The Sun. — London, England, 1853-12-15 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1853, THE CORPORATION OF LONDON DEPUTATION TO LORD PALMERSTON .RELA TIVE TO CHURCH-RATED. • ..!%. 100 berdeen ...... ..... -... 100 Do., No. 2; 7 P. a... 30 Blyth & Tyne 10 per ct. pref. (iss. at£so) 100 Bristol & Exeter 4pr cent., 5t0ck.......... 5 Do. Do., shares ...... 100 Caledonian £lO ... • . all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent...l 61 Cork&Bandon 5i p.c. all DundeePerth&Aber .. ~ .... ees ~, ...P , •••• .• ".."' ••• ioo ---:15.3 ,„ ••••• ••• deon Junction all EastAnglian (£3los) 6 per cent. all Do. (E 5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (27 17s) 7 p. et all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. N . 0.1 all Do., No. 2. ........ all Do., New 6 p. a. St.. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent.... all Do. £lO Deben. 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New 11i Santiago de Cuba all South Australian 7 Tin Croft h all United Mexican all Waller all West Granada , all West Mariposa 12s.,Worthing Mining of 1 10 L 1 5 1 50 15 - 1 1 Australia 1 all Yuba 'd d ad i - JOIN' -STOCK all 'Australasia all 'Brit' Colonial Bank - _ _ - _ and Loan Company all British N. American , 2 Chrtd. Bnk.of India, Austral., and China 5 Chrtd. 13nk. of Asia. 25 Colonial . ............ 20 Commercial of Loud 10 English Scottish and Australian Chrtd 15 London Chrtd. Buk of Australia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond.audWestminst. 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. New .......... ...... 22i National of Ireland... all New South Wales .... all Oriental Bank Co.. poration ............. 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New ............... 1 Royal Australis. Bkg. • and Gold Imp. Gt.. 25 South Australia all Union of Australia 24 Do. New 1 10 Union of Loudon ..., 1 all Union . of Madrid , 25 100 100 20 MISCE: „, "”' • •• .. - ••• Rd. Rdis 1— idis. „ .--- ••• it is a— 1 p 42 - 2 . - 44 48 - 50 3 / 4 d— par ... - •• 75 - 77 74 - S' SOUS. 5 5 Aubin u , )al and Iron .?,5 171 Australian Agricult. ,?.0 12 Australsn.Pcific Mail 10 8 Australn. Royal Mail 10 21 Berlin Water Works 50 381 Brit. American Laud 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co 00 321 Canada Company 5 5 Crystal Palace 5 21 Do. New 4 2 Crystal Pal, of France 20 3 • Eastern 5team........ 25 20 ElectricTelegraph(A), 25 15 Do. (B) 1 1 Electric Tel. of Irel 15 14 Geu. Steam Navigat 20 18 General Screw Steam 20 7 Irish Beetroot Sugar 20 6 Magdalena St. Navig. 1 all Nat. Pt. Steam Fuel 10 4 Netherlands Laud_ 2 IN. S.W. Coal ,SL Inter- Stem. Nay. Co 1 all N. B. Australasian , 1 i Do. New 20 10 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. & Miurl. 50 , all Peninsular & Oriental 50 25 Do. do. 2 all. Portland Iron Co 100 60 Royal Mail Steam.... 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 25 25 South Austral. Landl I all Submarine Telegraph 100 281 Van Dicmon's Land 46 -- 48 .. --- 75 = so 2i - 4 i - di 'l7 -7-. i 6 •.• - ••• 1 -P ••• fP I 1" p 39 -- 1 41 par a I lei 16, PHARMACY IN PARIS.—A report from the Minister of Public Institution recommends the suppression of the chair of me(lical chemistry, left vacant by the death of M. Orfila, and the substitution for it of a chair of pharmacy, as being of more general utility. An Im perial decree approves of the recommendation of the report, creates the chair of pharmacy so proposed, and appoints tothe new chair thus established Dr. Soubeiran, professor at the superior School of Pharmacy of Paris. APPROACHING STRIKE IN GLASGOW.--We regret to learn that there is every prospect of a strike taking place in this town and neighbourhood amongst the ope rative cotton-spinners, in consequence of an intended reduction by a few of the employers upon a scale of prices lately agreed to by the associated masters of Scotland. In e - inflection with this matter, we learn that the whole of the master spinners of Scotland are willing to abide by the " scale,' with the exception of 00Tent—alasgow Scitueracq rot. On Friday, last a deputation waited on Lord Palmer ston, at the Home-office, to present to his lordship the following memorial from the committee of deputies of the several congregations of Protestant Dissenters of the three denominations, Presbyterians, Independents, and Baptists, within twelve miles of London, appointed to protect their rights. The deputation consisted of Mr. Alderman and Sheriff Wire, Apsley Pellatt, M.P., De puty Pewtress, Samuel Morley, J. R. Mills, Eben. Clarke, Mr. Bevan, R. H. Terrell, and Hall Terrell, the secretary to the Protestant Dissenting Deputies. It is right to state that, though the memorial. was handed to Lord Palmerston, it is addressed to Lord Aberdeen, to whom the noble Home Secretary will pre sent it : It is understood that the Royal Commissioners will, after Christmas, proceed to the examination of witnesses favourable to the existing system, and de sirous of rebutting evidence previously given. It may therefore be worth while, at the present stage of the inquiry, to give some extracts from the Re port of the Municipal Commissioners, printed. in 1837, and bearing the signatures, " John Black burne, Francis Paigrave, D. Jardine, T. F. Ellis, jun., and J. E. Drinkwater Bethune." The subject of its first division is, " The relation of the City to the metropolis," and after some intro ductory statements the Commissioners proceed as follows : metropolisftdrt;eef, difficulty iragt \ cnee;gtss t e lhtnuat:eywn i h tawh a i have pointed .wie: p chnho o ntom i tel d n heep t ieets e eei hwanir o ecnsin u tl iyiod t onfen h d smallspLoorofewwnvtidhetonhisn introducesti preventing a ther t a proportionparticular u lar.districtmunicipal s o bj f foru boun dary.: dary. We ar p e t u t n h a a b t le in to fa d e i t sco it ve i r s, an a y nd eir i c i v as m l s o t n anc b e •u ti; s e h px rd. It is evident that any reasoning f g oun e S i ed so assumption that questions liri corporationptailsresexul perplexity assumption ifalla ciousiootnuo all discussions on the corporate system, owing to the great i from being made. " We hardly anticipate that it will be suggested, for the purpose of removing the appearance of singularity, that the other quarters of the town should be formed into inde en - dent - dent and i so l a ted communities, if, indeed, the multifarious relations to which their proximity compels them would per mit them to be isolated and independent. This plan would as it seems to us in getting rid of an anomaly, tend to mul tiply and perpetuate an evil. If we consider the several parts of the whole metropolis merely with regard to their population and extent, the city of Westminster is a most important quarter of the town. The circumstance that it is also the seat of Govern ment and the place where Parliament usually meets, gives a new and distinctive character to it with reference to some of the foregoing circumstances , " By the Corporation Reform Act the principal power over the details of local government has been intrusted, in a great number of the principal towns of Great Britain, to bodies chosen by the inhabitants, reserving for the central government those means of communication and of general superintendence which are necessary to secure uniformity of action throughout Great Britain, and to maintain those local municipalities in a state of duo s ubordination to the su p r eme authority. A new and very important question, as it appears to us, must necessarily arise in a town which is the seat of the Legislature and supreme executive power of the State, with respect to the proper division of muni cipal authority vetween the officers of Government and a municipal body which might be established in the metro polis for the same, or for some of the same, purposes as elsewhere. We do not take upon ourselves to give any opinion upon this question, conceiving that it will be suffi cient thus to indicate it. " In one particular, and that a most important and prac tical one, the opinion of Parliament has been already de clared by the establishment of a metropolitan police, under the orders of commissioners appointed by, and immediately dependent upon, the executive Government. We scarcely anticipate that any argument can be brought forward to show that this system can be partially right. We can see no middle course for the establishment of an efficient police throughout the metropolis, between placing the whole under a metropolitan municipality, and entrusting the whole to commissioners, or other officers under the imme diate control of Government. ` Other topics suggest similar conclusions, as the paving, sewage and lighting of the streets, which, as it seems to us, can never be so economically and efficiently