The Sun.
London, England, 1829-01-03 00:00:00

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Henry Wild and Thomas Mild, St. Martin's-lane, wine-
merchants.

Flora Kew and Robert Kew, Norwich, jewellers.
Edmund Butterworth and John Fulton, Rochdale, Lan-
-
tersbire, lace-manufacturers.
William Griffith and Richard Hall Griffith, Bath,
eurriers.
John James, F. L. Bodenhan, and Thomas Hardwick,
Hereford, attornies-at-law.

Jacob Carruthers and Robert Patterson, Croydon, tea-
dealers.

Thomas, James, John, and Benjamin Ashton, Newton-
Bank, Chester, calico-printers,
Thomas, James, and John Ashton, Hyde, Chester, cot-
ton-manufacturers.

William and James Ward, Jewin-street, Jewin-crescent,
and 'White-friais New-wharf.
Butcher, Moncur, and Co. Mark-lane, spirit-deslers.

John Mounsey, Thomas Rie'dardson, Thomas Mounsey,
Thomas Richardson, jun. and John Mounsey, jun. Bishop-
Wearmouth, furriers.

John Dashwood and Willia►u Dashwood, Southampton,
painters.
George Green and Chas. Ttlottram,Shrewilbury, mercers.
Alexander Ross and David Craig, Grange-road, Ber-
mondsey.

James James and John Gray, Bishops Waltham, Herta,
grocers. _ _ _

Zachary Macaulay and Thomas Gisborne Babington,
merchants.

John Beatson, Robert Carter, and John Bonus, George..
yard, Lombard-street, insurance-brokers.
Ann and George Chidley, Leicester-street, Leicester-
square, ironmongers.

- Thomas Clark, John Gilmore, and Robert P Clark,
Bristol, ship-agents.
Rich. Masters and Baynham Jones, Cheltenham, coal-
mon-brewers.

John Anyon and Jas. Hollings, Charles-street, Covent-
garden, bookbinders.
Sarah Coliens and Mary Barham, Pall-mall, dress-
makers.

Edward B. and Thomas Corney, and John W. Bridges,
Old Broad-street, wine-merchants.
Thomas Connorton and John Merideth Connorton,
Thomas-street, Horsleydown, mast-makers.
William Henry West and William Baglehole, Corn Ex-
change, Mark-lane, corn-factors.
William Bell, Thomas Winkworth, and Henry Wink-
worth, Cheapside, silk-manufacturers.
Lewis Henry Lazarus (acting for his son, Henry Lazarus,
a minor), Bevis-Marks, London, pencil-manufacturer,
Abraham Lyon and Nathan Jacob Calisher, Birmingham,
jewellers.
John Dearman, Henry Lyne, and Edwin Harford, Free-
man's-court, Cornhill, stock-agents.
John Fairweather Harrison, Antonia Joaquim Freire
Marrero, Henrique Joze da Silva, and Jacob Ruffy, wine-
merchants.

Antonio Joaquim Freire Marreco, Henrique Joao da
Silva, and Jacob Ratify, merchants.
Roger Banks and Andrew Richardson, Boston, Lincoln,
shipwrights.
John Bannatyne and R. 13. Dunlop.
Theophilus Richards and William Broomhead, Birming-
ham, merchants.

Daniel Barrett and James Franks, Green Lettuce-lane,
wholesale-coffee-dealers.

William Kay, Joseph Kay, and Benjamin Syddall, Man-
chester.
John Mason and Thomas Morris, Haymarket, hatters.
Robert Kendall and John Williams, Cheltenham, linen-
drapers.
Alfred Anstie, Geo. Taylor, and :Henry Appleton,
Cooper's-row, sail-cloth factors.

Wm. Wild and Robert Wild, Prospect-place, Cambridge-
heath, joiners.
Thos. Marshall, sen., Thos. Marshall, jun., and Chas.
Marshall, Iligh-street, Whirechapel, cheesemongers.
Frederick William Stephenson and Ellis Reeve, Pope's
Ilead-Alley, Cornhill, stock-brokers.
John Bowler, James Bickerton, and George Paull, hat-
manufacturers.

Theophilus Carr, John _Gooch, and John Vanner,
Wood-street, Spitalfields, silk manufacturers.
James Smith and Wm. Smith, Langley, Chester.
James Bushnell, Wm. lioneywill, and Wm. Wool,
Oxford-street, coach-makers.
Charles Butler and Charles Sainsbury, Cheapside,
chemists.

The number of pockets of hops weighed in
Worcester Hop-market, from December 25, 1827, to
December 25, 1828, were new, 16,885 ; old, 8,798.
Worcester Journal.

