The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-25 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

On die

Sta,—l beg to acknowledge the receipt of W. this
morning from Mr. Gulley, late M.P. for Pontefract,
through Mr. Baines, M.P. of Leeds, with my grateful
acknowledgments.
I am, Sir, your obliged servant,
JOHN THOROGOOD.

HOGG'S ATTACHMENT TO SCOTL A ND.-
Hogg's native county was Selkirkshire, and what gave it
greater value in his eyes were the scenes commemorated
in border history, tradition and song. The Abbeys of
Melrose and Dryburgh, the latter of which now contains
the revered ashes of his kind and generous friend Sir
Walter Scott-the Eildon Hills, renowned in the an-
' nals of superstition-Selkirk, whose brave burghers won
glory in the disastrous battle of Flodden Field, where so
much was lost by others-the " Forest," with its lone
and storied dales-and Yarrow, whose stream and
" dowie dens " are not to be surveyed without involun-
tary poetry-are all in the neighbourhood. The love,
the deep heart-felt love which Hogg bore to the land
which contained these pleasing associations was such as
no stranger can Appreciate ; it was a passion absorbing
many others which might have been expected to hold
sway over him, and it ,:urvived to the last.-Old Sport-
ing Magazine for Decemtl'er•
CHRISTMAS GIFTS TO THE POOR IN THE
CITY.-Yesterday morning 400/. wl.ts distributed by the
Bank of England Directors to the poor, as " quest
money" of the following four parishes;__narnely :-St.
Michael's, Cornhill ; St. Bartholomew's, Bar; holomew-
lane ; St. Mildred's, Poultry ; and St. 11/41argaret's,
I.othbury. It is not, we believe, generally known that
the Dank of England stands in the above-named four
parishes. The poor in these parishes are few, and,
"rotn the alterations in the Poor-laws, in a few years it
wii; be very difficult to find objects to bestow the gifts
that li:we been left by the pious and religious to the
poor. There is not one in St. Bartholomew's parish
who rece;ves relief who has been a housekeeper ; they
are those sho obtained their settlement from being
apprentices or servants.
GLASGOW' MARKETS, DEC. 21.-In the
early part of the vrt!ek ti.ere was very little done in Raw
Sugars ; latterly there has been more doing, and the
market closes very steady. The sales amount to 252
hhds, and trs. ; dry brown Tricidads, 58s. to 60s. 6d. ;
good browns to low middling, !ils- ; good middling,
645. ed. to 645. 6d. ; middling DeWraras, 625. ; good
brown to low middling Jamaicas, 625. 6d. ; middling and
good middling, 635. to 655. ; middling yellow Barba-
does, 655. ; fine, 695, to 695. 6d. ; and 130 bags brown
Bengals, at 58s. 6d. No sales made in West India
Molasses. Refined Sugars are dull, without any altera-
tion in price ; brown loaves, 82s. to 83s. ; middling and
good. 84s. to 87s. ; fine and very floe, 88s. to 91s. ;
double loaves, 925. to 955. Candy, 10fd, to.
I lid.
Crushed Sugars, the low qualities, are very flat ; got.'d
and tine in ;:lmited supply, and selling steadily at full
prices ; browns, 00s. to 645. 6d. ; middling and good
middling, 655. to 68s. ; good and fine, 695. to 735. ;
Crushed Lumps, 7.55. to 78s. Treacle in steady de-
mand, at 30s. Gd. to 31s. 6d.-No sales made in 'few,
,Whack Pepper, Ginger, or Pimento.-The sales made
in Coffee are 60 casks middling Demerara at 112 s ;
and 30 bags damaged St. .Domingo, at 685.-620
bags East India Rice were sold at 14a. ; and 400
bales Jute, at 11/. IN.-Nothing done in Rum
Jamaicas. 16 0.P., ss. Gd. to ss. Bd., and Leew,ards
3s. 6d. for proofs.-The sales in Dyewooda are 10
tons Cuba Fustic at 104-The transactions in Ashes
are 150 barrels Pots at 245. 6d. ; pearls dull at `29IC
to 30..-Y. C. Tallow fiat, and rather lower ; the
sales were at 49a....-Fish Oils steady ; Wha.e, 30s.
Per eort. ; Pale Seal, 32/., and Cod. 301. per tun, im-
perial t lie as ur e

