The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-09 00:00:00

BRITISH RESIDENTS IN HA'!BURG.

PO THE RIGHT HON. LORD OUNT PALMERSTON, 11l
AJESTY'S PRINCIPAL 41:4_ ItLTARY OP STATE FOE.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS, See.
The memorial of the undersigned, appointed a committee
at a public meeting of the British residents in Hamburg,
nn the L"th of December, in pursuance of the following
resolution Tbat a committee be appointed to recover
a propertywwith
o full
opna.;;
factory, ory to his Majesty's Go-
vesrsfetromearplyplybelonging to the British
velnmeet to petition the Hou•et of Commons, and to take
such other measures as they may :kern expedient for the
accomplishment of this object, and foe the general advan.
Cage of the British residing in Hamburg and the neigh..
bourhoodn (appendix A),—
Showeth,—That ever since the renewal of ieercourse
with the continent in 1814, the British residing at
Hamburg have felt themselves neglected by the British
Government, and their interests wholly disregarded.
Previous to the dissolution of the factory in 1808, in
consequence of the French military occupation, the Bri-
tish could reside and carry on business in Hamburg
duties. They are now
compelled to become citizens, althon,'h always treated as
without
subjected
incurringbi,ated to an elleglence to the state, and without
being any
aliens, and subjected to personal military services. They
have at various times applied to his Majeety's Gov. rn-
went to have these (their former privileges) restored,
especially as German merchants settled in England have
the like, but without obtaining any redress. Their mor-
tification has been much increased by the s'rcums tane
that the Government of the United States of America, in
their treaty with Hamburg of 1828, have procured these
advantages fur their citizens.
At the dissolution of the factory there were funds he-
longing to it to the amount of about 17,0001. sterling.
More than one-third of this sum had been bequeathed
to the factory in trust for Joan., without interest, to
young British merchants settling in Hamburg, and the
remainder arose from public sources. These funds are
claimed by the British residents, who have repeatedly
petitioned the British Government on the subject, parti-
eularly in the memorial of January, 1824, and in the
report of the Commission appointed by them under the
direction of his Majesty's Government the same year,
copies of which are annexed, marked B and C. But,
although the Government recognised the right of directing
this Commission to recover these funds, and the law
officers of the Crown gave it as their opinion that the factory
was a public institution, and neither in equity nor good faith
funds could be appropriated by any of its iudividua
members (extract in appendix D), yet the Commissionl
being without the power to enforce payment, the meeting
with no support trom his Majesty's agent in Hamburg,
were not able to effect anything.
It appears, however, to your memorialists that a part
of these funds may yet be recovered.
The factory were possessed of obligations on the city
treasury for 80,000 marks banco (about 6,0001. sterling),
which was paid to some members of the factory in four
instalments. The Senate, evidently doubtful of the legs.
lity of these payments, took from them what was con-
sichred a good and sufficient security against any demand
that on this account might afterwards be made against the
city. The sum of 23,500 marks banco remained until
very recently in the possession of the Senate, charged with
certain small annuities, which arc now fallen is.
The commission appointed in 1824 had in the mean
time been dissolved by the death or removal from Ham..
burg of the greater part of its members, and your memo-
' rialists think the Consul-General, being acquainted with
all the circumstances, ought to have reclaimed this sum
from the Senate for the residents ; but without their
knowledge or sanction it has been paid over to M .
Richard Perish, who bolds it on behalf of the members of
the late factory, with their engagement to deve)te at least
a part of it towards the erection of an episcopal place of
worship.
Considering that the Hamburg Government is still ins
possession of the Steel-yard in London, granted by the
British Government in return for privileges and valuable
buildings belonging to the British residents in Hamburg,
new taken away without any equivalent, and Irons
which Steel-yard a large annual rental is drawn ; anti
considering that the Hamburg Government if left in
charge of the collection and distribution in Hamburg of
the letters conveyed by the British packets and steam-
boats, from which at present it derives a clear annual
revenue of about 15,0001. sterling ; whereas all other
Powers, when the advantage will warrant the establish-
went, have their own post-offices in the city;--
and as in this manner the British Government has
gratuitously given to the Government of Ham-
burg a sum which, including the accumulation
.4 interest since the abolition of the factory, pro-
bably exceeds 300,000/. sterling—your memorialists con-
ceive the Hamburg Government can offer no serious ob-
jection to comply with a requisition from his Majesty's
Government to place at the disposal of the British re-
sidents the two sums of 80,000 marks banco, and 23,509
marks banco; and your memorialists therefore pray that
his Majesty's Government do claim from the Senate of
Hamburg the sum of 80,000 marks banco, and the furthe
sum of 23,500 marks banco, for the use of the British
residents, to be placed at their disposal for purposes of
general utility.

JOHN JACKSON,
THOMAS CARR,
THOMAS BECKITT,
JOE-IN C. RAMSDEN,
THOMAS BOYS, Jan.
H. NV. EDYE, Secretary.

On the Rhine at this moment there are, op-
posite Mayence, from ten to twenty machines at work,
vhich may be almost said to be in-" perpetual motion.',
['hese are water-mills in boats, which are moored in a
certain part of the river ; and as the Rhine is never dry,
these mills, which are simple in their construction, would.
go a few years, indeed until`they are quite worn out.
Advices from the city of Mexico to the 2d
of November were received in the city yesterday, (Tues-
•lay) via Bordeaux. The following is an extract of a letter
dated that day :—" The letters by the Shelthake packet,
of the 22d of August, have at length arrived ; and the
'nail for her return will be made up here about the 9th.
* * The President, Santa Anna, is now here, but
the best informed consider it very doubtful whether peace
will he maintained. It is said that Zavala will be made
Minister of Finance, instead of going to Europe. He
made a motion in the Congress last night to reduce the
duties to 30 per cent. ad valorem on all goods imported.
Quicksilver keeps up at 85 to 90 dollars per quintal.
Exchange on London has risen to 431 d. per dollar pre-
mium ; and on Vera Cruz and Tany'co it is 6 to S per
cent. premium." The doubt expressed in the above lelter
re,, cting the maintenance of peace is said to rest on the
fist of Santa Anna, in his late proclamation, having abo-
lished tithes, by which he has made the whole of the ec-
-lesiastical order, who possess great influence over the
army, his enemies. The proposition for the reduction of
the duties is thought to have a good chance of being sane•
cloned by the Legislature.
The Constitutionnd says--" It is asserted
that the pacific address delivered on New Year's Day by
Count Pozzo di Borgo was settled at a diplomatic breakfast
given by the Prussian Ambassador, and that -the Count
,i'Appony had the greatest share in framing it. The first
draught was confined to a mere compliment on the retur a
of the new year, but it was afterwards insisted that some-
thing should be said as to peace, which Europe is more
than ev,r anxious to preserve."

