The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

rnE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING-. NOVEMBER 26, 1344.

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
ROBERTS V. TAYLOR.

The jury having remained out of Court more than an
hour, found a verdict fur the plaintiff-10/ for the as-
sault, and 51. for excessive distres—thus allowing the
defendant 251 for rent.

BARROW V. FRANKLIN.

In the course of examination it was elicited from the
plaintiff's witnesses, that the ill-treatment on account of
which Mrs. Franklin left her husband, consisted mainly
of vulgar and gross language, which, his Lordship ob-
served, however shocking to a female who had been ac-
customed to more refined society, she might have ex-
pected to endure when she allied herself to a man of the
class to which the defendant belonged. It also appeared
that before the action was brought, Mrs. Franklin had
returned to her husband, and that his conduct
towards her had, from January last till the
present time, been unexceptionable. Her father deposed
that he, and not the plaintiff, had maintained her during
the separation.
The jury, after a short deliberation, found that the
lady had had sufficient cause for leaving her husband,
but that the board afforded her by the uncle was not
furnished on the husband's credit, through her pro-
mise.—Verdict entered for defendant.

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CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY,
OLD COURT.

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
George John. Paye, a wheelwright, in the employment
of the South-Western Railway Company, was charged
with having stolon some brass tubes, &c., of the value of
Cs. 9d., from that Company.
Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Johnson for the defence.

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The evidence proved that the property was found on
his (the prisoner's) premises, and the servants upon the
railway identified it. _
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The jury found him Guilty, but in consideration of a
previous good character, recommended him to mercy.
The RECORDER said that, owing to that recommenda-
tion, he should limit the period of his imprisonment to
two calendar months, with hard labour.

120
123
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480
230
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COURSE OF EXCH./
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13131
Altona l3 131
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65
Ditto, 3 months 25 90
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 95
Frankfort on Maine l2l

.NGE,-(THIS DAY,

240
30
495
10
167
152

Gibraltar —
Leghorn 3O 50
Genoa 25 85

Milan
Venice ........
Nap1e5.......
Palermo, per oz llB
Lisbon 55
Oporto 55
Rio Janeiro 23

Bahia 23

Petersburgh, 3Us 37
Berlin 7
Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 953
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36}

Buenos Ayres —
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia —

PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 97,
Sil'for in ears 0 4 ng

Cadiz

101%

Bilbao 36
Barcelona 36

Seville

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.
GLOBE.—We are glad to see the standard of re-
volt raised in the Church itself against the priestly
,pretensions of Henry of Exeter, and his congenial
curates, and against the " holy innovations" of the
Peel of the Church, Charles James, Bishop of London.
The standard of re volt may be considered:rather a fierce
phrase. But, after all, it is only revolt against revolt—
revolt against individual or clique caprice, setting
itself up as the authorative organ of English Church-
inanship. Now, very unfortunately, English Church-
manship has no organ just at present. Every
English Churchman, "high" or "low," is "thrown on
his own resources," and compelled to choose his own
ground. The charge of irreverence to authorised in-
terpreters of orthodox doctrine or discipline must
come with a very indifferent grace indeed from the
original Church agitators. The sometime editors of
Froude's " Remains," or of the British Critic—such
Gracchi of the Church as Mr. Newman or Mr. Ward
—are the last men in the world to be listened to in
complaint of the sacerdotal sedition, Bishop Phillpotts
doing the honours of his diocese to the suspended
Saint who had given name to Puseyism, Bishop
Blomfield setting aside all ecclesiastical usage
(which, as the Rev. Henry Raikes, Chancellor of
Chester, most justly observes, "in ecclesiastical
matters is but another term for law")—these " holy
innovators," we say—betraying, moreover, in all
their innovations a degree of ignorance of the law of
the land, and the law of the Church, all but incon-
ceivable in undeniably acute and officially elevated
men, speaking from a seat of authority—have begun
that process of unsettling men's minds, which never
yet ended in favour of implicit obedience to the
power that provoked it. It is very strange that it
should not have been felt, in those days of inquiry,
that unreasoned deference can only be paid to pre-
scriptive—habitual—claims on it. Men will readily
take for granted that there is some reason at the
foundation of any practice, which comes recom-
mended to them by the fact that it has subsisted
from century to century. And some reason, for the
most part, there is. It is the crudest of all proceed-
ings—and that which has most usually been objected
to hasty Reformers—to ascribe nothing of weight to
usage, and everything to some fancied fitness. Wise
men would have begun for instance, in the great
gown-or-surplice question, by supposing the vesture
obnoxious to their zeal innocent, till it was proved
guilty. They would not have ridden off on seine
nonsensical hobby of the sermon being part of the
communion ; they would have traced the poor gown
back, and would have discovered its real and original
conformity to the whole system of Protestant
worship, Accordingly the decent and primitive
gown (we, of course, speak as Protestants) would
not have been discarded by a prelate professing not
to he ashamed of the name of Protestant, whatever
might have happened to it at the hands of the Puseyite
Bishop Phillpotts. And, we imagine, even that pole-
mical prelate, with all his fine instinct of discord,
would have hesitated to indulge it (in the matter of
burials) in defiance of the law of the land—if he had
happened to know that law a little better, before he
talked about it. In this state of things, and with this
incredible levity in some high places, every Church.
man must feel the fate of the Church possibly de-
pendent on him. Whether, or not, there are " ten
righteous men " in the city, may fix its doom.
Whether, or not, there are sufficient numbers
of clergymen not drunk with a dream of power—
to retain the general confidence of the laity in
something like sane spiritual guidance—is the
question which every clergyman's conduct and lan-
guage go so far to answer. There can be no scruple
about speaking out, when the modern monkery speaks
out so loudly. There can be no scruple about dis-
senting from bishops, when the modern monkery
insults therm, and they truckle to it in meed of
insult. Any one who requires proof of this is referred
to Mr. Ward's " Ideal of a Christian Church"—
and with regard to the truckling which has followed
all this insult, on the part of some prelates—what are
these " holy innovations" (never thought of before)
but concessions to this modern monkery ?
What are they but concessions, and most blunder-
ing ones, to the spirit which now avows
its entire unity with ltome—while, most prepos-
terously—though accepting " the whole cycle of
Roman doctrine"—denouncing every exercise of pri-
vate judgment in matters of faith as a sin—declaring
his Holiness " head bishop on earth," and his dogma-
tic decrees infallible—declaring our Church "vitally"
and utterly "corrupt"—and declaring elsewhere, that
Churches thus corrupt are not Churches at all--the
modern monkery of Oxford clings nevertheless—like
sombre and stifling ivy—to the Church of its fellow-
ships—the Church of its coterie-influence—its tea and
" relics." The modern monks believe Rome in all
things—except when Rome tells them they must join
her. In this ridiculous and self-stultified position let
them by all means rest. We would not make a martyr of
a single man (we beg pardon, monk) of them. We
would let them go on reviling fur wiser and far better
men than themselves, and enumerating amongst the
signs of saintship the harbouring of vermin. But we
would not let them dictate charges to Prelates, and ce-
remonies to Protestants. We would let them call us
heretics to their hearts' content, but not palm on us
their heresy. We would let them anathematise all
private judgment, but not substitute theirs for ours.
For, in fact, to private judgment the al peal is made,
after all, on both sides. The Newman and Ward
party, indeed, would dethrone reason from all judg-
ment on faith. But they are compelled to restore
Reason ad interim, to supply arguments why they
themselves stay out of Rome. It is universally
received in the Roman communion, that no
salvation is to be ebtained out of it—and that
nothing but " invincible ignorance" can be
pleaded for any yet within its pale. Mr.
Ward declares that he looks to Rome for instruc-
tion and model, and exults in adding that numbers,
like himself, are possessed with the whole cycle of
Roman doctrine. But this doctrine—the keystone
of the arch (for it is this which stamps Catholic
authority) this, the most imperative in " the
whole cycle of Roman doctrine"— these Ox-
ford heretics boggle at. And why ? Because
all other Roman doctrines are good weapons of
attack and aspersion on Protestantism. But this one
doctrine demands the sacrifice of station and influence
by themselves. We ascribe no motives of sordid in-
terest to this very curious party. But it is clear,
beyond all mistake, that they feel consistency would
consign them to insignificance. We hope an ener-
getic (not exclusive or persecuting) reaction of Pro-
testant independence amongst clergy and laity
(which is surely as justifiable as insurrection against
Protestantism) will do just the same business for
them—consignle them, namely, to that insignificance
to which some remnant of common sense withholds
AasN3D'etA.fitropm.__c_o„nTsighneingvitshceomunsetivAesb.
believe, is still in London." Upon this short and
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that some important change in the sugar duties,

