Star. — London, England, 1831-03-17 00:00:00

r "7' _:ifc'ount Imp WYNPORD'S BILL. PART 11. latittied 4- .719i Ad to present Debtors frogs Derauding their Creditors." te. ~~ ~ s'` Ut antes liagitiis sie nune Legibus laborite'. In the first pnrt of these observations, it was sufficiently shown that the fanciful suppositions displayed in the preamble of Lord Wynford's Bill, are as little founded in tact as in reason. Linder that conviction,we deem it unnecessary to scrutinize ino,e closely the motives avowed for the introduction of so extraordinary a measure, or to furnish further proof of the .:iicgations, set up as its apology, not having been substan tiated. We do not, however, mean to deny to those, who take delight in such discoveries, the possibility of hunting one or two persons in the jails of England, who be in possession of some property. But these f'• excrescences on the surface, of rare occurrence, seen only in ( ontrast with the general misery ; and distinguished by their singularity, they should pass as exceptions. The abuses of individuals are not to operate a general proscrip ; nor are the many to he anathematized, because some ale obstinate or fraudulent. If the security of society re quire, that the avenging sword of retributive justice be un- Aivathed against successful fraud, he becomes a criminal, v. In indiscriminately invokes its baneful suspicion against 1.411 M erited misfortune— " With equal poise, let steady justice sway. And flagrant crimes with certain vengeance pay ; But, till the proofs are clear, the stroke delay." Reason and equity demand that harmless indigence be se parated from crime; that convicted guilt and unsuspected innocence be not alike branded with infamous imputa tion. No doubt should be left unremoved of the inviolability of these sacred principles. " Shall the community be de prived of the protection of the laws, because there are rob bers and murderers ? Shall the community be punished be cause individuals have offended ?" Lord Wynford says Bo— at least these appear to be his opinions—if we have not en tirely misunderstood the intendment of his fraudulent Debtors Bill ; so much in accordance with the contracted -pmt of modern legislation, having for its principal object the invention of new offences, and annexing unusual penal ties, morbum per morbum curare. Such law-givers. im bued with the persuasion of the jail being the only panacea for the cure of public disorders, and looking exclusively to the terror of punishment as the protection against crimes, are strangers to the study of an enlightened preventive jus tice. They live within the circle of a superstitious attach ment to forms, bound in and fettered by the habits of a barbarous practice, and circumscribed within the narrow con truction of a crude, often cruel system. We shall not attempt to paint in their true colours the ac • umulating evils which must result from this new example of barbarous legislation, should the act we have been dis cussing pass into a law. What law can be more replete ith formidable objections, except, indeed, its fit prototype, the last Insolvent Act, than one supported by fiction, sur rounded with numberless objections, the inexhaustible source of ruinous proceedings, and eternal discussion ? No modi fication of it could, indeed, ever reconcile us to its hideous character ; but to rescue it from unadulterated deformities by one redeeming feature, a clause compulsory on all the creditors to accept a composition, agreed to by the majority, would be introductive to other meliorations. The cases are frequent of confined debtors, who would readily sacrifice all they possess in making an equal distribution of their remain ing property among their creditors. A compensation which, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, would with gratitude be given, and with eagerness be accepted, is often successfully defeated by the pertinacious rapacity of an obdurate indivi dual. The uncompromising brutality of one perverse cre ditor will defeat an arrangement, dictated by justice, by good sense, by commisseration, by the interest of the cre ditors themselves, and exhibits the opposing one to be more deserving of reprobation and punishment than is his victim, whom he " dooms to rot in jail." The unhappy prisoner, the body of creditors, justice itself, are at the mercy of this shameless insensibility. However just and equitable may be the condition of the proposed contract of conciliation, there is no means of softening this refractory churl, with law in his hand, or of buffetting him into reason, than by paying and allowing him to absorb the whole, before he will consent to the liberation of the wretched prisoner. The compulsory clause, we propose, would correct the perverse, take the honest under its protection, facilitate reciprocal useful arrange ments, and confer great benefit on individuals, on families, on trade, on society. If it be thought advisable to concede to the law lords, who are not in the habit of enlightening law by the liberality of legislative reason, the