The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-03 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

His Majesty the King of the Belgians arrived off
Woolwich in the Princess Alice steam-packet from Os-
tend, soon after eight o'clock yesterday evening. His
Majesty landed at the Dock-yard at a quarter past eight
o'clock, and was received by Lord Rivers, Lord in Wait-
ing on the Queen, Captain Francis Seymour, Groom in
Waiting to Prince Albert, and the Officers of the Dock-
yard.
His Majesty, attended by Lord Rivers, entered one of
the Queen's carriages and four, and took his departure
for town. Captain Francis Seymour, and the Gentlemen
in Waiting on his Belgian Majesty, following in another
of her Majesty's carriages. The Royal party arrived at
Buckingham Palace at ten minutes past nine o'clock,
where his Majesty was received by the Queen and the
Queen of the Belgians, attended by the Ladies and Gen-
tlemen in Waiting.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Queen yesterday, and partook of a dejeune with her Ma-
jesty and the Queen of the Belgians.
Sir Robert Peel had an audience of her Majesty yes-
terday, at Buckingham Palace.
The Royal Family were taken airings yesterday
_in the
Royal Gardens. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, took an
airing yesterday afternoon, in an open carriage.
M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, left town at
twelve o'clock yesterday for Woolwich, to receive his
Majesty King Leopold on his arrival from the Continent.
A Cabinet Council was held yesterday at the Foreign-
office. The Ministers present were—Sir Robert Peel.
the Duke of Wellington, the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Wharncliffe, the Duke of Baccleuch, Earl of Aberdeen.
Lord Stanley, Sir J. Graham, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, Mr.
Gladstone, Sir H. Hardinge, and Sir E. Knatclibull.
The Council sat two hours.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar
did Sir George Hayter the honour to sit to be painted
into the picture of the christening of his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales.

The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a
meeting yesterday afternoon, at the office in Whitehall-
place. The Commissioners present were the Archbishop
of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of
London, the Bishop of Durham, the Bishop of Bangor.
the Bishop of Chester, the Bishop of Ely, the Bishop of
Hereford, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Bishop of Llan-
claff, the Bishop of Rochester, the Bishop of Worcester.
the Lord President of the Council, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Earl of Besborough, Earl of Harrowby,
Right Hon. Sir George Grey, and the Dean of West-
minster.

A deputation of the Assam Tea Company, including
Sir George Larpent, Bart., Chairman, Mr. R. Donnelly
Mangles, M.P., Mr. Weeding, Mr. Travers, and Mr.
Prideaux, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.
Count Kielmansegge, the Hanoverian Minister,
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office.
The Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt had a meeting yesterday at the Treasury. The .
Commissioners present were the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, the Governor of the Bank of England, and the
Deputy-Governor. Mr. Higham, Secretary and Comp-
troller-General attended.

NEW BILL FOR THE PREVENTION OF FIRE.--This ,
Bill contains thirty-two sections, with three schedules. The
object of the Bill is to supply water engines by parishes, and
to give rewards to persons engaged in the prevention of fires.
It is proposed that the measure shall come into operation on
the Ist of January next. There is a provision by which it
is declared that the churchwardens shall pay the rewards
mentioned, and then recover them from the parties, whether
housekeepers or lodgers, where the fire occurred, or whose
chimney was on fire. In default of payment the parties may
be summoned befoYe magistrates, and distress warrants is-
sued. The following rewards are set forth in one of the sche-
dules :-1. To the turncock belonging to any waterwork in •
whose division of main or pipe water shall be found on, or into ,
which water shall first come on the opening of any plug, at any
fire, in any building, a sum not exceeding 10s. 2. To the engine-
keeper who first brings a parish engine or other large engine,
to help in extinguishing any fire, being of the required di-
mensions, and in good order and complete, according to the
directions of this Act, a sum not exceeding twenty shillings. ,
3. To the keeper of the second parish• engine or other large
engine which shall be next brought, being of such-required.
dimensions, and in order and complete, as aforesaid, a sum
not exceeding ten shillings. 4. To the keeper of the third
parish-engine or other large engine which shall be next
brought, being of the required dimensions, and in order and
complete, as aforesaid, a sum not exceeding five shillings.
