The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-09 00:00:00

MAIL TENDERS.

The Post-office has recently issued Tenders for
carrying the letter-bags in the London District Post.
They differ from all previous Tenders in intimating a
readiness to permit the carriage of the mail bags
by conveyances of any description whatever, as well
those taking passengers as those taking only parcels.
It appears, also, that such conveyances whilst carry-
ing the bags are to enjoy the privileges of the mails, in
being exempt from tolls, and having their conductors
equipped in the Post-office uniform. No doubt such
conveyances will be permitted to call themselves mails.
These terms seem very well worth the attention of the
respectable Proprietors of Omnibuses, which are punc-
tual in their journeys, but which the public at pre-
sent have no means of distinguishing from the slow
and loitering Omnibuses. The insignia of the Mail,
stamps the conveyance with the character of speed and
punctuality, and the public prepossessions have long been
enlisted on the side of Mail Coaches.

The Post-office Tenders seem also to offer a good
opportunity for establishing single horse carriages to
carry two or three passengers and parcels requiring
despatch besides the letters.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

(FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.)
(From the Morning Chronicle.)
The attempts of the Tory press to undervalue the import
Lance of the intelligence received from China can excite no
feeling but ridicule among those who remember their for-
mer efforts to magnify the very difficulties which they now
affect to disparage. " A party of policemen despatched
after a herd of pitiable runaways," is now the only simili-
tude which the Times can find for a war which, a few
months ago, it designated in more sonorous language, as
" an arduous contest with an empire of boundless popula-
tion and resources, in which Britain had been involved by
the presumptuous rashness of an imbecile Administration."
It is all very well for the Tories now to turn round and
declare that success was easy and certain: their language
was very different before the event. We have already had
occasion to allude to Sir James Graham's highly wrought
picture of the difficulties and dangers with which a British
force would have to contend, in carrying on a war in
such a distant and unknown quarter of the globe.
Nor was the language of Sir R. Peel less emphatic.
Do not conceal from vourselves," said the Right
Hon. Baronet, in his seised; to the House on the memo-
fable occasion of Sir James Graham's motion, " do not
conceal from yourselves the perilous nature of the conflict
in which you are now engaged, a conflict which must ne-
cessarily be uncertain in its result." And in the conclu•
sion of his elaborate harangue, he solemnly declared,
" that the only consolation he could flee amidst the
gloomy prospect of impending calamity, was thet fur-
aished by an appeal to the Almighty Disposer of events to
avert the disasters and disgraces with which the nation
was threatened, and which, in his deliberate opinion,
were mainly attributable to the neglect and incapacity
of its rulers." And now, when the " neglect and in-
capacity of its rulers" Lave carried the country to a
triumphant termination of the difficulties which once
appeared so formidable, what shall we think of the can-
dour which, in order to deprive political opponents of
their just mced of praise, endeavours to represent
the enterprise ,wbich has been attended with such
glorious success, as of little more consequence than a
street affray bet ween a party of policemen and a runaway
mob ? Be it so, if the Tories like ; they cannot escape
bon this dilemma. Either the war with China was at-
tended with difficulties which required the exercise of
skill, judgment, vigour, and dscision, to bring it in such
a short space of time to a favourable conclusion; or Sir
Robert Peel and all the principal leaders of the Tory
party made the most egregiously mistaken estimate of tle
aspect and posture of affairs which ever exposed the
incapacity of political pretenders. The announcement of
signal suecesses in China appears a strange opportunity
for reviving the old story, which we imagined ta-
r vents of the East had pieety well disposed
of, of the misconduct cf Ministers in reducing
the naval and military establishments of the coun-
try, and sacrificing its interests and honour to the
narrow views of a mistaken economy. Syria cleared of
an hostile army of 60,000 men in a few weeks; the
famous fortress of Acre, which baffled the efforts of Napo-
leon, 'captured after a couple of hours' cannonade; the
British fleet in the Mediterranean reinforced in the course
of a single autumn to a strength which renders the idea of
contesting our naval supremacy absolutely hopeless ; and
at the very same time an expedition sent to the opposite
extremity of the world, which dictates an honourable and
advantageous peace to the Emperor of three hundred mil-
lions of men, at the gates of his capital : these are
results which few, we imagine, except the writer of
the Tinies, will con true into Hoots of the "inefficiency"
of our w:.r.ilte establishments, and the "imbecility"
of the Government by which they are created
and directed. On the contrary, if we mistake not
greatly, the country will see, in this accum,,lation of for-
tunate events, a signal proof of the falsehood of the
accusations which have been so unsparingly hurled against
the Ministry, of allowing the army and navy of Britain to
fall into decay ; and, at the same time, a no less signal
proof of the wisdom of the policy which refrained from
lavishing the resources of the country in raising our esta-
blishments to a footing altogether uncalled for by the
exigencies of the occasion. In estimating the degree of
merit due to Ministers for the success which has attended
their measures, it must not be forgotten that these suc-
cesses have been attained without imposing upon the coun-
try the sacrifices which uccessarily accompany extraor-
dinary efforts. No new taxes have been imposed—no new
loans have been raised—the course of commerce and peace.
ful industry has not been for a single moment disturbed,
rod yet results have been obtained as important as any
which in days gone by were purchased by the lavish ex-
penditure of blood and treasure. Surely it is an
abuse of language to call " good fortune" the sagacity
which discerned the true posture of difficult and cc impli-
cated affairs, and kept the naval and military establish-
ments of the country at the precise footing which rendered
them sufficient to meet every event, an&yet entailed upon
the country no unnecessary burden or expense. This is
what the Tories sneer at as carrying on " little wars,"
We know that their passion is for a very different sort of
war—a war diversified with a few Walcheren expeditions
and Continental subsidies, and ending with a grand finale
in the shape of eight hundred millions of debt, and a
shower of titles and pensions on those who have been in-
strumental in crcaticg it. The country, however, has had
enough of wars like these, and in the absence of any more
Tory " great wars" with " little results'," will, we believe,
feel pretty well satisfied with the Whig system, of "little
wars" with" great results,"

