The Statesman. — London, England, 1824-01-20 00:00:00

1r;7; if r,. r~ THE STATESMAN SEW BRUSSELS PAPERS. WARSAW, Dec. 26.—The Jewish Rabbis and Elders have met in a General Assembly at Platskow, and have decided tit at the celebration of the sabbath shall be changed to the Sunday. On the Ist Jesuitry. 111106, will be published the fi rst number of a new Journal to be called the Monitor of frarsaso. LEGHORN. Dec. 2S.—A traveller who has just arrived from Egypt, states that on the 16th of last month there were great rejoicings at Alexandria, on account of a vic tory g ained by the troops of the Viceroy over the rebels of Shendy, at the same place where the son of his Highness was assassinated last yearadds that the Egyptian General bad taken s e x y thousand prisoners, among whom was the blolech of Shendy, with his whole family. NURENRURO, Jan. 7. (EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER.) We have received the followiog details direct from Corfu : " Colocotroni, who now acts a distinguished pert in the Government of Greece, has taken the chief command of the corps of Morcoles, which has proceeded against Patras with the artillery. Tie will direct the operations for the attack of that fortress. " The conference for the surrender of Coron and Modon have not led to any result; the Turkish garrisons of those places asking terms which the Greeks have not judged acceptable, and the latter having learnt that the Turks began to be in want of provisions, and that they bad many sick. Prince Maurocordato, who saved Missolun g hi last winter by his judicious measures for its defence, has re• turned to that place, where he has caused himself to be acknowledged as Civil Governor and Military Commandant in Western Greece. The Turkish men of war which were cruising about Mis solunghi, have entirely vanished since the appearance of a considerable Greek fleet. The Greek Government has enjoined Prince Maurocodato, to organise, without delay, an expedition against the forts still held by the Turks on the North side of the Gulf of Lepanto. All the inhabitants along the Gulf of Volo have again taken op arms, and cut to pieces several small corps of Turks which were marching against them, in expectation of being able to overpower them. MAJ ♦RR. DUB. I 1....D0b1in 0 I....Waterford.. • 0 I ....G & Jersey. • 0 I 0.... Lisbon I o....Gottenberg I PRICE OF STOCKS TIIL Bank Stock 237 ii 3 per Ct. Red 6 9 341 3 0. Ct. Cons.. .... SSif Pfl 3} per Cent 90i 100 4 per Cents loli 21 New Fours lO5/ I Long Ann 24 7 . 16 Lnp. S per Ct I ,ILb. ARR. DUE. 0....1i011and I o....Hambro I I....Franee ..... 0 0 ...Flanders ..• 0 0....Ma1ta S DAY AT ONE ()CLOCK. India Stock ...... .... ... • Ditto Bonds. . 86 .. Ex.Bill.Sdc 1 55 55 57 p. 1000/. 5 —5OO/.... 56 53 57 pro. 1 --Small .56 53 571 pm Lottery Tickets. ... 19/. 19s Con. for Acct..Bo Silf S9lBBl •4 • We have received, and read with due respect, the friendly communication of Cantabriyiensis. Gratified, as we highly are, with the cordial manner in whict, be expresses his appro bation of our editorial exertions, %ream conscious that,in the instance he points out, there 'a room for improvement. — Aware of this, we have, fra some time, been making such arrangements as will, ar/e trust, make our labours appear to more advantage, and afford our worthy correspondent, and all our readers.`complete satisfaction. ne efotatttintan. 7UESDAY EVENING, JANUARY '2 0 , 1b24. STOCK ESCIIANGE, 12 o'CLocK.—Consols opened this wonting at SBi to 89, with scarcely any business doing. The great anxiety which prevailed, on account of the Spanish and French armaments, supposed for the South American colonies, has now subsided, since the distressed state of Spain is manifest. In regard to France, it is understood that she is determined to remain neuter, and professes a stiict friendship towards this country. We do not expect any Express from Paris this day, unless some political event of importance shall appear in ibr French papers. A Fellows FUNDS.—Up to 11 o'clock, there was not a bargain done in any" Foreign Securities; which has not happened for a length of time; and up to the present Dour, scarcely any thing has been done ; Spanish Bonds may be quoted : Old Spanish, 241 to I—Chill, 74 to 76—Colombian 621—New Austrian, 4j—New Prussian, S9—Old, '9l— —4/. The Foreign Newspapers are so absorbed in reflection and speculations, and they afford us so little in the shape of authentic facts, that to comment upon their contents is little better than to reflect a shadow. The Journal des 'Wats tells us, that we ought not to le alarmed or die pleased at the French sending out troops to the West I ndies, because the destination of this armament Lad been officially communicated to our Minister by the French Government. We cannot conceive that such official communications as arc here alluded to, are entitled to the least consideration; after the manner in which the deceptive and treacherous communications, relative to the Cordon Sanilaire, were supported by the most solemn pledges on the part of Louis and his Ministers. But this sending of troops to the West Indies, is, we are told, only a wise measure, for the " security of the colonies and a due maintenance of civil order"—by the substitution of troops of the line for the Colonial Militia. French notions of political whs.. dom are very different from those entertained in free corn tries;—for tbe'American President in his Message declares that" the defence and even the liberty of the country, must depend, in times of imminent danger, on the militia."