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had been prevented from shipping different de scriptions of goods, on which the drawback had been obtained, on 'board of the Carn Brea Costle, and requested permission to export the same goods by another vessel. So much time, however, has elapsed since the departure of the Cam Brea Castle, during which no notice was taken of the affair, that the application excited suspicion, and on proper inquiries being made, the nature of the fraud was discovered ; and on following up the investigation, evidence pre sented itself also of its extent and long duration. This is. the outline of the facts, so far as they have come out in the course of the day; but they are necessarily very imperfect, and as the Inquiry is still going on, not fully known to any one. Neither is it yet ascertained by what de scription of persons this fraud has been ma naged, though it is clear from its very nature that it must have been the result of collusion among various individuals, and that a connivance or a participation in the fraud must have existed in the office through which business of this kind is t onducted. It is not wonderful that a defi ciency should exist in the public revenue, when frauds of this kind can be perpetrated in one of the'most important branches of its administra tion. The affair altogether is calculated to excite deep reflection, not only on that point, but on the system of drawbacks itself, which offers so strong a temptation to commit fraud.—lbid.. We are very much amused' by an article in Cobbetes - Register of this day, in which that sage, so eminently gifted with foresight, so re markable for consistency, a soundness of judg 'nein, which almost entitles him to lay claim to and the utmost disinterestedness, in veighs loudly against our want of consistency, our want of honesty, our ignorance, and so forth. In some recent observations on Parlia mentary Reform, we had expressed ourselves with respect to its rapid approach in less san guine terms than those used by Mr. Cobbett, and we had moreover stated that we were not parti cularly anxious for its acceleration. We bad stated, at the same time, that we wished such a substantial reform as would really afford protec tion to the pec - ple ; but being impressed with the idea that these who arc in possession of political power would not part with it without a struggle, the tate beastly exhibitions, indicative of the uoranc e of a very great proportion of the 'people, were by no means calculated to dispel the alarm we felt on account of.the consequences which might follow from letting the population loose. We were far from justifying the with holding of Parliamentary Reform, in thus ex pressing our belief that it would never be volun tarily conceded, and that the growing improve ment of the people would every year add to their fitness for properly exercising power when the opportunity presented itself. Mr. Cobbett is greatly shocked that we should have charac terized the opposition made to the Catholic Bill as beastly ~- and he endeavours, according to a logic peculiarly his own, to deny the existence of the alleged ignorance and prejudices, by ac counting for them thuS :—‘, What (says he) when they (the people) had been told ; when they and their forefathers had been taught for ages ; jidse/y taught I allow ; basely deluded, I show ; but when they had sucked in with their mothers' milk, that it was their duty to hold the Catholic religion in abhorrence ; when they had been taught to believe that that religion was idolatrous and damnable ; when they had been taught to believe that Popery and slavery were always inseparable companions; when they had from every pulpit and from every press been taught for ages and ages, that the Catholic re ligion rendered men unfit to be believed on their oaths ; that it provided impunity for the com mission of crimes of the deepest dye ; and that a Catholic was, from the very nature of his faith, an enemy of all Protestants, and of all Protestant Government ; when they had been crammed with these infamous falsehoods, from their very infancy, and taken them in from the lips of their progenitors for many generations ; when this was notoriously the case, and when they saw a Bill intended to put into the hands of Catho lics the power of making and administering the laws affecting their property and their lives, were they to be called ignorant and beastly ?" - This is a very good apology for the ignorance of the people ; and it would have been in place, if we had inferred from this ignorance an ability to attain to more correct views, when fairly presented to them. We are quite aware that there is no effect without a cause, and the people could not have been so obstinate in their opposition - to the Catholic Claims, if they had not been assiduously led astray, and deprived of all means of obtaining more enlightened notions. If they had been better taught, and had access to more correct information, and if their minds had been trained to use the information properly—why they would not then have been ignorant. The people in Mexico have been taught to believe that all Eng lishmen have tails like apes; but they are not less ignorant because they have been taught to believe this. Mr. Cobbett gives another amus ing proof of peculiar lo g i c , i n hi s a t tempt to prove our inconsistency : " But suppose the people of England were as en lightened as the Doctor himself; suppose each man of them were just as much enlightened as he is; the Doctor is now, and lately has been, an advocate for Catholic Emancipation: in 1824 he was its bitterest enemy; and, I know not how it happened, he was all at once converted to the Catholic faith by Mr. O'Connell, and the deputation that came over to England in the prosperous year of 1823. Before their arrival, he had been incessant in his attack upon the Catholic religion in every part of the world ; he had charged its