The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-04 00:00:00

TUrE Se-N, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1839

The plaintiff was put to do hammerman's, or common t
labourers, work. He seemed always attentive and '
willing. Ido not think he was taught as he ought to WINDSOR
have been. He should be able to earn 2/. a week if he her usual ride to-day. TUESDAY,—The Queen has not taken
.
kuevr his trade. A harnoterman could earn from The Right Ilon: George Stevens Byng arrived to-day
etaitteen Aitlings to a pound. I was not there in 1835. at the Cast!e, and will rtuain on a visit to her Ma-
'James Flynn—l worked with the defendant for three jesty until Saturday,
years, and I saw the plaiatiff there. He was put to The Earl and Countess of ,Uxbridge, the Ladies
die eitull jab work of an apprentice. He was very Eleonura and Constance Paget, and Colonel Greenwood,
willing at all times. Tapiingwas kicked out of the shop for 2al Life Guards, are expected to join the Royal Circle
being drunk and keeping the other men away from work. at dinner this evening.xp Ted R
Dinner Party at
I heard since the action was commenced that the plain- the Castle will also include her Royal Highness the
tiff was a pot boy. I heard also that he was a shop- Duchess of Kent, Lady Barham, Lady Fanny Howard,
keeper to his uncle, and groom to a gentleman. He told H. Miss Paget, Ho-n. Miss Anson, Lady Gardiner,
me he was a member of the Free and Easy Club, or Baroness Lehaen, Lord Lilford, Colonel
Murray.
Odd Fellows. I was examined by Mr. Rogers, the Lord Alfred Paget, and the Hon. Charles A. Murray.
defendant's attorney. Mr. Randall brought me there.
Mr. Huarntaays—Pray what was Mr. Rogers Her Majesty the Queen Dowager honoured Co-
(doing ? Just what you are doing—asking questions.— vent-garden Theatre with her presence last evening.
A laugh.) Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Shef-
How did you go there ?—ln a cart. field, Hon. Miss Mitchell, Hon. Miss Hudson, Earl
Did you conic to-day in a cart ?—No, I walked in Howe, Earl of Denbigh, and the Rev. J. R. Wood.
the Marrowbone stage.—(Much laughter.) The Duchess and the Princesses Augusta and Mary
Pray what:countryman are you ?—Guess ?—(Roars of Cambridge, and Prince George of Cambridge, at-
of laughter.) tended by Miss Kerr and Baron Knesebeck, came to
town yesterday from Kew. The Duchess, accompanied
I have guessed but I want you to set me right—you
are an Irishman ?—I am. by the Princesses Augusta and Mary, and Prince
I thought so from your saying you walked in the Ma- George of Cambridge, visited the Queen Dowager nt
rylebone stage.—(The laugh was here turned against I Marlborough House.
Mr. Humphreys.) The Duchess of Gloucester visited her Majesty the
Pray who was with you at Mr. Rogers'a ?—The Queen Dowager yesterday,
most amiable Mrs. Flynn.—(Much laughter.) The Committee on Education of the Lords of her
Any other company ?—And the baby.—(Laughter.) Majesty's. Most Honourable Privy Council had a meet-
Then it was a tea drinking party ?—lt was an even- ing at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Council
ing excursion ,I believe. Office. The Lords present were the Marquis of
By Mr. .la:sty's—Did not Mr. Randall buy a lathe Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John Russell,
for Lucas ?—Not for him particularly ;it was for me. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Labouchere, and
• Mr. HUDIPHREYS—Why that's what Mr. Randall has Sir George Grey.
been teaching you ? Witness—What's that ? Dr. Kay was in attendance.
The meeting broke up at half-past three o'clock,
Mr. HUMPHREYS —To turn —(Great laughter.)
Witness—Oh !if the truth offends you, I cannot when the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Duncannon,
help it. Lord John Russell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
James Mann.—l worked with the defendant. I saw and Mr. Labouchere, went to attend a Cabinet Council
the plaintiff doing odd jobs, and selling chips. lie was at the Foreign-office. Viscount Melbourne, the Mar-
always willing and able to do what he was taught. He was quis of Norinanby, Earl of Mints, Lord Holland, and
not properly taught. I never saw Randall teach him other Ministers, attended the Council.
any thing. What he did might be done by any corn-
The Cabinet Council broke up a quarter before six
mon labourer. I was there about three months. I was o'clock.
A deputation, respecting Church-rates, had an inter-
not sent away for being drunk but from illness.
view with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, at his official
Whiten-1 Gibbin.—l was apprenticed to defendant,
during the time Lucas was there. I don't think he residence in Downing.street.
was taught his trade. It was labourer's work all The Marquis of Bute had an interview with the
through. He was hurt by some timber falling on him, Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office.
and was at home fo~ two or three weeks. Tire Chairman of Stamps and Taxes, and the Solici-
Mr. LEWIS addressed the Jury for the defendant, tor, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exche-
and called several witnesses to prove that the plaintiff quer Yesterday in Downing-street.
had received all the requisite instruction, and that the The Earl of Radnor had an interview yesterday with
defendant had put him to the work which he was Viscount Melbourne.
capable of performing. Some evidence was given
with respect to the plaintiff being drunk and quarrelling
on one or two occasions.
Mr. ERLE replied, and

