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IIIE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY' MORNING, FEBRUARY 19, 1845.

Their Lordships adjourned shortly after Five o'clock.
In the House of Commons the Hon. H. FITZROY took
the oaths and his seat for Lewes.

Sir W. HEATHCoTE brought up the report of the Sub-
Committee on private Bills.
Various petitions were presented.

New writs were ordered for East Kent in the room of
Sir E. KNATCHBULL, who had accepted the Chiltern Hun-
dreds, and for Thetford in the room of Mr. W. B. BA-
RING, who had accepted the office of Paymaster-General.
Several notices of motion were given, among them was
one by Mr. WARD, for Tuesday week, to renew
his motion respecting the exclusive and parti-
cular burdens on land, and one by Lord J. RUSSELL,
for going into Committee of Ways and Means for the
purpose of proposing the sugar duties, to move this
resolution by way of amendment :—" That it is
the opinion of this House that the plan proposed by
her MAJEsry's Government, in reference to the sugar
duties, professing to keep up a distinction between
free-labour sugar and foreign slave-grown sugar, is im-
politic, and would aggravate the evils of a protecting
duty to their colonies at the expense of the consumer,
would tend to impair the revenue, and render the re-
moval of the property and income-tax, at the end of
three years, very improbable and uncertain."
Lord ASHLEY then moved for leave to bring in a Bill
to regulate the labour of children in the calico print-
works of Great Britain and Ireland.

Sir J. GRAHAM could not refuse to consent to the
introduction of the Bill, but he must reserve fur himself
and the Government the most perfect discretion with
respect to the mode in which the details of the Bill were
to be carried out.

Mr. WALLACE thought the dyeing and bleaching de-
partments ought to be included in the Bill, and at a fu-
ture stage he should move that they be so included.
Mr. HUME deprecated any legislative interference be-
tween the employer and the employed—between the
parent and the child. The proper remedy for all the
evils complained of was to remove those fetters which
monopoly and class interests had placed upon industry.
Mr. COBDEN gave the Noble Lord credit for his
motives, but thought he had been misled. In calico-
printing, and other trades of the same kind, the time of
labour was not fixed or compulsory ; they did not begin
and cease with the steam-engine, as in other branches—
it was the wish of their parents that children should be
employed—they worked in the same room with them,
under their eye, and might leave off when they thought
proper. It was not here as i❑ the cotton mills, their
time was free ;:and if they overworked themselves, it was
their own or their parents' fault..

Mr. WAKLEY supported the motion—urged the Noble
Lord to extend his inquiries into the rural districts—
until he did so, his exertions would be open to suspicion.
After a few words from Mr. K PHILLIPPS, leave was
given to bring in the Bill, and Mr. LABOUCHERE ex-
pressed a hope that the second reading would be fixed
for an early day.
Mr. HUME postponed his motion on the subject of
lighthouses.
Mr. T. DUSCOMBE then brought the subject of the
espionage exercised by the Post-office under the atten-
tion of the House, and complained of the conduct of the
Secret Committee, which had last year sat to consider the
subject. The Honourable Gentleman concluded
an able, eloquent, and witty speech, by moving—
" That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire
into the mode in which letters have been detained,
opened, and re-sealed at the General or at any pro-
vincial post-office, and also into the circumstances under
which every warrant fur that purpose has been
issued by any Secretary of State, from the Ist day of
January, 1840, to the present time, the said Committee to
report their opinion thereon to the House, and also whe-
ther it is expedient that the practice should be con-
tinued:—That the report and evidence of the Secret
Committee of last session relative to the Post-office be
referred to the said Committee."
Sir J. GRAHAM defended the conduct of the Governe
ment and the course pursued by the Secret Committer..
An animated discussion ensued, and, eventually, the
debate was adjourned till Thursday, with an understand-
ing that it should stand the first question on that day.
The House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock.

We retain, in its fullest extent, the conviction we
have expressed on the general results of Sir R. PEEL'S
financial statement of Friday last. The scheme of
fiscal reform which that statement announced has
many features of an impressive character, and,
withal, very unusual in the aspect of such Ministerial
expositions. The proposal to deal with so large a
number of little-productive duties as 430, now ap-
pearing on a tariff comprising but 820 articles ;—tha
declaration of his own and his Government's adhesion
to the general principle of getting rid of all duties
whatever upon exportations, as far as may be prac-
ticable ;—his determination to release the important
article of glass from the heavy imposts which have so'
long paralyzed the progressive improvement of its
manufacture, and crippled the extent to which a most
profitable trade in it might be carried on both at home
and abroad, by accumulated imposts which have
pursued it from the raw material to the last stages of
its perfected manufacture ;—his intention of abolishing
the duty on raw cotton, the staple of so vast a pro-
portion of the products of our manufacturing in-
dustry ; and his pledge to put down sinecures, to cut
off alt unnecessary branches of public expenditure,
and to economise the collection of the revenue ;
these are, all of them, manifestations of a sound,
vigorous, and salutary policy, to which we should hope
the spirit of party itself, in this country, will not be
disinclined to extend its ready and cheerful encou-
ragement. The mischief of encumbering a scheme
of Customs' duties, or of Excise imposts, with vo-
luminous details, none of which is found to yield to

the publie income a large and permanent return, is
of far more extensive operation than the casual
observer may suppose. All fiscal intervention on the
part of a Government with the trade of its subjects is
malum per se ; and derives only a limited and inci-
dental justification from the necessity which exists
for making that trade contribute, at the
most convenient stages of its transactions,
its fair proportion towards the revenue re-
quired to defray the expenses of the State.
This necessity, we don't dispute, is a permanent one.
It must be met and satisfied. But it is highly expe-
dient that it should be so met and satisfied in a man-
ner to cause the least possible annoyance and
among those who are to contribute the funds required
for such a purpose. Now, the very lightness clf a
duty renders, in most cases, the machinery by which
it is to be realised disproportionate, altogether, in
point of expense, to the total amount annuall/
raised by it ; and in the ratio of this
smallness of total amount, is the inquisitorial or med-
dling nature of the interference on the part of the re-
venue department and their officers requisite to en-
, sure its collection. The evil increases both in the
intensity of its principle and the area of its operation,
by being multiplied on these 430 commodities ; and it
is well that so prolific a source of needless vexation
and embarrassment to trade is to be cut off. The
a hole stream of authorities, from Sir J. Cunese, Sir
PETrr, and the older economists, down to the
more modern school of ADAM SMITH, OSWALD of
Dunnikier, and Al 'lair...wen, will set in in favour
of the signal practical advance towards free trail;
which the Premier has made, by the avowal of his
bold, intelligible opinions on the question of export
duties and their removal. There are few of our ma-
nufactured products, in the extension of which our in-
dustrial labour is more deeply interested than that of
glass; and the Premier has certainly, in this regard,
selecteda boon, about the value of which there can be
little doubt or cavil. The great encouragement that
a trade must derive, the staple of which, in its per-
fected manufacture, carries the burden of a duty
nearly 300 per cent. on the value of the raw material
from which it has been elaborated, needs no comment.
But there is a national incidental value attaching to
the signal remission of duty to be granted in this
instance. Till within a comparatively recent period
the multiplied islands, islots, and creeks which are
profusely scattered about the western shores of
Scotland, were enabled to sustain their hardy and
simple population by their fisheries and the vast
quantities of kelp and seaweed which they pro-
duce in enormous abundance, on those as well as
other portions of the British coasts. The burning
of this kelp, tec., produces to the native population
we speak of, abundant ashes and salt, that enter
ing largely into the consumption of our glass works,
proved one of the most beneficial, as well as most
certain, among the stinted resources to which they
were accustomed to look for their subsistence. It is
painful to think how cruelly the operation of that
.ystem of injudicious duties, the decease of which we
hall soon have the happiness to witness, has inter-
fered with, and almost exterminated this humble but
important trade of a humble but invaluable peasantry.
Excise or Customs' duties that touch the raw ma-
terials'f ative manufactures must IT, of course, de-
structive in proportion to the lowness of their first-
hand price, and to the distance of their transport to
the market of their consumption. Thanks to steam-
boat navigation and free-trade advanCes, we venture
to indulge a sanguine hope for the early re-establish-
ment of this portion of the kelp trade. Geographical
distance has already ceased to be an impediment to
its revival, and obsolete errors in fiscal legislation. are
fast dying off, we may hope, under the' nfluence of
more philosophical and enlightened principles.
The same observations, of course, apply to raw
cotton, except that hitherto it could scarcely claim
to be called a national staple. We have no doubt in
the world, that it will soon be largely remitted from

