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the appearance of a plumber's window as a decoy, the whole establishment being in fart nothing b ut a receiving shop for stolen lead. Neither Anderson nor Shenstone could give any swisfecory account for their possession of this large quantity of lead, and in consequence, under the Act of Parliament, Anderson was committed for two months to hard labour in the House of Correction; and Shenstone, being in a bad state of health, instead of being sub jenle,l to the same•term of imprisonment, was fined 51. i 4 the offence, end the whole of the lead was !cited to the Crown. It being strongly expected that before the appre lienbion of these persons became known several other visitors as retailers of stolen lead were likely to conic to the premises, two other officers, Ballard and An drews, were stationed in the back parlour, where weights and scales were ready hung to weigh the imoty as it was brought in ; in the course of the same evening, the officers caught in this trap no less than nine others, who entered at different times, their bodies, too, bound round with sheet lead, for which nor one of them could satisfactorily account; and the whole of them, 11 in number, were yester day brought before the same Magistra.e (Mr. RoE) and committed for two months to the House of Cor raction. This names of these 11 prisoners were—John Den Pats , John Avindon, George Brookes, John Writers, Francis Thorne, John Madly, James Bayley, John Ducktvoalh, Thomas Blackgrove, and 11 7 m. Clarke. LAMBETH-STREET. John Foster WLS brought yesterday before Mr. WALKER, charged by Pendegast, the headborongh of Whitechapel, with having robbed him on Satur day evening of 31. 15..—He WR3 fully committed for A man applied to Mr. WALKER to know if he could not give him assistance under the following circumstances : He stated that a short time ago a person came to him and told him that he was an attorney, and would get his debts in for him. On this condi tion he he'd given him different sums of money, and he had since found out that he had done nothing in his business, and had gone to none of his creditors. Mr. WALKER told him that if people were foolish enough to employ persons who were not respectable, they must expect to be served as he had been : he could do nothing for him. The overseer of Poplar appeared yesterday to dr awer n summons granted by Mr. WALKER to an of l German and his wife. The overseer said, that in 1821 they had been passed from the parish of St. John, Horslydown, to Poplar. The parish of Poplar resisted this order, and the appeal was tried at the Sessions, and the Wider of removal was quashed. A short time ago They were again passed from Whitechapel to Poplar. The parish again resisted, and again the order was quashed. The paupers did not belong to Poplar, and consequently the parish refused to relieve them. They had cost upwards of 601. in law expenses, to the parish of Poplar. Mr. WALKER told the paupers not to come and trouble him again, for he certainly would not compel a parish to relieve persons who did not belong to them. We stated a day or two ago that an old woman land man had beets granted a summons against the parish of St. George. The assistant overseer ap peared yesterday to answer the summons. It was true, he said, that they had been only given os. to kaice them to Wells, hut it was their own fault, for they said it would be enough. Had it not been for the insolence of the woman, she would have been passed long enough ago. He said, however, that hr would take care that justice should be done them, and that they should be sent to their parish. QUEEN-SQUARE. A young man, who gave his name the Hon• henry Turner Harrington, of the Guards, was brought up in custody, awl placed at the bar before Mr. MARRIOTT, charged with stealing four valuable rings and a necklace from the apartments of M,s Louisa Goff, in Swereign-street, Edge►warc-road.— Miss Goff was accompanied by her mother-in-la►w and a female serraat. It appeared from the statement of the procecutrix that the prisoner first accosted her ors Thursday night as she was stepping into a coach at Drure-lane Theatre, intimating that he was a gentleman of rank and honour, and after inquiring her destination, re-. quested her to allow him to take a seat in the coach with her, as he was compelled to go to the Club- house, iri Waterloo-place. To this she consented,' and on his alighting at the Club-house he pro mised to cull upon her. The prisoner kept his appointment, but she being engaged at the time, he ob.ervfd that he ►would do himself the honour of renewing his vi.it in the evening. He dd so, and remained with her to an exceedingly late hour, or rather an early hour, when she left the room for a few minutes, and on returning, found that be had disappeared with her rings, &c., leaving a not, on the table apologising for his going away. Mr. MARRIOTT here interrupted Miss Goff, by asking her whether she bad ever seen the prisoner in the same way before. Miss Goff—No, Sir, I never did. Mr. MARRIOTT—Then, Madam, for I must still presume, from your appearance, that you arc a lady, you tell me that you meet an entire stranger at the t hentre,— that you permit him to get into your coach, set him down at a club house, and that after- • wards he visits yeti upon his representation that he is the Lord knows whet or ►who, because he chooses to call himself the Honourable Mr. Something, and that you consent to pass an