— But if the reasoning and assertions of the French Journal• ists be true, they evince that the French West India islands must have caught some of the spirit of liberty from the adjacent countries of Cuba and South America. It is, however, rather suspicious that these regular troops should be wanted in such numbers in the West Indies, precisely at the moment when the policy of France to. wards South America Is so egnivocal. If there be little sense or prudence in a pigmy's attack. ing a giant, we must, in charity, attribute the assault to nicignanimity andeourage. We will not, therefore, press upon the weaker antagonist in so unequal a contest, but content ourselves in advising the Morning Post not 'gain to risk a contest with the Morning Chronicle, but to seek an antagonist of bumbler pretensions, such as the New Times or the Courier. The Morning Post assails the Chronicle fur iti observations upon the Jury that brought in a verdict of guilty against the publishing of the Vision of Judgment, and it tells the Chronicle that " Lord Erskine and Trial by Jury" has for thirty years been the standing toast of the Whigs, and that " if in the case of Hunt, a Jury has been an instrnment of injustice, is it not as likely that the Juries that acquitted Mr. Hardy and others, in 1794, also committed injustice ?" In reasoning by parity,we should be careful at least of what the lawyers and logicians call, the ceteris paribus. Here the Morning Post draws similar conclusions, from opposite premises. A Jury cannot be suspected of corruption from a verdict against the power of Government, for to oppose power is sometimes dangerous, and always, inimical to a man's interest; but a jury may be suspected of corruption, when it sides with the stronger against the weaker party. But in the instance of Mr. Hardy, the conduct of the Govern• meat was so outrageously irrational, and its case so unsound. that the Attorney General of the day spoke nine Mews to persuade the Jury to consign their fellow creatures to an ignominious death. What can be so horribly nujust, as to take the life of a citizen upon a law so obscure and equi vocal as to require a speed► of nine hours in its explanation. What parity therefore, is there, between the Jury that acquitted Mr. Hardy in 1791, and that which has so strangely found Mr. Hunt guilty, in 1834? But the Morning Post assures us, dog it feels that " the Trial by Jury is intitled to respect and veneration very different from mouth honor." If he be sincere, why does be not strenuously exert himself so as to put Juries beyond the suspicion of being packed, by instituting the best possible mode of selecting Juries by the Sheriff and Cron n Officer? We found, some days ago, an article in a French paper• stating, that all the British ships of war in the Mediter, ranean were about to rendezvous at Malta, with a vie* ts was alleged, to proceed to Tunas, to demand atonement from the Bey of that place for the murder, by the crew of one of his vessels, of certain Greeks who were sailing under the protection of the British flag. It is singular that we have received no further account of this meditated expedition, except in the following paragraph, which appears in the New Times of this morning:— " Letters have been received from Sir William Curtis, at Naples, where be arrived on the 28th ult. in good health. At the date of his communications he was performing quarantine ; but in consequence of an order for the Weazle sloop of war to get under weigh for Malta, in order to join a squadron which was understood to be ordered on a special service in those seas, the worthy Baronet had some thoughts of running down with his yacht to that island." The following is an extract of a letter from Cape Coast Castl4:ated Octuber 24, n hich will be read with in. tercet:— _ _ " Certain Americans have purchased a small tract of land on the toast of Africa, someivbese near C■pPe Alias cundo, and have colonised it with a b i and yellow pot pulation from the United States, whone The slave popala• lion has increased to a degree eh ch has not a little alarmed; the Government. These unfortunate wro Hies, amounting to alma 400 in number, the moment they land• ed,found themselves, in the first place, exposed to the dis• honesty and extortion