The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1844,

SPIRIT. of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
STANDARD.—The Morning Chronicle has a
long wiseacre article in behalf of the conspirators
convicted at the late State trials in Dublin. The
article is a reply to an argument of an opposite
character which appeared in a late number of the
Times. In our opinion, the time has not yet
arrived when with propriety the subject can
be treated with proper freedom. There can be
no doubt that if the parties convicted have
acknowledged the justice of their conviction, have
borne testimony to the constitutional feeling and
candour of the prosecutor, such as both merit,
have cheerfully admitted what no honest man
can deny—the exemplary patience and zeal for
justice of the jury, and the learning, temper, and
impartiality of the judges—and have shown a
fixed resolution to abstain from a repetition of the
practices that have brought them into jeopardy—
justice may be satisfied by a lenient sentence ;
and the effect of all the expensive and irritating
proceedings that the conduct of these men have
caused will not be thrown away. If unhappily,
however, they and their friends have pursued a
precisely opposite course—foully calumniating pro-
secutor, judges, and jury, and declaring a resolution
to persist in their crime, they force on their own
punishment, not as the Morning Chronicle intimates
by a fear,
_on the part of Government, of being
thought afraid, but by a necessity imposed upon the
Government to do justice to itself, and to the admi-
nistration of the law, and to take care that the
law shall not be again violated as soon as de-
clared. Surely in such a cause a Government,
even if it should owe nothing to its own character,
or to the public peace, must owe it to its prosecu-
tor, to jurors and judges, not as it were to put the
seal upon the foul calumnies heaped upon them for
doing their duty, by treating as nothing the acts done
in discharge of that duty. However, as we have said,
we put the question merely hypothetically, as the time
for treating it absolutely has not arrived.
GLOBE.—Lord Lyndhurst has introduced a Bill
to the House of Lords, to " consolidate the jurisdic-
tion and improve the practice of the Ecclesiastical
Courts of England and Wales, and for otherwise
altering and amending the law in certain mat-
ters ecclesiastical." The part we took in ex-
posing the palpable job which was sought to be
perpetrated by Dr. Nichol', by means of his
Bill of last session—and which, after promising to
alter, amend, and regenerate it, was withdrawn by
the consent of all parties in the House, as too
bad to be improved—seems to lay us under spe-
cial obligation to examine this new attempt. At
the outset we admit that the measure brought
forward by Lord Lyndhurst is an improvement
on the present law, and is much better calcu-
lad to give general satisfaction than Dr. Nicholl's
clumsily constructed and self-serving Bill of the last
session. There is also some indication of good taste
in changing the person by whom, and the House
in which, the new measure should originate.
After the unequivocal expressions of condem-
nation by which Dr. Nicholl's Bill was con-
signed to the fate it merited, it would have been
dangerous, if not fatal, even to a better measure,
had it been intrusted to the same functionary to in-
troduce it to the House of which he is a member. A
recollection of the glaring demerits of the repudiated
Bill would have provoked opposition to any measure
emanating from the same quarter, which it was well to
avoid. The Bill before us propose's that all Courts Peculiar
shall merge in the Archidiaconal and Diocesan Courts.
These latter Courts, in addition to the Arches Court of
Canterbury, and the Chancery Court of York (with
the exception of Cornwall, Leicester, Nottingham, and
Suffolk), will alone, in future, have the power to grant
probates or administrations, and marriage licenses. In
this particular the present measure differs from, and,
we think, is an improvement upon Dr. Nicholl's
Bill, as well as upon the existing system. The Bill
of last session proposed to abolish the jurisdiction
of the Diocesan as well as of the Peculiar juris-
dictions ; and Doctors' Commons was constituted
the place to which all the business of these
Courts was to be carried—to the manifest
inconvenience and injury of the public, as well as
to the practitioners in those Courts. The pre-
servation of the Diocesan Courts removes the nu-
merous and strong objections which prevailed against
the former Bill. As our object is the public advan-
tage—which we desire to see secured to the
utmost possible extent by this attempt to legis-
late on a subject that has so long claimed
the attention of the Legislature—we shall en-
deavour in the spirit of fairness to specify the parts
of Lord Lyndhurst's Bill which appear to require
re-consideration. By leaving the law of bona
notabilia untouched, it perpetuates a system which
creates delay and increases expenses. What'
imaginable objection can be stated against a
clause being introduced into the Bill by which
the grant shall be taken out in the diocese, or
the Court, within the immediate jurisdiction of
which the party shall be domiciled at the time
of death ; and that if domiciled in more than
one jurisdiction, the executors or administrators
shall have liberty to make election within which
jurisdiction they will take out grant ? By
this change, which would, we think, be an im-
provement in the Bill as it now stands, the
local jurisdictions, which are proposed to be retained,
would be rendered more efficient, and the obvious
mischiefs be removed, which frequently arise out of
the practice, now sanctioned by the law, of allowing
any executor or administrator to institute proceedings
for grant at a distance, merely because a portion—
possibly a very small portion—of the estate is in the
distant jurisdiction. The design of local jurisdictions
is defeated, if those who are principally interested
in the due administration of effects have not ready
access to the Court out of which the grant proceeds.
The bulk of the personality, and the majority of the
parties interested in its distribution, will, in the great
majority of instances, be found resident in the juris-
diction of the domicile.

