The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-01 00:00:00

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AND

Vittbitr Optnton.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.
The French mail had not arrived when the paper went to
press.

LAW AND POLICD.
In the Court of Common Pleas the rule nisi, in the case of
Lord William Paget v. the Earl of Cardigan, for entering up
judgment as in the case of a aonsuit, was discharged, on
the terms of a peremptory ufidettaking to proceed to trial.
The witness Winter still keeps out of the way.
Patrick Leigh Strachan, convicted at the Old Bailey during
the session before last, was sentenced by the Court of
Queen's Bench, to be inprisoned in Clerkenwell gaol for
eighteen months, and kept to laird labour.
Eli Froud, a bricklayer, living in St. James-street, Cam-
berwell-new-road, was brought before Mr. Cottingham, at
Union-hall, charged with committing a desperate assault on
his wife Mary, who is confined in Guy's Hospital, owing to
the serious injuries inflicted on ler with a poker. A police-
man produced a poker broken in two, with which the in-
juries were inflicted, and said that he found it lying on the
floor of the room in which the outrage was committed; he
also produced a medical certificate from the hospital, to the
effect that the woman who was assaulted was considered in
a very precarious condition, and that, being enciente, a pre-
mature labour was momentarily expected to take place. The
prisoner, who said nothing in answer to the charge, was re-
manded.

William Matthews and David Orridge, the conductor and
driver of Kerrison's Clapton omnibus, No. 4,930, were
chaiged before Mr. Broughton. with insulting conduct to Dr.
Eliot, a surgeon, residing on Finsbury Pavement. Mr.
Broughton sentenced Matthew+, as the least culpable of the
two, to pay 9s. fine and costs ; and Orrislge to pay a fine of
20s. and the costs, or fourteen days' imprisonment in the
House of Correction. _

At the Thames Police Court, Captain Thomas Dunnett, the
master of the brig Sarah Charlotte, appeared before Mr.
Broderip, on a charge of abandoning three seamen, named
Edmund Wilkinson, Hiram Gibbs, and James Cline, in a fo-
reign port, without the sancticn of the British Consul. The
Magistrate said there was a prima facie case made out on the
part of the Crown, and the defendant had been guilty of a
technical violation of the law ; but there was nothing affect-
ing his moral character, nor had he acted with any inhu-
manity. He ordered him to fud bail, himself in 601., and one
surety in 601., to meet the charge at the sessions.
CQVAT—PaS/IXOZZABLE.
The Duke of Cambridge, while shooting in Colonel Wynd-
ham's preserves, on Saturday, stumbled against the stump
of a tree, and had rather a severe fall. His Royal Highness
returned to Petworth House immediately, but was able to
dine with the company, the only inconvenience resulting
from the accident being a stiffness of the shoulder.

The Earl of Aberdeen entertained the Count de St. Au-
' Mire, Baron E. Langsdorff, Sir Robert Peel, Prince Castelci-
cala, Sir James Graham, Count Kielmansegge, General
Sancho, M. Van de Weyer, Count de Tarnac, Baron de
Cetto, Viscount Canning, the Marquis de Lisboa, and a dis-
tinguished party, at dinner, on Tuesday evening, at Argyll
House.

The Speaker of the House of Commons is expected to com-
mence his Parliamentary dinners the third Saturday in this
month. The Right Hon. Gentleman came to town from his
seat in Hants on Tuesday.
The Duke of Montrose and Lord Ernest Bruce came to
town on Wednesday for the meeting of Parliament.
The Marquis of Salisbury, who has been visiting Mr. and
Lady Eleanor Balfour at Whittinghame House, near Dunbar,
has arrived in Arlin on-street from the north.
Lord and Lady Stanley have issued cards for a grand
dinner party on Saturday next, to which most of the Foreign
Ministers are invited.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and Mrs. Howley have an
rived for the season from Addington Palace, the archiepis
copal residence, near Croydon.
2111 SC ST.I.ANEOUS.

The following is a. list of the game killed during the last
week by a small party on a visit to the Hon. H. Wilson, at
Didlington Park :—On the two first ;days, pheasants, 279 ;
partridges, 13 ; hares, 225 ; rabbits, 216 ; woodcocks, 12 ;
snipes, teal, and other water-fowl, 29—total, 774. Three last
days, pheasants, 180 ; partridges, 21 ; hares, 177 ; rabbits,
178 ; woodcocks, 7 ; teal and other water-fowl, 52—total, 615.
Grand total, 1,389. The hunting Ameers of Sinde could not
beat this.

