The Sun. — London, England, 1829-12-28 00:00:00

F e r Ire to .10. fly, ha, Id kit IW ' ff • When the Sparrow, envious of its good fortune. Perehes upon the house-top, and taking a fatal aim, sends th e a rrow to its rival's heart. A general con sternatidti ensues. The fly and the fish are re ePeetVely-seen and ad m i re d, and the human rnor 41e have recourse to ./Esop for advice. All this 0 "MI before one of the prettiest scenes in the Pa • ntotn irn , a iew of a village on a frosty morn bl;painted b y G r i eve, and in many respects in his et mariner. Xsop proceeds indignantly to the " Court of Birds," where the sapient Owl sits as president, but while he does sa, Cock Robin is bßall orn e to the grave. The funeral was clever ; the tolled, the bell magnificently, the Raven made th%good priest, the Dove an affectionate chief mourner, e Linnet, excellent rank and file men, and the ' ° hine bore the pall decorously. This novel pro cession excited roars of laughter. The eloquence atio dtiop i s on t h e point of procuring the condem n of the detected Sdarrow , when Vulcan inter ies his aut h or i ty, but is checked by " the star of Zs's" which appears on high in the distance, and lushly des cen d s to t h e earth with its fair inmate. is in every respect a beautiful piece of mechan p isro s - and does Mr. Bradwell great credit. It is in elegant, a n d effective. Venus converts her r,tyaious, oured lov ers i nto H arlequin and Columbine; and ul p gives the garb of Clown to Hobnail, while Pan taloops p - ring s from the eart h. Th e i n di v id ua l w h o per souscid the character wa s wort hy o f hi s or i g i n , an d e cessiv e l y prone to it. The immortals disappear, Ithe exit of Venus being most gracefully managed ugh t h e assistance of some moving palm-trees, 1 the liarlequinade commences. It is such as to 1 , 4 T: 41 occasional laughter, and to afford amusement. Clelown is thr own in to a watc h-h ouse , w h ere h e visited by a tremendous spider, which crawls over This hile its fellow spins a web in an archway. 4 was efficiently executed, and much applauded. (~" e l'ePharst is introduced, and drinks the Thames 4 1 ) tbe great inconvenience of the fishes, who 41 1 1 4 itcl reli e f from a shower of cats and dogs wh;ch a lib metliately afterwards. The scene w ith th e Old Watchm en , who are transformed by the magic *end into New Policemen, and whose useless boxes ` l4 Put up for sale, is tolerably good, but is not t t °l ied our as might have b een expecte d. T owar d s "° conclusion there is a clever scene by W. Grieve, o„ . "rh. Picture G a ll ery ." Th e whole of the figures thte pictures form " a most an i mate d produc :°n,"Th and the eff ec t i s l u di crous an d goo d. T he -.Diorama of the Polar Expedition," does Aedit te"--the skill and conception of Roberts. It ha loudly and deservedly applauded, particularly ,he views o f C ape Farewell, Baffin ' s Bay, Melville ' s : hi ncls &c. The acting was excellent. Mr Eller h * de an el as ti c Harlequin, Miss Egan a pleasing 4 ° ttrohine and Mr. Pa u l o a h umorous Cl own . Nualoe was called for, but was unable to ap- , Peet from indisposition. By the bye, we cannot Suit the subject of this Pantomime, without sug !lesting to the Managers, the propriety of suffering t'antotnime to precede the Plays. It would IN the former a much better chalice of a run. r.) og on. Irro ids cr. ?V ; COBURG THEATRE. A. lively entertaining piece, called " The Banks the H u d son ," was brought out successfully at As theatre on Saturday, after which we were much Plifed_ by a splendid new Pantomime, entitled Harlequin and the Genii of the Enchanted Harp." th e A scenery of this i m p os i ng spectac l e was altoge 1r rep , , and of first-rate excellence, both in point ichoice of subject and style of execution. The i 44 1 ,4 1, too, were num erous , pract i ca l , an d w h at i s txtier still, intelligible. The house was crowded to PPlik ee l's and the performances rece i ve d w i t h s h ou t s o f use, SURREY THEATRE. if " lialle qUin and the Apple Pie, or the Knights . the A ...... Iphabet," was the title given to the panto ta•ete produced here on Saturday 'last. The Baron i' Barley -sugar, and Knight of the Alphabet, and t irne Minister of the King of the Island of Sugar ntlYr, having fallen 'desperately in love with the .inell daught er , t h e P r i ncess P epperm i nt D rops, . t " % view t o b ecome h e i r to t h e crown, i s deter 'fled to as k h er h an d i n marr i age. — For this pur . le h e as k s h er o f t h e Ki ng, who refuses to comply t lt ith the request, as he had promised her to Prince L lizar,plum. Preparetinns are made for the nup 'ilv,and to grace the festival an enormous apple-pie 1 the most d e li c i ous qual i ty i s got ready. The il ltn of B ur l e y- sugar , b e i ng i n wrat h at hi s disap " , 1 , "talent resolve., with the assist a nc e o f th e ti r i ghts of the Alphabet, to d es t ro y t h e a ppl e -pi e . i l in th e m id st o f t h e assau l t t h ey are attacked b y % Majesty and the Prince of Sugar-plum and their 111ards. But the Baron and his knights are victo -11;14111 and hi s M a j esty i s f orce d to cry for quarter. G Apple-pie th e n b urs t s o p en , an d f ort h comes a 1 eh lu'r who converts the Princess and Sugar-plum It°il r e elemb;ne and Harlequin, and the King and th e °II into Pantaloon and Clown, and the usual ii, tr ess of th e P an t om i me p rocee d s . Thi s was 4iy, bustling, and ingenious, and being aided by 1 0 ,1 excellent tricks, though rather sparing in their k it T u ers was received with accl amat i ons by t h e tenee. SADLER'S WELLS. 1„, 4 4 " new Pantomime at this little Theatre, enti c' " Harlequin and the Hag of the Forest Raven," 4 : 18 very favourably received by a crowded house 81itur(143, night. It was a showy, lively spec- Well acted, and strengthened by the addition k _lottle exc e ll ent scenery , as we ll as some i ngen i ous "hitnicul illusions. GERMAN PAPERS. 