clergy with being impos tors ; he had charged them with perpetuating igno rance and slavery; and the thirty-fifth paragraph of the first number of the History of the Protestant Reformation,' published in November, 1824, is an answer to his assertion that, ' throughout Europe, Protestants rank higher in the scale of intellect than Catholics, and Catholics in the neighbourhood of Protestants are more intellectual than those at a dis tance from them: When the Hi,story of the Pro testant Reformation began to spread throughout the country thos e f ac t s an d those argumenrs, without which the Catholic Bill never could have been in- trodueed ; when this work began to spread ;iie.; facts and arguments about, thi3 very man, who now charges the people of England with beastliness, en deavoured to answer my work ; feeble at tempts to refute it ; and applied to it the memorable appellation of ' Pig's Meat ;' and at the same time poured forth the nest abominable calumnies on the Catholic elerffy, and the loftiest praises on Lnther and Cranmer ; but, in the January succeeding, came Mr. O'Connell, the Treasurer of the Catholic Rent, accompanied with his deputation. The Doctor toothed, Ft% it were, with the finger of grace, or melted by eloquence from the lips which had been touched with a live coal from the altar,' changed his tone all at once, and becam e the advocate of that very measure which he had before reprobated; and, like convert; in general, or to speak plainly, like apostates, be now accuses the people of Eng land of ignorance and beastliness, only because they honest!! acted upon the principles which he had so sedulously inculcated about four years before." Svw obvious from the above quotation, that Mr. Cobbett himself reasons somewhat like those for whom he has been apologising—they dislike the Catholic religion, and that with them is one reason for oppressing Catholics. We are not very warm admirers of the Catholic religion, and we believe that the Protestant Reformation has been productive of great good to mankind : though the Reformers themselves were into lerant, and far from perfection, Europe owes much to the stand which they made against au thority ; and while we are not to take the Re formers as models for the present day, without their exertions the people might still imve been plunged every where in ignorance and supersti tion. We still think the Protestants more in tellectual than 'Catholics, but we think they make a bad use of their intellect. when they deem their superiority a justification of persecution. But Mr. Cobbett conceives that all who do not admire the Catholic religion are bound to per secute Catholics ; and because we did not ad mire the Catholic religion in 1824, any more than in 1825, and thought then as well as now, that his History of the Protestant Reformation was grossly unjust to the memory of a great and good man (who had no doubt his imper fections—who is without them ?), Martin Lu ther, he thinks we were necessarily opponents of Emancipation, for which we have always stoutly contended. We remember a statement made some time ago, in the Dublin Morning Register, by Mr. Staunton, the proprietor, that in order to secure the 'Advocacy of Mr. Cobbett, it was proposed by Mr. O'Connell that Mr. C. should be allowed to touch the Catholic Rent ; and accordingly an arrangement was en tered into with him, which put a round sum weekly into his pocket. It was also stated by Mr. Staunton, that the advocacy and the receipt of money were co-existent; and that the moment the supply was discontinued, Mr. O'Connell ceased to be with Mr. Cobbett one of the best of men and the greatest of orators. This may have been calumny, for anything we know. However, if he did receive money, and if the supply was discontinued, and if he supposes that the money withdrawn from him found its way to us, and if he Teel any soreness towards us on account of our being the cause of this in jury to himself, we can assure him that his jea lousy is groundless. We are not in the habit of boasting of our purity, and we believe the only individuals who ever accused us of the want of it, are Mr. Cobbett and Mr. O'Connell. We have never been insulted with the offer of mo ney from the Catholic Treasury, or from Mr. O'Connell, and therefore we cannot lay claim to the merit of having resisted temptation. However, it is no great merit to possessso much common sense, as not to put it in the power of any man to hold one up to the world as a cor rupt knave. Besides, were we even to be ever beset with the sin of hankering after the wages of iniquity, we should not select either - Mr. O'Connell or Mr. Cobbett as the depositaries of our secret. Mr. O'Connell has many qualities which - have been of inestimable benefit to his country, but closeness is not one of the quali ties usually found in men of his warm and ex citable temperament. He is, too, somewhat like Mr. Cobbett himself—not disposed to be reserved on the subject of the failings of others, real or imagined. But to return to Reform :we may be wrong. in our supposition that it could not take place without a struggle, and we may also be wrong in believing that a real represen tation of the people would give the House of Lords the go-by (to use a familiar expression) ; but the belief of Reformers themselves, or the belief of certain Peers, that the House of Lords would be strengthened by Reform, in stead of weakened, is not exactly a satisfactory refutation of our allegation. Let us hear what Mr. Cobbett says on this point : " After this, it is hardly worth while to notice what he says respecting' a Parliamentary reform superseding the House of Lords. I have _never . _ known a `Parliamentary reformer who expressed a wish to do this; Major Cartwright always contended that the House of Lords would gain instead of lose by reform ; and I have never known a Reformer I(for I do not reckon Burdett one) who ever said, or ins►nuated, in my hearing, that