20 paid 3 9 31 ' London and Birmingham (Stock) . .. 236 London and Brighton, 50 paid 53 London and Greenwich, 12 4 paid London and York. 2 1 ; l 2 paid Lynn au d Ely, 14 paid Manche ter and Leeds, 70 paid ' Manchester and Birmingham, 40 paid ... 56% Midland, 100 paid ... Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, 100 paid 97 NewesAve and Berwick, 1% paid ... .. 10 1 ,E North British, 7 1 / 2 paid Norwich and Brandon, 8 paid Rugby, 1 paid 3{ 3 ‘ South Eastern and Dover, 33u paid 47 , : i Ditto New, 2 paid Shrews., Wolverh., Dudley, and Birm., 2i pd. 3 1 4 its Staines and Richmond, 1 paid lf/ % South Wales, 2 1 2 paid 4% Trent Valley, 2 paid ll West London, Old Shares, 20 paid Ditto Ist Class Preferred 9 West Cornwall 11% paid 41% ' Yarmouth and Norwich, 20 paid 29 Ditto, New Shares, 8 paid 1 5 3,, i. York and North Midland, 50 paid Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid FRENCH RAILWAYS.: Great Northern of France, 4 paid Paris and Strasbourg, 2 paid Rouen and Havre, 12 paid ought to be made to say only what they mean, and to mean what they say ?" Yet this is the - proposition which cannot be safely hazarded at a convocation of a Christian Protestant university:, This state of the public mind is distressing, not merely as affording protection to the most serious evils, but as proof of a great intellectual decline. Great men wrestle with or dispose of objections that little men weave about themselves, like some insects, until they are smothered in them. We need not reflect long to know whether the manufacturers of or the tramplers upon objections most advance the knowledge and the happiness of mankind ? Not all the Germans that ever lived—and they have ever been and are the great artists in this line—have done so much for human knowledge and learning as Locke and Butler, Bentley and Porson—men more remarkable for nothing than their contempt of the objection trade. The most eminent objector that ever disgraced this country was Mr. Malthus. He objected to feeding the poor, lest they should exhaust the granaries of Providence. He had his day, as the objectors to making men speak truth will, we suppose, have theirs. Posterity will look upon both with equal contempt and pity. But Mr. Malthus was the cause of inde scribable evil ; and the objectors of whom we have now to complain will, we have no doubt, be the authors of even worse evil. Let us not be understood as imputing blame to the Oxford Board ; they have done their part nobly in, framing the sta tute, and perhaps they have used a sound discretion in withdrawing it. We know not whether it is com petent to a single member of Convocation to propose the measure. If so, we have no doubt that it will be proposed—aye, and carried too—while the Board will be relieved from the responsibility of having it carried by a small majority. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. F3OM TM:. EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—TiIe near approach of the period when Parliament will be called upon to decide whether the property and income-tax shall be abandoned, or con tinued in a modified form for a longer period, invests with peculiar interest the question of its superior fit ness as a means of obtaining the necessary supplies for the government and defence of the country, to an indirect system of taxation. This question is dis cussed, with considerable clearness, in the pamphlet on the property-tax by G. P. Bushe, Esq., to which we alluded on nlonday. We resume our notice of that pamphlet, for the purpose of examining the writer's views on the expediency of continuing, and even perpetuating, the tax on property as a sub stitute for the existing system. Mr. Bushe strongly advocates a modification of the present income-tax, so as to convert it into a property tax, which shall be levied upon every description of property in the United Kingdom, whether the proprietor resides at home or abroad. One of the arguments—the expense of collect ing the•indirect taxes—adduced in support of this re commendation, is worthy special attention. The pro portion which the means bear to the end, will always be a consideration in the fiscal arrangements of a wise Government :—" The Customs produce annually about 22,000,000/., and the expense of the establish ment, in all its department, civil and military, for collecting this sum, is about 2,400,000/., or nearly 11 per cent. on the amount received. Now, according to the best authorities, about 19,000,0001. of the Customs' duties are obtained with comparative little difficulty or expense ; and it is to secure the other 3,000,0004 that a great part of the establishment is required ; the proportion of which is estimated at about 1,000,0001., or 33 per cent. on the sum collec ted." This most improvident expenditure—this waste of public money, the impolicy of which a careful re vision of our present system of taxation would expose, and•thus prepare for its abandonment—is thus illus trated :—" If a merchant sends his clerk to call in moneys due to him ; and, on his return, the clerk makes out a bill for expenses amounting to one third of the sum brought home, the merchant will assuredly investigate the matter, and introduce very material alterations into his system of proceed ing:" Yet it is in a precisely analogous manner that England, the most commercial nation in the world, has for a long time collected a large portion of her revenues, and still continues to collect them. An abo lition of the Customs' duties which produce these three millions, would enable the Government to reduce the expense of a Customs' department by about a million —a clear saving to the country to this considerable ex tent. It is certain that the demands of the revenue must be supplied. The great mass of the labouring poor can only be enabled to pay an increased rate of taxation by an increased rate of wages; so that, after all, the means of taxation must be furnished by the wealthier classes. Some of these may be tempted to cry out against the increase of taxation to which they would he subjected by a tax upon property ; but without reason. The further taxation is removed from capital, and the more indirect its operation, the greater must le . the cost of its collection ; or, in other words, the greater must he the sum lost in gather ing it in, and the greater the gross amount re quired for the services of the State. Nothing can be more unequal than the pressure, nothing more expen sive than the collection, of revenue from the great masses of the population. If the labourer is to pay one shilling, the capitalist will have to supply him with much more than one shilling, in order to make up for the waste and profits of capital while passing through so many hands—downwards, from the capitalist to the labourer ; and upwards, from the la bourer to the tax-gatherer. The ultimate saving to the community by a system of direct taxation would be immense. Nor is this the only ' form in which the people would find relivt from the substitution of direct for indirect taxation. It is under the veil of indirect taxa tion that monopoly, with all its miserable conse quences, has been allowed to stalk through the land. It is only because the evil is not discovered in its natural hideousness, th:.t a bread-tax in the shape of corn-laws, or sugar-tax in the shape of protection to the West India interests, has been allowed to carry on its inordinate exactions. Were the wants of the State supplied from the property of its sulsjects, with out any circumambulations, the benefit would be felt by all. The burden would be equally distributed; and payment for protection would be made in pro• portion to the value of the property protected. STANDARD.—At a late hour yesterday it was determined to withdraw the addition to the statute " de auctordate," &c., intended to be proposed at the Oxford Convocation on the 13th prox. We deeply regret this determination, but we have been some time prepared for it by the multitude and variety of objections to the intended proceed ings which we have heard from different quarters — objections not proceeding from the Romanist party only or principally, but from men who highly prize tine Protestant character of the Church and Univer sity, pri ze it a b ove every thi ng , exce pt— eac h m a n's display of his own private wisdom. It is a melan choly reflection that in the age in which we live, no united effort can ever b e ma d e upon mere reason and conviction--passim is the only feeling that will so far discipline our r am p ant se lf- op i n i on as t o b r i ng us to act in perfect harmony. Tell any one in cold blood that he must sacrifice this crotchet or that scruple to ensure the succe ss o f a common enterprise and he will tell you that his crot c h et orscrup l e i s very precious in his eyes, and that he i s no t a man to compromise his oivn convictions in even a tr ifli ng matter ; while in this very obstinacy about trifles he is making the meanest and most unprofitable of all compromises—sellinga noble end for th e sav i ng of some petty means. his wretched temp er of the time is almost a sufficient excuse for those who inflame men by sppeals to their most violent passions before calling upon them to act in pursuit of any important object, a co mplete excuse for th e authorities in the Church declining to take any definite course in repre'sing the evils thatthreateis the Church, and ultimately the State, with ruin. M Bien can he brou g ht to concur in nothing definite, because such concurrence involves the humiliating confess ion, that there are others in the world as wise as one's self; the o'er of the most simple definite proposition is a sum mons to the exercise of that most vulgar and universally Aitrosci. t4lents, the talent for " picking holei." What simpler proposition, in deed, can be imagined than this, that men lb. In Pouchong there has, however, been a fair busi ness at 7d to 10d per lb, and a fassnutd,hle opinion is en tertained towards this kind of tea. Hyson is unal tered in value ; common is 2s 7d to 2s Sd, mid to good 2s 9d to 3s, and superior from 3s 2d to 4s 6d per lb. For Twankay of common quality the offers made are such as holders are not inclined to accept, yellow leaf is worth is 2id to is 31d, brightish leaf, is 4d to is 9d, rind Hyson kind is 10d to 2s 5d per lb. Imperial and Gun powder are fully as high as last quoted, but there is a pause in the demand. For fine scented Orange Pekoe 3s 4d per lb is readily obtained. Sercus.