111,./bESSA DEC. 2.—The Turkish Ambassadors left 5 .. 1r ship on th e 28th u lt., an d immediately repaired ; house prepared for them near the lazzaretto, and to the sanatory regu!otions. Halil Pacha ed servants . 104 4 aides-de-camp and 38 household officers Negib Effendi's suite consists of 15 ~rvstrts. Sayrem Effendi, Secretary to the Lega :, fou r servants; the first interpreter, h i s son, an d 1 4 " s ervants; the second interpreter, one servant. 411 7 1 er p son . rETERSBURGII, DEC. 12.—Our journals con ti.ms ajesty's confirmation of a great number 4nY li tinc M tions conferred by Count Diebitsch on officers of the army under' his command, as r , ,, -41 Pense s f or t h e i r va l our .—P ru ssian State ' ir i te, Dec. 21. 4tICHAREST, Nov. 30.—A dreadful storm which e . t i i* these parts on the 23d inst.;and was accom- L li ed by s evere s h oc k s o f an ear th qua k e , did grea t I ;m*. Many persons were killed and wounded the fall of stone-buildings, is bile most of the I N-heu t h ses sustained no injury. It is said, that the giving up of Gitirdzero, a great many articles 'h er e Missing, which had been previously stated in , 4 0 list given by the Turkish Governor, as belonging the fortress, and designed to be delivered up. The ,Y'sian s have made a remonstrance on this account, demanded the restitution of them. Nalrl Pacha, with his suite, inhabits a handsome use at Odessa, and will proceed to St. Peters -1.101 as soon as his time of quarantine is corn. et ". The Porte still founds great hopes on the i t toll of this ambassador, and flatters itself that ssill obtain a considerable reduction of the mill- IY,contribution or indemnity. All the endeavours its the Foreign Ministers to dissuade the Porte from mission (in which they complied with the wish i the Ru ss i an C a bi ne t, w hich from a feeling of , li elsey, maul(' not possitirely refuse passports) ere fruitless. The Ottoman Ministers seemed not s understand the hints thrown out to them, or at I sst . pretended not to understand them, though the t i on of Count Orloff must have shown to them itia.t the Ru ss i an Errperor proposed to have all Ms relative to the execution of the treaty dis ssed at Constantinople. Vnaa ot, Due. 16.—Metalliques, 102 13-16ths; 4 1:„ genes., 29i; 13ank Shares, I,249.—Allyemeine ' ll " l 9'iDee. 31. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. ;?6.--Ilig Majesty's sloop Espiegle, 18, 'Comteander R. Elliott, arrived on Wednesday at Plymouth, with 500,000 dollars on board, having left Cuba on the 16th ult. The Arachne sailed thence a few days before her for Jamaica. Captain Joseph O'Brien and Lieut. Hermah,, with several other officers, have come home in the Espiegle. His Majesty's ship Ariadne, 28, Captain F. Nlarriatt, C. 8., arrived on Monday at Plymouth, fr)m the Western Islands, with loss of anchors; ,he left Madeira on the .sth instant. The Sparrow hawk and Onyx arrived at Madeira on the 12th, 'the Herald the 25th, and the Cygnet on the 29th November. The Undaunted the Ist December. The Onyx sailed on the 25th, the Cygnet on the 30th November, and the Undaunted on the 3d December. The Henry Porcher transport, Lieutenant C. Binstead, Agent, arrived at Gibraltar on the Ist of December, after a very tempestuous voyage, from Cork, with the head-quarters of the 531 regiment on board. The Lord Suffield and Stentor trans ports, with the remainder of the same regimen', had arrived at Gibraltar on the 25th November. These three ships were to sail from thence in a few days, with the 731 regiment on board, for Malta. The Volage, 28, Captain Right Hon. Lord Col chester, went out of harbour on Monday, and sailed to-day for South America. The Alacrity, 10, Commander Nia*, came into harbour on Wednesday, to be paid off. The Galatea, 42, Captain Charles Napier, C. 13., came into ha►bour on Thursday, to complete repairs. The Echo steam-vessel arrived on Sunday from Plymouth. APPOINTMENTS.—Commander Watling to the Hyperion, vice Hood; Lieutenant B. R. Owen, to the Sussex Coast Blockade; Lieutenant J. H. Tur ner, to the Galatea. Arrived on Tuesday the West Indian, Cook, from London, bound to Antigua, and sailed for her des tination on Wednesday. Arrived on Wednesday the Robert Edwards, Sherborne, Yew York Line of Packet ship, and sailed the next day; and the John Echlin, Thompson, from Jamaica, last from Kinsale, for Hamburg; she will come i n t o harbour to-morrow to winter. On the 20th instant she spoke the Weser, of and for Bremen, from Balti more, in lat. 49. 29. N. long. 19. 33. W. To-day arrived the Thames, Stoddart, and the Ottawa, Douglas, from Quebec, both for London, having been blown out of the Downs, with the loss of anchor and cable; the Nautilus, Dunsford, from Smyrna, for London ; and the Daphne, Spragg, 20 days from Lisbon, for London. Lille on Thursday afternoon the gig of his Ma jesty's ship Volage was proceeding from the Dock yard to Spithead, and when at a little distance from the King's Stairs, hoisted her sail ; at that instant a sudden gust of wind sprung up, which turned the boat bottom upwards. The Master, Midshipman, and the boat's crew were rescued from their perilous situation by the exertions of First Lieutenant Searle, of the Royal Marines, of his Majesty's ship Ganges, who happened at the moment to be at the King's Stairs, and saw the accident. Boats and people belonging to the yard were quickly despatched, and the officers and crew of the gig were picked up and taken on board the Ganges.—Hampshire Telegraph. DETONPORT, DEC. 26.