The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-23 00:00:00

BATH.

There is a strong and increasing feeling here as to Sir Ro-
bert's procra-stinating policy. The failure of HobhOuse's bank,
which will affect directly or indirectly almost every inhabitant,
is believed to have been occas,oned by that restrictive commer-
cial policy which is closing our factories and starving our ar-
tisans. A memorial to the Queen, praying that Parliament
may not be prorogued until some measure of substantial relief
has been adopted, was placed this morning in the hail hall,
and has already received nearly 2,000 signatures.

CONVENTION BETWEEN HAM-

BURGH AND BELGIUM.

TREATY OF COMMERCE CONCLUDED THE 25TH
JUNE, 1841, BETWEEN LEOPOLD KING OF THE
BELGIANS, AND THE TOWN OF HAMBURGH,

RATIFIED ON THE 25TH AUGUST.

'1 he Senate of the Free and Hanse Town of Hambur. h on
one part, and Leopold, King of the Belgians, on the other,
wishing to stipulate by special regulations the reciprocal rights
of the citizens of both States with regard to the transmission of
testamentary property, have agreed as follows
Art. 1. Belgian citizens shall enjoy in the wholei.of tl;e teri7;
ritory of the Free Town of Hamburgh the same rixitsro:iph.erit.;
or to transmit, either by will or ab intestat, as the citizens off.
Hamburgh, without being subject as strangers to any duti4
not paid by the inhabitants. Rec,procally the citizens of
Hamburgh shall have the same rights in Belgium. The same
reciprocity shall exist for the citizens of both states with regard
to donations between the Lying.
Art. 2. On the transmission of property so obtained from
one country to the other, no duties of any kind, or under the
name of emigration duties. shall be levied upon it, but thole
paid by the inhabitants if the country themselves.
. .

Art: 3. The above suppression is not only meant to include
the duties of detraction received uy the public treasury, but all
duties of detraction arising from individuals, corporations, or
public foundations.
Art. 4. The present Conventions shall be drawn up in two
copies, and signed by Charles Sieveking, Syndic o( the town
of Hamburgh, and Emanuel de Meester de Ravesteen, Secre•
tary to the Belgian Legation. '
Art. 5. 'the present Convention shall be ratified and ex-
changed at Hamburgb, in the space of four weeks, or sooner
if possible.
Done at Hamburgh, the 25th June, in the year of our Lord
1841.

(Signed) SIEVEKING,
DE MEESTER DE RAVESTEIN.

THE WEATHER.—NooN, SEPTEMBER 22.
ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET.
Barometer
Thermometer.. 65 I Higheat.. ..... 65 i Lowest ..... 44
Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
There has been a good demand for yarn since yesterday
week, and on Thursday and Saturday last an advance
of 1-Bth per pound was obtained on some descriptiens
of yarn, which had previously been greatly depressed.
Yesterday the demand was not quite so active as on the
preceding Tuesday, but the market was perfectly firm
and steady. In the goods market there has been a fair de-
mand for shirtings, domestics, and long-cloths ; and
good 40-inch shirtings are scarce, and somewhat firmer
in price. Fustia.ns were not so much inquired for as
they have been for some weeks past, and printing cloths
of all kinds continue dull, and much depressed in price.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, SEPT. 20.
We have had a slacker demand for flannels to-day than
usual, and fewer have been sold than on former Mon-
days. The prices continue low, but have undergone no
change this week. The wool market has been dull, and
prices stationary.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—Sir Robert Peel and his colleagues, under
his directions, appear to have been preparing for their
appearance in Parliament, as Ministers of the Crown, by
a careful stud 3 of Shakspeare, rather than by a diligent
regard to the principles of Adam Smith, and other stan-
dard authorities on political economy, with the principles
of which their own difficulties and those of the country re-
quire they should be well acquainted. The Premier is evi-
dently inclined to treat the public with a scene from the
Merry Wiles of Windsor—he himself figuring, with admi-
rable propriety, as the thin-witted Master Slender. Such,
at least, is the inference to be fairly drawn from his
attempt to get through the Session by the help of no-
thing better than his own say-nothing speech of Friday
night ; followed, as it is to be, by the financial state-
ment of that "great lubberly boy," the Chancellor of
th; Exchequer. The whole affair is but a copy from
Master Slender's exquisite, and equally promising, plat:
of operations :—" I cry Mum, and you cry Budget."
While this. pertinacious and insolent mockery of a nation's
calamities is carried on by those who are bound by duty,
and ought to be prompted by inclination, to apply them-
selves to diligent inquiry, with a view to their relief, the
new Premier is making himself the hero of his own tale
—expatiating with characteristic self-complacency on Ins
own " honourable ambition ;" and giving the cue to his
parasites, who take up the theme, and dilate upon Sir
'Robert Peel's "manly pride" and " honourable ambition."
The country will require proof of these inordinate
claims to superior public virtue in one who evinces so
suspicious an indisposition to do anything which will
justify the parasitical commendations of his followers, or
the scarcely less extravagant praises he has lavished on
himself. 'Words—not deeds---ttssertions, not acts—is
the course adopted by the self-eulogizing Minister. As
Sir Robert Peel declines to supplyc us with matter for
present investigation, we are thrown back upon the
past ; and are left to reason from what we know respect-
ing his former conduct.
STANDARD.—Of the trumpery commodity, , Mr.
Serjeant Wilde—we omit the Welsh pranomen to which
he is entitled—of the trumpery commodity, we say, Mr.
Serjeant Wild; a great dealer in such wares, re-
newed his dispensation last night. The grievance
with which the ex law officer of the Crown fa-
voured the House of Commons was the same grit- -
ance of which he made so much on Monday--the ap-
pearance of Sir Edward Sugden in the House (without,
however, speaking or voting), although it is be-
lieved that Sir Edward is to be Lord chancellor
))f Ireland. Serjeant Wilde affected to treat
this as a great constitutional question, and ransacked
the journals for proofs that, in the opinion of some gen-
tlemen,
as shown in their practice, to be ready to accept
an office is the same thing as accepting it. The prac-
tice of the House of Commons upon this, as upon most
other matters, has been inconsistent and unsatisfactory,
affording a various and confused store of precedents—
just such a repository as a person like Sergeant Wilde
must expatiate on with delight. Happily, however,
for the country—happily for the House itself—
the practice of the House is not law, and
never will be law; the statute is our guide, and where
the statute is at an doubtful we must look for help, not
from the practice of a body which has nearly every year
stultified itself by some illegal extravagance, and which
even last night, before Sergeant Wilde was ten minutes
done speaking, 'made the awkward confession, that it is
not honest enough to be entrusted with a turnpike Bill—
it is not to the practice of such a House that we shah
look fur help in expounding the doubtful words of a sta-
tute (if they are doubtful, which we think they are not.
for what has not been received clearly has not been ac-
cepted), but to the reading of learned and impartial ex-
positors.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF MONDAY.
TIMES.—The public were greatly taken by surprise
to-day by the failure of a very old and highly respect-
able West India-house, Messrs. W. B. and S. Mitchell.
The failure of crops in the %Vest Indies is assigned
as the cause, and it is thought they are indebted in
a very large degree, though not to the commercial
world. One of the firm is a Director of the Bank of
' England.
Perhaps a more unexampled case of cross-bill accom-
modation was never disclosed than at the examination
which lately took place . before the Manchester Bank.
ruptcv Commissioners, in the investigation 0: the affairs
of Messrs. Bancks and Co., booksellers, of Manchester
and London, who had so managed their business that to
the question, " What is the amount of the whole of the
bills you put in circulation in London during the tithe
that you had been financing ?" the answer was—" The
total amount was, on an average, 10,0001. per month ;"
while in a prior part of the examination it is stated that
" as near as could be told," from 35,0001. to 40,0001. of the
total amount of liabilities, which was 51,00C1., no vino
had passed. The • system pur.Ated iii r: .•i r::
transactions was of the loosest character, and appears
to have been carried on with the assistance of a firm in
London (since bankrupts), merely with a view to 'meet

