Star. — London, England, 1830-12-21 00:00:00

■ li, ?1•• ~ `~~. . • -- - - • ( RUTTIVEN said it was a most popular act of the Government, is make the alteration they had done In the Secretary's Office in Ire --( Hear.) Mr. DAWSOV said he wished to say a few worthily. the late official appointments in Ireland. He did not mean to cast any reflection on tbe persons appointed to the office of Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, nor on the (Thief Baron in Ireland ; hut on the manner in which appointments had been made It was no rootlet known that bold Plunket was to be appointed Chancellor, because. it was a poll. lien] office, but the greatest alarm took place in Ireland. Lord Plunket was by no means popular with Catholics or Protestants. The salary of the office was to be reduced 2,0001. a year ; but still she appointment was not one of economy. The Chief Baron of Ireland was perfectly competent to the discharge of his duty, and his retirement wish a peerage, as was now rumoured, would have all the appearance of bribing the Chief Baron, with a peerage, to accept a retiring pension. In the year 1825. the member for Limerick moved a resolution in that house, that the Chief Baron was guilty of extorting illegal fees in his own Court, which was supported by a small minority in that house, amongst whom were the members of the present administration ; Henry Brougham, the present Chancellor and Keeper of the King's conscience, boring the first name on the li.t. He had himself voted against that re. solution, but that did not jubtify the present conduct of those by whom it was supported. Colonel O'GRADY (son of the Chief Baron), said he never was es astonished as at the Right Hon, gentleman's bringing forward such a subject without having given him notice. (Hear, hear, hear, hear.) There was no one who had voted against the Chief Baron on that occa sion, who had not long since been convinced that the accusations were unfounded. If he had been allowed one day to arrange the facts, it would appear clearly that there was not the slightest foundation for the charges made against the Chief Baron, who has been thirty years as officer of the public, and twenty-five years in his present office, which he had filled with unsullied honour. It was not unreasonable that he should wish to have some few years to himself, before he should be called to his final account, not that the government should place hira is the same situation as his predecessor ; but he repelled with in. olignation his retiring for the bribe of a peerage; for himself, there was nothing he could inherit of which he would be half so proud as the Chief Baron's high character. (Hear, hear, hear.) Sir JAMES GRA H 01 said the Administration was on its trial, and placed its reliance on public opinion. (Hear, hear.) It was pledged to a substantial Reform in Parliament, a rigid reduction of the public expense, and a non-interference in the affairs of other states. On these principles they were willing to be tried. He had always admired the right hon. gentleman's (11r. Dawson's) seal in the discharge of hie duty, but was a little surprised at Its great increase in three short weeks since he left office. (Hear, hear, hear.) Respecting the appointments In Ireland, he admitted that judicial and political offices should not be united ; but the office of Lord Chancellor was always an exception, both in England and Ireland. Ireland was at this time deeply agi. tated by a party, too powerful, calling for the repeal of the Union; would it be wise, for the sake of saving 1,5001. a-year, to deprive the Lord Lieutenant of the counsel of that man, who was the most eminent man of his own country, and who had scarcely his equal in this ? (Hear, hear, hear.) It was not from the right honourable gentle. man, an Orangeman himself, that be would take the opinion of the Catholics of Ireland on the appoint.nent of Lord Plunkett. With respect to the appointment of Mr. Doherty to be Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the right hon. gentleman had made a objection, and he believed no could be made. He had been informed that a paired had been made to the chief baron, by the late government, to retire; M all events his time of service allowed him to retire. The administratlea had already reduced the treasurenhip of the navy, the lieutenant-gang of the ordnance, the vicatressurership of Ireland, and postmastership of Ireland, in the very infancy of their official life. (Hear, hear.) Mr. GEORGE LAMB said, he was never so astonished as at the speech of the right boo. gentleman opposite ( Mr. Dawson). He had voted ten years ago for a resolution to put the Chief Baron on bb trial, in which very few members of the house agreed with him; a large majority of the house acquitted him ; and he always held himself bound to consider a man so honourably acquitted an innocent man. (Hear.) Mr. Al. A. TAYLOR said, he had spoken and voted against Chief Baron O'Grady for raising the fees in his own court for his own benefit But the leading men of that house voted against sending the Chief Baron for trial— Lord