—Lieut. James Howard Turner has been appointed by the Admiralty to act as Lieutenant on board the Galatea, in the absence of Lieut. Shortland, of that ship, left out in the West Indies, on board th• Araehne. The Bramble cutter, 10, Lieutenant Haswell, sailed to the Westward, on Wednesday. His Majesty's ship Sapphire, 28, Captain Dundas, is expected from South America with specie and bullion. His Majesty's ship Sphynx, arrived at Rio de Janeiro, from Falmouth, the sth of October. The Tweed sailed from the Cape of Good Hope, for the Mauritius, the 13th September; and Zebra, for India, 22d September. The Blonde arrived at Odessi November 17th, and sailed for Constan tinople the 18th. The Athol has arrived at Sierra Leone from Portsmouth. The Madagascar, from Egina, arrived at Malta the 14th of October; the Melville, fro m P or t smout h, 20 t h ; B r i tann i a , this port the 21st ; the Cordelia, from Marseilles, Nor. 2,1; Erebus, from Tenedos, 3d ; and Renard, from Falmouth, 9th ditto. Remain in Hamoazr—St. Vincent, Kent, Druid, Ariadne, Hyacinth, Vigilant, Leveret, Royalist, Rayon, Starling, Meteor steamer. In Barnpool—Britomart. Sound—Espiegle. First Lieutenant A. Hendry, of the Portsmouth division of Royal Marines, has been removed to Woolwich to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of J. Williams Meheux, who died on the 12th of September, at Fernando Po. Second Lieute nant Charles Cartwright Williamson, of the Ply mouth division of Royal Marines, has been pro moted to the rank of First Lieutenant, and appointed to the Portsmouth division, vice Hendry, removed. His Majesty's sloop Pylades, 19, Commander P. D. H. Hay sailed on Tuesday morning to return to the Irish station. The Vigilant ketch, 10, Lieut. R. Loney, caine in front Lisbon, during Friday night, having landed a mai from thence at Falmouth early in the day, and having sailed from the Tagus on the 6th inst.—Devonport Telegraph. Despatches front Sir CHARLES BAGOT, our Ambassador at the Hague, for the Earl of ABERDEEN, were received at the Foreign-office on Saturday morning. The French Ambassador, the Prussian Mini. ster, and the Right Hon. Sir STRATFORD CANNING, had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN on Saturday at the Foreign Office. The forthcoming Life of Sir THOMAS MUNRO, from the pen of the Rev. Mr. Gime), will con tain, we are informed, a greater share of interesting and important matter than almost any biographical performance of modern times. Sir THOMAS MUNRO entered the military service of the East India Company in 1779, took part in the campaigns against HYDER, under Sir HECTOR. MUNRO and Sir EYRE COOTE, served in both the wars against Tirroo SULTAN, and witnessed the fall of Seringapatam. His great intelligence and intimate acquaintance with the native languages and customs caused him to be employed in the civil department ; in which c (parity he superintended the affairs of the Bahra mal, Canara, and the ceded District,. Whilst thus occu pied he kept up a coufidential correspondence with almost every distinguished man in India, many of whose lettere are introduced into the Memoir ; more particularly those of the Duke of WELLINGTON, descriptive of his Grace', operations against Dhoondee and at Assaye. After a brief viit to England, Sir THOMAS returned to India as head of the judicial commission in 1814, and laid aside his civil labours that he might conduct one of the most brilliant campaigns in the last Mahratta war. Finally, he filled the station of Governor of Madras, during the Burmese contest, upon the mode of conducting which his Corres pondence with Lord Manama throws much new light. The late Rev. JOHN LITTON CROSBIE, who we are informed was a native of Dublin, received ordina tion in Ireland about the year 1821. His career commenced with an ushership in the school of Sligo, which he held for upwards of two years. He then obtained a clerical pro vision at Dromore, in Ulster, and subsequently removed to Dublin, where he accepted the curacy of Swords, a village about six miles distant. This preferment, however, he did not long retain, in c onsequence of a disagreement with the Archbishop. The reverend gentleman afterwards came to try his fortune in London, fortified with letters of recommendation from his patron, Sir React/our LESS, and other influential worthies of the purple and orange factions. His success here coasistedof a preliminary rea dership in the metropolis, a marriage with a handsome (lower, a rectory at Sydenham, and a supplemental chap laincy in the household of his Royal Highness of CUM BERLAND. Mr. CROSEIE was known in Ireland only a• a protege of the aforesaid illustrious Sir HARCOURT, and a somewhat intemperate partisan of the venerable Dublin corporation.—From a torrespondoit.—We learn, how ever, from another correspondent, that Mr. CROSBIE t 5 still living, but that the Duke of CUMBERLAND has strucl , him off his list of chaplains ever since the publication m the letter. COMMISSION OF LUVACY. (Concluded from our Paper 4.f ti.t4sr4ay.) Charles Herrington, exami,iod by Mr. SHORT I am clerk and shopman in Mr. Davies's establish ment. I went in February, 1828, and left in No vember, but I returned again, and am there still. I recollect going with Mr. Davies to a tea sale. He came into the shop in a hurried manner, and told me to take my hat arid go with him to the sale.— This was in June, 1828. He said that there were some particularly fine teas to be sold at that sale, and that he would have them, cost what they would. He said that by so doing he should offend some parties there—meaning the tea-brokers. He said he had no doubt lie should be grossly insulted by them. He desired me to be particular, and take notice of the insults, and by whom they were given. I accompanied him to the sale. Mr. Gibbs was em ployed by Mr. Davies to bid. On Mr. Gibbs's bid ding, a general buzz took place, arid there was a cry of " Shame, shame." Mr. Gibbs held out some papers, and said " Here are my instructions, I must abide by them, I cannot help it." I knew that Mr. Gibbs was then purchasing for Mr. Davies. I returned to Mr. Davies's service the 25th of July of the present year. I am there now. In 1828 Mr. Davies was particularly nervous, and very shy. He was a very dutiful son, and particularly submis sive to his