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atiminis:er justice may be exposed. We all know that gaols are anything but schools of mo rality, and that the shorter the confinement in them the less danger there is of the corruption of the prisoner. The interest of the public, justice to prisoners, imperatively demand that trials should be proceeded in with the least pos sible delay after commitment. This is the para mount consideration ; the means is but a se condary one. We should be sorry to think that the statement in the Chronicle - afforded the least encouragement to those who might feel not unwilling to prefer their own ease to the public good. We trust that the example set by the Essex Magistrates, whose conduct we have more than once deemed it our duty to hold up as a pattern to those of other counties, will be generally followed. To show the import ance of the measure, we have only to state sim ply what has taken place in Essex. The first adjournment was made at the Spring Assizes, and took place in June. On that occasion the delivery occupied two very long days, beginning at an early hour. Mr. Western, who presided, did not leave the Court till past seven o'clock. On the 25th November the Magistrates sat in two Courts with two Juries, and got through the business in one day. We have only to add our wish that the Essex Magistrates may pursue the course on which they have entered, and that they may have many imitators. By way of atonement for our offence towards the Essex Magistrates, we quote the following forcible observations from Mr. Bentham's recent publication, " Petition for Justice ;" In penal cases, and in particular in those most hi g hly penal, not a day in the year but Courts are open to receive complaint; and complaint made, men complained against, guilty and innocent toge ther, are put into jail. How so ? Because, as above observed, Judges have bodies, Judges have gouts, Judges have lives: so also, as well as other men, have all those who, in point of interest, are in any particular way connected with them : bodies, goods, and lives, which, but for some such protec tion, might be wounded, carried off, or destroyed. " When in jail, there they are, guilty and inno cent together, from two days to one hundred and eighty-two, as cl ance pleases. I-Ic wso ? Because to Judges, and those who are in league with Judges, whether in this case a man is innocent or guilty, stays in gaol two days or one hundred and eighty two days makes no difference; not to speak of counties and cases in which the one hundred and eighty-two days may be doubled. " Oh yes : to Judges and Co. the time does make a difference : for, from the difference between the two days and the one hundred and eighty-two days, come fees. Jail produces bailing, and bailing produces fees. .• " Contamination ! Contamination ! Between uncompleted examination and definitive trial, whole days, weeks, and months, are rolling on; contami nation thickening all the while. • • • • • • • • " What, if on being called in by a man with a •tone in his bladder, a Surgeon, were to say to him, lie there, and suffer while I am amusing myself; four months hence, I may perhaps come and cut you.' By Surgeons this is not said. No Surgeon ha; a monopoly of surgery. Judges do say this.— Judges, in small numbers, have among them the monopoly of the commodity sold under the name of Justice." —Morning Chronicle. We regret to see the practice rather increasing in our Courts of Equity of hearing cases in pri vate. We do not deny that there may occur some few instances (but they must necessarily be very few indeed) where the interests of parties may require, and the interests of the public may not be materially d a mnified, by such a course of proceeding. We would refer, for instance, to incipient proceedings in alleged cases of lunacy, and those instances of matrimonial tiffs, and other domestic misunderstandings, which may be nipped in the bud by private interference, which publicity perhaps would only fan into a flame. But, on principle, we are opposed to the system as one highly mischievous, if not uncon stitutional. We happily live, as the people of this country have long lived, in times when judi cial favouritism and corruption are unknown. At the same time, what has happened may hap pen again ; and we all know how readily prece dents furnished in a period of no danger are quoted and perverted to the worst of purposes. Besides, the practice, as far as we have been able to follow its source and operations, seems to originate more in good-natured compliance witli the mere wish or convenience of counsel or of parties, than of any necessity arising out of each particular case. Our respect for the Courts induces us to refrain from noticing any particular instance. The greatest of modern Judges, Lord Eldon, perhaps led the way in being somewhat too accommodating in this respect. We seldom hear of the most eminent of the present Equity judges, Sir John Leach, permitting it. And the less it is permitted in any Court, the more, we are convinced, will the Court consult its osvri dignity and utility, and the interests both of individual suitors, and of the public at large. —illo)n.inz Herald. The question of the renewal of the East India Company's Charter, which must soon engage the attention of the Legislature, has already be come the subject of warm and active contro versy to jourulllists and pamphleteers ; and the utmost pains are taken by the advocates of free intercourse with India, to draw from the British nation expressions of an opinion sufficiently de rided to fetter the discretion of Parliament, and to s oticipate or render useless that calm search ing act satisfactory investigation of the entire oubject wl - tich Parliament alone is competent to undertake. We lament these efforts, and en tertain a