The Sun. — London, England, 1829-08-12 00:00:00

F ASHIONABLE INTELLIGENC 1 His r. CHANGES. Vot, ?race the D u k e o f D evo n s hire, for Bolton Abbey, • n c alt rire ; si r John and Lady Eleanor Lowther, for Wilton ten l iZar Gainsbo rough ; Sir Edward Bl ac k e tt, B ar t. for Mal- Han. ti; in Northumberland ; Mr. Edward Stanley and the . , 4 , dr Sta ° l eY, for Audl, near Knutsford, heshire , '''lenteri an t bet h and Miss Pal ey k, Park for the Rectory House, C Enfield ; s u ;,eneral Sir Miles Nightingall, for Brome . Hall, near 1 W th - I ° , 4 ' • Admiral Sir Edward and Lady Louisa Harvey, loot ;" ° as Park Chigwell, in Essex ; Sir Simon Clarke, ifr Al dwicke n p e la ar e near Bognor Rocks • Admiral Gage, Captain Parker, in Pall-mall, from the Netherlands ; f 're - ' 4 nington, on a tour ; Major Sandys, in Bond-street, mai :110 ta -; the Marquis of Barbacena, at the Brunswick Hotel, 411;7reet, from Germany ; w Lord Althorpe, on a visit to the A p am at his seat, We tworth House, Yorkshire. fI - I, II IVALS AT GIBB'S HOTEL, EDINBURGH. t 'neth '"6llt Hon. Lord and Lady Wharncliffe, Wortley Hall, Jae e ol , l kiss Stewart Wharncliffe, the Hon. Charles Trefusis, .„ng, S ur . - 4 stley Sir Henry Bridges, and F. Bridges, Esq. Toot .rorge—veY; th Hon J H King Esq. George Duckett, Esq. j s q. - Ar;`,Oun e *J. T. W. You Esq. Julian Young, 1%), ena eltongrid al e, Biddington ; George Moore, Esq. Ap rj°4l: p' el eastershire ; g Rev. John Echalaz, Trinity College, Ox- It Farnham, Esq. Quorndon House, Leicestershire ; Esq. and lady, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; • , te ei -.atter& ; D. Barclay Chapman, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel 1 '5411: 4 Henson Burney, of Kirbey, Norwich; Edward Apple ' o f Langley Hall, Leicestershire. _V-01 0 ,,, ARRIVALS AT CHICHESTER. ‘°l Peel, Mr. Beard, Lord G. Paget, General Grosvenor - "' n ; Lennox Duchess of Argyle, Lord H. Bentinck, Lord " ° x, t hl e—in jk, Lord Lowther, Lord J. Fitzroy, Captain Leicester, - ' 4 • )c C. :inners t Mr. Scott, Colonel Russell, Lord Stradbroke, )7ee 'r Z i lls Mr. e J. Ills, Mr. Geveke, Captain Locke, Capt. TAAL' , ' Captain Bause, ji Mr. Irby, Lord Sefton, the Duke of `.or E C`v, ',Mr Du ombe, Mr. Bulkeley, the Ladies Molyneux, ttld )IC,, ° thanipton, the Duke of Dorset, Lady Sophia Lennox " lackwood. Thr %Ii" ICING will hold a Council at Windsor lq, °,: day next, when the Rxcoonzo. will make his re convicts now under sentence of death in e. i e to:k riu 2e Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND 11 114 i ll airing on Monday afternoon in the Regent's Park, t . r "e round the outer circle of the Park ; on return thei— their residence in the King's Palace, St. James's, afi e l loyat Highnesses passed through the entire length y t , t g e nt -street. The Duke and Duchess paid a visit 1:1 4 ,7 11 4ty to Princess ESTERHAZY, at Chandos House I , .... l eas also visited the Marchioness of STAFFORD. The BZ i ca de BADEN, the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, the vi t , v ° P of L O N DON , and Countess MUNSTER, had inter- C 4 ,4 Yesterday with the Royal Duchess. The Duke de ts l e.traßs, th e P r i n ce de PAAR, the LORD CHANCELLOR, N i : 44l Y LYNDHURST, the Saxon Charge d'Affaires , the :alier d e M ASCARENHAS ( as th e representative of his Et Faithful Majesty), Earl and Countess of GUILFORD, ‘l 4l 1 4 1 W Countess Poutxrr, Viscount MELVILLE, Lord 4i -444 3 , FARNBOROUGH, Lady IMHOFF, Lady TAYLOR, 440 Q EORGE NAILER, and Colonel THORNTON, were kl it 4 g tho se w h o ca ll e d y es t e rday to pay their respects to i t Royal Highnesses. t i t . Prince LEOPOLD came to town yesterday lii l ,hl from his residence at Claremont. His Royal ktur z n eas paid a visit to the Duchess of CUMBERLAND, ` ll the afternoon left town on his return to Claremont. l acount MELVILLE visited the Duke of , - -AGToN yesterday at the Treasury. Nl ' T he French Charge d'Affaires had a long c re nce with the Russian Ambassador on Monday t tet 11 ° 01 1, at the residence of his Excellency in Dover- HOWARD DOUGLAS, the Governor of runswick, has arrived in town from Scotland. Sir Ot te 4 . l tn transacted business yesterday at the Foreign LIE~I'e Russian Ambassador and the Princess I TT Ca me to town on Monday from Tunbridge Wells. t' t , tl °VER, AUG. 10.—His Royal Highness LEOPOLD was expected to embark to-day for the A, ri 'tien t , but has deferred his journey for the present.— ved th e Britannia steam-vessel, from Boulogne, with tarriages, and a number of passen g ers, amongst whom 44 Lord STAIR, Lady STEWART , and Lady COLLIER. tk t ,',N'ed th e Medusa steam-vessel, from' Calais, with two tt re l 'g,, and a number of passen g ers, amon g st whom W AI , - . l ' 4 l , a_E ‘ xcellency the Marquis BARBACENA, General c. 11 1 % " parishes of St. Giles and St. George , Ili k -iabury, have petitioned the Secretary of State to be tto t .: (l unde; the New Police; and which is to be the case 411 d after the Ist of September. DI THE NEW POST-OFFICE. urigg nekviy - the whole of yesterday crowds of !tuns were assembled in the neighbourhood of the Air P ost-office, under the expectation that this Ilendid building would he exposed fully to public ' e w b y the removal of the paling which surrounds ' PreParatory to the transaction of the public busi " of the Post-office, which it was generally on ierstoAod would have commenced in the new office which Notwithstanding, however, the orders on e s u h w ere given by Government that every exer t,. "Id be used to finish the building by his n es t Y's birth-day, in order that business might be 'fleeced in it on this day, it has been found lin- Ned Li eau(e to complete the arrangements, so that e 5 „ 41 da ys will elapse before the officials take pos !ls% of their respective departments. The Wh ole of the arrangements of the new Post are.complete, and most of the rooms, offices, '. e. Perfectly fi n i s h e d . Th e sorters '- room is ready eceive th ose engaged in sort i ng l etters , and i s a ne ! apartment, having no less than 150 gas-burners d' l it, and i s perfectly ventilated. The who l e o f t h e l