The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

51. Sa.

r .2 SUN, LONDON, rITESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER L 9, 1344.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
HOWARD V. GOSSETT.

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Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Suppose the plea had
set forth the warrant was issued according to the
ancient usages of Parliament, should we not be bound
to consider it legal ?
Mr. KELLY apprehended-not, unless the plea
set forth that the form had been used at the time of
Magna Charta. If it had not, it was contrary to
Magna Charta, and, therefore, unless legalised by Act
of Parliament, was void. Now, if the warrant were
insufficient in itself, he contended that the defendant
could not go to the averments of the plea to help it.
If a man resisted his arrest under a lawful
warrant, and killed the officer, he was guilty of
murder—if the warrant were unlawful it would be
justifiable homicide. Now, suppose the plaintiff had
resisted, and killed the officer, could it be said to him,
" True, the warrant is bad upon the face of it,
but then there was behind it a resolution of the House
of Commons, of which you could know nothing, in-
asmuch as it was not set forth in the warrant; and,
therefore, you must be hanged for murder. But,
even suppose reference could be made to the aver-
ments, he submitted that in these pleas there were no
averments which were sufficient to help the warrant.
All that was averred was that the warrant was
issued by the proper officer of the House
to the proper officer of the House, but it
left the question of the form of the- warrant com-
pletely untouched. Now he apperehended that the
House of Commons possessed no peculiar privileges
of pleading; they must plead like other people, and
therefore they ought in express terms to have alleged
that, according to the usages of Parliament, it was
their privilege to arrest upon such a warrant, and even
that would have been insufficient unless it Wai
also alleged that such usage had existed at the
time of Magna Charta. But, supposing the
warrant might be aided by the averment,
and that the averments were sufficient, then
came the question, had the House of Commons the
right to arrest a person to compel him to give evi-
dence, or to arrest him upon a mere charge, without
having previously adjudged him guilty of contempt?
He apprehended that no such power existed. They
had power to summon a witness, and if he refused to
obey that summons, they could adjudge him guilty
of contempt for such refusal,' and imprison him for
the contempt; and magistrates possessed the :same
power; but there was no power to appre-
hend a party for the purpose of bringing
him up in custody to compel him to give evi-
dence. No doubt all courts had the power of
issuing a subpoena to compel the attendance of a wit-
ness, and on his refusal to come to attach him for
contempt, and punish him for his refusal by im-
prisonment; but they had no more power by law to
apprehend persons and bring them up in custody as
witnesses than they had when they were brought into
Court to compel them to speak by the application of
the torture. If a witness were actually in Court and
refused to come forward, no doubt the Court had the
power of compelling him to come forward, but the
Court had no right to send for him into the next parish
and arrest him to compel him to give evidence, al-
though it might adjudge him guilty of comtempt and
arrest and attaca him for that contempt, but they
could not order him to be arrested and brought up to
answer a charge of contempt. The power contended
for on the part of the House of Commons was the
power of at once arresting and imprisoning any of
the Queen's subjects without any cause assigned at all—
a power which the Court would be slow in admitting.
He denied that the precedents quoted showed the
immemorial existence of any such power, and if
claimed it ought to have been distinctly averred upon
the plea, in order either that issue might be taken
upon it in point of fact, or that it might be demurred
to in point of law. The precedents in Hatsell would
justify the House of Commons in ordering two men to
be tied back and back upon a horse, with papers pinned
on their breasts, for arresting a servant of a Member.
There was nothing, however tyrannical or however
ludicrous, that cannot be justified by the precedents
to be found in the journals of the House of Commons.
With regard to the case of Jay and Topham, it
should be remembered that neither Sir Francis
Pemberton nor Sir Thomas Jones were judges at the
time they delivered the opinions quoted by the So-
licitor-General at the bar of the House of Commons,
and that it was evident they spoke under duress, and
were in a most degraded and disgraceful position, so
that their dicta could not be taken to possess any legal
authority. If the precedents were worth anything,
they would justify the arrest by the House of Commons
of the Judges of this Court for the solemn judgments
delivered in this Court, and for declaring that to he
the law which they knew to be the law. The rico-.
to arrest to compel a person to give evid,--
here claimed for the first time, and ' —"cc v`lls
ne trusted the
Court would not authorise the -
power upon light ground assumption. of that
neither the Hop- and he submitted that
tribunal had " of Commons nor any other
am right to arrest or imprison any of
".1,.t0 of this country without cause shown upon
the peo
the 'race of the warrant authorising such arrest.
Their Lordships having consulted together,
Lord DENMAN said—We -shall take some time to
consider this, and we do not think it right to say
anything upon the present occasion.
Judgment postponed.

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SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE—The question of Land Allotments to the
labouring people has not, we think, been yet fairly
considered under all its aspects. We observed re-
cently that it might be considered as a mode of part-
payment for labour. It is a circumstance which
never should be left out of recollection, that, till
lately, the payment of agricultural labour formed a
large item in parish rates. No doubt the system
was a vicious one; but it arose out of real difficul-
ties. Those difficulties recur on its abolition ; and
the question is what new means can be found for
meeting them. The late Lord Winchilsea, in a Re-
port to the Board of Agriculture in 1816, made the
following statements, which appear to us to throw
light on the present question, as well as on the past
state of things, from which we have not yet escaped
in their consequences. His Lordship, speaking of the
causes which oppose all attempts to better the
labourers' condition, mentions, as one great cause, the
dislike which the farmers, in general, have to seeing
the labourers rent any land. Perhaps, he continues—.
" One of the reasons for their disliking this iF, that
the land, if not occupied by the labourers, would fall
to their own share ; and another, I am afraid is, that
they rather wish to have the labourers more dependent
upon them ; for which reasons they are always desirous
of hiring the house and land occupied by a labourer,
ander pretence that by those means the landlord will
be sure of his rent, and that they will keep the house
in repair. This the agents of estates are too apt to
give into, as they find it much less trouble to meet six
than sixty tenants at a rent-day, and by these means
avoid the king sometimes obliged to hear the wants and
complaints of the poor. All parties therefore join in
persuading the landlord, who it is natural to suppose
(unless he has time and inclination to investigate the mat-
ter very closely) will agree to this their plan, from the
manner in which it comes recommended to him ; end i*
is in this manner that the labourers have been dispossec,„,l
of their cow-pastures in various parts of the midland.,„„„.
ties. The moment the farmer obtains his wish
'de takes
every particle of the land to himself, and relef,s the house
to the labourer, who by these meansis rends
"..-cd miserable;
the poor-rate increased ; the value of t'
le estate to the
rAcierablf) expense, Who-
landowner diminished ; and the ho•
decay,butthe
iawhich,jadiorcionmcuse fallen the te- -age suffered to go to
„dant will never rebuild,

