The Sun.
London, England, 1840-12-17 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1840.

to throwing food into the Thames, keep from the
months of the starvinc people.

It may, perhaps, be said, that poverte and m::ser)
and actual starvation would exist though them was
no Corn-law; but admitting that, for the sake
of argument, which we deny, why should the
authors of the Corn-law, by stopping the supply
of food, make themselves responsible for all this
misery ? The Corn-law, which keeps out Ame-
rican and Polish wheat and flour, is now the im-
mediate cause of it all. If, as some persons
assert, this misery is decreed by Nature, why
not allow Nature to take her course ? Why inter-
fere between her and that end, and assume such an
awful responsibility ? Why will the Legislature
not mistrust its own wisdom, seeing the vast
' mass of misery which overwhelms society, anti
leave the people's food alone ? If the land-
lords were as certain to lose as they think they are
to gain, their compassion for agricultural and other
labourers would instantly disappear, and they
nould leave them to help themselves. But now
they starve the people by laws, meriting the denun-
ciation of the Gospel, " Woe unto them by
whom evil cometh." Rather than incur the awful
responsibility of dooming a multitude of human
beings to slow and painful death, it would be
more honourable and more gratifying, we think, to
perish on a gibbet, amidst the shouts of an indig-
nant populace, knowing that our memory would be
handed down to posterity as that of the most in-
famous criminal recorded in the annals of Newgate.
Even that, now presumed to be the greatest
'mown infamy, seems to us less infamous than to be
the authors of the starvation laws.

On this subject the Morning Herald made a
very curious admission yesterday, for a journal
which opposes the repeal of the Corn-law because
that would lower wages. It stated that to " repeal
the Corn-laws would be to enhance the power of
money ;" and it implied that the repeal would, as
a consequence, give cheap bread to " the owners
of fixed money incomes." Supposing the owners
of fixed money incomes to be ever so few, and ever
so worthless, the Herald has given no reason why
their bread should be made dear to enrich the land-
lords. We believe, however, that they are neither
few nor worthless. For example, all the ser-
vants of the Government in the army and navy,
in all the public offices, and every department
of the State, have fixed salaries. Curates and
many salaried clergymen are paid in the same
manner. All the clerks in banking and mercantile
houses, most travellers for mercantile houses, the
captains, mates, and crew s, of all merchant vessels,
have fixed salaries.° All light porters and shopmen,
all men and maid-servants, all assistants to chemists
and ushers to schools, have fixed money incomes,
which do not vary with the price of provisions. All
the persons employed in the press throughout the
empire, except the proprietors, have fixed incomes.
In the metropolis and most of the large towns the
majority of the artizans, such as shipwrights, car-
penters, tailors, bricklayers., have a settled rate of
wages, which they maintain, and which is sel-
dom or never departed from, though employ-
ment varies, and is more or less. In short,
there are so many persons of different descrip-
tions, besides those holding property in the funds,
who have fixed money incomes—for even the agricul-
tural labourers belong to this class as well as the spin-
ners and all labourers who do not work by piece—that
we run no risk in asserting that they constitute the
majority of society. The shopkeepers, merchants,
brokers, bankers, farmers, &c. &c., who live on
profit, with the landlords and clergy who live on
rent and a rent charge, are the minority. Of that
minority those who live on profit would also benefit
by the repeal of the Corn-law, and therefore the He-
rald, by the admission we have quoted, pronounces
that the Corn-law is injurious to the great majority
of society. The Herald admits that the Corn-law
makes their income, whether it be called wages or
salary, pension or annuity, of less value in relation
to food ; and it accordingly taxes them for the be-
nefit of the few owners of rent and a rent charge.
The Herald pretends to be a great lover of justice
and the public good ; let it try, therefore, to recon-
cile its defence of a law which, according to its
own admission, taxes the many for the benefit of
a few, with its pretensions. We shall await the
issue.

