The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-01 00:00:00

'EAMES-OFF.

2.500

On Monday a well-known thief, named James Hays, was
brought before Mr. Greenwood, on a charge of stealing coals
from a barge on the river.
It appeared from the testimony of a Thames-police con-
stable, named King, flint late on Sunday night he saw the
prisoner in a dredging-boat, among the craft lying near the
colliers off Stone-stairs, Ratelift: lie watched him, and ob-
served him to take a large piece of coal from a barge belong-
ing to Mr. Cloves, with which he immediately rode cff,
broke up the lump, and placed a quantity of other coals on
the top of it. The officer gave chase to the prisoner, who
attempted to row into Globe-stairs, Rotberhithe, where he
was caught, and taken into custody.
The prisoner said he was a Lambeth dredgerman, and he
broke up a coal which he had dredged from the bottom of the
river, because th• magistrates had convicted him, and sent him
to prison some time ago for having a large piece of coal in
his boat. _ .

Mr. GREENWOOD-01i no, you was not convicted of that;
it was because you stole the coals.
King said that the prisoner, like all other dredgermon,
mixed up a good deal of fair dealing with his dishonesty.
The coals dredged from the bottom of the river were laid
over those stolen from the craft. The difference was evident ;
those which bad not been overboard retained the dust, the
others were covered with mud and had no dust on them at all.
prisoner—l eatched them all honestly, your Worship ; you
see I puts down my dredge and brings cm up just like fish.
Mr. GREENWOOD—No, the fish are not to be caught in the
barges. What occasion had you for the hammer? Prisoner
—Oh, that was to mend the sculls with, Sir.
The officer stated that the hammer was used to break up
the stolen coals and reduce them to small pieces.
Mr. GREENWOOD sentenced the prisoner to fourteen days'
hipri!onment and hard labour, and ordered his boat to be
publicly burnt.
Plisoner I have had one boat burnt already, Sir. This
one belongs to Mr. Ilosier. I pay him eight shillings a week
for the loan of it.
Mr. GREENWOOD-You must send Mr. Hosier here. If
people lend boats for the purposes of plundering, they must
not expect to obtain them again.
The officer said that Mr. Hosier spoken of had been con-
victed of stealing coals more than thirty times.

Yesterday, an inquest was held at the Old Baptist's
Elead, Clerkenwell, on the body of Mr. John Pouns.
ford, aged 43, who committed suicide by nearly severing his
head from his body. It appeared by the evidence that the de-
ceased was a married man, and that a short time before ho
kept a public-house in Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell, when his
wife absconded from him, taking with her all the money he
possessed. The poor man was evidently broken-hearted, and
said that, in consequence of his wife's conduct, all his goods
had been seized fur rent, and that he was a ruined man. The
jury said it was a very afflicting case, and inquired of the
beadle where the widow was at the present time. The beadle
said she resided in the family of Mr. Thompson, solicitor, No.
48, Berners-street, Oxford-street. Other evidence was heard
which spoke to the deceased's distracted state of mind since the
desertion of his wife, after which the jury returned a rerdiat of
insanity.
JUSTICE TO SCOTLAND.—A petition is published
in the Montrose Review, emanating from the Local Liberal
Association. The object of the petitioners is to obtain a
ready adjustment of the empire's representation, and a larger
share to Scotland. " There are five '1411(40 Mcntbeol re-
turned from England and Wales, and only fifty-three from
Scotland. The population of England and Wales was, in
1831, six times that of Scotland, but the Representatives of
the latter country are only one-tenth of the number of those
returned by the former."

PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS,

ASSURANCE COMPANIES,&c. &c. &c.

LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. '2.7.
Number Dividend Pr'ce
of per CANALS. per
shares. Annum. Paid. Share
1,766 7 pet cent. Ashton and Oldham.... Average 971. 16s. sh. 135
1.482 4!. Ashby-de-le-Zouch Average 113/. sh. 65
1,260 Basingstoke lOO/ sh. 5
1,005 51. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150, sh. 100
6,000 1-16th. 91 64. 11irmingham, 1-16th share 81/. & 711. 220
4.000 Ditto and LI verpool Junet...1251 sh. 100 pd 26
600 31. Bridgewater and Taunton -.IOU sh. all pd 64
400 41 Chehner and Blackwater 100/ sh. 102
500 18/. Civentry 'OO/ sh 745
4.545 Croydon Overage 31/.28.10d. sh. 3
2,069 41. (13. Dudley IOW. sh. 63
6(10 14,. D:Aby 1001. sh. 133
20,000 4 per cent, i)antine and 1114yite
3,5751 3/, Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. 77
231 46/. Erowash 1001. its. '7OO
1,297 '291. Forth and Clyde Average 4411.165. ch. 585
11,900 191. Grand Junction. WI/. sh. 220
2,491 11. Grand Union 1001. sh 25
1.5044 (fraud Surrey
20,00/. V. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan lO3l. 70
3,098 Grand Western
600 13/. 1`... 6d. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/. Mr. 4d. 230
749 10t. Grantham 150/. 'h. 202
6,238 9.1. Os. Huddersfield leverage 571. Os. 60. sh. 37
100 Kensington 100 sh, all pd. 10
25,328 11. fa. Kennet sod Avon, Average:V )I.lBi. 10d. sh. 26
2,897; 241. Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. HO
5451 13/. Leicester l4Ol. sh. 9'25
1,897 6/. Os. Leicester anal Northampton... Aver sty. 1813. 91
2,400 101. Monmouthshire 100/.sh. 20.)
150 10/. Melton Mowbray 1001. rh. 200
500 '25/. Mersey and Irwell lOO/. sh. 565
3.000 1/. 10s. 'Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 52
247 17/. Neath 100/.811. 325
1,786 301. Oxford
2,100 5/. Peak Forest Avet..ge about 78/. sh. 104
1,418 12s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 16s. Bd. sh. 16
5,689 6/. per cent. rsochdale Average 8.5/. sh. 111
500 8/. Shropshire 1'251. sh. 138
800 9/. 10s. Somerset Coal 1501. sh. 1511
3,600/. 41 per cent. Ditto bock Fund Stock ............12! 10s. sh. llt
700 40/. Stafford and Worcester 149/. sh. 710
500 9!. Shrewsbury 1251. sh. LSO
300 9/. Stourbridge
3,647 2/. Os. Stratliad-on- Avon ...Average 791. 93. tad. sh. 50
533 15/. Swansea 1001. sh. 250
3,762 U. 15s. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av. 35/. sh. 27
2,60415 h. 32/. lUs. Treat and Mersey, 1 share 100/. ,h. 565
6,149 Thames and Medway...Aver. 19/.55. 3d. sh. 2
rsh.} 15/. Warwick aud Birmingham 1001. eh. 265
, oih.
980 114. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 200
6,000 4/. Os. Worcester and Birmingham... Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 798
5,000 2.51. Wilts an.s. Berks .. Average 67/. 10s. Bd. sh. 22
800 3/, Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75
tsvi %Visite:lel)
905 is, Wey and Arun ' 1101. sh. 22,
DOCKS.

