The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

DISTRESS AT STOCKPORT.

The following statement has beeq published by the
authority of the Mayor of Stockport :

It is well known that the cotton manufacture of this
kingdom has been long and greatly depressed, and that
numbers of persons engaged in it have been thrown out
of employment, and great distress occasioned in the va-
rious towns and districts of which it is the staple ma-
nufacture. The borough of Stockport, the working
population of which is engaged almost exclusively in
this manufacture, has suffered in common with other
towns, from its general and long-continued depression.
The distress so occasioned has been increased to an ex-
tent, it is believed, beyond that of any other town, by
special and peculiar circumstances of a local influence.
We allude to the entire stoppage of some of the largest
establishments in the town and neighbourhood,
by which several thousand persons have been thrown
out of employment, who still remain without any pros-
pect of being able to return to it.
Of the establishments at work, a great part are so
only partially ; and the working of short time (that is
of four days per week) has been continued to a greater
or less extent since May last. Upwards of one-third
of the horse-power in the town and neighbourhood is
unemployed, which, if at work, would give employ-
ment to more than 4,000 persons. It is believed that
there are, altogether, about 5,000 operatives of various
trades unable to obtain employment. The conse-
quences of this suspension of labour are extensive loss
and suffering among all classes dependent upon trade,
and unexampled distress and privation among the work-
ing population. This distress, heightened as it now is
by the severity of the weather, has arrived at a pitch of
which it is impossible to convey any adequate idea by
mere statistical information. The Poor-rates have
regularly increased, and are now become a serious
drain upon the diminished resources of the comparatively
few who are able to pay them. Families, two or three
together, are crowding into one house, or leaving their
cottages for cellars : some are quitting their native
land : numbers, having exchanged all but the last ar-
ticles of their wearing apparel for the means of sustain-
ing life, are on the verge of destitution. Honest men,
willing to work, are compelled, with their entire fami-
lies, to become street mendicants, or to live, day by
day, on the precarious charity of their neighbours ; and
besides an increase of disease arising, in a great mea-
sure, from a deficiency of food ; many, it is to be
feared, are literally starving to death. Of 15,823 indi-
viduals, inhabiting 2,965 houses, lately visited under the
direction of a Committee appointed for the purpose,
1,204 only were found to be fully employed ; 2,866
partially employed, and 4,148, able to work, were
wholly without employment. The remainder 7,605
persons were unable to work.
The average weekly income of the above 15,823 per-
sons was ls. 4id. each.
The average weekly wages of those fully employed
were 7s. 6-1-d. each.
The average weekly earnings of those partially em-
ployed were 4s. 'lid.
The Committee appointed for the purposes of the
relief now to be afforded, being fully convinced that all
the efforts that can possibly be made in the town and
neighbourhood will be utterly inadequate to meet the
pressing necessities of the case, have resolved, under the
direction of the Meeting by which they were appointed,
to make an appeal to their countrymen generally, and
especially to those individuals and classes of society who
feel little of the pressure of the times, or who are re-
moved from all fear of personal suffering and privation.

ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY.—The first meet-
ing for the season was held on Saturday afternoon, the
Right Hon. Sir Alexander Johnson, Bart., in the Chair.
A letter was read from Captain Newbold on the ancient
mounds of scoriated ashes in Southern India. Many
conjectures had been made as to their origin, and
amongst others it was considered that they were the re-
sult of volcanic action. The improbability of this was,
however, pointed out, as there was even no vestige of
volcanic action in the neighbourhood. Many of these
burrows were of some extent, one, which was mea-
sured, being of the dimensions of 34 yards by 29. It
was the author's opinion that They were ashes princi-
pally of slaves, or of those slain in the battle-field,
which was also interestingly confirmed by the fact, that
on analysis they were found to contain largely phospho-
ric acid. Sacrificial rites with human bodies were prac-
tised by the ancient Hindoos on a very large scale, to
propitiate success in war, agriculture, &c. On one occa-
sion it is recorded that no fewer than 1,000 human sacri-
fices were offered, and in another instance 1,000 ele-
phants 'and an equal number of sheep. The Hindoos
were, however, nut the only people characterised by
human sacrifices, as the same was practised by the
ancient Druids only a few centuries before the Great
Alfred, by the nomades of Tartary, and in some of the
ceremonies of Greece and Rome. The practice still
exists amongst the Koonds, from which it is likely, how-
ever, to be rooted out, by the vigorous measures of Lord
Elphinstone. In the course of a subsequent conversation
it was stated that there were no signs of volcanoes, either
active or extinct, to be met with between the Himalaya
mountains and Cape Cormorin.
" I want a cheap cheese," said a countryman,
upon entering a provision shop. You must go to Hol-
land for it, then,' was the reply of the shopkeeper, " for
you cannot have it in this country."— The Struggle.
SILK HOSIERY TRADE.—It is the intention
of the operative silk stocking-makers to memorialize
his Royal Highness Prince Albert to renew the once pre-
vailing fashion of wearing silk hose for ordinary as well
as Court dress.—Leeds Mercury.
FREAKS OF NATURE.--011 Monday evening
last, a calf was ushered into life with the extraordinary
possession of two heads. The animal is still alive, and
has two mouths, 'with both of which it eats, four eyes,
but only two ears...-Liverpool Chronicle.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
CAMBRIDGE, JAN. I.—The Rev. Henry Howes, M.A.
of Gonville and Caius College, has been presented by
the Lord Chancellor to the Rectory of Barton St. An-
drew, Norfolk.
The Rev. Thomas William Salmon, M.A., formerly of
Gonville and Cahn College, has been presented to the
Perpetual Curacy of Hopton, Suffolk, by the Dean and
Chapter of Norwich.
The Rev. S. Vincent Beechy, M.A., of Gonville and
Caius College, has been nominated to the Perpetual
Curacy of St. Peter's Church, Fleetwood, by Sir Hesketh
Fleetwood, Bart.

