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TH SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMpER 30, 1344.

of custom to those with whom it originates. The i
whole tendency of the measure is to isolate country
from country, state from state, neighbourhood from
neighbourhood, and family from family, with di-
minished means and increasing poverty as the
circle contracts. The consummation of the system, to
use an illustration of a deceased frien 1, " is Robinson
Crusoe in goatskin.' " Yet there is no a ant in Mr. Cal-
houn of that salutary caution for which Conservatism
claims so much merit. " I am not ignorant," he conti-
nues, " that it is the work of time and of great delicacy
to pass from the artificial condition in which the country
has long been placed, in reference to its industry,
by a mistaken and mischievous system of policy. Sud-
den transitions, even to better habits or better condi-
tions, are hazardous, unless slowly effected. With this
impression, I have ever been adverse to all sudden
steps, both as to the currency and the system of po-
licy which is now the subject of our deliberation, bad
as I believe them both to be." How Mr. Calhoun is dis-
posed to apply these principles to international policy
may be gathered from the following passage from a
letter of his, published in the Times in September, 1843,
and having direct reference to a commercial arrange-
ment between England and the United States :
" I am for free trade—free trade on both sides, if it
can be had, but if not, on one side. It is good in part,
but better in whole, for the interest of both countries;
and my advice, as far as I have an opportunity of
giving it to my friends, is, to push, without the least
relaxation, for decided action on the part of Congress
at the next session ; but, at the same time, to throw no
discouragement on the attempt to arrange the duties by
mutual agreeoment ; and I hope they will take that
course. It is, I hold to be, the most certain mode to
attain the object they have in view—to strike off the
shackles of commerce." How will the fine drawn di-
plomacy of Lord Aberdeen deal with such views as these?
No need here for a subtle distinction between " ab-
stract propositions" and " practical measures" from Sir
R. Peel, or for a cunningly devised Bill with a circum-
bendibus in it from Mr. Gladstone. It is all plain sailing.
If Mr. Calhoun could carry his party with him we
should:have nothing to do. America would reform her own
commercial :policy, and leave us to struggle out of the
meshes of restriction and monopoly as we best could,
and as the growth of our common sense should dictate.
As it is, we shall probably have far more offered than it
will please the Solons of Downing street to accept. The
very plainness and frankness ‘X the offer will scare them
from a ready acceptance of it ; while the absence of all
need for their favourite weapons in negotiation will pro-
bably make them unwilling to do anything. Let us hope
that the deficiency of our Tory Cabinet may be made
good by the better sense of the Republican one.
STANDARD.—We have it upon the highest of all
authority that " fearfulness" is a sin of the same class
with " unbelief;" and indeed they seem to be sins closely
connected, if not identical. We never remember to
have met with a sincere Christian, who either in con-
versation or in writing, admitteo. the possibility of any
limit to the advance in material happiness or moral
improvement of the human race. Such men exalt
all their views, and, looking upward, they can Letter
judge of the boundless perspective before us.
Adam Smith, the founder of the modern school
of political economy, was an infidel, and though an acute
and observing man—who could reason justly from what
he saw—he, as an infidel, was unable to extend his
view far into the future. He therefore drew his in •
ferences by an induction from temporary phenomena,
and time has demonstrated the fallaciousness of
many of his deductions. Most of his followers have
participated in this error of defective induction ;
would that we could acquit them all of having shared
in its cause—his miserable want of belief. We
believe that the happy prospects of a Christian nation
which, in proportion to its Christianity, will be a moral,
humane, and just nation, are absolutely without limits ;
and, with this opinion, we have the most confident anti-
cipation of the glorious destiny of England. We have
seen, even in the lifetime of the youngest man amongst
us, what, in the judgment of such reasoners as Smith and
Malthus, was an impossibility—nearly a duplication of
the population, accompanied by reduction, in the propor-
tion of nearly one-half, of the money price of provisions,
while, concurrently with both, the amount of realised
property in the country has been enormously augmented.
If the views of Smith and Malthus e ere correct, this is
a miracle as repugnant to the laws of nature as that mi-
racle of mercy (at which one of them at least would
scoff) exhibited on the shores of the Sea of Gallilee.
And such, if we may say it without irrever -nee, are the
miracles best suited to protect a practical and spe-
culative age from the sins of fearfulness and unbelief
—the sins to which such an age is the most exposed.
We cannot help thiulsing, too, that we see traces of a
like miracle in progress in the attention now universally
bestowed upon the condition of the labouring classes—
an attention which, if it ba firmly fixed for a very few
years, will, we have little doubt, negative the opinion
lately so generally maintained, that the condition
of those classes is uniinprovable to any great ex-
tent. If the produce of the earth has
more than kept pace with the duplication of
the people, and the accumulation of wealth
has far exceeded both, what reason is there to suppose
it impossible that the mass of the people can be admitted
to a fair share of the common blessing ? Diffi-
culties there no doubt are in the way of such
a distribution ; difficulties, the force of which we are
not disposed to underrate. But we will not,
after what we have seen, admit that these
difficulties are insurmountable, if approached in a Chris-
tian :spirit, and with a fixed, constant, purpose to do
whatever can properly be chime fur the improvement
of the condition of our labovring countrymen—above
all flinging from us the sin of fearfulness." The de-
terioration of the condition of the labouring classes
is a theme upon which many good men expatiate
with a feeling of compassion that does them
honour, hut this theme has teen urged, p:rhaps, too
far. If it has been urged beyond the limits of truth,
as we think it sometimes has been, it has
passed the bounds of sound policy ; thr from falsehood
nothing good can follow, and to exaggerate an evil
is one means of making the cure seem desperate.
That the condition of the labouring classes has
deteriorated to some extent since the war, seems to
be capable of proof ; and that the new poor-law,
in its original shape, was calculated to aggravate the
evils of that deterioration, we should be the last to deny;
but we are by no means certain that, as compared with
the period antecedent to 1793, there has been any con-
siderable deterioration. We need but to turn to the
pages of Goldsmith, Crabbe, and Southey for pictures of
the labourers' condition in the latter part of the last
century, as melancholy as anything that the reality pre-
sents in our day ; or if' poets may be suspected of
exaggeration, we have the evidence of prose writers
in abundance to the same effect. From among
these witnesses we will take leave to produce one,
at whose name every English heart will glow with
admiration, gratitude, and love—Nelson—the brave,
the wise, and, above all, the affectionate. Truly
has Southey said of him, " England has had
many heroes, but she has had but one Nelson." This
is this great man's distinction, and is, it seems, ever
destined such to remain—he is not the object only of his
country's gratitude and admiration, but of her love; and
with reason, his nature overflowed with affectionate
feeling ; he instantly attached himself to every one
within his sphere, he repaid one hundred fold in grati-
tude the slightest service rendered to him, and never had
an enemy but the enemies of his country.

BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Nov. 29.---Our mar-
ket has been very quiet this week, and the transactions
since our last report quite unimportant ; prices, how-
ever, are unaltered, and importer; continue to show
firmness. For refined goods there is a steady demand at
full prices. Treacle is worth 235. 6d. to 245. and ♦ery
scarce ; crushed and pieces are of ready sale.—Bristol
Mercury.

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
lOs 9d to I le, other kinds are selling at lls 3d to lls 6d,
for mid, and 1 is 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 Ils Gd
The stock of East India is still diminishing. Cleaned
Rice 13s 6d to 18s for Patna, and 23s to 2Ss per ewt for
Carolina.

SAGO has been in good request by private contract,
and prices are inclined to advance, low Pearl has been
selling at 10s to 15s, mid 16s to 19s, good 20s to 225, and
fine 23s to 265; Sago Flour is fetching lls 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 61d, 6 casks of Tois
lus Mois 5d per lb, 11 casks of Cuba 'Honey 32s to 271
per cwt.
INDIGIO.—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 113, 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 for low to
fine silvers ; 150 bags of Honduras are declared for
auction.

SALTPETRIL—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 afternooa 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
39* 3d ; 124 casks of New South Wales 39s 3d to 40s 6d;
91 casks of Cape 38s to 41s 9d; 15 casks of Naples 40s 6d
to 40s 9d ; 18 easks of East India 40s to 41s 3d ;
and 349 casks of straaded yellow Candle Tallow 38s 3d
to 19s 6d per cwt.
011.3.—A farther reduction in prices having been sub-
mitted to for Olive Oil. Buyers have been induced to
sem int* the market with more freedom ; for Gallipoli
411 to 421 have been accepted, 391 to 401 for Spanish,
and 381 to 311 10s per tun for Barbary and Levant.
This afternoon lower rates were accepted for Sperm Oil,
at public sale 70 tuns selling at 781 10s to 861 15s for
American. 60 tuns of North West Coast Whale Oil of
Foreign Fishing in bond 31/ 10s to 331 15s. 99 casks of
Cocoa Nut Oil 241 to 28110 s per tun.

