The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-25 00:00:00

LIGHTING OF THE METROPOLIS

TURNPIKE ROADS.
PARISH OF TOTTENHAM.

A meeting of the ratepayers within 400 yards on each
side of the turnpike road leading from Stamford-hill to
Edmonton was held in the Grammar-school at the High-
cross in this parish last evening. Mr. G. E. Shuttle-
worth was unanimously called to the Chair.
The CHAIRMAN briefly described the object for which
they had assembled, and read the requisition, which had
been prepared by Counsel, thelsubstance of which he had
put in the form of a resolution.

On a division the numbers were-100 for the lighting,
and 17 against it.

Messrs. Fowler, Fox, Dean, Boon, W. B. flunnings,
and Thomas Ashwell were then elected inspectors for
the'year.

The CHAIRMAN having produced an estimate of the
probable cost of lighting the 59 lamps heretofore lighted
by the Commissioners of the Turnpike Roads for one
year, and having also stated the probable amount of the
rate for the district in question,
It was moved, seconded, and carried, " That the
amount to be raised should be 3601., which would be
produced by a rate of 4d. in the pound upon houses,
and lid. in the pound upon land."
The CHAIRMAN stated that about 94 small tenements
assessed below 101., and producing at the above rate about
171. per annum, would be met, he had every reason to
believe, by voluntary payments from gentlemen residing
beyond the limits of the district in question, and which
he had no doubt the inspectors would apply in discharge
of those rates. Hence, he observed, that the only ob-
jection raised to the adoption of the 3d and 4th William
IV., c. 90, would be obviated in a way equally gratifying
to all parties.
Thanks were then unanimously voted to the Chairman
for the very able manner in which he had conducted the
business of the evening.
This was perhaps the largest meeting of influential
persons ever known in this parish. As the Act of Par-
liament requires the inspectors to do certain acts, some
days must elapse before the lighting can take place.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian).
MA.NCIIESTER.—The announcement of the failure of an
extensive house in the print trade, in this town, and the
accounts of a continued pressure for money in London,
caused a very gloomy market yesterday. The demand
for yarn wa3 extremely limited, and the little business
done was at lower prices for several descriptions. For
goods, the market was still worse; there was literally
no demand, and prices were altogether nominal.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, NOT. 22. —The
market to-day has been very similar to those of the
three or four preceding weeks. The demand for goods
continues brisk, and the prices remain stationary. The
wool market is quite as dull as that of the preceding
Monday, and prices have a tendency downwards.
HUDDERSFIELD, NOV. 23. —As a market•day, this
was one of the worst that has occurred for many weeks.
and, were it not that some good and tolerably extensive
sales have been made to order, the condition of the
manufacturers would be deplorable. Happily, however,
there is an inquiry for the American market for light
fancies of various descriptions; but the general demand
is very limited. Prices are very low, but firm; and a
hope still exists that the long depression will shortly
terminate from the mere force of circumstances. Busi-
ness in the warehouses is perhaps no worse, but by no
means animated.

FUNERAL OF LIEUT. O'GRADY.

The funeral took place on Saturday. The melancholy
cortege left Burnley barracks at three. Notwithstanding
the extreme wetness of the day, a vast concourse of
people assembled in front of the barracks as early as
twelve o'clock, and amongst whom were a number of the
principal inhabitants of Burnley and its vicinity. At a
quarter to three the detachment paraded in front of the
officers' quarters, and being arranged according to regu-
lations, the corpse was brought out, and the sad pro-
cession moved off in the following order :—A firing de-
tachment, consisting of a sergeant and forty rank and file,
with arms reversed, under the command of Lieutenant
Suthby, the band of the regiment, which came from 80l
ton for the occasion, playing "The Dead March ;" the two
clergymen, the Rev. J. G. James (chaplain), and the Rev.
Mr. Mitchell, in full robes ; the coffin on a bier, sup-
ported by twelve rank and fi ; chief mourners, Captain
O'Grady (brother of the deceased), and a cousin, from
Dublin ; Lieutenant Colonel Walter Trevelyan, and
the officers of the regiment from Bolton, Wigan, Black-
burn, Liverpool, and Colne, and the officers of the
Queen's Bays ; gentlemen, friends of the deceased, and
others from the town and neighbourhood ; the detach-
ment, which was reinforced on the occasion by two ser-
geants and twenty rank and file from the company sta-
tioned at Colne. The procession was closed by two
troops of the Queen's Bays, stationed at Burnley. On
arriving at Haversham-eves parish church, commonly
called the New Church, the coffin was carried into the
aisle, which was crowded to excess, while thousands were
standing outside. To keep back, and in order, the im-
mense multitude assembled, required the utmost exertion
of the police, of whom there was a large body in attend-
ance. The solemn service was read by the Rev. J. G.
James ; after which the corpse was brought out and
deposited in the vault, over which the firing party dis-
charged three rounds as the last tribute of military
respect to the memory of a brave officer. The band
(contrary to custom) did not play on their return. At
half-past seven o'clock the remains of Lieut. O'Grady
were taken up again, and delivered to his friends to be
conveyed to Ireland.