Mr. KELLY (in continuation from our Afternoon
Edition) said—ln the case of Lord Shaftesbury, in
that of Hobhouse, in that of the Sheriffs of Middlesex,
this Court had granted a habeas corpus, and had
looked to the warrants of commitment, and because
they held those warrants to be legal, and for that
cause only, they remitted the parties to their original
custody. The law of the judges of the last century
was bad law, and all he asked the Court to do was to
do what had been done in all the cases to which he
had alluded, to look to the warrant, and see whether
or not it was a good warrant, and he would dismiss
all these cases by saying that in every one of them
the warrant of commitment set forth the cause
of imprisonment, viz , contempt. He apprehended
that there was nothing in this warrant to show that
the party was to be taken to the bar of the House of
Commons. It was a mere simple mandate for taking
him into custody. The fact was the recital was so
uncertain that it was impossible for the Court to intro-
duce anything into the mandatory point.
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN alluded to the case of the
warrant for the arrest of Sir Francis Burdett, in
which the warrant not only stated that he was to be
taken to the Tower of London, but to be delivered to
the custody of the Lieutenant of the Tower.
Mr. KELLY agreed that in that case it was clearly
stated where the party was to be taken to, but in this
case there was nothing in the warrant to show either
why he was apprehended, or where he was to be
brought to. It might be to the bar of the House of
Commons, or before any one of the Committees. But
even if it were aided to the utmost possible extent by
the recital, it went no further than to say apprehend
the plaintiff and bring him to the bar of the House of
Commons, without stating for what. It was a mere
simple mandate of arrest without any cause assigned,
and was therefore illegal. He agreed with all
that had fallen from the judges in the case
of Burdett and Abbott, and Stockdale and Han-
sard, that this Court could not look into the cause of
imprisonment where it was for contempt, and if this
warrant had stated that the imprisonment was for
contempt, he should not have disputed its validity.
What was sought for under this warrant was not to
preserve to the House of Commons what it was ad-
mitted they possessed, the power of committing for a
breach of their privileges, but the power of making
that law which was not law, and to arrest under an
illegal warrant, a warrant which was contrary to
Magna Charta.

ever travels through the midland counties, and will take
the trouble of inquiring, will generally receive for an-
swer, that formerly there were a great many cottagers
who kept cows, but that the land is now thrown to the
farmers ; and if he inquires still farther, he will find
that in those parishes the poor-rates have increased in
an amazing degree, more than according to the average
rise throughout England."
These statements, which seem to us to bear strongly
on the present position of this question, bring the
withdrawal of land from the peasantry in close con-
nexion with the rise of poor-rates. The same logic of
facts would seem to shew that the withdrawal of
money from the parish should be followed by the re-
storation of the previous " land privileges." It may
be true that the peasant's character has been altered as
well as his condition ; and that the peasant who kept a
cow may now be imagined, in many districts, almost
as fabulous in his attributes as one of the Littlemore
English Saints. Nevertheless, the possibility of cow-
keeping is not, it appears, extinct; for Mr. Grey and
the Rev. W. S. Gilly assure us that it still subsists
in the North of England ; and that not only cows
are kept on the cottage allotments, but that the cot-
tage tenants keep themselves off the parish. However,
we do not present the north of our island as a la-
bourers' Utopia ; nor do we assert that the " binding
system" would be all-sufficient to restore " a bold pea-
santry." We believe that, in the southern districts, a
peasantry of a very different character has grown
up in many places under the old Poor-law, and is
pinched under the new. The provident virtues were
rendered useless and objectless ; and the improvident
vices show their fruits. The system of allowance in
aid of wages was introduced to palliate the effects of
a real revolution in the state of the cultivators of
the soil, produced by war-prices, changed habits, and
agricultural speculations. The palliative was a
quack-medicine, doubtless ; it was not the pure
milk from one's own cow ; parish provision
for families was a sorry substitute for indivi-
dual prudence in entering on marriage ; and parish
pay had no principle of growth in it for the resources
of its recipients—though it had for their numbers.
Still, while agricultural speculation was ascendant,
and the tide of prices rising, the system could
go on. But when the tide had turned, and the
old parish practices were abandoned, it became
imperative to seek some substitute. The land, and
property on it, still remain, in the last resort,
chargeable with indigence. tis clear that it must
either make an effort to throw off the population
supposed redundant, or an effort to enable that po-
pulation to keep itself above indigence. The throwing
off method has been most in favour—emigration the
most " familiar word." But emigration is exceed-
ingly costly ; notwithstanding certain quack pro-
mises to the contrary. Emigration is exceedingly
inadequate to transplant any great " surplus" from
the soil. Can the supposed " surplus" be
put in the way of keeping itself where it is ?
,One reply to this question is extension of freedom to
buy food with labour. This was long withheld, and is
now only imperfectly conceded,—for the sake of those
agricultural speculations which have revolutionised the
state of the peasantry. But it has appeared of late
that agricultural speculation can neither support its
own pauperism in idleness, nor set it all at work on
sufficient wages. Yet, somehow or other, sup-
port must be furnished. Commerce is one aid ;
are not allotments another ? Agricultural capital,
it is said, is insufficient to carry on the extent
of cultivation it undertakes to the high pitch to
which it might, and ought to be carried. Well,
but one grand portion of agricultural capital are
the labourers' hands and arms. There is a sort of
absurdity in those lying idle because agricultural
capital cannot use them. They are themselves capital.
The only indispensable pre-requisite to the operations
of this capital is the supply of food to the labourers in
whose hands and arms it consists. But that is im-
perative by law already. To say that men, who must
be fed, cannot work to a profit, is to talk idly.
They can, at all events, work to a diminution of loss.
But is it true that these manual capitalists, supplied
with a field to work on, cannot work profitably? The
farming speculators, by their own account, cannot
cultivate the land as it ought to be cultivated. So
far as that is true, so far they are not its natural and
proper holders. The land has been viewed too ex-
clusively aa an object of moneyed speculation and
monopoly. It is, however, something else than this,
and something more. It is a grand national instru-
ment of production—an instrument pledged by posi-
tive law to the national support. That any given
class of capitalists cannot operate to suit their account,
is only a fresh proof of the necessity of calling in aid
those who can. It is a gross absurdity to assert, in
one breath, that the land would take much higher
cultivation, and to assert, in the next, that the bes•
u-e of national capital would be to make advances
out of it for the expatriation en masse of the culti-
vators !

