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THE BRITISH EMPIRE. We know not how we can render a more acceptable ser vice to the public, than by making some extracts from an article in the Monthly Renew under this title. The occa sion for it arose from the puillication of a work printed at Paris, Revue l'olitique de l'Eurupe en 1823. The vast sub ject on which it so ably awl eloquently treats, must be our a p o logy to those readers who have already seen the article in question, and who will probably think with us that the sentiments it contains and the inferences the writer draws cannot be too extensively promulgated. " The immense magnitude of the Roman empire might well have justified the Roman pride. It coveted a million and a half of square miles of the finest portion of the globe. Stretching three thousand miles from west to east, from the Atlantic to the Eu phrates, and two thousand miles from the northern borders of Dada to the tropic of Cancer, it was the sett of all the choicest fertility, beauty. and wealth of earth. imagiea•ion sinks under the idea of this prodigious power, in the hands of a single nation, and that na tion in the handif of one man. • It might be difficult to penetrate the ultimate causes of this mighty donative of supremacy to an Italian peninsula. But in the °imminent of the Great Disposer of events nothing is done without a reason, and that the wisest reason. The reduction of so vast a portion of the earth under one sceptre has been presumed to be among the providential means of extending Christianity. The easier intercourse, the similarity of law, the more complete security of individual life and property, the general pacification of nations, who under separate authority would have filled each other's borders with blood, all results of melting down the scattered diadems of Europe and Asia into one, i ntlaabiy corresponded with the purpose of propagating the last and greatest Revelation. ▪ T hu purpose Of the immensity of the Roman empire may ac count for the sudden breaking up of that empire, and the absence of all probai•ility that it will ever have a successor. When Christian ity was once firmly fixed, the use of this superb accumulation was et an end. None like itself 'Mall follow it, because its use cannot return. Society Is reduced into fragments ; and the peaceful ri entry of nations in arts and civilisation is to accomplish that illus trious progress, which, under the pressure of a vast uniform domi aloe, must have been looked for in vain. ,• But another paramount dominion was yet to be born, of a totally different nature: less solid, yet perhaps not less permanent ; and less directly wearing the shape of authority, yet perhaps still more irresistible, and in extent throwing the power of Rome ode of ail comparison—the British empire. Its sceptre is Influence. The old policy brought force into the field against force : it tore down the opposing bulwarks by main strength ; it chained down the neck of the barbarian whom it had drat discomfited by the sword. This was the rude discipline of times, when tht sternness of asvage human nature was to be tamed only by the dexterous mud resolute sternness of civilization. But a nobler and more softened state of our being has followed, and for it a more lofty and humane disci pline has been providentially given. England is now the ac:ual governor of the earth, if true dominion is to be found in being the common source of appeal in all the injuries and conflicts of rival nations, the onmmon succour against the calamities of nature, tbe great ally which every power threatened with war labours first to secure or to appease, the centre on which is suspended the pate of all nations, the defender of the wronged, the acknowledged origin and example to which every rising nation looks for laws and a constitution. For whose opulence and enjoyment are the ends of the earth labouring at this hour ? For whom does the Polish pea sant run his plough through the ground ? For whom does the American, with half a world between, hunt down his cattle or plant his cotton ? For whom does the Chinese gather in his teas, or the Brazilian his gold and precious stones ? England is befote the eyes of them all. To whose market does every meithent of the remotest corners of the world look ? To whose cabinet does every power, from America to India, turn with interest surpassing all other ? Whose public titling does every people struggling to raise itself in the tank of nations supplicate ? The answer is sug gested at once. At this hour England stands, holding her shield between the anxious and angry powers of Europe, and the young independence of South America. At this hour a British cannon fired, would be the signal for every kingdom of Europe to plunge Into war. . . _ . . . . This supremacy contains 41 the essentials of the old dominion without its evils. It is empire without the charges, the hoards, the profligacy, and the tyranny of empire. Nothing but despotism could have kept together the mass of the Roman state. The na ture of its parts was repulsion, and the common band a chain of iron. The supremacy of Eng!anti is of a more elevated kind, the supremacy of a magnificent central luminary round which all the rest revolve, urged by impulses suitable to their various frames, and fallowing their common course, with a feeling that it is the course of nature. ........ • The strength of the British empire at home, its close popula tion. its manufacturing and general commerce, are familiar to our readers. On these points we shall here make no further observa tion, than that the late shocks to public credit seem to have been altogether superficial and transitory. A hazardous system of trade seceived a blow, which must have cane at some time or other, and which could have come at no time with less national injury than in peace. Some misconceptions of the financial interests of the country have been put on their trill. But no permanent nor deep results are to be dreaded. If the tempest came over us • like a summer cloud. to wake our special wonder,' the bolt fell feebly, scarzely left its vestige upon the ground. If we glance at our empire in India, we shall find it the most important toreign possession ever ruled by an European power. The Spanish dominions in South America were more extensive, but they were nineteen.twentieths wilderness, or desert, regions of forest, swamp, or sand. In the peninsula of India. England governs an immense realm of extraordinary fertility, for the chief part crowded with population, and the ancient seat of wealth to the world. By a gradual progress of combined policy and conquest, she has advanced from a factory to an empire. . . . •• Of all the revolutions of power this was the happiest for India. !Co country on earth had been, from the earliest periods of authentic history, so habitually the object of invasion and plunder. Its wealth, its diversity' of government, the