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London, England, 1842-12-10 00:00:00

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SILVER. CASES.
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from Gracechurch-street.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS. OF YESTERDAY.

GLOBE.—It appears that her Majesty's Ministers
are at length convinced of the necessity of adopting a,
fled duty o'n- Corn' as the new sliding scale has worked
so unsatisfactorily for the public interests. We are in-
formed that the scheme under consideration, and which
will probably be submitted for the approval of Parlia-
ment, with certain modifications, is as follows :—ln
the beginning, to -levy one uniform rate of duty of
12s. per quarter on wheat imported from all foreign
countries not being British possessions.; but after-
wards to allow the Executive to reduce the duty
one half—to 6s. per quarter—on imports from those
countries which may claim the indulgence as a
compensation for concessions made to us, or for
corresponding reductions in their duties levied upon
British manufactures. This will give power to Minis-
' tens in negotiating commercial treaties with our neigh-
bours, as they will be enabled to offer an equavalent for
favours conferred upon us. It will be of great service
in softening the hostile Tariffs of America and of
Prussia, together with the other States forming the
German Customs' Union, which are manoeuvring
slowly and systematically to exclude our goods en-
tirely from their markets, and which they may effectu-
ally succeed in doing at no very distant period, if we
do not adopt timely measures to counteract them. We
must confess that this scheme offers many advan-
tages, and is a great improvement upon the last
sliding scale. It remains to be seen whether it will
find favour with those who were lately advocates of
monopoly, although they now begin to sing a differ-
ent song.
STANDARD.—It must have been observed that
the Whig journals have rather abruptly discontinued
their claims, on behalf of the late Ministry, to the
arrangement of that plan of operations conducted to
so glorious an issue by Sir H. Gough and Sir William
Parker. At first our Liberal Contemporaries were loud
and most indignant in their reclamation against the at-
tempt to "filch" (that was the word) from Lords Mel-
bourne, Palmerston, and Co., the honour of preparing
the plan in question ; and many long columns of
grave argument were daily poured forth to prove
that the present Ministers have been mere me-
chanical labourers, working out the masterly design of
their predecessors in office. This importunate claim,
as we have remarked, has ceased with an abruptness
not easily understoOd by the public : be it our
task to offer the explanation.. The Whig journals,
with or without prompting from their patrons
lately in office, would . naturally assign to these
patrons, and detract from Sir Robert Peel's Ad-
ministration, whatever amount of merit they could ;
but as the successes of the Chinese expedition
followed so immediately upon the expulsion of the
Whigs from office, these journals had upon the
post hoc ergo ex hoc argument, a plausible pre-
text for ascribing to the expelled Ministers the
merit of the expedition and its arrangements.
The expelled Whigs, whether they suggested
this claim or did not, looked complacently
upon it ; not one of them had the grace to dis-
claim praise which they all knew, if the truth
were manifest to the public, must reflect upon
them the deepest disgrace. As the time of in-
evitable explanation, however, approached,- it was
thought convenient to let the matter drop. On the
eve of an exposure of the truth, that they had
not merely not prepared the plan of the expedition so
happily adopted and executed by their political rivals,
but scornfully rejected it when proposed to them, it
would be impolitic to persist in the claim set up for
them. Hence all their journals have lately received
orders to be silent on the subject.

MONEY MARKET and CITYNEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

l'OST.—The exultation of the New York money
dealers at the arrival of a small portion of gold from
Liverpool, may well be excused. It could be very
conveniently spared, and there can be no question that
it was sorely needed as a means of propping up, for a
season longer, the rotten and tottering banks scattered
over the face of the Republic.
The Philadelphia papers, in speaking of the strange
position of Pennsylvania, in relation to money mat-
ters, the authorities of the State being adverse to the
issue of small bank notes redeemable in specie, mention
as one of the consequences of that policy, that so
pressed are the people in the country for currency,
that many of them not only make use of the " relief
notes," but even cut them in pieces, and employ them
as substitutes for half dollars.

The Montreal Gazette, of the 15th of November,
states that, notwithstanding the receipt of advices from
England, to the effect that Canada beef and pork
were rapidly getting into consumption at from
to 4-id. pei lb., realising to the retailer 58s. 4(1. to 755.
sterling per barrel on the first and least favourable
samples, the Montreal market, though active for prime
and prime mess of both descriptions, had not advanced
materially in the rates. Shippers had been deterred
from making large purchases, by the unusually high
charge for tonnage which prevailed. The quantity
sent to England between Oct. 28 and Nov. 10, inclu-
sive, was 2,815 barrels of psrk, and 636 barrels of beef.
TIMES.—The commercial letters. from Madrid,
adverting to the affair of Barcelona, consider its issue
highly favourable to the trading interests of this
country, inasmuch as the insurrection is to be as-
cribed chiefly to French intrigue, in conjunction with
parties who benefit by the contraband system, and
who appear therein to have made their last great effort.
The Spanish Government are said to possess proofs of a
meditated outbreak in the course of last year, but
which was frustrated by the mismanagement of the
parties concerned in it, among whom there appears
to have been all along a great want of concert and
judicious arrangements. Hence it is hoped among
the merchants, that they may !now see the treaty of
commerce, so much desired, make a business-like
progress, and the Ministry take courage to put it
into shape. Nothing but decisive conduct, however,
on their part and that of the Regent is likely finally
to dispose of it ; and the question is, whether they
will venture to execute such a treaty of them-
selves, committing the country with England on the
issue, and trust to their influence with Congress to
obtain an indemnity afterwards. This is deemed the
only safe course, as the Cortes, who would resist the
measure in session, were likely to be reconciled to the
act when done by the advantages sure to follow it to
the finance and the credit of the country generally.
One of the arrangements talked of as likely to form
part of any commercial treaty with England is the
rather delicate one of allowing the duty on cottons to
be collected in this country—an admirable protection
against smuggling, but calculated, unless very adroitly
managed, to wound the pride of Spain. With this is
connected the further project of making a portion of
the proceeds of such duties available for the payment
of interest to the English bondholders of Spain. Al-
together, whatever turn affairs may take in these re-
spects, there is something like a gleam of hope derived
from them of a change for the better, especially if Es-
partero should maintain himself in power, upon which
everything depends.
By the New York papers received to-day, it ap-
pears that an Act passed by Congress last session for
the armed occupation of the uncultivated portions of
Florida, is beginning to attract the attention of the
northern States of the Union, and surprise is ex-
pressed that it was not more noticed at an earlier
period. The object of the Act was to encourage
emigration to Florida from the north, and it seems
to have the political purpose of increasing northern
influence by forming a population which should not
have the same interest Aith the landholders and
cotton-growers of the south. A "quarter section"
(160 acres) of land is given to every emigrant, but he
is to plant it for four successive years, before he re-