5. But in every case in which the fire shall have been con-
fined to a chimney or chimneys, the rewards to be given shall
be as follow :—To the turncocks and to the engine-keepers
of the first and second engines only a sum not exceeding five
shillings for the turncock and ten shillings to the engine-
keeper only. 6. To the person who first gives notice to the
turncocks and engine-keepers, or anv of them of the district, -
of the occurrence of any fire in such district, a sum not ex-
ceeding two shillings and sixpence.
hasj beenNsOE C
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announcedAN—
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lsurprisei
the Rev. Richard Corfield, M.A., rector of Pitchford and of
High Hatton, in this county, and rural dean of this district,.
and master of a seminary of some repute. The reported.
amount of debts varies from 12,000/. to 16,000/., and no pro-
perty is visible to afford
.any dividend to the creditors. '
Among the debts, about 4001. is alleged to be the savings of the
Condover Benefit Society, for which we hope there wilt be
some efforts made by the public to replace the loss by sub--
scriptions, as it is a lamentable prospect to the aged and sick '
and provident poor who have yearly contributed to this
fund, and fondly relied upon it as their resource before sink-
ing
into the grave.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.
CHATHAM.—Three detachments of the 58th Foot,. ,
stationed at Brompton, to the number of 108. rank and file,.
will leave
.Chatham in the course' a lam next month for
Deptford, there to embark -for New South "Wales, as convict ,
guards. Thirty-six men will embark on the 13th of. April at
Deptford, on board the Maria Somes ; 36 on the- lbtla;en
board the Barossa ; and the third draught of 36, on the
on board the Angelina. About 3,000 men will be sent from ,
the various depots at Chatham to the East Indies, in then
course of the present year, and the embarkations,,are ex-
pected to commence in the course of the enattiDy, ingrAtij,

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• SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROk THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—With reference to the conversation last
night in the lords on the subjea of New Zealand, we
mould submit Oat the name of Hibernia Minor, or
Little Ireladd, should, be conferred upon that colony,
while it remains "in the hands of the high and mighty
powers now subsidised by the present Government.
he Vikefielet. ascendancy there demands a small
..irtii-signsur; And a. small standing .tirmy, to maintain it
.agairi:st jitst.at the analogous parties in
„:Ireiaud.iiroper. The Earl of Ripon, after stating that
, part of_their demand had, for the present, heercom-
Idled. With; proceeded to say, " There certiinly Were
means Within the reach of the.colenists which they might
.7ndopt for their own safety. The Governor was authorised
to levy a Militia, and to establish a constabulary force,as
in Ireland, for. ghoul safety; and, When there were 10,000
inhabitants, he could not see why such a course might not
readily be adopted." We shall not despairof a New Zealand
edition of the Boyne Water, with appropriate variations,
'and a standing toast of " The Glorious and Immortal
memory of Edward Gibbon Wakefield ! " It is worth
observing that this mercantile association of sturdy
beggars, which, after calumniating every Government,
till it bullied them out of alms, is now putting forward
the somewhat more serious petition fur armies—is
the body which prepared its operations by attacking
the missionaries fur their land speculations. We
do not recollect that the missionaries pushed their
land jobs till they wanted armed force to back them.
We suspect that the blackening system worked against
them had much the same meaning and motive as that
which Spanish and Portuguese rapacity carried out in
the New World against the Jesuits. By their fruits ye
shall know them. The Jesuits and William I'enn con •
trived to do without fleets and armies. Again, this is
the body which wanted nothing of Government but
to be let alone ! Fight for us—pay our bills—and
let us alone with 'our domains and our dividends !
'As the subject is thus again obtruded before the
public, we recur briefly to some curious treatment of it
y the Herald of yesterday. The Herald, after borrow-
ing some of our old objections to " the Wakefield sys-
lens," and after handling quite as severely as we have
done its application in New Zealand, concludes by
'saying that Mr. Wakefield's principles are in
the main sound, and that the Globe misappre-
hends them. We suppose its motive is to pat Mr.
Wakefield on' the back fur supporting GOvern-
ment Canada.- It does not tell us on what
point we misapprehend " Mr. Wakefield's principles."
Indeed, that is what these colonial Mormonites never do.
