The Sun.
London, England, 1829-09-01 00:00:00

COAL Al A lt
Adair's OW.O.I4.O~WWIMIN. 2": s. 6d.
Dirdon
Felling Main _ 25 9
Holywell _ 27 9
Killingworth
Newburn , 27 9
Peiaw

Percy East -
26 3
Shipcote 25 9
Tantield . 29 6
Tanfield Lea- _ 27 0
Townley—, 26 6
Willington
Walls Eud Bcll and Co. 26 0
Ditto Bewicke and (0.. 31 6
Ditto Brown's unser.-- 27 0
Ditto Clarke and Co. 27 6
Ditto Carr and Co. 27 0
Ditto Cramlington 26 9
Ditto Hilda 2'7 9
Ditto Hotspur....--.—. 28 0
Ditto Heaton 3l 0
Ships at market, 131—Shim

!'l'..7Aug._3l.

Walls EmiNeWmarch— 304.3,1
Ditto Northumberland 28 6
Ditto Pcareth---. 26 0
Ditto Perkins and Co.— 28 0
Ditto 30 6
Ditto Russell's .......--. 31 9
Ditto Walker 31 0
Lambton's Primrose 28 3
Nesham Diaiu 27 6
Walls End 33 II
Walls End Lambton— 33 6
Wall's End Lumley..... 31 0
Walls End 29 9
Walls End Stewart's 33 3
Russell's Hetton's W.E. 32 9
Hartley 29 0
26 6
Stone 45 0
Liddell's Trader— 25 9
Londonderry small...—. 19 0
Walker small 17 0

is sold, 8394-Unsold, 501 A.

NEWCASTLE-UPON.TYNE MARKET -Aug. 29.

Nearly the whole of the week has been unfavourable for
the harvest, with little sun and heavy rains, and having a
moderate supply of farmers' Wheat to-day, sales were
ready, at an advance of 2s. per quarter ; a good deal of
business was done in granaried samples, at an advance of
3s. to 4s. per quarter. The supply of Oats was small,
and the whole sold readily at an advance of Is. per quar-
ter. Little Barley offering. Fine Malt free sale. Fresh
Rye in good demand. Beans and Pease as our last. Flour
if fresh in better demand.

New. Old.
Wheat, Northumberland —s. —s. 6Ss. 8211.'
Norfolk and Suffolk 78s. 84s
Berwick and Scotch —s. —s.
Dantzig —s. —..s.
Rye, Norfolk and Suffolx s a
Foreign —s —s. 3os. 365.
Barley, Ala Ling, Norfolk and Stifiblk —s. —s
Grinding and Feeding —s. —s.
Malt, Norfolk and Suffblk —s. —s.
Beans, Small s s
----- Tick
Pease, White —s. —s.
---- Gray
Oats, N,,rthumbcrland, Potatoe —s. —5....... 303 325.
Feed —5 —s. 26s. 295.
Foreign
Flour, Fine (per sack) —s —5....... 51s. 535.

SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

OF THIS EVENING.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
William Evans, Liverpool, grocer.
BANKRUPTS.

James Nicklls, Mitcham, Surrey, silk-manufacturer,
to surrender Sept. 11, at twelve, 15, at eleven, and Oct.
13, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Heald, Warn-
ford-court, Throgmorton-street.

Henry Bonham Hall, Twickenham, Middlesex, inn-
keeper, Sept. 8, at twelve, 18, at eleven, and Oct. 13,
at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Jemmett, King-
ston ; Lys, Took's-court, Chancery-lane.
Thomas Peter Adams, Cheapside, silkman, Sept. 8, at
eleven, 11, and Oct. 13, at ten, at the Court of Commis-
sioners. Jones, King' Arms-yard, Coleman-street.
Matthew Seymour lonn, Oxford-street, linen-draper,
Sept. 4, at eleven, 8, at nine, 'and Oct. 13, at ten, at the
Court of Commissioners. Stokes and Hollingsworth,
Cateaton-street.

Charles Davis, Charles-street, Soho-square, Sept. 8,
15, at twelve, and Oct. 13, at eleven, at the Court of
Commissioners. Spy er, Broad-street-buildings.
Richard Pridhatu, Great Torrington, Devonshire, draper,
Sept. 18, 19, and Oct. 13, at one, at the Commercial-
rooms, Bristol. Vizard and Blower, Lincoln's-inn-fields ;
Gregory and Smith, Bristol.

