The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-19 00:00:00

secondly, that there is a general and reasonable expecta-
tion of a dissolution of the Parliament now sitting, and
that this expectation arises, from the insane perversity
of the gentlemen in favour of protection ;
thirdly, that the admirers • of the Ministerial
proposition are husbanding their vigour for that great
and conclusive effort; and, finally, that the ultimate abo-
lition of import and export duties is as utterly beyond a
doubt as that the skies of summer are blue, or that the
cowslips blossom in spring. With this knowledge the
nation must bide its time, in security. The millenium of
commerce is not a shibboleth—free-trade will be its as-

defeats like that of Westminster to weaken the authority
and power of Sir ROBERT PEEL. The Tory Lords re-
joice at it—all the high Tory journals have for days
been urging the Conservatives to vote for General
Evarts. Their pressing entreaties cannot have been in
vain, and would the defeat produce such rejoicing in the
" Church and State" camp unless it were regarded as a
heavy blow and great discouragement to Sir ROBERT
PEEL ? Suppose every liberal constituency had the
same occasion, and adopted the same policy as
Westminster, would Sir ROBERT PEEL'S weight and
influence not be utterly destroyed both in the Lords and
Commons ? The Lords would reject the measure with
the utmost disdain, for it is his power only they fear ;
they would say, "We cannot submit to the dictation
of Anti-Corn-law Leaguers and Radicals ; we will force
on an appeal to the country, and then it will be seen
whether the affairs of this great nation are to be go-
verned by illegal associations and destructives, or by the
principles dictated by our venerable Constitution. We
admit thin is an extreme case, but still it is the
duty of journalists to resist evil at the beginning,
and to lend every assistance to a Minister whose
plans are unexceptionable, and who has sacrificed
political ties, personal friendships, and his entire
authority as a Conservative leader for the purpose of
carrying great measures, which that journalist has,
in season and out of season, advocated for the
last twenty years. Had The Sun followed any
other course, it might justly be branded as a
renegade, denounced as a brawler for principles which it
never expected to see accomplished, and charged with
the crime of rejecting the invaluable benefits for which
it had so faithfully contended, on the miserable pre-
tence that they were conferred by a Minis-
ter who was once a Tory. There would be
an utter want of honesty in such a plea. What we want,
and what the great body of the people want, are good
measures and good Government; for this purpose we have
supported Sir ROBERT PEEL, because we are
fully convinced that by weakening his authority and
thereby throwing a doubt on the noble un-
dertakings which have distinguished his Ministry,
we endanger in the most serious manner the accom-
plishment of objects dear to every friend of his
country. The loss of Captain Rous for Westmin-
ster is great in another respect. It is a general
loss to the nation. He is put into the
Admiralty as a naval reformer ; his services
every sailor, and every landsman too, will say are
much wanted ; and, without a seat in the House, he
might contend with his colleagues at the Board, and
state his reasons, but his work would only be
half done. The abuses in the navy would
still prevail to their utmost extent, and the
Minister might, in a fit of disappointment,
give up his scheme when he finds that the electors of
Westminster, so determinedly opposed to flogging in
the navy, and every other abuse in that great national
system of defence, appear lukewarm in the cause, and
have rejected the very man commissioned to investigate
these frightful abuses.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 3,000 to
4,000 bales, all to the trade. There was no alteration in
prices, but buyers rather had the advantage. The sales in-
cluded 300 bales of Egyptian at 5%d. to 7d. per lb., 200
Surat at 2%d. to 3d., and the rest American at 33/4d. to
5%d. per lb. There was but little done in Shares, but pre-
vious rates were current.
The Commissioners appointed to report upon the most ad-
visable gaue.e to be adopted in the case of all new railways,
having made a statement in favour of the narrow gauge, the
Great Western shares have suffered to some extent, and the
lines which will obtain branches on the gauge recommended.
benefit, of course, by the decision. It is some time since
this matter was first debated, and it is greatly to be re-
gretted, seeing its importance, that Government did not
two or three years ago endeavour to enforce uniformity.
We say this without any reference to the merits of the
broad or narrow gauge, and simply on the assumption that
one general gauge for the United Kingdom is highly desir-
able. From the known talent of Mr. Brunel, and the excel-
lent working of the broad gauge, one might almost be dis-
posed to think that be looked more to the future, when the
extraordinary increase of traffic may require the most ex-
tended accommodation, than to the present time.
Some relief for the substantial, but at present most cruelly
inconvenienced class of the commercial community, holding
what are termed second-class bills, is expected to accrue
from the stated intention of the Bank of England to extend
the deviation of its loans to the 9th of April. By that time,
no doubt, the money market will have become much easier,
if indeed the pressure does not entirly subside ere then., •
The efforts making to procure an amendment a the bank-
ruptcy-laws, are still actively pursued in the City; and the
result, it is hoped, will be to place the credit system, which
is unavoidable in such a country as this, on a sounder and
safer basis.
The Funds are looking decidedly better to-day, thanks
to the anticipated easing of the money market. Con-
sols have been 96% to 96% for present transfer,
and 964 to 1/ for time. This is 1,4 to 4 per cent.
better than yesterday. The Reduced Three perCenta. have
been 961 A to 96%. Bank Stock is up to 2081,4 and 209,
and East India Stock to 259 and 260. The premium on
Exchequer- bills has been 365. to 395.
The formation of a Ministry has not improved the value
of Spanish Stock, the Five per Cents. being 26% %, and the
Three per Cents. 374 5. Mexican Bonds have been quoted
at 31, and Grenada 23 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
are 69%. -
Shares have been a little firmer.

