The Sun. — London, England, 1840-09-24 00:00:00

EV e VI\rfNG EDITiON. EAST INDIA HOUSE. A Q".arterly General Court of the Proprietors of ''.as'. I' Ali 4 stock W , IS ,e,;:ertl,ty at !hi. loth% Het...se, pursuant to the terus 4if a:tvr. The COiat. was bur. fainly atietak,t, notwon,t,ioding •there were cot less than tour notices of motion which stood for discussi,.m. The Ch;lir was taken by Mr. William Butterworth lailcy shortly aft m• twelve o'clock, and the minutes of last Court wert, r ad. ME ADDRESS TO THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT. The CHAD:MAN informed tut, Court that tit • ad tress ,greed to 1):, *ale Proyr etors to her Majesty on her ;cape from assassinaton had been presehted by the Chairman and D:puty Chairman of the Company at St. James's Palace. and that it had been most gra ciously received. The address to Prince Albert had :seen presented a!so by the Chairman and Deputy Chairman to his Royal Highness at Buckingham Pa ! .ce, which had also been most graciously received. The hairman then acquainted the Court that certain papers ~nich had been presented to Parliament since the last (.;ourt was hold, were now laid on the table tor the in ..ormation of the Proprietors. There were also copies despatches and other papers that had been moved !or !aid on the table. The CLERK read the titles of these papers, and also .:rtain 4.Jc:woe:lts relative to pensions, Hayleybury and ..43discombe Colleges. &c. THE COLONIAL PASSENGERS' BILL. Th'o CHAIRMAN said that pursuant to the resolution of the General Court of Proprietors, the Company's seal had been affixed to a petition to the House of Commons against certain clauses in the Colonial P 45. sengers' Bill. The petition had been presented to the House of Commons. The petition voted to the House of Lords oo the same subject had not been presented, as the clauses objected to had been withdrawn from the Biliin Ow House of Commons. The Directors, under these circumstances, passed a resolution stating the inexpediency of presenting the petition. The CHAIRMAN called the attention of the Court to the following notice, which stood on the proceedings of the day as the first for discussion. The Honourable Proprietor who gave notice of the motion was unable to at.tend, and the motion must therefore fall to the pound. The Honourable Proprietor had given notice that he would call the Court's attention to " the griev ances coinplainecl of in petitions dated the 3d June and Slit August, 1839, transmitted to the Right Honour able the Governor of Madras, by 122 heads of families of native Christians, natives of the province of Tinne 'welly, and in former petitions presented to the Madras Government, and to collectors of the province of Tin mevelly." Sir CHARES FORBES suggested that, as the Hon. Proprietor who Lad given notice of the motion was not present, it should be postponed till next Court day. SECRET SERVICE MONEY. The CHAIRMAN then coiled upon Mr. Lewis, who had given notice of a motion on the subject of the dis bursements for secret services. Mr. LEvvis rose to bring under the consideration of the Court the following resolution : " That, adverting to the unusually large disburse ments made from the funds of the East India Company during the last two years, amounting to the sum of 11.5,7301., and to the proceedings of a former Court un this ii4ortant subject, this Cou t is of opinion that 'th e Le g islature could not have i n t e nd e d t o i n'es t t h e Secret Committee, under the direction of the Presi dent of the Board of Control, with the unconstitutional power of disbursing such funds to an unlimited extent, and that such disbursements ought to be subject to the approval of the Court of Directors. This Court, therefore, recommends the Court of Directors to adopt uch measures as may be necessary to ascertain the state of the law on this important question, with the view of petitioning Parliament to define such power, and to place it under constitutional control." The HoN. PROPRIETOR briefly alluded to the dis mssion that had taken place in that Court on the last , oz,.casion the subject now under consideration was limught forward, and he then adverted to a return that b:en made of the amount of money expended undar the head of secret service-, extending over a period from 1782 to April, 1839, or fifty•seven years. In :ooking over tha return, the Hon. Proprietor found that ti'ere were items of expenditure for secret service hich must astonish them, especially as most of them usd been surprised when formerly informed that as -Lucia as 53,000/. had been so spent in one year. It appeared from the returns in 1784, the expenditure of the Secret Committee had been 64,563/. IBs. 6d., and In 1797 it was 61,5491. &c. It was necessary, he Mr. Lewis) thought, that some attempt should be made to protect the revenues of India from such a wasteful expenditure for the future. In the last Court some discussion bad taken place upon this important subject. An Hon. Director then expressed his doubts as to the power of the Board of Control to expend such large sums of money, but it would seem dot the Secret Committee was bound to follow the orders of the Board of Control. A member of that Secret Com mittee (Mr. Astell) had further expressed his readiness to join in a petition to Parliament on the subject. . . . Mr. AsTELL denied that he had expressed any .such opinion. Mr. LEWIS had understood the Hon. Director to have so stated, 'out there were other Directors who thought that the power was likely to be abused. Un der these circumstances he (Mr. Lewis) had thought it proper to bring the subject before the General Court, in order to provide a remedy. He proposed that the Court should recommend the Directors to adopt such measures as may be necessary to ascertain the state of the law on this important question, with the view of petitioning Pariiament to define such power, and to place it under constitutional control. He contended that the President of the Board of Control had not the power of calling upon the Secret Committee of the Court of Directors for mone y t o carry out t h ose ob jects he might have decided upon it as being necessary for the welfare of India. This was a power for which there was no legal right whatever. The provisions of the Act of Parliament in favour of the charter gave no such power. Those Acts gave a power of suspen sion—a superintending power—over the acts of the Court of Directors, but nothing more. The power ' exercised by the Board of Control in calling upon the S,•cret Committee to furn:sh money to carry out the objects of the President, ought not be assumed by the Poard. It may be assumed that the President of the P.eard of Control having the power to send, through Lee. Secret Committee, orders and despatches relative to affairs of India, that, ex necessitate, he has the rif,)it to call on that Committee to supply such money as be mi g ht cons id er was requ i s i te for the secret ser vice. The right of making peace or war was vested in the East India Government, whose acts were under 'lie supervision of the Board of Control. Could it, then, be contended that the Board of Control had a rielit to call upon the Secret Committe to supply what money was required to carry out such objects r:s the President of that Board might think neces sary ? He (Mr. Lewis) hoped to have the feelings of ?he Court of Proprietors with him, that the posses. of this irresponsible power was inconsistent and remostituti.onal. The East India Company ought to leiee severity against the exercise of such an authority, though intended for the good of India, might hese. results directly the reverse.-e( Hear, hear.) The Arned Proprietor commented at some length, bat in inc of voice which rendered him inaudible at times, titeei the injury which the exercise of a power wholly eecontroilable must inflict upon the '.aterest . s of India. wits, he contended, too mueh to burden the re .iources of India with such wasteful and unnecessary eepeediture. There had been lately an unnecessary .Ind nussise war in 1 4th:, which would oecesiou addi tional charges on tlie revenues of that country. We had an unnecessary and impolitic war in Chime : our troop s were 1e be employed in it, anal thus a further charge we:rid be made upon the resources of India. It was, then, the duty of the Proprietors to knock off' ever, eitraordinary charge upon India, and to protect its .esourees tom the possibility of • " bus e Sir CHAS. 170 4SES rose - wit with pleasure . to second the motion of his ilonou able and Learned Friend. It peared from M ay Isoo * than 63 to May 1840, no l ess a sum .otlo/. h ad been expended in secret services. Such a disbursement havewasteful and unwarrantable. The Preprierors were to the explanation (as at t ir e last Court) that the m oney had been expended for Coe purposes of selicueri(nsgir te F rn and Western preainces of India. provinces were Ch arles o;bes , i , wished to were, h iesk where the Western perhaps, somewhere between Pekin and St. Pet h e e rs y b Committee hid It appeared, however, that the Secret only to o b e y orders—that Sir John Hohhou se its the President of the Board of Control, lied most, uncoustitutional power. Could th e P roprietors re ntals) quiet under such a st a t e of things? They Must take weans to have the matter p u t upon a mare coogdtutionai f oo ti ng ; and he hoped that the Court of Directors would lose no time in haviog a clear Und. tstanding as to the potter of ‘ he Directors ought to tho B .ard of Con trol and the Secret Committee. 