ceives the deed conveying it from the Government.
For his wife and every adult son he receives an addi-
tional piece of land of the like dimensions. The Bill as
, it was originally drawn by Mr. Burton lent each emi-
grant a musket and cartridge-box with ammunition
and rations for a single year, with the design of ren-
dering the project as useful as possible to the poorer
classes, who would have been thus provided with arms
and sufficient sustenance while raisng their first crop.
To save expense to the Government, the deed was not
to be given till the arms were returned. The clauses
allowing a grant of arms to the emigrants have since
been removed, which those who are most in favour of
the project seem to regret, as they consider the esta-
blishment of an armed population would be the first
step towards the removal of the Indians from the ter-
ritory. There are not, it is supposed, more than 100
Indian warriors now in Florida, but even these, it is
thought, could not easily be removed by a regular
military force, but only as the Indians of the Western
States, by the steady increase of armed white labour-
ers. East Florida, when its resources are developed,
is not expected to become a great cotton-growing
country, but to be chiefly fitted for the cultivation of
tobacco and fruit. As the produce of the soil will.
therefore be principally of a kind in which free
labour is profitably employed, the anti-slavery party
look upon the scheme with considerable favour.
CHRONICLE.—The movements in Jamaica,
evincing the consent of the agriculturists of that
colony to allow the G( vernment to deal with the
sugar duties, attracts much interest in the produce
markets. The Jamaica H4-,use of Assembly could
not be mistaken in thetteip_twetation of Lord,
Stanley's dispatch regaiding, the siigidtintiei ?. We
put that question because doubts have been expressed
upon the subject by one of the newspapers this morn-
ing. The House of Assembly forwarded a memorial
to her Majesty last spring, against the admission of
foreign sugar to the home consumption, which Lord
Stanley laid before the Queen, and in communicating
the fact to the Jamaica planters, his Lordship re-
quested the Governor of this island to draw their at-
tention to the new tariff. • "As far as it relates to the
important articles of sugar and coffee," and to the cir-
cumstance that in giving relief to the labouring
classes, by a reduction of the duties "on coffee," tho
interests of the planters had not been disre-
garded. His Lordship then explains the causes which
had influenced the Government in not reducing
the duties on sugar when they reduced those on cof-
fee, but holds out no reason to expect that those causes
are to be longer relied on. The Jamaica agricul-
turists took the hint at once, and although we have
not yet received the papers, with a report of the de-
bate which took place in the House of Assembly on
the subject, we have got the result, which was the
appointment of a Committee of their number to ine-

ii-iOrialise her Majesty—not, as formerly, to maintain
the prohibitory duties presently levied on slave grown
produce—but only such a differential duty, on admit-
ting it for home consumption, as shall afford due pro-
tection to the West India planters. Under these cir-
cumstances, it would seem impossible for the Govern-
ment to refuse to admit foreign sugars into the home
consumption next session of Parliament. There
is no other rational interpretation open to Lord Stan-
ley's dispatch. He says, in answer to their memorial,
" You have asked the Queen to keep up the prohibi-
tion on foreign sugars. I have laid your request be-
fore her Majesty, but I bid you attend to what we
have done under the new tariff in regard to coffee.
We have lowered the duty on that article of consump-
tion to relieve the labouring classes, although it be
tainted with slavery, because that is an old established
sin, which it is no harm to continue. We have diffi-
culty, however, in making new vices and in giving
fresh encouragement to slavery. But mind you, that
difficulty too may be got over, and therefore you had
better look sharp and prepare for the coming change,"
That is the reading which the Jamaica planters gave
to his Lordship's labyrinth of fine words ; and coupled
with his eulogium on Mr. lluskisson's policy, and
some of his successors, it seems pretty clear that they
read him right.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.

The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in
the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes
Registered in the weekending Dec. 3, 1542.. The Table is
issued froni the Office of the Registrar-General:—
Weekly
Average
1835-9-40-1

CAUSICS OF MATH.

Total.

