The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18 1844.

brutal scene, much of the glories of which depended
upon chance and accident,' Mr. O'Connell is more !
gracious in his concessions to them than they could
have anticipated. And they, in their turn, have pro-
mised to send detachments from their body into va-
rious parts of England for the purpose of beating up
for recruits to his cause. Mr. O'Connell's chief
reliance is said to be on that section of the Pro-
testants of Ireland who are supposed to be discon-
tented with the Government, who are prepared, it
is affirmed, to avenge themselves upon Sir Robert
Peel, by joining the " repeal conspiracy." We have
not been made acquainted officially with the specific
grievances they allege ; but if the rumour be
well founded, that any considerable number of
them intend to volunteer their adhesion to Mr.
O'Connell, we can only express our belief that they
will realise to its fullest extent the truth of the
old proverb, that it is no sign of a man's wisdom
for him to cut off his nose in order to be revenged
upon his face. They have had too much experience
of the value of Mr. O'Connell's promises to place an:-
faith in them, and inasmuch as he refers to past ex-
perience, they must know perfectly well that every
syllable he advances is untrue.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Btb of Vic-
toria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the
12th day of October,lB44.
ISSUE DEP

'ARTMENT.

Notes issued ... 27,838,085

'Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin and
bullion
,Silver bullion

.£27,838,0851
M. MA
Dated the 17th day of Oct

£27,838,085
.RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
tober, 1844.

BANKING D:
X.

:PARTMENT.

Proprietors' capi-
tal 14,553,000
Rest 3,059,645
Public deposits
(including E x-
quer,savings'
banks, Commis-
sioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
dividend ac-
counts) 8,147,290
Other deposits
Seven day and
other bills 1,107,985

Government secu-
rities (includ-
ingDeadWeight
Annuity) 16,352,834
Other securities 10,5`28,785
Notes
Gold and silver
coin

£35,098,5931

M. MA
Dated the 17th day of Ocl

£35,098,593
lISHALL, Chief Cashier.
ober, 1844.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

The following is substituted for that which was in-
serted in the Gazette of the Bth instant:—
WHITEHALL, OCT. 8, 1844.
The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Rev.
Christopher Wordsworth, the younger, D.D., the place
and dignity of a Canon of the collegiate church of St.
Peter, Westminster, void by the death of the Rev.
Doctor Henry Vincent Bayley.

vately at 23s 6d to 24s per cwt. East India Molasses at
14s to 16s per cwt. The low rates that prevail check
shipments from Calcutta and Madras. For Honey prices
are on the advance.

COCOA.—The market is still scantily supplied with
West India, although a large parcel of Trinidad has
arrived ; 10 brls of St. Vincent at auction fetched 365,
and very low red 30s per cwt. The market for Foreign
has a firm appearance, and the stock is on the decrease.
Ricz.—lmporters of Bengal supply the market
sparingly, and none has again been offered at auction;
there are many purchasers, and they have been com-
pelled to pay 11s 6d to 12s for middling and good middling
white, and 12s 6d per cwt for good. To-day former
rates were fully supported for Bengal Rice 250 bags
good middling white rather dusty at public sale were
sold at 125 per cwt.
COFFEE.—The stock here is large of all descriptions
of Coffee, and in nearly every instance much more than
it was last year at this period. Although there are sel-
lers of West India upon further reduced terms, still the
home trade have purchased with much caution, and the
few parcels disposed of privately are much under the
rates that prevailed three months back: the second
hand holders are decidedly desirous to reduce their
stocks, on account of the cheapness of other sorts of
Coffee. This afternoon there was no public sale of any
kind of Coffee, and the amount of business transacted by
private treaty was extremely limited by shippers and the
home trade; Ms to 52s is the value of good ordinary
Ceylon.
TEA.—To-day the biddings were very languid at the
public sales of Tea, and the quantity actually disposed
of was small, only 2,600 finding buyers out of 16,900
packages gone through. Several merchants, however,
were not disposed to submit to lower rates, and
again bought in, and withdrew large parcels ; those that
were disposed to realise accepted. prices id to id
under those of the last public sales for Congou, and id
to 4d per lb for Twankay. Common Congou sold at
10d to 100, Twankay ordinary Is lid to is I,N per lb.
The total quantity passed the sales to this afternoon is
33,400 packages, only 4,050 of which were sold.
SPICES.—This afternoon a large parcel of Cassia
Lignea sold at a decline on former rates of Is per cwt,
ordinary course large bundless went at 49s 6d to 50s,
good ordinary 50s 6d to 51s, middling Ms to 54s 6d,
good middling 55s 6d, good 58s 6d to 595; small bUndles
sold as follows—low mid 54s 6d to 555, mid 56s 6d,
good mid 58s 6d to 59s 6d, good thin quill 61s to
61s 6d, ordinary coarse 51s 6d to 525, mouldy went at
46s to 525, broken ends 52s to 53s 6d, loose and broken
47s Gd to 48s 6d.-661 bags of good light but rather
stalky Sumatra Pepper only partly sold at 2id to 21
per lb, being the full value.-9 cases of Batavia Nut-
megs at the high duty sold rather higher, bold
brown 3s 6d to 3s 7d, and small 2s 8d to 2s lld