George Northall Bates, Birmingham, Warwickshire,
refiner of metals, Sept. 15, at four, 16, and Oct. 13, at
two, at the Union inn, Birmingham. Home, Frampton,
and Loftus, New-inn, London ; Bartleet, Birmingham.
John Broadhurst, West-Heath, Congleton, Chester,
silk-throws_ter, Sept. 24, 26, and Oct. 13, at two, at the
Maccclesfield Arms Hotel, Macclesfield. Higginbottom,
Macclesfield ; Clarke, Richards, and Medcalf, Lincoln's-
inn.fields.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
T. Morgan and J. Jenkins, Llwynybrain, Carmarthen-
shire--J. Clark and D. Fox, Bermondsey-street, Surrey,
pawnbrokers--W. and S. Skelton, Sutton Wash-Way,
Lincolnshire, corn-dealers—W. Mason and T. Laxton,
Stamford, Lincolnshire, linen-drapers—E. Read and R.
Scott, Cheltenham, milliners—W., J. and J. Chapman,
Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, tailors—W. Worley and J.
Simpson, Leeds, land-surveyors—J. W. Rendle and J.
Symons, Plymouth, chemisti—P. Sy mons and G. Davey,
Plymouth, coal-merchants—F. Bowling and G. Alley,
Chiswell-street, stationers—W. and E. Jaques, Topliffe,
Yorkshire, coopers—J. Heathcote and J. Buckley, Not-
tingham, lace-manufacturers—J., J. and E. R. Le Mare,
Spital-square, silk-manufacturers—S. and R. Bentley,
Dorset.streeFleet-street, printers—Thomas Charnley and
Hugh Edwards, Liverpool, Lancashire, carters—John
P. and E. E. Luke, Cheapside, boot-makers—L.Daw-
son and J. H. Sadler, Praed-street, Paddington, loom-
manufacturers—G. Wightman anti J. M. Cramp, Pater-
noster-row, booksellers-0. Hustler and G. G. Bird,
Halstead, Essex, formers—J. Beetham and Ay. L.ivesey,
Halifax, Yorkshire, joiners—D. W. Wittan, E. Hauman,
and G. Breffit, Cape Haytien, St. Domingo, and London,
merchants.

