The Sun. — London, England, 1840-12-02 00:00:00

iTElittNa. .L1)1'111014') MONEY MARKET and CIT Y NEW S (TUESDAY EVENING.) CHRONICLE.—The Brazilian Minister is about to trPpear in this market as a borrower, for a loan on account ' of his Government to the extent of about 1,000,000. The terms are not known, but several parties have written for a share for it. When the late Belgian loan was brought out, we expressed our opinion that it was not likely to find eager purchasers, and we are eat mistaken. It might be rrut - nature to say as much upon the fate of the intended Oran for Brazil, as the ccnditions are not bt fore us ; but Ito hesitate not to repeat, nevertheless, that the time which 'the Minister of Brazil bas chosen is nut particularly fortu nate, and that the financial position of this country is not such as to permit of our teeommending any such insest ratots to The favourable notice of the public. The wants of the Chancellor of the Exchequer are not yet ascertained, and thy Foreign Exchanties are not by any means so healthy as tea render it advisable to encourage spsoulatious which will, tarry off specie to other Powers. ar e here is another consideration connected with this 'tratter, which attracts at present, and s-ilia will be speed- VI brought under the view of the Minister of Brazil. It is a standing order with the Stock Exchange that no new luau shall be acknowledeed or quoted in their transac tions until the erred , s of any p.,.. ions loan from the sante quarter have been liquidated. These arc not the words, but ti.ay are the substance of the regulation in luestion ; and such being the case, it is to be remembered that, by a ear volition arising out of tire terms on which Portugal ar,reed to acknowledge the independence of Brazil, a set . treineut was effected a few years ago, by which the balance due by Brazil to Portugal was tixed at 490,1 001., and a loan was contracted for by Portugal in this country, spe ciall; secured upon the debt due to that country by Brazil. There are about three years' dividends due on that stock, for which' the security of Brazil is specially guaranteed, a l t h oug h Portugal is the principal debtor ; and the , uchtor state s th at t h e cause o f h er non-pay ment. el the dividends on the stock so guaranteed k, that Brazil has failed to pay her the balance settled by 'the curivention. The answer made by Brazil, we to neve, is, that her Minister exceeded his powers in enter ;.rig upon the convention ; but that is a matter with which the have no concern. The point we wish to be considered is, whether any dealing: in the proposed Brazilian lean atioulq be countenanced on the Stuck Exchange until the Committee are satisfied that a proper settlement is urP Je of tire arrears of the Portuguese loan, secured upon 1.).c credit of Brazil. We have heard it hinted that the Snooty to be raised by the proposed loan is not to be taken nut of this country, but that it is to be applied hr paying the interest of previous loans. That is a poor answer to our objecCon, and, if true, only goes to prove that the debt of brazil is already more than her resources can pro vide, I:ioney has been in general demand to-day for cornmer- OA purposes, and wanted also on the Stock Exchange. 'rlie continuation on Consols for the opening has been up wards of 3 per cent. The Continental Exchanges conti nue much the same as last post, with little doing. But the Eliglish Funds have been buoyant to.day, an advance if ~cent. having taken place in Consols. TP.IES.—Th e heavy discount on India Bonds has been for soma time past apparent in the quotation, but the cause seems not to be wholly understood. At the time when the East India Company paid i , ff a portion of these cutstandinr, obligations and renewed the remainder, they awn:lied - a condition that payment was not to be claimed upon them without notice of t,,elve mouths being given by the holder. Few of them seen• to bitfe noticed this condition or ected upon it, but as the value IA money ir.creaaed they gradually became less marketable, and naturally fell to a discount, which increased until it cuunt,racted the difference between the rate of in terest on these and other securities. Bankris an': other great caritalizti, however, who hold them in great masses, b a -' l,lll ilig to grow tired of this state of things, and the lots they are put to in any operation to realize tkai`.e capital, and they have accordingly given the re eluisite notice to the East India Company for repay ment. An eminent banker at the west end of the town is said to have done 30 to the amount of 100,000/. The Company are too powerful in their financial resources to attach any iniportaned to such a claim ; but if it is de sired to keep these securities at their former estima tion in the market, this condition should either be expunged or the rate of interest advanced. India 13oada were to-day at discount, and during the late pressute for inaney, which even now is not materially re lieved, were much lower. Great complaints are mr.de among the merchants in the City of the repeated failures whieta have occurred of late in the delivery of the French Mail, for which, as they eenceive, no sntlicient reason CAII be assigned. As the arrangements, however, are more under the direction of French than of English authorities, they are much at a loss how to shape their coarse vu as to obtain the desired reform in them. Froin information obtained from their correspond. cuts they have cause for believing that the commanders of the French boats hesitate at putting to sea in weather which an English one would fearlessly encounter, and also that they are on very many occaaiona unprepared to start at the time when the mail reaches Calais from Paris- They would desire that this should be looked into, whe. Cher the allegations are true or not ; and further, they would very much wish to see established on the other side some arrangement by which an option could be exercised in making Boulogne as well as Calais occasio the port of departure. since it is well known that one is frequently nvailable when the other is not, and thit between the two, if proper vigilance was kept up, such a thing as the fa lure of a mail trom France, so welt is the land journey performed, Would hardly ever be heard of. The importance of the question cannot need the slightest observation to any one who retlocts for a moment how immensely important the comniar cial, as well as the political, communications with the con tinent are at this time, and indeed at. all times, and all the organization connected with it should therefore be ren dered absolutely perfect, so far as human means will per mit. Thar° would have been a memorial to the English Post office prepared on the subject ere this, had it been thought that any din ct interferencl. could with propriety have taken place, but it seems but proper that publicity should be given to the state of the case through this me dium, in the hope that the point of honour, not to be out done by the English, may operate in inducing the requi site interference on the part of the French Post-office authorities, who have never shown themselves on any other occasion deficient either in intelligence or in vigorous action. The failures of delivery of the mails from the English siaie to France are comparatively very few indeed. By advicea from Hamburg!' the price of gold is 4231 per markt, which, at the English Mint price of 3!. 17s. lUhd. the ounce fur standard gold, gives an exchange of 13. 41, and the exchange at Hamburg!' on London at short being 13. 4A-, it follows that gold is 111 per cent. lower at lianiburgh than in Loudon. The premium on gold at Paris is 5. 1 ,- per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 173. 10Id. the ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 29, and the ex change at Paris on London at short being 23.30, it follows that gold is 4 per cent, lower at Paris than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London is 1081 per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng -1 ind and America beiog 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 82 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at Now York being for bills at 60 day,' sight, the discount on these 60 days must be de duct, d from the aforesaid difference. Money cintinues in demand, and 5 and ti per cent. sv,ne übtained on the general description of English secu riii. s, but, notwithstanding, their values have ircreased. The purchasers made by the leading operators for the rise towards the termination of busines3 considerably in fluenced the tune of the marlo.t. By leutrs received front Chili, dated August ith, and laid before the Committee of South American Bond hold r: at Chili, accompanied by Colonel Walpole, the Bri , is'a rein, sentative, had had an intertricw with the nister of Finance, the result of el-licit was, that the latter adinitred the principle of settin.; the arrears of dividends on the basis ut a 3 per tent. Stock. It must be observed, th se this is merely the admission of the principle, and that ill matters of detail, and as to the time when it may be carried into effect, are still su`.