evening ►with the very same man . ? Miss Goff (sighing)—l confess I did, Str. Mr. MAntuovr—Tlien yon must certainly be an entire stranger to this great town, or else you appear to me to be as likely to let a man into your bed as into your coach. Here an elder ly lady, who was sitting on die side bench, and sobbing violently, stepped forward, and was about to speak. Mr. MARRIOTT—Who are you, Madam ? And pray put up your veil, for there is no hearing you ladies when you speak tin ough veils. The witness here that she was mother-in law to Miss Goff, who had unforranarely been se duced by a Clptain C , fiirmedy of the Life Galardi, who left her destitute on the world, al though she was a lady by birth and education. Mr. MARRIOTT—A lady, indeed I Witness continued by observing, that she her se lf was the widow of an officer, and had been unfor tunate, like her daughter, in early life, from her at tachment to the army; arid even now she was per suaded, that if two of the rings were restored, on which her daughter placed a particular value, she would be content to pardon the young gentleman. Mr, MARRIOTT—WeII, as long as I have been accustomed to investigations at a police-office, I do not remember to have heard any thing so monstrous and so shocking as this. You admit that you pity this young culprit from his genteel appearance, arid that if two of your daughter's rings could be re stored to her, you wish him to be pardoned. Is that what you mean ? Witness—Yes, Sir. Mr. Maßtuorr —Why, you are asking me to compromise my oath by compounding felony. You must be aware of the manner of life your daughter leads ? Witness (sobbing)-1 am , si r . Mr. MARRIOTT—Horrible ! horrible A police constable stated that he apprehended the prisoner on Saturday while skating r; the Ser pentine River, when tie was pointed c' to him by the prosecutrix. Mr. MARRIOTT asked the prisoner what he had to %ay in his defence. The Prisoner said he wished to ask the police officer whether he could not have escaped if he pleaved, and thrown the rings into the water. Ile police-office r , in reply, said that the prisoner merit with him likea gentleman to the watch-house, but when he (Tot there he snapped a pistol at him, and behaved like a vagabond, and would have shot rsA him if he could. Witness searched him and found 11. 12s. 61.1. in his pockets, and six gilt counters. It was intimated to the Magistrate that the counters were used for play. The prisoner declined saying any thing in his de fence, and was fully committed to Newgate for trial. It is needless to say that there is no such person l as the Hon. Mr. Harrington in the Guards in ex istence. UNION'-HALL. Yesterday a man named Lamb was brought be fore Mr. CHAMBERS, charged with endangering the lives of several Persons by shooting at birds in an enclosed piece of ground. Mr. Lister having affirmed that the lives of other persons, as «e:1 as his own, were endangerel by the careless manner in which the defendant dis cliarged his fowling-piece, the Magistrate held Lim to bail. The defendant hoped that his fowling-piece would be delivered to him again. His request, however, was not complied with, end he was told that lie might bring his action for its recovery. A Mr. Knight, a stable-keeper in Blackfriars road, was charged with having assaulted Clarke, a consti,ble, appointed street•keeper of Nelson-square. Defendant was discharged. Thomas Cooper, the schoolmaster of Newington workhouse, and Eliza Bond, an inmate of the same place, were brought up on the following charge : One of the overseers, with great gravity of counte nance, stated that he attended t here to complain of the immoral behaviour of the two personsat the bar. The man, who was a pauper in the house, had been se lected to superintend the education of the boys, and was well qualified for the situation, having been educated in Merchant Tailors' School. The female, who was also an inmate, although a pauper, yet be longed to a family of high reepectabil!y, her father having been a Colonel in his Majesty's service. Both these persons, although reduced to the neces sity of seeking an asylum in the workhouse, were treated w:th great kindness there, and would have still met with every indulgence the place could have afforded, if they had conducted themselves with de corum and decency. Instead of behaving them selves in a proper manner and setting a good ex amele to the rest of the inmates, the defendants were recently discovered to have been carrying on an intrigue together. The overseer here commenced describing the interior of the workhouse, and in the course of his description, said that the women's bed rooms were a considerable distance from those of the men's, vet the woman at the bar had contrived, on a hard frosty night, (Sunday night,) to walk along a gallery, on gaining the extremity of which she had to explore sereral apartments in the dark before she came to that of the schoolmaster, who it appears was wrapped in the arms of Somnus when she got into the room. The noise, in awakening him from his slumbers, disturbed some boys who were sleeping in the same room, and they instantly got up, and seeing a gaunt figure ►tslking at the foot of the sehoolmeseer's bed, they seized tl:e female defendant, and crying out for• a light, one was brought, when the " nightly spectre" nes found to be no other than Eliza Bond, who, on being disco vered in the situation, declared that she was in the habit of walking in her sleep, and that she had strayed from her bed while under its influence. The schoolmaster pretendedeot to be aware of the nature of the visit paid him at so unseasonable an hour of the night, and declared that she must be a sleep walker, otherwise she never could have pas•ed from her side of the building to that of his on a tremen dous cold night, with nothing on but her chemise.