The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, iSiO.

precisely such as are fitted for the deliberation of the
Cortes. These are the reasonings Pro and con. in the
political circles connected with Spain and Portugal, and
they certainly tend to confirm the opinion we have
already expressed on the side of the Portuguese Govern-
ment ; while the fixing so short a period as 25 days for
the termination of this affair, before hostilities are actu-
ally commenced, can only be treated as a predetermina-
tion to provoke them.
(From the Morning Herald.)
Again and again have we to solicit the admiration of
Englishmen for the glorious privilege of property ;
again have we to dwell upon the triumphs of the pocket
over the common sense and common feeling of the
subject. Again have we to impreis upon the free-born
Briton a recollection of this golden social truth—that

he only keeps his teeth in his head,—only enjoys an ex-
emption from black eyes and bruised limbs upon suf-
erance ; that if it be the pleasure of his fellow Briton
" after dinner" to knock out his incisors, or beat him
insensible," such recreation is to be had, at a price to
be hereafter fixed upon by the Magistrate. These last
few days have afforded divers illustrations of the de-
lights of" property." On Monday at Mary lebone Po-
lice-office, Charles William Phillips and Henry Johnston,
both in a monetary sense " gentlemen," were convicted
of having beaten a boy in the most cruel manner, and
further with outrageously assaulting the police. The de-
fence of the culprits was—they had " dined out." Mr.
Rawlinson fined the offenders in the sum of 15/. ; which
sum—doubtless, to the severe punishment of moneyed
brutality—vvae " instantly paid!" On the same day,
Bradshaw appears at Union Ball, charged
with destroying a chimney-glass at a public-house in
Tooley-street. The glass was valued at ten guineas,
but under the Wilful Damage Act the Magistrate,
Mr. Maltby, could kfliet a penalty of only 51., which
penalty, however, Bradshaw could not pay, and he was
committed for two months to hard labour in the House
of Correction. Had Bradshaw possessed 151. he might
have beaten an unoffending boy—might have knocked
down the police, and all who aided them ; this enjoy-
ment—this infliction of pain and suffering! on human
flesh and bones—was purchascable with cesh like bil-
liards—or any other pleasureable excitement. The
man, however, breaks a glass, and being unable to
repair the wrong, be is sent to the wheel. Now, when
the law makes no difference between mirrors and men—
when to break one or bruise the other is a mere ques-
tion of money, an affair of the pocket, the heroes of
Marylebone surely evince greater spirit in their recrea-
tion than the poltroon of Union Hall. Such gentlemen
are justified in their sport, because they can pay for it
—the pauper who assaults either men or tnerrors is
rightly imprisoned for such amusement ; and for this
good reason, he cannot afford it. Should Mr. Henry
Johnston, of " Ulster-terrace. Regent's-park," become
acquainted with the case of William Bradshaw, we
think, however, it would but show a proper sympathy
in him to forward, without dela), the sum of 5/. to the
House of Correction.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
The Sun of last night contains some extracts from a
latter addressed by Mr. Childs to a private friend, rela-
tive to the imprisonment of Mr. Baines, of Leicester,
for his resistance to the payment of Church-rates.
Tue circumstances connected with the incarceration
of Mr. Baines are very peculiar. The threat of incar-
ceration for his opposition to the exactions of an ava-
ricious and extortionate Church, bad been held over his
head for upwards of twelve months, and during a con-
siderable portion of that period the proceedings against
him had reached such a state of meturity as to render
it competent for his ecclesiastical persecutors to commit
him at any moment they pleased to the dungeon in
which he is now immured. But they postponed the
execution of their merciful purposes until a particular
moment. And what moment, do cur readers suppose,
was the one fixed upon for Mr. Baines' incarceration ?
Hear it, ye wives and mothers! bear it, ye husbands
and fathers of England ! The very moment at which
Mrs. Baines was in the agonies of child-labour! It
that delicate and critical moment, a moment in which
the sufferer needed more than at any other period of
her life the soothing attentions of an affectionate husband,
was Mr. Baines pounced upon by a State Church,
drugged, at the imminent risk of her life, from the em-
braces of the wife of his bosom and the home of his chil-
dren, and consigned to the dungeon in which he is now im-
mured ! We will not make one word cf comment on this :
to add to it would only be to weaken its force. Mr.
Cnilds suggests that, as Mr. b'aines was imprisoned, and
his wife delivered of a daughter in the same: week as
that in which the Queen brought is Princess into the
world, the matter ought to be brought before her Ma-
jesty. Mr. Childs' letter being addressed to a gentle-
man who is on terms of friendship with Lord Albe-
marle, will explain some of the references contained in
the following paragraph : Mr. Childs, we oaght to ob-
serve, dates his letter from Leicester gaol, being at the
time of writing it on a visit to Mr. Baines.
" I wish you would make a point of calling on my Lord
Albemarle, who is one of the kindest hearted men that
lives in the world, and tell the affecting tale, which relates
to the immediate capture of our noble friend who is
here, imprisoned for life, for aught that the law will do.
Lord Albemarle is much about the person of the Queen
now, and I think if she were told in the affecting terms
which his Lordship is so well able to use, that in the very
same week in which her Majesty was blessed by a
daughter, and the day after Mr. Baines was committed
to this prison, his wife, dear to him as his own soul,
and dear as the QdCCO to the Prince, also brought
forth a daughter, and I will defy the power of man to
deseribe the feelings of these excellent and pious young
people under the trying circumstances in which they arc,
iced have been placed. Wilt the Queen refuse her sym-
pathy, and thence her admonition to the Bishops, when
she shall came to know what is being done in their name
—what is being inflicted on peaceful, pious, retiring Chris-
tian people, who believe the Word of God to be the rule
which they are bound to take for their conduct in religious
things as well as in all others, and who dare not violate the
dictates of their conscience SO please any class of men ?"
We hope the recommendation contained in this para-
graph will be acted on without delay. If it be, we anti-
cipate the best results.