1 have a short Act defining those powers, and thus to pro tect the funds of the Company—so called—hut of India from being p:undered—he (S rSi Charles _Forbes) wa s aboot to say, from being improperly expen ded. It had been stated that the money w.is expended for the be nefit and security of India. Ia one year there had been 60,000/. expanded by the Compiiny ,u raising seamen. This Was a shameful abuse. lie had the best informa tion, that such a power as that now exercised by the President of the Board of Control was never contem plated by the ell'arter . The Cuitiast AN aa h of the Hon. arid Learne d t ~t. regard to the motion Proprietor (Mr. Lewis), the Court of Directors cou ld satisfied, under legal adv i ce, that this outlay under the bead " gal Sciirdvieecedi" under necessary. Under present c ircumstances, or i circumstances, the Court of Directors did not t h:n r ki a t n i ‘ :ight to petition Par liament on the subject brought forward w.uld by the Honour able Proprietor.. The Company porting nothing by such a course, and they might los e a the little power they potisesstd. It swi m n of. • gwritiarY, therefore, for the Directors to go to Parliament, as he was sure that if any application of the nature proposed by the Honourable Proprietor were made, that it would be to the disadvantage of the East India Company. An Honourable Proprietor had called the expenditure by the Secret Comnatt e wasteful and unwarrantable. How could that Honourable Proprietor state that it was wasteful and unwarrantable, when he did not k: ow in what manner and for what objects the money bad been expended ? Sir CHARLES FORBES—Judging the present by the past I think so. The CHAIRMAN observed, th,t there might be a wasteful expenditure as respected a farthing as well ,as a million. The amount formed no criterion unless the objects in view were considered. In some years the ex penditure under the hi ad " secret service" was smelt, in others larger, but in all cases the Sec-et Committee acted conscientiously. The Honourable Mover of the resolution appeared to think that the money was paid over to Sir J. Hobhouse, as President of the Beard of Control, but the fact /vas that the money was expended by the Secret Committee, and the Court of Directors had full information of the manner in which it was expended. The money was expended in pro viding for the defence of India, in the building of steam-boats for internal protection, for political i ur poses, and for the public service. Mr. WEEDING had hoped that the Chairman wcti!tl have stated the law on the subject under considerati n. He (Mr. Weeding) could not concur in the rema I:, that the expenditure of the Secret Committee w“s wasteful. With respect to the 60,0001. spent in raisit g seamen, he (Mr. Weeding) considered it as a most proper outlay. It was at the time when the French had possession of Egypt, and if the Hon. Baronet would only consider the expenditure on board a sixty four-gun ship, the outlay he complained of was insig nificant, as compared with the great advan tage that had been obtained. It was true that the India Board exercised control over the acts of the Government of India, but the President of that Board had declared, in his (Mr. Weeding's) hearing, that it had not the power of initiation.---( Hear.) The Honourable Proprietor defended the expenditure of the 60,0001. for raising seamen, and contrasted that small outlay with that of the Burmese war, which cost 10,000,0001. or 11,000,000/. He thought a case ought to be made out for the legal adviser of the East India Company, in order that the state of the law upon the subject under consideration might be ascertained. Mr. ASTELL Considered the money expended for the rasing of seamen bad been explaiaed. It would be in expedient and mischievous to appeal to Parliament on the subj,et that had been brought forward. Mr. HENRY ST. GEORGE TUCKER (a Director) dif fered in opinion from his colleagues on the subject. The question before the Court was simple and plain, and he would support the motion. If such power did exist, Parliament ought to be petitioned to place the subject in a legal and more satisfactory position. He could not, however, agree in the expression that had been made use of, that the 'expenditure had been wasteful. He should support the motion. Mr.WIGRAM (a Director) was perfectly satisfied that the Board of Control had the power of ordering. the Secret Committee to transmit despatches to India, but he denied that that power was exercised without any responsibility. The Directors had a statement of the expenditure now before them ; therefore it could not be said that there was any secrecy about it, and furtha., part of the money had been expended in steam-boats. No government could possibly be carried on without the power of giving money secretly.—( Hear, hear.) He trusted that the motion would be withdrawn. Mr. D. SALOMONS said the question was one of im portance ; but he thought, under all circumstances, the Proprietors ought not to proceed further in the matter until they had a copy of the protest, admitted to have been signed by many of the Directors. He thought the control of the secret-service fund should be placed in the hands of two or three persons only, but that as soon as it could properly be done, an account should be rendered to the Proprietors of the manner of its ex penditure. The CHAIRMAN said the production of the pipers in question would be very inconvenient, and he thought in jurious. His statement respecting the President of the Board of Control appeared to have been misunder stood. The Board of Control had the power of com pelling the Secret Committee to send dispatches to dia ; but, at the same time, the Secret Committee had the power of discussing the question mooted in those dispatches, and of expressing their opinions thereon. Sir ROBERT CAMPBELL (a Director) thought the Le. gislature never intended one individual to have the con trol of the funds of the Company, but that would be much better to leave the whole matter in the hands of the Directors. The motion was then put and negatived by a very considerable majority. The CHAIRMAN said the next motion before the Court was one of which Mr. Poynder had given notice, viz.:— 4 ' T.:at this Court do take into consideration the coraniunications of two missionaries recently arrived from India, which were made at the public meetings of the Wesleyan Missionary Society, held in London, on the days of the 4th and 18th of May last, together with the two letters which were addressed to the Court of Directors in consequence by Mr. John Poynder, one of the Proprietors of this Company, dated the 11th and 28th May last ; and also the official answer of the Secretary to such letters, dated the 2d June last. " That there be laid before this Court a copy of the Order in Council, or other Act of the Indian Govern ment, awarding (on the abolition of the Pilgrim Tax) to the Rajah of Khoordah or other authority, connected with the temple of Juggernaut, the sum of 50,000 ru pees, or 5,000/ per annum for the future." He had received a letter from that gentleman stating his inability to attend on account of severe indispo sition, and requesting the motion might be postponed till the next Court day. Mr. HANKEY, after regretting the absence of Mr. Poynder, gave notice of a motion for the next Court day, relative to European officers in India taking a part in the religious ceremonies of the natives. ABOLITION OF OATHS. Mr. D. SALOMONS then brought forward A motion on this subject, but on the suggestion of the Chairman, it was post pood till next Court day. The motion was to the following effect :—" That the Oaths Abolition Act was passed with a view to re strict the occasions when tne solemn form of an oath is to be administered ; that then Act directs the verifica tion of documents of great importance, by solemn de claration, instead of an oith ; that public bodies are empowered to sub,titute a declaration for an oat'n, and this principle has been adopted very extensively in all th. 2 departments of the public servico, a solemn declara tion being now used in cases where an oath was for merly administered ; that, in the opinion of this Court, the practice of swearing Proprietors to their qualifica tion previous to voting be discontinued, and that a solemn declaration to this effect, and in substitution of the said oath, be framed, and such solemn declara tion be made, when by the several Acts of Parliament or bye-laws now in force an oath is required frona prictors of Eist India Stock previous to vo.:, ng on any occasion, and that it be refer re d to 'L ie C omm i ttee 131 Bye-laws to frame a bye-law ae-.„, r di ng l y. * DEATH OF . - MARJORIBANKS. Sir C. FORBES Sai:. IL was with extreme regret that he had heard of the death of Mr. M arjor ib an k s , l ate one of the ---... ri grectors of the Company ; a gen tl eman f or whom he nad always entertained the highest respect and es' - en), a feeling, he believed, in which all participated who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. The de ceased gentleman and Mr. Wigram were the only two Directors who opposed the late alteration in the Com pany's charter—( Hear, hear)— and he would ask what had been the consequence of it ? Why, in the first place, the trade with China was irretrievably lost ; the power of the Court of Directors had been made subser vient to that of the President of the Board of Control. The CHAIRMAN rase to order, and Sir C. FORBES said he would conclude by suggesting the propriety of erecting a monument to the memory of the late Mr. Marjoribarda. After slme further convertiation the subject dropped. .. - The CHAIRMAN then acquainted the i_;ourt that a digest of the evidence taken before the Committee of the House of Commons on the afTdirs of the Company had been printed, and vrould be shortly distributed among the Proprietors.