The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-30 00:00:00

HAMBURG MARKETS.

BORSEN HALLE, JAN. 24.-1-Im-pt-rwsr Two, P.M...-.
Scarcely any supplies of Wheat have reached us of late by
water, the consequence of which has been some improve-
ment of the market. Rye continues firm, owing to a
short supply. Barley Faleab Ie at the quotations. Oats,
if of prime qu ility, are firm. Rapeseed firm.

. .
From the 7th to the 12th six cargoes of Corn passed
through the Sound ; of these, five were bound for British
ports, and one for Norway.

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Rix-dollars.
Wheat, Anhalt, white
-- red 84 to 94
- Marks B5 to 90
- Mecklenburg
- Holstein
- Lower Elbe 64 to 75
Rye, Upland CO
hb ckl --
Meenurg
60 to 62

Holstein - 58 to 110
Barley, Anhalt 5O to 52
Mecklenburgh 36 to 39
Lower Elbe 32 to 39
Oats, Mecklenburg 3O to 33
Lower Elbe 32 to 39
Malt, Pomeranian 36 to 38
Pease, Upland, yellow
Beans 4O to 50
Tares 55 to 64
Rapeseed 145 to 152
Ditto Cakes ... €s to 67
Linseed ditto 9O to 115
The following table shows the quantity of Grain im-
ported and exported during the week :
Lasts Imported. Lasts Exported.
Wheat
Rye 7B
Barley
Oats 35
Malt 5
• Pease
Beans 2
FUNDs.—Prices have been somewhat lower to-day, and
the market heavy.
Discount 2% per Cent. End of January.
Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent. (19%
Anglo-Russian
Russian Inscription, 5 per cent, 1820 92
Ditto, ditto, 1831 91%
Ditto, ditto, 183°
Certificates 92%
Polish Bonds 125
Prussian Bonds 1832 ... 105!,(
Austrian Bank 'Shares 1219
Ditto Metalliques 953g
Ditto 4 per Cent...... Bsf,,
Spanish 3 per Cents.
Ditto 4 per Cent 42%
Dutch *2 per Cents.
Ditto 5 per Cents 92
—Hamburg Reporter.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN.2B.
Holders having manifested an indisposition to sell, the
business transacted to-day amounts to only 2,500 bags, at
the price, of yesterday.
THE WOOL TRADE.—There has been con-
siderable activity in the market for long wool, which has
caused prices to advance in a very remarkable manner. A
few days ago a large grower in Romney-marsh disposed 0
his whole growth for 231. a pack, conditionally that he
should receive any advantage that might take place up to
a certain period. The price is now 241., and should the
present demand continue, no doubt it will increase to 251.,
and even 261. In many parts of this county the farmers,
elated with the success of the grazing interest, are laying
down large tracks of arable land for permanent pasture, in
view to turn their attention, now that agriculture is de-
clining, to that important branch of industry.—Ktostbh
Chronicle.

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SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JCURNALS