IMPORTANT DECISION.—At the Middlesex
Sessions, Mr. R. Twining, the eminent tea-dealer, of the
,
Strand, appealed against a conviction by Sir Roe, on
in information laid by Benwell, the informer. Mr.
Twining had frequently caused a truck with goods to be
wheeled down Essex.street, Strand, through Essex.
court, to his warehouse in Devereux court. Renwel
contended that this was against the 64th section of
Ifichael Angelo Taylor's Act. Mr. Alley and Mr. Adol-
phus stated that no nuisance had been complained of by
the inhabitants, and fir 150 years the premises had been
in the possession of Mr. Twining's family. If the con-
s'ruction of the Act, as put upon it by the informer, was
enforced, what would be the situation of the numerous
merchants and others, who were compelled, from the
siAiition of their premises and the narrowness of the in-
.4ress thereto, to have recourse to trucks to remove their
400ds from carts ? He would instance the Grecian
Coffee-house in the court in question ; Slaughter's Cotle-
.iouse, St. Martin'sdanc; Garraway's, and many others
in the city, where only by trucks and manual labour could
tie goods be removed and deposited from the open street.
I'he Chairman (Mr. Sergeant Andrews) on examining the
Act, said that the 65th section, following that upon which
tae information was foundcd, allowed the removal in
loading and unloading goods. If the truck :mil buen
used to supply customers, it would have been anothtr
thing. The Court were unanimously of opinion thist the
conviction should he quashed.

a poor man, who is able to pay for his pint of
ver, not to be allowed the convenience of drink-
ing in his own neighbourhood, eitcept under the
surveillance of the Squire or the constable, lest
he should concoct the robbery of an orchard or
the murder of a pheasant? In short, we see no
objection to beer shops, except their convenience,
which may not be Urged with much greater
force, against public houses licensed by the ma-
gistrates; and we should no more propose to
shut them up, because they sometimes supplied
refreshment to a poacher, than we should shut
up a chapel or church because sometimes a
rogue is found there for the purpose of following
his criminal occupation.— Times.
The main argument for a repeal of the corn
laws seems to be scarcely understood by one
class of persons, and wilfully perverted by an-
other. It is asked, what will this country gain
if the prices of corn at home and abroad are
to be nearly equalized by the operation of a free
trade in corn ? We are, though perhaps we
ought not to be, astonished at the question.
Why, what is the grievance now complained of i
by the English consumer ? It is, that the prices
of corn here being higher than on the Conti-
nent, the inhabitants of Great Britain are com-
pelled by law to buy it in the dear market, and
leave the benefit of the cheap market to their
Continental rivals in every branch of industry.
We have contended that this evil must be nearly,
if not wholly, remedied by the removal of that
obstruction to a free import of corn which is
presented by the corn law. We have con-
tended, and from that necessary consequence it
would be weak and contemptible to flinch, that
more corn will, after the repeal of the law, be im-
ported from the Continent, and that less will be
grown on the poor lands of England, the latter
descriptions of soil being turned to pasture,
timber, and some of them to green crop, with
inferior kinds of corn. But we have not room
to-day to pursue this branch of the subject far-
ther. To a question so often and triumphantly
put—namely, what is to become of the farmers who
cultivate poor lands, and of the labourers em-
ployed upon them ? we answer, that the
farmers must pay rents accommodated to the
value of the new species of productions raised
from such lands ; and if sheep, cattle, and tim-
ber bring less money, the landlord must be
satisfied with a diminished rent. As for the
labourers, there is no doubt that some of them
must turn their hands to other kinds of work
than tillage. But, looking to the country gene-
rally, as a statesman ought, the point to be
considered is, whether a far larger proportion
of the working classes now idle will not find
support from the stimulus given to manufactures
than will lose it because of the conversion of
bad tillage land into pasture ; so that the sum of
paupers, of all descriptions, will be greatly re-
duced. We have received some letters upon
these subjects, which we must leave to stand or
fall by their own merit, or the want of it. One
voluminous writer insists that the present corn
law is ruinous to the farmer (we think so too,
but not for his reason), and frankly proposes
" that the landlord and farmer and agricultural
poor, and indeed all the poor ( ! ! !), shall unite
and shut out foreign corn ; for the introduction
of it—yea, the permission to bring it in—is
equally ruinous to the poor in towns, as
the poor in the country." We sub-
mit that this respectable gentleman, with his
total prohibition of foreign corn, had better be
left to himself. There is another worthy gen-
tleman, who closes an epistle full of wonders by
a vision of English capitalists under a free trade
in corn purchasing up and forestalling all the
extra growth of the world ! ! Verily the name of
our speculative correspondents is " Legion."—
Times.
We have always been inclined to doubt the
truth of the charge against Austria, of lending
herself to the views of Russia against Turkey ;
and we are therefore inclined to give credit to ,
the statement of the Allgemeine Zeitung, that
the preservation of Turkey is now, and always
has been, a main object of the policy of the
Court of Vienna. The Austrian Government
is Conservative, but not aggressive. It is much
more difficult; too, to make a satisfactory parti-
tion of Turkey than of Poland. Should Russia
obtain possession of Constantinople, she would
be a most inconvenient neighbour to Austria ;
and supposing the two great Powers of France
and England to remain quiet spectators of the
occupation of Constantinople by Russia, Austria
could not find in the annexation of the Turkish
provinces which adjoin her own an indemnifica-
tion for the injury of having Russia for a neigh-
bour on the Danube, with the passage from the
Black Sea to the Mediterranean at her command.
Assuming, then, that Austria is really and truly
desirous of upholding Turkey, we do not see
why a Congress of the great European Powers
might not with advantage be occupied with that
object. It is an understood matter, that the
Power which protects another becomes its inas-
ter, and Russian aid therefore means Turkish
subjection to Russia. But there is another mode
of going to work. The European Powers, for
instance, have taken upon themselves, in common,
the protectorate of Greece—that is, they have
given to Greece a Sovereign, who for some
years, till his Government obtains consistency,
will depend for security on external aid. Why
might not the Great Powers agree to furnish
each a contingent of soldiers to furnish an army,
to be paid, of course, by the Sultan—the com-
mand of which army might make him in some
degree independent of his turbulent Pachas, and
enable him to establish a vigorous Government
and to form a national army of a good quality ?
It is quite clear, that if some extraordinary step
of this kind be not soon taken, Turkey must
fall, and it may fall at a time when the state of
politics of the West may not be so favourable to
the prevention of Russian aggression as at pre-
sent. An army of 50,000 disciplined troops
might easily be furnished, and means for secur-
ing the payment of those troops might easily be
obtained, by assigning the revenue of certain
ports to them. Improvement follows rapidly in
the train of peace and order ; and we do not see
why the Ottoman Government should be abso-
lutely despaired of. The present Sultan has
been unfortunate in having been attacked by
Russia before his reforms had taken root: At
all events the attempt to regenerate Turkey is
worth the making.—Morning Chronicle.
We are inclined to believe that a good deal
of exaggeration prevails with regard to the extent
of the increase which the removal of the restric-
tions on the trade of corn would give to the
exportation of manufactures, and the importation
of food. One of the first efforts of the free
trade would be to raise the price in the ports of
the Continent to nearly the level of the Flee in
our own. We have something like experience
to guide us. The restriction laws are but of
yesterday. During the time the trade was free,
there was a very small importation of food from
the Baltic into this country. The time is not