SECOND EDITION.

THE FUNDS—(CLosING PRICES.)

FOREIGN FUNDS.
A ustriai, tr per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ikelgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto..... •31
brefiliatt Bonds 71.1 Prussian, 5 per cent....
Buenoshyres',-6per cent Russian, 5 per cent.
Chilian, 6 011 eqnt — Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 pe., Cent -- Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto, 1824 22- Ditto Deferred .. 116,
Danish, 3 per cent..... Frencl,s per cent... —f. —c.
Greek, 182.5, spercent. Exchange —f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —e.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Gish, 2- per cent...—. 501
rtoiefiltn,l 825,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent.....
S HARES.
Birmitiermn and Gloucester Railway (90 p) 67
Great Westerii Railway (65 paid) B9
Ditto New Shares- (19 paid) ~.. ... 50
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid)
London and Brighton Railway (50 paid) 42
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) ---
Ditto New Shares (24 paid) ............... 49
London and South Western Railway 541
Manchester and Birmingham Railway (40p) 27i

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOUKNAI•~•

FROM THE EVES/14G. PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
(From the Globe.)
The power of commanding officers over those who
constitute the regiments placed under their control is
well nigh absolute ; while, in some instances at least,
the manner in which they exercise their authority is
arbitrary and oppressive. Lord Cardigan has suc-
ceeded in illustrating the servile subjection in which
even " officers and gentlemen" may be placed,
if the Colonel, in the insolence of an overween-
ing conceit of his own importance, and relieved
from apprehensions of personal consequences by
the partial protection of the Horse Guards, forgets
that men are something more than mere machines,
and that subalterns have feelings which ought to be re-
spected, as well as duties which they arc bound to per-
form. The impunity with which the aristocratic com•
mender of the 11th Hussars has been allowed to in-
dulge his peculiar presensitics, notwithstanding the
urgent applications of his victims for inquiry, and
the loud, general, and indignant demand of the pub-
lic for rigorous investigation, will have some
humble imitators of his mode of enforcing mi-
litary discipline and official respect. It is almost
impossible that an example, rendered conspicuous by
rank and sanctioned by tacit approbation at head-quar-
ters, should fail to influence kindred spirits, and raise
up rivals in the pursuit of that distinction which his
Lordship has obtained ; which, if it. has not shed lustre
on his name, has effectually prevented his command of,
the 15th Hussars from being consigned to oblivion.
Colonel Molyneux of the Bth Hussars, now sta-
tioned at Norwich, has taken a bolder flight. Not
content with the amount of power he possesses as the
commanding officer of a regiment, and the awe inspired
by his rank and authority in those subjected to his
command, he seeks an extension of submission, and ac-
tually demands that the " salute" which miii'.ary law re-
quires, as an expression of homage, as the recognition of
the presence of superior rank from inferiors in the ser-
vice, should be given, as an act of imperative obligation,
by the police constables when on duty, as an act of ho-
mage to his rank, and not as the mere spontaneous ex-
pression of personal respect ? The Norwich and Bury
Post of W ednesday has recorded, with a precision
worthy of the occasion, the insolent demand of this mi-
litary martinet—which he had the presumption to urge
upon the Magistrates when seated on the Bench in the
administration of justice
(From the Courier.)
The French Papers of Tuesday have arrived, but
they again present hardly any feature of interest or
novelty. The Muni/cur states officially that Lord
Palmerston had sent it letter to the Lords of the Ad-
miralty ratifying the Convention agreed to at Alexan-
dria. It also states that the other po" era had made
a similar oulowiwicatio.i, likid that., iu spite of
all the confident reports about the abandoment of the
plan of fortifying Faris--or, as the French papers

