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The Russians, in their official bulletins, supply us with no details, by which the exact amount of their force to the south of the mountains may be computed: The same army which cleared the defiles of the Bal kan, and took possession of the towns on or near the Euxine, to enable them to advance on Constantinople, in maintaining their com munications both by laud and sea with their reserves and resources, might not find itself in sufficient numbers to advance directly to the walls of the capital. This we admit is mere conjecture, but it is as probable as the conjecture on the other side. Should the Turkish army te, th e right of the Russian line of operation;„ or, in other words, the force stated to be collected at Adrianople be dispersed or de reated, there seems scarcely an obstacle to the aril result of the campaign in the capture of the Turkish seat of empire, the fortifications of which arc insignificant, and incapable of defence. 'Tlane fortifications on the land side consist of a yard' with a ditch, flanked with numerous towers, - which have not been repaired or put in a state of effective defence since the original conquest of the city by its present masters.—Times. s far as we can judge from the reports of the Irish papers, the policeman St. Leger has been very properly acquitted at Clonmel. Per jury in the interest of a faction or clan is gene rally deemed a merit, and there was no lack of it at this trial. Magistrates and policemen must, however, be supported in the execution of their duty, for it would be preposterous to sup pose that order could be preserved, if policemen are to be wantonly attacked by a mob, without the liherty of defending themselves. We are not sanguine enoligh to conceive that a wild and ne ected•ireasantry can be at once tamed down Intq quiet and submissive citizens. We can, therefore, make allowance for the excesses inse parable from such a state of society as that which exists in the county of Tipperary. But if we have any knowledge of human nature, nothing is to be gained byyielding on such occasions. The law must be enforced ; and those who imagine they tam carry matters with a high hand, must he met by a wholesome severity. In all coun tries in which the inhabitants do not look to the law for protection, associations exist under various names for 'offensive and defensive imrposes. The t i;tividuals of a Clan or Tribe, or Faction, deem themselves bound to support each other in good or evil, and all means by which the individuals of another clan or tribe can be assailed are deemed justifiable. When it was observed in behalf of Cromwell's Judges in Scotland, that their decisions were generally fair and impartial, which was new in that country, the answer returned was, " De'il thank them--a parcel of clanless rascals ;" which was saying that a man's first duty was to defend his own party, or clan at all hazards. In a Me moir presented to the French Government, on the subject of Corsica, the writer exclaims, " Woe to him who, on every occaijon, should not, right or wrong, take the part of his rela tion !" The peasantry of Tipperary, in the same spirit, are quite indignant that the policeman who in self-defence shot one of their body should not fall a victim to their vengeance. In Kentucky a :Jury has acquitted a notorious murderer ; and it is said without hesitation, in other parts of America, that there is no possibility of bringing to justice any individual belonging to the party in power, whatever outrage he may commit. Impartiality in the administration of justice always supposes a great advancement in civiliza tion. Lord Kames observes, " That perjury was common in the City of London, especially among Jurymen, and makes a preamble in more than one Statute of Henry VII. In the Dance of Death, translated from the French, in the said King's reign, with additions adapted to English manners, a Juryman is introduced, who, in fluenced by bribes, had often given a false ver dict. And the Sheriff was often suspected as accessary to the crime, by returning for Jurymen persons of a bad character. Carew, in his account of Cornwall, says that it was an ordinary article in an attorney's bill to charge pro amicitia vice comzta (tor the friendship of time Sheriff). Per jury in Jurors of the City of London is greatly complained of. Stow informs us, that in the year 1468 many Jurors of that City were punished, and papers fixed on their heads, declaring their offence of being corrupted by the parties to the suit. He complains of that corruption as flagrant in the reign of Elizabeth, when be wrote his account of London. Fuller, in his English Worthies, mentions it as a pro verbial saying that London Juries hang half and save half.' Grafton, in his Chronicle, men tions that the Chancellor of the Bishop of Lon don being indicted for murder, the Bishop wrote a letter to Cardinal Wolsey, begging his inter position for having the prosecution stopped, because London Juries were so corrupted, that they would find Abel guilty of the murder of Cam: In that period the morals of the English were in every particular extremely loose." Under the same circumstances we see in every country the same phenomena. The peasantry of Tip perary have not at present an interest in the administration of the law, for the law we suspect is their enemy. They are at present forced to league themselves in