performed in one town as when superintended by an undivid ed, authority, and the only real point for consideration is, how far these duties for the whole metropolis could be placed in the hands of a metropolitan municipality, or how far they should be entrusted to the officers of the Governmentb- With respect to sewage, indeed, there is an obvious a su rdity iu placing the City, and any large district which drains into it from a higher level, under different superin tendence. "The navigation of the river Thames, to, which the empire owes so much of its greatness, raises another most important question. In the first place, the inhabitants of every quarter of the town might reasonably require that the privileges of ownership and conservancy, as they are called, should not continue to bo confined to one district, to which they were granted, when it, in fact, constituted the whole metropolis • but, further, it is plain that th e p ro p er management of the port and river is not a matter which concerns solely th.: inhabi tants of the metropolis. The inhabitants of other parts of the kingdom have a right to ask whether these func tions the due performance of which is of vital importance to all, are properly within the province of any legal mu nicipality, however extended, and why they should not be under the direct control of the general executive Govern ment of the country." With regard to " corporate limits," they observe " The memorial humbly showeth, that while the re , ligion of the State was Roman Catholic, tithes were ap plied to the maintenance of the poor, and of the ecclesi astical fabrics and worship, as well as of the clergy. That since the Reformation the tithes have been dis charged from the burden of relieving the poor, and nearly the whole of the present ecclesiastical revenue has been appropriated to the use of the clergy. "That in the report in 1835 of the Ecclesiastical Com missioners for England and Wales it is admitted that the net annual income of the property possessed by the Anglican Church, exclusive of fees received by the clergy, is three.and-a-half millions sterling ; and it has been largely augmented since on the renewal of old leases. A very small assessment on his income would be sufficient for maintaining the fabrics and worship of the churches. " That in Ireland, by the 3rd and 4th Wm. IV. cap. 37, Parliament enacted a yearly assessment on the annual value of ecclesiastical property, in order to pro vide a fund in lien of church rates, which were by that Act abolished. "That by various acts for building. and repairing churches in England and Wales, both geaeral and local, the imposition of pew rents has been authorised, as well for maintaining the clergyman as for meeting the cur rent expenses of repairs and worship, which acts form precedents for general adoption. If, however, church rates should not be enforced by law, there need be no apprehension that either of the objects now obtained by them would be neglected; when the wealth of the mem bers of the Anglican Church is considered, and also the readiness with which they have contributed to the erec tion of numerous new churches, and the efforts made in parishes where church rates have been refused by vestries, as was proved before the Select Committee of the House of Commons on church rates in 1851.. " That from the returns of the leegristrar-General as to Dissenting places of worship, it appears. ' that there were in England and Wales, in 1851, 20,400 places of worship then existing, of which number 17,000 were stated to be separate buildings.' These separate build ings, at an average cost of 400/. each, have involved an expenditure of nearly 7,000,000/. sterling, and at the low average of 80/. each, demand an expenditure of 1,136,0001. annually ; and the imposition of any tax on Dissenters contributing so largely to augment the means of public religious instruction, having for its ob ject to pr4de for the repair of fabrics appropriated to the sole use of the Established Church, and for the maintenance of her worship, cannot but be felt as a great grievance, and a palpable injustice. "That the sense of injury is not confined to re ligionists who do not belong to the Established Church, but is extensively shared by its own members ; especially by those who-frequent district churches, for which a se parate rate is made, in addition to that for the Mother Church, and also of those who attend new churches, which are wholly supported by the congregations who worship there, without any aid from a rate. This fact has been estab lished by evidence before the Select Committee on Church rates, and is stated in the first report of the Commissioners for the Subdivision of Parishes (1849), which is as follows : It has urgently been represented to us that the law in its present state inflicts a very serious hardship on the owners of property in distinct and separate parishes and district parishes, by compelling them, for twenty years, not only to provide for the expenses f their own church, but to contribute towards r epairing the mother church. In the case of a chapelry district, cut off from a dis tinct and separate or district parish, the grievance is still greater ; for although the inhabitants, during that period of time pay a double rate, viz., to the mother church, and to the distinct and separate or district parish church, they have generally to provide for the repairs of their own chapel also by voluntary contributions; thus virtually incurring the burden of a third rate.' The case of dissidents from the Established Church can hardly be stated more forcibly than in this quotation as to its own members. " That by evidence before the select committee on church rates (1851), it was proved that in many parishes, both extensive and populous, church rates have ceased to be made and collected, in consequence of the deter mined opposition of the inhabitants, and that any mode for providing either wholly or partly for the expenses hitherto included in church rates, by an appropriation of the public income of the United Kingdom, will be the imposition of a fresh tax on such districts, and of a tax upon Scotland and Ireland, for the exclusive benefit of the amply-endowed Established Church of England. "That by a return obtained by Sir R. H. Inglis, M.P., and published by the House of Commons on 12th May, 1852, which sets forth the number of church-rates required, made, or refused from Easter 1833 to Easter 1851, in each city and Parliamentary borough in England and Wales, which includes 1,020 parishes and extra-pa rochial places, and also sets forth their respective popu lations, it appears that, after excluding from such return the 11 extra-parochial districts therein, and the 28 ' parishes which have estates for the support of the churches therein, and the six parishes which have local acts for keeping their churches in repair, the population of the cities and boroughs which are included in the re turn, amounts to 6,365,351, out of which 2,845,954 pay church-rates, and 3,519,387 refuse to pay them, thus making a majority of 673,433 non-rate payers. "That after passing through the ordeal of five legal tribunals, ecclesiastical and civil, after a grievous delay of ten years, at a heavy expense to the parties (which circumstances are by no means creditable to the admi nistration of justice in England), the judgment of the House of Lords in Gosling v. Vesey, has established the great constitutional and important fact that the doubts were unfounded which had been suggested by high legal au thorities as to the full discretion belonging to themajority of a parochial vestry in making or refusing a church-rate. In consequence of this legal decision, attempts to obtain church-rates have been defeated in parishes which had previously submitted to them, and, in all probability, church-rates will soon cease to be made in populous ...'