The French Journals of Tuesday have been
received, but they contain little news of any mo-
ment. To the Times we are indebted for the
only interesting account of the arrival of the re-
mains of NAPOLEON in Paris that has yet ap-
peared. The grave and peaceable deportment of
the whole population of Paris, with the exception
of some four hundred hair-brained students, reflects
credit upon the French capital. We begin to
think that the people are much wiser than the
Journalists, and that, if left to themselves, they
would be quiet and orderly enough.
The Journals of Tuesday contain the whole of
the correspondence between Commodore NAPIER
ttnd BOGHOS BEY, with long accounts from
Alexandria of the submission of MEHEMET
ALI. As the substance of these accounts ap-
peared in The Sun of Monday last we shall not re-
peat them. MEHEMET ALI received Commo-
dore NAPIER standing and on a footing of perfect
equality.

. .
The constitutionnel points triumphantly to the
prominence given to the name of M. TRIERS in
all the European Journals as a conclusive proof of
the wonderful greatness of the little ex-Minister.
The Constitutionnel mistakes notoriety for faint.—
a mistake but too frequent among miters and
statesmen on the other side of the Channel.

It is said that the Austrian Government intends to con-
tract is loan to the amount of ten millions sterling'.
We invite the attention of our readers to the following
letter, which we have received to-day from Berlin :
BERLIN,...DEC. B.—General Grollman returned to this
city the day before yesterday. On the following day he
had a long audience of the King, who is said to be ex-
tremely satisfied with the result of his mission. After the
arrival of General Grollman, the officers of the war depart-
ment have been more busy than ever; couriers are dis-
patched every moment to convey to the military governors
of the provinces the instructions founded on the plan
agreed upon between the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna.
Notwithstanding the reiterated assurance of the Soult-
Guizot Cabinet, Prussia pretends to be alarmed for its
Rhenish provinces, and will complete its armaments during
the winter, so as to be able to act in the spring. The re-
cent augmentation of the cadres of the engineers, and of
the artillery in France, serves as a pretext for hastening
the preparations for war. Several German Princes are
exerting themselves to obtain, in ease of war, the command
of br;gades in the army of the Confederation; and with
this view have solicited the support of Prussia. Among
them is Prince Augustus, of Wirtemberg, who has arrived
at Berlin to-day. It is certain that Prince Juhn of
Saxony has obtained the formal promise of a command in
chief.

" The Marquis of Clanricarde, who has arrived here to-
day, will stop, it is said, a few days, to accomplish a spe-
cial mission to our Court, before he proceeds to his post at
St. Petersburg h."—Le Commerce.
The Chaniber of Peers have presented to the Hotel of
the Invalides the 48 Austrian standards taken at Ulm, and
concealed by the late Marquis de Semonville ( Grande
Refertridaire of the Chamber) on the approach of the
Allies in Paris in 1814. It will be recollected that these
standards were presented to the Chamber by the Marquis
inlinediately after the revolution of 18P0.
Baussets, Dec. 13.—The Senate, in its yesterday's
Sitting, heard the reports of its Committee on several
projects of law relative to the expense of the Charn'..ers of
Commerce, and to the supplementary vote of credit for the
department of foreign affaiis.
M. Dujarden arrived at Brussels yesterday. He has
been sent for, as we hear,ito treat with Messrs. Borr( t and
Van Mescritz, the Dutch Commissioners, on some matters
cquainted. The temporary
does not interrupt the progress
a
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absencetthh e‘v ieocgfho
chNiela.tiispo
rlusi particularlyaa,td eun t
rec t
We
le
arn that several
hundred passports have been delivered within these few
days by the French Legation. All the places in tile con-
veyances to Paris were taken three days ago.
13r' 14—Tie
and arrived at the palace in
King left his country scat
zt Ar
e ee c.
rda
y morning,Bru,sels at half-past six this evening.
The King and Queen afterwards went to the Palace cf
du.s..isihnLe s ;
Laeken.
M de Roentgen, Minister of Nassau to the Diet of
Frankfort, is appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minist,r
Plenipotentiary of his Highness the Duke of Nassau to
the King of the Belgians, and had an audience yesterday
of the MMister for Foreign Affairs.

