The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-15 00:00:00

VAN V. CORPH.

This case came before the Court upon exceptions to tl:e
Master's Report. The case was part heard yesterday, and is
likely to occupy the whole of to-day.

THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

We have received Cape of Good Hope Papers to the 15th
December; and Buenos Ayres to the 27th November. We
extract the following from the Cape Papers :
" We are happy to observe, that an open sub-Committee of
the Legislative Council will meet on the second Wednesday
after the recess, to inquire into the taxes and expenditure of
the Colony ; and to report on such alterations as they may
deem advisable, up to the date of the last Commission of In-
quiry. The finances of the Colony appeared on paper to have
been in a very flourishing state. The accounts exhibited a
surplus every year from 1806 ; but on a minute investigation,
several errors were detected, and the Commissioners found
that in four years, from 1821 to 1824 inclusive, the average
annual revenue had not been equal to the ordinary expenses of
the colony." • _ _ _ . _ _

We have accounts from Swan River of the Ist June. The
Perth Gazette of 18th June states—" That 40,000 acres have
already been applied for to the northward of Northam ; that,
during the expedition, further information was obtained by
Mr. More of the great lake or inland sea—a question which
had long been pressing on his mind, and we trust he will have
an opportunity of solving it, in the course of a few months."
(From the Buenos Ayres Papers.)

" A mail from Chili arrived in town on Saturday last, bring-
ing- papers of the 15th October. They do not confirm the
intelligence before communicated, of the departure of a Chi-
lian squadron, to blockade the ports of Peru, although it is
certain that the President of Chili had refused to ratify the
convention concluded on board his Majesty's ship Talbot, at
Callao, for reasons which have not yet transpired. That con-
vention was, in a great measure, brought about by Gen. Miller,
now a Grand Marshal. What appears to have given rise to the
rumour of a blockading squadron having left Chili for the
coast of Peru, is the fact of the newly appointed Minister-
Plenipotentiary to Lima, Senhor Egana, being about to sail
with a convoy of several vessels of war—a pacific mission,
with such a cortege, appearing rather unseemly in the eyes
of the Bolivian Envoy at Santiago, he took occasion to re-
monstrate with the Chilian Government on the subject."
The accounts from Rio Grande, by way of Monte Video,
speak of renewed disturbances in that province.
The highest price of doubloons, 123 dollars ; lowest, 117 ;
highest price of Exchange upon England, 71; lowest, 7d.
(Extract of a letter from Savannah, dated Jar,. 15.)
" Our weekly Price Current was published yesterday. The
substance is this—out of a stock of cotton of nearly 13,000 bales
here, the greater part of which is on shipboard, not cleared, leaving
only a stock of about 1,500 bales actually for sale. At Maran-
ham there is a stock of 14,000 bales, only 500 for sale."
Our arrivals this morning are the French mails, and ship-
leiters from Demerara, Oporto, Singapore 10th October, Ma-
dras 25th October, and Cape 14th December.

THE FUNDS.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 893 a for the Account,
opened at the same price this morning, since which they may
be quoted at 894 f; Money the same. Exchequer Bills, 27
29 ; India Bonds, 22 24; Bank Stock, 207 208; India Stock,
257 258.

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which left off yes-
terday at 26 has improved to 26a.t, owing to the great
preparations making for the attack on the Carlists, as well as
their coming higher from Paris; Portuguese, 481 4 ; Three
per Cents., 31i ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 53A-

- HALF-PAST ONE O' C L a If.-
It appears that the settlement of the Foreign Account is
proceeding favourably, as we do not hear of any failures at
present, although a great scarcity of money prevails in the
British and Foreign Markets. It happens that the settlement
is not of an extensive nature, and most of the first-rate specu-
lators arc provided with the needful. Little business is doing,
with the exception of paying and receiving their differences.
Spanish Active not so good as in the previous part of the
day, when it was 261, at present 26;1 ; Deferred, 111 ; Portu
guese, 48'1; Three per Cents., 311; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 54.
Consols, which were 897, may be quoted 8.91 for the Ac-
count; Money, 89a; Exchequer Bills, 27 29 prem. ; India
Bonds, 24 22 prem. ; Bank Stock, 2071; India Stock, 256,1.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for the Account, 89i.