harmless and nnwarlike habits of its people, at once excited the cupidity and encouraged the violence of' all the barbarian tribes of Asia. From the days of Alexander, India was overflowed by the resistless depredations of Tartar and Torroman from the east, the north, and the south, the early Fenian. the Mogul under Zingia and Tamerlane, the Per sian again under Nadir Shah, the Saracens under 3lahomet's generals and successors. While the Roman western empire was sinking tinder the perpetual influx of northern invaders, the same scene was going on in the east, but with the distinction, that the Italian invader became a settler on the soil, and, gradually, a but. wark against invasion. The Indian invadercame like the locust, and went like the locust, to return at the moment when the first vegetation sprang out of the withered and °tinkered soil. Tile dynasties that arose in India from the blood of the 31ahornetan conquerors inherited the savage and predatory spirit of their race, and every throne was exposed to perpetual violence. The power or England came like a mighty ailment of good Into the midst of this chaos ; the system of mediation assuaged the wrath of the barbarians, who bad till then never thought of delaying vengeance. The fear of the irresistible English arms coerces the evil, and pro tected the peaceable, even where an English soldier never had planted his foot. The territory in actual possession of the English was proverbial for tranquillity. The land which had peen an in. railer regularly, every desen years, and had been turned into a lording wilderness by those most merciless of all marauders, has Wye seen a hostile face Niti.:e the days of Ilyder Ali. " Cavils are easily mate against all things human. There must be weaknesses and deficiencies in all great establishments; but it would be ungenerous and untrue to deity that the principles of our Cr e ezmeat in the East are conformable to the manliness, benevo and integrity of our national chancier. Our labours hare been directed to the security of property, to the inculcation of honesty and public fettling in the public f u ncti onar i es , to the sanc tity of moral obligation, to the introduction of a purer judicial rude." Various details respecting the British territories in India follow these remarks. Our foreign possessions are subse quently noticed, and their relative advantages to the mo ther country accurately defined. In speaking of our con nection with Continental polities, the reviewer proceeds:— " The European politica of England are at once too diversified, and too familiarly known,"to be detailed here. She is at this hour the bond that keeps Europe in amity. The succession of the Em peror Nicholas has made it necessary that she should ascertain the bearings of the Russian policy. She has sent the most distinguish. ed general of Eurm a to explain her principles, and to receive the Pledges of the Russian cabinet. Ills progress through the Conti nent has been like a continued triumph, a train of honouta paid to the great soldier himself, and through him to his country. The airtirs of Greece are probably among the objects of his mission ; and humanity, anti the generous feeling that binds itself with the glorious recollections of that most memorable of all lands, will equally rejoice in the extinction of the bloody and useless war that now exhausts her. " But as a portion of the power of England, the prwsession of the Seven Ides. and Malta, give her a right to a decided interference in all that disturbs the tranquility of the Mediterranean. If great European changes are to take place, the first will probably occur in this quarter; and whenever England shall be forced to the stem necessity of war, she will stand on an height from which her than. derbalts wilt not be launched in vain." The cencluaion of the article is short, and therefore we will give it entire. We have not al:uded to Ireland or Scotland in separate de pendencies; they are constantly assimilating more closely to Eng land, by the abolition of fi.cal restrictions, by similarity of man nem, and by identity of laws. 'I he unhappy dissensions which throw Ireland bark in the general progress will gradeally yield to melioration of law, of local government, and of personal feeling. St e are cot among those prophets of evil who exhibit their as. gazity in seeing the seeds of ruin in the moat palmy state of its. tinn.t! good fortune. All the leading commercial powers hove f dlen. But England stands in a condition distinct from them all. .111 those states were exclusively commercial ; they had no real fmndation in the land. Tyre, Carthage, Venice. Genoa, Hol land, had no territory extensive enough to give them a national ex istence independently of the sea : they were strips of territory, in. h:onted by men whose natural dwelling was on chipboard ; they had no population that could meet the attack of the military potters hat pressed them by land : their arm our was I n f ron t, th e i r backs were naked. All the maritime states were thus compelled to the Perilous expedient of employing foreign mercenaries. The titer. cantile Jealousy that uniformly refused the rights of citizenship to the neighbouring statea. left the merchant naked in his day of danger. The French c..ralty insulted the gates of Amsterdam at pleasure; the Austrians seized Genoa, and besieged Venice. when au Austrian cock-boat dared not appear on the Adriatic. In older times. the mountaineers of Macedon tore down the defences of the Phamician cities, when their ships were masters of all from Syria to the Pillars of Hercules. Scipio found but a solitary force of mer cenaries between the shore and the walls of Carthage. " From the catastrophe of those jealous, narrow, and feeble states, what argument can be drawn to the fate of the generous, the extensive, the powerful, and, above all, the free. " The population of the British isles is washy of • great domi nion. It probably amounts to twenty millions; and that vast num ber is generally placed under ouch fortunate circumstances of rapid communication and easy concentration, as to be equal to perhaps half as many more in any other kingdom. This facility of inter course is one of the great elements of civilised strength. The ra pid returns of merchandise are nut more indicative of prosperous trade thee the rapid intercourse of human kind is essential to na tional vigour. For whatever purpose united strength can be de. mended, it Is forwarded to the spot at once. If England were threatened with invasion, • hundred thousand men could be con. veyed to the defence of any of her coasts within four-and-twenty ' hours ! "Some common yet curious calculations evince the singular faci lity and frequency of this intercourse. The mail coaches of England non over twelve thousand miles in a single night—half the circum ference of the globe! A newspaper published in the morning in London is, by the Mlle night, read