Having recently combated some statements in
the Times relative to the Government of America,
we cannot allow the election of General HARRISON
to be President to pass by without making use of
it to confirm our opinions. All the information
concerning it has not yet arrived, but on that which
has reached us we found the following remarks.
It is asserted that this election will cause es-
sential changes in the policy of the United States,
it is more certain that it is the triumph of
a party which has of late been a minority, and
is now converted into a majority. The Democrats
and the metallic-currency men are defeated, and
VAN BUREN retires ; the Whigs and the paper-
money men come into novecr, and HARRIsoN
is
to be President. But those who thence info► a great
change in the policy of the country, will probably
be deceived. Mr. VAN BUREN and his party
have had a majority, but they have been unable to
carry through their Sub-Treasury Bill. In like
manner, such are the obstacles offered in a represen-
tative assembly to the completion of any measure to
which a large minority is opposed, that it is quite im-
possible, as we well know, to complete it. General
HARRIsON and his friends, therefore, may succeed
Mfr. VAN BUREN and his friends in office. They
►tray carry measures so,newhat different from his,
but to make a great change in his policy, hostile
to the feelings of the minority, will be nearly irn•

...
Beron d'Arnim, the Prussian Minister, arrived at Brus-
sels this morning.
General Tabor has resigned the comru:nd of the pro-
vhice of Luxemburg.
13Z.CSSELS. DEC. 15. —ln the Chamber of RvreFenta-
tives yesterday the Order of the Day was the second vote
on the whole of the budget of the Foreign Department.
M. de Theux moved an amendment on the article rela-
tive to the salaries of the Consular Agents. The sum
of 140,000 france, required by the Goverment was re-
duced to 110,000 franca.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs complained of the em-
barrassment which be would experience by mekieg so un-
seasonable a reduction in his budget. He doubted whether
lie difference between the receipt and the expenditure, of
which the GATernmetit has complained, will d.seppear in
coniequence of this insgl
-;how Lis wish to eoneiliatendtm to prove to ti.e Chamber
11.1 t he wished to p7.:tsctere iii th,t course of reduction
0. L ich he his entered on, is willing that the sum shall be
;liminishA by 10 000 francs
M, de Theta objected to the Chamber revoking its
vote.

possible.
The great question at issue is the system of banks
and the currency. Now there is no subject on which
opinions are less settled and precise, and more divided
on both sides of the ocean, than this. In fact banking
is a modern art, and paper money is a compara-
tively modern invention. They are not yet com-
pletely developed, their tesorces and ramifications
are unknown, and all legislation concerning them is'
premature. We will not, therefore, answer for what
change of opinion and what change of measures
may take place on this subject in the United States ;
but we will answer for the impossibility of General
HARRISON and his friends carrying any measure,
even with regard to the currency and the banks, to
which the bulk of the other party shall be decidedly
and determinedly opposed.
The returns which have arrived, though not
official, seem to be complete and authentic,
and they supply us with some data. For
example, the majority of electors for General
34.AnntsoN is set down at 157,018 for the whole
community, while the recorded number of voters,
in only thirteen States, who have concurred
in the election—the voters in the other States not
being yet given—is 1,628,593. The majority, then,
by which General HARRISON is returned, and
vvhich he represents, is much less than one-tenth
of the whole body of the electors. It is probably
less then one-sixteenth, and on such a majority it
will be impossible to carry through any measures
to which the minority may be opposed. We will
not he answerable for changes of opinion, but no
violent change in measures can take place before a
change shall have occurred in the opinions of the
bulk of the people.
We know, by the returns which we have re-
ceived, that very nearly two millions of elec-

e.
Hence the sum of 130,000 francs, proposed by ti:e
nu.ter, was put to the vote. 82 M.inbers answered to
(heir names. 41 voted for, and 41 against the proposal;
and the number being equal, it wds rejected.
whol of the bud,,et.
1,064,500
,vas passed by 75 to 4. to the ainiiunt of

'iti""i IAN , UNI DS—ilitt,skiEt.a , DEC. 15.
&ctual Det,t -, ' , . i.erCent. ......... ......
Loanthsehn.t., Loan, 5 ~,, CC.
n t ...7
01 Thirty Itli;oini, -4 per Cent. sB
,(1 ,4) IJ7
.I per Cent.

