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this meeting, the time had arrived when the corn-laws and
all differential duties should be abolished, and an outlet
opened for the produce of the country into foreign markets,
thereby securing the prosperity of the people."
Mr. WATSON seconded the resolution.

The resolution was put to the meeting and carried without
opposition.
Mr. ANDERTON said he would take no honour to himself in
appearing there to-day, but he would say he had been one
of fifty gentlemen who contributed first to the abolition of
the corn-laws, when Mr. Hume and Mr. Warburton entered
themselves on the long list of opponents, long ere Mr.
Cobden was heard of. Not corn only, but tea is necessary to
the poor. In 1804 tea was 'purchased at 10d. per lb., the
duty was 2s. 3d. Now tea is down to 7d. per lb. in China,
but the duty remains the same. He would draw their
attention to soap. In Ireland, Dr. Lynch's country,
the poor man had his soap without duty, but if he came over
the water, it must be under an additional duty. He hoped
Sir James Duke would draw Sir Robert's attention to these
particulars. He moved that Sir James Duke be requested to
present the foregoing resolutions to Sir Robert Peel, and im-
press on his mind the great necessity of repealing these laws
at the present moment.
Mr. BUCEMASTER seconded the resolution.

The resolution was put and carried unanimously.
Sin JAMES DUKE said he would with great pleasure wait
on the Prime Minister, and give effect to the resolution.
He said he owed it to himself and to them to correct any
error. He had the requisition sent to him late on Saturday
evening, and early on 'Monday morning he waited on the
gentleman sending the requisition, to know what day would
be most convenient. A gentleman had said that the Corpo-
ration had not been the friends of the poor; for himself he
must say it did not apply to him.—(No, no.)
Mr. OBBA:113 moved that the thanks of the meeting were
due to Sir James Duke for his kindness on the present oc-
casion and on all occasions.

It was unamiously carried, and Sir James shortly and
warmly acknowledged the honour they had done him.
It was afterwards resolved by the meeting that the reso-
lutions should be advertised in the papers.
The meeting was then adjourned.

BRIGHTON AND CHELTENHAM
R ILWAY.—(THIS DAY.)
To-day the adjourned meeting of the Shareholders of this
Company was held at Mr. Routh's office, 9, Austin Friars, to
receive the report of the deputation appointed at the meeting
held on the 24th, to wait on the Directors relative to their
paying up the deposits on their shares; and, also, to give an
account of what course they intended taking with regard to
the Company.
The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Anderson), who had been a mem-
ber of the deputation, reported that they had waited on
the Directors on Monday last, and after a lengthened inter-
view, the latter came to the conclusion of dissolving the
Company, and offering the terms to the Shareholders, which
were given in an advertisement since published. It was
stated that the expenses had amounted to nearly 6,000/. It
was further intimated that the Directors had paid their
deposits on seventy-five shares each. The decision of the
Directors was to the following effect :
"The Committee of Management, having this day re-
ceived a deputation from the Shareholders in this Company,
have, in consequence, come to the following resolution :
" Resolved—That it is desirable that this Company shall
be dissolved with a view of reviving the same in the ensuing
spring.

"'That each shareholder shall receive back his deposit less
10s. per share, that being the rateable average proportion of
the liabilities incurred; the like amount having been paid
by each Director on 75 shares, and claimed from all the
members of the Provisional Committee; on the number of
shares allotted to them at request. . _

" That in the event of the re-formation of the Com-
pany the present shareholders should be entitled to the
same number of shares as those now held by them, credit
being given for the amount deducted from their deposits, or
in lieu thereof, shall, at their option, in the event of the
separation of the Company receive the sum of 55., on their
relinquishing all claims on the plans, sections, and property
of the company, which will then belong to the newly con-
stituted company.
"That the shareholders may on and after Monday, the
15th inst., between the hours of eleven and four, receive
back their deposits less 10s. for shares on giving np the
voucher delivered at the time of their execution of the deed
and siening the necessary receipts at the office of the Com-
Tany."
his was the resolution come to by the Provisional Di-
rectors, and he had advised the Shareholders to accept it.
Not that he considered it altogether what they should have
expected, but being all they could get. If they took legal pro-
ceedings against the Directors he believed they would lose more
than 10s. per share. It was their policy, therefore, to adopt the
lesser evil of the two. Had the Company gone on, the Share-
holders would have been in a worse position, considering the
present state of the money market, than they would be in in
accepting the proposition submitted. He, as far-as he was
personally concerned, was willing to accept the terms offered ;
and he advised the other Shareholders to do the same.

A SHAREHOLDER inquired how it was that so much as
6,000/. hadbeen expended, seeing that no Bill had ever been
before Parliament, while the Belfast and Ballymena Com-
pany, which had obtained its Act, only cost 8,000/.
The CHAIRMAN answered that 2,000/. had been paid for
engineering, 2,0001. for advertisements, and the rest had
been incurred in general expenses.
A PROPRIETOR—If the terms are accepted, what will be
done with the deed?
The CHAntmAN—lt will be cancelled.

After some further discussion, in which it was complained
of that only a portion of the Directors had paid up thbir de-
posits, and that the defaulters ought to be advertised, and a
vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman and de-
putation, the meeting broke up.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Gnildhall, before the LORD CIIIEF JUSTIRE, and
a London Common Jury.)
MASON V. FLETCHER•

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said he would -reserve the point,
if necessary.
After a desultory discussion,
Mr. Sergeant BYLES having addressed the jury,
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up, and
The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 150/.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES, having handed in a bill of excep-
tions, asked leave to abandon it at a future time, if he should
think fit, and move for a new trial.
Mr Sergeant TALFOURD objected to his friend taking this
double course; and after some discussion,
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that the Learned Counsel
could not have leave to move, unless he abandoned the bill of
exceptions at once.
Mr. Sergeant BYLEs preferred to adhere to the bill of ex-
ceptions.