ONE CLOSING
BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. • - .. .. .. .. 208% 209 299
Three per Cent. Annuities .. .. .. 96% h 96%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 9634 %% 96%
Three per Cent. Annuities, 1726 .. .. 96% 96%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 98%% 98%
.I.ong Annuities, Expire Jan. 5,1860 .. 10% 11-16 10 11-16
India Stock .. .. . .. .. .. .. 258 260 260
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. .. .. .. 38 p 38 p

South Sea Stock .. .. .. .. .. . ,
Ditto Old Annuities .. .. .. 9634 ~96%
Three per Cent. Annuities, 1751 • • 95% 95%
Bank Stock for Account .. .. .. .. 2081,E
Consuls for Account .. .. ~ ~ .. 961,4% % 96%

Exchequer Bills. 13(d
1,0001...
5001. ..
Ditto, Small

1%d..
36 39 -- pm. 39
3G 39 pm. 39
36 39 Pm. 39

ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Equador Bonds .. .. .. .. • • 3% 3%
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. • • " 23 4% 23
Ditto, Deferred
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 par Cent • • 31 31
Ditto, for the Account .. • • • • 31 31
Ditto, Deferred .. • • • • 16% 16%
Russian Bonds .. .. .. • • 112
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .• • •
Ditto, for the Account .. • • • • 26% % 27 %
Ditto, Three per Cent .. • •
Ditto, for the Account .. .. • • 37% % 37%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. • • 45 45
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent • • 37% li 9714
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent • • 59% 69%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates • • 35% 95%
Ditto, for the Account .. . • • • 95 95