Four I Four
Autumns 'Years
Epidemic, Endemic, & Contagious Diseases 150 190 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 161 140 149
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ...............
iYseases of the Heart and 8100d-vessels 20 19 18
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other
Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidndys, &c.........
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, Sce
7 15 10
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Museles 6 6 6
Diseases of the Skin, &c ..................... 1 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat . ............
Old Age, or Natural Decay .
Deaths by Violence, Privation, or Intem-
perance ......... ............... 32 24 25
Causes not specified ............ 2 8 7
Deaths from all causes . ........................ 882 -- -
Average Weekly Deaths..... 912 912
Population Average Deaths
enu. Weekly in
rnerated Deaths the
1835-9-4 C-1. Week
Four I Four
Ye ,rs.lAuttunns.

DIST RILTS.

West—Kensington, St. George
( Hanover-square), Westmin-
ster, St. Martin in the Fields,

St. James
North—St. Mary-le•bone, St.
Pancras, Islington, Hackney 365,660 162 161 193
Central—Saint Giles and Saint

George, Strand, Clerkenwell,
Holborn, St. Luke, East Lon-

don, West London, City. of
L0nd0n...... ...... ........ ...373,806 188 185 160

East—Shoreditch, Whitechape ,
Bethnal Green, St. George
in the East, Stepney, Poplar 392,492 206 '207 193
South—St. Saviour, St. Olave,
St. George( Southvvark),Ber-
mondsey, Newington. Lam-
beth, Camberwell, Bother-
hitbe, Greenwich .„, ...438,060 221 228 207

Total 1,870,7.27 912 912 882
It is stated that under the term Metropolis are comprised the
32 districts herein mentioned, which include the City of Lon-
don with and without the walls, the City and Liberties of
Westminster, the out-parishes within the Bills of Mortality--
sreewlrington), St. Leonard cßrom-
and the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, Kensington,
Y), St. Luke (Chelsea), Pad-
dington,ley), St. Mary-le-bow, Camberwell, Greenwich, St. Nicholas
and St. Paul (Deptford), and Woolwich. The population, as
enumerated in 1831, was 1,594,890 i and in June 1841, was
Fulham Hammersmith m
Diary
sm(iSthtok Ce
h la
1,870,727. The weekly average. for 1838, 1839, 1840, and
dividing the
1841, was obtained by deaths in the four years by
208, and the deaths in the four winters by 52.
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEE" ENDING
Nov. 26. Dec. 3.
53,) 56°
36 40
43 48
I
6, 1842.

Highest

LoWest .

Daily Mean . ..
General Register Office, Dec

RUSSIAN STEAM NAVIGATION.--TWO very fine new
steamers of About 800 tons each, with engines of 26'0
horse power, by Maudsley and Field, are now in the
East India Dock, on the point of departure for Con-
stantinople. They have been constructed here for the
Russian Government, are fitted a,s passenger and cargo
vessels, and are, it is said, destined to ply in the Black
Sea and the Bosphorus.
The following curious anecdote is recorad by
Aubrey, in his Ostenta or Portents, printed in 1696 :
Sir Walter Long's widow (of Draycot, Wilts)
did make a solemn promise to him an his
death bed,
that she would not marry after his decease : but not
long after, one Sir Wm. Fox, a very beautiful young
gentleman, did win her love; so that notwithstanding
her promise aforesaid, she married him at South
Wraxall, where the picture of Sir Walter Long hung
over the parlour door, as it doth now at Draycot. As
Sir Wm. Fox led his bride by the hand from the
church (which is near to the house) into the parlour,
the string of the picture brake, and the picture fell
on her shoulder, and cracked in the fall. It was
painted on wood, as the fashion was in those days.
This made her Ladyship reflect on her promise, and
drew tears from her,eyes !"
BANKRUPCY COURT, BRISTOL DISTRICT, DEC,
MESSRS. HODROUSE AND Co's. BANKRUPTCY.—This
afternoon J. English, Esq., solicitor under the above
fiat, in consequence of a summons from the Commis-
sioners, brought the proceedings in this bankruptcy
into Court. It was finally ordered by
_Commissioner
Stephenson whe presided, that the Co.a/Twould allow
one month for the production of the proof 'of debts,
&c.. and would then appoint an official assignee.
Mr. Edward Mant Miller was to act as the official
assignee in the interim—Bath Chronicle.

CHEAP PORK.—When pigs is scarce, there's
ristli
plenty o' ways of filling the, pork barrel for them
B icshke rdsogsl:aosuwkenl
well as
tbheearres a
s young
in unan there'sg porpesses, seals
anpossums,
plenty of bones o' them pigs as died
.murrain time
to put along with urn. Them ere pigs wa'rnt a no
use then—but now, we know better—we sha'nt throw
away nothing. But man it a'nt lawful to put no
young children in pickle.—Arnertcan paper.