—To-day Sumatra Pepper met with attention, and 2,299 bags at auction were all sold at full rates, half heavy clean selling at 2id to 2ild ; fine light 20 to 20 ; sea damaged, first class 20 to 2 d ; second ditto 2d ; third class 2d ; ditto and repacked 20. White was little called for, and 286 bags at public sale were nearly all taken in at 5d to 50 fur good mid, and 40 for mid, being moderate rates. Rtrx, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—lmporters of Ja maica Rum for the most part are not inclined to sub mit to any further decline in prices, and the home trade are cautious in their proceeding ; small parcels have been sold, 28 to 30 per cent overproof common and middling quality at 3s 6d to 3s Bd, better 32 to 36 over 3s 9d to 4s 2d, fine 4s 4d to 5s per gallon. In Leewards purchases to a fair ex tent made at 2s 2? .. 5d to 2s 3d per gallon, proof strength. Calcutta Rum 2s to 2s id per gallon, is the value of proof with certificate. In Demerara only a limited business has been done, but prices are not lower, and 3s to 3s 3d is the worth of strong qualities. Holders of Brandy still manifest firmness. Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838 hhds 5s 3d, puns 5s Id; ditto, 1839, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d; ditto 1840, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d; ditto 1841, hhds 4s Ild, puns 4s 9d; ditto, 1842, hhds 4s Bd, puns 4s 6d; ditto, 1843, hhds 4s6d, puns 4s 4d, common 2s 8d to 2s I Id, middling to good middling 3s to 3s 10d, and Bordeaux 2s 6d to 2s 9d per gallon. Geneva is firm in price, export at is 9d to Is 10d, and fine for home con sumption 2s 4d to 3s 6d. English Corn Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon, cash. RlCE—Although there are sellers of Bengal at the re duced rates previously noticed, still the demand by pri vate contract has been limited for home consumption and shipping ; mid white at lOs 6d to 1 Is, and good mid lis to Ils 6d per cwt. None has been offered at auction. Madras of yellow quality is still wanted, at auction the sound ofl,ooo bags was taken in above the value—that is, good yellow at los, yellowish white Bengal kind lOs 6d; damaged sold at 8s to 95 6d per cwt. Java is dull of sale. Patna is 13s 6d to 17s per cwt. FRUlT—Currants are still much wanted, and an ex tensive business has been transacted since our report of Tuesday last ; Zante new has been fetching 49s ; I'atras 50s to 52s ; Valentin Raisins are 50s. Red Smyrna 'Wins at 45s to 46s per cwt. INDIGO.—The market has an improving appearance for East India Indigo, and the demand at the quarterly sale which comm* need to-day far exceeded the ex pectations of many parties, the low prices decidedly attracting attention. Of the quantity ads ertised, 7,474 chests, 3,656 only were Bengals, the re mainder consisting of Oudes, Madras, Kurpahs, and Manillas. The biddings were very brisk, and the competition very animated, especially for the qualities fit for shipping, which from their scarcity brought an advance of 2d to 4d per lb on the prices of the last sale; the same observation applies to good and fine consum ing qualities. Ordiaary and low sorts of Bengals and Kurpahs were also in good demand at the October sale's rates, whilst regular Madras were comparatively neglected, at a discount of 2d to 4d; 929 chests have passed the sale, of which 228 were bought in. Bengal Indigo sold from 2s 4d to Ss sd, Madras 2s 2d to 3s 6d, and Kurpah 2s 5d to 3s 5d per lb. Indigo at and under 3s per lb is worth attention. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon Cochineal was in excel lent request; at public sale 94 bags of Honduras and 20 bags of Vera Cruz were offered, the whole sold at an advance on former rates of Id per lb. Honduras com mon silver fetched 4s 6d to 4s 7d, middling to good 4s 8d to 4s 9d ; Mexico fair to good black, 4s lld to 5s 2d, and one silver 4s 7d per lb. SALTPETRE—TO-day an increased desire was mani fested to purchase Rough. 1,000 bags of Calcutta were offered at auction, and all sold at fully former rates, or dinary grey 104 per cent refraction sold at 25s to 25s 6d; Si per cent ditto 25s 6d to 265; 5i per cent middling grey 375; fine white very bold chrystal 41 per cent 27s 6d to 28s; 31- per cent, ditto, 28s ; unretracted 20s to 25s ; washed 22s to 255; washed and shifted 20s to 21s 6d per cwt. The market has a firm appearance. OILS.—The supply is still increasing of Sperm Oil, and a further decline in prices has taken place; of 150 tuns at auction a part only sold at 801 to 8415 s for Oil, and at u'3l 58 to 841 per tun for Headmatter. For all sorts of common Fish Oils the home trade have pur chased sparingly, and fbr exportation there are few orders—Cod has been selling privately at 291 lOs to 30/. Seal, pale 321 lOs to 33/, yellow 30/ to 31/, Straw 311 to 32/, brown 281 to 291. At auction 100 tuns were only in part sold at 291 15s to 321 for Southern, and at 27/ to 29/ for Elephant Oil, being 20s to 30s per tun under the rates of the last sue. Lions. Linseed Oil has been in excellent request at 23s 6d to 23s 9d on the spot, and at 24s to 24s 6d per cwt for forward delivery, at which the crushers are firm. Of Rape, many parcels have been sold at firm rates; pale at 368 to 36s 6d, and brown 35s to 35s 6d per cwt. Cocoa Nut Oil, fine Ceylon has fetched 27s 6d to 28s, and good 26s 6d to 27s per cwt. Holders show firmness. Olive Oil, Gallipoli at 42/ to 434 Spanish 411 to 421, Sicily 411; Barbary and Levant 39/ to 401 per tun. Of Palm se veral parcels sold, and 233 to 26s per cwt paid for good and fine. TALLOW.—A decline in the value of all kinds has oc curred ; 453 pkgs of South American selling at 35s 6cl to 38s 3d for fair to fine quality, 245 casks of New South Wales 35s to 40s, 138 casks of first sort Siberia yellow candle SBs 9d, 100 casks of St. Peters burgh yellow candle 38s 6d to 38$ 9d, and 119 casks Soap Tallow 37s 3d to 37s 6d per cwt. For auction 100 csks of North, 150 csks of South American, 100 casks of St. Petersburgh, and 150 casks 20 tons of Colonial Tallow are declared. Holders of Russian are still anxious sellers on the spot, but submitting to a further reduction in prices occasioned the demand to be good, and 39s 6d to 39s 9d are the current rates taken for P Y Candle of fine quality. There are sellers for forward delivery upon low terms, yet at present few buyers ara to be met with ; 40s per cwt is the quotation for the last three months of the year. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN'ING JANUARY 22 i(345. J. Coupland and F. Duncan, merchants, Liverpool— a div. of ss. in the pound, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, or any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool. F. Duncan and J. Coupland, merchants, Liverpool—a div. of 14s. 7d. in the pound, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, or any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool. E. Johnston, jun., and T. Manley, sugar refiners, Whitehaven, Cutnberland—a fourth and final div. of one halfpenny and seven-tenths of a farthing in the pound, on Saturday, Jan. 25, or any succeeding Satur day, at the office of Mr. Baker, Neweastle.upon-Tyne. J. Davison, farmer, Marton, Yorkshire—a third and final dividend of threepence and one-sixth of a penny in the pound, on Saturday, Jan. 25, or any succeeding Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-on-Tyne. W. Waddell, merchant, Liverpool—a second div. of 6d. in the pound, on Monday, Jan. 20, er any subse quent Monday, at the office of Mr. Bird, Liverpool. G. Cottam and W. Osburn, jun., wine merchants, Leeds—a further div. of 3d. in the pound, also a fur ther div. of 2s. 6d. in the pound on the separate estate of G. Cottam, on Tuesday, Jan. 21, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds. J. Porter, callenderer, Barn,,ley, Yorkshire—a second and final div. of ss. 101 in the p )und, on Tuesday, .Jan. 21, or any subsequent Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Fearne, Leeds. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. B. Perkins and S. Woolley, drapers, Stamford, Feb. 14, at half-past one—F. Shotter, grocer, Portsea, Hampshire, Feb. 13, at eleven—R. Thompson, draper, Strood, Kent, Feb. 11, at twelve—T. G. Martin, wine merchant, Coal Harbour-lane, Camberwell, Feb. 11, at half-past one. In the Country. T. and W. Reeves, coach builders, Claines, Worces ter, Feb. 19, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court —S. Eccles and C. Ridings, cotton manufacturers, Man chester, Feb. 28, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—R. Rochester, butcher, Hartlepool, Darham, Feb. 13, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—T. and R. Bulmer, rope manufacturers, South Shields, Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—R. Smith, attorney, Worcester, Feb. 12, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. R. Eaton, butcher, Featherstone-street, City-road, Feb. 12—B. B. and B. G. Owen, tailors, Pall-mall. Feb. 14 —W. Burchett, chemist, Whitechapel-road, Feb. 12— J. T. Maund, laceman, Birmingham, Feb. 11—J. John son, apothecary, North-place, Gray's Inn-lane, Feb. II —R Footner, cabinet maker, Lymington, Southampton. Feb. 11—C. B. Reynolds, tailor, Devizes, Feb. 13—R, Rochester, butcher, Hartlepool, Durham, Feb. 12-11. Nichol!, worsted spinner, Halifax, Feb. 14—I. Ketcham, merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 13—T. Crosfield, sen., linen draper, Kirkham, Lancashire, Feb. 12-It. Youd, cheese factor, Liverpool, Feb. 11—T. Scott, baker, Colchester, I Feb. 11—J. J. Brea, tailor, Bath, Feb. 11—J. White head, common brewer, Ainsworth, Lancashire, Feb. 11 —T. Tabberner, corn factor, Birmingham, Feb. 11—R. Robinson, coal merchant. Strand, Feb. 11. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. I. and C. L. Lucy, wine merchants, Kidderminster —J. Hadland and R. Shillingford, warehousemen, Cheapside—F. Hicginson and E. R. Coles, shipowners, Rochester—W. Pistell and C. Aylifle, painters, Basing stoke, Southampton—J. Armstrong and J. W. Wright, hatters, Brighton—J. Ormerpd and P. Hargreaves, cotton sheet manufacturers, Bacup, Lancashire—M. Grange and B. Booth, hosiers, Manchester—T. Tootal, I'. IL Tootal, and E. A. Tootal, corn merchants, Wake field—S. Butler, W. Butler, and J. Butler, ironfounders, Birmingham—J. Stephen Son and J. Royston, en gravers, Manchester—R. Bradley, W. Barrows, J. Hall, F. Downing, and T. Darby, coal masters, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire—St. Austell Gas Company, St. Austell, Cornwall—C. Tayleur and J. F. Dupre, iroufounders, Warrington—C. Tayleur, W. 11. Tayleur, W. Bates, F. Pennington, D. Madden, and C. W. Claude, Liverpool — J. Inkson and C. Roth, Little Ryder -street, St. James's —J. Reeve and T. Holyoake, surgeons, Kniver, Stafford• shire—C. Brown and J. Williams, drapers, Cheltenham —J. and It. Lynex, wire workers, Birmingham —J. Wilkinson, F. Wilkinson, G. Wilkinson, and S. W. Wil kinson, cotton spinners, Stockport—C. Stephenson and J. Caley, Liverpool—W. Hewitt, sen., and W. Hewitt, jun., coal merchants, Bristol—W. Miles, T. W. Kinder, and T. H. Wheeler, coach builders, Leicester (so far as regards W. 111iles)—J. Hughes and W. Hanson, lime masters, Sedgley, Staffordshire—R. and E. Leeds, millers, Norwich—A. Hazeland and H. Manning, common brewers, Melksbam, Wiltshire—J. S. James and P. Stacey, sand dealers, Stratton, Cornwall—T. and T. Penson, farmers, Foxcote, Gloucestershire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Henry Stevenson, general merchant, Leith, Jan. 28 and Feb. 25, at two, at the Exchange Hotel, Leith. William Grant, cattle dealer, Marnoch, Banffshire, Jan. 24 and Feb. 21, at twelve, at the Banff Hotel, Banff. William Gray, merchant, Dundee, Jan. 25 and Feb. 15, at twelve, at the chambers of Shiell and Small, Dundee. John M'Culloch, baker, Kinross, Jan. 27 and Feb. 17, at twelve, at Kirkland's Inn, Kinross. THE MURDER. AT RUISLIP, COM MITTED EIGHT YEARS AGO. EXAMINATION OF THE ACCUSED. Charles Lamb, a prisoner in the' Houso of Correction, Cold Bath•fields, yesterday underwent an examination before Mr. Mills, an Uxbridge magistrate, in the board room of the vrisoi., on a charge of having murdered John Erie', a Youtil m siteen; rito was murdered in a wood at Ruislip, in February, 18 . 1. o G r r e e o c r t g i ( e n Sliybalseyt,h the also tirs t a w i p tn ri e s s o s n e c r a l i e n d the e —I Housetat d C came lately I from . r nw a o refi t el h d ae . rl l s now L am amb. I have inthis known House of Correction ion him rather better than twelve months. I have been inti mate w,th him, We used to go out poaching, and were at hide and seek together, About a fort night before Lamb was sent to prison I Was coining from Ricknaansworth to Harefield with him, and when we were in a lane at the bottom of a field we began to talk about getting into trouble and getting out again. I said, " It is easy enough to get into trouble, but not very easy to get out again." Lamb said to me, "You have been in prison haven't you ? I have heard it is very bad." I said, "Of course it is ;" and he then said, " I would sooner be taken far murder than go to prison fix this." I said, " Murder I Charley ?" and he replied, " Yes. I was in Churchill's wood getting a bundle of wood when John Brill came up to me, and I took and struck him and knocked him down. A few moments after that I took and picked up his cap, and hung it upon a bough, and put his bill hook and cap beside him, to look as if he had fallen out of a tree." Lamb then said to me, " Nobody else knows of it but you, and if you tell, I will kill you." He said that when Brill came up to him, as he was walking along the wood, he said, " Well, master Lamb, is it you ?" Upon which he took and struck and knocked him down. I had heard of the murder some years ago ; and that a man named Lavender had been had up for it. I have always been on good terms with the prisoner Lamb. The reason of my making this statement was that I had had such queer dreams. I thought something would happen if I did not tell. I have voluntarily made this statement, without promise or favour from any one. I first made it to Mr. Hoare, the chief warden of the House of Correction, having first told the yards man that I wished to do it. I was twenty-five years of age last August. lam now looking Lamb in the face, and I state that he told me what I have now said, and it is the truth, and nothing but the truth. Mr. Woodbridge (the clerk)—Now, Lamb, have you any question to ask the witness ? Lamb—No, Sir ; I can't ask him anything. I never told it to him. If God Almighty refuses to receive me into heaven I never did it. You must be a very wicked man to say I told you so ; you must be worse than the man who did the mur der, whoever that was. Thank the Almighty, I have not to answer for that, let me go where I will, or suffer what I will for it. You are doing this just on purpose to get yourself out of prison. Colonel Chesterton, the governor of the prison, told Lamb not to make these declarations, but to confine him self simply to putting questions to the witness if he had any to put. Lamb repeated he had no questions to put. James Brill was next called, and stated—l live in the parish of Ruislip. I once had a son named John Brill. He was about 16 years old in the year 1837 ; it will be eight years, come next February, he worked for and lived with Charles Churchill, a farmer. He was missing on a Thursday, and his body was found on the fodowing Sunday, in what is culled Young Wood, in the parish of Ruislip. I saw the dead body in this wood lying on its back. James Lavender first discovered it, and called out to me. I was about 300 yards from him at the time, in the act of searching the woods. His cap was hung on a little white thorn bush. By the side of him lay a bill-hook and " hedging cuff," or sort of glove. I saw the body lifted up, and blood gushed out both from his nose and mouth. The Clerk—Do you wish to ask him any question ? Lamb—No, Sir, I have no question to ask him. Charles Churchill—l live at Ruislip, and am a farmer. I recollect as well as if it was but yesterday, that John Brill was in my employment on 16th Feb., 1837. I recollect the day on which his body was found. On that morning, about half-past nine o'clock, I sent him to take three cows into the meadow. He had a billhook in his hand, and a cuff to stop up the gaps in the hedge, which the fox-hounds had broken down. I told him when he had finished the gaps to go into the Young Wood, and then into the path which leads up through the Young Wood to my house, and to watch that wood until towards one o'clock. By Mr. MILLS—He was to watch it against persons cutting wood. I had been out before, and I was going out. I told him if he saw any one cutting not to inter fere, but only to get near enough to see who it was. I was going to Uxbridge market on that day, and when I got down against the Six Bells, the landlady came out and asked me to give her a ride. A man named Meadows came out and asked me if I had heard a gun go off in my cover ? I said, no ; but got out and went across to John Brill, whom I found stopping the gaps according to my direction; that was the last time I saw him alive. I then told him, when he went horde to his dinner, to stay at home until I returned, which would be about three. On my return, finding that lie did not come to open the gate, I thought something was amiss, for he was a