power of hurrying through the le gislature, with ominous haste, their unconsidered and ill digested statutes, they may fur a time gratify their vanity, by having their names at the head of an Act of Parliament. Let them enjoy in all its exultation, that fatal privilege. On this fioric, however, of ostentatious ambition, the fate of many unfortunates depend, and much of human happiness or misery is involved. But, as the being elevated to the peerage does not, with their robes, invest these Lords with infallibility, we shall take the liberty of lamenting over the unfortunate victims of their errors or their incompetency. If our humble talents do not permit ut to prove these er rors, we shall at least have the consolation of having at tempted to have done so. For that purpose we shall give, in the third part, a short abstract of Lord Wynford's Bill, and conclude our observations. The King's correspondence with the Ministers about the Reform, is extolled as something surprising; but ability in composition, as well retentiveness of memory, are faculties of the House of Brunswick. George the Third was one of the best letter writers of his time. His son George the Fourth, equally excelled. And even the love letters of the Duke of York were not deficient in tasteful expression. The letters of the present King are in common circulation, od always characterized by ease of style, and propriety of : Altinfent. Peel's Bill was the death stroke of the boroughmongers. It was passed with too little regard to the ruin and misery hich it would inflict on thousands of families, and hence al men became reformers ! If such a bill had passed be tween 1775 and 1790, the right honourable baronet would at this time have been an honest working weaver at Black burn. So sensible are the Royal Family of the ignominious shackles imposed on the free movements of Government, that with the late King, when Prince of Wales, " A speedy I?eform of Parliament" was one of the standing toasts of Carleton House. The state of his health and his love of ease alone prevented his uttempting,what the greater energy of his..hrother has resolved to achieve. There has in truth la"cu no middle course, and it was necessary either with the hest grace to submit to the oligarchy, or to make open war on them, and the latter did not accord with the qui escent habits and unsettled popularity of George the Fourth. We now have a popular and patriotic Sovereign. Tobacco, in America, costs 350,0001. and the duty of 4s. per lb yields three millions. If grown in England the former sum only could be gained, and the latter lost to the revenue, unless the country were covered with excisemen. ~ ~J_ ~. P I P .-.. ~ . PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. HAMPSHIRE ADVERTISER, MARCH 11. At a meeting held In the town and county of the town of Soui ton, on Saturday, the 16th day of February, 1831, it war unealm lli tZ resolved, that a company be now fanned to be called the ileethempton. London, and Branch Railway and Dock Company, and that thecapital shall consist of one million five hundred thousand pounds, to be applied in the construction of a railway to London and Docks at Southampton, with other necessary works, and expenses to be raised in:shares of 101. each. -- That such persons as may be disposed to support this undertaking do allow their names to be Inserted In books now open for that purpose. That the thanks of this meeting be and are hereby given to Francis Giles, Esq . for the liberality and public spirit he has shown in pre paring a preliminary survey of the intended sew road, with the level; and for his attendance at this meeting. That the Directors, Treasurer, Solicitor, and Secretary, be requested to form the rules and regulations for the good management of the Com pany, until the Act of Parliament shall be obtained, and to submit them at the proposed meeting of the Shareholders, on the 6th of April next. That the thanks of this meeting be and are hereby given to Robert Johnston, Esq. for originating the Railway, and for the exertions he has used in forwarding the undertaking. That the thanks of this meeting be and are hereby given to Samuel Le Fevre, Esq. for the zeal and public spirit he has shown in forward ing this great national undertaking. Col. Henderson, Capt. Stephens, J. R. Birnie, Esq. Thomas Brum -11. and other gentlemen, addressed the mating, ad R. Johnston, read and detailed the preliminary survey by Mr. Mks, and the probable expellees. It appeared that two lines are pointed out—one by Guildford and Farnham, 73 miles in length ' • the other by Basingstoke, 78 miles. Equal advantages would be derived from either line ; but the adoption should be left to a careful and well-matured decision. The speculative part of the prospectus he was almost afraid to encounter r it embraced a range of enterprise and wealth of great extent, and which has been so powerfully and eloquently expressed by his honourable col leagues. Pla ce s favourably situated for commerce only required • be ginning. None had a safer or more capacious bay than