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en account of the richness of the country. His argument was this —when a courtry was poor it had a copper standard—as it grew r& h it adopted one of silver—and when it became very rich, its standard became gold. He also said, that where a country was very poor it would most likely adopt a cheaper metal than even copper as its standard of currency. He (Mr. Attwood) believed' that there was no precedent whatever for legislation—for im portant legislation, upon such very slight grounds.--(Hear, hear.) In every country in Europe silver was as that time, as it was Now, the standard of value, and yet upon such very alight grounds was it changed in this country upon the suggestion of his lordship. His lordship, in supporting the measure, said that tha people had voluntarily adopted a gold standard, and he therefore contended that there could be no hardship in imposing upon them by law that which they had adopted by choice. But why,he would ask.was it that the people had voluntarily adopted a gold currency ? I t was because gold during the last century was so cheap, that the people found it their interest to discharge their debts in that metal in preference to silver. In 1798, however, silver was lower than gold, and had continued to be so since then. In 1816 there was a new silver coinage, and the legislature then deemed it neces pare to protect the coin from being exported, which had been for merly the case, owing to the high price of silver prior to 1798. Thinng the twenty-five first years of the reign of George the Third silver was ss. 6d. per ounce, and, according to the price of re Id at that tinic,'it afforded a profit of six per cent. to those who brought bullion into the country and carried out silver. (Hear.) It was therefore though expedient in 1816 that the new coinage he protected by taking 61 per cent. away from the in. t' is value of the coin, and to make it no longer a legal tender. P.. 4 !lament thus took great care to protect the new coin from a clanger which had not for a long time previously existed ; for surely that silver coin was secure which was coined at ss. 2d. while the priee of silver was only 4s. Ild. per ounce. The Right Hon. Gen tleman opposite (Mr. Henries) had expressed his opinion the other night, that no silver coin wu in circulation except what had been issued from the Mint; but he thought he was wrong in that opinion, for he was most confidently assured that silver could be coined of the same intrinsic value as that in circulation, and so well, that it would be impossible for even the Mint to say whether they had not issued the spurious coin themselves, and that this coinage could be carried on with a good profit to the coiners. In tides to shew how possible this was supposed to be in some quarters, be would ask if the Bank of England had not applied to the Treasury to indemnify them for any loss they might sustain in this way from keeping such a quantity of silver. It was rot surprising that the Bank should make such an application, for, doubtless, the quan tity of silver in their coffers must be enormous, when be knew him self of one establishment in the North, where an accumulation of silver had taken place so the extent of 80,0001. in which sum the difference between the real and nominal value must have been up. wards of 5,0001. At present gold had advanced beyond the price of silver. He would appal to those times in which gold bad similarly advanced, while silver was also the standard ; and he would, by reference to what had been done in those days by able men, support the proposition he meant to submit to the house. In the reign:of Queen Elisabeth gold advanced in value 11 per cent. but Lord Bacon notwithstanding, maintained the silver standard inviolable. Again gold advanced ten per cent. and again wait similarly dealt with. It continued to advance until the reign of William, when its value was thirty.nine per cent. greater than in the reign of Elizabeth. Now if the price of gold were to increase 39 per cent. within the next 60 years, silver being no longer a stan dard of currency, and being no longer a legal tender, it was morally impossible but that all the concerns of the country must go to ruin. Under all the derangements of price in the reign of Elizabeth and the reigns immediately subsequent, the course adopted was that of adhering to the silver standard, and the country pros pered. Now, however. that a different course had been adopted, the country was reduced to such a condition, that it could not sus. min the burthens which were brought upon it by the deviation from former practice. At the present day we were bound to an astringent standard, which was not the money of the world. Upon these grounds he trusted that the house would perceive the necessity of establishing the ancient standard, and that they could not, without great injustice, keep up the present standard of gold exclusively. In 1819, when the metallic standard was restored, the effects of that measure were deeply felt by the most important classes of the com munity. But then it was said that the house was bound by the con. tract of a previous act of Parliament, and if it was proposed to make silver a part of the standard, it would have been cried out against as a fraud on the public creditor to the extent of 6/ per cent. so that, in fact, there appeared to be no resource but unmitigated remorse. less severity (cheers), there was to be no deviation from the