lad that was always to his time. If you told him to be anywhere in the middle of the night, he was sure to be there. I had heard threats against the lad, because he was a witness in a charge of poaching which had been preferred against a man named Lavender. I then went into the woods to see if I could find him ; and searched about the woods, hut could not find him. I then sent to his father, who, with another man, went in search of him, but could not discover anything of him. Next morning, at daybreak, the search was renewed; but they did not Lind him. Did not search on Saturday, having heard that he had run away, and had been seen at West End. There were one-and-twenty persons search• ing the wood on Friday. On Sunday the search was resumed, and had not been continued more than half an hour, when he was found by James La vender, who cried out murder. I went up and saw him lying on his back dead, by a bush, witk his arm hooked up against a bush ; his cuff and bill lay at his feet. Some blood ran from his ears. The body was taken to the Six rens, Ruislip-common. his head dropped as if his neck was broken, when they first lifted him up. I was not present when the surgeons examined him. I did not see any bruise on the temple or other part of the head. I saw on the Monday that some underwood had been cut at about 23 or 30 yards from the place where the body was found. Mary Allday—l am the wife of Thomas Allday and live at Ruislip-common. My husband is a labourer. I recollect John Brill being lost on the 16th February, 1837. On that morning I saw the prisoner Lamb at the Six Bells. I was looking out at an upstairs window of my father's house, where I then lived. He MIA going down the footpath leading to the wood now over looked by Churchill, and had a bill in his hand. I saw him again a little after twelve the same day; I was up at my grandmother's house at the time. He was then coming from the direction of the wood with a bundle of wood on his shoulder—large green bits in the middle, and the smaller pieces outside. It was green wood, and apparently freshly cut. He went towards his own home. Mr. MILLS (to the prisoner)—Have you any question to ask ? Lamb—No, Sir, what she has stated is perfectly true. THE LATE DOCK ROBBERIES. It appears by the police reports, that four of the men out of the five charged by the London Dock Com pany with being concerned in the late extensive rob bery of tobacco from the London Docks, have been com mitted to take their trial at the next syssions ofthe Cen tral Criminal Court. No further evidence seems to have been brought against them than on the previous exa mination before the magistrate—viz., that of being concerned in the one robbery in question—though they had been remanded in the expectation that it would have been clearly proved that they were also the perpetrators of the other extensive robberies of spirits at the neighbouring Docks, it being the opinion of the Dock authorities and of all con nected with the Dock establishments that these daring robberies have been effected by a gang of plunderers well acquainted with the premises, who have managed to obtain admission into the docks in a surreptitious manner, to await their oppor tunity. The several instances, therefore, of the robberies of brandy from the St. Katherine Docks continue undiscovered, and not the least clue having at present been obtained, bringing the matter home to the guilty parties. The Company are understood to be exerting themselves to the utmost to bring the per sons concerned in these impudent and daring frauds to justice, and probably, although no proof appears to have been obtained as yet, something may arise out of these inquiries between this and the period of their trial, which are being made by the parties inte rested, inculpating the persons alluded to in these transactions also. It may be useful to remark, in order to calm the public mind with respect to these robberies at the Dock establishments, which have created considerable excitement and alarm fur the safety of property at these places, that considering the extent of the premises, and the extraordinary num ber of all sorts of packages, and of every description of merchandise, necessarily lying on the quay at all times, after being landed from the importing vessels, and previously to being housed, very few robberies take place, and it may confidently be anticipated, now that the gang of plunderers has ben broken up by the police, that we shall hear of no more attempts of a similar nature being made. At all events, from the expe rience furnished by the late discoveries, and the in creased vigilance observed in consequence by the Dock Company's watch and the police, it will be almost impossible for them to be effected with any degree of success. Henry Woodman—l am a labourer, living at Ruislip. I knew John Brill. I have lived at Ruislip ever since the period of his death. On that day I saw Charles Lamb near the wood, and he asked me it l had seen Mr. Churchill and his wife go by. I saiu I had about an hour and a half before, upon which Lamb returns d into the wood. I saw him get over the gate into the wood. That same evening I heard that the body of John Brill was missing. James Lavender deposed to having found the body on the Sunday, as deposed by the other witnesses. Rachel Brill, mother of the deceased, saw a large bruise on the side of his head when the body was taken to the Six Bells public-house. Mr. Charles Woodman, farmer, of Ruislip, saw the deceased on the 16th February, 1837, at work mending gaps in the hedges. He was then alive and well. Charles Bray had met Lamb on the 16th of February, 1837, on Ruislip•common, He was out of breath, was sweating, and said he was not very well. Witness told him if ho would go to the Six Beds he would give him half a pint of beer. They went together, and had two pints of beer between them. Heard of the lad's being lost the same night. Mr. Robert Burton, late of Uxbridge, and now of Dorset-street, Portman-square, stated that he assisted Mr. Patten in examining the body of the lad Brill the day before the inquest. It was Mr. Patten's case, and witness assisted him. Mr. Patten was since deceased. The left ear was very much swollen and livid. Had no doubt that he died from violence ; on removing the skull cap found the vessels very much gorged. There was also a greater effusion of blood on the right side of the brain than on the left. This would lead to the con clusion that the effusion had been caused by a violent blow on the left side. The first witness, Sibley, was recalled, and stated that he recollected hearing of the murder, but did not help to search for the body, and did not hear any particulars of it. Only heard of it as a murder. Did not hear of the body being found, and had never heard of the cuff and billhook, until told of it by Lamb. As the witness was leaving the room, Lamb said to hire, " A'n't you ashamed of yourself, George ? If you are not, you ought to be." Mr. MILLS—What do you now say to the charge, Lamb ? Prisoner—All I have got to say, Gentlemen, is, that I never named it to him if I was to die " mo mently." Mr. MILLS then told the prisoner that it would be his duty to send him for trial at the next session of the Central Criminal Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH - STREET. STEALING A PAIR OF GLOVES. —Henry Alfred Mesnel, a person of respectable appearance, was charged with having stolen a pair of gloves. One of the E division constables, who took the accused into custody, said there was no prosecutor in attendance to press the charge. Mr. Mesnel said his character was so affected by the proceedings which had been taken against hint, that he begged to be allowed to explain the circumstances which led to his being taken into custody.. Ile wa s a t a conv i v i a l party at a public-lion the previous evening, when one of the company; worse for the good . cheer of whi c h h e h a d too freely partaken, began to fight with another of the party. He (defendant) interfered. I r revenge f or t hi s i nter ference, the person in question charged him with stealing his gloves, and actually called a policeman and gave him into custody. The constable received this charge, and persisted in conveying him to the station house, although the landlord of the house came forward and said the gloves were in his bar. The charge was booked, and he was detained to answer it. As he cer tainly should bring an action against the party who had thus deprived hica of his liberty on such a trumpery charge, he begged the magistrate wou.d allow him to have the name and address of the complainant as it ap -0.124 on the police-sheet. This was gitott4 ; and the defendant was then dis charged. CABMEN'S FROLICS.