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itself to modern notions ; and the King in Coun cil, represented generally by the Home Secre tary, was, in fact, a Court of Review. We re- , marked at the same time, that it was necessary to the ends of justice that the proceedings in all Courts should be open ; and that though iu the case which immediately led to our observations, that of Hunton, the decision of Mr. Peel might be fair, yet the canvassing and intriguing on the part of friends and enemies, the listening to accounts of the former life of a criminal, which might be satisfactorily explained perhaps, were an opportunity given for that purpose (and this had been done in that case, it appeared), was obviously the very worst mode that could be thought of for reviewing the trials of our Tribunals. Mr. Peel is, in fact, the Court of Appeal for the United Kingdom. That he can execute the duties implied in such a charge sa tisfactorily we do not believe. He may occa sionally, when the public attention is directed to a particular case, look a little into it, especially if solicited by powerful persons ; but in general the aggrieved can only expect, from an appeal to him, the mockery of a confirmation of the sen tence complained of, pronounced in utter igno rance of the merits. Mr. Peel is one of those men who are anxious to put their best foot fore most, as the adage has it, and who would, like the Pharisees of old, do good, when sure to be seen of men ; but he is the last man whom we would trust, where nothing is to be gained but the-approbation of a good conscience. In the Chronicle of Monday last, we extracted from the Windsor Express an account of the result of an application to the Home Secretary in be half of the Hunts, convicted of manslaughter in the case of Lord Mount Sandford, not " be cause (says this paper) any body in their senses imagined , the Hunts were really guilty of man slaughter, but because all persons present at an affray, in which one of them meets with his death, are in law equally guilty of the crime.— Brinklet, who gave the fatal kick which caused the death of Lord Mount Sand- • ford, was sentenced to transportation, and the Hunts (who, with probably a hundred others, were merely present at the affray in which this fact took place) to two years' imprisonment and hard labour, although the prosecutor recom mended them to mercy. So strong was the im pression of the severity of the sentence (as re gards the Hunts), that a petition was sometime back drawn up, praying for its mitigation, which received the signatures of the Vicar, Magistrates, the two Members, and all the must reseectable inhabitants of this town. This petition was forwarded to the Home Secretary by our re spected Member, John Ramsbottom, Esq. The answer returned was as follows: " Whitehal:, Nov. 6, 1528. Sir—Having taken into c,.msideration the peti tion which you presented in favour of Thomas and George Bunt, who were convicted at the last Assizes fur the county of Berks of manslaughter, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, I regret to acquaint } on, that the circumstances of the case are of such a nature that I cannot, consistently with my public duty, recommend either of the prisoners to his Majesty for any mitigation of their sentence. I have the honour to be, Sir, " Your most obedient humble servant, " ROBERT PEEL. " John Ralnshottorn, Esq., N.P. &c. The Windsor Express insinuates that ikh. Peel never looked further into the case than to read the verdict and sentence, and that he could not possibly have made himself master of " the circumstances of the case." The mischief of this sort of mockery is, that men convicted, either unjustly, or under a harsh construction of law. have to suffer under the odium of a double convic tion—that of the tribunal, and that of Mr. reel's Mock Court of Review. We alluded yesterday to the ease of a gentleman most unjustly con ,,'icted of as indecent assault against a girl, as having succeeded in establishing his innocence to the satisfaction of the Home Secretary ;" and having in consequence been " liberated long before the lapse of the period of hie sentence." When we made this statement, we were only acquainted with the result ; but we have since been furnished with the particulars of the pro ceedings, and a most instructive commentary they form on our supposed Court of Review, The party aggrieved, a Mr. Giflan, having caused the evidence of his case to be laid before the Home Secretary, in due time an answer from the Right Hon. Gentleman was received, conveying the information that he had examined into the circumstances, and had, besides, con sulted with the Recorder, and that he could not, consistently with his public duty, recommend the prisoner to his Majesty for any mitigation of the sentence. The young man and his wife, whom he had married not long before the distressing event, were about to resign themselves patiently to their hard lot, when a shrewd friend observed, " you have tried what justice can do—try now I interest. Your wife is a countrywoman of Sir Peter Laurie—whatever faults the Scotch may have, that of backwardness to serve each other is not one of them—let her go to Sir Peter, and satisfy him of the injustice of the sentence, and, take my word for it, he will extricate you." The hint was acted on. Sir Peter Laurie prevailed on Mr. Sheriff Wylde and Mr. Sheriff Spottis . woode to go over the evidence with himself, and they were thoroughly satisfied that the young man was completely , innocent. They did not hesitate to represent the case to the Home Se cretary ; and the Right Hon. Gentleman, who had already considered the evidence, and had,. besides, consulted with the Recorder, and saw no reason to recommend any mitigation of the sentence, instantly, on the very same evidence, saw ground for liberating the prisoner ; and by way of showing his strong sense of the injustice he had suffered, allowed him to leave prison on re cognizance forthwith, in order that he might not have to suffer till the steps could be gone through in due form. Such is the nature of the Court of Review, of which Mr. Peel is the efficient Judge, and such is the agency through which he can be approached. The plain English of the matter is this ; —where a man does not pos sess interest, he can suffer no wrong. A rich and powerful man will always find the ear of the Home Secretary open to redress; and de mini tnis lex non curat.