The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1825-11-28 00:00:00

g a zugya i*RS-11V-CHIEF 'lf LAOIS. The obi ereetisa lo tor last PIPET, UPOn the recent adju ...Aim o f the County Meglatrates, at Gosport, which de 3st eete teneemed Commander-in-chief os. , Sir Jam es e9 "' . h d forfeited the sum of 4 upon the conviction %;*Hers, who Were taken in' the act of destroyi ng timeit tw i n t h e perish of Rowncr, have excited much interest a . e g the military circles. We therefore transcribe the c b . v ier the Act of Parliament under which the coovic „o.,• to ok place : --.. Tx Oth c!). iv. C. ii. 29—That for the better pemerration et pr . t i t a i. o , fl o w st;: r is i ier " :;i i s l g e t:i i ru s t Zare l :s i f ler t s he are gusto...* ) ,,e l— tirst had and obtained, take, kill, or destroy any hare, Pi Atteint, partridge, pigeon. Of any other von or go l ds, err;',,, flit,. nr his 3latesty's game, and upon complaint thereof I71 ;1 ',„: upon the oath of one or more credible witness or 'times. os ,rieted before sly Justice or Justices of the Pear" who is e', ~. i irt empowered irtd 'etherizer' to, hem aid d e termin e 17. 0 7, - ; 0 7 officer so offending shall for My awl offence, tie• the ten of five pounds, to he Matthaei ahoy the pnor '-,,, „! * ee where such offence elan be eumeltted r and even t ome , e nding.in.Chier upon the place, he every such of ten,,,„,im.ft by any soldier under hiss c omman d shall forfeit t e ' he e s .. th , a t wenty s.hillings, to is' paid and distributed in the man. the s•, : and it upon conviction made by the Justices of the p re . a• nd demand thereof also made by the constables or over. .... of t he poor, sub offiewshan refuse or neglect. an d not w i t hi n 1 1 ( . " , : jars ry t h e acid respective penalties, such officer so refining „, ci a r congshlll forfeit, and he is hereby declared to have far. : .tri h i 43 ummissloo; and his commission is hereby declared to loran and raid." We understand that the Magistrates, as well as Sir James 1. ,,,. here taken the opinion of Counsel, upon the for t:tire being affixed upon the Commander-to-Chief, re ,',sit io Portsmouth, and not on the officer in , command t i ce rwt, under whose immediate orders the soldiers v te: middle" authoilties severally concur In the opinion e: t h e Magistrates, that the übiquity of Sir James Lyon is o ., ste esive with the limits of his command ; and that, in rid meformity to military usage, the officer commanding in 6i e f is assumed to be omnipresent upon evcry place ..., I , 3 ,his jurisdiction: so that the opinion we expressed i , „ li e. that, u the law pow stands, Sir James Lyore ,ej be liable, ex-officio, as Commander-in-Chief, to a il s foriitarelor every such offence committed by a soldier, et a tleugh he should be quartered in the City of Bristol, e b.eb is comprehended within the South-West District. Then: i 3 also much peculiarity in the severe penalty et udes! to the non-payment of the forfeiture. lint, whilst A t Art may be intended to prevent his Majesty's service feu king injured by the confinement (by the civil autho teifs)of such soldiers as may commit these offinces, and to anent the highest officer intimately with the men under v i effluent!, so that no oTenee of this nature may be com mit:4 without being reflective upon the whole body (t!ereby encouraging strict discipline and an erpicit Jr corps ens ery and woeful in military life), yet we presume that err is en emission in the Act, in not stating the manner by which the Officer Commanding-in-Chief is to be re-im teed, and the mode by which the penalties may ultimately w visited upon the persons who actually commit the trews il'e are informed that the question has been submitted be thu consideration of the Commander-in-Chief, and Pet l i ii Royal Highness has graciously signified his in t t n t a of communicating with his Majesty'a Governnedit evt the subject, in order that the law may be revised or , r t e:lo.—lfuvrpshire Telegows. LITERPOOL COMMERCiAr. INTPLLIGENCE. SATURDAY, Nov. 26. The demand for B. P. Sugar this week has been chiefly by the grocers, and about 900 Mids. have been sold at Is. lower No. thing done in East Indlace foreign. In 3lolasies no sales. About 101 casks B. P. Coffee have been taken by the Grecers at steady prices. In foreign Coffee nothing done. About 400 bags Black Pepper have been sold at Std. to 4d. per lb. In Cocoa, Pimento, or Ginger, no sales. In Ashes the sales have been 300 brlls. Mon treal Pete, at 29e. 63. a 295. for old, and 3135, for new ; 100, belti. do. Pearl at 31s. 33. a 325. with a small lot of States PM! at 33.. 33. L IP Dyewood the mks are Peary, and are, 30 tarts EamOcae. , Y !Atwood at nr. a RI. :I . 3. I .50 tone Jamaica at 171.19. • 71.25. 20 tons sold Nicaragua Wood at 211. 15s. • MIL t 10 lone Infe rior et Mt., and 00 tons rough at lel. leis. per ton. ; 130 tels. Stockholm Tar at 10.. ed. per barrel, and MN brie. Turpentineat 103. 9d. per cwt; 40 tanks Carolina Rice at 21s. a Mr., and 9100 bags East India at 21.. The recent imports of }fides hem; been brought Indy into the market, and at the auction I sales prime Buttes Ayres ex and cow have sold at fell prices, whilst those of middling quality can only be pushed of at lower rates ; the sales are 13,569 dry M. A. at ov. a 12d. ; 11,300 salted at 64d. a 6Jd. ; and • few very prime at Gild I 1,000 North American. price not named. Horse Hides ate steady, 14,000 have been sold at as. 7d. for interior and loose : sad 51. &I. for good in rases. No Sales in Florae-hair, Nutria, or Chinchllii Skins. Nothing in either Cork Tree or Oak Bark. Quercitvon Bark in very trilling request; 30 hhds. fair Philadel phia sold at 13s. 6d. In Lemon Juice, 12 pipe, sold at Is. 61. a Is. Hub ; and 8 pipes Lime Juice at Is. 6d. • 21. Olive Oil is dull, sad some descriptions are offering lower. Ten tons Galli poli mold at 421. 10a. a 431., and a small parcel of Sicily at 31$1. 10s. In Palm Oil the salmi are considerable at 261. los. Brimstone dull, and only sells in small parcels. Saltpetre in goad request 150 bags sold at 204. a 28ii. In Sumach 135 bags Sicily sold at 16s. a 16.. &1., and 63 big, Verona at 10s. 3d. In Cotton we here had a limited demand in consequence of the large sales by unction. and the K . .. 2. are generally to Ad. lower than last week. The private salts of the week have been 308 n ban Upland Georgia at 74.1. a 100. t 400 New Orleans at Dd. a 1110. ; 2200 Alabama at 7d. a IQ.?; 180 Sea Islands at mid. a 2.4.3 d.; 100 Stained Sen Isl.nd at pd. a Is.9d, ; 200 Pernambecoat 121t1. a 12jd ; 453Bratit 111 d. apt.