The Sun.
London, England, 1845-11-21 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,
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er not offered upon lower terms, but there are
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,tion THE LONDON
(Is EVENING.) GAZETTE,
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has induced the trade to operate with more freedom.
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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. At the Court at Windsor, the 20th day of November, 1845, Notwithstanding the low rates at which Hyson is to
present the Queen's most Excellent Majesty in Council. It purchased, still the trade operates with caution. Imperial
--681.--.
has been taken with caution. Gunpowder dull of sale.
NE %V PORT liament, which stands prorogued to Thursday the twenty-
PA GNELL is this day ordered by her Majesty in Council, that the Par- has
Orange Pekoe has been purchased with more free-
seventh day of November instant, be further prorogued to does and prices arc firmer, fine bringing 2s 10d to 31. Young
STEEPLE CHASE Tuesday the sixteenth day of December next.
Hyson has been sold to a fair extent. The lower sorts of
Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right
Congou are a little cheaper than last year, whilst the better
Hon. Rowland Viscount Hill to be Lord Lieutenant and are much the same as at that time. Twankay is a little
cheaper than last season, and Hyson, Imperial, and Gun-
tHlS DAY.-(BY EXPRESS.) Custos Rotulorum of the county of Salop, his Lordship this
day took the oaths appointed to be taken thereupon, instead powder are sel to is per lb lower.
of the oaths of allegiance and supremacy. FRUIT.-Since this day week there has been a brisker de-
Sweepstakes of 25 soya. each, with 100 added. In pursuance of the directions of an Act, passed in the mend for all descriptions : the public sales have been very
1 twenty-fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty King extensive. All bought in, but a great part appears to have
Vanguard • George the Third, intituled "An Act to repeal so much of been subsequently sold. By private contract some largish
Eagle
cel of new Cephalonia offered at public sale and
his present Majesty, as authorises the Speaker of the House
Fourteen started.
of Commons to issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown bought in at 48s; a portion has been sold pri-
--- for making out writs for the election of Members to vately below that price. Fine Valentias are in demand
OVERLAND MAIL serve in Parliament, in the manner therein mentioned, and
for substituting other provisions for the like pur- at 435, and are very scarce. Sinee thiS day week 70,000
drums Figs have been offered at public sale, but the greater
----.0.--_ poses ;" I do hereby give notice, that the death of part being of inferor quality have been bought in, a few
lots selling from 38s to 645. Imperial French Plums,in ear-
-1 APIA AND CHINA. John Irving, Esq., late a Member serving in this present
Parliament for the county of Antrim, hath been certified to tons 100 s to 1315,. halt-cartons 102 s to 1265, quarter
. cartons
102 s to 1355, eighth cartons 95s to 132 s : Prunes, at chests
me in writing, under the hands of two Members serving in
We have received by our extraordinary express, in antics- and half-chests 28s to 30s. A parcel of new Greek Figs, in
this present Parliament ; and that I shall issue my warrant
cases, were offered and taken in at 325.
potion of the Indian Mail of the 15th October, our papers and to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the
correspondence to that date. electing of a Member to serve in this present Parliament for &num.-For all descriptions of Jamaica Rum prices rule
Our dispatches bring-the account of the death of Jowahir the said county of Antrim, at the end of fourteen days after very firm, but the supply at market is small, especially of
the good and fine qualities. There has been a falling off in
the insertion of this notice in the London Gazette.-Given
Singh; the Wuzeer, by the Seikh soldiery, in revenge for tl:e the home and export demand this week, and the total
under my hand the 19th day of November, 1845,
death of Peahens Singh. The Queen-Mother continues to di-
CHARLES SHAW LEFEVRE, Speaker. sales amount to only 250 puncheons, at 3s 7d to 3s 10d
rest the, State affairs. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Soutbamptonshire. for 29 to 36 per cent. over proof, and small parcels of
Letters to the 24th from Lahore state that Meeean Prithee North Hants Yeomanry Cavalry-Captain W. H. T. better quality at 43 to 5s per gallon. Leeward Island is
had at •first been appointed to carry on provisionally the Hawley to be Adjetant, Nov. 8. wanted, but business has been checked by the scanty supply,
POOR-LAW COMMISSION OFFICE, and buyers are compelled to pay 2s 2d to 21 3d proof
affable of the State. Raja Lall Singh had been released; Somerset-house, Nov. 18, 1845. strength. In Calcutta sales have been made at 2s llid
and Jewun Singh, who had not gene far, having been seized, This is to notify, that the Poor-law Commissioners have to 2s 2d proof with certificate, and the market is still
scantily supplied. Of common Demerara small parcels
teceived• a good beating, but was set free. Lad Singh Mo- appointed George Grenville Wandisfort Pigott, of Dodders-
nave been sold at full prices, strong kinds are wanted and
rareea hack hidden himself among his own troops. On the hall, in the county of Buckingham, Esq , to be an As-
fetch 3s 2d to 3s 6d. The stock of all kinds is still on the de-
24th Prithee Singh was deprived of the seals of office, and sistant Poor-law Commissioner, pursuant to the pro.vi-
decline, and
.the consumption is going on satisfactorily.
the Ranee assumed the full powers of Shine. sions of an Act, passed in the fifth year of the reign
Prices are still under those of last year. Brandy is little
of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, in-
wanted, and the tendency of prices still downwards ; the
There is no news from Sinde. tituled " An Act for the amendment and better adminis.
The ex-King of Caubul died of cholera at Loodianah. tration of the laws relating to the poor in England and stock here is a frill average one. Of Geneva several parcels
The Nizam's dominions continue disordered, and it is Wales;" and that the said George Grenville Wandisfort have been taken for exportation. For English Corn Spirits
thought that hostilities will be resorted to. Pigott, on the 18th day of November instant, took the oath
the demand has been active at 10* 9d per gallon nett cash,
required by the 11th section of the Act, before the Hon. Mr. and a further advance it is expected will shortly take place.
A civil war is threatening Burmah, Justice Patteson, one of the judges of her Majesty's Court of Malt Spirits, according to quality, is worth 12s Sd to 13s 6d.
Gin has has been extensively dealt in.
There is nothing new from China.-Evening paper. Queen's Bench.-By order o the Board,
EDWIN CHADWICK, Sectetary. Ons.-Although there are sellers of Gallipoli Oil upon
EXCHEQUER .-(THIS DAY.) WHITEHALL, Nov. 18. rather lower terms, still the home trade operate with caution,
of Bangor, in the county of Carnarvon, Gent., to be a Master
and there are few export orders. Rape Seed Oil is still
(Sittings in Banco.) The Lord Chancellor has appointed Hugh Beaver Roberts,
wanted, and prices are kept up, the supply being small. For
- THE ArrORNEY-GINERAL V. BRYAN.
Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery. I, alm the demand has fallen off, and a decline in the
This was an information filed against the defendant, who BANKRUPTS. value has taken place. Cocoa at present is not
was a paper-maker at Bristol, for infringing the Excise laws John Brown, builder, Hornsey-road, Middlesex, to sur- to be had upon lower terms, but it is little
by, sending out paper without the legal and proper stamp, render Nov. 28, at half-past one, and Jan. 10, at twelve, at e anted. For Linseed Oil further reduced rates
being previously placed upon it, which was tried 'n the sit-
the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Basin have been taken, and for forward delivery many contracts
g-
tings after 'Trinity Term, and a verdict returned for the
hall-street; Elderton, Lothbury ; Richards, Croydon.' have been entered into at 24s 3d to 24* 6d. Cod has further
Crown. _Mr. Chambers subsequently obtained a rule nisi Charles Bowen, wine merchant, Harp-lane, Tower-street, declined in value, but in consequence of 281. per ton having
falling upon • the Crown to show cause why the verdict been accepted, the operations'have been on a more extended
City, Nov. 28, at one, and Jan. 10, at eleven, at the Court of
should not be set aside and a new trial had, on the groundßankruptcy.
. scale. In Seal there has been more business transacted, but
that the Lean* Basingh
Judge who tried the cause had rejected evi-
treet Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Gale,
upon easier terms.
Tarseow.-Importers of Russia have been more inclined
once which was of great importance to the defendant's case.
The ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR-GENERAL now appeared to George Pratt and John Bodle, builders, Queen's-road, Not-
to realise this week, there having been large arrivals, and the
ting- hill, Middlesex, Dec. 2, at twelve, and Jan. 6, at eleven,
show cause against the rule. The evidence rejected on the trialrates accepted are rather lower; on the spot, however, the
was the answer of one of the witnesses, named George Park- at the Court of
.Banruptcy, Graham, official assignee, Cole-
demand has been very good. 41s 9d to 42s per cwt has been
map-street; Leigh, George-street, Mansion-house.
burst, to a question from Mr. M. Chambers as to where hethe current rates for tine new Petersburgh Yellow Candle.
Joseph Hamsher, glove manufacturer, Tabernacle-square,
got his information implicating the defendant in the case, or For delivery in the three first months of next year many
Horton, Dec. 2, at half-past one, and Dec. 30, at half-past
whether he was• not the source through which the Excise ob- contracts have been entered into at 42s 9d to 43s per cwt.
eleven at the Court of Bankruptcy Turquand, official as-
.H. Home made has met with a good demand at 41s 6d to 42s
dined the information against the defendant. The Crown
-objected to any answer being given to the question, and the side. nett Old Jewry-chambers; Briey. , Pancras-lane, Cheap-
nett cash.
• Court held the objection to be good. The Learned Attorney James Corse Kendall, tavern keeper, Islington, Dec. 2, at