a hundred anti twenty miles off I The twopenny-post revenue of London alone is said to equal the whole postmlfice revenue of Frcace ! The traveller going at night from London, Sleeps, on the second night, tour hundred miles off / The length of canal navigation in the vicinage of hon. don is computed to equal the whole canal navigation of France ! " But the most important distinction between the materiel of Bridal) strength and that of the commercial republics is not merely in the extent but in the diversity of its population. The laud is net all a dock-yard, nor a manufactory, nor a barrack, nor a ploughed field : oar national ship does not sweep on by • single sail. With a manufacturing population of three millions, we have a professional population, a naval population, and a most powerful, healthy, and superabundant agricultural population, which supplies the drain of them all. Of this last and most essential class to permanent power, the famous commercial republics were wholly destitute, and they therefore fell. England has been an indepen. dent and ruling itinpliotn since the invasion in lOW, a period al. ready longer that the duration of the Roman empire from Cesar, and equal to its wholeduration from the Consulate, the time of its emerging into nat;ortal importance. " But if the moment of arriving at pre-eminent prosperity should always be the destined moment of a nation's descent. England would be, beyond all existing nations, in peril. Her king at this hour commands a population more numerous than that of any other sceptre on the globe, (excepting the probably exaggerated, and the certainly ineffective, multitudes of China), lie is monarch over nearly one hundred and twenty millions of men. With him the old Spanish boast is true :—' (In his dominions the min never sets.' But the most illustrious attribute of this unexampled away is, that its principle is benevolence! that knowledge goes forth with it, that tyranny sinks before it, that in its magnificent progress it abates the calamities of nature, that it plants the desert, that it civilises the savage, that it strikes off the fetters of the slave !" STATE OF TRADE. From every part of the kingdom complaints are received of the dulness of trade, and of the increasing number of workmen thrown out of employment ; and, under such cir cumstances, we perceive, with more than ordinary appre hension, a tendency to rise in the prices of grain, and of al most every article of food. In this town all at present is dull and heavy. The gleam of returning sunshine, that broke upon us about a fortnight since, has vanished; the current of business has again subsided into stagnation; and the gloom that we hail fondly hoped was retiring, darkens once snore the commercial atmosphere of Liverpool. —Liverpool Commercial Chronicle. There were more sales effected on Tuesday in the staple manufacture of Dundee, than there has been for sik weeks past. The general opinion seems to be, that goods are now at the lowest price, and that we shall soon have more de mand.—Dandee Advertiser. We have to record, in this town, another week of ex treme flatness in trade, accompanied also by a further de pression of some sorts both of yarns and manufactured goods, especially the former. The demand for these ar ticles still continues unusually small, and notwithstanding their product;on has so greatly diminished, it still seems more than adequate to supply the present rate of consump tion. Low as cotton is, we believe the prices at which yarns and goods are selling, are decidedly lower in propor tion ; anti such as nothing but the want of money could induce the manufacturers of them to accept. This is a state of things which a resumption of the customary pur chasiwg would soon rectify; but so complete has been the interruption of credit, and the disarrangement of pecuniary transactions, that it is impossible to say how soon this may come. There have been two or three failures this week ; but, we believe, for rather small amounts. In Liverpool, the wind having change& the arrivals of cotton have been heavy, end, consequently, the market has been very dull, and prices are somewhat lower.—Manchester Guardian. The Mayor of this Borough has received an intimation, through the medium of the County Members, that the Di rectors of the Bank of England are ready to make advances to merchants, manufacturers, &e. on the deposit of goods, or on personal security; and persons in this town or neigh bourhood, who may feel inclined to avail themselves of such offer, are requested to signify to the Mayor their wishes confidentially. For the better carrying into effect this object, a Committee of Assistance has been formed iu Leeds, consisting of gentlemen of the first respectability, through whom any assistance that may be wanted will be afforded, conformahle to the conditions laid down by the Bank, copies of which will be shown to the parties making the application. We hear that the impediment which existed at Had dersfield. in the way of the Bank accommodation, has been removed, and that a Committee of Assistance either has actually been formed, or is now forming, for that town and neighbourhood. The number of recommendations submitted to the con sideration of the Committee for the relief of the unem ployed poor in ' tliis town, were considerably fewer last Wednesday, than in the preceding week ; though we fear not from any amendment in the situation of the labouring classes. Of the IGG females recommended, 110 were re lieved, with the sum of cal, las. ; the remaining .56 not being considered proper Objects of this Institution. The funds at present in hand amount to about 1 et. ; and we hope the stream of public benevolence will continue to flow a few weeks longer, either till trade shall have improveai, or at least till the advance of spring shall enable pars of the eist.rewd to find some out-door employment.— Leeds Mercury. ELECTION INTKLLIGENCE. Dovien. MARCH 31.—A Common Hall was held on Thursday, pursuant to a requisition to the Mayor, for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of sending an invitation to Colonel Fitzelarence to become a Candidate for the representation of this town at the ensuing General Election. The Hall was Limit nu merously suet:tied, and the following resolutions were passed : " That it is of the highest importance to the interests of the town of Dover that it should he fully and efficiently represented. " That Colonel Fitzelarence, from his rank and connections, and his well known attachment to the town of hover, is eminently qualified to be one of its Representatives." The following declaration was afterwards signed by the Chair man, and upwards of one hundred freemen, before the meeting broke up:— " We, the undersigned Freemen of Dover, considering that the interests of the town will be benefited by Colonel Fitzelarence being one of the Representatives, express our determination to support his pretensions by every means in our power." A Ctimmittee having been formed, an active canvass has com menced, with every prospect of success. REPRESENTATION OF TILE CITY OF Yon%.