The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-03 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY,

LONDON, JAN. 3.—Light, N. Westerly breeze and hazy.
YARMOUTH, JAN. '2.—The Sir J. Gordon, from Rouen to
Shields is sunk oh Haisborough ; crew saved.
DEAL, JAN. 2, 6 A.M.-Wind, E.S.E., blowing strong,
with heavy raiz and thick weather. 8, A.M., it veered to
E.N.E., with very heavy snow-squalls, and at 11, A.M. it
moderated and veered to N.W. r. m., moderate, N.W., clear
weather. Early this morning the Achilles, for Bordeaux, lost
anchor and chain, and proceeded for Westward. The Promise,
from Saguenay to London, lost anchor and chain, arid remains
in the Downs. Arrd. James, Ross, New Zealand; George-
town, Demerara ; Premier, West Indies ; Fortune, St. John's,
New Brunswick.

MARGATE, JAN. 2.—The Ocean, Watson, from Sierra
Leone to London, got ashore on the Main, near Kingsgate,
this morning, and is discharging.
DA aTmour to, JAN. 2.—The Pomona, Tomkins, from Lon-
don to St. Helena, put in here yesterday, with loss of bulwarks,
stanchions, sails, rigging, &c., having been struck by a sea,
31st ult., and had one man washed overboard.

PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind N. to N.W., squally.—
Arrd. Toronto, Griswold, New York. Off, M'Leod, Batavia.
PLYMOUTH, JAN. 2.—lt blew a very heavy gale all last
night from W.S. W. to N.W. ; it is now N.N.W., squally.
Dec. 31.—Put back her Majesty's ship Nereus, South America.
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 2.—Wind, N., moderate.—Arrd. Bri-
tannia, Galiatly, Valparaiso, Sept. 14; Glasgow, Meredith,
bemerara; Jasaica, Martin, Quebec. Off, Fairfield, Kath-
leen. A barque is aground on the Dutchman's Bank, near
eauataris. The John, hence to Newfoundland, is aground
near the Bootle Sand Mark.

Mir.Foar, JAN. I.—The John Cumming, from Liverpool
to New York, has put in here leaky, with loss of sails, bulwarks,
&c., and cargo shifted, having been struck by a sea on 22d ult.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS I)AY.)
BiA'TING AT MANCHESTER.
DERBY.-7 to I agst Rattan (taken to 251. )-7 to I agst
Ugly Buck-17 to 1 agst Loadstone-25 to 1 agnt Cockamaroo
—27 to 1 against lonian-30 to I agst Leander (taken to
1001. )-30 to 1 agst Campunero-30 to 1 agst Running Rein
—35 to 1 agst T'Auld Squire (offered)-33 to 1 agst Voltri
(offers to take)-40 to 1 agst Lancet (offered)-50 to 1 agst
Itlarinella colt-50 to I agst Saddlebow-5 to 1 agst Scott's lot.
COURSING.
CLYDESD•LE CLUB MEETING, DEC. 28, 29, AND 30.
The Douglas Stakes were won by Mr. Pollock's Crosshouse—
Lord Eglinton's Duke of Wellington ran up. The Eglinton
Stakes were won by Air. Campbell's Blythswood—Marquis of
Douglas's Crazy ran up. The Lanarkshire Open Cup was won
by Mr. A. Graham's Long•long-ago—Alarquis of Douglas'
Checkmate ran up. The Consolation Stakes were won by
Mr. Geddes's Tam Ritchie—Captain M. Innes' Velocity ran up.
PENKRIDGE MEETING.—The Puppy Cup and Stakes, fur
16 dogs, were won by Air. Best's Molly Bawn ; and the Puppy
Stakes, for 14 dogs, by Mr. Scott's Topper.

FOREIGN SUGAR FROM THE
BRITISH COLONIES.