and Solicitor-General now contended that the Court was half-past one, and Dec. 30, at half-past eleven, at the Court LATEST PRICES OF SHARES
right in allowing the objection, because it was justified by
public policy, for a Government informer was not bo , of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street;:
- ' Wells, Bell-yard, Doctors'-comMons. ' N BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER 00M-
disclose the channels by which he obtained his informal' ..,PANIES' STOCK.
although it might tend to discredit the evidence of the wit- George Sawyer, tailor, Lewes, Sussex, Dec. 5, at half-ast twelve, and Jan. 13, at half-past eleven, at the Court of --00...--.
nese and materially benefit the defendant, inasmuch as such Vlankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, From tie Official List,
a disclosure might hold him up to public ignominy and ven- Old, Jewry ; Wood and Fraser, Dean-street, Soho.
% wee. It was a well-established rule that private hard- William Henry Blackmore, plumber, Dean. street, Soho, PrELISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIIIG ,
11 ips must give-way to the public convenience; but, never- Dec. 2, at half past two, and Jan. 7, at twelve, at the Court LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21.
theless, it was for the Court then to decide whether such a of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street- ?DINT-STOCK 2.11.3F1L8s
rule existed or not. Now there was no doubt that it did buildings; Wood and Fraser, Dean-street, Soho. •
exist ; and next came the point-upon what was that rule John Parr, coal-dealer, Paddington, Dec. 5, at twelve, and Dividend Amount 1
founded? Why it was founded upon public policy. Well, Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, Name of Company, per of Paid. - Pries
then, the Court next had to consider whether it was a pare- official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Maples,
.-.
..-.
mount rule, or whether it was to give way to a rule which,
Pearce, Stevens, and Maples, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. £ s. d. X s. d,
at first sight, appeared to be an inferior rule. Now they
Charles Morgan Harman, veterinary surgeon, Milbank-
Australasia • ... ••. • • . 6/. per cent. 40 0 Q 40 0 0 32
contended that the private rule and advantage must give Brash North American 4/, per cent. 50 11 -0 50 • 0 47
street, Westminster, Nov. 28, at two, and Jan. 10, at one, Brash
lof London 51. per cent. 100 0 0 20 o o - 24
tray to the public good, and therefore the Court properly re-
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, Aldermanbury, official Colonial... . ...... .... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 15%
jeered the evidence in question, which would have had the
assignee ; Barton, Wolsingham -place, Kennington-road. Londn.andWestminstr 6L per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 251,6
exffe expense of 'public policpu ct of serving the
yroses of a private
convenience. individual at the
Robert Worley-, provision merchant, Newgate-street, Dec. London Joint-Stock ... 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13-4
epand public
2, at eleven, and Jan. 6, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Metropolitan ......... - 25 0 0 710 0
Mr. M. CHAMBISRB admitted that certain parties, such as Provincial of Ireland.. 81. percent. 100 0 o 25 0 0 47%
attorneys and pries Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; ts, were exempted from the general rule Lawrence and flews, Bucklersbure, Ditto, New.,. -.• • . 81, per cent. 10 0010 0 o 244
'National of Ireland • • 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 19%
of evidence that witnesses were bound to answer questions William Atkin, grocer, Stockton-Tees, Durham, Nov. Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51 per cent. 100 0
calculated to elicit the truth or simplify the circumstances of 28, at one, and Dec. 30, at two, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Ditto, New.... • 51.• per cent. 20 00e ?50 0 9 -
the case under consideration, and a witness could claim this District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon- Union of Australia:: .. - 25 0025 0 o 24%
exemption when questions were put to him which involved Tyne; Harle, Newcastle- upon-Tyne ; Chisholme, Hall, and Union of L0nd0n..... 51. per cent. 40 0010 0 0 13
a great public policy. In cases, for instance, of high treason,
'
a witness could refuse to answer questions tending to hold Gibson, Lincoln s Inn-fields.
WATER-WORKS
William Lancelot Kelly, printer, Tewkesbury, Dec. 5, at
up parties engaged in the public service to odium and con- one, and Jan. 2, at eleven at the Bristol District Court. -
tempt, but, the present case was not of such great public Kynaston, official assignee, Bristol ; Baylis and Drewe, Basing- Dividend Amount 1
magnitude and importance. It was, on the contrary, a simple hall-street, London ; Richards and Co., Tewesbury. Name of Company. per of ' I Paid. Price.
petty natter of misdemeanour and finesse, and the privilege William Chaloner, tailor, Lincoln, Dec. 2 and 23, at
and exemption claimed by the witness Parkhurst did not el •
even, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official as- - t
apply to,it. 'He contended, moreover, that Parkhurst was • , .£ s, d. 1
signee, Leeds ; Pocock, Bartholomew-close, London ; East London...-. • ... 1 81. 100 00 ; - 230
the informer himself and had an interest in the case, and he Menem, Barnsley; Bond, Leeds. Grand Junction ...• ~, 31. 46 13 4 I - 92
was, therefore,. entitled to put the objected question to him, PRICE OF SUGAR. Kent •••••••• • • • • • • • • 21. 10s. 100 00 ' -
to test his credibility, unless it would violate some over- h auxa 51
Vll ............
The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, cem- . per cent. 100 0 0 -
whelming public principle, which he had already shown it puted front the Returns made in the week ending the 18th West Middlesex .... -41.16 e. pr ct. ,6312 9 -• 130
could not do. The other rule relied on the case of Hardy, day of November, 1845, is 38s. Id. per cwt.
who was tried some years ago for high treason, and he relied ngsviusmicz cOMPALNIXIS.
hiinsAf open the same case. In that case the Lord Chief BANK OF ENGLAND.
Justice held that the channels of information for the public Dividend Amount 1
good must be protected, and the names of third parties to (From this Night's Gazette.) Name of Company. per of I Pal& Price.
whom given, information had been who did not appear as An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria,
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witnesses, could not be disclosed. But that was not the cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 15th day. of
, 1 8. d. £ 5. d.
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state of the cams here. The question put to the witness was, November, 1845.
B,A Alliancetrtiiilbitatiistniti.o...3.liarri.
Commercial
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163618.p.3p6e1edr.
r.lcpOenst
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cent, . 51150000000
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not "to whom did you give information?" but, did you do ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
so and se; and the Court had never yet interposed to pre- .Z. X.
.. 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7i
Ten/ such a question being answered. In cases of high Notes issued ...... 26,974,685 Government debt 11,015,100
Clencl,Med.& Gen• Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 i
trafren they, were prohibited from asking, to whom did you Othersecurities... 2,984,900
give such and such information, as they were not pre- Gold coin and bul- 210 1 6%
County •.•.••• . ~ • • • • 31. 100 0 0 1 10 0 0
vented from asking, " did you give such and such infor- lion 11,478,722 '9s. and a
minion." • The case of Watson had also been mentioned, in Silver bullion 1,495,963 Crown ............'' f i... bs. s 40 0 II 1 5 0 0 -
00 2520
00
00 3
which Mr. Dowling, a short-hand writer, was protected from
answering a particular question, as to whom and whether £26,974,685 £26,974,635 Economic Life €si 0r
ct.,}
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. Eng.& Scot. Law Life 5l, p3e°rs•cent.b'
oci
he gave certain information ; but it would have laid him
open to great danger and held him up to execration. But it Dated the 20th day of November, 1845. European Life-. -•• • 54 per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
must be remembered, that Mr. Dowling was only a corrobo- Freemasons' ..• •••• • • •• 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Guardian
BANKING DEPARTMENT. Globe
51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 o 61
native witness, and not the informer himself. In the re-
X. £. - 142
cent case of O'Connell, a witness was protected by the Court Pro rietors' capita 1,14,653,000 Government seen- Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 o 50 0 0 235
from giving up the names of certain parties, but he was not Rest
privileged from a question as to whether he gave such and
Public deposits (in- Dead Weight Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 5 'l3 1 29
such information calculated to throw discredit upon him or Law Life .. • • •• • . .. • •
eluding Exche- Annuity)
London London
Ship Fir e .: ..
.... ..
.... 11. 55. )00 0 0 10 0 0 51
his evidence. ' quer, Savings- Other securities 15,041,397 Legal and General Life - 60 0 0 20 0 6%
00
00 ,
1152 100
00 2)4
Mr, Baron PARKE-Yon admit, Mr. Chambers, that the
Marine .... .........
banks, Commis- Notes • 5,483,110108. 25 0 0 12 10 0 154
question, " to whom did you give such and such information,
sinners of National Gold and silver
51. per cent. 12005
or from whom did you receive such and such instructions," Debt, and divi- coin 595,401 Med. Inylid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 20 0 3
cannot be put. dend accounts) 6,524,834 ~. .. • ;National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 al,
Mr. Citeemene-Certainly, ray Lord.
Other deposits...... 8,899,130 •s 's National Life .....• ... a per cont. 100 0 0 8 0 0 "*
Mr. Baron PARKE-But you can ask, " did you give such •
~ . Palladium Life,.
day and other Seven
an ot er 5/. per cent. 60 o o 2 Q 0,, 21. 2s.
35
and such information?", : •- - • ,
bills .:. s. ., „..- -Mena .. ~
1,101,49 =' • I. '' - - Pio -e, 3L wet. & bs. - -, '
Life... 51. teat. 20 ' 210
Mr. CHlalliEsce-rust 80 ,'.my Lord. ' s- ,11=
