Star. — London, England, 1831-06-03 00:00:00

BRODY ' MAY 10.—The decision expected ham Vienna re spectingllwernicki's corps, has been received. The Ge neral and his officers are to be sent to Laybadt, and the privates to Transylvania. All the Russian arms are to be delivered up to General Rudiger,and those which are recog nited as the property of the Polish Government, to be considered as property entrusted to the Austrian Govern ment. The officers to retain their horses as private property. General Rudiger left Beresteczko yesterday for the main army.—Allgenteine Zeihnsy, May 27. MOSCoW, Mir o.—The cholera has so entirely ceased here, that since the 22d April only one undoubted case has occurred. (This was in the hospital Ardinski); unless in deed there may have been any patients in private houses. Contrary to expectation, Easter week has passed over without any alarming symptoms of disease. though this is a season when the lower classes of the Russians. after long and rigorous fasting, usually indulge in all kinds of ex cesses. We have lately had some cold nights and , ome cold days ; the barometer being at the time low, without any new appearance of the disorder, as was apprehended. On the other hand, cholera has manifested itself in Podul, 30 wersts t o the south of this city. Fact se THE DANUBE. APRIL 21.—in consequence of the spreading of the cliol ra to Gallicia. which seem to be chiefly owing to the remissness of some of the civil authorities, in taking the necessary precautions, the Government has adopted the most energetic measures : the whole province is placed under the military authorities; and all the police re. gulations, respecting the sanitary Cordons, are enforced...— Es : Ty transgressor at immediately tried and shot. We are here convinced of the contagious nature of the disorder, by numerous instances officially attested.—Frankfort Papers, Meg 27. ?IT OF THE JOURNALS. TI M RS.— Already sufficientre;;;;. has i237aff orded us for the conviction that we did no more that justice to his Majesty's Ministers, in expressing our total disbelief of any cencern or priority on their pert in the harsh and tasteless discontinuance of the. pensions bestowed during the former rap on gentlemen distinguished by their eminence in the literary world. We arc now assured, and on the best infor mation, that " his Majesty's Ministers are entirely guiltless of the act. Iv is further known that Lord Grey, on finding that Mr. Coleridge had lost, thrlugh the exercise of an au thority distinct from that of the King's revous;ble servants, the pittance on which he bad hitherto existed, has agreeed to grant hi n an annuity equal to thnt witinlmern from him, though issuing out of e fund which is but teinporary.This does honour to Lord Grey. and we trust that his lordship will have nerve anti generosity to put the colleagues of Mr. Cole ridge also on some less miserable footing than that to which a treatment similar to what he has experienced must ere now have reduced them. The truth is, that the pensions were supplied by order of George IV. from the privy purse, over which, as it is well understood by parliament, no person has authority but the Kicg himself. However, if we are not mistaken, the act, which was a blunder, will in one way or other be repaired. The press is a powerful protector of the destitute, and an honest—if not always a welcome—friend to those whom it reminds of lapses in thir duty. HERALD.—It seems hardly credible that government could meditate the withdra.sal of the small pensions which a few eminent literary and scientific men have derived for some years past from the bounty of the crown, while they preserve, in all its unpruned luxuriance, the "charity" of the pension list, which " corers a multitude of sins," and leaves but a small part of its wide mantle to spread its fos tering protection over eminent virtues or meritorious public services. It has indeed been positivtly and publicly stated, that intimation has :teen given to the ten associates of the " Royal Society of Literature," who have hitherto re ceived one hundred guineas front the King's annual bounty, that " they must expect their allowances very shortly to cease." The authority for this statement is the " Gentleman's Magazine," which asserts it without qualification, owl which, if it be not true, could not have made P more defamatory attack on the character of the pre seot Administration. %Ve consider this matter quite distinct from any question touching the alms of the" Royal So ciety of Literature" to public estimetion or royal patronage. We must leave that society itself to show what it has done fur the promotion of the real interests of literature since its establishment; but, whether it succeed in making out a good cue or not, I' is certain that the greater number of the ten individuals who ,eceivc the annual hundred guineas from the Crown pre men who, before that society ex isted, had rendered eminent service to the commonwealth of letters. When we mention the names of Roscoe, Coleridge, S.Turner, and Matthias, tee think it not too much to add that the minister who would counsel the monarch to withdraw bb annual bounty from such men, at a time when the vi cious profusion of the pension list is thought too sacred to be touched by the pruning-knife of reform, would mistake a paltry raid disreputable parsimony for that judicious eco nomy which knows how to wisely save, and honourably expend, the resources of a nation. We thought the govern ment committed r great error when they defended the whole profligacy of the pension list on the pretext of charity --for. by so doing, they greatly shook the confidence of the country in the sincerity of their professions of putting the principle of a just retrenchment into practice. But great would be the public indignation if the double injustice were committed of sacrificing the humble stipends of a few men of genius and learning to the preservation of the whole ob scure horde of sycophants, titled paupers. and vicious fa vourites—to pamper whom, at the public expense, the royal bounty is degraded. But we cannot anticipate any thing so inconsistent with political prudence, or so offensive to moral taste. POST.