The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-30 00:00:00

rnE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NO 30 1344

4 the PUBLIC JOURNALS, under the wise and ust government of the pre-
GLOA3B 1E EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. sent King, no such attempts would now be made;
GouP fan, .—The great financial truth which Mr. but we are speaking of the effect of the former
,to leasthough Chancellor of the Exchequer, has French policy upon the minds of others, and the
ci
.ails tie' n, that "-high duties diminish revenue," is events to which we have referred are too recent for
.nplified. Theproceedings in the Court of Ex- the impression produced by them to be yet effaced.
chequer
on Wednesday against certain delinquent to Certain it is that the hopes of Jacobin revolutionists
bacco-cls
alers, whose smuggling speculations on a large and of despotic counter-revolutionists everywhere
scale ha texcited the attention of the revenue officers, fur- point to France, without any fault either of the
nishcol ivincingevidencethatwhereexorbitantdutiesare British or the French Government; and that as
levied on any article, the smuggler will interpose, either revolutionist or counter-revolutionist party
end tivide the market with the honest importer, predominates, the French influence will be in the
avhOU the will undersell, and yet obtain an enor- ascendant. This is the penalty we must expect to pay
motif profit. The illicit trader, who deals with the for our fidelity to the principle of non-intervention
coati •aband importer, replenishes his stock at prices —u we have seen we have to pay another penalty of
vastl y less than he oan procure the article for from the same Lind for our prosperity. There is
the fair dealer. lie can, therefore, undersell his another consideration connected with our respect
bone st neightrour, who is eventually compelled to for the independence of all nations, tending in
doss his chop and ' retire from the trade. The the same direction, for which we have as little
rem sue, in the mean time, suffers to an enormous cause to blush, though unfortunately it does
• extei it—not merely by being defrauded to the amount not reflect much honour upon human nature. Spain
by 'hich the ditties are evaded, but in the immense and Greece, two of the States in which our influence
eill)•• Ise Ist wleich the coast-guard service, and the is said to have declined, have both had proof that Eng-
'ether pe an'.-e
-wise-and-pound-foolish devices for pro- land (it may be for her own sake) will not allow them
teet.ins, t'ne revenue against illicit importation, are to be finally oppressed by any ally or any enemy;
Inunta D ied. Fill up the useless hole which folly dug they deal with us, therefore, upon the ungenerous
in the 3 sigh road of commerce, and the corps of watch- principle that they will make the most of
er :en, with lights and staves to guard against acci- the time, while they rely upon our ultimate
d' trtel , which is kept up at a great public ex- protection. These are principles of action,
P might be diminished, if not abolished. The we repeat it, not to be controlled by any
ii ;h duties levied upon the importation of wines art of diplomacy, for what have they in common with
ails° exemplifies and proves the same financial truth. diplomacy ? It is not by intriguing with this indi-
The Manchester Guardian of Wednesday refers to, vidual, or that party, that the mind of a nation is to
:and gives the result of, an " elaborate table," annexed be changed, or the moral sense of a whole people is to
to the circular ofan extensive wine house of Manchester. be elevated. Officious meddling would have a di-
This document states the quantities of the different rectly opposite effect, while it would infinitely de-
kinds of wine imported yearly from 1784 to the pre- tract from the high character of this great and
sent time; with the various rates of duty payable on universally honoured, though universally envied
each; the produce of those duties • and the amount of country. As to the caprices of the Porte, or of the
consumption per head of the population. This state- Pacha of Egypt, who can account for the caprices of
ment deserves the attentive consideration both of the tyrants, or who can correct them? We must always
Government and the public. The former it will in- calculate upon such caprices, and must anticipate that
struct in the suicidal effects of exorbitant duties upon they will be generally unfavourable in proportion to
the revenue; and the latter it will furnish with facts, our success, for constant success implies superior
on -whit') to base applications to the Government and wisdom, and superior wisdom is to the ignorant and
t 1,03 Legislature for their diminution or removal. From ill-disposed always a reason for dislike and fear.
this table it appears that, notwithstanding the We have thus briefly considered the subject
immense addition to the population during the upon the hypothesis supplied by our Whig-Radical
• last fifty years, the average quantity of and Young England Contemporaries, and, as we
wines consumed in England and Scotland think, satisfactorily shown, that unless England de-
alone, taking the nine years preceding and scends from her present high station, or abandons the
terminating with 1795, was greater than the ingenuous and honourable policy that has raised her to
quantity consumed in England, Ireland, and Scotland that position, she must, in a period of peace, expect that
on the average of the two last years, 1842-3. In the her seeming influence will be less than that of France.
former period the quantity taken was at the rate of Not that France seeks such preponderance by any
5,524,890 gallons ; and in the latter period at the rate unworthy means. The employment of such means
of 5,412,104 gallons per annum. The respective rates is, we know, impossible to the present Government
of duty during the former period were 4s. 10d. on of France; and the employment of such means,
French wines and 3s. lid. on the wines of all other to a serious extent, by any government of France,
countries ; while the duty at the latter period is ss. 9d. would probably defeat its own object by exciting
per imperial gallon of all kinds, except Cape. The jealousy; but it is expecting too much to expect that
effect of this increased rate of ditty on the consump- France or any other country will reject an ad-
tion of the article, and consequently on the revenue vantage freely offered to her, and offered as it were
derived from it, is manifest. "Itis a singular fact," in obedience to a law of nature. What we have to do
remarks the journal to which we have referred, "that is to remain indifferent, until some of our material in-
the duty received in England and Scotland on foreign terests are attacked, or, at least, endangered; and if
wine, in the year 1795, exceeded, by about 20,0001., Lord Palmerston, or some one like him, does not ob-
that received in 1842 in the whole of the United King- tain admittance into the Foreign-office, this state of
dom ! But, probably, the effect of high duties will be comfortable indifference will continue long enough.
most forcibly exhibited by the average consumption'per
head of the population. In the ten years ending 1794
the (average) consumption was equal to three bottles
and a half per head; whilst in 1842-3, it had sunk
to one bottle and four-ninths, being rather less
than 42 per cent. of the former amount." 'Were the
wines of foreign growth to be admitted at a moderate
rate of duty—suppose of one shilling per gallon—the
increased consumption would in a few years com-
pensate the temporary loss to the revenue ; while the
comfort, health, and even the morals, of the people
would be improved. The apprehensions which are
sometimes urged, in the absence of sounder argu-
inents, against the admission of foreign corn free of
duty, will be employed against reducing the duty on
wine. It will be sail, "If we admit the foreign
article free of, or at a low duty, we shall be placed
at the mercy of foreigners for a supply ; and, in the
event of a war between Great Britain and the wine-
producing countries, the supply would cease." The
objection is more specious than sound. The use
of wine, even were the duty diminished, would, in
such a ca.e, be still principally confined to the classes
who could easily betake themselves to another exhili-
rating beverage, even though the supply of wine were
limited ; while those who now regularly drink wine
would still manage to procure their accustomed glass
at a price not greater than is now paid for the article.
The diminution in the consumption of barley which
a considerable increase in the present consumption of
wine would occasion, would be also urged against a con-
siderable reduction in the wine duty. This also, though
a more formidable objection than the former, is scarcely
tenable. The agriculturists—who would employ this
argument against lowering the duty on nine—are
using every exertion to render this country inde-
pendent of foreigners for a supply of corn. By all
the appliances and means which modern discoveries
in science can supply, the land is to be made in-
creasingly productive, to furnish adequate supplies
of food for the constantly increasing population.
But in that very proportion in which the demand for
barley is diminished, bread- corn will be produced ; and
thus the object for which the agriculturists are striving
with so much commendable earnestness will be as:.i,ted.
This argument may also be employed with effect
in resisting the attempts which are now being made
by the farmers to obtain the abolition of the malt-tax,
at the cost of retaining the income•tax. A removal
of that impost would increase the consumption of
barley; but then a larger breadth of land sown with
barley would reduce the quantity on which wheat is
grown; and thus the necessity for importing wheat
from other countries would be created by the British
agriculturists, who affect so great a horror of our
being dependent on foreigners for a supply.
STANDARD.—By what is called, in newspeper
phraseology, a curious coincidence, we have the or-
gans of the two extreme parties in England—" the
old Whig-Radical party " ana " the Young England
.party," Viz., the Morning Chronicle and the Al/arming
Poet, this day attacking the policy of S'r It. Peel's
Govertunent upon the very same ground--the alleged
'predominance of the French above the English influ-
onoe in Spain, in Egypt, in Turkey, and in Greece.
As it is not pretended that England has sus-
tained, or is likely to sustain, any material loss in
consequence of this alleged inferiority of influence, we
can afford to examine the question calmly and in the
abstract. And thus examining it, we think we shall
find, even supposing the allegation much better founded
than it see±s to be, that in the state of affairs de-
scribed, we have no reason to he ashamed or
alarmed for our country, or for blaming our Govern-
ment. England and France are at the head
of the nations of the world. United they can
command—we trust long will command—the peace of
the world; and while this happy state of universal
peace is preserved, they will in a great degree share
the influence which their ascendancy gives them, in
more or less equal proportions. These proportions
will of course be determined according to the miser-
sal and immutable laws by which the con-
duct and the feelings of mankind are re-
gulated, laws which no diplomacy can seriously
affect. Nosy it may be stated, as a proposition ad-
mitting of no exception, that all nations are naturally
jealous, that they see with pain and apprehension the
rapid advances to a marked ascendency of any one
nation ; and that when competition on their own
part is hopeless, they will (except sunder the pressure
of danger to themselves) rejoice to assist a rival in
reducing the ascendancy of the object of their
jealousy. Now we say it with regret, though not with
regret that England has advanced, but with regret
that France has not kept pace with her—that England
has advanced more rapidly in prosperity and power
during the last half century than any other nation
—more rapidly than any nation ever before ad-
vanced. Here, then, is an occasion of universal
jealousy ; a motive to every nation on the face of the
earth (other considerations apart) to aid our next
neighbour—our rival, but still, we hope, our
friend, to come up to our level. Prima facie
every nation in Europe would, for the reason stated,
allow a preference to the French before the English
influence, but with respect to the nations bordering
tipon France there is a counteracting principle.
France, though perhaps absolutely less powerful, is
relatively to these bordering nations more power-
ful than England—she can injure them much more
easily than England can, as they have felt too re-
cently to forget the lesson. It is only in the coun-
tries protected by distance or by local circum-
stances, from French power, that the common feel-
ing of jealousy has full play. In aid of this common
feeling there are other motives at work in those
countries where the English influence is said to
have declined. In every country where men can
pretend to think, nay, in every council of the
moat despotic state, there will be two par-
ties, and these parties will seldom be very
scrupulous as to the means they employ to se-
eure their own preponderance; but in the pre-
sent condition of Europe the least scrupulous
yarty, if it desire a change, whether that change
be from despotism to freedom, or from freedom to
despotism, will naturally attach itself to the French
influence. Non-intervention, honestly pursued, has
been for centuries the characteristic of British
policy. We hardly remember an exception, save
tender the Whig Governments of 1827 and 1831;
and Whig Governments are themselves, happily,
exceptions to our whole system. It would be an in-
tralthetiunLirteoraltitioofSayatlhse same of France. Even since
showln
herself France has, on more than
one occasion
independence•ie of her too
pr,mpt to violat,-!
xneigliAb.ours, witness the
Puke of Angoulerne's
Spain to
Marshale tife, to
establish despotism,
re-
tiEwsp.„isyeeeiteili: Netherlands to support unprovoked -
an -rard'3 invasion
occupation of Ancona, and
enterprises. We hare a full confidence that,

