The Sun. — London, England, 1840-11-03 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. -------- MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (MONDAY EVENING.) TIMES.—The state of the finances laid by the Dutch Minister before the States-General seems so far to have given satisfaction, that the budgets of past years are avowed to have been incorrect, and hence the in creased expenditure specified in the present budget shows at least a desire on the part of the Government to act with more openness. At the same time it is ob servil that the operation by which it is proposed to corer the deficit of 34,000,000 florins is somewhat in tricate, and that the substitution of one debt for another is rather calculated to m3stify the public. According to the best information received on the subject, it appears that the Government will c reate 18,000,000 florins of 5 per cent. stock, to be inscribed in the great book, that is charged on the revenues. of the country itself, and not on those of the i co.lonisaies. Ot the stock so created only tw o-thirds are, tis d, to be issued in 1841. There is also to be issued 10,000,000 of a similar stock to pay off the same a mount of Treasury Bills. It seems rather singular that after the restriction against issuing more than two-thirds of the 18,000,000, there should be a power to issue 10,000,000 additional stock ; but this apparent incon sistency is explained by supposing that the Government, by merely s ubstituting a funded for an unfunded debt, do not consider the stock an absolutely new creation. To cover the balance between these stocks and the de ficiency 8,000,000 bills at 43 per cent. will, it is said, be issued, with a proviso that no more than 6,000,000 shall be in circulation at a time. These are to be re deemable every three months, and precaution is to be taken that no more than 2,000,000 shall come in every month. There is every reason to believe that the par ticulars above stated are to'erably accurate, but it must he confessed that the operation is a little obscure, while it is hard to conceive the object of extinguishing Trea sury Bills with one hand, and creating them with an other. It need not be remarked that the mere circum stance of having given in statements of revenue ad mitted now to be incorrect, has produced an unfavour able disposition in our capitalists towards the Dutch Government. An opinion in favour of the preservation of the peaceful relations with France is pretty general among the trading interest ; a particular interest which may be quoted is that of the French brandy trade, who rea son from the proceedings of the principal French houses that the completion of the commercial treaty is yet in contemplation. It is the practice of the trade for the principal houses to issue circulars, whereby they agree for a given ti rew to supply brandies at a certain fixed price. Havine done so, they are in a measure bound to supply on no other terms, and if their orders come after a change of circumstances renders a sale at the fixed price unprofitable, their only course is to refuse them altogether until the appointed period shall have expired. On this occasion the orders of brandy have been most extensive, and the French houses have re fused to execute any more. Now, as the treaty would cause a great reduction in the duties on French brandies, and a consequently increased demand, it is inferred that the French houses act on the supposition that the treaty will be executed, as a rise in the bonded price, which is the only price which rules the market, would be the immediate consequence of such a circumstance, and render it impossible for them to sell without loss at the present price. This is an argument among the trade, and it must be confessed an ingenious one, in favour of peace. Private letters from Lisbon state that the sums re mitted by the Portuguese Government to England, in bills taken by the Bank on account of the dividend which the bondholders are to receive next December or January, including the sum to be forwarded this day, amount to something between 39,0001. and 40,000/. ; but the ensuing revenue from the Customs, as well as the tobacco contract, have already been mortgaged to a much more considerable amount, although they have been applied to meet other demands. The present yearly importation of Newfoundland and other codfish is about 80,000 quintals in Lisbon, 50,000 quintals in Oporto, 12,000 quintals in Figueira, 300 quintals in Vianna, and 500 quintals in Faro—in all, 150,000 quit.tals, while before 1834 it amounted to i 40,000 quintals. The present prices, including duty and land ing charges of 1,700 reis par quintal, are from 4,900 reis to 5,300 reis per quintal, while the 11,000 quin tals brought in by the Portuguese themselves in their own schooners have obtained 4,800 reis, out of which they do not pay any duties. M. Aicardi, late Sardinian Consul at Madeira, is said to have sailed on Tuesday for that island, charged by the Grand Master, Hydaspe, of the opposition Carbo narian Club (the legitimate one is presided over by the Senator Gonsalves de Miranda) with full powers to in stitute a section of the Lisbon fraternity at Madeira. It appears that J. B. Moreira, the protector of the slave trade, will not be received as Portuguese Consul-General. Although it has been shown by a deputy, member of the Finance Committee, that by establishing a just rate on each house or estate proprietor, the impost of the decima alone might be increased by 400 contos, or 100,0001. nearly, it has been determined that the taxes for the year 1840.41 be collected according to the de fective assessment of 1837. POST.—An Act of Parliament was obtained, in 15;36, for the formation of a railway from London to the 'Thames Haven Dock, a few miles below Tilbury Fort, but the project was never carried into execution, on account of the difficulty there was of coming to an ar rangement with the Eastern Counties Railway Com pany for the use of that portion of the line into town from Romford, where'it was proposed thaThames Haven line should join it. It would appear, however from a prospectus which has been sent to us, that this diffi culty has at length been surmounted, and that the share list will now be filled up, and the under taking proceeded with as quickly as possible. The object of the projectors is to substitute for the tedious thirty-five miles of river navigation between London and the Thames Haven Dock twenty-four miles of railway travelling, and the scheme has certainly strong claims to the support of the public, the delays arising from an opposing tide, and the inconvenience, especially to females and children, of embarking on board of, and landing from, steam-vessels, at the different places below London -bridge, being often quite intolerable. It is found that passengers putting themselves on the line at. the Thames Haven Dock may economise in time four hours on an average, and they v-ill profit at least as much in comfort and convenience, particularly those coming from a distance, and who have been suff,ring the fatigues usually attendant upon sea excursions. The plats has much besides all this to re commend it. For the conveyance of merchandise from the dock to the metropolis it will of course prove a valuable acquisition. Vessels availing themselves of the accommodation of this new dock, when completed, will rave much in the article of fuel alone ; but we should be disposed to favour the project were it only on account of the effect it will have of obviating much of the confusion caused by an over-crowded state of the river, and of preventing many of those lamentable accidents which take plane in consequence among the shipping. Of the expense to be incurred in the completion of the flock and its adjunct, the railway, we gather no very precise idea from the prospectus, nor are we enabled to offer an opinion as to the eligibility of the speculation, considered in a commercial sense, and as an investment merely. These are pointii, indeed, upon which we should refrain from speaking under any circumstances, as it is for capitalists alone to judge of the advantages to be expected from a participation in the projects laid before theirs. The delay which has taken place ia the promised pay ment of the hall-yev's dividend on the Chilian debt duo in September, at the reduced rate of 3 per cent. per annum, or 1 i per cent. six months, has been e xcused on the ground that the bill of lading for the remittance required to make good the amount bad not come forward. It is said, in fact, that it did not reach the hands of Senor Rosales until to-day. There will now, we are assured, be no further postponement of the matter. On a reference to our advertising columns, an announcement of the precise time of payment may probably be found inserted simultaneously with this explanation. SUN. T here was no news worth alluding to in the City this afternoon. A Rood d ea l o f co nversation has been excited in the City , by the th circumstance e of the liabilities of a He brew jobber in funds, who failed some time since fora large amount, not having yet been covered, al though his relatives haveliquidated the claims of many parties, and, from their immense wealth, have ample wea ns of doing justice to the have, th e y have done, they suspicion with rest. of some fa appearance of In going as far as reason, incurred the we trust any favouritism uritism and un byiedpeohrseuvrweeneot prevented d theby t due prefere n ce ; but hear is un fortunate individual's affairs, threatened by the sufferers, will early arrangement of all demands on hi m . The Ist of November is one of the annual holidY2 a t the Bank of En g land, but as this fell on a sunlg this year, it was ke p t to-day. The Stock Exchan ay was cons equently very thinl y attended, and but a limited business business was done. Consols closed at z' 4 7l j for money, and 88 to * for account. Exchequer Bills touched par. The I ndia eHal per Cents., brought 07 to i, and Stock declined to 242. The Foreign securities were not much dealt in on the whole, but at the same time they were not neglected. Portuguese New Five per Cents. rose from 32 k to 9,1 and 33i ; and the Three pet" Cents. advanced to • ii• Chilian Bonds were steady at .3'2; Colombian broughtn 23 i to f.i , and Mexican 271 to . Bo Brazil 4. t s o were 74i, and Dutch Two-and-11-Half per Ce nts. :,0 tireal . Weat en r Railway Shares 141 to 15 1 prem ium, and .Black wa ll 5 discount. Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., M.P., has quite re,- co vemd from the effects of his late accident. The election for Lord Provost of Edinburgh ta k e s place this day, when a strenuous contest is expect ed be tween Sir James Forrest, the present Provost and Nor.-lAtrusionist, and Mr. Ad Black, the well-known pu bli s her and DWerner PRE ,v4NTATION OF THE NEW LORD MAYOR. Yesterday, the Lord Mayor Elect, accompanied by I the Sheriffs, the Recorder, the City Solicitor, the Re membrancer, and other City officers, proceeded from Guildhall to the House of the Lord Chancellor, for the purpose of receiving her Majesty's approbation of the newly appointed Lord Mayor of the City of London, according to established usage. The RECORDER, in presenting Thomas Johnson, Esq., the newly elected Lord Mayor to the Lord Chancellor, \said that he had the honour to introduce a gentleman who had, after a contest of some continuance, which having been carried through the various gradations of appeal, up to the reference to the assembled Judges, succeeded to the Aldermanic gown of Portsoken Ward 1 —a situation which he filled highly to his own credit, 1 and the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens. The Lord Mayor Elect had also filled the office of Sheriff, and was in every respect qualified to take upon himself the distinguished functions of the Chief Magistracy of this great City. In presenting the new Lord Mayor for the Queen's approval, it might not be inappropriate to state that Mr. Johnson was the first Lord Mayor for a great many years who had been brought up at that admirable place of education — Christ' s Hospital. It was due to him, too, to state that from his earliest years he had manifested great spirit and determination, a proof of which he had given at the period of the riots, when, being then but fifteen years of age, he had joined with the other boys of that school in barring the gates against the infuriated mob, and thus saving the Hos pital from being destroyed. The same resolute spirit had distinguished his riper years, and he had for forty five years been a merchant of this great city, respected for his integrity, hospitality, and independence. The Recorder concluded by stating that he felt high gratifi cation in presenting to the Lord Chancellor a gentleman in every respect so competent to uphold the dignity, impartiality, and liberal character of the high office of Lord Mayor of the City of London. The LORD CHANCELLOR received the introduction with marked courtesy. He assured the Recorder that her Majesty highly approved of the choice of a gentleman to the office of-Lord Mayor, who was represented as so well able to perform the duties of that important functionary. The Recorder had alluded to the spirit with which the new Lord Mayor had when a boy at Christ's Hospital distinguished himself at a time of very great excite ment. He (the Lord Chancellor) was convinced that if any circumstances should arise during the mayoralty which was about to commence, calculated to require the exercise of the Lord Mayor's peculiar energies, the opportunity would not be abandoned. The Lord Mayor elect, the Sheriffs and officers, then bowed and retired. KING'S COUNTY. The following is the reply of the Lords Justices to the memorial recently adopted at a meeting of Magis trates of the King's County, convened by Lord Oxman- town at Parsonstown : Dublin Castle, October 28, 1840. Mv LORD—I am directed by the Lords Justices to acknowledge the receipt of a memorial, approved and transmitted to them by your Lordship, as Lieutenant of the King's County, and signed by a large proportion of the Magistracy of that county. Their Excellencies concur with the memorialists in thinking that a renewal of that species of outrage, which has unhappily prevailed of late in the King's County, demands the gravest consideration on the part of the executive ; while there are circumstances connected with the late attempts on the life of Mr. Biddulph, which place it beyond the level of ordinary crimes. The boldness and confidence of the attack, made in open day—the unwillingness of those near the spot to render assistance when called upon—are facts.too clearly indicative of a state of society, where the criminal is looked upon rather as the assertor of some imaginary right, than as the perpetrator of a deed of atrocity and horror. ........... The total inefficacy of a reward, as a means of dis covery, and the failure of all attempts to bring former offenders to justice, are but further proofs of the exist ence of this sympathy. I need scarcely assure you that their Excellencies view such a state of things with the deepest concern, and that they are specially ready to co-operate most warmly with the local Magistracy in any mode calcu lated, in their opinion, to lead to its suppression ; nor are they disposed to shrink from calmly investigating the causes to which this unnatural connexion of public sympathy with crime' may be traced. The statement in the memorial is professedly one of fact, confined to a detail of outrage, while it is left to the Government to infer the cause and to devise the remedy. But their Excellencies feel that with regard to the cause there is little necessity for looking beyond the facts recorded in the memorial. It would appear that, with the exception of the case of Mr. Synge—one certainly of a very peculiar nature—all the outrages which have occurred have arisen from disputes con nected with the tenure of land. The difficulties with which the landlord has to con tend are fairly stated in the memorial ; and their Ex cellencies consider that any inquiry into the system — out of which these difficulties have sprung, as affecting the personal conduct of the landlord—could practically do little more than raise a difference of opinion, or re• vive feelings which it is the duty of the Government to strive to allay. Other causes, which have obviously contributed to the evil that exists, have been long in operation : the changes in the nature of the franchise indirectly inducing changes in the tenure and occupancy of land ; the traditions handed down, and fondly che rished, of properties transferred by right of conquest ; and, above all, the absence of any provision for the des titute, and the desperation consequent on the know ledge of there being no alternative between starvation on the one hand, and retaining possession of land on the other—may, in a great degree, account for some of the worst features in the present state of things ; and whether or not a reciprocal feeling of duty has existed long enough between landlord and tenant (for the seed is not sown and the harvest reaped on the same day), or whether a sense of common interest has been, for any extended period, naturally cultivated, it cannot but be gratifying to their Excellencies to find so large a body of resident gentlemen to give expression to feelings so altogether creditable with respect to the relations which ought to subsist between them and their tenantry. Happily a law is now about to come into operation which may tend to remove one of the main causes of agrarian outrage : and the unceasing attention of the Government will be given to the promotion of any mea- Eares which may seem calculated to promote a perma nent improvement in the social relations, and in the phy sical and moral condition of the people. Their Excellencies are glad to perceive that, even while the memori aliits feel themselves called upon to im ply a doubt, with respect to the effect of one portion of the arrangements in the present constitution of the con stabulary force, they willingly do justice to the admir able equipment and discipline of that body of men, to which the most concurrent testimony has been borne from all quarters. With respect to the specific point in question, their Excellencies will direct the Inspector- General to inquire whether some of the best conducted men in the force might not be permanently located ,with a view to become more thoroughly acquainted with par ticnlar localities ; and at the same time, with no invi dious distinction, from its being considered as a reward for past good conduct. Their Excellencies have only to express their satis faction at the cool and temperate manner in which the facts, set forth in the memorial, have been brought be fore them. I have the honour to be, my Lord, tour Lordship's most obedient humble servant, N. H. MACDONALD. To Lord Oxmantown, &c. &c. EARTHQUAKE AT COMRIE.—A rather smart shock was felt here on the evening of the 26th, to a quar ter to seven o'clock. Reckoning the severest ever fi It here, viz , the one on the 23d October last year (which it will be recollected convulsed Scotland almost throughout) at 10 deg., this last one would stand on the same scale about 4 deg. The seismometers, or earthquake markers, were on this last occasion very sensibly affected. One of them—Mr. Milne's vertical force one—ranged 4 deg. on its scale, which is about three-fourths of an inch from its zero, or point of rest. Another—the dip instrument—in dicated the shock to have come upon it at angle of 45 deg. to the horizon, in the direction of W. by N. So that if the hill of Cluan be, as is here generally supposed to be the case, directly over the focus of these shocks, this would give a depth to it under that hill, within the bowels of the earth of about two miles. The barometer and thermometer were not affected. The former stood at 29 3-8 inches, the other at 48 deg. Fehr. The night was calm and misty— Scotch mist it might be called—for it was accompanied with a gentle drizzle. This is now the third shock that has been sensibly felt within the current month. WEYMOUTH.-011 Sunday morning last, at about four o'clock, during a violent storm from the eastward, the Eagle, revenue cutter, Lieutenant Ray, R.N., in en deavouring to pick up her boats that were rowing guard in Portsmouth Roads, was driven on the sands near the old Castle it. a dangerous position, but was got off with assistance with but little damage. Two boats belonging t7.the Royal George, revenue cutter, Lieutenant Inakip , R. N., were swamped in thele endeavours to render assist ance to the format, but no lives lost. A highly respectabla and very skilful farmer in our neighbourhood, who, for many yearP, had suffered con siderable loss among his calves by the quarter-ill, has fuund that feeding them during winter on oil-cake, and keeping them entirely from turnips, is a complete preven tive. After for sever:l years following this plan, always with the same fortunate result, be y one year, gave them a few turnips, and Qn that occasion he lost a calf by the dis uze alluded to. A respcetable farmer near Alnwick also, who had annually suffered greet loss from the quarter-ill. has experienced the same salutary eitecta from pursuing the ibove practice.—erwick Advertiser. ---EXTRAOIIINARY PRODUCL—Last week Air. am. this city, Thomas Lambertg,airndne‘n-eetpheer,fokloowwiCngrosby, cumber, lt w a 1 the ‘' l e 4 4 l) t ;* r r " od 3 r : d .r i bniaceirieYpi of dcpitigocceluToociftnrpinal h 4 i lnel et pota i t n o. 320 potazoii which was upwards of two stones four pounds. was of the fiffc OlLlOjle,c9nd e a r l y.-Carl isle Patriot, THE SUN, LONDON, UESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1840. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM TFIE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) We trust our sincere desire for " peace and good will with France has not been left doubtful. Our readers will do us the justice to remember that the Globe was the first public organ which laid down what w e deemed the limits beyond which we ought not to go in seeking to protect Turkey by forcible measures. The late French Ministers gave reason to conclude that it was only beyond those limits they should fix the casus belli. The present Ministry are not less peaceful, of course, than their predecessors. The casus belli between France and England would, there fore, appear impossible ; and so it would be, were there no risk that the war-at• any-price party should come uppermost. We have invariably expressed the same anxiety which we still feel, that every concession, which in honour can be made, should be made, to tran quillise public feeling in France, and to render it pos sible for her statesmen to guide her councils by other rules than compliance with the cry of the multitude. This is, however, very different from exclaiming, with some ultra-politicians, that—happen what will— the French alliance must be the sole object of English policy. This is not the way to have or keep alliances, worth having or keeping. We trust we set a due value on peace and alliance with France. United in just ob jects, France and England might lead the world. But to such an union there must be two parties who have the same objects really in view. We shall not secure the French alliance by declaring we will have no other. On the contrary, such a declaration (which some of our wise men are for making) while it renders it very certain that we shall never have any but French alliance, renders it equally certain that neither shall we have French alliance to any purpose. Is it sup posed, that of two nations, who stand on a footing of power so nearly equal as France and England, the one can throw itself unconditionally into the arms of the other, and, while abjuring all separate objects, trust that all such objects are abjured on the other side? It would be most happy indeed for Europe, if such were the case. We believe there is nothing in the nature of things—in the real, substantial interests of either State (the one insular and naval, the other continental and military)—we believe, we say, there is nothing in the nature of things to prevent its being so. But is there nothing in the nature of man? Is it possible to look back to the phases of " French alliance" for the last ten years, without finding traces—not, we trust, of last ng or enmity—but of a sort of suppressed ri valry and impulse to counteraction ? (From the Standard.) The tabular view of the results of the late registra- tion in various parts of England, which we transcribed on Saturday from Fraser's Magazine, will be found to present a cheering account of Conservative gains and Radical losses in the various Courts of the Rivising Barristers. From these data it is clear that, as com pared with the results of former registrations, Conserva tive gains continue steadily to advance, and that it rests with Conservatives themselves if there be any con stituencies, beyond a few such boroughs as Fins bury, Sheffield, and the Tower Hamlets, in which they will not zre long take the lead. If the Registra tion Courts may be regarded as the arena in which the battle of the constitution is to be fought, no exertions therein calculated to secure triumph to the good cause ought to be omitted. Looking at the results generally, they appear to us to present a greater chance of success to the Conservative party than even those of last year, inasmuch as they afford reasonable ground of expectation that many seats will be wrested from the Whig-Radicals with scarcely any counterbalancing losses. The towns and boroughs enumerated in the list in question form, it is true, only a small portion of the electoral bodies, but they include those which are of the most im• portance. In more than half the constituencies of England, the superiority of one party or the other is so fully established, as to render any attempt to subvert it, for the present at least, impossible. Two-thirds of the counties of England are now entirely surrendered to the Conservative party. " About 100 English and Welch seats," says the compiler of the list to which we refer, " still remain in doubt, and must be strenuously contested until the struggle is over, and the final triumph of Conservative principles achieved." (From the Courier.) Assuredly there is no public man in France who in so large a degree enjoys, and not less deserves, the confi dence and esteem of all good men and patriotic citizens, whether at home or abroad, than M. Guizot. As a public man he is not less distinguished for integrity of principle, energy of purpose, and unquestionable ability than in his private capacity for purity of life and con versation, amenity of disposition, depth of learning and brilliancy of talent. Political foes and admiring friends are all of one harmonious accord on each and all of these his surpassing qualifications and accomplish ments ; and yet it may be, as it is, not the less doubted, however much desired, whether he will be equal to contend with the difficulties of the times and con trol the petils of the crisis. The very philosophical structure of his mind may even disqualify him the more for the fierce contentions incident to an emi nent political position, in which the high-miaded and intrepid championship of reason and principle may be found embarked in a contest so unequal with popular passions exalted to frenzy, with blind preju dices and ancient antipathies resuscitated, and too deeply rooted, it seems, for the soothing and eradi cating influences of t wenty- five years of continuous peace. We desire not to be understood as inclined to discou rage the hopes which, among the friends of peace, the elevation of M. Guizot is so justly calculated to excite, and peace, we firmly believe, we shall continue to have, so far as it may depend upon the will and exertions of that enlightened Minister ; but it is impossible to shut our eyes to the fact of the extraordinary embarassraents with which the question of peace has been complicated through the conjoint imprudences of a flighty statesman like