1,6008( 1 3Commercial
p. o OOOl. sh. 56
1,065i5h
498,667 g ti eer ct. East India Stock 107
1,239,3101/. sus.p.ct. London Stock 57
Ditto Bonds 99
,380,000/. 41/. p. ct. West India
2,209 I& 19s. Bristol
68,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amount;
,352,752 5 percent. St. Katharine stock 901
500,000 4 i per cent. Ditto Bonds
200.000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years 991
Shoreham Hat hour
Deptford l'ier
S. 201. sh. 3/.
BRIDGE
1,1500 les. Hammersm Al • 5Ol. ah. 221
7,2-31 Southwark, Old Av. 63/. 2s. 83. sh. 2
1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, New, of 71 per cent, 501. ;h. 14
5,000 .... Waterloo lOO/. sh. 3
5,000 1.881 (3:1.. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. 6O/. pa 19
5,000 16s. Id. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 61
C. 0,0001. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds lllB
5,948 17s Vauxhall Av -.rage 701. 10s. 3d. ah. 18
ASiURANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 91101 Albion 500/. sh. 50/. pd 80
50,000 rill,e,:i cle,n,ll Alliance,Btitish & Foreign 1001. sh. 101/. pd 131
50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 1001. sh. 5/. pd 61
24,000 11 per sh. Atlas 501. sh. 51. pd 14
1,200 1111. 5/. Birmingham I ire 0501. ;h. 551. pd 1071
20,000 41. per cent. British Fire 5O/. sh. 501. pd 42
.3g,000 61.,000 1. pere cent.cent. ritNhc 0, ,_.. c A
'4,p00 21 Ilii County
,000 Si.
!,,,,,, c 5 per cant./
"' /and all nt. 3 Eagle 504. sh. 5/. pd ri
Clerical, 511.11,•11,&c. Life, ICOLsh, ‘21104 pd 4
Economic Litelool. sh. 10/. pd 42
50/. sh. 51. pd 5i
10001. sh. 2501. pd 375
; 2,271 225, percent. European Llic 2O/, sh. all pd 22
30,000 2s. Ditto, New
'OOO,OOO/. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 155
20,000 51' Guardian lOO/. sh. 2711 pd 331
40,000 Cs. 60. Hope
2,400 31. 7s. 60. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 501. pd 1261
: 7,500 9s. Imperial Lite 100/. ;h. 101. pd 10
13,45.9 41. per ceet. Indemnity Marine VOL oh. 81. p 4 20
2,020 31 10s Keet Fire
', 3/. Ditto Ufe 79
'llol'oo 10s. Law Life 1001. sh. 101. pd 251
.15,000 106. London, Fire 25/. sh. 121. 10s. pd In
3,900 10s. London, Ship 25!. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 16
30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Lila 501. sh. 21. pd 218 s Od
11+0,000 41. per cent. Protector Fire 01. sh. 2./. pd 17s Od
2,500 1/,
54. Provident Lite lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 20
Rock Life O/. sh. 11. pd
• 89,2'201 5/. per cent Royal Exchange Stock... 2-2
. 6,000 5 per cent. University Lite
501. sh. all pd 82
.
iOO,OOO
e 5 1
1001. sh. 51. pd 3
50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2l. pd
JOINT STOCK BANKS
'25,000 8 percent. Agric. andCumm. of Ireland 95/. ah. 10/. pd 14
! 5,000 Australasia
10,000 10 percent. Bank of Bit mingham SCI. sh. 10/. pd 13
10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank .... 50/. sh. 5!. pd 161
0,000 5 per cent. London and Westminster...lool ;h. 204 pd 911
.3,000 4 per cent. Lancaster 1001. sh. 201. pd no
25,000 Liverpool 1001 sh. 101. pd 23
50,000 71 per conk
Di Manchester and Liverpool}
scount lool.lh. 151 pd 20
90,000 7 per cert. Manchester 100/. sh. 25/ pd 27
20,000
20,‘ 00 National Bank of Ireland -.501. sh. 171/. pd 16
10,000 3 per cent. National Provincial Eng. ...1001. sh. 351. pd 34
10,000 Gloucestershire 5Ol. sh. 101. pd 20
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 501. sh. 5/. pd Si
GAS LIGHT AN I) COKE COMPANIES.
2,500 It La 6d Bath 2O/. sh. IV/. pd 24
6.000 ..... .... British 4Ol. ah. 161. pd 21
~,,„ c5/.percenti Ditto Provincial 201. sh. 19 d 221
Land Bs. Si.
928 51 lOs Birmingham 5O/. sh. 98
4,250 2/ Os Bristol 206. sh. 36
--- - -