our Asiatic, Australian, and African dominions, and
thus become one of our great colonial staples. To
bring about this consummation, Sir R. PEEL has
adopted precisely that step which was of primary exi-
gency. And so far—so well.
But the renewal of the income-tax--for three
years, and without modification of any kind—this
we do regard as a moat capital, a most unfortunate
deficiency, a positive vice or offence, in his
Budget. Does Sir ROBERT PEEL doubt the fact
of the grievous injury which that most
inequitable, most unrighteous principle of a common
ratio of contribution from all classes of payers, inflicts
on all small-salaried clerks, officers, and others who
work hard and incessantly to obtain their respective
salaries, or annual emoluments, varying from 1501.
to 3001. a year? Does he imagine that the people—
that great, intelligent, well-informed, reflecting, aye,
and powerful body of them, who range betty een these
two extremes, will much longer, in the thirtieth year
of peace, patiently submit to see the-same proportion
of their hard earnings exacted from them, as
he has been pleased to withdraw from the
superfluity of his own patrimonial and official fortune ?
Does he believe that the retired servants of their
country—scantily pensioned, perhaps, in reference to
the blood and the services they have contributed, but
grateful
and content withal for the co'npensation—
do not murmur at seeing the 7d. in the pound de-
ducted from their modest allowance, and no snore
than 7d. in the pound doled out by the cautious sel-
fishness of legislators who are the recipients of
100,0001. per annum ? Has the Premier discovered
in the course of that Macaanas-ship—the courtesies
of which he is so ready ;in dispensing—that
the men of letters, the political writers who
advocate his Government, to say nothing, for
the present, of those who oppose it—that men whose
income, with a few rare and favoured exceptions, is
already inadequate enough to the demands of their
reputation, or their position and connexions in so.
ciety—submit without the deepest feelings of morti-
fication and resentment, to be mulcted after the
same rate as any of the Right Honourable Baro-
net's own millionaire allies in Manchester, or
in the City ? Or is he indifferent to simi-
lar emotions of natural disgust and just indig-
nation, actuating that enormous mass of the clergy,
and the legal and medical professions—civil, military,
and naval servants in active service or on half-pay,
tradesmen, annuitants, &c. ; whose annual incomes
are large enough to bring them within the scope of the
lower extremity of the scale—we take his minimum
of 150/.; but are too small to carry them beyond, say
3001. a year ?
Our own feeling is that 5001. would not be too
high-pitched a minimum. But certainly from 3001.
to 500/., an income-tax of 21.' per cent. ought to be
the maximum; from 5001. to 7501. ought not to pay
more than 3/. per cent. ; from 7501. to 1,0001. than
4/. per cent. ; from 1,0001. to 5,0001. might bear 51.
10s. per cent. ; and all incomes above 5,000/. 71. per
cent. As a constitutional principle, however, our
own anxiety is still greater as to the term
of renewal than the rate per cent. We shall feel that
the House of Commons will utterly forego its most
essential functions of a vigilant fiscal control, and one
of its highest duties to the people, if, in accordance
with the ominous appearances of consent, or of apa-
thetic indifference, that attach to its vote of last night,
it entertain on any future stage the monstrous propo-
sition of continuing the income-tax at all, for a period
of three years prospectively. And the people—what
are they about? Where are the petitions from the
country, from every district of the metropolis ? Let the
Minister, we repeat, if it must be so, take his tax for one
year; and, meanwhile, let them see what he can
accomplish if he will be honest enough to redeem his
undertaking to put down sinecures, and economise
the public expenditure, especially as to the collection
of the revenue. 'We hope this chapter of good inten-
' tions includes a rigorous supervision of the Customs'
collection, as to product, as well as the cost of its ma-
chinery. We are not quite so credulous as to expect
much will be done in the way of reductions of pen-
sions, sinecures, or official patronage, after Parlia-
ment shall have been wheedled into giving so out-
, rageous and so blind a vote as the continuation of the
income-tax for three years to come !

Intelligence has been received from Lisbon to the
11th inst. A rather stormy discussion had taken
place in the Chamber of Deputies, on a motion rela-
tive to savings' banks, brought forward by the Go-
vernment, the object of which was to confer exclusive
privileges on a new Company, with little regard to
the interests of depositors. The finances of the
country are in a deplorable state, and, owing to a large
deficit, a fresh loan of 1,500 contos will lee required.
Their Finance Minister should take a leaf out of Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S book and try an income-tax.
Senor CARY/JAW was much better, and hopes were
entertained of his recovery.

A little excitement has been caused in Paris by
new symptoms of movement on the part of the clergy
against the Government with reference to the Edu-
cation Bill. M. DUPIN, M. TIMERS, and, indeed,
most of the leading men in France, have taken a de-
cided part against the claims of the Bishops to control
the whole system of education, and bring the youth
of the country again under the dominion of the
Church. The Court also has evinced feelings op-
posed to such claims, and, consequently, the clergy
are disposed to throw every obstacle in its way. M.
DUPIN, some years since, published a work on the
Liberty of the Gallic Church, which was allowed to
possess considerable merit. Against this work the
Cardinal Archbishop of LYONS has just issued a con-
demnation, which, however, according to the Consti-
tutionnel, had been drawn up and signed on the 21st
of November, 1844, but kept back for some special
purpose, M. DUPIN at present holds an important
legal appointment, that of Procureur-General of the
Court of Cassation, and this strange edict of the
Archbishop is, therefore, regarded as an attack upon
the Constitution, with which M. DUPIN'S work is in
accordance. A Cabinet Council was held on Satur-
day, at which the subject was taken into consideration,
and the result was that Archbishop BONALD has been
summoned to appear before it to answer for his con-
duct. "The public," says M. TUIERS' journal "look
to the conduct of Government in this affair with
interest—a Government which has created embarrass-
ments everywhere, which can neither see before it,
nor direct, nor resolve. It overwhelms itself in an
affair with the clergy, as it has done with Otaheite
and the right of search." We find no articles or news
in these papers of the least interest. Even the in-
terest in the division en the Secret Service Money
Bill seems to have evaporated, and no business what-
ever was done in the Funds, at Toa'roNl's, on Sunday.

THE SUN" EXTRAORDINARY

EXPRESSES.

TIIE BUDGET.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

is to the Extraordinary Edition of The Sun
we are indebted this morning for a most copious report
of the Premier's Speech on the financial affairs of the
country, none of the other papers we are in the habit
of receiving having the slightest allusion to it. And it
gives me great pleasure in returning thanks for the kind-
ness of the proprietors in forwarding that edition.—l am,
Sir, &c., J. M. GAFNEY, Secretary.

