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

TUE_SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4 Mat

Ai:co.-ling to quality. I,Boolb. of Cochineal have, we 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—
fttsed. The following transactions have taken place in bottles:
Corks are dull of sale, and barely fetch llrs. per gross.
BKER..-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.

Srittrrs.—The only sales reported are of Brandy, of which
3,800 gallons have changed hands at firs. per gallon, and
1,904 gallons at lrs. 10a.

THE INDIAN MAILS.

ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 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 for 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-
senuers 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 the
llindo tan from Suez, and, after coaling, will return to Malta
in two or three days wt!li the passengers for England. The
Alecto returns with the India mails.

The Emmettje, which runs between Syria and this place,
came into this port on the 19th without a pilot, which is a dan-
gerous thing to attempt. She suffered a great de?l 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 made by
the growers of this staple in Egypt, and, amongst others,
Ibrahim Paella 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 of all
those employed in the service of the Government, the greater
part of whom have been waiting upwards of two years for what
was due to them, and now find themselves under the disagree-
able necessity of selling their claims to the merchants at a loss
of from 20 to 28 per cent. •

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM SPAIN.
(From the Morning Post.)
We have received the Madrid journals of the 27th
ultimo, together with private advices from that capital.
Their contents possess considerable interest. The
rumours which we have repeatedly noticed, as to
the 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 Navy, communi-
cated the following Royal decree :
" I, Queen Isabella 11., exercising the powers con-
ferred on me by the 2Gth 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
finances' account.
The, preamble to this decree says that the abolition
of the Puertas duties was one of the measures by
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 receipb and expenses of the
country.
Our usual express has brought us the Courrier
Francais, Quotidieunc, Gazette des Tribunaux, and
Galignani's 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
heat, 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 satisfied until we shall see extended anti 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 3ear which has just passed. In addition to the
marriage, which brought to my family new consolation fur the
grief of the Queen and my own, 1 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 many
blessings on my house. I am deeply affected with the wishes
you express for my family and myself, and I do not cease to
form very sincere wishes that sentiments of morality anti reli.
gion, the true sources of all virtues, may continue to strengthen
and increase."

BOURSE, TussnAy.---Three per Cents. B2f. lOc.

SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.
Yesterday a meeting of the noblemen and gentlemen, mem-
bers and subscribers to the Scottish Hospital, took place in the
Hall of the Corporation, Crane-court, Fleet-street.
Mr. Nisbett having been unanimously called to the chair,
the minutes of the general meeting held on St. Andrew's day
last were read and confirmed.
The SECRETARY then read the Report, from which it ap-
peared that, during the list half-year, the Committee for the
relief of distressed Sentehmen had examined into the cases
and claims of 291 individuals, and had expended the sum of
2,146/. in alleviating their sufferings. The amount ex-
pended in pensions during the first six months of the past year
Was 92.9/., and during the last half of the year, 9171., making
a gross sum, during the twelve months, of 1,8461. After pay-
ing the expenses of the Corporation, a balance remained in the
Treasurer's hands of 4,0161. The stock invest d by the Cor-
poration amounted to 56,0071.
'f he Report having been adopted, and ordered to be printed,
a resolution was carried, giving the Committee power to sell
out stock to the amount of 1,0001., it required, for any con-
tingency.

A vote of thanks to the Rev. Dr. Brown was carried, on his
resigning the chaplaincy of the Hospital, in consequence of his
appointment to a parish in Scotland by her Majesty.
Mr. NOBLE said he had a resolution to propose, which he
thought would meet their cordial support. He begged to sub-
mit " That his Grace the Duke of Sutherland, the President,
and Vice-Presidents of their ancient Corporation, be requested
to wait upon his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and express
the feelings of their body, and their hope that he would be
pleased to extend his patronage to their ancient charity by
presiding at their spring festival."—( Hear, hear.)
The resolution having been seconded,
Mr. DorgaLosom said that, in inviting his Royal Highness
Prince Albert to preside over them, it should be borne in mind
that that they were not asking fur pecuniary assistance, but
merely for the honour, and he might add the happiness of being
presided over by a Prince of such truly liberal and amiable
qualities—( Loud cheering)—whose means were already too
limited to enable him to contribute to every charity.
The resolution was then carried unanimously.
After the transaction of other business of lesser interest, a
vote of thanks was given to the Chairman, and the nsoeting
separated.

ST. STEPHEN WALBROCK AND
ALDERMAN GIBBS.