STATE of TRADE.—Though the deviation
from our usual day of publication this week has pre.
vented us from giving the result of the principal market-
' day, we are glad to be enabled to say, that the appear-
ances of slow and gradual improvement, which were mar
tzifested lust week, have continued to the present time.
Ntwvithstanding the time of the year, which is unfavou,--
able to the transaction of any large amount of business,
there hks been a lair demand, both for goods and yarn,
since Tue,-day last ; zind the: prices of all descriptions
have been lay maintained. Indeed, in a few articles
there has been a trifling advloce ; and in all the feeling
of the market appears healthy. It may be necessary to
observe, however, that the imprt;vement which has
taken place has by no means placed great body of
Spinners and manufacturers in any envi.•:ble position.
Their business is still unremunerating ; and
here must
be either a further decline in the price of cotte.a or a
further improvement in goods and yarn, before they can
eommand a profit.—. Manchester Guardian.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY.—At the pre-
s'ltt season of our year this admirable Society affords
the coblic an opportunity of witnessing the performance
of tian,..'el's illessiall—a composition peculiarly adapted
to excite i..
.ts hearers feelings well befitting every ob-
s"er of Cloistnog. To those who occupy that portion
of Exeter Hale appropclated to the reserved sittings the
tone of sound, the solos least, !nigh have hitherto
been
considered as somewhat i;,'ltred by its extreme
i+lstance Irons the or.thestra ; but even this defept
trill
o a very considerable degree be remedieu by the "IC
_caeeqUiSitiOn to the Society of a newly built orgai, en
o_.,.o!int of which has already occupied our columns. it
will be seen that there is an announcement of is perform-
aooo of this oratorio for Friday the 27th instant.-

The arrivals this morning are a mail from the Brazils,
by the Seagull—sailed from Bahia Oct. '2l, Pernam-
buco Oct. 16, and Rio Janeiro Nov. 16 ; mails from the
West Indies, by the Penguin—sailed from St. Thomas's
Nov. 16, and Cape Henri Nov. 12 ; and a mail from
Jamaica, by the Mutine—sailed from St. Thomas's
Nov. 15, and Cape Haytien Nov. 12.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—TIIC de-
mand for Cotton to-day Las been only to a moderate
extent. The sales 2,500 bags. Prices without alteration.

We have received Jamaica papers to the 23d No•
vember.
" In the House of Assembly on the 19th November,
Mr. Jordan presented a petition, signed by 253 indivi-
duals, against the bill which was before the House
relative to the currency of the island.
Mr. Barclay said, what he proposed was merely that
an English shilling should be called a shilling instead of
a shilling and eightpence, and that the pound should
be twenty instead of twelve of these shillings ; in
other words, that the money of account should be ster-
ling instead of currency.
Our friends will perceive with satisfaction that the
Legislature proceeds with harmony, and that the very '
best feelings exist between the several branches of the
same.

THE STATE OF THE WEATHER--The Bar badian of
the 30th of October says, that at this advanced season
of the year we have had lately some appearance of
hurricane weather, after a week of most oppressive
heat.

We have received a Price Current from Rio Janeiro
to the 15th of November :—" The exchange since our
last circular of the 18th ult., advanced from 32 to 321-
and 32i ; but latterly has again been declining, and this
week settled at at which rate a good deal of busi-
ness has been transacted.

