The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-21 00:00:00

TIE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY ETICRING, SEPTEMBER 21, 18414.

t of waiting until the gathering elements. indicative of
an impending storm, drive him from the helm.
I STANDARD.—On Thursday a party, variously
estimated us in number 700 and 900, assembled in the
Music Hall, in Dublin, to celebrate by a dinner the
late "gaol delivery "by the Whig law Lords. The
dinner is described by the Freeman's Jozrnal, with a
manifest relish, as a " substantial banquet, in which
taste was happily blended with abundance."
Whether we get credit for the wish or not, we
must parenthetically avow our earnest desire that
every poor contributor to the repeal rent had par-
taken of such a dinner upon the same occasion, then
one good at least would have resulted from the mon-
strous proceedings of the Lords Cottenham, Campbell,
and Denman ; but alien- visum—the millions must
starve upon lumpers, and even find them curtailed by
repeal rent and priests' rent, while the master agitators
feast and fatten at substantial and tasteful banquets,
for which, directly or indirectly, the lumper eaters
must pay. The business of the celebration com-
menced by reading the letters of apology from
invited guests, and a long correspondence it was.
Somebody once complimented a worthless fellow
by saying that the "negative catalogue of his
good qualities was indeed a long one ;" so the
negative catalogue of the guests at this O'Connell
festival was, indeed, very long; so long as to
exhaust pretty nearly the whole list of respect-
able names, at any time pledged to Whiggery and
Liberalism. The only nobleman in actual presence
was, after all, but a very modern Irish Lord—poor
Lord Ffrench, the representative of a bankrupt banker
and an ex-justice of the peace for the county of
Galway. The gentleman class was represented
by Mr. Smith O'Brien, the ex-Conserva
tine Member for Ennis, heir to the best
pensioned family in Ireland for several gene-
rations, and, as everybody knows, the prince of
fribbles. The great body of the meeting was made
up of Romanist bishops and Romanist priests,
Rooneys and Mulrooneys, &c. The affair was in-
tended as a triumph, and a triumph certainly it is,
but to whom is it a triumph ? If it is not a triumph
to Sir R. Peel and to the Attorney-General for Ire-
land, we are at a loss to know what are the trophies of
good government. We have given the speeches pretty
fully with a view to this very object, that the English
reader may compare them with his recollection of the
speeches of the same parties last year, and by a com-
parison measure the mighty change that has been
wrought in the prospects, the spirits, and the means
of mischief indulged and exercised at Mallow Tarah,
Mullaghmast, and the other scenes of the mon-
ster meetings. The monster meeting are for ever
crushed; and there, on Thursday, was their
old monster father—toothless and fangless—meekly
gulping federalism, and actually preaching the
value of the British connection. Pistol chewing
his leek was a too respectable type of the ab-
ject prostration of the incendiary upon this festi-
val given in his honour, and attended by hun-
dreds who would be only too much delighted to
applaud his hacknied common-places of treason if
he had only dared to repeat them, but he did not
dare. " The vinegar-cruet" of his afflicted ima-
gination was present to his mind's eye, to sour. his-
joys and make his blood curdle at the first sugges-
tion of any of the old seditious topics. He talked
nothing of hurling defiance at the Saxon Attorney-
General. Oh, no. The very name of the Right
Hon. T. Smith would have sent him up the chim-
ney. Is not this a triumph—a triumph equal
to any of the twelve labours ? If Lord Bacon lived
in our day he would certainly add to his interpreta-
tion of the fables of the ancients, an explanation that
the Lernean monster was an old incendiary, direct-
ing an organised and extensive conspiracy, and
that Hercules was an Attorney-General, who
lopped the brute's heads in detail, taking good cars
to provide against their reproduction, by the severe
cautery of the law. This single speech, in which no
one word of treason or sedition can be found, though
proceeding from lips from which scarcely anything
but treason or sedition has escaped for the last
forty years—this " miracle instead of wit," the one
not seditious speech from Daniel O'Connell, is in-
deed a testimony to the Government and the Attorney
General, as proud as fancy can conceive. And now
let us look to the future of Ireland, and to the
probable effect of the great triumph of the law,
The agitation will be continued, at least in
the attempt, because "no agitation, no rent,"
and the rent cannot be dispensed with. But
we have, in the instructions issued by the
Repeal Association, evidence of some misgiving as
to the success of the project. " The people," say
these instructions, "are now committed to repeal! '
A nation cannot, without the deepest dishonour,
abandon opinions so loudly and so unanimously pro-
claimed." This appeal to the point of honour looks
very like apprehension that some strong appeal is
required ; it is followed, however, at a little distatce,
by proof that the parties making it are very much in
earnest.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 20.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evetis.)
William Basford appeared upon his petition to be
examined on his first hearing. As soon as the case
was called on,
Mr. WATSON, barrister, rose, and in strong terms
mbjected to a course which he understood Mr. Hughes
(also a barrister) was about to take in regard to this
case. The bankrupt had been up on a former occa-
sion, when his petition had been dismissed. As coun-
sel and adviser to the insolvent, he (Mr. Hughes) had
become cognizant of all his secrets, and now he had
accepted a brief to oppose the very man he had
formerly been paid to assist. He trusted such a
course would not be sanctioned by the Court.
Commissioner EVANS—" Why—its unavoidable, I
suppose."—(Loud laughter.)
Mr. HUGHES then proceeded to question the bank-
rupt, who said his debts were, as stated in his sche-
dule, 2991., some shillings. He had not entered one
Mrs. Dent as a creditor. She had taken up a bill
for 301. for him, and he was to repay her by his
future labour. He (Basford) was a trader, and had
petitioned the Court as such.
Mr. Humus supposed there was no necessity to
carry his examination further, in order to induce the
court to dismiss the petition. The applicant was a
trader—his debts, if truly and honestly set forth, were
above 3001.; and he had therefore no claim upon the
consideration of the court.