.... parishes. This expectation is still further justified by -- the fact which your memorialists believed has been ascertained by the late census, that the members of the Church of England who are attendants on divine wor ship on the Lord's-day, are only about equal in number to the attendants in places of worship appropriated to other religionists. Under these circumstances the pro ceedings of vestries called for the purpose of making church-rates will be productive of and discord among parishioners, and of injury to the Established Church, the prevalence of which painful disputes has been proved, and deplored by many witnesses before the Select Committee on Church-rates (1851). In small pa rishes, and where Dissenters are in humble circum stances and few in number, church-rates may be conti nued ; though no objection to any tax can be more valid than that it is levied only in a few localities, and on the poorer classes, who derive no benefit therefrom. " That the pledge given by members of her Majesty'e s G o vernment, in the last session of Parliament, for th introduction of legislative measures, whereby suits in testamentary and matrimonial cases shall be removed from the Ecclesiastical Courts, appears to have pro ceeded upon the general admission of the incompnt e tency and expensiveness an d non-adaptation to prese circumstances of such courts, and of the want of public confidence in them. These objections apply with aggra vated force to their special cognisance of church-rate questions, the judges and pleaders being necessarily mem bers of the Anglican Church, with an unmistakeable bias in its favour. The proposed removal of the chief business of these courts to other tribunals, obviously imposes the necessity of some alteration as to church rates also ; which is the only other matter in which they have jurisdiction over the laity. Any change of juris diction involves great practical difficulties, and will ex cite strenuous opposition from various quarters. " Under these circumstances your memorialists be lieve that the abolition of churchrates cannot long be delayed by Parliament ; and for the sake of maintaining internal and social tranquillity, and especially of quiet in.. feuds, which are, of all, the most bitter— religious,th'ey urgently hope that her Majesty's Government will see the propriety of adopting this necessary measure, accompanied, if they judge fit, by aby provisions for meeting the expenses hitherto defrayed by church-rates. which shall be acceptable to members of the Established Church, and shall not infringe on the rights of other and also ri s be fors li underqui d a t t i b n eg generalthe debts a already r localead y a l ce fortgsal ly . rebuilding ipnacrttlilers; ed by pa churches. "S. M. PETO, Chairman THE MAIL PACKETS.--SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESD,N.Y. : —The Calcutta steamship, commanded by Captain John Goodall, and belonging to the General Screw Com pany, left this afternoon for the Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius, Ceylon, and Madras, touching at Cape de Verds and Ascension, calling en route at Plymouth for the mails. She takes a large and valuable cargo of gene ral merchandise, and 40,6701. specie, as follows :- 28,200/., gold, Mauritius ; 5,4701., silver, Madras ; 7,0001., gold, Ceylon. As a proof of the facilities that Southampton offers as a port for loading and departure for steamers, this ship's lea ling may be quoted. All her cargo for seven different ports, under the able superin tenkence of Mr. H. J. Smith, was shipped in little more than twelve hours ; and the despatches relating thereto, consisting of some two or three hundred sets of bills of lading, were completed and in the hands of the mer chants by noon, giving only 50 hours from the time of commencing to the time of finishing the loading of cargo (independent of some 150 tons of stores) and making up the accounts of a steamer of 1,800 tons register. She will have from 80 to 90 first-class cabin passengers, amongst whom are the Bishops of Natal and Cape Town and their suites. _ _ -.--....... AMERICA AND THE SULTAN.—A letter from Berlin says :—" A piece of curious news is circulated hert, hs authentic, but the truth of which it is impossible to as certain at Berlin. Namik Paella has not succeeded at Paris in negociating a loan. This was to be expected. But what could not be foreseen is that the United States of America have (so it is said) offered a very considerable sum to the Porte, on the condition that some small island in the Archipelago shall be ceded to thena.". duced positive evil ; yet it mist be considered as a very undesirable characteristic of the present state of things. would, perhaps, disappear if the corporation of London were no longer confined to its present limited district, which now comprehends scarcely any but the commercial part of the Metropolis." " Corporate officers " are divided into nine classes. 1. Those possessing legislative power Mayor 1 Mayor). ......... . ........... 2 Aldermen (including the Common Councilmen... 240 I Total, 267. The total is now (1853) only 233, the number of common councilmen having been reduced from 240 to 206. 2. Those connected with courts of law : Sheriffs Recorder Common Sergeant Town Clerk Judges of Sheriffs' Courts riffs' Courts • (2) .... . .... Secondaries Under Sheriffs of Middle- Clerk Sitters sex ........................ 2 Clerks of Papers City 501icit0r.............. 1 Clerk of Court of Re- City ............ 1 • quests 1 Assistants to ditto Clerk of the Peace ...... Coroner ..................... 1 Sergeants at Mace Steward of Southwark.. 1 Sheriffs' Yeomen Bailiff of Southwark .... 1 Beadles of Court of Re- Pleaders 4 quests Total, 91. 3. Those acting in matters of police : Justice of Bridge-yard.. 1 Upper Marshal Clerk to Lord Mayon.— 1 Under Mar5ha1......... Assistant to ditto 1 Marshalmen ............... Clerk to Sitting Magi- Marshalmen of South strates at Guildhall 1 wark (2) .... ........... Assistant to ditto 1 Aleconners.... ........ Clerk to Sitting Magi- Policemen ......... strate at Southwark 1 Total 19, exclusive of 4. Those employed in Newgate' Keeper 1 Ordinary 1 „ Surgeon 1 House of Correction Keeper.... House of Correction Chaplain House of Correction Surgeon Total, 12. 5. Those to whom the care of public works or buildings is assigned : Commissionersof Sewers 88 District Surveyors Clerk of City Works 1 Surveyor of Port of Lon- Clerk of Works of Dridge don H0u5e..................... 1 Harbour Masters Clerk ofßiverWorks and Clerk to ditto Principal Collector of Superintendent of Moor - Tolls ...... r ................ 1 in g Chains Total, 102. 6. Those engaged in the management of the Car poration property : Chamberlain Comptroller Clerk of Chamber Assistant ditto.... Bridgemasteis Clerk Comptroller of the Bridge-house Total, 13. 7. Those superintending tolls and markets and the metages entrusted to the corporation : Officers of the Six Mar- Fruit Shifters kets ' Salt Meter Clerk and Collector of Salt Shifter Coal Duties Clerk and Registrar of Deputy Gauger 1 Coal Market ........ 1 Principal Collector of Beadles of ditto 2 Tolls ; see Clerk of Collector of Coal Duties Works of River at Grove-park 1 Assistant Collector of Corn Meters in Trust lO Tolls and Navigation Deputy ditto (unlimited) 152 Bargemaster 1 Clerk to ditto in Trust 1 Lock Keepers Clerk at Brookes's-wharf 1 Collector of Toll on Wine Clerk at Ware River.... 1 at Custom House 1 CornShifterbelowbridge 1 Clerk in the Cocket Corn Shifter at Queen- Office 1 hithe 1 Collector of Water Bail- Fruit Meters 4 age 1 Total, 211. 8. The household of the Lord Mayor, the mem bers of which, however, now perform functions fall ing under some of the other heads : Sword Bearer 1 Common Hunt's Young Common Crier, or Ser- Man geant-at- Arms 1 Common Crier's Young Water Bailiff 1 Man Sergeant Carver 1 Water Bailiff's First Sergeants of the Clam- Young Man 3 Sword Bearer's Young ber Sergeant of the Channel 1 Man Yeomen of the Waterside 3 Water Bailiff's Second Under Water Bailiff 1 Young Man.. Yeomen of the Channel 1 , Total, 18. 9. A miscellaneous clas occasions of ceremony, at ings, &c. Warders of London Bridge Officers of Blackfrmrs do — l\ Barge Master Assistants to Water Bailiff 5 Keeper of Guildhall 1 Assistants to Keeper of Guildhall Keeper of Greenyard 1 Keeper of Monument.... 1 Keeper of Bauhill-fields Burying-ground 1 Total, 39. Details as to the duties and salaries of all these officers are given • but, owing to subsequent changes, it would be useless to reprint them. It is fair to call attention to the following para graph : " It is a common practice with the Common Council, when offices of any importance become vacant, to refer to a committee the business of examining into the duties of the office, and reporting whether they should be changed, whether the office itself should be abolished or consolidated with any other, whether the salary should be altered, and questions of a similar kind, The reports which have re sulted from these inquiries furnish most valuable accounts of all relating to the office ; and many most, important re forms have been effected from time to time with a very scrupulous regard to existing interests. We believe that the history of no other corporation furnishes such honour able testimonials of the vigilance, good sense, and justice of its legislative body." With regard to salaries in general, the Commis sioners observe that " they are undoubtedly framed on a very liberal scale ; but they are of opininion that the question of their amount is one which may safely be left to a civic legislature, fairly chosen." oolicemen. he City prisons : Debtors' Prison Keeper 1 Debtors' Prison Chaplain 4 Debtors' Prison Surgeon 1 Borough Com pter Keeper Borough Compter Chap- 1 lain Borough Compter Sur- geou 1 . 