* 708 Maraidues• ma I led. 12.14 23 Pares a lel • ;WO 31 ina Plimeat Ild.; 230 Egyptians at 10/d. a Itld ; 100 enterers at 114. a 1210. ; 50 Cumanas at 101 d. ; 40 Bahama at 1610. a 1 Id. ; 60 Behadoes at 9d. a 9ed. ; 30 % Vest India at 101 d ; 10 Carthagena at 84d . ; 200 Surat at 61. to 7d., and 30 Bengal at Gjl. ; making together about 8100 begs. The public stiles were :- Offered, 2811 t'pland - . Sold 1569 7d. a lOLd 694 Orleans - Slit 75. a 10.1 90 Stained Sea Island . 37 .1. a lld 1902 Albama 1473 .1. a 8d Demerara . - :56 I%d. • 1: 510 30 Egyptians - - 33 a II pi Bahama -70 80. a 11 26 ihrba does (coat Sea Island2i Cad. a 211 d S. al 165 Sicilian . 161 9d. a 91.1 6140 41`.1 , 1 Making thc sales upwards of - 12,400 bags. ruronTto INTO rirsaroot. Trion Till 19TU TO Tut 26711 NOVEMAT R INCLUSIVE. 264 brli. 161 •one - 674 logs 109 casks 276 tons - 264 has. 04 bets. 119 tons 2,1100 bags 612 Mids. . 21 brls. 1.976 der SOS salted 1.166 casks - ?2 pieces Ashes - Fnsde allow NI shimmy - Brims:en e Flou r - Ttlfrrntine 04k Bark • sumach - Tobacco 1 Mgt, - !lidos _ D.tto Palm 0.1 - Brandy - %Vine - 120 pipes IPittn 60 hhds. Elephants' Teeth 11 teeth Olive Oil - 28 casts Cotton. .. --.... Egyptian . - 1.151 bags New Orkin, 7:10 do. Othtr AnJerican 418 do. Brazils - V* do. I , c!and & 31 dn. Europe - 3;0 do. THE TVALWoR77I GHOST. 3,412 bag. Oa Saturday, Snow, ee constable of Newington, introduced an elderly man and his son into the police-office, saying', he oedematal that they had a singular application to prefer, the fus tian of which he did not really comprehend, but it sm. something connected with the rumour of a ghost, believed by the credulous to haunt some houses recently erected in Hamplomstreet, Walwarth. Hellen Hedger. Esq. the Magistrate before whom the appli cants appeared, desired to know what gave rise to so ridiculous a story. An elderly man now advanced to the table, and detail ed the following particulars :—lle had been a hard-working man, he said, and by great economy had acquired some property. Being desirous of investing Ilia money securely, he purchased some land la Hampton street, Walworth, upon which he erected Peseta Eder bowies. having procured some respectable tenants he had asaicipated reaping • golden harvest front his spectla don, but he was now apprehensive, that instead of its proving benefkial, it would be the reverse, and that ton, arising solely from the ill-nature of sonic persons to whom his bousis ;rue a lancied ere.ettre. In ottl.r to render his tenants uncomfortable, and in du:e them to quit their habitations, a scheme of perpetual annoy. once had been adopted. As soon as it was dark, missile% such as smell pieces of ru.,bish, were thrown at the sindows and doors of the houses, and the inmates had in vain endeavoured to discover the individuals who thus disturbed them. Complaints are rightly made of this description. and the windows had been broken over and over again. He and Lis son had kept nightly watch, they heard the stones nod other Clings pass over their heads but could not l - am who threw them. As there were several housea close by, and some high walls, no doubt some person was secreted there for the mischievous purpose. So long a watch having been kept with. out discovering the author of the annoyance, an idle tumour now prevailed, that the whole work was accomplished by supernatural agency, and many superstitious people were inclined to give cre dence to the ridiculous representation —Snow here placed before the Magistra.e a basket full of stones and a pair of old shoes, which he said had all been thrown at the houses in question. The Magistrate inquired what the owner of the house wished to he done ? I am anxious, replied the applicant, to have a summons against a young woman who lives near my dwelling, and whom I strongly suspect to be concerned in the transaction. %Vila arc your grounds of suspicion ? asked the Magistrate. These shoes. replied he, which were found thrown at the door by my sot a eight or two back, exactly correspond with those which she wore when asked to compare them. Snow now observed, that the morning after the shoes were found he went and questioned the young woman, and on compar ing the shoes with those she then had on, titer corresponded s:ze and shape. Rut her mistress declared that she was never from her presence on the evening that the shoes were cast at the house, to that it was impossible to bring home the charge to her ser vant. The applicant pressed very much for a summons agetnst this young WORIA:1, but the Magistrate W9UIII not grant one. flis Wor. ship, however. advised him to be vigilant, and he would soon dis. cover the author of the mischief. Snow now remarked, that be had often apprehended people suspected of theft, but never any one reputed to be endowed with supernatural powers. If he once seized the ghost, he added, it would not Easily 'finish front his sight. The old insuinnl his son then ri.Tired. FRAC/M:LENT ♦xD CONCFALMENT OF BANXRUFT'S PROFERTY.—It will, perhaps, be in the re collection of our readers, that in the month of August last, Richard Thewlis, of Huddersfield, ironmonger, was com mitted by the Commissioners under his bankruptcy to York Castle, for fraud and gross prevarication, on his examina tion, touching the discovery of his estate and erecta. On Tuesday last, in consequence of information obtained by the Solicitors to the Assignees, a search warrant was issued against Jonas Haywood, of Bradley, farmer (brother-in law to the bankrupt), and two others ; and on going to the premises, a large quantity of goods (part of the bankrupt's stock in trade, Slid which had been fraudulently removed from his premises by night, a short time previous to his bankruptcy), were discovered, concealed in different parts cf the premise!, same of them being secreted in the house, others amongst hay and straw in the stable and barns, others in an opening under the barn tiger, and several valuable articles buried in two large holes in the earth, dug for the purpose, in the garden and in an adjoining field.