societies of mutual assu rance, to prevent ejectment from their little pos sessions, which, to them, are indispensable to existence. It is vain to think of communicating to men a love of justice, as long as necessity compels them to look for protection to the mid night torch and the rifle. But every thing must have a beginning. When the law can give pro tection, the law will become gradually reverenced. So long as the poor are at the discretion of their landlords, they will be against the law, which is on the side of the landlord s . In the evidence before the Select Committee on the Irish Mis cellaneous Estimates, Mr. Barrington, Solicitor for the Munster Circuit, on being asked " Can you form any opinion satisfactory to yourself as to the cause of that great extent of ermine in the county of Limerick in so short a time ?" an- swcred, " I think there is scarcely one of those outrages I could not tell you the immediate cause of. The general cause Was the changing the possession of !antis, one tenant being put in and aw_.ther tenant being put out." The puttin! , c. t't.s,nant out in Ireland, it is to be remembered, ' is putting him out of exi3tence. A number of men, having a common interest in such an im portant matter as maintaining themselves in their possessions by terrorism, must support each other through thick autl thin in all other matters. — Hence the necessity, if we would put an end to titt'se lawless habits, of destroying the cause of them. We.advocate severity, unflinching seve rity, when the law has been outraged ; but, at the same time, that the severity may not be thrown away, we would recommend measures which would render unnecessary the mutual assurances of the peasant] y to preserve themselves from de struction. What is it that enables a country gentleman in England, or a firmer, to walk about by night or day with perfect security, but the Pout- Laws ? Every man in England has his parish, and he knows he cannot die of hunger, and that he cannot be thrown on the world as a vagabond. The lower Irish must be placed on the :slime footing, or we shall be constantly on the verge of a servile war.—Morning Chronicle. • It cannot have escaped the commonest obser vation that our present Police, instead of being, as it ought to be, a terror to evil-doers, is, in fact, in some measure, if not an object of attraction to them, at least that which they take little or no wins to avoid. If this be not so, how happens it that the neighbourhoods of the police offices are those where thieves congregate in the greatest numbers, and where flash houses exist, at which their orgies are carried on with impunity—and that, in some instances, under the very nose of the Magistrates and police officers ? Nay, this is• not all ; for though it may he said, and justly enough, perhaps, that it cannot be considered the province of the Magistrates themselves to hunt out personally the haunts of thieves, yet what do they say to, year after year, licensing, or conniving at the licensing, of these very houses we allude to ? A striking illustration of this is but too forcibly exhibited in the fate of the un happy man Brown, who terminated a long career of crime at the Old Bailey on Monday last. This man was not detected in the actual com mission of the robbery for which he was executed but was apprehended a few days afterwards by the officers, ‘l, bile playing at cards in a noted public-house, called " The George," in George yard, Whitechapcl. We call this a noted house, because we are credibly informed that this man is neither the first, nor even the twentieth, person who has been actually executed out of it; and yet, year after year, it continues, in common with many others, a kind of breeding-cage for depredators, who, but for such seminaries and facilities to crime, might perhaps have been saved to society, and society itself saved from their plundering propensities. This evil mainly arises from a want of zeal and energy among the Magistrates, and from their being hoodwinked, to a great de gree, by the police officers. The Magistrate, when a robbery occurs which the parties make a stir about, thinks his officer a wonderful clever fellow, if he can walk into one of these flash houses and pick out the thief. But we see very little more cleverness in it than in the gamekeeper who can walk into his master's preserves and supply his table with the game which may be la - (itiired. We say that none of these thieves-pre serves ought to he allowed to exist ; and we trust that one of the first objects of Colonel Rowan's Police will be to rout out the occupants and destroy the nests ; unless the old Police, ashamed of the disgrace which such a measure brought about by other hands must draw upon them, set about the thing themselves, and do that now which the public have had a tight to expect that they would have done long ago.