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London, England, 1842-10-17 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent. — Portuguese, 5 per cent
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 37i
Brazilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cent. .: —
Buenos A yres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 pet cent —
Chilialy6 per cent B4 Ditto, :Metal'ie..-- ....
Colombian, 61;er cent --i Spanish, 5 per cent lei
Ditto, 1424 2O Ditto, Deferred.... ..

Ceba llotitts, 6 per cent.
Danish, 3 per :eat.
Greek, 1t.:23, 5 per cent
Mexican, 5 per cent
Ditto, t; per cent. 1K37
Peruvian, 1625, per et.

79- French, 5 per cent. —l. —e.
lExchange —f —c.
French, 3 percent —f. —e.
324 Dutch, 21- per cent. 54
-Ditta, 5 per zent. .. ... 100 i

SHARES.
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Leinburl.zh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... 46
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid).. ..... 364
London and Blackwali ( paid) ........... 6
LOlltiOn and Birmingham (P 0)
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid)
Lcndon and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4(114) 5
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pri)
4lanche4ter and Leeds (70 raid)
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)... I9i
North 'Midland Railway ( IOU)
Ditto Thirds (21/. 13s. 4d. paid) l9i
South Ea4,ern and Dover (50 paid)......... 22i
Ditto Scrip (15 paid)

SPIRIT of tile PUBLIC jOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

GLOBE.—Canada has contributed its share to
swell the discontents of the Tory party with the
policy of the Ministry to whom it committed the
powers of government. Sir Charles Bagot, the
successor of Lord Sydenham, instead of risking a
rebellion, which might have severed that im-
portant dependency from the British Crown, by
attempting to govern it upon the old system of ex-
clusion, has deemed it necessary to infuse a con-
ciliatory spirit into his policy, and to accompany
his professions ofa determination to administer the
Government in perfect conformity with the letter
and spirit of existing institutions, by-some acts
which give value to his professions by attesting
their sincerity. Lord Sydenham only waited
nutil.the state of society in the Canadas should
have recovered from the shock which the widely
spread insurrection had inflicted, and had become
somewhat familiarised with the legislative union
by which the discordant and gloomy elements of
the one section should be connected by the more
practicable and British dispositions of the other,
to give a practical demonstration of the paternal
dispositions of the Parent State, by giving to
each of the sections its fair proportion of power
and influence in the goverunicut. The appoin tmen t
of a Governor-General by a Tory Cabinet revived
the hopes of the party in Canada which, under
pretence of being exetusively devoted to British
interests, and claiming a monopoly of the quality
which pisses current in certain circles under
the name of loyalty, hoped to be again in the
ascendant, and to be placed in the possession, and
and protected in the • abuse, of those powers
which they had employed for their personal
aggrandizement, while they had insulted by
their arrogance, and goaded by their injustice,
the other classes of their fellow-citizens into dis-
content and ultimately into open resistance. They
found the day was gone—we trust for ever—from
Canada, when the great body of the people were
subjected to the domination of a clique; and,
deprived of a fair share in the Govenunent to
which they were required to be obedient, were
treated as serfs rattier than as subjects. From
time position of parties in Canada, on Sir Charles
Bag-=it's preparing to meet the Legislative As-
sembly, it was obvious that, unless some advances
-were made toward bringing about a better under-
s-tanding than that which existed between the
E:e:ecutwe and Legislative departments, disputes
aiid collisions would arise, which would be detri-
meatal to the prosperity and fatal to the peace of
the .enlony. Two'courses were open to the Go- •
vernor•General, each of which was strongly urged
undo his adoption by those who sought to direct
his policy by their counsels : the formation of
a Government based on a union of the Upper
Canada. 'furies and Lower Canada French, or
of c ere combining the Lipper Canada Reformers
and OW Lower Canada French. After some ne-
gotiations, which at one time threatened to be
'abortive, the latter has been effected. The two
least popuh,:r members of the Cabinet have re-
tired. Their places have been supplied by two
highly pcpulat 'leaders of the Liberal party in
the two divisions of Canada—M. Lafontatne and
Mr. Baldwin. The principle of "responsible
government" is now recognised, in Canada. Its
practical results will be seen in the satisfaction
of a population long agitated by disOrection,
and weakened by divisions ; upon whom in*
riot's influences were exercised with success,
anali discontent was fomented into insurrection,
and the destruction of the community was
threatened through the feuds by which it was
cony I:sed and torn.
STA..NDARD.—We are induced to insert the
followhlg letter by the consideration that it ex-
hibits strong colourS indeed) the errors of
most of those who quarrel with the financial ar-
rangemen!'s of last session :

" TO THE EDITOR OF THE STANDARD.

" Oct. 14, 1842.