Southampton; was the nearest harbour to the greatest market in the world, and placed in the line where every vessel must pass on its voyage along the English Channel ; in short, that beautiful bay seemed destined to be one of the ports of London ; and he had no doubt in supposing, that in time it would become a port of magnitude and importance, particularly as the stream of population and commerce seemed without doubt to be rapidly extending to the Western world, the re-action of which would be greatly in favour of all our southern and western ports. In regard to the returns from passengers, and agricultural and mineral productions, he was confident a very large amount would be received. Independent of an average of 100,000 passengers that annually passed through Southampton, the calculation will extend to those passing from London, by Salisbury to Somerset, Dorset, Devon, and Cornwall; as well as vast numbers of summer visitors to the watering places around the mouth of the Thames, who would, undoubtedly, prefer an easy and expeditious conveyance by the railway to the southern coast, where the climate was much milder and more salubrious. The landowner, farmer, and labourer, would be equally benefitted—the hones employed on the highways would in time be removed, and the ground occupied in raising food for their use, would be tilled for the support of man, thus producing abun. dance of food, and helping to relieve the country of the oppressive bur. then of the poor.rates. He also felt the highest satisfaction in stating, that nature had placed within a short distance of Salisbury one of the richest mines of coals, zinc. lapis calaminaris, gypsum, &c. but at pre sent, from the want of roads, these treasures were unattainable by other parts of the country; but as it was contemplated to extend the railway to Salisbury and that district, the advantages in distributing at a very cheap rate, so valuable and indispensable an article as coal throughout this part of the country, where it was scarce and dear, must be highly appreciated. Such were some of the leading features fan undertaking, principally directed to the i•nprovements of our own country--an un dertaking which drew out large capitals, and employed them in useful public works, giving employment to the pour, reducing the price of food, preventing emigration, and encouraging every kind of art and manufacture. [We heartily wish every succeu to the design, and conceive it would in many respects be even more advantageous to London than to Southampton and the intervening country.] These Assizes commenced Monday week. The Judges, Sir J. A. Park and Sir W. E. Taunton, arrived in this city on Saturday after noon, from Strathfieldsay, where their Lordships dined on Friday with the Duke of Wellington. The Grand Jury were called, and consisted of the following gentlemen :—The Hon. Thomas Wm. Gage, Fore. mans Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart. Edward Knight, jun. Esq • Wm. E. Nightingale, Esq ; Robert Tichbourne, Esc; ; Thomas latler, Esq ; Wm. Neville Esq • John Duchy, Esq ; John Winter Scut, Eaq Wm. Grant, Esq ; Edward Walter Blunt, Esq ; Wm. Iremonger, Esq ; Henry Budd, Eaq ; Wm. Abbott, Esq; Samuel Raymond Jarvis, Esq ; Samuel Wall, Eaq ; Stephen Terry, Eaq ; Edward God den, Esq ; Henry Wyland Powell, Esq ; Samuel George P e ch e ll, Birc Est ; William Thrasher, Esti ; Edw. Horne Hutton , Eaq ; G e orge h, Eaq. WATTS V. Paasnis.—This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a draper, at Southampton, to recover of the defendant, a commander of a yacht, the sum of fifty-four pounds, the amount of a bill for ribbon., sold to the defendant during the contested election of Mr. Hoy and Mr. Pen.lease, for the representation of that place, in January, 1830. Mr. C. F. Williams, in addressing the jury for the plaintiff; said, no de fence could be made in this action—at least, no honest one. No ques tion could be raised about the value of the goods. The defence, he un derstood was, that as the goods were sold for election purposes, and in contravention ors statute made for that purpose, the plaintiff could not recover by an action at law. William Urry, aged 27, was indicted for sending, on the 7th day of December last, a letter to Thomas Sewell and William Hearn, gentle men, living at Ne wp ort, in the Isle of Wight, threatening to kill and murder them, and to destroy their houses. The letter com menced with an extract from the Bible, denouncing the ven geance of Heaven on lawyers as oppressors of the people, and concluded with the following passage --" If our unhappy wrongs are not speedily red ressed , vengeance will have its coarsest the expense of our destruction . " Mr. Missing made an objection, on the ground that the letter did not come within the meaning of the statute; it was a quotation from the Bible, and contained no threat against the indivi dual to whom it was addressed. It began " Woe unto you, lawyers," which applied to the profession generally without any reference to per sons. Mr. P. Williams contended that at the