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MARKET , INTELLIGENCE

From the Londriit .Vern Price Current of Nov. 29.)
S UG.III.—To-day theisetler descriptions of West India
Sugar were in demand, anitsfetched full rates, but low
yellow and brown sorts movectoll. heavily, and the prices
accepted were in some cases raiser under those previ-
ously quoted. The total purchases amounted to 240
hhds, including a public sale of 103 hhds of Barbadoes,
which went at former rates, viz., fine yellow at 64a 6d
to 655, good Gls 6d to 635, good middling 603 to 61s,
middling 57s Gd to 58s, and low 555 to 56s per cwt. The
estimated purchases for the week are 1,510 hhds and
tierces.
Refined Sugar is wanted by the home trade, but some
of the refiners at present have scarcely any to offer fur
sale. The goods at market found ready purchasers at the
following rates : Brown Lumps at 72s to 72s 6d, Standard
Lumps 73s Gd to 745, Tittlers ordinary to middling
725 6d to 755, good 76s to 78s, fine 79s to 83$,
Hainburgh Loaves single 74s to 83s, double ditto
84s to 903, and wet lumps 71s to 71s Gd per
cat. Bastards—low at 40s to 41s, middling 42s
to 455, good middling and good 40s to 50s, and fine 51s
to 563 per cwt. Pieces, fine and very fine at 68s to
70s 6d, good G.ss to 675, middling and good middling
59s to 645, and loa 56s to 58s percwt. Treacle, boiled from
West India Mol.as a‘s at 15s•Gd to 19; 6d, Patent 21s to 225,
and Golden Syrup 23s is 26s 6d per cwt. Crushed Sugar
at 29s 6d to 29s 9:1 per cwt. Loaves are in excellent re-
quest; the supply is small, and prices rule firm. Turkey,
Double Refit:: d If to 41b 31s to 40s; ilamburgh 6lbs
33s 6d to 345, 9 to 10lbs 31s 6d to 325, 13 to 141bs 30;
to 30s 6d. Tittlers 20 to 301bs 30s. Prussian 40
to 45!hs 308. Pieces in demand at 24s to 268.
The demand for Bastards was good at 20s 6d
to 21s for yellow, and IBs to 18s Gd for brown.
Treacle has been fetching 12s 3d to 12s 6d. Dutch
Crushed Sugar at 27s 3(1 to 27s 9d per cwt. To day
the home trade were not so desirous to purchase Re-
fined goods, and some of the refiners are inclined to sell
for forward &livery. Brown Lumps are 725, and Stan-
dard Lumps at 73., 6d. Bonded Crushed Sugar is fetah-
ing 295 6tl to 305 per cwt.
MAURITIUS.—At previous prices some parcels have
been disposed of by private contract. None has been
offered at auction ; indeed, the quantity at present in the
merchants' hands is small, but arrivals aro daily expected.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon at public sale 2.192 bags
of Bengal Sugar were offered, the Dohali amounting to
247 bags, were s,sl:l at steady rates—good strong yellow
at 64s to 655, midlling 635, damp and washed 623 Gd to
64s Gd, the remainder consisted of Date Sugar, a part
only of which found buyers at a decline in prices of is
per cwt—low soft dingy yellow went at 50s to 52s Gd,
middling ditto 53s 6d to 565, damp and washed 49s to
55s 6d, ordinary heavy brown 435, a-id good dry grey a
60s per cwt.

FORElGN.—lrtspOrterS of all descriptions of Foreign
Sugar still display firmness, and buyers generally enter-
tain a favourable opinion towards the article ; the busi-
ness transacted has been larger than in the previous
week ; the market is still sparingly supplied, notwith-
standing the late advance in prices. The stock is much
less than it was in 1843 at this period, and in the value
there. is little difference compared with that time ; from
the Continental markets the accounts are satisfactory fur
the article.
COCOA.—West India is still wanted, and previous rates
are supported ; at public sale 329 bags of Trinidad, an
inferior parcel, were all sold ; sea damaged, of which the
bulk consisted, went at 27s 6d to 40s, sound mid dark
red fetched 43s 61 to 445, and low grey 41s to 42s ; 82
bags Grenada fetched 40s to 435 for sound, and 375 to
41s per cwt for sea damaged. The market has still a
firm appearance for Foreign Cocoa.
COFFEE.—lmporters of West India have been more
inclined to rta.li. a dais week, still :here has been a goad
demand for most descriptions, and the rates previously
estublished have generally been supported. This after-
noon there was no public sale of any kind of Coffee ;
Ceylon ofgood ordinary pale quality met with little at-
tention, and 52s to 52s 6d per cwt is the value. Jamaica
of middling quali!y is however much wanted, but little
is to be had. For coloury Ceylon there were several in-
quiries, and full rates paid for the parcels disposed of.
MOLASSES.—Prices remain firm for West India, and
puichases to a fair extent have been made by private
contract. To-day some parcels of West India were sold
at full rates, making* the total purchases for the week
300 puns, chiefly at 21s 6d for Sr. liitt's, and at 21s to
21i 6d for St. Vincent's.
TEA.—Merchants manifest firmness, and none has
been offered at public sale since this day week. The
Trade generally are desirous to operate, and the market
has a very firm appearance ; the clearances from the
warehouses for home consumption have exceeded
480,0001 b since this day week ; the demand is de-
cidedly increasing for nearly every descriptions of
Tea, and stocks in second hands are much reduced of
late. To-day the market was firm for Tea, and several
transactions took place. Twankay of common quality
is fetching Is 3d to Is 3id, and and Congou cash 101 d
to 11d per lb ; large parcels aro being laid down for in
spection