Whereas at the General Quarter Session of
the Peace, held in and for the County of Sur-
rey, on Tuesday, the 14th day of October last,
Charles Nicholas Pallmer, Esq., John Scriven,
Serjeant-at-law, George Holme Sumner, Ro-
bert Hedger, and William Nottidge, Esquires,
five of the Committee to whom it was referred
to consider of the best means of carrying. into
execution two Acts of Parliament—the one
passed in the 47th year of his late Majesty's
reign, and the other in the 9th year of his pre-
sent-Majesty's reign—for regulating the Vend
and Delivery of Coals in certain parts of the
Counties of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Es-
sex, and the Cities of London and Westmin-
ster, and for the appointing of Principal Land
Coal Meters for the County of Surrey, and to
whom it was referred to frame Bye-laws, Rules,
and Regulations for better regulating the offices
of Principal Land Coal Meter and Labouring
Land Coal Meter, and to superintend the con-
duct of such Principal Land Coal Meters, and
the persons employed under them—did report
to the Court that they had held several meetings
in pursuance of the said order of reference, and
had made strict inquiry into the manner in
which the said Acts of Parliament had been car-
ried into execution, and into the conduct of the
Principal and Labouring Land Coal Meters,
as well as into the conduct of the wharfiugers
and coal-dealers in their transactions with
the public, and were sorry to observe that
they had, in the course of that inquiry, de-
tected mal-practices of the most systematic and
extensive kind, both in the coal merchants and
labouring meters ; among which might be men-
tioned a practice called " skimming," which is
the taking from the surface of the coals in the
room of a barge which had been sold a quantity
of coals (usually about four sacks) before they
were carried away. That another practice almost
universal was, when a room of coals had been
purchased as pool measure (which entitles the
purchaser to the whole of the coals in that parti-
cular room, whatever may be the quantity), to
send to the purchaser 66 sacks (and those gene-
rally deficient in measure), and to carry the re-
mainder either to the warehouse of the merchant,
or to some other purchaser as measured coals,
although they had not been measured, thereby
committing a double fraud. That another prac-
tice at some wharfs was, to place the waggons
that were loading from a room behind a screen,
so that although the purchaser himself might be
on the craft seeing that all the coals he had pur-
chased were emptied out of that room, the coal
porters, being concealed from view by the screen,
carried some of the sacks to the warehouse of the
merchant. That another fraud Was effected 'by
what was technically called " working the oracle,"
which is the working of two gangs of men at the
same time, the one in filling the sacks by bushel
measure, the other by pool measure, when in
pitching the sacks into the two waggons, which
are placed near each other, the gang that carry
the pool sacks, when they have a convenient op-
portunity, drop those sacksinto the waggon where
the measured sacks only should be placed. That
many instances had also been stated to them of
waggons being loaded. between the hour of nine
o'clock, at which the meter leaves the wharf at
night, and the hour of five, at which he returns
to it in the morning. That instances were also
not nnfrequent of waggons being sent out without
the tickets which ought to accompany them being
signed by the meter, and one case had come to
their knowledge of the meter's name being signed
by the wharf clerk. That various other frauds had
been practised by the merchants and dealers by
means of bribing the labouring meters, who had
been in the constant habit of receiving. from the
merchants and coal-dealers at some wharfs a re-
gular weekly pay, and at other wharfs after the
rate of 2s. or 2s. 6d. for what is called a " long
five" (that is, five chaldrons of coals sold by
pool measure, and sent out deficient in quan-
tity), and about the same sums for each
room of coals skimmed ; and that there
were several sums of money deposited at
the Coal Meter's Office by some of the newly
appointed labouring meters, which they re-
ceived
as bribes, and very properly handed
over to the principal Meters; and that it was
admitted to Mr. Turquand by Messrs. Horne, 1
that the dealers were in the habit of depositing
money with the Clerk of the Wharfs for the la-
bouring Meters. And they did further report,
that when they were informed of the malprac-
tices above alluded to, they considered it to be
expedient to suspend any proceedings against
the parties, until more complete evidence of the
facts could be obtained; but when that was sup-
plied, they felt it incumbent upon them to ex-
press their opinion to the principal Meters, that
it was their duty forthwith to institute proceed-
ings against the parties in all cases that had oc-
curred within the period limited by the Act fnr
laying informations, and that proceedings had
been commenced accordingly ; but the period
for laying
,informations had run out with regard
to many of the cases stated in the Report, dur-
ing the time occupied in making the necessary
inquiries. And they. further reported, that they
thought it their duty in support of the charge of
mal-practices, to detail at some length seyeral,
cases stated to them by some of the labouring
Meters, and which statements they, the labour-
ing Meters, had declared they Were ready to
verify upon oath (which cases were detailed in
the said Report accordingly). And whereas,
upon hearing the said Report read, it was or-
dered by the Court that, the said Report should
be received, and that it should be referred tq the I
same Committee (with the addition 4: the A.70,;-
gistrates hereinafter named); and that th-e said
Committee should consider and repo;~ to the
Court at an acljo_urned Session, io be holden
at Saint Mary, 'Newington, the 19th (lay
of November then next ensuing, what pro.
ceedings should in their judgment be adopted
minecnotinoia in consequence of
ce
theof die disclosure of thP frauds
said AevoTt, And it was

General Quarter Session, a petition or corn-
plaint in writing was laid before the Court by
Messrs. Thomas Home, William Horne, and
James Home, of the Falcon Wharf, coal mer-
chants, charging George Wilcox and Charles
Smith, two labouring meters stationed at the
said wharf to superintend the admeasurement
and delivery of coals, with demanding a bribe,
and praying that a day might be appointed for
the hearing and. determination of the said eon,-
plaint ; whereupon it was ordered by the Court,
that the said complaint should be heard at the
Session House, at St. Mary, NeWington, in this
county, on Monday, the 3d November then
next ensuing; and it was further ordered, that it
should be referred and recommended 'to the said
Committee to consider the propriety of defray-
ing the costs and charges which Might-he neces-
sarily incurred by the- said George Wilcox and
Charles Smith in their defence out of the ni-eta:4e
fund. Now we, whose .names • are hereunto
subscribed; being seven of the said
:Committee,
do report, that with regard to that part of the
order of reference which directs us to consider
and report to the Court what steps should in
our judgment be taken, in consequence of
the discloSure of the frauds mentioned in
the said Report, are of' opinfou that the
only course which can be pursued is to follow
up the prosecutions already begun, and to iimi-
tute proceedings in all the other cases mentioned
in the Report, which are within the time limited
by the Statute for laying informations ; to direct
the principal land coal meters to be extremely
vigilant in the detection of frau& arid irregulari-
ties in the coal dealers in future, and invariably
to prosecute such frauds and irregularities, when
there is a reasonable expectation of bringing
them home to the parties ; to watch closely the
conduct of the labouring meters, and to suspend
such as they find conniving at fraud, or other Wise
neglecting their duties, and to be careful to ap-
point such men only on whom, after a strict in.
quiry into their characters, they think they can
depend. And we further report, that in con-
formity with the opinion above expressed,..and 'in
consequence of the instructions we gave to the
principal meters previously to the last Session,
that it was their duty to prosecute all the cases
mentioned in the said Report where the time for
laying informations had not expired, and consi-
dering also that if we had waited for the direc-