—The Court then adjourned, STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian) . The demand for yarn yesterday was about the same as for se'cral weeks past ; and, as a considerable propor.. tion of the spineers are now under contracts for the re._ mainder of the shipping serAson, it is not probable that any material change will take place for the present. I The plods market was upon the whole flat, and rather aoasyr,prices were accepted in some cases, both for light trzaitors, yesterday, the itrong fabrics. At the meeting of Mr. Forth's dividu a l s d issented, and to accep t t h e offor of 10 s. g i r n e' t 1 h t e m p a h li u )r n i ( t l Y ; were hut s 'l o l i s n P e c's in e( - 1 - consequently nothing was ctn. eluded. ROCHDALE FLANNEL IN lARKET, SEPT. 21.—The flannel mar k et has been I but there is little or n( o ateration, and I goods of every description hire lively ;wain to-day, and il h4Ye ma with a ready sale; : I chang e of the pric,..s. In the wool market ther e i s HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, S E i firm. nlai PT. prices remain c!iaugo to notice in this:22.—There is little ket, unlei . s it be that busi other dr.:scrip t Hess was TlVlitiy confiuei to heavy hi,c- w a shade 1 which a large quantity was cleared, I y , w oollens, of tiens of goods there was not much done " "1 for wool was considerable, and prices. were inquiry higher ; the lower sorts especially weredifficult to pur. chase at late quotations. Business in the I warehouses i continues to exhibit a fair autumn average. Mr. Cobden has declined the invitation made to him to come forward for the representation of Manche ster, in consrqu:•nce of which the choice of the Liberal p arty liiieiy to Pall uric Mr. Milner Gitson. THE SULPHUR TRADE. We have more than once adverted to the probability that British manufacturers would bo able to dispense altogether with the services of the King of Naples, by making use of the fistites, which is found in great plenty at home, instead of the brimstone, through whose export the exchequer of the Sicilies has been . so long and so materially ass i s t e d. Th e r e are now, It is said, i about 15,000 t ons of Si c ili a n s ulphu r w are h ouse d n the port of Newcastle, for which there is not the least de mand. Considerable quantities of pyrites have been obtained from Wicklow, and the freights for " mundie," another name for pyrites, from Falmouth to Newcastle, are already amongst the quotations of our industrious contemporary, the Journal of Commerce. The quan tity shipped monthly from Cornwall is also stated to be from 1,000 to 1,500 tons, An oil of vitriol menu faturer in this country has itsed nothing but pyrites since the cloise or last year, and finds it answer his purpwre well ; an d th ere are ex t ens i ve a lk a l i era. blistiracnts on the Clyde and the Tyne r Amt. dtned the use of sulph ur some thereine quantity of pyrites required ss a Miihttitule for a ton of sulphur, has not yet beret pfeeltely settled - -;mprovements in the process ming In course Of attainment by practice but, supposing that Q' T tons, or even four tons (which is a !eger quantity than has yet been found necessary by any experimentalist) were r, quired, pyrites would still cost the manufacturer less than sulpnur, even at the lowest quotation of the latter article on reeofcl t for the best mundic from Cornwall raft be delivered in the Tyrse at 28s. per tilt% thereby enabling the manu facturer to disQeelle With sulphur pui - chiv,ed a , cyan wile it to be t tB-1- 4, or 51t i2s. per ten, WitttCat the ' price at presAt asked is 12i. 10te, h has bun feared by tome, and doubtless hoped by others, that the prite of the mundie would rise materially, trete its adoption as a substitute for sulphar to beronte general. The ruiners, r s o , f hw interest are folly aware of the necessity o f an union r' between th emse l ves and t h e i r eust4- e however, niers. They know that to rase their primes, demand increase, would b e on l y playing into the hands of the sulphur king. Indeed, the price is more like!) , to tall than rise ; for latte r l y , on account of the bad state of the roads in Cornwall, the cost of carriage has been heavy (about 3s. 6d. a ton)— an item which the The trade th ~,t too, fdc bein g i n i ts i n f ancy, hereafter iinpro%ements at present bei ng e ff ected in the roads will it m is not o rendiunech to expect e. ac quired in w o rking the pyrites, will contribute also to its reduction in price—probably so much so, that it may be imported into the Tyne at 255., thereby placing it on a par with sulphur, even at .51. per ton.—Gateshead Observer. After having received a buffet from the coa leiced Powers, M. Thiers' Administration declares ttiat it "waits" ut regeive asother...Clwrivgri. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, SEPTI4_IIVIBER 24, 1810.- MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (WEDNESDAY EVENING.) CHRONICLE.—The late Mr. Hammersley hay ing no surviving partners, a suspension of the opera= tions of the bank necessarily ensued upon his death; until his executors or other representatives ate placed in a position to assume the management of his affairs, This stoppage of the payments of the house has given rise to a feeling that a legal remedy should be provided to pre. vent the same consequences hereafter in similar cases. Some complaints are made that the firm should have remained unaltered when there was only one surviving partner. as the " London Directory " for 1840 gives it as " Hammersleys and Co., 69, Pall-rnall." The checks, we believe, were drawn in the same form ; but when a London firm is once established, the usual prac tice in business is to keep up the softie name through ge nerations, amidst all conilicting changes of succession. There were brothers of Mr. Hammersley in the firm, we believe, who are now dead, but the name of the house was continued, according to custom. At the death of the last surviving partner, a difficulty thus occurs, and it is said that the executors do not intend to continue the bank. Under these circumstances, application to the Court of Chancery will probably be requisite. From the nature of the business of Mr. Hammers ley, his death has not been attended with great incon venience in the city, but as the firm had generally "credit notes" to the amount of 150,000/ in circulation on the continent, the return of that description of paper for payment may lead to consider able difficulty if the business of the house be not previously resumed. TIMES.—Some unsteadiness and general flatness which has been observed in the Consol market daring to-day and yesterday is attributed to the state of the fo..eign exchanges, which have again given way, as will have been seen by the quotations ; and the circumstance is the more remarkable, as, owing to the diminution of the corn speculations and the fine harvest weather which has prevailed, there had been a general expettalion of a rise in the foreign exchanges. It is said that the Bank Directors themselves are not a little surprised at the course they have recently taken, and, if this state of things continues, it seems next to impossible but that they will be again driven by necessity to coosidor of some new and stringent aneamares bearing upon the circulation. This is a state of things respecting which the specula tors in public securities, from the recollections of the last year or two, arc not a little nervous. A product of India. the suleah fish, which abounds in the rivers that intersect the Sunderbunds, as also in the estuaries of Bengal, has attracted the attention of a correspondent, who shows that it possesses a property from which isinglass is manufactured under a monnptily raised try the Chinese, and which has hither ,o escaped the observation of European speculators. According to the description afforded, the suleah attains a large size, weighing in some cases I cwt. and upwards. It may be taken all the year round, and large quantities of it are brought up in boats to Calcutta, where it is cured. and thence conveyed as an ankle a merchandise into the inland provinces, where it is purchased for consump tion, chiefly by the poorer classes. The discovery that this fish contained the property for the thanufatture of isinglass was made in the following manner purchaser gave his servant two that he had boUght of a fisherman, and desired him to kin the best he could with them. A subsequent examination of the bladders was accidentally made. Tracy were found to resemble dull amber, and were exeeedingly hard and pellucid, bearing a striking resemblance to the book isinglass of commerce. He had a dear ut one of them cut off and boiled in %tam e clear tank water, strained off and placed in a cool atmosphere, and on the following morning it turned out as firm and translucid an isinglass cake as he bad ever witee§tecit Satisfied that his discovery was a whittle hbe, he sub mitted the further working nf it to an eminent chemist at Calcutta, who, having cleansed it, by the help of a Chinese shoemaker cut it into fine threads, and then it appeared equal in every respect to the itchglaA in the market. On further inquiry it Was ascertained that the Chinese had a monopoly arising out of the suleah fishery ; that, in fact, not one fish out of a thousand that came into the market ever contained its bladder, but that they were taken out by the fishermen as soon as the fish were caught, and headed over to the Chinese contractors. These bladders were shipped off to Macao, where they were dressed and prepared for the Chinese trade. It it supposed that to the Chinese this must be a considerable source of profit. HERALD.