The Rev. John Witherington Peers, M.A., of Catha-
rine Hall, has been preferred to the Vicarage of Tets-
worth, in the county of Oxford. Patron, Richard Barry
Slater, Esq., M.D.
The Rev. T. S. Green, M.A., of Christ's College, has
been appointed Chaplain to the Ashby-de-la- Zouch Union.
The Rev. W. Oldfield, formerly of St. John's College,
has been appointed to the Curacy of Bucknall and Bag-
nall, Staffordshire.

The Rev. Charles Richard Alford, M.A., of Trinity,
has been licensed by the Bishop. of Worcester to the Per-
petual Curacy of St. Matthew, in Rugby, Warwickshire.
The Rev. Nicholson Burrows, 8.A., formerly of
Trinity College, late Principal of the Hull College, was
on Tuesday, the 21st ult., elected Head Master of the
Yarmouth Proprietary School.
The Bishop of Lichfield has licensed the Rev. George
Lloyd, 8.A., of Emmanuel College, to the Perpetual
Curacy of Willesley, in the county of Derby.—Patron,
Sir Charles Abney Hastings, Bart.
OXFORD, JAN. I.—Messrs. H. T. Glyn, G. R. 11.
Somerset, H. E. Cramer, T. 0. Blackall, W. E. Raw-
storne, and C. Lloyd have been elected actual students
of Christ Church ; the three former are from West-
minster school. The following have been appointed
chaplains of Christ Church :—The Rev. P. C. Kidd and
the Rev. J. B. Fawkes.

Sir J. C. Thorold, Bart., has presented the Rev. Edw.
Trollope, of St, Mary Hall, to the Vicarage of Rauceby,
Lincolnshire.

Lord Rolle has presented the Rev. R. H. Chichester,
of Exeter College, to the Vicarage of Chittleham, De-
vonshire.

The Dean and Chapter of Christ Church have pre-
sented the Rev. C. G. Hutchinson, student of Christ
Church, to the Rectory of Batsford, Gloucestershire.
The President and Governors of Guy's Hospital have
presented the Rev. John Nelson, of St. John's College,
to the Rectory of Peterstow, near Ross, Herefordshire.
The Trustees of Christ Church, Litherland, in the
county of Lancaster, have nominated the Rev. J. E.
Bates, of Christ Cnurch, to the Perpetual Curacy of the
above-named church, to which he has been licensed.

The Lord Chancellor has presented the Rev. R.
Hodges to the Vicarage of Little Barrington, in the
county of Gloucestershire.
The contest for the Professorship of Poetry, which is
carried on with such unprecedented activity, and which
has occasioned such excitement throughout the country,
will, it is understood, be decided this month, Wednes-
day, the 26th inst., being mentioned as the day of election.

ALARMING FIRE AT, THE LONDON GAS-
WORKS AT VAUXHALL—On Saturday afternoon, be-
tween the hours of one and two, the inhabitants residing
at Vauxhall and its vicinity were thrown into a state of
great excitement by the sudden issuing of huge volumes
of black smoke from the premises of the London Gas-
works, situated in the Vauxhall-walk,• Vauxhall, and in
a few minutes after its outbreak, so dense had the atmo-
sphere become in the immediate neighbourhood, that it
bore a close resemblance to a thick black fog. The alarm
of the inhabitants residing near the premises at this mo-
ment, fearful that an immediate explosion would take
place, was extremely painful to behold. It appears that
the fire was occasioned by an overflow of tar on the
hydraulic main in the No. 3 retort-house, which imme-
diately, on its descending communicated to the mouth-
piece of the furnace, and thus caused a most terrific igni-
tion. Happily, however, at the time a great number of
workpeople were on the premises, and they were actively
employed in throwing water on the flames, which in the
short space of a quarter of an hour were so far sub-
dued as to prevent them extending any further. Almost
immediately upon its being known in the neighbourhood
that the premises were on fire, Messrs. Burnett and Co.,
the eminent distillers, of Vauxhall, dispatched two of
their powerful engines, manned by 20 of their own work-
people, to the scene in case of emergency; but upon their
arrival there was no occasion to put them in operation.
although the assistance of the men was eagerly accepted.
This is not the first time that the Company are indebted
to the valuable aid of Messrs. Burnett and Co.'s work-
people. The engines of the brigade belonging to the
Waterloo-road station, accompanied by that of the West
of England, were quickly on the spot after the outbreak,
but the fire being extinguished before they arrived, they
were not called into use. The damage done could not be
ascertained, but principally the most destroyed is tar.
Not the slightest inconvenience will be felt at the works
from this accident. It is a singular circumstance that
on the same day five years ago nearly all the Company's
works on the banks of the river were destroyed by fire.
TRADE OF DUNDEE.—FIax continues in de-
mand at last week's quotations, with a good deal of bu-
siness doing. For the present there appears little pros-
pect cf any advance in the price. The various foreign
advices received since our last are as follows:—From
Archangel (12th November o. s.) they write—" The
accounts from the flax districts in the interior of the
country, about the quality of the new flax, continue, we
are happy to say, more favourable ; but how, under
these circumstances, taken along with the bad state of
things on your side, there should be found buyers of
Otborney flax in the usual proportions at Ro s. 125,
and 2d sort flax codilla at Ro s. 5.50, we really do not
understand." In St. Petersburgh nothing doing in either
flax or hemp. Riga dates are up to the 10th December,
when prices of produce remained stiff, chiefly in conse-
quence of the weather continuing open and mild, which
prevents supplies being received by the sledgeway. At
that date, so little appearance there was of winter setting
in, that two ships had been chartered to load grain. Flax
was there taken at—for Crown Marion, R.S. 314- or
37/. 10s. 3d. ; PTR, R.S. 29 or 341. 18s. sd. ; DC, R.S.
25 or 301. I Is. id. ; RT., R.S, 21 or 26/. 6s. sd. Ex-
change was 39d. per R.S. There is a good deal doing
here in yarns, chiefly for the French market, without
which outlet we must have experienced great stagnation,
seeing the home market is in such a depressed state.—
Dundee Advertiser.