—Morning Chronicle. There are persons, whose opinions are worth regarding, who do not hesitate to affirm that the Marquis of Anglesea's too-celebrated letter amounts to an offence cognisable by law, and which is liable to undergo judicial investigation, This - opinion they ground upon two points:— the one, that the letter itself amounts to a breach of his duty as the King's Representative, and a Privy Councillor ; the other, upon that parti cular phrase in it, which is supposed to hold out something like an encouragement to the Catho lic body to keep alive and augment that state of agitation in which the country has 19r1,g been so unfortunately involved. We do not ourseive,s ; however, perceive that any penal consequences can attach to the letter, though our first impres sion of its manifest imprudence is more and more increased. That it will undergo much dis cussion in Parliament, and be the subject of much sharp animadversion in both Houses, can not be doubted. Its imprudence, not to say utter unjustifiableness, is much increased, if it be true, as is now stated, that the Noble Marquis knew himself to be recalled at the time lie wrote the letter. Though the nature of the public service often requires that a man shall hold an office for some short time after his removal from it is resolved uFon, every one so situated must consider himself as virtually removed, and the 1 mere locum tenens of his successor ; and, being so, he can have no earthly right or pretension to do more than absolute necessity requires ; and, above all, can have no right to increase the very ground on which his own removal has taken place. Suppose, for instance, in the case of a Colonial Secretary, his removal were deemed ne cessary on account of any particular line of po licy towards the Provincial Governments which had been deemed objectionable, would it be jus tifiable, or would it be tolerated, that a person so situated should employ the interval of holding the seals till his successor may be appointed in sending out fresh despatches, reiterating and en forcing the very principles which had called for his dismissal 1,1 Such, or very much like it, seems to be the case of the Noble Marquis. According to his own showing, he was ignorant of the precise sentiments of the head of the King's Government upon the Catholic Question. Was not that alone a sufficient reason why the Marquis, as the local organ of that Government, should at least have been silent till he possessed the knowledge which might have enabled him to speak ? The Duke of Welling ton is not a man to be at the head of a Govern ment pulling different ways ; nor, from what the world has seen of the Marquis of Anglesea's hieh and noble bearing, is the latter a man likely to hold office at the price of his own honour and consistency. His obvious course was, first, to see whether the Duke and himself really held conflicting opinions upon that curse of Ireland, and almost of England, the Catholic Question ; and, if that turned out to be the case to an irre concileable extent, to lose no time in resigning his office, and then to state his grounds for so doing in Parliament. But Dr. Curtis, however respectable in himself, was, at any rate, not the proper channel for the public or the Govern ment to learn the Noble Viceroy's sentiments upon State affsirs. The Noble Marquis might almost as well have honoured us with his corre spondence, and sent his despatches to Govern ment through the means of the daily papers. In every point of view the step appears to us inde fensible ; and we regret it the more as the act of one who has bled so nobly in the cause of his country, and towards whom its respect and gra titude can never be wanting.-11forning Herald. The removal of the Marquis of Anglesea from the Lieutenantcy of Ireland does not indi cate, it is said, and will not produce any change in the disposition of the Government with re spect to the Catholic Question. This, no doubt, is true. The determinations of the British Go vernment, upon a constitutional question of pa ramount and permanent importance, are not likely to be influenced in any manner or degree by cir cumstances comparatively so trivial as the mis conduct of this or any other individual, and the consequent necessity of superseding him. The person who does more or less than his duty is removed to make way for one who will be con tent to do neither more nor less. This is the beginning and the end of the affair ; nor will future consequences, so far as they depend upon the policy of Government, be inferred from this oc currence, unless by those who are desirous, in com pliment to the Noble Marquis, or for the pur poses of the party to which he now belongs, of exaggerating its importance. Government has taken the most direct anti certain course to pre vent such mischievous exaggeration, by intimat ing to Lord L. Gower, the present Secretary for Ireland, its wish that he should continue to fulfil the duties of that office. But if the policy of Government be above the reach of any influence of this nature, springing I oni the conduct of an individual, it is clear nevertheless that ultimate