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FASIIIONAI3LE INTELLIGENCE

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Mr. Justice COLERIDGE summed up the evidence.
The Jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

'ALS.
Sir Edward and LadyAßßlt Denny, Mr. Holmes, M.P. the
Countess Bathurst, Captain and the Hon. Mrs. Warrender,
Mr. Buller, M.P., Baron and Baroness de Cetto, Sir
Edmund and Lady Currey, the Hon. Charles Spencer
Cowper, Count Esterhazy, Mr. Lionel de Rothschild, the
Hon Captain Macdonald, the Earl of Yarborough. Lord
George Bentinck, the Countess Stanhope, the Earl of
Chesterfield ; the Marquis of Waterford, at the Cavendish
Hotel, from his scat Curraghmore, Ireland ; Captain
Fayrer, at ditto, from Liverpool ; James Fergusson, Esq.
at ditto, from Bristol ; F. Duncan, Esq., at ditto, from
Cambridge; General Clelland and family, at ditto; H.
Sandbach, Ell., at ditto, from Liverpool; J. Hatch Abdy,
Esq., at ditto, from Paris; Misses Sykes, at ditto, from ditto.

EXCHEQUEtt INEQUITy.

(THIS DAY.)

(Sittings at Sergeant's Inn, before Baron ALDERSON.)
TOWNEND V. CHAMPERNOWNE.—THE DISADVANTAGE

OF GAINING A SUIT.
This case, which has been for a great number of
years before the Court, again came on on petition and
appeal for rehearing.
Sir W. FOLLETT, who appeared in support of the
petition and appeal, regretted that the case should again
have to be brought before his Lordship ; but he trusted
that the prognostications of the other side would be
disappointed, and that it would not be taken before an-
other tribunal, for he thought by this time the parties
must have had enough of litigation. The present ques-
tion arose on a decree of his Lordship, on further di-
rections, during last Term. The Learned Gentleman
then went into the case at considerable length, and in
allusion to one part of it, said the defendant found him-
self to be a loser by having succeeded in the House of
Lords.—(A laugh.)
Mr. BARON ALDERSON—That is no unusual thing.
—(Laughter.) Swift mentions an instance of a person
havire, been ruined by getting a decree in his favour in
the Court of Chancery, with all the costs.—(Continued
laughter.)
Sir W. FOLLETT—We are many thousand pounds
worse off than if we had failed in the Houk of Lords.
Mr. BARON ALDERSON—That was arising from the
delay.
Sir W. FOLLETT—BOt it puts us in this position.
We have been struggling for a right which we esta-
blished in our favour. It is the fault of the plaintiff,
and yet in consequence of that delay he will get more
than if he had succeeded.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON--It will hurt you both ; but
that is past mending.
Sir W. FOLLETT—It will be an important question
for your Lordship to decide where the fault lay, end
whether the plaintiff is to be visited with the conse-
quences of the delay.
The hearing of the case is likely to occupy the whole
of the day.
BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) ,