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. 1 a poor man, who is able to pay for his pint of distant when this country was a great rival of the COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, JAN. S. The Defendant-Ay, there it is. The gin flum-
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_imp__ beer, not to be allowed the convenience of drink- Baltic as an exporter of food ; and deducting —.0.-......____ moxed her.
One of our correspondents, who has written ing n his own neighbourhood, except under the the bounty from the home price, the difference (Before Mr. Commissioner EvArts.)THE MAMELUKE.-WAGES.
The admission of the mariners' summary petition
s an excellent letter on the expediency and jus- surveillance of the squire or the constable, lest was the price received abroad by the exporter. IN RE JAMES COCHRANE. trade,
(Concluded from The Sun of yesterday.) tunate wife and children, and living with this in this case the groundthat '
was opposed on
ce of an equalization of the land-tax, has sub- he should concoct the robbery of an orchard or The capabilities of the corn-growing countries Mr. Colin Mackenzie was examined at some wretched woman. You are a infamous
pair. forth on the face of it an act of insubordination.
iquently sent us an able pamphlet, published by the murder of a pheasant? In short, we see no of the Continent were
as great then as now, length respecting a proof he tendered for 459/. The defendant—Consider thei mostsitn
inducement, please After the delivery of the cargo, consisting of coals,
m about four years ago, on the same subject, objection to beer shops, except their convenience, How happens it, then, that if the countries on 7s. Id., which he alleged was a balance of account
you, my Lord. Consider the natur of us poor and mooring the ship preparatory to receiving ballast
rmbined with " An inquiry into the practice- which may not im urged with much greater the Baltic can grow corn at so low a rate, this due to him for writing and preparing for the press a creeturs as we are. for the outward voyage, the seamen were required
lity and policy of reducing the duties on malt force, against public houses licensed by the ma- country was allowed to supply so much to the work called " The Key to both Houses of Parlia. The LORD MAYOR—lnduaement I You deserve by the master to wash down the vessel on Sunday
meat, or the Parliamentary Pocket Book."
id beer, and increasing those on British spirits." ' gistrates ; and we should no more propose to Continent at a rate different only from the selling He to be flogged at the cart's tell. morning. The petition stated that the men had
said his engagement with Mr. Cochrane was a verbal
esirous of reducing the former duties to a con- shut them up, because they sometimes supplied prices at home by the amount of the bounty ? The The defendant-I hope not, my Lord. I'll do been •
employed till late on Saturday night, and that
one, and he had agreed to write the work at the rate I
lerable extent, and expecting rather a diminu- refreshment to a poacher, than we should shut great benefit of the free trade would be, that the of ten • e sheet; he had received some all can to support this here babe, though not a they respectfully remonstrated with the master on
.)n of dram-drinking than any compensating up a chapel or church because sometimes a interchanges would be conducted in a more guineasbit on it's mine. I'll give two hog a-week, being required to perform this labour, which they
money account;per
the sum he now sought to
•The LORD MAYOR—Andyour wife and children
alleged would occupy two or three hours, and was
crease of revenue from any rise in the latter, be rogue is found there for the purpose of following simple and economical manner, the prices would prove for was the balance due to the work
him; was must be the sufferers. All the expenses incurred not absolutely necessary on Sunday; upon which
oked for an indemnity to the Exchequer by his criminal occupation.- Times. settle down to their natural level, that a greater not a mere compilation, and had
abandoning them must lie the master ordered the provisions, which were cook-
lualizina the land-tax, which, when adjusted to The main argument for a repeal of the corn certainty would be introduced into the business his time and attention. felt by them in the loss of the comforts to which ing, to be taken out of the copper, and
ia
I land property at its proportional value, in- laws seems to be scarcely understood by one of farming, and that tenants, in covenanting to Several witnesses were examined, who stated they are entitled from their natural protector. on shore.
that the charge of 10 guineas per sheet was ver
sad of being sometimes four shillings in class of persons, and wilfully perverted by an- pay a certain amount of rent might have some-Y The defendant-My Lord, I'll get better. I'm Sir Nrctrou, assuming the statementsin the
moderate for such a description of work. .
e pound, and sometimes not four farthings, other. It is asked, what will this country gain thing like an assurance that they would be ableonly a matter of six and thirty years ould, and I've petition to be true, considered'
thate theseamenwere'
The COMMISSIONER said he should require further • h f her mother. I'
nild yield an increase of income more than if the prices of corn at home and abroad are to afford to pay it out of the profits of their
t evidence as to the reasonableness of the charge f neit her a nor .am a poor struggling entitled to remonstrate, in respectful terma, tin being
° or han, please your Lordship.-(A .- A laugh.) required to perform a labour not absolutely neces-
fficient to supply the deficiency. His argu_ to be nearly equalized by the operation of a free farm, and not by sacrificing their capital. Tl.l° 10 guineas per sheet, and the fact of a contract for p ' - Ip• (
eat on the justice and expediency of revis. trade in corn ? We are, though perhaps we hopes which long buoyed up the landlords, that the payment of this amount having been ente ed The LORD MAYOR-: wish
. I could. place
. you nary on a Sunday. Unless some question of general
in solitary confinement in Bridewell, or inflict some importance to the trade and commerce of the country
g the ancient clumsy and partial settlement ought not to be, astonished at the question. they would be able to retain the high prices of into, before he should admit the proof now urged to more rigorous punishment upon you, without injur- were involved, he thought the owners would act
the land•tax appears to us strong, if not con- Why, what is the grievance now complained of
lthe war, are no longer entertained. And we be placed on the proceedings. log your wife and children; and I solemnly assure wisely in paying the wages.
Isive, and the only obstacle which stands in by the English consumer ? It is, that the prices cannot help believing, that if the people act with The declaration of a dividend was adjourned you if I find that you ever desert them again, you ANIIMMOIMMIIMIN•
e way seems to be the pledge of its fixed and of corn here being higher than on the Conti- energy, and press the landowners closely, they until the sth of February next, and a meeting for shall feel my power and that of my brother magis- THE MARKETS.
'alterable distribution by the permission given nent, the inhabitants of Great Britain are corn- will not make a very formidable resistance. The the further proof of debts wes appointed for the 27th
instant. trates most bitterly. --.......
redeem it. Till this Redemption Act was pelted by law to buy it in the dear market, and landowner of 1834 and the landowner of
(Before Mr. Commissioner FANE.) The overseers declared that the expenses upon the Per Ton.
COAL MARKET.-Jan. 8.
s. d. Per Ton.
parishes in London were become quite intolerable Ord's Redhugh .......... 14 6 Walls End Riddell's lid 4
SSed in 1798, there seemed to be no more leave the benefit of the cheap market to their 1815 are very different beings. As to the
IN RE BOND AND I'ATTISALL. Peiaw .......................... 15 6 Walls End Braddyll's...... 17 3
ason for continuing the land-tax on its old Continental rivals in every branch of industry. twaddle that is talked of throwing the coon- The bankrupts formerly carried on business as