Chamber of Commerce, Wexford, Feb. 16.

SIR ROBERT PEEL'S FINANCIAL STATEMENT.—We
have received, through an Express Eiition of The Sun
of yesterday, a full report of Sir Robert Peel's Financial
Statement, made in the House of Commons yesterday
evening.—Dubin Evening Past of Saturday.
Yesterday (Friday) afternoon, between four and five
o'clock, Sir Robert Peel rose in the House of Commons
to make his " financial statement ;" and this (Saturday)
forenoon, we received from Mr. Horn, of Market-street,
Newcastle, an "Extraordinary Express Edition" of The
Sun newspaper. containing upwards of eight columns of
the Premier's speech !—Guteshead Observer.
We received this morning, at half-past six o'clock, a
late edition of The Sun newspaper of last night, con-
taining the whole of Sir Robert Peel's important finan-
cial statement, from which we give an ample breviate.
This is but one of the extraordinary efforts of Mr.
Young, the proprietor of The Sun, and we beg to ex-
press our obligations to that gentleman.—Yorkshire Ga
zette.
We have reef ived a second edition of The Sun, con-
taining th 3 financial statement of Sir Robert Peel, in
the House of Commons, yesterday.—Dublin Evening
Puck t.
In consequence of being favoured at an early hour
this morning with an extraordinary edition of The Sun,
we are enabled to lay before our readers the important
report of the speech of the Premier last night, in the
House of Commons, in reference to his financial mea-
sures.—Peesbn Guardian.

SOUTHAMPON, FEB. 18.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Montrose, Captain George
Wilson, arrived this morning at half- past three o'clock from
the Peninsula, bringing all the Peninsular mails. Her
dates of departure are as follow .—From Gibraltar
Feb. 8, Cadiz 9, Lisbon 12, off Oporto 13, Vigo 14. Ships
of war lying at Gibraltar—Her Majesty's ships the
Scout, the Belvidera, and the Flamer (steamer). Foreign
men-of-war as per last packet. Specie on board—Fourteen
packages. Passengers—Fifteen. The Forth, West India
mail steam-ship, Captain Chapman, left yesterday, with 20
passengers. The Tweed, from the West Indies, is expected
to-day. The Braganza, from Alexandria, is at the Mother-
bank, performing quarantine, but most likely will be re-
leased to-day or to-morrow.
MIL BENJAMIN WooD, M.P.—ln answer to in-
quiries made on Monday, it was stated that the lion. Member
continued as before, without the manifestation of any
visible change either for better or worse. Such is the havoc
made on his constitution, that he is unable to move without
assistance.
DEATH OF THE NIECE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL.—
We regret to find in a communication from our Malta cor-
respondent mention made of the death of Mrs. Bonham, the
lady of the British Consul at Tabrez, and the niece of the
Premier, whose family thus sustains a second domestic cala-
mity within a short period. —Morning Paper.
THE LATE ROBBERY AT MESSRS. ROGERS'.—ln-
formation is said to have been received hi London, from France, an-
nouncing that two men are in the custody of the French police, in
Noose possession were found four notes for a thousand pounds each,
that had been stolen from Messrs. Rogers's bank,

THE INCOME-TAX.
(FRoX A CORRESPONDENT.)
The political apathy of this age and nation is unintelli-
gible, and it is a fact of which Sir R. Peel seems to take
every advantage. He must, indeed, be subject to a bad
ambition who could, under existing circumstances, pro-
pose to prolong a tax so universally condemred as that
which filches his hardly-earnE d pittance from the pocket
of the toiling clerk or petty tradesman. Gratuitous in-
jury is generally attended with deliberate insult. The
cool assurance that asks for a renewal of the income-tax,
in the face of a surplus of three millions, was rightly re-
served for our illustrious Premier. He kno ifs, or thinks
he knows, his men. Let us hope, for once, that he is in
error. In the threatened amendment of Sir Robert
Inglis we see the grey light that heralds morning just
peering into the faces of some hitherto stanch supporters
of the Minister. Does he think to deaden the clamor of
starving men by stopping our ears with wool ? or tempt
us to taste of his sweet things, provided always " they
be used with a difference ?" We tell him these matters
are secondary, and will find their level. It is nu batter
than beating the air to talk to men with empty purses of
cheapening that which they have no money to buy. No,
Sir Robert ; first take your hands out of our pockets.
Leave us a few bro©d pieces to buy bread—to pay for
what you have to sell. Then, and not till then, shall we
be in a condition to haggle about price. How:are the
beggared farmer and the sinking tradesman bettered or
solaced by a brisker trade in glass or wool? Where, in
all your speech, is that which shall steady the price of
grain, or identify the interests of home-breeding and
home-feeding? 'llrn.e is probably no men in tha country
who knows better than the Minister where relitif is really
most needed :—certainly none ever before attained such
opportunities of doing good ; but, unhappily, political
power is just now of greater value than the reputation
of plain dealing. Divide e thapera. Such is the motto
of the Peel-Guizot clique 1 Some gobemouches are hug-
ging themselves in the reflection that the Budget is an-
other step in the right direction. It is not enough that
we are in the right direction—our time is short, and we
must take a nearer cut, aye, even across the fields.
In conclusion, let us hope that the Howie and the
country will interfere to prevent this wholesale plunder
—this waste of the poor man's all. Could the metropolis
be provoked into an expression of the feeling of count-
less thousands at this Juncture, much good might be
done. The example would be followed, and could not
fail to exert an influence within the House. Like perse-
cution for conscience sake, the income-tax " distresses
men's fortunes, hurts their reputation, ruins their fami-
lies, makes their lives painful, or puss an end to them."*
* Speclabr, No. 459.

