The Sun. — London, England, 1829-10-24 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). COVENT -GAR] There was a good supply a the trade was dull. No mat of Fruit or Vegetables since I s. d. s. d. ,Cabbages t (12 heads)... 0 9 to 2 0 uitto ..... ..... 1 6 3 6 Potatoes (cwt.) .. ... 3 0 6 0 bkorse R adish(but;dle) 2 0 3 6 rocoli ..... .............. 0 8 1 6 Celery Carrots (12 burrehes ) .. 2 6 5 0 Turnips ................... 0 9 1 9 13 niona .... . 10 2 0 LColeworts or tireens... 1 0 1 9 Peeks ............... ..... 0 9 1 0 eaches (pumrnet) 3 6 7 0 Nectarines . .. 2 6 5 0 Idererries (b . u;tiel).. 2 0 3 0 Hazlenuts ....... Eng. Grapes (per ;b.)... 0 6 1 4 EN MARKET. it this morning's market, but erial alteration in the prices this day se'nnight. s. d. s. d. Spinage (half-sieve) 0 6 too 9 Apples 1 0 4 0 Pears 2 0 5 0 Common Plums 1 0 3 0 Damsons 2 0 3 0 Bullace 1 0 3 0 Onions for pickling) 3 0 4 0 Seville Oranges (100) 8 0 16 0 Lemons 6 6 14 0 English Walnuts 0 6 1 4 Span. Chesnuts (peck) 5 0 10 0 French ditto Spanish Hazlenuts 5 0 10 0 French Walnuts 4 0 6 0 Picked Elderberries 1 6 2 6 Filberts (121 b.) 3 0 6 0 MAY MARKETS. —(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) ST. JAMES'S. •S ta rse heav y Lowland Meadow Hay £2 8 to £3 0 New Meadow Hay 2lB 318 Useful Old Ditto 3 3 315 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay Clo ver Hay lO 3 IS 4 15 Oat ttr av 3 5 5 ....X1 18 to £2 0 f Wheat Straw 2 2 2 5 Su pply good, t ra d e very dull, and prices as last quoted. ,_Coarse h eav SMITHFIELD. y Lowland Meadow Hay £2 8 to £3 0 New Meadow Hay 2 0 3 5 Useful Old Ditto 3 7 311 ne Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 314 410 Llover klaextra fine).....£5 10... Generally Oat Straw y.... Z 1 16 to .£ 1181 A limite d supply, and a somewhat brisk trade; prices as last (Noted.. SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Oct. 21. We had a m id dl i ng supply of Wheat to-day, whic h old readily; one sample of Old, for seed, at 84s. ; top 788 -, current from 48s. to 765. A large supply of Bar ley, and 2s. down ; best 385., current from 30s. to 365. A full supply of Oats, sales dull ; best 28s. 10d., current from 225. to 275. A middling supply of Pease and Beans, best 425., current, from 355. to 40s. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beaus. Fir co st ... ".. 78s Od 33s Od 28 s 9d 42s Od 42s (Id 2e,,hltd nd... 76s Od 36 e Od 27s lid 40s Od 40s Od .... 42s Od 30s Od 22s Od 35s Od 33s Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, £c. +mutton C e `a per lb. "" Os 31d. to OS 6d Fresh Butter, lb.os.Rd. to s. I Id. V eal — • 3" _ 6 ••••••• 0 . Salt Ditto 0 7 0 8 040 8 , Ditto per c' t. 56 0 66 0 t an , 1 0 00 b, " 0 0 ( 2 ) agtrat e p v r ( doz. lqi.) 6 0 0 0 +allow, cwt..,32 6 33 0 Wheat Ditto — 6 6 8 0 Ruartern Lo af 0 9 011 Barley Ditto 0 0 6 6 17 1 l b• 0 4 0 0 Hay, per 0 6 0 8 EDINBURGH MEA 'We had a small supply of *hick sold rather heavily at Per Sack of2Bolb.lmp. icPit Oatmeal ....... X 2 0 0 ed ditto ....... l I S ° ymal.. .............. 114 0 ressemeal ......... .:.. . .... 1 10 0 Pot l_ — N o • • l, 1, per cwt. 14, L MARKET. —Oct. 20. Oatmeal at to-day's market, last week's prices. Per Stone of 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £0 2 2 Second ditto Barlenneal 0 1 10 Peasemeal s.-2d, 165.-3 d. 18s.—Pcail 225. ~, • G LASGOW CORN our market continues ve Barley are 2s. to Si., Oats fr Is. t' 2s. per bon lower. Wheat, per 2101 b, s. d. s. d. Oats, per ',ann. S. d. ariFsh, old ......... 33 0t035 6 Irish l7 otolB 0 ~, - --I - --- new ...... 25 0 30 0 British l9 0 20 0 tanada, free ........ 3.5 036 0 Beans, 2601 b per . 1 ,,_ . ........ —0 0 tun .... ............ 24 0 27 0 I English B arleY, Per 3201 b. Scottish .c.n., glish .... —. 0 0 Pease, Scottish ~eottish .... .."........ 29 0 30 0 Oatmeal, per 1101 b lB 0 20 0 -fi1h '....... .. .. ................ 26 0 29 0 Flour, per 2801 n 5O 0 52 0 MARKET.—Oct. 21. n-y dull. New Wheat and illy Is., and Beans and Pease PENNY-A-LINE HOAX. ti co rrespondent has called our attention to an im 139sition which was practised on us and on one or reo of our contemporar i es, a few days ago, by a al porter, whose name we d o no t now p u bli s h,* ou gh perh a p s we are unw i se l y l en i ent i n sup . of Pressin g it. Thi s person, w h o b e l ongs to t h at c l ass caterers for the public press from which we re ceive things very suspiciously and sparingly, suc ceeded in the p resent i nstance i n i mpos i ng on us h t i nd efly using to a j udicious contrivance, by which u us to believe that the story had at least the merit of a foundation. We allude to an account of a n elopement in the neighbourhood of Oxford• l tr eet, in which the p art i es were sa i d to be a young ady and a grey-h ea d e d se d ucer. " We now find hat the account as it was sent to us, with the mere C hange o f locality, was copied from the News Sun ,l4Y Paper of S e pt em b er 1 3, 1807. The best of t he joke is, that in order to avoid what might appear i bellous we modified the account, as will be seen on r. , nr oParin g t h e orig i na l w i th what appeared in the lo be• The reporter, however, had no such scruples, , ec n a uße he k new t h at he was proceeding on sure h' r"da t The foll ow i ng i s t h e art i c l e w hi c h ap '"red in th e N ews more than 22 years ago : t e : 1 : °l3. W ednesday, about one o'clock, a considerable . ce„ eras collected in Charles-street, Hatton-garden, in c'equene, of the rescue of a young runaway female from the arrnS of an old noted seducer. The circumstances of 11;•„ e* " , as far as they could be collected, are as follow : ,1 1 g r ey' headed seducer, being lately liberated from uranre vile,' where he was confined on charges of a tik,-7,ntable nature, had immediately insinuated himself so Yet -" t he good graces of this young lady, who has not ‘vedcnortnpleted her seventeenth year, that she eloped on e N) e , tab s i d eY morning from her parents' house, whoare ther peo ple, in Ely-place, but not without taking :Icni;,e4r\Y pr ec aution (confessedly under the direction of her of 300rii a bstracting from her father's coffers the sum 114:4" Two young men (her brothers), suspecting her 11' ialtnediately pursued her while the scent was yet f la - _, rl d, coinin g up with a hackney-coach, where the lovely t 4 n a"res were suspected to be sitting at their ease, at the fi ord "of C harles -street, Hatton-garden, the ungracious stop' was loudly pronounced ; and the unwilling ; 1 1: one was dragged out of the vehicle, and carried to a honey of secu rity. Two hundred pounds of the stolen were found on the lady, but the remaining one 414_,rldrsCd pounds were missing, 'for the recovery of which, itl q the previous seduction, an action is to be comi , nente the Court of King's Bench against the seciticer.' [* As we have been imposed a c ti , upon by the same %lutiat we copy the exposure of the trick by our t o Nne "Vorary, and as we do not participate in the s t ns delicacy toward s t h e impostor, we publish the b ri le sub scr ib e d to the copy sent us—which is J. th e4ll . It is inj ust i ce to the innocent to suppress the h• of the guilty.