The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 02 IM4.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The House of Commons was last night
principally occupied with a debate on the outrage upon
decency, and-contempt alike of the law, its Judges, and
the dignity and duties of his high office. which the
Attorney-General of Ireland showed on Tuesday last.
If the conduct of the chief law officer of the Govern-
ment in that country has provoked universal con-
demnation, the defence set up for him by Sir Robert
Peel—followed, of course, by the subordinate mem-
bers of the -Government—has drawn down upon the Ad-
ministration, whose servant he is, a similar ex-
pression of public disapprobation. The Attor-
ney-General for Ireland is a fortunate man. He
escaped committal for contempt of court from the
Judges; and he is now kindly screened from dismissal
from his post by the Premier. The former would have
consigned any other individual to the prison of the Court
for contempt ; and have directed the Attorney-General
to prosecute for the high offence, in order that all per-
sons might be warned against a similar interference
with the calm and dignified administration of the jus-
tice of the country. The latter ought to have merged
party considerations in what the public interests impe-
ratively demanded at his hands. The offence committed
was of no ordinary description. To incite to a breach
of the peace, which may involve the commission of a
capital felony, is invariably treated by the Court as an
offence that calls for severe punishment ; more es-
pecially when the alleged provocation has refe-
rence to . any act which the party challenged
has performed in connection with his public duty. In
the Irish Attorney-General's case every imaginable
ingredient heightens the enormity of the offence. The
challenger is the highest Law-officer of the Crown ;
engaged at the time he pens and transmits the chal-
lenge, in prosecuting a number of parties for conduct
tending to disturb the peace of the country. The
party challenged is one of the counsel for these defen-
ants. At tl e time he is challenged he is in the midst
of his address to the jury in behalf of his client. That
he may be able to discharge his anxious duty with
effect, it is requisite that his mind be unem-
barrassed, in order that he may apply himself
with unclouded judgment and fervid zeal to the cause
he has undertaken to defend. At such a time, in such
a place, under such circumstances, the Attorney-General
—taking personal offence at something which the advo-
cate had uttered respecting the mode in which the pro-
secution had been conducted—pens, and causes to be
conveyed, a challenge to the Counsel so engaged. He
*thus necessarily distracts the attention of the gentle-
man he challenges, and diverts it from the subject-matter
of his argument, to the obvious injury of the party
whose conviction the Attorney-General has employed
all his professional skill and power to secure. The cir-
cumstances of the country, out of which the prosecution
has arisen, called for the most careful abstinence from
everything which could detract from the cool and im-
partial administration of the law. The Government has
deemed it necessary to impress the public mind with a
conviction of its determination to put down agitation.
The majesty of the law was to be exhibited—its autho-
rity was to be upheld. With, or without, sufficient cause,
the Government had determined to teach this great lesson
to the Irish people. Intemperate speeches had been
delivered at the Repeal meetings ; and, as intemperate
words may incite to intemperate acts, and thus the pub-
lic peace be broken, O'Connell and his co-defendants
are indicted, and are put upon their trial for this alleged
offence. The Attorney-General is instructed to conduct
the prosecution ; and; to say nothing more, has stretched
his prerogative to the utmost of its limits—we think
beyond them—to carry out the purposes of the Go-
vernment. In the exercise of his functions, this
functionary evinces a temper the most irascible, and
adopts a conduct the most illiberal, towards the prose-
cuted parties. Restrained at length by the st ictures of
the press, he for a time conducts himself with pro-
fessional decorum. But he has only " nursed his wrath
to keep it warm." At length it explodes. The concen-
trated violence of his irascibility is discharged. A three-
cornered note is the missile emitted from the volcano.
The counsel, who has applied the match to the combus-
tible matter pent up within the brain of this irate func-
tionary, is required instantly to apologise for some-
thing lie has said in his speech, or to " name his friend,"
and vindicate the Attorney-General's fame and feelings
by reciprocal perforation with pistol-bullets ! Brought
under the notice of Parliament, the Prime Minister,
if he does not positively justify, so pares down the
offence as to represent it as a mere accidental ebullition
of ill-temper on the part of his Attorney-General—a
peccadillo so trifling as to be unworthy of notice. The
Attorney-General is a man of warm temperament. He
is easily excited, and ought therefore to be excused.
" The Attorney-General for Ireland had, it was true,
been betrayed, by a momentary irritation, into the act
which the Hon. and Learned gentleman (Mr. Roebuck)
had referred to, and which could not be justified ; but
for this he had been reproved by the Court." Reproved
by the Court ! The reproof was of the gentlest cha-
racter. A fond and foolish mother endeavouring to soothe
a wayward child could scarcely have expressed herself
more mildly. The Chief Justice really seemed as if
he feared he should draw down upon himself the ire of
the Attorney-General, and become the next victim of
his passion for pistols. The whole scene was scarcely
more creditable to the Judges than it was to the At-
torney-General. The Chief Justice descended from his
dignified position, and actually suspended the admi- '
nistration of the high functions of his office, out of
tenderness to the delinquent before him. Without
solicitation or a single expression of regret from him,
he positively coaxed and fondled the offender into
a qualified admission of error. "His Learned
Friends told him (he never once admitted that he
concurred in their view of his conduct) that he had
been betrayed into something wrong !" And then this
venerable and thus easily propitiated Chief Justice
"trusted that the proceedings would be carried no
further." Sir R. Peel says that which is scarcely
borne out by the facts, as reported. The Attorney-
General did not " withdraw the letter." It was "tossed
back" to him by Mr. Fitzgibbon. The only circum-
stance by which Sir Robert Peel's assertion can be
explained, being, that the Attorney-General did not
" toss it back" to Mr. Fitzgibbon, and thus intimate
his continued determination for " trial by battle" with
that gentleman. The close of Sir Robert Peel's speech
en the occasion is decisive in favour of the Attorney-
General's retention of his office, for which he has given
such irrefragable proofs of unfitness—especially in the
perturbed state of the country in which he is the first
law officer of the Crown :—" As to the suggestion of the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman, he (Sir R. Peel) begged
at once to say that the Government had taken no
step for the dismissal of the Attorney-General for
Ireland, and had no such step in contemplation." This
declaration was received by loud cries of " Hear, hear !"
from every part of the House. We also say, " Hear,
hear !" "He that hath an ear, let him hear " the
practical lesson which the Premier has given to the
country, and especially to the people of Ireland. By
them it will not only be heard, but understood—and,
we fear, acted upon in a way by no means likely to im-
prove their civil and social state.
STANDARD.—A foolish motion of Mr. Sharman
Crawford, to the effect that the House should abstain
from offering any opinion upon the inviolability of the
union with Ireland, and thus leave the question of the
integrity of the empire an open question, gave occasion to
Mr. Roebuck to allude to the late correspondence between
the Attorney-General for Ireland and Mr. Gitzgibbon,
the counsel for one of the traversers, Doctor Gray.
Now, we do not pretend to know or to guess
the motives which urged Mr. Roebuck to dis-
tinguish himself from the other 658 Members of the
House to whom the subject was open, by coming for-
ward upon this occasion. Perhaps it was a burning zeal
for the Constitution and the integrity of the British
empire that has " grown with his growth, and strength-
ened with his strength ;" perhaps it was an ex-
cessive
devotion to the interests of the profession
of the law—such as is apt to grow upon men
in the case of a profession in which they are very
eminently distinguished ; perhaps it was an in-
tense horror of the possible resort to personal
encounters, such as we may expect to find in a man
who has through life studiously avoided them, and
eschewed all occasions of offering personal offence.
We will suppose any good motive rather than imagine
that he was imitating the party journals in an
attempt to obstruct the course of justice by " abusing
the prosecutor." But whatever the Learned Gentleman's
motive, we must think that his zeal carried him a little
too far, in his reprehension of the Irish Attorney
General's conduct—carried him the length of pro-
pounding (unconsciously we are bound to believe)
two fallacies ; first, that the Learned Attorney-General
delivered a challenge ; secondly, that he delivered this
challenge (we quote the Morning Chronicle's report).
" In the presence of the chief judges of the land, the ad-
ministrators of the law, the maintainers of the peace,
there had been one of the most gross—he would use no
harsher word, for this reason, that the English language
did not supply a stronger one for the purpose—one of
the most gross violations of common decency perpetrated
by the Attorney-General for Ireland, that had ever been
perpetrated." Now we deny that the Attorney General
delivered any challenge, although we are aware that
Sir Robert Peel, Lord Eliot., Lord Stanley, Sir James
Graham, and the other speakers who defended the absent
gentleman with a generous fidelity worthy of them, and
one which we respectfully assure them attaches even
their humblest adherents by new ties, seem to have
admitted that the note to Mr. Fitzgibbon was a challenge.
The whole history of the affair will be found in an
article which we have borrowed from our excel-
lent contemporary the „Dublin Evening Pachet, and
whoever reads that history will, we think, agree
with us that no challenge really was delivered. We
not deny that a man of a very high but perverse spirit,
and of more sensibility than discretion, might read the
note as a challenge, but we certainly should not inter-
pret such an address to ourselves as a summons to the
field, and we are not willing to yield to Mr. Fitzgibbon
either in the :sense of honour or respectability of station.
We sometimes get such notes—we consider calmly the sub-
ject of them—and "if right we smile, if wrong we kiss the
rod." It would be a most dangerous doctrine to lay down,
that every demand of an explanation, thongh expla-
nation through a friend should be suggested in it, must,
be treated as a cartel, a fatal Gematria, that would
extract the word pistol from every combination of
letters in which complaint of a gross insult should
be made. Let us rather adopt the -benign rule of

