The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-02 00:00:00

LONDON., NIOSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1839.

TpeitIJILDRS AND OTHERS. •
"VlNERS9NS'clesirous of Offeriniz TENDER:S
fe"iithtor -all of the-following WORKS, Viz. :L—For
the Erect Of, Church,, Part of an Hotel, Five Houses,
Tweqty-eight Cottages, and a.." Length of about 'One Thousand
Eight ,linittit4d Feet of Sea Walling, at Fleetwood.on-Wyre,
Lancaskge, may inspect the. drawings, specifications, and condi-
tions of contract, on and after the 4th of December next, at the
419rk Ofilie‘Works' Office, at that place, and. at.Dlr. Decimus
13urCo4's.Office, No. 6, Spring-gardens, London.
4The; Tenders are to be sealed, and endorsed, " Tenders for
Works' at Fleetwood," and delivered at the above offices, on or
before ,the 14th of December next, and none others will be *-
tended: to. The Propiietor does not bind himself to accept the
lowest tenders:•

'TO OWNERS AND MASTERS OF VESSELS.
-IMMEDIATELY WANTED to HIRE
TEN VESSELS, carrying from 40 to 60 tons, for the
Stone Trade at Fleetwood-on-Wyre, Lancashire.
Inforro4ion may be had at the Clerk of the Works' Office,
at Fleetwood. Sealed Tenders endorsed " Tender for Stone
Vessels,t'--Will be received at the above Office until the 14th of.
DtceviitOr next, and none others will be attended to.

... TO QUARRYMEN AND OTHERS.
-PERSONS dellirotis of SUPPLYING about
10,000 Tons of BUILDING STONE before the ISt
.of March next, to be delivered above low water, on the shore
.between the Mount Garden and the Ferryhouse at "Fleetwood-
on-Wyre, Lancashire, may see the eonditions,of Contracts, .and.
obtain further particulats, at' the Clerk of the Works', Office,
FleetwoOd..
Tenders sealed, and ,endorsed " Tenders for, Building Stone,"
.will be received at the Above Office until the 14th of December
and pone'othei=i- 'will-be attended to.

- EXCISE OEFICE, OLD BROAD--STREET,
NAY. 29, 1989.
,TIQR SALE, by, Qrdei• of the Honourable the
COMMISSIONERS of her MAJESTY's EXCISE'
REVENUE, in a spacioui room; at-the • Chief Office, Old
Brentd-itreet, on Tit IntilDAV, the 12th of Doceraber, 1839, at
One o'clock.in the, afternoon precisely,
About. 16,000 Gams .-ot,YOl-lEMN. tiII:ANDY., •
have been regularly condemned and re-distilled, now in vats at
the Excise Distillery; St. Catherine's.
Catalogues may be had and Samples seen at the Excise
Warehouse 'Keeper's. Office, old Broad-street, thtee days'
preceding, from Ton till ,Two o'Clock ; and on the morning of
Sale, from Ten'till l'wdlveo'CroCk.
*SEVEINITY-fIPTH
QUK„QM--HQUSE,;. LONPON Nov. .1839.
ALE, by, Order °tit' the HQNOtTitAIIZE C 011131152
)14ERS. of Iier"AIDEBTY'S CUSTOMS, 01 Twelve '
lock: at Noßn -preelsely,„on,4loainA3)c,(l6lth ; TuissnAT,
1 ,'' WEDNESDAY, 18th.; THURSDAY, 19th; and'
r; 20th4of 7Deceinter; 1839, At the 'COannterdiall Sale

For
SI
o 4(

Alincirtg-4ne,
[-WPM:L NGOWI GOODS f 0 HOME
cbg§iikerioN, '- •
Musical Boxes; Turkey CarpeW)anfl,. livs, East India and
Frenol China, Manufacturesof Silk, Enbronfery, China Crape
Shawls- Needlewerk, Bl;ride Lac6),:Wholle'nf, East %Indio; Mat-
ting, !Clocks, Silk'Lace, Watch Glasses, Natural Teeth; Musi,
eal Instruniepti, CUtlerY, Silk Damasfc; Pungees; Seagliola
Ware, Grass Cambric Handkerchiefs, Thread Lace,
Gold' and Silve;. Watches, Cashmere Shawls, Bohemian 'and
other class 'MUnufactiires; Rice Ornanients; MOther-o'-Pearl
.Couriteri, Soap Stone Ornaments, Leather Gloves, Paddy Bird
Feathers, Feather Boas., and Tippets, Mock Jewellery, Corahs,
Walking 'St Walkiticks;Lacqiiered Ware; Rash Window
Piated.Wite,-Lnitation Piecions Stones, • Boots, Cotton Yarn,
Books, Prints, Wearin,.,o. Apparel, Cut Cork, Wooden ClOcki,
Fancy Gdod4;Wit4, SfArits, Cordials; Sugar, Riga Balsam,
Tobacco, Segars, Smiffe,Marrnalade; Eau, de Cologne, Sue-,
cades, Coffee, Tea, Illachipery,'PalM Oa, Cider, Rice. Sugar
Candy; Saltpelre,•CuiryTokvder, Preserved Meats, Tongues,
ArroW•RooV Tapari,nds, &c. &c &c. .
THE FOLLOWING GOODS for EXPORTATION,