of the agents of the original 'putt. chasers of the Colony. The latter were furnished with the necessary supplies for their Colonists, but the;r agents bad bartered these supplies away with the natives for their own profit, and the Colonists were starving. In addition to this scene of misery, the natives conceived the Americans to have cheated them in the purchase of the lands, had made war upon them, and were hunting them down in all direct tiuns. When the last aecounts came away, those miserable people, deserted by the Parent Country, which had thus thrown them upon a barbarous coast to perish, were erecting some works round the wretched collection of huts which they called a town, and bad named iti Monrowa, after the name of the President of the United States. They entertained no hope, however, of being able to oppose any effectual resistance to the black swarms which surrounded them, and had literally shut them up in their dwellings. This primary colony the Americans had named Liberica. "The Ashantee war is at a stand, and mini, of the tribes which had been induced to throw off their elle glance to our flag, had returned to it again, and hail withdrawn from the war. The white force at Cape Coast Castle is more than sufficient to set the whole Ashantee population at di fiance." Letters from Buenos Ayres of the Bth of Nov. received by way of Rio de Janeiro, state that Sir Thomas Hardy, during his late visit to the former port, has completely removed the ill will which had arisen in consequence of the dispute with Captain Willis, of his Majesty's ship Brazen. Letters dated the 29th nit, and received yesterday from Cadiz, mention that the expedition against South America, which has been for some time preparing in that port, was on the point of sailing. It was decided that the Asia, the only ship of war in the harbour of the first class, was not to form a part of the expedition, which would there fore consist only of the frigates and smaller vessels. From the quantity . of provisions, &c., on board, it was resumed the destination was Peru. It does not appear that any land force was to accompany the expedition. Letters from Gibraltar of the 28th ult. state, that Senors Soberon and Ayllon, members of the late Spanish Cortes, residing in that garrison, had been poisoned by a servant who attended them. The fordier died in consequence, and the latter was so dangerously ill. is not to be expect ed to recover. The perpetrator of this nefarious act had escaped. A failure of some extent is announced In the letters of Saturday from Paris to have taken place in that market, in consequence of extensive speculations for a fall in the French funds, & also in most of the fforeign securities cur rent there ; & as the individual who has ailed is known to conduct the operations for a number of persons in London, it is supposed the losses sustained will be sensibly felt on this side the Channel. It is reported t h at the late Colombian Minister, M. Revenge, hat made a proposal to the gallant Mina to pro-, teed to South America. It is probable. however, that Mina will wait to see what course will be taken by the mother country before be again enters the field, however , anxious he may be to see a 'speedy consummation of the wishes of the Patriots. Wednesday last there was a meeting held in Paris, on the subject of the Slave Trade, at which were present the Marquis de la Fayette, and other persons of distinction , 0 and some Gentlemen from London. who have exerted themselves for the abolition of the trams, SI-UPPI•NG INTELLIGENCE. [NDEIINIFICATION OF UNDERWRITERS ON AC COUNT OF CAPTURES BY SPANISH PRIVATEERS. Bordeaux, 13'h July, IS2I. SIR--The following information has been com• municated to us from the best antbority, and may be relied on as official, viz.—That the French Government have decided upon indemnifying the merchants for the losses that have been sustained by the captures of the Spanish Prtvateers during the late war, not only the amounts insured on France, but also those in England, amounting together to eight million francs, of which five millions were insured in France, and three in England. We are, Le. (Signed) CUTLER & WiLIION, Agents to Lloyds. To John Bennett, Esq. Secretary to Lloyd's. DEAL. January 19.—Wind W.N.W.—Remain the Hon. Company's ships Nlacqueen and Castle Huntley, for China. — The Thomas Coutts, for China, is expected in the Downs this evening.--Sailed the Ann, Whitmore, for Cape Coast Castle ; Mary, for Oporto; 'Tuscan, for the South Seas ; York Mer chant, for Charente ; and Malvina, for Zante.—Arrived the Fame, Triekey, from Lisbon.—Came down from the River and sailed for Plymouth, the Portsmouth transport. PORTSIEOETU, January 19.—Wind N.N.W.— Remains the Lord Hungerford, for China. PLTMOUTII, January 18.—Wind N.W.—No artivals or sailings. ttveneoor.. January 16.