Star. — London, England, 1829-10-02 00:00:00

I'S ANTIDOTE. York Osserassi. celebrated Orientalist. Mr. Buck , series of Lectures at Whitby, la undertake to show the faffat7 of Mr. Shipping Interest. These Lectures as effect upon the minds of his me ntors, which is calculated to unsettle politics, notwithstanding the vividness A contemporary has thus noticed at Whitby was just after the dinner the town was almost exclusively with which the latter gentleman practice of the free-traders and pa , moment was therefore thought peculiarly successful reception of Mr. Buckingham's iliat tree-trade which Mr. Sadler misrepresent, as well as to decry. , that a highly respectable Magis- Richard Moorsom, had issued a small pamplet, containing an address to his fellow townsmen, and em bodying his views as to else shipping interest, and the general mis conception which attributed its depression to Mr. Huskisson's mea sures; which pamphlet, opposed as it was in every respect to Mr. Sadler's notions, was rather uncoorteously treated both by this gentleman himself, and by those of his party, to whom it was sent for previous perusal. Mr. Beckingham having been long since known to Mr. Moorsom, by correspondence, arising out of the similarity of their commercial views, became, with that portion of his family who accompanied him in this part of his tour, Mr.Moor som's guest. This was another circumstance which it was thought might operate unfavourably at the present moment, for the popular reception of Mr. Buckingham's views; and, altogether, the pros. pect was considered to be unusually discouraging. Notwithstand ing this, however, Mr. Buckingham issued, in addition to the usual announcement of his Lectures, an especial invitation to the shipowners and merchants of Whitby, to whom he pledged his readiness to prove, to their entire satisfaction, that they all suf fered great injury from the continued exclusion of their ships and capital from ports under the controul of the East India Company, where foreigners resort freely, though British vessels and British subjects are shut out and that it is not by free trade, but by the existing. obstacles which ate still interposed to prevent that free trade being extended to all parts of the world, that the depression of the shipping interest has been produced. And what has been the result? Why, that the Lectures of Mr. Buckingham, held in the very room in which the dinner was given to Mr. Sadler, have been attended by nearly twice the number of auditors which that gentleman had, though such powerful interest and such especial pains were taken to collect them in the one case, with the attraction of a sumptuous dinner, and excellent wines superadded ; while on the other no step beyond the ordinary an nouncement by advertisement was taken, and the fare to be sup plied was wholly intellectual. Mr. Buckingham's audiences in creased in number each succeeding evening; and on the third, the last to which our information extends, not only was the room en tirely filled, but a number of persons, for want of room below, occupied the music gallery. Among the auditors have been seen the principal merchants, ship-owners, and gentry of the town and surrounding country. Our worthy Member, Col. Wilson, (who, strange to say, happens to be Mr. Buckingham's next door neigh bour in London) was observed to be amongst the audience. It is to be regretted, that the Hun. Member for Newark, Mr. Sadler, did not himself remain either to gather new laurels by his expo sition of Mr. Buckingham's errors—if errors they be—or to yield the palm to his truths, if, upon examination, they should be found to deserve that characters. for either the one or the other, at least, they must be. That he was duly apprised of Mr. Buckingham's intentions, and even urgently pressed to attend them, we happen to know from good authority: but, the tranquillity of Redcar appeared to have greater attractions for the Honourable Gentle. man than a further sojourn in Whitby—flattering as had been his reception among the inhabitants of that place. To be sure, there might have been some disadvantageous comparisons and contrasts, between a speech upon the shipping interests, by Mr. Sadler, who despises all theorists, and will admit of no evidence but that of practical men ; but who at the same time can really know nothing whatever of ships or seamen, except as a theorist—having been all his life bred and occu pied as a trader in linens, in an inland town, and never having either performed voyages by sea, or lived amongst those who had. We say, that a speech en the shipping interests front such a man might perhaps have been rather disadvan tageously contrasted with a speech on the shipping interests, by ..r. Buckingham, who went to sea at nine years of age, who commanded a ship before be was twenty-one, and who has visited almost every part of the globe, by sea and land, as a navigator, a merchant, and a traveller. The shrewd shipowners of Whitby, most of whom have themselves been sailors—could not fail to distinguish the wide difference between a man speaking of that which was perfectly new, and scarcely intelligible to himself—and a man explaining to others that which he had been familiar from his cradle, and which had formed, indeed, the principal object, and as it were the natural and professional pursuit of his life.