The attention of the th:lirari'Wtailtf,-
leed of all honourable ininils
has been deeply engaged by the 4:isneeellifigs
.he courtmartial on Captain.':'!Watiaeli.' "of .tfie::
15th Hussars. This gallant of cep:; tit
Waterloo. and has borne an tinlifenaished'And
honourable character in the service, as reeordA
!)v numberless distinguished witnesses, for (we
speak under correction) a period of twenty years.
It becomes not us to characterize the treatment
which he had received from his present—we
had almost said his late—Colonel, and which
.erminated in the recent prosecution of Ca„ Lain
Wathen. Those acts of the Noble Lord will
doubtless have received before now their fitting
designation in the sentence of the courtmartial,
Ind we trust their appropriate recompense at his
Nlajesty's hands. There is, if we be informed
iruly, no one object considered at the Horse-
Guards so important in the actual state of the
military force, and of public feeling with regard
to it, as that the discipline of the army should
be upheld in a spirit of confidence and friend-
ship from commanding officers towards their
juniors, and by a system of unvarying steadiness?
and kindness on the part of all officers bearing
commissions towards the men. The spirit of
society will not endure the maintenance of
power by the same rude means as formerly, no
matter in what department of the State ; and he
who disdains or cannot appreciate, the superiority
of moral influence over more brutal modes of
coercion, is as unfit for the military service of
Great Britain at this moment, as lie would be
to exercise any the most refined and intellectual
calling in the community. The Duke of Wel-
lington, who, as a warrior, stands now alone,
has been as little of that troublesome and cons
temptible thing called " a Martinet" as any
man who ever led troops into fire. His orders
of the day were models of calmness, forbearance,
and humanity in their relation both to officers
and soldiers. Yet no great Commander was
ever more harassed, or had his temper more tried
by vexations, arising out of the intractable ma.
terials and ill-assorted composition of that force
to which his own fame and the interests of Eu-
rope were intrusted. But to come back to the
Isth Hussars. That regiment was some few
years ago in beautiful order, and under the
guidance of an experienced soldier, Colonel
Thackwell, the duties of officer and trooper
throughout the corps were discharged with ease,
efficiency, and cheerfulness. That state of
affairs terminated with the assumption of the
command by Lord Brudenell, who, when he
jumped into the Lieutenant-Colonel's saddle,
might have been, as we hear from public ru-
mour, in the service during some eight or nine
years ! If it be a comfort to our military friends
to learn our own surmise as to the issue of this
late courtmartial, we will tell them that we take
for granted Captain Wathen has had a most
honourable acquittal, and that Lord Brudenell
has been reprimanded. But an unpleasant ques-
tion still remains. How came Lord Brudeneil,
—an officer of no experience or pretensions
comparable. to those of au hundred other gen-
tlemen who had seen and beaver a foreign
enemy,—how came such an unripe gallant as
that to be put over the heads of so many
worthier candidates, and to be forced into a
command for which,. we may now say, he has
proved himself so utterly incompetent ? "rhrough
whose interest and at whose instigation was it
that the King's service suffered so severe a
wrong ? We trust such practices will never be
repeated,— Times.
Oar readers will perceive, that a meeting of
the Palatal ants of Matylehone will be held on
Mwatia.: next, " to petition Parliament for the
itn,n,dia,e and total repeal of the house ar.l:
wi,,dow taxe-." It is scarcely necessary for us
to reintnd the public how important it is at this
moment, on the eve of the asseiabiing of Par-
liament, and after what has lately transpired as
to the probable lineations of the Governinent
with respect to this vital vestion, that they
should speak out plainly and boldly to their
constituents. The sort of compromise an-
nounced. in a semi-official form is one that
cannot possibly give satisfaction, because the
objections to both taxes are so strung in them-
selves, a:id, withal, so deeply rooted in the
public mind, as to render any compromise in-
admissible. The breach of faith, against
which the people claim to be indemnified by
the repeal of war taxes in a season of yawl ed
peace, will be as gross in principle, though
not in amount, while a single fragment of
either house or window tax remains, as if the
whole of those obnoxious imposts were to be
continued at the full assessment. The inequality
of the house tax may be more glaringly dis-
graceful than that of the window tax, but the
principle of taxing light and ventilation has its
aggravations too, and the pressure is felt so se-
verely as to leave but little chance that the
injustice can ever be forgotten, or even patiently
submitted to while it continues in existence.
We hope, therefore, indeed we are certain, that
this and other similar meetings will continue
their remonstrances until Lord Althorp opens
his eyes as well as his ears to the universal de-
mand of the nation. That his Lordship will
see his error before long, we cannot doubt. The
wonder is that he should not have seen it before.
But the meeting to which we allude will be one
hint—a broad one, too, we suspect—and it will
soon be followed by others, which cannot be
mistaken, and which must prevail, if care be taken
to observe the strict line of constitutional re-
monstrance and effort.—Morning Herald.
The immense importance of the question of
he corn laws at the present time, is a sufficient
apology for our returning again and again to
the subject. Without further preface, then, we
return to the consideration of the article in the
Edinburgh Review, No. 118, to which we
yesterday alluded. The reviewer, on proposing
a countervailing duty of 6s. or 7s. a quarter,
poor rates
and a drawback on exportation to a similar
ohctfeoonsiderable
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have
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aeriraeetdesiinlo firs
amount,atwhn eyi ilrpe liberalityapb re as
atl hocififtuEttgi henhegt tooci baoynr
dnfla,fir laiaonwyTas
extent, only another name for wages. Besides,
the ownership of land in England is not abso-
lute. In most of the countries of the East, the
rent of land is the property of the State, and
the expense of Government is defrayed from it.
In England the church and the poor are part
owners of the soil. The misfortune is, in the
case of the Church, that the;r share, not being
determined by net profit, but by gross produce,
becomes a tax on consumers under a restric ed
trade, and thereby serves to perplex the question.
,Vere a tax on rent to be substituted for tithe,
the landowners could, strictly speaking, have no
claim to a protecting duty on tithes, any more
ban on poor rates. Estates are purchas d,
Edinburgh
scuhbjuereh. ct to
But
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we
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R• viewer, in thinkiag that it is of s°