4 1 1 \ Assistant Comptroller of 1 the Bridge - house 1 Auditors of Chamberlain 1 and Bridgemasters' 2 Accounts Senior City Labourer ... 1 that— " A few small districts are locally within the corporate boundary, without participation in all the liabilities and privileges of the rest of the municipal territory ; and that no good reason appears to exist for continuing this incon sistency." On the mode of admission to the corporate body, they make the following important observations :—.-- " The method by which persons become free appears to us highly objectionable. The corporation possesses a very slight—indeed, hardly more than a nominal—control over the companies ; and these latter, whatever may be, or may have been, their importance or value as independent cor porate bodies (which we shall consider in another part of this report), possess no one featu re from which we can dis cover any advantage in compelling the freemen to belong to them. This part of the system, is, in fact, no more than a troublesome and capricious method of taxing the inhabi tants of London for the emolument of the companies. " Still further, supposing the instrumentality of the com panies were discontinued, we see no advantage, but much unnecessary complication, in continuing the present cri teria of admissibility. Birth and apprenticeship have been supposed to raise a presumption of a permanent interest in the city; but inhabitancy for a definite period furnishes evidence much more simple and direct, and much less liable to fallacy. As to the acquisition of the freedom by purchase, it is practically a tax upon the retail traders of the City, who are compelled to take up their freedom ; and whatever advantage may be attributed to such a tax, as a test of the competence of the party contributing, or a ,compensation for the convenience of a residence within the City—these, admitting them to be advanta g es, mi g ht sur ely be btained by a much less circuitous and more equitable process, and upon a system more analogous to that which now prevails in other English corporate towns. " The possession of the rights of freemen by non-resi dents appears to us to be at variance with the true prin ciples of municipal constitutions. " The privilege which the freemen enjoy of sharing in certain elections we shall discuss under other heads. We look upon the privilege from the impressment as scarcely warranted by the principle of the exemption on which it is founded, and we know no reason why such a privilege should belong solely to the inhabitants of one town of your Majesty's dominions. • With respect to their other privileges, it appears to us that the objections made to them rest,' with little exception, ultimately on the distinction existing between the freemen and other house holders." They then proceed to comment on the govern ing bodies of the City, and the following ex tract shows the conclusions at which the, _ arrived : ADELAIDE. —The " The Court of Aldermen still offers an instance of that he advices from Adelaide, South Aus union of magisterial, judicial, and legislative authority tralia, by the Victoria steamship, describe a very satis• which Parliament has recently condemned and dissolved in factory state of affairs in that colony. The bill for other corporations. An additional inconvenience is found in London from the separate existence of the Court of creating . the new legislative system was passing through Aldermen as a municipal court, the exclusive character of its last stages, and would result in the establishment of which appears to excite jealousy, whilst at the same ti ght PP upper house of 12 . members , nominated by the Crown by the constitution of th soy, whatever advantages might to be call ed the Legislative Conneil, and a lower one of be obtained from it as aond legislative chamber are not 36 members, to be called the Elective Assembly, to be secured or aimed at. An unlimited command over the chosen for three years. The Ministers are to be allowed funds of the City is held by two independent bodies, the to hold office no longer than they can command 'neje- Court of Aldermen and the Court of Common Council. rities in both houses, and the lower house are to have The members of the former though elected in the first the power of altering the nominee practice as regards the instance by a popular constituency, hold their office for upper one, and to require it to be made elective , if after life ; a circumstanc e not desirable when the party elected a period of nine years, such a measure shall be de a e n m e e x d . is to have the power of unlimited expenditu re of the in desirable. The revenue estim ates for the y e ar 1854 had c ome of the municipal b od y to which the electors belong. resented, and showed a total of 304,836/., In practice, however' , the Court of Aldermen generally been p limit the exercise of their power over the funds of the cor- traordinary increase since 1852, when the receipts were potation to objects connected with their functions as 102,3251. The suce 2 e o s o sfu m l i n le a s vi f g r a o t m ion it o s f tsheealmiuorurtahy had magistrates rather than as corporators. Captain Cadell, in his small steamer the Lady Augusta 'and was regarded as " The power, which the same court possesses, of trying for a distance of 1 the validity of certain elections, appears to us to be one of just been effected, which the advantage is very questionable. Still stronger portant event that could have happened the most it'll objections seem to us to exist against a privilege, which s _for the future developmentof the • province The this court possesses, of rejecting, without any reason as-• . clip of wool would signed, any person chos en for alderman by the ,electors, X . e ebeed that of all former years, and th e season w as fter three such rejection s, of nominating an alder- very favourable for washing, which was j us t commen and, a man to the vacancy. cing. The market for imported goods, although over " Avery important question, as to the Common Coun- stocked in many instances, was not on the whole in an cif, is, whether the aldermen ought to continue members unsatisfactory state. The Cleopatra steamer in the of it,aor whether the whole of it should be periodically port, and was about to sail for E two, elected. It seems clear to us that the aldermen have be- England in a day or via Cape Horn. . come unpopular, as members of the Common Council, inShe would take 5,786 ounces of gold for the South consequence of their holding seats in the legislative body, Australian Banking C who were also about ompany, from which they cannot be (Unlaced. by the constituency. Again, the performance of their other functions is watched last price of Burrs 13urra Mining Shares was 157, and with a jealous and unkind feeling, which is, we. consider the rate of money on loans or mortgage was sto 10 per mainly attributable to their position in the Common cent. Council. The union of the two characters produces this THE PORT OF LONDON' test inconvenience „The grea embarrassment, that at present the legislative body con- continues atof landing to be • experiencee from the tains members upon whom the constituency has no check, consequent want • Waiters in the London, g . and that, if the principle of re-election were made waiver -of facilities sal, there would be continual re-elections of magistrates loss experienced by importer whom appears that every person by a popular constituency, which would bo at least a vio- and annoyance. It l has been pressed into the lotion of a principle hitherto almost universally recogn i sed it is possible to make availa 1 large numbers of inferior in this country. landing duty, and that althoug i . so t that 1 d the pressure is great "The Lord Mayor possesses, as presiding officer of the officers .o.re thus ernineY e , five up the weighing of some Common Council, a control over its proceedings, which is the Customs are obliged to vie i p t ' the bed liable to be capriciously or arbitrarily exercised,at Ind to obtain tle accoun sin .. or any goods altogether, . ay a fruitful source for disputes rate to the suspicion of being so exercised. In fact, it p• way they can. In this NV . likely to be created, while in pears that the COMMOII Council was, in its origin, not a- future fitigation seems . ~. much a legislative body as an assembly of which the so and thee present mode of doing business is fun was to assist the Lord Mayor by counsel or otherwise, duty other respteoe revenue, inasmuch • as it is described as that hence his power in this asatmbly is much and of danger t jug h more than a mere scramble upon the part that ordinarily exercised by the presidentof greater than being no bTlandingin to their goods away. One body. - get called is frequently upon to do the work of two " It is a very serious and difficultquestion wa iter st be inefi d the result is, that this task mu k whether the three, an extensive power of internal legislationthe or 'performed and the business impeded. Lockers possessed by Aan tly Common Council ought to be continued. The case is cer- -- sent away to assist in the landing department, and tainly altogether anomalous; we have, however,Do tea- are bonde warehouses are therefore left unattended to, the son for believing that the power has been dishonestly or to b tAken out after payment so that when goods are e . . injudiciously exercised , exercised, so far as the interests of the col.