The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-10 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, FRIDAY.—His Imperial Highness the 1
Archduke Frederick of Austria and suite took leave
of her Majesty this morning for the metropolis. The
Archduke and his Royal Highness Prince Albert left
the Castle in the forenoon, to prqceed to London to
view the prize cattle, by a special train, on the Great
Western Railway. Their Royal and Imperial High-
nesses went to the Slough station in one of the Royal
carriages, the Marquis of Exeter, Earl of Jersey, Earl
of Liverpool, le Chevalier Kochel, and Sir Edward
Bowater following in carriages, and the Hon. C. A.
Murray in a phaeton. ,
This morning the Queen, attended by her Lady in
Waiting, and accompanied by the Princess Royal and
her attendants, walked for some time in the Home Park.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
her Majesty at the Castle this morning.
His Royal Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended
by his suite returned to the:Castle to lunch from town
at half-past one o'clock.
A Privy Council for the further prorogation of
Parliament is appointed to be held to-morrow (Satur-
day) at the Castle at two o'clock.
The Viscountess Sydney took her departure to-day.
Sir Robert Peel arrived this evening on a visit to
the Queen.

The Hon. Mr. Murray has left on a shooting ex-
cursion to Wimpole, the seat of the Earl of Hard-
wicke.

Sir Charles Metcalfe is the only addition to the
Ro3Nal dinner party this evening. Covers were laid
for sixteen.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, and his Impe-
r:al Highness the Archduke Frederick of Austria,
arrived in town yesterday morning from Windsor
Castle by the Great Western Railway. A numerous
party from Windsor Castle attended their Royal and
Imperial Highnesses to town, including the. Earl of
Aberdeen, Earl of Liverpool, Sir Edward Bowater,
Baron Lebzeltern, Count Marinovich, Captain Ko-
chel, Captain Dumont, and Count Carolyi.
On arriving, the Royal party immediately went to
the Cattle Show, and inspected the collection, and
afterwards went to Mivart's Hotel, where the Arch-
duke Frederick and the Noblemen and Gentlemen of
his suite alighted. Prince Albert, attended by his
suite, proceeded to Buckingham Palace.
The Prince went into the new Chapel Royal
erecting at the Palace, and after inspecting the build-
ing, walked through the Royal Gardens to the Sum-
mer Temple, recently erected.
Prince Albert, after remaining nearly half an hour,
took his departure from Buckingham Palace with his
Suite, in two carriages, for the terminus of the Great
Western Railway at Paddington, on his return to
Windsor Castle. The Earl of Liverpool, the Marquis
of Exeter, Viscount Sydney, and Major-General Sir
Edward Bowater, were in attendance on his Royal
Highness.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester
and the Duke of Cambridge arrived at their respec-
tive residences in town yesterday afternoon from a
visit to the Duke of Wellington at Strathfieldsaye,
Hants. His Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand
of Mecklenburgh Strelitz accompanied the Royal
Duke to town. Baron Knesebeck was in waiting on
the Duke of Cambridge. Their Royal Highnisses the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Princesses Augusta
and Mary of Cambridge also left the Duke of Wel-
lington's seat at Strathfieldsaye yesterday for Kew.
In the afternoon the Duke of Cambridge and the
Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz
left town for Kew.

Viscount and Viscountess Barrington have arrived
at Canford House, Dorsetshire, the residence of her
Majesty the Queen Dowager. The Viscountess has
succeeded the Countess Brownlow as the Lady in
Waiting on her Majesty. Lady and the Hon. Miss
Gore have arrived at Canford House ; the Hon. Miss
Gore is the Maid of Honour in Waiting on her Ma-
jesty. Sir David Davies arrived at his residence in
Park-place, St. James's, on Tuesday night, 'from
Canford House. The Hon. 'William Ashley (Vice-
Chamberlain) and the Hon. Mrs. Ashley have arrived
at Canford House on a visit to the Queen Dowager.
The Earl of Denbigh (Master of the Horse) has left
Canford House for his town residence in Eaton-place.
Sir David Davies left town yesterday afternoon for
Canford house.

His Imperial Highness the Archduke Frederick of
Austria, attended by Baron Lebzeltern, Captain Du-
mont, and other gentlemen of his suite, visited and
inspected the United Service Institution yesterday
afternoon. His Imperial Highness and suite also went
to the Horse Guards.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council at two o'clock
this afternoon, at Windsor Castle. Summonses for
the Council were issued yesterday, from the Council-
office.

Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday afternoon, on
a visit to her Majesty, at Windsor Castle.
Baron Neumann, the Austrian Minister, and M.
Dedel, the Minister of the Netherlands, returned to
town on Friday, from a visit to the Duke of Welling-
ton, at Strathfieldsaye.
Baron Brunow, the Russian Minister, and the Che-
valier Bunsen, the Prussian Minister, transacted busi-
ness yesterday, at the Foreign-office.
Captain Seagrave, R.N., had an interview with
Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial-office.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on
Thursday at his official residence in Downing-street.
The Earl of Haddington has returned to town from
a visit to Lord Wharncliffe at Wortley Hall, York-
shire.

The Earl of Jersey arrived in town yesterday
from Windsor Castle.

Lady Graham was better yesterday, and was going
on favourably,
Dispatches from Sir Hugh Gough for Lord Stanley
her Majesty's principal Secretary of State for War
and the Colonies were received yesterday at the
Coloni4-office. Dispatches were also received from
the Governor of Malta.

The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. Lord Campbell gave judgment on an ap-
peal from the Arches' Court of Canterbury. The Rev.
Henry Erskine Head, rector of Feniton, Devon, v.
Ralph Saunders, of the City of Exeter, gentleman,
promoting the office of the Judge. Their Lordships
affirmed the decree of the Court below.

The Queen's Advocate, followed by Mr. Moore, was
heard on an appeal from the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury, James Edwards v. George Fineham, in
the goods of Martha Yeomans, spinster, deceased.
Dr. Lushington gave judgment.
Mr. Burge, Queen's Counsel, and Mr. Moore,
were heard on an appeal from the East Indies,
" Jewagee and others."
Mr. Loftus Wigram, Queen's Counsel, was also
heard on the appeal.
The Court rose at four o'clock. The Lords pre-
sent were Lord Campbell, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr.
Jus,tice Erskine, and the Judge of the Admiralty
Court. The Bishop of London attended the early
part of the sitting.

INCOME-TAX.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Some time ago, with the rest of my neigh-
bours, I received an Income-tax paper to fill up; I
filled it up, at the same time desiring that I might be
furnished with a form _to fill up, to show that my in-
come was below 1501. This was furnished to me, and I
there showed that my income was below 1401.; however,
yesterday I received a tax paper assessing me at 1401.,
for which lam charged 41. ls. Bd. What am Ito do
in this case ? I thought it was only incomes of 1501.
and upwards that had to pay. Will you please, at your
earliest convenience, to give me your opiuion, and
oblige your most obedient, N. S.
Bury St. Edmund's, Dec. 9, 1842.
[The tax applies only to persons having an income
of 150/. a year and upwards, and as the paper left by
the Assessor shows that our Correspondent is not liable
to it, he need take no further notice of the matter.]

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further learn that the lately deceased Mrs. Long-acre,
we
Worting, near fßasingstoke, has bequeathed to it a
legacy of 1001., free of legacy duty ; and the lately
deceased Mr. Joseph Tanner, of Somer's-town, has
also bequeathed to it a legacy of 1001. New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents.
ROYAL ARSENAL, Wool:slum—A casting of about
four cwt. of brass took place yesterday, under the
superintendence of Mr. Clarke,
being the quantity of
metal required for each leaf of the Corinthian order,
to be appended to Nelson's monument in Trafalgar-
square. The leaf cast yesterday completes the re-
quisite number, and the artist is about to commence
casting the volutes, which will still occupy him a con-
siderable time. At the last casting of brass guns under
the superintendence of Mr. North, foreman of the
foundry department, two brass cylinders were also
cast fir an eminent silk manufacturing house, per-
mission having been granted by the Master-General
and Board of Ordnance. The cylinders have now
been finished, and on trial have been found to be of a
superior nature to any hitherto obtained by the house,
although the firm are said to have tried the castings
of several of the most celebrated foundries in the
country.
VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL—New Constitution, Que-
bec to Dublin, lat. 46 lon. 39, by the Mary Bibby,
at Cork. Sea, Liverpool to Messina, 4th inst., lat.
49, lon. 10, by the Lilly, arrived at Falmouth. Mar-
shall, Bennett (whaler), May 24, lat. 13 N., lon.llE.
CURE FOR HYDROPEDIA.—At Udina, in Friule,
poor man lying under the frightful tortures of
hydrophobia was cured with some draughts of vinegar,
given him by mistake instead of another potion.
physician at Padua got intelligence of this event at
Udina, and tried the same remedy upon a patient at
the hospital, administering to him a pound of vinegar
in the morning, another at noon, and a third at sunset,
and the man was speedily and perfectly cured.