path, however small, even though the farmer was to be ruined, and the landlord to be confiscated, by this sweeping measure; though by its means the poor man was to be driven to ruin and to crime, and all classes to destruction. As far as regarded property, still there was to be no alternative, for they found themselves bound by the letter of the previous act to persevere (cheers). If any member proposed a relaxation of the standard, he would have been met by the assertion that it would be an abandonment of those pre tensions to more than Roman virtue,which could yet witnesa'unmoved men paying these taxes, and discharging their other obligations, in a higher value than they ought is justice to do for ten years—could wit- ness them paying more in pensions and in salaries, and in rent, and in taxes, than in fairness ought to be demanded from them. (Hsu.) The object of the standard prior to 1797 was to keep money mire steady in its value, and this it fully effected. It was not a standard of gold. It was not a standard of silver. Neither was it a standard of gold and silver jointly : but it was a peculiar sort of standard, founded upon these, and hedged round with protecting laws, which, while they tended to keep the standard steady and useful to the country, also tended to preserve property inviolable, by preventing its continual fluctuation in value, and the consequent frequent nib of its proprietors. (Cheers.) Upon all the grounds he had stated he thought there existed, in justice ' a positive necessity to give the relief which could not be afforded consistently with the full operation of the principles of the bill of 1819. In the year 1810, exactly thirteen years after the standard of value had been fixed, which had no sort of protection, a Committee was appointed, which was called Mr. Horner's ComMittee, for the pur pose of inquiring whether that paper had been debased in value, shed they reported that it had been so debased, for it had, they said, been issued in excess • but still they did not report the extent of Its debasement, though ;hat was pretty accurately ascertained by other sources of information. Practical men said that the advance of bul. lion was no proof of the depreciation of paper money ; but bullion separated from money was no longer a measure of value, but was a commodity rising and falling like every other, ',according to sir. cunistances. The best measure of value was bread corn, and that had advanced more than bullion—(Hear, hear.)—The bul lionists, however, said, that was owing to practical circumstances— the state of the harvests and importation ; but these circumstances must have occurred at other times, and yet at no former time had corn advanced above 50s. a quarter for five years together, whereas corn, _in paper money, had advanced to 90s. When the hoar passed a law to pay paper debts in metal money, they did what legislation might do; but the effect of that law on the country was beyond the power of the legislature to contrail That must depend on the quantity of the precious metals in the world, and the tremen dous consequences of the measure corresponded with its monstrous principle. The distress of the country arose from the changes of its monetary system. He would go back to the period of the war when paper debts were paid in paper money. There was occasional distress, but it was from particular causes, and the period was in the main a course of prosperity. The of money was favourable to the trading and labouring c The peas put a stop to that depreciation; but it also brought an Act al Parliament to drive the country back to its former payments—that was, of metal money for paper debts. That act did not differ from an act to place the Mint in the hands of an irresponsible body, with power to depreciate the coin as much as they pleased . This was the effect of the act of 1803, which determined that cash payments should take place for paper issues. It was the same as to say, debase the money as you please, and when peace comes we will set all right by paying in the former coin. If the legislature saw the consequences of that act it would be an act of monstrous profligacy ; but they were ignorant of the effeet.--(Hear, hear.) Even in the year 1811, they declared that they were Ignorant of any difference, and that there was no difference between metal and paper money. If, then, a contract was made it should be carded into effect like ali other contracts, according to the meaning. (Hear, hear.) Soon after the peace, however, the legislature proceeded to act on the letter of the contract Instead of the spirit, and the consequent suffering was such as was never before known in England. It was said that there was distress during the war. He knew there was; it was impossible there should be such a war without producing distress. The closing of the American market was the gr_eatest cause of distress during the war. The learned member for Boaresborough ( Mr. Brougham) in 1817 described the distress which arose with the peace as greater than had ever been known since the Norman conquest. That distress was relieved by retracing OUT steps and increas ing the circulation—a measure which produced the prosperity n of 1818. This was the evidence of the Governor of the that the distress was relieved by an increased issue of Bank notes. Paper money was then the legal currency of the country, and the change of that currency bad produced unexampled suffer ing. There had been periods when the people