the demar ds bha moment, at a reckless hazard of
suture consequences, since it could not ever have been
sincerely anticipated that such a course would have
conduced to sound prosperity. Their accounts were kept
in the most complete state of disorder, and letters, and
other collateral sources of information, were sedulously
destroyed, and all means of giving information were so
absolutely precluded, that it was deemed useless to exa-
mine one of the bankrupts because "he knew so little."
Notwithstanding the Commissioners were inclined to
pass, and ultimately did pass, the bankrupts, such was
the strong feeling of the creditors that they had been
the victims of gross fraud, that the same course adopted
in the case of the Wakefields of the Stock-Exchange at
the London Court of Bankruptcy was resorted to—
namely, that of retaining the articles found upon their
persons when they make a declaration of the surrender
of all their property, which is the greatest indignity that
a body of creditors can offer to a bankrupt.
We have again to remark on the l.'ngth of time
which has been suffered to elapse between the pe-
riod to which the returns of the Bank of England
are made up and the day. on which they are pub
lished. They purport to be for the four weeks
preceding the 21st of August, and are not inserted in the
Gazette until the 17th of September, being a delay of 27
days, and which is three days longer than on the last
occasion, when the making up of the returns from so
large a number of Banks, and on a new system, might
perhaps be supposed to offer some excuse for the time
employed before publication. The excuse of novelty can-
not now be pleaded, and yet they are actually still fur-
ther delayed than on the previous occasion. We trust
that this is not a contrivance of the Bank of England for
preventing the public from reaping the full advantage
from the new returns. As the matter stands at present,
instead of having the return of the last month, we have
the return of a period nearly two months back.
POST.—At an extraordinary general meeting of the
Shareholders of the Commercial Bank of England a state-
was laid before the Shareholders, showing the position
of their affairs, from which it appeared that not ,only
was all the surplus fund absorbed, but that one-fourth
of the paid up capital had been necessarily employed
to meet the losses. After some discussion it was pro-
pOsed and carried " that the Directors do adopt the ne
cessary steps fur dissolving the Company so soon as the
debts and obligations of the Bank be discharged. This
is one of the ephemeral establishments which so plen-
tifully sprung up some few years since, and to the work-
ing of which the embarrassment, not only of the cus-
tomers, but of the Shareholders, is to be attributed.