(From the .iltorning Advertiser.)
How the Tory Press, after all the evidence which has
lately been laid before it of the success of the existing Go-
vernment in all its foreign relations, can by possibility lay
the flattering unction to its soul of being able to substAute
a Tory for a Liberal Government, it is impossible to com-
prehend, upon any other principle than that of such an in-
sane rage for office as to blind it to the most self-evident
truths ; for if facts be any test of the folly or wisdom of
counsel, facts must now speak trumpet-tongued in favour
of the Melbourne Cabinet. If the result of a measure be
the perfect attainment of every one of the objects in
view, what higher gratification can the Government have
for the policy by which they sought to vindicate the
honour and interests of the country, than the news re-
ceived from India and China ? Granted that the means
of forming a correct opinion of the resources and power
of the Chinese empire were to a certain extent imperfect,
does it say nothing for the sagacity of the Government
that formed a better opinion of them than the Tories, and
that they planned and executed with success what the lat-
ter deemed to be hopeless ? Does it say nothing for it
that while the Tories, blinded by faction, and careless of
all the moral bearings of the case, insisted upon a "base,
dishonourable, vile submission" to the inflated and insolent
Asiatics, the Government, on the contrary, contended that
the time had arrived for settling upon a safe and honourable
basis our future relations with them ? Had the Tories suc-
ceeded in their attempt to eject the Ministry on this ques-
tion, their policy, judging from their speeches, would have
been to have shuffled ingloriously out of the dilemma
with, perhaps, the sacrifice of the two millions of pro-
perty confiscated by the Chinese. Instead of advancing
our power against the walls of Pekin, we should have
had, according to the Duke of Wellington's memoran-
dum, the melancholy spectacle of a couple of supercargoes
sent out to bring things back to their former bearing,
backed by a " stout frigate" making periodical visits to a
port seventy miles distant from Canton. The moral effect
of such a policy, both upon the Chinese themselves and
upon the natives of India, at the time in question suffici-
ently unruly, may be easily guessed at ;—insurrection and
rebellion against our supremacy in the East would have
spread far and wide AfFghanistan would have been
lost to us—the Burmese have protested against our
dominion, and Nepaul have poured forth her millions
of brave inhabitants upon the fertile plains of India ;
but mark how the scone is changed ! India is tran-
quil from east to west, and from north to south—
Dust Mahomed, notwithstanding the predictions of Sir
It. Peel on the 'musing of a vote of thanks to Lord Keene,
has surrendered all his hopes and expectations : and,
finally, everywhere has the Government succeeded either
in placing our foreign relations upon a secure footing, or
advancing them to a full expectation of early and satis-
factory settlement. Our " little wars," if little they are
to be termed, have succeedrd better than European con-
flagration, in establishing the constitutional thrones of
Spain a,id Portugal—the integrity of the Turkish empire
—and our maritime and commercial interests;—and all
these achievements have been accomplished at the expen,.e
of the enemy, or without any great additional tarnition,
It is not long since the Tory press resounded with
daily diatribes Against the cowardly supineness of the
Whigs, and their visible neglect of the surest defences
of the country. We fancy, however, that we shall
hear no more either of its supineness or its imbecility, after
the events of the last few monthS in Syria, and the last ac-
counts froth China. To return, however, to the point
nom which we act out—sec ask- again, with what face can
the Tories attempt to turn out the men who have thus
guided the helm of the State through ao many dangers and
difficulties? Let 'them do so, if they think'proper, and
the nation will then be able to judge whether their motives
arc factious cr patriotic. I: knows how directly contrary
to its present good fortune would have been the result had
tire Tories been in power—it knows that we should have
failed in every= of the objects in I,4pb we have sec- ,

ceeded, had the views of Sir Robert Peel been acted
upon instead of those which have directed the policy of the
existing Administration.

FROM THY DAILY PAPERS or YESTERDAY.
(From the Globe.)
It is a settled thing that we never shall hear the last
of Lord Cardigan. If his Lordship should ever be
raised a step in the Peerage by some Ministry more ca-
pable than a Whig one of discerning his merits in her
Majesty's service, he should certainly assume the title
of Marquis of Carabas ; as that is the only title that
ever was more in men's mouths than his own
Chapeau bas 1 chapeau bas 1
Gloire au Marquis de Carabas 1

The addition of Baron Blackbottle would complete
the euphony of his new honours ; and eternise the fame
of exploits which have already pushed Guy Fawkes
from his stool, and superseded every staler incident in
the stock of pantomime. Attila was chronicled as the
Scourge of God; and assuredly Lord Cardigan, though
by somewhat another construction, may be designed the
Scourge of the Horse Guards, no less than the 11 th
Hussars. There is no existing in the service, either
above or below him. Earth cannot bear two suns ; nor
can the army well bear one Cardigan. He has the fame
of cashiering Commanders-in-Chief as surely as subal-
terns. Whatever comes in contact with him is a mere
black bottle to brass ! Ills robur et ws triplex circa
pectus.

He doth bestride the narrow world,
Like a Colossus ; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs ; and peep about
To find ourselves disbonourable graves."
There is however, a tide .in the affairs of men ;
and there are some indications of the tide turning
against the unchallengeable and unpunishable Earl who
commands the 11th Hussars. The public are
aware that some delay has occurred in noticing
the resignation sent in by Captain J. W.
(black-bottle) Reynolds. We should like, merely for
curiosity, to know whether it is the fact that Captain
Reynolds has been sent for to the Horse Guards,
earnestly requested, and offered his own terms, to
withdraw his resignation ? It is the fact that, after all
his applications to Lord Cardigan for the shortest leave
of absence, to pursue professional studies, had been
refused, he now obtains, as the condition of withdraw-
ing his resignation, the longest leave of absence he
thinks proper to stipulate for, with the understanding
that he is never again to be required to serve under Lord
Cardigan? Perhaps the Post, wha plays Puss in Boots
to the fame of the future Marquis of Cambay, can en-
lighten us as to these points, after due advice from head-
qua; ters.