Lyndhurst was one. If he had been the Chief Baron's adviser he would have advised him, at the time to put himself on his trial, and he now perfectly acquitted him of the charge brought against him. ( Hear. hear.) Lord MORPETH said, he should say nothing of the brought against the Chief Baron of Ireland, who had in that house is natural and eloquent protector. With respect to the attempt that had been made to impugn the appointment of Lord Plunket to the Office of Chancellor, he begged to remind the House that while Lord Plunket was the most eloquent supporter of the Catholic question, he was also the ablest defender of the established church. Sir JOHN NEWPORT said that Lord Plunket was so zealous a defender of the established church in that house, even in Its usurps. Lions, that when be (Sir John Newport) brought in a bill to compel the payment of First Fruits, according to the original intention, Lord Plunket opposed the bill, in consequence of which it was lost. Lord Plunket's father was a dissenting clergyman, but Lord Plunket out of three sons had placed two of them in the Established Church. Sir ROBERT PEEL said, that Sir Anthony Hart, though, like all public officers in Ireland, be might have been visited with blame, was folly entitled to hit. retirement by his zealousness, integrity. and length of service. The late Government had been treated as indifferent to the sufferings of the people and to expenditure; but he would ask Ministers if their experience of public affairs, short as it had been. bad not convinced them that Government had more difficulties to encounter than they had been aware of ? He could not agree that the office of Irish Chancellor, whose chief political act was the recom. mendation of Magistrates, should be necessarily a political office ; the responsible advisers of the Lord Lieutenants were the Chief Secre taries; their legal advisers, the attorneys. The expenses lately in curml in Irela nd furnished grounds,firsr for not condemning too hastily the late Government ; secondly, for not raising hors which could not be realized. The hon. baronet, when the difficulties had inclosed, when the estimates were to be drawn up, would find, occasionally, reason to lament, that when acting in that house with less expenses, he should have encouraged in the people expectations which, consis tently with the safety of the country, could not be effected; that be should have too violent a disposition to censure and condemn the Duke of Wellington. No man in office had possessed so sincere a desire to promote true economy, nor greater means of enforcing it, than his noble friend. One of the offices abolished (that of the treasurer of the mint), it had been the intention of his noble friend to abolish immediately; but without stopping to mention matters of detail, it was when the general estimates were laid before the house, that it would be time to make the comparison between the two governments, and to condemn the late one. Any great reduction in the effective strength of the management of public affairs, without detri ment, he did not mean to individuals, but to the public business, was a delusion, and (though every unnecessary office should be dispase with), it s hould not be attempted for the sake of a shallow and firedog popularity. The hon. baronet had said that the present administration was pledged to three acts—reform, economy, sod the maintenance of peace. He trusted that no measure of reform would be contemplated esetrary to the existing institutions, and that the declaration of the noble Iced at the head of the government would be strictly adhered to ; the profession of economy was that of every government, but he felt sot. prise to hear stated as a distinctive mark of policy the determination to maintain peace.—No man could feel more deeply than he did the moral crime of an unjust war, and that it was the policy of this country for its interests, and for those of the world, to maintain peace; but it was not always a question of will, and be doubted the policy of too strong a declaration of adherence to peace. If Ministers explained and qualified that declaration, they were brought back to what the late Ministers were fin the Duke of Wellington ' s Government, short of national dishonour, was eminently a pacific one. Let every drat for the preservation of peace be made ; but let us not publish too much to the world that the necessity of peace is imposed upon us by circum stances, instead of showing our confidence tat if an appeal to arms, just and necessary, were made, the people would rally round Govern. ment and maintain it in its struggle. The Horn. Baronet might think that his (hir R. P.'s) conduct was a vexatious opposition, that it arose from disappointment, from a desire of office; he would assure him that, so far as office was concerned, he should look upon a return to office as a personal misfortune. What had given him the greatest satisfaction was the determination of ministers to persevere, at all hazard., in the le gislative union between Ireland and England ; it was most proper to give a timely publicity , to