on of the Quarter Sessions, that time would

have run out in many instances, we came to a re-
solution to.prosecute all such cases, under the
authority given by the said last-mentioned Act
of Parliament ; and we now beg leave to lay be-
fore the Court a statement of the proceedings
that have been instituted in the several cases of
fraud'and bribery mentioned in the Report, and
the result of such proceedings. With regard: to
the several frauds stated to have been committed,
and bribes given at the Albion Wharf during
the month of August and September last, no
proceedings could be had, as the time for laying
informations (which is limited by the Act to
one month after the offence committed) had run
'out ; and with regard to the frauds mentioned in
the said Report to have occurred at the Falcon
and Red Lion Wharfs, they are of such a nature
that the parties injured can alone prosecute :
that neither Mr. Manning nor Mr. Love-
well, dealers in coals at the Vauxhall
Wharf, were prosecuted for bribing George
Wilcox, the labouring meter, in the month
of September, as mentioned in the said Report,
because Mr. Turquand, the principal meter, in
whose district it occurred, discreetly considered
that it was not expedient to put him forward as
a witness, pending an inquiry into'his conduct
for demanding bribes at Messrs. Horne's wharf,
which might affect his character ; but, on the
hearing of another case against the said Mr.
Lovewell, for giving a bribe to the said George
Wilcox at the beginning of October, after the
acquittal of the said George Wilcox, it appeared
from the evidence 'of his • own witness that the
said Thomas Lovewell had given two bribes
instead of one, and he was convicted in the
penalty of 151. That on hearing of the infor-
mation against the said Joseph Manning, for
giving a bribe to the same meter early in tbe
same month, he pleaded guilty, and was fed
Si. That on the hearing of two informations
gagnaiinngstbrNibleessstros.
JohnH u msptahpreleyss,
atilt:odt li]iteri.-kens for
labouring
,
meter, the day of the week was incorrectly
stated in one of the informations, in consequence
of which the Magistrates thought fit to quash it ;
but in the other case the parties were convicted
and fined 101. That with respect to the frauds
and bribery mentioned in the said Report to have
taken place at the Northumberland wharf, infor-
mations were laid against Mr. Todd and Mr.
Hamilton Megarey, and the information against
the latter was quashed on account of a mistake
in his Christian name ; but Mr. Todd was con-
victed in the full penalty of 201, And we
further report, that with regaTa to that part of
the order of reference which directs us to con-
sider the propriety al defraying out of the me-
tage fund the costs which .
necessarily be in-
curred in klefending the said (xeorge Wilcox and
Charles Smith against a charge ofdemauding bribes,
upon hearing the representations of the principal
meters, with a view to further the ends of justice,
and under the authority giveuby the said last-men-
tioned Act of Parliameut, we gave directions that
they should have professional assistance ; and
we have now 114 satisfaction to report, that the
complaio against the said George Wilcox and
ckliqles Smith was unanimously dismissed by
the Court of Quarter Session before which the
complaint was heard. And we further report,
that with respect to the examination the
journals of the principal meters, reft,:red to us,
and more particulaoy their reasu.P.'s for the sus-
pension of 4ny of the labouring meters therein
the Court at the next
stated, •;•,,e have examined such journals, and in-
stijseucstpoeiritdheed
s:
wibpuetn
sai
quire] into the 'rounds on which the labouring
are few and unimportant, and we may have occ4sion
to call the attention of
I,:eestsei rosnh toav thee been
charge of the labouringi meters
by the principal
meters, who have forborne too into the details
at thi%l time. Lastly
we report, that several
cases of fraud not mentioned{
ioneo'in.t ic said Repors
have come to light, of
am arc ni a course pro-
secution, the particulars et whicji will be laid bc-
ostitialicadsie: