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r eceity c i,l:ltarpen their wit e, betetuse a gi,nd Police will necessarily improve the thieves in their trade. Still we trust much to the efficacy of orga nization. In time the other great towns will avail themselves of the best parts of the scheme. We conclude with repeating our approbation of the scheme as a whole. It is highly creditable to those who framed it, and is equally creditable to Mr. Peel, who, if he had no hand in the framing of the instructions, is at least entitled to the merit of judgment in bestowing his ap probation on them. When so much property is txposed ) and so much necessity and ardent passions come in contact with it, there will always Ate ktime ; but we would fain hope ii at the trade k'J,' a thief will not be so good as it has .been. Hitherto it has been one of the best in Lorelon. —Morning Chronicle. There has appeared in some of the Irish I ) apeea 'a very curious document, purporting to 4.‘e 51 report of proceedings which took place at ‘..!neeting held lately in Cork. When it is stated that the design of the meeting, and of the reso lutions which were there unanimously adopted, ws to obtain iroin Parliament an extensive re- Cern' of abuses in the established Church of hn g land and Ireland, most of our readers, more cspecie..ily those who call themselves the " Old (.:)i#!irch and King party," will exclaim, " Ay, we old you how it would be : we knew well enough that the Papists would never be quiet ; we warned You that, once admitted to the state, the church would be the next object of their rebellious ma chinations ; and you now see that the Relief NH is not six months (Act when the priests and ~ .a.git-ator s are as fierce as ever, in an open assault , tmp.on the reputation and property of the clergy." Ilan attack of this description had been made from the quarter whence complaints against the Church have usually proceeded,—at least in Ire land,--it might not, perhips,'have been unpar donable, nor very unnat urel ; but sure we arc that it would have been attended with no im mediate result of any sensible importance. 1n fact, however, the Catholics--we mean .those among than who have been accus tomed to represent the general sentiments of their body—have, since emancipation, behaved with more respect towards the establishment than at any former period within the last twenty years. A variety of circumstances, in - all parts of Ireland, might be brought in testimony of the rapid, if not yet total extinction of an exclusively Catholic interest, as arrayed against the Protes tant power of the state, and against the esta blished church as its instrument, organ, and symbol. No meetings for purposes hostile to the church have been called together, that we can now recollect, or attended principally by Ca. tholies, since the law for their relief was carried The meeting now alluded to—wonderful thougl it may seem—was neither composed of Catho lics, nor convened by Catholics, nor were its pro ceedings and resolutions adopted in a spirit ol hostility or even hike:warmness to the Church ol England, or in any way characteristic of an ex ternal pressure upon the rights and interests of the Protestant clergy. It was not, moreover, an assembly of splenetic, morose, or obscure indivi duals, who, under the designation of some one of the 100 sects of Protestant Dissenters, would strip the church naked both of forms and sub stances, and leave her no possession but her name. The Cork meeting, for a large and sweeping reform of abuses in the temporal ad ministration of the church of the United King dom, was composed exclusively of members of that church—men of high rank and vast pro perty, and decided high church and Tory poli tics, whose resolute and consistent, though mis taken opposition to every stage of the Catholic! Relief Bill was founded ostensibly, and, we be lieve, truly founded, on their zealous attach ment to the established church—to the Protest ant interest, as means and appendages of the refortred religion. These noblemen and gen tlemen, with Lord Mounteashell at their head, have come forward with a petition to the King, grounded on reiolutions of which the meaning may be briefly stated as-1. A reprobation of the idle, worthless, and unprofit able conduct of numbers of the established clergy. 2. An equally strong condemnation of the corrupt manlier in which church patronage has been distributed, whereby the above class of undeserving ministers have been introduced into all the best preferments of the church, over the heads of humbler and more meritorious pastors. 3. A bitter (and we do not say unjust) com plaint, that time perhaps inevitable —perhaps de. sirable—inequalities of income among the clergy, have been perniciously and oppressively widened, by accumulating the revenues of many benefices • into few hands, thereby depriving the most faith ful and usefUl ministers of an adequate reward for their labours, and of a decent support for • their families, refusing to a great proportion of Protestant parishioners throughout Ireland their rightful enjoyment of the services of a clergyman on the spot, and ineumbering the church with an . army of high-born or highly-favoured minions, whose sole inducement for entering its holy pre chiefs is to be fed on this plunder of laymen who pay tithe, and of the class of working clergymen who arc thus debarred from the receipt of it; while the cravings of their cupidity and ambition demand to be quieted by a perpetually increasing aggravation of the abuse of pluralities and con solidated livings. We, of course, cannot be altogether insensible to the danger of tamper ing with the church. But it is only common sense and candour to acknowledge, that