—ED. SUN.J TOMB , ----- j i lt lONIB OF JULIET.--I Went to see the ti" v h O f JULIET, about a quarter of a mile from the town '1( theer"a• It is formed out of a trough of solid granite, 0,,i. coarsest description, and of a reddish colour, re .l'Culing that which in England is called Pudding. stone. I::t°°th was formerly shown in the garden of the con itit. ill W hich it is now placed ; but the exposure having tf it thermore open to spoliation (and an actual robbery ttq l : vei,. of the stone having . taken place), it was t here it fro the garden within the walls of , th t e ai c n o a nv m en a t n , %ix feet li'•'"1 rests. It is large enough to cc tb i 1g , h ,,. T he cemetery in which it was heretofore P44 t 'ed is ,t b-- ' a tb an appl;-tree, and is now filled with th,, i e b t and used only as a garden well. After . viewing the , o tr t'e were c onducted to the house in • which JULIET s li il entB l it e& It is a lofty and ancient edifice, with mul ';hei"d balust rades-41 1e latter fast mouldering to decay. mild t°wecl'Q " Part of thi s e di f i ce i s now occupied by a saddler, D UB P r ink) piano," or fi rst fl oor , b y a h atter . 11 4 c oln L INT, OCT. 20.--Captain BYNG, son 'o - f tti oned Cider of the Forces in Ireland, has been sum f ~ to Co "r• 4, ]legs -street Police-office,. at. the instance o 4for an ° lt , a respectable physician, residing in this city, o.4sault) alleg e d to have been committed under the ktiiieviti°E; circumstances :---On Sunday a cabriolet, ein in . to t , W.cre Captain and Lady AGNEs BvNG, happ th e fa 14 collision in Merrion-row with a car, in whichf tvijicTililY Of Dr. JACOB Were driving; in consequence . o 14 4 ; 4 Pie car suffered some injury. Dr. JACOB iir ti e- le i toi let Y J4 ° l Ped out and followed the cabriolet, one of the l k , tle tr which he seized by the bridle, demanding, at i t4 Ptai,, ne t° know the name of the gentleman who drove. o llt --- BYNG desired the Doctor to let go the reins ; Ita tne " t he latter refused to do so until he ascertained the of the I%,llstain BTNG applied the whip to the shoulders t.w t4hri_, octor, who spe e dil y ga ve op the reins, and , 1 1 ipi)e:tet proceeded. Doctor JACOB, with his brut ie , t fto lla .." t his day at College.street, and obtained a soin t t ,, it ~or the attendance of Captain BYNG to-morrow a 0 clo c k . tt t,' T I , l tit. -' ' IRON TItADE.—At the meeting last ire: `per of the Ironmasters in Staffordshire, the prices of it,34 ere again reduced. Bar iron 10s. per ton, and pig ftx. tt • The following are the prices which these articles lo t , obt a i n in Staffordshire. In Wales they' are still tli t ,„ er ' ilar iron' I - v N.. 4!. per ton ; pig iron, 61. Owing to 1-. i 'ulster* immediatelY to,,_ "oos prices, it is the intention of several of the !ft jouruai, to put out their furnaces.--Salo- UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, OCT. 23.---:On Thursday last the Rev. George Riggs, M.A. of Queen's College, was no minated a Public Examiner in Disciplinis Mathema ticis et Physicis. On the same day the following Degrees were con ferred : MASTERS OF ARTS.-William Cripps, Trinity; Rev. Thomas Harding, and the Rev. John Harding, Worcester; Rev. Thomas Clarke, Pembroke; Rev. Cyrill William Page, Student of Christ Church ; William John Blake, Christ Church; Rev. Thomas Wotton Barlow, Wadham; Rev. Thomas Arthur Powys,lFellow of St. John's ; Rev. T somas Lagden Ramsden, St. John's; Thomas Walpole, B Jliol. BACHELORS OF ARTS.-William Frederick Radclyffe, Queen's ; John Richardson, Scholar of Queen's ; George Pigott, Trinity; Moses Mitchell, and William Rawlings, Magdalen Hail ; Charles Childers, Christ Church ; Geo, Andrew Jacob, Scholar of Worcester. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Francis S. Newbold, M.A. Rector of Stickney, Lincolnshire, and late Fellow and Tutor of Brazenose College, in this University, to the Head Mastership of Macclesfield Free Grammar School. The Rev. E. Berens, Vicar of Schrivenham, Becks, to the Prebendal Stall in Salisbury Cathe dral, void by the death of the Rev. J. Guard. The Rev. J. Carver, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to the Chaplaincy of the London Lying in-Hospital. The . Very Rev. Dr. Foran is appointed Vicar Cajaitular of the diocese of Waterford. The Rev. J. Shillibeer, M.A. to the Rectory 01 Wadenhoe, Northamptonshire. Amongst the private instructions to me (says DE BOURIENNE in his Memoir) by BUONAPARTE was the following rather singular order :—" At night," said he, " you will enter my bed chamber as seldom as possible. Never awaken me when you have good news to announce. With good news there is no necessity to hurry When, on the contrary, you are the depository of evil tidings, arouse rue instantly; for on such occasions there is not a moment to be lost." PRICES OF ADMISSION TO THE OLD THEATRES.--In the reign of CHARLES I. and 11., there were six playhouses allowed to be opened at one time in London, viz. at Blackfriars, for the KING'S company ; the Globe, on the Bankside; the Bull, in St. John-street; one in Salisbury-court; and the Fortune and the Cock pit, in Drury-lane. The prices paid at some of these Theatres were low. It was fashionable for the more gay gallants to sit upon the stage on stools, and these paid as much as a shilling for their distinguished places. This was the highest price, and the same was'also the price of a best box, which was called a room. There was a time, too, when the pit and galleries paid only a penny. The admission to the Globe, in SHAESPEARE'S time (about 1603), was one shilling to the boxes, and sixpence to the pit, and a twopenny gallery is mentioned in the Prologue to BEAUMONT and FLETCHER'S Woman Hater. Seats of threepence and a groat are also mentioned ; and after wards to some of the houses the prices were from 6d. to 2s. 6d. BEN JONSON speaks of " sixpenny mechanics sitting in the oblique caves and wedges of the house." The immense deck of that beautiful vessel, the Perseverance, lately arrived from Sierra Leone, has but three lengths of plank, with superior workmanship, and being fastened with the round-head copper nails, has a fine effect. She is pierced for sixteen gulls, and has a space of twelve feet between the ports; her armament is 12-pound chambered grenades, with the exception of two long 12, and two long 9-pounders. The binnacle, which is hand somely constructed, is of solid brass. She has two cabins, separated by folding-doors ; the cabin decks are without perceptible seams; the pillars and pannels are of satin wood, with handsome ornamental and novel arm stands of black ebony, fitted with corresponding arms, and superior to any thing of the kind we have before seen. She is about three years old, and it is evident that no expense has been spared in her whole construction, as she is coppered high, and copper-fastened ; it is said that the owner, Mr. BROCK INTON, intends to sell her, if so, the Members of the Royal Yacht C!ub ought not toadmit so admirable a vessel to fall into other hands.