have it, the onbastillonent—the interruption to the
works was caused solely by the cold, and that they
have since been partially resumed. It is gratifying to
us to see that the Journals are beginning to assume a
somewhat more sober tone. There is an evident and

striking diminution in the virulence and asperity of the
Theirs and Guizot controversy, so that it is to be
hoped the Journalists are beginning to see that• all
their biterness and all their anxious aspirations after
war and confusion have been utterly thrown away,
and that the only effect of the inflated tone which
has disgraced a pertion of the French press, has been to
alarm the timid, who might otherwise have been induced
to give some sort of sanction to a well made out case for
war. Nothing is yet settled about a loan. Indee '1 it is
now said that nothing can be done in reference to it
until the supplies are voted, which will not be for
sonic months. The Chamber is principally occupied
with the factory question, which, although looked to
with much anxiety by the manufacturers, appears to
attract but little attention in the Legislature. We

do not think it would interest our readers were we

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to give the speeches made on the subject at acy
length, because the gist of an the arguments resolves
itself into the question whether manufacturers
ought or ought not to he allowed to force the chil-
dren whom they employ to labour as long as they
pleAse. The difficulties connected with the question arc
such that in England the Facto!), Bill hag been post-

poned for two or three successive sessions, and it is
not to be wondered, therefore, if there should be
the same diversity of opinion in France. This point
is well put by the Courrier Francais, which says—
" No amelioration in these matters can come from the
Chamber, which wants experience—which dislikes these
economical questions, and abandons their solution to
those organs of private interest that are so numerous.
Interests are pleaded but not discussed. Thus on
Monday the sitting opened late, yet there was scarcely
a house, not more than forty Deputies; not more than
150 in the very midst of the sitting ; and the whole 150
might have clubbed their wits without being able to con-
coct a good discourse on the subject before the Chamber.
The chiefs of parties were all absent."
(From the Standard.)
The project for fora) mg Paris, • bequeathed Is)
M. Thiess to his successors in office, is likely to meet
with some serious opposition. The lii;rig and his
present Ministers have very prudently resigned the
matter into the hands of the Chamber, and, as if
desirous that the Thiess faction should have the task
of nursing their own offspring, have taken care that
M. Tillers, M. Odillon Barret, and their friends,
should constitute a majority on the Commission ap-
pointed to make the legislative preparations for the
work. This exposes his Majesty and his Cabinet to
the charge of indifference, and even of reluctance to take
part in a proceeding which must lead to a cost otforty or
Ail/ millions sterling! without holding out tue least
promise of any equivalent good ; a charge which will pro-
ba'..ly be understood by wise men as involving a very high
compliment. At present the Commission is divided
as to the nature of the projected works ; one party
contending for a continuous line of wall or rampart
to e:.circle the city with bastions and small outworks
at convenient intervials. The other party insists ❑pon
a circuit of strong detached forts, fourteen in num-
ber, surroueding the city. The advocates of the con-
tinuous line of wall or rampart argue. that their plan
will not place the capital at the mercy of any Go
vernrnent which may be disposed to abuse its power.
'They who recommend the chain of detached
forts, on the other side, say that if a continuous line of
wall or rampart will be little formidable to the
liberties of the Parisians, it will be still less formidable
to the enterprise of an invader, while it must cost at
least four or five times as much as the system of defences
which they propose. The question is properly a
problem for military men ; but the least-informed in
military science cannot fail to see that the chain of
torts unit be far more effectual, as far as mere defence is
is concerned, while there CIIII be no doubt of its cost-
ing a great deal less than the rival scheme. An
cnciente of less than twelve English miles would
hardly embrace Paris, and as the width of this belt
must be 600 or 700 yards of the most highly rented
land in France, the bare purchase of the soil would
probably amount to a greater sum than would be
necessary to cover the whole cost of the fourteen forts
which it is proposed to substitute, beside the great injury
to the trade of the French metropolis, a consideration
which has been already submitted to the Commission. The
case, too. may be easily conceived, when an enemy havin
pierced the barrier line—which any enemy strong enough
to reach Paris could easily effect—the enclosure of the
city within one wall might place it wore absolutely in
his power. Still the apprehensions for the safety of
public liberty, of those who object to the chain of
isolated fortresses, are not altogether groundless. Paris
so invested would have little security for freedom, save
in the good disposition of the Sovereign ; and it is to
be feared that for a generation or two before us Paris
must continue to be what. it has hitherto been—the
virtual France.

