The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-02 00:00:00

THE COAL TRADE.

Yesterday Sir J. Duke waited upon the Lord Mayor, in
consequence of having seen in the newspapers a statement, in
which his nacre and that of his partner bad been used by an
applicant, who mentioned that they were the consignees of a
cargo of coals, and made some observations on the practices of
the trade.

Sir J. Duke requested to be informed by his Lordship what
the names of the captain and of the vessel were, which were
not stated in the proceedings on the occasion?
The Loan Maxon said, that the captain did not mention
the name either of himself or his vessel, but expressed himself
in the manner reported on the subject of the refusal of the
harbour-master at Gravesend to allow the vessel to pass up to
the Pool without a certificate of the sale of the cargo, or a no-
tification that she was to go into dock. The captain had, his
Lordship added, said that he would at once apply upon the
subject at the counting-house of Sir James Duke and Co.
Sir J. Duke said, that no application whatever had been
made at the counting-house on the subject since the reported
representation before his Lordship. He regretted that such
information had not been recorded as would enable him to
trace the matter to the party who had appeared at the Man-
sion-house. If the vessel had been in the condition stated,
and the master had made a declaration of the fact, her cargo
would undoubtedly, under such circumstances, Nave been
immediately sold ; but it was most necessary that care
should be taken that no wilful evasion of the by-laws should
be allowed.

The Loan MATOR promised to obtain for Sir James Duke
from the harbour-master at Gravesend the names of the master
and the vessel.

Sir J. Duke expressed his thanks to the Lord Mayor and
Alderman Copeland, for the manner in which they had spoken
of him in alluding to the subject, and declared that he was
most anxious to assist in maintaining the by-laws, and, as far
as he was concerned, preventing anything like imposition on
the public.

The LORD MAYOR said he was persuaded that Sir James
would not sanction anything at variance with the spirit of his
high reputation.

BUCKINGHAM PALACE.—Orders arrived from
Brighton on Monday night to prepare the Palace for the
reception of the Queen, on Tuesday next, the Bth instant

EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.—On Wednesday
night a market woman, forty years of age, named Mary
Crowley, residing in Monmouth-street, Seven Dials, re-
turned home in a state of intoxication, having been out all
day soliciting " Christmas-boxes." She sat down near the
fire on a basket, in which was some straw, which ignited,
and the flames communicating to her dress, she was so shock-
ingly injured as to expire before she could be taken to the
hospital.
ROMAN CATHOLIC SOLDIERS ORDERED OUT
OF A CHAPEL—A. correspondent of the Londonderry Jour-
nal states that the Roman Catholic soldiers who compose
part of the 64th Regiment, now quartered in Derry,
attended Divine Service at the chapel, as usual on
Sunday last, being accompanied by an officer. Previons
to the celebration of mass, it • was intimated by the
Right Rev. John M'Loughlin, that the subscription
to the O'Connell Compensation Fund, which had
been commenced on last Sunday, would be continued,
for the purpose of giving those persons who had been pre-
vented by absence, and had not contributed, an opportu-
nity of doing so. As is usual on such occasions, he expa-
tiated on the merits of Mr. O'Connell, and the deep debt of
gratitude which all Irishmen owed to him, particularly those
of the Roman Catholic body. At the conclusion of his ob-
servations the subscription was proceeded with ; when, very
shortly afterwards, to the surprise of the congregation, the
officer in command of the military was observed to rise from
the pew in which he had been seated in the gallery, and re-
tire from the chapel ; this was followed by the immediate
withdrawal of the soldiers, who were marched off to their
barracks without being permitted to wait for the celebration
of mass. The writer having described this as an act of nar-
row-minded bigotry and military tyranny—the editor of the
Journal remarks We have doubts whether an officer
in command of troops, who are present at a placo of
worship, could, consistently with the regulations of the ser-
vice, allow them to remain while anything of a political na-
ture was being transacted, The rule which estranges
soldiers from polities, to be good, must be absoluta."