a refor mation proceeding from within its own body,--- recommended by its own zealous disciples, —and executed with fair views for its honour and sta bility, by those who would cut out an ulcer from the system for no other end than to hinder the disease from spreading, comes upon us in a far different form, and ought to be more kindly and respectbilly received, than when the professed enemies of the establishment were used to launch - their reproaches at its head, in a spirit of menace and aversion. The most difficult feature in any attempt at church reform has al ways appeared to be an apprehension of the hn mediate warfare which it would provoke from an aristocracy whose interests were more or less identified with the worst abuses of church pa tronage. When a Minister (not of the Gospel, but of Downing-street) once gets access to a Bishop's car, the effect upon his diocese is felt after no long interval. Without giving the least approbation to a scheme for diminishing the sum total of that property which has been set apart for the maintenance of the Irish church, and which, if turned over from clergyman to 'squire, mould not reduce, but much aggravate the pres sure on the people, besides renuering all property precarious, it is a very distinct matter to propose that the unimpaired bulk of church revenue should be applied to the service of religion, by a more convenient and equitable scale of distriliu tion, than that which has hitherto, unfortunately, not regulated, but disturbed, the relations of Irish clergyinett towards their parishioners and to each other. There are bishoprics of enormous and preposterous amount in Ireland;—there arc unions" of parishes which ought to be regarded as robberies upon the humbler ranks of the clergy, and insults to the whole nation,--there are members of the Irish church (we could name them) who forced themselves into it, or were obtruded upon it by their families, for the sake of such bishoprics, and of such '' unions," and who would be treated as outcasts from any other profession, for their depraved and degraded mo rals. It would denote not reverence for the church, but base treachery to its honour and well being, in a professed Protestant, to say that such evils were not perilous as well as odious, ;oid that they ought not tope redressed. Whether the King's Government will be strong enough to accomplish—for if strong enough it will, we doubt not, be bold enough, and sufficiently honest to announce and undertake—an experi ment for the cure of these palpable diseases in the church of Ireland, it is not perhaps easy to decide ; but, at all events, it is a subject of re joicing, that the first formal recommendation to the Crown upon so critical and momentous a question, should come from a distinguished branch of the native Protestant aristocracy.— Tunes. Scarcely a day has passed, since the Conch). - - - sion of tl:e Court-martial: at Portsmouth, which there has not appeared, in some news , paper or other, some remarks intended to woune the feelings and tarnish the fame of Sir Edware Codrington. great (lea/ of mystery still hangs over the origin and precise motive of the pro ceedings, which excited more interest, and called forth more public discussion, than any Naval Court-martial since that of Admiral Keppel. We believe an- investigation of this- nature, in stituted upon charges brought forward so long after the event, is without example in the his tory of the service. As it has been without pre cedent, so we hope it will be without imitation. Charges which affect the character and honour of naval and military Officers ought not to be kept suspended over . their heads until the me mory of facts is so impaired that witnesses speak rather from vague recollection than positive cer tainty. Sir Edward Codrington, however, dis claimed, from the commencement of the pro ceedings, that he watt the prosecutor. We need not now .go into the subject, already so much discussed, of the distinction between specific charges made for the purpose of obtaining a Court-martial, and the confiden tial communications which superior officers in the Navy, as well as the Army, are said to make to the governing powers relative to the conduct of those under their command. It has been much objected to Sir Edward Codrington, that, after being so hag silent respecting the alleged mis conduct of Captain Dickenson, he should ever have thought proper to make the inculpatory statements which he (lid ; but we can imagine a case where a Commanding Officer, not fully ap proving of the conduct of' an inferior, might be induced to overlook it—might be of opinion that, under all the circumstances, the interests of the service (lid not require him to call for a Court-martial ; and yet he might, with great pro priety, decline to give a certificate to entitle such inferior officer to an honourable distinction-- especially where other officers, whose con duct he held in higher estimation, were passed over unnoticed. -In not making the charges he was merely passive ; but, in granting such a certificate, he would be the active instrument of doing that, which, in his own opinion, was a de ception on those who had the distribution of ho nours at their disposal. If pressed for his reasons, it does appear to us rather harsh to force him into the invidious position of a prosecutor, and r o insist upon his reasons being considered as formal charges which he must go before a Court martial to substantiate. If the case which we have supposed should in principle resemble the one in question, we can have no hesitation in saying that the blame of this tardy and unpopu lar trial should rest with those who forced it on at so late a period, by converting what was a mere refusal to