BANKRUPTS.
EDMUND PETER POWELL, tailor, Southampton,
to surrender, Dec. 16, at eleven, and Jan. 20, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Walker,
Southampton-buildings, Bloomsbury ; Deacon and Long,
Southampton.
JOHN BURSLEM, stationer, King's Lynn, Norfolk,
Dec. 19, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 13, at twelve, at
the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Green,
official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Bankart, Clement's.
lane, Lombard-street.
THOMAS HARTLEY, hatter, Liverpool, Dec. 19,
at one, and Jan. 10, at one, at the Liverpool District
Court of Bankruptcy. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool;
Grocott,
RICHARD- RABY URRY, coach maker, East Ret-
ford, Nottinghamshire, Dec. 19, at twelve, and Jan. 9, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy.
Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Vollans, East Retford.
ROBERT CHESHIRE JANION, commission agent,
Liverpool, Dec. 16, at one, and Jan. 11, at twelve, at the
Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, offi-
cial assignee, Liverpool ; Johnson, St. Helen's, Lan-
cashire.
JOHN DAVIES and HENRY EDWARDS, linen-
drapers, Westminster-road, Lambeth, Dec. 22, at eleven,
and Jan. 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basing-
hall-street. Lackington, official assignee, Coleman-street-
buildings ; Ashurst, Cheapside.
JOSHUA BEAUMONT, victualler, Gainsborough,
Lincolnshire, Dec. 19, and Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court of Bankruptcy. Hope, official assignee,
Leeds ; Plaskett, Gainsborough.
ISRAEL WADE, grocer, Manchester, Dec. 15, and
Jan. 16, at one, at the Manchester District Court of
Bankruptcy. Pott, official assignee, Manchester ; Dear-
den, Manchester.
WILLIAM BELL, merchant, Bridlington, York-
shire, Dec. 23 and Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Leeds
c.ol,lrt of Bankruptcy, Hope, Leeds, official as-
signee ; Towse, Lawrence Pountney-lane, --London ;
Mather, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Wetwan, Bridlington.
PETER BLATCHFORD, miller, Plymouth, Dec.
20, and Jan. 19, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court
of Bankruptcy. Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter ;
Harris, Lincoln's Inn, London ; Stogdon; Exeter; Kelly,
Plymouth.
EDMUND OAKLEY and JOHN WISE, corn-
dealers, Poole, Dec. 21, at half-past twelve, and Jan. 13,
at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Bishop, South-
ampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London; Moore, Wim-
borne, Dorsetshire.

DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
T. Marris and T. Nicholson, bankerg, Barton-upon-
Humber, Jan. 2, at one—J. J. Grant, ale merchant,
Gloucester-street, Queen's-square, Bloomsbury, Jan. 2,
at half-past eleven.

In the Country.
J. and G. Lockwood, linen drapers, Wakefield, York-
shire, Jan. 11, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court of
Bankruptcy—W. S. Batson, J. Wilson, and J. Lang-
horn, bankers, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Dec. 31, at eleven,
at the District Court ofßankruptcy,Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
CERTIFICATES to be granV, unless cause be shown
to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
W. Richardson, wino merchant, King-street, Covent-
garden, Dec. 30—J. Dennis, sen., and J. Dennis, jun.,
linen drapers, Tooley-street, Dec. 30—W. Walford.
merchant, Great Winchester-street, Dec. 30—W. C.
Golland, linen draper, Cambridge, Dec. 30—M. Otley,
milliner, St. James's-street, Dec. 30—R. Jacques and R.
Wilson, flax spinners, Leeds, Jan. 2—T. Mennen, cloth
merchant, Leeds, Jan. 4—G. A. Cator, wool merchant,
Leeds, Jan. 3—T. T. Johnson, ribbon manufacturer,
Wood-street, Cheapside, Jan. 3—R. Duffel', tar distiller,
Bow-common, Jan. 3—W. Ridge, C. Ridge, and W.
Newland, bankers, Chichester, Dec. 30—E. J. Trough-
ton, merchant, St. Michael's-alley, Cornikil I, Dec. 30—W.
Nockells and J. Barsham, oxalic acid manufacturers,
Stratford, Dec. 31—R. H. Goddard, fringe maker,
Wood-street, Jan. 4—B. Hargreaves, tailor, Manchester,
Jan. 2—W. S. Batson, J. Wilson, and J. Langhorn,
bankers, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Dec. 31 B. Paice,
victualler, New Windsor, Jan. 4—W. Dunn, merchant,
Southampton, Jan. 6—B. Ward, boot manufacturer,
Charlotte-terrace, New-cut, Lambeth, Jan. 6—J. Allen,
cattle dealer, Much Wymondley, Hertfordshire, Jan. 6
—R. Collinson and W. Brown, upholsterers, Oxford-
street, Jan. 6—R. B. Thompson, warehouseman, Wood-
street, Cheapside, Jan. 6—J. Dudley, chemist, London-
terrace, Hackney-road, Dec. 30—P. Protheroe, jun., iron
merchant, Bristol, Jan. 12—A. G. Gifford, wine mer-
chant, Mark-lane, Dec. 30 —T. Stephenson, coach
maker, Manchester, Dec. 30—J. Russell, merchant,
Manchester, Jan. 3—J. Wilson, commission agent, Man-
chester, Jan. 3—J. Alexander and H. Gibbons, chemists,
Wolverhampton, Jan. 2—F. W. Fiddian, architect, Bir-
mingham, Jan. 3—T. Hampson, broker, Liverpool. Dec.
31—T. Allen, silkman, Macclesfield, Cheshire, Jan. 2
C. Biggs, commission agent, Manchester, Jan. 2.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
P. Lane and P. Wilson—T. and W. Stripling, watch
makers, Litchfield— S. Baker and A. Windle, timber
merchants, Worthy, Yorkshire—J. H. Watson and S.
Wix, attorneys, Great Winchester-street, City—W.
Kightley and H. W. Hall, solicitors, Panten-square,
Haymarket—My. and M. Dunne, dress. makers, Con-
duit-street, Westminster—C. Heathcott and S. Linley,
manufacturers of joiners' tools, Sheffield—G. Ewart and,
R. G. Spedding, zinc workers, Quickset-row, New-road,
Bridge-road, Westminster—J. H. Sellers and J. Blomley,
attorneys, Rochdale, Lancashire—N. Buchanan and W.
Tuppen, hair dressers, Hastings—G. Fox and 11. Horner,
engineers, Sheffield—C. Hinnell and R. Willan, attor-
neys, Bury St. Edmund's—T. Kershaw, C. Holt, J. Jack-
son, S. Jackson, and J. Stott, coal miners, Spotland,
Lancashire (so far as regards S. Jackson)--J. Barnes
and E. Chantler, bleachers, Elton-fold, Lancashire—J.
Wright and W. S. Partridge, surgeons, Bordesley, 'War-
wickshire—T. and W. Dickins, whip manufacturers, Da-
ventry, Northamptonshire—A. and W. Dove, iron-
mongers, York—B. P. Gurney and R. Carr, ivory cutters,
Sheffield—J. Coote and A. Ardley, carpenters, Witham,
Essex—T. C. and P. R. Jackson, engineers, Little Bolton,
Lancashire—J. Reid and J. Breakenridge, tailors, Liver-
pool—T. Kershaw, S. Jackson, J. Jackson, J. Stott, and
M. Stott, coal miners, Spotland, Lancashire (so far as
regards J. and M. Stott)—J. Vickers, J. Vickers, jun.,
J. Plaisted, and B. Vickers, wine merchants, Tooley-
street (so far as regards B. Vickers).
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.