Yesterday the parishioners of St. Stephen Walbrook met in
special vestry, as per adjournment from the 15th N.vernber
last. There was a very numerous attendance, and Mr. Cun-
life, banker, 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, when it appeared that 110 record of that meeting had
been entered on the vestry-book, and that the only minutes of
it were 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. Rocx having proposed that the minutes of the present
meeting should be inserted consecutively with the last, so as
to prevent the possibility of any record of the select vestry
being hereafter inserte I,
The CHAIRMAN briefly addressed the meeting, contending
that the parish had been treated most shamefully and con-
temptuously by Mr. Alderman Gibbs.--(" Hear," and ap-
plause. ) He, for one, was now of opinion that Alderman Gibbs
had no accounts to produce.--( Hear, hear.) It only remained
for them to let the law take its course, and to enter into a sub-
scription to defray the expenses.—( Applause.)
The Rev. Dr. CROLY, who hail 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.
He 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
brief}, 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 onlyopportunity which men of spirit and honour
can ever desire.—( Hear, hear.) My only purpose was to see
justice done between man and man. I was neither his assailant
nor his advocate. I was even most unwillingly compelled to
take upon me the office of umpire,—( Hear, hear.) But of the
transaction of the 22d instant—an injury almost personal.
have no superstitious reverence for the walls of a church;
but I have the due respect for it as a place of our
common worship ; and I find it impossible to regard
its blocking up with policemen but as an act de-
serving of my severest censure. I have heard of offences
offered to churches by 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-
riby—which gave me so muck pain as the scene which pre-
sented itself to me 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, and 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, I should, possibly, not have obtained
admittance at all, but that the parish beadle introduced me to
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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,
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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. Now, 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 I gentlemen, how vain are the hopes of man !
Oar 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 turnk y,
satisfying me that, in 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 he 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 ?—vi ith
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. I 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 Cassio, " the great arithinctician ;" riot a worker of
arithmetical miracles-1 am not the "grand American calcu-
lating boy ;" and if I had been ten grand' American calculating
boys, I should not have been equal to the task. I therefore had
not 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, whom
our police force kept raging outside the doors.—(Shame. )
Gentlemen, I remember, in " Tristram Shandy," a case
gusted, in which the Duchess of Burgundy was refused the
guardianship of her own children, and the French council,
constructed, I presume, something
on the plan of a select ves-
try, declared " 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
as 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 ado 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, though 20,000/. might
not make you beggars, 20d. may make you slaves.—( Cheers. )
But I will go no further, nor would I add another sentence,
were there not too little citcumstances to which I desire espe-
cially to refer—first, I wish to assure you that though the
churchwardens' accounts were audited,
they 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 some 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 deapise 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,
whether 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 pa-
rishioners, your kind feeling towards me is the best assurance
of their esteem. I do not believe that the select vestry will
act as it is hinted they may act ; and as for Mr. Alderman
Hear, hear.
Gibbs's threat, let the Livery of London drag him out of the
slough of Walbrook. Let the Aldermen take him into their
boat (not too lightly freighted already) : let him be presented
to the Mansion-house and to the judgment-seat—yet still I
willsa l o
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t.—( ) Nor, in saying this,
am I unmindful regardless
of Mr. Alderman Gibbs's power.
Some one has said that lie is an obscure man. He is no such
thing. No one has been snore eager after a sort of petty des-
potic power. The catalogue of his offices would be as long and
Then you must go
tedious as the catalogue of Homer's ships. Are you anxious
ffec yto?u— takeA laugh. )
an interest in the adminis-
tration to consult the Land Tax Commissioners ? Then you must go
to Alderman Gibbs. Are you desirous of assisting in carrying
to heAilndceormmea-ntaxinto e
Gibbs.
of the affairs of the poor, Mr. Alderman Gibbs is at the
head of the City Union. If you want—sin fact, if you want
anything at all—whatever public office you may go into—
whatever little scheme you arc desirous of aiding, in each and
all Mr. Alderman Gibbs somehow or another is concerned.
Nor does be limit his offices to the metropolis,
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If you extend
your ambition beyond London, and take a trip to Margate,
there is Mr. Alderman Gibbs a master and treasurer again.
Nay, p your nose even under the if in looking for glory you
ground, there you meet him once more, for Mr. Alderman
Gibbs is a Commissioner of Sewers--(Loud laughter, and
cheers.) No, no, Gentlemen, you have no obscure or in-
significant perstm to deal with. You have to deal with a man
clothed with authority, and you must act accordingly.
Mr. liowerr 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.
and stated that the re-
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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 time power of so doing. This was evidently no
authority for excluding the parishioners from the ebnrch, nor
did the Archdeacon intend it as such.--( Hear, hear, approbas
tion, and hisses.) Since then Mr. Alderman Gibbs had been
a suppliant at Mr. Rock's feet, apologisins for his conduct, and
asking with " bated breath and whispering !enrableness," for
further time to file his answer in the Court of Goss seery:
Should he (Mr. Rock) give it?—(Several voices, " No, no.'')
Then he would not give one second, and, if the answer was not
fried, there was no other alternative but the Queen's Bench.
He would move that the vestry at its rising do adjourn.

