The Sun. — London, England, 1832-01-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Our Bristol express has brought the painful intelligence of the suicide of Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton. The unfortunate officer was not made of " stuff stern enough" for the late crisis ; the professional habits of the officer were over powered by the benevolent feelings of the man. —Times. 1 he Court-martial at Bristol is suspended for the present by the death of Colonel Brereton. who put a period to his existence on Friday morning. Possessing, evidently, a kind and humane disposition, and much sensibility, the events at Bristol must have been to him a sub ject of infinite distress, and it 'required only the proceedings at the Court-martial to fill the cup of suffering till it overflowed. It would be un generous now to dwell on the errors of a brave man, who could not overcome his reluctance to, shed the blood of his fellow citizens when sures of vigour were required, not !wady for the safety of a great city, but in mercy to the misguided rioters themselves,—Adorn. Citron. Bristol has been long in a state of painful ex citement ; and the accounts from the city, which we lay before our readers thi s d a y, are as melan choly, as the rest. The Court-martial upon Colonel Brereton has been terminated by a fatal event—the death of the Colonel. It appears that the unfortunate gentleman shot himself at his own residence on Friday morning. What ever the result of the Court-martial might have been, it is evident that Colonel Brereton was ac tuated by humane motives alone in the course which he pursued during the late unfortunate riots. This feeling has added much to the re gret that is felt for him. A too sensitive dispo sition seems to have been the defect of Colonel Brereton's character. His friends must lament that he wanted firmness . of mind to carry him through a trial which probably would have ended, if not in a direct acquittal upon al the charges, in a way that would have left his honour unim paired. But the dread of a disgrace—a disgrace which he felt that he did net deserve, but feared that he might suffer, especially in a place dis turbed by party feeling—deprived him of' the necessary firmness, and he fell by his own hand, a lamented victim of sensibility driven to des pair.--Morning Herald. It will be seen by our communication from Bristol that the Court-martial has come to an abrupt conclusion in the death of Colonel Brere ton, who terminated his existence at three o'clock on Friday morning by shooting himself through the heart. This truly melancholy event will of course preclude all remark or comment from us with respect to the recent investigation, and the circumstances that called for it. If our readers have attended to the evidence, more especially that which we published yesterday, they will re quire no explanation as to the feelings that must have urged the unfortunate deceased to the fatal act lie committed. It is impossible to look al the late proceedings without being strongly im pressed with the propriety, the honour, and the ahility with which General Dalbiac has con ducted the prosecution.—Morning Post. It might be desirable for the interests of Eu rope,—if peace between nations or confidence in personal honour among their representatives be an European interest,—to administer to certain signers of protocols the freemasons' or some not less binding oath of secrecy, before they are ad mitted to sit in council with other members of the diplomatic body, and to decide, or profess' to decide, questions affecting the destinies of mankind. To publish what is communicated under a seal of strict silence at such conferences is bad enough ; but to slander the result of them by fraudulent constructions, furnished with all the pomp and circumstance of office, is, if pos sible, more iniquitous. When, however, an ac credited Minister to a British Court, happens to be a person historically void of every moral principle which could direct or restrain him,— when such a person, for the more convenient propagation of falsehood, thinks fit to tamper with the English Press,—his dishonesty be. comes tolly, when his organs of deception are parties whom no Englishman believes. An old acquaintance of the personage alluded to is re ported to have said, in relation to a well-known transaction, that a " blunder is worse than a crime." As he may be waning into forgetful ness, we admonish him of this article of a reli gion once familiar to him.—Times. Some of our contemporaries are taking pro digious pains to correct what they call our errors and inconsistencies, and various other impro prieties, which their benevolent anxiety for our reputation ind uces t h em to notice. We are very grateful, but at present must content ourselves with a short anecdote in illustration of their con duct. Some time ago, a celebrated orator and leader in the House of Commons said toa fr iend, " I cannot imagine the motives of C.'s dislike of me ; I treat him always with the utmost courtesy, and yet I find he is always abusing me : his hatred is as virulent as it is unintelligible." The friend answered with a laugh, " C.'s hatred of you is very intelligible; and as to its viru• lence, I can tell you a mode of neutralizing it. Speak as badly as he does : contrive to be coughed down tOr your ignorance and stupidity, and C. will love you as much as he now hates you." " Oh ! then," said the other, " I am con tent to be hated." The poor devil, to whom we allude may make the application."—Times. 