mother. She treated him civilly. She controulled him in the management of the business, in every manner of arrangement. Mr. Davies drew up rules respecting theyoung men. They were put up in the shop. Mrs. Bywater would not allow them to be followed. The rules related to the times at which the young men should go to dress; This was in November, 1828. I saw Mrs. Bywater take the rules down. I observed that Mr. Davies endea voured to become more master of his business. Mrs. Bywater opposed him. Mr. Davies used to make jokes. He was very polite. When he engagelme he behaved to me as though I were the superior, and he the inferior. He was over polite. Cross-examined by Sir C. WETHERELL—I did not hear Mrs. Bywater say that it was impossible that such minute rules could be acted on. They could have been acted on. I think Mr. Davies's rules were good. The Foreman of the Jury now rose, and address ing the Commissioners said, that he and his brother jurymen having paid the greatest attention to the case from the commencement up to that moment, considered themselves perfectly masters of it. Their minds were made up as to the verdict which they would return, and they desired to spare the Court the trouble of summing up. Sir C. WETHERELL claimed his right of reply be fore the Jiffy delivered their verdict. Mr. PIIILLAMORE said, that both Sir C. Wethe rell mid Mr. Adolphus had a right to address the Jury. Mr. ADOLPIIUS, after the intimation given by the Jury, should consider himself wanting in respect to them if he trespassed on their a•tention. Mr. Pollard was then called to contradict part of the evidence of Dr. Mackinnon. He deposed, that on one occasion, when Dr. Mackinnon called at the " Retreat," Mr. Davies refused to see him. The refusal being conveyed to Dr. Mackinnon, he said, " I do not care whether he does or not, for he is a perfect madman." Cross-examined by Mr. ADoLPltus—He could not tell how long it was since this happened. He thought it was upon Dr. Maekinnon's third or fourth visit to the " Retreat." Ile did not, how ever, recollect the period. Could not tell whether it was during the warm weather or since the frost had set in. His wife wa3 by when Dr. Mackinnon made the observation. He had conversed with Mr. Davies within the last 24 hours. He did not tell him that, let the inquiry end how it might, he would be a ruined man, and that his mother would set tip in business against him ; but he did tell him that his mother said the business was her's, or that she had a partnership in it. That was not his mode of soothing a patient. He believed Mr. Davies gave him credit for acting with humanity.--(A laugh.)—He had conversed with Mr. Davies be cause he was desirous of acquitting his conscience. —(Laughter.) Sir C. WETHERELL then proceeded to address the Jury. Though it was (he said) impossible for him to misunderstand the communication made by the Jury, which conveyed to his mind the know ledge that they had come to a conclusion the oppo site to that which he had been endeavouring in the course of the inquiry to conduct them, he felt it would be a dereliction of duty to his client, and a want of respect even to himself, if he did not make one more effort to induce the Jury to take the same view of the question which presented itself to his understanding. Notwithstanding the intimation of the Jnry, he still maintained the proposition with which he set out in all its force,—namely, that Mr. Davies had been of unsound mind since the com mencement of June up to the present moment._ The Learned Counsel then proceeded to advert to the circumstances which, he contended, supported that proposition. He considered the purchase of the house at Crouch-hill, with all its concurring in gredients, to be an incipient dereliction of reason and judgment. And then his conduct in advancing the biddings at the tea-sales, with the notion of be nefitting the revenue, was a clear indication of an aberration of intellect. His ingenious friend (Mr. Brougham) had attempted to liken the conduct of Mr. Davies in this particular to that of the Marquis of Camden, who had thrown into the public treasury the profits of a sinecure office which he held. The Learned Gentleman then divaricated into a history of the Marquis Camden's office, after which he stated, that at the time the Noble Marquis first abandoned its profits, it was in contemplation of the Government to reduce them, and therefore it might be supposed that his voluntary relinquishment of them was in some degree induced by the desire to avoid the legislative compulsion of parliamentary in terference. He then alluded to Mr. Davies's al leged communications to Mrs. Brooksbank of super natural visitfngs, and of his belief that he would make a figure in Parliament, be consulted by the Duke of Wellington on finance, and be noticed at Court. If those statements were true, no man do miciled in a receptacle for lunatics had ever be trayed more large, complete, and demonstrative evidence of insanity. Again—his groundless com plaints against his mother were another decided proof of madness. Mr. Davies was constantly la bouring under the delusion that every person who came near him intended to insult him. He would dwell no longer on the supposed municipal insults within the bills of mortality, but proceed to notice the extra-municipal disturbance of mind in the coun try. It appeared that on one occasion, whilst re siding in the country, he convened a heavy-heeled plumber from his manipulations into his penetralia, to hear him recite poetry for an hour. Who but a madman would ever think of reading poetry to a plumber ? His metaphysical friend (Mr. Brougham) attempted to get rid of this circumstance, by saying it was only a bad joke; and Mr. Davies acknow ledged that he was in the habit of indulging in bad jokes. Another delusion on the part of Mr. Davies was to imagine that whilst riding on horseback he was pursued by carts, when at the time