— Leeds Mercury. On Tuesday night last the French silk warehouse of Messrs. Depoully, Nourtier, and Co. in Bond -street, Man chester, was broken into, and a quantity of fancy silks, amounting in value to fifty or sixty pounds, cut from the looms in the weaving-room. The robbers had gained ac cess to the warehouse by getting upon the roof of one of the new buildings at the bottom of Mosley-street, by means of a ladder which was left in it, and then passing over the roofs of the houses, until they came to that at the corner of Bond-street, formerly occupied by Mr. Gumpel, and row by Mr. Bannerman, and which forms part of the same building with thesilk-warehouse. They got through a window into Mr. Ilanne►man's attic, without being beard 1 1 by the family ; and then broke through a thin partition into the attic of the silk warehouse, and forced open two or three doors before they could get into the weaving-room.— There were two dogs on the premises ; but, unfortunately, they were abut up in the cellar, where it was supposed the greatest danger existed. Nothing has yet been heard of the property.—Manehester Guardian. _slim,. IVfril I N7'E LLIG r NCE. PORTSIWOUTII, NOT. r. .__...' .....1....01.0.-- .. . . Yeaterdll Irivinfr 4 1 , 1 r0 .trinsfutl, lieut. Cooley, in thirty i days from geenee. neameinarters ot the 37th Regiment on board, on Major Arne. The remainder of the regiment will return home in As Romney, rw, Capt. N. Lock/er, C.B. which drip would leave Quebec in a few clays after the ~to.—The 711th Regiment, from Cork, relined the 37th Regiment, in service at Canada. A letter we berm received from the Cape of Good Hope sari— .. Th e :tiountaineer, Wend to Van Diemen's Land, with settlers on board, in attempting to pan between the Main and Noah's Ark i (the entrance of billoa's Bay), struck, sustained corsiderable damage, hat since hem have dawn, and her expenses wise exceed thirty thou•and pettaak' The Sir llcury Paget has arrived with a sprung fore, main, 4od eelaeo matt.—The I iwan Glentlower is not expected to proceed ID the Mauritius till next rear.—Major Blake has 'beer appointed Commandant at Sinian's - l'own, vice Lieut.- Colonel Somerset, appointed Private Secretary to his Excellency the Governor." Letters hove been received here from the Maiddrne frigate, Commoslnre ('harks Wien, C.R. dated the lath of September. at Prince's Wand, at which time the sqoadroa was unusually healthy. The 31aithtone hod meat!) , captured a Dutch slave ship, with two sets of papers on beard. Tho batch Captain mistook the Al aidstone for a french frigate, and unwittingly produced a set of documents, which will lolly conden.a; him. Tile letter says—. ". The Dutchman was Wonderfully entity-it when he came upon the quarter-deck, and fogad that the Maidstnne was an English frigate." The slaves owe all in the most horrible state of con finement. The Samarang relieved the Ariatlne, at the Mauritius. on the 22d August- The Redwing, arrived at Sierra Leoneon the 11th of Airmst, from Engbad. The Albion 'arrived at Gibraltar on the 29th October. Iron, tort. The Ley and Tees arrived at 111a. 1 dras on the 151 h July,• tllp Sophie at Calcutta, from Rangoon, leaky, the 27th June. Thei'werti nailed from Fayel fur llalifax, the 231 October. The Rainbow, 28, the nen. Captain Roils. for the Cape of Good llone, and the Dispatch, 18, Captain Paeans, for the coast of Africa: the Ganges for Madras wall Calcutta; and shoot thirty sail of other outward.bouad merchant eliinv, are detained here by contrary wind.. The Bresilien frigate Parings. Captain Shepherd, will sail for Rio Janeiro in the worse of next week, should tie witui trove fair. The Dotterel, 111, Capt. itenry EJwards, is nrcleretl here. Prow ich, to take despatches to Halifax, ana juin the North American squadross. Tne crew and psatengers who arrived from the West Coes: of Africa in the Surrey trat.aport, being perfectly restated to health, it is expected that this ship will now be released from the restraint of quarantine._ _ Captain Pulkingborne it appointed to the Sparrowll3%k, le, at thim port. Captain Newcombe, who paid ntr the Pyramus, at this port, a short time since, presented Captain Luck-raft, his late First Lieu tenant of that ship, with a handsome and highly chased silver cup and salver. We believe this to be a solitary instance of so great a mark of esteem, and it mu•t prove a high and gratifying compli ment to the merits of this officer. PLYMOVTH, Nov. 21. Arrive,: the Camelion, 10, Captain Itl. Seymour, from Lisbon, last from Falmouth. She left the Tatts on the 15th lost. The Soartiate, 74, was daily expected there. She was spoke on the 28th September, off the Cape de Vera., having on hoard the Portaguese Diplomatic Authorities, who went to Rio .laneiro with Sir Chas. Stuart, to negotiate the terms of indcpendrace for the ltrazil;an States. Arrived the Nightingale. from a cruise. The Druid, 48, Captain Chambers. and Harlequin, 18, Captain Jantec Scott, bound to the Cast India station, are previously to prated to spit. head. Sailed the Nightingale, on a cruise Falco , t, for Liverrool. Arrived the Pike fmm Cork. Remain—Britannia. Demon, M iml. sar Castle, Druid, Shamrock, Talbot, Pandora, Nimrod, Harle quin, Victor, Carnelian, Dove, Swallow. Pike, Hound. Onc hundred and fifty male convicts have been transhipped from the hulks at this place to on board the Sersostris, bound to New South Wales. The head•quartcrs of the 87th Regt. arc embarked in ha.—lataprftire Tcleptai h . THE ORCHARDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. Me Dreher& of Somersethhire are as ancient as the fthie rriod of the British history. The apple seems otipniCy to have been brought into Britain by the Hest eosin from Gaul, and in particular by the British Iltedui. s(4& tribe, who settled in the north and eastern parts of &present Somersctsbire. It was not unusual among the arkst Britons to retain the names of the tribes of which Ott were originally members, and from which they colonies to this island. Such were these Htedui, Cr) ette descended from the lEdui of Gaul. Hence we foil the the of the present Glastonbury to hove been din tin,73l-hel, before the Roman Advent, by the discrimi ns:ing title of Avallonia, or the Apple Orchard ; and the soft lava relish of the fruit no strongly recommended it to the Britons that another Avellana arose in the north of Digital. And before the third century of the Christian to. the fruit appeara to have been disseminated over the zcl,mil to have even stocked the distant and unro testa regions of frindand, - with large plabTations of the Nene Aram, in his " Collections for a Dictionary of tlechic language," says that the name of the apple tree iterrupor. of " Apollo's Tree." And that thi s i s i ts • will be easily deducible from a little reflection on tiic profs in support of it. The prizes in the sccred games vre the (diva crown, apples, parsley, and the pine. Lucian, Book of Games, affirms that apples were the reward ':.e sacred games of Apollo; and Curtius asserts the • It arpears also that the apple tree was consecrated t,!.