'e stated yesterday that the Independent Association of the town of Rye has, at a nume rous meeting, voted addresses of thanks to the Lords Bishops of Norwich and Chichester for their manly and upright conduct in the support of the Reform Bill, when so many others of the same branch showed a laudable anxiety to " trip up the heels of Ministers," professing all the while their patriotic readiness to say " content" to any or every measure of Reform which should fulfil the single condition of being proposed by a Tory Cabinet. For this admirable fact, let it be remembered, we are in debt to the apostolic simplicity, if not indeed what our French neigh bours might call " niaiserie," of Dr. Law, the venerable Bishop of Bath and Wells. This was the case three months ago. The train of reasoning was orthodox and convincing, after a certain fashion. But it is the business of logic to change its conclusions with its premises, and since it is now manifest that the Reformers were guilty of the same mistake by which Eng lish soldiers have so often provoked their enemies,—since they did not " know when they were beaten," and in contempt of all the rules of party science, did not run away, though both outmanoeuvred and outnumbered, — since, in fine, the success of the new Re form Bill and the stability of the Cabinet are now beyond all reasonable doubt, we feel our selves justified in anticipating that on the next oc casion the reverend lords will steer a somewhat more prosperous course, and will not again concen trate upon their own heads the indignation of 2.2,000,000 of their countrymen, with no re compense or comfort, but that of having sacri ficed themselves for a hopeless cause and for a disappointed faction. The reply of the Bishop of Norwich to the address of the Rye Con stitutionalists is brief and unpretending, as usual with that amiable prelate. That of the Bishop of Chichester, Dr. Maltby, is eloquent, emphatic, and uncompromising. His Lordship anticipates from the success of the new Bill, " a return of the activity and enterprise to trade and commerce, more confidence in our public resources, greater secu rity to private peace, and, moreover, additional stability to our religious as well as civil institu tions," There follows soon afterward: , a mark • and striking passage, whieh points distinctly at the creation of Peers. After rejecting the stale delusion attrmpted by the Tories, that any " al teraton of public opinion had taken c,n the subject of Reform," the good Bishop proceeds ; —" We have the v.tinfaction of knowing ° , that the Constitution places in the hands of theSove reigtt a safe and easy remedy for ignorant oC fac tious opposition. In that case time should be lost in augmenting the number of those who have at once wisdom to see, and courage to pro vide, what is absolutely required by the circum stances in which the country is placed, in conse quence of the ardent and almost universal wish to correct long-standing abuses ; and to guard against their future recurrence by a more reason able distribution of the elective franchise, and by a more fair and equal representation of the people in Parli a ment." The Church of EnElanZi has no reward too high for the author of such sen timents as these. He is worthy to redeem a whole convocation of your Phillpottses and Marshes—he is of the stuff to save at, .establish ment, long after it begins tc totter.—Times. An advertisement appears in our Paper this day referring to numbers one, two, threes four, and five, of a publication lately commenced with a view to direct the attention of the public to the subject of capital punishments. We strongly ; recommend these little tracts to our rr22.:(i . ors.— They are the production of enlightened and benevolent minds, net sinitten with any wild theor . i, but advocating, upon grounds which cannot b.,?. shaken, a practical amelioration of our sanguinary laws. In an age like the present it would be a reflection upon the spirit of improve ment itself if this question of the mitigation of our Criminal Code should be passed over with indifference ; and let no man be deceived into the opinion that the Legislature ha's done enough, when it has, in (*att . , doße nothing to relieve the country from the odium and the taint, and demoralizing influence, of such laws. Sir Robert Peel made an atrampt at what he sometimes called mitigation, and sometimes consolidation ; but there was more of the latter than the former in his work manship—for he approached the vstlerable atrocity of our Penal Code with too much re spect, and was evidently too much afraid of mercy to be a successful champion in her cause. It is to hoped, however, that even now *society is sufficiently improved to give a tone to the Le gislature on this important subject—a subject which has hitherto been treated as if there were a sort of necessity for the continuance of a bad system, and as if the hand of the executioner should never stop while there existed in the hu man heart a fountain deep enough to supply the thirst of our tribunals. Having said so much on the general principle, we are led by a natural transition to glance at the result of the late Spe cial Commission at Bristol. What a scene was the closing one of that painful inquiry And does worse remain behind ) Most cor dially do we join with an able contemporary, the Standard, in hoping " that justice may yet be satisfied with the corrective punishment, and without the destruction of the unfortunate convicts now awaiting deaths." We differ from the view which our oontetnporary takes of the circumstances by which he supports his appeal to mercy; but we j o i n i n t h e appeal. \Veil would it become the Government to weigh those mitigating circumstances which are not excluded from the case of those unfortunate men. Well would it hctome them to look to the origin of the riots, the indiscretion of other parties, and the excitement of the times, Surely no man, or set of men, in this country could be capable of feeling that act a reflection upon them or their conduct by which the life of even a single fellow creature was spared. But mark the demoralis ing influence of our public executions. Read the description of the heart-rending scene that took place in the Court-house, and see how even the heart of woman can be steeled by a familiarity with trials of life and death. But the subject is too painful to dwell upon. Let us hope that the last act of the tragedy may yet be spared, and the law vindicated without a for mal exhibition of cruelty more like vengeance than j ustice.