The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-19 00:00:00

E Y 11114' I ING EDITION. t ors, the joi• the shopkeepers (name hateful to the ears of the mighty soldier !) are now the undisputed rulers of France ; and of such is the National Guard of Paris composed. By these men were the remains of Bonaparte surrounded in their passage to the tomb which has been, at length, pre pared. for hiss in the capital of what was once his Amp ire This fact seems to us to have been more eloq,uent of decay,—of the fleeting nature of earthly porup—ef the instability of earthly schemes of policy — than even the pall, and the coffin which contained the conqueror's bones. The bones of the great soldier, the patron of agriculture, the contemner of moneyed schemers, and of mere shopkeepers, have been, after a 'repose of twer,ity years, disinterred, in order to furnish a holiday to tb.e gaping crowd of loungers who keep shops, and who affect the style of military men ! These per eons have„ of late, prated about Bonaparte, as if Bona parte h'Ad been of their number, or been a favourer of their "• order"—as if, indeed, the presence amongst them of ti-, e ashes of the man who so often led the hosts of Tr ance to Victory, must suffice to convert the tradcs r.seia of Paris into formidable antagonists to the armies of all Europe besides. Some periodical writers, too, as wall as a body of Parisian students, have been exceed ingly enthusiastic, of late, in their demonstrations o reverence for the memory of Napoleon. No man ev „ looked with less of favour upon the pretensions of p. litical writers, than did the late Emperor of Fr "„. He would have reciprocated but little of the. t sym . pathy which M. Thiers professes For his memory —nay, under the sway of Bonaparte, M. 'niers, and his fellow rhetoricians would, in all proaability, have 'been compelled to exercise their talents for journalism in foreign countries. As for the students—La .Jenne France—Bonaparte would have regarded their extra vagancies with infinite contempt. He had no predi lection for mysticism, or exaggeration, such as these young men delight in. He would, in all probability, have given their ardour a new direction, by drafting them into the ranks of his army. Amongst all the clavieS which we have enumerated—the republicans, the socialists, the bourgoisie, the journalists, and the etu de sits—there existed little else than the affectation of sverence for, Bonaparte's memory. Yet these classes leave been chiefly instrumental in getting up the recent elemonstration. The royalists—the sticklers for the di 'vine right of the old line of monarchs—could not, of -course, be expected to regard a procession in honour of Napoleon, with especial favour. Let the classes, how ever, which we have specified, be deducted from the numerical strength of the procession which so recently excited Paris, and need we wonder at the failure of that procession to produce those results, which some persons expected from it ? The truth is, that the Bo napartists are a feeble party in France. Circumstances have utterly changed within the last quarter of a cen tury. Society has assumed new forms, and is acted on by new sentiments, or if by old sentiments, yet by these in new modes of operation ; the schemes of po licy, therefore, which were more or less suitable to the .emergencies of forty years ago, are unsuitable to ex isting necessities and relations. If, besides, the political system of Bonaparte might, fairly, be deemed the very perfection of wisdom, still the energy and the genius of Bonaparte would be required to sustain it in opera tion. France will, however, find it more easy to pro duce another revelation, than another Napoleon. The great procession was, in short, an utter failure—a fai lure, the causes of which it is not difficult to dis tinguish. (From the Times.) A letter has appeared in the newspapers from that 'philosophical politician, the well-known Joseph Hume, to his adopted countrymen, the Irish, in which he exhorts them to study the working of democracy in America. The recommendation is ludicrous enough as addressed to some hundreds of thousands of poor fellows whose heads have never been turned to anything be yond a hod of mortar; but, if addressed to people capa ble of understanding the matter, it would be a rational and useful suggestion, though for reasons exactly the opposite of those which influence the sturdy Radical of Kilkenny. To the actual working of democratic institu tions in America, so far as in a new country it has been possible as yet to discern their efeets, we adverted in our paper of December i, on the authority of M. de Tocqueville. But that these practical consequences may be fully understood and quite seen through, we shall do well to bestow some thought upon the theory they spring from, more especially as the people who bold that theory are the next neighbours of the Queen's Noah American subjects. It is instructive, though strange, to behold how man, with minds well able to apprehend both the evil of power when confined to the bands of a privileged few, and the true reasons why such power is an evil, can yet he blind to the still broader and grosser evils of the same power when committed to the universal mob ; and how hopelessly impatient is modern republicanism of any restraint upon the despo tism of the majority. Such opinions in America are not limited to the lower people ; there is also a chartism of the more educated classes. In a number published within the present year of a monthly Journal called the Democratic Review, whereof the writers are evidently wen of cultivation, we find a prominent ambitious article, entitled " Democracy," which may probably be taken as a fair indication of the sentiments most acceptable in the circle to which it is addressed. The principle which it asserts is, that " the majority of the whole number must have rule"—that is, a majority must be at once the deliberate and the executive power, the beginning, the middle, and the end of the Constitution. This is the American doc trine of the democracy, which, the writer sets out and concludes with saying, " must finally triumph in human Teason, because its foundations are deep in the human heart." The argument is stated thus : All men have from nature equal rights, which in the social state are not relinquished, but held in abeyance to be more effectually wielded by the superior judgment and power of associated man, and government is the agent of all. These axiom s are followed by three propositions--first, that the basis of legislative representation is the person, from which is drawn the corollary that the aggregate of persons, the mass of the people, are properly the judges of the means most conducive to their happi ness and growth—that is to say of all political affairs ; secondly, that government, as being the agent of society, should direct its operation to the good of all the members; and thirdly, that, as the will of the whole people is the source, and their good the end of government, they are entitled at any time to change it, as their growing civilisation may de mand. The conclusion from the whole is, that " De mocracy must finally reign." These doctrines, advo cated as they are by a great deal of the talent of the United States, and seemingly backed by the experience of at least the northern part of that great union, have too direct a bearing upon the population of British North America, and are too influential with some classes even within the British islands, to be treated with the neglect which may be abstractedly their due. In the United States, where they have ucen pushed to a great extent, though not nearly far enough to satisfy their vota ries, the mischief of them must long since have been glaringly obvious, but for the peculiar circumstances of a country abounding in new lands, which have furnished a hitherto unexhausted resource, against that heaviest of all pressures upon either a sove reign population or a subject one—the want of subsis tence. It is needless to observe that this resource must become less and less available as the new lands become appropriated by daily accumulating swarms of European in common with American settlers, and as the appro priation of the nearer lands increases the distance, and consequently the expense, the anxiety, and the hazard, of migration, to the subsequent occupiers. As long, however, as there continues to be in the United States any thing like a cheap facility for the obtaining of land, which is the obtaining of a livelihood, it is ridiculous to talk of the democratic experiment as having been fairly made in that country. When the Americans characteristically tell us that the steam of their con stitution works in perfect security without the costly appendage of our safety valves, they quite forget the great hole it escapes through at the back of the boiler. In what we have now to say we desire to be under stood as taking no part for the few against the wel fare of the many, no interest whatever for privi leged classes as such. If any given privilege be not for the b ene fi t o f t h e people at large, we wish not its existence. if it be f or th e b ene fi t , i n w hi c h case, in deed, i t is more properly their privilege than that of the class intrusted with it, the people at large cannot call for its abolition without proving themselves unfit to be the managers of their own interests. What privi leges shall exist, and in what bands, whether as a c h eap reward of past serv i ce, or as a means of obtaining ser vice for the futur e ( w hi ch form the twofold object of the British peerage), i or as an encou ragement to g enius and perse verance (which s the o bj ect of the monopolies con ferred by the laws of copyright an d patent), or as a temporary trust for the de s p atc h of the public business (which is the object of the peculiar p owers vested in eac h Minister of the Exe cut i ve Government for t t being)—these are questions, no doubt, of great import ance to society, but questions which all alike involve and admit the infringement of the claimed equality, an d depend upon considerations not at all of right, but of expediency. And it must be this, if anythi ng , which is meant by the democrat h imsel f, whe n h e tells us that " in the social