The Sun.
London, England, 1839-08-26 00:00:00

THE COAL COMBINATION'.

Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Mr. G. Rennie, jun., and
Mr. W. Rothman, managers of the Coal Company
which, it will be recollected, started on public grounds
against the combination system of the north, under the
designation of the Anti-Coal Monopoly Company,
waited upon the Lord Mayor for the purpose of contra-
dicting any charges which had been, or might still be
brought, by Mr. Bradfield, the great monopolist grinder,
against the Company. Mr. Bradfield, as might be
expected, was present.
The gentlemen who represented the Company
stated, that last week there appeared in some of the
newspapers an article under the head of Mansion-house,
stating that the affairs of the Company had been placed
under the management of a person who was not likely
to conduct the business on the principles on which the
Association was originally started. They came forward
to deny, in the most unqualified manner, the truth of
the statement that the business was transacted under
any other authority, or on any other principles than
those which had introduced the Company to the notice
of the public, and they were desirous to know what
evidence Mr. Bradfield had to bring forward in proof
of what he bad stated.

The LORD MAyou said he had several days ago re-
ceived an application from the gentlemen who appeared
before him requesting that he would appoint a time for
publicly hearing their denial of the accusation of Mr.
Bradfield, an accusation which he confessed he was sur-
prised to hear made.

Mr. RENNIE, juu., stated that the managers of the
Anti-Coal Monopoly Company were Mr. Ewart, M.P.,
Mr. A. T. Holroyd, Mr. J. T. Leader, M.P., Mr. D.
Lewis, Mr. G. Pryme, M.P., Mr. G. Rennie, jun.,
Mr. W. Rothman, and Sir Henry Webb, Bart. ; and
if Mr. Bradfield had anything to say, impugning the
conduct of these managers, they were ready to prove
that they were altogether blameless, and the public were
not in the slightest danger of being deceived or disap•
pointed by them.
Mr. BRADFIELD said he was glad to find that some
of the managers were in attendance, and he only regret.
ted that the gentleman into whose hands the whole ma-
nagement of the business had been placed by them was
not also present. He had asserted, upon the occasion
alluded to, that the business had been handed over to
Mr. Colechild—in other words, it had been handed
over to a person who knew all the practices of the mo-
nopolists, and was able to beat them at the game which
they had so long played for their own advantage. The
gentlemen might deny that the affairs of the Company
were now conducted by the party he pointed at if they
pleased. He was convinced that Mr. Colechild was at
the present moment the ruling power.
All the gentlemen forming the deputation most so-
lemnly and positively denied that the management had
changed hands. Mr. Colechild was the wharfinger of
the Company merely, and was under the superintend-
ence of their agent, Mr. Sumerfield. There was no in-
terference whatever upon the pact of the wharfinger
wi;.h the management of the Company.
Mr. BRADFIELD—Indeed, the affairs of your Com-
pany are put out to nurse to the gentleman I have
named. Monopolists are complained of, but he is a
real specimen of the monopolist—he is a double mono-
polist. He i 3 the man for nursing the Company.
Mr. RENNIE handed to the Lord Mayor a card con-
taining the names of the managers. It was headed
Anti-Coal Monopoly Company, and after mentioning the
names of the managers, proceeds to state as follows :
" The Company supplies genuine unmixed Coals at
the following prices:—

- Per Ton. Per Ton.
Blown's Walls-end 245. 6J. Derbyshire
Killingworth's ... 275. Od. Stewart's Walls-end 293. 6d,
Tenant'4 29s. Od.
" N.B.—All Coals must he paid for when ordered.
" T. B. SU ME RFIELD, Agent.
W. GODDARD, Clerk.
" Office, 31, Charing-cross, Aug. 20, 1839."
Mr. BRADFIELD begged the Lord Mayor's attention
to the particulars of the card. The Company professed
to sell cheap coals. Now, would anybody say that the
prices exhibited were cheap?
The LORD MAYOR—Certainly not. They are a
great deal too high. The price ought not to exceed
225. a ton.

