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BUSIYESS uY THE LAST MAYORALTY. The following returns exhibit the extent of the magisterial busi miss of the late 3layoralty, nod the general compeuative state of the City pollee timing that period The number of pawns charg•al with felony was . 463 Of those were ronimire.l for t ri a l - - 131 Discharged for want of sufficient evidence, or in consequence of the failure of thanes - - - 2E2 Misdemeanors and disanderlks charged . - 542 lif these were diaellargetl - . . 3416 Committed or held to bail - . 156 Fawn, begging or wandering in the streets - - 418 Of those comniitted as rogues and ral.,raboads . 51 Discharged or relieved in various ways . - 237 There were other cases no: exactly comprehended in this class, amounting to - - - 113 Finning a total of persons taken before the Lard Mayor, in custody, during the last year, of - 106 During the same time there were taken b:fore the Magistrates of Guildhall, chiefly on Corgi* of misdemeanor, vagrancy, and at a tt s o f a less important nattier, persons to the number of 2315. Fanning a total of eases in the City during the last mayoralty of 4151. The gross amount of magisterial business is remarkably close to that of Aldenran Ileygate in his mayoralty, but then that worthy gentleman had the almost daily assistance of his brethren. Indeed, on some occasions we have known Alderman Heygate to sit for one Lour. Alderman Cox sit for another hoar, and Alderman Ainsley sit fo: a third hour, in one day of that memorable mayoralty. The numbers in that year, token not exactly before the Lord Mayor, but to the Mansion-house, were - - - 1327 Takla before the tinting Magistrate at Guildhall - 3006 Total . 4311 S The Police Establishment, in some respects, is much more if. c ire than during the preceding year, but in others it is much less elective. The plan adopted by the Police Comiatitue of appoint ing six stations, with offic.ma to each station, ordered to patrol a certain district in uniform, to return every hour to their station, and siga a book, kept by en Inspector. for the purpose of showing the. they were upon duty, has operated very basally. The thieves and otbert who live upon the public in the streets, have been able t ascertain at what time any officer might be expected in particular directions, and have been et.ahled to avoid him, and to work at their profession in its different branches, whilst he is engaged in making his war to the alanaion House, to sign the book. They have also made it a pnaciice to watch the officers on their several estions ; and the police uniform gives [heal facilities which before mate regulations were not known. The last Lord Mayor considered it matter of the highest import. ante to the retail dealers and aboyikcepers, as well as to tra...e in general in the City, that all the publiz thoroughfares , hould be kept Clair from every kind of obstruction. With this view, he exerted himself to have new and efficient street-keepers appointed to all the wards ; foe that office had been in many instances to f rred upon old and infirm men, to prevent them from becoming burthmesoine to their parishes. It is well known to the retail dealers, that a very considerable effect is produced by obstructions or inconveniences of as apparently ti ivial nature. Besides the cases above enumerated, there were last year, it is calculated, upwards of lOW eases heard on summonses. which sirs many of them iniportant, the tithe and parochial fur trustier. Independent of the duties of the Justice Howe, the Le:. Mayor has to sign permits for all the corn and frod vessels which inter the River. The number of these documents signed hat Tea amounted to 17,000. There are beside, many thousands id Admits, and other papers, to be signed in the course of the mayoralty, the total number of which was last year upwarla of le,ein. the Secretary, or Chaplain of the Chief Magistrate, had of foe years taken this trouble off the hard, of the Lord Mayor, VI illegal practice, and calculated to occasion great ir.coa. userace should any litigation arise. The late Lord Mayor went beck to the old course. and signed every document and answered tray letter himself. The Lord Mayor, besides these labours, has to Mild Courts of Alde rm en, Courts of Common Council. Common Bat, Courts of Conservancy. COLITI4 of Hustings, the Old Bailey, the London, and the Southwark Sessions, to preside over the enter tamments at the Mansion House, and over Meetings of public charities. The bump's at Guildhall eonsisns chiefly of larcenies, assault tkleS, and dech.ions upon squabbles between the low people of that eismet, the cases of importance being constantly taken w the filantson.house, where the Lnrd Mayor is aided by very consider able legal skill and experience. and has the attendance of the iaisi.sis and the most experienced officers under them. Light, ftweter, as the business of the Guildhall comparatively is, Alder men cannot invariably be found to despatch it, anti it has often feen lest over to the 3lansion-bouse in addition to the appointed bsticeit cf the Lord Mayor. The foLowing is an account of the number of persons brought Wore the City 3lcgistrates, during the several Mayoralties, from t?rf.nt of— - 4,32 E - 4.46_13 - 4.334 - 4,361 Aid. Wood — . in 1918 . 4 740 Ald. Thorp . '"??3 , 1 of Wood . . b 032 31agnay Cu. C. Smith - 4,800 Ileygate Atkias . . 4.494 Waithmen ittttgrs . . 4,012 The has been undoubtedly a decrease in the mows serious bus i rem ci the City. The number of street robberies has much dimi. tient, a fact attributable to the improved state of the police up to e replations. 'l'he nightly watch is however in an extremely Kite notwithstanding the strictures made upon the syc_ tent, it his undergone no improvement what ever. It is the opinion Celentze,4 persons that one-third of the present number would, were active men, under proper regulations, more efficiently Presrie the public peace. The pay given now seldom exceeds Ios. v , ek. The consequence is, they are obliged to resort to expedients up a corn petcuct, and end less ex tortions arise, and pass ninety. 4 , et canes out of a hundr e d, with impuni t y. In s om e i ns t ances it " 55 been frond necessary to employ privet , ' watchmen, u well to • ,,rx: l the other watch:n eat as to guard against professed thieves. °Y.:: the creanst porti..n of the business above enumerated is done tr the Coy Officers, the whole body of witant does not exceed 40 e " ,, t ,, e men, who cannot be induced us continue in such au °cc°. without adequate remuneration. ictm numb e rs ot untortunatc persons have been. in the mayor , at Alderman Wsithnian. clothed and sent home to the or to the hospital, and many have been saved from ruin th e timely applicauon of such relief, at the private expense of B ii<ot; ate, wh ose zea l, talent, and humanity are equally roasin:svcs. •-- • • AAXY.