The Sun.
London, England, 1845-12-25 00:00:00

A NEW PLANET. r LATEST PRICES OF SHARES
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TINES. IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM-
Sir,-I have this day received from Professor Encke, PANIES' STOCK.
of Berlin, a letter, of which I subjoin a translation. _____,...„_____
•
There appears to be no reasonable doubt that the object From tle Official List,
to which it relates is a new planet. As it is highly int- PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVRNING
portant that observations should be made with the least LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23.
possible delay, I request that you will have the good. JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
,
ness immediately to publish this in your paper.
Dividend Amount
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Name of Company. I per of Paid. Price
G. B. AIRY. _ Annum. Share.
..--.....
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, Dec. 22. A s. d. A s. d.
TRANSLATION. Australasia ...... •. •• 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 26%
Brash North American 41. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 47
On the 13th of December, Mr. Hencke, of Driessen, Comnterela of London Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 .0 0 24
gave notice that he had found a star of the 9th magni. c010nia1.......
tude in a place where, before, there was none. He gave Londn and Westminstr 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 25
London Joint-Stock .• • 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13%
its position by reference to the star map of the Berlin metropolitan • - 25 007 10 0
Academy, 4th hour (which particular map was very Provincial of Ireland.. $l. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 45%
carefully drawn by Professor Knorre), from which itsD i t Ditto,
, o f
New.........
reland ..
cent.cen
cent.
5100
00
00
201 e
• 19%
0 0 0 17%
place appears to have been--
National
Nat. Provncial of Eng. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 36
December 8.-At 8 hours ; right ascension in arc, Ditto, New. ..... •• • 51. per cent. 20 0010 0 0
65 deg. 25 min. ; declination north, 12 deg. 41 min. Union of Australia.... - 25 •025 • 0 24%
Yesterday, Dec. 14, we sought for it with our refractor, Union of L0nd0n..... 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 9 12
and found, by comparison with the star map of the Berlin WATER-WORKS
Academy (which alone, on account of the fulness of its
Dividend Amount
details, could have enabled us to discover it) a star of Name of Company, per of ' ram. Prioe. the 9th magnitude, not marked in the map, whose place Annum. Share.
..-___________. -
Was -
Dec. 14.-At 6 hours 23 min, mean time, right ascen- East L0nd0n.......... As, d.
$k 100 0 0 I - 210
siOn irt arc, 64 deg. 4 min. 53 sec. 2-lOths. At 12 hours Grand Junction ...... 31. 46 13 4 - SO
43 min. mean time, right ascension in arc, 64 deg. 1 min. Kent ...........• •• • • 21. 10s. 100 0 0 - 65
10 ec. 3-10ths. Vauxhall .......• •• - 51. per cent. 100 0 0 - 57
S
Weet Middlesex .... • • 41. 16s. pr ct. 63 12 9 - 130
We then determined the following places with the
wire-micrometer, each place being the mean of fire ob- INSURANCE COMPANIES.
servations.
At 13 hours 34 min. 55 sec. and 6-Ioths mean time Name et Company Dividend Amount
, . per of Paid. Price.
right ascension in time, 4 hours 16 min. 2 sec. 44-100ths; Annum. Share.
-
declination north, 12 deg. 39 min. 54 sec. 2 10ths. At
.0 s. d. A a. d.
13 hours 42 min. 36 sec. and 5-10ths, right ascension in Albion •••••••••• •• • • 3/. 103 500 0 0 50 0 0 74
time. 4 hours 16 min. 2 sec. 8-100ths; declination north, Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 20 I
12 deg. 39 min. 53 sec. 1-10th. At 14 hours 33 min. 27 Attsitto Marine... .. . .
1638/..p6edr cent, „ 10050
00
00
55 :I 0
160%
sec. and 1-10th, right ascension in time, 4 hours 16 min. British Commercial .. 7s. per•sPhare 50
0 sec. 20 'Wits; declination north, 12 deg. 39 min. 52 Clericl,Med.&Gen.Lift 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 69i I
sec. 1-10th. Or, taking the mean,- At 13 hours 56 min. County .............. , 31. 100 0010 0 9 1
59 sec. 7-10ths mean time; right ascension in arc, 64 deg. Crown .............. 1
6i.s.s3a.nbds. j 40 0 0 b 0 I -
t
0 min. 23 sec. 6-10ths; declination north, 12 deg. 39 Eagle
• 6s. 50 0 0 50 0 su t
min. 52 sec. 1-10th. Economia Life.
i IP3eors t' I 0 0 0
The motion is retrograde, and its daily amount, as Eng. & Scat. Law -
-• • 51. per •cent. 501000 250
0 0 20 0 3 rf
determined from the observations, 8 hours apart, is-in European Life •••• • • 5% per cent. 20 II 0 All paid. 20
right ascension, 14 min. 21 sec. 2-10ths of arc; in decli- Freemasons' .• ••••• • • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 9 0 v
nation it is quite insignificant.
Globe . - 142% c
Guardian .•.•••• • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 HI 0 51 1
Mr. Hencke's place of December 8 agrees very nearly Imperial Fire •••• . • - 121. per cent. 500 0040 0 0 240 with this. Imperial Life ........ 12s. 100 olle 0 0 16% 1
indemnity Marine.... 11. ah. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 25 u
The star is probably a new planet near its opposition. Law Life- ...
. Vesta is pretty near it, and is also in opposition. Legal and General Life - 50 II 0210 6% On account of the difficulty of following it, I have London Fire ........ 10s. 25 0012 10 0 15% r
thought it best to send you the news directly, and I beg Maine ship . . P
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Si. lerNc•ent. 1200 : : 1152 1:
00 1.50, iv,
you to make it known in England, that a sufficient num- Sled.ln vlid&• GI-in..Life - 50 0 0 20 I 3
ber of observations may soon be collected. National Loan Fund • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 II 2% n
Excuse the shortness of this letter, which is written National.dt m.Life......... el. per cent. 100 0 0 a 0 0 5%
in great hate. Yours, &c., etaeeni
11 Life Si. per cent. so 0 0 2 0 I 21. 2s. tl
e.. - - 210
Berlin, Dec 15. ENCKE. Protector Life.. -.• • • 51. per. cent. 20 0 • I 0 0 11. 3s. 1):
Provident Life -.. • • ]l.ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24
,
Rock Life.... ........ 4s. 5000 10 • .4q re
THE SUPPOSED NEW PLANET OR Royal Exchange 5l. per cent. Stock. - 189
Sun Fire -
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COMET.
Ditto Life . .. •
11. 6e. -
- - IS
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Universal Life •
Professor Schumacher, on Friday afternoon, at about LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. in
e,
nine o'clock in the evening of that day I directed my Dividend Amount
five feet equatorial to the place of a supposed tow star, Nis" if Company' per of Paid. I Price
seen in the constellation Taurus, on the Bth instant, by Annum. Share. th
Mr. Hencke, of Diessen, in Prussia.
X Nearly in the centre of the field of the telescope I in- Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. s. d.
100 0 0 171 SetO
111 or
iyt
iaslhßLa
innke
no fcSocmo tplananyd
stantly saw a star of perhaps the 10th magnitude Si6l: ppe"r "nt.
- 10500 03 : 213655
lying in the line, joining two stars of the 9th or 10th Commercial Bank ...• 61. per cent. -- 100 0 166
magnitude, and reckoning from the lower or northern National Bank 6l. per cent. - 10 0 0 15% Al
one, not quite half-way between them. Finding the WuneisotnernßagiolScotland NI. pr cent. - 50.0 0 94% sei
6/. per cent. - 50 0 0 14% ,
differences of right ascension and declination between North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 5• • 7, nil
thee two latter stars accorded very well with those Clydesdale Bank...-. 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 144 1111
given by Mr. Henske, I inferred that they were his Easternß
Bank Bank
7511;i pper,
cent. - 2 10 0 6
P cent. - 10 0 0 114 Mt
guide stars, aed that the star between them was his re- Caledonian
Edinb.& Glasgew Bank 6/. per cent. - 50 0 74 rel
sumed new star; nor had I any doubt that it was idea- City of Glasgow Bank. 51. percent. - Bis 0 1514 gri
tical with that which Mr. Petersen (Professor Schu- Scottish Union Ins. Co. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 14 80/
mother's assistant) actually did see, although it " Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14%
was so Incur. Co. of Scetlnd 5l. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 1014 ", „, `i
very faint he could assert nothing.' I did not, how- North British Incur 534 /. pr cent. ,200 5 e 10 0 o 28% na'
- Caledonian Fin Insur lOl. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24% an
ever, think it right to send you any notice of my ob
uniiiiinnicrt:ifilasLgi.fße
aliinwsuary. 651ippeerr
eent cent. 100
00 •II
5100
00 0 L 9% sue
Servatiun, not having had any authority from Profes-
sor SAtunacher to publish any part of his letter which Ditto, IA Shares. - • 51. percent. 12 10 0 All paid. 151,4 or
hail drawn my attention to the subject ; but a coal. Edin., Leith, & Grantn
- 20 0 0 20 0 0 21%
municatien from Mr. Hinde to you on the matter, which GI as,tsg-twv LArYreesnhcr Haiti. 51.
Per
ent.
50 0 0 All paid. 70
appeared in this morning's Times, and which announces ces‘c,`' Garnktrk Rail: 51.21.
perper cent.cent•
.2255
SI
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Al
paid. 45
4251
4
that he has not seen any star answering the description Dundee & Arbroth Rail. 6/, percent. 25 0 0 All paid. 36 the
of the supposed new one, induces me to send you this, Standard LifeAssitmce.l 51 per cent. 150 0012 10 0 $ of I
as I car not account for his having overlooked it ; know- the
ing, as I do, that he is an excellent astronomer, that his DOCKS. in 1
eyes are young, whilst mine are old, and that his tele- Dividend i Amount pla ' ]
scope transmits more than twice as much light as thel
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
' one which I used does, but which exhibited to me the
-_ occ
star I wonted the instant I looked into it ; so that I , x s. d. ' Z a. d. Chi
never took the trouble to appeal to any of my larger cEo.memaenrdellyalest... - veri India 5%1. pr cent. Stock. -
1"U
futi
telescopes, although, in expectation that they might be East Country - 21
W tilted, they were planted ready for the purpose. L mdon .... ..... - 112 0
Fer the more certain identification, therefore, by St Katharine .... ••.. 5 per cent. Stock, - 101 %a co
Southampton •••• • • • • 4l. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 30
others of the guide stars between which the star I saw