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some change much more important than that
proposed by the Whigs and rejected by Parlia-
ment in 1841, may be looked for at the hands
of Sir Robert Peel. We assure our readers that
the Morning Chronicle has no other datum what-
ever to support this extravagant expectation,
but its own belief that " the Viscount Abrantes" (the
Brazilian envoy) "is still in London." Now, dis-
missing the uncertainty in the case, and taking it for
granted the Viscount Abrantes is still in London, we
must dispute the necessity of our Contemporary's in-
ference. The Viscount Abrantes is, like every foreign
gentleman and every foreign minister with whose
country we are at peace (now happily the case in
reference to the whole world) at libefty to
remain in London as long as it shall seem plea-
sant to him ; and if he came here with
the peremptory and extravagant propositions
that have been ascribed to his Government, his lin-
gering here is a proof, in addition to many others,
that his propositions have been, as they ought to be,
firmly rejected, and that he waits a modification of
them from his own Government. Shopkeepers per-
fectly well understand from the hesitating retire-
ment of a customer who has in vain attempted to
cheapen an article, that he will, in the end, come
back and purchase it. The customer as well
knows that the shopkeeper who follows him into
the street will, ultimately, accept his price. It
is just the same thing in diplomacy. The
party that shows an anxiety to keep the nego-
tiations open as long as possible, is the party that
knows he must give way at last. If the Brazilian
Government had not in fact had so much common
sense as to see before the failure of their negotiations
with France (of which, by the way, the Morning
Chronicle says nothing) that this is their situation,
why was the Viscount Abrantes sent here ? The
ultimatum of England was obtained from Mr. Ellis—
why then send a special envoy, if there was no new
proposition to offer? It may be, that the Brazilian
Government may, like others whom the League and its
journals hare cheated, have been for a moment puffed
up with an inordinate notion of the importance of the
Brazil trade to the European nations, to France as
well as to England, and may, during this delusion,
have miscalculated its power, or rather forgotten its
utter inability to exclude European goods. A few
minutes' conversation of its representative with the
better informed and more prudent Ministers of
England and of France would soon expose the true
state of the case, and apprise the Brazilian Govern-
ment, that highly as it may think of itself and of the
commerce of the country which it governs, the first-
rate and most commercial nations of Europe are not
yet quite prepared essentially to change their whole
commercial policy, to conciliate the one or obtain the
other, more especially as the whole commerce (f the
Brazils, such as it is, may be obtained upon much
cheaper terms—obtained without the cost of any
sacrifice, save the loss of its revenues to the Govern-
ment of Rio. This, no doubt, is the melancholy ten-
dency of the report which the Viscount Abrantes has
made to his superiors, and it is awaiting the modified
propositions which such a report must suggest, that
" the Viscount Abrantes we believe is still in Eng-
land." The Morning Chronicle " engages for it that
the Viscount's demands are of a Sibylline character,
and have not been diminished by so long an
armistice." Upon what does our Contemporary
found this very rash engagement? The Sibyl did not
linger still in Rome ; but, though she returned,
she took her answer and departed ; she did not stop
to " higgle and haggle," if we may use the
Parliamentary dialect. Again, there has been
no armistice, except the expiring treaty is to
be regarded as such. It may be that the
Brazilian Government will be so silly (though we
do not expect it to be so), as to make more extrava-
gant demands, because the less extravagant are refused,
in order to get in a higher style out of the affair, just
as Mr. O'Connell prefers the more obvious impossibi-
lity, repeal, to the less obvious impossibility, fede-
ralism. "In for a penny, in for a pound," accord-
ing to the proverb. When people resolve to claim
what they know they will not get, there is dignity
and grandeur in insisting upon something very great.
The fact is, that our Contemporary's article is from
first to last mere moonshine ; an abuse of time, type,
and the patience of readers, of which we cannot rea-
sonably complain, seeing that we have nearly filled a
column in replying to it; for which we ask pardon.