there was not the vestige of a cart near him. He begged them to notice the conduct of Mr. Davies on the day the cheque was refused at the banker's. He bolted off hrough Fleet-street and Temple-bar, proceeded diagonally to Lincoln's-inn-fields, where he dined at pastry-cook's, on a pennywort h of gingerbread, and finally domiciled himself in the Furnival's-inn coffee house. Here the weak, timid, retiring, frigid Mr. Davies, suddenly becomes inflamed with the ardour of love. He must have two women—not less than two women—to satisfy his amorous exploits, and, but these two women happened to be married, they would have fallen simulta neous victims to his cupidity and power. Mr. Da vies not only fancied himself a Pitt in finance, a Fox in eloquence, a Byron in po e t ry , b ut also an Apollo in beauty. He imagine d that th e l a di es in Kensing ton-gardens admired him. Men of talent often in dniged their au(lienees with paradoxes. Of this na ore was M'. 8i,•u2,-ham's argument, that the evi dence of the gentlem-ii whom he designated mad doctors was to be disregarded, because they had de voted their attention exclusively to the consideration of insane cases. In this manner had Mr. Brougham black-balled and cashiered all the medical witnesses. Indeed, his Learned Friend had treated the mad doctors very disrespectfully, representing them as a set of poachers, who were constantly setting springs to catch his Majesty's subjects. How came it that the Chancellor directed mad doctors to report on these cases ? Lord Eldon, for 25 years, always sent such cases to mad dcctors, in preference to general practitioners. The verdict of the Jury would ❑ot have the effect of locking up Mr. Davies in Dr. Burrow's mad-house, as had been pretended. Every shilling of his income would be spent in his support, and the mother could have no pecuniary advantage in establishing her case; all the unworthy motives attributed to her were mere calumnies. If Mr•. Da vies were acquitted by the Jury, and were to take the life of his mother, or any other person, could the Jury find him guilty on the ground of his having a sound exercise of his understanding ? If not, then the Jury in the present case were bound to - declare him of unsound mind. The Jury then retired, and in about a quarter of an hour returned and delivered the following ver dict :—" The Jury is unanimously of opinion that Edward Davies is now of sound mind, and capable of managing himself and his affairs." A loud and general expression of applause burst from the auditory upon the announcement of the verdict. One young man, who joined in this inde corum, was brought before the Commissioners, and reprimanded. The CHIEF COMMIsSIONER then put the question again to the Jury on a show of hands, when the unanimity of the verdict was exhibited. The following witnesses were, we understand, to have been examined, to prove the sanity of Mr. Da vies, had not the Jury stopped the case :—Dr. Spurgin, Dr. Gooch, Dr. Arnot, Dr. ]iirkbeck, Dr. Clutterbuck, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Ramadge, Dr. Stewart, Dr. Allen, Mr. Pearson, Mr. White, Mr. King, Mr. Complin, Mr. Clifton, Mr. Bowie, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Winslow. It is stated that the expence of conducting the in quiry into Mr. Davies's state of mind will be about 5,0001. The fees to Counsel amount to a very con siderable sum. When the first application was made to the Lord Chancellor at Brighton, five or six Counsel were taken down at a very heavy ex pence ; and those gentlemen have, in addition to their briefs, received large sums for various con sultations and deliberations. The fees given to Sir Charles Wetherell to attend the inquiry, were, we understand, 200 guineas the first day, and 20 gui neas for every succeeding day. The fees to the Counsel's clerk on such occasions is Is. in the pound ; so that Sir Charles and his clerk have re ceived, during the 11 days that the inquiry has oc cupied, about 420 guineas. Mr. Wright, Sir Charles's junior, received, we are told, 100 guineas with his brief, and ten guineas for his attendance on each of the last ten days. The three Commissioners have received five guineas per day; and the Jury, 17 in number, have received one guinea per day ; the summoning officer also received the same. The charge for the accommodation at the coffee-house is about five guineas per day. In support of the com mission thirty witnesses were examined, each of whom received one guinea with the copy of the sub poena; 14 of these were medical men of the first emi nence,and they will, of course, be adequately remune aerated for the 11 days they were in attendance, in ad dition to their tavern expeuces. Mr. Brougham's fee, it is stated, was 300 guineas, and 30 guineas for each day's attendance after the first. Mr. Bro derick, Mr. Adolphus, and Mr. Short were paid smaller sums. Since the commencement of the inquiry, Mr. Gurney has been employed by both parties to take short-hand notes of the proceedings; and the same gentleman was also conveyed to Brighton, and wos likewise engaged when the mat ter was in the Court of Chancery. His bill, it is calculated, will exceed 500/.