The Sun.
London, England, 1838-12-01 00:00:00

THE COAL TRADE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Yesterday Mr. Bradfield waited
upon the Lord Mayor for the purpose, in the first place,
of returning thanks to his Lordship for the assistance ren-
dered by his Lordship in the exposure of the system by
which abuses in the coal trade are carried on, to the great
injury of the consumer, and the great advantage of those
parties who were coLcerned and interested in raising the price
of the commodity; arid in the next place to inform his Lord-
ship of the effect produced upon the Coal and Corn Commit-
tee by the representations which had been made, and of the
wholesome orders issued by that Committee
The LORD MAYOR— If any good has resulted from our fre-
quent interviews on a subject of such vital importance to the
community, lam extremely glad to hear it. To you, no doubt,
the credit of great industry is due.
Mr. Bradfield—ln consequence of a summons which I re-
ceived, I attended before the Coal and Corn Committee on
Wednesday last, that being the day appointed for tie con-
sideration of my petition, praying that more weighers should
be appointed, and that the by-laws passed by the Navigation
Committee in 1833, by which an increased number of colliers
should be placed amongst the tiers in the river for discharge,
might be enforced. I must state to your Lordship, as a pre-
liminary, that the fee of 11. 3s. 6d. was demanded of me as a
petitioner. But although I before have paid it, I would not
submit to the exaction on the present occasion.
The LORD MAYOR-Whatl a petitioner for an object of
such vast public utility called upon to pay a fee of 11. 3s. 6d. !
It is monstrous.

His Lordship was informed that the officer who demanded
the fee had paid a large sum for his situation, and that the fees
of the office were regularly fixed by the Corporation.
The LORD MAYOR—Admitted that such is the fact, the
demand of a fee in such matters is most scandalous.

Mr. Bradfield—l have the great satisfaction to inform your
Lordship that, according to my suggestion, the Coal and
Corn Committee appointed ten more weighers on Tuesday
last, and that an additional number of colliers have been
placed in the tiers in the Pool, so that the supply to the public
will be considerably facilitated. It is said, however, that the
changes were made quite independently of my application.
Your Lordship's concern for the poor has done a great deal;
and I wish you would send your recommendation for the ap-
pointment of ten more weighers, and for the admission of fif-
teen more ships into the tiers, for the purpose of effectually
carrying out the regulations of the Navigation Committee in
1833, by which it was determined that 180 colliers should be
in the tiers in the Pool at the same time. My Lord, it was
supposed that the Coal and Corn Committee would have made
their report on my petition in the Court of Common Council
on Thursday last, but I was there all day, and no report was
made. I must watch that no trick is played by them.
The LORD MAYOR—I really must not allow you to attack
the gentlemen who constitute that Committee, and whom I
know to be men of integrity and honour.
Mr. Bradfield—lt was in the Mayoralty of Alderman Gar-
rett the trick was played. The Committee were guilty of
the grossest neglect of duty by delaying the report from time
to time, and doing all they could to stifle the matter of com-
plaint. I must watch the next report, for the public are all
interested in it. A reduction has taken place in the price of
coals since the alterations were made, but what would the price
of the commodity have been by this time if your Lordship had
not assisted so powerfully by your condemnation of the prac-
tices which were so well known to exist in the trade? At
the time I allude to, in Alderman Garrett's mayoralty, I com-
plained of the use of false certificates, by which the worst
coals were substituted for the best. I regret to say that Rus-
sell Wall's Ends, which were by far the best coals that could
be got, are now extinct.
The LORD MAYOR—WeII, Mr. Bradfield, I have ordered in
70 tons of coals this week, and I told those to whom I gave
the order to take care of you. . I can only say, that if you
happen to be in the neighbourhood at the time they come you
are very welcome to look after them.—(Laughter. )
Mr. Bradfield—l am extremely obliged to your Lordship for
your courtesy to me, as well as for the willingness with which
you attended to the details I have entered into from time to
time, arnl I have no doubt that that your Lordship will re-
ceive the warmest thanks of the community, for what 3 ou have
done and caused to be done.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)