—Plymouth Journal. THZ INDIGO SALE.—Since the commence ment of the East India Company's sale of Indigo, on Wed nesday, more buyers have come forward ; and yesterday afternoon the biddings were spirited. Up to the conclu sion of yesterday's sale, 5,365 chests have passed, and 830 chests have been,withdrawn ; and there remaining only , 1,l 64. chests to be: offered, the whole declaration is ex pected to be got through by Tuesday. About 350 chests of Oude, put up yesterday, sold on moderate terms. Some Madras were bought in at full prices. Although the ac counts are favourable respecting the Indigo crop, the bid dines in the last three days have been free. The holders of Bengal Indigo have, in some instances, realized higher prices than the Company's marks. The quotations are— Bengal, Purple and Violet, 7s. to 7s. 6d. ; good and fine Violet, 6s. to 7s. ; ordinary and midd ling, ss. to 65.; Violet and Copper, 4s. 9d. to ss. 9d. ; consuming qua lities, 3s. to ss. 6d. per lb.—Madras, ordinary to good, ls. 10d. to 4s. sd.—Manilla, very ordinary to good, sd. to 3s. 3d.—Oude, ordinary and middling, Is. 3d. to Ss. 3d. ; fine and good, 3s. 6d. to ss. per lb. STATE OF BARNSLEY.—Wednesday even ing, eight o'clock.-Last Thursday evening a gun was fired before the house of a weaver, named BRADSHAW, residing in Wilson ' s-piece, the contents from which passed through the window shutters, and slightly injured his wife, who would probably have been killed had not the slug been nearly spent in going through the shutter. No fur ther outrage has since been committed, owing chiefly to the vigilance of the police. A considerable quantity of work has been given out at the reduced wages during the week, and the quantity is weekly increasing, although the opposition is not at present formally relinquished. Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the Rev. Dr. CORBF.TT, the Hon. J. S. WORTLEY, M.P., together with .1. S. STANHOPE and Joszen BECKETT, Esqrs., have attended at the public office to-day, but there has been no public business of more than ordinary interest. After the Magistrates left the public-office they met the principal inhabitants of the town at the White Bear inn, in order to ascertain in what state the police was at present, so as to enable them to answer an application from Mr. Secretary PEEL, who had re quested to know whether or not the police establishment was equal to the necessities of the town, and sufficient to co-operate with the military force now stationed there. It appeared from the statement of Messrs. JosEnt CLARK, CHARLES TEE, W. C. MENCE, GEORGE KIER, and several other gentlemen, that the police had been made as efficient as was possible, and that every exertion was used to prevent riots, as well as to bring to justice all of fenders.-Leeds Paper. SUDDEN D EA TH.—Yesterday evening, about half-past six o'clock, a man, about 40 years of age, sud denly dropped down dead in Hatton-garden, neatly oppo site to Mr. HARMER's, the solicitor. The unfortunate man was immediately taken to the Globe public-house, at the corner of Charles-street, and Mr. SHEPHERD, the surgeon, was instantly sent for. Mr. BARTEL LOT, over seer of St. Andrew's, Holborn, was promptly in attend ance, and the body was subsequently removed in a shell to the workhouse of St. Andrew's parish, to await the Coroner's inquest. Information was afterwards received that the unfortunate man's name was SKI NNER., residing a t Thomas-street, Lambeth, by trade a carpenter. Last night, at nine o'clock, an inquisition was taken at the King's Head Tavern, Peter-street, Westmin ster, before THOMAS HIGGS, Esq., on the body of Mr. JOHN FINNEY, aged 38, an eminent urmleller, of Addin street, Marylebone, who put a period to his existence by throwing himself out of a window last Sunday morning, in a fit of delirium, whereby he received the injuries which terminated in death o❑ Thursday. The Jury returned a verdict " that the deceased committed suicide, being in a state of temporary derangement." It was statd on the inquest that the deceased had been employed on the mo delling work of the new Palace at Pimlico, and was con sidered a very ingenious man in his profession• The stealing of horses has of late become very prevalent in the neighbourhood of the metropolis. Within the last week, information has been received at the pub lic-office, Hatton-garden, of no less than seven horses being stolen, viz., two from near Tenterden, in Kent ; two very valuable mares from Coningham-hall, Essex ; two from a field near Finchley church ; and one from a field near Cambridge. It is supposed that there is a regu larly organized gang of horse-stealers infesting the neigh bouring counties of the metropolis, and that their plan is to transfer the stolen homses from one distant part of Eng land to another, using the precaution of travelling with them as fat as possible during the night, and resting at some obscure place during the day-time. In most cases the horses stolen are so altered by docking, trimming, &c. that they rarely answer the description given of them by their owners. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT, At the Court at Windsor, th e I•>th day of October, 1829 PRESENT, The King's Most Excellent Maj-sty in Council. Whereas by an Act, passed in the sixth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled " An Act to regu late the trade of the British possessions abroad," the several sorts of goods enumereed or ilescribel in a rertsin table therein contained, denominated "a Table of Prohibitions and Restrictions," are either prohibited to be imported or brought, either by sea or by land carriage or navigation, into the British possessions in America or into the Island of Mauritius, or are permitted to be imported or brought into those possessions under the restriction made in such table; and in and by the said Act provision is made re specting the manner in which vessels and goods shall he entered anti cleared inwards and outwards in the British possessions in America, and in the said Island of Mauritius; and for the prevention of smuggling in the said British possessions in America, and in the said Island of Mauritius; and whereas by an Act, passed in the seventh year of his Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act to alter and amend the several laws relating to the Customs ;" and by an Act, passed in the seventh and eighth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act amend the laws re. Laing to the Customs ;" and by an Act passed in the ninth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act to amend the laws relating to the Customs ;" and by an Act, passed in the tenth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled "An Act to amend the laws relating to the Customs ;" the before mentioned provisions of the Act, so passed in the sixth year of his Majesty's reign, havebeen altered and amended : and whereas by the said Act, so passed in the sixth year of his Majesty's reign, it is, amongst other things, enacted, that it shall be lawful for his Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, by any order or orders in Council to be issued from time to time, to give such directions and make such regulations, touching the trade and commerce to and from any British possessions on or near the Conti nent of Europe, or within the Mediterranean Sea, or in Africa, or within the limits of the East India Com pany's Charter (excepting the possessions of the said Company), as to his Majesty in Council shall appear most expedient and salutary ; and that if any goods shall be imported or exported in any mariner con trary to any such order of his Majesty in Coun cil, the same shall be forfeited, together with the ship importing or exporting the same; his Majesty (loth therefore, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested as aforesaid in him in and by the said Act, so passed as aforesaid in the sixth year of his reign, order, and it is hereby ordered, that so much of the said Act, so passed as aforesaid in the sixth year of his Majesty's reign; and so much of the said several Acts of Parliament, so passed as aforesaid in the seventh, and in the seventh and eighth, and in the ninth, and in the tenth years of his Majesty's reign, as impose prohibitions and restrictions on the im portation of goods into the British possessions in America, and the Island of Mauritius ; and as relate to the entry of vessels and goods inwards and outwards in those possessions and the Island aforesaid ; and to the prevention of smug gling there; shall be, and the same are hereby, extended and made applicable to his Majesty's settlements at Sierra Leone, and all other his Majesty's settlements on the Western Coast of Africa. And the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary directions herein accordingly. JAMES BULLER. Whitehall, Oct. 21, 1829. The King has been pleased to present the Reverend Charles Boothby. B.A. to the Vicarage of Sutterton, in the county and diocese of Lincoln, void by the cession of the said Charles Boothby. . Whitehall, Oct. 1. The King has been pleased to give and grant unto Samuel Scholefield, of the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the county of the same town, gentleman, his Majesty's royal licence and authority, that he and his issue may take and use his maternal surname of Lightfoot only, in com pliance with an injunction contained in the last will and testament of Samuel Martin, heretofore of Kingston-upon- Hull aforesaid, but late of Sculcoates, in the said county of York, attorney-at-law, deceased, bearing date the 23d April, 1829. And also to order, that the said royal concession and de. claration be recorded in his Majesty's College of Arms. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Alexander Mackintosh, Conduit-street, merchant. Robert Thomas, Liverpool, ship.broker. Joseph Ardern, Weaverham, Cheshire, farmer. BANKRUPTS. George Henry Trinahey, James George Lewis Trim bey, and George David Trimbey, Watling-street, mer chants, to surrender Oct. 27, at eleven, Nov. 3, and Dec. 4, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Croft and Johnson, Bedford-row. John Crisp, Idol-lane, Great Tower-street, wine-mer chant, Oct. 27, at eleven, Nov. 6, and Dec, 4, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Bousfield, Chatham place, Blackfriars. George Eyre, Coventry, ribbon-manufacturer, Oct. 29, at three, 30, at ten, and Dec. 4, at twelve, at the King's Head, Coventry. Austen and Hobson, Gray's Inn, Lon don ; Troughton and Lee, Coventry. George Chappel, Holborn-bridge, hat-maker, Oct. 30, Nov. 6, and Dec. 4, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioner. Rochford, Borough-road. Thomas Lewsey, Great I3urstead, Essex, farmer, Oct. 30, Nov. 10, at three, and Dec. 4, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Bigg, Southampton-buildings, Chan cery-lane. Joh❑ and George Andrews, Bread-street, Cheapside, Blackwell-hall-factors, Oct. 27, at eleven, Nov. 6, and Dec. 4, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Richard son, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside. Robert Wiss, Fleet-street, patent portable water-closet manufacturer, Oct. 27, at eleven, Nov. 6, and Dec. t, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Pontifex, St. Andrew's-court, Holborn. John Swan, Northleach, Gloucestershire, draper, Oct. 30, at twelve, Nov. 6, at eleven, and Dec. 4, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Osbaldeston and Murray, London-street, Fenchurch-street. John Hutchison, Liverpool, merchant, Nov. 4,5, and Dec. 4, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lane, London. William Abbott, Aldersgate-street, coal-merchant, Oct. 27, at three, Nov. 6, and Dec. 4, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Holmes, Liverpool-street, Broad-street. Thomas Cheetham, Heaton Norris, Lancashire, cotton spinner, Nov. 9, 10, at two, and Dec. 4, at nine, at the Star Inn, Alanchester. Hurd and Johnson, Temple, Lou don ; Seddon, Manchester. Thomas Wheeler, Hereford, corn-dealer, Nov. 12, 13, and Dec. 4, at eleven, at the Green Dragon Inn, Here ford. Underwood and Evans, Ilereord ; Bodenham, Fur. nival's Inn. DIVIDENDS. J. Whittaker, St. Paul's Church-yard, music -seller, Nov. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—W. Harvey (deceased ), Lamb's Conduit-place, money-scrivener, Nov. 20, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—Fl. Houghton, King's Arms-yard, Coleman-street, merchant, Nov. 13, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—E. Archer, Wood-street, Cheapside, warehouseman, Nov. 3, at two, at the Court of Commissioners—G. F. Palen, Goswell-street, rope-manufacturer, Nov. 13, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—R. Rowe, Haymarket, St. James's, job-master, Nov. 13, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Shackle, Milk-street, Cheapside, hosier, Nov. 13, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners— G. Sharp, sen., Threadneedle -street, merchant, Nov. 10, at one, at the Court of Commissioners—H. Briscoe, Denton, Lancashire, shop-keeper, Nov. 16, at ten, at the Star Inn, Manchester—N. Aspinall, Liverpool, soap boiler, Nov. 13, at two, at the Office of Mr. T. Daven port, Liverpool—P. Tanner, Manchester, publican, Nov. 14, at eleven, at the Star Inn, Manchester—J. Thompson, Nicholas-lane, tailor, Dec. 1, at ten, at the Court of Com missioners—G. Lind, Liverpool-street, Battle-bridge, mer chant, Dec. 1, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners— T. Blagbrough, Keighley, Yorkshire, linen-draper, Nov. 14, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Addinghatn—J. Hop kinson, Loughborough, Leicestershire, liquor-merchant, Nov. 17, at eleven, at the King's Head Inn, Lough borough—lt. N. Larke, Brooke, Norfolk, surgeon, Nov. 14, at twelve, at the Angel Inn, Norwich—W. F. Brad bridge, Liverpool, linen-draper, Nov. 16, at twelve, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. CERTIFICATES —Nov. 13. J. Holland, Tipton, Staffordshire, victualler—J. But cher, jun. Coal Exchange, Lower Thames -street, coal fatter—S. Herapath, Oat-lane, Wood-street, hat-manu facturer—J. Green, Manchester, Lancashire, cotton-ma nufacturer—H. English, Bath, cabinet-maker—J. Saun ders, Epsom, Surrey, coach -master—G. Duckworth, Fleet-street, printer—T. Martin, Croydon, Surrey, linen draper. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Young, W. A. Young, and J. G. Young, Rio Ja neiro—T. Shiras, J. Firth, and J. Bradley, Almondbury, Yorkshire, millwrights—J. T. Rigbye and W. H. Bald win, Liverpool, Harrock, Lancashire —J. and J. Wagner, Piccadilly, tailors—E. Langridge and H. Gander, 130- rough, yeast, and J. Wilks, Kingston-upon flax-broLts—(;. Smoirson and J. M. Simpson, New Sarum, surgeon:—W. Street, G. Cooper, E. W. Smith, and E. Cooper, Weir Mills, Exeter, paper-makers—W. Pearson, R. Pacry, and W. Bong, Glasgow and Rio Ja neiro, merchants—J. Elrick and A. Borthwick, Perth, clothiers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION, Robot Young Anderson, Edinburgl,, banker, Oct. 223, and Nov. 18, at twelve, at the Royal Exchange Coffee house, Edinburgh. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Marquis of Bute, at his house in Charles-street, Berkeley square, from his seat, Sutton, Bedfordshire; the Earl of Hard wick, at his seat, Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, from a tour; the Dowager Marchioness of Downshire, and Lady Mary Hill, at their seat at Roehampton, from Brighton ; General le Mar quis d'Harcourt, at Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle street, from St. Leonard's ; J. Robinson, Esq. at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, from Dorsetshire ; T. Wilson, Esq. at ditto, from Wiltshire; Captain Bryan, at ditto, from Brigh ton ; the Marquis and Marchioness Bowrbel, at Mivart's Hotel, Lower Brook and Davies-streets, from Normandy; the Earl of Radnor, at ditto, from his seat, Longford Castle, Wilts; the Rev. Lord Bayning, at ditto, from Lincolnshire; Viscount Downe, at his seat, Cowick Hall, Yorkshire, from a tour; Os.. good Gee, Esq. and Mrs. Gee, at Marshal Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish-square, from Essex ; Charles Winn, Esq. Mrs. Winn, and family, at ditto, from Nostel Priory, Yorkshire; Nathaniel Strickland, Esq. at ditto; T. G. Corbet, Esq. at ditto; J. 0. Fairlie, Esq. at ditto; Captain Robert Lindsay, at ditto. DEPARTURES. The Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, for their seat, West Hill, Surrey; Lord and Lady Arundel, at Miyart's Hotel Lower Brook and Davies-streets, for the Duke of Buckingham's seat, Avington, Hants ; Colonel and Mrs. Hope, from ditto, for the Continent; St. George Caulfield, Esq. from ditto, for Paris; L. Nayrne, Esq. from Morley's Hotel, Cockspur-street, on a tour; W. F. Macdonald, Esq. from ditto, for Paris ; Lady Eli. zabeth Inge and Captain Inge, from Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook.street, for Staffordshire; B. Johnson, Esq. from ditto, for Oxfordshire; Captain Barclay, from ditto; Captain Harcourt, from Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle street, for St. Leonard's; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd, from the British Hotel, Jer. myn-street, for their seat in Leicestershire; L. NV. Maltby, Esq. from ditto, for Ireland ; John Fitzgerald, Esq. M.P., Peter Fitz. gerald, Esq. and the Misses Fitzgerald, from Marshal Thomp. son's Hotel, Cavendish-square ; Mrs. Pencel and Miss Pence], from ditto. The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE dined with the'Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND on Thurs day, at their residence at Kew. The Russian Ambassa dor and the Princess LIEVEN, and a select party of the nobility and gentry, were present to meet their Royal Highnesses. The band of the Royal Horse Guards was in attendance during the evening, and performed several pieces for the gratification of the party. Prince LEOPOLD has arrived at Paris. The Duke of CUMBERLAND came to town yesterday morning from his residence at Kew. His Royal Highness left his residence in the King's Palace, St. James's, in the afternoon, on his return to Kew. The Spanish Minister had an interview with SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NOTTINGHAM MEETING. TUESnAY, Our. 20.—A Sweepstakes of 30 guineas each, Once round and a distance. Mr. Charlton's ch f by Magistrate Mr. Yates's Douglas The Macaroni Stakes of 20 guineas each, h. ft. ; rode by Gentlemen. Twice round. Mr. T. Houldsworth's Terror A Maiden Plate of 60 sovs. given by the Members for Nottingham, for all ages. Heats, two miles. Mr. Walker's Cadwal Mr. Fisher's Goldpin Mr. Clarke's hr fby Magistrate Lord Scarborough's bg by Tramp Mr. Houldsworth's Uncle John ...... 2 fell WEDNESDAY.—The Sherwood Stakes of 30 guineas each, h. ft. for 3-yr-olds. Once round and a distance. Mr. T. Houldsworth's Durham Mr. Platel's Jule A Sweepstakes of SO guineas each, h. ft. for 2-yr-olds, T. Y. C. Mr. Walker's Splendour Mr. Massey's br f by Bobadil Mr. Houldsworth's Blackberry 3 A Gold Cup of 100 guineas value, by subscription of 10 each. Two miles and a half. Mr. Houldsworth's Vanish Mr. J. S. Lumley named Delphine 2 Lord Newark named Fortitude 3 Duke of Newcastle named Netherhy 4 The Noblemen and Gentlemen's Plate of 50 sovs. for all ages. Heats, two miles and a half. Mr. Houlasworth's Abel 1 1 Mr. Walker's Cadwal 0 2 Mr. White's Granby Mr. Cooper's Stapeley Mr. Clarke's br fby Magistrate 3 dr THURSDAY.