12 bags Pimento 4-id for middling. 139 bags of white
Pepper went at 5d for middling, being rather higher.
143 bags of African Ginger 46s 6d to 475, and one lot
62s per cwt ; 10 brls of Jamaica 716 d to 91 lOs for good
to fine bold white ; 150 tins 6 casks of good and fine
Cayenne Pepper sold at is to 2s per lb.
Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDEL—There has been a
good demand for Jamaica Rum, and very full rates have
been paid ; the sales amount to 300 puns, fair quality 28
to 34 per cent over proof at 4s to 4s 4:1, fine 32 to 36
over 4s lld to ss, and superior 5s 6d to 6s per gallon.
Leewards are not much wanted for the present ;
holders are not su firm, and submitted to a reduc-
tion on former rates of id to ld per gallon ; the
quantity sold is only 100 puns at 2s 4d to 2s 4id proof
strength. Demerara fetched 3s 6d to 3s 7d for 32 to 37
per cent P.P. Calcutta 2s 3d proof for some parcels.
The arrivals of all sorts of Rum are small since this day
week, deliveries large. Prices firm for Brandy : Cognac,
best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s Id, puns 4s
lid ; 1839, hbds 4s Ild, puns 4s 8d ; 1840, hhds 4s
10d, puns 4s 8d ; 1941, hbds 4s 9d, puns 4s 7d ; 1842,
hhds 4s 6d, puns 4s 4d, low 3s to 3s 3d, and mid 3s 4d
to 3s 10d per gallon. Geneva Is 9d to is 10d per gallon.
For English Corn Spirits prices are still sustained.
SALTPETRE.—This afternoon Rough met with atten-
tion, and 200 bags of Calcutta, at public sale, 10i per
cent refraction mid grey fetched 25s to 25s 6d, being the
former value.

SAGO.—The demand is improving, and holders mani-
fest firmness ; none has been offered at public sale ; by
private contract common small pearl has been selling at
125 to 13s, middling I4s to 16s, good middling and good
17s to 19s, and fine 20s to 235. Arrow-root i 3 still
abunt, and the supply is more than sufficient for the de-
mand ; 424 packages at auction went at 54d fur St.
Vincent, and Is per lb for Bermuda.
COCHINEAL.--This afternoon at public sale 270 bags
of Honduras, and 202 bags of Mexican Cochineal were
brought to public sale, and went at a reduction on former
rates of Id to 2d per lb, Honduras low to fine bold silvers
sold at 4s 2d to 4s I Id, Mexican black 4s 5d to 4s Bd,
and silvers 4s 3d to 4s 4d per lb. No black Honduras in
the sales.

