The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDA E‘ ENING, JANUARY 4,

according to quality. 1,80016. of Cochineal have, wo be-
lieve, been disposed of at 2rs. 10a. per pound ; and 2,9001 b.
at 2r. 6a., but the former rate has been in one instance re-
fused. The following transactions have taken. place in bottles ;
Corks are dull of sale, and barely fetch I irs.. per gross.

THE INDIAN MAILS.

ALEXANDRIA, Dkc. 22.—Very bad- weather has reigned
in this place during the last fortnight. Heavy showers of
rain, accompanied by strong gusts of -wind, stopped during that
time all communications with the shipping in the port. On
the 19th inst. an English steamer was descried making tor this
harbour, but, owing to the heavy sea rolling, no pilot dared to
go out to her, and she was seen beating off the coast all day
long. Next morning she got in safely, and turned out to be
the Government steamer Alecto, from Malta, with 20 pas-
sengers for Bombay, and the Indian mails, which she brought
from Malta, owing to the Great Liverpool having broken down
between Gibraltar and that Island. The Great Liverpool has
just come in with the Calcutta passengers, to proceed by ';ne
Ilindortan from Suez, and, after coaling, will return to Malta
in two •r three days wtth the passengers for England. The
Alecto returns with the India mails..

BEER.-200 hhds. of Allsop's have been sold at 65rs. per
hhd., and 70 hhds. of Mason and Gilbertson's at 50rs. In
other sorts we hear of no transactions, and retain, in conse-
quence, the quotations given last month.
SrtmTs.—The only sales reported are of Brandy, of which
3,800 gallons have changed hands at llrs. per gallon, and
1,964 gallons at Irs. 10a.

The Emmettje, which runs between Syria and this place,
came into this port on the 19th withiout a pilot, which is a dan-
gerous thing to attempt. She srffered a great dell on her
voyage from Beyrout, having lost all her bulwarks and boats,
with everything on deck washed away by the sea.
Several extensive sales of cotton have lately been male by
the growers of this staple: in Egypt, and, amongst others,
Ibrahim Pacha has sold the whole of his crop (about 20,000
cantars, or 10,000 bales), at ten dollars per eantar, payable in
assignments. These assignments consist of the salaries ot. all
those employed in the service of the: Government., the greater
part of whom have been waiting up wards of two years for what
was due to them, and now find themselves under the disagree..
able necessity of selling their ezlaims to the merchants at a loss
of from 20 to 28 per cent.

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAN.
(From the Morning Post.)
We have received the Madrid journals of the 27th
ultimo, together with private advices from that capital.
Tb the contents possess considerable interest. The
ri-Amours which we have repeatedly noticed, as to
Me Gonzales-Bravo Cabinet designing either a disso-
lution or a prorogation of the Cortes, were well
founded, although it was not expected that they-
would come to so serious a resolution so early. On
the 27th, the Senate and Chamber of Deputies meet.
To the, former, the President of the Council and Mi-
nisters of the Finances and Interior; and to latter, the
Ministers of Justice, War, and the Nary, communi-
cated the following Royal decree :
" I, Queen Isabella 11., exercising the powers con-
ferred on me by the 26th article of the Constitution,
and after taking the advice of my Council of
Ministers, do decree the following :
" The sittings of the Cortes are suspended in the
present Legislature.
" Done at the Palace," &c. &c.
The issuing of this decree was determined upon at
a Council on the 26th, and kept secret until the
moment it was communicated to the two Chambers.
The reading of it would appear to have been quietly
listened to, and the sittings to have been closed with-
out disturbance.
By a Royal decree of the 20th ultimo, counter-
signed by M. Carrano, " the public finances are to
administer from the Ist of January, 1844, the
Puertas duties in all the capitals of provinces and
ports where they are not yet re-established on the
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which Espartero wanted to render impossible all ad-
ministrations that did not suit his revolutionary views,
and that their revival is necessary to restore an
equilibrium between the receipta and expenses of the
country.
Our usual express has brought us the Courrier
Francais, Quotidienne, Gazette des Tribunaux, and
Galignanis Messenger, being the only journals pub-
lished at Paris on Tuesday, the others having kept
New Year's day a close holiday. Their contents are
very unimportant. We, nevertheless, subjoin the
principal congratulatory addresses to the King on the
occasion of the New Year, with his Majesty's replies.
[These are in the usual strain, and show a loyal dis-
position more than ordinary, but we can find room
only for the Address of the Archbishop of Paris and
the King's reply :—]
THE ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS IN THE NAME OF THE CLERGY.
" Sire—The year which has just terminated has been a happy
one for for your Majesty, we now come to express our wish
that the present may be still happier. A Queen, your powerful
ally, has come to recognise your wise and persevering ef-
forts for the preservation of the tranquillity of Europe. A
Prince, dear to our seamen by all the qualities of his noble
heart, has brought to you from another hemisphere a new
pledge of union between our country and that of his illus-
trious spouse. The arts, manufactures, and commerce, the
happy offspring of peace, continue to spread their rich be-
nefits over our country. No Frenchmen are more desirous
than ourselves to increase and perpetuate these benefits. But
the most ardent wishes of our hearts, and those of your Majesty
will not be fully bxtistied until we shall see extended and con-
firmed amongst us, the empire of faith and the Christian vir-
tues, the fruitful source of security, grandeur, and moral dig.
nity, and without which there can be neither real strength nor
true wisdom. May the Divine Dispenser of all gifts grant
these legitimate prayers, and preserve to us a King whose life
appears to have been saved a few months ago from a new peril
only to remind us of the dangers from which he himself has
preserved France."
The King replied—
" You remind me of the happy circumstances which have
marked the 'ear which has just passed. In addition to the
marriage, which brought to my family new consolation for the
grief of the Queen and my own, I have received with happiness
the visit of an august ally ; and the increasing progress of the
arts and manufactures have still further added to public pro-
sperity. I thank Providence for having showered so man •
blessings on my house. I am deeply affected with the wishe)s
you express for my family and myself, and 1 do not cease to
form very sincere wishes that sentiments of morality and reli
gion, the true sources of all virtues, may continue to strengthen
and increase.
BOURSE, TUESDAY.—Three per Cents. 82f. 1