JAMES HOOD WILSON, flesher, Dundee, Dec. 15
and Jan. 10, at two, at the British Hotel, Dundee.
MATHEW TOD, farmer, Bankfoot, Haddington-
shire, Dec. 3 and Jan. 4, at twelve, at the George Inn,
Haddington.
ALEXANDER JAMES KILGOUR, china dealer,
Dundee, Dec. 17 and Jan. 4,. at two, at the Royal
Hotel. Dundee.
GEORGE MACFARLANE and CO., merchants,
Glasgow, Dec. 15 and Jan. 5, at one, at the George Inn,
glasgow.
' LAUDER and CO., brewers. Jedburgh, Dec. 15 and
Jan. 5, at twelve, at the Spread Eagle Inn, Jedburgh.
JAMES SCOTT, grocer, Leshmahagow, Dec. 14 and
Jan. 4, at two, at the Chambers of A. and J. Morrison,
Glasgow.

PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed
from the Returns made in the Week ending Dec. 6, 1842, is
355. Od. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain.

LADY GRAIIAM.—We are happy to state that Lady
Graham is fast recovering from a severe attack of
scarlet fever, and that the younger branches of
the family are convalescent. Sir James has not
been at the Home-office for several days past,
being anxious not to run the least risk of communi-
cating the infection of that distressing illness. The
official documents which require the signature of the
Home Secretary, are sent to the private residence of
the Right Hon. Baronet.
FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD A WEST INDIAMAN.
—On Thursday an inquest was held before Mr. C. J.
Carttar, at the Unicorn public-house, Greenwich, on
the body of James Smith, aged 65, a seaman on board
the London, of London, West Indiaman. It appeared
by the evidence that, on Monday last, as the London
was proceeding down the river on her outward bound
voyage to Jamaica, when the deceased was standing
on the foreyard, handing a rope to another sailor, his
foot slipped and he fell on to the windlass-chain with
great violence. He was taken on board the Dread-
nought hospital-ship, where he died in about an hour
after the accident. Mr. Botley, the assistant-surgeon
of the Dreadnought, deposed that, on a post mortem
examination, he found that the liver had been crushed
into the cavity of the chest, one of his thighs, legs,
and wrist were also broken. The Jury returned a
verdict of " Accidental death."

KEEPING LENT.—A high Churchman was once
asked what made his library look so thin Q His reply
was, " My books all keep Len r

CORONERS' INQUESTS.
MANSLAUGHTER.—Thursday afternoon Mr. Payne
held a lengthened investigation at the Duke of Ola-•
rence, London-road, on the body of Samuel Nathan,
aged 69, a picture dealer in the Borough-road.
Peter Felcock, of 3, Neale's-place, Seven Dials,
a porter, said, that on Wednesday, the 23d ult., at
about three o'clock in the afternoon, he was standing
in the passage of Mr. Foster's sale-room, in Pall-
mall. He saw three men, named Mountain, Rason,
and Davy, walking along the passage towards the
sale-room. Rason said, in witness's hearing, " Let's
go in and ask Mr. Nathan to have a drop of gin.
Mountain nodded assent, and Rason added, " Give it
him right and left when he comes out." All three
then went into the room, and in a few minutes after-
wards came out again, the deceased following them.
When they all got into the passage, Mountain turned
round and struck the deceased a violent blow on the
right eye, which caused him to fall, and while he was
on the ground Mountain again struck him severely
over the head, and kicked him in the throat, Rason
inciting Mountain to continue the aggression, by
saying, " Give it him ;" and Mountain replied, " I'll
have his b-- liver out." The deceased called out
for assistance, and several gentlemen rushed from the
sale-room, lifted, and carried him into the counting--
house. Blood was streaming profusely from his
wounds.—The above evidence was corroborated by a
number of witnesses.
Mr. John Brady, 194, 131ackfriars-road, said he was
called in to see the deceased upon Friday week, when
he was in bed. Upon examining his head, he found
xery severe contused wound awe the .right eye.
He prescrllied for him, butgave the family to understand
that there was no hope of his surviving the injuries
received, and he gradually got worse, erysipelas en-
suing, and he died upon Wednesday evening. Ile
attributed death entirely to the violence received.
The Jury at once unanimously returned a verdict
of " Manslaughter" against Richard Mountain, as
principal, and Thomas Rason as accessory.
Yesterday morning Mr. Baker held an inquest at
the Crown and Sceptre, Mile-end Old Town, on the
body of Mr. Henry Spinks, 69 years of age, of No.
46, Luke-street, Mile-end. Mrs. Mary Spinks,
widow of the deceased, stated that on Wednesday
evening, during the heavy fog, the deceased had occa-
sion to go into the yard at the rear of his dwelling-
house, and a considerable time having elapsed with-
cut his return, she went to seek him, when she found
him lying in the yard in a state of insensibility. Mr.
Burchell, surgeon, of Whitechapel-road, said the de-
ceased was subject to asthma, and he was of opinion
death was caused by deceased going out of a warm
room suddenly into the foggy atmosphere, which had
produced congestion of the lungs, and subsequently of
the brain. The Jury returned a verdict of " Natural
Death."