SPICES.—The supply of Nutmegs having increased, a
decline in prices of ld to 2d per lb has taken place
this week. Singapore fine bold brown at 4s ld to
4s 2d, good and mid good 3s 7d to 3s 11d, mid 3s 5d to
3s 6d, and worm-eaten is 9d to is 10d per lb. Cloves
are not much wanted •, good bold bright Penang was
sold at 2s ld to 2s 2d, but Bourbon at 10d to 100 formid.
Although prices rule low for black Pepper, still there are
few shipping orders, and the home trade have purchased
sparingly.pCelisnnahalmcon hbaseenattrdacispteodsedmoroef. attHenoltdioenr,s and
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Rtmi, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The market is firm
for Leeward Island Rum at 2s 4d to 2s 5d per gallon,
proof strength. Calcutta has met with more attention—
small parcels have been disposed of at 2s 3d proof with
certificate. Jamaica is held for the former currency.
In Demerara little has been done. Brandy of
common quality has been little asked for, and
prices are rather lower, but for the best brands there
has been a lively demand. Cognac, best brands of the
vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 201, puns 5s ; ditto 1839, hhds,
4s I Id, puns 4s 9d ; ditto 1840, hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d;
ditto 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ; ditto 1842, hhds
4s 7d, puns 4s 5d ; ditto 1843, hhds 4s sd, puns 4s 3d,
common 2s 9d to 3s, and middling to good mid 3s 2d to
3s 10d per gallon. Geneva at is 9d to is 10d, fine for
duty is fetching 2s 4d to 3s 6d. English Corn Spirits
at lOs 2d per gallon.
FRUlT.—There continues to be an extensive business
doing in Currants; New Zante 48s, new Patras 45s to
50s, at the latter prices sales have been made ; old
Cephalonia 445, old Patras 45s to 465. For Raisins
there has been a lively demand ; Chesme, in barrels, at
46s ; Valentias at 50s, except a cargo of inferior
quality sold at public auction from 47s to 495. At
public sale, on Tuesday, a parcel of damaged Patras
Currants was sold, butts 45s to 495, caroteels and
barrels 46s to 503. Greek Figs in casks and barrels were
bought iu at 3 to to 3S; a low boxes sold at 38s. .A large
parcel of Turkey Pulled Figs of ordinary quality and out
of condition were also offered, and sold from 46s to 525,
one lot of 1-16th ileums realising 575. New Imperial
French Plums in i-quarter, and eh-cartoons sold from
120 s to 150 s, in chests 75s to 765, and new Prunes in
i-chests at 38s.
El —An increased desire has been shown to per.

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chase Bengal this week, and by private contract many
parcels were disposed of at prices above previous rates : the
sorts most in request have been low mid dusty white at
10s 9d to Ils, other kinds are selling at Ils 3d to Ils 6d,
for mid, and lls 9d to 12s 6d for good mid to fine white.
Madras at 8s 3d to 9s per cwt for yellow. Java by pri-
vate treaty yellow at 9s to 9s 6d, and white lOs to 11s 6d
The stock of East India is still diminishing. Cleaned
Rice 13s 6d to 18s for Patna, and 23s to 28s per cwt for
Carolina.