by reason of the mode of desertion practised by the
defendant. Poor families, who had scarcely bread fantield ......... 15 0 Walls End Hetton
P0wn1ey................... 15 6 Walls End Lambton 11184 3
sting, than for perpetuating the system of sub- We have contended that this evil must be nearly, try into pastures and sheep-walks, and the bankers in 'Change-alley, Cornhill ; a commission of •
to put into their mouths, were obliged to contribute 211:1ginnerwowicnx,es8t Co. 17 p Walls End Stewart's.... 19 0
lies and fifteenths levied on the nation in the if not wholly, remedied by the removal of that common destitution of landowners, farmers, bankruptcy issued against them on the 4th of April,
to the support of both the legitimate arid iliegiti- W.E. Clarke and Co.-- 14 9 Watts End Adelaide -'".. 16 6
ne of the Plantagenets. And even this Act obstruction to a free import of corn which is and labourers, it is not worth noticing. Food 1831.undSevletneeti.ngs of the
lastcreditors have been
~ mates offsprings of fellows hke the defendant, and ails End ?itiorth...... 17 6 Waits End G0rd0n........... 17 0
)uld not appear to preclude the Government presented by the corn law. We have con- will only be imported into this country so long held the mmrssion, the on the Bth or
June. 1832, when the debts proved amounted to .
settlements were so easily made that the evil was Walls End Illotsapur 15 6 Walls South Durham.. 11.1 3
)in proposing, or the Legislature from adopt- tended, and from that necessary consequence it is dearer here than elsewhere. It cannot
as it 83,7471., on which dividends to the amount of 153. increasing every day upon parishes on which there r7iattlots _,'Tiodrt/i•liteirnaTearricahn7.., 15 6 Hartleya
g, a more equal distribution of the tax on would be weak and contemptible to flinch, that be dearer here than elsewhere without a greater
in the pound were declared. was not the most remote claim supportable by Walls End Perkin 5.......... 15 3 Newhall idaTn-....-........ 16 ii
Ships arrived since last market-day, 5.
Ided property in cases where it has not been more corn will, after the repeal of the law, be im- ability to purchase here than elsewhere. A very Another meeting of the creditors was held this equity or common sense.
deemed, for to the holders of such property ported from the Continent, and that less will be trifling falling off in the production of food day. Several proofs were received, increasing the The LORD MAYOR again regretted the want of • -------41
adequate power in cases of the kind, and expressed COUNTRY CORN MARKEIS DURING THE WEEK.
) pledge could be given. Yet, unless such a grown on the poor lands of England, the latter would soon raise the price at home so much as debts of the estate to the sum of 83,956/. A hope that some measure would be adoptedinPara-
Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. Beans.
edge were given, how great would be the ab- descriptions of soil being turned to pasture, to force an extended cultivation. We must ex- further dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound was like- e
nutrient to meet the evil of the abandonment of Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. e. to s.
rdity of assessing only 20,000/. on the county timber, and some of them to green crop, with tinguish our manufacturing population before wise announced this day, thus making the total wives and children more effectually than the existing
Abingdon 625 Si 43 22 30 38 --;...
we can have cheaper food here than in other amount of the dividends now declared on the debts Birmingham...-. 56 58 30 40 16 22 48
• Lancaster, including Manchester, Liverpool, inferior kinds of corn. But we have not room laws did. Bridport .....—..... 56 74 32 36 26 30 54
id other great towns, and 107,602/. on the to-day to pursue this branch of the subject far- countries.-.lllorning Chronicle. proved against the estate 17s. 6d. in the pound.
Mr. Pattisall applied for the payment of his al- •
Alderman COWAN concurred fully in the obser- irTlcester ....-- 40 56 24 29 18 28 - 39
Hatngdon....-......... 54 86 36 40 26 34 - 96
vations made by the Lord Mayor, and the order Guildford .......... 48 74 23 32 26 35 - 43
iunty of Westminster, exclusive of London then To a question so often and triumphantly It is now announced in one of the Ministerial lowance. was made out-the defendant to pay the expenses Henley--,--- 54 83 30 35 20 30 —4O
id Middlesex? Or, to descend along with put-namely, what is to become of the farmers who Journals, that Ministers mean to abandon the Mr. Sewell, the solicitor to the commission, op-Hereford -.-......, 64 68 32 34 22 28 - 46
ofthe lying-in '.. , kandparish
and 2s. a wee , the to Highworth --., 62 80 32 42 28 34 - 56
it author to parishes, what can be more pre- cultivate poor lands, and of the labourers em- 'louse and window taxes. This we always con- posed the application. bring up the child. Maidenhead ...... 56 68 34 44 22 30 36 37
)sterous than to levy 9018/. on the parish ployed upon them ? we answer, that the The COMSIISSIONER refused to enter into the
tom fated that they must and ought to do, and . . , . .Mary Stokes, a pauper, committed some time ago Monmouth- ......... 66 68 32 36 24 28 4°
Reading 40 66 22 36 14 26 - 56
St. Andrew, Holborn, and only 492/. on farmers must pay rents accommodated to the question of Mr. Pattisall 's allowance, so it remains for belabouring Kinnersley, the beadle of Aldgate Salisbury, .42 54 2i 23 20 24 36- 54
we only regret that they have not, by a little over yet undecided.
at of Marylebone, being in the former in- value of the new species of productions raised was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with Southampton
rou ....... 54 58,
37 4O 282 32 54
32 _ 64,
more foresight, explicitness, and fair dealing, The COMMISSIONER proceeded to examine the
ante 18. 3d, ill the pound, and in the latter from such lands ; and if sheep, cattle, and rim- having thrown herself on the pavement in the Tewkesbury ~......... 53 - 37 - 30 38 - 46
.arcely one farthing? By redressing this inc- bet bring less money, the landlord must be saved themselves from the imputation of yielding accounts, when it appeared that in consequence of
- - -the proofs • dthis day, dividendof 2s. •
receive - 48
wastage 58 80 27 32 17 23 34 44
in 'description of the officer, as if " she warn't a woman Warminster ........ 48 58 25 31 22 26 34 46
ralitv and even reducing the land tax from satisfied with a diminished rent. As for the that to clamour and . ,
violence which was due to
the pound only could be declared, but as expecte- worts 5s --_2l 22
, ejustice and the impartial voice of public opinion. at all " Worcester- 5O 57 30 32 24 3Q 7. V
S. (its original rate) to 2s. in the pound, it is labourers, there is no doubt that some of them Lions had been held out that a dividend of 2s. 6d. '
The same authority (which we admit is but a This pauper is one of the most extraordinary of LEWES MARKET.-Jan. 7.
dculated that 3,000,000/. would be added to must turn their hands to other kinds of work would be made, Mr. Shaw, one of the assignees, what are called the " flarers u" ' h • h She
in t e paris . White Wheat (per quarter)......X2 10 oto .£ 14 o
le public revenue. With this sum the audio' than tillage. But, looking to the country ge e .
n _ derni-official i I ) g c.a. onegoes on to announce that it proposed, with the approbation of the Commis- gu ar pugi ist, and so game that she
fights like are l T is Red ditt0....... - 27 0 10 0
1! not the Chancellor of the Exchequer's inten- • 8ar1ey....... --
f the pamphlet proposed, in 1830, when his rally, as a statesman ought, the point to besinner, to advance sufficient for the purpose, would rather pitch into a big fellow than quarrel Oats, New •1MM0W5.............5.WW*00W1 017 0 18 0
the work was published, to compensate the de- considered is, whether a far larger proportion tiot to propose any substitute for the loss of the rather than disappoint the creditors. The ptoposi- with her own sex. It was but a few days ago that Pease 11,................/.11.1.1. 116 0 0 0
Oil Cake. New.„---......--.—.. 12 10 0 per thousand.
_ ___ :At_ ...:11 ~,,i ced heads of revenue to be thus repealed, but rather Lion was agreed to. she was accused of having entered Bishopsgate CHELTENHAM_ MARKET.—Jan. 7. . ... _.