'TIE LONDON GAZETTE'.
(THIS EVENING.)

WHITEHALL, DEC. 3, 1845.

The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Reverend
John Peel, M.A., the deanery of the cathedral church of
Worcester, the same being void by the resignation of the
Right'Reverend Father in God George, Bishop of Rochester,
late Dean of the said cathedral church.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire.
Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia—William Alleyne
Lord Burghley to be Major, vice Hyde, deceased, Nov. 26.
DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY.
Francis Robinson, cowkeeper, Princess-street, Chelsea.
BANKRUPTS.

This was an undefended action of assault, the defendant
allowing judgment to go by default, and the only question
for the jury being the amount of damages.
The assault complained of was committed when the de-
fendant, who is a medical student, was in a state of delirium
tremens, represented to be the result of intemperance. The
defendant, it appeared from the statement of Mr. Nair, a
medical gentleman who had attended the defendant
during his illness that the latter was under a delu-
sion, the result of his illness, fancying that all who attended
him were conspiring against his life. The plaintiff, in whose
house the defendant lodged at the time (in July of this
this year), was in the habit of sitting up with defendant,
as well as the witness himself, and an object of the defendant's
especial animosity. The plaintiff interfering in a scuffle
which took place between the defendant and Mr. Nair, when
the former was making an attempt to escape from
the room, received a kick in the lower part of the abdomen,
the result of which was a rupture, from which he has not
yet recovered. Several surgeons, who had seen the plaintiff
while under the effect of the injury, were examined to
prove the extent of his sufferings, and also the expense to
which he was put, viz., surgical attendance and medicine.
The LORD CIIIEF JusTicE having summed up shortly,
The jury found a verdict for plaintiff—damages, 801.
HOLMES V. THE FOUNDERS COMPANY.

John Spong, coal-merchant, Ockham, Surrey, to surrender
Dec. 16, at half-past one, and Jan. 13, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Jordeson, St.
Mary-at. hill, London.
John Charles Edwards, bill broker, Conduit street, Dec.
19, at half-past one, and Jan. 20, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Groom, official assigee, Abchurch-lane, City ;
Godden, John street, Bedford-row.
James M'Dermott, victualler, Gray's Inn-lane, Dec. 16,
at eleven, and Jan. 13, at half-past eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ;
Hunt, Barnard's Inn, London.
Eugene Le Roy, wine merchant, Portland-place, Dec. 10.,
at half-past eleven, and January 14, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ;
Lewis, Wilmington-square.
John Elliott, coal merchant, Bristol, Dec. 19, and Jan. 16,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official
assignee ; Hassell, Bristol.
Joseph Mann, grocer, Warwick, Dec. 15 and Jan. 19, at
eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore,
official assignee, Birmingham ; • Nicks, Warwick; Smith,
Birmingham.
PRICE OF SUGAR.

The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, the
produce of the British possessions in America, com-
puted from the returns made in the week ending Dec. 2,
1845, is 365. lid. per cwt.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From this Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria.
cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 29th day of
November, 1845.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
£.
Notes issued 26,733,810 Government debt 11,015,100
Other securities... 2,984,900
Gold coin and bul-
lion . 11,159,981
Silverbullion..... 1,573,829

£26,733,810 1
M. N

Dated the 4th day of Deceml

BANKING DE
X.
Proprietors'capital,l4,6s3,ooo
Rest
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exche-

quer, Savings-
banks, Commis-
sioners ofNational

£26,733,810
IARSHALL. Chief Cashier.
fiber, 1845.
EPARTMENT.

Debt, and divi-

dend. accounts) 7,670,581
Other deposits 8,992,719
Seven day and other
bills

Government secu-
rities (including
Dead Weight
Annuity)
Other securities 15,871,054
Noteb
Gold and silver
coin 503,038

£35,508,300 I
M. MA.
Dated the 4th day of Decemt

coining a barrister, be went the Midland Circuit, where he
was much esteemed by the most distinguished members of
the profession. He was also appointed revising barrister for
that circuit. He was called to fill the judicial bench in New-
f nmdland by Lord Glenelg, the then Colonial Secretary, at the
age of 34. No man ever acquired more esteem for humanity, in-
tegrity, and amenity. In this colony he entirely discontinued
the infliction of the punishment of death,. and with the hap-
piest of effects. He even declared his resolution to throw up

£35,508,300
RSHALL, Chief Cashier.
ber, 1845.

his office rather than be the means of depriving any human
being of life. Mr. Bourne was the author of seve•
ral works, viz., "The Exile of Idria," "England Won," &c.
also translated the best poems of De Beranger. No person
ever passed through life with greater esteem and attachment
from friends than the late Chief Justice Bourne. On leaving
the colony several addresses were presented to him from all
classes of the community, speaking in the highest terms of
the deceased, and expressive of the deepregret they felt at his
loss. Amongst the friends that followed him to the grave,
we think it right to mention the name of Captain H. Pres-
cott, R.N., the late Governor of Newfoundland.

This was an actin❑ to recover compensation for an injury
done to plaintiff by an accident, which occurred in conse-
quence of the neglect of the defendants. Damages laid
at 500/.