much attention. British fetched 701 to 72/per tun. Linseed Oil
on the spot at 27s to 27s 3d ; for delivery the tendency of
prices is still upwards ; Rape, pale at 35s 6d to 365, and brown
34s 6d to 35s per cwt ; Olive Oil at 461 to 471 for Gallipoli,
421 to 421 10s for Spanish, and 411 to 411 105 for Barbary;
Palm, fine at 28s to 28s 6d, and inferior 24s to 27s per cwt;
Cocoa Nut Oil at 28s 6d to 32s per cwt; North American
Lard Oil is 411 to 421 per tun.
TALLOW.—For Russian a good business has been transacted
on the spot, and 40s 6d to 41s per cwt. paid for first sort Yellow
Candle. For delivery in the last three months of the year 41s
6d to 41s 9d per cwt. Town:Tallow at 40s 6d to 41s per cwt.,
nett cash. This afternoon P.Y. Candle, at 40s 9d to 41s per
cwt on the spot.

/ F. Forman, butcher, Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, March
13, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official
assignee.
J. T. Morgan, butcher, Feckenham, Worcestershire, March
13, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore,
official assignee.
E. M. Parsons, baker, Great Portland-place, March 14, at
two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee.
J. Marston, 'catch-maker, Castle-street, Leicester-square,
March 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher,
official assignee.
T. W. T. Prescott, Duke-street, Marylebone, March 14,
at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee.
G. Dennes, attorney, Great Vine-street, Piccadilly,
March 14, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell,
official assignee.
P. B. Goode, attorney, Polygon, Sourer'-town, March 13,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official
assignee.
G. S. Peacock, mariner, Charles-street, Stepney, March
13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official
assignee.
E. J. Cotsford, auctioneer, Ann-street, Pentonville, Afarch
13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Fellett, official
assignee.
G. White, Regent-street, Westminster March 13, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee.
T. Hayward, wood carver, Tabernacle-rove, Finsbury, March
13, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official
assignee.
W. Ray, farmer, Edgware, Middlesex, March 13, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee.
W. Cauty, Jermyn-street, March 13, at eleven, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee.
W. Norris, butcher, St. Alban's' March 13, at eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee.
J. Baker, painter, Bradfield, Essex, March 13, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee.
F. Blackley, steward of a steam-ship, Southampton, March
12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official
assignee.

COURSE OF EXCIIk
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i
Antwerp
liamburgh M.B. 13 15
Altona l4 0
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70
Ditto, 3 months 25 90
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort ou Maine

NGE.-(YESTERDAY:
Gibraltar
Leghorn • 3O 65
Genoa 26
Milan
Venice 47
Naples 384
Palonno, per oz 1174
Lisbon' 538
Oporto 531
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2 1 dys sight
Philadelphia
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars..£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 94
Silver in Bars 0 4 11i

Peterburgli, 3 Us... 36i
Berlin • 7

Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 957
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 37

