The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-20 00:00:00

Gf the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—The controversies and quarrels which
have disturbed, and, indeed, fearfully shaken, the
" compact" and " impregnable " Tory party the
same which installed Sir R. Peel in power, have been
most dire on questions of domestic policy. The
Premier's Corn-law and Tariff have thrown the
agriculturists into " sixes-and-sevens." Their 1
representatives are endeavouring to flounder out
of the difficulties in which they find themselves
involved by the unlooked-for proceedings of the
Government. Explanations, which satisfy no one,
are attempted; and apologies, which inspire contempt
for their contradictions, are stammered out by Ho-
nourable Members, who evidently feel that they have
been induced to violate every pledge, and to falsify
every promise, on the faith of which the constituencies
were induced to elect them. These promises and pledges
they made in the firm belief that Sir R. Peel, on whom
they pinned their faith, would propose the measures
to which they had committed themselves to their consti-
tuents. To their consternation they heard him pro-
pound measures of a nature and tendency diametri-
cally opposite to those they had predicated from his
former speeches and professions. They were com-
pelled to " eat the leek " they had " mocked " to
unsay by their votes in Parliament all they had pro-
mised and vowed at the hustings but a few short
months before—to proclaim themselves to their
constituents, and to the country at large, is
political weathercocks—to be impaled on the columns
of the Post, with their characters and crimes
inscribed over their heads—" Political Apostates"—
" Deserters from the standard to which they pledged
fidelity." Such is the degradation to which Sir R
Peel has consigned his supporters ! Such is the ig-
nominy to which, for the sake of office, he has con-
sented to reduce himself ! That such a Government
will be able to maintain itself in office—dependent,
as it is, on the precarious, because the constrained,
support of a large proportion of its professed
adherents in - Parliament, and amid the scorn
and contempt, mingled with distrust, of former
friends, as well as open and avowed enemies—
would be something so new and strange in a
country in which the Government, to be strong
and permanent, must be based on public opi-
nion, there is no reason to conclude. The Govern-
ment of Sir Robert Peel will not, certainly, supply
the monstrous precedent. By what particular mea-
sure the present Government is doomed to fall, it
would be presumptuous to attempt a prediction.
That it has within itself Ike elements of dissolution,
is certain. The House of Commons that was
returned to support the Government in its re-
sistance of the changes which were proposed by its
predecessors, is disorganized in opinion, and will soon
become feeble in support of the Ministers who, by
the adoption of those very measures which were re-
pudiated by them when in opposition, have proposed
the startling problem for solution, whether a Govern-
ment can maintain itself in office from which public
respect and confidence is withdrawn ; or—which
amounts to the same—whether a Cabinet which upset
a Ministry by perseveringly denouncing the policy it
pursued, as dangerous to the country, can retain
office upon the credit of those very measures it for-
merly denounced, and which, by intrigue and faction,
it managed to obstruct and defeat?
STANDARD.—The journals of the Anti-Corn-
law League found a strange charge against Sir Ro-
bert Peel's Government upon the article of the Quar-
terly Review, to which we have lately referred. The
article, they say, is little more than a transcript from
a brief, prepared for the law officers of the Crown,
in contemplation of a prosecution of the Leaguers
upon a charge of high treason • insinuating that the
material allegations in this brief have been collected
by spies. Now to this it is obvious to reply,
that if the Review makes out, as we indeed
acknowledge it does, a case of treasonable design on
the part of the Leaguers, the evidence upon which
that case rests has all been furnished by the Leaguers
themselves. The Reviewer never once pretends to
secret information, or alleges anything upon testi-
mony not open to the whole world. He merely
quotes the public speeches, addresses, and sermons
of the League, and the public acts of its members ;
the trace of a spy cannot be found in the whole
mass of evidence. Whether it was ever contem-
plated to proceed by a criminal prosecution, or'
whether it is now intended to proceed against
the conspirators, must remain an official secret ; but
if any such intention existed or exists, it is plain that
a proceeding open and above board is the only one
the Leaguers have to apprehend. In the whole
course of his official life Sir Robert Peel never em-
ployed a spy or a traitor, and we trust he never will
employ one. Let him retain this not the least
honourable of his distinctions. It is, perhaps, not
surprising that the apologists of the League feel
shocked and alarmed by the mass of treasonable
matter collected by the Qnarterly Reviewer, and that
they conclude that no one but a lawyer could have
employed the diligence to collect so much proof, or
exercised the skill to marshal it so effectively—but
their inference is not a necessary one. Any man of
equal ability, using equal industry, and devoting him-
self to the painful task, could make a similar collec-
tion from the affluence of the crimes of the League
during the last two years. In fact, the Quarterly Re-
viewer has scarcely printed anything which was not
previously printed in the Morning Chronicle, the Anti-
Bread Tax Circular, the Globe, &c.

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius at the Guildhall, before Lord
DENMAN and a London Special Jury.)
SIR J. HARE V. BARSTOW.'
_ _

This was an action brought by Sir John Hare
against the Yorkshire Insurance Company, to recover
the value of an oil mill which had been insured in the
defendants' office, and which had subsequently been
burnt down. The premises in question were situated
in the city of Bristol, and one portion was used as an
oil mill and another as a mill for grinding dye wood.
Sir John Hare had insured the premises in the York-
shire Insurance-office, intending to include the whole
of the machinery in the insurance, and the agent to
the Company had gone over the mill prior to the in-
surance being effected. A fire occurred, which had
destroyeed that portion occupied as a dye wood
mill, together with the mill machinery therein
contained. The defendants paid 2661. into Court,
that being the sum for which the building containing
the dye-wood machinery was insured, and contended
that, according to the wording of the policy, they
were not liable for the machinery.