4tII.IRDER or LORD IN oktM AN BY'S KEEPER.---
assee that proves the inefficacy of the present game-laws hap.
Edon Tuesday last, the 30th instant, at two six., at Mulgrave
Castle, the seat of the Marquis of Normanby. It seems that the
1411 of Mulgrave has been entertaining a party of gentlemen at
that mansion, and that after shooting on Monday, the keeper, at-
*ended by six watchers, went to watch the woods, as is customary.
It" Perhaps a better view of the case may be attained by our
readers if we give the evidence taken before two magistrates who
l'aPPened to be staying at the house at the time :—Charles Low.
Met', thirty.seven, for the wilful murder of William Moffat, keeper
IQ the Marquis of Normanby ; and Matthew Pierson, nineteen, as
FenOry to the fact. Before T. Bell, Esq., M.P., of Thirsk, and
-rAlraund Turton, Esq., of Kildale Cleveland, two of her Majesty's
Justices of the Peace for the North Riding of Yorkshire.—William
240 frat deposed—l am a gamekeeper to Lord Normanby, and pro.
seeded, as is my custom, to watch, accompanied by six other men.
4thoUt two o'clock, I heard some shots fired in the direction
of South-lodge, and we went thither. After concealing ourselves
for come time, the prisoner and another man came up, and I
went forward and said to him, " Halloo." He immediately
*tapped back and fired at me, the shot entering my abdomen.
• (At this stage of the evidence the prisoner kept crying out,
•s` 0 Lord accept my soul ;" " 0 Christ, save him.") I imme.
diately fell, and cried out, " I am murdered." One of the
Watcher, then rushed forward, and he knocked him down with
the butt end of his gun. Two others then succeeded in capturing
-btre. The others escaped. By Mr. Turton—Were you armed
With guns t—No, we had only sticks. Did you say anything but
4' halloo ?"—No. No words of intimidation Y—No ; when I was
lying on the bank ho said, " 0, forgive me, and shake hands."
I said, '• I will, if you will tell me who was the other man ;" and
• -he said " Matthew Pierson, of Eskdaleside." This witness gave
• %is evidence in great agony, and lingered on till Tuesday evening,
When be died in excruciating pain. Three watchers then substan-
tiated this evidence. Matthew Pierson said. he would give vo-
hoMary evidence :—He was a farmer's servant in Eskdaleside; that
Charles Lowther had taken him out poaching twice before ; that
`tut night they bad shot four pheasants when the sad catastrophe
baPpened. They were both committed to York Castle for their
trial at the Lent Assizes. The murderer is the son of respectable
IParepts, large farmers in Cleveland, but has long been a notoriously
'bad character, and has repeatedly been convicted of poaching, and
.Iwas taken up on suspicion when Mrs. Robinson was murdered,
wear here, two years ago.
PARLIAMENTARY LIBRARY.—On Thursday the
'Rouse of Lords nominated a Select Committee to "consider certain
Matters relative to the library of the House, and to the papers and
doeuments delivered for their Lordships' House," and the Lords
-following were named of the Committee—Archbishop of Canter-
bury, Lord Chancellor, Lord President, Lord Privy Seal, Dukes
'of Richmond, Buckingham, and Chandos, and Sutherland, Lords
-Lansdowne, Salisbury, Devon, Wynford, Brougham, Denman,
'Campbell, &c. Their Lordships will meet on Monday.
ST. GrRoRGE-IN-THE-EAST.—Yesterday a meeting
'frhe parishioners of St. George. in-the. East, was held in the Vestry.
Cannon.street.road, tor the purpose of making a church-rate.
rate had not before been called for since 1840, and the sum at
Present required was about 5301. To meet this a rate of a penny
sae pound was proposed, which was carried by a majority of 63
- A poll, however, was demanded.
FRENCH PLAYS.—Her *Majesty and Prince Albert,
' %ttunded by Lady Dunmore, Lady Caroline Cocks, the Marquis of
E.-';e"f, Lard Hawarden, Lord George Lennox, and Colonel
; their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cara-
bridge, the Baroness Ahlefeldt, Count Kielmansegge, the Duke
and Duchess of Beaufort, the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield,
the Baroness Brunnow, Lady Pollington, Lady William Paulet,
Lad?
Sinclair,
Sir George and Miss Talbot, Lady and Miss QuenLordLo, Alexander Lennox, the Baron Talleyrand, and many
other distinguished personages, honoured the French plays with
their presence last evening.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN ItilaTlTUTE.—Last evening
tbh.is_building, situate in George.streetAllanover.square, was opened
IValtrand dress soil*, and it having been announced that his
Highness Prince Albert intended to honour it .with his
IPreYsenee, the attendance of members and their friends was very
ur gi• Some time before nine o'clock, the suite of rooms was
terosit
ded with ladies and gentlemen in full dress, and at a quarter.
• tetert nineareed
o'clock, his Royal Highness, attended'aby the Marquis of
4,0 Council' of , and was received at the entrance by the President
throne
the. Institute, who conducted his Royal Highness
• hthe room
with :which he appeared to be much pleased,
:Lung tim'es, to examine the various works of art which
,icorated Oe walls or were scattered through the apartments. He
anlhitie. . ,
1,,0ya
42°PPed nearly an hour, and entered into familiar conversation with
-"an). of the
Reiss and
d hadarYladi
Hleisgzelahi os stay,gentlemen present. A concert took
psiiacaneodrurinsg
in which Madame Dulcken,
R
Signora' Lablache, Benedict, Goodbau, Ella, and
°
the hone kir to perform. Amongst the numerous per.
.o'"'Pliesent
during the evening were the Marquis of Exeter, Lord
tte__ Lennox, Chevalier 23unsau, Gil' E. Codrington, the Earl of
11:
Sir George Staunton, Baron Andlau, Lords Courtney,
• 11_dUor, and
and J. Stuart,
,Admiral Sykes, Miss Strickland, the Sici.
Brazilian Ambassadors, Sir R. and Lady Hunter, Mr.
keragill R
scAc., Count Wenaietoski, Sir A. B. Faulkner, Lady
Campbell,
ATAR
. Ist just RIAGE •IN HIGH LIFE.—On Thursday, the
t ant, at Titehtield, Hunts, by the Rev. Wm. Thresher,
!lyk. Siret. Edward Butler, son of the Right Hon. Lord
417:4.!IYI) Urania Elizabeth, daughter of the late Vico-
tho Right Hon. Lord Henry Yaulet,

