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CONSPIRACY IN SPAIN. The following intelligence of a conspiracy in Spain, the o w or importance of which is u yet doubtful, bas . .. Aw l we from a quarter on which we cart place the reliance. On the 7th instant two Piedmoutese and ri g eclunan enticed a number of privates and non-com nrrl officers of the garrison of St. Sebastian's into a ow , ( a inea'..ouse), and after drit:king freely, proposed or mired ate dtscrtion to join some Spanish patriots, w ere in numbe rs on the frontiers. The Cowman-hint wog secret intelligence of this meeting summoned 1 guard, t Owther by intention or design, the soldiers were long Niew they proceeded to the place where the con owes had held their meeting. `When they arrived the Nor w as empty; instant alarm was given ; the city was owe bwil; the few vessels in the bay were put unite r ao a strict search being matte, the boat of the Eng 17irmiel R e dbreast was found to be missing. The Cap s, gated that it had been stolen in the night, and pro weed he knew nothing of any conspiracy. The Corn row, however, attach-ti great consequerce to the best, in which no doubt sonic of the conspirators lie ordered a guard on board the English vessel, e l d i sused tier. The other ships were subsequently ib ou l 6 proceed to sea. Th i reourkable e'reunistanee respecting this conspiracy thee en the 211 inst. the mail procet ding to Madrid was w e d within two miles of that capital, and all the de faults weed ; at.d, on the 3d, the mail proceeding from lislrid to the northward, was intercepted by the same Wad of Brined men ; they seized all the th si.atellea, and i i!aecl the passengers and their property to pass unmo- At the lest slams from St. Sebastian, the gates veer re gularly shut at five o'clock in the evening, old opened at Il ea in the reori:ing.—Globe. • ja r IMPERIAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. The imperial yard, containing 38 inches, does not differ iat any respect from the old yard; long and superficial mutes, therefore, remain the same as heretofore. The imperial troy and avoirdupois weights du nett differ It any respect from the old ones. The proportion of the old 1% - inchester bushel to the im pala! bushel is as l is to 97, or as 8 gallons are to 7 gallons squeals, making the imperial bushel 1 quart barber than the old bushel. The heaped bushel is the imperial bushel, containirg Pounds avoirdupois of distilled water, the diameter being Di inches froni outside to outside ; the goods to be heaped in the form of a cone, such cone being G inches high, the Outside of the bushel being the extremity of the base of Itch cone. The Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury recommaid, for the subdivisions of the heaped toilet, the following dimensions, being calculated in pro ?raw to the bushel of heaped measurt, namely, - - Inches. The diameter of the half Uushel, 15i., from outside to outside Pe k -12 f ti tiulon or Half P ek 9 , do. Ilalf Gallon or Quartern, 7 , do. Half Quartern . 61, do. The proportion of the old ale gallon to the imperial mil ks is as I is to 1.02, cr as 8 pints are to 8 pints and one ;I rt:% making the .mperial gallon ole A gill less than the id ale gallon. ' - • " • " " ' - The proportion of the old wine gallon to the imperial pilon is as t is to RS, or as 8 pints are to 6 pints, 2 gills, one gill, niakaig the imperial gallon 1 pint, I gill, ukl I gill larger than the old wine gallon. Lusting weights and measures may be used, if marked r as to show the proportion they have to the imperial measures and weights, but not otherwise; and all bargain: nue, in consequenc have reference to the Imperial weighn and measures, or they will not be legal. yid weights and measures made after the Ist day of loam, 1936, must conform to the imperial standards. The following Acts will apply to the 3th Geo. IV, c. 74. fee ascertaining and catablislung uniformity of weights ad sissisassossnaely, Sintit 44er klver9o - : 31st Use. It 17; 35th (no. 111, c. log; 33th Geo. 111, c. 43; 6th t'Av.). IV, C. 11; 6th Geo. IV, e. IS, TJ I' A XE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS• Sta,—The Commissioners of the Insolvent Deblois !wet lime given additional publicity to their order o' the lit of Febinary, 1822, wherein it is declared, that ' Attorney of the Court, who has not reguhrly taken rat ills certificate to practise in the superior Courts shall k permitted to practise as an Attorney of their Court ;" tut not having desired their officers to inquire when such moue'. certificate was taken out, I am induced to suggest ib: p - opriety of the officer being directed to asimetain, ether fto.n the Attorney himself or from the Stamp-office, r volt period such certificate is dated maserirest to the h of Deceadnir ; for it is quite clear that both the Le peattire and the Commission. ra meant to exclude all per mit practising without their certificates; and that taking at a certificate at a lute period of the year would neither :tempt the practicer from penalties under the 37th Geo. 3, 3p.9 . .), v.:. 26, nor qualify him fur any acts done subse you to the expiration of his last, and prior to the date of la certificate for the present year, all certificates lint to the 16th of December bearing date the day on s 6 eh du y are issued. 1 am I,tl to press this remark upon your attention (if pat should think it worthy of insertion in your valuable Pifer), because it is well known that Attorneys of despe fete eharacrets and fertunes, assisted by agents of the most afainoui description, presume to practise without their terbficairs, to the rrjudice of the neon honourable part of :13 : prin'ission, which the Commirsioners. or their officers, audit put a stop to with the greattst Should this produce the effl.ct iiotentled, 1 propose, at an urly ptriod, to hint a kw regulations by which the Com e:l,3oll3ra may, if they please, make the practice as lisp,ctable as that of the superior Courts. 