TESTIMONIAL TO SIR JOHN AND
LADY PIRIE.

A private meeting of merchants, bankers, and
others, took place at the London Tavern last week, in
consequence of a very anxious desire expressed at the
conclusion of the late Mayoralty, to consider the pro-
priety of testifying their approval of the public con-
duct and private worth of the late Lord Mayor and
Lady Mayoress, Sir John and Lady Pirie.
Mr. COTTON, the Governor of the Bank of Eng-
land, was unanimously called to the Chair, upon the
motion of Mr. John Masterman, M.P., seconded by
Mr. Hughes Hughes.
The CHAIRMAN said it gave him sincere pleasure to
attend a meeting convened for the purpose of bearing
testimony to the merits of Sir John and Lady Pirie.
Of the value of the public services rendered by Sir
John Pixie during his Mayoralty, there was but one
opinion, for every one acknowledged how ardent a
friend he was to the cause of charity, and how ad-
mirably he performed the duties of the office from
which he had so lately retired. It was quite unne-
cessary to use more words in speaking of a most
worthy man, who had been long known in the mer-
cantile community of London as a person of the
highest claims to public esteem for the exercise of pub-
lic and private virtues.—(Cheers.) He had heard
many commercial men allude to the subject upon
which the meeting had assembled, and he felt con-
vinced that a subscription would be rapidly advanced
for the purpose of presenting to Sir John and Lady
Pirie a suitable testimonial.—(Cheers.)
It was suggested by some gentlemen that, for the
purpose of accomplishing the object in the most effec •
tual manner, it would be advisable to call a public
meeting, and submit to them resolutions for their
adoption. To this proposition the Chairman, and others
of the meeting, entertained some objection, upon the
the ground that the immediate appointment of a Com-
mittee, treasurers, and secretaries, would answer all
the purposes, without any of the parade of a public
meeting, at which, after all, nothing could be uttered
except language in praise of those whose excellent
qualities were the theme of public approbation.
Mr. JOSEPH SIMES said he would most willingly
join in furthering the object of the meeting, but he
was sure that the less flourish there was about it the
more congenial it would be to Sir John and Lady Pirie.
It was ultimately agreed that operations should
commence without having recourse to a public meet-
ing. A Committee was then appointed, with power
to add to their number ; Mr...knderton and Mr. Har-
rison, members of the Corporation of London, were
chosen honorary secretaries, and a resolution was
paased that the subscriptions should be received at
Messrs. Masterman's bank, the maximum limit
of which subscriptions to be (for a single person) 51.,
with rid minimum limit. The subscriptions at once
commenced.

Yesterday the Committee assembled at the London
Tavern, Mr. Benjamin Green in the chair.
Mr. ANDERTON stated, that although there had
been as yet no public notice given of the testimonial
to Sir John and Lady Pink, he had received a great
number of letters from some of the most eminent
merchants and bankers in the City, requesting to have
their names added to the list of the Committee, and
inclosing contributions for the intended object. He
felt great pleasure in stating that the contributions
were' as numerous from one political party as from
the other, so that it was quite evident the conduct of
Sir John Pink was as warmly admired by Whigs as
by Tories. In fact, a man more free from the errors
of party spirit never existed—a sentiment in which
all the members of the Corporation agreed. Amongst
the contributors from the west-end of the town was
Lord Dudley Stuart, who had sent a most warm
letter to the Committee, expressive of the pleasure it
would give his Lordship to be one of those who
should present a testimonial to Sir John and Lady
Pixie, and requesting that the Committee would re-
ceive him amongst their number.
The General Committee, consisting of 60 members,
was then formed, and a Sub-Committee, consisting
of ten, to have the management and superintendence
of the subscriptions and expenses, was appointed.
The bankers appointed to receive subscriptions
were Messrs. Masterman and Co., Glynn and Co., and
Grote and Prescott.