A t this particular stage of the present discussion, a cur-
sory survey of the elections which are just now agitating
various constituencies throughout the kingdom, can
neither be uninteresting or uninstructing ; since from
these local seethings•up of the political cauldron, the
different ingredients may be inferred. We do not
ascribe any immediate importance to these po-
pular expressions of sentiment ; we consider them
only valuable as harbingers of an inevitable,
an ultimate, and a permanent demonstration: we regard
them as efficacious in disseminating those doctrines of
liberality and enlightenment with which the commercial
and political, and even social world, must henceforth be
governed ; we estimate them as of exceeding import-
ance, inasmuch as they are indications of that earnest
co-operation on the part of the multitude, without
which the admirable policy of the Premier can exer-
cise but a portion of its generous and benign in-
fluence. Any additions to the number of free-
traders in the Lower House is but of secondary interest
at this juncture : the necessity of a general election
within a very short period from the present time—possi-
bly within two months—rendering the advocates of the
proposA measures almost indifferent to the result of
=re individual struggles. The necessity of a general
election to which we make this reference is, of course,
contingent upon the perseverance of what Sir CHARLES
NAPIER almost christened the "turnip-headed" Protec-
tionists in appealing to the sense of the country before
sueh measures be passed into a decree. It is not our in-
tention to comment upon this preposterous scheme of
the non-suited agriculturists ; it is not our intention to
stigmatise it as an alternative which must, if resorted
to, prove a mot pernicious precedent—an alternative
diametrically" opposed to the principles of our legislation.
The naked proposition is itself, like the tatterdemalion
regiment of FALSTAFF—" a troop of impotency"—their
lank forms as unfleshed and as harmless as
their "swords of lath and daggers of shaving."
Never did a class testify such mad imufficency—such
monstrous aptitude for the ridiculous ; its leaders have
placed themselves in a situation of the most unenviable
absurdity. They behold their stronghold Monopoly
about to be committed to destruction, its innermost re-
cesses undermined, the train laid down, the fusee
lighted ; and now, in the very frenzy of their
disappointment, they become little less than de-
lirious—they insist upon themselves descending
into the excavations—they furiously demand the power
of seating themselves upon the barrels of gunpowder
before those combustibles are ignited. This, in sober
reality, is the sum total of their cry for an appeal to the
sense of the populace ; they are enraged at their exclu-
sive system being exploded ; they will not remain con-
tented until they themselves are also " blown up " most
thoroughly. In these diseased. sentiments originates the
expectation of a general election ; and from that dull and
stolid pertinacity which is peculiar only to Pigs and
Protectionists, and to which the latter have recently ex-
hibited their affection, there is but a very trivial
probability of the abolition principles being passed
through both Houses of Parliament until they have
been formally submitted to the voice of the great
political under-current—the people. It is from a
conviction of this circumstance that sundry con-
stituencies, such for example as the constituency of
Chichester, have reserved their enthusiasm for the
oncoming outburst of the nation ; and in this manner
some two or three proteges of the landlord clique have
found an opportunity of sneaking through the lobby of
St. Stephen's, and seating themselves (right, worshipful
and right worthy associates) cheek-by-jowl with such
scape-grace unfortunates as the Member for Bristol, or
the Member for Oxford. In some instances,
however, the earnestness of the electors in ap-
proving Sir ROBERT'S very startling behaviour,
has exceeded their carelessness of a mere momentary
victory ; they have given their opponents a slight
flavour of the unpalateable draught which they are con-
cocting for themselves, and with which—so sure as they
clamber up the various hustings—they will be drenched
and saturated. Such a bitter foretaste for these luckless
sticklers for the corn-duty, was the return—the proud, the
triumphant, and unanimous return—of Lord MORPETIL for
the West Riding of Yorkshire. Possibly a few more simi-
lar demonstrations would be enough to sicken the mal-
contents of any further repetition of the dose : however,
the endeavour is scarcely worth the trouble of making.
For, although a dissolution of the present Parlia-
ment would be, to a certain limit, detrimental to the
interests of our poorer countrymen, by delaying the
settlement of the question under discussion, the sub-
sequent success of the free traders—a success of which
no sane person can entertain the merest scintilla of a
doubt—will be trebly glorious; it will impart to the Act
in which those principles will be embodied a wonderful
and indefinable charm—it will be gold purified through
an ordeal of fire. Of that description of careless consti-
tuency which we have already particularised—careless
of its own quiescent but Herculean strength, and
indifferent to the ephemeral triumph of its antagonists—
Gloucestershire promises to afford another specimen ;
for, although the Hon. F. CHARTERIS, the young Mem-
ber who recently resigned his seat as the representative
of that county, from the late alteration in his opinions,
and upon whom the Prime Minister uttered, the other
evening,theii such a f2rvent panegyric—although, we say,
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will in all likelihood be permitted, accord. to the
cant cant phrase, to " walk over the course." Dolt;setshire
in like manner, is partially abandon by Lord ASHLEY •
the Noble Lord doubtless awaiting the fitter and the
loftier opportunity. Thus again Rutland was for the
present contemptuously - left to the private and
obscure nomination and the private mind obscure
election
_of a certain Mr. GEORGE FINCH, a
humdrum small- talker in favour of " protection to
British agriculture." Captain HOWARD VTSE likeaise
offers himself as a candidate fur South ICoribunapion-
shire amidst the silence and indifference of the mass.
Lord LINCOLN, however, with a fervour of patriotism and
a staunchness of heart most commendable, is fighting

