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think they may employ, their eloquence to confound instead of en lighten their auditors, lo eaufuse led perplex the subject, instead of to clear and simplify it. Mr.-Huskisson said, the other day, 'Tray call it, in the Haase of - Commons...." What would this country have been, if the prices of our manufactures had continued in the same amount as during war? We STo now the vastest mansfacterers in the world.— Would that have been our situation if we bad not been able to compete with our foreign rivals in the markets of the world? It was to the change of price that we owed this advantage of oar present situation, in being able to sell our woollens and cottons abroad, the price of which was regulated by the price at home.' Now it is evident, that his argument and statement hero would lead his auditors to believe that the low price he spoke of was the auk consequence of increased skill, industry, and other facilities. I must say, it is marvellous he should so shape his argument as to .Ilow the possibility of such a misapprehension, still more estraor- Binary if he should not know that three-fourtbs or more of the change of price is owing to the change in the value of the currency, by the operation of Peel's Bin. Can he mean to say that a low price, the consequence of a diminished quantity of money, is equally heneficial, or the same thing, as low price the consequence of int. proved skill and industry? He cannot, surely; it would be pre posterous, and is not to be presumed in a man of his knowledge; and yet it is almost impossible to know what else he does meat. %Ir. Alderman Waithman had shown him, from Custom-house Returns, that Lefure Peel's Bill, 36 millions of British goods ex ported, measured in quantity by what is termed official value, pro duced of declared, that is money, value, 54 millions sterling; whereas in 1821,64 million of goods returned only 36 suillioes of pounds sterling; (fractions omitted) : very true, says Mr. Huskis son, here is the price and quantity exactly reversed; this only shows that things are cheaper now than they were then ; and be goes on to say this cheapness enables us to sustain our extensive foreign commerce. Now really, to impress upon hie auditors the opinion that this cheapness arises from improved skill, machinery, kc. or to leave them under such possible misapprehension, is what I cannot understand. But observe, he. a little further on, says— in 1814, before Peel's Bill, the exchanges were thirty per cent. against us, now they are in our f . and adds—must not such a difference produce a considerable effect? What is that but proof that the value of our money has, according to his own admission. since that time risen thirty per cent. and that seventy pounds sterling now is just as much as one hundred was then ? or, that the price reduced from one hundred pounds to seventy pounds is no real reduction? for that seventy pounds sterling now are worth as many francs—for instance, In exchange with France, as £lOO were in 1814. Thus he proves himself that 30 per cent. according to his estimate of the cheapness, is in fact only so much dearness of money, and of course gives no benefit in the foreign muket,whilst at home it takes away 50 per cent. from the wages of the labourer, by whom the goods are produced, and as much from his employer, leaving the taxes and burthens of both undiminished. I trust be does not so far adopt those Parliamen tary tactics, to which I have alluded, of misleadi n g his auditors, as to intend to make them believe that this difference of the exchanges is only a balance of commercial bills, which he knows can occasion only a difference to a very small comparative amount. And yet when he says must not this produce a considerable effect, it seem s that be meant it to be supposed that the difference in the exchanges did not arise from the altered value of our currency, and that it was much in favour of our Foreign trade. Another difficulty indeed presents itself to my mind in the attempts to solve his meaning, from the recollection of his having, upon a former occasion, con vinced the House that an unfavourable state of the exchanges was favourable to an increase of out exports, while it tended to check our imports from foreign parts.' Mr. Huskisson knows perfectly well that a great many persons, in and out of the House of Com mons, imagine that a rise in. the price of manufactures, though the consequence of an increased quantity of money, or diminution of its value, would be destructive of our foreign commerce ; and no mail looses better than be does that it would prod uce no such effect ! They say if we base mote paper, for instance, and if we are to have war prices again, away goes our foreign commerce. lam surprised that such an erroneous idea should prevail, and I regret that Mr. Hesitant.