success to the pretensions of the Papists is ren dered less probable by the conduct the Marquis of Anglesea has pursued ; because the Protestant subjects of the British Government will and ought to derive from it a lesson, the effect of which must be to render them more strongly and generally adverse to concession. They will compare the Marquis of Anglesea as he was, with the Marquis of .Anglesea as he is, and will auk what has caused the difference? They will anxiously inquire what has metamorphosed the once sound Constitutional British Peer into the factious Agitator that they now behold him ? They will he eager to ascertain how he has become a vio lator of his official duty, whom once it would have been an outrage to suppose capable of swerving from it in the slightest degree. They will examine curiously the process by which this zealous and uncompromising Protestant Cham pion has been transmuted into an advocate of the Popish cause ; and they will find that these fatal consequences to the mind and character of his Lordship have ensued from the circumstance of his having exposed himself too freely to the con tagious atmosphere of Popery and the artifices of Jesuitical seduction. The Marquis of An glesea is a man dear to the country, one who must always be dear to the country, notwith standing all we have upon this occasion been compelled to say of him, for his name is associated with the proudest event in our country's annals—and his fall, for fallen he is, and the causes which have produced it, will sink deep into the national mind.— Catholic Emancipation is but another name for the free exposure, in all future age 3, of the Bri tish Court aad Monarch to the contagious at mosphere of Popery and the artifices of Jesuiti cal seduction ; and from the effect produced by these upon the character, opinions, and conduct of Lord Anglesea, the Protestant people of England will not fail to perceive and appreciate the evils of which they are likely to he the source when admitted to this loftier and more extensive sphere. Lord Anglesea, when he spoke so forcibly and correctly as he once did of the effect which past concessioms had pro duced—when. he justly said that they had served only to call new pretensions into exist ence—and when he proclaimed his determined resolution to take his stand against all fur ther encroachment at the point where we ' now stand, was already at a period of life at which, if a man's opinions are ever to be fixed, his might have been supposed to be so. Yet we now bdiohl this zealous and determined opponent of constitutional change converted by the blandishments of Je suitical seduction into an advocate and pro moter, per fas et nefas, of innovation. If I Popery have done this, what greater or more • difficult triumph will it achieve, when, in a fu ture age, some youthful ,l'qonarch of Great Bri tain shall become entangled in its snare, and willing to sacrifice to the religion what the pre sent Viceroy of Ireland has sacrificed to the po— litics of the Roman Hierarchy—his interest and his duty ? To say that this effect of Catholic Emancipation—an effect which is strictly syno nymous with a long and sanguinary series of civil convulsions, with protracted misery, if not final ruin to this great and glorious and happy nation, is improbable—is, in other words, to say that an indefinite succession of hereditary Princes may he expected, without a single ex ception, to consist of men less accessible to se duction than the lilarquis of Anglesea.—Morn ing. Post. THE ENGLISH SYSTEM OF BALANCING BOOKS. TO THE EDITOR. Sir—ln your paper of the Ist instant, I observe a letter headed " Remington and C 0.," and signed " E. T. J." wherein the writer asserts that the Eng lish system of balancing books is the only perfect mode of book-keeping. This system and its prospectus are now before me. It contains the testimony of seven Bristol merchants, that it detects all errors in amount. The author says it has been sanctioned, after a minute investigation, by the lion. East India Company, two Bank Directors, six bankers, and 148 of the first mercantile houses in London, all whose names are inserted in this prospectus. It had likewise been introduced, adopted, and strongly recommend ed, in a circular from the respectable finn of Dixon, Morgan, and Co. The author's pretensions are as follows :—" It stands on a basis of infallible correctness. No error in amount can hereby escape detection. One error cannot counterbalance another. No error in the ledger of any amount whatever, under any circum stances, can escape detection. No error or mis statement can possibly remain OR either ►ide, or on both sides, of equal or unequal amount. The errors are detected by an unerring process, and the trouble of calling over the books for that object made un necessary," &c. My sole object is to guard the public against the serious consequences of adopting a system, and trusting to its infallibility, merely upon the high authority of its sanction, or the assertions of its author. My opinion is, that there is not a single account in the ledger which it proves to be either right or wrong—that its principle is false, and its result delusive. The author proceeds, " If in any given period en tries are made in those books that are posted into the ledger, amounting collectively to 50,000/. Dr. and Cr., the accounts in the ledger, for the same period, if correctly posted, will cast up to the same amount, neither more nor less." And so they would if every one of them was incorrectly posted. What can the agreement of two totals have to do with the correctness of the items of which those totals are composed ? If there tire entries in the journal to the debit of A, B, and C, of 1001. each, total 300/., and they are posted into the ledger thus—A 1401., B 1201. and C 401., total 3001., will any man but the author of the English system of balancing books say these are not errors ? I now refer to the work, and will show that not only errors, but a fraud even may be introduced. Th e amount of postings to the ledger, from July to Sept. to the credit of profit and loss, is 2,674/. 