The Sun. — London, England, 1829-12-05 00:00:00

PORTt7GAL. The intelligence we have received from Oporto by the Ceres and the Ann, which arrived here on Tuesday last, presents the usual distressing aspect of affairs in that distracted country. These vessels have brought over 14 emigrants ; among whom is the lady of General Azeredo, and an unfortunate volunteer, whose wife and daughter were barba rously murdered by Don Miguel's Guerillas, in 1828. Seventeen individuals, who intended emi grating by an American schooner, were found by the police officers in the ship's hold, and committed to person; the schoooer was allowed to proceed on her voyage. The above emigrants represent the country to be in a most distressing state. Misgovernment has been carried to such a height that even me ilfigueliles begin to complain, and assert that it is impossible that Don Miguel can be sur rounded by true Royalists, or he would never govern as he does, and bring ruin on the country. The Oporto prisons contain 4,000 indi viduals, 500 of whom are women ; and as the com mon prison cannot contain so great a number, the ecclesiastical dungeons have been put in requisition. Little hope is entertained for the lives of those who of late have been summoned to give in their defence in five days; they will, it is feared, be executed with few exceptions, as well as many prisoners whose trials are to follow, and who are either civi lians and volunteers arrested with arms in their hands, or military officers not comprehended in Don Miguel's amnesty of July, 1828. A Jew from Mo rocco was publicly whipped through the streets of Oporto, for having expressed liberal opinions; an English gentleman (whose name, from what we could collect, is Macarthey) and M. Gambet (a French subject) were in prison on a similar charge. Some alterations have taken place in the composi tion of the Special Court of Inquiry, established at Oporto ; new members have been added, and others expelled as too moderate in their votes. A new Judicial Investigation has, by superior order, been set on foot at Oporto, under the diiection of the ordinary Judge in criminal affairs. A certain num ber of individuals of tried attachment to Don Mi guel's administration, are to be chosen by the Com missary of the Police, and these are to report to this Court of inquiry all persons who may be heard to utter expressions of discontent against the mea sures of Government, or frequent the houses arid company of suspected individuals. Great anxiety has been caused among the Constitutionalists by the establishment of this system of inquiry, as, by its vague nature, it may be made to include the most prudent and peaceable.—Plymouth Journal. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, DEC. s.—On Thursday se'nnight Mr. James Roydon Hughes was admitted actual Fellow of New College. On Sunday last Herman Merrivale,B.A. was ad mitted actual Fellow of Balliol College.—On the same day Charles Marriott, Commoner of Exeter College, Stephen Charles Denison, Commoner of Balliol College, and Edward Elder, were elected Scholars of Balliol College; Charles Marriott was also elected Exhibitioner, on the foundation of Mrs. Headlem, and John Cooke, Exhibitioner, on the foundation of Mr. Harris, in the same College. On the same day, in full Convocation, the Degree of Doctor of :Divinity, by diploma, was conferred upon the Hon. and Right Rev. Richard Bagot, Lord Bishop of Oxford, formerly of Christ Church, and late Fellow of All Souls' College. Thursday Mr. James Edward Sewell was admit ted actual Fellow of New College. On the same day the foU,pwing Degrees were con ferred : BACHELOR. IN CIVIL LAW, BY COMMUTATION. William Morgan, Esq. Fellow of Magdalen. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. James Maeicell, Brazennose. Cecil Wray, Brazennose. BACHELORS OF ARTS; Nathaniel Bond, Oriel, Grand Compounder. Richard Robert James Al'Pherson, Queen's. John Daniel Lloyd, Queen's. William Mauhry, Queen's. James Hussey, Balliol. Henry Blissett, Balliol. William Hunt, Wadham. Albert Mangles, Postmaster of Merton. Henry Hughes, Trinity. Henry Deane, Exeter. In addition to the five Noblemen already entered this term in this University, 'we have to announce that the Earl of Lincoln, son of the Duke of New castle, was admitted a Member of Christ Church on Wednesday last. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. P. D. Foulkes, B.A. to the Vicarage of Shebbear, with the Chapel of Sweepw ash, Devon, void by the death of the Rev. T. Trevethan ; pati on, the King.. The Rev. W. H. Shelford, M.A. to the Rectory of Preston, in Suffolk ; patrons, the Master and Fel lows of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Rev. C. J. Myers, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Flintham, Nottinghamshire; patrons, the Master and Fellows of that Society. CASE OF THE LATE MRS. PHILLIPS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sut,—ln reply to the letter of " Medicus," which appeared in your Paper of yesterday, I beg to state, that bad he given his name and address, I would have triumphantly replied, not only.to his queries, but to his insinuations. Having come forward with out disguise myself, I am not disposed to enter into correspondence with every annonymous scribbler who may tbi;:k tit to call on me through your Paper —the only one, I take it, which would have inserted such a prmduction.