—The payment of three months' half-pay Ow reduced officers of his Majestv't land forces, due the etc September, including those heretofore borne upon the l'hh establishment, will be, in future, only on Monday, fa -slay, and Wednesday, in each west. A very handsome parish church, in the gothic style, has leel hen erected at Birdsall, near Mahon, at the sole es- Pt'ase of the Right lion. Lord and Lady Middleton. F:td*y evening, last a sailor, who it appears hail his e 79 .-: a hoard, left Newmarket for Bury St. Edmunds in el 3, and undertook to pivot a miller to the same p!r,.e. lacy were ruing at the rate twelve knots an hour, when the; came up w i!li a cuter, and attempted to get a-lica.l of hire• hut unluckily the driver, Leine: perhaps better ae .lvrented with steering a chip than a ran aground and ui.s't , u,el.t. withi n a Omit distaitee of the r 'town. The sailor l from the week with little injury, but his friend sustained many bruises. The carter rendered 411 :he assistance in - his power, and landed the holiest nrd C3lllinnim at their temporary reef epee.—Br THE GREEK SCHOONER AMPHITRITE. Mk*. m tut Mart , from AV THE ZDITOR OM TIIE BRITISII PRESS. 'raft. el, - "s t 10Mant )1I 161 tlHn mantas Romer, a tour. Mood, twledge he sh ot' the 1' songs 'e never ter song too, the y anal t'ae her ih min- ich are, which, nd then ut fear. ye doer, imatint. h better he town inn Out aentivut ere yes lajesiy'i decild opiipn to is sects- hike anti lence at Duke of p to dine 11 Duke, to enable 11. The to till a Officer. la, Lord -General rt Porter, v Sirah nerra. tto rnnsacted or a cull- A Euvi umerow. . e. 3 ivs a of the very strii tromprte rst dinner indispoS, • he Earl of Viscoaat Lord Ole tnrncv!j Brairour. Sir ear c. &r. dience of r Journal 14}4T •t forward and afood ring-pace inguished . s' last, SL* les of his , county. iliwossd Kniticenc:. Tint• gr' on wbis!i m i t t o tbn nbers, rm: I into d ofrerit.g of SJullr 11 state ,! said to [lse King's itice is units each. to of Nor is of 'feu dist'. Lori t. Antutlic. ich, if czi• • han halt • taticety. Woife. s ph on Oaf Kms star eni geld, r fulloo rticakr , _ --....••••.-- WEDN ESIPAY, Nov. 111. Bra,-1 observe in a Morning Paper of this day (the New Times) a long article, in which a very paltry attempt i s made to throw ridicule on the character of the late Lord thyor, Mr. Waithman. I never recollect to have seen any attempt of that kind made by the Journal that did not espose its own dull stupidity, much more conspicuously than any defects it could pick out of the object of it. I have no personal acquaintance with Mr. IV:mailman ; but, 5.r. my reason for remarking upon it on this occasion is, II at the New Tim .s, which calls itself a Geeernment Paper, suds thick and thia 'air too, has not the setts: mace that the s busin any public if in, , istrak, because of any political q r T i nc i p e; he may entertain, when those lIT illei plea, in i ,r prol oang. have rather perhap; promoted his discharging d i • duties of ili F. d ins office with uprightness and impar sLiti:v. !s a real jury to the Government, and, but that its eifert is destrmcd by the weak and foolish manner in oh c'i it it done, avast give real displeasure to those in power. 'lll. public are told that " when very juvenile, his late LOT Islm:p entered upon Cie abstruse rattly of linen-draper- At,'' I hope, Sir, the time will never comae when it shall le c unithvol as matter of ridicule or reproach to any man in •his country, that he has been a tradesman, or when it :hal: di tract from his merit as a Public Magistrate, that he has b to bird from early life in habits of commercial in dus ri, and made his way from behind the counter to the cid: chair. What scurrilous trash can be more ftroli4lt II a i the fillowing :—" The spirit of the late Lord Waith asu nt,w animates the frame of a retail linen-draper, at the W.ck Street-sweeper's corner. oppesite Fleet-market!' and t !Thug us, " that it is incredible that last week's Er I, a l Mayor can now Le measuring out ginghams and cheek a pron', or retailing litickahacks for dusters and rcul e y towels. " T here is no doubt, I think, Sir, but that an bo mist man is much ',encr in this way, than a fool is in rat .i . ng such vulgar abuse, and measuring out such coarse st,:f ss this ; and any me but the New - .Times Journalist would have thought so. I am, Sir, yours, &e. A LONDUN TRADESMAN. TO TILE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. St a—ln wandering round the London Pock on Thurs day last, chance brought me to the birth where the Grecian man of war schooner was lying, discharging her ballast. preparatory . to receiving some repa i rs upon t h e b u ll ; an d I Immediately stepped on board to examine her, and notice the manners of her interesting new. The Amphitrite is a beautifully-modelled vessel, of about 130 tons, mounts ten carriage guns, and was built in the island of Samos, about five years ago. I never saw a vessel better adapted for swift sailing, nor one from which a hint might he taken with more advantage for the improvement of our Post-office packets. I counted thirty-five uncommonly stout and well-made seamen on board, with their sun-burnt count: n ere graced with such tremendous mustachios, that I thought them hideous at first sight ; but they improved upon acquaintance, particularly when thq became animated with the sudden re-appcaranca in the midst of them of one of the finest of the youths of their country, who have been sent here for their education. In an instant there was a clamour of tongues, and every one had some question to ask, or some joke to crack upon Castanos, who, in hie turn, seemed delighted to reply to their badinage. and 'ake by the hand once more in a foreign, but not in a hostile land, flu? shipmates of his voyage, the defenders of his native and illustrious country, and the sworn foes of its oppressors, the sanguinary and inhuman Turks. When Castanos, who is a pretty and an interesting boy m . fourteen, left the vessel, her crew broke oil' work. and having carefully washed themselves, sat flown in nic , ses to a very comfortable dinner of stewed beef awl potatoes. They formed a circle round the tin dish which o•ntained their food, sitting cross-legged like tailors, and each of them