STANDARD.—We are conscious of no rancorous
feeling to the Cabinet of 1835. On the other hand,
having done our part, however inconsiderable that may
have been, in depriving them of the opportunity to
pursue their evil course, and having witnessed their
ignominious expulsion from office, we could willingly
forget that England had ever been disgraced by
such a Government—assured, as we are, that a
repetition of the stain must remain for ever im-
possible. The indulgence of this forgetfulness is net,
however permitted to us. As always happens, the
malice of bad men proves too strong for the restraints
of prudence ; and we are reluctantly compelled by
the demands of justice—of justice to ourselves as well
as of justice to others—to recur to what posterity will
consider the most odious of the crimes of the
late Administration—the construction of the Court
placed round the innocent and unsuspecting Queen,
at her accession to the throne, at the age of eighteen
years! This is a topic upon which the bitterest
enemies of the Melbourne Ministry might expatiate
with pleasure; but it is one which we see revived
by the retainers of that Ministry with an astonish-
ment • qualified only by a recollection of the
rage and heedlessness of malice. The writer,-
whose rash has forced us back upon
the hateful topic, charges the Standard with
having taken part in the denunciation of the
Melbourne-formed Court The charge, like every
other charge ever brought against this journal by the
same writer, is false. We took no part in the denun-
ciation, cordially as our feelings sympathised with
it ; on the other hand, we exerted ourselves
earnestly to restrain the public indignation, because
though we knew and felt it to be just, we
remembered that there are classes of crimes, to
name which in the presence of a young and inex-
perienced woman is an offence ; and because we had
full confidence that the native good sense and ad-
mirable education of the young Queen would carry
her, even in a corrupt Court, through the danger
of misconstruction the only danger tc which
her pure and lofty nature could permit her to
be exposed. As we foresaw, so
lass it proved ;
the Queen has passed inapp through the
iy 1
danger spread ro-
of those her. But is the guilt
tue"
....0 spread the snares lessened by the vir-
of her for whose feet they were set ? Are we
the less bound to honour the men who, though un-
necessarily, and at the risk of offence, raised the
warning voice for her protection, because the beloved
object of \their care has proved herself worthy
of such ready and absolute devution. The time
has arrived when we can, without scruple, render
justice to these truly loyal and devoted subjects
of the Queen. The exemplary and honoured wife,
the happy mother, can now look back not only with
complacency, but with pride, upon the dangers of mis-
construction to which her treacherous servants ex-
posed her Inexperienced youth ; of pride not only in
her own faultless course, but of pride also in the
noble people who reposed upon her prudence an
unbounded confidence, while they abhorred those
who had exposed it to a trial, terrible to any
young woman of eighteen—most terrible to a youth-
ful Queen. The matron Queen can now appreciate
her true friends—can distinguish between those who
placed about her parson individuals unfit for female
society, and those who even rashly raised their voices
against the profanation. None need regret exposure
to perils through which they have gloriously passed ;
and none, with a heart like our Queen's, will be un-
grateful to the friends who watched her progress
through these perils with even an excessive anxiety.

WooL.—.The market is still in a quiet state for all
descriptions of wool, and those parties.that are inclined
to realise are compelled to submit to rather lower rates:
the arrivals last week were 1,828 bales, 506 of which
consisted of Spanish, and 491 bales of African.
FOREIGN.—To-day many inquiries existed for Foreign
Sugar, but the offers made were such that merchants
would not accept. There are large purchasers, at prices
rather above those that prevailed prior to the intelligence
from the Havannah. The Dutch Company's public sale
of 50,000 baskets of Sugar, equal to 12,000 tons, went
off with spirit at 11 florin advance, equal to is to is 6d
per cwt. At Hamburgh an advance has taken place of
is to 2s per cwt for Foreign Sugar.
MOLASSES.—There has been a much better demand
for West India ; the transactions have been upon a
large scale at full, but not at higher rates—Antigua at
24s to 24s 6d, St. Kitts 21s 6d to 225, and Montserrat
20s 6d per cwt ; at auction St. Vincents went at
21s. In East India Molasses there has been rather
more business transacted, but prices remain low.
Jamaica Honey, 16 cannisters at public sale fetched 69s
to 70s per cwt. Of St. Kitts Tamarinds 13 barrels were
taken in at the moderate rate of 30s per cwt. Of China
Preserves 210 boxes at public sale were partly sold, but
at low rates—Ginger selling at is to is 3d per lb—
Oranges is 3d—Citron is, but Chow Chow was all with-
drawn.