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday Captain Phillips, of the Waterman's Steam-
boat Company, was charged by Mr. Ryland, upon the
part of the Navigation Committee, upon an information
for having caused an obstruction on the river Thames.
The case was precisely similar to the case into which we
entered at full length last week. Mr. Clarkson and Mr.
Newbon represented the defendant, who was not in at-
tendance.
.. Mr. Ryland, for the Navigation Committee, and Mr.
Clarkson for the defendant, agreed that the evidence in
34 the former case, which was decided against the captain
of Waterman No. 8, should be read and adopted.
Alderman WILSON, who sat for the Lord Mayor, con-
victed the defendant in the sum of 51., the lesser penalty,
'N but stated that he did not take into consideration the
,!4 right disputed, which would, no doubt, be tried in a
% court of law, and set at rest.
Mr. Clarkson said that no doubt the question would
be very soon settled, as the City Solicitor had issued a
,% writ from the Court of Queen's Bench, to give the
t opportunity of having the matter brought before the
Judges.
Williarn M'Math (policeman No. 377), one of the
toe. men employed by the Navigation Committee to prevent
persons from landing from the Waterman's Company
boats, was then charged with having assaulted some gen-
tlemen, who endeavoured to pass from No. 6 Waterman's
boat to the pier.
The assault was clearly proved, and the policeman
was ordered to enter into his own recognisances to the
amount of 10L, to answer the charge at the sessions.
Mr. Newbon spoke in very positive terms of a trium-
phant decision for his client.
A man of respectable appearance applied to Alder-
man Wilson for his interference to obtain money due
from the Derby and Liverpool Railway Company.
Alderman WiLsoN—Upon what ground do you make
the application?
The applicant said he had been employed by the
iiagent to the architectural surveyor of the projected rail-
road, which he believed was wholly given up, to give his
labour upon false representation. It was upon the
ground of false representations he thought himself jus-
u tifi-d in asking for the interposition of the magistrate.
Alderman WILSON desired to know what were the
false representations ? Applicant—l consented to give
my time and labour upon the strength of the prospectus,
which was handed to me as a genuine document, and
34 contained the name of a highly respectable City of
London alderman, an alderman of Derby, and other re-
sponsible persons, as belonging to the provisional cora-
-1 mittee. I called upon the London alderman and was
1 assured by him that he knew nothing upon earth of the
% railroad alluded to; and I called upon five or six others,
4.4
0,4 who were quite surprised at the supposition that they
IN knew anything whatever of the speculation. Now Ido
not know what is a false representation if that be not one.
14
j% Alderman WILSON said the agent was responsible for
2s. the amount, and if the alderman referred to actually
I' belonged to the company, everybody was perfectly aware
of his ability to pay, as well as of his honourable cha-
q raster.
The applicant—But be says he knows nothing about
the company.
Alderman WILSON said he could render no assistance
in such a case, and that he could not think of issuing an
experimental summons.
The Lord Mayor and Alderman Wilson, referring to
'CS the unlimitted correspondence of Joseph Ady, whose
_ name has been so frequently before the public, agreed to
send an advertisement, of which the following is a copy
to the newspapers:—