1,500 3/ 10, Brighton '2O/. sh. 11
750 31 10s Ditto, New 201. sh. IS!. pd 10
2,471 41 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 17
4,000 41. Continental Cansolidated lOO/. B'2ll. pd 1)1)
1,000 101. City of London lOO4 sh. all pd 190
1,000 6!. Ditto, New
14,000 41.10 x. Equitable 5O/. pd 301
10,000 21 per cent. Imperial 5O/. eh. 45
800 5/. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sh. '2Ol. pd 20
2,350 6/ per cent. Independent 3O/. sh. all pd 481
9,000 31. per cent. Phoenix 50/. sit. 39/. pd 211
1,000 4!. per cent. Itatcliff 100/. sh. 601. pd 56
4,001) ."
South Metropolitan 54. sh. 191. pd 17
8,200 5!. per cent. United General 5O!. sh. 461. pd 291
2-10 5/. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 50
400 101. per cent Wakefield 25/. eh. 421
19,000 3!. Westminster Chartered
6,000 12e. Ditto New :11. all. 101. pd 91
BGO Yarmouth 201. sh. 18/. pd 9
WATER WORKS.
1,800 Os. Birmingham 251. sh. 25/ pd 211
4,4:34 6/. East London lOOl. sh. 149
6,500 21 105 Grand Junction ...,Average 411 13s. 4d. sh. 54
2,000 2!. Kent 100/ sh. 421
372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. 3=(3
1,500 2/ 10s New River London Bridge Water Annuities 58
0,186 11 15s Manchester and Salford ,lOO/. sh. 54
1,000 4 per cent. South 1,011.1011 lOOl. sh. 87
8,294 41. West Middlesex ....Average 63/. 12s. 9d. eh. 90
4.360 1! 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 35
IRON RAILWAYS. „
6,000 ...... ... Birmingham and Derby 24. pa 20
9,560 Birmingham and Gloucester
7,500 Birminzham, Bristol, and Thames Junction 01
15000 - Bristol and Exeter 1004 sh. 10 pd 8/
660 Calcutta and Saugur 5O/. sh. '2l. pd 01
7,500 Cheltenham and G. Western...! 001. sh. 711 6
3,000 .... ..... Clarence lOO/. eh. 1001. pd 29
12,000
8,000 ... ...... Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. 21 pd 2
60,000 Eastern Counties 25!. alt.ll/. pd 21
Grand Junction 1001. sh. 95/. pit 161
Great North of England
5,000 Great Weatern lOO/ sh. 65/. pd 871
2,000 Hartlepool 1001. sh. 1001 pd 100
8,000 Hull and Selby 501. sit. 10/. pa 61
10,1106 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 14
2,1110 31. per cent. Leeds and Selby 100 eh. 41
1,5(4) 11.55. Leicester and Swannington ....512. sh. all pd '75
5,100 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester...lol.l.sh. 100/. pd 195
10 per cent. Ditto Quarter Shares 25!. pd 61
36,1100 London and Brighton 501. sh. Sl. pd 18
12,000 London and Blackwall 501, sh 31. pd 1
20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich "0/, A. 201.0 1
25,000 London and Birmingham ...1001. ah. 410/. pd lf
Ditto Quarter Shares 51. pd
20,000 London and Southampton....so/. sh. 501. pd
Ditto ditto New
7,000 London and Croydon Trunk AV. sh. 251. lid
7,000 Ditto Scrip 141. sh. 5/. lid
19,000 London Grand Junction... 5O/. sh. 5/. pd
10,000 Manchester and Birmiugharn...7o/.sh. 71. pd
North Midland 100/.ak. 251. pd
. .... .