—Thomas Seiqlli 11 as charged with having assaulted Thomas Dell. The parties are cabmen, and the assault occurred on 'Monday evening, in Conduit-street, in consequence of some "1 4 ttlins," commenced at the Coach and Horses public-house. It appeared that a numbef rtr cabmen were engaged in a new ganie called " one off behind"--the main fen ture of which consists in approaching a person unper ceived, and by a smart blow on the rim of the hat be hind, causing it to fall off backwards. The complainant and defendant were of the party, and as there was an old grudge between them, the play very soon ripened into earnest. According to the defendant, the complainant com menced hostilities by throwing a pewter pot at him. The complainant, however, dented this, and asserted that the defendant followed him out of the house, and knocked him down repeatedly. A good deal of conflicting evidence was brought for ward, but as the defendant did not succeed in clearing himself from the charge of having acted with great vio lence, Mr. Maltby inflicted the penalty of 40s. MA le YLEBO/VE. His Excellency the Belgian Ambassador, residing in Portland-place, attended at this Court, when the follow ing charge of extraordinary conduct on the part of a well dressed young man, named John Julius Koch, was gone into before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Rawlinson. The prisoner is a ycuig man of foreign parentage, and is the son of a gentleman holding a highly respectable situation in a large mercantile house in the City. Susanna Bryan, nurse in the family of his Excellency, deposed, that fit a long time past the prisoner had been in the habit of following her whenever she went out with the children, and that his conduct was altogether of a very annoying nature. He would frequently come be hind her and, by making horrid grimaces, frighten an infant which she was carrying in her arms. The oc currences which she had last alluded to took place six or seven months ago ; he had since annoyed her repeat edly, and on that morning, when she went with the children into the broad walk of the Regent's Park for an airing, he (prisoner) was there. He spoke not a word, but kept close to her wherever she went. Witness concluded by stating that she at last contrived to get away from him and reach home without any fur ther molestation. Mr. RAWLIMON— During the whole time of his acting in this manner has he never assigned any reason for his behaviour ? Witness—None whatever, Sir. He has never offered a single word in explanation. Hardwick, 80 I), corroborated the first witness's evi di nce as to the conduct of the prisoner in the park ; he (Hardwick) had received information of what had been going on, and was employed by his superintendent to keep watch. Stanley, 48 D, stated that in November last he saw the prisoner follow the witness Bryan, and the children who were with her. He informed his Excellency of it, who then declined to give him (prisoner) into custody. Witness added, that on that day he saw the pri soner in Portland-place, and by his (the Ambassa dor's) directions took hi:n in charge. The Ambassador here stepped forward, and said that the prisoner once spoke to him as he was leaving home of an evening. but what the purport of his address to him was he conld not say ; he (prisoner) was the son of a foreigner, and his father, who was a highly respectable man, seemed unfortunately to have no control over him. The Ambassador concluded by expressing an opinion, that the state of mind of the prisoner was defective, and that he might, unless restrained, do something of a serious nature. The Ambassador was about to enter into fur ther particulars relative to himself and his lady having been annoyed by the prisoner, when Mr. RAWLINSON desired that he might be sworn, His Excellency objected, stating he would not be al lowed to take the required oath in this country, holding the situation which he did as one of the corps diploma tique. Mr. RAWLINSON (to whom this doctrine seemed quite new) asked his Excellency if he, while residing in Eng land, and therefore under the protection of the laws of this country, would, in the event cf his pocket being picked in the street, or his house being robbed, object to give such evidence upon oath as might have the effect of bringing the guilty party to justice? The Ambassador signified in a few words that he should, from the position which he occupied, object to be sworn. Mr. RAwLINSON (to the prisoner)—What is your ob ject in annoying the Ambassador's family in this way? Prisoner—l must acknowledge my fault; I have no more to say. Jones, usher of the Court, said, a few months ago the prisoner was brought up charged with firing off n pistol in the Regent's Park, and that for that offence he was fined. The prisoner was remanded, and will be brought up again next Tuesday; and, ad interim, an examination will be made by the surgeon of the prison as to his state of mind. QUEEN. SQUARE. Yesterday George Gaon, John White, and William Burgess, three boys of about sixteen years of age, were charged with misconduct at St. Luke's Workhouse, Chelsea. Mr. Sutton, the master, said that about seven o'clock on the previous evening, having missed the defendants from the house, he watched for their return, and just be fore the hour of going to bed he saw them get over a wall from the churchyard. As he had frequently cau tioned the boys he gave them into custody. Prisoners made no defence, and were committed for fourteen days. Mr. Sutton observed, he was quite at a loss to know what to do with the boys. They set the authorities at complete defiance, and, notwithstanding that he had re sorted to every means in his power to keep up proper discipline itt the house, they were in the most insubor dinate state. How the pre sent state of things was to be remedied he really did not know. Punishment in the house, or punishment inflicted by the magistrate, did not seem to check the evil ; several of these boys had been brought by him before the magistrate a few dar ago, and on hearing their sentence of fourteen days impri sonment, they laughed at him, and on being removed to the cell set up a shout of defiance. One of the three de fendants in the present charge had been concerned in the desperate attack on him a little time back. Mr. BOND said he should have mentioned the circum stance before. Mr. Ryder, the chairman of the board of guardians of St. Luke, Chelsea, hoped he should be excu ed for offering a few observations on the subject. How to maintain that discipline so necessary in a large establishment with such a refractory set of boys was indeed a matter of great difficulty. All their efforts to restore order were unavailing, and they were placed in the most unenviable position. But a short time since a number of the most desperate of them were charged with a premeditated attack upon the master, and, although that person was half murdered by them, arid it was shown at the last Middlesex Sessions that their conduct had been of the very worst description, Mr. Sergeant Adams had sentenced several of them to 24 hours' imprisonment. He had committed— it was true — two, he believed, for three months, and three to two months' hard labour ; but there never was a term more falsely applied than this term " hard labour." The very slow pace at which the wheel turned, with the circum stance of their scarcely having to raise their feet, added to the fact that they were not on for more than a quarter of an hour, or at most twenty minutes at a time, ren dered it anything but the term which had been misap plied to it ; he would undertake to say that there would be more hard labour in running three or four times up One-tree-hill, Greenwich Park, than there would be in working at the tread-wheel. tie would also make an ob servation with respect to the food. He had been over Coldbath-fields prison, and had been informed that the allowance of food to the prisoners was twenty ounces of wheaten bread per day, and meat four times per week, while that in Chelsea workhouse was twelve ounces per day, and meat three times per week ; and it was con sidered that the paupers fared better (and he made the observation with thegreatest respect to the ratepayers)thun many who were compelled to contribute towards their support. After such decisions as those to which he had adverted, he would ask what protection there was to any one administering the New Poor-law ? The parish authorities had difficulties of no ordinary character to contend against ; it was their anxious wish to treat the poor with kindness and liberality, but it was at the same time their desire to keep up proper discipline and order in the house. After the triumph these boys considered they had gained the law appeared to have no terrors for them, and the authorities were perfectly at a loss to know what course to pursue. It having been suggested by the clerk that when they had been guilty of such gross misbehavour it would per haps be the best course not to re-admit them, Mr. Ryder observed, that the magistrates had said that in some cases they should adopt that course ; in others that they should visit the boys with corporal punishment. If they refused to admit these boys, and they were found in a destitute and starving condition in the streets, the authorities would be held up to public odium and contempt, and stigmatised as monsters in human form. The view he (Mr. Ryder) took of the de cision to which he had before alluded was concurred in by many masters of workhouses whom he had spoken to on the subject. Mr. BOND said he should be happy to assist the autho rities in enforcing proper discipline in any way that lay in his power. It was perhaps desirable that boards of guardians should have more power to punish within their own hands. Mr. Ryder repeated his regret that such a sentence should have been passed for so brutal and premeditated