INDIGO.—The quarterly sale of East India was brought
to a close this day. The quantity declared was 12,251
chests. The demand for Kurpahs and Madras was brisk,
the ordinary sorts sold at July sale's prices, and the good
and fine at 3d discount.
OlLS.—There has been less demand for common de-
scriptions of Fish Oils this week, and for Seal and Cod
rather lower rates have been accepted, the former being
disposed of at 3515 s to 351 lOs for Pale, the latter at 33/
to 33/10s; Southern, however, has sustained the former
currency, and is fetching 28/10s to 33110 s per tun for low
to fine quality. A large parcel of Southern is declared
for public competition. Sperm 901 to 921 per tun for
fine British. For Linseed Oil 23s 6d to 24s per Cwt.
have been accepted for small parcels on the spot,
these rates are 7s to 7s 63 per cwt lower than at
this period last year. Rape Oil is firm in price,
Pale at 36s to 36s 6d, and brown 35s to 35s 6d per cwt.
Cocoa Nut Oil at 27s 6d to 29s 6d per cwt. Palm at 26s
to 27s per cwt. Olive-441 to 45/ is the value of Galli-
poli ; 4l/ to 43/ for Spanish; and 391 to 40/ per ton for
Barbary, being much the same as last year at this
period. American Lard Oil 42/ to 421 103 per tun.
TALLow.—This afternoon at public sale 129 casks new
South Wales Tallow were sold at 40s 6d to 43s 6d, 49
Knapsacks of Cape 41s 6d to 425, 21 casks East India
41s, and 383 packages South American at 333 to 39s 9d
per cwt.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.

MURDER IN THE STRAND.—A young man, who
gave his name Thomas Stokes, but which our reporter
was given to understand was not his real name, tra-
veller to a lace-manufacturer at Honiton, was brought
up before Mr. Hall, charged with the wilful murder
of Obediah Garrett.
Mr. Robinson appeared for the prisoner.
Charles Fox was the first witness examined, and
he stated that he was .a warehouseman in the service
of Messrs.' Harvey and Co., silversmiths, in the
Strand: On the Ist of September last, at about nine
o'clock in the evening, he saw the prisoner standing
against the wall of Mr. Harvey's house, in Durham-
street. Witness told him to go a little lower down ;
and he (prisoner) said, " What have you to do with
it ?" The witness then went up the yard to fetch
the shutters for Messrs. Harvey's shop, and on his
return he saw the prisoner talking to the deceased.
as you.
The prisoner threw himself into a fighting attitude,
and said to the deceas "
Witness did not hear theed, " I would do for twenty-
five such -
deceased make any reply. The deceased came to-
wards witness, in the direction of the Salisbury Arms
public-house. The prisoner followed him, and laid
hold of his collar. He wanted the deceased to go
into the public-house, but the deceased said, " I will
have nothing to do with you." The prisoner then let
go the deceased, and said, "Come, will you fight ?" The
deceased replied, " No, I will not have anything to do
with you; if there was a policeman here I would give
you in carge for committing a nuisance." The pri-
soner and the deceased were then standing on the
steps leading to the Salisbury Arms. The prisoner
seized the deceased with both hands by the collar,
and threw him violently down backwards, and fell on
the top of him. The prisoner said to the deceased,
"There, what do you think of that?" and he went into
the Salisbury Arms. The deceased was then lying
on the ground, and witness went and picked him up.
He was quite insensible. 'Witness bathed his temples,
and he came round a little, and said, " I am dying,"
and pointed to where the prisoner had gone. Witness
carried him into Messrs. Harvey's house, and he
became quite insensible. lie died on Wednesday
afternoon.

Mr. George Powell, residing at No. 2, Durham.
street, corroborated the testimony of this witness.
Mr. Skegg, surgeon, residing in the Strand, stated
that he had attended the deceased since the accident.
He died on Wednesday afternoon. The cause of
death was concussion of the brain. The blow which
he received in the scuffle with the prisoner was suffi-
cient to cause the concussion. The deceased appeared
to be a delicate young man.
Elizabeth Garrett, the mother of the deceased, was
called to prove his name. She stated that he was 28
years of age.
Mr Robinson said the prisoner would reserve his
defence until his trial.
The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate to
take his trial for the wilful murder.