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of heat considerable, the water is no sooner
. . thrown on it than it is instantly converted into
' i vapour, and flies off without producing the effect
1 ietended, whereas when a strong solution of salt
and water is applied, the effects are more install-
, taneous and complete. Owing to the great afii,
nity the salt has fior water, it is prevented from
flying off into steam, and remains as it were act-
ing powerfully on burning materials, not only
extinguishing flame, but penetrating the charred
and burnt wood prevents the rekindling of the
Same, which but too often happens when no-
thing but water is applied. I saw a most con-
, vincmg practical illustration of this fact at the fire
which lately happened at the soap works of
Messrs. William Taylor and Co., Leith.—
The engine being solely occupied with the,
roof, could not be spared to keep down
a very threatening fire which was making rapid
progress m one of the lofts. There being no;
water near it,' the men belonging to the works
were ordered to throw soap leys on the flames,
which from their containing a certain quantity
of salt, had a most astonishing effect, for
whenever the ley was thrown on the fire it be-
came instantly extinguished, and the burnt wood
rendered incapable. of again igniting, which ap.
pears to be one of the best effects resulting from
the use of solutions. At this fire the practical
effect of both water and solution was by acci-
dent completely exhibited. Ido not hesitate to
say, from what I saw, that had the engine been
supplied with the latter, it would have been more.
effectual than five with water, and the roof on
fire would have been extinguished in half the
time, and more effectually. More water was
required to put out the burst wood than was ne-
cessary to extinguish the flames.
Now when salt can be had at so cheap a rate,
. _ _

I think in every town where engines ace, there
ought to be quantities of salt solution, aiwayg
ready to accompany the engines when called out.
It is perhaps unnecessary to enter into a detail
as to the arrangements which might be made re-
garding a supply of this solution for the pur-
pose suggested, but I would recommend gene.
rally, without descending to Minute particulars,
that tanks or cisterns made of iron plates, eqiable
of holding from 10 to 12 tuns each, migilt,
be erected in various central parts of large towns,
kept constantly full of a strong saturated solu-
tion, so as to be ready at a moment's warning.--=)
When a fire occurred it might be drawn off info-
carriages for the purpose, containing from 20 to'
30 cwt. ; they should be of an oblong shape/.
with four wheels, so that they might follow aid
engines down any close or lane; their contents
could then be run off by means of stop-cocks
into the engine. We all know it is half the
battle to get a fire speedily put out, but how
often is that prevented from the difficulty of find,
ing water for the engines when they arrive ?
Now if each engine had a carriage or two fol,;.
lowing it with this strong liquid, (one gallon of
which would be more efficacious than ten of
water,) such difficulties would be obviated, and
a fire at once got under. The expence attend-
ing such an arrangement as I have pointed out,
would be of little consequence compared with,
the advantages to be derived from it. The cistern
to hold 10 or 12 tuns, may be made at the ex-
pence of 301. each ; carriages —l. each ; the salt
writll4 nest stand more. than 10s. per
Edinburgh, winch would 1101 U WOW/ UV
Were two carriages attached to each, there could
in that case be brought to any fire, on the
shortest notice, from 10 to 15 tuns. No fire
could resist the powerful effect of such a quan-
tity, even though the fire had gained a great
height.

IMPORTANT TO MAIL COACH TRAVEL-
RS.--A regulation made by the Post-office, and of con-
siderable importance to travellers, came into operation yes•
terday morning. It is to the following effect he
luggage can be allowed on the roof, which interferes with
the proper packing and safety of atiy sacks of letters Which
the mails are obliged to carry there. No luggage to i!t4
placed on the roof till after the boot is full, and then only
that luggage which belongs to passengers. No mere than
three articles, being portmanteaus, or carpet-bags, are on
any pretence to be allowed to any one passenger, whether
they be large or small; and the largest portmanteau is
not to exceed two feet four inches in length, and one foot six
inches in height, and are never to be placed on each other.

The following anecdote is told as a proof of
the determination of Don Pedro to uphold the Portuguese
constitution :—A short time since a placard was placed
against the walls in Rio Janeiro, containing these words :
—" Brazilians beware ! the Emperor's brother has over-
thrown the constitution in Portugal!" The Emperor
being informed of this circumstance, cawed the placard
to be brought to him, and having written upon it " The
hand that gave the constitution will maintain it," ordered
it to be again placed upon the wall from whence it bad
been taken.—Plymouth Journal.

On Christmas-day a distressing accident oc-
curred at Poulton, in this county-, by which the lives of
two individuals were sacrificed. An industrious labour-
ing man, named Joseph Hew, having paid a visit to his
sister, also residing in that parish, in the morning, took
his nephew, Joseph Cox, home with hint to spend the
afternoon with his family. About seven o'clock in the
evening, young Cox left the house, intending to return
home, but he had not proceeded far when his foot slipped
and he fell in-c: a quarry close to the footpath, which was
partly filled with water, and left in a very un[narded state.
A neighbour hearing the splashing i❑ the water called to
Joseph Hew, who ran to the spot, and finding that his
nephew was struggling in the water, he instantly jumped
in to his rescue, contrary to the earnest persuasions of the
by-standers. Hew was ;in excellent swimmer, but owing,
it is supposed, to the young man grasping his body„ he
was unable to make any effectual exertions, and they were
both drowned, without its being possible ta render them
any assistance. The bodir s were dragged out of the water
in about half an hour from the time of their sinking, and
great efforts were Made to restore animation,. but without
effect. Joseph Hew has left a wife, who is expected shortly
to he confined, and six children, without any provision for
their support.—Bath chronicle.

