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THE COAL TRADE-LORD LON-
DONDERRY AND THE LORD MAYOR.

We call the attention of our readers to an excellent
letter of the Lord Mayor, in answer to that addressed to his
Lordship some time ago by the Marquis of Londonderry.
The letter of the Noble Peer is also given, and the two
form a most remarkable contrast, not at all to the ad-
vantage of the hereditary Lord. When the report of the
Coal Committee was published, no great importance was
attached to it, and the statement of the Lord Mayor
certainly will not raise it in public estimation :

TO TIIE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON.
Holderness House, Feb. 23.

My Lord,—The inclosed is the whole story, which you
seem to know nothing about; and one ton of northern
coals is worth three of A our 225. coals to the customer, and
all your monopoly grades included.
I am your obedient servant,
VANE LONIANDERRY.
N. B.— The facts speak for themselves.

"COAL MONOPOLY.
" The particulars of the cost of one ton of best house-
fire coals supplied to a London consumer at IL 12s. 6d:
" I. Cost of coals on board of a ship in the
Tyne or Wear, or at Seahavo Harbour, in-
cluding mine-rent, wages of men and boys em-
ployed in hewing, putting, &c., under ground,
and receiving, loading into wagons, &c., at
surface ; timber, iron, grease, ropes, corves,
stores, sand material ; screening, cleansing,
and waste ; steam engines and drawing and
pumping apparatus ; horses, above and below
ground, and harness and forage for ditto ;
blacksmiths, sawyers, and carpenters, coal
waggons and engine and horse-power, and
waggon-men's wages for loading coals; rail-
way expenses, including way leave, rents, and
repairs ; damage of ground and crops by rail-
way, burning heaps, &c. ; wharfage and spout-
age; interest of capital expended in sinking
shaft, and repairs of shaft, &c. ; rates, taxes,
stamps, and postages; salaries of receivers,
agents, and clerks ; risk and profit £o 10 E
" 2. Charges of coal-market in London—viz ,
City dues; allowance to buyers of tret, dis-
count and storage, factorage and delcredere
commission, Custom House agency, bill and
receipt stamps, half-metage, loss in weighing;
insurance and policy duty on cargo
" 3. Freight to shipowner, including trimming
in ship's hold, harbour duties and steam-boat,
wages to captain and seamen, and pilotage,
provisions, delivery in London ; lights, bal-
last, and Custom House expenses ; insurance
on ship ; wear and tear ; risk and profit
" 4. Coal merchants in London, including half
metage, lighters and repairs, wharf rent and
taxes, waggons, sacks, creens, and weighing
apparatus, wages of men employed in loading,
screening, and shooting coals, risk, credit, and
profit

£ 1 12 6
Coalowner £o 10 6
Shipowner
London charges 0 12 8

Price to consumer £l 12 6

The above letter and statement of charges having ap-
peared in a Newspaper, the LordiMayor wrote a note to the
Marquis of Londonderry, requesting to be informed whe-
ther it was genuine. Some days afterwards the Marquis
wrote to the Lord Mayor an ansia er in the affirmative,
upon receiving which the Lord Mayor sent the following
communication

" Mansion House, March 5, 1839.
" My Lord,—My attention having been drawn to a
letter bearing your Lordship's signature, addressed to me,
in several of the Daily Papers upon the subject
of the coal trade, I did not feel called upon to
notice it until I had first ascertained from your Lord-
ship that it was a genuine one, your letter not having reached
me till this post. You state your reasons for thus ad-
dressing me to be my animidversions and observations on
you and the coalowners having been made unsparingly in
open Court.' Ido not, complain, my Lord, of your thus
openly addressing me. lam glad you have had an oppor-
tunity of testing and experiencing the impartiality of the
public Journals in publishing your defence of the coal
trade. I need hardly tell your Lordship that I have not
sought the subject. It came to me officially by the Cap-
tains of the collier-ships, wishing me to break the by-laws,
and in the course of my inquiries, finding what I believe
to be an illegal combination existing in the north among
the great coalowners to prevent the little ones from
vending above a certain quantity of coals, and that the
shipowners and the factors in London are all parties to this
combination, each one representing it to be for th• public
benefit, and believing, as I most sincerely do, that it is
very much to the public detriment, I have done all in my
power to expose it, and to convince the public that it
rests entirely with themselves to continue it, or to break it
down, as I will presently show.
" Your note, my Lord, is a very short one, but contains
very bold assertions, which, if not explained (carrying with
them, as they do, all the weight of your Lordship's name),
some persons may be found weak enough to holier° them.
You profess to tell the whole story,' which you say I
seem to know nothing about.'