_____,L_ J.,, 5...). (~‘„,
~,,
___,.0.02 efit e•••• • • • • per 0 ''',
_i 1 ~0, oy ii?..23.
Mr. Baron Paurrx-Would not thia,' in fact, then, be die-
~- • X 34,323,046 --I • -i• X 34,326,046 at.0ck•Life............ 4s.
closing the channels whence the Government obtained its
M.'IVIA•fiSHALL, Chief Cashier. . .4 Royal-Exchange 6 0 0 t ,O, Hi 0,, r 4N:
5/. „per c't'ut• Stock. ,' ' - 'Y.* ' Ise
information?
.--- . gun Firs.
Dated the 20th day of November, 1845. .- , . ...: - •
The LORD CHIEF Jesnce-Certainly it would; and I ap- Ditto Life .•. .. ... • . ii. 6s.
- ' .z. -,..4 : it
prehend, that if the witness gave the information, he is the Universal Life ..
channel whence the Government obtains its information, and PROMISSORY NOTES. -
entitled to the privilege of answering the question. ......-....._ LIST OX' SCOTTISIE COMPANIES' PRICES
Mr. CHAIIBERs submitted, then, if his Lordship's dictum (From this Night's Gazette.)
were correct they had hitherto been acting erroneously, for An account of the Average Aggregist Dividend Amount
e Amount of Promis- Name of Company. per of Paid. Price
the rule, ie be would seem, was to general and not limited, sory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been Annum. Share.
and would apply to all cases. Let them look, then, at the in circulation by the Banks in Ssotland, by the Bank of Ire-
dangerous policy they were establishing. A witness might trap land, and by all other Bents in Ireland, during the four £ 1. d. £ s. d
a third party with a crime, but the counsel for the accused weeks ending the Bth day., of November, 1845, pursuant to Bank of Scotland
would be prevented from arriving at this fact, because the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 :- Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 o 0 165.
British Linen Company OP per cent. - 100 0 0 230
the rule just laid down by their Lordships would prevent SCOTLAND. Commercial Bank •• • • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 167
him from asking, on eross-examination, " Did you not do so Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks £3,593,988 National Bank 6l. per cent. --. 10 0 0 16%
and so and give such and such information. ' That was IRELAND. Union Bank of Scotland 74 /. pr cent. - 60 0 0 9s'
Precisely the case here, and he contended that the rule only Bank of Ireland 4,374,850 Western Bank - ... •• • 6/. per cent. - 80 0 0 86
applied to higher cases of crimes and offences and not to Private and Joint-Stock Banks - 5..0 0 -7;,
petty cases of larceny and misdemeanours. He humbly Clydesdale Bank- •• •• 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 15% .
submitted, therefore, that he was strictly in order when he Eastern Bank
0 0 114
per cent • - 1 Total ••••• £11,418,528 Caledonian Bank - 210 0 6
asked the witness in this case the question complained of. H. L. WICKHAM. Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7%
Mr, Bryon Panx---Mr, Attorney, Can you tell us if it has sumps and Taxes, Nov. 21, 1845. City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - Al 5 o 164
been the Tractice to.
to ask the question complained of? Scottish Union Ins. Co. M. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 1
The ATTORNET-GENERAL replied that his experience in Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 • 14%
these ewes was so very limited, that he could not take upon COURSE OF EXCHANGE--(THIS DAY.) Insur. Co. of Scotlnd - 51: per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 104
North British Insur. • • 541. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28%
himself the responsibility of answering the question of the Amsterdam CF. 12 101 Gibraltar... .....
-.....- Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 244
Learned Baron. So far, however, as he understood, it was not ; Ditto, at sight l2 7 Leghorn ...••• ...... .„. 30 75 Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1934
but their Lordships would be good enough to remember that Rotterdam 2U.12 11 Genoa
this we., the first case where the question of "did you give such Antwerp 26 15 Milan ..... .............. - Ditto, 4 *hares.... 51. percent. 12 10 0 ,All paid. 18
and such information" had been brought before the Court. j Ramburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice . ......... - 20 0020 0 0 243(,
The question heretofore argued before the Court was not Alton* - Naples ..... ...........„ 811 GI asgw & Ayrshir Rail. 51. per cent. 50 6 0 All paid. 72
ellasew&Greenckßall. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All
" Did you give the information," but OTo whom did you Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75 Palermo, per oz. ll9i Glsgw &Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid.. 22%
give it." • Ditto, 3 months 26 5 Lisbon s2f Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 3465%*
The LORD CIIIRF BARON-The matter relates to a rule or Marseilles 26 10 Oporto.. • •.. ....... .... 52f Standard LifeAssornce.l 51 per cent. 50 0012 10 0 8.-
law of extreme importance, and as there are no Immediate Bourdeaux 26 10 Rio Janeiro ..... ...... 23
cases bearing on the point the Court will take time to con- Frankfort on Maine 1221 Bahia .........• ... ..... - ' _
eider the question. Petersburgh, 3 Us... - Buenos Ayres -- DOCICS. -
Berlin - NewYork,2ldyssight -- Dividend 1 Amount
Vienna, effee. fio.
Paid. I price.
ECUADOR BONDHOLDERS. Trieste, ditto
10 8 PRICES OF BULLION, rze OZ.
(THIS DAY.) Madrid 36A Foreign Gold, bars..£3 17 9 ' -
x s. d. 'X 5. d.
To-day a meeting of the holders of Ecuador bonds (for- Cadiz
merly Colombian) was held at two o'clock, at the London Bilbao - New Doubloons.-- 00 0 Ea, tend West 1ndia...1641. pr cent.: Stock. - 131
,
Tavern, to consider the propriety of accepting an offer, made Barcelona .-- New Dollars OO 0 East Country• •. ' 11. per sh. 100 00 1
by Celonel,Wright, on behalf of the Government of Ecuador, Seville - Silver in 8ar5...... 049 i L mdon - .... - 115
in liquidation of loans contracted in 1822 and
and 1824, when that St
Southa m Katharine ..... • .. I 5 per cent.
ton •• •• . .
Stock• , - 1084
! '5O 0 91 SO 0 0 30
state formed, along with Venezuela New Grenada, the p 41. per cent.
republic ot Colombia. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. - -
Mr. Robinson was unanimously called to the chair. (From the London New Price Current of Nov. 21.) CANALS.
•
The Cletus/ease opened the business by reading Col. Wright's SUGAR-To-day the b • . t t
business transacted in the Weat In- i Dividend!
letter, cor4ailling: the proposal which appeared in all the dia Sugar market was extremely al thou limited, at ou Names of i : !Dividend Names of
Tuesday', papers. Having done so, the Hon. Gentlemanmerchants gh some oompanies. It • Price. A per Price.
... were more inclined to sell, onl 160 I per , Companies. 0
A Annum.
weq,,into an explanation of the circumstances which hadwere disposed of at decline y bhds'
ac.
ce I Annum.; tn
oa a of 6d to ls per cwt. The total -- '
led to the present meeting. The committee had • received sales for the week amount to only 540 hhds and tierces. X I • £ - ;
the proposal from Colonel Wright, and in consequence the I. y REFINED.-To-day easier rates were again taken for re- Ashtntc Oldh, 97151.55. pc, 72 Monmouthsh 100 91. 160
had thought it the wisest course to call the bondholders fined goods for home consumption, brown lumps according Ashby-d-la-Zlll3j 4/. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 51. 95
together to take their sense of the proposal. As Barnsley •- • • :160' 121. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - Is 1
a to quality, selling at 63s 6d to 655, and standard lumns 66
Means of understanding the capacity of the Stateof es 8 Basingstoke..lloo, - •- N
orth ea• .- • • 100 201 365 r
Ecuador, Colonel Wright dsupplied • - -
g t a him with a state- Bonded Crushed is again
per cwt, but. at these rates several purchases were made. Brkok&AOrglsof 51. 85. Nottingham. 150, 121.260
meat of the revenue and ex enditure for several cheaper, 33s 6d to 33s 9d per cwt Cromford....ilool 181. 150 Peak Forest. 78 3l: 40
I
The following is anabstract fp h
o t estatement in question :- deal doing. Dudley lOOl 41.' - Regent's ."..• 33 11. 25% ,
Derby .• •• • 1100; 81. 103 Rochdale ... •65 41. 54 • -
In 1839, revenue 1,007,480 dolls. , • expenditure 1 290 128 , , MA CRITICS.-There has been less disposition manifested Ellsmre&Chs mai 4/. 80 Shropshire •• 125 EL - f
lolls. ; deficit 28U48 dells. 1840, revenue 870 316 dolls. ; topurchase this descriptionof Sugar, but holders have Erewash •. • 'lOO 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71.
ugar, shown 10s. 123 P
expenditure 1,084,7 ta dolls.deficit2l4,397 ' Forth & Clyd boo 71..
- Do.Lk Fd St 12 6/ p. c. II 8
revenue 1/2042 dolls. • ; dolls. 1841, firmness and obtained previous rates for the small parcels die- GrandJunctn 100 71. 100 Stff d&Wo •
de-
ficit 458,527 dolls. 1842, , expenditure 1,230,569 dolls. ; de- posed of by private treaty.re 140 -281. 440 n
Grand Unionloo' 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230
revenue 703,269 dolls •ex , pen- Ewer Im:ea.-This afternoon Bengal Sugar met with little Glamorgnsh .1172' 13%1. 210 Stourbridge.. 145 201. -s.).
di tura 1,231,208 dolls.; deficit 527,839 dolls. .
1,154,236 dolls, ; expenditure 1,218 0 1843, revenue attention, and at public sale 660 bags went at barely the
,43 dls. ;deficit 6 Glstrkßrkly;loo -' - Strtfrd on Av 79 It. 10s. - -
Grantham • • 150,, 121. • 100 Severn and -1 fi
He was anxione, seeing that 3,807 dls, former value. Of Penang 594 bags, 24 baskets, and 1 case
, Huddersfield.' 57j - 20 Wye Ra 11.5 26 11. 85. - Cl
in the revenue from 1842 to 1843, to know ace were offered, and went a little cheaper.
if there had b Kennt & Ann 39 75. 6d. 22 Trnt Mr-1 n ,„,
a similar improvement in 1844. In order been FoREIGN.-The market has again been scantily supplied Lancaster ...1 47, 11. 10. 40 soy, 54 sh. j ''" °"" - DP
had written to Colonel Wright for to learn this he with Foreign Sugar, but exporters and our refiners working Leeds& Livrp, 100' 341. 525 Tharns &Med 19 - '' 10 b
information
, but) e(the
Chairman) had not received any answer, arising, under hood are cautious in their proceedings, but holders Leicester ....140 101. 105 Worcstr ic-i
from that gentleman being out of town. .no doubt, show firmness, and refrain from pressingeales. Leicatr &Nth 83 41. 62 Binning. j , 78 4/. 49 a
Looking at the LoughborOgh;l42 701. 840 Wilts lc Brks 67 11. 4s. 11
Dronosal made in all its bearings, he was not dia,,,--, -_ MOLASSES, West India previous rates are asked, the •