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(From the Standard.)
The Globe on Wednesday promised some severe
animadversions upon our " credulity," " extrava-
gance," " disreputable conduct," " folly, and
falsehood," in stating, upon the authority of our
Liverpool correspondent, that " Frost had been -par.
Boned, and appointed •to a respectable clerkship in
the colony" of New South Wales—our Contemporary,
at the same time " gave the most absolute and
comprehensive contradiction to all and each of the
statements" of our Correspondent's communication,
which it was pleased to call " this fabricated
letter." The chastisement of the Standard,
and the proofs supporting the most absolute and
comprehensive contradiction" were threatened for
Thursday (yesterday), but on looking very carefully
through last night's Globe we cannot find one word
in redemption of the promise. The plea of " pres-
sure of matter" too cannot be offered as to the omis-
sion—for the number was in this tespect what is called
technically a " thin number," made up of four or five
leaded articles, the most of them relating to matters of
secondary interest, letters upon speculative subjects,
literary reviews, &e. It is possible, though not pro-
bable, that the Globe conceives its pledge to have
been redeemed by the commentaries upon its
threat given in yesterday's Morning Post ; but though
we who are compelled to a con4tant observation of the
conduct of newspapers, cenect doubt that the most
intimate understanding subsists between the Whig- Rl-
dical Globe and the mock Conservative Morning Post,
still the friendship or rather identity of the two con-
cerns is not so well known to the public that the
service of the illornigg Post can be taken in
satisfaction of the promise of the Globe. We,
therefore, conclude that the Globe last night
said nothing, because it had nothing to say, in
fulfilment of its rather violent and very rash promise
of the night before, The now ascertained fact, that
Frost has been appointed immediately upon his land-
ing to a respectable clerkship in the colony of New
South Wales, settles the question of "an absolute
and comprehensive contradiction of all and each of
our correspondent's statements :" such a contradic-
tion must be clearly unfounded ; but we think that the
fact referred to settles the whole question, proves that
Frost has been laoth pardoned and rewarded, and, if
Sir John Franklyn be not a downright idiot, pardoned
and rewarded in consequence of an arrangement made
at home. •

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(OLD CO UR T.)
(Before Mr. Justice MA ULE. )
James Stevens, a Post-office letter-carrier, was charged
upon two indictments, with robbery, while employed in
that capacity, at the General Post-office.

Mr. SHEPIIARD and Mr. ADOLPHUS conducted the pro-
secution. Mr. PHILLIPS and Mr. CLARKSUN defended the
prisoner.

The first charge was that of stealing a 51. note, from
a letter, and the second was for stealing a gold medal, also
in a letter. The facts of both the cases have been fully
given within the last few days, and it will therefore be
unnecessary to repeat them.
The prisoner was acquitted upon both charges.
William Summer,
40, was indicted for stealing a quan-
tity of copper, the property of the Mister and Assistants
of t Ro
Copper and Zinc Company.
Mr. CLARKSON conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
BALLANTINE the defence.
It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutors have
a warehouse in the CJty of London, and they have mines
at Swansea, and an catablisnmerit at flarefield, in Middle-
sex, where the metal is
,manufactured. The course of
business was to t-aria.rint tne metal to London, and- it was
then sent to Brenttord by the river, and from thence to
Captain
li'rci lid
of one
'inb
of thesearges on
theage
earand. The prisoner was the
he took advantage of
his corm, ction with the establishment at Harcfield, to ab-
stract a large quantity of copper, in which act he WC 3
' t a good
assi,,ted by a young man, named Bignall, who was com-
mitted for trial with the prisoner, but who was subsequently
admitted as a witness in support of the prosecution.
Mr. BALLANTINE addressed the Jury for the prisoner,
and c
character j
forhonesty a witnessesral
general
propriety
ro rphr o gave
Mr. Justice MAULE haying addressed the Jury, they re-
al l se v eyf conduct. hire
re-
turned a verdict of guilty, but at the same time recom-
mended the prisoner to mercy lon account of his previous
good character.
The prisoner was sentenced to he imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for eighteen calendar months.
Mr. CLARKSON stated that there were other indictments
against the prisoner and another person, who was not yet
in custody, and aho was charged with feloniously receiv-
ing the property that had been stolen by Summer. The
witness Bignal would give material evidence on the pro.
secution of that indictment, and he had to pray that he
should be kept in custody until the next session.
The COURT ordered that Bignal should be kept in cus-
tody until next sessions, unless he found sureties for his
appearance to give evidence.
( Before the RECORDER.)
John Wingfield, 22, and William Kennedy, 24, the two
young men who were convicted on Wednesday evening,
the former for robbing his employer, Mr. Simpson, a silk-
mercer in Regent-street, and the latter for receiving the
property, knowing it to have been stolen, were again I
charged upon another indictment, Wingfield with robbing
his employers, Messrs. Hepwell and Goodgames, silk-
mercers, of gloves, cloth, silk, and other articles ; and
Kennedy for feloniously receiving the property. The pri-
soner Wingfield pleaded guilty, but Kennedy abided his
trial.

Mr. C. JONES appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
PHILLIPS for the defence.