CHILD POISONED.—On Friday night a
woman arrived here, saying she came front Wisbawton ;
she gave her name Margaret M‘iNeill, and was committed
to jail on Saturday, charged with the above offence. The
particulars are these :—On Wednesday night she called at
a house in liridgegate, with a female chi'd in her artn4,
where she procured lodgings for a few d;;•. s. On going to
bed that night she gave-the child, which is only four weeks
old, two drops of laudanum which she had in a phial, and
on Thursday night she repeated the dose, but in place of
two gave three drops. The inmates where site resided took
no notice of this conduct, suspecting very naturally that it
was t• cause it to sleep sound during the On Friday
night, however, she took the infant into a dark room, and
gave it a great deal more than three or four drops of this de-
leterious drug. No sooner had she administered it than she
became alarmed, and told the people of the house that in
giving the child (which had every appearance of being
healthy) the usual quantity, which she said the did by
dropping it front the phial into its mouth, the infant put
up its hand and caused considerably more to conic titan
Was intended. She took the child to a surgeon immediately
after, who used the usual means resat tell to in such cases,
and latterly to Dr. Nelson, in the Police Office, but not-
withstanding every care and attention, it died the following
day in the Police Office. The reason she assigned for giv-
ing it laudanum was because it was subject to cholie.
The case will be submitted to the Crown Lawyers.--
Glasgow Free Press.

MONOPOLY IN COALS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Silt--It has been accurately observed that the
price of any article which comes into the market,
under a system of restriction or monopoly, is nearly
the highest which the consumer can afford to pay;
while when trade is free, and competition not re-
pressed, the price is that sum which the producer
can afford to take, so as to ensure a sufficient and
regular supply; to use the language of modern Po-
litical 'Economy, the price in this batter case is the
-natural one, and is measured solely by the cost of
production. To injure in any degree the interest
of any order of society, for no other purpose than to
promote that of some other, is evidently contrary
to that justice and equality of treatment which are
due to all the different ranks of society. Monopolies,
either virtual or actual, are clearly of this nature ;
they promote the welfare of those individuals in
whose favonr they are created, at the expense of
that of every other member of the community; they
are commercially impolitic, and at the same time re-
pugnant to the piainest principles of natural equity.
We End it stated in history, that in the Moluccas
the Dutch East India Company used to burn all the
spices which a fertile season produced, beyond what
they expected to dispose of in Europe with such a
prodt as they deemed sufficient. In the islands
where they had no settlements, they gave
a 'premium to those who collected the young
blossomS of the clove and nutmeg trees,
in order to destroy the prospect of the season ; and
evert in the islands where they had settlements they
reduced very considerably the number of those trees,
and thus took care that no greater quantity of spices
should grow than they themselves considered suffi-
cient for the supply of the market. If we were to
read in the pages of some grave historiographer of
the Company ; that in acting thus, they were solely
influenced by a desire to render the supply and qua-
lity of their spices more suitable to the demand and
inclination of the consumers, we should probably
smile, and perhaps wonder what must have been
the intellectual condition of the people to whom
such an apology could be offered with any expecta-
tion of ebtnining belief. Our mirth, at the expence
of the worthy Hollanders, might be checked before
it reached any very intemperate display, by our call-
ing to recollection that no great length of time has
intervened since a Member of the British Legisla-
ture had the hardihood to assert from his place in
the House, that the combination amongst the coal-
Own.',rs in the North (he himself being one of the
Immber) had been established :and was continued,
from no sinister views of private interest, but had
for its object entirely the advantage of the public,
and took its origin from an anxious wish that the
city of London in particular should enjoy a supply
of coals of the very best quality. Whatever credit
such an assertion might obtain when circulated ge-
nerally throughout the country, its author seemed
with confidence to rely upon, and to have been
happy in, the credulity of his immediate audience :
it scarcely, I think, drew forth an observation in
reply. Who indeed could d.N.bt the veracity of an
Honourable Member, whose income was only
20,0001. per annum, wising from the monopoly he
had so generously stepped forward to defend ?
It is, l'fir. Editor, somewhat singular that the
mor :eoly enjoyed by the proprietors of collieries in
Durham and Northumberland, and their private re-
gulations, by which its inconveniences are so consi-
derably increase.!, have attracted- hitherto so small
a share of public attention. When we reflect how
greatly the comfort and health of the poor depend
upon a plentiful and cheap stupphtef.tieb ire tit
cient to ensure the adoption of some measure for
preventing a boon, originally conceded, because its
ultimate effect was thought to be instrumental in
promoting our means of naval defence, from being
converted into an engine for private emolument,
and for enhancing the price of an article,
which in this country is well entitled to be
considered one of the prime necessaries of
life. The " Vend," or system of regulation,
that has so long existed amongst the proprie-
tors of coal-pits in the North of England, is no ima-
ginary grievance, its mischievous effects are well
known to and felt by all wbo frequent the ports of
Shields and Sunderland for the purchase of coals.
The great object of this regulation, which (as was
a short time ago observed in your columns) the pro-
prietors have bound themselves to observe for
another year, is to limit the quantity of coals which
shall annually be taken from their respective pits.
It is obvious that such a regulation must operate
very prejudicially to the interests of all consumers,
who are thus made, in some degree, to feel the
evils of scarcity, and to pay a high price for that
which ought naturally to come into the.market at a
comparatively low rate. In the absence of expe-
rience, which, however we possess in abundance,
general principles alone would teach us that such
an effect must inevitably arise from the maintenance
of the " Vend."