LABOUR IN THE WEST INDIA
COLONIES.
The Select Committee appointed to inquire into the
state ofthe different West India Colonies, in reference
to the existing relations between employers and labour-
ers, and the cultivation and economy of these islands,
have published their Report, the most prominent fea-
ture of which is the distress generally created by the
lack of a supply of labour, and a consequent decrease of
production, since the abolition of slavery. The difitcul-
ties of the West Indian proprietors at present are said
to be entirely attributable to this cause. We deduce,
therefore, from different pages of the Report, such
statements as relates to and illustrate this subject.
The inability of the planters to obtain steady and
continuous labour, and the high rate of remuneration
which they give for even the broken and indifferent
work surrendered, lies, it is asserted, at Oe head of
the diminished production and its attendant distress.
The smaller and more populous islands have not yet
felt this to the full extent ; but the larger colonies of
Jamaica, British Guiana, and Trinidad, have had
many of their most prosperous and productive estates
altogether abandoned, or cultivated for the last two
or three years at a considerable loss from this circum-
stance. The distress generally has been most intense
during the last three years.
The excessive amount of remuneration which the
West Indian labourer receives, is the leading cause of
this general neglect of work. By the statement of a
West India agent (31), it appears that an ordinary
labourer's allowance is as follows, viz., nine hours'
labour per day; five days in the week ; is. 6d. per
day currency, equal to about Bd. sterling for the first
class ; house rent free ; two allotments of provision
grounds, one in the mountains, and one on the estate;
medical attendance and medicine ' • a gratuity of 21bs.
of salt-fish weekly, provided the labourer gives satis-
faction ; and sugar or rum at the discretion of the
manager, according to the work.
The allotments mentioned above are certain pro-
visions which grow better in the mountains than on
the estates, and they have an allotment of an acre of
land in the mountains, and a quarter of an acre at-
tached to the estate ; the ground attached to the
estate they work during any hour they can catch
from the field work ; the ground in the mountains
they cultivate on Saturdays.
This system of "provision-grounds" is the most
striking proof of the over-amount of remuneration
allowed in nearly all the colonies; a system under
which these grounds are allotted to the labourers
generally to an extent limited only by their own
wishes, and generally without any, or at least airy
adequate, rent being exacted in return, and which
thus enables them, in those fertile countries, to derive
a considerable income altogether independent of, and
in addition to, the high money wages which they re-
ceive—a system which has a tendency, by rapidly en-
riching the labourers, to remove them from the
labour-market, and which acts as a constant induce-
ment to them to devote to the cultivation of their
own productive grounds that very time which is so
essential to the welfare of their employers.
Task-work was introduced among them after
emancipation ; this practice, in St. Vincent's, con-
tinued to succeed for three months, but suddenly,
without any cause, except that they said it was too
hard, they gave it up. This is now generally the
case, and it is considered that it is entirely assignable
to the system of provision-grounds, which prevents
task-work altogether.
While, however, the labour market has thus de-
creased, from the causes above given, the character of
the men themselves has, since the passing of the
Emancipation Act, greatly improved in a variety of
respects. From almost every colony it appears, by
abundant testimony, that the negro shows an in-
creased and increasing desire for religious and general
instruction ; a growing inclination for marriage and
Vie duties of domestic life ; improved Morals ; rapid
advance in civilization ; increased sense of the value
of property and independent station ; and, generally,
good and steady conduct.
Of the irregularity of work, however, and the
optional manner in which it is carried on, the sub-
joined clause (103) furnishes a view. It respects one
of the St. Vincent estates, being a return of the
labour on it for the first five months of freedom, from
the Ist of August, 1838, to the Ist of January, 1839,
by 85 labourers, of whom 58 were in the first class,
and 27 in the second. Out of the five months, con-
taining 126 working days, the men worked 34 out of
the 126 by agreement. Seven of the men stuck by
the agreement, and worked 92 days ; five men and
three women worked 85, and took 7 days without
leave • four men and six women worked 82, and took
10 days without leave ; seven men and six women
worked 78 days, and took 14 days without leave ;
seven men and five women worked 72 days, and took
20 days without leave ; one man and six women
worked 68, and took 24 without leave ; three men
and five women worked 64, and took 28 without
leave; two men and three women worked 58, and
took 34 days without leave ; one man and three
women worked 54, and took 38 ; five women worked
746, and took 41; ; one man and five women worked
40, and took 52. In all there was a loss in five
months of 579 days of field labour of males, and
1,255 of females. Calder estate, be it remarked,
being a very fair average estate of second quality.
In 'exemplification `of the diminution of produce
attendant upon the decrease of labour, we turn to the
well arranged tables, which furnish at p. 18, 19, 21,
&c., a return of the crop produce of various planta-
tiwis daring the slavery, apprenticeship and free pe-
riods. From the first it appears that the total produce
of 21 estates, there enumerated, was, during the
three years of the slavery period, from 1820-4, at
the rate of 18,128 hhds per year; in 1828, 19,960
hhds. ;in 1829, 17,500 hhds. In the year of ap
prenticeship, 1836, it had decreased to 12,684 hhds.
In 1839, under the emancipation system, the produce
had fallen to 10, 650 hhds ; the year 1840 brought
in a return of only 5,940 hhds., and last year, 1841,
the crop produce was 8,278 hhds.
The next contrast appears in the sugar production
of the Argyll plantation. During the apprenticeship
period of 1836-7 the sugar crop yielded 534 hhds.,
and in 1838, 368 hhds. The returns for the period
of freedom are as follow :-1839, 260 Mids. ; 1840,
115 hhds.; 1841, 154 hhds.
Clause 391 furnishes us with a document, showing
the quantity of sugar produced during slavery, ap-
prenticeship, and freedom, for the years enumerated
as under :—For the three years of slavery immediately
preceding the hurricane of 1831, an average of
18,169 hhds; for the last three years of slavery,
14,028 hhds. ; for the three last years of apprentice-
ship, 13,134 hhds. ; for the last threeyears under free-
dom, viz., 1839-40-41, no more than 8,290 hhds.
From this return, as Hay M'Dowall Grant, Esq.,
the witness under examination, observes, the results
appearing on the face of it strongly support the opi-
nion which he has formed, that the average amount of
labour nominally engaged in agriculture has decreased
during three years of entire emancipation to an ex-
tent greater than one-third of what existed during
the last year of apprenticeship, and that the average
crops produced during those periods have also de-
creased in the same ratio ; whilst on comparing the
average quantity of sugar raised during freedom, with
there averagepreceding the
of the
destructivethree
years
hurricane o f s l slavery immediatelyoiylB 31 th
ede-
crease
p
will be found to be considerably more than one-
half. Deficiency in labour, he further adds, has been
gradually decreasing each
year of freedom, and unless
a remedy is applied by the introduction of additional
labourers suited to work in a tropical climate, he fears
greatly the prosperity of the colonies will dim'