e a "d dep artment will occupy ha lf o f t h e b u ildi ng, n l r Aldersgate-street, while the other half, branch ! tltvards Chettpside, will be appropriated to the , r l 4 l ge dep artment. I n t hi s d epartment various im 610efilems will b e ma d e to g i ve f ac ility to business. h e .f 0 1 1( and t rans l a tors on duty connected with hem to delive r y, are to have rooms fitted up for sleep order that they may be ready to n eat a moment's notice on the arrival of foreign o'llsand i ntelligence. Measures are to be adopted laiye greater facility to the delivery of all letters T,eg thro ug h the P ost-o ffi ce. tle edifi ce, ta k en i n t h e w h o l e , i s a fi ne s p ec imen t tSand has added much to the character of M r r ;inlrke, the arc hit ec t, as well as to the builder, Portico • The principal entrance is under a noble the —$ approached by an easy flight of steps. On ben en tablature is placed the Royal Arms, and ti4 a th them the words " GEORGIO QUARTO REGE, Plt e cee xxlx." Under the portico a clock is to be ( 41 with a d ou bl e f ace, and pedestals are raised on 8r:1:0 s ide of the en t rance to the Post-office, on which °e Placed strong reflecting lamps. g„::ebuildin g , w hi c h h as b een many years in pro "e ground for its site having been cleared ten br oa - d a \ tt goi is 400 f ee t l ong (the portico is 70 feet tr,'") , and about 100 f ee t deep. On the back there 10°Pwards of 120 windows, and in the front above twa t foster-l ane, mails will receive the bags, &c. and the mail-carts are to be done )ee t Y ,,th•—a nuisance, of which complaints have In the made. lo ad ,e course of the last two or three days a cart- Pas t n o f dl tnon skulls and bones have been dug up, layi nB , - the ground where excavations are making for [nig I Ti gas, water, &c., having formerly served as laid attached to St. Vedast church. They ; laid aside for re-interment. ' the improvements contemplated,in the neinit th e oIL lall ef the new Post-office, is the demolition of tituate 'belonging to the Goldsmiths' Company, 'n Poster -lane, and which has a very sorry ()garage contrasted with the imposing building t o ? r i te to it. The Goldsmiths' Company intend e , et fine hall on the site of the old one. fors' t h e old Post-office workmen have been engaged Co ni "'e time past in turning what was called the for . iP t roller's offices into a receiving house for ac e e n i fl and inland letters and newspapers, for the th e 'll:lodation of the merchants and others . near '°Yal Exchange. The inland letters will be _s nB „ Ite - 'coed from this office to the new Post-office at carter past seven o'clock. Nob!sterday, and for some days past, many of the hi nri lli tY and others have visited the new Post-office, os e -1 1 had tickets for that purpose, and have gone :j o t the building. Around the new Post-office an II : t ailing of some beauty is in course of erection, b e the %hol e o f the b u ildi ng w ill i n a few days e _ lic exospes i osed by th e remova l o f t h e b oar d w hich now lt. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. M A NS I ON-HOUSE, Mr. Elmes, the surveyor, complained yesterday of a very great defect in the police system, as it ap plied to a particular district. He had, he said, been walking with his two daughters near Blackfriars-bridge on the preceding evening, between eight and nine o'clock, when a drunken fellow shoved up against one of them. He (Mr. Elmes) put out his hand to prevent the man from doing any injury to the child, and by doing so he excited the brutal resentment, not only of the drunken aggressor, but of a host of vagabonds who followed him, and used towards him and his family the most revolting language. lie called aloud for the police and the watch, but although his appeal was loud and incessant, not a being came to his aid. Several blows were made at him by the drunken man, who was encouraged by the shouts of the ruf fians who collected about him in great numbers, and it was with difficulty he removed 'his children from the danger and horrible annoyance. It was in vain he looked about for assistance, either from the po lice or the watchmen, not one was to be seen ; and, upon making inquiry, he found that the watch were not set until nine o'clock, and that the day patrol, according to custom, ceased from the performance of their duties at eight; so that there was an interval of an hour between the protection of the one body and the protection of the other. He found it the more necessary to make this representation, as he had observed frequently in the neighbourhood of Bridewell (situate in Bridge-street), gangs of thieves, and vagabonds of all descriptions were in the habit of assembling. The laxity, from which he and his family were very near suffering so se verely, gave rise, no doubt for the accumulation of such characters, and the interference of the Chief Magistrate in that district was new become indis pens:ible. Alderman SCHOLEY said, that Sir Richard Carr Glyn would at once prevent the repetition of such disgraceful conduct upon being informed of what had occurred. Mr. Elmes stated, that he should represent the facts to the Secretary of Bridewell, and he trusted that now that the general system was undergoing an important revision, Bridge-street would not be the only neglected district. A gentleman might have been easily robbed of his property by the crowds of vagabonds that infested that small precinct. In the course of some conversation between Alder man SCHOLEY, Mr. Hobler, and a person connected with one of the steam-vessels which go to the Note with parties of pleasure, it was stated that gangs of thieves, who dressed like gentlemen, were in the habit of becoming passengers, for the purpose of committing robberies. On Monday last, several of those speculators got into une of those vessels, and commenced pretended quarrels in order to raise con fusion, by which they might be enabled to carry on their depredations more successfully. One of the Marshalmen said, that this practice had existed a long time, and in consequence of the crowded state of those vessels, it had become very difficult to fix