The Sun. — London, England, 1851-01-10 00:00:00

-~ VLARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CO RN EXCHANGE. - (FRIDAY.) A lthough a slight increase has taken place in the r - a 4 13 of E ng li s h Wh eat f or cur mar k e t s i nce Wecirir2F.- 4 3 7 , the show of samples of that grain hero to-day was :all, and of ver y m iddli ng qua lity. V e ry f,w buyers Here in attendance, but fine parcels sold at prices about m 4 0.1 to th ose o f M on d ay l ast. Th e va l ue o f the ddling and inferior kinds was almost nominal. Nearly 1 000 quarters of Wheat, together with 10,311 sacks and ur els of Fl our, h ave come to h an d l i ons a b roa d. In t 4" articles exceedingly little was doing, but F4 e 'lave no change to notice in the currencis. d lr le Barley was h e ld a t late rates, but b l ol 3 samples were dull, and somewhat cheaper. 44 1 thou g h in moderate supply, met a very dull sale, at ~,,1 3 ? last week's quotations,. The total supply of Oats at 43 not larg e , y e t the O at tra d e was in a very inactive 444 Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn without change. ARRIVALS TINS WEEK Wheat. Engi tsx Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. I Qrs. sacks cot k i i.. '"••• 2,690 4,370 2,4b0 2 , 160 2 ,x ''o Irish •• •• • • •• •• I 6,910 Barley. Malt. I Oats. Flour, - I 1,420 I - 3,840 1C,311 2,530 sivErrurzzLn. s eet lio twithatanding that our market today was very PtilY supplied with Beasts, toe demand fur that de ie_riPtion of 'stock, owing, in a great measure , to the uu :courable state of the weather for slaughterieg, ruled nu m es h aiv elY heavy, at almost nominal currencies. The trad o fSheep were small, nevertheless, the Mu•ton dim e - " ally 8 fury dull, and Monday's quotations were With.. ow „ B uPported. The extreme value of the best old hu l a s pas 4s 4d per 81bs. Calves were in moderate ne'iY , and heavy inquiry, at barely late rates. In Pigs, kt f to nothing was doing. Mulch Cows were offering r°4l 141 to 18/ each, including their small Calf. Per Bibs. to sink the offal. t ife riOr et . s. d. to s. d. s. d . t o k e 0 4(1 1 ,, ~71 4 ••• . 2 6 210 Inferior Sheep •• • 3 2 3 6 n 2 ' rltge6 •••• 3 0 3 2 Second qual. Sheep 3 8 310 l' ar ri tu .e s gg t e s ° . x . e . R . 3 4 3 6 Coarse-woolledditto4 0 4 2 3 8 310 nouthdownWethcr 4 2 4 4 Priti l s : ° arse Calves 3 0 3 6 Ditto eat of the wool° 0 0 Qu n 't ll 4ltto .. 3 310 Large Hogs ......2 8 3 6 L AM/ "Wes —lB 0 24 0 Small Porkers .• .. 3 8 4 0 ..."' '• 0 0 0 0 Quartzr old Pigs ..16 0 20 0 TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET. 17 9 Sheep. Caicos. Pigs I 2,650 I 192 I 220 Pigs I I Figs. - . n easts SCOT(... 20 ! I Sheep. 1 40 8e FOREIGN FOREIGN SUPPLY. liC I Sheep. I Calves. 600 100 Th e "WGILTE AND LEILDENICALL. iowin. e_general demand ruled very heavy, on the ful• a "'MS :—.. Calves. 11) • At per stone by the Carcase. u ter t a. d. to a. d. a. d. to s. . se. '„„ 111. .0r1er5..... 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior .. 2 "-u 6 2 8 2 4 2 6 middling.• 3 2 10 6 ••••••3 _ _ 2 8 3 0 --prime •• .• 7 3 ; Vesl;eall.. 3 2 3 4 Porklarge•• •• •• •• ..... lun 3 0 310 , ma n ........ 3 2 8 4 0 (k r ItOILOUGH HOP IVIARILET. ti eba Mark e t is firmer than for some time past, butthe Se. 4 11 ; 1 was chiefly upon middling qualities. In prices viz material change to notice. Factors' prices, to 6 4 1" 2 '4 141 7 . money —East Kent pockets, per cwt 31 12s 2/5 a to si ti chtto bags, 3/ 4s to Si ss; Mid Kent pockets, Iss e k e , -310 s; ditto bags, 21 to 41 ss; Weald of Kent Peek 14, 31 to Si 18s; ditto bags, 2/ to 31 8s; Sussex 2 1143 to 31 I2s. Se a . COLONIAL. recd Th e market for British Plantation has ruled b ut hol b "ell owing to the heavy supplies of East India, d be cfa have not pressed sales, and hence prices hasp la w fairly supported. At auction, Barbadoes fine yel - 1 04e. real laed 43s 6d to 44 3 6d, and mid to good 41s 6d sd Demerara wen t ra ther cheaper; good yellow _39s 6d ais ° 4°1 4 mid, 42s to 433 6d; and brown, 36s 6d to 'te e , 6 2 4 ,'"D.—Grocery Lumps have been at 50s 6d t: to East India, 4,400 bags and 14 casks Mauritius t 0 te : I s t half sold, at rather lower rates; w as "; and yellow,fine ye110w,46 41s 64 to 433. Bengal, 3,317 bags d for taoatly taken i n , portion selling at 423 to 44s 6d and a arid ,;` *lute Bena res , 48 s to 49 3 , for fine grainy white, itbo` l2 & for Bo l t b rown . M a d ras , 11,360 bags trai n half sold, at 64 to is decline ; fine Rosa -7 _ white, 46s to 46s 6d; and, like Mauritius, I,ee k ticl , fine 39s to 42s ; brown 30s to 31s; Penang white b ags and 462 mats s eld at 40s 6d to 41s for mid till e %and sit 30s to 40s for dam and washed. Ma and' 4 ' 05 1 bags, was taken in at p 38s for mid yellow, Ysn,73sol 64 to 37 37ss. for damp and washed. Bouchon, mid el'?d at e4 IIE4I R--Efavannah has been held for full rates. fere duct. Plantation demand fur all descriptions hes been Plantation Ceylon has been 2s to 3s lower di,eat week ; an d even at this reduction sales are bet ter Mid has been sold at 563 to 623 for the low to the et i( 7 kinds, go o d t o fi ne 63 s to 70s, p e a berry 55s to 593, hi t 4 is"riage 46; to 57s per cwt. Native real and good ord V e en nominally 53s to 55s 6d, but sales have been las h e A lt s low as 51s and 52s 6d privately. Mocha has ue eidedly lower, and 390 bales and 1,400 half (l41 -4 o nly partly selling at 578 to 63s for good to fine 4: 1111 d 70s to 75s for mid lung berry. Tellieherry Ss - WU taken in at 70s, and Sherveroy at 63s to 66s I,ewt. '° Th h as been a good demand at steady COA.— ere k e k • Trinidad, 48s to 563. sC P lees.—Pitnento has been at steady rates, ord to t ' l oalising 4d to sq. Colicut Ginger was taken in ei o 62, 64 to 70s per cwt. Jamaica sold at 64s to 105 s. Isl /e s have b een rather cheaper, and also Mace and et tr ,, atd F'• L .—Carolina, sea damaged, has been sold at 133, td t b °Und'at 18s. East India is dull; white Bengal 93 TZ . ! 23 6.1, and pinkey Madras 83 6d to 9s 6d. Pea,„ 4.--. Very little has been doing, and of 12,079 sce nt . gee which passed auctions about 2,500 were sold, `tl orange Pekoe being Id per lb lower. Labl A T °N.--At public sale 8,100 bales burst . and 400 lts - e„"`"ras were put up, but a large proportion were i t o 4: and'only a few hundred bales sold, at to 5 1 -4 1 44,„ 14 sort, and at 5/d to 51,1 for fair to good. 1/C a h as realised 54 to %l d for common western. 1 . 11.—The demand has been limited. andnew aLL fine hew steady business has been done, a cct s' i t i ew Candle has realised 37s ed to 37s 9d per tne spot. t a L tisi ll ,„ E i l;l ' l Flturr.—There is not so much activity in the %Int." which- is the usual feature after the Christmas 8 414 1 8 ' Two cargoes Oranges, from St. Michael's, fee t , "Y Keeling and Hunt, went at a slight reduction N t he price of last week. Lemons are in demand, ststkaelfie holders refuse to sell at present rates. The lug at °l Che stnuts i s unusua lly l a r ge , and they are sell 7 ie lYloss to the importers. Barcelona have improved prlee ' ill consequence of the invoice coming higher. CRI MINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.) GLD C. - ' llO Lord Chi e t B a ron O Pe URT LnocK and Mr. Justice Sp u TALFOURD.) 11 0p;,1 0 7 8 ASSAULT.— George Hopwood . and Amelia take` two young persons, man and wife, surrendered h aria e th e i r , trial on an indictment charging them with g assault upon one Jane Parnell. 411 dth ; v 7, 1113 011 conducted the case for the prosecution, ° ,,,,,r,'`seners were defended by Mr. Parry. l' ' lioe w ij,." -ll iToulett, a police-constable, said about seven 11- ia' n the evening of 24 December he was on duty t e , 4 ' ; l l.eot hual-green-road. In consequence of inferma 11,sthi,°,,dilad received he went to 18, Ramsay-street, ~4 , 1 111 C,,T,een, and found Jane Parnell in bed, with a u - ,:, e nlof round her neck and a bandage about her ormair in a very exc it e d s t a te. In consequence of in -I,'ise:,.°l9, he there received he went and took the female i nto custody at 34, Ann's-place, Bethnal-green. eate n . ,: 4 the female prisoner he wanted her for no t by a woman's throat. She said she had ' llll to ti -e° Out. Witness took her into custody ' l,l lsl^ th e Place where the wounded woman lay, to at d rat lat ter to ident i fy her. Th e f ema l e p r i soner Vi llte r , t , l. l ,sed to go, but witness forced her there. itesa, e re, jane Parnell, the injured woman, identified 4 o r, prisoner as having inflicted the injury upon M atron itness then took the female prisoner to the 11110 th ' llllll when there the male prisoner came in, and c ogs Ptrilon having pointed him out as having been %A l ltl the assault, ho was taken into custody. eeteL; barn said she saw Jane Parnell on the 2d De 8110p i t. Left her at work on that evening in a weaver's 1 ' 4 4 Abbey- street, Bethnal-green. Witness then e ttle to her own house in Ramsay - street , and 44 t1 t",„" was standing at her own door she saw a man kal e t'tl ac w omen struggling, one of whom was the fe faaivter, but witness could not say who was the lat ia(;' 4fl "f 601110 struggling the man and the female an d fe eft, l eft, and Mrs. Parnell came into witness's room wo oti e ll r into her arms, saying, " Oh, Sarah, Mrs. Hop her as c ut throat." Her throat was cut, and also aitd 4 411 - Wit ness t h ereupon sen t for a medical man, the L 11 „° a policeman. Witness acterwards went with the man to the prisoner's house, and pointed out eroluale prisoner to him. 14 ere tt . " ' ex amined—Witness did not hear Mrs. Parnell outs s p They were not struggling together. Mrs. 11 ft-ee' belle time lived with the male prisoner, and prise that h eame reconciled to his wife, the female ',ass rarnell said—l