THE LADIES' MEMORIAL TO THE QUEEN
ON THE CORN-LAWS.—We understand that this memo-
rial has already received upwards of 50,000 of the signa-
tures of the women of Manchester.—lllanchester Times.
SMUGGLING.----A large quantity of struggled
brandy, 170 casks, was brought to our Custom-house on
Monday last. We are informed it was found buried in
Blue Anchor bay. It is said that the teetotallers here
are exceedingly rejoiced.—Somerset County Gazette.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WEST-
ERN Raieway.—With such examples before us, each
unhappily growing in intensity, of the misery it has
caused, can any man say, that the front of a luggage-
train is a Et—for we will not insult common sense so
much as to call it the safest—place for human beings to
be put ? We can conceive that it is the best place for
the pockets of a Company, who may have to pay for the
goods they may damage on the way, and not for the lives
taey may destroy ; but unless in the greater risk to life
and limb, we can see nothing to be gained by the pas-
sengers, and we seriously hope, if the Companies do not
one and all take warning by the calamitous event just
happened, and provide better for the poorer public, that
the Legislature will do it for them. The public pay for
a safe conveyance, and have a right to it, and they who
attempt to prejudice that right, are as much enemies to
the railways as they are to the public. For our part we
have always upheld railways, as the safest of all modes
of transit hitherto invented, and we feel our indignation
rising when we see it affected by ignorance or wilful-
ness, or dogmatic pertinacity in favour of absurd or dan-
gerous practices. We do not mean to say that accidents
would be totally prevented by running passengers'
trucks behind the goods—for the Hull and Selby acci-
dent rises up before us as a proof that carelessness may
frustrate the wisest plans—but we say, that the elements
of accidents are more numerons in front than in the rear
of a train, and that it is no less the interest than the
duty of every Company to give their customers the safest
place their conveyance admits of.—Railway Magazine.
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—An in-
quisition was held on the 28th ult., at Cullompton, be-
fore Charles Brutton, Esq., Under-Sheriff', and a highly
respectable special jury of the county of Devon, Arthur
Chichester, Esq., foreman, to assess the compensation-
money to be paid by this Company for the purchase of
about seven acres and a half of land in the parish of
Burliscombe, required of Richard Hurley, Esq., of
Uffculm, and for damages resulting to him for the taking
of such land. The sum of 500ewas awarded for the
land and timber, including 1401. fOr the timber, and the
sum of 2301. for damages, including 301. for the te-
nant, making in the whole the sum of 73G1. the Com-
pany providing a bridge in lieu of a level crossing.
Mr. Ilurley's claim for the items comprised in the
award of 7301., amounted to 1,7721--On the follow-
ing day another inquisition was held in the Town Hall
at Wellington, before Edward Coles, Esq., under She-
riff, and an equally respectable jury of the county of
Somerset, to assess the compensation moneys to be paid
for about eleven acres of land in the parish of Stan-1136)rd
Arundel, required of T. W. Were, Esq., and for damages
resulting to him, and the following sums were by con-
sent awarded to that gentleman, viz., 1,5001. for the land,
the house and buildings, and the timber. The house
and buildings were valued by the claimant's surveyor at
8001, and the timber at 2601., 8001. for severance and all
consequent damages, making a total of 2,300/. Mr.
Were's claim amounted to between 4,0001. and 5,0001.
In these two jury cases Sir William Follett, with Mr.
Talbot, were the counsel for the Company, and Mr. Ser-
geant Ludlow and Mr. Montague Bere for the land-
owners.—Bristol Mercury.
THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—A most
diabolical attempt was made on Wednesday night to
cause a further accident on the Groat West rn line. The
mail train was on its way from London, and when within
about three miles of Bath, the signal was given to the
engine-driver of something wrong, and the train was
stopped with all possible dispatch. On investigation it
appears that sense villain had placed two large stones
(one on each rail) with the view of sending the engine
off the line, but which did not take place. One of the
stones was crushed into a thousand atoms, and flew over
the driver and stoxer without doing them any serious
injury ; the other stone was forced on one side by the
sword, or guard, which is placed before the wheels, but
both the guards were put out of their place, and much
bent and twisted.

AN EMBRYO CONSERVATIVE.-A young
gentleman was asked the other day if his father was not
giving him a liberal education. " No," indignantly re-
plied the young cockatrice, " My father is not giving
me a Liberal education ; he is giving 4e a Conservative
sducatioß, Sir.'

