The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-04 00:00:00

rilE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, M 1344.

granted by the Court of Queen's Bench, at the in-
stance of Mr. David Salomons, calling upon Mr. Moon
to show cause why a quo warranto information should
not be filed against him to show by wh t authority
he claims to be on Alderman of the Cis. of London,
and which we have to request you to lay before the
Court of Aldermen.
"We have to request that they wil' permit you to
furnish us with copies of the precepts for the two
recent wardmote elections for Portsoken, with the re-
turns thereto, and also of the minutes of the Court of
Aldermen relatin;.; thereto.
"We have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient
humble servants,
"GEORGE and CHARLES CORNER."
Alderman COPELAND said he should feel satisfac-
tion in rendering all the assistance the Court could
legally render to Mr. Moon, but he objected to allow
the production of any document without having the
opinion of the" Recorder whether the intelligence con-
tained in it might not be used as a means of entangling
the Court in the question which lay merely between
Alderman Moon and Mr. Salomons.—(Hear, hear.)
He did not wish that the Court should take up the
cudgel in the case of Alderman Moon, as they had
taken it up, most decidedly against his judgment, in
that of Mr. Thomas Johnson. As Mr. Moon chose
to battle it with Mr. Salomons, the two competitors
ought to be allowed to settle it between themselves.
He was willing to render both gentlemen all the aid
the Court could, consistently with its own neutrality,
afford ; but he had no idea of incurring 2,400/., or
2,5001. expense, the charge defrayed by them in the
case he quoted, on any future occasion. Alderman
Moon must take the distinction with all its coats and
other imperfections.—(Hear, hear.) Under all the
serious and delicate circumstances of the case, he could
not consent to grant the inspection of any of the
papers connected with the matter without having the
opinion of the law officers, at the same time that he
felt most desirous to render every facility which such
authority should consider advisable.
Sir P. LauftrE said it would appear to be an im-
pression of Alderman Copeland that Alderman Moon
applied for assistance in this case. Now, he should be
happy that the Court would render every possible aid
to that gentleman, and he should most willingly sup-
port any proposition to render him service in the pro-
ceedings in which he was engaged.—(Hear.) Alder-
man Hughes had been in a condition similar to that
in which Mr. Moon was placed, but had been ousted.
Mr. Moon had resolutely engaged in the contest. If
he (Sir Peter Laurie) supposed that the consent of
this Court to grant the inspection of the required do-
cuments would mix them up in the contest, he would
not support the application ; but no such consequence
was involved in it.—(Hear, hear.)
Alderman Lucas said that he apprehended that the
object of the solicitors of Alderman Moon was to ob-
tain copies of the precepts and the proceedings of the
Court with respect to the election at the ward of
Portsoken. He did not see what reasonable objection
could be made to the application. As to the statement
that the Court had nothing to do with the question,
that was certainly an error. The Court had to do with
it, for they refused to swear in Mr. Salomons, and
issued a precept for another election, of which the re-
turn of Mr. Moon was the consequence.—(Hear.)
Alderman WILSON said the application was a most
reasonable one. He admitted that there was a differ-
ence between the case in which Mr. Thomas Johnson
was a candidate and the present case. In the former
case the Court was bound to pay all the expenses in-
curred by the contest, and they paid the expenses ac-
cordingly. The time was not yet arrived for deciding
upon the merits of the present question as to the
claims of Alderman Moon upon the more important
sympathies of the Court; but when that time should
come, he would most readily stand forward to support
the application.—(hear, hear.)
Alderman T. Wool) stated that the application
was merely for documents, the granting of which
would no more commit the Court, than the inspection
of the records of the Corporation by a member of the
Livery would place the privileges of that body in
jeopardy.—(Hear.)
Alderman HUMPHERY said he differed toto ccelo
from all who had spoken on the subject. He ob-
jected to the principle of allowing Alderman Moon to
defend the right which the Court had claimed to
itself in refusing to swear in Mr. Salomens. The
Court were committing Alderman Moon as he cer-
tainly ought not to be committed. They had thought
proper to reject Mr. Salomons, and to issue another
precept, calling on the inhabitants of the ward to make
another election. The inhabitants thought proper
to elect Mr. Moon unanimously, and the Court
bad approved of their choice. The Court then had a
right, and was bound in justice and in honour to
defend the precept which they had issued, and which
led to the proceedings in which the person whose
election they had recognised was involved.—(Hear.)
Mr. Hughes had been in a different position. He
had been sworn in upon the votes of a minority
of the ward. Mr. Moon was sworn in upon
the votes of a majority. The cases were thus
essentially different. After adverting to his
own case in the contest for .Aldgate Ward, Alderman
Humphery asked whether, if Alderman Moon de-
fended his seat in that Court, and were ousted, they
could lay their hands upon their consciences, and call
upon him to pay the expenses of Mr. Salonions ? It
was quite impossible that they could. How, then,
could they lay their hands upon their consciences, and
call upon him, if he fought for their rights, and ob-
tained the victors', to defray the expenses incurred by
the efforts made in their cause ?—(llear, hear.) Ttie
Court were then bound to defend themselves, and by
their own law officers—not by men who felt no inte-
rest in the result. These were his sentiments, and
he thought the Court ought immediately to act upon
them, instead of allowing any individual to act in
their vindication.

Di♦ idend
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Anaum.