called for the int peac.hment of persons by whom the distress of the country was not ; and such a period might arise again , if the House did not interpose.' (Hear, hear.) The late Mr. Tierney, speaking of the distress, and the mannain which it had been relieved, said dm Chan cellor of the Exchequer had come down to the House with a smile al triumph, and said every thing had occurred as he could have wished, and the country had returned to a state of prosperity; but soon after came a bundle of *urns from the Bank, which showed that a great increue of paper bad been issued, so that tba pros. perity b y aussd au Increase of paper sonny. It was the Cashion t i o N 2 of yew mossy as If it was of no more *slue than she rags of which it was ands; but so keg as It was tbor money of the country, its material was of little consequence. In January, 1819, the Prince Regent stated that the manufacturers were in the most prosperous state ; but four months after the passing of the Bullion Bal, the crown called upon the Parliament to protect the constitution from that very people wbo had formed its bulwark against Europe and America in arms. This apprehension of dawr was all caused by the distress of the people, the consequence of that act. This distress was again relieved by increasing the circulation ; 4 millions were added to the circulation. Lord Liverpool stated, that if the advance of four millions was found to render the standard in secure, it must be called back. The fact evidently was, that the re servation of the gold standard was weighed in the balance against the prosperity of the country, and the preference given by Lord Liver pool to the preservation of the standard. In 1825, the Ring told his Parliament that there never was a period in the history of the country, when all the great interests of the country were in a state so prosperous. Now all the interests of the country were in a state not of prosperity, but of peri1....,( Hear, hear.)—The distress was caused by the drawing in by the Bank of the four millions, the issue of which had produced the prosperity. Lord Liverpool stated in 1826, that the Bank in 1825 apprehended danger front the amount of their issues, and had in that year drawn in threemillions and s half. This diminution of the currency produced a recurrence of the dis tress that had been relieved by its increase. The panic commenced in November, 1825, and there must be another p ante, if not pre-. vented by the legislature retracing its steps. Before the country bankers failed in 1825, distress had reached the Treasury. There was at present some partial return to prosperity, but he took upon himself to say that It was produced by an Increased issue of bank notes, and if that increased issue should be maintained for two years, there would be no distress amongst the people; but there would be distress at the Bank, for a metallic and paper standard could not exist . In 1825, when the country was in a state of prosperity, go ld was leaving it, and paper supplying its place ; and the same process must take place again to restore that prosperity. From 1826 to the present time, we had a metallic standard, and hav ing adopted the currency of the continent it was impossible perm neatly to increase Its amount. Every million that we drew from the currency of the continent, made every suceeteling million the more difficult to be obtained. It was said we had now twenty-two millions of sovereigns in circulation. It was calculated by Mr. Rose that in 1797 there were forty millions of coin in circula tion. He would take the amount then at thirty million; but from our increased transactions since that period forty millions would now be necessary : we had but twenty.two millions, so that nearly twenty militate were still wanting. To get the gold we have from the continent immense exports of British manufactures took took place at the prices ruinous to the producers, though the Govern ment considered the export a proof of prosperity. In the same de gree that the want of gold was dimini s h e d, prices would be raised, and prosperity would return. The apprehension of danger from U. notes could not be real even amongst those who professed to feel it. They showed it by their conduct, by permitting their circulation in Scotland and Ireland and he would not combat an argument so unworthy. Policy and justice, and public faith all required that the calculation should be increased to bear proportion to the amount when the debt was contracted. He should make no apology for occupying so much of the time of the House, because it became the functions of that House to be occupied in the consideration of measures that vitally affected the Interest and the honour of the coun try. (Hear.