The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23 1844.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
GLOBE.—Those views which we have steadily TIMES.—The subject of the stamp on receipts is one
put forth for a good many years, as to where the fault which engages some attention among the trading inte-
really lies for the less favourable aspects of our social rests in the City, and a suggestion has been made by an
intelligent member of that interest, following the prin-
system, and that it does not really lie with the ma-
ciple of the universal penny postage, to tax all receipts
ligned, and alleged merely Mammonite middle class f r sums above 51. at ld. only, and make it compulsory
—we now see put forth in quarters possessed of ma- to give stamped receipts in all cases, which he thinks
chinery, powerful, when worked in a valid cause. The would produce a revenue of 1,000,000 Z, while the tax
Times obsers that, in a country possessed of a vi- yields at the present time a sum less than 200,000/. The
gorous middle class— party referred to, with whose respectability we are ac-
" The State has not to set to work as soon as it fore- quainted, has furnished a long written statement in
sees an exigency, or conceives a design, putting all the elucidation of his plan, the leading points of which will
scattered parts of the social machine together, and dis- be sufficient to render it intelligible to the public.
covering, at the last moment, to its cost, that it is not He proposes that the paper to be used shall be issued,
prepared, for that something is missing, some joint has stamped, as heretofore, by the Government, which is to
gaped, or some member has shrunk since the last great print on the same paper a form of receipt, besides which
turn-out of the nation. In such a predicament the re- he would allow all acknowledgments of the receipt of
sults must always be precarious and imperfect. But money, written on paper which bears the Post-office
with a large class, neither very rich nor very poor, stamp, as evidence of passing through the Post-office, to
neither incapable of great efforts nor above them, always be considered legal receipts. All other paper to be used
engaged in extensive and arduous designs, always aug- for invoices, accounts-current, &c., to be found by per-
menting and concentrating the resources of the country, sons requiring it, and to be presented for stamping at the
the statesman has three parts of his work done to hand. Stamp-office. He proposes, also, that all bankers' cheques
Even if he slept, others worked. He has only to speak should have the penny stamp attached to them, which
to a prepared people, and open a well filled magazine." will make them legal vouchers, instead of being the
If the middle classes, adds the Times, " have been means commonly in use, as they now are, of evading
banished from the country to the town, and made the tax altogether.
thereby more democratic, whose fault is it ? Not The calculation of the amount likely to be raised by
their own." It is not simply being " banished" from such a tax seems a startling one, but the writer adverts
the country to the town that makes people democratic. to data which bear him out in concluding such a result
to be at least probable ; and he points out one moral
It is very true that a whole population of mere col- to
fromt_ his plan, in its_ inducing better habits of
tivators is not usually democratic—nor anything else.
which may
yn
prevent
voucherst litigation fo r
ands—wbaiepbracntoicwe
It is simply jolterhead. But neither are towns what is all
disputes,ayni ent
usually understood by the epithet democratic (that is constantly occur through the neglect of such a precau-
to say favourable to throwing all power into all hands) tion. It is something also, on that side of the question,
so long as towns are thriving. Such democracy, in an to get rid of a law, the infringement of which is of daily
old country, is desperation. If footing in the country and hourly recurrence.
has been withdrawn, step by step, from the numbers, We have proposed only now to offer an outline of the
and if those numbers find footing fail them in the plan; and leave it to make what impression it may upon
towns also, their temper naturally takes the turn the public.
of democracy. But towns are loyal while they
Ever since the passing of the new Bank Act, inge-
nuity seems to have been at work to devise methods by
thrive. Those who lead the opinion of the towns,
in ordinary times, are the class most anxious for slohnics.h
Athedcaouonrtrtyw
obaankoerv,se may escape thelnlaegwabl
iepbr
ovi-
tran the
quillity—because tranquillity is the sine qua Bankers' Ciyrcular advancedg. for the benefit of those whose
non to commercial confidence. They are ready interest it represents, and presents,to-day our attention has been
to regard the lords of the soil, or the men of called to another scheme which looks very practicable,
hereditary rank, as their leaders, provided they though it is perhaps less ingenious than the others. The
find in them the real energy of leadership 11th section of the Act only forbids the bankers to issue
in the national cause. But the energy of exclusion notes on bills payable to bearer on demand beyond a
—the energy of monopoly—it is not surprising if certain extent, and if any instrument can be contrived
these energies excite no responding loyalty. Sir that will answer the purpose of circulation, and not come
Robert Peel the elder, in 1815, exclaimed against the within this description; it seems that the statute may be
injustice of rewarding the steady loyalty of the manu- evaded. The new scheme proposes that a firm of bankerssh
a sign a note payable at sight or on demand, at
factoring towns by restrictive corn-laws. It is true the banking-house, to the order of one of the partners
that he did not exactly foresee the form of the evils or one of the clerks, and that the payee shall endorse
which have followed. He foresaw rather direct decay the note in blank. Such a document is not, it appears,
than increased concourse, stimulated effort, and giant according to repeated decisions on the Stamp Act, a "note
• capitals. But are Lot the increased intensity of the payable to bearer," and yet it can be transferred by de-
struggle, and theprogressive absorption ofsmall capitals, livery only, and imposes just as much liability on the
symptoms of artificial pressure and agonising exist- banker as the note such as the statute contemplates.
ence ? Are they not attended with the swallowing up of Here, then, we have an instrument against which the
the independent middle class ? Is not that the sure law is probably powerless.
forerunner of decay—is it not that we should seek to •
One view remains to be taken of all these expedients.
remedy ? For our own part we must confess, it is
In the. opinion of nearly all the disinterested persons in
tta
hehCsu y who have spoken upon the new Banking Bill,
i
with little satisfaction or confidence that we hear of been considered a very judicious measure, chiefly
vast and daring commercial operations—narrowed, as becausa it
ecks excess in circulation, and therefore
the base of those operations is by restrictive laws. tends to repress reckless
speculation. One class of per-
We hear, for instance, that our exports to China have sons,,however, find that it does not accord with their own
increased from a million to three millions and a half. individtial interests; and therefore, thoughtherecan be no
If this is accurate, it is superfluous to inquire doubt whatever as to the spirit and meaning of the law,
what will come back ? As business is now done, all sorts of schemes are recommended to evade the letter
the system of credit, which facilitates vast of the statute. Everybody who is aware of the exist-
speculative enlargements of commercial operations ence of the Act, is also aware that its object is to place
in any promising quarer, makes momentary flushes the circulation of the country within defined limits ; and
various
mist, and should c-)n!:ent no far-seeing states-
of prosperity, which can deceive no watchful econo-
those gentlemen who avail themselves of the
stratagems we baye described, will place themselves in
no very enviable situation, with regard to the country at
man. The sole true foundstion for well-being is the large, who will consider a public benefit of more conse
assurance to Lak,ur ,f tic products which labour quence than an individual interest. Suppose these plans
needs. The cspitslist builds his house upon sand, s.ucc,ed for a titne, it is scarcely possible that they can
if he builds it on sp.-culatioa on the indefinite ex- produce any lastitig benefit to the parties who adopt
tent of any marly-t—without reference to the tines therm It' they are carried on to any important extent,
tion of available returns --and returns available to thy.will probably bo checked by some supplementary
statute that will render the provisions of the exnaim
our wants. The coarsest, the most eryday wants 1
I law more stringent an,tl defined. A great and hnportan
of Lat,onr are the soie sure baeis of commerce.
principle is centen:T!ed for, a.nd either that must U.
Ttiose being first considered, the superstructure of i
sactiticed, or, these small contrivances must, in the lon;.,
elegant luxuries can be re-tred. But the instability be crushed.
of the base is fatal to ail hat con be raised above I."'
it; and fatal, above all, to the existence of the
compet:nt, midd'e class, wllich &rends on labouring
- • cu,torners, anti moil s ;,rofit;. Ti; the ruin of this
class thr too much and (ine-spun
terld,-(1;----iand very ,e:nioently. much of the iegis-
;lttion with re:tpeet Ll.;rilruptcy and Insolvency.
A corre4l‘;),,-,(1-:11', vi hose views tnis subj :et we have
ii4sert,,,d Oil f,rnier oreca-ior,s, ob4erve;, " Now is the
tittle that new law-si-uctures :nu-t he reared ; and, if
not, taken in hand sefionsly hr LIP virtuous and hard-
thinking, the duty Will be snitched at by the same sort
of intellect that has destroye-d the ancientand rude insti-
tutions, which, though xs an ff d less cruelty, did ke:ep
out the idle, and extravagant, and dishonest, from the
treasure that frugal men had collected. Thee pro-
tections have been cle,troye,l, chiefly by the turbu-
lent, tongue of a superficial law Lord. New pr te oc-
-thins inmt be devise! ity more healthy and more
honest intAiect. Bed t) for-laws have been the de-
struction or deteriorafien of the whole of the lower
classes ; so tvill had insolvency laws effect the acme
end for the middle cases. And what then ? A
few taillionaire.c of the acre, the mill, and the ledper,
!ive in the lend amidst a whole population, the
victims of unmitigated poverty and demoralisation.
And what thou ? Revolution, with its most Ilide,,w;
weapon;' the brand and the knife !" Heaven avert it !
But God helps them who help themselves. We shall
return to this topic.
STANDARD.—A Whig Contemporary yester-
day expressed much anxiety at the elevation of Lord
Stanley to the peerage, upon grounds, the ingenious
discovery of which we may admire, but grounds
which we can scarcely understand. The journal in
question first assumes that Lord Stanley has taken
fright at the preparations for an invasion of the
Colonial department, made by certain important
:Members of the House of Commons, viz.—
" Some people think that the Baron Bickerstaffe has
cut and run' from the provoking inquiries threatened
in the Commons next session—by Mr. Buller on emi-
gration, by Mr. Hutt on the West Indies, by Mr. Scott
on New South Wales, by Mr. Forster on the west coast
of Africa, by Mr. Aglionbv, Mr. Mangles, and Lord
Howick on New Zealand, and by Mr. Hawes on colonial
representation in the Imperial Parliament. There is
probability in the suspicion."
" Some people" may perhaps adopt this ingenious
solution of Lord Stanley's elevation to the peerage,
but " other people" will think that the matter may
be more simply explained by the hypothesis that, as
certainly the second in eminence of living Parliamen-
tary debaters, Lord Stanley may be placed more
usefully for the Administration and the country
in the ✓House of Lords than in the House of Com-
mons, where the very first living debater already leads
the majority, and even single-handed, without the
aid of Mr. Gladstone, Sir J. Graham, &e.' would
find it an easy matter to deal in debate with a five-
fold greater force of Parliamentary ability than Lord
John Russell and all his followers, Lord Palmerston 1
included, can array against him ; it is, besides, an ill
compliment to the ex-Whig Colonial Secretaries in
the. House of Lords, Lords Glenelg and Nortnanby,
to say that they would be less formidable antagonists,
though backed by Lord Clanricarde, &c., &c., than
Messrs. Buller, Hutt, Scott, Forster, Aglionby, Lord
Irowick, and Mr. Benjamin Hawes., or any of them.
The Whig journal, however, proceeds :
" This dodge' has about it all that super-subtlety for
which the Colonial-office has long been notorious, and
from which our transmarine possessions have so deeply
suffered. That office dreads discussion ;it will do any-
thing, however mean or monstrous, to avoid debate. Let
vas then cast a glance at the state in which Lord Stanley,
MI his departure from the House of Commons, leaves the
colonies."
Of " the dodge" (to borrow our Contemporary's
polite phraseology) we have already spoken ; but
there is something curious in the admissions of the
paragraph, that the Colonial-office has long. been
notorious for " super-sublety " for " the dread of
discussion," and for doiree anything mean or mon-
etrous in order to avoid debate. Long notoriety, in
such matters, must extend beyond. three or four
years. What, says Bacon, is the hour-glass of one
man's life in the age of a nation ? The long notoriety
of the mismanagement of a great public department
must therefore reach to sonic considerable period, cer-
tainly to a period sufficiently long to embrace the
-whole of the fourteen years since 1830, though within
that period the eminently energetic Lord Glenelg, as
Well as Lords Normanby and J. Russell hold the
cobanial seals—of eour,e "dreaded discussion, and
did mean and monstrous things." It surely
is not kind of the IVhig journalist to rip up these
offences of its old friends, already suffering enough of
Tublic contempt in their dreary unplaced position.
.As if, however, maliciously resolved to fix its charges
;against the Colonial-office upon the Whig holders of
ilia office, the Whig journal details them all in its
" ,glance"—a glance prismatically split into 16 heads,
eaieli head presenting some colonial difficulty, and each
difficulty that is not simply ridiculous, or obviously
tanfoun.ded, being the eft-'ct of Whig mismanagement.