—Tl•` lion. Thomas Mandan, in reply-to the requisition presented to hint from the freemen of York, inviting him to offer himself as a candidate for the City at the nest General Election, says, that feeling most highly flattered by the preference shown to him by a large body of his brother freemen, he shall obey their call. DISTRESS IN SI'ITAI.FIELDS.-II will he seen, by the adveKisement in another column, that the Committee, whose benevolent exertions have done so much towards alleviating the distress amonst the we:avers, have received a second donation of 1,000/. from his Majesty, through the medium of the Lord Bishop of Chester. Jun rrs.—The Bishop of H ermopol is (says the Courrier Francais) is undoubtedly the mat act►ve of our Mi nisters; not a single number of the Bulletin of Law' ap pears without some ordunnances countersigned by him, to authorise new convents. _ _ _ Mr. Kendall, the master of the ship Frances Mary, his wife, and the female passenger, who were among the un fortunate persons saved from the wreck of that ship by the Blonde, have recovered sufficiently from their emaciated state, to set off for Liverpool, to which port the ship be longed.—Hampshire Telegraph. THE PRESS. LIVERPOOL CGAIM.%IICIAL INTELLIGENCE• SATURDAY, APRIL I. The Sales in British Plantation Sugar (his week have only reached 800 hogsheads, principally of grocers' qualities, at about I former prices. Also 600 bags of good White Bengal Sugar have been taken by the grocers, at 721. 41. a 735. par cwt. In Mo. lasses, about 200 puncheons have been mold, at 255. sa. a 28s. In Coffee, Cotton, Ginger, Pimento, and Rum, the sales have been so trifling, they are not worthy of record. Yesterday a small lot of 50 tons of Nicaragua Wood, small but good, was sold by auc tion, at 91. 100 tons of Spanish Fustic offered at the same time, but only a part sold, at 5/. 10s.; the remainder has been sold at within a trifle of that price. The only transaction in Rice ass a small lot of Patna, at 22a. a 23,. Ashes are very dull : 200 brls. good obi Montreal Pot, have been forced off at about 21s. M., and only a few good new at 265.; 30 brls. Pearl Ashes at 2135. 80. a 275.; 10 brls. States Pearls at 275. ad. In Hides, NO damaged Valpa raiso at 30. and 600 Buenos Ayres Horse Hides at 41. 9d. each. Flax Seed, 300 casks New York sold at 525. a 54a. 9d., and some Egyptian at 365. per .luarter. 900 brim. American Tar sold at 145., and 100 brls. Stockholm at 16s. per brl. 100 brig. Ordinary Tur pentine at Rs. 6d. Saltpetre steady at 211 s. a 265., and some su perior at 28s. A few casks Quercitron Bark sold at 10s. Cd., and a small parcel of Philadelphia at 13s. A small lot of Sicily Brimstone sold at Cl. Ills. In Shutnac 119 bags inferior Sicily at I Is., 60 fine at 145.,100 fair at 135., and 100 tine Verona at 91. The demand foe Cot. ton is much depressed, and prices decline. Uplands are id. and Orleans and Surats Id. lower. About 1600 bales Surat& were brought to the hammer yesterday, and only about 900 sold at 41d. to 6d.; and 51d. to 50. for fair qualities. The private sales consist of 4200 bags, Uplands at 64. a 74d. ; 700 New Orleans at Rd. a 9411. 160 Ala bama at Gid.and. ; 100 Sea Islands at 161. a 20441.; 20 stained do. at Is. ; 8:00 Pernambuco at 9 tI. a Ild.; 400 Maranhants at 94d. a 104. ; 2511 Ilahia at ikl. a Sid. ; 30 Pars at Bid. a Rid.; 60 Mina Novas at 13W.; 100 Demeraras at W. a 100., 250 Egyptian at Bd. a 1010.; 34)Guntana at Hid. t 10 Bourbon at I Id. ; and 160 Santa at ssitt. a fid. ; making in all about 6200, of which 1000 Uplands and 800 Pennons were on speculation, and 300 Upland fur export. LAW NOTICES. COURT OF CHANCERY. _ ...... _...... The Snit Seal Day In sittings appointed before Easter Term, before the Lord Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor, will be to-morrow. Motions only will be heard. ROLLS COURT. General Petition Day at the Rolls Tueeday, April 11, at six In the evening. Petitions moot be set down and copies left with the „Secretary before two o'clock In the afternoon of the preceding day. EXCHEQUER OFFICE, TEMPLE. Attendance will be given In future at the above (Ace in Term and Sit_ tinge till half-peat four, and lupin at half-past els in the evening. Out of Term and nut In tlittlnge till four o'clock In the afternoon only. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, SLTIIRDAY, APRIL I. Yesterday Mr. R,bert I.Rac Wilberforce, 8.A., and Mr. Richard Mur rell Froude, of Oriel College, were elected Fellows of that Society. The following is a summary of the Members* of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge In the present year : Oseoan.—Members of Convocation, 2,220; Members on the books, 4.772. cAmsaiDas.—Members of the Senate, 1,8i4; Members on the b 4,964. THE CHURCH. PREFERRED. The Rev. Renry Watson Barnard, Clerk, H.A. to the Vicarage of Compton Bishop, Somerset, on the presentation of the Prebendary. The Rev. C. Girdiestone, H.A. Fellow of Hanky' College, was instituted to the Vkarage of Sedgley, near Wolvethamptun.—Patron, Lord Dudley and Ward. Rev. Thomas Plunkett, eldest son of the Irish Attorney-General, to the valuable Living of Uromore, I re l an d . . . Rev. W. Davy, to the Vicarage of Winkleigh, Devon. Rev. R. W. Richard on, to the 'Vicarage of Jt.ffreyston, Pembroke hire. Rev. J. Harris, to the Vicarage of Llanwnda, Pembroke,hlre, and the Succentor't Stall In St. David'a Cathedral. Rev. Harvey Marriott has been liceneed to St. Margaret's Chspel, Wateot ; and the Bev. G. lianken, B.A. to the Cure of St. Michael's Pari+h. . . _ Rer. John Bligh, M.A. hail been Instituted to the Vicarage of Ea.ton, and the Perpetual Miracles of Long Stowe and Barham, In the county iof Monthly:km, on the presentation of the Rey. T. Kerrich, M.A. Preben dary of Long Stowe, in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, and Principal Librarian of Cambridge Culver,lty. ORDINATION. At the Ordination of the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells the following gentlemen were admitted into Holy Orders : DeAcoNs.—Gregory Birth Bore,lon, B.A. Queen's College, Oxford; Iti( hard Bastion Bradley, B.A. reeler College, Oxford; Edward Harbin, 13.A„Wa4Mtun College, Lisiord; F4-ward Flowlandeon, B.A. QsreentaCol lege, °stood; James Galloway, M.A. Exeter College, Oxford; Richard Morris, B.A. Wadham College, Oxford ; Philip Pinckney Rendall, B.A. Exeter College, Oxford; Hugh Veber Tighe, B.A. Corpus Clubti Col lege, Oxford; John Antes La Trobe, B.A. St. Edmund Hatt, Oxford; John Peter Benson, B.A. Exeter College, Oxftird ; Charles George Bul ler, B.A. Oriel College, Oxford ; Thomas John Trevenen, B.A. Exeter Col lege, Oxford; Wm. Francis Chileott. B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge • Wm. Woolhouse Robinson, B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge; William Tlptaft, 8.8. St. John's College, Cambridge ; Fred. Vernon Lockwood, B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge; John Phillips, B.A. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge ; George Ranking, S.C.L. Chrbst College, Cambridge ; Julius Charles Hare, B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge; Edward Patte.on, N.A. Queen's College, Cambridge; Richard Sheepehanke, 11.4. Trinity College, Cambridge ; Borges Lambert, B.A. St. John's College, Cam , bridge; Charles Edward Band, B.A. St. John's College, Cambridge; Frederick Luke D'Arville, B.A. Christ College, Cambridge; Charles Paul, B.A. Colas College, Cambridge. Patl3TS.—Edward Ludlow, B.A. St. Edmond Hall, Oxford; William illeeck,„.3l.A. Magdalen Hall, Oxford; William Fowler Holt, M.A. late FelloW - of King's College, Cambridge; George Elliot Itanken, B.A. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge; Bidlake Bray, lI.A. Emanuel College, Cam bridge; Charles Lloyd, B.M. Trinity College, Cambridge. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ROYAL HUNT. On Wedneulay a nurneinr;siieid4itMlemen hunted a fine de ,, r. which was turned out for the day's diversion, on Wooburn Green ; the deer took up the hill, and across the country toward, High Wyt.ombe, where he ran with speed for some time, and was taken after a good dace, some miles the other side of High Wycombe. This day, being the last day pf hunting thin •es , on, a very numerous field of spJrtatneu are expected. The deer will be turned out at Uxbridge. CATTERICK-BRIDOF: RACES, YORKSHIRE. TUURAIIAY. _ _ __ The Old Stakes of 25 sous. each, 10 ft.; colts Sst. 21b. ; fillies Bat. Two miles.. Mr. Darnell's ch. c. Why-Tell, by Walton Colonel Craddock's br. c. Hussar, by Whisker Duke of Leeds' gr. f. by Welton--Lisette Four paid. A good race. Tha Fillies Stakes of 20 *ors. each, p. p. Sat. each. Lard Xennedy't Mary Anne, sister to Streatham Mr. Whitelock's Gin, by Juniper The f Mooing started, but were not placed :—Mr. Laurence's Eurrosia, Riddell'. Riddell' Contraband, Mr. Russell's Fairy, and Duke of Leeds' by Whisker. Yearling Stake. of 20 soy.. each, p. p. rising 2 yes i colts Set. 31b. ; Sallee tot. One mile. II Lord ICelburne's b. c. by Abler—Blue Stockings Mr. W. Scott's b. c. by Calton—d. by Walton The following started, but were not placed :—Duke of Leeds' gr. c. by Grey itlid.ilcham, Mr. Rideell's b. f. by X Y Z, Mr. Jaques'e eh. f. by Vi - bisker, Mr. Whitelcck's gr. f. by Grey %Yahoo, Mr. Darnell's b. c. by Watson, Mr. Metcalfe's b. f. by Grey Blicklieltam, Mr. Croft's ch. f. by NVhiaker, and Colonel Craddock's b. c. Lancer. Sweepsulkes of •.:0 sour. tack, for cults, not thorough-bred. Mr. Hopkinson's b. f. by Blacklock ...... .......... Mr. Parkinson's ch. c. by Walton Mr. Simpson's h. f. by Calton . Colonel Craddock's bL C. by Gr e y iibillobsel 4 • The Subscription Plato of be goys. Moab two Who, Mr. J. Scott's be. f. Gift, by Masboratt Mr. Wright's South Holme , Mr. Margeteon's Vapid.. ........ ... ............ Mr. Farquharson's f. dam by Remembrances. ...... Mr. Ingledew's Sister to Evens . Colonel Craddock's Hussar ...... .......• ...... MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. AT THY. COUNT OP COMMISSIOiIIiII OP 22 N 22 verdb sAsurosimil. TO-MORROW. TRIAD lif STINGS. a. Hantuto, C. Jerrnyn-steect, St. James's, oilman Drenchley, '. men. and jun. Milton, Kent, diNtillera .., , l2 Corbett, A. Priday...treet, merchant (enlarged) lO Craig C. Allerton-street, Hutton New Town, oilman ...... Graham, J. Glouceater,dreet, Queen- care, tailor King. \V. J. &Airmen, Surrey turpentine-merchant lO Kingsford, J. and G. Purt.ea, Irta, sluparllera ...... 12 Luca., C. London, me.chani Lu l2 Palmer, W. Goodie-gtreet, Tottenham-court road, wine and spirit merchant (enlareed) lO Woolcombe, H. Duke-street, Aldgate, clock-dealer lO SKCON - 11 MNSTINOB. Copp, R. T. Int* of IR. Dunstan's-bill, strip and insurance-broker.... Congreve, Wand Hill, R. jou, Bedworth, Coventry, and Wuml-street, silk and ribbon-manufacturers ..................... Cuurtoys, C. L. Rruxbourne Mills, Hera, miller Lesanges, C. 8. late of 12, Queen Charlutte-row, New-road, general dealer llogatleslt, J. Tuttealiam-court-rood, grocer Maine, W. Clifton.etrect, Finsbury, currier.. Sprinks, T. Alertun, Surrey, builder Waugh, T. C. Turnwheel.iane, Cannon-street, soirdisel. - 11149 T 118 RTINGS. Ansley, J. Star-court, Bread-street, merchant Bell, W. Fenchurch. street, merchant Ellis, T. and J. Blackman-greet, Southwark, barna:A-makers Franck, A. Hlllb Holborn, linen-draper . King, W. and E. L,:n•cr Thames-street, chec.emonger Bolls, S. P. Old ?kb-greet, Ironmonger ....... .... ..... Schwleger, O. E.F. and Buchanan, J Itudiford-court, Fenchurcb- street; Merchants ................................... .: . .. .. ..... Turner, M. J. Clonneell, Ireland, and of London-wall, London, mer chant Wetherell, J. Litchfield-street, hat kla)er Wood, J. Nelson-aquae, Surrey, jew:Per DIVIDENDS. Clarke, 8. Castle-street, Hodborn, tailor... Holt, H. F. Cannon-row, Wectruiniteworgeon Hutchinson, J. Lane St. Thomas AposMe, bane-factor Kimald, J. Spital-square, Norton.falgate, silk-man Mffitt, R. Pickering, Yorkshire, currier ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT—MAIDirroxe, Aram 1. iroks Ashbee. a young man of reepectable appearance, Put In dicted fora burglary and rohhery in the dwelling-house of John Csek. et Steplehuret on the 23d Much. Mr. CLARKSON conducted the prosecution, end 31r. WALSII the defence. it appeared in evidence that the prosecutor and the prisoner were brethers.in-law, the former having married the sister of the latter. The prisoner's father having fallen from comparative aiguenee into decayed circumstances, the prosecutor took him and his family, In cluding the prisoner. Into his house. where they timid a rasp. tonahle asylum. Early on the morning of the 23d of lllarekdr prosecutor was roused from his slumbers by the prisoner, Yoko t 4. pumping his fears that the house had been broken Inm and robbed, directed his attention to a back window on the first ttnor, where he found that a ladder hail been placed against the casement, which was lying , open, and one of the penes of glass broken. The prosecutor then searched the apartment adjoining, in which he kept his cash-box, and on opening the latter he found its contents, consisting of about six pounds, chiefly in ail. 'FCr money, gone. No suspicion tell upon the prisoner un til the following morning. when in consequence of having ob served some marks at the snot where the ladder had stood, 1 which resembled the size of the prisoner's feet, the prosecutor was Induced to compare the shoes worn by the prisoner on the pre. 