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London, England, 1841-12-23 00:00:00

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SUTTEE.

RAJA OF I ATTARA.

GREAT MEETING in MONMOUTH-
SHIRE TO ADDRESS THE QUEEN.
On Monday the 20th irst. a meeting of the inhabitants
of the county of Monmouth was held in the Town-hall
at Usk, for the purpose of addressing her Majesty, his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, and her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Kent, on the birth of the Prince of Wales.
T. Homfray, Esq., High Sheriff for the County, hav-
ing taken the Chair, the Under-Sheriff, Mr. T. J. Phil.
lips proceeded to read the requisition, which was signed
by upwards of 600 persons.
The HIGH SHERIFF, after stating that he had received
letters from C. 11. Leigh, Esq., the Lord Lieutenant of
the county, Lord Granville Somerset, M.P. for the
county, and other gentlemen, regretting their inability
to attend, opened the- business in an appropriate speech,
and called upon Mr. Octavius Morgan, M.P., to propose
the address.
Mr. MORGAN expressed a hope that he might not be
deemed presumptuous in taking so prominent a part in
consideration of the position which he occupied. It gave
him great satisfaction to see so numerous and so respect-
able .a meeting assembled together for the purpose of
testifying their joy at the birth of the Prince of Wales,
which was an event to be felt most deeply by the inha-
bitants of this county, because, although according to
law—some law of Henry the Eighth—Monmouthshire
might be called an English county; yet no one who is
acquainted with the history, habits, manners, and cus-
toms,Of its inhabitants, independent of the strong fact of
the Welsh langnage still being spoken in its pristine purity,
could say' that it was not essentially Welsh.—(Hear,
hear.)• There are several gentlemen in that assembly
who derived their descent from the ancient Princes of
Wales, and to them the event they were now assembled
to celebrate must be a peculiar source of interest and
gratulation.—(Cheers;) Mr. Morgan then reverted to
the heroic deeds of the former princes of Wales, and
mentioned Henry V. and Edward the Black Prince,
and he concluded by expressing a fervent hope that her
Majesty's reign might be long and prosperous ; and
that her ivory sceptre surmounted by a dove, might ever
continue to be the emblem of peace and virtue.—(Cheers.)
Sir BENJAMIN HALL, M.P., seconded the motion of
his Hon. Friend, and expressed his entire concurrence in
the satisfaction that gentleman had expressed in the nu
merous attendance of the inhabitants of the county that
day. He was well aware that there had been a difficulty
on some occasions in obtaining large county meetings—
but if any person had for one moment doubted the sin-
cerity of the attachment of this county to her Majesty's
person, and their loyal desire of makingknown their feel-
ings of dutiful affection, they had only to inspect the nu-
merous signatures to the requisition, and to behold the at-
tendance at this meeting, when all doubts must imme-
diately vanish from their minds.—(Hear, hear.) But if
there was one spot in Great Britain which more espe-
cially might be expected to rise simultaneously for the
purpose of carrying into effect the objects for which they-
were assembled it was the county of Monmouth.
—(Hear, here, and cheers.) They then stood upon
ground associated with some of the most ancient and
interesting records of England and Wales. He would
not oc-zupy their time by mentioning many well-known
facts, though he might remind them that in the town
of Usk, in which- they were assembled, was born Roger
Mortimer, Earl of March, great nephew of the cele-
brated Black Prince (to whom his Hon. Friend had
already alluded), and with whose memory so many chi-
valrous associations were connected. In the town of Mon-
mouth was born the valiant King Henry the Fifth, whose
life was preserved on the field of Agincourt by two in-
dividuals (who were natives of this district), at the sa-
crifice of their own--(Cheers)---and it may not be
generally remembered that the Princess Morfydd, the
Royal Heiress of the last King of Gwent, was the im-
mediate ancestress of Rhys ap Tudor, Prince of South