an attack. After contrasting the sentence passed at this Court a few days ago of 14 days on some of these boys for insolent and disorderly conduct with that awarded by Mr. Sergeant Adams at toe Sessions, he ob served, with a smile, that he only wished that gentleman would undertake the office of master of a workhouse for one fortnight. Mr. BOND, having repeated his desire to assist the au thorities, requested that Mr. Sutton would in future in form him as to the previous character and conduct of the parties accused. Mr. Ryder thanked the magistrate, and withdrew. SO II TH IV A BK. George Elliott, described as the secretary of a public school at Battersea, was charged with violating the per son of a woman named Wilson, a widow, advanced in life. The complainant attended at the Court on the pre ceding day, and made a statement to the effect that an outrage of the above description had been committed on her the Friday before, by a person named Elliott, at a house in Wellington street, Walwortb. When ques tioned by the magistrate as to the reason she had not given information before, her reply was that she had been so ill since the occurrence, that she was unable to leave her room. Mr. Ira directed the woman to re- A BISHOP AND A RECTOR. There is, in the north of Devon, a gentleman of large fortune, rector of a parish, who keeps a pack of hounds. Ile is celebrated all the country round for his old-fashioned hospitality, his love of rural sports, and his encouragement of wrestling and other athletic sports. He is rather getting beyond his prime, or otherwise he would have been backed to take all the bench of bishops, " one down and t'other come on," with his " mauleys." He is not a man of refined mind ; not so good as Fielding's Parson Adams, nor so bad as his Parson Trulliber, but a cross between the two. Well, respecting this reverend man and his parochial doings, strange rumours reached the ear of the bishop, and he determined to "take him in hand." He had tried him at an early visitation, and addressing the reverend gentleman as he stood amongst the assembled divines, he said to him, " Mr. —, I wish to have a few words with you in private." The honest divine roared out in a broad vernacular twang, " Nothin' privut betwin yue and me, ray lard ; whatever you've got to zay to me zay it heer." The bishop declined in his blandest tones. But in vain. The reverend gentleman, who professes to be as open as the day, and, indeed, is so, still reiterated his desire that his reverend brethren should have the benefit of any advice the bishop had to bestow on himself. The bishop still declined ; he must talk to him in private. " Very well, my lard (exclaimed the divine), your lardship will find me at my quatters (quarters) at the George." The bishop did not go to the George (a respectable farmers' inn), and the interview did not take place. It was destined to be held at the reverend gentleman's own house, and this brings me to my story of the brandy. The bishop had written to this exemplary divine, and received no reply ; in short, no notice of any kind was taken of his letter. Having to make a pastoral tour into the neighbourhood, and being determined to see for himself into matters which had been literally reported to him, the bishop one fine morning found himself travelling in his episcopal equipage, just as the apostles travelled, very near the house of the rector. That diligent minister was on horseback, and arrayed for hunting. Seeing the bishop making towards his house, he turned round and galloped home. Ile told his housekeeper that a gentleman was coming, to show him into the parlour, and call him down. She was not to notice that the expected visitor had been seen, or that her master had been out. The bishop came, and the bishop was shown into the best parlour. Great was the flutter around the rectory when they found who it was that had come. In a few minutes the reverend gentleman en rered, and to his astonishment found the bishop ac tually in his house. He moderated the ecstacy of his admiration so far as not to give the bishop a stage hug. But he ran over to the bell, pulled it violently, and thus brought in the domestic at a gallop. " Did yue knaw that the bushup was here ?" he roared. " Ees," exclaimed the terrified maiden. " Then why didn't 'e bring un some brandy?" he retorted, rushing up and down the room, stamping and storming at this neglect of his bishop. The servant stood aghast. The bishop exclaimed " Si lence, silence!" turned up the whites of his eyes, and endeavoured to look like a primitive Christian. But he was in the wrong place to make any impression in that line. " Silence !" roared the divine ; " Si lence ! When you've come over the North Devon hills this cold morning to zee me, and her not to give 'e no brandy ! Why, it was enough to make a man go stark mad to see the hospitable character of his house endangered by such unpardonable neglect." The indignant divine was not to be pacified. The bishop raised his voice authoritatively ; he demanded silence ; "he wanted no brandy." But he had to deal with one who could storm too—aye,and storm him blind if it came to stentor-proof trial. The pious bishop descended from command to entreaty—he really wanted no brandy—" Why didn't you answer my letter ?" he asked. "Letter, my Lord !" inquired the Rev. Gentleman, why, whatever could your Lordship have to write to me about? I thought 1 was indebted to your friendship for the honour of your visit." The bishop was very much surprised to find that his missive had miscarried. " How did 'e zend tit?" asked the divine. "Through the post, of course," replied the bishop. " Oh, that accounts for't," said the divine, " I never take up letters by the post—when I write to a gentleman, I zend my sarvant wi ut !" I will not occupy your space by Stating all that is reported of the denouement. It is sufficient to add that the bishop got out of the house with all reasonable alacrity, after stating what his letter was about, and hearing such ex planations as the reverend gentleman very frankly tendered. One point was that "he kept hounds." Ile said, "Show me a canon of the Church against keeping of hounds, and I'll put them down." Another was that people were seen to come out of his house drunk. He pleaded that he was "main glad to zee his friends at all times ; he put the best his house could afford cheerfully before them ; he could not guage their stomachs, and say, thus far shalt thou go and no fur• Cher," &c. Having replied in this orthodox fashion to the bishop, his Lordship took his leave, and has never been in the house since. Now I do not mean to vouch ror the whole truth of these stories. What passed between the Bishop and the reverend gentleman has never been mentioned by the former ; the story is, therefore, one-sided. I can only say that it was the rage of clerical circles, and was most righteously be !ieved to be true in substance, and I believe it to be substantially true.—Morning Chronicle. STATE OF TRADE.—The yarn market continues very active and buoyant, showing an advance of one .ighth per pound in several descriptions of yarn, espe cially in 40's mule, suitable for the India market, :Ind some particular counts and qualities of water twist. The goods continue much the same as last week ; prices are perfectly firm, and stocks low ; but, oxcept for good 40-inch shirting*, which arc in de mand, there is no great activity in the market.—Man chester Guardian. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JAN. 20. —There has been but a very indifferent market. Few buyers have attended, and the business transacted has been up,m a limited scale. Manufacturers are asking wore for pieces, on account of the increased price of the raw material.—Manchester Guardian. RESIGNATION OF MR. BARON GURNEY.—Mr. Baron Gurney, in consequence of continued ill-health and increasing weakness, has sent to the Lord Chan cellor his resignation of the high office of one of the Barons of the Exchequer, which the Learned Baron has filled for some years with great ability and satisfiction to the bar and the public. The general opinion in West minster Hull is that Mr. Platt, Q C., will succeed to the vacant seat on the Exchequer Bench, but of course, no arrangement has at present been made.—Evening paper. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Jan. 21.) SUGAR.—TO-day the market presented a flat app ar ance for British Plantation Sugar, the demand was limited forthe scale and pan, and the rates accepted were rattier those of Friday for brown, grey. inferior, and middling yellow, but for the better kinds of the latter merchants were enabled to obtain the previous cur rency, in consequence of the short supply in the market. At public sale 117 hhds 3 trs Barbadoes were disposed of at lull rates for fine, but all other kinds went 6d to Is per cwt cheaper, low sold at 52s 6d to 53s 6d, middling 55s 6d to 535. good 60s to 61s 6d, good middling 58s 6d to 595, and fine 66s Gd per cwt. The total purchases are only 350 hhds and tierces. COFFEE.