The Sun.
London, England, 1833-12-11 00:00:00

LONDON MARKETS.
(From the London New Price Current" of yesterday.)
SUGAR.-The Sugar Market last week continued in a
very languid state ; the total sales for the week were about
2,500 hhds. and tr.. The Sugar Market continues in a
languid state, but no alteration can be stated in prices.
The estimated sales this day, including the Barbadoes sale
(which went off with briskness at high prices, 565. to 605.),
are 700 hhds. and trs. The stock of West India Sugar is
now 41,019 hhds. and tra:, being 9,245 more tban last
year; the stock of Mauritius 78,783 bags, being 22,308
more than last year. The delivery of West India is 3,163
hhds. and tra , being 544 more than last year; the deli-
very of Mauritius is 2,244 bags, being 3;467 less than the
corresponding week of 1832. The Refined Market con-
tinued in a depressed state last week ; few buyers appeared
either for export or home consumption. Fine Crashed
was offered at 31s. 6d.; the offers were 6d. to Is. under
that rate, but were not accepted. Fine goods for home
consumption continue in plentiful supply, and are offered
at rather lower rates without facilitating sales to any ex-
tent. Low goods continue very scarce, scarcely any.
Lumps appear on sale; parcels of refined from Foreign
Sugar are reported sold at 295. 6t1., equal to good Lumps
four houses are now manufacturing from Foreign Sugar.
There is no alteration in the Refined Market this after-
noon. It is reported that fine Crashed is offered lower,
and one parcel is sold at 30s. ; Lumps nominally 645.
Matrarrius SUGAR.--A further reduction of ls. per
cwt. took place, the brown descriptions sold 425. a 459.,
and all the inferior were nearly unsaleable, the fine above
501. supported prices.
EAST INDIA SUGAR.-No sales of any extent were re-
ported 1 ist week.
Fonatiata SUGAR.-The holders of Foreign Sugar are
rather firm in their demands, and in consequence no pur-
chases were reported last week. Average price of Sugar
11. 9.. 244. per cwt.
WEST INDIA MOLASSES. -There were sales to the
extent of 300 puns. West India Molasses last week,
chiefly of good quality, at 275.
COFFEE.-There is little alteration to notice in Fo-
reign or East India Coffee ; of the latter no sales are
reported ; of Foreign the purchases are confined to good
ord. Brazil 605., and low St. Domingo 56a. 6d. In
British Plantation descriptions there have been few actual
sales ; the clean Jamaica not only fully supported late
prices, but in several instances have sold rather higher;
good ordinary realised 84s. and 855., the fine ordinary
925. and 92a. 6d. The parcels of Demerara and Berbice
offered have been mostly unclean descriptions, and have
sold at a further reduction of It. 6d. to 2s. ; middling
84.4. to 86s. ; good middling Berbice 90s. and 91s. There
was no public sale this day, and no purchase by private
contract was reported up to a late hour.
Rust, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS. --The late sales of
Rum are proof Leewards at IP. 1 td., but no parcels now
offer at that rate ; proofs and three over have sold at 2s. ;
Jamaica, ord. quality 30 over sold at 2s. Bd., and good
quality of the same strength 29. 9d. a 2.. 10d., large
parcels of a favourite mark have been also reported, but
the price of the latter has not transpired; generally there
are more inquiries for Ruin, but the merchants' orders
are limited as to prices ; they do not appear to execute
them freely. In Brandy or Geneva there is no alteration.
This afternoon the price of the large parcel of fine Ja-
maicas, favourite mark, sold last week, is reported about
3.. 2d. There is more doing in Brandies ; the sales are
Brandies of first marks of 1833, in puns. 3s. 4d., in Mids.
34. 6.1. ; of 1832, in puns. 3.. Bd., in hlids. 3s. 9d.
TaLLow.--The Tallow Market continues to attract
much attention, on account of the extensive contracts to
deliver Tallow at a stated period, particularly for this year,
and the detention of the expected arrivals by the severe
gales from the westward ; the accounts from St. Peters-
purgh are to the 20th ult., at which date abut two hundred
vessels of all nations remained in that port, and from the
westerly gales experienced in England, it is not probable
they can arrive here before the Ist of January, and may
very prob ably have to winter in the Baltic. The accounts
from Odessa are to the 11th ult., about thirty sail of all
nations were in that port; the English vessels chartered to
bring Tallow were in several cases loading Wool and other
articles, the supply of Tallow being greatly under the an-
ticipated quantity. Under these circannstances the Tallow
Market is gradually advancing and firm at the improve-
ment ; the great speculators for the tall are in a state of
great excitement, watching every turn of the wind, in the
anticipation of a change, and of the expected large at rivals.
At a late hour this evening the price was 465. 61. ; the
advance appears still gradual, owing to the increasing
demand for home consumption, occasioned by the de-
ficiency in the home supply throughout the kingdom, and
also from the detention of so many ships at St. Peters-
burgh, to which we have alluded, and which may occasion
inconvenience to those who have sold thousands beyond
what they ever possessed, and may he attended with a rapid
rise. The stork on the Ist of January, it is expected, will
be undo 20,000 casks ; tinder these circumstances there
are few sellers of Tallow this afternoon.
IRISH PROVISIONS-In the last week the arrivals of
b ith Foreign and Irish Butter, as well as at Bacon, were
moderate-s y 2.979 casks of foreign Butter, 6,182 firks.
of Irish, and 703 bal.!! of Bacon, in addition to which,
however, we have to note a further arrival yesterday of
1,887 firka. of Iri•N butter, and 812 bales of Bacon. Tne
Market is in an unprecedented dull and gloomy state, with
no prospect of improvement, at least at present, in either
price or demand ; on the contrary, sellers in general have
shown a disposition the last two or three (lays to accept of
less money, particularly for most descriptions of Butter.
The following we give as this d ty's quotations for Butter,
some of which must be considered nominal, the business
&dog is altogether so very limited. Friesland Butter at
the quay 904. per cwt. ; Carlow (as to repute of shippers)
765. a 834. on board, 795. a 85s. landed ; Belfast '79s. on
board, 80s. landed ; Waterford 70s. a 745. on board, 70a.
a 754. landed ; Cork (as to the selection of low qualities)
725. a 735. on board, 735. a '74s. landed ; Limerick 704%
on board, 725. a 73'. lauded ; Sligo 68s. a 695. on board,
70s. landed; Dublin 659. on board, 665. a 67a. landed ;
Westmeath 675. on board, 68s a 69'. landed ; Newry
665. a 675. on board, and Banbridge 604. on hoard for
parcels now shipped. Prime small singed Bacon we quote
355. a 365., and heavy 30s. per cwt. landed ; scarcely soy
sales making on board ; Bale Middles 325. on board, 325.
a 335. landed; Belfast Tierce Middles 325. a 355., and
Limerick 365. a 375. landed ; Belfast Hems 48s. a 525.,
Limerick of small size 68s. a 70s. larded ; Belfast Bladder
Lard 465. on board, 48s. a 49... landed ; and Waterford
and Limerick as to qu lily and pack ages 50s. on board,
525. a 534. lusted. There is as yet taut a very limited
business doing in cask provisions for shipment ; parcels of
Belfast Bacon Pork ate offering at 451. a 465. per barrel
on board.
FRUIT.-The late sales are of some extent ; F:gs 585.
and 60s. of good quality, and a superior m ark 655.,
small drums of the 'attar 68s. ; of Valencia Raisins the
sale, at 425. were extensive: new Zante Currants not of
a good quality 70s. a '7se. ; minter's new Patras 81s. a
82s. ; ord. Red Smyrna Rai,ins 395. and 40s.
Spices.-There is no alteration in Spices ; few sales
are reported, but the Market has a firm appearance.
RICE -Bice continues heavy at the late reduction in