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-
ing:. 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 1/111e 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

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the police, upon the condition that Mr. Chapman, one
of his Lordship's head stewards, should address the vit..
lagers, and bring abut quietness in the interim. Mr.
Chapman, to avoid further mischief, addressed the vil-
lagers from a window, and accomplished this, and tho
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 then 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
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parties 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 Lord
Leigh and his family ; and, among others, that a certain
tombstone had been destroyed to destroy evidence.
This was put forward at the iavestigation before the
Lords in 1829, when the late Lord Abinger, then Mr.
Searlett, as counsel, adopted the test of detection of put
Ling 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, and 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
might want by storm. No
good their title or claim might be ; and it was
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should be made to know this. He should ill represent
Lord Leigh by making any observations as to his cha-
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 static) in the opening were abundantly proved
by the numerous witnesses. The two policemen appeared
to have been grievously injured about the head sad 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 arai
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 Fi .ieman, labourer on the
estate, had his arm broken when put up by him to pro-
tect his head frk. n a heavy blow from a huge hammer.
Charles Humphreys had his head very severely cut and
eyes blackened, and face 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 I" as soon as the inside of the house
had been gained by the whole body. Mr. Chapman proved
ono 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 uponputting
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
every one else must do, most deeply deplored.
His LORDSHIP proceeded in summing up very lumi-
nously to expound and explain the law bearing upon
the several parts of the case, and then through a most
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The jury having considered upon their verdict for a
very few minutes, at about half-past seven o'clock
returned a verdict of Guilty of a common assault.
There being other indictments, sentence was, of course,
deferred.

Friday, Nov. 29.
At the sitting of the Court this morning it was inti-
mated, as we understood, by the Learned Counsel for
the prosecution, that, as the jury had already given
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 to 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.

OXFORD ClRCUlT—Gloucester, Nov. 2s.
(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 is mother enclosing an order on the
Bristol post- ce for is., 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 practiaed
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 I" 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 accidental, 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 Leaned
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.
MARYLEBONE.
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 service, 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 wife.
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 he 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 of cer,
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 disco :ered 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.

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BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From last Night's Gazette.) •
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Btb of Vic-
toria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the
23d day of Norember,lB44.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued ... 27,528,875

.x.
GoTernment debt 11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
G old coin and

bullion
Silver bullion

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

:PA RTMENT.

Government secu-
rities (i nclud-
ingDead Weight
Annuity) 13,539,775
Other securities 9,547,462
Notes
Gold and silver
coin

I 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.
1 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 5/. per share on the 4,000 new shares of 501.
each. The report states, that the Directors have en-
tered into contracts for four new 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 45,000/. and
5,0001 contingent upon a mail contract being obtained,
her original cost being about 80,000/. An additional
sum of 8,0001 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 65,0421., which, with the undivided
profits of the preceding year, makes a total of 109,8971.
The usual dividend of 31 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, a correspondent 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 net 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 parti-
cular are virulent beyond former precedent against the
policy of the Democrats in placking Mr. Polk at the
head of the poll, 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 the 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 be
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 countermanded, 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, which 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 from 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 bad 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 24 per cent. Formerly, the
parties borrowing had 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 advantage 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 '..01 to 4 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., 102/ 4.
The Foreign Bonds maintained a firm appearance.
Spanish Actives were 244 j; the Three per Cents., 354 i;
Portuguese Converted, 55i; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 634 to 624.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Cambridge and Lincoln were 4 ; Churnet
Valley, ; Dublin and Belfast, 4 ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 11 ; Great North of England, New, 11; Great
Western, 604 to 614 ; Ditto, Fifths, 144 ; Birmingham,
119 ; South-Western, Eighths, 24 ; London and York,
14 to 4 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 384 ; Shrewsbury
and Birmingham, 4 ; South-Eastern, New, 7 ; York and
North Midland, 524 to 54; Ditto, Selby Extension, 13;
Boulogne and Amiens, 3 to 24 ; Orleans and Bordeaux,
54; and Paris and Orleans, 21 to 214 premium. Bristol
and Exeter were at par; Blackwell have been 94 discount;
and Direct Northern 4 discount to par.
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.