By a recent Order in Council, all the stills in New South
Wales have been suppressed, in consequence of the demora-
lising effects produced by ardent spirits on the population of
that colony. Government have in all instances awarded
compensation.
The Royal Santiago Mining Company held their half-
yearly general meeting on Wednesday, at the offices in Old
Broad-street, Mr. J. Robertson in the chair. The Report
announced that the quantity of copper ore received from the
mines during the past half-year had been 5,700 tons, pro-
ducing 49,6561. The total expenditure during the same
period had been 37,8294, leaving an available profit in hand
of 12,2231.

From the general election in July, 1841, to the month of
February, 1844, there hare been 69 changes in the repre-
sentation, or more than one-tenth of the number of members
of the House of Commons. Of these, 23 have been unseated
on petition, 15 have died, and 26 have retired.

In consequence of a great number of convicts having been
shipped off from her Majesty's Dock-yards, Woolwich, Chat-
ham, Portsmouth, &c., within these few days, the Lords of
the Admiralty have issued orders for a large number of la-
bourers to be entered to do the work required; but none are
admitted who cannot pass the test as to their strength.
Lancashire has become the most populous county in the
kingdom, and Middlesex, which a short time since stood at
the head in point of numbers, is now only rated third.
The earnings of the several railways in Great Britain, for
the last year, are calculated at 4,627,0561. The receipts for
the London and Birmingham line were the highest, amount-
ing to not less than 826,509!. The Great Western stands
next, the receipts being 701,3631.

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(T.HIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB I.—Wind N. W.
DEAL, JAN 31.--Wind W.N.W., strong and
squally. P.N. W.N.W., fresh breeze.—Arrd. Robert
; Antigua packet, M'Knight,
Faircleugb, Sierra Leone ;
Margaret,
Ceylon Small, ;
Demerara; Clara and Emma, Hud-
son,Slight,lpsra
i Isabella
eh Calcuttalalam
Aura,
West Indies ; Mogadore. During last
night it blew heavily from W.N.W.
with heavy snow squalls;
to:N.W.; A.M., this
day,
W.N.W., fresh. t
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. N.W., squally.—
P.M.,
Arrd. Harbinger, Grangemouth for New York. Off,
N.W., more
mweirnediLircilesir.:tve7
7,
Nayaden, Charleston, for Hamburgh.
SWANSEA; JAN. 30.—Arrd. Encarnacion, Audicochea ;
Alderman Thompson, Darling, and Chieftain, Cuba.
FALMOUTH, JAN. 31.—1 t has blown a violent gale
from N.W. during the night and continues ; the shipping
ride well.
BUDE, JAN. 31.—Some long deck-planks, painted
white under, and with composition or copper nails, sup-
posed from a steamer or a packet, apparently very fresh,
have been washed ashore hem
RYE, JAN. 31.—The Lanaburn, of Hastings, in running
for this harbour, struck on a sunk bank, capsized, and it
is expected will become a wreck.
OFF BROADSTAIRS, JAN. 30.—Elizabeth, of South
Shields, America for London.
WHITEHAVEN, JAN. 29.—Arrd. Sirius, Ravenglass
for Cardiff, with loss of bulwarks, &c., having been in
contact with the Lark, of Milford, 24th inst., off Wick-
low-head.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 31—Wind, N:W., a gale.—Arrd.
Kate, Scott, Paraiba (29th ult.) ; Creamore, Shapley,
Maceio ; Adrian, Davis, New Orleans ; Rob Roy,
Arnold, Mobile ; Shakspeare, Henderson, Charleston ;
Jefferson, Mason, Virginia.
KINGSTOUN, JAN. 30.—Arrd. Demerara,Demerara.
CORN, JAN. 29.—Arrd. John Dugdale, Singapore.
HARTLEPOOL, JAN. 31.—The Two Brothers, Trotter,
of Newcastle, ran on the rocks off the Heugh, yester-
day, but was got off, and in here, in a sinking state.
YARMOUTH, JAN. 31.'—The Margaret, of Sunderland,
was abandonedof bowsprit,
off Blythe, crew saved.—Mem.
The
been towed into Harwich, with
loss
&c., and only one man on board, having
been fallen in with off the Humber.
Margaret yesterday,has
since