Dividend Amount 1
Name of Company, per of Paid. Pries
Annum. Share.
s. d. s. d.
Australasia •. • . 6/. per cent. 40 0 Q 40 0 0 32
Britsh North American 4/. per cent. 50 I •0 50 • 0 47
Commercia lot London 91. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 24
Colonial... . ...... 51. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 1534
Londe and Westminstr 61. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 253 k
London Joint-Stock .. • 6/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 135
Metropolitan 25 0 0 710 0
Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 e; 0- 47%
Ditto, New.— .. .• • . 81. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 24%
'National of Ireland .. 54 per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 10
Nat. Provincial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 9 35 0 I
Ditto, •• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0
Union of Australia.... 25 0 0 25 0 0 24%
Union of L0nd0n..... 51. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13

WATER—WORKS
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid. Price.
Annum. Share.
d.
East London.... • • 100 0 0 230
Grand Junction •. • • , 31. 46 13 4 ' 92
Kent •••.•••• • • • • • • • • 21. 10s. 100 0 0
Vauxhall •. • . .•. • • • 51. par cent. 100 0 0
West Middlesex .... • • 41.16 e. pr ct. , 63 12 9 130

INSURANCE COMPANIES.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of Paid, Price.
Annum. Share.
1 s. d. X s. d.
Albion 31. 10s, 500 0 0 50 0 0 74
Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 2O
Ditto Marine... •• • • 61. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 6%
Atlas .•.•.••• • • • • • • • • 138. 6d. pr sh. 50 0 0 5 0 0 16%
British Commercial 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 74
Clericl,Med.& Gen•Lifo 51. per cent. 100 00i2 10 1 6%
31. 100 0 0 1 10 0 0
'
Crown .. • • ...... •• • • 9s. and li. ~. b 3.1 40 olb 1 50 0 -
Eagle • • 6s. 50 0015 0 11 5%
Economic Life s's per ct.,}
1000 0 0 250 0 0
I & 30s.bs.
Eng. & Scot. Law Life 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 3
European Life.... •• • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20
Freemasons' ..• •••• • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0
Globe - 142%
Guardian •••••• • • • • • • 51. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 61
Imperial Fire ••.• • • • • 121. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 235
Imperial Life.. •••• • • • 12s. 100 0010 0 0 16%
Indemnity Marine •• • • 11. sh. & be. 100 0 0 5 .13 1 29
Law Life •••••• • • .. - 11. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 51
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 6%
London Fire ......... 10s. 25 0012 10 0 15%
London Ship ........ 10s. 25 0012 10 0 15%
Marine .... •..•• • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 01 15 0 0 10%
Med. Inylid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 20 0 3
.National Loan Fund.. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 21,
National Life .....• ... 81. per cont. 100 0 0 8 0 0 ,
Palladium Life,. Si. per cent. 60 0 0 2 Q 421. 2s.
Plicenix •,. - -' ' .._ 210
Pi
evo 'ectro• Life .. ..
-PrZent Life ll. ss. 100 001.10 0 „ 0, -,, 24
atock'Life.... • ....... 4s. 60 8 ' ,O, 1091 , r 4N..
Royal-Exchange Si. per elnit. Stock. . ' -". ' ' 186
Sun Fire r..
Ditto Life . • . .. ... • . it. 6,.
Universal Life ..
LIST Or SCOTTISIE COMPANIES' PRICES
Dividend Amount
same of Company. per of Paid. Price
Annum. Share.
----
Bank of Scotland
100 0 0 174
Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 16.5.
British Linen Company ilk per cent. - 100 0 0 230
Commercial Bank ... • 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 167
National Bank 6l. per cent. ....• 10 0 0 16%
Union Bank of Scotland 7%1. pr cent. - 50 0 0 98%
Western Bank .. ... •• • 6/. per cent. - 80 0 0 86
North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. -5, 0 0 7N
Clydesdale Bank.... • • 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 15%
Eastern Bank.. - 10 0 0 114
Caledonian Bank - 210 0 6
Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7%
City of Glasgow Bank . 51. per cent. - 815 0 161,4
Scottish Union Ins. Co. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 10 I 14
Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 • 14%
Incur. Co. of Scotlnd • • 51: per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 104
North British Incur. • • 5%1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 I 211S1
Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24%
Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19%
Edin. St Glasg. Railway 51. per cent. 50 0' 0 50 0 0 68
Ditto, .% *bares sl.per cent. 12 10 0 All paid. 18
Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0020 0 0 24%
Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 51. per cent. 50 6 0 All paid. 72
61asgw & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 22%
Glsgw&Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45 •
Dundee& Arbroth Rall. 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 36%
Standard LifeAssarnce.j 51 per cent. 150001 2 10 0 s

'Mr. Robinson was unanimously called to the chair.
The Cumnat.kx opened the business by reading Col. Wright's
letter, containing; the proposal which appeared in all the
Tuesday'; papers. Having done so, the Hon. Gentleman
werOnto an explanation of the circumstances which had
led to the present meeting. The committee had received
the proposal from Colonel Wright, and in consequence they
had thought it the wisest course to call the bondholders
together to take their sense of the proposal. As a
means of understanding the capacity of the State of
Ecuador, Colonel Wright had supplied him with a state-
ment of the revenue and expenditure for several years.
The following is an abstract of, thestatement in question :
In 1839, revenue 1,007,480 dolls. ; expenditure 1,290,128
; deficit 282,648 dolls. 1840, revenue 870,316 dolls. ;
expenditure 1,084,713 dolls. ; deficit 214,397 dolls. 1841,
revenue 7/72,042 dolls.; expenditure 1,230,569 dolls. ; de-
ficit 458,527 dolls. 1842, revenue 703,269 dolls. ; expen-
diture 1,231,208 d 0115..; deficit 527,839 dolls. 1843, revenue
1,154,236 dolls, ; expenditure 1,218,043 dls. ; deficit 63,807 dls.
lie was anxious, seeing that a great increase had taken place
in the revenue from 1842 to 1843, to know if there had been
a similar improvement in 1844. In order to learn this he
had written to Colonel Wright for information, but ke (the
Chairman) bad not received any answer, arising, no doubt
from that ,
gentleman being out of town. Looking at the
proposal made in all its bearings, he was not disposed to ac-
sixth to the terms. They were
a promised only a
of their flebt, though itappeared there was
no security for even that, the expenditure being greater
than the revenue. Beyond the one per cent. per annum
premised, there was no likelihood of increase, unless they
could manage to send out from :5,000 to 25,000 persons as
emigrants, as they were promised 1 per cent. for every 5,000
persons "lent out; but that proposal was not likely to be
realised, as there was a great objection to South America as a
field of emigration. But even were that practicable, which he
did not think it was, they would require at least 120,000/. as
a fund to carry, that into effect. He left it in their hands to
deal with the proposition as they thought fit. He could
not, however, advise them to accept the terms; the sum was
so paltry that he was almost ashamed to name it to them.
Whether the rejection of the proposal would lead to better
terms, as had been stated by a writer in the Times the other
day, he could not say, as he was ignorant of the resources
and means at the disposal of Ecuador to merit its obli-
gation.
After a .brief discussion, in which the strongest feeling
was expressed against the proposal, a resolution was put and
carried, with but' two dissentients, that it be rejected. It
was also Oggendlhat:the Committee be empowered to take
measures to effect more favourable terms for the bondholders
and that the assistance of the British Government be '
re-
quested to forward their negotiatiobs,
The meeting then broke up.

