The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — London, England, 1826-09-12 00:00:00

BOULOGNI-SUR-M ER, SErr. 10. We have had a terrine gale here during the last four days, and the intercourse with England was for two days c ompletely interrupted. The last arrival was the Meduas ; h er appearance was hailed with intense anxiety, as the sea wa s running dreadfully high when she entered the har bour. She escaped as if by a miracle. Yesterday the Rapid stesm-boat ventured to put to sea for London ; for nearly 1134' an hour she was in imminent danger of going t o piec,s .n the bar at the entrance of the harbour, but she too escipril ; and this day the Royal George has smiled, rith about ten passel% n and four carriages, for Dover. Th :a e vo.. la have triumphantly vindicated the superiority of stes9:-pow , r over every other mode of water con vey-mice. _ _ _ lfoulogne :s as fu'il anti as gay as ever. Scarcely a bulg ing it to he had. except at au exorbitant price, and during the last two m *litre have been many instances of pasons being compelled to have the inn from not being Able to pricere a bed in it. With this fullness you may tacitly cent, iie that it is no longer a very cheap place; indottl, persons may live almost as cheaply in the dearest parts of England. There was lately a kind of gaol delivery of English debtors, perhaps from the contrietim of the uselessness of keeping the parties confined any longer; but the places of etc emancipated so:stirs of dissipation have been already filled. Improvident as these pesetas have been, it is lin. p ssible Dot In fru I for their present condition. They are : oared or in a small unhealthy place, abounding with filth a c ur,. description ; and the female debtors, of which th l r. sv rot a few, are in the same room. It is really sur prisieg that tnen should v. mitre into debt in a place where tie punishment is so drestlfal. 'I he very worst prison in Elpand is a palace compared with the Hotel d'.lnglettrre, SS it is satirically called at It mlogne. Among the recent arrivals here was the celebrated French surgeon, Baron Duporren, who is gone to England for the pupae of inspecting the hospitals, and ascertaining the rase moele of English practice. A messenger the. Paris Greek Committee sailed to with letters hem some of the leading friends of the Brack earns Ile talcs with him alto several copies of the eitameat of receipts and expenditure of the Paris Greek emitters. Ile obligingly furnished me with one of ads, bot I have not time now to give you a full copy. It ; nears that the receipts. on to Ikeember, 1823, were -c.9,519f. OS cents, of which M. Eynard, of Geneva, con nibutid twenty -dye thousand, and General La Fayette WO/hair Perrier eleven thousand. The receipts of the ties u' rtemths in Iwo, were 4131.8117 E ea ; and the ha- I' -ace reraaining from Ira% was 78,148 f. 29, making ;c;,,11 .101. The total expenditure during these periods, keeanson. clothing, muskets, he. he., including all the esprditions s.:tet out by the Paris Committee, was 331,fi04f.r !, leaving a balance in the hands of the Coin. tattle of 388,7111 f. es, from which. Rower, r, I notice s:Lid, one-fourth must be deducted foe credits newly open ed. The sum collected by this Committee is really very nueihrable ; and if the expedition of Lord Cochrane hail pee inenmfortably, I have no doubt that it would have Iwo double; bet the sad result of the preparations made forth pllaot Admiral in England. has thrown a general amp over the French admirers of the Greek cause. On Friday a deputation from the journeymen letter-press primers of the metropolis waited upon his Royal Highness Of Doke of Suaorit, so solicit his patronage in furtherance If a benefit at the t obu►g TIN etre, in aid of the funds for the nrlk4 a 1 thu it unemployed lirethren, when his Royal Highness was graciously pleased to signify his assent dime. Tot Lt iTtIMPIIIIM raswirem.—The following is ex tracted from the Leineler Jemmied a the 9th inst.:- - The mesa demanien .4 trade has had a mast denntaire in. Lace sa the hoolt.minting hweinsa. Is London, al o n e , ne a rly ISM mimes ham been bereaved of employment. and are, anntelenedr, In pad drine.n. Fee the Ir. l time, this valuable hely dews ham 'hood it necessary as appeal for embalms to an willents d pahllo, lb whams acgoisition if knowledge and scorers of saimestass dm ham ham the able nod active assistants We oak la the beam of she learning, at least, of she ape. their an pod widow Imo bon mode In rain. It h, as might be expect. d, ion with ohm arguaseameive, not declamatory. and addressed to tiajodgeseas rubor Than to iltit transitory sensibilitics of the human Wt. The etreolar letter of the Printers' Conimittee, from which et ?Isle the Onikosing extract, has brim transmitted to the coin. t• lies et the I.eieeere Jetterof onlee. ant we understand, the . rumen mates of this city, few, imbed, in mamba, mean to • r. themselves so the attermat for the relief of their disireesed -..tren in lanais, many of whom are natives of Ireland, to whom L -envier. and borrery„ the English erns has always been much 4e.n. We shall aily add. we nun 'be fries& of teaming, of - : ...!. aid of the noble art 4 penning in this c . .ty and county, will 4,4 , 4i:. caw... Pon of K Meshy to make their emu:isnot wa rat it. dininguialtrd name. tram vie macs on which the ettegMer Una. Wlai f:em our general kaiewledge of the body, we wifely sly, the contrhutiono of the printer' anal friends of print. •y sal be fairly sod faithfully employed. This is not an adver. ober —it is Ihe Tolima:) ownatondation of one who knows the is the perste to th : cleats:int, and haninesa of mankind, and J SI I rip pride in bing enabled, by tie generosity of the friends laws log and of priming, to hand to the journeymen printers or beery scam:thing h utelsoine for the relief of their ili.tressied bre. • , the real °peps vats of ' the improvement of the nand."' Fierce follows the appeal which has already appeared in -is and (alive papers.] In t IL °ROSSINI, OF BRISTOL —'fbis situation was I .hi by the late Lord (brut& A London Paper having rd that the ensolumetes amounted to 2,0001. per an am. the Briefed Jmerstal of Saturday last has the follow ! ,? stasament upon the subject : The enmity, we ate cridtbly informed. is one hundred Knit Ns 'ere the paid aibstrir. which takes place ell, user in the year. Pillow of a placed Ka and a Iw'g.b a l of Aladena wine, and easier, at the filarnism.b ma daring Me may in the city. The 44101 la ias Wee sat.