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving two re. solutions. The fi rst, that it is expedient to repea l so much of the Act of the 56th of George the Third as declares gold coin to be the only legal payment, and to declare that it shall be legal to make pay. ments in gold and silver coin. The second resolution was to repeal the Act of 1826, prohibiting the issue of Bank notes under the value of U. Mr. DAVENPORT said, the house would perceive that he made a great sacrifice to give them an opportunity of hearing a speech which had been seldom equalled in that house. The general ob jection to resolutions for so great a relief of the public distress was, that they were too extensive, and the remedies proposed ambiguous in their results. The hon. gent. had proved that while Ministers alleged they were following the course of our ancestors, they were, in fact, taking a course that was peculiar to themselves, and that was Inconsistent with policy and justice. He supposed he should not be told that the fact of having passed an Act of Parliament was an an swer to the resolutions. If that were the case they must not only be an hon. house but an infallible house. He supposed antiquity would not be pleaded for the gold standard, which, it could not be pretended, was more than 14 years old. The right hon. gentleman (Mr. Peel) pretended—and nothing was too strong for the belief of the house` that his bill had been in operation for ten years ; but she fact was, it was only in operation since the abolition of the small notes. They had the authority of Lord Liverpools book for saying that the richest country should have the most costly currency. He might as well have said, " Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat"— (a laugh). The bullion committee had not assigned any reason for departing from the ancient silver standard ; and a master of the mint, Mr. W. Pole, stated that no inconvenience had ever arisen from silver being the standard of value. Mr. Lock had said, that by common consent of all nations, silver was the universal standard of value. The ministerial member for Cal lington (Mr. Baring)—(a laugh)—had stated, that by a pedantic adherence to gold as the standard of v a lue, th e co u nt r y wait in. jured. He (Mr. D.) was confident this was a just account, and that the bullion committee had acted on a fallacy. Had history been examined, it would be found that Venice, Holland, and France had made the same attempt to substitute gold for silver that we arc now doing, but they all failed. The gold coin constantly fled the country ; even Buonaparte, who did things as well as any Chan cellor of the Exchequer he ever remembered, (a laugh,) found it impossible to keep the gold at home. We should find it impos sible also. The gold would quit the country ; and though it would come back again, the trade of the country must suffer in the mean time. The gold standard placed us in the power of money brokers, and we saw how one set of money-brokers lately pu nished Austria, the Freudest government in Europe, for pre suming to borrow in a cheaper shop. (Hear, hear, hear.) It was necessary to our dignity that we should get ourselves out of such a danger. The importation of the precious metals from South America had lessened four fifths last year. Adam Smith stated that in his time the consumption and importation of those metals balanced each other—that consumption had greatly increased sines Every house now had plate, and even every inn had plate or plated forks. He thought Ministers, to be consistent with them selves. should agree with the first resolution. Lord Liverpool, Mr. Peel, and Mr. Canning, had all said the country must return to the ancient standard. That standard was silver, and he called upon the right honourable gentleman to fulfil his own promise.—The motion of his honourable friend was divided into two distinct parts, and voting for the first did not pledge to the second.—He called upon the house to recollect the evils they had brought upon the country by the changes they had made in the standard and the currency, and to redeem as much as was yet possible, the people from the sufferings tho se changes had inflicted. The SPEAKER put the first resolution. Mr. BARING had no hesitation in admitting that the change in the had been the cause of much distress throughout the coun :l t a r n y7 c ;he hon. member read extracts from the evidence of Mr. Thornton, before the Bullion Committee in 1811, to show that the value of money bad declined gradually since the Bank Restriction Act. He (Mr. B.) had no doubt but that the real cause of our di& tress was the restriction of the paper currency, particularly the with deawal of the one pound notes. He (Mr. B.) was certain that much evil arose from the withdrawing of the one pound notes. The cir culation of such notes in England and Scotland was a sufficient answer to the objections made to their circulation in this country. He would cot go so far as to support his hon. friend (Mr. Attwood) l in the repeal of the act which rendered gold the only legal tender. He would prefer a silver standard, as it would afford increased facility in case them should be a metallic standard. It was his conviction, that if we did not adopt the system of using the two metals, we should be compelled to recur to an unlimited paper circulation, whenever a war &Sad arise. He begged to have it understood that he felt great reluctence in making any alteration in the currency, because it might unfix the minds of the public ; but seeing that the present state of the currency was likely to be productive of much evil, he wished for such a change as he had proposed. Mr. HERRIES observed that it was generally understood that the standard was now unalterably fixed, or this question would have attracted a fuller house.--(llear, hear.)—Not one argument had been advanced now which had not been often urged before. The question was not whether there should be a gold standard, or a gold and silver standard together, but that there should be such a propor , tioa of the one as would drive the other out of the market. He in. (erred, from the arguments of the gentlemen opposite, that silver , had been the legal standard up to 1797, and that the debtor could pay his debt of 1001. at a saving of five per-oent.