" STOCKS.—There has been a good deal of business
done in the last and previous week, The price of
Six per Cent. Stock advanced to 78 79, and remains
firm at 78 buyers, and 781 79 sellers.
" P.S.—FRIDAY, Nov. ls.—Exchange rather flat,
31:1 a 31,f, little doing.
COFFEE.—No alteration in prices. Sales this morn-
ing, 4,000 ; Stock, 6;000 ; Shipments this month, to-
day inclusive, 47,554 bags."
Barbadoes Papers received to the 7th of November
do not contain any news of consequence.
Demerara Papers have also been received to the 7th
of November. The Legislature had been opened with
a speech, which does not contain anything of novelty.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR—I have been right glad to find you at least ex-
ercising calm judgment, and expressing temperate
opinions respecting the poor silly Welsh Chartists. To
dream of such a rabble being guilty of high treason,
according to the terrific notion of such a dreadful crime
generally entertained, is indeed, one of the " divers
vanities" to be found (as saith the Scripture) amongst
" the multitude of dreams !"
Amongst the working men I find such a horrible
charge demed too horrible—if; indeed, it be not too
utterly absurd—to be for one moment admitted ! But
not so amongst those of whom Grand Juries are composed,
and from amongst whom Magistrates, et hoc genus onine,
spring up like mushrooms or other fungi of a far less
wholesome nature. Such men, from the very cast and
pressure of our laws and customs, form a perfectly dis
tinct class from the masses of our people—as distinct
as any class in India from the other classes, as the Man.
darins in China from the common Chinese—and are not
much more likely to conduct themselves, in political
cases, according to the just rules of equity and mercy.
Of mercy, of course, a Judge knows nothing, nor of
equity more than very unequal Judge-made laws pre-
scribe. The office of a Judge is to direct and decide
according to the law of the case, however absurd, pre-
posterous awl base, any such particular law may be.
A Special Commission is the severest form of Judge
action, and Special Juries are thereby the most severely
exposed to the temptation and hazard of returning cruel,
unequitable, and contemptible verdicts, especially so
when the poor creatures under trial arc far below them,
sunk beneath their sphere, entirely beyond their lines of
communication and familiar cognizance. Here, in aw-
ful feet, we see that the main object of the noble trial
by jury is utterly overthrown! The glory of Jury trial
is, that a man l)P tried by his peers—his equals! Will
the Welsh Chartists be so tried ? With the exception
of Frost, there is not, perhaps, another man amongst
them in possession of the franchise ! Where, then, is the
Jury of their peers? In the name of God, who regards
all the eaeatores aids hand with an equal eye, let them
be tried by a Jury of their peers, or not be tried at all!
Let not a single enfranchised person be suffered tom?,
pear in the Jury list, no clerk, or 'foreman, of overhs'olier
—the naturally selected tools of their masters, .and
nerally mote cruel to the working man, than tho waste,
themselves are.—and let also this rule be extended to
Frost, who, no doubt, upon the most deliberate work-
ings of his judgment and conscience (such as
they may be) has identified himself fully with
the unfranchised and thus unfrieoded portions
(fearfully astounding in numbers) of his op-
pressed and suffering fellow•eountrymen, and has ren-
dered himself thereby more obnoxious to those of
Iris own caste, What chance can all such have in the
judgment of others of their countrymen, whose minds,
habits, and opinions have all been formed under tutors
en] auspice; so utterly unlike theirs ? Are Judges and
Grand and Special Juries necessarily so far exalted in
power and principle as to be thus safely entrusted with
the lives of others ? By no means. They have their
prejudices and prepossessions, and modes of thinking
and of acting, which are perhaps the more injurious and
hateful to the larger masses of their countrymen for
being within the limits of laws made almost exclusively
for them alone. As to Judges—are they as a class so
like their Saviour—so gracious—so full of compassion
and tender rnereta—such a protection to the needy in
his distress—such a refuge front the storm—such a
shadow from the heat ? Are they so dead to the world,