One of our correspondents, who has written
.is an excellent letter on the expediency and jus-
tice of an equalization of the land-tax, has sub-
sequently sent us an able pamphlet, published by
him about four years ago, on the same subject,
combined with " An inquiry into the practica-
bility and policy of reducing the duties on malt
and beer, and increasing those on British spirits."
Desirous of reducing the former duties to a con-
siderable extent, and expecting rather a diminu-
tion of dram-drinking than any compensating
increase of revenue from any rise in the latter, he
looked for an indemnity to the Exchequer by
equalizing the land-tax, which, when adjusted to
all land property at its proportional value, in-
stead of being sometimes four shillings in
the pound, and sometimes not four farthings,
would yield an increase of income more than
sufficient to supply the deficiency. His argu-
ment on the justice and expediency of revis.
ing the ancient clumsy and partial settlement
of the land-tax appears to us strong, if not con-
clusive, and the only obstacle which stands in
the way seems to be the pledge of its fixed and
unalterable distribution by the permission given
to redeem it. Till this Redemption Act was
passed in 1798, there seemed to be no more
reason for continuing the land-tax on its old
footing, than for perpetuating the system of sub-
sidies and fifteenths levied on the nation in the
time of the Plantagenets. And even this Act
would_ not appear to preclude the Government
from proposing, or the Legislature from adopt-
ing, a more equal distribution of the tax on
landed property in cases where it has not been
redeemed, for to the holders of such property
no pledge could be given. Yet, unless such a
pledge were given, how great would be the ab-
surdity of assessing only 20,0001. on the county
of Lancaster, including Manchester, Liverpool,
and other great towns, and 107,6021. on the
county of Westminster, exclusive of London
and Middlesex ? Or, to descend along with
our author to parishes, what can be more pre-
posterous than to levy 9,0181. on the parish
of St. Andrew, Holborn, and only 4921. on
that of Marylebone, being in the former in-
stance 18. 3d. in the pound, and in the latter
scarcely one farthing ? By redressing this ine-
quality, and even reducing the land tax from
4s. (its original rate) to 2s. in the pound, it is
calculated that 3,000,0001. would be added to
the public revenue. With this sum the audio!
of the pamphlet proposed, in 1830, when his
little work was published, to compensate the de-
falcation in the national income which might be
occasioned by a reduction of the malt and beer
duties. The latter duty has since been entirely
abolished, but those for whose benefit its
abolition was intended, and at whose di-
minished comforts their landed legislators
expressed at the time such a hypocritical
concern or pity, are now, it would appear, to be
grudged the enjoyment of their cheapened be-
verage, or be debarred from obtaining it in the
only way which suits their habits or convenience.
If we can rightly read " the signs of the times,"
we foresee that a strong effort will be made in
the ensuing session of Parliament to render
almost useless to the poor and labouring classes
of the community the reduction of the tax, by
restoring the monopoly of the great brewers and
the despotism of the licensing magistrates. We
observe by reports from the Quarter Sessions
and by addresses made on the Circuits, that a
bill of indictment is preparing against the beer-
shops. Almost from every bench of magistrates
and from every grand jury-box a volley has been
discharged on these obnoxious establishments.
At the Cheshire Quarter Sessions the Chair-
man, as will be seen in a passage quoted by the
Times on Tuesday, in lamenting the increase
of crime, ascribed the melancholy result to the
facilities which these shops afforded, or to the
temptations which they offered, for the commis-
sion of offences. " There was," he said, "no
doubt that this (alleged) increase of crime was
the consequence of a general demoralization of
the people, and one cause at least of that demo-
ralization was the operation of the Beer Bill."
Had we travelled with the Judges on circuit;
or attended nearly every late meeting of count)
magistrates, we must have heard a similar
language. If the calendar was heavy or the
gaols were full, the obvious cause of such a
lamentable state of things was the Beer Bill.
Had there been an increase of poaching,
and had the late season been more titan
usually fatal to the preserves of the Quorum,
the evil was not ascribed to the inadequate
employment or pauper degradation of the
peasantry, but to their facility of obtaining beer.
If highway robberies had been committed, or
hay-ricks burnt, the conspiracies for plunder and
incendiarism were of course hatched in a beer
shop. Gambling and little-goes have deserted
their old station in the publican's tap room, and
have established themselves in beer-houses. In
short, there can scarcely be any new intensity of
wickedness, any increase of vice, or any new form
of demoralization among the labouring classes,
that may not be traced to the Duke of Welling-
ton and Mr. Goulburn and their Beer Bill. Now,
what are the enactments of this terrible Bill, or in
what way can it possibly operate to deserve all
this obloquy—to be the 'scape-goat for all
these enormities? It cannot properly be im-
peached for making beer cheap, for. that was the
sole motive for abolishing the duty. Besides,
such a charge would come with a bad grace
from country gentlemen, who now clamour for
the abolition of the malt duty—the effect of
which would be to render beer still cheaper.
It cannot be that beer-shops are frequented at
unseasonable hours, or by riotous company,
because, in respect of police, they are equally
under the control of the magistrate—equally ex-
posed to the visits of the constable or the
watchman—and equally subject to the denuncia-
tions of the informer, as those other places of
more expensive entertainment which are the
favourites of the licensing justices. It cannot
be that they present more temptations to in-
temperance or inebriety than the houses of
publicans, who, in addition to beer, can supply
their customers with " blue ruin" and other
cordials. It cannot be that they are more ex-
posed to bad company or multiplied associates,
because beer-shops being more numerous than
their more tempting rivals, which can offer the
attraction of gin, cannot separately be frequented
by such large societies or clubs. There seems,
therefore, nothing against the beer-shops but their
numbers—their convenient distances from their
customers—the facility of their establishment—
their tempting localities or their good cheer.
Yet the results were all contemplated as advan-
taAesrio the very formation of the act. 'But: say
tnd inagistrates,-theilr numbers are objectionable,
because we cannot*teh so many places of en-
-tertainmentl...Goatetod l has it come to this,
that our workitsg peissitle cannot be left to 'hem-
selvei of seasons of,necessary refreshment ? Is

