The Statesman. — London, England, 1822-10-22 00:00:00

THE STATESMAN. Court of Justice. Such precisely was the character of 0.. present case. He bad no beaitation in paying that the witnesses were unworthy of credit--that &Dithers in particular, was guilty of rank perjury. That individual was a constable belonging to Bow-street O ffi ce, but he (4r. A.) hoped he woul d he no longer perinitted to hold that situation. It was a truly frightful exhibition to see such a person as &Dithers swearing in a Court of Justice. It was alarming to thick that in a very few . days that eery Smithers might place himself on the table at the Old Bailey, and give evidence, that might consign unhappy individuals to transportation, nay, even to death. He trusted that, for the sake of public justice, in mercy to his Misplay's subjects, that inch persons would not be permitted to 611 sitnations to which they were a disgrace. The Learned Gentleman next proceed. ed to state the prisoner's case at considerable length. On the night in question be dined at Walham-green, at the house of Mr. Stocking. On his way home he knock ed at the door of Mr. Keelin ; be made a mistake ' • but Kerlin, vexed at being disturbed, issued out of the house, and some blows passed. The matter st as adjust ed, or nearly so, when the prosecutor and &Dithers came up. They used the prisoner in the most abusive manner; they dragged him to what they called the cage —a wretched email room,* here he was obliged to re mein all night. Such was the violence done to his per soy, that he found it necessary to call in a surgeon. Young Mr. Stocking and other respectable gentlemen who> were present, offered to be answerable for his ap pearance but they refused to let him go at large for the night. in the mean time the preweentor arranged his plan, Intoning that his evidence and that of &Dithers would be contradicted by the gentlemen who were pre sent, snel who had witnessed and reprobated their con duct. They had the audacity to prefer an indictment 'elitist the nhole party for no other purpose than to disqualify them from giving evidence. The Learned Counsel called Mr. Stocking, jun. ; be was examined at very considerable length, when The Foreman of the Jury intimated to the Court that the minds of the Jury were sati.fied—and they instantly returned a millet of—Not Guilty. CORK DISTILLERIES. Conn, Ocr. It —We have learned, with surprise and regret, that some arrangements of a novel nattier are contemplated by proper Authoritiea, calculated at this moment to effect, in no inconsiderable way, the in teretds of this part of Ireland through the Ditilleries. The Establishments of this description in the City of Cork, form too prominent a part in its commercial inter rid% and are too intimately connected with the agricul tural prosperity of the South of Ireland, for us to pass in silence say regulation which may affect their united welfare. It is neither our duty or inclination to offer an opinion upon the system which would, at this mo ment, connteract the employment of large capitals in the consumption of the produce of the country—we Presume the intended regulation proposed to the Distil lers, must have received previous and well-digested con sideration; but it is evident, from the result, that it eon. tains some reetrietiows altogether inadmissible for the Body it was intended to g , otherwise, after very expensive: preparations for going to work, they would not s , .idenly abandon their intention, and permit their capitals and large establishments to remain unproduc tive. We and d that, already, the number of work ing people discharged from the I houses, is of con siderable amount ; whose families will have to deplore, probably, during the winter season, the want of means whirh they had hitherto derived from three sources of extensive and profitable employment.—Cork Chro nicle. CORK, OCT. 17.—The sensation predated Is this city he the determination of the DietiNtoi sot ta work, has been great, and the effect already ((open the prises of that description of agricultural proalate which requires to he upheld, in order to save the landholder from utter rein) extremely injurious. An explanation of the causes which have let' to such consequences, will naturally be looked for. The Board of Excise in Dublin have thought it right to institute an inquiry here into the conduct of the De ver. ['lent ; and, for this purpose, have acted on a law which empowers them to summon any persons whatever before them, to give answers on oath to any questions they may think proper to ask, under a penalty of 101. for every refusal. The Distillers, on being required to name their book keepers and confidential clerks, whose evidence was required, considering the consequences of suet, persons