-... Thirty .seven--:- l;ii!i
1-o .In of t ay, Itsll2, 4 per tent 90
Sociat) ot Conmree, .i sayer Cent llO
Bank 01 lieli;ium, 5 per Cent ••7%
National Si4eiety .
Exchange on London (short}
—Brussels Papers, Dec. 15.
AUSTRIAN FUND.S.--VIES NA , DEc. 7
five per Cents. Metalliques
Fan!' per Cents. ...
Three Ta Cont,. ..
... ...
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...
t• (04
ll'a" shar" ............. .., .... ..
.....40 m
;:emee ZettuNg Dee. 11

Sir Rohert Harry blahs, Barr., M.P., has
arrived in town from a tour on the Continent.
SINGULAR LocK.---A novelty has recently
peon added to the already numerous and ingenious inven•
tions for affording security to property, and which will
shortly be introduced to the public. This invention pre-
sents the singularity of a lock without any keyhol and it
is said it can be made applicable to all the usual purposes.
eve:i including distillers' tavrn trips, &c. The
key or means of opening it, it is stated, can be made in
every variety of form—as a ring to wear on the finger, as
a szal, a pencil-case, or as an addition to a whip or stick.
The luck itself can be supplied at a much lower price thhii
any other patent lock, and posseises the important advan-
tages that it is impervious to dust or wet, and cannot be
picked.
The 18th, 26th, and 49th regiments are to have
" China" upon their colours and appointments, in conye-
moration of the first capture of a territorial Possession made
by a British mil:tary fete.: in " Celes i 1 Empi e "
GODALMING, MONDAY.—On Saturday even-
ing this place was visited by an extraordinary flight of
wild fowl. The evening was very dark, when, about seven
o'clock, the air was filled with the cries of wild ducks, wid-
geon, curlews, and everything else, to the surprise of all the
men folks, and to the extreme terror of the old women and
children. The flight seemed to be driving towards the
south, and continued to pas 3 till ha!f-past eight or nine
o'clock. The number must 11:.4ve been very extraordinary,
for ty,er head and on; every side -.they were heard to the
furthest stretch of the ear.

tors have actually given their votes, on the I BANK OF EN GLAND—(THIS D A Y.)
~!,•etion of this orf,at cffio'.•!. of A rrH7.-r1
which has beers cesel,p;es.cd vvi;ll no
more strife or noise than the election of a Member
for Carlow. The bulk, therefore, of the Ameri-
cans of the male sex, and who have arrived at
full age, have given their voices on this occa-
sion. The new President is the choice of
a majority, though it he not much greater
than the minority, of the whole body of the
people. To suppose that a person so elected,
and who, at the end of four years, will return his
trust into their hands, and, perhaps, ask its re ti
-
newal, will not better attend to the interests of the
people, and that he is not more intimately asso-
ciated with them than any hereditary Monarch,
seems to us, in spite of M. DE ToCQUE-
VILLE, a great absurdity. We must wait,
however, for some time before we can expe-
rience how General HARRISON will act. He
does not come into power until the 4th of March,
when the present Congress ceases to exist. The
new Congress does not meet until December follow-
lug, so that the policy of his administration will
scarcely be developed in less than twelve months
from the present period. What changes may occur
before the arrival of that period, and what the policy
of his Government may actually he, it is therefore im-
possible for any person to say; but we have thought
it right, in order to allay apprehensions, to endea-
vour to show that in such a representative Govern-
inent as that. of America, the policy depends on the
voters, and will only be changed as the nation
changes its opinions, not the persons who adminis-
ter its affairs.