— Times. Mr. O'Connell seems to have got himself into an evil plight. His eternal turbulence, and un principled abuse of every honest and respectable man in the kingdom, have led to a severer vigi lance with regard to his words and actions than at any former period ; and even less than at any former period is he prepared to stand the ordeal which he has thus laboured (though unde signedly) to provoke. This clever but fast fading demagogue will not endure that any man, distinguished by the integrity and services of his public life, shall enjoy the smallest particle of Cavour with his countrymen ; and the more une quivocal his titles to the gratitude or kindness of the liberal party in Ireland, the more eager and malignant are said to be the agitator's efforts to depreciate him. The letters from that country are full of indignation at the mean and sordid selfishness which—how truly of course we know not—the writers appear unanimous in imputing to O'Connell. Nor do these accusations pro ceed from Orangemen, but in many instances from persons who co-operated with him zealously on the Catholic question, and on every other which had the solid advan tage of Ireland for its object. But they will not bear to be trampled on as the slaves of a mischief-maker by the fierce multitude who sur ound and fawn upon him. They will not obey his writs, —they will not _ keep pace with his numberless and indefatigable inconsistencies. Lord Cloncurry refuses to " register hi s de crees ;" Bish o p Doyle treats with undisguised contempt O'Connell's abandonment of his own long-cherished plan of poor laws in Ireiand. Lord Cloncurry again more than hints that O'Connell's secret purpose in getting up a Dublin Parliament was to force himself into office under the Crown, or to wring a fresh contribution—Oh shame ! from the wretched, half-famished people. We repeat, that dozens of letters are in town from Ireland, written by independent persons, with uo party bias unfavourable to Nir. O'Connell, but all treating of his late and threatened pro. ceedings in the same tone of contempt and dis gust. It is astonishing that men capable of So much better things should thus sacrifice fair fame and praiseworthy ambition, for what cm never procure them more than the shouts of a mob, and the wise man's scorn.—Times. We refer our readers to an account in an other column of the success with which the people'of Camberwell combine to resist the church job. No Legi , lative measure in our recollec tion has been producalfe, of half of the oppression which the new Church Bill has occasioned. Every where the measure has been used as a handle for fleecing the people. We know no measure which has ecntributed so much to render th Church of England unpopular, as the 21ct authorising the building of additional churches. The proverb says—it is the last fea ther that breaks the horse's nurthened as the people We . r'.e with King's taxes and parish it required only the addition of a heavy church rate to deprive them of all patience . , A knot of jobbers in every ; - ;::',.l,sh has been ever since busied in tearing large brick structures, and fitrnShing them, and in devising all manner of schemes for drawing money out of the pockets of the people. In fact, the word . okurcti is never ' pronounced withut Up in the minds of the hearers the idea of a rank job. The cunning authors of this scheme for adding to tile power of the church hat evidently over-shot the mark. They have left on the minds of the people the impression, that of all the corruptions in the country, the most foul it that which takes the name of rel'.gion to plunder them.—Morning The Irish agitator is " catching it,' right and left, and 14 ell tparlirs. His summons to the Pete and Commoners of Ireland to assemble in Dublin on the 9th instant, has dropped dead born from the hands of his. ! Secr2tAty-L-a lifeless and despis e d thing, the Peers - have refused to attend tO his summons—the representatives of the Commons of Ireland have scouted it—the , Bishops hav e t ro d u p on it as "an imhoiy thing; and if Mr, o'Grninall ha'S More feeling than nerve,'3, .We really do not envy, though we think he amply deserves, the situation in which he' has placed himself. When Napoleon was incul cating on his brother Lucien, the lief ssit4 of sacrificing all Oublic tc.!eliiig to private ambition, the latter is said to have observed to him that " the bow might be bent beyond its bearing, and that the arrow which flew from it might recoil on the strong arm that drew It anti.-.-mama eamponere fit. 4 .7i)is—such is the case with O'Connell. He has been overpraised by his countrymen, and extravagant praise has spoiled him. He gainesl the confidenc e of his countrymt: once, anti after havin g lost it, he again contrived to regain it ; and thus success in what may he termed the difficult times of Ireland, has blown him up with some thing like s supernatural conceit in his own powers of fascination—a conceit which has broken forth in a manner to astonish his more sober-minded and reflecting countrymen, and to impress every one with the notion, that, instead seeking the welfare of his country, he has only been seeking his own individual aggrandisement. We do not wish to enlarge upon this topic ; be cause we do not wish to be thought either ill-natured or Uncharitable ; but we should be wanting in our duty to the interests of Ire land, were we to omit the answer, and part of another answer, from Lord Cloncurry, and Dr. Doyle, to the summons of Mr. O'Connell's Secretary, The answer of the former breathes a severe indignation against the ruinous plans of the Irish agitator ; but it is the in dignatitm not of one who is only believed to be an honest man, but of one who has proved him self to be honest—who has been the steady and open mueh frfioern it—who f h has e Country—who en incarcerated sake by th e worst of Tory Governments—who has dev o t e d hi s lif e an d f o rtu ne to its benefit, s endured or its and on whose character, both private and pub lic, there is no stain of vice—no foundation for a p ri o y y e le ha is rg n e o o te inconsistency.f lss s strong limits p re v en t us fromg ai The energetic, letter but o our doing mere than gtvillg i a mere outli ne o f it., T o h a v e withheld either, however, notwithstanding the pressure of matter, would have been a sin not to be forgiven in these critical times. Let Ireland act up to the spirit of her best friends, instead of following the sinister advice of selfish agitators, and the right hand of fellowship will be extended to her with a cordiality which will win her best wishes and forward her best interests.