ST. STE
PEIEN. • WALBROCK AND
ALDIiII:NIAN GIBBS.
Yesterday tke e,arishioners of St. Stephen Walbrook met in
special vests-la as per adjournment from the 15th Nevember
last. Titers was a very numerous attendance, and Mr. Cun-
liffe, hanker, took the chair.
The minutes of the last open vestry having been confirmed,
Mr. ROCK called on the vestry clerk's representative to pro-
duce the minutes of the select vestry, held on the 22d ult,, and
from which the parishioners were excluded by Mr. Alderman
Gibbs, schen it appeared that no record of that Meeting had
been entered on the vestry-book, and that the only minutes of
it sere now in the possession of Mr. Alderman Gibbs.
The CHAIRMAN thought that this was a strong proof on the
part of the vestry clerk that a select vestry was illegal—the fact
of his not having recorded it in the books.—( Hear.)
Mr. Rocs; having proposed that the minutes of the present
meeting sherd(' be inserted consecutively with the last, so as
to prevent the possibility
of any record of the select vestry
being hereafter inserte I,
The CII A IRMA N briefly addressed the meeting, contending
that the parish had been treated most shamefully end con-
temptuously by Mr. Alderman Gibbs.—(" Rear," and ap-
plause. ) He, for one, was now of opinion that Alderman Gibbs
had no accounts to produce.—( Hear, hear.) It only remained
fur them to let the law take its course, and to enter into a atlas
script len to defray the expenses.—(Applause. )
The Rev. Dr. GRIMY, who had been specially requested to
attend the vestry, addressed the meeting at some length, de-
tailing what occurred at the select vestry meeting of the 22d.
Ile said—As I have been called on to state the circumstances
which occurred on the 22d of last month, when the parishioners
were excluded from the vestry-room, I shall state them as
briefly as possible. You know that from the commencement of
these transactions I have not suffered any ill-temper to mingle
with my remarks; that I have spoken reluctantly when I spoke
at all ; and that in every instance I have shown an absence of
all personal hostility to any one. I certainly was not the de-
fender of your churchwarden, for I could not see my way in this
direction ; but I constantly gave him the opportunity of defend-
ing himself, the only opportunity which men of spirit and honour
can ever desire.__( Hear, hear,) My only purpose was to see
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I have no superstitious reverence for the walls of a church;
but
its blocking up with policemen but as an act de_
',erring of my severest censure. I have heard of offences
offered to churches hy the violence of mobs, by the strug-
gles of contending parties, by the influx of Chartists, but I
never recollect any deliberate act—and that too of autho-
rity—which gave me so much pain as the scene which pre-
sented itself to ins both without and within your church on
that day.--( Hear, hear.) When I arrived at the door I found
a considerable number of the parishioners in the street,
anxious and angry no doubt, yet behaving with perfect quiet-
ness, arid two police officers standing with their backs to the
door. As those persons were no more familiar with my face
than I was with theirs, 1 should, possibly, not have obtained
admittance at all, but that the parish beadle introduced me to
their acquaintance ; and thus, with Mr. Brett acting as mas-
ter of the ceremonies, I was let in. I found within the porch
a posse of policemen, who having eyed me with a professional
glance, suffered me to pass; and after this station-house
scrutiny—this pickpocket probation—l presumed I was at
liberty to pass on. But here again I found a new obstacle, a
new specimen of vigilance, in the shape of the alderman's son,
Mr. Joseph Gibbs, who stood at the inner door, at the head of
the steps, performing the part of turnkey.—( Shame.) I ac-
knowledge that I at first felt startled at the singular indelicacy
of the father's placing the foolish son in this degrading posi-
tion ; but as it seemed perfectly satisfactory to himself, and
Indeed perfectly suitable, I saw no further necessity for any
sorrows of mine..--( Hear, hear, and laughter.) I understand
that this young gentleman is intended for the law. New, Aris-
totle recommends that in all things we should begin at the
beginning, and it must be owned that Mr. Joseph Gibbs could
not commence his trade lower down. Whatever he may be not
fit for, I can assure you he has the talents for a turnkey.—
( Hear, and laughter.) Having unlocked the door, which I
heard locked behind me again, as if instead of entering a church
I was traversing a gaol, I supposed that all obstacles were over
at last. Alas ! gentlemen, how vain are the hopes of man I
Our sextoness, with her hack to the vestry-door, planted on the
defensive, stood before me, reversing her natural employment,
and instead of opening doors, keeping them shut. My name
was now whispered through the key-hole, another unlocking
took place, and I was at length let in ; the whole arrangement
convincing me that the Alderman possessed unsuspected facul-
ties for public service—the triple watch and ward, the succes-
sive lockings, the posted thieftakers, and the filial turnksy,
satisfying me that, its addition to his many employments, he
would make a capital governor of Newgate, with the wards as
a provision for the minor branches of his family, and, perhaps,
the treasurership of the Sheriffs' Fund to complete the re-
creations of his cell.—(Cheers and laughter). On my admis-
sion I found assembled, in "grim repose," the gentlemen whose
names you already know ; and, on my taking the chair,
Alderman Gibbs read a statement of some length, but
which seemed to me to contain little new. It was chiefly
limited to what we have so often heard—namely, that he
had been ready with his accounts, but was prevented from
giving them, by the intrusion of the parishioners into the
select vestry. This paper seemed to me to pass by all the
natural questions; for instance—Why he had not given an
account for the last nineteen years ?—of what nature was that
account which he had given in such haste before the Lord
Mayor ?—and whether lie had been actually ready with any
account at all until the present moment—if this were an ac-
count?--why he had suffered so heavy a debt (if debt it were)
to accumulate without the knowledge of the parish ?—why he
had not collectel the poor-rates for so many years ?—with
other equally obvious questions. But all this was listened to
in perfect placidity. The tide flowed all one way, and, except
for an occasional remonstrance on my part, there Would not have
been a ripple. 1 simply urged the necessity of having public
accountants, or auditors, unconnected with the select vestry,
before we could regard those accounts as authentic.. It is true,
gentlemen, that I had been previously offered the inspection
of the accounts from eleven to two on the very day of the
meeting. Thus, in three hours I was to examine the accounts
of nineteen years. Now, gentlemen, whatever opinion I may
have of my faculties—it does not mount so high—l am no
Michael Cassia, "the great arithmetician ;" not a worker of
arithmetical miracles-1 am not the "grand American calcu-
lating boy ;" and if I had been ten grand;American calculating
buys, I should not have been equal to the task. I therefore had