Mr. ERLE, for the plaintiff, contended that it was
evident that the parties intended to effect an insurance
on the whole, including the machinery, and thought
they had done so when the policy was effected.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for defendants, contended
that the question was not what the parties had intended
to do, but what they had actually done, and, from the
wording of the policy, he submitted that the machinery
was not included.

The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages
2221., in addition to the 2261. paid into Court.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

[The Gazette'sof this evening contains a notice from the
Speaker that he intendstoissuy his warrant for the
oirnsa Parliament for the
northern division of h
10
election of a Member to serve
county
Salop, in the room of
Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., called to the
IpBp4e2r. House.]
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WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 20,
7th Regiment of Foot—Ensign T. L. Mayne, from the
25th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bishton,
who retires, Dec. 20.
10th Foot—Lieutenant H. E. Longdon, to be Adju-
tant, vice Garvock, promoted, Nov. 25.
12th Foot—Ensign J. 11. Carige, from the 81st Foot,
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Duff, promoted,
Dec. 20.
25th Foot.-11. Smith, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Mayne, promoted in the 7th Foot, Dec. 20.
33d Foot.—Ensign H. C. Fitz Gerald to be Lieute-
nant, without purchase, vice Stuart, deceased, Dec. 9 ;
Ensign F. J. W. Knollys to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Fitz Gerald, whose promotion, by purchase, has been
cancelled, DEC. 20.
49th Foot—Lieutenant J. Heatly to be Adjutant, vice
Browne, promoted, Aug. 20.
50th Foot—Captain C. W. James, fro n the 67th Foot,
to be Captain, vice Murray, wbo xch tnges, Dec. 20 ;
Lieutenant T. Crowe, from the 86th F )ot, to be Adju-:
tant and Lieutenant, vice Waddy,pri mot Oct. 1.
60th Foot—Lieutenant E. M. Love to be Captain, by
purchase, vice Austin, who retires ; Second Lieutenant
H. Robinson to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Love ; J. ,Bailie, Gent, to be Second Lieutenant, by
purchase, vice Robinson, Dec. 20.
_ _

64th Foot—Lieut. W. H. Carter, from the 98th Foot,
to be Lieutenant, vice Smyth, who exchanges, Dec. 20.
67th Foot—Captain S. H. Murray, from the both
Foot, to be Captain, vice James, who exchanges, Dec. 20.
71st Foot—Lieut. W. Hope to be Adjutant, vice
Whittingham, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, Dec. 20.
76th Foot—Lieut. C. S. S. Evans to be Captain by
purchase, vice Carey, who retires; Ensign C. O'Donoghue
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Evans ; C. J. B.
Plestow, Gentleman, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
O'Donoghue, Dec. 20.

81st Voot:—W. Splaine, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Carige, promoted to the 12th Foot, Dec. 20.
95th Foot--W. R. Maxwell, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Carew, promoted, Dec. 20.
98th Foot—Lieut. J. D. Smith, from the 64th Foot,
to be Lieut., vice Carter, who exchanges, Dec. 20.
MEmortAxnum.--The Christian names of Captain
Sibley, of the 62d Foot, are Charles William. The
Christian names of Ensign Campbell, of the 491 h Pot t,
are John Ball.

WHITEHALL, DEC. 12. •
The Lord Chancellor has appointed James Gilbard
jun., of Devonport, in the county of Devon, Gent., to he
a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
WHITEHALL, I2Ec. 16.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Henry
Wall, of Tunbridge Wells, in the county of Kent, Gent.,
to be a Master Extraordinary-in the High Court of Chan-
cery.

The Lord Chancellor has also appointed John Stal-
lard, of the city of Worcester, Gent., to be a Master
Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery,

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

STUART RAY, bookbinder, Duke-street, St. James's.
BANKRUPTS.

WILLIAM BUTLER, victualler, Holborn-hill, to
surrender, Dec. 30, at half-past one, and Feb. 3, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy;Basinghall-street.
Alsager, Birchin-lane, official assignee ; Staniland and
Long, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street.
DANIEL MATTHEWS, victualler, Pendleton, Lan-
cashire, Jan. 4, and Feb. 1, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court of Bankruptcy; Manchester. Fraser,
Manchester, official assignee ; Chapman and Roberts,
Manchester ; Chester and Toulmin. Staple-inn, London.
ROBERT PERCIVAL, innkeeper, Bishop's Stort-
ford, Hertfordshire, Dec. 29 and Jan. 30, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy, Basingball-street. Graham, official
assignee, Basi ngh all. street; Loughborough, Austin-friars.
JOSEPH JAMES DELL, wine and spirit merchant,
Strand, Jan. 3, at eleven, and Feb. 1, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Lackington, official
assigr ee, Coleman-street-buildings; Dale, Furnival's Inn.
WILLIAM ASHCROFT, cooper, Arbour-street,
Commercial-road, Middlesex, Dec. 27, and Jan. 27, at
two, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
Gibson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Norris,
Allen, and Simpson, Bartlett's-buildings.
JOHN DUNCAN, cloth merchant, Lombard-street,
City, Dec. 27, and Jan. 27, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Basinghall-street. Green, official assignee, Al-
.dermanbury ; Richardson, Smith, and Jones, Golden-
square.