— Morning Herald. A paragraph has been going the round of the newspapers, stating that Dr. Ireland, the Dean of Westminster, had refused to allow a tablet to be set up in Westminster Abbey, to the memory of the late eminent musical composer, Shield, in consequence of that distinguished individual being designated as a " gentleman" in the in scription. If this he true, it is very foolish on the part of the venerable Dean, and something worse than foolish, if he be himself a person age who is more indebted to his merits and his good fortune for his elevation than to his pedi gree. But while we think it foolish on the part of the guardian of the ashes of the illustrious dead to refuse a place to a monumental tablet which describes Shield as a gentleman, we con sider it no less ridiculous on the part of his friends to insist on the introduction of that term into his epitaph. The word gentleman, indeed, in its highest sense, is the highest title of man. It implies the possession of the virtues and ac. complishments which dignify and ornament civi liscd existence—but, in its general acceptation, i is vague, indefinite, and equivocal. As - a gentle man, in the ordinary sense of the word, Mr. Shield had no claim to interment or commemo ration within the walls of Westminster Abbey ; but as a man of genius he had that right, and, as a man of genius, his friends ought to have de manded that honour for him. Westminster Abbey is the sanctuary of the remains of men whose lives have reflected splendour, on their age and country, whether in science, literature, arts, or arms. Why insist upon the word " gen tleman" being inserted in a tablet which bore a name identified with the history of an elegant art, and consecrated to fame ? When Voltaire called upon Congreve the latter laid aside the character of the author, and affected to be a mere gentleman. The sarcastic Frenchman, piqued by his affectation, observed, " if I had supposed you were only a gentleman, I would not have come out of my way to visit you." So, if Shield had been only a gentleman, his ashes ought to have been deposited, or his monument raised, in a place more fashionable and less glorious than Westminster Abbey ; but having done that which mere gentlemen cannot do, he was entitled to sepulchral honours by a higher title than that which would confound him with those who move upon the stage of life only to be forgotten On Friday last the following communication was received by Mr. AGAR, Governor of the county pri son :—" To the High Sheriff of the county of Kent, his Under-Sheriff, and also to the Keeper of his M , Ljesty's Gaol for the said county, and to whom else it may concern. Let the execution of HENRY FIFE, JAMES SKINNER, and JOHN ADAMS, who were attainted at the last general Ses sions of the delivery of the gaol of our Lord the King of :he county of Kent, holden at Maidstone, in and for the said county, on the Sth day of August instant, for a rob bery on WILLIAM CALLON", be respited until his MA JESTY'S pleasure shall be further known. Dated this 19th day of August, 1829. S. GASELEE, Lewes, 19th August, 1820." The malefactors being apprised of the mercy which was extended to them, were deeply affected, ifalling on th e i r k nees , an d uttering many expressions of joy and gratitude.-.-Maidstone shurnult SUMMER ASSIZES. WESTERN CIRCUIT—BRIDGEWATER, AUG. 21. The summer aLsizes for the county of Somerset commenced here to-day. Mr. Justice BURROUGH, who presided On the Civil side, disposed of several undefended causes iFt the morning ; and was occupied during the remainder of the day with a case relating to a water-course, Which was only interesting to the parties concerned. The calendar contains the names of 93 prisoners for trial—a number which, though apparently large, is not greater than may be readily accounted for by the extent of the county of Somerset and the popu lousness of many of its districts. Generally speak ing, the offences with which the prisoners are charged are by no means of an aggravated nature. Thomas Wilmot was convicted of breaking and entering the shop of George Hencock, a watch maker, at Midsummer Norton, on the night of the 9111 of Feliruary, and stealing several clocks and watches, the property of the prosecutor. The prisoner is a notorious offender, has been guilty of several other burglaries, and is a deserter from the army. Judgment of Death was recorded against him. John Wallis , a young man about 20 years of age, was indicted for stealing a gelding, the property of Charles Long. The prisoner, on being arraigned with several other prisoners, pleaded guilty. Chief-Justice TINDAL—PIace him aside for a short time. The other prisoners having pleaded— The Learned JUDGE directed Wallis to be again brought forward, and inquired whether he meant to plead guilty ?—The prisoner replied he did. The JUDGE—That is, being conscious of having committed the crime laid to your charge, you wish to confess it ? Prisoner. Yes, my Lord. The JUDGE—Very well. You are aware that you must abide the consequences of the offence and your admission. Remove the prisoner. TUESDAY. We regret to say that Mr. Justice BURIIOUGH, who has not appeared in very good health since the commencement of the circuit, found himself so in disposed to-day as to be unable to come into Court. In consequence of his absence, the civil cases were not proceeded with. Chief Justice TINDAL sat in the Crown Court, as before, and Mr. Seijeant LAVES tried prisoners charged with minor offences, in the Civil Court. We understand it is intended to go through the calendar in this manner, should Mr. Justice Burrouv,h's illness continue. When ail the prisoners for trial shall have been disposed of, the Chief JUstice will take Nisi Prius business, which upon this occasion is exceedingly heavy.— There are 42 cases entered in the cause-list. Of these, 11 are special jury cases. There is an action of a very peculiar nature for criminal conversation, another for seduction, a third for an assault com mitted upon a clergyman, and a fourth for slander.