GLASGOW MARKETS.
Sucatt.--The sales made in Raw Sugars this week
amount to 350 hhds. and trs. Brown Demeraras and
Trinidads 51s. a 535. 6d., middling 545. 6d., good 575.
Middling Jamaica 555., good middling 57a, good 585.,
and fine 61s. Brown St. Lucias 525. ; good Antigua,
58s. 6d. ; good white Barbadoes 61s. 6d. ; 100 puns.
Demerara Molasses were sold at 269. 6d. in the warehouse.
Refined Sugars are-shady brown • loaves 724. up to 80s.
for fine, very fine 82s.
a 859. Candy 10d. a 10id.
Crushed Sugars are still in limited supply, and selling very
`reely ;
brown yellows 555. a 595. middling and good
middling 60s. a 685., good and fine 645. a 675. Treacle
doll at 225. a 225. 3d.
No Sales made in Coffee, Ginger, or Pimento.
Nothing done in East India Rice.
Rt:st.-Rum is is very dull ; Jamaica 16 0. P. 29. 7d.
A 29. Bd., and Leetvards Is. I Id. for Proofs.
No sales made in Dyewoods.
Asmts.-In Ashes there is little doing ; price.; now
,locanded for Pots 245. 6d. a 251., and Pearls 259. 6d. a