that detenninadon. When discussion might be sought to be avoi&d, recourse being had to popular agitation, he should suggest to government the propriety of moving a resolution, and of putting upon record the deliberate opinion of the bane upon the subject. On the question of the union of the two tanntries, when it should come on, Catholics and Protestants, forgetting any religious differences, would, he trusted, be unanimously agreed, (and if his sacrifices, whatever they might have been, to which allusion bad been made, should have contributed to that unanimity be should rejoice in those sacrifices) in declaring that England sod Ireland will share their fortunes in peace and in war, Uwe must have war, will fight toge ther, and fight successfully, which they Could never do disunited. If any one should be found to exhort the people to follow the example of Paris and Brussels, be hoped that all men ;assessed of property, how. ever small, would well consider, first, if they had a justifiable cause to do so, and next the present con d ition of the revolutionised countries; that they would well consider the fate of Francs and the evil effects et Revolution, even when that revolution was justifiable; the state of the public funds, the condition of the working people, worse than it was before, ebe diminished quantity of labour, the alarm and d which still prevailed. The right hon. gentleman concluded b el y P i= wade' as die &limb made to the people by the public ress—eppeals calcufased to degrade and lower all the constituted authotitios, and to lead to the worsted; tyrannies—fist 'penny of an ungovernable (Hear,/leany blr. HUME eeneunral. to the opinion. thee a revolution would lad luont dirostrous effect& • but why had the right boo. baronet read his lecture ally to the kiwer ;losses. and net, at the same time, to t= ones, who , by their isteladatinistestion and refund to pant ame !~ . .. ;,,~ in any respect, had produced the present state of things P When be looked to the amount of the present expenditure, and what it was in 1792, he was sure that ministers, if they persevered, might make good their promises : if they did not persevere, they could not maintain their seats. When he considered that the institutions, for the preservation of which the right hon. baronet was so anxious, were the source of the present sinecures, pensions, of the undiminished dead weight, of the rotten boroughs, and (for after the Solicitor-Oaseral's statement he must include the Co urt of Chancery) of the present Court of Chancery, he really could not we what were the institutions worth keeping. He con curred in the determination to avoid interference and war, the causes of 000,000,0001. of debt, and which could be necessitated only by the country being invaded, and an invasion was almost impracticable.-- (Hear, hear.) Sir R. PEEL explained. Mr. LEADER approved of the appointment of Lord Plunket in the present state of Ireland. A judicious treatment, the removal of the evils of absenteeism, and of oppressive burdens, would soon leave the anti.unionbts no ground to stand upon. Mr. SLANGY said that the evil advice, addressed to the people by public papers, were to be feared only when reform and retrenchment were refused. With respect to the disturbed districts, he had turned his attention to the subject, and he was convinced, that in a very short time, when the gentlemen were gone back to their estates, and had made the required exertions, had given fresh employment during the severity of the ensuing season, and had conducted themselves with con ciliation and firmness, a very considerable improvement would take place in thaw districts. Mr. G. DAWSON, in the course of his explanation, regretted the use of the word bribe. _ _ The Consolidated iand Bill eras then read a third time. Sir J. GRAHAM gave notice, that to-morrow (Tuesday) the House would adjourn till Thursday, when the House would be moved to ad journ till Tuesday Bth February. The debate on the Court of Chancery was then resumed. Mr. M. A. TAYLOR said that the Chancery question had been made a party question, and that Government not having taken it up, no bad been effected in the administration of justice, though the rem chs a l Z offered by the Member for Weymouth had been offered by him and *then for the last twenty years. He was for the abolition of the Six Clerks' Office. The Chancellor should be the bead of the Court, but should assist only at questions of appeal four other Judges being ap pointed for the ordinary business. The viciousness of the system was ap pallingly extended ; but much of the remedy had been in the hands of the different Lords Chancellor. (Hear.) He did not complain of Lord Eldon only, but also complained of Lord Lyndhurst, but nothing would either do—the evils were pointed out, and stared them in the face for the last twenty years, yet nothing could they be induced to do. If the Lord Chancellor would do nothing, the Executive ought to have urged the attempt at some remedy. He had expended much in time and trouble, and patience too, but all were at the service of the public. It was unknown