The doctrine of the applicatiwi of capital to land
may be extended with equal force to the produce
raised from mines, and consequently the natural
price of coals will be determined by the cost of
their production at the pits of the lowest degree of
fertility which it k necessary to work, in order to
insure to the consumers a constant and effectual

supply.
For the sake of illustration let us divide the
mines into three classres, nhich divisirm may be sup-
posed to express their relative degree of productive-
ness. So long as the supply is altogether drawn
from the pits of the first class, the natural price of
coals will be low ; the proprietors gill, nevertheless,
obtain the full rate of profit on the capital which
they may employ. If the demand should increase
to that extent, that it becomes no longer possible to
obtain the requisite quantity from the first class of
pits, the price of coals will rise, and be permanently
higher; it will now be profitable to work the pits
of the second degree of fertility, while those of th,
first degree will, besides the ordinary profits of ca-
pital, furnish a rent to their proprietors. If the con-
sumption should still increase, while the produce of
two classes of pits, taken conjointly, and aided
by an improved method of working, and the adapta-
tion of the best machinery, is adequate to meet the
wants of the market, the natural price of coals will
experience DO furthw•r advance, notwithstanding the
effectual demand has become greater.
But while things arc in thia state let the owners
of coal-pits agree to limit the quant•ty which shall
annually be taken from them, or in short, to let the
" Vend" be established such as it exists at the pre-
sent moment. The market being now understocked,
the price of coals will once more rise : the mines of
the lowest degree of fertility may now be worked
with profit, while those of the second class will af-
ford a rent to their proprietors, and chat of the first
class be enhanced. The principle which has effected
t rise of pri, is obviously ditr,•rc.nt from that
rega4Lted the former ore; it is not occasioned

Etr

LONDON,

We recommend to the attention of our readers
the calm, rational, and convincing comments of
Lord ANGLEsza. on the late letter of his Grace
the Duke of WELLINGTON. They are pre-
cisely those which might have been expected
from his character, and furnish ample food for
grave and attentive reflectiox. Each remark
seems stamped in the mint of a high and noble
nature, and having been the slowly-formed re-
sult of severe and diligent inquiry, cannot fail to
produce conviction in the minds of all but the
self-interested or the ignorant.

We have received the Nuremburg Corres-
pondent, which has some speculations on the
present state of parties in Turkey, but contains
no news that requires any particular comment:—

FROM THE LOWER DANUBE, DEC. 10.

Flowerer persuaded the German friends of the
Turks may be, that the energetic Sultan Mahmoud
will employ all the resources of his nation to the
object of retaining possession of his European
dominions, they are much t iistaken if they infer,
from the diminution of the Russian army on the
right bank of the Danube, the fall of Varna and
defeats of the Russians during the winter. The
Turkish army is undoubtedly numerous at all the
most important points, and is en the whole better
armed and equipped than formerly; but if the Russian
army has perhaps too many veterans, the Turkish
has too many recruits, whom constraint more
than religious fanaticism has caused to join the
army. The Turkish deminions in the three con-
tinents contain at the most a population of 7i mil-
lions of Turks. The African part is paralysed.
The Asiatic has, contrary to all expectations, sent
into the field two Sovereign Pachas, or rather re-
presentatives, wino are doubtless furnished with in-
structions to secure the independence of the Pachas,
in case of the overthrow of the Turks. The deposed
Grand Vizier acted with more prudence than the
Sultan, in not venturing to risk the fate of the em-
pire in one battle, but rather sacrificing Varna. A
great defeat, and the impossiblity of raising a
second army, would have produced anarchy
in Turkey, and a scene of confusion like that in
Prussia in 1806, after the battle of Jena. Not the
old Paellas, but their sons, con!ider themselves, if
the worst comes to the worst, as the heirs of the
Sultan, and think of a kingdom, like that of Egypt,
the state of Tchapan Oglou in Asia, the Barbary Re-
gencies, the Captainship of the Albanians, Arnouts,
&c. A conspiracy is wanting ; but all the elements
of dissolution are at hand. If the Sultan could com-
mand sufficient funds to pay the 100,000 Albanians
who are able to bear arms, it is possible that Russia
• might hare the disadvantage ; only it is to be re-
gretted that the several Russian Generals have sup-
ported each other so feebly, and the Turkish Gene-
rals have acted with so much energy ; but the hang-
ing back of the Arnouts and the brave Bosniaks, the
liseases in the ari!.:., the bad state of the routes in
the Balkan, and the want of artillery, make it impos-
sible for the Turks to recover, during the winter, the
fortress of Varna, the works of which have been
pretty well repaired. Can it be supposed to
be impossible for the Russian north coast of the