legal interpretation never to presume a crime
where there is no express evidence of guilt.
What passed in the mind of the Attorney-General
when he wrote his note, within three minutes
•after some months' baiting with systematic and premedi-
'fated insult had been consummated by that gross per-
'sonal outrage which, as Mr. Wyse has very properly sug-
gested, was probably put by some of the traversers into
Mr. Fitzgibbon's brief—what was passing in the learned
Attorney-General's mind during this agony of intellictual
torment, it is impossible to say. He probably then re-
flected—Human forbearance cannot endure this longer,
if it go on I shall be betrayed into some unbecoming
violence of language in the face of the' Court ; I will
seize this interval of adjournment, and use the opportu-
nity of this retired place, to put a stop to it sine stopiut.
I will call upon Mr. Fitzgibbon to retract his insults, or
at least to hame a friend, with whom a friend of mine
may remonstrate against such an intolerable persecution.
There is not a syllable in the note of the Attorney-
General which will not bear this interpretation ; and
why should we presume that a gentleman, unpractised in
the affairs of duelling, must have designed a challenge
in writing it ? We, indeed, are happily ignorant of
the "conclusions" of "the code," and little read.
in Caranza or Pareccio ; but though we have
never shuddered at a "three-cornered note," Mr.
Roebuck's acquaintance with the signification of
the ill-omened rectilinear proves that he is aware when
men are " tremera murmure Trinacria," and a Con-
naught friend assures us that he is altogether wrong
in presuming a challenge, for that to write in such
a case as the Attorney-General's, would be the
most irregular thing in the world. In all such
cases, says our friend, the gentlemen of Galway.
Mayo, and Sligo, always proceed in the first
instance by the voie de fait, of course with all considerate
delicacy—or if the practical retort be not altogether proper
by reason of the place or any presence, as in church, a
drawing-room, or in the company of a man's wife—they
always send a friend to apologise for not having ap-
plied the usual remembrancer, and to arrange a
comfortable meeting ; but they never write, for a
written note is open to a written reply in accommoda-
tion, and this of course is not what a gentleman wants.
It is not our province to pronounce an opinion in such
delicate matters, but we must think that the Attorney-
General, who may be as ignorant of etiquette in these
affairs as ourselves, has had hard measure in
having his note considered on all sides as a challenge
But, a challenge or no challenge, it is untrue to say that
it was delivered in the face of the judges of the land. It
was not delivered in Court at all, but in a room many
yards distant from the Court ; and the Court was ad-
journed at the time when it was delivered.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF. THIS DATI '.!••
TIMES.—The debate on the Royal speech has passed off
quietly enough. In spite of two amendments which were
proposed, and one which was withdrawn—in spite also of two
or three attempts to involve the House in a discussion' of
general politics, Irish, continental, and domestic—the more
convenient plan was taken of staving off discussion upon
points of controversy until they should be submitted to con-
sideration in the shape of substantive motions. Yet, not-
withstanding the almost unanimous assent given by the
House to the sentiments expressed in her Majesty's speech,
the partial comments which it elicited have not been with-
out their value. The Minister has taken his course. He has
announced his resolution to preserve the sliding-scale of
duties. He has reduced the elements and narrowed the
ground of the controversy, at the cost of a hazard which we
can hardly suppose him not to have appreciated. " Either
a graduated duty, or no duty at all," is now the watch-
word of the Treasury benches. If the former is aban•
cloned, then repeal is to be embraced. That this
declaration is a bold one, we freely admit ; but
that it is a wise one we, with our known opinions on
the principles of commercial policy, cannot affirm. It will
doubtless give high satisfaction to those supporters of the
Cabinet who are employed in cutting away the scaffolding on
which they stand from beneath their feet ; it will give great
encouragement to the energetic spirit, and ambitious perseve-
rance, of the ultra free trade party; but to the more tempe-
rate and discriminating of the Conservative party it is likely
to suggest every other feeling but that of confidence or cheer-
fulness. We think that no one can look at the condition of
England at the present moment without being convinced that
the time for making a proposition which should reconcile
the two conflicting parties by which the country is divided
will soon have passed away. The passions of the people
have been roused on one side • they have been be-
witched by the deceptive cry Of " cheap bread." All
the ad captandum fallacies by which the feelings of
large multitudes are swayed have been prodigally brought
into play ; every imaginable artifice has been dexterously
and repeatedly employed •, there has been :so much truth
mixed up with much falsehood, as to render the absorp-
tion of the latter at once easy and pleasant ; and so much
of sincere and disinterested principle blended with a mass of
pretence, hypocrisy, and exaggeration, as to give force and
impulse to the efforts of bad or unthinking men. On the
other side are ranged men whose opposition is grounded on
different but not irreconcileable motives—some claiming pro-
tection as necessary to agriculture ; some denouncing any
concession, as a system of timid truckling to a confederacy
which is fighting the battle of democracy under the standard
of free trade ; others deprecating the notion of raising a re-
venue from the chief article of consumption ; but none
making those professions, and lavishing those generalities,
by which multitudes are charmed, and popular enthusiasm is
inflamed. Nor has this party, respectable indeed, and influential
though it be, that authority which is given by the approbation
ofJudicious and the assistance of wise men. Those who
have studied the'philosophy of commerce and the perplexi-
ties of finance arc not indeed with their antagonists, but still
less are they with them. The experienced and the judicious
revolt from multitudinous gatherings of financial speculators,
and suspect the clamours which greet virulent personality
and intemperate invectives ; but men of experience and judg-
ment are not enamoured of the sliding scale. Least of all,
we fear, can the agricultural party reckon upon the cordial
co-operation and sympathy of their own immediate depen-
dents. Had the sentiments of the rustic population been more
favourable to the lords of the soil, the success of the League
emissaries in the rural districts would have been far less even
than it has been. But for this coldness -they may thank
their own infatuation. Looking then at the state of parties
at the present day, we cannot but regret ;the occasion on
which the Minister has chosen to. display the virtue of con-
sistency ; still less are we disposed to approve the validity of
the reason by which he defends his policy. "If you seek to
raise a revenue from corn," lie argues, " you should raise it
from home-grown as well as from imported grain, as you do
from malt." Strange argument for a Minister to use;
but most strange for one who so well knows the feelings of
his own party. Is not every Excise duty more objectionable
and unpopular than a Customs' duty ? Is it not always
levied with greater trouble, and paid with greater unwilling-
ness? Is it not always more difficult to impose an Excise
than a Customs' duty ? And has not the malt tax always
been obnoxious to the odium of an Excise duty? Has not
its continuance been a subject of unceasing complaint with
the landowners? And yet the Premier cites this as a felici-
tous illustration of the propriety, or the possibility, of raising
a revenue from home-grown corn. We have averred our
regret at the course taken by the head of the Government.
We think that we can now discern indications of a readiness
to neutralise the particular differences of the free-trade and
the agricultural parties by a scheme of mutual concession.
We believe that there are many on both sides who would
willingly terminate the unhappy dissensions which rend
the country by a temperate compromise. But the same
signs which indicate this tendency also tell us that ere
long the season for making advances will have gone by,
and that the alternative reserved
.by the Government
will then hang on the will of an expectant people—" the
present duties, or no duties at all." The terms in which
Lord Morpeth's recent address at Wakefield was received
will typify the answer which the people will give when their
sentence on this last proposition is demanded of them. But
the Minister looks at his dense Parliamentary' phalanx. Ho
sees there present strength and confidence. He trusts, too,
perhaps, to a continuance of prosperity, arising from brisk
trade and renewed commerce, which may charm the grum-
blings of discontent into silence, or even change the growls
of opposition into the melodious accents of applause. lie
knows, that with Englishmen abstract theory is of secondary
importance to present prosperity; and lie trusts that when
our marts of commerce are again thronged with the train of
fortunate enterprise, and our seats of industry again resound
with the din of awakened traffic, then the cry of "cheap
bread " will be no longer heard, and the denunciations of the
mob-leader will have lost their power. We would fain hope
that this belief might be realised. The revival of trade cer-
tainly does hold out great encouragement for future hope.
But, for our own parts, we think that the best use which a
Government could make of it would be, to seize the opportu-
nity which it affords for settling a vexatious question, and
ending unhappy differences.
POST.—Our readers are aware that Sir Robert Peel's de-
claration against any alteration of the existing corn-law is
no more than we expected, though we cannot say we felt as
little anxiety upon the subject as sonic Ultra-Mmisterialists
either felt or feigned. But we expressly stated, some time
ago, when certain writers who pretend to great considerate-
ness in all they say, were proclaiming that, from the state
of public sentiment, it was clear that something must be done,
either of an immediate or prospective character, for the
alteration of the corn-laws—we say we then expressly stated
that we did not believe any such alteration would
be proposed. But we then feared—nor are we yet
free from that fear—that though no direct alteration
of the corn-laws would be proposed, there would
still be wanting that genuine and hearty support of the prin-
ciple of protection for native industry, without which, in our
opinion, the Administration cannot be faithful to what were
supposed to be its principles when called to office by the voice
of the country, and by the favour of the Crown. Sir Robert
Peel has declared, and, we are happy to say, with more em-
phasis and less reserve than is his wont, that he has not
contemplated, and does not contemplate, any alteration of
the corn-laws. Without going so far as to say that the nu-
merous meetings, which have taken place in the country,
have made any alteration in the Ministerial intentions in
regard to this subject, we yet think it highly probable
that it was the tone of these meetings which furnished
the inducement for the emphatic, decisive, and unquali-
fied disclaimer on the part of the Minister of any contem-
plated alteration of the corn-laws. It is of importance to
observe, however, that so far from the Minister making any
declaration in favour of the principle of protection, be avowed
a concurrence in what was laid down by Lord John Russell
on the subject of that principle, namely, that it was in
theory utterly erroneous, and that it was only on account
of the danger which attends sudden transitions, oven from
wrong to right, in national affairs, that it would be impolitic
to adopt the principles and the practice of free trade. It is of
importance to observe, that notwithstanding Sir R. Peel's
emphatic declaration that he does not contemplate any al-
teration of the corn-laws, yet his abstinence from interference
with them is not based upon any- degree of respect for the
principle upon which these laws are founded—namely, the
principle of protection, but from a sense of the inexpediency
of interfering, under existing circumstances, with laws which
are supposed to have, in reality, no sound principle to sup-
' port them. We should be very sorry to misrepresent the
views of the Right Hon. Baronet ; but, after the best con-
sideration we can give to the various points of his last speech,
so far as it regards the corn-laws, we believe that what we
I have stated is a fair account of the views which the Minister
appears to entertain.
do

LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 3.1

Dividend
per

Amount

,Names of Com
panies.

Paid.

Price.

Aiinum.

Share.

5i per cent.
4/.

Canals.
Ashton and Oldham...
Ashby-de-la-Zouch..av
Basingstoke .......
Bi eeknock & Ahergay. ,
Birmingham, I.l(ith sh.
Do. and Liverp. June.
Chelmer & Blackwater
Coventry
Crom ford • ......... ........
Dudley
Derby . ..... ......
nube and I),lavne
Ellesmere and Cliester
Erewash ..........
Forth nd Clyde
Grand Junction,,......
Grand Union .....
Grand Surrey
Grand Western
Glamorgansh., ay. coat
Gloucester & Berkeley
Grantham
.....
Huddersfleis! ...... ....ay
Kennet :aid Avon may
Lancaster av
Leeds and Liverpool...
Leicester
Leicester & Northamp
Loughborough ......
Monmouthshire ....
Montgomeryshire
Melton Mowbray
Mersey and Irwell
Macclesfield
Neath
Oxford
Peak Forest av
Regent's (or London).
Rochdale av
Shropshire
Somerset Coal
Do. Lock Fund Stock
Stafford and Worcester
Shrewsbury
Stourhridge
Stratford .on. Avon...av
Swansea
Severn & Wye & Rail
Trent & Mersey, ;i sh
Thames & Medway..av
Warwick and Binning.
Warwick and Napton
Worcester & Binning
Wilts and Berks av
Wisbeach
Wey and Arun

X s. 61

100 0 0

41 13 4

4 pc r cent.
41.
401.
81. 153.

100 -0
0

105
31 4

13/ 12s. Sd.

301.
3%
,7s. 6d.

6 percent.

20:.
IL 10s.

524 10s.

101.
Si. 10s.
41.
11. 4s.

S per cent.
31, per cent.
4 per cent.
4 per cent.
Si. 10s.
5 per cent.
5 per cent.
I per cent.
4 per cent.
4 per cent.

.% per cent.

1. N. Bd.
18s. Id.
per cent.
11. 7s.

3. les.
4 percent.
G per cent.
6 per cent.

51. ss.
4 per cent.
Is per share
6 per cent.
3/.

5 per cent./
& 30s. bds.
5% per cent,
5 per cent,
5 per cent.
6 per cent.
5 per cent.
4s.

2s. 6d.
12 per cent.
198.
1/. sh. & bds,
1/. ss.

5 per cent.
5 per cent.
5 per cent.
11. ss.

5 per cent.
63 per cent.
11.
5 per cent.
10N per cent
51.

A per cent.

6 per cent.
5 percent.
5 per cent.
6 per cent.

Q per cent.

B per cent
S per cent.
6 per cent.
21s per share
66. per share

10 per cent
5 per cent.

165.
11. ss.
11. 7s.
51. and be.
4 IV. and bs.
10 per cent.
4 per cent.

8! per sh
3158 per sh

6 per cent.
5 per cent.
6 per cent.