Wales, the descendant of Cadwalader, and from whom
Henry the Seventh, and consequently her Majesty and
the Infant Prince, derive their Cambro-British origin.—
(Hear, hear.) It is a curious fact, well known to those
who had searched into the ancient records of the Princi-
pality, and had giv9 their attention to the literature of
Wales, that twelve hundred years ago there was a
Welsh prediction—that the descendants of Cadwalader,
the last King of Britain, should cease to sway the sceptre
of that kingdom, but that, after the lapse of, centuries, it
should again return to them. This prophecy was ful-
filled about 450 years afterwards in the person
of King Henry the. Seventh, and thus it appears that
our present Prince of Wales has an undisputed
right to that title, not merely by patent but by lineage—
(Cheers)—they might say as Fluellyn did to Henry V.—
" Not all the waters of Wye could wash the Welsh blood
out of your Majesty's body"—neither can all the waters
of Usk obliterate the proud remembrance that, in the
veins of the present Queen of Great Britain, flows the
blood of the Royal Heiress of Gwent.—(Applause.) As
regarded the immediate object of their meeting—if the
birth of.sp,lleir Apparent, and the happy recovery of the
motheP,' vas in private life a subject for congratulation
and rtjoieing—of how much more interest must be an
event like the present, in which not only a few indivi-
duals but the whole community were so deeply con-
cerned. He hailed the birth of the Prince of Wales as a
good omen for the country, and as a guarantee that the
Constitution under which they lived might be continued
to them ; and he prayed that her Majesty might long be
spared to rule over them, and to guide and direct her
Royal Son with that wisdom and virtue for which she
herself was so eminently distinguished. He trusted that
as his Royal Highness advanced in years so might his
attachment strengthen for his Principality, and that he
might ever be disposed to lend his powerful aid in pro-
moting the best interests of its inhabitants. If they
might credit'the words of Shakspeare they must believe
that his illuytri(ius predecessor, King Henry V., was
proud of hid Welsh birth. May his Royal Highness be
equally proud of his Welsh descent ; and if, hereafter,
any honest Welshman should venture to address him in
the manner Fluellyn is reported to have spoken to his
Sovereign, and say--" I do believe your Majesty do not
scorn to wear your leek upon St. David's day," that he
will be disposed to answer (if not in the words, at least
in the spirit, of King Henry)—" I wear it for a memo-
rable honour—for lam Welsh, you know, good coun-
tryman. —(Great cheering.) Sir B. Hall concluded by
seconding the address, which was carried unanimously.
Mr. Sergeant TADDY proposed the Address to his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, on whose virtues the
Learned Gentleman expatiated, and congratulated the
meeting on his Royal Highness having directed his at-
tention to the laws of this country, and having in every
respect endeavoured to make himself an Englishman.
The Gentleman also expressed his hope that by
the separation of this country from Hanover peace would
be maintained.
Mr. W. A. (late Member for. the county)
waLums
was received with much enthusiasm, being his first ap-
pearance in public since his late dangerous illness. He
seconded the motion in a speech which excited great in-
terest, but which was not entirely audible in the position
in which,we were placed.
The Address was carried unanimously.
Mr. BAILEY, M.P., moved, and Mr. HaNnuay
WIL-
LIaMs seconded, an Address,to her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent, which was carried unanimously.
After which B. HALL and Mr. Sergeant TADDY
proposed a vote of thanks to the High Sheriff for his con-
duct in the chair, and the meeting broke up.
It was extremely gratifying to witness such an assem-
blage or gentleman from all parts of the county, and the
unanimity which prevailed on this interesting occasion—
especially when it is remembered that alarming disturb-
ances took place only ten miles from the place of meeting
two years ago. There were a few Chartists present in
the Town-hall, but they did not in any
way interfere
With the harmony that prevailed.