sanction the bestowing of an additional honour upon Capt. Dickenson into a demand for his punishment. The two propositions are quite distinct, though it would appear they are consi dered identical in the logic ofthe Admiralty. That the Court-martial patiently investigated this painful subject, and justly decided between the country and the accused, there can be no doubt. As to . _ the fact of Captain Bathurst being returned among the killed before the time of his actual death, and the other fact of the communication .ailed a " round robin" being presented by the accused to his Commanding Officer, the Court did not allow those to interfere with the conclu sion which they came to of an honourable ac quittal, because they negatived the existence of any improper motive in the former instance ; and, as to the " round robin," they defined it to be only a " petition." It would, indeed, have been a precedent of dangerous consequence and capable of being, under a bad Administra tion, available to purposes of the worst oppres sion, if a trial, instituted at such a distance of time from the transaction out of which the charges arose, had proved successful. We ob serve, however, that some of the newspapers which express a feeling of :triumph at the ac quittal of Captain Dickenson manifestly dim* that they care little for the fame or fortunes of that Gallant Officer, except so far as the issue of the trial can be made a subject of reproach and indignity to Sir Edward Codrington. We do not profess to know any thing that has passed " behind the scenes" at the Admiralty, with re spect to this extraordinary "drama," but we do know, from what transpired on the trial, that (he gallant Vice-Admiral is anything but a fa vourite with a certain functionary, who wields the " trident" of naval command with, perhaps, more authority than the " authentic Neptune." Of Sir Edward Codrington we know nothing, ex cept that, that in the day of battle, he main tained the honour of the British flag with the true spirit of a British seaman. The policy which led to the fighting the battle was quite another thing ; but We - always understood that naval and military commanders were only to con sider how they could best execute their orders, and not inquire into the reason of them. That was the maxim of the heroic Blake, who, though he did not approve of the usurpation of Crom well, obeyed the Protector's orders, inciting the brave men he commanded by the memorable words—" Into whatever hands the Government may fall, it is still our duty to fight for our country." It appears now pretty clear that the Ministry who sanctioned the orders which led to the destruction of the Turkish fleet had beets betrayed into that act of impolitic energy by the insidious counsels of Russia. To make Sir Ed ward Codrington answerable for the weakness and mistakes of the Government would be to place an officer in his situation in a cruel di lemma indeed. It is not so, much for the sake of ,he individual, as for the service in general, ,hat we protest against such a principle. If the Vice-Admiral had disobeyed his orders, or if, having come in hostile collision with the Otto-. man fleet, he had not done his utmost to "'sink, burn, and destroy," he would have been liable to be tried for cowardice by a Court-martial, ii Ice Admiral Byng, and shot ;--yet, for having acted up to his orders, in a manner worthy of a naval warrior of that nation whose " paths of glory" have been upon the ocean, an attempt is made to deprive him of the hard-earned and va lued reward of a brave man—the honourable esti. mation of his country. Thus, upon the new principle, an officer commanding under time most difficult and delicate circumstances, cannot be safe whether he neglects or obeys his orders.— He may be shot fOr hesitating to come to ac tion—while the most fearless and exemplary dis charge of his duty cannot ensure the preserva tion of his honour. Generous valour in the cause of one's country is stimulated by nothing so much as the expectation of public gratitude. This has been the guiding star of time victories that give splendour to our naval history from the days of Blake to those of Nelson. How the new principle will improve the devotion of gal lant men in the service remains to be ascertained. Mal fling Herald. In another part of our Paper will be found a statement of the quantity of waste lands, or tin cultivated soil, which still exists throughout various parts of the country. The document has been furnished to us by a society which meets somewhere in the City, and one of whose objects is to persuade the Govermnent and the Public that it is much better to employ the people in cultivating waste lands in England, than to send them to New South Wales or the Canadas; On this subject there are two points for considera tion :—the interests of the emigrant, and the in- terests of the country. That the condition of the emigrant would be greatly bettered by his being set down in either of the countries alluded to, and bettered far beyond what it could be in this country, we think there can be no doubt ; for in both there is every encouragement to the emigrant, while here taxation is daily grind ing the faces of the poor, and extr ac ti ng from them alm os t ever y penny, which the exertion of honest industry can procure for them. With regard to the interests of the country, again, the question is more doubt ful, or rather becomes a selection of difficulties ; for that the cultivation of waste lands is not profitable, may easily be guessed from the capital of the country being diverted to different objects, while, on the other hand, nothing is more self evident than that every able-bodied man who emigrates to a foreign clime carries along with him not only a certain portion of labour which is lost to the country, but a considerable portion of capital also, and that the country is in conse quence a loser to such extent by the transaction. Which of the losses incurred by it is the greater —that of furnishing means for the support of those who can find no work, and are in conse quence unable to maintain themselves, or that which arises from-the direct loss of capital and labour incurred by emigration, we leave to others to determine.