SAVINGS'BANKS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Six—l quite agree with " A Manager" respecting the
cause of the increase in the deposits in the Savings' Banks.
He says That the increase in the amount of deposits is no
criterion, the description of the depositors can only be fairly
looked at." I shall be sorry if the interest, be lowered, as it
is said that it is likely to be, when the Parliament meets, to
make Acts to amend Acts," &c. &c. lam convinced that
many persons have money in the Savings' Banks, who ought
not to have. Much of the amounts now in the Banks are not
Savings, but Legacies, and as the writer justly states, " the
money is vested in trustees for So-and-so." For one I hope
that the interest will not be lowered, but that a more strict
investigation should be made by the Managers of Savings,
and not, as they are now, Legaiyiranks.—.l remain, respect-
fully. NOT A MANAGER.
Huddersfield, 1844.

STATISTICS OF RAILWAYS.—Mr. Earle Langston,
' broker, of Manchester, in an annual statement of calls and
traffic on the principal railways in Great Britain, makes it to
, appear that the total of calls in 1843 was 1,456,567/. against
2,722,595/. in 1842, 4,036,741/. in 1841, and 7,491,390/. in
1840; the total of traffic in 1843, 4,627,056/. against
4,320,442/. in 1842, 3,714,515/. in 1841, and 2,481,303/. in
1840; the calls made in the course of the four years amount-
ing, collectively, to 15,707,390/., and the traffic to 15,143,316/.
The earnings of the several lines of which returns are fur-
nished, for the last year, and which comprise the above
amount of 4,627,056/., are thus specified :
Birmingham & Derb. £66,2211L0nd0n and Croydon £15,572
Birmingham & Glou. 93,4541L0nd0n and Greenw. 40,969
Birkenhead and Ches. 23,4401L0nd0n and South W. 315,542
Eastern Counties 115,7131Man., Bolton, & Bury 34,352
Edinburgh and Glas 111,038 Manchester and Bir. 144,557
Grand Junction
Glasg., Paisley, & Ayr 62,607 Midland Counties ... 133,777
Glasgow andGreenock 44,871 Newcastleo& Carlisle 72,311
Great Western 701,363 North Midland
Great North of Engl. 71,257 North Union
Hull and Selby
Liverpool and Manch 219,733 Preston and Wyre ... 13,631
London and Birmingh B26,so9lSheffield and Manch. 23,125
London and Brighton 189,130 South Eastern 143,204
London and Blackw. 42,2691Y0rk and North Midl 86,096
A serious accident happened on Sunday morning
at the Paris station of the Orleans Railroad. The train with
merchandise, having attached to it a waggon for passengers,
which left Orleans on Saturday night, on arriving at about
nine o'clock at the terminus, got off the rails as it was en-
tering the station. The waggon, which contained seven
passengers, was overturned, and two of them were almost
instantaneously killed by the shock.
DEATH OF AN OLD BOW-STREET OFFICER---yes-
terday morning (Wednesday) Mr. Francis Goodson office-
keeper at the Polic- court, Bow-street, expired at his resi-
dence attached to the court. His rapid decline was occa-
sioned by asthma, which closed his career, after a month's
confinement to his bed. He had been 21 years in the ser-
vice of Government, attached to Bow-street, and 15 years
court-keeper. He was the companion of Ruthven, Ballard,
John James Smith, and the rest of the old Bow-street officers,
who now enjoy their pensions, after hard service; and who,
mere shadows of their former selves, often visit the spot of •
their former active associations.
num-
bersen
dining
tJbaenue.narry r• es 25,139 n was
nasg 624,w eek andnf tin atC
year BOULOGNE AND CALAIS.--The number of persons
who passed toa and from France via Boulogne, in the week
yale were—Boulogne ais2
409, Calais 180.