The CommissioNEß—The petition is dismissed.
Mr. WATSON—Surely your Honour will allow us
to examine Mrs. Dent—her evidence will probably
alter your Honour's decision.
Commissioxisia—No, it won't. What, you want
people to perjure themselves to get this man clear !
Every one in court heard him swear Mrs. Dent had
taken up the bill—that he was to pay her hereafter,
and therefore she is a creditor, and ought to have been
entered, and he owes more than 3001. I'll hear no
witnesses after that—l can see what it all means ; the
petition of the bankrupt has been dismissed once, and
now it is dismissed again. I will hear nothing fur-
ther about it.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COUR.T

OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN and Mr. Justice
CRESWELL.)
John. Axtell and George Axtell, the two boys who
were convicted on Wednesday last of feloniously
breaking and entering the dwelling-house of William
Edward Harvey, and stealing a quantity of vi earing
apparel, value 301., were called up for judgment.
Mr. Justice CRESWELL sentenced them to solitary
confinement in the gaol of Newgate for 14 days.
Michael Read was sentenced to be imprisoned for
seven calendar months, and kept to hard labour,
having been found guilty in the course of the session
of assaulting James O'Flaherty.
William Hartridge, aged 17, and Edwin Hartridge,
19, brothers, were indicted for stealing two gold
watches, value 201., and a quantity of jewellery, the
property of John Sarl and others, the masters of Wil-
liam, in their dwelling-house.
dr. Clarkson conducted the prosecution. The pri-
soner, William Hartridge, was defended by Mr.
Doane, and Edwin by Mr. Charnock.
The particulars of this case have been fully pub-
lished in the police reports within these two or three
days. The prisoner Edwin had been formerly in the
service of the prosecutor, Mr. Sarl, watchmaker and
jeweller in the Poultry, but had been dismissed about
a year and a half ago. The other prisoner was in
Mr. Sari's employment up to the time of the robbery,
which was discovered by the shopman of Mr. Atten-
borough, the pawnbroker in Bridge-road, Lambeth.
Edwin Hartridge pawned a gold watch on the s:h of
August at Mr. Attenborough's shop. On the 7th of
September he offered another gold watch in pawn, and
the assistant remembering his face and recollecting
the name which he had first given, which was dif-
ferent from that he then mentioned, had his suspicion
excited. After a good deal of shuffling, the assistant
went with-the prisoner to see where he lived, and
being baffled and taken from place to place, he at
length gave him into custody. Inquiry led to the
arrest of his brother, and both prisoners having told
impretlaable stories, they were sent for trial on four or
fives e*rate indictments.

The first case tried was that of the watch pawned
on the sth August. In that the evidence failed
against William altogether, and the jury returned a
verdict of Not Guilty for both.
The other case was then gone into, that of the gold
watch offered in pledge on the 7th Sept. The jury
convicted both prisoners on that indictment.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL, after commenting upon
the serious and unpalliated offence of which they had
been convicted, sentenced them to ten years' trans-
portation each. _ _ _

The Court adjourned to Monday, the 21st October,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
WORSHIP-STREET.
CHARGE or MURDER.—AIfred Edwards, a pickle
manufacturer in Haberdasher's-place, Hoxton, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Broughton, charged with
having administered a quantity of poison to Jane
Gregory, and thereby caused her death.
Mary Green, the wife of a weaver living at No. 4,
New-court, New Nicholl-street, Bethnal-green,
stated that the deceased, who was " an unfortunate
girl," resided next door to her, and had been for the
last twelve months on the most intimate terms with
the prisoner. At eight o'clock on the preceding even-
ing the deceased called her up into her room, and
-asked her to take some beer ; the prisoner was at that
time seated on one side of the fire, and the deceased,
who was in perfect health and excellent spirits, was
sitting opposite to him. There was a black quart
bottle and a teacup on the table, but what the bottle
contained she was unable to ascertain. A quarter of
an hour afterwards witness again went up with a light,
and the deceased told her that as soon as the prisoner
had left she should go out, and requested witness to
accompany her. The prisoner was still in, the room,
and observing that the bottle remained on the table,
witness asked the deceased what it contained, and
she replied, " Ketchup," which Alfred, the pri-
soner, had brought to her. Witness then went
out in company with the deceased and the pri-
soner, and after proceeding a short distance
the prisoner shook hands with the deceased,
kissed her, and wished her " Good night." The de-
ceased stopped him, and asked at what hour to-mor-
row she should see him ; to which be replied, " Stop
till to-morrow comes," and then ran away. Witness
then proceeded with the deceased as far as the Bri-
tannia Tavern, in Hoxton, on reaching which the
deceased suddenlS, stopped and complained of feeling
dreadfully ill, and on being asked what was the mat-
ter, she replied, "I told you that what was in the
bottle was ketchup, but it was brandy-bitters, and I
have not felt well since I drank it." She left the de-
ceased soon after, and saw nothing more of her until
half-past ten o'clock on that morning, when she went
into her room and found her in bed. She was then
very ill, and had scarcely power to utter a word ; her
face was black, and her hands were as cold and as
black as her face. Witness asked her what was the
matter with her, and the deceased replied, "Oh
Mary, I am very ill indeed ; I think I am dying."
Witness asked her if she had been eating or drinking
anything; and the deceased answered, "No ; only
that brandy-bitters that Alfred gave me, and I have felt
dreadfully ill ever since I took it." Witness asked the
deceased if the prisoner had partaken of the liquor, and
she answered, No; that he put the bottle up to his
mouth, but that was all." She repeated that she
knew she was dying, and asked witness to go and
fetch her brother. Witness did not go herself, but
sent another young woman, who accidentally met
the prisoner passing the end of the street, and told
him to hasten and see the deceased, as she was dying
The prisoner in a few minutes afterwards entered
the deceased's room, at which time she was sinking
rapidly, and asked her what was the matter with
her. The deceased told him that her illness was
caused by the brandy-bitters he had given to her.
The prisoner coloured very much, and said, "Never."
As she was evidently sinking very fast, witness ran off
for Mr. Wildbore, surgeon ; but although she was
only about five minutes absent, she found on her re-
turn that the prisoner had left, and the deceased soon
afterwards expired in her arms.
Charlotte Scott, living at No. 2, New-court,
deposed that when the last witness left to go for the
surgeon, she called upon her, and requested her to go
immediately up to the deceased. Upon entering the
room she found the prisoner there. The deceased-
repeated to witness what she had told the preceding
one, with regard to the brandy and bitters causing
her illness ; but the prisoner said it was nonsense, it
could not be that, as he had taken part of it.
Witness then asked him to drink some in her presence,
and the prisoner took the bottle and a teacup from
the cupboard, and pouring out half a cupful of the
liquid, drank it off; but, before he did so, took some-
thing out of the cup, and flung it on the ground, and,
after drinking, spat a quantity of the liquid into the
fender. He then said that he must go, as he had
business of importance to attend to, but should be
back by the time the deceased's brother arrived ; and,
although witness entreated him to stay, he refused to
do so, and left the-place, but did not again return.
The prisoner here said that he wished to explain
that what he took out of the teacup, before drinking
its contents, was a small piece of cork, which he did
not observe till he put the cup to his lips.
Another witness, named Sarah Russell, was then
called, and deposed to similar facts, tending to incul-
pate the prisoner.
Mr. George Hill Smith, assistant to Mr. Wildbore,
stated that he was called to attend the deceased at
half-past eleven o'clock, and found her in bed, per-
fectly sensible, and capable of speaking in monosyl-
lables. She laboured under great prostration of
strength, and complained of intense pain in the region
of the stomach, which could not sustain the slightest
pressure. There was a bottle, about half filled with a

