The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-23 00:00:00

THE StTN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1842.

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AND
VttbUt =l3l,lotion.

" Who runs may read."

Tll4
?eslo, reach journals teem with speculations as to the
%, of the elections. No other question so much en-
attention of the No
of the Government.th
Aatsonal states that by the report which precedes
tie.'„riew AraeHean tariff, it appears that the represents-
ao4•4 mad by the French Minister at Washington, an-
her rice. by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Cham-
t4 of Deputies, has not had the slightest effect upon
-,Aanerican Government. "In a word," says the
Ii al, " the new tariff imposes an increased duty of
• P,er cent, upon woollen; and from 10 to 40 per cent.
stik gocds. The export 'of French merchandise,
heeded to brisk at this season, is completely sus-
their ; several woollen manufacturers have dismissed
warkeeen
and a rurnber of weavers, formerly ern-
tltfor the American market are completely idle for
of work "
The
-"rTte). Francais announces the arrival in Bel-
}ln' e of tiai British Consul-General in Servia, Mr. FOll-,
pes IVIIO 1114 already remitted his credentials to
tooce Alichael. French and English travellers are be-
-441.(;k7 taimerous in the principality. The British Con-
thp,',,erl purposes visiting the interior of the country
`Y its'resources and advantages.
•pr° letter from Madrid of the 14th instant says :—" A
fleet for the establishment of a bank on a large scale
10,04 forivard state of realization. There are to be
►O shares of 500 dollars each, and no loans to Go-
60a-rius ant are to be effected. -Discount of bill;, loans on
Govern °r Mortgage, and the recoveries of moneys due to
,qticalzlent will be the exclusive business : 25 per cent.
Ilurninal capital is to be paid down by the share-
-1,4 ',ars bank .
ek _ tne Dana is to have the privilege of issuing
,th notes Itring fifteen years."
41411?1•1741rian Observer of the 14th instant confirms the
the a man
in the Augsburgh Gazette, relative to
utiusuof Treasury' bills of 50, 100, 500, and 1000
k4teti "earing an interest of three per cent. y
il„ernich had received a most gracious letter from the
(i,)1? Prussia, inviting him to assist at the inaugura-
'lt the works of the Cathedral of Cologne.
kekas: •
Genmines of Servia were- about being worked by
of r-,(14. a ennapan of shareholders, under the direction
nan engineer,' Herr Reckendorf.
ta Ia.a..ULX.S.MENTARY.
Isisc,e Lords the Income-tax Bill was converted, by the
41s rtlniissioners giving the Royal Assent to it, into
Th adjourned.
, ens Lordships then
~4-dikln tiice Coin-Mona s Mr. O'Connell made a report from
`4e aghast ElectiOn. Inquiry Committee, recommending
gskuNintment of an agent for each of the parties. The
bar' ut Learned- Gentleman made a motion accord-
POstponed it till this day. Mr. Ferrah.d an-
that he should meet the motion and a similar
es 4
itth brought forward by Mr. Wortley, as to the
,4,4°l_,Pton election inquiry, with a direct negative.
!Il(); Ilurne inamiaed. of 'the Chancellor of the Ex-
„al cit ',:ert. if he had tilen any means to supply additional
t'hutlt the Chancellor answered the Hon. Member
‘?tlt nearae was '• plenty -of silver three weeks ago.
now, Apparently, supply dream, he has taken,
• means to procure a
kl,,,ll4l,ljrainage (Ireland) Bill went through Committee,
Copyright_ionfelsiesigns Bill.
tt Bill was committed. Mr.
stii,',ls,!tysnirenitl M
tl„'at_ohe were carr,ied..eth.ro.nue•h it would do
rdshire. Lord
.Ashl bc.onsequence, as
„.7.1N1, o.r some communication with two deputatiops,
',%ttilwatituted the age of 10 for 13, and introduced
itqc, "1%1 em 1 the boys only three days in the
a'!tit ' aPre?ojre idos:l,d system than excluding
-uktio. ,11°11i from the mines till they are thirteen. Great
kaki th 3 were made to parts of the Bill, but it was
No Neat
6 the Committee without any important.
4hlents, except those made by Lord Ashley him-
-14,,1tm _the Report was ordered to be received on
Ole bit
la„ °Wirt on the Sudbury Disfranchisement Bill
-I)°gilt up' after a division.
''° .
atifia." ~.a_esl(strptie moved to re-commit the Bill, but the
n jected, by 48 to 19.
;1!1Q tfu'vers (Ireland) Bill went- through a Committee.
tr:r1111:111- Se Was employed with such measures all the
let7L,"rd Eliot, we believe, being the only person
i,.,,ttre.•,,7 with the' Ministry who was in the House.
• l'qi`tiog through the Orders, the House adjourned
• ve o'Clock.
2`• Punzic OPINION.
Vat.t;Mea, after recapitulating some of its objections. to
.an
ta,tile,.-tt goes on to observe-" Nor must we omit to notice
Illt,i,rl'iotbjection which lies against. this in common with all
('°,lle-a serious and painful. one-we mean. the_ in_-
ktt'iltiid,tri nature of the tax-and therein the temptation which
att°,aqhflit_ to the commission of fraud and perjury. Now,
ht;ittß the do. not of course. say or think that the persons corn-
t4 loth e crimes in question have any shadow of right to
. e circumstances in which they are d the uilt
acetho e guilt
5d..1404 really their own wickedness, or. to charge
. s
t.
aght the temptation on them with causing or par 1-
•
litt;)teii their crimes; yet we •do think and say that a
itstiPts responsibility is incurred by those who, without_
tiu'l'i°n Of—what alone can justify such a course ab-
thita,',%sity, place others in a position in which they must
t 3t• c`oeas more or less, to the commission of such crimes
,as
settee the plea of necessity, and necessity alone, can such
Is a ka this be justified; and when that necessity
1,41141e.,',1 the continuance of the tax will become in e-
late Ca
iki„Nea ,r,°'lle/e concludes a leading article on the present
of the country, with the following significant
' 5 here is no hope of relief to trade from any of
Ito ;,,ete 'ttseit°l Sir Robert Peel. The tariff will produce ,