* se tor w omit the opportunity of a sLag the Worshipful h:aily, the A:el rmee of our City, who Two his isa•inc, as as aerial. Inds nearly throe hun 1 • railway plaid is is of Pa moat resactabb of their f.l. '-i-mos. =mad m thaw Pam slum a t +enemas* sere shish ham delimit wo reply. ramming Man to wee • cliiravars es poems fie tier at) two 14.,4 Deliveries said Nat Paws Omni la ibs antra of the year. It mutely risil.:llt s wet prapeirty be now stipulated with the new Iteeorder i eto s h ou ld Pohl two Gaol Deliveries; of the importance and :amity of the alteration no one can doubt; nor hare we heard. ;t• tam we cgriceire, one valid nbjection that can be urged against than improvement in our criminal jugisprtiel‘ lice." According to a recent decision of the Board of faxes, , aided on 51, Gen. lii., cap. 141, a person sporting in 'mPany with, and assisting a qualified man, who has taken rut a game certificate, is nevertheless not himself protected )2reb - y, Litt is liable to pay for a game certificate, in case . le princ!pa! sportsman has used any guns upon the occa 'an ehlen were borrowed only, and not actually his own rOe rty . Noeru WALSIt AM AND Di LOAM CANA L.—This Canal as opened in grand style on last Tuesday wcek. It coin iencti at the Mut where the river Yare, on the banks of , !rich Nurivich and Yarmouth are built, ceases to be na :gable. The new Canal carrks the navigation ten miles idler up the country, and will no doubt be of consider , le advantage to the neighbourhood through which it ssel. It is remarkable, amongst modern undertakings, having cost less than the estimate. The expense viti ated was 30,0001., but it was finished for about 27,000/. luny curious foil remains were found in its course, and 'lie been presented by the Proprietors to the Norwich u' 4 unt. A grand dinner was given to celebrate the oc -1 ~.. at the King's Arms, North 11'alsbasu • I, 'ol. Wale ' I ,'" tretiled LLord Smack/. the lion. E. ilarbord, Sir Liss.,, and Mr. Toward, were the chief speakers. 1.4 l' , areil thst,doring the se, ere gale of wind on Wed ,,+y naming a scan boat belonging to .leragissey, c'd m boar& these men, a tuck scan, and about fifty ' 6 c.lwarls of fish, was lost, as no ace aunt has shim "'.^ ieed of them. It is suppomd the boat upset, by •• A :he men were unfoetwaately drowned and the fish I waa lost. Weir 1.61.. e. Lim week, a helpless old woman, in the parish of Pruden. .'',-.: die temporary absence of the family with which she l, had her elotbr s kintlicd, and, although her situation "••m discovered, and the flames speedily extinguished, 'pie aa ma was a much scorched that she only 'or -44 the amides' a few hours. The unfortunate sufferer 4 is her 99th post, of the name of Urquhart, and had a "44 mespe from a like death in December last, when her ' was removed, anti partly caught fire in consequence 14 Stiempt to blow up the house by gunpowder. This. 'id be recollected by our wailers, took place on occasion t he shop contiguous to the old woman's apartment being it into and robbed, of which aggravated mime 6 4 ,4 * u nps h art , a relative of the deemed, stands "0.31. amid is to be brought to trial line at the ensuing .e.ui: Coln of Justiciary.—Seets Paper. STATE OF TRADE. Although it is not in our power to announce any im provement in trade, it is with pleasure we state that our silk manufacturers have nothing to fear from French cam petition, as far as regards the quality of goods. 'ln price, certainly, the foreigner has an apparent advantage ; but the purchasers of silk goods, we have no doubt, will soon appreciate the value of the silk manufacture of this town, and give it a decided preference.ifuedelie/d Herald. There is little alteration in the state of trade since our last ; goods continue to be sold, but the prices are so low that there appears little or no chance of giving speedy em ployment to the workmen.—Kendol Chronicle. There is a trifling, hut decided improvement in our trade, if increased work be a criterion of improvement ; for an additional number of workmen have been taken on in several of our establishments. Prices of labour have not however advanced.—Car/irie .Inurnal. THE WEATHER. We regret to find, from letters received at Lloyd's, that very considerable damage has been sustained by the ship ping along the coast, from the severe gales of t h e 6th and 7th instant. The hops, we understand, have heon greatly injured by the high winds which prevailed last incl.—Sussex Ad rertiarr. This city (Canterbury) and neighbourhood were visited on Saturday with one of the heaviest rains we ever wit nessed. It more resembled the rains which fall within the tropics than those which usually descend in our temperate clime. The streets were anon flooded, and the vale of the Stour, both above and below this city, was covered with water to some depth, and the cattle were obliged to he re moved. The roads in many places are much injured. The rain was accompanied by a little thunder.—Kent He rald. The recent rains have clothed our surrounding meadows with • verdure not only refreshing to the sight, hut consol ing to the other views of the occupants. From the warmth which may be still expected, there is now a prospect, if frosty nights do not intervene, of an aftermath, which may prove a seasonable saving to the scanty stock of fodder pro vided for the consumption of the winter and spring months. —fitdfurd One of the heaviest storms of thunder, lightning, and heavy rain, witness►ti this summer, visited this ei•y enWed tiesilay last ; the water ► usheil down the streets 1:► torrents, whilst the vivid flashes of lightning and the vale of thun der were truly terrific.—Bri.itul Journal. In consequence of the late welcome rains, the pastures around us are beginning to recover their usual verdure; turnips will also be much benefited, and we therefore hope the farmers will not experience so much distress for au tumn and winter keep as was at one e anticipated.