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f iiik STATE OF 'TRADE. 745. oath been t not In an at mon • meal and %Ion: .---- and ; Bark 1 and tons Nide , J. fur 'I sic nil -- a lineal at ie. 10 re,• WPM r, ••d eabk• keen • los& war gegf Of I n ' Mk% 61 the fflort• t New Island :sou fanan -4.; 30 I gl at ad an laic& goods eating of t h e Durtless or Tlt: Tines.—Since our last, another very extensive cotton mill has ceased working, in consequence of the extraordinary pressure of the times, and sorry arc we to say, that there is too much reason to fear that others will he compelled to do the same. The burden of our poor's rates is increasing heavily ; sod how can it be other wise, when, by the above unfortunate event, from six to seven hundred hands are thrown out of employment, with out the slightest chance of gaining another situation ? aloe/sport Adeerliser. MANUFACTURING DISTRFSL—We understand 'l -t se veal persons, chiefly belonging to the working re,ses in Preston, intend to address a petition to his Majesty, on the present state of things in the manufacturing districts ; in which it is proposed to pray for the abolition of unmerited sinecures and other grants, for the advantageous disposal of Crown lands; for a reduction in the emoluments of the Clergy ; and that a total repeal of the Corn Laws may be taken into consideration. De'at.tx.—The distress in Ireland is not confined to the poor weaver—the highest trees of the forest are bending to the storm—men, who have passed through a long life with honour to themselves and solid advantage to their country, are obliged to yield to the heavy pressure of the times — names to-day and yesterday are mentioned which commend every man's sympathy and respect. We trust that report exaggerates, and that men who should be happy and com fortable when almost about to retire from the transitory scenes of this world, will not be visited with the calamities to which so many have already fallen victims.—Dab/is Paper 1 Iltaxesdity. An extensive brewery establishment is this city (Dub lin) failed on Monday. The firm was one of the oldest and most respectable in Dublin. The sum for which it has stopped amounts to one hundred and fifty thousand p o unds ! We understand the docket of bankruptcy has been already struck. Reports were current yesterday through town. that several other houses had stopped, in consequence of the above failure. Mr. Alexander, of Car low, one of the moat extensive millers in Ireland, has stopped payment. Ile was connected, we believe, with the house whose failure we have just recorded.—Dublin Morn ing, Rekirter of Thursday. No branch of trade is suffering more at prer.nt than that of printing. In Edinburgh, at this moment, there is not one third of the usual amount of work, and but fur the Session papers it would have been still worse. Above seventy compositors are now going idle, and many others have but partial employment. In London the trade is ab solutely at a stand. A very eminent printer there, who I empllyed eleven readers, finds one sufficient to carry on his business at present. In another office, where eight or ' nine presses were kept going, there is nobody employed but a foreman and two or three apprentices. The stagna tion has been increasing from week to week, and there are I now, we understand, 1,200 printers in the metropolis abso- lately idle, and deprived of the means of subsistence. As a last resource, application has been made to other towns for subscriptions; and depressed as The trade is here, we leant that they have agreed to contribute what they can to the support of their brethren in London for a few weeks. —Scotsman. Last week 499 applicants were relieved in the Calton and Mile-end district. The quantity of meal distributed was 27 bolls 3 pecks, being a decrease of 5 ',oils from the preceding week. It is determined to restrict the allowance of meal still further, and to diminish the heavy expenditure, by cutting off' a nutnber of the applicants not natives of this district, nor even of this country. These employed at the breaking of stones have been reduced more titan one half in nutnber, and are restricted from breaking more stones than half a equare yard, or one shilling a day, which is the wages paid to the operatives in the Green. We understand that trade is cons'elerably worse in Paisley. For the last three weeks few or no sales have been effected, although the goods were offered at ruinously low prices. In some instances, shawls have been offered at i2s. which brought si/. 2s. twelve unnatha ago; and even at this rice no purchasers could be found. In consequence of this great numbers have been thrown out of employ ment, and every (lay adds to their number. Some of the principal manufacturers have resolved to retire from busi acw, until a change for the better takes place. A gloom pervades the minds of all classes—whole tene ments remain uninhabited—wen ksbeps, snit shops of every description, are shut up, and their occupants are obliged to subsist (or rather starve) on charity. The manufacturers, or such of them as are not already bankrupts, see nothing but insolvency staring them in the face ; and the labouring part of the community are necessitate (I to apply for relief to the subscription committee, the funds of which are so in adequate to the demands, that the committee are compelled to dole out a mere pittance, scarcely nufficient to prevent starvation. Many families, dependent on the funds for support, have had nothing but two very scanty meals of the coarsest food each lawful day, and nothing on the Sab bath. This state of things has created great discontent; and it is generally thought that a large grant must be given by Government for the relief of the distressed manufac turing classes.—Gloacrote Paper. --- MEETING rlf the STOCKPORT OPERATIVES. We had hoped, from the good muse and forbearance which our fellow-townsmen have hitherto shown, that we should net have had to report anything to their disadvan tage ; but, unfortunately, they have begun to listen to the insidiens and inflammatory language of men who have no other object in view than to create anarchy and bloodshed. We would earnestly recommend them to abstain from counteriancitg the endeavours of such characters, and, by a continuance of their peaceably conduct, entitle themselves to the slmpathy and commiseration of the country at large. They cannot expect to do any good by a breach of the laws, but they may do' much harm; for, most as suredly, if they cause any tumult, they will be very severely dealt with. We have Len led into these obser vations from the occurrences of last night. We hail heard that raeeteags had takers place on Monday and last week ; and that one would be held in Longshutt lane last night (Wednesday). We proceeded to the ap pointed open about eight o'clock,where we found about two or