DEATH of the EARL of EFFINGHAM.
We regret to have to announce the demise of this gallant
nobleman, who expired on Thursday last, at Brighton.
The deceased, Kenneth Alexander Howard, Earl of Effing-
ham, and Baron Howard of Effingham, in the Peerage of the
United Kingdom, was only son of Mr. enry Howard, of
Arundel, and the Hon. Maria Mackenzie, second daughter of
Kenneth Viscount Fortrose, eldest son of the Earl if Sea
forth. He was born November 29, 1767, and married May
27, 1800, Lady Charlotte Primrose, eldest daughter of the
late and sister of the present Earl of Rosebery, by whom he
leaves issue three sons and two daughters--namely, Lord
Howard, the Hon. Charles Howard, the Hon. and Rev.
William Howard, and the Ladies Charlotte and Arabella
Howard.
The Noble Earl succeeded to the Barony on the death of
his kinsman, Richard, last Earl of Effingham, as Lord Howard
of Eflkagliam, but in 1837 the Earldom was created anew in
favour of the deceased.
His Lordship, who had been in the army nearly sixty
years, had eminently distinguished himself in that branch of
the service. He entered the army as Ensign on the 21st of
April, 1786. From February, 1793, to May, 1795, his Lord-
ship served with the Guards on the Continent, and was present
at the affair of St. Amand, where he was wounded ; at the
siege and capture of Valenciennes, the action of Lincelles, and
siege of Dunkirk. During the rebellion in 1798 he served as
Major of Brigade in Ireland. He went in the same capacity
with the expedition to Holland in 1799, and was present in
all the actions of that campaign. In January, 1811, he
joined the army in the Peninsula under the Duke of Welling-
ton. He was appointed to the command of a brigade of the
Ist division, and was present with that body at the action of
Fuentes d'Onor ; was transferred with his brigade to the 2d
division, the command of which he held as senior officer from
July, 1811, to August, 1812. At the action of Arroyo de
Mohnos he particularly attracted the favourable notice of his
commanding officer (Lord Hill) by his determined gallantry.
Ile commanded on that occasion the right column, princi-
pally composed of infantry from the 50th, 71st, and 92d
Regiments, and a company of the 60th. In his dispatch to
the Duke (then Viscount) of Wellington, Lord Hill recom-
mends to his notice the bravery of the then Major-General
Howard in the highest terms. In November, 1812, he was
appointed to the command of the Ist Brigade of Guards in
the first division ; and in June in the following year he suc-
ceeded to the entire command of that division of the army
which he maintained to the end of the war, in 1814. Ile
was at the battle of Vittoria, the attack on Tolosa, at the
passage of the Bidassoa, and at Rivelle. He also rendered
great service at the Nive, and subsequently at Adour. The
Noble Earl was at the investment of Bayonne, and repulse
of the sortie, besides various affairs of minor importance. For
his services at Vittoria and the Nive he received a medal and
one clasp.
The Noble Earl was for some years Colonel of the 70th
Foot, but on a vacancy occuring in the 3d (Buffs) in January,
1832, his Lordship was appointed to that regiment, which he
has held ever since. His commissions dated as follows :
Ensign, April 21, 1786 ; Captain, April 25, 1793 ; Lieu-
tenant -Colonel, Decembr 30, 1797 ; Colonel, January 1,
1805 ; Major-General, July 25, 1810 ; Lieutenant-General
August 12, 1819 ; and General, January 10, 1837. The de-
ceased Earl was a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the
Bath, and a Knight Commander of the Tower and Sword of
Portugal.
The title now devolves on Lord Howard, the Earl's eldest
son, above-mentioned. The present Earl was born the
23d of August 1806, and married the 18th of August, 1832,
Miss Eliza Drummond, only daughter of General Sir Gordon
Drummond, G.C.8., by whom he has a youthful family, his
eldest son, now Lord Howard, having been born in Fe-
bruary, 1837. His Lordship, during the Parliaments of 1830
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and Lady Dalaieny, and several personages of distinction,
are
of the 3d Regiment, and a Riband of the
first class of the Order of the vacant Bath, become
Lordship's dissolution.
The late Earl was in politics a Whig, but he has at no
period of his life taken any active part in political affairs.

ANNOYANCE JURIES (WESTMINSTER).-On the mo-
tion of Captain lions, a return has been laid before the House
of Commons, of the amounts of the amerciaments levied by
hate nothing a 1844 ,
October
each The
year, a im o annoyance
juriesand
each annoyance jury of the city of Westminster, during
the yearsare
slwsosworn4l, 1842,
Apa d 1843,r and,
each Jury acts for six months; therefore the return shows the
nntlts. s
by the first jury for only four
to do with the levying the amer-
ciaments. From January to April, 1841, the amerciaments imposed
months. The Tf e
juries
h
ve
amounted to 441. 10s. ; one amerclament of 1/. was mitigated to 10e.
From May to October the amerciaments were 62/. 17s. 6d. ; four
amerciaments
amerciaments to 4/. were mitigated to 1/. 2s. Gd. From November
to April, 1842, the amerciaments were 56/. Is. ed ; one amerciament
of tos. was mitigated to ss. From May to
October, 81/. 2s. 6d. ;
three amerciaments to 2/. 15s. were remitted. From October to
April, 1843, 621. 10s. ; four amerciaments to H. 10s. were remitted,
and one to 10s. remitted to ss. From April to October, 561. Bs. ; two
amerciaments to 4/. mitigated to 2/ •and . , from October to April,
1844, 1771. 11s. 6d. ; three antereiaments to 41. mitigated to 1/. 155.,
and ono to 10s. remitted. The result shows that the inhabitants of
Westminster were fined in the years mentioned 5411. Is. for short
weights and measures.
SUPPOSED MURDER AT RENDLESHAM -HORRIBLE
AFFAIR.-Intbrmation has just reached us, from what we have
every - reason to believe to be
- authentic sources, that a fright-
ful murder was committed late on Saturday night last, on
the estate of Lord Itendlesham, in Suffolk. Report states
that his gamekeeper, who lives close to the Hall, re-
turned to his home late on the above-named night, in a state of
intoxication, and after a few minutes' time desired to leave again.
His wife remonstrated against thls, and shut the door to prevent his
getting out; a quarrel then ensued, and the maddened gamekeeper
at length snatched his gull, levelled it at his wife, and, report says,
blew her head to atoms ! He was on Sunday committed to the Bride-
well, at Woodbridge. lie declares thak he did not intentionally
murder her, but, in the struggle, the gun went off by accident. He
has a family of four children. Such are all the particulars we feel
justified in giving to the public,-we fear they are too correct.
Rumour is busy, but we decline trusting too much to it, in all affair
' of so soul-harrowing anl tragic a character.-Ipswich Express.
THE REPEAL OF THE WINDOW DUTIES.-Monday
might, at seven o'clock, a numerous meeting of the inhabitants of St.
Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield, was held in the vestry-room of
the ancient church, for the purpose of taking into consideration the
propriety of petitioning the Legislature against the window duties
Mr. Ritchie, jun., ehurehwarden, having taken the chair, it was re-
solved that a petition should be entrusted to Mr. Pattison, who, with
the other City Members was requested to vote in favour of its prayer:
The vestry then broke ty.
THE RECENT GAMBLING TRANSACTIONS.-The
prisoners in this affair, the trial of which we have reported, were
brought up for judgment on Friday. The Court declared that the
facts of the indictment were proved, but that as the parties had played
sur parole, and money did not pass so as to constitute the offence of
swindling, provided for by Art. 403 of the Code, no conviction could
take place. The persons in custody-viz., Walker, Frazer, Ogilvie,
Lambert, Peyronnet, and Emma Caye, were therefore acquitted.
Baring, as we have already stated, was not in custody. In winding
up its judgment, the Court says, " Thus, the facts above stated do not
come within the application of any penal law ; but it was right to
prove them, not only in the interest of public morals, but in order
that there might be no doubt as to the conduct of the complainants,
who were right in refusing to submit to the consequences of such
frauds." On judgment being pronounced, Walker fell down in a fit
of convulsions, and was with the greatest difficulty held by his fellow-
prisoners,
and the municipal guards in attendance upon them. He
was thus carried out of Court, and, on medical assistance being
given him, was in a short time restored to his senses.-Galignani.
SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY .-A very excellent
shooting-match at penny pieces (thrown into the air by a person
specially appointed), took place on Monday last, at Tewkesbury.
The match was for 5!. a side, between two Tewkesburians, and two
residents of Cheltenham, each individual having twenty-five shots,
Mr. Davison and Mr. Davy shot for Tewkesbury, and Messrs. Gower
and Combes were the representatives of Cheltenham. Mr. Davison
hit his twenty-five pieces admirably, and Mr. Davy was alike success-
ful, except in his twenty-third sliot, which, being thrown awkwardly
up, prevented a discharge of his gun unless by risking consider-
able danger, whereby lie lost one out of his twenty-five. The
Cheltenham cracks then followed ; both succeeded in hitting all their
pieces, and consequently were awarded the 5/. by their opponents,
thus beating, the Tewkesburians by one shot only, and the four sports-
men hitting ninety-nine pieces out of a hundred. Atter this match,
several sweepstakes were contended for at pigeons ; some good shooting
was displayed, few birds were allowed to escape severalgentlemen
subsequently dined at Mr. Basil's, the Sun Inn, Tewkesbury.-
Worcester Journal.
IPSWICH.-THE GISLEII AM MURDER.-Mr.Francis,
of Beceles, the attorney for William Howell, ris•lio was executed at
Ipswich on the 23th al
e, has published a series of documents, to show
the worthlessness of the evidence of Harriet Botwright, the princi
witness (after the murdered Inapal
n himself) against the prisoner.-
Notfolk Netts.
FIVE SUDDEN DEATHS. --On Monday the following
inquests on the bodies of persons who had died suddenly were held in
the western division of MiddleseX :-By Mr. WakicY, M.P., at half-
Past nine o'clock, at No. 17, Gate street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on the
body of Mr. Day, the well-knom
•n lithographer. The deceased gen-
tleman enjoyed hie usual good health all last week ; but on Friday,
after an interview with some gentlemen on business, he expired sud-
denly, without any apparent cause. By Mr. G. I. Mills, at the Lord
Wellington, Sussex-street, Gower-street, on the body of Samuel Dyer,
a bricklayer. The deceased always en edjoy good health, and on
Friday forenoon he went to examine a room in the above street,
into which water had penetrated from the roof, in consequence of
the melting of the snow, and whilst telling the occupier of the
suddenly on the floor and
room to fear nothing, he dropped
died. The third inquest was held at the Union, Essex-street,
S omers-
to wit, on the body of Mr. Charles Bagnall Fleetwood, aged eighty-
six. Deceased resided at No. 12, in the above street, and was an
operative chemist. He was found dead in his bed on Friday morning
la t, to which the cold weather had confined him with cough and
asthma for two or three days. Tile fourth inquest was held at the
Cricketers, Wellington-street, Camden-town, on the body of a poor
woman, named Elizabeth Crisp, aged forty-three. She died suddenly
on Thursday last. The fifth inquiry took place at the Two Brewers,
Aylesbury-street, Cierkenwell, on the body of Frederick Erriek Bar:
ham, aged seven weeitq. The child W 35
afine he
aalthy on, and the
Mother had t4cn it oqt On thursdaY to 100 k for wet um's situa-
tion. She brought it home at four o'clock, and thinking It slept she
placed it In bed. Soon afterwards the grondmother wishing to feed
it, went to the bed and found the infant quite dead. Verdict in each
case, " Natural death,"