— Wm/wester Journal. The genial effects of the copious showers for the last three days are already visible upon the face of the country. The Rau is springing fast, and the meadows and pastures are exhibiting the promise of a considerable aftermath, whilst the turnips are improving rapidly, so that there are the hopes of a good, if not an abundant winter's feed. And it is not in these respects cnly that the rain has proved benefi cial. From the extreme drought of the summer, the Se vern was reduced so low, and in many places so little water covered its bed as to be scarcely navigable, amounting almost to an absolute stoppage, even to the smallest craft, to the great interruption and inconvenience of trade. The river is now rising fast, and it is expected that in another 21 hours it will float vessels of the largest draught scene tome) to ply upon it.—Woreester Herald. On Wednesday last a long-continued and heavy rain, accompanied by a strong gale of wind from the N. h., was experienced here. The morning had been very dull, with occasional showers, with the wind from the east. Towards afternoon the wind veered to the N.E., and about six a heavy rain and strong gale set in, and continued without intermission till next day. The quantity of rain which fell was excessive; all the low grounds in the neighbour hood of rivers were flooded next day. If any of the crops are still capable of improvement from the effect of rain, that must surely be effected by the rain of IV( dnesday ; 110 want of moisture need be again apprehended this sea son. should it even prove dry. We have, within the last few days, experienced a strik ing change in the state of the weather. On Wednesday afternoon, the slight showers which Lad visited its in the previous part of the day, and which had, more or less, pre vailed for some days before, were succeeded by exceedingly heavy rain, accompanied with a high wind from the north east, which continued without intermission during the whole of the night, and the greater part of Thursday. In the course of the afternoon it became and yet continues fair, though the heavens still have a lowering aspect. It is satisfactory, however, to know, that but little injury can be done to the harvest, as nearly all the crops of grain have been got off the ground, if, indeed, they have not been en tirely removed, while those of potatoes and turnips, and the fogs and pastures, must be entirely benefited, particularly as the rains have not cawed any very considerable diminu tion of warmth. We fear that much damage has been done at sea, and we have :mord of a vessel being wrecked off Retlear.—Derham Chroxitle. COSONATION FLEET.—A number of vessels of various clubs, composing what is, by Royal permission, called the " Coronation Fleet," sail for the " Silver Cup" this day. Should the weather prove fine, the Thames, from Black well to the \ore, will I roma an animated scene. Several of the steam vessels of the respective companies, we ob serve, are to have excursion parties for the (lay. In a maritime country like England, such trials of skill are no less useful than amusing ; and we rejoice to find a taste for aquatic specs take the precedence of all others ; nor ought at to be forgotten that it was his ll'ajesty who first set the exemp7e. We lately gave a letter from one of the agents to Lloyd's, in France, addressed to the Secretary, Mr. Wro: Bennett, containing extracts of the orders transmitted by the French Government to their naval commanders, and to the autho rities at the different pone, with a view of offering every impediment to the prosecution of the slave trade. It is difficult to ascertain with what degree of rigour the pre scribed regulations are enforced; but certain it is that this odious traffic has been and is still carried on to a frightful extent on French account, and by vessels under French colours. The persons engaged in it are chiefly re sident at Nantz ; and it is a well-known fact that several cargoes have bet n landed this year at St. Jago de Cuba and Martinique, but particularly at the farmer place. A French correspondent informs us that the identical brig which we mentioned on a former occasion to have recently landed 640 slaves in Martinique, is at the present time in the port of Havre, the memoranda made upon her papers by the offi cer of the British frigate who boarded her, not having, as it appears, prevented her return to France. latsu POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS.—The mail ar rived via Holyhead at seven o'clock, and no newspaper or letter could be got out of the Post-office, save those which are delivered by the Express department! Thus an enor- MOM expense is incurred to expedite the correspondence with England—that is, to get the letters and papers nerves naiad; but, having them sting locked up in our Post office here, we cannot get at them : they are embargoed— laid, as if under a quarantine, for fifteen or sixteen hours, although to (spade them, on arrival at this side, would cost nothing.—Dridin 41furstisg• Post, Fs iday. Isis's Paunuez.—The fair of Croom, on Friday, pre sented a large show of live stock, but buying was not brisk, except for pigs and prime lots, the former purchased by jobbers for the Cork and Waterford Markets, at an average of 3911. per cwt. Graziers anticipating a crop of after-grass bought up a few lots of two-year-old wethera. at 3os. each, but a scarcity of winter fodder prevented their looking after heavy cattle. The fair of Rockhill, between Abbeyfeale and Newmarket, was well attended on Monday, and prices generally advancing. The fair of Ennis, on )Monday, was tether (lull ; fat sheep and lambs were almost the ouly description of stock in demand; pigs ' rated bight. The late rains in the county Clare have had a most beneficial effect woe all the late crops, and also upon grass lands. No semslty of the potato crop is an ticipated, and in many parts this most useful plant is most abundant. A sufficiency of hider for the winter feeding i. only apprehended. Hay is a wretched crop in the county Cork this season. THE BRITISH PRES S, ST. PATRICK'S MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. AIC2fDAY Erzwrwo. The report of the meeting of this Company on Friday last, in Dublin, leas not reached town, but the result is de tailed in the private letters received this morning, which state that the " Company has resolved to discontinue Marine Insurance." It is to be hoped that other Com panies, instituted for similar purposes, will profit le the example here set them, and abandon a business which it is impos,ible they can carry on without los s t o t h emse F ees , and danger to the public. From the existing state of the Marine Insurance Companies, both of England and Ireland, it is