three hundred men and boys assembled; others con tinued to arrive until a quarter to nine, when the numbers on the ground were between five and six hundred. At this time a man, who, it was evident, was expected to ad.: dress them, arrived ; a ring was immediately formed, and he proceeded to business by reading from Sliertvin's Re gister, of November 14 , ISM one of the most inflamma tory extracts we ever recollect to have heard—the tenor of which was, to incite the people to arm, recommending fur that purpose a knife, eleven inches and three-quarters in length, and two broadat the bottom, fixed into a staff eight feet long. (At this part of the proceedings sotue per son in the crowd fired a pistol off.) With this formidable weapon they were to defend themselves, or, if necessary, use it offensively. The speaker then pro c ee ded to state (from the extract) the superiority of a body of men thus armed, over a regular force, armed in the usual way, and illus trated it to the following manner :—" Suppose," said he, two armies were drawn out against each other, the one armed with musket and ball cartridge, and the other with musket and bayonet, which would have the advantage Why, the latter, to he sure." On finishing the reading of this extract, loud cheers were given by a part of those met; the majority, however, much to their credit, not join ing. We now felt anxious to know who this fellow was, and were shortly gratified; for it appeared that it was ne cessary he should vindicate his character from some vile aspersions ; and that he was one of those apprehended with Hunt, Moorhouse, &c. in 1819. His name we know. let him beware how he again commits himself—the laws of.this country are nut to be trifled with. The vindication, as he called it, which, by the by, was very lame and un satisfactory, being finished, he said, NoW is the time for any one to propose resolutions.' Having repeated this two or three times, and no one coming forward, the Alerting broke up about - half-past nine; and the people returned peaceably to their homes, evidently not much edified, and no doubt greatly to the mortification of the orator.—Stuck port Advertise,. It is said that the high Sheriff of the county Kerry has besuperaceded by order of the Government, and that " il .fißluir7 is about to be instituted into the dreadful trans atl,mv, hi which so many innocent men have fallen vic man , THE ARMY. I,IV6IIPOOL, JULY 22.—The 73d Regiment of Foot marched into this town yesterday, amidst a most heavy shower of rain, and embarked this day on board the stcam•vestel toe The depot of the 42d ( Royal highland) Regiment of Foot, is ordered to march from Edinburgh to Paisley. The depot of the 74th Regiment of Infantry has received order* to march from Stirling to Edinburgh. Detachments of Recruits 'tithed in town on Saturday morning, from Bristol, on route to join their respective corps and depots. PORTSMOUTH, JULY 22. Letters from Port Royal, of the 13th of June, mention the heelthy state of the squadron generally, and the arrival of the Druid, from Portsmouth, to relieve the Hussar.—The Isis, Druid, Pyladm, Valorous, and Magnificent, were lying there.— The Spanish line-of-battle ship Guerrero (Commodore Laborde) and four frigates, hail sailed for the defence of Havannah. The Lively, 16, Captain William Elliott C.B. sailed this morning for Sierra Leone, with Major-fieneral Sir Neill Camp• bell, K C.B. Commander-in-Chief on the coast of Africa, and suite. The Ocean, 80, Captain Sykes, is daily expected here from Lisbon, to be paid oft and recommissioned by Captain Patrick Campbell, C.B. 'Fite Raleigh, 18, Captain nailing, will sail to-morrow morning for the Mediterranean station, as will the Maria transport, Lieu tenant Ambrose, with stores for Gibraltar and Malta—Remain at Spithead—Ganges and Raleigh.—ln the Harbour—Victory, Spartiate, Pyramus, Heron, Swinger, Asp, Cracker, and Dwarf. On Wedneday, the Ganres, 84, Captain Samuel Hood Ingle field, went out of harbour, fitted for the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Waller °toast, R.C.B. Commander-in• Chief on the coast of South America.—The Heron, 18, Captain Robert Tait, is expected to mail with the Ganges. in about a fortnight, for the same station. The Britannia. Captain Bourchier, for Bombay, arrived this miming to embark passengers. Carotin H. E. Napier is appointed to the Pelorus. at Plymouth. Mr. P. Hoste to be a Lieutenant of the Pylades; Mr. Toni, to he a Lieutenant of the Esk. The Rev. T. Surridge, to he Chaplin of the Lively. PLYMOUTH, JULY 20.—Cpme iu the Vigilant and Royalist from cruises. Passed down Channel, the Talbot, 20, Captain Hon. F. Spencer, for the 3leditemnean. The ship will have beat all the way down Channel, with Earl Spencer on board, who leaves her in the Admiral's yacht, at the land's End. The Dublin, razeed from a 74 to a heavy frigate, is ordered to be registered as a ' fourth rate, have 450 men, and be fitted with 28 32. pounders, long guns; upper deck 22 32-pounders, light guns. of eight feet in length, wcitthi 'g 17 cwt. Lord Rodney arrived here a few days since, from his seat in Hampshire, to visit his brother, the Hon. Captain Rodney, of the Dryad, who, we regret to say, lies dan gerously ill, and without the slightest hope of recovery. Lord Yarborough and Sir Godfrey Webster and other celebrated yacht amateurs, are expected at our Regatta on Wednesday next. The line chosen is from the old starting boat, to a boat moored at the eastern end of the Breakwater, from thence to another place a few miles at sea, returning by the same course. A detachment of the 68th Regiment is ordered to en.bark in the Layton transport, Lieu ' tenant Levitt, for Quebec.. RELIEF OF THE POOll. While on this painful subject, we may observe, that for the dis tressed weavers in the West of Scotland there is another plan for re. lief than emigration, which, we are surprised, has never occurred to those enlightened gentlemen who have taken the direction of the charitable contributions in that quarter. Instead of employing them to break stones foe the roads, which is anticipating the labour of future years, why not provide them with boats and tackle, and set them to catching fish for the market ? The outlay would be but trifling ; the return certain. Though the estuary of the Clyde and the adjacent coasts abound with shoals of the finest fish, Glasgow is chiefly supplied with that article from the Firth of Forth. Here, then, in an unoccupied, rich field, on which the industry of these poor men may be profitably exerted. It is an old remark, but not less important because old and often repeated, that the fisheries of Scoaand have never lawn cultivated near to the extent they might be ; that they might give employment to many thousands more titan are employed in them, and be a mine of wealth to the nation. The backward state of them we would ascribe to the aversion which people not born upon the coast have to that line of life. But, in this case, that aversion would be overcome by necessity ; the art may be acquired in a few days ; and swarms of starving wearers be arovented into hardy fishermen, out of whose past wants plenty may arise, and display itself in the erection of fishing stations all round the coast.