- WILLIAM WASHINGTON MANSELL, bill
broker, Alfred-place, 13-2dford-square, Jan. 6, at ten, and
Feb. 10, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basing-
hall-street. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Ashurst, Cheapside.
AUGUSTUS DIETRICH BROKOVSKI, ship
chandler, High-street, Wapping, Dec. 30, at eleven, and
Feb. 1, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-
street. Lackington, Coleman-street-buildings, official
assignee ; Lindsay and Mason, Cateaton-street.
1 WILLIAM WEBB, ironmonger, Liverpool, Jan. 6,
at one, and Feb. 14, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee,
Liverpool ; Frodsham, Liverpool ; Gregory, Faulkner,
Gregory, and Bourdillon, Bedford-row, London.
WILLIAM WRIGHT, baker, Burslem, Staffordshire,
Jan. 2, at two, and Jan. 23, at half-past eleven, at the
Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy. T. Bittle-
ston, official assignee, Birmingham ; J. and W. Ward,
Burslem.
NOTICES OF BANKRUPTCY.

JAMES FLETCHER, grocer, Hulme, Manchester.
ISAAC DICK, pattern-designer, Manchester.
SAMUEL WILLIAM TURNER, attorney-at-law,
Bank-street, Sheffield.

JOHN HEY,/worsted-manufacturer, Bradford, York.
shire.

EDWARD LOWE, tailor, South Lynn, Norfolk.
JOHN WHITE, butcher, Kempston, Bedfordshire.
CHARLES BESLY, clerk in her Majesty's dockyard
St. Andrew, Devonshire.

WALTER CALVERLEY TREVELYAN, gentle-
man, Topsham, Devonshire.
THOMAS HIGGS, stage-coach driver, Bexley, Kent.
WILLIAM BILLIN, cattle-dealer, Cochrane-terrace,
Marylebone.
JOSEPH NEWSON, licenced victualler, Leeds.

ROBERT EDWARD DRAKE, farmer, Faggoter's-
farm, High Lever, Essex.
JOSEPH ROBERTS, fishmonger, Gloucester-place,
Hackney-road, Middlesex.
MICHAEL LEECH, innkeeper, Huddersfield.
JOHN MELLOR, woollen cloth manufacturer, Hud-
dersfield.

WILLIAM BROOKS, attorney-at-law, South-end-
green, Middlesex.
WILLIAM GAWTHORP, commercial traveller,
Lad-lane, London.

• ISAAC JOHN KITCHIN, stable-keeper, Middle
Chenies-mews, Bedford-square.
SACKVILLE FREDERICK GWYNNE, coach
proprietor, Park-place, Regent's-park.
JOHN LILLEY, artist, Newman-street, Oxford-
street.

PHILIP HENRY BISHOP, surgeon, Leeds.
THOMAS RICHMOND, coal meter, Stepney-green.
JOHN DAWSON, tailor, Huddersfield.
BARNABAS BUSHELL, horse dealer, Harrison-
street, Grey's Inn-road.
ELIZABETH BROCHARD, widow, Gloucester-
place, St. Pancras.
JOHN WEBSTER, shopkeeper, Swan-green, Bow-
ling, Yorkshire.
WILLIAM SAUNDERS, beer-seller, West Hendred,
Berkshire.

THOMAS LYNCH, licenced victualler, Manchester.
JAMES SCOTT, linen-draper, New Cross-road,
Deptford.
CHARLES MORRIS KING, Jun., attorney, Old
Ford-road, Bow.
DANIED BANFIELD HICKIE, schoolmaster,
Hawkshead.

CHARLES GOUGH, attorney-at-law, Upper Sey-
mour-street, St. Pancras.
EDWARD' FOX, Sheffield.
HENRY ANDREWS TAYLOR, artist, Halton
Yorkshire.

JOHN TASKER, tailor, Huddersfield.
JOHN GARFORTH, commission agent, Halifax.
JOIIN WOMACK, livery-stable keeper, Doncaster.
ROBERT PARRY PUGHE, schoolmaster, New
town, Montgomeryshire.
JOHN COOPER, farmer, Scholes, Yorkshire.
THOMAS PRESTON, civil engineer, Lower George-
street, Sloane-square, Chelsea.
DANIEL HuPKINSON, coachman, Masbro', Rother-
ham, Yorkshire.

JOHN SHACKELL, attorney's clerk, Hackney.
JOHN EDWIN PIPER, chemist, Watney-street,
Commercial-road.

THOMAS MOORE, licensed victualler, Carrington
Cheshire.

THOMAS JORDAN, auctioneer, Birmingham.
SAMUEL DAVIES, labourer, Wem, Shropshire.

SECOND NOTICES.