-e- She must therefore, added the schoolmaster, be a sleep-walker. The overseer said that the school master was a man of most immoral character, and, as the female was shortly to come into the posses sion of some property, he sought every means to se cure her affections, for the purpose of getting hold of her money. Mr. CHAMBERS said that it was highly improper the workhouse was constructed in such a manner as to render it easy of access to both men end women's wards. While that was the case, instead of its being what it should be, a receptacle for aged and infirm persons, it would be a brothel. It having been found that the schoolmaster was drunk on the preceding night, he was committed for 21 days to Brixton. The woman was discharged. Our correspondent at Barnsley describes the state of that town in a deplorable manner ; lie says that the number of looms is 3,710 ; that there arc in full em ploy, 314 ; partially employed, 1,202 ; and totally un employed, 2,l9 4.—Leeds Patriot. We have the pleasure to communicate to tha geological world the discovery, by Miss MART ANNING, of an entirely new specimen of fossil organic remains, em bedded in the lies of Lyme Regis. It is about a foot and a half long, has t...v0 immense sockets for the eyes, a long snout ; a series of the finest vertebrae that have ever been seen in so small a creature, chtws, fins like wings, and some beautiful fluted thorns like those of tie tay, with the exception that in the fish they are nut fluted. —F, xe u e Flying Post. Yesterday morning, suspicion was excited amoag the workmen at Cartaburn grain -mills, by the ap pearance of some fragments of female clothing coiled round various parts of the great wheel of the upper mill, and also by a small bundle, containing scraps of bread and cheese, having been found in the lead between the mills, and which bad apparently been washing down—all tending to the cln jecture that some person bad perished by getting entangled with the upper mill wheel in the dark, and being destroyed by its successive revolutions. Fan ther search was accord ingly instituted, and two pieces of a human skull and por tions of the brain were discovered in the bottom of the wheel, and other indications which left no doubt that some one had there met a melancholy death. Nearly the whole of the clothing, it would appear, was collected, but in frag ments. An old coarse grey:cluth cloak, having a hood at tached to it, with blue lining, was found almost entire; likewise a muslin cap and blue riband, and the remains of a blue and red striped wrapper, petticoat, shift, &c. A woman was seen on Wednesday, at two o'clock in the af ternoon, in the vicinity of the mill, whose exterior dress corresponded with the above, and who said that she be longed to the neighbourhood of Ballantrae ; and as she also had a bundle in her hand, it is probable that she may have been the luckless sufferer, though how she came by her death can only be conjectured. It is supposed that she might have wished to seek shelter in the mill during the night, and that in attempting to get access by a door, under the threshold of which the gearing from the great wheel runs, she had, by stepping upon it, been thrown forward within the rim of the great wheel, and thus met her death in a manner too horrible to describe. The circumstance of the body not having been found may arise from its having passed under the covered lead between the mills, and been there stopped in its progressdown.— Greenock Advertiser. On Tuesday last a hardy woman, about 30 years of age, the wife of W. DUNMTER, a butcher in this town, left Manchester to go as far as the neighbour beurhoo4.l of Astley, for the purpose of returning with a cow. Though she was in that happy state in which " ladies wish to be who love their lords," she had no ex pectations of being early confined, and felt perfectly com petent to her Laborious journey. She reached the place (slankin's-wood, about nine miles from hence), obtained the cow, and in the evening was about three miles on her return home with her charge when she became suddenly unwell ; she seated herself by the toad side, and was then immediately delivered of a fine male child amongst the snow, which had previously fallen pretty densely. A gentleman, however, passing about this time, and find ing the unfortunate state of the poor mother and her baby, roused two old women in a neighbouring cAtaiee, who came with all alacrity to her assistance. They supported her to the White [horse Inn, in Woraley, about 50 or 60 yards from the place where the event happened, and a little girl brought the " illustrious stranger" in her " bishop." Here mine liii.tess received them with a promptitude and kindness which does her the greatest credit. She put Mrs. DuasTra to bed, and afforded her every comfortshe required. The followir.:; morning she was so well that she wished to proceed to Manchester, but Mrs. SMITH 'sore prudently dissuaded her from so rash an undertaking. She is now very well, and the I oy declared to be one of the finest ever pres•nted to a husband. Mr. SMITII, the landlord, insists on her remaining