The Sun.
London, England, 1839-12-21 00:00:00

TAT LOW MONOPOLY

The present stock is 8,000 casks more than at the
same period list year, which, with 14,000 more to the
outports, 9,600 still remaining at St. Petersburgh, and
6,000 at Moscow, shows an increased production of
37,000 casks as compared with last year.
Now, we ask, who can wonder at this enormous in-
crease, or who can suppose that the Northern Beats
would neglect to scrape together every pound from every
corner of Russia, when it is known that they can do so
at a cost if a fetv copecks, or something equivalent to a
penny per pound, and exaig from the pockets of John
Bull, according to the above quotation, sd. and a frac-
tion per pound, a price at which mutton is ceiling in
many parts of England ; or, still more monstrous to
relate, a pound of candles is equivalent in value to a
pound of best beef.

We confess that John Bull's gullibility has never in
one instance, shone more conspicuous, or, on the other
hand, such an artificial piece of humbug, or designing
knavery (for we know no term more applicable) prac-
tised with more success.

We feel, therefore, convinced, that we cannot too
strongly impress upon the Tallow Melters, and the pub-
lic at large, the necessity of remaining firm in their pur-
pose to buy no mole than they can possibly help (and
which they will attend to, if at aa alive to their own
interests) ; and if they can only manage to get over
Christmas, without buying more (which we should hope
the fat from Old England's roast beef would materially
assist them in doing), they will find, as the spring ap-
proaches, their object, as well as our object. accom-
plished, and the Russian Monopolisers will be compelled
to submit to a reduction of at least Ten Pounds per
Ton.—Commercial Gazette.