Profe-ssor Schutriacher, on Friday afternoon, at abouk
nine o'clock in the evening of that day I directed my
five feet equatorial to the place of a supposed new star,
seen in the constellation Taurus, on the Bth instant, by
Mr. Hencke, of Diessen, in Prussia.
Nearly in the centre of the field of the telescope I in-
stantly saw a star of perhaps the 10th magnitude
lying in the line, joining two stars of the 9th or 10th
magnitude, and reckoning from the lower or northern
one, not quite half-way between them. Finding the
differences of right ascension and declination between
these two 'latter stars accorded very well with those
given by Mr. Hencke, I inferred that they were his
guide stars, and that the star between them was his pre-
eumed new star; nor had I any doubt that it was iden-
tical with that which Mr. Petersen (Professor Schu-
znucher's assistant) actually did see, although it "was so
very faint he could assert nothing.' I did not, how-
ever, think it right to send you any notice of my ob-
servatien, not having had any authority from Profes-
sor Sehunaacher to publish any part of his letter which
hail drawn my attention to the subject ; but a com-
munication from Mr. Hinde to you on the matter, which
appeared in this morning's Times, and which announces
that he has not seen any star answering the description
of the supposed new one, induces me to send you this,
as I carnet account for his having overlooked it ; know-
ing, as I do, that he is an excellent astronomer, that his
eyes are young, whilst mine are old, and that his tele-
scope transmits more than twice as much light as the
one which I used does, but which exhibited to me the
star I wonted the instant I looked into it ; so that I
never took the trouble to appeal to any of my larger
telescopes, although, in expectation that they might be
wonted, they were planted ready for the purpose.
Fir the more certain identification, therefore, by
others of the guide stars between which the star I saw
lies, I nil' state (by 'reference to a diagram coarsely
made at the time, and which, fortunately, has not
been destroyed), that parallel with these guide stars
were two other stars of the I.oth or 11th magnitude,
forming, with the two.guide stars, a long quadrangle,
inclined to the parallel of declination, at an angle of 50
or 60 degrees, in the direction north preceding, or south
following—the side of the quadrangle formed by the
two guide stars extending at each extremity a little be-
yond its opposite, formed by the two stars of the 10th
or llth magnitude; again, t:• ere is a bright star hang-
ing down to the north, which makes nearly an equila-
teral triangle with the guide stars.
Nevertheless, there may have been some other star
between the two guide stars on the Bth inst., as well as
that which I most assuredly saw between them on the
19th, and as the existence or non-existence of a planet
or comet in the neighbourhood is probably dependent on
the star seen by the on the 19th being identical with the
one seen by Mr. Hencke on the B.h, the matter ought
not to be left in doubt. I have therefore thought it right
to transmit to you data whereby any one with a little
care may, without difficulty, direct his telescope to the
spot where Mr. Hencke saw his star; and, by examining
those stars in its vicinity, may have a fair chance of
picking up the supposed planet or comet, if that which
I have seen and described the position of be not Mr.
Hencke's star.
The stars in the head of the constellation
Taurus resemble the letter " V," and which, when
they are on the meridian (as they now are at
about ten o'clock at night), is inclined to the hori-
zon at an angle of about 30 degrees. The lower side
of the V is bounded by the magnificent star Aldebaran
to the left, and by Gamma Tauri to the right ; whilst
the upper side is formed of Epsilon Tauri on the left,
and Gamma Tauri on the right. Between Aldebaran and
Gamma is a group of stars composed of the two Thetas,
and others, whilst the three Deltas and others are simi-
larly situat( d in the upper side, each group being nearly
in the centre of its respective side—circumstances to be
borne in mind, lest one side be taken for the other, as I
have frequently seen done when a night glass has been
the telescope in use.
Direct, then, a night glass to the group of stars in the
lower side of the V, so that Aldebaran and Gamma Tauri
be s. en on the lower part of the field on the left, and
fix upon a p which shall make with them an equila-
teral triangle, the apex of which shall point upwards,
and that is the spot where Mr. Henske saw his star. It
is moreeverrentlered remarkable by being just above
the base of a isosceles triangle of stars, the apex
of which is turned downwards ; and commencing this
apex star, reckoning from right to left, we have A or
the apex star of the seventh magnitude, B of the fifth
magnitude, and C' of the sixth. Hence, by reference
to this triangle A B C the place which the supposed
planet or cornet occupied on the Bth may be found, al-
though the field of the night glass employed be suffi-
ciently large to admit their being in it during any exa-
mination extended beyond the place assigned by Mr.
Hencke to his star.
But if' a telescope be wed whose field of view does
not include some degrees, then, as the-stars Aldebaran
and Gamma Tauri, by those who know where to look
for them, are nearly as easily seen with the naked eye
as is the planet Jupiter, all that is necessary will be for
the obs, rver to fix. on a point in the heavens which
being below them shall make an equilateral triangle with
them, and that will be the place of Mr. Hencke's star.
If he then directs his telescope to this place, he will see
the triangle A B if not in his telescope, certainly in
its finder, that is if the latter be good far anything, and
may, b., its means, move his telescope so that he may
certainly view in it the guide stars to Mr. Hencke's star
without difficulty ;- indeed, the. stars B and C are visible
to the naked eye, if the observer know where to look
for them.
The diameter of the field of an ordinary night-glass is
about six degrees ; Aldebaran and Gamma Tauri are
nearly four degrees asunder ; Aldebaran is of the first
magnitude, Gamma Tauri of the third. The apex star
A of the triangle A B C is distant from B and C nearly
one degree ; and B is distant from C nearly one degree
and a-half.
To find this planet (if it be one) a large telescope is
not indispensable: it will be well, however, to have
• four silver wires in its eyepiece, crossing each other so
as to divide the circumference of the field into eight
equal arcs, care being taken to insert such wires as from
their thiekness shall be easily perceptible without artifi-
cial illumination when the telescope is directed to the
heavens. By bringing then any star to the centre of
the field where the wires decussate, there will be no diffi-
culty in !eying down an extemporaneous map of all the
stars visible in the field of the telescope, and, this being
amount
referred to, a change of place of any one of them of any will scarcely pass unnoticed.
In such manner was it that, with an ordinary night-
glass held in the hand out of his library window, Olbers
discovered Pallas and Vesta, the former resembling a
star of the 7th magnitude, the latter one of the 6th.
Whilst with an achromatic of about 2 inches aperture
and about 30 inches focus, with which when at Gottin •
gen in 1834 I could see no trace of Jupiter's belts, and
which would not show his first and second satelites with-
out &Ili ;ulty, Harding discovered the planet Juno, al-
though, as he told me, it had the appearance of a star
only of the 9th magnitude.
Hoping, then, that this letter may, by e.rawing the at-
tention of observers to the point at issue, lead to the
correction of my okservatian, if it be erroneous, and
enable others to find the supposed planet or comet, if
either the one or the other exist,
I remain. Sir, your obedient servant,
Monday, Dec. 22. J. SOUTH.