M. Thiers, and a hasty and unsystematic diplo matist like Lord Palmerston. The calm and passive atti tude of the war and popular faction in Paris during the progress of the recent derangements and reconstitution of the Cabinet has been strongly relied upon by some of our unreasoning and indifferently informed Contempo raries in proof of a change in the public mind of France, of the growing ascendency of more moderate senti ments, and the prevailing strength of a body of which the existence has been inconsiderately assumed rather than proved, designated as the moderate party, the ele ments of which are placed, as where only they could in such a case be found, in the property or intelligence of the country. We, unfortunately, can participate in no such illusions, nor discover, with all the industry and means applied, any solid groundwork for such con victions. LAW INTELLIGENCE• ROLLS COURT, N•v. 2. BEASLEY V. BEASLEY• Mr. PEMBERTON moved for an injunction to restrain the defendant Beasley and his wife from entering up judgment upon a verdict obtained by them against Co lonel Boates, one of the trustees of their marriage set dement. After a lengthened argument, the Court ordered the sum of 3,000/. to he paid into Court without prejudice to elle rights of the parties. LIPPIATT V. HOLLEY. Mr. BETIIELL moved that the defendants might stand committed to the Fleet for disobeying an injunction, whereby they and their workmen, &'., were restrained from pulling down and destroying a mill and premises, situate at Wellow, in Somersetshire , and for disobeying an order, whereby they were ordered, on or before the Ist day of October last, to restore all such parts of the mill and premises as had been pulled down and de stroyed by them. The defendants, upon a bill of re demption, were ordered to surrender certain premises that had been mortgaged to them, the mortgage money having been satisfied ; but the defendants, instead of delivering up the property as ordered, had committed waste upon it. The MASTER of the ROLLS directed the order for committal to issue. The Court will to-morrow (this day) take unopposed petitions, and afterwards proceed with the remaining motions. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 2. This being the first day of Michaelmas Term, the Court was opened with the usual formalities—the Judges presiding were Lord Denman, and Justices Littledale, Williams, and Coleridge. THE QUEEN V. BLIGH.--LIBEL. Sir FREDERICK POLLOCK moiled for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the defendant, Thomas Bligh, for the publica tion of a series of libels upon the members of his own family. It appeared that the defendant was one of a numerous family, and that his father, who resided at Crows-hill Grove, Mile End-road, died, about two years ago, after making a will, by which he bequeathed his property to the other members of the family, to the ex clusion of the defendant, who was the eldest son. The defendant lived upon an annuity granted him by the rest of the family, and after some time had elapsed he commenced addressing a series of circular letters of the most libellous character to the different members of the family, and to the Directors of the Marine Insurance Company, of whom his brother was one. The Learned Counsel read several of the letters, which impugned the character of the family, charged others of them with pro curing the will to be made by f rau d an d false represen tations, and contained a variety of other charges. The affidavits of the a pplicants distinctly denied every one of these allegations.—The Court granted the rule. SIR R. KEAN V. THE ST. GEORGE STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. The ATTOForT•GpaItA T. moved in this case for a rulo to show cause why the verdict of 4.54 obtained by the defendant should _not , be set aside, and a new Denman at the sit:, ter m, andwas to recover a sum of trial The Lordabeatdio,nonvrathsetrgierodunbdefoorfelts being against evidence, tings after last it Oa, thp value o f two horses, shipped in one of the Company's vessels front London to Qork. The deoln- ration alleged negligence and want of proper boxes on the part of the Company's agents ; but it had been proved by several witnesses that the accommodation was sufficient, and that the injury arose from " the perils of the sea," which were distinctly excepted in the contract. After the vessel left Falmouth, a violent storm arose, and the two horses were found, on their arrival at Cork, to have received such injury, as to be almost entirely useless. Instead, however, of finding a verdict for 90/., the Jury gave only 451., half the sum. After detailing the facts of the case at some length, the Court took time to consider its decision. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, IVov. 2. JOuL V. JACKSON. Mr. WIGHTMAN moved for a rule nisi to enter a non suit, or. for a new trial in this case, in consequence of leave reserved to him by Mr. Baron Rolfe, before whom the trial was had at the late Liverpool assizes. It was an action Of trot er to recover a quantity of casks which had been distrained upon in tho hands of a publican ; it was alleged they were the property of the brewer. Rule granted. THE GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY COMPANY V. WEBB. Mr. COWLEY said this action was tried at the late assizes for Durham, before Mr. Baron Parke, when a verdict was found for the plantiffs for 8601. He now moved, by leave of the Learned Judge, for an arrest of judgment, or that the verdict should be reduced by the amount of the first call upon certain shares held by the defendant. The action was brought to recover the amount of six calls upon such shares. The Learned Gentleman contended that the calls were irregular, in asmuch as the Directors in making the calls had not complied with the Act of Parliament, which gave them their powers in the resolution making the first call. They stated neither time . nor place wh ere th e mone y was to be paid. The omissions were filled up in the adver tisement, but there was no proof that it was inserted by the Directors. He moved in arrest of judgment generally, on the insufficiency of the declaration. Rule granted upon both points. THE SAME COMPANY V. BIDAULPH. Rules granted in this case also, the circumstances being the same. It was subsequently found out that these railway cases were entered in the Queen's Bench, which caused much laughter. The rules, as a matter of course, fell to the ground. In the case of DOE DIM. HARLAND V. HARLAND, a rule was granted to enlarge a peremptory undertak ing until the next assizes. A similar rule was granted in Marshall v. Parsons. A. rule nisi was granted in Webster v. Gordon, to set aside a verdict for the plaintiff, and enter a nonsuit. WILSON, ASSIGNEE, V. APPLEYARD. Mr.WELsBEY moved for a new trial in this case, which was tried at the late York assizes, when a ver dict was found for the defendant. The question was as to whom a sale of goods was made by the bankrupt, and whether a set-iff could be allowed.—Rule granted. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. ABOLITION OF THE COURT, As the Court yesterday was about to rise, Lord ABINUER (addressing Mr. Simpkinson) said— When I last saw you in this Court I did not again ex pect to see you here. I beg, however, to say, that 1 have thrown no impediment whatever in the way of the Bill which had been brought into Parliament for the abolition of this Court passing into a law, although I understand something of this kind was hinted in the House of Commons. I received a letter from an ho nourable friend of mine, mentioning to me that the Bill in question was before the House of Commons, but I took no step whatever in it. Mr. Simpkinson bowed his assent to the observation of the Noble Lord, and the Court rose. Lord Lyndhurst entered the Court in the course of the day, and after cordially shaking hands with Lord Abinger, retired. His Lordship looked extremely well, and seemed in good spirits. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 2. Yesterday, being the first day of term, the Lord Chief Justice, Justices Bosanquet, Coltman, and Maule, came into Court at a quarter before two o'clock. The new Sergeants, Gaselee and Glover, took their seats within the bar. SHENK V. TABOIS. This was an action for work and labour done, in which the defendant, amonst other pleas, pleaded the Statute of Limitation, and the Secondary, before whom the action was tried, decided that the documents put in, in answer to that plea, were not sufficient to take the case out of the statute. The Court was of opinion that the Secondary had judged wrongly, and that the documents and letters ought to have gone to the Jury.—Rule granted. FRENCH V. FRENCH. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 421/. The plaintiff (a relative) lent that sum to the father of the defendant, the borrower appending to the stamped receipt, a memorandum to the effect that if he died before repayment of the loan, he desired his hairs to pay it out of his effects. He soon afterwards died, and the defendant, in order to prevent the plaintiff's proceeding , against some property which it was desired by all parties to leave in the hands of the widow and daughter of the deceased, agreed to take his father's debt upon himself, by nominally borrowing the amount from the plaintiff, and repaying it in dis charge of the original debt. No money passed on the occasion, nor was there a stamped agreement. The verdict accordingly, under direction of the Lord Chief Justice, was for the defendant. Mr. Sergeant Bouras now applied for a rule for a new trial, but the Court saw no reason to disturb the verdict, and refused the rule. On the motion of Mr. Sergeant TALFoURD, the name of Mr. Freshfield, solicitor to the Bank, was struck off the rolls, that gentleman retiring from the profession, which he entered in the year 1796. REYNOLDS V. DOYLE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, formerly the agent of Don Pedro, for raising troops, &c., in this country, against Sir J. M. Doyl e , t o recover 601. w h ic h he had paid upon a bill of exchange accepted by him for the defendant's accommodation, and upon his gua• rantce to hold the acceptor harmless. The verdict was for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant BoltrAs moved to set aside the ver dict, on the ground that ther e was no suc h guaran t ee as to take the plaintiff's claim out of the statute of limi tation, the bill having become due in 1832. The COURT decided that as the bill was not paid in till 1837, the plaintiff's claim was not affected by the Act, and the verdict must stand. ARCHES' COURT. (Before Sir H. JENNER.) Yesterday being the first day of term, the Ecclesi astical Courts were opened with the usual formalities. William Frederick White, Esq., D. C. L., of Trinity College, Oxford, was admitted an advocate, and Thomas Broadhurst Buckle, Esq., one of the Procura tors-General, exercent in this Court, by virtue of re scripts from his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. THE VICAR OF GEDNEY.-REFUSAL TO BURY A CHILD OF WESLEYAN PARENTAGE. THE OFFICE or THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY MASTIN V. Escott, for THOMAS SWEETS SCOTT, CLERIC. which compmreasnedrsibeevderiny This suit, which has been brought by letter of request, from the Commissary of Leicester, is in stituted by Mr. Thomas Cliff, of the parish of kn in own tha a t s county, agai ns t th e Rev. T. S. e.scott, for disobedience to, and contempt of the ca nons and discipline of the Church of England, in having refused to bury the corpse of Elizabeth Ann Cliff. The father and mother of this child belonged to the sect of wall 17th Wesleyan Methodists, and the re fusal of the Vicar to bury it was founded on the ground of its not having been baptised according to the forms and ceremonies of the Church of England. Articles, statin g the facts of the case, have been given in on be half of the party proceeding ; and an allegation, re sponsive to them, was now offered on the other side. The articles state that the Rev. Mr. Escott, theViear of Gedney, in the diocese of Lincoln, after due notice, on •!abeth Ann, the daughter of Thomas and Sarah Cliff, minister er thereof bury iin ae act manner a c n o n r e p r s e and brought form, h e K of in D g,s ec li . c l e a n s c t, e, re in fus l e 6 ( o l 3 to , bury the corpse of Eli a) disobedience of the 68th of the constitutions and canons ecclesiastical, agreed to by ta t os he itsh C e Convocation, with shall be suspended by the Bishop churchyard, convenient notice having been given to him t space of three months. The preacher e r be been the Book of Common Prayer; and, in case of refusal (except the party deceased be excommunicated), he responsive p h o i s h diocesesive allegation for t h e this day offered stated that the tchheildp teacher of the Wesleyan Methodists , baptised by a ordained man, and, co nse quently. Mr. Elisha Baileys who was not an such baptism was null and void. That baptisms by laymen had been re pudiated by t h e Ch urch from the t i me of the Confer ences at Hampton -court, in 1600, to the present time ; and in the eleventh article it was pleadedas, that even ac cording to th e d octr i nes of the sec t, laid down by Wesley, their founder, preachers or t eachers were not authorised t o administer the holy sacra ments. Her Maj es t y ' s Ad vocate, Dr. H ag gard, and Dr. Ni choll, oppo se d ; an d D r. Phillimore a nd Dr. Harding supported th e a d m i ss ibi l i ty of the a ll e gation. Sir H. J enner a d m i tted the al l ega tion, with the ex ception of th e 11 t h article, in which the p rinci p les of Methodism were l a id down, and w hich a point, whie h would be fairly t would neces sarily introdu ce i nto the cause ma tter entirely extra neous. The great question in whi ch the case would turn was as t o t h e validity of lay baptisms, and th is was not the time t o di scuss th argued on the h ear i ng o f the cause . To give any opinion on so important a t o pi c w i thout h ear ing argument would be presumption on th e part o f t h e Court. It would, therefore, now merely admit the articles of the allega tient which set ferth th e canons an d laws of time Chqrch as to the validity o f laylaaptisms, and wo&d r ej ect the last, ie h3h 13 i 1 W ' the doctrines of .!ohn Wesley were l aid down. The allegation, with the rejection of this article, will accordingly admitted, i BAIL COURT, Nor. 2. (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) This being the first day of Term, his Lordship did not .ake his scat upon the bench until half-past one o'clock. THE QUEEN V. CHARLES SMYIHERs. Mr. STAMMERS moved for a certiorari to remove the depositions, and likewise to show cause why the defend ant should not be ;Admitted to bail in the country. A similar application had been made to Mr. Baron Rolfe, during the recess, but his Lordship had been of opinion that no order ought to be granted. He had now, how ever, in support of his motion, to submit further affida vits, in addition to those which had been laid before Mr. Baron Rolfe. Mr. Justice PATTESON said that as this was in the nature of an appeal from the decision of Mr. Baron Rolfe, he thought the application had better be made in the other Court, as it would be then in a Court in which one Judge alone presided. BARNES V. WHITING. Mr. CoNtrrorl moved for a rule to show cause why the aonsuit in this case should ❑ot be set aside, and why a new trial should not be granted. This was an action for the recovery of Si. 11 s. 2d., brought by the executors of the late Thomas Attwood against the de fendant. A bill of particulars had been sent in, and on the 20th of May last the defendant applied for further and better particulars. The plaintiffs stated that it was out of their power to give further and better parti culars without having access to certain vouchers in de fendant's possession, and .41r. Justice Coleridge ordered the defendants to produce the vouchers required, and that they should be marked, and that on the trial the defendant should also produce the vouchers. On the trial, before the Under-Sheriff for the county of Sussex, on the examination of the first witness for the plaintiff, it appeared that there was another voucher in exist ence prior in date to any of those produced, and which was in the defendant's possession. The Under-Sheriff immediately nonsuited the plaintiff, on the ground that the voucher had not been produced, and that no notice had been given to produce it. On the 15th September application had been made to Mr. Baron Rolfe, who ordered all proceedings in the case to be stayed until alter the fifth day of term, in order to give time for an application to be made to this Court on the subject, and he now moved for a rule to show cause why the non suit should not be set aside, and a new trial granted a first, on the ground of the deception practised by the defendant in not producing the document in question ; and next, on the ground of misdirection.—Rule granted. WALKER V. LUMM. Mr. ALEXANDER applied for a rule nisi to show cause why a Judge's order, ordering the defendant in this case to be arrested, should not be set aside. The plaintiff had brought an action against the defendant for upwards of 501., money lent, and on affidavit of Mr. Cork Roger that he believed the defendant was about to quit the country, the Judge's order for his arrest had been granted, and he was now immured in York Castle. There was no truth in the allegation that the defendant had any intention to quit the coun try, and this was merely a shameful attempt to force the defendant to commit an act of bankruptcy by keep- ing him in prison twenty-one days. The money in question had been advanced to defendant by Cork Roger as the agent of Walker, and an application had been previously made to Mr. Baron Rolfe for an order to arrest defendant, which had been granted ; but the Learned Judge, on being applied to by the defendant, had immediately rescinded the order, and then they sought to obtain their ends in another manner, by Walker arresting him for the same debt. Mr. Justice PATTESON---By whom was the order made ? Mr. ALEXANDER—I am not aware, my Lord, but I will have the order in Court to-morrow. Mr. Justice PATTESON—If the application had been made to Mr. Baron Rolfe, he would most likely have recollected the circumstances, and if the application had been made to any other Judge, without mentioning the former application, that might form a ground for your MR. J. W. FRMIFIELD. Mr BAILEY applied to have the name of Mr. J. W. Freshfield struck off the cell of attorneys of this Court, on his own application, he being about to retire from the profession. The usual affidavits having been filed, the application was granted. CROYDON PETTY SESSIONS. TRESPASSING ON RAILWAYS.