- f duty there is no one to see to their delivery. us are concerned. At an rate, this body appears to 0 of . . • asserted to prevail that is dis tiler a state things is us to have legislated for the constitution of the corpora e creditablenot morel to the authorities, but to the port tion more wisely than the Legislature of the countri- dil ofLondon, itself, and It will be instructive to watch, after in the instance of the great organic alteration r 4 ° i th r ties a s e , e a nt ttions that have been made, how long the by the statute 11 George 1., c. 18. It is, neweorstrong an the repre! l e l b i e permitted to continue. A memorial to matter requiring much consideration whetliern.s system will should beunderstood to be contemplated, will at exception to the general law of COTT "a n ti o e f 'the munici- the Treasury, permitted to continue, upon a full revision least enable the m h t to obtain the reasons erc an s pal system of the country.the Common which a remedy is d anied. of which N THE PRICE OF Cons.—lA tense " The number of 266 persons, h too large, and more ANOTHER FALL L. Council consists, appears to us xnuc ioncy and respectabi- quence of the timely arriva l of upwards of 500 .ships likely to be detrimental to thtrinefli deliberation. Less than from the colliery districts of the north, with large car lity than to be favourable to c: t number of the Common goes of coals into the port of London during the last one-fourth part of the p 1 .2 - resent even all their present week, it has materially reduced the high prices which Council could, perhaps, p much efficacy, and with as lit- have prevailed for some has weeks at the Royal Coal Ex multifarious duties wit as on the present system. change, as they have fallen frein 6s. to 7s. per ton. The tie fatigue to themselves, iercill men do not ordinarily retail classes of conin , dealers yesterday throughout the metropolis " Th7shighest i, gement of the corporation. Many du cod them from 3d. re take a share iu the inasuloa tied for this ;• no one completely c,e to 4d. per cwt. Best Wallsend, causes have be.ense_as srh ''' e fact unquestionably is, that a which were at 2s. to 2s. 2d. per cwt., may now be had satisfactory iti.loit it take he highest classes of those who might, at is. Bd. to ls. 10d.; second qualities, 18. 6d. to Is. 7d. large P Preleearseld, an important part in the corporation, Coke, which has been high as 9d, if they ( .1 oPpuguance to doing so. It did not appear from any per bushel, is 6d. to 7d. Should the arrivals continue another fall is expected fe-v-ideanrce given to the commissioners that this had pro- - next week. • ; such as attendants on ;tendants at public build- Housekeeper at Sessions House, Old Bailey Collector of Rents of Tenants at Will Collector of Broker's Rents 1 ' City Labourers 2 Waits 2 \Trnmpeters. City Tradesmen lO SHAR i MARKETS-(THIS DAY), Moines' done I SI this day. BRITISH RAILWAYS. I. eeterday the vestry of St. Pancras were o c c u p ied for , i l ,"'llsiderable period in discussing an •imp ortant matter . I ,o° ll nexion with the North Metropolitan Railway, tom le il Ts iß proposed to be carried b y means of a tunnel -4" Bayswater, under the New - roa d, to King's-cross. Churchwarden Biilett in the chair. It appears -- that the parish of St. Mar y lebone had the reaution and foresight, whilst the bill was g oin g through arliamefit last session, to obtain the insertion of clauses Zit Pelling the North Metropolitan Railway to pay into e hands of the vestry of that parish the sum of 16,0001. Ler th e repavement of the Marylebone portion of the New 'ad before they could be permitted to turn an inch of 41 ;etuid. The authorities of •St. Pancras, either through :Zs inattention to the interests of the ratepayers, or e other cause , allowed the bill to pass without any protective clauses whatever, so far as that parish is con- 50 et, and ti e° of ' „ the matter having been brought under the no - 20 Ilar the vestry, by a resolution from the - East Pancras ••• eh oehial Association, an attempt was made to fix the 20 large of neglect upon the borough members. Sir B. n 10 and Lord Dudley Stuart, who were proverbial for St. 12, their zealous attention to the local interests of every 25 Ni v r ier ' of the, herough they represent, having learnt 25 44 at had taken place, and naturally indignant at such St. i mputation being attempted to be fast ened on them, pe at a letter to the vestry stating the facts ; this called - ki rh a reply from the vestry clerk, and a rejoinder fro m ti n . l3 . Hall, Lord Dudley Stuart being at the present t e ; e on his way to Constantinople. The whole cor -20 ,_Pezidence was yesterday brought before th e vestr y . STREETEN moved a resolution to •the effect, that io tir e vestry, having considered the correspo ndence, en- 171jY e l exonerated the borough members from all blame 20 t he transaction. 20 ', l ;r• STOCKTON seconded the resolution, and 20 ve•lextr. 11EALEY having expressed a conviction that the 20 , 14 14 7 and all parties were to blame, moved an amend- 0 4ellt that all the correspondence lie on the table, which 2( : ) . i:exclment was seconded, and carried by a majority of • to 6. 20 St. 10 St. 25 THE BITRIA.L BOARD. WI o_ 4- resolution was presented from the St. Pancras eve n Parochial Association, held on the previous ... ti erl ,ing, at the Hawarden Castle Tavern , G ower- p lace, ... 1)6.1"n -square, protesting against an a lle g ed contem- 20q ted recommendation from the Burial Board to the ICO 20 ta e t ry, to grant a sum of money in tlr shape of remune- It ratio to the vestry-clerk for his services as clerk to the 5 went Board. The resolution also condemned the appoint 4.4eri+ 20 uof a lawyer as clerk to the Burial Board, and de, 10 bred,be conferred in the opinion of the meeting, the office ought to 5 c onferred on some parishioner, no t a member of the 5 le gal profession. 10 1 54 "!`fter some opposition on the part of M r. BURNIDGE, 2C ti o ,: llowEs , and one or two other membe rs, the resolu- 2C `' Was received, and ordered to be ent ered on the es, 1( minute s . 2( The vestry shortly after separated. 21 SCHOONER.— 20 triNARROW ESCAPE OF THE CREW OF A b7 e i n surance clubs of the North have received infor• 16 Fl ora, of the narrow escape of the crew of the schooner 20 N ,,,Z . r a, of Sunderland, from suffocation, while that vessel Seaham to London in the re- 1 4 ) ne 2, on her passage front ut thick weather. It appears that the vessel was 4 2 0 0 ro la o ught to off Whitby, and as many as could be spared ee sent below. It was the mate's watch on deck,. and. 20 master turned in, but had not been long in his berth 20 , o . „. er i he found himself suffocating. He managed to get 20 *-"`" of his berth and crawl on deck, when the crew for- 10i : I :. (I Was immediately knocked out, but no answer was 20 ~tqned. The mate then went into the forecastle to 20 ee 'what was the matter, when he found the coals in the on fire and this men apparently suffocated in their zu 10 h a - lc:locks, H e cut them down, and they were instantly 20 t ll i td up through the hatch on deck with ropes, and, 20 IL'eing too far gone, when got on deck they recovered. 20 ship's company immediately abandoned the burning 20 11 1 , --a el) and had not long left her when her decks blew ;. They were picked up by a brig, and the derilect 20 c,isel was aft er wards taken into Whitby by some fisher lG - za en. 2 3 EPALCATION AND DISAPPEARANCE OF A PROPERTY 20 •T" INCOME-TAX COLLECTOR.