—Morning Advertiser. EXECUTION. OF DAVID EVAN S. CARMARTHEN, SEPT. 21. At ten o'clock this morning the wretched culprit, • David Evans, convicted of the wilful murder of Hannah Davies, on the night of Saturday, the 13th day of June last, on Pencarreg mountain, in this county, was brought out on the top of the county gaol, where the scaffold was erected, to undergo the awful penalty of the law according to his sentence. The unfrequency of crimes of this atrocious descrip tion in the principality may account for the agitated interest created by approaching catastrophe. Before the hour of seven this morning an immense concourse of people, horsemen and pedestrians, were seen approaching the town from all parts of the country to witness the execution; and when added to almost the „hole population of the town, already waiting in front of the gaol, the crowd presented an enormous mass, seldom witnessed at a single glam : e. When the unhappy man at length appeared, pinioned and prepared for the last scene of his earthly career, although nothing remarkable Was visible in his de meanour, the shock evinced among the populace was affecting in the extreme, many of the females sob bing aloud, while others shrieked in bysterie;. The prisoner himself showed unusual firmness, and with_ out much pausing dropped the handkerchief, the fatal signal to Jamul' him into eternity, when the stand beneath his feet was withdrawn, and horrid to relate, the iron chain attached to the gallows, through which the rope was reeved, gave way, and in an instant down dropped this unhappy being, and alighted on his feet, from which he fell for an in stant, but without any assistance rose again. It seems he was no strange: to that vulgar error pro verbial among the lower classes, that when the rope breaks a reprieve or pardon is the convict's due by immemorial custom. Accordingly, when he gained his feet a second time, he demanded his life, saying, " He had been hanged once, and they had no more to do with him." Here it became the melancholy duty of those about him to convince him to the con trary ; but it was with much difficulty he was brought up a second time. When every thing for the purpose was now carefully adju,ted, he dropped the handkerchief once more, and the world closed on him for ever. In adverting to the accident above described, which prolonged the already intense sufferings of this wretched being, and harrowed every human heart in the unusually large throng, tee cannot too severely censure the carelessness of the county car penter, whos e neg l ect a l one was the cause of it. The great wonder is, that the gallows frame did not sever and fall down altogether, as the carpenter had most unaccountably omitted to put in the pins that were to fasten the cross-beam to the perpendicular ones, so that when the pressure came upon the chain which had been passed round the cross-beam (to shorten it), that beam gave a turn round, by which means the hook of the chain that was fas tened to a central hole, became loosened from its hold, and occasioned the very reprehensible disorder above described. The following minutiae of attendant occurrences may be added:—The prisoner was attended by the Itt-v. Mr. Jones, the chaplain of the prison, and the Under Sheriff, L. 0. Lewis, Esq., to whom he ex pressed his unfeigned thanks for his humane atten tions. A thorough confession of his crime, without the slightest reservation, adds highly to the weight of the atonement lie has made. When divested of his irons and pinioned, he prayed with the utmost fervency, walked steadily to the fatal beam, firmly underwent the ceremony of adjusting the rope, and asked for the loan of a handkerchief to give the . final signal. After hanging the usual time, the body was cut down and given to the surgeons for • dissection. GLOW Worth.—Last (seek two insects were picked up on the sea shore, near Nairn, remarkable for the luminous or phosphorescent qualities which they pos sessed, surpassing, we presume, in this respect, the bril liancy of the glow-worm. They emitted a strong light to a &stance of upwards of half a yard, s,t bright that one could see to read by it. The Rev. Mr. BARCLAY' of Auld earn carried one of them home with bin), and placing it beneath a glass in a dark room, its light threw a distinct shadow from the glass on a piece of paper held above it. In day light its colour was whitish, and its form like that of a email beetle.