Mr. Ashton Yates, according to a statement made
at the Repeal meeting in Dublin on Monday last, does not
intend coming forward again for the county Carlow. The
Liberals there, however, are making preparations to bring
forward two candidate's.
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Viscount and Viscountess Leveson have left
town for Badminton, where a large party is about to as-
semble on visits to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort.

LAW IN TELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 23.
ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. CRADDOCK.

The Court was occupied the entire day with this case.
The object of the information was to set aside an
agreement entered into with Mr. Sheldon Craddock
for an exchange of a farm called Slightholme, belong-
ing to Hutchins Charity, in Yorkshire, for certain
other lands the property of Mr. Craddock. It appeared
that Slightholme Farm, consisting of 84 acres, was a
portion of certain lands bequeathed by a gentleman
named Hutchins, of Claments lan, in the year 1693,
for charitable purposes. The land, in 1832, was \valued
at the desire of the Trustees, and together with a piece
of moor land, called Charity Pasture, transferred to
Colonel Craddock, and Archdeacon Headlam, for a
small piece of ground, consisting of only six
acres, but which produced a rental of about
hi. a-year more than the Charity property. That trans-
fer was made under the Ist and 2d Geurge IV., chap.
92, but it was contended by Counsel, in support of the
information, that the exchange ought to ho set aside on
the ground of improper valuation. The information
prayed that the exchange might be set aside, and for a
reference to the Master
,to approve de scheme, and to
,
appoint new trustees. ihe defene.ants, by their answer,
submitted that the exchange was beneficial to the Cha-
rity, and that it had taken place after a regular and lust
valuation under the authority of the Bishop of the .Dio-
cese, and in the form presented by the statute.
The Loan CHANCELLOR, at the conclusion of the
arguments, desired to be furnished with a copy of the
pleadings, and stated that he would give judgment on
a future day.

ROLLS' COURT, DEC. 23.
The Court took motions.
SLOYER V. COMYNS.
Mr. PEMBERTON (with whom was Mr. Lloyd) moved
that the injunction which had been obtained ex parte in
this es" by the plaintiff, the Rev. John Sloper, of
Westwood Com , Hayes, Berks, against the defendant, Mrs.
..Yusz,. might be dissolved with costs.
KINDERSLEY and Mr. ROMILLY opposed the
marten.

The MAalta of the ROLLS dissolved the injunction
upon the ground that the injunction had been obtained
upon a suppicssion of material facts in the cause.

Mr. KIND FRANK V. MANWARINO..
set down for further directions and costs, might be ad-
EASLEY applied that this cause, which was
vanced and placed at the head of the paper for the first
day of causes in Hilary Term next. An issue had been
directed to try whether Mr. Frank, the father of the
plaintiffs, was, at the date of certain deeds executed by
him in their favour, of unsound mind. That issue was
tried in the Court of
Common Pleas on the sth of the
present month, and the Jury found that he was not.
The plaintiffs in consequence of that finding would
become entitled to considerable property, and as they
were now merely lining upon the bounty of their friends,
it was hoped the Court would advance the cause in
order that their right might be established as early as
possible.
The MASTER of
the ROLLS thought that in justice
to the other suitors he could not accede to the appli-
cation. There were no doubt many suitors in the
same, and perhaps even worse situation than the plain-
tiffs. He had never acceded to such an application,
except on one occasion, and that was in a most lament-
able and distressing ease. The plaintiffs must there-
fore make out a stronger case before the application
could be acceded to.

U OuilallFdh
QUEEN'S BENCH, DEC. 23.
(Sittings
, before Lord DENMAN and a Lon-
don Special Jury.)
MOFFATT V. SIDNEY.
S
Sir W. Follett. and Mr. Hayward ap-
peared fer the
CiOr F. Ra
Pollock,tTG
Plaintiff; and Mr. Kelly, Mr. Wightman,
and Mr. Butt for the defendant.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, ,Messrs.
Mctratt and Co , tea.ruerchants, to recover from the de-
fendact, a tea-dealer, carrying on lousiness in F,astcheap,
1,3531. 7s. 2d., being the amount of loss incurred by
them, in consequence of the refusal of the defendant to
;3%1 having an establishment on Ludgate-hill, the sum of
perform a contract entered into by him for the purchase of
two lots of teas, consisting
chests of Congou, at 2s. mid. per lb. It appeared from the
M
evidence of Mr. Delafosse, a tea-broker, that he was em-
ployed b) respectively of 480 chests and 280
_Assn. Moffatt to sell the teas in question,
and that ho went to Mr. Sidney's counting-house in the
morning of the 6th of January last when some con-
versation took place about the purchase of teas, on which
occasion Mr. Sidney mentioned 23. 91. per lb. as the sum
he should be inclined to give, which Mr. Delafose rc-
roF,,-..i. Diirio i;,c d.ay he tutu. Mr. Sidney et Ev.,, '• ' ,-t'l
sale, and then told him that 25. 100. wi-s the price lsxeo
1 upon the tea ; and then Mr. Delafosee stated that Mr.
1 Sidney authorised him to purchase the teas in question for