state, natural rights are held in abeyance, to be more effectually wielded by the supe rior power and judgment of associated men, govern ment being the agent of all." It follows, that if the institution of any tru s t, an y p ower , any privilege, nay, even any privileged class, be expedient for the people at large, that is, for the majority of the whole people, th e mere circumstance of its deranging natural equa lity will f urn i s h no conc l us i ve argument against it. But, whatever may be the dispute on the sub ject of gov ernment , at a ll events on that of legisla tion the American writer conceives himself impreg nably intrenched b e hi n d t h e l o f ty an d p l aus ib le as sumption that the " basis of representation" (that is, of the , elect ive f ranchise) " is the person ;" in other words, that there can be no exclusive right to select those in whom the legislation is placed," because, ever y indiv n ichial i s i nterested in the use or abuse of that power. On this reasoning no regard can be had to the alleged unfitness of any member of society from infirmity of understanding, defect of knowledge, or want of independent position ; and minors and females, heir ,g interested equally—nay, indeed, from their helplessness, interested even more than equally —with ma! e adults in the use or abuse of power, beccrne ,itled to an equal voice in the appointment of their rs presentatives. Oh no, we are told, that is no part of the scheme ; the interest and convenience of the pc( pie require that these be still excluded. Be they so , no one presses for their admission ; but then w' 17 at becomes of " the person as the basis of legislat Ive representation ? " Be they excluded, for the in tereat and convenience of the people of your count ; but then with what face can you, or your disciple Mr. Hume, charge it as an injustice agair ,Ft the constitution of our country, that it has deer 3ed the interest and:convenience of its people to re quit e a somewhat stricter exclusion than you think recr Jisite in your own, a somewhat closer application of Yo' sr principle of selection ? If you lay it down that a sot of the capacity or independence requisite in the oter shall be conclusively presumed from a certain AZ or age, why may not another constitution draw a si lnilar inference from certain grades or habits of life ? You, with the person for your basis, shut out a frac tion of no less than about five-sevenths of all the persons in your society ; and then, because the fractional pro portion which your neighbours fix upon happens to be six-sevenths, you treat them as invaders of an universal principle and selfish enemies to the rights of man. Add to this, that on the executive part of the ques tion your argument expressly lets in. for the people's benefit, what you call the abeyance of their natural rights ; but if the principle of waving these rights for the people's benefit be admissible with respect to what is executive, it must be equally admissible with respect to what is legislative. How far, in any particular state of circumstances, the peo ple can really benefit from the waver, by some among them, of their " universal right" (which, however, we have seen to be witheld by democracy it self from five-sevenths of all human society) is a ques tion quite open to discussion both in America and in England : to the present purpose, which is that of trip ping up the abstract argument of an universal, perva sive, indefeasible,linvariable right, it is sufficient to have shown that democracy itself allows that right to less than one-third of those in whom it is declared to be inherent, thereby admitting the principle that the political rights of individuals are capable of being superseded for the benefit of the people at large. We certainly are not disposed to quarrel with the writer's second proposition, that government, being the agent of society, should direct its operation to the good of all the members : nor the third, that the people are entitled to change their government as the advance of their civilization may require. But the conclusion to which the author jumps is, that " de mocracy must finally reign." Now, the democracy he pants for is not, he says, " the fierce and turbulent spirit of ancient Greece, which was only the " mon strous misgrowth of faction and fraud, still less that wild reckless spirit of mobism which triumphs, with remorseless and fiendish exultation, over all lawful au thority, all constituted restraint." The last is a tem porary sort of misgovernment, a reign of terror, which in its very nature is incapable of permanence, though unhappily very capable of recurrence. The other, the Greek form, is the only one in which anything at all resembling popular supremacy will ever maintain itself for any considerable length of time. But that which these enthusiastic Americans desire, and which Mr. Hume, we apprehend, has ultimately in view, is an equal distribution of political power to every one of the members of society, (that is, being of male sex and full age), to be exercised by all for their common welfare, as the appropriate "judges of the means most conducive to their happiness and growth." This is the kind of democracy which the author before us fondly anti cipates as being " finally to reign." Suppose the ex periment then to be made in any old country, that is, in any country so fully occupied that its population presses upon its actual means of subsistence, which is the case of all old States, and must, ere long, be the case of the new likewise. The multitude now becomes armed with universal power, which is exercised in the choice of certain representatives, sent up, however, not as the directors of the people, but as their attornies, not to govern the constituent body, but to obey it, to execute " the means " which the many " shall judge most conducive to their happiness and growth." Those means, that is, the whole policy of the State, foreign as well as domestic, the people are to settle for themselves, and they will instruct these faithful representatives ac cordingly. Now, in these wide political pursuits, the ' most rational and estimable classes of the people are usually the most reluctant to meddle. Such interference takes them from their employments ; it makes ene mies and bad neighbours ; and it is usually suffered, therefore, to fall into the hands of less respectable men, whom vanity, or interest, or spleen impels "to leave a calling for this idle trade." The legisla tion of such folks is always with a crooked leaning. Their sympathies are on the disreputable side ; they adapt the law rather to shelter the irregular, than to aid the regular, movements of society—to favour tre:passers on property rather than proprietors, and debtors rather than creditors —to assist capricious changes as against fixed principles, and tear down or dilapidate the fences of religion. If these consequences should be obviated at all, it would be only through the acquisition of a controlling influence by the higher classes ; in which case all public affairs must become, what too many of them are now, mere questions of party, and the democracy, instead of reigning in the in tegral aggregate of its majesty, as contemplated by the theorists, becomes a broken heap of balanced forces, each pretty nearly powerless for any purpose of national good. But these are the most favourable suppositions (perhaps too favourable) of the probable exercise of unlimited power by a democracy. The more likely result, tee suspect, would be an immediate dissolution of the whole existing older of society —a week's work, that would require a century of repairs. The ques tion for the supposed democracy to determine upon is stated to be, " the means most conducive to their happiness and growth." Now the notion which nine-tenths of them entertain of happiness is eating and drinking (especially the latter) without working, and the principle upon which that theory would be executed would probably be again, as it has been too often heretofore, an agrarian one—the simple resource of reducing the inequality between the rich and the poor by a general division of property. At the end of a week there would then be a new set of rich, not those who were the rich of last week, nor those who last week were the poor, but those who have spent that week in retailing liquor. These would have realized nine-tenths of the distributed largess, and on the sixth or eighth morning the poor would be as poor as ever, with a gin headache, and no masters left to give them wages for tissrir future labour. We say with Mr Hume, " take a lesson from this !" FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. ( From the Globe.) The Paris papers are still full ,of the funeral of Napoleon. We observe that one of our Morning Contemporaries treats the ceremony as " a failure," while another says the spectacle was a fine one ; and " zeal, amounting to enthusiasm, seemed to per vade the vast mass of population assembled about Paris." Some of the Paris papers complain that the great officers of the State, the class of functionaries who owed so much to Napoleon, were not in the pro cession, but awaited its arrival within the church of the Invalides. The Debats, on the other hand, says that the ceremony, up to the moment of the arrival of the body at the Invalides, must be exclusively military, that Na poleon was a " great man of war, and that, at an epoch when social order could only be saved by ener getic will, he held the sceptre as firmly in his hand as he had grasped the sword." The Constitutionnel (i. e. M. Thiers) is of course complacent at the coming off, though rather a day too late, of the spectacle which the ex-Minister had intended should be played for his " benefit ;" and consoles itself with the reflection that " France had another grand page to add to her history" —namely, M. Thiers' embryo History of the Empire. Whatever may have been the degree of success of the ceremony, it is gratifying to find that the efforts of the public disturbers, at least, were a failure. We refer to our Paris correspondent for details of all they were able to do. With their noise and nonsense about the treaties of 1815, they did their petit possible to thrown ridicule over a solemn ceremony. The seriousness and silence