fested some such intentions, but was then quieted, and
went away. On the 12th of last October he again ap-
peared with six other persons, and made use of violent
language and threats, and was then again removed or in-
duced to go ; but on the following Monday the transac-
tion took place which was the subject of these proceed-
inge. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to the detail
of the facts, which were to the following effect :—On that
morning, shortly before nine o'clock, the postman, on his
return from the abbey, saw several parties of men all going
in the direction of the abbey, armed with sticks, blud-
geons, hammers, crowbars, an axe, and other of the
like sort of weapons. He went back and gave the
alarm, and the lodge gates were closed. Twenty-nine
men, of whom the prisoners were four, and two women
made their appearance at the lodge gates and demanded
entrance of the keeper, which was of course refused.
They then stated that they would pass, and broke the
locks, and went through up to the door of the abbey, at
which they made some knocking, and then round to the
housekeeper's door, which they proceeded to force. His
Lordship and the whole of his family were away from
home. At the last-mentioned door the intruders were
met by Elijah Dencer and Charles Hancock, two of the
county police, who required them to depart. They pro-
ceeded, however, to force the door, when Hancock put
his hand to the breast of James Leigh to stop him, upon
which James Leigh struck at his head with a bludgeon.
Then ensued a general murderous attack on the two
policemen who were knocked down, and with others of
his Lordship's servants, to the number of nine or nearly
so, were most seriously injured, the lives of some of
them having been long in danger, and with one, if not
with two of them, the :danger was not yet over. The
assailants then knocked two of the panels out of the
door, and effected an entrance. Upon the housekeeper
remonstrating, she was told she must leave, as it was
their house, and there was no longer any occasion for
her services. Mr. Jones, his Lordship's solicitor, who,
in consequence of a recent absence of the house-steward,
happened to be residing in the house, on perceiving that
the door had been under the circumstances forced,
ran along some passages and made his escape over
the roof and down a ladder ; after which, having
taken horse, he made the best of his way to Coventry
for the police. The parties having now thus effected
an entrance, claimed the right to the possession
of the property, and broke open the pastry-safe,
larder, &c., and barricaded, with chairs and tables and
the like, the door which they had broken ; but the
violent ringing of the abbey bell, and other circum-
stances, having alarmed the neighbourhood, the villagers
came to suppress the outrage, and mustered in sufficient
numbers to make resistance to them useless, threatening
in strong language an instant attack upon and expulsion
of the intruders, who now becoming somewhat alarmed,
offered to lay down their arms and await the arrival of
the police, upon the condition that Mr. Chapman, one
of his Lordship's head stewards, should address the vil-
lagers, and bring about quietness in the interim. Mr.
Chapman, to avoid further mischief, addressed the vil-
lagers from a window, and accomplished this, and the
parties laid down their arms and remained quiet until
the arrival of Roby, the inspector, and a body of police,
who took them, offering to go anywhere, but still claim-
ing their right, together with the huge pile of awfully
destructive implements now produced, before the magis-
trates, by whom they were all 29 committed to take their
trials here this day. The Learned Counsel remarked
that they might all have been now standing to take their
trials upon the grave charge of felony, but it had been
deemed sufficient to make a selection, in which considera-
tion had been had to the degree of violence used by
each. The prisoner James Leigh was the ringleader
of the party. It might be deemed necessary, added
the Learned Counsel, to advert to the motives for
such a thing, to show how it could have come to
pass that this outrage had been committed. Lord
Leigh himself had been in the actual possession for a
period of twenty-one years, having succeeded his father,
who inherited from his uncle, to whom the property had
passed in 1806—a period of thirty-eight years in all.
The present was the oldest branch of this noble house,
and down to 1806 had resided upon their estates in the
county of Gloucester. The first Lord Leigh, who had
been created a peer about the year 1622, was a younger
branch, and the last lord of this branch dying without
issue, it came into the possession of his maiden sister,
who died in 1806, when that branch became extinct.
Many persons had thought that there must be descen-
dants of the younger branch to take in preference to the
elder, and others had thought that there must be other
questions of title, and a large prize tempted some persons
to make claims on very slender grounds, and others to
advance money to support them, and one George Leigh
had made a claim to the estate and title, as being de-
scended from one of the Lord Leighs of the younger
branch. Now, the form of proceeding in support of a
claim to a title was different to that in support of a
claim to an estate, and the former had been thought
the most eligible for adoption; but the investigation
before the House of Lords, so long ago as 1829, came
to an end suddenly, by the counsel for the claimant
admitting in its course that he could not further proceed
with the claim. It was theh thought that the nobleman,
whom he was now representing, would be allowed to
enjoy his estate in peace and quietness. If these parties
had still thought they had any claim, why had his
Lordship been allowed to enjoy it at all, during all
the time from 1829 to 1844? But there was on the
part of many illiterate and ignorant persons a dis-
position to believe that all the estates in the kingdom
were enjoyed by wrong people, and though the law
had pretty well settled the question as to this estate
in 1829, different claimants had from time to time
Made their appearance, who, frequenting the various
public- houses in the neighbourhood, there told different
stories.reflecting upon the honour and honesty of Lori
Leigh and his family ; and, among others, that a certain
tombstone had been destroyed to destroy evidence,
This was put forward at the investigation before the
Lords in 1329, when the late Lord Abinger, then Mr.
Scarlett, as counsel, adopted the test of detection of put •
ting it to witness after witness, who came and deposed
to having repeatedly seen and noticed the tombstone, to
make a drawing of it, and which they all did, amd the
difference was so excessively absurd as to put the whole
of them effectually out of Court. The Learned Counsel
having then remarked upon the fact that the law as to
time and long possession made it absolutely unimportant
in every respect what title there might have been, or
these people might believe to be, proceeded to mention
that any such supposed claim, even if the parties them-
selves believed that they were such, or even any real
claim, could have no relevancy whatever to this in-
quiry ; for parties who had claims must advance and
maintain them according to the forms of law, and not
by taking that which they might want by storm. No
advantage to the parties so acting could thereby accrue,
however good their title or claim might be ; and it was
well that these ignorant and misguided sort of people
should be made to know this. He should ill represent
Lord Leigh by making any observations as to his elm-
racter or that of his family, or by noticing, in 1844, sto-
ries as to the dead proceeding from such a source and
under such circumstances. He was confident that when
the jury had heard the evidence and the instructions that
they would receive from his Lordship, they would enter-
tain no doubt whatever as to the guilt of the four pri-
soners at the bar of the heinous offence with which they
there stood charged.
The facts stated in the opening were abundantly proved
by the numerous witnesses. The two policemen appeared
to have been grievously injured about the head ami body,
and principally by James Leigh, the ringleader, and
Thomas Leigh. William Freeman, an assistant game-
keeper, received about half a dozen blows on his arm
and one on the head, inflicted with bludgeons, from the
effect of which last he could not lie in his bed for a week,
and his life still continues in danger. His shirt was sa-
turated with blood. Joseph Freeman, labourer on the
estate, had his arm broken when put up by him to pro-
tect his head from a heavy blow from a huge hammer.
Charles Humphreys had his head very severely cut and
eyes blackened, and fake cut across with blows also in-
flicted by a bludgeon. Robert Jaycock was struck at by
the prisoner Watts with a stone-breaking hammer, but
happily escaped the blow. The prisoner Flowers had
also a bludgeon, with which he struck the policeman and
others several severe blows. Mrs. Savory, the house-
keeper, saw nearly all that took place, and deposed to
James Leigh's dismissing her from her situation, and to
the general " Hurrah !" as soon as the inside of the house
had been gained by the whole body. Mr. Chapman proved
one of the parties to have had a large axe with him.
Messrs. Watson and Cottle, the surgeons who had
attended the wounded, described in general terms the
nature and extent of the injuries sustained, and par-
ticularly those sustained by the unfortunate William
Freeman, which were the subject of this indictment.
Besides other injuries, including a dreadful contused
wound, extending from the elbow to the wrist, he had
received (but by whose hand it was struck was not in
evidence) a severe wound on the left side of his head,
cutting through the integuments of the bone, and ex-
tending in three directions, the effects of which had pre-
vented him from being able to lie down in his bed for a
week, and from which he was not out of danger until
Monday last, and could not even now be so pronounced,
a swelling having recently appeared under the bone,
which, coupled with the earlier symptoms of, dreadful
pain in the head, and sickness and shivering upon putting
his feet to the ground upon a surface in the least degree
uneven, was a very alarming additional symptom.
They also both deposed that the wound (a very thick
hat having been cut through) must have been inflicted
by a very hard blow with a heavy instrument (such as
a very heavy short bludgeon produced), the necessary re-
sult of which blow would have been to inflict a grievous
bodily injury.
Mr. TEMPLE having addressed the jury on behalf of
the prisoners, urging the absence of any of the intents
charged in the indictment, and treating the whole pro-
ceeding as a mere riot and a consequent fight, in the heat
of which blows were struck without premeditation,
which had, most unfortunately, caused the grievous in-
jury to the poor man Freeman, which the prisoners, as
through every one else must do, most deeply deplored.
His LORDSHIP proceeded in summing up very hued-
nou sl y toe xpcl un d and
case,e explain
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law bearingough a most
impartial review of the facts, about which there upon
seemed
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parts of f the ,
however to be not much dispute, leaving it to the jury
to say, whether the prisoners at the bar were proved
to their satisfaction to have been guilty of any of
the
offences charged, and if of any, then of s‘ hich,
course,
deferred.
not see that the jury would be warranted by the evident e
in finding any one or more of the four prisoners guilty,
without finding them all guilty alike.
The jury having considered upon their verdict for a
very few minutes, at about half-past seven o'clock
Therereturned
beinga verdictotherof indictments, Guilty
sentence
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was,onainon assault.of o
deferred.

SAGO has been in good request by private contract,
and prices are inclined to adrance, low Pearl has been
selling at 108 to 15s, mid 16s to 19s, good 20s to 225, and
fine 23s to 265; Sago Flour is fetching Ile to 19s per
cwt for small parcels. Of Bermuda Arrowroot 69 pkgs
at public sale went at 8d to is 2d, 120 pkgs of St Vin-
cent 6d to 10d, 20 tins of Jamaica 64d, 6 casks of Tois
lus Alois 5d per lb, 11 casks of Cuba honey 32s to 37s
per cwt.

INDIGO.—The purchases made in East India have been
trifling this week. Madras is fetching former rates, but
the demand has been only for small parcels. The mar-
ket for Spanish has a dull appearance, and of 73 serons
of Guetamala at public sale, a small part only sold at
2s 10d to 4s 10d per lb, being 2d to 3d under former rates.
COCHlNEAL.—lmporters demanding a further advance
in prices has checked business, and 271 bags of Hon-
duras silvers at public sale were nearly all taken in at
an advance on the rates of the last auctions of 2d per lb ;
a few lots were disposed of at 4s 2d to 4s 8d fur low to
fine silvers ; 150 bags of Honduras are declared for
auction.

SALTPETRE.—The demand has further increased for
Rough this week, and none has been offered at auction ;
exporters and the home trade are desirous to operate,
and have taken several parcels by private contract,
paying prices rather above those of last Friday.
TALLOW.—This afternoon at public sale 382 pkgs of
South American Tallow went at 33s to 39s 3d ; 28 casks
of North American 38s 6d to 39s ; 56 casks of Italian
39s 3d ; 124 casks of New South Wales39s 3d to 40$ 6d;
91 casks of Cape 38s to 41s 9d; 15 casks of Naples 40s 6d
to 40$ 9d ; 18 easks of East India 40$ to 41s c3d ;
and 349 casks of stranded yellow Candle Tallow 38s 3d
to 39s 6d per cwt.
Ou.s.—A further reduction in prices having been sub-
mitted to for Olive Oil. Buyers have been induced to
come into the market with more freedom ; for Gallipoli
411 to 421 have been accepted, 391 to 401 for Spanish,
and 381 to 381 10s per tun for Barbary and Levant.
This afternoon lower rates were accepted for Sperm Oil,
at public sale 70 tuns selling at 78110 s to 86115 s for
American. 60 tuns of North West Coast Whale Oil of
Foreign Fishing in bond 31/ lOs to 33/ 15s. 99 casks of
Cocoa Nut Oil 241 to 281 lOs per tun.