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current fof Nov. 26.
Suos.n.-To-day the home consumption Sugar market
presented a quiet appearance ; there was no public sale
of Bengal or Mauritius, and little business was tran-
sacted by private treaty. For West India Muscovadoe
the demand was limited for the scale and pan,
middling to fine yellow and strong grey qualities sus-
tained the former value, the market being scantilly sup-
plied with such, but for inferior and brown sorts the
rates taken were generally Gd per cwt under those of
Friday last. The total purchases are 450 hhds, &c.,
including a public sale of 100 hhds 8 tierces of Barba-
does, which went off at former rates, excepting for low
sorts, which went 6d to is per cwt lower, fine yellow
brought 655, good 62s to 645, good mid 60s to 61s 6d,
mid 57a to 59s 6d, and low 54s to 56s 6d per cwt.
REFINED.-To-day refined goods were in excellent re-
quest by the home trade, brown lumps at 72s to 735,
standard 73s 6d to 745, and wet lumps 71s per cwt.
Some of the refiners have no goods to offer for sale. The
market is firm for bonded crushed Sugar at 29s 6d per
cwt, and the supply is very small.
MAURITIUS.-There has been less inclination mani-
fested to purchase this description of Sugar. The bid-
dings were languid at the public sales of 5,811 bags
232 casks of the new crop ; the principal part, how-
ever, found purchasers at fair market rates, but the
prices obtained were not so high as were expected
-fine yellow sold at 64s to 67s 6d, good 60s to
63s 6d, good middling 57s Gd to 595 6d, low to middling
52s to 563 6d, good brown 48s, low to middling 42s to
455, very low 40s, grey 52s to 58s. The principal part
consisted of good middling and good bright strong
yellow descriptions; a few lots of the old crop went at
49s 6d per cwt for brown. Arrivals aro near at hand,
and the stock is larger than it was last season at this
period.
EAST INDIA.-Bengal has been in very good demand
for home consumption, and an advance in prices of Is to
Is 6d per cwt has taken place for white descriptions ;
brown and yellow kinds have sustained the former cur-
rency, and of such the supply chiefly consists. At public
sale 6,578 bags were principally disposed of-fine white
at 66s to 69s 6d, good 64s to 65s 6d, low to middling 61a
to 63s Gd, damp and washed 60s to 695, fine sound
yellow 62s to 63s 6d, good middling and good 58s 6d to
61s, middling 55s to 58s, low 51s to 54s 6d, damp and
washed 50s to 63s 6d, sound brown 44s to 525, damp and
damp and washed 40s Gd to 51s per cwt. For Java the
demand has been extensive. Manilla is held for the
former currency, but less demand has existed. Of
Singapose, 534 bags were taken in a 19s to 20s for
fine damp yellow, 18s to 19s for washed, 16s for brown,
and 15s to 15s Gd per cwt for washed.
FOREIGN.-To-day an increased desire was shown to
purchase all descriptions of Foreign, and Foreign East
India Sugar, and very full rates were paid. The private
operations are 400 baskets of Java at 23s to 23s 6d, 500
hhds of old Porto Rico at 19s, 3,000 bags of mid yellow
Manilla at 19s, some parcels of yellow Havannah at
20s 6d to 22s 6d, brown at 18s to 20s, and a large parcel
of Bahia, but the price at present has not transpired. The
market has a very firm appearance for all descriptions.
COFFEE.-There has been a very good demand for
West India for home consumption, the moderate rates
that prevail causing the trade to be desirous to get well
stocked, particularly with the ordinary good and fine
ordinary descriptions. In Ceylon there has been little
business transacted by private treaty, ordinary and
good ordinary pale descriptions have sustained the former
value, but for the lower qualities of Plantation a decline
in prices of 2s per cwt has occurred; the better kinds,
however, have sustained the former value. This after-
noon there was little desire shown to purchase Ceylon
Coffee. At public sale 360 bags were only partly dis-
posed of at a decline in prices of Gd per cwt, good ordi-
nary pale selling at 53s 6d. There was a better demand
privately for Sumatra at 22s per cwt.
MOLASSES.-For West India a brisk demand has
sprung up, and the large quantity of 500 puns have been
disposed of at firm rates ; Antigua has fetched 245, and
Tobago 21s :to 21s 6d per cwt. The deliveries aro still
exceeding the arrivals. In East India not much business
has been transacted, but holders refrain from pressing
sales ; 14s to lis per cwt is the value.
TEA.-The market has presented a firm appearance
for every description of Tea since this day week; a good
do mand has existed by private contract for Congou, and
full rates have been paid-sales made at 10-id to 10,1 d
for common, and at lid to 112 d for good common.
Twankay at Is 2d to is 2id for yellow leaf. Scented
Orange Pekoe at 3s 4d to 3s sd. Pouchong 6d to 10d.
Fly son and Young Hyson are in very good demand, and
stiffer rates are paid. Gunpowder and Imperial are
much in request, and prices are still going up. In other
i-asnTadlhltihtsaekasteloneurinniaotonf2Bildae4tokooP2idapgpfsoerr met with little
sorts_ of Tea some parcels have been sold at firm rates.
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stalky, being the full value, sea damaged sold, Gist class
at 2d to 21d, second class 2d to 2d. Of white 60 bags
were mostly taken in at 41d for middling, two lots sold
at 41d. 29 bags of Bengal Ginger were taken in at 16s
per cwt for ordinary worm.
Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-Importers of Ja-
maica Rum refusing to submit to lower rates checks
business, and only small parcels have been disposed of at
the former currency. The market is firm for Leewards;
the supply is rather small, and a fair demand exists at
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proof with certificate.
To-day there was a brisker demand for Leeward
Island and Calcutta Rum, in consequence of the Go-
vernment contract for 100,000 gallons of Rum adver-
tised to be taken on Thursday, and prices are firmer ;
sales of the former made at 2s 4id to 2s 5d proof, and
and the latter at 2s 3d per gallon with certificate. In
Jamaica there is at present not much business doing..
For Cognac Brandy of the vintage of 1842 there is a
large demand at 4s 5d to 4s 7d per gallon.
FRUIT.-This afternoon at public sale, 50 barrels of
red Smyrna Raisins went at 465; 555 drums of Sultana
635; 12,919 drums of Turkey Figs 46s to 575; 14 casks
103 brls 209 boxes of Greek Figs-34s to 38s; 56 butts
of New Patras Currants, part damaged, 45s to 48s,
49 crtls Ditto 46s to 50s, 22 brls Ditto 50s 51s; 50 hf-chts

of new Prunes 388 ; 450 ;half cartons of new Imperial
French Plums 9/ to 7/ 10s, 1,368 quarter ditto 61 to 6/
lOs ; 216 ditto 61 Bs, and 100 quarter o
to 765.

RicE.—Bengal is much wanted, but the market is still
sparingly supplied, and prices rule firm, sales by private
treaty of mid white have been made at 11 s, good mid at
lls 6d, and good 11s 9d to 12s per cwt ; none has again
been offered at auction, and a further decrease has taken
place in the stock. Of Java some parcels have been sold
privately at full prices, but at auction the sound of 1,698
bags was taken in at lOs to lOs 6d for mid broken white
being above the value, the damaged, however, sold at
5s to 9s per cwt. Madras has met with ready purchasers
by private troaty, at 8s 6d to 9s per cwt for yellow ;
indeed, the market has been nearly cleared. The Millers
are still issuing a large quantity of Rice, notwithstanding
the low rates that prevail for Wheat. The market is
firm for cleaned Rice—Patna at 13s 6d to 18s, and Ca-
rolina at 23s to 27s per cwt.
WooL.—There has been a better demand for nearly
all kinds of Wool, purchases to a fair extent have been
made, and at steady rates ; the accounts from the ma-
nufacturing parts of the country are of a more
favourable nature for the article. The advices come to
hand from Sydney state that prices had advanced
for Wool. The arrivals of Wool from the first
January to the 31st of October have been as follows ' • in
London 36,179 bales of Foreign, and 72,364 brls of Co-
lonial. Into Liverpool 33,600 bales of Foreign, and
9,736 bales of Colonial, and into Hull and Goole 60,199
bales of Foreign making the total 130,698 bales of
Foreign, and 82,100 bales of Colonial. The arrivals last
week were 3,274 bales, 1,445 bales of which consisted of
Colonial.

INDIGO.—The export demand for Bengal has been
limited, and for home consumption there are very few
purchasers ; prices as compared with those of the last
quarterly sale show a decline of 2d to 4d per lb. In
Oude and Kurpah little business has been done. For
Spanish the demand is trifling.
TALLow.—Previous rates are fully sustained for Rus-
sian Tallow; on the spot the trade have purchased
largely at 408 6d to 40s 9d per cwt for New P Y Candle
of first quality, and merchants are not inclined to press
sales. Town Tallow has been in excellent request at
41s to 41s 6d, nett cash. New South Wales Tallow at
auction sold at 38s to 41s 3d for mid to fine quality.
South American at public sale at 35s 3d to 39s Gd for
common to fine quality.
OILS.—The common descriptions of Fish Oils have
been taken sparingly, and previous rates are with diffi-
culty supported. For Pale Seal 341 to 351 have
been accepted, 301 to 331 for colored Seal, 32/ lOs to
331 for Cod Oil, and at 28/ to 32/ for Southern.
Sperm 88/ to 901 for fine British. Of American Spor-
macetti 85 boxes at auction fetched is 2d per lb in bond.
American Lard Oil is fetching 40/ to 411 per tun.
Prices are still going down for Olive Oil, 421 to 43/ hay •
ing been accepted for Gallipoli, 401 to 411 for Spanish,
and 39/ to 39/ lOs per tun for Barbary ; at these low
rates, however, buyers are more inclined to operate.
Linseed Oil at 23s 3d to 23s 6d. This afternoon at
public sale 11 tanks 107 pipes 166 hhds of Ceylon
Cocoa Nut Oil were bought in at 271105, and inferior at
261 per tun.