Major Gwynn Holforde has declared himself a can-
didate for Brecknockshire whenever a vacancy arises in its
representation, in opposition to its present Tory Member, Cul.
Wood. He declares himself a stanch supporter of the present
Government, and of sound, well-considered, and rational Re-
form. With regard to the' Memorial signed by 230 of the
wealthiest and most respectable freeholders of the county," we
have authority for saying, that names were inserted in it with-
out 'permission. Indeed, it can hardly be deemed a source of
pride or confidence, that Colonel Wood, after having repre-
sented the county for thirty years, should find himself sup-
ported by 230 electors out of a constituency of 2,295. Major
Holforde's success is confidently anticipated.

On Tuesday afternoon a sheriff's officer and his
assistant went to take possession of a house at Highworth, under
process from the sheriff, when, on attempting to force an en-
trance, the daughter of th' woman residing in the house came
to the premises armed with a bean hook, and attacked the
officer and his assistant, and on the arm of the latter inflicted a
severe cut just below the shoulder-joint, completely dividing
the muscles and exposing the bone. The officer and a con-
stable, who had then arrived, were unable to take possession or
capture the woman, owing to the interference and threats of
the people assembled; and she still remains at large, threaten-
ing vengeance against any person who may attempt to take
her.—Salisbury Herald.

A frightful murder of a whole family was recently
committed at Feurs ( Loire), in France. The murderers hav-
ing, finished the dreadful business, set fire to the house and
burnt it to the ground, in order to destroy all traces of their
crime. Nothing was found but the body of a fen-ale servant,
from which the head had been separated. Two men have been
taken into custody on suspicion of being concerned in the trans-
action, but nothing as yet has been proved against them.

On Sunday morning the congregation of Christ-
church, Surrey, were thrown into great alarm and sensation by
the Rev. John Mapleton being attacked with a severe fit of
apoplexy while delivering his morning lecture. He fell back
on his head in the pulpit with considerable violence. Several
individuals went to his assistance, and he was conveyed out of
church to his residence in Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road,
in an apparentlylifeless state. We are glad to hear that the
Rev. Gentleman is nut of danger.

The public should: be upon their guard against a
most vile and dangerous fraud which still continues to be prac-
tised in the metropolis. Many respectable persons have re-
cently been alarmed by the sudden intelligence that a member
of their family—generally the housekeeper himself—has met
with an accident at some distant place, and is unable to return
home until he has received a change of clothes. The fellow,
of course, purports to come in the greatest haste, at the express
desire of the invalid, of whom he has prepared himself with a
pretty accurate description from the neighbourhood. These
swindlers appear in various forms, sometimes assuming the
character of a cab-driver, or a waiter or barman at a public-
house. It is needless to state that the whole transaction turns
out to be a gross fraud, which, in some cases, may be attended
with the most serious results.

'filE COFFEE TRADE.—The recent failure in
this town seems likely to lead to important alterations in the
mode of doing business in some of the leading articles of im-
port from the East and West Indies. Coffee has, up to the
present period, been sold by the importer to the dealer at one
and three months—that is, if paid for at the end of the first
month, the seller allowed the buyer three months' interest.
This made the trade here, during the past week, come to a
resolution to change. Henceforth, we hear, coffee will be
sold at two months prompt and I per cent. discount. The ef-
fect of the change will be, to make the trade in coffee almost
a ready-money business, and to throw it more into the hands
of capitalists than it is supposed to be at present.—Liverpool
Albion.