am the wife of Tames Parnell, e l , t ;_ la now at sea. At one time I cohabited with the err' about about four or five months. I have been tied4l four years, and I am now twenty-six years of tied - ‘- )1 1 the evening of the 2d December, between six 1 b o B , ll ten o'clock, I was going along Ramsay-street. st e T e rae from Sale-street. When I was in Ramsay int '" 1 - was attacked by a man and woman, both wear ' ttr 41"1 gled"• , The man put his hand across my mouth. atk u g with them sometime, when I felt some in skirtelent drawn across my neck, and I fell. By the of the woman's dress I raised myself as. All this ti me th e man ' s h a nd was up on my mout h. e re 'llPgled a ga i n w i t h the pr i soners , w h en t h e f ema l e at: au instrument across my throat again. While the 41° Was going on the mask fell off the woman, eta tos - saw to be tbe prisoner. The man threw me eibly down and then ran away. The instrument was r(i qi twice altogether during the struggle. The woman ie tn e ,waY along with the man. I then got np and Weise te tt : airs. Danes house. lam not able to say who the Was. ~B.:turroz;exarnitied by Mr. PARRY—I had not en the previous been to the male prisoner's house. t l l . .th the female prisoner and I are at present held to t i: 11 to keep the peace towards each other. I chargedh ti_a‘istrates tilci-ifernale prisoner with cutting my forehead before t I used to live with the male prisoner. I ° 1 now living alone. I have been living with a man Anderson, but I do not do so now. Since Hop °d left left me he has been living with his wife, the female % pier, for three months. On this struggle I did not 40 1 .- out murder or police; I was prevented from doing t i_ l l. the man's hand being on my throat. I was some 111 8 - 11111 ensible after the 'affray took place. I was con uxttla week from the wound I received. t ' Benjamin am a surgeon in Waterloo New THE SUN, Town. I wnq called in to see Jane Parnell on the even ieg of the 21 December last, bet w;e.n eix and seven o'clock at IS, Rstusey-steeci. till , / was lying ie Led it' u front room down stairs. iler was covered with blood, eed half her dress was sprinkled with it. I found three distinct incisions parabel to each other on her throat. the incisions tieeetiated the skin, and o ere wade right across the throat. There was 1,0 injury be yond skin deep. The wounds were clean cut. Weavers have a sharp instrument whieii they use in cutting velvet, but which is so praected that it will only cut a certain small depth; and these wounds appeared to have beers inflicted with such an instrument. It must have been used three allies to produce the wounds on the prosecutrix's neck. The necklace was as near as possible over the woued, and I believe the necklace had protected the neck to a certain extent. Cross-examined—The protecutrix was insensible when I first saw her. I don't think the wounds could have been inflicted by the woman herself. Henry flogen proved that on the night in question he saw the presecutrix running away, and the two priso ners following her; but he did not see the assault. Mr. PARRY addressed the jery for the prisoners, creeerding that this Was a wicked conspiracy, which had been formed between the proseeutrix, Mrs. Parnell, end Mrs. Daru, the object of which was to get rid of the unfortunate women at the bar, so us to prevail upon the male prisoner to return and live with Mrs. Parnell, a profligate woman. The Learned Counsel then called Frederick Field, who said he worked for the male prisoner, and lodged in the same house. Tbo prisoner is a back-gammon board maker. Remembered the night on which the prisoners were taken into custody on this charge. Witness had been working with the male pri soner that day. The male prisoner's residence was about a mile and a half from Retusay strea, where the assault took place. The prisoners and witness had been working with witness the whole of that day, until the police came. Witness did not leave the house that day except to get his dinner and tee. Returned from tea about half-past four, and from that time to the time when the police called the male prisoner never left the house. The female prisoner was not out that day later than a few minutes after four o'clock in the afternoon. The prisoners were both in the house from a little after four o'clock until between eight and nine, when the policemen came in. _ Mrs. Field, wife of the last witness, gave similar evi- deuce. Edward Hopwood, a brother of the male prisoner, cor roborated the evidence of the preceding witnesses. Mary Ann Dormer said her husband occupied part of the house in Ramsay-street, where Mrs. Darn lives. About half-past six on the evening in question witness heard her (witness's)name called, and went into the street, but saw no one. As she was going up stairs, heard Mrs. Darn unlock the door and invite her in. Wit ness went in and saw Mrs. Purnell there. She was lying on the floor with her head near the bedstead. Mrs. Darn said some one had cut her (Mrs. Parnell's) throat. Mrs. Darn then went for a doctor, and witness looked at Mrs. Parnell's throat. Two men came in and put her in the bed, and she said " George Hopwood, George Hopwood, I have done him no harm. " he nthe police came she said she could swear to the woman but not to the man. On returning from the police-court, Mrs. Darn, who was a little in liquor, said, " I want to see Mrs. Parnell, so that her tate may correspond with mine." Harriet Bradley, residing at 46, Clare-street, Bethnal green, deposed that Mrs. Darn said to her that on the night in question she heard nothing of the affray until Mrs. Parnell came in, and !aid George Hopwood had cut her throat, though she (Mrs. Darn) was standing at the door. Mr. Ct. cKLE replied on the evidence adduced on be half of the prisoner, with a view to prove en alibi, con tending that the jury could not wholly ignore the Let that an injury had been inflicted on Mrr. Parnell, the prosecutrix, and that, if they believed the testimony of the medical gentleman called on the part of the prose cution, that injury could not have, been self-inflicted. The LORD CHIEF BARON was then proceeding to sum up, when The jury intimated that they had come to the con clusion that the prisoner was Not Guilty. Jane Parnell, the woman Darn, and Henry Hogan, were then by order of the Court taken into custody for perjury. ALIT COURT. Before the COMMON SERGEANT and Mr. Alderman LAWRANCE.) BIIRGLARY.—A German, named Ghrosz, was indicted for burglariously entering the dwelling house of Adam Greek, and stealing therein a quantity of cashmere and other property. The prosecutor, a dealer in silks, shawls, &c., who is also a German, resides in Union-street, Whitechapel, and o❑ the night of the 27th of Dt , cember, he saw that all his shutters and doors were made f. , st before retiring to rest. Between four and five o'clock the next morning. the prisoner was seen with the stcleu cashmere, within a stone's-throw of the prosecutor's residence; but there was something strange about his manner, which induced those who observed him to call out for the police, and the prisoner upon hearing this, took to his heels, leaving the booty behind him. It was afterwards discovered that the property had been stolen from the prosecutor's shop, and upon the appearance of the thief being des cribed, the prosecutor at once recognised it as that of the prisoner, who had been in his employ. information of the burglary was, therefore, given to the police, and eventually the prisoner was traced to a lodging-house in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel. The prisoner, in his defence, denied having committed the robbery. He was well off, having plenty if money and a good house, and it was quite preposterous to sup pose that he would engage in a burglary out of covetous ness. The fact was, the tables ought to be turned upon the two men who said they saw him with the property, fur it was he who discovered them with it, and they wished to protect themselves by throwing the robbery upon his shoulders. The jury convicted the prisoner of simple larceny only, and the Court sentenced him to twelvemonths' imprisonment. WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT. (THIS DAY.) CARDINAL WISEMAN AND HIS LANDLORD.-FILDER V. WISEMAN. Since the establishment of the County Courts no case has excited greater interest than the above. A report having got abroad that the Cardinal himself would appear in the defendant's box, the court was crammed to suffocation. It was an action brought to recover 331. 6s. 6d. by the plaintiff, a gentleman residing at Bexhill, Sussex, for, as the instructions stated, " You having taken cer tain premises and left without paying the tent, or for any of the damage done; and all your effects having been taken away, and you being about to quit the king dom, expenses in following you to London to obtain payment; two bushels of coals left in the house, and not repaid on quitting as promised; damage done to water. closet, doors, windows, &c., bottles cracked, breaking bell-ropes and nine pendulums off; injuring strawberry beds, and an extinguisher taken away," &c. In fact, the bill of particulars of demand would leave one to imagine that the Archbishop of Westminster must have been ♦ery unmindful of his landlord's property, for the various items of damage sustained relate to almost every utensil in the house. Upon the cause appearing in its turn, it was intimated that the plaintiff and defendant had elected to have the claim settled by arbitration, and conscqaently, much to the chagrin of a County Cuurt audience, his Eminence did not appear. EXHIBITION OF 1851.—V131T9 OF ARTISANS.