—The only foreign arrivals are the French papers of Monday, and from Monte Video to the 6th of July. In one of the former is a succinct and well-written account of the progress we have made in steam communication with India. The article sets forth the superior advantages of the route by Alexan dria, Suez, &c., and thence takes occasion to decide, that for the safe transit being guaranteed to us, we are endeavouring to overthrow the Paella of Egypt. The writer of the article can understand but little of our affairs, if he conclude that the Government ever make the success of individual enterprise .a party question. It is well known that the English have, for the long series of fifteen years, been at variance among themselves as to which is the preferable route to Bombay ; through the Mediterranean or round the Cape. And so far is the qnestion, at the present time, from being decided, that a large steam-vessel, belonging to a company holding the former opinion, took her departure, to ply o n th e fi rst - name d station, I but a short time since ; and that another will sail by the latter route in a few ddys. If steam continue to make those rapid strides, which it has since the first in troduction for commercial purposes, there is no reason why shortly the voyage round the Cape should not be performed in as short a time as is at present taken up by the overland journey to Calcutta, and with far more safety, and less personal inconvenience and danger, and risk from political causes. The Monte Video Papers are loud in their complaints against the Government, for the non-provision of a suitable police, and protection to the inhabitants. A perfect anarchy prevailed and thefts and murders so frequent, as to be taken as a matter of course, whi e the authorities could, or would not, afford any redress. Rivera, the President, was expected to return in a short time, when it was to be hoped matters would be amended Tne liberating army opposed to Rosas had met, but ac cordicg to the last accounts nothing decisive had oc curred, although an engagement might be expected daily to take place. SUN.—The state of the Foreign Exchatigt, and the expectation (almost hoorly, are believe) of some important news from the East, has kept the Funds in a vacillatitift and weak condition throughout the day, the market closing heavily as follows :—Conso!s, 88 to 884 ditto Aczount, 88h- to 88+; Exchequer alis, 13i. to Bs. prem. ; India Bonds, 6s. to ds; prem. ; and the Nes Three-and -a-Half per Cents., 974- to 974-. In Foreign Stocks we have haft tttuch the same fea tures as in our own FOttat i Vii. depression and unsteadi ness, especially th Spanish. The Actives dosed at 22k- to ;NA 1 l'ortugnse New Five per Cents at 32i ; C"m l3l an SI; per Cents. at 224 ; Mexican Six per Cents. at 2'l ; Belgian B on d s a t 971 ; an d F renc h J . rive per Cents, at 105 t. The. Shares were all a shade lower than yesterday. Mr. Hammersley's bank, it appears, is to be wound up, but there will be assets enough to meet all en. gagements. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAFERS OF THIS DAT. (From the Timor.) We do not assert ; we do tot believe; that there must be war. We exclaim, as all our neighbours do, " God forbid r But still, according to the deductions of hu man experience and reason, we should like to have a rational conjecture furnished to us as to the " where fore" of the vast preparations made by France—pre parations not of a defen s i ve c h arac t er , nor w i t h mere defensive objects, for na o ne Fr enc h man h as yet exposed himself to ridicule by so much as affecting to believe that any Power in Europe (and England least of all) contemplated unprovoked warfare in the shape of any maritim e or territorial aggression against the French people or their Government : at all events, the armaments of France is the Mediterranean can have no pacific purpose. But, perhaps, people are dreaming all this while ; perhaps the papers lie ; per haps the French ordinance s and official reports, and statements from all their maritime depots, are fabri cated. Of that our readers must judge for themselves. But if the ordinances, reports, and intelligence be au. thenticsa-lf conscripts be raised by thousands—if sea men be entered wherever they cto he found—if ships of the line be fitted for sea by scores—and if Sir Robert Stopford, with just nine sail, some of them 72's, at his disposal, and no more ; be actually at this moment out numbered both Is to ships, an d still more strikingly as to Men, by the french squadrons —why, then it can be no treason to say that it is the anticipators of a sudden outbreak of war who see clearly, and they who still flatter themselves with hopes of continued peace that arts the dreamers ; rfierecilier that, so tat' as Can be judged from appearances, among the dreamers are Queen Victoria's Ministers themselves, on whom the duties of watchfulness, preparation, and provision for war ought to press with more weight than upon all the rest of the cbtfittillnity. To=morrow or heist day we may look a little into the real state of their preparations, (From the Morning Chronicle.) Certain Tory journals a re k eep i ng up a cont i nuous cry ter interference with tail*a}i Matt fiettlent i and tale tion Uptall railway passengers. It really seems as If they desired the often predicted, but still delayed testa; ration, to be a conjoint one of ÜbrisefVativei mid &Lich:. men, the triumph of Toryism and turnpikes—an old Weller arid Wellington dynasty. Every one to his taste; Pritlsh tinheettientlbl r Yitieltidea the right of preferring the consumption of eight hours iiisledd b! three in the same length of journey ; a fare of thirty shillings to one of twenty ; and a mode of conveyance where the smallest tomperetire clone of accident is hbt less than as twenty to one. It alio indittdeS right of stickling for a system which chiefly ac commodates the wealthier classes to one which uni formly quadruples the number of travellers the moment it it C3tabllshech to to Vet; Verted ig hot impossible. Nor is It iititia: turally associated with a heartfelt hostility to other im provements, such as the penny postage for instance ; the hostility beibt het the least fatiCorolla tot the ad titittcti fact that it was a valuable boon to the poor; and a great benefit to the interests Uf efiterptite, stietite ; and literality. individuals have a right, we fepeat, to such antipathies ; and journalists have a legal right to minister thereto, if they think such a line of business will answer. Whatever they obtain kheteby, " the la* allows it ; Atid the hotiii aivaids its" the moral right is another question. Bad taste in the Vre ferenee of an object; is no excuse for the employment tri bad means in its Plirsisit, We gave, last Tues day week, from the Railway Times, a list of all the accidents, both by railway travelling and by stage mach tlavizlling t fthilzli hall beeii fenitited *Orin ik irhll Space of time. Reckoning by the lowest possible estimate of the amount of railway tra velling, and allowing the highest posssiblc amount of coach travelling,. it *as then for each coach Attideht §bVeti fallvt* Accidents *an fequited to equalize the risk. The number of coach acci dents in the list was nine ; but instead of sixty three railway accidents, there were only four. The inference was very obvious, and the returns and calcu lations since brought out evince that the comparative safety of railways was greatly understated. The Times of Monday last takes up the list of railway accidents ; augments it by extending the space over a month ; swells it to the number of nine accidents, two of which it was obliged to contradict the next day, one having been previously contradicted in its own columns ; passes over the coach accidents in pro found silence ; challenges " any one in the railway in terest to disprove" what it had already in part re canted ; declaims on the "frightful catalogue," and the " mercenary speculators ;" ascribes some good to " the intervention of Providence," but promises its own intervention to correct the " wickedness" and " guilt" of the several proprietaries. On this hint, the Standard speaks. It copies the. Times' list of " frightful" accidents, notwithstanding the contradictions which the Times itself had published during the inter val. It. is as forgetful as the Thies itself of its pre vious contradiction. It repeats the Times' abuse of en gine-drivers, reducing their wages from the 7s. a day al lowed by the liberality of that Journal, to 255. or 20s. a week. And it contends (for the argument has no other intelligible tendency) that no person should be al lowed to drive an engine for the first time who has not driven one many times before. In such a chorus, the treble pipe of the Herald could not be wanting. It chants most dolefully the dirge of deserted villages. The spectacles of our venerable Contemporary are dim with tears for a tlepopulated land. " Hamlets and vil lages have been rendered desolate by the progress of locomotion by steam." We are not sure whether the writer means that the villages themselves have been car ried off, or only the inhabitants crushed, by the loco motive engines. ( From the Morning Herald.) The Morning Chronicle contained yesterday a violent invective against the Society Ar the Protection of Agri culture, on the ground (as our Contemporary alleges) that the Secretary to that Society has recently address ed a circular to the clergymen of the Established Church, in which that gentleman calls on them to resist, the Anti-law thea but scarcelyL assumingeaguket statement o vt oWfheot that hw doe in their various parishes, the efforts of the emissaries of knowcor rect accurate,owr statementth e no t Chron i cle Secretary happent be o btt to the Society for the Prot ec ti on o f A gr i culture might b?tter discharge his duty, than by calling on clergymen of the Established Church to aid in counteracting a movem ent , w hi c h proposes the sub- Version of the Established Ch urc h, as one o f i ts objects. The Chronicle rails, of course, at the love slittwn by the clergymen of the Estaliivhe.l Church for their " temporalities' ; and adds.