1 The evidence exhibited a most extensive and impudent
system of robbery carried on by the defendants. Wing-
field, it appeared, obtained a situation with the prosecu-
tors, who have extensive establishments at Polton, in Bed-
fordshire, and St. Neots, Huntingdonshire, as a shopman,
and it seemed that, from the moment of his entering the
situation until he left it, he robbed his employers of pro-
perty of all descriptions,
which was immediately packed off
to the other prisoner in London, where it was disposed of
by him. Wingfield remained in the service until the
17th of December, when Mr. Shrosberry went from
home on business : and directly he was gone, Wingfield told
another shopman that the country
was tco dull for him,
and he should leave; and, without giving any notice, he
packed up his things and left the place. Mr. Shrosa
berry returned in a day or two, and the sudden disappear-
ance of Wingfield created some suspicion, and an exami-
nation of the stock took place, when it was found that a
quantity of property had been stolen. The prosecutors
proceeded to London, where it was aseerte.ined that Ken-
nedy and Wingfield bad been lodging at a house in John-
street, Blackfriars-road, where a box was found, in which
were a number of letters in Wirgfield's writing, addressed
to Kennedy. These letters 6arty showed the conspiracy
to plunder which existed between the. prisoners. The ob-
ject of the prisoners, in disposing of the property in Lon-
don, appeared to be to avoid a chance or the stolen
articles being traced,
anl eernest iejanctions were given
in all the letters written by each of the prisoners to the
other, to destroy his ktters: an injunction which, fortu-
nately for the ends of justice, they both disregarded, arlit
-...
this led to the apprehension of the prisoner Kennedy, and
to the ultimate conviction of bath.
Mr. PHILLIPS addressed the jury, and said that, after
the facts which had been disclosed in evidence, it would be
hopeless
h effoorr eh itrnh i it ot
transaction. therefore leave the nrisoner in the -hands.of the dory and
The RECORDER summed up,
the Court. There was no reason to. doubt tint ti,e pri-
soner,es:tineptitotno. cbournr:aat
good
them,ha:: and e
ti.s: er must
that fact would, no doubt, have its due weight with the
Court.
prisoner Guilty. . .
There were other indictments ogainst the same priseners
of a similar character, but the Court intimated that it was
and the Jury found the
unnecessary to proceed with them.
The prisoners were then called up, for judgment, and
the Recorder, after commenting upon the enormity and the
the utter heartlessness of the system of plunder that Wing-
field bad been carrying on upon his employers, sentenced
both the prisoners to be traaaported for fOttliCeti years.

Mr. JONES then addressed the Court, and said,
that the prosecutors in this case had been kept in
London at a very great expense, and he hoped the
Court would think that under the peculiar circumstances
of the case, the most liberal scale of allowance in the
shape of expenses should be given to them.
The RECORDER saiai was a most proper prosecution,
and he did certainly think that the prosecutors ought
to ho allowed liberal expenses. It was a case of the
very greatest importance, not only to persons in trade,
but to the public in general, and it was very essential
to the interests of justice, that persons who could be ca-
pable of carrying out such a system of fraud and plunder
upon their employers, should be prosecuted to convic-
tion. It was a melancholy case, but it afforded another
instance to those already, unhappily so very numerous, that
education—mere intellectual education without a moral
and religious one, had very little hold upon the human
mind.

Both the prisoners were genteel.looking young men,
and it was stated that the relations of Wingfield are highly
respectable, and that at the death of one of them he would
be entitled to the sum of twenty thousand pounds.
Charles Beddle, alias Preddle, aged 24, was convicted
of a burglary, and stealing several: pairs of shoes, and
was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour,
for one year. A man named Walker, who was tried
with the prisoner was acquitted.
This case concluded the business of the Session, and
the Court adjourned to Monday, Feb. I.

SENTENCES ON THE PRISONERS.
The Session having terminated yesterday, we subjoin
the principal sentences passed upon the prisoners.
Transported for Seven Years—Thomas Williams,
Frederick Dunbar, Thomas Andrews, John Jones, alias
Burnham, Patrick Norey, Mary Ann Marsh, William Hut-
ton, William Hutchinson, Sophia Cooper, Thomas King,
Daniel Dalton, Mary Sullivan, Peter Gann, John Smyth,
John Brown, John Morton, George Brandon, John Oakley.
For Ten Years—William Miller, John Froter, William
Needham.

For Fourteen Years—Martha Williams, Thomas Spink
man.

IMPRISONMENT AND HARD LAROVR.

For Two Years—J. Smith.

For Eighteen Months—Joseph Powell.
For One Year—Henry Dickens, James Cann, Mary
Lanbeth, Thomas Smith, Peter Brown, Ellen Moriarty,
Peter Collins.

For Nine Months—Charlotte Kay.
For Six Months—Caroline Hughes, Mary Ann Woods,
Henry Frederick Powell, John Healey, Sarah Towers,
John Stafford, William Parsons, alias Green, Henry
Day, John Oxley, Ellen Day, Samuel Swift, Jahn O'Datt,
Mary Murray, J. Harris.
For Four Months—Philip Samway, William Harwood,
Thomas Smith.

For Three Months—Ellen Moriarty, sen., Patrick San-
tree, Ann Williams, Sarah Giles, Michael Hunter, Tho-
mas Harrison, Frederick John O'Chadlin, Charles Jones,
John Smith, Joseph Matthews, Thomas Mixon, Samuel
Jordan, Alfred King, Thomas King, William Jones,
Johanna Connor, Patrick Mahoney, Daniel Donovan,
J. Henry, John Allen, Eliza Davis.
For Two Months—Samuel Clifton, Sophia Watts.
For One Month—William Smith, Eliza Ferris, George
Kirby, Richard Freeman, John Brown.
For Three Weeks—J. Clark.

SEWERS OF WESTMINSTER AND

PART OF MIDDLESEX.