luxine to supply 1'2,000 Russians at Varna with
provisions for six months ? Will the garrisons of
Silistria, Widdin, &c. &c. be able to molest the
100,000 Russians in their winter quarters is Mol-
davia and Wallachia ? and can we think that the
Russians will be unable to -find subsistence among
a million and a half of inhabitants in the Principa-
lities, which are the most fertile provinces, and,
except the incursions of the Pacha of Widdin
into Little Wallachia, hare suffered nothing
from pillage? Servia would readily revqlt if it
had a real guarantee from Russia that it
would not be again sacrificed. It is the lukewarm
Christianity prevailing in London, Paris, &c. that
the Servians and others dread. If the Court of
Vienna would ()pertly declare that the revolted
Christians should not again become slaves of the
Turkish Pachas, the Christians in Turkey would
de wonders; for they have been deprived of every
thing to supply the Turks wall means of re-
sistance. If more unanimity prevailed among
the Russian Generals it would have already been all
over with Mahrnond, whom all the Turks dread as
a scourge. Turkish fanaticism is as selfish as every
other, and not more durable. Mahmond is sur-
sounded with traitors who would rejoice at his fall;
which we hope may not be the case of the Emperor
Nicholas in 1829. England will not go to war
to save the Porte ; nor any Continental power be
willing to sacrifice itself for the Turks:

A Charleston Paper has been received At the
North and South American Coffee-house, of
the 2d December, it states that a proposition is
now before the Legislature of North Carolina,
to incorporate all the banks in that State into
one grand specie paying institution, and the
Senate to become a stockholder on the same
footing as individuals. It was expected that
this subject would excite a long and warm
debate.

Inc American PRESIDENT'S Speech, while
it gives a striking view of the internal prosperity
of that great country, and of the irresistible pace
by which it advances to wealth and greatness,
affords ground also for various other reflections.
It will be observed that Great Britain and
America are now fairly involved in a contest of
commercial restrictions, and notwithstanding that
they both profess their faith in a wore enlightened
creed, and both reprobate the policy which they
are madly pursuing, yet differing very uselessly,
we think, about miserable details, they strike at
the root of great principles, and are raising up a
wretched fabric of meanness and jealousy, to per-
plex their mutual intercourse and to obstruct
their prosperity. Each is endeavouring to throw
the odium of these miserable measures on the
other, and both profess that they only resort to
those devices by way of retaliation. We cannot
help thinking, however, that they are both in
error, and that they are far too ready to retaliate
before first trying the effects of a more conciliat-
ing policy. But without at present entering into
the merits of the existing dispute, we call on the
advocates of restrictions in our trade to mark the
„sass.: ass ass; t.piaiiecity
in which they will be repelled by every inde-
pendent state. The time for this miserable policy
is past. Even if no nation were to retaliate on
us an equal measure of restriction, we should still
hold all restrictions to be impolitic. But when
other nations throw these restrictions in our
teeth—when they commend the poisoned chalice
to our own lips, the matter is brought to a very
clear issue. It is now evident that if we restrict
the trade of other nations, they will restrict our •
trade—that we cannot, therefore, have what we
aim at, namely, a monopoly of trade, for every
exclusion or prohibition which we impose on
others they will retaliate on ourselves ; and in
the progress of this pernicious policy the question
between commercial nations will be, not how
much good, but how much evil, they can do to
each other. We plainly see that America, which
is rapidly rising into such importance, and
which must open so great an outlet, for years to
come, to our overflowing manufactures, will not
allow us to pick and chuse among her com;
'tierce what articles we shall exclude, and
what articles we shall admit. If we do not
take care, if we do not retrace our steps in
time, the axe of proscription will descend with
vengeance on our trade, and lop off entirely this
important branch of our commercial intercourse,
America has already presented us with a slight
sketch of the restrictive system, and she is
perfectly aware that there are many vulnerable
points in our commerce where she could inflict a
serious wound. In the progress of the system
of restrictions, attended, as it will be, by mutual
exasperation, we have no doubt that America
may at last be brought to injure herself that she
may injure Britain more. The importance of
cotton, as one of the raw materials of our greatest
manufacture, is well understood by her ; and what
would be the consequence if, in the madness of
jealousy and revenge, sthis trade should be ob-
structed—great evil would no ,isnbt thence ac-
crue to America ; but would that be any conso-
lation for the injured manufactures of Britain ?
The folly of this contest in commercial restric-
tions cannot be too severely reprobated. We
cannot help expressing some surprise that Great
Britain should cling with such pertinacity to the
mere shreds and patches of her colonial mono-
poly, absurd and useless in its best estate ; but
now, like the restrictions on the Irish Catholics,
a mere disjointed piece of patch-work, offensive
to the eye and totally useless, even for its own
narrow objects. America should be conciliated,
and she should also conciliate, for there certainly
cannot be a more humiliating spectacle than that
of two enlightened nations, each following a ssy-