reform, upon the widest basis, would be in any way injurious to the Peers. I could prove, that the effect would be the contrary of this—l could convince any Peer, who is open to conviction, that the nobility would greatly gain by. a Radical Reform ; but did not the old Duke of Richmond understand well the interest of this order ? He had boroughs under his controul : he was not of the nobility of yesterday—he had not sprung from the makers of loans, the grinders of paper-money, and the watchers of the turn of the market;' he was of the high nobility—he had ample domains; and what is more, lie was a Noble man in talents and in deeds as well as title. Yet he actually brought in a Bill to give to the people Annual Parliaments and Universal Suffrage. And did he not know the interest of the House of Lords, as well as this Scotchman, who abused the Catholic Religion, the Catholic Priesthood, and the Catholic people in 1824, and who in 1829 abused the peo ple of England . because some of them prayed (and it was only tome of them) that Catholics might not be law-makers and administrators of the laws ? I shall be told that Duke of Richmond did the actually accomplish his object ; nor did the Catholic Emancipators accomplish their object, though they had tried it for a great many years ; the accomplish ment of that object, as far as it was accomplished, was reserved for Y 015; arid why arc we not to hope that Parliamentary Reform is reserved for you also to accomplish ? " There is another authority upon the subject of Parliamentary Reform; namely, the Earl of Rad nor. Does not he understand the interest of his order ? Has he ►+othing to lose ? Would he be pleased to sec the House of Lords superseded ? Can he be regardless of his title and that of his descendants? Yet this Noble Lord called, himself, a meeting at Abingdon in Berkshire, in the year 1823 (I think it was), and there agreed to a peti tion for a Parliamentary Reform on the widest bads; and presented himself the petition to the Parliament." It strikes us that the very first moment a House of Lorda remained obstinately opposed to a House of Commons representing the whole people, it would be treated pretty much as the Upper House was treated in the time of the civil wars. All would go on smoothly, so long as their Lordships chose to think on every sub ject exactly like the Commons, but no longer. There cannot be two independent powers in a country. A balance of. power in a constitution is uniutclligible.—Morning Chronicle. The case reported in our paper of yesterday, Prom the Mansion House, affords a tolerable confirmation, if any were wanting, of the inu tility of our Coal Laws, and of the quibbling way in which, if they were of any use, their effects can be defeated. It has been proved over and over again that the whole metering system is a complete farce to all except those—and they, to be sure, arc not a few—into whose pockets it puts money. It affords no protection to the buyer, or even, in ordinary cases, to the seller ; for in so different a manner may the same article be put into the same measure by skilful or un hand,,:, that even the same quantity of coals may be made to measure less or more than is necessary, according to the metering legerde main employed in the operation. In every species of dry goods weight is a much surer criterion of quantity than measure. The Coal owners and dealers know this, as they have re cently proved before the Lords' Committee, on which occasion it appeared that, at the pit's mouth, and at every transit up to delivery to the consumer, weight and not measure is the mode of dealing re sorted to. But the truth is, that all this shackling and tampering with trade is wrong and absurd. If the coal trade were left, like any other, unham pered with this metering system, the buyers and sellers would regulate their dealings much more to the satisfaction of the former, at least, than any which these laws, avowedly made for their protection, can ever afford teem. In fact, the law, under colour of protection, is only a colour for fraud. And then, supposing them to be otherwise, how are their operations defeated ? Nine times in ten by some chicane, which, to be sure, as long as it is allowed to exist, people, perhaps, cannot be much blamed for resorting to. In the case we allude to, the India House, it appears, happens to stand in more than one parish, and, therefore, as the information could not state to the poor of which parish the half of the penalties would belong, the whole proceed ing fell to the ground, or was quashed, as it is called. Law is said to be the perfection of rea son ; but such law as this seems to approach nearer to the perfection of nonsense.—Morning Herald. CITY, FR I D A Y.-Nothing of any consequence has transpired here to-day ; but if we may believe the Evening Papers, " the greatest sensation haS been excited among commercial men," in conse quence of the London Grand Jury having found a true bill against the proprietors of this Paper; for a libel upon the Lord Mayor. These Papers tell us, that the libel consisted in our having stated, under the head of City, that " it is said, that a large house in the iron and; lead trade was yesterday accommodated by the Bank of England with a loan of 100,0001." They then go on to state, that " the Lord Mayor swore before the Grand Jury, that the iron and lead house meant him ; that it had an injurious ten dency towards the credit of his firm ; and that he proceeded by indictment, because, it being the long vacation, if he had proceeded by civil ac• tion, the libel would have gone uncontradieted till November next." Now, in the first place, we should be glad to know how it can be injuri ous to a man's credit to say, that he was thought so highly of by the Bank of England as to in duce them to lend him 100,0001. ; and in the next place, we would ask how the paragraph can be construed to mean his Lordship's house, seeing that