It is genera.ly known that our enlightened and consistent
Governmeet, although it will not allow the sugars of Brazil
and Cuba to be consumed in the three kingdoms, allows them
to be refined in this country in bond, and to be sent to the
West Indies, to be eaten there by the free negrees and their
employe' s. In consequence of this permission, foreign sugars
retitled in this country are sent out to the West Indies and the
Mauritius almost every day, and along with the refined sugars
there go out also considerable quantifies of bastards, that is, of
the iliferior kinds of sugar, separated from the better parts in
refining. This bastard sugar is in appearance very like unre-
fined sugar, and as the bastards can be bought in Liverpool
for 14,., while the raw West India and Mauritius sugar is
worth 3Cs. per *wt. in this country, there is a great temptation
to mix them ►n the colonies, and to send the mixture to this
country as plantation sugar. We have reason to believe that
this kind of :mud has been pra:dised more than once of late,
especially in a case of which we heard last week, and we do
riot doubt that if the law continues in its present state, it will
become snore common every year. In some descriptions •f
sugar it is scarcely possible to tell the difference between bas-
tard and raw sugar by the eye, so that it is not detected if the
sugar is sold in an unrefined state, though it becomes quite
evident if the attempt is made to refine the mixture, when
the residuum o I the previously refined sugar is easily detected,
as it was in the case which we have mentioned above. —Licer-
my. 7 lints.

Nrw TRICKS IN LONDON.--There are few per-
sons who are acquainted with the streets of the metropolis
but must have occasionally noticed some poor and wretched
object gathering together the contents of a parcel of lucifer
matches, which have fallen from her hands on to the pave-
ment of a crowded thoroughfare. In nine cases out of ten
this is purposely done to excite the sympathies of the passer
bv. It would see•, however, that encouraged by the success
which has attended this system, a desire has been raised to
improve upon the original idea. The vagrant having selected
for her cbjeet a well-dressed, charitable looking person (a
country gentleman with drab gaiters is sure game), places
himself suddenly in his way, and down go the snatches.
The innocent victim of premeditated collision is immediately
surrounded by a host of ragged confederates, who loudly cry
shame. The public take up the part of the "suffering," and
a compromise is entered into by the payment of an amount in
si:ver. This trick is often pet formed by a woman in High
Holborn, who, during the hours of the labourers' dinner,
would represent the wife of one of that class, with some
pieces of *rockery ware and a bottle of greasy water, suspended
in a locket hasdkerehief, acts in a similar manner to that ex-
-4tßapli:ied in the lucifer scheme. Yesterday the match trick
was performed with great success upon the pavement of the
National Gallery, and although at one time there were more
than three parties at work upon this small space, the results
appeared to be highly eneouraging.
I III: 1: RENCII GOVERNMENT AND THE PRINCE
SE •LA ItioseovrA.—The National publishes the following
detaili relative to the fact of the Prince de la sloskovra (Ney)
having resigned his commission in the army, which was stated
in 7/2e San some days since:—“ The Prince de la Moskowa
has been for a long time a chef d'escadron (major of cavalry),
irnpat•ernly waiting for promotion ; ho tendered his resignation
several months since to the Minister at War, who induced him
to change his resolution by assuring him that in a short time he
would be promoted. The period specified having expired, the
Prince waited on Marshal ."eoult, and asked him if he had
forgotten his promise. The Marshal replied, that it was
his anxious wish to have performed it; and he added, that
nothing could have given him greater pleasure than to have
proved to the son of Ney that he was not unmindful of the
friendship which existed between him and his old comrade.
He had given his word, and he wished to observe it, but
an invincible oLstaele held the Minister's hand. The
Prince de la Moskovi a took the first opportunity to complain to
the Duke de Nem::urs, who replied, that it was impossible to
promote those who gave a systematic Opposition to the Go-
vernment. We should have perfectly understood the mode of
reasoning had the Duke de Nemours declared, ' You com-
mand very much at your ease in the Chaliber of Peers, at the
Jockey Club, or behind a piano ; your comrades perform their
duty, which is often a painful one, in garrison towns ; you do
not sutler any of the fatigues of your profession, and you de-
ceive yourself if you imagine that your name or your rank of
Peer of France, gives you a right to promotion which you do
not deserve.' And it belonged to the Minister o f War, and
not to the Duke de Nemours, to distinguish between those
who served and those who did not. Instead of that, the Mi-
nister induces the Prince to retain his commission. He
makes a promise, and it is the Duke de Nemours who inter-
feres between the Minister and his subaltern. What, there-
iore, must the army think, when it finds that it is not its legal
Chief which it is bound to obey, but a Prince upon whom the
Charter has conferred no power ?"
BRIGIITON, TUESDAY.—On Sunday night we were
visited with a tremendous hurricane, which lasted until the
following morning. A number of large fishing-boats have
within the last few days been fitted out to proceed to Plymouth
to commence the mackerel fishery ; fortunately they had not
started. The wind has done considerable damage to houses
in exposed situations, and it is feared that disasters have
occurred at sea. About ten o'clock yesterday morning the
wind lulled, and was succeeded by a fall of snow, the first we
have had here this winter.