— Yet this is just the distinction between Mr. Sadler and Mr. Buck ingham, as speakers or writers on the shipping interest; and we really cannot help thinking, that if the shipownets of Whitby or Hull—of Whitehaven or Newcastle—of Greenock, Liverpool, or Bristol—think it essential to their interests to have a Represen tative in Parliament, or an advocate at public dinnet s—a seaman and a navigator is a more appropriate person than a farmer or a linen-draper, and who unites to theory the most extensive cape rience and practice—a better man than one who is destitute both of one and the other. Mr. Sadler may be a very fit and appropriate person to repre sent the Duke of Newcastle in the House of Commons, his Grace himself being confined to the narrow limits of the House of Lords; and he may very adequately discharge all the important duties imposed upon him by his Grace's tenants and retainers in the borough of Newark.upon-Trent • bat we repeat again, that on any qu e stion connected with shipping and commerce, Mr. Backingham's practical knowledge and multifarious experience Must render him a much more appropriate representative of the shipping and mercantile interests of this great maritime and commercial community. As to the other qualification, the power of communicating vividly, clearly, and agreeably, his own thoughts and feelings to others, it is admitted on all hands, by the universally concurrent testimony of writers on both sides of politics, and by auditors of all parties, that Mr. Buckingham is pre-eminently successful in its display; and the most striking manner in which we can show this, by comparison, is by saying, that while Mr. Sadler, after all the comfort and ex citement produced by an excellent dinner, found it difficult to preserve the sustained attention of his hearers for an hour and three quarters himself and the whole party halting twice on their way to refresh themselves with a glass of wine (that detestable foreign production, which by the mischievous free trader has been made to supplant the home-production of pure water springing front our native wells, but which there is no sin in drinking, though the political economists who encourage its importation ought to be exiled for commending)---Mr. Bucking ham, without any such aids, and without a single pause or inter ruption for even a moment of time, so completely rivetted the at tention of an audience of double the number, at the same place and in .the same room, that during a period of more than three hours, the silence might be describsid as almost breathless, and its conclu %ion was,,in each instance, terminated by a burst of applause,wbich %efficiently indicated the feeling universally expressed • from all quarters if the room, that the auditors could have remained for three hours longer, without the least sense of weariness or fatigue, so deeply had their feelings` and their judgments been interested in the facts, arguments, and illustrations, by which Mr. Buckingham supports the very opposite position of Mr. Sadler's policy, and shows, that in proportion as nations have encumbered their inters; course with each other, by restrictions, they have declined from their high and palmy state, and become powerless and wretched, while in proportion as they have made that intercourse free and unrestrained, they have become wealthy, powerful, and happy. THE LATE WILLIAM HUNT, ESQ.