STATE OF THE HOISERY AND
LACE TRADES.
(From the Nolinghans Review.)
The demand for plain bobbin net by no means keeps
pace with the supply, which is increasing, it is said by
persons who have the best means of knowing, to an
extent which is pregnant with ruinous consequences.
The number of machines worked by power are about
equal in the Western and Midland counties ; and we
believe both are suffering from the want of demand. '
In this state of affairs common prudence says that to
avoid an extensive stoppage, it would be wise for the
factory owners to work only half hours. A total
stoppage would be fatal indeed to the workmen, espe-
cially in the Midland counties, who have in general no
other employment to resort to. We have heard as yet
but of four power factories on the Continent, viz. one
al St. Quentin, consisting of sixty-seven machines, one
at Douay, employing twenty-three machines, one at
Hartha, in Saxony, employing eleven machines, and
one at Litterwitz, in Moravia, containing about 145
machines.' These factories do not require English
hands, only as setters-up, or overlookers, women being
employed in many of them.
A considerable hosiery firm in this town, have given
notice to their workmen that they intend to reduce the
prices for making full-wrought cotton hose from six-
pence to two shillings per dozen, according to quality.
This has caused a considerable sensation in the villages
north of Nottingham. A meeting was held at Arnold
on Monday, which appointed a deputation to wait upon
the house in question, as many of the hands, contrary
to expectation, seemed determined to strike, and, ac-
cording to the usual custom in that branch, bring in
their frames to the warehouse. Upon hearing this
the hosier retrograded from his original purpose, and
proposed to only abate one description of hose 3d.
per dozen, but the wary manufacturer artfully pro-
posed that the workmen should increase their hose in
width half a size, which is nearly equal to a shilling per
dozen in fine stockings. Such is the state of excitement
that a meeting of delegates from the numerous villages
in which this manufacture is carried on, is called to meet
next Monday at noon, at the Cross Keys, in Bayard-
lane. Another meeting, we understand, is called at the
Nag's Head, Mansfield-road, at the same time of the
hands who work for the house proposing the reduction.
So great has been the gradual encroaching peculations of
the hosiers in respect of the size and width, that three
whole sizes have been imposed on the workmen since 1821
A report has reached us, of the intention of establish-
ing a power lace factory in the United States, and we
have heard that some parties have an intention of form-
ing a joint-stock-lace manufactory at Patterson, where
there are already some considerable cotton factories, the
capital to consist of 600,000 dollars, to be subscribed
in shares. The project is to build 200 power bobbin-
net machines, a factory to contain them, and a spinning
and doubling establishment, to supply the machines with
thread ; the whole is to be propelled by water, Patter-
son being admirably situated, having a constant supply
and fall of water for any purpose. lt is certain, that a
master smith in this town has stated that he has been
offered 4001. per annum to superintend the erection
of the lace machinery.
It is grievous to state, that there is no visible im-
provement iu the drawer, glove, plain silk hose, or
knotted branches. It is as mysterious to know what
has become of one part of the workmen, as to conjecture
how the others manage to exist.
A. very singular lot of frames was offered by auction,
by Mr. W. Wright, at the Ptough and Harrow, con-
sisting of a number of frames from Godalming, in
Surrey ; many of them are more than 120 years old.
Among the rest, we were sorry to observe the cele-
brated frame " Magog," the widest stocking-frame in
the world, it being 54 inches on the needles. This
giant frame was built by Mr. Horton, the noted pa-
tentee, in London, about the year 1777. It was ori-
ginally a knotted frame, and was calculated to make
silk breeches, then in the height of fashion. About the
year 1790. Mr. Horton being a partner, it was removed
to the Keeley factory, Godalming, where it made
fleecy blankets and great coats until the year 1838,
a period of 48 years. So great was the width, that the
London giant frightened all the Nottingbairi purchasers.
and there was never a bid for poor old Magog. When
this is known, " half Godalming will be in tears," as he
is known to be a " reeler good-un." The sale of these
frames shows the vicissitude of human affairs. Though
the stocking-frame was invented at Calverton, yet
stocking-frames were worked in Godalming before they
were in Nottingham, as in 1665 there was only one
shop in the place. In the reign of Anne there were
nearly as many stocking-frames. in Godalming, Guild-
ford, and 17 villages round, as in London.

DREADFUL SITUATION OF THE

COUNTRY.
(From the British Queen.) •
Our readers must be aware that we do not rank
among those who, since the late change in the Go-
vernment of this country, have been proclaiming
distress and starvation throughout the land, from
mere party motives, in order to accomplish party
purposes. On the contrary, we have been willing to
believe that distress was not generally prevalent, and
that although money might bear a high rate of in-
terest, still there was work as well as wages for the
working man. We were sorrowfully mistaken in the
sober view which we took of the matter ; for if we
may trust to the personal information of a gentleman
who has had ample means of knowledge upon the
subject, the country was never in a more distressed
condition, nor the working man more shorn, not of the
comforts, but of the necessaries, of life. In Paisley
and in Glasgow, the weaver is cut clown, with a
wife and family of eight children, to 4s. per week—
in Stockport, one-third of the shops are to be let!—
four thousand houses and cottages are in the same
plight ; while, four years ago, there was neither house
nor shop to be had ! The mills are shut up, and the
cotton-spinning, the skirting, the printing, and the
yarn trades, are almost extinguished. Of Black-
burn, Bolton, and Rochdale (a great flannel menu-
foctory), we can give no better account. Their facto-
ries are either a matter of great loss, or they are shut
up—the same expenses being incurred ; but, instead of
a profit of 501. per week, there being a loss of 2001. !
Of course, we speak of firms of considerable import-
ance ; but, as an additional confirmation of what we
have stated upon the best author►ty, we may add that a
large house in the city was compelled, in consequence
of the oppressed state of trade, to sell at 3d. a yard
under prime cost, and at the same time to give notice
to the manufacturer that they could not furnish any
further orders for goods, unless the price was reduced
below that amount of loss !

In other instances, where the benevolence of the
manufacturer induces him to keep his mill open, three
days' work only are allowed ; but even these three days
are allowed simply because the manufacturer hopes for
better times, and the machinery in hi.; mills would
rust and be rendered valueless by a cessation of its em-
ployment.

We have gathered these facts, as we have men-
tioned, not from exaggerated newspaper reports, but
from practical men, who are fully aware of the truth
of what they have stated to us ; and what, we ask, is
the cause of this dreadful state of things, and what the
remedy ? The cause is easily to be found in the laws
which impose unnecessary taxes upon the people, and
injudicious restrictions upon our domestic and foreign
trade ; the remedy, in the reduction of the
one, and modification or abolition of the other. It
is therefore with an earnestness which we trust will
not be undervalued, that we are anxious to press
upon Sir Robert Peel's attention an inquiry into
every portion of our commercial code, and the most
judicious mode of making such alterations in it, as
without materially damaging existing interests, may
give that free course to trade which is the only
foundation of its prosperity. We are not the advocates
of violent changes either in the Constitution or in
the laws which regulate either our external or internal
trade ; but it is as clear as the sun at noonday that this
country is in a most distressed condition, and that great
changes must be made, in order to enable us to meet
the dangerous competition of foreigners. In our island
position—in our coal and iron and other mines—in our
facilities of internal and external communications, we
have means of wealth unsurpassed in the world, and it
only requires a master mind to encourage them not only
to retrieve past errors, but still to maintain England in
the position of being he greatest commercial emporium
which bas existed either in ancient or modern times.