Ps; and, as to the Corn Bill, it has turned oqt
43 ,c "are. The manufacturing and trading. classes
as)• .zaaai selutcly worse than the former Bill, as it equally
t out of the home market, while it also pre-
-"rnen from importing corn with a view to profit,. :
Itttcats 4f.'" (if a nominal duty. The belief of the people in
°II .„(''rl'vo • andmanufactures is, that if Sir Robert ,
rski,' it ra'rlicaren t psr with the present Corn
141:Y2,.."` be uttear'lYitmpoossible to preserve the peace of the
,11 s_
Ztvg all , s
•- We observe that the
Morning Chronicle
"41,,b cr' eta to paint the state of.distress in the manu-
4;''' ' (lb.;-Stijets in the very darkest and most frightful
states that-the depth of the distreas should be a
t• 'll-„euse for departure from Tory policy: In erder. to
W's n- reasonableness of this it must be borne in mind
, has been gradually brought to this state of
Nit has di the operation of Whig policy, and that ever
(!arl h",een understood that Whig principles in respect to
ttythrer°readopted, adopt ds, and would be acted upon by the pre-
411'a,"r°,11t 'flee di-tress has assumed a darker character.
stl„le di tress is one of the strongest reasons why Tory
NN:t to be departed from. That policy is to pro-
Pay 'PPiqyment, even at the expense of making the con-
tbt ; while the Whig rule would seek the cheap
)4, t 44 the benefit of the consumer, although by so doing
kko.oducer Ise thrown out of employment."
the Lunt •
from the Herald :-England is in a
ilte's'i,Nll.;le°4l,,itaetn Csienisinntgatnertifroepsl eand Syria, as she is indeed
in the internal affairs of foreign
k'siths is most sincerely to be hoped that the Porte will
!it'', 'less to resist the meddling of its allies in Syrian
• ;A: lurks are their own safest and surest friends
v.4le'"alll,,,'iterference in the government of Ireland is quite
foreign interference in the government of Syria.
• '
• sseaNliey of England is to us wholly unintelligible;
slit':(l ,a Protestant Bishop to Jerusalem, and-we have
o,l:stsi
',',l°,laan Catholic
hisa
The inability to understand what
4111.--1 about in the Asiatic coast of the Mediterranean."
Ite /14e;4 -173a-Sr-TRAD:E.:-COIVINIER.C.
Ititti,Kt,Ploved increase in Glasgow ; upwards of 1,000
-eat,'„,seri" wander about in want of en-Tit)) ment : be-
-0 '"'"0 are daily fed from charity.
Ott 4.1137.7 Awl, 70 LXCF.
corn-
t.ll,':'l order of the Poor.law Commissioners,
trls ?transmission after every meeting of the district
enPY f any special minute on the books, the
s,,;?ard Of° Gu-ardians considered. the order " ob-
h st l',‘lll3,,,"efusing to comply with it, resigned.
I,"sts,""a ',lt". named Folkard, was yesterday tined 20s. and
tca"' value of the shoes, and costs, at the Mansion
~e°fotj
'elsing in pledge a pair of' regimental shoes con-
st
mute.
,4t;:'"lrel°w,i4.,,ng circumstances transpired yesterday at the
%,41tIsesreli,"'nee :-me John James, of Alfeed-place, Bed.
Stv,d ;,','ing a bill. for 14/. dun on the preceding day,
w'st• v-,,`‘'Mund note and four sovereigns to the clerk who
tea bye tai,. but who refused the sovereigns, without
.
them, alleging that he could detect their light-
t`ltOtliti)sst:ra'ne the consequence was, that the bill went
inoted for n'o -payment. The Magistrate said
tsll:•..n,risu'iction inn the matter,. as. it was not an act
ts ere could be punished criminally ; but if an
old ref ought a(=ainst him for recovery of the amount of
and the tender proved, there was no doubt he
pay the whole of the costs.
eolle,,NM exhibiting at Hyde Park-corner,
;Ati Ottee tor,roPrieinnalrn.n‘Lunn, a princely fortune to put:-
sattle at efthe • .
Da, , most inter( sting objects of the collection
his
Yikt rled, °' the principal Chinese temples, containing t
e-a' shn Patin, and Fuh, the three precious Budhas
e
'4olt Pe h and to come ; also a Chinese summer.apart-
Riansharacteristic furniture, and in which a sunny
i„A Errees through the window.
gri
c3CMIVTIP/C.
ls 'hat s AND s
11e
pual scholar, Mr. H. J. Sumner Maine, who
g' °
1' eltler. as one of the exhibitioners at Michaelmas,
PrizssA;,r9ko allege, has had no less than three of the
t.'ll -3" ts "e bd to him this year at Cambridge.
•
Ittikibt,t; gels eerelajieoi 3t:a7ch‘.lfv elelnX Marylebone Club and
151.
.t tilt Tins from the Northern Counties of England,
Y 4, olay evening, at Lord's, in favour of the
of 43 runs.
41hltds4).Tea J~SI33QI~TABI,E.
-
tithe 4t, of Northampton arrived in town on Monday
,Llos T'nerrctia,,and Marchioness of Londonderry gave a white-
*th 4iiik;‘,„ll4 ueacky at the Crown and Sceptre, Greenwich,
d tarty of fashionables.
r, Enh '°i'leen of the Belgians are expected to remain
•atte 'Wand.
te:d, of Als,icht,,k .
e A from p sr is expected to arrive at Grosvenor
• arts.
R Ain
hakaas bilitt:et' St. James's.
Chalk:P of ..rrnagh had a large dinner•party yester-
it
1,.11mik11„ Arane'lllsczLzan-zous.
tier,es the property of Mr. James
thbeen bu •
hground on Friday last. A boy, it is
h _ !led in the ruins and about 250 hands have
out of
~ts
kt, ;Old :I. Thomas-I'Z nY this calamity.
i,it Lordship h
ef• his bre3 Harley Rodney succeedds.tdo the
sq.,icteas the celebr other, Lord Rodney, woo last
aving left no issue by. his wife. The
kt,id3' 3;00 the Freatel
nch Admiral, who received his title for
.I:4l„..;t':tl'iUwhntlieerehersk- fleet under the. Count de Grasse,
I,4"kltini:ll!triseif and'',";. was granted a pension of 2,0001. per
r4he cattle13 SUCCessors.
storm in Radnorshire last Sunday, fifteen
L 4!.-pf fields
wastantruck dead, value 3001., and the seed in a
~LlhathrUnndsaaittn and fancy fair took place yesterday
Is,Ntin„Preen, for the
zatibeedidtraY•
0 tne almshouses lately erected at
purpose of increasing the funds of the
vas,' -•'• Which a-
tas
41a,0f 3,000
visitants
iltfountled in 1828. There were altogether
44
ball and illaasnntisn' am°,,,g whom were several of the
salon n the evening,
4:111t
,41 rehhisi7—op f
°- Alb
aged y died last week at his
65.