" It is not my wisli to enter into any controversy with
your Lordship; neither do I assert that you know nothing
about this subject. On the contrary, I believe that you are
perfectly conversant with it, and your Lordship has shown
your discretion in not directing attention to the source
whence you borrowed the statement you published as your
own /—namely, from the evidence of Mr. Pease (also a coal -
owner), given before the Select Committee of the House of
Commons upon the Coal-trade Bill last Session, of which it
forms part of the answerjto question 3,079. In the Re-
port of that and previous Committees, particularly the one
which sat in 1836, and also in other evidence given before
them, will be found, if not the whole story, at least a great
part of it. But as the public will not find there the prac-
tical experience that I have gained the last two months by
the operation of the new by-laws for the regulation and
government of the colliers between Gravesend and Lon-
don, and the production of coals from pits not in your
Lordship's combination, or in any way under your govern-
ment or controul, I will give you my statement of the price
of a ton of coals supplied to a London consumer, delivered
into his cellar at 225., free of all charge, which I and
others have been burning now for some time past.
" N. B.—The facts speak for themselves 11 !
" Facts will speak for themselves!!!
COAL MONOPOLY.

" The particulars of cost of one ton of good family fire-
coals supplied to a London consumer at 225. per ton.
" 1. Cost of coals on board of a ship (but not £ s. d.
from Lord Londonderry's pits) every expense
included ... ••• 0 6 6
" 2. City dues and charges in London, exclusive _

of factors per centage ... ... ... ... 0 2 3
" 3. Freight to shipowner per ton (but in no
way connected with the combination regula-
tions). See Mr. Thomson's evidence ... 0 7 3
"4. Coal-merchant in London, including profit
and every expense. See Mr. Horne's e:i-
donee before Committee of the House of
Commons, 1838. Questions 2,262 and 2,283 0 6 0

£1 2 0
44 N. B.—ln June, 1837, Stewart's Wall's Ends (sub-
ject to combination regulation) were delivered at Chelsea
Hospital at 225. 6d., free of all charges.
" I am prepared with the names of coal merchants who,
for some time past, have been supplying the public at the
charge of 6s. per ton for delivery. I have also the names
of buyers, who are only paying this sum of 6s. to the coal-
merchant upon the Pool price of any coals they like to
select from the market list. This, my Lord, is my story.
I will not say your Lordship seems to know nothing
about it ; ' on the contrary, your Lordship is too much in-
terested in promoting and supporting this combination and
the regulations, £0 injurious to the best interests of the
public. If you think you can disprove these statements,
pray try. I will send you coal-merchants who will be glad
to supply upon these terms ; and, although the profit is
small, the increased sale will place them in a better posi-
tion at the year's end, than are some who only sell your
Lordship's best coals l_