Mr. BRADFIELD objected not only to the price, but
to the 44
N.B. that all coals must be paid for when
ordered." He thought if they were paid for upon de-
livery, it was quite sufficient.
Mr. RENNIE (as we understood him) stated, that it
was impossible to supply coals of such description as
those specified in the card at a lower price. 'The Com-
pany set out upon the anti-combination principle, so
ably advocated and supported by the Lord Mayor, and
there had not been the slightest deviation from that
principle. The managers were doing all they could do
to carry out the objects of his Lordship, and they
would be delighted to see other Companies formed for
the same purposes, and pursuing these objects with
equal zeal and alacrity. He here handed several in-
voices and other documents explanatory of the mode in
which the Company transacted business.

The LORD MAYOR having examined the papers said,
he could not help declaring in the most positive manner
that Mr. Bradfield was completely in error in what he
had said about the Company. His Lordship cer-
tainly did not consider that the prices of the coals
were as low as they ought to be, but the efforts
which were being made all through the country would
operate in a short time in a very wonderful manner,
and the public, who vigorously backed his exertions
were now everywhere experiencing the good effect of
resisting this monstrous system of imposition which had
been so long practised upon them. His Lordship told
Mr. Bradfield that his indiscriminate attacks could pro-
duce no good, and that although he was most valuable in
detecting and exposing abuses in the trade, he intempe-
rately impugned the conduct of parties who were not
only blameless, but commendable for their zeal and pub-
lic spirit.
Mr. BRADFIELD repeated, that the affairs of the Com-
pany were out at nurse. He should watch all those who
were going upon anti-coal monopoly professions ; and he
could not help saying, that if Mr. Leader, whose name
was amongst those of the managers of the Company to
which he had called his Lordship's attention, had at-
tended to his duties in the Coal Committees of the
House of Commons, the excellent exertions of Lord
Granville Somerset to oppose the northern combination
would not have been defeated as they were, in conse-
quence of the absence of that gentleman on so great a
public question.

_
The Deputation left the Justice-room expressing their
thanks to his Lordship, and assuring him that they
would most vigorously second his exertions in putting an
end for ever to the combination.

BLIGHT IN THE WHEAT CROPS.—An intel-
ligent correspondent has sent us a few heads of wheat, cut
from a field of about three acres, which is blighted on the
side that grew to the south-west. This part of the head
has no pickles of grain in it, whilst the other sides are all
sound. The entire field is in the same condition ; and our
correspondent says he has heard accounts, from several
quarters, of the wheat being generally affected in the same
way. —Belfast Whig.
SUCKING RAW EGGS.—It has often been said
that raw meat and raw eggs a e great assistants to voca-
lists, increasing the strength of their lungs and the
length of their wind, by which they are enabled to hold
the tone of the lower semibreves much better and fuller
than those who eat meat that has been well sodden or
cooked; that such is the fact we are well aware, and which
was the other day exemplified by a professor of music, who
has an unusually full bass voice, and Stentorian lungs, and
who has long been an unrivalled singer at one of our cha-
pels; being at an inn in this town, he ordered half a dozen
raw eggs, and, making a small bole at one end, sucked cut
both the yolks and whites, and paid for them. A farmer
sitting by, and seeing the eggs thus disposed of in quick
time, said, that if he would suck more, he would pay- for
them, which he did, so that, in the whole, the professor
of " thorough bass" actually sucked the yolks whites
of and '
of two dozen raw eggs, in the incredible short space of eight
minutes and a half, when he found his voice as clear as a
bell, and of such a compass that he might have been beard
at a distance of half a mile !—Sherborne Journal.
PILFERING FRUIT.— Bow
-street B treet. Police-
office, on Thursday morning, Martin and Bryan, two young
boys,
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stealingth chaige by the constable of Covent-
gardenplaced in the market at an earlyh e
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hour
werein th
given
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lids roundly assertedthat
the owners of the baskets. Bryan, having been previously
imprmonthisonedandMartin
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LVENING EDITION:

LATE MUTILATION OF INSCRIP.
TIONS ON TOMBSTONES.