—Aberdeen Chronicle. Yesterday a powerful-looking young man, named John Muckland, was brought from St. James's watch-home, before Mr. Rot;, the Sitting Magis trate, charged with the following daring outrage : Mr. Phipps, a wine -merchant, residing at No. 4, Mortimer -street, Cavendish-square, but having his wine-stores and counting-house in Blenheim-street, Bond-street, stated that the prisoner kid been for some time past in his servicse as a porter, but from several causes of dissatisfaction which he bad with him, he discharged him on Tuesday morning last. About four o'clock, however, on the same afternoon the prisoner came to the counting. house in Blen heim-street, arid having rung the outer bell, be, Mr. Phipps, who was in the counting-house at the time, on hearing the hell ring, opened the door by a lock-string, without knowing who it was that n , anted adinittance: the moment the door was opened, the prisoner rushed into the counting house, where fortunately Mr. Plascott, a wine merchant, in Old Burlingtonstreet, happened • to be also; and after using the most offensive and abusive language to him, Mr. Phipps, the prisoner drew . - a large pistol from Iris side pocket, and was in the act of presenting it at his (Mr. Phipps's) head,-when Mr. Plascott, who stood nearest to him, seized the pistol on the instant be fore the prisoner could discharge it; he (Mr. Phipps) also closed upon the prisoner, but the latter, being a very strong man, succeeded, after a severe struggle, in making his escape from both, carrying off with him the pistol at the same time,and having slammed the door after him as he ran our, he was out of sight before it could be opened, and a pursuit raised. In about two hours after that,—namely, at six o'clock,—he (Mr. Phipps) arrived at home, at his private house, in Mortimer -street, and on entering the hall, who, to his astonishment, should he find seated there but the prisoner, who, it seemed, was admitted under a pretence he made that he was de sired to wait for his (Mr. Phipps's) return moms e. The moment he (Mr. Phipps) entered the ball, the prisoner again drew the pistol from his breast pocket, but he (Mr. Phipps) instantly closed, and throwing himself upon the prisoner, hell his arms fast until the servants came to his assistance, and in the scuffle the pistol fell upon the ground and was secured. In spite of all attempts to secure him, the prisoner again forced his way out into the street; and when Mr. Phipps, who is a gentleman ad- vanced in years, pursued him in a very exhausted state, he was assailed by a mob of nearly 100 ruf fians out s ide, who b a d b een attracte d 1y the noise ' of the disturbance, who took a decided part with • the prisoner, and aided him to escape, without either I knowing or inquiring into the merits of tine ease. Mr. Plaseott entirely confirmed the statement of Mr. Phipps as to the outrage at the counting-hottc, and showed where his (Mr. Plascott's) hand was severely wounded in the struggle to wrench the pistol from the prisoner's grasp. Goddard, the officer, said, that on going to Mor timer-street on Tuesday evening, Mr. Phipps's son pointed out the prisoner to him amongst a mob of persons in front of Mr. Phipps's house, and think ing that the prisoner might still be armed with some weapon, he (Goddard) ran in upon hiin at once, and having thus closed with him before he had time to prepare for any defence, he secured him, and conveyed him off to the watch-house, where, on searching him, he found in his pocket a large knife, which, as a weapon of destruction, was a most formidable one. The pistol, he said he hail pur chased that morning for at a shop, and he ad mitted that his determination was to blow out Mr. Phipps's brains with it. The pistol was here produced, and was found to be loaded with powder and ball. Mr. ROE said that the case was a very aggravated one, and ordered the prisoner to find very sufficient bail to meet any charge that may be preferred against him at the sessions, and to give 48 bows' notice of the sureties he meant to propose, that their.sufficiency might be inquired into. The prisoner was then locked up. Mr. Freeman, of the firm of Scott and Freeman, proprietors of Steyens's Hotel, in Bond-street,.ap plies! to the magistrate for a warrant to bring be fore him, the magistrate, a Mr. Prescott, ut present a prisoner • for debt in the King's Bench Prison, upon the following charge : Mr. Freeman said, that Mr. Prescott, who was nearly related to the East India Directoi of that name , had incurred a debt at Stevens's hotel, and on application being made to him a short time ago for payment, he sent a letter,.enclosing- a cheque for 40/., drawn by himself, and requested that his bill might be deducted from it, and also deducting two guineas, for waiters, & c ., t h at the balance might be given to the bearer of the letter. This was accord ingly done; no suspicion whatever being entertained -ut the time but that the cheque was a proper one; but on its being presented at the banking-house on which it was drawn, the answer was, that they knew nothing there of Mr. Prescott, and that no such person as the drawer had kept any account there. Under these circumstances, ITh% Freeman submitted that the case was one of clear and palpable fraud. The cheque was here handed in to the Ma gistrate, and wa , , as stated by Mr. Freeman, for 40/., drawn by J. ,W. Prescott, on the banking house of Jones, Lloyd, and Co. Mr. ROE said, that that the cheque having been conveyed by letter, and the person complained against not having appeared personally in the trans action, he feared a Magistrate could not look upon, it in a light that would being' it under his jurisdic tion. He added, however, that the grounds of the General THORNTON moved that a printed return of all pensions granted by the Company, with their dates, names of the holders, and their total amount, should be laid before the proprietors, but being in formed by the Chairman that such a document was regularly placed in the Proprietors' room, he with drew his motion. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREE F. Last night Robert Hinton, a man in (L,ss o f a horse-dealer, was charged by Mr. Pinker, landlord of the Archer public-house, Newton -street, Holborn, with defrauding him of 6!. Ms. The prisoner was remanded. The parish officers of St. Clement Dines appeared to prefer a charge of bastardy against a journeyman , hoemaker named William Day. The young wo man who appeared to support the charge said her name was Ann Williamson, that she was at peseta a servant out of place, sod that the child which she now bore was the defendant's. Mr. MINSHULL having ascertained from the de fendant that he was unable to give security to the parish for the future maintenance of the child, asked him if he had any thing to say why he should not be committed to prison in default of bail. The defendant was willing to marry the girl as the only means in his power to repair the injury he hail done her. He would work for her support, and do all he could to make her comfortable and happy. Mr. MIN - SHULL thought that the defendant had made a very fair offer, and asked if there was any objection on die part of the parish to the proposal ? --Srinith, the beadle, had no other directions than to press for the committal of the prisoner. Mr. MlNBlitmt, then asked the young woman if she was willing to marry the defendant ?—The young woman, bursting into tears, said she would prefer going to service than to connect herself for life with the defendant. Mr. MlNsnum.--Has he ever used von ill ?—The young woman replied that he had always treated her kindly, but she did not wish to marry. Mr. MI N•snum.—Then the young man must go to gaol ; I cannot help it. You had better con sider of his offer. The defendant besought the young woman to accede to his proposal, and represented to her dint he should be ruined if she persisted in her determi• nation. He was willing to marry her within half an hour. Mr. MlNsoum, again asked the young woman if she would consent to marry the defendant, but she again positively declared that she would not marry. Mr. MiNsuum.--I am really sorry for the youoir man, who appears to have acted very fairly ; but must commit him. The defendant was willing to go to prison, and did not care what should become of him.—He was accordingly committed. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. present application would form very good grounds of opposition from Mr. Freeman to the prisoner's discharge at the Insolvent Debtor's Court, and he might be indicted besides at any time. Mr. Freeman then withdrew, saying that ho should certainly adopt the Magistrate's advice. QUEEN-SQUARE. A young lad named George Hall was placed at the bar, charged on -uspic►on of stealing Bank of England notes to the amount of 961, and also a cheque for upwards of 201., the property of Mr. Ed ward Eames, a collecting clerk to Messrs. Goding, ale-brewers. The prisoner was discharged. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a girl named Moff;fit, teccntly in the service of Mr. Buckley, of W . alcot-place, Lambeth, was brought before Mr. HONE, charged with rob ()cry. She was committed. Mr. Picard, a German, was brought up by the parish officers of Newington, for the purpose of hay ing an illegitimate child sworn to him. The mother of the child, a blooming young dam sel of 17, pointed out the defendant as the father of her offspring, and stated, that in April last he became acquainted with her at the house where she lived in service. She tvas certain that the defen dant, and no other man, was the father of her child. The defendant positively denied ever having had criminal conversation with the girl ; and in the course of his declarations to that effect excited great laughter by his tone of voice, gesticulation, and man ner of delivering himself. Mr. HONE—But the girl swears that you are the father of her child, and unless you can prove that you were not in England at the time she asserts, or bring forward some other evidence to invalidate her testimony, you must be saddled with the burden.— The defendant said that it was a bard case that he should be obliged to support a " little one" not his own. In Germany,s he said, they did not do things in that way; no man was compelled to support that which-was not his owe. Mr. HONE—Neither will a man be compelled to do so in this country. If you consider yourself ag grieved, you have the advantage of an appeal against our conviction. She swears you are the fa ther, and we are therefore bound to believe her tes timony in the absence of proof to contradict it. The order upon Mr. Picard was therefore made out, and lt , r tendered bail to appeal against the Ma gistrate's decision at the sessions. EAST-INDIA HOUSE. A Quarterly General Court of Proprietors of Eat-India Stock was held yesterday. The CHAIRMAN (John Loch, Esq.) stated, that the Court was made special for the purpose of con sidering an alteration in the by-law, cap. I. sec. 4, which was recommended in the report of the com mittee of by-laws, in June last. The by-law, as amended, was read : it ordains that all bills and resolutions introduced in either House of Parliament, which relate in any respect to Indian affairs, shall be placed in the Proprietors' room, for their information. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the alteration was approved of, Eubjeet to the confirmation of another General Court. SUTTEES. Mr. Lustt inquired whether the Court of Di. rectors had recently received any information from Bengal, on the subject of the abolition of suttees; or whether they had, since the last Court, made any communication to the Bengal Government relative to that abominable practice ? The CHAIRMAN answered, t hat the Directors had not received any information on the subject since the last General Court ; hut he was happy to say, they had an opportunity of knowing that the num ber of suttees had decreased very considerably, and the Government were most anxiously inquiring into the practice, and making themselves masters of every point connected with it. The Court then adjourned. SEDUCTION. It is with much sorrow that we have to add the ollowieg to the many instances of seduc►ion that have taken place at various times in this cou►►try.