ACCIDENTS THROUGH THE
FROST.

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Yesterday morning, about a quarter past seven
°'clock,,,a young man of the name of Theophilus
Watson, who resides in the Belgrave-road, Pimlico, was
about to proceed to the South Western Railway termi-
nus atNipe Elms, in a boat belOnging to his brother,
which wna.lying- in the Thames near the White-lead
works of Messrs. Grace and Freeman ; he had placed a
large parcel in the boat, and had just put one foot upon
the seat, whey, owing to the slippery state it was in, his
foot slipped and he fell backward into the water and
sank to rise no more. Ho was an excellent swimmer,
and has frequently swam across the Serpentine in Hyde
Park.

On Tuesday an elderly lady of the name of Orpwood,
who resides in Peter-street, Berwick-street, Soho, while
walking
along Compton-street, trod upon a slide made
by acme boys in tile gutter, and falling. down broke
her arm. le.sterd-ay morning about tight o'clock, a
young man of the name of William John Harmer, a
Wfroltibeate.r, oho riwities in Exmouth-street, Spa-fields,
as walking along elerken‘vell-green, near the church,
when he trod upon a vivee
of ice which was lying upon the
po
the aveme t, Which caused him to fall with great violence
he.wa.s picked up by a gentleman quite
troun
stunnedg, who assisted to get him home, when it was
found that he had broke his right arm and also his leg
by the fall, beside r'ekiving a severe' fracture of the
scull. He lies at the present time without the least
h-,yes of recovery.

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-An Oxford -student joined without invitation a
party dining at inn. After dining, he boasted so
much of his abiliti(s, that one of the party said, "You
have told us enough of what you can do, tell us some-
-thing you cannot do." " ' said he, "I cannot pay
• wy share of theretkoning !

had published that, and he rejoiced 'that he had

Sir IL WILCOCK thought that Mr. Martin' had no
right to publish the letters ; even if he had picked them.
up in the street, without having consulted him (Sir H.
W.) on the subject.
Mr. WEEDING disapproved of the conduct of Sir
Henry Wilcock in communicating with the Government;
he should have written to the Court of Directors.
Mr. SILEPITERD defended Sir H. Wilcock.
Mr. BROWN thought Sir H. Wilcock entitled to the
thanks of the Court for his conduct.

After mutual explanations from Sir IL Wilcock, Sir
IL Lindsay, and Mr. Weeding, the motion was with-
drawn.

Mr. MARRIOTT gave notice, that on the next Court
day he should bring forward a motion on the subject of
the Suttee which had recently taken place in the terri-
tories of the Nizam.

Mr. WEEDING and Mr. SALOMONS both urged the Direc-
tors to interfere with the native Powers for the abolition
of Suttee.

Mr. FIELDER gave notice that next Court day he
should move for the additional documents which had
been transmitted to the Court of Directors by Mr. Wil-
loughby and Col. Ovans relative to the affairs of the late
Raja of Sattara. Those documents he understood fully
exculpated the members of the Sattara Commission from
the charges which had been so freely brought against
them.—The Court then adjourned.

LATEST MANCHESTER BETTING.
MANCHESTER, TUESDAY EVENING.—The attendance
for the period of the year was certainly good this fore.
noon.

THE CHESTER TRADESMEN'S PLATE.—The entry
closes on New Years' day. Offers were made to lay 20
to 1 on the field, or take 8 to 1 Mr. Scott's stable wins.
Several horses were offered against ; but we did not see
any thing backed.
THE DERBY.—The Premier was backed for 50/. at
8 to 1 ; three pointi more, to a little money, was of-
fered against Chatham, 12 to 1 was wanted ; 400 to
100 against the two might easily have been had.
25 to 1, bar the two, was offered. Parties being
open to take 30 to 1 about either the Lord of
Holderness, Balankeele, or Robert de Gorham-200
to 7 was, at the close, laid against the first-named
horse ; 40 to 1 was offered against William de Fortibus ;
500 to 15 against either Meteor or the Dirce colt was
freely offered ; 500 to 10 against Moss Trooper was
offered ; 12 to 1 in ponies against Balankeele and the
Lord of Holderness was offered; also 200 to 6 against
Honest John and Lord George. We thought 1,000 to
20 was offered against Master Thomas.
THE aucs.-500 to 100 was offered against Passion;
takers of 200 to 10 on the Duke of Richmond's filly.
THE ST. LEGER.—Offers to take 20 to 1 agst Chatham.