On Saturday, at the usual weekly meeting of the
I,tarylebone Vestry, Mr. JOSEPH in the Chair, Mr.
Flood, the Vestry Clerk, read a letter which he had
received from. Nr. Henry Charles Wilson, who, it will
doubtless be remembered, took an active part in the
passing of the Vestries Act, as also in the Reform inte-
rests of the borough of Marylebone, tendering- that gen-
tleman's resignation as a vestryman, which having
been
accepted by the Vestry,
Mr. FOSTER said this circumstance would mate. rially
affect a question in which not only that Vestry, but .the
public at large, was deeply interested. On Saturday :
last the Vestry bad appointed a Committee, of which
Mr. Wilson was a member, to investigate into the cir-
cumstances connected with an alleged mutilation of the
inscription on a tombstone, and interlineatiou:4 in the
burial register. That gentleman having ceased to' be
a member of the Vestry, of course became also
qualified to sit on that Committee. The present being a
question of vast importance, and in which evidence was
required to be taken, he conceived the infusion of legal
gentlemen into that Committee would be most desirable,
to connect the chain of evidence in such a way as to ar-
rive properly at the bottom of it. With this convic-
tion, he would move that the names of Messrs. Theo-
bald, Walpole, Eyre, Skymer, Brown, be added to the
committee.

Mr. HODGKINSON seconded the motion.
Mr. RATHBONE opposed it. If he might use the
term, the investigation before the committee was
vial inquiry, and it was entirely at variance with ele
principles of British law to cmpannel additional jurors
after a case had once begun. It would be most unfair to
the partiesinculpated, after the evidence in chief had been
gone into, to introduce other parties to decide. He main-
tained that persons could not well judge of a case unless
they heard the evidence viva voce; and if there were an ad-
dition to the present committee that could not be the
case, unless the evidence was all gone into again. The
committee at present consisted of ten Vestrymen, the
four Churchwardens, and Dr. Spry, the Rector, which
made fifteen in all. Out of that number eleven were
present at the meeting of the committee on Monday
last. Mr. Drew, who was present, and had held a
station of high legal standing, was satisfied with the
course they had pursued ; consequently, unless Mr.
Foster had sonic doubt as to the integrity of that corn-
nll!tee, there was no ground whatever for his pro-
position,

Mr. SODEN Observed, th.t. although this was a most
important subject both to the public and themselves, he
did not consider it a matter requiring legal aid. It was
a question of plain matter of fact ; and, from the linly
interest manifested by the Committee, he was sure the
matter would be probed to the very bottom. she ad
oppose the proposition.
Mr. KENSETT said it might appear singular that a 1
discussion should ensue upon the enlargement of
a committee. Ile would like the question to be
made as open as possible, to show the Vestry was not
mixed up in the affair, as already the newspapers
had been teeming with remarks tending to insi-
nuate that such was the case. It was advisable in many
instances to enlarge Committees, but. in a case of such
a peculiar nature he thought it would be now injudicious,
especially as any member of the Board, although not
permitted to vote, could be present and take part in the
proceedings. In his opinion, the question involved no-
thing but plain facts,and therefore law tvas mot required.
It was evident that, in addition to the oblitera,
on of an
inscription on the tombstones, there bad btx." gross
frauds practised in the burial registe-, and the ).'artier
implicated would meet with nothing short of transpu.
na-
tion. They had discovered interlineations in ti`
registr2r, and erasures, in order to make out the
genealogy of certain persons to property amounting-
in value to between seventy and eighty thousand
pounds. This had occurred with the Fendall family ;
and in other instances insertions bad been made of the
burial of parties who had never been buried in Maryle-
bone at all. For the reasons adduced by Mr. Rath-
bone he would oppose the motion.
The CHAIRMAN said that Dr. Spry, the Rector, bad
expressed his wiliingness to assist in sifting this strange
affair to the very bottom.
M. FOSTER said, as there were great discrepancies
in the evidence given before the committee, the only
object he had in view in wishing the appointment of
legal gentlemen was, if possible, to prevent it on the
next occasion.