—Edinimegis Weekly Journal. DISTRESSED DISTRICTS.—SPIF.S AT WORK.—Ai'S have no doubt whatever that spies, not indeed in the employment of Minis tem. but of certain officious and almost professional spy-mongers, are actively engaged in endeavouring to lead our suffering fellow eolintrymen into the commiotion of acts which may form a pretext for the revival or the reign of terror, and for the employment of increased military forces. How else dins it happen that nameless persons, self-styled delegates HMI" ohs town, shall,' sfigln after ni g ht, publicly speak seditious llarigsap to crowds ofisdiartand people in attother town, advising ent to arm, sad organiz* re bellious plans:—we ask, how happens it that these men are never aapiehentled, while half a dozen misled weavers, who falba It their train, are selected and imprisoned? 11 There ass not wanting motives to the revival of the spyraystem. Guilt frequently makes cowards of the guilty. Suppose, then, that some old offender against the character and freedom of his countrymen ; some long-practised trainer and employer of spies, who feels, if he have any feeling, that through his atrocious ma. chinations innocence has been made to suffer, and public liberty has been abridged ; suppose such a being should apprehend, that if the dreadful d'atresses of the people shwa excite tleeds of outrage In any quarter, he should probably not be forgotten ; is it too great a stretch of the imagination to suppose, that in railer that his neigh bourhood may be well furnished with the meads of forcibly re pressing any disturbance which might threaten hi., he should first raise false alarms by agents under his own management, and thus afford apparent grounds for what are called vigilant measures ? Let our distressed countrymen beware. EMPLOYMENT OF THE Pot:in.—One of our readers whore sides near Preston, an intelligent practical farmer, in writing to us, says, " As I have a little paper to spare, I could wish to mention a thing that I do not recollect ever seeing proposed except by you, since the commencement of these distressing times, respecting find ing employment for the hands that are out of work. Why cannot noblemen and great landed gentlemen employ a deal of the idle hands that have nothing to do, in cultivating their waste lands, by draining, fencing, marling, liming. &c. which would employ those who have nothing to do, and in a year or two would find bread for the eater and seed for the sown, and at the same time improve their estates. lam of opinion it would pay a deal better than snak ing holes one day and filling them up the next. I wish either your. self or some of your readers or correspondent' that are competent to the task would give us a touch on the subjects If I was qualified I would do it myself, but I am only an old clumsy fanuer, who has spent more days at the plough-tail than hours at school." In answer to the hint of our respected correspondent, we can only say that none are better qualified than persons like himself, of sound practical knowledge, to point out the advantage both to the rice and poor, of such improvements Si he suggests. At a Guild held at Berwick on Monday last, the thanks of the corporation were voted to Joseph Hutne, Esq. M.l'., for his valuable services in the late Parliament. Same day a motion was made, which is to be discussed on Friday next, siz.—" That those burgesses who broke their pro mises to the candidates at the late election should be pre vented from holding any situation under the Corporation, and that their names should be painted on a board, amid hung up in the Hall, to remain for the everlasting disgrace of the guilty." We perceive the premises in Spring-gardens, where Mar 4 shall's celebrated Panorama of the Battle of Algiers is ex hibited, are to be pulled down on the sth of next month, when this Exhibition must finally close. It is quite true that the Knights of St. John of Jerusa lem are endeavouring to re-establish themselves, and to act as a body in favour of Greece. It is probable that they will have indirect support from the French Government, for two of the French Ministers are Knights of that Order. These Knights endeavoured to raise a loan some time ago for the same purpose, through a Mr. Dearne, but it failed. —Brussels Paper. A meeting of the Municipality was to take place at Va lencia on the loth Jim., to consider the state of the pro vince. The fact of P ter having set off express from Ca recces, which was mentioned in the last letters from La Guayra, is repeated. His presence is said to have been called for at Valencia, to repress some disturbances among the troops; but whether these disturbances were a renewal of the licentious conduct towards the citizens, which oc curred previously to the re-assumption of the command by Paez, or arose from any dissatisfaction at the General's con duct, does not appear. The accounts from Vera Cruz in these papers atato the deaths at about 100 per day ; the fever seldom lasts twelve hours before death ensues. Com modore Porter, his officers, and crew, were aboutleaving Mexico, in disgust at the treatment they had experienced. Errarxtx, Jut.v 10.—On the Bth of July a threatening thunder-cloud passed rapidly towards the Rossert moun tain. About half way up it turned back over the culti vated slopes, and the village of Eppstein, and poured down a dreadful shower of hail and ice, which entirely destroyed all the crops, and carried away the earth from the sides of the mountain, so that it wilt be years before many parts can bc again cultivated. In 'he village, the windows and root: were beaten in, the houses and stables filled with ice and water, and many escaped by ladders from the second story. Most of the cattle were saved; the ice and hail lay four feet deep in the main street; the by-streets are still impassable, and the lower parts of the houses filled up with ice and mud,—Frankfiirt Paper. THE BRITISH PRESS. HOME CIRCUIT. OUILDFOUD, JULY 21. CHOWN 3IDE. Before Mt. JUbtite Hot.noyD.l CUTTING AND MAI.3IING. Edward Edwards was indicted under Lord Elienbornogh's Act, for wilfully and maliciously cutting and stabbing with a knife, Richard Pople, a police officer, at Bermondsey, on the 22d of June last. Mr. THEssidra stated the case for the prosecution, and called Richard Pople, who deposed, that being one of the °filters of the Union Hall police eatablishment, he was sent, with other off. cers, to attend a fire which happened on the premises of Mr. Cur