Ajr. HOWETT seconded this.

After which it was moved by Mr. HARRISON. se-
conded by Mr. WILLIAMS, and carried unanimously, " That
the payment of the is. and ls. 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 resisted pay-
ment, and were not able, from want of means, to defend them-
selves, he would 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.

IRELAND.
TO THE EDITOR. OF THE TIMES.

Sir,—Two letters have recently appeared in the Times, signed
"An trishman," dated from Southampton. The object of
these communications, so grossly an-1 foully abusive of Irish bend-
lords is evidently to excite in the minds of the English public
a feeling that the Irish landlords generally are most inhuman
towards their tenants, and that, consequently, the success
which attends agitation and repeal, is attributable to that cause.
One should have supposed that now, whilst an impartial Com-
mission 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 be fearlessly adjudicated upon.
There is no danger but that the complaints of the ►ower
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 haidship
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 plander 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, vii., the Duke of Devonshire, Earl
Fitzwilliam, the Marquises of Hertford 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 admirably managed
than the whole of those vast possessions. The most kind and
liberal attention is paid to the humblest individual—the im-
provements are ►mmense—the condition of the tenantry most
thriving. The sums expended by his Grace for their advan-
tage are enormous. In one instance alone, viz., the bridge and
embankment at Dungarvon, not less than 30,000/. was expended
by the Duke.

The late Speaker of the House of Commoms (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 hie 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 wealtny, 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 do 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 2,0001. to fit them out, &c. ; upoo touching
the money, however, they all returned to their former habita-
tions, and his Lordship lost his 2,0001., )kc.
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 anti 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,
scho sls, hospitals, and in charities of all descriptions, are
enormous.

These facts can be proved by his Lordship's Londoa solicitor,
who resides in Saville-row, Bond-street.
It is true that these three Noble Lords aripersonally 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 Coningham 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" long 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 in
things. His Lordship is well known to be most kind-hearted
and amiable. His general character is tha.t of a good land-
lord ; and this is, 1 am satisfied, the first time he 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, could not, con-
quently, resist abusing him—it was far too tempting.
English people ought to know that Lord Norbury was mur-
dered because, having laid out 30,0001. ill 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.
Dublin, Dec. 29. A MUNSTER LANDLORD.

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ANTI-LEAGUE 31.0.VENttNT IN

SUSSEX.