—A Sweepstakes of _25 guineas each, 15 ft, for 3-)'r-olds. Mr. Yates's Douglas 1 Mr. Charlten's ch f by Magistrate Mr. Houldsworth's Uncle John.. His Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, for all ages. Heat•, four miles. Mr. Houldsworth's Terror 1 I Lord Scarborough's Cambridge Mr. Golden's Robin Hood 3 3 Mr. Stevenson's Brush The County Members' Plate of 60 sous. for 3-yr-olds. Mr. Walker's Netherby Mr. Houldsworth's Durham 1 2 2 Mr. Fisher's bc by Tiresias 0 3 dr Lord Scarborough's Melrose 2 dr HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. tom' Communications under this Head—accounts of Hunting Exploits "BY FLOOD AND FlELD"—are particularly requested. His Majesty's Stag Hounds, on Monday, at the Red Lion, Shrubs-hill ; and Friday, at Swinley—at Half-past Ten. Sir John Cope's Hounds, on Monday, at Brainshill; Wednesday, at Lleckfield; and Friday, at Englefield—at Half-past Ten. Sir Richard Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at Holton Village and Branston-wood ; Tuesday, at Scrivelsby Court ; Wednesday, at Lea Village ; Thursday, at Ulceby Cross Lines ; and Saturday, at Stainsfield Hall and Noe ton House—at Eleven. Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Bradley Wood; Wednesday, at Saxby Mill; Friday, at Newsham Lodge; and Saturday, at Swinhop House—at Eleven. The Cambridgeshire Hounds, on Monday, at the Hard wicke Arms ; and Friday, at Gransden-wood—at Half past Ten. - The Puckeridge Hounds, on Monday, at Scales ; Wed nesday, at Winches ; and Saturday, at Bennington. The Royston Harriers, on Tuesday, at Melbourn Hyde ; and Thursday, at Beldham's Mill—at Half-past Ten. The Brighton Harriers on Monday, at Patcham; Wed nesday, at the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke—at Half-past Ten. The Brookside Harriers, on Monday, at Newmarket- Hill ; Wednesday, at Asheombe, the aeltrnate Wednesday at the Kennel; and Friday, at Telscomhe Tye—at Half past Ten. The Burton Harriers, on Tuesday, at Stonecombe, near Beaminster ; and Friday, at Yandover Farm. The Somersetshire Subscription Fox Hounds, on Tues day, at Cockercombe; and Friday, at Kingscliffe. The Shropshire Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Cressage Village; Wednesday, at Wallop Hall; and Saturday, at Cross Hill—at Half-past Ten. Sir Richard Pulleston's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Mill brook ; and Friday, at Petton Lodge—at Eleven. Mr. Dansey's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Tarrington Turn pike ; and Friday, at Burghope—at Ten. Mr. Wieksted's Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Bradwell ; Thursday, at Blaekbrook ; and Saturday, at Broughton— at Half-past Ten. The Cheshire Hounds, Monday, at Brereton Green ; Wednesday, at Beeston Hall ; Thursday, at Rocksavage ; and Saturday, at High Legh—at Ten. Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Monday, at Hoarcross ; Thursday, at Catton ; and Saturday, at Rolleston—at Half-past Ten. Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds, on Monday, at Connisbro' and Tuesday, at Keppl e ' s C o l umn — at Ten. The Kempstone Hounds, on Monday, at Wicken Castle acre; Wednesday, at Mileham; and Friday, at Testerto❑ House—at Eleven. Mr. H. Villehois's Harriers, on Tuesday, at Wretton; Thursday, at the Swan, Methwold ; and Saturday, at Feltwell—at Eleven. The Worcestershire Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Brans ford Village ; and Friday, at Hinton Gorse—at Ten. The Conock Harriers, on Monday, at Ell Barrow ; and Friday, at Chittern Mead ows — a t 'Eleven. The Essex and Suffolk Border Hounds, nn Monday, at Ardleigh Crown ; Wednesday, at Hadleigh-street ; and Friday, at Little Clackton. The Blackmoor Yak Hounds, on Tuesday, at the H igher Bradley Wood ; and Friday, at Tennants' Wood, near Charlton, Horethorn. Mr. Farquharson's Hound, on Monday, at Bcrwiek's Combe—at Ten. The Cadbury Harrierß, on Monday, at Silton ; and Thursday, at Charlton Horethorn. Mr. Kelsey's Hounds, on Monday, at Sutto❑ Downs ; Wednesday, at Mongeham ; and Friday at Oxney. The Surrey Fox Hounds, on Monday, at the Rose and Crown ; Thursday, at Limpsfield; and Saturday, at Worms-heath—at Half-past Ten. Mr. Meager's Harriers, on Monday, Wednesday, anti Saturday, at Pit-place, Croham. fhe Surrey Harriers, on Monday, Wednesday, and Sa turday, at the Kennel. Jolliffe'a Hounds, on Monday, at the Somers' Arms ; Wednesday, at Outwood ; and Saturday, at Kingwood gate. ,he Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday at the Foreign Office. The American Minister and the Right Hon, STRATFORD CANNING transacted business yesterday at the Mee of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Strathfieldsaye, the seat of the Duke of WEL LINGTON, is speedily to be a scene of great gaiety, where a shooting party of distinguished characters are to be enter tained by his Grace. The estate abounds in game, parti cularly pheasants; and it is probable that politics will be blended with pleasure, as the Administration, it is under stood, will have an accession of strength in the Cabinet on the meeting of Parliament in February. — Morning Advt. MAHMOUD IL—The Sultan has only one son left, ABDUL MEDSHID, born April 20, 1823, who is the presumptive heir. The number of his daughters is considerable. He has seven lawful consorts and many concubines. If his family should become extinct, his throne will be claimed by the descendants of the late Tar tarian Khans of the Crimea, and the family of GHERAI, which likewise is descended from the famous GENOIS KHAN of Tartary. We have frequently had to record the benevo lent acts of the Earl of EGREMONT ; and we have now to add to the list the following, which has just come to our knowledge. A very short time ago a clergyman in the west of Sussex abandoned his wife and family, and went to France, leaving them in great distress. The circumstance was communicated to the Earl of EGREMONT, who did not appear to notice it at the time; but on his return home, after eleven o'clock at night, his Lordship drew up a paper, settling an annuity of 2bl. a year upon the wife. It is gratifying to record such an instance of charity, and w can only say to those who have the power to follow the exe ample—" Go and do thou likewise."—Brighton Gazette. MISS SAIITHSON.