—The will of this eccentric old Gentleman was proved on the 24th ult. and the pro perty sworn to under £250 000. The testator expresses great anxiety not to be buried alive, and also to escape the resurrection vies. An advertisement, cut out of a newspaper, of patent self closing and unopenahle iron coffins is gummed on the top of the first sheet of his will, and he directs that he is to be buried in an iron or stone coffin, but not till undoubted signs of putrefaction appear upon his body. Other characteristic marks of peculiarity of opinion are scattered through the will. One legacy to a friend is afterwards revoked, on account of the said friend's " extreme bigotry and ignorance in burning the ' Philosophical Dictionary,' of Voltaire, because he could not refute it." The principal testae of the will, however, is the magnificent bequest to Guy's Hospi tal, being the residue of the testator's property, after a few legacies to executors and friends, and other charities ' and estimated at upwards of £200.000. For this be binds the Governors to build and fit up accommodations for one hundred more patients than the original founder provided fur. To St. Thomas's Hospital, the Refuge fur the Destitute at Hackney, and the Philanthropic Gila. rity, St. George's fields, be has left ,21,000'each ; with other con tingent benefits in the very improbable ease of the Governors of Guy's declining to comply with the conditions of his bequest to that hospital. The vault at Guy's Hospital be selects as the place in sepulture in lieu of &whin-fields, on the ground that his late brother, Theodore Hunt, who had used Mm ill, lies there above their two uncles, and he is determined " not to mix his bones" with those of the persons alluded to. • Ira" \• , . ' -- ci• - 7., AC? • 4.. 9 .. )`• 0. - 1 3::. ; . , 4•• :;.; ;IX e4t c 7:. :CLI " ! • "4"- . . , ..7 1 4--,16 . Clii: MR. SADLER': ....... 41 From the Yi In our last we stated that the t [ lughain, was about to deliver a a the coarse of Mikis he would um Sadler's views respecting the Ski; I have, we are assured. had an el lightened and respectable auditor 'heir faith In Mr. Sadler's politic of that gentleman's oratory. A Mr. Buckingham's Lectures:— ** Mr. Buckingham's urivdat given to Mr. Sadler ; and while I occupied with the denunciations had assailed the principles and p !Weal economists. The moment unfavourable for the successful views, as to the advantages of tl had jut taken so much pains to s " We mentioned in our hat, trate of Whitby, Mr. Richard .„ • 11 , i . . i: , Ili CHURCH LIVINGS IN IRELAND. _____.„....__ An Evening Paper, as a sort of answer to the state ments in Lord Monnteasbel's Speech, remarks that there are 14 parishes in the diocese of Cork and Ross, the best of which do not yield more than ,esoo per annum each under the Tithe Composi tion Act, and some of which do not produce more even than half that sum. There are altogether above 130 parishes in the diocese, and of these, according to the last Return, only 39 have as yet compounded. It is quite certain that one or two are marked down as yielding even less than 1301. but 21 of them produce as follows : Per Annum. Per Annum Fanlobhus £looo Moviddy.. Kinneigh .... ...... .... 900 Rathcooney.... Skull .. B5O I)vnbullog Kilmicbael ...........692 Ardnegeeby lnnishannon Kilmaloda 675 Dromdalesgue .. ...... ... 450 Caharagh ... 6.50 AgUsh 445 shaven . 650 Athnowen Inskenny .... 400 Inchigeelagh ...... ....... ao 13allinadee Knockavilly . 625 1 errod .. 525 Let these twenty one go against the fourteen, and let it be known that the entire of the compounding parishes, including even the fourteen, ge £4lB per annum. When the Evening Paper spoke of parishes with small com positions, It did not take the trouble of specifying the number that were in possession of any particlar individual. A single parish may be worth only 130/. but this may be united with se veral others. If we are told that one parish in this diocese, such as that of Taxax, has compounded not for 1301. but for 1131. 151. we are not to conclude that all the Parsons of Cork and Ross are half paupers, notwithstanding any thing Lord Mountcashel has to say to the contrary. We find that Kilbonane yields only 225/. 10s. 9d. It belongs to the Rev. Thomas St. Lawrence, eon of the Bishop, who has, it seems, two or three other St. Lawreoces highly endowed. Drawing our inferences from parishes indivi dually, we must, of course, allow that the son of the MU, is badly provided for by the possession of 2251. in Kilbonane. In quiring farther, however, into his fortune, we find that he has Mo riddy and Aglish united to this parish of Kilbonane ; and that all produce him 1,1691.35. 