—Observer. HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. ATPOINTMENTS FOR TIM ENSUING WERIC. His Majesty's Stag-hounds, on Monday, at Maidenhead Thicket; and Friday, at Slough—at Half-past Ten. Lord Kintores Hounds, on Tuesday, at Nuneharo ; Thursday, at Wytham ; and Saturday, at Tar Wood. Mr. Meynell's Hounds, on Monday, at Hoarcross ; Thursday, at Sudbury; and Saturday, at Blythbury—at Half-past Ten. Badaworth Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Kings ton; Thursday, at Stapleton Park ; and Saturday, at Bol too-bridge--at Half-past Ten. The Kempstone Hounds, on Monday, at Wicken Castle acre ; Wednesday, at Mileham ; and Friday, at West Lex bam—at Eleven. Mr. O'Kelly's Hounds, on Monday, at the Kennel, Tuesday, at Knowle ; and Thursday, at Bryanston—At Half-past Eleven. The Brookside Harriers, on Mond ty, at Newmarket- Hill ; Wednesday, at Asheombe, the alternate 'Wednesday at the Kennel ; and Friday, at Telscomhe Tye —at Half past 'fen. _ _ Mr. B. K. Sampson's Hounds, on Monday, at West. dean ; Thursday, at Bourne ; and Saturday, at Mr. Ade's, Dutties--at Ten. The Brighton Harriers on Monday, at Patcham ; Wed nesday, at the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke—at Half-past Ten. The East Kent Hounds, on Monday, at Paddlesworth ; Wednesday, at Deane-park ; and Friday, at Ashley—at Ten. The Conock Harriers, on 'Alonday, at Ell Barrow ; and Friday, at Haskings's Penning—at Eleven. The Craven Hounds, on Monday, at Foxfield-gate ; Wednesday, at Sandleford-house ; Friday, at Catmore ; and Saturday, at Anvil Farm—at Half-past Ten. Sir Richard Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at Kettle thorpe ; Thursday, at Brauston Wood ; and Saturday, at Skellingthorpe—at Eleven. Lord Yarborough'a Hounds, on Monday, at Rai- Cress-roads ; Wednesday, at Burnham ; Friday, at Cux wold ; and Saturday, at Hendale Lodge—at Eleven. The Worcestershire Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Stan ford-court; and Friday, at Stone Bow-turnpike —at Half past Ten. Ile Shropshire Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Cruck ton•hall ; Wednesday, at Ralston; and Saturday, at Acton Burnell—at Half-past Ten. The Cheshire Hounds, en Monday, at Peover ; Wed need ay, at Appleton-hall ; Thursday, at Barrington Heath; and Saturday, at Mere—at Half-past Ten. Mr. Jolliffe's Hounds, on Monday, at Chipstead Chuich; Wenesday, at Horse-hills ; Thursday, at Chalelron ; and Saturday; at Reigate-hill—at Eleven. The Montgomeryshire Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Melford Village; and Friday, at Brynderwen-bridges-- at Ten. The Surrey Fox Hounds, on Monday, at the Half Moon, Codstone-toed ; Thursday, at the Cricketers, Addington; and Saturday, at Worms Heath--at Half-past Ten. The East Sussex Fox Hounds, on Wednesday, at the Rocks; Thursday, at Framfield ; and Saturday, at Dit ching-hill —at a Quart er t o El even . _ _ Mr. Berkeley's Hounds, an Tuesday, at Claphlm Turn pike ; Thursday, at Sharnbrook ; and Saturday, at Clifton Spinneys—at Half-past Ten. The Hambledon Hounds, on Wednesday, at Basing park; and Friday, at Botley-gate—at Half-past 'fen. Lord Anson's Hounds, on Monday, at Shuekburgb-bill ; Wednesday, at Dunehureh Kennel ; Thursday, at Deep dale; and Saturday, at Frampton Wood—at Eleven. NATIONAL REWARD.---The friends of Mr. LAWLESS in this country have at length came forward with a feeling in favour of that gent'etnan's claims on na tional gratitude, which confers great honour on their pub lic spirit. At the head of the requisition, now signing, to call a public meeting in this city, to take into c nsidera tion the claims of Mr. LAWLESS, for his long, zealous, and uncompromising labours in the defence of the freedom of his countrymen, stand the respected names of many of the nobility and gentry, both Protestant and Catholics, united in this honourable work ; and we lave little doubt there will be in the instance of Mr. LAWLESS, both in England and in this country, as fine a manifestation of liberal and generous sentiment as has yet been witnessed. —Dublin Freeman's Journal. FREE TRADE SYSTEM. (From the Times. The relaxation of that system of prohibitory (lilies upon the import of foreign goods, to which many of the best informed men in the kingdom, supported by the whole mass of igno rance and prejudice, had for years attributed the vast extension of its trade, was not the exclusive work of Mr. Huskisson, nor had that gentlensau even the principal hand in preparing it. We be lieve that proofs might be drawn from Mr. Pitt's papers, and indeed from the evidence of persons still living, to satisfy a dispassionate mind that an increased freedom of commerce was contemplated, as seriously as ever Ca tholic emancipation was contemplated, by that great idol of the present race of mono polists and religious persecutors. But the breaking up of the peace of Europe, which over whelmed even in their early infancy the financial prospects which Mr. Pitt unfolded to Parliament in February, 1792, proved equally fatal to schemes of an improved mercantile policy, no less illustrative of that statesman's contempt for a penal code in commerce. Lord Liverpool and Lord (then Mr.) Wallace declared their distrust of the restrictive system. and their readi ness for a revisal of it, before Mr. Huskisson had proposed any one of that series of commercial measures which have been appended—as a dis tinction by one party, by the other a reproach— to his name. Nor is the error of those who make Mr. Huskisson alone responsible for what has been called " the revolution" in the commer cial code of England, more than that of the ma nufacturing interest of this country, who, by a strange perversion of language, have applied the epithet of the " free trade" system to such al terations in the former law as the last seven years have produced. The only " free " trade which Parliament has yet permitted, or which Mr. Huskisson has ventured to recommend, is in the single case of merchant vessels; and there it is a provisional and bargained equality, rather than what can be termed freedom. Fo reign merchantmen are received in British ports on the same footing on which foreign Govern ments admit British vessels to their harbours. Even in that case the free principle is but im perfectly established, inasmuch as, when the Mi nister was defending himself against the charges of the British ship-owners, he never attempted to take the high ground, and justify his recipro city measure because it upheld the principles of commercial freedom, but merely because it was such a modification of free trade as would be found in practice advantageous to the shipping interest. So has it been throughout all