tem which they openly disapprove, and the odium
of which they endeavour mutually to cast back on
each other—a system which is the offspring of
temper and not of policy ; pernicious in its pre-
sent consequences, but far more pernicious as of
evil example, and as subversive of those free and
enlightened principles by which alone the com-
merce of nations can be advantageously regulated.

By an article from the Times, inserted in our
columns of to-day, it will be perceived that Lord
ANGLESIA has resigned the Viceroyalty of Ire-
land. This event—upon which judging from the
exigencies of the time we speculated a few days
since as being one very likely to happen—will
doubtless pave the way to results of so awful, so
tremendous a character, that we shudder but to
think of them. The resignation must, in fact, be
looked on, if not us a death-blow to the Catholic
hopes, at least as a proof dint Emancipation is
fast retrogading with the Government. Really
there is something very puerile in such vacil-
lation. Ministers appear for the last few
months to have been merely coquetting with
the two Catholic and Anti-Catholic parties, with-
out the slightest intention of benefiting either.
Thus month they incline towards the Bruns-
wickers ; the next towards the Papists; at one
moment they leer upon Mr. J. C. BxRRBWORD,
at another they look languishingly upon the pen-
sive graces of Mr. O'CONNELL. Such conduct
cannot last. It is an imbecile expedient, a
wretched shift to put off the evil day to the latest
possible moment, upon the same principle that a
silly school-bey lingers over a dose of physic,
though aware that it must eventually be swal-
lowed. It is a truckling to prejudice from an
innate consciousness of inability to grapple witkit.
With regard to the great question itself, we
can compare it to nothing but the stone of
Sisyphus, which the Liberals are perpetually
toiling to roll up a hill, for the sole purpose, as
it should seem, of finding it roll down again.
They contrive to catch a view of the Pro-
mised Land of Emancipation from the Mount
Pisgah of Expediency ; but they never advance
nearer, for the frontiers are guarded by Doubting
Castle.

But to drop allegory. Is the Catholic Ques-
tion, let us ask, to be ruined because a few old
men—the giants perhaps of other times, but the
pigmies of the present—choose to set their
faces against it ? Are the tears of Lord EL-
DON to he balanced against the wrongs of seven
millions ? Is Ireland to be lost, because his
Grace of NEWCASTLE has compromised him-
self by an hostility to the Catholics, which has
every earthly recommendation but that of com-
mon sense ? There is but one reply to all these
queries; and that reply will, we fear, be soon
put forward in a shape at which ages yet unborn
tremble.

THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TwuurN o' Cr.oosi.

Some sensation was caused in the City by the re-
ported recall of the Marquis of Anglesea from the
Government of Ireland, and it was considered, in the
first instance, as a circumstance unfavourable to the
cause of Catholic Emancipation ; it may probably
arise from an entire system, which by many is ex-
pected to take place in the Government of this part
of the United Kingdom, and that it will be assimi-
lated to that of Scotland, thereby saving a very
large sum to the country. Consols closed yesterday
at 87 and opened this morning at 87i, sellers,
since which only one bargain has been effected, of
10,000/., which has changed them to buyers. Ex-
chequer Bills are quite nominal, at 68 70 pm.; and
India Bonds, 72 4 pm.
A trifling advance took place lste in the course of
yesterday, in some of the Foreign stocks, which is
nominally sustained to-day, for no real business has
been transacted; Brazilian Bonds are 64k; Da-
nish 63; Mexican 6 per Cents., 32k 33; Por-
tuguese, 533 4; Russian Stock is rather heavy
at 95 which is the present quotation.
The Share speculations are at a complete stand
still, and there is no business.

•
The subject of Stephenson's delinquency still oc-
cupies the entire conveisation of all classes in the
City, and is revived by fresh proofs of the false esti-
ante which has been formed for years of his real cha-
racter. The house appeared in the Gazelle of last
night, and it is hoped the partners in this house will
be able to clear themselves from a charge very gene-
rally made, of having been culpably negligent in the
manatzement of their affairs, without which their
guilty partner could never have carried on his frauds
to the extent which se unfortunately are found to
exist.

Three por Cent. Con,tols, shut ; Ditte, for Aesottet,
S7l /; Three per Cent. Ilerlneetl, 861 ; Bank Stoek,
209 10 ; India Bonds, 72 4 pm. ; Exehlser Bills, 68
70 pcc.