RICHARD BRINNEN, butcher, Sheffield, to be
examined Jan. 14, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court
of Bankruptcy. Hope, official assignee, Leeds.
WILLIAM BANAS, carpenter, York, Jan. 14, at
twelve, at the Leeds Court of Bankruptcy. Hope, official
assignee, Leeds.
SAMUEL BARKER, worsted manufacturer, Brad-
ford, York, Jan. 10, at one, at the Leeds District Court
of Bankruptcy. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds.
JAMES EVAN S, grocer, Sheffield, Jan. 16, at ten,
at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Pope,
official assignee, Leeds.
SIMON SPRAY, lace maker, Bloomsgrove, Notting-
hamshire, Jan. 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court
of Bankruptcy. Hope, officialfassiomee, Leeds.
JOHN WATSON, butcher, Sheffield, Jan. 2, at
twelve, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Hope,
official assignee, Leeds.
SAMUEL GILLOTT, butcher, Sheffield, Jan. 2, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court ofßankruptcy. Hope,
official assignee, Leeds.
GEORGE PARKER, fork-maker, Ecclesfield, York-
shire, Jan. 12, at eleven, at the Leeds District Cuurt of
Bankruptcy. Hope, official assignee, Leeds.
JOHN FIELD, licensed-victualler, Exeter, Dec. 27,
at two, at the Exeter District Court of Bankruptcy.
Hirtzel, official assignee, Exeter.
WILLIAM WRIGLEY, book-keeper, Manchester,
Dec. 28, at one, at the Manchester District Court of
Bankruptcy. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester.
WILLIAM SMITH, commission agent, Rutland-
street, Stepney, Jan. 17, at half-past twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Alsager, official
assignee, Birchin-lane.

JOSEPH RUFFLES, labourer, Garsington, Oxford-
shire, Jan. 17, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Ba-
singhall-street. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane.
JAMES SAMUEL, jobbing gardener, Upper-town,
Essex, Jan. 17, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
Basinghall.street. Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall-street.

GEORGE TAYLOR, builder, Bury-street, Blooms•
bury, Jan. 13, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Ba.
singhall-street. T. M. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin,
lane.

JOHN REGAN, Dean-street, Soho, Jan. 10, at
eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
Pennell, official assignee.
CHARLES EDWARD CASTELL, egg-merchant,
Tottenham-court-road, Jan. 10, at eleven, at the Court
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of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. Belcher, official
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JAMES BOOTH, engineer,•
Saint George, Yorkshire,
Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds • •
District Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Hope, official assignee, Leeds.
WILLIAM PRESTON OOD, pig jobber, Saint
George, York, Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Leeds District
Court of Bankruptcy. Hope, official
assignee, Leeds.
FREDERICK WILLIAM NAYLOR BAYLEY,
• •
author, Bell' s-buildings, Salisbury.square, Fleet-street,
Dec. 28, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghaii.
street. Lackington, official assignee.
GEORGE ROLFE, jun., linen draper, Providence..
place, Kentish-town, Dec. 30, at the Court of Banktuptcy,
Basinghall• street. Whitmore, official assignee.
JOSEPH EPWORTH, cutler, Sheffield, Jan. 16, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy.
Hope, official assignee, Leeds.
MOSES BOLTON, weaver, Halifax, Jan. 9, at twelve,
at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Fearne,
official assignee, Leeds.
JOSEPH SCHOLEFIELD, patten maker, Bradford,
Yorkshire, Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court
of Bankruptcy. Fearne, official assignee, Leeds.
WILLIAM MERRITT, pin maker, Minchinhamp.
ton, Gloucestershire, Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Bristol
District Court of Bankruptcy. Hutton, official assignee,
Bristol.

THOMAS SEAD, cloth-manufacturer, Bromley,
Yorkshire, Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court of Bankruptcy. Freeman, Mill-hill, Leeds, official
assignee.

THOMAS BAXTER, woollen cloth-manufacturer,
Almondbury, Yorkshire, Jan. 14, at twelve, at the Leeds
District Court of Bankruptcy. Hope, official assignee,
Leeds.

JOHN BLACK, brewer, Leeds, Jan. 21, at eleven,
at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy, Leeds.
Fearne, Leeds, official assignee.
GEORGE ANDERSON, licensed victualler, York,
Jan. 13, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court of Bank-
ruptcy, Leeds. Hope, Leeds, official assignee.
SAMUEL WELLS, baker, Birmingham, Jan. 4, at
one, at the Birmingham District Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee.
JAMES USHER, fruiterer, Birmingham, Jan. 4, at
half-past one, at the Birmingham District Court of
Bankruptcy. Bittleson, official assignee.
SAMUEL EDWARD KETTLE NICKLIN, inn-

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1842.

keeper, Leamington Prior, Warwickshire, Jan. 4, at
half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court of
Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee.
JOHN HORSMAN, cloth maker, Bramley, York-
shire, Jan. 14, at eleven, at the Leedi District Court of
Bankruptcy. Hope, official assignee, Leeds.
RICHARD CARLTON, retailer of beer, Old Bas-
ford, Nottinghamshire, Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court of Bankruptcy. Hope, Leeds, official
assignee.

EBENEZER RICHARDSON, mechanic, Sheffield,
Jan. 3, at one, at the Leeds District Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Hope, official assignee, Leeds.
SEPTIMUS GODBEHERE, tool forger, Sheffield,
Jan. 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Hope, nfficial assignee, Commercial-buildings,
Leeds.