COMMISSION OF LUNACY ON
RICHARD WEEKS, THE GREENWICH PEN-

SIONER.

A Commission of Lunacy was yesterday morning held
at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house, before Commissioners
Blount, Murray, and West, to inquire into the state of
mind of Richard Weeks, the Greenwich pensioner, who
had recently bequeathed to him by a deceased aunt, the
enormous sum of 120,0001.

Mr. RUSSELL, who appeared in support of the Com-
mission, said that the alleged lunatic was in attendance,
and that when asked if he was desirous of having any
legal assistance, replied that he did not require any,
adding that he was as good a lawyer as any of them
himself, and would plead his own cause. The Learned
Counsel said that Mr. Weeks was fifty-four years of age.
At an early time he entered the Navy as a midshipman,
where he remained for a considerable period. He mar-
ried in 1820 his present wife, who was possessed of a
very small income, and they struggled on together for a
series of years, hen he at certain periods exhibited
symptoms of the malady under which he now laboured.
The character of the disease showed itself in the most
unequivocal manner, he fancying himself possessed of the
most unbounded wealth, and nearly allied to the Royal
Family. The Learned Counsel added, that Miss Weeks
had recently died, having bequeathed to Mr. Weeks a
fortune of 120,0001.

Sir Richard Dobson, physician, of Greenwich Hos-
pital, deposed that he attended on Mr. Weeks, and that
in the year 1840, in a conversation with him, he said
that he was come into the possession of a million of
money, owing to the death of a near relative, and that
he was going to be married to the Queen. He invited
witness to dine with him, and expressed his intention to
give every Greenwich pensioner livepence each. He be-
came so violent in his conduct soon afterwards that wit-
ness recommended his removal to 1)r. Warburton's esta-
blishment. In the course of that morning he told wit-
ness that he was going to dine at Buckingham Palace,
and talked in his usual incoherent manner, telling wit-
ness that he intended to give him fifty millions ; that he
(witness) should get married to four Princesses. In fact,
fact added the witness, I consider Mr. Weeks is in that
condition of mind that he is quite incapable of managing
his affairs.

Thomas Rowed, a Greenwich pensioner, in the course
of his examination, said that in the month of September
last he was in the same ward with Weeks, and that that
person told him that he was going to have Dr. Dobson's
carriage—that he was going to give a grand dinner, and
should present all the company with five guineas each ;
he also said that he had given three diamonds of great
value to be placed in the Crown. He talked of having
boundless wealth, and when contradicted used to got
into a violent pasSion—particularly if told that it was all
nonsense about his having any Chance of getting married
to the Queen. The witness then gave other instances
of the condition of the mind of Weeks, and added that
he had no hesitation in saying that he was of unsound
mind, and incapable of taking care of himself or his pro-
perty. -

After hearing other witnesses, the Jury found that
R. Weeks had been of unsound mind since Sept., 1841:

STATE OF TRADE, COMMERCE, AND NA.
VlGATlON.—Business of all descriptions becomes duller
every week as winter approaches. Cotton, which has
been declining in price all through the year, is now as
low, within a mere trifle, as it has ever been. The
woollen trade continues to exhibit the same unequivocal
symptoms of distress and decay which it has shown for
the last three years. The iron-masters of England and
Wales, in the hope of relieving that immense branch of
the national industry, have determined to diminish the
production of iron twenty-five per cent. for six months.
Whole forests of colonial timber may be seen at the pre-
sent time, piled around the Brunswick Dock, at this
port, quite unsaleable, except at the most ruinous prices;
and the value of shipping continues to decline rapidly
under the two-fold influence of the fall in the price of
timber and of ruinously low freights to all parts of the
world. Painful as it is to see and to state these things,
it is absolutely necessary that they should be not only
mentioned but freely discussed, for, unless that is done,
and, unless the discussion is followed by the adoption of
appropriate remedies, there is nothing before the whole
community but distress and ruin. The pressure on the
mercantile and manufacturing interests is now extending
to retail traders of every description, having long since
reached the labouring classes, and threatens to involve
the shopkeepers in embarrassment and poverty, along
with all the classes who used to be their customers for
the luxuries, conveniences, and necessaries of life.—
Liverpool Times.
SIR JAMES GRAHAM AND SIR ROBERT
never heard Sir James and Sir -Robert but
ante. It was when Sir Robert Peel was in office and
Sir James Graham was in opposition. George IV. was
dead—but not buried. Sir James Graham chose that
particular period to charge the Government, of which
Sir Robert Peel formed a part, with fraudulently pilfer-
ing, for their own uses, some 80,000/. from the revenue
connected with the West Indies. I shall never forget
the indignation of Sir Robert at the charge, and " at the
unmanliness of making it when the King laid dead in his
palace." "It is too bad," three times reiterated the in-
sulted Baronet; and then he floored his accuser. I
thought -he had made an end pf him. flow little, did I
then expect that those two Baronets would ever meet at
the same Council-Board Oastier's Fleet tapers.