The Commissioners of KwerA for the City .and Li-
berties of Westminster, held their Est ordinary meet-
ing for the present year, at their office, Greek-street,
Soho, yesterday, at half-past twelve o'clock.
T. L. DONALDSON, Esq., was in the Chair.
The Court waited a considerable time in conse-
quence of there not being a sufficient number of Com•
inissioners present to form a quorum. The account
of the progress of the works in hand was read and
signed by the Chairman. The cheques for the pay-
ment of the Officers' Salaries, amounting to 6531. 15s.
were signed, and also the cheques for the Collector's
roundages.
Mr. BIRD stated that he had tendered the Ges
Company 1,6961. 13s. Id., which had been refused, in-
asmuch as the rule had been drawn up, for the pay-
ment of that sum and costs to the Gas Company.
This was contrary to the decision of the Court, which
had paid not one word about costs. The Clerk of
the Court; when the subject was mentioned to him, ac-
knowledged his error, end gave them a correct rule.
This the pl,lintiffs refused to abide by. and stated that
they would take the opinion of the Judge on it. To
this of course they could not consent without applying
to the Commissioners, and therefore the money ha
not been paid.
The SOLICITORS read their report on the question
proposed to them as to the powers of the Court to
alter the names of persons by the Jury as liable to be
rated, which stated that they were of opinion that the
Court, in cases where it was clear that such alteration
was necessary for the purposes of preventing the doing
an injustice, did possess such power, and that the duties
of the Jury were distinct from those of the Commis-
sioners. The Juries presented the property liable to
be rated, and the Court determined the amount of the
rate ; and the Court, being a Court of Justice and Re-
cord, had a power, and were bound to administer jus-
tice to all parties ; and might, in proper cases, correct
the presentment of the Jury. The Jury possessed only
the power of inquiry ; they had no power to make
rates ; that belonged exclusively to the Court.
Mr. LESLIE said he totally dissented from the doc-
trines laid down in the report. He would move that
it be printed, together with the repOrt of Messrs. Smith,
of the 4th November last, and circulated among the
Commissioners.—Agreed to.
Various applications for new sewers were made and
granted, and warrants granted for the payment of money
for works done.

Letters of thanks from the different parishes ; also
from the Librarian of the British Museum, for the
copy of the plans presented to them by the Commis-
sioners, were read.

The CHAIRMAN stated that he had also sent a copy
of the plans to the Prefect of the Seine, at Paris ; to
the Commissionel of the Ponts et Chaussces of the
same city, and also to the authorities in Berlin.

Mr. WHITE suggested that a copy should also be
sent to the Library of the House of Commons.

, -
J. Frisby, the proprietor of certain small cottages in
Perrin's-place, was summoned for irregtilar drainage,
and stated that what he had clone had been done through
ignorance, and that if he had violated the regulations of
the Court, he was very sorry for it. Having heard
what he had to say, he was ordered to withdraw, and the
Chairman suggested that the authority of the Court
had been sufficiently vindicated by bringing him before
it, and that all that would be necessary would be that
he should be warned as to his conduct for the future.
The Court agreed to this suggestion, and he was
called in and warned accordingly.
Various appeals of no public interest were heard and
decided.

Shortly after two o'clock the Chairman retired, the
election of Chairman for the ensuing year having been
fixed to come on at two.

Sir G. FARAANT was called to the chair pro tem.
Mr. WHITE, in a neat speech, moved a vote of
thanks to Mr. Donaldson for his services as Chairman
during the past year, _ _

Mr. BEACH seconded the motion, which was put and
carried nena. con.

Mr. I'. H. JOHNSON moved that Mr. Donaldson be
requested to take the chair for the ensuing year.
Mr. WILLOUGHBY seconded the motion.

Mr. LESLIE considered that no such motion could be
entertained before three o'clock, according to the rules
of the Court, which absolutely prevented any such
motion being put before three o'clock, inasmuch as it
was perfectly competent to any Commissioner before
three o'clock to propose any other person for Chairman.
He apprehended there was no occasion for any motion
for the re-election, inasmuch as the rule stated, that if
no new Chairman were proposed before three o'clock, the
old one should be considered as Chairman for the
ensuing year.

Air.-ADEY considered it quite clear that no person
could be declared elected as Chairman before three
o'clock.

Mr. LESLIE said that at some future occasion it might
be requisite to consider whether they ought not to
have some men of very high legal attainment in the
chair. He did not mean that as any objection to Mr.
Donaldson, nor had he at present any intention of op-
posing that gentleman. He thought it was undesirable
Mr. Donaldson should have quitted the chair at all,
and had he had any objections to state to that gen•
tleman's re-election, he would much rather make them
in his presence than in his absence.
Sir G. I' ARRANT considered the rule badly worded,
and hoped it would be altered.
Mr. Hawims considered the rule an excellent one,
and hoped it would not be altered. He thought there
was no necessity for the Chairman leaving the chair
before three o'clock.

Mr. LESLIE said he could see no reason why the
business of the Court could not go on until three
o'clock, with Sir George Farrant in the chair.
Mr. MuLLINs wished to ask the Clerk whether any
circulars, other than the usual ones, had been ever
sent out to certain of the Commissioners, and not to
others?

Mr. ADEY thought
.the Clerk ought not to answer
the question.

Sir G. FARIIANT could not put the question, ac it
bad no reference to the business before the Court.
Mr. FRANCE wished to know'who had received the
letters ?

Mr. MULLINS-Mr. France has, as I have been
told.

Mr. LESLIE thought that it was very wrong for any
one to interfere between an ctlicer of the Court 2:;:l a
Conanissioncr. He (Mr. would ask the question
of the Clerk.

Mr. ADEY objected to Mr. Leslie attempting to put
a question to the Clerk which the Chairman had re-
fused to put. It was an insult to the Chairman.

...„
Mr. HAWKES corsidered it very wrong to interfere to
prevent the Clerk answering.
S G. FARRANT would put the question in his own
way• Do you, or not, send out the regular notices to
al! the Commissioners

Mr. LEsLIE-;;;;gia(1 the ice was broken, for Sir
Gorse Earant's quostion had no more to do with the
husintls now before the Court anti Mr. Mullins'.