# I was in great hopes, after the notice in your:Paper of Saturday last, that you should not insert my letter unless it were " paid for as an advertisement, " that you would have adhered to your resolution, instead of giving two or three partial extracts only, the effect of which is to insult your readers (if they have expressed the desire you mention—that " I should be beard"), and at the same time to injure me. I eln, Sir, your obedient servant, Finchley, Dec. 2. HENRY PHILLIPS. 4 ' Has Mr. Phillips read a letter which appeared in a Mornit:s Paper of Wednesday last ? We find in the Lancet of last night the following paragraph, which we publish in order to enable Mr. Phillips to give an explanation if he shall think fit. • There is no necessity for a long letter. The points are short, and admit of very short answers : " We have beard, from most respectable autho rity, that although it was sworn or. the inquest that Mr. Phillip! was at Barnet on the day preceding his wife's death, and did pot return unto eleyen o'clock,' that he' was seen to come out of his own house about seven o'clock in the evening; further, that he passed that same evening in the neighbour hood, in company with one or two women of doubt ful character; that, in the course of the even'og, Mrs. Phillips sent several messages to her husband complaining of her severe illness, and deairipg him to return; and that of these messages he eo:Acl either have heard nothing, or they were altogether disregarded by him, as he did not leave the public house until about twelve o'clock. Tiles? reports ore extensively and confidently circulated, and it is but' just to make Mr. Phillips acquainted with them. Whether at Barnet or the Torrington Arms, be could not have been a spectator of what was passing in his own house, and probably he has been misled am some points by inaccurate information. Mr. Slays will doubtless, therefore, say a few words in explanation of the reports respecting the alleged sc ene at the Torrington Arms, and of the alleged unheeded messages of his unfortunate wife. He is not called r pon for a defence, but merely for an ex ploitation): ? - e LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER: 5, 1829. The arrival of his MAJESTY'S frigate Galatea which sailed from Vera Cruz so late as the 9th October, settles all doubts, if any really existed, respecting the discomfiture and surrender of the Spanish expedition at Tampico. Indeed, the Mexican Packet, with Vera Cruz Papers of the 26th September, brings all that is necessary. These Papers contain a long official despatch from General SANTA ANNA, dated Tam- pico, the 19th of September, detailing the full particulars of the surrender. It appears that the Mexican General gave the Spaniards only 48 hours to consider, at the expiration of which all quarter was to be refused if they did not sur_ render. During the battle a violent storm pre vailed which overflowed the lines of the Mexicans, and placed some of them in a very critical situa tion, but when the storm abated SANTA ANNA succeeded in capturing one ofthe forts, on which the Spaniards hoisted the white flag, and surrendered on nearly the same terms as those already stated. The loss of the Mexicans was 127 killed and 151 wounded ; that of the Spaniards consisted of 104 killed and 96 wounded. The Galatea brought a considerable quantity of specie to this country, both for the Merchants and for the Mining Companies-40,000 dollars for the United Company, and 130,000 dollars for the Bolonas Company. The following are extracts from American Papers to the 16th September : MEXICO, SEPT. 13. We have before us letters from New Orleans to the 30th of August, which affirm that the second expedition from the Havannah was to sail on the 2d or fld inst., and that its force would amount to 3,000 men. Many asserted that it would go to Vera Cruz, but we cannot believe this. It is most natural that its plan should be to reinforce the division of General Barradas, which cannot be very strong at present. However, we must not neglect any point, as the enemy has the advantage of know ing where he will attack us, and we cannot obtain certainty on this point, The invaders have pliblished a commercial no tice, in which they exempt from all duties provisions of every kind, except flour, which is to pay half the duty fixed by the tariff of the Havannah, i. e, four dollars per barrel. Many Spanish vessels were at New Orleans, pre paring to sail with such articles for the expedition at Tamatiiipa.i, At Tornede los Ingleses there were 12 or 1,400 Spaniards, ready to embark for some point on our coast, supposed to be Matamoros or Soto de la Marina. The Spaniards are making their last efforts to as sert imagmary rights on a free people. We have received no news from the field of battle ; but we know that the enemy's force was daily growing weaker, and that our army was actively engaged in the necesEary fortifications. Gen. Santa Anna was to attack the enemy between the Sth and 10th inst. The Mexican troops were eager for battle, and be sought the Commander-in-Chief to lead them to the attack. Our forces are about 9,000 men, under Generals Santa Anna, Teran, Corlazar, Velasquez, and Valdivizco.. We do not know to what point the army of reserve if. to go, which is commanded by the valiant General isas,temente, accompanied by able and brave officers. fign, 14.