(From the London New Price Current of Nov. 21.)
SUGAR—To-day the business transacted in the West In-
dia Sugar market was extremely limited, although some
merchants were more inclined to sell, only 160 hhds, &c.
were disposed of at a decline of 6d to Is per cwt. The total
sales for the week amount to only 540 hhds and tierces.
REFINED.—To-day easier rates were again taken for re-
fined goods for home consumption, brown lumps according
to quality, selling at 638 6d to 655, and standard lumps 66s
per cwt, but at these rates several purchases were made.
Bonded Crushed is again cheaper, 33s 6d to 33s 9d per cwt
having been taken for the best. In Loaves there is a good
deal doing.
MA CRITICS.—There has been less disposition manifested
to purchase this description of Sugar, but holders have shown
firmness and obtained previous rates for the small parcels die-
posed of by private treaty.
EAST INDIA. —This afternoon Bengal Sugar met with little
attention, and at public sale 660 bags went at barely the
former value. Of Penang 594 bags, 24 baskets, and 1 case,
were offered, and went a little cheaper.
FOREIGN.—The market has again been scantily supplied
with Foreign Sugar, but exporters and our refiners working
under hoed are cautious in their proceedings, but holders
show firmness, and refrain from pressing sales.
Morasses.—For West India previous rates are asked, the
supply at market being small, but there has been a consi-
derable falling off in the demand this week, and only small
parcels have been sold. Bengal Treacle is worth 19s to 21s
per cwt, and is wanted. In Honey there has again been a
good deal done, and prices keep on the advance.
SPICES.—Today the market was well supplied with Cassia
Lignea, and three parcels amounting to 1,812 chests were
brought to auction ; the trade evinced little desire to ope-
rate, and a small part only sold at a decline on the rates of
the last auction of 3s to 4s per cwt. Malabar Pepper met
with little attention. Of Nutmegs 3 chests sold, good brown
at 5s 4d per lb.
Cocoa.—British Plantation has been purchased with cau-
tion by private treaty, and former rates have been barely
supported, Trinidad grey selling at 38s to 435, red 39s to 445,
and superior 45s to 475. None has beeri offered at auction.
Foreign is little wanted, and prices are on the decline.
COFFEE.—This afternoon Ceylon Coffee was in excellent
request, and at auction 3,305 bags were all sold at an ad-
vance on former rates of is per cwt; good ordinary bold pale
Native bringing 48s 6d to 49s 6d, one lot 50s,and bold Triage
46s 6d to 47s per cwt. By private treaty several parcels of
Native and Plantation were disposed of.
TEA.—The market has presented a tranquil appearance for
all descriptions this week, there having been further arrivals,
and the stock of Black rind Green' beirig large- causing -the
trade to be cautious in their proceedings. Congou of all
kinds has been purchased with ..sution, and the rates taken
have been rather under those previously quoted. Fotiehong

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, 1845

OPENING OF THE PORTS.
MANCHESTER, THURADAY.—This morning, at 11 o'clock, a
very numerous meeting of the merchants, bankers, manufac-
turers, tradesmen, and other inhabitants of the borough of
Manchester, was held in the large room of the Town-hall,
King-street, "for the purpose of taking into consideration the
propriety of memorialising her Majesty's Government in fa-
vour of opening the ports for the free admission of grain and
all other kinds of provisions, to avert the calamity likely to
arise from the scarcity of food, owing to the failure of the po-
tato crop and the defective quality of the wheat harvest."
The meeting was convened by the Mayor, on the requisition
of upwards of 800 firms and individuals of station in the town.
Mr. W. B. Watkins, Mayor, presided, and on the platform we
observed Mr. Phillips, M.P.'Brotherton, M.P.,
Mr. Messrs.
Aldermen W. Nield, C. J. S. Walker, James Kershaw, John
Mason, J. Shuttleworth, P. F. Willert, A. Kay, E. Armitage,
and John Burd ; also Messrs. G. Wilson, T. Bazley, Presi-
dent of the Chamber of Commerce ; Absalom Watkin, J. B.
Smith, James M'Laren, Sidney Potter, Benjamin Pearson,
W. Bickham, W. Woodcock, Robert Gardner, J. Chadwick,
J. Watts, Rev. W. M'Kerrow, W. Gaskell, Joseph Greave,
Thomas Woolley, Samuel Lees, J. S. Grafton, Joseph Simp-
son, T. H. Williams, W. Morris, Thomas Hardbottle, and
ethers.
The MAYOR said, that independent of the obiect of the
meeting, the respectability of the requisition would have-
warranted him in calling such a meeting. They were met
to memorialise her Majesty's Government, and he hoped the
business would be transacted not only with good temper, but
with great spirit, ankif there were any gentlemen present
who differed as to the objects of the meeting, he hoped they
would have a fair hearing. He would, without further
comment, call on Mr, R. IL Greg to move the first resolu-
tion.