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Tus carora, Serrell, from Philadelphia. sailed the 22d December. — The Elizabeth, Jones, from Qeebec to London, was totally lost 30th November off St. Roch, is the River St. Lawrence.— Crew saved. Poar GLASGOW, January 17.—Sailed the Guiana. M'Arthnr, for Deceeiara ; and the Pilgrim, Wilson, for Jamaica. Coat, January 16.—Arrived the Susannah, Newman, and the Dorchester, Swatridge, from London. Yesterday afternoon, at half past tivo o'clock, the Duke of York left his residence in Stablwyard. St. Joiner's, on a visit to the Duke of Bedford, at Woburn - abbey, Bedford• shire. On Saturday evening, at six o'clock, Prince Leopold ar rived at Claremont. from Stratbfieldsay House, Hampshire, the seat of the Duke of Wallington. The new Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and the Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, were expected to receive their appointments yesterday from the King at Brighton, and to be sworn in Pricy Councillors. The Earl of Liverpool's first Cabinet dinner will be given, as we have already stated, on Saturday next. The Right lion. C. W. Wynn gives his on the 2ith instant. The Earl of Harrowby's official dinner, as Lord Presiden of the Council, for considering the roll of Sheriffs, prepa ratory to its being presented to his Majesty for pricking, will take place on the 3lst. Mr. Secretary Cannini's great dinner previously to the meeting of Parliament, will be givrn on the 2d of February. Parliament meets on the 3d. Lord Eliot was on Friday last elected a Member of Par liament for Liakeard, in the room of his father, who has succeeded to the Peerage by the death of the 'ate Earl of St. °entail's. Bamber Gascoyne, Esq., whose death is stated in another part of our paper, was father to the Marchioness of Saha bury. His death was occasioned by a severe attack of the gout, to which he has been for many years a martyr. The Marchioness of Salisbury being his only child, wilt succeed to immense wealth and estate property; the latter being, it is said, 12 thousand a ye tr. Tam New Geese COINAGE.—Last week was exhibitel in the salon of the Hotel Talleyrand, the new Gold Coinage for the Greeks, the &sign and execution being under the di• reetion of the celebrated Denon. It is said to he an extremely tine specimen of art, and to excel the last, namely, " The Flight of the Eagle from Elba," few of which reached this country and which are invaluable, the die having been broken by order of the present King of France. This new Greek coin rather exceeds in size our Sovereign. On the one side is the Archangel Michael, with the Flaming. sword and the Dove the latter the symbol of Peace. On the reverse, the Lion. the emblem of strength, encircled by a ser pent, with the tail in the mouthoneaning to pourtray Eternity, and around the word " Resurrection." Comm° Doug O'Bet ex.—This eccentric indivillual,whose miniature vessel excited so much attention at Dublin and Leith, at the period of His Majesty's visits to Ireland and Scot l and, is now at Brighton, having, alth oa is!' Is cripple, walked from Windsor to that place. Our readers are aware that about three weeks ago the Cotntuodore in going up the Thames, was espalier] in a sudden squall, and lost, together with Lis boat, Lis cloths and his little all, with difficulty saving his own life. Finding himself in this distressed. state, he immediately deterinioed on goink to Brighton, with the hope of causing, through Sir Edward Nagle, a representation of his misfortune to be I sid before the King. On his arrival there the Commodore wai'ed upon Sir Edmund, by whom he was introduced to the Marquis of Conynghairi, and the subject was then mention to his Majesty, who, with Ms usual kiudness, ordered another vessel to be built for the commodore, as well as a new suit of clothes to be made for him. The last vessel, it will be remem b er ed, was also gi .en him by the King, and was called",in honour of this circumstance, " the Royal gift'" which will, we un derstand, be the name of time peesent one. It is now build ing at Brighton, by Mr. Pocock. and the dimensions will best feet in length, by 2 feet 9 inches beam, being six in ches longer than the last. It will be completed in about a fortnight or three weeks, and the Commodore will then exhibit his nautical skill off Brighton ; he also intends to wake a voyage in his boat to France, having the courage, even at this season of the year, to cress the channel in so frail a bark. The manufacturing towns are begianing to move, in op position to Col. Wood's new Settlement Bill. It is known, that by the operation of this bill, paupers who shall have been domiciled or resident principally in one place each year for the space of 15 yeare,on the Ist August,lB24, would obtain a settlement in that place; that on the I•t August 1823, fourteen year's residence would confer the same privilege ; and so decreasing a year every successive Air gust, till, in the year 183 S, only