confident hope that they will prove un euezessful. Our confidence in their failure is founded indeed upon the course pursued by the advocates of unfettered commercial intercourse, who, without any exception that has yet fallen under our notice, confine their arguments to that minute and insignificant fraction of the subject which is immediately connected with commerce ; as well as upon the sedate sense and acute penetration of the nation, which cannot fail, we think, to render it suspicious of those who appeal exclusively on such a question to mercantile feelings and interests, and inacces sible to reasonings which, overlooking the poli• tieal effects that any alteration in the nature of our connection with India is sure to produce, rely altogether upon the equivocal or inappli cable testimony of Custom House returns and Price Currents. It may be conceded to those who argue against the Charter, that the trade to India and China would_ be improved and ex tended by transferring it from a Joint Stock Company to independent individuals, and yet it is plain that we are as far from any decision as to the wisdom or prudence of such a transfer atter this concession as before. The mere question of trade is of so little importance in comparison with others which are inseparable from the subject, that it seems scarcely worth while to correct the exaggerations in re (yard to it in which the opponents of the Charter ' habitually indulge. The actual state of the Indian markets under the present system, 'glutted with European goods far be yond the effective demand of an unchangeable people ; the jealous character of the Chinese Government, and the fixed habits of a nation alien and hostile to commercial intercourse ; the example of America, whose enterprising subjects have cultivated to the utmost, and without im• pediment or restraint on the part of their own Government, the trade with China, and have ' bee❑ unable to make any thing of it ; all these things weigh for nothing in the estimation of those who desire to see the exclusive commercial privileges of the East India Company surrendered or abolished. To stimulate the cupidity of the mercantile world, and array it in opposition to the East India Charter, no statements are too extravagant, no arguments too absurd. The un fettered enterprise of British merchants is to per form miracles. Under its talismanic influence the millions of Hindostan, casting off at once their prejudices and their poverty, are to acquire not only a taste for European productions, but the means of indulging it ; while the same pre dominant and irresistible charm is to conciliate or subdue the jealous and hitherto inflexible dis position and policy of the Celestial Empire. These exaggerations prove nothing unless it be that those who employ them are aware that they have got hold only of a little corner of the sub ject, and are accordingly desirous of magnifying to the utmost their petty and insignificant pos session. The question with reference to which every thing affecting India, or the East India Company, must be decided is, " How shall India henceforth be governed ?" As to any hope of a great increase of the trade, without an extensive colonization of India, sufficient to pro duce a general intermixture of European with the Hindoo inhabitants, it is an extravagant and ridiculous chimera, by which men in their sober senses, and possessed of any tolerable degree of information on the subject, can never for a single moment be amused or misled. Here then is a most important and difficult question for Par liament, involving no less than the security of our Indian Empire, and the happiness and peace of its countless millions of subjects, and one upon which petitions proceeding from the com mercial and manufacturing towns of England, and founded solely upon mercantile eagernesss, cannot shed one ray of light. And when Par liament shall have settled what is to be the future policy of the State with respect to the coloniza tion of India, the no less difficult question re mains—and this also is intimately connected with the commercial privileges of the Company —by what instruments is this mighty Empire henceforth to be governed ? Is the Company to - retain the onerous and awful charge of sovereignty, stripped of the advantages which have hitherto assisted them to sustain it ? Will they consent to retain it upon such terms, or can they upon these terms adequately fulfil its duties ? To what extent for the purposes of go vernment have the territorial revenues of India been hitherto aided by the Company's commerce? Can this assistance be spared ? Or if, on the other hand, the Government of the Indian Empire should be exercised immediately by the Ministers of the British Crown, how is the Company to be compensated for the loss of a splendid and boundless empire, the acquisition of its policy, of its enterprise, of the dangers it has incurred and the treasures it has expended ? How again is the wholesome political jealousy of the British Nation to be appeased, when such a valuable and extensive patronage as the Go vernment of India necessarily implies is added to that which already renders the influence of the Crown equiponderant with that of the aristocrati cal and popular branches of the Constitution ? These are questions, not one of which can be excluded from any satisfactory or advantageous discussion of the commercial monopoly of the Company, and each of which, as a separate question, greatly outweighs in importance any conceivable question relating exclusively to com merce. Upon these complicated, difficult, and most important questions we forbear to offer any opinion. The information which is required to elucidate them will be elicited during the Par liamentary discussions, in which the East India Company, as well as its opponents, will have a