COFFEE.—AII descriptions of West India have been in
excellent request by the home trade, and the parcels
offered all found purchasers ; the rates paid show an ad-
vance on those previously quoted of Is to 3s per cwt.
This afternoon the demand was brisker for Mocha
Coffee, and 123 bales at public sale were all
sold at full market rates, middling greenish
clean garbled fetched 68s 6d to 69s 6d, pea
berry mixed 75s to 80s, triage 48s 6d to 525, and
inferior 32s 6d; of Singapore 170 bags were offered, end
went as follows —sea damaged at 37s Gd to 44s 6d, infe-
rior 19s to 28s 6d, fine sound yellow pea berry 52s to
52s 6d, and country damaged 365. Ceylon was taken
sparingly by private contract, and 53s 6d to 54s per cwt
is the value of good ord; none was offered at auction.
TEA.—There has been a fair demand for Congou
since our last report, and prices have ruled firm ; com-
mon at 100 to 100, good common 104 d to 11d, but
middling rather coarse I lid to lid, rather blackish
and blackish leaf is to is 4d, strong blackish leaf
and Pekoe kind is 5(1 to 2s 4d, and very fine 2s 5d
to 2s 6d per lb ; the supply is small of commons
and there is still a scarcity of fine Congou. Pouchong
is still wanted, and several parcels have been sold at firm
rates—clean fetching 51d to 10d, and superior 10id to
Is 2d; the stock is still diminishing, and this is still the
cheapest description of Tea. Of Souchong some parcels
have been sold on former terms. Twankay large parcels
of yellow leaf sold at is lid to is 2id per lb; the supply
is scanty of brightish leaf and Hyson kinds, which
are much wanted, and fully maintain late rates.
To-day there was a brisk demand for Young Hyson, and
several parcels were disposed of at 2s to 2s 6d. Scented
Orange Pekoe was much sought after, and sales for cash
made at 3s 3111 to 3s 4d per lb. In other sorts of Tea
there was not much doing in consequence of the public
sales advertised.

SPICES.—This afternoon Malabar Pepper met with
attention, and 513 bags at public sale were sold at steady
rates—shot fetched 31d, half heavy 31c1 to 31d, and
good light 3id. 20 bags of wild Nutmegs went at is 6d
to is 8d per lb.
Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—HoIders of Jamaica
Rum have shown less firmness, and accepted prices
rather under those previously quoted for all descrip-
tions, fine and high flavoured sorts excepted ; there
are few shipping orders, and the home trade have
purchased with caution. Prices rule as follows :-
30 to 32 per cent over proof 3s 8d to 3s 10d, 33 to
35 over good 4s to 4s 4d, and fine and superior 4s 6d to
5s 6d per gallon ; rather under these rates there are,
however, several purchasers. Leewards are more in
request, and prices remain firm, the supply being
small ; a good demand has existed, and 2s 4d to
2s 5d per gallon
.proof strength paid for some par-
cels. Demerara is not to be purchased on lower
terms, but at present there are not many buyers; 32 per
cent overproof is held for 3s 3d to 3s 4d, and 33 to 39
per cent overproof for 3s 6d to 3s 7d per gallon: the
supply is but a moderate one. Prices are going down
for Calcutta Rum, and the market has been in a flat
state; 2s 2d to 2s 2id per gallon accepted for proof with
certificate. In Brandy there has been little doing, with-
out alteration in price.
RICE.--Holders of E. I. manifest firmness, and none
of any kind has been submitted to public competition.
Of Bengal several parcels have been disposed of by
private contract ; middling white at l ls, good middling
to good 11s 6d to 12s per cwt. Madras at 8s 6d to 9s
per cwt. for yellow. Java at 9s to 9s 6d for yellow,
and at 108 to lls 6d per cwt. for white. Cleaned Rice
has secured a good sale. Patna at
.13s 6d to 18s, and
Carolina 23s to 27s per cwt.
FRUIT.—The demand. for new and old Currants has
been considerable, old. Zante and Cephalonia 435, old
Patras 43s to 465, new Zante, 475, new Patras 49s to 50s;
!he demand for Valentia Raisins continues brisk at 50s,
New Red Smyrna in barrels have sold freely at 455,
cases at 465. At public sales 62 casks of old Zante
Currants sold at 42s to 435, and Imperial French Plums
in cartons 104 s to 140 s, half cartons 100 s to 150 s, quar-
ter cartons 106 s to 130 s, eighth cartons 112 s to 130 s,
eighth boxes 90s, and quarter chests 755. A few
half chests Prunes were taken in at 38s. 13,127 drums
new Turkey pulled Figs were also put up, but being
much out of condition were mostly taken in from 48s to
655, but a great portion were taken by the trade after
the sale. 1,600 drums Sultanas were withdrawn at 63s
to 655, a few since sold at the latter price. 20 barrels
new black Smyrna Raisins were taken in at 40s, and 35
barrels of old sold at 325.

SALTPETRE—There was little business transacted by
private contract to-day in Rough. At public sale 390
bags of Bombay were offered, and sold at about the
former value, ordinary damp grey 16 per cent. refraction
went at 23s 6d, 15i per cent ditto 245, 13 to 94 per cent,
mid damp grey 255, 34 per cent good ditto 26s 6d, un-
refracted lOs to 17s per cwt. English Refined has
been taken sparingly at 29s to 29s 6d per cwt.
INDIGO.—
The business transacted in East India has
been limited, and at a reduction on the rates of the last
Quatterly sale of 2d to 3d per lb, there are few pur-
chasers for home consumption or shipping ; at present
not many parcels are offering for sale, if prices should
come down a little lower it will be the cause of specu-
lators making investments.
OILS.—The home trade have purchased all descrip-
tions of common Fish Oil with caution since Tuesday
last, and for exportation very little business has been
transacted, in the value however little variation has
takn place. Pale Seal has been disposed of at 341
103 to 351, coloured 301 to 331, Cod 22/ 108 to
334 and Southern 281 to 321 lOs per tun. There is a
good consumption of Fish Oil going on. Arrivals of Cod
are coming more freely. Sperm, fine British at 88/ to
90/. Linseed Oil has been in excellent request on the
spot and for forward delivery, several purchases have
been made by shippers, and prices rule firm at 23s 6d to
23s 9d per cwt. For Rape there are few pur-
chasers, sellers of pale at 355, and brown 34s
per cwt. Palm, first quality, at 26s to 26s 6d. Cocoa Nut
ordinary went at 26s per cwt. In Olive there has been
little business transacted, and prices are still looking
down, Gallipoli selling at 431 to 431 10s, Spanish 411 to
42/, and Barbary and Levant 39/ to 40/ per tun ; these
prices are 20s to 60s under those current in 1843. The
value of American Lard Oil is 40/ to 411 per tun.
TALLOW.—The market has been firm for Russian
Tallow ; on the spot there has been a brisk demand
from the town and country trade, 40s 6d to 40s 9d are
the current rates paid for New P Y Candle. For de-
livery up to the end of the year several purchases have
been made at 40s 3d to 40s 6d and for Spring Months at
41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow at 41s to 41s 6d
nett cash.