A DELICATE INVESTIGATION.—This day
at Marlborough-street police court, a very handsome
and fashionably dressed female, apparently about forty
years of age, was placed at the bar, charged with ac-
costing a gentleman last night, in the Haymarket, and
insisting on following after him. Police Constable,
No. 142 C, then took her into custody, as she had been
before cautioned not to annoy gentlemen. Mr. Isaacs,
who appeared for the defendant, said, I am instructed
that she is a most respectable married woman, and
well known in the neighbourhood. The defendant,
with considerable indignation, repelled the imputation,
and said she was merely speaking to a friend of hers on
business, and that the police constables' statement was
totally untrue. The gentleman would have come
forward to-day, but he knew nothing about the matter,
as he had passed on before the policeman took hold
of her, and dragged her to the station-house. Mr.
Isaacs said, in repetition, that the accused was a
most respectable woman,and of unimpeachable character ;
the constable must be mistaken. Police constable—
She walks the Haymarket, and she knows it. Mr.
Dyer (to Mr. Isaacs)—You hear the policeman sweats
to that fact, and you should therefore prove, if you can,
that the accused is the respectable person represented.
A long pause ensued, much to the surprise of those per-
sent in the Court, and at length Mr. Dyer said that he
did not see that the accused had done anything to call
upon him to punish ner, and she was therefore dis-
charged. The defendant, with a stiff bow, quitted the
Office, accompanied by her solicitor, who said the mat-
ter will not be allowed to rest here.
THE SILK HOSE AND GLOVE TRADE.--A
deputation from the workmen in the silk hose and glove
branch visited, on Tuesday, the workshops in Derby,
to ascertain the number out of employment, or only
partially employed. They found the result to be as
follows :—Totally out of work 196, and to these may
be added 50, who have left the town, and gone to other
places, and of course their frames are standing for want
of work. The number of men who have limited work
is 114, and a great majority of these have not earned 4s.
a week for the last. six months. The number of children
dependent upon the men for a subsistence is 3.52, which,
together with their wives, 135, makes a total of 797.
Besides these there are the seamers and cheveners,
which, at least, cannot be less than 150, making a grand
total of 947. A deputation is appointed to wait on the
Mayor to ask his advice under these distressing circum-
stances. The number of frames in work in 1830 was
575 ; the total in the town now is 410, showing a de-
crease of 165.—Derby Reporter.
THE ALLOTMENT SYSTEM.--At the anniver-
, sary of the East Somerset Labourers' Friend Society,
held last week in Bath, Mr. Ludlow Bruges, in advo-
cating the objects of the Society, said—" In 1830 be
had a farm which became vacant, and from that farm,
before it was let again, he reserved a sufficient allot-
ment of land for the distressed and unemployed poor.
The result had been, that not one amongst them had,
from that day to this, received one shilling out of the
poor's-rate—not one had been charged with any offence
against the laws—and not one single shilling of their
rent remained unpaid. Nor was that all. It was not
merely that they were punctual in paying their rent—
not merely that they were well condueted—but their '
external appearance in every respect indicated an in-
crease of domestic and personal comfort. Their pos-
session of pigs and other animals indicated improved
circumstances. He was therefore fully justified in
asserting that through the means of land allotments
those men, who would certainly have been burthensome
to the poor's-rate, and possibly offenders against the
laws, had not only avoided these . evils, but had been
greatly improved in their condition."
ROBBERY IN AN OMNIBUS.—This mornings
between ten and eleven o'clock, a robbery vfas com-
mitted on the person of Mrs. Langdon, a lady, residing
in Wardour-street, Oxford-street, in one of the Mile-
end omnibuses. On arriving at Charing-cross she dis-
covered that her pockets had been cut and her purse,
containing twelve sovereigns, had been abstracted. Two
men, fashionably dressed, having the appearance of
Jews, and who sat on each side of Mrs. Langdon dur-
ing the journey, got out at Temple-bar.
DtxoN v. BuLLEII —Mr. Baron Alderson gave
judgment in this case yesterday, and stated that as the
sum bequeathed for building a church did not exceed
5001., and as the bill by which the money was so be-
queathed had been made within three months of 0-4 e
death of the testatrix, the bequest, according to the
43d of George 111., c.lOB, was a valid one.
LAMENTABLE ACCIDENT BY FIRE ARMS.
—This morning, a few minutes past ten, o'clock a
dreadful accident occurred to James Rainsford, a young
gentleman 13 years of age, the son of Henry Garden
Rainsford, Esq., residing at Trevor Cottage, St. John's
Wood, Regent's Park, who was unfortunately acciden-
tally shot by his brother. It appears that the two
young gentlemen returned from school for the holidays
yesterday ; they purchased an old fowling piece for their
amusement, unknown to their parents. This morning ;
they were amusing themselves in the garden, when the
eldest brother, a youth 15 years of age, accidentally
discharged the gun at the moment his brother was
affixing a piece of paper as a target to a tree, the con-
tents nearly all entered his right side. Two surgeons
were promptly in attendance, and abstracted a number
of shots, but from the injuries received, no hopes are
entertained of his recovery.
ONE THOUSAND POUNDS LOST.—We have
been informed that the Bank parcel (containing upwards
of 1,0000 sent by coach on Monday from the Der on
and Cornwall Bank in this town, to the Branch Bank
at Liskeard, has been missed ; and that every means
have been taken to obtain some clue to the property,
hut without sueeess,—/Nyntouth Journal.
A French ahie, who was extremely corpulent,
coming late one evening to a fortified town, asked a
countryman whom he met "If he could get in at the
gate ?" " I should think you might," said the peasant,
looking at him jocosely, "for I saw a waggon of hay go,
in this morning."
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gin is'et vorth so much as mine by five
shillings, and
you, plays nothing but Old Robin Gray, and the Dukes
0 York's March, and God save the King, and Undresil
and Fourth Psalm, and such like, while I flares up teTtii
the Unter's Chorus, and Ome Sveet Ome, and Cautery
Ripe, and Bonnets o'Blue, and lots o' good uns." VY
I'll tell you how it be—you see, yen I goes. to ire a
horgin, 1 gets von as bad out o' chune as I can, vile you
does nothing but look bout for a good u.e. So yen
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to llare up vith mine, tbc; gemman or,ens the vindy, and
chucks me sixpence to go away--a. nd no mistake.”--
i.teds Times.

Some old records in Wiltshire state, that in the
year 1339, wheat in that ciunty sold at eight guineas
per quarter, and that it continued so for four months ;
that it soon after declined to 10s. per quarter ; that
four years after it fell to 4s. 6d., and remained at that

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price, with little fluctuation, for twenty years ; that at
the expiration of this term, it rose to Si., and held that
price till near the year 1534, when it fell to 2s. Gd.
per qr.—Devizes Gazelle,

A Paris periodical says that since the financial
arrangements entered into between M. Aguado and the
Directors of the French and Italian Operas, it is pro-
posed transferring the services of Grisi to the former
Theatre. The same print affirms that M. Aguado
might have lately secured the services of Pauline
Garcia to the Academie Royale de Musique for six
years.

EVENING EDITION.