having reverentially crossed hinistif, and asked a Wu-sing, begat; to eat with the utmost regularity and propriety. Can these be the half-savage and ignorant Greeks whom I have heard so much vilified? thought 1, as I left the vessel. Ii they are, they possess at least some qualifica tions. which it would give me infinite pleasure to witness in my own countrymen of the same profession. Whoever has a taste for looking at a fine vessel, or ad miring a sample of the men who are struggling for freedom on the classic soil of Greece. will have both gratiika by sisiting the Amphitrite and her crew. I am, Sir, yours, . Bread-street, Oct. 30, 1821. A. B. Prince Esterhazy the Austrian Ambassador, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. It is stated that Sir Charles 13agot will be snrceedeel in the embassy at Sr. Petersburgh, by Mr. Stratford Canning. Despatches were yesterday received, to the 't3iln!t., from Sir Frederick Adam, his Majesty's Lord High Cammis biota in the United States of the lonian Wands. We learn from these despatches that, after repeated demands made, in his Majesty's name, in satisfaction for the viola tion of the territory of the lonian States in Pecember last, the Provisional Greet-lemma of Greece have consented to make the reparation which has been required from them ; but not until Captain Peelle'', the °hirer commanding his Majesty's Naval Forces in the lonian Seas, hail been wider the necessity of seizing three Greek armed schchners at Napoli di Romania. A Paris Correspondent informs us, that the demolition of the mountains of the Jardin Beaujon has been corn me:.eed, and that houses are to be erected upon the ground. Tivoli was in like manner to have been parcelled out for building ground, but we hear that in consequence of the intervention of an august personage, that beautiful resort of the French fashionable world will not be destroyed._ li!stirday a Court of Direetors was held a: the East India llouse, when the following ships were thus timed, viz. Prinvss Charlotte of Wales, Captain Christopher Men ; Warren Hastings, Capt. George Ma:o r ; and Mi nerva, Capt. George Pronyn—for Madras and B ngal : to be afloat Feb. 17, 1325, sail to Gravesend March 4, stay tl e e thirty days, and he hi the Downs April 9. 'The Thomas Grenville, Capt. William Manning, and Marquis of Wedington, Capt. Blanshard—Lr &Nal direct : to be afloat on the April 18, sa Ito Gray.:send May 2, stay there thirty days, at.d be in the Downs 7th June. That the ships Charles Grant, Captain —; Bombay, Captain —; Lowther Castle, Captain Thomas Baler; and Warren Hastings, Captain Richatri Rawes—for China direct, be afloat 4th March, Ise'', sail to Gravesend 19th ditto, stay there thirty days, and be in the I)uwns 24th April. The under-mentioned Captains were sworn into the command of their respective ships, viz. Captain John Peter Wilson, Ily the ; Captain Richard Alsager. Water leo—Bengal and China; and Captain John Paterson, Repulse--St. !Lima, Bencoolen, and China. The Court of King's Bench (says a Dublin Paper) was crowded on Saturday to suffocation, occasioned, in a great measure, by a rumour which had gone abroad, that Mr. O'Connell was to move the Court for a criminal informa tion against Sir A. B. King, founded upon the Baronet's acknowledgment at Collrge-street Police-otlice, on Thurs day, that he was Treasurer to the Orange Association. The crowd was disappointed, for Mr. O'Connell made we such motion. The Norfolk Magistrates have come to a cletermination to move for leave to bring a bill into the House of Com mons, for the removal of the Assizes front Thetford to Norwich. SINGULAR Rscorzev OF STOT EV PROPERTY.—On Monday selinight some persons entered the shop of Messrs. relgate and Osborne, jewellers, in the market-place, Nor wich, and stole a large quantity of jewellery. The greater part of the above stolen property was discovered on Thurs day in rather a singular manner. A boy, employed to at tend 1i4)1111.` bullocks in a field upon a fann in the occupation of Mr. James Barber, at Gorleston, near Yarmouth, on ap proaching a corn-stack in the same field, observed some thing stuck under the thatch, which, on his removing• prov.al to be an old stocking, containing a quantity of valuable jewellery. The buy immediately made his good fortune known in the neighbourhood, when a further search was deemed advisable, and two other lots of jewellery were discovered in the same stack. The police have been upon the alert sine.: this discovery, but, as yet, no trace of the depredators has been obtained. The property has been identified as that stolen from the above shop.—Nerteith 'Wee. Pt LCHARDS.—At length, and after havi77 ceased to hope that this season would be better than the preceding, it is our pleasing duty to communicate, that the fish are not only on the coaat in immense shoals, but that great quanti ties have been taken at different places. Yesterday sennight, the day after the sculls had been laid up for the winter, Mounts Bay was discovered to be filled with pil chards—two seins were got ready with the utmost expedi tion, and great numbers were taken ; though if the other seins had been prepared, it is supposed that many thou ' sand hogsheads would have been secured, as the quantities seen were unusually great, and which, from its blowing hard, betook themselves to the sea again. Twu boats tilled with fish sunk in bringing them to the shore, and a man was unfortunately drowned. I hie net burst, and its con tents were of course lust. Th • whole taken in Mounts Bay are about 64./U ho;sheails, and, up to Thursday, great quantities were seen in the Bay. The St. Mimes, Lizard and Coverack seins have been still inure lucky, having be tween th em sa f e ly lamh-d %m a) hogsheads, with 1,000 still in the water. The Mevagissey seine have not taken any ; but the catches at l'Jrtlue. Newquay, and St. lees I have hem handsome. The price of pilchards at Truro is 35., while, a: the Lizard, they ate Is. bd. per hundred.