impossible but that the Resolution of the St. Patrick's Company must excite a lively interest among them ; and it is but fair that they , Itould have the advantage of fully considering the propriety of following a similar line of coa -1 duct. Should such, however, not be the case, then a de -1 tailed statement of particulars will be supplied, for the purpose of showing the utter impossibility of Insurance business being safely carried on by such bodies. ' A finer example of national honour and probity cannot be afforded than that which was displayed by ;he Under writers of Lloyd's during the late long and protracted war. It is only in the hands of such persons, possessing such fortunes, and acting upon their own individual responsi bilities, that such a description of business as underwriting can be safely and effectively pursued. Every day adds its portion of experience to correct the mania with which the public was so suddenly 'eked for the employment of its monies ; and it is quite clear that, although the Com panies in question are formed upon just and honourable principles, they are wholly ineffective in the grand material —capital, and, consequently, the sooner they are dissolved the better will it be for the Shareholders as well as the public. Z. One of the Manchester Papers contains loud complaints of the obstructions of the streets by the soldiers quartered in that town. Similar obstructions are, to a certain degree, unavoidable when any large crowd of persons, in or out of red coats, are assembled together. But it is discreditable to the sense of propriety of the commandinkoffieers that they do not study to make their men as small s nuisance as possible. We have seen the great western road blocked up, and a great accumulation of stage coaches, and all sorts of carriages, stopped for some minutes, while a regiment of the Guards, after a review, has been filing from Hyde Park to the Green Park, merely because the officers did not choose to direct the men to march in more compact lxxlies, or at some intervals. On the other hand, on a narrow footway, it is very rarely that the men condescended to walk its single file. Ott the parades and places specially set apart for the exercise of troops, no one can blame whatever regulations the officers choose to adopt for the convenience of their men, or for their own ; but in pnblic thoroughfares they are on the footing of other passengers, and should pay attention to the convenience of others. To presume upon their numbers end arms is as indecent as it would be for a strong man to jostle his weaker neigh bour, and to thrust women and children into the kennel.— tobe. SCIENTIrIC DISCOVERY.-It is affirmed that Dr. Fuchs, at Munich, of the Academy of Sciences, has just discovered a tnethod of rendering wood incombustible. and has proved the efficaciousness of it by experience. Ile has combined caustic slcali in solution with a certain earthy substance, washed and sifted, and applied on the wood, to which it gives a nitreous surface, which renders it also impervious to water, and to all kinds of humidity. The Architectural Committee of the 'l'heatre Royal at Munich has made trial of this method on two small buildings, one of which was prepared according to Dr. Fuchs' plan, the other not. Fire having been lighted in both these buildings, the one was burnt, the other received no injury. The expense of the application is only two francs for 100 feet, or two centimes per foot.—Brussels Paper. The alarming state of fever in this city has obliged the Governors of the Hospital to forward a requisition to the Mayor for a meeting of the inhabitants. The symptoms attendant on this disease, we are happy to learn, are not of that malignant type which, under other circumstances, proved fatal in many cases. The patients, in general, are affectril with low fever, produced in a great measure by the privation they suffer from want Or food and raiment : some of them are absolutely introduced in a starving state. There were 1,746 persons admitted into the Hospital within the last nine months.—Limerick Chronicle. Things are certainly wearing a more smiling appearance at Brighton than had been expected from the general aspect of the country. A vast accession has been made to its fashionable population in the course of the last week, and the industrious classes of the community are pretty gene rally employed. A proof of this may be found in the in creased number of small sums deposited in the Savings Rank there lately. On last Satrt•lay evening several per sons became depositors for the first time, and many sums were left by parties who had been long cowl ibutors to the institution, but whose investments had received no pre vious increase during the whole year. At the close of that evening more than 2001. were found to have been received over and above the monies withdrawn.—Sussex Adver tiser. SINGULAR PIIENOMENA•—On Friday se'nnigbt a sin gular whirlwind and waterspout made their appearance In the air above the farm of Calside, in the parish of Anwoth, and, by their striking appearance, excited not less the ad miration than dismay of those who beheld them. The wa terspout was observed at a great distance, resembling, pretty nearly, a sugar-loaf; but to such as witnessed it mingling with the whirlwind, when it became tossed and broken, and fell, shattered into immense drops of rain, the spectacle which the two elements exhibited, rivalled in sublimity an Alpine tempest. The contents of the aqueous meteor were scattered over the extent of a square mile, and the united gushing of the water, and roaring of the whirlwind, formed one of the mightiest notes of nature's music—exceeding in loudness the voice of the sea, when the tempest is sweeping over a nd agitating its waves. A little boy, named Carson, who is herd upon the farm of Calside, had the misfortune to be within the circle of the whirlwind, and was hurried along by it upwards of a hundred yards, until, having reached a gate, he caught hold of one of its posts, and in that manner saved himself, perhaps from destruction. While he clung resolutely to this support, the force of the wind tossed his heels repeatedly in the air; but terror lent him strength to maintain his hold, and fortunately he re ceived little personal injury. Upwards of two roods of a strong dike were at the same time overthrown; six ricks of hay were swept from their seats, and scattered in every direction; nineteen stooks of oats were in like manner die persed ; and a quantity of lint, which was spread out in a Held to dry, became embodied with the other wrecks of the tempest, and totally disappeared. The small stream of Skyreburn, beside which this occurred, was tossed into surges of uncommon magnitude and snowy whiteness, and emitted a sound of such loud and unnatural wildness, as to appal every one who heard it.