of the better-informed spec tators sufficiently sheaved that they knew better than the gamins and schoolboys of Paris, where to lay the blame of the treaties of 1815. The Univers speaks out on this subject, with a courage creditable to a French journal ; and which we have no doubt meets approbation from the reflective portion of the French public —a portion the preponder ance of which ought not to be concealed from us by the noisy and abortive attempts of a desperate faction. " In good faith," says the Univers, "from whence came to us such reverses, after such successes—such humilia tion, after so much glory ? We retain nothing but recollections—great, immortal recollections, it is true— of all Napoleon's victories, of all his conquests. We know all thatj has been said, in style more or less sonorous, of the seeds of liberty, cast by our triumphant armies over all Europe --of the sympathies which our generous ideas, carried everywhere with our banners, have created in upon ourselves? iiere our favour i n th e b osoms o f a ll nat i ons. It i s all well tointoxic a t e ourse l ves with phrases, after having intoxi cated with let u g s lo h ry a . ve ß n u o t l w ie h s, o n b o ro v u sin ght Waterloo u p a hi loso nebulousphy of history, enveloping inexcusable faults in fatalism. It , and as Napoleonshould, h a brought i avoided Waterloo and he could, coalition, not ofprovokingonthilas; Kings only, but nations, which pre cipitated him from the throne, and drew us down w ith his fall." (From the Standard.) The pageant of Napoleon's funeral passed off in a manner highly honourable to the character of the French people, and in no lower degree promising of tranquillity to the world. The purpose with which M. Thiere devised the solemnity has been net merely defeated — it has rolled back in ruin upon himself THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19.1840. and his party. We want the ability, if we had the disposition, to criticise the ceremonial ; but it appears to have been adequate to the occasion. As in truth whatever is sufficiently grand and gaudy to fill and to dazzle the eyes of a populace, will always make a very good pageant, the best taste in such matters is perhaps to dispense with all the canons which taste usually prescribes. As a pageant, and as a pa geant only, however, the affair was regarded by the great body of the people of Paris ; and in this light it afforded unmixed gratification. It excited no enthu siasm, it provoked no ill temper. The spec tators manifestly recollected the whole history of Napoleon ; and while they were willing to do honour to whatever was glorious in that history, they were prudently indisposed to commence a repetition of it as a whole. Napoleon was a great general of a campaign, but he was not a great military statesman—he was a great and wise governor in details and in temporary circumstances, but he was not an eminent political philosopher. Like most mili tary men who have risen to high station, he was consum mately skilled to make the most of existing circum stances and of the prevailing temper, but like nearly all military men who concern themselves in the con duct of civil affairs, he saw little into futurity, and there fore neglected to lay the foundation of substantial strength in ensuring durable alliances, and creating a mind in his country. It is in these particulars that the mere general or politician differs from the statesman, military or civil. Napoleon's whole military career, however brilliant, was error ; for it is always unwise to overrun a country without being able thoroughly to subjugate it. You only make those hate and fear you, whom you found friends, or at least indifferent. The Russian campaign, which has been charged upon the ex-Emperor as a blunder, was no blunder, except as it was the consummation of his whole erroneous career. In 1812 he had provoked a war with all Europe by his conduct in the 10 or 12 preceding years, and he had but to choose his field of battle—he chose that which afforded him his best chance, though a bad one, and acted wisely in selecting it as far , as possible from France. The domestic policy of the Em peror had just the same faults ; it contemplated none but immediate results. The great monument of his labours as a Sovereign, his code, was necessary, because all law had in fact expired in the revolution. Napo leon has the praise of executing the work in the best manner ; but as it was a work of urgent necessity, it forms no exception to the generally short-sighted course of even his domestic policy. (From the Courser.) The account of the funeral obsequies of the bones of Bonaparte, and the pageantry and processions on the oecasion which we yesterday extracted from the Times, will have been perused with some surprise as so mate rially belying the expectations, which had been pre viously wrought up so highly, of the intense and even perilous excitement it was but too certain, as assumed, to work among a people so mercurial as the French. The letter of our Correspondent, a cool and sagacious observer, and from long experience well qualified to ap preciate the character of the nation among which he is placed, will be found to contain an interesting sum; mary of observations and conclusions on the occurrences of the day, which may be accepted with faith in the correctness of its outlines as it will be read with attention. Among other speculations on this side the water, to which this failure, in the popular sense, of the grand procession, in producing the extraordinary effects so universally predicted is ascribed, we may notice some of those of the Chronicle this morning, which are curious in their way. Accordiag to this writer, " modern pro cessions are poor things," and this triumphal instal lation of the remains of the late Conqueror among the departed heroes of the Invalides was miserably deficient in grandeur." One cause assigned for this woeful retrogradation from the pageant, pomp, and effect of ancient exhibitions is said to be that the " Church" did not, as in other times, contribute her quota and defray her imposing share of the splendours of the day. " The Church, especially the Catholic Church, might add much to the grandeur of a procession. In the procession of the 15th, the Church was merely re presented by the almoner in one poor little two-horsed coach. Perhaps the vases which burned on each side might be considered as appertaining to the religious part of the ceremony ; but their appearance was as poor as the same which rose from them, and, in short, re ligion was not represented." There is something like a tone of regret for this absence of the mere trap pings and externals of ;religion, which is really re freshing, if not edifying, from such a quarter, where we have so long been accustomed to find the essen tials of religion and religious education treated and discussed in a style of unmeasured obloquy. Whilst it is not to be denied, however, that some of the cere monials of the Roman Church, as in its ancient attire, might have added to the splendour of the scene, the absence of the accompanying mummeries, such as the accustomed display of flagellating friars, &c., is surely not to be regretted, and could only have thrown ridi cule upon what was, or ought to have been, an import ant solemnity. ber last, Charles Bryan, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Charles Bryan, examined by an interpreter —I am a native of Stockholm. lam a sailor. Last belonged to the American ship Octaviana. I have been lodging lately at the Swedish flag, in Ratcliffe-highway. At six o'clock on the evening of the Ist of December, pri soner and other persons came in there. They requested me to procure for them some rum and some beer. I did so. They paid me, and I gave the money to the people of the house. I never saw prisoner before. I had no quarrel with him at that time. I left the house shortly after. I returned about eleven o'clock and met the pri soner and others coming out. Prisoner said to me " Now you are frightened because there are three of us.' When those words were spoken I opened the street door,: and prisoner and his companion went out, leaving a person named Jackson is the passage. I tried to push Jackson out. I tried to bolt the doors, but one of the persons outside called to me, " Come out,come out ; we will give you what you deserve." When these words were spoken I took off my bat, coat, and cravat, and to show that I was not frightened I went out into the street. Jackson and the prisoner's companion walked on, leaving the prisoner just outside the house. I told the prisoner to go on board his ship, and at the same time hit him on the head with my fist, but not at all hard. While I had prisener had his up and el g l i a g ethe me a blow,bac k th e .ended blow on the right side. While striking the p r i soner w i t h my l levelling fist. I said, there—there is something for you. The prisoner while sticking me with the knife said, there— you've get something better. The blood was gushing from my side. I placed my hand on the wound and re turned into the house immediately, where, being ex hausted from loss of blood, I fell. It appeared that ultimately the witness was conveyed to the London Hospital. Joseph Trickey apprehended the prisoner on board the Russian ship Ardo, lying at Limehouse, and took the knife produced from the prisoner's chest on board. Mr. Bull, a student of the London Hospital, de scribed the nature of the wound, which was situated on the right side, under the arm-pit, and was about tw o inches deep. Bryan is still a patient in the hospital ; the knife produced might have inflicted the wound. The prisoner offered no defence. Mr. Justice PATTZSON basing explained the law of the case, and gone through the evidence, the Jury found the prisoner Guilty of Assault, only, and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, with hard labour. MANSLAUGHTER.—James Bells was indicted for the manslaughter of James Redmond, on the 2d December last ; be pleaded not guilty. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner and the deceased had been drinking together at the Dun Horse, in the Borough, on the afternoon in question, and were both very drunk ; that prisoner knocked down deceased in the public-house, on which the landlord turned the prisoner out, who said he would wait there for two hours but what he would have his revenge ; that the deceased subsequently left the public-house, and was met by the prisoner, who knocked him down again, and, while he was on the ground, beat him. On being lifted up, it was discovered that Redmond's leg was broken. Redmond was then removed to Guy's Hospital, where, on December 13, he died in consequence of the injuries he had reeeived. The prisoner in his defence said that the deceased had abused and assaulted him previously, and expressed his sorrow for what had occurred. The Jury found the prisoner guilty, and recommended him to mercy, on the ground that he was acting under the excitement of liquor. The COURT sentenced him to one year's imprison. merit, with hard labour. SENTENCES UPON THE PRISONERS. The Session terminated a little after noon yesterday ; and several prisoners were brought up to receive sen tence, and some to have those which had been passed commuted. During the Session the following judgments were passed : Transportation for Life—Thomas Pilgrim. For Fifteen Years—Wm. Stewarteon, Wm. Arthur Geacb, Charles Bennett, Charles Burnett, Win. George Dalton, J. Smith. __ For Fourteen Years—Elizabeth Redman, Mary K em p, Henry Hamilton, John Burn. For Ten Years—Sampson Simpson, John Gordon, J. Smith, Robert Johnson, John Hubbard, Abraham Mitchelson. For Seven Years_Charles Watson, Adam Kench, Catherine Horraghan, Sarah Middleton, George Wes ton, George Williams, Rebecca Matthews, Mary Ann Bird, William Banister, Thomas Nicholson, Catherine Welch, Margaret Welch, Richard Young. At the close of the Session the sentence passed upon the last convict was commuted to four days' imprisonment. Imprisonment and Hard Labour in the House of Correction for the counties where their offences were committed : For Two Years—Eliza Rowlands (forgery), James Smith, George Thomas. For Eighteen Months—William Fox, alias Summers. For One Year—Paul Mazeauz, George Ramuz, Tho mas Smith, George Rowland, Jane Wharton, Isabella Todner, Thomas Cave, Ann Hart, George Young, Ca roline Hopkins, and Solomon Hyam. A number of other convicts were sentenced to shorter periods of imprisonment, and the Court, at its rising, adjourned till Mond4y, January 4. POLICE INTELLIGENC E. the sailor being busily engaged in rubbing his limbs op posite the fire to circulate his blood, he observed the prisoners overhauling his canvas bag, and at the same moment he felt a tug at his pocket, and immediately missed his purse, containing nine sovereigns, a portion of the wages he had so hardly earned in the West In dies. He made his loss known, but every one there protested his innocence ; and the prisoner being nearer to his person than any of the others, he gave him into custody. On further inquiry, it appeared that a number of per sons had surrounded the unfortunate sailor, on pretence of rubbing his frozen limbs, during which operation the purse was stolen ; but there being no direct evidence against the cabman, he seas discharged, on entering into his own recognizances to appear when called on. PRICES OF CANAL,DOCK,ASSUR ANCE COMPANY SHARES &c. &c, Est. LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 18. Number Dividend Price of per CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share 1,766 7 per cent. Ashton & Oldham...Average97l.lBl.sh. 110 1,4.92 4/. Ashby-de-le-Zeuch Average 1131.8 h. 72 1,260 ..... ... Basingstoke 1001.1 h. 5 1,005 51. Brecknock and Abergavenny" lsoi. sit. 92 1,0601.16 th. :101. Birmingham, 1-16th share . . .. 811. & 711. 201 4,900 ..... .. Ditto & Li ver p oo l J unc t.l2'.ll. sh. 100 pd 26 600 3/7 Bridgewater and Taunton.lool. at.. all pd - WO 51. Chelrner and Blackwater ...... lool.ih . 101 500 321. Caventry 1001.5 h. 600 .... ..... Croydon. Average 311.28 10d. sh. - 060 51.0.. Dud1ey............ 1001. sh. 973 COO 131. Derby lOO/.sh . 1:30 20,000 4 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411.135. 4d.pd 34 3,5751 41. Ellesmere and Chester Average 133:411. SI 231 621 Erawasn lool.sh. 750 1,297 301. Forth and Clyde...,Averaee 4061.165, O. 650 11,0(0 8/. Grand junction 1001. eh 140 1,6491 255. Grand Union lOOl.O. 26 1,500 .... Grand 5urrey......„... ., 1001. sh. lb 1,0001 41. per cent . Ditto (optional) oan 1001. 3.1196 Grand Western lOOl. sh. all pd 10 600 131.125.24, Glamorgansbire, Aver. cost 1721. 135.4 d. 230 749 121. Grantham .... . 1501. sh. 203 6,438 01. N. HuddeisSeld Average 5/1. lis. 6d. sh. 27 100 Kensington ... ..... ...... .. ... 100 sh. allpd 10 25328 11.I0s. Kennet and Avon, Av. 391.195. 10d. sh 25 11,6991 11. 7s. Lancaster Average 471. 6s. 9d 27% 2,8971 301. Leeds and Liverpool lOOl.O 760 5451 151, Leicester 1401. lib 146 1,897 51.0 e. Leicester & Nortbampten Aver. 631.10.? 7394 2.400 101. Monmouthshire lool.s l. 200 150 101, Melton Mowbray • ....... .1001. sh . 2CO 500 251. Mersey and Irwell lool.sh, 565 3,000 21. 10s. Macclesfield lOOl. sh. all pd 373 247 171. Neath 1001.56. 325 2,400 51. Peak Forest.........Avet.ge about 761. sh. 75 21,418 Ss. Regent's (or London) Av. 331.168.8 d. eh. 10% 5,669 61. per cent. Rochdale... ........ .. ..... Average 851.5 h. 67 500 81. Shropshire /251.1h. 150 800 101. Os. Somerset Coal l5Ol. sh. 180 3,0001. 41 percent Ditto Lock . Fund 5t0ck......... 121. 10s. sh. 11% 700 361. Stafford and Worcester. 140/. sh. 650 500 151. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 280 300 91. Stourbridgef.........- 14.51.5 h. 396 9,647 2/, N. Stratford-on. Avon Aver.... 791. 91. lid. sh. 41 533 1241 Swansea lool.s h. 265 3,762 21. Bs. Severn and Wyc and Railway Ar. 351. sh. 45 2,601145 h, a2l. IN. Trent and Mersey, 4 share lOOl. sh. 580 4.149 ... ...... Thames and Midway Av. 191. 50.13 d. sh, 4 1 111. ""' ,0000.1 , . e. Warwick and Birmingham 1001.sh• 245 0001 A , 960 131 Warwick and IN apien . 1001. sh, 175 7,000 41' VVorcestar& Birmingham Ay.7B/.81. sh. 5634 6,000 325. Wilts and Berks Average 671, IN Bd. sh. 27 400 6.. Wyrlev and Essington 1251. sh 74 .26 ... W:soeacn .........13a sh. BO 80 5 11. Wey and Arlin. • ...... .............1101. en. 22 DOCKS. 116" * i 3 c Commerc al lOOl. sh. 65 1.06.510. P• ' East and West India Stock 1/8 3.238,31011. 60s.p.ct. London ...........5t0ck 67 Ditto Bonds 2,209 3!. 6s. sd. Bristol Average 1471. 91. sh, 75 68,3241. 51. per cent. Ditto Notes, various ameunts lOB 352,752 5 per cent. St. Katharine Stock 99 500,000 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds 200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years Deptford Pier .. 2Ol. sh. 20!. pd 10 BRIDGES. "0 108. Hammersmith,,,., 501.111. 21 7,231 Southwark, 01d.... .. ...Av. 631. 2s M. sh. 230 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, 6(71 per cent.,... 5Ol. sh. 13 .4000 5,000 225. Od. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/ 60/. pd 2034 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71. 4Ol. pd 17% 60,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5.848 ,26s Vauxhall .........Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 26 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 3110 s Albion 5OOl. sh. 501. pd 73 50'000 5'6 p nd 158. s er cent 1 Allianceßritish&Foreignlool.sh.lll. pd 13% i a ' 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine lOOl. eh. 51. pd 4ti 4,000 1 1. per sh. Atlas 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 14% 1,200 ph. 51. Birmingham I' ire,. 2501. sh. 55!. pd 10734 20,000 41. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 5(1/. pd 40 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial .. .. .. .504 sh. 5!. pd 534 5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medic:el Life, 1001. sh. 2110 s pd 4 4,000 3/ Os County lOOl. sh. 10/. pd If 20,00 e ss. Eagle... ...... .501. sh. 5/. pd 5% • 5 per cent.l • land 30/ bs.,S Economic Lite 10001. sh. 2501. p d 400 2,271 225. per cent. European Lip. 0 01. sh. all pd 22 50,000 9.5. Ditto, New 20/. sh. '2l. pd 1% 1.000,0041. 61. per et Globe Stock 121% 20,000 31* Guardian . 100/.sh. 2711 pd 3639 30,000 s. fid. Hope 2,400 51. 7s. ed. Imperial Fire 5OOl. sh. 50/. pd 135 7,500 N. Imperial Life lOOl. sh. 101. pd 10 13,459 5/. per cent. Indemnity Marine ... ...... 100/. sh, 8/. pd 9% 2,020 31 10. Kent Fire 5O!. sh, all pd 92 31. Ditto Life 5O/. pd 66 10,000 16s, Law Life lOOl. sh. 101. pd 30 5,000 10s, London, Fire 251. sh. 121. Ills, pd 12)4 3,900 IN. London, Ship 251. sh. 121. 10s. pd 18 )4 10100,000/. ... ..... Minerva Life 1001. sh. 500,000/, 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Life 5O/. sh. 2/. pd 01 Os 50,000 41. per cent. Protector Fire 201. sh. 21. pd 18s Od 10,000 4 per cent. Protestant Dissenters ....11,0/. eh. 5/. pd 514 2,500 1/. Provident Lite 2 10,000 7s. Rock Life il. pd 4 89,020/ 51. per cent. Royal Exchange Stock 200 6,000 5 per cent. University Life 100/. sh. 5/. pd 514 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. sh. 51. pd 7 1 0 JOINT STUCK BANKS. 25,1100 A gric. and ('um, of I reland2s/. sh. 101. pd 5,000 8 per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 40/. pd 5514 10,410 10 percent. Bank of Bil mingham 501. eh. 10/. pd 13% 04000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank ... 5Ol. sh. 101. pd 23 3),000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 100/ sh. 251. pd 2n% 60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 50/. ell. 10!. pd 13 .1,000 4 per cent. Lancaster lOOl.O. 20/. pd 30 . 25,000 Liverpool lOOl eh. 10/. pd 21% 50,000 74 per cent Manchester and Liver_ 501, sh. 151. pd 10%, pool District 20,000 7 percent. Manchester lOO, lib. '251. pd 44. 20,009 ......... Provincial Bank •111reland1001. eh. '251. pd 44 50, , 110 5, er cent. National Bank of Ireland 50/. sh 171!. pd S'it.% 10,000 5 per cent. National Provi.cial Eng.lool. sh. 3.5/. pd 36 10,000 Ditto New 10/. sh. 101. pd 10 1 % 10,000 Gloucestershire 50!. eh. 10/. pd 30 apo 10 per cent. Hampshire 5O!. ah. 5/. p 4 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. , 2,500 16s Od Bath 201. sh. 161. pd '..2 5,000 .... ..... British 4Ol. sh. 16!. pd 181 4 1"00'' , r ereent /and Bs. fis.} Ditto Provincial 2O!. sh. 19/. pd 25 9 - 28 51 lOs Birmingham 50!. sh. 96 1,250 '2! Os Bristol 2o'. sh. 36 1,250 3/ les Brighton 2O/. sh. 14 750 3/ 10s Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 181. pd 9 2.471 4} per cent. Brighton General 2O/. eh. all pd 9 4,000 71. Os. Continental Consolidated ....751. 