" JOHNSON, MAYOR.
" Caution.—Whereas a person, calling himself Joseph
A Ady, hath for some time past been in the practice of
sending letters to various parts of the kingdom, stating
himself to be in possession of information for their pecu-
,4 niary advantage, and offering to afford the same on pay-
!.l ment to him of 205., and, in some instances, of 55., and
"4 referring falsely in such letters for his character, inte-
,l4 grity, and responsibility to the Right Hon. John John-
-4 son, Lord Mayor of London, Sir Peter Laurie, Alder-
man, and other members of the Court of Aldemen who
im
~0 have passed the chair, as voluntary referees, the public
,Yg are hereby cautioned against paying any attention to
% such references relative either to the character, integrity,
14 or responsibility of the said Joseph Ady.
" By order of the Lord Mayor
" S. 11. GOODMAN, Chief Clerk."
Alderman WILSON observed that it was extraordinary
that the newspapers, which used to teem with accounts
of the impositions of Ady, had not adequately guarded
the public. He thought there was scarcely a person
in the empire who had not heard of the person com
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One of the communications of Ady to clergymen is
3i a copy of an Act of Parliament, "to remedy the evil
consequences arising from the fact that a number of
spiritual persons entered into trade." •
The following was sent to the Lord Mayor by Ady:—
lee. "My Lord Mayor,— wants to entrap you into
his quarrel, and to make you look as foolish as himself.
" Let him restore my books ; and if he has burnt
them, pay their value. He knows well, as the City So-
licitor, that a City Magistrate has no jurisdiction in
the Tower Hamlets, nor has a right to impugn or
defame any man not legally before him. If you hear so
many complaints against me, surely you might pick out
one to follow up.
" But the wary wants to get Jezabel's work
done without Jezabel's pay. Oh, yes, he would like the
City to pay again, and that accursed wretch can find five
hundred false witnesses. By that advertisement you
have appointed yourself universal referee for me. I am
about printing something (not like you, gratis)—will
send a copy as soon as able.—Respectfully,
"JOSEPH ADY"
Alderman WILSON said the impudence of Ady .
was
the most extraordinary he had ever witnessed. All the
magistrates of London knew of him, was from the reite-
rated complaints of impositions, and the fact that the
man was tried at the Old Bailey and convicted, and had
since taken care to remove himself from the jurisdiction
of the City magistrates.
The LORD MATOR requested that the editors of news-
papers would be so kind as to acknowledge his receipt
of the following sums for the poor-box :—the Grocers'
Company, 10/. • the Goldsmiths' Company, 10Z; H. S.
(a lady), 51. ; W. Thornborrow, Esq., 21. 2s. ; Charles
P. Pearce, Esq., 51. ss.