Northern and Eastern lOOl. sh Pl. pd
2,600 Preston and Wyre 50/. Bh. 304 pd
28,000 South Eastern and Dover 71. pd
1,1/00 10/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington lOOl. sh.
9000
1.400 Westminster and Greenwich 501. sh. 2/. pd
6,000 York and North Midland ...50 . sh. 12/. pd
MINES.
8,000 Albion Copper 5l. sh. V. pd
4,000 1/. ss. Alten 151. sh. 121. 10s pd
10,000 ......... Anglo Mexican, iss. 5/. pin.... 1001, sh, all pd
Ditto Subscription 'l5l. pa
2,000 In/. Bolanos l5Ol. sh all pd
10,000 11. 108 Brazilian Imp. iss. 5!. pm. 351. alt. 'lO/ pd
6,01 0 Macaubas & Cocaos United 251. sh. 231/. pd
11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey 201. :h. 91. pd
10,000 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. 201. pd
10,000 ......... Ditto Scrip 104 sh. Al. pd
20,000 British Iron ‘,Ol. all. 501 pd
6,000 British Copper 5/. sh. 41/. pd
Cata Branca 611. pd 9
Cainlonga
10,000 11 Copiapo 2O/. sh 1211 pd 63
8,500 ... Columbian, iss. 51. pm.
2,850 3/. English
20,000 General Minii.g Assoclation...2ol. sh. 151. pd 10
6 m ,155 Mexican Company 100/. sh. 5514 pd 2
:3,000 Polhertm Console. lO/. sh. 81. pd 3
11,500 Real del Monte, Unregistered
Ditto Loan Notes . 1504 1:d lto
‘11.0.10 United Mexican, iss. 2 pin
-40!. slt, all pd 31
Dart. Scrip
Ditto New Scrip 5l 'W pd 4i
West Cork 50!. sh. 50/.
pd 38
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS.
000
, 7sgs, sh. 2.'1
1,500 London Univt.•rsity ...............1001. sh. all pd 234
Russell
700 "Lgs. all, 9
King' College ................. 100/. pd 26
MISCELLANEOUS:
10,000 15., Australian Ahrictltural....loo4 sh 281/. pd 40
6,000 41. per cent. British American Land Company ... 2al. pd 13
1,,,,,00 01 per cent. Canada Company ...............1004 sh. 28/. pd 32
Ci ty
200,0i0 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan 951
Bonds, 4 per cent lOl
15,00) 11. Os. general Steam Navigation ...154 sn. 134 pd =II
101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock
2,000 IL London Coin, Sale Room: Av. 751. sh. 19
8,000 Caoutchonc Company ..........251 sit. 211. Pd 11
New Brunswick Land Compasiy 43/. pit 11
2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interestsc,,,..loo/. ii, I pot pd 1301
,2,(z,3 5/. per cent. Ditto New 1004 :h. 701. pd 36
4,10 'I hames Tunnel 501. eh. all pd 6
10,000 t',.. Van Die.net.'s Land 1001. sh. 171. pd 14;

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LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES,
JAN. SO, 1838.
BANKS.
1,500,0011. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland ail. 68. Stl. sh. all pd 1901.
2,000,03X1. 51 p. et. Royal of Scotland 1001. sh. all pd 1..9i/.
500.0 /Cl. Sp. et. British Linen Company IOUs!). :.11 ixl 2301.
3.000,0001. 6/. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 1001. pd 175/.
5.000,000( , ,-.. a Nn,tional lOO4Bll. 101. Pd 1611,
2,000,000!. 61. p. ct. Glasgow Union 250!. sh. 50/. pd 694
4000,00/. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 200 L sh 301. p(1 40/.
INSURANCE COMPANIES.
25(.0005h. 61p. ct. Scottish Union 201 sh. 11. pd 25:s
7,502 61 p. ct. Hercules lOU sh. 101. pd 13/ 15s.
100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ....101. sh. all pd 51.58
50,000 6p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 101.4x1 141
1,000 5 p. et. Caledonian Fire 1001 Fh. Fa pdl9lo.
5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh Life.
......,..., 1".
sh. 101.}I 14110 s
101. pd 71 Os 100,000 31 p. et. West of Scotland ...