DEPARTURES.
Lord and Lady Jersey and the Ladies Villiers for Mid.
dleton Park ; the Hon. Col. and Mrs. Leicester Stan-
hope, for the Cedars, Surrey; Lady Aline Ramsay, for
Leamington Spa ; the Hon. Capt. Chas. Scott, Scots
Fusilier Guards, for ditto; Ledy and the MisesWheatley,
fur St. Leonard's on- Sea ; the Rev. Sir Nigel Greeley,
for Netherseote Hall ; Lord and Lady Kenmare for
Brighton; Lord Cardigan, for Dover; Lady Camper-
down and Lady Elizabeth Duncan, for Bath ; the Hon.
H. R. Wcstenra, for Berkshire; the Countess of Fingal
and family, for St. Leonard's-on-Sea • the Hon. William
Cowper, for Trentham Hall ; Rev. T. D. H. Wilson and
Mrs. Wilson, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, for Dover;
Rev. Charles Fryer, from ditto, for Cheltenham; Hon.
and Rev. T. P. Bouverie, from ditto, for Wilts.
CHANGES.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morris and family, from Malvern
to Ramsgate.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.---We undersea?

should the health of the Queen Dowager continue to
improve, that early in the ensuing summer her Majesty
will again make a tour of visits in the country. We
hear, that the Queen has already accepted invitations
from the Marquis of Exeter and the Duke of Devon-
shire.

RANTON ABBEY, STAFBORDSHIRE.—Their
Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge and Prince
George have accepted the invitation of Lord and Lady
Lichfield to meet the Duke of Sussex and a select
party on Monday next. Mr. Edward Stanley, Secre-
tary to the Treasury, Mr. George Payne, and the lion.
Col. Anson, are among the guests expected. Lord
Lichfield,. who had been staying in town for six weeks
On important busines* relative to the Post-office re-
duCtion measure, arrived by the railroad at Renton, on
►Saturday evening.
The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland intend to
receive a succession of visitors at Trentham Hall dur-
ing the Christmas holidays. It is said the Duke and
Duehess intend to come to Stafford House for the
season in about six weeks.
The Prince and Princess of Capua, with the in-
fant Prince and Princess, also Miss Smythe, and their
suite, arrived yesterday at Mivart's Hotel from Kinmel
Park, the seat of the Earl of Dinorben.
The Countess of Westmeath returned to town
last week from a tour on the Continent, accompanied
by Mr. Nugent.
The Earl of Veiulam left Grosvenor-square on
Monday for Gorhambury.
The Earl and Countess of Glengall left town at
the close, of the past week for Paris, in which capital
they intend to pass the winter months.
The Earl of Minto will leave the Admiralty the
week after next for Minto House, Roxburghshire, to
Join the Countess of Minto and family. The Noble
Earl will return to town the last week in January, for
the season, when the elegant parties at the Admiralty
will be commenced.
The Earl of Grosvenor will leave Eaton Hall
in a few days fur Moteornbe, where his Lordship pur-
poses passing the Christmas recess.
The Earl of Westmoreland is still at Brighton.
Lord Wharncliffe is still at Oatlands, the seat
of Lord Francis Egerton, in Surrey, and has not left
town for Wortley Hall, as erroneously stated. There
was a grand ballue on the well-stocked preserves on
Monday, when Lord Fitzroy Somerset and a select
party of noblemen had excellent sport. There were a
great number of pheasants killed.
Viscount Mahon, M.P., who has been stated
by the daily journals to be in Paris, is on a visit to Sir
R. Peel, Bart., and Lady Peel, at Drayton Manor.
THORPE HALL, YORKSHIRE.--Mr. and Lady
Augusta Millbank have been entertaining his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex and a select party, since
his return from Horuby Castle.
Kt NIVEL PARK, ST. AsAPH.---,Lord Dinorben
is making preparations for the reception of his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex, who is expected to arrive
on the 18th or 20th instant, from Renton Abbey, the
shooting lodge of Lord Lichfield, in Staffordshire.
DOVER, DEC. 2.—Arrived her Majesty's packet
Myrtle, Captain Lyne, from Calais, with his Excel-
lency Baron Munchasen, the Hanoxerian Ambassador,
and suite, who went to the Ship Hotel, where a gum d of
honour and the band of the 90th Regiment were in at-
tendance. After taking refreshment his Excellency de.
parted for London under a salute from the guns at the
Citadel.

James Helmer, a brass-founder ,of Wardour-street;
John Mums, an upholsterer of Netptnan-street, Charles
Heywood, a tailor of Sherrard-street, and James gray,
Duke-street, St. James's, were brought up by constable
Williams, 28 F, charged with ringing bells and knock-'
ing at doors in King-street, Covent-garden, about five
o'clock this morning.
Toe defendants admitted that both time and circum-
stances were against them, and were ordered to pay a
fine of ss. each or go to prison for a month.
The defendants paid the fine and were discharged,

NIONEY AND COMMERCIAL N EWs

cable.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—We
have had a modorate demand for Cotton to-day, and
prices continue in favour of the buyer. The Sales
2,500 bags to the trade.
Arrivals this morning—A French mail ; also a
mail from St. Thomas, by the Alert, sailed on the '24th
of October, from Cape Henry Nov. 4 ; ship-letters from
New York (old).