full and equal opportunity of stating and prov ing their case. And upon this information Par liament will, we doubt not, arrive at a practical conclusion, combining in the highest attainable degree all that is due to the happiness and welfare of the inhabitants of India—to the claims which the East India Company, the founders of an immense empire, have acquired not upon the justice merely, but upon the gratitude also:of Eng land—and to the commercial interest of the peo ple of this country. What we would impress upon our countrymen is the conviction that these objects must be pursued together, or none of them can be pursued with any chance of success, and the prudence and necessity of abstaining from precipitate decision upon any one separate branch of the subject, and under the guidance of partial and defective information. The author of a recent pamphlet entitled " A Review of the Arguments and Allegations which have been offered to Parliament against the Renewal of the East India Company's Charter," after pre senting to the public much detailed and valuable information on the commercial part of the sub ject, concludes with a forcible admonition against precipitancy of judgment, of which we will ingly avail ourselves in support of our preced ing remarks : " Nothing more is asked ; and it is not too much to ask, on the part of the corporate body to whom England owes almost entirely the splendid acquisi tion of its Indian territories,' that the question which involves their existence, as well as the inte rests of Britain and Hindostan, should be decided not by passion and party rancour, but after mature inquiry and patient deliberation. Rash experimen talists' seeking their own individual ends , m a y un dervalue the consequences of precipitancy ; but when reflecting men consider that the system which is sought to be overturned has, by the solemn judg ment of a Parliamentary Committee, been com mended in strong terms, us showing an anxiety to promote the confidence and conciliate the feelings of the natives of India, by shielding every class under the safeguard of equal law; when they recollect that Mr. Pitt declared that experience had demonstrated, in the case of the East India Company, the fallacy of the theory that commercial bodies could not govern empires; that Mr. Canning said of their ad ministration that it had disproved the common adage, that little wisdom was required for governing mankind; that Lord Castlereagh asserted that the Company had raised and preserved an empire un precedented in the history of the world, and that there never was a milder Government, nor one by which the happiness of a people was more consult ed; tint Mr. Peel has spoken recently of India as an empire which has been raised to the highest pitch of honour and glory by conquest arid good govern ment, and where the fate of its inhabitants has been so much advanced; they will surely pause. They will bear in mind, too, that the late Lord Melville (and no Statesman was ever better informed upon Indian topics) has left upon record his opinion as follows: " The monopoly of the East India Company is essentially requisite for the security of every impor- tint interest connected with our Indian empire; and so deeply am I impressed with the truth of that pro position; that I am prepared explicitly to deLlare that, although the first formation of an East India Company proceeded upon purely commercial con siderations, the magnitude and importance , to which the East India Company has progressively advanced is now so interwoven with the political interests of the empire, as to create upon my mind a firm con viction that the maintenance of the monopoly of the East India Company is even more important to the political interests of the State than it is to the com mercial interests of the East India Company.' " Morning Post. We are glad to find from the Irish papers that the Quixotic scheme of Mr. O'Connell, for dissolving the Union between England and Ire land, has met with the fate which it so amply deserved. It has been scouted as disadvan tageous, uncalled for, and injurious, by almost all who fought with him in the cause of Eman cipation, and been approved by no respectable name that we know of—or at least by no name which ought to have any weight—but that of one, whom we regret to see mentioned as an adherent of a scheme, the main object of which is to gratify the ambition of an individual—we mean the venerable George Ensor, who is re spected by all classes and all parties—who has done more for Ireland by his writings, than all the O'Connells and Sheils and O'Gormans, et hoc genus omne, which she has ever produced, and whom of all men we should have least expected to meet with hunting in such company. Some strange delusion must have come over the apostle of " National Education," when he enlisted in the ranks of the Agitator to promote such a ridi culous project—to call it by no worse epithet —and of which we trust lie will speedily recover. The revenue of Ireland has never defrayed the necessary expenses of her own Government — both England and Scotland have been taxed to maintain it ; and while it must be admitted by all that she has driven a profitable trade with both, we think it would be difficult to show what peculiar advantage would accrue from a dissolution of the Union, and the elevation of Dan, as he is familiarly styled by his country men, to the regal dignity. We, at least, have seen no argument of that nature, tholfr o th we readily allow that the independence of Ireland might be an injury to England—the only thing, perhaps, that is aimed at by those who are so anxious to promote a dissolution of partnership. —Morning Advertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 1. PRICE V. ALLINGHAM. This was an action by James Price, an attorney's clerk, against