They pever Condescend to argument in defence of their
" Book Of Mortnon." If you Criticise it you are simply
a blasOeiner ; and the faithful have nothing to say to
you. The Word is- written on plates of imperish-
able gold, btit- to infidel eyes invisible. We do not
think it worth disputing in the abstract, whether
or DO we apprehend the Wakefield system.- It
Is disputing whether you have hold of Proteus—if
you had, he will have slipped through your fingers
the next minute. What we have quarrelled with as
" the Wakefield system," is the system of blowing
colonial bubbles, on pretence of having discovered a
principle by which new countries are at once assimilated
to old ones, and by which capitalists are assured of pro-
fitable returns for investments in colonial wastes at
prices calculated by what their value is to be, after
labour has successfully been applied' to them. It is the
system of fixing an anticipated and artificial value on
colonial wastes, a value which is to be fixed high enough
to serve the doub),e purpose of' transporting labourers out,
and of securing that they shall not seek to, cultivate on
their own account—it is this that we have understood as
the Wakefield system. It is on the strength of the sup-
posed self-supporting' vigour, and profitable returns, of
the process of transporting masses of labour to distant
wastes—that the means have been raised for recent colo-
nial adventures—and the fingers burned of all those who
have had any finger in them. If the " system" is tacitly
dropping out•of all its original pretensions to a com-
plete, circular, self-supporting character ;—if its famous
central doctrine of sufficient prices for waste lands is
dwindling down from its fine frenzy of exorbitance, and
sinking' gradually to the level of the rational practice of
the United States—why doubtless it may become
" Fine by degrees, and beautifully less,"
nobody can have any objection to it, any more
thad to-the corpulence of " the fat single gentleman six
months ago." All its artificial proportions of labour and
capital may shrink into common sense. In the mean
tinse,-we repeat that the Herald, while assuming to direct
a vague censure against our strictures on that " system,"
has borrowed the main point ve -hare always urged,
and applied it precisely as we might have done, as one
Cause of the present fix in New Zealand.
STANDARD.—The Ecclesiastical Courts Bill was
last night read a third time and passed in the House of
Lords.. There was the usual amount of carping on the
petit of the Opposition Peers, with something more than
the usual injustice. The. principal topic of complaint
was the permitted existence of the diocesan courts—
courts, however, which the same Noble Lords who com-
plain- of them as an intolerable nuisance, permitted
during ten years of office to remain undisturbed, and to
remain in company with some hundreds of other alleged
" nuisances" now to be swept away. This however, is
not the only inconsistency, or the greatest of which the
Opposition. Lords are guilty in this matter. If
we are not mistaken, they are all, without ex-
ception, zealous promoters of the Bill for establish-
ing local common-law courts, on the principle
that justice ought to be brought as near as possible to
every man's door. Is there not, then, a gross self-con-
tradiction in their complaint that the metropolis is not
to absorb all the courts of ecclesiastical law ? The
diocesan courts are, however, said to be sub-
stantive nuisances, the toleration of which in
any form sanctions the mischief of which
they are the cause. This, however, is going
something too fast : a Court may be a nuisance or a
benefit, according as it is constituted or conducted.
Even our most favourite tribunals will be confessed
by all to bo but mixed goods, and though no doubt
what is excellent in them predominates, the very
fact that' supplementary tribunals are called for,
and that these supplementary tribunals are not
to . imitate them very exactly, shows that they
do not give entire satisfaction. We need scarcely
make it a question whether a Local Courts
Bill, Which should establish tribunals as uncertain,
tedious, and expensive as the courts at Westminster,
would be accepted with . much gratitude by the
country. Before assuming, then, that the diocesan
courts must remain perpetual nuisances, may
it not be fair to inquire whether these
courts cannot be subjected to a reform, ana-
logous to that proposed, in the local common law courts?
For ourselves, we have long since' arrived at the con-
clusion that the law reform which commences with the
chopping and changing of courts, the multiplying or
diminishing the number of judges, is a reform begun at
the wrong end. The first evil to be contended
ainst is the process, which a number of ingenious
and expert and deeply-interested men always
are and always will be labouring to make as
expensive as possible. Let the Legislature con-
stantly keep its eye upon this point, and it will be a mat
ter of comparative indifference whether the courts are
" more and merrier," or " fewer with better cheer." The
work, however, properly belongs to the Legislature, and
(we say it with all respect) not to the judges or other
heads of courts. The pursuit, of perfect justice grows
with these magistrates to a passion, which they will
always indulge at whatever expense of labour to
themselves, or of time or money to unhappy clients ;
and thus contrivance after contrivance to exclude pos-
sible wrong is heaped up in the portals, until the
temple of justice is closed against nearly evtry one.
What is the use of our principal courts to ninety-nine
out of a hundred of the community? Is it not certain
that for one wrong they right they shelter a thousand
that. they' might right, if their process was simpler and
less costly? The Legislature has less reason to indulge
the unhappy passion for an unattainable perfection of
justice; and therefore it might perhaps be prevailed upon
to enforce a cheap and simple process, that no doubt
would occasionally cause injustice, but which would
generally work well, and would work for all; and until
the Legislature does this all law reforms will be illu-
sive. As regards the ecclesiastical courts, we cannot
see wh they. must still adhere to the old cumbrous pro-
cess' of'the Roman law.,--now laid aside in every country
of Europe, even in those countries where the maxims of
the Roman law constitute the basis of the national code?