The Committee, after some other arrangements,
resolved that the testimonial to be presented to Sir
John and Lady Pine should be approved of .by the
majority of the General Committee, and afterwards by
a majority of the subscribers at a general meeting.
The Committee then separated.
The list of subscriptions will appear in a few days
in the newspapers.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
EFFECTS OF MONOPOLY.
LONDON, DEC. 10, 1842.
The following average prices of Brown or Musco-
does British Sugars, exclusive of duty, were pub-
lished in the Gazette of last night :
West India 3ss. Oid. per cwt.
East India 35 Ot
Mauritius 26 114
The average price of the three kinds, computed
jointly, exclusive of duty, is 355. per cwt.
The actual weights ok sugar sold on account of the
importers, in the week ending the 6th inst., accord-
ing to the returns made upon oath by the sugar bro-
kers, in compliance with the Act of Parliament, and
on which weights the above prices are computed, con-
sisted of 18,333 cwt. West India, 12,514 cwt. East
India, and 131 cwt. of Mauritius.
About 100 cwt. of very dark unsound sugars have
been sold in the same week ; these having been classed
in the returns as Mauritius, unfairly depresses the
as well as the total ave-
raavgerearicoef.that kind of sugar,
White sugars equal to double refined manufactured
in London from foreign raw sugars may be purchased
free of all charges in putting them on board a British
ship, for 265. 6d. per. cwt. ; these white sugars are con-
sequently Bs. 6d. per cwt. cheaper than West India
Muscovadoes, which are about equal in quality to
foreign Muscovadoes from which the said white sugars
were made. The total sales of British sugars for the
above quoted week in Mincing-lane, were 30,973 cwt.;
assuming that the sales at the outports, added toge-
ther, were to the same extent as the weight sold in the
London market, the consumers bought 61,946 cwt. of
sugar at 355. per•cwt., amounting in round numbers
108,2051. They might have bought 61,946 cwt. of
foreign sugar, equally good, at 18s. 6d. per cwt.,
amounting to 57,3001., exhibiting a difference against
British sugars, of 51,2051., that is to say, the nation
by purchasing foreign, instead of the protected British
sugars, would. have saved that amount, which being
added to 274,2241., the fruits of protection for the five
previous weeks (see The Sun, Dec. 3), gives 325,4291.
the precise value of the sugar monopoly to, the sugar
producers, and the cost thereof to the public for six
consecutive weeks.

Last -week we said we would, as all other expedients
to suppress the traffic in slaves, had signally failed of
attaining that desirable object, address a few remarks
for the consideration of that great and influential
party in this country who have the cause so much at
heart. To suppose that sugar will be raised in the
West India colonies under the existing bad manage-
ment, so cheaply thatit can compete in price with
slave-labour sugar, is to indulge in a fallacy ; it is,
therefore, necessary to advise the Anti-Slavery So-
ciety of the fact, that there is raised by free labour
east of the Cape of Good Hope an abundance of sugar,
which in price would drive slave-labour sugar from
the market ; and that the Anti-Slavery Society has
no reason to doubt the truism of its own prediction,
namely, that free is cheaper than slave labour.
The remedy for the cure of slavery, and ex-
tinction of the slave trade, is to be found in free
competition ; the markets of Great Britain offer
a fair field for the trial ; first, because the
producers of free•laboUr sugars in the East
have full confidence in the integrity of the parties to
whom their property may be consigned ; they are
sure there will be noplunder of the article, or trickery
in the price of it. Secondly, they are assured that
the power of capital is
exists no probability of their sugars not finding this country is such, that there
cus-
tomers prepared to advance money on the sugars pur-
chased by them. In order to secure, however, bona
fide, a free competition, the duty on all Muscovadoes
must be alike, and that amount imposed solely for the
sake of revenue. The experience of a twelvemonth
would teach the Anti-slavery Society that real com-
petition ought to be encouraged, that the slave-owners
will be unable to contend in price against their free-
labour rivals; and that the culture of the sugar cane
in the slave countries would be ultimately abandoned,
and that the liberation of the slaves on that kind of
property would follow as a matter of course.
Ihe great difficulty in admitting to home use all
sugars at one uniform rate of duty, would be how to
treat West India sugars. East India and Mauritius
sugars need no
cannot be produced; in other words, those colonies
protection, but the other does, or it
cannot be maintained without it. Suppose, therefore,
that a bounty of a few shillings per cwt. was conferred
on sugar certificated as the growth of the West Indies,
this would defeat the chance of East India or Mau-
ritius sugars participating in the benefit which dif-
ferential duties in favour of British sugar would con-
fer; besides, by allowing a bounty of so much per
cwt. on imported West India sugar, the nation would
arrive exactly at the cost of maintaining those
colonies—a knowledge which, by the present hocus i
pocus system, t can never attain.