CLERKEIV WELL.
A great portion of the time of the court was yes-
terday occupied in inquiring into the case in which
two men, named John Terne and Thomas Triggey,
were charged with obtaining money on false pre-
tences from Anne Griffiths, the wife of a labourer,
living in Somers-buildings, Somers-town, the par-
ticulars of which appeared in Monday's Sun.
Mr. GREENWOOD' who took the greatest pains to
sift the affair to the bottom, said the prosecutrix was
just the kind of person upon whom designing persons
would soonest fasten. He would commit the prisoners
for trial to the Old Bailey.—They were committed
accordingly.
We are requested to acknowledge the receipt of
los. by the magistrate, from P., for the prosecutrix in
the above case, which has been banded over to her.

DEATH FROM DRINKING.—MF. Wakley held yes-
terday an inquest on the body of a lady who had been
found dead in her house at Hammersmith, where she
lived by herself. Her husband, a surgeon, said, that
soon after their marriage he had found her dreadfully
addicted to drinking, and they had in consequence sepa-
rated. A girl, who had been her only attendant for
some time, said she was constantly drinking spirits, and
would send out for a quartern perhaps a dozen times a
day! The Coroner observed that the husband should
have put her under restraint, as the unfortunate woman
was evidently del tinged. The verdict was, " Died from
exceasiv• drinking ..)f ardent spirits."

FREE TRADE and AGRICULTURAL
DISTRESS.

On Wednesday, a public meeting took place at High--
worth, " for the purpose of taking into consideration
the distress of the working classes, and to discuss the
benefits likely to arise if the trade in corn and other
provisions were free." The Etrl of Radnor, whose seat
is about two miles from the town, was requested to
take the chair ; and Mr. Falvey, one of the lecturers of
the Anti-Corn-law League, arrived a short time prior to
the commencement of the meeting, to assist in the pro-
ceedings. The place appointed for the meeting was a
field near the town, called Bear Barn-close, and three
waggons, placed side by side, formed the platform for
the speakers, with no shelter overhead, though the.
weather was wet. _ _ .

At two o'clock, about 700 persons had collected in the
field ; some of them small farmers, chiefly tenants of
Lord Radnor, and the rest consisting of the townspeople
and a considerable number of agricultural labourers.
The market day had been selected for holding the
meeting. At a few minutes after two, the Earl of
Radnor, accompanied by Mr. Edridge, Mr. J. Crowdy,
Mr. Falvey, and one or two other gentlemen, ascended
the platform, and the Noble Earl took the chair.
The Earl of RADNOR, in opening the basiness of the
day, observed that he undetstood this was a meeting
called at the request of some of his neighbours, for the
purpose of inquiring into the causes of the distress of
the working classes, and whether they might not lie
removed by a repeal of the corn-laws, which would add
to the demand for labour by increasing the demand for
our manufactures. He was very happy to preside over
such a meeting, and he looked upon his having been
called upon to do so as an evidence of the disposition of
his neighbours towards him, occasioned by his own beha-
viour to them. He was there to hear the sentiments

that would be uttered by others; but, if in the course of
the proceedings of the day he should be called on to
give his opinion or advice, he should be ready to do so.
He hoped that all persons who might wish to address
the meeting would be heard with attention, and replied
to with candour.