By the West India mail we have reeeived Jamaica
papers to the 29th of October, extracts from which are
given elsewhere.

THE FUNDS.

Consols, opened this morning at the same quotations
they closed at—for Money, 90i 91 ; for Account (Janu-
ary), 91i i. Exchequer Bills, 4 2 die. ; Bank Stock,
178 179 ; India Stock, 252 253.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, 251 i ;
Portuguese 33f 34 ; Three per Cents., 23é 1-i ; Co-
lombian, 304 i ; Brazilian, 73 72 ; Mexican, 294 i ;
DutchTwo-and-a-Half per Cents., 52-i i ; Five per
CSittelonCetkli..fte7"....... NI i , 97's
Cents., 98f 99.
...
................... DAY
sAtecTkONE O'CLOCK.
90 Ditto Bonds
3BapnerkP
7 cgs
3 per Cent. Cons. 9l 9t0% 1; South Sea Stock Bllli
3% per Cent
-- Old Annuities
Ditto Red, 9814%4 New Ditto
New 3% pet Cent... .......3s 99%X. 4 3 per Cent. Annuit'les, 17a I
New 5 per Cent.
' ( Exch. Bills .£1 000 4 2 die
Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto ' ' ''''
.
500 ... 4 '.. dis.
Jan. 5, 1880 13 11-16%' Ditto Small ..3 dis. par
Oct. 10, 1859 -- ' Ditto Commercial —
Jan. 5, 1860 13!51 Ditto Advertised ...
Jan. 5, 1880 13% 1540 Bank Stock for Account ... --
April 5, 1880 —
--
India Stock for Account ...
Jan. 5.1870 -- Consos for Account..., .. 91%
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 AOCK
Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds —
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account -
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account -I Ditto Account ii 7,11, %
Chilian Bonds
Ditto Account — Russian Bonds, 182'
Columbian Bonds ... Ditto Acc0unt...,,„........
Ditto Account —, Ditto Metallic
Columbian Bonds, 1824
Ditto Account — ' Ditto Account.
,239 i% 4
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account —l 'Deferred il%
Greek. Bonds — ,French, 5 per cent -c
Ditto 110110, 1825 — 4 per cent —f —c
Ditto Account — -- 3 per cent
Mexican Bonds; 5 per Cent. Exchange. — I-. —c,
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Neapolitan —l, Ditto AccYunt........ ......
..
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DA) AT ONE O'C I .0C n..
Paid. Per Shatc,
Great Western Railway Company
Ditto New . , .. .. r...,....
N nil] Midland Railway Company, B.l
National Bank of iteland— I7IA
COURSE OF EXCHANGE, YESTERDAY,
Amsterdam C. 1.. 12 7 l finOratiar 4B
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam 0 U l2 7%' Genoa .. ....................... 05 81
Antwerp,„ ••r l2 6%, Milan.... ~ .......................... 31
Hamburg, ..,.... „„,51.8 l3 1:1 iVenice .............................. 47
Altona„,„ „ . l3 1354 Naples ... ...... .. ............. ~. 40,„.
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 56 Palermo per cs. !21%
Ditto... ... ........... 3M.25 75 Lisbon
'
Marseilles.. 25 75 Oporto 51
5 Bouvaeaux
FraniYprt On Maine, Ex.M. 151% Bahia
... 27
Peterabnlgh, ruble... 3 Us. 37% Buenos Ayres
Berlin ' ~,,,,,... 7 0 New York, 21 days' sight ... 4f,
Vienna, effeCriVe e... 4 iii. 10 9 Phil.idelohia 45
Trie;te ditto
... 10 14 PRICE OF BULLION, per OZ.
kadsomm . 34 to Portugal 0 old , cot u ......!:0 0 0
Cad 1 z..••........,,,,,,,, ~ .. 3654 Foreip go,(1, 'n bzts... 317 1/
Gi1b0a....., room 36 New Doohicions ..n...... 11 0 0
Barcelona 36 New Dollars ..... .....,.. ti 4 10Ni
Seville. .......... ...........
HALF-PAST ONE.
Conaclq may be quoted at present a shade lower than
in the early part pf the morning, this being the settling
day for Consols, 90.01 Money, and for the Account,
9]i; Exchequer Bills, 4 2 disebunt ; bank Stock, 179
1781, rather lower ; India Bonds, 7 discount,
16 the I;9rizlgn Market very little doing. Spanish
;
A c.e e not
v wag po fippd as in the morning, 251 ;
Portuguese, 301 ; Three per Cents, 231 ; Spanish Pas.
ales, p
1-A ' S-arnsti ~‘lfetTed, 11i. ; Dutch T vro-ant.-a-
ia Puse,r
llf Cents. 521 ; Five per ,-eats. 06i.
The Hamburg mail Las not yet am vet,.