dark liquid, on the table, part of which witness poured
out and tasted. Brandy and bitters were the pre-
dominant ingredients, but the liquid had a very
astringent and nauseous taste, which remained on his
palate for more than an hour afterwards. The de-
ceased had been repeatedly sick all the night and
morning, and the stomach was so manifestly empty
that he did not think it necessary to use the stomach
pump. Witness desired the brother of deceased to
place the bottle in his pocket, and accompany him to
his residence, where witness prepared a remedial anti-
dote, and hastened back to the deceased, but on
reaching her apartment he found she had expired.
The proximate cause of death was inflammation of
the stomach, produced by some acrid poison. He
had not yet had time to analyse the contents of the
bottle, and the body had not undergone a post mortem
examination.
Mr. BROUGHTON—Do I understand you distinctly
to give it as your opinion that the deceased's death
has been produced by poison, or some other violent
irritant of the stomach ? Witness—Most decidedly
—iso doubt of it.
Sergeant Sheelig, 45 N, stated that he accom-
panied her brother to a public-house close to the de-
ceased's residence, where he tound the prisoner, and
took him into custody.
The brother of the deceased corroborated the evi-
dence of the sergeant, and said, in favour of the pri-
soner, that when he had seen him in company with
his sister, they always appeared to be kind to each
other.

On being called upon for his defence, the prisoner
said that the reason he did not go back to the house
was, that he did not think the deceased was in the
slightest danger; and with regard to the bottle, that
it had been left in a hamper, containing several other
bottles, at his father's house, and had belonged to an
old lady, who died there three years ago. He sup-
posed there must have been something deleterious in
its contents, as several of the porters employed in re-
moving the old lady's goof's, and who had drank out
of some of the bottles, became seriously ill afterwards.
The prisoner's father, a retired linendraper, corro-
borated his son's statement with regard to the delete-
rious effects produced upon the porters employed
upon the occasion referred to.
Mr. Baouorrrox said that the whole case was re-
plete with the darkest suspicion. He should remand
the prisoner on the charge, and the police must exert
themselves to the utmost to throw further light upon
the case.
The prisoner was remanded until Tuesday nex
UNION-HALL.

Two fashionably-dressed men, named John Trail
and James Johnson, members of the swell mob, were
brought before Mr. Trail!, charged with attempting
to pick pockets.
Goff, a shrewd and active officer of the L
stated that about eight o'clock last evening he was in
company with Brooks, 118 L, in the Westminster-
road, when he perceived the prisoners attempt several
females' pockets. They followed them into Oakley-
street, street,where the prisoners followed a lady with a
child by her side. The prisoner Trail went behind
the lady and lifted up her dress on two occasions ;
the other prisoner was covering his actions. Finding
what their. intention was, they secured them, and
took them to the station house.
Mr. TRAIL'. inquired whether the prisoners were
known ? _ _

Goff replied that Johnson had been convicted at
Maidstone, and had been several times in custody for
felony.
Brooks stated that he had the other in custody
about twelve months ago, for stealing a coat. He
was tried and convicted at the Surrey Sessions.
Johnson denied the officer's assertions. He had
never been convicted.
Mr. TRAILL said that he intended to remand them

for proper evidence as to their former convictions
It was quite clear, from the testimony of the officers.
what their intentions were. _

Goff infornWthe magistrate that on the next exa-
mination he believed he should be able to bring a
charge of burglary against the prisoners.
They were remanded until Monday.
Edward White, an able-bodied young pauper, be-
longing to Christchurch workhouse, Southwark, was
next charged with crushing the fingers of an aged
pauper in a dreadful manner.
Richard Williams, about 60 years of age, stated
that he was placed in the men's ward to keep the lads
in order. This morning, about eight o'clock, he was
standing by the doer leading to the yard, when the
prisoner knocked at the door. He put his hand be-
tween the door and the door-post, when the prisoner
immediately seized hold of his fingers and closed the
door, crushing his fingers in a dreadful manner. He
remarked, that had not a stone been in the way, the
prisoner would have crushed his fingers off.
Several of the old men corroborated the complain-
ant's testimony.
The prisoner denied the charge.
M'Kay, the porter said the prisoner was a most
desperate character, and almost always in prison for his
misconduct. He had been confined six months for
attempting to stab one of the inmates.
Mr. TRAILL committed him for two months.
MARYLEBONE.