—The following is the answer which has been returned by the Exe cutive Committee to persons requesting to know whether the Royal Commissioners undertake to find lodgings for artisans coming to see the Exhibition : 7 " Office for the Executive Committee, Exhibition building, Hyde-park, 1851. " Sir,—ln answer to your letter on the subject of lodgings in London for artisans during the period of the Exhibition, I am directed by the Executive Committee to inform you intend that the Royal Commissioners do not to undertake to find lodgings for persons visiting the Exhibition, or to inter fere with individual enterprise. " The Executive Committee recommend that you should employ some London agent to secure for you the lodgings you require, and the committee will be ready to afford your agent every information in their power. " I am, Sir, your most obedient servant, " M. DIGBY WYATT, Secretary." THE DEATH AT PECKHAM LUNATIC ASYLUM. — The inquest on the body of Barnes, the pauper lunatic, was resumed and concluded yesterday. dir. Under-Sheriff Law and Mr. Bennett were again in attendance. According to the evidence adduced, the deceased " seemed to be going off—getting very thin, as if he was in a decline ;" but his death at the time when it did occur was caused by violence. His arm was found to be broken and bruised, and there were other injuries. The attendant stated that he did not know how they occurred. He was told that the lunatic said it was he (the attendant) who bad done these injuries to him. The attendant's reply was, "It is quite false." It was proposed to examine a patient, Donnelly, who was rational in com mon conversation, but laboured under certain fancies and delusions, and was a decided lunatic. It was stated that his account agreed with that of other patients; but the coroner being told that Donnelly could not be considered a responsible agent if he violated the law, would not allow his evidence to be received. The medical evidence attributed the death to violence most distinctly ; and the jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against seine person or persons unknown." SOMETHING LIKE A STORM.—Letters from St. Petersburgh of the 25th ult. say that on the 3d of October a terrible tempest broke out at Kirgis, where the horde of Korin generally establishes its camps, and 168 persons were killed, as also were 205,600 sheep, 1,292 horses, 490 camels, and 360 oxen. During eight days the soil was covered with snow to the depth of 5i yards.— Galignani's Messenger. WESTMINSTER IMPROVEMENTS.—Cron,iderabIe pro gress has been made by the Commissioners of the Westmin ster Improvements in the construction of the new street, to be called Victoria-street, which will extend from the Vaux.- ball-bridge-road to Westminster Abbey. For some weeks past bricklayers have been employed in forming, on the north and south sides of the street, the cellars for the new houses, which are nearly all completed. formation of the roadway and the footpath will be soon commenced. The houses will be of the second class, and the street about 50 feet iii width. At the west end, adjoining the Westminster Prison, a row of splendid edifices has been built. In the ne'ghbourhood of the new street, at the east end, are the baths and washhouses erected by the vestry of the united parishes of St. Margaret and St. John at a cost of about 15,000/. They are almost finished, and are expected to be opened in the course of the spring for the benefit of the poor of that district. There will be on the premises two large plunging baths, about GO warm and cold baths, with ironing and washing departments. If present good is round thee, it may be well to look for change, but to trust in a continuance is better.— Eliza Cook's Journal. The Earl of Cottenham, we regret to state, was, according to the latest accounts, still in very indifferent health at La Valetta, Malta. Lord Crowhurst, the Noble Lord's eldest son, has arrived at Dresden. LONDON, MAGAZINES, &c.—( CON TINUED.) WiLLOUGHBYS ILLUSTRATED STAND ARD EDITION OF THE. COMPLETE WORKS OF SIIAKSPER E. Published un der the Superintendence of Samuel Phelps, Esq., of the Theatre Royal Sadler's Wells. Part I. This, the first part of this new edition of Shakspere, consists of the Tempest complete, and is illustrated by a wood engraving of the scene between Stephan°, Trinculo, Caliban, and Ariel in the second act, and by a portrait of Shakspere, supported by Melpomene and Thalia. This may be properly termed the eclectic edition of Shakspere, great pains having been taken to secure the purity of the text, while the notes give the opinions of Knight, Dyne, Payne Collier, Halliwell, and all the later commentators on disputed or obscure passages. 1111SC'ELLANEOUS. Among the best articles in Ainsworth for January, after the continuation of the " Lancashire Witches," are E. P. RowselN " Looking Back," and a charm• ink; little tale, " Christmai , ," by Mrs. Edward Thornqs. One of the most attractive articles in the Eclectic Review (to those who prefer literary criticism to theological controversy) is a well written and in teresting review of Mrs. Monteath's "Lays of the link and Covenant." lo this criticism we find the tollosing distinction drawn between the orator and the poet :—" Thought which does not fall to singing of its own accord, and whether the thinker will or no, is not poetic thought. All im passioned oratory is rythmical. Listen to the man of true eloquence, and whenever his spirit is deeply moved his utterance heaves and swells away to the music of an unwritten score. But the orator is not and cannot be a poet. He has an audience before him, and he knows it. He is there to agitate his people. But the poet knows no people. He stands before no audience. He is alone and imper sonal. His world is self-contained, and he is singing to himself. Such is the idea of the poet. It is doubtless rarely realised. There is no perfect poet in this sense, but such is the mood in which the masters of the sounding lyre uttered all those portions of their imperfect works which keep them immortal." Tait's Magazine has a well-written article "What is it all About ?" which, though differing from our often-expressed opinions, deserves attention from its impartial tone and fearless spirit. Sharpe's London Magazine is as excellent as usual. The same may be said of the majority of the monthly periodicals—the Farmer's, the Sportsman, Chambers', the People's Journal, the Repertory of In ventions, Le Follet, and the rest, a host too numerous to ba criticised individually each month. The Ladies' Companion will henceforth appear as a monthly instead of a weekly journal. In the Belle Assemblie is a beautiful " Christmas and New Year's Ditty," by Mrs. Newton Crosland. Enumerating the fit em blems of Christmas under the guise of the " flowers of the heart," Love, Charity, Peace, she goes on— " And every such flower casteth fruitful seed On the soil as it trails along; For there never yet was a kindly deed That did not uproot a wrong, And leave where it stood Some germ of good Our tangled thoughts among." Mrs. Ellis's Morning Call continues to realise the expectations suggested by its first appearance. The beauty of its illustrations and the elegant manner of its " getting up" render it conspicuous among its competitors, while the majority of its prose and po etical contents are of more than average excellence. The story by the editress, " Self-deception ; or the History of a Human Heart," is likely to prove pro fitable as well as interesting. In a capital little article, "Study Trifles," we lied it justly remarked that a Lillie, though little in itself, is worthy of care, be cause of the momentous consequences it may produce, according to the different temperament of indivi duals. " A spark is in itself a trifle, and a very pretty trifle too, apply it to stone and it remains a trifle—that is to say, for the little time it does re main ; but, plunge it in oil, or turpentine, and we are astonished by its power ; so it is with a jest, which falls lifeless upon one, calls a repartee from a second, and rebuke from a third; the spark of wit is no duller with the first than the last, but it falls on different materials; the first, ashes; the second, touch , paper; the third, gunpowder." The King's College Magazine progresses well. Lewis Arundel continues to appear in monthly parts, and will doubtless find welcome with the many friends of " Frank Fairlegh." The Looker On evinces considerable ability. Tails's Illustrated London contains many beautiful engrav ings of the conspicuous places of the metropolis. The Family Tutor, for the sum of twopence, gives in formation on a variety of important matters; while for a similar sum a cyclopedia of Familiar Things affords an admirable exposition of the marvels connected with the progress and preparation of those " familiar" things—a book, a needle, and a cup of tea. The ex planation is rendered more interesting by illustrations. FINE ARTS. THE ART-JOURNAL. With the first, January in the second half of the iirieteenth century, we have a more than ordinary display of enterprise, of ability, and of intelligence in this splendid periodical. Breaking new ground for the revelation of the skill of its contributors, both literary and pictorial, the Art-Journal gives us the first instalment of a most interesting series on " The Great Masters of Art," beginning with Paul Rem brandt van Ryn. A portrait of the illustrious pain ter is followed by sketches from some of his most re markable achievements. A little view of the mill where Rembrandt was born, on the 15th of June, 1606, will be observed with delight by all enthusiasts about his genius. Thomas Wright, aided by the pencil of F. W. Fairholt, commences a delightful series of