—There has been'some rioting at Whitehaven, on the occasion of political dinners held on the same day by rho two parties respectively, of AnU-Reformers and Revolution ists, in which it appears dirt the latter, being the weaker party, sustained the most damage. Upon this occurrence the ministerial press has unanimously adopted a tone of fiery Indignation, which we can scarcely regard as tither sponta neous ov sincere, when we recollect the equanimity of tern. per with which this same press attempted first to deny and then to extenuate, if not to eulogise, the riutons excesses of the radical mub in the metropolis, on the occasion of the Lord klayor's illumination. and the nibble brutalities which, during the late election, overawed or coerced the emus in so many part of the country, in the exercise of their legal and constitutional right. The very vehement expressions of in dignation uhich (laity meet our eye upt.n the tumult in Cum berland contrasts so remade:l:lly with the language which proceeded from the same sources, on every other recent oc casion of die irder (that they hare been neither few nor tri vial we need Hot state), that we should have been comp-Lied to surmise some iiew and secret motive for a vigor of reprehension at once so unnatural, so prouirt, and so combined, had we been left, which fortunately we are not, entirely to our own conjectures upon the subject. The ministerial press are not sore unanimous in their unwonted severity of ani madversion upon this case of riot, than in their ICCOM. mendation to his majesty's government of the course by which, in their judgment, riots in Cumberland may hr. most effectually prevented for the future. The ad vice is short and pithy enough. It is the unanimous ad vice of the daily organs of the administration—" DinDifil the Earl of Lonstiale from the Lieutenancy of the County" —although not one of them pretends that the noble earl, who for a great number of years has represented the Sovereign in that part of the kingdom, with hooout to him self and advantage to the community, could have prevented the riot, knew any thing of tho riot, or had recently been within 100 milesof the place where it occurred. We suppose there is nobo.ty so dull as not to comprehend from all this that Lon' Brougham has at lean one very good friend in each of the counties of Cumberlandand Wee mordant], whom he thinks eminently fit .O. the office of Lord Lieutenant. W suppose also that the Lords Lieutenant and the Magistrates likewise oterery other county in Unglant', such of them we mean who are not revolutionists, will now begin tojperceive that under the present Administration they hold their commissions by a very precarious tenure. TIM F.S.—'l'he Lord Charcellor's decision in tie case of the School or Ashby-de-la-Zouch is one of much importance to the, diffusion of general kroeledge. His Lordship, in confirmation of the Master's Report in 1806, decided th..t the school was not for instruction iu the learned languages only, but for the communication of the minor branches of science, "jureses pueres infamies to rarvulos" being mentioned in the foundation act—persons, in fact, too young to be taught Latin, and nothing but Latin. Every body knows that in the reigns of Edward VI. and Quern Elizabeth, the age for founding grammar-schools, many such' were established for the exclusive purpose of teaching the reamed languages, in cider to supply the means of education which had been lost by the destruction of the monastic establishments, and also to counteract the advantage which the Popish clergy (still ex isting in large numbers) possessed, from the knowledge of ancient literature. But it is also known that many schools, es tablished for mere general instruction, have since been raised into the rank of grammar schools, by which the poor have t ern deprived of the advantages originally intended for them rind it is most desirable that all establishments of the lute character should be restored to their original destination, GENERAL ELECTION. DOUBLE RETURNS. MEMBEILL PLACES. Lord J. Russell . Devonshire and Tartan& E. J. Denison . . NottingharoshireandLiverpool. C. Tennyson .. Stamford and Bletchingley. Colonel Hughes... ... Grantham and Wallingford. Dr. Luahington Winchilsea and Hamer. Major Weyland... .. Oxfordshire and Weymouth. The Lord Advocate .. Perth Burghs and Melton. Lord Milton ... Northamptonshire and Higham Ferrara. ... Louth (County) and Milborna Part. Mr. Shin All for the Bill. The place for which each is likely to make his election after the sitting of Parliament is put first. MEMBERS DRAD SINCE THEIR RRTURN. Sir Joseph Yorke .. RYegate Jonathan Raine Newport (CornwalL) Both against the Bill. BOROUGH OF NORTHAAIPON, MAY 31. The scrutiny is terminated, Sir R. Gunning having declined to proceed with it. FINAL STATE OP THE POLL. Votes rejected Result. on Saturday. Robinson ...... .. 