The Kendal Working-Men's Anti-Corn-law
Association have published an address to the public, on
the present distressed condition of the working classes,
and the effects of monopolies, especially the Corn-laws,
on family expenditure. They say, amongst many ex-
cellent remarks—" The bread-tax having introduced
poverty into our dwellings, it might be expected that it
would then take pity upon our miserable condition, and
cease in its effects. Not so—it is unrelenting and un-
satiable in its operations ;. it demands its 20 per cent.
from the miserable pittance of Bs. per week as well as
21s. per week, as may be seen by the tables. We are
compelled to pay 3d. per loaf more for bread, 4d. per
pound more for meat, 2d. per pound more for butter, 4d.
per pound more for sugar, 9d. per pound more for coffee,
&c., than other rations.'
The Bristol Steam Navigation Company intend,
early in the ensuing spring, placing an additional steam-
vessel, of 500 tons register and 220 horse-power, on the
station between Bristol and Cork ; thus giving a steam
communication three times a week between the two
ports, for the conveyance of passengers, goods, and let-
ters, as each vessel will convey a mail. bag. Should the
intercourse hereafter increase so as to be sufficient for
the support of four vessels, the same Company will be
prepared to a place a fourth vessel on the station.—
Bristol Mercury.

LEEDS.—About one quarter of the workpeople
usually employed when business is in a prosperous state
are now out of work.

THE EXCHEQUER BILL FORGERY..--YeS•
terday an order was sent to Newgate from the Home-
office for the removal of Edward Beaumont Smith to the
hulks, in pursuance of his sentence. Ile was accord-
ingly placed in a carriage, and conveyed to WoolWich,
where he was put on board the usual receiving hulk.
A tariff wag expected at St. Petersburgh with

the new year of a more rigorous kind than the existing
~ne. It 1,; said that many articles, especially
goods, will have to pay the double duty.
NEW MODE Or PLAYING TRAGEDY.—On
Saturday night last, the domestic tragedy of George
Barnwell, and other entertainments, were played at our
theatre to an audience consisting of about twenty people,
and played in a style which, we will wager a trifle, never
was and never will be equalled on any stage in her Ma-
jesty's dominions—several of the performers reading
their parts from books or manuscripts, and the greater
part of the tragedy being accompanied by the orchestra
in a style at once original and appropriate. For instance,
when Barnwell makes his passionate protestations of at-
tachment to Milwood, the tune was " Thee, thee, only
thee ;" when she leaves him in a pretended pet, the ap-
propriate air was " Though you leave me here in sor-
row ;" and when Milwood pretends to be in great grief
and tribulation, her sorrows were soothed by the gentle
air of " Hush thee, my darling 1" Again, when the un-
fortunate apprentice steals into his uncle's grounds, the
band struck up " Meet me by moonlight, alone I"—at
the moment the murder was committed, " 0 cruel !"
burst from every instrument in the orchestra—and when
Milwood's villany was detected, she led off to the tune of
" Off she goes." All this was no doubt highly diverting,
and afforded infinite amusement to the audience, amongst
whom was the manager himself.— Whitehaven Herald.
ANTI-CORN•LAW MEDALS.—Mr. Davis, of
Birmingham, has designed and executed a spirited and
characteristic medal, suitable for Anti-Corn-law Asso-
ciations. On the obverse side is the emblematic figure
of justice, holding her balance over the column of the
Anti-Corn-law League, upon which her mantle rests.
Motto, " Undo the heavy burdens, deal thy bread to the
hungry." On the left is a group of once prosperous and
happy artisans, reduced to misery and distress by the
oppressive and unjust Corn and Provision laws, appealing
to justice for redress, that they may earn their daily
bread. On the right is the pampered personification of
monopoly, deaf to the cries of the hungry, anxiously
fearing the interference of justice, straining in his selfish
grasp the emblems of abundance. On the reverse side
in the foreground, the monster monopoly is overthrown,
bound hand and foot, still grasping in his hand the rem-
nants of his once cherished Corn and Provision laws.
The happy results of unrestricted industry are exhibited
by the active exchange of produce and bustling cern-
meree;. plenty and domestic comfort enlivens the surface
of sea and land. Motto, " Free Trade with all the
world."—Manchester Times.

A short time since, as some labourers were ex-
cavating gravel in a field at Great Conard, near Sudbury,
they dug up a human skeleton, which was lying about
two feet below the surface, and from the position in
which it was found, it appeared to have been hastily
thrown, uncoffined, into the earth. A week or two after,
a second was discovered, in a field about a stone's-throw
from the first, and the village gossips hastily ransacked
their memories fcr all who had been " missing without
leave," in order to account for this mysterious circum-
stance, and connected it with tales of
"Bloody men,
Whose deeds tradition saves ;
Of lonely folk cut off unseen,
And hid in sudden graves ! "
In all human probability, these skeletons were the re-
mains of some stragglers from one of the battles which
have been fought in this neighbourhood, between the
Saxons and the Danes, who probably died of their
wounds on their retreat from the fatal field, and were
hastily buried by their comrades where they fell.—Essex
Standard.

The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty
have issued orders to the master shipwrights of Ports-
mouth, Plymouth, Chatham, and Sheerness dockyards, to
assemble at Woolwich on the 3d of January next, and,
with the master shipwright of the dockyard there, to ex-
amine and report upon the best methods of obviating
such complaints of weakness in the hulls of her Majesty's
ships as have lately been made, and especially with re-
gard to the Britannia, which ship, it will be recollected,
was a short time since sent home from the Mediterra-
nean in consequence of alleged state of decay. It ap-
pears, upon inspection in dock at Portsmouth, to have
been a false pretext upon which this fine ship was sent
home. This Committee of Master Shipwrights is also
to report upon the best means of rendering the bows and
sterns of our men-of-war most effective for attack and de-
fence, having reference to Mr. Blake's arrangements as
put into practice on board the Vindictive.— United Ser-
vice Gazette.