HENRY PASHLEY, calf-skin dealer, Sheffield,
Jan. 6, at twelve, at the Leeds District of Bankruptcy.
Hope, official assignee, Leeds.
THOMAS SMEDLEY, brick and tile maker, York-
shire, Jan. 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court of
Bankruptcy. Hope, official assignee, Leeds.
WILLIAM SKINNER, spring knife cutter, Sheffield,
Jan. 6, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds.
JOHN KNOWLES, gardener, Sheffield, Jan. 6, at
twelve, at the Leeds District Court of Bankruptcy. Hope,
official assignee, Leeds.
THOMAS WHALEY, table knife manufacturer,
Jan. 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Hope, official assignee, Leeds.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(T.HIS DAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 Ili 'Gibraltar ... .. 46
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 9 Genoa
Antwerp
Hamburgh M. B. 13 14i Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 26 0 Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 26 3 Lisbon 52
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 5 Rio Janeiro 25
Frankfort on Maine —1521 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3 Us. ..• 37 Buenos Ayres
Berlin 7 New York, 21days sight 444
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 1 Philadelphia 4€
Trieste, ditto .. 10 2 PRICES OF BULLION, PER (,Z.
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilbao • 36 New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona
Seville

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
( From the London New Price Current of December 20.)
SUGAR.—To-day buyers of British Plantation Sugar
came forward reluctantly, and the business done for both
the scale and pan was upon a small scale, only 150 hhds
and trs being disposed of privately. Merchants generally
refused to lower their pretensions, but those that were
inclined to sell were compelled to submit to a decline on
Friday's rates of 6d per cwt.
This afternoon a public sale of 98 hhds 22 trs Barba-
does Sugar Went off heavily at a decline of 6d per cwt.
Fine yellow sold at 68s to 68s 6d, good 65s to 66s 6d,
mid 62s 6d to 64s 6d, and low 61s to 61s 6d per cwt.
ItLynizo.—To-day the home trade operated with
caution in Refined Sugar, and prices are still depressed ;
standard lump selling at 735, and brown grocery 72s per
cwt. In pieces of good and fine quality large sales made
at 68s to 71s ; bastards neglected. Treacle dull of sale
and cheaper ; common selling at 21s per cwt. Prices
are still looking up for bonded Crushed Sugar, and at
27s 3d to 27s 6d the demand is good for present delivery.
MAtiamus.—Previous rates have in most cases been
sustained ; low brown at 4.55, good 535, good yellow at
63s 6d to 655, fine 66s to 66s 6d, and one lot, very fine,
68s per cwt.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
WORSHIP-STREET.
Mary Martin, a well-dressed married woman,
whose husband was said to have recently come into
possession of property amounting to 500/. per annum,
was charged with having threatened to hang two of
her children, and afterwards to destroy herself; and
her son, Ebenezer Martin, was charged with having
created a disturbance at the station-house, and as-
saulted a police-sergeant.
Mr. Espinasse, the barrister, attended with a so-
licitor for the defence.

afternoon
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in.—orTehfirseely; 1,151
butts were offered at auction, and all sold at full rates—
very fine white at 69s 6d, good 66s 6d to 67s 6d, mid
64s 6d, damp and washed 62s 6d to 67s 6d, low damp
yellow 48s to 50s, good mid sound in butts, 57s per cwt.
FOREIGN.--To-day the market was firm for Foreign
Sugar ; at auction 299 boxes Havannah were offered,
and sold at full rates,— mid yellow at 21s, washed 18s 64
to 20s, washed and shifted 14s, mid dry white 325,
washed. 22s Gd to 295, washed and shifted 17s per cwt.
By private treaty 328 chests brown Bahia of damaged
and sound quality have been sold at the full value, sound
at 18s 9d, and damaged 17s 3d per cwt.
COFFEE.—Prices have suffered a decline for all de-
scriptions of Coffee adapted for home consumption, large
parcels having been brought forward. This afternoon
the home trade purchased Coffee very sparingly ; at
public sale 405 bags Plantation Ceylon, 131 bags Ben-
gal, 34 cases 41 bales 14 bags Mocha, 37 bags Rio, 170
casks 60 brls Berbice were offered ; Ceylon all
taken in at 90s for fine fine ord coloury, being the
full value ; Bengarall withdrawn, 70s offered for fine
yellow; Mocha withdrawn; Brazil sold at 34s to 35s 6d
for fine ord, and country damaged 31s to 31s 6d; a small
parcel of fine yellow Singapore Java went at 49s 6d to
50s 6d; Berbice only half sold at rather lower rates, good
mid coloury went at 94s to 975, mid 92s to 935, low mid
90s, and Triage 65s to 78s per cwt. The market closed
dull for all sorts of Coffee adapted for home use.
Cccoe.—A large quantity of West India having been
pressed for sale, has produced a slight decline in prices ;
the demand, however, has been good. Foreign dull
of sale.