PRICES OF ITUSINESS •
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE AT
CLOSING
ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.

Buckinghamshire 425. ••••• • • • • • par
Caledonian 10 .... 14 .••• . • • • .... 13%
Ditto Extension .. 214 ... • • • • ... 2%
Chester and Holyhead• .. 20 .. •• ••••• • • • • • 21
3%
Direct 31anchester (Itastrlck's) .. 5U •• • •
Direct Northern .. .... 2% %
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 5 .... . ......
Dublin and Galway ......4 .... 41,4 • • ... ••• • •
14
Eastern Counties .. • 141. ICs. .... 21%
Ditto New .. 81. 16s. .. • • 6% P• •••• • • • 6% P
Ditto, York Extension .. 105..... 1 % .. ••• • • • 1%
EdirOntrgh and Glasgow .. 50 .... ••••• • • • • • 78
Ditto % Shares 5 .... 16
Great Southern & West.• (Ireland) 15 .... 17%...... •
Great Western 85 .. .. 149 ex div .. 150 x d
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 50 .... 83 ex div
Ditto, Quarter Shares , .. 5 .... 17%% 18 x d 18 x d
L,:cester and Bedford .......... 225.... • •
Liverp., blanch., & Newc. Junct. 2%.... 3 ....... . 314
London an I Birmingham ... .100 .. .. 219 222.. 222 x. d.
Ditto Fifths .. 2 .... 24 ex div..
London aid Brighton .. .. 50 .... 65% 66 ex div 65% xd
MI to. Consol. Eighths - • , . 40 .... 54 ...... . 54
London and Croydon .. 13/. 15s. 9d. 22% 221/6
London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d. 9% .
London and South. Western.. 412. 6s. 10d. 78
Ditto, Consolidated Eighths .. 28 .... 43 44 ..... 44
London and York •.. .... 3%%e. •
London, Warwick, & Kiddermlns. ....
Londonderry and Coleraine .. 5 .... 5 ........... 5
Londonderry and Enniskillen .. 5 .... 2% .. 2%
Lynn end Ely .. ..• .. 5 .... 6 .. ..... 6
Manchester and Leeds 82 .... .... • • ....

Ditto, Half Shares .. 38 .... • • • • ...... 61
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .. 78 .. ....... 78
Ditto, Quarter Shares (11) 2 .... 103. E 9% IN 1014
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .... p • • ...... 1% p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 234 %........ 214
Midland • ..100 .... 150 151:....... 151
Ditto, New 12 .... 273¢ • ..• • 2731
Ditto, 'Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 118 120........ 120
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. ..
Ditto, New .. • • .. 1 .... 10% • • • • ...... 10%
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 213
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. 2%.... 2 . • • • • 2%
North ltritish .. 17 % . . . 24% 25 t 25
Ditto, Carlislt Extension .. 134 .... 2% • • • • •
Northern and Eastern • • 50 . • .. . •
North Kent and Direct Dover • • 231 .... 2%
North Staffordshire 4 p
Northmpton,Banbury ,& Chelthm. 2
oxtd.,llTorcester,& Wolverhuiptn. 1234 . . . . 1431 1434
Portsmouth Itirect • - • • • • 3% • • • • ..... • • 333
Itugty and Huntingdon • • .. 2 .. 154
Scottish Central .. • • • •• 7% • • 16
Ditto New • •• •• •• •• 234 •••• 9 9
shrews!inT and Birmingham •• 2 • •
- • • ••........
Shropshire Union .• •• • • • •
South Midland 425. 23114 p...... 234 p
South Eastern and Dovor .• • • 3331
...
Dc., New (do. 331.65. Bd.) No. 2. 10 _ 12 !i
....... 12
1)0., New (do 151.) No. 4. 234 • • • • 3143...
Tean and Dove Valley.• • - •• 1%....
Trent Valley .. • • • • •• •• f, • • • • 26% 2534 26.. 26
‘‘Vrtititiesr,tisi.o,nl,Yersexefttl.s,l M
n%Vd cWk • e, y4m Dub.o
u Weymouth 21 34%
: : .• 31111 u : • : : • : • •
York and North Midland. •• 10 ••
..... 291
Ditlo. Extension • • • • • • 15 •• • • 32 31% • • .... 31%