— A gentleman, who appeared to be about the age of ►sixty, called frequently at the shop of a respectable tradesman in Oxford -street, under pretence of pur chasing some of the articles in which he dealt. We forbear from delicacy to allude too particularly to any circumstance which, by discovering the family, may add to the agony of their present state. For the infamous seducer we have no such respect; his mime is Dudley, and he lives ie Red Lion-street, Holborn. The elder of the tiadesman's two daugh ters, whose age did not exceed 18, commonly set ved in the shop, in which she was assisted by her sister a girl of 16. The recurrence of Dudley's visits, though it occasioned no anxiety to the father, was too frequent to escape observation, and he was often invited to tea. He stated himself to have been in the employment of the East India Company, where he had realised a fortune, but had returned to England too late in life to find any of his relations surviving to enjoy it with him. From very obvious hints the tradesman was led to suppose that his wealth at his death would devolve to those who stood highest in his esteem, without any regard to proximity of blood. In this idea he encouraged the attention of his daughters towards the stranger, and the intercourse between them became every day more and more familiar. In May last be said he had determined to retire a short distance into the coun try, and if Miss would accompany him as his housekeeper, he would certainly leave her no cause to repent, at his death, the sacrifices which she should thus make. In less than a month every thing was arranged to the satisfaction of all parties, and the young lady had entered on her employment • at Mr. Dudley's house, in the neighbourhood of Highgate. Early in August the elder sister invited the younger to see her, and, on her return home on Thursday last, what was the horror of the parents to find, from the confession of the youngest, that both their daughters had been the victims of this man, who had, for 18 months, planned the heinous scheme which he had but too successfully carried into execution. Immediately the discovery was made the parents flew to upbraid the wretch with his perfidy ; but he was no where to be found. The elder daughter, confirmed in vice, though she had in no mariner assisted the seduction of the younger girl, had yet connived and participated in the flight of the wretch who had been the cause of their ruin. We have to add, with grief, that the unfortunate mother is no more, and that there is reason to ap prehend that the fatal consequences of this crime are not yet at an end. The new police force IA ere yesterday mustered, for the first time, in a yard adjoining to Old Palace-yiad. I i ST. SAVIOUR'S, SOUTHWARK.--AITIOn g the ' fine old localities of London is the neighbourhood of the church of St. Saviour, Southwark ; th's is one of the noblest and largest churches in London, and when the new London Bridge is finished, might be made a noble ohjt-et from the approach on the Borough side. It is a positive disgrace if it be suffered to remain in its present dilapi dated state by the parishioners. The massy spaciousness of the structure, and the solidity of its walls, strike the stranger who first beholds it with admiration. In this church lies old Gowr a the poet, and there are several very curio us relics of the olden time scattered about within its walls. It's date is believed to be anterior to London Bridge. All the ground along the river near it toweads . •Blackfriars' Bridge is tilled with remains celebrated in the annals of the chute'', and wh at is- singular, also of the theatre.—New Monthly Magazine. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. • •(From the Moniteur of Monday, Sept. 21.) The official part contains a 'Royal ordinance, c Oll- ferriag upon M. R avez , mem b er o f . t h e Ch am ber °f Deputies, First Pr es id en t o f t h e R o y a l Tribunal °f Bordeaux, the dignity of Peer of the kingdom. The first article of the ordinance of the 25th of Aug lid ' 1817, respecting the p rev i ous i nst i tut i ono f a majnill' , ' is dispensed with in his case. Nevertheless, dignity of peerage conferred upon him shall not all heredita: v, unless he institutes a majored producins a dear revenue :from landed property of at ki lt 10,000 francs per annum. PARIS, SEPT. 20.—Accounts just received fris e Constmainople inform us that peace was on tb i point of hting concluded between Russia and Turkel' (From the Gazette de France of Tuesday.) ODESSA, SEPT. 2.—Corn, esp'cially wheat, rising: several - houses at Constantinople, hoping that peace would so on b e restore d , h ave alrea"il given considerable orders for that article. It affirmed, that when the Counsellor F e ntoo was sent for the first time to the camp of the Gra ted Vizier, the Porte was made acquainted with th e conditions which Russia requires for the conclusion of peace, and that the Sultan did not consider the e ! as extravagant. The silence of the Ottoman MO" tors to the European Envoys on this subject, 'e4 well surprise us, and clearly indicates a rooteddistro` t in the Porte with respect to all the Christian Power /. PARIS, SEPT. 21.—The Journal die Nord of th e 19th of September says—" We have this momen t learned that a courier from Berlin arrived at Lille this morning, bringing the news that peace had been concluded on the 7th between Russia and the Otto' man Porte. This news was immediately transmitted by telegraph to Paris." This Mit% gis premature. Letters from Constoo' tircple, dated 29th of August, which have come hi way of Bern., only announce that peace was nca4 conduded. (From the Messagcr des Cluimbres of Monday.) PAnts, SEPT. 20.