A very extensive fire broke out on the premises of
Mr. Brown, clothier, Bute-street, Cardiff, on Thursday, the
21st ult., which destroyed property to the amount of 8,0001.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE--WEDNESDAY.
The supply of English Wheat was very moderate,
while we have to report a steady demand for it, at prices
fully equal to those obtained on Monday. 3',•ee Foreign
Wheat moved off slowly, at late rates. In Barley, a fair
business was doing, and its value was well supported.
Malt was quite as. dear, with a small quantity on offer.
Oats, and all other grain, as last advised.
ARRIVALS.
Birley. I Oats. F!our
5,750 qrs. 893 grt. 1,780 sacks.
I

Wheat.
'English 1,210 qra.
Irish
Foreign 440

Malt, 2,F90 qrs.
Our market was, on the whole, well supplied w....
Meat, yet the demand,: arising from the favourable
change in the weather. was active, on the following
terms :—Beef from 2s 6d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 2d to
4s 4d ; Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; and Pork, 3s to 4s 6d per
Sibs.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A large amount of business was done yesterday, in the Li-
verpool Cotton Market, and prices were gradually improving
The sales were 10,000 bales, including 3,000 American ion
speculation. The transactions consisted of 500 Bahia, at 6d
to bid ; 300 Egyptian at 6id to 7d ; 2,000 Surat at 31d to 40,
and the rest American at 4:14d to 7d per lb.—The share market
was firm, with an upward tendency and a good business.
Eastern Counties were 10% ; Manchester and Birmingham
39k ; North Midland 90; Paris and Rouen 33% ; South
Eastern 36%, and Paris and Lions 3*.
h is certainly to be regretted that the affairs of the Colonial
Bank—as appeared by the proceedings yesterday at the half-
yearly General Court—show such an unsatisfactory result. It
is too true that the Bank, and its branches, have lost largely;
but at the same time it ought to be borne in mind
that, in all new and extensive establishments such
as this—where a new field is opened for monetary transactions,
difficulties and losses to a certain extent must, and always
will, arise. A sound principle of banking, upon the authority
of Mr. Gurney, a man of some weight in such matters,
has been established, but errors will creep in, even
in the best regulated concerns. At the same time
it cannot be denied that the Bank is in a sound
condition. The Auditor stated at the meeting held yesterday,
that every claimant upon the Corporation could be paid off as
rapidly as the clerks were enabled to make the entries.
In our opinion the Shareholders assembled came to a wise
determination, in placing confidence in the Court
of Directors, and it cannot be doubted hat had that confidence
begn withheld, the Company would have been broken up,
which would have produced losses to many who could ill afford
to bear them.
We have, on a previous occasion, referred to the frauds in the
tobacco trade. A Circular now before us on this subject remarks :
—" Deputations of the trade have had an interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to a reduction of the
duty ; but we think it may be inferred, from what transpired,
that it is not in the contemplation of Government to make any
reduction. Certain inquiries are being made by persons con-
nected with the Excise, which lead us to the supposition
that an alteration in the law is in contemplation." We
hope so, and so do all the fair and honest traders in the leaf
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
There are not any later accounts from the Colonies to-day.
Some additional letters have come to hand from Sydney, but
their contents only tend to confirm the previous advices of the