1 am, air , your very obelient ' , errant. A PRACTITIONER. COMBINATWNS IM SCOTLAND. the colliers' combination continn‘s so strong in Fife *lna number of labourers belonging to Cupar-Fife, who sere engaged to work in some anal pits, were actually afraid `7pn, and rt tut dell to Cupsr.Fife. 'These terrified in unduals would preflt by a visit to Hamilton or Faskine, tberr they would doubtless be imbued with a becoming fir, ou obarting bow well their fellow-labourers were tee: citing. Super the termination of the weavers' edinbination the villapes have assumed their wonted peace and in ,: r!, and the traders, who have brought the trade to such • t.",,b, will he forctd to resume their old trades. There :14 % a strnnpreaction of opinion. Well of all descrip -1'0:1 is now - eagerly sought after, without exception of Ntehrtae, and taken at whatever price the •tate of trade 1 r arm); and every tibrt is now making by the misled • acts to repair the disastrous COMM gnomes of the late Atiothtr of the foolish 4:m1+411/aeons in this part of the "''nn} has been brdken up, namely, that of the journey . n :trittcrs. This was one of the boldtm of the associ '''''imi and, in the face of the law, did not hesitate to r• -, mct the number of apprentices which any toaster was t, takt% !laving gent anonymous letters to intimidate ap !'. it'cry, the It clers were about to be made to answer for 'l l. lre ease the Sitsticys, win n they assembled the of the combination, who decided, by sixteen to ;• ' v that the confederacy should be tiro); .11 up.— ; Chrtynidr. 7HE CHURCH. 'art the Lord Bishop of Gloucester held an • in the Cathedral at Gloucester, when the fol ., nt:culen were admitted into holy orders : .') —IA tad Dighton, A. 31. Exeter College, Oxford ; A.B. Quern's College. Oxford Hicliord Shutt, nrl ('oiler, Cambridge • . Thomas Evans, A.B. Oriel Arthur Turner, A . B. Eviler College. Oxford; "nolvon, A.B. Queen's College, Oxford. --( harks Whitromba. B.A. ()TO Oxfood ; St. EirOund H U, Oxturti ; Jullo - EdJy, 13. A. .`xfJrtt PROVINCI47. RANKS. LIVERPOOL BANKS. (PION OUR CO SSSSS ?N111:XT.) - • LIVERPOOL, DEC. 21. We regret to ;tate that the respectable firm of Messrs. Johnston, Adamson, and Hope, bankers in this town, have been under the necessity of yielding to the pressure of the times, and suspending its payments ; it is reported that the funds of the house, Wed by the private property of the partners, will be more than adequate to meet all their engagement • but, to prevint any un d ue p re f erence, mea sures have be en taken to ender the transfer of the notes of the bank unavailable to any person who was not a bona fide holder of them prior to this Ilay. A number of individuals have united in a declaration of their entire confidence in the bank of Messrs. Hartley and Co. bankers. This measure was adopted without the knowledge of the partners in that respectable establislitnent. (From the Lire pool emerier of Wednesday.( With regard to this town it is consoling to know, that in addition to the unquestionable respectability of all the Li verpool balking establishments, there is no lame of local notes amongst us; and, although Liverpool natu rally sympathises in the common distresses to which other parts of the country has been subjected, a view of the above facts are calculated to continue that state of tran quillity and well-founded confidence which we have hi therto cojoyed. WHITEHAVEN BANK. (From the Whiteloareys Gazette of Dec. 20.1 It is with extreme regret we announce that the bank of Messrs. Johnston, Adamson, and Hope has sas t eended pay ment. The following notice was issued early yesterday morning, and caused a great sensation in the town : " NOT IC E.--itieners. Johnston. Adamson, and Elope are under the painful neeessl:y of announcing to the public, that in conse quence of the exieniive and unprecedented pressure nu the mercan tile establislimenti of the roomy, they are obliged to impend their payments, and rely nn the tinbearance of those that may hold any of their paper, in order to give time for s detail of the snits of the bank, which will be publicly stated with the least possible delay, feeling, as they dn. perfect confidence in being able to meet all their engagements.—Whitehaven, Dec. 10." The fact of the intended stoppage was partially known on Saturday night, and was the subject of very general conversation on Sunday. hut was not fully confirmed till yesterday morning. The notes of the batik were in extensive circulation in this neighbourhood, particularly in Harwich, ('ockermouth, Maryport, H'igton, &c., where we fear the stoppage, though it be temporary, will be severely felt. WENTWORTH'S BANK. [From die Leeds lsdrpesdent, Dee. 20.] The suspense of the public, and particularly the h o ld ers of the notes, as to the fate of this establishment, will now in a great degree be dissipated. The following melancholy intelligence reached us last night. which had been published as a circular, by the firm at York Messrs. «entworth and Co. having for several days devoted themselves to the examination of their affairs, and having in vain used every possible exertion to procure, in the present state of the money market, a sufficiency to meet the immediate calls upon their firms, are under the painful necessity of stating to the pub lic their conviction of the impossibility to carry on their re spective establishments. Messrs. Wentworth and Co, trusting to the candour and liberality of the public, under these most distressing circumstances, confidently hope that their detersnination will prove the most beneficial measure to the general interest of their creditors." BRIGHTON BANKS. [From th: Brighton Gozette.l Printed bills have been issued both by Messrs. Lashmar and Co., and by Messrs. Tamplin and Co., assuring the holders of their notes that arrangements are making to pay them. Amidst