being thus compelled to divulge the secrets cf their employers, their losses or profits, and to betray the trust reposed in them, came to the determination of not working their Distilleries, in order not to be ame nable to a law so repugnant to every principleof British justice. Tribunals like this, iovested with the power of citing persons before it, who shall be compelled, under Leavy forf, Lott, s, to answer questions, which may or rosy not involve their persons, and injore their proper ties. ere utterly inconsistent with, anti subversive of the spirit of the British Constitution, and resemble the in stitutions of countries which, we hoped, would never atipp!y examples to our own ; or, at least, that we would . nut imitate what was bad in them. The Military parties encamped at Kilbrin, Freemoont, and hillevoulan, County Cork, are this week ordered into hesd-quarters. Government have directed that temporary listracks should be forthwith erected in the most disturbed parts. On the conduct of the Excise the Dublin Evening Post remarks—" It only w• :rated this to drive the grow ers of barley to despair. We imagined that they could not be much worse otf than the late prices had left them; but we were, it iteeniS, in error. They cannot sell their grain at all! The Lords of the Treasury will no doubt /Air their case into consideration, and issue orders ac cordingiy." I sten PROSPERITV.—Three distilleries in Cork, which were to have commenced working on Monday. have served notices that they do not intend to go on.—(Free- Journal.) EXETER. —in May last, the child of Mr. Pion, aged two months, and which had been baptized in a Media dist chapel, its parents being dissenters, died ; application .ins 11344 e to the clergyman to bury it,—lie hesitated ronsiderably to perform bit duty, and doubted " Mae. tiler he had any right to bury it," stating as his reason, " that the child had not been baptised according to the rites of the enure,' of England.' At last he consented, hut with the proviso that the corpse should not be taken into church ; the child was accordingly buried. On 'll'useiolay week last, another child of Mr. Pinn, and twin sister of the above infant, died. Application to bnry it was made to the clergyman through the clerk of the parish. The reply we., that the parson bad said, "be would not bury the child as it had not been christened in the clinrch, and that he had been laughed at fur burying the other." The father then hastened to Exe ter vith an intention of waiting on the Bishop to obtain redress from hint ; but his lordship was inaccessible. This plan failing, lie bad resource to legal measures, and a letter to the clergyman, from a solicitor of this city, threatening prosecution if he did nut bury the child without fur her delay, brought him to his souses. lie said " it was owing to a mistake that he had refused, a■ his clerk told him that the child had never been hap• tired!" The child was buried on Tuesday last, after bring kept from its resting place amour DAM—perms shire Freeholder) ADFLPHI THEATRE, STR IND. IT ADTDONITT OP THE LORD CU& All. THIS present EVENING, October 22, and TO MORROW. 43, lAN, will be presented. 101st time, the celebrated Out and r.sut Classic.Comle. Operitie, Didac tic, Moralistsc, Arlstophanic, Lotalie. Atialvtle, Terpsicho ric, Punoramle, Omen Obsenra-le Estrivap nit Barletta of Fun, Froltr. Fashion, end Flub, In Three Acts called TOM AND JERRY, or, LIFE IN LONDON. Corinthian Tom, Mr. Wreath—Jerry Hawthorn, Mr. J. Reeve—Logic, Mr. Wilkinson-8111y W 214114 Mr. Paulo— Dusty Rob, Mr. Willmar% P•OGRESSION OP TUC DAT AND MOUT scimitar AND INCI• elvers. I. Life In the Country-9. Life in Love—lt. Life is Train iner-4. Life on Foot-3. Life on Horsehack—it Life In Saint James's-7. Life in the West—ft. Life In Fancy-9. Life In the Dark-10. Life in a Row-11. Life in Saint James's-1E Life in Hell-13. Life in Rags-14. Life in Bond-street—l 6. Life in the Stars-16. Life in the Bast -17. Life in a Nonplus-18. Life in Limbo-19. Life In a Lark-90. Life le • Mask. After which, 11th time, an entirely new Farcical Barletta, entitled. THE NEW MARRIAGE ACE, Or, A Lesion /OR LOVERS. Mr. Williamson will introduce his much admired New Song, called •• Love and the Treading Mill; or, the Butcher at Brixton." In ths course of the piece will be vocalised the favourite sirs or—.• The Harmonious Blacksmith,"—•• My Lady's Nag,"—" Nobody comlog to Marry me,"—sad " lit. Bride's Bells." Boxes, 4s. Pit, 41. Gallery, la. Doors °Paned et Mx, and l b . performaeee euvatetioes at a quarter before seven. Half-price at litbt. No money returned. Box Offen open froelr•101 4, where places may be taken. sad a private box bad 'lightly. In consequence of many disturbances having taken place In the pit. from periwigs keeping seats, the public are re spectfully informed, that no places can be kept after the per formance has ceinmeseed. CIOLOMBIAN LOAN.