upon the party that plundered. A. dispute was got up amongst four or five persons who appeared to be strangers, and those who inter fered to prevent mischief, generally came off second best : pockets were turned inside out, and often cut with the greatest skill. Alderman SCHOLEY said that the evil was a dreadful one, and must be immediately prevented. It was stated that the proprietors of the vessels were most anxious for the protection of the public, who were subject to this mode of plunder, and that it would be necessary to have constables appointed to attend upon every occasion on which the.steamers were crowded. A steward to one of the steamers bad been robbed of seven sovereigns on Monday last. Alderman SCHOLEY stated, that the steam-vessels which took in and landed passengers in the city, should of course be properly attended to, for the protection of the public, and no doubt at the Thames Police-office adequate measures would be adopted ;o abate the existing evil. M A RLBORO U GH-STREET. Yesterday a respectable-looking youth, named George Scythe, was brought before Mr. RoE, the sitting Magistrate, charged with a series of exten sive robberies, committed on his uncle, Mr. Cox, a tailor, residing in Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury. The prisoner had nothing to say in his defence, and was committed for trial. The driver of the hackney coach No. 672 appeared upon summons to answer the complaint of a gentle man named Abbott, who charged him with extort ing more than his legal fare. Mr. Abbott stated that he hired the defendant's coach in Cockspur-street the night before, to convey himself and a friend from the Union Club-house to the Regent-circus, Oxford -street, the fare for which was only Is., as he (Mr. Abbott) very well knew, having frequently paid it before; but the defendant insisted on having Is. Gd. paid to him, which sum he (Mr. Abbott) at once paid, to avoid altercation, and took down the number of the coach, although the defendant did all he could to prevent his seeing it. The defendant, on being called on foi his defence, said that he was really ashamed to describe to the Magistrate the shocking mariner in which Mr. Abbott had used his coach. The gentleman, he said, was in the very worst state of intoxication, could neither speak nor stand, and so befouled the coach all over, that it took a man two hours the next day. to clean it. "In fact it was quite abomi nable, your worship," said coachee," to see the figure he left my coach in, and I only charged him the extra Gd. for it, although it cost me Is. Gd. to a man the next morning to clean it." Mr. Abbott assured the Magistrate that there was not one syllable of truth from beginning to end in what the defendant had stated, and his defence was the grossest and most insulting tissue of falsehoods that ever was uttered. The truth was (Mr. Abbott said), both his friend and himself never were more sober in their lives than they were on the occasion in question, and as for soiling the coach, as stated, or any thing of the kind having at all occurred, there was not a sentence of truth in it; so that the whole was the most impudent attempt at a defence that was ever heard, as could be proved also by the other gentleman who had accompanied him (Mr. Abbott) in the coach. Mr. Abbott then went for the gentleman, who in a short time appeared, and entirely confirmed Mr. Abbott's statement, that there was not one word of truth in the defence set up by the de fendant. Coachee still persisted, and said that this witness too was so drunk, he did not know what took place. Mr. ROE said, that bad it not been for the im pudent and clearly false defence which the defendant had set up,•he should only have inflicted a very small fine upon him for the overcharge, as he was not insolent at the time; but as the case now stood, he had aggravated his offence very much, and he should therefore pa, a flue of 20s. and ss. 6d. costs, and in default of payment should be committed for one month to the House of Correction. Coachee said he could not pay the fine, and was accordingly committed forthwith. Mr. Abbott begged that his portion of the fine might be given to any object of charity the Magi strate thought fit. QUEEN.SQUARE. Yesterday a young man, dressed like a groom, named Thomas Ashwell, was placed at the bar be fore Mr. GREGORIE, charged with feloniously ut tering two forged Bank of England notes for 10/. each, well knowing the same to be forged: The prisoner, by the advice of his solicitor, said nothing in his defence, and was remanded. James Ingram, a young strapping journeyman baker, was brought up on a warrant, charged with assaulting John Edgar, an elderly personage, verging on threescore, by trade a clog and patten-maker, at No. 10, Nottingham -court, Long-acre, who had lately united himself in wedlock with one of the frail sisterhood, a girl about 20 years of age. The complainant detailed his matrimonial miseries at some length, and said that his wife went off with the baker, and he caught them at a public-house iu Strutton-ground, Westminster : he desired his wife to come home directly, when the baker laid hold of him and struck him sever a l d a l es , Mr. GREGORIE —ls the bahor acquainted with your wife ? Husband--Oh, ves, I believe you He knew her bet;ire I married her, and she has come here to-11.:;y to defeat the rnds of justice ; and justice is all I t; ant, and what every respectable man is entitled to. 1 can bear it no longer, I can assure your Worship. Mr. GREGORIE—Then she is an old acquaintance ? Husband—Oh, yes, she is always going off with him. The last time she went away, I brought her back and forgave her the same night; but it's no use, she is mad after him. " Your Worship," replied the baker in his de fence, " does not know one-half of the story, or you would find out what a pretty kind of a husband Mr. Edgar is; his wife is without, and if you will call her you will learn how she is used : with re gard to my striking him, it is false, I only endea voured to prevent him beating his wife." Mrs. Matilda Edgar, a pretty-looking young woman, very genteelly dressed, was