losses and ruin that have resulted from commercial speculations
in that quarter of the world. Many men who were rich ten
years since in the Sydney trade are now reduced to poverty.
The system of long credits has proved to be a losing concern.
The Commissioners purchased about the usual amount to-
day in the Three per Cents. Reduced, at 98. The price is
now a fraction lower. Bank Stock has advanced to 186,
though now slightly lower. The premium upon Exchequer
Bills is up to 70s. India Bonds are worth 78s. premium.
Not much variation has taken place in the Foreign Market
to•day. The price of Spanish Bonds has fluctuated from 301
to 30i. The fluctuations in the other Foreign Bonds were but
slight.
Most of the Railway Shares have advanced to-day. The
annexed list will give the rise in prices as compared with those
of yesterday :
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From Me Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9B 97ii
3i per Cent. Reduced Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 12,1
India Bonds, 1,000
Ditto under 1,000 7B
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills, lid. 14d.
10001.
5001.
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent... ....... 32iii
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Deferred Stook 9i
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account ... .l3i 44
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 22iiii*
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 30884J
Dutch 21,- per Cent
Ditto for the Account s4*
Dutch 5 per Cent. ... lOO
Ditto for the AcCount
PRICES OF SHARES TIIIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
6irmingham and Gloucester 100
Bristol and Exeter 7O ..... 66i 651 to 67
Eastern Counties
Ditto Scrip .. B/. 6s. &I.
Do. New Registered to
Edinburgh and Glasgow
3reat North of England ........100
Great Western
Dittn Fifths
Hull and Selby 5O ..,... 61* to
Ditto * Shares ...
London and Brighton ...... -. 50 ..,... 44
London and Blackwell
London and Birmingham ...100

Ditto A Shares
London and Greenwich
London and South Western ... 41% ... .. 76* to
London and Croydon ( Trunk)... 131 141.- to
Mancheater and Leeds ...... ...... 70
Ditto * Shares
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Midland Counties ..100
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. lb ...... 29
Northern and Eastern
North Midland lOO 904 to 91
Ditto 6 Shares
Ditto Third• 2ll. 13s. 4d. 291- to 301
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen .. .... • ..... 20
South Eastern and Dover
Ditto Scrip... ......... ...
Yarmouth and Norwich

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Union of Australia.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...........2 U. 12 7i Genoa . 26 5
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 14 0 Venice ... 47
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 75 IParermo, per oz 118
Ditto, 3 months 25 95 ,1 isbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 5 ißio Janeiro 23
Frankfort on Mahie ...122 Illahia
Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 36i ißuenos Ayres ......
Berlin
Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M lO 0 'Philadelphia
I I
Tri:ste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville .
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 2.—We have still a
good demand for Railways generally at improving prices, with
the exception of Sheffield and Manchester, which are freely of-
fered. Our quotations are :—Eastern Counties, Scrip, 13
1-16th ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 58i ; Ditto, Quarters, 14A ;
London and Brighton, 43; Sheffield and Manchester, 53t,
and 54 cum interest; Trent and Mersey, 500 ex div.

THE MEDICAL TIMES ALMANAC

FOR 1844.