with her baby till she can remove with perfect safety : and he so 'midi admires her hardiness, and the extraordinary circumstance that made her his guest, that he has given orders that not a farthing should be charged while she remained the inmate of the White Horn inn,—Mauchester dldvertiser. LITERAI URE. THE YOUNG LADY'S BOOK. LONDON, 1829. The majority of our Annuals, however ably and spiritedly got up, arc more to be admired for the ornamental than the useful or practical character :of their information. We arc glad) therefore, to see one Annual which, together with embellishments—though of a different class of excellence—fully equal to those of its elegant predecessors, professes to impart sound, valua able, and, in a partial degree, moral matters of intelligence to its fair readers. " The Young Lady's Book" contains, we believe we may ven- ture to say, every thing necessary to draw forth, accomplish, and enlarge the intellect of a female. It treats in a light, discursive, and engaging style, upon Botany—Conchology— Entomology—Mineralogy—and, in the more fa miliar and every-day departments of female edu cation, upon the Toilette—the Art of Embroi dery—the Escrutoirc--Painting—Music-- Dancing, Riding—and a variety of other minor accomplishments. Each of these topics, in addi. tion to the satisfactory manner in which they are canvassed, is embellished, in its different departments, by neat engravings, which reflect the highest credit on the genius and judgment of the artist. Altogether the work is the com pletest of the kind we haver ever seen, and de serves a very extended circulation. CHANGES OF MANNERS. The following is from the pen of Captain Grose, the eminent antiquary, who died in the year 1791, at the age of GO ; it was written about the year 1782 : " I am a man of little more than 50 years of age, and yet I have nearly outlived a variety of systems and manners. When I was a young man, there ex isted in the families of most unmarried men or widowers, of the rank of gentlemen, residents in the country, a certain antiquated female, either a maiden or widow, commonly an aunt or cousin. Her dress consisted of a stiff starched cap and hood, a little hoop, and a rich silk damask gown, with large flowers, she leaned on an ivory headed crutch cane, and was followed by a fat phthisicky dog, usually of the pug kind, who commonly reposed on a cushion, and enjoyed the privilege of snarling at the servants, and oc casionally biting their heels with impunity. By the side of this good old lady jingled a bunch of keys, securing in different closets and corner cupboards all sorts of cordial waters, cherry and raspberry brandy, washes for the complexion, Daffy's Elixir, a rich seed cake, a number of pots of currant jelly and raspbeny jam, with a range of gallipots and phials containing physic for the use of the poor neighbours. The daily business of this good lady was to scold the maids, collect eggs, feed the turkeys, &c. " Another character, now worn out and gone, is the country 'Squire. I mean the little inde pendent gentleman, with a landed property of 3001. a year,* who commonly appeared in a plain drab or plush coat, large ziilver buttons, a jockey cap, and rarely without boots. His tra vels never exceeded the distance of the county town, and that only at Assize and Session time, or to attend an election. Once a week he com monly dined at the next market town, with the attorneys and Justices. This man went to church regularly, read the weekly journal, settled the parochial disputes with the parish officers at the Vestry, and afterwards adjourned to the neighbouring ale-house, where he usually got drunk for the good of his country. He never played at cards but at Christmas, when a family pack was produced from the mantel-piece. He was commonly followed by a couple of grey . hounds and a pointer, and announced his arrival at a.neighbour s house by smacking his whip, or giving the view-halloo. His drink was gene rally ale, except on Christmas, the sth of No vember, or some other gala days, when he would make a bowl of strong brandy punch, garnished with a toast and nutmeg. A journey to Lon. don was by one of these men reckoned as great an undertaking as is at present a voyage to the East Indies, and undertaken with scarce less precaution and preparation. " The mansion of one of these squires was of plaistcr, striped with timber (not unaptly called calimanco work), or of red brick with large casemented bow-windows, a porch with seats in it, and over it a study. The eaves of the house were well inhabited by swallows, and the court set round with hollyhocks. The hall was fur nished with flitches of bacon, and the mantel. piece with guns and fishing-rods of different dimensions, accompanied by the broad-sword, partisan, and dagger, borne by his ancestor in the civil wars. Against the wall was' posted King Charles's Golden Rules,' Vincent Wing's Ahnanack; and a portrait of the Duke of Marlborough, and in his window lay Baker's Chronicle,' Fox's Book of Martyrs,' Glanyil on Apparitions,' Quincey's Dispensatory,' The Complete Justice,' and a book of Far riery. In the corner, by the fire side, stood a large wooden two armed chair, with a cushion ; and within the chimney corner were a couple of seats. Here at Christmas he entertained his te nants, assembled round - a glowing fire,made of the roots of trees, and other great logs. The best parlour, which was never open but upon particu lar occasions, was furnished with