Cadiz • 36i
Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36

Seville —

REDUCTION in the TEA DUTIES.
We have received an immense number of inquiries during
the week touching the anticipated reduction in the tea duties.
The subject certainly seems to have been made the most of
by interested parties since it was first mooted in our market.
The various inquiries seem to resolve themselves into the
following :-
Ist—When is the anticipated reduction to take place.
2d—What will be the future duty.
3d—Will Government give previous notice.
4th—Will it materially affect the first cost of tea.
In the absence of everything like official information, we
can only give the opinions which are entertained by the ma-
jority of merchants and dealers, viz., that if a reduction in the
tea duties take place, it will probably be during the next
session of Parliament, and that the future duty will be Is. 3d.
or Is. 6d. per lb.
To the 3d query we reply, that the ordinary practice of
Government is not to give any previous notice of a reduction
in duty. Such reduction usually comes into operation the
morning after its official announcement.
4th—We do not think that the alteration will either mate-
rially or permanently advance the first cost of tea, looking at
the anticipated arrivals from China.
The expectation of a reduction in the tea duties arises
from three causes :—first, from a prevalent feeling that we
ought to reciprocate the liberality of the Chinese tariff, and
thus improve our trade with that empire—secondly, be-
cause the increased consumption of tea, resulting from its
reduced price, and the additional consumption of sugar
arising from the augmented use of tea, would eventually-
increase the revenue beyond its present amount—and thirdly,
because our surplus revenue at present would allow such
reduction without any inconvenience resulting from, a slight
temporary deficiency.
Beyond these three, general reasons for expecting a reduc-
tion of duty, there seems to be no foundation for the preva-
lent rumour. Certain it is that the deputation which waited
upon Sir Robert Peel received no encouragement to hope so,
beyond a courteous reception and an assurance that the sub-
ject should have his consideration.—G. G. Cummings, in
" Brokers' Circular."

G. Moody, Union-street, Shoreditch, March 12, at one,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee.
T. Robottom, coachman, Great Scotland-yard, March
26, at half past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Lackington, official assignee.
F. Collins, dancing-master, Brighton, March 27, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson official assignee.
J. Clayton, cooper, White Hart, Kennington, March 27, at
one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official assignee.
S. Nicholls, excavator, hensall-green Middlesex, March 27,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
C. S. Shannan, tea-dealer, Bedford, March 20, at two, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official assignee.
J. Oliver, fruiterer, Cobbscroft, Kent, March 13, at one, at
the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee.
H. Hemming, coachman, Birmingham, March 16, at half-
past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official
assigneee.
G. Chidlow, licensed victualler, Went Salop, March 16, at
half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whit-
more, official assignee.
C. Brown, miller, South Shields, March 18, at half-past
eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley,
official assignee.
E. Cunnah, attorney-at-law, Chester, March 12, at twelve,
at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee.
J. Leigh, victualler, Llay, Denbighshire, March 13, at half-
past eleven at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official
assignee..

T. Smith, dealer in toys,Warrington,Lancashire,March 13,
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official

assignee.

J. Ogbern, butcher, Clifton, Gloucestershire, March 13,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Kynasten, officia

assignee.

T. Mayers, wheelwright, Christleton, Chester, March 12,
at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official
assignee. . _

T. Bland, market gardener, Monmouthshire, March 13,
at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Kynaston, official
assignee.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
[This Gazette contains the Indian Dispatches, which have
already been published in The Sun.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, MARCH 8, 1844.
Notice is hereby given, that one week of the present Court
Mourning, to commence on Sunday next, the 10th instant,
will be also fur her late Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of
Oldenburg.
DOWNING-STREET, MARCH 7.

G. Warburton, harness maker, Chester, March 13, at
twelve, at the Mancheetr District Court. Hobson, o fficial
assignee.
W. Plowright, publican, Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, March 15,
at half-past one, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy,
official assignee.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
E. F. Jaques, market-gardener' Commercial-place, Brixton,
March 29, at half-past one—J. Gosden, licensed victualler,
Wilsted-street, March 29, at half-past eleven—R. Wills and
R. Davy, drapers, Oxford-street, March 29, at half-past one
—J. G. James, wine merchant, Bucklersbury, City, March 20,
at two—J. 0. Palmer, music seller, Liverpool, March 29, at
half-past one—C. Parslow, tailor, Blackman-street, Borough,
March 2S, at half-past eleven—J. Wheatley, livery-stable
keeper, Kennington-cross, Lambeth, March 29, at twelve—
J. Miller, patent sail-cloth manufacturer, Stockton-on-Tees,
Durham, March 29, at two—W. F. Mills, merchant, Hart-
street, Mark-lane, March 29, at one.
In the Country.
W. Dargue, innkeeper, Whitehaven, April 2, at twelve, at
the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—W. Tomkinson,
wine merchant, Stoke-upon-Trent, March 29, at one, at the
Birmingham District Court.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Rawson William
Rawson, Esq., to be Treasurer for the Island of Mauritius.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint George Williams
Lewes, Esq., to be Provost Marshal for the Virgin Islands.
The Queen has further been pleased to appoint Daniel H.
0. Gordon, Esq., to be Treasurer for the Virgin Islands.
WHITEHALL, MARCH 6.