LA W INTELLIGENCE.

VICE - CLIA CELLO R' S COURT, 11' cr. 22,
(fleri;re ziir K. BnucE.)
CRAIK E F% LAMBF;-JUDGMENT.

The rpestion 1:1 this case is one of right construc-
tion of the terms of a will irn.de by Mr. ja:nes Grice
who after giving several legacies, gave and bequeathed
all the remaioder of his real and personal es-
tate, of lrlia!:;;-:evar the same mi.4ht consist,
unto and equally between and among all
his relations wit() might claim and prove
tiß.ir affinity to him by lineal descent, the property
to be divided share and share alike. The wilt was
dated the 18th of February, 1837, and the testator
died the 22.1 of the same month, a widower, and
without issue.

tioNoun gave judgment in the case this morn-
ing ; after going at great length into the facts and
circumstances of the case, he said he must not
be understood as giving any opinion as to
whether the \word " relatives" comprehended persons
connected by marriage to another, and not by kindred
of blood. The Master had found that the parties
entitled were the relations by kindred, and he should
confirm that finding ; the property in dispute would,
therefore, go to the next of kin, and not to the heirs-
at-law.

(Before Sir J. WIGRAM.)
MALLALIEU V. MILLER.

This case, which has been already before the Court,
was again brought before his Honour this morning.
It came on on further directions and costs, and equity
reserved upon the alleged lien of the plaintiff Melia-
lieu, who is a factor residing in Manchester, on the
goods of Copeland and Duncan, late shipping agents
of Liverpool, who had become bankrupt in the latter
end of 1836. The alleged lien on the bankrupts pro-
perty arose out of a balance of cash due in the ordi-
nary course of business by the bankrupts to Mallalieu.
The arguments upon the affidavits and evidence, which
were exceedingly voluminous, engaged the Court the
entire day.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 22.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court heard motions to-day. No case of im-
portance came before the Court up to the hour that
we went to press. During the course of the morning
the Middlesex Grand Jury came into Court, and
having been thanked by Mr. Justice Williams for
their services, were discharged.