Mr. CnooatE (a small tradesman in lligh worth) came
forward to propose the resolutions, which were amalga-
mated. He said he depended fie. his business upon
working men. He. sold second-hand clothes and hod-
ding, which brought him very much in contact with the
working classes. They used formerly to come to him
to buy clothes and other things, but now he was sorry
to say that they came to sell again what they had
bought the year before, in order that they might buy
themselves victuals. The poor were told by the gentle.
men in their neighbourhood to go to the poor-law union.
That was more easily said than done. It required a
deal of fortitude in the poor man to break up his little
home, to leave the cottage where he had reared his chil-
dren, to give up his little patch of ground tilled by his
own hand, and perhaps the little tree planted to com-
memorate the birth of a favourite child.—(Hear.) Sup-
pose, however, he got over all these feelings, and when
winter set in went to the union. As the season advanced
he would come home again —no ; he would come back
to the cottage which he had formerly called his home,
and he would find it in the possession of another.—
(Hear.) Then indeed would the tear come into his eye.
—(Hear.) He (Mr. Croome) would, with the consent of
the chairman, read a statement that had been made of
his condition by a poor man in that neighbourhood. It
ran thus :—" I, a labouring man in the town of High-
worth, do humbly pray that something may be done to
lighten the difficulties and distress under which I labour
through the badness of the times. I have a wife and
four children to maintain out of Bs. a week. Dly chil-
dren are so small that my wife and the children are not
able to go out to work, as the oldest is under nine ; so
all depend on my Bs. a week, which I find is not enough
to maintain us in a proper manner, as I have to pay Is.
9d. for house rent, 9d. for firing, and 6s. for six gallons of
bread at Is. a gallon, which alone amounts to Bs. 6d., and
leaves me therefore in debt 6d. I have nothing left to buy
tea, sugar, candles, meat, and other things too numerous
to mention. As it is, I have to work in the harvest from
daylight to dusk like a slave, to pay what I get behind
at the shop, and I can't do it then, instead of my having
something left to spend with the tailor and the draper,
to clothe my wife and children. Something must be
done. What will be the end of it, I know not. I can't
stop longer to see my wife and children nearly half-
naked and half starved." This was the condition of this
poor labouring man.—(Hear, hear.) Unfortunately,
there were too many in the same state.—(Hear, hear,
and a cry of " It's true.") It was impossible for a man
with a family, to live as a free-born Briton should, upon
eight shillings a-week.—(" They can't do it.") He
(Mr. Croome) did think that the labourers of this
country were not .treated as they ought to be.—(Hear,
hear.) What was to be done ? He would leave it to
others to say what should be done ; but it appeared to
him that we wanted a greater outlet for our industry.
The population increased at the rate ofa thousand a-day.
Was that a time to shackle industry ? All that the
poor wanted was work. Give them work, and they were
always well inclined to labour.—(Cheers from the
labourers in the meeting.) What they asked for was a
fair day's wages for a fair day's work.—(Cheers.) Mr.
Croome then proposed the following resolutions :
" I. That there prevails at this time amongst agricul-
tural labourers and small tradesmen in this neighbour-
hood great distress arising from want of employment,
and the inadequate wages which they can obtain when
employed.
"2. That it appears that the population rapidly in-
creases, but that the means of employment do not in-