Turkey worked chairs, and hung round with portraits of his an cestors—the men in the character of shepherds, with their crooks, dressed in full Court suits, and huge full-bottomed perukes (such as the Judges wear now;) others in full suits of ar mour, playing on the lute. The females, like wise, were dressed as shepherdesses, with a lamb and crook, all habited in high head-dresses and flowiAg robes. " These men and their houses are now no more; the luxury of the times having obliged them to quit the country, to become dependents on the great, or members of some profession. The venerable mansion is, in the mean time, suffered to tumble down, or is partly upheld as a farm-house, till, after a few years, the estate is sold to the steward of some neighbouring Lord, or else to some Nabob, Government-contractor, or limb of the law." • The quantity of land nccesary to produce 3001. a year then, would be worth near 7001. now, front change o! price and better vulture. Mrs. EMOND, wife of a labourer in this town (Kelso), was on S turlay morning delivered of four daughters. They were all born alive, but three of them are since dead ; the fourth is taking Inod, but not likely to live. They were nice h. althy-looking children. They weighed on an average 21bs. 120 a., and measured in length 16 inches. The average weight of children, we believe, is Ilbs., average length 18 inches. Mrs. EmoNn is doing well ; all the children. were born within an honr and a half after the birth of the first. —.Edinburgh Observer. LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1829. The French Papers of Saturday have been received by express. They contain a report that the French Government made proposals to the PACHA of EGYPT to assist in subduing the Regency of Algiers, with the intermediate line of coast, but that the PACIIA refused. We think if the French entertained serious thoughts of reducing the refractory DEY, that they have force enough themselves. To do the thing effec tually, a land force seems indispensable. German Papers to the 23d instant have been received this morning. It appears that the earthquake in Wallachia did considarable damage to many towns at a distance surrounding Bucharest. The severity of winter was felt in all its rigour, the thermometer being from 10 to 15 degrees below the freezing point. The Grand Duke CONSTANTINE has arrived at Warsaw, and report says he will visit St. Petersburg!' : WALLACHIA. The earthquake which was felt in the night of the 25th November, in Odessa, Jassy, Czernowitz, Hermannstadt, Cronstadt, and many other places in Transylvania, and the Buckowina, did considerable damage at Bucharest. A letter from that city, dated Dec. 4, says—" 115 houses, among IN hich is that of the English Consul, have been rendered untenable by the effects of the late earthquake. Fifteen churches are so much injured that they cannot be used. Happily no person perished, except a young woman who was killed by the fall of a stone near which she slept. The town of Kimpiria, on the road to Cronstadt, has suffered in pro portion more than Bucharest. The newly erected church, and a large house, were thrown down ; all the other dwelling-houses have sustained great injury. The inhabitants of Bucharest dread the return of this dreadful natural phenomenon. Winter now reigns here in all its rigour ; the thermometer is continually at from 10 to 15 degrees below the freezing point. FRONTIERS OF POLAND, DEC. 12. Letters from \\lamer, announcing the arrival of the Grand Duke Constantine and his August Con sort, mention a report that his Imperial Highness would shortly go to St. Petersburgh, on a visit to the Emperor. Prince Chosrew Mirza, on his return from St. Petersburgh, pissed some days at Moscow, where he appeared to be much pleased with the numerous fetes given in his honour, at which he behaved with great politeness to the ladies. It is reported that, according to the Oriental custom, he had even asked the hands of three young ladies, at once intending to take them as his wives to Peisia. However, on its being explained to him that the accomplishment of this wish was incompatible with European man ners, he made an apology for his mistake. lie made numerous purchases in Moscow, especially of fowling pieces. The accounts from the Principalities respecting the plague are less unfavourable, and it is hoped that the increasing cold will entirely put an end to the disorder. In the frontier towns of Poland and Gallicia trade is extremely dull, as the rigorous sanitary measures subject goods to long quarantine, which causes great delay in forwarding them to their destination. (From the Commercial Gazette of St. Pctersburyit.) ODESSA, NOV. 27. Since the 21st September, when the salute of artillery announced the conclusion of peace with the Porte, this town has become more an more animated. 'There are in the port and road above 300 vessels, w hi c h are loaded and unloaded with incredible acti as if to make us forget the last two years, during i which we have hardly seen a merchantman. Our istock of wheat is beginning to be very low, but as leupplies continue to arrive from the interior of the iempire, the prices do not rise. The free navigation `of ',he Black Sea being obtained for all natiane, will tend to make our commerce very flourishing. The establishment of a branch of the house of L. Stieg litz and Co. of St. Petersburgh, will also contribute to it, that house being universally known for the extent of its enterprise, and the prudence with which its affairs are conducted. In recurring to the extraordinary prosecutions at Westminster during the last week, we arc gra tified in being able to record with confidence, the strong opinion that has been generally enter tained on this subject. That opinion, we believe, coincides with the remarks we made on the ter 1' mination of the third trial, viz.