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The market has been exceedingly heavy dining the morn-
ing, and quite without business. This feeling may, perhaps,
be traceable to the proceedings at the East India House yester-
day, as to whether the Company, or the country at large, is
to bear the expense of the spar in Affghanirtan. Should
the decision be in favour of the latter of these two
propositions, though it would not decide. the question,
}et it must necessarily materially influence the proceedings of
the House of Commons, and, should it be confirmed by them, a
loan, or acme such measure, would be actually required. The
mover of the question is stated to be very sanguine that he will
be able to carry it by a large majority, and the debate on Monday
is lookedforward to with much interest.
Prices, which can only be considered to be nominal, are—
Consols 911 911 for the opening, ex div. ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 914 91%; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced,
100 A 100?-4; Bank Stock, 1664 1671 ; India Bonds, 24 ;
Exchequer Bills, Old, 45 47 ; New, 40 42 premium.
The prices of Foreign Securities remain as yesterday. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 521; the Five per Cents., 101
101 k. Mexican is quoted 361361, in consequence of the re-
ported arrival of 50,000 dollars on account of the dividend.
In the Share Market—Eastern Counties Debentures
101. 9s. 2d. the New Shares 61.95. 2d. ; and Brighton, 351.
Those who had purchased the Three per Cent. Spanish
Stock, in the expectation that the quotation would rise upon
the declaration of the dividend, being more anxious to get rid
of it, the market has been much pressed to-day, and it is now
marked 221. Independently of this, the most sanguine friends
of Spain take no pains to conceal their apprehension
that the Ministry, as at present formed, possesses
not only no stability, but the seeds of dissolution within itself,
and that even if it venture to meet the Cortes, a short time
only will elapse when the same scene of confusion which now
exists will be re-enacted. The Five per Cents. arc marked 21i,
but none other description of bonds.
The proceedings at Clerkenwell police-office have attracted
some attention in the City to-day. They 'show the extent ft)
which the system at present in operation may be carried, and
the serious injury to credit which may result from it. It is
thought that had some magisterial proceedings been adopted,
much public benefit might have been derived therefrom • the
idea of suing a banker's clerk for the offence of refusing legal
coin at common law being considered as highly ridiculous.
Accounts to the 3d April have been received from Buenos
Ayres. It would appear that the army and the rebels were still
opposite each other, but without anything decisive having been
done by either party. The Argentine forces had had a skir-
mish with, and had succeeded in dispersing a party• of about
300 Santafecinas, killing and taking prisoner a large number of
them, as well as obtaining possession of nearly -280 horses. The
birthday of Roses had been observed as a holiday, and had been
celebrated with much splendour. If the accounts can be relied
upon he would seem to be extremely popular. Exchange on
England 3id.
Papers to 19th February have arrived from the Mauritius,
but are quite barren of intelligence.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. rer Share.
Eastern Counties
Ditto New 4/. 6s. Sd.
Ditto Debentures 81. 6s. Bd. 101. 9s. 2d.
London anr Brighton ...... 5O 354._ to
South Eastern and Dever......... 50 ....••
Ditto Scrip
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JUNE 21.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock — !Grand Canal Stock -...—
Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Delos. 6 per cent...
Ditto New 183(1......... 99*$ Ditto 4 per cent ...
34 per Cent. Debs.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 22.—N0 reduction in
prices has taken place as yet; but the market has been very
dull throughout the clay; the sales amount to 4,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 22.—The market had
an improved tone, though the sales were few; they consisted
of—Eastern Counties New, 6 1-3 ; Grand Junction Halves, 93;
and South Eastern New, s*.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 22.—Our mar-
ket continues in the same inanimate stare as for some days
past, and prices mostly nominal.—London anti Birmingham,
176; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 31/2; Manchester
and Leeds, Quarters, 41 to 5; South Western, 601 to 61.