the panic and general confusion that prevailed here on Monday, several highly gratifying instances of in dividual confidence and liberality occurred, and some have been stated to us which we are only prevented by motives of delicacy from detailing. LEWES DANK. We regret, in addition to what is stated above, to nounce that yesterday merninm the bank of Messrs.iVoo4, Halt, wad Cost Lewes, stopped payment: The inn hall been, we understand, very heavy on both the banks at that place during Monday and Tuesday, but effectual measures have been adopted to guard the other bank from further danger. This step is worthy of the noblemen and gentle men of Lewes, and it is an example that ought to be fol lowed elsewhere, by those who wish to render effectual as sistance. Rumours have been also in circulation of the failure of other banks in this county; but we do not !tarn that there exists any foundation for the reports. CHELTENHA3I RANKS. (From the Cheanthem C'heotvek.l Of the absolute solvency of the establishment of Meters. Turner, Turner, and Aforris, who have suspended pay ment, not the slightest doubt is entertained : and we be lieve that the batik possesses in itself the means of paying every one of its creditors twenty shillings in the pound, without in the slightest degree infringing on the private fortunes of the several partners. On Monday last the Right Honourable Lord Sherborne modes communication to the bank of Mews. Pitt and Co. that if they felt the slightest difficulty in raising money to meet Vie unprece dented demand now making upon all country banks, his Lordship would immediately place at their disposal all the property of which he was possessed, as the most decided proof of the confidence to which he considered them en tided. This munificent offer, we nntlerstand, was re spectfully and gratefully declined by Messrs. Pitt and Co. who felt that their available resources were more than ade quate to meet all claims that could be made upon them. As a fact equally honourable to both parties, we feel happy •fn being enabled to state, that, some days since, Messrs. Pitt, Gardner, and Co. tendered their utmost services, and the loan of as much gold as they could well spare, to the bank of Messrs. Turner and Co., but the latter, under the existing circumstances, very properly and honourably ad hered to their first intention. Another consequence of the present crisis has been se verely felt in Cheltenham, by the suspension of payments of the respectable hank of Messrs. Hartland an 4 Son, who have banking establishments in this town, in Tewkesbury and Evosham. It is due to these gentlemen to state, that • they contintyl their business as long as they could do so, consistently Id* their honourable feelings, and were driven to the painfhl extremi!y, solely in consequence of the very severe run which the three banks experienced at the same time. They purpose, however, resuming payment on the 341 of January. HEREFORD BANKS. (From the Hereftrd Jommol.] A general consternation having been excited in this city by'the sudden stoppage of the bank of Messrs. Garrett and Son, a considerable run on the old and stable firms of Mat thews and Co. and Messrs. Bodenham and Co. was the consequence, on Thursday and Friday last. To allay the unreasonable feeling, and restore public confidence, the respectable inhabitants of the city, and the gentlemen resi dent in its vicinity, promptly entered into a public declara tion of their perfect reliance on the responsibility of both banks, and their readiness to take their notes as usual. This bad some effect, hut as the panic evidently continued, it was judged expedient to convene a public meeting, at which re solutions expressive of confidcnce in the existing hanks were carried unanimously. With respect to the bank of Messrs. Garrett and Son, we understand their notes were exten sively circulated both in this county in some parts of Wales. V.e holders use numerous, though generally to small amounts, and we fear most of them are individuals on whom the calamity will press heavily, if the resources of the firm should prove unequal to the demands upon it. A es eertng of their creditors is fixed for to-morrow in this r city. We regret to state the general panic extended to Itats, Monmouth, and Abergavenny, where the different respectable banks iinickly dissipated all alarm by promptly meeting every demand. In a smaller degree the same effects were experienced at Ledbury and Leominster, but to a very trifling extent, and it quickly disappeared before the perfect conviction of the stability of the banks at those places. On Monday a considerable run took place upon the Kington bank, hut it subsided towards evening, every demand being met with promptitude, and the house being kept open to a late hour, during which scarcely any de mand was made. Many persons from the country, after arriving in the town, and finding the alarm without the slightest foundation, returred without calling at the hank. On Saturday a report nacho! this city that Messrs. 'Fur ner and Morris, of Gloucester, had been compelled to sus pend their payments. The Gloucester Journal confirms the distressing occurrence : it was occasioned by their Lon don correspondents having refused payment of their bills, though securities to a very large amount were offered to be deposited with them. Ag might be'supposed, the stoppage of Messrs. Turner and Co. caused an immediate run upon the hank of Russell and Skey, in Gloucester, but we have the highest gratilication in stating that they continued open to a very late hour, and most promptly paid every demand which was made upon them. TAUNTON BANKS. [From the Taunton Conrier.l A fortnight ago we took the opportunity of expressing an opinion of the indubitable sufficiency of the various banks in this town and neighbourhood, and the severe Nat to which they have lately been exposett is quite confirma tory of the confident terms in which we ventured to speak of them. So honourably indeed have all their concerns been conducted, and with such prompt energy were their respective ample resources brought to bear upon the ex pected hour of need, that no interruption of their ordinary course of business was for a single moment experienced. The necessary consequence of all the neighbouring provin cial banking firms having thus so buoyantly rode out the storm, will he the well-merited and augmented confidence of their friends and the public in their pre-eminent and un:s Teachable stability. NORWICH 8.