—Much astonishment has '6e ol l for the last few days created in the parish of St. Boulton, Danes, Strand, from a report that Mr. Thomas ', nu ll"); the collector of the property and income-tax, !"c. l been a defaulter to a large amount."' The respecta , oilat y of Mr. Boulton's father, who had filled the office 'sf c hurchwarden, and the esteem in which he himself W as held, at fi rst i nduced a dis b e li e f o f t h e repor t, but, unfo rtunately, all doubt upon the question was set at o t by an official notice issued by Messrs. Twining and • , b ,„ 11 , the property and income-tax commissioners, „7"Tig that, in consequence of Mr. Boulton having be , i zhe a defaulter to the amount of 3,6001., they had t tized upon all his property, real and personal, which , e y would sell next Thursday, unless the above amount L a 's paid in by that time. The commissioners further sa▪ ted that th ey wou ld m eet on Thursd a y, before the 1 1 tock place, to ascertain whether the deficiency was t adn , good. Mr, Boulton's securities, who are four in to_7auteortx,,:re as a matter of course, accountable for Mr. additi_r_on defalcations. Rumour further states that in to his alle7ed embezzlements as a public officer, a " Boulton has victimised many private friends. T 1 e ,Papointments which he held for many years in the parish 4' v.e'been already disposed of. :Ace/DENT IN A COALPIT. —About twenty minutes 1 /tilt 8 o' c l oc k on Monday evening, two drawers, named Jo hn Darbi s hi re and William Harrison, boys 12 years a„,c, were at wor k i n the Brinks Col li ery, Bl ac krod„ i 'rtlging to th e E arl of Cranford and Balcarres, w h en +-may y stone, weighing about 12 cwt., fell upon them lu„..ca the roof of the pit, and killed them on the spot. NVID?W OF THE ETTRICK SHEPHERD.—The public Will gratifi e d t o l earn, as t ' we are happy to announce tiohhority, that h er M a j esty has on the reco mmernla.- feorf_the E ar l o f Aberdeen, been graciously pleased to E~ifs pension of 501. p er annum on the widow of the • wrrick Shepherd.—Edinb urg h E ven i ng Post. " . 4 w . YORK, Nov. 30.—Mrs. Margaret Douglas has ~j ee la tried and convicted at Norfolk, Virginia, for teach ing colo ur s e p d ok ch e il e d l ren to write. n She was her own advo cate, and Ny . as fined one dollar;o e b nt O . being found guilty she 4ee° rding to the , but the judge, in passing sentence statute, will condemn ~ 111 94 for not le ss th an s i x months. her to imprison- Closing Prices yesterday. Fatal RAILWAYS. 100 Aberdeen ..... .. 81 Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. June all Belfast & Ballymena all Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley 28 Birkenhd. Lancsb. & Cheshire Junct.. i all Do. Chesh. & Birk , £5O & £25 Cons 184 Do., £2O 30 Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) , 100 Bristol & Exeter 100 Caledonian. ! all Chester & Holyhead all (Cork, and Bandon I all Cork, Black. & Pass. ) 10 Cornwall .. .. ... .. ..... ) 45 Dublin&Belfastjunc. 5 all Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction ....... 5 all Do. New . ..... . . 5 all East Anglian (X 25 L. &E. & L. &D.) g all ,Do., (£lB E. & H.) 0 all !Eastern Counties ,t. 100 EasternUnion,A.st ,t. 100 !Do., do. 8.. .• .. 5 si Do.NewA(late-Thir.d.s) . it. 100 (East Lancashire ... it. 100 !Edinburgh& Glasgow 0 3/ 'Edinb. and Peebles._ it. 100 lEdinb.Prth.&Dunde, 1 ForthandClydeJune. 100 Glasgow & S.Western ' 100 Great Northern Stk.. 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Gt. Sth.&West.(lre.) l 100 Great Western 11 Irish South-Easters all Lancaster &Carlisle 111 Do., Thirds 100 Lancasb. &Yorkshire 171 Do., Fifths 11,f Do., Wst. Riding Un. all Leeds Northern all Liv.Crsby.&South.pt , all London & Black - viral 81 Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Lond•Bright.&S.Cst. 100 London &N. Western 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do. ,16/.5h.,M&8...0 21 Do. Eighths 100 London & S.Western 421 Do., £5O ...... .. .....• 34 Do., £4O all Lnndrry.&Coleraine all Lnclndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Ma.neh•Shef.&Lincln. 4/ Do., - Man. &Lin. Un. 100 Midland - , 100 Do. BlrraagAz Derby 47A Midland dW.o.st:(lr.) 17; Do. '6, Shares ~..... , 1 all Newcastle a dellisie.. 100 Newmarket,....... - ' „ 5 Do. Bury ExtensiOns 171 Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd. 7. Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor 100 Norfolk.. 31 Northn. Counties Un 00 North British 16 North Devon, No.l 11§ Do., No. 2... all Dc., 1 A Deferred . S Do., . B Guaranteed) all ,North London . ...... 1.1 N. & S.Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn.. 171 North Staffordshire.. all North Western........ 10 N. &S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton 2.2 Portsmouth.. 100 Scottish Central .00 Scottish Midland.... , . .00 Shrewsbury & Birmg. LOO Do., L. &N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock-. 10 Shrewsby. & Herefd. all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.)...... all Do. Halves, d 0....... all Do. Oswestry ..,...... 61 Shropshire Union.... ~. Do. A, B,C, &D, fully, paid up at per cent. all South Devon ...... .... LOO South Ea5tern......... all South Wales ...... ..... 15 S. Yorksh. River Dun 2.2. Staines,*ok.,&Wok. all Stockton & Darling.. 163 Stockton & Hartlepl ,00 Taff Vale 8 Do. £lO shades LOO Do. Pref., No. 1 20 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17 Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick 14 West Cornwall 1 West End of Lonon and Crystal Palace all West London 51s. Wmbledon &Croydou 100 York Newctl. & Berw. 20 Do. Extensions....... 111 Do. G.N.E. Purcase ,100 York &N. Midland.. 17 - 5i - 97 -- 664 -- 16i -- 14 -- :164 8- 8i - 5 ? 3k 4h 13a- 131 42 - 44 31 - 33 a - 67 61 - 66 22 - 23, £3 . 8 3 / 4 - 8N 60 - 62 1 129 - 131 101 - 10 6 83t - 841 9 i - - 98 I 14 —l5 p 68 68 4 6a 6ict 13A - 14 •• i 81 8 .00 101 03i 104 par 4 F. - p 7S 79 12 - 11 (11 11 - 9 d ii - :1(; 64. - 37 - 39 54 56 d p 4 3i ar d 2i 3 6 - 8 31 - 3* 35 g - 10 i:i --2 i 64 - 7i 51 ... 53 ••• a sid ••• o 84 9 par 2 ), ~ ........ •• • 39 - 40 ... _ ... gi - 92 56 - 57 60 - 62 55 - 60 21 - Wit: 14 - 16 7 8 11 - 12 - 3i( - 18 63i 64 33 t 'al 34 3 -- 1 d 4 5 ii I - io , . .. -* • 11/ 12 2i 3i 15 - 16 6 - 8 28 - 30 8 •-,7, 644 - 65 ) , 8 - 8 . 4 3 -- 49 - 50 FOREIGN. 631 4 6 Antwrp &Rotterdam 3 Belgian East. Juuct 8 Beziers to Graissessac Central of Italy all Charleroi & Erquelin all Demerara 10 Dijon and Besagon 8 Dutch Rhenish ail East Indian 2 Do. Extension all Gt. Indian Peninsula 10 Gd. Junet. of France 10 Gd. Trunk. of Canada Shrs. and Bonds 8 Gt. Central of France 20a Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares _ _ 2 1 a i 1s p par ... Do. bonds(l i55.)1857 Do. bonds (2 i54.)1862 10i Ilamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent 5 Lake Const. & Basle 4 Lucca and Fistoja, 5 per cent. pref. 15 Luexembourg 10 Do. (Railway) 2 Do 3 Do. (Canal) 5 Do. 6p. cent. prof. 12 Lyons & Mediterran, 10i Madras 29 Maria Antonia 10 Do. New 2 Melbourne Dk. &Ry all Namur & Liege (with Ipar loo— 11 Of - 6i 2 2i id hP ••• ••• I`l ... - • 84 - 9 interests all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all Do. 201. 31p. c. Bds : • [fmy.B. &Ams.Shs ] all NorwegianTrnk.Pref 10 Paris and Lyons 40 Do. bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen all Paris and Strasbourg 4 Paris Caen& Cherbm. 1.91 Quebec & Richmond all Rouen and Havre 9 Royal Danish 2 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse 6 )o. 5i per cent. pref. 2 S.E. of France 6 Southern of France 6 St. Andrews & Quebec 2s. Upper India Sciip all West Flanders 10 Do. 56 per c. Fret' 10 Western of France 4 West. of Switzerland 2 Wiesbaden 12 Zealan ....... . . 35 - 7i - 164 - 47 - 8i 17 p 33 id 34 -- 20 par 1 9j 6 - 34 4ipl 4i 8 14 - -~ 2i - 3 1:34 7 - 8 10 -10 A - 6 ... -- ... --- ~- ... 140 - 142 i - Ad 1 . 66 - 110 112 - 116 23* = 25 .06 - 108 1 -14 p gi - 10 16 - 16 hP 10 -10 A 13 - 15 i d- ;IP 24 - 24 17 - 18 96 - 99 - 4i la Para The following are the regulations which have been issued by Lord Palmerston for observance in the new burial- grounds about to be established, and _ which will also be enforced in all new burial-grounds established under the Metropolitan Burials Act : " 1. No interment shall take place within 10 yards of any part of the boundary of the cemetery, and the space of ground intervenin g c , b e tween the boundary and the 10-yard limit above described shall be planted with shrubs, evergreens, and trees, in such manner as, while it will promote the absorption of any deleterious emana tions, shall not interfere with a free circulation of air. " 2. The area of the cemetery shall be under-drained to such depth and in such effectual manner as shall be sufficient to prevent the accumulation of water in any vault or grave therein. " 3. There shall be a Sufficiency of roads and path ways within the burial-ground to afford every access to the several graves without walking over other graves ; and such roads and p athwa y s shall be constructed of hard materials, anti be properly guttered and drained in such manner as to carry away surface water. "4. The whOle area of the cemetery, which may from time to time be used for interments. shall be divided into grave-spaces in such manner that the position of every graNe-space may be readily distinguished. " 5. A plan of the cemetery shall be provided, on which 'every grave 'shall be marked. "6. A. register of graves shall also be provided, in which shall be registered every grave space, together with the name, age, and the date of interment of every occupant of such grave. • "7. Every grave-space in the cemetery shall lie desig -1 nated by letters or numerals, or by some other con venient mark, which shall correspond to similar marks 1 designating such grave-space in the plan of the cemetery and in the register of graves. .. " S. The grave-space alloted to each person of the age of 16 and upwards shall be at least 9 feet .6 inches long, and 4 feet 6 inches wide. "9. The grave-space allotted to each young person from 7 to 16 years of age shall be at the least 7 feet 6 inches long and 3 feet '6 inches wide. 00 10. For children under 7 years of age the grave space shall be at least 5 feet 9 inches long by 2 feet 9 inches wide. "11. Each grave shall be dug as near as may be in the middle of the grave-space. "12. 