Foßmicg.--Bratilian, 64 ; Ar.anos Ayrea, 47 8 ;
Cltilian, 22 23 ; Colombian, 23 4 ; Danirb, 63 ;
French, Five per Cent. 1061 74; Three per Cent. 74. 1;
Greek, 16 17; Mexican, Five per Cect„ 251 6 ; Ditto,
Six per Cent., 324 5 ; Peruvian, 171 181 ; Pot tngnese,
531 I ; 95 4 ; Spaniel], 10
Sittas.—Anglo Mexican, 774 die. ; Brazilian, :37 9
pm. ; Bolanos, 85 9. pm. ; Colombian Mines, 131 121
dla.; Real Da Monte, 150 per share; United Maxim),
231 23 dis.

TWO O'CLOCK.

Consols remain S7i -, with literally no business.
Where the evils of Stephenson's frauds are to end,
is incalculabie. Another lot of 10,0001. I:3:chequer
Bills has been found out, it is said, and that siren
the sanctity of tin boxes and locks has been violated.
THREE 0' CL 0 CIL

Consols, 87k, liellers.
FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES.
Consols
Do. for Ac. 871
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Avres 47-1.
Chilian Do.
Columbian, 182123 i

Amish
Greek, 1825 16i
Mexican, 1825
Peruvian
Russian
Spanish 1O

In order to make hens lad- throughout the
winter, it is recommended to heat 'the poultry roosts by
means of steam, and to mix with their food pounded oyster
or other shells, and elate also pounded. The lime con-
tained in the oyster shell contributes to the formation of
he shell, and the slate lilts ens the flavour of the meat of,
egg.../Jill. Unit,

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-O'IILS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DEAL, JAN. 2.--Wind N.W.--Arrived the
Wallsend, Willis, from Quebec ; and Ask, Jack-
son, fl'om Nantes. Arrived from London, the Pega-
sus, TritT, for St. Thomas's; and Duke of Man-
chester, for Jamaica.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 2.—Wind N.W.—Sailed the
Orelia, Hudson, for Van Diemen's Land.
FALMOUTH, JAN. I.—Wind W.N.W. to N.W.—
Sailed the Hope, Sinclair, for the South Seas; Cla-
rence, Muddle, for Van Dieman's Land; Eagle,
Price; Arundel, Ford; and Clara, Hall, for
Jamaica; Panther, Gorring, for Genoa; and Jane,
Lenor, for ditto.
RAMSGATIC, JAN. 2.—Arrived the Favorite, Find-

lay, from Terceira.
BRIDLINGTON, JAN. I.—The Lily, Milton, which
was OH shore near Flambro' Head, Was got off this
tide, and brought in here not much damaged.
NORTH SHIELDS, JAN:I.—The Arrow, Hatrpe-
ley, from Hamburgh, has been got off the Herd after
discharging part of her cargo, and towed in here by
a steam-boat leaky.

The Sheffield (steamer), from Liverpool to
Belfast, was driven on the rocks at Ballywalter
during a gale, on Tuesday.

TII MARKIZTB.-(THIS DAY.)

FISLAIARKET, BILLINGSGATIL

Tide morning's market exhibited a tolerably good sup-
ply of the undermentioned kin►ie of fish, which sold briskly
at the following pious:—

Prime Turbot, ........
Ditto small, pee
Coel.fish, each 8 0 18 0
Soles, Per thr,e pairs ......... ......... 1 0 12 0
Fine Whitings, per....«....«.......«..... 4 0 13 0
State, each ..... ••••••••••• ••••••••••• eine ...... .....
.1 0 :1 0

Hadiocks, per dozen . l3 0 30 0
Brill, each .....,.. 1 6 7 0
Gurnettz, each
Live Flounders, per quartern .... ......
Live Eel'', pia* 5113
Dutch Plaice, per basket ............ .....
.3 0
.? o

Fine Lobeteri, per score ............. 4O 0 44 0
Inferior ditto ........... —.......—... ....... —.. ...... 10 0 90 0
Fine Yarmouth Bed ......... per !unwired 7 0 8 0
Scotch ditto 6 0 7 0
Pickled Herrings, per 100 0 0 6 0
Best Common Oysters, per bushel
Natives 34 0 38 0

COVENT-GAR:

71iere was a good supply al
the time of year, but the toad

the same u clt this day ss'nni

o. d. a. d.
Potatoes (roc ewt.) 36to 7 0
CaLbages (12 heads).— 1 9 3 0
Ditto Red .. 6 4 0

Cauliflowers ....—.. ..... 1 9 301

Horst ttadish(bunTdrsr) 2 6 4 0
Ceirsiry IIS 2 6
Brat.,
Carrota bunches) b 0• 8 6
Turaipo 2 0 4 0
Coievrcrrta or Grema... 9 6 4 6
Leeks 1 0 2 0
EnglishGrapos (porlb )1 0 96,

HAY HA RKETI3—(At per Load of SS Truss:.)
ST. JAMES'S.