-olio Wore the laurel; for both Pindar and Callima e.)3 (+serve ll'at Apollo did not put on the laurel until sfizr his trnquest of the Python, and that he appropriated et::' , "-iself on =mint of his passion for Daphne, to whom the hue! was sacred. The victors wreath at first was a h;7:11 with its apples hanging upon it, sometimes with a lerdt of laurel ; end antiquity united these together as i!e reward of the victor in the Pythian games. The scarcity of the native, and the dearness of the fo rtii-a wines in Italy, several ages before tha conquest of &...;n lv Agricola, had called out the inventive fa , !!es of the Roman mind, and occasioned the ori- tliscovery of factitious wines. Those were still ned by the Romans and naturally taught to the ; they were made of almost all the products 012 tirc:iaril and the garden, the pear, the applo, rarlixtry, and other fruits. Two of them, therefore, tlTre t oe apreable liquors which we still extract from the pear, and which we still deuomin.te cider '.• 1 P: 77 y. The latter must have been called pyrints by the anti was therefore called per-id, perry, or pear ...44er, be the Britons. The former actually received the ri'si..cra among the Romans, the word being c3.lNvaiAlly lennunced by them " sidera," as the same tforuinciatiou along the present Italians satisfactorily therefore, the appellation of " cider" .nintig the Britons. or:!::-rds of the rich and delh , htful Vale of Taun- it= which delve is made in the greatest perfection, L!: seedy of being mentioned here in terms of the high ".;'"'Lv• There are many farmers in the neii , libourbood a ftar.ton, who sell their best elder for eight, ten, and even %Lve 1.• one:: a Itegshead ; and it is supposed they pew. ( 3 dart, pocestiar to thems2lves, of conducting the fer r"t''', thereby preserving a rich and delicious fla- Th! h_st fruit delights in a strong clayey soil. Unless Ectrit: 3 be observed in making, the labour is in ; f(r c' ler requires much greater nicety of manage : tt:ut nealt liquors. The apples are sufored to fall t !l'e!teLx, or when thoroughly ripe arc picked with great acy are put into betties to ferment, and remain in fts:c for titree or four weeks ; after they are ground •t the ll,:uor is expressed, it is suffered to remain in tubs, •: 3 to to hours, when a scum or froth will rise on the this they narrowly watch, and when it breaks, they for th e t! rst time into vessels ; after which unremit , .:! , t , !to 7 .n is necessary to prevent excessive fermentation " Lit,: ati,l frequent rackings. i:•e Committee of Mem:lan's of Cork have found it 'ATI.' t.) 2.)ply to Government on the scarcity of new r en n 17e in that city, upwards of 39,0001. of the old 1, -Itg abstracted from circulation, and only about ;11,. new furnished instead. The want of a suffi- J,l:. .1.• ' • amp and sixpences in much complained of, snich NIL Secretary Goulburn has promised an expe - rt• - . l ;etly.—Linteriele Chroni, le. I Saturday, a fine cock uheasant was killed by Mr. guo-maker, of Illack . friars, in the street where he • cs most of our millers know. is completely in torm.—.llanchealer Pape r. ..!„y morning, at a quarter before one o'clock, at t Ere hi oke out in the bowie of Mr. Powis. rope mxi --wall, which threatened destruction to ; hut, by the prompt arrival of the ri two oder engines, the fire WU got under, after • '. • • the house Rile, furniture, argil estriaging several :tars were lost, thet!glt n fitnily of small t y mitred by th... 1 a::: rimires. " r:' r., THE BRITISH PRESS. THE LATE MAYORALTY. __,........_ At the Mansf n eon-housa, dung tilla'e Mayoralty, the number of eases of offence inquired into varied but slightly from that of the preceding. The rua.ber of eases investigated when Alderman Garrett was Lend Mayor. was— Cases of Felony - - - 458 Cases of Ali demeanor - . &IR Cases of Assault - - - 130 Cases of Vagrancy . - - 360 Tmal - 1515 At Guildhall Justice•rootn the cases brought before the Alder men were— Cases of Felony - - 721 Cases of MisdeMeanor . . 1335 Casey or Assault . - - 452 Cares of Vagrancy - - - 103 Total - - :fill So that the whole number of cases brought before the City Ma gistrates during the late Mayoralty were— Cans of Felony - - - 1179 Cases of 3lisdemeanor 1843 Cases of /tumult - • . 632 Cases of Vagrancy - . 472 Total 4126 There has been a considerable diminution of crime of the mitt serious nature. Desperate street robberies Lave not been of such frequent occurrence as theywere two or three years ago in the dif. f;;Tetit districts of the City ; and the neighbourhood of iloundsditch and the narrow and winding alleys of Itishopspite have undergone some improvement, if we are to judge from the romparaiively in sipnificant number of complains mole against the conduct of those who haunt them. It is necessary, however, to Pate that the stopping up of those dangerous thoroughfares altogether would be extremely desirable, as tliPy are calculated to afford the most complete means of escape to those& Burglaries are less frequent. We nriderstrind the several parishes of the City are adopting the suggestion of the present Lord Mayor with repect to the better security of houses at night, by directing I the watchmen so to regulate their movements as never to be absent from one place long enough to allow a robbery to be effected. The offence of uttering forged notes is scarcely ever heard of. Indeed forgery seems to be confined to the dashing ranks of society, in which the conduct of Fauntlerny seems to hare operated rather as an encouragement than a caution. Several extensive forgeries have been lately committed upon eminent houses in the City, and in some instances the losers are persons to whom the guilty indi. viduals have been under great pecuniary obligations. The rouge et noir, or hazard table, has been abundantly supplied from the produce of forged bills. In consequence of the desperate mania for ' speculating in joint-stock companies another sort of robbery has be. come very common amongst men who have been holding up their heads very high—ernbenlement. In fact, no estimate can be formed of the extent of the plunder of this description ; for it is well known that in several instances public exptsure has hem prevented by the prompt exertions of the friends of the parties in making up the de ficiencies or compromising them. The general character of the crimes of the lower t rders seems to be undergoing a change. Petty swind. ling and pocket picking ream to substitute those to which the penalty tit death is affixed. Almost all the great city gangs of violent depredators ate broken up. 