COURSE OF EXCID
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i
Antwerp 25 95
llamburgh M.B. 13 13
Altona l3 13
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65
Ditto, 3 vionths 25 90
Marseilles 25 95
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort on Maine l2l

LNGE.—(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 85
Milan
Venice
Naples 393
Palermo, per oz llB
Lisbon 55
Oporto 55
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia 23
Buenos. Ayros
NewYork,2ldyssight
Philadelphia
Palms OF BULLION, Pm 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 Bare 0 4 11

Fetersburgh, 3Us 37
7

Vienna, effec. 13 M 953
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 361

Cadiz

Bilbao 36

Barcelona 36

Seville

TIIE LONDON GAZETTE
(THIS EVENING.)

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, Nov. 14, 1844.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of
Lord Forester, to appoint William Henry Brabaznn
Conner, Esq., to be one of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of
Gentlemen at Arms, vice Godden, who retires.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 13.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Turton,
of Tunstall, in the county of Stafford, Gent., to be a
Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.

WIIITEHALL,-VOT. 18.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to
be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of
a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland unto William Westbrooke Burton, Esq., Puisne
Judge of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras.

UNATTACIIED.—To be Captains, without purchase—
Lieut. J. Maguire,
_from Adjutant of a Recruiting Dis-
trict • Lieut. F. Lucas, from the 6th Foot; Lieut. J.
Powell, from the 81st Foot, Nov. 19.

HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant-Surgeon T. G. Traquair,
M.D., from the 55th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to
the Forces, vice Robinson, promoted ; Assistant-Sur-
geon W. Arden, from the 55th Foot, to be Assistant-
Surgeon to the Forces, vice J. Wordsworth, who retires
upon half-pay, Nov. 19.
BREVET.—Major R. Preston, of the 63d Foot, to be
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, Jan. 10, 1837.
MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of Second
Lieut. Muller, of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, are Robert
Philip Edward.
The Christian names of Lieut. Isaacson, on half-pay of
the Ist Bahama Garrison Company, are Egerton Charles
Harvest.

Commissions by the Governor Captain-General of the
Isle of Wight
Isle of Wight Militia—F. Worsloy, Gent., to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Bassett, deceased ; R. Jacobs, Gent., to be
Ensign, vice Scott, promoted.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.

The Hungerfoid Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry—EL C.
Coape, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice G. Willes, promoted,
Oct. 29.

Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk.
_ ..

Norfolk or Prince Albert's Own Yeomanry Cavalry—
T. W. B. B. Proctor, Esq., to be Captain, vice Matt, re-
signed ; T. A. Girling, Esq., to be Adjutant, vice Mail-
laird, resigned ; Cornet T. Boyd to be Lieutenant, vice
Brereton, resigned ; Adjutant T. A. Girling to be Cap-
tain, by Brevet, Oct. 22. -

Comtiiissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottingham.
Sherwood Rangers—T. W. White, vent., to be Cornet,
vice E. Wright, resigned ; J. V. Mochin, Gent., to be
Cornet, vice T. White, resigned.

THE EXPERIMENTAL FIRING ON
WIMBLEDON COMMON.

Yesterday, Mr. Buckingham, of 20, South-row,
New-road, St. Pancras, applied to Mr. PayntQr, the
sitting magistrate at the Wandsworth Police-court,
for his advice and assistance under the following cir-
cumstances :

Mr. Buckingham stated that he was the inventor
of a new destructive projectile, called the " Victoria"
shell, for blowing up towns and mines. On Wed-
nesday afternoon last he was making experiments on
Wimbledon-common, in the presence of Dr. Ryan
and other scientific gentlemen appointed by the Go-
vernment, and in the course of those experiments he
subjected to trial two new shells, which were dis-
charged into a bank, but did not explode within the
given time (three quarters of an hour). Two hours
afterwards he began digging for those shells which
had not exploded to prevent accidents, as they were
of a very destructive tendency. In a short time he
dug up either twelve or thirteen, none of these,had
exploded, indeed the principle of invention with re-
spect to all hut two which were to have burst within
the hour was, that they should remain in the ground
twenty-four hours before such an event took place,
nine of the shells were washed and placed in a bag,
the remainder were lying loose on the ground, when
a man named Taylor, who had formerly been
in the Grenadier Guards, and who had been
waiting upon Dr. Ryan, took up one of the
loose balls which had some gravel adhering to it,
and while in the act of washing it, the shell exploded,
mutilating him in a shocking manner. The accident
had such an effect upon applicant that for two days
he was confined to his bed with the brain fever. He
was unable before he left the ground to remove the
balls to a place of security, but left the men to keep
watch and prevent any persons approaching the spot.
On Saturday morning he again visited Wimbledon-
common, and found that all the loaded balls had been
carried offin spite of the vigilance of the men left to
watch them. Applicant becoming alarmed for the
safety of the public generally, and it being most pro-
bable they might have got into the possession of per-
sons ignorant of their destructiveness, he immediately
communicated with Inspector Busain, of the V divi-
sion, and through the vigilance of that officer he had
discovered six of the .loaded shells, but he was unfor-
tunately still ignorant as to where the remainder were
secreted. His principal motive in coming forward
and making this statement was, that it might obtain
publicity through the powerful means of the press,
and thus be the means of cautioning any persons
who might retain possession of them, as their danger-
ous tendency now lay in moving them about after
being fired from the cannon.
Inspector Busain informed the magistrate that be-
ing applied to by Mr. Buckingham, and hearing the
danger that might result to the public, he exerted
himself to discover who were the possessors of the
missing balls. After some time he ascertained that
a gardener in the service of a physician at Roehamp-
ton had been seen throwing some of the balls about
in the tap-room of a beer shop in that village, and
one of the balls was in the act of being put upon the
fire, when the landlord, who is an old artillery-man,
came in, and guessing what it was, got possession of
it, and, together with others, buried them in the
ground for safety. He subsequently discovered that
a youth named Marlow had had another in his pos-
session, but afterwards threw it into a pond. He had
informed the constables of that section of the circum-
stance, and they would snake every inquiry after the
missing balls.
Mr. PAYNTER said it was by a remarkable inter-
vention of Providence that a frightful catastrophe
had been averted, and he hoped in future more care
would be taken to prevent the public getting such
dreadful missiles into their possession. As the police
had succeeded in discovering some of these missiles,
he would direct them to redouble their efforts to trace
out the remainder; for, until they were found, it was
impossible to state what dreadful calamities might not
ensue.