Alderman LUCAS said Alderman Humphery ought
to remember that the quo warrant° was directed to
Mr. Moon, who appeared to have taken the strictly
proper course in giving his answer. That answer
would necessarily state that he was approved by the
Court of Aldermen by whom the precept had been
issued. The Court might be called upon to show
cause why they had issued a precept after Mr. Salo-
mons had been returned to them as elected.—(Hear.)
The case was travelling on, and in his opinion Mr.
Moon had no occasion to be uneasy at having it all
to himself.—(A laugh.) He was an Alderman of
London. The question was, whether the Court had
done right or wrong in refusing to swear in Mr.
Salomons?—(l-fear, hear.)
The RECORDER said the rule was a rule served
upon Mr. Moon to show cause upon what authority
ze assumed to serve the office of Alderman for the
ward of Portsoken. The parties were Mr. Salomons
and Mr. Moon. The Court were not parties to the
rule. If a mandamus were issued against them upon
their refusal to swear in Mr. Salomons, it would be
then for them to show that Mr. Salomons was not

competent to serve. It was not necessary that they
should put themselves into such a condition. To
both parties he considered it would be advisable to

give proper access to the accounts of the proceedings
and the precepts, subject to the limitations which
might be suggested by the law authorities of the
Corporation.
The COURT ultimately agreed to allow the soli•
citors of Alderman Moon to have access to the docu-
ments required, subject to the canditions mentioned
by the Recorder. Mr. Salomons will, upon applica-
tion, receive similar facilities.—The Court adjourned.

MR. WILSON'S MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS.--We
are gratified to see this delightful vocalist once more
among us. He has been received with the same enthu-
siasm as ever, the Music Hall being filled on Friday
evening, both in the body and in the gallery ; and those
who know the spacious dimensions of that hall svill re-
quire no other test of the popularity of this singer. The
selection on the above night consisted, with one or two
exceptions, of Scottish songs, agreeably varied by the
humorous and pathetic. In this field Mr. Wilson stands
alone in excellence ; his rich melodious voice, so flexible
and so sustained, and his fine taste and cultivation, have
enabled him to give that truth and simplicity to the
Scottish airs, which are their charm. Saturday forenoon
Mr. Wilson gave another entertainment in the Ilepetoun
Rooms, which were, crowded by a highly fashionable au-
dience. We observe he appears again on the evening of
Saturday next, in the Music Rall.—Caledonian Mercury.
AFFAIRS OF OTAIIEITE.--We direct the attention
of our readers to an interesting letter from Otaheite,
from a gentleman resident in one of the. Society Islands,
which appears in another column, siddreased to one of
the respected ministers of this city, by whosekindness we
have been enabled to give it publicity. It contains many
details of the recent occurrences in those islands which
have not hitherto reached Europe, and will be read with
attention both in France and in this country.—Glasgow
Argun.—[We have referred to the letter, and find that
it contains no fresh intelligence, and is evidently written
by one who cannot take an impartial view of the ques.
tion. The 'statements of the missionaries in the Otis.
heite Islands ought to be received with great caution.—
En. Sun.]
CAUTION TO DlSSENTERS.—Dissenters are cau-
tioned how they insure their property in offices with
the articles of which they have not made themselves ac-
quainted. A Dissenter lately insured in a London fire-
office,and had the misfortune to be burnt out. In the policy
of insurance was a clause, that the minister and church-
wardens of the parish shall certify or declare that the
fire has happened by a single accident. Being a Dissen-
ter, and opposed to church-rtes, and because the minister
really does not know whether the fire took place by ac-
cident or design, the minister and church-wardens re-
fuse to make their declaration. Counsel have been con-
sulted on this clanse, and it is said to be fatal to the
goodness of the claim.—Lancaster Guardian.
COMMERCIAL CURIOSITY. A gentleman near
Aylesbury has in his possession a Bank of England note
for sixpence, issued in the year 1700, of which the fol-
lowing is an exact copy :
No. 165.
thel promise to pay to T. Caddel or bearer, on demand,
summe of sixpence.—London, Bth day of May, 1700.
For the Governor and Company of the Bank of Fiezland,
The sum 50 guineas has
ewbe:n offered filo(l).ll.hisWcaAiriGoEsity
and refused.—Aylesbur. News.

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PRICES OF SHARES
LEI LA.NALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE
AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.

LONDON, TUESDAY, DEC. 3.

Names of Com-
panies.

Amount

Share.

Canals. 4 8. d.
Ashton and Oldham... in 18 0
Ashby.de.la.Zeuch..ae 113 0 0
Basingstoke 100 0 0
Bteckneek & Abergay. 150 0 0
Birmingham,l-16thsh. 815 0
Do. and Liverp. June. 100 0 0 100
Chelmer & Blackwator 100 0 0
Coventry 100 0 0
Cromford 100 0 0

—..—.—.—.....—.
Dudley 100 0 0
Derhy........" 190 0 0
Danube andMay7. e.... 41 13 4
Ellesmere and Chester 133 0 0
Erewash lOO 0 0
Forth and 100 0 0 100
Grand Juncti0n.......... 100 0 0
Grand Uni0n.............. 100 0 0
Grand Surrey 100 0 0
Grand We5tern......... 100 0 0 100
GLusorgansh. ay. cost 178 IS 4
Gloucester & Berkeley 100 0 0
150 0 0
Huddersfield --......av 57 6 6
Kennet and Avon ...ay 30 18 10
Lancaster,.»,,,,«.«.av 47 6 8
Leeds and Liverpool... 100 0 0
Leicester ... 140 0
Leicester & Northamp. 83 10 0
Loughborough ........ay 142 17 9
Monmouthshire .. 100 0 0
Montgomeryshire 100 0 0
Milton M0wbray........ 100 0 0
Mersey and Irwell lOO 0 0
Macclesfield..... 190 0 0 All
Neath....... ..... 100 I
Oxford ........ 100 I 0
Peak Forest ,av 78 0 0
Regent's (er London).. 33 16 8
85 0 0
Shropshire ...... 125 0
Somerset C0a1........... 150 0
Do. Lock Fund Stock 12 10 0
Staffordand Worcester 140 0
5hrew5bury,............... 125 8 I
Stourbridge.. ...... 146 0 0
Stratford-on-Ayon av 79 9 8
Swansea.,„. «.,,.,„„ lOO 0 •
Severn & Wye 26 9 3
Trent & Mersey, sh. 50 8 0
Thames & Medway_ay 10 5
Warwick and Firming. 100 0 0 •
Warwick and Napten lOO 0 I •
Worcester & Binning 7B 8 9 •
Wilts and Berks......av 87 10 8 •
Wisbeach 105 0 0
Wey and 110 0 0 •
Docks.