BAIL COURT, Nov 22.

THE QUEEN V. THE GUARDIANS OF THE TOTNES

UNION.

Mr. GREENWOOD moved for a mandamus to compel
he guardians to give relief without the workhouse to
a poor person named Penning. An order was made
by two magistrates, in pursuance of the 27th sec. of
the Poor-law Amendment Act, for out-door relief to
the poor person, who was unable to work. There
was a difference of opinion amongst the guardians as
to the propriety of complying with the order, but
upon a motion made by Sir J. T. Bulleran, ex-officio
guardian, that the order be complied with, it was de-
cided that the pauper ought not to have out-door relief.
—Application granted.
MARY ELIZABETH SMITII V. EARL FERRARS.
Mr. BUTT moved for a rule to show cause why the
rule for changing the venue in this case should not be
discharged, and why the venue should not be changed
from Warwickshire to London. This was an action
brought by the next of kin to the plaintiff for breach
of promise of marriage, to which there were two pleas
pleaded non assumset and infancy. The cause was
removed on the usual affidavit to Warwickshire. It
was) stated that the defendant was a person of great
influence in Warwickshire, and that the jurors there
would be guided by the influence of his family. The
defendant had, moreover, married Augusta Arabella
Chichester, whose family had likewise great influ-
ence in Warwickshire. The plaintiff stated that she
intended to have the cause tried by a special jury, and
that an impartial jury could be obtained in London.
She also stated that she believed several witnesses
would be called who would speak to important facts
which occurred immediately without the city
boundary.—Rule granted.
THE QUEEN V. THE 'VICAR AND CHURCHWARDIINS OP
ST. STEPHEN'S, CITY.
Mr. PasunEtou moved for a mandamus to com-
mand the vicar and churchwardens of St. Stephen's,
Coleman-street, to call a vestry, for the purpose of
electing an organist to the parish. It appeared that a
committee had been appointed to decide on the merits
of candidates for the office, and they selected six per-
sofas. A meeting was called to elect one of the sir, at
which Miss Macrane, who was not one of the six, de-
manded a poll. They granted a poll, but refused her
votes. This was the reason of the application.
Mr. Justice PATTESON said that an organist was
not an officer.

Mr. PASHLEIGH said that a rate made for an organist
was legal.
_ _

111 r. -Justice PATTFSON doubted it.

CONSECUATION OF CANIRERAVELL CHURCH.— On
Thursday morning the Bishop of Winchester consecrated
the new church at Camberwell, built on the site of the
tine destroyed by fire in 1542, The church, which has
Leen erected at a out of 14,000/., will accomodate 1,500
persons. The design 12 in the style of the latter half of
the thirteenth century, ix-ipp; the transition between the
Early- _English" and the •‘ Decorated Style," The
1 tan is .a.leforrn, having a eteiral tower and spire. The
sp..re, what may he seen from a, cen.iderable distance
i t every direction, is "567 feet in heielt. The Bishop
r.rOtT olhotrtly after eleven o'clock, and haying gone
tiro ' th4iiftr._.....s.t.iheat,...,ttrins, preached a sermon from
th 2,0,11.0141te (ov-eeaweronovey, sth erne. eollee-
ii vas a-the close of the service. A
On Wed-
! curl, -Fr AT NORTITLEACII P
r.' aY- the
eac
nevi* wing of this buildinugis".--
~recently erected
fell:in 'with a Sze endows- crash, Owing to the hutment;
j2ii,,in:ivity-,--ii I
.pousentemee of the heavy
9 p fail of rain.
reAson sestsined any injury by the
"Veiy fortunati Or xt,
Accident, the T to.rk:lle4 havinu left a few minutes before.
Cheltenham Ch. Wide.

Mr. PASHLEIGH said it appeared, from " Rolls'
Abridgment," that the parish might levy a rate for
the ornmaments of the church.

Mr. Justice PATTESON—An organist is no or-
nament.—(Laughter.)
Mr. PASIILLIGH referred to other authorities.
Mr. Justice PATTESON took time to consider the
matter.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

and thence to Charing-cross Hospital, where the
usual antidotes were effectively administered.
No medical gentleman was present to give evidence.
The defendant, in answer to the Magistrate's in-
quiries, said that she had been turned out of doors by
her mother, an upholstress, at Camberwell, with
whom she had resided during the greater part of the
last three months, but who had refused to give her
any further support. She had been in service at St.
John's-wood since the death of her father, about
seven years ago, and not being able to get another
situation was the same of her mother's cruelty
towards her. She was not aware that she had ever
given her mother greater offence than either of her
sisters, who were more kindly treated, and yet she
was turned into the streets at half-past eleven o'clock
at night, and left to walk about till the next morning,
when she applied to the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-
house, and also to the magistrate at Union-hall, to
both of whom she declared that she was destitute.
They refused, however, to hear her story, and feeling
too ill to bear another night's exposure to the cold,
without food, she resolved to destroy herself, for
which purpose she procured and drank the laudanum.
Mr. HALL asked her if she had any friends ?—The
girl replied that she had lived two weeks with a mar-
ried sister at Windsor; but she was now ill, in Guy's
Hospital. All she wanted was, to get some shelter
until she could hear of a place, us her mother would
do nothing for her until she had obtained one.
Mr. HALL directed the constable to take her to St.
Martin's Workhouse, in order that her ease might be
investigated.

William Fitzgeorge, a stoker on board the Earl of
Liverpool steam-vessel, trading to and from Ostend,
was brought before the Lord Mayor and Sir John
Pirie, charged, upon an information, with having
been found in that vessel in possession of a quantity
of tobacco, on which the duty had not been paid.
Coleby Atkinson Davis, the Custom-house officers
stated that between five and seven o'clock on Thurs •
day morning he went on board the Earl of Liverpool,
which lay off Tower-stairs. The prisoner, who was
not at that time on board, arrived soon afterwards,
and witness, upon searching his berth, found under the
flooring under the bed about Vbs. of tobacco, and
subsequently he found 161bs. of tobacco in the engine-
room. In the forecastle he found, on the same day,
161bs. of tobacco, and in the after-cabin 101bs. of
cigars.

The prisoner was convicted in the penalty of 1001.
William Holls, also a stoker on board the Earl of
Liverpool, was charged under an information charg-
ing him with a similar offence.
The prisokor said that he was not guilty to the ex-
tent attributed, and that he thought he was justified
in having in his possession a certain quantity of the
article.

Sir JouN PIRIE—We are imperatively called upon
to check this practice, which now knows no bounds.
The prisoner was fined 1001.
Henry Hadden, steward of the after-cabin, was
charged with having been concerned in the smuggling
of tobacco.