'Die operations of the Dudfields nod triter who:etale plunderers have not lately been heard of. The exploits of the Crowder, and the Townley, have for a long time ccase.l, and, for aught that is known to the contrary by the I police, who e exertinns they have so often baffled, multitudes of other levrers of contributions upon the public are now living honestly. The public are indebted tnAldertirom Thorp for seve ral improvements in the police, the system of patrolling the streets more frequently and effi;ctively having been adopted in his mayoralty. The close general average of the gross amount of magisterial business during the last five years Is curious : In the Mayoralty of Alderman Thorp the number of cases investigated in the City was - 4,220 In Alderman Magnay's . - 4,008 Its Alderman licygate's . 4.428 In .11derman Waithman's - 4.292 In Alderman Garratt's - 4,1211 In Alderman Wood's mayoralties the number in each year was from 5,000 to 8.000. It has been for several years enforced in the Mansion House, that one active inteldgent man was of more service than a dozen of the men generally employed as watchmen ; and it is well known that the City police establishment, which con sists of from 40 to 60 chosen men, who are well paid, do mote service to the public titan three times the number of ward officers, constables, watchmen, ICe. In some of the wards old men are still employed as watchmen, and robberies are frequent in those wards ; for what can be expected front the efforts of an aged person, who is remunerated for his duties with no more than 10s. a week ? MURDER AT NOTTINGHAII.—The remains of the un fortunate Mrs. Wood (who was murdered in such a cruel manner by her husband) were interred in St. Mary's burying ground on Sunday. A great crowd of people, who commiserated her hapless fate, . attended the funeral ob sequies. With respect to the wretched husband, we have nothing further to add, than that his mind continues in nearly the same state as before he cunimitted the honiti deed. It has been ascertained, that 'he bought the coal pick the day before for the very purpose to which he ap plied it. —Nottingham Journal. GOVERNOR OF LANCASTER CASTLE.—WC understand that there are several candidates for the office of governor of Lancaster Castle, which is about to he:ome vacant by the resignation of Mr. lliggin. Amougst them are Mr. joint Nelson Lavender (the present governor of WoreCster gaol, and brother of the Ihputydeonstable of this town) ; Mr. Miller, head police-officer of Liverpool; Mr. Liddell, go vernor of the house of correction at Preston P • and Mr. Hardman, gover nor o f the house of industry at Liverpool The appoietment, we belirre, rests in the =Ostrow of the canny. LAW NOTICES. COURT OF CHANCERY. laTOIll Tilt LORD CIIANCILLLOIN ?XIS DAY. Bankrupt Petition (tor judgmenii—lix-parte Parke v. Bhp& Peii:ion (part lieard)—S.t,iiii v. Sharp. Lunatic Petition—ln re Turner. Petition—Ex-parte Fowlrr. After which. Minions will be heard. ITTORI VICE-Cl/ANCILLOII TIM OAT, To prove will—Motley v. Rushby. Bankrupt Pctitinut-11n re Seward and— ; es.parte Batton. After which, Motto, a will be fiend. COURT OF K INWS BENCH. Minntrati—The Court win sit At Westmhmterfrem Toady, the 21/th Nor. will Wednesday, the 7th Dec. Inclusive, and again after Christmas. LowDow—The Court wiU sit in !Arim from Tharsday, the 8:1% Dee. till ChristrllaS. The Lord Chief Justice will attend on Wed nesday, the 3lrth Nov. to silj.narn the Court; but he business will be done on that day in London. CAUSES TO HI TRIED IIY MIDDLESEX COMMON 111,tES TO•MORttOW, AT lIALF•YAoT NINE. Wilkiason !kyle v. EiliNon Noah v. Kelly v. Nroo.l Drtnan v. Salt Gunn v. Dignam Prentice v. 13enham The King v. Ilevett Churchill v. Guile Ambridge v. James Kent v. Curtis IVilliams v. Lvvy Doe, &c. y. Jacobs Philips v. Irelsad I Snewlu v..Brovir ..c, , . .., _ .oups v.. ...... v. Brown Calvert v. BooneI; I I', rry v. Codd Tidmar.ll v. Evora ferry v. Randolph I.l:verenx V. Crouch Cook v. Brown The King v. Spencer Aron v. 'Andy. IloWird; v. Brown Bryant v. brake I Spooner v. Wharton 1 Ayton v. Reid Same r. Arn.at I ‘Vrentrnore v.Whar- 1 gulches v. 3layor lames v. nor - I Si-- -- - Welt,- unea v. nor inn paver) v. vi alter Tile King v. Pencet I Br.r.ksv.Nigh:ingale Wade v. Aulby COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. CAUSES TO DE TRIED AT THE MIDDLESEX SITTIVO AFTER MICHAELMAS TERM, TO-MORROW, AT HALF-PAST NINE. Meeklew v. SOnibb and another Large and another v. Cleaver Child i. Grace Drew arid another v. Denbo. Thorndika v. Hervey rough Winhung v. Dewar Dae v. Towne Harr* v. Carer- Same v. Same II a/ and wheels v. illeredith Carter v. Mune and another liarrogiaen v. Al alnewatan Ilobeasson v. Cagtobell Shettle v. A colt Poplar. v. S.oc&date of Exchequer, nor in the Excite- No Sitting to-day in the Court quer Chamber. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT or CHANCERY, SATCEDAY, Nov. 2f;. H r. ?MAHN:. The circumstances of the case wale these :—The defendant had ' entered into an agreement for the emehase of a certain farm, of', which he took possession in tha year 11115. The property then was encumbered with annuities a,,d ionr.gages to a considerable ex tent, until 1822 ' when the principal annuitant died. In that year a bill was tiled for the specific performance of the agreement, the defendant then refusing to accept of the Mk. The defendant put in his answer early in the year 11123, and an application was made to the Viet-Chancellor for the interlocutory order to have the per chase money paid into Court; that order was made; but the money was not forthcoming, and the defendant was committed to the ;Fleet for contempt, where lie has remained ever since. Mr. Hart a short time ago moved fur the discharge of the defendant, alieging that lie had not accepted the title, and that, even if he had, he was now unable to pay the money. The Court refused to dis charge him, but suggested the prnpriety of having the case fully heard upon the atiidavits actually filed. Tee seggestion was agreed to, and the hearing of the cause accordingly