—that the utter groundlessness of the imputations on the distin guished persons in question had been established beyond all doubt—but that the prosecutions against the offenders had very far exceeded the bounds of moderation and good sense, and had given the proceedings a character of vindictive ness, which, if the first verdict had closed the affair, would have been avoided. Ne quid nimis is a safe and good maxim, and whoever violates it, usually meets with a recoil from the act which would otherwise have beneficted him. The sen sation created by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL has excited a sort of sympathy for the ultra-Tory cause which we much regret, but which English men are, to their honour, prompt to evince for all persons and things that are ill-used. The late QUEEN'S Trial is a lesson in this respect to all Governments for the time to come, to beware of making popular, by persecution, the object of their fear or dislike, however unworthy of popu larity that object may intrinsically be. There is, besides public opinion, another tri bunal before whom the want of moderation of the ATTORNEY-GENERAL will doubtless have io full weight. We mean the Court of King's Bench, before which the several defendants will, next Term, be brought up for judgment. The four Judges of that Court are too independent to be turned by political considerations from the course they are in the constant habit of pursuing, when defendants have already been pressed to the earth by a mass of proceedings, and a load of expense, viz.—to temper justice with mercy. That mercy is called for %lid) unusual force at the hands of the Court, by the individuals against whom verdicts of guilty hare been just recorded. It has been thought by some, that the several Juries were bound to find verdicts in accordance with the instructions of the Judge concerning the libellous tendency of the publications. That is a great mistake, and we lament that the re spectable individuals who composed the Juries should have laboured under any such impression. It cannot be too often repeated, that since Mr. Fox's Act, the Jury are the sole authority com petent to decide what is libellous and what is not. They are to judge, from their own common sense, of the intent and effect of the offensive publication—they are to take the words as they are read to them, and say simply, whether for these words the defendant deserves punishment or not. They are not bound to pay any more respect to the opinion of so upright and erudite a Judge as Lord TENTERDEN, thitil to the ferocious dictum of a JEFFRIES, if such a scourge were again to visit us. Lord TENTER DEN is not a jot better qualified to say what is a libel than any merchant or tradesman in London. His Lordship may be in full pos session of the decisions of his predecessors on this head, but those decisions are ut terly worthless, because libel is now, happily, not a question of law, but of fact ; and facts cannot be determined by adjudged cases. If, therefore, any of the Jurymen thought that the Duke of WELLINGTON'S reputation was not put in jeopardy by the " Morning Journal," and that the Duke had won laurels, military and civil, enough to make him quite easy as to what Mr. ALEXANDER might say of him—it was the clear duty of those Jurymen to have acquitted the defendants. The Jury which tried the Atlas should, on their own showing, have done the same ; for to say a man is merely guilty of publishing, is to say he has done what he may lawfully do, and virtually acquits him of a malicious intention. This last verdict will probably not draw down any sen tence ; but it would have had an infinitely better effect if the Jury had said plainly, " Not G uilt y ." If the Juries were to stand by the Press, as firmly as the Press has uniformly stood by the Juries, the liberties of Englishmen would have little to fear from the indiscretion of an ATTOR NEY•GENERAL. They are the two great secu rities on which our freedom rests ; but their power depends on the reciprocal support they give to each other, and is lamentably weakened when they work at cross purposes. For this reason, much as we deprecate and abhor abusive language in any publication, and thoroughly as we are convinced of the falsehood of the impu tations to which the KING and his Ministers have been subjected in this instance, we should have been better pleased to have seen the Ju r i es interfere after the first trial, and stop a useless multiplicity of proceedings against the Press, by delivering absolute verdicts of acquittal. On Tuesday last Captain Ross's horses were put up by suction at Melton Mowbray, but only two were told. Clinker, which lately run the steeple-chase in this county, was purchased for 3:50 guineas for Lord WIL LOUGHBY; anti Polecat In.ttle 250 guineas, for Lord A XSON.—LeiceFtrr Chrcnichr. The present is considered to be the most " old-tishionel Christmas" experienced for many years, in allusiou to the heavy fall of snow and severe frost. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCIT PAPERS. (From Galignani's Messenger of Saturday.) PARIS, DEC. 26.