Commercial.... 100 S 0
East and West Stock
London ...... Stock
.......

Ditto Bonds .............
Bristol... ....... ........av , U 7 9 0
Do.Bnds,var.amounts
Eh. Katharine.,,
Ditto Bones..,
Ditto Bonds ..
Southampton ..

a. 41.
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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROST THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—There yet remain two months before
the meeting of Parliament. The interval may be well
_ employed in the discussion of those practical ques-
Pri
tions of national finance, and the nature and opera-
tion of those fiscal imposts, which not merely affect
'---• the public interests, but involve the comfort and
70 health of the great mass of the community. The
70 flourishing state of the public revenue—presenting,
5
as it does, a large surplus of income over the
0 16° expenditure—will enable the Government to remove
, 13%
or diminish some of the items of taxation. The
25 2°5 specific mode of relief has, probably, not yet been
0
as decided on. The Premier, with his characteristic
-' I°s caution, is waiting for an indication of popular
13 4 314
88 feeling. To this he has been wont to yield. By
440
o 0 110 consulting it at the present moment he may win
1 18116 back a portion of his lost popularity. When 25 ex-
pediency promised to serve his purpose, the claims
! 20
o 0 1 of principle, and the regard which consistency de-
- 1 210 mends from public men, gave little trouble to
s
iss Sir Robert Peel. With a dexterity which alter-
- 21 nately amuses and disgusts,
—the Right Hon. Baronet
lox
so breaks such bonds asunder, and divests himself of the
= 744 incumbrance. With him, pledges and promises are
•-•. 71 but the current coin of the passing hour. The tax
1140
--• 160 which presses most eeverely on the community—at
ll7 98 once a heavy impost ;an irritating insult ;an unequal,
and therefore unjust, distribution of the burden, by
360
it paid 15 which those least able are made to bear the greatest
385 proportion is, we need scarcely say, the pro-
.s
4500 perty and income-tax. To obtain the immediate
...
.025 removal of the latter portion of this tax, should be the
7. 120 object of every man who is capable of discerning the
-1?:, distinction which obviously exists between them. The
- 445 former should be equitably graduated ; the latter
- 230 should be wholly removed. This is the main object.
so To attain this desirable relief to the wages of labour
40and the profits of trade, every legitimate means should
496 be employed. A tax upon property regulated by an
167
equitable scale, is just and beneficial in principle. The
129 revenue it would supply would enable the Minister
se to reduce the taxation which presses most heavily on
the labouring classes. The tax on income is at once
oppressive and inquisitorial—oppressive, for it adds to
the burdens which already press severely on those
138
80 least able to bear the load; and inquisitorial, for it
us subjects the affairs of the merchant and trader to
so an investigation by, and exposure to, the eyes of those
1
from whom it is essential they should be concealed.
117 It is also, as has been well observed, "a premium on
Fe% dishonesty." Its demoralizing influence is manifest.
"The full weight of the burden is only felt by the
honest man; the less scrupulous may with facility
21 save half the amount by fraudulent returns, and
16 defy every attempt to prove their inaccuracy." The
26
3 objections which apply to the tax on income are not
se, applicable to a tax on real or funded property. The
in facilities for collecting the latter are great--involving
264 neither trouble nor expense. "In the case of houses
e• e 7194% or land, it is collected from the occupying tenant, who
pays it cheerfully, because he is authorised to deduct
• o lei it from his landlord's rent. The landlord, in turn,
• 6
5 0 16 when his estate is mortgaged, deducts it from the
o interest due to the mortgagee. There is no in-
-7
la e o 6% quisition into his resources, or incumbrances ; and
0
6 0
5% yet no opportunity is given him of evading
0
I 0 0 400
a fraction of the legal demand." When-
ever the promised general revision of the fiscal
1 pald 20
o is.ise policy of the country be entered upon—and we think
0 0
141 the coming session the best for the purpose which has
1040% been presented in the history of the country for many
%0 0
(0 1 6). years—it is obvious that the principle of direct taxa-
o 'in tion must be seriously entertained. No sound and
13 0
o • 16 advantageous change can be effected in the general tax-
-opli
• 45% ation of the country which is not based on this prin-
•
100 165% ciple. The idea, therefore, of giving up that part of
0
10 0 16 the property-tax which is derived from tangible opro-
lo e 2% perty, whether it he in lands, houses, or in the funds,
0
O 0 40S. is founded on the inequitable policy of throwing an
:no 20,18- unequal portion of taxation on the shoulders of
0 e --ir industry—an error, or rather a vice, which has per-
- 122205 vaded the fiscal legislation of the country. To apply
42 the same rule to fluctuating sources of income as to
_
e 0 0
„, those which are fixed, is not merely absurd, it is ine-
-1: 1:,(53-4 quitable and injurious. Even if the tax on income,
as contradistinguished from the tax on property,
• o 44 were to be retained at a diminished rate, the odious
0 46 feature would remain. The private affairs of indivi-
I ;0 duals would be subjected to inquisitorial inquiry and
0 1841 injurious exposure and publicity; and this in a free
o 0 26% 0 0 ' country is intolerable, and will not be endured longer
10 0
o o J 33( than imperious necessity compels.
0 0 434 STANDARD.—The meeting for the protection
10 : 16% and relief of needlewomen, held yesterday at Willis's
• 0
0 as Rooms, and presided over by Lord Ashley, is one of
0
0 0 25 the signs of the times, and in all respects an auspicious
0 0 26% sign. The association, still in its infancy, we may say
8 o
but just born, has provided work, at 9s. a-week, for
o 0
nearly one thousand industrious women, and what
22 0
0 20 is perhaps still more gratifying, has conciliated
o e
130 many extensive dealers to the principle of fair
25
• A 141 wages. There is not the least reason to doubt that