riot the indulgence of giving the Alderman his quietus. And,
more—if that question had been proposed to the chair, I should
certainly have declined to put it. The proposal made to the
chair was simply that the accounts should be printed, to which
of course I acceded. And thus we settled the question of
goods and chattels without troubling the proprietors, VIIIOm
our police force kept raging outside the doors.—(Shame.)
Gentlemen, I remember, in " Tristram Shandy," a case
quoted, in which the Duchess of Burgundy was refused the
guardiaeship of her own children, and the French council,
constructed, I presume, something on the plan of a select ves-
try, declared I. that a mother was no relation to her own chil-
dren." " But," interrupted my uncle Toby, " what did the
Duchess of Burgundy say to that ?" Gentlemen, we had in
the street at the moment a crowd of our Duchesses of Bur-
gundy, who, when their own property was concerned, would
thus probably have given a very direct answer; and thus we
glided on. Gentlemen, I may be disposed to treat this lightly
now; but I had a very different feeling. As I sat in that
useless chair, holding that sinecure office, and acting in a
" glorious minority" of one, I was more than once tempted
to ask in what part of the world I was at that moment—under
what rash, headlong, and arbitrary authority—under what
violent, and foolish', and unhappy Government ? Was
I in Turkey, where the Porte sends for a man's purse
and his head together? Was lin Russia,
where an ukase
sweeps ten thousand subjects at a time into the return-
less desert? Was lin Rome, where a man is cast into
a dungeon, on a hint from a Cardinal's lackey ? No ; but
in the freest country in the world, and in the freest
city of that country, amongst a people who pride themselves
on their system of popular government, on their free expres-
sion of opinion, and on their power over their own purses ?
Such scenes, I thought, could never occur in such a country
at that, and least of all in one of the temples devoted to the
worship of their Creator.—( Cheers. ) But, Gentlemen, I
have heard it said that all this is much ads about nothing. I
don't think so.—( Hear, hear.) Rates were imposed on the
parish whilst these doors were closed upon you ; and, to apply
what was said of Hampden to yourselves, theugh2o,ooo/. might
not make you beggars, 20d. may make you slaves.—(Cheers.)
Hut I will go no further, nor would I add another sentence,
were there riot too little circumstances to which I desire espe-
cially to refer—first, I wish to assure you that though the
churchwardens' accounts were audited, tliey were not passed, at
least while I presided. I beg you to believe that I would have
nothing to do with the passing of them in such an assembly, and
that had such a proposal been made to me I would have ven-
tured to disturb the complacency of the meeting, by refusing to
put the question from the chair.—( Cheers. ) The other point
to which I wish to allude is personal. I soma little time back
received from Alderman Gibbs a letter, in which he hinted to
me that the payment of my salary for the lectureship was
" voluntary on the part of the vestry."—( Cries of" Shame.")
Gentlemen, I understood the hint, and I can despise it.—
( Much cheering.) I won't believe, however, that any vestry
—select or open—will play second fiddle to such a paltry act.
—( Renewed cheering.) I wish I could say that even under
such circumstances 1 could afford to throw up this lectureship
at once ; but the truth is, that I can't afford it. You all know
that the value of this living is not great, and I, Gentlemen,
rel.ether right or wrong, fancy that I am a man who has not
been well used by the world—that, at any rate, I have been,
like many others, a victim to the ingratitude of Governments
who, in conciliating their enemies, have neglected the zealous
friends whom they used as stepping-stones to their own ad-
vancement. But to pass by this : you all know the state of the
congregation of this church when I came here—you all know
how it is now attended. As for my intercourse with my
apa-
rishioners, your kind feeling towards me is the best assurance
of their esteem. I do not believe that the select vestry will
iretetdthte Liverymayhe) ofct Land as for Mr. Alnerman
drag him out of the
slough of Walbrook. Let the Aldermen take him into their
aGeitbbass's itthreat, is h
let
boat (not too lightly freighteal already) : let hint be presented
to the Mansion-house and to the judgment-seat—yet still I
will say that I despise it.—( Hear, hear.) Nor, in saying this,
am I unmindful or regardless of Mr. Alderman Gibbs's power.
Some one has said that he is an obscure man. He is no such
thing. No one has been more eager after a sort of petty des-
potic power. The catalogue of his offices would be as long and
tedious as the catalogue of Homer's ships. Are you anxious
to consult the Land Tax Commissioners ? Then you must go
to Alderman Gibbs. Are you desirous of assisting in carrying
the Income-tax into effect ?—( A laugh. ) Then you must go
to Alderman Gibbs. If you take an interest in the adminis-
tration of the affairs of the poor, Mr. Alderman Gibbs is at the
head of the City Union. If you want—in fact, if you want
anything at all—whatever public office you may go into—
whatever little scheme you are desirous of aiding, in each and
all Mr. Alderman Gibbs somehow or another is concerned.
Nor does he limit his offices to the metropolis. If you extend
your ambition beyond London, and take a trip to Margate,
there is Mr. Alderman Gibbs a master and treasurer again.
Nay, if in looking for glory you poke your nose even under the
ground, there you meet bins once more, for Mr. Alderman
Gibbs is a Commissioner of Servers--(Loud laughter, and
cheers.) No, no, Gentlemen, you have no obscure or in-
significant person to deal with. You have to deal with a man
clothed with authority, and you must act accordingly.
Mr. HOWETT proceeded to comment on what he termed the
unprecedented and unjustifiable conduct of Mr. Alderman
Gibbs in excluding the parishioners from the church, on the
late occasion, and treating them as though they were ruffians.
Mr. ROCK followed at some length, and stated that the re-
sult of the deputation that had waited on Archdeacon Hale to
know whether he had given authority for the exclusion of the
parishioners from the church on the 22d ult., was to the effect,
that the Archdeacon had been informed that a select vestry
existed in Walbrook, and being asked whether it had the power
of preventing others from intruding, gave it as his opinion that
"any body of men meeting for the discharge of their peculiar
ditties had the power of so doing. This was evidently no
authority for excluding the parishioners from the church, nor
did the Archdeacon intend it as such.—( Hear, hear, approba-
tion, and hisses.) Since then Mr. Alderman Gibbs had been
a suppliantat Mr. Rock's feet, apologising for his conduct, and
asking with " bated breath and whispering humbleness," for
further time to file his answer in the Court of Chancery.
Should he (Mr. Rock) give it ?—( Several voices, " No, no.")
Then he would not give one second, and, if the answer was not
filed, there was no other alternative but the Queen's Bench.
He would move that the vestry at its rising do adjourn.