came on this day. See ace, for the plaintiff', read extracts of letters and affi davits, containing expressions, distinctly, as he considered, ap proving and accepting the title. Mr. HART. on the contrary, said ah undeniable title never had been tendered; it nes true that the country attorney of the defendant had vet itten a letter desiring the draught of the title to be sent to him, l which would be executed ; but that letter had been written very incautiously, because the title was such, as no profes sional man ought to have said would be accepted. The Learned Counsel, however, could not deny that the case pressed hardly on his client, who had been in possession of the premises for so many years. lie was, however, row ready to give up possession to the plaintiff'ff, and to submit to every other condition the Court might think proper to order, protided the Court would discharge him. The Learned Counsel, in conclusion, complained that the plaintiff, had not used due diligence in bringing the (emit , to a hearing. Mr. SPENCE said the delay was mutual. because, if the de. fendant had wished to have the progress of the cause hastened, he might long ago have moved for the dismissal of the bid unless the plaintiff proceeded. The plaintiff had delayed the hearing, because he was in hopes that the defendant would have paid the money, it being known that he was possessed of property, and ro inclination existing on the part of the plaintiff to put the mate to more expense than could be avoided. The Loan CHANCELLoa called far the bill and answer, which he would read before Monday morning, and then dispose of the eaae. It was necessary to consider the statement that had been made against the plaintiff, visb treepect to hie not preereuting the cause diligently, because the defendant, if unable to pay, could rot be relieved by the Insolvent Debtors' Act, until a decree was made against hint. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, SATURDAY, Nov. 26. FALSE IMPRISONM ENT. WATSOV v. FAIIII.IF. AND OTHERS. . _ In this case, a motion was made yesterday to discharge Mrs. Anne Preece, one of the defendants, an old lady over 70 years of age, who has been eenlinetl within the walls of a prison for the last nighteen months, under an attachment sued out of this Court. When the motion was made yesterday, His lloxon it wen pleased to order her discharge; but, subse. fluently, suspended the order on the representation of Mr. Wake. held, who complained that the motion was made in his absence, although the opposite side were ROOM that he had instructions to oppose it. Mr. WAKEFIELD mentioned the case this morning, and stated, that though he had technical objections to the form of motion on which the order of yesterday was granted, still he would not press them, as it was a case in which personal liberty was involved, lie was, however, furnished with merits which must afford a fair ground of opposition. The VICE.CHANCELLon—het the ease come on now. Mr. LAWRAINE—I trust your Honour will permit me, in the first instance, to say a few words as to the mode of proceeding adopted by Mr. Wake fi eld yesterday, and as to what I un derstand fell from him on that occasion. I have been informed that Mr. Wakefield conic into Court after I had left it, and subsequent to my obtaining on order for the immediate discharge of my client; and that he then reormented to your Honour that lie had expressly informed me of his being instructed to op pose the motion on which the order was grounded, and complained of my having, - notwithstanding this explicit notice, made the ap plication behind his back. Now, Sir, I most positively deny that such an intimation was made to me. Sir, I never heard front him that he was instructed to oppose my motion. I applied about a week ago to your Honour on the part of another defendant, the facts of whose case were exactly the same as those of the present defendant; and I mentioned to Mr. Wakefield that I should make that motion, and asked him if he were instructed to oppose it. Ile replied that he was not, but that probably he might be. I then submitted that motion without a particle of opposition ; and did Wakefield come to my chambers after it to complain (as lie did yesterday) and ask me what business had Ito make the motion in his absence,or without apprising hint of my intention? I there fore put it to your Honour whether I wasnot justified in making yesterday's application, having, as I contend I did, given Mr. Wakefield proper notice of it—ard concluding, as I had a right to do. that no opposition wait intended, teem the tact of none being of fered in the former case, which was precisely the same as the pre sent, with this distinction only, that there, there was no imprison. ment—whilst here, this old lady has been confined for 18 months. What then does Mr. Wakefield do? lie comes into Court, after the order had been made—and in my absenre he prays that your Honour may hear him, and boastingly says, " liet me now be heard agtffinst this motion ; I have a most triumphant answer to it —I have affidavits with which to oppose it-1 have letters, and what not, which •niust convince your Honour that this application cannot be granted—that it is perfectly' without foundation." But what, Sir, is the fact? Why, I am prepared to show, that had Mr. Wakefield becti present. he would not be in a condition to oppose the motion; for we have ascertained, and it is embodied in anaffi - davit, that the affidavit of' which so much has been boasted was not filed till a few minutes before eight o'clock last night. Under these circumstances, {cation your Honour not to entertain this objection, which is a mere after-thought, a little trick. When I submitted the first motion to the Court, I did not mention the names of the parties, or the peculiar circumstances of the cue ; and the name of Mr. Watson I suffered to pass rob silentio. But now that it has been revealed, his feelings are outraged, his sensibility shocked, and something he deems necessary to prop his tottering character. which he thinks is too weak to shift for itself; and therefore it is, that the motion is made, and an order granted for her dis charge, with directions from your Honour that it should issue with. out delay. Mr. Waileirt.n—One of our affidavits was filed on the 22.1 of November, and meets both motions. Mr. I,awraine told me that he had two motions to make, and I received instructions on last Friday week to oppose them. I heard nothing of