N EGRO SLAVERY

To GEORGE THOMPSON, AND HIS FRIENDS
OF THE BRITISH INDIA SOCIETY.
MANCHESTER, DEC. 20, 1839.
Sia,—You have visited us on a mission of enlarged
Philanthropy, a mission worthy of the friends of the
enslaved Negro and of the suffering Hindoo. Months
have elapsed since you first came amongst us ; why
have you not found a response to your eloquent appeals,
)
Commensurate with the magnitude and justice of your
Cause i Why have not the capitalists and the opera-
tives of Lancashire, deeply interested as they arc in
the ema 'cipation of the industry of the cotton culti-
vators of Hindoostan, rallied around you with their
Wonted energy and liberality ? It is due to them and
to you that the cause of this apparent supineness be
Publicly known. The artisan and his employer here
are oppressed with a load of misgovernment as great as
that which bows the Ryot himself to the earth. You
have told us of fiscal burdens and tyrannical restrictions
upon the industry of our fellow-subjects ten thousand
miles distant ; know, then, that millions of our country-
men at home are groaning beneath the landlord's bread-
tal—a tax that is inflicting a greater load of misery,
vice, and premature death, than were ever caused by the
Planter's whip upon the sable sons of Africa, or by the
Company's edicts upon the gentle Asiatics.
I claim your sympathy in the cause of the poor
starving weaver. I call upon you to consider his case ;
to interest your heart in the sufferings of wretches,
Pining in damp cellars, or huddled in attics, willing to
Work, but denied the right of selling their labour for food !
Is there a case of wanton oppression in the wide world
to match the examples which Manchester will, ten
thousand fold, exhibit to you, of honest, industrious
fathers, pining in the midst of squalid children, because
the high-handed landowner denies them the right
to earn the means of feeding, clothing, and educating
their of spring Give to these sufferers a moment's
sympathy—then turn to their bankrupt employers, and
you will know why the inhabitants of Lancashire have
not rallied to your eloquent appeals on behalf of
British India.
If you would obtain the aid of a once opulent, ener-
getic, and liberal community in your enlightened efforts
to emancipate the hundred millions of Hindoos, or to
Civilize the countless myriads of the African Continent,
I help, first, to save us, whilst yet there is time, from the
ruin and the moral degradation which are rapidly en-
gulfing us. Lend us, for a while, your moral influence,
and your irresistible eloquence, and we will afterwards
fight the holy battle of emancipation with you, till
India and Africa, aye and America, shall resound with
the song of liberty. C.

GERMAN COMMERCIAL LEAGUE.

The following official details from Germany will give
all idea of the commercial improvement that has taken
Place in the States belonging to the league. We give
the imports and exports of wool, wine, and cotton :
WooL.—For the years 1 836 and 1837 the imports
and exports in this article amounted to—
Imports. Exports.
Prussia
Saxony 3 100,000 6,000,000
Silesia
Wirtemburg, Po-
merania, Hesse Cassel, 3,600,000 4,125,000
and Hesse Darrnstandt

12,400,000 18,425,000
In 1838 the produce in Prussia alone amounted to
45,000,000 lbs., estimated at 27,000,000 thalers ; while
for the present year it is rated at 39,000,000 lbs., and
at 29,000,000 dialers.
In the exportation and importation of wines a similar
unprovement has taken place within the last three years.
The average importation of cotton into the German
league was estimated at the beginning of 1839 at
51,000,000 lbs., and the exportation of the same article
at 18,000,000 lbs.—thus leaving for home consumption
34,000,000 lbs. Whereas at present the average im-
portation into Prussia is estimated at 31,000,000 lbs.,
and the quantity it exported at 18,000,000 lbs.—thus
eaving for home consumption 13,000,000 lbs.