•ject to further deliberation. SUN.—The Consol Market has been good to-day, although money was in sonic request, and business Hot part cularly active. The conviction, however, that the Eastern Question is now settled, led to the improve ment. For present transfer the quotations were 90 to JU ; and for the ()paling 90q- to 91-!-, the I itest prices berm the highest. Batik Stock brought 159 ; India Stock c 241 :. ., to 24 ; and Exchequer Bills 3s. to 6s. premium. There was only a moderate amount of business 'doing in the Foreign stocks to-day, but they are Azain as suming an appearance of some buoyancy. To those who watch the foreign exchanges these symptoms give some uneasiness, as tending to encourage the importa tion of stocks and bonds from the Continent. Por tuguese New Five per Gents, were quoted to-day, for the first time, cm dividend, which is 11 per cent. for the half year, ending to-day. The price was 341 to 34 and foi ..he Three per Cents. 0- '5 to 2. 4 4. This shows an advance of nearly 5 per cent. since yesterday. Spanish A ct i ve Bonds were rather dull at 23. 8 _ to 34, and the Passive at 54. Mexican Bonds of 1837 were at 30 to 30y, and Colombian of 1824 ara 0 51 to . 4 6, being for each a alight improvement. Brazil Stock was depressed at 72. Belgian Old Five per Ceuts, were steady at 981, and in the New Scrip there Iva s o ne arg ts. ain bro at 5 premilium 52. . Dutch Two -and-a-Half per Cenught 5 . 1 to The Railway Shares were not brisk, but they realized fair prices. Brighton improved to 105 and 95 discount, and Birmingham Quarter Shams to 21 premi um ; Manchester and Leeds were at 11 premium, an d G reat Western New at 10 to 101:premium ; Birmingham and Derby Shares were at 26 to 24 discount, and North Midland at 24 discount. London Joint•Stoek Bank Shares obtSined to 2-1 premium ; and Provincial Bank of Ireland 185 to 19 premann. The foreign exchanges were without material altera tion to-day. On Amsterdam and F'rankfort the rates had a slight tendency to advance, being on the forme r place 12 •25 to 3, and on the la - ter 149 to 1. Bills _I on Paris w e re t a k en a t 25E. 55c. to 60c., on I in burgh 13 75 to 8, and on Trieste at I() 3 to 4. From the northern cities the exchange on Eu4h ll .( l came over much the same to-day. The following is the official return of the exports of bullion from the port of Londoa for the week end;ng Thursday last Siv •Y er coin to namnurgn • . . 74,067 oz. Rotterdam . . . 14,100 Belgium . . . 600 British West Intliga 720 Ordr orders have been received at Chatham to have all tho men belonging to the regirn qlta in: the East in indiei three got read s. y to emb ar k for their respective regiments week SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Post.) If the view which, in a former article, we took of paper as compared with metallic money—namely, that the former, being more convenient, if issued in excess, and not deficient in credit, ,instead of being teturned for ;old, will expel it ; further, that notes, circulating with greatcr rapidity than coins, are, as currency. of greater power, the same numerical amount serving for a greater amount of payments ; lastly, that ;slide this is generally the case, any considerable change of public feeling with respect to credit or security will produce a striking change in the relative power and position of notes and coins, and may produce a state of things the very reverse of that above-mentioned—if, we say, this view of the subject is admitted to be correct, one thing will follow as a consequence which is now acknow ledged to be a fact—that between the quantity of paper circulation and the general range of prices there is little or no observable correspondence. The paper portion of the currency (which, by the by, we consider to include, besides the bank-note isortion of the circula tion, current checks, and bills of exchange) partakes so largely of the instability of credit, is so subject to ex pansion and contraction, as currency, independent of any alteration in numerical amount ; is so liable to have its speed of circulation accelerated, or retarded, or arrested, according to the bright or gloomy anticipations of our manufacturers and merchants, that to look for an exact accordance between bank issues and prices, or anything approaching to it, would, in our opinion, be perfectly absurd. In proof that what we should anticipate, in this respect, is what, contrary to all expectation, has been actually found, we beg to quote a few passages from the evidence of Mr. Tooke before the Committee on Banks of Issue. Mr. Tooke is well known as the author of an elaborate work on prices ; and, on all matters of fact connected with his subject, and falling within the range of his personal observation, we presume his testimony will meet with great respect. " 3621. Are the Committee then to understand that, so long as the paper is convertible into specie, you cannot attribute any effect whatever upon prices to the variations in the amount of the bank notes in circulation ?-1 ant per fectly satisfied that no alteration in the prices can be traced in any way to the amount of the circulation. '• 3622. It appears in the evidence given by you in the year 1832 that you gave this answer (3821) If an en larged issue takes place coincidently with circumstances favouring speculation: and general over-trading, there can be no question but that it contributes to increase that ten dency, and do aggravate very considerably the consequent revulsion.' Do you still retain that opinion ?-1 do not. I had not then divested myself of the opinion which had been, and I believe is, the prevailing one, that there is a connection between the amount of bank-notes in the hands of the pubic and the state of pricy-s." The following extract from the answer to 3634 is still more striking : " The great tsilurc of credit and of prices in the parti cular articles enumerated in the Manchester statement were not preceded by any diminution in the amount of the Bahl( circulation, or of (by) any diminution worth men ticning in the country circulation. Eis impossible, there lure, that while you saw all those articles of great value ising irh price, you could consider hank-notes as being the cave of it or the means of continuing it, and as little can they be considered as the cause of the subsequent fall." This is just what, judging, a priori, we should have expected, and we hail the testimony of Mr. Tooke. in this respect, as strongly confirmative of our opinion. And another consequence wilt be seen to follow front our theory of paper money, which is, and which is beginnjog to be acknowledged to be, a fact, namely, that the power of the Bank of England to regulate the currency is utterly inadequate to the task. Shall we suppose it in the power of the Bank of England to control the alternately bright and gloomy anti cipations of our manufacturers and merchants ? To prevent an excess of confidence in speculation, or an excessive want of confidence ? Admitting that she can produce discredit, can she arrest it ? Can site regu late the public feeling with respect to hope or fear'? The required regulation implies a power in the Bank to control whatever, either in this or any foreign country, whether monentary or commercial, has power to affect the interests and prospects of our foreign and domestic commerce ! And here again we meet with a passage in the evidence of Mr. Tooke directly to our purpose, and exactly according to our opinion : " 3640. I consider that there is a very great defect in the language which is usually employed in describing the state of banking, and the supposed consequences of it ; in asmuch as exclusive attention is paid to the amount of the circulation, without coupling it with a reference to the extension of credit ; for the truth is, that almost all the phenomena which are referred to the stale of the circulation are dependent upon variations in the sta to of credit and the inducements to make use of it." This is unquestionably true, and deserving of remem brance and deep attention. (From the Morning Chronicle.) We noticed soma weeks ago, with cordial approba tion, the book published by Messrs. Lovett and Col lins, as written by them during their imprisonment in \\ arwick gaol, under the title of " The Charter," in which they attempted to turn the attention of the working classes from political agitation to the esta blishment of schools and institutes. Similar in spirit and to purpose is the address from Henry Vincent, who is still in confinement, which we reprinted on Friday last, recommending to all Chartists the adoption of the teetotal pledge