11d. per annum. We speak merely of what appears on the fact of the Parliamentary Returns relative to Tithe Compositions. In these Returns the Rev. Thomas St. Law rence is set down as possessing an aggregate of nearly £1,200 a year, though in right of a single parish he may not enjoy the I.6th of that sum. No doubt he possesses wealth of which these returns have as yet taken no cognisance; and let us again recollect, that there are four St. Lawrence. (including the Bishop) in Cork and Ross. What is the number of parishes distributed amongst the Parsons of the name? Sixteen at least; and three of these produce Parson Tom very little short of 1,2001. a year! Many years ago, Mr. Newenbam published, that 40 (not 14) of the Parsons of Cork and Ross had each an average income of 8001. a year, and the tithes of some ran from 1,5001. to 2,5001. per annum. In one of the latest Cbrk Chronicles, Horace Townsend is set down at 2,0001. a year. We do not find that he has as yet compounded. We would be glad to know the particulars of his income, and that of others, with regard to which the composition returns afford us no information. If we had authenticated details, we have no doubt that the estimates of Newenham would be fully borne out. There are no fewer than 23 pluarities in this diocese, and these pluralities include not far from six times the number of parishes of which our innocent contemporary speaks in the pus graph, by which he hopes to put an extinguisher on the exposition of Lord Mountcashel.—.Dublin Morning Register. FRENCH AND ENGLISH WEIGHTS AND MEJSURES. • The following is a comparative Table of the Weights and Measures of England and France, which were published by the Royal and Central Society of Agric ul ture of Paris , in their An. nuary for 1829, and founded on a Report made by Mr. Mathieu to the Royal Academy of Sciences of France, on the Bill passed the 17th of May, 1814, relative to the w eights and measures termed " Imperial;" which are henceforward to be used in Great Britain : MEASURES OF LENGTH. rasucx. . 2.539954 centimetres . 3,0479449 decimetres . 0,91438348 metre . 1,82876696 metres . 5,02911 metres . 201,16437 metres . 1609,5149 metres VOLUM. . 0,03957 inch . 0,593708 inch . 5,937079 inches )39,37079 inches 3,21108992 feet 1,098833 yard mike MOLISE 1 Inch (1.56 th of a yard) 1 Foot (1-5 d ors yard) Yard Imperial Fathom (2 yards) . Pole or perch (Si yards) Furlong (220 yards) . Mile (1,780 yards) . VIIINCII. 1 MiUmstre . 1 Centimetre . 1 Decimetre . 1 Metre Myriametre . SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET FIRST OCTOBER MEETING. Race Course, Thursday Evening. The Races to day came off as follows : The Town Plate of X5O for three year old cults, Bst. 71b. and fillies, est. 31b. D.I. Mr. Batson's br. f. Seraph Mr. Pettit's ch. 1. by Tramp Lord Orford's br. e. Chiron.. Won in a canter by six lengths. Sweepstakes of 100 sous. each, li. ft. for fillies, Bst. 41b. Ab. M. Lord Exeter's br. 1. Varna (41b. extra)..... Mr. Payne's f. Pauline.. . .... • Mr. Dilly's b. f. Windfall The following paid : Mr. Gre•ille's b. f. Lady Emily, Mr. Champion's b. 1. by Fdho, Mr. Champion's br. f. by Duplicate, Duke of Grafton's 1. b. by Lyric, and Lord Verulam's f. by Water. loo—Venom. Won by half a length. Match-200, h. ft. T. Y.C. Sir M. Wood's John de Bart, Sit. 41b. 1 Lord Southampton's Barnardo, est. 41b. .. 2 Won by half a length. Match-200, b. ft. T.Y.C. Sir M. Wood's Rosary, list. Mb. Mr. Payne's Pauline, est. ailb . Won cleverly. The King's Plate of 100 guineas ; four yrs,lost. 71b. five, llst.7lb• six, list. igib. and aged, 12st. R.C. Duke of Rutland's Cadland, 4 yrs Mr. Thornbill's Mariner, 4 yrs .. Won in a canter. Match, 200—Burman against Semiramis—off by consent. The following race wu run after our account left the Race Course on Wednesday afternoon : Handicap Sweepstakes of IS sot, each, 10 ft. for two yrs old. T.Y.C. Mr. Stonehewer's ch. f. The Fairy, Sst. llb Mr. Sowerby's f. by Abjer, Bat. lib .. 2 The following also started, but were not placed by the Judge Mr. Greville's b. f. Blue Bonnet, by Master Henry ; Mr. Hun ter's f. by Gustavus ; Duke of Richmond's f. Credulity, by Phan tom; Mr. Thornhill's b. c. by Emilius; Mr. Payne's b. e. by Bustard, paid.--Betting 7 to 4 apt Blue Bonnet, 2 to I apt Cre dulity, and 6 to 1 agst the winner, who had not a single friend. The horses kept well together till about a distance from home, when Blue Bonnet and Mr. Sowerby's looked so well that it was difficult to say which was tel Wino" Immediately after, how ever, the winner, who had laid well up, came out, and gaining ground in every stride, carried off the stakes in clever style, win ning by three-quarters of a length ; rode by Robinson, Bine Bon net by J. Day, Credulity by Boyce, Surprise by Conolly, Mr. Sowerby's by Wakefield, and Mr. Hunter's by Arnull. The October Underly Stakes was a poor affair, Acacia making all the running and winning very easy by three lengths ; rode by Ar null, Canvas by Boyce, and Worry by Conolly. The betting was even on Canvas, 7 to 4 ags:-Acar-ia, ands to 1 agst Worry. Previous to the Races, the following lots of Blood Stock were put up for sale : Bay Mare, by Andrew. dam by Quiz, knocked down at.. 100 gs. Bay Mare by Scud, or Pioneer, the dam by Quadrille, Va