—The Correio of this date eontaißs a Decree of te President, by which the widows of the officers who Lege died during their banishment, on account of the plan of Montano, are to be re lieved by the monk pio, and the 011...ers themselves implic‘ted in - that plan, who may be in wary parts of the territory of the Republic, are immediately to poseat themselves, in order to be restored to their rank, as their services may 4a, employed to advantage in the present ei:rumstansces of the4epublic. This, gays the Correio, may serve to iluiet the nl.Fros of thoo I yho really believed that the ,extraordinary .powers granted to the Executive might be abused, We see that it is most inclined to show mode- ration and indulgence ? and to offer a reconciliation between all the Mexicans, and has begun by par doning tb.ose who were banished on stcount of the affairs of Tuloncingo. We have reason to expect that this amnesty will be extended to all those im plicated in Montano's plan. An express from the army re ceived today brings word that our General would begin his attack on the Bth. As the second Spanish expedition was to sail on the 6th or 7th, it will probably reach our shores about the 23d or 24th, by which time the division already landed will be nearly ruined. The Correio of the 11th and 15th contains an ar ticle on the justice of declaring war against the United States of North America. Great rejoicings are making in Mexico to celebrate the anniversary of the republic: The following are extracts from Frankfort Papers of the 28th November;— BERLIN, NOV. 25. We are informed that his Majesty the Emperor of Russia has acknowledged the laudable zeal and the success of Lieutenant-General Baron Von Muffling, in his mission to Constantinople, _by , con ferring on him the order of St. Alexander Newsky, and a present of 100,000 silver rubles. The affairs of Greece must now soon take a decided turn; many friends of Greece are apprehensive that that people may be checked in its developement ; they aro particularly desirous that Count Capo &Istria may remain President of the new State. MUNICH, .NOV. 25. In Art. 10, of the commercial convention between the kingdoms of Bavaria and Wurtemburg on the one hand, and the kingdom of Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Hesse on the other, it is stipu lated that the Consuls of either of the contracting Powers, residing in foreign sea ports and commer• cial towns, shall be instructed to afford protection and assistance to the subjects of the other parties. In reference to this article, the Minister for Foreign Affairs has published a list of the Consuls and commercial agents of Prussia in foreign ports. His Majesty is still confined to his room by the hurt in his foot, which however is gradually, though slowly, getting better, and does not hinder him from devoting the greatest attention to the affairs of Go vernment. A change in our Ministry is still spoken of. We copy the following from the Chronicle of his morniNg : " We are glad to see, from our report of the proceed ings at the Middlesex Sessions yesterday, that the report on which our observations on the conduct of the Chairman, in altering a sentence from seven years' transportation to transportation for life, was not correct. On examination, we find the account was copied by us from The Sun newspaper. There was an account in several other Even ing Papers of Friday, perhaps the same as that so copied by us. " Mr. Const says, 'that in consequence of something said to him by some gentlemen who were sitting with him on the Bench, he ordered the boy to be brought back, and told him that the Court, on re-consideration, thought his a ease which ought to be punished by transportation for life. But, when he said this, be never meant so to sen tence him. Every gentleman in Court knew what he meant, and that his object was to impress on the other boys the danger of the course they were pursuing ; and he had reason to hope some good had been done in this way. Immediately after pronouncing the sentence, he leaned over to Mr. Gylby, the Clerk of the Peace, and told him to take no notice of it.' " As the Reporter was not in the secret, like Mr. Gylby, he may well have been excused for not understand ing the Learned Chairman. We rejoice to Mid that he did not exceed his duty, and we rejoice to find that he is so sensible of what is due from a Magistrate to the public; but if we may be pardoned the freedom, we would recom mend him not to leave Reporters in the dark in future.