of entire abstinence from intoxicating liquors. A document like this, so eloquent in expres sion, cogent in argument, and useful in tendency, throws additional light on the mischievous absurdity of the re strictions to which prisoners for political libel have been frequented subjected. We know of no good produced by debarring that class of oienders from the use of pen and paper that would not have been overbalanced by the suppression of this most forcible and judi cious appeal to the working classes on behalf of sobriety. The efforts of Messrs. Lovett, Collins, and Vinzeut, with their coadjutors, may be regarded as a very interesting experiment on the power of reason and persuasion over the class to which they belong. Their advice is 'c save your money by temperance, and apply what pence you can spare to the means of in struction for yourselves and your families." Ile ques tion is, will the working classes, especially that portion of them enrolled under the banners of Chartism, fol low this advice ? Do the best men of the working clams really lead the working classes ? We hope they will ; and with perseverance we think they must. But certainly that has not been the case hitherto. Two contrasted powers have been striving for supremacy. The one is represented by such men as Vincent and Lovett ; and originally by the Working Alen's Asso ciation, which put forth many excellent tracts on edu cation, and other topics ; the other was embodied in such leaders as Frost and Feargus O'Connor. In struction and sobriety, peace and moral power, consti tute the watchwords of the one ; and violence and insur rection those of the other. The evil principle unhap pily prevailed. The Chartist body was led into a position front which ensued bloodshed, fierce animosi ties, and the penalty of imprisonment falling indiscrimi nately, or perhaps in a heavier degree upon the compa rately innocent than upon the guilty. Results only can show whether the Chartists generally have learned how sorely they were misguided and betrayed. The fact is a favourable one that counsels of peace, temperance, and improvement, come from those of their own order, while the demagogues who inflamed their passions, played upon their credulity, and exposed them to the crushing power of society, were no lalbouring men, but belonged to other classes, and only aimed at making tools of the class they tampered with, flattered, and betrayed. The shortest road to political right will assuredly be found, by the operatives, to he that now indicated by the pleaders for instruction and sobriety. They will never force their way to it by riot, or storm it by pikes and bludgeons. The untouched beer-pot is a batter pledge of the coming franchise than the loaded musket. The advice of Henry Vincent has this fur , ther recommendation, that it tends to generate the qua lities which, all parties will allow, fit men for the pos session of the franchise. A sober and intelligent body of operatives cannot possibly be long kept outside the pale of the Constitution. At present, Vincent's own description of too many of his class may well induce some obstinate questioning of their fitness for the rights they claim. The picture he draws, even of their " mo derate drinkers" is very far front being that of trust worthy and well-principled voters. The slaves of drink are the traitors of freedom. Unwittingly has the champion of Chartism furnished its foes with wea pons. They will ask, where is the wisdom or utility of sending the victims of " their own vicious extravagance " into the election mart of corruption ? And should a reply be not impossible, it is nevertheless desirable to supersede the question. In our general expectation of good from this admirable address, we must yet take exception to some of its language. When Mr. Vincent urges the disuse of intoxicating drinks, from its tendency to diminish the revenue, he falls into the false morality of enjoining a worthy action upon an unworthy motive. The working clesses will get nothing by a war upon the revenue. They cannot escape taxation., nor transfer its burden, by diminishing the public income derived from any par ticular article. The shrewdness even of a drunkard will detect the fallacy of the inducement,and experience soon make it manifest. Short-lived will be the sobriety s r l e i thatv o e r short-sigh ted , rests upon the principle of antagonism to the hteSducha reasoning, if damages not good i c n a s u in s c e e . re, Mr. Vincent' giveeNor is doesvery good ,,y co.ansel when ho says to the all Chartist operati ves, y o o t ur e r lt agitation, until you are "you politicalhave wisely resolved to dis countenanceinvested with have resolved any such aof polities.' power." It they tilin g, What, u, have resolved most un wisely and unjustly, the delay of one specific improvement in polities to refrease an honest man from all other obligation to promotdiaryhotber improvement for instance, Is no justice to be done to r grievous the wrong, because one partictillar lin,juesvtiecever. re dressed i Is the working man, yet nsane countenance agitation" ai,:ainst the bread-tax,toan'tidb.e come an accomplice in I:he starvation of wife and children, because he cannot obtain a vote ? Such morality is monstrous. It is a species of i Vin dictiveness, avenging the wrongs of the guilty up on the Tl4f! ii UN., LON' DOS. VirE .11 ti - FiE;i)k - t% D.R.C.FIM 11.E3 ft_ 2. . jglei, innuocent. " Because I have no vete, myra'nily - shall not have a large loaf." Exquisite logic for labouring men ! Has Henry Vincent yet to learn, in solitude and restraint, that the principle of justice is universal ? That be who knowingly violates it, in one application, has no real love of it in his heart, however loudly he may clamour for it in some other application ? We hope he will learn this truth also ; for we think highly of his intellect and honesty ; and the more so for this address, notwithstanding the aberrations which we have noticed. We repeat our wishes for its wide distri bution, and useful influence on the working classes. (Front the Morning Herald.) It will be seen from our report of proceedings in the Court of Chancery that Mr. Baines, the defendant in a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court for the subtraction of Church -rates, and whose case was determined against him in the Court of Queen's Bench last week, in a ze• turn to a writ of habeas corpus, has applied through his counsel to the Lord Chancellor for another writ of habeas corpus, on the ground of the order of the Ec clesiastical Court being illegal—the defendant having, been decreed against in the- Court of Arches in his ab sence, he, though cited before it, having declined to ap pear. The Lord Chancellor ordered the writ to issue, fur he had no discretion to do otherwise, inasmuch as a writ of habeas corpus, as was determined in the great case of Ashley v. White, is grantable to the subject of right, or e.r debito juslitiw. Next Tuesday is fixed upon for the argument, when, no doubt, all the tech nical objections taken in the Queen's Bench, and una nimously overruled by the Judges there, will be re peated in reference to the significaeit and the writ de conlumace capiendo. SECOND EDITION. THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS FUNDS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red B9i Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 904- Ditto Old Annuities 3 per Cent Red........ 97S Ditto New Annuities... BEli New 3i per Cent - Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 3pm New 5 per Cent ... Ditto 500/ 2 pin Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 6 pus Jan. 1860. l2 15-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...160 Oct. 1859 ... ...... India Stock for Acct ... Jan. 1860 ... ...... Consols for Opg 9l FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 973 Ditto, New Ditto..... 344- Brazilian Bonds ... .. - BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent.... Chilian, 6 per cent - Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... 24L Spanish, 5 per cent 24 Ditto, 1824 26 Ditto, Deferred ... Danish, 3 per cent..... 77A French,s per cent... —f. —e. Greek, 1825, 5 per ceat. Exchange Mexican, 5 per cent.... 29/- French,3 per cent —l. —e. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, '2- per cent slz, Peruvian,lB2s,6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 985 SHARES. Birmingham and Des by Railway (100 pd)... 75 Birmingham and Gloucester ItailtNav (90 p) 66 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) Great Western Railway (65 paid) t.6 Ditto New Shares (40 paid) Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) Ba London and Brighton Railway (40 paid) London and Blackwall Railway (24 pd) 18;,' London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 168 London and South Western Railway ..... London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) 1 1 3- Manchester and Birmingham Railwas;(4op) Ditto ditto Extension North Al:diarist Railway (100 paido 74 Ditto New Shares (40 paid) .... .. ... 