Yesterday afternoon, at three quarters past two
o'clock, the Newcastle coach, from the Bull and Mouth Inn,
arrived on its down journey, at the Cherry Tree Inn, Kings-
land-road, having on the front of the roof a gentleman named
Backhouse (nephew of the •eminent coach proprietor of that
name, at Tadcaster, in Yorkshire,) apparently in the full en-
joyment of perfect health ; he was merely going for a ride a
few miles, purposing to return by the up coach in the evening,
and descended to take some trifling refreshment ; he had
scarcely reached the ground when he staggered, and would
have fallen down had not a moveable hay-rack or stand, placed
in front of the house, prevented him. He was immediately
assisted into the inn, a surgeon sent for, and the most prompt
measures, bleeding, &e., resorted to, but within a quarter of
an hour he was a corpse. Au inquest will be held to-morrow.
Too much praise cannot be given to the highly respectable
landlord, Mr. Wilson, for the alacrity and humanity displayed
by him on the melancholy occasion. It is considered by the
medical attendant that death was caused by a fit of apoplexy.
The deceased was a One handsome young. man, and not quite
years of age.

TIIE SUN, LONDON, WIMNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1837.

THE MA►C Fills DAY )

CORN EXCHANGE.

There are small arrivals of English Corn this week, and a
good quantity of Oats from Ireland. The return of Flour is
considerable. The Wheat trade • remains fit in at Monday's
prices. In Barley and Malt the late dulness c:mtinues.
Beans and Pease are unaltered. The trade for Oats is rot
brisk, and Monday's terms are utivaried. There is still a
slack trade for Flour at the late quotations.

English
Irish
Fin

ARIIIN'AI.S,
Wh cat 13 rley.
6 :(llrs I ,tio(
I 31)

Oats. Flour.
I qrs. :3,.<j-i0 sacks
111,4;s1

CORN LA WS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

QUANTITY OF LAND IN CULTIVATION IN
ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND, WALES,
BRITISH ISLES, &c.
About 47,000,000 acres, averaging a rental of 30s. per acre,
or 70,500,0001. per annum.
Now supposing the whole of the 47,000,000 acres, for the
sake of elucidation, for one year to produce nothing but wheat,
or 34 quarters per acre, the nett quantity of wheat thus pro-
duced would be 164,500,000 quarters, which at the following
prices would be productive as stated below, viz. :
Quarter. per quarter. X.
164,500,000 at 40s.
Ditto
Ditto 475. 6d.
Ditto 505.
Ditto 525. Gd.
Ditto 553.
Ditto
Ditto
Ditto 625. Gd.
Ditto 655.
Ditto 675. 6d.
Ditto 70s.
Ditto 755.
Ditto 80s.
Rent, management; cultivation, house keeping, servants, la-
bourers, poor's rates, county levies, and other expenses inci-
dental
to farming, losses of stock, &c., to be deducted from
these sums—consumption of produce on the farms by
horses, &c.

Every other kind of agricultural produce corresponding in
price with wheat, let the calculation be made on barley, oats,
hay, cattle, sheep, &c., the result in point of value will prove
nearly the same, all other articles of agricultural produce being
governed generally by the price of wheat.
N.B. It is necessary to observe that the whole of a years'
produce is not consumed or brought to market that year, one
fourth being consumed by the agricultural population, by cattle,
horses, &c., and another fourth left on hand for seed, and for
sale the next year, so that only one half of any years' crop or
produce is sold or brought to market. Divide the amount of
any of the above sums, and it will show the amount of our
general consumption, &c.
Take one half of any of the above sums, the consumption
from harvest to harvest, and contrast the amount of the same
with continental prices, say France, and it will at once prove
or show the annual amount of bread tax : for instance, suppose
French, or other wheat, could be sold in England, with ship-
ping, other expenses and profits at 5.455. per quarter, while
that of this country sold for ts7s. 61, the tax would be
51,406,0001. per annum ; and so in proportion to the ad-
vanced price of wheat. So that from the passing of the Corn
Laws in 1815 to 1837, the people, those not connected with
agriculture, have been made to pay no less a sum than
1,130,932,000/ , and also that they have been made to pay a
much larger sum in time of peace than war, in corn, state
taxes, by many millions, and for what, and whom ?
Nottingham, Feb. 12, 1837. J. CLAYTON.