much impottance, to have this question set-
tled, on the principle cf toltnitting corn at all
times, that the public should be more than just
to the landowners. We would tempt them with
a higher duty than they are entitled to, and with
a proportionate drawback. This country does
not produce corn equal to the wants of the
population, as is proved by the returns. In the
course of eighteen years, beginning with 1815,
we have imported 23,190,139 quarters ; in one
Year with another, above 1,300,000 quarters.
But from the fluctuations of cur corn laws,we arc
not regularly in the market, and in some tears
import little or nothing, and in other years above
three millions of quarters.—'' Now, though
(observes the Edinburghßeviewer) there can be
no doubt that, owing to differences of the crops,
there must, under any system, be considerable
variations in the yearly amount of imports, still
it is abundantly certain, that with a fixed duty,
they would he quite inconsiderable compared
with those indicated in the returns. At present,
whenever the duty happens to fall to a moderate
amount, whatever corn may be in the ware-
houses here, is immediately entered ; at the same
time that the continental ports are swept of their
supplies. But were the duty fixed, all this haste
to profit by the favourable opportunity forglutting
a market that may not probably be accessible for
the next twelve months,would be obviated. There
would be at all times a considerable importation ;
though when prices happened to be reduced by
the abundance of our own harvests, a large
portion of the imports would go into the ware-
beuses. On the whole, hoe ever, there cannot
Le the shadow of a doubt that our demand
ould be incomparably more steady titan at pre-
sent. This is a point as to which the example
of Ireland is decisive. There is not, and there
cannot be any reason for supposing, had the
imports from her been subjected to the same
duties and restrictions as those from Polend,
that they would have been less fluctuating. But,
being freely admitted at all times, they have
continued to increase since 1818 ; and a consi-
derab!e variation has taken place in their amount
from year to year. And it is clear that though
a fixed duty might have materially lessened the
average importation, it would not have: in any
degree, affected the importation of one year as
compared with another. \Vt re the corn trade
with foreign countries placed on this footing,
then owners and occupiers would reckon upon
our demand, and would endeavour to meet it,
while their prices wculd cease to be affected by
the opening and shutting of the British ports;
and, which is perhaps of still more importance,
a regular and constant demand would grow up
for the products of our factories among vast
classes, to whom they are at present hardly
known. At present every opening of the ports
is sure, if the deficiency to be supplied be con-
siderable, to occasion more or less pressure on
the Money Market, and a good deal of mercan-
tile suffering. Cooling, as we generally, do,
unexpectedly, and always capriciously, into the
foreign market, we are for the most part
obliged to purchase with bullion, or to sell goods
at a heavy reduction of price. In 1831 the in-
convenience thence arising was very serious
indeed ; and but for the great skill and
discretion evinced in the management of
the Bank, might have been . productive
of much mischief. We have imported
no corn from Prussia during the present year ;
but in a sear or two we shall probably go into
her markets with a demand for 4(10,000 or
500,000 quarters. Under ordinary circum-
stances, an increase of imports is always accom-
panied by a corresponding increase of exports;
but to bring this about the increase must neither
be sudden nor excessive ; for if so, time chances
are a thousand to one that the foreign demands
for our products will not increase at the same
time with equal readiness and to an equal extent.
Corn is the principal means possessed by the
Poles of patting for English goods; and as we
frequently shut it out, their imports from Bri-
tain are unavoidably below even the average
amount of their exports ; so that when we have
an extraordinary demand for corn, the greater
part of the excess must be paid in bullion ; and
instead of being benefitted by its occurrence, our
commercial and manufacturing interests are
deeply injured. Perseverance, in a policy of
this sort, must unavoidably end in mischief.
There are few foreign articles, except raw pro-
duce, suitable to our markets ; and if we exclude
it, or admit it only in such a way as renders our
purchases noxious to others, without being bene- •
ficial to ourselves, it is easy to see that we should
at no distant period lose our ascendancy as a
commercial people, aid with it our wealth and
prosperity. Reciprocity is the beginning, the
middle, anti the end of all commercial
transactions. If we would wish that whets
should buy largely from us, we must
buy largely from them—we must make them
feel that they are interested in our well ,
being, and that the exclusion of British products
from their markets would be a grievous injury
to them. We have, it is true, made in several
respects an approach to a more liberal system
in our intercourse with foreigners ; but we are
far short of what we ought to have done, and of
what we must do, if we mean to keep the
'vantage ground we have gained. Our relaxa-
tions too have been principally in the navigation
laws, the colonial regulations, and in the restric-
tions on the trade with France. As respects some
countries, our policy, far from being improved,
has been the reverse. Loek at our treatment of
Russia, Prussia, Sweden, and Denmark. They
all suffer, but particularly Prussia, from our
recent regulations. Though one of the most
flourishing and prosperous of European king-
doms, Prussia has only three commodities of any
consequence—corn, timber, and wool—suitable
for our markets. Formerly we admitted all
tbsse under reasonable duties; but now the first
two, which are by far the most important, are
either wholly excluded, or loaded with oppres-
sive discriminating duties. Need we wonder
that Prussia is indignant at such treatment ?
'lt may be true,' says she, that you have relaxed
your old and favourite monopoly system in favour
of others, but in as far as Prussia is concerned,
you have studied to make it more illiberal and
more oppressive. You lay a heavy discrimi-
nating duty on our timber ; and you refuse to
admit a single bushel of our corn into your
markets except when you are threatened with
scarcity and famine, and when your purchases do
us more harm than good. Even the admission
of our ships into British ports, on the same •
to ms that we admit British ships into ours—a
concession of little or no value to us, and
which you could not venture to withhold—is '
the theme of unceasing complaint in your Par- I
!lament and in your journals. Such being the
case, what confidence can we place in your pro-
fessions of liberality ? They may deceive
others, but every Prussian is aware of their
hollowness. And since you will not deal with