The " Medical Times Almanac" is another of the, many
publications of this kind addressed to a particular class of the
community. The medical profession in all its branches will
here find accumulated an immense mass of information not
readily accessible in any other form, or scattered through a
great number of authorities. This is given in addition to the
usual contents of an almanac, and consists of a List of the Royal
College of Physicians, of the College of Surgeons, of the So-
ciety of Apothecaries, of the officers of all the Hospitals and
Medical Schools, as well as of the Provincial llospitals, and
those of the officers, and days of meeting of the Metropolitan
Medical and Scientific Societies. A great deal of medical
information as to the symptoms and treatment of various
diseases is also brought together in a well-arranged digest, with
a valuable anal} sis of the composition of many of tie most
generally used patent medicines. The work is well got up, is
very cheap, and desen es the patronage of all the profession.

BOILER EXPLOSION.—SEVERALPERSONS SERIOUSLY
INJURED.-Yesterday morning, at about ten minutes before
nine o'clock, an accident, which occasioned the greatest alarm
in the vicinity of the upper part of the Commercial-road, St.
George's-in-the-East, took place at the extensive manufactory
belonging to Messrs. Johnson and Co., cigar and tobacco
dealers, situate in Gloucester-street, near Cannon-street gate,
by the explosion of a steam-boiler of 25-horse power used in
the factory. The premises are considered to be one of the
largest cigar.manufactories in and around the metropolis. It
was joined by a large building almost of the same height, used
for drying purposes, and adjoining was the engine and boiler
house where the explosion took place. At the time mentioned
it appears that one of the firm was about to enter the drying-
room, when a tremendous report was heard, which shook the
buildings and surrounding property to a surprising extent,
and the next moment it was followed by heavy crashes,
sending forth dense clouds of steam and dust. Unfortu-
nately most of the work-people, amounting to nearly fifty,
were at work on different floors, and, fearing that the fac-
tory had caught fire, a rush was made to effect an escape.
Those on the basement floor escaped easily by the regular
' entrance, but those on the uppermost stories, suspectirg the
flames were ascending, forced their way through the windows,
and jumped into the street; while others lowered themselves
down by the side of the spout. Most of these, we regret to
say, were more OT less bruised, and five sustained such serious
injuries that their immediate removal to the London Hospital
was deemed necessary. As soon as the temporary alarm had
in some way subsided, it was discovered that the boiler, which
worked an engine of twenty horse-power, had exploded, occa-
sioning this most serious destruction. Thei boiler was blown a
considerable distance from its original situation. The roof and
nearly the whole of the floors of the drying house ( which was
overstocked with cigars and tobacco), were hurled to the
ground, nothing, in fact, remaining ol the building but the
outer walls. Considerable damage is also done to the case
house, and also the factory walls. The accident is stated to
have occurred through the negligence of the engineer, in not
seeing that the boiler was properly supplied with water. The
firm informed the authorities of the brigade force, that the
amouirt of damage done was at least one thousand pounds.
They are insured in the Sun Fire-office, but the property hav-
ing
been lost by en explosion, and not from fire the office is
not liable to make good the loss,

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A
CLERGYMAN AND A BUTCHER.
ROCHESTER, Ja x. I.—This day the Rev. Henry Winter,
chaplain to the Fortitude convict-ship, together with Mr'
George Bassett, army butcher, residing in the High-street m,
Chatham, appeared before the Rev. George Davis, Writ,
William Glaadish, Esq., James Smith, Esq., and Jacob Geo:ge
Bryant, Esq., county magistrates, to answer informations,
charging them with disposing of a heifer on the 25th of N°'
vember last, being unfit for food of man.
David Harden, the first witness, deposed that he wats
butcher, residing at New Brompton, near Chatham. Tue
Rev. Mr. Winter resides on board the convict-ship off Chat'
ham Dock-yard, and also occupies a farm opposite to his WV,
also another farm near the Hook and Hatchet, in Chatham
parish. The reverend defendant has had several heifers dieof
a disease called the murra'n," which he had heard had been
sold. The cattle were kept in a barn on the farm. About
half-past seven o'clock in the morning of the 25th of November
he saw one of the heifers lying dead and stiff in the little lodge
called Mr. Winter's Hospital. There was a snmll cut at the
neck, but the beast never bled an ounce, and was in a dreadful
state. A man named John Harrell, a butcher, opened tit°
animal and dressed it, which he saw the man do whilst standing
at his own door. The entrails were in a most dreadful and
ulcerated state. The flesh appeared white and sickly. int°
heifer remained hanging up in the lodge until about to°
o'clock in the afternoon, when it was removed into a cart 0,
Mr. 'Winter's, and driven by a servant of his to Mr. Bassett's,
the butcher, at Chatham.