The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. John
Campbell, M.A., to the church and parish of Gairloch, in the
presbytery of Lochcarron and county of Ross, vacant by the
death of the Rev. James Russel,_late minister thereof.

CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the
contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
R. Stevens, china dealer, New-cut, Lambeth, March 29
C. Webb, apothecary, Oxford, March 30—J. B. Montefiore,
merchant, Nicholas-lane, City, April 2—W. Monteath, linen
draper, Oxford-street, April 2—R. T. Hicks, wine merchant,
Cooper's-row, Tower-hill, March 29—J. A. Holmes, mer-
chant, New Broad-street, March 29—J. Deakins, horse
dealer, Elmley Castle, Worcestershire, March 29—J. H. Ber-
ryman, bookseller, Birmingham, April 2—J. Rushton, livery-
stable keeper, Nottingham, April 2—T. Redshaw, harness
maker, Bourne, Lincolnshire, April 4—J. Andrew, licensed
victualler, Ladd-lane, City, March 29—J. Gunton, butcher,
Cambridge, March 29—J. Jukes, nail manufacturer, West-
bromwich, Staffordshire, March 29—A. W. and T. S. Low-
man, cheesemongers, East-cheap, City, March 29—D. Row-
lands, wine dealer, Pwllheli, Carnarvonshire, March 29—C. J.
Hunt, billiard table-maker, Cork-street, Burlington-gardens,
March 29.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
A. Cain and J. Alltree, tailors, Liverpool—W. Ford, J.
Bright, W. Irving, and S. Hooper, proprietors of Irving's pa-
tent tile machine (so far as regards W. Ford)—A. Bill and N.
Briant, papier mache manufacturers, Birmingham—J. and G.
Graham, linen drapers, Carlisle--T. Bernstein and W. W.
Bamford, booksellers, Liverpool—R. Poole, A. Haymes, and
W. S. Poole, attorneys, Kenilworth, Warwickshire—A. Car-
rick and R. J. Pollock, surgeons, Bath-place, Kensington—
H. and A. Drake, attorneys, Barnstaple, Devonshire—J.
Booth and F. Perry, grocers, Oldham, Lancashire—C. Foster
and R. Grantham, joiners, Hull—W: von Melle and J. C.
im Thurn, merchants, Mark-lane, City—G. B. Phipps, 'l'.
Tapling, and W. Morrison, carpet warehousemen, Leicester--
A. A. Harvey and S. F. Underhay, surgeons, Bath—G. Purt
and W. Hale, aerated liquor merchants, Upper Thames-street
—C. Swainson, sen., and C. Swainson, jun., calico printers,
Blackburn, Lancashire--I. Rogers and H. Hayles, coach
painters, Hunsworth-mews, Marylebone—W. Mackintosh, R.
O'Dwyer and A. P. Maher, general merchants, Liverpool—
W. M. Williams and E. A. K. Edgar, lock manufacturers,
Fenchurch-street—J. W. Glover, T. Robinson, and J. Had-
dock, rope makers, Eccleston, Lancashire—Y. Law and J.
Erving, merchants, Rio Grande, South America—E. Chesnay
and J. B. Wilkinson, artificial florists, Bouverie-street, Fleet-
street--J. and R. Mees, drapers, Frome Selwood, Somerset-
shire—E. Leece, sen., and E. Leece, jun., coach builders,
Preston, Lancashire.

SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
MUNGO CHAPMAN, mill master, Bathgate, March 14
and April 4, at two, at Johnston's Inn, Bathgate.
DAVID DOUD, newspaper proprietor, Edinburgh, March
14 and April 6, at one, at the Old Signet-hall, Edinburgh.
HUGH DOUGLAS, merchant, Greenock, March 14 and
April 4, at two, at D. Crawford's, writer, Greenock.
ROBERT BROWN and JAMES SMITH, general iron-
mongers, Edinburgh, March 14 and April 4, at one, at the Old
Signet-hall, Edinburgh.
WILLIAM HOUSTON, dyer, Greenock, March 13 and
April 2, at two, at the White Hart Inn, Greenock.
JAMES KIPPEN and WILLIAM A. LINDSAY, men.
chants, Greenock, March 14 and April 4, at twelve, at the
White Hart Inn, Greenock.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Avorage Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending March 5, 1844, is 365. sid. per.cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

THE PROPOSED COAL TAX.—On Monday evening
a meeting was held at the Town Hall, Hertford, for the pur-
pose of taking into consideration the proposed addition to the
tax on coals coming into London. The meeting was very
respectably and numerously attended. The Mayor (J. Gil-
bertson, Esq.) having been called to the chair, said that
the attention of the inhabitants of Hertford had been called
to the
.proposed tax, because it was considered to be a
very unjust impost. He, for one, could not conceive why
the inhabitants of Hertford should be called upon to pay for
the improvement and embellishment of the City of London.
The City should tax itself for that purpose. Thousands of
the people of Hertford would never see the banks of the
Thames, and he could not see why they should be called upon
to pay for its improvement. lie objected to the tax on prin-
ciple, and he hoped the meeting would petition the Legisla-
ture to refuse an impost so manifestly unfair. Mr. Crawley
moved a resolution declaratory of the injustice of the tax,
and of the determination of the meeting to oppose it. He
said it would be about as reasonable to make the inhabitants
of Bishopsgate-within pay the Hertford lighting and paving
rate, as to make the inhabitants of Hertford pay for the im-
provement of the City of London. The resolution having
been seconded, was unaimously agreed to. A form of petition
to the House of Commons was then agreed to, and resolutions
passed, 'calling on the borough and county Members to
support it. Mr. Lawrence, an extensive coal merchant at
llertford, expressed his apprehension that, should the City
tax on coals, which is already 13d. per ton, be further in-
creased, the coal trade with London would be materially
injured, as the inland navigatioi would be able to
enter into competition by the river Lea, and sell
coals cheaper than the present llertford merchants
could do. It appeared, also, from a statement made
by the River Lea Navigation, that the amount of
of coals brought by the Lea during the past year was 93,558
tons, of which quantity 15,359 tons were for the consumption
of Hertford, and 13,724 tons for Ware; so that, should the
result of an additional tax on coals be the closing of the trade
with the port of London, the City itself would be a con-
siderable loser, as it received on each of the 93,558 tons a
duty of 13d.

REPORTERS NOT SPIES.—The Liverpool Times, in
an article upon the subject of the employment of newspaper
reporters in the late Government prosecutions in Ireland,
has the following remarks, which, in justice to a gentleman
whose great services have not always been so handsomely
acknowledged by a portion of the press, we have much plea-
sure in extracting :—" All parties have joined in bearing
witness to the skill, impartiality, and great public usefulness
of the reporter of the London Times during the recent dis-
turbances in South 'Wales. He went everywhere, reported
everything, and discharged his duties with so much fair-
ness, that nothing was concealed from him, so that the Go-
vernment obtained infinitely more useful information from
his letters than from the inquiries of its own Commissioners.
We should like to know how much information he would
have been able to obtain, if it had been even suspected that
he had received a 50/. note from Sir James Graham before
leaving London, or that he was collecting evidence with the
intention of going into the witness-box to prove the guilt of
those with whom he was living on the most open and
friendly terms? Can there be a doubt:that, under such cir-
cumstances, lie would have been shunned as if lie had got the
plague ?—that every door would have been closed against
him ?—that all grievances would have been discussed in se-
cret conclave, instead of under the eye of the public ? (for
the presence of one good reporter is, in fact, the presence of
the whole people), and that the Government would have been
kept in ignorance of nearly all that it ought to have known?
This is so evident, and yet so important, that no statesman
worthy of the name would have overlooked it, or have at-
tempted to procure information by means which are calcu-
lated to destroy all confidence in the honesty of the reporter
of the press."—Times.