:RI if the public do its duty fairly, the blessing may be
o e 275% extended ten-fold or one hundred-fold even in a few
• 0
150 months. Let purchasers resolve to deal only with
•
5 0 73 those who give fair wages, and not grudge to pay in
0 0 70 proportion, low wages, now the rule, will become
o o se
0 0 84 the exception ; they will not long be an exception
0 0 20 until they disappear, and thus the good work
0 0 4C C 0
will be completed without injury to any one.
0 0
O 0 76 Following the Noble Chairman (need we name
•So 23 him who is ever most forward in every good
34
0 0 13
es work, Lord Ashley), we must, however, refer to
% two classes of employers, over whom the public has a
0 0
more direct control than over any others, but who are
28
the agents of more mischief to the poor needlewomen
225
00 than any others—the managers of workhouses and of
_
6056 female schools and asylums. The low prices at which
.....
57 persons supported by other resources, can afford to
12'7
55 work, is the main cause why the prices of female la-
-
-- 36 bour generally are so miserably depressed. As regards
workhouses, there is no excuse for their inmates being
0 81% at all sent into the market. The law makes
00 I 0 o
r 54 for them a provision, such as it is, irrespective of the
e 8 ) 4% value of their labour ; and, let them `abour never so
0 0 ise
8 ' 53i industriously, the law does not allow them to parti-
O ,
e o
212sa cipate in the fruit of their-toil. Upon what conceiv-
-0 0 1134% able just principle, then, can they be thrown into
0 • 142% competition with those for whom the law does nothing.
if they please, give
rider their charge; but
0:
0:
1,:;4
employment Let managers
to
the
o f workhouses,persensu
o o 67
0 0 12% let them sell the produce of the labour thus cheaply
0 o obtained at a ininz'llzum price, somewhat above what
0 0 209 is sufficient to maintain decently, independent and
0 • ~,,
o 0 47% unassisted, labourers in the same line—common jus-
-0 e 11% tice demands this at the ver
6 y least. The case of
_
—9% female schools and asylums differs from the case
o o es %
° 9 82° of workhouses in this, that these are voluntary
o 0 37% establishments. The mischief to the independent,
83 unassisted labourer is, however, precisely the same,
16%
—e
o 114 whether under-bidding is effected by funds
o 6 51% voluntarily or compulsorily collected. If the poor
0 !3
o 0 108 sempstress is compelled to make for lid. a shirt,
for making which she ought to receive a shil-
l() 0 5
5734
tho.ngherto
whetherenable htheer
ptoricelivies,
hiteamteahttedreswnnothhyinga
0 12% ..
O 0
o 35
O 0 41%
O 0 3e rival workhouse or a rival school. It may
o o esss
• 0 285% be useful to warn many benevolent persons who are
o 0 Se not aware of the effect of their kind exertions in
o 0 25
O 1 104 patronising schools, of the evil that necessarily
o 0 I 51% follows cheap school work —an evil immeasurably
overbalancing the good. This warning may be,
i 0 3% perhaps, best supplied by a short calculation.
to • 3
0(1 3 Let us suppose, then, a school containing a
0 s 4 hundred girls, the daughters, say, of half that
0 0 '7k number of mothers who are sempstresses. The
5
—0
0 5
ag mothers receive, say nine shillings a week each
0 • 11%
0 0 for their labonr ; the labour of the girls affords
10
O 0
0 no pecuniary return. Nine shillings a-week is
10 0 20 a poor pittance for the maintenance of three per-
-0 0 26 sons, but unhappily experience proves it to be
0
oe 0 4
6 comparative affluence to the class of which we are
10
a • it) speaking. Matters proceed as we have described
o
e o
Fi them, until some perhaps truly generous, but short-
O 0 4 sighted persons think that the labour of the children
0 e
4% ought to be employed to some profitable use—ques-
•
0 118 tionless with a purpose to extend the charity—work
° • 17 is taken in for the children accordingly, and it is not
0 0 24
O 9% extravagant to suppose that the work of one hundred
_
10 e 343,5 girls may be equal to the work of twenty-five
women, that is half the work of the fifty mo-
- ic there. But, suppose it equal to the work of
0 • es only ten women ; now, according to Adam
_
t, 0 18
54 Smith, who drew his inference from a large and care-
ful induction, this would reduce the receipts of the
• e 15 mothers one-half, viz., from 9s. to 4s. 6d. and even this
ss .
• 0 83% is too favourable a view; for Smith'
as-
-10 0
0 11 sumes that the intruders must be self-supported,
10 42
105 which is not the case of s hypothesis
the school-girls. How-
o 0 27 ever, let us take the most favourable view ; let
w o wen us assume that the labour of the daughters robs
03 0 i the mothers of only one-half their earnings. Is this
O o real charity ? You deprive the mother of
• 0
O 0 20 two orphan girls of half her means of supporting
o o sa herself and them—for what ? In order to prose•
.
• • 1(3,38 cute the same system on a more extensive scale.
0
o 0 0 „sib' But then it will be said, girls must be taught to
5%
oo I 4 work with the needle. No doubt it is very proper to
teach them; but do not teach them to the loss of
'RICES, themselves and of their mothers. Let them
._ work ; but, as in the case of workhouses,
_- u,,; let a minimum price above the average of a de-
... eess cent maintenance be eharged for the labour. All
1 that is necessary is some uniform regulation
TN upon the subject. Let the poor-law guardians come
—4, • 2338 to an agreement upon the point; let the patronesses
o 0 o 1 113% of the multitude of the different female schools
o • 0
9% ° I 24 and asylums of the metropolis have a meeting
,
10 9 is
218 upon the subject. English women never meet
0 .
10 0 4% without some generous resolution and a happy
0 0 50 result. Let it, in short, be determined universally
0o 0° 66 1
Ithat no charitable or quasi charitable establishment
971.2 shall perform any work at a less rate than will afford
9s. a week to an industrious sempstress—let this be
done, and we dare almost predict that before the
end of 1845 every sempstress in London will.
I.e so her 9s. a-week or more, The matter is hap-
pily such as is completely within the power of the
public ; it is perfectly elastic, for the value of the
female labour that enters into the expenditure