--(Hear, j hear.)—He denied that debtors could pay more than 261. in all , vet at any one time. They were not then to discuss whether or no the system adopted in the year 1819 was the most correct.— , (Hear.)—But the question was, whether or no it w as a d v i sa bl e , , for the sake of relief.—for the benefit of the debtor, to change the present system of currency. To such a fallacious principle he should give a decided negative. He condemned any change In the existing currency. It was too hazardous an undertaking. The , question of small notes, which he expected would have formed an , important part in the present discussion, was discarded almost en tirely. All ha objections to a depreciated currency were tenfold, as respected a small note currency. He could not see upon what prin. ciple the house was called upon to support the motion. , Lord 110WICE said, that he could not think of benefltting one class of the community at the expense of another. He should give , his vote against the first resolution of the hon. mover. I After some observations from Mr. Ward, Mr. P. Th ompson, Si r i li. Knatchbull, Mr. Fergusson, Mr. Haskason, Lord Milton, Syr , R. Peel, and Sir R. Vyvyan, Mr. Attwood replied, w h en t h e R eso . , lutions were negatived without a division. The mhos Orders of the Day were then disposed of; and the r House Miasma ot Mixt o'CLocs. _ LAW REPORTS. COURT OP CIII§ERY, Juirt 8. 31:70.111111WICOXIT V. BAWL These were. two pediso, per the Lord Chance ll or would direct two sums of 10,0001. and MOW. to be laid out in the three per cents. or order them to be retuned to the Receiver, or to Messrs. Ramble, Whet, and Forbes. When I consider, said his Lordship, that the whole question with regard to these parties is now under appeal in the House of Lords, there is no ground to direct either of the sums to be refunded, and I should not be justified, under the present circumstances, to alter the situation of the pinks. With respect to to the sum of 1,1001. which, I believe, has been arranged' to pay rent, and another sum advanced to Messrs. Kemble, Willet, and Forbes, in 1828, they should be paid out of the sum now re maining in Court. Mr. Low ungs.--We do not ask either of those sums to be paid now. _ The LORD CIIANCILLOIL—Then them Is an end of it. The question respecting the Receiver's salary I will dispose of on Sa turday. The LORD CHANCILLOR then asked the Solicitor.Oreneral whether it was the wish of all parties that the appeal of Harris and Kemble, now in the House of Lords, should be disposed of this Session, as an application had been made for that purpose, but it was opposed on the part of Harris, who was abroad P The SoLicrrna-Ozxntsz. said, personally to himself it would be very inconvenient; and with regard to Mr. Harris, he bad brought a new Counsel in the case, who must necessarily go through the whole matter. NAIILIAGIC Or A WARD. An application vssiWatiefitrat;Ordert;;;;Mpel a gentleman who had surreptitiously married a ward of Court, so attend at the bar, and show cause why be should not be committed to the Fleet for that contempt. It was stated that the only object was to have proper settlements made upon the lady, and thellusband was willing to do whatever the Court directed. The LORD CHMICZLI.OII ordered the gentleman to attend on Tuesday next. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Juitz 8. _ _ ?HE XING V. WILLIS. This was an indictment against Mr. Willie, the vestry clerk of St. Mary, Stratford, Bow, for wilful and corrupt perjury. The prosecutor was Mr. Michael Scales. As soon as Lord Tenterden came into Court, Mr. Duxxasr, who appeared as the leading counsel for the pro mutton, objected to a pro ceed ing of the defendant's attorney, who had, he said, rquotted the associate not to swear any of the jurors who came frau the ward of which Mr. Scales was a common coun cilman. Lord TENTIRDEN spoke to the associate, and then told Mr. Denman that he understood that jurors from Mr. fileales's ward were objected to on account of a letter which had been circu lated in the ward, giving an account of a trial which had taken place in the Court of Common Pleas, and containing other par ticulars relating to the transactions out of which the present pro secution arose. Mr. Dxxxiar observed, that ten of the Jurymen in the box were totally unconnected with the ward in question, and he had no objection that the other two should retire, and that others should be sworn iu their stead. Lord TENTERDEN, however, said be did not think it right that the cue should be tried to day after what had passed. It would be better to postpone it to another day, when a different Jury could be obtained.—The case was accordingly postponed. -- - POLICE REPORTS. Ouvumat.L.