id4ISCELZANEO US.
4,610 ..,... Etlin. :aid Glas. Un. Cana1...501. sh. all pil i',2.1.
44400 5 per cent. FAlinb. Joint Stiocli Wa
Ditto Allocated v„ , j:),61 sii. all pat 65/.
CAMPi iT9II COiriji.any'iar,...2sl. sit
......2501. sh. all pd 451.
q,000,i11 15 per cent, itintl.3 Iron Founder), 40/. sh :Sq. pd 44 .
10,060 3 per cont. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2Ol. sh. 16!. pd Si.
. all pd 351.
4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 251. sh. all pd tsB4.
4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 251. sh. all pd 611.
'750 71 per cont. Loith Coal Gas 201. sh. all pd 451.
I ,'2OO ... ...... Edinburgh sndDalkolth Har.way...so/. sh 601.
3,0011 5 per cent. Equitable Loan Companym",sl,lll, W. pd 101.

MR lIANDLEY, M.P.

AbDRESS TO TIIE LANDLORDS AND FARMERS
OF ENGLAND.
Mr. H. Handley, the patriotic Member for South Lincoln-
shire, has just published a most powerful letter to Earl
Spencer ( President of the Smithfield Club), on the forma-
tion of a National Agricultural Institution, in which there is
more interesting information, more profound thought, and
more valuable suggestions than arc to be found in any recent
publication connected with the agricultural interest. Mr.
Handley commences his letter by showing the immediate
causes that produced it:—
" My Lord—The following pages, written with the vtew oI
arousing the attention of my brother agriculturists to the ad-
vantages which might be derived from fhe formation of an In-
stitution to promote Practical Agriculture on Scientific Prin-
ciples in England, would probably never have been submitted
to the public, but for the observations which fell from your
Lordship when presiding at the Smithfield Club Dinner on
the llth of December last.
" It was most gratifying to me to find that the project withal
I had long cherished, bat which I had almost despaired of
seeing effected, had engaged the attention of your Lordship,
and was hailed with acclamation by the numerous company of
agriculturists there assembled.
" In canvassing the subject heretofore, I have found filet
the comparative failure of the Board of Agriculture, once
deemed worthy of a Parliamentary grant, and for more than
twenty yeas carried on under the zealous and able superin-
tendence of the late Sir John Sinclair, has been frequently
quoted as a discouragement to any similar attempt. In this
objection there appears to be but little weight. The Board of
Agriculture existed at a period when it was least likely to
attract the settled attention or command the energies of agri-
culturists. It was discontinued, too, at the precise time
when, as subsequent events have proved, it ought to have
been established.
" A period of war is ill suited to national improvements of
any kind: during the continuance of war prices, when half
a crop remunerated the grower, and the most slovenly far-
mers amassed wealth, the ustell inducements to extraordinary
exertions were wanting ; and we of the present day, to whom
the quotations of " wheat from six to eight guineas per quar-
ter" are but as dreams of fiction, arc not only not surprised
that our more fortunate predecessors did not effect more—
we only wonder that, if possible, they did not exert them-
selves less.
"In 1817, however, the date when the Board of Agri-
culture ceased to exist, a new era was about to open upon
us; and without discussing the debateable causes of the de-
pression of agriculture, which has since ensued, whether aris-
ing from the transition from war to peace, the resumption of cash
payments in 1819, excessive importation or over production,
it is sufficient to have ascertained that a vast reduction has
taken place in the prices of agricultural produce ; and it is at
least prudent to anticipate that for the future we must look to
comparatively low prices, sulecet of course to the variations
which seasons and circumstances must from time to time ne-
cessarily entail.
" Farmers are, I believe, at length convinced, that it is not
in Parliamentary interference that they must seek a remedy.
" Repeated inquiries have terminated in repeated disap-
pointments. It is to their own energies and their own re-
sources they must look, and by cheapening the cost and in-
creasing the amount of production pave the way to future
prosperity."
Mr. Handley then goes on to chew the wide field of im-
provement open in every department of agricultural science
and practice. lie contrasts the ingenuity and industry of the
manufacturers and merchants with the apathy and obstinacy of
the farmers. The following extracts give a general view of