papers on " The Domestic Manners of the English during the Middle Ages"---a series calculated to be both amusing and instructive. The embellishments from the Vernon Gallery are continued this month with Landseei's " Death of the Stag," engraved lay J. Cousen, and Witherington's " Crown of Hops," engraved by H. Bourne. Gibson's exquisite bas relief to the memory of the Countess of Leicester has been gracefully copied by the graver of J. H. Baker, and in addition to these principal illustrations, the January number of theArt-Journalcontains acharming sketch from Sir Edwin Landseer's "Hawking Party," printed, in colours (from wood blocks) by Leighton Brothers. Among the most conspicuous wood en gravings in the number we must not forget to men tion an admirable drawing of " Temperantia," by Professor MUcke, of Dusseldorf. From its excel lence, we trust that the Cardinal Virtues may be continued in the same style of representation. Tem perance, according to the classic myth, is represented as holding a bridle in her hand. " Examples of German Artists" are also highly meritorious. The best of all the contributions to the Art-Journal for January we have not yet mentioned, having reserved it for especial notice at the last. We mean the con tribution penned by Mrs. S. C. Hall, and adorned with a life-like portrait of the illustrious subject of her remarks. Briefly, the topic chosen by Mrs. S. C. Hall is nothing less attractive than an ac count cf " A Morning with MORITZ RETZSCH. Under this portrait we have the autograph of the great limner and a ,sketch of the "Cot tage House " in which he still resides, covered with years and glory. To those tho are familiar with his matchless outlines (the noblest illustrations ever given to the world of the imaginings of Shak spere and Schiller) we need not commend this most charming narrative of a morning spent with the illus trious artist. The close of the article, in which pr?- mice is held out of engravings to be published in future numbers of the Art-Journal from selections from his portfolio, is deserving of one word of refer ence in exultation. Inspired by that promise, the sub scribers to the Art-Journal may look forward with confidence to the enjoyment of many rare delights from the examination of its subsequent numbers. The arrangement made with Moritz Retzsch cannot but tend to enlarge his own fame in this country, and to extend very greatly the popularity of the publication he has consented to honour with his artistic pro ductions. TIIE NEW Novar., " TIME THE AVENGER," by the author of "Emilia Wyndham," "The Wilmingtons,"&c., in 3 vols., is published this day by Mr. Colburn, and may be had at all the Libraries. Also, 2. Merkland, a story of Scottish Life, by the author of "Margaret Maitland." 3. Love and Ambition, by the author of "Rockingham," 3 vols. 4. Light and Darkness ; or, Mysteries of Life, by Mrs Crowe. 5. Nathalie, by Julia Kavanagh, author of " Woman in France," &c. Also, just ready : 1. Popular Titles and traditions of Hungary, by Theresa Pulszky. 2. The Daughter of Night, a Story of the Present Time, by S. W. Fullom, Esq. SlLss must rise considerably during the present year and continue to advance with an increasing population. The failure of one-third of the crop of last year, and the spread ing of its manufacture over Prussia, Russia, Germany, and Switzerland, where from Basle alone there are now more ribbons exported than are made in Coventry, contributes materially to influence the standard. Foresight and capital, it is true, as shown by many large houses, may provide against any very considerable effect for a time at home, and we know that amongst the number the Messrs. Jay, of Re gent-street, have for some time past been immense pur chasers, thereby securing a stock which is likely to carry them through the forthcoming season. But in their par ticular branch of trade there are certainly great advantages, their commerce being principally in black silks, which abso lutely improve by keeping, whereas, even a few months, nay weeks, or even a few hours of light, robs coloured silks not only of their novelty, but their colour and freslinaso, and their consequent value.-1/lorning Paper. GENERAL Bast.--Advices via Trieste report the death of General Bent at Aleppo. If this prove true, the General has died in the Moslem faith. DEATH AT FOLKESTONE BY CHOKING..—A poor blind' woman, residing on the Bail, named Light, in at, tempting to swallow an oyster on Thursday last, was suf focated, the oyster being too large to pass down her throat. NEW RECORDER.—We (Worcester Chronicle) un derstand that Henry John Hodgson, Esq., of this circuit, has been appointed Recorder of Ludlow, in the room of John Backle, Bsq., Reorder of Worcester, resigned. FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1851. MR. MUNTZ AND THE " TIMES." The controversy between Mr. Muntz and the Tiaaw•s has excited intvti ino-rest tbrough(att the country. The Times article of the 27th, in reply to Mr. Mull' z's letter, proves, we thick, very little. In one respect it is an improvement on the former articles, it abounds less in those peculiar " fl:►wers of rhetoric " with which the uneducated part of the lower classes of society are wont to supply the place of argument. The Times may rest quite assured that the advocates of a just and reasonable reform of the monetary sys tem will not be put down by low abuse. We beg leave to call the attention of our readers to a very able article which we have extracted from The Sun, which leaves little that we think it necessary to add on the subject. The Times, how ever, stands up manfully for the convertibility of the ba►hk note. Let Mr. Mintz, it says, take fifty notes of 1,0001. to the Bank, and he will obtain sovereigns at the rate of :3/. 17a. 101(1. an ounce. Very true ; but can the Times tell how long this may condone the ease ? NVlen Sir Robert Peel brought fox ward the Bid of 1844, he admitted that the con vertibility of the bank note had basil endangered at four sevrral periods—in 1825, 1832, 18?,7, and 1839. And how stood the case i❑ 1847, und,r the " perfect" wasure of 1844? On the 28'h October, 1847, according to the Bank return the liabilities of the Bank amounted to 34,612,0911, while its assets in gold and silver coin and bullion, amounted altogether to 8,312,6911.—0 r rather less than 53. in the pound. The deposits of the bankers and' merchants amounted at the same time to 8,580 5091, and had they, as was talked of, with drawn these deposits, not one sixpence would have remained to " convert" the paper of the Bank into gold. But, further, by the Act of 1844, 7,865,445/. of the gold and silver held by the Bank was locked up in the " Issue Department," and could not be touched ; while in the " Banking Department" against the 20,318,175/. in the hands of the public the Bank held only 447,246/. of gold and silver coin, or about 51d. in the pound ! The truth is the Act of 1844 is entirely a fair weather Act; as long as the foreign exchanges happen to be in our favour, and there is no demand for gold, the Bank pays away sovereigns, but when the demand arises and the con• vertibility of the note is tested, the system breaks down, and after causing the ruin of thousands of traders of undoubted respectability and solvency who are then unable to convert their real wealth—their merchandise, bills, or goods—into bank notes, bits of " worthless paper," but which, being the only legal tender, they must obtain or stop payment,—after causing distress and entailing years of suffering on hundreds of thousands of operatives and labourers, the Chancellor of the Exchequer suspends the con vertibility of the bank note, and the panic ceases. The Times speaks of these panics as an "occasional hitch." We believe the sums already sacrificed in these " hitches" amount to much more than the sum total of the national debt, and all this has been drawn from the productive classes, from the merchant, the landowner, the farmer, the trader, and from the hard work of the labourer and operative. The manufac turing districts of this country are only now recover ing from the effects of the "hitch" of 1847, and should the existing money laws remain in force another period of depression must arrive, the effects of which will, we fear, be even more severe than any we have yet experienced. With no feeling of disrespect to the Times, we call its attention to these plain facts. — Derbyshire Courier. BUTCHERS' CHARITABLE INSTITUTION.—The an nual meeting of the donors and subscribers to this charity was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, last evening ; Mr. John Sharp, president of the institution, in the chair. The Chairman, in opening the proceedings, stated that during the past year the society had been more prosperous and flourishing than in any previous year of its history. The charity had now been upwards of 22 years in existence, and it had gradually risen in favour until it was now one of the most important institutions of the kind in the metropolis. His Royal Highness Prince Albert had graciously condescended to become its patron, and had given a handsome donation of twenty guineas. The minutes of the last annual meeting having been read and confirmed, the secretary then read the managing committee's report of the operations of the society for the past year. This document stated, in addition to the facts mentioned by the chairman, that many new subscribers had been added to the charity during the year, and that 1,3591. 15s. bad been realised from subscriptions, a sum exceeding the amount raised in any former year. The subscriptions and donations collected at the last anniversary dinner amounted to 51S1. 