CHRONICLE.—A private letter, emanating from
a highly and influential quarter, and just received
from Portugal, announces the important fact that
the Pope, Russia, Austria, and Prussia, have ap-
pointed Ambassadors to the Court of her Most
Catholic Majesty, who are daily expected to, pre-
sent their credentials. It also communicates that- deci-
sive measures have been taken by t:le Finance Minister
:4r endowing the Board of Public Credit with ample
means for the punctual payment of the future Dividends
on the foreign debt, and pays a well-merited eulogium
to the services of Sir S. L. Goldsmid, Bart., for his ex-
ertions and generous conduct in supporting the credit of
Portugal at the worst of times.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY,

TIMES.—The announcement from the Treasury has taken
the Money Market completely by surprise, so much so that for
the last three or four days the general expectat on was that the
Treasury would merely take a vote for the amount of the de-
clared deficiency—viz., 2,500,0001., and tt.at there would
neither be a funding of Exchequer Bills nor a loan during the
present year. It differs from former announcements o 1 Ihe
kind in fixing at once a price for the fundtog instead of leaving
that to be det 'rmined by tenders from capitalists and oshe,s-t.
The first thing therefore to be considered is. whether the vaitte
so fixed bears such a relation to the market'price If the Stock
for the day as to make it worth while for the wooled interest to
become subscribers. The following calculations; will set this
matter in a cl, ar point of view :—Thesimplest'plan is to calcu-
late the operation on 1,000/ ; and to obtain the average va'ue,
it is expedient to assume that the subs, ribers would avail them-
selves of the option of paying half in money and half in
Exchequer Bills, for the nun base of 1,121/. Co, sole, the
amount allowed for the 1,0001. -Taking the average price of
Exchequer Bills to be 14s. premium, 5001. of these are worth
5031. 10s., and 5001. in money, with the addition of the 12s,
per cent., according to the terms of the notice, will be 5031.,
snaking together the aggregate of 1,006/. It s. Assuming the
whole to be paid up on the 27th of Sept, mber, it is necessary
to deduct the interest of 20. per diem from that day to the
respective days on which the instalments are made payable.
This will be—
On 2001. to the Bth of November, 42 days £0 15 9
On 2001., to tho 20th of December, 84 days
On 200/., to the 31st of January, 126 days 2 7 3
On 2001., to the 14th of Mara, 168 day 5.........., 3 3 1

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF BANK., UPT,I7, Sept. 21.
(Before 31r. COMIIIISSOTIer FUNBLA NQUE. )

THE BANKRUPTCY OF WHITMOR E, WELLS, AND WHIT-
MORE, BAKKE

This being the day fixed for the final examination of the
bankrupts, tin- Court was more densely crowded than at the
former hearing, and proofs (particularly upon bill.) came in
with such rapidity for upwards of an hour and a half that it
was as much at six clerks d the solicitor to the fiat could
take instructions for the preparation of the proofs and the
officers of the Court could pass them through the neces.ary
forms.

Several hundred proofs having been admitted without any
opposition, the Learned COMMISSIONER asked if the bank-
rupts were prepared with their balance sheet, and was an-
swered in the affirmative. It contained 79 of the largest folio
pages we ever remember to have seen, and from the follow in_
abstract the numerous creditors of the bankrui,ts may firm a
tolerable estimate of what their dividend is likely to amount to.
It is said that the separate estate of Mr. Wells, sen., will pay
20s in the pound : _ _

BALANCE SHEET FROM JAN. 1, 1832,
of Edward Whitmore, 8 16 shares; John Weds, 5 16 shares;
Fred-rick Whitmore, 3 16 shares. Commenced business as
bankers, Jan. 1, 1820, at 24, Lumbar'-street, under the firm
of Whitmore, Wells, and Whitmore. On the Ist of Janua: y,
1826, John Wells, jun., became a partner, when the firm was
altered to Whitmore, Wells, and Whitmore. ' No share was
a-signedto him. The former parties had their respeclive in-
terests continued as if there had been no change of partnership
and the profit was divided accordingly to the Ist of January,
1641, and since that period no &vision was made.
DM:MORS' SIDE.

To debts due to creditor. £259,206 11 10

To debts due by the partnership of William

.
Chartris and others, whit n wa, dissolved
on the Ist of Jan., 1820, when we assumed
the payment of 1.400 5 2
To creditors to their securities
To liabilities in acceptances
To capital of credit of partners.
Edward Whitmore £12.188 13 5
John Wells, sen ...... 96,562 16 0

John Welts; jun

•l 13 5

Fredrria Iklitmore 13,444 17 3

122,199 0 1
To profits received to Jan. 1, 1832 7,000 0 0
To profits from Jan. 1, 1832
To difference

CREDITORS' SIDE.

By debts due to us—
Good ...£i4,498 2 11
Iloubt ul • 227,262 16 1
Bad 92,049 12 9
By Bills of Exchange which
we have discounted for
customers. delivered to
the official as ignee
By cash delivered to the
official as-ignee ... 21,134 0 6
By lease of house, 24, Lom-
bard-street 0 0 0
By securities deposited with
creditors... 127,712 7 0
By expenses
By losses ..... . 20,803 0 1
By profit carried to credit of
partners since Ist Jan.,
1832 :
E. WhitmoreEl9,232 0 4
J. Well3,syn. 12,020 0 2
F. Whitmore 7,212 11 3

--- 38,464 0 9
By liabilities per contra 82,724 11 4

£703,269 15 7

£703.289 15 7
Bills of Eschanke received by us of John
Ryl', of Manchester, but not entered in a,
his account
Bills received from customers as short bibs 9,117 1 t 2
Bills received from Daintry, kyle, and Co.,
but not credited

4,386 13 5

1:22,9+7 16 3

The Learned Commissioner having perused .he
sheet, asked if the assignees were satisfied with the baiikruits'
accounts, and they at once austnerea in the affirmative, and
the bankrupts having sworn to the truth of their baknee-
sheet, and answered the other usual interogatories, were re
spectiveiy declared to have passed their float examinat.on.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(YESTERDAY.)
OLD CO UltT.
(Berore Mr. Justice MauLE and Mr. Baron ' OLFE.)
AILIADER ON THE HIGH :%,EAS.—ltithlrd H. Langley,
.a sailor, aged 26, was indicted for the wilful murder of James
Dixon, on the 16th of May last, on the hi‘ih seas.
Mr. Chambers and Mr. Doane appeared for-the prosecution,
and Mr. Ballantyne defended the pri.oner.
Mr. ( HAMBERS stated the case to the Jury, and called the
following w,tnt sses

