The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
A FARMER'S OPINION ON THE
CORN-LAWS.

•BANKRUPTCY.-.(THIS DAY).

IN RE ROUT. SPILMAN.
The bankrupt was described as an ironmonger and
hardware merchant, carrying on business in Oxford-
street.
A proof upon several joint promissory notes of the
bankrupt, and his father-in-law, Mr. William Lloyd,
amounting to 570/., was endeavoured to be made.
The ultimate consideration of this claim was ordered
to be adjourned.
Several other proofs were admitted without opposi-
tion, making in the aggregate about 3,500/. on the
amount of claims admitted against the estate to-day.
IN THE MATTER OF WILSON AND MAYERS.
Messrs. Walter Jackson and William Hinessey
were chosen assignees in this matter.
RE GEORGE CHAPMAN.
The bankrupt was a cowkeeper and extensive dairy-
man in Islington.
Upon coming up to pass his final examination, a
point was raised by the solicitor to the fiat, with re-
spect to the right of allowing certain debts which were
alleged to have been contracted during the time the
bankrupt was in partnership, proved against the sepa-
rate estates, which was ruled in favour of the claim.

POLIcE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL—(THIS DAY.)
The Magistrate, Sir G. CARROL was occupied some
time this morning in hearing a charge made by
George Smithhurst, a waiter, against the Licensed
Victuallers' Society, of having defrauded him of 2s.
The complainant stated that he was a waiter
in the employ of Mr. Ibbison, of Nicholas-lane, in
the
the Licensed Victuallers' Society, to pay 2s. to
ho have Mr. Ibbison's name put on the books for a pot-
y.
Re 'sent to the office, and paid the money to a
person of the name of Cole, in the presence of the
ecrOtary, Mr. Smith, and he was told to call again in
a few days. He called several times afterwards, and
he was then told that the 2s. had not been paid.
Mr. Smith, the Secretary, on his oath, said, that
the statement of the complainant was without founda-
tion
es' ,
nas
ce the money was never paid to him or in his
pre.
sir GEORGE CA.RROLL said he could not imagine
that it respectable Society would attempt to commit a
fraud for two shillings. There was, doubtless, some
mistake on the part of the complainant, and he must
dismiss the case.

CLERKENWELL—(THIS DAY.)
Richard Saul was brought up before Mr. Combe,
on a charge of using abusive language, and violently
assaulting Major-General Boardman, his master.
General Boardman, residing at No. 12, Euston-
Plane, deposed that at about half-past ten o'clock last
night'the defendant returned home, after having had
!ha holiday for the afternoon. Witness rang the bell that
e servant might come and prepare: his bed, and also
'll the meantime • sent his nephew to see that the
ladder of the area had been removed. Defendant, on
tiringente the room of his master, cried out to him,
you have sent your puppy of a nephew to look
after the ladder of the area: He used some further
abusive language; and on witness telling him to go out
refused, and when he endeavoured to push him out of
the room, defendant caught him by the collar of the
coat and threw him down. On witness's wife re-
proaching him he said he would serve her in the same
'Way. The. Prisoner then retired, and witness's nephew
went for a policeman, to whom he gave him in charge.
The prisoner, who allowed that he was not drunk
at the time, and who had been taken back into his
Master's service, said that the General fell as he at-
tempted to push him away.
Mr. COMBE said that his conduct was v
and unwarrantable, and as according tomost his ioownlent statement he was not drunk, he should sentence
fine to the utmost penalty he could impose, viz., a
line of 51. or two months at the House of Correction.
The fine was paid, and the prisoner discharged.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sia,—The present majority in the House of Com-
mons, having been principally formed by the influence
of the agricultural part of the country, led on, a
course, by the promises of the landlords, that their
interests should be scrupulously protected, at whatever
cost ; it having also become so, general an opinion, not
only amongst the manufacturing but likewise with the
commercial part of the community that the late
measures of the present Cabinet, instead of being
framed for giving that impetus both to the trade at
home and in the foreign market, which is necessary
for the real interest of the country, had been formed
more for the interest of agriculture and protection of
the British farmer, I have been induced to send you•
the present letter with the hope that many of your
impartial readers would come to a different con-
clusion.