—. It mly be worldly wise in the Society in question to endeavour to make the clergy their tools 1 but worse friends the Church cannot possibly have, than those who endeavour to embark the clergy in the most unchristian work of dis geminating their otlioug doctrines, by h o ldi ng ou t t o them the bait of self interest. What an ides—the Gospel of Christ labouring to support a teachers monopoly of the by which their flocks are starved, to fill the pocket s of the high and mighty of the land, because , forsooth, the monopoly will also benefit them. !. The monopoly" which the clergy of the Est 1- bliseecl Church art pp to support, is a ‘.‘.mono poly' of which the class of labourers, above al:- o t h er Flaises, derives the benefit. It is a " monopoly" of the uusititsS of growing bread for their fellow , countrymen ; and if landuwners as well as labourers derive benefit from that " monopoly," the reason is simply this--that Ir. all things, th e i n terests of th e own e rs of th e s o il are identified with the interests of the class of labourers. The class of labourers, let it always be borne in mind, are the great consumers of agricultural produce ; and the prosperity of landowners and of farmers must always depend on the prosperity of the great body of their customers. To represent the landowners of the ki ng d om as the " natural enemies " of the labourers is one of th ose i mpu d ent fi ct i ons , b y t h e a id o f w hi ch the emissarie s o f t h e A nt i - C orn. law L eague con d uct t h e i r ope rations against all the settled institutions of the country. fully and completely,(lirmthteholl:l°:t:ing Post.) in theTh ni..n o w hj e ec m t ea w n hi t c h l i i e it a of the Whigs, does not shrink fr3m admitting very The morning organ of the Government, and oracle t an t l y the professed con. party has utterly failed to ente•tai lidcm Anil approbation of the great mass of the popu lation. The admission of the Morning Clar,nieie is in the following terms ;--.. It is in vain to think of blinking the raot that the werlo9s clPfel bare peer. b j h e i c i s t of c o acquiring n s alienated to a f ear f u l d egree t rot h t.ll • other rainii Gt entire ; The lod upon .the i r minds HR been almost entirely lost. i heir t - iiiiiltitlnt.. ,l 3 111 tlts o,,teftitilent has dwindled OS thr: negative feeling bf deeming then) not 80 t3Ad a the tdries ; anti stiiiietirties it gink,ti, byloyr that.' Nc think thi s statement is hot t ar Iran - ME ittith and we charge the Whig !cadets and journalists with having h , --e "! 1.)? the t e ltishtieSs and dishonesty of their poi neat Conduct, the . ptinnipal adthots Of this qreat thisejiA We sank the princitid,l o antligts,, te 'Cause We du n o t mean to asser t that ris ory Ucii , eftl: 11 '' )t in Church and state vial eiladtly rhat it aught to n i ak•4 bkieit ! Ott r iNo ths fui i i i4 o rih4 iit Itit qiileiyee, previously to 11031 . . Its great fault was being tens careful than it °tight to live been of the superio tent,ll iit Ili, htiiill4i-iod6asitli PBOith'is;;"‘ We Could easily enurherate many excuses f or this omission of prop er c are; but) after taking them a l l into account, we still itlitw, anti, similar neglect, ledge, that th e T vy govornmepo 0 01¢ !rist half con. tory 'Were blaitte,iblr nil**, 9f ,IPPII !WWI of train ,g, O. regulation, 0„4 of acouragement of goal can duct, as every wise Government of the working masses :hould look to. But the Whigs are chargeable not only with a measures to injure the minds and public morals of the lower classes, and consequently to make them ungo vernable and unhappy. Whit e the Whigs were in op position, they constantly ' ' d and abetted those led, but with having taken active °nevi trai4R popular agitators and decla,itaer. ; ' ,, ik.o inflamed the people with monstrous exaggeratio4s c ir,dovimright lies. They encouraged the inculcatioa, ui son >the lower classes of politic a l p r i nc i p l es which, ape 1 vholly incompatible with .. . aV reguig go vcrigoo q !, of a p Vpulgus a4tion, having diversities of interests, of rank, of education, and of property. They did this, knowing very well the bad ness and the falsehood of these principles, but they only looked to their effect in overthrowing the existing Government, and then they hoped to control the storm they had raised. FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) Amid the clangor of party strife, in which Parlia ment was too much engaged, and the public attention too much occupied, during the late Session, there were several measures of great public utility matured and quietly placed on the statute-book, from which the present and future generations will derive extensive and progressive advantage, Among these laws will be found an Act for the extension of vaccination. To appreciate the value of this sanatory law, it is neces sary to advert to the still extensive ravages of the loath some and frequently fatal malady it is designed to check, and, if properly administered, to even tually extirpate from the country ; and also to the satisfactory proofs of the efficacy of vaccination to effect the destruction, in its fatal character, of a disease which has been aptly designated the " English plague." Many years have not passed away since its appearance in a village or country town produced general conster nation. The subjects of the disease were removed to " pest houses," built at a distance from the usual abodes of the inhabitants : while those who had not passed through the frightful ordeal of the malady sought safety in flight from the scene of the visitation. Eve', after inoculation was introduced and became general, as a precaution against the disease in its " natural" 3ttite, the deaths by small-pox, as the yearly hills of mortality proved, averaged the amount of those occasioned by the aggregate of the other mala dies to which flesh is heir. What rendered the situation of the population yet more deplorable, was the fact, that the prudential means resorted to for mitigating the dan gers of the disease to the individual, exposed the neighbourhood to the horrors of having it introduced in its natural form. The new and improved system of re• gistration has been the means of supplying intormation as to the extent, notwithstanding the introduction of vaceinaffoe, to which the population of this country is yet exposed by the frightful devastations of small ritit in if§ natural form ; to the valuable statistics of the registration rettiftil, we have no doubt, the public is in debted for the recent legislative interference, in the fttrre of the Act before us. The registration of deaths during dip fibs ruts and a half ending Dec. 31, 1839, shows that no les; flint, 90,000 persons in England and Wales alone, died of srivdl-pox—giving an average If upwards of 12,000 in each year. (From the Standard.) The Paris pdPele of Monday contain no news of importance. The assertioth of the National, that after deducting the army in Africa, France is unable tti bring 00,000 regular troops into the field ; that lief axtiller~ is dismounted and deficient in horses ; that her cavalry is lattietriabl7 deficient, and her whole army in a very disorganised state', have afforded an eldtise to the Constitutionnel and Courrkr Francais to resume their accustomed tone of gasconade. The former affirnaa that the Vreneh Government have called forth all the rcsollfddS *Ma the law has placed at their dis posal, and that by the month of November France will have 490,000 men under arms, a number which she earl double whenever any necessity shall arise. To admit of this increase to the effective force, the number of Ittfatttft regiments will be increased from 88 to 100. In addition to this famidalele force, 10 battalions of riflemen are in course of organitation an the Tyrolese plilti, which number can be increased to 30 should it be desirable, It further adds that suttelent horses hale been pufehased to bring 1,600 pieces of artil lery into the field: The Courrier Francais is stuffed with its usual swagger about the superior resources of France. We attach very little credit to the state ments of either of these Ministerial hacks, whilst we feel nothing but contempt for their silly and insolent gasconade. If France were as strong as these serviles would have us believe, she should make less parade of her preparations and her prowess. " 4 Much cry and little wool" is a proverb which appears to apply with peculiar force to the recent bluster of the French press. The Debats, which humours the hobby of Louis Phi