BATH, MONDAY.—The Earl and the Countess
of Camperdown, accompanied by Lady Elizabeth Dun-
can, arrived at their residence in Sydney-place, on
Thursday last, from their seat in Scotland. Lord and
Lady Bateman and family arrived early in the week
from town. Earl O'Neill left on Saturday for the me-
tropolis, after a residence of several weeks. Baron and
Baroness de Steinberg have arrived in the Crescent for
the season. Sir Edward Elton, Lady Harriet Chichester,
Sir L. and Lady Burgoyne, Lady Wood, Lady Fitz-
gerald, &c., are among our latest arrivals.
The Duke of Richmond gave the last of his
Speymouth.
tneheopnrEeWsuezenldte.
neasndday, at Gordon
The Chair was
annualucapswtlae;ddtsiononfiel
ir9ssoftoteernnat
tenants
et
tsss eiwanseor
occupied by his Grace, who was supported on the right
by W. Hogarth, Esq., Bishop Kyle, &c.
Alderman Thompson has become the purchaser
of the valuable estate of High Grigg Hall,
to Under-
barrow. The Hon. Alderman has purchased estates in
this neighbourhood, within the last 14 months, to the
amount of more than 40,0001., in addition to the Bend-
rigg estate, and other extensive landed property which
he was in possession of before ; all in the county of
Westmorland.—Westmorland Gazette.
By the usual official return published by the
Customs the exportation of the precious metals from
the port of London to Foreign and Colonial ports for
the week ending the 28th of November, is as under :
Silver Coin to Hamburg .......... :36,600 ounces.
Demerara ............ 82,000
Bars to Hamburg •.......... 160000
Bars and Coin to Hamburg 130000
One of Mr. Jonas Webb's famous rams, valued
at,of M
fifty guineas, was stolen last week from the premises
r. Green, of Fordham, to whom it was let. It was
traoed to the water's edge, where it was evidently em-
barked, end all further trace is lost.

77
15% It;

E, M. Lloyd
tootztra taecctiftretatiatefe w
eveninms ago. Jo
was proceeding to his dormitory at Bodysgallen, and fell
was
on the stairs. He fell with his thigh against the edge
of one of the stairs ; the part being close to the recent
fracture. He was not seriously 444 ; but it will retard
his recovery.—Chester Chrunick.
M oNsVt yen hadregr eat')

SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
134.1.4in0gN5:: :::
lig
forward a State ag scarcely to
bp ppOetion of the whole line be
r..Tici intermediate ground between Winchester and
laave a doubt of
tween this town and the rnetropplig 1,), ti,,,
. Ist of May
next, the time mentioned by the 'directors in tbpif Lit
report.—Salisbury Journal.

LIEUT.-GOVERNOR MACKIE.