TEA.—There has been a greater desire shown on the
part of importers of both black and green Tea to sell,
and prices have further declined ; the trade have ope-
rated with extreme caution, and by private contract few
purchases have been made.
To-day the market was in a very dull state for Tea,
epressed, owing to the large parcels
3d to Is aid accepted for good
sound common Congou cash, and is
lid to is 2i-d for
panredsspi
rnigcesfoarresasltei 1,1
ids
ord and low ord.,
MOLASSES.—BengaI Molasses at 25s per ewt for good
quality. West India at full rates ; 26s have been paid
for good Demerara. Foreign Molasses at 6s to 6s 3d per
cwt. Jamaica Honey at 74s to 77s per cwt.
Rum, BRANDY AND HOLLANDS.—Fine Jamaica Rum
has been in fair demand principally for home consump-
tion, and prices have been sustained, but all other kinds
are dull of sale, and rather lower ; 2s 8d to 3s 8d for
common to good, 3s 9d to 4s 2d for fine, 4s 2d to 4s 6d for
very fine.—Leewards at is 8d to is 9d for proof. East
India Rum at lower rates. Low Cognac Brandy
at 2s to 2s 3d per gallon ; other kinds of Cognac are held
firmly—best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds at ss,
puns 4s 10d ; do 1839, hhds 45 7d, puns 4s 5d ; do 1840.
hhds 4s 4d, puns 4s 2d ; do 1841, hhds 4s, puns 3s 10d
per gallon. Geneva at is 9d to is 10d for common
shipping sort, and fine adapted for home consumption at
2s 6d to 9d.—English Corn Spirits in good request at
Os 7d to 9s 8d per gallon cash.
To-day in the Rum market rather lower rates were
accepted ; is 8d is the value of proof Leewards. The
Brandy market has become quiet, but prices do not
give way.
RlCE.—This afternoon East India Rice was in excel-
lent request ; 1,002 bags Madras and 1,659 pkts Bengal
at auction were all sold, the former at full rates ; good
low white Pearl Barley kind fetched lOs to 10s 6d, sea
damaged Ist class 9s, 2d do 8s 6d ; the latter fetched
lls 6d for mid white, and 8s 6d to 9s for low broken
white.

Police-constable Holland, N 146, stated that shortly
before eight o'clock on Sunday evening he was on
duty at the station-house in Hoxton, when a girl,
about fifteen years of age, rushed in in great agita-
tion, and requested him to repair immediately to
her mother's house in Gloucester-street, as the latter
had threatened to hang herself and her two
youngest children, and had gone out to procure a
rope for the purpose. He instantly proceeded with
the girl towards Gloucester-street, but, on their
way thither, she pointed out the prisoner, who
was coming out of a chandler's shop, with two chil-
dren, of the respective ages of seven and eight years.
He entered the shop, and on asking the owner whe-
ther the prisoner had bought anything he was in-
formed that she had purchased a piece of rope, and
that she exhibited a wildness of manner that attracted
his observation. Witness then pursued the prisoner,
and whilst doing so, he perceived the children strug-
gling to release themselves from her grasp, upon
which he hastened up to her, and told her that she
must accompany him to the station-house. On re-
ceiving the intimation, the prisoner attempted to se-
crete something under her shawl, and on his taking
hold of her she dropped the piece of rope on the pave-
ment. She was then conveyed to the station-house,
and on being searched a sum of money in gold and
bank-notes, amounting to 941. 10s., and also a knife
were found upon her. The prisoner was intoxicated,
and in consequence of the serious nature of the charge,
the inspector refused to liberate her, although bail was
offered for her appearance. On the following after-
noon the male prisoner came to the station-house in
a drunken state, and had an interview with his mo-
ther, but after remaining with her some time, he re-
refused to depart, and assaulted Sergeant Lambert,
who attempted to remove him, in consequence of
which he was detained in custody.
Mr. BROUGHTON asked the officer whether the fe-
male prisoner or her family were personally known to
the police.
The policeman said that the prisoner's husband was
formerly employed asa porter, but a large fortune had
been lately bequeathed to him, which he appeared in-
clined to squander away in riot and dissipation, both
his wife and himself having given way to the most
intemperate habits since it came into their possession.
Mr. BROUGHTON said he should require the female
prisoner to find two sureties in 301. each, to be an-
swerable for her good behaviour for six calendar
months. The male prisoner was fined 10s. or ten days'
imprisonment.

The required sureties having been entered into, and
the penalty paid, the prisoners were discharged.
Thomas Twyman, alias Smith, stood charged with
having broken into the dwelling-house of T. A. Rus-
sell, Esq., of Cheshunt Park, and stolen a cash-box
containing of upwards of 5001.—Committed.