rennes, Ste. bought in at llO Morel, sister to Truffle, knocked down at. Brown mare by Prime Minister, dam by Dick Andrews, grandam by Coriander, knocked down at go Some other lots were put up, but bad no bidders. The attendance at the rooms to-night was even thinner than on either of the other nights, the private dinner panics having again attracted nearly all the members of the Club; Lord Sefton's and Lord Kietcr's were upon an unusually extensive scale. The races conclude to-morrow with four or five races, two of which are likely to be heavy betting ones--Cadiand and Lamp lighter having numerous parties for the King's Plate, and Varna and Pauline being backed against each other, at even, to consider able amounts. Mr. Payne's stud will be sold in the Houghton Meeting; there will be 27 lots, several of which are deeply engaged. RICHMOND RACES, Sart. A Sweepstakes of 20 soys. each, three years old colts and fillies. Colts, est. Slb. fillies, Bst. 21b. Once round. Lord Wilton'. ii. f. Dora walked over. A Sweepstakes of 20 sovs. each, for three year old fillies, Sat. 51b. each. Once round. Mr. Nletcalfe's ch.l. Giglet... Mr. Jackson's b. m. Madame de °sevens An excellent race, and won by half a neck. The Members Plate of 501. for maiden horet, and then three years old ; colts, Bst. 51b. fillies and geldings. Bst. 21b. three MM. entrance, and the entrance money to be given to the second horse. Mr. Wilsoli's b. c. Arrow, 3 yrs - 3 I I Mr. Petre's br. c. Cobbler Will 1 3 2 air. Harrison's b. f. Sailor Boy, 3 yrs.. 2 2 .1 Mr. reillei b. e. by Cannon HaU ROWING MATCH FOR .e2O. Yesterday a match took place trOM Putney Bridge- to West minster Bridge, against tide, between Messrs. T. Hunt, of Vaux hall, and V. Green, of Lambeth, both boat-builders. The interest the match excited along the whole line of the river was consider able, and a number of galleys' and other descriptions of toms pulled up to Putney, and accompanied the mated down.. At three o'clock th e y s tated, when Green took the lead, but his antagonist, after shouting across the water, came alongside at Battersea Church, and, at the conclusion of some fouling, went a-head. At the bridge at Battersea, Green's right hand became disabled, and he gave up the contest. ITI ST KUStriltS. 1 Myrlametre I Kilometre 1 Decametre 1 Metre KUM= OF LEXCITU. 1 Decimetre . 1 Ceatimttre . 1 Millimetre . LAID SIZASUM. I Hectare . I Are . . I Antlare . • cultic Biwa= soa LIQUIDS* • 4 Decilitre . • I Litre 1 Decilitre . • • CUBIC MEASUILLI TOR DRIED &DINERS. 1 Kilolitre 1 Hectolitre 1 Decalitre 1 Litre SOLID MLILIIIIII. 1 Stere . 1 Decistere . . WOODS'S. I Mailer . . VALUE. . 10.000 me • 1,000 metres 10 metres . Fundamental unity of all weights and measures. The 1-10,000,000 part of the quarter of the meridian of the earth. Tuale YALU Z. . 1-10th of a metre . 1-100th of a metre . 1-I,oooth of a metre TliglA VALVI. 1 Quintal . 1 Kilogramme . 10,000 square metres . 100 square metres 1 square metre THUS VALVE. . 10 cubic decimetre • cubic decimetre . I.lotll of a cubic decimet 1 Heetegramme . t Deeagramnte . 1 Gramme . . 1 Decigramme . TIMIS VALUE. . I cubic metre, or 1,000 cubic decimetres . 100 cubic decimetres . 10 cubic decimetres . cubic decimetre TIM M 'YALU& . 1 cubic metre . 1-10th of a cubic metre TIM". 1 16 LUZ. . 1,000 kilogram, (weight of a tun of sea). . 100 kilogrammes . Weight of a cubic decime tre of water at the tem perature of 4 deg. above melting ice, . 1-10th of a kilogramme . 1-00eth of a kilgramme. . I.l,oPnls eli a kilogram. . 1-10,000 th of a kilogram. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Oct. 1. Before the Chief Commissioner RavuoLos. Catherine Eleanor Cary, a young woman, appeared on her petition to be discharged. She was opposed by Mr. Nienotts, on behalf of several creditors, among whom was Mr. Goss, the proprietor of the Steyne Hotel, Brighton. The insolvent examined by Mr. Nicholls—l was discharged by this Court in INS. I have not been before the. Court since that time. In 1819 I was again ed, when my petition was dis missed. I arranged the settlement of my debts on that occasion with my creditors. In 1821 I went to prison again, and also in 1823 and 1824. I have been harrassed by continued arrests, and have spent between 3001. and 4001. in law expenses, but none of my attorneys have brought it to a conclusion. Mr.Nicholls—Did not you reside io the New Kent-road in 1021 ? Insolvent—Not in 1821, but in 1826. Mr. Nicholls here submitted to the Court, that this address not appearing in the petition, the description of the insolvent was in complete, as required by the Act of Parliament. He had also several other instances of the same kind. He was