—TWO persons, named John Redwell and Thomas Field, attended before the bench to answer an information laid against them at the instance of the Directors of the Croydon Railway, charging them with having unlawfully driven a number of sheep upon the line of the said railway, and for which offence they had incurred a penalty not exceeding 101. Thomas Corden, one of the railway policemen, de posed that on the morning of the 27th of October, about one o'clock, he saw a number of sheep upon the line coming towards Penge-gate, where he was stationed. When the sheep got to him he found they were driven by the defendants, who asked him to let the sheep through the gate. He told them they were doing very I wrong in driving the sheep upon the railway, and that if he had not expected two engines that were at work on the line to come up every minute he would not have let them through. As this was the case, however, in order to prevent any accident, he let the defendants pass with the sheep, and reported the circumstance imme diately to the superintendent. The Magistrates inquired how the sheep were got upon the line I The Superintendent of Police explained that the sheep had been grazing in a field about a hundred yards from the Penge-gate, and which was separated from the railway by a fence which no sheep could get over or break down ; but it appeared that part of the fence had been broken, for the purpose of letting the sheep pass on to the line. The defendants were liable to another penalty for breaking the fence, but the Directors did not wish to press that charge against them ; and their only object, by the present proceeding, was to protect the public from the risk of accident, by obstructions being placed on the line through negligence. Mr. Elyard inquired if any trains were running on the line at the time ? The constable said that the morning trains %ere all gone, but two engines were at work, one up and the other down, and he expected they would both meet at the spot where the sheep were, every minute. They were driven about 150 yards on the line. The Magistrates then asked the defendants what they had to say in answer to the charge? The defendant Redwell said it was quite true he had driven the sheep, as stated. He had sold them to a butcher at Beckenham, and he sent Field, the other defendant, to fetch them on the day in question, and he desired him to drive them along the railway, as it was the nearest way to Beckenham. He added that he did not know that it was any harm, and he had fre quently driven sheep along it before, and he should have driven an ox, if he had wanted to do so. The Magistrates said it was very necessary, if this was the case, that he should be taught that such a pro ceeding was both illegal and improper. If a train had chanced to come up at the time, it might have been thrown off the rails, and a serious accident occasioned ; and it was absolutely necessary for the protection of the public that such proceedings should be . put a stop to. The Bench deliberated for a short time, when they said, that as Field appeared to have merely acted under the orders of the other defendant, they should dismiss the case against him on his paying the costs, and Red well they should fine forty shillings and costs, and th e y at the same time said, that if such a case occured again, they should most certainly inflict the full penalty of 10/. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. The LORD MAYOR took the opportunity to mention that he felt high gratification at the close of his Mayor alty to be able to state that he had succeeded in draw. ing the attentionlof his fellow-citizens most zealously to the means of saving the lives of his fellow-creatures from fire. The subject was one of the greatest possible im portance, but there had always been the questions started the moment conflagrations were spoken of, " What can be done?" and Whose duty is it to establish a system of prevention, or immediate and active resistance?" He knew that the only way in which those questions could be answered with effect was by making constant allusion to the prevalence of the awful accidents which take place from the chair which he daily occupied ; and to encourage a correspondence from scientific persons, well knowing that the press could afford the most powerful assistance on an occasion which called so loudly upon humanity. He rejoiced that his recommendation to the Court of Comm on Council had stimulated that body to great exertions, and that the very best consequences were likely to arise from their labours. His Lordship stated that he had received the follow ing communication upon the subject of fire, and h e h e , lieved it to be worthy of the attention of his fellow. citizens : " To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. " My . Lord—During the present Mayoralty your Lordship has succeeded 01 d raw i ng t h e attention of the Corporation and Citisens of London to the best means of averting the effects of one of the most afflicting visi tations to which life and property are subject—that of fire, To your Lordship the metropolis is indebted fo r the first attempt made for establishing a firo Pi'even tivepolice, as s h own i n the mcaswe2 taken for the es tablishment of tl cwincaed and efficient system of fire eseavis, as well as in the suggestions thrown out ;or the prevention of this dreadful calamity brought before your notice in the civic o,la r• " Perrjiit so draw your attention to a script of clrcurnQtances which in my view are the , ‘lauhos of many fires, for the origin of which uo adequate cause can be assigned allude to the phenomena of spontane o44 combustion. This subject is now attended with greater interest, from its having LeOA vt,'o,Yo4 that the contia gration w hi c h caused the destruction of her Majesty's TAlaweva, at Devonport, was owing to this cir cumstance. My attention was more k4arttoularll EVENING EDITION•__ lIAMBURGII #IL. called to the subject of spontaneous combustion in 1829, from the circumstance of the execution of a young man named James Butler, who was convicted of STuTTGARD, seen; as if the Statcseto r of s etting fire to a floor-cloth manufactory. After his Q Germany seriously intended to ado p t in e xecution I became a cqu a inted with the details, and, cert several military measures, on accou nt of the icc. Southern ex n a : : after most closely and carefully investigating the subject , ordinary armaments (not quite in harm on y with a L' came to the conclusion that he was an innocent victim lot neiglihooshoo(l), which Fr,ince is making. "P:7 the e to of the law ; in which view I was supported by my whole left bank of the Rhine in Alsac e, from 0,3- friend, the late Dr. Gordon Smith, then Professor of Rhenish Bavaria, with a degree of eclat that loorcs Medical Jurisprudence at London University College, affirrnei. Dr. Birkbeck, and several other scientific men. a challenge. Since Baden and Wurtemberg have bidden the exportation of horses, it is confidently the " In a letter to a public Journal about that time, I ' by well informed persons that the Bth corps of bleu drew attention to the variety of circumstances under army (of the Confederation) will be speeddy "r i d- to which spontaneous combustion would take place (in all about 40 instances), and I then felt that my researches b e prepared against every contingency. .1 theling to protect the banks of the Rhine. It is reso ve and remarks might be of some benefit to the commu- BERLlN,OCT.27.—Yesterday forenoon,whi c nity, from the circumstance that they were printed was here, there was a full Council of Minis ters, to w hich I. u t and supended on boards as cautions against fire, in the commanding Genera's now here were summone s prea d fi ' different dock-yards and other public establishments inthe the kingdom. Whether this reasonable precaution is in the higher circles, oforders given to call out r Itheol' u four o'clockin the afternoon a report was already now withheld, I know not. 7th corps (Westphalia), and the Bth corps 013( . 1 , " The cases under which spontaneous combustion of Provinces). We will neither contradict nor confirm animal and vegetable substances will take place, are such as no ordinary sagacity can foresee, nor prudence source, that Lieutenant-General Von Thill e this report ; but we can state from the most autl_001". prevent. In the official reported list of fires, the ma- mander-in-Chief in the Rhenish Province, durtOg th eh jority of causes is unknown, whilst another large or- ceremonies on the doing homage, had lodged I , r lt , lion are only conjectural. The science of chemist' may, however, advantageously lend its aid, and some has since hired apartments far some Weeks in d, s et y house of his brother, Lieutenant-General Thill 10.0:of consequence °` of its investigations on the subject have been our first hotels, to which he had already rem °v r e or ders matters of high interest. The most memorable out this morning for Coblcntz, in instance on record is that of a series of from his Majesty, received yesterday afternoo;o;wend, fires which took place at St. Petersburgh in 1780 and that two officers of the General Staff ha ve folio the 1781, when a frigate, with several other vessels, and All this is attributed to the accounts received ootieri, houses were destroyed, supposed to have been the work 231 and ' l 4th of this month from the French fro_,. of an incendiary. A Scientific Commission was ap- and from the fortresses of Mayence and Luxembou four , ' of by the Russian Government to inquire into the GELGIAN k UNDS--B RUSS ELS, OCT. 3i. subject, who found that the self-enkindiing substances Actual Det4t, 2N, per Cent. ............ . ........ Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Csnt ................... were charcoal and hemp oil. In 1757 the Royal Dock- Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.......... yard at Brest was nearly destroyed by spontaneous _ 3 per Cent.......... Fhb combustion taking place in the rope-yard, and some of the old workmen declared that the same thing had happened some years ago, but that, conceiving it impossible for the bales to take fire of themselves, they had concealed the accident, for fear of being taxed with negligence, and punished accordingly. On Thurs day, July 3, 1760, a fire from spontaneous combustion broke out in the rope-yard of the Royal Dockyard at Portsmouth, which caused much mischief. It would be tedious to relate the other various circumstances under which spontaneous combustion will take place, such as with hay, corn, flax, cotton, wool, turf, flour, saffron, and other vegetallla substances ; rags, oatmeal, charcoal ; woollen cloth and cotton goods ; roasted coffee and chocolate roots ; bales of woollen yarn or cloth ; waste cotton or rags used in cleaning oil, paint, floor-cloth, pyritous 'coal, &c., &c., although the subject is one of considerable importance in our domestic security. My object in this communication, is to suggest to your Lordship the desirableness of making the subject I have referred to one of more general attention, and that in order to prevent the so frequent recurrence of evils, the most lamentable in our social and domestic economy, it would be extremely desirable that a code of cautions should be drawn up, explaining chemically the circumstances under which a fire may take place, and which no ordinary caution can prevent, whether in manu factories, public establishments, or even private houses. I have the honour to remain, Your Lordship's obedient humble servant, ABRAHAM BOOTH. Lecturer in Chemistry. Cambridge-road, Hackney, Oct. 28, 1840. The LORD MAYOR said that he had no doubt, judg ing from the serious attention which the Police Com mittee were devoting to the subject of fires, that the inquiry would extend itself to the consideration of the class to which the letter referred. He had every reason to believe that his successor would not cease to call the attention of the Corporation to what was of such immense consequence, until a very ex traordinary charge should take place as regarded the frequency and fury of the calamity. He believed, too, that scientific men, knowing that their humane sugges tions would be attended to, would not hesitate to give all the information with which their skill and experience supplied them. A man named George Thompson, who looked like a stoker to a steamer, but who is known as a habitual smuggler in the small way, was brought before the Lord Mayor charged with having in his possession three pounds and a half of manufactured tobacco, and some cigars. A revenue officer said that he saw the defendant come from the Giraffe, Rotterdam vessel, and followed him, suspecting that he had something he ought not to have. The defendant endeavoured to avoid him, but could not, and then at once acknowledged that he had some tobacco, stating that, there was no occasion to make a noise. The LORD MAYOR—What have you to say ? you will never leave off this game? Defendant ('baking his head)—l'm sorry for it, my Lord. The Revenue Officer—He is well known, my Lord. He has been imprisoned several times for smuggling. Defendant—Oh, indeed I have. I'm most unlucky ; always taken. The LORD MAYOR—Why don't you try something else? Defendant—l hope I shall, my Lord. I'm mi serably poor. The Revenue Officer—He is not long out of King ston gaol, my Lord. Defendant—That's true. The LORD MAYOR—How long were you there Defendant—l had twelve long months of it, my Lord. The LORD MAYOR—Then I am afraid you will never drop this mode of living, if it can be called living. Defendant—Oh, I trust I shall, my Lord—l don't despair. The Loan MAYOR—WeII, in the hope that you will quit smuggling, I fine you twenty shillings only. Defendant—l humbly thank you, my Lord. The Loan MAYOR—I suppose you have got the money ? Defendant—No, my Lord, not a farthing. The LORD MAYOR—Then I dare say you can get it. Defendant—l shall try, with your Lordship's per mission. The Loan MAYOR—Then you shall be discharged the moment you pay the penalty. The defendant, who did not pretend to conceal an' thing, again thanked the Lord Mayor, and retired. Thirty.seven . -- .. ..•... s 4 ^ Lean of City, 15311, 4 per Cent. .................. 1 10 Society ot Commerce, 4 l>, - , per Cent .......... ... ,2 Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent ..................... `.... National Society. Exchange on Londou (short) —Brussels Papers, Oct. 31. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, OCT. '2 5 l ova Five per Cents. Metalliques " 99'; Four per Cents . ... 79 ',three per Cents. .......................... - ..... ** 160 Bank Shares ... .......................... ... .... --Allgemeine Zeitung. Oct. 21 HAMBURG BO RSEN H ALLE, OCT. s °. mon* ging. „.... Austrian 5 per Cents. . lOlSt go Bank Shares l6OO lb 10414 Ariel°. Russian Loan JO t oo Russian 5 per Cent. !st series, Certificate 11 Inscription, Ist Se: is's Russian 5 per Cent. Hop. and Co. 3d and 4th , fti Series ~.. Ditto in Certificates ..... Dutch Actual Debt, 2},i pee Cent 43 Ditto 6 per Cent - -.- Polish Bonds New ticket .... A - nglo- Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 71,2 Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent.... -.. . Spanish. New 3 per Cents. rXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, OCT. 30.-13 3Y, —Two months, 13 .7s. CLI RISTIANIA, OCT. 21.--Three months, 4 6.1. PETERSBURGII, OGT. 20.—Two months, 39 5 Pence' THE MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest t rit eof iire.ut i the 31,troolts . 3 ,34 d fo r the Loaf. Gut d Bread may be had at et - ,j 1. PRICES OF SEEDS. 10 1 Per Cwt. I Per 5/ New Engl sh Red Clover...sos SOs St. Fein ............ .. .......... I ,:s v , ' „."' Old Ditto Ditto —3 —s —s Rye Grass .................. ...,_ 515 New Foreign Ditto —s 50s 75s Pacey Grass .............. !es ~,, .- -1 ,Of 011 Ditto Ditto —s —s —s Linseed, for fe, ...... , •_A 60 • 0 New White Clover 45s 503 CO3 DiVo, tor sowing ........ ..... s 4;?1 , i ,, Old Ditta Ditto —s —s —s Ditto, for crushing ••• .... sEi 7 x , New 'l're oil ... —s 28s 42s MAW, .................... -- 4 ... Old Ditto..... —s 20s 36s Canary .. .. . ............ , cot Tr folium —s 45s 70s Per BasheLod to 104 English Carraway —s 50s 53s White M05t..rd.... 1" ot t to 0 .6.1 Foreign Ditto —s 46s 4.8 s Brown Ditto ........• 16: , CC i , › Coriander —s 12s 16s;Tares ....... ... ........ 7 u " PRICE OF OIL. .£3 5 ° Rape Oil, brown, per ton ............................. ..« 10 Ditto, refined Linseed Oil .............. . ..................................... '7', le Lins ed Oil Cake at the Mill (per 10)0) ............... .ii 0 Rat e Cake, per too PRICE OF TALLOW —Lustier...4 56, .0 Town Tallow £ll 15 DI Yellow Russia 0 Melting ..... (4 ..1 5 Ditto Good Dregs ................. . v 'AT, per stone of 8110. fallow Melters)... ......... White 0 0 0 Soap Ditto 0 0 0 PRICE OF RAW F. Price of Tallow (as stated by the '1 COAL M Ships arrived since s. d. Buddle's West Hartley l9 0 Carr's Hartley l9 0 Garesfield Hebburn Main 22 0 Original Windsor's Pontoo 19 6 Ord's Itedhugh Russell's High Main Townley . West Hartley 2O Wylam l9 Walls End Bell and Brown 22 6 Walls E d Bewicite anclCc% 22 6 Walls End Gosforth Walls Ynd Heaton 22 3 Walls End Hilda ...... .. 22 0 Walls End Killingworth s 2 0 Walls End Nor hunr,berland 21 6 Walls End Percy 'fetish= 21 6 Walls End Riddell's 22 3 [ARKET. j, last market-dab S. s. j $ . Eden Main .............. o 9 Walls En d Belmont ..... Walls End F_ Walls End Hetton... ......... Walls End Walls End Pere Jer ton .... t 3 Walls End Russell's Hett. Walls Ecd Whitwell ......... 0. Walls End Cara doc ............ Walls End Hartlepool ..... fitt ; Walls End Kelloe ...... .. / Pennant's Hart l e pool ....... 2 6 W.lls End Adehide ...... o •w. Rl * Ils End Barrett $ Walls End Barrington 'T e stsV g Endttichardsor.'s ; • Walls End Tees.... ............. .1 Hartley ................ • RAILWAY CASE. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE INHABITANTS OF GODDARD ' S RENTS, SIIOREDITCH, This was a case which came before the Paving Board of the parish of St. Matthew, I3ethnal Green, yesterday, and before the Paving Board of Christ Church, Spite Melds, on Wednesday last. The Directors of the Eastern Counties Railway de sire to extend their works at their terminus in Shore ditch, and, in order to do so, have commenced building a thick wall, which would render impassable for carts a street called Goddard's Rents, besides blocking up or obstructing the lights of the existing houses. Not hay ing power in their Acts of Parliament to take or to enter upon those premises, which are situated on the boundary line of the parishes of Christ Church and Bethnal Green, they sought to effect their object by petitioning the Paying Boards of those parishes to assist them under their local Acts so to do, on the ground that the road sought to be stopped up was useless, or likely to become so. Mr. NORTIIIIOUSE, Parliamentary Agent, opposed the application on the part of the inhabitants of God dard's-rents. After showing, on the plan, the way in which the proposed wall would obstruct the lights, and so diminish the road as to render it impassable, he argued on the gross injustice and inhumanity of the application. One of the inhabitants was an innkeeper, he could get no beer into his cellar —another a baker, he could get no flour to make his bread—a third a car man with ten or twelve children, whose sole subsistence arose from his cart, that he could no longer use were this application granted. The gist of the case on the other side was, that this road was useless, or likely to become so. How could a road be deemed useless, which was so useful, so absolutely necessary for the ex isting inhabitants? True, the Railway Directors might desire to make it useless, in order to ma k e t h e build ings worthless, and so obtain them for a small propor tion of their present value. This was no improbable supposition. They were already commencing other walls, which wotild eerie° right over the ground on which these houses stood. The owner of this property, in a similar case, a few months ago, found this out to his cost. He had some small houses for which 150/. were offered. He agreed to accept that sum. The railw a y works proceeded, his premises became uninhabitable, and ultimately he received only 601. by the verdict of a Jury, instead of 1501. Surely that Board would not sane" tion parties in playing a similar game ? 'Would they be less ,jeAlutis• of encroachments upon p ro p erty t h an the Legislatu re was i n a ll railway cases ? Both H ouses o f Parliament provided by their Standing Orders that be fore any man's hottsa or land W ere ta k en from h i m that notices sbould appear in the Loaidoti Gazette, in the newspapers, and on the doors of the Church ; and be sides all these, he was himself to be served with those notices, and hi, assent or dissent, or neutrality, de mandad ; and more than this, the very line, the plan of his house or garden was to be kept fur his inspection in divers public places. Would the Board, in the face of those Standin Orders, turn out perhaps sixty souls in the dead of winter without notice The parties being directed to withdraw, were in a few in;untei l oulled in, when the Chairman informed them tha; the Board had come to the determination that the application should be refused. Yesterday the satire case came tq b e argued before ANtsing Board of Bethn:2, Green, but no person ap pearing on behalf r to e application, Mr. Northouse was direeta klftetz addressing the Board, to cause a me tcs be sent from the inhabitants on which the Board would act next Wednesday week. DEATH Or LADY ROSSMORE.—This Noble Lady expired suddenly on Tuesday afternoon at NVilton House, Cheltenham, where she had only arrived on the previous day, accompanied lay Lord Rossmore, from ha. Her Ladyship was Lady Augusta Charteris, fou r th daughter of Prancis, late Lord Elcho, and was married on Cue ad of June, 1819, to the present Lord Rossator e, by whom she bad BQ iSMCA HAMBUR _ MARKETS. NA GRAIN. 18 6 to il t Wheat, Marks 3530 to 3 99 aarl,y, Mecklenburg- 2 , 0 to , 0 .......--- Magdeburg - Magdeburgh••• iiai 0 189 -- Anhalt, white 390 to 4411-- Holstein ........ 0 to 0 red - Summer. . .. ....• to ---- Brunswick 560 1 , , 39G Oats. Eider 1 Mecklenburg.. 349 to 390 Mecklenburg -- 1 t 01.9 A 4 ---- Polish ~. to 01 -- Holstein - East Friedand„. i c ,'' tooa Rye, Mecklenburg - to.) -- Dantzic -- Elbing and Ko.. Buck Wheat 6O t 0 480 to ,g nigsburg --. Upland 11 79 t Riga 2lO to 230 Tares COT lON. t 0 Carolina and Tennessee 7 1 ,it0 9% Nlaranham Georgia, Ist salt - 4 . % ; Sil M adrasrat s ....................................... .. .. • . ~ _ u t O 2d 3d and 4th .., 5% 64 Domingo ...., ............ .7. n , COFFEE. 4,4 t- 01)4 Mocha 13 to 13% 'Domingo .................. '1 , . 1 Batavia Sumatra Porto Rico .................. 4a Rio v Rio 4% 54 Havannah ...... .... ........ Bahia SUGAR.—(Wits 8S Discount.) .5% 1' 5! Havannah, White Brown...— 5 6% Brown ....... .... .... ..,e. 6 Rio, White 5 14 6% Pernambuco, Wh ite • ::' Brown Bri; n, sto 6}i De Atj' The Duke and Duchess of Beat tort leave D oer' fort House, on Friday next, for Bad Inton , shire, where a large party wilt a • edia c t el Y ri A g s the Duke and Duchess's arrival. assemble "ni GIOU C `Ote Lady Augu and the junior branches of the family have al ready ar m there from town. cOri INDIAN ARMY.—We with much plea s ; ir 'coo gratulate the European soldiery on the pron 3010,100", the order equalising the pay o f t h e troops at t h % e alY, g b - Presidencies, taking the allowances ohe Bengt - o r a standard for the whole. Weshall, t next give tea the order in question. We hope this order vvi',! vernal satisfaction ; the decrease of the va l ue 01 t-f in remittan •andthe • . A •v sl , remittance boon_ uc of no ordinary magnitude; I , s we ll as that 0. we ri , d tion to be made in the hospital stoppages. ti9°s; the amount paid by each man (private), for b' s 10 , Pe eSe.c., while in hospital, was, we understand , f' 3 "A arl t n .2fm ; it is, we arc happy to say, now reduce" he ° The only objection we see to the measure, rence of allowance to the European wives oi _f s h st a °° , l"ii r . a i r : n cll it; the East Indian. We do riot know upon tna. the latter are to receive a rupee and a halt it e s 11 0 former. The European soldier generally sP e e e n .,,;b - le Pb j e in India, and if he chances to marry a re'l l s houl d ire Indian, we do not see why any discourag . e,_ oe ,. n . : l t s o - se c l i ul s '# offered, as the married men are more _lnff a q w here, oo l(l steady habits than the single ; and in ib i s sn 00 private to find a European wife ? We coucetv e , be remedied, as it m a y o th erw i se opera t e injud l ; cl ; D ui " ' a point which is essenti a lly every man's own P rivie ness.—East Indian Tcleyrap h. '4 IIV f"' SUPERIOR LONDON per,l,,zen, D: TABLE Knives, Frith Ivory Handles, 14 3 , }Cmanr,vi les, 8 5 5 3 . . 8 6 ti d p ( e j r pair ; Globe-shape Tea-urns, e 4 se q r u t 'ar 6 ts g , ; 75 '..b . s n ; evr th :'eg r itt o 3f u C I s a ;i t z a eP l e er s , CO -I n a e t a hp i e n r. P cr e aa t i P e r; ae p yrT t s i db e gole o tni f iil ey D r I:"Pae s h ape , e t 1 11 el : fites'sl ing fi ery and containing gratis. et. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxfora-sir Established 1820, ...___••••••,.............11=1••••1 BIR THS. ail ° l'll t On the 30th ult., at Wi m p o l e , th e C oun tess of of a so iV A lbs n. of ~ On the 29th u lt.. th e w if e o f A . A . M ac k e y,E"l" r street, Rege n t' s -p ar k, o f a son an d he i r. of SV. On the 30th ult., i n H y d e Park-street, the 164 Gostling, Esq., of a daughter, a rt. .1 Ste % On the Ist inst., in urson-ttreet, the lady of ' t." Esq., son. On the Ist in at Gloucester-place, Portm an-54-ustf' cor' lady of J. Marston, Esq., of a daughter. On the Ist inst., in Harley-street,the wife 0f G. I‘. geld, Esq., of a daughter. c u te' On the Ist i ns t., J Al rs . L . R . B e ll amy , o f a sou., F , It" On the 2d inst., i n B e df or d -p l ace, t h e lady of ' ' mont, Esq., of a daughter. , f it 0 MARRIED. On the 29th ult., at Bolton-le-Moors, Lancash ire ', t i e l ;l fse Esq., of Belmont, to Eliza, eldest daughter of J' SI iof ,„, 0 1to, , of Dunscar, near Bolton. f i ‘••"' .6el" On the 31st ult., at Clapham Church, 3 „';' ri Kati Clapham, to Matilda, youngest daughter of Air' -. • 0 Wl lis i t of the same parish. On the 31st ult., at St. Paul's, Oxford, the Boa f y, ela s n , Harker, Curate of Christ Church Colne, t° Vary, ton, ' s varet • ar o. daughter of J. Hinehliff, Esq.,*of CanonourY - v li r lif gr. Horsham, Ont he td m inst., ater merchant, nCt,letnoientD Louisa,a Danes, , ICI r . .' he l at. ' daug hter °f t c j, Robinson of the same place. t . osti° On the 3d inst., at \Vretham , Norfolk, la. " 13r Esq . ' Esq., to Juliana Maria, daughter of W. ___---------'' Wi etham flail. Birch, liviiilt:4'o.,,i4loll; On the 26th ult., at West-square, Lambeth, It• ban ister, aged 55. On the 26th ult., at. Carlisle, J. D. Dingwa ' E 13rueklay, Abereleenshire . Ou the Wth ult., at Bruntsfield Lodge, Ediebur gh, derson. Esq. Ir h oi , ; OR the 30th ult., Miss F. Leigh, of stye-la ,e, re i c ,l:l3er On the 31st ult., M ' r Stack, 01 I:cr Nhjesty's ' a " ment of Foot, aged 53. aj° late off. On the 31st ult., Edsve..il the second son of the f Riggs, formerly of Brio . 1 ' On the 31st ult., at Brighton, Ann Leigh, daug hter ° C. Wright, Esq., of Laura-place, Clapton, aged 1 6 . . j , On the Ist itist., Sarah, the wife of 3 , 1 r. G. Hsinl. Droll On the Ist inst., Jane Caroline, daughter of /llr. , blAcstx Regent-street. a daugb l e ' On the Ist inst., at Sloane-square, Alaria, second of tho late M. Cole Es 1 . q. .. isa . o Lon ton : Printed and Published by 11111RDO Y°6uvincl, No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, Ne. 1 12, .840. third the (Nut - ay of l‘liddlesex.—Tuesday, November 3 ' ' ~,_ C ( +LI.OO, WM. ( r im Foqr str ..... eel ST E 1 exi ta c y ch t ere