1,688 118 1,1170 Smith .. 1,383 104 1,279 Gunning .. 1,211 84 1,157 Lyon The chairing of Sir G. Robinson and Mr. Smith took place this afternoon. DO R S ET3III RE ELECTION.---The Clergy in al most every parish, and the authorities under them, were em. ployed actively in behalf of Mr. Banta, the Tory candidate. Of the vottra at the election there were 156 Clergymen who voted, of which plumped for Mr. Bankes, 98; plumped for Mr. Portman, 5 ; split votes for Portman and &tikes, 41; split votes for Portman and Calcraft,l2. Being 144 against reform, and 12 for reform. DOVER, Justs 2. The houses here are filling fast, and the passage to the Continent is on the increase. The Countess of Craven, with Lady L. and Honourable Mr. Craven, Mr. Bradshaw, Mr. and Mrs. Swinthow, and Mrs. Smith and family, arrived at Wright's Ship Hotel, from France. Rev. John and Mrs. Peel, Mr. Lawrence and Lady Jane Peel, itc. are now sojourning at the same Hotel. TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. SOUTHAMPTON, JUNE 2. IN THE MATTER OF JOHN KNIGHT ♦ SUPPOSED _ LUNATIC. _ _ _ ,have read, witi;eitial surprise and regret, that part of your report in yesterday's, of this mattes which represents me as the solicitor in it. I doubt very much. if your Reporter can have correctly stated the Learned Counsel's remarks in support of the Petition, but whether he has or not every assertion in your report re presenting me as the solicitor in the matter, or as feeling any interest in it, is equally false and unjust. A Mr. Burke, of No. 5, New Inn London, with whom I have not the honour of any acquaintance whatever, was concerned for the petition, and, I presume, instructed the learned Counsel. That I did endeavour to see Mr. Knight, the supposed lunatic some months back, to judge of his fitness to sign a petition, which Mr. Burke had prepared and sent into the country, is true ; but the keeper of the asylum, where he was confined, refused to allow me to see him, and of this refusal I made an affidavit (which was forwarded to town to Mr. Burke, from whom the petition came) and cared no more about it. As my feelings have been injured by your report, I am quite sure you will do me the justice of giving this contra diction to it. I am, Sir, Your most obedient servant, JOHN HARNEY. THZ ARMY. Tuesday, Major General Sir George Bingham, R.C.B. arrived in Waterford by the mail coach from Cork. He immediately proceeded to the barrack-square, where he in spected the depot of the 37th regiment. After putting the men through a variety of manauvres, which they performed in good style, the gallant General passel' a high eulogium on the officers and men for their excellent discipline. The depot will shortly receive the route for Naas. This day another division of 60 recruits, for the coasts. bulary force in the counties of Clare and Galway, left this city for their destination. This day all the troops In garrison, comprising the Royal Artillery, Col. Worsley ; 17th Lancers, Lord G. Bingham ; 9th regiment, Major Watkins; 56th regiment, Ca Pri chard; 74th regiment, Col. Mein; and 76th regiment, Ma jor Stevenson, marched to Newcastle in full marching order, preceded by their respective bands playing appropriate airs. The entire force was commanded by Major-Gen. Sir George Bingham, accompanied by his star. The troops formed a splendid martial line on the race-course, and fired a fen-de joi, followed by thee hearty cheers Ili honour of his Ma jesty's birth-day, after which the several regiments defiled in slow and quick time before the General commanding, and paid the customary honours.—Listerick Chronicle. Two troops of the 10th Hussars, and three companies of the 43d Foot, left this town last week, by forced marches, for Newcastie-undet-Lyng, ia the neighbourhood of which latter town some bti lOUS disturbances were anticipated to arise from the turn-out of the Staffordshire cheater Herald. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. Major General Mackie, late of 60 P. Governor of St. Lucia. Colonel the Earl of Lisburne, late Sheffield Regt. Lieutenant Colonels— Wilby, h. p. 31 F. Bishop's Stan ford ; Lapslie, h. p 59 F. Captains—Macdonell, 10 Dr; Wan, 37 F. killed by the Aborigines of Morton Bay, New South Wales; Pa ndit), R. Art, Malta ; Clerk, h. p. 27 F. Downie House, Argyllshire; Affieek, h. p. Indep. Lieutenants—King, 68 F. Shannon Bridge, Athlone; Loft, 92 F. Nealing, Lincolnshire; Gorman, h. p. 41 F; Little, h. p. 46 F; Bradshaw, h. p. 104 F. Cornets and Ensigns—Banks, 6 Dr. Gds. Cork; Liston, 81 F. lost on passage home from Bermuda on board the brig Bulow ; Moore, h. p. 71 F. Quarter Masters.-. Nicholson, 17 Dr; Sweeney, h. p. 6 Dr. Gds; Body, h. p. 11 Dr. Hounslow; King, h. p. 13 Dr; Tennent, 11. p. 19 Dr . • Woods, late 7 R. Vet. Bn. Surgeon Neumann, h. p. 6 Line Ger. Lqr. Hanover. Aulstant Surgeons—Thomson, 13 Dr; Urquhart, 46 F. at sea ; Gamble, h. p. 34 F. The Gallant 89th.