Let the diocesan courts, however, be reformed in respect
of process, and every argument in favour of the local
common law courts applies to recommend their .preser-
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MARKET INTELLIG]SNCE.
' (From the London New Price Current, of April 2.)
''Suc a a.—The rates previously establiihed have generally
been maintained for West India Sugar. To-day more desire
was manifested on the part of grocers arid refiners to pur- '
otitis West India sugar, bat the small and Indifferent show
operated against but:rums ; the prices paid were fully equal to
those of 'Friday, and in some cases rather above for bright
yellovrand strop" grey qualities. '
Vzialiitn.--To-day the home trade were large, purchasers '
of Reined Sugar, and prices. are still advancing : brown
saleable hisups fetching 74s 6d to 752, and standard lumps 76s'
tid to 77s
_per cwt. Bastards more in request at 476 to. 58s.
In Scum Treacle a good dial is doing at 18s to 20s. ' Bonded
Crushed Sugar in excellent demand, and 25s 9(1 to 26s per cwt
paid for the best. Of Loaves several parcels sold, Turkey 2i
to`4lbs at 35s to 38s, Hamburgh 6lbs 346, 9 to 101bs 30s to 31s,
l 3 to 141bs 29e 6d to 303; Milers 20 to 301bs 26s 64 to 276;
Piussian 40 to 451bs 26s tos 6d. Dutch Crushed Sugar is 22s
6d to 236 ed per cwt.
Altuarrrus.—Holders have refused to take lower rates.
Damaged sold at 56s to 61s 6d, but the sound was all bought
jib good yellow at 64s to 655, middling 60s to 61s 6d, middling
2 ey 583 to 595, and good 60s to 61s per cwt.
.'rtAsT Iripia.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was in limited
demand, and 652 bags at public sale mostly taken in at 63s to
64s for middling, and 62s for low middling white; damaged
sold at 611 to 635 6d per cwt. Madrasto, duty
57s laidoo,dsodlditatot
stshse
full'valne ; fine yellow damp 2
to 55s 661, middling 53s to 5436%15:hien. d washed good
to 57s 6d.
Java Sugar taken irr good grey at 22s 6d to 235, middling 20s
to 21s, good and fine yellow 19s to 206 6d, and washed 19s 6d
to 22s per cwt.
Foaztex.—To-d there 'Was no public sale of Foreign
Sugar ; privately 120 chests of very superior yellow Havanna!:
sold at 235, and a floating cargo of 1,000 boxes old soft white at
25's per cwt fur Holland ; the market has a firm appearance.
MotAssas.—For West India previous rates are with difficulty
sustained; prices vary from 22s to 26s per cwt. Bengal Syrup
at .15s to 163 per cwt. Foreign Molasses at low rates.
' COFFEE.—West India Fas been little inquired for by private
contract, but prices are maintained. Mocha has moved off
slowly by private contract, and easier rates accepted. Java
..,,,,, ~.., tas been taken sparingly, and prices are going down. To-day
470 i T , ...3 thlt. home trade purchased Coffee with reluctance by private
r,.---"corttract, and for shipping few parcels were disposed of ; of
Ceilon 409 bags of inferior quality were submitted to public
competition, -and sold as follows : —Triage at 10s to 245; bold
A; tE..il ditto at 40s to 43s 6d, Black 16s 64 to 17s, and damaged 10a
vt, icii.!--';'', • t0436s per cwt.. .
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.., .-!:, Coco.k.—Trinidad, good red selling at 53s to 54, 6d; mid-
dling 50r to 525; low middling 4&;; to 495, and good to fine
\.....
- grey 47s to 501 per cat. Foreign Cocoa cannot be quoted
"
1.. cheaper. Bahia bought in at 299. to 29s Gd for good bright
red; a few lota sold at 255 6d to 29s for repacked, and 27s 64

per cwt for sea damaged : sound Cocoa Husks from Malaga
taken in at 17s per cwt. This afternoon Trinidad Cocoa sold
at easier rates ; middling red 505 6d to 51s, good 54 middling
grey 48s to 495, and low 44s 6d per cwt.
TEA.—The market has been in a flat state for Black Tea
since we last wrote, and green has met with less attention ;
prices have given way for all descriptions," the market having
been well supplied. To-day there was more activity in the
Tea market ; sales to a fair extent were made in black and
green, and holders show more firmness ; common sound Con-
go's, cash, Is, and Twankay ordinary is 2d to Is 2id per lb.