gallantly with the weapon or fact in the cause of
the proposed freedom to commerce in that

. .
nest of agricultural interest, Scuth Notting-

hamshire.

From these eireuinstabces we may

glean some most important deductions : first, that the
people are self•assured in their devotion to free-trade ;

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19, 1846

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM. )
!FRANK V. WALLER.
The case of the Welwyn Benefit Society was mentioned
this morning by his HONOUR, who said he wished to state to
the parties the conclusion to which he had come on the subject
of costs. He was bound to say that he could not give costs
to either party. They had thought proper to enter into a
contract; they had formed a club subject to the most strin-
gent rules. The 19th rule permitted alteration of the rules
so long as there was no tendency to dissolve the club ; the
27th continued the existence of the society so long as three
members were willing to support it; and the Bth said that
any surplus beyond what was wanted for the current expen-
diture should be accumulated. His Honour said they had
always contemplated an accumulating fund ; but that was
no reason why they should not take into consideration the
expediency of making a division of that fund. One party
had pursued that course, and it .had been pressed to a Chan-
cery suit. The act done was perfectly harmless in
itself. The other party sought to enforce an extreme
right, and deprive the seven members of that money
which they had been paying in for many years,
and all for suggesting an act of expediency. The
plaintiffs said they were excluded, but held that thy
were not thereby deprived of the right over the society s
fund. It had been argued on their part that they had a
right to secede and withdraw their money ; but his Honour
thought there was more difficulty on that point than might
at first sight appear to the Learned Counsel. It was ex-
pressly stated in the rules that the society should not be dis-
solved so long as three members were willing to support it.
Here appeared the contradictory character of these rules ; a
member could not secede; what then must he do? He
must continue to make his monthly payments ; but if he
failed in these how were they to be enforced? According to
one of the rules, payment was to be enforced by expulsion, so
that the relief sought is at length got by an act that is im-
proper. But as his Honour was not giving a decision in the
case at that time, he said be would reserve his opinion of the
rules and the means of relief they gave to the members.
As for the defendants, he said, their cause was one which
no court of justice could look at. No court could enforce
their act without being guilty of plunder. His Honour
doubted whether the 19th rule was a regulation which any
court could enforce. His Honour strongly advised the parties
to have recourse to some gentlemen in the neighbourhood,
and settle their case by arbitration ; for if he wound it up,
and divided the unds in proper proportions, the account
would be very complicated and the expenses heavy.
One of the Counsel said that three of the members were
removed from the locality, and there was a doubt as to how
their connexion with the club would be affected by it; but
his Honour refused to give any opinion.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAN.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, Guildhall, before Lord DEN➢IAN and
a Common Jury.)
QUIZ NET V. DAY.