called into the office, and took her station between her husband and her eicisbeo, and, looking with scorn on her liege lord, said that she would speak the whole truth. She had been an unfortunate girl, and dur ing the time she walked the streets, she got ac quainted with the defendant, by whom she had two children; but they both died in their infancy. He always behaved with great kindness towards her, and did every thing in his power for her. One day she was taking home some fresh herrings, when she met Mr. Edgar, who began to talk to her, and said he was very fond of fish, and he went and dined with her. In a short time he proposed marriage, and she, wishing to become an honest woman, consented; but she told him previously about her connexion with the defendant, and the two children she had by him. He said he did not mind that, and they were married last February at Bethnal-green church. Husband-•--Ah ! that was the beginning of my miseries. " Of .my miseries," replied Mrs. Edgar : " we had not been married two days before we quarrelled. He is one of your Deists, and a follower of Mr. Car lile, of No. 52, Fleet-street; and there is another fellow he goes after, a black preacher, of the name of Wedderburn. He pretends to a great deal of their religion; but no work will he do, and has made me walk the streets to support him by my prosti- .ution." Mr. GREGORIE expressed some surprise at this declaration. _ _ " I can assure you it's true," replied Mrs. Edgar. " He ought to be ashamed, and not me in mention ing it. I have done so before, but now I will tell all. He even walks on one side of the street while J pick up gentlemen, and he waits till I come to him. The whole of the quarrel is because I got 2/. of gentleman the other night. I only gave him 10s., and he called me a . I felt hurt that the man I was supporting should call me the name, ' and I went to the defendant to inform him how I was used." The witness added that she had bought him tools, furniture, and every thing he wished for, arising out of the money she got by prostitution, and he pro mised when he got them he would work for her ; but nothing would he do, and she was determined never to live with him again. The complainant could not gainsay the charge, but declared that he had pawned his best breeches for her that morning. Some violent recrimination here took place,which was stopped by the Magistrate's refusing to interfere with the matrimonial disputes, and dismissing the charge altogether. Mrs. Edgar and the baker left the office arm Pin arm, and the husband trudged sorrowfully home by himself. MARYLEBONE. Mr. Richard Broster, an ironmonger, in Carbur ton-street, Fitzroy-square, was charged yesterday morning, before Mr. RAWLINSON, with a breach of the peace. Lady Sarah Brisco (Sir Wastel Brisco's lady, of Crofton•hall, Cumberland), complained that the defendant came to her house, No. 164, Albany street, Regent's-park, on Friday morning, and re fused to quit it when required. He then threatened to knock her ladyship's brains out with a large turn screw, and she could not get rid of him, until she gave him into custody on Saturday night, and he was taken to the watch-house. _ _ _ It appeared, that two years ago, Lady Brisco ordered goods of the defendant, which amounted to 741.; she promised payment within twelve months, but did not effect it, and after calling repeatedly at her house, Mr. Broster went on Friday morning and declared he would not go away till he got his money. Her Ladyship left town. Mr. Broster gent home at eleven o'clock at night, and came back at ten in the morning. In the evening her Ladyship returned, and taking up a poker, declared she would knock out his brains; he pulled a large screw-driver from his pocket in self-defence, and was sent to the watch house. Her Ladyship said, that in consequence of circumstances lately before the public, her pecuniary resources were very much curtailed. and that occa sioned the disappointment to Mr. Broster. Mr. RAWLINSON told her Ladyship that she ought not to have contracted a debt which she had not means to liquidate. " All I want," said her Ladyship, "is for Mr. Broster to keep away from my house." " And all he wants," replied the Magistrate, " is his money." Mr. RAWLINSON said the measures taken by Mr. Broster were illegal, and he required him to give security for his future conduct towards Lady Brisco. HATTON-GARDEN. James Smith, a young man, was last night brought up before Mr. Seijeant SELLON, charged with the twofold offence of exposing his person and indecently assaulting a Miss Newell, a respectable young female, residing at Hampstead. The complainant stated, that about five o'clock in the afternoon she was walking, accompanied by a female friend, in Shepherd's-fields, close by Hamp stead. Her friend had preceded her a short distance, when the defendant stole upon her, and exposing his person, seized hold of her in the rudest manner, and began to treat her with the most abominable inde cency. She screamed loudly, and her screams ' having brought several persons to his assistance, the fellow was secured and taken into custody. He then threw himself on his knees, and, with tears in his eyes, earnestly besought her to forgive him, which she would have done had it not been for the in- :erference of the constable, who had taken charge of him. Green, the constable, stated that this was an of fence of almost daily occurrence in the neighbourhood of Hampstead, and he was determined to bring the defendant before the magistrate, in order that an example might be made of him to deter others of his description. Mr. Serjeant SELLON said, the offence was so gross and scandalous, together with being coupled with being complicated in its nature, he should hold the defendant to bail. Mr.Ed wards, the clerk, suggested to the magistrate that perhaps it would be better to inflict summary punishment upon him, as there was a probability that the complainant would not prosecute at the sessions. Miss Newell said she had no disposition whatever to do so. _ _ _ Mr. Serjeant SELLON regretted that, and then or dered the defendant to be imprisoned