Mr. Payne held an inquest yesterday evening at
Guy's Hospital, on the body of Edward Holland, a
child three years old. It appeared from the evidence
of his father and others, that on Tuesday last, the
child had for a short time been left to the care of his
brother, aged six years. The latter was burning a
piece of wood to amuse himself, and the child in
stretchinc, over to pull it from the fire, unfortunately
fell upon the hearth, at the same time upsetting a
kettle full of boffin water which was upon the fire.
His screams brought the neighbours in, who carried
him to Mr. Mason's, a surgeon, where emollients were
applied. The child was afterwards removed to Guy's
llospital, but he had been so seriously injured about
the head, neck, and breast, that he died on Thursday.
—Verdict, " Accidental death."
Mr. Porno held an inquest at the Queen's Head,
Creechurcip- &Ile, on the body of Richard Buxton,
aged 46. appeared that deceased had been an
inveterate I. runkard, and on Thursday night
while ascending the stairs to his lodging in No. 3,
Herring's-court, Creechurch-lane, and shouting
" Buxton is coming, hurrah for Brave Buxton," he
fell backwards from top to bottom, his head coming
with great violence against the stones, and rendering
him insensible ; medical aid was procured and he was
removed to bed, when, after lingering till the suc-
ceeding morning, he expired —Verdict, " Accidental
death."

THE FOG ON THE RIVER.
(From our Evening Edition of yesterday.)
Yesterday the business on the river was almost at a
stand-still, owing to the dense fog that prevailed both
above and below bridge. The small steamers plying
between London-bridge and Chelsea were laid up all
day. Three of the Watermen's steamers left Wool-
wich early in the morning, but only one found her
way through the mist to the Adelphi pier ; and it was
a work of great peril to bring her under the bridges
at all. The others brought up at Greenwich. One of
the old Company's steamers left Greenwich in the
morning, but, in trying to make the pier at Wapping
she got athwart hawse of a tier of shipping for up-
wards of an hour, in a very awkward position. The
Harlequin steamer, for Boulogne, and the Belfast, for
Calais, left the pool at three o'clock in the morning,
and, after many hairbreadth escapes from col-
lision with other vessels, the former got as far
as Erith, and the other to the Lower Hope, near
Gravesend, where they were heard of at four o'clo'l
in the afternoon. The Wilberforce was advertised to
leave her moorings off the Tower at ten o'cicyck, but
it was not until one o'clock in the afternoon when the
fog had cleared off a little that she was able to get
under way. She reached Gravesend last night, after
a long and tedious passage, and brought up there.
The City of Canterbury, Captain Large, for Herne
Bay, to the surprise of every person on the river, left
London-bridge wharf at nine o'clock, and went down
the river stern foremost. She was at the Blackwall
wharf at one o'clock, and her further progress after
that time is unknown. The Ramona, from Yarmouth,
which place she left at eleven on Wednesday, did not
reach London till yesterday afternoon at three, and
came up through the fog much better than was ex-
pected. The Jolliffe, from Calais, came up about the
same time, having made her passage in the usual time,
12 hours. The Giraffe, which was to have left Rotter-
dam at seven on Wednesday morning, had not passed
Gravesend during the day, and it is most probable
she is detained on some part, of the coast. The Vivid,
from Hull, got upon the Gunfleet Sands, near the
Nore, on Wednesday, during a dense sea fog,
where she remained eight hours. She arrived at
London-bridge wharf on Wednesdaapytai
nn
gh t
Allison, at ninelft
o'clock. The Royal Adelaide, e
St. Katherine's wharf at five o'clock on Wednesdeay
evening. The fog was then rather heavy, but hopes
were entertained by her skilful pilot, Mr. Allen, that
she would be enabled to get down to Gravesend, but
the fog became so thick on reaching Limehouse, that
the pilot determined not to risk the safety of this
large steam-ship any longer, and her ancacr was
let go. The Royal Adelaide is bound to Leith, and
remains 'at Limehouse for the present. The foreign
steam-ships Antwerpen, from Antwerp, and the
Batavier, from Rotterdam, were both due on Wed-
nesday at St. Katherine's, and had not arrived there
at nine last night, nor was there any probability of
their during so during the night. It was reported in
the early part of the day that the Antwerpen was
ashore on the coast of Holland, but it is right to state
the report was not traced to any authentic source. A
large ship bound to Sydney, with emigrants and an
extensive cargo, was to have been hauled out of the
St. Katherine Docks yesterday, but could not proceed,
and the only vessel that did get under way from the
dock wag the Quebec New York packet-ship with the
emigrants. She was towed down the river by the
City of London steamer, and brought up before reach-
ing Gravesend. At night the fog was unusually
heavy, and there was not a vessel of any description
stirring on the river. On inquiry at the offices of the
General Steam Navigation Company, it was ascer-
tained that five of their first-class steam ships were
expected, and that there was no probability of their
coming up during the night. There were several col-
lisions on the river during the day, but none were at-
tended
with serious results. A boatman was drowned
off Rotherhithe, in the afternoon, by coining in con-
tact with a coal brig, while rowing across the stream.