— In order to enable the Learned Judge to get through the business of the assizes with the assistance already mentioned, it is proposed to postpone for a few days the commencement of the Bristol assizes, which stand fixed for Monday next, till the trial of Somerset causes and prisoners shall be con cluded. There is one cause on the paper, which, if it be entered upon, will in all probability prottact the term of the assizes here considerably. It is a mining case, " Doe v. Brenton," that has been already liti gated more than once. The Attorney-General is specially retained in it. The Learned Gentleman arrived in Bridgewater to-day, for the purpose of conducting the case. No fewer than SO witnesses have been summoned to attend, the great majority, if not the entire, of whom are brought from the re tnotest part of Cornwall at an immense expense. We can say that in some instances lying within our own knowledge, the utmost difficulty, by no means unattended with danger, was experienced by indivi duals travelling from Bodmin to Bridgewater, in consequence of the measures adopted. for the transfer of some of these witnesses to the latter place. It has been stated to us, that one of the parties in " Doe v. Brenton " is at this moment incurring an expense of 1501. a day in the attempt to bring the case to trial; the greater part of this outlay (we be lieve) is occasioned by the maintenance of witnesses. After all, it is far from certain that the cause will not be postponed in consequence of Mr. Justice Bur rough's illness. The Lord Chief Justice, who was formerly engaged as Counsel in the case, entertains, probably upon that ground, an objection to trying it, and it is extremely doubtful whether the parties can agree in selecting a gentleman of the bar to dispose of it. Mr. Serjeant Merewether has been spoken of as the individual who may possibly try the case; which, however, it would not surprise us to see marked as a renzanet. On inquiring this evening at the Judge's lodgings, we were given to understand that Mr. Justice Bur rough is considerably better. It is said that the Learned Judge's disorder was an attack of dyssuria . Sarah Marsh, widow, a feeble old woman, whose age is stated in the calendar to be 68, was placed at the bar, indicted for having feloniously put off cer tain counterfeit milled money at a lower rate and value than the same by its denomination did im port, to wit, ten counterfeit shillings for one shilling and eightpenee.—Guilty. The Learned JUDGE sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned in the common gaol for two years, and kept to hard labour. The Grand Jury ignored the bill presented against three persons for the violation of a female, to which the Chief Justice adverted in his charge yesterday. MONMOUTH, AUG. 24. On Saturday last the commission was opened here by Mr. Baron VAUGEIAN, and this day busi ness commenced, Mr. Baron VAUGIIAN presiding on the Crown side, Mr. Serjeant TARDY on the Civil side. VAUGHAN V. CADLE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a basket-maker, to recover from the defendant, a far mer, a compensation in damages for the injury the plaintiff received from being bitten by the de , fendant's dog. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 101. CULLIMORE V. EVANS. This was an action against the defendant, to re cover from him a compensation in damages for hav ing published a false and malicious libel of and con cerning the plaintiff, in a monthly publication, in the Welsh language, called the Welsh Star. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages, 501. • Christopher James, aged 20, and Joseph Hornsby, aged 19, respectable-looking young men, were in dicted for robbing James Thomas, on the highway, and stealing from him a tobacco-box and a knife. The Jury found both the prisoners Guilty. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN told the prisoners they would quit this country for life. TUESDAY. THE REV. - LEWIS V. LEWIS. This was an action brought by a most respect able clergyman, residing in this county, to recover a compensation in damages from the defendant for a very serious injury which he had sustained by means of a ferocious dog belonging to the defendant. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages 40s. Rickard Radnor, a respectable-looking man, was indicted capitally, charged with having feloniously assaulted Elizabeth Barnett. Mr. JUSTICE conducted the prosecution. • Elizabeth Barnett said she was 13 years of age last month, and was then in the service of Mrs. Davis, of Lawrence-court. The prisoner • was a married man. On the Bth of July, at eight o'clock in the morning, she was sent out to the Red Barn field to bring up the cows. Ott her return she met the prisoner ; he asked her the way to Ragland; she replied she did not know it. The prisoner then took hold of her and dragged her into a field. She cried out as loud as she could, but he put his hand over her mouth, and then accomplished his purpose. The prisoner after that called her back, as ehe was running away, and said he would give her some money. She continued to run away, and when she got home told her mistress what had happened, and described the dress of the man who had ill-used her. He was a total stranger to her. She is sure the' prisoner is the man. Cross•exa►nined by the prisoner—She