STAFFORD WRIT DIVISION.

the Members who were Absent
ien it divided on the question of

'Johnston, Andrew—Cupar
Johnstone, J. J. 14 —Pemfries.shire
Johnstone, Sir J. V.—Scarborough
Keariey, John Hodson—Wigan
Ker, David—Downpatrick
King, E. B.—Warwi,•l:
Knatehbuil, Rt. Hon. Sir E.—Kent
(Knox,
Sir C.—Northamptonsh,
Hon J.—Dungannon
Larnbton, IL—North Durhan.
Langton, Wm. Gore —Somersetshire
Law, Hon, C. E.—Cambridge Uni.
versity
Leader, John T.—Bridgwater
Lee, J. Lee—Wells
Lcfc'.re, C. Shaw—North Hants
Lefroy, A.—Longford
Lenuard, T. 11.—Maldon
Lewis, David—C,:rmarthen
Lincoln, Ear! of—South Notts -
long, W.—North Wiltshire
Lopez, Sir Ralph—Westbury
Lowther, Colonel—Westmoreland
Lowther, Viscount—Westmoreland
Lushington, Right Hon. S. R.—Can.
terhnry
aishington, Dr.—Tower Haml,
Mackenzie, J. A. S.—Hess-shire
Il4l'krgart, John—Wigton
.11 andeville, V ise.—Huntingdonshi re
Manners, Lord C. S.—Leicestershire
Mangles, J.—Guildford '
MarAhail,
Marsland, Thomas—Stockport
Martin, John—Sligo
%tart in, Thomas—Galway Co.
Matthew, Georg. IL—Athlone
\Mansell, I'. P..—Northamptonthire
Maxwell, Iliry—Cavan
Maxwell, J,Fin—Lanarkshire
M les, Wm.—East Somers tshire
Miles, Philip John—Bristol
Miller, Wm. H.—Newcastle under.
Lynne
Milton, Lord—Malton
Moreton, Hon. A,—Gloucestershire
Morgan, C. Morgan—Brecon
Morrison, J.—lpswich
Mullies, F. W.—Kerry
Murray, Ilight Hon. J. A.—Leith
Musgrave, Sir R —Waterford
Neck!, Jo,eph —Chippenham
NeAd, John—Cricklade
Noel, Sir G. N.—ltutlandshire
O'Connell, Maurice—Trake
O'Connor Don—Roscommon Co.
O'Neill, lion. General—Antrim Co.
Oliphant, Laurence—Perth
Or], W. 11.—Newport, Isle of Wight
Ord, IV.—Newcastle.upon.Ty lie
Oswald, James—Glasgow
Owen, Sr J. B.—Pembrokeshire
l'aeke, Chas. Wm.—Leicestershire
Paget, Frederick—Beauinaris
Palmer, General—Bath
Pahnerston. Viscount—Tiverton
Parker, Mantagu—Devon
Parnell, Sir H.—Dundee
Parry, Sir L. P. J.—Carl arvon
Pc..., Joseph—South Durham
Pechell, Captain—Brighton
Peel, Col. Jonathan—Huntingdon
Peel, Edmund—Newcastle-under.
Lyme
Peel, Right Hon. W. Yates--Tam.
worth
Pelham, lion. C. A.--Lincoln,hire
Pendarves, E. W. \V.—Cornwall
l'enriuldocke, J. 11.—Wilton
C. M.—N. Leicestershire
Penney, W.—Lyme Regis
Plunkett, Hon. R. E.—Drogheda
Frederick—Bedfoitt
'Pollen, Sir J.—Andover
Pollingten, Lord—Pontefract
Pensolibr, lion. NV —Dorsetshire
Powell, Colonel—Cardiganshire
Poyntz, W. a—Midliurst