CANALS.

e 3 Dividend
Names of 0 Dividend)
Names of
Price. .7. per Price.
Companies. 1 per emPanies• .11 Annum.
cc , Annum. cc
- -.
X; X
Ashtn& Oldh 97 5/.55. p c 72 Monmouthsh 100 91. 160
Ashby-d-la-Z ' 1131 41. 70 llntgomrysh 100 51. 98
Barnsley.. • • 160 121. 110 Macclesfield . 100 - 95
Basingstoke.. 100. - - Neath .. .. • . 100 201. 265
Brknk&Abrg 1601 51. 85 Nottingh lun . 150 121. 268
Cromford.... 100, 181. 150 Peak Forest. 78 31. 40
Dudley lOOl V. - Regent's ... •33 11. 26%
Derby .. .• • •ilOO, 81. 103 Rochdale ... •35 41. 84
Ellsinre&Chs 133, 41. 80 Shropshire .. 125 81. -
Ererrash .• • ' 100, 321. 1 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123
Forth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.L kFdSt 12 6/. p. a. 11
GrandJunctn 100 7/. 100 (Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 440
Grand Union 100 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230
Glamorgnsh .'172 13%1. 210 Stourbridge.. 145 201. -
Glstr&Brkly:100 - - Strtfrd on Av 79 11. 10s. -
Grantham ..,150 121. 100 Severn and
26 11. Bs. -
Huddersfield., 57 L2O Wye Mail.
liennt & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 22 Trnt &Mr-
Lancaster ... ,47 11. 10. 40 sey, 14 sh. 150 30/. -
Leeds& Livrp 100, 341. 425 Thams &Med 19 - 10
Leicester .. •• , 140 101. lO5 Worcstr &2 •,, 47.
49
Leicstr&Nth 83 41. 1 62 Binning.} '
Loughberegh,l42 701. 1850 Wilts St I% zks 67 11. 41. 11

LAMBETH.
John White and James Whiteside were placed at the
ar on a charge of attempting to defraud Mr. Ludlam, a
ewsvender and tobacconist, residing at 33, Stangate-
street, Bridge-road, Lambeth.
From the statement or the prosecutor it appeared that
on the day before, at about twelve o'clock, the prisoner
White entered his shop and asked him if he would buy
a quarter of a hundred weight of smuggled tobacco. He
produced a sample, which was of an excellent quality,
and said he should sell him, witness, 25 lbs., at 25., and
should deliver it in the evening. Witness suspected at
the time that some trick was intended to be played upon
him, and this was caused both by the prisoner's manner
and the tobacco being of English manufacture, and
offk.e,l at half the usual price, but he gave order for
the 25 lbs., which the prisoner promised to deliver in the
course of the evening. In the interim he gave information to
a.policeman of the occurrence, and mentioning his sus-
Felons as to its being an intended " do," requested the
constable would keep a look out and be handy in the
event of his requiring his services. Shortly after five
o'cock both the prisoners came to his shop, Whiteside
carrying the bundle ; but having beckoned White into
the parlour behind the shop he took the bundle with
him. Inside he placed it upon the table, and pinching
a piece of the side of the bag, drew forth a piece of
tobacco resembling that which he had shown as a sample
in the earlier part of the day. Witness, however, had
still his suspicions, and sent for the constable, who se-
cured both men ; and the whole of the parcel produced,
with the exception of about two ounces of tobacco,
placed at the identical spot where the bag had been torn,
was mere rubbish, and composed of sawdust and sand.
In his cross-examination by Mr. Wontner, who at-
tended for the prisoners, the witness said he did not
know who carried the bundle to the station-house, but
when witness overtook them the constable had posses.
sion of it.
Police-constable Charles Revell, 175 L, deposed, that
on being called into the shop of the last witness, he
found the prisoners there ; Whiteside in the shop, and
White in the parlour. He asked Whiteside if he had a
license for selling tobacco, and he replied he did not re-
quire one. He then said, " I understand you have
some smuggled tobacco for sale," but though both pri-
soners heard him, neither made any answer. He then
asked them where they got the bundle, and Whiteside
replied, " I shall say nothing about it. It is all right."
Some days before witness received a bundle from Mr.
Iles, a shopkeeper in Pleasant-place, Kennington-lane,
which was made up of sawdust and sand, with a little
tobacco on the top.
Mr. John Iles, who keeps a chandler's shop at No. 18,
Pleasant-place, Kennington-lane, deposed, that about a
fortnight ago the prisoner White called at his shop, and
representing himself as the mate of a foreign steamer,
showed him samples of black and green tea and tobacco,
all of which he had smuggled, arid which ho could afford
to sell at a very low figure indeed. Witness bought as
much of those articles from him as amounted to
41. 6s. 6d., but in paying the prisoner he found he had
only 41. 2s. 6d. in change. The prisoner agreed to take
the latter sum, saying he should some some evening
and smoke a pipe with him for the (balance. On subse-
quently receiving the packages they were found to have
a small portion of each article which they had been
sold for at the top, and all the rest was sawdast and
rubbish.
The prisoners, who gave a very unsatisfactory account
of themselves, were remanded until Tuesday next.
THE POOR Box.—Mr. Henry received the remaining
half of a 51. note sent by E. C. for the poor-box belong-
ing to the Court.

HAMMERS,MITH.
A young man, named James Hogan, his wife, Ann
Hogan, and a lad named William Barnes, were charged
with having by violence caused the death Of Edmund
Connell.