Thursday, Richard Pates, servant to Mr. Phillips,
surgeon, in Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, was
charged before Mr. Rawlinson, on a warrant, with
having committed an assault of a most atrocious na-
ture upon William Donaldson.
Complainant, who is a tailor, living at No. 9,
Northumberland-street, New-road, deposed that on
Tuesday last he went to Butler's beer shop, in Notting-
ham-street, taking with him a waistcoat which he had
made for defendant, who tried it on. As one of the
buttons required to be moved, complainant took it
home and made the necessary alterations ; he returned
with the waistcoat to the beer shop, and waited there
some hours in the expectation of being paid for the ar-
ticle which defendant had, upon its being brought back,
put into his pocket. Complainant at length asked for
a settlement, when defendant, who was helping him•
the door, called him a
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the hat of defendant, w'ho thrust the oyster knife
against his side with such force as to cause him to
fall to the ground; he jumped up, exclaiming that he
was stabbed, but fortunately the instrument had not
injured him. It had, however, from the force with
which the lunge at him was made, perforated his
clothing, and passed nearly through a leather case,
containing various papers, &c., which he had in the
left side pocket of his coat. e took possession of
the knife, and the landlord, in order to prevent any-
thing further of an unpleasant nature occurring, ad-
vised him to go up stairs, which he did. The land-
lord also took home the defendant, who soon after-
wards came back and offered a sovereign to any one
who would produce complainant, at the same time
stating that if he could get at him he would tear him
limb from limb. lie subsequently went to com-
plainant's house, and after using much abusive lan-
guage to Mrs. Donaldson, expressed a wish that the
knife had been two inchei longer. He was much the
worse for drink.

Other witnesses having spoken to the same facts,
Mr. RAIMINSON said it was a most atrocious case,
and that he should make the strongest example of de-
fendant that he could. He was fined 51., and, in
default of- payment, two months' imprisonment.
The penalty was paid.