TIMES.—An application has been lately made to the Board of
Trade by parties interested in the coffee trade, with reference to
certain modifications of duty on that commodity, which deserves to
be more generally made known. It is stated therein, that the
" quantity of coffee grown in the British possessions, and that im-
ported from British ports, or places within the limits of the East
India Company's Charter," is not " equal to the demand for the
home consumption." Assuming this to be correct, it remains to be
considered how the deficiency may be supplied without detriment
to the revenue or to the interests of the consumer, still keep-
ing in view the protection enjoyed and demanded in favour of
goffee of British colonial growth. This is proposed to be done
by the trade by a reduction of duties both on the article
grown in and direct from a British possession and on
that imported (rim a British port in a British ship. The
duty on Coffee from the West and East Indies is now ficl. per
toimd, which, it is suggetted, should be lowered to aid. per lb.
The ditty on coffee brought from pritish ports, or places within the
limits of the East India Company's Charter, at present rated at
Od,, it is proposed to reduce to 7d. per lb. By this plan the pro-
tecting duty would be increased from 235. to 325. Bd. per cwt., for
the " benefit of the growers of coffee in the British possessions.
and extending the advantages a the British merchant." From
the increase of congunVtion it is fairly eoptended that the revenue
would suffer no loss, proof of which might readily be adduced with
respect to other kinds of merchandise, which reduction of duties
has tended most materially to increase the cousumption, and more
especially where, as in the case of coffee, the relief was upon that
description of commodity meet generally in use an the people at
large. As a uttens of greater security, as well as profit to the re-
venue, it is further urged that the sale of chicory should be prohi-
bited
by those who are i, licensed to deal iit coffee," from which
an actual
"augmentation" in the produce of the coffee duty might,
it is asserted, be
the result. These propositions are altogether,
perhaps most, recQsn
Public, an therefore
for the consumers, Tended by the relief which may be anticipated
interests, although constituting the body
by fiscal questions like °re
by
of the
far the largest class of those affected
w4e.thethe
present, are rarely consulted, or indeed
I:mgrievance chances to press also upon
somseucmhortne powerful, bat extensive, interest above them.
at all, excepting
ef riZilfficautties on thei
bimetal a
tradingl.tygould materially facilitate the
with Brazil, Cuba, and the Spanish
rn,anmuruaestt serve
channel of malting returns, and therefore more
3opiaeirna,tivronhse:
expellsi",
for British to some extent
Although the export traffic with these countries and merchandise.
has been mostly
on the advance fora long time,
to contract the demand
and the tariffss
expected, it is su •
favourable as can be . fficientl
generally are as
Y clear that such in-
crease of demand and consumption has not been equal to what
n expected from the wants of liter •
might have been easing and pros-
perous to what ld
populations, and wonlave been the l
perous populaevent
been presented for the had
a
more equitable opening raw products,
much in
The Funds remain ls were
a shade worse for the opening, for which they 1 ~,1
c-os 94 sellers, and

for Money 934 to 4. Bank Stock was 2024 to 3; India Stock
261 to 2 ; Exchequer Bills 645. to 665. ; India Bonds 61s. to
635. premium.