—Caledonian Mercury. DEATH D: Fla TI N G—Two men, named Sellers and Gore, having had some trifling quarrel, whilst at work in a field, at Sonning, near Reading, Berks, on Monday morning, Gore tauntingly challenged Sellers to fight. They fought with great desperation upwards of an hour, when Gore received a tremendous blow under the right ear, and he fell to rise no more. Eta Es PENSIONS.—The following letter was received from the War Office, in answer to a communication from Leith, requesting information whether a pensioner was obliged to employ the collector's clerk to make out an affidavit, and whether he was bound to pay him for doing so:— - War Office, August 25,1826. In reply to your inquiry, I am directed to acquaint you, that all that to 'Nutted of a pensioner is, that when he applies WWI out.peosion, he should produce a correct affidavit, but that he tam make it out himself, or employ any one he chooses to do lei am that the collect or ' s c l er k s cannot therefore compel the man m posy any thing to them for making out the affidavit. memos they amMet compel the pensioner to hive it made out by them. With respect to the deduction of b per cent. bent the aromewt of a man's pension, the same is authorised by LIP to be nide by the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital. I am further directed to acquaint you, that the Pendell= to appeal to the Magist rates as to t h e f e e of it peeny each demanded by the offiva in Court who hands the affidavit to the Magistrate. I am, .Ic. (Signed) W. MERRY. THE COUNTY MI-OFFICE AND THE COMMIS SIONERS OF REVENUE INQUIRY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. Sin—lt WAS only three days since, while on a journey in the North of England, that. in lookivg over a London newspaper, I cast toy eye on an extract frdm the Report of the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry, in wl'lcli the animadversions on the Stamp-office are varied into an attack on the County Fire-office. That attack is so injurious to the honour of the Directors, and to the interests of :he (Nike. that I think it necessary to adopt the earliest means of exposing its untruths, end demolishing its insi. nitations. Considerable difficulties, .t Is true, lie in my way, for, to this day, I hove been unaole to learn who ate the accusers of the QoYnty Fire-office ? what are the specific fans alleged? and what is the evidence received in support of those facts? Every necessary preliminary in the administration of justice Is here inverted, and yet Alic Commissioners have thought tit to proceed 0 a public con demnalion of one of the meat respectable establishments of its kind in the country. Their Report at length throws some light on the accusation hut here, although profuse in eriminatory assertions and insinuatlens, the Commissioners are very guarded In ditklosihg the evidence. But to the accusation. _ It Is first made a matter Of complaint against the County Fire office, that it " is in the habit of debiting itself in the quarterly accounts, for the amount of duties due, or supposed to be due, on all policies issued. or expected to be issued, for the ensuing quer ter. ; and then, in the succeeding, or some subsequent quarterly account, 1112 office took credit for all paytneats on account of duties or policies not taken up." It 1/1 added, "the principle of paying the amount of duty its above &scribed, sr, in appearance, con trary to the interests of the County Firc-Mitee, by inducing a con siderable advance of moray; and it would he difficult to account for such deviation from the general practice, it It had not had, the effect of giving to thnt office the appearance cif lining more business than it really did." Now this Is untrue. The office does not debit itself with policies expected to be issued for the ensuing quarter, Roc.; nor is there any such effect aimed at, or produced, Asia stated. What we hove done is this :—The Act of Parliament requiring that the duty on all policies, and renewals of policies, issued from a Fire Office, should be minutely accounted for, add paid into the Stamp Office within a certain number of days after the end of the ' quarter in which they are issued, under heavy penalties, advice was' taken, nearly twenty years ago, as to the proper nicde of complying with this direction ; and it was determined, as the only rude mode, at the end of every quarter to pay to the Stamp Office rite amount of duty on all policies and renewals issued from the Office during such quarter; but as it would happen that many of the renewals issued to agents would not be taken up, the Office toot! credit, in a subsequent quarter, for such renewals, as the agents had not re ceived payment for. The present practice of the Fire Offices generally, it now ap pears, is not to charge themselves to the St imp Office with the duty on renewals of policies issued through agents, till after they have accounts from the agents of their having actually received the duty on such renewals; but these accouuts frequently do not reach them until half a year, or longer, subsequent to their being Issued. I therefore think, with others, that under this practice, the directions of the Act are not, and cannot be complied with ; and I know hot how, if informations for the penalties rare filed against the offices, they could answer them. Be this as it may, our mode of prompt payment for every policy and renewal we issued evinced anything but a desire to ovoid payment of duties, and gave an advantage to the revenue of not less than PO/. a year in the value of interest on our prompt pay ments. Yet, strange as it may steal, this is made theound work of the accusation raised ageing the Office. The Cogrmmis sionera even go om of their way so far as to assign, for our motive in paying immediately, that " it had the effect of giving to the office an appearance of doing more busincis than it really did." But the amounts of duty quoted, to show the amount of business, are the net payments Indy, i.e. aflee deducting returns ; and it re quires no great knowledge of arithmetic to see, that if we pay for the duty on all the policies or renewals issued from the office at the end of every quarter, and, in succeeding (Marten, deduct the amount of duty for such policies and renewals as are not, in fact, taken up and paid for to the agents, it will amount to just the same thing at the end of a year, iss if we had de-, leered paying the duty till such time at the agents' accounts were collected, and we then paid for no more than had been actually received. This misrepresentation is the more unaccount able, because Mr. Wallace, the Chairman, in examining me—`Or I was examined by these Commissioners at my own particular desire—advanced the same idea, viz.