1)AI
ft o)
VP,

- -
Gold and Silver Watches, Hardwarejlooks,Prints,Sic. 4e.
ALSO for,..,EXP,ORTATION or HOME CONSUMPTION,
i on PAYMtNT of the DUTY,' '
Silk Manufactures: R.
To be.viewet-V at the Queen's • Warehouse, Custom-house,
Thames-strek ; Eait India, London, West India, and St. Ka-
therine's Docks and at, the Tpba4o Ground, Rother4ithe, on
Thursday 12th, Friday 13th„ and Saturday 14th December,
1839, fenni Teri' &Clock,* the'Motning., 'until Three o'Clock in
the Afternoon, and on.,tlie #lolpao of Sale,from. Ten- &Clock in
'the Morning Antil Twelve o'Glock at-Noon.
•
Take -Notice; thaithe-G;;'edi-sokl=in this' Salk.will not be de-
tittered ut,tila4er.tvto clear days of the. day they are sold, and
that 'no Lots can b'e Paid fOr at the Office of the ReCeiVer of
Fin+, on the Days of Sale,after:Blevendelock in the Forrnoon.
Catalooliqs maybe ,had at the Queen's Warehouse, Custom-
house,q price One Shilling and sixpence each.

PUBLICATIONS'.

THE ,BILL OF -RIGHTS.
riTIHE BRITANNIA CONSERVATIVE
"WEEKLY NEWSPAPER, containing this great Na-
tional Compact (now very scarce), complete and entire, will
continue on sale during the early part of this week.
" The Bill of Rights is the corner-stone of the Constitution,
as reinforced, explained, improved, and FOR EVER SET-
TLED."--Butke.

.

PUBLICATIONS.

CONCLUSION OF CAPT.MARRYAT'S AMERICA.
On Tuesd, Dec. 10, will be published, in 3 vols. post Svo.,
CAPTAIN MARRYAT'S DIARY IN
• AMERICA. •
The, Second Part : with Canada, and the present Condition
Of the „Indians. With a Map of Aboriginal America, and of
the Seat of War in Florida.
London Longman, Orme, and Co.

H E MONTHLY CHRONICLE for
DECEMBER contains-- •
1. The Foreign Policy of England-2, On the Extinction
of Human Races.. By Dr- Prichard-3. Fragments from
Goethe. Translated by J. E. Reade, Esq. ,Aathor of " The
Deluge," " &c.-4. ' The' Ipfluence of Periodica i Li-
terature on the, State of the Fine Arts-5. Sonnet-6.
Sk.etches of Spanish Generals,,Carlist and Christino, No. I.
The Cure Merino ; Cordova-7-.7. National Education-8. The
Italian Minstrel-9. Secret Anecdotes of the French Police-
-10. Some Recollections of Childhood-11. Notices of a variety
of New Works.
London,: Longman. -

and Co,

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the Author may be purchased separately.,
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contain,the Adventures of Captain Singleton, otherwise called
Captain Bob.
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.may be procured, by order, of all other Booksellers.

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.4 PRACTICAL ESSAY on the DEBILI-
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ITIFIE NATURE and TREATMENT of
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NEW GERMAN TARIFF.

The new Tariff for the •German Customs' Union was
published at Berlin on the 7th inst., and at the same
time the public were made acquainted with the adop-
tion of a new standard weight, by which, under the de-
nomination of Customs' Weight (Zoll-Gewickt), the
importation and exportation duties of the Union are in
future to be regulated. In this new standard, the hun-
dred weight or Centner contains 106 pounds and 2829-
132 Loth, according to the standard..hitherto in use in
Prussia..., Thirty=Six of these new Zolleentner are equal
to ,35 Prussian Centner.
The Zollcentner is divided into 100 Zollpfunde, and
each of these into 30 Loth,-and this decimal division, it
is expected, will be found to facilitate calculations.