62e/. pd 105 1,000 101. City of London.. ....... ....1001. sh. all pd 195 1,000 61. Ditto, New lOO/. sh. 751. pd ISO 4,000 3/. Os, Equita ble 5Ol. pd 20 10,000 21 per cent. Imperial 5O/. sh. 57 14(X) 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 25/. sh. 20/. pd 18)4 2,350 61. per cont. Independent 30/. eh. all fa. 49 9,000 41. per cent. Phoenix 5Ol. sh. 39/. pa 334, 1,000 41. per cent. Ratcliff lOOl. sh. 80/. pd 63 4,000 South Metropolitan 5Ol. eh. 19/. pd 17 9,000 4!. per cent. United General 501, eh. 471. pd 3334 240 U. per cent. Warwick 5O/. sh. 50 400 5/. per cent; Wakefield ......... ..... ...25/. eh. 22 1,000 1. Westminster Chartered ..... . .. 501. sh. 58)4 6,000 121. Ditto New 5l. sh. 101. pd 114 780 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. sh. 181. pd WATER WORKS 1,800 10s. Birmingham 251. sh. 25/. pd 22 1,434 71. Fast London 100!. sh. 170 5 , 500 gi I BiL Grand Junction Average 411. 18s. 4d. sh. 65 2,000 2/. Kell , lOOl. sh. 45)4 372 10!. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 326 1 ,500 2 /ins Ncw River Loudon Bridge WaterA rm... 60 6,496 2/ 101 Manchester and Salford 100/. sh. 55 1,000 4 per cent. South London lOO/.sh. 104)4 9,294 4 ii. West Middlesex Average 631..125. 9d. sh. 101 1,360 11 144 York Building Co. Lessee Prop. 100/. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,300 Birmingham and Derby .. - lOO/ pd 7.5)4 9,500 Birmingham and Gloucester 9O/ pd 69 15,1.00 Bristol and Exeter .- ... ... 1001. sh. 60 pd 37 7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western 1001. sh. 551. 22 3,00 u ..,,. ..... Clarence 1001. eh. 100/. pd 25 8 , 000 ..... .... Dublin and Drogheda 1001. sh. 5!. pd 10,000 Eastern Counties 25/. sh. 211. pd 8% 10,000 Great North of England 100/. sh. 70/. pd 57 10,918 14 per cent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh. all pd 25,000 Great Western 1001. sh. 651. pd 89 25,000 Ditto New 50!. sh. 40!. pd 50 6,000 per cent Gosport Junction., 5Ol. sh. 35/. pd 3 ,1 4 1,000 5 per cent. Hartlepool 1001. gh. 100/. pd 145 8,000 ...... ... Hull and Selby .501. sh. 451. pd 4534 2,100 41. per cent. Leeds and 5e1by....... 100 sh. 65 5,108 10 percent. Liverpool& Manchester 1041.1 h. 1001. pd 185 7,9(18 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5O/. pd 974 11,495 10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25/. pd 45 36 000 ... ...... London and Brighton 501. sh. 501. pd 42% 24,000 London and Blackwall 50/. sh. 220. pd 171 4 10,0 00 zi p e r cent. London and Greenwich -.20/. Os. 20/. psl 73 15,000 8 per cent. London Si Birmingham 100/. sh. 9111. pd 169 25,000 Ditto Quarter Shares -.251. eh. 51. pd 27)4 31,250 ... ..... Dit o New Shares .321. sh. 24/. pd 48 3(4000 5 per cent. London and S. Western Av. 381, 17s. 9d. 531 33,000 ......... London and Croydon} Av. 131. 15s. 9d. 1243 Ditto New Scrip.... 124 13,000 .... ..... Manchester and Leeds...loo/. sh. 70/. pd 7g 13,000 Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. 25/. pd 27)4 10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 701.5 h. 401. 26 Ditto Extension 7l. pd 3% 10,000 Midland Counties 1004 sh. 100/. pd 73 15,000 North Midland Ditto New 401. Fit as 5,128 Northern and Eastern.... 601. sh. 301. pd 2.3 ~ 000 ..... .... Preston and Wyre -.......50/. sh. 301. pd 36 28,000 ... ...... South Eastern and Dover 1,000 101. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOO/.sh. 275 9,000 6,000 York and North Midland 50 . sh. 501, pd 664 MINES. 0,000 .. ... ... Albion Copper... .'.....5/. s', :3{/. psi 12 4,000 1!. Si. A lten l5l. sh. 121. it I. pd 10 10,000 ........„ Anglo MExican.iss. 51. pm.loo/. sh. al 's d 1% Ditto Subscription .25/. pu 1% ?,000 10!. Bolanos l5O/. sh all pd 35 .0,000 IL 105 Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm 351. sh. 201. pd 12 6000 —... ... „.... ... 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 204 sh. 141. ix' 2 IC4OOO Bolivar Copper Company, 20/. sh. 20!. pd 1 10,00 ••••••••• Ditto Scrip lO4 sh. 101. pd 2 20,000 British Iron .50!. eh. 551. pd 1 ,000 ... ...... British Copper 5!. sh. 4;1. pd 1% , .... ... Cita Br.srica 6t/. od 93! Candonga 741. pd 5 10,000 is Copiapo 8,500 ••• Columbian, ice. 5/. pm 551. sh. 5 5 /. pd ON 2 850 V. English 141. Cs. pd 3 20,000 ......... General Mining Association2o/ 81..184 pd II 6,155 Mexican Company lOO/. sh. 51j1. pd 6 3,000 Polberou Consols . lOl. sh. 81. pd 4 11,500 ..... ..., Real del Monte, Unregistered 3 Ditto Loan Notes. 1501. pd 160 30,900 ........ United Mexican, isa. 2 pnt. 401. sh. all pd L 4 Dittt. Scrip 3 14 Ditto New Scrip 51. issl 5% MISCELLANEOUS. 10, )00 15s. Australian Agricultural.loo/./sh. 284 pd 37% dm) 1. per cent. British American Land Company 234 pd 10 10,000 1. per cent. Canada Company lOO l. eh. 30/. pd 31 N toooo 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent lOO% 20,000 11. s. General Steam Navigation 15/. sh. 141. pd 124% 101.pe 6 r cent. Hudson's Bay Stock ,000 IL London Corn. Sale RooMs....Av. 751. sh l9 8,000 Caoutchouc Company 1211. pd 12 New Brunswick Land Company...so/. pd 12 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Int. 50c...1001. sh. 100/. pd 100 2,633 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 100!. pd 117 4,000 10,000 6s, Van Dieiner,'s Land.... 1004 sh. 171!. pd 7 LIST of SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES NOV. 21, 1840. BANKS. 1,000,0081. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland ...831.65. Bd. sh. all pd IAS 2,000,0001. 6 p. ct. Rcyal of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 157 500,000/. 8 p. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh. all pd 233 500,0001. 61. p, ct. Commercial 5OOl. :h. 100!. pd 178 5 0 0,00 01 . sn. ct. National lOO4 sh. 101. pd 14% 500,0001. 71. p. ct. Glasgow Union 2501. sh. 50/. pd 86 1,000,0001. 6p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh, 401. pd 73 INSURANCE COMPANIES. 250.0005 h. Si p. ct. Scottish Union ...............201. sh. 1. pd 275.6 d. 7, 50 0 ¢p. et. Hercules 100!. sh. 101. pd 13 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .101. sh. all pd 914 50,000 Bp. ct. North British ..... «.. ..... .2001. sh. 101. pd 18% 1,000 Bp. ct. Caledonian Fire. lOOl. eh. 101. pd 20 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life . lOO/. sh. 104 pd 15 100,000 3 } p. et. West of Scotland. ' lOl. pd IdISCELLANEOUS. 4 , 8 18 .... Edin. and Glas. Un. Canalso/.sh. all pd ja Ditto Allocatedl.« ....... 961. sh. all pd 47 5,401 5 par cent. Edinb. Joint StoclrWater.2s/. sh, all pd 35 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron F0underv...... 50 / sh 481. pd 53 10,000 3 percept. Edinburgh & Leith Glass.ool. sh. 161. pd 8 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas .25/. sh. all pd 4,450 10 per cent. Clasgow Gas ..............••..251, sh. all pd 52 750 7it per cent. Leith Coal Gas .201.ah. all pd 51 1200 Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway 50/. sh 5S , 811,000 b per cant. Equitablo Loan Company 3.51.0.vd 9.. $1 I LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Ugc. 18. (Before Lord DENMAN and a Special Jury.) SOARES U. GOWER AND OTHERS. ; I This was an action brought by the plaintiff, as agent of the Portuguese Government, against the defendants, Messrs. Gower and Co., merchants, of London, to re cover a sum of 4,000/. being the amount of certain bills of exchange drawn by Messrs. Outercaut and Joze, of Lisbon, endorsed by M. Coteaux, the Treasurer . General of Portugal, and accepted by the defendants. 1 The defendants pleaded, first, that the bills were not endorsed by the Treasurer• General of the Portuguese Government in the sense alleged by the plaintiff ; se cond, that the plaintiff acted as the agent of the parties at present carrying on the Government of Portugal, and that the bills were endorsed in consideration of certain pretended securities of the Government, which were void, as the Treasurer-General well knew. Thirdly, that they were accepted witheut considera tion ; and fourthly, that they were obtained by the Portuguese Government by fraud, of which the plain tiff had notice. Sir W. Follett and Mr. Crowder appeared for the plaintiff, and the Attorney-General and Sir F. Pollock for the defendants. It appeared from the evidence that the bills formed part of a loan of 40 millions of francs, which Messrs. Outercaut and Co. undertook to negociato for Don Miguel at Paris, in 1832. Previously to that period, Don Pedro, and his daughter Donna Maria, had issued a decree at Terceira, while fugitives there, in which they declared that all acts of Don Miguel's government were null and void, and more particularly any loans made by him. Shortly after the bills were drawn, the usurpation of Don Miguel was put an end to ; but M. Coteaux was continued as Treasurer-General, and while in that office, under the government of Donna Maria, the bills w ere endorsed by him. On the 7th of August, 1833, M. Coteaux was removed from his office of Treasurer- General. Lord DENMAN, in summing up to the Jury, observed that, with regard to the first plea, although undoubt edly the same party continued to act as Treasurer- Gene ral, he was in the service of a different party ; in one case, when the bills were drawn, he was in the ser vice of an usurper, and when they were endorsed he was in the service of the legitimate sovereign. The loan being for the benefit of Don Miguel, it could not be said that he was Treasurer-General, in reference to the meaning in which the bills were drawn. With re gard to the other pleas, it appeared to him that the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict, and if the Jury were of that opinion, they would find accordingly. Tire Jury found a verdict for the defendant on the first plea, and for the plaintiff on all the otl:er pleas. A bill of exceptions was immediately tendered by Sir William Follett, so that the case will undergo fur ther investigation. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Eliza Davis, aged 18, was indicted for stealing from the person of Ann Phillips one bonnet, her property. The prosecutrix and the prisoner were both women of the town. The prisoner it appeared had attacked the prosecutrix in the street, torn the bonnet from her head, and carried it off. It appeared that the prisoner had made some cuffs for herself with the velvet trim mings, and had secreted the bonnet on the premises where she lodged. The jury found the prisoner guilty, but recommended her to mercy. Mr. Justice PATTESON said that the offence amounted to highway robbery. In consequence of the recommen dation of the Jury he would pass upon her the most lenient sentence the law allowed, which was that she be transported beyond the seas for ten years. The prisoner, on hearing her sentence, fell down in the dock in hysterics, and was removed in a dreadful state of agitation. On her removal Mr. Justice PATTEION observed that, under the cir cumstances, the best thing that could be done for the prisoner would be to s en d h er ou t o f the country, as it was evident that she stood no chance of being reclaimed as long as she remained here. ROBBEILT ET A SERTANT.—Sophia Weller, aged 20, was indicted for stealing nine sovereigns, a boa, and other articles, the property of her master, S. Taylor. From the evidence of Mrs. Taylor it appeared that she had taken the prisoner into her service from Clerkenwell workhouse, and that on the Bth December last the prisoner suddenly left her service, and the articles in question were then missed. The prisoner had taken advantage of Mrs. T ay l or ' s a tt en ti on being taken up by her sick child to co mm i t t h e ro bb er y. On the 10th the prisoner was t a k en i nto custo d y a t a brothel, with a considerable portion of the property in her possession. The jury found her Guilty, an d Mr. Justice PATTEEION having observed that this was a very aggravated case, sentenced her to tea years transportation. CHARGE 07 STABBING.—Sinion Haggar, a Russian sailor, was indicted for stabbing, on the Ist of Decem.. MANSION-HO USE. A young man, named Monza.; Phipps, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having entered the chambers of Mr. Blozam, a wine -merchant, No. 47, Mark-lane, and broken open the desk, with intent to commit a robbery. Mary Holt, the daughter of a female who takes care of the offices in Mark-lane, stated, that at half:past one o'clock on the day before, uponLlooking through the let ter-box hole in the door of Mr. Bloxam's offices, she saw the prisoner standing by the desk. The prisoner was a stranger to her, and th e d oor o f t h e o ffi ces was closed, and she tried in the place where the key was usually kept, but the key wa s gone . Sh e a l so tr i ed to open the door, but did not succeed. She then went to one of the clerks in the building, and took him towards the offices, but they met the prisoner, who had let him self out at the private door, and took him into custody. Mr. George F. Bloxam, the owner of the offices, stated that he went to the docks at half-past one o'clock, leaving the key of the door in the usual place, and, upon his return, he found th e p o li ceman i n t h e place, and every thing in confusion. His desk, to which there was a patent lock, had been wrenched open with champagne nippers. He had taken out of it, before he went to the docks, 501. or 60/., but he had left in it about 500/. worth of wine warrants. There was nothing missing. The person who had rummaged his desk had also opened the cupboard and examined it, in doing which he broke a china cup. Some duplicates of pocket-handkerchiefs were found upon the prisoner, who, it appeared, had been seen about the premises on a former occasion, and had been con fined in the House of Correction for a former robbery. The prisoner, who is but eighteen years old, said that he was sent to Mr. Bloxam's to inquire after a place, and that he had never been in the room at all, although he met somebody on the stairs issuing from it. The LORD MA - vox sent the prisoner to Bridewell for three months. GUILDHALL. A gentlem an n a m e d M ose l ey, w h o d escr ib e d him se!f as a surgeon-dentist, appeared before Sir Peter Laurie, on a charge of assault. The Inspector stated that about twelve o'clock the previous night the accused was brought to the station house in Bishopsgate-street, and there charged with assaulting him by a person who entered his name in the police charge -sheet as Rae, and his address at No. 3, Union -court Union-street, Holborn. The accuser being called, and not appearing, Sir PETER. LAUME asked if it were customary for the police to lock up persons all night on charges such as this when they did not witness the assault ? The Inspector replied that Mr. Moseley did not give his addres s at first, and was therefore subjected to the present inconvenience. Sir PETER LAURIE observed that on all occasions he would be most tenacious of the liberty of the subject. An individ ua l who was about leaving town on business of vital i mpottance—for Liverpool, for instance, by rail way—might, tionary p owers of the police, be immured in a dungeon if such l ax ity were allowed in th e discre on a groundless charge. The Inspector was then di rected to use every exertion to cause the attendance of the person w h o gave Mr. Moseley in charge, at twelve o'clock t o morrow (this day), when the defendant would be good enough to attend, and if he were wronged every means should be adopted to afford him satisfaction. Mr. Moseley, having protested that he never assaulted the individual, said he should attend, and retired. Yesterda UNION-HALL. Y, Charles Heaps, the driver of cab No. 3,376, was brought before Mr. Trail!, charged on sus picion with being concerned in robbing a sailor just paid off from a sloop of war. David Stephenson stated that he was a seaman on board one of her Majesty's ships, and that he returned from four years' service in the West Indies a few days ago, and was paid off at Chatham. On the preceding night, being anxious to get to town, he got on the out side of the Dover mail, at Chatham, and when they arrived at the Bricklayers' Arms, be found himself so completely benumbed with the cold, that he could not get down without assistance. He then called a cab off the stand with the intention of proceeding to the Mino ries, but his joints were so stiff, and his limbs altogether so powerless owing to the severity of the weather, and ho supposed the sudden change from being so long in a tropical climate, that, on going into the tap. room of the above inn, he determined on " bringing himself to an anchor" there for the night. With this intention he called the prisoner, who was waiting with the cab at the door, and having expressed his determi nation to remain where he was, then paid that person 35., which he charged him as the fare. There were several persons during the time is the tap-room, and WOOLWICH, DEc. 18. ROYAL ARTILLERY.—In the month of October last, 400 ,percussion tubes for field-guns, made according to a plea invented by Lieutenant Siemens, of the Hano verian Artillery, with twelve thongs for firing them, were issued to two of the field batteries of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich : 200 to the C battery under the command of Major Sweeting, 200 to the A battery under the command of Captai❑ Low, and 200 common tubes used with port fire were also issued to the B bat tery under the command of Captain Williams, with in structions that they should all be tried at the same time to ascertain their respective merits. The expe riments have now been completed, and the report of the new tubes is favourable to their adoption in the British army, after some slight im provement, which has been suggested in regard to the force by which they are ignited, as on many occasions the thongs required considerable power to draw them. It appears that, out of 200 guns fired, about twenty of the wire plugs were drawn without ig niting the percussion powder, two without igniting the cartridge, and about six hung fire ; the re• mainder were all very good, and proved that they could be fired in much less time than by the common tube and port fire. During the period the experiments were carried on the guns traversed a distance of upwards of 200 miles over paved and gravel roads, and in every possible positio❑ in which they may be required in ac tual warfare, and on the whole the new tubes are highly approved of by the officers who had the charge of the experiments. The services of the non-commissioned officers and men about to be pensioned were verified by a board of officers on Thursday, and the men will be discharged on the 12th of January, 1841. The board consisted of Lieut.-Colonel Wylde, Major Molesworth, and Major Sweeting. The half-yearly examination of the gentlemen cadets who have been studying at the Royal Military Academy took place yesterday, but the result has not yet been made public. The gentlemen cadets have a month's vacation at Christmas, commencing from this date. In addition to Captain James's company, detachments consisting of one non-commissioned officer and 20 gunners and drivers, embarked on Tuesday in the Numa transport-ship, to complete the companies still sta tioned at Malta. One non-commissioned officer and 12 men of the Royal Sappers and Miners embarked at the same time for a passage to Gibraltar. The whole of the troops on board about 110 men. When the company was marching from the garrison to embark in the Numa, at the Royal Arsenal, the master-armourer, William Chambers, was amongst the persons who accompanied them. Unfortunately in pass ing the hospital he slipped, and, owing to the crowd pushing onward, fell on the pavement, by which accident he broke the cap of his right knee. He was assisted home, and medical attendance was promptly obtained, but it was found necessary to remove him to the hos pital on the following day. The recruiting goes on very slowly. The regiment at the end of the year will be greatly under the esta blishment. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.—The Boxer steam-ship, Captain F. Bullock, is to be placed in ordinary, and the men are to volunteer into another vessel. The Spitfire steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander John Evans, will also be placed in ordinary, and the crew transferred to some other vessel ready for service. ROYAL ARSENAL.