—This regiment inked in Canterbury about a fortnight ago, from India, under whose bunting sun the officers and men fought and bled, and changed the " comely bloom of health" for the withered and ebon fea tures of the natives. Modesty in strangers is a befitting quality ; but these veterans come amongst us with the ftee dom and pleasantness of an old acquaintance, and with mo desty, too, if we accept the following piece of exquisite blar ney, distributed In the shape of a hand-bill a kw daya ago, on occasion of the regiment wanting recruits. Take it reader and laugh heartily : " On enlisting, he receives front the King a bounty of there guineas ; he exchanges his old clothes, for a handsome comfortable uniform, and his homely fax of coarse bread and vegetables, for ood tea or coffee, soup and beef. He no longer lives in a low confined hut or cottage, but has a fine airy large barrack room. Instead of rolling about, and walking as if be bad a load of clay at each foot, he steps smartly along with an upright air. Instead of bard labour from sun.ri'e to sun -set, with little pay or food, he has only to clean his arms and clothes and attend one or two parades a day. He need no longer whistle to himself, as be has a fine band of music, besides drums, Sits, and bugles. If he behave himself well, and know anything of writing or reading, lie may soon hope to he made a corporal, and then sergeant ; his officers will take care he is not wronged, but will protect and promote him. If he is sick, he will receive every attention in an excellent hospital, from experienced sun.eons, and be visited by his Officers and Chaplain. If he is married, and has children, they will be educated gratis at the school of the regiment. &mild the interest and the honour of the nation render a war necessary. the soldier will be well provided tor; he will fight beside brave men, who wiU stand by him . • and under gallant and considerate Officers who will not fuo lishly throw away the lives of their men. If he escapes, he will share in prise moues and honour; should he be wounded, a grateful coun. try will reward hint by a liberal pension; and should he be killed (as we must all die sometime) he will enjoy the satis faction of dying in a good caner, of leaving his family to the kind care of the nation, who will provide for them, and of being buried where he ought, with the colours waving and muskets discharged over him.—Kmilia r t asraniele. LADIES' FASHIONS. MORNING VISITING DILZBIL.—A The muslin dress, figured in two shades of ros e co lo ur . corsage sits clove alike top before and behind, but has a little fulness at the bottom of the waist. The sleeve sits nearly close to the arm from the elbow to the wrist, and is of the usual width at the upper part. The mantilla is of Indian muslin, pointed b ehin d, with ends which reach below the knee in *cot ; it is embroidered in a delicate pattern, and trimmed below the embroidery on the bust with a fall of lace. The nnotherons correspond; and the ruff, which is also of lace. Is fastened at the throat by a nand of rose sod white gauze ribbon. Bonnet of rose-coloured moire, trimmed with sprig% of lilac. White lace veil. Monza Dersa.---A dress of mousseline de sole, of a fancy colour bordering upon violet; the corsage a Ia Grimm ; the sleeve between the d e mi gigot and t h e Me dici, shape. The skirt is embroidered round the border in bouquets of exotics placed perpendicularly at regular dia. lances. Canezou of white tulle, made en eater; it opens en the shoulder, and the points, which fall low upon the sleeve, are embroidered, as is also the round of the canczou, in a light rich pattern, and edged with very narrow blonde lace. A row of dead gold buttons, ornaments it on each side of the flesh from the shoulder to the throat; the col lerette is of tulle, and the mend that attaches it, of green gauze ribbon. The head-dren is a blonde lace cap ; the caul, which is open is composed of a row of blonde lace, passing in a bias direction among the bows of hair. The front is arranged in the beret style, and ornamented with aigrettes of green corn, and a band and noud of green gauge ribbon. The general effect of this head-dress is very light and graceful. Gold ear-rings and bracelets, with emerald clasps. The shawl, thrown upon a fantail, is of the new material, tient de Caehniire ; and the capote Anglaise is of pale citron moire:: trimmed with gauze ribbons, and a bouquet of ostrich feathers to correspond. Evzxnua Daess.—The chief novelty in evening dress is the ent of the maw, which is now made quite plain, but cut out before and &Mud half way to the belt in a point. A eliemiseile a la viers* is seen beneath ; satin ornaments, shade deeper than the dress are the favourite trimmings. These are made in flowers and foliage, and are very new and pay Heel.—The hair is at present arranged in Madonna bands, laid very smoothly over the brow, or a little raised like bows. The curls are brought to the back of the head. Folded bows, interwoven to the number of five oe six, are raised very high on the top of the head, and a flower with a strong stalk is placed so as to support them. Two fine gold chains cross the forehead, and are clasped with a snap, from which depends a jewel in the shape of a pear drop. Wm.zuria Darss.....Hat of cltron-coloured watered silk, trimmed with a band, and a butterfly bow of the same ma terial ; the bow is placed nearly behind, over a deep silk curtain. Four white curled plumes, placed almost upright, wave over :the front of the bonnet, which is very new—cut square at the ears. The bonnet is lined with Adelaide blue crape. A puffed quilling of citron gauze riband is in front of the bonnet:cap, the rest of which is lace. White jaconot gown worked in bands a In tablier; these bands are conti nued up the corsage. Tunic pelisse of citron-coloured watered silk, folding back with lapelles, the ends of which are rounded off—the epaulettes are likewise rounded. The skirt turns back to thew the worked gown beneath, with a very elegant fold not easily described, unless the figure is seen; it is trimmed with rounded dents of graduated sizes. Small round dents at the wrists. Gloves and boots of pale lilac. Bronze gold buckles at the wrists and waist. Flaws AND Boxzers.