% NK. _ _ From the 71; - :;;(41'Ost I We are sorry to announce the sloprage of the bank of Messrs. I'. H. and W. Day, of ibis city, which took plice about five o'clock on Friday evening. The constqueuce was, that the following being market tiay, many of the country people pressed upon the other tanks. HONITON From Flion West,Tn MCZARR. Fi.oon, LOT, AND LOT.—As the local notes in general have been much pressed, it was expected that a run would have taken place on Saturday last at Honiton Honk, being market day. It is true there were many ap plicants, but those in general were exchanging other country notes for Honiton ones, and eftrr demand Was instantly complied with. In the course of the day & JoM,ernoul ap plied for one hundred pounds of the Honiton notes for other local notes ; this was complied with ; but, in a short time after, this ninnry came bad 6 and demanded sovereigns for the same notes he had received. The clerk replied he would exchange the notes, which he did by giving him the same as he first brought. The simpletonian then wanted the Honiton notes again ; but this of course was refused him, and he left the office scratching his head. The alaeve bank has been established for nearly 44) years, during which period the greatest confidence has keen elicited ; and, as a further proof of itestabiliq, a numerous anti highly reepectab!e meeting of gentlemen, merchants, and tradesmen of the town and neighbomitriod of Honiton as sembled on Saturday afternoon, when resolutions were entered into declaratory of their perfect confidence in the stability of the above firm.__ BATH BANKS. [From the Bath Chronic*, Wednesday, Dee. 21.1 We stop the prom to announce that Messrs. Smi t h, Mo ger, and Evans, bankers, in Union-street, have this morning suspended their payment; but, in the notice posted on theit bank entrance, they confidently swum the holders of their notes that every demand will be paid in full wil hin a very short period. THE BRITISH PRESS. CITY TITHES. Yesterday was held the adjourned Vestry of the inhabitants of the parish of St. Olive, Hart -street, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Tithe Committee as to the result of a confer ence with the Bit.hop of London. The Hector (the Rev. Dr. (iwr.r) again took the Chair, bet there was some expression of di-sent front this proceeding, as in. delicate. and restraining the flerdoni of debate. Mr. Juges. the Churchwarden, rend the letter which had been sent by the Tithe Committee to the Bishop, in pursuance of the Resolution of the lest Vestry, expressing the earnest hope of the parishioners that the conference which the trustee, of the perish were about to have with his Lord s hip wo u ld l ea d ha an amicable n adjustment. 31r. J. also read a reply from the or :tali that he had . awswiewientau niaP idirrows determined at either of the meetings w Siert held. A letter was also read, signed by hlr. :began, Mr. Wadley, and Mr. Hickson, three of the Gentlemen who had conferred with the Bishop, and who stated that they did not feel authorised to coo. municate to the Meeting the result of a private conference. Mr. NODIN deeply regretted that the three individuals, whose names were signed to that letter, had not thought proper to com municate to the parish the result of this conference on parish business; but there was one gentleman peasant (Mr. Jackson), who, by not signing the letter, had dissented from the proceedings of his colleagues, would probably be inclined to.stase to the meet. in g what it concerned them so much to how. 31r. JACKSON said he was in a great degree restrained, by the de. termination of his colleagues, from giving Ma fell particulars of tie conference with the Bishop ; but he hoped„ from what hail trans pired, that if. the Bishop were convinced that the sum offered by the parish to the Incumbent was more than had been offered in the paiirh of Bishopegate, he would consent to a similar arrangement. In that parish a comprinnir hod been made for an allowance to the incumbent at the est 4 of Is. 6d. in the pound. The Bishop consented to a shelter sleersimce being made in this parish for the future Incumbent and the Tithe Committee offered him L 2001., but he cocld net be catviuced that IN. Gil. in the_ pound produce 1,:t:s0/. per annum. Mr. ATKINSON—The Bishop wishes to ex the stipend at Is. fel. in the pound. Now, Dr. Owen, will you be =tent with that suru ? Dr. Owns—No; you recollect that it le settled that 1 14111 to have 1,8201. per annum. Mr. JONES Olte Churchwarden)—The rental of this parish is 11,600 L per annum, and you have gives ;Ise rental to the Bishop at 18,0001. Dr.. OWEN declared that lie believed his calculation was under the mark. flow much beyond that the rental was he could not tell, but he believed the rental was upwards of 20,0001. , Mr. YODIN—But even at 1/1.01111/., the mu of St. Botolph, Ilishopsgate, being 118,0001., 12601. is too much, in proportion, to pay for the subsequent incumbent o: this parish. Ilis:topsgate gives 2,200/. only. (Hear.) Mr. HowEl.t. stated that s case bad recently been heard before the Vice.. Chancellor, itt which he held that it was incumbent on the lay impropriator to prove the enrolment of the decree under the statute of the 37th of Henry tbs Eighth ; that the suit for tithes had, in consequence, been tliteniv:ed •xitireoA% An action was then brcught in the Common Plees, and just before the ttial was called on, the defendant, Mr. Young, was much luirritised that the record was withdrawn. This circumstance encourogetbbim to hope that they.hed not merely the justice equity, but the very law in t':eir favour. (Hear, hear.) After some further discmaion, t e-•?