—We are glad that Miss S3IITHSON has recovered from her sudden indisposition— she reappeared last night in Belvidera. The overpower ing and absorbent affection which Belvidera entertains for her husband, together with her madness and death, Miss SMITHSON delineated with the most vivid reality and truth. It was altogether a picture of the most exquisite beauty, intelligence, and power. The house continues to fill at first price on the nights of Miss S.'s performance.— Glas gow Courier. We have just heard that the veteran DowToN, MaLaosE, Mrs. WAYLETT, and many others of equal ce lebrity, with l'Eacr FARREN as Manager, will shortly open the winter campaign at the West London ; and if Mr. Cunnr, the eminent flutist, may be taken as a sample of the band, it must be pronounced one of the most select in the metropolis. ACTRESSES.—The Greeks, as ST. AUGUS TINE, informs us, did not consider the profession of a player as dishonourable. Ipsos scenicos non turpes judi carerunt, &c. The more prudish Romans, however, were less tolerant ; and we find in the Code various constitu tions levelled against actors, forbidding Senators to marry actresses ; but this was afterwards relaxed by JUSTINIAN, who had broken it himself. He permitted such marriages to take place on obtaining the consent of the EMPEROR, and afterwards without, so that the lady quitted the stage and changed her manner of life. —Edinburgh Review. " SHAKSPEAHE'S LIFE AND TIMES."--- A new drama, partly historical and partly imaginative, is now in rehearsal at Covent-garden Theatre, and will shortly be produced. CHARLES K EMBLE will represent the Bard of Avon ; and KEELEY, a sort of Juvenile Shakspeare; WRENCH will personate Tarleton—an actor of no mean celebrity, and one of the witty companions of SHAK SPEARE and of BEN JoNsoN ; Burbage, one of the partners of SHARSPEARE, will be acted by Mr. WARD ; Lord Southampton, by ABBOT ; Sir Thomas Lucy (the proprietor of the park where the legend has it that SIIAKSPEARE stole the deer), by BARTLEY ; Dr. Ortho dox, by BLANcHAAD ; the Justice, by MEADOWS ; and Slyboots, by RUSSELL; the Mother of Shakespeare, Mrs. GIBBS ; and Queen Elizabeth, by Miss LACY. These, we understand, are the principal characters. The drama is in two acts, and is reported to be written with peculiar neatness and elegance, especially the first act. The author, a highly accomplished gentleman, is quite new to the stage. The play was sent anonymously to a friend of Mr. CHARLES KE3IBLE. On Wednesday, and, by adjournment, on Friday, an inquest was held at Henley Castle on the body of SARAH MAYO. This was a case of a very melancholy nature. The deceased, about twenty-two years of age, was in the service of Mr. F. W. LUCY, farmer, of the parish named, and with whom she had lived about two years. About six o'clock on the the morning of Monday se'nnight some words arose between her and her master's son, 111r.W. LUCA, in the course of which the latter called her a ----, and she retorted with the epithet of liar. This appears to have so exasperated young LUCY, and thrown him off his guard, that he struck her more than once or twice ; a struggle follower], and she fell to the ground. According to the testimony of one of the men-servants, who witnessed the transaction, the deceased, on rising, was i❑ tears, and sighed deeply, observing at the same time, that he (Lucy) " would be sorry for what he had done." She then left the house, and nothing further was seen or heard of her until about three o'clock the same afternoon, when her body was discovered by the elder Mr. Lucr in a moat, at the distance of about twenty yards from the kitchen in which the quarrel took place, and into which the unhappy girl plunged herself whilst under the influence of extreme ex- citement and agitation of feelings at what had taken place. The jury returned their verdict to the effect, " That the deceased SARAH MAYO, being in a lunatic and distracted state of mind, did throw herself into a pond of water, and was there drowned, and that such distraction of mind was produced from ill treatment received from WILLIAM LUCY, the younger, of the parish of Hartley Castle, gentleman,"— Worcester Journal. GRAND GARRISON STEEPLE CHASE. DUBLIN, TUESDAY, OCT. 20.—One of the beet chases ever witnessed in the vicinity of this city took place this day, under the direction of the Stewards, the Earl of Howth, and Captain Montmorency. The ground was given to be run over by John Andrews, Esq., of Castle Warden, in the handsomest manner, and every attention to the safety and comfort of the numerous field of Noble men and Gentlemen assembled was shown by him, for which they appeared truly grateful. His Grace the Duke of Northumberland arrived on the ground at two o'clock. Shortly after the following gentlemen belonging to the 7th Ilussars, with their horses, paraded in fine style be fore his Excellency, prior to starting :—Captain Cox's bay gelding, White Nese ; Captain White's mare, Funny Eye ; Captain Shedden's c. gelding, Clipper; Captain Lawrenson's Countersign ; and Captain Bigg's Kildare. At the word " Off," they all went away, Funny Eye leading, her first leap measured thirty feet; however, in the running she fell, as did Countersign, when the race terminated in favour of Captain Cox, whose riding was much admired ; Captain Shedde❑ second. His Excel lency the Lord Lieutenant appeared highly delighted with the day's amusement, and expressed his high satisfaction at the arrangement of the Stewards, and the beauty of the ground, which bids fair to rival in future any ground in all the vicinity of this great metropolis. SPIRITS.—The pre - eminence of the struc ture of the human frame is in no respect more signal than in resisting the effects of fermented distilled liquors. A comparatively small quantity of spirits forced into the sto mach of a dog, a cat, or a hedge-hog, is productive of speedy death—and a very large quantity is followed by the same effect in man. Government seeing that the country is getting overstocked with people, therefore encourages the use of spirits, and throws every obstacle in the way of the consumption of beer. Weak people, who cannot see far enough into the principles of Government to discover their wisdom and profundity, should, in this political view, no longer marvel at the increase of the revenue being preferred to the health of his MAJESTY'S ellbjeCtii. It is killing two birds with one stone !"--Afprn. Chronicle. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Our Lisbon correspondent, for whose letter of the 10th we cannot find room to-day, draws a frightful picture of the present condition of Por tugal, in which tyranny and misgovernment arc described as producing every day more abundant fruits of wretchedness and crime. As the taxes are unpaid, Don Miguel in order to procure the means of maintaining a force for his own pro tection, has been obliged to demand money from the Bank, and the knowledge of this fact has destroyed the credit of that e stablishment. This r only e b a regime, meremainingllich has i t t i h o e n d o o f co tle n t d Constitutional ucted.it,i busi ness with great prudence, and has been Gf con siderable use to commerce, is now likely to ex pire under the grasp of arbitrary violence. It has, we are told, called in its notes, and an nounced its intention of closing its transactions as soon as they are paid off. This, probably, may be impossible within a very limited time ; but it is equally impossible for the Directors to continue their operations under the pressure of such a power. The failure of the expedition to Terceira is said by our correspondent very much to have lessened the confidence of even Don Miguel's friends in the stability of his Govern ment. With these causes of distrust and dis satisfaction concur the almost total interruption of commercial business, and the cessation, of manufacturing industry. The lower classes of the people cannot find employment or food, and the rents of the landed proprietor are not paid. In such a state no police can restrain violence and robbery ; and accordingly, we hear of the com mission of twenty-four burglaries in Lisbon in one night, some of which were aggravated by assassination. The correctness of this general representation our correspondent supports by a reference to particular facts, into the detail of which we cannot at present enter. Such a state of things inspires hope—though, we confess, a faint one—that Miguel's power may not be of long duration. At the same time we are bound to confess, with whatever reluctance, that the ultimate recognition of Miguel, should he not be upset by his own people, is an inevitable evil : and, however offensive to our moral feelings, is an event which the exigencies of the State and of commerce may absolutely demand. Let, however, the step not be taken one minute before it shall be necessary, and in the interval some thing may occur to avert the painful measure of apparent acquiescence in so absurd as well as cruel a tyranny.—Times. An article from " A Correspondent," on the subject of the Land-tax, deserves to be atten tively considered. The object of the writer is to recommend a more equal and productive re partition of the above imp os t. Th e hi s t or y o f this tax is, in few words, that it was assessed and collected by virtue of the 4th of William and Mary, and continued down under the same as sessment to the year 1798, when Mr, Pitt first brought in a Bill by which individuals were allowed to redeem their land -tax, thereby exo' nerating the lands ever after from payment of the duty so redeemed. But as the progress of wealth and circumstances had produced extraor dinary changes in the relative value of landed property according to its situation, it follows that by adhering to an old assessment, great inequa lity had been introduced into the rates of taxa tion, as compared with the altered value of the property from which it was raised. Thus, as is described by our correspondent, some places have increased so enormously in wealth and po pulation, that the old tax, remaining always the same, now hardly amounts (as in the parish of Marylebone) to one farthing in the pound ; while elsewhere—for instance, in some of the City wards—the inhabitants pay mo-e than Ss. The proposition, then, is, that the land-tax should be equalized every where throughout the kingdom, and assessed at the rate of 2s. in the pound, subject to a periodical revision of the cess, which our correspondent assumes would yield a revenue of between three and four mil lions sterling : the maximum of the tax under the former assessment, which was to be a rate not exceeding 4s. in the pound, gave a receipt of 1,989,0001., or, in round numbers, say 2,000,0001. per annum. Strange to say, the permission to reduce the land tax, authorised by the law of 1798, had not been acted upon so recently as the year 1822 to an extent of more than 690,0001. a year ; there remains, there fore, about 1,300,0001. per annum quite open to any plan of re-assessment. The only difficulty which has occurred to any one arises from the case of those individuals who have actually re deemed their land-tax. With regard to such persons, the rule might be this : as the original principle of the tax was, that it should be levied equally and indifferently ad valorem upon the whole realm, and as, by a culpable departure from that principle, a great portion of the country came to pay but a few pence or farthings in the pound, while others paid the maximum value of 45., let those who redeemed at the rate of 2s. or upwards, be in future exempt from any assess ment for land -tax, while those lands which were redeemed below that rate shall be charged in future the difference only between the scale on which they paid, and the new assessment. As for any portion of property claiming to be ex empt from an equal share of the burdens un posed for the relief of the public necessities upon the general mass of property of the same descrip tion, it is wholly preposterous to set up any such pretension. The only fair ground of complaint is inequality of pressure, and that objection to the ancient land-tax, it appears in the course of our correspondent's article that Mr. Pitt felt and stated in the strongest terms. If, as well-in formed men suppose, a pretty extensive revision of our financial system is about to be undertaken with the sanction of persons who have great in fluence in the state, it does appear to us that a re-adjustment of the land-tax may be resorted to as part of the general scheme, and as not only consistent with equity and economy, but enjoined by every consideration of national necessity and advantage.—lbid. If we may venture to form an opinion on the question at issue between the East India Com pany and their army in Bengal, we should say that the order complained of is too general, and that however clear the title of the Company to dictate the terms on which they will admit men into their service, this power must be limited to future contracts, and cannot (except in a case of necessity) extend to contracts already entered into. In the case, then, of all the officers, who may be supposed to have calculated on ente r i ng shouldiashave been been done.the service on the allowance which i s th e su bj ect. t o i f , hcontroversy,order r (i injustice er prospec tive, and that the Company ought so far to re consider their order as to - except from the re duction all those who entered the service in Ben gal- prior to its date. With regard to what is said as to the difficulty in the way of officers subsisting themselves on the existing allowances, 04f,`i;" V-w•E L. , 1. )