—Yesterday, Edward Field, the driver of one of Cloud's Hammersmith stages, was charged with assaulting Joseph George, the conductor and proprietor of one of the omnibuses on the same road. George stated that on Sunday week, about eight o'clock in the evening, his omnibus went into St. Paul's Churchyard and turned round near the booking-office. The defendant's coach came in just before him, and be turned round in such a manner that the pole of his coach was close to the door of the omnibus, and the passengers were prevented from getting out. lie remonstrated with the de fendant, and requested him to draw his horses a little way back. Field refused, and he then told him that if he would not back his horses he must do it for him, and laid hold of them for that pur pose, on which Field immediately struck him and knocked him down, and, on his persisting in moving the horses, he struck at him him again, and attempted to knock him down a second time. The defendant said the whole dispute arose from the unfair conduct of the complainant, who, as be came into the churchyard after the coach, ought to have gone behind it, so as to take his turn in con formity with the regulations, but, instead of doing so, be tumid round before the coach in order that he might the sooner get pas sengers, and start again to return to Hammersmith. The omnibus turned round close to his horses' beads, and be admitted that he refesed to move, but there was plenty of room In front, and, if the complainant had drawn a little torwarder he could easily have let out his passengers. He did not strike him till after he had twice warned him not to meddle with the hoses, but he persisted in doing so notwithstanding he had told him he would knock him down if he touched them. This statement was cor roborated by two witnesses ; and George, who had himself called some of his passengers to prove the manner in which they were blockaded by the defendant's coach, did not deny that he had turned round in such a manner that his omnibus would be the first to leave the churchyard, though it was the last to come into it. Alderman ANSLEY told the complainant that if he had gone into his proper place behind the coach the assault would not have oc curred, and he should therefore dismiss the charge, but he could, if he thought proper, indict the defendant at the Sess ions. HATTON OARDEL—Yesterday, Alfred Jones, • journeyman painter, was charged with robbery. The prisoner was employed to paint the premises of Miss Harwood, No 8, Gee -street, limner's Town. A few minutes after his departure , Miss Harwo od disco vered that the lock of her chest had been broken open, and that a silver watch and a tortoiseshell box, containing H. 13e. in silver, a pair of gold ear-rings, a brooch, a gold ring, and several other arti cles, had been stolen. The prisoner never returned to finish his work. Police Constable Nutall apprehended the prisoner, while he was sleeping in a waggon in Mortimer Market, Tottenham -court. road. Upon searching him, he found the lid of a tortoiseshell box, o pair of gold ear-ringv, and a pawnbroker's duplicate of &silver watch, which had been pledged at the shop of Mr. Archibold, pawn broker, the previous day, for 15s. 6d. The prisoner was fully com mitted for trial. LAIRIETIR-STRlZT.—Yestaday, John Reason, a City watch man was charged by a respectably dressed individual, named Seddon, with an assault. Both parties however were in custody of the new police, the watchn.an having in the first Instance given the complainant into custody on suspicion of felony. lir. HARDWICK directed that the charge should be taken before the Alderman of Portsoken Ward, that a proper investigation should be instituted. Robert Nunn and Richard Platt, two young men in the garb of sailors, were charged with robbing Thomas Alexantlet of a 101. note. The brother of Nunn, it appears, keeps a crimping -house, and the prosecutor having been induced to go and lodge there, by the number of scouts who are always employed by these persons, to bring sailors after long voyages to them ; and in paying his bill displayed three 101. notes, one of which he entrusted o the pri soners to get changed. After some time spent unsuccessfully en deavouring to procure sovereigns, Ate prosecutor settled the demand in another manner, forgetting at the moment the 101. note which he had given the prisoners • he subsequently required a restoration of it, but the prisoners endeavoured to persuade him that they had given it back to him, and persisted to the last in their story. One of the prisoners had been previously tried at the Old Bailey for a similar offence, and the magistrates thinking the present caw was one for the investigation of a jury, eonsequently sent them both for trial. Towx-Hau...—Margi Parrast, otherwise Bell, was charged with attempting to introduce a quart of gin, end the same quantity of rum into the King's Bench Prison.—Alderman Annex in flicted the fine of 10L The prisoner being unable to pay it, was committed for fifteen days only, in =volition to her family. THAUZI Polics.—Willtom Burden, a Greenwich waterman, was charged with obstructing Charles Bayley, Esq. an opulent merchant, and abusing him in the most gross manner at the public>lying place at Greenwich. The complainant end another gentleman, named Bowker, had engaged a watennan to con vey them to London, when the defendant seized Mr. Bayky by the arm, and insisted that he should go into bit best, as he was the first smiler. Mr. Bayley refused to comply with this demand, when the defendant told the:two gentlemen they might go to hell, used the most infamous language towards them, and gave the complainant a push, After Mr. Bayley and his friend got into the boat, the defendant bawled after them, and continued to abuse them until they were out of hearing. Mr. Ballantine convicted the defendant in the full peaky of 40s. and costs. Ann Jaws was chimed with robbing Joseph Allison, belonging to the brig Loyalty, of Ms tobacco pouch, and 71. in silver. Mr. Bel amine convicted her as a reputed thief, and sentenced her to be, imprisoned and kept to hard labour for three months. nmennaemmin Yesterday morning, between one and