' us on anything like fair and equal terms, what
resource have we but to fret on without you, and
to manufacture for ourselves what, under other
circumstances, we should have brought from
England ? There is no good Prussian who is
not anxious to he independent of your blind and
selfish policy.' Our readers must not suppose
that this is an imaginary statement. 011
the contrary, it is substantially identical with
the language which the Prussian Ministry
hold on all occasions; and its truth is the
only thing about it that ought to give ii,
pain. If we will treat independent and powerful
nations in the blind and perverse way that we
have treated Prussia, we must be prepared for
the consequences. Those, however, have
hitherto been but little attended to; but we are
greatly mistaken if they do not speedily make
themselves felt. Prussia, including the dependent
German States that have adopted her tariff; is,
without any question, by far the largest European
consumer of British goods. Those who talk
lightly of her commercial hostility, might with
equal good sense ridicule the distress and ruin
of 250,000 manufacturers. We cannot afford
to lose a market in which we find an annual vent
for manufactured goods, worth from five to six
millions sterling. But, unless we change our
policy, this result will certainly take place.
Nothing but the timely modification of our
corn laws, and the giving to the Prussians,
Russians, and other corn-growing people, the
same sort of interest in our supplies that our
purchases of cotton give to the Carolinians and
Southern Americans, will be able to avert their
commercial hostilities, preserve their markets to
our manufacturers, provide for the continued
prosperity of the latter, and secure for all classes
amongst us a steady and ample supply of food,
at a reasonable rate." This, we think, is a very
fair statement of the question, as far as regards
the danger to which a perseverance in our pre-
sent policy exposes us.—Morning Chronicle.
It seems pretty well ascertained that Queen
Christina's Cabinet is formed, at least as far as
the leading men are concerned. It would also
appear that M. Burgos retains office, a circum-
stance which will be deemed extraordinary when
it is remembered that his objectionable reforms,
such as the territorial divisions, &c., were con-
verted into topics of complaint by the remon-
strating Governors of provinces. Besides having
been a subservient adherent to Napoleon, M.
Burgos was deeply implicated in the Paris loans,
declared to have been extremely ruinous to the
State, which makes it almost miraculous that he
should form part of a cabinet the other members
of which are pure Constitutionalists, and conse-
quently his old political enemies. There are, in
fact, so many strange circumstances attending the
formation of the new Spanish Ministry that we
can scarcely conceive it possible for it to be per-
manent. Supposing it to be the object of the
two Governments to repair the errors committed
during the reign of the late King, the new men
have plenty of work on their hands; but the
Queen, having once yielded to the remonstrances
and menaces of her own military commanders, it
becomes necessary to ascertain whether her last
appointments are popular before she proceeds to
ulterior measures, otherwise she may find all her
wishes thwarted once more. If the question of
succession, we repeat, be not settled according
to the legal forms in Spain as well as in Portu-
gal, there can be no settled and durable peace
in either country ; and in turbulent times, even
with the aid of the Whig Ministry of England
and the support of Louis Philip, y it would not
be possible to introduce that gradual system of
improvement of which both divisions of the Penin-
sula stand so much in need, but which must be the
gradual and unforced work of the nations them-
selves. If Queen Christina and her new Ministers
have the welfare of Spain at heart, and respect the
fundamental laws of the Monarchy, they will,
as a primary measure, institute an inquiry into
all that was done at St. Ildefonso in September,
1832, and into those proceedings also which
brought to light the musty, if not fabricated,
papers called the " Acts of the Cortes of 1789,"
which were first published, forty years afier the
transactions which they pretend to record, by an
order of the Queen Regent, dated January 1,
1833. In a word, if Martinez de la Rosa and
his associates do not assemble the Cortes, ac-
cording to the ancient and acknowledged forms
(as was done in Portugal in July, 1828),
in order to fill the throne in a legal manner,
they will beco-ne responsible for the torrents of
blood which are sure to flow, and will certainly
defeat the hopes of every wellwisher to the
peace, prosperity, and independence of their
country.—Morning Post.