his objects and reasoning :
" Science—by which is to be understood, that knowledge
which is founded upon the principles of nature, illustrated by
demonstration—is the pilot that must steer us into those hi-
therto imperfectly explored regions, where I am well convinced
a mine of wealth is still in store for British agriculture. Che-
mistry, Botany, Entomology, Mechanics, require but to he
invited, to yield us a harvest of valuable information to guide
and to warn us.
" What has been the course adopted by our enterprising
manufacturers? Had they been satisfied with the inventions
which chance, or the intelligence of their artisans, might have
discovered, in vain would they have struggled for the proud
ascendancy which they now hold in the scale of the manufac-
turing world. How truly has it been said, that a Manchester
manufacturer, who had been absent from England for the last
seven years, would be ruined, if, on his return now, he endea-
voured with his former processes to compete with the almost
daily improvements of his indefatigable and intelligent rivals.
How many thousand acres of land would the bleaching onerai
Lions of Manehester alone require—what enormous capiltlii
would lie stretched for weeks unproductive on the sward-et"
how impossible would it have been to have completed the ac-
cumulated orders from foreign customers, had not
citemistry
furnished a cheap and rapid substitute ?
" How much of scientific research must have been ern
oe,
ployed to unite for their ingenious purposes the products e
all climes, as has been so forcibly demonstrated in the case 01
the commonest printed calico, which the talented author of a
recent pamphlet observes combines the united products of
the four quarters of the earth—the cotton of America, the
indigo of Asia, the gum of Africa, and the madder of Europe
—all brought from remote regions to produce a rustic's gown-
piece.'—(Mr. Cobden.)
The consequences of the increased production that would
arise from agricultural improvement would, to the community
at large, be almost as beneficial as the repeal of the corn
laws. It would so much increase the supply as to most ma-
terially lessen the price, and by increasing that supply at
borne rather than from abroad, it would encourage the em-
ployment of native labour in preference to that of foreigners.
Though we deprecate the Corn-laws, we are warm and de:
e:ded friends to the agriculturists, whether as regards physical
or moral effects, the healthy frame, or the innocent life, we
should prefer a land of farms to a land of factories. At the
same time, Mr. Handley, the champion of the agriculturists,
confesses, that with regard to information, activity, anti intel-
lectuality, the farmers ate immeasurably behind the inhabi-
tants of towns, a hint, by the way, that ought not to be lost
upon Government, as to the preference they profess for the
agricultural over the other interests of the country, for the ex-
tension and exercise of the franchise. Those who desire a
a repeal of the Marquis of Chandos's clause, will also find ill
this admission a very powerful argument.
Mr. Handley's plan is to form a great national association,
to give prizes for all agricultural discoveries and improvements,
the meetings of which, like those of the British association,
shall be held in different districts, every year, taking in turn
London, Lincoln, York, Norfolk, Cambridge, Northampton,
Derby, &c. We highly approve of it, and recommend every
one interested in agricultural matters, to direct their booksel-
less to send to Messrs. Ridgway, for this very valuable
pamphlet.

CURE OF THE DEAF AND DUMB.—An amusing
anecdote is told of Grimaldi's having restored a dumb person
to speech by causing him to laugh immoderately at the Ogre
(Sadler's Wells, 1807), and the fact seems to be well at-
tested:—" The man, who apppeared an intelligent, iwell-
behaved fellow, said that in the earlier -part of his life
could both speak and hear very well, and that be had attribe-
tel his deprivation of the two senses to the intense heat of the.
sun in the quarter of the world to which ho had been, and
from which he had very recently returned. He added, that
on the previous evening he had for a lone time felt a powerful
anxiety to express his delight, at what was passing on the
stage, and that after some feat of Grimaldi's, which struck
him as being particularly amusing, he had made a strong effort
to dcliverthis thoughts, in which, to his own great astonish-
ment no less than that of his comrades, he succeeded.'
• Boe.