instructed to show that the insolvent had resided at the Steyne Hotel, Brighton, and contracted debts there ; also at No. 34, Surrey-street, Strand ; but the Only addresses in the schedule were No. 2, Scotland-yard, No. 23, Oxenden-street, and No. 3, Pall-mall East. The CHIEF CONAIIISSIONICA inquired if the insolvent's Attorney was in Court? A Clerk replied. No. Mr. Commissioner Rzesnena—This is the third time I have re ceived a similar answer. Let him be immediately sent fur. Some time elapsed, and no attorney had arrived. The Came Commusionss, addressing the insolvent, said, I fear you have enttusted your case to a person who is too negligent or indolent to attend. The Court is not now inquiring into anything in your schedule personal to you, but the Act of Parliament re quires, first that the place of residence of an insolvent at the time of the arrest should be distinctly stated, as well as every residence where any debt named in the schedule was contracted. This your attorney should have done. Your. schedule, I ob serve, commences in 1814, and exceeds over a period of fifteen years. It is impossible, in consequence of the above defects, that the Court can adjudicate your case to-day, and I muse remand you, until you file a new petition, amend your schedule, and give tea days' notice to your creditors of your next appearance before the Court ; but, continued the Learned Commis ioner s if I firs* that this remand bah been prodoced by the neiligence of your at torney, the Court.will have no hesitation in drdrtiot !Xi to pa/ all the expeseesinemeini laennsequence of it. At several country - fairs large placards have been pollUd • with xii• enards " Beware of pickpockets aq4 e?yncsrf e it f aimal" 1 . At nipSittg Town Pennell .of Stirling on : Tuesday, it WWI IitsaRIMPSOY. .traidAe. the Rev. Jane t MA SIHALL from the third to t second dirge Or tliaa town and pariah of Wit p its bait - kir otitis, Mouths cant. • . . 6,4138 SQUARE MEASURES. ENGLISH. • i Yard square . I Rud (square perch) . 1 Rood (1210 yards square) . 1 Acre (4840 yards square) . . 0,836097 metre square . 25.291959 metres sq. . 10.116775 are . 0,4046715 hectares •awe. saausu. Metre square 1 Are . 1 Hectare . . 1,190033 yard square . . 0,098845 rood . 2,473814 acres • • SOLID MEASURES. snOL3III. 1 Pint (1-Bth of a gallon) 1 Quart a of a gallon) 1 Gallon imperial 1 Peck (2 gallons) 1 Bushel (8 gallons 1 Sack (3 bushels) 1 Quarter (8 bushels) 1 Chaldron (12 sacks) PAlDielt. . 0,567934 litre . 1,135864 litre . 4,84345794 litres . 9,0869159 litres . 56447664 litres . 1,09043 hectolitre . 2,907813 hectolitres . 15,08516 hectolitres 1 1,760773 pint • 0.2200967 gallons 2,2009667 gallons 22,009667 gallons 1 Litre 1 Decalitre 1 Hectolitre . . WEIGHTS. INGLIS)! ?LOY. PRINCH. Grain (-24th of a penny-wt.) . 0,06477 gramme 1 Penny-wt. (1.20 th of an oz.) . 1,b5456 gramme 1 Oz. (1-12th of 1 pound troy) . 31,0913 gramme 1 Pound troy imperial . . 0,3730956 kilogram. ISSLIIH AVOIDUPOIS. FRISCH. 1 Drachm (1-16th of an ounce) . 1,7712 gramme 1 Ounce (1-16th of a pound) . 28,3384 grammes 1 Pound avoirdupois imperial . 0.4534142 kilogram 1 Hundred weight (112 pounds) . 50,78246 kilogram 1 Ten (20 hundred weight) . 10,15649 kilogram IFILNCII. INGLISH. 15.438 grains troy. I Gramme .0,3216 ounce troy 1 Kilo gramme 2,68827 pounds troy . . • 1 2,20548 pounds avoir. The following Table of the present Weights and Measures of France may, perhaps, be necessary for the proper understanding of the above NEW MEASURES. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. lil7lFailliT. Tim Nsw Poucs.—The ease and dispatch with which the new police conduct their night charges, form a striking contrast to the slovenly and unsatisfactory manner in which the defunct nightly watch performed their duty, and proves the superiority of the new system, even while yet in its infancy. The Magistrates themselves seem astonished at the regularity with which the business is done, and the improvement must be obvious to any person who is at all acquainted with the subject. The charges are arranged and brought forward by the superintendent and inspectors, who have the respective parties marshalled in order outside the office • so that no time is lost in getting them in before the Magistrates. This order, at is but fair to state, if not entirely owing to, is at all events greatly facilitated by those of the men who had belonged to the patrol who were attached to this office. The clearness and din. tinctures with which the men delivered their evidence, must al-o have been matter of satisfaction, as well to the accused as to the Magistrate. Sir R. Bums said, that it was really matter of congratulation to