John Hurrell, butcher, Brompton, said, that on the 2514
November last he went to Mr. Winter's farm to take a hide
off a heifer at eight o'clock in the morning. The bullock W 0
stiff, and had been dead about two hours. It had not been
slaughtered. Its death, he should think, was caused by 0
inflammation of the lungs. The lungs and heart were r°
heavy that he could hardly lift them. The reverend defendant
saw them, and looked at the carcass. Upon the 25th of 11°'
vember, he dressed a heifer which had died of the disease.
Cannot tell what went of the flesh. Both the beasts were in
an awful state ; their insides particularly. As a butcher, be
should say they were not fit to be sold for any shop. 1110,
meat was not fit for human food. Both carcasses he dressed
to the best advantage.
John Morgan, head servant to the Rev, Mr. Winter, pro'
that he cut up the carcass of the heifer into four quarters, so
put them into his master's cart, and drove it to Mr. Bassett%
the butcher, by his master's desire. On the arrival of the
cart at the house of Mr. Bassett, Mr. Bassett came into the
street and looked at the meat. He said that he thought be
could not do anything with it. Afterwards Mr. Bassett sent
his young man for it, and it was taken into the slaughter'
house. The hide of the beast went with it. His master hite
had five bullocks die of the complaint.
The Court being informed by the clerk that some very ill'',
portant witnesses were prevented. attending this day, adjourned
the investigation until the next sitting. From the known
respectability of the defendants, the magistrates bound theta
over in their own recognisances in the sum of 40/. each to
appear on Friday next.

THE POACHERS UNDER SEN-
TENCE OF DEATH.
Although we are not of the- number of those who consider
the infliction of the last penalty of the law to be either unje4
or inexpedient in cases of murder, yet we cannot refrain from
expressing a hope that the awful punishment of death will got
he inflicte on all the wretched men convicted of the murder
of Lord Derby's gamekeeper. They are all, it is true, squall'
guilty in the eye of the law, and those of them who did not 6,r
the fatal shot are only a shade less guilty, even viewing the
subject morally, than he who did ; but there is a shade of diP
ference in their cases, and we trust that whilst none of them ell
allowed to escape without severe punishment, the last peat,'
of the law will only be inflicted on him who was the reurderet
in act as well as in intention.

It is not merely on the ground of humanity, but also on tbSt
of policy, that we consider that it would not be desirable to ii
ilia the punishment of;death on the whole of these five met
The difficulty of inducing juries to convict in such cases
already very great, and if they should all be punished with
death, their execution will produce a feeling of horror in 01
public mind which will give impunity to succeeding gangs !,
poachers
.for a considerable time, whatever crimes they in°,
commit. We well remember attending the trial of twelve 0r
fourteen poachers at the York assizes, several years ago, "sheev
hanging was much more in fashion than it is now. They were
all charged with having murdered one of the gamekeepey
of Sir George Armytage, of Kirklees-hall, near lior
dersfield, and all of whom were by the clearest el
dente shown to have been present at the affray in whiff:
he was killed. After the case had been brougll
home to every one of the prisoners, and after the Judge bad
laid down the law declaring that all present at the affray s°
resisting the gamekeepers, were equally guilty with the j 350
who beat out his brains with the butt end of his gun, the
retired, and after remaining out of Court the greater part 0
the night, came back and declared the whole of the prisoner*
Not Guilty. This verdict was given in direct defiance of the
evidence, and it was the general opinion in Court that tt
would never have been returned if it had not been known that
the Judge was a stern and inflexible man, quite capable
leaving every one of the prisoners to be hung if they were
convicted. The more humane spirit in which the law has been
administered for the last dozen years has greatly diminished
this unwillingness to convict, but anything like a wholessl:
hanging will revive it with a greater force than ever, and
render it, if not impossible, at least most difficult to conviv
in luture.—Liverpool Times.