did not consent. A girl named Susan had asked her what the prisoner had been doing to her, and she told her he had done nothing, as she was ashamed to tell her. She did not tell the prisoner her master would be coming that way. Mr. Luke Davis said he lived five miles from Usk, and the prusecutrix had lived in his service about three weeks. In consequence of what the girl said about the Bth of July, he went to the field she had de , cribed, and there saw a track in the grass, and went in pursuit of the prisoner, and overtook him about six miles off, just as the girl had described him. He said to the prisoner " You are a nice fel low." The prisoner replied " What have I done ?" Witness said " You have met with a girl this morn ing," to which the prisoner replied that he did not hurt her. Witness then told him he must go back with him, and the prisoner returned without any re sistance. Another witness proved that she had examined the girl's person, and that there were narks of violence. The prisoner in his defence said the girl had con sented to all that took place. Mr. Davis, on being recalled, said he heard the girl say that she did tell the prisoner she would be quiet if he would not hurt her. Mrs. Davis could not attend, in consequence of severe illness. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN then summed . up the evi dence, and the Jury found the prisoner Guilty. His LORDSHIP immediately passed the awful sen tence of death upon him. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—CARLISLE, Aua. 24. The Assizes commenced here to-day. There is very little business, the Crown calendar presenting only eight cases, and the nisi prigs list 14 causes. Mr. Justice BAYLEY presided in the Crown Court, and this morning disposed of three or four cases of larceny of the most trifling description. There are three Special Jury cases which are fixed for trial to morrow. GEORGE HI. AND PYE THE POET. Dr. George Horne was a man of unaffected piety, cheerful temper, great learning, and, not withstanding his propensity to jesting, dignified manners. He was much beloved in Magdalen College, of which he was President ; the chief complaint against him being that he did not re side the whole of the time in every year that the statutes required. He resigned his headship on being promoted from the Deanery of Canterbury to the See of Norwich ; the alleged reason was the incompatibility of the duties, though other heads of houses, when made Bishops, have re tained their academical situations. He never manifested the least ill-humour himself, and re pressed it, but with gentleness, in others. Hav ing engaged in a party at whist, merely because he was wanted to make up the number, and playing indifferently ill, as he forewarned his partner would be the case, he replied to the angry question, " What reason could you possi bly have, Mr. President, for playing that card ?" " None upon earth, I assure you." On the morning, when news was received in College of the death of one of the Fellows, a good com panion, a bon vivant, Horne met with another Fellow, an especial friend of the defunct, and began to condole with him :—" We have lost poor L—." "Ah ! Mr. President, I may well say I could have spared a better man." " Meaning me, I suppose ?" said Horne, with an air that, by its pleasantry, put to flight the other's grief.' I was talking with Henry James Pye, late Poet Laureate, when he happened to mention the name of Mr. P., a Gentleman of Berkshire, and M.P., I think, for Reading; " That is the man," said I, '' who d d the King's wig in the very presence of his Majesty ; with great credit, however, to his own loyalty, and very much to the amusement of the King." "I do not well see how that could be." " You shall - hear a story which our President (Pye had been a Gentleman Commoner of Magdalen Col lege) told at his own table. The King was out a hunting P— was in, and of, the field : the King's horse fell ; the King was thrown from the saddle, and his hat and wig were thrown to a little distance from him ; he got on his feet again immediately, and began to look about fur the hat and wig, which he did not really see, being, as we all know, short-sighted. P—, very much alarmed by the accident, rides up in great haste and arrives at the moment when the King is peering about and saying to the attend ants, " Where's my wig ? where's my wig ?" P----- cries out, " D—n your wig ! is your _ . . _ Majesty safe ?"—Personal and Literary Me moirs. SIR SYDNEY SMITH. Some time ago the Hero of Acre addressed the Government and other parties, as to the im provements of trade with parts of Africa, &c.; and it is mentioned that he is about to follow up such subject with a " second part" of documents and details, illustrative of other matters besides those merely connected with trade. It is said that such second part will contain the subsequent correspondence stating the death of Sheik Sidi Hishem, and proofs, showing the facility of intercourse- with 'his successor, as hereditary Chief of Suez. Sir S. Smith is an advocate for the formation of a canal at such point, so as to open a water communication between the Mediterra nean and the Red S ea , an d open i ng i n t o th e In Indian Ocean—an opening th a t would super s de the Hopery modernreoejle ectc—which, by t h e way, i s not altoge ther es to sail to India. round one—he was recently in this furtherance ra Cape ef f suchGoodr