Docks.
Commercial .........
East and Wort,lndia
London
Ditto Bonds
Bristol ...... av
Do.Bnds, var. amounts
St. Katharine
Ditto 80nd5........
Ditto Bonds
Southampton

Bridges
Hammersmith
Southwark, new Subs.
Ditto New of 7 pr c
Waterloo
Ditto Old Ann. et 84
Ditto New ditto of V.
Ditto
Vauxhall av

Assurances.
Albion
Alfred Life
Alliance Brit. and For
Ditto Marine... ......
Atlas
Birmingham Fire
British Fire
British Commercial
Cler. Med. & Gen. Life
County
Eagle
Economic Life ......
European Life
Ditto New
Freemasons
Globe
Guardian
Hope Life
Ditto Fire
Imperial File
Ditto Life
Indemnity Marine
Law Life
Legal and General Life
London Fire
Ditto Ship
National Loan Fun,
Palladium Life
Protector Life
Provident
Rock Life
R yal Exchange
Sun Fire
Ditto Life.......
University Life
Universal Life
Union Fire and Life
Joint Stk Banks
Australasi'
Ditto New
Brit. North American
Commercial of London
Colonial
London & Westminstr

Ditto New.......
London Joint Stock
Metropolitan
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto New
National of Ireland
Nat. Provincial Englnd
Ditto New
Gloucestershire
Union of Australia
Union of London
Gaslight & Coke

Bath
British
Ditto Provincial
Birmingham
Biro ing. & Staffordsh
Bristol
Brighton
Ditto General
City of London
Ditto New

19 S
100 0
100 0

78 8
67 10
105 0
110 0

100 0 0
Stock
Stock

147 9 0

Stock

50 0 0

50 0
63 2
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100 0 0
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21.-10 s.
2/. 10s.
2/. 10s.
bper cent.
41 16s.
11. 14s.

4 per cent.
21. 10s.

Continental Consoled...

Ditto New
Equitable
Imperia
Isle of Thanet
Independent .........
Phcernx
Ratcliff
South Metropolitan....
United General ....
Westmins. Chartered..
Ditto New ........

Water Works.
Birmingham
East London
Grand Junctron.......av
Kent
Nw Rtv Lon. Bridg An
Manchester andSallord
Vauxhall, late S. Lona.
West Middlesex av
Yrk BuldgCo.Les.Prop
Iron Railways.
Birmingham & Derby
Birming. Sr Gloucester
Bristol and Exeter
Cheltenhm & Gt. West
Clarence
Eastern
Edinburgh & Glasgow
Ditto New.
Grand Junction
Great North of Engind
Gre t Western
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifths .......
Hull and Selby .......
Leeds and Selby ••••
Liverpool & Manchestr
Ditto Half-Shares......
Ditto Quarter-Shares
London and Brighton..
Ditto Loan Notes
London and Bbckwall
London and Greenwich
London and Birmingh.
Ditto Quarter-Shares
Ditto Thirds...
London and S. Western
London and Croydon
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto New Shares
Manchstr and Binning
Ditto Extension
Mid'and Cou..ties
North Midland
Do. %-Sh., iss. 10 dis
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip, iss. 51. dis
Paris and Rouen
Stockt. o & Darlington
South East. and Dover
Ditto New, iss. 25 dis.
York and N. Midland
Ditto New Shares.

Ss. per sh.
V. ss. per sh
is 10d per sh

Ms. per sh

In per cent.
2}4 per cent.
St. ss. per sh
2341. per sh.
Pls. per sh.
4 per cent.

3/.per share
3s 4d per sh
S/.175. pr sh
Ilas per sh

BANK OF ENGLAND.
Quarterly Average of the Weekly Liabilities and Assets of the
Bank of England, from the 4th day of November, to the
27th of January, 1844, both inclusive, published pursuant
to the Act, 3 and 4 W. IV., cap; 98.
LIABILITIES. ASSETS.
Circulation .......£ 19,611,000 Securities £21,937,000
Deposits ..

10 per cent.
10 per cent.
10 per cent.
Nl. per eh

101. per sh.

11. 146.

£32,783,000
Downing-street, Feb. 2,1 E

IL 10s.
11. 55.

U. 10d,
cent.
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per cent.
10 per cent.

IL
11.
Si.
178.6 d.

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£35,870,

Taunton was on Tuesday evening last Visited by
a violent storm, accompanied by vivid lightning. A deal of damage
has been done to property. In the neighbourhood of watt
we hear the damage has been Wilgus,

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PANIES' PRICES,
844.

0I 2

P.O.I.CES OF SHARES FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ►
N CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 31st day of Jarru
ary, 1844
, present the Queen's Most Exaellent Majesty in
iaND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. Council. lier Majesty having been pleased to appoint the
! Right lion. John Edward Cornwallis, Earl of Stradbroke, to
be Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulornm of the county of
Suffolk, his Lordship this day took the oaths appointed to be
taken thereupon, instead of the oaths of allegiance and
supremacy.
Her Majesty in Council was this day pleased, upon the re-
presentation of the Right Hon. the Lords of the Committee of
Council on Education, to appoint the Rev. Henry Moseley,
A.M., Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, and
the Rev. Frederick Charles Cook, A. M., to be two of .ber Ma-
jesty's Inspectors of Schools.
THE PRINCE OF WALES' COUNCIL CHAMBERS,
SOMERSET Housa, FEB. 2, 1844.
Henry Lewis Stephens, of Tregenna Castle, in the parish of
St. Ives, has been this day appointed Sheriff of the county of
Cornwall for the present year.
WHITEHALL, JAN. 30.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. David
Ross Master of Arts, to the church at Tobermory, in the island
of Mull, in the pari-hes of Kilninian and Kilmore, in the
prtsby te y of Mull and shire of Argyll, vacant by the trans-
portation of the Rev. Donald Stewart, late minister thereof, to
the parish of Fortingall, in the presbytery of Weem.
WHITEHALL, FEB. 2.
The Queen has been eased to present the Reverend Angus
Logan to the church at Berriedale, in the parish of Latheron,
in the presbytery of Caithness and shire of Caiihness, vacant in
consequence of the Reverend Samuel Campbell, late minister
thereof, having ceased to be a minister of the Church of Scot-
land.
The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev.
Donald M'Donald to the church at Kilmenny, in the united
parishes of Bowmore and Kilmenny, in the presbytery of Isla
and Jura and shire of Argyll, vacant in consequence of the Rev.
James Pearson, late minister thereof, having ceased to be a
minister of the Church of Scotland.
ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JAN. 31.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord
Forester, to appoint George Denne, Esq., as one of her Ma-
jesty's Honourable Carps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Tallman,
who retires. _ _ _

WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 2.

Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Lieut. T. Brunt to be
Adjutant, vice Munro, super3eded ; Cornet J. Brunt, from the
3d Light Dragoons (Riding Master), to be Cornet, without
purchase, Feb. 2.
9th Light Dragoons—Cornet P. Antrobus to be Lieutenant,
by purchase, vice Dixon, who retires ; C. E. Law, Gent., to
be Cornet, by purchase, vice Antrobus, Feb. 2.
13th Light Dragoons—Lieut. R. J. Elrington, from the
47th Regiment, to be Paymaster, vice Leech, appointed to the
9th Light Dragoons, Feb. 2.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—J. G. C. Dis-
browe, Esq., Page of Honour to her Majesty the Queen
Dowager, to be Ensign and Lieutenant, without purchase,
Feb. 2. _ _ _

4th Foot—Lieutenant J. Cumming, from the 26th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice Campbell, who exchanges, Feb. 2.
7th Foot—Ensign J. H. F. Stewart, from the 24th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pakenham, promoted,
Feb. 2. _

11th Foot—Ensign W. H. Graves to be Lieutenant, with-
out purchase, vice Simmons, deceased; T. Mostyn, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Graves ; Assistant-Surgeon R. Stevenson,
'M.D., from the 3d Foot, to be Surgeon, vice M'Kinlay, de-
ceased, Feb. 2.
24th Foot—Ensign W. Hartshorn, from the Cape Mounted
Riflemen, to be Ensign, vice Stewart, promoted in the 7th
Foot, Feb. 2.
26th Foot—Lieutenant W. M. Campbell, from 4th Foot, to
be Lieutenant, vice Cumming, who exchanges ; T. W. An-
drews, Gent., to be Ensign, vice De Montmorency, promoted
in the 7th Foot, Feb. 2.
36th Foot—Ensign J. 1. Bettesworth to be Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Harries, who retires ; W. H. Fortesene, Gent.,
to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bettesworth, Feb. 2.
59th Foot—Brevet Lisut. Col. A. H. Trevor, from the 95th
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Fuller, who
retires, Feb. 2.