IRELAND.

These facts can be proved by his Lordship's London solicitor,
who resides in Saville-row, Bond-street.
It is true that these three Noble Lords are personally what are
termed absentees. This is certainly a misfortune to Ireland.
English people, however, will live in England, where they are
born and bred ; and, considering how the landlords and gentry
are persecuted and worried by agitators in black coats as well
as in blue, it is only marvellous that so many reside in Ireland
who could reside elsewhere. But, under the circumstances,
considering that these Noble Lords have perhaps more pro.
perty in England, and, consequently, reside where their fami-
lies have dwelt for ages, they undoubtedly do everything that
men can effect to remedy the evil of absenteeism.
The Marquis of Conjtigharn has a vast tract of poor land in
that very poor county Donegal, the greatest part of which is
mountain and morass. His ancestors granted long leases.
The middlemen sublet those lands ad infinitum ; consequently,
a large pauper population has grown up on this estate; it was
impossible to prevent this misfortune. As lung as these leases
exist, the present landlord can do nothing to improve their
general state ; he has endeavoured, however, by draining
wastes, and cultivating mountain land, to alter the state of
things. His Lordship is well known to be most kind-hearted
and amiable. His general character is that of a good land-
lord • and this is, 1 am satisfied, the first time ho ever was
attacked, and I am convinced it ought to be the last. His
Lordship has a house at Southampton, for the benefit of his
children's health. As the " Southampton Irishman" frequently
sees his Lordship in the streets of that town, he could not, con-
quently, resist abusing him—it was far teo tempting.
English people ought to know that Lord Norbury was mur-
dered because, having laid out 30,0001. in building a mansion,
he wished to enlarge his park by adding 90 acres to it, the de-
mesne lands being exceedingly circumscribed. He paid libe-
rally the very few tenants removed ; but all would not do ; he
fell a martyr to the Riband conspiracy.
Mr. Charles O'Keefe was murdered in the streets of Thurles,
because he added to his own farm not quite half an acre held
previously by another.
In neither case have the murderers been brought to justice.
The " Irishman" knows these two cases well, and, with such
authentic facts staring him in the face, surely he ought to
pause before he again inculcates doctrines which inevitably lead
to the increase of that system of Thuggee, which disgraces
Ireland. I am, Sir, your obedient servant. 1
Dublin, Dec. 29. A MUNSTER LANDLORD.