COAL 217.ARZET.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's
West Hartley, 1756 d ; Carr's Hartley, 17s 6d ; Davi-
son's West Hartley, 17s 6d ; Hastings Hartley, 17s 7d
to 183 ; Holywell Main, 20s ; Nelson's West Hartley,
173 6d ; New Tanfield, 16s 3d ; Old Pontop, 16s ;
Ord's Redheugh, 16s 6d ; Old Tanfield, 16s 3d ; Pott's
Primrose, 16s ; Tanfield Moor Butes, 165 6d ; Tanfield
Moor, 19s ; Taylor's 'West Hartley, 17s 3d ; Townley,
17s 6d ; West Hartley, 18s ; Wylam, 17s 6d ; W. E.,
Clennell, 18. ; W. E., Edmondsley, 193 ; W. E., Gos-
forth, 20. 63 ; W. E., Gibson, 20s 6d ; W. E., Heaton,
203 6d ; W. E., Killingworth, 19s 6d ; W. E., New-
march, 193 ; W. E., Northumberland, 19s 93 ;
W. E., Ramsay, 16s 6d ; Eden Main, 20s 6d ;
W. E., Belmont, 21$ ; W. E., Braddyll's Hetton,
22. 3d to 22s 6d; W. E., Haswell, 22s 6d ; W. E.,
Hetton, 22s to 22s 3d ; W. E., Hytton, 22s ; W. E.,
Lambton, 22s to 235 ; W. E., Richmond, 20s 6d ; W. E.,
Russell's Hetton, 22s ; W. E., Sherburn, 22s ; W. E.,
Stewart's, 22s to 22s 3d ; W. E., Whitwell, 2113 ; W. E.,
Caradoc, 223 ; W. E., Hartlepool, 225; W. E., Heselden,
205 ; W. E., High Thornley, 20s ; W. E., Kelloe, 22s ;
W. E., South Hartlepool, 17s 6d; W. E., West Hartley,
19s 3d ; W. E., Bitchburn, 19s ; W. E., Brown's
Deanery, 21s; W. E., Evenwood, 19s; W. E., Tees, 225;
W. E., Tees Hetton, 18s ; W. E., West Hotton, 19s 3d ;
Clackmannan, 16s ; West Hartley Netherton, 17. 6d ;
Woodifield Cook, 17. 6d,—Arrivals since last day, 86.

• LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 29.
BELLER V. ADAMS.
This was an action for compensation in damages for
false imprisonment, brought by Anna Deller, a maid
servant, against her former master, Mr. Adams, a
schoolmaster and lecturer on astronomy, residing
at Tottenham, under these circumstances :—On the
morning of the 11th of March last, the pre-
sent plaintiff stated to her master, that, having
had occasion to enter the room in which the plate
was kept, she discovered that it had been removed, and
the basket which had contained it was left empty. She
appeared at the time to be very much agitated, and
requested Mrs. Adams to send for a policeman. After this
the nursery-maid, who had been sitting at the window at
the time when the robbery was supposed to have been
committed, sail that she saw a man crossing the lawn
before the house, that he was dressed in a velveteen
coat, and that he resembled a man of the name of Higgie.
That person was apprehended, but was afterwards
liberated on his reeognisances. On the examination of
the premises by the police, no trace of the means by
which the robbery was effected could be found ; but it
aas observed, that a door which opened only
on the inside, was left ajar. The plaintiff said
that she had been cleaning the steps and pas-
sage, and might have forgotten to shut the door. On
the same evening the defendant applied to a magistrate.
who advised him to give the two servant women into
custody, it being too late to get a warrant ; but Mr.
Adams preferred to give the plaintiff only into custody,
as it would be inconvenient to part with the nursery-
maid. The plaintiff was accordingly taken to the
station-house on Saturday, and on Monday was
remanded to Friday, when she was discharged.
For this imprisonment the present action was brought.
The trial occupied part of yesterday, and the -whole of
this day.

The jury found for the plaintiff on the first issue, but
on the others for the defendant ; the verdict being,
therefore, substantially for the defendant.

WINTER ASSIZES.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, Nov. 29.
TILE MURDER AT DOVER.—James Clark, 60, John
Clark, 28, William Clark, 30, and William Smith, 23,
were indicted for the murder of Samuel Couchman,
at Charlton, in the borough of Dover.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Rose conducted the prosecu-
tion ; and Mr. Horne defended the prisoners.
The case occupied the Court a great many hours,
hut the facts upon which the charge was made
against the prisoners lay in a very small compass. It
appeared from the statement of the Learned Counsel
and the evidence, that the unfortunate deceased
was one of the police-constables of Dover,
and he was engaged in that capacity
at the time he lost his life, on the Bth September last.
It appeared that in the afternoon of that day a number
of disorderly persons had been quarrelling together,
and there was fighting going on for a considerable
time, the elder prisoner, the other two, who are his
sons, and a third son named Thomas, being actively
engaged in the disturbance. The deceased interfered,
but he was very much abused, and some of the pri-
soners were heard to make use of very bad language
towards the police, and to threaten that some of them
should be done for before night. The disturbance
continued until eleven o'clock at night, when the
deceased and another constable, named Smith, laid
hold of the prisoner, James Clark, and one of his
sons, with a view to take them into custody, when
Thomas, the other son, interfered, and said that he
would take his father, who was at this time very
drunk, home, and he did so. The two constables
were then pushed about and assaulted, and Thomas
Clark was seen to come out of his house with a large
bludgeon, partly concealed, by his side, and without
saying a word he raised it, and with both hands struck
the deceased a tremendous blow across the face with
the stick. The blow literally smashed the deceased's
face, and he fell to the ground as though he had been
shot, and died almost immediately afterwards. The
man, Thomas Clark, who was no doubt the actual
cause of the death of the deceased, absconded imme-
diately after the occurrence, and has not since been
heard of, and the prisoners were charged accessorially
with the murder from their having been present during
the affray, and from the threats they had made use of.
In addition to this it was proved against the prisoner
Smith, that while the unfortunate deceased was lying
dead upon the ground, he jumped up with a
gesture of exultation, and exclaimed, " There you--,
you've got it; you are no good." These facts were
shown in evidence, but there was an absence of any
distinct proof that the prisoners were actually present
when the fatal blow was struck, and the only evidence
that tended to show they were aware of the fatal
result that had taken place, was the fact that imme-
diately after the death of the deceased, one of the pri-
soners said to the other, " Come along, my dear
brother, let us bolt—we have done something to be
talked about."
Mr. HORNE addressed the jury on behalf of the pri-
soners, and having alluded to the more material portions
of the evidence, he contended that it was not sufficient
stoenmyoarur.srajonffut the
estni offence
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wiinti cohsntvshiucemytinmwgeedrtehue7purissaenoddners of the .
the jury,
after a consultation of nearly two hours, returned a
verdict of Not Guilty.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT, Warwick, Nov. 2s.
THE QUEEN V. JAMES LEIGH, AND OTHERS.
James Leigh, Thomas Leigh, Joseph Flowers and
William Watts, stood charged upon an indictment, with
having, on the 21st of October last, at the parish of
Stoneleigh (at Stoneleigh Abbey, the seat of Lord
Leigh), feloniously cut and wounded one William Free-
man, with intent to maim him, to disfigure him, or to do
him some grievous bodily
.harm.
There were three other indictments against the pri-
soners, for the same offence upon other persons—one for
assaulting d aonceoinnstwahbliec,h tot
hepreventwere their
included
lawfulwitht
apprehen-
sion,,.enty
five others in a charge of riot, all arising out of the same
transaction, the particulars of which appeared in
journalthis
before shortly
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committingth
final
magistrates.)examination
Mr. Hill, Queen's Counsel (specially retained), as
of the pri-
soners
slated by Mr. Miller and Mr. Mellor, appeared on behalf
of the Crown.