there -are perhaps 50 or 100 iron and lead houses in England ? But we are told by the Evening Papers that the Lord Mayor ad6pted the proceeding by indictment, bec a u se th e para graph would 11ave gone uncontradieted till No vember. Now every body knows, that knows any thing of law, that proceeding criminally in the case of a libel, never brings into question its truth or falsehood. All that the Jury have to consider is, whether the paragraph cotn plained of has a tendency to bring about a breach of the peace ; and we have yet to learn how 'saving that a nameless house borrowed 100,0001. of the B an k can h ave th at effect. One word with regard to the delay in contradict ing the statement in question, which his Lord- ship is pleased to say applies to him. The pro ceedings before a Grand Jury arc, or ought to be, secret, so that, the course adopted could not have availed the plaintiff any thing by way of contradiction. How the Lord Mayor's evidence got into the newspapers it is impossible to say. All that we know is, that Grand Juries arc sworn to secrecy, and that it is a misdemeanour to publish any evidence given before them. We may add, that the present mode of proceeding, in a case like this, is quite unprecedented. We shall probably, however, have a little more to say on this subject on a future occasion.—/bid. We observed a few days ago that the lowness of the stock of corn now in the hands of farmers is no proof of their general poverty, inasmuch as the deficiency of the last year's crop, in con junction with the present system of the Corn Laws, presented them with unusual inducements to hurry their produce to market. A Corre spondent, evidently a practical man, has since in formed us that the general quality of the last year's harvest presented to the farmer one in ducement, in addition to those we enumerated, to get rid of it with all convenient speed. We now revert to the subject for the purpose of cor recting a misapprehension to which we under stand our former observations have give" rise. We did not speak of the temptation presented to farmers to hurry their produce to market as one of the beneficial effects of the present Corn Laws. It is an incident of the system of a gra duated scale of duties, but it is not the incident to which we ever thought of referring as a proof of its superiority. The superiority of this sys tem to that of a free trade in corn is, that it pre vents the country from becoming habitually de pendent upon foreign s u ppli es for its necessary food ; that it upholds and perpetuates a landed interest in all its gradatioms of labourer, tenant, and landlord—the only interest of the country that is sure at all times, and in all emergencies, to be truly patriotic, because here alone selfish ness and patriotism are inseparably allied ; that it prevents the community from degenerating into a vicious, feeble, and turbulent congrega tion of manufacturers of artisans. The superio rity of this system to that of a fixed duty con sists in the assurance it alone is capable of affording of permanency and inviolability. This system is flexible, that of a fixed duty will not fiend, and whenever scarcity is really felt, and the voice of humanity is raised against it, is sure therefore to break in: the hands of a Govern ment so much subject to popular influence as that of England is, and is destined, we trust, to remain. If the system of a graduated scale of deity be preferable, as we believe it is, to a free trade in corn, and to a fixed duty for the limitation of import, its tendency to induce the British farmer to hasten his sales after a deficient crop, need not be ad duced, and certainly was not adduced by us, as an additional recommendation to it. This ten dency is incidental, as we have already said, to the system, and explains, in part at least, why the stock of corn in the hands of the farmer at the present moment is unusually low. With out contending that this effect of the system is an absolute good, we do enough if we skew that it is not a positive and serious evil. W e a d m i t that the stock in the hands of farmers has hereto fore constituted a reserved fund, and has pro tected the country from the risk of famine upon occasions of defective crops. It may do so still. Before the last defective crop there was such a reserved fund in the hands of farmers, which to a certain extent answered this pur pose ; 'and we doubt if such a reserve has ever been made to a sufficient amount to meet two 1 detective crops in successio n . n ut b e t hi s as I it may, we can have no doubt that the emer gency of a defective crop, or of several defective crops in successiofi, is better provided for by the present than it could be by any other system, unless it be perhaps that of absolute free trade. The reserve fund of subsistence for the people of England will be collected in the bonding warehouses, and in the foreign ports with which the corn trade of England is carried on ; and it will inevitably be thus collected to an amount proportionate to the degree in which the stock held by British farmers is understood to be de ficient. If foreign corn is not to be altogether prohibited on the one hand, or admitted with out restriction on the other, we must resort to some intermediate system, and there can be no intermediate system but what gives the British farmer a free occupancy of the market. It is sufficiently obvious that there may be occa sions—and we think the farmers of England have judged rightly in considering the last season as one of them—in which they cannot avail themselves to the utmost of the advantage of this pre-occupancy of the market unless by getting rid of a larger proportion than usual of their stocks.—Morning Post. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 17. TRIIII.ESTON V. TRIMLESTON. The LORD CHANCELLOR, on coming into Court this morning, gave judgment in this case, by refusing the application to have the money paid out of Court. IN RE POTTINGER, A BANKRUPT. Mr. ROSE and Mr. CAMPBELL were heard agains this petition. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, it appeared to him clear from the affidavits on both sides, that the Commissioners in charging travelling expences, and in taking fees for adjournments on the same day, had infringed the Act of Parliament. He had thererefore no room to decide otherwise than that a commission must be directed to fresh Commis sioners: at the same time he saw no reason to im pute any corrupt motives to the Commissioners for what they had done. ROLLS COURT, Jul.: 17. BARNHAM V. MUNN. The following are the circumstances which gave rise to this suit :—ln 1815 the defendant, Mrs. Munn (then Mrs. Adams) being engaged in a Chancery suit, which has since terminated in her favour, and not having the means to carry it on,.ap plied to the plaintiff for a loan of 5001. for the pur pose of relieving her from some pecuniary difficulties, and to enable her to prosecwe her claim. Mr. Barnham declined acceding to her request in the first instance, and stated that he could not cornmacd the money except by disposing of a sum • of 6004 Five per Cent. Navy Annuities, which, the stock being then below par, his broker bad recommended him not to sell. Eventually, however, at the earnest solicitation of the defendant, Barnham consented to sell out the stock, and let her have the produce. He did so; the stock was disposed of for 522/., as appeared from the broker's note, and the money handed to the defendant. In order to secure the plaintiff, a bond was passed to him by Mrs. Adams, who therein agreed to pay interest for the loan, and replace the stock by a similar amount in Navy Five per Cents., when required. She also made a will, in which the replacing of the stock was provided for, and under this will, Barnham, for Lis further seem ity, was appointed executor. Both instruments were drawn up by a wax-chandler, named Pearce, reside, ing in Holborn, who was - a mutual friend of the parties, and was employed in the matter with a view to save law expellees. By a blunder of Pearce in preparing the bond, the alternative was left to the defendant, to pay 5224, the sum for which the stock had been soli), or to replace it by the same amount in New Five per Cent Annuities.. . It appeared that the interest which would have ac crued from a sum of 6001. if invested in Navy Five per Cents, was regularly paid by the defendant to Barnham for the space of three years. At the ex piration of that period the defendant having succeed ed in her Chancery suit, and becoming possessed of proper►y amounting to 20,0001. in money, and 1,100/. a-year, gave the plaintiff - notice of her inten- tion to pay off - the . bonil. Being informed by bee Solicitors that in consequence of the wording of the instrument, she was entitled to her option of replac ing the stock or discharging her obligation by pay ing 522/., and finding that Navy Five per Cents. had risen considerably in value since the period of the loan, Mrs. Adams took advantage of these cir cumstances, and tendered the plaintiff 5221. in dis charge of the bond. Dunham at first refused to ac cept this offer, but (as was_ stated by his Counsel) being pressed by his necessities, he .afterwards took the money from Mrs. Adams's solicitor, to whom he delivered up the bond, at the same time loudly com plaining of the injustice done him by the defendant in declining to replace the stork which he had ths• posed of for her accommodation. The solicitor told the plaintiff he was only authorized to pay the money in full satisfaction of the bond, and Barnhain replied, that he should adopt 'every means to obtain redress and compel the defendant to replace the stock. This took place in 1818. The present bill was filed for the purpose of compelling the defendant to pay to the plaintiff a sum of 1301., the difference between 5221. and the value of 600/. Navy Five per Cents. on the day when the bond was delivered up. The MASTER of the BOLLS—I am of opinion that the bill must be dismissed; but I will not give the defendant costs. This is a very unjust transaction, but the Court cannot enter into the motives of par ties under all the circumstances and at this distance of time. A person must not deliver up his security, accepting a payment, and then ask for redress, ex cept the other party at the time of payment admits that it is open to him to seek a further remedy. I am sorry that Mrs. Munn, has so misconducted her self, but the Court must proceed: on legal principles. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 17. MAYHEW v. MORTIMER. tbis case which was left unfinished yesterday when we went to press, the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. DUGDALE AND OTHERS V. SANDS AND OTHERS. This was an action by the assignees of Messrs. Thomas Fearn and Co., who were formerly dealers i n cotton goods at Manchester, against Messrs. Sands and Co., commission agents at Liverpool and New York, to recover from them a large sum of money, which it was alleged they had improperly paid over to Messrs. Butterworth and Brooks, under an order signed by the bankrupts, Messrs. Fearn and Co. _ After some evidence had been given, it was agreed that a verdict should be taken for the plain tiffs, subject to the opinion of the Court above upon a special ease as to the plaintiffs' right to recover ? Verdict accordingly. ROGERS V. CROSSITy. This was an action by a chyrnist and druggist a gainst Captain Crosby, to recover the price of a battles a n d ot h er art i cles fur ,q,ilityineldtooflsli m m ell i ing in March, 1828. The fact of the articles having been applied to the defendant was not disputed, and the only question was, whether there :tad been an actual purchase by the defendant ? Plaintiff nonsuited. THE KING V. THE INHABITANTS OF MIDDLESEX. This was an indictment for the non-repair of a bridge, called Longford or Moor-bridge, in the parish of Harmondsworth, Middlesex.