—The civvies Ariglaises have lost none of their attractions since last month, but some slight changes have taken place both in their form and ornaments. Some have the crown in the shape of a Roman helmet ; with others it is a long oval, but always low. We see also several, the crowns of which are adorned with blonde lace draperies. The brims are a little smaller, and, generally speaking, more open on the forehead; those made square at the ears are also less in favour. Bonnets ate generally trimmed with an enormous cockade, composed of six rows, three of tulle and three of ribbon. A fiche of gauze ribbons, disposed ex marmite, crosses the top of the crown and forms the brides. Those of fancy straw are trimmed with a sprig of foliage, a bouquet of green, or ripe awn, or a half.wreath of field flowers. A few gros de Naples bonnets are still trimmed with ribbons only, arranged with variety and taste. Among those trimmed with a mixture of ribbons and flow ers, the most elegant have a long sprig of marls, placed in front of the crown, and waving over the brim. Bonnets are most prevalent in carriage dress ; the few hats that are worn are generally trimmed with feathers; some have a large bouquet of white feathers, tipped with the colour of the hat; others are trimmed with two long feathers to with the hat, inserted at the bottom of the crown, l" Cir Te = in • bias direction, and half lying on the brim. OUT.DOOR COSTIIIII.....NMpIidty la the order of the day; some of the most novel pelisses are made open in front, with a plain tight corsage, and without any trimming; they are worn over *moot muslin dresses, beautifully em broidered. This very plain style is not, however, univer sally adopted for pelisses, those that we described last month being still worn by some of our most distinguished elegantes. Pelerines are still worn with pelisses, but a ruche of tulle, sustained round the throat by a very broad gauze ribbon, which forms a very large rosette in front, is very generally I adc".l" Lord Durham, who during many years was one of the chief supporters of the races at Doncaster, York, and other places in the north of England, has relinquished the turf, and sold off his entire stud. His Lordship's friend, the Marquis of Cleveland, is now the sporting Leviathan of the north. Mr. Delmee Ratcliffe, for many years the com panion of his late Majesty George the Fourth, and, until his death, the entire superintendent of his racing stud, continues to hold under King William the same honour. Although his present Majesty is leas enthusiastic sad sportsman than his brother, he intends to continue his patronage to the various races. Coals have fallen 10s. per chaldron on account of the disputes between the colliers and their work men at Newcastle having been all amicably ar ranged. A GOOD ACT,—A play MU performed at one of the French theatres for the benefit of some cbari table institution. The piece was extremely dull, and tried exceedingly the pa►ience of the audience. Oue of the spectator., at the conclusion, asked his friend—" Well, how do you like this wretched stuff ?"—" I like one act of it very von." In deed ! which is that ?"—" Why, the act of cAa- A provincial paper makes the following humour one calculation of the questions likely to arise dur ing the visits of the officers appointed to make up the population returns:—" Are all these children your own ?" says the censor to one. " They are all my wife's, gentlemen," answers the good man of the house. " How many children have you more than twenty, ma'am ?" says the new official to the mother of a large family. " La! Sir," replies she, quite amazed at the question, " I've only fifteen, besides three that are dead." " So ! you have only a single servant then ?" to another. "We have only one, Sir, but she's not single ; she's married." "Du you keep a man in the house ?" to a father who has a daughter in love against his consent. " No, Sir ; but I wish I could keep one out of it." " Are yon the master of this house ?', to a hen-pecked husband. " No, Sir," replies be, " I'm only the landlord, my wife's the master." CAN DL FA.—Tbere is a general impression abroad that the duty on candles has already ceased, and many persons have in that belief procured moulds (Jr making candles in their own houses. The du ties, however, are not to expire till the 10th of October; and till that time all persons having moulds in their possession are liable to a heavy pe nalty. The Board of Excise have issued orders to t'seir officers, stating, that any licensed trader being desirous of making candi. a duty free, may bond the same under the Excise lock for consumption after the 10th of October 1831. LAW REPORTS. COURT OF CHANCERY, Jung 2. SPECIAL INIUNCTIONLADY TANWOITH V. LOID PIEZRAIL Mr. Wakefield obtained leave to move, In the course of to-morrow. to set aside an order made this morning by his Honour the Vice-Chancellor, that an Injunction should issue, to restrain 'Lord Ferrari from cutting down timber genera. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Jura 2. SMILEY R. LORD In this case an injunction had been obtained es-part, restraining Lord Ferran or his agents from cutting down timber left standing or growing for ornament on his Lord ahip's estates, at Stanton Harold, it. Leiwatershire. Mr. Knight moved that a scques.,.a,ion might issue against the Rai, and that his Lorchhip'a steward, Mr. Davy, might be committed to the Fleet, for a breach of the injunction. The learned Coun•=l mule the opplimtion on affidavits, which stated that, notwith3tandinj the injunction of the Court, Coe 1{34 was cutting down timber. sod laying waste the park and pleasure groundo, and one affidavit saved tim ber was now being cut within 200 yards of the mansion house. Mr. Wakefield, for the defendant, submitted that no evidence had been produced on the othtr side as to the breach of the injunction, exe..pt information and belief, nor was any attempt made to say that a single tree cut down had stood on the park or on the plantations, but the plaintiff had chw2n to suppose that every tree standing in a hedge or' field had bean left standing or growing for ornament. The VICIXII•NCELLOR said It appeared clearly from the affidavits that trces standing or growing for ornament had been cut, and th refors if Mr. Wakefivld wishcd the motion to stand over, be must undertake on b:tcalf of the Earl not to do anything in the nkan.inte. Mr. WAYISTIELD ob.erved that the caw must stand over but he should prefer an olds. of the Court upon his client to any undertaking on his part. The Vic a•CaarreFLLOS then directed the motion to stand over, in order to give the defendant time to answer the affi. davits, and ordered hint in the mean time not to cut any timber, or remove any off thz ground that had been already cut. COURT OF HMO•S BENCH, Just 2. YHA LOllb MAYON AND coardeATton Or ?HI CITY OF -LONDON T. TIM HON. !Ht CONMDSIONZIDI OF CL,II TOMB. In the course of the last Term, an application was mad, to the Court by Mr. Adams, fora rule to shew curie why a mandamus should not be issued, calling upon the Commis , 'limier' of hie Majesty's Customs to pay over to the Lord Mayor and Corporation of the City of London, certain sums of money received by them (the Commissioners.) as savage on goods belonging to foreigners,) imported and exported into and from die City of Loudon. Sir J. SCARLITT (with whom was Mr. GURNEY) showed cane against the rule, and said the question was, whether the City was entitled to levy the scaysge dues on all goods belonging to foreigners generally, or onlv on such as belonged to foreigners residing in the British dominions. lii the year 1819, the dues in queation etnemitzi tu 1,1431. and in 1827 they had increased to 6,4151. Io consequene, of this increase in the amount of dues, which s.ot %whoa. any corresponding increase of trede, the Commissioners were Palueed to look into the charters under which the City claimA those dues, and they were advised that tau meaning of the Charter was that savage could only be levied on goods of foreigners residing in Britain, these being the only foreigners to which the term alien could properly apply. 'llll4 was the term applird to all foreigners resident in England, in the various acts of parliament, at the time the charter in question was granted to the city, namely, namely, in the reign of King John. she commissioners were very anxious to have the matter inquired into. If the ques tion were decided in favour of the claims of the city, it would become necessary that some additional enactments should be made by the Legislature; for, by the treaties recently mane with America and Portugal, many duties had been repealed ; and it would cause some surprise to the subjects of those countries, if they found that they were again called on to pay more dues than they did formerly, and that, too, in a way that would not be understood by them. Mr. Adams, on the other side, contended that the City were entitled to the dues in question by general usage from the earliest periods, and that since the act of 1783, the usage was the same as it had been heretofore. There was no ground for saying that the dues should be confined to the goods of foreigners residinikin England. Lord TENTERDEX said that the rule must be made ab solute, for the claim of the City was well founded ; but fur ther consideration might take place, if the Commissioners would make Such a return to the mandamus as would raise the question.—Rule made absolute. TUE LINO V, THOMPSON. In this ease a rule fora criminal information was obtained, by the Attorney-Geeeral, against the defendant as printer and publisher of the Satirist newspaper, for the publication of a wicked and standalone libel on Lady Caroline Neeld, the daughter of Earl Shaftesbury, who a short time since had been married to Mr. Neeld, the wealthy relative of the late Mr. Rutidell, which libel imputed that • separation had taken place between the newly married pair in con sequence of the lady being delivered of a child two months after her union with Mr. Neeld. Mr. Campbell this morning addressed the Court on the part of the defendant ' and admitted the paragraph In ques tion was a gross and s candalous libel, and one which he would not attempt to justify. The defendant in his affidavit did not attempt to justify the libel, but, on the contrary, says that when he received Loam that the paragraph in question was untrue, be had made every reparation in his power, namely, by stopping the sale of the paper, and by inserting In CM et xt week's pieper • leading patagraph, setting forth the