—There has been little inclination manifested by the home trade to purchase West India Coffee since last Tuesday. Although the market has been sparingly supplied, yet difficulty was experienced in obtaining previous rates for small parcels by private contract ; only 19 casks 17 brls were partly sold by public sale. This afternoon the demand for Ceylon Coffee was not so good, but holders were firm, and 1,140 ba.s at public sale wero taken in at the full value, viz., good ordinary pale at 51s, and very good ordinary rather green 525. Of Manilla 1,200 bags sold, partly for home consumption and exportation at 36s to 39s per cwt. Mocha is offer ing privately at a further reduction in prices. TaA.—There has been little activity in the market, but black or green Tea cannot be purchased upon lower terms. Eor Congou former rates are insisted upon, commQU 25 I Id to I lid, and good common 110 to Is per TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE ller Majesty has been graciously pleased to signify her pleasure that the Kettering Yeomanry Cavalry should be henceforth designated by the title of " The Royal Kettering Corps of Yeomanry Cavalry." WHITEHALL, JAN. 16, 1845. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Samuel Richard Parr Shilton, of Nottingham, Gent., to be a Master Ex traordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, JAN. 17. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edmund Thomas, of the city of Worcester, Gent., to be a Master Extraor dinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, JAN. 7. The Right Honourable Sir Nicolas Conyngham Tindal, lint., Lord Chief Justice of Her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has appointed Lawrence Smith, of Hurstperpoint, in the county of Sussex, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the aboli tion of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Sussex. WHITEHALL, JAN. 7. The Right Hon. Sir Nicolas aonyngham Tindal, Trot., Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, has appointed Jas. Whitham, of Wakefield, York shire, Gent., to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the West Riding of the county of York. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. W. Burt, lodginghouse keeper, Harrow-road. T. Williams, sen., iron founder, Cardiff. BANKRUPTS. George Jackson, jun., upholsterer, Hertford, to sur render Jan. 31, at half-past twelve, and Feb. 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane; Stevens, Wilkinson, and Satchel!, Queen-street, Cheapside. Henry Charles Sturla, glass and china dealer, Sey mour-street, Euston-square, Jan. 31, at one, and Feb. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Strut, Buckingham-st., Strand. William Edward Schottlaender, merchant, Poplar-row, New Kent-road, Jan. 28, at half-past eleven, and March 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, King's Arms. yard; Beart, Bouverie street, Fleet-street. John Ward, earthenware dealer, Ely, Cambridgeshire, Jan. 30, at one, and Feb. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman street; Crosbie and Co., Old Jewry. Thomas Buttermere Waller and John Waller, grocers, Ipswich, Suffolk, Jan. 30, at twelve, and March 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers ; Russell and Mackenzie, High-street, Southwark. Henry Kimber and William Kimber, wine merchants, Old Trinity-house, Water-lane, London, Jan. 30, at one, and March 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Tustin and Barlow, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars. Edward John Chapman, civil engineer, Bradford, Yorkshire, Feb. 5 and 24, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Tebbs, Essex street, Strand. John Bullough, cabinet-maker, Huddersfield, Feb. 7 and 28, at eleven. at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Lewis and Co., Ely-place, London ; Fenton and Jones, Huddersfield. George Henry Lupton, flax- spinner, Leeds, Feb. 4 and 25, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds ; Cox, Size -lane, London ; Lee, Leeds. Thomas Fisher, linendraper, Selby, Yorkshire, Feb. 4 and 25, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Rushworth and Co., Staples Inn, London ; Sanderson, Leeds. Nicholas John Kerupe, shipowner, Liverpool Feb. 11 and 26, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, offi cial assignee, Liverpool ; Vincent and Co., Temple ; bilinshull, Liverpool. John George Schott, Manchester, and John Casper Lavater , of Aldertnanbury Postern, City of London, merchants, Feb. 3, and March 3, at eleven, at the Man chester District Court. Holt, official assignee, Manches ter ; Atkinson and Saunders, Manchester ; Makinson and Sanders, Temple. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. J. Coupland aud F. Duncan, merchants, Liverpool —n div. of 11R1. in the pound, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, or any subsequent Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Morpn, Liverpool. CANTON RANSOM. The last portion of the third instalment of the twenty-one millions to be paid to this country as the Canton ransom, has been received into the charge of J. W. Cooper, Esq., of her Majesty's Treasury, from on board her Majesty's ship Harlequin, Hon. G. Hastings, and the Pelican, Captain Justice. These ships delivered their valuable freight to Mr. Cooper at Portsmouth, and the whole of the treasure, in Sycee silver, has been brought to London, and de posited in the Royal Mint, to be credited to her Ma jesty's Exchequer. The Harlequin and Pelican quitted Canton at the same time, but the Pelican, a very old ship, being found leaky, the half of the treasure on hoard her was transhipped by Captain Justice to the Harlequin at sea. By this Captain Hastings became entitled to the freight payable under the royal proclamation for the conveyance of the treasure to England ; but it has come to our knowledge that he has abandoned all claim to it, and thereby placing Captain Justice in the same position as if he had conveyed home the freight. This conduct reflects the highest honour upon Captain Hastings and the service of which he is so gallant a member. It has been stated that the Pelican came into har bour in a dirty state, but this we can contradict from the evidence of an officer who boarded her imme diately on her arrival at Portsmouth. We can also bear witness to the activity of the authorities at Portsmouth on the occasion of the Pelican grounding on cona'ng into harbour, although much has been said to the contrary. The Pelican has been built thirty years. [ADVBRTISEMI3NT.]—A lIIIVER.FAILING REMEDY FOR ALL CASES OF SCURVY, SCORBUTIC HUAOUr S, AND SCROFULA, BY HOLLOWAY S PILLS AND OINT 31ENT.—EXTRAORDINARY C URE.—Henry Hill, now 8 footman to Lord 8., was lately discharged from the Duke of I).'s service, in consequence of his having large scorbutic blotches all over his hands and face, to his great disfigurement. For twelve months he was treated by his master's medical a ttendants, but to co p ur p ose , and the case was at last declared incurable, ard he was discharged. The poor fellow . then, as a fordo-n hope, commenced using Holloway's Pills and Ointment, which effectually eradicated the disease from his blood in less than three weeks. Sold at Professor Ilolloway's Estab lishment, 1244, Strand (where advice may be had g ra ti s ) and by almost all respectable medicine vendors through out the civilised world. DUCHY OF CORN WALL. — The Commissioners of the Duchy met at Liskeard on Thursday last, to consider the objections made by the Duchy solicitor to the claims of the tenants on certain coppice woods on that manor. The claims, though exercised from time immemorial, were declared to be forfeited or annulled by the late Act of Parliament relating to the Duchy. The tenants pro pose to memorialise the Duchy Council, in the hope of obtaining compensation for the loss of their rights.— Falmouth Packet, ......_.....--------------- .../..., fi 0 114 pair to the station-house at th e rear of the tiourioa la ...ft give a descsiption of the person w h o r l s hei oug 6ce ht s? and that he would be taken into castody and to tht. , Court in the usual way. Late the satne aft b e fore the prisGner was apprehended, and when the Ni• . . aglstrate, Oi l The complainant proceeded to state that the wo i widow, and obtained her livelihood by going o ut le t 0 4 at gentlemen's houses. That on FridaY. 11 ' 5 '0 placed be was at the house of ; Dr. Lipseombe, In the lington-street, fur whom she was in e _., 0 " o of charing, as he kept no servant. In the oliol the evening, while she was engaged the 1 kitchen, she was called by the prisoner, and the 0 101 she arrived at the head of the kitchen staircase sheole he was waiting in the hall, and she, expeGt.il 10 wanted to give her some clothes, asked hits " ra required. The prisoner, however, instead of aurae per her, got her round the waist, and began takingia3so liberties. She endeavoured all in her power' o ex it pe r herself from his grasp, but could not ; andri,epetfi' knife, he cut her stay-lace, and the strings of il e. fOf coats, so that all her clothes, with the excel: 4 ld e chemise, fell off on the floor of the passag e ' b ise still resisted the efforts of her as sailant, but he , d e f r aa strong man, pushed her into the back parlour, s°,,,A the thence on the bed. The complainant heraldedi, particulars of the alleged outrage, and a ttTottY became insensible, and found, on her recoreri, prisoner was still at her side. saki 110 the In reply to Mr. Traill, the complainaet O4O L p i e p r s s c o o n ra ir w t , he house besides she and the pribesair not interfere ' d o 4d rl'y seemed to treat it all h o o r m r u e s i t id h e a r ve he h r ea a r d ny th a e ss n i o sts ise ; :o .s : Mr. TRAILL asked the accused if he wiahe u V t lar - th question to the woman who made so seri aus g rre% against him ?