-v canfito a Resolution - , to the effect that the Tithe Commit e w., entitled to the entire confidence of the parish, and that it woe to be hoped that by a con tinuance in the conciliatory conduct the 'dad hitherto pursued, they would se t posed a convincing the L-:ielatiuril K the justice of the claim for Tad made b ttlte parish. DESTRECTIVZ FIRE.—The lit , :.„jonrkond of Wardour strcet, Oxford-street, was arou,:t.:attiodby morning by the spring of th e rattles, and ti!,: it ,A. et tee of " Fire!" by tile watchmen, in consequence of the extensive premises of Mr. Gibbs having been discoveriti to be in flames. In a few minutes the inmates were an teas], and escaped in a state of nudity, without even ?tistomo secure any of .heir effects. So rapid were the flames, that by a quarter to frit- o'clock, the house of Mr. Gibbs presented one entire hotly of flame, which had by this time caught the extensive workshops in lilcadowcoit's-mews, Little War dour -street, which were also in h few minutes on fire from one end to die other. This lire of work-shops ran parallel with the hacks of the houses in %Fn.:lour-street ante those in Berwick -street, and both ekes of the Mews being on fire at the same time, burned direetly to the houses on either el le. The devouring element, however, was so far stopped in its progress, as not to destroy totally the houses in Berwick-street, though five or six are meeh injured. By four the scene was awfully prand. Not a hogshead of water could be got, anti the Sun Yore-office, and County Fire-office men, were under the oecessity of standing idle with their engines. The house of Wilfur now took fire, and not a vestige of the firlfiture could be asved. The house of Mr. Mitebeli next might fire, and also fell. A slight supply of w was at length pre.- cured ; but the house of Mr. 111'(' , ?e, on the north side of Mr. Gibbs's, was also in Eames, as were the hack pre mises of Mr. Evans, Mr. Mutzler. Mr. Mackie, and Mr. Kelly, all of whom must be serious users By six o'clock a small additional supply of wateedreas obtained, and the united efforts of the different firemen were at length bronght w bear with effect on the burning pile, which ex tended th e w hol e length of the Mews. 'flic loss of pro perty is immense ; in tact, a more calamitous fire hes not happened since that in Wells -street, and a great n u mber of mechanics must for a time he thrown out of employ. When water was got, the firemen soon overcame the half burnt embers, that every few minutes burst forth in a blaze, anti by eight o'clock, all fear of further danger had subsided. ELECTION OF COMMON COUNCILMEN. • SECOND OAT . WARP OF FARRINGDOI At the dose of the poll this day 31r. Vale - 213 Reeves . - 189 187 . 182 . THURSDAY. IN WITHOUT-44qm" 16. • the numbers were, for Mr. Taylor . _ •Ranishaw Crook - •Ohard - Butterworth . Sou hgate Tickner . 180 •Bousfield Savage . . . 180 Beckwith Griffith . 173 Galloway BlAcket S 170 • I Ismer . . Figgins - 166 °Jones - Roberts 169 °Charles - . 76 Several of the candidates returned thanks for thE Support they had received. Mr. Haustrit particularly expressed the proud satisfaction it gave him to stand so respectably Supported on the poll ; he how ever attributed it. not to any personal merit which he possessed, but to those principles of popular reform of which he was known to be a humble but a sincere and consistent advocate. Happy as he should feel at the honour of representing a portion of his fellow citizens in the Common Council, still could he be assured that six teen persons could be chosen in this ward, whose attachment to the principles he !espoused was equally ardent with his own, and whose abilities and powers of exertion were better fitted to promote them, he would not only most willingly retire from the contest, but use his utmost efforts to insure their election. (Cheers.) • 162 167 . 186 - L 54 - 161 . 161 149 148 COLEMAN-STREET WARD—Returns G. °Mr. Hunter . 88 Mr. Bleaden West . . 79 Allen Carter 78 Griffiths •Hale - , Jones - WARD—Returns 14. ' Mr. Glover /itinerant Windus Pher Dowler - HOMO *Stevens . - 59 an es BISHOPSGATE - 107 - - V 4 - V 2 Mr. Greenaway . • Dayanun - Day - Sir W. Rawlins Peacock Midden . Bennett . 91 Weston . - 87 DREAD-STREET - 20 20 . ss . 84 - 7ti - 74 - - 75 - 74 Mr. Ma.bie Coleman Bridge Burra Legg - - .20 Davison . 20 Degree* - 19 WALBROOK V Mr. Williams - 53 Gibbs . 53 Watkins 32 Richardson - 50 Hale . 50 WARD—Returns 12. •Mr. Frith 18 *Lawrence - - 10 Mallon 19 Cope . - 19 *Scott . 19 •flooper - 17 •Shoobridge - 4 I'A RD—Returns 8. Mr. AVoott ward . 49 Cope . - 40 *Demos - . Ftyde 27 ALDERSGATE WA RD—Returns 8. Mr. Mathews . . 82 1 Mr. Lloyd Fisher . . 82 Larkin Paxton . 