—We ere aothnrizedlty the IL) Contrectorefor the countrimr LOAN to soy, that the power ander which than loan has beets raised, signed by Blown Bolivar, President of the Republic, and cosotersign. ad by J. R. Retreats, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, is OPEN to the INSPECTION of all parties Interested i■ the loan. on application at their *Mee, No. g, Freeman's court, Cornhill. ; •IM ILB. DOS.' Ana. 1 1)elallo - 0 1 Holland • 0 1 Waterford 0 0 Ilittobro' 1 O 0. & Jersey - 1 1 Prestos • - 0 • Lisboa 0 0 Flitodere . 1 O o...ttee , erg - 1 0 America • - 0 PRICE OF SITOt KR AT Rank Rtoek.... 24S Re 3 per Ct. Rod 9111 3 per Ct. Cone. 34 per Ct 0313 4 per Cents B,l New ream Kftiff per Ct. 1797 Long Ann. NI 11-10 f Imp. 3 per Ct Irish 6 per Casts. INS O'CLOCK "%$s DAY. India Stock... 2A4 bf e Ditto Bonds . b2s 8s pm. South Sea Stock Smith Set Old Ez.Billtd. wow . k b 72 be pm. 6001. 7s 65... pea. Small Se 10. pa. Cost. for Ate. Loewy Tickets.... SW Tta LO.VDON: TUIIDAY IVIENING.OOTOBZIL 22 4 . 19,2. . STOCK BICLI4,VG4. TIVKLVIC O'CLOCK. There is little or no business doing sin tko shoes filar kit op to this hwy.—Consols remain stentlyise SSI for Money, and 119.4 for the Account. In consetinence of the Columbian document, which appeared in the papers of this morning, a g I panic took place in the Colombian Bonds, and a fall of 4 per cent. in the above, took place. Nevertheless.itis thought as certain, by the first Brokers on 'Change, wbo have been to examine the Columbian contract, at Messrs. Powles, that it isa bonafide good one, and the signature is, un doubtedly, that of Bolivar. It is also ascertained, that the Columbian document must have been published be fore the above Government knew of the Loan being contracted for in London, sod it is still further ion glued, that the whole is a mantenvre, to depreciate the Columbian Stock, of which, it is snppoted, that in a day or two, great advantages will be taken by persons who nil) boy it op. Very little business has been done in the Foreign mar ket up to this hour, and all foreign securities are rather heavy. Chili, 961—Wrir Sponfah, 721-014.99—New Prussian, 991 —Old. 991 Russia, f —Danish. 911-92—Nrepolltan. 8I —Scrip 9911—eoliahisn, 92—Scrip, 991—Paracis n, 88— Now Spanish Scrip, Si pr. Paris papers, which have reached as to the 20th inst. contain little respecting Spain, but rumours, ►nd those, as usual, contradictory. According to the Quotideensie, " Mina has been arrested by his own officers andsoldiers, after an affair which he bad fought with the loyalists, and has been conducted to Pampelona, under a charge of cowardice and incapacity." His army is also repre. seated as having been completely "dislocated," and the insurrection is said to have extended to Galicia, and to have placed Coruna& in the possession of the Royalists. On the other hand, it is reported that p 1 Mina Lad completely routed the forces of Bacon. d'Erolles, who bad taken refuge at Ay, to France, with • very small comber of officers of his Staff.—The intelligence relative to Greece in these Papers is satin factory. The real issue of the last Turkish enterprise against the Mores bad at last become generally known. An article from Smile, dated the Ist instant, states that Chourschid Pacha, was still on the 17th ultimo at Ter nova, with only three thousand men, and seeking for reinforcements which be could not obtain. Odysseus still guarded the passes of the Thermopylee, and the port of Alamon ; anti the Pacha of Belgrade had received a I Courier with despatches, " which left no doubt of the fatal issue of the Ottoman expedition to the Mores."— On the other hand, the surrender of SUli, which had been contradicted by the pres • ious arrivals, is once more asserted to have taken place. Famine is said to have forced the Suliotes to capitulate on the 12th of Septem ber; and it is added that by the terms of the capitula tion, 2000 of them (warriors, not women, as it had been originally mentioned), were to be conveyed in British vessels to the Mores. By the possession of Soli the Turks would gain additional means for maintaining , their footing in Epirus, hut nothing to redeem the lows which theyhave experienced id thePeloponnesna, in Livadia and Tbessaly. An article of the 41st ■lt. from Bu c h a r e st, says, that when Lord Si raugford passed through that city on his way to Vienna, he expressed his surprise at finding that Wallachia was still occupied by Turkish troops, after the repeated asluiances which he had received from the Divan of the dose fide (mama. Goo of both Principalities. The Journal des Debate contaios a letter from the Ecclesiastic who attended 0 1 Berton in his prison and on the scaffold, in which be declare, that instead of repelling the conso lations of Religion. Berton welcomed them ; that the the expression attributed to him (" leave me alone ") w•as uttered, and that that unfortunate man performed all his religious duties before he quitted his cell to go to execution. Achilles Murat, the eldest son of the late King of Naples, is stated to have obtained from the Ans. tri►n Government a passport for America; he will go di rect from Vienna to Hamburg. The Journal des De bats states, in a letter from Piedmont, that a great num. her of persons of distinction have arrived at Verona.