12s. I Id., and to the credit of Alex. Martin is 3,919/. 9s. 9d. (See the two last accounts in the balance-sheet, folio 5.) Now, if the former had been posted 2,624/. 12s. I id., and the latter 3,969/. 9s. 9d. there would have been two errors ; and if the ledger keeper had been in collusion with Alex. Martin, there would have been a fraud also. In order to prove, as he terms it, " the impossi bility of errors, even of equal amount, on both sides' passing unobserved," (see page 6) he gives the following rule:—" Take the total amount of debits to creditors' accounts, which in this balance-book 1s 58,987/. 10s. 10d." I have done so, and find the amount is only 25,2391. Is. 9d. Here is an error on one side of 33,7481. 9s. Id. The total amount of their credits he makes 289,4461. 2s. 9d. I find it is only 255,6971. 135.8 d. Here is an error en the other side of 33,7481.95. id. Thus has.he himself committed those identical errors, " of equal amount on both sides," while he is in the very act of proving they cannot be com• mitted !—I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Pentonville, Jan. 7. .1. S. Every week produces a fresh petition against the Catholic claims from one or other of the parishes in this city ; and it is probable, that after a few others have appearcd, which are in preparation, that a general meeting of the inhabitants will take place.—Bath Chronicle. On Thursday last, two men and a woman, who form part of a notorious gang of housebreakers who have for a long time infteted the neighbourhood of Bridge water, were taken into custody on suspicion of having been concerned in a burglary at Chilton-super-Polden, and prior to their examination, were confined in separate cells in the Borough gaol. On Saturday morning the gaoler, hearing a noise in the cell in which one of them, named Joseph Wilkins, was confined, entered it, and discovered the latter suspended to the bed-post ; he WWI immediately cut down, anti medical assistance being procured, anima tion was restored. The other man and the woman have 'since been committed to Wilton House of Correction on a charge of felony.— Taunton Courier. The sale of wood has for some time been very dull in this city ; and, consequently, a great number of sawyers have been but ind:fferently suppled with work for some time past : this has been more particularly the ease with those employed in " sa'e•yards." This dullness is imputed, in a great measure, to the buildings which were commenced in the early part of last year, being now nearly all finished. A slight rise, however, lately took place on the wood ; and it is expected, that early in spring some considerable purchases will take place. It may also be I mentioned that at the present time a good number of both wrights and masons are in want of employment. The cabinet making business, which for some time previous to this date was very brisk, is at the present moment in rather an insipid state ; and several journeymen who have lately been thrown out of employment, have not been able to procure " a job" in this city.— Glasgow Chronicle. PETRIFYING SPRINGS.—At Claremont, in the south of France, there is a spring which possesses the power of petrifaction in a very extraordinary degree.— When Professor Blanqui visited that quarter last year, there was an ox undergoing the operation ; and although the animal had begun to sit—or rather stand—for his statue only a year before, one half of him was already changed into a stone monument ! Many horses are to be seen, turned into monuments to themselves, and ornamenting, in the capacity of statues, the fields where they once pas ' turgid ; and a collection of other quadrupeds, with flowers, fruits, and birds, attest the formidable powers of this magic spring. The Professor, after trying some chemical ana lyses, without success, made off in a hurry, thanking his stars that the power of motion remained. —Dumfries Courier. Last Monday night, as the Halesworth stage. waggon was coining to town, within a short distance of Thunford, it overtook several hay-carts, when Mr. Henry Smith (one of the proprietors of the waggon) ordered the waggoner to pass, as by so doing he would save at least 20 minutes at the Romfoid turnpike. The man obeyed ; Mr. Smith following the waggon on foot, received a blow from an unknown hand, which felled him to the ground, senseless. In a few minutes another stage-waggon came up, when the dog observing something lying in the road, begin harking furiously. The waggoner stopped his horses and went forward, when he discovered Mr. Smith weltering in his blood. Having aroused his fellow-wag goner, who was sleeping in the waggon, they placed Mr. Smith in the waggon, perfectly unconscious of what was passing. In this state, after being on the journey between two and three hours, he arrived hi town. On the arrival of a surgeon, he discovered Mr. Smith's right arm slattered in a must shocking manner; his chin cut in three places; his face and body bruised, and a stab in the a rm , ap parently done by the prong of a fork. He now lies in a most fleplm able state; and there can be no doubt , but for the timely arrival of the second waggon, Mr. Swil l wou ld have been murdered, and the property he had on him plundered. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GVILDHALL A decently-dressed woman, named Mary Hol man, was brought before Mr. Alderman ANSLEI' yesterday, under the following• charge : Mr. Butcher, the managing agent at Messrs. Brougham's wholesale carpet warehouse, in Skinner street, stated, that the prisoner's husband had been employed by the firm, as a porter, about four years. Latterly various articles had been missed from the premises, and the porter being taxed with having taken away some of them, confessed he had done so, and brought them back. Two pair of window curtains were missed subsequently, and the porter was questioned about them as before, but he denied having taken them. Being exhorted to tell the truth, he said solemnly, " If I have taken them, I wish God may cause my tongue to drop out of my mouth !" Mr. Butcher told him, that, notWithstalid log these expressions, he suspected - him, and would send for an officer; upon which the por ter began crying, begged for mercy, and acknow ledged he had pledged the curtains, at Mr. Reeve's, on Snow-hill. He produced a sovereign, and said, if Mr. Butcher would allow him to step home for the duplicate, he would redeem the arti cles instantly. Mr. Butcher, however, persisted in sending for a constable : the constable refused to attend, and the complainant was authorizing an as sistant to go home with the porter, and search his lodging, when a customer entered, complainant's at tention was distracted, and the porter slipped out, and had not been heard of since. His apartment, in Ironmonger-street, St. Luke's, was searched soon after, but the porter had been home before the officer arrived, and nothing remained to criminate him. Upon inquiry at the pawnbroker's the curtains were discovered, afid also a piece of carpeting, pledged for 41. only two or three days previously. It had been stolen from the warehouse, but had not been missed. On Wednesday evening the prisoner at tempted to redeem the curtains, and was detained. The prisoner said she was ordered by her hus band to redeem the curtains, and restore them to Mr. Butcher. As there was no doubt she was the lawful wife of the porter, the ALDERMAN decided that the law would assume she acted under the influence of her husband, and dismissed her ; but directed the money she was about to pay to the pawnbroker to be given to the complainant. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a gentleman from Lord Stafford waited upon Sir R. BIRNIE, to know if he had ascertained, at the Home-office, whether the sentence of Mrs. Stamp Cooke Sutton had been commuted through the interest of his Lord hip, as stated by Captain Pettinghall. Sir R. BIRNIE observed, that he had made the necessary inquiry, and from all that he could learn there was no truth whatever in the statement, and he believed that there was as little foundation for the other circumstances related by Captain Pettinghall connected with Lord Stafford and Mrs. Cooke. The gentleman said that an affidavit was preparing which would show the real facts, and completely exculpate Lard Stafford. He then thanked Sir R. Birnie and withdrew. Not less than 21 individuals were brought for ward in one batch, in the course of the morning, charged with having, been found in a new dancing and drinking assembly, opened last New Year's day, upon the plan of Mother by the celebrated Grubb, of flash-house notoriety. The group pre sented a most motley appearance, the majority being females of a certain class, decked out in all the finery of the ballroom ; which, however brilliant it might have appeared by the light of Mr. Grubb's chande liers, seemed rather the worse for wear when exhi bited in the glare of day. The ladies' ringlets were all discomposed as well as their dresses; and the rouge which some of them had used to refresh the natural beauty of their cheeks, appeared in unseemly patches, which partook more of brick-dust than the colour of the rose. The male prisoners consisted of some flash gentlemen, old customers of Grubb and Rowbottom, one or two disobedient apprentices, a simple gentleman from Yorkshire, the captain of a Liverpool trader, two or three gentlemen at large, following no particular trade or calling, and the three musicians employed by Grahb to give motion to the light fantastic toes of his customers. When called upon to say who they were, the ladies lisped forth their respective name', consisting of the usual list of Louisas, Matildas, Angelinas, &c. "Pray, Sir," said Sir R. BIRNIE to the Liver pool Captain " what may be your name ?" " I am called Samuel Milne, Sir," replied the Captain. "Unluckily for me, I came to London to spend the Christmas; went to the theatre, and from thence to a house called Mother IL's, where, as a matter of course, I met with a female acquaint. ante, who introduced me to Mr. Grubb's, to take a dance, of which, as a sailor, I am fond, when the constables boarded us sure enough, bore us all away to the watch-house, and from thence to your Wor ship's presence ; from which," edded the Captain, aside, "may the Lord deliver me !" " Well, Sir, and what is your name and calling ?" asked the Magistrate, turning to another gentleman. " My name, Sir, is Alexander Simpson," replied the gentleman. "lam a friend of Capt. Milne, and I consider that I have been very ill-used." Bend, the officer, here stated, that this gentleman was the most obstreperous of the entire lot. Sir IL 13tee;IE observed, that constables, officers, and Magistrates, too, came in at times for a licking, it' not with sticks and stones, with a weapon quite as dangerous, namely, a goose-quill. All they had to do, however, was to bear it patiently, and join in the general grin. (Laughter.) " And who are you, Sir," continued the Magistrate, pursuing his inquiries, and addressing the gentleman from York shire. " Me, Sir ?" he replied, "my name is John Jackson. I have come last from Yorkshire, and would have left town for York this morning, having paid 3/. for my seat, if I had not unfortunately been locked up in the watch-house, and that is the lightest part of my sorrow, your Worship, for I have lost a young lady who was to have accompanied me home, and who, of course, has set off without me." " I am really sorry for your double loss," said the Magistrate, " but I hope this lesson will make you more cautious." ___.... The next person was William Hull, a livery stable-keeper, who merely said that he was seduced by the sound of the music to enter Grubb's assem bly, where he declared he would never be seen again. The rest of the males gave nearly the same ac count of themselves; and• after an admonition from the Magistrate, they were all discharged, upon en tering into their respective recognizances to meet any charge that may be preferred against them at the Sessions. Sir R. BIRNIE declared that his object was to abate the nuisance of Grubb's establishment. A schoolmaster, named Willis, came to obtain a warrant against Martin Ferstandeg, the German who was prosecuted by Wilks, the bookseller, for unlawfully pawning a book, his property. The complainant said that Ferstandeg obtained the book under false pretences, and pawned it with out his knowledge or consent. Sir R. BIRNIE declined granting the warrant, but toll the applicant that he might, if he liked, prefer an indictment against Ferstandeg at the now holden Westminster Sessions. There is now in the garden of the Rev. John Goodacre, at Sheepsbead, a white broom (yenista) with a considerable number of blossoms on it.—llants Chronicle. HORRID CASE.—A poor man, who bad been affected with rup.ure, was, on Thursday night, attacked by two Ines and a woman. They got him down in a close in the south end of the Gorbals, his face uppermost, and they there trampled him under their feet, on his breast and his belly until his entrails were absolutely forced out. An operation was obliged to be performed to restore them to their place, but the sufferer, as might be anticipated, con tinues in the most dangerous state. The assailants and criminals in this case were all Irish..-. Glasgow Courier. MILITARY ETIQUETTE. During the late rebellion in Ireland, General Beresford (now Peer and Field Marshal) com manded a district, and, upon one occasio►►; pro ceeded to inspect a country corps of yeomanry, drawn up for that purpose. On riding up to their front, imstead of being received with "pre sented arms," he found the corps " standing at ease." The Captain had, in fact, on first seeing the General, given the word "attention," to which no attention was paid—but, pressed by the General's rapid approach, he proceeded to the next order of his formula, "shoulder arms." To add to his embarrassment, however, the arms moved not, The General, with his characteristic good nature, suggested to the commandant to speak in a louder tone, who, not a little indig nant, repeated with a Stentorian voice " shoulder arms," but all to no purpose ; there stood the corps, dogged and motionless. Such a total apparent ignorance of the manual exercise, na turally excited the chagri❑ of the Captain and the astonishment of the General, to whom the former only a few days before had been puffing off the discipline of his corps. At length the General having intimated his intention of re porting the corps, was about to leave the field, when a sergeant with his " halbert recover ed," stepped in front of the ranks, and addressed the General in the following terms :—" Plase your honour, General ; don't think the corpse does not know its exercise as well as any sojers in the land. There is not min in the country knows how to use their arms, aye, and their legs too, bitter than those afore you ; but since you must know the truth, Sir, the min and the Cap tain of late have not been-on yoking 'amis."— Dublin Morning Register. LEWES MARKET.—Jan. 6. Beet 3s. Sd. to 4t4. dd. I Veal 4s. Sd. to ss. Od• Mutton 4 0 5 2 Pork 4 4 4 8 Supply mod. rately go Hi, and trade brisk. - • It was saiiiM Smithfield, on Monday, that s new op position Cattle Market was to have been opened on Lewes Cliff on Tuesday, but as nothing is said of it in the above letter, perhaps the intention is Abandoned. DEATH OF MR. R. A. SMITH. It is with feelings of the deepest sorrow that we have to announce the death of Mr. R. A. Smith, precentor in St. George's Church. Mr. Smith had just recovered from the horrors of a nervous fever, and was to all appearance in a fair way of recovery, but a disease which had been secretly preying on his vitals tapidly in creased to such a degree as to baffle the skill of his physicians, and at length terminated his suf ferings on Saturday evening last. It is not our intention to enlarge on this melancholy event, but we could not allow so much worth and talent to pass into the oblivion of the grave without bearing our humble and sincere tribute of respect to the memory of Mr. Smith. He has long been well known to the musical public by his publications of the Scottish and Irish Minstrels —works which have become of standard excel lence—and by his numerous vocal compositions ; among which, though not generally known, is to be numbered that most celebrated and much hacknied ballad, " The Flow'r o' Dumblane,"— a song which, for the last sixtee❑ or seventeen years, has been sung and played in a thousand forms in every corner of the world. Mr. Smith was generally - very happy in his melodies ; he did not pretend to great science ; but to apply the words of a great composer—" Where the air is good, the composition will assuredly please," and therefore it was that those simple ballads which Mr. Smith from time to time put forth, obtained so much admiration. His sacred compositions are very numerous ; a set of an thems, which appeared some years ago, will al ways remain a model of simple grandeur and de votional feeling. His taste was pure and refined, and he sung with much sweetness and pathos. Under his superintendance, the music in St. George's Church has been brought to a state of great perfection, and is a theme of praise to all strangers, even those from the most musical places in England, where church music forms so conspicuous a part of worship. In his manners Mr. Smith was bashful and retiring to a degree —most amiable and kindhearted—and was uni versally liked wherev . er he was known, more par ticularly by the congregation of St. George's, many of whom employed him as their teacher. As he was liked, so is he lamented ; indeed the tone of sympathy which seemed to pervade the assembly when his decease was alluded to by Dr. Thomson, in the improvement of his forenoon's discourse, was such as could not have been ex ceeded on any similar occasion.