Ta.t.r.ow.—Y. C. Tallow is selling in small parcels at 47e.
Ous. Fish Oils in limited supply ; Whale is selling at
191., and Pale Seal at 19/. 10s. per tun obi measure.

HAY M A RKETS.—t At p
RLeANDr Load of 36 Trusses.)
CU M
Supply moderate, trade dull, and prices as last quote £d.
3 10
Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 5 to
gew Meadow Hay 315 4 8
Useful Old Ditto 315 4 0
45 4 8
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay
40 5 5
Clover Hay
Oat Straw £1 6toXl S
1 Wheat 6traw ... 1 8 1 10
SMITHFIELD.
Supply moderately good, trade dull, and prices stationary.
5
Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .t3 0 to £3
5
New Meadow Hay 3 10
Useful Old Ditto 3 5 4
5
3 15
Fine Upland Meadow and rtye-grass Hay......... 4 0
Clover Hay (extra fine)...£s 0 ..Genetally .... 315 410
Ist Straw ... £1 4to LI 6 I Wheat straw.... 1 8
HUNGERFORD.
A good supply, and a dull trade ; prices barely stational*: 10
Coarse Meadow Hay
New Meadow Hay
Useful Old Ditto £3 0 to £3 5
5 4 0
3 10 4 0
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay 4 0 4 5
Clover Hay 315 5 0
Oat Straw ... X 1 sto 1:1 8I Wheat Straw 1 8 110

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.
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Wheat. Barley. I Oats..— Beans.
Per Quarter. a. to a. a, to a. a. to S. a. to S.
Boston 42 50 26 32 16 22 32 40
Gainsborough 57 34 18 40
Grantham 48 50 20 34 20 26 35 40
46 52 26 32 15 22 36 40
Horncastle 44 54 26 32 14 20 30 34
Lincoln 46 51 28 33 17 22 36 40
Spilsby 44 48 26 30 16 18 34 40
Stamford---,..... 4O 52 30 32 16 el 38 40
44 60 34 16 23 32 42

NORWICH, Dec. 7.
Wheat (per qr.) „. 40s 525. 60s. Beans (per qr.) .......... 31s 345.
Barley . 20s. 265. 355. Pease, Grey................ 365. 475.
Oats ........,................ 20s. 245. 265. Flour, fine (per sack) 41s. 435.

CAN'PBO BURY ; Dec. 7.
Wheat, 575. to 635• Old.--- —s. to —s.
48s. to tin U 5...... Old-- —s. to —s
Barley, Malting 263 to 325. Grinding.. Ws. to 275.
Oats
Beans 3ls to 35s Old--- —B. to —B.
Pease 30a. to 363...... Grey 30s. to 345.

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. MANCHESTER, Dec. 7.
Wheat, per 701 b. Bs. Od. to Ss. 2d. Red ls. 94. to Ss. 3d.
Barley, per 601 b 5 0 5 6 Oats-- 3 2 32 0
Beans, per Imperial quarto, 36 0 39
Pease, White, pa Imperial bushel 5 0 5 3
Malt, per 6 imperial bushels 3B 0 42 0
Flour, per Sack of 2801 b 4O 0 46 0
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NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET—Dec. old. New.
Whcat, Northumberland 40s. 5`_'5....... 48s. 510
—, - Norfolk and Suffolk 545. 52,
--- Berwick and Scotch
44g —s 44g 48s —8 —s.
_--- Foreign
Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 37s, 393....... —s. —s.
Foreign 'll2k 345. —s. —s.
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffblk 30s. 348 ...... —s. —s.
---- Grinding and Feeding 265. 295.
‘lalt, Norfolk and Suffolk .545. 56s —s. —a.
Small 96s 38s .-.8. 40s.
Beans,
---- Tick 34s. 36s -s 335
Pease, White —S. —S ....5. ......
-- Gray ...S —S ....5. —S.
Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ...... ...18s 20s
_____--------- Feed l6s 17s lBs. 19s.
Foreign —s. 9 .--.S. —5 .
Flour. Fine (per sack) —s. —II 'lss. 395.