ling, of Russell -street, Bermondsey, on the night Mahe 22t1 June last, for the purpose of preventing depredations. lie aril•ed at the fire about half-past eleven o'clock, and Ind not been there many minutest when he felt a man's band on his back. He then felt the same hand groping under his waistcoat, as if the owner was feeling fur his watch. He tome:. round and recognised the pri soners. whom he had known before as a suspicious character, and gave him a slap on the face. The prisoner then kicked him vim lent ly, and in a moment he made a rush at witness with a drawn clasp knife, and cut the thumb and two fore.tiogers of his lett hand to the bone. Witness drew his emits*, anti gave the prisoner a chop with it across hie arm. The prisoner retreated among some of his companions cur • moment, and again rushed at witness with his knife, and ripped up his trOwKcrs, but without touching his person ; and the pri,oner was then rescued by his companions, and got away fur the time, but was afterwards secured. Upon this statement of facts— Mr. Justice HOI.ROYD interposed, and intimated a clear opi nion that the case was not within the statute on winch the indict ment was framed. It was clear that if death had ensued, the pri. toner would not have been guilty of murder, and therefore the case did not come within the policy of the statute, the object of which was, to make it Wasp- is ems where the party inflicting the wound meditated murder. The Counsel for the praeatrdon, acquiescing in the intimation from the Bench, said, t carry the case any farther. The Jury, under the Learned Juno x's direction, found the pri. soner " Not Guilty," but he was ordered to be detained for the assault until the next Sessions. Mr BRODRICK was for the prisoner, who appeared to have suffered severely scorn the wound in his arm, inflicted by the pro- secutor with hit cutlaa. The Assizes are not expected to finish before Tuesday. Mr. Nolan has been of essential service in assisting to deliver the gaol. Ott ILDFOID, JU LY 22. - - BIGAMY. THE KING V. JOHN JACOBS. This defendant had been convicted at the last Assizes for this County, before Mr. Baron Graham, of feloniously intermarrying with Catherire Fitzgerald, his first wife, Dorothy Thompson, being then alive. Upon the trial, a question arose as to the vali. dity of the first marriage (which tonic place in Ireland), on the ground that the defendant was under age at the time lie contracted that marriage, and that it was solemnized without the assent of his father. The question arose on the construction of the Irish Mar riage Act, 9 Geo. 11. cap. 11. which requires the assent of parents to the marriage of an infant; but by that Act. a marriage so con tracted without consent of parents, must be avoided within a twelvemonth afterwards, otherwise it is good. Here the defendant had acknowledged his first wife long since this marriage was so lemnized. and had lived with her after the expiration of twelve months. The case was reserved fur the opinion of the twelve Judges. The defendant was now put to the bar, when :11r. Justice HOLROYD delivered the opinion of the twelve Judges to be, that the first marriage was good, not having been avoided within twelve months after solemnization. The Irish Marriage Act hail been often recognized in this country, and the Judges felt themselves bound to take cognizance of it ; and there fore, attending to its provisions in reference to the facts proved in the case, ttey were of opinion that the defendant's conviction was right. The defendant was then asked what he had to say why he should not receive judgment of death ? He said nothing, but on his knees prayed the benefit of the statute, making the offence clergy able. Mr. Justice HOLROYD then told the prisoner, that considering all the particular circumstances of his case, which was, as he under stood, attended with great ag g '.ion, his Learned Brother, Gra. ham, thought the proper sentence to be pronounced was, that for his offence the prisoner should be transported beyond seas for the trim of seven years ; and his Lordship accordingly awarded and adjudged that sentence. The prisoner. who was a young man of gentlemanly appeatance, beefed to the Court and was taken from the bar. Belted been known by the name of Captain Hamilton. and war supposed to have been successful in his matrimonial speculations, having mar ried more than two wives. [Before Mr. Justice Hoentren Samuel Perry was indicted for assaulting Elizabeth Ann Tully, a child of tea yews ALI. at limasbetb, en the 21st June, viitb a certain outrageous intent. Mr. DowLano conductedebasepsecutioo, and Mr. Themes he defence. The prosecutrix was the daughter of parents in humble life, and the prisoner was a shoemaker by trade, living in the neighbourhood istr*eetOakley-street. On the 21st June the child was sent by her mother to the prisoner's house, for a pair of boots which had been left with him to mend. The prisoner lived alone in a email house containing only two rooms. As soon as the child was let in the prisoner took her up stairs. and committed the alleged assault, under circumstances of considerable violence. He detained the child for half an hour, and then allowed her to go borne. Next day she complained to her mother of indisposition, and then the extent of the prisoner's guilt was discovered. On the 27th June the child was examined by a surgeon, when it was ascertained that she was the victim of a barbarous delusion but too prevalent amongst the lower classes. The prisoner himself was found to be affected by indisposition of long standing. The child gave her evi dence in an artleint •nd unaffe:ted manner, and received confirma tion from her mother ind the surgeon. Mr. Tit Est o a addressed the Jury for the defendant, and sub mitted, that if they ,b elieved that the offence was committed by the defetideut under the ignorant delusion adverted to, and not with the intent averred by the indictment, he would be entitled to an ac quittal in point of law, however guilty of a heinous offence in point of morality. The Jury, under the Learned JUDGE'S directions, found the prisoner Guilty. Ile was sentenced to two years imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. The Grand Jury had found a bill against the prisoner fora capital felony; but, upon consideration of all the evidence, it was thought advisable to pro ceed for a misderceimor only. MIDLAND CIRCUIT. Be t/M imi "—".."— nre Cuter LJUISC7ISCTI.Iti JULY .?1 William Joan, :a Cowper, Henry Crofts, Solis Richard. l teli tan, Thomas Lit ;LliFUtiant Llnnt, (.'harks Williamson, Rivers Morris, I n n .1110eNhor Smith, were indicted for having, on the 14th June last, ripmusly and tumultuously assembled in the borongb itLeieeiM4 Itinttary to the peace of our Lord the King. They all pleaded Not Guilty. 