Thomas Evans, examined by Mr. Doane.—Was a ssaman
on board the vessel called The Leopold tie la Rosa, ss hich was
bound from Monte Video to Havre de Grace. The priso,er
at the bar was second mate, and Dixon, the deceased, a common
seaman. On the loth of May his watch was from eight to twe.ve
at bight, on deck. The prisoner was on deck during that time.
He gaveorders to the crew to sing out every half-hour. Dixon
the deceased was at the wheel then. Ihe prisoner also ordered
the flying jib and other sails to be taken down. Dixon was
there also, and the prisoner gave him orders to clap on the
tackle fall; Dixon said to himself then, he could tot see why
he should be humbugged in that way. arid he would complain
to the Captain ; he went towards him. The Captain was then
lying on the hen-coop. Witness did not hear what Dixon said
to the Captain, but he heard the latter tell him to go to hie
work, and upon Dixon saying he would not, the ..aptain
pushed him and struck 114 n on the face ; a scuffle ensued, and
whsle this was going on, the prisoner fetched a capstan bar out
of the rack and struck at them, but which he struck witness
could not say. After this Dixon ran forward and the Captain
ran down to his cabin. and when he came up he had two pis-
tols and sword in his hand ; he riu forward, together with the
prsoner, after the deceased Did not see a ything more till
Dixon was brought on deck. Fait of his entrails were then
hanging out. The prisoner and the Captain wt re by him.
Dixon was taken down to the steerage, when the prisoner said,
"No one should see him but that he should die like a dog." The
Captain at the time had the sword in his hand, and the prisoner
and the chief mate bad both of them pistols. The same even-
ing all hands were called down to the cabin. The Captain was
there, and told them to look at his head, where there was a
wound, which he said had been done by Dixon. The wound
appeared as if it had been done by a hand-spike, and not
a knife. Did not see a knife in Dixon's hand before he ran
forward.
Cross-examined by Mr. Ballantyne—When this occurrence
took place they had been out at sea six weeks. The Captain
was a Frenchman. At Monte Video the crew had been
sticking out for more food, and Dixon used to grumble very
much about it. Never heard him say he would scuttle the
vessel. Witness had signed a paper, but could not tell what
it was. Dixon, in a former part of the voyage, had been put
in irons, and two others of the crew, a Spaniard and a Scotch-
raani had also been put in irons. Did not ace an.d struggle
betweon the mate and Dixon. Did not hear the mate cry out
that Dixon had a knife in his hand.

Reexamined by Alr. Doane—When they grumbled about
food, the crest said they Were not treated as ti.ey were on board
the English Vesta
John Harris was one of the cte* of the vessel. Was eft
deck at halfspast eight o'clock in the evening in qiiesttem
Diktat, tha dectas,d, Was at the helot. At tithe o'clock heard
the prisoner give the order to Dixon, which he said he &Ad
not do. When Dixon w, nt to the Captain he shoved Dixon
forward: After this Dixon went forward, and the Captain fol-
lowed, and upon his refusing to Ott what the Captain toll him,
the Captain ordered him to be put in trona. Atter this axon
Welt dotty oh the Second deck in irons. The Capt.on then
t..id rt Don't put him in irons, I will make him work or s,nil him
to hell:" The Captaits theft struck Dixon, tippet which he
knocked the Captaih down, took him by the collar, Mid aid,
Will yoti strike me for nothing again ? The second mate then
seized a capstan-bar, made a strike with it at Dixon, but
struck the Captain. Dixon then struck the second mate, when
he said he would sand a knife through him. The Captain then
Weht ihto his cabin, and brought up a sword and two pistols.
One of the pistols he gave to the first mate, and the second male
took the other from him, and ran forward. before the Cap-
tain parted with the pistols he cocked them. Dixon at the
time was in the forecastle. All three ran forward to the wind-
las end. The Captain hauled off his waistcoat, cap, and shoes,
and ran forward towards the scuttle end of the ve-sel, but he
did not see him go down. The Captain cried out where is that
son et a b---, and the second mate said house him and haul
him up: Saw Dixon brought up stabbed, when the Captain
sait4 Den't let:any one go near him, 1, t him die like a dog.
Before Dixon died they were all called on to see the
cht oh the Captain's head, Which he said Dixon had
dell. With a knife. Had heard Dixon say he came from
Exeter. Witness came from South Wales. Dixon used al-
ways to pass as an Englishman, The prisoner had told him
that he tattle from Cheshire.
Cress:examined—Had heard the prisoner say lie had Rived
articles on board as eta Anierieah, btit he Wits d Etiglitilinian.
Witness had tint quietened *Ail the oilicets.in harbour, bUt diti
about. the grub. The passage was an ttnusttally long one, and
some of the provisions were spoiled. When Dixon said to the
Captain he could not do the work, ihe second mate said,
" You had bettersay you won't go it,"
One of the trey, a Spahisittl, corroborated the evidence of
the two last witnesses.

David Burns w.,s also one of the crew of the Leopold de la
Rosa. When witness came out of the head, he saw Dixon run
down into the forecastle. The Captain came torward with a
drawn sword, and the two mates had a pistol; the Captain
called out for Dixon, and this went down into the forecastle
hatch. The two mates stood on the deck by the hatch. The
Captain jold him to go below and upon his Sa)ing he could
not dos ), the Captain struck him with his sword. Witness
then said are you going to k:11 all on board, on ~hik h the
second mate said if he said another wutd he would blow his
brains out. Witness then went beluw, and he saw Dixon lay-
ing with his ens rails hanging ont. He then ran up stars, and
cried out Dixon was dead, on which the Cap am said let him
die like a dog,

On cross-examination the witness said the prisoner had told
him he came from Cheshire, but had been br.ught up in
America.