the Unice which had been made on the first motion till yesterday. I then was instructed to oppo , ^ the present one, and had. an 1 said before, a satisfactory answer to it both no to form and merits. It wan so de fective in form, that it could not succeed, hut wherethe liberty of the subject is involved I feel no disposition to avail myself of such an abjection, if. by shaping the motion diffirently the same object be attained. The motion as it stands in, that the " writ of at. tachuient against the defendant Anne Preece be set aside for ir. regularity." if an app.:trance were improperly entered fin. her, the motion obi-mid he dirt the entry of stch appearance be erased from the record. Hut I shall not dwell on this objection if al lowed to enter into the merits, though I am satisfied that the irregu larity which I mentio3 would be a full, comple.e, and insurmount. able objection. When the defendant swears that she knew nothing of the appearance being entered for her, pane Honour will, no doubt, beeurprised to lawn that she was fully aware of it on the 13 t h of september, ISMS. She than knew that Mr. Watson en. tared it for her, and was preparing her answer, for we have hare • letter from her of that date, desiring him to send down the answer to her to Watson.euurt, that she may peruse It before It was pig in, • The VICE-CHANCET.LOII--What answer hare you to make t• the fact that your affidavit was not In Court before•leat night. Mr. Wasrrtryti—There was one filed on the 121 November. The Vres-Cnawe eLt;tiot —Was it to meet this motion ? Mr. WAKEFIELD reOhed, that it WAS flied generally In the caw, The VICE.C!TANCELLOR—That will rot do if notice were not given that such affidadi liras not to be read on the former proceeding —when was tho affic/ivit which yon flied last night sworn P Law Ka IlYeatud, that it cnuld be secretly be dry, as he bed :tflidayit that it was not tiled till a few cantatas ben:gaslight The V :ct-CuJorcata.na eked whe:her ft was sworn when the arnl'catinn aces made yesterday. The plair,till Solicitor, we believe, rcpLed la the afEr m sure. The VICE-CnsucELLoo—The Court is disposed totake ad' Cartage of every defect in form where personal liberty is involved- You come litnt, Mr. Wakefield, to oppore a motion regularly made yeaterrlaii. upon an affidavit not filed till after the rising of the Court, r...: .Afar the order has been made. Mr. l;Atil:1 - 1ELD—Iillt their notice of motion was not nor. reel ; it should have been to strike oat the appearance. The VI C E •CII ET.LOR—I don't see the defect you point out ; the complaiat against the Attorney is, that he entered an appear ance for this lady without her krowledge, and that Subsequent to that entry of appearance , she still being fn total ignorance of It, he the identical attorney, being the attorney for the plaintiff; sued out an a tachinent against her for not putting in, her answer, and had her imprisoned for the space of eighteen months. Now, the present appliewzion is, that she be discharged from this imprisonment, and discharge her I moat certsinly will. It is trite the motion might ha ve gone farther, and requiref that the entry of her appearance be struck out ; but surely it cannot follow, that because it has not pine that length, I should, therefore, deprive het of *hat she is cleariy entitled to, namely. her discharge. I now' order her die. charge on this view of the case, that not anti! the motion was made y esterday, nor until the Coati terse, was the affidavit sworn ; and when sworn, not filed till eight o'clock last night. This lady is evidently entitled to the beet fit of this irregularity. Mr. WAX EFI tI. n raid a notice ass served yesterday, that on Mmilav nest a motion woull be made to refer it to the Master, to inquire what compenandon ought to be grained to that Met bay fur wiott was termed her false imprisonment. When that motion cam 7, he would be clntrly entitled to go into the merits of the ease, and he treated his Honour would allow the question of costs an this minion to stand over. and depend on the result of Monday's pro m:ding ; h..s then convinced the Court that she was not falsely imprisoned, his client would be entitled to costs on both motive.. 3lr. Ipiwnalwr. hoped his llonour would do no such thing— but for :he interference of Mr. Wakefield yesterday in his ab sence. this poor lady, w h o h a d b een confined within the walls of a riron for eighiten months, would have been liberated last night. The VicE.CnANcEtton—Mr. Lawraine, you are certainly entitled to costs on the present motion, but you had better consider well the motion nit;ch you jotted In make on Monday. I question much it what you complain of would not be a more lit in• q u try for a Jun' :11r. L.sivn AT NE—The Lord Chancellor has laid it down. that where the protean of this Court has been made use of to falsely implisen a party, the practice itere cannot be a subject of in. Tiny in a court of law, but that the proper mode of proceeding is to apply to the Court, that it be referred to the Blaster to inquire what comp ensat i on t h e i n j ure d party i s ent i tled to. 'lite V Ice-CHANCEL Loa ordered that the discharge be drawn up as yesterday, on the lady's undertaking to move within a fortnight to have the entry of her appearance erased from the faeu of the record, and that in default of her making such applicatian, a fresh attachment issue. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, " SATURDAY, Nor. 26. THE KIND ADT.ARD. The Loan ClitEr JUSTICE, as aeon as he had taken his teat, proceeded to deliver. from a written varier, a very elaborate judg ment in this case. The question simply was, whether the defend nnt, who occupies premises in the pari.h of St. Bartholomew the Greet. where he carries on the business of printing, but neither himselfror ar.y of his servants alcep in them, be liable to serve this office of constable. The Court, from a view of the circumstances under which these premises were held, and the mode of electing, the constable in ancient times, held that the occupancy of the premixes in question did not entail a personal service, but only pecuniary liabilities to the rates of the parish in which thry are si• tooted. i lr. Adlard, therefore, is not liable to save the Aka of constable. CRIMINAL INFORMATION AGAINST THE COMMON SENS E NEWSPAPER. Illr. J. XVI t.t.TAMS appeared for the defendants in this ease, to show cause why a criminal Information should not be granted against them at the snit of