The adoption of this new standard will take place on
the Ist of January next, on which day also the new ta-
riff comes into force.
Several of the German papers anticipate that this
new standard will gradually be adopted by all the States
of the Union, and eventually by all Germany, in which
case a step will have been made towards the introduc-
tion of that uniformity of weights, measures, and coins,
the want of which has been so often complained of.
Hitherto almost every State included within the Union
has had its own standard of weight ; but it now ex-
pected that all commercial houses will find it convenient
to adopt the new Customs' weight in their accounts
with one another, in which case it will probably find its
way before long into the dealings of the retailer.
As the tariff has undergone but few alterations, and
the duties will continpe to be charged by weight, a small
per tentage increase will take place upon almost every
article. The old Ce►itner, by which the duty was
charged, contained 110 Prussian pounds, whereas the
new Zollcentner will contain only 107.

On some articles, however, a reduction of duty has
taken place ; among others may be cited :
Former Duty New Duty
per Centner. after Jari. 1.
Spices ...
Coffee 6 do. 20 do.
Cocoa 6 do. 20 do.

Straw hats and 55 do. 0 do. 5O do. 0 do.
Kurze Waeren
Porcelain 55 do. 0 5O do. 0

Rice 3 do. 0

Sugar in loaves tll do. 0 lO do. 0
and lumps

Ditto to be re
fined under con- 9 do. 0 51 do. 0
trol

The only increase has been on varnished zinc goods
(feine and lackirte Zinkwaaren), on which the duty
has been raised from sd. 20 sgr. to 10 dollars per Cent-
ner.—Courier.

MAJOR ALLEN and the CHARTISTS.

(From the Brighton'Herald.)
At the Magistrates' Bench, on Tuesday, Major
Allen drew the attention of the Assistant-Overseer to
the meeting of the Chartists, on the previous night, at
the Brewers Arms. He understood, he said, that a
number of persons attended who were not in easy cir-
cumstances, and who, it was suspected, received paro-
chial relief. If this was the case, he thought inquiry
ought to be made by the Directors and Guardians, and
the relief stopped ; for if such persons could afford to
pay 3d. or Gd. each to attend such meetings, he con-
sidered they were not fit objects for charity. Now, we
doubt very much the propriety of a Magistrate making
such remarks as these from the bench. If they were in-
tended politically they were bad ; if merely as a
tihnen they
sug-
gestion to the Directors and Guardians, unnecessary.
Nobody will accuse us of being friendly to the Char-
tists ; we have stood opposed to them when some of
Major Allen's friends looked more kindly on them than
at present ; but we should never have thought of making
sr
such a remark as this we have drawn attention to. It
is not long ago that the Chartists could procure the
vuse
opi
frtnhceipTleoswn have H
undergoneall t o hol d
notheehiranmgeeestiinneges
have only carried out what they then avowedly pro-
fessed. Are they then to hold no meetings now ? We
aretow nso;rrybutht having were ever
been
nr
nanlleoeweednutontehnoalndeaendy_ in b
been recognized as a political party, it does seem hard
now to tell them that they shall have no place of re-
union, and that if they do meet, those who are not rich
enough to be allowed to hold political opinions, shall be
deprived of their miserable pittance and left to starve
on the wide world. We abhor. Chartism, but we love.
Justice.

JUVENILE SUICIDE —On Friday morning the
family of Mr. Thomas Powell, of 17, Henry-street,
Pentonville, was thrown into the greatest distress, in
consequence of their eldest son, a lad thirteen years of
age, being found suspended by his handkerchief to a
wooden rail in the kitchen. Medical assistance was
inrtantly procured, and although every means were re-
sorted to, the vital spark bad fled. It appears that the
unfortunate youth has for some time been labouring
under mental aberration, as he has once before attempted
to destroy himself in a similar manner.
NEWCASTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.
We are gratified to learn that the traffic of the Com-
pany from the Ist of January to the 26th of October,
in the present year, has been 65,7491. 15s. 7d. ; and for
the parallel period in 1838 it was 48,0271. 6s. 6d. ;
giving an increase during ten months of 17,722/. 9s.
—Carlisle Journal.

LA. IV INTELLIGENCE.