67th Foot—L. Newman, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Orlebar, whose appointment has been cancelled, Feb. 2.
95th Foot—Capt. T. St. Leger Alcock to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Trevor, promoted in the 59th Foot; Lieut. H. 0.
C. Master to be Captain, by purchase, vice Alcock; Ensign
T. Davis to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Master ; F. T.
Patterson, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Davis, Feb. 2.
Ist West India Regiment—To be Lieutenants without pur-
chase—Ensign F. Huson, vice Grant, promoted, Jau. 30 ;
Ensign G. H. Robeson, vice Meehan, promoted, Jan. 31 ;
Ensign A. Croad, vice Clements, appointed to the 84th Foot,
Feb. 1 ; Ensign M. Gernon, vice Ilingham, appointed Ad-
jutant, Feb. 2.
To be Ensigns, without purchase—F. J. Hills, Gent., vice
Huson, Jan. 30; J. M. Tittle, Gent., vice Robeson, Jan. 31 ;
M. Fanning, Gent., vice Croad, Feb. 1 ; W. R. Sprott, Gent.,
vice Gernon, Feb. 2.

2d West India Regiment—T. P. Wright, Gent., to be
Ensign, without purchase, vice Smith, deceased; C. Macartney,
M. Is., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Dl'Kinnon, appointed to
the 78th Foot. Feb. 2.

3d West India Regiment.—Ensign E. T. Fitz Gerald to be
Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Butcher, deceased, Dec.
20; W. S. Cumming, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Fitz Gerald,
Feb. 2.

Royal Newfoundland Companies.—Lieutenant-Colonel R
Law, from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
without purchase, Feb. 3.
UNATTACHED.—Major Robert Law, from the Royal New-
foundland Companies, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, without pur-
chase, Feb. 2.

HOSPITAL STAFF.—Surgeon Edward Pilkington. from the
17th Light Dragoons, to be Staff-Surgeon of the First Class,
vice St. John, promoted, Feb. 2 ; Alfred Crocker, Gent., to
be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Young, deceased,
Commission by the Lord- Lieutenant of Glamorganshire.
Royal Glamorgan Light Infantry Battalion of Militia.—
Thomas Smith, Esq., to be Lieutenar.t-Colonel, vice Morgan,
deceased, Jan. 27.