Mr. BEACH considered that as Mr. Mullins had only
asked his question upon hearsay, it ought not to be
answered.
Sir GEORGE FAREANT.--Mr. Mullins do you accuse
the Clerk.

Mr. MULLlNS—Certainly not, I ask for information.
Mr. LESLIE said, that the moment the Chairman
was appointed he should ask the question of him. Ii
it were answered No, there would be an end of it ;
if Yes, an inquiry ought to be instituted. It would
be putting a Commissioner in an invidious situation
to propose him as Chairman, and if he were to do so,
he should do it merely for delay, but he considered it
disgraceful that such a fence should be attempted to
be thrown round the Clerk.

Mr. ADEY would, if he were Chairman, refuse to
answer.

Mr. LESLIE wished Mr. Mullins would speak out.
Mr. MULLINS said that he had been informed that
if the question were put an answer would be returned
in the affirmative. It they wanted evidence he would
summon up all the Clerks, and ask them if such no-
tices hnd been issued.

It was announced that three o'clock had arrived ;
and the motion for the re-election of Mr. Donaldson
was then put and seconded.

On Mr. DONALDSON entering the room,
Sir GEORGE FARRANT communicated to him the
vote of thanks which had been passed, and announced
to him his re-election.

Mr. DONALDSON, on resuming the chair, acknow-
ledged the compliment which had been paid him, end
returned thanks for his re-election.

Mr. LESLIE said it had been reported that Mr. Herts-
let, the clerk, had been in the habit of sending private
letters to certain members of the Court. He gave no-
tice that at the next Court he should ask whether the
Clerk had sent out circulars to select members.
The CHAIRMAN would rather answer the question at
once. When he knew there was important business
coming on he wasin the habit of sending to the Com-
missioners to whom he could send, being his private
friends, requesting them to come early to form the Court.
On this day he could not do so, and the consequence
had been, that they had had to wait.
Mr. MULLINS thought the answer satisfactory.
Mr. LESLIE could not but admire the plain, straight-
forward way in which the Chairman tad answered the
question, but he thought the practice objectionable.
He always came to his time, and not for the purpose of
particular motions. He regretted the course which had
been adopted, and hoped it would not be continued, as
it was liable to abuse.

Mr. ADEY always attended to defeat vexatious mo-
tions brought forward, rather for public notice than
public good.

GOD. ALEXANDER believed the Chairman's objcct
solely to he to ensure an early attendance.
Sir GEo. FARRANT - said letters were constantly
written to seenre attendance in the House of Commons.

Mr. LESLIE would ask if such letters were issued by
the Speaker and the Clerk of the Hopse
The CHAIRMAN would take care that for the future
the notices should not be issued by the Clerk of the
Court but by his own clerks.
Mr. LESLIE would, had such an avowal been made an
boor ago, have opposed his re-election.
Mr. FRANCE would have answered Mr. Muilins's
question, had he not understood that that gentleman
proceeded on anon3imous information.

The CHAIRMAN interfered to order, and called cn
the Court to proceed with the regular business.

A communication from the Marquis of Normanby,
relating to the sewers in the neighbourhood of Buck-
ingham Palace, was read, and ordered to be referred to
the surveyors.
Various notices of intended sewers were read.
Mr. LESLIE—With reference to the motion of which
he had given notice, he wished to ask Mr. flcrtslet whe,
ther any such private notice had been sent out fiir to-day
The CLERK --None, Sir.

Mr. LESLIE —The❑ I withdraw my notice of motion.
A letter was received from a person who had sus
twined injury in consequence of his fan], into a sewer
h► Chelsea, which was left in an unfenced state. T 1
attention of the p,hochial authorities had been called to
the subject, and they had undertaken to do what was
necessary.

Mr. Coinbes, the individual in question, was called in,
and described the nature of the accident, and was in-
formed by the Chairmain that the parochial authorities
had had their attention called to the subject.
Mr. FULLER reported that he had examined the
books of accounts, and found them correct. They were
thereupon ordered to be signed by the Chairman in the
usual manner.

The account of Commissioners' wages was laid on
the table.

Mr. LESLIE said that some received the wages, and
some did nor. Now he thought that it ought to appear
in the ledger.

The CLERK said that they would be obliged to open
150 new accounts in the ledger. At present they had
one account of Commissioners' wages in the ledger, and
the particulars appeared in a subsidiary book.
Mr. LESLIE—There was an item of 2541. 4s. for
general attendance. Was that for the whole ?
Toe CLERK—Yes.

Mr. LESLIE—Then you have received my wages-
Suppose Ido not receivt. them. They were received by
you. and applied to the others' dinners.—(Loud cries of
Oh, oh.")
The CLERK—The account was debited with it, but
the money was not drawn. I have not received the
money.

Mr. LESLIE—There is a balance of 701. for attend-
ance, which you have carried forward. You have re-
ceived that, and therefore you have received my wages.
The CHARAIAN—Mr. Hertslet you must say yea or
nay. Have have you received Mr. Leslie's wages.
The CLERK—No, Sir.
Mr. LELSIE—The balance on the account is 701.,
and having received that, Mr. Hertslet has received
my wages. I will appeal to Mr. Fuller, who has exa-
mined the accounts.
Mr. FULLER—It is in the nature of unclaimed divi-
dends.

Captain PAYNE said that Mr. Leslie had confused
himself with the accounts, and now wished to get out of
the mire by appealing to Mr. Fuller.
The CHAIRMAN said that the book which he held in
his hand explained the real state of the accounts, and
that, if the Commissioner wanted his wages, he could
draw them at any time.
Mr. LESLIE—Then you have charged my wages
against the public, ever since I have been a Commissioner.
The CLERK—I am obliged to do so. The rule is,
that the Clerk shall charge the Commissioners' wages,
and retain it until the Commissioners, in writing, shall
direct what is to be done with it.
Mr. LESLIE—Then the fact is, that the Clerk has
received my wages.
The CHAIRMAN—It is retained as a balance, which
cannot be applied to any other purpose ; and he must
show to the Court your receipt, to discharge him.
General ALEXANDER—The Commissioner's com-
plaint is that the Clerk has it instead of the rates.
Now he can, if he likes, order the Clerk to pay it to
the rates.