The Rev. M. Oliver, who for the last forty years
has so ably and efficiently discharged the duties of
curate of haplode, Lincolnshire, has been presented
to the living of Lambley, near Nottingham. This
W '
venerable member of the Established Church is now
in his 90th year, and purposes, we understand, enter-
ing upon the duties of his new office on the Ist of
January next. Returned value, 4761.—Nottingham
paper.
The registration of electors of Trinity College,
Dublin, closed on Wednesday,
and makes the qualified
constituency for life 1,727.

NOTICE.—WHEREAS the Right Honourable
Robert, EARL of KINGSTON, of Mitchelstown
Castle, in the County of Cork, in that part of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, called Ireland, has by Deed,
under his hand and Seal, duly and sufficiently REVOKED
the POWER of ATTORNEY heretofore given by him to
Julius Count WINTZINGERODE, and every power and
authority therein and thereby granted, and every clause, mat.
ter, and thing, contained therein, or in any other deed, instru-
ment, or paper writing signed by him the said Robert Earl of
Kingston, and being, or purporting to be, or containing any
right power or authority to the said Julius Count Wintzingerode
to act in any way whatsoever for him, the said Roberti Earl of
Kingston, or in his name : Now, the public are hereby re-
quired to take Notice of such Revocation, and are cautioned
against entering into, or completing any contract or agreement
of any kind whatsoever with the Julius Count Wintzingerode
as agent or attorney for the said Robert, Earl of Kingston,
under said revoked power of attorney or otherwise howsoever.
Dated 6th December, 1842.

Signed on behalf of the Earl of Kingston,
WILLIAM ADAMS SHERLOCK, Solicitor,

THE WEATHER.—SUN OFFICE, DEC. 10.
THERMOMETER, Lowest. 37 ; Highest, 57 : Noon, 40,
BAROMETER, 30.3.—W1ND, S. to S.E.

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The Duke of BUCKINGHAM has at length
ventured to meet his tenantry. Yesterday his
GRACE attended the annual dinner of the Bucks
Conservative Association at Brill, and candidly
explained his views as to the policy of Sir RO-
BERT PEEL. While all others arc changing
around him, while the Duke of RICHMOND and
Sir EDWARD KNATCIIBULL, and nearly all who
Professed the same opinions regarding the Corn-
laws, are either silent or acquiescent in the new
law and the tariff, the " Farmer's Friend"
still remains inexorable, and denounces these
measures as dangerous to the country.
". Whatever changes may have overtaken
some," said he, ". these changes of opinion have
not altered mine.' Those opinions remain firm
and unchanged; those opinions remain un-
altered; and I look back with regret, and with
deep regret, to the passing. of the new Corn Bill
and the Tariff; which I regard as hostile and
dangerous to the interests of the British farmer."
In order that there may be no mistake, he
reiterates these sentiments before the close of his
speech, -and vainly imagines that if he only re-
main firm, the renegades will see the error of
their ways, and return to the right _path.
He may as well expect time to stand still. The
fate of this important question is sealed. In
every town and city throughout the empire the
cry is, " Free trade, and down with monopoly !".
and neither the House of Lords, nor the Tory
House of Commons, can resist this universal opi-
nion, so distinctly pronounced by the commer-
cial and manufacturing interests. The agricultural
interest, too, is fairly on the turn; and from all
we can learn, both landlords and tenants are
anxious to have some final enactment which
shall put the question for ever at rest.
Many are now willing to grant leases, but
the tenants raise all but yearly engagements.
Agricultural improvement, therefore, most stand
still,-or the landlords imist take the land into
their own hands, generally a ruinous speculation,
till the Legislature allay all fears as to future
changes. The speech of the Duke throwghout
displays great despondency; and, therefore,
augurs well for such a result. Four cler-
gyman spoke at the meeting, and it is a re-
markable fact that neither of these gentlemen,
generally so .obsequious to his Grace, nor any
other speaker, said a word against that Bill
which the Duke pronounced as " so hostile and
dangerous to the British farmer." The following
remarks made by the Rev. G. CIIETWODE is a
fair sample of the rest, and show that they are
satisfied to wait the results of the trial. "I am
sorry," said he, " that a cloud has been so long
banging over the interests of the British farmer,
but I hope it will not be of long duration. I
hope, however, that it will soon vanish, and that
our rulers, by the results of what they have lately
done, will not find themselves mistaken."