Mr. Temple (specially retained), assisted by Mr.
Eardley Wilmot, conducted the defence.
Mr. Hri.r, opened the case ; and, after briefly premis•
ing, that Lord Leigh now was and long had been in the
possession of the estate of Stoneleigh Abbey, stated that
so long ago as the month of February last the prisoner
James Leigh first appeared in the grounds and maul-

Friday, Nov. 29.
At the sitting of the Court this morning it vas inti-
mated, as we understood, by the Learned Counsel for
the prosecution, thr,t, as the jury had aL-ea(iy givei.
their opinion upon one of the charges of felony, and as
the facts in all of them would be so nearly the same, there
was no desire on the part of the prosecution bo press

any of the other charges of felony, and, with his
Lordship's permission, they proposed to offer no evi-
dence upon either of them. Verdicts were taken ac-
cordingly.
The whole of the twenty-nine were then put upon
their trial for the riot, but at two o'clock, when our
report was necessarily dispatched, the case was still pro-
ceeding, Mr. Temple being in the course of his address
for the defence. The facts being the same as in the case
reported yesterday, there would seem to be but little
doubt that there must be a verdict against the whole of
the twenty-nine for the riot.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS Or THIS DAY.
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The proprietors of the Peninsular and
Oriental steam Navigation Company held to-day their
annual meeting, which was very numerously attended.
The first subject mentioned in the report was the con-
tract with the Government for the extension of the mail
service to and from India. The financial arrangements
for carrying out this service have been already made by
the Directors, and the Proprietors have paid the first in-
stalment of 5L per share on the 4,000 new shares of 50/.
each. The report states, that the Directors have en-
tered into contracts for four now ships of 1,300 tons
each, and one vessel of 700 tons, which are to be ready
for sea next year. It is expected that the new monthly
line of communication to Calcutta, Madras, and Ceylon,
will be in operation from January next, and the commu-
nication to China will be opened as soon as the vessels
now building for the service are placed upon that line.
The negotiations for the purchase of the new steam-
ship Precursor terminated in that vessel becoming the
property of the Company for the sum of 45,0001. and
5,0001. contingent upon a mail contract being obtained,
her original cost being about 80,000/. An additional
sum of B,OOOL has been expended to increase the accom-
modation of the vessel.
In the event of the Pacha of Egypt taking into his
hands the traffic across the Desert, the Directors state
their belief that the Company's vessels on the line will
be purchased by the Egyptian Government. Several
complaints were made in the course of the meeting, of
the inconveniences which attend the transit, and which
furnish so many arguments for the establishment of a
railway to Suez ; but the chairman (Sir J. Campbell)
explained, that as the Company were only chartered for
purposes of navigation, they could take no steps for the
amelioration of the land passage.
The profits of the year ending the 30th of last Sep-
tember are stated at 65,0424, which, with the undivided
profits of the preceding year, makes a total of 109,8971.
The usual dividend of 3 per cent. was declared for the
six months ending the Ist of October, and the undivided
profits, after deducting both this and the April dividend,
were stated at 74,0201. To reduce the expense of insu-
rance, which is found to weigh heavily upon the profits
of the Company, the investment of the sum of 10,000/.
towards the formation of an insurance fund, was voted,
after the report had been confirmed.
Our attention has been directed to a passage in a
speech by Sir R. Peel, delivered on the 6th of May last,
relative to the prospect that the provisions of the new
banking Bill would be evaded, and which it may be use-
ful to quote, as it shows that the Ministry, foreseeing
such abuses as possible, are prepared with a remedy,
which it will be prudent in the parties concerned not to
provoke. It is as follows :
"It is thought by some that this privilege might be
perverted, so as to give rise to something like the sub-
stitution of a bank-note of a certain kind, and
of a circulating nature. The power has been
held by private banks from time immemorial,
and it has not hitherto been accompanied by any
abuse ; and why should it be anticipated that joint-stock
banks would abuse such a power by using it contrary to
the intentions of the Legislature ? But I give public
notice, on this opportunity, that if the power should de
abused—if it should be attempted to circulate small bills,
so accepted, within the limits reserved to the Bank, I
shall not hesitate to appeal to Parliament on the instant,
for the purpose of correcting that evil."
On the proposal for a universal penny receipt stamp,
lately brought into discussion, acorrespoadent remarks—
" I think that if the stamp was of the same description
for any document, whether receipt-check or letter-paper,
that came within the proposed plan, it would materially
simplify the scheme ; and, with respect to the hint about
stamping bankers' cheques, I imagine that it would be
productive of good results. Why should there not be a
universal form of cheque printed by the Government,
leaving the name of the bank vacant, and supplied to
bankers at a less price than to the public ? lam in a
bank which is far from a very large one, yet it is not
uncommon to have paid,soo or 600 cheques a day, exclu-
sive of bills. Any one who has leisure to look at the
number of banks in England will see that, allowing that
some of them do not pay perhaps nearly a tenth of that
number, there would result a considerable revenue from
this plan. The customer of the bank Ido not think
would complain, for on him individually the tax would
fall very lightly."
HERALD.—The intelligence brought from the United
States by the Hibernia steamer was so generally antici-
pated in all the main features that it produced no sensa-
tion in the mercantile circles. The violence of party
writing in the United States had not in any degree sub-
sided by the decision of the Presidential election, and the
best informed and most impartial Americans in town
state that nothing like a correct opinion can be formed
of the future policy that will be pursued from the state-
ments of the press. The New England papers in para•
cular are virulent beyond former precedent against the
policy of the Democrats in placking Mr. Polk at the
head of the pal, and if we were to place confidence in
their prognostications, inevitable ruin to everything
worth preserving in the state must be the consequence.
In that quarter, however, apprehensions about a reduc-
tion in the tariff is the predominating principle, and the
most moderate persons lay it down as a certainty that it
will undergo considerable modifications in the next ses-
sion of Congress. The Whigs and high-tariff men now
rest their sole hope upon th Senate, but after such a
declaration of opinion as the votes in the election set
forth, the most sensible Americans have but faint expec-
tation of a majority of the members having sufficient
moral courage to resist the torrent, and act upon their
own independent opinions, on any one of the questions
which have been the rallying cry of parties. The whole
matter taken together exhibits such a picture that if we
are to consider America as experimenting to solve the
problem of the fitness of democratic, combined with fe-
deral institutions, for the good government of society, we
have no longer to wait for the solution.
There is nothing in the commercial letters worthy of
notice, except a very general expression of apprehension
that the election of Polk will for a time produce a de
gree of uncertainty respeCting future measures, as to bi-
seriously injurious to business. The first impressions
have actually had the effect of staying the progress of
some iron' works and other manufacturing buildings in
course of erection. As a specimen we give the following
from Boston :—" The times already feel the influence of
Polkism. Goods have fallen, and a hundred houses that
were going up in Boston have been c6untermanded, also
a number of ships which were about to be built." These,
we should suppose, however, are exaggerated pictures,
from which time will withdraw the deeper shades.
The accounts from Peru and the River Plate in the
American papers, are not so late as those we have re-
ceived direct. It is upwards of a month since we gave
the particulars of the defeat of Vivanca, in Peru, whick is
given as news in the American files.
The Canada accounts, confirming the statement
formerly received, of the decided Conservative majo-
rity in the elections, has given unqualified satisfaction
to the merchants engaged in trade with those colonies.
There are, indeed, few evils in human affairs but some
good can be extracted from them, and we are informed
that the excesses to which Democracy has led in the
United States, has tended very much to weaken the
force of Radicalism in the British Provinces within the
last few years. The commercial accounts froth the Ca-
nadas are generally of a favourable complexion, al-
though the season had closed.
The effect of the notice of the Bank of England to
lend money on the deposit of securities, at the rate of 24
per cent. per annum, has had an influence on the market
beyond its direct influence. Many capitalists had been
withholding their money from employment in the ex-
pectation of an advance in its value up to the payment
of the January dividends, and that expectation being
now frustrated, their dormant funds will be brought into
immediate activity. There is another distinction be-
tween the present and former notices, besides the reduc-
tion of the rate of interest to per cent. Formerly, the
parties borrowing bad to retain the money for not less
than ten days, whereas there is now no such restriction.
The money may be borrowed one day and repaid the
next, an advrntage which will materially increase the
number of applicants. Persons resident in the country
can form a very inadequate conception of the amount of
business which is transacted in London which will be
affected by this difference of time.
SUN.—The English Stocks leave off firmly this after-
noon, Consols being 1004 for Money, and 101 to for
Account. Exchequer Bills, however, the differences
having to be paid in the English, Foreign, and Share
Markets, further declined to 595. and 575. premium.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 1024 1.
The Foreign Bonds maintained a firm appearance.
Spanish Actives were 241 i; the Three per Cents., 351-1;
Portuguese Converted, 55i; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 63k to 621.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Cambridge and Lincoln were ; Churnet
Valley, 11 ; Dublin and Belfast, ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 11 ; Great North of England, New, 11; Great
Western, 60 to 61f ; Ditto, Fifths, 141 •, Birmingham,
119 ; South-Weetern, Eighths, 24 ; London and York,
' 11- to ; Newcastle and Darlington, 384; Shrewsbury
and Birmingham, > ; South-Eastern, New, 7 ; York and
North Midland, 52f to 54; Ditto, Selby Extension, 13;
Boulogne and Amiens, 3 to 24 ; Orleans and Bordeaux,
si; and Paris and Orleans, 21 to 21/ premium. Bristol
and Exeter were at par; Blackwall have been 94 discount;
and Direct Northern I discount toper.
There was an improvement in the rate of Exchange
on Antwerp and Frankfort, and on Hamburgh, Trieste,
and Amsterdam, the quotations were steady, Paris alone
being a shade lower.

OXFORD ClRCUlT—Gloucester, Nov. 28.
(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
John Richards, aged 26, pleaded guilty to the charge
of uttering, at Bristol, a forged Post-office order, with
intend to defraud the Earl of Lonsdale, her Majesty's
Postmaster-General.
The prisoner, a simple-looking mechanic, had received
a letter from his mother enclosing an order on the
Bristol post-office for as., when, unconscious of the
counter-check deposited with the office by the person
transmitting the amount, the prisoner added the sum of
21. to both order and letter, and applied at the office for
the 455. The variance between the documents at once
created suspicion, and occasioned his apprehension.
The Learned JUDGE, considering the facility of trans-
mitting money by means of these orders to be most use-
ful to the public, especially to the lower classes, and
being fearful that if frauds were successfully practised
against it, the benefit might be withdrawn, sentenced
the prisoner to transportation for ten years.
Richard Young, aged 45, was charged with having,
at Cheltenham, on the 11th of October, feloniously and
maliciously stabbed Elizabeth Young, his wife, with
intent to maim, disable, or do her some grievous bodily
harm.

Mr. B. Williams conducted the prosecution, and Mr.
Cooke the defence.

The prisoner, a coal-dealer in Cheltenham, was in
October very much affected in mind, labouring under the
supposition that he was pursued by "a thousand evil
spirits." These fits of aberration were of frequent re-
currence, and productive of much violence to his family,
towards whom at other times he displayed the utmost
affection and kindness. On the 10th October he awoke
his wife in the middle of the night to " wipe away the
blood from a thousand spears which had penetrated his
side," and called up the children and his wife to look at
the wretches who persecuted him, and whom he described
to be standing at the foot of the bed—there being, in fact,
no blood nor person visible except to his own disor-
dered imagination. His conduct very much alarmed his
family. Medical advice was obtained in the morning.
The prisoner was bled, and took willingly the medicine
prescribed, but in a few hours after insisted that poison
had been administered to him. He seemed so evidently
determined on suicide, that his razor was secreted by his
wife, and he retired to rest apparently tired and com-
posed. In the middle of the night of the 11th his wife
was awoke by a stab in the abdomen inflicted by a pen-
knife, which the prisoner had provided himself with.
The wound bled profusely, but was only skin deep, and
by the surgeon's evidence had not been inflicted with
much force. The poor woman, greatly alarmed, shouted
" Murder 1" the children fastened themselves in their
own room, and the whole neighbourhood was thrown
into a state of great excitement. The prisoner denied
any intention to injure his wife, and on hearing that she
would probably not recover from the effects, expressed
his determination to die with her, and cut his throat in
three places with the same knife. An eminent surgeon,
on being called in, found the wound on the wife to be
not at all dangerous, and sewed up the throat of the pri-
soner, who seemed on his trial to be recovered from the
effects of the injuries.
In a very feeling address, the counsel for the prisoner
contended that the wounding was aocidental, or amounted
only to an assault at a moment when the prisoner was
not responsible for his actions.
After a very careful summing up from the Learned
JUDGE,
The jury Acquitted the prisoner of the felony, but
found him Guilty of an assault at a time when he was
not in his right mind.
The grand jury have ignored the bill for murder.
Only ten cases have been disposed of to-day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLEBOIVE.
Yesterday a well-dressed man, between 40 and 50 years
of age, named William Key, shopman to Mr. John Dent,
a linendraper, &c., in an extensive way of business at
Nos. 30, 31, and 32, Crawford street, Bryanston-square,
was brought up in custody of Ross, 157 D, and placed
at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with having plun-
dered his employer of property to a very considerable
amount.
A number of pawnbrokers were in attendance with
large packages containing goods which the prisoner had
pledged ; and it will be seen from the evidence that the
prisoner had, while in Mr. Dent's serviae, been keeping.
a draper's shop at Hammersmith, in which the greater
part of the stolen articles were found, the business being
carried on by his avife.
Rebecca Foster, wife of a confectioner in East-street,
Manchester-square, deposed, that on the previous morn-
ing, about eleven o'clock, the prisoner, who was a stran-
ger to her, came to the shop and made a small purchase
of sweetmeats, after which he took something from his
coat pocket, and, having wrapped it up in a newspaper
and tied it with string, laid the parcel on the counter,
saying that be would call it for it presently; he then
went away. In the course of the afternoon, thinking
there was something suspicious about the matter, as the
prisoner had neglected to make his appearance, witness
took the said parcel to the station-house. Inquiries were
subsequently made by the police, and it was ascertained
to whom the contents belonged.
Ross, the constable, who is a very intelligent officer,
stated that on the previous evening, in consequence of
information which he received, he went in plain clothes
to Mr. Foster's shop, and at eight o'clock prisoner came
in and asked for his parcel, which witness had at the
time in his hand. He was told that Mrs. Foster was then
out, and that he could not have it till she returned. In
a few minutes she entered, accompanied by Mr. East-
man, principal assistant to Mr. Dent, who, having be-
fore examined the parcel, in which were two mousselin-
de-laine dresses belonging to his employer, exclaimed
(addressing the prisoner), " Good God, can it be you !"
to which he (prisoner) replied, " Yes, I've done it, I've
done it." He further said that he was a lost man, and
that what he had done was through distress. At the
station-house, when about to be searched, he pulled from
his coat pocket a table-cover and gave it up; a duplicate
for some cachmere and mousselin-de-laines, pawned by
him on Wednesday last, was found in his possession, as
also a few shillings in silver. He gave his address, 21,
Dowell's-row, Hammersmith ; and after he was locked
up witness proceeded to the house, where the prisoner
has a shop kept by his wife, and in it found a number of
table-covers, together with a quantity of drugget, and a
variety of other articles connected with the trade. He
also discovered in a portfolio, which he took from a book-
case, between sixty and seventy duplicates for dresses,
and almost every other kind of drapery. &c., pledged
within the last few months. He had raised upon the said
articles upwards of 501., and the probability was that
they were worth nearly four times that amount.
Mr. Eastman identified the dresses 'taken from the
parcel, as also the table-cover given •up at the station,
and the rest of the property found at the shop, as being
Mr. Dent's.
The prisoner, who seemed very dejected and had no,
thing to say, was remanded till Friday.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Vic-
toria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the
23d day of November,lB44.

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
X.
Notes issued ... 27,528,875

X.
Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin and

bullion
11,935,264
Silver bullion

X 27,528,8751
M. MA:
Dated the 28th day of No'

BANKING D:
X.

£27,528,875
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
Iveraber, 1844.

;PARTMENT.