At public sale 798 pkgs of Assain.Tea were nearly all sold at
stiff rates: Congou fetched 3s id to 3a 4y, Sonehong Is to
4s Cid, Pekoe 2s 4d to bs, Bohea 3d. to Is, Hyson Skin l Id to
Is id, Hyson 2a Wid to 3s 9d, and Campni sid to 6d per lb.
SPICES.—BIack Pepper is held fur the previous currency ;
white has been little sought after. Gingerbeen less in-
quired for ; Malabar, good bold home consumption kind,
selling at 26s to 27s 6d, and middling 21i to 21s 6d per 'cwt.
Cloves are wanted ; Bourbon at lld to ls, and other sorts at
Is 2d to is 10d per lb. To-day Cassia Lignea sold at an advance
on former rates of 2s to 3s per cwt.
Russ, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-..Por Jamaica Bum
prices are still on the advance: fair quality 30 to 34 per cent
over-proof at 3s 6d to 3s Bd, good 36 to 38 over 3s 10d to 4s,
and small parcels of superior at 4s 6d to 6s per gallon. Lee-
wards at 2s 2d to 2s 20 proof strength. For Demerara,
3s 3d to 3s 5d per gallon paid for strong descriptions. Cal-
cutta Rum at Is lid to Is lid proof with certificate; in some
cases 2s paid for superior quality. In Brandy, prices as follows—
Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s I ld, puns
5s 9d; ditto 1839, hhds 5s 9d, puns 5s 7d; 1840, hhds 5s 7d,
puns 5s sd; 1841, hhds 5s 6d, puns 5s 4d ; 1842, hhds 5s sd,
puns 5s 3d, middling marks 3s 4d to 4s 6d, and low 2s 10d to
3s 3d per gallon. Geneva for shipping at is 9d per gallon ;
fine in small parcels for home consumption 2s 2d to 3s. English
Corn Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon cash. To-day Leeward Ruin
at 2s 2id proof strength ; Jamaica common 30 per cent 3s 6d
per gallon. .
RICE.—The market is quiet for cleaned rice, and more de-
sire shown to sell; Patna is 14s 6d to 189, and Carolina 21s to
25s per cwt. To-day Bengal rice sound all taken in at lls 6d
for middling white; sea damaged, first class, at 10s 6d to I Is ;
second ditto lOs to lOs 6d ; third ditto 9s 6d to lOs • and fourth
ditto 8s per cwt. Java, nearly all 'taken in; good middling
white at Ils to Ils 6d, and low middling and middling lOs to
10s 6d ; sea damaged fetched 4s to lOs per cwt ; for the whole
of the sound lOs offered.

Saco.--.Middling small pearl at 15s to 15s 6d, low middling
14s 'and sea daniaged lOs to 15s per cwt. - Tapioca at 6d to
61dper pound for fine quality. Sago Flour taken in at 22s to
23s per cwt for good white, being above the value.
Itinico.—Spanish had been sought after, and the tendency
of prices is still upwards. To-day several transactions took
place in East India Indigo ; the demand is not speculative, but
for actual consumption, and any description is readily fetching
3d per lb advance on the rates of the last quarterly sale.
OlLS.—Sperm Oil at 711 lOs to 761155, and Headmatter at
78115 a per tun. Southern Oil at 291 5s to 321 10s for com-
mon to fine, and Elephant Oil at 271 10s to 291 per tun. Seal
34/10s to 35/ for pale • Newf9undland brown Seal went at 27/
to 98/ per tun. Cod at 341 lOs to 351. 331 10s for
Newfoundland. Olive Oil has been in lively demand,
Gallipoli at 50/ to 511; Sicily 491 to 49/ lOs ;
Spanish 48/ to 481 lOs ; and Barbary 471 to 471 10s per tun.
Linseed:Oil on the spot at 26s 9d to 27s per cwt. Rape Oil,
pale 38s 6d to 395, and brown 37s 61 to 38s per cwt. Palm,
fine at 28s per cwt. Cocoa-Nut Oil at 29s 6d to 325. Madras,
at 301 10s to 311 per tun.
TALLow.—South American fetched 34s to 40s 3d for low
to good quality ; Ibrail, good, 39s to 40s ; New South Wales at
40s to 40s 9d ; black 38s to 38s 3d ; Odessa Sheep Tallow
39s 6d to 39s 9d ; Italian 38s to 39s 3d per cwt. In Russian
Tallow the operations on the spot have been upon a small scale
only; P.Y. Candle is 40s 9d to 41s; for delivery several con-
tracts entered into for the last three months of the year at 42s
per cwt. Town Tallow 41s to 41s 6d per cwt nett cash. To-
day P. Y. Candle at 40s 6d to 41s per cwt on the spot. In the
price for delivery there is no variation.