"'SIR—Perceiving it stated in your paper of the
11th mutant, that there was no other resource but to
impose a Property-tax, allow me to state that it ap-
pears to me that not only the deficit, but even a larger
sum, might have been easily levied by taxing locomo-
tive steam-ergines ; and if this had been done at any-
thing like the rate imposed upon post-bores, the re-
turns would have been immense ; and without any
person feeling_ injured by it. This was clearly indi-
ceed to Sir Robert Peel, but although it would
ha•Ne been a much fairer and easier paid tax than the
fo; mer postage of letters was, yet it would not have
bee:" so directly popular with the Radicals (et id genus
omnel as a direet tax on property, which latter seems
to me the very worst tax that ever was invented, &c.
am, Sir, your most obedient, LL
'The %Y.-iter of this letter is an individual of
high ralnk and education, and the reverse of a
prejudicCd man, and yet the mistakes into which
he falls at e surely such as would be discreditable
to the
juu Tment of even the most illiterate.
The -propos't 1 substitute for the property-tax is
a tax upon locomotive steam-engines, and we
doub .; whether any one of those who cavil at
the p ropety-tax could propose a better substi-
tute. The lailure of the five per cent. duties
had proved the hopelessness of any addi-
tional vevenue to be obtained from addi-
tional taxation
upon articles of consump-
tion, and the continued decline of the Excise
re venue puts the seal upon the conclu-
sion. Some such tax, then, as the tax upon
locomotive steam engines would be inevitable, if
a tax upon property was to be avoided—and we
doubt whether any more eligible object of taxa-
tion
than that suggested could (upon the hypo-
thesis that a property-tax is inadmissible), pre-
sent itself. But here comes the question. Would
a tax upon locomotive steam-engines prove ade-
quate to supplying a deficit of three 'pillions
.sterling in the annual revenue? Has our corres-
Tondeut been at the pains to inquire what is
the whole amount of the net profits of all the
:railroads in the island, and whether that
:hole amount of net profits would, in fact,
'ord the sum which he proposes to take
poht it in tax? It is quite true that if locomotive
steam -engines were taxed in the same proportion
horses
be (and that the present railroad
as pog,'
traffic preserved), the returns would
t•se. This is quite true, but
be immeequally true
is it that 11. beer were taxed in the same propor-
tion as toba-cco (600 per cent. upon the prime
cost), withol at causing any diminution in the con-
sumption of k 'eery
the returns would be immense
-
also. In each Case, however, the condition is the
tration. Could beer be raised to
i,iaterial consid
th ree shilling's a orlon, without causing- it to dis-
lountry—could the railway
fares be trebled—ant: something
like this would
appear from the!
'afford any profit to the
nec"soxy, in order
millions upon
of three.
l'llureholdeys, after a tax'
the present
lc, without' causing every railroad
rusrass?
tie country to be covere 4
ti
Our n , susses
t and
n would region all
espohd,lnt s su,
e.‘CeptiOn, Without
the railroads 'bout ati
bringing a pennywi. to the Exc:tkequer after the
first k ~op tptax or a
a -Year wh the
haekruptc.-
71111 At coat, '•

appear.

WYATT'S STATUE of WEL-
LINGTON.

The model of this magnificent work of art has just
been, completed. It is a bronze equestrian statue, in-
tended to be placed on the triumphal arch facing
Apsley House, subscribed for by the country at large,
and undertaken by Mr. M. Wyatt, whose energies
have been unceasingly devoted to its production dur-
ing a period little short of two years. The model
gives promise of a result alike honourable to the art-
ist, the country, and the man. It is of colossal di-
mensions, measuring in height from the horse's hoof
to the crown of the warrior's head, 28 feet 2 inches.
Some idea of its magnitude may be gained from the
fact that a Life Guardsman, armed cap-a pie, can ride
with ease under the belly of the animal. A new stu-
dio and pit for casting the various portions have been
rented near the artist's residence, at Padding-
ton, and the completion of the work may
be confidently expected in the course of
the ensuing summer. The effect of the model
on entering the studio is grand. The happy moment
chosen by Mr. Wyatt is that in which the Duke is
supposed to he giving the memorable words—" Up,
Guards, and at them !" The horse is standing in a
quiescent attitude, but the distended nostrils and
eager gaze beautifully display the feeling of excite-
ment with which the animal may be supposed to have
been agitated amid the roar and din of battle. The
, Duke is attired in a Field Marshal's uniform, with a
military cloak thrown over his shoulders his face
slightly t clines to the left, while in his right hand he
holds the baton of command by which his directions
are made known. The head is already cast, and, if
the other portions be hqually successful, the whole
will indeed be a triumph of art. The metal used is
, chiefly, if riot altogether, formed of guns captured by
our countrymen in various parts of the world, and
the weight of this latter (the head) alone exceeds
3001bs. The boots are also cast, and jointly weigh
5001bs. The whole statue, when completed, will ex-
ceed 40 tons in weight, and the metal required for
the purpose of its production, owing to waste, &c.
will amount to 50 tons.