—Verdict for the defendants. ARCHES COURT, JULY 17. HAMERTON V. lIA3IERTON. This calm, which had been appealed to the High Court of Delegates (against a decision of the Judge of this Court, rescinding the conclusion of the cause for the purpose of admitting an allegation on the part of the husband), and which was remitted to this court, came on to-day, on a questiOu respecting the admissibility of a further allegation, which s et forth additional circumstances indicative of continued adultery- between Mr. Bushe and Mrs. Hamerton, at. Paris. Some objections were made to the allegation on behalf of the wife; but the Judge admitted it. WORCESTER. SESSIONS, JuLY 15. QUICK WORK. Samuel Parker, aged 19, Richard Hades, aged 14, and Lawroice Harrison, aged 18, were charged with stealing a coat, waist coat, and pair of trousers, the property of J. Smith. On Sunday morning, about eight o'clock, the pro secutor was bathing in the Severn, at the upper end of Pitcheroft, near this city ; before he went into the water he noticed two of the prisoners at some dis tance, and on coming out his clothes were gone. He was supplied with a great coat by a person who came by, and made speedy application to our city police officer, Orchard, who ascertained that the three prisoners had gone towards Bronugrove. Smith set out in pursuit, and, calling to his aid King, the constable of Bromsgrove, succeeded in apprehending them on the Lickey, with the clothes in their possession. On the following day (Mon day) they were committed for trial; on Tuesday true bill was returned by the Grand Jury ; and this afternoon they took their trial. Harrison was acquitted; Parker and Hailes sentenced to seven years' transportation. AGRICULTURE. sequence rather Mgher. The quantity of InJig° paS l 4,. the sale is 3.078 chat& PRICES OF 110F8.—July 17. Kent Pockets — -fir 111. v. 7, to 81 Ole Sti!scx Ditto 61. 6 , 4; Jr,;. to 7!. 43. ESR9X Ditto Pt. 104. 71. Os: U; 11. 103." Farnham Ditto, I , ine Ol. Os. 9/. os. to 10/ 0 ‘; Seconds (11. Os. 7!. 10, to 9". 0 5 ' 51. 12s. 6!. (k. t o 71. 5!. Os. 5/. 154. to 6/. 5 4 . 5/ Kent .6t3g6— Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto . 10s. 61 Or. to Of. 15g. Old Duty laid at .£35,000. l'111CF: OF POTAT()Ea—JuIv 17. New Ware PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown Os. Refined -- fl 2 . , ", 10 f; Linseed Oil Cake at Mill, per thvt►rand PRICES OF LEATH Elt Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. d. 1 8 Rtitts.-.50 to 11) 20 'Fanned Horse Hides..., 16 Dit t 0 to 061 b..... 21 22 Sottish Ditto R2 bs. t Dresging I lides 1 t 17 Per dozen. 2# I Fine Coach I.lides 19 21 Calf Skins... 36 to 4tltb. IS 0 d,4, Clop Bides, :15 to .1616. 141 16 Ditto 50 to 70Ib. 23 Ditto-. t 5 to :sin) id IN Ditto 70 to SOlll. 21 a lif Ditto _ IS 20i Small Seals, Greenland 20 RAW I Per Stone. s.d. to 8. (1. !test licit.ursftiStecr,2 6 2 8 Aliddlings.„..2 0 2 4 Ell DES. Per Stone a. .1. to A. e Ordinary 8 2 Market 6 (teach:, W 001.,.. SKINS. 2s. al. to3s. Ot. I Shearlings...... Os. 01. to Os. 6I Lambs Is. to Is. Od. Wlll TECII Al' El. HAY MA 11K Or—July 16. • 1, II iy CO, 04. to 90s. O i l. I t lover 451. tM. to 10, 6 40s. Od. to 445. Od. PRICE OF TALLOW, SI Town TAllow. 4os. 0(1. Yellow `Os. Slap Ditto .38s. Od. Melted Stuff' 32s. 0.1. atto PRICE OF The price of Store Candles. in tl Candied, per doh. Bd. Od. to Os. Od. The Corn markets since ourlast,owitig toile heavy rains, have experienced a temporary re-animation.. - Boundary Moor A L 2‘ , A u t . A 6 l L A good deal of business was don e - MarlOane CO Monday at an advance of prices, which were main- Italywell— 28 0 y Tan6etd 0 tamed, though with less doing, on Wednesday and 1 .) TaLv t 0,r,t, , , , g ,----__ ",} 7 Thursday. The most disastrous rumours were in Perov East 26 3 circulation during the week relative to the injur which the Wheat crop has sustained from the pre- Wylain Y = 29 0 , 1 1 sence of a disease which has lately appea re d, ca ll e d ! M11 ,; 4 1 1 111r0wn'5,.....,. 2 the red•gum, and which, in some instances has de- Ditto Heaton 31 3 stroyed nearly half the ear. We were sh own seve - Ships at market, 27-- 111 1 ral instances of the ravages that had been committed on some ears of wheat just taken from very pronais- ing fields in Essex, near Ongar, and which, from I Per Quarter. the superadded causes of the recent heavy rains, and Ashburn '72 '76 1 the exposure of part , of the ear to a North- e a stern ! 5 , aspect, exhibited the most discouraging expectati on . W B lildgewater 78 so e have heard also of similar appearances in H er t- 7 4 fordshire, and in the neighbourhood of Horsham, in ; E erby 70 VI Sussex—but from all accounts that have yet a e l e reached as in more distant counties, pa i ti cu - au 79 larly in Suffolk; Norfolk, and Cambridgeshire, we 77 - arc willing to hope these appearances are confined Ilinigerford 55 82 to a few local cases. A good deal of Corn has been • 14 t e l t`r I tZ t i ( s 1 laid by the rains, but which (with a few excepti ons ) tteinme Y 55 73 731 are by no means in an irrecoverable condition. in stic a l r . t t‘Za bl ai;i7., 72 Scotland we regret to find the evil committed by t h e Sherborne 53 76 wheat-fly is alluded to with more confidence. From P e o" - Tir 7 7 ; 2 2 14. one writer we have a detailed account of the myriads 1 Sare sburw Per Ifalel. s. d. 5 11 .d. y 10 0 0 of small yellow flies which were seen in th e wheat fields more than three weeks ago. Through ou t th e = first day when wheat was observed to come into ear, the fly remained amongst the foliage near the ground; in the evenings it ascended to the ear, and always seemed to prefer those that had been newly de veloped, or only half out, to others more advanced, where eggs had been formerly laid—thus giving no single ear a chance of escaping. In the act of lay ing the eggs, says a Northern reporter, a trunk is ceoliuded from the anus, and is sufficiently long and