—A letter from Canes, in the island of Candia, of the 25th ult., says that a vessel from Alexandria had brought word that a relation of General Guilleminot •had lately arrived on a mis— sion to the Viceroy of Egypt, to propose to subdue the recency of Algiers and the 800 leagues of coast which formerly composed the maritime fron tier of the republic of Carthage. Mehemet Ali was to be supported by a French fleet to ac•t in concert with Tripoli and Tunis. The negotiator made many tempting proposals, and Mehemet replied by inquiring what he was to do after having conquered Algiers "To repose and enjoy your glory." " Well," said Mehemet, " I will do so from this moment." This answer ' \vas followed by an: order to place his troops on the peace establishment, and to dismantle his vessels. Letters from Oporto announce, that above 4q persons had just embarked clandestinely in that port', to take refuge in France and England. Yesterday being Christmas-day, none of the French Journals have been published this morning.. _ _ The celebrated M. Ouvrard, who was arrested five years ago for debt at the suit of M. Seguin, was libel rated from prison on Thursday, the legal term foe which French debtors can be confined having expiredi, FUNns.-PAnis, Dst. 26.—Five per bent'i 108 f. 35c. ; Three per Cents. 84f.10e. 25e. ; Bank Stock; ; Naples Stock, 92f. 15c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 81-if. ; Bente Perp. d'Espagne, 61A-; tlaytianLoan, 430 f, Exchange on Lnedon,—one month, 25f. 60c. ; threi months, 25f. 45e. Cours Authentique. (From the Allycmeihe Zeitung, Dee. 22.) VI X X NA, Drc. 17.—Metalliques, 1021; Four per Cents ; Bank Shares, 1,252, 1255. rr.i.crh or sTOCXS rims Vtock 3 ;Yet Cent. Red. 1.14% - 1,4N 3 per Cent. Cons. shut oAT AT !INK o'cLocs.. lentil Sea Steck sht4 101 d Annuities New Ditto shut i}.i per Cent... — EX. ?nib% rri Z 1,1 Alll 2d. 75 17 pni, Ditto Red. lOOl4 % ( Ditto lid. 74 p I 1 per Cent. Ann Ditto, 1q 96 Ditto 'kr - 1p 13Ank 1.. Ann. Ditto 30 years 1 11 16-15 Bank (or Account 217 India 5t0.71t shut India for Account Ditto Bonds 70 pm. Cons. for January 9h1A%1,./' PRICES OF FOREIGH.FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCE. Austrian Bonds — Neapolitan — Brazilian Bonds -eny% Peruvian Bonds — Buenos Ayres Bonds — Portuguese Ponds Chilian Bonds Prussian , Old Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 2ii% :Russian .: IO 9YsN% Danish 731/ ;eh. :821 .10%14 vanish 7 Gre2lc Bonds ;i :Spaniel - 1823 atto, 1825 9 8 1 ,4 "French Rentcs, sp. c. f. —c. G Mczlcan Bonds —I 3 percent. —r. I)ittn, 1823 Y 54 % ! - EZchnnge FHICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY OFE O ' CLOCK. Paid. Par 3hare. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. Om at 5/. pm.) XlOO 41 42 1 ,6 firizMan Imp. Mm. Co. ;is, at 51. pm.) £2O 92 Ditto National lO 211 21} 231 25 Real del Monte Mining Co. .£loo 74 United Mcx. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) .£3934 1:!4 Arrived. MAILS. Due. 'Arrived. O America 0 - 0 Hamburg 3 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Jamaica 1 O Cart hagena 1 0 Leeward lslaids ... A 1 Dublin 0 0 Lisbon 0 O Flanders 0 0 Mexico 1 Franc.. 0 0 Sweden 2 Guernsey &Jersey.. 0 1 Waterford DIGII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning 33 minutes after 4. I Evening...l I minutes after 5. if & n e, 'dr - n* Iv* j?±l C. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE;•-('THIS DAT') FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, DEC. 28.—Wind N.W. heavy sn° 4lP. ; Several sail from the River passed; among other the Egham, Turner, for Cadiz; Ealing ar ° A l , i fi • Falconer, for Dominica ; Topaz, Strayan, fo r ' , " tigua ; Tasmania, Memel, for Naples ; and Hive' Stafford, for Jamaica. COWES, DEC. 28.—Arrived the Emma LASSO, Bollard, from St. Domingo. DUNDEE, DEC. 27.—Arrived the Nimble, Mack,i!'s and Rose Nichol, Mackie, from Riga; and 4 65-1 Essen, Banks, from Liebau. BRISTOL, DEC. 28. Arrived the Venus, ) 311/11 ' (lull, from Lisbon. philliP HOLYHEAD, DEC. 28.—Off Port, the Tabi,,—, from Virginia. WAINFLEET, DEC. 21.—A Foreign galliot, or posed Danish, laden with B.,ltic timber and 614 1 and abandoned, was on shore on Boston Long Sa n t , yesterday morning. It is supposed she wilir pieces as it blows a gale at N.W. - BLAKENEY, DEC. 25.—A chest, ,containing wearing apparel, nautical instruments and - Piir_ r , was washed on shore here this morning; on .3 of morocco leather are the words " Gott*, W'' helm Bulke, Von Suinemunde" suppoied . o4 6l , 6 belonged to the master of the Sophia, of - slico v mundle. DOVER, DEC. 27.—The state of the weatherthe4 been such during the last week as almost to Olt $ stop to the arrival and departure of the foreie mail;; indeed, the inland mails have arrived'' uch after the usual time. Oa Tuesday last, - from tl!! s s wi t diatgeh,e butvr o a r n ! o l o r r e h r h e ae d am age n i e ahi b las e : e slippery state of the road, the mail from London -1P not arrive for four hotirs after the usual time, and 0 1 2 We learn that it has blown very hard on the other been tiir His Majedy's packet the Crusader, sailed to-day * mll bar of passengers, amongst whom were the Marcell de Bombel, Marchioness and suite, Mahillips, Mr. and Mrs. Jennings, Lady Church, 8:e. - Arrived his Majesty's packet Salamander, 011 despatches, two carriages, and 5.5 passertierst p ee ro de p os o nr r re t i.a i ogneasl,lys d r eterdett amongst whom were General and Mrs. Palm