COURSE OF EXCH./
Amsterdam CF. 12 11
Ditto, at sight l2 7.1
Rotterdam 2U. 12 llif
Antwerp 26 15
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15
Altona

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, DEC. s.—Wind W., light breeze and fine.
DEAL, DEC. 4.—Wind N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrd. Active,
Renant, Calcutta; Enchanter and Consent, Cuba; Brutus,
Harvey, Nassau ; Harvest, Young, Quebec ; Ann, Eliza, and
Jane, Lesanto, ditto; Somerset, Chalmers, ditto. Arrd. from
the River, Stirling, May, Bombay ; Greenlaw, Johnson, Cape
of Good Hope and Calcutta; Packet, M'Kinlay, Patagonia;
David Carnegie, Hillman, Bahia ; Marion, Bradley, Jamaica;
Lanarkshire, Turner, New Orleans. The Somersetshire, from
Quebec, was in contact in the Downs with the Pilot, of
Hartlepool. The latter lost bowsprit and cathead.
OFF DUNGENESS, DEC. 30. —Princess Louise, Rio Janeiro.
FALMOUTH, DEC. 4.—Wind W.S.W., moderate— Arrd.
Albion, late Star, Newfoundland.
PORT TALBOT.—Arrd. Athelstane, Robson, MiramiahL
PWLLHELI, DEC. 2.—Arrd. Donegal, Scott, Quebec.
BEAUMARIS, DEC. 3.—Wind W.S.W.—Put back, Islam,
Morphew, for Barbadoes.
DUBLIN, DEC. 2.—Arrd. John and Mary, Quebec.
KINGSTOWN, DEc. 3.—Arrd. Calista, Manger, Honduras.
GRANGEMOUTH, DEC. 2.—Arrd. Hexham, Frost, Riga ;
Heron, Taylor,
GRIMSBY, Nov. 30.—Arrd. William, Charlton, St. John's
Hum, DEC. 3.—Sld. Wilson, Jordan, Valparaiso.
YARMOUTH ROADS, DEC. 30.—Arrd. Stentor, Miramichi.
CAERNARVON, DEC. 2.—A boat, marked on the stern
" Speedwell, of Baltray, James Owen," and on each bow
" I. M., No. 74," was picked up off the Rockabell, 29th ult.,
by the Maria Jones, arrived here.
YARMOUTH, DEC. 4.—The Dahlia, of Whitby, got on
shore on the beach this afternoon, and remains. The Eclipse,
Cork, from Seaham to Ipswich, got on the beach, but was
assisted off, and will proceed.

LNGE--(THIS DAY.)
Leghorn
Genoa 26 10
Milan . .......... '
Venice .....•..... .....
Naples ........ ...... . 894
Palermo, per oz. 1194
Lisbon ......... 524
Oporto... ........... 524
Ito Janeiro •-•
Bahia ..• .......
Buenos Ay. us.. 4111•••
NewYork,2ldyssight --
Philadelphia
PRIM& OF BULLION TICR OZ.
Foreign Geld,bars...£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons-- 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 94
Silver in Bars 0 0 0

Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. Lush were for the plain-
tiff, and Mr. Sergeant Byles for the defendants.
Before the swearing of the jury,
Mr. Sergeant TALvouno inquired whether any members
of the Founders' Company were on the jury?
The COURT having ascertained that there were not, the
jury was sworn, and
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD stated the case, the facts of which
are as follows :—The plaintiff is a publican and eating-house
keeper, ih Grocers' Hall-court, Poultry, and on the 28th of
May last was passing by Founders-court, which is a
passage between the Founders Hall, on the one hand, and the
Commercial Bank of England, the Church of England In-
suranc Office, and the Founders' Arms public-house, on the
other. This court is blind, but as it is lighted at the public
expense, he (Mr. Sergeant Talfourd) did not conceive
that it could be asserted that it was not a
public thoroughfare. In this passage there were seme altera-
tions going on, in the course of which a deep hole had been
dug in an arched recess at one side, which hole had remained
there for a long time, and ought to have been removed
by the company. dr. Mason had occasion to go into
the court, and, though it had been represented that
he went there for an improper purpose, he (Mr. Segeant Tal-
four:l) thought that such a pretence could not be supported,
as there was a sink there with a gutter; and, indeed, al..
though the defendant had given in pleas of, first, " Not
guilty"—second, that the plaintiff entered the passage for
an immoral purpose, and must therefore take the consequence
of the injury, the passage not being a thoroughfare. Yet,
the latter plea had been withdrawn, and the only plea was
not guilty. The plaintiff on entering the court for the purpose
previously intimated, went to the recess, and was going
into the place, not perceiving the hole, when his foot slipped,
and he fell to the bottom, where he lay in a state almost of
insensibility, till he was heard groaning by an old woman
who was passing by, and who gave the alarm to Mr.
Cutby, the manager of the Commercial Bank of England,
who was going in at the private door of the bank, which is
in the court. Mr. Cutby, also hearing the groans, called a
policeman, who having got down into the hole by means of
a ladder, he, with the assistance of other policemen, who
were brought to the spot by the old woman, got the
man out, and took him to the public-house. A
surgeon was then sent for, and, it was found that, falling on
his feet, he had suffered a compound fracture, and one of the
bones of the foot had been forced out of its place so as to in-
jure the leg. He was indeed so much injured that he
kept his bed for a period of ten weeks, and at
after that time he was obliged to go about on crutches, and
would, probably, be a cripple for life. He had applied for
compensation to the Founder'e Company, who said they
were very sorry :or the accident which had happened to
Mr. Holmes, but that Messrs. Burton, the builders, were
the responsible persods, and that the Company had nothing
to do with ia. Now he (Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, that
no sueh defence could be sustained, if intended, as every one
is responsible for the conduct of his agents, and indeed it
would be impossible to maintain an action against the
builders in this case. _

Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75
Ditto, 3 months 26 5
Marseilles 26 10
Bourdeanz 26 10
Frankfort on Maine 123

Petersburgh, 3Us
Berlin
Vienna, effee. So lO 9
Trieste, ditto
Bladnd 36k
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona

Cutby, manager of the Commercial Bank of England,
Mrs. Gummer, landlady of the Founders Arms public-house,
an City policeman 17, gave evidence as to the facts stated by
Mr. Sergeant Talfourd in his address.
Mr. Elliot, a surgeon, stated that he was called to the
assistance of Mr. Holmes on the night in question. He found
a compound fracture of the leg, and dislocation of the ancle.
The plaintiff was confined to his bed for ten weeks, and after
that time he was obliged to use a crutch. He was
not yet thoroughly recovered, nor would he be
for some time. He might, perhaps recover the use of his
leg by next summer; but it was not certain. Witness's bill
for attendance and instruments was 271. 3s. 6d.

RENTS.—The estate of East Barns, in Hadding-
tonshire, measuring 504 acres, was lately purchased by Mr.
Mitchell Imes, for 53,5001. It was expected to yield a rent
of 2,000/., or at most 2,1001. ; but though the repeal of the
corn-laws is now looked forward to as certain by the farmers,
so little alarin does it excite, that the land was let yesterday
for 2,2501., thus yielding the proprietor 4i per cent. on the
purchase money.—Scctsrnan
THE WEST INDIA MAILS.—SOUTHAMPTON, THURS-
DAY EVENING.—The Medway has just arrived with the mails
from the West Indies. Her dates are Vera Cruz, Nov. 1;
the Havannah, 10th ; and Mexico, Oct. 30. She brings, on
merchants' account, 285,306 dols. ; on Mexican Government
account, 33,304 dols. ; and 30 passengers.

Seville —

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the London New Price Current of Dec. 5.)
SUGARS.—To-day British Plantation was purchased with
extreme caueion, although there were sellers on easier terms ;
only 140 found buyers, making the total purchases for the
week only 650 hhds and trcs, and the fall in prices during
that time Is per cwt.
REFINED.—To-day their was little business transacted in
Refined Goods by the home trade, and prices are still on thy;
pecline, brown grocery Lumps selling at 64s to 655, and
Standard Lumps at 651 6d to 66s per cwt.
MAucrrius.—lmporters have been less inclined to realise
this week, the stock in their bands being much reduced.
There has, however, been little desire shown on the parr of
Refiners or Grocers to operate privately in any description,
and the small parcels disposed of were at a slight decline in
prices.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal Sugar was little
wanted, and 825 bags at public sale were only partly sold at
lower rates.