him at 2s. 100. per lb. On that evening, when the On- w ELECTION
tract stating the price was put into Mr. Sidney's hands, he
immediately went upon 'Change, saw Mr. Delafosse, and
returning the contract, said he had never authorised him
to purchase the teas at a higher price than 2s. The
teas were subsequently sold at a loss of 1,031 73 2d.,
and to recover this sum the present action had neon brought.
Mr. KELLY, for the defence, contended that Mr. Dela-
fosse was entirely mistaken as to the nature of the autho-
rity which he had received from defendant, who, in fact,
had never authorised him to give more than 2a. 9d., as
appeared from his repudiating the contract the instant he
became aware of its contents.
Lord DENMAN summed up, and the Jury, after retiring
for an hour. returcei a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages,
1,353/. 7s. 2d.

CORTUE V. WIGGINS.
The Attorney-General and Mr. Hoggins conducted the
case for the plaintiff, and Sir W. Follett and Mr. Butt
appeared for the defence.
This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who were
tea merchants, against the defendant, for not fulfilling a.con-
tract for the delivery of 137 chests of tea at Is. 101 per
lb. on the 6th Of December last.
From the statement of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL it ap-
pra,ed that the defendant had in 1639 imported the teas in
question per the ship Moffatt, and had authorized Messrs.
Styam and Soma tea-brokers, to sell the tea for him. It
appeared that at the September tea-sale of that year they
had been put up, and that no bid had been offered beyond
Is. 03-d. per lb., when they were bought in at Is. 10,..t,j.,
the instructions of the defendant being that their price
should be from Is. 103, to 2s. per lb. The plaintiff cn the
6'h of September offered the broker Is. 10d. per lb. the
prompt, or payment, and consequent delivery of the teas to
take place on 6th December. At this time defendant was
out of town ; the next, Saturday, inconsequence of the ar-
rival of news from China, a great rise took place in the
price of tea, and the defendant refused to deliver the
tea. On Dcc. 6: the price of the same quality tea had
risen to 2s. 1 Id., and the present action had been brought
for 6091. I ls., being the difference between Is. 10d. and
2s 11d. per lb on the tea in question.
Sir W. FOLLETT having taken several objections,
which were reserved, pro'ceeded to address the Jury, and
contended that Styams had only authority to sell at the
outside price, and then only to sell by public auction acd
not by private contract at all, and that the plaintiff had his
remedy by action against them, and not against Mr. Wig-
gins. Indeed, it appeared that an action had been brought
by the plaintiff a,,aitist them, in which the proceedings had
been stayed, and the present action commenced.
Lord DENMAN having summed up, the Jury retired
shortly before seven o'clock, and after an absence of an
hour, returned into Court with a verdict for the defendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec 23

LIABILITY OF SLIAREHOLDERS.-STBIGNBERGER V. CARR

Thy plaintiff is a 'Ty►olcve iriner, who, with seven others,
was brought ovrr to this country in 183 b by the agent of
the then newly formed Minas Gcraea (Brazilian) Mining
Company, to work the Company's mines in South Ame-
rica. The plaintiff -was employed as principal mining offi-
cer, at a salary of 3001. for the first year, 4001. for the
second, and 5001. for the third, fourth, and fifth years,
when the contract was to determine or be renewed. Tie
mine becoming exhausted, the miners returned to Europa,
and the Company was broken up. This action is brought
to recover from the defendant, an alleged shareholder, the
sum of 489/, 19:,. 5d., the balance of salary due to plain-
tiff for the expired part of the term of his engagement.
The defence was the general issue, whereby the proof is
thrown on the plaintiff that the defendant was a sharehol-
der. Evidence of the plaintiff's engagement and services,
atul that the defendant held 150 shares in the Company
from the commencernem was given. It wet further
proved that all the calls upon his shares were paid ezeept
the last.
Mr. Sergeant CUANNELL addressed the Jury for the de-
fendant, and, after much discussion, his Lordship put it
to the Jury to say whether Carr, by his acts proved, au-
thorized the Directors to act for him? They having an-
swered in the affirmative, a verdict was entered for the
plaintiff, with leave to defendant to move for a nonsuit, on
the ground that the Company was not complete.
The Sittings being concluded, several causes, which
stood in the paper for the day, stand over to the 11th Ja-
nuary, 1841.
mersas.,,al2llaß•MOlMl

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL.