_ .
TIIF. ACCIDENT T.:-/ SIlt• WILLIAM GEARY.—We
are happy to learn that, not withstanding the serious
apprehensions which were :tt • one period entertained
for the safety of Sir a eary, after the extra-
ordinary and very serious neck lent which befel the
11(01. Baronet, he is now con ed to be out of dan-
ger. Intelligence was rec( dyed ,by this morning's
post, at the house of his fr ienul.l,Zr. AlexandEr, in
Carlton House-terrace, and !in a uswer to the nu-
merous inquiries made there. to ,day by the friendi of
the worthy Baronet, it was sta. '-k .d th:at he w s much
i*tter ; and the following buII In lay n the hall for,
inspection :—" Sir William Cl eary Ts going on as.
favourably as can be expected.'"

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THE NEW TARIFF.--FALMOUTH, OCT. 15.—Very
Thebur‘ gl' s, n
rab
prime corned pork and beef, imported from ITam-.
has been in demand aid. and 4.;d. per lb.
:landed to-day, direct' from Corunna, 38
head of oxeri-;. they are fine:Cattle, and will be sold by.,
auction. ~V '.'...',.,

THE SUN, LOSDOI'4II. MONDAY 'EVENING, OCTOBER 1?, 1842 .

A WHEELING ARTICLE.

Going to dinner. the other,day-, we saw a little cod-
ger, about two years old, sitting in a wheelbarrow
and trying to wheel him Self. It struck us that many
people in this world are often caught in the same act,
and we shall always think—hereafter,
When we see a business man trusting every thing
to his clerks, and continually seeking his own amuse-
ment—always absent from his counting-house, and
yet expecting to get along,, he's sitting in a wheel-
barrow, and trying to wheel himself.
When we see a professional man better acquainted
with every thing else than his profession, always start-
ing some new scheme, and never attending to his
his wardrobe and credit will soon designate him as
sitting on a wheelbarrow, and trying to wheel himself.
When we see a farmer with an over abundance of
" hired help," trusting every thing to their manage-
ment, his fences down, implements out of repair, and
land suffering for want of proper tillagetoo proud
or too lazy to off coat and go to vork—he's sitting in
a wheelbarrow, trying to wheel himself.
When we see a mechanic run half a square every
(lay to borrow a newspaper, and may be have to wait
ten or fifteen minutes before he can get it, we shall
suspect that the time he loses would soon pay the
subscription, and consider him sitting in a wheel-
barrow, and trying to wheel himself.
• When we see a man busily engaged in circulating
scandal concerning his neighbour, we infer that he is
pretty deep in the mud himself, and is sitting in a
wheelbarrow, and trying to wheel himself out.-7-
Wheeling Gazette.

LONGEVITY "MAN AND BEAST."—Mr.
farmer, of Cheddar, aged 90, attended the late Dray-
cot fair, riding a mare 36 years old ; the united ages
of the man and horse amounted to 126 years !
Cambrian.

SPECIAL COMMISSIONS.
STAFFORD, SATURDAY.