ST. PANCRAS BOARD OF DIRECTORS All
GUARDIANS.—INSUFFICIIENT Dl;AlNAGY.—Yesterday,
the meeting of the Directors and Guardians of the Poor of St-
Pancras, held at the workhousts in the King's-road • Air't
Wright in the chair, Mr. Curtis, one of the medical officers 0'
the north division of the parish, waited upon the Board for the
purpose of laying before them the alarming amount of feet
prevailing in certain portions of his district, on account of
sufficient and improper drainage. He said that in Ferdinann
street, the want of drainage was so great, that the water, Ste'''
lay in stagnant pools, from which a most noxious and dangerone
effluvium arose, and the result was, that there were no less thlo/
thirteen houses in that street alone infected with fever. He
had been applied to by some of the inhabitants, and had gi/e:
a certificate as to the dangerous state of the locality through
want of proper drainage, which he understood was about to
he laid before the Poor-law Commissioners. Mr. Church'
_
warden Howarth said that Kentish-town possessed a local Au'
and the Commissioners were bound, by Act of Parliament, to
carry out, throughout the district, a proper drainage. Mr'
Douglas thought that the medical officers of the Board bola
made such a Report, they were in duty bound to call the atter
Lion of the Kentish-town Commissioners to the state of the
drainage of that district. It was ultimately resolved that the
clerk should forthwith call the attention of the Kentish-tonn
Commissioners to the state of drainage in that district. The
Board, alter some other business, separated.
PREVIOUS OCCUPATIONS OF CELEBRATED Vol
canisos.—Rubini was a tailor, Tamburini, a courier, Naltnt
an advocate. We believe he had the misfortune to a kill n
man in a duel, and was obliged to leave the State in which b'
practised. He was a clever amateur in music, which he after,
wards made his profession. The manner of his death is Well
known. Viewing a steam cooking apparatus in Garcia's (Ms.:
labran's father's) kitchen in Paris, the boiler burst, and he WV
killed on the spot. Tramezzani was a surgeon, so was Fa'
rani ; Templeton was a,printer, and so was Wilson, the " Scot"
tish Minstrel." Machin was a japanner in Birmingham, pear
sail the same ; Pyne, a poulterer ; Weyman (a celebrated base
at St. Patrick's, Dublin), a shoemaker; ditto, Tlnney; dittos
Shoubridge. The celebrated Bente was the daughter of a boat"
man, and sang in the streets. Champneys, whose name a?'
pears in the old editions of Handel's songs, kept an iron'
monger's shop in Tethill-street, Westminster. He was the
leading singer of his time, and came to the rehearsal for the
great festival in Westminster Abbey with his white apron on.
He was also lay vicar of the abbey.—Ten Towns Messenger.
SINGULAR CREDULlTY.—Yesterday the following
singular instance of gross superstition and credulity, tn°l
place at the Brentford Petty Sessions :—A female of respect-
able appearance, residing at Heston, near Hounslow, suite
mooed another female, residing in the same village, before
Messrs. Pownall and Armstrong, the sitting Magistrates, for
an assault and using abusive language. In the course of the
examination it appeared that the cause of the quarrel between
the 'parties arose under the following circumstances. A fenf
days since half-a-sovereign, belonging to the defendant, WI
stolen from a drawer in her house, without her being able t°
obtain the slightest clue to the person by whom it had hee°
stolen, or to the mode in which the robbery had been cony
mitted, and she in consequence went all the way from Heston
to the Mile-end-road, a distance of sixteen miles, and batic,
again, for the purpose of consulting a noted " cunning mans
or fortune-teller, whom having made acquainted with the or:
cumstances, he proceeded to describe a person as the thief vslw
much resembled the complainant; -whom on her return, she