" Your letter, my Lord, gives me the opportunity of
calling upon all those who wish to be supplied with a good
useful coal at a fair moderate price, to decline burning
(for a few months) any coals that come from your pits, and
those of some few others, who arc the great dictators of
this oppressive monopoly. If the public will but determine
to do this, we shall very soon prove to your Lordship (or
you will be the first to prove to us) that the best New-
castle coals can be put on board (allowing the coal-
owner a reasonable profit) at 6s. 6d. Your Lordship well
knows that if ships were allowed to unload upon their ar-
rival in the River, instead of waiting three weeks or a
month, till it suits the pleasure of a Committee of factors
to feed the market so as to keep the price up to 325. 6d.,
they would be able to make twelve voyages a. year where
they now make but eight, and you would have your
freights at 7s. instead of 9s. 4d., the shipowners would
give more money, the men would be employed all the
year, instead of passing one-third of their time in idleness;
the monopoly would be broken up, the factors' regulations
would be done away with, the coal-merchants would deli-
ver coals generally, as many are now dowing, for 6s. per
ton instead of 125., and according to Mr. Horne's state-
ment, be making a profit also. I have this day had best
coals offered to be put on board at Newcastle at 6s. per
ton, upon condition that the parties take some thousand
tons.
" The truth of the two statements I leave to be proved by
those who think it worth their while to try them. We have
experienced the effects of your regulations now for 4 years.
In 1834, when there was no combination, best coals were
delivered at Greenwich Hospital at 14s. 11d. per ton,
clear of all charges. In 1837, under the combined regu-
lations of the coalowner, shipowner, and factor, the con-
tract price with Greenwich Hospital was 21s. 3d., a mode-
rate rise of 42 per cent. in four years ; and yet we are mo-
destly told that these regulations are very much for the
public benefit, because they prevent fluctuations in prices.
Yes, my Lord, you may well begin to be alarmed lest the
public should know the whole story,' and find out that the
benefit conferred upon them by these very useful regula-
tions is to keep the price of coals at 325. 6d. instead of 22a.
If the public knew as much about coals as your Lordship
and I do, they would discover that, while you boast of selling
best coals at 10s. 6d. per ton, two-thirds of such coals aro

PRICE sd.

only what is called slack, and which you sell at 23. 6d.
pert on.
" May I remind you of the losses yfu used to sustain
when coals were sold by the chaldron, and measured by
the bushel—the more they were screened, the less could be
got into the bushel ? In those days it was necessary to
make fires at the pit's mouth to consume the screenings,
or, what may be better understood, the slack. Now
that coals are sold by weight, this slack finds its way to
the London market, and is sold as best coals, at 325. ad.
per ton.
"As your Lordship professes to know the whole story,'
may I inquire if your Lordship ever read the evidence of
Mr. Metcalf, a coal-factor, as honourable and respectable
a man as any in London, page 191, Q. 2,730, 1836, where
he complains of the regulations, best coals being entirely
excluded on one market day, particularly when this is done
by inferior sorts being held over unfairly and for the pur-
pose of making rubbish sell at best prices?'
" Q. 2733. Were there any best coals in the river at
that time ?

" ' A. I should say plenty from my recollection.
" ' Q. 2,734. Then, but for the regulations, plenty of the
best coals would have been brought into the market?
" ' A. There were plenty lying in the River to my recol-

lection.
" Q. 2,228. Then we are to understand that the want of
supply arises from the regulations adopted by the factors for
supplying the market,and not from any want of the best coals
in the River ?
" A. Certainly ; there hat been no want Cf best coals in
the river for 12 or 18 months to my feeollection.
" Q. 2,263. Mr. Metcalf tells you that in 1633 best coals
were selling at 14s. 9d. to 155., that since the present regu-
lations were introduced they have got them up to 20s.' See
2,331, 32, 33.
" I have hitherto been burning Yorkshire-coals at 225.
To-day lam burning Newcastle at the same price, equal
in every respect to the Yorkshire ; the merchant who has
sent there to me saes they are from pits which can supply
a very large quantity, and which have offered immediately
to secede from the combination if I will take them
under my patronage. I have an appointment to-morrow
with the representatives of coalowners, shipowners, and
coal merchants, who have also proposed to leave the com-
bination if I will give them such support as I have given
to the merchant who first supplied me 225. coals. He is
obliged daily to decline orders from the great pressure of
business, notwithstanding the money is offered before the
coals are delivered. lam satisfied of this, that those who
leave the combination first will reap the harvest. Has
your Lordship thought of the possibility of being left out,
in the new regulations now making by the public to confer
their favours upon whom they please, and select their own
quality of coals, leaving out the old hackneyed phrase of
• best ?' Supposing such an occurrence possible, and much
more unlikely events have taken place, what would become
of all the hewing, putting, timber, iron, steam-engines,
pumping, harness, horses, blacksmiths, sawyers, carpenters,
coal-waggons, rates, taxes, portages, salaries, apparatus,
&c., so clearly and distinctly set forth in your Lordship's
coal-monopoly statement ? Have you, my Lord, heard
from the north this week, or are the dispatches like my
letter, travelling about to find you? Have you not heard
of a meeting of the coalowners to limit the vends, and
keep their coals under ground till they have punished us,
by making us pay 425. per ton instead of 225. ? Have you
not heard that the pitmen aro determined to resist this
new attempt at oppression, and no longer submit to be made
the dupes of their wealthy and powerful combinators ?
" My advice is to burn any coals but what are called
I best' for a few months, without interfering with you or
your regulations. Your Lordship then will be able to
keep your coals under ground (a threat which I understand
has been already made), where I most heartily wi..h they
were instead of being in my cellars.
" I have unfortunately from 50 to 60 tons which I had
laid in before I became acquainted with the secrets of the
coal-trade. I now offer them your Lordship or any of
your friends at 20 per cent. under the price you name.
You will find they are the very same coals you speak of at
325. 6d. per ton, and which you declare to be worth three
tons of my 22a. ones.
"As I ordered best' coals, and you state your 325. 6d.
' to be best, I have no doubt that mine are exactly the same
quality your lordship is speaking of. Now, as you know
the whole story, and as I 'seem to know nothing about it,'
or if it would not be trespassing too much on your Lordship's
valuable time in asking too great a favour, perhaps you
would in your next note add such another extract from the
same book from which you got the last, and give the evidence
of Mr. Beard (a coal-merchant), in page 80, qu. 1,524 ;
you would thereby put the public on the guard against
somo of the rogueries of the trade in what is called mix-
ing, and gain credit for disinterestedness in making your
statements.