Police-sergeant Clark, T 13, deposed that on the pre-
vious evening he apprehended the three prisoners at their
residences, in Fenning's-buildings, High-street, Kensing-
ton, on a charge of assaulting and beating a man named
Edmund Connell, on the 2d of November last, from the
effects of which death had since ensued. Witness was
present on the 21st of November, at Connell's residence,
when his deposition was taken, and beard him say that
the three prisoners were the persons who inflicted the
injuries, from the effects of which Connell died on the
evening of Tuesday last. The prisoners had been in
custody before on the same charge, and were several
times remanded, but at their last examination there being
no anticipation of the speedy dissolution of Connell, they
were liberated on their own recognisances.

CURLING MATC if AT EGLINTON CASTLE.—A
challenge was given to Lord Eglinton, by a party of " crack
curlers" from Dundonald, consisting of four, namely, Messrs.
Gibson, G' )llennan, Dykes, Hillhouse, Guthrie, Crossburn,
Aiton, and Fullarton, whose known celebrity justly entitled
them to anticipate a glorious victory over his Lordship. On
Saturday, the 13th current; the parties met on the Asphalt
Rink, at Eglinton Castle, when, after a keenly contested
game, his Lordship claimed the victory by a majority of one
phor.—Ediaburgh .4clvtrtiser.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVEN.' NG, DI4]CEM BER 25, 1845.

Julia Connell deposed that she was widow of the de-
ceased Edward Connell. She was with her husband on
Sunday, the 2d of November last, at the Coach and
Horses public-house, High-street, Kensington. There
was a raffle or gathering for a poor man that evening.
Her husband called for a pot of beer, which he paid for,
and several others persons called and paid for beer.
When her husband drank out of the pot of beer, the
prisoner James Hogan, who, with his wife and the pri-
soner Barry, was there, told her husband to let the beer
alone. Her husband refused to do so, a quarrel ensued,
and Hogan kicked witness violently in the side. The
female prisoner then came to her husband's assistance,
and when witness recovered herself she saw her husband
lying on the ground, and all the three prisoners beating
him. Mrs. Hogan was lying on him, and had hold of
him by the eyebrows with her teeth.
Mr. CLITE then remanded the prisoners to Monday
next.