began to abuse, which terminated in the assault. The Berle'
fined the defendant 10s. and costs, and advised her again to g°
to the " cunning man," who had got her into the difficulty'
and persuade him to pay the money for her, at the tame time
expressing their astonishment that such superstitious ignorance
should still exist so near to the metropolis.
FALL OF SNOW IN THE COUNTRY.—SO deep vas
the fall of snow yesterday morning in the country, that
the Dover train, which left Folkestone at seven o'clock,
was fifty-six minutes behind time in reaching Ashford, a dis-
tance of only 15 miles. According to the guard's statement it
appears that the snow was in some places 18 inches deep ee
the metal, and completely solid from the severity of the frost'
It was ten minutes to twelve before the train arrived in London'
Tim DUKE OF BORDEAUX.—On Sunday morn'
fog, after attending mass at the Roman Catholic chapel, at
Stonehouse, near Plymouth, his Royal Highness the
Duke de Bordeaux, travelling under the title of Count
de Chambord, embarked in the barge of the Con'
mander-in. Chief, Admiral Sir D. Milne, Bart., and went'
on board thu Sylph tender. His Royal Highness then pro'
evaded to the breakwater, and, after inspecting that great
national work, returned into the harbour, and went nn
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shown to foreign Noblemen of distinction have been paid 14
the authorities to the Royal Duke.
INCREASE OF TIIE DUTIEI ON BRITISH GOODS 114
BRA ZlL.—Advices have just been received from Rio to the
31 s t of October, from 'which we learn that the Brazilian Go'
vernment has adopted a course with regard to several kinds'
of British goods imported into that country, which will We
tesy departments
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the effect of raising the amount of duties to which they are
liable immediately, and that, as It believes, without any breach
of the terms of the treaty, and consequently without creating
any right of complaint on the part of this country. Accordins
to the treaty between England and Brazil, as originally agree
upon, British goods were to be admitted into the Brazilian
empire at an ad valorunt duty of 15 per cent., which
rate of duty was afterwards raised by mutual agreement t°
20 per cent. These terms the Brazilians were very anxious
to have changed in November, 1842, but to this
the Eng"
lish Government would not consent, and they therefore
agreed, though with a very bad grace, that the present rate'
of duty should remain unchanged until November, j€l4'.
They have since, however, discovered that an ad valerel
duty may be effectually raised by increasing the valuation °
the goods taxed, as by increasing the per centage raised uP°l
them, and have therefore greatly increased the valuation e_
British goods of several kinds. In some- cases the increase Is
10 per cent. on the old valuation, in others 20, in others 3°, '
in some 50, and in one or two 75 per cent. ! This is exactly
the tame thing in effect as if the rate of duty had been
creased from 20 per cent, ad valorem to 22, 24, 26, 30, and':
per cent. Whether this is or is not a breach of the treaty We
do not pretend to say, but it is evident that it is precise',
the same thing so far as the commerce of this country It
concerned. Amongst the articles thus subjected to anew an
increased valuation are flannels, barragon4, boots and shoes,
several descriptions of cottons and of silks, cassimeres, vat"
fished hats, cutlery, steel, Irish linens, gunpowder, and seve-
ral kinds of woollen goods, We shall next week give a
list of the articles whose valuation is charged, showing the et"
tent of the increase on each article.— Lierpool Times.
The health of the venerable Earl Grey continues
much the same within the last few days, his Lordship's disease
partaking of no further dangerous symptoms, neither is he 5°
favourably held as to give hopes of any permanent improve-
men"' Tine Mercury.