two o'clock, a gentleman ran up to the toll.collecter on the Middlesex side of \i'aterloc‘bridp, in great agitation, ad stated that a mesa had just leaped from the middle et the bridge on the west side. Aisheeill several persons distinctly be Ms ionises the water, it wee possible anoder him any aesistanneornity bens being mewl fee the night. A abort date after the above esememes a peNesema at the Wir pweeived a female walk dews whesigeem de Mime os: side, and before be add net so her dished pesesedeiabember , knees is the water. She dodged it was only "a lark," and he let' her get but seasoner leas she sabered thin she went to the 'milk of the bridge, and climbed to the top of the balluenades. Th. po. Itemise came up to time to save her. MfSCZLLANEA. Ike y Solomon has arrived in England from Net, South Wales, in charge of the chief constable of Hobart.town.— Morning Paper. THE LATE OUTRAGE.—George Pollard, the indivi dual who broke into the apartments of Mr. Marten, at St. Jsines'4 Palace, has been liberated from prison, and consigned to the cue of the Authorities of Marylebone parish, in consequence of the pour man's insanity being fully proved. Notwithstanding all that has been urged on the sill, jest, the streets of the Borough and Blackfriars-road continu e to be infested with dogs roaming about without owners. Yesterday morning a boy named Wood had the parts bitten by a dog cut out at Guy's Hospital, where two young women are now lying f rom similar awe. On Friday night last, a disreputable female, nam e d Wilma, induced a young man to acconapany her to a house of ill. fame, in Geurgautreet, Bloomsbury, where, after drinking v ery much, she managed to take twenty pounds from her comp*. Won. The door being shut, sbe jumped out of the 'window to escape with her booty, but missing her hold, fell to the ground. She was found on the ground by a policeman, in a heipleu star,,, and conveyed to the hospital, what she died in a few days of the wounds she had received. A purse containing 14 sovereigns was found concealed in her bosom. The Jury returned a Verdict, that the deceased's death was caused by her throwing herself o u t o f „ window, while in a state of intoxication. A most daring burglary was committed on Monday night, at the house of Mr. Wray, Basing place, iVaterloo-bridge. road, directly opposite to the New Police station. The thieves en. tered the premises ,by borin out one of the paunch of th e back win. dew shutters with a centre - bit; they then proceeded to fatten th, servants and children's bed-room door with the linen lines, which, were cut down in the garden; after which they pro cee d e d t o plunder the haute, taking with:thern, among other things, a new hat belonging to a gentleman sleeping in the house, leaving in exchange an old one, on examination of which a letter was found in the lining from a felon under sentence of death in Newgate, most urgently soliciting the party to whom i t wa x addressed, to get as many signatures aa possible to a petition, to prevent the last sentence of the law being carried into execution upon hint. The letter is now in the handsof the police, from whose erer. dons it is hoped some clue may be found to the perpetrators of the burglary. It la a little singular that a private watchman, who had hitherto been considered a most active man, and whose bu.in es , i t was to watch the back of these premises, gether with the police in hunt, should have been so unfortunate us to miss these robbers on a night nearly as light as the day. The falling of a silver bell from a lady's writing desk in the drawing-room which was found on tlh carpet, is supposed to have alarmed th e thieves, and saved mud. valuable property. The Hon. Miss Conway, the only child of Field-Mar shal Henry Seymour Conway, afterwards Mrs. Darner, when sow eighteen or twenty years old , happened to be walking with David Hume ; they were accosted by a wandering Italian boy, who edited for sale some plaster figures and vases which he tarried : the good. natured historian looked at the outs—conversed with the boy—gave him a shilling, and continued his walk. Some time afterwards the young lady related in company the adventure of Mr. Hume and this wandering artist, not without a 'ethic touch at his squanderin g his time on altry plaster images. "Be less severe, Miss Conway," said Hume: " those images at which you smile were not made without the aid of both science and genius : with all your attainments, now, you cannot produce such works." She soothed her monitor by submission and smiles, inwardly resolving to try her hand in art, as much with th.: hope of confounding the historian, as with the expectation of find. ing pleasure in the attempt. She procured wax and modellin , tools—set to work in secret—and in a few days presented a hea d which she had modelled to the philosopher. " This, now," said he, "is clever. and much better than first attempts usually are; you have found it no easy thing to produce such works, but believe me it is much easier to model in wax than to carve in marble." She was not probably prepared for this ; she, however, asserted that it could not be difficult, and that the hand which wrought well b wax would easily acquire skill in ma.hle also. Resolving secretly to make this second experiment, she got marble and proper tools, and in a short while copied out, a little rudely indeed, the bust which she had made in wax, and placed it before Hume. He had nothing more to say.