TIIE LONDON GAZETTE
(THIS EVENING.)

FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 25.

The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John
Ross, as Consul at Malta for the Grand Duke of Meek-
lenburgh-Schwerin.
Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the West
Riding of Yorkshire, and of the City and County of
the City of York.
Second West Reg went of Yorkshire Yeomanry
Cavalry—Cornet J. Brooke to be Lieutenant, vice G. H.
Brooke, resigned ; J. T. Armitage, Gent., to be Cornet,
vice J. Brooke, promoted. Nov. 1.
Hussar Regiment of Yorkshire (West Riding) Yeo-
manry Cavalry—Lieutenant J. 'l'. Wharton to be
Captain, vice T. Fairfax, resigned ; Lieutenant F. 11.
Wood to be Captain, vice 11. S. Thompson, resigned ;
Cornet W. B. Ferrand to be Lieutenant, vice J. T.
Wharton, promoted ; Cornet A. Brown to be Lieutenant,
vice F. H. Wood, promoted ; the Hononrable G. F. S. R.
Viscount Goderich to be Cornet, vice W. B. Ferrand,
promoted, Nov. 2.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
NCH2, 1844..5
MICHAELMAS TERM.—EIGHTH VICTORIA.
This Court will sit, at a quarter-past nine o'clock in
the morning, on Wednesday the 4th day of December
next, and will give judgment in cases then pending ie
the new trial, special, and Crown papers.
BY THE COURT.
IN THE EXCHEQUER OF PLEAS.
Michaelmas Term.—Eighth Victoria.

Monday, Nov. 25, 1844.
This Court will, on Tuesday, the 10th day of Decem-
ber next, at ten in the morning, hold a Sitting, for the
purpose of giving judgment in cases pending in the New
Trial and Special Papers, and also to give judgment in
all motions for rules nisi for new trials. or otherwise, in
which judgment has not yet been given.
BY THE COURT.

Read in open Court, Nov. 25 , 1844,
Sarni, Dare, Master.
BANKRUPTS.

JOHN BURGESS, farmer, Cratfield, Suffolk, to
surrender Nov. 29, at half-past one, and Jan. 3, at one,
at the Court of -Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ;
Wilde, Rees. Humphrey, and Wilde, College hill, London.
JAMES JOILNSON, apothecary, North-place, Gray's
Inn-lane, Dec. 30, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 8, at
half-past one, a.t the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Lindsay and Mason,
Cateaton-street.
JOHN FREDERICK FIGGE, merchant, Dunster-
court, Mincing-lane, Dec. 5, at one, and Jan. 9, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Turquand, official assignee,
Old Jewry- chain, wrs ; Nicholson and Parker, Throg-
morton- street.

JAMES TOMLIN, ship-broker, St. Michael's-alley,
Cornhill, Dec. 4, as two, and Jan. 10, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankraptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall street ; Desborough and Young, Size-lane.
BARTHOLOMEW VANDERPLANK, warehouse-
man, Love-lane, C.;,ty, Dec. 5 and Jan. 13, at one, at the
Court of Bankrutptcy. Whitmore, official assignee,
Basinghall-street ; James, Basinghall-street.
WILLIAM CLARKE, builder, Sheffield, Dec. 10 and
Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young,
official assignee, _Leeds ; Moss, Cloak-lane, London ;
Blackburn, Leeds.
JOHN HUMRLE, chemist, Ossett, Yorkshire,
Dec. 10 and Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Fearne, of,cial assignee, Leeds ; Gregory and
nay-, Leeds.
P H MEUGENS, broker, Danster-
London Wavell, Halifax ; Courte-
cCootill'r'Eti,3TePdfifßnbcridnj-gr;wai, City, Dec. 11 and Jan. 7, at twelve,
at the Court ofßank ruptcy,Basingliajl-street. Edwards,
official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Nichol-
son and Parker, Throgmorton-street.
JOHN COOPER WHITE, draper, Canterbury, Dec.
11 and Jan. 7, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Basinghall-street. Groom, official assignee, Ab-
church-lane ; Sole, .Aldermanbury.
WILLIAM COX-, general dealer, Crown-street, Soho,
Dec. 5 and Jan. 7, at: eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Basinghall-street. .I3elcher, official assignee, King's
Arms-yard ; Pain an d Hatherley, Basinghall- street.
JAMES lIASEL DEN, cotton spinner, Bolton-le-
Moors. Dec. 10 and'. 30, at eleven, at the Manchester
District Court Fraser, official assignee, Manchester ;
Milne, Parry, Milne , and Morris, Temple, London ;
Winder and Broadbes it, Bolton.
JOHN HALL, ouwkeeper, Wallsend, Dec. 5, at
twelve, and Jan. 7, at two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne
District Court. Wall ley, official assignee, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne ; Wilson,, Sunderland ; 8011, Brodrick, and
Bell, Bow. churchyar.l London.
ELEANOR ROBE:NSON and WILLIAM ROBIN-
SON, bakers, Swin f ord, Leicestershire, Dec. 6, at
twelve, and Jan. 10, at half-past twelve, at the Birming-
ham District Court. 'Valpy, official assignee, Birming-
ham ; Mash, Lutterl4l firth ; Smith, Bedford-row, Lon-
dun ; Motteram, Birmt;righam.
JOHN BROWN, painter, Newcastle-under-Lyme,
Dec. 11 and 31, at elei en, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, offic •ial assignee, Birmingham ; Har-
rison and Smith, Bier( lingham ; Jackson, Field-court,
Gray's Inn, London.
ROBERT WATT,. merchant, Lime-street, City,
Dec. 19, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 21, at eleven, at
the Court of Bankrupitcy. Graham, official assignee,
Coleman-street ; Sigar Verulam-buildings.
CHARLES lIENRN HAMBLETON, licensed vic-
tualler, Northampton—street, Bethnal-grean, Dec. 11,
and Jan. 7, at eleven., at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Edwards, official assigmee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry;
Mahon and Trollope, arey-street, Lincoln's Inn.
JOHN QUINCEY HARRIS, hat-manufacturer,
Winchester-place, Southwark, I)ee. 6, at eleven, and
Jun. 8, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee, 'Coleman-street-buildings; Parker,
Lincoln's Inn-fields.

GEORGE STEPEEN, scrivener, Skinner's-place,
Sise-lane, City, Dec.. 5, and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Basing-
hall-lane; Cox, Sise-tane.

THE LATE Romany AT MESSRS. ROGERS AND
CO.'S, IN THE CITY.—Up to two o'clock to-day noinfor-
mation had been recalved by the City police authorities
on the subject of this extraordinary robbery. It is con-
sidered by those shoal the banking-house, that the rob-
bery was committed about the middle of the day on
Sunday, and the rea'onable inference from that con-
jecture is, that the th ieves started by railroads to the
several ports from which steamers were speedily to
sail to various parts of the Continent. Messengers were
sent off by Mr. Hobler to France, Germany, Belgium,
and other places, and. the several telegraphs were set to
work. It is unnecesaary to state that thegreeaxtepsetreiexneere-
tions are being made by Mr. Hobler, whose
and activity lead the members of the plundered esta-
blishment to hope that detection may soon follow.--
[We are informed that her Majesty has offered a free
pardon to any accomplice concerned in the above affair.]
GUERNSEY.—WhiIe
Jersey is in a state of excite-
ment on account of the proceedings in the Wilson case,
the sister island of Guernsey has a little affair of her
own to furnish a topic of conversation in parlours and
clubrooms. Four British gentlemen have fal'en into
what is familiarly termed a row. The circumstances
are briefly these :—Mr. M'Donald, who has been a re-
sident not many months in the island, became a candi-
date for admis3ion into the " Civil and United Service
Club" of Guernsey. Upon bing balloted for, according
to the rules of the club, he was blackballed. He was na-
turally vexed and indignant at the result, and endea-
voured to discover the cause of it. His suspicions at
last rested upon Mr. Armstrong, a member of the club,
who, he believed, had made statements prejudicial to his
character. Mr. M`Donald, on entering a billiard-room,