'With the exception of purchased vaults and graves, interments shall take place in every alternate grave space until the whole area of the cemetery devoted to interments shall have been buried in ; and thereafter the alternate grave spaces, which have thus in the first instance been left vacant, are to be buried in till they . a c o l nf i t and ao Bravos,l r e s a l i and shall all have been used. "13. No more than one body shall be buried in any grave, except in purchased vaults and graves, under con trieasiflTpawlrlabrtedasastedtifi. ~ 14.-The depths of g o r e a lld v oe e lpv s, sti e:cepting purchased vaults and in no case shall the coffin of the coffin to the level of the less depth than 31- feet, measured from tween 7 and 16 years of age the de have a covering of earth of g — srio r au o lial r d .p notetr For o eo n xr s e o epe f ea l r s 6 6o y nf e se a eb i - te,ea s ,- 4 feet 6 inches ; and the covering of earth . over no th t e ex c c o e ffi shall in no case be less than 3 feet, measured from the upper surface of the coffin to the level of the ground. For children under 7 years of age the depth shall be 3 feet 9 inches, as near as may be. "15. No grave in which a burial has taken place, excepting purchased vaults and graves, shall be reopened for another burial until after the lapse of the follow. ing periods of time, that is to say :--No grave in which a person of 16 years of age and upwards has been buried shall be reopened for another burial until after the lapse of 24 years from the time when such person was buried. No grave in which any young person be tween the ages of 7 and 16 years has been buried shall be reopened for a second burial until after the lapse of 15 years frem the time when such young Person was buried. No grave in which a child under 7 ;nth Bhhellulpper surface years of age has been- buried shall be reopened for burial within a shorter period than 10 years from the time when such child was buried. "16. Purchased vaults and graves are excepted from the preceding regulations ; but when more than ono body is to be buried in such graves and vaults each body must be enclosed in an air-tight leaden coffin, and no coffin is to be deposited in any such vault or grave nearer the surface than 4 feet 6 inches, measuring from the upper surface of the coffin to the level of the ground. "17. Whenever a burial has taken place (except in a private vault) the grave shall be forthwith filled up with earth, and the surface shall be immediately covered, either with a suitable stone, if such shall have been pro vided, or with fresh turf, or the surface shall be suitably planted ; but in no case shall the bare earth be left ex posed. "18. Care shall be taken that the grave-spaces, monuments, walks, buildings, &c., and the whole surface of the cemetery be kept in a proper state of neatness. " PALMERSTON." STATE OF TRADE. (Front the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.) MANCHESTER, Dec. 13.—The increased demand we, have lately had for T cloths, lonacloths, and printers, and for certain ,kinds of yarns, from the Greek houses, and for all descriptions of light goods on the part of the India merchants, together with considerable pur chases of yarns by the home consumers, would have produced a more sensible improvement in the tone of our market to•day, than we have actually expe rienced, had it not been for a renewed apprehension of extended war arising out of the attack made by a Russian squadron upon Turkish vessels in the Black Sea. This has evidently checked the rising improvement ; and the transactions of the day have been a good deal circumscribed; but prices continue at least perfectly firm, and any gain previously made is maintained. For India yarns the inquiry appears to be over for the pre cent. Fine spinnings are flat and low in value. 30's and 40's doubled continue scarce and dear. Domestics are coming more into request. At Stockport, the spinners and manufacturers have generally commenced working only four days a week. We hear of no change in the places where the mills ceased working. ROCHDALE,. Dec. 12.—We have had but a thin at tendance of buyers in the market to-day, who have shown a great unwillingness to purchase except at re duced prices. Wool is quite as firm as it was the pre ceding week, and the manufacturers evince no disposi tion to buy but for immediate use. HUDDERSFIELD, Dec. 13.—The market has been at tended by very few buyers to-day, and the business done has been correspondingly small. At this particu lar season the market is not usually brisk, so that no surprise is felt at the slackness of the demand. Heavy goods for winter wear are what are mostly inquired for, and of these about the usual quantity is selling. Wool moves off slowly. • HAI:11'11x, Dec. 10. —The attendance of merchants in our piece hall to-day has been very limited, and few goods of any description have found purchasers. THE 11 _EPRESENTATION OF SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE. — On inquiry in the proper quarter on Tuesday after noon, we were inf orme d th a t Lord Paget, " for reasons which are perfectly satisfactory to the Liberal party," declines to come forward . as a candidate, to supply the vacancy recently created in the representation of this division of the county. We were also informed that there are " several eligible Liberals, who are members of noble families in the county ready to come forward, if solicited ; a mongst whom are the Hon. F. Calthorpe, son of Lord Calthorpe, Sir Fr This ncis Scott, Bart., and the lion. Arthur Wrottesley." is all the authentic info r mation which we have been en to obtain w ith respect to the mov ements of the ailed Liberal party. Var ious rumours a re afloat on the sub. ject of the ele ction, and some surmises have appeared in our contemporaries ; but in the absence of accurate in formation, we deem it useless to occupy space. with mere rumours, which may have no foundation in .. fact. An active canvass on behalf of some Liberal candidate is in progress. The canvass on behalf of Lord Ingestre is also proceeding vigorously. Lord Ingestre, it is ex pected, will reach England, on his return from America, about the end of the year. — Wolverhampton Chronicle. BANK or NEW SOUTH WALES.—It is understood that the London agency of this Bank have been advised of the consignment to them of 15,000 ounces of gold by the -Madagasca r, 20,000 by the Chowring-hee, 20,000 by the Roxburgh 'Castle 7,000 by the Tarta r, 10,000 b y the Undaunted , and '15,000 by the Amhrosyne,n addit makinong oltoge ther 87, 000 ounces, worth 345, 000 Z., i to 25,000 ounces sent them by the Victoria, just arrived. The Madagascar and Chowringhee are known to have a total of about 60,000 ounces each, and are expected daily. All the others are looked for by the Ist of January, and the receipts generally during the next 3 months will, it is supposed, be large. DISTRESSING ACCIDENT AT DUDLEY.