13i. 6d. At the last annual election ten additional pensioners were ' placed upon the list of recipients of the society's bounty. 300/. had been invested in the purchase of Three per Cent. Consols during the past year, making the total amount of the charity's funded property 12,0431. 7s. 7d. The treasurer's report showed the receipts of the institution for the past year to have been 2,559/. 12s. 3d., and the expenditure 1,687/. 10s. 4d., leaving a balance of 872/. Is. Ild. in the hands of the bankers. The report, together with the statement of accounts, were unanimously adopted. Several formal reso lutions for modifying the rules, regulating this extension of relief from the funds of the charity, and for {be re-election of officers, were next proposed and severally agreed to; and after voting thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated. In Overton, Tenn., the census taken found a lad) , named Stevens, whose age was 120 years. She was married at the time of Braddock's defeat. lier youngest sou is a smart lad of 70. SOCIETY or ANTIQUARIES.—Yesterday evening w at. held the first meeting after the usual recess, and three new fellows were elected—Messrs. Smee, Cole, and Boyd. Mr Oinry, F.S.A., set a very good example in presenting the three works of the English Historical Society which were wanting to complete the set already in the library. He also presented a drawing of a memorial stone existing in North Wales, Dr. Meligain sent a bronze lamp of about the Bth or 9th century, with the ordinary Christian symbols, which attracted a good deal of attention, and was thought by some members to be of the seventh century. Mr. George Ticknor, of Boston, United States, the author of the " History of Spanish Literatui e," at the instance of the writer of it, sent a privately-printed volume relating to the history of his fa mily, which had represented the state in Congress for many years. A paper was read from Captain Snob, director, to the President, in continuation of his former communication on the subject of horology and the very curious clock belong ing to the society, dated 1525, which had been presented by King Sigismund of Poland to his Queen Bona. It also, by permission of the Queen, gave an account of the remarkable clock at Windsor. which had been presented to Anna Bo leyne by Henry VIII. - - - DIABOLICAL ACT.—On Friday night last a most diabolical act was committed at Coombe St. Nicholas, near this town, but fortunately unattended with any fatal conse quence. It appears that about twelve o clock on the night in que-tion some scoundrel contrived to throw down the bar chimney of Gillard's Dragon Inn, in that village, a canister of gunpowder, which, immediately on reaching the fire, exploded with great noise. The force of the shock threw the servant girl (who was the only person then in the room, and at some distance from the tire) on the floor, burnt a portion of her hair off her head, and scorched her in several places, but we are happy to state not severely. Had the wretch perpetrated the outrage a few minutes earlier, the consequences would have been dreadful, as Mrs. Gillard, the landlady, had been sitting by the tire with an infant in her lap, and had only retired just as the mischief was done. We trust the parties implicated in the affair will be speedily discovered, and receive the sentence which justice demands. —Sher borne Journal. ROYAL FREEMASONS' SCHOOL FOR FEMALE CRILDERN.—A meeting of the subscribers and friends of this charity took place yesterday at the School, Westminster raad ; Mr. \V. F. Beadon, in the chair. The report stated that there were five candidates to be elected in April next to the vacancies which had occurred. There were at present sixty-five children in the school, who were boarded, clothed, and educated, and out of the six hundred who had been educated in that inztitution, there was not a single instance iu which they had not turned out to the perfect satisfaction of their employers. The building committee's report spoke most favourably of their prospects. They had lately suc ceeded in purchasing two acres of land on Wandsworth-com mon, close to the Clapham station, for the erection of a suitable school. 'The price they had given for this land, though large, could not be considered exorbitant, when they considered the locality and other favourable circumstances. It was the intention of the committee to build a house, com bining all the improvements of the modern times with the comforts of the olden. The state of their funds was also most favourable, and there was every prospect that this charity would continue . to flourish. The report was unani. m ously adopted, and, after a vote of thanks to the chairman, the meeting separated. AFFECTION AND CONFIDENCE OF SINGING BIRDS. —These little creatures, if we would narrow ly w a tch them, po ssess the most singular attractions, exhibit the most romantic attachment. Not a movement of their master or their mistress escapes their observation. They may be taught, easily taught , by affectionate care, to come out of the cage, when called . for, or to set on the finger and sing when requested. A simple movement of the head, or ex pression of the eye, will accomplish this; whilst the reward of a bit of hard-boiled egg, or a mors e l o f l oa f sugar , w ill spee dily cement an intimacy terminable only by death—the attachment of birds knows no other limit. I have verified this, times out of number. I have rarely found, during a long experience of twenty-five years, any great difficulty in taming a bird, or, indeed, an animal of any kind. Instinct, on some occasions very closely bordering on reason, un ' erringly teaches the lo wer order of ani m als t o discrimin ate e xtraordinary familiarity, apart from who are their friends , andwho are their enemi es . Thi s is birds and other animals exhibit when d al e in the presence of their masters or mistresses, on whose l m fe o s n r s , tr w it i b l i l e e h b s y o m t h e e fingers I have known birds to sit and sing with the most , perfect confidence.—William Kidd, in the Gardeners' Chronicle. NOVEL PROCEEDING.—On Sunday last the Rev. Mr. Harper, the recently-appointed vicar of Selby, a fter the usual morning service, took h is place in the pulpit, and in formed the congregation that he should that day commence a practice which he had long intended to pursue—that of preaching a sermon, not of ins o wn com p os ition , but written by another person. His reasons-for pursuing su c h a course were, first, that there were many sermons by some of the best and ablest divines, which, in cons e q u e nce of not being weregem le rendered ti ine which vliwas comparatively o ped by the writing of so many sermons every week m i g ht be e m ployed by useless; anti se rc'ellnlydl37,atdh, at the him in other useful matters c onnectin g with th e ministry. The reverend gentleman the n read from a printed book „ imon w hi c h he sa id he had heard prea c h e d w ith l great effect in the Cambridge University, Th e sermon was on the subject of sin, and was evidently a produc tion of no common order in regard to merit.—Doncaster Gazette. SUIC,I DE 1W A CHILD. —On Wednesday ;t girl, only twelve years of age, named Mary Ann Barnes, living with her aunt at Ilartlebury, was playing about with another girl, when she suddenly jumped into the Stour. It appears that she had broken a sugar basin and eaten some of its t on teats that morning, and being fearful of the consequences ( the act, plunged into the river. It was two bouts beful the body was got out. An inquest was held by Mr. Hughes on Friday, and the jury found that she 'F Drowned h.-ma without any apparent cause ;" a verdict apparently, as these kinds of verdicts astlailY are, quite contrary to evi dence.-IVorcester Chronicle. METROPOLITAN INTERMENTS ACT AN]) THE PUBLIC HEALTH. PARISH OF ST. JAMES'S WESTMINSTER. Yesterday a special meeting of the board of vestry was held in the Vestry-room of St. James's, West minster, the Rev. John Jackson, Rector, in the chair, to receive the report of the committee upon a letter from the Board of Health, requiring the vestry to decide whether they would transfer to the board all power over the present parochial burial-grounds, upon being indemnified from all encumbrances attached to those places of sepulture. The Vestry-clerk read the report, which recom mended the transfer of those burial-grounds to the Board of Health, upon the parish being indemnified. Mr. Lewre moved, and Mr. GREEN seconded the reception of the report. Mr. NELSON moved the adoption of the repe,rte aid said that he hoped that at once and fur ever, the dis gueting and dangerous practice of broyieg the dead not only in cities and towns in open grtiVeurds, would be discontinued, hut that, also, the vaults under churches would be cheed.—(Hear, hear.) Through the labours and exposures ot Altrrd Walks r, the Board of Ilealth ordered, in 18,;9, the closure of metropolitan burial grounds end vaults; but the Commissioners under the Interments Act, instead of supporting the Board of Health, allowed grounds that were closed to be re opened ; and hence at that very time twenty- flee and thirty bodies were buried in deep gray se with scarcely any earth between them, and but little co vering the surface.— (Shame.) It was further sr raeged that the compensation to be paid would be calculated according to the preceding five years, re ceipts ; so that the deep grave system was closely followed to enhance the value of the ground. And some owners of burial-grounds offered sepulture at a reduced rate to increase their trade in death and their own revenue.—(Hear, hear.) Was that the course that should be pursued ?