I are sustained, and a fair demand exists for the better
qualities. Of Foreign East India Sugar none has been
brought to public sale, and privately there is not much
on offer. Java has fetched full prices. The market is
still without a supply of Siam.
FOREIGN.—BraziI has been in excellent request pri-
vately, and previous rates are fully supported. Two
floating cargoes of Bahia have been sold for near ports
—one at 18s 3d for brown, and the other at 22s 6d for
' white and 18e for brown. 'The demand has increased
for yellow Havannah, and importers have obtained prices
they could not previously get. For white there has
been a better demand, and prices rule firm ; 300 boxes
ofood quality have been disposed of at 30s per cwt.
COFFEE—West India has met with little attention this
week, some holders have been desirous to reduce their
stocks, and by private treaty cheap purchases have been
made. This afternoon the large quanty of 485
bales Mocha were offered at public sale, but
the whole was taken in at 2s to 3s per cwt
above the value, viz. mid even greenish clean garbled at
725, fine ord green 655, broken yellowish 565, sound pea
berry 84s. 10 bales were, however, sold at 69s 6d for
greenish, 43s for triage, and 81s for pea berry. Of
Ceylon 592 bags were brought forward, and nearly all
taken in at stiff rates—good ord pale rather mixed at
575, low mid bold palish colory Plantation kind 755, but
a few lots were sold—fine ord bold pale eolory at 66s to
675, pea berry 80s, and triage 50s ; 28 bags Bengal. at
the 4,i duty, sound, was taken in at 57s for pale rather
broken, but sea damaged sold at 51s 6d, ditto and re-
' packed 45s per cwt. Of Rio, 300 bags of of very good
ord sold privately at 32s 6d per cwt.
TEL—There has generally not been so much busi-
ness transacted in the Tea market as of late ; the better
descriptions are held with firmness, but more desire has
been shown •to sell all common kinds : none has
been offered at auction. The lower sorts of Congou
have been taken sparingly, and the prices accepted
are rather under those previously quoted, common
selling at 10d to lOid, good common lld to ls
per lb, but the better kinds have been in good
demand, and former prices are fully supported.
To-day there was a good deal of business transacted in
the better qualities of new green Tea. 'Tyson and Im-
perial, at from 2s 9d to 3s 3d per lb, were the most in re-
quest. Fine and good Congou are in request at full rates,
but the lower kinds remain dull of sale at the decline
previously noticed.
SPlCRd.—There has been ne public sale of Black
Pepper this week. This afternoon at public sale 63
casks 53 boxes of Jamaica Ginger were all sold, but at a
decline on former rates of 5s to 10s per cwt, and went at
3/ 15s to 1012 s per cwt for low to fine quality.
Rust, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Jamaica Rum is still
attracting attention, and the transactions have been to
a large extent this week, the rates previously established
are fully sustained. Leewards have met with free pur-
chasers ; the quantity sold has been 200 puns, at 2s 5d to
2s 54d proof, and good brown ditto 2s 6d per gallon. De-
merara at 3s 3d to- 3s 6d for good and fine strong.
Calcutta sold at 2s 3d to 2s 3id per gallon, proof.
Brandy of common quality is much wanted at 2s I ld to
3s 3d per gallon. Cognac best brands of the vintage of
1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; 1839, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ;
1840, hhds 48 11d, puns 4s 9d ; 1341, hhds 4s 10d, puns
48 8d ; 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s sd, and mid to good
mid 3s 4d to 4. per gallon. Geneva is not so much
wanted for shipping, ls 10d is the value : of fine fit f
duty prices are steady at 2s 6d to 3s 6d. English Co I
Spirits remain at 105 4d per gallon, cash.
MOLASSES.—lmporters of West India have been more
inclined to realise this week on account of the heavy
arrivals, but submitting to rather lower rates buyers
have been induced to purchase more freely, and the
large quantity of 400 puns sold at 20s to 24s per cwt for
low to good quality. In East India there has been
scarcely anything done, and parcels could only be dis-
posed of but at low rates.
Cocos.—For West India prices remain firm ; none
has been offered at auction, and little is to be purchased
privately, as the stock is nearly all in second hands ;
several inquiries have prevailed. Of Foreign, some
parcels have been disposed of at very full rates ; there
is little offering for sale.
RICE.—To-day Bengal Rice met with more attention,
and the parcels disposed of privately were at stiffer rates;
sales made at 113 to 11s 64 for middling and good
middling white. Java and Madras were in increased
request at the rates previously quoted.
FRUlT—There are few purchasers of currants, and the
market has a dull appearance. Some holders are ready
sellers at 39i to 42. for Zante and Cephalonia, and 45s
to 48s per cwt for Patras. Other sorts of fruit con-
tinue in limited request at present, except for new Ya-
lentias, which are much inquired for, and some parcels
are daily expected to arrive.
SALTPETRE.—There are few purchasers of Rough,
and small parcels of Calcutta have been disposed of at
23s 6d to 24s for common, 24s 6d to 25s fur middling,
25. 6d to 26s for good, and 26. 6d to 27s per cwt for
fine. English refined is not much wanted, and 29s to
29s 6d per cwt is the value.
Isimoo.—The market is firm for East India, but there
has beeu only a limited business transacted this week to
supply either home or expoat orders. For the quarterly
sale the quantity declared is 12,805 chests, and which
quantity is not likely to be much increased. For
Spanish prices remain firm. A fair demand exists ;
there is little in the market. The deliveries of East India
are still large.
OlLS.—There has been a much better demand for Lin-
seed Oil this week, parcels having been disposed of on
the spot at 24s to 248 3d per cwt. In Rape Oil the ope-
rations are upon a more extended scale ; pale at 36s
to 36s 6d, and brown 35s to 35s ed per cwt ; there
is not a large quantity being produced. Cocoa Nut Oil
at 28s to 30s per cwt. Palm Oil, fine at 27. to 27. 6d
per cwt. Olive at 441 to 451 for Gallipoli, and
411 to 43/ for Spanish. Barbary, 39/ to 401 is the
value. Cod Oil, 331 15s to 341 per tun. Other de-
scriptions of common Fish Oils have brought full rates,
341 103 to 331 for pale Seal, and 271 10s to 321 per tun
for Southern. Sperm, 85110 861 per tan is the value of
fine British. Although prices rule high, the trade are
disposed to operate largely. This afternoon at public
sale 60 tuns Southern Oil were partly sold at 30/ lOs to
321 58 ; 15 tons Cocoa Nut Oil taken in at 26/15s to 271
per ton.
TALLOW.—Prices have suffered no further decline for
Russian Tallow this week, but the market has been in a
tranquil state. The small purchases made have been at
41s to 418 3d for old, and at 41. 6d to 4ls 9d per cwt for ,
new P Y Candle. Town Tallow at 41s per cwt, nett
cash. There is only a moderate quantity being pro-
duced. This afternoon at public sale 365 pipes 137 lihds
of South American Tallow were sold at 34s 6d to 40s '
for very low to fine.

MR. CLARKSON'S SECOND LEC-
TURE ON ANCIENT EGYPT.