er ' Captain Nash, Mr. and Mrs. St. Aubin, &c., from Calais. Arrived the Medusa steam,*'` ` from from Boulogne, with about 30 passengers.. irrlved the Brothers of Brixlia:n, from St. Übes to Lond on wits loss of anchors and cables, with 'Which she P s been supplied, and sailed again. An anchor of about 16 cwts., marked -" •E iv miner," and about 86 fathom of chain cable, Pick ed . up in the Queen's channel, were landed g lio r " Bay on our shore, on Sunday. A brig, suppo,ed to be the Cherub, from Queb ec ' wag off Holy head on Sunday. The Epamittondas, Lanshoff, from Wyburg, P ut into t cable, o Por bound t o . ; ouch yest e rdayleaky, with loss of sa ch and et A The Eliza, Hooper, from Boston, and r,'", Spencer, from Qu e b e c, hive arrived off the Wig ilt. The Nimrod, Agnew, from Belfast to Cha rlcot°" ' was totally lost o,i the Island of Harris about the 11th inst.; crrw saved. FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.) • CITY, T WEL re 0' CL 0 CA: Accounts from Semlin of.the Sth December men• tion, that it was reported there that a new organizv Lion of Servia would take place. The . Custom' houses, which were farmed by the Pacha of ..Be l ' grade, would in future be under the Governmenr, and the fortresses would have, as f o rmerly,•Tutki °ll garrisons, which are to be composed of resulLit troops. They write from Switzerland that orders 10: been received from the King of France to .91 , 4 ti1 t numerousrthi,i urnslsoiltier auoii diei sit4pris , on t ' l there by tho ',Pe n Code, This has caused great surprise. The Turkish squadron, o n • A klexasi" . "' : s leaving F. , y pt to be escorted by a part of the Paella 131 —°‘. fleet, to the mouth of the Dardanelles. t Considerable sums of money are continually Den to Constantinople by the Pacha, who wishes to re rain the favours of the Sultan. of • - Norway, died at Christiana, le,was suPerintetideq Admiral Count de Pititifi, Governor;Gliiniral of the works for the cOnstruction of the Canal ° Gotha, which was to join the North Sett,to . t" Baltic. the. Confed,,!,,,,r,eirn: This morning is one of the most barren for sr rivals and intelligence we have had for some till past, with the exception of the French mail, an` that does not bring the French papers, still there AF, pears to be - come spirit in the Coniol market. . 0) ,":, cols, which left oil yesterday at 95 / 1. to I for tu: Account, opercd at the same price, since wh ic , t : they have been done at 95i, owing it is said, to " h t i i ; g e h f p a l v i o c t e l s r t o e f the e F u l u a n t d i o s n r , e c l e s h v i e c d h from iVienna.ma Ito. In the Foreign Market Brazil Stock conti nue° 721 for this time, and 73 for next A c count'. 1 " othen Foreign Securities little doing at presePt• ENGLIS: Bank Stock, 215 16 Indi.z Stock, 3 per Cent. CA>ng. shut Do., for Account, 9 51 / ti Ditto Reduced, 94} FUNDS. 3i per Cent. 1001 1 New 4 per Cent., phut 4 per Cent. 1826 1051 India Honda. 69 70 Exchequer-Bills, '76 77 FUNDS. Greek, 28i j FOXIIO Brazilian, 71 Beene' Ayres, 27 29 Orilla:1i, 26 28 Celeasisian, 255 6 Danl.'s, 741 51 French, 1 per Cent 108 Ditto, 3 per Ceat. 84 - - Mexissa, Sof 6 Perwriaii, 17f 18 Portnneme, •9} 60 Prussian, 10 Spesink, 10* 11 . 771VQ.,0sCiOC, he Extract of a commercial l e tt er f rom t r i e ste t h - c -- 19th December :" An opinion pr ev ails• . liere there will be a great advance on the exchatigeoll it is believed that the. Turkish Government ol o ptirchaw all the raper that can be found to remit to Russia, on account of the indemnity; and 6°lll . parties have operated on this opinion at Constoatt• nople, which has been the cause of Paper on Loot i , ° : to advance to 76 ; but they have ceased purchol e : owing to the advance, and Paper may now bc i fj i tanned at 75. It also appears th a t .the , Ttir''', Government are adopting 'teas-tires to cenciliate, t ,l" a people; the ancient family of the Ogloualsre!O c t to their immense property, which has given g!:ell satisfaction. TDB FUNDS. Coroola have continued the whole of ,the. mo rn ; ing, with the exception of the opening.i.pricei. a e 951 - for the account, with little doing, liere !A i n 't no information th a t t h e S pecu l ators vitriol or( and in the Foreign Market the only transactio o . ° 4 any comoquence is in Brazil Stock, which nutintslP its high price, 72k, for next time 73. Tll R 0' CL 0 0 Consols for Asconnt, 951 1. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES' Consols Danish 75e Do. for Ac. 95} I Greek, 1625 29 Brazilian Bonds 73 iblex;can, 1825 251 i3nenos Ayres Peruvian 18 Chiban Do. Russian 1091 Columbian, 1824, 26 Spanish 10 - _ We observe with great pleasure, that a cierg' man is Essex is adopting the plan which has been so al recommended, of letting to th e poor, l an d tith e •f ree , An d . $ the moderate rent of 21. per acre.- IVorld. The extensive improvements on the Birminr ham C a nal, under the direction of THOMAS TatrogP' Esq., were so far completed as to allow the boats fro° the collieries on the W e dn es b ur y li ne t o pass t h rou gh 1 , new level on Friday week. By tio-sc improvements ,14 whole of ten locks are avoided, and the distance betstrte ° Birmingham and Wednesbury reduced to abent 7 mike' —.S'lritfordshire Advertiser. On Friday se'nnight a couple were marrie d at Dnnblane, at whose wedding eight brothers danced; and the father played the fiddle. The bridegroom 1 0 twin brothers, an d th e b r id e twin eiders, who all &amid j foursome reel.