STRIKING OUT CAUSES.
Mr.. STUART, in the course of the day, applied to
his Lordship to restore a cause to the paper which was
struck .out yesterday. The Learned Counsel stated,
that as; there was an extremely long cause in the paper
immedia.tely preceding the one in which be was in-
structed, bis client, supposing that cause would go on,
was not prepared yesterday, when the matter was un-
expectedly called on, in consequence of the parties
having .applied for and obtained the postponement of the
previous; cause.

- The Loat;CHANCM.A.OR inquired whether Mr.
Stuart had had his brief delivered yesterday, at the
time the cause was called on, and upon being informee
that he had not, his Lordship stated that he could not
permi t solic:itors to speculate upon the length of a cause
in det:ermining whether they should instruct Counsel or
not ; he must, therefore, refuse to permit the case to be
restor ed.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE EARL OF STAMFORD.
Th'p w-as an information filed by the Attorney-Ge-
neral, at the relation of several inhabitants of Man-
ebest
pr, for the purpose of having an account taken of
the ineoune and expenditure of a charity in the town of
Manchester, called the. Free Grammar School, for a re-
ference: to the Master to approve of a scheme for the
future :regulation of that charity, and also that a new
appointt nent of trustees might take place. From the
statemet its of the information it appeared that the pre-
sent inot erne of the charity, which was founded in the
reign of Henry the Eighth, was upwards of 5,000/. a
year, that the scholars.on the foundation were only 200,
that the funds were daily increasing, and that it was ne-
cessary,;_ in consequence of the altered state of the So-
ciety, Ai at scale new regulation sahould be made with
respect ;to the future management of the Sabel: Sonie
time si Ace the case came before the Vice-Chancellor,
_upon petition, and a scheme for the future management
of the
.cliarity„w46 approved of, 'but that scheme being
consid treat-by theen.lators to favtiur the rich ratheettan
the poor, who were, the original objects of the bounty
of the :beneyojent, founders, they filed their information
to have that schemo rectified.
• Mr..,lVigrarn, Mr.,Anderton,. au& Mr.- Mylne were
heard sto.dP.y,for the relators ; and Sir Charles' We-
therell,. 'oith 4010, is Mr, Jaeob,avill address the Court
oo Mott?d4y,(thi,s.day) for the noble defendant, after the
major is are disposed. of which. Stand in his Loiklship's
paper.,

COURT OF EXCHP?UER, Nor. 30.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord Api,NGEn 'and a
Special; Jury.)
EDWARDS v; THE EARL DE GLENGAi.L.
(Continued from our Peiper of Saturday:)'
The;proce.dings in the Court of Chancery were` here
ppf in ; and read. Their reading occupied upwards of
twqQ h ours. - . _
•N;riCHERER then produced 'and reed' the
sheirt4and notes he had taken of the evidence adduced
,in the cause of Wallace v. Ruthven." In the course
of the examination it appeared from the notes that; the
plaintiff had had various bill transactions: with John
Mintoolnrt,• against whom he had been' Compelled to
evidence under, recognizance .of two • sureties of
'2504 each, in addition;to his awn for 500i.-;,Sonle -of the
lelerkifrpmthe banking housei of Ransom aird,Co., and
Sir Claude Scott and Co., who were examined, showed
that at
,the time the bills were. stated..to have been dis-
counted the plaintiff for hia fathtr, his.account; was
at a lawebb.; .With regard to die latter firm.; it teas
provo,ttiat;th'e plaintiff had ,not: opened. his aecount
with them until • 1827, and that the amount of moneys
paid into tkie (former dgring i 826 was not more than
an. examination of the 034184 it.was clearly seen
that they ha-been mutilated both with respect to the
endorsement- on their back, whilst off one ;there had
'Seen a piece pt. „ . .
Mr. PLAT,,replied at Cohsidcrahle length.,
Lord ABiNGER summed up, Wherk.the ,itary.retarated
a verdict for the plaintiff.

nikAiZAHNEDSvicCAOT Uv.RATrs,
LNgor—i:proE3l):;,A,;r•
This cause for suhtraction of Church-rates was pro,
ceeded in on the inadmissibility of the libel, as-refOrOgi
agreeably to the directions of the Learned ,Judge, at a
former Court.
Dr. ADDAMS appeared for the churchwardens, and
stated that the articles bad been reformed as now pre-
sented to the 'Court, to which he understood Pcl-
latt had some objections ; but he apprehended that the
question was simply whether the directions of the Court
bad been complied with in reforming the libel.
Mr. PELLATT appeared in person, an4Atated. that
some of the articles he had passed over at .a former
Court he should now object to, as in their reformed atate
they were not true.
Sir H. JENTNE.a--::Tbat tnigbt, or~might not be, as
evidence would show at a future stage of the pro-
ceedings.