37 South Eastern and Dover (28 paid)... . ~ 12 York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 661 inevitable conviction that in fair and temperate reason ing the English Press has won the tiuht, and placed the French Press, and the policy which that Press cur rup'.ly defends, unequivocally in the wrong. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A great crowd of tradespeople attended yesterday, in consequence of the notice that Sir Peter Laurie in tended to preside at the examination of Isaac C/i/t, alias Isaac Godfrey CIO, alias Isaac Godfrey, who was charged with 'having committed forgery, and, in confederacy with a very extensive gang of swindlers, defrauded tradesmen of their goods. Even the room adjoining the justice•room, and the hall, were crammed with people, so that it was difficult to transact the ordi nary business of the day. The LORD MAYOR received the following singular statement in a letter from the officer of the British Vice-Consulate at La Rochelle, and considered that it would be desirable to have it made as public as possible. " La Rochelle, 24th Nov., 1840. " British Vice Consulate. " My Lord Mayor—A very respectable looking young man called John Irvine (a portrait painter), left this on Monday last. As far as I could judge from hia manners he has been accustomed to good society, and is evidently a finished judge •f painting. " A few days ago, I was applied to by the master of the inn at which Mr. Irvine was staying, to use icy endeavours to niske Mr. Irvine take some food, as it appeared that for five days, during which he had becu at the inn, he had not eaten anything but one very small slice of bread per day. Thinking that poverty might be the cause of such abstinence, I offered Mr. Irvine every assistance in my power, and prevailed upon him, almost by force, to stay a couple of days in my. family, during which, I am positive that he did not swallow any thing but one glass of cold water, and ap peared to me to be in a state of melancholy, bordering upon insanity, with a full resolution of starving him self to death. I found it impossible to argue with him on the subject of his melancholy, and he was impene trable as to his place of birth and residence of his friends ; but I have reason to believe he is married, and has a child about two years old, who, I believe, resides in London ; and as I think Mr. Irvine's friends ()light to be informed of his situation, I apply to you, my Lord, to take what measures you may think proper to discover them, if, upon the slight information I have bee❑ enabled to give, your Lordship should think it necessary to take any measures to the above effect. " I forgot to say that Mr. Irvine constantly refused any offers of assistance. He is, I believe, a native of the north of Scotland. " In writing to your Lordship, I think I have dis charged a moral duty ; at any rate, do not think that the motive which induced me to write need. any ex cuse. Mr. Irvine has left this for Nantes but I shall always be able to knew where he is. " I remain, my Lord, your most obedient servant. W. A. MORGAN, Vice-Consul. " To the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor of London. " P.S.—Mr. Irvine was possessed of a small round round cornelian seal mounted in gold, and serving at the same time as a watch-key, with a painter's pallet en graved thereon. I think it was engraved in Latin. I can furnish no other clue. And he seemed desirous of destroying every thing that could furnish a clue to his history. " W. A. MORGAN." Cliff, with all the aliases, was brought up after Sir Peter Laurie had disposed of several other cases. Mr. Hobler, jun., attended for the prisoner. It will be recollected that Thomas Cornish, alias Thomas Cornish Broad, was stated at the last exami nation by a witness for the prisoner to be the accepor of the bill, which Chit was charged by Mr. Dinsdale, saddle and harness-maker, No. 17, Pavement, Fins bury-square, with having forged. Mr. IlobhA-, jun., submitted to the Alderman, that evidence having been given to show that the bill was not a forgery, Clift vi as entitled to his discharge, whatever might be the character of the person who accepted it. Sir PETER LAURIE-_I have been given to under stand that the ramifications of the gang concerned in the transactions against all these tradesmen, are infinitely more extensive than they were at all supposed to be, and I shall not let this man out of my hands without affording every opportunity possible to break up the iniquitous confederacy altogether. 1 wish to know whether Mr. Cornish is here ? The tradesman said that Cornish, who had fifty aliases, would nerer attend, except the police should compel him to make his appearance. Sir PETER LAURIE—IS Mr. John Smith, who told us he was a linen•draper in Bishopsgate, and seems to be mixed up with these gentlemen, present ? Mr. Dinsdale stated that Mr. Smith was not present. Sir PETER LAURIE—Have any inquiries been made about him ? Mr. Dinsdale stated that he had made inquiries, and found that Mr. John Smith was a man of moonshine. A house had been lately taken by seame persons in Bishopsgate, and two names affixed over the door, but neither of them was Smith He learned, nowever, that Mr. John Smith lodged in the house, and was to have become a partner of the company. but that the neces sary quantum of cash was not forthcoming, on which account the doors were closed ; and that .peculation which no doubt was part of the gener al concern, con cluded—thanks to Sr Peter Laurie's most benevolent investigation. A tradesman—That Mr. Smith got a watch from me upon credit, but he has thought proper to give it up to me when he found that so resolute a course was pursued at the Mansion-house. Sir PETER LAURIE—it i 5 most particularly to Mr. Dinsdale the public are indebted for following up the business. Clift—l declare I have been brought innocently into this difficulty. It is all brought against me for the pur pose of getting my house at High Wycombe, where my property is. A second tradesman—We have ascertained that Cornish, the friend of Chft, is Mr. Thomas Broad, and that he is a Cornish man. He some times goes by the name of Cornish ; and his schedule in the Fleet men tioned the name Thornies Cornish Broad, and sixteen aliases. He has made his exit from Baker-street, Lloyd's square, Pentonsille, where ho was when the last exami nation was going on. Sir P. LAURIE—Can any guess be given as to the &lumber of which this gang is constituted ? Mr. Dinsdale believed that it consisted of fifty at any rate, and they were located in different parts of the metropolis in companies, and pretending to be earryinir, on different trades. They were all referees, and the unexceptionable characters they gave each other, blinded numbers of experienced as well as inexperienced tradesmen. • A tradesman here stepped forward, and said that he had been referred to Mr. Broad, by a person who ap plied for credit, and represented that Mr. Broad was executor to the will by which he would shortly be in possession of an estate. Complainant waited upon Mr, Broad, whom he found to be a very steady comfortable sort of person, and questioned him on the subject, and received such an account of the applicant from the exe cutor, that the credit was at once given. Not a farthing was paid by the individual who was to come in for the property. Mr. nobler, jun.—But none of these transactions at all touch my client. Several of the tradesmen declared that Clift was CO'll pletely identified with the whole squad, and that they had no doubt of being able to establish a clear case against him. There were abundant materials. Mr. Abraham Berlyn, ladies' shoe an I fancy slipper manufacturer, wholesale and retail, of' Church-lane Whitechapel, stated that he had a serious case against one of the gang. A gentleamn who called himself Capt. Elliot, ordered a quantity of goods at his concern ; the goods were sent home, and directions given to the porter who took them to the Captain's house, to be sure to bring back th e mon e y. The porter was told at the front door to take the articles round to the back doer, and as soon as they should be delivered to return to the hall door with his bill and receive the amount. He did as he was ordered, but upon going to the front door for the cash he found the place fastened. No doubt the goods were whipped away through the house by the Captain, who was nowhere to be found. Sir PETER LAURlE—That's a regular robbery. Let every effort be made to catch this Captain. He is connected with t h e gang. we shall prove hi m to be one of t h e l ea di ng men amongst the bod y o f swindlers. o Mr. Dinsdale—Nobt of it. If he is to be found, du Some of the complainants here stated that so inge niously was the business of reference regulated and car ried on by the different firms that any one, however cautious, would be liable to imposition amongst them. An umbrella manufacturer said that Clift tried it on with 11:m for a number of umbrellas, for which the pri soner wished to pay with a bill, and referred bins to a person was called a tradesman in Shoreditch, and another at Lo man ' s P ond, in the Boroug h. Witness, however, made it a rule never to take the trouble to go to a referee, and refused to have any dealings with the prisoner except for ready money. Sir PETER Lanus: approved strongly of the caution exhibited by th e um b rella maker, a 5 in case s of this kind the referees would, of course be prepared to gave an answer as per agreement. The recommendation of a principal of himself might as well be taken as the ad ditional trouble of applying, to referees. Another compl a i nant, in the same t ra de, said that Clift had tried it on w i t h him for goo ds, with a 40/. piece of paper, but it wou ld not d o . A third, in the same trade, sa id that he had not been quite so lucky. H e had gon e to the referees in Shoreditch, and Loman's Pond in the Borough. He received a most excellent character of Mr. Clift for lected. punctuality and hon our , an d sent hi m the goods ho se- Mr. Hobler, jun.