Mr. LESLIE would do so, and would advise the
Clerk to apply it to that purpose. He should like to
'see the account closed every year, and those who had
received the money should give a proper account for it.
The CLERIC—I can give Mr. Leslie his wages from
December, 1837. I will have a regular account made out.
Mr. LESLIE—Arid when I receive it, at the next
Court I will give you an order to pay it to the Western
Division of Rates.

Various tradesmen's bills were ordered to be paid.
Certain bills of various expenses were laid on the table.
Mr. LESLIE said that 4m. a day, their wages, was to
pay all Their expenses. Now, they had gone to ex-
penses for views.l
The CHAIRMAN said they must have a room.
Mr. LESLIE—You must pay for it out of your wages.
If you are determined to have your 4s. you must have
it, but I will endeavour to prevent your having Bs. He
objected to these accounts being kept open, and ba-
lances carried forward. They ought to be closed.
The CLERK said he was obliged to have a balance on
hand, or else to advance money out of pocket.
Mr. LESLIE should like to trace one rate in order, if
possible, to ascertain what had been done with the
money. Was it the cash balance with the western
division up to Dec. 1840, 5,0001. in favour of the west-
ern division.
The CLERK—Yes, Sir.

Mr. LESLIE—And you had the money fro:n us in
1838. It is a notorious fact, that our money is lent to
other districts.

The CHAIRMAN—And before that period other dis
tricts had lent money to that one.

There being no other business before the Coart, i
broke up shortly after five o'clock.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London Neu Price Current of January 8. )
SuoAa.—The British Plantation Sugar Market has
presented a firm aspect this week. The prices paid are 13
above those current previous to the holidays for yellers,
and 6,1 to is for gray and brown descriptions. Berbice of
low brown quality has been sold at 703; Trinidad rather
better, 71s ; Demerara low middling gray, 733 to 743;
Grenada, Jamaica, and St. Kitt's middling and good mid-
dling yellow 75s to 78s ; Antigua good middling 79s to
803, fine 82s to 823 6d. To-day there was less demand,
and only a limited business was done either for grocery or
refining, purposes, the prices accepted were in severe' in.
stances 6d under those of yesterday; good yellow Deme-
rara was sold at 755, and mid 74s per cwt.
iiEFINED.—For Refined goods this week, prices have
improved Is per cwt. Standard lumps at 92s 61 to 93s ;
Tittlers good 93s to 95e, fine 96s to 983; llamburg lenses
good and fine 94s to 98s, low brown lumps 88s to 89i,
goad and fine 903 to 924 per cwt. Treacle, coninaen, et
36s to 36s ; Patent 393 to 40s ; best old make and
golden syrup 41s to 42s per cwt. ; Bastards good and
fine 60a to 693, low middling 523 to 57s ; for Pieces prices
have again advanced a trifle, good and fine qualities 79s to
85s, low and middling 75s to 783. Bonded Crushed
Sugar, done rather at lower salts, 32s 61 to 32s 9d for
first quality. Loaves at 36s 61 to 37s for 14, and 10 lbs
at 37s 6d to 38s ; Treacle at 153; for Bastards and Pieces
prices remain low—..viz., at 16s to 255; Dutch Crushed

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Sugar on board in Holland is held for 31s. To-'ay for
Refined goods for home use, prices were firm. Bonded,
Crushed at 32s 6d per cwt.
MA URITIUS.—There has been an increased desire evinced
on the part of the trade to purchase, and by private con-
tract several parcels have been disposed of at rather higher
rates; coloury sorts are still the most in request. This
afternoon trade were less disposed to do business, and at a
public sale of 2,505 bags prices gave way 6cl to is per
cwt ; the whole was however sold, fine strong yellow at
81s to 81s 6d, good middling and good 77s 6d to 80s, low
middling and middling 72s 6d to 77s per cwt.
EAST INDlA.—Bengal is above former rates, fine white
at 85s 6d, good 83s 6d, middling 82s 6d, damps aad washed
81s 6d to 85s 6d ; Siam at 24s 6d to 253 for low, and 255
6d to 28s for middling and fine white.
FOREIGN.—YeIIow Havannah is held firmly, 23s 6d has
been offered for fair average parcels, a floating cargo at
23s 61 to be delivered at Amsterdam. For some small
parcels of Porto Rico 23s a 23s 6d have been paid for good
yellow.

MOLASSES.—For West India holders have displayed
more firmness at rather higher rates. Dominica at 30s for
ordinary, and fine Antigua at 38a per cwt.
COFFHE.—This afternoon the home consumption mar.;
ket was quiet, but prices underwent no change ; but feW
parcels are pressing for sale. For Foreign the demand
was limited, but prices were firm. At public sale 31,
bags Rio were taken in at 42s for good ord, being above
the value ; the damaged has been sold at 404 to 415 6tl
per cwt.
COCOA.—For British Plantation there has been leas de-
mand, and holders having supplied the market freely have,
depressed prices is to 2s. Trinidad at 53a to 585 for mid-
dling and tine red, and fair grey at 485 to 49s : Foreign
is held firmly.