WORSHIP-STREET.
Anne ilf‘Cormack was brought up for final exami-
nation before Mr. Bingham, charged with having
stolen a sovereign, the property of Leah Aarons, her
fellow-servant, at the house of Mr. M. Gomez Silva,
a West India merchant, residing in King-street,
Finsbury-square; and also with the abduction of her
master's daughter, ten years of age.
The depositions, which were very voluminous,
having been read over, the prisoner was fully com-
mitted on the charge of felony, and, in the event of
her acquittal thereon, the Magistrate ordered a de-
tainer to be lodged against her for the misdemeanour.
On Thursday Mr. Attenborough, the pawnbroker of
Crown-street, Finsbury, attended before Mr. Bing-
ham to show cause why he refused to deliver up a
coat, of the value of 205., which had been pledged at
his shop, and the principal and legal interest on
which had been duly tendered.
Anne Barrett, a poor Irishwoman, proved pledging
the article on the 4th inst., and that on going to re-
deem it, the defendant refused to restore it, on the
ground that he had already delivered it over to another
person.
The defendant produced the usual printed form of
" declaration," filled up in the name of 'William Bar-
rett, which is that of the woman's husband, deposing
to his having lost the duplicate, and said that the
pledge had been delivered to the person presenting it.
He maintained that he had thus exonerated himself
from all liability.
The complainant declared that neither she nor her
husband had either made the declaration themselves,
or authorised any other person to make it for them.
She had pledged the coat herself, her name was upon
the duplicate, and all the defendant's shopmen knew
her intimately, from her being constantly obliged to
pawn articles there.
Mr. BINGHAM said, he was strongly inclined to
think that the defendant was answerable for the pro-
perty or its value, and that he was in a correlative
position to that of a banker and his customer, in
which, if any of the customer's money were paid to a
third party by fraud, the loss in such case clearly fell
upon the banker.
The defendant pointed out the extreme hardship of
such a liability upon pawnbrokers, as it would place
them entirely at the mercy of any unprincipled per-
son who thought fit to commit a fraud upon them.
They were imperatively required by the Act of Par-
liament to give the necessary forms of declaration to
be filled up, not merely to the owner of the property
pledged, but even to any one representing himself as
the owner, and as the property in dispute might some-
times be of the most valuable description, the magis-
trate might at once see to what a serious extent their
interests would-be endangered.
Mr. BINGHAm, after referring to the Act, said the
question involved in the matter was of such vast in-
terest to the public and to pawnbrokers in general,
that he was of opinion no single magistrate ought to
he called upon to decide on the point in issue, but
that it should be settled by a deliberate decision in
Wekininster-hall. He put it to the defendant, whe-
ther it would not be worth while to refer the ques-
tion to some eminent counsel, as similar cases re-
peatedly came before him, and ke was very much
afraid that the owners of property themselves were
frequently in collusion with persons who committed
such frauds.
The defendant sail, he should certainly forthwith
adopt the magistrate's suggestion, as during the forty
years that he had been in business he had never once
been compelled to return property under such cir-
cumstances.
Mr. BINGHAM felt the case to be one of great diffi-
culty, and should therefore take time to form a judg-
ment upon it, and would meanwhile recommend the
defendant to consult his brother tradesmen, with the
view of obtaining competent professional assistance,
and having the matter further and more fully dis-
cussed at a future day.
The defendent expressed his determination to do
so, and the case was adjourned for a fortnight, that
its legal difficulties might be put into a train of deli-
berate investigation.
CLEEKEIV WELL.
On Thursday Mrs. Phillips, residing in Henrietta-
street, Brunswick-square, and Mr. Charles Olivar, a
solicitor, living there, were charged with violently
assaulting Mrs. Lucinda Montague, and her servant,
Eliza Jennings, lodgers in the same house.
Mrs. Montague, who seemed very nervous and de-
licate, deposed, that her husband having fallen into a
small arrear of rent, they received notice to quit
from the defendant Oliver, as attorney for Mrs.
Phillips, with whom he was on terms of close inti-
macy. The notice expired on Thursday last, but
witness, in consequence of the delicate state of her
health, did not leave on that day. At five o'clock,
in the evening, her husband, on returning from busi-
ness knocked at the street-door ; she sent her ser-
vant, a girl of sixteen, down to open it, but not hear-
ing the door open, nor the servant return, she ran
down stairs, and on reaching the hall was shocked at
seeing the girl on the ground, and the defendant
Oliver with, his knee on her chest, and both his
knuckles pressing her throat, so that she was almost
suffocated. The door was barricadoed with chains
and staples. Witness screamed, and ran towards
the door to admit her husband; but Olivar immedi-
ately seized her by the throat, and squeezed her with
te r'
greatlya sprainrma
swollen.
tor wl
wrist,lsnt ed
all his force. She burst away from him, but Mrs.
severalPhillipsso which
At length
leehn round
owha
swafi
hot her
much
days f graspedo
r c eaf
tasel:
got up stairs to her own apartments, but the de-
fendants rushed in after her, where they again used
violence. Her three infant children screamed, but
Olivar, tearing her shawl from her back, exclaimed,
" I seize this in the Queen's name," and desired them
all "to turn out" The witness detailed other acts
of violence by ate defendants.
Eliza Ann Jennings, Mrs. Montague's servant,
corroborated :her mistress's testimony in every re-
spect. She had been nearly suffocated from Mr.
Olivar's violence.

Mr. Davis having repeated his former evidence, un-
derwent a cross-examination by Mr. Pickett, of the
house of E. B. Robinson, Savage-gardens, but the
cross-examination had the effect of more strongly
exhibiting the guilt:of the prisoner. The witness
stated that the chief steward, who was evidently igno-
rant of the stowage of contraband goods in the vessel,
said to the prisoner, " What a fool you must be to
do such a thing ;" to which the prisoner replied that
he had deposited some of the tobacco in the berth
himself, and that he was sorry for it.
The witness, in answer to a question from Mr.
Pickett, who endeavoured to shuffle the offence from
the shoulders of his client to those of the chief mate,
said that the Custom-house officers were in the habit
of endeavouring with all their might to discriminate
between the innocent and the guilty, and that they
entirely exonerated the chief mate in the case.

Mr. Pickett—ls not a certain quantity of tobacco
allowed to each person on board ?

Mr. Davis-I\io. The captain is allowed the power
to deal out a certain quantity of tobacco to his men,
but they have no privilege at all of the kind. We are
well aware who are the guilty parties.
Mr. Pickett then begged that the Magistrate would
inflict a lenient penalty upon his client, in considera-
tion of the large family the poor man had.
The LORD MAYOR said the Board of Commis-
sioners had the power to alleviate the punishment
which the Magistrates could not help pronouncing in
such a case upon such convincing testimony.
The prisoner was then convicted in the penalty of
1001.

GUILDHALL.