Mr. Buckingham thanked the magistrate for his
attention, and withdrew.

THE LORD MAYOR AND THE
BOARD OF GUARDIANS OF THE CITY
OF LONDON UNION.

Yesterday upwards of fifty members, accompanied
by Mr. Watkins, the vice-chairman, and the clerk,
waited upon the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house,
and presented his Lordship with the following ad-
dress :

" The Guardians of the poor of the City of London
Union take the earliest opportunity of offering to your
Lordship their most sincere and cordial congratulations
upon your Lordship's elevation to the distinguished and
honourable position of Lord Mayor of the City of
London.

" The Guardians have reason to acknowledge, with
pride and satisfaction, the indefatigable zeal and ability
evinced by your Lordship as their chairman during a pe-
riod of nearly eight years ; and the experience they have
thus gained of your Lordship's character and talents,
give them the highest confidence that the same ability
and proficiency will be exercised for the benefit of their
fellow-citizens at large, in the wider sphere of usefulness
which your Lordship is now called upon to occupy.
" The Guardians have no less confidence that those
kind and humane feelings for the interests of the poor
which have ever characterised your Lordship, as their
chairman, will be continued and extended to the fullest
degree in the exercise of your Lordship's authority as
Chief Magistrate of this great City. And while they
look for the most patient and benevolent attentions to
the claims of poverty and misfortune, they have an equal
assurance that, under your Lordship's firm administra-
tion of the law, idleness and vico will receive the dis-
couragement they deserve.
" In conclusion, the Guardians assure your Lordship
of their unabated esteem and confidence, and beg to
express their earnest hope that the blessing of Divine
Providence may attend your Lordship through the ar-
duous and important duties of the coming year, and pre-
serve for many years a life of usefulness and benevo-
lence.

" THOMAS WALKER, Presiding Chairman.
" John Thomas Rowsell, Clerk to the Board."

The Lord Mayor returned the following answer :

" Gentlemen,—My election to the Chief Magistracy,
after a year of severe persecution, prompted by those
whose education and calling should have taught them
better things, has been a source of congratulation from
various friends who are kind enough to entertain a fa-
vourable opinion of my motives and proceedings.
" I can truly declare that this pleasing testimony of
your good opinion as my brother Guardians of the City
of London Union, is doubly grateful under present cir-
cumstances, and a powerful incentive to exertion in the
cause of humanity, as well as in the faithful administra-
tiGn of my duty.
" You are so obliging as to approve of my humble ef-
forts as your Chairman during the existence of our
Union. I feel I shall not be able for some time to give
so uniform an attendance at the Board as formerly, but I
have the satisfaction in knowing that my lack of service
will be amply made up by the zeal and talent of my re-
spected friend, your excellent vice-chairman.
" I beg to assure you that I shall dedicate my best
energies to alleviate the sufferings of the deserving poor,
but I shall strictly enforce the laws, so wisely enacted for
*the suppression of professed mendicants.
" For your good wishes, so cordially expressed, for
the preservation of my health; and that I may be
enabled to fill the important duties 'to which I am now
called, I heartily return you my best acknowledgments,
and most sincerely do I wish that you and myself may
have a year of happy success in our endeavours to dis-
charge with efficiency our respective trusts and obli-
gations."

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
EAST INDIA SHIPPING.

Arrivals—Patriot Queen, Devey, from Bengal, at Li.
verpool, sailed July 29 ; Peruvian, Black, from Bengal,
at Liverpool, sailed June 30, St. Helena Sept. 24 ; Supe-
rior, Bell, from Singapore, at Liverpool, sailed June 20,
Anger July 17 ; Agneda, Jaffray, from Bombay, at Li-
verpool, sailed July 5; Gilmore, Maw, from Port Philip,
off Falmouth, sailed May 2, Bahia Sept. 8 ; Grecian,
Watt, from China, in the London Docks, sailed June 20,
St. Helena Sept. 28 ; Syria, Stroyan, from Singapore, at
Cork, sailed June 22, St. Helena Sept. 11 ; Kilblain,
Shaw, from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed June 29, St.
Helena Sept. 24.
Arrivals at St. Helena—Mary Lyon, Davidson, Sept.
24, from coast of Africa, and sailed 26th to Cork ; Ma-
cassar, from Manilla and Batavia, and sailed 26th to
Antwerp ; Osprey, Kirk, 25th, from Bombay, and sailed
'26th to Liverpool; Gulnare, Chapman, from Batavia, and
sailed 25th to Boston ; Orator, Chester, from Ceylon to
London ; Laurens Koster, Keeve, from Batavia, and
sailed 25th to Rotterdam ; Caledonia, Stephenson, from
Bombay, and sailed 25th to Hull; Pilgrim, Howling, from
Calcutta, and sailed 26th to Liverpool; Harmony, Douglas,
from the Cape ; Borneo, Hogg, 26th, from Calcutta and
Mauritius, and sailed 28th to London ; Arrow, Walker,
from Zanzibar to London ; Solide, Grasse, from Batavia
to Hamburg!).
Departures from Madras—Lynher, Browse, Aug. 22,
to Mauritius ; William, Hay, 31st, to Moulmein ; City
of Poonah, blight, Sept. 1, to Cape and London.
Arrivals at Ascension—Elizabeth, Morris, Oct. 8, from
Bengal, and to sail same day to London.
Arrival at Cape de Verds—Precursor steamer, Sept.
26th, from Southampton to India.