—Morn. Advertiser. The trials of the Bristol rioters have served effectually to dispel the mystification so impudently attempted by our reforming contemporaries, by means of A b nich they would have persuaded the public that the crimes of these unfortunate men were the offspring of other motives and feelings than those which the revolutionary Ministers of the Crown and thei r p ar ti sans o f the Press had laboured strenuously to excite. To counteract this delusion nothing more was reVired than a judicial investigation of the proceedings of the Reform Ricters and incendiaries, in which it has distinctly appeared that the individuals who have been stimulated by their zeal for Reform to violate the laws were, with scarcely a single excep tion, persons who had hitherto maintained a decent character in society, and some of them even a respectable stationthat they were not the habitual ruffians and plunderers whom the Jour nals devoted to Reform were so anxious to de scribe, but that they were in fact what we from the first stated them to be, person;, hitherto not only guiltless, but ustful and meritorious mem bers of the community, who had degenerated . into criminals only because they Were ardent and zealous Reformers, and because they had been weak enough to imbibe the lesson which the Ministerial P ress h a d b een employed to incuredouthlrtei Ministerial brickbat-anti -bl v d. crime r o si iu u msd l d oe. k s of justify acafe nd cd t l s z d np e ri a bot l :se a lLwlt n an d i ntiheet a h. r goon effectually promoted the success of Reform can didates at the last general election, and the couragement held out by Government to those who thus stimulated the people to outrage and violence, produced their proper and natural effect in the conflagration of the city of Bristol. For this deplorable calamity, for the bloodshed which attended it, for the loss of life which is now about to follow it—in necessary vindication of the authority of the law—the present Adminis tiation, and those who promoted its policy, by offering daily excitements to acts of lawless vio lence, and instead of being punished were ap plauded and rewarded for the deed, arc morally responsible. Would that the legal responsi bility also could fall upon the greatest criminals rather than upon men who—misguided, ins fatuated, and guilty as they have been--are cri minal in a less degree than those who inflamed their passions, and pointed out to them the road of which they have now reached the fatal termination. The unfortunate men who are about to expiate with their lives the deep offences in which their too zealous co-operation in the policy of Go vernment has involved them are the proper ob jects not only of censure but of commiseration. It is impossible not to entertain a feeling of pity towards men who, intending to shew the.nselves the allies of Government, find that they are really in the situation of its victims. One of the most mortifying views of human life is pre nehted to us when we behold the very different fates of men who, in respect to character and conduct, bear a close and, in many essential particulars, a perfect resemblance to each other. The nristol rioters sought to promote the cause of Reform by setting fire to public and private property, and they are to be hanged. Are there no other adherents o f the same caut2 WhO to promote it by means equally criminal and irregular ? What shall we say of those public writers who instructed the mobs in our cities and towUs, during the e , :- citf:ir.tnt, of a general election, to strike in the faces of constitutional candidates and their friends ? What of the Ministers who patronise and assist such encouragers aod, tekliert of crime ? k'. ha of that M Mister of the Crown who warned the Bench of Bishops that unlesS they Voted with hitt'. they 'Mist prePare fcir death at the hnds of a brutal and infuriated populace What, above all, of the new Peers, and of those who create them, who, for sake of carrying a particular measure of Reform, unite in the per peti-atidn . 'cif a qt•tai; Constitutional crime, combine to destroy the independence of the existing le gislature, and club their several contributions to establish in the executive Government . a ' , Jespctic and uncontrolled authority, subversive of the dearest rights and interests of the people? That the persons condemned to death at Bristol have justly deserved their fate, that the infliction of the ettretife penalty of the lay'. - in their ctt, , e matter of absolute necessity for the preservation of society, are propositions which no man in his senses would think of disputing for a moment. But there is one a ggr a vat i on o f t h e i r m i sery Which all good men must surely lament, the re flection that their fatal sentence is to be carried into execution under the authority of an Admi nistration whose policy it was their only purpose to !It - on - late; N hog t±tenr.ce!,' they only attempted to realise, whose lessons they had laboured with too much success to imbibe and to pursue. — Morning Post. ter Stone. s. rt. to s. d. Per Stone. n; d. tO B.d. 3i,t Heifers& Steern2 210 Ordinary Nfidillings-2 0 2 4 Market Calf-- 6 0 cacti. --- MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Pricc Current of yesterday.; SUGAR.