GREAT FIRE IN MANCHESTER.—
DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY TO THE
AMOUNT OF 30,0001.
MANCHESTER, MONDAY.—One of the most destruc-
tive fires broke out this morning which has been known
in Manchester for many years, the flames spreading
with such rapidity that within a few hours after the fire
was discovered, damage estimated at more than 30,000/.
was done.
The building destroyed is a warehouse situated in
Piccadilly, near the heart of Manchester, and was occu-
pied by Messrs. Patchett and Jones, who have for some
years carried on business under the style of " The Union
Carrying Company." Messrs. Patchett and Jones were
canal carriers, and the warehouse which was originally
built by them, but had been recently sold to Lord Fran-
cis Egerton for 11,0001. was erected, for the convenience
of their business, over the Rochdale Canal.
The premises were discovered to be on fire about twenty
minutes past twelve o'clock by some persons casually pass-
ing, who observed smoke issuing from that part of the
warehouse situate immediately over the Rochdale Canal,
and the alarm being given information was transmitted
by the police, and through several other different channels
at the same time, to the superintendent of the fire
police. That gentleman displayed his usual acti-
vity, and was on the spot with his first engine in
about twenty minutes after the alarm was first given,
and four other engines followed in quick succession. The
supply of water both from plugs in the street and the
canal was good, and the engines were brought into play
in an incredibly short space of time. Short as the time
lost had been, however, it was too great to leave a chance
of saving the property. The goods in the warehouse,
which were of immense quantity, and supposed to exceed
20,0001. in value, were of an extremely combustible na-
ture, consisting principally of cotton, corn, and groceries,
and the flames having, it is supposed, got well hold of
the cotton, which was in the lower part of the building,
when the fire was first discovered, spread with a rapi-
dity almost unprecedented. The whole building was
wrapped in flames by the time the engines got into play;
and under these circumstances the exertions of the fire-
men were directed to saving the surrounding property.
In a few hours from the first discovery of the fire the
whole of this large pile of warehousing was a heap of ruins.
The eastern gable, in falling, carried away some portion
of the roof of Mr. Gibbon's warehouse, on the opposite
side of Auburn-street, and otherwise damaged that pro-
perty to the amount of nearly 300/. The shop of Mr.
Brown, and the warehouse of Mr. Occleston, on the
opposite side of Piccadily, were several times on fire,
and received considerable damage also. The stock of
Mr. Holmes, commission-agent, and that of Mr. Hawks-
worth, saddler, were totally destroyed ; the latter not
being insured. The amount of loss has not been ascertained.
The value of property destroyed in the warehouse of
Messrs. Patchett and Jones, we have already stated as
estimated at over 20,0001. Whether it was insured we
have not heard, but there is reason to believe not, as the
property consisted of goods consigned to them merely
for carriage, on the understanding that all risk was on
the part of the consignees.
The origin of the fire is not known with certainty, but
we have already stated that the warehouse is built over
the Rochdale Canal, and in this tunnel was lyinc, a boat
load of cotton. Here, it is most probable, the fire com-
menced, as the boat was discovered to be on fire at the
time the alarm was first given. The captain of the boat
his wife, and son, were all sleeping on board, and were
aroused by the clamour in the streets adjoining. All
three, on being made sensible of their danger, jumped,
almost in a state of nudity, into the canal, and were got
ashore. The captain was severely burnt while in the
water, by a quantity of floating wool which was on
fire, and now lies in a dangerous state at our infirmary.
The ruins of the warehouse have choked up the canal,
and its navigation will consequently be impeded by it,
probably for several days.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian.)
MANCHESTER.—Owing partly to the season, and
partly to other causes, there was almost a suspension
of demand yesterday, and little or no business was
done, except in very small parcels, to supply immediate
wants, or forced sales to meet still more pressing pecu-
niary necessities. In the latter case, of course, low
prices were submitted to. Some excitement has been
caused here by the announcement of the failure of the
house of Taylor, Boggs, and Co., of London (Gardner,
Boggs, and Co., at Liverpool), who were largely engaged
in the trade to the East Indies. We understand that
the engagements of this firm amount to upwards of
1.50,0001. (reports varying from 160,0°04 to 190,0001.),
of which a considerable proportion is owing to parties
in this town. The failure is ascribed to the very unprofit-
able state of the trade with the East, and the great loss
on produce imported, especially East India cotton, of
which the house were holders to the extent of
20,000 bales. The stoppage of this firm has caused
one failure in Manchester, namely, that of Messrs.
James Hobday and Co., muslin manufacturers, who are
creditors of Messrs. Taylor, Boggs, and Co., to the ex-
tent of 6,0001. ; and whose engagements, we learn,
amount to about 24,0004 We are happy to hear, how-
ever, that their assets are considerable, and that there is
not likely to be much eventual loss from their failure.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, DEC. 20.—The
demand for flannels still continues steady, and prices are
very much the same as they have been during this last
month. There is no change in the wool market, either
as regards prices or quantity sold.
HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, DECEMBER 21.—The state
of business remains much the same as for several
weeks past : at any rate it is not worse. As a market,
there was very little done in sales, all parties evidently
looking for the new year, when hopes of a revival are
entertained. In fact, stocks generally are very small in
saleable goods, and are likely to remain so, as long as
the manufacturer pursues the prudent course of making
to order. Prices, consequently, are firm. Warehouse
business is flat ; but this is usual for the reason of taking
stock, and preparing for the spring trade. Bad as things
are, there is no cause for despair in this district.