mitted that there could be no doubt that the words
were used, and in the sense meant.
The Learned JUDGE summed up the evidence very
briefly, after which
The prisoner said—My Lord, I have witnesses to
prove I never used such language, will you allow me
to call them ? The JUDGE said he might.
A number of witnesses were called and examined,
when the CHIEF JUSTICE said—All these people are
speaking to a different meeting. All they swear is
that they did not hear him use such language at diffe-
rent meetings. They do not speak to the same time.
The Jury almost immediately returned a verdict of
Guilty.
The Learned JUDGE-said he had been found guilty
of a serious offence, and he must say he was quite
satisfied with the verdict. The consequences which
had followed such harangues were lamentable, and he
did not hesitate to say that it was to the addresses of
the prisoner, and persons like him, that the destruc-
tion of property and life was to be attributed. The
unfortunate men who were exiled had to blame them
for their misery. He sentenced him to two years
imprisonment. •
(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
SENTENCES ON THE PRISONERS.
Mr. Baron Parke, upon coining into Court, ordered
the prisoners who had been found guilty before him
to be - placed at the bar. The Learned Baron then
proceeded to pass the following sentences :
Thomas Kelsal, to be transported for fifteen years.
William Fern and Isaac Colclough, 'the former to
be imprisoned for twelve months, the latter for six
months, and then both to be transported forseven years.
Thomas Wakefield, who had pleaded guilty for a
riot at Burslem, was discharged upon his own recog-
nizances for 501., for three years.
William Plant, Smithchild, David Parkes,
Thomas Adams, William Napier, and John Hulne
pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to fourteen days'
imprisonment, which term ended this day. They
were therefore discharged, upon their entering into
their own recogni-ances of 501., to keep the peace
for three years.
John Hall and Samuel Lockett were sentenced to
six months' imprisonment, for intimidation.
William Garrett and George Nixon were sen-
tenced to two years' imprisonment in the House of
Correction for assaulting the military, and unlawfully
preventing persons from working.
The prisoners next sentenced were Ball, fifteen
months and hard labour ; Davidson, one year and
hard labour ; John Jones, fifteen months and hard
labour; Joseph Wilcock, one year and hard labour;
and Samuel Nixon, fifteen months and hard labour.
The Learned JUDGE having concluded passing sen
tence, said that public justice had now been vindica-
ted, and he trusted that the great object of this Com-
mission would be obtained, which was to prove that
the laws of this country could not be violated with
impunity.
The prisoners were then taken from the dock.
Joseph Linney, previously convicted of an unlawful
assembly, was again arraigned for sedition.
Mr. Sergeant Ludlow and Mr. Godson prosecuted;
Mr. Neale defended the prisoner.
Mr. Sergeant Lunaow stated the case, and called
the following witnesses :
Richard Price—Heard the prisoner address the
mob of colliers at Brockmore on the '27th of July.
He said on, that occasion, " Lads, you have got a
great burden upon your backs, but if you will join
the Chartists you will soon get some of it off.
Thousands have joined us in the Potteries, and in York-
shire and Shropshire ; and if you will be stout and
join, I can let them all know in twenty-four hours,
and we can all rise together. Never mind the sol-
diers ; they cannot be everywheae. There is one man
in particular who is a great oppressor of the poor—
that is Sir Robert Peel. If you will be stout this
time, we will soon make him lose his head. The
Queen and the little Princesses wear little flowers
about their heads, but if you will be stout, we will
soon have them off."
Air. Reuben Plant, coal merchant, heard the pri-
soner address a mob, on the 3d of August. He then
said, "'The masters in my country are calling out
for protection, but I bid you stick out and be ruled
by me, and you shall haveyour wages and all you
want. Why are the masters calling out for protec-
tion? Because they know that the poor are starving,
and that a starving people are a rebellious people."
He told the men that had 2s. 6d. a day not to go to
work till they had 4s. a day. He said they would put
the masters and their protectors in a ship, give them a
good shove, and three cheers, and never have them
here again. He said, "We -will have the land, cul-
tivate it, and live upon it ourselves."
James Griffith and Edward Guest gave similar evi-
dence.
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the Jury immedi-
ately found the
Sentence—Fifteen months' imprisonment for the se-
dition, and six months for the unlawful assembly.
His LORDSHIP then retired, and thus closed his
Court. prisoner guilty.
Late on Saturday night ten convicts were conveyed
to the railway station on the route to Woolwich. A
report immediaiely circulated that the rioters sen-
tenced to transportation at the Special Commission
• were about being hurried away, but it turned out that
the prisoners were convicts from the last assize, who
were going off to Woolwich preparatory to their be-
ing transported. The wretched men appeared re-
signed to their fate, and as if convinced that they
were enduring the just punishment of their crimes.
Mr. Baron ROLFE passed sentence on the two fol-
lowing prisoners :—Joseph Broston and James Wol-
ley- were sentenced to eight months' imprisonment
and hard labour.
The trial of Ralph Boon, William Hulmer, Thos.
I Starkey, John Jones, and Samuel Robinson, who were
indicted for a riot at Stoke, and were put on their
trial yesterday, was then proceeded with, and when
our report was sent up, the Learned Judge was sum-
ming up the evidence given against and for the pri-
soners, who set up an alibi.