(From the Cambridge Advertiser.)
In furtherance of his promise Mr. Clarkson gave
a second lecture on the manners, customs, and
amusements of the ancient Egyptians, at the Town
Hall, Cambridge, on Thursday, on behalf of the
Mechanics' Institute. There were two important
omissions, which time compelled him to make in the
former lecture; one relating to agriculture, the other
to manufactures—embracing the implements and
products of agriculture, and the tool of the artisan—
which he should now fill up. He had remarked in
his former address, and had always maintained
that Egyptian antiquarian discovery comprises facts
and inquiries from which the utilitarian and political
economist may derive new, and necessary informa-
tion. It lays open the whole progress of early
agriculture, art, trade, and manufacture—the pro-
gress from serfdom to freedom—the origin of judi-
cial institutions, colonisation, and taxation—of the
corn-laws--of the first division of the land, and of a
single land-tax, a tax of 20 per cent. (a tax recom-
mended by political economists as the best), appro-
priated to all the purposes of government. The sub
sect opens out new and momentous views of early
history—(or rather creates a new volume of history,
and necessitates the introduction of a new element in
the ground-work of education)—fills up vast chasms
in the invention and progress of art and science, and
embraces perspicuous views of the foundation, the de-
velopment, the progressive tendencies, and, conse-
quently, the ultimate destinies of political society.
It is but recently that a conviction of the truth of
these propositions had reached the public mind; but
the conviction was daily acquiring new force, and the
exciting attraction of the subject was now proved by
its growing popularity. A singular proof of its close
connexion with the political economy, and corrobora-
tion of his argument, was just put into his hands ;
the organ of the Anti Corn-law body of political
economists (the League paper) having last week
founded a discussion of Egyptian agriculture with
wood-cuts, derived from Rosselini s illustrations
before them, and promising next week a similar
review of Egyptian manufacture. These were the
two points to which he had promised briefly to call
their attention previous to a survey of the 18th
dynasty of Egyptian Sovereigns, which would com-
plete his view of Egyptian society, and terminate
his course of two lectures. Mr. Clarkson then
threw a rapid glance over the agriculture of the
ancient Egyptians, exhibiting large drawings of
the various agricultural implements, and exhibiting
illustrated scenes on a large scale, copied from the
Theban tombs of ploughing, hoeing, sowing, reap-
ing, carrying, and storing the harvest. The writer
in the League had made three mistakes in a short
passage, which was perfectly excusable, considering
the novelty of the subject to ordinary political
writers. He asserted that the wheat was not
stacked in sheaves—that gleaning was not allowed
—and that the agricultural labourer toiled in
melancholy slavery, and was denied all amusements
and enjoyments. There is no evidence like that which
is submitted to the eye; and Mr. Clarkson produced
numerous evidences that gleaning was allowed—that
the corn sheaves were stacked—and that the pro-
prietor rewarded his labourers with liquor—en-
couraged their pastimes (as Homer describes on the
shield of Achilles), and that our harvest-home revels
and songs (an Egyptian harvest-home song, probably
with musical notes, is extant) were derived from
theirs. Some of those pastoral and agricultural scenes
exhibited by the lecturer were calculated to remind
the audience of Thomson's Palsemon and Lavinia, and
of Boaz and Ruth.
From agriculture, Mr. Clarkson proceeded to an
exhibition of ancient trade and manufacture, com-
menting on them, with numerous large illustrations,
which he produced, as he proceeded. Volumes of
written detail would not give us so complete an in-
sight into the Egyptian workshop, laboratory, or
manufactory, as those plates. Every process of art
and manufacture then known is elaborately and
minutely laid open. The shops of the Egyptian fish-
mongers and poulterers in the act of buying and
selling, plucking, trussing, scaling, and salting, are
also exhibited. The mode of making shoes, and of
blowing glass, of staining leather and the whole
business of the linendraper and tailor are brought
before our eyes. The fuller, dyer, and currier, are
exhibited in their daily craft. We see the potter
with the " potter's wheel" in the act of making his
vases—the turner in the act of modelling his wood—
the coachmaker in manufacturing all the details of
the splendid chariots of the Egyptian aristocracy.
The whole process of wine-making from training
the vines on trellises and gathering grapes, to the
stage of pressing them in the wine press, and storing
the wine in amphovw during and after fermentation,
is accurately exhibited, and the most minute details
respecting the process of " treading the wine press,"
to which reference is so often made in the Scrip-
tures, are brought in the same obvious manner before
our eyes. The Scriptural "corn floor" is exhibited
with the same vivid accuracy.
There is a subject connected with the extensive
trade of pottery and brickmaking in Egypt which
demands attention. Mr. Clarkson exhibited an illus-
tration wherein the Jews are represented making
bricks with straw, under a taskmaster, in Egypt.
Subsequently, they appear as warriors, either incor-
porated in the Egyptian army, or warring against the
Pharoahs. In the tomb of Petamon Osiri, opened by
Belzoni, they appear as types of the Caucassian
family of the human race. Their last appearance is
in the person of Rehoboam, King of Judah, at Kar-
nack. Their first appearance, however, on the monu-
ments, is most remarkable, as bearing the most
startling evidence to the truth of the Mosaic record.
A grand tableau, of which Mr. Clarkson exhibited
copies on a large scale, has been recently discovered
on an excavated tomb at Beni Hassan, of an Egyp-
tian governor of Goshen (the Wadi 'l'omylat), a
" Royal Scribe" (so called in the inscription) or
secretary of state, whose name, phonetically, is
read " Yoseptha," or " Noseptha," is introducing to
the Viceroy of Osirtesen (who reigned in On in
1897, and was therefore contemporary with Joseph),
ten Hebrew brothers (clearly identified as such) with
one lad and their wives, amounting to thirty-seven
persons. The Secretary of State, Yoseptha, produces
a decree of the reigning Pharoah, in which is recorded
the arrival of these strangers across the Syrian
desert, in the sixth year of Osirtesen. They bring
with them Syrian presents, the gazelle and ibex of
Judea. They are called " bond slaves" after the
Chinese fashion, but they are well armed. One is
playing on a lyre—one bears a royal pedum, or
sceptre—and one carries the Jewish cow-horn trum-
pet—all marks of triumph and rejoicing rather than
of bond slavery. Two carry the desert water-
bottles, slung over their shoulders, and accompany-
ing asses carry the large water-bottles, now borne
by those animals in crossing the desert between
Egypt and Syria. Few persons, on inspecting the
tableau, will doubt that it is a pictorial repre-
sentation of the first colonisation of the Jews in
Egypt—of the arrival of the " lad " Benjamin, with
his brothers, to be introduced to the Vizier, their
brother Joseph, to redeem Simeon, who was, in fact,
in "bond" till their return, under a gaoler, as re-
corded in this most striking illustration, and to enter
on the possession of the land of Rameses, where the
picture is located.
Time would fail, said Mr. Clarkson, were I to at-
tempt to lead you seriatim through the whole details
of the magic lantern of trades and manufactures he's..
exhibited. To the trades naturally follow the tools
therein used. Many of them resemble entirely those
used in modern times. The mallet, the bent and
straight chisel, the saw, the axe, the adze, the centre-
bit, the gimlet, the awl, the file, the wimble, the
lathe, the trowel, the leather-slice, &c., &c., come
under this description. The common saw resembles
precisely the modern. The shuttle, the distaff, and
the spindle, resemble entirely those which were used
before the late improvements in machinery.
At the various institutions, metropolitan and su-
burban, where he had lectured during the last ten
years, Mr. Clarkson said that the tools and imple-
ments of manufacture and agriculture and the deve-
lopemneut of trade, had been considered specially fitted
for Mechanics' Institutes, and the exclusive novelty
of the subject was certainly equal to its appropriate-
ness ; the Egyptian room at the British Museum con-
taining the tools, being only recently opened, and
the great Tuscan Commission's work, representing
the tools illustrated before them, not being attainable
in Cambridge, and one copy only being at the Bri-
tish Museum.