✓ied, Sept. 17, at the Ganibia coast or Africa, Major Wil-
liam Mackie, R. H., Lieutenant-Governor cf the Colony,
and late of the 88th Regiment, or Connaught Rangers.
Aljor Mackie assumed the Government of the British
settlements on the River Gumbja about the beeinning of
the present year, and continued to enjoy excellent health
until the 7th of 6-pternber last, whe❑ he was seized with
the country fever, under the baneful influence of which he
gradually sunk—another victim immolated on the shrine
of that pestilential and fatal shore. With an expression
of sincere regret for the premature death of this excellent
officer, we cannot permit his eminent military service to be
passed over without such brief notice as this department of
the Journal may admit. Major Mackie entered the al my
in the year 1806, as Ensign in the 88th Regiment, which
he accompanied in the expedition to Buenos Ayres in
1507 ; at the attack on which place he was severely
wounded. In 1809 he joined the army in the Peninsula
with his corps, and was present in almost all the actions
in Portugal and Spain in which the Third Division, under
General Pictorr, was engaged. His gallant conduct in
leading the forlorn hope at the storming of the main breach
of Ciudad:Rodrigo, being at the time at the head of the
Lieutenants of the Regiment, and consequently first for
promotion, is well known in the army. In the battles of
Busaco and Salamanca, in the latter of which he acted as
Aide-de-Camp to Brigadier-General Wallace, his gallantry
was also conspicuous. In brief, throughout the entire of
the Peninsular struggle, from the Tagus to the Pyrenees,
he proved himself a soldier of the true stamp, but whose
chivalr;c bearing was but too lightly remembered. Be it
not se in his epitaph. In 1830, after having been some
years on the half-pay, he was appointed (as Captain) to
the 94th Regiment, when he obtained his Brevet Majority ;
was afterwards presented with an unattached Majority;
and, lastly, re-appointed to the full pay of his old corps, the
88th, whence he sold out of the Army in 11138. His
amiable disposition, and high and honourable principles
and feelings, endeared him to all who had the pleasure of
his acquaintance ; and the firm and judicious manner in
which he administered the government of the Gambia
wore calculated to have produced the most beneficial effects
on that settlement bad his life been spared.
SP

'IRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAY.
(From the Morning Post.)
INre have reason to believe that it is at present unde-
cided whether the meeting of Parliament shall take
place on Thursday, the 9th, or on Tuesday, the 14th of
January, and that a considerable, if not a preponderant,
section of the Cabinet are in favour of the earlier day.
The reasons assigned by Ministers to such of their sup-
porters as complain of the personal inconvenience to
Members which must result from calling Parliament to-
gether at so early a period of the year, are, we under-
stand, various. We learn further that none of these
reasons is believed to be the true one. Minis-
ters mention the privilege question, and the ne-
cessity of a❑ immediate decision upon it, in re-
ference to legal proceedings now pending, as the
principal motive to their determination in favour of
an early Session ; but this is an obvious fallacy, for
no legal proceedings are now pending but such as
must be completed in due course of law before the
earliest day mentioned for the meeting of Parliament.
Ministers mention also the necessary arrangements
preparatory to the approaching marriage of her
Majesty—another obvious fallacy, since it is known
that the necessary arrangements with a view to
this auspicious event are not likely to encounter
any opposition, and may be expedited when Parlia-
ment is assembled with whatever degree of rapidity
Ministers think fit. The true reason we believe to be,
that Ministers are appalled at the condition into which
they have brought the country ; that they find the
Chartist organisation a much more extensive and for-
midable affair than they believed it to be, or than, with-
out Parliament to fall back upon, they dare to en-
counter; and that they are especially anxious to have
Parliament in Session against the period when they
may be called upon to decide some very awful questions
expected to arise out of the proceedings of the Special
Commission.

(From the Morning Chronicle.)
To-morrow the Post-office will be placed under time
new system of charging by weight, and the public will
at once experience the advantages of reduced rates. The
Tories, or the Quarterly reviewers, have asserted that
the measure of the penny postage is one exclusively de-
vised for the advantage of the middle and wealthier
classes. They have denied that the labouring classes
will obtain any advantage from the change. How much
they know of time wants of the labouring classes will, to
some extent, he seen from the correspondence between
the Guardians of the Stockport Union, the Poor-law
Commissioners, and the Lords of the Treasury. This
correspondence shows that the cost of transmission, and
the postage, have hitherto been such as to absorb the
small amounts of money which the labouring classes
working at a distance from their homes are enabled to
save and are desirous to transmit to their families. On
that account the sums transmitted by "money orders"
through the pest have hitherto been trifling. Mr. Row-
land Hill has shown, in a report recently printed on the
postage system in France, where money is transmitted
at a charge of five per cent., that a poor man may send
home to his parents a sum equivalent to twenty pence,
at the rate of penny. (Here, if it were at a distance of
a shilling postage, the cost would be eighteenpence.)
" A commission of five per cent. is charged—the Pust-
office taking the responsibility, It is stated in the An
nusire des Pastes,' that an order may be obtained fur an)
sum not less than half a franc.
" Great use is made of this privilege ; the sum paid
into the Post-office fur the whole of France, in the year
1837, was 16,157,871 francs, or upwards of 646,000 L"
Even this sum is probably trifling compared with the
amounts which would be transmitted in France under a
better system ; for in that country, as in this, the con-
veyance of letters is grievously overtaxed. Here the
men of routine--the safe men of the Post-ofHee—de-
(dared that the system of weighing all letters, which
"'need part of Mr. Rowland Hill's plan was impracti-
_ in France the plan is practiced. To ascertain
,ow it worked, an average operator was " timed" in
taxing 300 letters. It was found that on the average
he orted, weighed, and marked the charge on twenty-
six letters and one-half per minute. Mr. Hill states in
his report
" In the first report of the postage committee (1372),
Mr. Bokenham describes some careful experiments made
in the London office, which gives an average of 33 letters
per minute, taxed in the English manner.
" But in comparing these two results it is necessary
to bear in mind the following circumstances, each
tending to impede the taxat,on of letters in the Parisian
office :