— Cornwall Paper. WYln•n Turner. the pugilist. was taken from the ground to his quarters at the Ceerge tun, Colninvok. it was foUIRI that one of the bums of the left hand was broken, and one end of the fracture nearly protruded through the skin. A surgeon in the town was sent for, and the fracture speedily rduc•al. Ned thinks it happened about the middle of the tight, in stopping one of Inglis's tremendous right-handed blows. u Lill, he caught on the point of the knuckles of the middle finger. With th:s exception. he has scarcely shun of any consequence. and certainly rot a sciatch. Some of Ned's friends were remarking that Inglis'a blows were light. Djn't tell me that," saki Ned, " I fel: them, see know :ha: they were extremely heavy." THE BRITISH PRESS. THE FIFTH AWNIVERSARY OF THE ORANGE. STREET TRACT SOCIETY. A Meeting of this Society was held at the Chapel in Orange street, Leieester-square, last evening. The Meeting was called for six, and at half-past six the chair was taken by the Rev. Tstosess Lr.wts, of Islington. The Rev. Jottx TOWNSEND offered up • prayer far the waxes of the Institution, and The Climate's', aßer having stated the object of the Meeting. requested the Secretary to read the Report, which stated that tracts had been very generally distributed in public-houses, amongst hackney-coachmen, watemen, watchmen, watch-house-keepers. &e. It alluded to the profanation of the Sabbath by the keeping *Pen of shone, and informed the M eetin g , that the Committee hoped that the distribution of tracts bad done something to abate that evil. Tracts had been well received by soldiers; and they had, in many instances, been placed in shops, where they sold trash in the shape of amusement for children, with great success. Some toed been distributed on board one of the dis. coverv-ships (the Heels). They had also been dispersed in Tothill fields' Prison and Newgate, al l the Theatres, and Bartholomew Fair. The Committee also expressed in their report, the satisfac tion they felt in stating that a Tract-book Library . had been esta blished by the Orange street Society. Some gipstes in Hertford shire, the pea and hop-pickers, almost all the harenakers in the neighbourhood of London. and the Greenwich Pensioners, had re. eeived them. Ths report further stated, that 90,6119 tracts had been circulated generally; 17,509 had been given to subscribers; 6.4,666 had hcen sent amongst hackney-coachmen, to theaters. fairs, &c.; and 3,631 had been forwarded to the Secretary and his friends. making an increase of 10,758 in the present year over the last. and making a grand total of 2&1,701 tracts distributed since Oct., 1819. The SECRETAItY then read the account from Ist November, 1323, to lot November, 1124. by which it appeared that 11G. 19s. Id. had Mr!, expended in the printing and distribution of tracts, a n d that there was a balance of BM 17s. &I. due to the Treasurer. _ The Rev. JOHN TOWNSEND, in moving the first Resolution. observed, that they had cause to be thankful for what their eyes had snn and their tars heard a hut still there wai much darkness re. maining in the country. Thousands and tens of thousands were still in the valley of the shadow of death. The Tract Society recommend. NI itself on a variety of grounds. A tract could find an entrance where Bible could not, and its nod appeared to be easily aceompli,hed.— It had extended itself to prisons and hospitals., and in a variety of instances it had done substantial' good. He would say that tracts were introduced to attain the object that brought the Saviour upon earth. The Nev. Gentleman then moved the let Resolution— --........— That the Report now read be received. and that the following gentlemen, whose names will be read by the Secretary, be the Com mittee and Officers for the year ensuing. The Rev. R. 11. SIIEPU CRD was cer:ain that he need not to that meeting speak of the advantages of meta ; they were well known to all around him, and two of the greatest objects that had been obtained were the distribution of tracts at the Missionary Tent Meetings, and the substitution of the papers issued from this Society for the trash usually read by children for their amusement. AVith these impressions is favour of the Institution, be cordially seconded the Resolution. . . . . . . . . The Rev. Dr. STYLES said, that the motion he held in his hand united divine agency with human imatrumentality, two operations that ought never to be separated. Whatever human beings did ought to he to the maim and glory of Ood , and if blessed results were produced, the praise ought to be given to find. The object of the Society was the circulation of Christian inowlrcige, and it had a universal adaptation to the wants of man. (hut of a popula tion of a million and • half within the bills of mortality, not more than nue-third had an opportunity of attending divine worship. Dr. Chalmers. who was rot only the best civil economist of his time, but mixed the saving knowledge of Christianity with his economy, had said, that every temple was an attraction ; Isut he had also said that was not enough, there must be an emanation ; and the domi. ciliary visits paid by the members of this Society was that emu's. ;ion. Ile then moved the second Resolution. That this Meeting acknowledge with devout 'gratitude the in. creased support which this Society has received, and the blessing with which a grae,ses GOD has been pleased to crown its efforts during the past year. and while we desire to ascribe all the glory to Him, to whom alone it is due, may he so increase our teal, that we may strive by our influence and our prayers to make this Society more extensively useful than ever. Mr. JOAF.PH PAYNE seconded the Resolution. The Rev. Joust THOMAS considered Tracts as Monitor, from Heaven, to alarm the careless and reclaim the profane; and he wan happy to inform the Meeting that the beneficial effects of the Parent Society were felt on the Continent. In the neighbourhood of Orleans 30,01 , 0 copies had been dispersed. Ile begged the Meeting to continue their efforts in support of the Society, and concluded by mowing the third Resolution. That this Meeting witnesses with thankfulness and encourage. ment the steady progress the Parent Society is making in the good opinion of Christians of all denominations, as its plans and opera tions become more exter.sively known ; and that the cordial thanks of this Meeting be given to the Committee of the Parent Society, for their liberal assistance to this institution, in allowing their Fob. lic stints to be purchased at reduced prices. Mr. Rolm,' seconded this Resolution. The Rev. Anxot.ri WIDTH, in moving the fourth Renointim, expressed his gratitude at the success that had attended their zeal and operations ; mankind were running fast to woe, and th ye- fore the most benevolent act that could be accomplished was to check them In their progress, which this Society had, to a large ex tent, done. It was no light matter to reflect that this Society ex isted in the heart of a profligate metropolis, where juvenile della qnency existed in an appalling degree, and yet that it had been enebled to carry on successfully its operations, and to cheek in some degree the profaneness and wickedness that surrounded it. The laws were good, but the people could only be checked in their evil courses by moral means. To this end perseverance was neces eery; their teal must not grow cold. He cordially moved the fourth Resolution. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Treasurer, William Parker, Esq. for his kind attention to the concerns of this Society during the past year. The Rev. 0. C. SMITH, of Penzanre, was thankful for what had been done ; but still he thought little had been accomplished, and little could be accomnlishrd towards reforming this vast metropolis. until the mass of profligacy that existed in the courts, lanes, and alleys of London, was attacked. He knew of one alley that con ' tained 150 thieves, men, women, and children, all under the con , trol of one man. It was sinks of iniquity like this that ought to be cleared away, and that could only be done by personal exertion, by these courts and alleys being visited, tracts being left in the houses, and the Scriptures read to them. If he were Satan. he would say, " give me all the public houses, theatres, fain, brothels, and gambling houses, and you may take all the churches and chapels : as long as I have such instruments as these, I don't fear all your efforts." Did it not, therefore. behove every well-wisher of Christ's kingdom to come forward and manfully attack this mass of profligacy ? They ought not to come there to compliment each other, but to consider nothing done whilst any thin:: remained to be dope. The Reverend Gentletnan then seconded she fourth Resolutioo. The Reverend Mr. Jowls moved the fifth Resolution, 5. That the thanks of this Meeting he given to the Committee of the Sunday School belong to this 'Chapel, fur allowing the Com. mittee of tide Society the use of rooms fur it: various meetings dur ing the past year. The Reverend JOSE psi TAYLOR of Portses moved the thanke of the meeting to the Chairman, who offered his acknowledgements for the compliment. and the assembly broke up at half-past nins o'clock. LOTTERIES IN ENGL.4ND. The first English Lottery was drawn A.D. 1569. It consisted of forty thousand iota, at ten shillings each lot. The prizes were plate, and the profits were togo towards repairing the havens of this kin dam. It was drawn (as Maitland from Stow informs us, vol. I. p. 457) at the west door of St. Paul's Cathedral. The drawing began on the 11th of January, 1 569, and continued, incessantly, day and night, until the 6th of May following. At this time these were only three lottery offices in London. The proposals for this lottery were published in the years 1567 and 1568. It was, at first, intended to have been drawn at the house of Mr. Dcricke, her Majesty's servant (i. e. her jeweller), but was afterwards drawn as above-mention2d. Dr. Bawlinson shelved the Society of Antiquarians, in 1748, a copy of the preceding lottery scheme, and it is thus entitled—'• A proposal for a very rich lottery, general without any blanks's, contain:4,g a great number of good prizes, as well of ready money as of plate, and certain butts of merchandizes, having been valued and prised by the commandment of the Queene's Most Excellent Alajestye's order, to the intent that such commodities as may chance to arie r thereof, aftet the charges borne, may be converted towards the reparation of the havens, and strength of the realnie, and towards such other further good works. The number of lots slutt.l be forty thousand, and no more : and every lott shall be the stumne of tenne shillings sterling only, and no mere. To be tilled by the feast of St. Bar tholomew. Thu shcw of Prizes are to be seen iu Cheap stile, at the si.!n of the Queene's Armes, at the house of Derieke, goldsmith. servant to the Queene. Printed by Henry Bynnettian, In 1612, King James, for the special encouragement of the plantation of English colonies in Virginia, granted a of lottery to be held at the west end St . Nur.. ow Tho mas Sharply', a tailor, of Imam, had the chief prize, amounting to four thousand crowns in " faire plate.'' In the reign of'Qucen Anne, it was thowht 110: Vb43l). to suppress lotteries as nuisances to the public : they ware re viv,:d in the reign of 4..:..'0rge 1. A street has been begun in front of the New Exchange at Paris, which will cross the passage Feydeau, and commu nicate with the rUe Richelieu. This improvement will lay open to genera; ailtotra:ton that magniticimt IDOCUUIeDt of taste awl grander.r. EAST I.NDIA SHIPPING. SAips spoken with.—The Cornwallis. Henderson, from London to the Cape, on the 18th of October, in lat. ¶i9. long. 13. The Theodosia, Killion, from Liverpool to Bombay, the 15th Septvitiber, in hit. 17. 30. south, long. 30. 10. west. Arrival al iluhria.—The Jeanette, Rose, arrived from Antwep on the 7th July. The crew of the Columbian, Faulkner, which was wrecked in the Straits of Caspar, had arrived in safety at Batavia. Botarie, ./rds M.—The Caroline, Harris, having da maged part of her cargo, a stirvvy was held on the 211 July, and many of her planks and timber found completely de cayed ; she was declared unseaworthy in her present state, but Captain Harris, however, intends to give her a tem porary repair, and proceed to Singapore with the remainder of the cargo. Nix,:tapore.—The Shannon, late Retrial!, which has ar rived at Singapore, received damage. liaring struck on a coral rock, on her passage from Batavia. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. CRATTIA74. Nov. 9.—The Owen Glendower, of 42 guns, Capt. Christian. was put out of dock the 6th instant, and is fitting for foreign loTeice. The Basilisk cutter. Lieut. Hough commander, sailed the Gth instant for Portsmouth. with supernumeraries, and to go from thence on a cruise ; also the Goldfinch packet. Lien. IS'alkie com mander, sailed the 7th instint for Falmouth, to be employed on that station. The Admiral Berkeley. hired transport, Lieut. !Launders. agent ; also the Leval Briton, hired transport. Licnt. I.ey, agent and Surrey, hired transport, Lieut. Thompson, agent--sailed the Bth instant. with troops for the coast of Africa. The 31inotattr. of 74 guns, was put into dock the Oth instant, to have her defects examined into, and made good. The Royal African Corps. about GOO strong, light infantry, em barked on Friday last In', the Ortinance.yard, Chatham. rn board of three transports, for Cape Coast Castle: they arc expected to sail this day . . . Four driachments of the !7th regiment. now quartered at Chat ham. are under orders to embark at Woolwich, on board transpotts, to guard convicts for New South Wales. Arrived at Dillingham, the Dispatch, 18.guo slap . from the Mediterranean ; aho will proceed to-morrow to Chatham, to be paid off: SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. FROM LLOYD'S LIST. Fatstouvff. Nov. 8 —Arrived yesterday the Doris, White. from Zante in 41 clays ; and the fohowing ontward•bonnd vessels from the Downs. viz., the Merton. Drummond ; the Brighton, Thomson ; the New Phenix, Leathwaite the ROB/4 Teesdale ; the Puke of Wellington, lees and the Lihette. Blanshstd•— Sailod the Frolic packet, far Halifax and New York.