IRELAND.
THE STATE PROSECUTIONS.
DunIAN, JAN. 2.—Proceedings of a very extraordinary char-
acter have just occurred in relation to the Stale prosecutions,
and which indicate the spirit in which they are to be carried
on.

'1 he Crown prosecutors persevere in their determination to
strike the special jury to-morrow ; but up to this hour the
agents of the traversers have not received a copy of the special
panel !

Every day, since the Recorder delivered the jury-book to
the Sheriff, the solicitors of the traversers have applied at the
Sheriff's office for a copy of the special panel. 'ley were
told each day that the panel would be ready on the next, and a
copy furnished to them.
On Saturday the Under-Sheriff promised a copy on Monday,
if possible, but certainly on Tuesday (this day). On Monday
the application was renewed, but the reply given was, that the
panel was net ready.
This day, at two o'clock, according to appointment, the so-
licitors far the traversers once more applied at the Sheriff's
office, when Mr. Dickenson, the Under-Sheriff, formally told
them no copy of the special panel would be given to the traver-
sers. The solicitors protested against that course, and appealed
to the Under-Sheriff's experience whether a copy of the panel
had ever been refused before. He admitted that it never had,
and that it had been the invariable usage to furnish a copy
previous to the striking of a special jury; but, he added, that
in this instance he " acted under advice" in refusing it.
This, let the reader bear in mind, occurred not in the bu-
reau of the Attorney-General or Mr. Brewster, at Dublin
Castle, but in the office of Mr. David Charles Latouche, the
High Sheriff appointed by Lord De Grey to arrange juries for
the administration of justice in Ireland.
The law allows the Sheriff ten days to complete his special
panel. But Mr. Dickenson, the Under-Sheriff, after refusing
a copy of the panel, took care to apprise the solicitors for the
traversers that it would be ready for the striking of the jury to-
morrow.
In connection with the special panel three notices have been
served—two on the part of the traversers, and the third, a
counter notice, by the Clerk of the Crown.
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.
The Repeal Association met at one o'clock to-day. Mr.
John O'Connell and Mr. Steele were loudly cheered on their
entrance. Dr. Murphy in the chair.
Mr. John O'Connell adverted to the speech delivered by the
Lord Mayor yesterday on retiring from office ; and, on the
part of the traversers, disclaimed all anxiety for the intercession
of the corporation, or any other body of men, with the Queen,
in favour of the gentlemen against whom the State prosecutions
had been commenced. The people's leaders had committed no
crime; and much as they revered and respected her Majesty,
they could not, therefore, supplicate her pardon.
Mr. Steele fully concurred in the sentiments of his friend
Mr. J. O'Connell.
Mr. John O'Connell read two letters from his father (Mr.
O'Connell), expressing his gratification at the recent adhesion
to the repeal cause of Mr. Smith O'Brien, Mr. O'Neil, of
Bunoven Castle, and other gentlemen; and inclosing his sub-
scription to the repeal rent, and those of 25 grandchildren.
This announcement was received with great ceeering.
The Member for Kilkenny handed in contributions from
several persons :—The " Marshal" of Dublin, Mr. Ray, the
Masters and Misses Ray, and others.
After several letters had been read, and remittances ac.
knowledged,

Mr. JOhn'O'Connell spoke at some length on the subject of
a recent article which had appeared in the Edinburgh Review,
and which he attributed to Mr. Trevelyan, who, he said, some
time ago, published some letters, calumniating Ireland, in the
Morning Chronicle. The Learned Gentleman moved the in-
sertion of extracts from the article on the minutes of the Asso-
ciation.

At four o'clock the repeal rent for the week was announced
to be 289/. 2s. 2d.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.— A most distressing acci-
dent occurred in the Kentish Town-road yesterday morning,
whereby a little girl, named Baker, the daughter of a respect-
able newsvender in the vicinity lost her life. It appears that
the poor little creature had just parted from a playmate on the
pathway, and was in the act of running across the road, when
she was knocked down by the horses attached t• one of the
Kentish Town omnibuses, the wheels of which passed over
her head, crushing it in a most frightful manner, and of
course causing instant death. The body was immediately
picked up, and conveyed into a surgeon's shop, and from
thence to the home of its parents, which it had only just
before left. The poor little sufferer was the sister of Samuel
Hunt Baker, who was stabbed by a boy, and died from the
wound, about this time last year, when it will be recollected
the latter was tried and convicted of manslaughter. In-
spector Aggs, who happened to be passing down the Kentish
Town-road, when the accident took place, directed a police-
constable to take charge of the driver of the omnibus, who
was subsequently taken to the police-court. It did not ap-
pear, however, that much blame was attributable to him in the
melancholy affair.
SEASONABLE BENEVOLENCE.—Yesterday, a humane
gentleman left with Mr. Walker, surgeon, of Drury-ione, 51.
for the benefit of the poor of the neighbourhood. Mr. Walker
instantly carried out the benevolent object of the donor,