Mr. GREG then came forward, and observed, that if he had
been asked to sign such a requisition a month ago he would
not have consented to do so; but now that so alarming a
necessity, ad presented itself he did not hesitate to ask for the
opening of the ports. It was well known that there was a
failure of the wheat crop, and that the weather fer, gathering
it in was another source of scarcity. He had been in Scotland
last week, and in some of the most. fnrward districts the wheat
crop had not been gathered. He regretted the further cala-
mity which arose from the failure of the potato crops, a de-
scription of sustenance which formed a large portion of the
food of the people of Ireland, Scotland, and the north of Eng-
land. When the extent of that disease became known, the
cry was raised " Open the ports," and that cry was re-echoed
by the press without regard to politics. Four Cabinet Councils
had been held, and he did not hesitate to say that nine-tenths of
the population were ready to see the result of those meet-
ings in the opening of the ports ; but from some cause which
he could not explain, no order was issued for the admission of
foreign grain. Some people said that the sadden opening of
the ports would have the effect of advancing the price of corn
in other markets, but this ho believed to be a fallacy. He
was decidedly of opinion that the sliding-scale was one of the
greatest curses that ever afflicted this country. He concluded
by moving the following resolution:—" That the deficiency
of the harvest and the failure of the potato crop in many
parts of the 'United Kingdom have produced the utmost ap-
prehension among all classes of the community, and are cir-
cumstances imperatively requiring the immediate considera-
tion of her Majesty's Government."
Mr. J. HEYWOOD, in seconding the resolution, said that
the cultivation of the potato crop was one of the causes of
keeping on the corn-laws. As the price of grain advanced
the cultivation of the potato root progressed, and it was 4
curious fact that a disease in that root should now ce:ane to
facilitate the repeal of the corn-laws. In Englan y the disease
felt.
might not be so great, but in Scotland it
'seas severe
In Lanarkshire meetings had been heir?, et which statements
were made from which it afpe,areL that at least one-half of
the crop was diseased. In
11-stand the suffering created 1i
the the disease was greater tLon in any other part of the king-
dom, owing to the fa's'c that potatoes were the staple food of
the people of that country. After a few remarks on the dis-
puted tenitor, in America, he concluded by seconding the
resolution, which was put and carried unanimously.
Mr. Alderman KAy moved the next resolution. He had
no desire to be considered an alarmist, but when he saw the
present, and contemplated the future state of this vast dis-
trict., he could not help arging the people of Manchester to
devise means to avert a calamity which must inevitably
ensue. If the ports be not opened, or some other measure
adopted, famine and great distress, he was sure, would over-
take the inhabitants of the manufacturing districts. He then
took a review of the difference of the prices of food, and con-
tended that, when food was cheap manufactures were
prosperous. They (the people of Manchester) were met for
the purpose of demanding from Her Majesty's Ministers the
opening of the ports, and he hoped every district in the
kingdom would make the same demand in terms lot to be
misunderstood. He was no party man ; the time was come
when all names in politics should be forgotten, and the
Ministers told that the people were not to be- allowed to
starve for the protection of sectional interests.--The
worthy Alderman then read lengthy extracts from a
work entitled Manchester in 1844. We copy a few' of the ex-
tracts :—" In Manchsster, in March, 1844, there were 116
factories and other mills which had ceased working; 681
shops and offices had been closed, and 5,492 houses were un-
occupied. The value of Mill buildings and machinery had
lessened fully one-half • and five spinning mills, estimated
at 211,0001., only found buyers at the sum of 66,0001. The
butchers, grocers, and linendrapers declared that their daily
sales had decreased 40 per cent. A committee of relief,
formed for the distribution of clothing and bedding to the
poor, visited, in the course of the year 1840, 10,000 families,
containing 45,591 1n(13-eiduals, of whom 2,000 could not be
relieved for want
cs's funds. The rooms and cellars occupied by
these unfort':.nete beings were entirely destitute of furniture.
Bricks Ps-id logs of wood were the substitutes for tables and
Heaps ofshavings, litters of straw, defiled with all sorts
'sr impurities, served them for beds. Frequently several families
occupied different corners of the same chamber, and there
was no separation of the sexes, save the distance between the
beds of straw. It was found that a certain portion of the
town, consisting of No. 1 and part of No. 2 districts, con-
tained 2,000 families, numbering 8,866 persons, earning on
the average is. lid. only per head per week, being at the
rate of ss. 3id. only per week for each family. The
number of pawn-tickets possessed by these families was
22,417, and not 27,417 ; and, upon the articles thus
pawned, the amount of 2,780/. 14s. 4d. had been advancd."
" In Bolton, a town of 501:00 souls, 50 manufacturers em-
ployed ordinarily 8,124 workmen ; in 1842, 30 of these esta-
blishments were closed, or did not work more than four days
per week, and 5,061 hands were thus deprived wholly or in
part of the means of subsistence. Of 2,110 ironfounders and
mechanics, 785 had been thrown out of work, and the re-
mainder, viz., 1,325 of these men, who in 1836 had been
urged to make nine to twelve working days out of each week,
were reduced to four or five days per week. The other trades
had suffered the. same reduction. In short, if to the de-
creased wages of the working classes, we add the augmented
price of provisions—the loss to these operatives must have
been at least 320,5601. per annum, or upwards of 1,0001. per
day. Public charity is powerless against such calamities as
these." Stockport and ether manufacturing towns were in
the same condition. He concluded by moving the following
resolution :—" That the recollection of the calamities which
afflicted this district and the whole country during the period
of high prices of foßd,, from 1838 to 1842, renders, it impos-
sible tncontetniiiate, the reettiOnCeinf a similit'r,a44 of suf-
fering-Without mtenseranxietyserof alarm."
Mr, Alderman:Wk.km ,seconded the resoltttion, 'and ob-
_served that les time,,slie'ul4 helost ; they had 'Waited seven
years and nothingfied belen done. Sir Robert.Peel.had not
grappl,eds)vith may of the
,gri4questione wilichwesi nel-
's4r4, tor ,tlie imprevenient. gto cemslition of. the 'poor ; e
cemceded the whole question 'of, theceruelaws, ande
Wes *ell aware of the iojusticeof the sliding. scale. It had
beep said that he would repeal the corn-laws if he could,
but he (Alderman Walker) believed he mild repeal them -if
he would. He had not forgotten the advice which Sir R.
Peel had given to Lord John Russell ; be told him if he could
not tarry his measures he ought to resign. Now, he (Alder-
man Walker) would suggest to the Minister to apply that
ad*e to himself, and if his colleagues stood in the way of
the repeal of the corn-laws, let him appeal to the country,
and see if the constituencies of England would not return to
Parliament such Members as would support him in this glo-
rious undertaking. He concluded by seconding the resolution.
Mr. Alderman NieLD, in supporting the resolution, said,
be respectfully submitted that the sliding scale should slide
away, and never again be heard of in England. It was well
known that the protection afforded by that law had done
more to prevent the cultivation of the soil than any other
circumstance. In Lancashire, Cheshire, and many other
couities, the land was in a state of almost original nature,
which never could have been the case had it not been for the
protection of the sliding-scale. He concluded by calling on
Sir Robert Peel to comply with the prayer of that meeting,
in which he would be supported by the great majority of the
people.
alr. A. WATKINS moved the third resolution, in a speech
of some length, in the course of which he stated, that Sir
Robert. Peel had been bound down by the owners of the
soil, and it did appear to him one of the most extraordi-
nary cases of aberration of a noble mind. He could not
conceive why he allowed himself to be thus bound down,
knowing as he did that these very men hated him. He
moved—" That the immediate opening of the ports for the
free admission of food, and the repeal, without delay, of
every law which restricts its importation, are measures ob-
viously required to prevent a serious revulsion in trade, and
consequent grievous suffering to the whole of our industrious
population."
Mr. B. Plumose seconded the resolution, and contended
that the people had let themselves too low in asking for a
repeal of the corn-laws alone ; they ought to demand a
bounty on all corn imported into England for the next
thirty years as a compensation for the injury they had sus-
tained since the imposition of the corn-laws. Whilst they
were demanding a repeal of these laws they must take care
they do not,split on, the rock of a fixed duty, which would,
in his opinion, be more injurious than the present law, be-
cauie it would delay their ultimate repeal. He regretted that
the Government had taught the people, that however good
their cause was, it could only be obtained by clamour, and
thetlefore he urged the people to demand an immediate and
total repeal of the corn-laws.—(Cheers.)
The resolution was then put and carried with acclamation.
Mr. T. BAZLET, President of the Chamber of Commerce,
moved the next resolution :---." That this meeting, therefore,
respectfully, but most earnestly, calls upon her Majesty's
Ministers to suspend immediately the operation of the Corn
11111; and to submit to the Legislature, at an early day, a
measure for the entire abolition of all laws which restrict the
free supply of food." With cheap food they had seen pros-
peritysion of that prosperity, and therefore he urged them to in trade and manufactures, and with dear food a
de-
mandrevul-
sion
the opening of the ports, and having procured that
objeet care should-be taken never again to allow them to be
closed. The manufactures of England had scarcely recovered
from a depression of many years, when, by a failure of the
crops and consequent dearness of food, they were again to be
pludged into the same state. With cheap food and pros-
perity of trade the wages of the workmen had been advanced,
but with the prospect of bad trade and deal' food before them,
a reduction of those wages must follow.
Mr. Alderman KERSHAW' seconded the motion, and de-
dared that he would not have seconded the resolution had it
not contained a demand for a total repeal of the corn-laws.
He had not the nerve to contemplate the pending evils
without serious alarm. What has already been the conse-
quences?ousts- affected, ;and the price of manufactures had declined
The state of the money market had been seri-
within the last two months at least 10 per cent. He felt
that in calling on the Government to open thee ports he was
demanding a measure of humanity, and whet r were they to
look for such succour but from the paternal g overnment of
the country. He did not wish to exaggerate the state of
the country, but he could not help calling the attention of the
meeting to the awful state of the country, nacsse especially
the manufacturing districts, a few years ago, wh en its trade
was interfered with by the operation of the corn-laws. He
hoped the voice of every town in the kingdom would ring
in the ears of her Majesty's Ministers, and on them would
lie the moral responsibility of the future state of the.country
if they refusal to listen to the prayers of the people.
Mr. MARK Pinurs, M.P., moved the adoption of a me-
morial to Sir R. Peel, and observed that the country had ar-
rived at a most important crisis. He concurred with every
opinion ;which had that day been expressed rr /meeting the
pending scarcity of food, and could not help c ontemplating
with alarm the fearful result that may ensue if s vmething was
noti immediately done to avert the forthcoming, evils. He
then read the following memorial : •
TO TIM RIGHT BON. SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., M.P., ZCIZST
W.= OF TUE IWIDRY4
44 The Memorial of the Merchatits, 130QU% DianuleturCss

Traders, and others, Inhabitants of the Borough of Man-
chester, in Public Meeting assembled,
" Showeth,—That your memorialists have every reason to
believe that the produce of the grain harvest, just concluded,
is seriously deficient both in quantity and quality, and such
as to cause a continuance of high and advancing prices in the
staple articles of haman food.
" That, in addition to this unfavourable circumstance, there
has occurred throughout a large portion of Great Britain, and
still more generally in Ireland, a failure in the potato crop,
by which the evil of a deficient grain harvest is certain to be
greatly aggravated.
" That your memorialists have a painful recollection of the
manifold calamities with which the country has been visited
on former occasions, when, owing to deficient harvests, the
pecuniary means of the labouring population have been ab-
sorbed in the purchase of food ; and they cannot contemplate
a continuance of the present high prices, and their probable
increase, without the most serious alarm.