a project—which, o o c ountry. It is remark a bl e t h at t h e nec k o f l an d which here joins two qu ar t ers o f t h e g l o b e , A s i a and Africa, and impedes the progress from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, is only 125 m il e s wide ; but some say that one great obstacle to any ship canal project, which would save the vo y a ge round the Cape, is, that th e wa t er i n th e Gulf of Suez is too shallow for ships. It is added that, in such second part of Sir S. Smith's recent labours , mention is made of the place and manner of the death of the lamented Major Laing, after quitting Timbuctoo, a nd the hopes to be entertained of successfully pur suing the murde r e r , who is known, and reco vering Major Laing s papers. t t proof is also adduced, showing that the island o f Malta is part of the wreck of the ancient sub merged Atlanticle Island, as recorded by the Consul Tiberius Sempronius, Governor of Africa, An. Urbs. DXXXVI., in an inscription o n the edge of a very ancient Phoenician moult went, in the character in use at that very early period, before the deluge, 2,298 years before the Christian era. Fac-similes will be given. — Morning Paper. FRENCH AND ENGLISH ARISTOCRACY• ; The Constitutionnel laughs heartily at the notable project of creating an English Aristocracy in France :—" If the Ministry (says that Journal) will not have a legal r(!ginze, what will they then have ? An Aristocracy after the English fashion ! This is what the Quotidienne in sinuates without many oratorical precautions. M. de Polignac is to be the Wellington of the grand Emancipation of the Nobles. There is but one little difficulty—the Aristocracy exists in England—it exists strong in its antiquity, its ability, its popularity even ; it possesses a great part of the territory ; it is connected by its in terests with industry, with the people by its habitual relations, and the services which it has rendered to the liberty of the country ; it exists in fact and in law; it exists in the national habits—it is national. The little difficulty in our case proceeds from quite a contrary situation. . . . The resurrection of a caste abolished by our habits and by the laws is the most difficult and the most hazardous of counter-revolutions. The Quotidienne declares that our liberties will be much safer in the hands of the Aristocracy than in those of Radicalism. This is nonsense. There is no Radicalism in France, precisely be cause there is no Aristocracy, as in England ; because there is not a vast corporation which divide among themselves the soil, and attribute to themselves the privileges of it ; because there is, with a very small number of exceptions, equality of right, and thence a possibility for every one to reach the highest ranks and the highest honours." Our French Contemporary gives, probably, a correct description of the state of things in France, as far as relates to the materials of an aristocracy. There are no Radicals in France, because all are equal, and wish, there fore, to preserve what is already established ; just as there can be no servile war in a country where there are no slaves. We could only have wished our Contemporary had known a little more of our Aristocracy, and the benefits it confers on the nation, befbr,.; praising it. As to the idea of its being strong on account of its an tiquity, it is quite erroneous ; there is no Aris tocracy in Europe so generally modern, and this is the source of its strength. Riches in England are the only measure of respect ; and the titles are merely respected, because wealth is generally associated with them. The French Aristocracy, before the Revolution, lost themselves by setting up antiquity against wealth, which united all the rich men, without claim to antiquity, against them. But in England the Aristocracy is opened regularly to all the rich ; so that any man who makes a fortune as a gambler, as a fraudu lent contractor, as a speculator upon 'Change, knows well that, though he himself may not re. ceive a title, in a generation or two his descend ants will receive it. Our Peerage and Baronet age contain even Christian Jews, elevated im mediately, and not in their descendants. If Ikey Solomons had not been cut prematurely short in his career, .and a rich receiver of mail-coach parcels bad not been blown upon in the evidence before the Police Committee, they would pro bably have worked their way up to the Peerage. It is this which makes the English Aristocracy so much stronger than any Aristocracy ever yet known in the world, possessing, as it does, so large a share of what, in modern times, is of all powerful efficacy. The Dukes of Northumber land and Buccleugh are powerful, not because they are Dukes (for a poor Duke will, in this country, be a standing joke to every waiter at an inn), but because the one has 250,0001. a-year, and the other nearly 200,0001. The French may thank their stars that the Revolution has rescued them from a class similar to that to which we owe such a debt of gratitude.—Morning Chron. FUNERAL OF LAMBOURN. Immediately after the Coroner's Jury had re turned their verdict in Lambourn's case, on Tuesday last, Mr. Holmes, the High Bailiff of the borough of Southwark, called at Guy's Hos pital, and requested to see the steward. Mr. Holmes said that his object in calling was to secure the body of the wretched man, Lam bourn, who had committed the act of felo de se, till the hour of interment appointed by Act of Parliament (from nine to twelve o'clock at night) had arrived, lest his remains should fall into the clutches of the resurrectionists who throng that neighbourhood, as, in case he did not witness the burial of the body, he (Mr. Holmes) would be liable to a fine of 5001., under the statute.