SAGO.—This afternoon 15s was paid privately for seve-
ral parcels of Sago Flour ; 14s 6d refused for a large
quantity. 312 tins Jamaica Arrowroot of mid and good
quality at public sale, at 9d to Is.
SALTPETItE.---This afternoon Rough was less in re-
quest, and 338 bags at public sale 244 per cent. refraction
went at 23s for mid white damp small crystals„being is
per cwt. lower.
SPICES.—This afternoon the public sales consisted of
Cassia Lignea, Bengal Ginger, and Pimento ; Cassia
Lignea sold at a further decline of 2s. Ginger sold at
16s 6d to 17s for good rather bold ; Pimento went
briskly at full rates ; Black Pepper at previous prices ;
White is rather cheaper. Cinnamon is held with firm-
ness. The market for Ginger is quiet. Jamaica at 73s
to 200 s for mid and good quality. China Preserved Ginger
8d to 84d per lb. Cloves in steady demand. Amboyna
is ld, 30 bags Bourbon is 14d per lb.
Paovistorts.—There has been an extensive demand for
all descriptions of Foreign. Provisions in bond, and the
market has been cleared ; 83s to 115 s paid for Beef, and
47s to 503 for Pork of good quality ; no inferior in the
market; for salted Irish Provisions the market has been in a
dull state ; curers are complaining of the competition
they met With from Foreign Provisions. A public sale
of 3,577 Buffalo and Deer Tongues held by the Hudson's
Bay Company went as follows :—Buffalo at 20s 6d to
30s 9d, small 5s to 16s, bosses lis to 12s 9d, Deer 9s 3d
to lOs 9d, and small 3s per dozen.
FRUIT.—For Valentia Raisins the demand has been
extensive ; new of first quality at 365, second ditto 35s
per cwt. Old Currants are cheaper, but in the value of
new there is little change ; Zante and Zephalonia
old 42s to 445, new 47s to 49s ; Patrass old
44s to 555, and new 51s to 55s per cwt. The
demand for other kinds of Fruit has been good, new
Denia Raisins at 295, Eleme 36s to 38s, Suitana 565,
Muscatel 40s to 90s ; Figs, Spanish 30s to 40s, Turkey
pulled 50s to 70s ; Prunes 32s to 36s ; French Plums
6/ ss, and Imperial cartons 61 58 to 101. Now red
Smyrna Raisons in brls sound at 32, and dam 30s per cwt.
At auction 1,890 pkgs Imperial French Plums partly
sold at 5/ ls to 12/ 12s per cwt, and cartons at 20s to
22s each ; 70 pkgs Prunes 25s to 33s for i-brls, 26s
for *-brls, 40s for chests, and 39s for 4-chests ; 100
tappets Faro
Pi's at 30s ; 148 baskets Malaga Figs at
26s ; 9 casks Dates were bought in at 455, and 83 boxes
Valentia Almonds went at 90s for sound. The exporta-
tion of Currants from Cephalonia up to the 12th of
November; have been
3,411,2091b2.
INDIGO.-The market closed very firmly this after-
noon for all sorts of Indigo ; 9d. advance on last quar-
terly sale's rates was offered and refused for a large
parcel of Bengal. The next sale of East India has been
fixed for the 17th January.
OlLS.—Holders of common descriptions of Fish Oils
displayed more firmness. Cod 31l lOs to 32/ ; pale Seal
401 to 40/ ss, yellow and straw 33/ 15s to 39/, brown 33/
to 33110 s ; Southern fine 40/ to 411, good 38/ to 39/, mid
371 to 37 15s,
and common 351 lOs to 36/ lOs per tun ;
Hudson's Bay
Company Oil, at 35/ 15s for good, 33/5s
for middling, and 23/ lOs to 281 lOs for common
and black quality Sperm common at 731 to 744
middling 751 to 76/ and good to fine 76l lOs to
791 per tun. Linseed Oil at 30s 6d to 304 9d per cwt.
Rape, pale at 41s to 41s 6d, and brown
40s to 40s 6d per
,
cwt. Palm Oil, good and fine descriptions at 32s to
33s 3d, and inferior descriptions at 31s to 31s 9d per
cwt. Cocoa Nut Oil at 38s to 40s for common fine.
Olive Oil, 51/10s to 52/ for Gallipoli 501 to 50110 s for
Spanish, and 491 for Barbary.
TAL'LOW.—Russian Tallow at a decline on former
rates 01'3d per cwt ; on the spot 48s to 48s 3d per cwt have
been Ole current rates for P. Y. Candle; up to the end of the
year Pit similar rates ; for delivery in spring months at
48s 3 d per cwt. South American at firm rates, low to
fine duality at 41s to 49s 3d, and very fine 505 3d per
cwt. Teown Tallow at 48s 6d to 49s per cwt nett cash.
(Frjr the, remainder of the Markets, see the Third Page.)

CROYDON.

A boy about 12 years old, named Thomas Kersley,
attended before Messrs. Reid, Currie, and Sutherland,
for the purpose of giving some explanation to the
Bench in reference to a complaint made against him
by Inspector Collier, under rather curious circum-
stances. The Inspector stated that considerable alarm
had prevailed in the town, on account of a report that
a boy had been waylaid by a man on the common,
and robbed; and while .witness was on duty at the
station-house, the father of the boy now before them
came to him, and complained of the _conduct of one of
the constables in allowing a man to escape who had
assaulted and robbed his son. The boy was then
questioned, and he said that as he was very near home
on the previous evening, carrying some bread, he was
stopped in Selles-lane, Croydon by a man, who seized
him and took his bread from him. He said that he
called out for assistance, and a policeman came and
attacked the man; and knocked him down with
his truncheon, and that they afterwards struggled
together on the ground, and at the policeman's re-
quest he took his handcuffs out of his coat pocket and
held the lamp while he put them upon the man, who
was thus secured. When the policeman gaVe him
(the boy) his bread, and then took the handcuffs off
the prisoner, and told him to go about his business.
In consequence of this statement of the boy the whole
of the constables on duty on the district were mus-
tered, and he was requested to try if he could identify
the man who had acted in the way he described, but
he could not do so. This circumstance increasing the
suspicion that was entertained that the story told by
him was not true; the Inspector questioned him
closely, and he at length admitted that the story of
the attempted robbery and the conduct imputed to
the policeman, was an entire fabrication, from begin-
ning to end, and under these circumstances he thought
it right to bring the boy before the Bench, to give
some explanation of his conduct. _ _

The MAGISTRATES said it was a very singular story,
and they inquired what motive the boy could have
had for acting in such a manner.
The mother of the boy replied that the only expla-
nation he gave was, that he had been induced to ac-
company another boy to some distance from the place
where he was sent for his bread, and in order to ac-
count for his being absent so long, he hatched up the
story of being attacked in the way described.
The Inspector said it was a most mischievous inven-
tion, and had been productive of very great incon-
venience. The boy told the story so naturally, and
connected so many circumstances to confirm it, that
no one who heard him at first would have doubted
that he was telling the truth.