—Put bock the Len, Claxton. for Nassau. New Providence, with sails split. Ptiruouvir, Nov. B.—Arrived from tho Downs the Ruth, Munro, for Jamaica ; the Thomas, Hobbs, tor Trieste ; and the Perey, Seger,, from Sir. Vincent's. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 9.—Passed by the Tigor, Duke, from Vera Cruz. 44 dare passage, landed paasengen. Also the Electra, Robinson _from Philadelphia, in 29 daps. Drat. Nov. S.—Arrival and sailed for the River. the Zero, Talbert, front the llediterranean ; the Zephyr. Evans, from Que. bee ; the Percy, Ritchie. from ditto; and the Barhadoes. Lee, from St. J,phn's. New rtrunswick.—Passed through from the River. the Active, Palmer, for Oporto ' • the Falcon, Littlewort. for Seville ; and the Zephyr. Arcanm, for Aliamt.-4 p.m. The Lady East and the Coventry, f.ir New South Wales, are getting under weigh, hot the wind has every appearance of getting southerly—the rest of the outward-bound sailed early this morning. . . . Oa arrsewn, Nov. 9.—Airived the Age . noria. Phithrum, from Jersey ; Eimthetli. Orfeur, from Palermo; Unity, Mends, from Duernstv ; Active, Cmker, frown Dunkirk ; and the Tally-Ho, Glover. from Vircinia--Sailed the Tulloek Castle, Pearce, for Ja maica ; Thetis, Hovers. for ditto ; Elreek. Reed, for ditto; Or well, Bryant, for St. Vincent's ; and the Berbice, Wayth, for Genoa. PETERHEAD, Nov. 7.—Arrived the following vessels from Davis's Straits, viz.:—Superior, Mason, seven fish. 109 tuns ; Refire. Sutter, eleven fish, 130 tuns ; and the Hope, thralls, seven fir !,, 100 tuns. ST. 'tome% NEWFrIUNDLAND. OCT. 14.—The Aurora, Of Whirehaven, Remon. from Quebec to Tralee, was wrecked near the Renews, 29th ult. The crew, materials, and most of the cargo tared- _ _ Off D.arer, the Or-an, —, from Demerara. The William Olivier, 'Faber. from Motile for Amsterdam. is s a ml to have arrived at Cuxhaven. leaky, on the 22d ult. after thr wing °verb lord part of the ramp (wheat); it was feared that a great part of the cargo was damaged. The Jong.? rimer Jacobas, IFyhes. from Hull for Amsterdam, hav ng suffered much be stormy weather, and got aground twice. a-rite lon the 29th ult. leaky, at A melacd, whence she was to sail d re dr for Amsterdam. T e Aurora, Benson. from Quebec to Tralee, was wrecked at Newfoundland on the 29th September —crew, materials, and most of the cargo saved. The Phaeton (Swerlidi grind), Klengstcdt. from Stockholm fur Dunkirk, is lost off Anteland, where the Captain and pilot have arrived, but the two sailors and a BLankencse pilot are drowned. The Berjomin Shr.w. Douglas. from Liverpool, which wit‘ stated in the List of the 3,1 instant to be lost previous to the tith ult., or. riv-d at Minunichi on the oth, all well. The Peter, Buttner, from S•ockholm fm Trieste, is stated to have ruin aground in the night of the lgth September, in a storm, upon Trnidel, near Leapt, and to have received considerable dorsal!e to the rudder. tce., and to have sprung a leak, which ern. dered it necessary to keep two pumps continually at work. She reached Arendahl, where she will repair. . . - . . The Frau Anna Maria, from the Hexer for London, after having been eight days at sea, is stated in a letter from 'forming of the 31st ult. to have put back, damaged, and must unload to repair. Tee SHIP Cott: maus.—The following is an extract from the books of the Custom House respcAing the sh;? Columbus : The Columbus, Quebec. W. Mackellar, 3,690, Blackwall, Martin. 41 pieces oak timber - - Gillespie and Co. 3 253 pine ditto . . . ditto 54.634 staves and headings . . . ditto 30,281 deals ditto 6,082 ditto . Caldwell and Co. 56 pieces timber . . Gillespie and Co. Part of the cargo thrown out in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. On Thursday last the celebrated Commodore, O'Brien, arrived at Chatham in his diminutive cutter, the Royal Gift, which measures only five feet six incites in length, and two feet eleven inches broad. We understand he pur poses staying come days at Chatham. This is the same cutter in which he crossed the British Channel, from Dover to Calais. Natanow F./CAM—Sunday evening, between six and ;even o'clock, a gentleman passing near the corner of Thomas-court, in Thomas -street, perceived an old house adjoining Catherine's Church, which had been partly taken down, for the purpose of widening the street, giving way. He immediately alarmed a number of persons coming that way, who had hardy time to escape the im pending danger, when the entire gable-end fell into the street with a tremendous crash; fortunately without doing any further injury.—Dublin Paper. lweesntaetts.—About six o'clock in the evening of blonde, se'nnight, a barn in Framlingham, occupied by Mr. J. 'Pierson, anti belonging to the Charity Estate of Sir Robert Hitchatn, Knt. (filled at one end with barley in the straw) was discovered to be on fire, and notwithstanding the most prompt and unremitting exertions, was totally destroyed, together with a stable Iljoining, anti a stack of barley, a etraw stark anti other property. We are sorry to add, there is no doubt that the fire was occasioned by the diabolical act of an incendiary.—About midnight on Fri day a stack of tare-straw, in a field oppesite the house of Mr. William Goodchild, of Keddington, was destroyed by fire; and from its vicinity to Isis farm-yard, greatly en dangered his premises. It is believed to have been wa -1 fully set on fire. as a stack of haulm, about a mile off had been twice tired the same evening, the Sth of N'uvetubee, anti the persons concerned impudently persisted in their wantonness before Mr. G.'s face, threatening to throw his son into the !lames if he interfered.—Xi. //A Paper. flonnin Can rI.TT TO NIII At 8.