RKETS.
T 1 E.—FRIDAY, Dec. 6.
From To Average.
_,734 Wheat,per barrel 20 stone 19 0 29 0 24 0 0
I‘)9 Bet 16 stone 10 0 11 9 11
525 16 stone 11 6 12 6 12 3
12 stone 9 3 13 0 10 2
1,571 Oats
12,696 Cwt. 9 stone 5 0 20 0 0
1,202 Oatmeal 8 stone 9 0 14 0 11 6
Sold to Rakers only.
10,169 Cwt. Flout l3 6 19 0
Average price ef Wheat and Flour 383. 4d. per!
Seconds from 13s. 6d
Firsts, from 17s. Od
Receipts of Flour, lo
fhirds, from ss. Od,
Sales of Do. 12, 1696

IRISH MA
DUBLIN MARKET NC

15 6
sack._ _

1O 49a. Od.
1. to 163. Od.
I. to lOs Od.

PRICE OF BREAD•
--7 yd. I Half Quartern

Quartern Loaf.

CORK MARKFTS.—Dec. 7.
Wheat (per 20st.)
Barley (per l6st.)
Oats (per 14st.)
Flour (per cwt.) 5 0 18 0
Oatmeal (per cwt.) 0 0 10 6
Beef, sd. to Ott. ; Mutton, sd. to tid. ; Veal, 6d. to Sd. ;
Pork, 2d. to -'td. ; Fresh Butter, 10d. to 12d. per lb.
PRICE OF BUTTER.
To the Merchants. To the Country.
First Quality 74s
Second ...................... 69
59 49
Third .... ...
Fourth 4,3 329
9
Fifth
Sixth
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CLONMELL MARKETS.—Dec. 6.
Per Cwt.
s. d. s. .1. s. d. s. d.
New Butter 74 0t076 0 Hides aw)....... 32 0t034 0
Oatmeal 10 6 0 Bacon Pig 5......... 22 0 625
Rendered Lard 0 39 0 Heads 18 0 0
Per Bag.
Flour, Second .. . 0 31 011. lour, Thirds 214 4 (
--Household— 0 29 0; Fourths
Per Barrel.
Rapeseed ........... 20 0 Orarley 3
....1 1
8ere........ .......... 10 0 11 0 Coals
Per tone.
Wheat 1 2 1 NTallow (rough)... 5
Oats 0 8 0 0 Potatoes ....... ..... 0 t.
Per Pound.
Fresh Butter 1 0 12l Mutton
04 0 5
Beef 0 3 0 41Veal 0 4 0 6

c

- 0

6 13 0
6 3 8

6 6 0
34 0 4

KILKENNY.—Butter 755. to 873. per cwt. ; Wheat '22s. to 25,
per barrel ; Flour 12s to 3es. per bag, Oatslo to Is. per bar
rel ; Barley Ils. to 12s. ; Beef :3d. to 31d. per lb. ; Mutton 44d.
to sd. ; Potatoes 4d. per stone; Coals is. Id, per cwt.; Bacon
Pits 265. to 9.75. Od. per cwt.

SCOTCH MARKETS
HADDINGTON CORN MARKET.—Dec. 6.
Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. I Pease. Beans.
First 565 Od 31s Od 20s OA 285 Od 31s Od
Second 503 Od 27; Od ISs 6(1 2tis Od 29s Od
Third
There were 518 qrs. of Wheat in market,4l9 whereof were sold.
101 Unsold —0 Grey.
.21. 10, 10d. 4-12ths.

A verage.