one year's residence Would be required. The consequence of this bill would be, to afford considerable relief to the agricultural' pa` rishes from the pressure of the poor rates, at the er pense of the manufacturing and commercial districts, In Leeds. for Instance, a balance of five hundred additional poor fa tnilies, would probably become settled from the Ist of next August, and that number would be increased every year, till at length pretty nearly the whole population would belong to the township . This is a change in the law so important as to affect all assessible property in the manufacturing towns to a large amount, and to excite the well grounded apprehensions of the parishioners. The principle of a certain term of resit deuce, say ten or fifteen years, ensiling a poor fami ly to a settlement in the parish in which th e y have s p ent the ir best days, we have always strenuously advocated ; but this gra• dusted scale would destroy that principle, or at least render it 'nominal. Its adoption, by giving every pauper an op 'initially of choosing his own parish, would lves moreover be very prejudicial to the poor themse; every pansh 'that bad the reputation of being liberal to - the, poor, would becrowded with emigrant set• dart, and to avoid the consequences of this mea sere, no parish would have that character. Nothing but bard heartedness iu the parish officers could save their township from fear, and not only the new settlers, but the old ones 'would be exposed to the inevitable miseries of such a system, Mr. Secretary Peel has addressed official letter to this and other townships, inquiring bow they are disposed towards the new Settlement Bill, and their answres will probably determine the administration whether they shall or shall not allord to it the weight ot their all powerful influence in parlianient. Leede Met c:37. • OLD RAILEY.—( l'ilis 1110RNINo.) (B.fore Mr. ARAM'S.) . . Joh* Williams was indicted for stealing thirteen shirts, and serious other articles, the property of Satuuel Sedgetield, on the 171 b December last. James Johnson, a Bow-street patrol, saw the prisoner on the 17th December on the Rath Road, at Longford, near llounslovr Heath, about 10 o'clock at night. with a bundle across his shoulder, and not being satisfied with the prisoner's account of its contents, took him into custody, and afterwards found thew to he the property of the prosecutor. Samuel Seili;i•lield stated, that on the IGth o f Dec. he sent the property in question to the Swan, Holborn Bridge, to be forwarded to Devizes. A clerk at the Swan, proved the delivery of the goods at the other, on the 16th Dec. Mr. ARABIN said it did not appear whether the prisoner bad purloined the goods on the road, or from the Coach Office ; but his possession of them, without giving a satis• factory account how lie got them, he thought conclusive evidence against him.—Guilty. William Mangey was convicted of stealing a cost, value 10s. the - property of Robert Davies, in the parish of St. Leonard, Shoreditch. . _ Edward Fenton, aged 12, was indicted for stealing, on the 9th January, 7s. the monies of William Talon—Guilty —but recommended to mercy by the Jury and prosecut or. He was then called up for judgment, and sentenced to b e privately whipped, and delivered to his friends. Ebner Fos, aged 16, was convicted of stealing 9 pairs of stockings, value 13s. the property of Thomas ixey. CORONER'S INQUESn-MELANCHOLY ACCI DENT FROM SKATING. An Inquisition was taken at the Swan Tavern, i n Mount Street, Urosvenor Square, before Mr. (li ge , Deputy Coroner for Westminster, upon the body ofJosepl'i Parsonage, the son of Mr. Parsonage, tient Queen Street, Edgeware Rua% whose death we stated in our Paper of yesterday. It appeared from the evidence, that the deceased was a young man. l years of age ; and on Friday morning at S o'clock, he went, accompanied by a younger brother, to skate on the Serpentine River, Hyde Park. When they went, there were several people upon the bank, but Om, was only one boy upon the ice. The deceased and his brother put on their skates, and ventured out. All present cautioned them of the danger, as the ice was not sufficiently strong ; but the deceased, notwithstanding the intreaties t:f his brother, proceeded to cross the river, when unfortonat ly the ice broke about the issid.ile, and he was immersed into the water. He was seen struggling with the ice, but before the boat reached I from the Royal Humane Sacipty's house, he sunk to rise no snore. His body was takes up about ten minutes after.var Is, and was conveyed to the receiving house, when the usual means to restore suspended animation were unsueressfully tried for abo u t two hours. The Jury eon:Here:l that the men emplord by the society were negligent in their attendance, and Usought a pruftssionul mon should be constantly there film the commencement ,fthe frost. Verdiet—" Accidents', Deatls." Letters and Papers were yesterday received from Gib. railer to. the 39th December. By• the latter we are in. formed that the arrivals of Wheat troll Lisbon were sr) numerous that no sales whatever could be effected, the market bring in a state of perfect glut. The same was the case with provisions, which had arrived in too great ~ abundance from England and I relent'. Many of the cow signees were consequently compelled to reship them for England.