was heard to say—" He (alluding, it is supposed, to Mr.
Armstrong) is not here—we must go and find him and
drag him out of the house and give him a licking."
This being mentioned to Major Rybot, Mr. Armstrong's
friend, the Major went to the constable's office and got
Mr. M`Donald bound over to keep the peace 'towards
Mr. Armstrong. Mr. M`Donald, fired at this interfe-
rence, wrote an offensive letter to the Major, and re-
ceived a similar one in return. Meeting Major Rybot
and Mr. Armstrong in the street, M`Donald asked Major
Rybot what he meant by his letter. The reply was,
that the letter explained itself. Mr. M'Donald then
flourished his stick over Major Rybot, and told him to
consider that it had been laid across his shoulders. The
Major returned the compliment, desiring that Mr.
M`Donald would entertain a similar agreeable idea.
After a variety of further courteous expressions, the
verbal civility came to more substantial marks of good
will, and not only Mr. M`Donald, but Mr. Dundas, a
gentleman in his company, fell upon Major Rybot in a
very un- English style—two to one ; the Major, however,
fought so gallantly that he had the best of the battle
until his can. broke. Ile was their rescued by the inter-
ference of others. We are acquainted with none of the
parties in any way implicated in this affair, with the ex-
ception of Major Rybot, whom we know to be a highly
honourable man anti a true gentleman in his manners,
and we think that his conduct in this unhappy matter re-
dounds gretvly to his credit. The business was brought
before the Police-court of Guernsey on Tuesday last,
when Mr. M`Donald and Mr. Dundas were sentenced to
a fortnight's imprisonment, and to be called upon at the
end of that time to give bail in .50/. each, with two sure-
ties of 254 each, to keep the peace 1-wards all her Ma
jesty's ::objects in Guernsey for one year.—Jersey rrnes.
A GAMEKEEPER SHOT.—On Saturday night last,
Mr. Green, gamekeeper to J. S. Lescher, Esq., of South
Weald, was wounded by a gun shot, in an attempt to ap-
prehend a poacher, who escaped. Mr. Green lies in a
dangerous state.—Essex Herald.

MEDICAL EVIDENCE IN THE
CASE OF BELANEY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MEDICAL GAZETTE.
Sir,—Will you do me the favour of inserting this
letter in as early a number of your journal as may be
convenient; it is an answer to one I have just seen,
and which appeared in the Herald of the 17th inst.,
purporting to be a review of the medical evidence
given by myself and Dr. Thomson at the late trial of
Belaney, and accusing us of having allowed ourselves
to be directed by general evidence, of having assumed
wrong premises, and drawn conclusions from them
which were not warranted : three charges sufficiently
grave and serious to call for a reply, especially as they
are put forth by a medical professor under the form
of a scientific dissertation. I can, and do, sympathise
with the Rev. Mr. Belaney, and hope that no word or
act of mine will give a tone to the general impressions
which are everywhere formed respecting the unfortu-
nate death of his brother's wife ; and I assure him that
I was actuated by the same feelings when I entered
the Court to give evidence at the trial, being con-
vinced that general reports neither did, nor could,
come within the scope of my inquiries, which had
reference merely to the medical facts; and for the
purpose of arriving at these, and removing every
tittle of doubt or objection which ingenuity might
raise against them, I had instituted experiments under
every variety of form and circumstance, the results of
which, and not of any readings or hearsay, I detailed
honestly and as clearly as I could to the jury, never
allowing myself for one moment to be swayed by a
double-meaning question, or by any party feeling ;
and it must also be remembered that I was not unac-
customed to such investigations, but that the circum-
stances of my position had for many years demanded
an almost daily examination into them.
Among the wrong conclusions with which Dr.
Glover charges us, are the following :—He says, I had
no right to assume that the cry of Mrs. Belaney was
a shriek, or that it was the effect of the poison. Now
I do not know that I have anywhere made such an
assumption. It is merely asked of me, whether
animals, under the influence of prussic acid, do not
cry out? To which I answer—yes, that it is a con-
stant effect: and then it is inquired of me whether,
after this cry, there would be a possibility of walking
to bed and telling the cause of the disaster? To
which I reply, " Certainly not ! fur after the shriek all
sensibility and volition cease." And Dr. Thomson
confirms my statement. This was no answer given
hastily and inconsiderately, but sought for amidst
multitudes of experiments and observations ; nor is it
in any way invalidated by the case quoted from
Christison, or, indeed, by any case within my know-
ledge that has ever been upon record. There can be
no doubt, as this and other cases show, of a capability
of speaking after the exhibition of the poison; but
this is not the argument ; it is, whether there can be
Conversation after the shriek—which I maintain is
impossible. With respect to the other question,
whether Mrs. Belaney's cry was a mere call to her
husband, or a scream resulting from the poison, I have
never offered an opinion, although Mr. Garrett stated
in his evidence that Belaney told him it was a scream.
Again, according to the husband's statement, Mrs.
Belaney called the drink hot; and I am asked, if
prussic acid has a hot taste ? and reply, " No; that its
taste is bitter." I have tasted it again and again, and
on two occasions in quantities sufficiently large to
produce faintness ; yet Dr. Glover maintains, by an
unnecessary, an inapplicable, and a most unlearned
dissertation upon the chlorides, bromides, and iodides
of cyanogen, that it must be hot,—though I cannot
see how this affects the matter of fact arrived at by
myself and another, who is nearly the only individual
who has lived to record that its taste is inexpressibly
bitter.

In next part of the review Dr. Glover pronounces
our answers to be an outrageous piece of cruelty. It
was known that Belaney, although he called himself
a medical man, used no efforts to recover his wife, and
we are asked whether the remedies for prussic acid
are generally known in the profession ? To which
we reply, that they should be, inasmuch as they are
everywhere taught ; and I think that we were
warranted in making such a reply, when it is re-
membered that for sixteen years or upwards they have
been publicly and emphatically taught in our schools,
and are constantly being brought before the profession
in one form or another; that we have professed works
and journals, and charts, to teach them to us; and if
Dr. Glover's " old and young acquaintances, who are
in active practice," do not happen to know them, it
can surely never palliate, or in any way remove the
culpability of the charge of gross neglect and ig-
norance ; nor can it be admitted as an argument of
the universality of sueh ignorance : if it did, Heaven
knows, there is necessity enough for reform in our
profession ; but most singularly, when Dr. Glover
finds it convenient to make Belaney a judicious looker-
on, he argues for the propriety of his conduct, and
says, that when he stood by ready with his lancet, he
was acting in accordance with the views of Orfila,
Christison, Magendie, and others. And why, may I
ask, did he not further act in accordance with common
affection and common honesty, and try to save her ?
To crown the whole of this part of Dr. Glover's
review, he tells us that we do not know the remedies
ourselves ; notwithstanding the whole tenor of our
evidence, that she might have been saved.
Lastly, as regards our opinion, that a smell would
exist for some time in the room where prussic acid
had been spilt, Dr. Glover expresses his dissent in toto,
although it has been stated that my conclusions were
drawn from experiments made under circumstances as
nearly as possible like those of the case in question ;
and in conclusion, without staying to comment on the
pseudo-scientific character of the review, meant evi-
dently to catch the popular ear. I will merely ex-
press a wish that it had been written with a more
" conscientious spirit."
I am, sir, your obedient servant,
HENRY LETIIEBY, M. 8.,
Lecturer on Chemistry at the London Hospital.
12, Tredegar-square, Oct. 31, 1844.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
CAUTION TO MARINERS.
Extract of a letter from Lloyd's agent at Workington.
" Liverpool, Nov. 22, 1844.
"Captain Trunion, of the brig Middleton, of Mary-
port, requests me to report that, on the 7th of March
last, when on his passage from Buenos Ayres to Valpa-
raiso, in lat. 40 deg. 22 sec. S., lon. 55 deg. 13 sec. W.,
out five days (the latitude and longitude given as per
chronometer), he discovered rocks, on which broken water
was run for a quarter of a mile north and south—they
were about that distance from them when seen. Captain
Trunion, on his discovering them, was then taking an
observation of the sun. He supposes they must be the
Ariel Rocks, although there is a considerable difference
in their latitudes and longitudes; that had his attention
not been particularly drawn to that quarter whilst taking
his altitudes, they might have been passed unseen ; and
he can vouch for the accuracy of latitude and longitude of
ship when these rocks were discovered."