the number of letters and communications he received from persons, widows, orphans, and others, complaining of the hard. ships and calamities expelienced in and from this Court. Only a few days ago he received a letter from one lady which consisted of sixteen sheets, the fact was so—the lady resided near Bungay. But nobody thought of Chancery, it wasa dry subject. There were families reduced to beggary andimin, exposed to the most dreadful privations by the Court of Chancery. He did not blame the judge; it was no fault of the judge, it was the system, the vicious system that was to blame, and ruin and calamity would continue to result from the pernicious system till it was effectually, thoroughly, and completely corrected. He had the greatest reliance on the present Lord Chancellor; he who had painted the evils of the court in such lively colours, and eloquent and feeling language, would attempt • remedy, he believed. He felt quite assured that his lordship would attempt the reform of his own court ; and that if his individual exertions were not successful, his lordship would then come to parliament for a remedy. But amongst the reforms most loudly called for, perhaps there were none that more required reme dy than the patent places of the Court of Chancery; they were most dis graceful, and parliament ought at once to correct the monstrous evil. He however now had hopes of seeing the abuses of the Court of Chancery attempted to be reformed. He had applied to the question for many years, and whoever might be the Ministers, be would never quit the question till be saw his wishes and the desires of the country accom plished. If the Lord Chancellor would would attempt a remedy, he would afford all the aid he could to his Lordship. Than a reform of the Court of Chancery, he could conceive no grimier blessing that could be conferred on the country. He hoped the day was not far distant when the country would look upon the Court of Chancery as a blessing, not as a curse. Mr. J. WILLIAMS said, if it were true, as true most undoubtedly it was, that speeches were no longer requisite, that they had had their day ' —that facts only, now were required—it would be useless to extend this conversation for even additional facts were not required. He la mented that the honourable and learned gentleman who had brought forward this motion—and who had great, such great experience—had not brought forward some distinct propositions for the consideration of the house, with a view to reform. It wee gratifying to know that the courts of law were making some advances towards effecting an amendment, by resuming that jurisdiction which the equity courts had usurped. The Chief Justice of England's Bill of Inteepleader had commenced this work, and the Common Law Courts had also ven tured to encroach upon the hallowed ground of legacies. He trusted these advances would continue. He felt quite assured that remedy was hopeless till there was a very considerable diminution of the jurisdiction of the Lord Chancellor.—(Hear.) —Every one ought to wish success to such efforts, because the Law Courts were more compendious and more cheap. —(Hear, hear.)—lie trusted that there would be an end of the notion that the principles of law and equity mixed were the per. fection of the legal system.—Hear, bear.)--He then adverted to cases where law and equity h ad been so brought to bear on individuals as to ruin them, and reduce them to exist on alms. In one case, a man had been kept out of 4,0001. to which be was as justly entitled as man could be to any property, by the joint operation of law and equity. The expenses had been run up to between 4,0001. and 5,0001 Had they been able to keep off the fangs of the Court of Chancery the case would have been settled by an Was in a court of common law—and that was the blessing of the perfection of legal remedies; the joint efforts of law and equity united, that system had been able to tear to pieces aproperty of upwards of 4,0001. Neither of the contending parties bad derived one farthing benefit. Be the a what they might, he must declare that such a system was rh eg gra Y c r e i ful, and ought to arouse all mankind. He expected no correc tions but by successive bills to diminish the jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery ; and it was only by such bills as those to which be had , adverted, taking away the Jurisdiction of the Chancery, and giving it to other tribunals, that he saw light. With respect to the noble and learned lord at the bead of the Court of Chancery, so great were his attainments, such were his peculiar habits of application, that if his lordship were only left long enough in his present position, his lordship would become as accomplished a judge as had ever presided in his court. He spoke from an intimate knowledge of the noble lord, who would rather die than not render himself competent to his elevated station. Mr. SPENCE said he was astonished at the speech that had just been uttered, because that hon. and learned gentleman had heretofore de fended the Equity Courts, and was, last session, the most strenuous