—A letter from Dresden, of th e 12th of September, announces that it was genell ilp l: believed at Warsaw th a t th e comman d o f t h e polio troops woldd be given to Count Sicken, Generk it r o Chief of the Russi an A rm y o f th e West. 111: General is: said to be of a mild and conciliating a l `.. position, whereas the Grand Duke Constantine 15 reproached for several arbitrary acts, which had.e r cited discontent am ong th e P o li s h troops. A ! e lle' , from Mmbid, of the Gth, says that negotiations g e going to le opened between France and Spain rellr tive to Guebhard's loan. FKIZNCH FUNDS.—PARIS, SEPT. 21.—Five per Con"; 107 f. 35e. 40e. 35c. ; Three per Cents., 81f. 30c. SP; 13ink Sto c k, 1,850 f. ; Napb-s; Stock 87f. 35e. ; ROI a Spanish Loan, 72i; Renter Perpetuelles d'Espagne, 49S Ihytian Loan, 3651—Exchange on London—One rn o 25f. 65c. ; three inontlis, 251. 45e.. Ours Authentie THE MARKETS. COAL MARK F.T.—.Sept. 23. Beaumont - 265. 6d. Walls rand Newmarch.. 316. 13ede's Main.-- 27 0 i qtto Northumberland 29 g Heaton .32 0 Ditto Perkins and C 0... 30 7 tlebl•aarn Hain—........ 32 0 Ditto Mild( ll's 31 Hot 31 0 Ditto Walker 32 °We:.lledhogh 26 3 Lambton' s P r i mrose —3l v Percy Ea.t. Taidield Tanfield Lea 27 6 Walls End 1. - ons 31 ' 27 6 Walls End Stewart', 33 IV.. lam _ 0 RI Hetton's W. V " End Bewieke&Co. 32 0 Hartl e y 23 Ditto Bell Hobson& Co. 32 0 L an dshipping 54 '„ Walls End Boundary.. 26 6 I . l angelmeCh Coal 3 9 Ett , l Brown's 29 6 Scotch 23 g Ditto Blandon 30 9 Walls End Elgin 30 Walls End Carr and Co. 27 6 NorthumborlandTrader29 Ditto Craml 27 0 Bew lac Trader—... 31 u Ditto Hilda . ...... .... 29 0 Old Etherley „ 16' 7 Ditto Dotsrur 2.J ai market, so:(1„ 41%. CoUNTRY CORN MA 11KETS oulturo-riam wZEK. Wheat. j Barley. Oats. Bean. Per Quarter. Abingdon.- S. tO S. 59 62 62 7 4 72 82 43 74 53 76 t 86 H 74 51 83 61 84 BO 65 84 56 76 (70 82' 59 78 54 78. 66 80 65 87 48 81 50 80 49 .80 56 81 '7O 77 to s. 32 38 8. to 8. 21 32 25 26 24 36 26 31 23 :16. 26 38 24 83 20 30 30 40 28 34 22 'lO IS 32 21 31 24 34 28 32 22 32 30 38 23 :13 22 32 29 36 22 38 24 32 r. I. - 41 46 Birmingham-. I".ridport Cirencester _ Giiildfi)rd tlereford 32 36 : , 2 39 46 ....- 54 26 40 :41 42 :30 35 38 45 32 42 28 38 :30 3ti 32 • 37 36 42 37 40 34 38 40 42 33 36 30 36 ts 4:3 36 38 36 40 - 4 5 40 1) - ( - 51 - 5 15 41 1 - -- 51 - - - 44 Higliworth Maidenhead ....-- Oakinghain Heading Salisbury Southampton Stroud Tewkestniry —.— Uxbridge ---- Wantage---- Warminster . Windsor Worcester— CFI HUMS II A3l IC Per rusliel. s. d. to s. d.' (I. to d• Wheat - .8 l Barley Oats Beans 4 9 5 6 Latol, 7 f i Pease 5 0 SO, l'ork 6 1 Hay T. 10s. to 31. 15s. per ton. ....... , 1 A R K ET.—Sept. 24 Pet lb. LEWES MARKET.—Sept. 22. • White Wheat (per quarter) £3 2 0 to .C:1 8 0 Red ditto , (11 . Barley Oats, New Beans Oil Cake, New l2 0 0 per thousand. !WU. MARKET.—Sept. 22. We have only a limited show of New Wheat from t he farmers again to-day, and the weatler continuing '''' rY unsettled, the condition of the parcels sbown does n ot iiT t prove, the great e r p ar t com i ng so f t an d d amp, for wbic.., we have slow sale; any p arce l s , h owever , w hi c h co me I' fair condition, are readily taken off at full last week: prices. We have a bett e r d e m an d f or Old, an d i n 9 0 °: instances a trifle shove last w ee k' s rates h ave b e en °''',, tamed ; for Wheat, or any Grai n un d er l oc k, we have 0 " demand whatever. We make no alteration in the vlO O of Oats, but the demand is limited. Thera is more lii (wiry- for Beans end White Peace, and each article 0 1 1 be noted Is. dearer on the bet qualities. - Barley is also . ill more request, hut very littl e off e ring. liitapeseed.and7o, steady at our quotations. Wheat, Old —s. 60s. 01s. Now ...... —s. 455. *f. , .. Foreign —s. 635. 66s ln bond._ —s. --s. Oats, Poland —s. 20s. 21 ,, Old —s. --ACP' Small or Feed.... —.4 12s. 18'. -6. 1 0 .1 i 4 " . .....44 Foreign ..... ....... —s. 2Ps. 21s. ...... .. Barley, Norf. & Sut ... —s 20s. 28s. Line. & %Vold —s. Os. a " - Foieign Beans 31s. 30s. 395. Foreign —s; 365. Pease, White —.. 30s. 345. Grey ..-0. 305. zr: Tares —s 345: 3fis. Foreign ...... ... ...-s. 286; o : n 7 Rapeseed, in bond none . - ' ___....- KETS.—Sept. Hi. DUMFRIES MA. A' s. d. s. d. is. d; ~ Wheat, Imp. Bush... 7 4t o 7 6 B u tt er, 16 oz OO to i, Barley 4 4 4 6 Eggs, dozen i] , 0 i, Oats 3 2 3 6 Beer, per lb. • - • 0 4, Flour, 141 b. ..... ....... - 0 „l; 0 $ Oatmeal 2 4 2 6 Veal e 0 9 Potatoes, cwt. - a Carrmr.—The number of Cattle on the Sande te-asi, was 1127, not a b ove two - t hi r d s o f w hi c h eichallg eu owners, and there was no improvement in the prices 7 , BIRTHS. This morning, the lady of Chalks B, Baldwin, Est °I. Parliamrnt-street, Westminster, of a son. On Ole 30th ult. at Dorpat, in Russia, the lady of P r ' E. D. Friedlander, Professor, of a son. near On the I tith inct. at the Cottage, Chippenhamp - f Newmarket, the lady of J. Sidney Th a rp, Esq. ° daughter. MARRIED. On the 23.1 inst. at St. Peter's, Isle of Thane`. Win. Lowe, of Regent-street, to Martha, second &MO' ter of Mr. R. Collard, surveyor, of Broadstairs. DIED. On the 26th ult. at Bath, in her 79th year, 5 10 Milner, daughter of the late and aunt to the pre 4 en t Win. Milner, Bart. On the 224 inst. Mary, the beloved wife of J. Brookv7 of Croydon, aged 80. On the 224 inst. Mr. F. B. Goldney, of Will.tw . Eton, aged 62. r. On the 21st inst. aged 74,'Mary, widow Of the 1.16° AS J. Lee, of King-street, Gwent-garden. d i r, On the 224 inst. Maria, wife of -Mt. .T ElTtford.- PRINTED AND PUBLISHED ny - 11 - UR - 150 .-- NG' IT TUE OFIICE, 11!, STRAND, LON/12% I'e; Peri iN) thel kr l d hr e i Nt due ti ll ; I out vio, 1,4, Pr e , i 8„ I. 1