—The accused replied in the - o w cv"; and he proceeded to ask her if, after what she p o w , t o plained of, she did not have some meat pies ant' I°. him, and remained in the house for uproi rci4 de hours ?—Her reply was in the affirmative. A # li nl V. O She was then asked if she had complein e " .0 a is ° ' of the neighbours, or had even made such °f ~otb'otOt could be heard by those living right and left. of 0 10 ,4 1 r —She said that she was so frightened she hscl K r Al power. She had no person to bring of t° or she had been laid up in consequence °f 113. _ 4 (o' outrage. i tbe w",;411 1 The prisoner then proceeded to a daress ido r me irate, and declared that the complainant no ~ 1,5, falsehoods with respect to his having l e t' 1 : - t towards her ; and that it' it were true he h a " ' a ose .i manner described, the people in the next have heard the noise ; that it was true t y t e Lote9 l pies and gin together on the night in questtAiiled she went away afterwards without makingso , r ge co h mplaint ; and that he was both s hocked n i rdie i c 'fie brought when a policeman mentioned the nature -- 14 0, 1 0 against him, and took him into e, 111; e0 dly e . added, that Dr. Lipscombe, an old man°',7,, o)llt caliurt, and pr , ;pared to corroborate his (lor;io ) , e ;P' ci,, en d t. With respect to any violence bonito," • . m e towards her, if there had he must be Co o tei j , of Mr. TRAILL said that, after the conel`'„OsiC,"na admission that she stopped in tho house forisnso4o" two hour, after the alleged outrage, and; kg e ng' 13; drank with the accused, he should dee p V leaving it to her to adopt any other steP. proper. . ' i 61 :i THAMES POLICE. riebite CHEATING A JEW.—Yesterday Jones ." " s e`iill man, was brought before Mr. Broderip, °n t ides', or obtaining a suit of clothes and other sreofir 41. 4s. 6d., from Mr. Harris Lazarus, ,iteid, fist" slopseller, of No. 112, Upper East Smit°,"„ t Old , The prosecutor, who is a Jew, stated VI I ser/,, called at his shop on Monday evening ° we ll .01f,, himself as an old customer, and was s e dostje A l. with his former bargains that he wished t° lo o,: d r, again. The prisoner then produced 0 141 ,10 ,0 7, e. the following effect :—" London Dock , ece e'or i 1845. Sir,—Please to let the bearer lurr e , s- et)erg reasonable amount, and I will ackno.Veile" IV John Brown, master of the Kelsick P e 0 0 4 ,' not quite satisfied with the prisoner's a ss be , belonged to the ship, but he protes ted tba C c lo g ness obrerved that he did not wan t the o e night, and asked him where he 10dged,',,,,j1 0 _41, 4 said he had just arrived in England, en ",s - sei) on which he passed his word for a he,' pes l' 9,o breakfast, and desired him ' to call ib is pO O 4 dr ing. The prisoner did so, and waste sup or a most deplorable condition. He " - s, ll- sw h is 1/ with a suit of clothes, a new "Tap il i oceoi l necessary articles, and when he Put he or # 1 0 rigging the change was so complete that ' to him again. He then asked the prisoue l : ne nee,,, him to the dock to ascertain the ge,.'1., 1 :0 k l ,Aild ° order, and they proceeded to the ship 1t e 50.44? the prisoner stepped up to the captain n" be ogy - 0 1 pay him his wages. Witness then took t te IP i his pocket fur the purpose of showing i,, is 0 11$ 0 141 and the prisoner, immediately snatekeua 0 0 0 :s 0 oi hand and made away with it. He saw 40 gave the prisoner into custody. T he r itseS I , ship informed him that ho had never o rt " j of the kind. ri:al t '0 0J '/ The prisoner, who looked very stlis r "„dr - 4 1 , clothes, said the order was not a written o '',:e 07 1 p/ last time he was in London he went to ! P O ' I 0 4 and the Jew made him drunk and robbel be,, 0 11 ." Mr. Lazarus was recalled, and he st°,os7,l the prisoner before, or had any dealings ''' fr. A . knowledge. its y . MT. BRODERIP remanded the prisoner ' next. tbs t d, f Inspector Walker, of the Thames p olice, ris e a charge of smuggling tobacco against tbstge9is, the Magistrate ordered to stand over till apisket)l„, A policeman of the H division, wh e ,;7o IS' jr: i prisoner, asked if he might be permitteu " , 01 0 . 11 clothes away ? dire CP 0 F Mr. BRODERIP declined giving anY - A O ' , c i subject, and the prisoner was sent to P''" o ti l , suit of blue. o f 4) ", A WOMAN WITH THREE HUSBA NP: g middle-aged man, with a sorrowful-1,3,4ft 0,41 made an application to Mr. BroderiP dot'o feu I apprehend his wife for robbing him lie 11 ° circumstances. o 00 " Please your worship," said the nial l o t 3 i, 0 0 whom I am married has robbed me of l '' . night. Gone off with all.' and d IBRODERIP—I:...d, e d Mr. BRODERIP—I: she your w i fe . . arej r I'll tell you that presently. One h e " gel 0 ,4 two pounds in money, a silver watch, v silver spoons. Mr. BRODERIP—Have you reason t° lo ot' e / one assisted her in carrying off r er „l,r" is i o i, applicant—l believe net, Sir; but then itei, co! j Mr. BRoDERIP—Stop. Have Y°7, f ir i tt h ile e jorp re t belhae that. she has a paramour, and t lte N, 'f, , has robbed you of the property ? L t 6 be ' • pi," ' don't know wno she's gone off with, P e .4 l e l' bad un. a Oct i Mr. BRODERIP explained to tbe -PSG . I woman could be put on her trial for t i r iere'ilir t i husband's property. Be could not 'tine bo*dt;sof The applicant was about to leave c r otin i lif, deftly recollecting himself, he turuel- bol a s , ~ " Oh, Sir, since she has robbed me n d in F ,it' I that she has a lawful married husba 0 0 shire. She had him before she had e r, OA Mr. BRoDEßip—Then all you h e of,, i le W°l speak to the police on the subject. e 511 0 The applicant—And, what is 1 ' • o ttlt / y again since she has been my wife• t he c give her i n to t he Mr. BRODERIP—Then fle police. a bet.- ,4 The applicant—l will if_...._...,..1, I / left the Court. fir ' 0 5' 0 1° . .42 LETTERS OF A GERMAN C ( 1 - ;0 1 4 1 ; 1. :1 V r f, DURING HER TRAVELS IN TUR/CO' aifi dice d .; LAND, &c. 3 Vot.s.—This is a 1 , 1 11 0 - p s ej e l4" resting work, giving a graphic of the scenery, manners, " and Poli tiela rted i ji 4 countries visited. The Countess is ,P e o the do r every classic soil, enters con conore ihno at 1 5 rf i et an Oriental journey, and sees all t d i s tric s _dd She traverses the dreaded sea coast ,Leils,v444/ to Jo a, accompanied by an Arab iji t be 0 5 'ej of Jordan and the Dt.‘ad Sea, und er e nte ci :i' ri Bedouins; crosses the'Desert on s et. o o oooo 4 o / Pyramid of Cheops, visits the Cata re o f Sob ( 4 0( / sepulchral chambers of the tremPlese f a ll ° d oll Her Letters from the Holy' litt ir n li d ,, lit oesur i lier formation, and originality. ~- e i, an ample, of Balbec, Damascus, ‘-'a r ' - '" strikingly beautiful. ie . To o ? tnontlhoef,ft b e g alsdtahoguhltio,ra.tßßlaßngTolfr, Stile Wi fe , 0. bir o: ;ll . ' , lady of ~r r On the 23U ult., at Quebec, the IP e h Esq., Royal Engineers, of a daughter. st. h. o f. o l On the 17th inst., at the Vicarage, ro toe a ts f J, f ' wife oiuofegoho,f thetmh eoln7wtt'ailfige Montagu J. js t t. l . ce ,a ß ev.C. W •E cli tet , a s ' i' te r i in tb (ar Trsgid.feo-et."lsoeteto'-o, tioic, a son. Hann' Pr,' 0 0 ,1 1 , On the 17th inst., at Shipton, .oe g , _. 0"- late T. Banning, of twins, boy and gir.,,:t. tpe .0 / i On the 18th inst., at Harley-etre— ifi r 'tF Lancelot Holland, Esq., of a daughte. 0, the v .i On the 19th inst., atClapham-0111° (1,04.0,7 I'Anson, jun., of a son. a 0 0° On the 19th inst , the lads, of J. - fee ,0 • foy-terrace, Maidalvale, oda 3 011. dt LP On the 19th inst., at Lyndhurst-ru ei, William Henry Fleming, of a daughter' re/API On the 12th ult., at lie. RGReolre. Tillrfscell3.l,TleiLleirillyl sniiiet,:tse,:sro°:cottoebeeliy:.6 el : fii . Christopher's, Robeit Murray Eurn s ,,? e f i . of :CO P- foe( Itvarh)'a,rttoonLitmaiisvtitioFsr,ances third. deug..iesti° ..10411 On the 16th inst., m island. e at St. e s r t. . f G her x . g 8 . 7 1 9 0 11 _,N3 0 1 . : 0 Af l7 4 i i • o e 1 ; 0 11 l• EdgesogaCl.:utibl: a l.D to , .Ihlearrßiar,tealdnenaitc IV d l a n ti j O f is On thei silgthßei inst., a Civil ts t. S jeoriveg: wood, of Stamford-le -Hope, EseS,t7ine ter of the late Mr. R. Daplyn , ef ll3c p ije l , e t e( r fe DI.P;11. r of bil 04 On the 20th inst., in the 88th Ye, a- igeiclill Kent, Mrs. Jane M‘l.can, relict of ~,t',.'eicutts, re' th e 1 1. On the 25th of October last, at Li' sir g Clifton, Allen Page, Esq., aged 29 il Ji°t/g' itli gr d On the 7th host., at CliesterWe- leo i, or °- c i e On the 15th inst., at Clieltenha..?!.„. . _p Martin, of Maisemore, Gloucestersh,7o, 01° Esq., aged 9:3 ' - the ill A 0 161 111 On the 17th inst., at 1:•iclarneo"" .;, 11Ioreshead, aged 87. . -ds, P iclifi . d ise l On the 18th inst., at nedia. pi. - ~ A Esq., aged 82. Sa" ef' tif v. On the 18th inst., at Triangle, Op Esq., aged 58. ________________------ ...n0 SP'OO,,l —___ w i l ed b, ,Sa4,o . v• London : Printed and Pub , .. 0 No. 112. Strand, Printer,.::ooB,vo/845, Strand, in the Procina of , I . s , 2g, Middlesex, Wedn e sdaf, Ji 4124 " "