-Our attention has been directed to an appeal
case, which was heard before the Justices sitting
in Quarter Sessions, at Knutsford, Cheshire, on
the 28th ult., which deserves to be made known
to the public, as an illustration of the mode Of
administering the laws out of the metropolis.
So long ago as July 6th, there was a turn-out of
silk-weavers, in Congleton, on account of the
wages paid by Messrs. READE and Co. On that
day a crowd assembled about their mill, in order
to : prevent some persons who, it was sup-
posed, were inclined to work, from' pro-
ceeding to their business. One man, in
particular, of the ;natne of BILLINOTON,
was said to have been forcibly ejected
from his work by persons whom Mr. READE
knew, as they had formerly worked for him, and
to whom he spoke at the time. He saw the Mayor
the same day, and he made no charge against any
person, nor did he at any time make any charge
before the borough Magistrates. It appeared in
hiS evidence that he had no confidence in them,
for what reason is not stated, but we.presume it
was merely on account of their political opinions
and having confidence in the county Magistrates
he repaired, on the 15th of• September, to Sand-
bach, seven miles from Congleton, and on his
depositions, two county Magistrates granted
warrants against three persons, accused of hav-
ing
,forced BILLINOTON away from his work on
the 6th of July. For us that is the first curious
circumstance. Mr. READE does not 'take his
workmen before the Magistrates of the borough
in which they reside, and in which their charac-
ters are known, he takes them before county
Magistrates, who can know nothing of them;
and who? perhaps, are infected with .that un-
happy prejudice against the manufacturing
classes, which is common to country gentle-
men. What would be thought inl,London if
a master-manufacturer in Spitalfields, ten weeks
after the commission of an offence, chose to apply
to the Magistrates; not of Worship-street, or the
City of London, but of Epping in Essex, and
the gentlemen were to issue warrants to carry
the culpable silk-weavers before them ? We

know that such things cannot be done here, but
something similar was done at Congleton, and it
appears to us a strange inversion of the ordinary
course of the law.

Mr. READE attained his end. The Magistrates
convicted the three men named, FARRALL, MA..
HONEY, and JEPHSON, and sentenced the last to
three months' imprisonment and hard labour,
and the two first to imprisonment with hard la-

law in the House of Correction .Xnutsford,
which implies, ‘ve are informed, a prohibition of
all communication with their frieads outside
the gaol. The men appealed againq the sen-
tence, and the Justices in Quarter Session, under
the Chairmanship of TRAFFORD TRAFFORD,
Esq., confirmed it, and, moreover, condemned
the appellants in costs to the amount of 401. 10s.
Oa what evidence the original conviction was
grounded, we are not aware, but the evidence on
which it was sustained is reported at considerable

length in the Macclesfield Chronicle, and, judging
from that, we must say that men were rarely
pnnished on slighter evidence of guilt. Mr.
IIEADE proved the presence of the prisoners at
his gate, and proved that his own men stayed away
from work, but it was not proved that they
did not stay away voluntarily. The charge was
that the accused obstructed one WILLIAIvi BIL-
LINGTON ; and BILLINGTON, who was not exa-
mined on the first conviction, though present,
was examined on the appeal, and he swore posi-
tively that he had determined, on the evening of
July 5, not to work for the Messrs. READE and
Co., that he attended a meeting of the weavers
on the morning of July 6, and did not attempt
to enter the factory on that morning to rent iv
his work; cross-examination did not shake 1..1
testimony, but another person swore that Bir.-
LINGTON said he had been shoved from the gate.
The men assembled, undoubtedly, in a crowd,
but we can see no evidence whatever of their
having forcibly prevented any person from pur-
suing his work, and that crowd dispersed the
instant they were required to do so by the
Mayor. The sentence seems to us as severe as
the whole proceeding was exmordinary.
The Justices, we are bound to say, took a 7. .