"That your memorialists entertain the belief that, after
past and present experience of the frightful consequences of
a system of legislation, by which an industrious and skilful
people are prevented from supplying themselves with abun-
dance of food, no wise statesman will hesitate as to the pro-
priety and necessity of an immediate abolition of all restric-
tions upon the importation of foreign grain; and they are
most anxious to impress upon her Majesty's Ministers the
importance of an immediate attention to this subject.
" Your memorialists desire to express, in the strongest
manner, their deliberate and confirmed opinion that the cir-
cumstances of the country require that the ports should forth-
with be opened for the free admission of all kinds of grain ;
and, further, that her Majesty's Ministers will consult the
true interests of all classes in this kingdom by submitting to
the. Legislature, at the very earliest opportunity, a measure
for the entire removal of all laws by which any restriction is
placed on the supply of food.
" Your memorialists would, in conclusion, respectfully, but
most earnestly, remind you how heavy will be your individual
responsibility, if you now refuse to act in accordance with
those principles the truth of which you have so often ac-
knowledged, and by the full adoption of which, and by that
only, they believe the nation can be preserved from disaster
and calamity appalling to contemplate."
Although he was there as their representative, he might be
allowed to address a few words to them as an agriculturist.
He had for some time paid much attention to the state of the
crops, and he had no hesitation in saying that at least one-
half the potato crop in the locality in which he resided would
not be fit for human food. Now, if that was a fair picture of
the general state of the country, what was to become of the
population ; more especially the agricultural labourers, who
would be compelled to consume the whole of their produce
before Christmas and left to starve in the spring? What will
be their condition in March next, when they come to sow
their crop for the coming year? That was a point not to be
overlooked, and he was sure Sir Robert Peel was not asleep
on those matters. The question then was, is Sir Robert Peel
to be made the tool of a section of the people, to the disad-
vantage of the millions who are starving?
Mr. JOSEPII BROTHEitTON, M.P., seconded the adoption of
the memorial. He said be considered the objects of the meet-
ing to be good, and the means taken wise and politic. He
would ask, were they asking the Ministers for a favour or a
right?—(" Right.") The landowners undertook to feed the
people, and they had not done so, and therefore the people
must now demand the privilege of feeding themselves. He
was of the same opinion as Mr. Walker, he believed Sir
Robert Peel could repeal the corn-laws, and be must be
made to know that the people demanded it as a right, and
were determined to have it.—(Applause.)
The memorial was carried with loud cheers, and Messrs.
Philips, Brotherton, Kay, and Greg appointed a deputation
to present it.
On the motion of Mr. Robert Gardner, seconded by Mr.
White, thanks were voted to the Mayor, and the proceedings
terminated about two o'clock.

At a meeting of the Town Council of Manchester, on
Wednesday, after the business en the notice paper had
been gone through,—
Mr. Councillor SIIUTTLEWORTII asked whether this was
not an adjourned quarterly meeting, and if so whether it. was
not competent for a member of the Council to propose a mo-
tion of which notice bad not been given ?
The TOWN CLERK, after a short consultation with the
Mayor and ex-Mayor, said although their circular did not
state that this was an adjourned quarterly meeting as well
as special meeting, yet he had read the proceedings of the
last meeting at the commencement of the business, by which
the quarterly meeting was adjourned to this day, and whether
there had been a circular issued or not for special business,
the Council would have met to-day by that adjournment,
and he conceived therefore that it was competent for Mr.
Shuttleworth to move any motion, though notice of it had not
been previously given.
Mr. Councillor SHarrusworrn said he would rather
not have moved the resolution before him if any other
gentleman of whom he saw many more competent, would
do so; but if no one else rose to make such a motion hi
must,--tOr he felt it to be a question of duty.—(Hear,
hear.) He moved a resolution calling upon her Majesty's
Ministers to open the ports. and declaring that the Council
would hold them responsible for the calamities that might
result to the country should they neglect to do so.—(Loud
applause.)
Mr. Councillor PRENTICE said, although he had not pre-
viously heard the terms of the resolution, he felt bound to
second it with all his h-eiti—(Applause.) He must confess
' that he, along with a great number of the members'of the
Council, had been guilty of signing a requisition to the Mayor
to call a meeting on this subject to-morrow (Thursday), and
not having taken the trouble to read the heading carefully,
he had thought that it was to call a meeting of the Town
Council ; however, it turned out that it was a requisition to
call a public town's meeting. And he was pleased to see
that it bore the names of all the aldermen, and nearly all the
councillors of the borough. This itself was a pretty strong
test of the opinion held upon the question by that Council.
Short as the notice was at which the motion was brought be-
fore them, he thought the opportunity a favourable one ;
there was no doubt the Minister would be obliged to do
something, and as he had himself declared in Parliament
that it was the right of every man to buy in the cheapest
and sell in the dearest markets, they were only helping him
to carry into effect his own opinions. He understood that on
a late occasion, when the Mayor was invited to Tamworth,
Sir Robert Peel took every opportunity of showing in his
person the respect he paid to the town of Manchester,
and if -he paid that respect to him (Mr. Watkins) as
Mayor of Manchester, it was to be hoped that he would
pay the same respect to a memorial from the town of
Manchester when it was signed by him as the Mayor of
Ranchester.—( Hear, and applause.)
Mr. Marremw Tostrassox supported the motion, and said
he was happy to find that it put the responsibility of neg-
lecting to comply with its object where it was said to rest by
a gentleman once a distinguished member of their body—Mr.
Alderman Cobden—upon the Ministers.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Alderman KAY, (late Mayor) said he did not rise to
object to the motion, but he suggested that it would be un-
wise to affix responsibility where it did not exactly rest. Sir
Robert Peel and his colleagues could only open the ports with
the sanction of Parliament, and if they were to open them
during the recess, they would have to ask Parliament, upon
its assembling, for an Act of indemnity. He suggested that
a committee be 4pointed, who should retire from the
Council, ithdpiit the resolution into such shape that it would
-be less objeCtiopahle..
Intioratily,-"Utiothis suggestion, Mr. Alderman NcitY,
tfdermati )Kay„, Mr. Shuttleworth, Mr. Prentice,- and
•Mr.i.k.lierepecl,,ivete appointed a committee to retire,"and'
after an, abserice:ot iibout ton minutes they returned with
Mr: Shuttleworth's resolution slightly altered, and put in the
form ofa memorial to Siißobert Peel.

Mr. SHUTTLEWORTH said he thought at the time that he
and; Mr. Alderman Kay were agreed on this subject, though
they expressed themselves differently and misunderstood each
other. Mr. Alderman Kay meant legal responsibility, and
he (Mr. Shuttleworth) moral responsibility. He had great
pleasure in moving the memorial, and that it be signed by
the 'Mayor on behalf of the Town Council, and that the com-
mon seal of the Corporation be attached to it, and that it be
presented to Sir Robert Peel.--(Applause.) He felt that
after the sentiments he had expressed, Sir Robert Peel must
only be acting in accordance with his own wishes and con-
victions in acceding to the prayer of their memorial, for
though closely connected with the landlords, he had as clear
' a perception of our commercial interests as any of them, and
he (Mr. Shuttleworth) had no doubt that he was preparing—
if net in the ordinary sense of the turn, in one which might be
readily understood—to " turn another sod "—(Hear, hear,
and laughter)—and to enable them still to occupy that posi-
tion in the country which they ought and must occupy.
Mr. Alderman kAz said he could not but look at the course
likely to be taken in the present emergency with singular
apprehension ; for though, on looking over the files of the
newspapers for the last six months, he found that though
Lorti Stanley had abstained from alluding to the state of the
harvest, yet the Duke of Rutland (who was one of that class
vrho thought it right to enjoy the revenue from their estates,
without reference to the comforts of other classes), stated
at an agricultural meeting that the results of the harvest
had been satisfactory.—(Hear, hear.) Now he (Mr. Alder-
man Kay) thought that the Duke must have been sadly
misinformed, for in less than a fortnight after that statement
was followed by a report stating that the harvest in Ireland
was awfully deficient, and that the potato murrain was
almost universal.—(Hear, hear, and applause.) He trusted
that this memorial, backed by the others which were flowing
in from all parts of the country, would have the effect sought,
and with that hope he cordially seconded it.
After a few words from Mr. Tomlinson, the motion was
agied to unanimously, and the Council separated.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE.
A special general meeting of the Chamber of Commerce
was held en Wednesday in the Council-room at the Guild-
hall, to consider the propriety of addressing her Majesty's
Ministers on the subject of the corn. laws.
Mr. "SViiAoN, alderman of the borough of Gateshead, and a
mepiber of the well-known firm of Losb, Wilson, and Bell,
haNfing been called upon to preside, in the absence of the Pre-
sident of the Chamber, briefly opened the business.
Mr. POLLARD, an extensive corn merchant, rose and said,
it was not his intention to offer any- remarks upon the sub-
ject, but simply to propose a memorial which he bad pre-
pared, and which he trusted would be adopted by the meet-
ing. The object of its prayer was, that the ports of the
United Kingdom might be opened for the free introduction
of foreign corn.
The memorial was read by the Secretary as follows :
" TO THE RIGHT HON. SIR ROBERT PEEL, BART., FIRST LORD