—Edinburgh Evening Courant. Oats. s. to s, 29 25 28 Beans. rer Quarter. s. to a. Blandford 82 Brigg— 65 70 , Cambridge-- 78 Chard 56 76 32 38' i 24 SO Huntingdon_..__ 66 76 28 39 29 29 Long Suttee— 59 17 17 24 Louth . 67 74 26 34 17 25 Lynn., 5B 78 a) 40 14 24 Newark 74 86 32 44 17 30 Nottingham 81 44 28 Peterborough 56 78 37 40 18 25 Plymouth 79 82 34 39 23 27 Pontefract— 80 39 28 40 Sleaforil . 76 80 30 33 22 24 50 59 Uppingham . 75 90 34 45 17 27 38 52 isbech s. to s. 48 38 42 33 42 48 33 41 38 40 38 42 38 42 42 47 44 37 42 GREAT RIOTING AT KILLARNEY. We have just been informed of a scene of the greatest barbarity that could disgrace a Christian country, which occurred in Killarney during the last week. Two factions, Barrvs and Cliffords, commenced a riot on Christmas Day, which con tinued, with little intermission, until Monday last, which was the fair day. On Monday the town had the appearance of being besieged ; the shops were closed up, business -of every kind suspended ; and we arc informed, that except in the year 1822, when it was expected the town would be stormed by the insurgents, it did not wear such a frightful aspect. About two hun dred of those sanguinary wretches (on both s id e s), with a ferocity horrifying to humanity, attacked each other with sticks, stones, and other missiles, so barbarously, that numbers of them lay stretched in the streets and channels half dead. Too much praise cannot be bestowed on Christopher Gallway, Esq., who was the only magistrate that exerted himself on this occa sion. With only fifteen policemen he used every exertion in his power to quell the riot, but his party were found quite inadequate to the full suppression of it. Mr. Gallway was then obliged to call upon the shopkeepers and other respect able inhabitants, and appoint them special con stables, who immediately sallied forth, and we rejoice to say that by their united efforts peace was in some measure restored.—Tralee Paper. LEEDS CORN" ItKET.--Jan.6. We had a good supply of Wheat and Barley, but only moderate of other Grain ; good New English and Foreign Wheat was in fair demand at last week's prices, hut for Old Wheat there was very little inquiry. Fine heavy Barley sold on much the same terms as last Tuesday, but all other descriptions were quite neglected. Oats and Shelling were rather lower. Beans were again full ls. per quarter cheaper. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Batley, Norfolk and Suflblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire • --- Grinding Beans 6311). Oats, l'otatoe --dealing, Foreign 15d. to 15!.,;,d....Eng1i51i 15d. to 16d. per st. Shelling 3l's. to 3Ss. per load. Rapeseed, English, 321. to Foreign, —/. to per last . LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Jan. 6. With a good supply of all Grain, and a dull market, we have experienced very little change in prices of any article of the trade : holders have evinced much firmness, parti cularly in Wheat, and the few sales effected duriug the week have been at fully last Tuesday's prices. The same dulness has pervaded the country markets, whet e the stocks of Flour, especially in ninchester, are accumulating. At this morning's market, which was thinly attended by either town or country millers, the transactions were upon a very limited scale. The few sales i❑ Wheat were on the seine terms as on Tuesday last ; but prices of Oats were about Id. per 45Ihs. lower. The value of Barley, Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn remains the came as uur previous cur rency. Flour and Oatmeal could have been beught on rather better terms. \Yr' uaT, English, White, per 701 b. 1 Is. Od. to 12s. OS. 10 1 11. 3 10 10 11 0 10 9 11 0 10 0 10 9 Foreign lO 0 11 0 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 D 4 0 4 4 - Irish - Foreign B 9 N 11 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 42 0 .4e, - Scotch and Irish, per 601hs. -- Feeding 5 3 5 9 Beetss, English, per Imperial quarter 44 0 48 0 - Irish, - Foreign PDAS6, English, per Imperial quarter 4B 0 51 0 --- Foreign FLOUR, English, per ..801b - Irish OATAIRAL, English and Irish, per 2101bs 37 0 29 0 INDIAN Cows, per 4401 b. RYA, per Imperial quarter S9 0 4g U MALT, per Imperial quarter Scotch, Welch. and Maux Irish, White I lIPOIT OP GRAIN for the Weex ending Jan. 5. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Flour. OatmeAl, Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, Bras &e. Scks. Loads. 9,353 17,656 I 2,830 500 8,417 DIANCHEiTER SMI'THFIELD.—Jaa,7. At per lb. sinking the °Wel. 3,0 W Sheep to 7d. lb N. to •Tcl. 502 Cattle 4 0 LO4 Pigs —..--- MA NCH PO'I'ATOE MARKET.—Jan. & Potatoes, fa. Od., 6s. 6d., and Bs. (I. per load of 12 score au/ 1211 k. ; New ditto, Da., Os. Od., and Os. Od. per ditto ; Turnips. 6s. Od., Gs. 6d. and 7s. Od. per load of 16 pecks; Onions, 18s. Od,, 18s. 6d., -and 193. per 12 score. MANCHESTER YA I No. d. d. 