Mr. PELLATT contended that from' the original libel
as struck through with red ink, it was quite apparent
that a demand for 1/. 135.4 d., as stated in the articles
had never been made upon him, but a larger sum, part
of which had been already pronounced by the Court to
be illegal. Now as a legal tender in law must be made
by offering the exact sum, he considered no legal de-
mand had been made on him of the reduced sum, nor
had he been summoned before the Alagistrates for the
reformed sum, consequently the articles had untruth
upon the face of them, and so mendacious an instru-
ment ought not to be tolerated in that Court called a
Court Christian, and he hoped so inconsistent a concen-
tration of dilemmas would be rejected by the Court.
He was of opinion that so bungling a document was a
disgrace to the solicitor, the proctor, and the doctor who
concocted it.

Mr. PELLATT asked his Lordship whether he was
correct in his understanding of his Lordship's judgment,
when the articles were ordered to be reformed, viz.,
that the general law of the land was against assessing
landlords to a church-rate, and that the local Act did
not apply ; but the reason his Lordship could not make
up his mind to quash the rate was, the smalless of the
amount of illegal rating, to which Sir H. Jenner as-
sented. Mr. Pellatt found it difficult to ascertain what
his Lordship would deem a maximum, if he thought the
illegal rating in his case was a minimum. He had heard
that common lawyers found it difficult to understand
what was equity, and bad defined it as the length of
the Lord Chancellor's foot ; and it appeared that in this
Court it was the dictum of the Judge. Dr. Lushington,
in the case of " White v. Jackson," deemed an illegal
rating of 290/. on a gross rating of 9,000/., sufficient
to quasi► the rate. He held in his band a list of illegal
ratings to the extent of 9,3661., exactly similar to his
own, which his Lordship had decided to be illegal, and
ordered to be deducted ; this was charged in the rate
book at one-half the amount, viz., 4,683/. When the
other property in the parish was rated at five-sixths of
the gross annual value, he thought the Court must be
satisfied that the large amount of illegal rating was suf-
ficient to quash the rate without further proceeding.
Sir H. JENNER said that would be matter of evidence
hereafter.

Mr. PELLATT deemed the rate-book ordered into
Court and now produced to be sufficient evidence. He
could not supply better even if every ratepayer on that
list was specially examined, and he could not see on
what ground the Court could object to put an end to
the suit forthwith. If a man met him on the highway
and robbed him of five shillings, it would be strange
conduct in a Judge before whom the culprit was ar-
raigned to decide that the sum was too small for him to
award any punishment ; an attempt had been made
legally to rob him of a small sum certainly, but he
could not discover the difference in the decision of the
Judge in this Court and the supposed decision of the
Judge above alluded to. He could not suppose the
Judge could or would order the rate-book to be al-
tered so as to agree with the reformed libel ; and if not,
was it legal to continue proceedings against him for an
amount not authorized by the rate-book ? He would,
however, rest the strength of his case in the present
stage on the large amount of illegal rating similar to
his own, and called upon the Court to dismiss the libel.
Sir H. JENNER said, that the objection of Mr. Pellatt
relative to his not being summoned for 11. 13s. 4d., as
stated in the libel, was immaterial. He had appeared
in that Court and disputed the validity of that rate,
and it had been decided in the Court of Queeu's Bench
that this Court had jurisdiction, without reference to
the summons before the Magistrates. He must, there-
fore, admit the reformed libel, and Mr. Pellatt must
give an issue to it in its present form.

SHERIFFS COURT, Nor. 30.
CRIII. CON.-.--ELDRID V. CROSS.

This was an action brought to recover compensation
in damages for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's
wife, and the defendant having suffered judgment to go
by default, the Sheriff and jury were now called upon to
assess the amount to which the plaintiff was entitled
under a writ of inquiry.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS, in his address to the jury, ob-
served, that in this case Edward Eldrid was the plaintiff
and George Cross the defendant, and that the action was
one which the plaintiff felt himself compelled to b-ing
against the defendant, not so much with the view of the
immediate consequences of that day, as to the ulte-
rior steps which their decision must originate, and
to a certain extent affect. The plaintiff was a re-
spectable tradesman, and his brother was a mem-
ber of the Common Council. Mr. Eldrid was an
extensive ironmonger, carrying on business in Fore-
street, Cripplegate, and a man of pure and
unimpeachable character. The defendant held no
higher situation in life than that of groom to the plain-