° should, by neglecting all explanation upon this point, assist in confirming the error, rather than exposing it. Buts in oeder to get a clear view of the subject, we will suppose that we had the war currency and war prices, and that, in consequence, a yard of superfine cloth, which sells now for twenty shillings, should in such war currency sell for thirty. Why, then, the Frenchman, .who sent his yard of silk to ex. change for this yard of cloth, would find that such yard of silk would fetch tbirty shillings in the English market, which before would fetch only twenty; and so would all other foreign commodities rise as our own rose, and thus would our foreign commerce remain precisely upon the same footing. To explain this in another way it will be remembered, that during the war.currency, one pound sterling British would only exchange for, at one time, 1 think, 16 francs it fluctuated generally from 16 to 20 francs ; now one pound sterling will exchange for 26 franc, all but 20 . cents. And here. by the bye, is one decisive proof of the alteration of the value of our currency, and which shows dis tinettrthat so much as is the difference between 26 and 16, is rise in the value of our money, and nut cheaper price, as Mr. Huskisson calls it, of the commodity. In the time I allude to, £lOO sterling Eritish, lrould. only exchange for 1600 francs, or one hundred pounds worth of goods, in the war price British, would only pro' deco 1600 francs ; now £64 sterling British, or sisty-four pounds worth of goods British, will fetch identically the same sum, vie. 160? francs, or, one hundred pounds British, will now exchange for. 2600 francs instead of 1000; in other words, a manufacturer, who has gone to the value of one hundred pounds in our present currency,cannot afford to nil them in Frame for less than 2600 francs, whereas, a manufacturer basing one hundred pounds worth of goods in the war currency, could afford to sell them for 1600 fragies. If I was. to argue, therefore, as Mr. Huiklison does, I might saygive us again our war currency, and we shall get a great advantage in our foreign trade. We can afford to sell one hundred pounds worth of goods for 1600 franca instead of 2600.' It %%mild not be more absurd than his arguing in favour of that Cheapness, which is the conseq of a higher value of money, and which higher value of money is thus proved by the exchanges. I should have thought it was yet more obvious that any change, erlntrever in the denomination or quality of our metallic currency would mite no difference in regard to foreign commerce, and yet I believe de error prevails throughout ; the fast is, that foreigners care not what we 'choose to call our money, or of what'quality we make it, or what we make it jaw for here, which is merely a con ventual sirs amongst ourselves. The metallic money they resolve .Into its worth ; for instance, If we were to coin a potted of 'Alyce into ninety Shillings instead . of sixty, which is an td.i©e of fifty per cent. and then a pound sterling become wonh thirty shillings British in the new coinage, the foreigner would see that the 50 shillings British would, in Inch case, contain only the same quan tity ot 'Brie which 20 shillings did before, and woild tai; alter the cola of your country as you please—l shill only give you e 6 tralies for, the thirty, as I would have done for the twenty shillings. This change of tisealiver coin would nuke a yard of cloth, which *sells 'now Poi twenty 'Annoy, sell ter thirty In 'England, but the manu- 1 (securer would be is well 'content to take 26 francs kelt in France as be - wai 'before, because the Y 6 francs' would I ..equal to the thiettshlllings of the new coinage. Hr could Indeed steed to sell cloth isiviethan before, inasmuch as this dteration of our 'mine* would exactly, to the extent it was carried, later die pressure et tsbktioh upon hint, on the present hypothesis. gyp'isee'vo.to Whkit extent;' at kast, ti will increased by Peel's BM. Is, in truth; the' pressure of *initial. oenatased• 6y' the heavy weights or hilts *due' of the @whey in the Peel VIII eur. rainy. that has run away with all tie pro& of the rianufseturer. • Pse. Deb. voL sir. p. tas. c; ,Rw(`n land indeed, faced. hits to drive a losing, instead. of a profitable trade, and of course disabled him from paying adequate wages to . his men. Bin, say Mr. Huskisson and 'other Statesmen, our Ea ports are immensely increased; so they may be, but they torn a deaf ear to the declarations of all the exporters, who 14 than that they are losing instead of gaining. The tutexampled efforts that have been made to force a trade are. I think, easily accounted for. The manufacturers and merchants of this country possessed immense capital, powers of every kind, energy and enterprise un exampled. It was hardly possible to subdue their spirit, perse verance, and power. They found all at once that the products of their industry lost fifty per cent. of their money value. The neces sary animal returns are wanting. They go to work naturally to increase quantity, and force sales to make up this deficiency ; they struggle on In the same way year after year; they struggle against each other ; they compete unfairly; they even look, some of them. with complacency upon their neighbour's fan; they press down the wages of their men to the