Mr. Bunn. The grounds upon which he was prepare" to resist the Buie were those of recrimination. He wen name that, as a lawyer, he coald, not ask the Court to set off one libel ageinst another, when an application of this nature was male for their interference ; but when it was sought to do that by the strong.band of the Court, which meld be-done by anotherpro eess of law, he thought the Court would be disposed to require that the party applying should come before them with clean hands. Now he was prepared with an affidavit to prove that Mr. Bunn eras him self a libeller, and had, in fact, by his unwarrantable attacks, pro voked the resentment of Common Scum in the manner in which he now complained to the Court. This affidavit stated, that Mr. Bunn was proprietor, or conductor, of a Sunday Paper, called the Age. Of this paper he (Mr. Williams) professed to know nothing, never having rend one line in it, or even so much as heard of it be.. fore the present application ; but he understood it was established upon very singular principles. Ile was informed that this print was set up as a sort of recompense to the reading public of the me t/at-to/is, during Chnrch hours upon the Sabbath day, for the fall ing off mid tameness of John //a/l.—(A laugh.) John Bull was considered as having greatly degenerated front his former boldness and violence ; and whether it was true or not that there was any remarkable difference between John Ball "as he was" and Joins Ball " as he is," of this there could be no doubt, that he was very tar behind the Age in the spirit of virulense and invective. In deed, the extreme heat of John Bull was no more than the tempe rate medium of this new Journal. John Bull having lost all his fire, and being now, in a manner, completely burnt out, the Age, as anew light, had burst forth from his almost expiring embers, and was destined entirely to eclipse him. The affidavit he pus seined went on to recite certain passages from the Age, chiefly in notices to Correspondents of a most offensive and libellous chime ter. These could be submitted to the Court, if their Lordships thought necessary. This affidavit also stated that Mr. Bann de scribed himself as the respectable Stage Manager of DTUrrillall Theatre, whereas there was good ground for believing that he was no more than the manager of a band of strolling players appear ing upon the buerds of a country play-honse. So far his afHda ♦it were; and upon this he was prepared to show mule why the Bide should not be made absolute against his client. He did tingle their Lordships might leave the prosecutor to his remedy by the or dinary course of law, via.—a bill of indictment before the ("mad Jury, seeing that he was himself a libeller. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that the affidavit ef the beam ed Counsel did not go further than to state the knowledge and be lief of the deponent, that the plaintiff was connected with the Age newspaper. No direct evidence of the fact was produced, and 'it was impossible the Court could act upon anything so vague in a else of this kind. Neither a., he prepared to say that if direct evidence were tendered it would be accepted. In obtaining this Rule to show cause Mr. Bunn had distinctly negatived the truth of the libels ; and if it were permitted to oppose that Bele by a new statement of this description, the judgment of the Court mast le further postponed until Mr. Bunn had time to answer that awe ment, and /41 nit ad ittfittitum, new matter hieing upon each oat- Sion introduce'. Its knew of no precedent for such a coven, add lie hid no hesitation in saying it would be a very dangerous one to establish. The other Judge ecneurring, it a =ordered that the rule be ready absolute. IN TILE MATTER OF T. JONATHAN woocEn. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE addressed the Bar, and said, .thaar as Mr. Wailer had been waiting s e ve r al d a y s f or an opportunity being heard upon a motion of some importance, if the Bar had no objection, the Court would now hear him. No objection being otlered.— kir. Wooler came from the Jury-bon, where he had heele 3 illiaff, to the Hoar, for the purpose of making his motion. Mr. Wooler then stated, that the application he had to make was, for a rule to show cause why a writ of mandamus should boa issue, directed to the Treasurer and Masters of the Beady of the llonourable Seciety of Lincoln's Inn, commanding them to admit the individual who had the honour of addressing the Court as a member of their society, for the purpose of qualifying himself to be called to the degree of a barrister at law. This application arose cut of circumstances. which, being verified be affidavit, he would state to the Court. He then stated the folkiwing facts from the affidavits which he held in his hand. In Michaelmas Tenn, in the year 1824. he made application at the Steward's office of the so ciety, to have his name enrolled as a member, and he left a pipet containing his name, &c. conformably to the regnfatiens of the Society. Ile was told to call in a few darn, when he would he informed of the result. When he called again, he was told a: the office that the Bendies had postponed the consideration of his application till the last day of the Term. In a few days after the end of the Term he c died again, and wen inhumed chat the subject was farther postponed until the first council day in the then ensuing, and now last Hilary Term, for the purpose of in quiring into the particulars of a similar application which Is a ,t been made at Gray's Inn. On the second day of Hilary Tins he called again, and was then informed by the Steward that his ap plication had been rejected, but he, the Steward, was ignorant or the reasons for SuC , I vjertior. (In the 27th January, however, he received an official letter from Mr. Lane, the Steward, in forming him that he, the Steward, had been dirzened by the Trea surer and Masters of the itench of the Society to transmit him the cony of an order, whit's nos as follows:—•' Lincoln's Inn. A t a Conned held on the 24th January, 1824, upon lb farthes consider ation of the application of Or. 'Mamas Jonathan Alroolt.r. to be admitted a member of this Society, it I. ordered, that a truer be written by the Steward to the said Mr. Wo r d er , i n f orm i ng hiss that his application to the Society is rejected by the Troatorar„ Masters, and Benchers." No reason being assigned for this re *aid; sad me beiag aware of any solidest twin, and ba '. IP