supporter of an as tional Judge fee the Court at Chancery. He could not account for those different opinions. The question really was, could the Court of Chancery be reformed ? He was of opinion that it could. lie thought the House of Commons could and ought to effect the reform : he did not consider that the executive ought to be required to find remedies —let the house take up the matter. It was owing to the matter having been constantly left with the executive that the evils of the court had gone on increasing till they had now become intolerable. The house, every member of the house, must assist the executive, or nothing, he verily believed, would be done. Lord Hardwieke and others had put an end, by orders, to the monstrous system of " gratuities," and yet " gratuities,* or expedition mossy, existed in every department. And there were various ~area. some at them amounting to 9400 1 . con nected with the Court, and many of 'them bad been granted in rever sion. They were paid out of the money of the suitors. Ought not such things to be pata stop to ? No doubt they ought to be, but no comm Inc would refers; son abuses till the house took up the whole question with the determination to supOy remedies. The Lon. Member was persuaded that until the Lon Charcellor received a salary instead of hes, it would be impossible to carry these contemplated Reforms in the Administration of Justice into effect. The fees now received by the Lord Changan amounted to 10,0001. per annum. (Hear, hear.) With Topa to the Accountant- General's office, he should sagging that a broker be sppoiotad by the Court of Chancery ; the fees of the Accountant-(metal's broker shoe, amounted, in ISA to no less a sum than LULL By slopes, the system practised in the Irish Court of Chancery, this mosey would be saved. 'rhea, with respect to the Six Clerks office, be bad perused care. fully the evidence laid before the bones on this question ; and be was convinced that the office should be utterly abolished: the evils arising from it were incalculable. He knew of one instance where the clerks on each side received SOL a-piece, and the solicitors the same sum, making the sum of ISIW. paid on each side of a cease, simply fee the taxation Of costs. (Hear.) The hon. member contended that all those offices not abooluudy beneficial to suitors should be abolished.— He then animadverted apoo the unintelligible roods adopted in keeping the Reports; the office of which, he was also of opinion, ought to be abolished. The bon. member concluded by saying, th at he perfectly believed the Court of Chancery might be made hirdal to the country, and so long as be held a seat in that House. be should net cease to bring Its abuses Wiwi it, until a reform should be effinsil. Str IL B. SUODEN summand, is essesquesme of the late bens and the thinness of the House, - that the elms ea die gesiden le AU. CHARLES GRANT was of misfits that the gasedlstt aught to be posalded with. Mr. CAMPBELL would protest Want the doctrine laid down by the bon. member he Weymouth, that it was Impossible fee a cansoon lawyer to be a geed chancery barrister. Sir C. WETHEIttLL ruse to address the House, when Mr. H. HUGHES moved the adjournment of the hernia :Mr. O'GORMAN MAHON steended ski manes. bows dun dirkkid, sad di.. amiwel°Noaeri Wine *mud at a quarter pest Tways TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sunday, Nov. 19, Eight, P.N. Sia—l am at this moment contemplating, from my win dow, a distant fire, apparently in the vicinity of Enfield, Middlesex ; and am induced to address a few observations to you. If it be a case of " Inoendiarism" (to use one of the examples of the neology of periodical writings), it is the more frightful from the choice of the day of perpetra tion. In the Hebraic Scripture it is declared, that to pick up sticks for fuel on the Sabbath is a mortal sin ; and the ex ample made, is recorded, together with the specific decree. How heinous then is it, not simply to collect materials for a fire on a Sunday, but to set fire to the produce of agricul ture, destroying the national resources for a year's provi sion. Nevertheless, lam not satisfied that sanguinary pu nishment, or any partaking of the severity of that alluded to in Scripture, will accord with right policy uncle: the pre sent exigency. In that case a divine law was to be enforced by divine agency. Now, prevention of this crime is de sirable for a two-fold reason : first, that the examples made by justice are never in vengeance, but are directed against the recurrence of similar offences; secondly, to avert the danger of a partial or temporary famine. Fear should never be allowed to whet the sword of justice. Circum stances attend the calamity of this era, by the fire-brands of despairing rustics, which should extenuate so far the of fence as to procure mercy for the ignorant actors. They have participated in the national drama of the day—they are in some sense of the word the prime movers; it is sup posed, and it is partly acknowledged, that great benefit will accrue to this nation from several appalling causes, one of which