time of the writing of the letter, the state of the Isle of Wight was of the most alarming na ture, from the fires and outrages continually committed, and that such a letter at that time was calculated to alarm any man. The learned Judge agreed with Mr. Missing in his objection, and the Jury ac quitted the prisoner. John Sanson, aged twenty-two years, but having an older appear ance, was put to the bar, charged with maliciously setting fire to a farm, the property of Mr. Buckland, in the parish of Hound, in this county. The act took place so long ago as the 9th of December, 1828. His Lordship then passed sentence of death in the usual form. Several persons in the Court were much affected, but the prisoner remained to tally unmoved ; and, on leaving the dock, tinned round with a look at the Judge full of the worst expression.—The prisoner will be executed on Saturday. the 19th instant. George Wesson, alias, " Bristol Bill," aged 24, was indicted fur assaulting Robert Sims, an old man living at Tangley, in this county, and robbing him of three sovereigns and some silver. The prisoner stood totally unmoved, and left the bar with a smile of contempt truly disgusting. He will be executed with Sanson. The Ritiver, v. Hasa? SCOTT, JOHN EWER, GEORGE ATKINS, JOHN ATRINS, and JOHR Tatax.—The defendants in this case were respectable men living at Stoneham, in this county. They were in dieted for refusing to be sworn as special constables during the late riots. Mr. Saunders, who stated the case for the prosecution, said the object was not so much to punish the defendants as to convince them of the obligation of all _persons to serve as special constables, when legally appointed to do so. He was instructed to say, there was no wish to press the case further than to establish the fact of the defendant's liability to serve the office in question, when called on legally t o d o so . Th e learned Judge having concurred 7 in this course, a verdict of " Acquittal" was given. Nary Vidler, aged 12, a stout country girl, was placed at the bar, charged with sending a letter to Welland Leech, Eaq. of Longparish, on the Bth of February last, threatening to set fire to his pr em i ses . Thi s trial excited some interest, from the circumstance of Mr. Leech's pre mises having been destroyed by fire a few days after the reception of the letter. The learned Judge was of opinion that the evidence was of so slight a nature that it could not convict the prisoner, and therefore directed an acquittal. Lord John Russell's proposition has given great satisfaction to the Reformers of the Isle of Wight, who are getting up a congratulatory address. The Newport reform petition, with nearly 4.000 signatures, was pre. sented on Saturday last by Mr. Hume, who described it as a petition of great importance. The guardians of the poor of Newport have divided two fields near the poor house Into 77 lots, of a quarter of an acre each, which were let on hionday to poor persons at 10e. each lot. THE KING v. T. Dracut AND J. Hosaz.—Mr. Thomas Deade is a respectable farmer residing at Blanwell, in this county, and John Hoare, a labourer, living in the same parish. They were indicted with W. B oyes, James Owen, Robert Smith, and John Batchelor, farmers and labourers, of the same parish, for conspiring to enforce the reduc. don of rent and tithes, and to obtain an advance of wages. Mr. Missing and Mr. Dampier conducted the prosecution. Mr. C. F. Williams and Mr. Earl defended the prisoners. A verdict of acquittal was taken, and the Assizes terminated. At a public meeting of the Inhabitants of the Isle of Wight, held a 'man- 4 ; N ilmlir - " 9 11 1 11 1 PPr r ~~ 1.~ -,n ~, the Grua Doses Room, Newport, on Wednesday, March 9th, the following ahem to the King was unanimously resolved " The bionble abbess of your Majesty ' s loyal and dutiful subjects. inhabitants oldie Ids etWight, in public meeting aseembled, who bog legniach pent /leeway's Throne, with sentiments of attach ment tied dowllks SOW& your Royal person, and to express their isms and bard* tbowle fir the great sod substantial measure of regime k the Comer Wises of Parliament, brought forward by yore 111sjesty's Alkiagran.—They feel, at the same time unfeignedanisliees is entmeag your Meow of their unalterable attachment and Ysllty , and of their firm to support, by every con stitudensi an adadaistratha which bits, by the Important mea sure under monlielled so anwest a dodge to add to the stability of th e Those, end panto the host Intwooleof the country." On the platform were • great number of the most opulent and re spectable inhabitants. Just before three o'clock, Mr. 8. Prim g moved that C. Day, Esq should take the chair, which was received with loud shouts of applause. After three cheers for the King, Lord John Rue. sell, and the tame el reform, and a grand hiss for Horace Twin, the red. party separa A meeting of the inhabitants of Christchurch was held at the White Hart Inn on Thursday, for the purpose of expressing their thanks to his Majesty's Ministers for their patriotic measures lately