FOREIGN.—To-day there was littte desire shown to pur-
chase any kind of Foreign, and only 400 chests Havannah
were sold at 28s to 29s per cwt for fine yellow.
MOLAssEs.—Although there are sellers of West India upon
rather lower terms, still the purchases made have been ex-
tremely limited this week. Bengal Treacle has been less in
demand, but prices are sustained.
COFFEE.—This afternoon there was little desire shown to
purchase Mocha, and 79 bales at auction were taken in, low
middling yellowish unclean at 535, which was above the
value. In Ceylon there was not much doing, but good or-
dinary Native was not to be had under 483. Of West India
63 casks offered, but being of the lower description a part
only sold at easier rates. Java met with little attention.
Of Rio 8 casks 60 barrels and 33 bags were brought forward,
but a part only sold upon lower terms.
TEA.—The stock has been further increased, and the deli-
veries not being so good as they were, merchants have been
disposed to sell, and a decline in the value of most descrip-
tions has !taken place; there is a large quantity on offer by
private treaty of both black and green. Although lower
rates have been taken for all descriptions of Congou, still the
trade purchased with caution • Pouchong has slightly
declined in value, and the trade gave operated with caution ;
Twankay is little wanted, and easier rates are taken. Hvson
has been purchased with caution, although there are sellers
upon low terms. In Young Hyson, however, a fair business
has been transacted. Gunpowder has been purchased with
elution. In scented Orange Pekoe of fine quality a fair busi-
ness has been transacted. Of Hyson Skin some parcels have
been sold, but at low rates. In the common kinds of Caper
the operations are upon a more extended scale, but merchants
have accepted lower prices. The quantity of Tea held by the
town and country dealers is by no means great.
SricEs.—'rhis afternoon at public sale 19 packages of Ja-
maica preserved Ginger were taken in at 395, and 25 pack-
ages of Jamaica at 54s to 59s for middlint.
FRUIT.—The great bulk of Valentia Raisins and Turkey
Figs continuiug to, arrive being of such inferior quality and
out of condition, are compelled to be forced oft' immediately,
either by private contract or public sale, for whatever they
fetch. In new Currants there has been a good business doing
by private contrat.
RicE.—To-day Bengal Rice was purchased with caution,
and 1,355 bags 432 pocket at public sale were only in part
sold at a further decline of Gd to is per cwt, fine bold bright
clean white went at 19s, good middling 18s Gd, middling
dusty 17s 6d, sea damaged 16s 3d to 175,-1,530 bags of
Spauish were put up, the sound was all taken in above the
value.
SPIRITS.—The demsmd•as fallen off considerably for Lee-
ward Island Rum this week, and prices are not so firm.
Calcutta is offered upon easier terms ; but there has been
little business done. Jamaica is not cheaper, but the demand
has been limited. Demerara has sustained the former
value, but not much has been done. In Brandy a good
business has been transacted; prices are I very firm.
Geneva for exportation has been sold to a fair extent, at
2s 2d to 2s 3d, and fine for home consumption is worth
2s 7d to 28 lUd. For Britis. Corn Spirits the demand is still
brisk at lOs 9d nett cash. In Gin a good deal has been done
at 9s 7d for 17 per cent, and 9s 2d for 22 per 'cent undei
proof. The value of Malt Spirit is 12s Id to 13s bd per gal-
lon according to quality..
Cocinxitar..—There was little inclination manifested to
purchase this afternoon, and of 152 bags of Honduras at
auction, only a third part sold at a decline on former rates of
ld per lb.
SALTPETRE.—This afternoon at public sale 370 bags of
Calcutta were taken in at 27s for 84 per cent. refraction, bad
colour and rather damp.
INDlGO..Although holders of East India are more inclined
to sell; still exporters and the home trade have operated
with caution, and some parcels have been pressed upon the
market, in order to close sales, at a discount of 2d to 4d per lb
on the bought in prices of the last quarterly sates, Madras and
Kurpah can be purchased rather under the rates of the
October sale, still exporters and the home trade operate with
with little
a t3a2tlt esns:
mid 311 13s to 311 15s ; 127 pipes 7 butte 93 hhds Ceylon
pub
only partly found buyers, fine at
caution. Although Spanish is offered at the reluced rates
of Friday last, still few buyers are to be met with. In the
early part of the new year a better demand for Indigo may
Oir
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be expected to take place, especially for home consumption.
s.—This
public sale
afternolo4nhC°hedosaof
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Nutco Oilcoa mot
sold,
good
/ los to 33/ per ton.
TtLnow.—This afternoon at public sale 35 casks of East
India Tallow were sold at 41s 9d to 425; 15 casks of Italian
41s to 41s 3d ; 38 pipes 22 hhds of South American nearly all
taken in at 41s 3d ; 118 casks New South Wales all sold, fine
at 42s 3d to 42s 6d, good 40s 9d to 41 s 9d, middling 40s to
40s Gd, low 39s Gd ; 96 casks of St. Petersburg Soap Tallow
went at 393 to 40s, and low 38s to 38s 6d per cwt.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Mary Jane Holmes, the plaintiff's daughter, spoke
to the injury done to his business by his illness.
He had, before the accident a good business, capable
of supporting himself and Lis family, Isut that after
he had been laid up in consequence of the accident, the busi-
ness had so declined,: that they were obliged to give it
up. He was now engaged to manage a beer-shop for a
brewer. _ _

This was the plaintiff's case.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES addressed the Court on the part of the de-
fendant, and raised three objections to the plaintiff's declaration
First, it was stated that the defendants had made a hole in a
certain archway, and opening into a certain public highway.
Now the court in question, which the hole opened upon, was
not a public highway. It was a private passage to the four
buildings on either side, namely, the Founder's Hall, the
Commercial Bank, the Insurance Office, and the public house.
He (Mr. Sergeant Byles) contended that this court, being a
caul- de-sac, could not be a public way. Secondly, the
action lay, if against any one, against the builders, who were
not the servants of the Company, and the Company would
not be responsible unless they were their servants.
Thirdly, even if the court were a public thorough-
fare, and if .the Company were resposible for what
was done by the builders, they were not bound to cover an
opening which was entirely on their own property, and not
infringing the public property.