a. The scales and weights employed in the Parisian
office were of the ordinary kind; whereas there can be
no doubt that much time may be saved by employing,
scales of a peculiar construction, adapted to this special
purpose ; and,
" 2. The gradations of weight in France are exceed-
ingly small, and advancing thus:—one-quarter ounce,
one-third ounce, one-half ounce, two-third ounce, &c.,
while the gradations proposed for England are so large
(advancing by half ounces), that a practised person would
determine the weight of by far the greater pot tion of even
the heavy letters without putting them in the scale at all.
This view of the subject is confirmed by what I saw in the
Petite Poste,' where the gradations are ?toz., loz,, 20z.,
&c., and where the number of letters actually
weighed was certainly less than one in a hundred. It is
right, however, to add that the proportion of heavy letters
is somewhat less in France than in England.
.• Taking into consideration all the circumstances of
the case, I think there can be no doubt, that the proposed
substitution of charge by weight, for the present system in
the Post-offices of England will, after a little practice,
facilitate the taxation of letters; and I may add, that this
opinion is confirmed by all the officers in the Parisian Post.
office whom I conselted ; some of wham had witnessed the
English method as practised in the London office. These
gentlemen also objected to the English method, on the
ground that it created temptations to fraud, by requiring
a scrutiny, which revealed the contents of letters "
It was chiefly to train the Post-office establishment
to do what has long been done in France that the in-
termediate stage of reduction has been adopted, and
not,
eatth as some of the Tory followers have surmised, to
fe plan by raising an alarm at the extent of the
first or immediate defalcation which even the supporters
of the measure do not expect to be small. Mr. Hill
has no where pretended that, even when the plan
should be fully carried out, there would not be some
loss. He has maintained the probability that the
ultimate loss would be inconsiderable in amount, and
as nothing compared with the advantages derivable
from the great impetus which would be given to the
whole correspondence of the country. For ourselves
we arc prepared to expect that the intermediate reduc-
tion about to take place will not greatly extend the
benefits beyond the classes who at present chiefly make
use of the post ; and, even for those classes, it will
leave a number of important facilities unattained. For
large masses of commercial circulars, a fourpenny will
be almost as inapplicable as a shilling charge. Thrifty tradespeople, on estimating the cost of time, would find that they lost by putting letters in parcels, or pursuing
the ordinary practices, to evade a penny postage ; but
we doubt whether they will yet be tempted to discon-
tinue their practices by the inducements of thefinsrpenny
postage
. We should not, however, be surprised ir
the correspondence of the country were soon to
be doubled under the intermediate. charge. %V 0 are
not quite satisfied that the scale of' charge for
the heavier letters or parcels might not at once
have been so far reduced as to admit of books—and
other things of small weight, for which a trustwor,liv
and punctual conveyance is wanted—being transmit-
ted by post as they are in France. The bookseller
who wishes to transmit a book to a place in the
country five or six miles out of y
country the attorney who wants to send thanedraught of lease
atown ;
or
transmit of a conveyanc ; th commercial man who wishes
to punctually ae
sample for market ; or the
printer who is desirous of sending proof sheets to an
author ; will still have to expend much time in find-
ing an uncertain and troublesome conveyance, is still
denied the convenience of a known, speedy, and cer-
tain carrier, by a charge of eight or twelve postages
for a little packet of four or six ounces. For all such
conveniences even the amended charges still amount to
4 prohibition greatly, we have no doubt, to the le
the HVerlue; and fur the present. of
:s
the disparage-