It is now announced in one of the Ministerial
Journals, that Ministers mean to abandon the
house and window taxes. This we always con-
templated that they must and ought to do, and
we only regret that they have not, by a little
more foresight, explicitness, and fair dealing,
saved themselves from the imputation of yielding
that to clamour and violence, which was due to
justice and the impartial voice of public opinion.
The same authority (which we admit is but a
demi-official one) goes on to announce that it
is not the Chancellor of the Exchequer's inten-
tion to propose any substitute for the loss of the
heads of revenue to be thus repealed, but rather
to trust to an increased issue of Exchequer bills,
and to the chapter of accidents, to make up the
deficiency. We can scarcely suspect our present
Finance Minister of anything so wild and mon-
strous as this—viz., that, in the face of a falling
revenue, he should contemplate so large an
addition to the deficiency, without meeting it by
a proportionate reduction of expenditure, or by
some new source of income. Another rumour

,NSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 8.

Nathaniel Frederick Okey was opposed by Mr.
Cooke, for a Miss Mary Botrick, and by a Mr.
Smith. He was supported by Mr. Nicholls.
The insolvent had been a stage-coachman ; he
had driven from the Bricklayers' Arms to Charing-
cross. In April, 1832, he had become acquainted
with Miss Botrick, to whom he represented himself
as a bachelor, in the enjoyment of 1201. a year. He
commenced a courtship of the young lady, and
during the progress of it he contrived to borrow
several sums of money of her. In September, 1832,
the courtship being in a state of maturity, the day
for the expected nuptials having been 'fixed, and
the marriage dress of the bride prepared for the
happy event, she received a letter from the insol-
vent, in which he requested his " Dear Mary" to
lend him a., as he was in immediate danger of
arrest from an inexorable creditor, and was obliged
to raise 151. to meet the crisis. Miss Botrick bor-
rowed the 5/. which he required of a friend,
and having heard a rumour that he was pay-
ing his addresses to another lady, and was
about to abandon her, took the opportunity,
when she handed it over to him, to ask an
explanation of the ground from which the rumour
arose. The expected bridegroom solemnly denied
the truth of the rumour, and still professed the most
unalterable affection for his creditor. These profes-
sions, however, proved to be deceitful. The coach-
man relinquished his state of single blessedness the
very next morning ; but instead of making Miss
Botrick the partner of his change of situation,
actually united himself to a more favoured female,
and employed part of the .5/. he had borrowed to
pay the expenses of his wedding and its attendant
festivities. It appeared that he had borrowed of
the lady in the whole 121. 10s.
The opposition of Mr. Smith was merely to have
his claim upon the insolvent correctly stated in the
schedule.