31r. Sergeant VAUGHAN stated the cue to the Jury. He mid he had the honour of being Counsel for the Crown, upon an in dictment, imputing to the prisoners the offence of being insti gators and active participators in a riot, which took place at Leicester, in the day of nomination for the Candidates to repre sent this ancient and respectable borough in Parliament. He would not disguise the fact that this prosecution was instituted by the Alagistratea ; but then, they removed the trial to the County Court, when party zeal or party prejudice could have much less operation than if the ease were tried in the Borough Court. The Magistrates were anxious to bury in oblivion all warmth and all excitement arising out of a protracted election contest; but, as guardians of the public, peace must be preserved on all similar occasions. The 12th of June was the day appointed for the nomination of Candidates ; and we need scarcely say. that these Gentlemen appeared before the electors on very different principles. Sir Charles Hastings was supported by the Corpora tion, who are Blues; Mr. Otway Cave appeared on the indepen dent interest ; and Mr. Evans, on the Whig or popular interest. The Returning Officers were the Mayor and the High Bailiff, and their first object was to decide how nearly 6.000 votes could be most speedily and impartially taken. These Gentlemen called to their aid the talents of the Learned Recorder of the Borough (Mr. Goulbum) and had special constables appointed. w:th the full concurrence of the different candidates. The polling commenced on the 13th June, and in order to facilitate it, three avenues were formed to wards the hustins lined at each side with constables, in order that voters for each o f 'the candidates should have access to the poll.— This, the Jury would see, was acting impartially towards all ; in deed it was proceeding upon that purely English principle of a clear stage and fair play. . The voters as they approached the hustings were placed in " pens," and when it was found that two of the candidates stood on the seine intent, then their votes were all placed in one pen, while those for the single candidate kept upon the usual ground. The effect of this junction was to leave Mr. Evans in a considerable minority, and in order in some degree to counter act it, his learned Friend 31r. Denman, a respectable and worthy man, was induced to unite with Mr. Evans, though not with any view of being returned to Parliament, but for the purpose .of enabling Mr. Evans to poll double tallies as well as the other two Candidates. The supporters of Mr. Evans exhibited great impatience at the manner to which the Tot ing proceeded, sad threatened to pull down the pens If It acre longer continued. On the Wednesday, at the close of the poll, a protest was entered at the mode of pooling, and almost at the same time Give o'clock), attempts were made to demolish the pens. The constables in Mr. Evans's ictmest were observed to be acting at ... this work of destruction, and it was with great difficulty that the hustings were preserved hem the ferocious attacks of a tumultuous and riotous mob, who tore up the stones in t h e matket-place with an implement called a cal-peck. At the head of this mob was the prisoner, Moore, who disarmed all opposition to his lawless pro. ceedinga, and be advanced to the Exchanged. There the Magi.- ' trates found it necessary torpid the Riot Act, and while engaged is doing so, they not only eacountered serious difficulties, but the hustings also were demolished. Fortunately no lives Imre lost, 1 owing to the timely arrival of a military force. Throughout the whole of the riot, the Magistrates were the principal objects of at. tack ; and bad it trot Mss fir the activity *lad spirit of the persons inside the Exchange, there is little doubt that it would have been pulled down. 'Bimodal sad stones were repeatedly thrown, NAOMI wounds were inflicted by pikes and atiets, and the mob absolutely drew %IR in battle array to meet the army. The officer, Mr. Po water, immediately told the rioters that the soldiers were loading with hall-cartridge; and it was only on this announcement that they yielded, and reluctantly dispersed. One hundred and twenty persons *ere arrested ; but of that number only lit were brought to trial, as being the most active instigators of the mob. Justice required that some notice should be taken of such an outrage ; and sure he was, that the Jury would fully docredit to the Mogis tracy for their conduct in the affair. They sought not to punish— they had no resentment to grwify—their object was, to set such an example as would deter others from the commission of similar offences. His ',earned Friend, no doubt, felt a warm interest on this Occatlon ; in fact, he formed a main feature in it. Quorum pars magna fel. He trusted the Jury would do justice between the parties ; and at the same time be challenged his Learned Friend to rebut, by re. spectable testimony, if he could, any part of the stamment which he had just submitted to their consideration. As the witnesses were about to be called an, the Lead Chief Justice suggested. whether it would not be advisable that the pri soners should severally plead guilty, and enter into their own re collnixtumes of 1001. and to keep the peace tot three years, and not to be called upon for judgment, unless they committed a similar breach of the peace. iie put it to Counsel whether or not it would not be prudent to accede to this proposition. Mr. Sergeant VACGUAN immediately assented. Mr. DEW MAN thanked his Lordship for the humane view which he took of the affair. lle recommended the prisoners to plead guilty, as they had been advised by the great and hononrable Ma gistrate who now presided, and in doing so he considered they would be adopting the beat possible course. He did not wish to say a word which could excite prejudice or animosity, and he repeated his ex hortation to the prisoners to follow the course so kindly suggested by the Lord Chief Justice of England. The prisoners severally pleaded guilty, and entered into their own recognise sees to keep flea peace. • The LORD Cutter JUSTICE—Young men, attend to what I say. Depart this Court in pease, go to your homes, and when you see there. conduct yourselves like peaceable citisens. Yon ow much Indebted to the Carperation—but I marmot this as matter of triumph to either party. This is no party triumph. After the trial was over, the populace drew Mr. Denman's car riage through the town. lie addressed them from the window of his lodgings, near the Market-place, and exhorted them to be peaceable, to vote for Mr. Evans, and to adhere to those independ ent principles which were the surest basis of England's glory and her greatness. OXFORD CIRCUIT. SHREWSBURY, Juts' VI The press of business here has been so enormous that It will be impossible for the Learned Judges to complete it, notwith standing