Com. Impunivica.—Rather more than seven years
ago, a light•fingered Irishman, named Sweeney, was
convicted of stealing a box of tinned plates from a ship
in one of the Liverpool dooks. On his conviction he was
sentenced to seven years' transportation, which punish-
ment was duly inflicted. A few days ago he again made
his appearance in this town, and one of the first places
he visited was the office of the firm to whom the tinned
plates had belonged. Neither of the principals were
within, but he at once proceeded in the coolest manner
to introduce himself as Mr. Sweeney, the gentleman who
had suffered for appropriating the tinned plates. He
said that his visit to Australia had not been either dis-
agreeable or unprofitable ; that he had soon obtained a
good-conduct ticket, and a good place as a gardener, in
which he had saved money. Having now fulfilled all
his obligations to the law, he had retOrne4 home, and
determined to claim his rights, among which 1‘7,9 thQ
box of tinned plates for which he had been sent to
Botany Bay 1 This he considered clearly his own, and
begged that it might b© given up to him. We need
scarcely say that Mr. Sweeney's story and his request
threw the whole office into a roar. The clerks not feel-
ing themselves competent to decide on so curious a claim
in the absence of their employers, begged that the gen-
tleman would call again, which he promised to do, though
he has not yet fulfilled his promise.—Liverpool Chronicle,

SUCCESS OF THE ALLOTMENT
SYSTEM AT WIMESWOULD, LEICESTER. '
A very interesting meeting took place at this vil-
lage on Tuesday evening last. The allotment sys-
tem appears to have been carried out there on a
rather extensive scale. There is a considerable
quantity of what is called feofee land, and two or
three years ago it was determined by the feofees,
in conjunction with the Rev. Mr. Alford, the incum-
bent, who, we understand, was the principal mover
in the scheme, to let it out in allotments of from a
rood to half an acre, In addition to this, several
gentlemen of the n i hbotirhaed encouraged the
system, and an allotm t: formed—the re-
sult of whose exertio neat quantity of
land, which before w• V 7 en waste, is now
fruitful and productine,s,'' been determined
upon to celebrate the ;tut.,l.-1' 416 e Society by a
supper, the meeting ikas lisit-atsth'e Infants' School-
room, which was t Asti--"idly7;dicoraf. d for the occa-
sion with laurel and (-vergreenS. We noticed io the
assembly the Rev. Mri4rlford; Pre4dent of the So-
ciety (in the chair), Is 4+l! Manners, M.P.,
Jones, Esq., Cstir6k, E4:,!_*S. B. Wild, Esq.,
Messrs. W. Ella, Brown, 'l'. R. Potter, Henson, Bos-
worth, G. Kilby, and several other landowners and
occupiers. The rest of the company, mustering up-
wards of 130, consisted of the allotmenters and their
friends.
The Rev. CHAIRMAN gave the usual loyal toasts,
which were responded to with great enthusiasm.
Mr. T. R. POTTER rose to propose the health of the
Noble guest, Lord John Manners, and took the op-
portunity of entering into a statement of the " rise
and progress" of the allotment system in Wimeswould.
There was at first considerable opposition to the plan ;
but he himself felt confident that it would be
productive of immense advantage both t the
rich and poor. He believed it would be fraught
with benefits both to the giver and receiver, and he
thought he could say that that had been the case there.
He believed there was no poor man there who
would not say that his situation had been much im-
proved by it ; and the farmers and ratepayers generally
must indeed be short sighted if they could not see that
the allotment system had in some degree diminished
their burdens.—(Hear, hear.) But he would mention
an allotment on his own ground. He let a field in
portions of from one acre to half a rood ; it was an
unmanageable piece of land, situate about two miles
from the village, and with a shocking bad road to it.
It was, indeed, in so wild a state, that he could not
restrain his tenants from using the plough ; but having
an adjoining field he put the spade into that, and dug up
from thirteen to twenty inches deep, burying the twitch
and rubbish ; and the consequence was, that he got
the land completely subsoiled, and the surface, instead
of being a heavy dead mass, was now a light spongy
soil.—(Cheers.) That land, which he might say had
never borne a germ of useful vegetation from the
time of the flood, was now fruitful and productive.
The speaker here mentioned, in terms of high com-
mendation, the names of several of the allotmenters,
whose example, both as to industry and the quality
of their work, he said, might afford a valuable lesson
to many of the farmers themselves. He mentioned
those men by name because they had not, as yet, tried
the system of bringing them out by emulation. They
had had no prizes—no perambulations of the allotment
ground. He hoped, however, for better things another
year. He hoped they should institute a prize for
digging, which would be as interesting as prizes for
ploughing matches, offered by the Agricultural So-
cieties. All those things, he had little doubt, would
come in time, kind feelings would be induced, and
all classes learn how much they depended on each
other. There was another thing he wished to men .
tion ; their parish was half manufacturing and half
agriculture. He thought there had been a consider.
able increase of right feeling, and a decrease of mis-
chief and disorder—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—and
from year to year he hoped that would go on. There
were other results of their Allotment Society—that
meeting was a result : their noble guest was an-
other result—(Continued cheering)—himself a la-
bourer in a very wide field, one of the noblest that
could offer itself to a scion of the house of Rutland—
the renovation of the great mass of his fellow-crea-
tures.—(Loud cheers.) He would give them, then,
the health of their noble guest, Lord John Man-
ners, with many thanks to him for his condescension
—no, he would not call it his " condescension," his
" good sense " in coming amongst them, to
see how they lived, how they breathed, how they
worked ; and if that nobleman wished to form a good
senator he could not do better than acquainting him-
self, and identifying himself, with the wants, the
wishes, and the rights of his fellow-men.
The toast was received with very great enthusiasm,
and continued rounds of applause, which having some-
what subsided,
Lord J. MANNERS rose and said—Mr. Alford, Mr.
Potter, and Gentlemen,—When I yesterday received
your kind invitation to be present at this gratifying
assemblage, I was most anxious, if possible, to accept
it, because I have lately, in various parts of the
country, attended meetings, which, in different ways,
all had for their object the amelioration of the con-
dition of the people, and I was anxious to
witness a similar scene in my own native county.
—(Loud cheers.) Your kindness has enabled
me to do so, and I beg to assure the gentle-
man who, much too flatteringly proposed my health,
and you who have so kindly received it—l beg you
all to believe that in coming amongst you to-day,
nothing could be so far from my thoughts as that
which my friend would at first call a condescension—
such an idea never entered my head.—(" Bravo" and
cheers.) There may be some gentlemen to whom an
allotment supper of this kind may seem only an unin-
teresting affair—l am not one of those ;tome it pos-
sesses an interest, and has claims upon our attention,
such as I may safely say no other meetings can pos-
sess ; for, gentlemen, that which we have heard this
evening, that which we have seen, and that which we
are to hear, gives us—while it naturally places before
our fancy the dreams which we may suppose were real-
ised in the merry days of old England—gives us hope
for the future that our country will continue to pros-
per and progress ; and that the true old English spirit
is still alive amongst us—(Cheers)—uniting the dif-
ferent classes of society in one common bond of cor-
dial good feeling ; and instead of self-interest predo-
minating, leaving us all to act upon, as well as to
profess, our belief, that we are the common children
of one common Father.—(Great applause.) To vou,
the allotment tenants, who have had now two years'
experience of the benefit this system confers upon
you, it is unnecessary to say anything in praise of it.
You are all well aware of the advantages you derive
from it; how, when perchance hired labour may fail
you have that savings' bank in the earth upon which
you may fall, and into which you may deposit with a
certainty of finding your contributions returned to
you with ample and compound interest. You know
what it is to be able to improve your children, and to
give them an agricultural education—not only free
of expense, but with a certainty of return. Yeu
know what it is to be able to keep out of the union
workhouses, and to feel that owing to this sys-
tem, if you be only commonly industrious and
honest,* you need entertain but small dread that you
will have to enter them. But it does seem extraor-
dinary to me that, while you are all agreed as to the
benefits you derive from this system, there are par-
ties in England—though, thank goodness, not in
Leicestershire—there are men, feeling the greatest
interest in the welfare of the people, who deliberately
set their faces against this system. They tell us it
militates against the true principles of political eco-
nomy—that it makes us dependent upon labour, and
then refer us to the results of the Irish cottier system.
Gentlemen, in the first place we are told that the
allotment system militates against the true principles
of political economy. All that I can say to that is,
that it would matter very little if it did. The only
question we ought to ask ourselves is—does it work
well or ill ?—(Hear, hear)—and if experience proves
it to work well, then all the dogmas of political
economy may be whistled down the wind for what
we care.—(Tremendous cheering.) Oh, but they
say it prevents the labourer, who would other-
wise work for the farmer, work only for himself.
Now, this system has been tried for many years in
various parts of England, and I would ask, has it
been found to work ill in any place ? I believe there
will be but one answer to that question—it has not
been proved that it has, and experience is totally the
other way. But suppose, to show the complete ab-
surdity of the thing, that it be true. Now, we find
this argument of the bad working of the Irish cottier
system brought forward when we propose any system
for improving the condition of the people, and re-
moving the weight from their shoulders. They say it
is all of no use; it is a surplus population, and until
we get rid of them all the measures you can intro-
duce will be unavailing. Suppose this to be well
founded; I say it is a most inconsequential and ab-
surd argument; because, if the labour market be
overstocked, that ought to be an argument in favour
of, rather than against, the system. Well, then, it is
said, Oh ! it makes the labourer dependent. Now, in
another place I sometimes have to attend--the
House of Commons—it has been my fortune to hear
a considerable quantity of fustain talk all about inde-
pendence and freedom ; but I venture to say such
nonsense was never talked on these two fruitful to-
pics as it must be to say this system makes the la-
bourer a dependent being. The man who lives in
some low cottage in a large village or small agricul-
tural town, who receives eight, ten, or eleven shillings
per week, but has lit the crop of cabbage or poti-
toes he can call his own, nor a garden to himself—he
is in “ §toto pf independence ; although, if his labour
fail, be has no resoiiiee but the workhouse; whereas
the man who has these savings' banks, according to
these theorists, is a dependent and degraded being.—
(Hear, hear.) Dependent, gentlemen, he is truly,
but it is on the mercy and goodness of Prn_
Itce,
and not on the mercy and caprice of his
employers
.
(Cheers.) Well, then, when all these philosophical
objections are refuted, as refuted they must be by any