We are requested to state that Ephraim Leman,
who gave evidence in a case heard at the Mansion-house
on Saturday, is not in any way connected with the family
of Mrs.L. Leman,Great Prescott-street, Goodman's-fields
ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT WITH FIRE
ARMS.—On Monday last, as Mr. Thomas Whitford, the.
son of Mr. Whitford, attorney, of St. Columb, was
amusing himself with some other lads on a shooting ex-
cursion, about a mile from the town, on getting over a
hedge the gun accidentally went off, and literally blew
his head to atoms. The unfortunate young man was
about seventeen years of age.— West Briton.
GENERAL POST-OFFICE.--The following no-
tice was issued by the Post-office authorities on the
New-year's morning :—" Post-office, January 1, 1842.
—Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Mediterra-
nean, and East Indies.—The next mail for India via
Marseilles, will be made up here the 4th inst. (to-mor-
row). The next mails for Malta, Greece, and the lonian
Islands, via Falmouth, will be despatched hence on
the 15th instant, and for Egypt and India on the 31st
instant. Madeira, Brazil, and Buenos Ayres.—The
Pigeon, for the mails of the 4th inst. (to-morrow).
America.—The Britannia, for the mails of the 3d inst.
(this day.) Ship letters from Rio de Janeiro and Singa-
pore, by the Black Nymph, Hall arrived at Margate."
ADELAIDE GALLERY.—Last evening, S.
Logan, Esq., of the Phrenological Society, delivered an
introductory lecture to a course on Phrenology, fixed for
succeeding Monday evenings. The Lecturer, after having
taken a view of the various metaphysical and physiogno-
mical systems of the ancients, described the discovery of
phrenology by Dr. Gall, as also the fundamental princi-
ples upon which it is founded. The lectures, if we
may judge by the attendance and attention of the audi-
ence, the novelty of the subject, and numerous illustra-
tions, promise to be a source of great attraction to the
visitors of this instructing and amusing Institution.

DISTRESSING SUICIDE.—On Sunday evening
about half-past six o'clock, a very respectable young
woman, about twenty-one years of age, of the
name of Martha Whitney, a servant in the employ of
Mr. Bruce Tickney, fringemaker, of East-lane, IN al-
worth, committed sell-destruction in the following man-
ner:—She had obtained leave of her mistress on the pre-
vious night to go out for the day to visit her mother, who
resides at Fulham. It appears she had spent the day at
her mother's, and was returning home ; her mother and
brother were accompanying her part of the way back,
when they accidentally met a young man, who some time
back kept company with her, but who has since married
an acquaintance of hers. He asked her to drink with
him ; she consented, and they all went to his house and
had each some brandy ; when they left, and were walk-
ing alone- the water-side, near Battersea-bridge, the
unfortunate young woman darted from her mother
and precipitated herself into the water, and before she
could be extricated met with a watery grave. No rea-
son can be assigned for her committing so rash an act,
unless it was the disappointment she had received from
the young man.
When the Lord Chief Justice Dougherty was
leaving Beaumaris, where his family had long been re-
siding, after an assize in which there had not been a
single criminal case for trial, he turned to his Irish ser-
vant, and said, in allusion to this circumstance, " Well,
Pat, what would they say to such a thing in our country ?"
The Hibernian replied with an evident air of self-com-
placency, in the true Irish brogue, " I'll tell you what it
is, your Honour, these Welsh are a poor mane-spirited
people, and hav'nt the heart to do anything worth hang-
ing for."
THE GREAT WESTERN STEAM‘SHIP.--This
splendid vessel is now in Cumberland Basin ; she was
brought up the river from her moorings at Broad Pill on
Wednesday morning last, and passed through the lock at
about seven o'clock. The bridge as usual had to be pre-
viously removed, as well as the ship's paddle-wheels.—
Bristol Mercury

On Tuesday last the large iron bridge, intended
for the service of the Portsmouth Bridge Company, was
launched from the Bedminster ship-yard ; and on the
following morning a very beautiful steamer, built for the
Austrian Government, and named the Archduke Fre-
derick, was also launched; in capital style, from the same
place. On Thursday an attempt was made to launch the
splendid steam-ship Avon, also built by Messrs. Acre-
man, Morgan, and Co., but unfortunately, after gliding
about twenty yards she hung upon her ways, to the
great disappointment of a large concourse of persons
who had attended to witness the expected sight. We
understand that the failure was occasioned by the effect
produced by the late incessant rain on the new ground at
the lower end of the slip : the ways became slightly de-
pressed by the earth giving way, and approached too
near to a level to continue the moderate velocity which
the vessel had acquired in the first instance. The launch
has consequently been postponed until a greater inclina-
tion can be given to the ways. It is confidently expected
that towards the end of the present month (January),
this splendid steam-ship, and also the Severn, building
on the adjoining slip, intended to form a portion of the
West India mail steam-fleet, will be afloat. The follow-
ing is the measurement of the Avon :—Length between
perpendiculars, 218 feet ; depth of hold, 23 feet 3 in. ;
width of each paddle-box, 11 feet ; paddle-boxes to be
surmounted by Captain Smith's life-boat, in lieu of the
ordinary coverings.—Bristol Mercury.
The West Riding address to Lord Morpeth has
received 25,050 signatures, and the amount of the sub-
scriptions is nearly 1,5001.
CORNWALL ELECTION.—The Liberal free-
holders of West Cornwall are, we hope, already fully
alive to the importance of an immediate selection of a
candidate to represent the interests of that division in
Parliament. Several names have been mentioned,
among them that of Sir Charles Lemon, for re-election ;
Sir W. Molesworth, and Mr Robartes, the nephew of
the Hon. Lady Agar. We trust that the Reformers will
he united in choice and action in the struggle to regain
their recently lost ground, for a struggle they will have
to encounter with the monopolists.
ACCIDENT TO LORD RENDLESHAN.— On
Wednesday last Lord Rendlesham, whilst out shooting,
met with a serious misfortune from the accidental dis-
charge of one of the barrels of his gun, which went off
while his Lordship was in the act of loading the other
barrel, the charge passing through the right hand, be-
tween the forefinger and thumb, and slightly grazing
the side of his face. The finger was so severely injured
that immediate amputation was necessary. The thick
part of the hand is also considerably injured, but the
-thumb escaped without injury. The accounts from
Rendlesharn House last night—prod th e, his Lordship
ou favourably.

DISTRESS AT CARIJSLE.