PROSPECTS OF THE POOR.—The prospects of
the poor during the approaching winter are, we fear,
!narthing but satisfactory, indeed we shall he nearer the
tru th when we say that they are dreary in the extreme.
Th •
a high prices of every description of provisions, and
etp ecially of bread, the staple, we regret to say, even in
inov.e prosperous times, of nourishment to the artisan
and his family, the wretched state of trade generally,
and of the glove trade of this city in particular, justify
us in predicting that the ensuing winter will carry misery
and desolation to the hearths of thousands of our poor
and humble citizens. The charity of the wealthy and
benevolent will find a wide field for exercise during the
corning season.—Worcestershire Chronicle.
.An iron steamer, built in England for the Rus-
sian Goveenment, had been thrown ashore in a gale
near the Dardanelles. Three English merchantmen,
the Protector, Conservative, and Enterprise, had expe-
rienced a similar accident on the same coast.
THE GOLD DUST ROBBERY.—The Judges
have not yet decided upon the points of law raised in
favour of the prisoners by their Counsel, and the matter
must now stand over until next term, when the Judges
Will again consider the question, but it is not likely
that their judgment will be delivered before February.
and in the meantime the prisoners will remain in New-
gate. Should the Judges decide that the prisoners
have not been convicted according to law, the prosecu-
tors will have the opportunity of preferring fresh in-
dictments against the prisoners, and it is said to be their
inteotion to do so in the event of the former conviction
being quashed for want of form.
SoL,THWAßK.—Meetings of the respective
friends o,c the candidates for the representation of this
borough continue to be held. There are in the field
Mr. Wood, a gentleman of decided Liberal politics,
Mr. Walter, an anti-ministerialist, opposed to the New
P,:or-law, and Mr. Curling, who declares himself op-
Poscd to the bal!ot and to the total repeal of the Corn-
laws - but favourable to triennial Parliaments, and a
suppoi ter of the principle of the new Poor-law.
Just as Mr. Justice Patteson was about to leave
the Beriach at the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday,
Mr. Clarkson applied to the Learned Judge to direct
the issue of the process of the Court against four per-
sons, against whom the Grand Jury had just returned a
true bill for a misdemeanor. The Learned Gentleman
said that the alleged misdemeanor consisted in h..ving
Obtained goods from the prosecutors by means of false
and fraudulent pretences, to the amount of 1,7001. He
had to pray the warrants should be issued, and that the
Parties should be ordered to find bail, themselves in 5001.
and sureties in 2.501. each. . Mr. Justice Patteson said
it was not usual to call upon parties to find such
heavy sureties, except under special circumstances, and
unless the station of the defendants warranted it. Mr.
Clarkson said that the defendants carried on the busi-
ness of merchants in the city of London. The prose-
cutors had been defrauded to a very large amount.
Mr. Justice Patteson thought that there ought to be an
affidavit of facts before the Court would be warranted
in departing from its usual course. Mr. Clarkson said
that an affidavit could be laid before the Court, but it
Was necessary that speedy steps should be taken.
as two of the parties had already left the country. Ul-
timately, a Bench warrant , was ordered to be issued.
The circumstances under which the application was made
did not transpire.
The number of Letters to Ennis Post-office
have ,increased abont one-third since the reduction of
the postage, but the receipts are as yet deficient.—Clare
Journal.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND
SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY.--011 Thursday evening an
inquest was held at Guy's Hospital on the body of a
Young man named Edwin Attree. It appeared from
the evidence that an engine was proceeding at noon on
Wednesday last, from Kingston, towards Ditton, with
a train of eight empty waggons. Immediately the train
started, deceased ran after it, and climbed into the
" larry" or coke truck, situated between the engine and
the waggons, for the purpose of getting out his dinner,
which he had left by mistake in the truck. The train
had scarcely advanced twenty yards when he jumped
out, and the wheels of six of the waggons
passed over
him, Mr. Firth, one of the engineers to the Company,
said the train was going only at the rate of fifteen miles
an hour, and if deceased had jumped in the direction
~.he engine was working the effect of so jumping would
be to lessen, so far as the fall was concerned, its velo-
city. He jumped the reverse way, whereby he fell as if
the train were going at the rate of thirty miles an hour.
The body precipitated on the line at at
that re of speed
rebounded, and fell under the waggon wheels. Mr.
Bachelor, surgeon of the hospital, said deceased died in
less than four hours after his admission of compound
ft acture of the left leg and thigh. Verdict---" Acci-

dental death."
BRUSSELS, DEC. 18.—The average price of
wheat last week was 22f. 62c., and that of rye 14f. 10c.,
which is a diminution of the price since the preceding
veek, of 9.3 cents. on wheat, and of 7 cents. on rye.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RlVER.—Thurs-
clay an inquest was held at Wapping, on the body of
a fin e young man, named Lambert, the son of Mr.
Lambe?, `, a shipowner, in Rotherhithe, who was acci-
dentauy ‘'rowned in the Thames on Wednesday. An
inquest w0.,1 afterwards held at Rotherhithe, on the
body of a Idle aged men, which was picked up in the
river, off cut:er's Point on Monday last. The de-
ceased from hiit dress, appeareti to have been the master
ea a ship. A s.ux ch and some moneY were found on
w?:ich it appeared
his person, also s.osne papers, from
'Jut his name was James Wilson, and he :vas a native
')f Shields. There 'fere no marks of violcrw on his
[arson. In the absent:a of further evidence the Jury
returned a verdict of " I'ound drowned."—Anotber to
quest was held at the sa.nie house on the body of a
lean who has for several -rears obtained a living by
'Selling fish about Rotherhithe and Deptford, who was
-accidentally drowned in the Surrey Canal on Saturday
afternoon, near the Plough-bridge. The Jury, after
examining several witnesses, whose evidence was of no
importance, returned a verdict of " Accidental death."
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