;he priors.
SAI.TVETR E. —There is no alteration in Saltpetre.
AMES. ••••itl Ashes very little doing, and prices rather

- .
DA LKIETH CORN 1%1 A ltKET.—Dec. 5.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Iva.. Beans.
First 576 Od 29s lid I 216 Od I 31s Od 31. Od
Third 433 Od 20s Od , 16s Od , od ..--: Od
Second s4s Od 2os Od is, Od 2.8, od 284 Od

lower.
INDIGO —The accounts from Bengal yesterday were to
the 26th July; the Indigo crop was estimated to exceed
90,000 m iunds, and high prices in India; of course it
produces no new feature in this Market; the late pur-
chases are quite inconsiderable. There is no ultimate of
the quantity to be brought forward next month, the
common tepotl is about 4,000 chests.
CorroN.—Notwithstanding the favourable accounts
from Liverpool ti 'e Cotton Market continues :uspendeil ;
there are no sales to report.
Tobacco.—The sale. of Tobacco; last month are esti-
mated at 1,700 hhds., principally to the trade. Virginia,
common, from 311. a Std. ; fine, 6kd. a ; stript
Leaf, 41d. a 61d. ; Kentucky Leaf, -SP. a good,
&it a bd. ; Kentucky Stript, bid. a ; Havanna!)
Cigars, common for export, 3a. 6d. a 6s. ; fine, 71. 6d. a
13,. For the last week few sales are reported, but the
prices are well suppirted.
Otis.—Oils remain stationary in prices, except Linseed
Oil, which is a shade lower ; the business doing is but
small, as is generally the case at this season.
stated
gous finished to-day at the prices we
in our last. The Campois were nearly aIL refused. Sou-
TEA.—Con
chonga, about 1,138 chests refused, those sold went at
2s. 51d. a 35. 114 d. Twankays have begun at last sale's
prices, 2s. Oid. a 21. 1 Trig qualities gun
t tkre

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS
AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET.

J. Morgan an (From the London Gazette.)
TO-MORROW, Dnc...,12.
DIVIDENDS.
........at 12.
H.
J. I. Winstanley, Co.,hosiers, Holuorn-hill ..............................
11
1Y
C. L. Spitta and Co., merchants, Lawrence Yountney-lane...
G 10
uc d
U. Duckworth, kworth, printer, Fleet-street .... ................• ....
.. 1
J. F. Taylor, wine merchant, Great St. Helen's ................

-—-- - - -
The young woman, Mrs. Macgregor, who in
consequence of terror, arising from the tempestuous state
of the weather, was prematurely delivered of her first child
on board the Ardincuple steamer, on its voyage from
Edinburgh to Newcastle, is, we are happy to say, doing
well. The child,
also, is thriving. Dr. Horn, of this
town, fortunately having been on board at the time, the
life of both mother and child may be attributed to the
skill and
robing an occasion as a delivery on board a ship during a
presence of mind displayed by him on so embar-
storm at sea. The captain of the vessel, on her situation
being made known, most humanely brought the vessel to
anchor in smooth water, close under Dunstanborough
Castle, and lay there the whole night.—Newcastle Paper

ee
40e
QlO2 riictions a • eigarZ iibe )41
their characters justice. But it is n
case: for months, nay years, a re g ark?.i's**nistof,Wic4/14,
detraction and insult has been pursued • -
press against all the friends of reform, and JUT
all connected with them ; calumny after calumny
has been invented and circulated against all•-the
- • • = ,
able and influential leaders in that cause, with a ma-
lignity most revolting, and a profusion which sets
all former experience at defiance, and haffies,iall
attempts to discover and refute every such aspersion
gIR ICE 71 upon the characters of the injured individuals. Now
why should any individuals be everlastingly exp6sed
to such a system of annoyance? Why are their
kNDERL feelings to be outraged by such repeated calumnies,
or their attention occupied in watching and refuting
the, them ? What right has any man, or any set of
be men, to impose such a burden upon them ? No
one, surely, can maintain that; and even in this
point of view, we think, the parties seeking redress
from such an annoyance are justified in the expec-
tation that they will not be considered as stepping
beyond the bounds of propriety. But when, in ad-
dition to this, it is known that this regular sysr,em
of annoyance was begun, and is kept up, by
instigation, and for base private and party pur-
poses, that a channel of publication is eagerly and
readily afforded for the outpourings of all ma•
lignant and envious persons, and that the suffer-
!rigs of the tortured breasts are treated as proper sub-
jects of a joke, it does really seem to be a remedy
quite beside the mark, and little short of mockery,
to recommend patience to the sufferers, and to de-
precate their attempts to do themselves justice.
Could, indeed, the instigators be got ar, that would
greatly alter the matter, and none would more si, se
cerely re-joice than ourselves at seeing the current of
injured feeling turned against them; but since they
cannot be reached, all these fine feelings and argu-
ments are surely thrown away in attempting to
screen their instruments from that punishment which
they have so unceasingly endeavoured to earn. But
patient endurance has been practised, and has been
found to bring no relief from the annoyance. Why
is it, therefore, to be longer cont:nued ? But, can
it be longer continued ? The occurrences which have
l4tely taken place, and are taking place in this
neighbourhood, show that outraged feelings are not
to be restrained, but in one way or other will have
vent. Surely, then, it is better both for the cause
of free discussion and the peace and good order of
society, that the sufferers from such calumnies
should be allowed to take,--and not discourage, by
tine-drawn \arguments, from taking those melsures
for redress which the laws of their country afford
them. Resides, whilst such severity is exercised
against the Reform Press, it is fut•le to suppose
that the heavy and repeated transgressions com-
plained of can be patiently submitted to.