Mr. HOWETT seconded this.
After which it was moved by Mr. Hanalsox, se-
' conded by Mr. WILLIAMS, and carried unanimously, " That
the payment of the L. and Is. 6d. rate, lately levied by the
select vestry, be resisted until the accounts of Alderman Gibbs
were produced."
Mr. FLIGHT, amid much applause, announced that if any
proceedings were instituted against those who reristed pay-
, ment, and were not abler from *ant or Mean , to defend them-
selves, hi 3 wntild pay the expenses.
The best thanks of the parishioners were then voted to the
Rev. Dr. Croly for his zealous attention to the interests of
the parishioners ; and, after some conversation, the vestry
stood adjourned.

To vita Enttott OF THE TIMES.
Sir,—Two letters have renehtly appeared in the Times, signed
"An trishman," dated lltom Southampton. The object of
theit eereititinitations, so grossly aril tea, abusive of Irish land-
lads is evidently to excite in the minds Of the English public
a feeling that the Irish landlords geziefally are most inhuman
towards their tenants, 0.114 that, consequently, the success
which attends ea.italion and repeal, is attributable to that cause.
One should have supposed that now, whilst an impartial Corn_ ttl&sion is investigating the subject, at least a cessation of these
hostilities would take place. All parties are now being calmly
listened to, and they will he fearlessly adjudicated upon.
There is no danger but that the complaints of the lower
classes will be brought forward, inasmuch as the Repeal Com-
mittee have from the Corn-Exchange issued a circular to the
Roman Catholic priests of every parish to send to the Com-
missioners a statement of every case of supposed hardship
which has occurred during the last twenty years.
Surely it would be but common justice to await the result
of this inquiry, and not condemn defendants during their trial,
and whilst the jury is deliberating. But such is, unfortunately,
not " Irish justice." " Impartial justice," now-a-days, rather
means, that the gentleman, the landlord, the Protestant, the
non-repealing Catholic, or he that has anything to lose, shall
be hunted down like a wild beast, in order that they who direct
the storm may fatten on the plunder they hope to obtain in
the scramble consequent on a religious and democratical revo-
lution.
The " Irishman" has fortunately mentioned the names of
certain parties, known men. These he has denounced in the
most scandalous terms, viz., the Duke of Devonshire, Earl
Fitzwilliam, the Marquises of liertforti and Conyngham, and
the Earl of Roden.
The Duke of Devonshire possesses vast estates in the counties
of 'Waterford and Cork. I will venture to assert that there is
not a man in Ireland of respectability, or otherwise, who would
venture to put his name to a document impugning his Grace's
conduct as a landlord. It is a most notorious fact that there
is not a property in the British empire more attmirably managed
than the whole of those vast possessions. The most kind and
liberal attention is paid to the humblest individual—the im-
provements are immense—the condition of the tenantry most
thriving. The sums expended by his Graoe for their advan-
tage are enormous. In one instance alone, viz., the bridge and
embankment at Dungarvon, not less than 30,0001. was expended
by the Duke.
The late Speaker of the House of Commons (Mr. Aber-
crombie), aided by the resident agent, Mr. Currie, for years
superintended those estates. I need, I believe, say no more.
To these facts I am an eye-witness for 25 years, as my property
joins his Grace's at the bounds of the county of Waterford.
I have been through Earl Fitzwilliam's estates in Wicklow ;
his Lordship is well known in England as one of the best of
landlords, and that a man is sure of making a fortune, when
once he becomes his tenant; he is famed for letting his lands
considerably below their value. The same system is pursued in
Ireland ; and I defy any one to point out in the three kingdoms
a more wealthy, comfortable tenantry than those on his Lord-
ship's Irish estates, where the tenants hold direct from the head
landlord. His liberality is unbounded.
A circumstance occurred a few years ago worth relating as a
proof of the treatment experienced by Irish landlords :—A
lease on his Lordship's estate expired ; there were several
pauper families on the land who really had no means of liveli-
hood. They desired to emigrate; his Lordship provided a
vessel at his own expense for them. They received on their
arrival at Wexford 2,000!. to fit them out, &c. ; upon touching
the money, however, they all returned to their former habita-
tions, and his Lordship lost his 2,0001., &c.
The estates of the Marquis of Hertford have been for many
years under the management of the Rev. Mr. Stannus, con•
fessedly one of the very best agents in Ireland. They are
situate in the county of Antrim. Happy indeed would it be
for Ireland, could I point out many such landlords as the late
Marquis of Hertford. Fortunately for his Irish tenantry, he
possessed boundless wealth, it is true. Mr. Stannus had only
to write to his Lordship, stating the amount of money he re-
quired to improve the condition of the tenantry and the coun-
try, and he immediately received his Lordship's consent. But
the fact speaks for itself. The estate is in the finest condi-
tion, and the numerous tenantry most contented and pros-
perous. The town of Lisburn is truly flourishing; trade and
manufactures progress to a great extent; the sums of money
expended by the late and present Marquis in building churches,
schools, hospitals, and in charities of all descriptions, are
enormous.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THIS MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING.
POST.-Notice was received to-day at the Stock Exchange
from the Bank of England, to the effect that it is not intended
to restrict the time for transfer of the Stocks about to open, on
Saturday next, the 6th inst., being the first transfer day, to