" I have the honour to be, my lord,
" Your Lordship's obedient servant,
" S. WuLsoN.”
"Mr Thompson, a shipowner, 1838, to Question 428. Answer
—1 It is practicable now only to make eight voyages per annum, but
under an altered system I have no doubt we could as easily make
12 ; and I consider that 12 voyages, at 7s. per ton freight, would
pay us rather better than about 8 voyages at 10s.
" 2,282. What is the ordinary expense of profit the coal.
merchant charges ? Answer—l consider my expenses upon coal,
to deliver to any customer In London, are ss. per ton. lam ready
to sell them at Os. a ton if they are taken as they come from the

ship.
" 2,283. Therefore you add 6s. for your expenses and your
profit I, A nswer— Yes."'
" See 2,322 also."

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

NEW COURT.

Before the COMMON SERGEANT, Sergeant ARABIN, Al-
derman FAREBROTHER, &C.)

TRIAL OF A MAIIOMMEDAN.—Manad/o, a Hindoo sailor,
aged 20, was indicted for stealing, on the 24th February
last, three silk shawls, value 31., and 14 yards of silk, value
21., the property of Sheik Mahommed.
PoUce constable K 272 acted as intropreter between the
prisoner and the Court.

He was asked whether he would be tried by half Eng-
lish and half foreigners, or by a Jury all English ?
He replied that be wished to be tried by the laws of his
own country. When he was informed that he must be tried
by the British code, and the former question repeated, he
said he was careless as to who were to decide his fate.

The terms of the indictment were then explained to
him, and he pleaded Not Guilty with great emphasis.
The CommoN SERGEANT told the prisoner that the She-
riff had informed the Court that he could speak English
fluently ; he should however be indulged with an inter-
preter, but that he must not suppose that he could impose
upon the Court.
Sheik Mahoremed was then sworn upon the Koran, and
his dress and person excited a good deal of curiosity. His
outer garment was a loose purple woollen coat, and •n his
head he wore a conical turban, composed of a rich cash-
mere shawl. His complexion is nearly black, and which
formed a striking contrast with his beard, which was sil-
vered by age.
The prosecutor then stated the particulars of the rob-
bery, and the Common Sergeant summed up, when the
Jury without hesitation returned a verdict of Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE told the prisoner that as he was a
foreigner the Court would not deal severely with him. " I
know you'll understand me when I tell you that the sen-
tence of the Court is, that you be kept to hard labour for
three calendar months."
Prisoner (in English)—l understand dat, Sir.
SENTENCES UPON TilE PRISONERS, AND SESSIONAL