'Joua day with the traces, and he found them to correspond exactly. In the interval he had taken out a search warrant to examine the house of another suspected person, against whom, however, the suspicion appeared to be unfounded. On the sacond day after the robbery the prosecutor, with the assistance of a neighbour, deter mined to make a more accurate observation of the footsteps. The prisoner's shoes were right and left, and nailed in a very peculiar manner. On the day previously to the burglary the earth under the window where the entrance was effected had been dug for the put. pose of sowing a crop of turnips, and some rain having fallen in the course of the following night, the ground received perfect im pressions from the shoes. The traces were followed backwards and forwards to and from the window, across the garden, over the wall, and thence into some fresh ploughed arable land, to the distance of nearly it mile, when they were lost at he edge of a small riatalet. They were found to tally a ith remarkable precision with the pri. miner's shoes. hilst in the act of making this comparison, the prisoner came up to the prosecutor, and claimed the shoes as his property, and insisted that they should be delivered up to hit& This was refused, and a constable having come up at the moment. the prisoner was taken into custody. His boxes were searched, and in one of them were found four sovereigns and a quantity of half crowns aml shillings. amounting to nearly the sum which the pro secutor had lost. Previously to this time the prisoner had been in great distress, and was known to be destitute of money. The Ma gistrates, under the circumstances stated, bound over the prose. eutor to appear against the prisoner at the Assizes, which, as stated by his Counsel, he now did, with extreme reluctance, on account of his near affinity to the accused. The prisoner positively denied tlle charge. The duty, however, under the Learned Judge's directions, found him Grii/fy, but strongly recommended him to mercy, in which recommendation the prosecutor most urgently joined. Sentence at Dcalh was recorded. John Reif was indicted for stealing. at Crayford, on the 12th March, a horse, the property of Thomas Buck. Mr. Davis conducted the prosecution, and Mr. DOWLING the defence. The prosecutor. a butcher at Crayford, lost a horse in the night of the I2th March. On the 14th of the same month the prisoner. who was the son of a tradesman at rrsyford, WAS found offering the animal for sale at 3lann's_livery-stables, Blackman street Borough. The horse was worth 201.. and the 'prisoner asked only 4/. for it. This exciting suspicion, he was asked whose horse it was. lie replied that it brlonged to a clergyman at Crayford, in whose service he was, and who had desired hint to take it to Lon don for sale. This statement being discredited, the prisoner and the horse were detained, and on inquiry at Crayford Mr. Buck, the prosecutor, was discovered to be the owner. The prisoner said in his defence, that he had been employed by another man to effect a sale of the horse, but he called no witnesses to prove the fact. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and sentence of Death was recorded. The busineas on the Crown side ended on Saturday evening; and but for the assistance of Mr. Sergeant D'Orr.EY, who sat two days in a school-room for the trial of minor offenders, probably the Assizes would have lasted until Tuesday. None of the capital convicts were left for mew ion. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLorcrstEn, 31ancii 30, MG. The assizes commenced here this *lay, and nothing of any im portance occurred on either side. There were 120 prisoner. For trial on the Crown side, and 42 causes were entered on the Civil side. CIVIL SIDE, MARcur 31. WAKEFIELD r. SAUNDERS. This was an action against a stakeholder, to recover the amount of a wager, laid between the plaintiff and • man of the name of Leonard. Mr. Tattwyrrti opened the easefor the plaintiff, and said that the Jury were aware wagers founded upon gambling transactions generally were illegal, and therefore could not become subjects for investigation in a court of law ; but where they originated in fair dealing, without any deception being employed, courts of justice would listen to them. The present action, however, was not btought by one party to a wager against another, but was an action against a stakeholder to recover M. which had been lodged with the defendant, upon a wager that had never yet been fairly decided. The plaintiff was the landlord of the Lamb Inn at t'troud, and on his way home, in the month of October last, through the town of Hailsworth, he stopped with his father at the George Inn until the Bristol coach came up, by which he was going home. He then laid a wager with a person of the name of Leonard that he could riddle more wheat through a bushel sieve into a bushel measure than anv other man present. Leonard took up that challenge, anti batted five pounds he could not. Accordingly, the wager was laid, and both parties deposited their five pounds each in the hands of the defendant, who was present, and agreed upon as a stakeholder. It would naturally occur to the'Jury that this was a wager which could not be determined in the absence of the plaintiff, who said he could not attend to see it decided for some time, as his wife was about to be put to bed, and he had a large party coming to his house on the Monday following, the day proposed for the decision. The defendant, however, pretended now that the wager had teen decided : and said that lie bad paid over the money to the winner. The Learned Counsel called witnesses to prove the case stated. Mr. CA MPIIELL, for the defence, submitted to the Jury, that the wager laid was of a description quite different to that stated on the part of the plaintiff Ruth parties perhaps thought they had imbibed some of the new lights shed by the Mechanics' Institute in the metropolis, and upon a question of natural philosophy they differed as to the quantity in weight that a bushel measure was Ca pable of containing. They laid a wager on the subject, which was fairly determined, and it was lost by the plaintiff. In consequence of this, the money was paid over by the defendant to Jr. Leonard, and was spent in a handsome dinner and other refresbni!tas. The Learned Counsel then called witnesses to prove the wager was that a bushel of wheat of eight gallons, ried or riddled into the measure, as high as a man could hold it up to the ceiling, would not contain any more by being struck or shaken. After notice given to the plaintiff, Leonard and the defendant met with other persons to try the experiment. A bushel of wheat was then weighed and measured. Mr. Leonard then added to it, by striking and shaking, a quarter of a pound and the weight of five halfpence more, which the bushel measure easily contained. After this, the pl timitra five pounds were paid over by the defendant to Leonard, as the winner of the wager, and the whole ten pounds were expended in a handsome dinner and plenty of drinkable. for the company present. Mr. Justice PARK, in charging