The barque Chusan, Captain Laird, from China, out,
six months, landed passengers and mails here yester-
day morning by the pilot-boat Pandora, of Dortr,
J. Collins, master. The Chusan spoke with the
Cyrus whaler, Captain Spratley, on the 4th August,
in Macassar Straits, with 300 barrels of oil ; on the
12th of August with the brig Lanothland, Rogers,
master, from Sydney, at Batavia, desired to report
the Rover whaler all well, with 2,000 barrels of oil ;
on the 30th October with the brig Malden, of New-
castle, from London for Brazils, lat. 7.20 N., long.
25.00 W.; and on the 30th Nov. with the brig Fo-
rester, of Hull, from Liverpool, lat. 45.14 N., long.
10.40.—Brighton Gaze.tl._

Charlemagne, which arrived at Marseilles on
the 2d, brings news from Algiers to the 20th of
November. The column under the command of the
Governor-General was on its march towards Oued
Rouina on the 26th of last month. No important
event had resulted from its operations, which are
favoured by splendid weather.

_ Tr
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CHURCH-RATES.
The following notice has been forwarded L , • ---
Home-office' to the Overseers and Churchw
rks
every parish in England and Wales : • , _ •
" Gentlemen,—The Queen has been pl
comply with the prayer of a humble address prekriktkiaS
to her Majesty in pursuance of a resolution of the
House•of Commons, for' return of every Church-rate,
or rate for the purpose of Church-rate, within the last
two years, in every parish, district parish, and extra-
parochial place, distinguishing the year in which it
was made ; the gross amount of the rate, and the rate
per pound on the property assessed ; the amount
collected, and the amount spent in repairing the
fabric of the church ; the amount derived from all
funds other than Church-rates, applied in aid thereof;
in what cases vestries called to consider a Church-rate
have refused, or by any form of proceeding declined
to grant it ;' also with the prayer or an humble address
presented to her Majesty, in pursuance of a resolution
of the House of Commons, for a return of the value
at which the property has been assessed to the Church-
rate in each parish, district parish, and extra-parochial
place, within the last two years.'
" I am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham
to desire that you will prepare the said returns, so far •
as relates to the parish, or township, district parish, or
extra-parochial place for which you are the churchwar-
dens, and transmit the same to me as soon as possible,
with a view to their being laid before the House of
Commons.
" A form for the returns has been prepared, and in
enclosing to you a copy thereof; I have to request that
the same may be carefully filled up and returned to
me, unsealed ; and it is particularly requested that the
insertion of the name ofyour parish, and of the county
and diocese in which it is situated, may not be omitted
in the form.
(Signed) "H. MANNERS SUTTON."
The following is the nature of the return required
Ist. Date at which every Church-rate, or rate for
the purpose of the Church-rate, that has been made
within the last two years.
2d. Gross amount of rate.
3d. Value at which the property has been assessed
to the Church-rate.
4th. Rate per pound of the Church-rate on the pro-
perty assessed.
sth. Amount of church-rate collected.
6th. Amount derived from all funds, other than
Church-rates, applied in aid thereof.
7th. Amount spent in repairing__ the fabric of the
church.
Bth.. Cases in which vestries have refused, or by
any form of proceednigdec;ined to grant:. Church-rate

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SU!*.
Siai—As the season of the year has again returned
when the. benevolent are necessarily called upon to
assist the deserving poor in their respective parishes,
permit me, through the medium of your paper, to call
the serious consideration of the kind-hearted to the
fact, that a very great number of those poor families
who absolutely require the aid of their more affluent
neighbours, during the winter months, are themselves
charged to the Poor and Church-rates ; indeed, I
know several destitute families who, for many weeks,
have scarcely bread to eat, are most inhumanly com-
pelled to pay these rates, or subject themselves to
having their scanty furniture, nay, even the beds on
which they lie, sold to pay them ! (this Church has
been ironically, I suppose, styled by some of the clergy
" the poor man's Church.") These truly arbitrary mea-
sures should not be allowed any longer to remain upon
the statute book of a professedly Christian country.
The poor, who have barely enough to subsist upon by
their own indasty, 'to be called upon and compelled to
pay Poor and Church-rates, is really too bad ; the vo-
luntary contributions of the charitably and religiously
disposed, to be turned into a source for paying the
Poor and Church-rates, ought not, in common
honesty, to be for one moment tolerated, much less to
be continued year after year. It is to be hoped that
these observations will meet the eye of some of the
parochial authorities in most of our towns, who will,
doubtlessly, instantly set about a thorough reform,
and, as carefully as possible, correct these deplorable
abuses; let only the benevolent themselves ques-
tion their respective applicants as to whether they
are charged to the Poor and Church-rates, and
act accordingly, as I purpose doing, this glaring
absurdity, to say the least of it, will, arid must shortly-,
correct itself. The clergy of the national Church of
England and Ireland, will soon feel that their honour
and respectability, as a clergy, are too deeply involved
in allowing the tax-gatherer to harrass the poor and
needy (* whom they are in duty bound to protect,)
for Church-rates.