Mr. Allingham, an attorney of Hat ton-garden, his late employer, to recover damages for having given him such a character as prevented him from obtaining another situation. The Jury, after a few minutes' consideration, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 701. THE KING V. J. R. SEYMOUR, ESQ. This is the case from Salisbury, which has un dergone so much discussion. It now stands for ar gument on a rule nisi for a new trial obtained by Mr. Seijeant Wilde. Mr. COLERIDGE mentioned the case this morning. Mr. Justice BAYLEY said it was intended to be argued in full court. BUSINESS OF TUE COURT. Lord TENTERDEN, it will be recollected, intimated last week that all cases appointed to be heard before the Judges sitting in banco after term, under the authority of his Majesty's warrant, in which the parties (counsel or attornies) were rot in attend ance when they were called on, would be struck out of the paper, and no excuse be allowed for their re storation. The Court has since issued a notice,. which it seems important should be generally known. The reason of so many cases being struck out of the paper at the last sitting in October was the absence of counsel and attornies, in consequence of a general misunderstanding as to the particular cases which the Court intended to take; for, although their Lordships issued a written notice, as they have done on the present occasion, it did not, we believe, gain general publicity. A list has now been put up of the cases intended to be heard, and the Court has issued the following notice : " Country new trials (except those tried before Lord Tenterden) in the order in which ,they stand on the paper. " Special cases will be taken in the order in which they stand, unless previous application, upon special grounds, be made to the Court. " All cases in which Counsel are not in attend ance will he struck out, unless it shall appear to the Court, upon the statement of Counsel, or of one of the attornies in the cause, that in cases in the special paper the Counsel who has been instructed to argue on one side, is,—or in those in the new trial paper all the counsel on oneside are,—absent from to wit, ill, or unavoidably engaged in Nisi Prins ; under which circumstances the special cases will be allowed to remain. If the Counsel on one side are in attend ance, and those on the other absent, without such excuse, judgment will be given in favour of the former." COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 1. The Court was occupied during the whole of to day, and until past ten o'clock at night, with the trial of the cause of " Key v. Goodwin," which in volved the same question as that of" Key v. Shaw," recently tried in this Court, —namely, whether or not Mr. Sherwin, the bookseller of Paternoster row, committed an act of bankruptcy between May, 1821, and March, 1822. The Jury found a verdict for the defendant. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, DEc. 1. George William Burgh, who represented himself in this schedule as part proprietor of an intended subscription-house ut No. 56, Pall-mall, was op posed by Mr. WOODROFFE on behalf of Messrs. Att..vell and Elliott, tailors, of No. 31, Great Pnl teney-street. The insolvent stated, in the course of his exa mination by Mr. Woadroffe, that in ;1828 he en tered into an agreement with a person named George Tidmarsh (who was very recently discharged in this Court) to take a house, No. 56, Pall-mall, from a Mr. Moses, an auctioneer, in Bond -street, at a rental of 42/. per month, for the purpose of con verting it into a club-house, under the tide of the " Northampton Club-house." There had been no subscribers to the house, and the furniture, &c., was seized in May last by the ground landlord. Ile never lived in Liverpool-street, but he was in 1828 it clerk to the firm of Alloyce and Co., which had a counting-house there. He was there only three or four months. Alloyce and Co. were French mer chants. lie never saw the names of Alloyce and Co., and Burgh, in the Swindlers' List, indeed he did not know any such list. He had described himself in his schedule for the last six or seven years:as a bill broker. He recollected some bill transactions hav ing been inquired into at Marlborough-street po lice-office, in 1825. At that time he held a bin of a gentleman named Haynes, for 2,0001., as a colla teral security for about 400/., which Mr. Haynes owed hint. Ile passed the bill to Mr. Bell, a soap-maker, for 2001. or 3001, and the bill has since been negotiated in France, proceedings re specting which are now pending in Chancery. In February, 1824, a person named George Stevenson West assigned to him a certain sum in the hands of the Accountant-General, which assignment was lodged in the hands of his attornies, Messrs. Con stable and Kirk, as a security for their costs. While endeavouring to establish the Northampton Club .. house, Messrs. Atwell and Elliot were introduced to him by a person named Pooke. They supplied him and various persons connected with the este bishment with clothes. He swore that he always went by the name of Burgh only. He never gave the name of De Burg, Barge, or Whitebarge, nor (lid he ever desire any body to call him Whitebarge in the presence of Mr. Atwell or Mr. Elliott. He had a person named Irish in the establishment but he never desired that person to call him by any other name than Burgh. Mr. George Atwell, one of the opposing credi tors, had supplied the insolvent with clothes, and made splendid liveries for the servants of the esta blishment in Pall-mall. with buttons having the initials N.C. (Northampton club-house) upon them. He was introduced to the insolvent, who stated his name Whitebarge, and at witness's request a per son present wrote the name, and witness copied it intolhis order-book. If he had known that the in solvent's