CHICNIESTRE, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 3.—A nieeting, which
had been adjourned from last Wednesday, was held yesterday
at Chichester, composed chiefly of tenant farmers of the county
of Sussex. The meeting was attended by some of the largest
occupiers of land in the district.
Amongst those present were Mr. John Ide, of West Witter-
ing ; Mr. T. Halstead, of Westerton ; Mr. Henry Sadler, of
Navant ; Mr. John Rusbridger. of Goodwood ; Mr. G. Hip-
kins, of Westbourne ; Mr. John Graham, of Wittering ; Mr.
Charles Hobgen, of Sidlesham ; Mr. John Hipkins, of-Single-
ton ; Mr. Joseph Hobgen, of Sidlesham ; Mr. Arthur New-
man, of West Dean ; Mr. John Wyatt, of Westbourne ; Mr.
Charles Cheeseman, of Chedbam ; Mr. Henry Duke, of Earn-
lay; Mr. C. Duke, of Levant • Mr. W. C. Dewey, of Apple-
dean ; Mr. W. Newland, of Chichester ; Mr. T. S. Cogan, of
Hampnett ; Mr. W. Gibbs, of Itchenor ;'Mr. T. P. Hipkins,
of Rocton ; Mr. G. Rusbridger, of Pegham ; Mr. W. Field,
of Wick ; Mr. J. C. • Wooldridge, of Droxforcl ; and Mr. J.
Bowers, of West Dean, &c.
Mr. E. Wyatt, of Chichester, took the chair.
Mr. RUSIRIDGER, in a brief sirs vele, moved the following
resolution, as a requisition fora county meeting :—" We, the
undersigned owners and occupiers of land, tradesmen and
others, whose welfare mainly de; ends on the prosperity of
British agriculture, observilig with regret the unchecked pro-
gress of certain dissatisfied, self-interested persons, denomi-
nating themselves the Anti-Corn-law Leagu,,, chiefly headed by
master-manufacturers of wealth and influence, subscribing
large sums of money for the purpose of disseminating their
views and opinions through the agency of the press, as well as
by the exertions of paid itinerant orators, for the purpose of
exciting public opinion in favour of their object—that of ren-
dering null and void one of the laws of the land. originating
in the wise views of our ancestors for the protection of British
agriculture, feel it to he our duty, cull ctively and individually,
to recommend a meeting of all persons holding these our
opinions, at the White Horse Inn, Steyning, in the county of
Sussex, at eleven for twelve o'clock, on the day of
there to confer upon and consider what steps maybe peaceably
and legally pursued to arrest and counteract the machinations
and misrepresentations of the dissatisfied and calumnious par.
ties for the purpose of depriving agriculture and agricultural •
labour of their due reward, by letting in at all times, free from
duty, the fruits of foreign capital and labour. On thesc, grounds
we do not hesitate to affix our signatures to thiS requisition,
with the full intention of proving our support, mid, if possible,
our personal attendance at Steyning, at the hour on the day
herein appointed."—( Hear, hear.)
The resolution having been seconded by Mr. Jot'N HvnE,
was carried unanimously.
Mr. NEWLAND was desirous, before the question was put,
to state a few facts which, he considered, were conclusive. He
gave these facts rather than indulge, in mere assertions, as their
enemies (lid—for he must consider those men enemies, not
only to the agriculturists, but to the country generally,. who
would deprive the labourer of entitloemeat, the farmer of
profit, and the landowner of his fair rights. —( Cheers.) The
speaker then entered into various detailed /statements, in order
to show that nothing but selfishness actuated the Anti-Corn-
law League, and stated that the fzreners had too long been
quiescent, whilst the calumnies of that dangerous associatiot.
had been widely disseminated. The speaker then attempted to
show, that manufacturing distress did not proceed from the
operation of the corn-laws, and concluded by stating his belief
that, if the measures of the Anti•Coi n-law 'League were car-
ried into effect, and a free trade in corn allowed from the
Continent, it would be impossible for the rriculiiirists of thei
country to compete with those from abroad ; for, independent
of the low price of wages there, the foreigners are not subject
either to tithes, poor-rates, nor church-rates, which lie heavy
on the land in England ; and as the manuiacturers are protected
by heavy duties, why should the agriculturists .he excluded
from the same advantages ?—( Loud cheers. )
A desultory conversation ensued, in which several farmers
took part, complaining greatly of the fall in prices, resulting
from the new corn-law and tariff. and from the great uncer-
tainty that hung over them as to its continuance. They also
complained that so much had been yielded to A met iea, who had
proved herself so faithless a debtor, and so unwilling to c,incede
anything in return.
The meeting was adjourned to Wednesday next, for the pur-
pose merely of making arrangements for the county meeting.