The Special Commission was proceeded with this
day. The excitement in the town, although great, is
not of so active a character as when the proceedings
under the Commission commenced. The troops are
still here, and owieg to the late determination of the
prisoners confined in the gaol to break out, it would
appear that their presence is still highly necessary. It is
stated that the plan for breaking out of the gaol was
concocted by Ellis, who has lately been found guilty
of arson, and who was an active Chartist leader. Had
the plan succeeded it is impossible to say what might
have been the consequence, as there were sixty stand
of arms in a place which could have been reached by
the conspirators with the greatest possible ease, as the
only difficulty in the way of the prisoners getting
there would arise from a wooden door, and the atten-
tion of the turnkey, who it is thought could, from his
not being prepared for the outbreak, be easily disposed
of. Since the anthorities received information of the
intended outbreak, every precaution has been taken to
prevent a surprise. The troops are kept in a constant
state of readiness for action. The wardsmen in the
prison are well armed, and, indeed, every necessary
means have been adopted for the security of the pri-
soners. The result of this attempt on the part of the
prisoners will be that those sentenced td transporta-
tion are to be removed immediately. It is, however,
understood that those who have been sentenced to
seven years' transpdrtation will only be removed to the
model prison.
(Before Chief Justice TINDAL.)
This morning, at eight o'clock, 'William Capper, of
the Potteries, was charged with sedition. Mr. Wad-
dington opened the case.
Sir WM. FOLLET then stated the facts, which will
be found in the following evidence :
William Smallwood examined—l lived at New-
castle. lam a joiner, living at Smallthorn now. I
know William Pepper, who lives six doors from me.
I know the prisoner, who is a blacksmith, living at
Tunstall. On the inth or 22d February, being Sun-
day night, I saw from 30 to 40 persons in Pepper's
house. I was outside, and first heard them singing
a hymn. I saw the prisoner standing. The com-
pany sat down when they were done singing, and he
said, "The words of my text shall be to night, To
your tents, 0 Israel.' The meaning of that is, to be
ready in your clip houses." He then cried out "Are
you ready ? . Are you sure you are ready ?" Some-
body then said, " Yes, yes.' The prisoner then
said, " Have you got your guns or bayonets ?" Some
of the peoples laughed at him, and he cried out, " I
suppose you think Capper is come with his physical
force again." He said, "It's no laughing matter, we shall
have a severe fight, but it will be but a short one."
He then said, " What will you do when you have got
the Charter ?" Nobody aswering him, he said, " Well,
as I am to be your leader, I shall tell you what I
should recommend you to do. We will take the
bishops, clergymen, hypocritical dissenters, and Ma-
gistrates too, and we wilt put them into a vessel to be
transported to Affenger,' to be massecude ' or
sasined ' amongst the Hindos." That was all he
said. Then he talked about Feargus O'Connor. I
have seen him several times in that same room, and
heard him in the market-place. I beard him again in the
same house. There were a good many women amongst
them. He was addressing the women, and lie said,
"If you can't fight, you can torch ; you see what
they have done by starring and clamming the people,
and driving them to madness." He said, " You see
what they have done in other towns," and I think he
referred to Nottingham and other places. On Whit
Monday night the person who owned the house at -
tacked me for a spy. They held their meetings con-
stantly.
Cross-examined by Mr. ALLEN—I live by work.
I owed the prisoner money, and was ordered to pay
him by instalments.... I paid him every week, except
my wife may have missed. I paid five times, but
cannot say more. I do not know whether I have
paid all the money. I made my first payment on the
11th April. He charged Fie with V. ss. ; but there
was a dispute of ten shillings between us, about an
oven I
,bought from him. I received the goods in
1841. I attended the summons in February, and he
put me in the Court in April. I received my sum,
mons before I was ordered to pay. I left Smallthorn
at Midsummer, to go to Newcastle. He put me into
the Court of Requests at Stoke. I did not go to
Newcastle to avoid paying Capper ; I went to avoid
the ruffians of Chartists. I owe no rent now. I have
lived at Burslem, Smallthorne, and Newcastle, since
1841. I have lived in two houses in Burslem and one
each in the other places. I worked for a next-door
neighbour last week. There was no curtain on the
window. I heard all this language through the
window. I signed the deposition now produced. I
did state, when beore the Magistrates, that I would
not be positive about the towns. I said I could not
say what towns. Ido not know
.that I told the Ma-
gistrates it was Moscow and Hamburgh he alluded to.
Hamburgh is in my deposition, and Moscow also is in.
I have been told since I signed the deposition, that
Hamburgh could not be referred to, because the fire
did not take place.until May. I signed the deposition
in March in which Hamburgh is named.
Thomas Firth examined—l am a tailor, living at
Tunstall. I recollect the 24th of June, and saw
Ellis and Capper at, a meeting. Saw the prisoner ad-
dress the people from a stool. He said, "We are
met again upon the old score, upon the Charter. 'We
must have the Charter, though I suppose they are
bringing the red-coated men to stop us, but there are
not many of them in England now. They have been
sent to murder the poor innocent Chinese. There are
not many of them now, only five to every town." He
" You. have only got to arm yourselves, as the
noble Chartists of Lancashire and Yorkshire have
done, for you to have sufficient strength to put them
down, and our tyrants too." He then spoke about
the State Church. He said it had its origin with that
bloody tyrant Harry VIII., who had his wife be-
headed one day, and married another wife the next.
The prisoner carried on a similar strain. He said
those who could not afford to buy guns or pikes,
might at least assist them with the torch. He then
begged to introduce Ellis, and he addressed them in a
worse strain. He spoke of the Queen. There was
cheering, and cries of " Hear, hear," and some clap-
ping of hands. The meeting was stopped by one of
the lessees of the market.

BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS.
A young man, named Henry Coy, about 24 years
of age, of respectable appearance: was brought up in
custody of Police-sergeant Poole, T division, before
Mr. Henry Pownall, the sitting Magistrate, charged
with having embezzled monies to a. very large amount,
the property of his employers, Messrs. G. and J.
Clark, solicitors, of New Brentford.
It appears that Messrs. G. and J. Clark, in addi-
tion to a most extensive and lucrative practice as soli-
citor:, are also elerks to the Divisional Bench of Ma-
gistrates and to the Board of Guardians of the Brent-
ford Union. TIT prisoner had been in their service
as clerk for about seven years, and from his general
good behaviour, was eventually entrusted to act confi-
dentially as assistant clerk to the Union. No suspi-
cion of his dishonesty was entertained until the 24th of
last June, when he absented himself from his situation,
and on inquiry at his residence at Isleworth, it was
discovered that he had absconded. From inquiries
subsequently made it was ascertained that he had em-
bezzled' between 500/. and 6001. belonging to the
Union tunds, for which his employers are liable, as
well as various large sums he had received for parties
for whom Messrs. Clark are acting as agents. Al-
though every exertion was made by the police to as-
certain what had become of the fugitive, no trace of
his retreat could be obtained, and it was believed that
he had fbil to America, but recently it having transpired
that he had been seen in the neighbourhood of Cado-
gan-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea, Sergeant Poole was
sent in di3guise to the spot, and,after waiting some
hours, succeeded in meeting him in the street and
capturing him.
Sufficient evidence only was gone into to warrant a
remand to a future day, in order to collect the nume-
rous witnesses necessary to ensure a conviction.