the measures of Mr. Huskisson ; it is a libel to designate them as in any degree an esta blishment of the system of " free " trade. They are, in fact, nothing more than substi tutes for prohibition, assuming the form of pro tection, leaving a free entrance to such commo dities, and such only, as either supply the Bri tish manufacturer with raw materials on which to work, or as cannot show their face in compe tition with any similar produce of British indus try. The moment that but a chance appears of a foreign manufacture being capable of rivalry with a domestic one of the same nature, a duty is imposed of just such amount as, when added to the price of the foreign article, effectually beats down the competition. Our memorable silk duties were calculated on this scale. The raw material, indeed, was released from the for mer preposterous imposts, and the chief wisdom of the measure was confined to that single change ; but the duty, on importing the manu factured article, was made high enough to ex clude it from the English market, even more rigo rously than the former prohibition (counteracted by the smuggler) had done. It results that the characteristic of Mr. Huskisson's policy, so loudly vaunted and abused, was to recognise ex ' actly so much commercial freedom and no more, as would be consistent with the absolute ascen dancy of British goods in the markets of Great Britain over every foreign manufacture. The old monopolists are not content with this. They cry that we are ruined, by a relaxation of the restrictive theory, which works no real diminu tion of manufacturing monopoly. But it effects one point undoubtedly, which a thorough-paced monopolist cannot well forgive. It keeps the fear of competition alive in the breasts of Bri tish manufacturers, and compels them to do some better justice to their customers than had been practised by them under the prohibitory system ; for if they much degrade the existing quality of their goods, the foreigner stands ready to supplant them, and that is something gained. The cry for a return to the old monopolizing policy has been answered a thousand times by referring to the history of our commerce. It has been ascertained that the shipping trade and the silk trade have been rescued from imminent dangers, and have experienced a large access of prosperity, by the change from absolute prohi bition to reciprocity in one case, and in the other to protection. Still, however, the cla mourers for a return to monopoly bolstered up by prohibitions, are not wholly silenced. They consist of a more diversified, though less nume rous body of murmurers than at the outset. At first a majority of the commercial world were parties to these complaints, but the higher and more respectable class of merchants and manu facturers have been gradually won over to the amended policy, by the fair experience of its cosequences, negative as well as positive; while the only advocates of error who still remain, are either men of business, whose desperate fortunes make them anxious for some pretext in an altera tion of this law, to which they may assign the ruin entailed upon them by perhaps less creditable causes ; or low partisans of faction, reckless of what weapon they have recourse to for the em barrassment and annoyance of those who exer cise the authority of the Government. The factious newspapers, who keep up at this late hour a shrill and feeble cry against Catholic emancipation, are now the only public organs of invective against a relaxation of the commercial code. Not content with misrepresenting the state of England, and raising false comparisons between what it is and has been, they bid us look at other countries and imitate " their wis dom," in encouraging their own manufactures, and excluding rigorously those of foreign na tions. They will not listen to us when we insist that the wi,dom of the French and American tariffs is but the folly which Great Britain has renounced ; that America is on the point of re pealing or greatly mitigating the restraints on importation imposed by her tariff; and that the French people will soon compel their Govern ment to act in a corresponding spirit of revision. We would, therefore, as a final remedy, advise these English malcontents to turn over that ar ticle of time last Edinburgh Review, which pre- sents the public with the returns of the state of French commerce, officially collected by a formal commission, and founded on evidence of the ,nost unquestionable truth. The result of an inquiry into what has been the effect of mono poly upon the industry of France must surely he decisive in the judgment of those who set up France for an example to Great Britain. The French commercial system has, since the resto ration of the Bourbons, been one of prohibition and monopoly; and what the consequence has been upon the productions of French industry, it is fit that the declaimers against free traL, whether bankrupts in fortune or in faction, should have the means of meditating. It is broadly stated, and proved abundantly, in the well informed article to which we have referred, that " there is not a single branch of (French ) manufactures or commerce that is, at this moment, in a flourishing condition. All the leading products of France are sacrificed to the mania of forcing manufactures by the un natural power of custom-house prohibitions, and still the very manufactures so fondled are ricketty, unprofitable, and declining.. Exces sive duties have been laid on the import of foreign iron into France in the years 1814 and 1822. The effect is, that the price of iron has increased in France to an enormous amount, the number of furnaces has multiplied in the same proportion, and, as wood is almost exclu sively the fuel employed, the cost of that article so essential to rich and poor, has been similarly aggravated ; this again re-acts upon the price of iron, and, operating as a tax, it cuts down profits. The