(From the Liverpool Albion.)
The players, amusing rogues, tell the critics, that,
rather than not he noticed, they would prefer to be
censured ; because, say they, to be deemed worthy
of critical condemnation is a proof that, though
wretched actors, we are not beneath the notice of
the critics. We never could understand the philo-
sophy of this strange opinion, nor enter into the
feelings of men who are alike eager for praise or
censure. Be this as it may, if Lord Durham is of
the players' opinion, he must be the happiest man
alive. The speeches with which he lately delighted
the Whigs of the north, and even cheered the hearts
of the Reformers throughout the kingdom, were
lauded by his friends and censured by his enemies;
a most convincing proof that all parties deem the
Noble Lord worthy of their notice. Then, passing
from his Lordship's sayings to'his doings, the latter
have placed him in a more enviable situation, ac-
cording to the players' rule, than even the former.
His sayings procured for him both praise and cen-
sure; his doings have called down on his head the
censure, not merely of the Tory, but of the Radical,
and, in some instances, of the Whig press also;
another most convincing proof that his Lordship is
a man of mark and livelihood, and that his every
word and action are narrowly watched by the vigi-
lant guardians of the press.
" A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind."
If the printer in question had stolen Lord Durham's
purse, not a hand would have been held up in his
favour; but because he attempted to rob his Lord-
ship of his character only, universal sympathy is
expressed for the slanderer. The writers for the
press forget the lines of the immortal bard—
" Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something,
nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name,
Reiss me of that which not enriches him,
And makes me poor indeed."
The immediate cause of this almost simultane-
ous attack on Lord Durham is the circumstance of
his having commenced legal proceedings against a
punter for the publication of a libel on his character.
A journalist in the Noah, where his personal
friends and enemies chiefly reside, publishes a bare-
faced lie respecting the Noble Lord. His Lordship,
whom the Tory Journals have long made the butt
of their attacks, irritated by the audacity of the lie,
orders his solicitor to take legal proceedings against
the printer, who, in the hope of averting the
threatening prosecution, confesses the lie, and craves
forgiveness. The Whig papers hope, and the Tory
papers expect, that this abject confession of guilt
will induce his Lordship to stay proceedings. But
he, having sustained the wrong, is bent on the
remedy; and resolutely proceeds with his action
against the printer. Thereupon the press is up in
arms against his Lordship. The Tory journals de-
nounce him as the enemy of its freedom, while the
Liberal papers, " more in sorrow than in anger,"
question the policy of a crusade against the press.
Lord Durham must by this time have discovered
that he has thrust his hand into a hornet's nest; and
that, how much soever they may differ on political
subjects, the press, like the thieves, are wonderfully
unanimous in deprecating an appeal to the law
against an erring member.
For ourselves, we are, professionally as well as
individually, opposed tnsprosecutions for libel. Such
prosecutions ought never, in our opinion, to be in-
stituted, except on occasions when a man's chae
teeter has been calumniously and malignantly as•
sailed. That Lord Durham's character has been so
assailed there cannot be a doubt; neither can there
be a doubt, that it is his Lordship's duty to vin-
dicate his fair fame from the calumnious and malig-
nant attacks of his personal and political enemies.
Whether that vindication should be made by a de-
claration published in the Journals, consigning the
libeller to the punishment of his own guilty con-
science and to the moral indignation of the com-
munity, or by an appeal to the law, handing over
the culprit, on conviction, to its tender mercies,
must be left to his Lordship's own judgment. He
has chosen the latter course, and, all things con
sidered, perhaps the most judicious one, if not for
the vindication of his character, at least for the
punishment of his slanderer. The attacks on his
Lordship have, of late, been incessant, and it is too
much to expect a generous and high-spirited man,
conscious of the rectitude of his conduct and the
honesty of his principles, to sit quiet under the
systematic and malignant attacks of his personal
and political enemies.
The Tory journals, and many of the Liberal ones
also, not content with condemning the prosecution,
also condemn the mariner in which Lord Durham
has been advised to proceed. By preferring to
proceed by a criminal information, instead of by the
ordinary process, they complain that the defendant
is precluded from proving the truth of his state-
ment. This objection would have some force, if
the statement now under prosecution were true.
The defendant cannot, however, sustain any injury,
if the form of the action even shut him out from
proving the truth of his publication, which it does
not. He has, as we have before stated, confessed
the lie, and he will not, to please the Tories, be
guilty of a second in attempting to justify the first.
(From the Newcastle Chronicle.)
By various extracts which will be found in other
parts of this paper, it will be seen that the calum-
nious conduct lately pursued by the Tory Press is
exciting no little public discussion; it has, indeed,
aroused a feeling which renders it almost certain,
that in spite of all the sophisms and would-be liberal
professions of that press, a further continuance in
that career will not be permitted without a strenu-
ous effort to supply a corrective. To all unpreju-
diced persons, who have for any time paid attention
to its conduct, it has long been evident that a crisis,
such as seems now to have arrived, could not be
very long delayed—that either that portion of the
public which respects decency, order, and fair deal-
ng, would be obliged to emphatically mark with
their discountenance the system of insult and detrac-
tion which that press has pursued, or that the tra-
duced individuals would be obliged to resort for
protection to such means as the laws of their
country afforded them. The public having failed to
afford such protection, or at any rate their move-
ment being too slow and too undecided to satisfy
the impatience and excitement of the sufferers, it
has unfortunately been to legal measures that re-
course has been had to stay the virulence and punish
the calumny of these systems is and impuden,
traducers. That they are fully justifiable to resort-
ing to such measures, the public generally, we
believe, freely admit, and not a small nor uninfluen-
tial portion of the public press fully coincides in
such opinion, though one portion of it, whilst
fully admitting the grossness of the outrage, and that
the attempted correction is justifiable, yet seems to
doubt its expediency, and thinks that the dignity of
the injured parties would have been better consulted
by treating such calumnies with contempt, and by
relying on the purity of their character for justice
being done to them by the public. With all due
deference to this portion of the press, we inu-t say
that we think they argue the question much too
curiously, with too large a portion of the esprit du
corps, and with too muco of that restricted fseling
which confines eve!), thought to London, and which
supposes that no other motives are at work than those
they are familiar with. Were it only an insulated
case that was complained of, they would no would
be right, and few of the liberal party,we believe,
ever think of recourse to other means than the contra-