J. Hunter. who was also one of the crew, gave similar testi-
mony. When the Captain came below he catched Dixon by
the throat. He took his swird and run it through his body
twice—once by the navel and once in ihe groin. he t aptain
then went on deck. Witness got out of bed and laid the de-
ceased on the forecastle deck The Captain and the. Mate
then called out to bring Dixon upon dick, aid when they said
they cauid nut, as his entrails were hanging out, the captain
and mate said, " House him on deck." Dixon tiled the same
night.

Cross-examined—Did not see the prisoner bring the de-
ceas, d a blanket. There was some grumbling about the

George Spiers, who was also one of the crew, corroborated
tke eviVence of the last. witness. Was sure that it WAS ti,e pri-
soner at the bar who said " if you cannot get Louix up, get
some tackle and bous, hi.ii ti:."
Cross-examined—On the voyage the crew knocked off
work once, and also' in the harbour, because they
did not like to go out to sea unless they had a long boat.
Wm. Brown, Francis Habit, and Wm Ruby, all of whom
belonged to the crew of the vessel, gave similar evidence.
.tir. Buchannan, a passenger on beard .t he Leopold de La
Rosa, heard the prisoner say that the person who rendered
Dixon any assistance was a dead man, lie al•o stated that he
was glad the captain had done it ; at the same time he said he
was sorry that he had not had an opportunity of doing it; for
if the captain had not done it he would certainly have done it
himself.

Cross-examined—Was formerly a cabinet-maker at Monte
Video, and went to Havre de Grace on a speculation with some
wool. On going to the Consul at Havre for a passport, he was
requested by him to attend at the Home-office for the purpose
of giving evidence in the present case. Had had some words
with ti:e second mate.

Re-examined.—Was in Havre three weeks beWre he applied
to the Consul for his passport.
Napoleon Denchenon, a Canadian surgeon, corroborated the
evidence that had already been given as to the unfortunate

IVEW COURT..

A relectable looking woman. named Eliza Paul, was in-
dicted for steal:ng a purse,containing two soy, reign,, the pro-
perty of John Kemp.
The pros-cut.kr said, that, on the 15th of September, about
nine o'clock in the evening, be wag coming down r rld Fish-
street-hill, when V e prisoner walked up to him, and took the
purse and money from his pocket, after hustling him for a few
seconds.

Mr. PHILLIPS appeared for the di- fence, and cross-examined
the prosecutor at much length. In reply, he sail he was per-
fectly somr at the time, and sought uo familiarities with the
prisoner.
. . .

City Police Constable 386 deposed to taking the prisoner into
custody, and finding two sovereigns and ten shillings in silver
in her pocket.
Mr. PHILLIPS addressed the jury for the defence, and said
he should he enabled to prove that the prisoner was a ee.pe,s-
table widow residing at. Reading, at d had only arrived in Lon-
don about two hi.urs previous to the time named in the indict-
ment, and also had Feenty of money of her own, so as to ren-
der the commission of the act with-which she was charged ex-
tremely improbable. It was rather singular that an able-bodied
gentleman like the prosecutor would allow a female to handle
him so quietly as he slid.—['tlr. Kemp, who seemed not to
relish the badinage of the Learned Counsel, here looked up
towards the gallery. ] He (Mr. Phillips) dared say that the
prosecutor looked up th,re to see if Mrs. Kemp
was listening to his interesting tale, and how far her faith in
his explanation wouH reach.—( Loud laughter.)
Several witnesses having been called, who gave the prisoner
an excellent character, arid said her frienis were highly re-
spectable,
The t 'ommorr SERGEANT summed up, and
The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of
Guilty.
The prisoner was sentenced to three months'. imprisonment
atnt hard labour. . . _

William fa/Jason was indic:ed for stealing one pocket hand-
kerchief, the property of Wm. Henry Green.
It appeared in evidence that on the 17th of • eptember the
proecutiir was walking through Fleet-street, and teitling a tug
at his pocket he turned round, and saw the prisoner running
away. Verdict—Guilty. Four months' itnpr6onment and
hard labour. _