HER MAJESTY'S
SPEECH,

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
It affords me great satisfaction again to meet you
in Parliament, and to have the opportunity of profiting
by your assistance and advice:
I entertain a confident hope that the general
peace so necessary for the happiness and prosperity
of all nations will continue uninterrupted.
My friendly relations with the King of the
French, and the good understanding happily esta-
blished between my Government and that of his
Majesty, with the continued assurances of the peace-
ful and amicable dispositions of all Princes and States,
confirm me in this expectation.
I have ditected that the treaty which I have
concluded with the Emperor of China shall be laid
before you, and I rejoice to think that it will, in its
results, prove highly advantageous to the trade of
this country.
Throughout the whole course of my negocia-
tions with the Government of China, I have uni-
formly disclaimed the wish for any exclusive advan-
tages.
It has been my desire that equal favour
should be shown to the industry and commercial
enterprise of all nations.
The hostilities which took place during the past
year in Sinde have led to the annexation of a con-
siderable portion of that country to the British pos-
sessions in the East.
In all the military operations, and especially in
the battles of Meanee and Hyderabad, the constancy
and valour of the troops, Native and European, and
the skill and gallantry of their distinguished Com-
mander have been most conspicuous.
I have .directed that additional information ex-
planatory of the transactions in Sinde, shall be forth-
with communicated to you.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,
The Estimates for the ensuing year will be im-
mediately laid before you. They have been
prepared with a strict regard to economy, and
at the same time with a due consideration of
those exigencies of the Public Service which are con-
nected with the maintenance of our maritime
strength, and the multiplied demands on the Naval
and Military Establishments from the various parts
of a widely-extended Empire.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
I congratulate you on the improved condition of
several important branches of the trade and manufac-
tures of the country.
I trust that the increased demand for labour has
relieved, in a corresponding degree, many classes of
my faithful subjects from sufferings and privations,
which, at former periods, I have had occasion to.
deplore.

For several successive years the annual produce
of the Revenue fell short of the Public Expenditure.
I confidently trust that in the present year the
public income will be amply sufficient to defray the
charges upon it.
I feel assured that in considering all matters
connected with the financial concerns of the country,
you will bear in mixd the evil consequences of accu-
mulating debt during the time of peace, and that you
will firmly resolve to uphold that public credit,
the maintenance of which concerns equally the perma-
nent interests and the honour and reputation of a
great country.

In the course of the present year the opportu-
nity will occur of giving notice to the Bank of
England on the subject of the revision of its Charter.
It may be advisable that during this session of
Parliament, and previously to the arrival of the period
assigned for the giving of such notice, the state of the
law with regard to the privileges of the Bank of Eng-
land, and to other banking establishments, should be
brought under your consideration.
At the close of the last session of Parliament,
I declared to you my firm determination to main-
tain inviolate the Legislative 'Union between Great
Britain and Ireland.

I expressed, at the same tine, my earnest desire
to co-operate with Parliament in the adoption of all
such measures as might tend to improve the social
condition of Ireland, and to dew elope the natural re-
sources of that part of the Unitted Kingdom.
I am resolved to act in :strict conformity with
this declaration. I forbear from observations on
events in Ireland, in respect to• -which proceedings are
pen ding before the proper legal'. tribunal.
My attention has been (Ili ected to the state of
the law and practice with regain i to the occupation of
land in Ireland.

I have deemed it advisable. to institute extensive
local inquiries into a subject of so much importance,
and have appointed a Commissiun with ample autho-
rity to conduct the requisite it r vestigation.
I :recommend to your e e .rly consideration the
enactments at present in force, in Ireland concern-
ing the registration of voters %for Members of Par-
liament.

You will probably find that zu revision of the Law
of Registration, taken in (IQ junction with other
causes at present in operation, would produce a ma-
terial diminution of the num b2r of county voters.
and that it may be advisabif on that account to
consider the state of the law, with a view to an ex-
tension of the county franchisee in Ireland.
I commit to your delibon ate. consideration the
various important questions of rol Lblic policy which will
necessarily come under your rev; w,with full confidence
in your loyalty and wisdom, ~and with an earnest
prayer to Almighty God to d ix .ect and favour your
efforts to promote the welfaree of all classes of my
people.

LEEDS WOOLLEN MARKETS.• —There is a good
amount of business doing at both • the Cloth Halls nearly
every market day, and the demandJ for tweeds and similar
goods seems to be increasing. In fi A e goods little or nothing
is doing. Numerous buyers have 1 ►e4 al in the town on home
account, and a fair trade is doing in the warehouses.—The
price of tallow in Leeds remains at 4 3. 3d. per imperial stone.
—York Courant.