CHRONICLE.—Money has again been in demand to-day, and
to a considerable extent, especially for the manufacturing districts,
where we are glad to learn business generally is getting more brisk.
This led to a good deal of business in Consols, and various fluctua-
tions occurred, but the closing quotations were the same as yester-
day, namely, 93% to 3/4 for Money, and 93% to 94 for the Ac-
count. The price for Money was marked during the day as low as
931/2, while the lowest price at which they were done for the Ac-
count was 9374, showing clearly the desire which existed of dis-
posing of stock for immediate payment. Exchequer
.Bills are ls.
higher ; the last price being 645. to 665. prem. India Stock has
receded 1/., and left off at 26114 to 2621/2. Bank Sfock continues
at 20214 to 203. Foreign Securities were all particularly heavy,
in consequence of the state of the English Stock Market, and some
of them suffered a considerable depression as compared with the
price and the limited business transacted in them. Brazilian Stock,
however, was also influenced by the tenour of the advices received
from Rio de Janeiro, which are considered unsatisfactory as far as
the finances of the country are concerned.
Shares continue without any business of moment.
The rates of exchange were heavy to-day. There was a good
demand for bills on the Continent, but there were but few to be
procured. The rate on Paris, three months, is 25f. 62ic. to 25f.
65c., and short, 25f. 40c. to 25f. 421 c. ; Hamburgh, 13f. 10c. :
Vienna, 10f. Bc. ; Trieste, 291. ; and Leghorn, 40f.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool was again very active yester-
day, at an advance of nearly id. per lb. The speculators appear
to have no doubt that the material will very fully maintain the pre-
sent advances, as amongst their reasons for supposing that the sup-
plies will continue deficient is, that the accounts from the United
States represent the planting of wheat and Indian corn as going
forward to an extraordinary extent, in
consequence of the high
prices which prevail in Europe, and which it is believed will also
continue to prevail for a very long time ; consequently the plant-
ing of cotton must be discontinued, and the crop be deficient in a
very extensive degree in the course of the ensuing year. The rise
in cotton yesterday in Liverpool has occurred, it must be borne in
mind, in the face of the total suspension of the Continental trade,
the exports of yarn, &c., having ceased for the season. A vessel has
arrived at Hull, which had to be cut out of the ice at Amsterdam
only a few days since, which shows that the winter has set in
rigidly.
file letter of Sir Thomas Lethbridge ou the question of the
Corn-laws has been the subject of much conversation at the Corn
Exchange. Universal praise has been bestowed not only at Mark-
lane but in the city generally on this sensible and admirably-timed
appeal from a gentleman of so much influence amongst the land-
holders themselves, nor has anything appeared on the subject
throughout all the present discussions which seems to be considered
as so powerful a blow to the Corn-laws, or which could more for-
ward the grand national interests which are so involved in their
repeal. The fixed duty of Bs. or 10s. which Sir Thomas Leth-
bridge proposes, in place of the present fluctuating scale, the corn
factors appear to acquiesce in as perfectly moderate
and fair, for there would be nothing in this rate of duty to
prevent the steady cultivation of corn in Poland and Germany
for the English market : and yet a difference of ten shillings
per quarter, in addition to the charges of carrying the corn to
England, would be an abundant protection to the better description
of corn-growing soils in England; whilst the inferior soils would
be more used for pasture, and the production of vegetables, which
would be doubly required for an increasing and more prosperous
manufacturing population through the markets which would be
opened by the free trade in corn. That this or some other decisive
movement in this all-important subject must be made by the Ad-
ministration in the ensuing Session of Parliament is now consi-
dered inevitable, for the letters from Manchester, Birmingham,
Sheffield, and Leeds are daily filled with observations on the
alarming prices of the necessaries of life amongst a population
already in a state of the greatest agitation on other political
grounds ; and indeed some of the writers appear to con-
sider this as the subject on which the grand trial of
the Melbourne Administration must be expected to turn,
since the continuance of the opposition to a free trade
in 'corn will leave them without the support of a considerable
number of the members for the manufacturing counties, and the
whole of the members of the manufacturing towns. In the city it
is very generally thought that the Ministry are slumbering on this
subject, and to be not sufficiently aware of the tide which is setting
in against the Corn-laws ; but, undoubtedly, the well-expressed
opinions of Sir Thomas Lethbridge will now be of considerable
weight. Some persons remark also upon the circumstance that
as the ports will now be again opened to the free admission of
foreign corn in two, or at the utmost, three weeks from the present
time, this, as occurring before the closing of the navigation, and
thus allowing of the importation of any corn which can be pro-
cured, will be a clear and unanswerable proof of the deficiency of
the foreign supplies. In the interim we regret that everything
looks daily more gloomy for the population during the winter
months, for the crop of potatoes, which, according to Sir Thomas
Lethbridge and others, is a deficient one, is about to be still further
diminished by very heavy orders which arrive by every packet from
New York for the United States, where the whole crop is described
as having failed, in consequence of the drought. A still more con-
siderable rise in the price of grain is fully anticipated by all the ex-
tensive factors at Mark-lane, and every thing tends to render para-
mount over all other subjects that of the anticipated changes in
the trade in foreign corn: There has been a further rise to-day in
Mark-lane.

HERALD.—The demand for money has not at all abated ; in
fact the increased pressure has caused higher rates of discount upon
bills and interest upon stock to be submitted to than we could sub-
stantiate yesterday. In the former instance in many cases sto 6
per cent. have freely been given, and in the latter 5 per cent. and
upwards. The determination of the Bank of England to grant
loans at ai per cent., will perhaps shortly influence the market va-
lue of money. At any rate it is evident that the Bank direction
have been brought to this decision as much by the late competition
of the private and joint-stock banks, which affected their business
and profits, as by the necessity for that determination in order to
effect a counterpoise in the money market.