—An accident occurred on Saturday evening last, which has resulted i n the death of on e of the most influential and eminent ironmasters in this district, A. B. Cochrane, sew., Ea q. q It appears that the dece ased g entleman arrived in Dud ley per train , an d en g a g ed one of Mr. Thorne' s cab s t o drive him from the station to his residence, near the Netherton station. When near to theFarthing's-lane gate, the cab encountered a cart , and th up, the vehicle was precipitated over ae horse n•emb rearing ankment about six yards deep. The driver leapt off, but the cab and the horse turned completely over in the fall. Mr. injured by C oc hrane was severelythe became accident, worse, until n o t n i l being conveyed home, gradually Thursday•morning, when death took piste. —Birming ham M ercury. BLACKBURN. —On Saturday last, the handloom weavers of Blackbu rn an d district submitted to a reduc tion of about 8d per piece on " fancy sorts." This re duction is very heavy.. The winter prosp ects of the handloom weavers there are considered, even by them selves, to be very gloomy. The number app l y in g for parish relief is weekly i ncrea sing. On Monday, 300 tradesmen, ke., were sworn in as special t constables. A body of operatives in Blackb urn intend to suppor, at the annual meeting of the Philanthropic Burial Society, which will be held in Blackburn on the 20th instant, a motion, to the effect that 1,000/. of its ives fu now oudt nds be evoted ill to the support of t he Preston op b e strongly opposed, erat of em ployment. Th e motion w although, if carried, the officers may be prohibited from paying the money, as the society is enrolled under the 9th and 10th Vic., c. 15. BOOKS FOR THE H O USE OF COIIIIONS.—A case of books for t he library of the House of Commons has la.. rived from France by a steamer from Havre, and the necessary arrangements have been made by the Govern ment authorities for their admission and • delivery at their destination. par d d - dd A - d 10 5i 2i 3 37 3 9 id par 45 47 70 80 7 24 3d' 14 —l6 i • gP 1i -- t 7i cl -- Par— 101 Li d . i* :-- ii; I_ = 31 - Id P 33 10 64 to - 5 - 41 - Shares .. all Lonely. & Ennis. Sh all Manch. ,Shef. ,dr Lin., Shares, No. 1...... all Do. New, £10......... 3 Do., £6 . • ••• • • • all Aarypt.di6arl. 4p. c. all Do. 4A per cent....... 10i Do ...--........... ...... . 100 Mid. Consul. 6p. c. St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... 5 Do. Pref. 4 per cent. 6 Norfolk Debent. Sh. 100 Norfolk Extension... 100 Do. Pref. 5i per ct... 100 Do. Way. Val. 5 p c 100 North British .... ..... all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. 16 8?. 8 10 10 25 10 1.0.1 15 Do ...... . all Scot. Cen., Now Pref all Shrews& Birm. N. G a ll Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon 11 Do. New all 3. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of 21 03.6 d. all S.Y orksh.4p. c. Guar. 3 Waterfd.&Kilk. 6 p.c. 1.00 York Newcastle and Berwick,4 p.e.Pref. 5 Do .. 10 i iiiii i ii i ii & S. Purch. MINES , Ia d 1_ 3 - SROP-LIFTING EXTRAORDINARY AT COLCHESTER. kiL lta 33 atb -••••- ...441441 la Webb, of G rea t Bentley, and Miss Holby, of Thorpe-le-Soken (sisters), very Fe qt,`-`ll5l dressed, were placed at ' the b ar , c h ar ged with Sur ii t iVtatig a se r i es o f ro bb eries from tra d esmen 's shops "time of Saturday last. St. tor in vestigation excited considerable interest ; and 20 rrt was mush c row d e d. i riei r ( I - Abell conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Phil- 50 istapneared for the prison er s. 14 Janiel Blyth, of No. 8, High-street, draper, said tw o „4turday afternoon, between half-past one and 31 ih ow ' 78 P r isoners came into my shop. I was in the 4ked ? °111 ) but went to them immediately. -One of them 27: at a fancy bonnet, and I called Mrs. „„ lace i f i to show them some. There were some black 25 t rstn all s upon the counter near the door, and when I I h 4c r`o? them they stood about a yard from the veils. S t . 11 13rth t° ,-, tl. ! r n my back for a minute while I called Mrs. a. Pluoh, T hey looked at some bonnets, but did not 50 liar Bh - a se any, and went away. One fall was of a pecu- 50 1111 411 t Pe ' a nd on going to fold them up about twenty 20 sust afterwards, I missed it. There had been no other taro in the interval. I was shown the fall the Prop ert vr ' ll ing by the police, and knew it to be my h' dosed Y. I also missed another fall like the one pro- 21 but as the mark has been removed I cannot be 21 4 0t ( I " ' "went out to see if I could meet them, but did to 4,, ° sc). I called at Mrs. Barber's and 'Mr. Gri ffi n's 1 . 1 re ~La r if they had been ihere, and afterwards had a 21 te e lieZ e .,, that they were at Griffin's. I went to the S Ve r - ,, k uce, and Inspector Firmin and Policeman Hatch S cor a i,""c'mPanying me up the street when we met them the ig "t of Mrs. Barber's. We followed them down 2 lqrt:eet till oppos i te t h e po li ce - o ffi ce , w hen Inspector hi t asked them to step across. As they were cross- s 11ei eh e t°a(1 one of them dropped a piece of satin ribbon , rißateh picked up. They were searched, but as E goods were not then found I went away. In the S to-,!l4l.4vg.the.police brought the falls, one of which I can S set sly i dentify, and I believe both are my property. they r g ea alt Aylett said -I saw the prisoners just after r,..1 tlyt h were brought to the police-o ffi ce, and heard Mr. 1141 04 Bay, "Y o u have been into my shop this after 'l4lr one of you has taken a lace veil." They bot h 41 :11e. ,, 4 1, must be a mistake, as we are highly respect -4016 las Holby said she was a daughter of Mr . I do of Thorpe, and there was no occasion for h e r to suchsuchthi ng , as she could have what she wanted. 4„ s aid they were quite willing to be searched. tli ev ed the m a ro ll o f r ibbon, and asked them if ' hot: kn ee' anything about it? They said they di d. th aw. asked if they bad made any other pur ;44l.' They said they had bought some flowers 04 ribbon, at Mrs. Seaman's, which they had left maths looking-glass at the Sea Horse. Police % i ng afterwards produced the falls and several )41 . arti c l es, I b e li eve f rom the Sea Horse. Mr. se had be en sen t f o r, and was present. Mrs. Webb guilt was innocent ; and Miss Ilolby said, "I alone Y sot y, and I alone am responsible—my sister knows to to g about it." I h e ard Mrs. Webb make a remark Ni° her s i ster hav i ng l arge poc k e t s . The younger pi,. 111. stood by, but made no remark. of X'eelnan Kin said he received from Mrs. Brown, It. 1 4,,1 g 1,47 Sea Horse , - the two falls' and a pair of velvet 25 etloo 1/ 4 . Sarah Brown, wife of the landlord of the Sea, Et. R a C o A , said th e y a pp r opriated a bed-room to ladies 2 on a 61 the;'ay, but she did not remember seeing the prisoners 5 g 11.4 The servant showed them into the r o om, and tb ` l, Perhaps, recollect them,— (An officer was sent for 20 „Ser vant.) Brown said he bad often seen these lad ies in his St , and, they always conducted themselves respect- ""st. Ably 16 tati l2 „ he t prisoners were next charged with st ealin g three 16 'andkerchiefs and other articles from t he s ho p of 8 ht. Au Marsden, of High-street. 8 lim b e re was a further charge of stealing 36 yards and 50 Th- Jat ds , of ribbon from Mrs. Seaman, milliner, of 10 Th -st reet. 20 tk' t i o e Mayor said the bench had come to the determi -20 042 1 ef tha remanding the prisoners until Thursday , in 10 x t.. - t th e depositions might be completed. 10 Philbrick requested that bail Might be allowed, St. e The Mayor said it Was the opinion of himself and ther . ,„, magistrate that by that means the ends of jus- 20 ai )b ) ; "'lgitt be frustrated. They, therefore, refused the St. Avr ea tieu, and it was most painful for them to do so. p e r 7 attention would be paid to the comfort of the St . Mies by the gaol authorities. St. The prisoners were then removed in custody. 10 4 t PANCRAS VESTRY-NORTH METROPO- I 13; LITAN RAILWAY. 20. 22 - 24 5a 9 - 11 - 2t 1 2 - lid 13 - 15 ..i 2$ - 34 - 2i - iii , lid 4 p i P lip 3p LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Ibr.l Paidl .1100 ij all ',t. 100 Z I all 5 \ all 0,5 all fl all i 0 all ;5 all L 2, all at all ?,0 all R. 100 ;t. 100 5 all \ all p all ?.5 all 12 - 100 -• 100 18 1 9 o 1 all 15 all it. 100 Leasing Compans• Ln.&N.W. L. & N.W. Calcdon :01 - 103 51 - 52 Gt.Northn Caldonian. 42 - 145 .. --- • Do.. ....... Gt.:Yesin. Yk. New. & Rem., Y.&N.Md io --: 32 XO9 -- 111 544 -- 5 5 ! 27 -- '2B 13i -- 144 244 -- 25 Do Do. IS. Eastern, Do Norfolk D 0......... Ln.&N.W. & Midld. Ackton & Darlingt. 93 - 95 2i - 3 E. Count Do Do. L. & N . W &Ln&Yk Do 6 = iiii ••• '''''' ... - ... -- Gt.Northn' Do 143 - 146 113 - 146 Lancash.ct Yorksh.. MrMCloan Stockt. (Stl Darling . ... —. a 2 lid I Do Gt.Wostu, -- 32 31 99 - 100 Closing Prices I Business yesterday. this day. 60 - 62 161 RIIIWATS. Bedford and Blotchley Buckgbanish 'Clydesdale Jc E.Linceln. gr 6 p. cent Gias. Barr. & Ncils.Direct. Do. New Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby. Do. i Shares. Do. i Shares. Lon.&Greenwl Do.Preference' Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent... Do. 6 Per e t- • Manch.Bxton and Matlock If ichllesbro' & Redcar Midld.Bradfd Northern and Easternsp.c. Do. 6 per ct D o . Fixed sp. c . Prost. &Wyre Do. ?; Shares Roystu.&Hit Do.Shepth.St Shef. Roth. & Goole g.5.p.c S. Statiorclsh.l WearValleyg,r 6 per cent ... D 0........... iWiitS 4591311'81 99 57 171 16 Pm pm 8 114 15 81 1 82 NEW BURIAL BY La ROUNDS' ?EGULATIO NB !STON.