lowest possible degree ; they are obliged to do so. They make them work sixteen hours instead of ten ; they thus go, on still unsubdued, in hopes of better times; they do by these means lower the price of commodities ; that is to say, by sacrifice of their own profits, and exhaustion of their "forkful's% health and strength, and so far Mr. Huskisaon may, if he pleats% exult in the cheapness of our commodities. I can allow him but very little for improved machinery and skill, because the produce of the earth, and commodities, where no such improved machinery can be applicable, have become cheaper, as he calls It, in the same ratio as manufactures. Mr. Haddam will say. if they did not get a profit they would turn their capital into other channels; doubtedly they would if they could, but they cannot by any pool. May ; that truism io the abstract, that delusion in practice. Db.. that capital and industry will fly from profitless to profitable china nets, will not hold at all in our present state; for all trades as, alike profitless. There Is no hope or prospect in change, unless is. deed they seek some mere genial clime than ours is becoMe, mid that is a dreadful alternative, to be driven fron► their native clic+ rished country by the ignorance and pertinacity of their Rulers, year after year, whilst sinking, to be chided for complaining, and, be told by some Board of Trade Minister that they are thriving more than ever; wbii.t another lesa daring statesman says, year after year, wait a little, depend upon It all will come round ; the country will right itself. She has righted herself, it is true, under many a severe blow received at the hands of her statesmen ; but the instrument with which she has at length been struck touches the heart, and unless it is extracted will bring on fatal convulsion of the whole frame. Ministers next tell us that the consumption of excheable commodities is Increased, and that therefore the condition of the lower class must be cons. Ratable ; this proves too much ; at least it Is attempting to so tabliah a point so at variance with the fact, and the experimmeand knowledge of all men, as to be quite disgusting. It is pretty aims to tell masters they are thriving when ruin stares them in the face ; and next to offer proof of the comfortable condition of their men, when we know they are suffering, in many cases. an extremity of distress, and have been in that state for years. The increased consumption, as appears by Excise Revenue returns, is, I believe, In no small degree the effect of greater vigilante in the collection of those duties. Another reason is the disposition of the English to hold to that expenditure which is combined with indulgence and comfort, giving up in preference many necessaries. And then, I beg you to consider our case always that of a lion caught in the toils of an insidious foe; he struggles with his wondrous power for a long time against the gripe of the subtle cords that bind his limbs. and moves as erect almost as if be did not feel them ; but be will at last sink under ex haustless, and so shall we sink, and our exhaustion is beginning to be very perceptible. In fact, I have always contended, and it cannot be denied, that when we were struck by that insidious in strument, the most destructive which man ever levelled against the welfare and happiness of a country, we were in a state of extraor dinary health and strength. and, dreadful as was the blow, we have made such gigantic efforts, that those who are themselves yet untouched, and whose thoughts little wander beyond their own selfish atmosphere, are hardly conscious of the depth of the wound that has been inflicted upon the more industrious and less fortu nate millions, who are now indeed beginning to smart almost to desperation ander it. Mr. Huskisson's advocacy of Peel's Bill, or joint authorship I might say. with a little junta of the teat ned—at all events his advo. racy of the Bill, and the prices thereby fixed upon commodities and labour, astonishes me more than that of any other Statesman of the party, because, in 1815, he in so striking and remarkable a manner insisted always upon the necessity of high prices after the war. In the debate upon the Corn BM in 1815, he said there was a great diminution in the value of money ; that the farmers' charges were doubled; that to talk of prices returning to what they were before the war, was to inculcate a must dangerous error; if the entire rental was given up it would not be possible. He then adverted to the amount of taxation before the war, which he said did not exceed sixteen millions, whereas he could not cal culate upon a peace establishment much below sixty millions. Would this, be said, make no difference in the money price of ar ticles? and then reiterated his surprise that any body should am template a price of corn less than very near the double of what it was before the war. Now it is quite clear that his good sense 1114 good feeling would alike revolt at the idea of such doubling of the price of corn by means of scarcity of corn ; be meant, of course, a doubling