The MAGISTRATES then asked the boy what could
induce him to tell such a story, and cause so much
trouble ; and he been to blubber, and said he was
very sorry for what he had done.
The Bench then said they had no power to punish
him, but they hoped the boy's father would give him
a good thrashing, which would, in ' all probability,
deter him from playing such a mischievous prank in
future.

LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY
COURT.

LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.—A case came yesterday
before the Court involving some of the most peculiar
circumstances that have ever been presented to tfie
public, and which Mr Commissioner Phillips, before
whom the proceedings were exhibited, described as
one of the most extraordinary, as well as difficult in-
stances that ever came before that or any other Court.
The bankrupt, in this instance, is a person of the
name of Hall, formerly a grocer at 'Warrington, and
a man reputed to have been well educated, and to have
strong religious tendencies. It appears that, in the
month of September, 1841, the bankrupt absconded
from Warrington, and was subsequently discovered
to have sailed for America, leaving his affairs perfectly
unprotected, but without any effects available to his
creditors, either from a secret disposition of them prior
to leaving, or by some fraudulent negotiations with
other parties, for the purpose of keeping the proceeds
from his creditors. The bankrupt's father-in-law took
possession of the books and has retained them up
to the present inquiry, and they are stated by the
bankrupt himself to be so mutilated as to be of little
or no service in making out his balance-sheet, or pre-
senting even an ordinary statement of his assets and
obligations. On the bankrupt's arrival in America,
he solicited and obtained an appointment as clerk in a
grocery store, where he evinced creditable talents,
and both activity and vigilance for the period of a
twelvemonth, as described by his master in his adver-
tisement of the robbery in the different American
journals. On the 19th of June, in the following year,
he absconded from the house of his master at Brooklyn,
in the State of New York, taking with him g 4,950,
the moneys of his employer, in Texian Treasury
notes and specie of different denominations. It was
supposed that he had taken the route to Baltimore,
and an active pursuit was commenced in that direc-
tion, but although every means was consulted that the
best authorities and the most practised assistants could
devise, the search proved fruitless, all trace of him
being extinguished for a month or more. Shortly
afterwards the bankrupt appears to have had some
connection with a Mr. T. Montfort, in South Boston,
from whom he also absconded, taking with him $1,200
current money of the State. Mr. Montfort immedi-
ately advertised the prisoner, offering a reward of 300
doll. for hi 3 apprehension, but without effect. The
bankrupt contrived to elude the vigilance of the police
in the United States, and nothing more was heard
from him until information was received that he had
been seen at his old haunts at Warrington, England.
His accusers lost no time in memorialising the United
States' Consulate of the felony, who; with the assist-
ance of an intelligent police-officer (Jones), took the
prisoner into custody, seizing at the same time a large
amount of notes of tie Texian Bank, before any mes-
senger from the Court of Bankruptcy was apprised of
his return. The bankrupt was brought up before the
Magistrates at Warrington, to answer the charge of
the felony preferred against him from his American
prosecutors by attorney, but the case was so beset with
difficulties, in consequence of the indeterminate rela-
tions between the two countries on the point of arrest,
that recourse was had by Col. Aspinwall, the United
States' Consulate, and also by Mr. Nicholson, clerk to
the Magistrates at Warrington, to Sir J. C rah am for ad-
vice in prosecuting the examination, which proved
ultimately an affair of so much difficulty as to cause
a recommendation by Sir J. Graham of an abandon.,
ment of the case—a recommeadation which was in-
stantly followed by the release of the prisoner, but
not of a restitution of the property, either to the pri-
soner himself or to the parties deputed by the assignees
under his estate for their joint behoof. The bank-

rupt's affairs have now been brought into the New
District Court for final hearing, and the bankrupt
yesterday, for the first time, surrendered himself, the
42d day having expired, which is the limit prescribed
by the statute to prevent au oulawry.
The bankrupt stated that he was unable to make
out any balance-sheet, as his books were so much
torn and mutilated; a summons to produce them upon
the bankrupt's next examination was issued in the in-
terim to be in the possession of the official assignee
appointed to the estate, which will be at all times ac-
cessible to the prisoner, to facilitate him in the pro-
secution of what will be required from him on his
next appearance in Court.
Under the circumstances the Learned Commissioner
adjourned the examination sine die.
This case derives considerable interest, as being the
latest evidence of the state of the international law
between this country and America.
The money seized from the bankrupt by the police-
officer still remains in his possession, no order having
been given to the messenger to take it for the benefit
of the bankrupt's creditors.