Many of the implements are painted yellow, or
copper colour, in the illustrations. The saw is

generally painted red, and was most probably made
of copper. There are many tools of the same de-
scription, made of copper and brass, preserved in the
Egyptian room of the British Museum. They are
elastic, do not oxydize, and cut the hardest granite.
The chemical knowledge displayed in the fabrication
of the tools was equalled by the chemical knowledge
evinced by the artisan, the tradesman, and the manu-
facturer. The " fine linen " manufacturers employed

540 threads to the inch in the warp to 110 in the
warp; the famous Dacca muslin looms being only
100 to 84. They employed metallic oxydes, vegetable
and mineral dyes, both substamive and adjective, and
acetates of iron and of alum. The dyers use the saf-

frum indicum, the carthamus tinetorius' and the re-
seda luteola. The tanners had equal chemical skill.

It appears from remnants of leathef found in the
tombs, that they employed the bark of acacia in tan-
ning, and the periplaca secamora, which grows near
the Red Sea. The painters employed vegetable ex•
tracts and mineral oxydes, and the relics of vja•s ex-
tant or attesl,l, prove an equal chenneal kn(o
among the ,:I.2‘s 1-0,-)wers. The wo:e,.ld

they gave to Bia4s appears froln chemical anal j sis to
be imparted by oxyde of copper, and the reds used
in ornaments, imitating rubies, appear to have been
derived from minium. They must have used oxyde