—Still, Sir Peter, you have no evi dence upon which to detain my client. Here are dis tinct cases of debt, but no felony, forgery, or misde meanour. Sir P. LAURIE—Do you suppose that I should, with such a history before me, be justified in discharging this man ? Mr. Hobler, jun.---I contend tha,t there is 13 ground for further detention, however unprincipled and unwarrantable have been the dealings. Sir PETER LAURIE—I am most ;vililrig to take the responsibility upon myself. I shall not see the tradesmen of the metropolis plundered by a gang of villains, without a great effort to destroy the further success of their machinations. lam not quite sure as to the exoneration of Clift from the charge of forgery. Mr. Dinsdale declared that a person had called upon him from Cornish, and assured him from that indivi dual, that he (Cornish) had not accepted the bid which Clift had given to him. llcre Mr.ler, jun., who had very narrn•vly watched all the statements made in evidence, and in conversation, put the bill in question into the hands of one of those who complaitwA against the gang and their operations, and asked bins whether the acceptance was not in the writing of Cornish ?—He replied in the affirmative. Sir PETER LAURIE—Why does not Mr. Cornish Broad come here ?—( Laughter.) Mr. Nobler—Thete arc Sheriff's officers waitinv for him, and no doubt he has no fancy to go to the place to which they would be likely to introduce him. A tradesman—l have no doubt I caa establish a case qainst Chit and Cornish to the amount of 581. of which they plundered me. Again Mr. llobler, jun., contended that notwith standing all the suspicious circun►stances, and the un doubted impropriety of the conduct of his client, there was no grou-►d for detaining him longer. Sir P. LAURIE—Let the prisoners be remanded till Wednesday week ; that will give time for abundant in quiry. Let me see some ethers of the gang. If they think they are severely dealt with let them bring actions against me. I will never allow such a notorious confe deracy to last long, depend upon it. The tradesmen all appeared extremely grateful to Sir Peter Laurie for the vigorous manner in which he has taken up their cause, :um stated that they would most particularly attend to his instructions. Since the time of the investigation of the notorious Coster, who, it will be recollected, was, in the Mayor alty of Sir Peter Laurie, committed by that Magistrate, • there has not been any case which excited more curiosity or ineignation amongst the tradesmen of tho metropolis, than this nest of swindlers has excited. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Globe.) We are happy to find that the friends of the late Lord Holland have determined on opening a public subscription, for the purpose of erecting a monument to his memory. They have token the right course. The memory of one who for half a century filled a conspicu ous station in the political world—of one whose name is inseparably connected with the progress and triumph of those great principles of civil and religious liberty, of which he was from first to last the intrepid and consis tent advocate—is, indeed, public property, and cannot he monopolised by any circle of personal friends, however numerous and however warmly and sincerely attached. The appeal thus made will, we have no doubt, be promptly responded to. As a politician, and as a man, Lord Holland possessed in an eminent degree the qua:i ties which should command from his countrymen a tri bute of affliction arid respect. As a man, no one ever made warmer friends or fewer enemies. As a politician, he was straight-forward, honest, and sincere ; he never deserted a friend or sacrificed a principle ; in the worst of times, as in the best, he stood forward the uncornpio• mising, yet moderate and enlightened, champion of the people's cause ;—and in the decline of life lie advocated the same views and maxims of Liberal policy which, in the outset of his career, he had learned in the school of the illustrious relation whose principles as well as name he inherited. As the last representa tive of the old Whigs of the Fox School—of the in trepid band who bore the brunt of the battle, an:l amidst the panic caused by the French Revolution, the triumph of arbitrary principles, and the defection of ail that was timid and wavering, never deserted their colours, and never despaired of tha cause of liberty, Lord Holland hiss carried with him to the grave the , regrets of many whose hearts are still warm at the re ' collection of that period, as well as the grateful vene ration of those who knew the days of terwism and proscription, of penal laws and disabilities, by report only, and who now enjoy, in peace, the benefit of the religious toleration and civil privileges, for which he so long and earnestly contended. (From the Courier.) Some of our Parisian Contemporaries arc laboriously engaged in the Sisyphean task of depreciating the glory of the invincible victors of Acre, aad crying down the importance of its capture. Thus the Cowries. Francais is pleased to express itself in the following mild and gentlemanly language. " The English Journals now boast, because they know that France, as long as she is governed by M. Guizot, will always yield ; but that a day will arrive when the French nation will become tired of cowardice at home and of impertinence abroad, and that then the audacious pirates who give this brutal character of aggression to the English policy will have to account to France, which will not be so easy a matter as to enter into St. Jean d'Acre without danger, after it had been completely dismantled by an explosion." The con temptible coxcomb who penned this terrible trash should have been careful lest in flinging his dirt so fluently around him he should unwittingly souse his own more valiant naval countrymen head over heels in the boue. The brave Baudin might reasonably remonstrate with bins that the triumph of the Trench fleet in the storm of San Juan de Ulloa, alter a bombardment of nine hours, was successfully consummated at last only by the accidental explo. sion of its powder magazine, into which bombs or rockets chanced to penetrate. As to the day of " account," whenever that may arrive, and far distant be the day, we rather think this account itself may come to be rendered, and the balance struck—in that case a real fiuiquiio de todos cnentas—in Paris as heretofore. We would remind these ridiculous gaseo natters that Acre was not defended by a timid troop of Mexican Indians, such as those of San Juan de Ulloa, of whom the Anglo-Saxon Texans make so small ac count as fearlessly to engage and surely to rout, with odds against them of twenty to one in number, but by the best and most practised men of Ibrahisn's veteran army, commanded by a courageous Pole, and the for• midable artillery of the fortress—once impregnable when manned by Turks only against Bonaparte—directed by skilful French engineers. (From the Siandard.) Some of the provincial papers emulate the folly of the Paris press ; ex gr., the Caurrier de to Moselle has the follow profund observations : " The Ministry of peace on any terms has just made nu merous promotions in the army. It has appointed three Lieutenant-Generals and twelve Major-Generals. The army, which is condemned to a shameful state of inactivity, appears destined,to receive all the advantages of war ex cept honour. Rank was formerly obtained at the expense of the enemy—at present it is at the expense of the tax payers. We are much deceived or this anti-military and anti- French policy