man of common sense, the objectors adopt another
course. They leave Erdand, its diminished labour
market, its diminished labourers, and take us across
the channel. Oh (say they) but have the goodness to
look at Ireland; see the miseries which the cottier,
system has produced there, and which your allotment
system must produce in England. Now, it is rather
curious, we seldom have these Irish arguments intro:
duced upon any other subject. We are generally told
that there is a great difference in the character of the
people—that what is good for one would be bad for
another, but in this particular point we are told if
.a,
certain system has failed and produces a bad rasa!!
in Ireland, it will fail and produce a similar bad result
in England. Now, I would say, though I think theargument of a difference between the two peeidel
pushed beyond its due limits, that there are g
reasons for concluding that even if the system nib
have failed in Ireland, it limy flourish in Engler"
Are ,h0.,,e
theme
aware of the rack-renti,
an.l of the terrible competition for land ?
they are, I would say they are dishonest'
if they are not, I would say they are ignorant
reasoners. But it has been my fortune, gent,l,e,'
men, during the past week only, to receive inte,"ve
geuce from Ireland, which would show that
sweeping accusations levelled against the occupiers
sinall farms is not just. I have heard lately of 30,
acres of land which have been colonised by La':
G. Hill, and upon which a blade of grass six years
ago was not to be seen. It now maintains no less thal
3,000 people in comfort—(Hear)—small farmers, 'd
you will—occupying from five to twenty acres, an
~a
there is no doubt that in a few years the populatti
will be increased. Similar results may be prod
by similar means. I say, then, let English gentle
men do their duty, and the peasants be actuated '
that high and commendable spirit which has hither:l'o
actuated them, and we shall have no reason
fear that this system will produce anything °
good to the English people. It is no wonder, that
that you have assembled here to-day to eair
brate the successful introduction of the system ink
your parish. It is no wonder that, as we came di
here, we heard the church bells ringing merrily.
was no wonder that, when I entered here, I sew w
thing but smiling faces and happy countenancr,A
around me; nor is it any wonder that I can easily alr
preciate the motives which brought you here. Wei;
eluding the observations I hare ventured to obtrit
upon you, I shall ask you to drink—l was going.tt.
say with three times three, but I forgot the resollm
tion—" The allotment tenants and success to sn
husbandry."—(lmmense cheering, which continued
some minutes.)
GEORGB HARRIS, an allotmenter, rose and said'
Your Lordship and gentlemen all—l rise to reo
you sincere thanks in the name of every allotine
tenant for drinking their good health upon the PI;
sent occasion, and I sincerely wish you all may elde,
a good state of health, be favoured with a long
and prosper.—(Cheers.)
Mr. W. ELLA had the greatest pleasure in drsWi
the attention of the meeting to the toast he was tio
to propose to them ; one which, he was sure, even
one there would do justice to. It was that of a nob
man who stood at the very top of the tree in o
neighbourhood. He did not go half way up, but;(o
the very top, in everything he took in hand. Ile_mr,
a capital landlord, and a stanch friend to the 1)7,4,
He begged to give them " The health of the Luth,-,
Lieutenant of the county, the Duke of Rutland
(Continued cheering)- and, if he might be allowr:,
he should like to do it with three times three',l
(Great applause followed this sentence, which
ilot
increased by Mr. Wild rising and saying, "1 Woe
we must break through our chairman's regulations dt
this occasion, because we shall not do justice to °P-ii
feelings unless we do."—(Hear, hear.) Three t°
three vociferous cheers were then given.)
A 0'
Lord JOHN MANNERS returned thanks, an
-
1
sured the meeting that the breaking through the fo
in this instance in responding to the toast, was bf_.o
more gratifying to him than if it had been the 7/
with regard to his own. His father was sincere
anxious to fulfil the responsible duties of the situs!to
in which Providence had placed him as he ough",bsi
do. No man had more at heart the welfare of 70
labourer, and the success of the allotment systern,,,4l
a proof of this, he would state that at the present..l".o,
he had not less than 1,000 or 1,100 allotment ten'o
—(Loud cheers.) He should take care to conelselq
him the intelligence of the manner in which his ns.eep
had been received; and he was sure he spoke the 10
ings of his heart when he said that there was tin P
where he would rather have his health drank in
manner it had been than in a Leicestershire /T,le
and such, he was sure, would be the case tr4ri)l
latest period of his existence.—(Continued cheer!nnO;
Lord Joust MANNERS immediately rose again
004
propose a toast, which, in a few words, he fain' AO
veyed more meaning than all the philosophical theo-iti
and political dogmas put together—,, A fair did
wages for a fair day's work."—(Loud cheers,
cries of "That's all we want.")
Several other toasts followed, and many id
interesting facts were brought before the rael
which soon afterwards separated, every one app'arlir
on the very best terms with himself and his nee
hours, and looking forward with pleasurable $01:",j,
pation to a re-union next year.
We should add that the very best order and le
most respectful behaviour was observed by the
bourers throughout the evening.