Elizabeth Fry and Sarah Stuart were indicted for stealing
one pair of trousers, thr, e apt, ns, five towels, and other ar
tick, the property of Henry Phillips.
Nina Phillips stated that she w .s the wife of the prosecutor,
who lived in Steven's-street, Tottenham-court-road, and placed
the articles named in the indictment in her kitchen. On the
night of the 9th of Sept, mber and the following morning they
were gone. 't-he (lid not kit:Air how the kitchen could Le entered.
Pocock, of the F bald he was called to ar est the
prisoner Fry, who stiempted to pledge the trousers at a pawn-
broker's in Broad-street, St. Giles's ; after which he went to
his lodgings In Buckeridge..street, and there found some of the
articles named. I was told by her husband that Stuart brought
the articles to his room. The husband was examined before
Mr. Jardine, and his deposition taken at length.
The C334MON SERGEANT said there eppeat•ed to be no evi-
dence against Stuart, as the man Fry's depositions could not
be considered as legal evidence. With regard to Fry it was
possible she might have been sent by another party to pawn
the trousers, and he, therefore, considered it would be wrong
to convict her.
The Jury, under the direction of the Court, returned a ver-
dict if " Not Guilty."
Joshua Sabberton and George Hollis, respectively describ:d
as a cabinet-maker and a bedstead-maker were indicted for
stealing a quantity of wood, value 205., the property of Mr.
L)o s and another, their employers.
Mr. PHILLIPS conducted the prosecution.
Mr. Robert Lyons stated that he was a cabinet-maker and
upholsterer. in Holborn. The prisoi.er Sabberton was in his
employment, as foietnan ; and Hollis worked with him, as
journeyman. On the 27th of August, having mi-std some woad
from the workshop, he proceeded to the house of a man named
Mackie. in Baldwin's-gardens, and there saw the prisoners
with a carto *hick soon afterwards moved away, and witness
d until it reached the re,iiience of sabberton's father, in
Hackney, When he called in a policeman, and upon examina-
tion found the property mentiored in the indictment, which
bore the private mark of his storeroom. He then returned to
his workshop, and gate the pi isoners into custody. On
the alttwing morning Sabberton addressed him a let-
ter, confessing his dishonesty and imploring furg,vene,s; but
at the Same tittle protesting that. Hollis acted in the transaction
W;thOii, gamy guilty hnow:eage.
Mr. Si his • usher appealed to defend Hollis, contended that
his client acted under the direction of Sabberton, who had a
superior si, nation in the works end that there were no marks
to show the wood was other than what was usully sent out
from the workshop in the way of business.
Mr. CHAbwICK, for the prisoner Sabberton. called a number
of tresses who gave him an excellent character. The Jury
returned a Verdict of Guilty, accompanied will a recommen-
dation to mercy in Which the prosecutor joined.
The COMMON SEgngANty addressing the prisoners, said he
had a rule laid down with retired to the inthetien of punish.•
ment on servants who had robbed their masters, which he
seldom departed from. In sutra cases he never inflicted less
than six months' imprisonment; but, in coniequence of the
recommendation from the Jury and the pre...cut"r, he would
sentence them to only four mouths' imprisonmeZt,and hard

labour.
11 illiam Gray. a very respec'ahle-looking young man, was
indicted for unlawfully obtaining, by fatse pretences, two pieces
of linen, value 61., the property of John Lee Abbot and
another.
Mr. BODKIN, who appeared for the prosecution, stated to
the Court and Jury that the prisoner called at Mr. Ablett's
shop, ai.d said he had an order from Lord Stratford to send
sonie linen, for his Lordship, to No. 6, Portman-square. The
prosecutor suspectoig that ft tlAnd was hit. nded, upon sending
the linen a, directed, also sent a no' e to the effect that it was
to Le given to " the bearer, N't illiam Hall," which wa, placed
in the hated of h,s Lord-hip's butler, who %vas not to deliver it
withent a chip! cat.- f this let,er Leine b ought by the person
100. h (the linen) to be given up. 1 tie prisonor called
the next. niottiLg for the linen, which was handed ever to him,
and a policeman beim; iii %mewl he was given into custody,
when he said he a- going to deliver Attach the goods to Mr.
Abiett.
Evi fence having been adduced in support of the Learned
Corns -l's st,tement.
Lord Straff..rd who wag accommodated with a .eat on the
beech, having been swan, stated that he never saw the pi isoner
before in his life, neither die he give any order to have him
sent to hi, home.
Mr. C. JONES having addressed the Jury in behalf of the
prisoner,
The Jury returned a verdict of Gui ty, and a further indict-
mcnt being prefer-led a. ainst the limo -er, juitgment was
de'orred.

POLICE INTEL!, 4 ..ENCE.
THE COAL TRADE.—Alderman Wilson, who sat yesterday
for the Lord Mayor, stated that :Vlr. Bradfield, who certainly
knee' wire about tne tricks and impositions practised in the
coat trade it4t.i any individual amongst the vast number with
durin,g
.and. since his Mayoralty,
whom he had communica:;d 7hich was,. to be pre-
had handed to Irm the copy of a.pent ion 0,. in ion •
seated to the House of Comm•tns, containing, in L..... uo
matter well deserving the attention of the LegiJa!urc.
thought that a great deal of service had been rendered to
public by exposures which had taken place at the Man ion-
house relative to the great coal monopoly which eXiBle d at the
time, and he had every reason to believe that in the preset-it
H ,use of Commons that trade would undergo the reii
which a comb nation of circumstances had prevented from
belng Made in the last Pat liament. . .

Bradt Id 9sia that inimcnse numbers had air6ady sighed
the rtition, and that a I,:g eractmcnt would have thki
eff.Jit of the good whi. h had been commenced in
the llayor.,l y of Alderman Vt i s n. Ile then read the petit ion,
Whet is as folio •

10 the Ho ,ourdble thy• Co,oitious of Great Britain and Ire-

limit in Parliament assembled.

" The Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the Metrupolis,
sbov.vtb—