in the House of Correction for two months. UNION-HALL Yesterday morning, Mr. Rose, a gentleman hold ing a situation in the House of Commons, attended at this office for the purpose of detailing the parti culars of an extraordinary scene that occurred at his residence at Brixton-hill, during the absence of the family from home. Mr. Rose described, that being anxious his family should have the benefit of the sea air at this season of the year, he proceeded to a bathing-place with them, leaving his house, &c., in the care of a man I named Rover, whose character and conduct were hitherto ii:reproachable until the circumstances he was about to relate completely altered the favorn able opinion entertained of him. Having occasion (said Mr. Rose) to come to town, I was astonished as I approached my house at Brixton last night to • find that it was lit up in the most brilliant manner. The drawin-room and parlour-windows were thrown open, and from within proceeded the sounds of music and revelry. The house, in fact, seemed to be filled with people (said Mr. Rose), and I doubted whether I could not have mistaken my own residence for that of my neighbour, until I thoroughly convinced myself by going up to the door and seeing my name on the brass plate.— Having ascertained this point, I knocked and knock ed at the door, until at length it was opened by a young fellow gaily dressed, who demanded a ticket. " A ticket for what ?" said I. " Why, a ticket of admission to the ball," said he. At this mo ment Roper, who seemed to have been engaged up stairs entertaining his friends, came down, and hearing the voice of his master in the hall, was heard to exclaim aloud, " Oh, Lord bless us, here's my master come home—it's all up with us !" He then scampered back again into the drawing-room, and having given the com pany a hint, in a moment the music ceased, and the lights were all extinguished, with the exception of a solitary candle in one of the !owes, which shed a dismal gloom over a multitude of persons who were assembled in the apartment as the master of it entered. As soon as Mr. Rose found what was going forward, he threatened the intruders with the watch-house, upon which the female part of the company became dreadfully alarmed, aria begged forgiveness, declaring they were not in fault for they were " inwited" by Mr. Roper to the ball. A general movement here took place, and men, women, and children, hurried down stairs, and in their eager ness tumbled over one another, in their anxiety and haste to escape, having the terrors of the tread-mill, which was close at hand, before their eyes. Mr. Rose having cleared the house of his man Roper's visiters, had now time to look about him, when he discovered that the folding doors of the drawing rooms were thrown open, the chandelier suspended from the centre uncovered, and benches placed all round the rooms for the accomodation of the throng his presence had thrown into such dismay. " Among the company," said Mr. Rose, " was one young chap, who was extremely impertinent when desired to leave the house. I understand there was a bed made up for him and his wife, who were to have stayed all night, but I gave him a bed in the watch louse for his insolence, and have now brought him "orward to answer for his conduct." Mr. CHAMBERS, awl indeed everybody who heard the above statement, could scarcely refrain from laughter at the presumption of the man, in turning his master's residence, during his temporary absence, iato a place for the reception of his acquaintances to a hop. The Magistrate said that the account of the affair put him in mind of High Life Below Stairs, which was exemplified in this instance to the very life. Mr. Rose was then asked whether any of the " ladies" who were present at the " ball" were in custody ? He replied, that not having missed any of his property, and believing that the company only vi sited his house to regale themselves, he let all those go who behaved civilly, and turned out when de sired to quit his premises. The young man, how ever, in custody, being an exception to the rest, he had him detained, in order to let him know that he had done wrong in entering the house at all. The young man here alluded to was now questioned on the subject, and, in reply to Mr. Chambers, he said his name was White, and that he was a journeyman shoemaker. He had been in vited, as well as his wife, to a party by Roper, and never for a moment considered that he was doing Nwong by accepting the invitation. He admitted that he was wrong in not leaving the house the mo ment Mr. Rose desired him, but being a little elevated from the liquor he had drunk in the course of the evening, he hoped this would be an excuse for being more " bouncible" than he otherwise would have been. Mr. Rose said that he was satisfied with this apo logy, and White was discharged after an admoni tion and caution to be more careful in future how he accepted of invitations from servants while their masters were absent. Roper, the man left in charge of the house, was also admonished for his conduct on the occasion.— He, however, denied that he had received money from any of the company that were assembled the night before; they were, he said, all his friends and acquaintances, and he thought there was no harm in giving them a bit of a treat while the family were from home. Mr. Rose said that he had every reason to sus pect this person had taken money from the people that were assembled in the house, as he had since ascertained a similar party had been given shortly after the family had left home. Roper declared that he did not receive a farthing, but admitted that he issued tickets in order that none but his friends should be admitted. He liked to have the company select, and that was the reason of the ticket business. Mr. CHAMBERS said, that his master was perfectly right in giving him in charge, and locking him up for the night in the watch-house. " You have suf fered some punishment for your impropriety of con duct," said the Magistrate, " and I hope it will teach you not to make a bear-garden of your master's house when the family happen to