-011 the forenoon of Tuesday last two butchers, Slanders, residing in Free sehoohstreet. and NVolley. of (Jai:mord-street. both of St. John's, liorseleyilown, pr.ieceiled each with his mare, iu limners, from the milestone, opposite Stepory Itreen. tire and t frailty miles out, and the same distance home, on the Ilford raid, tie a be: of Sly so vereigns. Both parties started at a pace, although their looses were considetrd good bottom, too quirk for any cattle to continue such a distance. %Volley built lead, and by the time the 15 miles out were done by him. he was between two and three mites a.tie.ati of his opponent. Slanders, however, overtook Wolky, when the latter pulled up, 1111 A gave in, as his mare mild not pro_ mil farther with any chance of Pieces.; indeed, he left the poor animal behind him on the road, and came home by some stage coach. Manske% continwil„ however, as well as his mare could go, until his arrival at Ilford, wlesre he baited her; hut on proceeding for the winning-post, the mare could scarcely walk, and the poor distressed animal was near three hours in going the last six rules. Slanders, however, won the bet, but his mare, on being unhar nessed and put into a stable, dropped down dead in • few minima afterwards! It ouitht to be timed that each of these humane :vitt petitors had a friend ith t1::n in the easav to a.: as Orcp.:, on dais disgraceful occasion, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, WEDNESDAY, Nov. 10. 11.41F.E T. L A I.E. This was an appeal from the iiee-(Karellur under the follow.: inn cimuns:ancest-- l'he plaintiff who claimed to he the heir at law of Sir Mathew flak, tiled a hill against the defendant, who is in pox-essinn of the etisttea descended from him, praying that the Court would elder the defendant to prodece his title-deeds, to shew br what right he held the estates, and k•:st him (the plaintiff) out of the of hit inheritance; alleging elan, that the defendant hail:d u :ril l :: that the plaintiff was the heir at l aw, ' and bad offered him a sure of money as a preniium to induce him to suppress his claim. atsl stating. that In the event of his refusing to accede to his proposals, lie would produce such deeds end conecyanc , s as sbnuld effectually bar his right to the inheritance.. To this whole of this bill the de fendant had demurred, and the Vice-Chancellor had overruled the demurrer. From this decision the defendant now appealed to the Lord Chancellor, and the question came on this day fur further argument, it having been partially beard before. Mr. ' , DAT/WELL supported the decoarrer„ on tile ground that the whole bill, from. beginning to end, Ken imperfect, loose, and inconclusive; that, admitting that the whole of the issue of Sir Mathew Hale had failed and become extinct, as was represesued by the plaintiff. yet it did not appeae, even by the plaintiff's own shelving how he was entitled to the estate. Ilia bill made out no case which would entitle him to the assistance of a Court of Eatiity. He had Merely stated. that as all the issue of Sir Mathes/ lisle were extinct, he hail become heir at leer. Not one word was said shout his pedigree, excepting that he is descended from an uncle or tie Mathew lisle's, who was the elder brother of his (Sir Mathew Hale's) father. In fact, the plaintiff's bill was nothing more titan a mere Itching till, none of the allegations in it having any foundation. lie therefore contendo!, that the demurrer ought to he supported. Mr. SOODC1( followed on the same aide. lie drew hitt Lord ship's attention to the circumstance, as stated by the plaintiff: Pan he was the hc.r at law, as to the little probahility there was, that the settlement trade by Sir Mathew lisle, a century and a halt ago, should not have been defeated by sonic of the natnerousi tsstatte in tail, who must have been is prissettion during etsa period. Again, he contended that the manner in which the plait. tiff' had set out his title was most absurd; that the four children of Sir Mathew Hale had all long sine" departed this life, without imue, anti that he was the live at law of John Hale, the elder brother of the father of Sir Mathew Hale; that there had beers no covenants to bar the entail of Sir Alai:lea's property; and that therefore he was the heir at law, and entitled to palmation. The LORD Citaxem.aost—There is no allegation, that the plaintiff' was descended front any tenant in tail in possession, who was arse the heir at law. Mr. Sui;tigx said that there was not. The plaintiff also was out of time; and there was likewise no allegation, that there had been nn settlements made during the long period of 160 yam. But it untiontnately happened, that almost every poor peraom of the name of Ilalc, for what reason he could not divine, conceived that be must be descended front Sir Itlathew Hale, and was con. .tautly threatening the present pour/sat of the estates that he would file a bill to produce a diticovcry. Ile admitted that the plaintiff might he all he pretended to be, which he thought very unlikely ; that he might he desceincil front Sir .Mathew Hale's uncle, all yet be no heir of Sir Mathew Hale, as he had not shewn one 'single !nit in the pelliree by which he claimed to de. duce hia descent ; end until he couli aliew that, he was not such an heir as would enable him to sue successfully in this Court. The Lon:, CHANCELLOR said that bills, in the nature of the one before him, as they were usually framed in this CORM stated all the links of the pedigree. for then:version iv fee might have beta disposcrl of by any one or the tenants in tail in possession. Mr. Sur: eh—Certainly ; and the Claimants were compelled to deduce their descent fren. the root. otherwise it was in the power of any person to file 'trills, and assert ragas and indefinite title'. The bill, in tact, Iva, had throughout. and therefore the demurrer most be allowed, as the phtintilr had not th:dt::::.