John Baxter Brice, a potboy, at the Welch Harp pub.
lie-house, it Essex-street, Blackfriar's, was charged before
Mr. Alderman Brown, with robbing James Beard, who
stated that on the 25th of November, he went into ithe
above public-house, and being rather intoxicated, he soon
afterwards fell asleep. He found, when he awoke, after
sleeping for about three hours, that his watch had been
taken. At the time he attached no suspicion to the prisoner.
William Easom, the landlord of the Welch Harp, said
that circumstances having occurred which induced him to
suspect the prisoner, he searched his trunk, and thgre
found the duplicate of a watch, pledged in Blackfriar's-
road, in the name of Maxwell, the day after the robbery
was committed, and information being given :o the police,
it was found to be the one stolen.
The watch being produced and identified by Beard, the
prisoner was fully committed for trial.
Richard Sorabray was placed at the bar on a charge of
being possessed of a number of sacks, the property of Mr.
Samuel Kidd, a miller, residing in Isleworth, without
satisfactorily accounting for them.
Mr. Kidd said he never saw the prisoner before. The
sacks must have been stolen from him, as he never autho-
rised any person to sell them. He also stated that he
was a great sufferer from theft of this discription, as it cost
him nearly 500/. a-year for bags.
The prisoner was fined 51. or, in default of payment, to
I be imprisoned for two months.

THE LEGALITY OF A CON ''EN-

TION.

FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL. •
COLEMAN-STREET WARD.
Yesterday the polling terminated in this Ward in fa-
vour of Mr. Griffiths and Mr. Cousins, and the defeat of
Mr. Bracher ananus Mr. Phillips, after a very active contest.
At four o'clock Sir William Ileygate announced the
numbers, which were as follows:—Deputy Allen, 210;
Davis, 205; Hale, -204 ; Hunter, 197; Hall, 185 ; John-
son, 181 ; Griffiths, 1i.47; Cousins, 141 ; Bracher, 111 ;
Phillips, 38. ded in protests against
M. Bracher and Mr. Const
the return of Mr. Cousins, on the grOunt; of non-residence
in the Ward.
The several candidates then returned thanks to the con-
stituency, and after some discussion the \Vardmote :was
dissolved.

CORDWAINERS' WARD.
Mr. Deputy Muddell, 65; Mr. Croucher, 63; Mr.
Joyce, 60 ; Mr. Lott, 58; Mr. Jolliffe, 51 ; Mr. Jones,
48; Mr. Williams, 47; Mr. Herman, 3. Mr. Williams
and Mr. Denman were thrown out.
CHEAP WARD.
Mr. Deputy Brook, 76 ; Mr. Fenning, 61 ; Mr. Gan-
thony, 55; kr. Watson. 40; Mr. Hardwick, 58; Mr.
May, 54; Mr. Hickson, 56; Mr. Oliver, 60; Mr. New.
ton, 39. The first eight were returned.
VINTRY WARD.
The gentlemen returned by this are—Mr. Deputy
Whitby, Mr. Ingall, Mr. Eirns, Mr. Marsden, Mr. White,
Mr. Lepard, Mr. Green, Mr, King.
CORNHILL WARD.
Mr. Deputy Angall, Mr. Eyton, Mr. Thomas, Mr. All-
natt, Mr. R. Thoraa., Mr Harrison.
DOWGATE WARD.
Those elected are—Mr. Deputy Brown, Mr. Price, Mr,
Bcnoett, Mr. Mortimer, Mr. Kipling, Mr. Gandell, Mr.
Prior, .Mr. Powell
BILLINGSGATE WARD.
Mr. Curtin%; Mr. Francis, Mr. Old. Mr. Pottar, Mr. —aster.
Bawer, Mr, Kolt;, Mr, Johnson. Mr. Hosnoeßostock.Per Qu
ti*Atn
BROti,D.STREET WARD. Arainttce
Mr. Deputy Corney, Mr, Jupp, Mr. Heppcl, Mr. Moon, li•ighton
Mr. Gadsden, Mr. 310 g-rove, Mr. White, Mr. Wharton. Chichester..,,,
PORT,S
(),KEN WARD. Dunmow
;4r. Christie, Mr. Hawkins, GrrintitidlM
Mr. Tyas, Mr. Parker, -
Mr. Wright, Mr. Saul, Mr. iloard, Mr. Chandler, Mr. 2,7,1,;,1
`:lr. Phillips, Mr. nous- Hitchin
Heywood, Mr. Anvils, Mr. Witt', ,;,
field, Mr. Smith, Mr. Saul Saul, ..`fr-
S . Ipswich
purgin
Lew,.
BISEIOPSG ATEr. Day, Mr. Lien
Mr. Deputy S:evens, Mr. Peacock, -•.- Maidstone
Davg, Mr. Patton, Mr. Welsh,
Mr, Gibson, Mr. Soloman, Mr, Bennett, Fetcher,
Mr. Jones, Zr. Thomas, gi,,,,,,cinh
Itomford
Mr. Barks, Mr. Wilkinson, Mr. C,..rr: Sandwich
Tnettord
:BRIDGE WARD. r wrAheor,
Mr. Thomas Pewress, 72; M.. John Locke, 70; IN, Witham
larmoutti
William Knott, 66 ; Mr. Jahn Sharp, 70 ; Mr. Jacob
Genre Cape, 70; Mr. George Davidson, 66; Mr. Henry vOIEAT, Fee[
Matthew, 67 ; Mr. John Hill, 60 ; Mr. limos Low, 46 ; I
Mr. Stephen Ponder, 27 ; and Mr. Thomas Cooper, 12.
The first eight are elected.
FARRINGDON WITHOUT.
Mr. Black,q, 458 ; Mr. Obbard, 413 ; Mr. Woollatt,
391 ; Mr. Harding, 391 ; Mr. Bedford, 389 ; Mr. Hod-
son, 378; Mr. Taylor, 378; Mr, Anderton, 362 ; Mr.
Burn, 356; Mr. Rarnshaw, 351 ; Mr. Edkins, 343 ; Mr.
Charles, 337 ; Mr. Galloway, 333 ; Mr. Beckwith, 332 ;
Mr. Marriott, 301 ; Mr. Price, 297 ; Mr. Wells, 290 ;
Mr. Barnard, 277; Mr. Sweet, 40. The Alderman was
about to declare the first sixteen named gentlemen elected,
When Mr. Wells demanded a ecrutiny.
TOWER WARD.
Finnis, 143 ; Robinson, 120; Briggs, 109; Edwards,
106; Selson, 105 ; Redhead, 102 ; Oakley, 93; Brain,
83; Maitland, 77 ; Young, 67 ; Goodridge, 50.
LANGBOURNE WARD.
Stubbings, 96 ; 93 ; Adanzon, 83; Collin.
son, 85; Frodaham, 83 ; Dixon, 80 ; Howard, 79 ; Un-
win, 70 ; Sully, 57 ; Nicholson, 49 ; Gude, 25.
TILE JEWS.