This was an action taken by the plaintiff, who is a French.
man and a lithographic printer in colours, residing at Paris,
against the defendant for the recovery of a certain sum, as
remuneration for work and labour done in his (plaintiff's)
capacity as lithographic printer. It appeared from coun-
sel's statement that the plaintiff sent specimens from Paris of
ornamental lithographic printing in colours to the defendant
to London, the result of which was, that defendant wrote to
him, expressing his satisfaction at the. specimens, and re-
questing him to come to London, and work for him, for
which he was to have 61. a week while in London,
and 3/. a week, if he should go to Paris, where, it was agreed
upon in writing, that he should not stay longer than four
weeks in any one year. The plaintiff alledged that
the work was done to the defendant's satisfaction,
but that defendant refused to pay him for
certain portions of the work done in Paris, and also for the
use of certain printing presses, &c. The defendant's executors
contended that they were not liable to any claim, upon the
ground that the plaintiff, when he went to Paris, was not to
come back any more; and also that he had committed a
breach of the agreement, and had therefore put an end to it,
inasmuch, when he went to Paris he remained away several
months, instead of four weeks. Defendant's counsel, there.
fore, contended that the defendants were not liable, and that
the plaintiff could have the presses whenever he liked; and
that he did not come tack to London until after the death of
defendant, and it was only then he made any claim.
Specimens of the prints were exhibited in court, and some
of them were very beautiful.
There w, re no witnesses called for the defence.
The jury found for the plaintiff 54/., arrears of salary to
the 4th of February, and 65/., the value of the presses.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY

(Myr Mr. Under. Sheriff BURCHELL.)
BLUNDEN V. YATES.

This was an action brought to recover the sum of 201. on a
bill of exchange. The defence was, that the plaintiff had
accepted a machine newly invented by defendant. in satis7
faction of debt; in reply, however, it was contended there
was no such bargain, and that the value of the-machine was
not more than 4/.

For the plaintiff witnesses were called, who proved that
the plaintiff had invented a machine for the blocking of
beoz-fronts, and that plaintiff, who was a currier and blocker,
sent to defendant two or three times to induce him to part
with the machine. It was stated that the invention was
very valuable, as twelve dozen pair might be blocked in a
day, whereas not more than three dozen could be done by
hand. It was particularly adapted to blocking very stiff leather,
which other machines would scarcely affect. A smith, who
had made part of the iron-work, had offered 251. for the in-
vention. The only one at all similar was brought out in 1840
by a Frenchman, who obtained 80/. each at the tithe. De-
fendant's was not made of such expensive materials, and
was valued at 301.

For the defendant, the principal witnesses were a person
in the employ of Messrs, Robertson and Co , successors to
Bramah and Co., with whom be had been twenty years, and
a machine-maker, named Green.' The former said he had
never seen a machine like the defendant's before, but although
he did not understand blocking, he considered that it would
not answer the purpose 'intended, and, as a piece of machi-
nery, it was valueless. Green said he had sold more than 120
machines; his charges were 71. and 91. One on defendant's
construction, made of brass instead of iron, would be worth
10/. 10s. Witness's was on the lever, defendant's on the
screw principle. The latter had mon. power. Defendant's
was made of iron, which would stain the leather, when damp.
H. Smith, a bootmaker, .aid that defendant's wachine
was only worth 3/. 104.

Mr. IN. 03IAS, for the defendant, contended that the ques-
tion of value could nut arise on a bargain to take the article
in liquidation of a debt; but, even if it could, there could •be
no doubt it was at least 201.

The UNDER-SIIERIFF left it to the jury to say whether
there bad been a contract for sale, a fixed price, in liqui-
datim of the debt, or whether the plaintiff had taken it
without such an agreement.
The jury gave a verdict for the defendant.

CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY)
John Williams. a well-dressed young man, was placed at
the bar, charged with having attempted to commit a robbery
at Messrs. Clarke and Massans, linen-drapers, of 29, High-
street, Islington.
_ _

It appeared that on Wednesday evening, Wright, of the N
division, was in High-street, Islington, in private clothes,
when he saw the prisoner and two other well-known thieves
looking in at shop windows, and following ladies to pick
pockets. He (Wright) concealed himself in a door-
way, until he saw the prisoner and his compa-
nions stop at the shop -window of the prosecu-
tors, when the prisoner broke a pane of glass.
Wright immediately came from his hiding place, and on
being seen by the thieves they raised a cry of " Bobby's a-
coming," and they ran off. They were pursued, and the pri-
soner was taken into custody, after a resistance.
John M'Gregor, shopman to Messrs Clarke and Co., proved
having heard the glass break, and seeing the prisoner with
his hand through the window.
Several officers identified the prisoller.as a known thief.