INTERVIEW of a DEPUTATION of the
NEWSVENDERS with the LORD CHANCELLOR.

In pursuance of resolutions passed at a general meeting
of the newsvenders relative to actions brought against
numerous individuals in the trade fir the vending of
newspapers containing alieged libellous mater, a deputa-
tion from that body, consisting of Mr Wouler, who hail
presided at the meeting, Mr. D. Hilton, the Secretaiy,
Mr. L. Wild, and Mr. Gardner, waited upon the Lord
Chancellor with the subjoined petition. His Linrdstiip
received the deputation with his usual urbanity and
affability, and made some minute inquiries respecting the
proceedings now pending against the newsvenders. His
Lordship stated, that he had some time since tirouzht a
Bill into the House of Commons to amend the law of libel,
which was read a first time, if not a second time ; hut
that, through uncontrollable circumstances, it had been
abandoned; and that from the letter of Sir F. Vincent to
Mr. Hilton, which had been purilished, it seemed that Sir
Francis was ignorant of that circumstance, but the Bill
itself could be obtained from the Vote-office. At the
same time, however, his Lordship said that he had never
contemplated :my clause for the protection of newsmen, as
he had never anticip ded that any construction could be
put upon the law to affect those who merely .rewietl sews•
papers. His Lordship then inquited what was the im-
mediate obj ct of the deputation. Was it that he should
call the attention of Parliament to the law of libel, or thil