The following extracts are taken from Der Orient, a
German newspaper. They seem to betoken a movement
among the Continental Jews in relation to the late crisis
in Syria
We have a country, the inheritance of our fathers,
finer, more fruitful, better situate for Commerce, than many
of the most celebrated portions of the globe. Eavironed
by the deep-delled Taurus, the lively shores of the' Eu-
phrates, the lofty steppes of Arabia, and of rocky Stiatti,
our country extends along the shores of the Mediterrnean,
crowned by the towering cedars of Lebanon, the source
of a hundred rivulets and brooks, which spread fruitfulness'
over shady dales, and confer wealth on the contented in-
habitants. A glorious land! situate at the farthest ex-
tremity of the sea which connects three quarters of the
globe, over which the Phoenicians, our brethren, sent
their numerous fleets to the shores of Albion, and the rich
coasts of Lithuania, near to both the Red Sea and the
Persian Gulf; the perpetual courses of the traffic of the
world, on the way from Persia and India to the Caspian
and Black Sea ; the central country of the commerce
between the east and west.
" Every country hail its peculiarity ; every people their
own nature. Syria, with its extensive surrounding plains
unfavourable to regular cultivation, is a land of transit, of
communication, of caravans. No people of the earth have
lived so true to their calling from the first as we have done.
We are a trading people, born for the country where little
food is necessary, and this is furnished by nature almost
spontaneously to the temperate inhabitants, but not for the
heavy soils of the ruder north.
" In no country of the earth are our brethren
.so nume-
rous as in Syria; in none do they live in as dense masses,
so independent of the surrounding inhabitants ; in none
do they persevere so steadfastly in their faith in the pro-
mise of the fathers, as on the beautiful shores of the
Orontes. In Damascus alone live near 60,000.
" The Arab has maintained his language and his ori-
ginal country ; on the Nile, in the deserts, as far as
Sinai, and beyond Jordan, he feeds his flocks. In the
elevated plains of Asia Minor the Turkonian has con-
quered for himself a second country, the birthplace of the
Osman ; but Syria and Palestine are depopulated. For
centuries the battle-field between the sons of Altai and of
the Arabian wilderness, the inhabitants of the West and
the half-nomadic Persians, none have been able to esta-
blish themselves and meintain their nationality ; no nation
can claim the name of Syrian. A chaotic mixture of all
tribes and tongues, remnants of migrations from north
and south, they disturb one another in the possession of the
glorious land where our fathers foe so many centuries
emptied the cup of joy and woe, where every clod is
drenched with the blood of our heroes when their bodies