name was Burgh or de Bourg, he would not have suppliedPim with any thing upon credit. John Pooke, who was brought up from the Fleet-prison to give his evidence, was the person who introduced Mr. Atwell, for the first time, to the insolvent. The insolvent desired him to call him Whitebarge, as there was a great prejudice ex isting against the name of De Burgh. When the name of Whitebarge was given to Mr. Atwell, he asked how it was spelt; and at the insolvent's re quest, witness:wrote it on a piece of paper. He had seen the name of "Baron de Burgh" in the public papers, and he (witness) thought that was the in solvent ; but be has since learnt that that person was his brother. Mr. WOODROFFE submitted that the insolvent ought to be remanded, to re-advertise his descrip- tion. Mr. Commissioner HARMS delivered the judg ment of the Court. They did not think, as the in solvent had only assumed a different name in the case of Mr. Atwell, it was necessary to re•advertise. With respect to Messrs. Atwell's debt, there was no doubt that it was fraudulently contracted, and the judgment of the Court therefore was that the insolvent be remanded for a period of eight calendar months from the date of filing his petition. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A young man named Edward Taylor Strange was brought before Mr. Alderman BROWN, charged with obtaining five pairs of shoes by false pretences from Mr. Smerzer, of Fore-street, shoemaker. Mr, Smetzer stated that the prisoner was in his service about five years ago,and one day in February, 182.5, asked permission to take five pairs of shoes out of the stock for the purpose of fitting a customer he had met with. Witness told him to take them, but not to consider that credit was given to him per sonally for their value. Prisoner said he understood that, and would bring back either the shoes or the money, and he was therefore allowed to take them away, but he never returned. The ALDERMAN—The charge is rather too stale for me to notice. I shall not detain the prisoner. William Arnold, one of the prisoner's friends, who had attended as a spectator, was then put to the bar, and Mr. Smetzer charged him with defrauding him of ss. last week by calling on him and pretending he could lead him to the place where the last prisoner was lodging. Having received the money, he took him to Bear-alley, Fleet-market, and raa away from him. Mr. Alderman BROWN said it did not appear to be a case in which he ought to interfere, and the two men were discharged. against the prisoner William Waller, for having the tobacco in his possession without a permit, contrary to the Act of the Gth George IV., c. 108, sec. 60, which subjected him to the penalty of 1001., without any mitigation. The defendant was then fined 100/., and informed that he must apply to the Lords of the Treasury for a mitigation of the fine. The prisoner said he could not pay the money. Mr. WHITE said, the Magistrate had no alterna tive. The act expressed that he must be commit ted until the fine was paid. His wife and child were in the office, and cried most bitterly on his being committed. WORSHIP-STREET. John Wright, a very well-dressed young man, a journeyman weaver, was finally examined before Mr. BROUGHTON and Mr. BENETT, charged with embezzling '7l yards of manufactured silk, the pro perty of Messrs. Adams and Son. The Magistrates sentenced him to three months' hard labour in the House of Correction. LAMBETH-STREET. James Clark, a driver of a hay-cart, was yester day fined Is. and costs by Mr. WALKER, at this office, for not being within a proper distance to take care of his horses and team, on the 21st November, in Mile-end, Old-town. A sailor, named James Mills, who has served in the navy for forty years, came yesterday before Mr: WALKER at this office, bringing with him his daughter, a girl only seventeen years of age, and stated to the Magistrate that about five months ago his daughter ran away from him, and went to live with some vagabond, but he did not know where. A night or two ago she came home and insisted on his maintaining her, and ashe refused she threatened to break all his windows, which she had already done about five months since, but for which offence he had forgiven her. He had once before endeavoured to reclaim her by getting her into an asylum in the Whitechapel-road, where she remained for twelve months ; but this had no effect upon her. Mr. WALKER said that she had done no act which subjected her to any punishment; and although her conduct was very bad, he felt himself compelled to discharge her, but advised her to be careful and be have better in future. Among the applicants for relief yesterday, at this office, from the parish of Mile-end Old Town, was a man with a wife and five children, who begged of the Magistrates to grant him an order to compel the overseers to take him into the workhouse. He stated that they would only alloy► him 7s. a-week for the support of himself, wife, and a family of five children. - Mr. WALKER told him that the parish did very right in not taking him into the house, as there was no doubt but that he wished to be supported in idleness, the trade of a carpenter being a very good one. The man, who described himself as a carpenter, said, in withdrawing, with team in his eyes, that for six weeks he had not been able to get any work, and he had no home for his wife and family to go to. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday George Crouchman, Robert Dowdell, John Powell, and Wm. Home, the four men in cus tody on a charge of breaking into and robbing the hop-warehouse of Messrs. Sampson Hanbury, Tru man, and Co., the brewers, were finally examiued before the sitting Magistrates, Mr. Sergeant SaLLON and Mr. LAING, when Crouchman and Dowdell were committed, and the other two prisoners were discharged. John Powell was then again placed at the bar, charged by Thomas Mathews, agent to: Messrs. Whitehouse, carriers, and by Solon Reid, foreman to Mr. Ayres, sack-letter, of liorselydown, with ob taining various sums of money, amounting to up wards of 41., by means of forged orders. The prosecutors were not prepared with the ne cessary evidence, and the Magistrates ordered the prisoner to be remanded till Saturday next. UNION-HALL BOW-STREET. A corporal in the Guards named George Siagg was yesterday brought before Sir R. BIRNIE by virtue of a warrant which had been issued for his apprehension by Mr. Halls, at the instance of the pnrish-officers of St. Martin's-in-the-fields, to com pel him to pay the sum of two guineas, for the ex penses attending the birth and subsequent burial of an infant child, born in the workhouse of that pa rish, and of which the defendant was the father. Upon the charge being stated to the Magistrate by Mr. Earie, l clerk to the overseers and church wardens, the defendant stepped forward, and draw ing up in front of the bench, said he claimed to be exempted from the demand made upon him by the parish officers, by virtue; of a clause in the mutiny act, by which soldiers were freed from the liability of civil arrest for any sum under 20/. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE said, that the Act of Parliament upon which the corporal depended for his exemption from the debt took the matter out of a Magistrate's hands. He conceived that he could not make an order of payment upon a soldier. The parish might, however, sue him at the Ses sions, or summon him for the amount at the Court of Requests. The soldier was accordingly discharged ; but Mr. Rawlings, clerk and solicitor to the parish officers, having heard of the circumstance, came to Sir R. BIRNIE and prayed that the defendant might be again brought before him. He said, that the de mand in the present instance was not in the light of a simple contract debt, but had originated in an offence against the poor laws, which it was the in variable practice of the Magistrates to treat cri- The following anonymous letter, addressed to the Magistrates of this office, together with notices in some of the sporting Sunday newspapers of what was about to take place, gave intimation to those who were the means of preventing the intended fight between O'Neal and young Dutch Sam. The com munication was to this effect : it was headed, " O'Neal and young Dutch Sam.—This match ex cites an extraordinary degree of interest, and comes off on Tuesday next. Both men are in tip-top con dition. Sam, we believe, is on the coast of Sussex, and O'Neal returned last night to Streatham. The place of meeting is not yet fixed. The betting varies from guineas to pounds on Sam to even betting.' The above is a copy of an article of information to the public in the Globe of this evening; and if you, as stipendary Magistrates and paid servants of the public, do your duty, you will immediately cause the man O'Neal to be apprehended and bound over in heavy recognizances to keep the peace towards all his Majesty's subjects, and his contemplated an tagonist in particular. Here is the most public inti mation given by the parties of their intention to commit an outrageous breach of the peace, the con sequence of which is, exclusive of the disgraceful and disgusting scene itself, the congregating together of .a set of thieves and miscreants of the very worst description; both of which will be prevented if you attend to your duty." Independently of the anonymous communication above quoted, Mr. Chambers, having been apprised that a pitched battle was to take place between the two men above named, gave directions to the chief constable to_ proceed immediately in quest of the men, and, if possible, to take both in custody.— Agreeably to those instructions, Hall and Pople re paired to Streatham on Monday morning in quest of O'Neal, but on their arrival at that village they learned that he had set out some hours before to wards Guildford. When the officers arrived in Guildford, there could not have been less than 20,000 persons assembled there, all waiting in anxiety for the signal as to the certain spot fixed upon for the tight. The report of. their arrival spread like wildfire through all quarters of the town, and the consequence was, that the party, whom they " wanted," pushed on for a small hamlet called Cufton, four miles ox the other side of Guild ford. The officers followec up the pursuit, and at length ferretted out O'Nea'.. The disappointment excited when the report that O'Neal was in custody went forth, was universal, and the officers encoun tered considertae risk of their lives. Hall, how ever, aided by Pople, brought O'Neal from Cufton over to Guildaed, the same night, and at an early hour yesterthy morning left that place, and arrived in town about three o'clock, at which hour he was broughr to this office, there being present at the time M.. Chambers, Mr. Swabey, Mr. Hone, and Mr. Eyard, one of the country Magistrates. O'Neal was acompanied by several of the pugilists, and the erong of persons in the office and outside was verygreat. Hall having described the particulars of Is journey and apprehension of O'Neal, stuted, char he bad information that Dutch Sam was at Pearorth, close to the place where the fight was toiave taken place. The latter person therefore wa not in custody. Mr. CHAMBERS—The Magistrates of this county re determined, as far as is in their power, to put a lop to those disgraceful exhibitions called prize gilts, and on being apprised that a scene of this .ind was about to take place on the boundaries of his comity, I directed the chief constable to appre 'lend the principals if possible, and bring them be tore me. I perceive, added the Magistrate, that one of them is in custody, and