OF MEE MAJESTY'S TREASURY.
" The Memorial of the Chamber of Commerce of Newcastle-

upon-Tyne, at a special general meeting, convened for
1 ' that purpose,
" Showeth,—That your memorialists, believing that the
corh harvest in the United Kingdom has been defective, and
that the potato crop, particularly in Ireland, a failure, hasten
to Entreat that you will be pleased to advise her Majesty in
Council to give an immediate sanction to the admission, duty
free, of foreign grain into all the ports of Great Britain and
Ireland, as the readiest means that can be adopted for not
only preventing the discomfort, but promoting the proepe•
rity, and thereby securing the contentment, of the people.
" And your memorialists will ever pray, &c."
Mr. W. H. BRocaerr, alderman of the borough of Gates-
head, seconded the adoption of the memorial.
Mr. ARMSTRONG, an extensive corn-merchant, and a mern-
bet' of the Newcastle Town Council, said if the motion had
been for a petition to Parliament for a revision or molifica-
tion of the existing corn-laws, he should have been perfectly
ready to have given it his support, but it did appear to him
that not the slightest ground existed for the extreme mea-
sure which had been proposed. What was the condition
of the country, which must be well known to Mr. Pollard
as a corn-merchant? He recollected that in the year
1800, in this same month, when there was much less agita-
tion in the country about the admission of foreign corn than
at present, the price of wheat at Lynn, as appeared by an '
old circular which he held in his hand, was 1365. a
quarter, and rye 80s. a quarter, or more than double the
price it was at present. No alarm existed then in respect
to a scarcity of food. In 1812 the average price of the
whole year of wheat was 1225., and still there was no alarm
about dearth or famine. Why, then, should such apprehen-
elms be entertained now ? He had stated in the council the
ether day, when this subject was under discussion, that if
the duty were taken off, it would be compensated by the
additional price that would have to be paid to the foreigner,
and since then a circumstance had occurred, which proved
'beyond all doubt the accuracy of that osition. A house in ,
oliceleerg had wriVn tq a c. . ; ctor, . tlpairiing h.tgi to
r
..,,,,,t, lads of wh4 fhb Ors v. . is at 50i, a gut•

ter. The house in Konigsberg, hearing of the great pro-
bability that the duty would be taken off in England, wrote
again a few days afterwards, in great haste, expressing their
hope the corn had not been sold, and desiring the factor to
put 10s. a quarter upon it. This circumstance alone proved
that if the duty were taken off, the difference would not go
to benefit the consumer in England, but to enrich the foreign
merchant. The very agitation of the question was produc-
tive of a great deal of needless alarm in the country. But it
was said the opening of the ports would be the means of get-
ting the corn-laws done away entirely. He was against
domg them away entirely ; and he thought such a measure
would be perfectly ruinous to the agricultural interest of the
country. The country had never been without a corn-law
of one kind or other. and the great principle sought to be
tablished was, that the duty should vary inversely as the
price of grain, which principle had never been so effectually
carried out as under the existing law. Mr. Armstrong sup-
ported these views at some length, and concluded by declar-
ing his intention to' oppose the motion.
Mr. S LOWERY, an extensive ship owner and timber mer-
chant, supported the motion, considering that wheat should
be put upon the same footing as flax, henip, and other arti-
cles of importation, and then, when our ships went out to
foreign places, they could bring a return cargo of grain, if it
suited them,withoat reference to the duty. In many parts
grain was ie only article the foreign merchant had to offer,
and when the ship was prevented bringing that by the high
duty, she had to return empty, which was a serious inconve-
nieuce and loss to the shipowner, as well as to the general
merchant. The abolition of the corn-laws would place the
trade upon a certain footing, now it was entirely of a specu-
lative character; and what was the cause of the present high
prises? There was plenty of grain in the country, but the
holders of it were waiting till the duty got down, as they ex-
pected it would, to a shilling, when they would it into
the market in the hope of making more money than they
could by selling it at present. He approved of the resolution,
and trusted the Chamber would adopt
Mr.,C. RAYIIR having recently discussed the subject at
some length in the Council, did not think it requisite to go
into any elaborate details on the present occasion. The
early history of the corn-laws, to which reference had been
made by Mr. Armstrong, clearly showed that the object the
promoters of them had in view was to make the price of corn
dear in this cour.tm so as to enhance the value of the land,
and hence, at one period, a bounty was paid on exportation,
which was subsequently altered, as population and the de-
mand for food increased, to a duty on importation, the effect
of both measures being the same—that of affording protec-
tion, as it was termed, to native agriculture. The reason of
there being but little agitation against the corn-laws at the
periods referred to by Mr. Armstrong, was obvious. The
price of corn was so high that those laws became inoperative.
Bat when the pivot point was higher than it was at present,
the fluctuations were more violent, which showed that the
lower the pivot point was fixed, the more regular would
the price become, and if the duty were abolished altogether,
still, greater steadiness would be the result. Mr. Rayne, after
illustrating these points, concluded by declaring his determi-
nation to support the motion.
The CHAIRMAN then put the motion to the meeting, when
it was carried on a show of hands, only three being held up
against it.
_ _

-.7Kr. N. HINDHAUGH, who did not vote on either side, said
he was not a friend to the sliding scale, but he could not join
in the propriety of admitting foreign corn free of duty at the
present moment. _ _ _

The memorial was then sigaad by the Chairman on behalf
of the Chamber.

' A requisition is in course of signature in the borough of
Gate3head to the Mayor, requesting him to convene a public
meeting of the inhabitants to take the subject into considera-
tion, with a view to memorializing the Privy Council in fa-
vour of the opening of the ports.

POOR-LAW CHARITY and PRISON

CHARITY.

A poor Irish woman named Fox, who had supported her
family decently for twelve years by keeping a stall in the
street at Holborn-bars, was run over by a cab in September
last, an accident by which her leg was broken. Being thus
suddenly deprived of the power of earning a livelihood, she
made her case known to the authorities of the union, and
was visited, as a matter of course, by the surgeon and the
relieving officer. The medical gentleman, she declares, per-
formed his professional duties to the end most humanely, as
well as skilfully; but the relieving officer told her that her
case was an infirmary case, and that unless she consented to
take up her abode in the workhouse he could do nothing for
her. She informed him that she would willingly do as he
suggested if he would be so good as to assist, in the mean-
while, in preserving her furniture and the few articles she
used in her business, and she assured him that, without some
aid of the kind, she and, her family 'that be thrown destitute
upon the street, upeo her, recovery, To this appeal the re-
lieving officer tiirned as deaf ear.' He would have nothing to
do with her goods, and, handing her the sum of cighteenpence,
desied her 'not to apply to the authorities again, as not a
fartbing.more would be forthcoming Not supposing it pos-
sible that the parochial liberality would be so cramped in a
case of such extremity, the patient applied a second time for
a modicum of aid, and sent her son to plead the cause of the
family, but he returned empty-handed, and so well bullied,
that he was afraid, notwithstanding the deplorable condition
of his parent, to make another experiment upon the justice
or humanity, or whatever else it is called, of the party in
power. Furthermore, when she recovered sufficiently to be
able to resume her former avocation, she made a last appeal
to the unicn for assistance •in furnishing her stall, the.con-
tents of which had been disposed of in her necessity; but
the answer had gone forth—she was to have nothing, and
thus the mother of a family, with a fractured limb, which
confined her to her bed for a period of about six weeks, was
got rid of at the small price of eighteenpence.
So much for poor-law charity !
We turn with pleasure to the other aide of the picture, to
which what we have stated presents a disgusting contrast:—
At the time the accident occurred to the mothei, the
daughter had been committed to Bridewell Hospital for a
misdemeanour, in which (as it afterwards appeared) she be-
came very innocently involved. The former wrote' to the
latter some time aftewardg, describing in a very feeling man-
ner the distress to which she was reduced by the refusal of
the union to give her any relief unless upon the condition of
a sacrifice of all those necessaries in which her future comfort
depended, and, above all, deploring the want of her daughter's
help at such a time to dress her wound, and administer to
her ,other necessities. This letter underwent, according to
the arrangements of the prison, the inspection of the Governor
of the prison (Captain Kincaid), and the melancholy tale,
which failed to awaken either the sympathies or theconside-
ration of the poor-law authorities, immediately foundbothtin
him •; for it appears that, without the slightest delay, he sent,
to ascertain the truth of the statement, and, having ascer-
tained it, he represented the case to the committing magis-
trate, obtained the daughter's discharge, and sent her home
to attend upon her mother, provided with the means of ade-
quately administering to her wants. Upon more strict in-
piiry, Captain Kincaid found the case to be one of real
charity, aad he continued to give personally, or to send, relief
to the family every week down to the day when she was
enabled to go to her stall, which, her benefactor knowing
that the parochial authorities had thrown up the case of
misery with contempt, supplied her with the means of fur-
nishing, and there she,r,fsaii,lits daily, within ten yards of the
corner of Mafti tin-lane, by, the side of a lamp-post, called
Holbornmr. ' s, -
cr.ifie.thus simply detailed is one in which individual
chatity ought not to have been taxed. It is impossible not
tot tfee that the huumne peat taken by Captain Kincaid on
thisi occasion was precisely that which ought to have been
taken by the authorities of the union, both in the nature and the
extent of the relief, and people cannot therefore understandwhat
the hearts of those worthies can be made of, seeing that, indivi-
dually, it would have cost them nothing to try, for once, the
experiment of humanity; but Alderman Farebrother, who
speaks out upon occasions on which the defects of the heart
are conspicuous more frequently than most of his brethren,
said, with striking truth some time ago, that the great ob-
ject of the unions seemed to be not the relief of the poor, but
how to relieve the parishes of the poor. Had the poor crea-
ture who thus, by a providential accident, fell into the hands
of the benevolent Governor of Bridewell, accepted the relief
which the relieving officer offered, she and her whole family
would, in all probability, have become paupers for life. She
refused the boon, and may never be again in a condition to
recntire the generous contribution of the authorities.