perceive the difference between the new police and the old watch. The Chairman of a Free-and-Easy, John Merry, and Patrick Kenny, two well-known characters, were brought up, charged with having been concerned in picking pockets. It appeared that the prisoners were observed by two gentlemen assisting a boy in picking pockets. The boy got away, but the prisoners were secured. On them were found some gentlemen's cambric pocket-handker chiefs, which they said they had purchased foe wearing round their necks on Sundays. Mr. Hates observed, that If they did not mind, they would, ere long, have something else round their necks. Evidence of the repute of the prisoners was then taken, and they were committed for two months each to the House of Correction. Sumetas Cmcomaraucs.—Just before the Magistrates quitted the Bench for the day, Medcalfe, the street-keeper of Covent-gar den, came to the office with his wife, who bore in her arms a very fine, rosy-faced, plump little boy, be tween three and four months old, very well dressed in white, with a lace cap trimmed with white satin ribbons, which, It appeared, had been deserted by its patents under very curious circumstances. It appeared that about two o'clock that afternoon a respectable looking man and woman went into the King's Head public-house, kept by Mr. Watkins, in James-street, Covent Garden, and the woman had then the child in her arms. They went into the par lour and called for something to drink, for which they paid, and soon afterwards left the house, and neither the landlord nor the bar-man observed that they had not got the child with them.— Shortly after they were gone, the bar-man going into the parlour, found the child lying on the table in a sound sleep. A search was immediately made after the supposed parents, but they were ' nowhere to be found, and the poor little innocent was crying desperately for nourishment, when Medcalfe was called its, and he took the child home to his wife, who happened to be suckling a child of her Own, and its wants were soon satisfied. Medcalfe stated that he bad brought the child to the office in order to know what he was to do with it. Sir R. Blame said Medcalfe's conduct was very creditable, and he hoped the persons who had so strangely deserted such a beauti ful child would soon be discovered. Perhaps the press would kindly notice the case, and he knew of no more likely method by which the parents could be discovered. The Reporters said they would certainly mention the circum stances, and in the mean time the child is to remain with Mrs. Medcilfe. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday a sergeant of the new Police, named Parcel, was brought from St. Pancras watchbouse, before blr. Cougar:, charged with being drunk and disorderly in the streets. It appeared that the new sergeant had got himself into such a complete state of intesicadon about oae o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday, that he was tumbling along the streets, and occasion ally roiling in the mud. to the great detriment of his new suit of uniform, which was in a sad pickle when he was brought to the Once; and it appeared also, that while in this uncooscieus state about the streets, a number of boys and others followed him from place to place, and not having the fear of the new Pollee before their eyes, pinning disheclouts and other ornaments to his coat-tall, until at last some of the neighbouring tradespeople Interfered, and had him taken to the watch-house, where, on his arrival, he was found to be so deeply intoxicated, that it became necessary.to put him to bed, where he continued the remainder of the day be fore he got sober enough to be removed. At a period of the day, subsequent to hearing this statement of the man's conduct, which several respectable persons came forward to substantiate, the Ma gistrate had the serjeant again brought before him, and told him that a representation of the shameful situation in which he was found in the streets bad been made to the new Police Commis sioners, who forthwith gave directions fur his dismissal from the service, and under these circumstances the Magistrate did riot think it necesury to inflict any further punishment on him, and be was therefore discharged. A great deal of toofusion. inconvenience, and privation, has arisen these few days past, front a niisunderstanding which it scans exists between the Magistrates of this office and those of Bow-street re specting the transaction of the business belonging to the united pa tishes of St. Giles's and St, George, Bloomsbury, under the new division into districts of the western parts of the metropolis by the Police Commissioners. The