POWERFUL MUSICAL BOXES, in wood.
eases, 12 inches long, by $ inches wide, each playing Feur Airs, with
the mechanism finished in a very superior manner, are offered for
Five Guineas each. Also a few of the same description, with Six
Airs, price Seven Guineas each, at T. COX SA V ORY'S, Working
Silversmith, Goldsmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhilk, London
(Seven Doors from (Iracechurch-street).
N. R. The small musical boxes, 3i inches long, continue selling
in tin cases, price 19a. each, or in composition shell EOM, at
each.

BIRTHS.
On the 24th ult., at Stratford-groen, Essex, the lady of Wilson
Jones, Esq., M.P., of a son.
On the 23d ult., in Bernere-street, the lady of Frederick 11510
'Thomson, Esq., of a son.
On the 24th ult., at Bennett's-hill, Birmingham, Mrs.Wkatell'
of a daughter.
On the 23d ult., at Portland-place, Camberwell, Mrs. Edward
Hockley, of a son.
On the liith ult., at the Vicarage, Great Dunmow, Emma, M".
Lewis Majendie, of a son.
On tho 14th ult., at Hastings, Mrs. C. K. Johnstone, of Alloa,
of a daughter.
On the 23d ult., at Streatham-hill, Surroy, the wife of
Carprnael, Esq., of a daughter.
In Montagu-place, on the 23d ult., Mrs. Edmund Ray, of a
daughter.

MARRIRD.
On the 21st ult., at Sutton, near Hull, Mr. John Lloyd, Of
Shrewsbury, to Jane Margaret, fourth daughter of the late Mr'
Wm. Stower, of Gracechurch-street.
On the 22d ult., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Horatio.
Harris, Esq., solicitor, Teribury, to Mary Anne, only daughter of
the late W. Hodges, Esq., solicitor, Ludlow.
On the 23d ult., at Harlington, Bedfordshire, Frederick Woo'l-
ham Nash, Esq., of the Inner Temple, to Mary Anne Elizabeth,
youngest daughter of the T. Vipan, Esq., of Thetford, Norfolk.

DIED.
On the 13th ult., in the Rue Nuevo de Berry, Paris, aged 61'
Mrs. Alcock, wife of George Aloock, Esq., dau,,,,,hter of the late O.
Low ther, Esq., of Kilrush, in the county of Meath, and great-.
grand-daughter of General Ponsonby, who full in the battle a
Fontenoy.
On the 21st ult., at Brighton, Ellen Susannah, youngest daugh-
ter of Major-General 11. Glatlivie, of Stubbing-court, Derbysl"rai
aged 62.
At Southwell, Netts, on the 231 ult.,aged 91, the Rey. Riel"
Barrow, Vicar Choral of that Collegiate Caghurch, for 64 years.
On the 23(l ult., at Ilighgate, aged 62, Lieutenant Jas. Browne?
Royal Navy.
On 7th of December, on his passage to England, on board the
"Palmyra," Jackson Perring, Esq., of the Inner Temple, barrister-
at-law, eldest son of P. Perring, Esq., of Torrington-square, tb"
Queen's Deputy Advocate at Ceylon.
Ott the 24th ult., at Islington, Matilda, the wife of Mr. Ufford,
aged 28.
On the 23d ult., at Judd. street, Brunswick.square, John
Gilmour, Esq., aged 48.
On the 23t1 ult., Mary, wife of Mr. Davies, of 4, Cork-street,
Burlington-gardens. Buller

London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of M.
112, Strand, at The Sun Otliee, No. IP', Strand, iu the county
.slickllciex.—Thursday, March 1, 1838.

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