CLOSING PRICES
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock 1661 'lndia Stock — pm
3 per Cent. Red. .. 914 'Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Con. Ditto Old Annuities
3i per Cent. Red.........100k Ditto New Annuities —
New 34 per Cent......... Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 4O pm
New 5 per Cm: — Ditto 5001...... 42 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ..... .43 pm
Jan. 1660 ... ...... Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1559
Jan. 1860 — Consols for Opg.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. ... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lDitto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds... 66 Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres6 per cent. 'Russian, 5 per cent..... 1141
Chilian, 6 per cent 'Ditto, Metallic ...... . ...,
Colombian, 6 per cent — ISpanish, 5 per cent. . : ... 21i
Ditto, 1524 — !Ditto Deferred....
Danish, 3 per cent — !French, ~
i, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — !Exchange —f —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 37 French, 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1537 :Dutch, 2i per cent. 52
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. !Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ... 101
SHARES.

Cheltenham and Creat Western (80 paid)... 27i
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... —
Ditto New Shares ( paid) ...
Ditto Debentures .. . .
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... ... 48i
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 6li
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Birmingham (90)
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Paris and Rouen (16 paid). l6i
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LoNDori, JUNE 23.—Wind this day at Noon, W.
DEAL, JUNE 22.—Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Indus,
Clai k, China ; Shepherdess, Poole, Manilla; Caroline, Ceylon ;
Courier, Plank, Mauritius ; John Scott, Robinson, Buenos
Ayres ; Scotsman, Jamaica ; Druid, Thomas, Barhadoes ;
Miranda. Simpson, Antigua; Vigilant, Grant, Tobacco; Ida,
Taylor, New Bedford. Sid. Helen, Anderson, Rio; Sandwich,
St. Lucia.

OFF DOVER, JUNE 20.—Wassendar, Amsterdam, for
Batavia.

PORTSUOUTH, JuxE 22.—Arrd. Vernon, Thomson, Madeira.
Sid. St. James's, New York; Christopher Rawson, China.
Arrd. off. Hamlet, Wilson, Sydney, New South Wales, left
Feb. 18.

OFF HASTINGS. JUNE 22.—Gazelle, Buenos Ayres.
COWES, JUNE 22.—Arrd. Sophia, Le Mesurier, Rio.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 21.—Wind, S. to W., fresh breezes.—
Arrd. Adelaide, Foote, Havannah. with fore and mainmasts
damaged by lightning. Arrd. off, Brilliant, Burr, Bombay,
and sailed for London ; St. George, Gyrom, Buenos Ayres,
April 4, and proceeded for London.
Swassza, JUNE 21.—Arrd. Alexander Harvey, Alexander,
and R. N. Parker, Clark, Cuba.
Hum., JUNE 21.—S1d. Elizabeth Holderness, Quebec.
Corm, Juriz —Arrd. Joseph Anderson, Dorwood, Alex-
andria; Alderman Thompson, Anderson, Moulmein.
DUBLIN, JUNE 20..—Arrd. 11 anderer, Hinds, St. Lucia.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
COLONIAL MARKET.
7 he-market looked healthy. The home demand was good,
and shippers looked more to several articles. Arrivals were
larger from most parts. Raw Sugars in good request at the
rates last quoted. Refined sold steadily at 83s. for standard
lumps. Coffee firm, and wanted; good ordinary Ceylon 765.
per cwt. Cocoa firm, and wanted ; 355, to 425. for Trinidad.
TEA MARKET.
There was a fair business done, and lull rates were paid.
Company's Congou Is. 9d. per lb. cash.
TALLOW MARKET.
Prices firm, but the market was dull at 48s. 3d. on the spot,
and 495. 3d. for delivery in last three months of the year.
Town Tallow 48s. 6d. per cwt.
WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.
There was a good supply, and fine and middling qualities
met a ready sale at our highest quotations; the ordinary sorts
more in demand, and full ss. per load higher. Clover, 21. 10s.
to 51. 10s. ; Hay, first cut, 21. ss. to 41. 45.; New Hay, 31. to
31. 3s. ; Straw, 11. 12s. to 11. 16s.