Coarse heavy Lowland /Meadow Hay /2 b to £2 lb
Best New Meadow Ilay 2 15 3 0
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 10 4 6
Clover Hay 3 5 5 0
Oat Straw XI sto XI 10 1 Wheat Straw 1 111 1 16
supply goof, trade dull, and prices as last quoted.
SMITHFIELD.

Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .C 2 2 to .12 10
Beat New Me,lslow Hay 2 10 2 15
Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 0 4 0
Clover Hay (extra flne).--£5 0 ... Generally 3 5 4 10
Oat Straw £l 7to £1 10—Wheat straw 1 10 1 13
A moderately good supply, and a dull trace, at Thursday's
prices.

The Duke of Rutland, the Duchess Isabella,
the Margsis of Granby, and Lord and the Ladies Manners,
are at present at Detroit. It is expected that the castle
will be crowded with distinguished visitants for the Duke's
birth-day, which is always celebrated on the 4th of January.
Mr. Sanders the artist, is new actively employed at Bel_
voir, in completing two whole length portraits of the Duke
and late Duchess, intended to occupy vacant compartments
in the grand drawing-room, which will be opened for the
first time on this occasion. The furnitere is all complet-
ing in the florid style of Louis XIV. The Leicestershire
rellis;a band is engaged fer a fortnight at the castle.—
Stamford News.

Mr. Remington (one of the partners of Mr.
Rowland Stephenson) had a long conference yesterday at
the Home Office with one of the Under Secretaries of the
department, and with the Chief Magistrate of Police.

Earl Spencer experienced a dangerous attack
of illness during the present week, while staying at his seat
Althorp-perk, Northsniptonshire. Sir Henry Ha'ford'
was sent for express. Sir Henry left town to attend hi•
Lordship, and remained at Aithorp till all danger from the
attack had subsided, when Sir Henry bad returned to town.

An aggregate meeting of the Catholics of the
county and city of Kilkenny, is to be held on the 12th of
January, for the purpose of petitioning for unqualified
emancipatien.—Dahlin Merning Rigister.
COASTING TRADE OF NEW PROVIDENCE,
R. I.—Upon the authority of the Inspector of that place,
it appears, that in the years 1805 and 1806 there were
but 350 wasting Tassels entered that port annually; in
1823 the number had increased to about 2,500 ; ar.d•,
during tho year 1827, about 4,000 coasters entered the
port of Providence, evir.ohl an extraordinary extension of
the commerce of that town.

Accounts have been received in town of the
death, suddenly and very unexpectedly, of the Bishop of
Norwich. His Lordship was upwards of 80 yearn of age.

It is very generally supposed that, in con-
ff.equence of the ieriotts and influential remonstrances which
have been made upon the subject, the Lords of the Trea-
Pnry will not confirm the permission said to have been
granted by the Conuijissioners of Woods and Forests for
the erection of tilt, new College in the Regent's Park.
FECUNDITY OF RAT s.—RatS multiply so
prodigiously, that were it not they are universally pro-
seribed animals, and receive quarter front neither man oar
beast, nor even from one another, it is calculated the world
itself wish! not contain them. From one pair 1,000,000
snay be propagated in two years.— Vide Buffon.
Cardinal Dubois used frequently, in searching
after any thing he wanted, to swear excessively. One of
his clerks told him, " Your Eminence had better hire a
man to swear for yen, and then Ton will gain so much
time."

The Court of Examiners at Apothecaries'
Hall have come to a determination not to allow a mcdicrd
gradtiate of any University to practise ru; an apothecary in
any part of England witliont a certificate of having first
been duly examined by them.

So frequent and daring have become the
nightly depredations in the neighbourhood of Lisson-
green and Portland-town, that the inhabitants are neither
safe in their holism, nor able to leave them in security.

A history of the Stage, from the earliest
period, is, we understand, wally ready for the pram. It
is writkn the Eilitor of the last Edition of Dodsley's
Old Plays.

A grand Installation of the Knights Com-
panion* of the Order of the Bath is, it is said, to take
places in Afey next, in Weatmiustcr Abbey; after which
the members of the United Service Clnb intend giving a
truperh ball and sapper.

We understand that Mr. Wilkie has just
finished a portrait of a S4..otch nobleman, in the style of
Sir Joshua Reynolds, and it is added, With a tent and
afoot not inferior to that eminent artist.

Such was the fineness of the day yesterday,
that Constitution-bill and Hyde- park, dieplayed an unnsnat
number, considering the time of year, of egaestri-ans, con-
sisting of both ladies and gentlemen.

New Year's Day being the anniversary of the
birth of the Earl of WeBtmoreland, who yesterday completed
his 70th year, the Duke of Wellington and a large and
distinguished party spent the day with the Noble Earl at
Apthorpe, near Want,ford.—Stamford Afercrtry.