— The Duke and Duchess of Calabria, and the Kiog of Bavaria, were expected to be present at the Congress.— On the lath, the King of France, so far from being ill, as has been confidently reported, was well enough to transact business with . M. Villele, and afterwards to en tertain at dinner the Dutchess of Berri. FRINCII Fuson, Oct. 19.—Five per Cent. Consois opened at 93f. 75c.; closed at 93f. 60c.—tank Moe - , 1635f.—Neapolitan Five per Cents. 801.—Enchnnre on London, one month, 251.35 e. I three ditto, 251. Sc. Prom the notice which appeared io our paper of yes. terday, oar readers will perceive that the Norfolk and Norwich Ptrr Mom has been revived, after a lapse of two years. This is a time to revive Pm. Menus! Mr. Ptres reign hai been the ruin of England. Ha it was, who, with a more subtile and base hand than that of Walpole, undermined the liberties of this country; and us, it was, with a profligacy of EXPINDITURS, u mpled in all other nations and ages, laid a debt on this country, with which it is tottering to itsgrave. Mr. Wormootraz, M.P., was in the Chair. That Gentleman, if we understood the report of his pepeech, endeavoured to persuade the company] that Mr. PITT would not have suffered the land-owners, and their tenantry, to come to the distress they 'rein, if he had lived. Mr. PITT could have done nothing to save or relieve the landowner, and landholder, had he been living, and in the plenitude of his power, but by a most rigid economy; and was he the man to practice xcorrony ? We do not wish the country, •r other gentlemen, who meet to dime in Parr's Woe, we do not wish to see them profane or wicked. But, if they were to meet to curie Mr. Ptrr's memory, they would not do so foolish a 'thing as they do now, though they would do a thing less innocent. That the CONTRACTORS, and LOAN J , and such like men, who were en riched by PITT'S system, almost to surfeiting, should dine and praise Purr with his nremonr, is not *uprising. —Sir WILLIAM CURTIS, and a few more turtle. eating citizens, may aptly 'sough name Pyrr, as their Madeira, or Champaign, pass down. But what have the Country Gentlemen, what have the Land Own. ern, and what their Tenantry, to do with Mr. PITT, or his Maxon; except to execrate both the one and the other? But, we understand the thing. The humbug memory is kept up, le preserve the spirit which din. tinge iahrd Prrr's times, to nevem the loyalty which has plunged this country into ruin. Bet it won't do. Even good dinners, with plenty et good wine, can now hardly bring. or bold together, a few dozen of PITT'S RCMCNIImiNSerS. Mr. WODEROUSE, we dare say, look. ed sorrowfully enough in the chair, the other day; and it is quite plain, he did not know what to say or think. We wish him, and all such gentlemen, to consider well, before they go to smother PITT Dinner, whether it might not be wiser and better for them to go to a literonn MISTING. and vote downs TN IT SYSTEM which has re duced them from OPULSNT LANDLORDS to Manor GENTLIMIN. STATI or lIILAND.—With the exception of the de plorable condition to which the Pairs have redneed the farmers, and the want of rents the owners land, the last papers from the country do not happily supply us with an account of any recent outrages in the south or west. The King's counsel are sitting as chairmen of the Special Sessions under the Insurrection Act, at Limerick, Cork, and Kilkenny; but there was scarcely any business done. The military parties stationed in different pasts of the County Cork, have been called to bead-quarters. Temporary barracks are to be erected in the most dis turbed districts; and, as far as the number of the soldiers will allow it, this and the adjoining counties will be sub jected to military occupation.—We are almost tired with repesong that this is a state of things that can not possibly continue for another year. This opinion appears, at length, to become general.— But, while the thing was going on, while Taxes, Tithes and Rents were paid, the mining mischief was not regarded.