—Cunningham's British Sculptors. Thursday morning last, between Navan and Bells, in coneequence of a linchpin of one of the wheels of the Enniskillen sod Dublin mail coach having fallen out, it was upset, when a Mrs. Fry, of Dublin, on her way to visit her son, residing in Enniskillen. was seriously injured, having been precipitated from the top of the coach. Although at first the injury was conceived to be of a serious nature to a person of her years, by the care and attention paid her she is in a fair way of' recovery.—Disblin Evening Packet. Curran being told that a person high in office had mar ried a woman be had taken from the streets, said, " That old fellow is always robbing the public." We understand that in consequence of information being given to Mr. Miller, our chief of police, that Byrne, the pugilist, whose recent rencontre with Alexander M.Kay resulted in the death of the latter, was in Liverpool, on his way to Dublin. Mr. Miller, with a most laudable promptitude, caused him to be taken into custody on Saturday evening, abo ut eight o'clock, on board the Dublin packet at the pier-head. It is said that th% blackguatds of the ring have stolen the body of 111• Kay. —L i t e r. pod A great Metropolitan bad some months ago a rencontrc with a dog, which bit severely the Bishop's leg, as his friends af firmed. When the matter was recounted to the King, his Majesty inquired, with a smile, how it had fared with the dog Were a Gay to be found among our living poets, his " Trivia" might receive a curious accession from a nocturnal squab. ble between a great Law Lord and his meek eara sputa, which ha. been much talked of in certain circles for some days past. TIIE LATE FATAL FI!;IIT.—Itw•ill be seen from our Bow-street report, that the officer sent from Hanslope, in Bucking. hamshire, with warrants to apprehend Simon Byrne and all ',more aiding and being present at the late fight between Byrne and ni‘K.ay—subsequent to which M'Kay ditd from a suffusion o: blood upon the brain--applied to have the warrant in question backed on Monday, but that, from the informality of these doeu. ments, the magistrates refused to sign them, and the officer has re. turned to state that fact to his employee. Since then we have been informed that Simon Byrne was arrested at Liverpool, on board the Dublin packet, on Saturday evening, without a warrant. He arrived at the White Lion, Liverpool, on Saturday, where he was pursued by some officers who had heard of his arrival, and having also heard of the fatal result of the fight, took upon themselves to take him into custody, and he now remains in the goal of that town till fur ther instructions shall be received. BIRTHS. On the 30th ult. at Bath, the lady of Capt. James E. Muttkbury. of a son—On the 26th ult. at Moore park, the Countess of Mouct whel, of a von—On the 25th ult. a. Inches house, Mrs. Robert. son, of Inches, of a son—On the 10th ult. at Forres, Mrs. Suter of &spark, of a son.—On the 21st April, at Shclburn, Nova Scotia. the wife of the Bev. G. Lang, of& son. DIAREI F.D. On the 28th ult. at SteeileislsiOnihurch, Wilts, T. Kingtor. Esq. of Charlton, Bomersetshire, to Margaret, second daughter o: the late Laurence Oliphant of Gask, county of Perth—On the Pt curt. at Edinburgh, John Bayley, Esq. of Lor.don, to Eleanora Goodall, widow of the late G. Farr, merchant, London—On the Ist curt. at Edinburgh, the Rev. Robert Jamieson, minister of West. miller, to Eliaa, only daughter of Mr. G. Jamieson, Pkasanco-- On the 3W ult. at Edinburgh, Mr. George Briggs, jun. of Oates.. head, Durham, attorney-at-law, to Rebecca, youngrou daughter o f the late Capt. G. Heron, Hon. E. C.'s service, IVrkaldy—On the Ist curt. at Laith Walk, James Sondes, Esq. merchant, Leith. to Grace, daughter of the late John M'Laren, Rsq.—On the Ist curt at Edinburgh, Lieut. James Hunter Rutherford, of the Royal Eng:- peers, to Elizabeth, daughter of Alex. Young, Esq. of Harbor-- On the let curt. at Perth, •the Rev. Wm. St.xldart, ministerof Ms. deity, to Simian, daughter of the late Laurence Robertson. Esq. lute Provost of Perth_ On the let cert. at Stirling, the Rev. John Hill, minister of the Gospel, Kilmarnock, to Agnes, Young"' daughter of the late James Syme, Esq. merchant, Stirling-01 1 the 20th ult. at Glasgowedo, F. Doubleday, Esq. of Manchester, to } Ai' za, eldest daughter of the late Adam Wilson, Esq. of Glaegosede. DIED. At Edinburgh, on the 17th ult. Miss Elisabeth Nisbet, tldes6 daughter of the late late James Nisbet, architect, Edinburgh—At Liverpool, on the 21st ult. Mr. Alexander Brand, only son of the late J. Brand, Eat L eashier of the banking canpany in Aberdeen. ic his 43d year—At Tarmac, parish of Eirkbesn, Mexamkr (Sortie. Esq—At Rotheaay, on the 27th ult. in the 77th yea of his age, )Ir . Michael Bluirlead, formaly merchant in Glasgow—At Hantiltor. on dsslllth ult. the Rev. Dr. Alexander Fleming, one of the niir.s. ten of Hamilton and one of his Majesty's Chaplains n Ordinaryla Etylislad—At Mhb ult. Mr. Peter Cuannng, Shalt Clerk Depute—ln Abroath, 26th ult. Mr. James Levie, formaly obillowiler. aged Bb—ln Pulmuir, near Aberdeen, 2341 ult. Mn. M. Harvey, spouse of Charles Cordon, Esq anode in Abadan —In Aberdeen, Mirk. W. Cordon, bode Her, aged 111 yors--la An. gualeld, 27th ads. Mr. Andre. Angus, bookaaller, aged 76 yean— ln taverna, Nth ult. Hugh Pener, Esq. late of Nees.side, ia the 83d year of his age. Lanes: Prhsted and Publisiod by Jove 14rea. 11 ghe Oa"' Orrice bio.l, Picketellsce,Trinfole eat'