the extra time allotted to this place. The only causes really possessing public interest will be made temanenta, and six special juries will remain untried. The Attorney-General came specially here the night before last, from York, in the case hereunder, which was commenced yestet. day, lasted until eight o'clock in the evening, and at eight this morning was resumed. AIL Baron °ARROW sat on the other side this day; and took a long ejectment cue of no importance. DOE ON THE DEMISE OF LLOYD V. PASSIVGHASC. This was an action brought by the lessee of the plaintiff, to re cover possession of a most valuable and extensive property in Me rionethshire. extending into the celebrated vale of Llatigoi hen, which has been in litigation since the year 1783. In 1794, the case was tried here, when the present defendant was one of the then Plaintiffs, and recovered possession. On that occasion the late Lord Erskine came down specially for the Pa.singham family, and the present Mr. Baron barrow was also brought down specially to oppose his great abilities to the learning of the late Noble Lord. Mr. TAUNTON, Mr. CAPPISELL. and Mr. RICHARDS. were for the plaintiff . ; the ATTORNEY-GENERAL, Mr. 0. RUSSELL, and Mr. A LEXANDER, a son of the present Chief Baron, were for the defendant. Mr. TAU NTON stated the case to the Jury in a very elaborate and perspicuous speech. This was an action brought by the heir at law, in the right line of a Mrs. Catherine Lloyd, to recover possession of the property in question. Mr. Ewen Lloyd, the common ancestor, was, in the year 1740, possessed of the property called the Hendeur estate, in Merionethshire. In six years of e he became so possessed of the property in question, he inter married with a lady of the ancient and respected family of the Hilla, in this county, and settled upon her and the issue of the marriage, in strict settlement, the whole of his real property. Mr. Ewen Lloyd died in 1774, without issue, and his widow survived him until 1702, when she died. 111 r. Ewen Lloyd had also two maiden sisters, Miss Catherine and Miss Mary Lloyd, who, upon his and wife's deaths, inherited the estate as copartners, and for a number of years received the rents and profits of it. Catherine Lloyd, upon her death, bequeathed her moiety of the es tates to certain relatives for life, remainder over to present plaintiff, who was grandson of the common ancestor. His right as remain dennan did not accrue until last December, when the last life te state died. It was neeessary a Nue to the Jury. that in the year 1704, the family of the Paseinghams brought an action for the recovery of this property, as the lineal descendants and right heirs of Mr. Ewen Lloyd, being issue of a marriage said to have been contracted by hint antecedent to his onion with Miss Hill, and they succeeded. Accortli.tg to their ac count, one daughter. issue of this marriage, had married the father of the present defendant, and according to such a pedigree, he was of course grandson to Ewen Lloyd, Esq. The supposed prior marriage was alleged to be with a woman of the name of Elizabeth Taylor ; and the verdict which was obtained on the for mer occasion was the result of a deep-laid conspiracy. The Learned Counsel did not, however, mean to insinuate that the present plaintiff participated in the plot that had been laid to obtain that verdict, but it had been procured by perjury and forgery of the blackest description. The Learned Counsel would not dispute, as it watt unnecessary, that this Elizsbeth Taylor was the mother of the Passinghams. by Mr. Lloyd, but he was capable of proving, beyond the power of doubt, that Mr. Ewen Lloyd bad never been married until he entered the holy state with Miss Hill. On the former occasion, evidence had been tendered and admitted, by 31r. Justice Heath, who tried the case, who was, unquestionably, a most able Judge, but on this occuirn he cittd in judgment as to the prior marriage. He, however, admitted proof, such as it was, that the previous marriage had taken place with Elizabeth Taylor. Every one now knew the benefits resulting from the late Marriage Act ; but previous to its passing, and during the reign of George the Second, a scandalous and infamous practice long prevailed, of marrying persons at a house as signed and art ringed for the purpose in the neighbourhood of the Fleet Ditch, and these contracts were termed " Fleet 3lar riages." Clergymen who were the outcasts of their calling, and the di.grace of their cloth, officiated at these unholy unions, and a regular registry of them was kept; but that registry having been repeatedly made the instrument of fraud, falsehood, and imposition, the first law authorities in the kingdom ruled that they were not regular means of proof upon any occa sion. _lilt. Justice Heath, on the former trial of this cause, admitted proof of a marriage of this description between 'Mr. Evan Lloyd and this Elizabeth Taylor ; and such it was, but he was principally influenced in that admission by the produc tion of an attested copy of entries in the parish register of the parish church of St. Pancras, which went to corroborate the probability of the " Fleet marriage" between Mr. Lloyd and this Elizabeth Tay lor. The Learned Counsel was now prepared to prove that these entries in the paridi register of St. Pancras were forged interpola tions. The parchment was ground down with pummice stone or a penknife, so as to efface the original writing, for the purpose of substituting the fraudulent entries. Elizabeth Taylor, the alleged first wife of Mr. Ewen Lloyd, was a bar-maid at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James'e-street, a house then frequented by 3lr. Lloyd ; and the Learned Counsel would show that that female was buried in the church yard of St. James, Piccadilly, by the name of Elizabeth Taylor, in 1741. This fact would go to show that no mar riage had been contracted, or else site would not have been buried in her maiden name. He would also show what had been the fate of Elizabeth. Taylor, and how unlikely it was that she had ever becu married to Mr. Ewen Lloyd, or that her child Elizabeth was legiti mate, for that child was sent to a poor village school, kept bye barber or hie wife, at Teddington, in the neighbourhood of London, and there always known by the name of " Bet Taylor." Mr. Lloyd was a gentleman of family and of fortune, and, therefore, it was highly Improbable that he should marry the bar-maid of the Thatched House Tavern, and moreover, he had done so, it was much more improbable that he should leave unpro aided and destitute the offspring of his first marriage, when he had no issue by his subsequent wife, Mica 11111. This " Bet Taylor, " as she was called, a ft erwards married the father of the present defendant, and then went to Bath, where she kept a lodging-house, and afterwards became