Mr. Vaun, the solicitor, questioned the witnesses, but at
length said that he would not combat with such strong evi-
dence—it would only be wasting the time of the Court.
Mr. GREENWOOD inquired what the cry of " Bobby's a-
coming" meant? Wright—They call the policemen Bobby,
after Sir Robert Peel.

The prisoner was committed to the House of Correction,
with hard labour, for three months.

WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
(THIS DAY.)

DECLARATION OF THE POLL.

Two o'clock having been appointed for officially declaring
the result of yesterday's polling, at that, hour the High
Bailiff of Westminster, accompanied by the successful candi-
date and Captain Roue, appeared on the hustings.
The Man BAILIFF then stated the numbers. They were—
For General Sir De Lacy Evans • 3,843
For Captain Rous 2,906

Majority. .. ... 937
It was his duty, therefore, to declare General Sir De Lacy
Evans duly elected.
The Gallant GENERAL then came forward and thanked
the electors for the honour they had confered on him. In a
somewhat lengthy speech, embracing no great variety of
topics, he condemned the policy pursued by that portion of
the public press which had supported Captain Rous in the
election. He complained also that the oath of identity had
been tendered to every voter, not even the venerable Mr.
Byng, Member for Middlesex, being excepted. The speaker
concluded by again thanking the electors.
Captain Rous then came forward amidst great uproar and
partial cheers. He said it was not his intention to enter
upon the discussion of the topics his Gallant Friend had ad-
verted to in his address, but simply to express his thanks to
those who had recorded their votes in his (Capt. Rous's) favour.
He hoped his Gallant Friend, now that the electors had re-
turned him, would give them more satisfaction than he had
done. Now that the battle was over, he (Captain Rous) de-
clared that he had no ill-feeling, but that he wished the electors
every happiness and prosperity, and that h is gallan t antagonist
would live long to enjoy their sympathy and support.
Though he (Captain Rous) was down now, he hoped to rise
soon again in some other place, and in the meantime
he would beg leave to bid them adieu.—(The Gallant
Captain, who was assailed with every manifestation of ill-
feeling, as far as uproar- and noise were concerned, and
whose remarks, in consequence, were most imperfectly
heard, then retired.)
After a short speech from Mr. Healey, a farmer from Rut-
landshire, in support of free trade, on the motion of General
Evans, a vote of thanks was given to the High Bailiff, which
being duly responded to, the assembly separated.

NUMBERS POLLED IN EACH PARISH.
EVANS. NOUS.
St. Anne ... ... 346 158
St. Clement Danes ... ... 296 227
St.:George, Hanover •square 1,109 1,015

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St. James ••• ... ... 595 480
St. John ... ... ... ... 426 208
St.. Margaret ... ... ... 381 284
St. Martin ... ... ... 481 413
St. Mary ... ••• ... 38. 27
St. Paul ... ... •• • ... 153 86
Savoy .. ... ... ~.. 18 8
Afajority 937.

CABINET Dnimut.—The Duke of Buceleuch, as Lord
President of the Council, entert:.ine the following Members
of the Cabinct at dinner last evening, at Montagu House :
Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Aber-
deen, the Earl of Haddington, the Earl of Ripon, the Earl of
Ellenborough, the Lord Chancllor, Lord Granville Somerset,
the Right Ho ‘. W. E. Gladstone, the. Earl of St. Germans,
Sir James Graham, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the
Ea.l of Dalhousie, and the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn.
EXTENSIVE FAILURE.—LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—
A most extensive failure is publicly announced here to-day, the firm
of Rockdale, supposed to be the most extensive soap-boilers in Eng-
lam'. Rumour speaks of their liabilities as being immense in amount;
it is said to the extent of nearly 200,000/. Such a failure as this must,
of necessity, involve many other houses dependent upon it. eleveral
firms are mentioned, but we abstain from mentioning names. We
may state as a fact that Messrs. Stockdales' house have in no way
whatever been concerned in any railway apeoulaelons.