—• •
of each of us is really so trifling that almost the
poorest amongst us can double, treble, or quadruple
the price without inconvenience. Our readers will
see that the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Queen
Dowager have warmly encouraged, and most libe-
rally aided, Lord Ashley in this, perhaps the most
interesting, as in all the other branches of his glo-
rious enterprise. We will not praise them for it. The
Royal persons in question cannot help being kind and
good any more than Lord Ashley can. We may
love and honour them for being what they are, but
we will not affront them by praise. What a position
is that occupied by Lord Ashley at this moment ?
How must Queen Victoria exult in the possession of
such a subject and servant to represent to her people
the graces of her personal kind-heartedness, with a
fitness and dignity beyond the reach of any other man ?

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of Dec. 3.)
SUGAR.-To-day there was little activity in the West
India market, but importers manifested firmness, and
obtained previous rates; but the demand from the re-
finers and grocers was limited, even for the better qualities;
in all, only 260 hhds and tierces were disposed of, i nelud ing a
public sale of 100 hhds 6 trcs of Barbadoes Sugar, which
went off quietly upon former terms, fine yellow fetched
66s 6d, good 62s 6d, good middling 60s to 61s, middling
57s 6d to 595, low middling 56s 6d to 575, and one lot of
low soft grey 53s per cwt.
REFINED.-To-day the home-trade purchased refined
Sugar with caution, 71s 6d to 72s is the value of brown,
and 73s per cwt for standard lumps ; there is a better
supply. Bonded crushed Sugar is with difficulty to be
purchased under 29s 9d per cwt.
MAURITIUS.-This afternoon at public sale 4,158 bags
140 casks were offered, the chief part consisted of bright
yellow descriptions, the whole sold at and after the sale
at former rates ; fine yellow fetched 638 to 66s 6d, good
59s to 625, good mid 58s to 58s Gd, mid 55s 6d to 575,
low 54s to 54s 6d, fine brown 525, good 503 6d to 51s,
mid 47s 6d to 48s 6d, low 40s to 435. and one lot of very
low 33s 6d per cwt.
EAST INDIA.-This afternoon at public sale 1,103 bags
of damaged brown Bengal Sugar were offered, and a part
only sold: fine at 495, good 45s 6d to 475, low 43s to 445,
and very low 38s. Of Madras, 47 casks were disposed of
at 46s 6d for damp, being about the former value.
FOREIGN.-The market has presented a brisker ap-
pearance for all descriptions of Foreign Sugar since this
day week. In Brazil the transactions are upon a large
scale ; Bahia sold at 17s 9d, 150 chests of white at 21s
to 235-a floating cargo of white Pernambuco, of soft
quality, at 22s for Trieste ; a cargo of Bahia of
good quality consisting of 220 chests of brown at 18s, and
190 chests of white at 22s per cwt. Yellow Havannah
at auction were readily disposed of ; middling and good
quality at 105 6d to 21s 6d, low 18s to 18s 6d, damaged
low to middling 18s Gil to 20s, and very low wet 14s per
cwt. By private contract 400 chests have been sold at
20s to 23s for sound quality. White at public sale went
at 27s 6d to 28s for good middling washed, 26s to 27s
for middling ditto, and at 25s to 25s 6d for low quality.
The demand has been brisk for other sorts. By private
contract Cuba Muscovado sold at 19s to 19s 6d, and 500
hhds Porto Rico of old quality fur refining in bond at
19s to 19s 611 per cwt.
FRUIT.-This afternoon at public sale 122 butts of
Patras Currants, partly damaged, were sold at 44s to
49s ; 77 caroteels ditto 47s to 50s, 117 barrels ditto 47s
to 51s ; • 116 boxes 55 drums of Malaga Figs 35s to 363 ;
3.621 drums 40 boxes Turkey Figs partly damaged 39s to
60s, 11 casks of old Greek Figs 30s ; 62 cartons of new
Imperial French Plums 51 10s, 618 hf•ditto 515 s to 6/10s,
1.008 qr-ditto, 5/ 15s to 615 s ; 720 sixteenth ditto, 6/ ;
500 eighth-boxes, 80s to 95s ; 90 chests 200 hf-ditto of
new Prunes, 32s to 395. A parcel of Muscatel Raisins,
partly damaged, were mostly taken in at 56s to 98s
per cwt.
CoFFEE-There has been less demand for the lower
descriptions of West India, and the market having been
better supplied, previous rates have been with diffi-
culty supported. This afternoon Ceylon of good
ordinary quality met with little attention by pri-
vate contract, and 500 bags at public sale
were all taken in at 535, the highest price bid being
50s per cwt. Of West India two parcels amounting to
227 casks and barrels were offered at auction: for Ja-
maica the demand was good, and the whole sold at full
rates, viz -mid at 82s Gd to 85s, low mid 74s to 754 6d,
fine ord 53s 6d to 60s, good ordinary 46s 6d, ordinary