is, and one which the country, no doubt, would
be happy to see realised, that Lord Althorp con-
templates a reduction of the interest of the na-
tional debt, by the conversion of the Four per
Cent. into a Three and a Half per Cent. Stock.
That by some such operation as this a considerable
relief might be afforded to the public finances,
without any breach of faith to the national cre-
ditor, we feel strongly persuaded ; but, at the
same time, our apprehension is that, like an
important operation in surgery, such a measure
would require a master hand and mind superior
to any which our College of Finance now pro-
duces. But what we most apprehend is delay—
a putting off, as usual, under one excuse or
'other, the financial statement of the year, till so
late a period that the greater part of the year is
expired before the country at large can know
what the state of its finances or its prospects for
the future are. We shall be happy if we are
mistaken in this. We shall be happy if the
King's Speech, on the opening of the Session,
gives the country some insight into the financial
plans of Ministers, and if Lord Althorp, on the
very first day of the Session, announces to the
House of Commons that on such a day in the
ensuing week his financial expose for the year
will be made. We trust, moreover, that the
repeal of the house and window taxes will not
be the only boon which the next Session of
Parliament will afford to the country, but that
the malt tax will be repealed, and its deficiency
made up by a rigid economy as well as a tax on
spirits, if not on wine, and that its repeal will be
accompanied by some decisive measure which
will put an end to those resources of crime, the
beer shops, as they are at present licensed and
conducted.—Morning Herald.
This is the season for felicitations and for
congratulations, and we cannot omit the oppor-
tunity of congratulating the Government in ge-
neral, and the Home Office in particular, on the
accession of strength which they have gained by
the return of Lord Howick to office. The loss
of this most promising scion of the House of
Grey, and of the Tribe of Fortune, was severely
felt by the Government in the House of Com-
mons ; his secession from office—his differences
of opinion with the Government (for every
slight shade of difference of opinion as to the
policy of Government in such a man is of con-
sequence)—embarrassed the Ministry of Lord
Grey, in no small degree, during that period of
last session when Lord Howick was supposed
not altogether to coincide in the policy of his
Noble Father's Administration. We have
heard that, relying on this returned ac-
cession of strength to their side, the Govern-
ment are again cheerful and happy. Let
(they say), let the Tories rejoice in the
reaction which has taken place in their
favour in public opinion—let them felicitate
themselves on the dispersion -of the mist
which obscured the public vision for so long a
time as to the Reform Bill and its benefits----let
them enjoy the difficulties in which we are
involved in our foreign relations; let them harp
upon the occupation of Algiers, and the pro-
bable dismemberment of Turkey—on the state
of the Dutch question, and the failure of Mr.
Poulett Thomson's reciprocity negotiation with
France—on the blow•up of the Factory Com-
mission, and the impossibility of procuring the
twenty millions for the West Indies. Let
them rejoice over each and all of these—we have
Howick again—there. is yet life in the game.
We recollect the speech of Mr. Stanley in the
House of Commons on the introduction of the
West India measure, last session, and we have
not forgotten the speech of Lord Howick on
the same night. We can fancy a particularly
important speech of Lord Melbourne's in the
House of Lords some night next session, and
we call pity the anxiety he will feel for the
papers of the following morning, to see what
his worthy representative has been doing, at
the same time, in the House of Commons, in
the way of helping him.—Morning Post.

Mr. COOKE commented in strong terms upon the
behaviour of the insolvent, and urged the Court to
exercise the authority with which it was armed by
the discretionary clause of the Act.
The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER said—" This

This pauper is one of the most extraordinary of
what ate called the " flarers up" in the parish. She
fights like a regular pugilist, and is so game that she
would rather pitch into a big fellow than quarrel
with her own sex. It was but a few days ago that
she was accused of having entered Bishopsgate
church during divine service, and interrupted the
officiating minister. Upon that occasion she had
contrived to exchange her allowance of provisions
for gin, and when she was pulled out of the church,
she laid about her right and left among the officers,
who with difficulty succeeded in taking her into
custody. The LORD MAYOR, however, as it was
her first " flare up" during his mayoralty, set her at
liberty upon her promise not tooffend again.
Yesterday she had evidently had her complement
of strong waters before she made her appearance in
the justice-room. After having listened to the
charge, in which she was stated to have " let her
clothes fly about her in a most undecent and un-
reglar manner," she turned round to the officer, and
said, " And have you the pluck to say as I acted so
unlike a woman ?"
" Yes, you know you did," said the officer.
" Then take that, you cruel warmint !" cried Mrs..
Stokes, and she gave the officer a straightforward
double slap on the mouth, which staggered him, and
she would have followed him up if another officer
had not interfered.
Mrs. Stokes, who offered to fight the complainant
or any other " warmint," was then committed to
Bridewell.

Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d.I
Wheat
Barley 3 0 3 9
Oats 2 6 3 3
Beans
Pease 5 0 7 0
Hay Si. 10s

A RKET.—Jan. 7.
Per lb. d. to d.
Beef 6l 7
Mutton
Veal
Pork
Lamb 0 8
to 31. 15s. 3d. per ton

-------
HULL MARKET.—Jan. 7.
Wheat, Old —s. 40s. 50s. New —s. —s. 444
Foreign —s. 50s. Ms. ...... In bond... —s. —s. —B.
Oats, Poland —s. 18s. 20s. ...... Old —8.....8.48.
- -

Small or Feed.... —s. 16s. 185.. —a. --8. —B.
Foreign —s. 16s. lßs —s. —B. —B.
Barley, Norf. & Suf.... —s. 28s. 30s. Linc. & Wold —s. 255 275.
Foreign s. -5..... e.
Beans —s 325. 348. Foreign —s. —B, ....1,
Pease, White ---s. 368. 438. Grey --5.325. 345.
'Fares
Rapeseed. in 18on81 none. Free, per last 261. 271. Os.