introduced into the House of Commons. The meeting was numerous and respec table, and the chair ably filled by W. Tice, Esq. The address to his Majesty was received with three hearty cheers, and the petition to the Commons with unbounded applause. At a meeting held at the Guildhall, in the town and county of South. hampton, convened by requisition numerously and respectably signed, his worshipful the Mayor, J. Rtudtworth Role, Esq. in the chair. It was resolved unanimously, that this meeting declare their cordial conviction that his Majesty's Ministers have fully redeemed the im. portant pledge given by them of bringing before the House of Commons the great question of parliamentary reform, and have entitled themselves to the confidence and support of the country. An address from the mayor and corporation of this borough has this week been presented to his Majesty, praying that the reform bill, now pending in parliament, may have his royal sanction and support. A Reform petition has this week been numerously signed by the in habitants of Wymering, Widley, and Farlington. The Rev. James Renville presided on the occasion. A placard has been pasted on the wall, in which Lord John Russell's reform bill is called " Russell's Purge." It humourously describes its efficacy in curing unsound constitution, and removing rottenness from and restoring systems to which it is applied. On Tuesday, the Parmelia transport, under the charge of Lieu tenant Saunders, agent for transports, Philip JOINS, Master, arrived from Cephalonia, having on board the heed-quarters of the &kb Re giment, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Pitt. She has on board two hundred and fors - six soldiers, thitty-eight women and children, and thirteen men of different detachments of other regiments. The Prince Regent, transport, Lieut. Binsteed, R.N. agent, J. Marshall, muter, also arrived at the Motherbank with the remainder of ROth, and both ships are gone Into Portsmouth harbour to disembark. The Prince Regent left Cephalonia on the 291 b Jan. when his Majesty's ship Melville and Prawn were laying there. She has on board 274 men, 23 women, and 49 children. At Weymouth, in consequence of the resignation of Mr. Macqueen, as Master of the Ceremonies, C. Preston, Req. proposed Mr. J. W. Weston, as a fit and proper person to fill the office, and Mr. Weston was unanimously elected. The Duke of Richmond has granted to the Corporation of Chichester the use of a portion of the Old Broyle Common, as • means of pro. Stably employing the paupers in the way of agriculture. At the Hants Lent Assizes, last week, in a ease Barfoot v. Sadler, a very novel proceeding took place. The plaintiff, it seems, has pro ceeded by writ of right to recover possession of some property in the parish of Bishop's Waltham, and a writ of grand assize, as it is termed, having issued to the sheriff of the county to summon four knights girt with swords to make a return of the grand assize for the trial of the cause, that officer caused John Duthy, William Abbott, Samuel Raymond Jarvis, and Samuel Wall, Esquires, to be summoned as such knights, it not being necessary that the gentlemen summoned should be actual knights. On Tuesday morning, the knights gifted with swords appeared in court, and, on the motion of Mr. Sergeant Lewes, were sworn to form the grand assize, which they will do by choosing, sixteen other gentlemen previous to the next assizes, when it is understood the cause will be tried. A requisition to the High Sheriff, requesting him at an early period to convene a meeting, for the purpose of the opinion of the county on the measures introduced by t rnit i r l s for reforming the representation, has been numerously signed during the last few days. At the Wilts Assizes, H. Wilkins was tried for having, in company with several other persona, riotously assembled together, and feloniously set fire to and burnt down a cottage or dwelling-bowie, the property of Wm. Peasley, at Ludgershall, on the 20th Nov. last. The Jury hay. ing found the prisoner guilty the learned Judge pat on the black cap, and, in a most affecting aid impressive manner, passed on him the awful sentence of the law, warding to the criminal no hope of a com mutation of his sentence. Isaac Nash, for maliciously setting fire to a barn, the property of the Rev. G. Edmonstooe, of Pouerne, was acquitted. John Alexander (brought from Newgste by Rabies Corpus) was tried for sending a certain letter to Ann Chandler at Pesrsey, and with menaces demanding 101. of her. The clearest evidence being produced against the prisoner, the Jury returned a verdict of guilty, and he was sentenced to transportation for life. William Jacob was charged with having set fire to a stack of grain, the property of Henry Self, at Amesbury, on the 21st November.