On Thursday Walter Bennett, an errand-boy, about
,hirteen years of age, in the service of Mr. Graham,
an ivory-turner, in Bride-lane, was brought before
Mr. Alderman Humphery, charged with stabbing
Edward Ingram, an apprentice working for the same
employer.
A surgeon's certificate was put in that Ingram's life
was in danger.
Ingram's sister attended as complainant. She said
she was not present at the time the assault was com-
mitted, nor when her brother was brought home.
He was first taken to a surgeon, who dressed the
wound and sent him home to his lodging in Parson's-
court, Bride-lane. She believed he was dying. She
understood he was wounded about six o'clock on
Tuesday evening.
John Speakman, City police-constable 329, stated
that the prisoner was given into his custody on Wed-
nesday evening by the mother of Ingram. The
wound was at the top of the abdomen. He produced
the tool, a gouge, about eighteen inches long.
Mr. Alderman HUMPUERY asked the sister how old
her brother was ? She said .he was about twelve.
Mr. Alderman Humenuav asked her if she had
heard what led to the assault ? She said the prisoner
anti her brother had words.
The prisoner said the apprentice had extinguished
his own light by spitting on the candlewick, and
finding a difficulty in lighting it again, he put pri-
soner's candle out in the same way. Having got a
fresh light from a neighbour, the prisoner attempted
to set fire to his hair, and prisoner in return tried to
burn his shoulder. This made the apprentice cross,
and he struck prisoner over the arm. Prisoner in
return threw a gouge at him.
Mr. Alderman llummumy did not believe the tool
would pass through the clothes and pierce the body
if it had been thrown. it must have been pushed at
him.
The prisoner said it was.
Mr. Alderman HUMPHRRY asked if any one was
present at .the time ? The prisoner said there was
another boy.
The prisoner's father put in a certificate from some
person that the prisoner WIN an inoffensive, mild-
tempered boy, and the father asked if he might be
admitted to bail.
Mr. Alderman HUMFUERY said he could not admit
to bail a person who might be charged with murder.
The father smiled at the observation, and said it
could not be murder.
Mr. Alderman HUMPITERT asked him what he
called it ? It was impossible that he could be a mild-
tempered boy, or he would not have seized a sharp
instrument and thrust it into the body of the appren-
tice. It was very indecent for the father to be laugh-
ing while the son was about to be charged with mur-
der.—The father said it could only be manslaughter-
Mr. Alderman HUMPHERT said he should not ad•
mit the prisoner to bail, and remanded him till Sa-
turday.
Two young men, named Johnstone and Smith, were
charged with having stolen a gold watch and chain,
the property of Bernard Trainer, a traveller.
Johnstone was brought up on Wednesday, and was
remanded until to-day, that Smith might be taken
into custody in the meantime.
Bernard Trainer said he lived at No. 64, Wood-
street. On Saturday he met two friends, and they
proceeded to the Parr's Head public-house, in Alders-
gate-street, to have something to drink. He was a
little in liquor. He and a person named Callaghan
sparred for some time. Previous to their fighting he
took out his watch and chain, and gave it to a friend,
named St. Ledger, to hold. St. Ledger put the
watch on the mantel-shelf, and when they left the
house they left it there by mistake. On Sunday he
went to the public-house to get the watch, when
Johnstone, who was potman at the public-house, de-
nied all knowledge of it. Smith was a lodger at the
house.
Mary Wood, the servant at the public-house, saw
Johnstone with a gold watch and chain in his pos-
session. He told her that if anybody asked her
about it, she was to say nothing. He afterwards said
that he had sold it to Smith for 2/. She could not
swear that the watch produced was the one he had,
but it much resembled it.
Smith pledged the watch at Mr. Newby's, 43,
Drury-lane, for Si., and the chain for 30s.—The pri-
soners were fully committed for trial.
BOW-STREET.
Thursday an elderly man, most respectably dressed
who refused to give his name, was brought before
Mr. Jardine, charged with having attempted to steal
a piece of cloth from the auction-rooms of Mr. George
Robins, Piazza, Covent-garden.
The prisoner, it appeared, was present at a sale of
cloth belonging to a pawnbroker, which was going on
yesterday afternoon at Mr. Robins's auction-rooms,
and was observed by one of the porters to cut a piece
of cloth, about two yards long, from off a roll near the
fireplace, with a penknife. The porter told Mr.
Robins, who ordered him to go outside, under the
Piazza, and wait till the prisoner came out, which he
did, and walking up to him asked him to go back into
the auction-room with him. The prisoner complied,
and was there given into custody. On being searched,
a penknife and two duplicates were found on him, but
the duplicates had only "Groves, 25, Charlotte-street,
Bedford-square," and gave no clue to his identity.
The cloth lay just where the prisoner had left it.
The prisoner, on being asked for his defence, in-
as
toelystanding by the
dignantly denied the charge, and stated that he was
mer
fireside, along with others,
and never touched the cloth. He was quite surprised
ghieve:lnteinntdoedcutostsotdeyaloiutts. idiei,eawndashiennaop.-
when
he
e was t
hwhe
pealed to the fact of his having left the cloth behind,
centivi
ro.f thej An
DwilisTtoEllDo y
affair.
u choose to give your name ?
Prisoner—l cannot ;I am most respectably con-
daylk,firn. JoArdaenriNtoa—tryThend ladrdemyaonlil younam etitllonjizetdTe
r.ected, and I cannot give any name. -
tions, and the witnesses must he boy-ad over to u
prose-
cute at the sessions.

Oliver admitted having seized the girl, but did not
use the violence described.
Mrs. Phillips denied the assault, and called two
witnesses, who did not, however, refute the com-
plainant's testimony.
Mr. GREENWOOD said it was a gross outrage, and
he would fine Oliver 3/. for the assault on Mrs. Mon-
tague, and 1/. for the assault on the servant ; and
Mrs. Phillips 2/.
Mr. Olivar—ls there no appeal ?
tio.Mnr. GREENWOOD—I cannot answer you that ques-

Mr. Olivar—Could not we compromise the matter ?
Mr. Ganubtwoop—lesTo such thing. It is a dreadful
outrage. If you do not pay the money I will commit
you for five weeks,
Mr. Olivar did not pay the money, and was
locked up.
Four well-dressed young men,
named A' egus, Eng-
land, Wakely, and _Hoskins, were charged with
creating a dis'curbance in Gray's Inn-lane on the pre-
vious night. They described themselves by various
designatio,ls. Negus had stated that he was the
Turkish Ambassador, but they all turned out to be
nothing more or less than twopenny-postmen.
Police.-constables 144, 165, 65, and 48 G, were
en peav ouring to disperse a mob in Gray's Inn-lane
on ti-,e previous night, when the prisoners came up
anei told them they had no business there. Negus
aid he was the Turkish Ambassador, and warned
them against interfering with him or his comrades.
They then commenced hallooing and shouting at the
top of their voices, so as to disturb the inhabitants.
Hoskins said he was a City policeman All the pri-
soners, except England, were very violent and dis-
orderly. They were ultimately conveyed to the
station-house, after more than one attempt to escape.
Negus—The police treated me in a most unbe-
coming and improper manner.
cap,T uwairsithti
with
a rg4br4ae saGst a, dr
said
Mr. COMBE—lnconsistent with your character of
ttahsastelNseugsupsenhdaeddonfraoingreizt ran
affected the greatest importance.
Mr. COMBE fined all the prisoners ss. each, exceix
England.
Negus paid the money, put on his hat in the Court,
and strutted off with an air of great importance.

The witnesses were accordingly bound over, and
the prisoner will he committed on Tuesday.
On Thursday a young woman named Mary Ann
J(fferies was charged with having attempted suicide
by taking laudanum. She had been brought up the
preceding Monday to answer the charge, but as she
was then suffering intensely from the effects of the
' poison the case was deferred, and the poor girl con-
veyed back to the hospital.
No. 104 A stated, that on Thursday night, the 14th
inst., while on duty in St. James's-park, he found the
defendant lying under the milk stands, near Spring-
gardens, apparently asleep. On arousing her (which
he had some difficulty in doing), she told him that
she had just taken fourpennyworth of laudanum,
and produced a bottle, which bad evidently contained
the poison. He then took her to the police-station, i

I. ss.
15s.

11.
11.
31.
h. 6d.