TEA.—The accounts received from China, stating that
the Chinese Government were inclined to come to terms
with the English, and have agreed to pay 2,000,000/. for'
the loss of the Opium, and 1,000,000/. for the expenses
incurred by the war, have produced extreme heaviness in
the market, and price, declined considerably for Come;
pany's Congou; on Tuesday they closed at 2s lid to,
2s lid cash; on Wednesday fell to is 61 to is bid; yes.'
terday morning they rallied to is aid, but declined to
Is 7,ed at the close of the de; with a very heavy market.
Free Trade has been scarcely asked for, and prices must
now be regarded as nominal, a few small parcels of com-
mon Congou for cash, however, have been disposed of ae
is 7d to is 7id per ib, but in the present state of affairs,
buyers as well as sellers do not know how to act, for even
at those rates it would be impossible to dispose of a largo
quantity; the reduction in prices since this day weep:
amounts to 64d to 7d per lb. Nu public sale is yet
dared. To-clay the market for Free Trade was in a veer
dull state, and prices have still a downward tendency, bu;
so limited were the transactions that it is difficult to giv!
quotations with accuracy ; the nearest, however, for cone-,
ruon Congou cash were is tield to Is 7d, and is 7,1 cl to is ad,
Is ad for blackish leaf, is 7id to is ad for common Twane
kay ; Bohea Canton, duty paid, 3s ad, and even thereat.
there were not buyers of any quantity. The speculative
market closed heavily at Is 7d for Company's Congoue
caeh.

TALLOW.--This afternoon there was only a limited ete.
mond for Russian Taflow, and the nearest prices for
P. Y.C. were 46s 61 to 46s 93 on Liic spot, aid 47s for
delivery. At auction 93 casks Monte Video sold at 41%
3d to 45s 6d frr mid and good quality.
RUM, BRANDY, AND BOLL NDS. —There has been
brisk demand for Jamaica Rum, particularly foe good and
fine sorts, and prices have improved Id per gallon ; the
sales this week have amounted to 350 puns, 30 to 32 per
cent overproof at Us to 66 33 to 34 aver 60 3d to
sd, 35 to 38 over 6s 61 to 6.3 9d, stionger and favourite
marks 7s to 7s 31. In Lcc,,vords a fair business bi%
been transacted at full former rates; the sales amount
to 250 .puns, proofs to 5 pr cent. over at 2., 9d, to
23. lid, 8 to 10 over 3s to 3s ld, 12 to 15 over 3s 21 to 33
3i, 16 to 20 over 33 41 to 33 51. 01 Demerara 120 punk
have been sold, 30 to 34 par cent over proof, at 5s 4d to 5s tip
36 to 39 over 5s 71 to 5; 91. Priees are finner for East
India, and 200 hhds Calcutta have been sold at 2s 2d.
proof strength, and a :stall parcel 26 over proof at 2' Bd-
fue importations have been less than last year ; the stook.!
however is larger. The importation from the East
was 468 puns and 836 hhds last year—the year before
only 99 puns and 312 bads—in the year 1837 only 81)
tibias. Then.. are few buyers of Brandy either fur home
use or expo: awl prices have a downward t.ntiticy for
new descriptions; but old sorts are held firmly; we quote -
Cognac, hrst brands of the vintage of 1836, 5s 21 in IMO
.;ad 5s in puns; ditto 1837, ilLis ss, pun.. 43 lOU ; ditty
1838, libels 4s 101, puns 4s 8d ; ditto 1839, duds 4s 83,
puns 43 ; ditto 1840, odds 33 91, puns 3s 7d. Geneve
has solo slowly ter expo t at Is lld to 2s; for aunts small
parcels fur home use 2s 4d to 2s 6.1 have been paid fur
tine quality. British Corn Spirits have been in better •
request at lOs cash.

01Ls.—There has been only a limited demand for
common descriptions of Fish o:is this week, and in'
same cases rather lower rates have been submitted to for
pale Seal and Cod, the former Eeiling at 331 106, OA
latter 27/ lOs ; Southern at 27/ to 30/ for middling al'a
fine quality. For Sperm prices no hot give way. Lit"
seed Oil en the spot at 276 9d to 28s. Rape at 46s for
Pale and 45s for Brown. Olive Oil 601 for Spaiiisn, a°
Gal to 661 for Gallipoli. East India Cocoa Nut oa
the deLline,

SPICES.—This afternoon 50 chests Cassia Lignea at
public sale fetciled 80s for very coarse quality 1056
Packed. The Cinnamon sales are fia.tl for the 25ta ;
only 250 bales are at present declared.
FRUIT has been in fair request since the holieap, and
a considerable portion of business done in some kinds;
of Turkey Figs the stock is large, and a great port°
bt,ing, of inferior quality the importers have pressed ,
at the toweit priceE.

PRIUE
The h•ghes r. e he A .t:oroi.s is 934 J for the LID
Loaf. Good Bread may be had at 7;0.

PP.IL ES OF SEEDS.

Per Cwt.
New B ,g 1 sh 11, Clover...sos 80s St. Foin
—s_— .....Vi Lel
Old . it:. Dino —s —s —s Rye Gass,
New Foreign Ditto s 508 75s Pacey Grass
•
01 i Di to Dian —s —s —s Linseed, for feeding ...—s 48s 50e,„.
New White Clover 45s 50s 608 Dit,o, fel sowing —s 60,
Old Di.t., Dittt.... ...... —s —s —s Ditto, for crushi,g .„,--s 42s 46°
•ew Tre oil .... —s '.Ss 40s Hem:, —s 364 42'
Old I itto —s 208 30s Canary —s 603 900
Tr folium —s 48s 70s Per B.,shel. 0, E ,glish Carraway —s 50s s:ls White Mu5t..rd.....4s Od to 115 nd
Foreign Ditto —, 46s 488 Brown Ditto 163 Od to 19t v.,
Coriander .... —s 12s 16s,Tares

Per Quarter

PRICE OF OIL.
Rape Oil. brown, per ton
Oita), refined
Linseed Oil 2B 10
Line ed Oil Cake at al.; Mill (per IOW) l4 0
Rape , ake, per to.l
PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b.
~ 0 Town Tallow £2 13 , Melting Stuff' £1 I.- . 6
Yellow Russi,
White o 0 c Graves

PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of filbs,
Price of Tallow (as stated by the, Tallow Melters) ........ . 2s. lix,d,