GRAND REVIEW OF THr, HOUSE-
HOLD TROOPS.-
This morning, in consequence of it being supposed that her
Majesty would honour the review with her presence, Hyde-
park exhibited a most numerous assemblage of fashionables in
splendid equipages, and thousands, of pedestrians, who were
mounted on tables, forms, chairs, and temporary platforms,
anxious to view the soul-stirring scene, but, contrary to expec-
tation, her Majesty did not leave Buckingham Palace. The
ground selected for the review was the flat spatie in the rear of
the statue of Achilles. which was kept by a detachment of the
2d Life Guards, assisted by a strong posse of police. A batta-
lion of the Coldstream Guards occupied the centre of the
line; on the right was posted the Grenadier Guards, and the
Scotch Fusilier Guards on the left. The Ist Regiment of Life
Guards kept the right, and the 2d the left flank; on the ground
we observed his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the
Counts Mensdorf, the Duke of Wellington, Lords Hill and
Bloomfield, the Master-General of the Ordnance, Sir G. Mur-
ray, and several other distinguished officers. At 10 &clock
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by his Aides•du-
camp, arrived, and was received by the line presenting arms,
the hands playing the National Anthem. The troops then broke
into dtvisonal columns, and marched pail in slow and quick
time ; after which several field evolutions were gone through
with admirable precision. The Infantry then commenced
firing by files, platoon, sections, and subsequently each
battalion fired a volley alter the troops had again formed into a
line. 'llis Royal Highness expressed himself in terms of satis-
faction to the several commanding officers, at the admirable
state of discipline the different regiments were in.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--(THIS_ DAY.)

The House sat to-day to hear appeal's. The Peers present
were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Camp-
bell.

COOTE V. LE POER FRENCH

Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning wilt the
arguments in this ease, which came before the House upon
appeal from the judgment of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

VICE-CH ANC ERY.-(TH IS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Chancellor BRUCE.)
EYSTON V. SIMONDS..

This me was heard this morning. The bill prayed spe-
cific performance of a contract.

His HONOUR, in pronouncing judgment, said the
estate in question was purchased by the late Sir
Jonn Gallint in the year 178;, who continued in the
enjoyment of it until 1801. Since that time the parties
interested had claimed under his title, The trustees, desiring to
dispose of the property, put it up to sale, and nu blame attached
to them for selling the property, believing, as they did, that
there was a good title. It appeared, however, that ►n fact Sir
John Galhid was an alien; that when he acquired the equitable
title in the first instanee, he had not even acquired letters
of denization, and that though he subsequently ac-
quired the legal fee, it was 'afterwards escheated. The
objection was the subject of considerable negotiation between
the vendor and the purchaser. It was contended in the Master's
office that this was the case of a man selling an estate not his
own without acquiring a new title, and riot suppoating the old
one. He could not view it in that light. ;he title did exist, the
estate was descendable, and the subject of conveyance. It was only
subject to this contingency, that if the Crown thought fit to raise a
claim, the title might be defeated. He thought the present
title was clearly within 'the established rule of the Court,
allowing a vendor within certain limitations of time to make
good his title if he could even while, and in some instances
even after, the case had lett the Master's office. The point
which had struck him most was, that in the abstract,
which was originally delivered, neither the letters of
denization nor the alienage was noticed ; but it
occurred to the purchaser that Sir John Gallini might have
been an alien, and on his asking the question, in April, 1839,
he was told that he was an alien. If the purchaser had held
his bond, and said that he had been deceived, it was possible
that he could not hare been compelled to complete the eon-
tract. Instead of this, however, the parties continued in
negotiation upon the subject of the purchase, very
prolonged negotiations took place, and it was not
until the latter part of 1840, this having occurred
in the spring of 1839, that the matter was finally broken off.
Having regard to what had taken place between the parties he
was of opinion that that point was not open to the purchaser.
It appeared to him, therefore, that both points must be decided
in favour of the vendor, subject to the obligation of paying the
purchaser all his costs at law, and all the costs of this suit up to
the confirmation of the report.

EXCHEQUER.-(.THIS DAY.)

THE CORPORATION OF COVENTRY V. LYTHAM, AND OTiSERS.