MONEY MARKET and CLTY NEWS

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF TILLS 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 93. 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 sprint 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 from Calcutta
gives reason to believe, that although the redue:td 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 apprehensilm need be
felt, as heretofore, about the sufficiency of stocks.. holders are
firm at 221. ss. to 22/. I Os. Rolled zinc has greadv.increased
in consumption, and is, in a variety of rases, preferably adopted
as a substitute for other metals. The demand is steady, and the
price 28/. per ton for common dimensions. Iron, during the
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 pro 'uctioti of Briti,h i on con-
tinues
so extensive that the expectation of such a state of things
has vanished. It is now the prevaillng conviction that, what-
ever quantity may Le taken off by the markets to which it is
admitted, no sensible impression will be made oti the supply.
" The price," says the Review, " occasictualty- 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 Itirtia. and America
rapidly raised it to 111. 10..., the deman I, since ulrich, having
ceased, the value has receded to 101. 10s. Russian in the l• ands of a
single holder is, although some info ior parcels have. been sold
at low rates, held at 131. British Iron rules as follows, per
ton :-Bars in London, 4/.155. ; dig to in Liverpool, 4/. 7s. 6d. ;
ditto in Wales, 4/. ss. ; pigs in ditto, 3/. ;s. ; ditto in Clyde,
21. Is. ; hoops in London, 71.; ditto in Liverpool, tit 15,.;
sheet in ditto, 7!. 10s. ; ditto in London, HI. ; rails in Wales,
51. 4s. ; castings of every desc iptioo, front 7/. Swedish steel
has been exposed to the same ups and downs io the market. as
Swedish iron, having gradually descended of late from the
former figure to 16/. 10s. and 171. The stock here is mode-
rate, while that at Gottenburgh is very sma'l. !lopes of more
orders for India are in the meanwhile encouraged: 'fin 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 stale of prices, •It is now
believed hat the prodnetion 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 immediae execution, even at the hnproved rates,
which are-for sheathing, sheets, bolts, &c., 9:y., tile W.,
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 ttie
London market, for exportation, has fallen t,ff, 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, 16/. 15s. Quicksilver, with a ftfl'l' stock, re-
mains at 4s. 6d., and the prospects for the article are without
the smallest change. Coehineal continues in OA request.
The public sale of the 29th ult. went off at. veil, full rates.
Black is worth from 4s. 6d. to Gs. ; silver, 4s. !id. to ss.
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. Aloate's annual repol't 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 we'd 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 certain!), not quite so buoyant. Consols were 97 to
without the dividend. Exchequer Bills continued-high.
The Foreign Market exhibited also rather a downward ten-
dency, Mexican being 32i to ; Spanish 22i 6 for the
Five per Cents., and 301 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, 6i
to 6 ; and South Eastern Scrip, 131 to discount. Edin-
burgh and Glasgow were Si ; Brighton Loan Notes, 1 ;
Croydon, ; ditto Scrip, 41 ; Manchester and Leeds, New,
151 ; Midland Counties Quarter, 7 ; ditto Fifths, Ti ; Norwich
and Brandon, l ; Northern and Eastern, 7T; Paris and
Orleans, PIA to 133 ; Paris and Rouen. 124 ; Rouen and
Havre, 6to 1; South Eastern Scrip, 115 ; and Yarmouth
and Norwich, 3i- premium. British North American Bank
Shares were Si discount ; and Union of Australia, 2# prem.

TRAVELLING 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 in 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 minufactuied
by Mr. Andrews of this town. The travelling from Alexan-
dria to Suez is about 3 miles an hour, alter many lengthened
stoppages at Cairo and in the Desert . Suez is situated at the
northern extremity of the Red Sea, and is in Arabia l'etrLea,
the country in which Mount Sinai, Mount Horeb, and the
ruins of Palmyra are situated ; Aden is at the southern extre-
mity of the Red Sea.— Southampton l'o:t office Intelligencer.
SHOCKING SUICIDE BY 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 l'ues-
day night, and requested Mr. Belly to let her have a penny-
worth of arsenic, which she sail she wanted to potion 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 car. at present be formed as to
what could have induced her to commit so ra'h an act.

DEATH Or SIR GEORGE 11.1111. ER CREWE: BART.
—We have to announce the demise of the above highly•re-
spected Baronet, at Calke Abbey, the family seat, in Derby-
shire, on Monday last. He was born in 1795, and married
Miss Whittaker, daughter of the Her. Thomas Whittaker, in
1819, by whom he leaves several childreu. The deceased Ba-
ronet succeeded to the family honours on the death of his fa-
ther, the 7th Baronet, in 1818, who had assumed for himself
and issue the name of Crewe, in lieu of that of Harper Sir
George was elected in 1837 Member for the Southern Division
of Derbyshire, and continued in the House of C0;1111(111:1 until
the late general eloetion. llp Wa4 a COnsorval I in politics.
Mr. John Harper Crewe, oldest son of the deceased, born in
1824, succeeds to the Baronetcy.
FREEMASONRY.—Many have probally heard of the
French officer in the battle of Waterloo who was so badly
wounded that he was unable to keep up with 1115 regiment t and
in that situation was discovar6.l by a Pwoteit Highlander of the
British army; who, with his blood-stained weapon drawn, his
teeth clenched, and his eyes flashing fire, put spurs to his horse-
and galloped up to dispatch him, but just as he was on the point
of striking the fatal blow, the officer gave a Masonic sign of
distress—it was well understood by the Spottdmian, whose giant
aTt was tnlttlediately unneryed
.love and sympathy were de-
pleted Ins countonanfe; and, as he turned his horse to ride
off, was heard to say, " The Lord bless and protest, thee, my
Brother !" These facts, together with many others that might ;
be mentioned, show the use and very ureat importanne of
Phignig Pccrc;ft—peolicovast sitar terit imam