'rhrostle Twk , t, 20,.10,t0 11 Mule cepTwist/ 30 20-13 I3i 46..15, 1; 121 for 40..14 13 50 ...171 20 60 —2O 2.2 26 SU —27 30 N MARK .—Jan. 30 to 114 40 -- 111 12 50. , .......14* 13 51u1eCopl 60 - 15* Witt.. 70 -- 19 20 80-22 24 100.28 30 120-24 36 10 7 8 14 81 9 18 -- 9 91 24 -10 10,1 • L MAIM ors.—Jan._s. Weft from waste ... GLASGOW RETAI Beef per lb. N. sd. to N. fid. Mutton 0 4 0 '7 Veal 0 7 0 9 Hama 0 8 0 7 lamb per. qr. 0 0 0 0 quarters Loaf... 0 11 0 0 Hour, per atone 2 0 2 II Rye Oatmeal, per st. 2s. Od. tots. 6d. Peasemeal 2 0 3 4 Pot Barley, cwt 15 0 20 0 Pearl ditto.... 22 0 24 0 Grey Pease le 0 10 White ditto Blue ditto. MOP INTELLIGENCE. WoacEsTEn, JAN. 7.—So little is doing in our mar ket, that prices may be considered nominal ; 37 pockets were weighed on Saturday. A swallow was seen last week in Prospect street. The gentleman who saw it is positive that he can not be mistaken. He watched its motions some time, the singularity of its appearance at the close of December striking hint forcibly.—Hull Packet. BIRTHS. On the Gth inst., Mrs. John Wright, of Bush-cottage, Wanstead-park, of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at Clifton, the lady of William Henry Harford, Esq., of a son. O❑ the 6th inst., at Roherten, near Taunton, Somer setshire, the lady of John Molesworth, Esq., Commander R. N., of a still-born child. On the Bth inst., in St. Andrew's-p Lice, Regent's-park, the lady of Frank Cutler, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 6th inst., at Whitby church, by the Rev. James Andrew, Josh. Campion, Esq., fourth son of John Cam pion Coates, Esq., of Esk-hall, Slights, to Eleanor, youngest daughter of Thomas Brodrick, Esq. of Whitby. At Coda!ming, Henry Watkins, Esq., sou of R. 'Wat kins, Esq. Mayor of Arundel, to Miss Lock, of St. James's street, London. The branch of the National Bank at Dingwal and Nairn will not, it is said, be long without a rival ; a branch is also talked of for Invergordon, &e.—lnverness Journal. On Friday evening, as the Rev. Mr. Hudson, curate of Pagham, was returning home in his gig with a DIED. servant, after dining with Colonel Buckner, at Rumbold's On the 2d inst., Sarah, the wife of Mr. Thomas Cris- Whyke, be was grossly as s a u lt e d by three men, near sell, of York-road, Lambeth, and third daughter of Mr. Mundliain Canal Bridge. ( )ne o f th em first threw a Bensley, of Clapham-rise, in the 28th year of her age. stone, which struck him on the side of the face; he im- On the 6th inst. at hie house, the Cricket-fields, Isling. mediately got out of the gig to remonstrate with the fel- ton, after a short illness, which he bore with patience and l o w, who then assailed him with the foulest abuse, and a resignation, Mr. Thomas Ohlfield, in his 90th year. struggle ensued. A second and third coining from the On the 3th inst., at hie house in Albany-road, Mr. hedge, also attacked the Rev. Gentleman, but stunt!). de- Thistlewood, eldest sen of the late John Thistlewood, Esq., fending him se lf, h e m a d, them feel the weight of his arm, of Staines, in his 52d year. and he at length succeeded in beating them all off, with I On the sth inst., at Ramsgate, Mrs. Elizabeth Bridges. the 10 , 3 of hi, hat, one shoe, and a turn coat.—Brighton 1 On the 31st of August last, at Batavia, Mr. J. 11. Gazette. Turner, in the 36th year of his age. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.-011 Monday night On the 3th inst., Lwtitia Maria, the wif e of David au aged woman named Porch, residing in fleachen Cliff Davies, E s q., of Hampton. Place, Wideombe, was burnt to death whilst left alone in On the sth inst., in the S9th year of his age, Richard the house for a short time, as is supposed, by her clothes Lluellyn, Esq., of St. Martin's, Stamford, late of South taking fire whilst asleep. ller husband, who was a short Witham, Lincolnshire, formerly Major in the South Lin distance from home, on being informed that something had coin Militia. happened to his wife, returned, and on opening the door, Onjthe 2d inst, in her 82d year, at her daughter's, Mrs. found all in darkness, and on feeling about the room, he G. Arnold, in Greenwich, Sarah, relict of the late Mr. G. discovered the remains of his wife lying near the hearth Fetzer, news-agent, formerly of Wilmot-street, Brunawick reduced to a cinder. It is singular that none of the neigh- square. bourn heard the poor woman scream, or give any alarm. - A Coroner's Jury will sit on view of the body this PamEn and PutsusttEn by MURDO YOUNG, at the morning.—Bath Chronicle. Sea OFFICE, 112, SWAIM!), L0ND43:74, SHIPPIN INTELL LIVERPOOL. Wan EfiD AY AN II A ItY water I.'?, minutes past twelve.—Arrived the Bri tannia, Marshill, from New York ; Wylie, , tic& Glasgow ; Bryden, from Isle of Man ; Jame* Cropper, , from Virginia. Sailed—The Crown, Cameron, for Sierra Leone; Montgomery, Size, New York ; Jane, lona ; Meg Merrilies, Clegg, for Africa; George Can* ning, The John Dickinson, American, from Savannib, 64 iled from Holyhead for this port. THE MARKETS. sou rHAm. MARKET.—Jan. 7. At our markrt of to•-dav, which was throughout mode rately well supplied, each 'kind of meat met with a very dull sale, at the following prices par stone of 1:11b. to sinb the offals:— Beef as. 'AL to 4.5. Bd. I 4s. 4d. to ss. 6d. Mutton 3 4 4 10 Pork 4 0 5 4 . The foregoing quotations are Beef, Mutton, and Veil, the same as those of this day se'unight ; Pork at a depression of 24. per stone. Muth of the supply left the market unsold. NUM FO Ft D 31 A RKET.—Jan. 7. •r. d. to s. d. I s. d. a. d. Beef 'I 9 4 8 1 Veal Mutton :1 9 410 I Pork suckling Calves from 14a. to 355.; Quarter old Pigs 154 to lBs. each. A moderate supply; trade with good Mutton brisk, with other things very dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING 1113 WERE NN heat. Barley. S. to 8. 33 36 /~ ~~ ~,