—The Mary Ann was engaged yesterday in conveying 300 eight-inch shells, in boxes, to be put on board the George the Fonrth, East India man, now loading in the East India Docks for Bengal. The Friends barge conveyed 1,100 thirty-two pounder shot to be put on board the Sovereign, transport-ship, under orders for Malta. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of December 18.) SUGAR.—The trade are still reluctant to purchase Bri. tisb Plantation Sugar, and, although holders have sub mitted to a further reduction of is to Is 6d per cwt., brown and low yellow sorts are still the most difficult to sell ; at public sale 58 hogsheads, 59 tierces and 19 barrels St. Lucia sold heavily, viz,—good middling yellow went at 77s to 78s, middling 76s to 76s 6d, good brown 74s ; 77 hhds 4 barrels Demerara were only partly sold, low dingy yellow at 75s to 761, ordinary and good brown 72s to 745; 15 hhds Antigua were taken in at 81e to 83s for good and fine bright yellow. The Gazette average price is now 54s 2id, in 1839 it was 37s Oid, and in 1838 at this time 34s isid per cwt. To-day the market was in a dull state, and the small quantity disposed of privately were at prices in favour of buyers, making the decline for the week is 6d to 2s on low yellow, grey, and brown sorts, but the good and fine yellow kinds are not above Is lower. The total sales are only 750 hbda and trs. 100 hhds Barbadoes were submitted to public competition, which went off heavily, but nearly the whole was sold at prices 4s under those of the last auction ; good and fine yellow went at 79; 6d to 82s, and good mid 77; to 78. 6d par cwt. REFlNED..Refinera have submitted to a further reduc tion of 2s per cwt ; Standard Lumps at 91s to 92s ; Tittlera and Hamburgb Loaves good and fine 94s to 98s, not patent 90a to 91s, ord brown Lumps 88s, good and fine 89s to 90s ; Treacle, common, at 37a to 37s 6d ; Patent, 41s; best old make and golden Syrup, 42s 6d to 44a per cwt ; Bastards at reduced rates, for common kinds 52a has been accepted, and the best cannot be quoted above 695. Prices still on the decline. Bonded Crushed Sugar at 32s 9d to 335. Loaves 10 and 141bs. at 37s to 385., and 61bs 40s to 41s per cwt. Treacle at 14s 9d to 15s; Bastards and Pieces at 163 to 26s per cwt. Dutch Crushed Sugar at 31s to Els 3d on board at Amsterdam. MAURITIUS.—This week prices have suffered a further depression of 2s to 3s for the lower kinds ; low and very low brown at 45s 6d to 555, low middling and middling 58; to 625, good and fine 65s to 70s, low yellow 71s to to 755, middling and good 78s to 81s. EAST INDIA,—For white descriptions of Bengal there has been less demand from the home trade, and prices have given way is to I s 6d per cwt ; brown and yellow kinds are heavy of sale, and prices on the decline. This after noon the home trade bought sparingly of Bengal, and a small part only of 3,401 bags at public sale found buyers Is under the rates of yesterday ; fine white went at 85s to 85s 6d, mid and good 83s to 84s 6d, low heavy brown 50s to 54s 6d, damps and washed of various sorts 54s 6d to 83s 6d. FOREIGN.—In yellow Havannah, lower rates have again been accepted, making the decline since the end of August 2s to 2s 6d, 23s 6d for good fair quality. White prices are nominal. Brown sorts of Brazil prices have been main tained. Permans sound taken in at 24s to 25s for mid dling soft to good middling white; damaged sold at re duced rates, viz,, at 20s 6d to 22s 6d for low and good middling white, slightly damaged, 90 barrels Rio were only partly sold, middling white 24s to 255, and yellow 21a per cwt. Of Porto Rico 217 hhds have been offered at public sale, and all taken in at 23; to 25s for low and good bright yellow, 22s was offered for the common sorts. MOLASSES.—For West India the demand has been dull, and pribes continue on the decline. To-day holders having submitted to a further reduction in prices, led to the disposal of several parcels, making the total quantity disposed of by private treaty during the week 230 puns, fine Antigua at 35s ; Dominica ord at 30; per cwt. Coms.—Holders of British Plantation are for the most part not disposed to press sales, and have supplied the mar ket very sparingly this week, but the trade has evinced little desire to do business, and the operations privately have been on a small scale in clean descriptions, and the prices accepted arc rather under those of this day week ; unclean sorts are entirely neglected, althougV: offered on lower terms. This afternoon the private transactionsi n both East and West India were on a small scale, the grocers buying with extreme caution, but in prices no variation occurred; only 59 bags Ceylon were offered at public sale, and principally taken in at 73s to 76s for good and fine ordinary. Cocoa.—For British Plantation former rates have been fully maintained, better aorta brought is advance. Trini dad at 54s 6d to 59s for middling and fine red Trinidad. Grenada 48s 6d to 51s for middling and good red. St. Lucia 49s to 52s for middling and good. TEA.—There has been an increased disinclination mani fested on the part of the trade to purchase this week, and the transactions by private treaty in Free Trade have been extremely limited ; the merchants for the most part have appeared unwilling to submit to lower rates, but these who have been disposed to realize have been com pelled to accept prices lid under those of Friday last, and by private treaty have taken 2s Old a 2s Id for cash par cels of common Congou and Twankay. The speculative market has been in a very dull state all the week, and prices have declined 2d for Company's Congou, sales for cash having been made at 2s, and with prompts at 2s id to 2s Id per lb. To-day the market fur Free Trade was in a very dull state, and prices have still a downward tendency, 2s id, is the nearest quotation for common Congou for cash, and ord Twankay, 2s to 2s id. Company's Congou flat all the day, and closed at 2s cash . FRUIT.—A parcel of French Fruit offered by public sale on Tuesday, was all bought in, and of 5,289 boxes and 4,926 half-boxes Valencia Raisins also brought forward, only one parcel appeared to be seld at 28s for very infe rior quality, being ship-heated and country damaged—re mainder bought in at 28s to 38s ; also 18 butts and 6 caro teels Patras currants damaged 66s to 691, and 8 butts and 6 caroteels 1 haca, also damaged, 67s to 69s ; notwith standing the small portion of good Fruit in the present supply of Valencia Raisins, the price has been lowered to 38s this week, but there does not seem to be the quantity of business doing usual at this time of the year. The arri vals of Turkey Figs have been large, and many parcels being out of condition has induced the importers to press sales, and some large parcels have been sold at 40s, 425, and 455. RlCE.—Holders of East India have refrained from offer ing any at public sale this week, but by private treaty there has been a good demand for Bengal, and buyers have been compelled to pay rather higher rates, middling white has been selling at 12s 6d, good middling and good 13s to 13s 6d, and for fine bold white, which is scarce, 14s for small parcels. For Java a fair demand has existed, and prices are firm at 9s to 9s 6d for low, and 10s to 12s for middling and fine white; the tendency of prices is decidedly up wards for Rice. The deliveries from the warehouses have been large, and the stock is diminishing. Carolina has sold steadily for home use at 34s to 36s per cwt. Rue, BRANDT, AND HOLLANDS.--130 Rum Market continues in a very dull state, there being few export orders, and the home trade purchasing only sufficient to supply their immediate wants: prices continue on the de cline, and must be quoted id to Id lower this week for Leewards. Jamaica, however, has nearly brought former rates. The total sales of West India have amounted to only 120 puns proof Leewards at 2s 9d, 2 to 9 overproof 2s 10d to 3s, 12 to 15 over 3s Id to 3s 2d, common kinds are EVENING EDITION. still the most difficult to dispose of. The arrivals have been 370 puns and hhds since this day week. For East India lower rates by 2d to 3d per gallon have been submitted to, proof selling at 2s 2,id to 2s 3d, 5 to 20 over 2s 4d to 2s 10d ; the total sales have been 280 puns ; further parcels have arrived, and several others are near at hand ; for proof Mauritius 2s 7d has been taken. Holders of Brandy for the most part display firmness, but the operations have been only to a limited extent, and some parties have accepted rather lower prices; we quote Cognac first brands of the vintage of 1836 in hhds at 5s 2d, puns 5s ; 1837, hhds bs, puns 4s 10d; 1838, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d; 1830, hhds and puns 4s 6d to 4s 8d ; there have been some arrivals. Ge neva has sold slowly, at is lid to 2s for export. For British Corn Spirits the demand has been good at 10a cash. TALLOW.—Prices continue to improve for Russian Tal low, and now rule 6d to 9d above those of this day wock ; there has been an increased desire en the part of the trade to purchase P. Y. C. on the spot, and from t he chandlers there has been a brisk demand ; the soap make rs have been buyers to a fair extent, and prices have aj vanced to 48s to 48s 3d, at which rates holders are by to means desirous to realize, nearly all the vessels from S t. Petersburg having arrived. For delivery in spring months a good many contracts have been entered into, at the im proved rates of 48s 3d to 483 6d. Of South Americara several parcels have been disposed of at 43s 6d to 47s for ord and good.quatity. Town Tallow has sold treeiy. To-day the demand was good for P. Y. C. on the spot and for delivery in spring months and the rates quoted above were fully supported. OtLs.—Prices have still an upward tendency for sum mon descriptions of Fish Oils. For Seal and Southern prices have advanced lOs per tun : 321 lOs to 331 for nal° yellow, and straw colour 291 to 311, brown 271 to 28/, the latter fine quality 261 lOs to 27/, middling and good 24/ lbs to 261, and ord 2415. to 241 lOs per tun. Cod at 27/ 13s to 27/ 15s. Sperm, at present rates of 106/ to 107/ for first quality holders are 11 no means desirous to realise. For Linseed Oil prices have advanced Is to is 3d per cwt; ost the spot 27s to 27s 3d, and for delivery in the next two and f Air.months at 27s 9d a 28s 6d; under 27s 6d on the spot it is now difficult to purchase. Rape, pale at 431 to 43s 6d, brown 42s to 42a 6d; Gallipoli at 66/; Spanish and Sicily 58/ to 811 per tun. Palm at 34/ to 351. SPlCes.