will bs badly understood and but little relished by our regiments, which, notwithstanding the de moralising efforts of the friends of the foreign Powers, have always continued to remain the sanctuary of the national honour." Nothing can be more certain than that soldiers are in time of peace condemned to inactivity, and that if promoted at such a time they must be promoted other wise than at the expense of the enemy. But here comes the question :—are nations to go to war for no better object than to direct and to accelerate the current of military promotion? We fear that too many in France think so. It is plain that the Courrier de la Moselle is of this opinion. So much for the speculations of the French Press, which are valuable by reason of their very absurdity. When men are clearly in the wrong, it is the most desirable thing in the world that they be impelled to speak out fully and freely, and we ought to forgive even the fury and ill-manners which some times afford the stamp of freedom. The Press has been called by short•sightel persons an incendiary. It is exactly the opposite ; it is, in a free country, the beet guarantee of internal peace : between free countries it is no less a guarantee of friendship. liy the press pie negotiate with people, in a much purer and more honourable spirit than negotiations can ever be carried on by interested individuals ; and the results of the negotiations of the press are more permanent than any other, because they are founded oa the con victions and feelings of the men who are ultimately to govern all (if we are not too demecratical in saying so). The people will not long give confidence to a corrupt:cr interested press, therefore the press of Paris is as much despised by Frenchmen as by all others, but the people will give confidence to a press at once honest and tem perate, therefore the people of England are proud of their press. which undoubtedly stands at this moment on the highest ground i n the opi n i on o f E urope. All this results from no disparity of talent, but from the GUILDHALL. A coal-heaver, named John Parker, and William Fletcher, a greengrocer and coal•dealer, residing in King's Head -court, Gough-square, were placed at the bar un der the following circumstances : City Policeman 370 said that on Thursday evening he perceived the prisoner Parker with a waggon, con taining a large quantity of coals, in Gough-square. fie took one of the bags out, which he brought into Fletcher's shop, and there emptied it ; the remainder his delivered at the house of Mr. Macdowall, in Gough square. Suspecting that he purloined the bag, from the quantity sent by his employer, he spoke to Parker. who asked him to take some gin, and said, " Where is the use of our kicking each other's shins, unless other people set us on ?" The witness informed his sergeant of the circumstances, who apprehended the prisoners. Mr. Barreaud, coalanerchant, of Whitefriar's Wharf, stated that he sent three tons of coal, by order, to Mr. Macdowall. He had no knowledge of the prisoner Fletcher, nor did he order the delivery of any coals to him. Parker was in his (Mr. B.') employment. Mr. Alderman PIRIE said he should adjourn the further investigation of the ease to Thursday. The prisoner Fletcher applied to be liberated on bail. Mr. Alderman PIRIE replied that he could not think of. granting the application. In those cases the receiver was always worse than the thief. Fletcher—l can get bail to any amount. Mr. Alderman Plata—Such being the case, your conduct in this matter is the more culpable. 'ill, prisoners were then removed to the Compter, and ordered to be kept separate until Thursday. BOIV.STREET. Rebecca Mathew and Dorothea Jephson, sisters, were yesterday brought before Mr. Twyford, charged with stealing a quantity of linen and wearing apparel, the property of Sir Joshua Rowe, Chief Justice of Jamaica. The prosecutor stated, that he had left in the month of July last, several trunks containing wearing apparel, belonging to the members of his family, at 36, Bedford street, Covent-garden, and a few days back two other trunks, having come up from Exeter, he went to take out some articles, when he found that property to a considerable amount had been taken away, not only from the trunks, that had been there for many months, but also from those which arrived in town lately. The house is let out for chambers, which the first named prisoner had the care of; and on asking her if she knew how the trunks had come to be broken open and plundered, she said that she could not tell, as she had locked the door every evening, and took the keys under her care. Constable Oshinden, F division, proved that the other prisoner told biro she was in the habit of frequenting the chambers to assist her sister. And on searching her, there were found sixteen pawnbroker's duplicates upon her for wearing aparel, and other property belong ing to females. The prosecutor observed, that from the dates on the duplicatrs, the property appeared to have been pawned shortly after the trunks were dep'sited in the chain bers, and he had reason to suppose they related to ar ticles which had been left in them. The constable said that the duplicates; were the only things he could at present produce, but he believed he could procure further evidence if tittle was allowed for that purpose. The prisoners having denied they knew anything of the property, Mr. Tw;FonD ordered them to be remanded for the present. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) PooLE, Nov. 30.—Arrived the Montague, Chinas, from Newfoundland ; James, Ford, Labrador. SALCOSIBE, Nov. 29.—The George Robinson arrived off this poi t from Net4loundland, f.-11 in with, on 23d inst., in lat. 49. long. 8., the wreck of the schooner Ruby, of Liverpool. PLYNtouTir, Nov. 30.—Arrived the Star of the West, Kingeornbe, from Demerara, with loss of sails, &c., picked up a boat marked outside " Eveline," and inside " Richard Nasworthy," in lat. 39., long. 9. Saw a brig on 21st inst., in lat. 47, long 16, with colours hoisted, supposed to have been water logged, with loss of rudder. PENZANCE, Nov. 28.—Off port, the Brother, Milne, from Grenada. 141•A01., Nov. 30.—Arrived the Recovery, Bowman, from Shippegan. SWANF,F.A, Nov, 29.—Arrived the Enchantress, Edgar, from Cuba. PORT TALBOT, Nov. 27.—Arrived the Bravo, Brown, from Quebec. CORK, NOV. 28.--Arrived the Lpphire, Hall, from Monte Video. SANDAY, Nov. 24.—The Be!lona, of Stettin, on shore on the north end of this island, has gone to pieces, part of the cargo saved. Part of a vessel, stern board painted yellow, with " Graf Canerin" in red letters on a black ground, has washed on shore here. WHITI3v,;Nov. 30.—Off port, the Isabella, Gray, Quebec. Nov. 30.—Wind W. S. \V.—Arrived the Bee, Mitchell, from Quebec. VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL—Her Nlajesty's ship Sama rang, from Valparaiso to India, 4th August. lat. 32, lon. 10 ; Susan, of Gothenburg, for Brazil, 14th ult., lat. 7, lou. 21 ; Glenann, Liverpool to Valparaiso, 23d, lat. 11, lon. 23 ; Stonington (steamer), London to Mazatlan, same day (which hnd spoken the Indus, steamer), for India, off the Cape de Verds,) by the Montezuma, arrived at Liver_ p )01. A barque, standing to the eastward, deeply laden, and with loss of topmasts, 23d ult., by the Eagle, Bell, arrived at Kinsale. Vern, of London, for Jamaica, 24th ult., by the George Robinson, arrived off Salcontbe; Bel grave, Bordeaux to Calcutta, 24th ult., by the Montezuma, arrived at Liverpool. Sarah Maria Ann, Newport to Malta, 25th ult , lat. 42, lon. 12, by the Mincario, Treyarthen, arrived at Falmouth. Celerity, Penzance to St. Michael's 25th ult., 70 miles S.W. of Scilly, by the Star of the West, arrived at Plymouth. Atina, for Sydney, 12th July ; Wanderer, lot Calcutta, 15th, by the Plantagenet, Dor nett, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. Alick, Palmer, 300 barrels; Walmer, Robins, 300 barrels; Henrietta, Henderson, 1,300 barrels ; Cyrus, Spratty, out 25 months, 1,550 barrels ; Resolution, Garbutt, out seventeen months, 350 barrels, all in May, by the Delhi, Crocker, arrived at New York. Hugo, of New York, 29th ult., lat. 25. lon. 80.japparently with emigrants), by the Skylark packet, arrived at Cork. NOTICE TO MARINERS. NEW LIOIIT- lIOUSE.—CoartEcTED INSTRUCT! Ns.—Tllo following is a c o py of a letter received at Lloyd's from dated Nov. 27, 18-10 their agent at Bremen, had the honour to transmit with last mail a notice to mariners, published by the Government of this c ity in regard to a second light-ship stationed in the River w e Aer. On strict examination, one part has been consi dered not to be perfectly distinct. I beg leave, therefore, to hand you, inclosed, a copy of a new notice, with the translation annexed, requesting you to have the former one cancelled, and the requisite publicity given to the present. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient hamb'e servant, (Signed) " B. PE A RKE S, British Consul. " To William Dobson, Esq., Secretary of Lloyd's, London." l'ol'1" OF TOR NoTicF. REFFIRRND TO. " A second light-vessel, designated and marked 4. Weser, No. 2," will be from the end of November of the present year Minced in the Weser, near the Bremen Bea con, and near the entrance to the Wurster Channel, and remain there tnoured anuual!y, as long as the navigation is free from ice. " From the aforesaid light-ship— " A. The Bremen beacon bears S. by W. / W. " B. rho two beacons on the hank, called Meier' Leegd (or Leegor) is a line S E by E. " C. The red buoy bears S. E. " Ships which front necessity may be forced to enter the Weser without pilot, have in coming in to pass near and on the west side of the light-ship, not then immediately to bring th e I: g h t - s hi p, N o. t . N. A E., and keep her in this, having to steer southerly from - her to the distance of three-quarters of a German mile (fifteen to a degree), or :lirce English miles (sixty to a degree). At this distance the lightship, No. . 1 , will bear S. S. E., to which they have direct to steer. " When near the light-ship No, 2, it must be passed on the east side, then steering S. E., keep the light-ship No. 2 N. V. for about a quarter of a German or one Eng lish mile. then at that distance come to an anchor, at low water. Withcut a pilot :hey should not proceed further. " From the light-?hip No. 2 to the course of the Western Cbanncl is S. E. by E., one and one-eighth of a German mile, to the white buoy marked W. 3. From the light-ship No. 2, going into the Ftddcrwater Channel, the course is S.S.E., about one and one-eighth of a German mile to the Salzhour Bank, or the buoy marked P. Both light-ships are painted red, and their lights are forty-two feet above the surface of the water. These Ught-vessels during; the day have, instead of a flag, a red ball at their mast heads, which signal to Ow vessels coming in from sea distinguishes them from the Elbe light-vessel. Bremen, in November, 1840.' " Admiralty, 28th Nov., 1840. " Sir,— I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Ad.niral.y to transmit to you herewith, for the in formation of the Committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, tl:e copy of a notice issued by the Swedish Go vernment of the erection of two new lighthouses, the one at Carlserona, the other at Landsert, at the entrance of the Stockholm Archipelago.—l am, Sir, your most humble servant, " JOHN BARROW. " To William Dobson, Evq , Lloyd's. " The I3oard of Nlarine Atfairs hereby notify for the di rection of navivators " First—That a new lighthouse of stone has been erected on Retkeppan, situated 55 deg. 56 min. lat. and 35 deg, so min. lon. east of Ferro, about two and three quarter German or geographical miles south of Rungsholm Castle, opposite to Carlscrona, which lighthouse is pro. vided with a reflected revolving light, showing within the space cf six minutes three equally clear lights, with dark intervals of the same duration ; the height of the building is :32 feet above the rock. and that of the light above the level of the sea 53 feet, in consequence of which the latter might be visible in clear weather at the distance of upwards of two and a half geographical miles from the deck of a ship ten feet above the water. _ _ " • Second—That instead of the coal beacon at Land sort, outside of one of the inlets to Stockholm, there is also a reflected revolving light, consisting of a triangle, with three reflectors on each side, which, like the light at Utkleppan, shows three bright lights with equally long dark intervals, within the space of six minutes. The tower, which has been partly rebuilt, is 64 feet high, and the height, which is 14" feet above the level of the sea, ought to be visible in clear weather at the distance of up wards of tour geographical miles from the deck of a ship ten feet above the water. The lighting of the beacon above described will begin on the 15th of next November, and continue from that time at the hours appointed by the Board for the other lighthouses in the kingdom. Stockholm, Oct. 30, 1 SO. ' " MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (Front the London New Price Current of December 1. ) Socha.-Although there has not been much activity in the British Plantation Sugar Market since we last wrote, still the trade has come forward more freely, and a fair business has been transacted : the purchases have amounted to 1,000 hhds and trcs for the three market days; the principal part was taken by the grocers, and the bulk con sisted of the better sorts, importers displayed firmness, and obtained former rates for all qualities, indeed thereat some are not disposed to sell, and have withdrawn their samples from the market, with the intention of not bringing them forward until the new year, when they expect a much bet ter demand will exist. To-day importers of West India displayed firmness, and refused io sell excepting at former rates ; but the trade evinced little desire to purchase, and the demand was li mited from both Refiners and Grocers, the sales not ex ceeding 210 hhds and tierces ; there was no auction. The Gazette average price is now 46s Oid, in 1839 it was 38s 4d, and, in 1838, 32; 52d. REFINED.-To-day there was a steady demand for Re fined Goods for home use, and Standard Lumps were not to be had under 965. Treacle sells freely at the rates quoted above. Bastards and Pieces were in better re quest at the quotations. Bonded Crushed Sugar dull of sale at 32s 9d to 33; per cwt. MAURITIUS,-This afternoon a fair demand prevailed for all sorts suitable for the scale at a public sale of 4,581 bags, and which brought full prices, but for ordinary kinds the demand was dull, and holders not being disposed to submit to lower rates, the principal part of which was bought in, fine yellow went at 83s lid to 84s, good 82; to 82s 6d, middling and good middling 78s 6d to 81s 6d, low 76s to 77s 6J, good and fine brown 68; to 743, middling 63; to 655, ordinary dark 50; to 523. Since the sale the whole has, however been sold at buying in prices. EAST INDIA.-For white sorts of Bengal prices have been maintained, and the grocers have been desirous to purchase, and yellow kinds are not to be purchased on lower terms, low heavy brown at 60s, and soft colory grey 80s per cwt. For Manilla holders will not submit to lower rates. live at 23; 6d to 24; for middling and good yel low. Siam low and good white 24s 6d to 27; 6d, and fine 28; to 28e 6d. This afternoon Bengal at 85s to 87; for strong claycd yellow; damps and washed 83s 6d to 85s per cwt. FOREIGN.-The market for white Havannah continues in a dull state, and parcels could only be disposed of but at lower rates. Yellow is held firmly ; 24; for good mid dling bright Muscovado. For Porto Rico Refiners have paid 24; 6d for good middling greyish yellow, and ordinary 235. Brown and yellow sorts of Brazil at previous rates. White has maintained last Tuesday's prices. aloeesses.-In West India the lower rates have again been accepted. good and fine sorts have been disposed of at 413 to 43s 63, middling 383 to 393 ti I, ordinary and fair 35; to 373. per cwt. COFFER. -The grocers have been dcsiious to purchase all clean sorts of West India, but buying has been checked in consequence of the short supply at market : importers have refrained from offering any at public sale, not being • disposed to realize at present rates, but by private treaty several parcels have been disposed of at full former rates, namely, Jamaica tine middling at 137; 6.1 to 1335, good 125; to I;;3±, middling 112; to 1153 6,1, low middling 106; to 1093, line and tine fine ordinary 83; to 102;, low ordi nary 69s to 72; per cwt: unclean kinds are held for pre vious rates, but there has not been much _tiquiry. This afternoon prices were firm for home consumption Ceffee and clean sorts of both East and West India were in fair request by private treaty ; at public sale 1,968 bags Java, and 1,730 bags Rio, imported direct, were offered, the former was all damaged end sold at 45s to 545, being the full value; the latter went at steady prices, viz , good ordinary at 42s to 433, ordinary much mixed 41s. Privately good ordinary Ceylon is difficult to be purchased under 75s per cwt. The stock of West India exceeds that of last year by 2,403 casks, and 852 barrels and bags ; of Mocha it is 574 bales less than in 1839 ; of Ceylon the stock 30,767 bags, and of other East India 21,227 larger than last year; of Cape sorts the stock is now 156,519 bags; last year it was 44,687 bags; of Foreign descrip tions the stock is 5,000 bags larger than at this time in 1839. Cocos.-There has been no public sale of West India, but by private treaty a fa'r demand ha 3 existed, and full prices paid, viz. 523 to 57; for low middling and good red Trinidad. TEA.