consequent upon the different money in which the prices were told, nor could he imagine the possibility of corn bearing a high ptice, and other commodities and labour a low price; he could only mean that the war had effected -such changes, that every product of industry and the wages of labour must return double the quantity of money that they did before the war. or the fifty or sixty millions of taxes could not be borne by the country. What arguments induced him to substitute his present very opposise opinions in the place of those, so redcoat. which be then entertained, I have no clue to discover ; a material change of circumstances may make a different coons of action necessary, but no change of circumstances Deterred be tween 1815 and 1819. He certainly is subject to a change Df ?Mon eg,different times of the day ; his•admiratiun of the Corn BM of 1815, which, on behalf of . all .the interests of the eounny, be earnestly recommended to the adoption of the House . ; his laments limo, in 1828, from the bottom of his soul, over .the mass of sea and misery and destruction of capital which that same bar had, in the course of Its twelve years' operation, pro goad, .axe remarkable proofs of this propensity -to see subjects la alma points of view at different times. 41pnot melee these murk& In order to impugn his patriotism, his talents, or his Indus ' try, but to show that the old adage, Humanum est entire,' applies to him as well as to et►ers ; that he is not oracular, as many gen tlemen in the House of Commons seem to think. He certainly . possesses very considerable influence in the House, especially upon such subjects as that I am now discussing, and it is desirable to prove that be is not an infallible guide. At one or other of the periods I have alluded to, he must have been' egregiously wrong, and at the earliest Of those period, he could neither plead youth or inexperience, or want of information to extenuate his errors. In refererce to Peel's Bill, perhaps be thought with Mr. Ricardo and other►, that it would only make a difference of price to the ex tent of four per cent. and that the Legislature haying, with singular concurrence of opinions amongst the Statesmen on opposite sides of the House, acted upon thin Idea, it would be better to drag the country through any difficulties, and cpunterect the mischief by sinister operations, than expose to the people the astounding errors Into which their rulers bad fallen. He might be too deeply' impressed also with the dilkulty of undoing what tbry bad data. I can give him and others credit fur their motivei, but not for s k s i s , w i s dom, is, pursuing this mune; &web nothing 11la deal ing fairly and °Nall whit the people ; depend wpm it the credit of the country would never have nand a moment under the avowal of an error honestly made, and that there is always an the r.r ‘A1:10^ other hand treat danger if the pipit discover that fain lights have peen held out to them, and they find thentseives deceived. I beg now to call the particular attention of landowners and farmers to some opinions I shall submit to them, and which may not be in accord altogether with some established notions, and ap- pear at variance with some I myself entertain. In the first place 1 declare my conviction, that the most perfect exclusion of foreign corn would not give a price of wheat above an average of 455. by the Winchester quarter, if Peel's Bill is to remain and be in full force. In the next place Ido believe that if we had now the war currency, we might at this moment open the ports ;freely to foreign corn, and that the price would rise mate flay notwishstanding. and be maintained permanently on an adequate stale The price of every thing would rise, wages would rise also. indeed if the wages of labour did not rise, the price of corn would not, and never can (except from a scarcity of Born,) because the laborious classes are the great consumers. and the markets must be governed by their ability to purchase. and we should have plenty of money and plenty of corn. The price would rise upon the Continent simultaneously with the price here. Prices upon the Continent are in a variety of ways affected, and in the dealings of the Continent with us, in a great measure governed by our Currency Laws ; and the Conti nent has felt, in a material degree, the dire effects of the contraction of the currency of this country, being. in truth, a dimi nution of the aggregate circulating medium of all nations in com mercial intercourse with us. The high prices at which alone, during the war, the continent would sell us grain, were, in a great measure, the necessary result of our war currency ; or, in other words, cheap sseney, and the restoration of the same currency here, would re liant the same prices abroad as measured in that currency; the whole character of foreign competition would be at once altered by the change, and its ill effects neutralised. In corroboration of the embarrassments produced throughout the Continent by the contraction of the currency, and consequent low money prices, forced on them by