—Holders of Pepper are not disposed to submit to lower rates. Malabar taken in at 4d for good half heavy greyish, being the full value ; common Sumatra is not to be purchased ui:der 3id per lb. Prices are firm for Pimento ; low mid coarse fetched 3d. For Ginger holders are unwilling to submit to lower rates ; Be"g" taken in at 17s for good, and 14a for mid quality. Caws Lignea, low middling and middling have fetched 1141 to 87s, good 88s to 89s, and for 50 chests of fine thin quill !Os has been paid by the shippers. Cloves, Bourbon for shipping at Is Id to Is lid. and good fine Bencoolen fo r home use at 2s 6d to 2s 10d per lb. Cinnamon at last sales rates. This afternoon Bengal Ginger sold at les 6d to 161 for ord quality. PRICE OF iiitEAD. a. The highest ripe r.f tire i he Metiordis is 934 Loaf. Ga. d Breact way be had at 75 d. PRI.,:E") OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. Per Quarter. .sg New Etigl sh Re. Clover...sos 80s St. Foin ***** -- - s 711 ........ ••••••• . _., , 2s 500 Old.:..itt , Ditto —s —a —s Rye Grass .................. ..... s _ _. New Foreign Di,te s 50s 75s Pacey Grass ............... . :77 4i . 01.1 Ditto Ditto —s —s —s Linseed, for fe.diog ...---- ' 6 7 . 56 1 New White Clover 45s 505 60s Ditto, for sowing d. for the 4 1 Old Ditto Ditto —s —s —s Ditto, for crushi,:g ••••-- 4 * ____, 368 New Tre.oil —s 1.81 42s Hem,.... . ••• ...... - 605 " ......... Old Ditto Tr. .folium -s 48s 70s' Per ....... 145 0 ' English Carraway ....--s 50s 5:3s White Mustard .....4s Od to - od ~,4 t 19 1 Foreign Ditto —9 46s 48s Brown Ditto ......... 16s wc• -° 1 , 0 (id 7s 6d I c ' Coriander PRICE OF OIL ....X3 7 10 Rape Oil, brown, per ton ....... —s s 425 460 39 ') Ditto, relined Linseed ' Oil .................... .• • ...... Linseed Oil Cake at the 51111 . ( ......... 1000) ............ :: .... .. ••• - 4 o /tape . ake, per ton -.-" PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. Per 1131-...1 Town Tallow X2 11 6 M e l t i ng Stuff ............ ..... Yellow Russia :2, 0 1 0 40 Graves Ditto . R .. ujg . ... ...................... White.. ..... Soap Ditto 0 0 0 G oo d D reg s ............ ........ PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Bit"' 2, lido Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) ............ :1 I ° 0 ) 2 0 5 Ships arrived sinoe last market..aay, 0 1 B A e cl l a l i , r; fobsonOAL MARKET s. 11. .. d. Buddle's W est H art ley 2 1 2 0 0 9666 Walls \ WW ii . l l E l s s . End E ß n ra d d H d Y H e e d i i t ' t o i l e n: 1 .1......t...t....°.....3......... ...... I;', L'2 : ?",". ~ Co.o. l9 E n d flasw .. - "..,": Chester Carr's Hartley Liolywell Ma ‘n 2l 0 Walls End Larnbt n , n , .............. 7.. .2.5 ' '' Ord's Redhugh 22 0 Walls End Stewart ii .. 134 n e 19 6 Walls End W hit" ....... 25 0 Pontop Windsor Russell's High Main Tantield Moor • 6 "alls En st Hartlepool 23 IP Tan fied Moor Butes 2U 0 Walls End '' Adelaide .......... ..t 3 . 23 0 Wylani Coundon ......... . _ W ' • 20 6 Walls ... 2319 9 0 N. l: a a l l l l : E E , u n: di l NCistrrat d i g o . 0 .. 1 , .............. 2.5 ails 1... d Isewine and Co. 23 6 Walls End Evenwood . ...... V 0 Walls End Brown's Walls End Clennell Walls End Killingworth Walls End Clarke and Co 2O Is Walls End South Durham... 2 .•; 0 Walls End Hi1da......... Walls End Perkins 2-, I' Hartley ..... .......... .. ........... 211 0 ,0 c S w V O l l pil Wail n. n . d d . . . 3. Gordon G: c. . r . .......................... ii . . , . ~ . .. . . : o:s_ Richmond Main 23 3 COUNTRY CORN M AR KET S Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. I yam:. -.-. --- ---- ------- - -- 1 ----- Per Quarter.; s. to s. s. ,s. s. to i. I . . 52 I. s. Abingdon 56 6 66 00 40 2. :34 44 44 41 1 Andover 59 64) 33 4 3 1 34 - - - Banbur - -.-- -- Basingst y ok• , r 2 60 27 38 2t - 3, - 414 42 .5,2 4 2 4! Cirencester.. 56 6 34 36 20 32 40 --- - 35 46 - 40 -- Coventry - t 2 35 - 26 Oaventry 5 44 - - - Derby 6O 6 8 30 4C 24 t:EI 48 0 Howd- n - 72 - -IA -an 42 - --„, Hungerford 50 62 32 5,- 25 33 44 52 331 4. Mallon - - - "- Maidenhead 52 74 35 40 25 :34 43 si) 42 Nottingham 54 65 211 :35 33 25 45 51 :- """ Wantage 69 80 34 lb 26 32 36 46 - "'" Warwick - - 34 40 29 38 - -' . - A n Winchester - 70 - 36 - 29 43 - 40 York 6O 32 40 29 30 - - -* -- Per Bushel i.d. s. d. s. d. ii. d. s. d. s, d. s. d, s d 5. d. I. 1 1 1 Birmingham 70 79 39 53 4 41 49 Si 6 6 . 41 • 66 7 . EDINBURGH CORN W neat. Barley. 'rat '745. Ott 31s Od. Second 64 0 30 0 ['hind Average price of Wheat. MARKET.—D.e. IS Oats. Y eas.. '2lls. 4d. 42i. CU. 24 , 0 28 2f) 9 31 o 31 Os. Od. Beans, 42. tki 3 11 $4 0 - • PRICES 07 PROVISIONS .S,C. Beet, per tu. ............ Os. ed. to os.7d. Freihßutter, lit. Os Od. to Is. IA m.............-....... 0 6 0 7 Salt Ditt0—........ 010 1 I Vea hluttc l ........................... 0 6 1 0 Ditto, per ev.t...62 0 112 Pnr4 0 5 0 7 Eggs, per dos—. 0 0 n i : Limo, per qr. ....... 0 0 0 0 OatStram(kpl.;,.. 7 0 I,' 0 Fallow, c0t..........39 0 42 II Wheat Ditto.... 1i 0 ~;' • Quartern Loaf ...... USi 0 9 Barley Ditto ....... 5 6 , ° Potatoes, 141 b. ....... 0 4i 0 0 Hay, per5t........... 0 0 EDINEURUH MEAL MARKET.—Doe. 15. Per Sack of 4801 b. Imp. Per Stone of 1411. i. imp: g I First Oatmeal A , ,," 1 lc Second ditto Barleymeat I 9 I 8ar1ey5mea1..........• ..... -• ',' 1 A Peasemeal l6 0 Peasemeal •... .•.•.• e Pot Barley Cron 305. to 50s. per sack CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barley. 1 12 . ? .. tt.,....7! "------- s. it. to t. d. s. d. to s. d. s. d.. to ° a 6 fruro... ......... 0 76 0 381 0 ; Helstone ......... II 0— 0 4 0 St. Au5te11......... 0 75 0 36 0 •, odmin ............ 0 9 0 4 0 0 ,1; 6 iskeard. ........... 6 6 741 3 0 3 6 0 Launceston 0 6 - 0 33 0 6 2 Catnelford ......... 6 8 7 8 3 6 4ci 2 4 Penzance.......... 6 6 7 4 4 0 4 4 2 4 ALINING INTELLIGENCE. Tens.Cwt.Q"' Ores sold at Redrath fat week 1,427 21 ................................... Ipper ...................... 9.967 . les. lid —Average Standard, 1201. 71.1 Quantity of Copper Average Produce. . Quantity of tine c Amount of sale, W E LCOMN TO J. S. BUCKIN GHAM, ESQ.--• t A n k g e r p ea l a t o d e e a m t o E n a l t e r a t e t r i h& o a f , t o h n e N• f i r o i n e n d days of o tempera2n toe wweill.l come the above-named dist in g uished traveller and philan thropist to his native land (as a response to the manifesta tion of feeling which greeted his arrival in America). o n which occasion the honourab le and talented gentleman w ill give a detail of his labours in the temperance cause during his three years' tour through the United States. The Pre sident of the Society will take th e chair at six o'clock pre cisely ; doors open at five. WALSALL.--We have just learned that there 13 a vacancy in the representation of Walsall , i n conse q uent. of the retirement of Mr. Finch ; and as it i s said that the friends of monopoly are in the field , with t he intention of trying to strengthen the landlords' interest in that strong hold of our manufacturing industry, the Council of die League have determined to send a deputation to meet the electors. Whatever may be the politics of the winning party, we feel confident that his banner will be inscribed with the motto "No bread-tax."--Anti- Corn-law Circular. vie REGISTER STOVES, 3 It. wide, 245.; Brass Poles for Window Curtains, is. 3d. per foot. Register stoves. Bd. per inch ; elliptic stoves, 4d. per inch ; register stoves, with bright fronts, bright and black bars, bronzed ornaments, 100 s. ; brass poles for window curtains, I inch diamet et er , Is. 3d. per foot ; 2 inches , is. B d . ; a 2 inch pole, 3 fe 6 inches long, with ends, rings, and brackets, complete, for 19s• Catalogues gratis, containing the pric e of ever y article in ironmongery. RIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street, Oxford-street. IR TH S. On the 9th inst., at Paulerspury, Northamptonshire, the lady of the Rey. S. Dandy, of a son. On the 15th inst., at Leamington, the Lady Caroline Turnot. of a son. On the 16th inst., in Nottingham-place, the lady of Lancelot Shadwell, Esq., of a son. On the 17th inst., at TVood, Woodberry Down, Mrs. W. it' Wilkinson, of a son. MARRIED. At Newport, Isle of Wight, Dec. 17, 1840, Barnabst Plumbly, Esq., of Freshwater, to Charlotte, second delight"' of Mr. Tarrant Mallard, of Newport. On the 16th inst., at St. P ancras Church, W. Wilson, Ego of Stanford-le-Hope , Ess ex, to Miss Woods, of the same _pilot On the 17th inst. , a t Christ Chur ch , the Rev . T. Wo'i Curate of Dawley , Sa lo p , to Mar y Anne , eldest d au b ht er ° W. Ward, Esq., of Abbey-road, St. John's-wood. On the 17th inst., at Westham Church, Essex, Gustavus of Hilleary, Esq. , of Stratford, to Susan, youngest daug ht° t h e late h the 17th inst. Mount , a q t T . , of w Twickenham Layton - m s t , o nw. Newnham, e . Henrietta-street, Cavendish-square, to Mary, eldest da u g hter of the late Colonel W. A. S. Boscawen, and relict of t he Ist° Major W. H. Foy. °f On DIED. 1:1 i - In the 16th year of his age , M r . Ch ar l e s B. Adam , - shipman of her Majesty's ship Fairy, son of Vice-Admiral Sr, Charles Adam. '1 he ship is supposed to hare been los t on th 13th ultimo in the North Sea, when all on board perished. f On the 18th of November, Mr. Joel Davis, at SroYr°l4 ° the firm of J. and A. Davis, sponge t merchants, 33, St ran d . he On the 13th inst. in Edinburgh, Emily Charl otte. youngest dau g ht er o f t h e l ate D'A rcy Lever, t sq., 4 "f AliriPr ton Hall, Lancashire. On the 14th 'nst., at Lewisham, Mrs. Ann Robinson. On the 15th inst., the Rev. D. Davies, of Cleddesdoo , n ear Basings*oke, aged On the 16th inst. 76. , at Mallingley Lodge, Han.a, Major BalPh Henry Sneyd, aged 56. vil o la n s, th c e am l7 d t e h n i N ns e t. w , -r J o a a m d. es Hutton, Esq., R.N., at Camd en rac o e, n i t i h a e ck l n 7 e t y h , i a n g s e t. d , 6 R 3 obert Jones, Esq., of Cambridge ter' On the 17th inst., in Portland-place, G. H. D. Pe Esq., aged 77, London: Printed and Published by APIRDO YOUNG i , 01 No. 112, Strand at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand,n the county of 111iddlelex.—Saturday, Decem ber 19, 1t.4 I