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 17.

The House sat to-day at eleven o'clock, for the purpose of
hearing writs of error. The Peers present were the Lord
Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and Lord Campbell. The fol-
lowing Judges were also in attendance :—The Lord Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice
Maule, Mr. Baron Rolfe, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Mr. Justice
Cresawell, Mr. Justice Patteson, and Mr. Baron Platt. The
Duke of Wellington was also in attendance during the whole
morning.
TLIONIPSON V. HER SLAJESTY'S ADVOCATE-GENERAL.

This case came before their Lordships upon a writ of error
from the Court of Exchequer in Scotland, against the judg-
ment of that Court, whereby the plaintiff in error was ordered
to pay legacy duty to the extent of I,BOOL on legacies be-
queathed by the will of a gentleman named Grant, of De-
merara. It appeared that the testator, Mr Grant, was born
in Scotland, that he afterwards became domiciled in Deme-
rara, where he made his will, and died in April, 1837. At
the time of his death he had a debt owing to him
in Scotland arising from money which he had acquired while
domiciled in Demerara, and which he had had transmitted to
Scotland for safe custody. By the law in Demarara no duty was
payable on legacies, and it was contended on the part of the
plaintiff in error that, as the testator died domiciled in
Demerara, his personal estate was not chargeable with legacy
or residue duty ; because, the liability of personal estate to
legacy duty was governed by the law of the
testator's domicile at the time of his death. On
the part of the defendant in error, it was contended that the
decision of the Court below was correct, inasmuch as by the
true construction of the statutes by which legacy-duty was
payable upon property of deceased persons, and, by the true
construction of the will of the testator' the sum bequeathed
was liable to the duties chargeable by the Several Acts of
Parliament on the subject.
Mr. Kelly and Mr. Anderson were counsel for the plain-
tiff in error, and the Solicitor-General and Mr. Crompton
appeared for the Crown.
The arguments occupied the whole of the day.
FEBRUARY 18.

The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present
were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougkam, and Lord Camp-
bell. The judges were also in attendance.

THOMPSON v. THE LORD-ADVOCATE OF SCOTLAND.

The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed to-
day, and occupied the whole morning.

VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Feb. 17.
The Vice-Chancellor of England took demurrers and causes
to-day, none of which had any points of interest to the
general reader.

LATEST PRICES OF SHARES

IN RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND
OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK.
From the Official List,
PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING.
-

LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18.

SLAILIWAYS.