HERALD.—The Times yesterday announced that Parlia-
ment is to be assembled in the first week in January,-and
that the Royal Speech is to contain a recommendation to
consider the corn-laws with a view to their repeal. We are
not going to contradict this statement, because, while it is
the easiest thing in the world to make such statements, it is
impossible to contradict them by authority. If any Cabinet
Minister, directly or indirectly, informed the Times of the
alleged purpose of the Cabinet, he was guilty of a
scandalous violation of his oath as a Privy Councillor;
and if the statement of the Times be utterly
false, as we believe it to be, any Cabinet Minister authorising
us to contradict it must equally violate his oath. Under
these circumstances, we can only afford to our readers this
amount of information, viz., that persons in the most intimate
confidence of the Government know nothing whatever of any
such design as that imputed to the Cabinet : of its extreme
improbability, on other grounds, readers themselves can
judge. We, however, will assert nothing positively, for rash
conjectural assertions may deceive as mischievously as wilful
falsehoods; and if we can help it, we will never deceive.
Meanwhile we may not conceal it, that the statement of the
Times has obtained a degree of credit which, if permitted to
extend, must lead to very serious consequences.
STANDARD.—Our readers will forgive us reminding
them that in every December of the last four years they have
been assured of an immediate repeal of the corn-laws,
without, as we can recollect, a single apology having followed
the discovery that the assurance was an impudent falsehood.
The practice is not an inconvenient one to the League and
its friends. The promised submission of the Ministers works
for a time as a condemnation of all their former policy, and
a commendation of the wisdom and patriotism of their oppo-
nents, and when the bubble bursts, resentment is diverted
from those who fabricated the falsehood to those whose firm-
ness disappoints expectation by proving it a falsehood. It is
true that the habit of publishing periodical untruths ought
to prove injurious to the commercial interests of a public
journal ; but does it ? Is character of the least value
to a newspaper ? Whatever we may expect of the future—
and we own our expectations are high in this re-
spect—we must acknowledge that a bad reputation
does not impair the circulation of a public journal to the ex-
tent that it ought. The Dispatch is said to have the largest
circulation among the weekly journals, the Times the. hugest
among the daily journals, and so it will continue, until a
strong effort of the whole of the honestly disposed part of the
press shall raise it so far above contempt that men will be no
longer as indifferent to the moral character of the newspaper
which they patronise as to the moral character of the useful
operator who empties a dust-bin. Our present business is,
however, with the most recent announcement of the repeal of
the corn-laws, thus given by the Times :
" The decision of the Cabinet is no longer a secret. Par-
liament, it is confidently reported, is to be summoned for the
first week in January; and the Royal Speech will, it is added,
recommend an immediate consideration of the corn Jaws, pre-
paratory to their total repeal. Sir Robert Peel in the one
House, and the Duke of Wellington in the other, will, we are
told, be prepared to give immediate effect to the recommen-
dation thus conveyed.
" An announcement of such immeasurable importance,
and to the larger portion of the community so unspeakably
gratifying, almost precludes the possibility of comment.
No pen can keep pace with the reflections which must spon-
taneously crowd upon every thoughtful and sensitive mind.
They who have long desired this change, and have long
traced its manifold bearings on the welfare and happiness of
the world, will in one moment see the realisation of that
fair prospect, and will hardly endure to be informed of what
they already behold. The approaching event, therefore,
which we this day communicate to our readers, must be left
to speak for itself."
The purpose of the Cabinet, as every one is aware, can be
known only through the violation of his oath by some of its
members, a perjury certainly not less sordid or mischievous
because relating to a matter of commerce upon which im-
mense gains may be obtained through early information, im-
mense losses sustained front the want of it. Now, having to
choose between the belief that some Cabinet Minister has
violated his oath for the accommodation of the Times, or the
belief that the Times has been at its old trilks
with an aspect to Mark-lane, we cannot help adopt-
ing the latter hypothesis, and disbelieving the whole
story from beginning to end. But it may be asked, if the
statement of the Times is untrue, why not seek authority
to contradict it? So we should if we knew how, but at
present we cannot prepare a phrase in which respectfully to
request a Privy Councillor to violate his oath. The an-
nouncement of the Times is, in fact, either a deliberate false-
hood, corruptly fabricated for some purpose of trade, or a
guess, a mere " shot," as it is called in the universities and
in schools, founded upon the loosest helps to conjecture. We
do not dispute that the Times has many such helps ; its in-
fluence over inferior clerks and door porters in the public
offices is, we are aware, very considerable ; nay, we have a
notion that it possesses the ear of one private secretary,
though we believe but one. In this way the Times may
worm out probabilities. For example, a clerk reports
at Printing-house square (of course for a consideration)
that certain papers not usually, required until February
are ordered to be ready in January. The inference
is reasonably enough drawn that Parliament is to meet in
January, and then it is added that these papers concern, inter
alia, the Corn Returns—a less audacious builder than our
Contemporary might raise upon such information, if such
informa.ion has been obtained, an edifice as imposing as that
which we have been contemplating. If the shot hits, the
Times has the credit of early information ; if it misses, as it
generally does, the falsehood is forgotten, and in either case
the public is quite indifferent to the scandalous system of
corruption and breach of trust by which the materials for
guess-work are brought together. The Morning Chronicle
(we ask its pardon for placing it in juxta-position with the
Times) has also its announcement upon the subject of the
corn-laws, as follows :
" THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON THE CORN.

J
THE LATE CH--lEF USTICE OF
NEWFOUNDLAND.
The journals have announced in the ordinary manner the
death of Mr. J. G. H. Bourne, the late Chief-Justice of New-
foundland ; but something more is due as a tribute to the
memory of this gentleman. Mr. Bourne was born at East-
wood, in the county of Nottingham. He commenced his
education at Southwell, and was highly admired for his suc-
cess and proficiency in his various branches of academical
studies. He was then sent to Eton, where he greatly distin-
guished himself by his classical acquirements. He next en-
tered Pembroke College, Oxford. and took his degree of M.A.,
and was afterwards elected a Fellow of Magdalene College.
Upon his marriage he, of course, lost his valuable fellow-
ship, with all its prospective advantages, and this by the
old law that still remains on the statutes of the Univer-
ity. Mr. Bourne now entered the Middle Temple, and be-