pointed to reach the inflorescence within die glume, to which it is uniformly directed with un erring aim. When the eggs are laid, the trunk again collapses within the body. A gum accom panies the eggs, which are laid in regular clusters; the baleful influence of this gum seems to arrest the progress of the embryo grain which never unfold its anthers. The flies die in two or three days after depositing the eggs, and in ten or twelve days small caterpillars may be observed about the inflorescence. About half of every ear that has been examined, is represented to be thus infected, and thereby rendered unfit to increase or swell the grain. We shall shortly be enabled to put our readers in possession of the result of our personal observation and farther inquiries on the subject in some of the most exten sive corn counties, and trust our report will hold out a more favourable prospect to the hopes of the farmer. The hay crop, it is scarcely necessary to add, must prove miserably deficient throughout the island.—County Herald. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SunAtt.—The Sugar Market has been rather languid all the week, and to effect sales of large parcels rather lower prices have been submitted to, but generally the market cannot be stated at any variation; the request still continues limited, and the buyers only purchase fur their immediate wants. In the Refined market there is no change ; the supplies are inconsiderable, but fitly adequate to the languid demand. The prices are rather lower. FOR EIG N &ICA R. -The purchases by private contract arc extensive, 1000 chests white Havanna!' at an average of 455. ; 300 chests Brazil, principally 'nixed white Per nams, low to mid. sold at 30s. for the whole of the sound, 245. for the damaged, sound brown and yellow at 20. damaged at 17s. FAST INDIA SUGAR.-The purchases by private con tract are inconsiderable. This (lay at public sale 7,318 bags Mauritius ; the whole went off heavily, and at Is. a 2s. per cwt. lower than any preceding sale ; the quality of the Sugar was, however, very bad. COY FEE. -The 3,621 bags Havannah on Tueidat all sold at fi,li market prices, ord. mid. 435. 6(1., tine ord. 355. to 365., good ord. 335. to 345. There has been no other Foreign Coffee in the sales this week. Th British Plantation Coffee, of which considerable parcels have,been brought forward, has sold more freely, chiefly for export, at full market prices, except some parcels of fine ord., which are a shade lower. This day British Plantation Coffee sold at former prices ; 3,161 East India. Cel lon 325. 6d., Cheribon yellow 31s. 61 Coffee market firm. Rum, BRANDY, AND lIOLLANDS..-The Government contract for Rum was taken on Tuesday ; it is fir 100,000 gallons, and was taken at Is. gad. and Is. 94d.: the low rate at which the contract was taken had rather an (info, vourable effect on the market. The only purchases since we believe a parcel of proof Leewards, 260 puncheons, at 10d. ; Jamaica, 28 to 32 over proof, 2s. I id. a 3s. 2d. In Brandy and Geneva there is no alteration. FLAX, AND TALLow.-The Tallow market is rather higher, and there is apparently more demand. In • Flax or Hemp there is no material alteration. IRISH PROVISIONS.-Beef and Pork are w:thout varia tion. Butters aro still heavy. In Bacon there is no al teration. Beef, prime new India 61.55. per tierce ; prime new Mess 51. Ss. ditto; second tlusaiy Ness 4/. 10s. a 41. 17s. 6d. ditto Pork, prime new India 51. 17s. 611. per tierce ; prime new Mess, 50 pieces Si. lOs a 31. 12s. 6d. per barrel ; new Navy, 52 pieces 31. 12s. 6d. ditto; su perior selected Bacon Mess, 50 pieces Si. 7s. tid. a Si. 10s. ditto ; good Bacon Mess, 50 pieces, not warranted Si. a Si. 3s. ditto ; inferior 2/. 15s. a 2/. 17s. 6d. - - TOBACCO.—The only sale for export this week is a par cel of 111arylands, about 50 hhde. for Portupl. The pur chases for the home trade are inconsiderable. Sits. —The Silk trade remains in the most depressed state ; the prices are again giving way. TEa.—The Market has assumed a very lsnguid pearance, and there is hardly any thing inquired for. Corrox.—The Cotton Market is steady, but the sales are not extensive, the buyers waiting the event of the In dia Howe sale. Surat, purcha sid purchases this 4 —td. are 2o 3 N 3 e 0 w 13 ( 7:- ; 1. leans, 61d. ; 24.0 Egyptian, 6id. H oi . s ._The duty had fallen_to3mko,oo sioo/T.,,,Thha,,erpartilei‘e„ d s . of Hops had advanced m a te ri a l ly ; Sussex pockets to '7/ and ra i 71, 45., The estimated Ken tto7l. (lkiy 7st.;is the m to-day 320001. to 35,000/. Thei i e prices of Hops are a shade lower. i im ico.—The Indigo sale commencal on Tuesday Imo, and the prices were fine Bengal, from last sale prices to (id discount; the other qualities 3d. to 9d. discount ; a great proportion of the Madras taken in at 6d. discount on the last sale prices. Yesterday the market was also very dull till the Indigo belonging to the East India Company was put up. when there was a great revival in the demand, many foreigners having only inspected the latter, knowing 1 they would be peremptorily sold, and anticipating that the private trade would be taken in ; the prices were in con &c. per 1121b.--July 11. Yellow Soap, - - Mottled 1' Whit 82s. i. Graves Good 51. uw PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 8111.--July 17. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Meltcrs) 2s. 2d' CA NINLE.S. he retail shops, is as follows' I Moulds, per dozee .........9s, fe_:, ,Kl'.—July 17. W. E. Perkins and Co. 28.. 64 ' Ditto Northumberland 28 Ditto Peareth 2t' Ditto Russell's . 31 Lambton's Primrose 211 ,", Walls Fiul 32 Walls End Lambton „31 ' Walls End Stewart's —. Silk.tone Field and Co. 27 6 Dean's Primrose Trader 24 „ soki,ips 18 —Unsold. RN. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK, Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. rter. • ----. 72 76 26 32 42 1 ,", 5/ '75 29 19 25 40 —........ 