-Since we last wrote the market for Free Trade Tea has presented a quiet appearance. To-day the trade were more disposed to purchase free trade Tea, holders displayed firmness ; and by private treaty a fair business was transacted at previous rates; Congou was the most in request, and of common quality nothing was to be purchased under 23 2d cash : at public sale 2,578 pkgs were offered, at which the bidding: were brisk ; 1,300 pkgs were taken in and withdrawn above market rates ; the remainder sold at prices on a par with those of last week ; Congou, but at id burnt blk ra str fetched 2; 4 , 1 to 2; 41d, but mid Tea coa and flat in boxes, 2; 6-id to 2s 6,1 d ; Souchong, but middling, flat. and old, 2; 1 ; Orange Pekoe. middling, s..rong, scntd, lit, cos, and old, 33 4d ; Flowery Pekoe., mid old burnt, 4; 6d ; Twankay, but mid coa and sir, 2; 4d ; Hyson, very fine, 63, but mid ra fresh and cowslip fl 3; to 3; sd, but mid fresh and odd leaf 2; Sid ; Young Hyson mid fiat 2; 11 id ; Imperial mid ra fr and str lit flat 3s 9id ; Pouchong, 2s to 2; 31d ; Hyson Skin, but mid fr 2; Id, mid str 2; sid per lb. In the speculative market there was more activity, and sales were made in Company's Congou at 2; 31c1 to 2; 3id cash, and 2; 31d to 3s 4d with prompt;. This afternoon the market closed firmly, common Free Trade Congou at 2; 2id a 2s 3d cash, and Company's Congou 2; 31d ptr lb, but there was not much business doing, the trade for the most part being disposed to wait for the auctions declared for Friday and Tuesday next. FRUIT.-Prices have scarcely been maintained fer Cur rants, but the demand has been limited, and a small part only of the large parcel offered at auction found buyers, the best parcels of Patras at 72;, ord was taken in at 70; to 72;, Zante went at 695. Figs have been taken less freely, and prices have given way for new Turkey pulled : at auction a small part only of the quantity offered was sold at 56; to 705 ; Sultana Raisins taken in at 60s. For fine new descriptions of Valencia Raisins there has been a good demand at 405, but ordinary kinds of which the supply principally consists have met with a slow sale. In other sorts of Fruit the purchases have been an a small scale since we last wrote, and for some sorts prices have given way a little. Almonds have brought previous rates. The arrivals of Fruit have been only to a small extent during the last week. To-day new Currants were in better request; Patras at 70s to 71s, and Zante 693. For Valencia Raisins a good demand prevailed, 40; paid for first, and 381 for second quality. SPICES.-Former rates are required for Black Pepper common Sumatra 3d per lb; White Pepper at 51e1 to l id for low and good quality. Pimento: prices remain firm. Cassia Lignea, low middling has fetched 81s to 83s, midd ling 14s to 85s, good 863 to 88s, and for fine thin quill the home trade has paid 89s to 90s per cwt. Ginger is held for former rates, both East and West India. Cloves is Id paid for Bourbon for :shipping. For Nutmegs prices are firm. The better sorts of Mace have been sought after, and full prices paid.' Rtee,_The stock of Bengal Rice continuing on the decrease cause holders to display firmness, and excepting at former rates there are not sellers ; at public sale 2,763 bags were nearly all taken in, middling wi.ite at 12; 6d, low middling Ils 6d, a few lots found buyers at the former figure; good and fine white sorts arc however wanted at 13s to 14s. For Siam prices are firmer, sales made at 109 for low white, and 9s ed for fine yellow. .lava is held for former rates. Carolina has sold steadily fur home use at 34s to 36s per cwt. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS,-For West India Rum there has been only a limited demand from either shippers or the home trade, prices have given way lel for Jamaica, Tuesday's rates, Leeward; have generally maintained last _ne rates, of the former th e s a les have been only 180 puns fine and choice marks at 7s to 7s 3d, good 36 per cent. ofthe over proof 6s 9d, middling 30 to 32 over 6550 6 2d latter 150 puns have been sold, proofs at „)c: :lie in small 10d to 2511 d, 2to 8 per cent over 3s to 3s 2d. Eas eels has been disposed of at 2; 5d proof Brandy the demand has become we quote H it C e o d limited, first brands st b r u e t ng h t o h lders F ar o e r not disposed to force sales: h of the vintage of 1836, 5s ld to 5s 3d in puns ands ; 1837, do 4s lid to 59 Id; Genera has sold 1838, do 9d to 4; 1H ; 1839, do 4s 7d to 43 9 d per gallon. EV.n NI i .:Srt4 ED rrt OINY steadily at Is lld to 2s for export, and the home trade still pay 2; 5,1 to 25 64 for fire quality. British Corn Sprrirs are dull of sale, at 10; Id cash. The stock of West India Rum is 9 ,201 puns end 539 hhd; larger than last year at this period. Orfs.—For Southern Oil b)th for home use and export former rates have been fully supported; at auction, 110 tuns sold briskly at 23/ 153 to 261 for middling and fine quality. Cod and Seal have been disposed of to a fair extent, the former at 28/ the latter at 31/ 10s for pale, and 6/ to 301 for brown and yellow.—Sperm at 1061 to 107 1 for first quality. Linseed Oil at 26s 3d to 26s 6d 0 0 the spot, lied ='7s to 27s 6d for delivery in the next two and three months. Rape, pals has fetched 393 6d and brown 38s to 38s 6d. East India Cocoa Nut fine quality at 40s to 41s. Palm at 341 15s to 351 per tun. TaLtow.—The market for Russian has presented st. quiet aspr.et since Tuesday last, end prices have declined to 46; 9d to 47s for Petersburgh yellow candle. For de livery in spring months there are sellers at 47s 6 t l to 47s 9d. South American at 43; to 46s rid for ordinary and fine quality. Odessa yellow candle at 46s (Oft& 46; 91 for fine quality. Town Tallow has brought 'a` prices. To-day the demand was dull for P. Y. C. on this S e P °l ' and the nearest quotation was 46; 3d per cwt. For dnci livery there wan little done, sellers all the year at 465, a for spring months at 47s per cwt. IRISH MARKETS. OU BUN MARKET NOTE ft,r the WEEK eating ver 3gc 1 31 I 11 b 11 1`.2 9 From To 927 W'he.tt,pel barrel •.it tt00e.....1 2ii ti 3 i 0 t, 6 Bere 71 c Harley C6B Oat: '4 stet e...... 8. 9 12 6 II Flour, per cwt Sittoov...... 0 ° 782 Oatmeal,. —...-- 8 stuhe...... 11 U 14 0 Sold to Bakers only. 12,287 Cwt. flour lO 0 25 OL i Average price Jf Wheat and lour 511• SBl. per sack . (Id Receipts of Flour, 11,W.0 Fir AS from 22$ 0 ,1 1 od • rid to 'l' • .1 Secbn it from 14s. . ",, Uo S:4les of Do. 12, - .:64.-... —""' • od to I= , , iordi , •• trona 9s. • PRICE OF BLitAl). Quartert. Loa! ...... 1 hilt Qualien) ..•• 4 ' l ' CORK MARKETS —NEv. , .„11,Bd Whestt (per `JOst.Y4I , 61.1(4424 0 i.luats per list. w - . 2 4 13artty (per ltist.).l U 15 U lkhwr (per cwt)• 11 41 Oatmeal (per cwt.;... ...... ...ass. Od. to 16s 0.1 „ Beef, id. to 7d.—Mutton, sd. to &I.—Veal, 4,1 to Pork„ 44d. to s‘l.—Fresh Butte*, 10d. to lid per lb. PRICE OP buTrER. r To the Merchants. To the v°o First Quality... ......... ..... ......"st; Second Third ..............•...•.....« ...... !, , L O ..... ••• 7 4 Fifth B4 ow ••• ••• •ft ••• ''''' '134 Sixth CLONAIELL M A II KETS...Nov. o 3 A. Pet 1 wt. J. a 0 S. d. s. it. s go ql O New Butter ...... bes oto 00 0 tlidet (raw)...... .. . -',,,, i l 40 J Oatmeal l2 0 12 3 liacottP,Ks....,.. .. . ; 1 ?-' 7', •-• ltendercu Lard...., 0 52 u beaus .................: 1 ' Per 14. 0 s') 0 view, Second 0 44 01 t t0ur,'11,trt1a......... - 0 --Household...— 0 42 0I -- Vuust.t,s„.. 22 1 1 g Per Band. u 0 :tapeseed..... ......... 20 0 0 1 B a rl a y 13ere S 4 10 01 17- , .d! , 8 14. • KIL NIARKEIS , • Wl.eat s per barrel)3os Od.to K ENNY 375. Od. Bret :ler It . u' od. tc ,0 Barley 20 0 22 0 Muttcn ...,....... (5 0 7 ',Jets lt: 0 14 0 ,), Pork . 0 1. 0 Flour (per bag)...:60 0 40 0 Ves , ................. - 4 ........... , 6 1 0 u 0 Butter (per ewt.) 90 0 14, 0 i• rest! 13ntryr ..... 0 0 0 0 i ,, Bacon Pigs 35 0 36 0 Salt Ditto ..... .... , It " Coals 1 0 1 2 Potatocs Zper et.) 1) ; n OO ll FATAL ACCIDENT.—Last 2,ni g ht an '4 ' Jo a was held at Guy's Hospital, respecting the death Philleburg, a plumber, who was employed at th e r- • On ing of the Old Red Lion, ‘lill.lane, oleY• strect. ding Thursday last, at nine in the morning, he was p r o o f, cee up a ladder in the interior of the building to the in each hand had a piece of lead weigbiug se x pons • se ea He had no sooner reached the top when his ho d Y "'Jr 1 vio• by some of the bricklayers to fall down with drc,nu 00 . e knee, pitching on the rafters, and remainiag lassitba seconds till it met with another obstruction, a nd at j, unfortunate man fell on his head in the basernae:tp' to was quite insensible, and removed as soon this hospital. lie went on well until Sunday , w, b , e l ug :p l . he became insensib:e, and the best surgical tbo plied, but he died in that state at half-po t n•Y-ribear evening. 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