—that the County Fire Office paid more in advance than the other offices, to make a show cf more business than it really did. This notion I dispiovtd in my evidence, and one of the Commitatoners present repeated and en. forced my argument to Mr. Wallace, who then seemed satisfied that he was wrong, and was silent. In consequence, howeVer, of the misrepresentations on the mode of prompt payment adopted by the County Fire Office, the office has, since Midsummer 1825, re served its peyments of duty, till accounts from the Agents were re ceived, and In consequence paid In abont 12,0001. short of its usual amount of duty for the last year. This alteration will be a loss to the relic. ue, and a saving to die County Fire Office of upwards of 5001. annually in the value of interest. It is difficult to conceive how the Commissioners could reconcile the two contradictory propositions; first, that the County Fire Office was making the above sacrifice to increase the amount of .duty far the effect aforesaid; and, secon d ly, wu at the same time instructing its clerks to claim returns of duty paid, to which the Office was not entitled, and which would lessen diet effect; a course too, which could produce a sating of of ly a few pounds, and was certain to involve it in a prosecution and heavy penalties. in these, two propositions, however, the whole of the accusation against the C.ounty Fire-office is contained. The investigation of the lat ter charge the Commissioners entered into with energy and deter. mination ; and they had every means they could desire at their ' command, to prove the case sought to be established. if it bad had existence. The dismissed clerk, who had made the questionable entries, was their informer, and had been in the office ten or eleven ' years. The clerks remaining in the County Fire Office, were re peatedly and severely examined on oath by the Commissioners, for hours together. The books and papers of the office, amounting to several coach-loads, were removed to the Commissioners', by their order, and were kept in their hands ft r nearly a week ; and it is not alleged that any information or document sought for was not produced. The investigation at Edinburgh, so much alluded to in the Report, shows the keenness with which the inquiry was followed up out of doors. The whole of the affkire of the Office for nearly twenty years—.he entries of a million of Policies and renewals—of the Insurances of 90,000 persons—of payments of Duty to the amount of several han dled thousand pounds, were before them—and yet, with till this mass of materials, and the great labour and pains bestowed on them, so far from there being any fraud established, it does not ap. pear that the Office or any agent, with the knowledge of the office, has received a girlie's:Tier Duty which the Office has not duly ac counted for and paid to the Stamp Office What does the case at Edinburgh, so much dwelt upon, amount to? The agent there, an aged, single man, died there. after a long illness, in which the business of the office had been neglected; his papers had been dispersed, and no account could be obtained of his collection for some time previously; but it appeared that several policies, through his neglec, l.ad been dropped. The Office, therefore, having paid the duty on the first issue of all the renewals, might properly claim a return for such as they could procure no accoust that the Agent had received for. This would be petfectly consistent with the prac tice of all the other Offices, they not paying for duty received by agents, till after they had accounts from the agents of their having received such duty, would not, in such a case as the above, pay the duty at all. But every Office is liable to be misled in the e 'cot of an agent's absconding, or of his death, without an account hiving been rendered. In such cases the agent may have received the duty upon a policy, without the office being aware of it; and by the result of the investigation, this appears to have been the case at Edinburgh. The agent there had received ditty to the amount of about 3/. upon two polities, of which the Office lied no account, and In consequence claimed a return of the duty they had paid to the Stamp-office in the first instance. This unavoidable error of about 31. appears to be the only fact of questionable entry. esta blished by the Commissioncis as the foundation of their imputa tion of fraud. The day will come, however, when I &hall have po sitive knowledge on this head. I have called the above " an un avoidable error," because it is one from which no office can be se cure; but when I consider that the entry was made by the in former, and I consider also the character of that man, 1 am by no means sere that it may not have been a wilful error. TMs brings me to notice a most remarkable omission in the Re. port. The presumed informer had been a clerk in the County Fire Office, whom I had repeatedly dismissed, but had suffered to re main, in compassion to his family, until his conduct and character became so bad that I turned him of finally. This man, when re proved, would frequently boast to the other clerks of having plans in hand to ruin my character, and knock up the County Fire Office, and that he had powerful supporters to back him. When the period fur his quitting arrived he begged to stop a few dais longer, which was suffered. Now, during the inquiry, in ex amin ing the books ,as discovered a series of fictitious entries for allowance of duty, su chas had never appeared in the books before; and, upon further reference, found that they had been made by this men