be from home." Mr. Rose intimated his determination of dis charging Roper, who was desired never to presume to enter the house again after having misconducted himself so grossly. A few days ago a respectable-looking female, who described herself to have been formerly housekeeper to an opulent merchant, by whom she had a child, attended at the office to complain that he had aban doned his offspring, which was now chargeable to St. George's parish, Southwark. The Magistrate (Mr. CHAMBERS) having desired her to state the circumstances under which the re puted father had deserted his child, the applicant stated, that soon after the infant was born, the father of it took it away from her, and paid a nurse 7s. a week for its nurture. Having learned that her child was much neglected by the person to whom it was intrusted, she ( the mother) went there some weeks ago, and finding the account not at all exag gerated, the infant being literally covered with ver min, from neglect to its person, she determined at all hazards to secure it from such abominable treat ment, and forthwith carried it away home with her. The moment the individual against whom she com plained was apprised of what had occurred, he re fused to give a farthing towards its maintenance, and, up to the period of this complaint, withheld as sistance from both mother and child. A professional man, who attended on behalf of the poor woman, said that he had ascertained the officers of the parish in which the child was born were indemnified by the father, who had entered into a bond of 1001. that they should not be bur dened with the support of his illegitimate offspring. Mr. CHAMBERS, on hearing the statement, imme diately granted a warrant against the merchant, which was placed in the hands of one of the beadles, who had instructions to serve it on the party against whom it was directed, and yesterday was appointed for hearing the case. None of the parish officers, however, attended, upon which Mr. Chambers re marked that it was evident some compromise had taken place between them and the father of the child. One of the overseers having been sent for, he was told by the magistrates that until the warrant in question was executed on the defendant, they should refuse to afford the parish officers their assistance. The overseer said, that the beadle who held the warrant was at Dover on similar business. Mr. CHAMBERS supposed, if the truth was known, the beadle was afraid to serve the warrant, because those over him had compromised with the de fendant. He recollected an instance not long ago, of a parish officer tilling a subordinate situation, to „Low a warrant was intrusted, to apprehend the son ol a select vestryman for a bastard child; the ,Fd hi,: duty, but •hp ',cult was the loss of ;and ho (1:,.i if afterwards of a , ivorsevr that the would be in um, !o-morrow, ::;vi he should he ,n attendance to answer for his conduct in the affair. The parish officers attended yesterday, and pro mised on the part of the defendant that the mother of the child should from henceforth receive the weekly allowance stipulated by the defendant in the first instance. 'ROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT. War-Office, Aug. 10, 1829. Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Cornet H. S. Thomp son to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Dick, who retires. July 23, 1829. Hon. W. D. Irby to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Tompson. July 23. Bth Regiment of Light Dragoons—Assistant-Surgeon J. A. Ore, from the 95th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Farnden, promoted. July 23. 11th Light Dragoons—Capt. J. R. Rotton to be Major, by purchase, vice Smith, promoted. Aug. 11. Lieut. F. Blundell to be Captain, by purchase, vice Rotton. Aug. 11. Cornet C. R. Hyndman to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Blundell. Aug. 11. C. P. Parker, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Hyndman. Aug. 11. 13th Regiment of Foot—Capt. J. Johnson to be Major, by purchase, vice Sir R. Moubray, who retires. Aug. 11. Lieut. J. Kershaw to be Captain, by purchase, vice Johnson. Aug. 11. Ensign H. N. Vigors to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kershaw. Aug. 11. R. D. Spread, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Vigors. Aug. 11. 33d Foot—Ensign E. W. Young to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice D. H. Mackey, deceased. July 2. Gentleman C. G. A. V. Graham, from the Royal Mi- itary College, to be Ensign, vice Young. July 2. 34th—Lieut.-Col. C. R. Fox, from the ball-pay, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice H. R. Ferguson, who exchanges receiving the difference. July 23. Lieut. Hon. R. Boyle, from half-pay 30th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice John Reed, who exchanges, receiving the difference. July 23. 53d Foot—Capt. T. Butler to be Major, by purchase, vice Reed, promoted. Aug. 11. Lieut. E. B. Philipps to be Captain, by purchase, vice Butler. Aug. 11. Ensign E. Wigley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Philipps. Aug. 11. C. B. Blaydes, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wigley. Aug. 11. 69th Foot—Capt. G. T. Heigham, from the half-pay, Ito be Captain, vice M. Jenour, who exchanges, receiving the difference. Aug. 23. 71st Foot—Staff-Assistant-Surgeon G. Gulliver to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Daykin, appointed to the Ist or Grenadier Foot Guards. July 23. 97th Foot—Lieut. IV. T. Stannus to be Captain, by purchase, vice M'Quarie, who retires. July 23. Ensign E. Barton to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Staunus. July 23. 0. Keating, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Barton. July 23. Ceylon Regiment—Lieut. M. Jones, from half-pay 89th Foot, to be Lieut. vice Elmslie, promoted. July 23. UNATTACHED. To be Lieutenant-Colonels of Infantry, by purchase. Major Thomas Reed, from the 534 Foot. Aug. 11. Major Bellingham John Smith, from the 11th Light Dragoons. Aug. 11. The under-mentioned Lieutenant, actually serving upon full-pay in a regiment of the line, whose commission is dated in the year 1810, has accepted promotion upon half pay, according to the general order of the 27th December, 1826 : To be Captain of Infantry. Lieutenant Daniel Keogh, from the Ceylon regiment. Aug. 11. ROYAL HIBERNIAN MILITARY SCHOOL.' Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Farnden, from the Sth Light Dragoons. July 23. GARRISONS. Tower of London.—Rev. A. Irvine to be Chaplain, vice Broughton, resigned. June 24. MEMORANDA. Paymaster C. T Grant, of the Ist Foot, has been al lowed to resign his commission as Paymaster, and has been placed upon half-pay of his former rank as Lieutenant. Sept. 25. The under-mentioned Officers have been allowed to re tire from the Service, by the sale of unattached commis- sions : Major-Gen. J. Gubbins. Aug. 11. Major• Gen. Sir J. P. Dalrymple. Aug. 11. The Christian names of Ensign Jones, of the 97th Foot, are Robert Oliver. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. John Atkinson, Leeds, Yorkshire, drysalter. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Joseph Davenport, Birmingham, victualler. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Davidge Tilly, Shoreditch, baker, to surrender Aug. 14, at two, Sept. I, at twelve, and 22, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Brooks, Lincoln's Inn-fields. Richard Jones, Shrewsbury, maltster, Sept. '7, 8, and 22, at eleven, at the Lion Inn, Shrewsbury. Clerk, Richards, and Medealf, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London ; Teece, Shrewsbury. Samuel Forfeit Gray, New Bond-street, chemist, Aug. IS, at eleven, 21, at twelve, and Sept. 22, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Henson, Bouverie•street, Fleet-street. . George Brown, Maldon, Essex, merchant, Aug. 14, at eleven, 21, at twelve, and Sept. 22, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Roe, South-square, Gray's Inn; Lawrence, Alaldon, Essex. _ _ Abraham Gould and John Pym, Porto Bello-Wharf, Upper Ground-street, Blackfriars, Surrey, coal-merchants, Aug. 14, at twelve, 21, at eleven, and Sept. 22, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Rhodes, Chancery-lane. William Poulter, Barrow, Suffolk, general-shopkeeper, Aug. 21, at two, 22, and Sept. 22, at eleven, at the One Bell Inn, Bury St. Edmond's. Quarles, Bury St. Ed monds; Swain and Co., Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. Thomas Hoyle and William Brown Harrison, Man chester, commission agents, Aug. 24, 25, and Sept. 22, at two, at the York Hotel, Manchester. Milne and Parry, Temple, London; Ainsworth, Crossley, and Sudlow, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. T. Wright, Boston, Lincolnshire, druggist, Sept. 12 at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, Boston—W. Haselden Liverpool, ship-builder, Sept. 15, at two, at the Office of Mr. W. M. Williamson, Liverpool—W. Lowtla and J. Wilson, Nottingham, lace-manufacturers, Sept. 14, at eleven, at the Flying Horse Inn, Nottingham—J. Dun can and Co., Liverpool, merchants, Sept. 30, at one, at the Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool—F. Foster, Oxford street, tailor, Sept. 1, at one, at the Court of Com missioners. CERTIFICATES-SErr. L M. Ferrett, Bristol, victualler—J. Brook, Cboppards, Yorkshire, clothier—G. Anderson, Great St. Thomas Apostle, London, surgeon—S. Meredith, Birmingham, linen-draper— T. Leeds, Manchester, cotton-thread-ma nufacturer—J. Baxter, Gould-square, Crutched-friars, wine-merchant--T. Jones, Gardden, Denbighshire, iron master—J. H. Nairne, Shepherdess-place, City-road, dealer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Phillips and P. Gardner, Brighton, printers—J. and D. Paulden, Stockport, Cheshire, attorneys—J. Wright and W. Prescott, Liverpool, coffee-dealers--B. Blakeman and G. Turvey, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, timber-merchants—J. Barke and A. Greaves, Bir mingham, woollen-drapers—R. Biass and IL T. Elliott, Birmingham, linen-drapers--T. and C. Atkinson, Upper Stamford-street, Blackfriars-road, architects— L. Bell and M. Hodgson, Solihu!l, Warwickshire, maltsteis—J. Dixon and J. Glover, Leeds, corn-mil lers—T. Owen and W. Eccles, Chancery-lane, surgeons— ' J. Broadbent and E. Blackburn, Scammonden, York shire, stone-delvers--C. Chalk and Co., Chelmsford, auc tioneers (as far as regards J. Beadel)—P. M'Nolty and J. Clark, Liverpool, common-brewers—J. Shepherd and J. Ruddle, Melksham, Wiltshire, upholsterers—J. Wool ley and T. Ward, Nottingham, lace •manufacturers—S. Forster and E. S. Owen, Goldsmith-street, silk-agents— T. Hardy and W. Gould, Myton, Kingston-upon-Hull, paper-hanging-manufacturers—J. Nowell and Co., Dews bury, Yorkshire, builders. A man named ISAAC JACKSON, a sergeant in the Ist regiment of Guards, cut his throat on Sunday evening in a house near Buckingham-gate, and was quite dead when discovered soon afterwards. A Coroner's Jury sat on the body, and brought in a verdict of " Insanity." SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We insert a letter, as we are in duty bound, from one of our confidential correspondents in the good city of Paris, oft the recent change in the Ministry. He is outrageous : without par ticipating in his anger (for we are not French men), we think it right to make it known. We ourselves anticipate no changes in the law of the press, nor a dissolution of the legislative body ; and to appoint a Ministry which cannot com mand a majority in the Chamber of Deputies, seems to us like hiring a cook who does not know how to dress a single dish. The King must have been strangely misled if he has done this. however, as our correspondent justly re. marks, time will dissipate the illusion, wherever it may be. With the personal qualifications and antecedent history of the men composing the new French Ministry, we have nothing to do ; and it is absurd to suppose that the Duke of Wellington has had any concern in the nomina tion of them. We certainly do not wish for a Ministry in France that would go to war with us because we eat puddings, and the French omelettes. But exclusive of that, let France pursue her course, and we will pursue ours. If