The question on being put was negatived by a large
majority, and the Vestry shortly after separated.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

ST. LEGER BETTING AT YORK—TuEsnAy.
31 to 1 agst Bloomsbury—taken
31 to 1 agst Charles the Twelfth—offered
13 to 1 agst Hetman Platoff
20 to 1 agst The Commodore—taken
20 to I agst The Provost—taken
23 to I agst Meunier•—taken
30 to I agst The Corsair
30 to I agst Easingwold—taken
30 to 1 agst Hyllus—taken
3 to I agst Bloomsbury—taken freely
4 to 1 agst Charles the Twelfth
10 to I agst Euclid
II to I agst Hetman Platoff
2) to 1 agst The Commodore
20 to I agst The Provost

LATEST BETTING AT MANCIIESTER-FICIDA V.

THE ST. LEGER.
3 to 2 agst Bloomsbury—taken
7 to 2 agst Charles the Twelfth—taken
10 to 1 agst Euclid—taken
13 to 1 agst Hetman Platoff—taken
IS to 1 agst The Commodore—taken
I S to I agst The Provost—taken
23 to 1 agst The Lord Mayor
`23 to I agst The Diver—offered
30 to 1 agst The Corsair—offered
33 to 1 agst Meunier—offered
40 to l agst Accelerator—offered
40 to 1 agst Easingwold
DONCASTER cur.
3 to 1 apt Harkaway
4 to 1 agst Bees" win,
6 to I agst Charles the Twelfth
10 to 1 agst The Doctor
10 to 1 agst Lanercost
4111.10,..

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

(70RN EXCHANGE.

Last week's arrivals were fair of English Wheat and Flour,
considerable of Foreign Wheat anal Oats, but small of all othe►
grain. There has been a moderate fresh supply of every article.
The Wheat trade has been very heavy, at a decline since last
Monday of 2s. for old and 4s. for new English Wheat, and for
old Foreign ls. to '2s. per quarter. Barley is scarce, with very
little doing in the trade. Beans rather dearer. New boiling
Peas lower. In Oats transactions slack, and prices unvaried.
Flour very dull sale, and ship parcels offered at rather lower
terms. New Rapeseed neglected at last quotations.

PRICES ON SOARS) OF SHIP
Wheat, Red (old)
--- White (old) a —6. --- (ol I)
---- Red 18:38) ...,66. 6rs. -- Tick (new) ',l's 3C6.
Fine 636. fits. • (old) 3E6. 4fla
----- Superfine flips. 706. Harrow (new) "ks.ZISS:
----- White (Hi:3B).—UL 1,18. ----.-.----- (01d)... ... 425. 446.
---- Fins lltzs. 728. Brank
--- Superfine 746. Ilia. Oats, Feed
----Foreign free .606 76- New . S3<. 265;
Ryt 40s. 426. Poland —6 —s,

Barley 303.370. New "5-.295.
Grinding 303. 345. Potatoe 285.305.
--- Malting 40.4. 425.
Malt
Fine New Yis
;s, (15s. Scotch -'O3.
Pals. ;Os. Irish 22. ..2F.265.
Pease, Grey, New 365. 39i. Flour Town ,per sack).... 603.8*.
Maple New 3:%. 40:. Seconds 52.:6 .
-- White 403 425. —...... North Country .... 50, . I .
—.... Boilers 425. .13 I flan 8 9 .
ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. 0.t.... clout.
English ........ I 4,6 i 5 it's 8 qrs. 303 r. 5,` 53 ,acks
Irish — ---
Foreign .....