its has;eurs, its profits, and its praises—so fortified
against px,litical bias, against the undue desire of
pleasing their prince, and promoting thereby the ad
vantages of their party, or their own ? I cannot bc-
hese this of all or of any of the Judges upon earth as
a class. They have their infirmities, like the clergy, or
any other denomination of men. They need te be well
watched and thoroughly discussed by their fellow-men,
especially in behalf of those who are brought for life or
death under their mighty power. If, for iestance, there
were only one blur—and there is one—upon the Judge
opening this said Special Commission, that one blur
would be sufficient to convinee me that he ought not to
be allowed to try the poor Welsh Chartists. The plain.
palpable blur I mean is that Judge's volunteer and
most eager application of a particular portion of
Sacred Scripture; That of itself is quite enough for
we. Strange, that a Lee reed Judge, though in a mate
ter of Parning, it may be, too Rauch out of his way—
strange, that when determined to rush MtP it, he should
not be aware that the sacred passage in (111CtatiOn hes
eve,- been subject to two antagonist interpretations
or that in his choice of one ha should, by his emphasis,
have obviously enforced that whir,; was the great
favourite, and perhaps ruin, of Charles the 'first !
and passing strange, too, even to tears, is the
thought, that this said Scripture-
Leterpreting Judge
should have enforced this said most are' '.lrilrY of all
arbitrary interpretations (an interpretation only tvoathy
of a Judge Jrfferies), et the very opening of that avbt,
trary thing—a Special Commission, to try the poor
Welsh Chartists ! According to this Judge's interpre-
tation, the Emperor and Mandarins of China, who
have lately murdered all the innocent Catholic Maim
they could lay their hands on, and who, some time be-
fore, burnt all the Bibles or parts of the Bible, they
could lay their hands on—and also all parsons uphold-
ing such parts of the Bible, and retaining them in their
possession—according to this .Judge's interpretation, I
repeat, such Emperor and Manatarina, and all acting
i are ordained of God, and to be obeyed as
such
and tipleel4ers of arbitrary power may her
rnde h
Loverst e' M ,
iieve this interpretation to be the true one, but I fer-
wetly pray God that the people of this country, and
ultima!gly
whole world, may Hot believe it, how-
a. • b to the Mandartne CiliPoi to
It may o
eveaa gratiquag
ssi4 among his bears, or to Judg,e
Tindal
tine knic,cror of ,u •
pf the. _ , • .
amidet the Welsh
Let Judge Tindal look to it. Oiarles the First
n
might gladly, no doubt, have chosen a ;Pup 4Q much
after iris own heart to i -:ad a
Commiseien„ esisl
but too many Grand Juries and Special Juries may
approve of him now ; but,
a diamond to a pebble, lie
will not be so approved of by the millions of his own
contemporaries in the ranks a the unfran rll
ased and
oppressed wino may not rennin in s)est degraded cad
unfriended state many years loneer• t n "7 heart,
out of the very bowels of the Welsh meuntams, and
in other most unexpected places, may ere iev spring
f?rth men enow of sufficient intelligence, determioar
teen and power to read to JUclgeS
and Grand Juries
moles salutary interpretations of c i
• cure.
Sir, .aa a minister of Christ, in wYIII er
;t 4
3) gea 1)31 a
misnomer eSe Church of England, I utterly
abilOt ail
such tyranny, favoaring interpretations of the Word of
God as that of Judge ,and I think it my duty
to take this chance of inelaing su,G,Jn ?abhorrence known,
r A
while I subscribe myself yo,ur go,o.sttapx e
r..awir and
bumble servant, 14. p.
liQr.tb „Staffordshire, Dec. 18.

The most va!uibLe pa
pl4ced in the hands of the

Or crown jewels have been
royal jeweilgrs to be reset.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
This being Christmas Day, all public places for busi-
ness arc closed. The merchants who are connected
with the United States only are in attendance, making
inquiries io respect to the arrival of the British Queen.
A correspondent in a Morning Journal v..rites from Dover
that the above vessel passed that port at noon yester-
day ; had that been the fact, no doubt, ere this, her
papers and passengers would have arrived in London,
as well as several expresses announcing the fact. Much
anxiety is now experienced for her arrival in ail
quarters.