is the desperation of the class of labourers. National boons have, of late years, been obtained from governments by the display of a readiness to violence. The Roman Ca tholic emancipation was partly so obtained, from the un bending austerity of the high church government. If re duction of taxes, if parliamentary reform, if the revision of the poor laws and the corn laws, if an alleviation of the tithes, and some other results of the actual effervescence, shall be some day attributed partly to the agency of the SERVILE Ism/ KG EN TS, it might be better not to hang up those of the body of people, so denominated, who are convicted of arson, but to subject them to a milder visitation of penalty, which would be more efficacious, more salutary, more con ducive to that result of a pacification which all must wish for. Severe examples, I repeat it, may excite the passions of the rural population, who have hitherto only acted from a cold calculation. The horrors of the French Jaquerie may result from the death of the youths named Packman and any multiplicity of similar executions; or a servile and civil war, similar to that experienced by old Rome and Italy, may endanger all the institutions of society. But enough of argument, the practical proposition I wish to suggest is this :—let convicts for arson be transported for 14 years, and rioters for 7 years; let the examples be numerous. No law is requisite to pass the legislature, The decree of death is perhaps a remnant of barbarous ages, for this crime. A patriot and discerning monarch has it in his power, by fol lowing the dictates of his merciful and compassionate heart, to rectify an increasing evil by adopting a method and mo deration, in the visitation of punishment on these crimes. I am, Sir, Your very obedient Servant, C C. H. The report of his Majesty's sloop Falcon, Capt. Colpoys, having captured a large piratical ship, proves to be unfound ed. The Falcon was, on the 21st October, in lat. 5. S. long. 21. W. proceeding to Bermuda. Lord Teynham is this evening to move, in the House of Lords, for papers connected with, and to give some further information respecting the settlement and present condition of the Swan River colonies. The Bucks Gazette states, that " two of the principal tenants of the Duke of Buckingham have retaken their farms at Wotton-Underwood, his Grace having reduced disk rents. One of the tenants and his ancestora have rented the same farm of the Grenville family for 150 years. Other tenants of the Duke of Buckingham have retaken their farms at reduced rents. Though the Special Commission which will be opened at Aylesbury on the 10th January, will be attended by three judges (Sir A. Park, Mr. Baron Bolland, and Mr. Justice Patteson), there are not to be three courts, as some have imagined; there will be but one court, over which all the three judges will preside. " We learn," says the Tribune, " that the Piedmontese, Spanish, and Portuguese refugees have received orders from Government to leave Paris within 24 hours. Pass ports have been given them for Chalons and Macon. Mo ney for travelling expenses have been granted to such as have solicited it." The Augsbargh Gazette contains a letter from Berlin, dated December 5, which states that tranquillity prevails in the grand duchy of Posen, but troops are bivouacked in the town, and eight battalions are expected from Silesia. POPULATION OF POLA N D.-At the beginning of 1829, the kingdom of Poland (i. e. the Russian province so called, of which Warsaw is the metropolis) contained 4,088,289 souls, exclusive of the army. The increase since the year 1825 had therefore been 383,983. The Jewish portion of the inhabitants had almost been universally located in dis tinct quarters ; they amounted to 384,263 individuals. The extent of property insured in the Warsaw Assurance-office was 420,000,000 guilders (33,250,0001. in value.) War saw itself possesses a population of 136,554 souls, inde pendently of a garrison of about 15,000 men ; and of this population 30,146 are of the Israelitish faith.Litsretry Gazette. The number of bankruptcies which took place between the Ist Nov. 1829 and the Ist Nov. 1830, was 1,467. In 1829 there were 4,063 persons discharged under the Insolvent Debtors' Act ; of whom, 2,225 were discharged by the Court in London; 1,732 by the Commissioners on Circuit, and 106 by Justices in Wales and at Berwick-on- Tweed. The total amount of the effects of suitors in the Court of Chancery in 1829 was 38,886,1351. 19s. sd. REMARKABLE CERCUMITANCILA letter received in Carlisle mentions the following singular occurrence "On the 26th of November, 1830, a mercantile helms in Liverpool received in payment a 51. Bank of England note, dated 23d January, 1830 ; on the back of which were writ ten the following words—' If this note guts into the hands of John Dean (or Drain) of Longhills, near Carlisle, his bro ther Andrew is a prisoner in Algiers.' " RIM/MEASLY Rion D x.