/. 10s.

6 per Cent.
6 per cent.
8 per cent.
6 per cent
7 per cent.
6 pey cent.
npur cent.
6 per cent.
per cent.
4 per cent.
I' per cent.
(per cent.
per cent.
5 per cent.
5 per cent.
per cent
4, per cen t

We understand that Mr. Locke, the eminent en-
gineer, has received from his Majesty the King of the
yronch a magnificent diamond ring for his attention to
iris Majesty on the South. Western lway.

PRICES OF SHARES
Lpt (i.A.NALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE
AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

Dividend
per
Annum.

LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 22.

Amount

Names of Com-
panies.

Paid. !Pric

Share.

Si per cent.
41.

Canals.
Ashton and Oldham...
Ashby-de.la-Zouch..av
Basingstoke
Breckneck & Ahergay.
Birmingham, 1-16th sh.
Do. and Lirerp. June.
Chelmer & Blackwater
Coventry •
Crom ford .....
........
Dudley
Derby...—. , ...
Danube ancrMayne....
Ellesmere and Chester
Erewash
Forth and C1yde.........
Grand Juncti0n..........
Grand Union
Grand Surrey ......
Grand Western.......—
Glamorgansh., ay. cost
Gloucester & Berkeley
Grantham
Huddersfield . ..... ....ay
Kennet and Avon ...av
Lancaster av
Leeds and Liverpool...
Leicester
Leicester & Northamp
Loughborough ........av
Monmouthshire
Montgomeryshire
Melton Mowbray..
Mersey and Irwell
Macclesfield
Neath... ...............
Oxford
Peak Forest av
Regent's (or London)..
Rochdale ay
Shropshire
Somerset Coal
Do. Lock Funs! Stock
Stafford and Worcester
Shrewsbury... .........
Stourbridge .........
Stratford.on-Ayon...av
5wan5ea...............
Severn & Wye & Rail.
Trent & Mersey, 3‘ sh.
Thames & Medway..av
Warwick and Sinning.
Warwick and Napton
Worcester & Binning
Wilts and Berks....ay
Wisbeach
Wey and Arun....

MARKET NEWS.—(YESTERDAY )
CONN EXCIIILIVGE
Although the return for the present week shows a
good arrival of English Wheat, the supply of that article
was by no means large. For all descriptions, however,
the demand ruled heavy, at almost nominal prices. In
Foreign Wheat next to nothing was doing, yet holders
would not submit to lower figures. Barley and Malt
were a mere drug ; yet we can notice no alteration in the
currencies. Oats, Beans, and Peas, as on Monday, with
exceedingly little doing._ _

£a. d.
07 18 0
113 0 0
100 0 0
150 0 0

41. 10s.

Z M. d.

4 percest.
44
40/.
.15s.

.-
5 -ARRIVAL&
Wheat. Barley. Oatt.
60 &mesh . 11,550 qrs. 7,400 qrs. 1,220
1/,‘, 20 .
13% Foreign 1 1
,930 3,430 I,oloqrs 1 -
Malt. 6,430 qrs.
sa • SMITELPIELD.
50
90 The supply of beasts was only moderate, yet the beef
(15 trade was, on the whole, inactive, at about Monday's
g5l quotations. We had on sale 54 beasts, in fair average
40 condition, from Rotterdam, as also fifty horned and
10. polled Scots from Dundee. The number of sheep being
„ very limited, the mutton trade 'was firm, and previous
to- rates were readily supported. For prime small calves
10 we had a steady inquiry, at, in some a trifle
8 more money. Other qualities were a dull sale. The
55 pork trade ruled dull, yet prices remained about sta-
ll tionary. Mulch Cows sold at from 161 to 191 each.
to%
Ili Per Bibs. to sink the offal.
10 a. d. to s. d.• s. d. to s. d.
39 Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 0 Second qualityditto., 8 0 3 4
it Second quality ditto 2 8 210 Coarse.woolled ditto.. 3 6 3 8
10 Prime large Oxen 3 0 3 8 Seuthdown Wethers 310 4 0
10 Prime Scots, &c. - -
tg Large coarse Calves 3 0 3 6 Large Hogs 3 0 3 6
[7 Prime small ditto.— 3 8 4 2 Small Porkers 3 8 4 0
s 3 Suckling Calves, each 18 030 1) Quarter old Pigs, eachl6 020 0
,8 Inferior Sheep 2 6 210 Lambs 0 0 0 0
15 SUPPLY AT MARKET.
6 Beasts. I Sheep. 1 Calves. 1 Pigs.
0 702 3,560 375
5 Zit EV/GJELTIb AND 31.29ATHONSIALL.
2 There was a full average supply of meat, yet the de-
-3 wand was steady, at our quotations.
1 At per stone, by toe Carcase
s. d. to s. d, B. d. to a. d.
Beef, inferi0r.......... 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 6 2 8
--middling ..... .... 2 6 2 8 -- middling 210 3 2
--
I
- prime large ..... 2 10 3 2 p rime 3 4 3 8
--- prime small ..... 3 4 3 6 Pork, large 2 6 3 6
Veal ....... ................ 3 0 4 0 small 3 8 4 0
BOIROUGII BOP DIAUICET.
I ) Since the declaration of the duty, the demand has
? somewhat slackened for most kinds of Hops, the quota-
tions of which are, in some instances, easier than last
1 week. Sussex pockets, 71 to 81; Wealds, 61 18s to;
8/ • Mid Kent, 8/ to 101 lOs ; East Kent, 71 7s to 8/ 15s
Choice, ditto, 101 to 121; Farnhams, 101 to 101 15s.
) COLONIAL
1 SUGAR.—Tbe market for British Plantation has been
5 firm, and a fair business has been done at steady rates.
) Sales of the week to last night are about 1,200 hhds.
r EAST INDIA.-8,762 bags Bengal have been sold by
auction ; Dobah at 59s Ito 68s per cwt ; good brown at
l% 52s to 53s 6d ; low to good white, 565 to 63s ; yellow,
52s 6d to 59s 6d per cwt, and damp, 52s to 60s per cwt.
MAURITIUS privately has been in request, being
[34 wanted, and there is a large public sale of the new crop
;
coming on to-day; 17,448 bags Manilla have been offered,
1 all of which was taken in at 19s 6d to 20s 6d for the
; sound parcels, and 14s 6d to 19s 6d for the damp and
washed ; 4,955 baskets 14 bags Java mostly sold at
,34 15s 6d to 24s 6d for sound, and I6s to 22s 6d for washed
and damp, and 584 bags went at 19s to 20s for damp
brown East India.
% FOREIGN.-103 chests one box Bahia were taken in at
19s to 23s 6d for sound grey and white. Havannah was
mostly taken in

It. ss.

Fl not
4,950

Si 12s. Bd.

.50.
.I.los.
841.
10/.

171.
301.
334
17s. tid.

10/.
6 percent.
28

201.
11. 10s.
151.

321.-109.

101.
10s.

1.-411.

cent.
4 per cent.
4* per cent.
4 per cent.
31. 10s.
5 per cent.
I: per cent.
I 3 per cent.
4 per cent.
4 per cent.

A per cent.
IL 07. sa.
18s. Id.
per cent.
11. 72.