the hour of one.
The Government broker made a purchase of Three per
Cents. Reduced Stock at the price of 98. The amount taken
was, however, only to 10,0001., and the dealings generally in
the public securities were of limited extent, but the markets
have, nevertheless, been sustained at within a shade of yester-
day's quotations.
Mr. Robert Moate (broker), in his annual review of the
London metal market, states that the year just closed has been
remarkable for a generally good business, and that the prospects
of the trade for the approaching spring are cheering. The
prices of spelter have not varied so considerably as usual, the
little excitement occasionally got up among the holders having
subsided again without exercising an influence beyond the im-
mediate range of the connection. The shipments to ludia
have been heavy, and the latest correspondence front Calcutta
gives reason to believe, that although the reduced quotation
is still a paying one, buyers were beginning to be
cautious in their purchases, The supply from Germany has
proved larger than common, so that no apprehension need be
felt, as heretofore, about the sufficiency of stocks. Holders are
firm at 22/. ss. to 221. 10s. Rolled zinc has greatly increased
in consumption, and is, in a variety of cases, preferably adopted
as a substitute for other metals. The demand is steady, and the
price 28/. per ton for common dimensions. Iron, during the 11
year, has been subject to numerous fluctuations. At one pe-
riod it was thought that a permanent improvement in its value
might be calculated on, but the production of British i'on con-
tinues so extensive that the expectation of such a state of things
has vanished. It is now the prevailing conviction that, what-
ever quantity may be taken off by the markets to which it is
admitted, no sensible impression will be made on the supply.
" The price," says the Review, " occasionally rises, it is
true ; but as certainly falls again immediately." Swedish,
at one period of the year, was depressed to almost the lowest
point on record, but some purchases for India and America
rapidly raised it to 11/. 10,., the demand, since which, having
ceased, the value has receded to 101. 10s. Russian in the hands of a
single holder is, although some inferior parcels have been sold
at low rates, held at 131. British Iron rules as follows, per
ton :--Bars in London, 4/.155. ; ditto in Liverpool, 4/. 75. 6d. ;
ditto in Wales, 4/. 53. ; pigs in ditto, Si. ss. ; ditto in Clyde,
2/. Is. ; hoops in London, 7/. ; ditto in Liverpool, 61. 15s. ;
sheet in ditto, 71. 10s. ; tato in London, 81. ; rails in Wales,
5/. 4s. ; castings of every description, from 71. Swedish steel
has been exposed to the same ups and downs in the market as
Swedish iron, having gradually descended of late from the
former fi'are to 16t. 10s. and 171. The stock here is mode-
rate, while that at Gottenbnrgh is very small. Hopes of more
orders for India are in the meanwhile encouraged. Tin has
been moderately supplied, and though, some time ago, at a low
ebb, a speculative demand for the metal has had the effect of
restoring it to a fair position in the scale of prices. It is now
believed that the prodnction of tin in this country is not more
than commensurate with the demand for various markets.
Copper is firm, stocks having much diminished, pending the
strike of the workmen for an advance of wages ; few of
the manufacturers are willing to accept large orders
for immediate execution, even at the improved rates,
which are-for sheathing, sheets, bolts, &c., 93/4d., tile 841.,
and tough cake 85/.' all in London, and less the discount, of
course ; if taken in Wales, the price is 2/. a ton less. Lead
has scarcely rallied throughout the year. The demand in the
London market, for exportation, has fallen off, in consequence
of the direct supplies of the Missouri lead to all the markets of
the world, and which would appear to have become a favourite
wherever introduced. Soft pig on board, in London, is 171. 55.;
at an eutport, 161. 15s. Quicksilver, with a full stock, re-
mains at 4s. 6d., and the prospects for the article are without
the smallest change. Cochineal continues in good request.
The public sale of the 29th ult. went off at very full rates.
Black is worth from 4s. 6d. to 6s. ; silver, 4s. 3d. to bs.
Saffron of the new crop has sold at 465., and is held firmly.
Such is the summary we colleet from the particulars embodied
in a Mr. Moate's annual report on a branch of our commerce
that must always rank as one of leading national importance.
Iron, tin, copper, and lead, are all metals the production and
manipulation of which have heretofore presented a vast field for
the exercise of English industry, and contributed immensely to
the accumulation of individual wealth ; it is. therefore, gra-
tifying to observe that, in the instance of some of these sta-
ples, at least, the stability of the markets has been well main-
tained. It is only to be regretted that it has not proved so in
the case of all.
SUN.-The English Market left off tolerably well this after-
noon, but certainly not quite so buoyant. Consols were 97 to A
without the dividend. Exchequer Bills continued high.
The Foreign Market exhibited also rather a downward ten-
dency, Mexican being 32i to g ; Spanish 22i A for the
Five per Cents., and 30} A for the Three per Cents.
Dutch Bonds were firm.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these :-Birmingham and Gloucester were 34 ; Brighton, 6,;`
to 6 ; and South Eastern Scrip, 131- to discount. Edin-
burgh and Glasgow were 81 ; Brighton Loan Notes, 1 ;
Croydon, 1, ; ditto Scrip, 41 ; Manchester and Leeds, New.
151 ; Midland Counties Quarter, 7 ; ditto Fifths, ; Norwich
and Brandon, 1Z ; Northern and Eastern, 71; Paris and
Orleans, 14A to 131 ; Paris and Rouen. 121 ; Rouen and
Havre, 6to ; South Eastern Scrip, 11%; and Yarmouth
and Norwich, 3i premium. British North American Bank
Shares were ei discount ; and Union of Australia, prem.