— The steward told the High Bailiff that the body would be perfectly safe where it was (in an apart ment adjoining the committee-room) till the pe riod arrived, and did not see the necessity for any further security. Mr. Holmes, however, did not feel satisfied on this point, and requested that the steward would lock up the body in the bone-house, and place the keys in his (Mr. Holmes's) hands, which would be in his opi nion proper security. This the steward declined doing, upon which the _High Bailiff left the Hospital, but presently after returned, accom panied by Kinsey and Johnson, two constables belonging to the Town-hall, whom lie stationed sentry over the body, and gave positive orders that upon no account whatever were they to lose sight of it till the hour of nine arrived. Ac cordingly the men remained on duty till the hour prescribed, when the High Bailiff again made his appearance, and stood over the body, from which arose the most infectious effluvium, whilst the lid of the shell was screwed down. The pro cession then moved on to the private burial ground in Snow's-fields, followed by a posse of constables and a large concourse of persons. — On reaching the grave the two churchwardens attended and saw the corpse lowered into it.— They remained with the High Bailiff till the pit was filled up, and then the latter, addressing one of them (Mr. Knight), said, "Are you satis ficd, Sir, that all is right, and that I have done my duty ?" Mr. Knight answered in the affirma tive, and the High Bailiff hastily left the ground. None of Lambourn's relations were present. On Saturday last we were in hourly expecta tion of witnessing a dreadful battle between two factions from the parishes of Mooe.E and DRUM, who agreed to settle their fiendish broils in this town, and set at rest all further animosity by one general engagement. They were for three previous days employed in going round to their friends, warning them to be prepared for this battle, by which means the police bad an early notice of it, a n d ac cordingly mustered strong. About two o'clock our streets were crowded with country people, and all things wore the appearance of battle, and even women were seen with large sticks, partly concealed under their cloaks. A few skirmishes up and down the streets denoted that the par ties were about to commence their dreadful work, and were actually setting to, when by the kind and prompt in terference of H. KELLY, Esq. of Woodmount, and a few others of the neighbouring gentry, who actually threw themselves between them, and after remonstrating on the impropriety and danger of their proceedings, happily dis suaded them from their murderous intentions, and shortly after without the aid of a Magistrate, the parties left town in the most peaceable manner—much to the credit of the gentlemen who interfered.—Ballinasloe Argus. STEAM NAVIGATION IN GERMANY. The advantages which must result from the intended introduction of steam vessels on the Rhine and Danube will be fully appreciated when contrasted with the following account of the " Descent of the Danube," by Mr. Manche :-- " The boats on the Danube, though of vari ous names and sizes, are nearly all of one shape. That which I hired is called, in the peculiar patois of the Bavarian boatmen, a Weitz-zille, and is the sort of conveyance particularly appro priated to private travelling. It is about forty feet long, and composed of rough deal planks, nailed rudely together, the ribs being of natural branches, and caulked with moss. In the centre is a kind of awning, or rather hut, of the same unpretending materials. It is flat bottomed, as arc all the craft upon this river, and in short, iJ little more than a large rude punt. Sails are un known upon the Danube ; it is therefore rowed by two men, and steered by a third, with long clumsy-looking paddles, tied to upright posts, upon which every now and then water is flung to make them work easy and avoid ignition. The coche d'eau, or common passage boat, is rather larger, and is called a gamsel, or a kell haimer. Those used for the conveyanCe of mer chandise arc known by the names of hochnauen, klobzillen (facetiously termed vessels of the line by Professor Schultes), nebenbeys, schwern mern, &c., all of the same fashion, keelless, sail less, their plain deal sides daubed with broad, perpendicular stripes of black paint, their only ornament. Some of the larger are nearly one hundred and fifty feet long ; and, in 'ascending the river, are towed, four or five together, by from thirty to forty horses. The drivers are called jodelen, and a more singular set of beings can scarcely be imagined. In appearance they are something between the English dustman and drayman, but the lowest of either of those worthies might pass for a scholar and a gentle man by the side of a real jodel. From the mo ment the Danube becomes navigable, till it is again chained up in ice, these fellows never en ter the humblest hovel, or mix with men of other callings, but even sleep upon the river's bank beside their horses. A miserable super stition exists among them. They believe that some of their number must every year be sacri ficed to the Spirit of the Waters, and, conse quently, when an accident occurs, they all scramble for the drowning man's hat, but never think of stretching out a finger to save him, whom they look upon as a doomed and de manded victim. Professor Schultes declares that he once saw five jodelen, with their horses, precipitated into the river, when their compa nions hastily cut the ropes, to present the rest of the team from following, and drove on, leav ing the poor wretches to their fate." THE MARKETS. COAL MAR Adair's , 28s Od. Beaumont 26;,0 Burdon 25 9 Forrest 25 6 Heaton 51 0 Het)laurn Main 27 0 Holywell 2l 3 Killingworth 28 9 Liddell's Maim-. 