.The Qaarterl:7 General Court of Director , anki
prictors of the Bank of England dock p!a.,: this clay. rp,
Court was mado special for the purpose of voting congra-
tulatory addresses to her Majesty and Prince Albert on the
late interesting event of the birth of a Princess Royal.
At twelve o'clock, the Governor, Sir John Rae Reid,
and the Directors entered the room, and the minutes of
tbo last General Court having been r-ad 7nd confirmed,
The Govigitsoa said they had made the present Court
special fur the purpos.! of presenting taldrf-Fses to her Ma-
je. 6!), and Prince Albert on the birth of a Princess Royal.
It was unnecessary to add, that he fully concurred in every
word of the addresses that had been pre.pared, and which
he now moved he r..ad to the Court.

A PROPRIETOR b3gged to inquire why an earlier Special
Court had not I).en called for the purl-,3e? it qii,eared
to him that they were rather late in the field
The GOVERNOR would venture to say ti:at there did 1,
exist a more loyal corporation in the kingdom than that of
the Bail of Eagkr..d.
Another PROPRIETOR said, as the Quarterly Genet-Ll
Court was so uelr, it was almoE,t unnecessary to call a
Spe&al Court for tilt. purpose.
'I he ad,lrese.i to tile Queen and Prince Albert having
bei:n

The GovERNoR put the question that the address to her
Alaj,sty be agreed to.
The motion was put and carried unanimously.
On 017 qui,,,tion that the address to his Highnes
Prince agreed to,
Mr. BLACKEC:RN suggested that the minutes of the
proceeding in the case of the birth of the last Heir Appa-
rent, in 1762, or thcreaboutA, be road in the first instance.
A VROPRILTOR hoped he would not interrupt the har-
mony of the Court.
The GOVERNOR was in their hands, and if k was their
opinion that the minute referred to shculd be read, he
would do so.

Several Proprietors objected to such a proceeding.
Mr. BLACKUUaN ,hous,ht that a Corporation whose
charter had emanated from the Crown should confiiie its
Addresses to the Crown. He objected to including any
other party, es it waa a dangerous precedent.
The Addrtss to Prince Albert was then put and carried,
with the exception of one hand—that of Mr. Blackburn
being held up against it.
The GOVERNOR requested he would take down his hand,
but he refused.

A PROPRIETOR hoped the name of the dissentient Pro.
prietor would be mentioned.
Mr. BLACKBURN said that must not be done.

It was then moved and carried that it be inserted on
the minutes: that the resolution for an address to Prince

Albert was carried with one di.,Eenticnt voico.

Mr FIELDER begged to ask a question, which was of
some importance now that the stock was getting down in
price. A report was abroad that they were going to incur
very heavy expenses in making new improvements at the
Bank. He wished to know if that were the case?

The GOVERNOR did not moan to say that they were not
incurring some expense in providing increased accommo-
dation for the public, but it would not be to any very large
amount.—( Hear, hear. )
It was then agreed that the seal of the Corporation
be affixed to the addresses, and that they be presented by
the Governor, Deputy-Governor, &c., in the usual form,
after which the Cour: separated.

CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY,)

THE ATTORNRY- GENERAL V. WILSON,-JUDGMENT.