of 'he Government? Mr. Wooler replied, that it was
both ; but the deputation on the present occasion attended
to present a petition to his Lordship, which he presenter
accordingly; and further observed, that there were many
other actions against newsvenders, one of which, against
Mr. Onwhyn, he was ins•ructed to defend. As soon 89
Dicas heard that he was ►o instructed, he applied to
him to know whether it was intended to try the cattle, to
which l►e (Mr. 'Winder) replied, " Certainly ;" and on the
same day the record was withdrawn. His Lordship
having perused the petition, said that the gentlemen pre-
sent might rely that the subject should have his most serious
attention, and that he should feel happy in having the op-
portunity of presenting any petition to the House of Lotds
that it might be thought proper to forward to him, pro-
vided it was respectfully worled (and he was sure it would
be so), and to support in any other manner the object of
he petition (of which the following is a copy). The de-
putation then withdrew.
" To the Lord High Chancellor of Great Brit tin, &c. &c.
" The bumble petition of the Newspaper Dealers re-
sident in London and its vicinity.
" Slieweth,—That your petitio ems labour under a most
grievous and oppressive liability, both in person and pro-
perty, under the present law of libel, whereby they are
subjected to actions for damages and costs in the event of
their sel•ing any newspaper—the contents of which they
can rarely have any previous knowledge of any mo:e than
they can have the slightest control or influence over the
proprie ors or conductors of the same—containing tr• ter
that may be deemed libellous, notwithstanding the legisla-
ture has otherwise sufficiently provided for the protection
of individuals and the public, in case of false or malicious
slander or defamation, by compelling the printers or pub-
lishers of newspapers to give security, to enter their names
and places of abode at the Stamp-office, and to imprint
the same on each copy of each newspaper published, the
()mission of which renders the parties liable to heavy

penalties.
" That an instance of the oppressive and unjust ope-
ration of the law of libel in its present state may be
adduced in the proceedings against an individual, who is
at this moment in confinement for damages and costs
incurred in an action Dicas v. Warne, tried in the Court
of Common Pleas, on the 11th day of June last, when
the Jury returned a verdict of 101. damages, to which
ISM. costs were added. That the defendant being s po•ir
man, and unable to pay the said damages and costs, after
execution being levied upon his goods, was arrested and
conveyed to prison, for no other offence than se:ling a
newspaper in the ordinary course of his business, and
without the possibility of his knowing that the sail
newspaper contained any libellous matter, yet for this
offence (.f it can be so termed) he has been incarcerated
in a gaol since the 27th day of June last, while his fatnily
have been reduced to severe distr.sa.
" That since this petition has been in preparation
another instance of a similar nature has occurred. Au
action by the same plaintiff against a person of the name
of Goldwin, residing in Chatles-street, Blackfriars-road,
having ben tried at Croydon, and throi,gh some inad-
vertence, judgment suffered to pass fur the pla ntiff,
without any defence having been made.
" That your petitioners further beg leave respectfully
to repre-ent to sour Lordship that they ate justly alarmed
at the novel and unprecedented stretch of the law of
libel, as illustrated in these c .fies, mare especially as no-
tices of action have been served on others of their
body, at the suit or the same indisi.lu.l, who either was
or is, as your petitioners believe, an At•orney-at-law ;
and therefore your petitioners most humbly and earnestly
itnp:ore your Lordship, knowing that your Lordship has
already introduced many highly beneficial anti impoi taut
improvements in other parts of the law, to be pleased to
take some measures, with a view to an atnetioration 'of
the law of libel, so far as it affects your petitioners, con-
vinced as they are that the Legislature never eunte.Fnplattd
the hardship, cruelty, and probable ruin, to which they
are now exposed in their ordinary and unavoidable

avocations.
" And your pAitioners, as in duty bound, will ever

pray.'

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