It aplivar, titat
meeting on Tuesday week, at once set themselves to work
in a business-like manner, and on Tuesday last presented
to the adjourned meeting a Report which, in its details,
presents a picture of misery such as the most callous cannot:
look upon but with feelings of horror and dismay. It
shows that the fourth of our population is living in a state
bordering on absolute starvation! " The number of
families," say the Committee in their Report, " with-
out any means of subsistence beyond a dependence on
casual charity, was found to be 309, and the indivi-
duals belonging to these families to amount to 1,146.
The cases most deserving of special attention are, of
course, those where, notwithstanding the endeavour to
obtain an independent subsistence, the amount of
earnings is far below what is requisite to procure the
barest necessaries. Exclusive of those who have no vi-
sible resources, the number of persons whose weekly
means of maintenance do not exceed one shilling per
head, is 1,465; of those who have more than one shilling
but not above eighteen-pence per head, the number le
1,623 ; above eighteen-pence, but not more than two
shillings, 692 ; more than two shillings, but below three
shillings, 635." '
Thus we have 5,561 individuals, in a population of
22,000, reduced to such a state of suffering, that im-
mediate relief has become necessary to save thou
from actual famine ! This is not a statement got up
to serve any party purpose. The details have not
been furnished by any " Anti-Corn-law League" for
the purpose of bearing out their assertions of general
distress. They have been obtained by a Committee
composed of men of all parties, and including in their
number most of the resident clergy of the Church of
England, from a minute personal inspection ; and their
correctness have been vouched for by Mr. Head and
Major Wilde, both gentlemen who think the present,
Corn-law " the best that human wisdom can devise.'
And all this misery, too, is being suffered in a . town
situate within an hour's ride of those broad acres be-
longing to Sir James Graham, for which he is at this
moment seeking an increased rental of some twenty or
thirty per cent., and which, according to his poetical
flourish of last year, should now be diffusing unalloyed
blessings to all around !—Carlisle Journal.

THE MARKETS.—YESTERDAY.
CORN EXCHANGE.
Last week's arivals of Wheat were moderate, of Bar•
ley good, and of Oats very large. The fresh supply of
Wheat was middling, of Barley and Oats again good.
Wheat sold slowly at last quotations. Barley dull, and
ordinary cheaper. Beans and Peas unvaried. Oats ex-
tremely heavy in sale, and ls. per quarter lower. In the
Flour trade little demand.
4 RRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEIC•
Wheat. Barley. outs. Flour
English
Irish
Foreign 9,440 1,657 1 4,789 btla
micas Olt BOARD OF SFI?
Wheat,lled (old) - a. —s. Beans, Small olew) .....
White (old) —v. —6. (old) ........ 42, 460.
-- Bed 1841) s2s. 555 Tick (new) 28 301.
Fine stis. 63s ----- (old) 4OO
-- Superfine 665. 675. Harrow (new) 326.345
White (1841) ....546. 58s.
------ Fine 60s 625. Brank
Superfine "Os 735. Oats, Feed
----Foreignfree 565. 766 166.210
fly( 388 40s. Poland —s.
Barley 26s 326 New 205.254
-- Grinding • 6s. 30s Potatoe
--- Malting 335. 365.,

Malt Sts. 60s —; Scotch 26s.2ti&
Fine New 62s ti4s. Irish 154.... 155.21&

Pease, Grey, New 12s. 31s. Flour Town (per sack).:::
—.-- Maple New .Ws. 355. Seconds t2s.
--- White .345. 36s North Country—. Ns NIP
Boilers 36s 38s. Bran ls 3.•
SMITHFIELD.
The supply of cattle and calves was moderate, of
Sheep short, and of Pigs very fair. The demand godo
for every description, at the prices quoted.—Bealts;
2,423 ; Sheep, 22,150 ; Pigs, 482 ; Calves, 194. Bel,
3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton, 4s. to 4s. 10d. ; Veal. 4s. 40*
to ss. 4d. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d.
COLONIAL MARKET.
The markets looked healthy, and the demand for 1110/,
articles has improved. The imports were to a fair extol"
TEA MARKET.
The Market for Free Trade Tea presented a firs
aspect, and common Congou, cash, was not to be bP
under Is. 94d.

- TALLOW MARKET.
A good demand exists for Russian Tallow, and pry
firm at 48s. 6d. to 48s. 9d on the spot.
PROVISION MARKET.
Butter in good request and prices firm ; Fine Dutch.i
1145., and Irish 100 s. to 103 s. Bacon sold freelfwt
51s. to 565. Lord dull of sale at 735. to 755. per C
Hams met with a fair sale. "
HOP MARKET. •
A fair demand for. Hops, and prices firm ; the supil
moderate.

• d. • ' s. 11
l 6 0 Walls End Hedlcy
17 0 Walls End Grange lt)
..... 16 t, Walls End Stewart's 15:i
19 0 Walls End Tees He1t0n,.....
.I's 0
16 o(Blythe
AY CORN MARKETS.
Wheat.l Barley. I Oats. I Beans,

COAL MARKET.
Ships arrived since last market .day, 10.

huddle's West Hartley
Chester Main
Wylam
Walls End Brown's
Walls End Clark and Co
COUNT'

Per Quarter.
Abingdon
Andover
Banbury
Basii.gstoke
Cirencester
Coventry
uaventry
Derby
Howden
Hungerford
Mahon
Mai,enhead
Nottingham
Wantage
Warwick
Winchester
York

- 43
36 44

B. to s.
57 72
s+l 66
56 66
60 72
5s 70

63 72
65 '72

46 7:?
64, 78
52 75
60 76
0 76

- 76

58 67

8. to S.
25 36
26 30
32 40
32 37
25 35
32 33
38 44
27 38

29 37
28 33
32 35
28 32
36 34
'4B as

30 36

8. to s.
20 31
26 23
24 33
24 18
22 31
24 SI
24 31
21 27
IS
25 30
22 34
25 31
0 28
30 32
26 30