Never were measures of any Cabinet calculated
to injure the farmer to so great an extent indirectly as
those recently carried by the present.
Since 1834, whon the New Poor-law Bill effected
a considerable saving in the agricultural districts,
landholders have very generally raised the rents of
their farms, thus pocketing in every instance what
should have been for the benefit of all. Again, more
recently, the sordid desires of this all-grasping class
have not been by any means satisfied. The years
1840-41 will be remembered by many as years in
which a general advance took place throughout the
country; since which time they have continued con-
siderably higher than during any part of the war
time.

This artificial price of land has tended most mate-
rially to the injury of all our manufactures in one
way or other : it has in many cases ruined the frugal
and industrious occupier of land, it being impossible,
with'such rents, to realise a fair remunerating profit
it has brought to the verge of starvation and rebellion
(in many places both of these have actually taken
place) thousands both of our agricultural and manu-
facturing population ; and it is bringing, fast as the
energies of a self-willed aristocracy and bigoted clergy
can do, the entire country to a state of ruin.

But what must be the remedy both for agricultural
and manufactoring interests ? what can prove a last-
ing beneficial measure for both ? is the question
eagerly asked by many. Not an Income-tax, or a
" scale" for duty on corn, that dexterously " slides"
the last sixpence from the pockets of a famished yet
still industrious people.
As a practical farmer—as one who has been en-
gaged in this pursuit between thirty and forty years,
and during that time has watched minutely all events
connected therewith, and as one having the interest
and welfare of my country as well as myself at heart,
I would most unhesitatingly declare that free
trade in corn will be the only thing that will bring
the value of land, and consequently the relations of
society, to their proper basis.

This will enable our manufacturers to supply their
goods lower than any other country; this will, con-
sequently, enable them to defy competition in the
foreign market ; this, after the first year or two
would enable the farmer to go on much more satisfac-
torily than at present; and this, alone, would restore
that peace, plenty, and content: lately so miich un-
known amongst the English population.

A BkITISH FARMER.
Bedfordshire, 2d September, 1842.

.EGYPT.

ALEXANDRIA AUG. 22.—The Great Liverpool ar-
rived here on the morning of the 18th, bringing with
her 56 passengers for India, amongst whom were the
Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale and suite, on
their way to Calcutta.
Mehemet Ali has taken up his abode for a few
weeks at a country house on the banks of the canal.
His son, Said Pacha, is expected down in a day or
two from Cairo, and it appears that a fresh order has
been given for the fleet to prepare immediately to
proceed to sea, and the Pacha is not coming into town
until after its departure. It is riot known what the
intentions of the Pacha may be in sending out his
ships, and it is said here it is only to exercise the men
off the harbour.
Mr. T. Wilkie, brother of the late artist, sent to
the Pacha this month his portrait, begun by Sir
David when here in May, 1841, and which he took
with him intending to finish it in England. The
Pacha said he would take the picture if his friends
thought it was like him ; but as all who saw it
seemed to agree that the portrait did not resemble him
much, it goes back again to London by this steamer.
The price demanded was 2101. sterling, and it is
likely that Mr. Thomas Wilkie will obtain a much
higher sum for it in England, it being Sir David's
last work, and a most beautiful painting.
Hekekyan Bey is gone over to Suez, to fix upon a
plan for the hotel which the Pacha has promised to
build for the Peninsular and Oriental Company. It
is to be an immense building, to contain at least 85
bedrooms, and the cost will not be less that 2,5001.
sterling. The Pacha has an idea of bringing out a
house of sheet iron from England for this purpose,
which certainly would be a great improvement, be-
sides being less expensive. Mr. Blonde], a Belgian
traveller, who had been taken prisoner in the upper
part of Abyssinia, has been released from the hands of
his captors, and is now at Cartoum, through the me-
dium of Mehemet Ali, who sent strict orders to
Ahmed Pacha, Governor-General of Soudan, to em-
ploy every means to liberate him. The Pacha has
lately been taking into consideration the improvement
of the transit through Egypt. At one time he talked
of having a railroad laid down between Suez and
Cairo, but the difficulties and expenses attending this
work would be so very great, that he now seems de-
termined to cut a canal through the Desert, thus
having an easy and free communication by water all
the way across the country. On the 19th inst. the
Government sold by public auction 10,000 ardebs of
wheat, which fetched an average price of 47 piastres
per ardeb, equal to 19s. per imperial quarter, free on
board ; also 10,000 ardebs of beans, and 5,000 ardebs
of lentils, which found buyers at 28 piastres per
ardeb, equal to 11 s. per quarter, free on board.
Prices of all seeds and grain have declined from 12
to 16 per cent. since the arrival of the English
steamer. Hopes are now entertained of having a
good Nile this year, and during the last fortnight the
water in the river has been increasing rapidly, and on
the 17th the canal of Cairo was cut, which proves
that then the land began to be inundated.
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TUE FUNDS—(CL

USING PRICES.)
FUNDS.
India Stock 251 pm
Ditto Bonds ...... —pm
Ditto Old Annuities —
Ditto New Annuities
Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d pm
Ditto 5001 pm
Ditto Small 49 pm
Bank Stock for Acct —
India Stock for Acet...
Consols for Acct....... 931
I FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
IPrussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 pei cent ll2
Ditto, Metallic .....
Spanish, 5 per cent l6i
Ditto, Deferred.... • ,
French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Exchange —c.
French, 3 percent —f. —c.
Dutch, 21 per cent. 52
!Ditto, 5 per cent. .• ... 102 k
SHARES.
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) 49
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 844
Ditto New Shares ( 50 paid).. 6l*
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 331
Ditto Loan Notes (10 paid)
London and Blackwall ( paid) 7i
London and Birmingham (90) ...... ........
Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 4Bi
London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) 59/
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto New Shares (30 paid)
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid)...... 2311
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto Thirds (211. 13s. 4d. paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)... 221
Ditto Scrip (10 paid)

BRITISH
Bank Stock 1661
3 per Cent. Red. 931
3 per Cent. Cons 92&
3i per Cent. Red 1011
New 3i per Cent... loli
I\l,m, 5 per Cen: —
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ... l2i

Oct. 1859

Jab. 1860..

FOREIG
Austrian, 5 per cent. ll2
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds —
Bueno s Ayres 6 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824 204
Danish, 3 per cent B3k
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 36
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian, 1625, 6 per et.

ALLEGED VIOLENCE OF THE POLICE ON KEN..
NINGTON-COMMON.—An inquiry was commenced yester-
day at the Lamb public-house, Lamb's-fields, Bethnal-
green, before Mr. Baker, on the body of Richard Ellis,
aged 62, who was examined at Union Hall, and ordered
to find bail for attending a-Chartist meeting on Ken-
nington-common, on Monday, the 22d ult. The de-
ceased attended the meeting of Chartists at Kennington
on the day named, and was taken into custody. On his
return to Highgate after hiS liberation, he complained
of severe ill-usage from the police, whom he said beat
him about the head and arms with their truncheons. He
was insensible from Thursday week up to his death,
which took place on Thursday last. Previous to his
decease, he was removed to his wife's residence, No. 4,
Lamb's•gardens, Betl:n►►l-green, and was attended by
Mr. Taylor, a surgeon, who could not state the precise
cause of death; but it was his opinion the deceased had
died from natural causes. The testimony was of a con-
flicting character, one witness stating that the deceased
had sustained personal injuries at Maldon, in Essex,
about a fortnight since, and the surgeon denied there
was any appearance of bruises on the head of the de-
ceased. It was stated deceased had had brain fever,
and was subject to fits, and the investigation was ad-
journed until this day, for the purpose of obtaining fur-
ther medical and other evidence.