the housekeeper of a 11r. Burt, &surgeon, near St. Thomas's Hospital, where, the Learned Counsel would prove by Mr. Blount. a surgeon of great eminence, who was a pupil of b iz. Burt's in 1774, that the unfortunate wo. man represented herself to be the illegitimate daughter of a Welsh gentleman named Lloyd, and died broken-hearted when she heard that he had not mentioned her or her children in his will. The Learned Counsel, after some other statements of the substance of facts, concluded by pressing his claim fervently on the consciences of the Jury. • The records of the former trial, and the notes oF evidence then taken, were tendered as evidence. They were partially received. The Chancery proceedings in the cause were also produced, and received. It further appeared from documentary evidence, that the marriage with Elizabeth Taylor occurred under these circum stances ;—She had been sent to a boarding-school after site left Teddington, from which she eloped with the father of the present plaintiff; and, in consequence, incurred Mr. Loyd's severe dis pleasure, for he totally abandoned her. The Rev. Rowland Hill, after being called, anti sworn, stated, that he knew an aunt of his married 3lr. Ewen Lloyd, bet lie knew ' nothing of their private affairs. 111 r. Blount, a very old gentleman, stated, that before he had re- tired from business he had been in the medical profession. in 1774 lie was walking the hospitals, and he was a student with a Mr. Burt, near St. Thomas's lloapital, where he knew the late Eliza beth Passinitham, who always described herself as the reuted child of a Welch gentleman. Site acknowledged that she believed she was illegitimate. She said, she had etrended her father, but, for family reason., she always expected a legacy. A gentleman from the neighbourhood of Shrewsbury called one morning at the house of witness's master, in the Borough, and stated that Mr. Lloyd was dead. When this fact was communicated to him, he asked nether any property wu left to Elizabeth Passinghain. Ile said nothing whatever had been bequeathed to her. The Comma- Mention of dila fact to the unfortunate woman made het instantly delirious, and in three dors afterwards she sprang out of het own bed.room window:, and was killed on the spot. several other witnesses were called for the plaintiff, when tesd • ninny tended to the establishment of his claim, but the particulate of their evidence are tedious and uninteresting. The At-Toilet:l%6ex Ertat.. this morning, in • speech agent length, detailed and remarked upon the whole of the legal sail equ i ty p ,,,, e , e di ng 4 I n this case, since 1793, and quoted as tonna law and good authority the doctrines and observations of ittevri Erskine, during the former trial respecting the just claims et die Paasingham family. The present defendant, Colonel Pattaingbatn a was a military man, fie had served his country and bled profusely in the American war. bowl Erskine, in his early life, had been a soldier himself, and on the former occasion Lie void a gallant tribute to the activity and energy of a brother soldier. But to revert to the suhject of this most extrantilinary ease. The nosh:sham fa. roily. now, after thirty valve peaceable possession, which was the best indication of lawful right. were assailed by the present ac. tion, and were charged as being the spurious offspring of a gentle man who burr high reputation and gontl keeling as the ebaratterlaties of his conduct. The flintily of the Passingharns had established their legitimacy by the best criterion that human judgment could afford, namely, by the venlict of twelve honest Englishmen. They had pronounced the repudiation of imputed bastardy, and the solid establishment of legitimacy. This judgment was not orotund by the eloquence of Passinghanes advocate, renowned and celebrated as he wits, in his day, for his unbounded powers; but the dictates of an honest onset/am, and the exertam of pure English judg tr.ent, had fixed a verdict upon a huh; that ought not to be Aitken. The Learned Counsel then went through a train of resuming, sad &statement of facts formerly adduced, for which we have not room. and rested upon a positive conviction that no new Jary would dis turb the solemn sanction of a verdict, prononneed by twelve honest Englishmen, assembled in the same box which the present Jury now eceopied. Several witnesses were then called. The widow of Col- Vivian, of the Guards, and others, deposed that the Slimes Lloyds, who ..had been left shone In the possession of the property in question. always spoke. of Colonel Pasiingharn, and his blather, as dais nephes a, since the year 1794. The will of Mary Lloyd was put in as evidence, showing that that degree of relationship really existed. Other evidence was also adduced, which was produced on the former occasion. Mr. TAUNTON replied At Considerable length ; but it is itcpsx. sible to give his observations. Mr. Justice BURRO . OHS, from his infirmities, had the Jury removed from the box to the bench ; and there he summed up us them. The Jury retired at eight o'clock, and bad nut ptceutuncod tbzit verdict et ten, when our express left. This trial only affects a small part of the property. WESTERN CIRCUIT. EXETER, JULY 21, CROWN SIDE. [Before Mr. Justice Gaset.rt. Edward Taylor, a private soldier in the 321 regiment, was charged with stealing a silver watch and appendages, inid also a pocket case with its contents, the property of Henry Reid. This prosecutor, who is a Captain in the 32d regiment, stated that the regiment was stationed at Plymouth in the month of May last, and that his quarters were in the Citadel Barrack. He spent the even. leg of the 19th May at Colonel 31aitlund7tquarters„ and, atomic II o'clock at night, received some intormation which induced hint to have the prisoner taken into custody and searched, whet the pro perty mentioned in the indictment was found on his p ram. It appeared that the priw ner had entered Captain Reid's quarters through the window, during his absence, and taken the watch and pocket case out of his sleeping room. Captain Reid's servant, what slept in the same house, was awakened by hearing a person walk ing in the room titer bead, snd, upon getting up, discovered the prisoner, who said he wanted to see his master. The servant sus. peanut the prisoner's motive, had hint apprehended, and sc. quainted his master with the circumstances. The prisoner, in his defence, made a very long but improbable statement, to the drew that he had receiv.il the watch and pocket vase from a lady, who desired him to deliver them to Captain Reid, and that be had ga to the Captain's quarters for that purpose. Captain Reid swore positively that he had never given the articles in question to any lady. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to seven yaws' transportation. James Edward Arberry was tried for breaking open the gimp o John W. Tucker, at Tiverton, on the night of the 4th of June lasso and stealing therefrom ten silver watches, above the vales dad. It appeared that the prosecutor is a watchmaker resident at %%Iron, and that on the night in question he locked up his shop at the usual hour, and retired to rest. Abort four o clod is the morning, however, he was knocked up by a neighbour, sod upon proceeding down stairs, perceived that one of the shutters of Ma shop.window, and one pane of glass, had been broken, end ten silver watches. which lay near the broken glass, had been taken away. One of the stolen watelies was afterwards found in Mebane" of the prisoner's mother-in-law, seven were discoveredin his father's house, and the prisoner himself was proved to have *deed two at • pawnbroker's in Taunton. It clearly appealed that the prisoner had brought the watches which were found in the buttsa of hie father and mother.in.law. In his defence, the prisoner said be found the property made up into a parcel. lie was found Guilty. The Learned JUDGE, in passing sentence, observed that this was the most aggravated case which had come before him dosing the present assizes, The conduct of the prisoner, in involving Ms family in his crime, by placing the stolen property in their brinisa, could not be too much reprobated. In conclusion, the Lamed Judge said he should recommend the prisoner's life to be spared, but could hold out no hopes of any further mitigation of his punishment, Sentence of death was recorded against the prisoner. Elizabeth Pulman was charged with stealing ifit in Bank nate*, from the pocket of Charles Pye, on the night of the 21115 March. It appeared that the parties met at the fair of Taunton on the day mentioned, and after drinking toge: her at • public house, pro ceeded towards Thorncombe, where Pye lives. On the rood the pro. secutor said he felt the prisoner's band in his pocket, and charges: her with the theft. She was immediately searched, however, but nothing was fouod on her person. lour' IL notes were afterwards picked up on the road near the spot where the prosecutor charged the prisoner with stealing his money. The Jury acquitted the prisoner. John West was charged with entering the granary of Thomas Cousins, between one and two o'clock on the morning of the I ith May, with intent to steal. The prosecutor is au extensive torn.. dealer at Ashburtou, anti suspecting that oats had been stolen from his granary, he set people to watch, who on the night mentioned. hearing • noise, proceeded to the granary, and found that the door had been unlocked with • skeleton key, and was left 'jilt. Upon smelting within the granary, the prisoner was discovered. lie had been in the service of Mr. Cousins, and when taken into custody only said that he hoped to be forgiven, as he never attend the granary to steal but once before. The pi isoner was found guilty, and sentence of death recorded against him: but the learned Judge intimated that he intended to recommend the prisoner to n crcy. Mary Webber was indicted for stealing a purse containing 48 sovereigns, five guineas, and sortie silver, the property of Samuel 3lattliews, governor of the workhouse at Paignton. The money was locked up in a mahogany box which was it the parlour, and prosecutor kept the key in his pocket. Upon getting up on the morning of the Bth of May, prosecutor found that hie pocket had been rifled whilst he slept, and the key with ether anti. cies carried away. Upon . coming to the parlour he found the box was also stolen. The prisoner had been an inmate of the work. two days after the robbery, hooittiliseard box zas oo d er d is:o oo v ns ed ide i ro n b P ie ly e nt o o m ut o h r , money in herpnmee.te,. When apprehended she admit eel the robbery, and stated that atte had gone from Plymouth for the purpose. She alto gave a yam circumstantial account of the manner in which she had etvettd theo robbery. Verdict—Guilty. Sentenced to be transported for seven years. CIVIL. SIDE. [llefore 3lr. Justice Li TTLtDAtt.I HALLAHD V. ACLAXD. This wu an action brought by the phalli:la* to recover damspe for a grieeo is injury which he was aileged to bare sustained by mean of the defendant's dog. Mr. Eersunt WILDE (with whom was Mr. W ;nowt) staled the phoning 's one, tie said that the plaintiff and defendant were both fanners, resident in this county. and in the same neighbour hood. The defendant was the owner of several furious and vicious dons. and whenever they got loose. which happened not unite.- , ten ly, their practice was to pursue and worry the sheep of all Ow t rm ra in the neighbourhood. On the 27th of May last ati enter. t. inn nt of this kind took place., the defendant's dogs fastening oa a soup belonging to the plaintiff, and for this damage the present action was brought. To support it, witnesses would be produced to prove that the dog which had done the mischief was the property of the plaintiff, and had been seen at his house. It wu not to be tolerated that any man should keep ferocious dogs to the injury of his neighbours; and if any man did keep animals who bad such an instinct for mischief, they should he kept chained or triuzalei fur thesecurity ofother persona property. The injury for which the present • action was brought ;vas not the only one of a similar kind which plaintiff had suffered. Several of his sheep had been sadly torn end injured by those dogs, and in more instances than one the poor ani. mats die 4 soon after. flitter these circumstances, he thought it necessary to come before a Jury of his Country for compensation. What defence would be offered by . the ingenious gentleman at the other side, he could not anticipate : there could be no real ground of defence; and his Learned Friends would have to art it up for a defence, either that the injury was not done at all, or that the dog which did the injury W 1 .4 not the defendant's. The evi• Bence would put both these points beyond a question, and upon their testitymiy he should confidently rem his client's case. Philip Selway, a dwtrfi.h, stupid boy, said he was nineteen ~ years of age; he lived wi.li the plaintiff (farmer Defined), and re. metnb-'red some of the abuts being injured on the morning of Mon. day, the 2/d May last. {Fitness went out to attend on the sheep, and observed one of it - win lying on die grass, and a dug pulling at the fore-leg. witness hillowed the dog to the defendant's (farmer Acland's) house. and saw hits in defendant's presence. M'i Weill unit:rotood that that dog was sine destroyed. He had often seen him previous 0 the day in question, with Carmel Acland's wife. C ross-examinal.—{Vitness recollects seeing a white toile: boll. i dog at foster Acland's house. Knows Aclaiill's ion, James, who by Lhe out , 111. 'late ado aidt poll _- T 10 ins, one east firm de• alit- cam ocri hifT. Is of