above united parishes have been mho: front the old district, which had hitherto belonged to this Office, and added to the Bow-street district, and the new police con stables are directed to take all their night charges, &c. from these parishes in future to Bow-street. In consequence of this order, the Magistrates of this Office conceive that all business from these parishes is to be transacted at Bow-street, and have re fused to hear or attend to the cases of paupers, or any de scription of business belonging to these united, parishes. On the other hand, the Magistrates of Bow-street office think that they have nothing to do with any of the business of these parishes except the mere watch-house charges, according to the order of the Com missioners, and have refused to do the pauper or aqy other busi ness but that • and the consequence is, that the overseers of the poor, and th e poor themselves belonging to these extensive pa fishes, are tossed about from one set of Magistrates to another, both refusing to do the business, to the great inconvenience of the parish officer., and the great privation of the starving poor.— The Magistrates here say that the Commissioners could never have intended to create such confusion as must arise front the dividing of the business of one parish between two police offices ; and therefore it is intended by them, that all or none shall be done at Bow-street, and the Magistrates at Bow-street say, that the Commissioners have no power ur coutroul over any busi ness of a parish, except as immediately regards the duties of the new police; and thus the matter hangs suspended between the two sae of Magistrates, who play a game of shuttle-cock with the poor from Bow-street to Blatiburough-street. Perhaps the new Com missioners. who have caused the confti-ion, will arrange it by taking the 0 poor" business to their own office at Whitehall. Mr. Greet, one of the Overseers of the parish of Saint George, Hanover-square, told the Magistrate that there had been that day a notice served on their parish, to pay in, within forty days, 5.2001. as their half year's share..of the expense of the new police system ; so that, in future, this parish will have to pay fur watching, 16,4001. a-year ; whereas their expense hitherto has only been fur watching, 5,0001. a-year and then they had seventy watchmen, when now, at the increased expense, they have only forty. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday Leii(jie Jacob Brogans, the captain of a Dutch galliots the Henriette, was charged with having concealed in his vessell o6 lbs. weight of Dutch tobacco and cigars, with intent to defraud his Majesty's revenue. The case was proved by John Bonner and Win. Hipper. who searched the vessel on the 23d of July last. ID a cupboard in the cabin they found 51bs of loose tobacco, which the defendant declared was all he had on board, but on examining us derneith his sleeping-berth, they found ingeniously concealed under some boards 9911b5. of tobaccoond 611bs. of cigars,which was seised sod the vessel detained. The boards were covered with biscuits and other provisions, and the place where the tobacco was con cealed was so curiously contrived as to elude the vigilance of any one but Custom-house officers- The prisoner, when the property was discovered, said he intended the tobacco for his own use and that of his crew, on their voyage to France anti the Mediterranean. After a long legal argument between the Solicitor 01 the Customs, Mr. Barry, and the Magistrates (Capt. Hichbell anti Mr. Dalian tine), decided in favour of the Crown. The defendant was con victed in the penalty awarded by the Act (100/.) which allowed of no mitigation. The defendant, being unable to pay the fine, was sent to Chelmsford gaol. The vessel becomes forfeited to the Crown. FlutTH S. At Dundalk, the lady of Capt. Mansell, of the Enniskillen dra - boons, of a son. St lount Atinia, on the 29d inst. the lady of Captain Diram, of the King's, eaolltih foot, of a daughter. MARRIED. At St. George's church. Liverpool, Richard Earle, Esq. bar rister-at-law, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the late William Latium, Faq. of Kirkham. At Gillingham church, Litut. Charles Friend, R.N. to Asa Mahn., eldest daughter of George Weatherale, Esq. of Stomp ton. to Kent. DIED. At Belbroughton, Worcestershire, Thomas Das, jun. Et l4 l. r Bedford-row, deputy clerk of the Pleas in the Court of &cheque, aged 39. (%n the l ath August, at Tobago, after an illness of eight days. Henry William Bullock, Esq. aged 45 years, Provost Slarthal that island. Looms — Printed NW Publithed by JOHN Norma, at die Sew Orrice, No.l, Pickett-place, Temple Bar.