unclean 37s 6d, Triage 34s to 39s 6d, and infereor 31s
6d, but of other sorts a small part only found buyers at
52s for fine ord Trinidad, and 46s to 49s per cwt for good
ordinary.
TEA.-The market has still an improving appearance
for nearly every description; merchants show firmness,
and still refrain from offering any at public sale. T„_
day several purchases were made in Tea; Congou, com-
mon at 1* to I Id; Twankay Is 3d to Is 31a1; Hyson,
ordinary 2s 6d to 2s 8d; of Young Hyson a large parcel
of low quality was sold at Is 10d, being rather higher.
Ofeeesrarnon Congou the supply at market is scanty.
AcoLassEs.-In West India a good business has been
triene+ted at the former currency; the purchases amount
to 3Thl puns-Antigua at 245, St. Kitt's 21s 6d, and St.
Vincent's 21s to 21s 6d per cwt.
SPICES.-This afternoon Pimento was sought after,
and 11 bags at public sale were sold at aid per lb for
low quality, being the full worth. Cloves were taken
sparingly, and 382 bags from Zanzibar at public sale
were all taken in at 9d for sound mid quality, a few lots
of sea damaged were sold at aid to 9d. 21 bags of fine
pod Pepper fetched 81 17s Gd to 11155, and 3casks
of
Cayenne 2s 2d to 2s 3d per lb.
RICE.-There has been an increased demand for
Bengal, and the rates paid are rather above those pro-
vionsly quoted. This afternoon several inquiries ex-
isted for Bengal Lice, and for mid white buyers were
compelled to pay 1 Is 6d per cwt by private contract.
RUM, BRANDY, AND lIOLLANDS._Leewards have been
in much better request, and several parcels have been
disposed of at firm rates, proof fetching 2s 4id
to 2s 5(1 per gallon ; Calcutta, 2s 3d for proof
with certificate ; Detnerara, 3s 2d to 3s 7d for strong
descriptions ; Jamaica, 30 to 32 per cent overproof
3s 8d to 3s 10d, and stronger, 4s to 6s. For the
common and middling qualities of Brandy rather lower
rates have been accepted ; the best brands, however, have
been in brisk request, prices are firm :-Cognac, best
brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto
1839, hhds 4s I Id, puns 4s 9d : ditto 1840, hhds
4s I Id, puns 4s 9d ; ditto 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns
4s 8d ; ditto, 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s 5(1;
ditto 1843, hhds 4s sd, puns 4s 3d; common 2s 9(1
to 3s, and middling to good mid 3s 2d to 5s 10d
per gallon. In Geneva the transactions are upon
a more extended scale for exportation, at Is 9d to is
10d, fine for duty is fetching 2s 4d to 3s 6d. English
I2sdlapnedr Rgaulmlonw.as in good demand, at
CoTrno-SdpayiriLtseeant,alcds
2s 4d to 2s 4id proof, and for Calcutta there were seve-
ral inquiries at 2s 2,id to 2s 3d proof, with certificate.
In Jamaica there was rather more business transacted
upon former terms. Holders of Rum manifest firm-
ness. The stock of all sorts is 4,700 casks less than last
year at this time.
COCHINEAL.-This afternoon a good demand existed
for Cochineal, and 37 bags of Honduras at public sale
were sold at full rates, low to mid silvers at 4s 3d to
4s 6d, good mid 4s 7d to 4s Bd, and 3 bags of common
black 5s Id to 5s 3d per lb.
INDIGO.-We have no improvement to notice in the
demand for East India. Madras is still fetching previous
rates, and is in tair request. The purchases made in
Spanish have been extremely limited.
011.8.-There has been more activity in the market for
common descriptions of Fish Oils since this day week.
Southern has fetched stiffer rates ; Cod has been selling
by private treaty at 321 to 321 lOs ; pale Seal 3415 s to
354 straw and yellow 301 to 331, brown 291 to 291105,
and, at auction, 60 tuns of Southern, of foreign fishing,
in bond, were disposed of at 31/ 10e to 331 15s per tun.
Sperm isnot so much in request, and prices are not so firm
-the stock is on the increase. Of 70 tens of American
at auction, a part only found buyers at 781 10s to 861 15s
for common to fine quality. Linseed Oil at 22s 6d
to 22s 9d per cwt. For Pale Rape 355, and
34s for brown. Olive 41/ to 421, Gallipoli 391 to 401
for Spanish, and at 381 to 381 lOs per tun for Barbary
and Levant. Cocoa Nut is not much wanted at pre-
sent, but no further decline has occurred in prices-
a part only of 99 casks of Ceylon at auction found
buyers at 24s to 28s 6d per cwt for low to
fine quality. Palm has been taken sparingly, and prices
are looking down ; 26s is the value of fine quality.
TALLow.-Several parcels have been offered at public
sale, and nearly the whole found purchasers. For pulic
sale on Friday 200 casks South American, 323 casks
of yellow candle stranded, 21 casks of African, 92 casks
of New South Wales, 191 pkgs of Cape, 25 nkgs of
North American, and 100 casks of damaged Odessa are
declared.

iIiSCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT ROAD. A singular
discovery has recently been made in Back-lane, at the
back of Derby-road. During the last few weeks, the
board for the repair of highways have been engaged in
laying soughs from the bottom of Back-lane to the top
of Derby-road. One clay at the latter end of last week,
the excavaters engaged in cutting the line for the sough,
suddenly came to, a hollow in the rock, which appeared
to be a cave. Upon making a hole large enough for the
light to be admitted, they observed that the cave was a
kind of narrow passage, running in the direction of the
forest on one side, and pointing towards the castle on the
other. On the side of the castle, about four yards down,
the passage has been bricked up, apparently for the pur-
pose of forming a cellar to one of Mr. Goodhead's
houses, near the top of the lane, and the Derby-road
side. In the direction of the forest, the road runs under
the first house upon going lip the hill. During Sunday
the passage remained open, and parties explored it in the
direction of the forest several hundred yards, and then re •
turned, lest they should fall into some well or pit, or meet
with foul gasses. We are sorry the mouth of the passage
was closed ere we heard of its existence, or we should
have diligently examined it, for the purpose of describing
it to our readers. We are told that there is another and
very similar passage a few yards higher up the road,
which was opened some years ago. We are not aware
that these passages have ever yet been described, and an
examination would render considerable service to local
historians, and would probably be of some use to anti-
quarians. It is worthy of remark that the opening into
the passage above described is full half a mile from the
castle.—Nottingham Review.
THE. OFFERTORY.—This peculiar plan of collect-
ing money for the poor, is now adopted at All Saints'
Church in this town. Immediately after the sermon,
when the audience are expecting the usual dismissory
blessing, the clergyman descends from the pulpit, returns
to the communion-table, and reads twenty long texts,
whilst every pew and every person in the church is
visited by ecclesiastical tax-gatherers with a bowl fixed
to the end of :1 long stick. When the searcl;hugs of
pockets, the borrowings, and !Endings, the chinking of
silver and copper, and the tread of the aforesaid tax-
gatherers, are all over, then at last comes the final
prayer, and the painfully protracted departure.—Hamp.
shire Inckpendfm4

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 3.
Before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.)
REVENUE FRAUDS.—THE ATTORNEY GENERAL V.

B 11YA.NT•

In this case the information was filed at the instance
of the Attorney-General, to recover from the defendant,
a paper-manufacturer at Weston Mills, near Bristol,
certain penalties alleged to have been incurred by the
evasion of the Excise duty.
The SOLICITOR•GENERAL said that the facts on which
this information was founded were nearly identical with
those which were submitted to theconsideration of the jury
yesterday in the case of the Attorney-General v.Westcott,
and notwithstanding the result of that inquiry, he felt
bound to proceed against the defendant for the full
amount of the penalties incurred. In this case they bad
to deal with the fraudulent paper maker himself and
not with the party who received it when it had not paid
the duty. It would be proved that the defendant
had been frequently seen at Westcott's with a spring
cart, although he was not now in possession
of such a vehicle ; that he had been in a darkened back
kitchen in Westcott's house while parties were cutting up
paper ; and, further, that a considerable quantity o'
paper which was received from the defendant's mills
was sent by railway to London, without having
paid the duty. There was also this additional and
striking circumstance: Mr. Bryant had employed about
seven or eight hands at his mill ; the duty which he
paid annually was about 3411. ; and the amount of duty
showed a quantity of work which was quite in
sufficient to support so large an establishment.
This was proved by the fact that the duty
paid by the defendant increased immediately
after the seizure. In the first six weeks (or" round," as
it was termed) after the seizure, the duty amounted, with-
out any apparent increase of business, to 1131., more than
double the previous average ; in the second round it was
113 L, and in the third, 1301. Under all the circumstances
he anticipated a verdict for the full amount of the pe-
nalties.