—Every one who pointed out its workings was considered a marked tnea—an enemy to our glo rious Constitution in Church and State. lint empty pockets are wonderful Kelitemers. Them are no Rents to be had, and the Irish Proprietors have discovered that something must be done for Ireland. never recol lecting that what has been hitherto done in the manage- mem of Irish affairs, has been done for their interest, and in a great measure at their suggestion. It is noto rious, that, while they obtained their rents freely, they regarded the Peasantry as grass, upon which they might tread at pleasure. A crisis has come tibial they never contemplated, but a Ida every man of sense fore saw. They have done nothing for the country, and they have left themselves without the capacity of doing any thing effectual. Too deeply engaged in cultivating their own personal interests—in cultivating the +Wird nistrstien for jobs or for places, they left Ireland without any representative of her interests or her wants in the Imperial Parliament. Had these representatives looked a little more to their country, and little less to their own immediate and selfish views, the country would not have retrograded so rapidly since the Union.—With the re. sources and - fertility of Ireland, it is impossible. bad the Irish Peers and Members of the Hoose of Commons la boured for her prosperity, that she would be in the situ ation in which we now behold her.—We leave the Union out of the question; but, we should he glad to be in formed, in what has it benefitted Ireland ? It was to effect wonders; has it effected any thing ? Did it give entaacipation to the Catholics ? Did it Five death to the Corporations, these pests of Ireland? Did it crush the Orange System, that ever-burning torch of discord 1.• it lighten the tales? DIJ it p u t a stop to Gran 4 j ur y biog? Did it purge the Magistracy? Did it allevia; , burden of titbes? If it did not do 3nyof thnsethingr,r4 Food bas it done ? Oh ! but we Lad all these bef ore Union. Very true, and it was under the peewe e , removing some of them, at least, th a t the Unicorn e,. enacted. It is a great deal better therefore, t o tst t ; thing about the beneficial effects of the Union, ned!" ran put your finer,' upon some tangible benefit this measure has conferred on Ireland. The teeth that Ireland has been much beeefitted during the l es ., !alio° of the last forty years—for tlitrterro include s! . first twenty of that period. Since then we bete '. l i little proof of her prosperity. The Union took airs: our nobility and gentry. and it left us all tl a abases, the correction of which we were told it *4 speci e t enacted.—(Dittelin Erating Post.) On Saturday morning, two troops of the Fintlde Guards left here to proceed to Brighton, where tiler are 'to stay daring his Majesty's intended residence there. This day two more troops of the Life Guards lefi to Brighton ; there now remains here four troops. His Majesty bas fixed Saturday nett for leavine Windsor, for the Royal Psvillion at Brighton. ^ If his Majesty should honor the Civic Feast with presence, which is anderstood to he almost certain, the Light Horse Volunteers will meet his Majesty at Lee pie Bar, and escort him to Guildhall, ;there the Hos. Artillery Company will be drawn up ter re ce i ve hi s m a• jesty, they being possessed of similar rights to the Royal Archers of Scotland. BRIOCTON, OCT. 20.—At this moment, WM n'doe, . , a post-boy has arrived at the Ship Inn, who hrings ire telligenca that all along the coast, from liasthour. Newhaven, Seaford, Ste. is strewed with halls and ph*. on the beach. The tea to-day has rolled mountains C.O. The sight was awful and so blitn A clergyman in this comity, when about to read the Marriage Act to his congregation, a.ldres,ed th e . t a w: —u I shall preach no sermon this morning at yet will see; but shall read what will tire both you and me."— (Drootuhire Fereholdes.) Mr. Bowring, the Gentleman mentioned as being a , rested by the French Go tent, is the son of Mr. Charles Rowing. of Larkbeare, near Eteter.—(pty. mouth Tekgrapis) Captain Frankly' arrived in town yesterday, from Hs journey to the Copper Mine River. in' the Arctic Re. 'tone, and had a long interview at Earl Batherst's.eime. The intrepid traveller, considering all the sufferings sal privations be has undergone, appears in tolerable goad health. Lord Liverpool and the Chancellor of the gmbell-. have determined to subunit to Parliament, memo( time first measures of finance, a plan or coevertisp the OA Four per Cart. Annuities into Throe and an Half yr Cent. The result of a similar operation with mom t. the Fives last year, occasions this experissest.