—We have a continued demand for West India Mtis%.:o:raties at very foil Market prices; the estimated sales fur the week are 4,000 hhds and trs. at again la. higher, making the advance of brown Sugar 25., and good and fine 3s. per cwt. from the late lowest point of the Market.—ln the Refined Market thete has been much firrilness, and the purchas , s for the howe consumption have been very extensive. This afternoon the low de scriptions continue to meet ready buyers, but there are very few parcel , offering, and large Lumps now could not readily be ohtlined under, 131 s. ; the mild and good de scriplinns of Lumps and Loaves also have been taken off more freely for melting, and at rather advanced prices; Gtr crashe:l there are still some ir,quiries, but the advanced prices of Lumps, suitalde to make it, has checked the pur chases, which consequently have been confined to the mid. sorts, at a 295. and tine, r ntit!!..,l to the I.ounty on doodle-refined, 31s. 3d. a 325., but generally of this sort there is none offering under the latter price ; fur low 275. is now demanded. EAST INDIA SUGARS..--The public sales have consisted of 5,754 bags Alauritins, And 501 bags Bengal ; the former has advanced in the sari e proportion as British Plantation, but the Sales did nut go off with much brisk ness ; the present prices, however; will bust probably be maintained, As the quantity in first bands is flow very trifling ; the prices for ►ow dry brown to good greyish yellow were from 41s. 6d. a 535. 641.; Bengal White, mid. to fine colour, sold from 245. 6d. a 265., damaged from 15s. 6d. a 235. This day 1,804 bags Siam Sugar sold at prices ls, higher; very good 48s. a 2i.s. 1 2 614.E1615r SUGARS —By private contract there has scarcely been ally business done, although some inquiry i made for White Bahia and Pcrnams; good to fine yellow Havannah, sound sold from 225. 6d. a 235., being rather cheaper, damaged yellow tdent frbm oa. dd. a :'?25; 6d., And nainag'ed white from 2'is. to '3lB. This days public sale 185 chests 11 barrels Havannah Sugar sold with briskness, Is. to Is. rid. hi .her ; good to fine white 325. a 345. 6d. ; 22 chests Brazil sold, yellow 21s. a 235., brown 17s. a 17s. ed. CbtAi•E't..-the toffee Market bas been very dull all the week, and where sales were effected the prices were lower: some fine ordinary Sr. Domingo sold at 568. Since the accounts from abroad, in the beginning of the week, were more favourable; there has been more inquiry for foreign -orts, hilt Vet) , little businets was dime, is holdtrt id genetal will not submit to any reduction ; parcels of good ordinary St. Domingo fetched 565. ; in the public sales Brazil waB principally bought in, there being no buyers within ls. to Is. 6d. of former rates. Eist India sort 9 as well as British Plntation, sold is. a 2s. cheaper; Jamaica good ordinary clean sold at 855., fine ordinary Sly., low middling 88s. a 90 , .; mid. 91s. 6d. a 925. ; Brazil coloury good and fine ordinary hoiight in from 115 s. 11(1. a 565. damigetl sold from 495. a 545. ; Ceylon good ordinary sold from 52s a 535. ; Mysore good yellow was bought in at 61s. ; Sumatra ordinary rank sold from 48sr a 310., good ordi nary clean sold from 525. a 52w bd., liable to the duty of 9d. This day 1,303 bags Brazil sold, the fine ordinary colour) , 538. a 568., ordinary pale 51s. 6d. full prices; 732 bags very ordinary guttaatra sold 48s. Oil. a 475. 6d., Cheribon 585., Ceylon 525. 6d. a 538. ; 34 casks I IS bags Demerara told at former prices; E tst India Coffee it 2s. lower frelm the highest point of the Market; Foreign and British Plantation 38. from the late highest price. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-The transactions in Rum have been most extensive; about 2,500 puns. have Changed hands Within ten days, chiefly at the ittlYanee of Id. per gallon, proofs and 2 over at Is. 41, 2 and 3 over is 4id : Jamaica at the same improvement: the public sale went rather hitver than the private contracts-170 puns. Dernerara, 3 to 5 over, all sold at Is. 41. Brandy is rather lower; first marks for arrival 4s. 2d. G eneva it 2d. to 3d. lower; 2s. 7d: for ordinary up to 2s. 9d. fol. wile; This evening no sellers of proof teewards under ls. 4d. HEMP, FLAX, AND TALLOW. -The Tallow Market has been very firth at rather an iniprovitig currency. In flax or temp there is little variation. The Market this afternoon was brisk, and very 6rm prices; yellow candle Tallow 435. 6d., and rather higher for February and March; and for next year"! shipment 40s. a 41.. 6d. this day by public sale 53 casks Cape 'tallow 41s. 9d: a 425. 34., all sold. 'Rasta PRovisrons.-The Butter Market continues in a very depressed state, and as to any other article under this head we cannot note the least alteration in price or demand Itine out lista • COTTON.-The Cotton Market is more firm. the purchases this week consist of 550 Egyptian, fair 6d., good fair, 230 Bengal, ordinary 4d., fair 40. ; 910 Surats, ordinary 3P., fair 4P. ; 50 Madras, good fair 41d• T kA , ilotWith t tadding the immense quantity of ilohea declared for next sale, as well as of Congclu, the prices continue in demand at id. per lb. premium for large 'chesty: O rlo n, command Id. to lid. premium; other deecriptiohs are not SILK.-There is a little more doing, at atnal! improve ment in prices. In China R tw Silk sales have been ef fected at a premium of 6d. to 9d. per lb. on prices of late sale. In Braids there is nothing doing: toit a cco.-the only late purchases ate 00 hhtla. Kentucky, deliverable at a near port at 223., and about 150 hhds. for Ireland. LAC Dye, SAFFLOWER, &c.-Yesterday by public sale 45 b East India Safflower, middling to good, 71. 15s. 91, ; IS b igs Bombay, 51. 15s. ; 78 chests of Lac Dye, part sold at, is. to Is. IP. SPICES.