56 8) .30 36 22 32 40 0 2; • --- '7B SO 32 • 40 20 28 40 --. fit 72 35 - 40 16 30 36 `",i 69 '72 26 32 40 '` 1' 56 '7B 31 37 20 31 4U 4 2 3 , ---- 10 80 25 30 .20 33 41 -- 60 79 30 38 23 29 41 ", 40 32 46 -- 62 '75 30 :-:14 26 so 36 11 ..•.....55 82 29 37 20 36 28 4‘ 3 45 SI 30 35 20 31 37 41 --. 55 78 32 33 25 30 42 4 ' 4 ., '79 28 let 74 t 8 38 43 28 38 30 f, ) , --. 68 76 39 40 22 30 40 —..— '72 88 38 40 .24 31 40 72 '76 39 40 28 - 30 42 4 `, 1 ) el. s. d. s. s. d. s. s. d. s. d. s. 100 110 56 6 2 6 3 7 6 0 0 v MARKETS. litr i ‘'re, xi, tie SCOTCH EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.-July 15 . Our supply to-day was beyond precedent the 'malle t tli*:s season. Wheat sold readily at 2s. advance on &b e top ; best 785., current from 614. to 765. Barley, na g presented. o,its, a middling supply, and sales brisk; be ° 80s., current 264. to 28s. Pease and 13eans a small Or ply, and prices Is. hie.her ; best 378., current 28s. to 3. 5° ' Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beata ; First ll3s Od l —S lid 3oc Od 37$ Od 37s Od Vecolid 76s Od Od 28s Od 35s 0,1 :3.s 0" TI 'Third ..., 7-1 s Ott ,—3 Od 2tis Od 30s (kl au Oki men OF Beef sect, rer lb. Os. Oil, to 05.74, illutton- 0 41 0 7 Veal.. 0 4 0 9 0 6 0 6 Lamb, per qr. I 6 3 0 Tallow, cwt.... 0 0 32 6 Onartern Loaf 0 10 0 11 Potatoes, 1711 b. 1 0 0 0 Fresh Butter, 11105.8,1. to s. 1 I" Salt „ 0 8 0 - Ditto, per ca t. 68 A '7O I,' Eggs, per doz. 0 0 0 ° OatStratv(kp'.) 7 0 0 0 Wheat I)itto... 8 0 0 u Barley Ditto —'7 0 '7 Hay, per at...... 0 A 0 EDINBURGH MEA We 114 d a large supply of which sold heavily at last we Per Sack of 280Ib. Imp. First Oatmeal £2 0 0 Second ditto 1 IS 0 Barleymeal 1 14 0 Pe.asemeal 1 10 0 Pot Carley—No. 1, per cwt. It. I. MA ItK.ET. —July 14. Oatmeal at to-day'a market , ek's price,. Per Stone of Illb. Imp. a First Oatmeal ........ £0 2 Second ditto Barleymeal.. ..... (1 1 ,- Peasemeal .-2tl. 165.-3 d. J Sc.—feat Ll*" GLASGOW MARKETS. (From the.Glargont Free Press of Wednesday.) SUGAR MARKET, JULY' 14.—Activity to any veil great extent has not succeeded as yet to the trampling' we have experienced for the last ten days. Yesterdsf and to-day the operations consist of 102 Jamaicai, • 5 Trinidad., 51 Tom;las, and 40 Demeraras—at low brown, up to 655. for good—and the market lio closed this afternoon very steody and firm. • CATTLE MARKET, J tux IS. —There Were.tWO hundfc a , head of cattle in this m orn i ng ' s market. There was a go" demand for the better sort of animals, and last weep prices were fully supported. From 9a. to 10s. pe r ston e was the current rate, and for prime lots 18/. to 20/. Ice freely given. There was a very I irge supply of lamb 6 ' amounting to 3,890. Pood animals were scarce ; th e greater portion brought forward being from the muirP The better description varied from Bs. to 1 Is. ; but :t number were sold at ss. and under. There were 2 8 ' sheep exhibited. Black-faced wedders brought from 0 1 ' to 30s. ; white-faced, 275. to 335. GLASGOW CORN MARKET.—JuIy 15. Our market is steady, and prices are about the sam e • as those of last week. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. g. d. I Oats, per 1.641 b. I. d. 14 1; British, Old 33 oto 111. 0 1 Irish lB 9t02 , 0 new Canada, free , 34-0 35 0 Beans, per 2601 b. .... a !risk ..... .- 0 0 Barley, per 3201 b. .i • Scottish English 0 1— 0 I.e ease, Scottish ... 17 0 ju 0 Scottish 2B 0 30 0 . Oatmeal , per 1101 b. 18 0 1 0 Irish 26 0 27 0 FlOur, per 2801 b..... 54 0 5: , --- On Thursday the 9th inst. about six o 'doel 4 in the afternoon, tha branch banking-office of Messrs. fj and C. F. FosTax, at St. Neots, was burglariously were' . and robbed of about 5,0001. value, chiefly in their - O' ° local notes. The thieves were seen when coming - from the premises with the property. The numbers of the stolen notes have been communicated to the Bank of hg laud and the various county banks.— Cambridge . Cl u cus.i LUCK.-00 Saturday last, BENJ. COOK, 0' Collingbans, owner of a coal-boat, anchored off Hazlefor e Ferry for th:, night : in the worning he was agreeabl a l surprised to find his vessel had b ee n bo ar d e d a t the ir hatches by a beautiful Trent salmon, weighing ne arlY 121hs. which had leaped in during the night. -On arri' fr ing at Newark he sold it,Lincoln Mercury. BIRTHS. Lotely at Whippingham Rectory, Isle of Wight, the 1. 011 of the Rev. J. D. Ward, of a daughter. On the 16th inst. at Tibbertoo-court, near Gloucester' Mrs. E. W. Sbewell, of a son. MARRIED. • On the 16th inst. at Streatham, Jens Wolff, of Bo l ' ham, to Miss Susannah Tovey. . . On the 15th inst. at Hythe, John Kidd, FAq. 4.1%, r Sophia Matilda, the only (laughter of G. V. o ug htoPf Esq. R.N. On the 16th i ns t. at t h e F r i ends ' Meeting-hope, Toe tenham, Alfred Waterhouse, of to Mary 13err i daughter of P. Bevan, of Tottenham. On the 16th inst., at Kennington, John Sbepliard,FAt of Kensington -square, to H arr i e tt e St rac h ey , t h e thin ° daughter of Thos, Harper, Esq. of Kennington, and.lo il of Hampshire. On the 16th inst. at Speldhurst, Mr. T. Humphr4' to Mary Dorothea, eldest daughter of the late M. Sa Esq. of Tunbridge. DIED. On the 14th inst. at Clifton, Mrs. Elizabeth Neale, her 77th year. On the 16th i ns t. i n U pper M ontagu -street, in her 1 5th I year, Eeanor, the y oungest d aug h ter of Major-General APLean. On the 14th inst. at Coierton-hall, in her '73d ye rt Lady 13,atonont, the widow of the hate Sir George Bea d ' mont, Bart. On the 16th inst. Emanuel Allen, Esq. of Carlisle' Atreet, Sohe-xinare, aged 67. On the 16th inst. in Spenccr-street, NorthampWi r square, after a lingering illness, which she bore with ►!nf gular fortitude, Miss Eliza Lingard, young' st daughter ° Mr. John Lingard. On the 17th inst. at Mr. W. Hones, Newington-o' o i ° ' Mrs. S. Jultn:;O:i, aged 75. _ - PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, at th l OmcE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. o'