---Yesterday afternoon the highest spring tide experienced since December, 1821, took place in the river Thames, especially above Lond on -b r id ge . The north-easterly wind for some days has no doubt contri buted to this phenomenon. Most of the houses along the right bank of the river from Vauxhall. down to Rotherhithe, have been completely inundated, and many wharfs and streets were for upwards of two hours finder water. On the left bank of the river, frau Milbank flownwiuds, the tide rose above its usual bounds, inundating many 'wharfs and counting-houses. At Blaskfriare-bridge thesis , was.upwards of two feet water on the plationa- (at the east side of the , city end of thn bridge), beilt for the landing of fruit, &c. .tide rose between feu and five fest bored the usual blight of aping jidse. POLICE REPORTS. GUILDHALL —Yesterday, the collector of the tithes in the parish 0( St. John, Zachary, Aldersegate, renewed his application for a warrant of distress against the inhabitant who refused to pay the assessment. The collector came attended by Counsel, who having shown Mr. Alderman the sitting Magistrate, that he might lawfully in ue his warrant on the complaint of the collector alone, the worthy Alderman agreed to sign the warrant. A lady then stepped forward, and said she was the pan, against m who t h e w arra n t w as t o be granted ; and she was ready to pay, if the Ald er. man would inform her how she might obtain relief from the inequality of the assessment. Ha house was of the same value and paid the sane rent as another in the same street, which paid but half as much tith es as was assessed upon her. The Counsel said, no alteration had been made In the assessments since 1804, but when a new rate was made, which would occur as soon as the buildings toundlithePost-offlce were finished, she might appeal 1 ,, the assessment upon her house. She said that, with this understanding, she had no objection t e p ar the money directed; and so the business was settled. Bow-sir arsx.--Yesterday, Mr. Taggen and Mr. Elden, t h e f ormer the landlord of the Queen's Head, Stockwell, and the latter the pro. prietor of the Black Horse, Brixton, appeared before the sitting Magi,. trace, Sir IL Btaxxx, to solicit that Magistrate's advice under theic circumstances. Mr. Taggen, who was the spokesman, stated that, since the intro. duction of the New Police, it had been usual for him and the person by whom he was accompanied, to accommodate the Inspectors of the Camberwell division with money to pay the men, until such time as checks foe the purpose could be procured. Accordingly, on the morn. ing of last Monday week, he furnished Inspector Niblett with 401. and Mr. Elden furnished him with 201 ; but, instead of getting the checks for their money, as they expected, the same evening, they were unformed that Niblett had absconded, and taken with him the amount of the checks intended for them. He had seen Colonel Rowan, but could obtain no satisfaction from him. It was a very hard case. Sir R. Btaxts—So It is, but it is only a debt. I cannot assist you. The parties then withdrew. THAMES POLICE.—/Ilizabath llass and /an Smith, alias Healy, were charged with robbiag Wm. Lilley, a sailor, of twenty sovereign., two books, a pair of stockings, a knife, and other articles, at the house of the prisoner Lallam, in Jolly's-court, Shadwell.—They were com. mitted for triaL Jeremiah Ilan, in the employ of Mr. Macdonald, of the Steam Washing Works, at the Isle of Dogs, Blackwell, was committed fur trial, charged with stealing a silver watch and appendages. The pm saner was discharged on Saturday morning for misconduct, when 1w took with him a stop watch, given into his care for the regulation of the• movements of the machinery. SCINTILLA. Why does whipping improve dull school-boys? Because it makes them MOM The salary of the Lord Chief Baron is 7,oool.—the pen sion of a retired Chancellor 4,0001. EATING MATCH.A short tune ago there was a &motto eating match at a village in Yorkshire, between two men named Gut,. bins and Huggins, winch embed a great deal of interest in the neigh. bourhood ; a countryman, leaving the place a little before the match was decided, was stopped by almost every one on the road with 4 , Who bests ? How does the match get on ?" &c. to which he anmered. 6, Why, I dosnt exactly knaw ; they say Gubbins 'll get it, but I thinks Huggins 'll beat an yet, for when I left he was oanly two geese and s turkey Lehind hilt."—Mirror. A Clergyman had a milk-white horse, which, on account of his beautiful form, he called Sion. Having ordered his hone to the door, a friend asked him where be was going, "Why," said, "to arowst Sion "—Mirror. A German prince laughing at one of his courtiers whom he had employed in se►eral embassies, told him that he looked like an owl. " I know not," answered the courtier, " what I look like ; but this I know, tint I have had the honour of frequently representing your highness's person." Some years ago, a man carried about Scarborough a bag, In which he said he had a cherry-coloured cat. The gentry flocked to see this wonderful phenomenon; and when he had collected 3114 much as he could, produced his cat, which was a black one. Being upbraided for the imposition " Nay, gentlemen," said he, " I have not deceived you, for you know there are black cherries as well as red ones. - - Mirror. ALTZRATION IN Tug TER3lB.