—We extract the following from i the Gibraltar Chronicle. of Dec. 29 : Cnviz, Dec. B.—The Government of his Majesty the King of Prus-ia, having come to the resolution of al:er ing the Prussian flag, and that it shall henceforth be white, with two narrow black stripes at the horizontal extremity and adorned with the Royal Prussian Eagle in the centre; this determination is made known for the kfornation of the public. Extract of a Letter from the agent at Lloyd's, at Cos• stantinople, dated lSth Dec.—" On the 6th instant the Ctpitan Paths, with a part of his fleet, arrived from the Dardanelles, accompanied by the Th Ilia Pagler. which bad been prevented coining up about two months." It bas been incoerectly stated ti at the large timl er a s ter now preparing in Canada was bound for Port Glasgow. Landon is now cated as the place of its destination.lt is c dr structed under the miperintendence of Mr. Wood, of Port Glasgow, and is to be navigated by an enterprising Gen' demon belonging to fireeaoek.—(Glasgore Chronicle.) The Committee of Common Council appoin ed to co.isi.'er the state of the coal trade, have resolved to recommend the appointment ef 25 additional meters. Howie or Consacnost.—The el , ction of a Chaplain for the above prison, under the provisions of a recent Art o Parliament, took place on Thursday last. Eleven candi• dates contested for the election, hat the choice at length fell on the Rev. Mr. Anshy, he having gained a majority of upwards of 50 above his competitors. Tim salary is 340, per annum. POOLE, JAN. 16.—0 n Monday last, Lieutenant Prior, R.N. commanding on the Lidworth station, made another seizure of 121 i casks of spirits; on the 9th inst. Lieutenant Umfreville, chief officer stationed at Christchurch, seized 35 casks of foreign spirits, one cask tea, and a host; and Mr. Catclipole, chief officer at liar on Cliff, seized on the beach Eastward of Barton Chine, 107 c asks of foreign spirits, which were all 4rought to Ili* Majesty's warehouse at this port. A boat, with 1411 tubs of brandy, was seized on Thursday by the Linnet (l'ender to the Queen Ghat' lotte) on the Sussex coast. Among the various improvements which are carried into effect at Bridgewater, is the erection of a new Hotel, (Anthill, for the accommodation of the Judges, Couns el, and Magistrates, during the A ssize and Sessions. The plan and elevation are desig ned by Mr. Richard Carver, ,Ache tect, of that town, and meet universal approbation. The Hotel wof coarse, he also used as a regular house of business. ill, Many of the streets a te Bridgewar are no w to be Nl'Adamizeil.on the At Wilts Sessions, on Tuesday, hone Coward, of Bradford. Yeoman, an Insolvent debtor, aas remanded for 'siesta months. from the tiling of his petition, for fraudi having d in- serted a fictitious debt in his schedule, an d wilfully out tie parts of his properly. At the abuse Sessions. Robert Il i b berd, a ma n shout 6 0 years of age, was convicted of stealing a great-coat fro sst the cart of Thomas Btichell, on the Blue Boar row. He wa seen to take it from the cart, and was found with it on his back. When the usual question was tut by the Judgei " H ave V" any questions to ask the witness," lie said, going to men any questions, he lies said too much for my good already." When asked what he had to s a y in his defence,.he answered, " Olt ! I have nothing to say to the Gentlemen, it's of no use you know, they know all about it." Sentence, six m onths imprisonment, lined one penny% St/long.—Yesterday an inquest was held at the Sunling " No, I'm not House, Horse Guards, before T. Htcos, Esq. Coroner, os the body of Peter Lee, a private in the second battalion of the First Regiment of Grenadier Guards, who put i period to his existence while on duty in Scotland Yard early the slime morning. He had been addicted to drunken• ness, and his fear of punishinentis supposed to have drivel him to the commission of the rash act. lie fired his mut• quet into his montlil and blew off the roof of his skull. lie had been in a state of dejection for the last two days. The .Jury returned a verdict —" Plant the deceased shot himself, being at the time in a state of temporary derangement. Lewes, Jaw. 19.—Onr Beast Market, on Tuesday eihe bited a large supply of beef, some of which was fat and good, and fetched lull 4s. per stone ; much was disposed of, and mach remained unsold, Mutton was very h short. but rite equal to the demand, as it did n ot appear muc w tilting. I~ I