were buried under the ruins of Jerusalem.
" The power of our enemies is gone, the angel of dis-
cord has long since mown down their mighty hosts, end
yet ye do not bestir yourselves, people of Jehovah I What
hinders? Nothing but your own supineness.
" Think you, that Mehemet Ali or the Sultan in Stam-
boul will not be convinced that it would be better fur him
to be the protector of a peaceful and wealthy people,
than with infinite less of men and money to contend
against the ever-repeated, mutually provoked insurrections
of the Turks and Arabs, of whom neither the one nor the
other are able to give prosperity to the country ?
" Our probation was long, in all countries, from the
North Pole to the South J There is no trade, no art,
which we have not practised, no science in which we
cannot show splendid examples. Where will you find
better proclaimers of civilization, to the wild tribes of

the East ?
" People of Jehovah, raise yourselves from your thou-
sand years' slumber ! Rally round leaders I have really
the will, a Moses will not be wanting. The rights of
nations will never grow old; take possession of the
land of your fathers; build a third time the temple
on Zion, greater and more magnificent than ever. Trust
in the Lord, who has led you safely through the vale of
misery thousands of years. He also will not forsake you
in your last conflict."

THE YOUNG SULTAN.—The Leapsie Gazette
informs us, that the Prussian painter Kretschmer, atter
having taken Mehemet Ali's portrait in Egypt, pro-
ceeded to Constantinople, where he was admitted to
the Sublime Porte, for the purpose of painting the
portrait of the Sultan, Herr Kretschmer was pre-
sented on the 15th of October, and had his first sitting
a few days after. The. Sultan wore a blue coat with
red collar, not unlike the uniform of the Prussian cavalry
officers On his breast was displayed the Nishan, that
distinguished Ottoman order, composed of sparkling
brilliants. The embroidery on his outer garment glit-
tered with gold and pree'aus stones. "He fixed his eyes
on mine," writes Herr Kretshmer, " took the attitude in
%shish he was desirous that I should paint him, and said,
I feel assured that you will answer my expectations in
the first portrait you make of me.' I then commenced my
work, and I had an abundance of time to study the inte-
resting physiognomy of this youthful sovereign. It is less
handsome than intelligent. The smallpox has left deep
ravages on his countenance. His complexioa is pale. He
looks more like a man of twenty-two than a youth of
eighteen years of age. His beard is tolerably strong at
the chin, but the mustachios are scanty. Amiability and
goodness of disposition are perceptible in his features ;
they even breathe from the tones of his voice. This organ
is at once soft and sonorous, and his conversation is inte-
resting. Fatigued by diplomatic receptions and visits
of etiquette, the Sultan seemed to take much pleasure
is our little familiar interview. The Sultan gave the
young artist six sittings in all. The portrait was pro-
nounced to be a perfect likeness, and the Sultan gave Herr
Kretschmer permission to take a copy for his own use,
and have it lithographed.
TILE CHINA EXPEDITION.—Extract of a letter
from a gentleman resident at Niece() to his brother at
Edinburgh:—" 25th July, 1840.—0 f the likelihood of a
settlement of the existing differences with the Chinese it is
difficult to form an opinion at present, hut if one may judge
from the recent proceedings of the Chinese Government,
the nature of the demands about to he made, together with
the half-conciliating tone and apparently undecided mea-
sures of our authorities here, their adjustment will be a
matter of very many months. The Chinese can offer
no effectual resistance to our troops, but their government
exercise so wonderful a power over the people, who are
the most etihrnissive on the face of the earth, that a sort of
passive resistance will be made, much more perplexing ann
difficult to overcome. At one time, when the coast of
China was tlireatenecl by some foreign enemy, the Emperor
issued air order withdrawing the population feorn the whole
line of coast 60 miles inland! Nothing on record is equal
to this. The population on the coast is enormous,
several of their sea-port towns containing from two to
four hundred thousand people I If the ndo
expeoditiowio
not proceed against Pekin I tear little real god ll b
done. To reach this city the Gulf of Pc-ho must be
crossed. But the north-east monsoon sets in there toe
wards the end of September with such overpowerif!cloo-
knee that the water is actually forced out of the (ett f t
such an extent, as to render the navigation dangerous for
the smallest vessels. Tbus, for six weeks, must operations
a* 11 51),-...u:d nut be 9orrised if the.
ilset %lied to winter in :Lat
that
having effected anything farther than the taking of.
ialpd."....Calcdoniazt Mercury.