Peel's Bill, I refer to the Report of the Com mittee of 1821, where h is stated that a proportion of the depres aims of prices prevailing in other countries is to be ascribed to the restoration of our currency, which restoration the Committee stated to have deranged, in some degree, the markets of every part of the civilised world. I do not by any means intend to admit that I think a permanent Importation of corn desirable or safe, because there is nothing I should so much dread as reliance upon foreign countries for any position of our daily food. I think oar independence would be gone ; our people would la, the subjects of those who fed them. I think we have ample means to feed ourselves in general, and to extract a surplus from any other country when we want it; in short, with superior wealth we should always have the best chance to extract occasional supply frees our neighbours; but I contend that we can glow, and bring to market. corn as cheap as any country in the world ; by cheap, I mean really cheap, that is. with as little cost of la bour and seed, our soil and climate taken altogether are as favourable as that of other countries. Set the prime of our soil against the prime of other countries ; compare, in like manner. the middling quality and bad; and we shall be found little, if any, in ferior for the growth of wheat. Our facilities of conveyance to market lighten considerably the price ; then the force of superior capital and skill are wonderfully effective to insure and to increase produce. I say, then, we can grow it at as low a labour price as any nation upon the Continent. More than the first half of the last century, our price was as low, and often lower. so that we had a large export trade of wheat. It is our necessary taxes then, that disable as in competition with the foreign grower, and render protecion necessary to save our own agriculture from extinction. Now as it has been proved in a thousand ways, that Peel's Bill effectively increased taxation to such an enormous and unneceuary extent. as compared with taxation, paid in the war currency, so the return to the war currency would lighten taxation in the same degree, and with our present war taxes, so lightened, and looking to the stock of corn in this country and on the Continent, I at this moment should not entertain any fear of injury to the agriculture of this country from the competition of the foreign grower. I shall be asked what would become of the consumers, with this rise of the money price; why, I say that their powers of commanding the necessaries of life by augmented wages of labour would be increased, and consequently the consump tion would be increased to the infinite relief and comfort of the people. Who are the consumers? Why, the industrious and la• borious classes are consumers—the great consumers, Statesmen argue as if the producer was one sort of an animal. and the consumer another, which is too absurd. The producers are the principal con sumers. and they could and would consume a great deal more than they do now. We should bear no more of over-production or sue. plus population. Depend upon it we have yet ample powers of pro duction and assumption too. if we were not chained to the earth by the shackles of that fatal Bill. I have beard many people say, the war currency we know would relieve us for a time, but we could not keep it. By why net? I say we could keep it. and for ibis obvious reason, that we want it; we require It to carry un our financial and com mercial operations ; we cannot go on without it ; we are expiring for the want of it ; nut commerce is sterile of profit, and our re. venue is drawn from capital instead of income, and will. ere long, materially decline; and our public creditor. and all other credi tors, will be in jeopardy. We are beginning to knock down the fives Into four and four into three, by hocus-pocus operations upon the funds; a miserable attempt, and is only an car nest of what the landholders may evert. I say then, we cannot keep our present currency. We could. with the great est advantage, use and safely keep the wat currency. Bet it is said, with such an increase of currency, our paper would lust all value. Wby so, I ask again? Our paper is credit, and our credit is unshaken. Our credit is even better established than ever by this tremendous trial It has undergone. Our integrity and faith is evinced in a most extraordinary manner by our persevering to de struction almost, to accomplish what is beyond all human power; namely, to pay our creditors twice as much as we borrowed of them. The paper or credit of a country will go down, when that country limning it cannot fulfil its engagements, or what a greater quan tity of credit currency is issued than the COIMONITCO of the country requires. But that would not be our case ;we could ab sorb nearly as much, if not quite, as we bad in circulation during the war. Fictitious wealth is then talked of, as if the medium of exchange constituted wealth. It is true that gold and diver are valuable commodities; but as money, they are a dead weight, in stead of