Dividend Amount I
Name of Company. per of Pahl. Price.
Annum. S 1 are.
£ 9. d. ' £ s. d. •
Aberdeen...........,-. - 2 0 0 ; 2%
Birmingham k Gloster 31. ss. persh. 100 0 0 100 0 0 , 135
Ditto, New, iss.7i dis. 18s. 25 0 0 17 10 0 I 33
Brighton,Lews,& Bast. - 50 0 0 5 0 0 7%
Bristol and Exeter •• • • 21.165. per sh. 100 0 0 70 0 0 84
Ditto and Gloucester - 50 0 0 30 0 0 60
Caledonian •..••..••• - 50 0 0 5 0 0I 7%
Cambridge and Lincoln - - 25 0 0 110 0 3%
Chatham & Prtsmouth - 20 0 0 1 0 0
Chester and Holyhead - 50 0 0 5 0 0 7%
Chichester & Brighton - - 5 0 0 54
Chun iet Valley .••• • • • - 20 0 0 2 0 0 814
Cornwall .. ••••• • • • - . - - 3 0 0 ; 1,4
1
Direct Northern ••• • • • - 50 0 0 210 0 2%
Direct Norwich .. •• • • - 21 0 0 1 0 0 1 14
Dias, Itecele.s, & Ynnth - 25 0 0 110 0 1%
Dublin & Belfast June. - 50 0 0 210 0 , 5%
Ditto aud Gala-ay • • - - 210 0 I 31%'
Eastern Counties .•• • • 4s. per sh. 25 0 0 25 0 0 1 18
Do., Perpetual, N.,.1 5/. per ct. 613 4 313 4 ; 11§ p.
Ditto, ditto, No. 2. •• ' - - 1013 4 14 pm.
Eastern Union ••.• . • • - 50 0 0 10 0 0 , 19
kall..burgh & Glasgow 21. `t. p. sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 ; 64
Ditto, Quarter Shares 119. 3d. p. sh. 12 10 0 12 10 0 161
By ano Bedford .•. • • - 25 0 0 1 0 0 1%
Grand Connection • • - 80 0 0 210 0
Grand Junction .. •• • • 10/. per ct. 100 0 0 100 0 0 2243
Ditto, Half Shares • • 101. per ct. /0 0 0 150 0 0 112 4
Ditto, Quarter Shares 101. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0
0 LSouthern &Western - 50 0 0 5 0 0 1 12
Great North of England Si. Is. 100 0 0 :100 00 1 183
Ditto, New. •••• • • • • - 40 0 0 5 0 0, 39
Great Western .••• • • • 71. percent. leo 0 0 80 0 0 ; 176
Ditto, Half Shares • • 71. percent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 99
Ditto, ........71.percent.rcent. 20 0 0 20 0 0 ' 39
Guilford Junction. •• • • - 50 0 0 35 0 0
Harwich .... ••.•• • • • • - 20 0 0 1 0 0 2
Hull and Selby .••• • • • 51. ss. prct. 10 0 0 50 0 0 75
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 17%
Kendal & Windermere - 25 0 0 1 10 0
Lancaster and Carlisle - 50 0 0 15 0 0 29%
Leeds and Bradford-. - 50 0 0 5 0 0 21%
Liverpool & Manchestr 101. per ct. 100 0 0 100 0 0
Ditto, half StVirCl. • 101. per et. 50 0 0 50 0 0
Ditto, Qbarte.' Shares 10/. per et. 25 0 0 25 0 0
London & Birmingham 10/. per et. - Stock. 234
Ditto, New Thirds.. 10/. per ct. 32 0 0 2 0 0 43
Ditto, New 14 Shares 101. per cc. 25 0 0 2 0 0 . 30
London and Blackwall - 16 13 4 -7%
London and Brighton.. U. Os. per sh. 50 0 0 50 0 0 58
Ditto, Loan Notes.. 51. percent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13%
London and Greenwich - 12 15 4 - 10%
Ditto, Pref. or Priv- 5/. per cent. 18 i 7 2 - 241%
London and S. Western Si. ss. per sh. 41 6 10 - 80
Do., New Cons. Bths - 40 0 0 6 0 0 25%
Ditto, New . . .. - 50 0 0 210 0 12%
•.ondon and Croydon • • 10s. persh. 13 15 9 - 18%
Ditto, Guarntd. sp. c. - 9 0 0 4 0 0 4%
London and York. •• • • - 50 0 0 210 0 64
Lynn and Ely ••• • • • - 25 0 0 210 0 5%
Manchester and Leeds 4/.75, 6d. p. s. 100 0 0 70 0 0 138
Ditto, Half Shares.. 11.175.6d.p.5. 50 0 0 30 0 0 6014
Ditto, Quarter Shares 4s. 25 0 0 2 0 0 14%
Ditto, Sixteenths .• • - 65 0 1 5 0 54
Manchestr & Birraing. 2/. per share 40 0 0 40 0 641¢
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 10 0 0 • 2 0 0 10%
Midland .• • ........ • • 4/. 4s. per sh. - Stock. 127
Ditto, Fifths .••• • • • - - 2 0 0 31,!
Ditto, Bil-rn. & Derby 2/.135. persh, - Stock. 95
Newcastle & Berwick - 25 0 0 110 0 15%
New cstic & Darl. June. 6s. 25 0 0 24 0 0 49
North British •••• • • • • - - 710 0 131%'
Northern and Eastern . 21. Is. 10 0 0 45 0 0 61%
Ditto, Scrip, iss. 51. d. 15s. 50 0 0 25 0 0 46
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 12 10 0 12 10 0 16%
North Kent ••••• • • • • • - - 2 15 0 3
Norwich and Brandon. - 20 0 0 10 0 0 164
Ditto, New - 10 0 0 1 0 0 31L
Portsmouth Direct .. - 50 0 0 2 10 0 2
Preston and Wyre - 50 0 0 50 0 0
Richmnd &W. E June - 20 0 0 1 0 0 314
Rugby - - 1 0 3,%
Ditto, 2d Pref., 1841 --, 25 0 0 25 0 0
Sheffield and Lincoln - 25 0 0 1 5 0 1%
Sheffield & Manchestr 51. per cent. ,100 0 0 82 10 0
Ditto, Quarter Shares - 25 0 0 8 0 0 13
Shrws.,Wolv.,Dud.,l3l! 50 0 0 210 0 5%
-
• touth Devon ... - 50 0 0 10 0 0 16%
South-Eastern & Dovr H. ls. 33 2 4 - 41%
Ditto, New iss. 181. dis - 50 0 0 8 0 0 174
South Wales _ - 2 10 0 54
Steveuson's Prtsmouth - - 2 10 0 21¢
ltutmes and Medway - 19 5 8 - 10%
Trent Valley .... - 20 0 0 2 0 0 19
Yarmouth & Norwich - 20 0 0 20 0 0 27%
Ditto, New..... - 20 0 0 8 0 0 16%
York & North Midland 107. per ct. 50 0 0 50 0 0 108
Ditto, Half Shares lOl. per ct. 25 0 0 25 0 0 521%
1)o., Scarbro' Branch - - 20 0 0 44
Ditto, Selby Scrip - - 20 0 0 691
Ditto, Extension - 25 0 0 1 5 0 l 2
lionlog,tie and Amiens - 20 0 0 2 0 0 514
Gt. Northern of France - 20 0 0 4 0 0 51i
Orleans and Vierzou • . - 20 0 0 2 0 0 125. i
Orleans & Bourdeaux - 20 0 0 2 0 0 6%
• Paris and Lyons.. • - 120 0 0 2 0 0 3
Paris and Strasbourg - I 20 0 0 2 0 0 2
Paris. and Orleans - i 20 0 0 20 0 0 44. A
Paris and Rouen
11 men and llavre - 20 0 0 12 0 0 30N

ZOINT—STOCK BANKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid, Price
Annum. Share.
--
£ s. d. s. d.
Australasia
Britsh North American 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 45
Commercial of London W. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 21
Colonial . • •.............Si. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0
Lomb' and Westminstr Si. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 27%
London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14U
Metropolitan — 25 0 0 710 .0
Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 44%
Ditto, New.• •••• • • . 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0
National of Ireland .. Si. per cent. 50 0 0 17 10 0 104
Nat. Provncial of En. Si. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 37%
Ditto, New.
Si. per cent. 20 0. 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia.... 25 0 0 25 0 0 27
Union of L0nd0n..... Si. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 1 12%

INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
X s. d. £ s. d.
Albion ••••- • • ..
Alliance Brit. and For 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 19%
Ditto Marine.. •• •
Atlas . 13s. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16%
British Commercial
Cleriel,Med. & Gen. Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6%
County .. . • .....
1 9s• and 40 0 0 50 0 10
61.55. bs.
Eagle •• • ... . ..... •• • • 68. 50 0 0 50 0 5%
Economic Life •
t& 30s.bs.
Eng. & Scot. Law Life 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2%
European Life .....
Freemasons' . ..... • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe ••••.••• • . • • • • • • 61. per cent. Stock. - 142
Guardian .••••• • • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 50 %
Imperial Fire -••• • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 195
Imperial Life.. •••• • • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 16
Indemnity Marine.. • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 30
Law Life . .....
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 5%
London Fire ••••• • • • . 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 16
Loudon Ship
Marine .
Med. Invlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3
National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2%
National Life --•• . • • 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 9%
Palladium Life • ..... • . 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 2
Phcenix. 3/. p. ct. & be. - -
Protector Life.. -•• • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0
Provident Life..
Rock Life..
Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - 192%
Sun Fire ......... - -
Ditto Life 11. 6s. - -
Unlversal Life

Name of Company.

DOCKS.

Dividend Amount i
of Paid. Price,
rt APneurin. Share.

Commercial •• •• ••.••
East and West India...
East Country • • .• • ••.
London • • • • • • • • .• • • •
St. Katharine .• •- •• • .
Southampton •• ......