_
crease in an equal proportion.
"3. That it is the first and most important duty of all
Governments to provide as fully as they can for the
adequate supply of the food of the people ; and, if no
human care or foresight can entirely obviate the uncer-
tainty of the seasons, to take care at least that no legis-
lative enactments should intercept or diminish the
amount or increase the cost of the supply which, but for
such enactments, might be obtained.
" 4. That the corn, malt, and other provision laws now
in force, have the effect both of intercepting and dimi-
nishing the amount, and, at times, greatly increasing the
cost, of the supply of food which might otherwise be ob-
tained by the people ; and that, therefore, they ought to
be repealed.
" 5. That these same laws, by throwing obstacles in
the way of trade, and by impeding the natural course of
industry in the manufacturing districts, greatly diminish
the sources of employment which would otherwise be
opened for the increasing population of this kingdom.
" 6. That the working classes of this country have no
desire to rely for support on gifts of charity or benevo-
lence ; that as free men they wish to support themselves
by their own exertions and labour ; that they have no
doubt that if human laws did not interfere, they would
be able to do so ; and that they, therefore, hope that all
laws tending to curtail the, sopply of food, to diminish
the sources of employment, and to press down the springs
of industry, may speedily be abolished.
" 7. That all laws enacted for the purpose of raising
the price of food and other commodities used by the
people above their natural price in the great market of
the world, may be beneficial to certain classes, but must
be injurious to the great mass of the people."
Mr. AsKELL (a tenant-farmer) came forward to second
the resolutions.
was the realesolutions.W question
n o
wastio tofbtehe become of
(thaeaelarbsurTerhe?
That
first duty of the Legislature was to see that the people
do not starve. How was it possible for a labourer to
live with a family on 6s. or 7s. a week ?—(Hear.) He
advised the labourers to be as patient as they could—to
hold together as well as they could for their common in-
terest. They need not terrify any one or attempt any
violent measures ; but they could form associations.—
(Hear.) Many, no doubt, would have to go into the
poorhouse ; but the rest could form associations, which
they had as much right to do as the Carlton Club. They
could form village clubs, reading societies, aye, and tee-
total societies, and then they would not get drunk and
break the law.—(A laugh.) The wants of the labourer
were the cause of his committing crime.—(Hear.) After
some further remarks, Mr. Askell seconded the reso-
lutions.
WILLIAM SPACKMAN (a labouring man in the neigh-
bourhood of Highworth) requested to be allowed to ad-
dress the meeting He said he had a wife and nine
children to support, and he had not done more than three
days' wot'k during the last fortnight. This brought him in
ss. 6d or 65., out of which he had to pay 2s. a week for
rent. What could he do with the rest?—(Hear, hear.)
Well, but he was told he might go to the workhouse,
and there he meant to go, and he hoped that all labour-
ing men with families would go there also. But there
they would be separated from their wives and children.
—(Hear.) That was against God's law.—(" Yes, it is!")
The Scripture said, " Whom God bath joined, let no man
put asunder." The Scripture also said, that cursed
would be the man who put them asunder, and he be-
lieved it would be so.—(Cheers.) The poor-law was a
law against Scripture.—(Renewed cheers.) But it would
cost so much to keep them in the workhouse. To keep
him and his family in the workhouse would cost 30s. a
week. Out of the workhouse, with labour and the wages
paid for it, it would not cost half as much.—(Hear.) He
was willing to work, but could get no employment. Even
if he did, how !could a poor man keep a family on Bs.
a week?—(Hear, hear.) Something must be done. The
poor could not go on any longer. If the poor man
wanted twenty lug (perches) of land, why could he not
have it at the same price as the farmer? Why was he
charged at the rate of 5/. or 6/. an acre?—(A voice—
" Yes, and 8/. an acre!") How could the poor man pay
that price? Why, if they let the poor man have a couple
of acres of land for a year or two for nothing, and then
charged him a fair rent for it afterwards, would not that
be better than his going to the union?—(Cheers.) But
it was of n) use. They must all go to the workhouse.
His advice was, to the poor who had families, " Flock
to the union—fill the union—and then something
would be done."—(Hear, hear.) A gentleman came
to him the other day and said to him, " Can't
you maintain yourself on Bs. a week?" He answered
the gentleman, " Could you keep yourself on iBs.
from
go
poverty
(William
t thattdhide
week?" The gentleman replied that that had nothing to
do with it, upon which he answered that it had a great
deal to do with it ; for if one man could not do it,
rather
wouldwt and(
have
family,eeerdese separated
drove men to do wlrat they ought not. Many a poor
another couldlwdnhioernet.
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Spackman) had been nine months in a workhouse. He
did not mean to go nine months more there. He would
rather travel the country first. He did not care who
was there to hear him, or who was not. The Scripture
said, " Thy gold and silver shall bear witness against
and cries of " Bravo I")
thee, and the cry of , the poor shall reach the Lord."
The state of the poor was something like the state of
the children of Israel when they were in bondage. lle
said to his fellow-labourers, " Let your prayers ascend
to Heaven ! May God send us down help, and deliver
us from our distress."—(Cheers,
Mr. EDRIDGE, who lately contested the county, was
addressing them, as he was a stranger. He was a
the next speaker. He said he felt some hesitation in
man speaking to a great many plain men. He should
treat the question as a matter of business. The agricul-
wiieersartt.hf:rai
plain