the plunder should be allotted him. But the 01
amusing item of all is, that of " the League" no's'
paper. 'Ten thousand pounds and upwards lost by.,
paltry weekly paper ! Where now is the pretence vs
the popularity of the League doctrine ? The print
in all conscience, as to quantity cheap enough—Pries
3d. ; yet it seems that so indifferent are the people ot
England to the doctrines which it advocates, that the
speculation is a dead loss of upward of 10,000/ Fe
annum. The ordinary expenses of such a paper elf
a mere trifle. The publication contains about ha"'
the matter of the Britannia, and that principallf,
taken from the pages of the Illornihg Chronicle go
the provincial papers which favour free-trade ; so that,
in fact, its want of success must have been unel.
ampled, when the weekly journal vi hich we have
named, and which advocates exactly opposite opinions,
is widely circulated aed prosperous, while the League
is a loss of more than 10,000/. per annum. The vviest
act in Lord John Russe-il's life w as declining to believe
the pretences of these tricksters, when they said tbSt
they commanded public opinion.
CHRONlCLE.—Superfluous as the admonitial,
may seem in the present state of national opinion al
feeling, we cannot be satisfied without again nos
earnestly and emphatically warning the people, tbst
they must settle the great and anxious question e°''.,
before this country. To themselves and their 00
exertions alone must they trust for their deliverance'
Now, more than at any moment since the question
assumed its present shape, is there need of unsleeping
vigilance and unrelaxing effort and determination.
Our statesmen cannot, or will not, help us, Curtner
than as we choose to help ourselves. That section
of our public men who alone have given unequivocal.,
evidence of the desire to realise national wants 00"
convictions in a legislative form, have recently de'
dared, after carefully measuring their resource
with the difficulties of the problem, that they d°
not possess the power ; and the Minister who Pro''
bably does possess the power has, as 37,1'
vi
given no clear indication of having the "i
We are most anxisus that the people of Englan
should quite understand this. We warn them not t°
put the slightest faith in anything they may hey
infer, suppose, or imagine es to Sir Robert Peel's
tention to deal plainly and boldly with the corn-law'
Looking merely to the obvious facts and necessities
of the case, there might, indeed, seem every reason
for expecting that the Premier will meet Parliament
with the simple proposal, at once to clear the statute'
book of a law whose principle he has repeatedly con;
demned, and whose egregious failure, as a practiell
measure, he has so explicitly confessed. In this l
knows that he would be supported by his opponents+
and by the country; in anything less than this h°
has no definite assurance of being supported by
anybody, except his own official colleagues and sub;
ordinates. It appears, on the face of the matter, ,
downright impossibility that Sir Robert Peel should
attempt anything less. If he must, for form's sake;
and from the force of habit, talk of " three courses
being "open" to him, it can only be, one would
to show, all the more pointedly, that two out of the'
three are irrevocably closed. As for compromise!
nobody asks for it—everybody repudiates it--ther;
is nothing to show that any class or party wou
accept it. With landlordism, to all appearance, tn°r
tally offended, finaliv alienated, and furiously irate-e;
and with the heart of the country set on the total noS
unqualified abolition of monopoly, as earnestly an
it
unanimously as it was once set on " the Bilr--T0
seems impossible that Sir Robert Peel should &li
of any other course than one being now open t,
himself or any other Minister. And perhaps it 11
be so. But we warn the country not to believe
without evidence. These appearances are not to u'ot
trusted for an instant. Looking at the question, %,
as it is, but as it may very possibly shape itself in Si
R. Peel's mind, we tell the people to put no faith "'set
ever iu any inferential probability that he will do t'
„,
which it seems demonstrably certain he must do.NothAs
when
can he more fallacious than this sort of logic,
Sir Robert Peel is in the case. There is n°srs-al
st
reason whatever for believing—and for our own la
we do not believe—that Sir Robert Peel contemPl°,7',
or ever has contemplated, the simple repeal of 'if.
corn-law. It is not his way to do anything sirup
Mystification is his element—compromise is the the
of his being. He has never so much as told
world the specific grounds on which he left etn
and of course there is no knowing with what sPecio.
is
purpose he returns to it. We can only saY'ess
general, that the intention which a current rum o
has attributed to him, of buying off the landloble
with " compensation" hush-money, has considers be
antecedent and intrinsic probability. It well' tat
very much like a stroke of Peel policy. It is °°ith
all clear that the Premier looks on his quarrel whi
landlordism as final and irreconcilable. We are he
no means sure that he does not intend—perbs/LOl
has intended all along—to use the terrible 10e,
and immediate repeal' of his opponents' prograr° of
as a foil to set off, to landlord eyes, the melt
some half-way expedient of his own. It vv 01)
extremely like Sir Robert Peel to attempt
patch a
a reconciliation with landlordism on the
basis -f be
" consideration"—and it would, beyond all quests
°,40
like landlordism to close with suchen overture.l' 11,
knows but we may live to see the squires, after all,
rejoicing in a heaven-born Minister who offers to
0
rid them of the League and the tax. gatherer at
stroke ? We do not of course undertake to say that
. ;
annuyt't‘hviengdoosfaythtisbastoritt i
s
in S
peopleobe on
Sir Robert
°Peel"csv' moremind
than at any time these seven 'tears past,d
believe
nothing but what they see—and to trust only to
to
their guard—to take nothing for granted—to to
themselves. We say to the country, do not presume
Peel
will the landlords' quarrel with Sir Robert s_ee,
behoveswill last, or that he will he driven into the ranks r
the free traders to find a locus standi ; do pot
presume that the landlords will refuse a compro.
mise, merely because they say they will, if the con.'
promise is to consist in putting their hands into
the public purse; do not presume that the Pre
mier will be ashamed of try ing another venture
tlf:.
the lottery of legislation, or of coming down e
the House with a cut and dried estimate of tbobes
" peculiar burdens " on which he could never yet__
got to say a plain word in his place in Parliament ill
presume on nothing, except the certainty that be
do that which, on the whole, under existing cirenal
stances, he deems the safest and easiest to be done"
;
and that it lies with you to create those circumstances
which shall determine his opinion as to the matter °f
safety and easiness. Without absolutely affirnlinf
that Sir Robert Peel intends to insult the country
with so monstrous a proposal as that of charging
squires' taxes on the Consolidated Fund, and making
the people buy up the landlords' vested rights In their
.„
own wrong—we do most seriously assure the country
that it will do wisely to lose not an hour in marking
the whole ground of compromise " dangerous. This f
question is now at a point at which the exertions 0
a few weeks may save years of agitation. If it be not
settled now, it will drag on through an indefinite P.e'
riod, accumulating at each stage of its course new Or
ments of social discord and political discontent and ex-,
asperation. asperation. Are we really to have another quarter 0;
million of pounds sterling spent in agitation 2—'such
.agitation not being confined, as heretofore, to a single
obnoxious statute, but spread over the wide surface
pa
of our entire fiscal system—becoming really a a
truly, that which the leaders of the League 13,3v-
hitherto, to the utmost of their power, deprecate
a war of classes. It is for the country, hy a decisive
and overpowering expression of its will now, to avehr;
a result so deplorably mischievous, yet so certaino
ensue in the event which we have supposed.
Minister who should be madman enough to tra' s'e
r
the agitation against monopoly to the subjects (f the
incider ce of taxation, and the distribution of of
power, would open the door to evils the end of which
,
no man living could foresee. We fervently trust that
the people of England will not spare nor relax those
exertions which can alone secure them against V
disastrous a possibility. Justice and policy, per-
manent interests and temporary exigencies, the pre'
.sent and the future, the earnest Liberalism vale
seeks the statutory recognition of sound principle,
and the prudent Conservatism which deprecates ever
lasting agitation—all demand that this harassing and
perilous question be settled—so settled as that not
shred of it be left to vex and embitter our
with class jealousies and enmities. polities