—Not Guilty. A diabolical instance of ineendisrism occurred last week at Steventon, near Abingdon, when fi ve barns , all nearly full of gtsin, three wheat- ricks, a bean, barley, and hayrick, the property of Mr. Tyrell and Mr. Stephens, and two cottages, were completely consumed. and three other cottages were partly demolished in staying the of the flames. An acre and a quarter of ground was completer?crared, and at one time it was feared the entire village would fall a sacrifice. We under. stand one man is in custody, against whom strong suspicion exists. Wtxcuerroit, Alan* 6.—Average price of grain—Wheat, 734 Bd. Barley, 33s ; Oats, 00s Od perhuarter. MARRIED.—C. Finney, .of Cli ft on, to Frances Mary, young est daughter of the late J. C. Esq. of East Knoyle. DlED.—Aged 16, Katharine ' Ann, daughter of I'. Merriman, Esq. of Mailborough. FREEMAN'S JOURNAL, DUBLIN, MARCH 14. [This, as well as all the provincial journals of Friday, Saturday, and Monday, were grossly imposed upon by the Courier's " official die patches received by government," relative to the taking of Warsaw, &t. by the Globe's "advice, to the Russian embassy." and by the cabinet secrets of other oracles of early intelligence. We never make any such pretensions in the Slar, though we penetrate as dooPly. perhaps, Into Cabinet secrets as our neighbours: but in this specific and tangible in. stance, the Star of Tuesday, the Bth, contains, on Polish affairs, the following words, and we reiterated the very same information through the week, till it would no longer be withstood. The pimp on Tues day was as follows :—" We present our readers to day with some interesting details, and all of a most cheering character, from the seat of war in Poland. A private letter from Paris, on Friday evening, speaks of the gratification felt in that city by the victories of the Poles. The battle of Warsaw seems to have been a repulse like that at Alexandria and Waterloo, and likely to be as fatal to the assailants. The Russians found safety, it seems, only in tile vast forests, where at this season their esererisi must be useless and lost • and where the army, without magazines, must be dis organized, and Perish in detail. The advantage would arouse the coun try in the rear, and it is unlikely that one in twenty will return even as fugitives to Russia. This is our impression on consulting some excel. lent maps. The Russians before Warsaw were in the same desperate situation as the army of Alexander before Paris in 1814. If Marmont had acted the part of Radsivil, the Russians, by the delay of a single day, would have been as completely lost, as it appears to us they now are, by the battles and repulses of the 19th, 20th, and 21st We reason on im perfect information, but the single fact, that in their grand attacks they were repulsed, warrants our conclusion that Liberty has triumphed in Po. land." True to the letter; snd though we named the Prussian falsehood as vans into a story in London, we named it only to demonstrate its in. hey with facts and data; and we now dwell upon it, in order that e provincial journalists may avoid being so imp ose d u p on a secon d tim A great diversity of opinion exists in this city respecting the propriety of the meeting to-morrow, to petition for the great measure of Reform, now before the Imperial Parliament. The Ultra-party is furious on the subject, and one of their organs has denounced the Lord Mayor in no very measured terms for having acceoded to the requisition ; another has summoned the loyal Protestants of Dublin to attend, to watch the pro gress of the enemy and to do their duty. This call can imply nothing else than an exhortation to oppose the carrying of the petition that will be submitted to the meeting. We have in our last publication the opinions of the London press on Mr. 0 Connell's speech. The friends and opponents of the measure are loud in his praise. It has produced unanimity amongst Journalists who never agreed in an y _ thing but hostility and scandalous inj ust i ce to hi m . Nor are we at all surprised. We believe we speak only the general judgment when we pronounce it decidedly, lon,yo inlervallo, the 'blest, clearest, and most conclusive speech delivered on reform. A considerable sensation was produced among the manufacturers and persons engaged in the coal trade, during the past week, by the receipt of a Treasury order directing,that the duty on sea bort coals, which had been relinquished since the Ist instant, should be again collected. This appears, however, to have originated in mistake, as on the succeeding day a counter order was received at the Custom-house, directing that Coals should be again admitted free of the Crown duty, which order continues in force up to the present day. The wide street Juty is, how. ever, still collected, and for the sake of this insignificant exaction, the !nonage and all the other obstructions consequent upon Revenue inter. &fence remain in full fovea. AIAREIED.—Jobn Dockery, Req. to Margaretta, daughter of Thomas Finney, Eaq. at Stephen's green. DIED.- In North Cumberland -street, Janina, relict of the Rev. Barry M•Uusty. At Springmount, James Davores, Esq.—At Rathkeale, Catherine, relict of F. H. Walker, Esq. CORN-EXCHANGE-THIS DAY. Wheat,new,Kent, FAINI 74. 78a 1 Peas, Grey . 36 s 40, Old . —s —s Beans, Small . . 