TRAVELLING IN IN EGYPT.—Persons going to India
from Southampton through Egypt after landing at Alexandria
from the Oriental Company's vessels, travel on a canal forty..
eight miles ix length, they are then conveyed a hundred and
twenty miles on the river Nile, and afterwards travel about 70
miles on land, to the town of Suez, in carriages manufactured
by Mr. Andrews of this town. The travelling from Alexan-
dria to Suez is about 3i miles an hour, after many lengthened
stoppages at Cairo and in the Desert i Suez is situated at the
northern extremity of the Red Sea, and is in Arabia Petrwa,
the country in which Mount Sinai, Meunt Horeb, avid the
ruins of Palmyra are situated ; Aden is at the southern extre-
mity of the Red Sea.—Southampton Post-office Intelligeneer.
SHOCKING SUICIDE say SWALLOWING VITRIOL.—A
young married female, named Dowling, who resided at No.
11, Hart-street, Covent-garden, went into the surgery be-
longing to Mr. Berry, in James-street, Long-acre, on Tues-
day night, and requested Mr. Berry to let her have a penny-
worth of arsenic, which she said she wanted to poison some
rats. From her manner the poison was refused her, and she
then went to an oil-shop in the neighbourhood, where she pur-
chased some vitriol, which she swallowed. In an instant after-
wards she was seized with the most excruciating pain. Mr.
Berry promptly attended, and administered the usual reme-
dies, but without any beneficial effects, and she lingered until
five o'clock yesterday morning, when death put an end to her
sufferings. Not the least idea can at present be formed as to
what could have induced her to commit so rash an act.
DEATII OF SIR GEORGE HARPER CREWE, BART.
spected Baronet, at Calke Abbey, the family seat, in Derby- I A CLEVER TRICR.—A short time ago a man ar-
shire, on Monday last. He was born in 179.3, and married rived at Strasburgh from Paris with a large stock of table and
Miss Whittaker, daughter of the Rev. Thomas Whittaker, in chimney-clucks, opened a shop, and made a grand display of
1819, by whom he leaves several children. The deceased Ba- his ware, but put such high prices on his articles that no one
ronet succeeded to the family honours on the death of his fa- would buy them. Nut many days had passed when another
ther, the 7th Baronet, in 1818, who ,had assumed for himself Person came, made a seizure of the person and property of the
and issue the name of Crewe, in lieu of that of Harper Sir clock-merchant, incarcerated the one, and put the wares up
George was elected in 1837 Member for the Southern Division for sale by auction. The notoriety of the circumstances at-
of Derbyshire, and continued in the House of Commons until tranted a numerous aulence, and all the clocks were disposed
the late general election. He was a Conservative in politics. of at extraordinary high prices. The account being wound up,
Mr. John Harper Crewe, eldest son of the deceased, born in the creditor reb ased h:s debtor, and they both went on their
1824, succeeds to the Baronetcy. way rejoicing at having done the good citizens of Strasburgh by
FREEMASONRY.--Many have probably heard of the selling them timekeepers which would not keep time, and
owefe
French officer in the battle of Waterloo who was so badly not worth
for th half the money they by their confederacy bad b-
tem.
wounded that he was unable to keep up with his regiment ; and
in that situation was discovered by a Scotch Highlander of the PRIZE w
a FIGHT.—Yes
British army; who, with his blood-stained weapon drawn, his Place at Twyford, near Windsor, between a man named Ox-
teeth clenched, and his eyes flashing fire, put spurs to his horse ford, usually called the ,Wychford Forester, and
tee
and galloped up to dispatch him, bat just as he was on the point terday a prize-fight tx oc
hour and forty
much rty in
punished, par.
in., ended in
of striking the fatal blow, the officer gave a Masonic sign of the defeat of the latter. Both men !,
distress—it was well understood by the Seotchman, whose giant ticularly 111‘Grath, who, although the
aria was immediately unnerved; love and sympathy were, de-
was not a match fcr his more powerful and scientific ante-
picted in his countenance; and, as he turned his horse to ride Pni't•
off, was heard to say, " The Lord bless and protect thee, my On lastSuSundayhive of bees swarmed in the
favourite at commencing,
'
Brother !" These facts, together with many others that might parish o: Easton, near Wickham Market. This extraordinary
be mentioned, show the use and very great importance of , fact is e`nn.mu"cated to us bi a gentleman re'idir in the
MabWiC nezets.—Freetna,sona' Quarterly Reviewfor January. ' parish.--Norfolk Chrvnci e.