X s. d.
31. per cent. Stock.
,53.4 L. pr cent. I Stock.
11. per sh. 100 0 0
4%Z. pr cent.' Stock.
5 per cent. I Stock.
41. per cent. i 50 0 0

:X a. d

50 0 0

117%

.-~-'

•
MARK LT NE 'k*' YES TERD-4,:i''
ItIZTS.
Smininum.—Coarse MeadowARAIM
Hay, 3/10s to 41155; °-e.
ful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5/ 4s; fine Upland ditto, 5! 55 tc 5/ 89;
Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 1/ 163 to 1/ 17,'
Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2? per load. A fair average sail'
and a steady demand. , 124;
CITAMERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to
usvful ditto, 4713- to 5/4s ; tint- ipland ditto. 5. 5s to 100
Clover flay, 4/ lOs to 5/ ISS ; Oat Straw, 1/16s to 1118'',i
Wheat Straw, 11 IgB to 2/ per load. Supply modera
trade somewhat brisk.
WHITECIIAPEL.-Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 103 to 4114°,01
useful ditto, 41 15s to 5/ 3s ; tine Upland ditto, 51 'Pa
5/ 8s; Clover Hay, 47 lOs to 61; Oat Straw, it 165 to 1/10r.
,'I
Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ per load: Trade througlio-1,
steady at late rates.

0 .01.01571 .
SuGAn.—The market for British Plantation has been ve
of
i,
firm, but very little business was done, the attention of
trade being chiefly occupied with the large quanti„t3hu
'
Bengalt
and Mauritius offered by auction. OnlY "-°her
100 hhds have been sold, for however, rather
high prices were again obtained, establishing el' "00
vance of 2s. per cwt from the lowest period,
all descriptions. The public sales have consistees
chiefly of 8,247 bags, 723 casks Mauritius, and 5,::'8(lbal:
Bengal, the whole of which found buyers, and went oulreei
much spirit at fully previous prices, and in some inst%ri.
rather dearer, more particularly for the better sorts of 3la for
this and white Betwal. The former brought 44s to 535)4
low to fine brown, 53s to 63s 6d for low to fine
yellow; 6:10
to good white Bengal 59s 6d to 645, and mid to fifee,ntely
yellow ditto 53s to 55s 6d. The only transaction Prcr-os
worth reporting consists of about 2,300 b0V5,6t1,
yellow Havannali, which have been sold (t'm-export) at
being fully the previous value. The quantity of ncindis
west for
Plantation landed last week at the East and
Docks was 241 hhtls 19 tierces, and there were takelltocit
home consumption 716 hhds 65 tierces 87 barrels. Thelb,,
in the same places is 6,516 hhds 582 tierces 1,573 barre-
RITAI.—The quantity landed last week at the Ea takes
West India Docks is 145 puns 116 hhds. There were te447
for home consumption 163 puns 33 hhds, and e51,.,,,,00
puns 30 hhds. The stock in the same places is WO"'
2,750 hhds. 111701
SPICES.-486 chests Cassia Lignea at auction sold A 5
former rates, viz., 53s to 62s for ord to good quality A 1100
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 39s 6d per cwt on the spot, an
42s per cwt. tlOl
TEA.—The market has been quiet. Public sales are
in progress.

(From the London New Price Current of Feb. ISfot
SUGAR.-To-day, in consequence of the high r_..iat'eted'
West India Sugar, there was very little business tror, tbe
and the quantity sold did not exceed 20 hhds and 0700
rates were 2s above those of Friday. Brown 3,fainto6•o'
worth 55s to 565, low yellow 57s to 595, middling 00
good and fine 65s to 69s per cwt. FeOpo
REFINED.-To-day the home trade purchase cse
goods with caution; for brown Lumps 70s to 715 10010
and 73s per cwt for standard Lumps. In bondeded Ole
Sugar there was very little done, and 31s 3d to 3D Et
value for forward delivery. hlic salr•
MAURITIUS.-This afternoon there was no P,11,-„v Pr
but a large parcel of 10,000 bags is declared for Fri'''.
vately several parcels were sold at 6d to is advance., Dori
EAST INDIA.-This afternoon all descriptions elatilts.s4
Sugar met with much attention, and 3,195 bags *u.e.aof
auction were all sold at an advance on former Tool'
for white, and 2s 6d to 3s per cwt for brown an to 11
fine white fetched 67s to 67s 6d, good 6°_,lS '6,V 0
middling 64s to 64s 6d, damp and washed alo 64,
to 675, good sound yellow Mauritius kin"' Pio
to 625, middling 58s, greyish yellow 554 °Of:a
low 52s Gd to 54s 6d, damp and washed 52s to 575,„ One
59s to 59s Gd, low damp brown 47s to 48s, washe:ratlP-
-45s 6d, very low sound 43s per cwt. There was •
business done privately. 11)
, ea 10,4
MOLASSES-This afternoon there was a 011.5';d OP"1#
transacted in West India Molasses, and the rates Pal
so
per cwt above those of last week. IO
FOREIGN.-To-day there was more disposition hip
Foreign Sugar, and holders manifested firmness• rt;l.litf
cargo of new Bahia was sold for a near Pee
.404
at 24s 9d, and brown at 19s per cwt, tbdispdrop
was good. 2,200 bests of fine yellow kind were dl
for exportation at 22s Gd per cwt. At public sale all 6110
200 bags of Pernambuco were offered, and were -
at 20s to 21s, for good yellow 18s to 19s, for brown,,eciifor
to 19s for damp and washed, being 6d to is above deal
so
-This afternoon there was a good is pero
Mocha, 550 bales at auction were all sold at 6d te os too,
advance, middling greenish clean garbled fetched osto
good middling bold 64s 6d to 655, middling orown ailbf°l4o
ord brown 51s, ragged 38s to 48s, hold triage
38s 6,1 to 39s Gd, and black 19s. Of Costa BI ord
were all taken in, bulked tine ordinary at 625, g°°vecer,lo4l
foxev 443 to 48s, ordinary 38s; the damaged, b,-;i• So9,;ei
at 36's Gd to 465, and inferior 17s 6d to 28s 6d. 'oss•vaiti
43 barrels of Rio, a very small part only sold at .01`ifici
st
and fetched 55s for middling dark coloury Jarasid,
casks. The remainder was taken in at 31s for E,'l9e ' 03
31s 6d fur tine ord rather coloury. polo
TEA.-To-day the market exhibited a languid; rid ill
for Congou, and prices are drooping, 101 d te .Ijold'at
value of common and good common cash. tbered,
Pouchong are now inclined to sell, but for 1131°,„11, re 014
better demand. At public sale 6,775 packages ''.o4, :fir
1,800 of which sold, 1,000 packages were
went Id per lb under former rates, the remainder cum 40
Hyson, which fetched Id to 2d per lb aovance. oft
COCOA.-This afternoon at public sale 155 110 DP°
Cocoa N% ere sold at 37s 6d to 38s 6d per cwt fur sbgf
Red. of °100,a14
SPICES.-This afternoon at public sale 552 bags tbefi,p,,,
Pepper were only partly sold ; good fair brown rap, ly
at 3Ad, grey 3d, and sea damaged 2id to 2id Per lori
of long fetched 17s 6d per cwt for fair sound. ward t'o,l
Poacb
Run, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-For Lere'sncl°l,A
Rum prices are still drooping; 2s to 2s Id prnits.. or
for 2 to 3 per cent overproof of very common rinsiito::espeat.
of Calcutta upon lower terms, 130 hhds at is lOg catof,
proof with certificate. Demerara Id per gall°
For good and fine Jamaica prices are still kept
,4P9't0,41
per cent overproof 3s 5d to 3s 10d, better qualitY„
fine 4s 9d to 5s 6d, and high flavoured sorts 6s '„"
ba
lon. In the Brandy market there has bee •n '1;01
business done, and lower rates are af::xj, its' ;I
Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, billads4s6;
4s 11d; 1839, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d; 1840, -05. sir
puns 4s 8d; 1841, hhds 4s 9d, puns 4s 7d; 184% 0 956 i
puns 4s 4d; 1843, hhds 4s 4d, puns 4s 2d, ecJallic't 'cito°l:l
2s 10d, mid to good mid 3s to 4s, and Bordeauis are.
2s 9d 'per gallon. Geneva dull of sale, and Vic too
ing; Is 9d export sorts; fine for home consul:' 0i „
to 3s. For English Corn Spirits the market iS OWel3
10;1
lOs 2d per gallon, cash. t,
fe •
RICE.-An increased desire has been ma nl St
OIL e
chase Bengal at Ils to lls 6d for mid and gus'9odo bsb:l,o4
12s per cwt for superior at auction 60a
briskly, good bold clean white at 12s Wiised faf_r.lo
damaged lOs to 128, 108 pckts oft a,,P,41,
good broken, 9s Gd for small, and 8s togs Pe' tes;"aat
damaged. Madras has been fetching stiffer rtlivaeti Wife
9s are the prices given for yellow. Java
and full rates are offered ; white is worth 105 u
yellow 9s to lOs per cwt. Cleaned Rice is Wan 1356"
rule firm, Carolina at 23s to 28s, and Patna
to ro
there is not a large quantity being made- 'feted 05t1
INDIGO.-An increased desire has been inaribeentqa t°oll
chase Madras Indigo, and large parcels have de of -spviere
advance on the rates of the last quarterly s-iceS, sale goad.
per lb. Bengal has fully supported former Prolic bat
is still wanted, and 50 serous of G,.atomala at P rtes,s
all sold at 2s lld to 4s 6d per Ib, for ord ee
j6r °
to middling sobres went a little cheaper
• Vie Os
OILS.--.ln Linseed Oil extensive purchases tatA ro
and an advance taken place, sales on the sPga act a3O de
„
25s Gd and for forward delivery at 25s 9d to I.i pt
demand for Rape Oil, 37s to 37s 6d paid for Pocille
36s 6d for brown. Olive has been in4VIAt tele(
ruand-Gallipoli at 43/, Spanish 41/ IN 'it rs 5005
and Sicily 401 to 411 per tun. Pair° 1 to- 2"-01,10
and higher rates are given, fine fetching 264%.00floiefocaa to
owl by private treaty ;at public sale 53 ~.4,100 110
20s to 225, the quality very ordinary. VfjneY ftY
Oil 27s 6d to 28s Gd, but 228 casks froni 00191: je'
sale were only partly sold at 258 to "265. ~Ties l• Or
Oil there has been very little don,_,,Cod is 20 is 10 too
Seal 311 lOs to 32/, Southern 9:',/ to 31/. 5, P.eri SOZ tie
mand, fine British at 84/ te, 86/, and Amenc.`:, in p
• TALLOW.-For Russian a small redocou ,pot eft%
occasioned the demand to be good on the,..,
~ere„er,
and soap making purposes. P.Y. Candle t, ,59s beta /3
,eut'
39s 3d to 39s 9u, and inferior sorts at 37s t; for 594 de
For forward delivery few buyers are to be mad s,th
November, and December next 39s suffere,g 6,‘,4er
per cwt accepted. Town Tallow haste of
cline of is to Is 6d; but the low ra„, ia•rge
40s per cwt induced the trade to purcbrmon"o.Sjolp
kinds of Tallow are rather cheaper, still tn,eto 510
at auction 63 pkgs of Cape fetched 40s 6°.s of -,375 toiere
' of South American 3,1 to 373
ofd; 93 cro:,,Logh „o.ar
\Vales 37s to 40s `,cl ;50 cagks St. Petoref,,,t
90; but •F
taken. at 39s 3d to 40s per cwt.
casks of 13elgium Town ill L'