WHALE FISHERY.—As an i in stance of the decline
of the:whale fishery, it is mentione cl that the whole number
of vessels that sailed for this trade b i 1843 was 11, whereas

there used to be about 50 per alum .Ayr Observer.'
THE COTTON CROP.—As we a nticipated a fortnight
ago, the speculators on both sides ot f the Atlantic have suc-
ceeded, by acting and re-acting on each other's operations,
in procuring, both in the United St at es and here, an advance
in price which we cannot think is ji istified by anything we
have been able to discover, either it t the American papers, or
in the state of our demand or cons ir mption here. Since our
last arrivals from the United States i t does appear that heavy
rains have prevailed over a could( le rable extent of country
occupied as cotton plantations ; an. ii that, in consequence, the
crop will be somewhat •shorter tJ Ran previously we had
reason to expect. The general . a uticipation hi the United
States, if we may judge from . the statements confi-
dentlx put forth in the newspap e 3 •5, is, that it will not
exceed 1,700,000 bales, and one 1. 3tter from New Orleans
estimates it as low as 1,600,000 bale s. This, however, is the
lowest estimate we have anywhere r.,een ; and, on the other
hand, Messrs.. Stewart and Wri gl A, cotton brokers, New
York, in their circular, state ti tat they see no reason to
alter their estimate of 1,800,t )0 3 bales, made so long
ago as the 14th of November • last. In the midst of
these conflicting statements, if we refer to the state-
ment of the total quantities Jf cotton received at the
various American ports, up ro th a latest dates, as compared
with the same dates in 1842—a statement which appears in
the New York Shipping and Cr sr mercial List of the 10th
instant—we find those receipts to be-1843, 707,367 bales ;
1842, 906,03 6 bales. The differ( ssa ce, therefore, between the
receipts of 843 and 1842 is about; 22* per cent. in favour of
the last named year. In this toy al, there appears to be a
general disposition to deduct 100) 300 bales from previous
estimates ; and this appears to its be a reasonable deduc-
tion for the damage which there SO 3ms too much reason to
fear the crop has sustained sinst the preceding advices.
Though we cannot subscribe to tl to extreme views of the New
Orleans letter already referred to , as to the probable amount
of the crop, it contains some s to tements with reference to
peculiarities in the growth of th a plant itself, not undeserv-
•ing of attention by those interest ad in the trade. The intelli-
gence of the crop brought by th t recent arrivals immediately
produced a very active and ex. 6ted market in Liverpool ;
prices rose fully Ad. per pound; ,and, as will be seen by the
report of yesterday's cotton nu tri-.et, transactions to a large
amount continued to be made, sn I much speculative busi-
ness was done.—Manchester Gua. rdi4 in.

,HONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO 71111lEE.
In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday the sales were
fully 22,000 bales, and prices were *d. to id. per lb. higher
than last Friday. Speculators took 5,000 bales Surat, and
9,000 American ; the sales comprising 6,000 bales Surat at M.
to 4*d., 2,500 Brazil and Egyptian, and the rest American at sd.
to 6id. per lb.—There was a steady market for shares, and a
fair business was done : Grand Junction were 229 ; Liver-
pool and Manchester, 221 ; Birmingham, 242 ; Brighton, 46 ;
Midland Counties, 91; Paris and Orleans, 33* ; Rouen and
Havre, 14; Paris and Rouen 32*.
The English Securities are quiescent, business being sus-
pended till after the receipt of the Queen's Speech. Consols
are at a decline of 97i to 97*, being affected by the report
of the Parisian Bourse. Exchequer Bills are 665. to 695.
premium. and India Bonds, 81s. to 83s. premium. Bank
Stock is 194 to 195. The. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per
Cents, realise 1021 to 1021.
The Foreign Bonds. are supported. Spanish Five per
Cents. have been at 231 to 1, and the Threes at 311 to A.
Brazils are 79, and Portuguese Converted 47. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. have been 54i to 55. Mexican are
34* for Money, and 34i to 1 for Time.
Shares are generally steady; but the Southern lines droop.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9Blik
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities,
ai per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 311 per Cent. Annuities
110110111 ge
South Sea Stook
Bank Stock for Account
C,onsels for Account
India Stock
Exchequer Bills, lid. lid.
1000/.
5001.
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 84
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.......... 34i
Ditto for the Account 34/1
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 231i1
Snanish Bonds, Five per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account Bllii
Dutch 21 per Cent 55 34k
Dutch 5 per Cent.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
a A ILWATS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Derby
Ditto Thirds ...... 2b - to
Eastern Counties 23 ... .. 104 ... to
Great Western - to
Ditto 4 Shares
Ditto Fifths
Harwich Extension
Liverpool and Manchester .....100 ..
Ditto 4 Shares
London and Brighton ...... ...... 50
London and 131ackwall
London and South Western ... 41% ...
1 ,Ditto Eighths 3 ... .. 253 ... to
Landon and Croydon ( Trunk)... 131 1644 ... to
Manchester and Leeds ... 70 ll O..... to :
Midland Counties 100 — to
Ditto 4 Shares
Norwich and Brandon
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Roven .. ..... ..... 20
Rouen and Havre .... ......... .. 8
South Eastern and Dover
Ditto Scrip... ......... ...
York and North Midland 5O
Ditto Scarboro' Branch 24 2044 ... to --
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, SAN. 31.—A good
inquiry still exists for railways generally, but stock is
sparingly offered. Manchester and Leeds are in request
at 110/., our transactions are:—Bristol and Exeter, 673;
Birmingham and Gloucester, 71 ; Manchester and
Leeds, 110 ; Ditto, Half, 49; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 393; Paris and Rouen, 32 ; Eastern Counties per-
petual, 15s. 6d. premium.
~

MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.)

HAY MARKETS.

SmrnmELD.—Common Meadow Hay, 21 lOs to 31 3s ;
Useful Ditto, 315 s to 31 14s; fine Upland Ditto; 31 15s to
41; Clover Hay, 31 to 51; Oat Straw, 11 7s to 1/ 9s ; Wheat
Straw, 11 lOs to 11 12s per load. Both HaY. and Straw moved
off steadily, at full prices.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse •,MtidCrif ki 21 13s to 31 88 ;
useful ditto, 3/ 108 to 31 16s • -fine Upland ditto, 31 17s to
412 s ; Clover Hay, 31 3s to' 4l 18s ; Oat Straw, 11 8s to
1/ lOs ; Wheat Straw, 11 lOs to 1/ 13s per load. A limited
supply and a steady demand. Quotations somewhat on
the advance.

WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 15s to 313 s ;
useffil ditto, 315 s to 31 14; fine Upland ditto, 31 15s to 4l;
Clover Hay, 315 s to 515 s ; Oat Straw, 118 s to 1/ lOs ; Wheat
Straw, 1/ 100 to 1/ 12s per load. Supply but moderate, and
trade tolerably firm.
MEAT MARKETS.
SOUTHALI.ZJAN. 31.—Most descriptions of prime stock com-
manded a steady demand, at fully last week's prices, but
otherwise the trade ruled.extremely dull, and a clearance was
with difficulty effected. Beef, from 3s to 4s •, Mutton, 3s to
4s 4d ; Veal, 3s to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 2s to 3s 8d per Sibs, to
sink the offal. Supply—Beasts, 32 ; • Sheep, 1,292 ; Calves,
38 ; Pigs, 40.
ROMF'OND, JAN. 31.—We had a fair business doing in
sheep at full quotations. In other kinds of Stock very little
was doing. Beef, from 2s to 4s ; Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 4d ;
Veal, 4s to 4s 10d; and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 10d per 81bs.
Suckling Calves, 18s to 28s; Quarter-Old Store Pigs, 16s to
21s ' • and Milch Cows with their small Calf, 16/ to 191 each.
LEtvEs, JAN. 30.—We had a fair average stock on offer,
to-day, and which moved off slowly, on the following terms ;
Beef from 3s to 4s 2d; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 6d; Veal, 4s; to
4s 10d ; and Pork, 2s 10d to 3s 10d per 8 lbs.

LAW INTELLIGENCE

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
,Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Lord ABINGER and Common
Juries.) • _

The following undefended case; were disposed of at the
sitting of the Court this morning ; in each case verdicts for
the plaintiffs were given :—ln Walsh v. Gates, for 261. 19s;
Martin v. Ratcliffe, for 35/. 3s. 4d. ; Cohen and Another v.
Lawrence, for 661. 19s.

COOKE V. CHEW.