ing: She " don't believe a word of it," for she has
heard nothing about it from Mrs. Gamp, who is
the only authority for the opinions of Mrs. Harris.
There is something very ridiculous in the position
of these two journals, which, after doing all they could to
win the favour of the Government, are not permitted even
to have the credit of being the first to publish its intentions.
The fact is, that the Cabinet naturally shrinks from the
ridicule to which it would be exposed by accepting the in-
efficient services which the venerable twins are capable of
affording it. Humbly and obsequiously have they been grind-
ing their organs under the windows of Downing-street,
ready to play any tune that might be most pleasing to the
Premier, but he has turned a deaf ear to their strains, and not
even allowed his underlings an opportunity of throwing out
an occasional morsel by way of encouragement. In vain
have they looked imploringly up towards the garrets, or en-
treatingly down towards the kitchens ; not even the con-
genial flunkies have been allowed to show compassion to
these miserable mendicants. The vigilance of the master or
the fidelity of the servants has baffled the efforts of the per-
severing pair. They have not succeeded in getting hold of
even a scrap of truth that they could turn to profit. The
reason is obvious. The repeal of the corn-laws is a thing
for statesmen to do, and not for old women to maunder about.
CHRONICLE.—The Times of yesterday startled its
readers by announcing that it had received intimation of the
result of the recent Cabinet Councils, and that that result
was nothing less than that Ministers had made up their
minds to call Parliament together early in January, with a
view of proposing the repeal of the corn-laws. It was added,
that this might be regarded as the almost unanimous decision
of the Cabinet, the exceptions being insignificant; by which
all the world understood that the Duke having given way,
no one but Lord Stanley, and perhaps one or two others,
were opposed to the general sense of their colleagues. We
cannot wonder that the intelligence thus conveyed was re-
ceived with some incredulity. Many innocent people still
believe that it is impossible tor the present Ministry so com-
pletely to throw over the monopolists, who placed them in
power. Many even who, on the contrary, regarded that re-
sult as certain, had never conceived that it could be brought
about so soon. Rumour has for some time pointed rather
to an opposite termination of the discussions of the
Cabinet. Even so late as the day before yesterday, it
was very generally and confidently asserted that Lord
Aberdeen had resigned ; which, as he is understood to have
been the most active partisan of free-trade in these discus-
sions, was naturally regarded asindicatingthat:his colleagues
had determined on making a fight to maintain the corn-laws
for another year. Everybody was, therefore, more or less
startled at suddenly being informed, not merely that things
were taking a turn in the Cabinet towards free trade, but
that a decision in favour of "total and immediate" repeal
had actually been adopted, was to be acted upon in January,
and was to be enforced in one House by Sir Robert Peel, and
in the other by the Duke of Wellington. And coins, too,
were a little surprised and perplexed at the circumstance of
this important change of policy on the part of Ministers
being communicated to the world through the medium of
the paper most personally and bitterly hostile to the greater
number of them. On the other hand, it seemed inconceiv-
able that if the Times had not very good authority for its
assertion, it should venture to trifle with its readers on a
question of such importance, and especially on one about
which any misinformation must so materially affect commer-
cial transactions. It was a case, too, on which it seemed hardly
possible for &paper to trust to any but the best authority. Com-
paring the probabilities of the case, it seemed to be the
general impression that the story told by the Times was true
in the main : that the details given might not have been yet
determined on ; but that it was pretty well settled by the
majority of the Cabinet that the corn-laws were to be mate-
rially modified, if not, as was deemed snore probable, repealed
at once, and effectually. We must say that the contradic-
tion in last night's Standard has the effect of a very strong
corroboration of the Times. The Standard, after beginning
with a few general remarks on newspaper lying, goes on to
comment upon the difficulty of getting information from Ca-
binet Ministers with respect to the secrets of their delibera-
tions; and then, after running into a grave refutation of a
squib in the Chronicle, drops the article of the Times, with a
mere assurance to its readers that it does not believe a word
of it. But the article in the Times, if not true, should have
been contradicted on authority. Five words—" We are u-
thorised to contradict," would have disposed of the whole
falsehood—if falsehood it were. All the argumentation of
the Standard will fail to produce this effect. In the first
place, Cabinet Ministers, though they are sometimes scrupu-
lous about mentioning what has actually passed in
Cabinet, do not think themselves restrained from stating
the course which the Government mean to take on anx.
question. If they meant to repeal the corn-laws, they would
not scruple to communicate their policy wherever such com-
munications might be deemed advisable ; and intentions
talked of among their friends might very probably get re-
ported to the Times. The Standard says it cannot contra-
dict the Times, because it knows not how to approach a Ca-
binet Minister to ask him to violate his oath, by telling the
intentions of the Cabinet. Depend upon it, if Ministers could
with truth have contradicted the Times, they would have
deemed it advisable to relieve the " agricultural mind " from
the terrible agitation in which it will be tossed about for the
next month ; and to spare themselves the obloquy to which
they will be subjected on account of the intentions ascribed
to them. And depend upon it that, had they desired to set
the public right, they would have found some means of
doing so without violating any oath, and would not have
lost a single post in doing so. The Standard would have the
greatest pleasure in giving an authoritative contradiction to
the Times. Its not being allowed to do so goes a great way
to prove the statement in question to be true. We must say,
too, that our strongest reason for inclining to believe that
there is much truth in the report is the opinion which we
have long since formed, that a repeal of the corn-laws by
the present Government was the result to which we are
inevitably advancing. Oddly as the phrase may sound, we
are convinced that the thing which Sir Robert Peel would
do most to avoid is the necessity of breaking with the Liberal
opinions of his countrymen. Throughout life, no doubt, he
has been opposed to the Liberal party. His inclination has
been to retard, but it has not been to prevent the progress
of improvement. His great aim in life has, as he told us,
been to acquire posthumous fame—to transmit his name to
posterity in connexion with great measures and a great
policy. Such fame as this be knows that lie can never ac-
quire as the upholder of ancient abuses, and the champion of
aristocratic injustice. He knows full well that it is only
from the liberal opinion of his time that he can acquire the
claim on posterity which he hopes to establish. That
opinion, therefore, it is that he really wishes to conciliate.
His whole conduct, since he has been in office, shows
that it is that opinion alone which he values. He
braves it sometimes, he tries to trick it at
others ; but embark in a • career of systematic,
avowed, and hopeless opposition to it is what be has
never done, and never will do. All his past measures have
been directed to staving off the moment in which he must
either frankly adopt that course, with respect to free trade,
which public opinion favours, or risk his future fame in un-
compromising resistance to the public feeling. How long he
would have gone on without taking either side, giving hopes
to both parties, and committing himself irrevocably to
neither, there is no saying. But Lord John Russell's decla
ration has put an end to his indecision. For though it did
not create the necessity, nor the general feeling, for free trade,
that declaration has brought things to a crisis, in which every
one must take Isis part definitively on the question of the
corn-laws. That letter put an end to all divisions in the Libe-
ral party, and rallied the whole body in one concentrated and
vigorous opposition. It roused the Liberal feeling from
one end of the country to the other ; it forced into the
movement against the corn-laws even those whose party
feelings would have kept them aloof from that struggle
until the moment in which it was to be decided for ever.
Sir Robert Peel must have seen that he would now have to
struggle against the whole force of tho Liberal party, backed
by an out-of-doors agitation, extending far beyond any one
party. He must have felt that the moment was at length
arrived in which he must either lead a great movement of
public opinion, or commit himself to the desperate defence
of follies and iniquities over which it was clear that that
public opinion would speedily triumph. In such a state of
things we cannot doubt which side he would choose. And
we cannot, therefore, hesitate to believe that his decision
would be in accordance with the statement of the Times. Be
this as it may, it makes no difference in the course
which it is incumbent on the people to pursue.
If the Ministry are still to be ranked among the
upholders of monopoly, we must do our best to
beat them ; and we shall beat them. If the news
be true, and they undertake the cause of free trade,
they will want all our aid, and that aid we must give them,
as cordially as we would give it to the best and earliest of
our friends. Even with Ministers on our side, and with all
the influence of the Duke and Sir Robert Peel, we shall have
a tierce struggle to go through. Nothing but the most une-
quivocal expression of the most determined popular will can
bend the majority of the House of Lords. In order to over-
come that resistance we must throw aside every considera-
tion of party, and avail ourselves of every aid offered to us
fur the great end of ensuring subsistence and employment to
the people, freedom to trade, stability to agricultural indus-
try, and relief to the great body of the people from the most
insolent injustice by which any aristocracy, in the present
day, has ventured to promote its selfish interests at the ex-
pense of the community. If Sir Robert Peel will give us
the aid of his Ministerial influence, and lead us on to com-
bat in our own cause, we shall be rejoiced to fight under his
guidance and name. We shall leave to a future day to yin-
d icat e the just claims of those to whom the victory of free
trade is really due.