Feb. 7, at eleven, --at the Court of - Bankruptcy. Foiktt 1 BRAZILIAN TARIFF.
official assignee. ..
C. J. Mathews, comedian, Westbourne-green, Paddington,
Ahhoug'n every packet from Rio de Janeiro 'brings
Feb. 8, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tut-- additional proofs that the Brazilians are preparing to
quand, official assignee. i retaliate upon our commerce for our prohibition of
. I
H. Ilarliaon, baker, East-street, Walwortb, Feb. 8, at two, their produce, there are some persons infatuated '
at the Curt of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee. i enough to entertain "no apprehensions that upon the
B. Setthell,:blitcher, Buckden, Huntingdonshire, Feb. 7, at expiration of the commercial treaty with England
eleven, at the -Cart of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee.
W. Porter, coffeeakuse keeper, Upper Wellington-street, differential duties will be attempted, under any cireum- •
Covent-garden, Feb. F, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. stances, to be.levied." It is our painful duty to dispel
Green, official assignee. such a pleasing illusion. ID fact, we cannot under-
W. Barrett, Fairford, Gloucestershire, Feb. 7, at half-past stand the motives of those writers mho are from time
eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee. to time announcing these symptoms of the-approaching
A. Mayor, tailor, Liverpool, Feb. 7, at twelve, at the Liver-
pool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee. denouement, and in ,the same sentences wuring their
, .
J. Mayor, tailor, Liverpool, Feb. 7, at half-past eleven, at readers that they need have no fears that England
the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee. will lone her Brazilian trade, or that Brazil will treat
E. Jones, farmer, Suckley, Wonaatershire, Feb. 9, at half- her differently from other nations.
past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, The intelligence that the import duties at Rio de
official assignee. Janeiro have been increased by the imposition of an
W. Roberts, Wickwar, Gloucestershire, Feb. 7, at eleven, at
the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee. extra five per cent., raising them to twenty-one per :
W. Jeffs, Bristol, Feb. 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District cent., upon the goods of all nations alike, has been
Court. Acraman, official assignee. confirmed. The old rate of twenty per cent. ad •
J. Horrocks, tea dealer, Bolton, Lancashire,Feb.B, Feb at
valorem, was equally paid by British and foreign pa-
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official
• ~., tiers. The Brazilian Government having been
assignee.
J. Eccles, horse dealer, Dudley, Worcestershire, Feb. 7, at forced, by fiscal neces,!!ities, to increase the revenue,
one, at the Birmingham Districts Court. Valpy, efficialassignee, with a view, among other things, to maintain their
D. Pryde, joiner, Birkenhead, Clieshisas, Feb. 6, at twelve,
at the Liverpool District Court. Cazenove, official assignee. foreign credit, have not encountered any opposition
•...•
J. Hubberstey, book agent, Blackburn, Lancashire, Feb. 8, from the mixed commission of foreign and Brazilian
at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official merchants, to whom the raising of the Valuation of the
assignee. . importi was delegated. Although, .therefore, the .
J. Butcher, shopman, Leyland, Lancashire, Feb. 8, at proceeding is one whiA, had it been burdensome or
twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Fraser, official assignee. oppressive to English commerce, our Governmeift *
IV. Gamble, omnibus driver, Manchester. Feb 8, at one, at e,
the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee. would have, perhaps, hail a right to oppose, we S-
O. Moseley, attorney-at-law, Stockport, Cheshire, Feb. 8, at understand that it is not thought expedient to,tnake i
twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official any remonstrances against it, because it is not worth f
assignee. while to exasperate the Brazilians on the eve of ;the
T. Smith, Liverpool, Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis- expiry of their treaty, and thus extinguish the smajleit
trict Court. Bird, official assignee.
hope of a renewal.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. . But it is useless to speculate upon results which all
A. Laing, draper, Halifax, Yorkshire, Feb. 23, at two-J. ,Laneashire can foresee as well as ourselves, if the ne-
Bedford, iron merchant, Melina-place, Westminster-road, Feb. gotiations between France and Brazil should lead to a •
28. at:three-S. Jones, jeweller, Cheapside' Feb. 28, at eleven treaty of the kind mentioned. Something ought-to
-R. Yallop, scrivener, Basinghall-street, Feb. 23, at half- have been done before now to bring Sir Robert Peel
wo-J. Co
past two-Dlli.ns, Hodhotegsol keeper,n, bankerStaines,, SandwiFeb. ch, K23,ent,
at Febone-W . 24, at.
.and Senor Ribeiro to a friendly understanding. The
t
Fry, J. Fry, and J. Chapman, bankers, St. Mildred's-co art, merchants of Liverpool have, apparently, thought
Poultry, Feb. 23, at half-past one-D. Bidmead, warehouse- that their Brazilian trade was safe in the hands en-
man, Bread-street, Cheapside, Feb. 23, at two-R. Lyon, ea- trusted with its keeping. The end will prove whether
binet maker, High Holborn, Feb. 23, at half-past twelve. they havebeen the eulightaied guardians of their own
In the Country, interests, or the obstinate dupes of their Tory prep- ,
G. Allison, scrivener, Darlington, Durham, Feb. 22, at '
eleven, at the Newcastle-upon. Tyne District Court-J. Buck-
ley, coal master, Higher Crompton, Lancashire, Feb. 27, at •
one, at the Manchester District Court-W. Collings, baker.
Devonport, Feb. 23, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court
--M. Cullen, merchant, Liverpool, Feb. 29, at eleven, at the
Liverpool District Court.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unlesi cause be shown to the
contrary, on the day herein-mentioned.
D. Rowlands, wine dealer, Pwliheli, Carnarvonshire, Feb.
24-J. Wilkinson, grocer, Leeds, Feb. 27-S. Partridge, tea
dealer, Birmingham, Feb. 27-W. and J. Statters, cotton spin-
ners, Feb. 26-J. M. Wintle, silversmith, Drury-lane, Feb.
23-J. Zuliani, merchant, Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing-
lane, Feb. 23 -L. !timely, Staffordshire warehouseman,
High- street, Shadwell, Feb. 23-H. G. Clapton, warehouse-
man, Bristol, Feb. 2.3-F. Messenger, corn merchant, Liver-
pool, Feb. 23-H. W. Diamond, surgeon, Frith-street, West-
minster, Feb. 23-E. Locke and A. D. Mills, needle manufac-
turers, Lawrence Pountney-hili, City, Feb. 23-P. A. Nuttall,
newspaper v der Edward-terrace, Chalk-road, Feb. 25.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. and R. F. Bailey, auctioneers, Wood-street, Cheapside-
R. Harrison and I'. Cr. Robinson, merchants, Philpot-lane,
City-W. Walker, sen., and W. Walker, jun., manufacturers,
Manchester-C. R. Penfold and W. S. Watson, surgeons,
Brighton -R. Pitt and L. Lane, lace dealers, Ludgate-
street, City-J. Alexander and H. Gibbons, chemists, Wol-
verhampton-J. R. Dutton, C. Dutton, and J. Wilkinson,
winemerchants, Chester (so far as regards J. Wilkinson)- W.
S. Plane and W. Martin, bottled ale dealers, Gravesend-M.
}Nowise and A. Gatliff, attorneys, Leeds-Js. and Jn. Puttick,
grocers • King-street, Long-acre-I. and J. G. Somers,
Ilocnd:ditch-W. and E. Garside, coach builders, Ashton-
unde,--Lyne-W. and W. Watson, butchers, Great Easton,
Essex--H. A. and T. Rodgers, news agents, Sheffield-J.
Heaton and J. S. Ellison, joiners, Gomersal, Yorkshire-T.
and S. R. Drury, stone masons, Leeds-T. Ellis, E. A. Ellis,
J. Alexano'sr, G. Thomson, G. A. Brown, J. Thompson, and
A. Thompson, forming the Westminster Mining Association
(so far as regards T. Ellis, E. Ellis, and G. A. Brown)-W.
and B. Watson, dyers, Leeds-J. Spencer and E. Wood,
bakers, Goswell-street-J. Lamprey and A. S. Field, attor-
neys, Warwick-C. and T. Burrows, timber merchants, W.-
lington, Derbyshire-W. Clapham and J. H. Whitaker,
worsted spinners, Esholt, Yorkshire-W. H. Coleman and J.
Manton, tea dealers, Crown-street, Finsbury-J. Cooper, H.
Cooper, W. Cooper, D. Turner, and T. Cooper, grocers, Shef-
field-S. Faulkner and J. Pierrepont, surgeon dentists, Man-
chester-'l'. Delf and W. Kent, drapers, Beccles, Suffolk-J.
and U. Knowles, fustian shearers, Manchester-F. Denby and
W. Dobbings, cabinet makers, Leeds-The Shields and New-
castle Steam Navigation Company.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
SPENCER SUTHERLAND, harbour contractor, Ar-
broath. Feb. 7 and 28-, at one, at the Star Hotel, Perth.
DAVID M'EIVEN, banker, Dundee, Feb. 12 and March
11, at one, at the British Hotel,
ROBERT M'ALISTER, farmer, Shotta, Lanarkshire,
Feb. 8 and 29, at two, at the chambers of M. Waddell, Glasgow.
ROBERT BRYCE, brassfounder, Edinburgh, Feb. 9 and
March 1, at twelve, at the chambers of R. Deuchar, Edinburgh.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the
week ending Jan. 30, 1844, is 355. Oid. per cwt., exclusive
of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Im-
portation thereof into Great Britain.

REDDITCIL—SUDHEN DEATH.—On Monday even-
ing
last, an awfully sudden death occurred at Mappleborough
Green, within a few miles of Redditch. Five prize fights
took place in-the neighbourhood on that day, the combatants
and many of the spectators afterwards went to a public-house
kept by Thomas Stockley, who held the stakes. Stockley,
who had been very active in the pursuits of the day, sang a -
song to the company assembled, and got up from his seat to
pay over the stakes, but had scarcely done so, when he fell
down and expired. Ile had been subject to an internal disease
for some considerable time past.— Worcester Chronicle.
THE WEATHER.—It has blown an almost conti-
nuous
gale here since Sabbath, accompanied at intervals with ,*
showers of hail. . The storm was particularly violent last *
night; and we fear much that the damage at sea will be
correspondingly great. The schooner William, from Bel-
fast, mentioned in our last as having run ashore at the back
of the south pier, has not yet been got off, and we are afraid .
that from the high winds which have prevailed it will now
be impossible.—Ayr Observer.
A letter from Rome, in the Gazette des Tribunaux, '
relates the following tragical event, as having taken place a
short time ago in the most frequented part of the city, and
at a period when the streets are generally fullest. About
four o'clock, at which hour the beau snonde of Rome -'are
flocking to their promenade in the gardens of the Villa
Borghese, from the door of a house adjoining the shop of
a chemist, at the angle of the Via Babuino and the Via
Condotti, a young woman staggered out, pale and;•
bleeding, with a • stiletto planted in her breast.
• She could not speak, but pointed with her finger to ...
the haft of the dagger. By the laws of Rome (hex isls -.
are interdicted, under penalty of fine and imprisonment, om
acting under any circumstances whatever as physician .., or 4 '
surgeons, or even granting to a sick or wounded persona tem- .
porary asylum. Consequently the chemist of the Via Babdino
refused -admittance to the poor victiisur desiring her to ha;iten
,---
to the hospital. Her strength, holegver, was gone, and ,she
~)-7,
would have fallen on the pavement, had not a compassiof ate --, -4
old man got a chair out of the shop, seated her in it, and held i •
her head on his shoulder. • She was young and handscetne,
and elegantly dressed, though in a style that showed sheldid ?
not belong to the higher orders of society. The crowd nau• '
rally gathered around her, and numerous observations were ,
made and conjectures formed. At last a man of high stature, >
getting a sight of her over the head of the rest exclaimodi
" Ah, 1 told her what would happen, but she would follow
her own foolish will." This at once explained the mystety. R
This man was one of those bandits whom the pontifical po-
lice can never arrest, but who at last compromise with the