—(No, no.) If grave-yards were closed in 1849, what inconvenience would arise from their being closed now? The Vestry-Clerk of St. Andrew's, Holborn, acknowledged that the churchyard was re-opened to maintain their right for compensation. Were the people to be sacrificed to that paltry, unworthy object ?—(No, no.) Mr. Nelson enumerated the several over-crowded churchyards, vaults, and grave-yards,in the metropolis, and called upon the parish of St. James to lead the van in put ting down those nuisances, which were as disgraceful to the country as they were destructive of morality and life. Mr. Churchwarden GEBSEN seconded the meson. He felt that jobbery was in all matters which Govern ment took in hand. He had hoped that the Interinnts Act would have enabled the city and liberties of Westminster to have their own burial-ground, but instead of that the Act included the cities of London and Westminster and the borough of Southwark; so that the clause might as well have designated the division as including the two cities, the county of Middlesex, and the county of Surrey.—(Hear, hear.) He also complained that Government gave the power over burial-grounds to a corporate body, instead of allowing the several parishes to provide their own burial places. But (continued Mr. Geesen) what confidence could the people have in a Govepiment that in its appointments threw overboard George Alfred Walker—(Hear, hear) —who sacrificed purse, person, and profession during twelve years, while he exposed the abomination and proved its fatal effects ?—(Hear, hear.) Why were not his suggestions acted upon ? (Hear ' hear.) Why was not he called to the councils of the Board of Health ?—(Hear, hear.) Because he was too honest and was beyond purchase.—(Hear, hear.) What had Government done ? Nothing. Instead of purchasing ground, they allowed private speculators to anticipate and forestall them. He trusted that the parish of Sc. James would act for itself by purchasing its burial-ground, and placing it under the control of an efficient conicuil tee.—(llear, hear.) And he also hoped that Mr. Walker right himself before the - public by disavowing the Interments Bill, which gave general, and he might add, unquali fied dissatisfaction.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. G. A. WALKER felt highly flattered by the kindness with which his name had been mentioned by the preceding speakers. He assured the vestry that, far from being a party to the Bill, the labour of his life was dedicated more to the production of facts than of a remedy. As far back as 1839 he thus wrote in his " Gatherings from Graveyards :"—" I am, nevertheless, so fully convinced of the necessity for legislative interference to destroy the present dan gerous system of inhumation, that I hesitate not to express my opinion that the Government of' the country will ultimately be driven to the adoption of means for enforcing the prohibition of interments in the vicinity of the living."—(bear s hear.) That pre diction was fulfilled in 1850. In many respects the Bill is objectionable; but the whole matter was in a nut-shell—cheap land and a cheaper mode of transit. But although common land could be cheaply and easily procured near London, GOO/. and 7001. an acre had been paid for cemeterial ground.—(Hear.) Mr. Geesen asked him to throw out some suggestions. He (Air. Walker) had already done so, and printed those suggestions, which he forwarded to every Mem ber of Parliament, every editor, and every corporate body of the kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) lied Govern ment acted upon those suggestions they night at leant have treated for, if they would not purchase, land. As Woking-common was spoken of, he might state that he understood that the South-Western Reilway Com pany were willing to convey dead bodies for less than sixpence a body, which removed all difficulty on that head. He had intended to lay before them that day a series of facts in a concentrated form ; but those facts he would defer to another time. Lie hoped that the active and intelligent members of their board would lose no time in promptly and efficiently acting upon any measures calculated to put down intramural burials. They should remember that they were on the eve of the great national Exhibition (which he trusted would be brilliant and successful), and that it was a remarkable fact that such an over animalisa- tion, or crowding of millions together, was generally attended by the most deplorable results, producing pestilence and death.—(Hear, hear.) It was a terrible reflexion that within a century five million of dead bodies had been buried in our lanes, streets, thoroughfares, under our houses, and our churches and chapels, where the living were congregated to worship their God.—(A voice—" And under the very room where we are.") That was a sad reflection on their professing themselves to be Christians.—(Hear, hear.) He would not impute blame to the Board of Health, for he believed they meant well. But there was a power behind them which would, ere long, make the people speak out. He hoped that power would not put them on their mettle.—(Hear, hear.) He also found fault with the attempt of Government to interfere unfairly, as he thought, with the trade of the undertaker. They might as well make coffin plates as coffins.—(Hear, hear.) Although they could not drive the plough share over whole blocks of houses, in which men, women, and children vegetated, more like fungi than that of human beings, yet they could prevent the de posit of so many tons of dead corpses, which were heaped and stacked in pits like bricks without the usual interposition of mortar, not a handful of earth between them.—(Cries of " Shame, shame.") Mr. Walker concluded with a brief description of his pro posed plans and operations for wholly removing the depositaries of the dead from among the living. Dr. LANCASTER highly eulogised Mr. Walker and his labours. He advocated local self-government as regarded burials, and c'eclared that if Government did not instantly and unconditionally suppress burials in or near cities, towns, and human habitations, that they would ineur deep and everlasting disgrace ; and he further expressed his conviction that Government was bound to acknowledge in a proper and substantial form the services of Mr. Walker, who had first ex posed ,the enormities of intra-mural sepulture. Several other gentlemen having similarly expressed themselves, and the motion having been carried, Mr. NELSON rose, and as one of the deputation explained the result of their interview with the Com missioners of Sewers, for the purpose of inducing them to withdraw the special rate proposed by them for the new sewers that were being formed in the parish, which interview was anything but satisfac tory. He stated that although the parish paid in twenty-two years 565,0001. sewers rates, that there were in it 666 houses without drainage. In White chapel thirty-six courts and thirteen streets were without sewers; and in St. Giles's nothing for years had been done to the sewers until last month. Church-lane, Carver-street, and St. George's-street, in that parish, were also without sewers, and yet sewers were built in Victoria-street, where the houses were not finished. Mr. GEESEN—Mr. Peto, M.P., I believe is inte rested in that street.—(A. laugh.) Mr. NELSON exposed the abuses of the Sewers' Commissioners, under which one-halt the sum laid out in improvements were expended in its manage ment. If Government (said Mr. Nelson) were really serious in their anxiety to promote sanitary measures, they should abolish the present dilettanti mode of act ing followed by the Commissioners of Sewers. They should give them local Acts, similar to those con tained in the Scotch Bili, brought forwardtast t-es sion ; they should give them a new Building Ac:; they should give them an abundant supply of water, repeal the window-tax, and abolish the duty on soap. —(Hear.) In conclusion he expressed his convic tion that the Commissioners of Sewers had not the power to impose thu special rate. M dressed thanks were voted to the Chairman, and t he p roceed ess r the h A e ; v e s s e t r n y , Jonacitchs,e)n,saanll)ed subject; na e f a te st r er v, ,. h a .l ( o l o f ings terminated, ae MANCIIESTER, JAN. 9.—STATE OF TRADE,—_ There is no change in the market since Thursday last. Business is quiet, but prices are very firm. Inquiries are still being made for tho yarns suited for India, but are yet scarce and clear. THE NEW YEAR. (From the Derbyshire Courier.) We cannot allow the occasion of the publication of our first number for the year 1851 to pass, without returning our best thanks to our friends and sub• scribers for the very encouraging support which we have received during the past year. Our circulation during that period has been much larger than that of any previous year since the commencement of the Courier, in 1828. This is the best possible evidence that our labours have been appreciated by the public. And in thus speaking we accord to our friends, equally with ourselves, their fair share of approbation. The great English moralist has said justly that " We who live to please must please to live." The venality of the public press is frequently re marked on, but let the public ask themselves what do they do to encourage a manly, inde pendent tone of feeling in thcee who provide them with information and tender their sugges tions on passing events. is, however, our that the g?uwitg intelligence of the time is dmily seeking, from the public press, -ornething more than an echo of the opinions or prejudices of parties or classes. Acting on this belief, it hes been our en deavour to edvucate Truth rather than Party, and the general welfare than the advantage of any section of