lippe, professes not to care for the numerical superiority of the British navy, seeing that France has every pros pect of thrashing us, even at sea, whenever she may take it into her head so to do. The Debats has cer tainly no precedent on which to found its gasconade. Perhaps it thinks that in war, as well as at rouge et noir, when the cards have turned up the same colour tea or a dozen times, there is a reasonable excuse for betting on the losing side. (From the Courier.) Recent occurrences, to which any more particular al lusion is unnecessary, have brought the practice of duelling again prominently before the public. A few remarks bearing upon a general view of the subject may, therefore, be neither unseasonable nor uninteresting at the present moment. We confess we entertain a very strong repugnance to the practice, and consider an ap peal to what are (in derision, we presume), termed the " laws of honour," and a resort to pistols, as the most irrational, absurd, and unsatisfactory mode for seeking sitisfaction, or determining disputes, that ever the per verse ingenuity of man devised. We look upon it as a remnant of feudal barbarism, the prevalence, nay, the toleration of which reflects deep disgrace on any civilized or Christian community. It was only suited to those ages when the profane and impious notion prevailed that by some special interference of Divine Power single combat would be made the means of vindicating innocence, or of detecting and punishing guilt. Ex perience and the advance of knowledge have shown how utterly groundless and degrading to the Majesty of H?aven such a supposition was. We shudder at the recollection of the numerous instances in which an adherence to the so-called code of honour, has had the effect of adding homicide to profligacy, and of forcing the seducer (who was generally a practised shot) to become the murderer of the husband or the brother of his victim. Latterly we rejoice to perceive duelling has fallen into deserved desuetude, with gen reen, being chiefly confined to the broken down jockey, the ex-frequenter of the gaming table, or those who, plying other equally disreputable pursuits, fancy that they can gain notoriety and distinction by aping what were long considered the characteristic vices of the higher classes of society, and by having recourse to so fashionable a mode of settling their disputes, as is pre scribed by the laws of honour. But the few recent in stances in which men of high rank and undoubted cour age were, through a false and perverted sense of honour, induced to appear in the character of duellists, will, we much fear, have the effect of reviving the barbarous custom, by throwing around it the prestige of fashion, aryl thus blinding the vain, the over sensitive, and the foolish to its enormous criminality. A REPUBLICAN'S REMARKS ON THE ENG LISH REGENCY BILL—The working of the monarchical principle, as illustrated in the case of Great Britain, at this moment, is curious enough, A young lieutenant of Austrian Hussars, by the Regency Bill, and in virtue of his marriage with the Queen, may become the sovereign, for years, in Great Britain ; and one of the foremost na tions of the earth agrees quietly to submit to the govern ment of this foreign youth. It is certainly a great expe riment at this period of free inquiry and general agita tion, although of pro•ound peace, thus to give the sceptre into trust, where no associations exit to invest 1-- trustee with any of those illusions, or prestiges, which, cases . have served to sanction such vicarious in other like ' royalty. In the corn: . 'gencY looked to by the Regency Bill, .‘ ~ f the Queen's dying lu birth to an heir to the crown, the . Sovereign for eighteen Prince Albert will virtually whole power of the %ears and in the pospggion of the vet he is to Monarch, though only called gegen! y ank. A con: Englishmen but an attplaintande of y tidy corning whose habits or principiel they Can knot* al ye. little or nothing. To us on this side of tli” htfa'rttid, who, inheriting the English tongue and blood, Jot* fo • out mother land with interest, the spectacle thus presented it almost incomprehensible. The experience of half a cen tury of self government under elective rulers renders this appointment of a young stranger to be King for a term of years over the British empire almost ludi crous ; and it is with difficulty that &rave and gray-bearded men can comprehend the acquiescence of age, experience, eminent public service, and approved patriotism, in setting up over them and above them this beardless foreigner. If the case shall arise, which we hope may not, for proving the monarchical principle. as illus trated in this Regency Act, we deem it not improbable. that commotion and violence may be found ; that what, in bygone ages, might be safely and naturally resorted to, Can hardly control the passions or satisfy the judgments of this more excited, more questioning, and more innovating ereit. It is connected with the great question now di viding opinions throughout Europe, that struggle of oppo site and irrec,,milcable prineiplcs, the monarchi ca l an d t h e I.democratic theory of go vj.romenti and it is p resent i ng t h e YcAtion for monarchy in one . : . tsi weakest form s . —N ew ork American. fittAl4lYt PofATOE STARC.7. — A g r ea t •. revolution is gt.4l:hit 6'll in Ore distilling Irs.4e, the recent discovery that poigtog Isotif or stateh is capable, by . dtte fermentation, of yielding a vor arrd weU4asted spit+. gurne , specimen s hav e l a t e ly been set:Mitt:Gl ft; the st tit theteharits, which even the most experienced antotlg them nate. tgafeds been able to distinguish from French brandy, for even the tt'Ut,' climate flavogr of Cognac has imitated by certain chemical composi tions, wiilA Ih knglist refiners have been enabled to add 'o the spirit from I;olatfie lta'reli. 'three distilleries for the produa!on of this kind of fitEirth brandy have recently hen erected in the metropolis, and tow of Ittiest are al ready in activity. One gentleman has imported ON less than 1,000 tons of potatoe starch within the last three Months from Franco and the Island of Jersey for this purooso ; and it is said that the dealers in this commodity ar,,, only a! , prehensive that tile prospect of a war with Franc:, will put a sudden and speedy termination to this novel sort of traffic. The Excise laws at present prevent the manufacture of starch from potatoes in Great Britain and Ireland ; but it is generally supposed by those most interested that in the next Scssion of Parliament these will be altered so as to permit the manufacture upon a very large scale.— Scotch Reformers Guzette. LiE FRENC E-I HARVEST.—AII the returns fio.n the departments, as to the harvest of the present Year, justify a conclusion that the produce is one of the finest that has been known for a long time, and that in a few months the price of i corn willite considerably reduced in all Liao inar!cets,. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday, a member — ofthe — sWell mob, elegantly dressed, and sporting a pair of mustachios and an lin purial, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Wow), charged with ztealing a gold pencil-case and a valuable diamond ring, from the shop of Mr. John Bradley, a jeweller, residing at No. 3, Great Russell street, Bedford•square. The prosecutor stated that on last Monday week a gentleman who had given an order to have two diamond rings prepared after a particular fashion, came into the shop, and while examining them the prisoner also walked in, and asked to look at a gold pencil .case ? Several were shown him, but he said none of them pleased him, and left the shop rather hurriedly. The prosecutor never suspected any thin•D to be wroag until the gen tleman who came in fast observed that one of the ar ticles was missing. Nothing further was heard about the matter until Saturday, when he saw an advertise ment, stating that such articles had been stopped, and the person who offered them for pawn taken into cus tody. He identified the articles as those stolen, and the prisoner as the person who came into his shop on the evening named. The prisoner, who said nothing in hi= defence, was fully committed for trial. HATTON-GARDEN. SINGULAR CASE.