the Jury, observed, that he was extremely sorry his Majesty's Justices of Assize and a Jury of the county of Gloueeriter should ever be called upon to attend for four hours to the decision of a wager betwen two low vulgar fel laws, who had thought fit to amuse themselves with a silly bet. TbeJury however had beard the conflicting testimony on both sides, and they would decide for themselves on which side the truth The Jury found for the defendant. CROWN SIDE. Before Mr. Baron ()ARROW. HORsE STEALING. Samuel Pitman was fridieted for feloniously stealing, on the 23d of March, a dark brown. mare, value 201., the property of Mr. Jonathan Blanch, a fanner residing at Sodbury, in this county. Mr. JesTicr, in opening the case for the prosecution, said that the circumstances he had to lay before the Jury were rather of a novel description, and upon them a question might arise ter the decision of his Lordship, whether the prisoner lied such sufficient possession of the animal in question as would constitute a felony. The Learned Counsel then produced the followirg testimony ; Thomas Pulling said that he was the hostler at the Swan Inn, Sodbury. On the evening of the 23t1 of March last the prisoner came into the yard of that inn about half-past seven o'clock in the evening. He said to the witness, " Hostler, I want my horse." The witness replied, th►t there was no horse of his in that yard. The prisoner inquired then where the George inn was, to which wit. ness directed him. The prisoner then left the yard, and went to. wards the George inn. Cross-examined by Mr. WATSON—The 22d of March wns fair day at Sodbury. The prisoner appeared to be in liquor, anti he remained in witness's yard three or four minutes, contending that his horse must be there: Thomas Robins was the hostler at the George inn, Sodbury. The prisoner came to that inn on the night of the tad of March, and told the witness that he wanted his horse. Witness, after asking the prisoner what sort of a horse his was, took a candle and went into the stable, followed by the prisoner, who pointed out a horse, and said, "that is my horse—put on the bridle." The witness then asked the prisoner to pay sixpence for the hay the horse had eaten, and the prisoner paid it accordingly. At that time there was a fiddler playing in the kitchen adjoining the yard. and as the pri soner tried to mount the horse it became restive. The witness then advised the prisoner to take the horse into the street, and mount it there, for fear of any accident. Another person then happening to come into the yard, said to the prisoner, " Farmer, you had better take your mare out of the yard, and I will assist you in mounting het." The prisoner and this person then went away, and witness did not see any more of them. Cross-examined by Mr. WATSON.—The prisoner appeared to have some beer in him, but not so much as to render him incapable of knowing what he was about. Examined by Mr. Baron GARROW—The prisoner was perfectly capable of riding the mare, if he got on her; and he was sensible I enough to distinguish his own home, if he kid one, hum the horse of any other person. George Wilson was the next witness callest—lfesaid that he wen into the George yerd end led out the mare for the ;stigma, wh.. cried out after him, and asked flint to step. Farmer Holly thee came up to the witness and the prisoner ' and said " Whose beset Live you there ?" The prisoner said, "Why, it is mire." Far. mer flatly then said, " I think it is farmer Blanch's; bet if It is or not, 1 will soon tell yos ; for if it is hie, it ir stone blind." He then put his hand op before each of her eye* sod she was Wiwi. Farmer fla then told the witness to hold the mate until he wert fer farmer Blanch. The prisoner then ran off; on which Halls ran after him, brought him back, and the witness held him rota Farmer Blanch was fetched. The prisoner in the ;sterim offered the whin at half a crown if he would let him go; but the witness re . fused to do so on any account. Farmer Blanch, the pre secutor, stated that the mare in question was his property, and that the prisoner told him he had been sent by a farmer named Cox, to fetch his horse, and he took the prom. tutor's by mistake. hirWarsow, for the defence. submitted upon this °videos:that there was no proof of a felonious taking by the prisoner, for fie had not even so much as taken the metre by the bridle. air. Baron Gannow was of opinion, that in such acme an actual possession taken by the prisoner was ann.:amity. If by the procuration of another person's asnistance the horse was led out of the yard, by the direction of the prisoner, he having a felonious intent (which was a question for the Jury), then a felony had clearly been committed. Ills Lordship then summed up the evi. dence to the Jury, and left the question of felonious intention en tirely for their decision. He said, that if the Jury should be of opinion that the prisoner was too mach in liquor to know wbat he was about, they, they would acquit him of the present charge, which affected his life. If, on the contrary, thr# thought tie was In the frill possession of his 'tenant, and knew perfectly well what hewaaabout. they would find him guilty. The Jury deliberated for seine time, as if in doubt, and then found the prisoner Not Guilty. Mr. Baron Gankow then told him, be was a very lucky fellow to escape so narrowly, and advised him to bear his present acquittal in mind, as a wareng spinet the future tommisaion of crime. GLOIJCZEITER, ANitt. 1. CIVIL SIDE. Several cases were tried this day, of no public importance. YOUNG V. WILKiNS. This WU an action to recover the amount of a wager, being tti. ft was a bet laid by the plaintiffel lgl. agafitst the defendant's Ik., that the latter, who *as a carpenter, would not contottret two four. panel doors, according to certain dimensions, in twel►e hours. These terms were reduced to writing, but the declaration averring that the time allowed for the work was twel►e hairs. between a s o'clock in the morning and six at night, Mr. Justice Park was of opinion that the variance was fatal, and nonsuited the piaintit£ CROWN SIDE. RIGA 51 Y. Richd. Miatrd, a very decent lookinc man, aged 13, was Indic/eel for that he, nn the lith of January, 1819, feloniously intermarried with Mary Anne Holdir, his former wife, Jane Milkrd, being then alive. Mr. RYAN appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. MatmE was for the defence. Eliribeth Spurrier deposed, that she *as the sister of the pri. loner's first wife, whose maiden name was Jane Giddings. She saw them both married together on the 31st of January, 1811, at the parish church of St. Cuthbert's, at Wells. The prisoner was a respectable farmer, and *itness taw her sister, who was his wife, on Sunday last. alive. Cross-examiifed by Mi. Kattrat—The pritioner and the wit ness's sister lived together for the first six years after their marriage, but after that they did