eloquence of deeds. In the verdict of sixty thousand
pounds being returned in one brief hour, for the
funds of the League, the monopolists will discern a
a more powerful argument against the corn-laws,
than they would in twelve months' mere speechifica-
tion. Oratory is lost on the landed interest : they
either cannot or will not feel its force. They are
practical persons. Figures of speech do not tell with
them. Plain stubborn facts, not flowery language,
are the things to make an impression on their minds.
A good round sum in the shape of a subscription to
the funds of the League, will weigh immeasurably
more with the landlords than the rounded periods
of their most accomplished orators. The Morning
Advertiser was the first journal to refer at
any length to the intention of the League to
raise • a fund of 250,000/. for anti- monopoly
purposes. We know that the idea had been deemed
Utopian. It was our purpose to show that there
was nothing impossible or improbable in it. We
argued at some length its peefect practicability.
We expressed our entire confidence in the attach-
ment of free-traders to their principles, and glanced
at their readiness to make great personal sacrifices
for the triump of those :principles. We little
thought that we should so soon be furnished with
such splendid proof of the correctness of all we had
said. Little could we have imagined, on Monday
week, when calling on the friends of free trade to
respond to the appeal which the League was about
making to them—little could we have then sup-
posed that, within eight days of that time, more
than one-fifth of their quarter of a million
should be raised in one hour and on one spot.
Yet such is the fact. It stands before us attested
beyond all doubt. It is exhibited in all the public
journals to men's wondering minds. It seems to us
like a dream. What, then, must it be to the mono-
polists? If it had been possible for any landlord
still to discredit the popular report, that corn-law
repeal was near at hand, there can be no such person
now. The man who could still cling to the belief that
the corn monopoly may yet be withheld, would be a
strange person indeed. Cowper said he would go from
Land's-end to John O'Groat's house, to see a soldier at
his devotions. It would be almost worth making an
equally long journey to see the man—if any such man
there be—who still clings to the notion that the corn
monopoly may be maintained for some years to come.
The 60,0001. " great fact" will not be lost on Sir
Robert Peel. Ile will hear a voice in it which he
dare not disregard. If he has been meditating any
half-measure of corn-law repeal, the conviction must
now force itself on his mind, that half measures will
not satisfy the country. The people are bent on
total repeal, and will accept of nothing short of it.
The Premier, it is true, may by means of his large
majority, carry a half-and-half measure, in defiance
of the arguments and remonstrances of the total
abolitionists. Still the conviction must be as strong
on his mind, as it is on the minds of the rest of the
community, that the corn-laws must, ere long, be
swept away, root and branch. Whatever may be the
character of the measure which the Premier means
to propose in the coming session, it is satisfactory to
know that in less than two years entire. repeal must
be carried. By that time we must have a general
election. And as surely as to-morrow's sun shall
rise, will that general election reverse the existing
order of things in the House of Commons. A general
election will give us, instead of the present monopolist
majority of ninety, a free-trade majority far exceeding
that number. Our hopes centre in a general election.
The eyes of the country are fixed on it. It is for-
tunate, in one sense, that a general election is not
likely to take place immediately. SuCh an event was
deemed probable one short week ago. The impres-
sion now is, that we shall have another registration
before a dissolution of Parliament takes place.
That is just what is wanted. The League have
always said, that though their gains on the registry
have been very great both in towns and oounties, the
free traders are not yet so fully prepared as they
could wish, for giving battle to the monopolists at a
general election. The League are anxious for
another registration before Parliament is dissolved.
Their wishes will, in all probability, be.granted. Let
then the free traders be making all the needful pre-
parations. And nothing can more substantially assist
the League in their warfare with the corn-laws, than
liberal contributions to the fund of a quarter of a
million, now proposed to be raised. It is to be hoped
that the noble example set by Manchester will prove
contagious, and that before a fortnight has elapsed,
we shall have to announce that the entire sum has
been subscribed.

HERALD.—The "unequivocal expression of the
public voice" is becoming daily more ridiculous.
Scarcely any incident connected with them occurs
without tending still more to strip the lion's hide
from the League. The few cotton-spinners directly
interested in the success of the cry for the total
removal of protection are beginning to appear in their
proper light, divested of pretence of expounding pub-
lic opinion, and surrounded by no other party than is
brought around them by an interest like their own,
or an interest in point of time more direct—the desire
of each day's pay. The last exhibition of the Anti-
Corn-law League's power over public opinion was made
by that body itself when, less wise than their fellow-
labourer and friend, the Irish free trader, they decided
upon publishing their accounts. Air. George Wilson,
who has the unenviable task of listening to the ora-
-1 tions at Covent-garden and elsewhere, is not, we
would imagine, a very facetious gentlemen. We
could not charge this as a fault, for the discipline to
which he is submitted, especially when, as at the last
meeting, Quaker Bright loses his place and is com-
pelled to suck an orange till he finds it again, would
banish levity as effectually as one of Cromwell's exer-
cises. Yet Mr. Wilson must have been attempting a
joke when he read the following statement as an ac-
count of " what had been done with the money already
paid :"

LEAGUE FUND, £lOO,OOO.
Dr. (A)
January 1, 1845. To balance on hand ...... £26,675 19 9
December 6. Subscriptions and Bazaar re-
ceipts to this date
To discount and interest received this year B2O 411

£63,17413 6

STATE or TRADE.—Though there has been
.1.10
great increase of business this week, there is a better feeling
amongst both buyers and sellers; and thy termination of the
Ministerial crisis will probably lead to some more decide('
improvement after the approaching holidays.—Manchester
Guardian.

BIRTHS.
On the 22d inst., at Knott's-green, Lyston, Mrs. Muni
Poore Cox, of a daughter.
On the 23d inst., at Streatham, the lady of the Rev. Arthur
C. Tarbutt, of a son.

On the 23d inst., at Macklenburgh-square, the lady of R•
Braithwaite, Esq., of a son.
On the 24th inst., at Wokingham, Berks, Alm Charles
Barrow, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 6th ult.' at St. Mary's Church, Poona, Lieutenant"
Colonel Edward Harvey, 14th Light Dragoons, to Eliza
Matilda, youngest daughter of Captain Henry Wray, 11•Nr•
On the 23d inst., at St. Mary's Church, Islington, Michas'
Thomas Scott Raiinbach, M.A., to Margaret, youngest
daughter of the late James Shape, Esq., of Chester.
On the 20th inst., at St. Mary's, Cheshunt, A. S. Eddit
Esq., barrister-at- law, to Elizabeth Mary, fourth daughter 01
Job Wi fight, Esq., of Ashgrove, Cheshunt.

On the 21st inst., in Russell-square, John Teesdale; Esq.
On the 21st inst., George Hunter, Esq., of Iforningto"
place, Hampstead-road.
On the 22d inst., at Montague-place, Hammersmith, Ann,
the wife of Mr. T. Butcher.
On the 22d inst., at Alfreton, John Cressy Hall, Esq., bar-
rister-at-law, aged 82.
On the 23d inst., at Reigate, Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. T•
Hart, solicitor.

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