" That, as a consequence of the arrang.ttnents of the coal
owners of the Tyifr and the M'crre, and the imposition in the
coh'ey tre, finale by ca,!ais and railo4§, the ab,oluirly
ves-.Ary vo,l citharwed in pi lee to "he two
'talons 0;41 upwards of her Majesty's subjects whit compose
the population in and within liiteen miles of -London. That,
sea-borne coals are generally purchased by shipowners at the
coil-pits, and by them conveyed to and sold at the port of
London. hat, at a general meeting of the shipowners at Sun-
derland, on Saturday, the lith of July last, it was maintained
' that the coals were kept at too high a prices and
that it was the duty of the coalowners to reduce it;
that if this were done there would be a corresponding reduc-
tion of price in the metropolis, which would benefit all con-
Tin,t appiiea'jort Wall made tot te coalownexs by a
depuLation I,i'ititcti at tire of the .hipowna.:l-b,
when
the coalowners refused to lower the price of coals. 'Chat, in
a Report from the Select Committee of the House c.f Com-
mons on the Coal Trade (port of London) Bill, orderett by the

transaetlon and its retilts. The Captain trod him that he 1 Wyse of Commons to be printed, 13th Jan- , 18:te, page 6, is i
had -un his sword three h Dix°, -w ee, and hat he wa u t'y leg. , en . r t ry as follows :
Weer, wiiiiees age' eul t., go do tuuto I .1( to the we, rbu of e' 11 etuen t)i •' ert " And It is the o inion ou. this Com-
Dixo i. the Capta'n said 1 e should tint. When rixon wee hreughs mi. tt e te.:t the clauses emilalie) in 'be sevei a Acts by which hieh '
up, witness examined the wounds, one of winch was near the . lei toad: terminating at or near the city of London have been
navel, and the other in the groin. Before Elston died he saw sanctioned, and by which clauses a duty of Is. Id. per tat oa
him and the prisoner talking, and be heard Dixon say it was all coals carried on the said railroads,. within certain specified
his intention to have struck the prisoner, and not the Captain; points, varying in distance from the city of London of from
he asked his pardon, and the prisoner then ook Dixon in his fifteen to seventeen miles, as made payable to the Corporalion
arms, kissed him. and said he f urgave him. of the city of London be repealed."—(Lord G. Somerset.)
This closed the case for the nrosecution. AYES. NOES.
Mr. BALLANTYNE submitted, on behalf of the prisoner, that Alsager, Captain 811, Mr.
the Court had no jurisdiction in the present case, inasmuch Finch, Mr. Duke, Sir James
as the vessel in which the crime was committed was a foreign e Hume, Mr. Humphery, Mr.
one, having a foreign Captain, and trading from one foreign Somerset, Lord Grants:lle Lambton, Mr.
port to another, and that parties who committed offences on Wood, Mr. (Middlesex) Pease, Mr.
board such vessels were amenable to the laws of the nations to Wood, Sir Matthew
which such vessels ' raded, and not to the Admiralty of England. Ayes
Mr. CHAMBERS submitted that the statute of the 27th of Nees
Henry VIII. chap. 4, gave the Court ample jurisdiction. " That thus entry is dated the 23d of May, 1838, at which
Mr. BALLANTYNE contended that the jurisdiction given by time the Committee had sat during the preceding three
the 27th of Henry VIII. was suspended by the Act by which months, had examined upwards of 30 witnesses, and were well
the Central Criminal Cole t was constituted. acquainted with the nature and effect of the proceedings of
Mr. Juistice Ma IT LE said the Court would consider the ob- the coalowners in the North, and the imposts on coals brought
iection that had been taken by the Counsel for the prisoner, by canals and railways to London, and within fifteen miles
but the trial had better proceed. there,4*.
—Mr. BALLANTYNE haeing concluded his Address to the " That your petitioners cone-slain of the decision of the Com-
Tery on behalf of the prisoner, mittee, of the 23d May, 1838. for two very sufficient reasons
Mr. Justice MAULE summed up at considerable length, and " First—That every one of the Noes in the Committee was
The Jury, after consulting together for nearly half an hour, an interested person,no less than three out of the six Honour-
Acquitted the prisoner. able Members being coalowners, yiz., Mr. Bell, Mr. Lamb-
The case did not conclude till five o'clock. ton, and Mr. Pease:
THE C.k.SE OF MR. BANKES. ~ That one of the said Honourable Members, Sir James
Mr. PHILLIPS applied to-day in this c'se on behalf of the Duke, was a coal factor in Lyndon :
Home-office to entreat the recognizances, ,;' - ' " That Mr. Humphery and Sir Matthew Wood were Alder-
Mr s
IRonKsis would not resist the application, but he thought men of the City of London ;
it necessary to st..te the emend on which the application " That as Aldermen of the City of London, in ' their car.
was made. A Learned Judge had been applied to porate capacity, had by various acts of omission and commis-
for a writ of certiorari to remove the case into sion, bren one of the main causes that sea-borne coals in the
onr 01 this Superior Courts, that writ had been granted, port of London have been, and still are, sold at an exorbitant
and an imp-ession had arisen in the mind of the de- price to the consumer.
Pendant that his attendance further was not necessary until the " Second—That the motion in the said Committee having
case came on for tile' ; upon it being discovered,- upon his been thus negatived, was prevented from being brought before
legal advisers beingconsulte t, that his attendance was necessary, the House of Commons as a recommendation of the Comittee,
the d fendard who had left town had been written to, and urged and discussed in the Honourable House as it would otherwise
to return. and he had ne doubt that before the end of the have been;
Ses ion M- flanker would be in town. It would be no viola- " That your petitioners beg to represent to your Honourable
tion of justice to postpone the estreat of the recognizances to House, that the law in its present state, operates to a consi-
the last day of the Session, and he trusted, therefore, that the derable extent to produce the effects of monopoly in the sale of
Court would do so. coals in and round the metropolis ;
Mr. PHILLIPS, on the part of the Horne-office. was quite " That the expense of bringing inland coals by canals and
willing to leave the caw in the hands of their Lordships. railways is and must continue to be twice the expense of bring-
Mr. Justice Matiee—You have had the writ of certiorari, ing sea.borne coals to the metropolis;
but you castot use it in consequence of the informality. " That your petitioners submit that this alone is a conclusive
Mr. Bodkin—Yes. reason why the bringing so necessary an article as coals to
Mr. Justice MA ULE—It is the conditional order of the London should be encouraged, rather than obstructed and pre-
Judee that the writ. sh al issue provided the party enters into vented by partial taxation ;
his recognizances, and here there have been no recognizance " That by the law as it now stands coals brought to London
entered into. by canals and railroads are charged a duty of ls. Id. per ton,
Mr. Bonete—Yes; it is no fault of the legal adviser of which is upwards of 5 per cent. on the commodity, and which
the defendant that such has been the case; for the defendant, if remitted would enable the coalowners to realise a moderate
wiuhout consul ing them, and the very moment the writ i-sued, profit, and induce them to increase the supply of coals to a con-
left town. supposing his further evidence was not necessary. siderahle extent ;
- Mr. Justice Alauee—l think it would be contrary to the -" That your petitioners are satisfied that in justice to the
usual course to esti eat the recognizances befere the trial is consnmt rs of coals in the metropolis, in justice to the inland
called on. , coalowners, who would supply the coals, the duty of Is. Id.
Mr. PHILLIPS did not wish to take any course that did not per ton on coals brought to London by canals and railways
meet with the approbation of the Court. should be wholly abolished ;
The case was then ordered to stand on the paper for Fri- " 1 hat the abolition of these onerous duties would put the
day, in order to enable Mr. Bankes to comply with the provi- trade in coals upon the fair footing on which all trade should
sione upon which the writ of certiorari was granted. be put, and by. wholesome and proper competition bring the
' price of the article to its proper state, and all concerned in the
snippy o' coals would thus receive the fair average profits of
trade, and the public be served at a price equally fair to all con-
cerned;
'' That there are in your Hon. House a number of gentle-
tlemen who, with other humane persons, contribute continuelly
in the winter of each year towards the purchase of coals for
the purpose of aesisting the poor by the sale thereof, in small
quantities, at a reasonable price, the price having been made
high on inland cu ads, pr evented a stock being stored in London,
which, to a very great extent, would prevent the rise of price,
enable the poor very generally to purchase coals for themselves,
greatly reduce the price fixed for them by the benevolent per-
sons alluded to, and thereby serve that large class of persons
who, above all, at that inclement season of the year, most of all
need commiseration and assistance ;
" Your I etitioners therefore most heartily and humbly pray
that for the reasons contained in this petition, and the many
other reasons that are entertaindtl by the disinterested and hu-
mane Memoers of your Hon. House, that your Hon House will
please to take the allegations of thus petition into your serious
consideration, and cause the obnoxious and mischievous impost
of Is. Id. per ton on inland coal', payable to the Corporation of
the City of London, to be abolished."
Alderman Wtescie said that the idea of placing coalowners
and factors upon such a Committee as that mentioned in the
petition was, in his opinion, quite preposterous A great deal
had been dune, and coaes were much lower than they would
have been if loud complaints bad not been made, but if a Corn •
mittee were framed fur the object stated in the petition, coals
would fall very low indeed. He should be glad to be called be-
fore an impartial Committee to state what he knew on this
most'important subject.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.