!'rice, Richard—New Radnor
Price, Sir le—Herefordshire
Pryse, Pr' se—Cardigan
l'uscy, Philip—Berkshire
Rae, Right Hon. Sir Wm.----Bute
Ramsbottom, J.—Windsor
Itickford, William—Aylesbury •
Robarts, A. W.—Maidstone
Ilooper, J. B.—Huntingd, nshire
Russell, Lord—Tavistock
Russell, Lord C.—Bedfordshire
Rundle, John—Tavistock
Russell, Charles—Reading
Ryle, John—Macclesfield
&anion, Lord—Liverpool
Scott Lord John—Roxburg' shire
Scholefield,
Seott,.Sir:E. D.—Lichfield
Seale, Colonel—Dartmouth
Shell, K. L.—Tipperary
Simeon, Sir 11.—Isle of Wight
Smith, Hon. R.—Wycombe
Smith, J. A.—Chichester
Smith, 'Benjamin—Sudbury
Smith, A.—Hertfordshire
Smith, A.—Carnarvonshire
Smyth, Sir Henry—Colchester
Somerset, lord E.—Cirencester
Speirs, Alexander—Richmoud
Spry, Sir S. T.—Bodmin
Stanley, Edward—Cumberland
Stanley, Hit. H. T.—Preston
Stewart, I'. M.—Lancashire
Stormont, Viscount—Norwich
Stuart, Lord D. C.—Arundel
Stuart, Lord J.—Ayr
Surrey, Earl of—West Sussex
T,ilbot, C. It. M.—Glamorganshlre
Talbot, J. 11.—Newilloss
Talfourd, Mr. Serjeant —Reading
Tapps, G. W.—Christchurch
'Velment, J Emerson—Belfast
Thompson, P. B.—East Yorkshire
Thompson, Ald.—Sunderland
'follemache, Hon. A. G.—Grantham
Tooke, W.--Truro
`Townley, H. G.—Cambridgeshire
Townshend, L,.rd J.—Helston
Tracy, C. H.—Tewkesbury
Trelawney, Sir W.—East Cornwall
Troubridge, Sir T. E.—Sandwich
Turner, %V.—Blackburn
Tynte, C . K. K.—Bridgewater
Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essex
Vernon, G. H.—East Retrials
Verner, Colonel—Armaeh Co.
Vivian, John Ennis—Truto
Vivian, Major Charles—Bodmin
Vivian, John Henry—Swansea
Walker, 11 —Bury, Lancashire
Wallace, Robert—Greenock
Walpole: Lord—Norfolk
War.i, H. G.—St. Alb.ins
%Vason, Rigby—'veich
Welby, Glynne Earle—Grantham
Wemyss, Captain—Fifeshire
Westenra, lion. 11. R.—Monaghan
Weyland, Major—Oxfordshire
Whitmore, T. C.—Bridgenorth
Wigney, J. N.—Brighton
Wilde, Mr. Serjeant—Newark
Wilbraham, Hon: 13.—Lancashire
Wilkins, Walter—Radnorshire
Williams, Tito oas —Marlow
Williams, W. A,—Monmouthshire
Williams, Sir J.—Carmartliceshire
Williamson, Sir H —North Durham
Veihnot, Sir J. E.—Warwickshire
Wilson, Henry—Suffolk
innngton, Sir T.—Bewdley
Wood, Charh's—Halifax
%Vinare, Mr. Serjeant—Cashel
Wrottesley, Sir J.—Staffordshire
Wyndham, Wadliam—Sllisburx
Wynn, Sij w. -L.l.lelibighanre
Triontas—Waterford
Yorke, Eliot T.—t'ambridgeshire
Young, John—Cavan
Young, Sir W.—Buck4