RESULTS.
The Sessions having terminated, the prisoners who had
not been sentenced during the Session were brought up to
receive judgment. The Recorder, Mr. Alderman Pine,
and other of the Civic Authorities, entered the New Court
for the pronouncing them at half. past four o'clock.
The following were sentenced to banishment:—
For Ten Years.—Mary Ann Smith and James Williams.
For Seven Years.—Wm. Thorn, for letter robbing,
(recommended to the Penitentiary), Ann Smith, Mary
Huston, Sarah Hamer, John Stacey, J. Murphy ( Isle of
Wight), Fielden Harris, John Martin, W. Jones, and
Samuel Braddock.
The following were sentenced to imprisonment and
hard labour in the House of Correction :

FOR Two YEARS.--J. Aimsby, jun., J. Williamson.
FOR ONE YEAR.—Martin Smith Metcalf, Joseph
Dean, William Tilbury, J. Anstie, John James Smithery,
Ann Davis.
Foa Six MONTHS. —Allen Mahony, Sarah Jacobs, J.
Green, J. Jones, Sydney Smith, John Ferguson, Francis
Williams, Dennis Byrne, W. Connor.
FOR FOUR MONTHS.—Francis Ellis.
FOR THREE NIONTIIS.—EIiza Mary Ann M'Donald,
Edward Kelly, Amelia Sophia Edwards, George Hall,
William James Harvey, Thomas Buckle, James Lawson,
James Jones, George Holmes, Samuel M'Cormack, Henry
Simpson, and John Ford (the mate convicted of a rob-
bery on the High Seas, who is to be confined in the Peni-
tentiary.)
FOR Six WEEKS.—Matthew Clarkson and Joseph
Ward.

FOR ()NZ MONTH.—W. Fryer.
The Court adjourned to Monday, the Bth of April, on
which day both Courts will be open for business, as seve-
ral cases are traversed from the present session in conse-
quence of Counsel being obliged to go on the Home
Circuit.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

The Secretary of State for thel-mne Department has
given directions to the Magistrates of this office that, after
the Ist day of April next, the Police Gazette shall be pub-
lished three days in each week, and that copies of it shall
be furnished gratis to the following officers in England and
Wales: —To the Mayor or Chief Magistrate of every Cor-
porate Town, one copy ; to the Clerk of every Petty
Sessions Division, one copy ; to the Keeper of every
prison for the custody of persons charged with felony or
misdemeanour, not being a lock-up house, one copy ;
and to the chief officers of every permanent paid police,
whose district includes a population of under 5,000 persons,
one copy, between 5,000 and 20,000 two copies, and above
20,000, three copies ; also to the cl.ief officers of every
permanent paid police in any town or district in Scotland
or Ireland, exceeding 10,000 persons, one copy. To the
Collector of Customs at every part in the United King-
dom from whence persons depart on leaving the country,
one copy ; together with the militai y and naval depart-
ments, and to the police of the metropolis.

Q UEEN- S Q UARE.
Soon after the numerous night charges had been dis-
osed of, Edward Purday, a respectable dressed youth,

90 was
Tbrought
du p
within
int
hc ut
hs teo custody
following b y police c
extraordinary
o nt ab
conductftr i st o w
ae
t,
the house of Mrs. C. Matthews, (late Madame Vestris,)
Elm-grove, Notting-hill, Kensington.
It appeared that about 10 o'clock on Sunday morning
the defendant called at Elm-grove, and requested to see
Madame Vestris upon urgent business. He was told it was
not then convenient for him to do sn, and he must
call again. Defendant did so about one o'clock, and went
directly into the parlour where Mrs. Mathews was sitting,
and, addressing himself to that lady, said he was het: son,
he had come to claim her as his mother, as also
some prZ;nerty which had been left him by his father the
Duke of ICum;;Arland. Mr. Mathews who was in the
apartment at the time, immediately sent for a constable,
and gave him into custody'. When he was brought before
the Magistrates it was soon asertained that he was insane,
and he was committed to the charge of his father, a respect-
able bookbinder residing at Richmond.