NEWM tRKET EcoND OCTOBER NIEETING, 1841.

Accr rances for the Cesarewitch Stakes —St. Francis, 6 yrs;
9st 1016—Flambeau, 5 yrs, 9g 71b—Orelia, 5 yrs, Bst 1116—
Wardan, 4 yl s, Bst 91b—Ct uisker n, aged, Bst 71b— Roscius.
5 yrs, Bst 71b —The Currier, 5 yrs, Bst 516—St. Martin, 6
yrs, Bst 416—Rory O'More, 5 yrs, Bst 41b—The Corsair, 5
yrs, Bst 316--St. Lawrence, 4 yrs, Bst 31b—Retriever, 5 yrs
Bst 216—Welfare, 4 yrs, Bst —Prizeflower, aged, Bst Remnant,
4 yrs, test—Johnny, 4 yrs, 7st 1216—Pocahontas, 4 yrs, 7st
121b—Wee Wiliie, 6 yrs, 7st 1216—80 b Peel: 4 yrs, 7st 121 b
Ernest the First, 5 yrs, 7st I 1113—Belissima, 6 yrs, 7st 916
The Genius, 4 yrs, 7st 91b—Broadwath, 4 yrs, 7st 516—c by
Bentley, out of Emma, 3 yrs, 7st—Miss Stilton, 3 yrs, 7st—
The Squire, 3 yrs, 7st—Zelima, 4 yrs, Est 1316—Mona, 4
yrs, 6st 1116—Bosphorus, 5 yrs, 6st 1116—I-am-not-aware, 6
yrs, Est I lib—Diana, 4 yrs, 6st 1116—Oakley, 3 yrs, 6st I Jib
—Barbara, 3 yrs, est Ill6—E. 0., 3 yrs, Est 916—Young
Quu Mums 3 yrs. 6st 916—Bracelet, 6 vrs, Est 916—Belgrade,
3 yrs, 6st 71b—The Ruler, 4 yrs, Est 71b—Duke of Welling-
ton, 3 yrs, 6st 71b—Stamboul, 4 yrs, fist 71b—'fhirsk, 3 yrs,
6st 7114—The Young'un, 4 yrs, 6st 71b—Tanrida, 3 yrs, 6st
716 Ermengardis, 3 yrs, 6st 416—S-,ilistria, 4 yrs, Est 41b—
Thebes colt, 3 yrs, 6st 21b—H.,1f-ca.te, 4 yrs, sst 1316
I-1 uon, 3 yrs, sst 91b—and f by Emilius, out of Miss Mary
Ann, 3 yrs, sst 91b.