QUALIFYING FOR Tin COURTY.--1110 friell-
- League are exerting themselves with great slor---sr
inducing the free-traders to qualify for the countielo
pecially for South Lancashire, North Cheshire,
moi
Riding of Yorkshire, and North Lancashire. A uir;fld
was held at Mr. Caton's Commercial Hotel, on Thu f.O
evening, attended by a deputation from Manehesttoli,
this purpose ; at which resolutions were passed in
it
of this object, when many agreed to get freehol'e
persuade their friends to do the same.—Preston GuaPeoll
TIIE ECLIPSE OF THE Moox.—During the
hours of last night the firmament was extensiveLO
scured with " lazy-pacing," thin, flocculent ci-110
through which the moon was but
aintly visible spy have prevented those who wished to make felwar/0
coOl
observations from using their instruments, at the
„
mencement of the eclipse, with all the effect that
Cl
sirable. Shortly after ten o'clock the clouds
,u1:101/
away, and from that time the moon was unobscar oe 1
by the earth's shadow which passed across its 511 r
~d
The appearance of the moon when about three P7gfeet!
scured was beautiful. The progress of the eclipse
101 l
closely with the calculations. It commenced
.or
thirty-eight minutes past nine o'clock, and 00100
about twenty-eight-and-a-half minutes past one
morning„—Liverpool Albion of Monday. lej
SIR EDWARD CODRINGTON ON DRUNILION.--4"
FLOGGING IN THE NAVY.—The following,
testimony as to drunkenness being the rAiref 0:rot
flogging in the navy, is borne by the (?aslant 1,•`:0
Sir Edward Codrington, in his trilrate of Plij,„ Sr,
Father Mathew, accompanying a contribution.,'",,t
fund now raising for his relief 1—.." Chertsef, ecri
1844.—Dear Sir,—l have read of your being in 10.1",
at a meeting to promote a subscription for yeslur
Mathew, and as I very highly honour him for his,
exertions, and no less highly value those exertiol
4
o
the benefit they will produce amongst seamen, I Or,
ob'ige me by contributing five pounds for met f,ectoatit
I inclose you a cheque. But for the vice of ur 00 1,5
nese, we should scarcely ever be called upon Os ft/j,
lash in the navy, a duty which is always perform
joi
disgust. —Very faithfully yours, EDWARD CoDsf,'
To J. S. Buckingham, Esq."
BIRTHS. Soti
On the 21st inst., the wife of George Walter, Fig"
id°
street, Greenwich, of a son.
On the 21st inst., the lady of Charles Main 1, rth ,
Upper Montague-street, Montague-square, of a daubadsir-
On the 22d inst., the lady of Dr. Golding Bird, "if
square, of a daughter.
Ou the 22d inst., at Rectory Villas, West Hack 1'
William Maxwell, of a son. ti
T.
On the 22d inst., at Cambridge-square, Mrs. • AC
jun., of a daughter.
of err
On the 22d inst., the wife of G. M. Gray, Esq.,
Bedford-place, Russell- square, of a daughter. of•"
On the 24th inst., in Torrington-square, the 171 fee/ee/
Hubback, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, of a son. el AA
On the 14th inst., at Abercromby-place,No
Lady of Slr William LBW* Foulis, Bart., of Woo
Millburn Tower, of a daughter.
_A• of 0.413
On the 10th inst., at Stoke Hall, Ipswich, the
Phillips, Esq., of a daughter.

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MARRIED. 1.040
On the 21st inst ,at St. Mary's, Lambeth, Mr. * 01.
High-street, Clapham, to Sarah, third daughter 0f
_..gt
Baigent, Esq., Kennington. 11.1114,
On the 23d inst., at St. Georges's, BloomshurP
Mathews, jun., Esq., of Castle Cary, Somersetshiret to
Anne, only daughter of the late John Buckimigha
Broad-street, St. Giles's-in-the-Fields.

DIED. ifeleli#llll)
On the 19th of August, on his passage from - t'or the
the Cape of Good Hope, Captain Thomas rainier' - -arli
Isabella, aged 27. nel -
On the 18th inst., at Edgbaston, Mr. John Mari
ft°
of Broad-street., Birmingham.
On the 21st inst., at Paris, Susanna, eldest aatightBr° or
late John Hone, Esq., of Great Marlow. Jiro °I
On the 22d inst., at York-terrace, Regent's-Par 0'
Ritchie, Esq., late of Bombay. Alley , B'l, ,
On the 22d inst., at Oxford-terrace, William , aged dot
On the 22d inst., John Guillemard, Esq., F-110*-o"rhett Jeri
On the 22d inst., Andrew, fifth son of Mr. F.,,
Villifils
R 0
Net hercot, Oxon.
bert
On the 23d inst., Emma, infant daughter of -"° jr., tlik
,„„nat , /
Peacock, Esq., of Nottingham-place, Regenr,t,sn" '-,4 man e°
On the 23d inst., in Leman- street, `-''''' -- FA'
Samuel Samuel, Esq., aged 82. .. Aosta, or
On the 22d inst., at Southampton, F. T, de -e;i4 ]sat fa,
On the 22d inst., at Ruthin, Arthur niis Reueof ylarj.111;oor
viving son of the late Rev. Ellis Rob'erts, Vicer" ea :-
On the 23d inst.. Sarah Ann, 4:12g wife a Jam
ausr* 001;'
Esq., of Upper Clapton, Middle;„ex.
On the 23d inst., at Melton-street Dorset-e-. Loa*
,
the wife of Samuel Ilamersley, Esq. e WiCk '—
On the 23d hist , John Watson, Esq., o` '
Brighton, aged 72. •
On the 24th inst., in Lc
04 the 25th ins+ -a
• Gravel-pitst ll-
at Kensington
Wall Cal) 's- ~
-utt, R.A., aged 65
ther-lane, Mr. JohnlViitefologir‘toe

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