I shall deal I%:itli him in such a manner as will prevent a breach of the QUEEN-SQUARE. peace on his part. Yesterday William and George Waller, who were Hnll declared that his life would have been en remanded crone l ast wee k , c h arge d by Jones, one of dangered but for the very proper condu c t di s pl a y e d t he new police constables, on suspicion of having st o-on the occasion towards him and Pople by O'Neal len 6ilb. of tobacco, which he stopped them with and the other men belonging to the prize ring, who in the street, were aga i n pl ace d at the bar before were presentwhen they took the former into custody; Messrs. IN lI I TE and MARRIOTT. the y p revented the mob from ill-treating them. Mr. WHITE told the prisoners they were dis- Mr. ELYARD bore testimony to the general good charged of the felony; but an information was laid conduct and behaviour of O'Neal, who lived at minally. Sir R. BIRNIE observed, that Mr. Rawlings might, if he pleased, cause the prisoner to be again apprehended. Mr. Rawlings certainly should do so. Jeremiah Redding and Ann Keary, both of whom were taken into custody upon a charge of coining, in a room in Bloomsbury-market, were brought for ward for a final examination. Nothing new was added to the evidence taken when the p►isoners were first examined, and the male prisoner was fully committed to Newgate upon the capital charge. He was dreadfully ag►tated. The female prisoner was discharged. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE. Between twelve and one o'clock yesterday, a genteel young man, who gave his name John Horne, was brought before Mr. GRIFFITII by John Little, a constable of the new police, under the following circumstances : Just before then, Little went into the shop of Mr. Dobree, a pawnbroker in Oxford-street, to in quire whether Bloomfiield, a young man at present detained by the Magistrates of this office upon sus= picion of hand, had pawned any books there, when the prisoner, Horne, came in with a piece of new black velvet, and wanted to borrow 103. upon it. His conduct. created suspicion, and he was found to give a false address, and the policeman was desired to take him into custody. Young Horne told Mr. GRIFFITH he had met with a girl of the town in Fleet street the night be fore, and he gave her some money, and she gave him the velvet; but this was not satisfactory to the Magistrate, and he ordered him to be searched. He had in his possession a watch, some money, some new silk handkerchiefs, - a duplicate of another piece of velvet, pawned at Mr. Muncaster's, in Skinner street, for 10s.; and one bill of exchange, purport ing to be drawn, at three months after date, by Messrs. Eyles and Co., on Mr. S. Turtill, of 144, Regent-street, for 44/. 12s. 10d., and a similar one, at four months, for 451. The prisoner declined saying any thing more, and he was remanded. BlooVield was brought up for re-examination, and two persons who h e ld his acceptances, long since due , and dishonoured, came forward against him; but he answered these charges by saying be ,equently taken th e benefit of the 1118°1- hadve u Insol vent sb Act; and for want of bail lie was again re manded. Streatham, where he (the Magistrate) also reside ' „ Mr. E!yard having inquired of Hall whether he h a d a warrant to apprehend O'Neal, and the answer being in the negative, the Magistrate observed that he was of opinion he should have been clothed with that necessary authority on such an occasion. Hall said that when he was sent off in pursuit of the parties he had not time to obtain a warrant, be on his arrival at Godalming, he there applie d to one of the local Magistrates, who, however, refused to grant one; and, as a reason of his refusal, intimated that he was not vested with authority to act in such a case Mr.. HONE was decidedly of opinion that Hal was perfectly justified in having acted as he ba,'" done, even without the authority of a warrant. Mr. ELYARD did not by any means disapprove 01 Hall's conduct in the affair; all that he meant JP say was, that that officer should have provided hiar self with that necessary authority, which would have prevented any subsequent threats on the part o f those interested in the fight. He (Mr.Elyard) was as anxious as any other Magistrate of the count! that estop should be put to pugilistic encounterap which did not at all redound to the character of the county in his estimation. Hall complained of the conduct of a person at Guildford, who represented himself a magistrate d the county." This individual," said Hall," came into the room where I had O'Neal in custody, and till ing that he was a magistrate, asked me to produce my warrant. I told him that I had no warnmt,,bq that I was chief officer of Union-hall, and that had . directions from the Magistrates of that office to act in the manner I had done. This, h o wever, would not satisfy the gentleman, and he a dvised O'Neal to proceed on to the fight. Hall added, that had it not been for the good conduefor O'Ne al, in spite of these remonstrances, he ( Hall) have met with a good deal of difficulty. O'Neal said that on seeing the officer he immedi.. ately submitted to him, and offered no re sistance, he was aware it would have been of littl e avail, an d only tend to injure himself and those wh o were h is friends. He, however, thought it unfair t hat Dutch Sam, his intended opponent, should be su ff ered e go at large while he was taken into custody and brought up to town. " Many persons who know' no better," added O'Neal, " will suspect from the c i rc umstance of my being `nabbed,' that I had se would the anonymous letter myself to prevent the fi g ht but those who know me, I trust, will be impresso with a far different opinion of me." Mr. CHAMBERS said that the sporting papers bq given the first intimation of the 'intended