adding to our wealth. What is the rational debt but a credit upon the industry of the country To employ the precious metals in payment of debt and taxes—to attempt It. indeed, ((or the thing is impassible), would beggar the coloury at once. I have extended this letter to such a length. I am obliged to con dude it very abruptly. I have the honor to be, Gentlemen, Your faithful and obedient Servant, Fedi Hail, 4an. 16th, 1130. CHAS C. WESTERN. The living of Ealing, and a stall in St. Paul's and Worcester Cathedrals, are vacant by the death of the Rev. HERBERT OA/I:ELEV. Monday nfternoon, an inquest was held before Mr; Serssuse, Coroner, at the King's /lead, Fulham, on the putrid re• mains of the body of an Infant, which had been found In the soil of the privy at the house of a Mrs. Bamford, who is the Mistress of a seminary for the education of young Ladles. A girl naitted Ann ICettle, who was cook iu Mrs. liastfocd's family, was named of 1 being the mother of the child, and confessed that she was, but as-1 sertegl that it wav a sun-born child. and she concealed it In the Ng to prevent the discovery of her &Imam. The Jury, after bearing the evidence of Mi. Helms, a aswgeon, who wee of oplaionlitat the And *as net been allekrenneed averdlet.drn tioritidtlirond• had concealed the birth of the child, and the Conner lessed warrant for the apprehension of the female. 917 .• • THE LA Ts - FATAL DUEL. Iticherd William Letinkreekt, Lieut. Frederick Ow, and Dudley Byrne, Esq. the former of whom charged as principal, and the two latter gentlemen as seconds, in the late fatal duel, were yesterday placed at the bar of the Union Hall Police UMW, before air. Cnasthaas and a full bench of Magistrates, for re-examination. Mr. Haai v a attended for Mr. Byrne. James Price together with the Surgeon and other witnesses, re • capitulated iair th eir evidence as on the former occasion. d Swayne, proprietor of the Red House Tavern, Batter sea, deposed, that he was awoke about six o'clock on the morning of the Bth, and was Informed that a gentleman bad been wounded in a duel. He Immediately opened the door, and the witness Price. Mr. Byrne. and another gentleman, brought the deceased In, and be was immediately put to bed in a lower room, but after. wards removed up stairs, as it was quieter. lie did not say who had shot him, but he said be was sorry he bad been so °lntimate. He died about seven in the evening. Price recalled by Mr. Catenates—How far was Mr. Byrne from you at the time the parties tired ? Price—He was close to me. Mr. Cuasusnas—Did you see pistols in the carriage? Witness—l saw a case taken from the carriage, which I had afterwards reason to believe contained pistols. Mr. Harmer—You did not see that they were pistols before they were taken from the carriage? Witness—No ; I suspected they were; the case was covered with brown paper. Mr Harmer—Bet you would not have known they were pistols had you not afterwards been told so? Witness—l should not. Mr. Harmer—Nor do you know even now whether those were e Identical pistols used ? Witness—l do not. Mr. CUAII3IIIIh—Who took the case Out ? The witness, in reply to this, was understood to say that Mr. Bigler took them out, but from the confusion it was impossible to distinguish his words. Mr. Harmer remarked that a great deal of evidence was taken at the Inquest whkh was illegal. Curtis, an officer, stated that when he had an interview with Mr. Cox, at the lock-up house, he had told him that he had loaded the pistols and taken them to the ground. James Fisher, the police constable. deposed that the prisoner Lambrecht, when on his way from Marlborough -street to this Ocoee, had stated that he had been tried by a Court Martial on a former occasion for an affair of honour, and had been allowed to sell out. Blr. Cummins—Were Mr. Clayton's pistols found loaded after the affair was over? Witness—l don't know. Mr. CHAU/IRS-But it should have been seen to. There ap pears something contradictory in the statement. Mr. Lambrecht said, on the former examination, that Mr. Byrne came up to dim, and said, "Good Goo! has it come to this?" Mr. Harmer said, that this was on their arrival upon the ground before the meeting took place. Mr. Cuamaras inquired of Mr. Lambrecht whether he wished to add anything more to what he had before stated? Mr. Lambrecht replied, that Mr. Byrne had made the remark before alluded to on their arrival at Battersea, and that he was not on the ground at the time of the duel. Ueut Cox, in answer to an observation from the Magistrate, replied, that he bad said, that bad the affair been left in the hands of Mr. Byrne. it might have ended amicably. An individual present said the principals and the other parties (meaning Price, Byrne, and the coachman) were all within ICO yards. Mr. Harmer said it did not matter whether they (Price and others) were within 50 or 500 yards of the principals. They we.e stationed behind a corner, and could not see the parties when they fired. He (Mr. H.) was of opinion that Mr. Byrne was not at all implicated ; he bad never got out of the way after the affair (having been taken at the hotel wuere he usually resided). He, besides, having done all he could to reconcile the parties,and not being on the ground at the very time of the duel being committed. He was hold ing a situation under Mr. Clayton, and although be used his ut most power to prevent the affair, it was not for him to dictate to Isis patron. Mr. CNAMSBILS said a Jury must decide bow far he was impli cated in the affair, and the gentlemen were all committed for trial. Mr. Harmer enquired if boil would not be accepted for Mr. Byrne ? Mr. Cuomnitas said, that as the Judges were all in town he must refer him to them. lAmbrecht still looks very ill POLICE INTELLIGENCE. f g MANSION-HOUSE. A poor woman, named Hannah *MA appeared at the Justice room, with three female children, which .be bad brought forth at one birth, to beg relief in her distress. She had, she said, been brought to-bed of the children on the 11th of September last, bet that, on account of her poverty. she had not been able to afford herself the necessary aliment to meet such constant sources of ex baustion. She bad, she said, four other children at home, so that all tbat she and her husband could do, would not be adequate to !N support so large a family, and they ad no parish to apply to for the slightest relief. Sir P. Lamm regretted that the time had gone by when the production of a numerous birth was a matter of recommendation. Formerly an appeal of this kind excited the utmost sympathy, but now there were so many bands more than there was employment for, the public had lost their sensibility is that respect. The poor woman said she thought that there was some fund at the command of the Lord Mayor, that he might apply to the case of a poor woman who had met with the misfortune of a large family suddenly. Sir P. Lavin said his Lordship had no such fund. The sp• plications for relief tar exceeded the means, and it a woman, who had three children at a birth, were to succeed in her petition for assistance, there would soon be applications from those who would be able to produce four. The mother said she had no way of helping herself. She lodged in a wretched place iu Grub -street, and the three babes would soon make a shadow of her. Sir Perms stated that, In cases of this kind, and under such exigent circumstances, a woman must look to the sympathies of her immediate neighbours. GUILDHALL - - Aka Im eiries, a j ourneyman tailor, was charged with strafing several cuts of superfine clock, value £lO. Mr. Bousfield attended as solicitor for the prosecution. James Martin, shopman to 3lesus. Dawson and Williams, of aoth.fair, deposed that, on the 234 of October, the prisoner came for a cut Of cloth for Mes.rs. Brown and Sam,, tailor-. Barbican, and on the following day be cams fur four more pieces. Being somewhat suspicions, he ordered the porter to follow the prisoner on the latter occasion. but as the prisoner went into Brown and Sam's shop and remained.it was supposed that the transaction was a fair one. Some days after, however, it was discovered that the prisoner had been dismissed from Messrs. Brown's service nine months. Mr. Sams proved that the prisoner was not in the service of the firm, and that the cloth was neither ordered nor received by them. Roe the officer apprehended the prisoner, from the description of his person, yesterday morning, in the purlieus of Wentworth street. Whitechapel. The prisoner denied that he was the person who obtained the cloth, but the witness Martin had no doubt of his identity. and he was committed for trial. BIRTHS. At Oakley Park. Ludlow, Lady Harriet Clive, of a son. The Lady of Charles Hale Moans, Esq. of Ings.hits House, De vonshire, of a daughter. In York—place, the lady of 31.j0r Livingston. Ilan. East Ind ia Company's servi ce, of a son. 114AltItIED. At Mawlre, Daniel Sykes, Esq. of Kirk Ella, In the county of York, to Catherine PhiHipps, youngest daughter of the late James PhiHipps. Esq. of Bryngwu, county Hereford. In &Maw, nomas Vaughan, E.g. Principal Officer of Customs at Carrickfergus. to Mary, eldest daughtet of 13. Forsythe, Esq. of Dromisaboo, County Antrim. At Cove Church. Major Wilson, 65th regiment, to Mary Elisa beth, eldest daughter of W. Lewis, Esq. it. N. DIED. At Langley Park, lo the county of Forfar, N. B. James Cruik. shank, Esq. in his sgd year. At her house in Montagu-square, after an illness of eight dap, Lady Leigh. In Finsbury-square, W. M. Willett, Raq. a get tlernan long con nected with the periodical pttss of London. At Clonmel, an old woman named Howe Monahan, better known by the appellation of " Mammy Honor," at the great age of 105 years. She retained het faculties to the last. At the age of 103 years, Francis Bryans, of Moy, in the county Tyrone, Eaq On the 7th inst. at Brighton ' Capt. Charles Robert F r ad, for. inert, of the 00th Restment of Foot, and son of the late Lieut.- Gem Pratt, Royal Artillery. HIGH- WATEIse LONDON-BRIDGE TO MORROW. Manias fill mimes after Afterseer Inmate. iflt• Losisex : Primal sad Publialied b 3.. s MAIM at tA. 3145" Orron No.*, Pickiett•passeassivk Bat.