This is a special case, in which the question at issue is, wile:
ther certain parishes in the immedia.e vicinity of Coventry
form part of the city, and are liable to the payment of the city
rates, under the Municipal Corporations Act. The defendants
contend that the parishes form part of the county of Warwick,
and not of the adjoining city.
The arguments in the case, which are expected to occupy
the Court for some days, turn upon the interpretation of an-
cient statutes, and present no subject of general interest.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL opened the case this morning for
the plaintiffs.

COMMON PLEAS-(TIBS DAY.)
Before Lord Chief Justice TiwriAL and a Middlesex Special
Jury.)
MACREADY V. HARMER AND ANOTHER.
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The Jury in this case having been called over, only eight
Special Jurymen answered to their names, and a tales was
prayed. The Jury, having been sworn,
Mr. GRAY opened the pleadings.
Mr. PLATT said this was an action brought by Mr. Macready,
the celebrated actor, and the lessee and manager of Drury-
lane Theatre, to recover damages from the defendants, who
were the proprietors of the Maly Dispatch newspaper, for
the publication of a libel reflecting on his character, and cal-
culated to do him a serious injury. The libel complained of
was a critique which appeared in the defendant's paper of the
2d January last. The plaintiff's theatre had opened on the
27th December preceding,. Previous to the opening of the
theatre, the defendant's paper, in several incidental :notices,
had spoken favourably of the plaintiff, arid bad expressed
a wish for his success, but on the 2d of January this
article appeared, which was not a fair criticism; of that
the plaintiff would not complain. but of a tissue of false and ma-

liciOns attacks, calculated to inflict serious injury on the plain-
tiff, both as a manager and actor, and as a gentleman. It ap-
peared that the public press claimed a right to have two free
admissions to each theatre. An application was made on the
part of the Dispatch for these admissions to Drury-lane,
which was refused; the Dispatch had neither the ad-
missions nor the advertisements, and on 2d January, the week
after the refusal, the article complained of appeared. (The
Learned Counsel then read the article complained of, in which
the writer, speaking of the conduct of Mr. Macready, with re-
gard to excluding persons of improper character from the
Saloon, said that the arrangements at Covent-garden
had already done all that could be done for keep-
ing the pure separate from the impure, but that
Mr. Macready, under the pretence of virtue, made the
matter infinitely worse ; because by collecting all those persons
in one part of the theatre, he made them more conspicuous. It
then censured him for enticing:modest women to frequent the Sa-
loon under the illusion I hat none but chaste women could enter it,
and how, it asked, did he propose to exclude those who, although
not so degraded as the lowest classes of those who frequented
public places, were yet far from being virtuous and chaste, add-
ing that the mischiefought to have been foreseen, and that Mr.
Macready ought to be ashamed of himself. It then proceeded
to speak in severe terms of the company, and of Mr.
Macready as an actor, saying, that although he was
great in melodrama, his range was more circumscribed
than that of any actor who had ever attained celebrity.
It was bruin, always Bruin, nothing but howl and growl—tliat
his mode of influencing the public tress was scandalous—that
those who praised him were plentifully supplied with orders,
and had his advertisements, while those who gave honest criti-
cisms had the supplies cut off—that he had formerly attempted
to introduce the French system of claquers, but
that it had failed because those persons had clapped
when they ought to have been silent, and been silent
when he expected the need of their assistance;
that his abilities wete " cabin'd, cribbed, confined," and that
his treatment of actors and actresses was ungentlemanly
and harsh.) These remarks were certainly not fair criticism.
It was a personal attack. It was not an attack upon
his mode of conducting the theatre, but it imputed overbearing
and ungentlemanly conduct to him, and that he had delibe-
rately entered upon a system, for' the mere purposes of base
lucre, by which the pure and the impure were con-
gregated together. The defendants had not attempted
to justify this libel, and Alr. Macready came then,
to vindicate his rights as a British subject. tie was not
to be assailed because he was the manager of a theatre.
The power of the Press was a frightful engine. They
had all heard of Mr. Alderman Harmer. He had felt its
power ; and those who had felt the power of' the public Press
were aware how it could be abused. The defendant, actuated
by feelings of petty disappointment, displayed this rancour and
indignity towards the plaintiff in the hopes to crush him. If
they were of opinion that sae) was the case, the plaintiff would
be entitled to heavy damages on account of the vast circula-
tion, of the paper that contained the libel. The following wit-
nesses were then called :

Mr. John Williams—l contribute articles to the Dispatch
I usually write theatrical articles. I remember the opening of
Drury-lane Theatre on Monday, 27th December I,st. I went
to the theatre on the Wednesday and the 'Thursday following.
I did not go to the keeper of iho free-list office. lam
not certain whether during that week I made any
application to the keeper of the free list. I did some time or
other make cpplicalion to him. I asked him what papers were
in the free list. I was told that the Weekly Dispatch was not
in the free list.

Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant Wzr.DE—lt is usual
for the Press to have free admissions. The Dis-
patch has availed itself of these fire admissions. I have
availed myself of the free admissions to the Haymarket.
The practice continues of giving free admissions to the papers.
I cannot tell the day I ascertained that the Dispatch was not in
the free-bat of Drury lane.
Re-examined by Mr. PLATT. —I seldom went to the Hay-
market except when a novelty was produced. The Dispatch
had two admissions to the Haymarket. I paid for my admis
:ion when I went to Drury-lane. I did not get there until
late—at the commencement of the pantomime. I did not see
Mr. Macready.
This was the plaintiff's case.
Sir T. Wrr.n.e said he thought Mr. Macready would have
had more reason to complain of the Dispatch if they had
praised him for being art actor of the greatest versatility. If
they had said that in tragedy he was dignified and ma-
jestic, tender and pathetic in turns—that in comedy
he was gentlemanly, elegant, light, graceful, and hi •
larious, that in farce he was laughter-moving and
humorous, and that in pantomime he was the most expert
and dextrous harlequin who had ever appeared on the stage. If
they had said this, and the audience had found when they went
to see him, that instead of all this, Mr. Macready was the same
in everything, then indeed he might have complained that his au-
ditors had been di,appointed, and a sern.usinjuty inflicted on him
It was the duty of the press to purify and guide the public
taste, and to prevent public nuisances. It was the terror of
the press alone which prevented the public taste from bring
polluted ; and provided a writer did not travel out of his
limits, provided he confined himself in his criticisms on
a public man to his public capacity, he might
be as severe as he pleased without being libellous.
A motive had been ascribed to the defendants that they had
published this critique because Ali% Macready had refused them
tree admissions: Why did Mr. Macready refuse them free ad-
missions, unless that he feared honest criticism? The article
in question did not exceed the fair bJunds of criticism ; and if
Mr. Macready had not been, be would not say the most
sore-headed, but the most sensitive and excitable of
mortals, this action would never have been heard of.
If they thought his conduct with respect to the saloon calcu-
lated to produce moral evil, they were justified in commenting
upon it. It was ridiculous to pretend that Mr. Macready'o
management might not be criticised—to ask if they might
not be permitted to discuss whether Mr. Macready
was an actor of limited powers. He had been
before the public for years. The public could judge.
Did Mr. Macready imagine he was the only actor who ever
lived with regard to whose merits all parties should be unani-
mous? If they returned a verdict for the plaintiff it would be
a mockery to say that theatrical criticisms were free, and there
would not be a bad actor, a bad singer, or a bad dancer who
would not bring his action for libel. This was the fret attempt
which had been made to put down criticism, and he hoped it
would be the last. He therefore confidently expected their
verdict would be for the defendants.

Lord Chief Justice TINDAL, in summing► up, said that the
various topics commented on in the article were all fair sub-
jects for public discussion ; that a man occupying
the station of Mr. Macready might be considered as public
property, and was therefore fairly open to public observation.
lf, however, they considered that the defendants had exceeded
the bounds of honest discussion, and had assumed the cloak of
honest discussion merely to hide private malignity, then their
verdict would be for the plaintiff. The part of the publication,
which seemed to him most likely to bear cut this inference
was the commencement, in which the writer stated that Mr.
Macready made a pretence of virtue. It. was, however, fo:
them to determine, and give their verdict accordingly.
The Jury then retired, and afier an absence of three quarters
of an hour, returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, r..)/.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)

IN THE MATTER OF ItIEHARD 1%10011.E

The bankrupt was cieseribed as a hay-salesman and corn-
chandler. It appeared alio, in his subsequent examination, that
he li3tl been the proprietor ot a pubic-house and livery-stables
in 31ile-end-read. the amount of debts in his scheaule wa
stated as under 2,0001 , and the available assets at about t 2901.
Debts to the amount of nearly 500/. were also sated as due to
theTehset atte,a,btkurtulo)tf
wwhich
subjectedon to a keg examination by al 1501. were accounted good.
creditor named Jiues, who coatendcd that be was not entitled

to pass his final examination, on the grounds of having fraudu-
lently_ contracted debts with him for goods sold at the time
when he (the bankrupt) was perfectly aware of his inability to
meet other and more extensive liabilities, and when a docket
was about being struck against him.
After a long and uninteresting discussion, the examination
was adjourned fora month.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

GULIDHALL_(TH}S DAY.)
Mary Lacy was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman
Copeland, charged with setting fire to the house of Mrs. Ro-
setta Moss, of North-buildings, Finsbury.
Mrs. Moss stated that she engaged the prisoner as servant
about a fortnight ago. Last night the prisoner came down
stairs, and said the house was on fire. They immediately went
up stairs and found the bed in one of the rooms on fire. The
room was occupied by a gentleman who lodged in the house.
They turned the bed over and put the fire out. The bed was
on a mattress made of straw. Upon questioning the prisoner
as to the origin of the fire, she said she supposed that some of
the gentlemen must have been smoking, and have dropped a
spark on the mattress. In about two hours afterwards, this
transaction being at about six o'clock in the evening, the pri-
soner was sent up stairs to make the bed. She immediately
came down stairs, and said the house was again on fire. A
gentleman who was in the house went up stairs, and found the
room in flames. He ran into the street and called fire, and
part of the fire brigade, being at that time in the immediate
vicinity of the house, came in and put out the fire.
The fireman stated that he extinguished the fire and then
examined the room. He found several lucifer matches on the
mantelpiece, and observed that some had been rubbed along
the top of the table, and had left a mark. The curtains of the
window were burnt, and the bed-curtains, but nothing else.
When he went in the girl was so much alarmed that she fiinted.