-this day's sale 508 bags fair unsifted Pepper sold 3d. and SAd. which is again rather lower; also 955 b a gs, Bid. and 3 4 ' Asxxs.-Ashes have fallen considerably ; Pot and Pearl nominally about 30s: FiturT.......There has been very little businesi done this week, and prices remain steady as quoted last *eete: O I LS.-This day by public sale 42 casks Seal Oil, dark inferior, 291. 10s. a 301., all sold. S A LTPETRE.-This day's sale 356 bags Saltpetre, re. fraction 6i, sold at 375. and Us., which is 2s. lower. RICE.-Rice is rather more firm. At yesterday's public PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows : Candie 7, rif.ide.%. 7s. lid, togs. (Id. I Moulds, per dozen-9s. (id. COUNTRY CORN MARKErS DURING Vii] WEEK ing some suspicion, refused to allow it to be take until the purchase-money was paid. It is needles' to say that the agreement was never ratified ; Mr. C. having discovered Mr. 'Maltby's object, wt. to the stables in Castle -street, and in undisgoiie , language expressed his opinion upon his conduct' Mr. C's. caution doubtless saved both his money and his property from falling into the hands of ° par of Sharpers." and Mr. ROE and Mr. CONANT expressed their reg ret that Mr. Latham had not been so fortunate in transactions with the prisoner and his master as the writer of the last letter. Under all the circuit'', stances of the case ; it was wholly o u t o f t h e i r pow er! to afford him any assistance. Mr. Latham, probably ought to consider himself fortunate i n h av i ng e v en got h a lf a bli n d an d unl sound horse for his 31/., for it a pp eare d t h a t there were other individuals who had never received; any value for the money they had deposited. An elderly gentleman named Riwlims, next came forward to prefer a complaint against the prisoner. He stated that on the 28th of December last, is consequence of an advertisement which appeared itt one of the Newspapers, he went to some stable: id Fan-street, City, to look at a horse. The animal was brought forward by the prisoner, who said t hat he was servant to a Mr. Maltby, the person to whom that and the other horses in the stable belonged. Witness bluired the price of the horse that h a d been advertised, and the prisoner said it could not be sold for a less sum than thirty guineas. Witnese said that he would give 30/. for the horse if he w e re allowed a week's trial, and that it turned out to be sound and exactly what the prisoner represented; ttrtress also promised that if he found that no teption were practised, he would make the prisoner a present of two sovereigns. The prisuner assented to these terms, and it was finally agreed that ,hotild be deposited in the hands of the prisoner while the horse was on trial, and that sum was ac-' . coidingl - )- paid down at once, and a written agree ment was drasvo out by a Mr, Machin, who stated himself to be the ov,ner of the stables. Th,i.n agreement was signed " for Mr, Halttry." In about a week afterwards witness gent his servant for the horse, in order that he might give it a trite!, but the prisoner would neither give the servant the , 1 horse nor the 3/. Mr. Rawlins's servant deposed, that when he went for the horse, the prisoner refused to permit him to take it away, unless the whole purchase money were first paid. Witness said that his master had not yet purchased the horse, nor did he intend doing so until he had given it it trial. The prisoner said that Mr. Rawlins certainly had bought the horse,'. and mtrit stick to his bargain. Mr. Machin, the person who had drawn out the agreement between the prisoner and Mr. Rawlins was next examined. He stated himself to he the owner of the stables in question, and acknowledged that he had written the agreement produced. The Magistrates said, that the prisoner had cer— tainly riot on the present occasion brought himself within the power of the law, but he would do wen to be cautious in his future proceedings. The prisoner was then discharged, but previous to his quilting the office, Mr. RoE hoped such publicity would he given to these transactions, as would put every person in the kingdom upon their guard ; and deter them from visiting Mr. Maltby's horses or Mr. Machin's stables. THE OPERA.—We are requested to state that this new story of the " Beau Monde," by the Author of" Moth.rs and Daughters," will be published on Mon— day next. The public are therefore requested ro give their immediate orders to their respective booksellers to prevent disappointment. Agents fnr Edinburgh, Messrs. BELL and BRADFUTE ; and for Ireland, Mr. JOHN CUMMING. The publication of Mr. LEIGH HUNT'S forthcoming novel, entitled " Sir Ralph Esher," is unavoidably postponed till the 2iith instant. LUNACY Co:stmissrow.—On Monday a re spectable Jury were assembled at the Swan Hotel, Bed fm-d, to inquire touching the state of mind of Mr. T. B. HOOK, formerly of St. Peter's, Bedford, but now of the County Lunatic Ailutn. The Commissioners were, J. F. Mooac, Esq. ; E. 13wormar, Esq.; T. PEARSE, Esq. ; and J. 511.4,111. min, Esq. After hearing evidence, the Jury found that 'l' B. HOOK had been in an insane state of mind since the Ist of January, 1810. NEWS l'A PE RS-POS T- OF FICE.-- The Suit, Court Journal, British Traveller, and Examiner, due at t his Office on Monday, have not reached us. The post office here is nut in fault. So the irregularity lies at the• door either of our London agents, or, what is more likely, in the blundering cstab;ishment in Aldgate-street.— Dublin Freeman's Journal.—[N.B. For the last three Mondays we have been in the same predicament, not NM of the Dublin Journals of Saturday having been received at The Sun Office.—En. SuN.] CURATIVE EFFECTS OF THE GAME Laws —lt appears from the calendar of prisoners now in custody at S , Juth well, Notts, that. there are eleven for the first offence, seven who have been twice committed, three three times, one four times, one five times, and two fiat times I—Stanford NM'S. DEATH OF MR. FLINT.