I Proprietors 'capi-
tal 14,553,000'
Rest 3,139,027
Public deposits
(including Ex-
chequer,Savings
banks, Commis-
sioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
dividend ac-
counts) 4,812,191
Other deposits 7,864,144
Seven day and
other bills 965,990

Governmentsecu-
ritios (includ-
ingllead Weight
Annuity) 13,539,775
N.Oothteesr s.
..............
79:V107;440602
Gold and silver
coin 836,715

£31,334,3521

• M. MAJ
Dated the 28th day of No

OXFORD UNIVERSITY BOAT RACES.
The anaual four-oared races on the Isis, for a silver
cup and medals given by the University Boat Club, was
decided on Wednesday. The trial heats came off on the
two days previous, when St. John's beat Exeter, Baliol
beat Trinity, St. John's beat Baliol, and University beat
St. John's. The final heat between the University crew
and the Oriel crew, the holders of the cup and medals,
caused considerable interest amongst the lovers of aqua-
tic amusements, and the banks of the Isis were thronged
with spectators. The University crew were the favour-
ites, although the 0:1.1 lia:l procured a fine new beat to
row in, differently- con,trtteled from the Oxford boats,
being made after the fashion of the Newcastle boats.
The distance was from Of ey to Oxford, rather more
than a mile. The University crew went oir at a slashing
pace, and although much pressed by the Oriel crew, who
were close upon their stern, maintained the lead through-
out, and won gallantly by two boats' lenqt11::. This is
the third time within four years that the cup has been
won by the University crew. The crew on the present
occasion consisted of Messrs. A. K. Dawson (bow) ;
Follett, 2 ; A. Gray, 3 ; F. C. Walsh (stroke) ; C. H
Shebbears (coxswain).

INTERESTING TO LADIES.
To Messrs. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-garden, London.
Percy-place, Landport, Portsmouth, April 4, :844.
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you of the benefit I have derived from the use of your
admirable Macassar Oil. About six months ago I found
my hair getting daily more weak and thin, and much
discoloured, from a practice I had adopted. of' wetitisig it
continually ; fearing that I should lose it entirely, and
hearing of the efficacy of your Macassar Oil, I have for
some time past constantly used it, and the result is, that
my hair is now perfectly restored and much improved
in appearance and cokeir, having hecoine thick, dark, and
; it also curls freely without the use of pvcr,
which it never did before. To all my friends I have
warmly recommended your Macassar Oil as an e.zcellent
restorative and preservative for the hair: As I have an
objection to see my name in print, I beg you will not
publish it; but you are at liberty to show this letter, or
make any other use you please of it, and refer applicants
to me, if necessary, in proof of the efficacy of your Ma-
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THE WEATHER.—A sharp frost set in in this neigh-
bourhood on Sunday night last, after a long continuance
of soft, damp, and most nuhealthy weather. We tr. sr
that it will have a beneficial effect on the public health,
and put an end to the ravages of typhus fever, which
has prevailed for some tittle to a most alarming extent
in all parts of the town.—Liverpool Paper.
Sir Thomas Fremantle had an interview with Sir
Robert Peel yesterday.

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AP: -CjN
IMPORTANT CHANGE OF THE LAW WITH T
..•"boOP
TO SEAMEI7.--A very important alteration has Act
made in the law relative to merchant seamen, by to mob
if Parliament passed during the last session, and Is.""of
is just about to come into operation. The
princiPlio
!ompelling all merchant seamen to register thelose get
is carried into effect, because, after that date, no Mas re
,_!an carry to sea any seaman, without having first ob.
ceived from him his register ticket, which is to beemos
tamed by a seaman on application to the Castom-k,O
of any port. The master must keep such reebil
ticket in his possession so long as the seaman is iriA tO
service ; when the seaman leaves it must be restorro
him. The penalty of the master neglecting to c'u 101
possession of the register ticket of each seaman
carries to sea is 51. All masters are to take tilsil:get
prentices to the Custom-house, and obtain regle
tickets for them, which the masters are to keep is whi•
p
possession until the expiration of the apprentice!stt
The Act makes it a misdemeanour to alter a regi jos
ticket, and provides that upon the death of a seaman ed
ticket must be returned to the Custom-house. Alo
material alteration is also made in the form 0`
tides of agreement, which. after the Ist of Janug'oo
alma specify the quantity and quality of provisionS 110,
seaman is to receive per day ; and if, from any 60.01
stances, the allowance is reduced, the seaman is 01°,0
to 4d. per day additional wages ; but if the eedlloBj,
amounts to one-third, then the seaman is entitled Who
per day additional during such reduction. Every rho
beyond the medicines now required, is to carry suPP
to
of lemon or lime-juice, sugar and vinegar, which ar,e,oo
be served out to the seamen after they shall have wn-or
twelve days on salt provisions, in the following Pr4sail
lions, namely—half an ounce of lemon or lime juice 0
sugar per day, and half a pint of vinegar per wee'of
long as the use of salt previsions is continued. reno
20/. fur each default. Every ship carrying 100 Reriticim
besides those now required by the sth and 6th Vict.:elt,
107, is compelled to carry a surgeon. In cases of w
if the seaman exerts himself to the utmost of his Pie 1,0
to save the ship, cargo, and stores, he is to be psi rid
wages, even though the ship had not previously oropil
freight. Every master, before he sails on a voyage,vito
when he returns home, is to deliver a list of his ere
the Custom-house of the port he sails from.
EXPECTED STRIKE OF THE COAL-MINERS P' 00+,
rious circumstances, which have recently come WADI
knowledge, seem to indicate an intention on the Pipite
the Lancashire Colliers' Union to cause a general 860
ere long ; and we propose briefly to notice a few, de
connected with that agitation which is now so 11'00
triously fomented amongst the body of working O
with the view of making the public acquainted wit'h
ttite
object of this intended strike. The remarkable I°o to
of this agitation is the proposal by the coal
their employers to force a rise in the price of coaqiic,
contracting and diminishing the supply to the IsitbeiS
and then to allow the coal miners to share with tf
the profits which would result from this artificial scar ea'
and consequent dearness of an article which, at thi"vof
son of the year, may be termed a prime necesstrtiag
life. It may be said that we are not fairly represifrthei
the views and objects of the coal miners ; and tbstoief
have no intention either to induce or, by a general!tr
tbe
to coerce the masters into a general combinatioe 'ewe
avowed object of making and keeping coals dear.—'
ch ester Guardian.
„ea
no
CONFLICT WITH A WOLF.—A young man, , oe,
Ducret, aged 19, living at Chenevry (Haute'6lo,ol,l
with a farmer named Maire, was a few days since 5P o,ol'
ing manure over one of his master's fields, when STV
appeared, and a conflict took place between them' d tba
young man, with great presence of mind, preset:lo3 that
prongs of the pitchfork which he was using, load
whenever the animal sprang at him, it came on the orlf
points of the instrument. The battle had lasted 9, at'
• sell r a quarter of an hour, when Ducret, finding him tit A,
ting weak while the hard skin of the wolf had kePlike
most uninjured, thought of using the pitchfork ttioif;
club, and dealt his assailant such a blow as to 800,
His master ran up at the moment, and the RingoreeP
quickly dispatched. The Prefect, on hearing of
courage, sent him a present of 50f.—Galignal..--.

BIRTHS. of sfjeli
On the 19th of November, the Countess Giglineci°
and heir.
ry,1800"",
On the 27th of November, the lady of the Rev. G. ""'
Rector of Water Skatford, Bucks, of a daughter

AHRRIED.
On November 26, at the Church of Notre Dame etto
and afterwards at the Hotel of the British Eruhtles);; MP'
Monsieur Jacques - Edouard Lebey de Bonneville, t
King.
rats
On the 26th November, at Dihden, the Hon. Oliver/0 AO.
Lambart, youngest son of the late Earl of ta,tiag"
Elizabeth, second daughter of Captain Willes, °
Jba
down, near Southampton. u
Ou the 2Fth of Noveinbcr, at St. Jalll,''s Clioreli: gar-
B rownin'g Edwards, Esq. , o" Glyn-Afon, Caro arvc% to
goose'
garet Anna, daughter of Captain Carpenter, of Haw'
Sunbury.

DIED. Hamlet
On the 22d of November, in London, Mary Min.
M'
Thompson, second daughter of R. F. Thompson, I'
citor, of Oxford.
On the 23d of November, at Blackheath, Jane' the eldest
daughter of the late J. Tennant, Esq., of Liverpool. tor
On the 24th of November, in Seymour-street, Ell 3
sunare, Airs. ilary Ann bingley j
On the 27th of November, Charlotte, the wife of qtr'
Henry Tule

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