SIR HENRY POTTINGER.—It gives us great plea-
sure to state that upon the occasion of Sir Henry's visit to
this town, he will be presented with a massive piece or ser-
vice of plate by the great body of our wealthy fellow-towns-
men, who arc interested in the opening of the China trade.
The East India and China Association of Liverpool not
only originated the idea of entertaining him at the public
banquet, but were also the first to give the initiative for
the piece of plate, the subscriptions to which, however,
will not be confined to the members of that association,
but will be thankfully received from all who are deriving
benefits from the altered state of relationship with the
celestial empire. Already several firms have put down
their names for 504 each ; and at 'Change hour yester-
day afternoon the munificent sum of 8501. had been sub-
scribed. There can be no doubt that the subscriptions
will eventually amount to between 1,0001. and 1,500/, am-
Ply sufficient for the purchase of a piece or a service of
plate—and it will be left to %ix henry to make his choice
of either—worthy of the man, the town, and the occa-
sion.--Liverpool Journal of Saturday.

UNIV ERSITY OF LONDON.
BACHELOR OF MEDICINE, 1844.
FIRST DIVISION.
Allchin, William Henry, University College.
Browne, Henry, King's College.
Edwards, William Thomas, University College.
Evans, John, University liege.
Harling, Robert Dawson, University College.
Hearne, Edwin, University College.
Herapath, Wm. Bird, Bristol Med. Sch. and Ldn. Hes.
Jernmett, Benjamin Lancaster, King's College.
Marshall, Frederick William, University College.
Parker, N icholas' London Hospital.
Parsey, William Henry, King's College. •
Redfern, Peter, 1, Surgeons'-square, Edinburgh.
Routh, Charles Henry Felix, University College.
Timms, Godwin William, University College.
Webb, Henry March, Guy's Hospital.

SECOND DIVISION.
Blount, John Hillier, King's College.
Cannon, Henry Mills, King's College.
Haines, Robert, St. Thomas's Hospital.
Martyn, Patrick, School of Physic in Ireland.
Scot Tern, John, Aldersgate.

EXTRAOIIDINARY CASE OF
sth.TCIDE.
Great excitement was occasoned in the Tiller of
Hawnes, near Bedford, on Sunday morning, in CO
sequence of a respectably dressed 1b.71 being f°11;
hanging in a hedge quite dead. The foli!owing
prone
an inquest was held before Ezra Eagles, Esq.
for the county, and the following evidence 1111.

given :
Josiah King, a labourer, deposed that on 5a,13011
morning he was going up Mr. Armstrong's fielr„o..
the parish of llawnes, and in the hedge; about a '-to
dred yards from the road leading from Wasted he
Clophill, he saw something hanging, which at fult.,h:
thought was a mawkin to frighten the birds was
but on going nearer he found it was a man. gel'
tied by the neck to an ash bough with a handlierc'',„";
and appeared to have been hanging there for o_„,'"
time. He then told some other persons and the e'r„
stable, and they removed the body to King's,„Tbee-0
shop.. It was in a high state of putrefaction. "lip
witness found the deceased he was on his knees.

was very respectably dressed.'
William Cole, the constable of Hawnes, deed
that the last witness fetched him on Sunday 011,
ing to Mr. Armstrong's hedge, to see a man haeg'ss
He found the deceased suspended by the neck Om
ash stem, with two handkerchiefs. He broke
stem and let the body down ; it was that of a Peco
about sixty years old. He examined the skulL,A
could find no fracture. The deceased had on a tw,
~it,
neckerchief, two shirts, pair of cotton drawers, 0;4
black trousers, and a fancy flowered waistcoat
.e'r
appeared to have been a round-faced man. Hie
jaw was very round, and the under jaw rather 0,170
in. His hair was dark and rather curly and wbissd
sandy; they extended underneath his chin. 11„41 hol
on Wellington boots cut open up the instep. -11,_ ecost,
white cotton socks. He had a black frock
lined with silk, and a black velvet collar.
was a hat hanging by the side of the decerjz
in the stem of the tree, in which were Eft
of spectacles, a pair of scissors, a common Sto
comb, and a pencil. In the small-cl7O
pocket was a piece of paper, on which preo
written in pencil, " I ham in troble," and the 104
1844 and 1793 deducted, with 0047 below ; 001 tbe
and 1777 deducted, with 0067 below. And
coat-pockets was a playbill of Mr. Jackixiaeli
pany of the performance of Cato, and bred
Silent Family; another bill, "R. Brett, ,r)
and biscuit-baker, 5.5, Fleet-street ;" another, 0
true Friend in need," appearing to be ~..11,40,
relative to a friendly benefit society at Mr. Jon
Backchurch-lane, Whitechapel ; and part of WO
bill, relating to another benefit society, at Mr.Besceoo
Turnmill-street, Clerkenwell. After the c`,o fi
had been removed, witness examined the
there were no marks of violence; the handkerlio
by which the body was suspended were figured.,c° 5.
Upon the black neckerchief the letters
were marked in white silk. On his sbirt.ro
the letter " R." was marked in red cotton— 010
five feet three inches in height, and was a streoicio#
witness. The body was not identified, and beinbtriei
high state of decomposition, was obliged to be,
.."
directly after the inquest. The jury returned
verdict, to the effect that deceased was found Pliry
—Hertford Reformer.