—We have this week to record the death of Mr. W3I. FLINT, the cele brated angler, and author of a treati•e on the horse, who rode a match over Knavesmire against Mrs. TuoitYros - , in the August meeting 1804. For some years past he had resided at Driffield, but during the last six months h.ol been at lo igings in Castlegate, in this city, his wife: and family still residing at Driffield. He was addicted to, spirituous liquors, and frequently complained of having at t,u•ks of spasmodic a'thtna, for which he took laudanum,, and sometimes, according to his own account, twelve drops of prussic acid. On Friday night last, he went to bed in a state of intoxication ; his son, about fourteen. years of age, sleeping with him. About nine the next, morning, he told the boy to get up, give him a glass, and: then fetch him a cup of coffee. The boy gave him a glass, and fetched the coffee up-stairs, when, being absent only a. few minutes, he found his father a corpse. Mr. BROWN, surgeon, was called in, who found in the deceased's pocket,. a small vial, labelled " poison," which had contained. prus , ic acid. An inquest was held on the body on Satur day evening, when a verdict was returned of ‘• Died from having taken too large a dose of prosaic acid as a medi cine."— York Chronicle. Not many days since, and only a few miles from Dunster, some persons were alarmed by the moans of a person apprently in distress, and they discovered that. it preceeded from an outhouse of a farm-yard. On re pairing to the spot a stranger was discovered in female attire, and to all appearances it was believed to be a woman in labour. She was immediately given to tke occupant of the farm, who not su.pecting the trick which was played off, with a feeling which did him credit, sent for the over— ,eer, and in the mean time administered some warm brandy and water. At length the supposed female was conveyed in a cart to the workhouse, clothing provided, same good women ordered to attend her, and they were for some time also deluded ; but, from the person expressing a wish to have a little more brandy and water and a few shillings to enable her to get on to some other parish, the', began to suspect the trick, and were about to send her themselves, when the impostor (a man in woman's clothes) bolted, and was soon out of sight. --Cambrian. sale 1,850 bags Bengals, all taken in at 14s. and Ifs. 6d., we believe now held for 15,. FRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the week ending . Jan. 10, is tn. s!:id. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of customs paid or payable thereon do the importation thereof into Great Britain. PRICES OF HOPS.—J,co. 13. Kent Pockets— 4l 15s. 51. 16s. to 71. Ws. Sussex Ditto Frsex Ditto. . 41. 10s. 5/. Its. to 6/. 6s. Farnham Ditto, Fine.......................... 9/. 9s. P.V. Os. to 01 Os. Seconds .........—.... 0/. Os. 71. Os to 91 Os. - -.......,—. 31. Iss. 5/. 5s to 6/. RN. Kent Bags. Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto_ Os. 41. 1(14. to 4/. 18s. Os 41. 15s. to 51. 124 PRICE OF OIL. Ripe Oil, brown Gs. —,-- Refined 6 Linseed Oil _ 24 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 12 12 ;ta l ie Cake, per ton 5 10 PRICES 0 LEATH Er. Per lb. - &to d. Per lb. d. to i. Botts, English -- 16 21 English Horse Hides... 12 17 i)itto; Foreign 15 181 Spanish Ditto 14 19 Dressing Htdea 12 14 1 Per dozen. 161 18 Calf Skins., 36 to 4lhb. 15 21 Ditt-, light Ditto 50 to 7011). 21 24 t;i op Hides, light 12 13j Ditto 70 to 80th. 111 211 Ditto 40 to 151 b 13 15 Small Seals, Greenland 20 201 I)!tto WHITECHAPEL HAY M MIKE I.—Jan. 1•J. 60s. Od. to 80i. Od. I t. Inver— 80, Od. to 1,205. Od. 01. to 35, Od. StiEEP SKINS. 4s. Od. to bs. Cd. Downs 3s. Od. to 4,. iid Lunbs Os. Od. tolls. dd. Polled sco t c h Rhos ,10E OF POTATOES.—Jan. 13. 21. Ss. to 31. Os. per ton. 01. Os. to 3/. 10s. ditto. ' 0/. Os. to 3/. Os. ditto. PRICE OF RAW F. Price of Tallow (as stated by th 4 'AT, pet s foil* of M. ,e Tallow q,. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Tow Tallow ...—.... 51s. CA. Yellow Soap--.... 00s. Od. yettb itos,ia.:.--....... Os. Sit I Mottled— White. . 4 '71 . 5. (id. White....----... 725. Od. .- Soap Ditto.-- Gra V i - .,s ...,:..,..—:.—. Ills. Od. Melted Stuff. Good Graves —.........,,,.. ..`K ea Ditto Rough. 43i. Od. Nis. Od. 245. Od. i Wheat. I Barley, Beans. Per Quarter. Ashhurn.,----- 62 72 B:Isl::gstof:c ---L- 54 70 13;:th ---- 44 :'..'ti Bridgewater 58 72 Bristol ----.... , 52 62 34 40 28 36 3,4 '4'l 26 3) 36 411 26 34 20 25 24 30 18 f - A 26 32 21 27 21 26 17 25 18 25 40 49 39 46 40 46 28 36 04 42 46 432 36 42 39 43 40 14 32 41 Chesterfield —. 64 70 Derby 56 63 Devizes 66 70 Dirtast , ,ir 57 68 Dorctiestek.—; a 4 e 0 Exeter 6O 70 Gloucester—. 48 66 tiongerford 56 79 Leicester 75 Newbury 41 43 30 40 30 31 2f 42 30 43 - 44 25 3S 36 42 20 :n 21 27 36 46 46 notn.sev . 56 62 Shalleg'bu,y 56 Shepton 31allet 52 6.3 .... 19 32 24 26 20 26 21 28 20 20 26 s. d. s. d. 56 68 34 43 36 4 - 44 36 45 38 44 Sheiborne---.1 56 62 Taunton 58 72 Yeovil ---. 56 64 Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. 34 40 S. d. s. ti. 56 63 ii g 8 B.a. B.a 00 0(' Shrewsbury 18 9 9 6 ARUNDEL I%iAliKET.—Jan. 10. Od. to 48.2 d. 4s. 4( Mutton I 3 4 5 0 3 8 A moderate supply, and a sluggish trade. I. to ss. Od 4 CHICHESTER MA RK ET.—Jan. 11. Beef ti!. to 4s. od. Veal Os. Od. to Os. Od. Mutton -- 3 8 4 10 I 3 8 4 In Lean Stock but little was doing. Supf . :l, Olerably good, and trade dull. RU MFO RD MA RKET. —Jan. 11, F. d. to s. d. s. d. s. d. Beef.— .............d.... '2 '1 4 0 I Veal Mutton 3 6 4 it Potk Suckling Calves from 14s. to 3fis ; Quarter bid Pizsl2s to ISs. each Supply rather limited, and trade dun. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, MAkLPOPOUGH-STREET. Yesterday Philip Ball, a yoUng man having the appearance of a groom, underwent a re-examination, on a charge of defrauding Mr. Peter Moor Latham, of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, of 311. It will he remembered that Mr. Latham sent to a stable in F 4 an-street, in the city, where he saw a home which he agreed to purchase, provided that he was allowed a trial of it, and that he found it to justify the representations which had been gh'en of it by the prisoner. The 311. were left in the pri soner's hands as a deposit for the safe return of the unbind in the event of its not giving satisfaction. The horse upon trial wag found to be a complete piece of deception, and was accordingly sent back to the prisoner, with directions that he should re. turn the deposit money. The prisoner refused to give back an portion of the money, declaring that the horse had been regularly purchased by Mr. Latham at forty-five guineas. sarnc porty in Ocrobae:rrilli a c t s h h t e l Mr. Latham yesterday informed the Magistrates istettaiteyetteiterhsiirliactiovi fm:liii,sar‘t,atairnicylaers!settbihtf)oe, fallen following irito are th extracts h e : that he had, since the prisoner had been in custody, received from trio gentlemen residing in the country g; ra a an account of your ea-e, I have — s of the lay l lhluo d (ile o e,p n : o rri t dryi h fc e oi s tn it cs a ie t iro e rule t l(t o : taken the liberty of addressing you upon the sub ablished jeer, are you your n r l qi e us s e t awindlers; but I will relate afford you any evidence towards the furtherance of great pleasure. " ill the beginning of October last, in conse quence of an advertisement which I saw in one of the Daily Papers, I went to a livery-stable in Fan s'reet. I saw a groom who said his master's name was Maltby, and he (the groom) was empowered to make the best bargain he could with respect to the sale of horses. I took a written agreement from this groom, which he signed, and which stated I waa to have three days' trial of a hor2-e which was to be returned if not approved of. I left a deposit of 10/., arid a little mare of my own. On making trial of the horse I found it was not worth 51., and I consequently returned it. The groom told me with much assurance he had not been authorized by his matter to give trial of the horse, and he there fore considered I had purchased it. He moreover stated he had sent my mare fifty miles into the country, I immediately sent for Mr. Maltby, who upo n his arrival, eapressed much regret at his groom' s mistake, arid said he was willing to take on himself the responsibility of his man, and as I did not ling hit horse, and he had sent mine away, he would allow me my own price for my mare, and re turn trio the deposit. So far CO good. He had not, hdwerier the money (301.) with him, but said if I would call upon him on the following day he,.would give it to me. At first I demurred, but from his own representations, and those made by Mr. Machin, proprittor of the stables, I was induced, fool that I was, to take a bill, Vay able three days after date. I need not mention that when the bill became due, Mr. Maltby was not forthcoming: all 1i could learn was, he had been arrested. On applying to an attorney, he plainly told me that arty attempt to recover by :ANN , that which I had lost; would be throwing money away, as he was acquainted with the characters of the parties in question. Relying upon this advice I declined proceeding, and put up with my loss. The day after I had accepted the bill I saw my own mare in the stable in Ilan street, although Maltby told me that lie had sent her into the country. It was then (as he informed m e ) so ld. I was qu i te ;;Graded at the time of this transaction by Maltby telling me that lit this selling off his stud. I have the bill still by rue, if it would afford any satisfactory evidence." The other letter was from a gentleman residing at Tunbridge Wells, It was to the following effect " In May last, Maltby and Bull occupied a stable in Charlotte-mews, Castle -street, and at that time they had a showy brown horse there; but Mr. C. (the writer of the letter) being somewhat suspicious of them, requested a week's ►rial without leaving any deposit. To this Bull and Maltby consented, but afterwards said that the horse had fallen down in the stable and hurt his knee, in consequence of which it had been sent to the salt marshes. Mr. C. had a cart-horse and a phaeton to dispose of, and Maltby with a friend of his went to look at them. The former agreed to give 501. for the horse and the phaeton together, leaving it optional with Mr. C. to take the horse that was at the salt marshes or not. Maltby sent for the photon : but Mr. C. still Oats. 11111TIIS. On the 11th inst. the lady of Mr. Robert de Neufville Lucas, of a son. On the 9tli mst. at Kentish-town, Mrs. G. liodgkinson, of a daughter. On the 12th inst. in Wimpole-street, the lady of the Rev. E. Strong, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 10th inst. at Ilfracombe, John Somers Down, of Southampton, to Jane, the third daughter of Rear-Admiral Bowen. On the 10th inst. at York, Lieut.-Col. Chamberlayne, late of the ::€1 Dragoon Guards, and of Orford-house, Essex, second son of S. Chamberlayne, Esq., of ltyes, to Sarah, fifth daughter of the late Rev, J. Preston, of Hasby-hall, Yorkshire. DIED. On the Ilth inst. Mrs. Seward, of Chase Side, Enfield, in the 64th year of her age. On the I th inst. at Mornington-house, J. hunter, Esq., late of I'ershore, Worcestershire. On the 26th ult. at Maisemore-lodge, Gloucestershire, aged 44, the Hon. Julia Harward, wife of Captain R. Harward, R.N., and youngest daughter of Admiral Lord Viscount Exmouth, G.C.8., &c. On the 11th inst. at Stoke Newington, Mr. C. Halson, of Size lane, Bucklersbury. On the 12th inst. at Peckham, Mary, the wife of Mr. Barnes, Of Botolph-lane. On the 7th inst. in Rutland-square, Dublin, Francis Mary Doyle, widow of J. Doyle, Esq., late of Usher's On the 11th inst. Mr. John Smith, of Clapham-road, Stock well, Surrey, formerly of Bankside, Southwark, in the 81st year of his age. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.