The LOY.C. CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this
case, which was argued last week. The judgment was
filed by her Majesty's Attorney-General, on behalf of the
present Corporation of Leech, against several members of
the old Corporation, fur the purpose of obtaining the de-
cree of the Court, ordering the defendants to make good
to the present Corporation the sum of 7001., which they
bad alienated in the year 1835, as it was alleged, for the
purpose of preventing its being enjoyed by the new Cor-
poration under the Municipal Reform Act ; and also fur
the purpose of making them unpopular among the inha-
bitants of Leeds, in consequence of their being
under the necessity, having no Corporate property,
to tax the inhabitants by the Borough rate. The mode
adopted for alienating the property was the execution of a
deed by which the sums in question were given to three
gentlemen of the names of Wilson, Blades, end Beckett,
as trustees, to be distributed among certain charities of the
town, and also for increasing the stipends of some of the
incumbents. It was also proposed to give the Recorder
and Deputy Recorder certain sums, which, however, they
refused to receive. Upwards of 2,500/. had been distri-
buted, and the trustees held about 4,0001. The Lerd
Chancellor, in giving judgment, said there could be no doubt
hat the attempts to alienate the property of the Corperation
were ineffectual, and therefore so much of' it as was forth-
coming must be restored, and compensation must be
made for that which was not forthcoming. From the mo-
ment the Corporation Act pae-ed, whatever property
belonged to it went to the new Corporation ; and any at-
tempts to alienate it weir void. It was the duty of the
defendants to protect the property confided to them, for
the benefit of their successors, and not to take measures
to alienate it. The course that bad been pursued by the
defendants was nut only a breach of trust, and a vio-
lation of duty, but it was en act of spoliation against the
inhabitants of Leeds, who were liable to the borough-
rate. There could be no doubt, therefore, that the
plaintiffs were entitled to redress against the three trustees
and against those members of the governing body who
acted with them, namely, the five defendants upon the re-
cord. His Lordship would, therefore, make the following de-
cree :—Declare that the 6,500/. Consols, and 500/. Turn-
pike Bonds, notwithstanding the deeds of May, 1835, con-
tinued, and was the property of the Corporation of Leeds
at the time of the passing of the Act of Parliament, en.
titled " An Act to provide for the Regulation of Munici-
pal Corporations in England end Wales," and was, there-
fore, from that time subject to the trusts and purposes
prescribed by that Act. And declare that the subsequent
el:enation of such funds and stock for any other purposes,
and particularly the deeds of the 30th of May and the
24th of November, 1835, were breaches of trust,
and fraudulent and void ;; and declare the three trus-
tees and the five defendants, the members of the governing
body, liable to re-transfer the said several stock and funds,
and also the turnpike sccuiities; Thu 2,5001., and the
1,5001., and the turnpike shares now in their hands, to be
immediately re-transferred and re-assigned ; and refer it
to the Master to state what part of such stock and funds,
other than such as have been so transferred to either of the
defendants, and arc capable of being re-transferred, have been
sold and disposed ce, and when, and by whom, and by whose
authority or direction, and in what manner the same
and the other proceeds thereof bath been paid and applied,
and disposed of, with liberty to the Master to take special
circumstances. An account also must be directed of all
such property, and of the dividends and. profits. The
three trustees and the five defendants, members of the
governing body to pay the colts of the suit to the hearing.
The effect of the decree, therefore, is to compel the de-
fendants to make good the whole 7,000/., with interest,
from 1835, the time of the alienation, and also to pay the
whole costs of the suit.

CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
Before Mr. Justice. PATTESON.)
CHARGE IF ATTEMPTED FRATRICIDE. -- Alexander
ll !Mums. aged 19, was charged with feloniously shouting
at l'Awin Williams, with a gun loaded with powder and a
bullet, with intent to murder him, on the 25th of November
The prosecutor was called upon his recogrizances, but
d:d not appear.
From the evidence of the Police Constable who took
the prisoner into custody, it appeared that the prisoner and
the pro.:ecutor, who were brothers, both lived in the liar.
row-road, and that there had been diffeiences between their.
That on the day hi question he had heard the report of
gun, and saw the prisoner imniediately Efter run out into
the street. The prisoner appeared intoxicated; he said it
was all a jcaluusy towards hunt. Witoessi afterwards found
the gun and the bullet, the bullet had gone into tie
cot of the passage across the parlour. Edwin Williams,
who accompanied witness to the station-bou,e, said,
•' Tek, hint into eustudy for shooting at tile." When
prisoner w;.:3 examined sit the station-Louse, twenty-seven
bullets and sittle percussion caps were found in his pocket.
lt:tw in Wilkins elitrged Jilin with shouting. Witness
only cimiged him as drank and disorderly.