ferent view from ours; the Chairman would not

hear the advocate for the respondents to an end;
and declared that, without hearing him, the
Bench had made up its mind to sustain the con-
viction. The bulk of the workmen in the coun-
try cannot possibly see such decisions in the
same light as the Magistrates, who must not
be surprised to learn, that with many
people the phrase "Justices' justice" is
a bye-word and a mockery. •We hold the
interference of the County Magistrates, in the
first instance, to have been unwarrantable, and
the conduct of their brethren in sustaining the
conviction to have been in conthrmity with the
original impropriety. Tortured as the people
are by numerous summary punishments, and by
arbitrary proceedings such as these, we wonder
more at their patience than at their discontent,
and admire submission tar more than we can
ondemn disorderly conduct.

The accounts from Madrid are to the Ist inst.,
but they contain no news.

The Three per Cents. were done on the Madrid
Bourse of the Ist inst. at 22 21 15-16 at 60 days.
The Five per Cents. at 261 cash, and 261 at
60 days.

The intelligence from Barcelona is to the 2d
inst., which will. be found under that head. The
following agreeable intelligence respecting the
Formidable, has been received by the French
Government :—" The Etna on its return from
Tarragona, joined the Gassendi by the order of
Commandant GATIER, inorder to assist in getting
off the English ship the Formidable. After
many hours of hard exertion she was got clear of
the coast, and was yesterday towed by our two
steamers into the roadstead of Barcelona, where
another English ship,. the Rodney, had anchored
in the morning. When the Gassendi and Etna
had completed their task, the crews of the Eng-
lish ships saluted them with five hurrahs. The
French ship of the line Jemmapes, of 100 guns,
has cast anchor off Barcelona."

The following are the only articles of the
slightest interest in the Paris papers:—" Our
Cabinet," says the Commerce, " is said to have
foreseen the eventuality of direct relations of
trade with China as a consequence of the war
against that country by England, and we are
assured that, Colonel DUBOIS DE JANCIGNY was
furnished with powers to become accredited by
the Chinese Government. This eventuality hav-
ing arrived, it is believed that M. DE JANCIGNY
has assumed in China an official character, as
representative of the French Government."
The Journal des Debats gives a repoet that the
Formidable had brought ammunition of every
kind for the army of ESPARTERO at Barcelona.
"The Barcelonese," it adds, "were the more con-
vinced of that fact, as during two days many
pieces of cannon, cannon-balls, and other pro-
jectiles were conveyed from the coast to the fort;
but all those articles belonged to the armament
of the Formidable, which was necessarily light-
ened of her immense materials of war, in order
to be extricated from the sands into which she
had sunk. Independently of the Jemappes, we
have before Barcelona the Meleagre brig of war,
the steam frigate Gassendi, the Etna, and an-
other steamer. Our countrymen are thus sure
of an efficacious protection and a respectable
asylum is offered by the French vessels to
Spanish emigiants of all classes."
BOURSE—PAms, THURSDAY, DECEMBER S.
First " Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 119 75... 119 75... 119 70... 119 75
Four per Cents 101 30... 101 30 .. 101 30... 101 30
" Threes, ex div 79 30... 79 30... 79 25... ,79 25
Bank of France 3345 —.3360 ...3345 .. 3360
Latlitto Bank I,ooof 1057 50 ..1057 50...1057 50-1057 50
5,000 f 5080 —.5082 50...5082 50 ..5082
Belgian Bank, 1841 lO7O ...1070 ...1070 ...1070
Belgian Fives..
1840 lo4k ... 104 k ... 104 k ... 104 k
Spanish Active. . 23i ... 234 ... 231 ... 234
Neapolitan, ex div lO7 25... 107 25... 107 25... 107 25
Roman,
_ .