very machines necessary for carry ing on the French manufactures cost full one third more than better machinery of the same kind fabricated in England ; this *gaits adds to the price of every thing made, and no wonder that the manufacturers are complaining. The community is thus taxed near two millions ster line per annum, that the iramnasters of France, for whose benefit it was intended, may he ruined by the sale of indifferent goods. Foreign sugar is taxed high in France, and the consequence is that the consumers pay for beet-root sugar about four times more than the price at which they might command the richest produce of the sugar-cane. Foreign cottons, again, are pro tected and encouraged by customs duties to the heart's content of even the most rigid monopo list. What follows, then ? The people of France pay the French manufacturer about three times the price of English cotton, just as the India Company receive from Englishmen double the fair price of a breakfast of tea. This answered, as did the iron prohibition, while the monopoly was young,—while the home demand for cot tons exceeded the supply, and new adventurers were daily invited to the trade by visions of enor mous profits. But now that capital and activity have done their work,—that the supply more than equals the demand, and an inevitable reac tion has been for some time in progress,—the manufacturers, excluded from every foreign market by the superior excellence and cheapness of English cottons, and having already overloaded that of France, are driven to the last degree of wretchedness; they are shutting up their fac tories every day, and the cotton fabrics them selves are rapidly degenerating. With every help from the forcing pump of prohibtions, common steam-engine, which in England is set going and worked at an annual expellee of about 2,0001.,. costs for the same period in a French establishment very little short of 4,0001. As rivals to this country, it is truly remarked by the Reviewer, that Esquimaux cotton manufacturers would be as formidable as those of France while the latter are blessed with a system of close monopoly. So with the linen trade. In 1822 foreign linens, which had been largely imported into France, were pro hibited in effect by an exorbitant duty. What was the consequence ? French linens, which it was designed to encourage, being dearer than those of Flanders and Germany, did not suit the French market, anti their place was supplied by cottons. France, therefore, has lost the export of articles to the value of nearly a million and a half per annum, with which she had formerly paid for imported linens. She has lost the en trepot for foreign linens, and the advantage of bleaching and dying them. The cotton trade gained a little at first by the change, but we have seen its present condition. Thus, then, France, according to Mr. Sadler, and the wisdom of our English ancestors, ought to be the most prosperous of all manufacturing countries ; but unhappily the thing has taken a perverse bias, to the credit of the obnoxious free trade prin ciple, and to the utter consternation of the manu facturers themselves, who are actually crying out that prohibitions give no protection. France has kicked out of doors the " sugar of Brazil, the cottons and hardware of England, the Swedish iron, the German linens, and t h e ca ttl e of Wurtembergh a nd Switzerland," and has, by necessary consequence, ruined her own mer chants who had lived on the export of wines, brandies, and silks, every one of which trades is now in utter hopelessness and destitution. She ought to know,—what the people of Engl an d are at length convinced of,—that a country can obtain payment for her exports no otherwise than by equivalent imports ; and that if she will not buy, so neither can she sell. If England were to prohibit French wines, that she might raise her own claret,—or the raw silk of Tur key, Italy, and China, that she might force a do mestic breed of hot-house worms,—or the cottons of America and India, that she might attempt a crop of native cotton in latitude 52,—she would expose herself to no more exemplary ridicule than belongs to the whole French system of pro hibitions, and she would offer an apt and by no means exaggerated illustration of the results of that edifying policy which, first the great body of English manufacturers in their [ignorance, next in their fury the more desperate among them,,,, and, finally, in their jealous hatred of the King's Government, the Sadler faction, through pamph lets and newspapers, have been yelling for with in the last twelve months. It seems odd enough that the metropolis should be anxious for a free trade in paper, though in no other article. To the subject of trade we once more recur ; but with a heavy heart. Of what is its state in the once flourishing district round Huddersfield, the late meeting at that place affords an heart-appalling evidence. But other districts, we fear, are not far removed from the same distre►sful situation. In the neighbourhood of Halifax and Bradford there is lees want of employment, but the woik, man does not receive an adequate remuneration for hit la. hour. The blanket districts are, in general, ill a state of tolerable activity ; and amongst them wages hare been less diminished than in mast other parts of this manufactur ing country. At Leeds, and the surrounding villages, many are out of employment, though a very considerable quantity of goods continue to be made. I• the neigh-. nourhood of Wakefield, many willing to work ca■ find u. one to furnish them with labour, and aro consequently suffering great distress. The wool market is, in general, very far from brisk ; hat for the two or three weeks past, blanket wools have been emisiderably in tientan At this season of the year trade is generally dull, but we do not recollect its ever weal ing au aspect of deeper and more disheartening gloom than at resew.— Walicylold Jumrael.