the community. it has been our sincere wish to lead our readers to the consideration of what we believed to be a just and right view of public affairs, rather than by holding in the beaten track of public opi nion and flattering preconceived notions, to secure support. The result has shown that we were not mistaken, and that the public is prepared to record its approbation to the journalist who honestly, boldly, and independently makes the promotion of the general weal his first object.' it is unnecessary for us to particularise the line taken by the Courier on the general or local topics which have been recently brought under discussion. According to the Nonconformist and the member of the Romish Church that liberty of conscience, and those rights of citizenship which are man's unalien able birthright, we have thought it our duty when the subjects of church-rates and Papal aggression were brought before us, to uphold what appeared to us the just demands of the English Church, and to re sist the unjust, unwise, and tyrannical usurpation of the Church of Rome. As to secular affairs, we have every reason to be satisfied with the prominent part we have taken in attempting to direct public attention to the important question of monetary reform. We do not regard that subject as one of mere philosophical inquiry, but as involving in its practical effects the best interests of all classes—high and low—of the community. If it were merely an abstract question we should leave it to the investigation and research of learned and scientific men. It is because we believe it to be in timately connected both with the preservation of the noblest institutions of the nation, and with the wel fare and happiness of the great masses of the people, that we so earnestly advocate this question. In doing so we have attempted to render a difficult subject plain and intelligible to all thinking men of ordinary capacity—and this, we think, not without a consider able measure of success. We need not further remind our friends of the exertions which we have made to lay before them re ports of various public meetings during the past year, to an extent equalled by not many of our provincial contemporaries; nor of the amount of original corre spondence on many interesting and important topics which, by the kindness of our friends, has appeared in our columns. We shall continue to do all in our power to support the character which, we are happy to think, the Courier has obtained. Finally, we beg leave with sentiments of grateful acknowledgment, to wish to our friends in this county and in the various parts of the country to which our labours extend, a very happy new year. BEER-POTS.--IMPORTANT /1 7 V MENTION. Yesterday an invention, deserving of the serious attention of licensed victuallers, was brought under the notice of Mr. Paynter, at Wandsworth Police court. It is a generally known fact that the licensed vic tuallers of London and its suburbs are sufferers to a ruinous extent by the wholesale plunder of their pewter pots, and that the facility of the disposal of the metal, either in its manufactured or fused state, is a matter of no difficulty. Not a week passes but a case of pot-stealing arises, and the state men t s ma d e in some instan ces o f their losses by licensed victuallers would be deemed hyperbolical if facts did not bear them out ; and as a proof of the extent to which this system of plunder is carried, it may be stated that on one occasion a licensed victualler of Westminster proved that in one month he was robbed of eleven dozen of pots. To remedy or, in fact, to annihilate this great evil, has been the earnest desire of the police magistrates, and various have been the suggestions thrown out by them, even to not lending out their pewter pots ; but the licensed victuallers are convinced that it would be, in a measure, the ruin of their trade. It is twelvemonths since Mr. Paynter, after com mitting a man for stealing at one time no less than twelve pots, belonging to different licensed victuallers, all of which had been cut up and flattened, said to the prosecutors present that there many very clever men who, if the licensed victuallers united and offered a reward of 1001. for a measure that could not be cut and doubled up, like the present pewter measure, and were otherwise difficult to destroy, he had no doubt they would speedily obtain what they wanted, and the evil would entirely cease. Yesterday Mr. Samuel Stocker, of Arthur-street, New Oxford-street, hydraulic engineer and beer engine manufacturer, waited upon Mr. Paynte r , an d addressing that gentleman, stated that in consequence of his noticing two reports of cases of stealing li censed- victuallers' pots, under the head of " Wands worth," in the Morning Advertiser, twelve months since, he had determined on renewing some experi ments he had tried some four years since in manu facturing a pewter pot or measure for licensed vic tuallers, which, whilst retaining all the properties of the article in use, should be so made as to be in capable of being cut, bruised, or flattened ; and what was still more important, unavailable for melting, and consequently valueless to the thief. Mr. Stocker continued his observations respecting his invention, explaining the process of manufacture, and concluded by producing samples of pots or measures he had ma nufactured and patented. They were certainly to all appearance superior in style and durability to the present measures, and will, according to the inventor's account, be much cheaper. Mr. Stocker said the worthy magistrate had by his remarks induced him to persevere, and he had therefore done himself the honour of exhibiting to his Worship, in the first in stance, the fruits of his invention, although not alto.. getter in a perfected state. - Mr. Poynter expressed himself highly gratified, observing it was only on the previous , day he saw some pots exposed at a door, which brought to his recellection how desirable it would be that something similar to what he had suggested should be brought out, little thinking that he should see the very thing that day. He thought it a very great benefit to the licensed victuallers, and the sooner such an invention was adopted the better for the morals of the people. The licensed victuallers would then escape any chance of fine for their pots being deficient in measure, and crime would be much lessened.—Advertiser. THE IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETINGS. BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY.--The principal iron masters' meeting for the quarter was held in our Town-hall to-day, and was extremely well attended. In addition to merchants and manufacturers from South Wales, Shropshire, Liverpool, and Manchester, we observed several lessors of mining property, lime dealers, coal dealers, and every description of trader interested in the staple trades of South Staffordshire. It has already been announced that the ironmas ters, at their preliminary meeting, held at Wolver hampton a fortnight ago, expressed their determina tion neither to advance nor to recede, but to abide by the prices of last quarter. This resolution, seeing the improved condition and prospects of the trade, ap peared somewhat extraordinary, but there appears to be no doubt that it was dictated by motives of trades man-like prudence. It is unquestionable that foreign orders, especially for Russia, America, and even for the Roman States, have been more than usually numerous—indeed, for rails, the chief description exported, greater for the last three months than for , the two years previous ; but some of the ironrnast . ers entertain a notion that there is a spirit of speculation afloat, and that a sudden rise, however apparently justified by present promises, might terminate in a disastrous fall. The state of feeling in the Town-hall to-d. iron to-day may consequently be briefly described. The rise gene rally in the inferior make of (byinferior maker s ) will be about from ss. to 1 0 s. per ton , whilst the fir s t makers announce their determination to ab i d e b y existing prices. Thus; taken as a %hol e , th e i ron trade may be considered as wearing a more ch eer f u l aspect; but clearly not so promising as t o i n d uce those who are most co mp ete nt judges upon such ma tters to attempt a n y enhancement of last quarter's rates. I n the lists published by th e fi rst-class firms this quarter , the prices remain stationary, and with them at least they will remain so until a meeting of the trade declares for au advance or a decline. Amongst the smaller i ron masters there is no bond of adhesion, and it is difficult to calculate upon their movements from one week to another. It is gratif3 ing to observe, that the work-people of South Staffordshire appear contented with their present rate of remuneration. The diffieultyjs not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. —Eliza Cook's Journal. EARL DIGBY.—This Noble Lord completed his 78th birthday on Monday last. On Tuesday, at his rent audit, he directed a return of 10 per cent. to be made to his teamite.,---Slierborne Journal, COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1851. The ,Messrs. White, of Cowes, wish e d t o ex hibit, "Cl their new life-boat, but sufficient space could not be( " - -alfr.i; ri allowed ; many other applications for boats of tiAt description were also refused, much to the regret of DB Committee. hts MODELS OF FRIGATES, YACHTS, AND STEAAIERS.IO The Committee having offered all the space that • they possibly cou ld spare, the Messrs. White interth' _ ?7, 7 ): to send up the m o d e l s o f some of the swiftest and most splendid sea-boats built by them, some that they may fearlessly challenge the whole world to beat. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 9. The Queen walked this morning in the Slopes and Nindsor Pat h. The Royal Fumily tock walking and pony exercise. His Royal HighneTs Prkee Albert Nveot out shoot• ing this, rnorniog, accompanied by Roykd High nes the Duke of Cainb:hige, Lorq John Russell, and the Right Hon. C. Shaw Lefevre, and attended by Lord Waterpark, et:lonel the CLarles Grey, and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge took leave of the Queen and the Prince to-day, and quitted the Castle. The Right Hon. the Speaker and Mrs. Shaw Le. fevre took their departure from the Castle to-day. The lion. Charles A. and Mrs. Murray are expected to arrive at the Castle to-day, on a visit to her Majesty and the Prince. The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady C. Leveson Gower, Lord and Lady John Russell, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, Hon. Charles A. and Mrs. Murray, Sir George Couper, and Colonel Bouverie. The band of the Coldstream Guards will attend during dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards attend in the Castle. The band of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards was in attendance in the Castle during dinner on Wednesday evening, and played the following pieces : Overture, Op. 24 Mendelssohn. Waltzer, " Hyacinthe " ... Koenig. Selection, " Der Freychutz" Quadrille, " Magaran " Polka, " Dane John " The Queen's private band afterwards attended, and performed the following selections : Overture, "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" . . Otto Nicolai. Aria, " Parto" (La Clemenza di Tito) Mozart. Serenade and Valse, "La Juive" Selection, " Ozaar and Zimmermann" Loitzing. Mr. Charles Horton Pulley, Vestry Clerk of Hack ney, had the honour of attending Sir George Grey at the Home•ofnce yesterday, with the address to the Queen from the inhabitants of that parish, on the sub ject of the recent aggression of the Pope of Rome. The Rev. Dr. Adamson had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday at their offices in White hall-place. Mr. Cooke, the Mayor of Richmond, Yorkshire, transacted business at the Home-office on Wednesday, and presented memorials on the subject of vagrancy. Dispatches from the Governor of the Gambia were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 8. DEATH OF THE REGIUS PROFESSOR. OF MEDICINE. Dr. Havi!and, who has held the above-named appoint ment since 1817, expired at his residence in Trumping ton-street early this morning. Dr. Raviland graduated as 12th wrangler, and a member of St. John's College in 1807. In 1814 he was elected Professor of Anatomy, which appointment he resigned on his promotion to the one he held at the period of his decease. Ile practised for many years as a physician in the town, and held the honorary office of consulting physician to Addenbrooke's Hospital. Ile was 66 years of age at his demise, which, though somewhat sudden at the last, was not surprising, as the deceased had suffered for years from constitutional infirmity. The subject fixed for the next Seatonian Prize is " Samson." Each candidate for this prize is to send his perform ance, without his name, to the Vice-Chancellor (fairly written, or it will not be attended to), on or before the 29th of September next, with some Latin verse upon it; and he is at the same time to send a paper, sealed up, with his name written within, and the same Latin verb° on the outside. The papers containing the names of the unsuccessful candidates will be destroyed unopened, by which regu lation the delicacy of those who might otherwise fear a repulse, is, it is hoped, effectually consulted. If any poem shall appear to possess distinguished merit a premium of SUI, will be adjudged. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. T ATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. CHESTER CUP. 40 to 1 laid to about 50/. agar Cossack, and 300 to 5 ant Seaman. Offers to lay 25 to 1, or take 30 to 1 about Rhesus. DERBY. 1,000 to 30 laid sgst Runnymt de, 50 to 1, to 1004 agst Lightfoot, and 200 to 10 agst Constellation and Marlborough Buck. We congratulate very sincerely the men of Manches ter, the most thoroughly sporting town in the queendom, on the issue of the most attractive programme for their June meeting ever yet published. For their First Pro duce there are 33 entries; fur their Union, Trade, and Salford Borough Cups there are 68, 65, and 47 nomina tions respectively; two Biennial Stakes for three years and two years old coming for the first time into opera tion; and 15 entries figure in the Two Years Old Stakes. The subsidiary fixtures amount to eight, and the handi capping is entrusted to Mr. Topham, whilst such satis factory results indicate that Mr. Bake, C.C., has been wide awake! HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. Duke of Beaufort's hds., Mon., Weston Burt; Wed., Siston Court; Sat., Daunsey Turnpike. Mr. A. Smith's hds., Mon., Clatterd Oakcuts; Tues., Stowell Lodge; Wed., Wherwell Wood; Thurs., Wey hill; Fri., Nethravon; Sat., Winterslow-11. Mr. Farquharsou's lids., Tues.. Fallows Wood. B. V. H., Tees., Milborne Port; Fri., Druce Down. Brighton harrs., Mou., Patcham; Wed., Race Course —104.. .. _ Brookside harrs., Mon., Newmarket Hill; Thurs., Telscombe Tye—lo}. Crawley and Horsham hds., Mon.. Pond Hill; Wed., Oakley Court; Fri., Warningtid Tollgate-101. Worcestershire hds., Mon., Woodeote Green; Wed., Kennels; Fri., Plymouth Arms, Hewell-10i. Warwickshire hds., Mon., Goldscote; Tues., Nutford Bridge; Wed., Milverton Kennel; Thurs., Lower Sbuckburg Village; Fri., Church, T)soe; Sat., Henley in-Arden-10i. Herefordshire hds., Tues., Ford's Bridge; Fri , Hare wood's End-10i. Lord Redesdale's hds., Mon., Chapel House; Wed., Eytord; Fri., Tangley; Sat., Spilsbury-10i. Mr. Giles's hds., Mon., Eastwood Oak; Fri., Chances Pitch Turnpike-10}. Upton•on-Severn harrs., Tues., Welland Court-10i. Wheatland hds., Tues., Little Wenlock-10. Ludlow hds., Tues., Kinsley-10. Mr. Conyers's hds, Mon., Mitching Green-10i. Essex Union hds., Wed., Danbury Griffin; Sat., Ash. ingdon Wants-14. Mr. Lushington's hds., Mon., Rainham; Thurs., Dod dington-street-11. RETZSCH AS HE IS.—IES whole appearance recalled Cuvier to us so forcibly, that we instantly murmured the name of the great naturalist; but when his clear wild blue eyes beamed their welcome, and his lips parted into a smile_ to give it words, we were even m ore s t rong ly reminded of Professor Wilson ; in each, a l arge well -developed head, masculine features, a broad and high forehead, Fri_ il a nd f o or u ce strongly expressive of a combination of gown'ss' . r b t e . e j n ou l r e left l t . o the bespoke the careful thinker and acute observer ; and in both, ' t w h i e la h l a u i x r u " ri s a a n b e l e e o s f il n ve a r t e u d re ,:_se m eT s ed . hi t a o n li t a n v ii e T RAIL H: AI L , AriT,EER3AirCNCuIsD.I3INNTQUAEsTTTEOEN GARNEOATTKNERoitOTFuETtIez u e s e _s St at ? h e e l w G o r r e k e s n e n , BODlES. — Yesterday Mr. T. atW tahkelcy,M University.P. , co Collegeronerfo I; Hospi tal, a West pi . tal, on Middlesex , the b h o e d l y d °aryl sawyerjianicill Battle-bridge terminus, ea gedi as u : rs al i t :s aw s si Maiden -lane, accident i d i e t nt necessary v,. hi ch o, o a w ged ere s c 6 tri erecting who i tt wag the andteoc uconve yrred re o c n e h i received t o Saturday such ti e serious where he expired on Monday morning, from effects.Pitai'Mr. H. W. Valiance appeared as solicitor ott theirab afternoono above eh o s behalf of Messrs. Jay, the contractors. Evidence was ad duced similar to that given at the inquiry on Tuesday. Ttue jury returned a verdict of" Accidental death." . . Men dare not, as 13ad --- ;;;;;;e, appear open enemies to virtue; when, therefore, they persecute virtue, they pretend to think it counterfeit, or else lay some crime to its charge.—Eliza Cook's Journal. FUND FOR PROMOTING FEMALE EMIGRATION. — The committee of this fund are now engaged in selecting small parties of female emigrants for dispatch to New Zea land and Van Diemen's Land, in both of which colonies the authorities are most-anxious to receive young women sent out under Sidney Herbert's scheme of emigration. A de tachment of 44 ter the Cape of Good Hope, for whom good situations have been secured in the colony, were dispatched about a ihrtnight since. The committee have received ma" mations of the safe arrival in Australia of the ships Cullo den, Duke of Portland, Tory, and William Stevenson, by which vessels above 200 female emigrants were last ziumrner diqatched. In each case the girls arrived in good health, and obtained situations without the slightest difficulty. There is reason to believe that the emigration during the current year will be chiefly directed to the Canadas, 'Van Diemen's Land, the Cape of Good Hope, and New Zealand, in each of which colonies local arrangements of a satisfactory nature have been made for the safety of emigrants sent oat by this charitable fund. MURDER BY POACHERS AT ELVEDEN.—OH MOD" day last the following parties, John Starling, Frederic* Fletcher, William Brown, Richard Starling, Joseph Norman, and James Cadman, all of Isleham, were brought up at the station-house, Nou.spet,h3lenif,dtehne head gamekeeper the charge of murdering Mr. William gamekeeper of William Newton, Esq., of Elveden-hall, and of having shot at Isaac Allen, with intent to murder him, seriouslywoundiug him. Aftssr a long inquiry, the magistrates anneunced that they had ,do ' cided to commit John Cadman, .Willia.ut Brown, and John Starling for trial at the assizes ; the three other prisonnirs a would be dischargtd.—Bury