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. RAPID VEGETATION.—Some surprise was expressed
by a Correspondent the other week at hearing that a
second crop had been obtained from the same ground
in one year by Mr. M. Brown. This was most sa-
tisfactorily explained by Mr. Brown ; but we have
something still more surprising for the ear of our cor-
respondent—namel v,
the raising of a third crop from
the same ground ! This'has been done by our worthy
friend Mr. Moor, of Houghton, in the garden of Mr.
Stordy, of Cross-hill. After taking two crops of po-
tatoes off the ground, he planted a third in the first
week in August ; and on Thursday last we had the
We were also shown b Ale.
pleasure-of partaking of a dish from that planting—
and certainly finer flavoured-potatoes we. never tasted.
Moor a sampl of new
They were of large size, and the crop' is abundant.
potatoes grown from seed raised this year !—ae circum-
stance, we ' believe, almost unparalleled. They were
planted the second week in August, are already of a
good size, and pivsent a most healthy appearance. It
is Mr. Moor's intention to let them grow till Christ-
mas. From a tree in the same garden in which these
wonders have been witnessed, a dozen pears were taken
this week, which weighed upwards of 12 ounces each,
io
pe r
f intoe perfection
i 0 this is
till
Marchcountry
and measured 12 inches each round. The pear is
prrizerica, and can be kept
_Carlisle journal.
called the English Ball, has but recently- been intro-
ducedHor INTELLIGENCE. __.... AV ORCESTER, OCT. 14.
Owing to the short supply of new hops (not exceeding
500 pockets) sent to market on Saturday last, th°
demand became. very animated, and at the close of
the day's business, the greater part of the new hops
left unsold the previous market day was disposed of.
The scale returns show that 1,174 new, and 12 old
per cwt. :—New,
pockets were sold and delivered by the planters on
last market day, and 1,306 new, and 82 old in the
355. to 60s.—
week ; prices may be quoted 2s. higher. Currency,
Herald.
tine, from 84s. to
90s ; yearlings, from 70s. to 80s.; other ages, from
TUE WFATilta..—From the continuance of remark-
ably line antt dry weather,_we;learn that,many. mills
Worf from
605.-e
driven by water have been obliged to stop•working--
;n circumstance afthis time'-of .the year, without any
piffallel in the recollection of the_ oldest inhabitant."
—Belfast Chronicle.

"TO THE EDITOR.

Cross-examined—l have no recollection of the pri-
soner having been a collector of taxes. I have known
him as a master blacksmith. He has a large family.
There were no riots in Tunstall, with the exception of
ducking the police. Many hundreds were assembled
at the meeting.
Mr. ALLEN then arose and addressed the Jury on
behalf of the prisoner. Re said if the words attributed
to the prisoner were spoken by him, and in reference
to the subjects to which they applied, he trusted his
respect for the Jury and for his Lordship would pre-
vent him from saying that such language could not be
allowed to be spoken with impunity in a civilised
society. While he made that admission, and fully
concurred in all that had been so ably said in denun-
ciation of such language, and the great danger of ad-
dressing the people in such extravagant terms, he
must implore the Jury not to forset that they were
sworn to say whether the words in the indictment
were really spoken by the prisoner in that order, and
spoken with that meaning and intent, and with a de-
sign to produce the consequences set forth. He ap-
peared on behalf of that old bald-headed man in the
dock ; and through him the prisoner most positively
denied that he ever uttered the words ; and, secondly,
that he ever had any such purpose or intent, as that
alleged in the indictment. Mr. Allen then dwelt
upon the great impossibility of the witness hearing
the words spoken by the prisoner, he being at the time
outside the house. He would call witnesses who
would prove the prisoner to be a man of irreproach-
able character, and not one likely to use such language.
Mr. Harrison, called to the prisoner's character—l
know the prisoner, and I never knew a man with
whom I would ratherl transact business or live nigh
as a neighbour.' 'I accidentally attended one meeting
where- the prisoner and Ellis were. -
• Other witnesses' were -called- but did not answer.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then replied,- and sub-

1-}Ol.lcE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDA Y.)
MANS/OS-110 USE.