19 23

S. to t.
3.5 44

36 40.
42 46
43 44

34 45

40 45

36 44
41 44
36 46

I Peat',
s.
38

42
38
48 .0

Per Bushel
Birmingham

91 4/
39
4$

40
r 40

"t s
0 6

a. d. s. d. s. d. a. d. s. s. (L s. d, s. d.
70 3 6 36 46 36 40 S 0 70
WAKEFIELD CORN MARhEI'.
, Norfolk and Suffolk ..... —s. 635. to 641. fine ~,,,611.
- Lin. and Cam.
Yorkshire
Zs': 61... to 6fiet afloneeL9l‘;'
White ,
Foreign, Red —s. 645. to 665. fine v-
White
Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk
*---- Lincolnshire — s
2326:05
iis....
tttt
000•
37_3 01
asss ....
Onefitin
nnre
sos
1,..,::::„
--- Yorkshire Wold
-- Foreign
Beans, New
-- Old - Oats, Potato
--.- Poland —a. to 2es.. fine 961
—s. —s. to 26r. fine
~
...--, wriezland and Small —s. —s. to 20s. tine e.' '.
Stealing
... l2d. to 1234 d. pei St°2g
Shelling
Malt
Rapeseed ,,-1. Os. 36i. Os. 381. o la. ber 1.0"
Wheat

Wneat, IL

HULL CORN MARKET
:, Whit( (per Quarter) 6ss. (17s. Os.
Red ens. 61s. 06s.
Foreign 6os. 645. 61s.
Malting SOs. 325. :435!
Grinding
Oats, British
Foreign (in bond)
Beans 3Bs. 40s. 425.
Pease, Grey ..
Blue and White 365. 38s. t 0.4
Linseed Ns .sios ti 29.
_
___

Barley,

Flour (per sack) -s. 32+•
Rapeseed per 10 quarters) —l. 37!. 98f.
EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.
Wheat. Barley. Oats.
First 72s. Od 355. td. 20s. 64. 403, Od.
Second 6O 0 32 0 22 0 36 0
Third 5O 0 26 0 18 0 30 0
Average price of Wheat
CORNWALL MARKETS.
(Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.)

........
Helstene
St. Austell
Bodnun
Liskeard
Launceston
Camelford
Penzance.

Wheat.

s. d. to s. d.
—0 7 5
.. 7 8
—0 8 0
—0 8 8
—0 7 6
—0 7 5
66 7 e
7 8 8
MINING INT]
r ores sold at Re,

a. d. to
I_ 0 39
3 0 3 0
—0
g 9
0
0 41
26 s 6
0
Tons.CW4
Cir
2,715
6% 0
•••••• ...
-Average Standard, 1271.8* """

Barley.

Pes
4P.
36 a a

2uantity of Cog,
Average Produce
Quantity of fine Copper
Amount of 5a1e..16,2( 3 lat. Od

s. d. is
—0 3 g
•••• 0 3 g
-0 3 g
▪0 4 4
—0 3 6
•0 3 8
3 0 3
—0 4 0
,ILLIGEWCE.
truth lit week.,

RARE BIRDS.—On Monday last, three sPel:
wens of that rare and beautiful bird, the Egyptian g„O,,
were shot in the fowling pool of James Trembath;sti,
Esq., at Skewjack, in Sennen, and have, by his Jibe
en-
been placed in the Museum of Natural History At ,01
zance. We believe this is the first instance in
this handsome bird has been shot in Cornwall.—Wes'
Times.

SILVER PLATED coRN -
Etc --orriES**-
~ 14,
A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manufacturing Silversaniti.st 10
Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England, subnsi_it t.t ft
prices of the following patterns of strongly-plated COP,INP, r
DISHES, with silver handles and edges, and silver shields I°
engraving the crest or coat of arms :

The -Gadroon Pattern. The Flower Pattern.
Four strongly.plated cor Four extra strongly-
ner Dishes and Covers ....£lO 10 plated Corner Dishesx is 10
Four extra strongly.platc d and Covers
Corner Dishes arid Covers 12 12

N.B. The Covers are made ;
they form extra dishes. Draw ii
to any part of Great Britain or I

at
th
ith moveable handles, 5° -AO
,ngs of the above are forws:.
Ireland, postage

BIRTHS. 11
On the 29th ult., at Braclangwell, county of Crom arty!
Fraser, of a son.
On the 31st ult.' at Merivale Hall, Warwick, the lady
of
S. Dugdale, Esq., M.P., of a daughter.
On the Ist inst., at Hampstead,the lady of Robert Brsafol4l'
Esq., of a daughter. Yr
On the lst inst., at the Grove, Highgate, Mrs. Allen -IP—
of a son.

MARRIRD.
On the 3d ult., at New York, H. Pinekn,

of
Walker, Et

.ey
Charleston, South Carolina, to Dora Modd, daughter of u•
Box, Esq., of London.
. .„00-
On the 30th ult., at St. Augustine's Church, LI/yield,
Thomas Edward, elest son of T. Pickford, Esq., of May j,
near Manchester, to Georgina Todd, eldest daughter a'
Todd Naylor, Esq., of Kensingtor: House, near Liverpwhooss
On the Ist in at St. George's, Hanover-square, .ip„idest
Davies, Esq., of Streatham-common, to Eliza Mary,,e_oth-
daughter of John Lamprey, Esq., of larchwood, near
ampton.

DIKD. le of
On the 3lst ult., at Eaton-place, Lady Gardiner, the 10 of
Lieutenant-General Sir John Gardiner, K. C. 8., and sister
Colonel
thWildman, of
at Newstead Abbev- 1;
On e Ist inst., Hakes's Hotel, London, Mary g"z-Nvt.
the wife of Sir Richard Sutton, Bart., of Norwood-park,
tinghamshire. lb'
t the 25th ult., at Steel's-place, Morningside, Edio-u
Walter Hutton, 1. sq., late of the Navy Pay-office, London...olo
On the 27th ult., at Budleigh Salterton, Jefferys Th'
Allen, Esq., Warden of Dulwich College.
On the 27th ult., Mrs. Bloomfield, widow of the late car
tain oomfield, Otley, Sulk.
OBln the 29th ult., at Hereford, Mr. John Apperly• f per'
mo
On thndsey, London, aged 61. oraot'
e 29th ult., at Southampton, the Rev. Charles west
LL.B., of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, 'Vicar of "
Basham, Norfolk, and late Curate of Bishople.aL7outi

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