3%. 10s.
4 percent.
6 per cent.
6 per cent.
3s. 6d. pr sh
51. ss.

er share
per cent.
3!.

per cent.
V 30s. bs.
$ per cent.
5 per cent.
5 per cent.
per cent.
Eper cent.
4s.
22. 6d.
per cent.

12 sh, & bs,
1/. ss.

5 per cent.
!per cent.
5 per cent.

per cent.
11. ss.

5 per cent.
psi per cent
li. 4s.
5 per cent.
er c en

S per cent.

6 per cent.
5 percent.
bper cent.
(per cent.

per cent.

per cent.
3 p_r cent.
6 per cent.
tls per share
Ss. per share

[0 per cent
per cent.

Ms.
1/. ss.
I/. 7s.
Si. and bs.
43/. and bs.
per cent.
scent.

101.
10/.
61 per sh
The per eh
21:
6 per cent.
5 per cent.:
6 per cent.

5 per cent,
6 per cent.
I% per cent.
31.
12i.

2/. 10s.
24 10s.
21. 10e.
:per cent.
44 16s.
11. 144

2/.135. p. sh.
It. Li.
per cent.

Cs. per sh.
U. ss. perch
W per cent.
N per cent.
9L ss. per eb
2j41. per sh.
12s. per sh.

per cent.

10 per cent.
10 per cent.
1341. per sh

101. per sh.

11. 14s.
31. per share
3s4d per sh
9L 17s. pr el
1138 per st
11.

Docks.
Commercial ... ....
East and West India
London
Ditto Bonds
Bristol.... ar
Do.Bnds, var. amounts
St. Katharine
Ditto Bonds
Ditto Bands
Southampton ......

R 11l 10d.

8 per oent.
per cent.

10 per cent.
0 percent.

125 0 0
145 0 0
79 9 8
100 0 0
26 9 3
50 0 0
19 5 8
100 0 0
100 0 0
78 8 0
67 10 8
105 0 0
110 0 0

100 0 0
Stock
Stock

lila 9 0

Stock

50 -0
0

Bridges
Hammersmith ......
Southwark, new Subs
Ditto New of 7% pr c
Waterloo
Ditto Old Ann. of Si,
Ditto New ditto ef 71
Ditto Bonds.. ....«
VauxhalL av

50 0 0
63 2 8
50 0 0
1W 0 0

/0 per cent.
10s. per sh.

79 10 9

11.
104 perch.

Assurances.
Albion
Alfred Life -
Alliance Brit. and For
Ditto Marine.... .......
Atlas
Birmingham Fire
I British Commercial
Cier. Med. & Gen. Life
County
Eag1e..........
Economic Life
European Life
Ditto New
Freemasons ......
Globe
Guardian
Hope Life
Ditto Fire .....
Imperial Fite
Ditto Life
Indemnity Marine
Law Life
Legal and General Life
London Fire
Ditto Ship
National Loan Fund
Neptune Marine
P,lladium Life
Protector Life
Provident
Rock Life
R yal Exchange
Sun Fire
Ditto Life..
University Life
Universal Life
Union Fire and Life
:oint Stk Banks
A ustralasis
Ditto New
Brit. North American
Commercial of London
Colonial
London & Westminstr
Ditto New
London Joint Stock
Metropolitan
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto New
National of Ireland
Nat. Provincial Englnd
Ditto New
Gloucestershire.......,
Union of Australia
Union of London
Gaslight & Coke
Bath
British
Ditto ProviniciaL.,
Birmingham... . ~.
Binning. Stakordsh:
Bristol
Brighton
Ditto General
City of London'
Ditto New
Continental Consolid
Ditto New
Equitable
Imperial
Isle of Thanet
Independent .....
Phcema ............
Ratcliff.
South Metropolitan
United General .....
Weatmins. Chartered
Ditto New

100 0 0
100 0 0
200 0 0

Water Works.
Birmingham
East London
Grand Junctuna.......av
Kent ...........
Nw Riv Len. Bridg An.
Manchester and Salford
Vauxhall, late S. Lond.
West Middlesex......av
Yrk Buldg Co.Les.Prop

25 0 0
100 6 0
41 13 4
IGO 0 0

SO ' 0
LOO 0 0
63 12 0
100 0 0

Iron Railways
Birmingham & Derby
& Gloucester
Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh & Glasgow
Grand Junction.... .....
Great North of Englnd
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifths .......
Harw.ch (Braithwaite)
Hull and Selby ......
Lancaster and Carlisle
Leech and Selby
Liverpool & Manchestr
Ditto Half-Shares......
London and Brighton..
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Blackwall
London and Greenwich
London and Birmingh.
Ditto Quarter-Shares
Ditto Thirds
London and S. Western
London and Croydon
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
Manchatr and Birming
Midland Counties
North British
Norwi, h & Brandon
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip, iss.sl. dis
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen,
Rouen and Havre
Stockton & Darlington
South East. and Dover
Yarmouth and Norwich
'York and N. Midlan
Ditto New Shares

[OO 0
[OO -0
[OO 0
50 0

100 0 0

-
41 IS 4

j leo —o 0

100 -0
0

All paid

tO 0 0

Mines.
Albion Copper
Alten
Anglo Mex., iss.s/. p.m
Ditto Subscription
Bolanos
Ditto Scrip
Brazil. Imp. iss.s/.p.rn
Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U
Do. St. John Del Rey
British Iron
Candonga,..— .......
Ditto Registered
Cobre Copper
Copiapo
Columbian, iss. 5/ p.m.
General Mining .....
Hibernian
Imperial Slate Compy
Mexican
Mining Co. of Ireland
Real del Monte, Un reg
Ditto Loan Notes
Rhymney Iron
Santiago de Cuba
United Mex., iss.2l. pm
Ditto Scrip
Ditto New