40s 42s Suffolk. (White ) . 72s M I Tick . 32s 36s Norfolk & Suff. (Red), 86s 79. Oats, Potatoe . 28s 311 Rye • . 30s 34. Poland . 96s 28. Barley, 381 40s ..Fine 441 4761 Feed . . 22a 24s Peas, White . 401 lb Flour, per sack, . . 005 6N Boilers . . 464 4841 Rapeseed . 436 4:38 per last •aatvaz.s. Wheat. English (qrs.) - 460 • Barbey, Foreign - Irish . . - .... . Oats, English Foreign - - - 6.600 t Irish . Barley, Ensile!' . - 206 ; Foreign Irish - - .. Flour (sacks) 0 M••=. 1.715 -...- 655 NEWGATR AND I.E.ADENHALL—THIS DAT. By the Carcase—Per stone of Sibs. Beef S. Od 3. 6d 3s lOd I Mutton Ss 4.1 4s Od 4. 4,:i Veal 3s lid 44 lid Ss 441 Pork 3s ed 4s nd 6, 04 Lamb.— 7s 041 ... 7s Od ...7s 4d. FARRINGDON MARKET—THIS DAV. Dear—Finest Roasting, 8d per Is. Boiling. ded to 6d. Mar 'tun—Les, Bd. Shoulder, 7d. Vera—Leg, 801. Fillet, 1 01 Pont, 7d to 94. SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKET—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Nleadow Hay, AV Os. to d's 10a. Imo ' &tn. st 2 15s. to 15s. Floe Upland Meadow and Rye Grew Hal, sita Os to £4 Ss. Clover Hay, Xs oa. to seit St. Oat Stays £1 10. toll ltte. Wheat Straw. al IM. to 111 s. pet 1"d• CUMBERLAND HAY-MA BERT—TH IS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, 42 Os. to £2 54. Plena ditto, £2 Ss. to £3 10a. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Gnis Hay, 43 lb& to 44 Os. Clover Hay. 43 oa. to XS Os Oat Straw, Cl ios. to Li 14s. Wheat Straw, Al in s , to £2 Oa. per load. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning Lownott : Printed and Published by Joule Aliontr., at the STAL Orrici, No. L Piekett-place, Temple Bar. i • 4 FIGHT BETWEEN NED NEAL AND TOM GAYNOR FOR FIVE HUNDRED POUND& Tuesday the " Gemrnen" of the " Fistic Corps" had another field day, to witness the decision of a match between Ned Neal add Ton, Gaynor, in which the former was matched to fight 3001. to 2001, of the latter. The Corsoseenhi in these matters are fully acquainted with the pretensions of the men—but such is the low ebb at which these u sno ,„ meats have arrived, that notwithstanding the unusual amount of the , stakes, the interest excited was extremely limited, and the iamb's.% of amateurs but comparatively few, when compared with similar exhi. bitions in former times. The scene of action was at Wartield, B elk. shire, and nearly on the same spot on which Neal conquered C annon. the Great Gun" of Windsor, on a former occasion. The day te n , stormy, and, of course, unpropitious, but fortunately there was no n t h, enemy of the sport to contend with, for the magistrates indulgently, am , perhaps wisely, did not attempt to interfere. The match, when origi. nally made on the part of Neal. was thought imprudent, but he had toe much pride to recede, and rather than his admirers should be dis u p, pointed, he deposited the greater proportion of the stakes out o f hi s own pocket—an example which Gaynor was, from the tardiness o.' his Mends, obliged to follow. The same men fought about nee cc years back, when Neal was the victor; hut since then Gay. nor has acquired experience as well as scientific knowledge, and wh en it was recollected that Neal had on his late defeat by Young D utc h Sam completed his seventeenth prise battle, it was naturally concluded that in Gaynor, in a second attempt, he would find an antagonist of no mean importance. So generally was this opinion adopted, that Gayn ot for some weeks back has actually been a favourite at trifling orld g ,— Eight weeks have only elapsed since Neal fought with Sam, and during the greater part of that period he had devoted himself to preparing f or his new labour. Gaynor had been equally assiduous; and both men arrived on the ground in good condition, and with equal confidence in their own talent. As the hour of contest approached, the former fame of Neal was called to mind, and his patrons came more boldly forward ' to sustain his pretensions, sporting their money with freedom, and back. ing him at 6 to 4, or rather offering to back him, for there were few dis posed, at the last pinch, to accept even these odds. On entering the roped arena Neal seemed to be in the better condi- Son, and, in point of weight, exceeded his opponent by about a atom ; in age, too, he had an advantage, bein g b ut 27 y ears of age, while Gay. nor was 32. Neal was waited upon by Tom Spring and Young Dutch Sam ; and Gaynor by Harry Holt. THE FIGHT. In describing the fight, a recapitulation of the rounds (forty.three in number) would be not only tedious, but uninteresting, for, in truth. they consisted rather of a series of wrestling bouts, in which both re. ceived in turns tremendous falls, than of active operations in the knuc. kola: art. Before a single blow was struck on either side, forty-two minutes were exhausted—a period which was occupied in feints, hall hits, and stops, each trying to draw the other, so as to produce a favourable opening—and at last, when Neal did go in, it was in so hesitating a manner, that little damage w a s done, and Gaynor sue . needed in giving the first