A BLACK Joll.—Two men na.ned Hawitius and
Mt) riand, wh ) had been charged in the coursd of the
week with having gone into houses as chimney-
sweepers, with sooty faces, and committed robberies,
were brought up for final examination. Unfortunately
for the ends of justice the servants in the houses which
the prisoners plundered could not swear to the iden-
tity of the two thieves, who appeared at the bar with
well-washed faces and curled hair, and lau4herl at the
transformation which a little soap and water and a pair
of tongs had made in their appearance.
. Two master chimney-sweepers, named Bolton and
Hicks, who are well-known in the City as respectable
men, stated that they knew the prisoners to be as des-
perate and dangerous thieves as any in the metro-
polis, and that the fellows got into houses, which they
never failed to rob, under pretence of belonging to
some chimn ay-sweeper of repute.
Itawkins—Why I never was in a police-office be-
fore in all my days. Besides, I don't know this here
gentleman. (Pointing to Morland.)
Morland—Nor I. lam sure the people's mad to
say they know me. I don't know whit the inside of a
prison is, excepting from the report of a gentleman I
SEC stowed away for being lushy.
Mr.
.Bolton stated that he lived in Duke-street,
Aldgate, and that Morland, who went occasionally by
the name of Bill Smith, stole a chimney-sweeping ma-
chine, value 41., from his premises. A female saw him
running away with the machine, but he escaped with
it, and the evidence was not considered sufficient.
Mr. Hicks stated that Hawkins stole a machine
from his premises, value .51., and got clear away.
Several of the old officers of the City, recognised
the prisoners as thieves. For them nothing could be
too bad or too heavy. They were both, the officers
declared, in the habit of breaking open cupboards,
and clearing them of plate, and of stripping the pegs
in halls of great coats, cloaks, &c.; and they generally
found that work easy, as the hours at which they
began were so early that the servant girls could
scarcely be said to be awake, at least not sufficiently
awake to cope with persons so -wide-awake as the
black-faced thieves they had to encounter.
Morland-You say my name is Bill Smith. Now
I never changed my name in my life It's a very
good name ; and I aint ashamed of it. As for these
here fellows as sweeps chimleys, I know nothing
about em.

The LORD MAYOR—You shan't do much mischief
at any rate for three months. Hawkins—Why you
aint a going to lock us up for nothing, are you?
The LORD MAYOR—Certainly not. I am going
to lock you up because you are two notorious thieves.
Hawkins—l'm blest if I don't appeal, eh Bill ?
Morland—•lt's no use ; they all row in the same
boat. The innocent must suffer for the guilty some-
times, Jack, and no mistake.

•
The prisoners were committed to hard labour at the
tread-mill .or three months.
GUILDHALL.

On Thursday a linendraper of the name of Bar-
nard, alias Ruffnell, lately residing at Waltham Abbey,
was committed to Newgate for obtaining • goods of
various tradesmen by means of -false representations.
It was alleged' in the course of the investigatior
that the prisoner gave references to Mr. Earp,
tailor, in Fleet-street, and a person of the name of
Sculthorpe, living in Goldsmith-street.
On Friday Mr. Earp caused a letter to be inserted
in a morning paper, in which he flatly denied that the
representation that he gave, as alleged in the Guild-
hall police report, was correct.
Mr. Goddard, the solicitor to the prosecution, in-
serted a reply in a morning paoer of Saturday, in tL
shape of a challenge to Mr. Earp, of which the fol-
lowing is a copy :

" Sir,—The attention of the warehousemen who
have been sufferers by Samuel Ruffnell, oliav Bar-
nard, of Waltham Abbey, draper, has been drawn ti
a letter in your paper of thin morning (Friday).
dated 'Fleet•street,' and signed 'James Earp,' in
which that gentleman denies that he ever made any
statement with respect to Barnard, or ever saw the
party who made the inquiry. lam instructed by my
clients to invite the attendance of Mr. Earp before
the sitting Magistrate at Guildhall to-morrow at 12
o'clock, that they may have an opportunity of testing
the accuracy of his assertions. And if he will have
the kindness to bring his foreinan, John Parkins,
with him, it will add to the obligation.
" Signed, GODFREY GODDARD,

" Solicitor for the prosecution.
" 101, Wood-street, Oct. 14."
Mr. Goddard having stated these facts, said he un-
derstood that Mr. Earp was in attendance, pursuant
to the invitation, and perhaps he would give an ex-
planation.
Mr. Fraser, the barrister, said he was in attend-
ance to watch the case on behalf of Mr. Earp.
• Alderman T. WOOD said the evidence was so
strong, tLat he had no hesitation in committing Bar-
nard for trial, and he could not see how he could re-
ceive further evidence in the case ; yet the matter was
open to explanation so far as Mr. Earp was concerned,
if he wished to give any. He (Alderman Wood)
could not refrain from saying that the evidence in-
ferred a conspiracy very strongly, but he did not order
the attendance of the parties implicated, .knowing that
the prosecutors would act bona fide.
Mr. Goddard then called Mr. Earp, who was in
attendance, and desired him to explain and state any-
thing in his power by way of exculpation. The mat
ter was important, because a connexion would be
proved between some of the parties and Shackleford,
who was convicted of swindling at the last Old Bailey
Sessions, in obtaining property by false representa-
tions. There were eight indictments against him,
and the property obtained amounted to several thou-
sands of pounds.
After a few questions had been put to Mr. Earp,
which led to no result,
Mr. Fraser, the barrister, interposed, and told the
Bench he had advised his client not to answer any
more questions.
Alderman T. WOOD said the Learned Gentleman
had exercised a sound discretion ; and, after a desul-
tory conversation, the parties., left the Court.