A MAN OF SOME IMPORTANCE,—The following
annoqucement of a marriage appears in a Lincoln Paper of
Friday :—" On Monday, the 17th instant, at the Holy
Trinity Church, Hull, Mr. Robert Willerton, bricklayer,
surgeon, sawyer, ventriloquist, and comic singer, tempora-
rily employed to drive dull care away,' at the Caistor
Union House, to Ann, fourth daughter of Mr. Samuel
Waters, of the Free and Easy Hotel, Union-lane,"

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Various meetings in different parts of the kingdom
have been held in aid of the Wesleyan Centenary Fund.
The whole amount at present raised it is considered cannot
fall short of 103,000(, These district gatherings are to be
followed by circuit meetings," when those in the humbler
ranks of life will no doubt be found equally ready, accord-
ing to their respective abilitios, to contribute to so interest-
ing an object,

The scarcity of provisions at this present season has
developed facts of the existence of which many in this
country have hitherto little dreamed. A state of things
which must alarm every reflecting mind has lately been im-
perceptihly (and on that account the more dangerously)
progressing. According to the statement of the principal
men of Manchester, at the meeting of their Chamber of
Commerce, last week, foreign manufacturers are not only
able to rival them in the markets abroad, but successfully
aompete with them in England itself ; being able, after
paying a protecting duty of 20 per cent., to undersell us in
our own country. On the other hand, the condition of the
agrinitural labourers of England is represented as most
deplorable. The rate of wages in Wiltshire, Dorsetshire
and Suffolk, range; from ss. to 9s. per week, while the
bushel of wheat fetches 9s. 6d. The labouring men in
those counties are consequently obliged to live on potatoes
and salt, and to drink warm water coloured with the rasp-
ings of bril.ad, The Sun truly remarks that "as long as
such statements are a tolerably correct representation of
the eonditon of the people, theft, outrage, and incendiarism
may be anticipated."—Silurian.

DISCOVERY OF A MURDER.—Our readers will
remember that in the month of August last, we gave the
particulars of the finding of the body of a man, in a field on
Mitcham-common, and it was stated at the time that suspi-
cion was entertained that he had come by his death by foul
twang. Ho had, it appeared, gone from his home about a
week before, taking with him his watch and a good suit of
c!othes: On Friday last, as a labouring named Page was at
work in the osier-bed at Camberwell, in which, it will be
remembered, the legs of the unfortunate Hannah Brown, the
victim of Greenacre, were found, he saw something on the
water which attracted his attention, and he drew it out, and
it proved to lie a east. He immediately gave information
at the ,cation-house, Brixton, to inspector Bass. Upon a
further search being made, a hat and handkerchief were
found, that have since also been identified as belonging to
the deceased, Some other information has been obtained,
efhich it would be at present premature to make public,
which leaves not the slightest doubt but that the deceased
was robbed and murdered, and then carried to the place
where he was found. Inspector Bass is actively engaged in
tv.eing out the case, and it is to be hoped that his efforts
will be successful in bringing the guilty parties to justice.
The man Page who found the coat of the deceased is the
' same person who found the legs of the ill-fated Hannah
Brown.

On Saturday afternoon, while two watermen were
dragging the river in front of the St. Katharine Dock
Steam-Packet Wharf for a boat, they brought up from the
mud the body of a man, in an advanced stage of decompo-
sition,, whL-A subsequently was discovered to be that of a
-respectable Greenwich carrier, named Willoughby, who
has been missing Once the 28th of November. On that
evening deceased had waited upon the Harbour Master on
liuncss, and had beep tald to call again in half an hour.
He had .stAiMi-luently been seen near the spot, but all fur-
Ow traces were lost till the body wag found in the manner
described. In the pockets of deceased were found several
papers, and money, amounting to about 51., which he had
received on the day referred to. The body awaits a
Ciaronees invest,