not cohabit together. Ann Watts knew the prisoner. She was at St. James's church, Bristol, on the 17th of January, 1819, when he was n:arried to Ann Holder. Ann Holder is a girl about 20 years of age now. Cross-esamined—Witness ktleir Ann Holder ever since she was • child ; she lived with a family at the Mall in Clifton. The pri soner formerly lived with Sir John Smith. Ann Holder, at the time of her marriage, knew that the prisoner had been married before, and that he hid separated from his wife. James Fox Thomas proved that he had examined the parish register of the church of St. Cuthbert, in the city of Wells, and therein he found an entry of the prisoner's first marriage with Jane Giddings. (The witness here produced an attested copy of the entry above alluded to. and also an attested copy of the register of the prisoner's second marriage with Ann Holder, taken from the parish register of St. James's Church, Bristol.) The prisoner in his defence said, that his first wife having left him, and taken Up 'HI another min, she wrote him a letter stating the fact, and setting him at liberty to do as he liked. He then told Ann Holder of this fact, and the consented to marry him. Previous to the ceremony he consulted an attorney, to ascertain whether he had a right to do so. tinder all the circumstances of the case, and the attorney advised him that he would be warranted its taking a second wife. Neither of the prisoner's wistit appeared against the prisoner, and good reasons were supposed to exist establishing the truth of the prisoner's defence. The Jury NiEd him Guilty, but recommended him to mere)' on the account that his first wife was the first aggressor. 31r. Baron GARROW, in passing sentence, told the prisoner that the infidelity of his first wife was no excuse for the offence he had committed against law and morality. His case, however, was not charaeterized by that baseness which distinguished Rome others o: the same desuiption, and therefore his Lordship would only in flint a lenient sentence. It appeared among the circumstances in his favour, that he had not deserted his first wife, though she had deserted him, and he had subsequently behaved with affection and kindness towards the girl that he afterwards married. His Lord ship felt himself warranted in sentencing the prisoner to one week's imprisonment only. MA NSL ALIG 11TER, William Williams, a lad aged only seventeen, wits indict,' Ur killing and slaying George Pierce, at the parish of St. George, in this county. Mr. Cannixorox conducted the prosecution. From the testimony of the witnesses whom the Learned Counsel examined, it appeared that the prisoner and the deceased, both youths of about the same age, were in the service of Mewed. Castle and Co.. who are the owners of a colliery about fbur miles from Bristol. They proceeded together to their work at the col liery on the morning stated in the indictment, but the steam engine at the time being out of order they were about to return home. The prisoner had a candle in his hand, and such a candlestick as .3 usually employed in mines, with a projecting piece of steel from it, capable of being inserted in the wall of a mine. The deceased wished to get possession of the candle, in consequence of which a scuffle ensued. The deceased then stooped down to pick up stone to throw at the prisoner, and the prisoner, after exclaiming. " are you going to throw stones at me ?" indicted such wounds upon the deceased with the candlestick as caused his death. The Jury, after some short deliberation, returned a verdict of "Guilty through accident." Mr. Baron Gant ow obserted, that if the Jury were of opinion that the prisoner killed the deceased by accident they ought to lie quit him: The Jury reconsidered the case twice, but persisted in the same snecial conduct, notwithanding the elaborate explanations of dlr. Baron Darrow. Dante/ liner, a fine boy, only fifteen years of age. was indicted under Lord Ellenborough's Act, for cutting and maiming Robert Thomas. The facts of the case, as detailed in evidence, were these. The prisoner had been apprehended upon the charge of stealing a hand. kerchief, at Stroud, for which offence he was fully committed for trial to the gaol of this city. The warrant of commitment having been made out, it Was placed in the hands of the chief constable, to he carried into effect. He placed it in the hands of the prosecutor, Robert Thomas, to whom he confided the safe conveyance of the prisoner to Gloucester Gaol. The prosecutor ►et out with the prisoner, on the day stated in the indictment ; and as they pro ceeded along the high road, the prisoner intimated to the prosecu. tot that he wished to leave the high road, and go through the fields to Gloucester. The prosecutor kindly gratified his wish, in taking to the next field which would lead to Gloucester. As they pro ceeded across the field, the prosecutor being at the time close to the prisoner's side (without a word being said, or any alteration of his . attitude) he suddenly felt a wound had been inflicted on his groin, lion which the blood flowed rapidly. On looking round he saw tha prisoner withdrawing his hand, which had a knife in it, and he was about aiming &second blow, when the prosecutor tripped him up. and threw him to the ground. lie then knelt ui m his body, and disarmed him of the knife, which he laid aside, and conveyed him after a short struggle to gaol. The prisoner in his defence denied that he had any intent to stab the prosecutor. Mr. Baron GARRow summed up the case to the Jury, and ob served. that if the Jury were of opinion that the prisoner intended to do the prosecutor any grievous bodily harm, so that he might thereby make his escape, they would find him guilty. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and recommended him to mercy on account of his extreme youth. The prosecutor recommended him to mercy on the same ground. Mr. Baron GARROW said that, as tar as he was concerned. he' could hold out no hope of mercy to the prisoner; he would, how. ever, represent to his Majesty the kind and humane recommenda tion of the Jury ; the prisoner, however, would do well in preparing himself kr the worst. NORTIIERN CIRCUIT—Yozi, MANCH 31. DOTSWORTH, HART. V. HAIGH. The following is the verdict in this case:- Ist. We find there was a soke at all the townships In the districts of the soke. 21. That the township of Al F o k e. 31. That Sandal' Mill is only an auxiliary mill. 4th. That the three:mills posaess sufficient power without the fourth, which it is supposed will give rise to proceedings again 41 the Duchy Court. Mr. Baron lint.Locx left York tbis morning for Barnard Castle. is in the Mr. Justice BAYLEY SW, be will make none of the causes re.. mailers. Allinson, for hone-stealing, is reprieved. Little sod Lee arc left for the law to take its coarse. SATURDAY, APRIL 1. COVENANT. ABBOTT T. THE HOW. 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