daring the few extra days lie was allowed to stop. The inference was irresistible : these entries could only hove been made to afford materiels for an accusation or information for penalties. That the entries after all were not so used is not imposing, as It must have occulted to him or his advisers, upon reflection, that the time and circumstances under which they were made, proved the guilty in. tention entertained ; indeed, in his informationa to the Commis sioners, be appears cautiously to lose kept these entries out of *big akbettgb they were the only ones which might with any im. Vy be tamed fraudulent; for on my showing them to 31r. id. " c., he observed, with an expression of surprise, " this is the fret we have lewd at these." The above, sod we& mire, I gave in "Mena i and also the names and ruddiness agent= forwent, ear dab, to whew this man had avowed Ide Won, ad Vow he - hid Wised ',join bin in lan designs. Mame, pereing that aloe alleged lesidaea main wale= aid amperatr u sli deeie ie. wilnae hank perinea went dnibeed,ia ef, with a bile murk, that I alleged that a llsktspirsey and h is added, " We have see felt it to be any part of oar duty to extend oar exientsedese tell this subject, with a view to ascertain the =IV dt.c. if however, the substantial interests of justice were the objeetof the inquiry, was 4 sit their inateden duty to have extended their anataloadons tall they bad "ascertained the truth;" fig if th e evidence tendered against their informer were true, with what judge can they have reported his statements as accredited facts, an d me d e them the groupd.work of insinuations of fraud', med.. featly tending to brand the character and injure the interests of thi County Fire Office. 1 shall here riope. The prigin and objet of, Mird extraordinary attack, mid the mune used to make it er fective, may be better developed on,a future occasion. I remain, Sir, Ate. ./. P. BARBEA BEAUMONT. County Fire Office, London, Sept. 1, LAW INTELLibIiNCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, MONDAY, SrPT. 11. oTEAD v. iracsnirrEnn, The Loup Ctratektt.t.ort stated, that he could not give ment in this case to•day as he had intended, upon the plainti ff 's application to tax the defendant's bill of costs, because he had re ceived a letter only last night, from Mr. Freshgeld, solicidng postponement of the judgntent, that he might have an opportunity of answering the affidavits the MAintiff had furnished the Court with at its suggestion, which he lthe Lord Chancellor) could nut but comply with. Air. S crsn wished to know if his Lordship would limit th.t time for answering the affidavits, which opportunity he was by no means anxious to withhold. The Lo n CHAWCELLO it thought It proper that the opportunit should lie a ff orded, but as prper that it should be limited to a wet or ten days. OLAPPINGTOiT THWAITES. The Lonn CPAs LLI.OIt stated, that in the whole course of hie experience, in the business of this Court, now between forty and fifty years, he had not met with a more entangled case, nor one OW hud puiwied him so much a* the present. He regretted that Cottn eel were not in attendrnce. because the facts required w great deal of further consideration before he could undertake to make au. I order. A Gentleman present informed the Lord Chancellor, thet if he chose to go into the case, the statement should be laid befoie Counsel. The Loan Cpdxemt.on, upon this statement being mode to him, went fully in* a detail of the proceedings that had fikert place from the commencement of the suit until the present day, makirit comments thereon. which occupied no inconsiderable por- tion oldie morning; aecompanying this detail with his earnest wish that the statement might not be conveyed beyond the eye of the Counsel, and parties in the cause. This wish he entertained from an arwietv that the ease might not be prejudiced in any way, from what tell from him, In the absence of the gentlemen In wheat hands the protection of the illtoTbit of both parties was. The Re porters, however, were permitted to remain in his Lordship's room during the making of the detail, and we apprehend we shall not abuse his Lordship's courtesy in permitting us to remain in his room, by making this short statement of the representation of the case—that to the plaintift"s bill.. alleging misconduct in the ma nagement of the Morning Herald partnership concern, and callitif for an account, the defendant Mr. Phillip put in what he called at answer and disclaimer, that the plaintiff, Mr. Glassington, did not except to tbat thing, so called ; that he amended his bill ; t h at to that amended record the acme sort of thing was put in as was put in to the original recOrtl4 Ind that the great question now was, whether the plaintiff ought to have special leave to take exceptions to the first answer and disclaimer, having, from what he had done, let pass the regular opportunity of taking throw exceptions ? Sub ject to/ what his Lordship may hear from Counsel en both sides, in November, his present opinion was, that the justice of the case re quired that the special leave sought by 31r. Glassington should ba grinted, notwithstanding any thing he had done. BEACH r. ntAcir. 3lr. RUSSELL moved for an inimetion, re•parrte, upon an of. fularit of Mr. Beach, the elder, stating that he and his son, the de fendant were in partnership together as oil.co o p ers , at D oc k.h ea d , Bermondsey. That the defendant had, (tom the company he had kept, become idle and dissipated, and was most improperly using the partnership property. The injunction, therefore, sought, was to restrain him from charring, accepting, or negotiating any hills of exchange in the name of the partnership, and from interferin g i n any way iu the partnership business. The injunction was also called against the holder of a 290/. bill parting with the same. Injtinetioit granted. SOLICITOR-GENERA L. Sir C. il'itrfttgni.c had another lung interview with the Loud CHANCELLOR in the coarse of the day. The Loaf, Cuiwc ELLOR saw all parties who wished admittance. on the subject of their cases, and then rose. INSOLVENT COURT. Veszeiday the Court resumed ih sitting tor the first time since the amendment in the late Act of Parliament for the relief of In solvent Debtors. Robert Fitken was temanded owing) to an informality in his. notices and schedule. The insolvent said he hofed the Court would not remand him, as the intormelity did not rest with him, but with his attorney. The Attorney pleaded indisposition. Commissioner &W.