5 0
15 0
100 0

N (From the London New Price Current of Nov. 22.)
SUGAR.-To-day the market presented a quiet ap-
pearence for West India Sugar; but the limited business
NI transacted by private contract was at former rates;
'there is, however, more desire on the part of merchants
.% to • sell the inferior sorts. A public sale of 272 hhds
48 tres and 125 barrels St. Lucia went off with hea-
-22 viness, and a part only sold at rather lower rates for
20 brown and common yellow, but the better sorts sup-
-25u: ported former rates, good yellow fetched 61s, good mid
Vi 595, mid 565-. to 575, low 55s to 55s 6d, good brown 54s
3 to 54s 6d, mid 53s 6d, and drainage damaged 54s to 57s
'3i per cwt. The total purchases for the week are 1,600
hhds and trcs.
1 REFINkro.-To:ditY.Refined Sugar was in excellent re-
,
quest by the home trade, and prices ruled firm: standard
Lumps at 74s 6d, and brown 72s 611 per cwt. Bonded
Crushed Sugar is selling for forward delivery at 29s 6d
1 to 29s 9d, and some parties will not sell under 30s
per cwt..
1 MA URITIUS.-This afternoon at public sale 5,811 bags
232 casks of the new crop were brought forward, the
I principal part consisted of good mid, and good bright
134 yellow descriptions ; nearly the whole found purchasers
at fair market rates ; but there was a want of spirit in
1 biddings, fine yellow went at 64s to 67s 6d, good 60s to
635, good mid 57s 6d to 59s 6d, mid 54s t') 56s 6d, low
; 52s to 53s 6d, good brown 48s, mid 455, low 425, very
low 40s, six bags of the old crop were sold at 49s 6d per
cwt. for brown.
r EAST INDIA.-This afternoon 687 baskets of Java
were sold at full rates ; fine grey at 21s 6d to 22s 6d,
good yellow 20s 6d to 21s, fine 21s 6d to 225, mid 19s to
; 20s, white 22s to 23s 41, washed 17s 6d to 21s. Ben-
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gal Sugar met - with less :attention,; and the parcels
i 4 offered at public sale amounting to 2,810 bags were only
. partly sold,.but former ratesawere sustained ; middling
,4i yellow fetched 55s to 57s 6d,10w 53s to 54s 6d,. damp
l% and washed 53s 6d to 565, middling sound white 63s 6d,
low 61s, and damp brown 46s to 48s 6d per cwt.
r • FOREIGN.-The market has still a firm appearance for
.4 all descriptions of Foreign Sugar, and a further diminu-
r tion has taken place in the stock of all kinds. This
;34 afternoon 700 baskets of Java Sugar were sold privately
at 18s for brown, and 21s 6d for yellow, for refining
,Ii under bond.
Pg MOLASSES.-Previous rates are sustained for West
A India, and the demand has been very good this week-
i Antigua has been selling at 245, and Tobago 21s per
cwt. The deliveries are still exceeding the arrivals, and
there is not a large quantity offering for sale in the
I market East India Molasses are not much in request
at present. 14s to 17s. per cwt is the value of Bengal.
I% COFFEE.-This alernoon the public sales of Coffee
comprised 3,089 bags East India, 904 bags Ceylon, and
; . 92 casks 84 bags West India; for the East India the
'demand was limited, and nearly the whole was taken in
i
; . at more than it was worth, viz.-Sumatra low mixed with
; blacks at 225, Batavia good ord mixed bulked 26s to
lii to 28s 6d, ord 265, but a small part sold at 19s 6d to 24s
AN. for low much mixed, sea damaged 20s to 245, being how-
ever cheaper, Singapore Java good ord pale was taken in
i ," at 365, ord 30s, a few lots of damaged sold at 32s for Ist, 28s
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to 28s 6d for 2d, 26s for 3d class, and 28s for damaged
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in the country ; of the Ceylon the chief part was sold at
full market rates, but Plantation sorts went is to 2s
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cheaper-good ord pale sold at 555, fine fine ord coloury
; at 66s to 675, fine ord 63s to 645, triage 28s 6d to 46s ;
the West India consisted of small lots, and was in second
v hands, it sold at full rates-fine ord Jamaica at 52s to
Ig 545, and good ord 49s to Ms per cwt. The value of good
1I ord Ceylon is 54s ; but there was not much business
transacted.

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COFFEE.—The market generally has been firm, and in
some cases buoyant. British Plantation sorts are rather
dearer, and Jamaica at auction has realised 33s to
D 66s 6d for triage to fine ord. Ceylon has realised about
.3L 53s 6d to 54s for good ord ; and 345 bales Mocha at
auction have been sold at 68s 6d to 70s for mid greenish
)36 clean garbled, and 48s 6d to 52s for triage. Sound ord
3..* Padang has been sold at 21s per cwt, and yellowish Pea-
) berry at 51s to 52s Gd per cwt.
5 Runt.—This article has been fiat. Proof Leewards at
5114 2s 4d per gallon.
Cocoa.—The market is quiet.
SPlCES.—Malabar Pepper has been firm at.3id to 3d
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White is in request at fuller rates. Pimento has been
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a COTTON.—The market has been steady.
SALTPETRE.--Four hundred bags partly sold, refrac.
Lion 151 to 16, at 23s 6d per cwt.
TEA.—There have been public sales of 11,500 pack-
) ages, of which 3,000 found buyers, the demand being
)% good. Twankay went at id higher, and Gunpowder was
tip considered dearer. Other sorts without alteration.
Congou but mid to good black is to is lid, Hyson mid
;% to good mid 2s 8d to 3s old per lb.
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TEA.—The market has a firm appearance for all de-
scriptions of Tea. For Green Tea prices are still going
6 up, and for Black they have ruled firm. Congou has
3% been in good demand by private contract, and former
rates are fully supported—sales of common have been
made at lop to 104 d, and good common lld to 113 d
,per lb cash. Pouchong has met with increased attention.
1% Scented Orange Pekoe is in good demand at 3s 3fd
9 for cash, and at 3s 4d' to 3s 5d with prompti.
There has been an increased desire shown to pur-
S chase all sorts of Green Tea, and higher prices are given.
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1% The public sales were well attended; prices as compared
with those of the last auctions show an advance of ld
on Pouchong, ld to lfd for common Twankay, Id for
Imperial and Gunpowder, Id for Hyson, and 2d to 3d
44 for Young Hyscn; Congou supported market rates, and
I other kinds of Tea maintained last sales prices. Congou
kinds sold at I ld, blackish leaf Pekoe kind Is 7d, sou-
% Chong middling and good Is 3d to Is 9d, fine 2s 4d,
% Pouchong very low qd to 44d, better quality 6d to 91d,
Pekoe Flowery 2s 4d to 2s 81d, Orange Pekoe fair is
7d, Twankay common Is 2fd, Hyson Skin common Is,
Hyson fair to good 2s 7d to 2s Bp, fine to superfine 3s
to 4s 6cl, Young /Tyson, Canton kind Is 6d, Hyson kind
2s 64d to 3s 4/(1, very fine 4s to 4s 2d, Imperial Hyson
kind 2s 9d to 4s, and Gunpowder Hyson kind 35 2d to
4s 24 per lb. Young Hyson by private contract at 2s
to 2s 6d per lb.
RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—HoIders of Leeward
Island Rum manifeut firmness, and supply the market
sparingly, but there has been but little business trans-
acted ; 2s 4d to 2s 5d per gallon is the value of proof.
Jamaica has been taken sparingly by shippers and the
home trade, but merchants refuse to lower their prices,
and only a small quantity is offering for sale ; indeed the
bulk of the stock is in second hands—we quote 30 to 32
per cent over, 3s 8d to 3s I Id; 33 to 35 over, 4s to 4s 4d;
superior 4s 6d to ss, very superior 5s 6d to 5s 2d per gall.
There is a scarcity of fine. For Demerara, 3s 3d to 3s 7d
is the value of 32 to 39 per cent. overproof. Calcutta
Rum at 2s 2d to 2s 3d per gallon proof with certificate.
For Brandy, prices rule firm for all descriptions—Cognac,
best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ;
ditto 1839. hhds 49 I Id, puns 4s 9d ; ditto 1840, hhds
4s I Id, puns 4s 9d ; ditto 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d;
ditto 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns, 4s 5d ; ditto 1843, Ws
48 5(1, puns 4s 3d, common 2s 10d to 3s 2d, and mid to
good middling 3s 3d to 3s 10d per gallon. Geneva,
shipping sorts are at is 9d to is 10d, and fine for Lome
consumption 2s 4d to 3s 6d. English Corn Spirits at
lOs 2d cash.
SPICES.—This afternoon there was not much disposi-
tion manifested to purchase Black Pepper. At public
sale 3,274 bags were offered; sound was only partly sold
at rather lower rates, viz., Sumatra good light at 23d.