The girl, in her defence, said she knew no.hingast;hOwthe.
fire happened.
Mr. Alderman CM'ELAND said he would send for the girl's
father, to enter into recognizances for the appearance cf the
prisoner when called upoa, in case any further evidence should
be obtained against her.

BO W-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
A HOPEFUL LITTLE LOT.—Three little boys, named Daniel
Madden, Thomas Maxwell, and John Welsh, all of them 13
years of age, and with the most villainous cast of countenance
that one could come across in a day's march through " the
Dials," or any other similarly classic neighbourhood, and whose
shorn locks bore evidence of but a recent incarceration in some
of those delightful seminaries for naughty boys—the Peniten-
tiary, Tothill-fields, or " the Mill"—were charged with the
following robbery:—
An intelligent.little boy, named Thomas Clinch, also 13years
of age, stated that last night about eight o'clock he was taking
a drink of water at the pump near the Freemasons' Tavern,
when the prisoners came up to him, and Madden took a silk
pocket handkerchief and a penknife out of his pocket. Wit-
ness immediately collared him, when he dropped the handker-
chief upon the ground. He then went to look for a police-
man, and whilst looking for one he saw Maxwell take a snuff-
box out of a gentleman's pocket. The prisoners were together
all the time.

Policeman, F 43, took the prisoners into custody. He found
a snuff-box on Maxwell, and two ragged silk handkerchiefs on
Madd,u, but nothing upon Welsh.
Thompson, F 49, stated that the prisoners were all known to
the police. Welsh had been several times convicted, and had
been twice tried at the Old Bailey. The first time was for
picking pockets at Greenwich Fair. Witness believed he had
a very bad mother, who made him go out to steal. The other
two had also been frequently in custody, but he could not re-
member what were the occasions.

In answer to questions from Mr. HALL, Madden stated that
he hal no father. His mother went out washing. He was in
prison last about nine months ago for a month. Maxwell said
that he had no father. His mother cleaned trotters in the sea-
son. He had never been in prison, only once before, about
three ears ago, in Tothill-fields for ten days.
Mr. HALL sentenced Welsh to three months, and the others
to two months' imprisonment in the House of Correction.

MARLBOROUGH. STREET.
(THIS DAY.)

John Samuel Eclimrds, a young man evidently still labour-
ing under the effects of intoxication, and who stated himself to
be the son of a master builder, living in Nottingham-mews,
High-street, Marylebone, was charged with committing a vio-
lent and unprovoked assault on Martha Spencer, a fruit-woman,
and knocking a basket off her head, containing some fresh-
gathered strawberries, by which 12 gallons of fruit were entirely
spoiled.
The complainant stated that about ten o'clock this morning,
as she was proceeding along Oxford-street with the fruit on her
head, the defendant came up behind her and struck her with
his doubled fist in the small of her back, and then knocked her
basket off her head, and kicked it and the contents about the
street. The value of the fruit was 165., besides her loss of time.
The defendant said that she struck him first.

Mr. AIALTBY said it was very unlikely she should do PO, and
without he paid the amount of the damage he had so wantonly
done, and also made her compensation for her loss of time, and
the blow he had struck her, he should fine him very heavily.
The defendant said he had no money about him, but he
would send to his friends and get what was required.
He was locked up in the meanwhile.

UNION HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
A JUDGE AND Juitir CLUB.—Janies Gardiner, William
Young, and James Freeman, were charged with committing a
violent assault on Thomas Davis, under the following circum-
stances :—The complainant and defendants are all inmates of
Christchurch workhouse, and are employed breaking stones for
the parish. Of late a " Judge and Jury Club" has been estab-
lished by some of the male paupers. The complainant having
recently committed some act against the rules of the society,
was tried by a " Special Jury," and sentenced to receive two
dozen with a broom handle, and to be afterwards rolled in some
horse dung which was spread out in a corner of the place
where they were at work. The sentence was accordingly car-
ried into effect, the defendants, who were described as the
most trhubiesome men in the house, being the ringleaders and
the 1 artier who inflicted the punishment. The complainant, in
describing the circumstances, said that his back and shouldors
were black aud,blue owing to the severity with which ho was
beate❑ by his assailants.
COTTINGFIAM inflicted a fine of 40s. on each of the de-
fendants, who, in default of payment, were committed for a
month each to the treadmill.

SOUTH•SEA ROUSE-(THIS DAY.)
A general meeting was held this day at the South-Sea
House fur the purpose of electing Director• fur the ensuing
year. 11-,ere was no other business before the meeting, and the
Court adjourned early.