PO ST.—Some surprise has been expressed by parties in and about
the Stock Exchange, that the Bank notice which appeared yesterday,
as it is one of a much more comprehensive character than those that
have heretofore been issued of late, should not have produced a
greater effect upon the Money Market, as also upon the value of the
public funds and of joint-stock property ; but the fact is, the inten-
tion of the Bank Directors to make the alteration they have made
was pretty well-known to every body, and as generally acted upon,
or, technically speaking, " discounted" several days since. No es-
sential change, either for the better or for the worse, was therefore
to have been expected by any reasonable and intelligent person.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

BY THE QUEEN-A PROCLAMATION.

VICTORIA, R.
WHEREAS our Parliament stands prorogued to Tuesday
the fourth day of December next, we, with the advice
of our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare, that
the said Parliament shall be further prorogued, on the
said fourth day of December next, to Tuesday the fifth day
of February next ; and we have given order to our Chan-
cellor of that part of our United Kingdom called Great Britain,
to prepare a Commission for proroguing the same accord•
ingly ; and we do further hereby, with the advice aforesaid,
declare our royal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament
shall, on the said Tuesday the fifth day of February next, assemble
and be holden for the dispatch of divers urgent and important
affairs: and the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and the Knights,
Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and
Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and com-
manded to give their attendance accordingly, at Westminster, on
the said Tuesday the fifth day of February next, one thousand eight
Hundred and thirty-nine.
Given at our Court at Buckingham Palace, this twenty-ninth
(lay of November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight,
and in the second year of our reign.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.

WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 30, 1838.
34th Regiment of Foot—Lieut. C. B. Roche, from the 45th
Regiment of Foot, to be Paymaster, vice G. Ledingham, who re-
tires upon half-pay, Nov. 30.
42d Foot— F. Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
M'l)onald, who retires, Nov. 30.
48th Foot—Brevet ANT. P. J. Willats to be Major, without
purchase, vice Reed, deceased, Nov. 4 ; Lieut 11. Alountsteven to
be Captain, without purchase, vice Willats ; Ensign C. F. Henry
to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Mountsteven ; Serjeant-
Major A. Corcoran to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Henry,
Nov. 30.

63d Foot—Lieut. E. S. T. Swyny to be Adjutant, vice Jones,
retired, Nov. 30.

70th Foot—O. Pilling, Gent„ to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice May, deceased, Nov. 30.
87th Foot—Lieutenant R. S. O'Brien to be Adjutant, vice
Middlemore, who resigns the Adjutancy only, Nov. 30.
Rifle Brigade—Lieutenant G. K. Carr to be Adjutant, vice
Viscount Jocelyn, who resigns the Adjutancy only, Nov. 30.
Royal African Colonial Corps—Ensign W. Snowe to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Machperson, deceased, Aug. 27 ;
0. L. Wood, Gentleman, to be Ensign without purchase, vice
Snowe, Nov. 30.

UNATTACHED—LieUt. A. Matson, from the 22,1 Regiment of
Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, Nov. 30.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—W. St. J. Boyle, M.D. to be Assistant-
Surgeon, vice Thompson, appointed to the 17th Regiment of Foot
Nov. 30.

DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
GEORGE GRAY, livery.stable-keeper, Brunswick-street,
St amford.street, Blackfriars-road.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
GEORGE HALL, bankNeserKileAßrl,uanpTcThoets.
Tottenham-green,
R -green, Middlesex,
PETER YOULE, book
to surrender Dec. 3, at twelve, and Jan. 11, at eleven,
at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Clark, St. Swithin's-lane, official asseiegnele7;
Tucker, Bank chambers, Lothbury.
ROBERT EDWARDS, timber-dealer, Liverpool, p
and Jan- 11, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Carson
Liverpool ; Taylor, Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row,,
Loudon.
MAS CLAXTON, tailor, Norwich, Dec. 10G,raenedn,Jaonfficliall
assignee,H
0
at eleven. at. the Bowling-green Inn, Norwich. Daveney, Nor-
wich ; Forster, Lawrence Pountney-place, London.
JOHN REDDALL, carpenter, Bunhill-row, Dec. 13, and
Jan. at
tk eleven,erro aAldermanbury trth;e
FCosotuerrtanodf
LByaonnk,r Bankruptcy.
s ..treet-hill
JEAN FRANCOIS ISIDORE CAPLIN, milliner, Great
Portland-street, Marylebone, Dec. 7, at twelve, and Jan. 11, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official assignee,
Ironmonger-lane; Bailey, Shaw, and Smith, Berners-street,-Ox-
ford-street.
JOHN BROWN, merchant, Sheffield, Dec. 14, and Jan. 11,
at the Town .hall, Sheffield. Tattershall, Great James-street, Bed-
ford-row, London ; Mole and Marples, Sheffield.
JERVIS FORRESTER, maltster, Caverswell, Staffordshire,
Dec. 14, and Jan. 11, at twelve, at the Swan Inn, Hanley, Jen-
ings, Bolton, and Jenings, Temple, London ; Redfern, Leek.
JOHN KNOWLES, counterpane manufacturer, Bolton-le-
Moors, Lancashire, Dec. 13, and Jan. 11, at eleven, at the Swan
Inn, Bolton-le-Moors. Johnson, Son, and Weatherall, Temple,
London ; Pendlebury and Maychell, Bolton.
MATTHEW SEYMOUR lONN, coal•merchatit, Surrey,
Dec. 11, and Jan. 11, at eleyen, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Turquand, Copthall-buildings, official assignee; Fleming, Trinity-
square, Southwark.
THOMAS BELL CARRUTHERS, cheesemonger, Dowgate-
hill, London, Dec. 13, and Jan. 11, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Green, Aldermanbury, official assignee; Hill, Copthall-
court.
HENRY DAVID GREEN TRUSCOTT, otherwise HENRY
TRUSCOTT, upholsterer, York-road, Lambeth, Dec. 13, and
Jan. 11, at twelve' at the ourt of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basing-
hall-street, official assignee ; Cates, Robert-street, Adelphi.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
D. M'Nicol, merchant, Liverpool, Dec. 21, at one—R. Janes,

poulterer, Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square, Dec. 21, at 11—F.
Sherwood, builder, Cornwall-road, Lambeth, Dec. 21, at half-past 11
—L. Audemars, watch-case manufacturer, Dean-street, Westminster;
Dec. 21, at half-past twelve—C. Pearson, manufacturing chemist,
Greenwich, Dec. 21, at half-past one—A. Dunn, chemical manu-
facturer, George's-row, City-road, Dec. 28, at twelve—J. Hamil-
ton, wholesale ironmonger, Broadway, Westminster, Dec. 22, at
half-past twelve—S. Charlesworth, grocer, Shoreditch, Dec. 22, at
twelve—D. Clark, merchant, Broad-street-buildings, Dec. 22, at
eleven—W. Charleton, white lead manufacturer, Berners-street,
Commercial-road, East, Dec. 22, at half-past one—G. and A. Re-
mington, cabinet makers, Oxford-street, Dec. 21, at twelve.
In the Country.
W. Welch, victualler, Birmingham, Dec. 21, at twelve, at the
Royal Hotel, Birmingham—T. Griffiths, banker, Bolton-en-le-
Moors, Dec. 28, at twelve, at the Commercial Inn, Bolton-en-le-
Moors—S. Alcock, hat manufacturer, Birmingham, Dec. 22, at
twelve, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham—R. S. Irish, wine
merchant, Worcester, Dec. 20, at twelve, at the Bell Inn, Worces-
ter—J. Lomax, paper manufacturer, Stockport, Dec. 21, at eleven,
at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester—G. Tonks, sen., S.
Tonks, and G. Tonks, jun., lamp manufacturers, Bordesley, War.
wickshire, Dec. 22, at eleven, at the Hen and Chickens Hotel, Bir-
mingham—J. Beard and J. B. Herbert, timber dealers, Glouces-
ter, Dec. 29, at one, at the office of Mr. Washbourn, Gloucester—
G. Blenkin and W. Shackleton, merchants, Kingston-upon-Hull,
Dec. 22, at eleven, at the George Inn, Kingston-upon-Hull—C.
Beasley, draper, Birmingham, Dec. 21, at one, at Dee's Royal
Hotel, Birmingham—J. Miller, nurseryman, Bristol, Dec. 28, at
two, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol—G. Sharland, wine mer-
chant, Exeter, Jan. 16, at twelve, at the New London Inn, Exeter.