—(llo,.. iag• Chronicle.) Advice. were yeverday received at Lloyd., that th. Benson, of and for Masi 0.. from St.Thonias's, had hem plundered on the 3d and 4th of August, of rarities stores, and of a part of her valuable cargo, by two Pirates frau Porto Rico. It would be very difficult, we know, to make oat lig arconnt, but we are ashati, that if the amount of tally , s demanded throughout Feland this year, 1n22, was cos• pared with that levied ten year. ago, when corn was tourer five times Represent average price.thetotal would he found doable. Now, do the Ad►oc*tes of Tithes think that such a state of things as this can last ? Or do they ima gine. that the silly and o•trageous impetatieue whisk they lavish upon the Nobility, lientry, Lantesestm.and Partners of Ireland, can perpetuate such a oystem ?— (Dtt/4w Rom. Poet ) It is army wises to elverm that almost is the Ade rattiest proportion in which farming prodnew'flecliaed, the demands of the tithe-owners have advinessl. Te• years ago, wheat was from 12.. to 15s. • bushel, a•d a parish was assessed in 5001. a year on scrott•t of tithes. Wheat is now from 31. 6•I. to 44.6.1. a bushel, and the demands of the same parish is 1,5004 But perhaps the whole parish is notlahle now to pay 1,5011/ in rest. This is not an imaginary case—we know several of the kind. But one of the most extraordinary instances ire beard of we shall beg leave to slate, without, however. mentioning names. What does the Reader think id " Three Pounds an Acre being demanded as a Title - open Wheat i" The statement is astoanding and incre dible. We pledge ourselves to its truth, however. The miracle occurred in the county of Clare, and now the demand is at this moment in course of litigation. Ne♦ we would relieve this worthy Gentleman, and ethers is his predicament, front the necessity a•d the idioms( making such demands; and this we mere the Church. never ran be done unless she contents to a Cossaatuarr,a of Tithes.—(!Girl.) At the Reading Quarter Sessions, which closed os Wednesday last, the Magistrates, baying tak►n into co sidera•inn the depressed state of the agricultural inter• est, came to a resolution to lessen the county r de, reducing as mach as possible the amount of eapeac,b usually allowed to prosecutors. Extract of a letter from a farmer in Soreersetsbire : " The Agriculturists here are in great distress. 1 an selling he hest sample of wheat I have sees this year for five shillings per bushel. Dow tortes alone are to be paid at that rate, without the rent, is to me a mystery; but we most try and float as long as we can, and thee go down " pop ' all at once. This teems to be the or- der of the day now." The new Marriage Act was read in all the churches of this city yesterday 'insight. We perceive it stater'. that it was read instead of a semen, in solsc of the country churches, to the great edification, no doultt, of their respective congregations.—(Bristol Merearyy', Flat AT Sr. Jellaaa'S t.nvaeu, BRlSTol.—.;bout three o'cleek on Thursday looming, the watchmen oa duty in St. James's Churchyard, discovered a great light in theismr of the church. On calling up Mr. Davy, the Clerk, and proceeding to cyanic' the pre mises, it was found that the first goor of the tower bad caught fire, and was hnrning rapidly. One of the bares Imams was "lethally burnt several inches deep when the discovery was made; but the flames were easily etre "Meted. The plumbers had been at work there daring the day, and having had a fire on the sone part of the floor, it is supposed that the arcideat was oe,adoeed by an is tiller falling between the h oa rd s . At the Somerset gtiebaelwas Sessions at Tenet's, no M. tidily, James Martin was convicted of being a rogue and vagabond, and sentenced to six months' imprisea• ment to hard labour in the lintiae of Corry lion ■t Sliepton•Mallet, for leaving his wife and family charge able to the pari.h of Walcdt. Mr. Plielips, the Chair. man, observed, he was sorry there was not a tread•mJl erected in the Hose of Correction to give Lbw to these kind of offenders, of is hick there were several whers: but added, such a thing was in contemplation, sod would soon be completed. This, we believe, is the first conviction which has taken place under the 3d of lien. IV. commonly called the Vag:aut Act. We noticed, in a former paper, that the yiteltion rtlb• live to the removal of the County Gaol from Ilche , ter to Shepton•Dtallett, by means of enlarging the preen , . House of Correction at the latter place, would b• brought under consideration at the neat Sessions, and we learn the decision was against such a measure. 1 b • gaol, at I lchester, will therefore continue to be used until a new punishment is made and agreed to. I' 4 " subject will, however, be again discussed at the nest Epiphany Sessions, and then finally decided. ne *tatesinan. " BRITISH STATESMAN" IR INCORPORATBD RITE "THE STATSSISAN." ' }~! , I b i