POST.—forty-one persons, who call themselves merchants
and bankers of the city of London, have published a declara-
tion on the subject of the corn-laws. We should be over-
rating the importance of this paper if we regarded it as any-
thing else than:the declaration of a very:small,.and (compara-
tively) a very insignificant portion of the bankers and
merchants of London. We do not dispute, however, that
several of the names appended to it are those of men of
wealth and eminence; they are also, however, men of noto-
rious political bigotry—men for whose calm impartiality of
judgment in any matter subject to the influence of political
or party feeling, no person of good sense has the least respect.
They assert that " supplies of foreign corn destined for the
relief of the people of this country, have been excluded from
our ports by the high duty which, under our present sliding-
scale, is the inevitable consequence of the defective quality
of our own harvest." It is very little to the credit of British
merchants to indulge in such mere rhodomontade as this upon
an important matter. What is the real meaning of such words
as "destined for the relief of the people of this country?"
Where is the proof of any distress for food among the people
of this country ? Is it prudent, or decent, or anything but
most inconsistent with the discretion which ought to belong
to British merchants, to come forward in this
way, the retailers of vague rumours, as mischievous as vague,
which even the common rules of mercantile information con-
tradict ? Why should these men assume a probability of
scarcity, and need of relief, when the prices of corn in the
markets indicate nothing of the kind ? It seems to us per-
fectly clear, from the evidence of positive facts, that these
forty-one persons—happily a very small and insignificant
fraction of the mercantile body of London—are descending
to the position of tools of a faction. For what is there i❑
the circumstances of the present time to lead to such a decla-
ration more than at other times, when no such demonstra-
tion was made? What but the unusual stir of a busy, tur-
bulent faction, which thinks it may make an impression
now, by urging matters of a far less pressing character than
those of former years, when no such urgency was attempted ?
How can these forty-one persons justify to themselves the
attempt to make an alarm now, when circumstances, as in-
dicated by the markets, are much more in favour of an ade-
quate supply of food than they were in former years, and
when the duties on importation are very much lower than
they were in those years ? And we must say that these
forty-one persons, however well-informed they may be upon
some branches of mercantile or monetary business, appear
to be quite ignorant of the truth in regard to the
foreign corn trade. It costs them little trouble, and it would
seem very little thought, to put their names to a paper de-
claring that high import duties have of late excluded foreign
corn from our ports, but in doing so they have only testified
their ignorance of the subject upon which they express them-
selves so confidently. If they had taken the trouble to in-
quire among men acquainted with the business of importing
corn, they would have learned that the only impediment to
the acquisition of foreign corn for English use which has
been felt this season, was the rumour that our ports were
going to be opened for the receipt of foreign corn free of
duty. So long as that rumour was believed on the Continent,
it was naturally supposed that our necessity for supplies