25 6 Ord's Redhugh -...-..- 25 0 Petaw 27 0 Percy East --- 26 3 Pontop Windsor.-- 26 0 Tanfield Lea - 27 9 Townley 26 6 vVylain - '2B 0 Walls End Bell and Cc. 27 0 :ET.—Aug. 26. Walls End Newmarch«, SOS. 6d. Ditto Northumberland 28 0 Ditto Pearetli-- 25 6 Ditto Perkins and Co._ 28 3 Ditto Bidden's, ,30 6 Ditto Russell's . 3l 0 Ditto Walker 30 6 Nesham 23 0 Walls lietton.--... 32 It Ditto re-shipped---..... 31 3 Wall's End Lumley— 30 6 Walls End Lvons ~ 29 6 Walls End Stewart's 33 0 Ditto Simpson 24 6 vlyth irtley '9 0 Llangennech Coal 38 0 Silkstone— 26 0 6 W. E. Old Etherley_ 28 Pelaw Trader—, . 27 0 Hetton small —....... 17 0 Russell's small 13 6 Old Etherley small...—. 16 3 Tyne small 18 0 ips bold. 594—Unsold, 18. Ditto Bewicke an 1 1 0 Ditto Burraton 29 6 Ditto Carr and C 0...—. 16 9 litto Cramlington.,-- 15 9 Ditto I filda 27 9 Ditto 27 6 Ditto Heaton--- 30 9 bliips at market, 7714-Sli cOUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING 'rim WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. Is.to s. s. to s. 7. 8. Abingdon---. 58 82 32 38 21 32 42 Andover* 67 36 22 29 46 Birmingham 72 82 32 36 24 36 4 6 Bridport 56 74 32 39 26 34 54 Cirencester --. 52 '72 30 31 23 25 44 Faringdon--- 51 86 36 4(1 26 38 46 Guildford . 49 74 32 38 24 33 4 5 Henley-- 51 83 30 35 20 30 40 Hereford 61 84 38 45 36 40 (8) Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 5 6 Maidenhead 65 84 28 38 2.2 51 Oakingham -- 56 76 30 3 6 18 32 43 Reading 60 82 32 37 24 34 42 Salisbury*. 54 '76 33 36 24 31 M Southampton 54 78 37 40 28 32 48 Stroud —.... 66 80 :31 38 22 32 42 Tewkesbury 65 87 40 42 30 38 51 Uxbridge ---- 48 81 33 36 23 31 43 Wantage 5O 78 30 37 22 30 42 Warminster .19 80 36 23 35 5 0 Windsor..----... 1 . 0 82 31 36 <5 36 54 W0rce5ter—............ 70 75 36 40 24 32 44 CHELTENHAM MA ItKET.—Aug. 25. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Pet lb. d. to d. Wheat Barley Oats Beans 4 9 5 6 Lamb 7 9 Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork 6 7j Hay 3l. 10s. to 3/. 15s. per ton. LEWES MARKET.—Aug. 25. White Wheat (per quarter) £3 10 0 to £3 12 0 Red ditto Barley Oats, New 1 2 0 1 6 0 Pease 1 17 0 2 2 6 Oil Cake, New l2 0 0 oer thousand. HULL MARKET.-Aug. 25. During the we.k the weather has been wet and unfa vourable, and several parcels of Wheat have been taken off at an advance of 2s. to 3s. per quarter, with more demand for the secondary qualities. To-day is fine, and although the advance has been maintained, yet there was not so much life in the trade as might have been anticipated, from the certainty that New Wheats must be secured in soft condition ; in consequence of the immense quantity of rain that has fallen, the complaints this morning are very general of considerable injury, especially to the heavy crops in this neighbourhood, and the holders of Old Wheat by no means anxious sellers. We still have inquiries after lock Wheats at our quotations. We continue in the same . dull and inanimate state for all spring Corn, and no altera tion can he noted in the value of any description. Of Rapeseed but little offering, and our quotations fully sup ported. Linseed without alteration. Wheat, Old -s. s. -s. Now -s. 60s. 703- -- Foreign Oats, Poland -s. 203. 24c Old 265. - Small or Feed.... -a. 12s. 18s. - Foreign -s. 20s. 245. Barley, Norf. & Sut -s 2(35. 28s. Line. & Wold 28s. 30s. Foreign -s. 303. 225. Beans 31s. 365. 38s. Foreign --s. 365. 390. Pease, White -s. 345. 365. Grey -s. 30s. 325. Taros -s 345. 365. F0reign......... -8. 28s. 32r. Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last -1. 261. 28/. BIRTHS. On the 25th inst , at Richmond, the Lady Isabella Cast, of a son. . _ _ -- - On the 26th inst. in Alontagu-square, the lady of R. H. Close, Esq. of a son. At Chandos-place, Brighton, on the 15th inst. Lady Lillie, of a son. MARRIED. On the 25th inst. at Great Chesterford, A. H. Pear son, Esq. of Queen's-college, Cambridge, to Isabella , (laughter of the Hon. and Rev. R. Fitzgerald King, and grand-daughter of the late Earl of Kingston. The bride was given away by her cousin, Viscount Kingsborough. On the 25th inst. George Gataker, Eiq. to Sophia Sarah, second daughter of H. S. Partridge, Esq. of Hock ham-hall, Norfolk. On the 26th inst. at Brighton, Mr. Wm. Gale Pike, of London, to Georgina, daughter of the late C. Wiick, Esq. of Brighton. DIED. On the 23d inst. in Upper Berkeley-street, Portman square, Mary, widow of the late Benjamin North, E. 1.1 aged 64. On the 24th inst. in Seymour-place, Euston-square, Mrs. Dibbs, aged 87. Lately, aged 63, Sir W. Mansel, Bart., late of Iscool, Carmarthenshire. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, at tbd Omer, 112, STRAND, LONDON.