Several witnesses were then called for the prosecution.
Mr. CHAMBERS addressed the jury for the defendant.
The substance of the defence was, that defendant making
his paper by machinery, and drying it between steam-
rollers, that alluded to by the witness, Maria Allen,
could not have come from him, for it was damp ; nor
could that described by Mr. Mullett, for it was hand-
made.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL having replied,
His LORDSHIP summed up, and
The jury retired for forty minutes, after which they
returned, at a quarter to six o'clock, with a verdict for
the Crown on the Ist, 3d, and 7th counts, in 35 reams ;
for the defendant on the 2d and 4th ; and for the Crown
on the Sth, in one day and one ream.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 2.
Jeremiah Swallow and Michael Noon were indicted
for unlawfully having in their possession a die, made of
plaster of Paris, for the purpose of coining sixpences.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both
the prisoners.
His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, said he thought
the facts of the case justified a difference in the amount
of punishment. Swallow was apparently the most active
party, and the one by whom the manufacture was carried
on. On Noon, whose share in the transaction was rather
a connivance than otherwise, the punishment would not
be so severe ; but sufficiently so to warn persons in such
occupations as that of the prisoner that they could not
connive at such transactions on their premises, without
rendering themselves amenable to the law. Swallow to
be transported for 15 years ; Noon to be imprisoned for
12 calendar months.
Two persons, of the names of Phillips and M'Lean,
were indicted for unlawfully having in their possession a
die for coining shillings.
Mr. Hall and Mr. Hill conducted the prosecution.
The prisoners were not defended by counsel.
The principal witness was a person of the name of
Elliott, a die sinker, in the employment of a firm in
Sheffield. He stated that, in the month of July last,
the prisoners came to him at his house, and after some
conversation they introduced the subject of dies for
coining. Phillips said he wished to procure articles
of that kind for coining shillings and half-crowns.
The witness told him that those were dangerous
things to meddle with, and that there would be a
great risk to run. Phillips said there would be no
danger, and that M'Lean, who had come over from Ire-
land, and was working as a printer, would manage it.
The witness said he could not undertake it, and Phillips
then asked if he could refer them to any die sinker who
could do the job. The witness replied there were many
who coulal do it, hut they would not. He inquired who
had recommended the prisoners to him, and they said it
was a person in Snow-lane, Sheffield, that M'Lean would
take the dies away as soon as they were completed, that
he would pour some plaster of Paris over them, and then
imbed them in a block of lead, in which they would be
taken to Ireland. Mr. Elliott finally said he would con-
sider of it until the next day, and on the prisoners leaving,
he communicated what had taken place to his father, and
the next morning to one of his employers. The next
day Phillips came again, and asked if witness had made
up his mind. He replied that he had, but must know
who were the parties by whom they had been referred
to him and must have an advance of money. Phillips
objected, and said he had been taken in by a fellow in
Dublin about some copper dies before. Witness said it
would cost nearly 2/. to procure the blank dies and letter
punches for a shilling die. Phillips said he would pro-
cure the blanks and punches himself, and would give
121. for the two pair of dies. The witness said he must
have 101. for the half-crowns, and U. for the shilling dies.
Phillips said that he could make a metal, the weight and
jingle of which would be so much like gold, it could not
be detected without aquafortis ; that the man who was
with him could make German silver which could scarcely
be distinguished from real silver, and that it was their
intention to make their coin of this material, plated with
real silver. Witness said he thought with so hard a
metal it would be hardly possible to strike up the impres-
sion. Phillips said that they had arranged to get a
powerful press at Drogheda for that purpose. On the
3d of August witness got the blanks from Phillips, and
Is. as a pattern. The letter punches, Phillips said he
had got at Mr. Osborne's, in Snow-lane. He had pre-
tended that he wanted them for a medal of O'Connell,
to be sent to Ireland. The inscription on one side was
to be h One gift we seek." On the other " Our voices
will resound for repeal through the length of the land."
The phrases included all the letters necessary for a Is.
die. During the month of July, witness had received
several sums of 10s. in part payment, and had made for
Phillips a turning scale for half-a-crown, from which he
said he was going to have blank dies made. Saw Phil-
lips many times before the dies were completed. When
they were nearly ready, Phillips called to see an impres-
sion. He asked witness whether he would have any objec-
tion to meet him (Phillips) and his man with clay impres-
sions from the dies. Witness declined, and Phillips then
said he would call, with his man, to see them, and would
then pay the money and take them away. He after-
wards called with M'Lean. M'Lean sat down at the
table, and asked for an eye-glass to look at them. He
said they were very good on the whole ; but there was a
scratch on the nose which he wished should be removed.
He said they were a few shillings short. Mr. M'Lean
pulled out his purse, and said he had got 31., and would
send the remainder as soon as he got to Ireland. The
witness said he could not agree to that, but if they would
bring 4/. he would have them ready to be taken away.
Phillips stated that there was a large company engaged
in the business, one of whom was a captain of a ship, and
that it was intended to circulate the coin in America •,
and that they should want a dozen one shilling dies and
a dozen half-crown dies, and that they would be able to
keep witness fully employed. The next time they called
they did not bring the money, but stated they would have
to write to Ireland for some more. M'Lean said he did
not like to have the dies longer in his possession than he
could help, and that he would fetch them away on the
Wednesday following, at ten o'clock, so as to get
away by the eleven o'clock coach to Manchester.
They came again on the Monday to get witness to
make them another turning scale for half-a-crown,
and said they would be able to let him know on
the Wednesday evening whether they could fetch the
dies on the Thursday. Did not see them till
the Friday. That was the 28th of November. M'Lean
called witness out of the house, and said they
would be prepared to take the dies away by nine
o'clock the following morning, and would pay besides
12s. towards the letter punches for a new half crown.
They came on the Saturday morning, and asked for the
dies. ; Witness said they were up-stairs. He went up to
fetch them, and drew the window-blind half-way up as
a signal to the police, who were on the watch, that the
prisoners were there. He came down stairs again, re-
ceived; the money, and delivered the dies, which were
wrapped in a cloth, and taken away by Phillips. Wit-
ness then ran up stairs and pulled the blind up the
whole' way as a signal they had got the dies. The
police, who were watching in the back room of as ad-
joining public-house, then came up and took the parties
into custody. Verdict—Guilty.
Phillips to:be transported for fifteen years, and M'Lean
for twenty-one years.
Joseph Scott was indicted for a burglary in the house
of Joseph Brownrigg, the Palace Inn, at Leeds.
Verdict—Guilty. To be transported for fifteen years.
One or two other cases were disposed of during the
day, of no public interest.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Gloucester, Dec. 2.
(Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.)
His LORDSHIP sat until twelve o'clock on Saturday
night, and disposed of a variety of unimportant cases,
leaving only six or seven, of a very trivial character, for
adjudication to-day. This being the day appointed for
opening the commission at Worcester, his Lordship will
proceed thither in the course of the afternoon, upon the
close of the business here.
On the assembling of the jury at nine o'clock this
morning, they expressed considerable dissatisfaction at
the inconvenience and detention they had experienced
on Saturday, in consequence of the unnecessary length
to which many of the speeches of counsel were, in their
opinion, protracted, adding, as they did, in no slight
degree by their prolixity to the tedium and irksomeness
ordinarily attendant upon the duty of jurymen; it is to
be hoped, therefore, that this hint may nut be lost upon
the gentlemen of the bar, for there is no doubt but that
in very many cases their cross-examinations, as well as
their addresses, might often be curtailed with equal ad-
vantage to themselves, their clients, and their auditory,
and, of course, the time of the judges and of the country
would be materially saved by carrying into effect so
desirable an abridgment.

We understand that Col. Hodder and party shot, at
Hoddersfield, yesterdiv, a 2 couple of woodcock,, besides
a qu-antity of other ga:tv-.—cork
Lord and Lady Portman and family left Farrance's
Hotel, Belgrave-street yesterday, for their seat, Bry-
unston Lime, Divot*lure.