Torre ware na otkur w•itrie=ses in attenChlice.

Mr. Just:ec PATTESON said that the evidence only went
to show that to uccusation had been made rgaiost the
prisoner by the vosccutott, who roo,it certainly ought to
have been to attendance this Thme would be ;•real
dangrr in actiLg upon inch slight evidence as they bud
boron:• them, in the absence of prosecutor, s•ho,
if he bad been present, migh! have been cio-s
ex:an:int d, so advaotage of which the prisoner was
now deprived, The charge was of firing "with intent to
do gricviius harm." Now. there wus no evidence
to show but what the gun might have gone off by acci-
dent, or there might have been a sAuggle between the
parties, or it might have been discharged without any ma-
licious intention. It worth' be exceedingly dangerous to
convict a person upon such very slight evidence, and there-
fore it was their duty to acquit the prisoner.
Jurr accordingly returned a verdict of Nut Guilty.

The

BOW-s,TREET.-(THIS DAY )

THE SNOWBALL NUISANCE.—SeveraI boys were brough
before Mr JArdlite charged with assembling in Catherine.
street, and Wellington-street, and throwing snowballs at
every person who happened. to p.,ss. The coi,stables said
they found the
greatest difficulty in apprehending them,
they were so numerous, although several respectable put--
sons came to the station-house to represent the danger and
inconvenience they suffered front such conduct.
Mr. JAI:DISE said it was the first time for the season
that such ciivges had been brought to this Court, but as
the defendants might have acted ttir,ugh ignorance of the
law, it wo-sbi t,e nec,:ssary for them to know that the Me-
tropolitan Poli:e Act impoged a penalty of 40. or a
month's imprisonment on any person convicted of such an
offencir, nhieh, from henceforth, should b r in every in-
stance inE'.eted, unless such an idle and dangerous practice
t:s discontinued.

_ -
MA ItLBOI(OUGH-STREET•
(THIS DAY.)

An elderly female, who gave her name Jane Fraser,
hh a 'Jbily but tidily dressed, and whose appearance and
manners still retained the traces of gentility, was placed at
the bar before Mr. Long, having been found in the street
in a state of destitution.
Lr answer to a question from the Magistrate, Mrs.
F, aser said she was a native of Edinburgh, but had been
residing in England for a considerable time past on a
small income derived from her late husband's property, it
was remitted to her quarterly from Scotland by her nephew,
who was agent to the property in qu,stion, but through
some cause which she could not imagine, the list two
quarters' allowance had never reached her. She had by
degrees, pa ted with her furniture, clothes, &c., And at last

wag obliczoi to give tin her nfl ,rnnuler the

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7.6. LONG thco. diyoctea that letter should ho
to the parochial officers of St. George's, Hanover-square,
ordering the reception of Mrs. Fraser into the workhouse,
and recommending them to make the necessary inquiries
as to her statement.

Mrs. Fraser expressed herself truly grateful.
Five persons were this morning brought up from the
Swkn-house, where they heal been confined during .he
night, and fined in different amounts from ss. to 20e. for
on the footway pavements.
Police constable No. 101 of the C division, who appre-
hended three of the defendants, stated that after nightfall
last even?ng there happened on his treat alone seven acci-
dents by persons slipping down through stepping on the
slides which had been made on the footway pavement, and
which were hidden from sight by the snow, Tiitec of the
Inrsons broke their iegq.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

COLONIAL MARKET.

The public ENiCi were of little roornent, and by private
treay few sales were made; in prices, however, little
variation took place.
TEA MARKET.

The msrkA was in a very dull state, and prim still on the
decline; ir.&ed it is difficult to give a quotation for Free
Trade ; the nvalcst fur Coinpany's Congou was 2L per lb.
for cash.