87 Walton Diggens - - 87 *3lattratn Forrest . - 117 •11un:e TOWER WA Mr. Wright 137 Skinner 131; Cawthorn - 135 Smith 133 S. Dixon - 134 Stuart 134 Drinkald 134 Those marked thus' The poll will finally close this - so 77 - 134 - 134 - 133 132' - 1u RD—Returns 12. .Ur. Hunt Robinson Noy Horst •Rowell . •lhrtshorne are new Candidates. evening (Friday). SPORTING IN7'ELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S, TIMINDAY, DEC. 22. It will be maw below that the General is advancing for the Derby, having -changed places with Bolivar, which is the only alteration observable in the odds for that Stakes. DEN BY. II to 2 agst Monarch 22 to I agst Twatty 13 to 1 apt Tredrilie 22 to 1 apt Zuleika 13 to 1 apt The General 20 to I apt Sophist 13 to 1 apt Bolivar 30 to I apt Pranks 17 to 1 agst Advance SO to I apt Canvass 22 to 1 aJst Graniarie 13 to 2 apt Mignionetto to 1 agst l'awn 9 to 1 agst hoses 12 to 1 agst Henry II to 1 apt Elisabeth tr. t 15 to 2 eget fiedlatioite 9 to I apt Crusader 15 to 1 Net 20 to 1 apt Monarch FATAL EFFI?CT.I kas. to 1 Nest Pansol IG to I asst 80-peep 16 to I !twit Loni■a(Quadtille) 20 to 1 ag.t Morel km 1 agar Tears mtlit 20 to 1 apt Bare!srie 90 to 1 agst Sister tr. Homer 33 to 1 agst lisrefout OF GAMBLING. A most melancholy and fatal instance of the ill consequences that attend the indulgence of • propensity for play has recently occurred. The painful detail has been supplied by a friend of the ' parties, and who was an eye.witness of the last act of this melan choly tragedy. Some months since Mr. W. R—, the only and idolized son of a highly respectable gentleman residing near Liverpool, and fur -1 merly a merchant in that town, was sent up to London, with a power of attorney, by which lie was entitled to receive a coneiclerable aunt of money on account of his father. The business was quickly transacted, ant! the young gentleman was put in possession of the whole amount ; but as it happened to be his first visit to the metro. polls, he thought he might, without fear of incurring hie parent's displeasure, continue in town a few days longer, for the purpose of enjoying a scene so new and so seductive to the mind of youth. In his perambulations he unfortunately encountered some of those gadflies that buzz in the regions of fashion, whose manners were sufficiently captivating to attach him to their society; he took " appearances for true pay," and thought that all were gentle men who but seemed to be so. To one of these, who paid him a marked attention, he, with the inconsiderate trankneu of in experienced youth, confided the object of his mission to town. This intelligence was received by the confidant with demonstrations of unfeigned satisfaction ; and, in order to prove that the trust was not misplaced, he hinted to the young novice the propriety of concealing title matter front every one but men of un doubted honour, as London abounded with persons of broken for. tune aml shattered character, whose whole subsistence was derived • from spoil drawn from the pockets of the unwary. If any. scru ples existed in the mind of Itlr. It-- as to the integrity of his new-found friend, this disinterested caution put them entirely to flight. Every day some new scheme of pleasure was proposed for the entertainment of the young stranger by his acquaintances, so that lie was altogether detached from the society of his real friends ; considerable expenses were, of comae, incurred, and before he was aware of it, a large inroad had been made on the money he was intrusted to receive, over and above a liberal allowance for travel ing charges, Ac. In this dilemma he applied for consolation to his quondam counsellor, who warmly sympathized in his distress. and at the same time advised him to tl etw the residue into the bank of fortune, anti that tere would be little doubt of his mak. ing good the delizit, with a handsome premium besides. enable to decide on any more certain plan of recruiting his losses, he consented, and was introduced at one of the 4. Hells" at the west end. Instructed by his coui tion, he as Ana staked small sums, and enjoyed the deceptive si aof the blind goddess. Thus encouraged, he went the neat nigh‘;' resolved, by one bold stroke, to secure enough to enable him to return home with credit, but, as might be supposed, his !tapes were frustrated; lie lost, or rather he was robbed of all he had, several huudred pounds, and quitted the house without a shilling in the morning. shocked beyond mm_ sure at what he hail done, he determined to return home no move, and offered himself to the East India Company as a recruit, but was rejected, being below the required height. He then took an apartment in an obscure lodging-house in Oxford-road, where, after making away with every article that he could convert into cash, lie would have starved but for the humanity of the landlntd, a poor but a worthy man. His father, greatly . alarmed at his ex trzordinary stay and continued silence, had in the interim written to several persons in London respecting his son, lint not being able to get any satisfactory intelligence, lie came off in person, and caused hardbills to be circulated anti had advertisements inserted in the public papers, entreating his return. &c. but without effect, until at length accident discovered his retreat. The Rev. Mr. M'lllullen and another gentleman, who were employed to collect subscriptions on behallof one of the iniasionery institutions, chanced to call on the young gentleman's landlord for contributions ; the tutor man frankly pleaded inability to contribute, and at the saint time observed, that as they were religions men, they could not find a titter object for the exercise of Christian charity than a poor young wan who was then dying in his house, and who appeared to be wholly destitute of friends, or the means ot supporting himself. The gentlemen concurred in the landlord's opinions, and begged to be introduced to him immediately. They were shown into a miser able apartment, where lay the unhappy young wan, on the verge of dissolution, evidently the victim rather of mental titan of bodily suffering ; for the poor people with whom he lived had absolutely forced him to take some nourishment. At first he seemed dis. pleated at the introduction of strangers, and refused to give any account of Mantel for his connexions ; however, the pressing °flits of kindness by these gentlemen, delicately conveyed, fit •ly con. tittered his scruples, and he gave them his father's addre-s, together with a succinct account of the circumstances which had placed him in that eitumion ; a sufficient provision was made for his les , miliflptle wants, and his tither was acquainted with the fact of the dlemeery. He- set off' immediately, and on arriving in town. his anxiety overcoming his prudence, h e drove directly to the abode of Fria eon, and rushed precipitately into the room ; the re cognition was mutual tied instantaneoue, but it was too powerful for the exhausted fume of the son—he flitted himself an his knees in rite bed, grasped his tether's hoed in his, and expired ! The heart-broken father committed the rentains of an idolized child to the tanth in tearless sorrow. The prop of his declining years being thus prematurely snatched away. he sunk under this accumulated load of suiltring—in six weeks afterwards the same ogee see per formed fur himself, and out informant followed in the train ul moult:era on tl c melancholy occasion. LAW NuTleS7l. COURT wr zeros* TRZ LORD eatascrt.Loi ?NIS DAT. For Jodgtsteru—Diowshs• • Conn,. To be spoke to.