mis:abe which had been made relative to the lady in ques lion, and expressing the Relltor's deep regret at his want of caution in permitting the offensive paragraph to appear in tile See i iet. The article concluded by hoping that this explanation would Os: satisfaction to all parties, and be considered a sufficient atonement for the mistake which the Editor had unintentionally fallen into. He ( Mr. Campbell) had thus shortly stated to the Court, what be bad been in structed to v.ddress to its tom ideial ices, and he was further requested to say, that the defendant was willing to make any further atonement width should be considered necessary. The Attorney General, in reply, said, that the gentleman for whom he appeared, namely, the husband of the lady in question, felt it would be quite impossible to enter into any terms with the defendant. Lord Tenterden —Then, Mr. Campbell, the rule must be made absolute.—ltd le made absolute accordingly. POLICE (REPORTS. ' Bow STREZT.CURICUS APPLICATION. —OiI Wed neaday evening Mr. Ril y, a publ;can at Chelsea, applied to Mr. lUtoshull for his assistance to ob:ain rain"' under the following circumstances : ' The complainant stat..d that in the year 1827 he wu travelling in Portegal tor an Rtgl.sh mercantile house, and was sitting one day in the ,a t.e wine room at Lisbon with a party of non-Commissioned ()nicer' of the 10th.-- (English) Iles - ars, ah. n, in the course ot conversation, one of them, withoit the sii4hiest provitea.ion that he knew of, 1 jumped op, and seising him by lit collar, dashed him against the ground with g.eat violenc;., and then kicked him in the bode and about the head so as to d..prive him of his I sense., and srveral of his teeth were des.rojell. Ile was plied under medic:4 care, but was a cote.iderthte time in grew danger, and when he recovered, lie :Tidied to the civil, authm itirs t here for redress, but was lau g hed a., h s purse not being near long ettou 6 b to sat nry the tivicity of those functiottaritts. lie had masa no more of the ; •salltnt until wiihM the last Jay or two, when Inc ,a r by one of the papers that he was to come up toouorrow (yesterday) to the fusel. vent Deldors's Court, for relief in dn. the Act, and he now applied for a warrant to apariletrut hint for the outeage. Jlr 11Itirsn rt.'. said ne tred it w.ts impossible for an English Alagistrat : to interfere it. a,l affatr wt.ich had cc. coned in Lisbon, howerev gtitrottr. Mr. Riley said he had been ici'ormed of a case in which a young man was treed and ex..cn• it at the tad Beiky, for the murdtr of a yo;titg Lady at Lisbon. Mr. Miami/Lt. sa.d he remembered the case perfec ly well, but on :hat occasion the tri..l was by Spteial commis. sion, and in the present it would be thought hardly worth white to resort to such a course to bring the wailful to trial, although perhaps the outrage was 1110 A violent and ut.juss tillable. dir. Riley thin withdrew . (The case rsfe.rnd to was tried at the 9111 11..iby men, ye a rs ago, a nd it a n. :hi% 3-A )dung cluple. (British sub. jeers) attached to cacti other, but failing to obtain the creep. vary consent, resolved to &sonsr each o her. and this wits to be done with pistols. to be fired of course at the same ino 7 meat. The young female, In the trepidation ut the n,otr:ent, it is presumed, did not pull the trigger, or the pistol missed fire. and the man survived. but she fell dead. He was brought to this country and tried by Special Commission. and (we believe) executed. lie was at all events convictiti.) QUZEN-3 1 :10Allt.—CHARACTIR AND EDUCATION.— WOlimn Lynch, sera. and Daniel and John, his sons, all Irish labourers, of Brook-lane•place, Hammersmith, ware charged with assaulting Michael Donoghue, of the same place. Michael stated, that WI Sunday afternoon, he was return ing home, when he saw the defendant and several other per sons murthering a man in the road. " `That do you mean by murdering a man ?" inquired the Magistrate. " Plan your worship," replied Michael, " they had all just a gottin him down, and were kicking and pitching into him ; well, and so I thought no myself just stare a bit of his life; hallo* there,' says I; what's the matter?' says they ; says don't be atter murthering the poor divil ;' and then they all pitched into me. and I was murthered myself, that I never thettiht I should have been able to spake again ; and poor John Grady got all his teeth knocked down his trote, and they broke my cart all to paces." bir. Gastooate inquired where the other n.urdercd man was whn had lost his teeth. " Faith, your Worship, he's outside," r•plied Michael ; " here walk in, John Grady, their Honours wishes to spoke wid you." John Grady did as he was bid, and said, " Your Worships, last Sunday we were a drinking. at a public.house, a pot of beer or so, when ould Lynch, who thinks himself a greater scholar than the Priest, or his Holii;ess the Pope of Romc himself, began to talk about his heddicashun.—' Come,' says I, • Lynch, lave that off.'