_ ..
RAILWAY SHARES,
Versailles, R.B 270 .... 270 ... 270 ... 270
L.B B7 50.... 90 ... 87 50... 90
Rouen
Orleans.... 612 50... 615 ... 612 50... 615
Strasburg to Bale 203 75... 203 75... 202 50... 202 50

PRIVY COUNCIL.—A special train left the Pad-
dington station of the Great Western Railway, at one
o'clock this afternoon, with Lords Aberdeen, Stanley,
and Fitzgerald, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and other Ministers, to attend the Privy Council for
the further prorogation of Parliament, appointed to
be lick! at two o'clock this afternoon, at Windsor
Castle. Mr. Greville, the Clerk of the Privy Council,
also went with the Ministers. It is understood that
a proclamation appointing the time of the meeting of
Parliament, will be issued this evening.
Major Malcolm with dispatches from China, ar-
rived in town this morning, and immediately waited
upon the principal Cabinet Ministers.

AMERICAN NEWS

EXPRESS FROM LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING.
By the New York packet-ship Hottinguer,
Captain Bursley, we have received papers one
day later than those previously brought by the
North America. The Hottinguer brings 14 cabin
passengers, and 200 steerage; the latter, we un-
derstand, paid four dollars each passage-money.
They are returned,emigrants.
The papers by this arrival present nothing
whatever of importance to the English reader.
Speaking of the excitement produced by the
suicide of Colt, the murderer, one paper, the
New York Herald, says :
" The local intelligence which we give to-day, of
all kinds continues to be of the most exciting cha-
racter. New York was never in such a state of
excitement as it has been for the last few days.
" The horrible tragedy of Colt, and the mysterious
juggle by which he set at naught the execution of
the law, and the administration of justice, continue to
agitate the public mind in an extraordinary degree.
" Masses of the people disbelieve his suicide, and
persist in saying he is still alive, and the conflagation
of the tombs and the Coroner's Jury, are only dust in
their eyes."
Mr. James Watson Webb, editor of the Con-
rier• and inquirer, has again been committed for
duelling, and likely to be imprisoned not less
than two years, nor more than seven.
Business matterslstill continued gloomy in New
York, and prices generally had a downward
tendency.

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, Nov. 19.
The Stock Board to-day exhibited no new features.
Sales of State Stock were to a fair extent, at fair
prices; fan,py Stocks were down ; Delaware and
Hudson fell 1 per cent.; Mohawk i; Harlem f.
Mobile Funds were quoted 17i to 20 per cent. dis.
SAGES AT •THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
$3,000 New York State Sixes, 1862
1,000 Kentucky Sixes, 1871 " 761
6,000 Illinois Sixes, 1870
25 Shares Bank of America.........• •• • 761
30 Ditto of Common Scrip ..
20 Ditto of Delaware and Hudson
10 Ditto do
••• • 87
11 Ditto of Utica and Schen
15 Ditto of Auburn and Rochester
25 Ditto of Boston and Providence .. 85+
115 Ditto of Mohawk.. ..... .
100 Ditto do
150 Ditto Harlem
100 Ditto do
150 Ditto of Long Island 47f
25 Ditto of Stonington

SECOND DOARE).

50 Shares of Mohawk
The following are the sales of t Stocks :
$l,OOO County 6's 1870, 94; 25 shares Mechanics'
Bank, 12 ; 7 do. Philadelphia and. Trenton Railroad,
48 ; 20 do. Harrisburg do., 6i.
STATE OF TRADE.
The general character of the markets remains the
same ; prices have still a downwar d tendency.
COTTON.—Prices are in favour of the buyer, and
were farther reduced *of a cent: per lb. Sales of
1,600 bales Upland and Florida at 6 a 8 cents.; 600
Mobile, 6:1 a 8i; and 500 New. Orleans, 6 a 81,
making a total for the week of 6,400 bales.
TonAcco.—Kentucky continues dull. Sales by
auction, 40 hhds at 24 a 54 cents.
MOLASSES.—SaIes Porto Rico, 20 cents.; 36 brls.
New 0-leans, 20, 4 mos.
NAVAL STOKES.—North County Turpentine for
export at $2 75 ; Wilmington, at $3; North County,
at $2 75, both for distilling, taken at the North
Carolina Inspections. Sales of Spirits Turpentine,
at 40 cents.

ATTEMPT To Pozsoic—The Tuam I~~erald states
that a young woman, named Ruane, anal her mother,
have been committed to Galway gaol fo r having at-
tempted to poison the husband. of the former, by
giving him corrosive sublimate in stir-about