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RAILWAYS MEETINGS.— CAUTION• , totje-o,
tot
to•
s.ioners of Stamps and Taxes have issued the follo'XinPria l's:g ~r
Mg proxies useal at railway meeting,s :—" Sta.3le aes, fl ,ii4,i115
10,Commission - f Stlinps r.d -o',fty r t tve
. ers o • • , r • „re ,0 ,
companies
to enable persons to vote at meeti-igg o' ived P'iti i' itr,
it right
are written, in some instances, on unstal_ito so , or 0
right to give public notice of the law with regarutor,jett`6,l. cot
meats. By the Act 7 Vic., c. 21, the duty on all 015't, 29, 0.000
np :eine :it:7' or nominating a proxy is reduced iron 31)'...ae1l I°sol 09,1!
icnompaigly
the fith section of that Act it is provided, that tiat,'
,„a ,er 4,t. lit,ettr,
shall authorise the proxy to veto upon anY -- o'f O' sf." lir
oorf
sotchieetyl:rtohlaoriteitmoresof ohrolaSinligin,•velrelr(oleorfs
olzvel,
0p..„05,1,;
such instrument, or at any addourtaneyt uervilSe t, t't ii
and that no such instrument shall be further or
..rijoel eis of
anything in such instrument, or in any Act of !sael3l';oo,', of
contrary notwitstandin,g By the 7th secticx lt 1' 0 nna "-0111:D
shall not be lawful for the Commissioners of St3l-",er, t° 01 t4),111/
any of their officers, under any pretence what:iNv
raper_nti s or
mark, after the signing thereof by any person, 3r per o°oo
a proxy shall be written or printed • and that pia, 0 r 511300110,0
make or sign any such instrument nOt dub' stalwty, or_reo pei,e,
attempt to vote, or act as proxy under the aut
_very su
or
_.,,„
authority of such instrument not duly stainped:
cote !oft , et rdti
shall forfeit or pay the sum of SW. ; and every, autliorlt.,di P.
or other act. done in pur instrument, or under .
n:bsoltitel,f 3 06
tended authority of, such shall 1.9%--„oaril: „ „J
void to all intents and purposes.—By order of ti , 0050,9 lc,
THE LAMMt)NBY A.II.IIWEIt•--Jarie sarali •43fliaelce
wretched woman who murdered her dalt;it!,ern'a her c,,°1010,1
seven years, by burning her to death, lir,:v.inf,`.7_:, and lall!',„ it, tt
in Carlisle gaol been deprived of spirituous thin.3l7.-„resent ;,, or
spirits have become much depressed, and she is N.,:t.iided to ~-
disconsolate state. It appears that the defence 3" ef,
John Dugdale, Esq.,
on her trial is, that she was non comps meo
cotton
the crittils 15,510
Manchester, has lately become the pUrcha.ser
the
te
esta— ,•: in per
near Yarm, Yorkshire. Tile price given forn . ~,0 a
rxa
r t
..oroe
comprising the baronial manor of Crathorne %_,,,. =oht.Tii,
rx
fence. The property had been in the posse'sl 33
milt' for a very long period. in
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the 11th inst. at Bishopstok the lacif °1 t 5
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Walter, Bombay Cavalry. of a daughter
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On the 12th inst• i Windsor-terrace, Mrs. —ll or
of a daughter. " :ha d "
On the 14th inst., at Wangacorth, grs. IV- r ,0
Winstanley, of a son , of Ar'rje
On the 14th met., ;t Brio'xewater, Mrs. J. . -,,-, 5 J. •-
tzo
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51-411.1TIEV, j. i05t.•,.1'1.;10,
At Kintradwell, Sutherlandshire, on the it i. NI ‘ 01
Rev. D. IWKellar, of Clyne, Ellerington Blejoilti.,strapt, f°l4
E.g. (1? the Old Kent- ClObers 01°11
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London : Printed and P'Ablistitod bY-11)0flice :liti °
No. 112,
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Printo. :, The Sal' ~„ 0;0i
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