s'its
of gold to produce the rich purple of those TheTIS
gems, oxydes of cobalt or of calcined copper an
for blue, oxyde of silver for yellow, and 0101
copper or green. Of the pure ruby colour
they produced we have lost the art. ,secti
Mr. Clakson then proceeded to the main sn',„,)
the present lecture. The trades and manufact,n-01
ancient Egypt belong to the magnificent 18th c,? ~,11
of Theban sovereigns, of whom Rosellini firm
with details of the most ample and accurate dr;il
tion—details which may be justly said to consAbor
new volume in the history of the world. lie had
bited, at the last lecture, the model of a pristile4o
ling. He now exhibited the model of the ;0
palace of one of those splendid and ambitious rO,
with whom all human civilisation begun. Nip o
Tinti4
large diagram drawings of Karnac, of the gust
hypostyle Hall, a fac simile model of the Obe
Osirtesen (the oldest extant), and a perfeeti°oo
Gallery, on a large scale, of all the kings snuassq
of the magnificent 18th dynasty, accompanied 's-
of the lecture. der
Mr. Clarkson brought before the audience Pie;
sions and pageants ; the nature of the militarise,
horse, foot, or chariots ; the countries warre • 0
4;,
the costume and arms of the hostile nations,
triumphant processions consequent upon victor/104
the prisoners, the enslaved captives or the °oriel
victims, rind the booty in the produce of the
5,
countries subjugated by the Pharoah's arrater
these things are detai!ed and with that min°loo,
cision, and in that indisputable form, which leinte,
matter for question. They are in fact felihpresolj
bulletins. We have next the costume oftlarr
and army, not brought before us as that of °o
chronicler:, including Froissart, accurate as °jell:
but in a more certain form—for much i 5
imagination by description, nothing by the if?
sight. With the power of an enchanter,
:vps#
wielded the serpent wands of the very r.gl
theocracy, which he describes. EgYPt4
Rosellini brings before us from the grave thLA
the heroes, the sages, the legislators, entonnis/
4,000 years. No dreamy and mysterious lei
as that which hangs round the line of 1)."
exorcised dynasty, or that which, half l'itstiA
the lineaments of the magnates of the ancient
which Faust is described as summoning leeps
him! The vision here produced from the $ .0!
forty centuries is as clear as the light of 1;1
the " kings of ancient name" of which.
Syrens sung to the man of wisdom—the optinlipf/
the earth's youth—stand before us in garb!sos
ture, in lineament, in physiognomical expresl,
precisely pourtrayed as those of any of our ettee-1
rary kings. Not they only, but with them C°
equally perspicuous form their generals, their
their priests, their counsellors, and all the „
splendid appendages of the courts of tbeir",
Pharaohs and all the female aristocracy.ofthe,
—queens, mothers, wives, sisters, princess'
the various costume of their graduated rangue,
magnificent in dress, some resplendent in heasree
marked as portraits, not by difference of feature!'
but by difference of physiognomies'
„eflt,e,,
Use wears off the edge of wonder, but 1' thect's
of this discovery had suddenly taken place doiti
cumstance by which the youth and old Aged
world may be considered as joining bill/ stslvjs
a long interval of oblivion—it would We, tai7„,l
the world as by a sudden and substantial Ten
realised before its eyes. Mr. Clarkor!deacellts
to the triumphant processions as °oho, $Ol
the extent of the conquests of the Phttras; gel/
Scythian bear and the Indian buffalo, tuleae:cs.,
the parrot of India are there. The 003 e
native of middle, and the ostrich of soutbeiris,ii, Afro
are among the spoils. The people of Py
potamia, Armenia, Aracan, Arabia,
er outiosa'or
India, Scythia, Russia (Mosck), are vea the Nf
the Chinese type among the combatants an
tives depicted in the representations of Of :vio(
tles of Sesostris and the more warlike of ther Soal
bearing the common name of RamessesTart bsf c
ils
est
the combatants in cars have decidedly the f the esti
ratter, with long locks of hair at the top °Theirikel
as the Tartars wear at the present daY. s jegrog
resemble the war waggons of the ScYtitent eicte
by Herodotus. In some of the magn'obs fos,
vases which adorned the banquet tables ° 0 te,.,d
rious Pharoahs, there appear Caryatides figtliiato9
bling the modern Chinese. But that the Aho
the conquering Pharoahs extended to qincasettisi
latterly proved by an extraordinary bie ofribg
Chinese scent-bottle with characters caPs ~00310, of
deciphered, has been found in one of the 'osolls
date of which is contemporary with the
the immediate line of Ramesses. fJerll/1
Sesostris extended his conquests to Lihertab°o,l/1
Scythian, Tartary, and China, and Tartars'
clepe°
shaved heads and long single locks of hair, toes'
from the crown of the head, as well as Hg OCI opY
resembling the Chinese in phyaiug,n?ln'Yd tri,„l/130/
appear among the captives in his sculptured rki9
or thrones, and Caryatides, supporting other fol
and jewelled banquet cups on his table. ,re the el
torical desiderata suggest themselves. '0149
and beardless people who appear among thea bes;rie°
nation of the Nubian monuments the red allaiscro.
race of the American Indians ? Recent skl,sftiop'
have proved that a contemporary nation ~leigils,"„fgo
now extinct, were in an equally high state °f ids stroje
They had copper tools and weapons, pYrscseotdlit
as those in Egypt, sculptured temples, Pala cos 6740,;
siderable taste, and magnificent subterralibe 001
chres, granaries, and treasuries. From three c° 001
the conquests of Sesostris, including the., jeVisc'o
sations during the 18th dynasty—(l"oeo
Argives ; 3d, Athenians)—and the cra?,Vation,Aole
those great events on all modern the 705
Clarkson proceeded to the great result °olf haf,tore
inquiry. The question of the lost art t arts .epttiej
copper led to the question of the "11 and seitsis
rally, and to the extent of the chemietusii toil! es!:
knowledge of the Egyptians. Mr. Clarksi_uore not,
that independent of many arts that sve 000;01
vered, the Egyptian men of science were sritbsiose`
the Artesian well, with the railroad, an 'rted i'Afse;
power. In the latter assertion, he suPP obi
by a recently published memoir of seiv,°lie/
With reference to the " lost arts," ofiesieacel.encei
inference occurs. A perfect chemical 5; of gide 0
an equal knowledge of the whole circuit 01;sioli
The contest of the Sophoi, or Magic is striper'e
scribes with Moses, before Pharaoh P.:ith poor the
tribute to their " union of knowledgeoree bp 5;
No supernatural aid is intimated. ffi wed Of
a r eo ,Jo
miracles of their natural magii (85 DO° 110
David Brewster on Natural Magic a.f.,11",pt narinrodliss
the jugglers of India and modern r-t,Jalpt t°,,rfotel;
perform now. In the fourth, an alt fail `ihes,veS
the lowest form of animal life, the.Yre, that badl6
whole statement, one inference is sa„atotnistsbabsi7.
bition of the priestly chemists and a of eillisrseVo,
them from the fictitious immortality to a Abe prlof
and the triumphs cf chicken hatehi°so on t
stein experiment on the vital fluid, 11.
assiniSsar~to
ciple of life. A similar ambition: ionic
ribs('
creating—not re-producing—the g otlyllse
the lowest form of life—has been rece
ua ledge'
disca modern savant. f their di'v
This being the elevated range
o
how and why were these powers 11- f tba. dor
„a the'. toe$ fel
e
ries lost ? Because the men of scienc they foto the
no press to record them—because e they 00!s_n
Jesuitical principles of secresx—bie:eaulisschaivllsgyptitvi.
bound their god of letters in Insi°'°,o, of e°oo
altars of superstition. The extinction of tiorirers,‘ir 's,
" knowledge" was the just retriput_wd its PerestPir
popular monopoly of its "power' a_ilshed agr dear
to despotic purposes. The fact fum..l.ouad urge, of
tional lesson, and tar from giving 00_40
of the human progress, furnished.,,tfitahle jos
safe, and cheering auguries of an 1111°1
°Piti °II
improvement, social, moral, and inte
sing 11'iivell
Mr. Clarkson concluded, by exPres to be bery snd
rs,
that lectures of this description ought st, see°
a public stage, assisted by the effects °f Tbeor tsos
machinery, in order to do them justl,.cd•
one brostics
which was given extempore, and lasted 0. bath 0
three quarters, was received with s 7„,
throughout. The large room in the
whole
will hold 1,000 persons, was the wn?'_
and gent'
a highly respectable audience of lan.T f hip CIO
SUNDEILAND, SEPT. 19.--The st,riktoe 6t,,1111.10ncl
As
at this port may be said already near Wyk'
ePot,
As we anticipated, the masters have
2/a
1 s • Per "10Y°d'
stance given the advanced wages 0,
his
eala to
the men have consequently resume :ts keep _ eos4,.ify
Trade is still improving, and as freiga
_aid feriollovor,
vance (10s. 6d. per ton having haen.„VisiobarS."4
London to-day and 12/. per keel for
affin, the oeie
building will speedily be brisk at this u
ing ports. 1/frs'

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