%l his title seep by sun besides which, another rule of Court Vl4, that the plaintiff must shew that he was heir to the person last seized. llow could the pleintiffshew this if, en he stated, all the issue we., long dint ex tinct. The Court certainly was :shell to believe a great deal, but there was not the slightest ground on which the bill could be main tained : lie had, however, another objection, which he thought fatal to the bill. 13v the late deziaion in the House of Lords, twenty yews adverse possession were sufficient to bur a plaintiff chaining the title from obtaining ney remedy in a Court of Equity, but left him to do it in a Court of Law, by an action in ejectment, and it was perfectly right that this Court should not step in to assist a plaintiff who had been lying by for so long a p eriod, and suffering another to receive the rents. Another rule of Court was, that the plaintiff should shew that he was within Mee. This plaintiff %MS out of Court by his own statement, but it he was no t , he ought to shew that he was within time to recover by an equitable tide against an adverse possession, but there was not a word on that subject in the bill, therefore the demta..rer was good, as in a ease before the Vice-Chancellor, it was not stated in the bill that an untuity had been enrolled, although no etijeetion was made to the minion on the other side. and although it had really been enrolled, yet his Honour thought the liana should follow in its pleadings the strict. nets ore Court of Law, and for that onnisaion he dismissed the bill. lie (31r. Sugden) thought that a very proper decision, and the omission in the present bill was quite analogous to it. The bill was alba imperfect, as it prayed not only for a discovery, but thto for final and full relief, which it was not in the power ad the Court to grant. The Loin CHANCELLOR—The Vice-Chancellor thought that ac would want the assistance of a Court of Law. ilr. SI:WIEN-11M he has ho ground for a Conrt of Law. The very pants had heen already decided in theme of Crow v. Tyrral, 3ladox, 173. before :lie Vice-Chancellor, and also in Joon T. Jones, 3d 31arabel ltil, before Sir W. Grant. He would not p intu the length of these authorities, as he merely quoted them for his owr. satisfaction, and he only found the rules repeated wbieh bad been laid down by his Lordship. On the grounds, therefore, that he had gated, he thought the demurrer must be supported. Mr. Heats appeared to support the bill, in doing which he would not trespass for a long time on the attention of the Court, and he had no doubt but that he should convince his Lordship that the demurrer mast be overruled. Huth his Learned Friends had indulged !iolnat Ives in lone arguments, the one on pedigree rid the other on limitations, while they had omitted noticing the moat material parts of the bill. LOUD , CHANCITLY.OIt—There certainly were two Very important charges in the plaintiff's hill ; the .me that the defendant had sae mined the legality of the plaintiff's title ; the other, the offering of money fur the suprrtssing of it. Mr. Ile:m.0 said that they were points which the defendant Wes bound to answer; and moreover. thedefendsun, with alibis boasted title, appeared to have a very great objection to show what sort of one it was ; much had been said about the plaintiffs being out of time. Supposing that the defendant had been in possession of the esktes tot live er MI years, and that the plaintiff's father was in ion immediately before that period, would the plaintiff they possession of time? and was there any thing in the plaintiff's bill to show that that had not been the case. The plaintiff had merle out a very good case to entitle him to the possession of the title deeds ; and was it because that he had asked for more than the Cou:t could grant, that lie was to be shut out from what it was really in its power toys.' ? It' the attestation' in the bill were true, the plain tiff was clearly entitled to the deeds. The LORD CRANCELLOR—The - ire-Chancellor seemed to say. that a party net entitled to possession. was not entitled to the title deeds ; and. indeed. he thought that that was perfectly consistet:t with Mr. Ile.dif a argument. Mr. II eaLn s.iid. that wanes generally had some very good grounds for filing bills for disc.fvesy ; set, possession being in the eye of the law a very matte ia/ tenet, the defentlam in this case very naturally desired to evoid a discovery. Wi: h regard to some of the statements in the hill, perhaps the Counsel hail insetted them for the purpose of avoiding a demurrer. The loan CHANCELLOR did riot think that sal Catinsel would take upon himself to insert such all ;cations as IreTt,'On brined in that bill, without instructions from his solicitor—at hat: he should hope not. Mr. HEALD said, that he very well remembered a very eminert practiser in that Court, who had afterwards filled the higeest jud: - dal station in the sister kingdom. laying it down that the evidence in a bill to detect fraud should nut develop: the whole of the fas.:s in which the plaintiff was in possession. but that a reserve shintld be made for a second or third bill ; but be had very little he itation in saying!. that a man who would commit fraud. woeld comma; also perjury to conceal it ; but what he wished was, that the .3.:- fendant should admit by his answer, what he had virtually ad. mined by his demurrer, that the allegations in the bill were traits slid then let him see what the Cadet would nay to hint. He should have very little doutt then, but that a decree would be made in hit client's favour. The eases that had been cited by Mr. liugdeh, had very link bearing on the case ; indeed, thatofJoees e. ior.cs, had none at at all, further than that it was all' argument on de murrer ; indeed, the Learned Counsel had stated that he only cited them for his own satialaction ; but he ought, sorely, to have toll the Court what ether result they haat produced ou his mind ; in. deed. he did not wonder why he hind not stated it, as them was no: one of the five points in the case that had any connection with the pneent questioe. It was quke e new doctrine that an heir out of pantie.' • in, should show in what meatier the deeds were necessary to enable him to !support his right of pussessiost. He remembered a case of llreekenbary e. Brackenhury. where a father Lad made over his ripen, to his youngestson. tot the sale purpose of giving him a qualification to .hoot. The father kept the deeds by hint, and on his death, the elder son succeeding as heir at law, his bre thee tiled a hill egautst feint, for the production of this deed, which was immediately. on hearing the matter, over-ruled. The Loan C:: *Net:LlAM—That only Auweti the impolicy of the gatee laws. as that man:utile:it was made merely as a chose upon the law, that if an.: body questioned the tight of the man fa shiest, he might say, " here is my qualification." Mr. II EALn, after citing one or two eases in support of liks pit - nee, etheatte.l by calling en the Court to overrule the deinlierei Mr. :timid f. followed on the sane side. aid denied that the ka was what it had been termed a fishing tell. The Lunn CHANCELLOR :said, that he believed that it war 0:: soar At.iii a hill as the present that the late lord Mansfield be:. sat:. that if ('Darts of Etsaity admitted such bills, that the beet thing e inset could do would be to throw the whisk of hie title deeds belnuil the tire. 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