SLAVERY IN RUSSIA.
On the same day that we have to announce
that Russia is a party to the treaty for abolishing
the slave trade, in which she has little or no con-
cern, the Tory Times contains the following de-
scription of Slavery in Russia :—" An instance of
a noble, who had his female serfs flogged for in-
toxication, being an ultra-Liberal, a violent de-
mocrat, a disciple of Lamennais in his library, is
a good illustration of the small effect that the
culture of the Russian nobles has on their social
state. Gild it over as it will the original barba-
rism is not to be cdncealed, as is happily ex-
pressed in a remark cited by Captain Jesse :
Il faut toujours attendre, dans un connaissance
Russe, de voir un jour le peau de Pours.'
"This is the condition of the enlightened class,
which is further illustrated by the state in which
they allow the other class to remain--a class from
whom every particle of moral or intellectual light
seems to be carefully excluded, except in those few
instances where;froni accomplishments in the serf,
the lord hopes to derive a profit. Among the
unfortunate body of serfs there seems to prevail
one unmitigated system of barbarity, the slavery
of their minds, being worse than the slavery of
their bodies. Not .one of the thoughts which
elevate roan above the level of an astute animal
*PPears to exist amid the utter darkness. Their
habits aremost filthy and revolting to the
repul-
sive
degree;the one shirt is worn unwashed from
Easter to Easter, their pleasure is but bestial in-
toxication, the
ery
feast
being
disgustinghonouro fgtohregi e
and r
deceased relatives
over the tombs, a continual swill of the
national spirit called
votka ' For the
serf there is no hope of evati •
an e
on above
his degradation ; the notion of emanci-
pation, which once existed in a few li-
beral minds, seems now to be wholly extinct;
and even if this slave can acquire exten-
sive wealth, he is liable to be called on to per-
form the most menial offices at the table of his
master; he is incapacitated from purchasing his
freedom, and" the lord takes a false glory in
exhibiting to his friends the wealth n
t 1 •
o s de-
pendent, not with the honest pride with
which a
proprietor would show the prosperity of his te-
nantry, but under circumstances that prove his
willingness to make their villenag-e conspicuous.
The religion of these serfs (as well as of many
that are not serfs) is a superstition of the most
degrading kind, little more than a reverence
for charms and usages; for, as fur a higher
object, it seem by no means clear to the pea-
sant of Russia Mich is the highest, the Deity or
the Emperor, a doubt which all pains are taken
to foster, since there is not a posthouse where
the Imperial arms are not made almost an object
of worship. An adoration similar to that of the
hat, which Gessler endeavoured to introduce
among the Swiss, is adopted with great compla-
cency by the Russian serf; if indeed the name of
complacency can be given to a state of unresist-
ing dulness. Nor does it seem, from observations
which Captain Jesse has made, that these serfs
are merely slaves of the soil, though legally they
cannot be sold without it. Many expedients are
used, he says, to evade' the prohibitive ukase,
which of course render the serfs slaves in the
extreme Havannah sense of the wortl.7