ROLLS' COURT, JAN. 29.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. GOLDSMITHS' COMPANY.

This information was filed for the purpose of
establishing the charitable trusts contained in the
will of Sir John Wollaston. By that will, dated
the 16th of June, 1658, the testator gave the rents
and profits of two houses to the Warden and Com-
monalty of the mystery of Goldsmiths for ever, upon
trust, to pay thereout 201. a-year to two poor alms-
men of the Goldsmiths' Company, 10/. a-year to
the Governors of Bethlem Hospital,and 51. 4s. a
year for the benefit of the poor of the parish of St.
John Zachary, and 104. yearly to the churchwardens
and overseers of the parish for their trouble, and he
limited and appointed the residue to the said com-
pany to buy gowns for the said two poor almsmen
at the time when the other almsmen should get
their gowns. The exact value of the devised pro-
perty at the date of the will, did not appear, but
five years afterwards it was let on lease at an annual
rent of 42/. After undergoing considerable fluctua-
tions in value, the houses were sold under the
authority of the Act for erecting the new Post-
office, and a sum of 2,7871. was paid to the Gold-
smiths' Company as the purchase-money. Of this
sum the Company laid claim to 265/., as having been
expended by them in the redemption of the land-
tax with which the property was charged.
Mr. Bickersteth and Mr. Pemberton were for the
relators ; Mr. Spence and Mr. Norton for the dif-
ferent chari•ies.

Mr, TINNEY and Mr. LOVATT, for the Company,
submitted, that upon the fair construction of the
testwor's will, the Goldsmiths' Company were en-
titled to the devised estate, subject only to the spe-
cified charitable payments, which, acting upon the
recommendation of the Commissioners, the Com-
pany had regularly made.
The MASTER of the Rous—The intention of the
testator is only to be collected from the language of
the instrument. I know no other rule of construc-
tion, and I am of opinion that no intention is to he
collected from this instrument that the Goldsmiths'
Company should take a beneficial interest in this
property. The manner in which the question has
been argued is extraordinary. There is no evidence
here as to what the residue amounted to after the
application of the specified sums, although the
counsel for the Goldsmiths' Company think
tit to conjecture that the residue was more
than could be applicable to the purposes spe-
cified; they desired the Court to believe that the
testator was totally ignorant of the value of the pro-
perty of which he was then disposing. It was the
first time that such an argument was ever addressed
to the Court. The only remaining question is,

what is now to be done with the property ? My
,pi:Jit7ll li ie is, that the amount given to the se-
veral objects specified should be increased in pro-
portion to the actual amount of the present revenue,
that revenue being calculated, not at five per cent.,
hut at four per cent, upon the fund, after deducting
the sum applied by the Company in redeeming the
land tax charged with the trust property. The only
difficulty is with respect to the residue. I must
suppose that the residue at the time the testator
made his will was sufficient for the purpose of the
reside try gift, anti the adjustment of the propor-
tions belonging to the ttfferent objects of charity
must be made upon that assumption.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 29.

THE KING V. MILLINGEN AND OTHERS.

This was a prosecution at the instance of Mr.
Zrdoc Aaron Jesse), a diamond merchant, residing
in Finsbury-square, charging the defendant, together
with Mr. Louis Norton and others, with a conspi-
racy, to cause the prosecutor to be indicted for per-
jury, and to defeat him in an action which he had
brought against Millingen, in the Court of Common
Pleas, to recover the amount of certain bills of ex-
change. The trial took place before the Lord
Chief Justice, at the last sittings in London, when
the defendants, Millingen, the elder, and Norton
were found guilty, and the other defendants were
acquitted by consent, there being no evidence against
them:
Mr. F. POLLOCK now moved for a rule to show
cause why there should not be a nets, trial.
The COURT granted a rule.