—The Act of Parliament for regulating the Tams will come into operation next month. In fi►sure, Hilary Term will commence on the 11th of January, and end on the Slat; Easter Term will commence on the 16th of April, and end May 9; Trinity Term will commence on May 23d, and end June 13th ; and Michaelmas Term will commence on the fd November, and end the 25th. Lord Brougham and Vaux, like a newly-married lady. "flel of her new name, often signs his letters in his old style— ctrunry Brougham." His Lordship has deserted the wig party, and set the example of what Lord Eldon would call a dangerous and re. volutionary innovation. He appeared on the woolsack, on Monday night, ins little cropped wig. COST OF ENGLISH EmßAssizs.--The following is an official statement of the expenses incurred by our English Ratheasies to foreign countries. Vienna 12,0001; Petersburgh, 12,0001; the Hague. 11,6611; Paris, 11,0001; Washington, 6,0001; Naples, 6,0001; lin, 5,164; Munich, 4,9001; Sweden, 4,0001; Rio de Janeiro, 4,6891; Turin, 4,2481; Florence, 3,9001; Frankfort, 3,8021; Stutprd, 3,3001; Bane, 24001. . - EXTENSIVE SEIZURE ON BEHALF OF THE CROWN. —Mrs. Collins, a Lily of extensive property, and r e l ate d to some rt. spatable families in Ireland, it will be recollected, was convieuti at the Old Bailey, a short time since, for stealing a plea of lace at a linen draper's shop. Previous to her conviction, she transferred to her friends property to a considerable amount. Ihs entering the prison she was searched, and some Irish bank-notes, watches, jewels, and otherarticles, together of the value of 2 dOOl. were found on her person. This pro. pert, was instantly taken from her, it having become forfeited to the Crown. ANCIENT PIKE.—In the year 1497, a pike was caught in standing water, at Heilbronn, on the Neckar, which bad a t opper ring round its head ; the ring bore the following inpeziption in Greek : I am the first fish that was launched into this pond, and was thrown is by Frederic the Second, Emperor of the Romans, on the fitth of October, 1220." It appeared, tlitrefore, that the pike was two hun dred and sixty-seven years old when thus caught ; it weighed three hundred and fifty pounds ; and an exact representation of it etipts to this day against one of the gates of Heillseonn.—Literury Garrett*. While Brace, the traveller, one day was at the house of a relation .in Rut Lothian, a gent leman present bluntly observed that it was impossible that the natives of Abyssinia could eat raw meat. Bruce said not a word, but leaving the room, be shortly returned from the kitchen with a piece of raw beef-steak, peppered and salted in the Abyssinian fashion. You will eat that, sir, or tight me," he said. When the gentleman had eaten up the raw flesh (most willingly would he bare eaten his words instead), Bruce calmly observed, how, sir. you will never again say it is feepossible."— (Murray's Family Lierar,.) BIRTH. At Leamington, on the 17th hut. the Lady of Lieut. Colonel Graben!, of Red Hall, North Britain, of a daughter. MARRIED. At St. James's Church, by the Rev. lierratd Andrevres, on Saturday, the 18th inst. M. bluraour, of Path, to Susanna, daughter of Robed Hendrie, Esq. of Xitchborne-street—Saturday, at &George's, Hanover square, Colonel Sir Alexander Dickson, K.C.B. and K.C.H. Aide-de- Qintp to his Maje.ty, and Deputy Adjutant General Royal Artillery, to Mrs. Maim, relict of E. Mellows, Fag. of Cacholt Park, Hagar, and Charlotte-street, Berkeley-square. DIED. ' At Middleton. near Oxford, by a fall from his hone, on Saturday the 11th Inst. D. L Mehl!, Eeq. of leentbroke.college, Weed , son of R. Melvil, Esq of Amsterdam, aged W.—The death of Lieut. Col. H. Abraham Lane, occurred at Irtankfort-on-ehe-Maitre, wht" Lieut.-CAL Lane had lately arrived, apparently in perfect health.—The 10th• inst. at Woolathawood, in the parish of Nantwich, Martha Dodd, in the 94th year of her age. She had been a widow 41 years, end was the mother of 12 children, the grandmother of 46, the r"; grandmother eta, and great-great-grendmother of 2, making a tell' of 138. At the age of 80 she engaged herself as dairy-maid. and we' several years in service at Radnor Green. near Congleton, where she bad the management and awe of le news ; and, whatis almost as el* traerdlnary, her surviving aster. sow is her 92d year, walked hem Spresum Green, sear Illiddlewich. a distance of more than ten mike, to armed her funeral at %Renato...At Kilmarnock, the 2d curt. in the rtth year of blear, Ile. Robert Fleming, mill-wright there. ills death was ocausiosed by falling headlon g , while at work, into a Mss vat hem seven to eight feet deep. The plunge was instantly heard. ant thatalhiPetitly extricated from his pet lons situation, vet he had real , lowed ea much of the deleterious ingredients as to be& all the aid of anodising. HIGH' WATZ9 AT LONDON BRIDGIE TO•IiORROW. , G 2/ A(utsw• Immo. s biased sod rabakial bi Ulm Almnrs„ at she ST*" Oirsig, lle. $, Pleboailese, Timplejlar. IN