—' What for ?' says he. ' Why,' says I, ' ben's! you know its no go wid me.' Very well, your Honour knows, this flustrated him a bit. ' Now,' rays I, •• there shall be no falling out hire shout your bed dicashun, for you're little enough of that to fight about." And so, your Worship, we went outside, and they all fell upon me and got me down, when one of them just gave me a kick in the bowels and this cut across my eye, and knocked out some of my teeth, when, faith, I began to he roused—and Michael Donoghue will tell you all the rest." " Look at our charakters, your Worship," exclaimed all the def, ndants at once—each producing a piece of dirty paper —" and let John Grady show such a charakter." " Show such a charakter !" responded John Grady," why don't I lire by my charakter ?" " Faith, Muter Grady," replied old Lynch, "if you've nothing better than your charakter to live upon, you won't have many percales to fill your stummick." " And by the powers, Muter Lynch," answered Grady, " if you have no other manes of sittin g y our living gut the heddioeuhun you're always bragging about in compaby, the devil a parater would you get at all at all." The magistrates stopped the learned dispute, and a whole host of witnesses were called in on both sides ; and, Aar a very lengthy and learned appeal from old Lynch, which neither the Magistrates or any one else could understand, the defendants were lined 404. each, with the exception of John, who wan ordered to pay for the cart, which, it was proved, he had broken with a pick-axe. The fortress of Ham, in which the ex-Ministers of France are confined for life, was the last place which surrendered to the allies at the close of that memorable campaign which gare peace to Europe. Ft RE.—Yesterday forenoon, about ten o'clock, a fire broke out in the Greyhound Brewery, Bun hill-row, Chiswell-street, in the occupation of Mr. Pullen, which threatened destruction to the surrounding buildings. By the prompt attendance of the firemen and having an immediate supply of water, the flames were subdued, after mate rially damaging the premises, as well as the utensils. The accounts from Ireland are again so appal ling, that there is great reason to fear that crime will speedily stalk in the rear of famine, seeing, as Lord Bacon says, " that the worst of all rebellions, is a rebellion of the belly." In various districts the wretched peasantry, after living on sea-weed and boiled bullock's blood, are on the point of pe rishing from actual starvation. Charity is taxed beyond her strength, and weeps when she perceives that her efforts are so immeasurably disproportioned to her wishes. Children goad parents to distraction by asking bread where they have none to give, and unless Government interfere, we know not what the consequences will be. It wtiogs the heart to the core to think that there are hundreds of absen tees, who, although they drain Ireland annually of her treasure, give less in the shape of alms than the widow's mite, and that a modified system of poor-laws should still be a desideratum in that ever agitated and ill-fated country. A friend has favoured us with the following ex tract of a letter from a correspondent is Sydney, dated the 17th Dec. last :—I am happy to say that there is every prospect of an abundant harvest, and likelihood of the seasons becoming al favorable to the colonists as they used to be, which is much re quired after last year's scarcity. An emigrant could not arrive at a better period than the present, as he could do as much now with a capital of 5001. as could be done seven years ago with 5,0001. — Stock cf every description is very low : cattle that were bought a few years ago from 81. to 121. per bead, may now be got from 16s. to 30s and beef, which sold when I arrived here at 10d. and Is. per lb. the Government have contracted for, to supply their establishments in Sydney during the current year, at id. per lb."—Dumfries Courier. CORN-EXCHANGE-THIS DAY. Wheat, new, Kent, Peas, Boilers . 46s 48. and Reser . 70. 74. Grey . 364 4611 Old . . —s Beans, Small . 401 42. Suffolk, (White) . 68. 72. Tick . 36e 38s Norfolk & Sufi: (rcd) 64k 66. Oats, Potato • Els 36s Rye . . 30. 34. Poland • 21Ie 4. Barley Ms 36. Feed . 23, 2b s Fine . . 44. 46. Flour, per sack, . blis Ws Peas, White . 40s 426 Rapeseed, .136 £36 per last •IIIIIVALS. ------- Wheat, English (qrs.) 2,110 Barley, Foreign . 1,610 Irish - - Osts, English . 11,260 Foreign • - 13.435 le ish . . 7,000 Barley, - 1,035 Foreign - 3,310 Irish - • —:English Flour (sada) 4,310 NIsWGATR AND LBADENHALL—THIS DAY. By the Carcase.—Per stone of Ma. Bed - . 3s Od 56 10d 4s Od Mutton - - 5. 84 4s 2d 4. od Veal . 55 8.1 4. 84 bs Od Pork - • 54 6d 4s 4d 4s Id Lamb - bs Od Ss ed Gs Od FARRINGDON MARKET—THIS DAY. Botr—Fincst Routing, 8.1 to per is. Hollins. 3d to dd. NpUITOII. lore. 81. Shoulder. 7d. Vesa.--Les, Ftllro, sod. Motu., 6,d to 9d, Latto, 10d to 10. smITIIFIRLD—TIIIS DAY. CATTLIR AT 111 A Peaats, 620—"hetp. 11:0—Calers, 310. Beet ... 3. 111 J to 4. 4J I Pork ... 4. 2d to fla 2,1 Mutton_ Oil 4. 8J I Lamb .. 5a 64 It 41 Veal .. bs 0%1 G. Od I . . D HAY-MARKET-THIS DAY. Coar,e Heavy Lowlab., 31eadow flay, £2 10a. to LI 15%. U.clll l ditto, £3 04. to I 3 13%. Fine Upland Maa.tow and Rye Grata Hay, al 1.51 to £4 4s. lover Ilay, FS ss. to £5 109. Oat Straw. £1 8. to .C 1 12a. Wheat Straw. £1 12.. to Al 111.. per Wad. CUMBERLAND HAY-MAHRRT—THIS DAV. Costae Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, it So. to 2 1.51. Metal ditto, ift 104. to .E 3 151. Fine Upland Meadow and nye Gra“ Hay. f 4 3a. to £4 10s. Clover 11.1/, ,E 3 10s' to E 5 10% Oat Sttawal Ilta. to 41 14$ Wbest Straw, d't Ise. to it. pet load. B :11 I I P I F I • i% . . I S. „., , , H • • , i+9 4 1 „ 1 , 1 ; i ' , . COA L-EXCH A NGE—TH IS DAY. Ships arrived during the month During the week 13cstWallsend, Newcastle, A. Sunderland Coals ... .. .. 31s 11l aUs Orl Infetiur sorts .. .. 23s 041 fas 01 Ships at Marker, 141.