—Yeitenhy Mrs. Mary Ann Bar ton, of No 79, Connau 4 lit-tcrrace, Ethrowar—road, and Mary IVintlon, appeared b,fore Mr. Co nbe, ander thr following circumstances : Mr. Flower, the Solicitor, of Hatton garden, at tended for the defendants. It will be recollected that on Wednesday night last the defendants were found drunk and disorderly at the end of H tit() g i g .1 d et), when they were taken into custody, and, on their road to the station house, a gold watch fell from the person of Barton, and, on being searched, another enamelled gold watch was found in her possession, which she claimed as her own, but neither of the defendants could account for the possession of the watch which fell from Barton, and both watches were detained until inquiries were made, and the defendants were ordered to be in attendance yesterday, when they appeared, Mrs. Barton being accompanied by her father. Archer, 150 G, stated that he had made inquiries, and ascertained that Mrs. Barton and her companion re sided at 79, Corwaught•terrace, and were highly respect. able. She kept the house, and had servants. The en amelled watch was her own property, hut he had traced the other watch to belong to Mr. Smith, a Jamaica mer chant, residing at No. 36, Hatton-garden. Mr. Charles Smith was called forward and sworn. He identified the gold watch now produced as being his property. Mr. C OMBE inquired under what circumstances he lost it ? Mr. Smith replied that he was in the habit of carrying his watch in his waistcoat pocket without a guard-chain. On Wednesday night last he was pro ceeding to his residence in Hatton-garden, when he saw the defendants in custody of the police-constable, and on their way to the station-house Mrs. Barton resisted, and was entreating the policemae to let her and her friend go. Witness, conceiving the defendants to be respectable persons interfered, and requested the con stable not to take them, and Mrs. Barton clung to him, and his watch was no doubt dragged from his pocket, but certainly not with the intention to steal it. Archer said that Mr. Smith did interfere, and the moment he left the spot the watch fell on the ground. Mr. Smith was anxious to release Mrs. Barton from his (Archer's) custody. Mr. COMBE—Was Mr. Smith sober ? Mr. Smith— As sober as I am now. Mr. Flower here said that the defendants were re spectable, and quite incapable of committing theft. Mr. COMBE said, that after this explanation, he was satisfied, and he discharged the defendants, who quitted the Court with their friends. WORSHIP-STREET. NUMEROUS ROBBERIES. - Yesterday James Wild, remanded from last week, was brought before Mr. Grove for re-examination upon a great number of charges of stealing bundles and parcels from children in the streets. Many fresh eases were brought forward yesterday by parties who had been robbed, and came to view the pri soner, who was identified by the witnesses in four of those cases, making in the whole 35 charges in which, he was identified. The yard of the Court presented an unwonted ap pearance, being full of young boys and girls, who were prying into every corner, and kept up a constant hub bub during the examination. The prisoner, who is a little active-looking young fel low, was formerly engaged as a performer at the dif ferent fairs in Clark's equestrian company ; and a charge was now brought against him of having stolen Mr. Clark's watch and appendages about two years since. Latterly be had been engaged at a theatrical sa loon in St. Luke's parish, where his principal perfor mance was " a hornpipe in fetters." In consequence, however, of Mr. Clark's absence, who is exercising his vocation at Margate, the prisoner was remanded till next Wednesday. SUNDAY ANGLERS. At the Town-Hall, Kingston, on Saturday, John Tegg, a fisherman at Thames Ditton, was summoned before Sir Henry Fletcher and other Magistrates, upon a charge of fishing in the river Thames, on Sunday the 6th instant, and for which, under a very old Act of Parliament, he had forfeited a penalty of forty shillings. Mr. Walter, solicitor, of Kingston, appeared in sup port of the proceeding ; and Mr. Guy, another profes sional gentleman, attended for the defendant, who pleaded not guilty. Mr. Weller, one of the clerks to Mr. Henry Wood thorpe, the clerk to the Court of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the City of London, produced a copy of rules and regulations, bearing date the 23th October, 1785, signed by the Judges, for the conservancy of the Thames and Medway ; and by one of these rules it was decreed that any person practising fishing the rivers Thames or Medway on the Lord's day, should be liable to a penalty of forty shillings. Richard Turner, deposed that he was gardener to Sir Edward Sugden, and he saw the defendant and two other persons on the Sunday in question, fishing in front of his master's lawn. They were also drinking, and the defendant sung a song. Sir Edward was walk ing upon his lawn at the time, and he was very much annoyed by the proceedings of the defendant and his companions. Cross-examined.—ls sure he saw the defendant catch several fish. He was fishing with a rod and line. This being the case in support of the summons, Mr. Guy took an objection to the proceeding, contending that the Court had no power to make such a rule as that which had been produced in support of the present proceeding, and that, therefore, the Bench could not convict. The Magistrates having consulted together said, that by an Act of the sth of George the Second, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen had the power of making such a rule as had been produced, and they therefore over ruled the objection. Mr. Guy then addressed the Bench on behalf of the defendant, and said that in his opinion the proceeding which had been adopted was quite uncalled for and un necessary. He thought that of all the amusements that were practised on the Sucday, fishing was the most harmless and unobjectionable, Ind it had always been so considered ; and ha was sure the Bench would ogre. with him in opinion, that it was much better for a poor man to aMWC himself three or tour hours on a Sunday cternoon in fishing than in going to a public-house to get. •rik. He thou g ht it was very h ar d th a t a ny p o or u. mar, shown. be dragged before a Magistrate and fined fOf so doing. Mr. Henry Fl etc h er 0 1 , served that the Bench would not discuss the propriety or impropriety of the pro ceeding. They must administer tt law equally. Mr. Guy then-said that all he could do was to leave client's case in the hands of the Magistrates, and express a trope that they would only inflict a smizil floe upon him. The Magistrates having consulted together, said they must convict the defendant, but they should only inflict a fine of 2W., which was the lowest the law gave them the power to inflict. PEDESTRIANISM.—aI Friday last, the match for 201, that Coates, the celebrated London pedestrian, could, within one hour, accomplish the following extraor dinary undertaking, viz., to run a mile, walk a mile, wheel a harrow a mile, walk backwards half a mile, draw a gig half a mile, hop 100 yards, leap over forty hurdles ten yards apart, and pick up fifty stones one yard apart, and put each singly into a basket, came off. He finished his arduous undertaking with a minute and a hcqf to spare. His style of running is acitzirable, being very close and and one which some of 0;:r pedestrians would do well to imitate. lie cleared the ;,:irdles, which were hunt three te,7 t - high, in beautiful style, se and elasticity a a bounding over them with all the OW g ,-eyhound.— /Vottivria in Renew. LETTERS 01 INTRODUCTION.— When Dr. Franklin was Minister of the United States in France," says the National Gazette, "he was often importuned by persons unknown to him to give them letters of recom m- mendation. For cases of this kind, and when it was i possible to refuse, he prepared the following model, and in some instances actually employed it to shame persons making sneh indiscreet applications, and in some measure to stop them Paris, April —, 1777. bearer, going to the United States, presses me to give him a letter of recommendation, although I know nothing of him, not even his name. This m.,y seem extraordinary, but I assure you it is not uncommon bete. Sometimes, indeed, one person unknown brings another equally so to recommend him ; and sometimes they recommend one another. As for this gentleman, I must refer you to him self for his character and morals, with which he is cer tainly better acquainted than I possibly can be. I recom mend him, however, to those civilities which every stranger of whom we know no harm, has a right to; and I request you will do him all the good offices, and show him all the tavour that, on further acquaintance, you shall find him de serve. I have the honour to be, acc.' " EVENPNG EDITION". CORN AVERAGES . UENERA,:, AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH C OIIN et i , or the Week ent:ed Sept. IS, 1340, made up from the ,fiet ui ' T o , the Inspector: iii . the diflerent Cities and 'lawn s in k•gl °3- - Wales, per imperia; Quarter. - - 5' Wheat his. 26.1 O ats . 254. 1(kI. Beans... ••••••°,,, i i . .. B.irley :165, ~i, : 1,,, ve 'p I. Sit. reme...,..••4'''' AVERAGES 0." THE LAST SIX WEEKS. ~., . rEA O• .., WHEAT. BAKLE. T.I OATS. EYE ' ....... ............. 3--Nq .."-...........' ---..-. ' ----.--- .-----. -.. . i I 4 - 1 , ill Aug. 11 1724i 32 4 30 540 0 •so , I 43 *2l 45 , • '2'; Sept. 4 II IS - , .2) 10 1 . 3 " 8 "'....„:w ICS,,, mi.enia 1 AGGREGATE AVERAGES 01. TA ' ~.. -- r ia l jui; 0/heat , 9,. 3,i. 1 Oats itarici,- '4. N. 1 Rye DUTIES ON Fo a, : 2. 1 ") : 4 r4 45 4: 1, 31 ...1 13P . ce2asnes:::::::::4-14' i'l: . I'• 1. 11 Wheat... ... 13. Sd. 1 Oats Parley los. 1otl. i llye ek endin THE MARKETS. ARK ET. s market-day, 14. COAL M Ships arrived More I e. d• .1 S. (1. . '..5 • Aila's's dell. lotion Se Co. Hartley , 8 0 Walls End Lambton .•••••" A 5 Middle's West Hartley II 0 Wall , End Pemberton .••••••1 tis 6 Ij. lYwell Ma n ''''''' '" '4l I' Walls End Russell', Heap. 96 Orig nal Windsor's Co to 14 3 Walla End S'ewart's ....... ^' ~.: 6 Ord's 11edlitigh 'l*(Avnl-y .. ... Willington i i.,, ; r ‘r l a a l i l is s E1.:n..116 i\L'1r1ittiewp(e51).1...............14 ski 1 (3 Walls End Kellne ............. ~,,,-. y N.l l, , ... • ........ - Wal a E. Hell and Brow. A 6 Walls 1.11 , 1 'arrington ',..'-'-' .". ''. .Val is E d ; - ew c 1'4.. 1 ( .0 . .1 !' Nails E. •il Mai ret ............ ....; • \V,1115 Eild Brown' ' I ev,1115 End .:o.fo "k• ... I. ,.\ : ,aa a i l li l is s s EE ; ;;; 1 1 1 flei.c on ....,.. ''-• ally Ei.il Hilda ..... '2l 0 \Nail:, End '46ymourrecs''' :el P li i i ° ll t i ' i l i ) A u ‘ r y worth ....... . Bell's Primrose l7 Cowpen.... .............. .... •10 ~, Walls End Belmont '''''ls " W. E. Braddyll's !Jetta i , 21 0 Walls End Elgin ...... • ...... Walls End Haswe11. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS! Quarter. s, to s. s. to e. to s. (3.ston Bratntt ce 64 72 32 40 2'6 34 13 ighton 67 74 311 40 27 32 C:anbritlgc. I 62 36 25 i Chiche,ter ,65 72 34 36 '26 28 Dunmow Grantham Ot, 79 28 35 2(, 30 Grimsby 53 70 1 35 39 22 26 tlailsham Hitchin 36 74 32 42 •24 32 Ipswich 152 79 3(i 42 24 2S Lewes 63 66 I 32 28 33 Lynn Maidstone 63 715 3(5 89 26 :32 Norwich ' ('6 36 35 43 j9B :30 Pet worth 63 74 33 315 Qb 33 Roin lord Sandwich l, 86 37 34 43 27 k; I Thetford 164 (33 35 36 j 23 30 Wishrch b4 7;2 3 _i6 42 2- :3(1 Witham - 63 73 32 3!) 23 :35 Yarmouth ! 62 79 133 28 31 LIVERPOOL. CORN M. k WHEAT, English, White, per 70Ib. Red Scotch, Welch, and *Manx Irish, White ----- Red Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b.....• - Irish - Foreign hARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter.... -.Scotch and Irish, per 60111 s. Feeding BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter -Irish , &c . •-• Foreign PEASE, Englisn, per Imperial quarter - Foreign ilourt, English, per :280%. - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs INDIAN CORN, LAI' 4801 h. RYE, per lameual quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter Nee . to o i, 41 46 47 5° 4'2 44 38 4 4 4 ' -4 1 {4 _ ti .28 4 ! 48 4° 3 4 46 4 4 47 40 L " r 41 41 , 3 , :„ 33 38 46 144 • I 5 s 7 46 40 38 0 1 • gt 101 t o 9 Sr .• 314 ..... 6 • ''''' 5 6 JO ''' 8 1 39 40 44 4 i 41 41 ...- 4 0 ac ~ if :30 $ll 411 41 41 4'l 4; 44 ,4 3 7 3 ‘a 41 , 46 4-.! 3 4 3 " 3 0 0 ••• 0 of 3 5 32 a 4 v ...... ...... 6 542, .... 49 ° 41 e t' ..... 44 50 ..... 48 ° 46 'A .... 43 0 44 50 ..... 51 ° 4 5 , A 5 u .". 'A U •45 "46 A ° 10 ; o 38 0 " . '''''' 4 s ...... HULL CORN MARKET. 71 4. Wheat, White (per Quarter) 51.5. 66 " os. Red 46s. J 6 0 '' ' 4s. r Os• 6 ° Foreign • ~ E. OM Barley, Malting 32s. t' s. Os. Grinding Oats, British Foreign (in bond) Beans .. 3 .- -0.• Pease, Grey .. 41s. 44°. Blue and White 4os. ,_ 0. Linseed . .. ~ Flour (per sack)... —.l. 2Sh '- Rapeseed (per 10 quarters) CHELTENHAM MARKETS. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. cid Per lb. ...we Wheat 7 0 90 I Beef... ............ olarley. Oats 4 6 5 0 Veal ................ , . ... . Beans Pease Hay C A 6 1 , 1' 0 1' E B 3 1 8 8. I U 9 1; L I tao :l sl A L ß .s7 K 7s E —d. T :ll)..eur"; ::: . ,:to 76g Wheat, white.—....— 7cs. to 755..... 01d.... - , vo• to 7 ° 4 . red---.... 7ns. to 7 25, ......... 01d..........*' ~. to - - I ; Barley, Malting —. 375. to 425........ Gr ndink• ...4. to..m''' Oats Beans ---.—.— 335,. t0 44a o ; 1 36 7 5 5 . --......... ° 01 i d ei ....... -*."' los ' ', t l O O "r i ; Prase ~........—.--... 425. to —s. —.... GreYvvvw . ii CHELMSFORD 111...8RET. 26 t° . 46 .......... _ i Wheat, White 72 to 74 Oats ....................... 4U , 4 Red Barley 6 236 6 3 7 , Pease, N G v r ha y ite .......: ... ..: . ......... 4 41 fil Chevalier ..... Grinding 6• "7 of 6 1 6 • 7 • P o wers GETTING IN TO A MRS sa , '„i s , Wit" what a bad style of dress they've got into lat hing free' their tight waists and strapped trousers--n° l l ll eSer nothing easy, nothing degaye about it.' When in ;001' paign, a man ought to be able to stow prog for A red four hours about his person, and no one the wiser. good rule, I assure you, though sometimes it leads W ward results. At Vimicra I got into a sad scrape tha t N 11 Old Sir Harry, that commanded there, scot for the return. I was at dinner when the orderly came; packed up the eatables about me, and rode off. Just, ll t) ,0 ever, as I came up to my quarters, my horse stumbled , j 'or threw me slap on my head. "fs h e kill e d ?" Harry. " Only stunned," your Ex ce ll ency ," said '" o . one. " Then he'll come to, I supp ose- 1 00 k for t,": 0 1 pers in his pocket." So they turn e d m e on my ha% its plunged a hand into my side pocket ; but, the devil "Lel/ they pulled out a roast hen. Well, the laugh see s s he c- hiatl' over at this, when another fellow divedinto my e eet o n, ttu and lugged out three sausages ; and so they w en t ikidoefr I the ground was covered with ham, pigeon pie, Yee a 10 0 and potatoes ; and the only thing like a paper %/55,0ittes s o tl of the 4th, with a droll song about Sir Hattl', ar I se; in on the back of it. Devil of a bad aft . .tie,' e d ost I was n ly , broke for it ; but they only reprimanul li g ar little ; and was afterwards attached to the vial.° partment.—Cities O'Malley. the e l PORTRAITS PN ROMAN COINS.- -11) • ts or tit ' liest and more simple clays of Rome, the portta t s; th e living personage appeared on the public 111°P c 7 90 010 beads were those of their deities, or som e P wa s t b .: who had received divine honour's. Julius Casse r cen sta "" first who obtained the express permission of the 1: 0 , son° place his portr a it on th e coins ;and the example y' at hott followed by o th ers . Th e h ea d s o f L e pirins and o ff I3refr appeared on the denarii, and even the money tbs olr with the two dagg ers an d ca p o f liberty, beartliend ,b e ; verse the head of the man who killed his, i utbe flt4 ; cause he had assumed the regal power a nd whie" u ,, We have no evidence, however, that this moues'' 0 d Poi of great rar ity, was s t ruc k w ith the knowledge'looo" tion of Brutus; and it is possible that it is a P °s coin. —Ackerman's Numismatic Manual d ,ti, $ SILVER PLATE.—Now published ill let ter ...no t , will be sent post free, if a7plied for by a Pa,r e Srse Pamphlet of I'. COX SA iRY'S Prices of S c :g e o S t °,4 and Forks, with Drawings of the Patterns, Tea °a, e a For ks vices with Designs, Presentation Plate, Silver-e4nd Ire r k y Ware, the new Plated on White Metal Sens ChYf o o Ladies' and Gentlemen's Gold and Silver Wat c ,,n)rs cr. " Jewellery, Cutlery, Ladies' Gold Neck Chains, vt"- tea tit of the New Patterns. ft The ground floor, first, second. and third fl oors for the exhibition of an extensive srock. f ob' T. COX SAVORY', rlr °b Goldsmith, 47, C orn hill (S even d oor s from - street), Lan don . K E 5 SILVER-PLATED CORNER D i Ayersm' h it s A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing a, l sic !, stw - e s t N h t e r. p l r 4 ic , e C i oorfnthhilel, following London, oppositepattern patterns of Bank of Cl ot ylate ie ws Dishes, with silver handles and edges, and silver shield engraving the crest or coat of arms : 0 10 The Gadroon Pattern• £lO Four Strongly Plated Corner Dishes and Covers... a 0 Four Extra Stron g ly Pl a t e d C orne r Dishes and I‘.l 1- ' Covers Flower; ' P - ;;;;;;; . . ''''''''' o 0 Four Extra Strongly Plated Corner Dishes a nd 03 „toes Covers ................................................. • ,sets o f v T he The handles of covers of either of the abov &re d. 60 (1 may be taken off so as to form eight dishes wh en 1 1 foors' is sts Show-rooms of this Establishment occupy se ver ' Silver -V contain au extensive stock of Plated (-;°°d"- , ce° Watches and Jewellery. A Pamphlet, with drawings, and a detailed listsiolvfetkrbsej:o_:—ov: may be had on application. f ate • SPOONS, FORKS, &c., superior to rabilii;•• equal in appearance. Table Spoons or f.,. ° Lalesti a c i e b Dessert, ;Os. ; Tea Spoons, ss. per dozen; Table o f 11 0 11 1 8 inches hier. 7s. per pair; the particular seet s oo ly V os s these articles are made is so lik e s ilv er , that it c ot ., ts son - from it by the stamp every articl e m ade in silv er I lured in this material by t .stree t ffss• RIPPON and BURTG_N, Wells-street, Oxford e ms& Who, to prevent imposition, coSitine the sale o f it t° Catalogues of prices gratit• BIRTHS. ftiac kbu'' On the 18th inst , at Woodfold Cottage, r ear 4,05 , lady of Captain Burrowes, of a (laughter. Colo nel On the 20th inst., at North Villa, the lady 0 . the Is,, of of a daughter. On the 20th inst._, at Westridge, Isle of Wig ht, of C. J. H. Mundy, Esq., of a srrn. On the 2 3 d inst. , at East Dulwich, Mrs. J. Jack°. • daughter. r „iciet M.4RRIED. fou rth se* Li nty' On the 21st inst., Joseph Francis Tempest,.o t he l o bo son of thelate Stephen Tempest, of Broughton 1 'otter of of York. Esq., to Frances Bridget, eldest da? ! : , f , sa , Herey, of Hawthorn-hill, in the county of Be s ., ll ` - /slr. P so d On the 22d inst., at st. Dunstan-in-the-Das ; of paw- Ellis, of Fetcham, Surrey, to Illary, eldest daughte Mr 44 Stedman, Esq., of Horsham, ssex. stseks°' lion,lion, On the 23(linst., at Thorne Su , the Rev. W. 'y •to Anlie of Norrnanby, North Riding of Yorksh ire, S u rrey' l a. to daughter of J. Stapleton, Esq., of Tho r r e Lee , 01 , p i p On she 231 inst., the Rev. Thomas June', a mi s tl A s % Sarah, third daughter of the late Mr. J . Warn erry' NV' T. te il3 " On the 23d inst., at St. George's , B loomshu oi r the 'ZOO' Esq., 6th ( Rosa') Regiment, youngest son nsbire ,an as.bs hter Hall, Esq., M.P., of Hensol Castle , Glamorga d earns, ,11onmoutlishise, to Louisa Astley, Y" b of John Alliston, Esq., of Russell-square . nt D RP. Gordon Viso" • e of Elizabeth, relic On the 21st inst., in London, John more, aged 91. theOn the 17th inst., at Dunkirk, MarY, _ litatiero p s : t e N .l ‘er.l4thi Pembroke,nst.,a tElslcio.r,tlaagkeed, 90. ey w , id 0 vy of the late Kiallmark, Esq., aged 90. Esq., of Upper Charlotte-street, , s , . On the 2.3 d inst., in Lesulon, Char l e s A s vs 0.1 On the 22(1 inst., Sophia, relict 11 . 1112!!! 0 0 :10? 6 ,0 6 01 London No.l : 1,2, P , s ri t ri r t a e i t , l e, a a n t d 7Pluieblisslitieyd o b efi y ce,,.r4aaber 2 the ovisity of Middictese•••Thur sda h of t he late. Fitzroy-sq 344