fight ; art as the Magistrates of the county, as well a s himas"P. had resolved to prevent such disgraceful exhibitiova in the district, he was determined on doing his chop and carrying their resolutions into effect. O'Neal said he could not obtain sureties. • Mr. SWABEY—Then you must take the cow quences, and go to gaol; and as you are before P. now, I shall take this opportunity of cautioning yo' against fighting in Berkshire or Buckinghamallir!' You will be prevented, you may rely upon it,, disgracing either of those counties by such blac ; guard exhibitions; and I am confident if the saT e means are adopted in all other counties, the pisntlch,. will be soon done away with altogether, and sviiiefic I am of opinion, will tend materially to th s . be"- of the morals of the country at large. I was • After some further conversation, O'Ne!" bound over to keep the peace towards all jesty's subjects, particularly towards Dutch himself in the sum of 2001., and two sureties 04 001. each. COURT OF ALDERMEN. The LORD MAYort held his first Court of Alder° men yesterday, which was fully attended ; and hi.' Lordship, upon taking his seat, shortly addressed di° . Court, requesting their co-operation and suppor t throughout his Mayoralty. Mr. Baron BOLLAND attended the Court, ll* signed his office of Common Pleader, which he 00 14. held nearly 25 years, and expressed in a very 1 some manner his grateful feelings towards,th e t he n poration for the kindness he had received t i- v. : Q hands. The Baron then presented R. Gurneys who was admitted a Common Pleader in his Wri t . . The Court passed an order for the removal t;',, stand of hackney-coaches from Fleet-street , and 0' allowing 25 coaches to stand in Farringdortlstreat• in lieu thereof. An order was also passed for the Police-othffiecmersstio! the City in enter to books, to be kept at . Sion-house, the Guildhall, and the Comp ters, an sel count of the property taken by them from such pa l " ties as they may apprehend. On Friday a gentleman, who stated that 11 ! was a pupil in medicine, was brought up for examinatiels before Mr. Alderman PORTER, by an officer of the Cut' s toms, who had arrested and detained him under the se (6 Geo. IV., cap. 108) for the prevention of smugglit on a charge of carrying and conveying whisky imput7 . , from Ireland in a vessel of less size and conten t than zi gallons, contrary to law. The defendant was a passe s g er a from Dublin, in the Comet post-office steam-packet , eZ an officer of the Customs, stationed at George's Dec.; Pierhead, having noticed his trunk, which a porter 1 /:: conveying on shore, asked him what it contained ; which he answered, " Nothing but my clothes and a Se i l i c lon of whisky." The o ffi cer then desired to see the tre _, opened, and, on his request being complied with, 0: Wiling that a gallon of whisky formed part of its co s , tents, he seized the trunk and took the owner into ue.6o tody. The defendant acknowledged the fact, but said , his defence, that he was ignorant of any prohibition ' bring over for private use, so small a quantity without:di, tering it at the Custom-house, and that he used it 1:a „,le cinally, as an application to swellings of some of thec-, of his throat and neck. Mr. R.. BZOOICZ, the a t tha t who appeared to support the complaint, admit7„dant there was proof of reasonable cause to detain the d o t/ re to answer the charge (under sec. 88 of the act v-k°,lc cited); and the magistrate, with the advice of the C in attendance, stated that he had no alternative but to 'nand the defendant until the pleasure of the C o mmissi ° 4o , of Customs, as to any farther proceeding a gainst 1. ". 0 should be known. The defendant expressed his sur P. T that any person should be subjected to imprisonments: Ai several days at least, for merely having a gallon of wh i c i in his possession, without any intention to violate the 0 or to make any profit by it. The Magistrate said be , sorry that lie had no discretion allowed him in the 61,8„; but the facts being sworn to, he was bound to detail' it/ defendant, unless he deposited the amount of the pee l o f (1000 to abide the direction of the Commissioner. Customs as to any further proceeding, and the final der4 sion of the case. The defendant was therefore remat ei th . with directions from the Magistrate, that all.poasib le commodation should be afforded him, and that he oboe # , be released on depositing the sum above-mentioned•-•-'l4 verpool Paper. PAINTED AND PUBLISHER ay MURDO T oo l° , THE SUN Ornos, 112, ghrustrD, Losaort EIRT/1. At Agra, on the 25th February, the lady of F. 0 ( Anson, Esq. Adjutant of the 18th Regiment Infantry' a sou and heir. MARRIED. at On the Ist inst . : at Deptford, the Rev. J. flarringt%, of Guernsey, to Anne Spencer, third daughter of CsP W. Young, R.N. On the Ist inst. at St. Pancras, Benjamin Eaton, 441.1 of Dublin, to Margaret, widow of the late J. Redf o l l , lo , On the Ist inst. at St. George's, Bloomsbury' , Burton, Esq. Surgeon to the Forces, to Anne, daug' —r of Samuel Baker, Esq. of Darland, Kent. if On the lit inst. at Hackney, John Younger, l' .4. lict John-street, Clutched-friars, solicitor, to Heloise, r of J. T. Morris, EN. late of Bungay, Suffolk. bte r On the Ist inst. at Walworth, Mary, second dtug p f of Mr. Taylor, of Newington, to Mr. Mark Friel:nano Beekferd-row. DIED. On the 29th ult. at Roehampton, Anthony Ashley Plrjriti sonhy, youngest eon of the Hon. William Cavendish Lady Barbara Ponsonby. 0 On the Ist inst. in her 49th year, Matilda , Edward Dailey, of Maiden-lane, Covent-garden. ~f3ry Ou the 27th ult., in Whitehall-place, Frances 1 "), e , Territt Croke, youngest daughter of Sir Alexander Crpthe On the 30th ult. at her house at Clapham-Rise, 4'o- Bath year of her age, Mrs. Vaux, widow of the late ward Faux, Esq. of Austin-friars.