the two happen to lead to the same issue, side by side, so much the better : if not, let each exert his intellect to show that his own is best. With respect to the affairs of the East. If the Turk will neither accommodate his differences with Russia, nor oppose the progress of the nor thern invaders, we do not see what either Franca or England can do, but let him be beaten, as he seems to wish. And if, again, he will come to no terms with the Greeks, is England or is France to make war for him upon this wretched people ? No ; the Greeks must take what they can get. But if, on the contrary, he confesses the impotence of his arms, and throws himself upon the protection of France and England, it is probable that the two Powers, confederated in amity, may procure for him better terms, both towards the Balkan and towards the Pelopon.. nesus, than he can conquer for himself. And it appears to us that this would now be his wisest course : for let it be observed, that France and England arc not in the situation in which me diators are generally placed. They want nothing for themselves ! and we cannot, as we said yes terday, conceive it possible for two nations to have a more glorious task assigned to them than that of prescribing terms which shall be graciously accepted by embittered combatants ; but it is a task in which, whatever might be the French Ministry, neither of the nations would have the pre-eminence. We have already given our opi nion of the new French Ministry generally ; but we are neither pledged to its continuance nor its fall: we wish for the former for peace-sake, — that is, for peace in France, for there is nothing in the dissolution of a French Ministry to dis part England. The rumours of the instability of our own Cabinet are, as we predicted, now wholly vanished. The mutual attachment be tween the Duke and Mr. Peel, arising front kindred views, and the common cause in which they have fought and triumphed, is obvious ; and we should not think it likely to be disturbed, or the firm dissolved, by that amiable personage, who, now that his virtuous mother is dead, dares to present to his startled adherents his wife in her stead.— Times. That the selection of the Prince de Polignac to fill the arduous duty of a Prime Minister of France is at this moment a subject of congratu lation to the British Cabinet, we hold to be mat ter of certainty—that the intrigues, or, to use a less offensive phrase, the personal influence of the Duke of Wellington, was directly exerted to procure this desirable consummation, is quite another affair. It has been for some time well known that a change in the French administra tion was inevitable ; it was equally well known that the Prince de Polignac, possessing the en tire confidence of his Sovereign, would be con sulted in carrying into effect the contemplated arrangements ; but we have good authority for the assertion, that up to a very recent period, we might almost venture to say to the moment of the promulgation of the Royal Ordonnance, it was not supposed here that the representative of the King of France at St. James's was to ex change a diplomatic for an efficient and leading ministerial appointment. We by no means in tend to draw the inference that an unexpected must necessarily be a disagreeable occurrence ; in the present instance the very reverse is the fact. We only wish to guard our readers from incautiously adopting an opinion already confi dently put forth by a portion of the French press, and which will assuredly meet with many supporters at this side of the water—that the in trigues of the British Cabinet have in any way immediately contributed to the recent change in the French Ministry. But to leave this part of the subject, which is more a matter of curiosity than of sterling import ance, it may be worth considering what will be the probable results of this ministerial re volution on the future policy of France, more especially as connected with English interests.— On this point we speak advisedly when we say that we have the assurance of those who have the best personal opportunities of ascertaining the fact, that the recent appointments are the subject of unmixed congratulation—that they are consi dered as a guarantee for the continuance of the good understanding on Foreign Policy which has for some time existed, and as the harbinger of advantages of another description, less showy, perhaps, but infinitely . more substantial. On this last topic we shall have much more to say.— Morning Chronicle. Our Contemporary (the Standard) avails himself of a letter addressed by Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey to the Times, complaining of the injustice of his exclusion from the Bar by the Benchers of the Inner Temple, to offer the fol lowing observations on the subject of exclusion in general:-- « Mr. D. W. Harvey's complaint may be very just, and his own grievance very severe, but we cannot see exactly a cure for what he laments. Will any one (assuming that the bar ought to be a gentleman-like profession) assert that nothing but such flagrant and substantive offences, provable by affidavit, as would defeat a mandamus, ought to ex clude from it ? We suspect that all will agree that an absolute discretion ought to be vested somewhere, though men may differ as to its proper depositaries. For ourselves, we would agree with Mr. Harvey in taking it from the Societies that have m anifested so little vigilance and discrimination as to reduce the bar to its present deplorable condition ; but here we should part with the Member for Colchester. We would at once assign to the Universities the virtual right of introduction : by making the Master's De gree from Oxford, Cambridge, or Dublin, which now obtains merely an abatement of eight terms' proba tion, an indispensable requisite; and then compel the Benchers to admit and cull any candidate so qualified, unless there could be assigned against him some reasonable objection. How this would work in Mr. Harvey's case, in the case of Mr. Wooler, or in the case of others who have been rejected, we neither know nor care; but it would ensure that no