The favour of your giving publicity to these,
trust, wholesome suggestions, for the benefit -of your
numerous readers, in your next paper, will, S:11-
greatly oblige, A CONSTANT READEa. ,
29th Nov., 1842.
* At the period the Roman Catholic Churcb was pre-
dominant in .this country, their clergy provided for the
paor, kept the parish church in repair, and maintained
themselves out of the tithes. Now, however, we have a'
reformed church, with two out of three of those charger
harrassed upon the .people—there has been no pi iesteruft,
in all this I ! No, no, it is all pure and holy Pro—
testantism, and disinterested scriptural self-denial.

A COOL BET—HOT 4 INE.,
At length Mr. John found himself so cantir:ttany
losing, that he began to complain of a headte.ie as an
excuse for leaving off. "'Tis the vie o'rd"eaire" said
Jack Johnson, " you may depend upon 'it. I thought
you took too much at dinner." Ar. John Bernard
was indignant at the idea that 'anybody who went on
the river in London, and, kp e.sv
some of the Leander
men, could allow yin oral' atire to have any effect upon
him. " It cannot be that 'wretched stuff," he replied. "It
is a great deal deal. stronger than you think for," said
Jack ; " and Y-Ju would find it so if you drank it
quckly, instead of taking your time about it." "I
don't See what that has to do with it," observed Mr.
John
" Now, look here," continued Johnson ; " I'll bet
.V47;ti fifteen or twenty francs that I make the whole of
this pack of cards into pancakes' before you can
drink oft' a half-pint tumbler of Chablis." " Oh,
nonsense ! I would not take the bet ; it would be
downright robbery." "As you like. Will you bet
twenty francs ?" Mr. John Bernard, who had lost
about that sum to Jack Johnson, thought there would
be no great harm in getting his money back again,
so said that he would make the wager. " But you
will give me good wine ?" he asked. " You shall
choose it yourself," was the reply, " and I will drink
some first:" Ledbury being appointed a witness of
the bet, Jack left the room, and procured the Chablis
from the butler. He then invaded the kitchen, and
having established himself instantaneously in the fa-
vour of all the servants, by paying them a collective
compliment and kissing Madame Provost's fentme de
chambre, he got the cook to heat a tumbler-full of the
wine until it was nearly boiling, and with this he re-
turned into the drawing-room. " Are you ready r
ile inquired of Mr. John Bernard. " Perfectly."
" Then fire away," said Jack ; " but don't spill any
over that pretty stock, because it would be a pity.
You'll find the wine rather warm ; but I presume
that is of no consequence. We made no agreement
as to temperature—it was merely as to quality." As
Jack rapidly began to make the cards into pancakes,
Mr. Bernard put his lips to the wine, and saw that he
was " done ;" but still thinking that he might yet ac-
complish the task within time, he attempted to swal-
low it. He sipped, and sneezed, and winced, and
coughed, his eyes watered, and his throat appeared
losing its skin, but all of no avail. Jacks agile
fingers completed their task before the tumbler was
half emptied, and he tossed the last pancake upon
the table in triumph as he added, " I'll trouble you
for twenty francs" There was no 4-ening out of it,
and Mr. J. Bernard's anger at losing his moneywas only
exceeded by the feeling of humbled importance which
he experienced. Throwing the money on thet_ table
out
with a very bad grace, he marchedoeroom
without saying a word to anybody .1.
_rf _
eh
. • dbury's
Adventures in Bentley's Miscellany for December.

OPERATIONS FOR RAISING THE APOLLO AND
WATER WlTCH.—Captain Fisher, harbour-master of
the port of London, a short time ago received instruc-
tions to survey, and see how far it was practicable to
remove, the hull of the Apollo steam-boat, the pro-
perty of the General Steam Navigation Company,
and sunk some time since near Grays, on the Essex
shore. The,lev
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was
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course Fisher
htoaseixlapalos.ons. From the experience Captain
in; raisin.. the Vesper and other vessels,
he is inclined to think that, with the assistance
of the Government lighters, and should the Apollo
hold together, the operations will not occupy much
time. The vessel contains fifteen large anchors and
chain cables, which it will be necessary to raise
before attempts are made to remove the hull. The
WrAer Witch, which was sunk soon afterwards near
t"aie same place, has also been surveyed, and found in
a very weak condition, the timbers in many parts
having yielded and become injured by the action of
the water. The vessels have obstructed greatly the
free navigation of the river at that part. The Cor-
poration of the City have employed Captain Fisher in
the undertaking, and it has been determined to com-
mence the work of raising both vessels when the
weather becomes favourable for the purpose.
Yesterday after noon a shocking accident occurred
to a respectable f :.male named Margaret Walker, 70
years of age, re siding in Bishopsgate-street, who,
whilst in the act of crossing Cornhill, opposite the
Mansion House, was knocked down by an omnibus,
which was pass-111g at the time. A policeman who
saw the occurren •ce, immediately ran to her assist-
ance, and on picl :ing her up it was found that her
right ancle was dislocated, and she was otherwise
severely injured. :He procured a cab, and conveyed
her to St. Thoi nas's Hospital, where she lies in a
Perfectly insens: ible state, and without the slightest
hope of recovery.