-Iwor4 Bromley • Barthwaite. Per order—Sima • Ridge. Bankrupt Petition—Rename Thompson v • By.order—Const • Harris. ('.arse Petition (part tteard)—Macnaniata • Wood. Appose. Petitions--Coorli • Sikes: and In re Bethel Hoapits. CAUSE YErivlnits. Wilkinson, y Wilkinson In re Mane.bcaier Market Act Snettord v Shefford . Rattriy v George Attorney-General • Smith Tomes v Wilkins Garrick • Lord CamdeO 'EPODE THE TICE-CHANCELLOI THIS DAT. Remaining Cause Petitions. Miller v Elkins (pan lln re Cole P aterson v V atets6l! heard) Barker v Barker I Marshall v Same • same (ditto) A piden v Nixon Miller v Elkins Thirty Bankrupt Petitions. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. CAUSES TO BA TILIED IN .I.ONDON TAIS DAY, )Y SPECIAL JURIES. Hanniford • Huns Hower Gedge(ditto) I Palmer • gangherrs I (by order) Foot v. Stratton Evans • Tennant LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY; TuvliDA r, Dec. 22. POWEYL 7). MOUbIIETT The SOLICITOR•OENIRAL occupied the whole of yesterday tyi his reply in support of the petition for a commission of review in this case. This morning Dr. J. :Inuits's followed on the same side, and having concluded his observations-- The Lotto CH ANTE r*Loa proceeded to take a view of the ease. His I..ordsillo went very cirrumstantially through the evidence of the principal witnesses • , tainined on intermgatorics in the Court below, from which he deJoced, that according to his present view of the case he could not advise his Majesty to order a commission of review. His Lordship said it could only be granted on the ground that the sentence of the Court below was an erroneous sem. tence, or that some error (and it must be some very gems error In. deed) had taken place. his Lordship said he ahtfuld throw over. board every circumstance connected with the issues tried at com mon law. One circumstance, and one circumstance only, he would notice in reference to what had fallen from the Solicitor-General in respect to one of them, viz. .• that the testator was of sound mind when he executed the paper of the 18th ;thy, 1818, when he saw it endorsed on the posted, that the Jury found him of unscund mind at the time when the third clause (the revocatory one as to his former will or wills) was made, dowel they found for the taro first clauses, thereby placing them as codicils to his will of 1807." His Lordship said, for his own part he could not bring his mind to suppose that one part of this paper was his act and deed, bring then of sound mind, memory and understanding, and the other not; he should therefore look at tile case without any inferenee whatever to the four issues that had been tried in the Court of Common Pleats ; they were out of the question, and of no suthck. city ; and it did appear to him (the Lord Chancellor) that it wee so much time and expense thrown away. His lordship re.. marked upon the ignorant manner in which the paper. of May, 1818, was drawn np, inasmuch as it would tall upon one party to pay to himself out of a pe rso n a l estate which hid previously been devised to him, in equal proportions with what he was also to receive from the reality, thereby showing that a total ignorance was displayed as to the will of 1807. Ills Lordship con cluded by repeating, that his present opinion was, that he could not advise his Majesty to grant this commission of review ; Ind as lie had occupied that chair long enough to recollect that he had fri• quently changed his opinion, he was anxious to have an oppor tunity of due consideration in this case. He would therefore take a short time to consider it ; and as he should come down to girt sonic judgments early in January, he would be sure then to inti mate what was his Majesty's determination in respect of the cont. , mission. ITANSON V. TME BRITISH MINING COMPANY. Mr. HEALD and Nlr. BICIERSTETM concluded their argu ments in behalf of the Mining Company, and Mr.SofiCsToe-OZ. smear. was heard ia reply. He contended that Lady Hanson'a case differed in every essential particular from the cases that had been petitioned on the othet side. It was tree he (the Solicitof licnelui) had argued in the case of the Real del Monte for the de fect of parties ; but in that case Mr. Kinnear, as every body would recollect, was an individual who had gone into that Company vo luntarily and of his own free will ; whereas Lady Hanson btu!) compelled to be so associated by the net of Mt. Thomas. The Loan CHANCES t.oa observed, that an injunction could not be granted in the present form of the motion, but that he wnukl take the papers home, er.d dispose of the case on coming into Coat in the morning. 1' The SoticrTou-OEKLEt.ar. begged to ask his Lord.h t p, whe ther the Court would sit on Saturday. as it had not been. usual when Chflitmas-day fell on a Sunday, for the Court to sit on the Saturday. His Lonnswils said, it was for the Da to make the so:;citation that he should do sot which bring made blithe Solicitor-lief era!, his Lordship signified his acqateseence. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, TRrnsDAY, Dec. PETITT V. PICTTIT. Mr. ROIIPELL appeared on behalf of the plaintiff in this suit. who is married to the defendant, Mr. Pettit. In consequence of domestic quarrels which had arisen between the parties a separa tion wa. agreed upon by mutual consent, and a deed was execute d, by which the husband bound himself to allow a certain yearly sum for his wife's maintenance. Having failed to perform his contract, the wife tiled a bill against him its this Court, for the purpose of compelling him to pay the arrears due on the annuity. The hus band, in order to evade the claim, left England, thus placing Mar self beyond the jurisdiction of the Court. The cause was, however, proceeded in, and an order was finally obtained for the aequestvw. tion of the husband's real property , to satisfy the claim of site wife. This order was obtained in 1822. and required the secruestrators to whom it was directed to take possession of defendant a lands, and receive the profits until 27W., the amount of arrears then dose to the plaintiff, should be paid, together with the costs incurred In the prosecution of the suit up to that time. The sequestrators were further ordered to keep possession until the defendant had cleared himself from the contempt. Acting in pursuance of that order, the-, sequestrarots had received a sum sufficient to discharge the wife's claim. together with the costs, with the exception of 4W.; bnt aN, the order had nearly expired, the plaintiff presented a petition, praying that it may be enlarged. The object of this petition war: to continue the sequestrators in possession of the property ; that they should pay the plaintiff' a ll the arrears which accrued subse quent to t h e order pronounced in 1822. together with all costs sub sequently incurred in the prosecution of the suit. The petiticii. also prayed that the case may be referred to the Master, to ascer tain the sum bow due fur arrears and costs subarquent to the order of 1822. r. IVactrit 1.7 i appeared for the seguestnunrs, who declared themselves fatigued with their office, and desired to be disettargrd ou payment or their casts. The Vier-Cl:fro:cc ti.OR said he could not grant the eXHIIIIOII of the order In the manner prayed for. The order already made seemed sufficient to cover the - costs so far as those were concerned ; but he did not see that he could order the further sequestratiou cre the property as the case now stood before the Court. 31r. Rot:PELL said that the annuity was the plaintiff 's only mode of subsistence; and it did not seem that she could re: kite upon its regular payrnent.unless the defendant's property wog keys under setrestration. The case was very hard on the plaintiff; The 't KM-CHANCELLOR promised to look at the order, bud uprooted his conviction that the application should be renewed Its another shape. • 8111 A. if. GIBSON v. ENOWLIS AND OTHER& Mr. HARl'stated this to be a petition for the division of a suns now in Court, and which had been paid in under several orders. fs appeared that the late Sir Thomas Maitland, being Colonel of the 411di regiment of foot, appointed W. Giffin is agent for that rtgt.. .tent. la the course of transactions which arose in consequence. Sir T. Maitland became debtor to the agent, who *bora., attar be came a bankrupt, and his aseignees claimed payment of the debt. The representatives of Sir T. Maitland expressed their wading's' ter pay any sum that was really due, but as 3lr. (Mini had received various sums from the W.cr.office on atiesunt of the regiment. titer were advised that they ought not to pay Sir T. Man/Imre tlehtsi a , unless the sums received at the War-office were deducted Irmo bp The assignees of (Mkt) contended that Sir T. Maitland's tithe should be paid, and that the Crown must conic in under the Cott, mission, and share with the other cretinous whatever balance l'nder those circumstances this suit was instituted by Sir Aleasuider Maitland Gibson and Mr. Maitland, repteseittatives oR the late Colonel Sir'}'. Maitland, against the assignees of Mr. Chitin, the agent. On the hearing of the cause, the Lord Chap cello, directed an issue for the purpose of trying the legal ques tion which arose, vie. whether the representatives of Sir T. Mait land had a right to set off the iLlit due to the lA'ar-otfiee against hi* debt due to the estate of Mr. Ohio. 0:1 the trial of that issue D. verdict was had for the representatives of Sir T. Maitland, and the tight to Set nit' was established. The petition now presented proles* that the funds in Court may be divided. Mr. Itourt3.l. thought the case must go bark to the Lord Chancellor, because the fact that the late Sir T. Maitland bad glycol a power or attorney to Mr. (}ilfin, under which he received the money at the War-office, had sot been stated on the hearing of the rause. _ Sir. WaAT appeared fee the Croon, to demand payment of sums due so sa! War-othaa The VlCE.CHAlycrLioit thoaght the fact stated b► Mr. Rottpell, that Mr.lifin had received the toms at the War.oflicr by power of attorney from Sir T. Maitland changed the femur,' of the case. That circumstance placed the agent in the pante situa tion and under the same responsibilities as Sir T. Maitland himself. The verdict at common law was therefore perfectly botisfactory, to it estroblishitt that single point into which the dispute had been re pelted, which was, whether Sir T. 31.ittliind'it representatives ought to pay Mr. (fillip's assignees', without any deduction, tke aunt dew from the regiment, or whether he ought to deduct from that sem the debt due to the War-nice. He should therefore direct, as. was prayed in the petition, that the stun of l,kt 1, should be paid to tbe Solicitor for the Treasury. with costs, and that the costs yr the other patties thould be plod nut of the residue of the sons in Court. The balance be would direct to be paid to the assignees.. of M. Gildn, in discharge of the debt due to the estate by its Lie Sir T. Mai,:ind, as Coldre: unit 49th tic ca r t h ch W.ll .ho I'