—The notices, &c. are nearly the same a s before, but they are more ex pli c i t . I . Then addressing himself to the insolvent.l It certainly is a hard case upon you, but if you think proper hereafter to moye the Court to change attorneys, every attention will be paid to the application. There were no cases of importance before the Court. MIDDG£SE. SESSIOXS. Yesterday these Sessions commenced at Hicks's Hall, Clerkea well green, before Francis Const. Esq. Chairman. The Sessions are expected to lest ten days. Thirty.eight bills were found by the Orand Jury before the rising of the Court yesterday. Santee! Oxenham and William Fielding were indicted for art assault on Lewis Nathan on the 16th of June. Mr. Chatham is an auctioneer in Oxford.street ; Fielding Is his porter. Lewis Na. than is a Jew dealer in antiques. Lewis Nathan sworn on the Old Testament.—Begged to state that his witness was in the country, and cannot attend. On the 14th or 13th of June, attended a sale at 31r. Ozenliam's Romns, where he made a purchase of • mkt . ) , of goods. He paid for his bidding'., and took away part. On the 16th, he went to take away the remainder, and was prevented by the defendant', M r . Oxen ham refusing his removal of the rest, because witness's father owed, a balance on a purchase. Is in business for himself, and remon strated with 31r. Oxenham ou his stopping his purchases for his father's debt. Was about to remote some of the things, and laid hold of an antique chair, when he was assaulted by both thede. fendants ; Fielding struck hint first on the throat, and Oxenhart struck him on the other side of the throat. Witness had a pot ter with him, who witnessed the assault. He was gone into the country. Cross-examined by 111 r. ADOLPHUL—David Alliston is the name of the porter ; he was been three years in witness's service ; his father and witness both attend Mr. Olenham's sales; not hay ing a place of his own to place the purchases, his father gave blur permission to put them in his rooms ; the bidding, are not knock, down to either, or both ; said it was nothing to hint what his (ether owed Alr. Oxenham ; he had no right to stop his things on his father's account; is not in partnership with his father ; don't know that Mr. Oxenham sent for a constable to remove him ; will swear, that on that day, and at that hour, Mr. Oxenham struck him. Mr. Anot.rizus rose for the defencO.—How this case came into Court he could sot tell ; he must leave that to Mr. Nathan. If he intended it as a puff extraordinary, he had certainly taken a good opp r unity. Every one knew the method in which Jews carry in their dealings. The Nathana always bid one for the other; if • thing was knocked down to one, it became the property of both there was nothing to induce a belief in all their dealings at Mr. °sadism's, but that old Nathan and young Nathan were one and the same person. Old Nathan, in January, was giving credit for • purchase, amounting to between 51. and Cl., and instead of clearing his lot at the time, promised to pay next week. Both father and son were present, and were suffered to take the things away, on the promise to pay the following week. However, week after week went on with the same promise that old Nathan would send the sum. On the purchase of the 15th of June, young Nathan brought a porter to take away the purchases, when Mr. Oxenham told him he should not let the things go till the old account of 3/. odd was paid, but still received for answer the money should be paid next week. Then comes young Nathan the next day, saying, I've paid you for what I've bought, and will have them." " No," said Mr. Oxenham, " you shall not, till I have my money," for it wit, clear to him that the debt of the father was the debt of the sou. The hero of this slay comes with his father', porter to take the things to his father's rooms. All 31r. Oxenham did was to say the things should not go unless the old debt was paid, and so far from striking the prosecutor, he stood witn his arm behind him all the while. This he should prove by more than one respectable witness. Mr. Oxenham never Idled his hand. Nathan understands how to manage these things ; he pays the 61 i goes to a police-office for a warrant, and the Magistrate takes Mr. Oxenham's word for his appearance. He should prove that the porter never struck the prosecutor he merely laid hold of a chair to prevent Nathan taking it away. The abuse and outrageous behaviour of Nathan was such, that Mr. Oxenham sent for a conetable to remove him ; the office being closed for the day, prevented Mr. Oxenham giving him in charge, and Nathan went away. Never did a man enter the walks of impudence with greater confidence than the prosecutor had that day done. He received notice of trial on the 26th of August, and now tells you lie cannot bring forth his witness—his own potter, in his own service, and then gets into the box to Le an apology. John Palmer lives at Brampton ; is not interested in Sir. Oxen. ham's affairs; is doing business for Slr. Squibb. On the 16th oi June was at Mr. Oxenham's; saw Nathan come in while talking to Mr. Oxenham ;he made a great bustle ; said he would be d—d• If he would not have the goods. Mr. Olenhant told Fielding not to let him have the lots till the old account was paid ; Nathan behaved very riotously • called Sir. Oxenham a .I—d rascal , and swore desperately. .11r. Osmium sent his eon for an officer. Fielding held the chair, and said the other should not have it. Mr. Oxen. ham did not lift his hand to Nathan ; he was near enough to strd.e him. Hugh Osmium is son to the defendant ; was present on the IGth of June. His father did not in near the prosecutor ; Fielding did not strike him. Is Jo Aim ietikar's etwoldwy. The Math ns bath dealt with his father ; the lots were booked to either ; the urchasss of both went to one account. The Jury found the prisoners Not Guilly. JanaDimond, perfumer and hair.4ressev, at the corner of Hurlington.gardens, wee indicted for an assault on Alfred Me. nell. his apprentices, on the 10th June. Alfred !Hassell, the son of a German, was spptenticel to M. Dimond. at a premium of 701. An African. who wan brougin over by ltlajor Denham, lodged at his tuesttes, against whom he es lig lie ng [le 71a Mr* di 4. in IP M et IN in ■- e▪ t