fall. From thenceforth they fought more quickly, and with greater execution, Neal giving and receiving heavy hits, and ultimately having his left eye completely closed, while Gay nor showed a severe contusion and gaping wound on his left cheek, and other marks of heavy visitation on his mouth and nose. The falls, as we before observed, were severe on both sides, but, from the supe. nor strength of Neal, he succeeded on two or three occasions in lifting Gaynor clam from the ground In his arms, and plunging him with ter. rific force on his bead and neck. These maneeuvres, as well as the exhaustion from the repetition of violent struggles for the throw, at length had the effect of completely reducing Gaynor to such a state of weakness, that his defeat seemed to be considered as almost certain, and Neal was then backed at three and four to one. In despite of these disadvantages, however, the unshrinkin g game of Gaynor enabled him to struggle on, and finally to bring him self again so much in favour, that be was backed at even. S t ill eon fi. dens in Neal was not uns haken ; but in a few more rounds the pease. vering obstinacy of his gallant opponent, as well as a few more addi. clonal hits and throws, shook his frame so severely, and exhausted his patience so entirely, that in the forty-third round, after a heavy fall, in which Gaynor tumbled on his neck with all his weight, he became in. sensible, and could not again be shook into activity. The victory was in consequence given to Gaynor, in exactly one hour and fifty.one mi. notes ; and so much had he recovered in the last few rounds, that he was enabled at the close to make a vigorous bound, and to walk firmly to his carriage without assistance, while Neal was carried off perfectly helpless. Great surprise was felt at the result; but it was sufficiently clear that Neal's day bad gone by, and that he wanted the vigour of body and mind necessary to enable him to withstand the courageous and reiterated attacks of such an assailant as Gaynor. " Viewing the fight as a whole, it was decidedly bad on both sides, each missing oppor tunities of " stand-up milling," and having recourse to grappling and wrestling, in utter violation of all the principles of the Old School of boxing. In fact, notwithstanding the protracted continuance of the battle, the punishment on either aide was unimportant, and less by many degrees than has been witnessed in former times in one tithe of the time. Gaynor reached his own house In Duke's -court, Bow. street, last night, and Neal proceeded on to Ripley, in Surrey, where he had stopped on his way from his training quarters. Neal, with this batt le, has taken leave of the ring alto- Vbeing about to enter into the badness of a publican, to which e el ffiects of his repeated suffering will offer no impediment and in which, no doubt, he will receive the reward of his past labour:. Gaynor, by this battle, has obtained not only fame but profit, and has entitled himself to more decided support among his compeers, than has hitherto been awarded him. There was a dispute as to first blood, both parties claiming it; and with regard to the first knock-down blow ' there could be little direr. ence of opinion ; for there was not a clean knock-clown blow from the commencement to the conclusion of the battle. .. - What a different race of beings will the aristocracy be come, after the passing of the Reform Bill, when the in dulgence of their ambition will depend on the good will of the public, and not on their rent-rolls, mortgage deeds, and consols. The moral revolution will be even greater than the public ; for well cultivated talents, correct conduct, and un impeachable integrity will be the only passport to power. We shall not then see boys on leaving school led into the House by their papas, as we now too often witness. Or Sows—At Bishop's Pen, Jamaica, the Lady of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Jamaica— llth, in Lincoln's-inn-fields, the Luly of P. B. Brodie, Esq. MARRIED. 15th Inst. at All Souls' Church, Lsnghsm.place, Capt. Wm. Henry Elliott, of the 51st, of Elliott-house, near Ripon, to Jane, youngest daughter of the late Wm. A s h m ore, Esq. of Ipswich-10th, at Trinity Church, Mary-la-bonne, J. Hope, Esq. M.D. of Lower Seymour. street, to Anne, daughter of the late J. W. Fulton, Esq. of Upper Harley-street. _ DIRD. 11th inst. at Easton Hall, l,incornshire, Sir Montagu Cho!melt'', Bart. aged 68. The hon. hart. was elevated to that dignity in 1806, and subsequently represented the borough of Grantham in Parliament 6th, In Scotland , Brigadier-Genetal Alexander Walker, late Governor of St. Helena-48th ult. at Nice, Georgians, eldest daughter of the late Walter Munay, Esq. of Jamaica, aged 17-151, at Genoa, Lieutenant Holford, R.N. second son of John J. Holford, Esq. of York-place. Portman-square—Dr. Laugliarne ' of lAugharne, South W a l es , an d Hampton Wiek, aged 76-17th Nov. on board the ship Lord William Bentinek, eight days after departure from Madras for England, Capt. John iyfe, late resident at Tanjore. 7 11