Mr. Whateley%nd Mr. Miller appeared for the plaintiff;
Mr. Humphrey conducted the case for the defendant.
This was an action to recover compensation in damages for
false imprisonment. It appeared that the plaintiff, who was
a commercial traveller for a mercantilehouse in the City, en-
gaged from the defendant a phaeton, for which he
was to pay .2/. 10s. a month. • Subsequently the
plaintiff became involved in difficulties, and having left his•
employment returned the phaeton to the defendant, at the
same time stating his inability at that time to pay for the
hire of the phaeton. The defendant detained the servant of
the plaintiff who brought it back, and having traced the
plaintiff to a coffee-house, there arrested him on a charge of
felony, and caused him to be conveyed to the Moor-lane
station-house, where he was confined during the night. The
next morning he was taken before Sir Peter Laurie, at Guild-
hall, who stated his belief that the case was not one of
felony, and remanded him to the next day; when the money
was raised and the debt paid.—Verdict for the plaintiff 5/.
HUNTER V. BRAITIINVAITE.

This was an action to recover compensation in damages,
under the following circumstances, which have been detailed
at length in The Sun.

The plaintiff, who is a licensed victualler, carrying on
business at the Earl Cathcart's, in Munster-street, Regent's-
park, embarked with four friends on board . the Prince
Albert steam-boat, with the intention of proceeding
to Sheerness, on a pleasure excursion. On reaching
Gravesend the captain denounced them to the crew
as pickpockets and members of the " swell mob,"
at the same time informing them in language which could
not be misconstrued, that they must land at Gravesend, and
which they were compelled to do, and where, from the pre-
judice created against them, they were annoyed by a mob,
and refused refreshments or.admission into any tavern in the
town. After several ineffectual attempts to get a passage by
the steam-boats plying to London, they were compelled, at
considerable expense, to take a carriage to town. The de-
fendant is the proprietor of the steam-boat. An action was
brought last term by Mr. Coppin, one of the party, against
Mr. Braithwaite, when the preceding facts were adduced, and
a verdict found for 501. in his favour.
Verdict for the plaintiff, 20/.

THE LATE FIRE AT DEPTFORD.—The following
address has been presented to the Royal Marines, to whose
prompt assistance upon this occasion so much credit is due :
" To Captain Buchanan, the officer .in command of the de-
tachment of her Majesty's Royal Marines on duty at Dept-
ford, on Thursday, the 11th of January, 1844. Sir—We,
the undersigned vicar, rector, churchwardens, and inhabi-

tants of the parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Paul, Deptford,
Kent, desire to express our sincere thanks for the prompt
and effective assistance rendered by you and the officers and
men under your command, at the alarming fire which oc-
curred in High-street, Deptford, on the 11th instant, and our
admiration of the intrepidity and orderly and soldierlike
conduct displayed on that occasion, by which the threatened
serious conflagration was arrested, and but for which we feel
convinced a very great loss of property, if not of life, must
have occurred. We request you will accept for yourself,
and be good enough to communicate to those of your corps
to whose very zealous exertions we and our fellow-townsmen
areso much indebted, this earnest of our feelings of gratitude
towards you and them. We remain, &c." The following is
the reply :—" Royal Marine Barracks, Deptford. Gentle-
men,--I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a
document bearing your signatures, together with many others
of the respectable inhabitants of Deptford, expressing their
gratitude to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and pri-
vates, under roy orders, in reducing and stopping the fire
which broke out on the morning of the 11th inst., in High-
street, Deptford. I have to request that you will be pleased
to convey to them the high gratification I feel that the de-
tachment of the Royal Marines under my command should
have proved of so much service at a time when much valu-
able property was threatened with deitruction. I trust that
they will always meet their approbation under similar and
any other circumstances. I have the honour to be your
obedient servant, J. &cumin-NT, Captain commanding de-
tachment. To the Vicar, Rector, and Churchwardens of St.
Paul's and St. Nicholas'."

PRICE OF WOOL,—Since the beginning of Novem-
ber wool has risen above 40 per cent., and still looks upwards,
and as the manufacturers have no stocks on hand, the
farmers may confidently look forward for several years to
good prices, in spite of all the exertions of the League.—Kelso
Mail.

BRIGHTON.--THE DUKE OF CA M BRIDG E.—On
Saturday morning his Royal Highness took his gun and went
into Col. Wyndham's preserves, but before he had any sport
he kicked against the stump of a tree, and had rather a se:
vere fall. His Royal Highnegs returned to Petworth House
immediately, but we are happy to state that he was able to
dine with the company, the only inconvenience he felt from
the accident being a stiffness in the shoulder. On Sunday
his Royal Highness attended Divine service in the parish
church, both in the morning and afternoon, and on the fol-
lowing day took his departure for Goodwood, oa a visit to the
Duke and Duchess of Richmond.

SOUTH EASTERNIiiIi;VAY, DovEit, _ JAN. 31.-

It is now definitively arranged that the South Eastern Rail-
way should be opened to Dover on Tuesday next, the 6th of
February; and the event will be celebrated by a dinner, on
a sumptuous scale, at thee theatre, to which the Directors,
engineers, and officers, of the Company. The civic authori-
ties of Calais, Boulogne, Ostend, Canterbury, Deal, Hythe,
Folkestone, &c., are to be invited; an excellent Committee, of
which the Mayor is chairman, has been appointed to conduct
the banquet, and a liberal subscription entered into to defray
the expense of it.—( From a Correspondent.)

ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT

STOCKPORT.

On Tuesday evening one of the largest, most respectable,
and most enthusiastic meetings ever held in Stockport, took
place last evening, in aid of the great League Fund of 100,000,/
The meeting was held in Batty's Royal Circus, Middle Hill"
gate, a spacious pavilion, capable of seating 2,500 persons
and the whole available space in the boxes, pit, and galleries,
was crowded to excess. At ten minutes before seven o'clock,
the chair was taken by Cephas Howard, sq., Mayor of the
Borough ; and, on the platform were the following
gentlemen :—Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., Mr. Alderman
Armitage, and Mr. R. Moore (a deputation from the Leaguey
Henry Marsland, Esq., M.P. ; Messrs. Alderman Orre '
Alderman Hollins, Samuel Carrington, John Dyson Fernley;
Rev. Charles Baker, Rev. S. Healey ; the Town-clerk ;
Messrs. Thomas Eskrigge, James Ashton, Benjamin Ashton,
John Lees, Henry Pearson, W. R. Potts, Hamer, Sefton,
Wilde, M'Culloch, Carrington, Potter, &c.
In opening the proceedings, the Chairman said, they were
met for the purpose of receiving the. deputation from the
Anti-Corn-law League, advocates of the repeal of the
corn-laws and free trade in every department of commerce.
—(Loud applause.)—Henry Marsland, Esq., M.P., then care
forward to move the first resolution, and was received with
cheers. He adverted to the origin of the Anti-Corn-law
League, the opposition they had met with, and the iriumPh
they had achieved over their opponents. They had gone
among the agricultural districts' for the purpose of enlighten-
ing the minds of those for whose benefit the corn-laws were
said to be enacted. Great had been the labours of his Hon'
Colleague—(Loud cheers)—and his coadjutors in the cause;
and the farmers had now become convinced that they wet'
not benefited by these laws, and had much rather that we
should be the consumers of their produce than the victims
of their policy. The Anti-Corn-law League had done very
much to liberate us from the political trammels in which
we were tied, and men of all shades of politics were now
found uniting in this great movement in favour of free end
,
unshackled commerce. The Whigs were equally guilty
the Tories in not caring for the country, and therefore the
country ceased to care for them. He rejoiced that this was
no party movement ; and, as a proof that it was no party
movement, he was glad to be able to point to the gentleman
who now occupied the chair.—(Hear, hear.) -After advert-
ing to the deep distress which had lately been felt in Stock-
port,—distress which might soon return unless the policy 11
which it had been caused was altered,—he-coneluded by runv.
ing the following resolution :
"That this meeting, being firmly of opinion that this color
try suffers severely from the baneful effects of monopoly,
especially the corn-law, and that all laws which.interfere
with the freedom of industry and with the bounties of Pros
vidence are impolitic and unjust, resolves to tender its best
assistance, on all necessary occasions, to the National Alit'.
Corn-law League, in its persevering endeavours for the coin
plete abolition of all commercial monopolies.”—(Applause.)
The Rev. Charles Baker, Baptist minister, brieflYne.
conded the resolution; and it passed without, a single-
sentient voice.

A great number of addresses were presented by working
men to Mr. Cobden from different manufactories, thanking
him for his exertions, and calling upon him to persevere in
his great object—the destruction of monopolies. Mr. Cobden
returned thanks to the deputation, and then addressed the
meeting. Mr. Moore announced the subscriptions for the
night, which amounted to 9544 in addition to 320/. sub'
scribed by Messrs. Orrell and Hollins at Manchester. Before
the meeting broke up the total contribution for Stockport
was announced to be 1,333/. 9s. 4d.