- _
is a case which has disclosed the most heartless and
shameless conduct in the insolvent. His behaviour
to this young woman has been most unfeeling, and
it is fit that the Court should mark their sense of it
by their adjud;cation. He shall not be entitled to
the benefit of the Act until he shall have been in pri-
son six calendar months from the date of filing his
petition."

RKETS.—Jan. 1.

DUMFRIES Mt.
s. d. s.d.l a. d. s. d.
Wheat, Imp. Bush... 5 9 to 6 9 Butter, 16oz 0 8 to 0 9
Barley
Oats ......... .......... ... 2 0 2 4 Beef, per score 8 0 9 0
Flour, 141 b.
Oatmeal 1 6 1 9 Veal 0 4 0 4
Potatoes. cwt.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HO USE.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS
AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET.

(From the London Gazelle.)
TO-MORROW, JAN. 10. AL M.
W. Scott, merchant, Finsbury Circus 2 at 11
J. F. W. Brewer, victualler,•Star-corner, Bermondsey
G. Stockman, linen-draper, Portsea 2 11
W. S. Castell, printer, Piccadilly 1 1.
DIVIDENDS. RA
J. Aguilar, merchant, Devonshire-street at 12
R. Mercer and Co., coal-owners, Swansea, Glamorganshire 11
J. Rounthwaite, tavern keeper, Bear-street, Leicester-square 12
W. Delamain, wine-merchant, Wells-street
D. Kincaid, silk-manufacturer. Spital-square l2
T. Harris and Co., bankers, Barton-upon-Humber 1

A case of affiliation came on yesterday before the
LORD MAYOR and Alderman COWAN, which tells
rather strongly against the state of society at the
east end of the town. A journeyman butcher,
named James Salter, was sworn to by a woman
named Elizabeth Norris, as the father of her illegi-
timate child.
The overseers stated that the woman gained a
settlement in the parish of St. James, Duke's-place,
as was the case with many women, by living there
in the service of Jews for a few months. The pre-
sent babe was her fourth of doubtful parentage, and
she was likely to become an increasing burden from
her habits.
The defendant—Please you, my Lord, I an't
the father of that ere child. It's only these six
months I tuck up with her, and the babe's born
some time.
The mother—Six months! nonsense. I know
him these seven years, my Lord, off and on.
The defendant—But this last time I never seed
you time enough to be the father of that ere.
Overseer—lt is true, my Lord, that this couple
have been long acquainted in this way. This is
their second child, although the butcher is a mar-
ried man, and has two legitimate children.
The LORD MAYOR—I suppose the woman knew
nothing of that ? The defendant—Aye, well she
knowed it, please you my 'Lord, and site knows
this young 'un an't nothing to do with me, for I
an't been long enough; and I've taken to my wife

again.
The LORD MAYOR (to the woman)—And so
you have been in this way before with this man ?
The mother—Oh yes, my Lord, that I have.
The LORD MAYOR—And knew that he deserted
his wife and children to live with you ? The
mother—Yes, certainly, please your Lordship.
The LORD MAYOR--And I dare say you were
glad to receive him again ? The mother—And
that I was, your Lordship ; I was very glad to
see him.
The defendant—Ay, but you see, my Lord, she
mistakes me for another body in this here affair,
howsocndever.—(Laughter.)
Overseer—The woman is irreclairnable,her frien
have got her situations in respectable families, bu
if she once gets hold of a gin bottle, away she goes,
and is to be found amongst the most dissolute.

MELANCHOLY EVENT.—Near Narbonne, a
few days ago, a boat, in which there were 16 persons, was
upset in crossing the river, and no fewer than 13 of therm
perished.—French Paper.
PROPOSED BRIDGE AT CLINTON.--We
have seen a plan of the bridge proposed to be erected across
the Avon, from the racks at Clifton, upon the novel prin-
ciple of combining tenison with compression. The in-
ventor of this plan is Mr. Motley, and the object to be
attained is the erection of an arch of 600 feet span, at a
height of about 200 feet, without the use of scaffolding or
centres, and which shall, when completed, be immoveable,
and of sufficient strength to bear the greatest weights
passing over without the liability of vibrating. To effect
this object Mr. Motley proposes in the first place, by
means of iron piles driven into the tops of the opposite
cliffs, to obtain a sufficient bold upon the rock to support
more than half the weight of the bridge, which is to be
constructed of wrought iron, by means of strong chains
stretched tight across the intervening space, to
act as points of suspen ion until the work is finished.
He then proposes to commence the lower segments
of the arch, close to the cliffs on each side; these seg-
ments being supported by transverse iron bars bolted to-
gether, the ends of which are fixed into the face of the
cliff, to the segments of the arch, and to the chain above.
Having fastenel one portion of the arch he proceeds with
theunt
In e
txhte, we
eog,
elc,ienngt alls
on tehneo
hw ee f
jrooimn aebov e
nd f
udromw new as roc;
ill,
upright arch, capable of affording a firm support. The
transverse iron bars, which are fixed in the rock and
fastened to the chain, are intended to assist in steadying
and supporting the upper part of the bridge, and those
bars fastened to the iron which forms the arch, are in-
tended to give it additional strength, by suspending part
of its weight to the chains above. The appearance of the
design is very elegant, and we understand that a consider-
able saving of expense would result from the adoption of
this plan, which seems most ingenious. Several engineers
have, we believe, expressed their approbation of Mr.
Motley's principle, and conceive it will be attended with
the advantages he contemplates.

BIRTH.
On the 27th ult., at Zicrow, in Mecklenburg, Baroness Biel
of a son.

MARRIEMrD.WiIIiam Tidy, of Cain.
On the 4th inst., at Hackney, .
bridge_heaith, surgeon, to Charlotte, Youngest daughter of the
late Mr. Thomas Meymott, of the same place.
On the Bth inst., at Marylehone •Church, William Joseph
King, Esq., of York-terrace, Regents-park, to Emma Louisa,
second daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Blake.