MR. HUSKISSON'S STATUE' 00
At a meeting of the Town Council of Liireru boi
Wednesday, the Town Clerk read a letter whicool
been written by the late Mayor to Mrs. 11ivit
and also a letter written by Mrs. Huskisson
The Mayor's letter was to the effect, that Otodo
selected by Mr. Gibson for the erection of liusVnbo
statue in the Custom-house had been declined; 130
the Council expressed their regret that difficulticto
thus arisen ; and that they suggested the long!100,
of Uri Custom-house as a proper place for its ere'',
Mrs. Huskisson's reply was of considerable 1•1:719
She said she had been given to understand ths".
light in the long room was defective, and that Te
than one spot could be found in the open area
rounding the Custom-house for the erection of .as
in bronze. She, therefore, requested permissiV
withdraw the marble statue of her lamented
an 70 110,9
for the purpose of having it cast in bronze, d, 00
cast, erected in the area outside the Custorn:,,ol,
the exact site being left to the selection of Mr. L 1,70;
The reading of the letter was followed by loud cilood
The MAYOR spoke in warm terms of admix's°
this liberal proposal. lor
The following resolution was proposed amid
cheers :
iso

" That the Mayor do express to Mrs. Huskl-s-..
feelings of gratitude that the Council entertsiVi
her most liberal proposal to substitute a bronze
marble statue, to be by her erected to the meal
our late representative, and to intimate to bet', 10
this Council will take care that the site that lit" lb!
selected by Mr. Gibson shall be made suitable PP,
reception of this magnificent gift, and that the Obi, fr
would express its hope that the inscription to 000
corded on the statue's base will not omit to 0000
the public of the party to whom it js
indebted."

whi 10:1
EXTRAORDINARY LEAP BY A PONY.---JO,
..,
Captain Colgrave was desirous of possessing hi ng 1f ,
.-
a Dartmoor pony that was running wild nvit/i,11017,
herd, which had a better appearance than his el l"
He got the assistance of several men, who 5ue7,,,,r
separating this individual from the herd. libel Imid P;
upon some rJcics by the side of a pointed hill, c',,: ell;
that district, a Tor. One of the men followed tr, 10;
on horseback, while the Captain stood on
,g;i7Or
grounds, watching the progress of the chase. .-v:‘,
011
animal being driven into► a corner, and seeing II" vA
pact of escape, made a desperate leap, fairly elf ~ dor
man on horseback, and flew with such precipitso" j
the hill that he distanced his pursuers.
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BIRTHS. iv
On the 10th inst., at Stoke Hall, Ipswich, the law
" cis
Phillipps, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 15th inst., at Esher, Mrs. Henry Ye lye
ty
daughter.
On the 15th inst., at Brunswick-place, Lewisham"lll4 fl'
lady of R. 13. Stewart, Esq., of a daughter. , I,
On the 15th inst., the wife of the Rev. Frederic"'
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Reeves, East Sheen, Surrey, of a son. the jr.
On the 15th inst., at Batileaston, Somersetskire, f,
of Captain Sydney Colpoys Dacres, R.N., of a son. twill
On the 16th inst., at Great Yarmouth, the wife 0` of
Henry Mackenzie, of a daughter. he 10
On the 16th inst., at Chiltley House, Liphook, t- is
W. Kenrick, Esq., of a daughter, still-born. ...Ai of
On the 16th inst., at Froyle, Hampshire, the ow ifi
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Rev. P. Aubertin, jun., of a son. the
On the 16th inst., in the Bear-garden, Southwark, ad,
of Mr. Andrew Clark, jun., of a daughter. digigo.l°
On the 16th inst., Mrs. G. Aylwin, Brixton, of its,
On the 17th inst., at the Steel-yard, Mrs. Co pof
daughter.
On the 17th inst., at West Strand, the lady WO°
140, efl*
penha, Esq., of a daughter. li
On the 17th inst., at Ickleford House, near Hite—
or,
the Hon. Mrs. Frederick Ryder, of a son. _ la
Oa the 16th inst., at Upper CJapton, Mrs. Ullar•—
of a daughter. the
On the 16th inst., at John-street, Bedford-revrf
06,
William Smythe, Esq., of a son.
On the 17th inst., at Earl's-court, Mrs. ThomlS
Reed (late Miss P. Horton), of a daughter.
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MARRIED. he lath 1
At Portsca, Edward, eldest surviving son of the
Hardinge Gifford, to Rosamond Penne , eldest
oeriaill
William Pennell, Esq. der
.4 6140 el
On the 11th inst., at Antwerp, John Cit.-8,-,,,,apa,
Esq., of Guadalupe-y-Calvo, in Mexico, to '''. bbdie/
daughter of Adolphusliay, Esq., of Antwerp- Tos, ~" O•
On the 14th inst., at St. Saviour's Church, Cht to Is'"
Herky, Esq .to Mary Anne, eldest daughter 0f - 01,
Bawtree, Esq., of Whitehall, Colchester. 00 0
ri, ici
On the 16th inst., at St. George's, Bloools-1 ',---..e11'
sixth son of John Copland, Esq., of Chelmsforwd itif,'
Frances, third daughter of John Alliston, Esq''
square, London. Eli'
DIED. , b, l'if°'
On the sth inst., at Melville-street, Edirethrreit,,,,,,fs4'
zabeth Haig, relict of David Greig, Esq., of 23.3j0hrl j-
On the 9th inst., at IVitton, near Norwich,
1)18°te
Esq., aged 58.
naOntnti'e-squSre'
Jamesl2 tFhrainnscti.s,
Browne,at Shirley,
il:Nn. near Southiro Pt4:4l' 04,
On the 13th inst., in York-street,
Warren, aged 76. a the JA
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the 11th inst., at Clifton, Agnes, relict
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Archbold, Esq., of Ewell, Surrey. Bright°l/'
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On the 14th inst., at Hanover- crescent,
wife of W. H. Klyne, Esq., of the same p1ace.,,,_,,,,es Ir
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On the 14th inst., at Durham, the Bev. James
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Townsend, B.A. 1 Tay tor, Log
On the 14th inst., at Hastings, Sainue el
Portman to
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John-street, Bedford-row, London. T belle',
On the 15th inst., at Portland-place, esa
late General Ross, aged 79. glint' 0116
• gar OA
On the 15th inst., at Edmonton, Miss ,auipio $
On the 16th inst., at Spencer-street, lier,;. wijo
Ann, the wife of Robert Dawson, Esq., agean'sh gario,
On the 16th inst., in Russellquare, 118. n ~
of the late Rev. Dr. Richards of St. Martin • _
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