.. , . .
Government, by accepting a pension, and relinguishing tlteir
predatory lives. The dying woman was a girl of respectable .:.
parentage, whom when young he had carried off and made '
his wife. In latter days he had become indifferent and
brutal towards her, and yielded to the seductions of a
. . .. .

young Neapolitan. She soon repented this wrong step, and
determined to break with her inamorato. She went to her

husband, whom she had quitted with his own consent, and
told him of her resolution ; but he advised her against carry-
ing it into effect, warning her that she would regret it. She,
however, told her paramour that all was at an end between
them. lie showed no surprise, merely saying, " Good bye,
till we meet again." On the next day he did meet her in the
public street, and at once plunged his poignard into her
bosom. At length some police-officers came, and watched
the corpse till ten at night, when a party of the fraternity
of Penitents came with a
_bier, and carried it away, with

thepli-gnard still uuwithdrawn. The husband had long
retired with his associates, the chemist took back his chair,
and all was quiet. The assassin has as yet evaded the pur-
suit of justice.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—As a party of gent'ie.
men were out coursing a few Clays ago in this neigis:oottr-
hood, with a couple of greyhounds, they started a heze, and
after a very severe chase poor puss fell a victim to her pur-
suers. Immediately afterwards another hare jumped up, WA,
singular to relate, one of the dogs started after it, with thy.
dead hare in its mouth, apparently with the seine eligero-„,,,
to make it also its victim ; but atter running a consiti't;ralde
distance, the chase was given up to its companion, bat 'the
hare in this instance outran her pursuers.—lork
LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY COURT.--It is bow de-
finitively determined that the changes which have been ru-
moured in the Liverpool and Manchester Courts will be car-
ried into effect. The report, however, of Mr. Jemmett
ing Manchester is unfounded. Some COMMilllielltioll4 t,„
I and we
ve
been going on between the Lord Chancellor and trio Learned Gentlemen who aro about to change place
have to announce that in the ensuing week :fir. Sergeant
Ludlow will take his seat at the Liver Court, and Mr.
Commissioner Skirrow supplying the Learned Sergeant's
place in Nwhootot: Row !Icstillts to this arrangement has
been manifested by the Learned Protoshion in Manchester.--
Li ropool Standard,

Oh Friday morning, after two days of boister.ous
weather, a heavy fall of snow commenced in the metropolis,
which continued throughout the day. The ground is eo-
vered with snow from four to five inches deep, and the ther-
mometer is very low. Winter has now come in earnest.'
110 T BLAST CASE.—We understand that the pro- ,
ceeaings in this long litigated case were finally settled on
Fritlity hot by compromise—the Messrs. Baird, the last of
the parties with whom an arrangement had to be made with
the patentees, having agreed to pay 100,000/. for the use of
the patent, and a further sum of 6,0004, in name of expenses.
We learn that had the original demand of the patent es,
m
viz., Is. per ton, been acceded to, and had no attepfb en.
made to break the patent, the whole amount to be' paid
would not have exceeded 7,000/. The other parties injo-,.
rested in the case had, previously to the above arrangement,
compromised for ss. a ton.—Ediabaryh Paper.
TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.—The contemplated improve-
ments in this square are, at length, likely to be brought to complts.
tion. The fountains were at first intended to have been supplied
with water from the public companies, but the terms required
were such that the Commissioners of Woods and Forests were' in.
duced to seek other means for effecting that object at a cheAer
rate. In the course of last summer they applied to Meisra.
Easton and Amos, engineers, of the Grove, Southwark, one the
subject, and, after a careful survey, it appears these gentlemen yes.
commended a mode for obtaining the necessary supply by means of
Attesian wells, and which supply they likewise suggested the
practicability of increasing to such a quantity as would be ample,
not only for the fountains, but for all the public offices in the vici-
nity, together with the new Houses of Parliament, and for watering
the roads when necessary ; at the same time they gave estimates
for carrying the proposed works into operation. The Commis-
sioners, after most mature deliberation, determined upon adopting
these suggestions to their fullest extent, and haveguven orders tp
have the works carried Into execution forthwith. The water Is
proposed to be raised by steam power into large iron reservoirs fixed
over the engine-house, which will be sufficiently elevated to give
the necessary pressure, so as to produce the effect desired by Mr.
Barry it) his design for the square. The site selected for the pro.
posed works, and where they are now in progress, is the stone. yard,
Orange.street, Leicester square, at the back of the National
Gallery.
FUNERAL OF SIR FRANCIS AND LADY BURDETT.—
This mournful ceremony took place at Ramsbury, to Wiltshire,
on Wednesday last. The body of the deceased Baronet left town
in a hearse, drawn by six horses, on Monday morning, and rested
the same night at Reading, proceeding on to Hungerford on Tues-
day, where it was joined on Wednesday morning by the difiltrent
members of deceased's family, and those few friends who Were
permitted to pay the last tribute of respect to the memory of the
lamented Baronet by following his remains to the grave. The
cavalcade left Hungerford at ten o'clock on Wednesday morning.
the hearse containing the body of the late Baronet being (hewn
by six horses, and followed hy a mourning coach and four,- con-
veying the chief mourner, Sir Robert Burdett (son of the ds.
ceased); Captain Francis Burdett, and Sedley Burdett, Esq. (Isle
nephews). A mourning coach and four, containing Lord Dudley
Stuart, Otway Cave, Esq., and 'Viscount Sandon. Two otber
mourning coaches, containing Sir Edmund Antrobus. Colosiut
North, the Rev. A. Meyrick, and other personal friends of the
deceased. The late Baronet's private carriage, drawn by four
horses, was succeeded by a long string of carriages belonging to the
gentry of the county. The procession reached Ramsbury at has.
past twelve. While the mourners were alighting, the coffin con.
taining Lady Burdett's remains was brought from the' vests,.
room, where it had been temporarily deposited since the Wednes.
day previous, into the churchyard, and preceded that of Sir Francis
in funeral array, to meet the clergyman. The applications to at-
teed the funeral had been so numerous, that the family decided eta
confining the invitations to their nearest connections and friends.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT LivEarooL.—The 44.7 ed•
Cher at Liverpool for the last few days has been most tetiiitistu-
ous, and such as to render the navigation of the river to the Che-
shire slips not only inconvenient, but extremely dangeroiss," Olt
the arrival of the NVoodside steamer on Wednesday mortfirig,a
gentleman in the Custom-house, of the name if Mackerel, 'being
eager to land, unfortunately jumped short of the pier, 'and from
the oscillation of the steamer then moored to the side of it, Iw
stumbled, when his thigh was absolutely amputated, the severed
limb being retained only by a portion of the outer skin. PLO-Tl't
assistance was rendered, and the sufferer was conveyed to trot.
thern Hospital. The unfortunate gentleman has only been
married nine months, and his wife is now far advancaed,iitdiepnrteg.
nancy. There is hardly a hope that lie can survive the ,
OLDENBURG, J AN. 2 a
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rled the Grand Duke of Oldenburg, May 5, 1831.
MATRI9IONY.-111 the Isle of Man during the past
week, no fewer than three young men have been incarcerated its
Castle Bushell, at the instance of their wives, whom:they had
severally maltreated; all of whom have been married within the
last few months. Two of theta wore rein I'e I 1 :and nice front
Ramsey...slime's Herald.