— Even our contemporary, the Courier, from a natural de.. ference to the wisdom of a Magistrate, justified the altera tion of the sentence as highly praise-worthy ; and we should not be surprised if the Chairmen of Sessions throughout the country, misled by such high authorities, were to act upon the precedent." Now as the Chronicle copied the report from The Sun, we can assure our liberal cotemporary that the Report was correct to the letter—and we also assure him, from a little experience of what has taken place at Quarter Sessions, that the practice of recalling a culprit after sentence, and honouring him with a second but more durable proof of Magisterial vengeance, did not originate in the present instance. However, we are now glad that the intention of the Chair man was not divined by our Reporter, as the circumstance may be the means of preventing such mistakes in future. The Chairman no doubt meant very well, but then he took rather an odd way of doing it. Had he ordered the boy to be flogged on the instant, for insulting the judgment -seat, it would have had a more touching and corrective influence, both by pre cept and example, than the prospective terror of residing in a foreign land for the remainder of his life. Distant punishment, like uncertain danger makes little impression upon a mind which is already prepared for the worst. It is, we know, a common observation, when people read Newspapers which make a fuss about nothing, " Ah ! the Papers must say something, and, therefore, when they have nothing else to do, they find fault, merely for the sake of doing so." We conjecture this remark must have been ap- plied to some of our Tory contemporaries, who are so fierce in their attacks on the New Police, and so fearful for our liberties, which they tell us are being gradually swept away. The thieves and flashmen probably make the same complaint, for it is incontestible that an encroachment has been made upon the vested interest enjoyed by one portion of the community in picking the pockets of the remainder. The wisdom of our forefathers had provided for the exercise of the right of thieving with comparatively little moles tation, and that this right should be now sub verted by a new fangled scheme of Police , a mounts, it is contended, to an arbitrary assaul t upon British liberties, if not to a violation of the Constitution of 1688 ! These sticklers for our liberties are supported by several old ladies in one of the districts of Marylebone parish, who, in consequence of Lord ELDON'S eulogium on the ladies' petition against the Critilolies, have become sensible of the great weight due to female remonstrances, and have re presented to the Secretary of State the injustice of destroying their nocturnal comforts, by depriving them of the solace of the musical intonations of the watchmen, in the absence of which these old ladies find it impossible to lull themselves to recto Mr. PEEL !--Mr. PEEL !---what reparation can you ever m . lke to the elderly gentlewomen of Mar ylebone for the loss of that constitutional lullaby which in happier times soothed their slumbering eyelids to repose ? It is impossible to argue seriously with those who deny the benefits of a well organized Police traversing the metropolis by night and by day, for the preservation of the persons and property of the inhabitants. What we wanted was simply —security ; and the Government, seeing that no former system had attained that end, has esta blished a new force for our protection, which, so far as can be _hitherto judged, is very effective, and answers its purpose extremely well. It is really too bad to talk of the evils of introducing a gendarmerie into England, and of the ap proaches that are making to a Military Govern ment ; the complaints of the old ladies of Mary lebone is a far more suitable one. If foreigners who write articles in Reviews, lecturing us to beware of the tyranny to which a military police is leading us, would study England a little more closely, they would find we are not exactly the people to be led by the nose under a military yoke ; and they would perceive that Policeman is merely another name for constable, though of a somewhat more efficient kind. The whole business of Government is the application of means to a given end ; and if that end is reached, or, at all events, approached, it is perfect child ishness to blame the means, because they are in some respects analogous to those adopted in countries less free than our own. People who do not think arc deceived by names ; but there are others who do think, and are not deceived at all themselves; though they have bad faith enough to avail themselves of popular prejudices to raise an outcry against a Government which they are trying to undermine. They try, however, in vain, the Government will stand ; and the Police will stand ; and the former will as surely confound the machinations of the Ultra Tories, as the latter will drive the pickpockets from their Metropo litan haunts. Despatches were received at the Colonial Office, this morning, from Major-General Sir H. TURNER, Governor of Bermuda; from Sir WILLIAM DOUGLASS, Governor of New Brunswick; and from Major General Sir P. MAITLAND, Governor of Nova Scotia. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. Twiarz ot Cr.ocr. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 3, 9 r. m.—Up to the above time there has been no communication with the Napoleon New York packet, the weather is so thick. A Halifax mail has arrived by the Opossum, which sailed from Bermuda the 30th October, and from Halifax the 10th Nov. ; also a mail from Vera Cruz, by the Lady Wellington, which sailed from thence the 28th September, and from the Havannah the 16th October. By the above conveyance we have received from the North and South American Coffee-house, Halifax Papers, to the 10th November, Prince Edward's Island Papers to the 4th Nov., and Mirarnichi Papers to the 21st Oct. The former Papers bring accounts that the Rifle Bri gade landed at St. John's, New Brunswick, on 29th Oct. and the 81st Regiment commeneed embarking on the 2d Nov, and it was supposed would sail for Bermuda on the 6th Nov. The latter Papers contain nothing of importance. The private letters from Vera Cruz, which are of a much later date than the packet, having been brought by a frigate, state that Santa Anna had arrived at Vera Cruz. Joy was expressed in the capita, on the happy event of the surrender of the Spaniards. Consols, which left off rather heavy in the house at 94i 95 for the Account, were afterwards done at 95, buyers; and opened this morning at 95 to for January. Reduced may be quoted 93i with little business doing as yet. In the Foreign Market, Mexican Bonds have improved owing to the confirmation of the surrender of the Spa niards at Tampico. FUNDS. 31 per Cent. 971 100 New 4 per Cent., shut 4 per Cent. 1826 1051 6 India Bonds, 68 70 Exchequer Bills, 69 70 FUNDS. Greek, 261 71 Mexican, 24/ 51 Peruvian, 16 17 Portuguese, 501 511 Prussian, Russian, 109 1 Spanish, 101 I TWO O'CLOCK. DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICKS OF STOCKS THIS B ink Stock -- 3 per Cent. Bed. 93% 43% 3 per Cent. Cons. shut 3% per Cent. -- Ditto Red. 99% 100 $ per Cent. Ann Ditto, 1826 Ditto Scrip - RankiL. Ann. Ditto 30 years India Stock shut Oitto Bonds 7O pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds — 67 South Sea Stock ....... shut Old Annuities New Ditto shut Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. 6.9 '7O pm. Ditto lid. 69 '7O pm. Ditto ..... .......500 2d. 69 '7O pm. lid. 69 '7O pm. Ditto Small M. 69 '7O pm. Ditto lid. 69 '7O pm. Bank for Acc0unt.......... - India for Account ...... for January 95 i 4 474 5 THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Neapolitan 9834 98 Peruvian Bonds 1634 Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds — !Portuguese Bonds — Chilian Bonds —(Prussian, Old — Colombian Bonds — Ditto, New — Ditto, 1824 221. . Russian Danish — Spanish,'lB2l 10% 3 4 Greek Bonds 27 -- 1823 — Ditto, 1825 27N 4 French Rentes, sp. c.109f. 25c. Guatnnala — --- Exchange 2sf. 75c. Mexican Bonds = -- 3 per cent. —f. —.. Ditto, 1825 26 5 Exchange —t —r. PRICES OF SHARES PHI: Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. Brazilian Imp. Mm. Co. (iss. at 51. Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/ Mexican Mining Co Real del Monte Mining Co. United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21 PRICES OF IRISH STOC Bank Stock 1 / Consols, 3 per cent Gov. Stock, 3% per cent 99%, Ditto, New 4 per Cent ...... ......... Gov. Deb. 3% per cent 99 Royal Canal Stock 44 Grand Canal Stock 2 1 8 3 /4 City Deb. 4 per cent Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c - DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid Per Share. . pm.).£loo 37 39 5.5 pm.) £2O 70 pm.) £35 9 8% £35 - 12 £4OO 79 77% - 80 pm.) £3934 1934 22 2034 ICS, DUBLIN, DEC. 2. St. Patrick Incur. (pe7 sh.) Royal Irish Ditto ! National Ditto 25 U IPatriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank 'Provincial Ditto ...... Royal Irish Mine Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland 2 ' Commercial Buildings MA Arrived. Due. 1 America 0 O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 0 Carthagena 0 O Dublin 0 O Flanders 0 O France 0 O Guernsey&Jersey 0 Arrived. Due. O Hamburg 0 C Holland O Jamaica 1 O Leeward Islands O Lisbon 0 1 Mexico O Sweden O Waterford 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning... 3 minutes after 10. Evening ...38 minutes after 10. ,NGE YESTERDAY. COURSE OF EXCHJ Amsterdam C.F.12 8 Ditto, at ...............12 51 Rotterdam 2 U 12 8 Antwerp 12 8 Hamburg 11.8.14 1 Altona ll Paris, 3 days' sight 25 85 Ditto 2 U. 26 15 Bordeaux 26 15 Berlin Frankfort on Blaine, Ex. M. 1541 I'etcrsburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective 8. 2 M. 10 14 Trieste do 10 I t Madrid 35% Cadiz 35% Bilboa Barcelona 35% Seville 35% Gibraltar 4734 .Leghorn 47% Genoa 26 0 Venice 47% Malta 48% Naples . 39% Palermo per oz. 119 Lisbon Oporto 43 12.0 Janeiro Bahia 26% Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight l4 Cork l% BULLION, PER OZ. .2. S. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silver, bars, standard 0 0 0 ENOLIS Bank Stock, 217 IS India Stock, 228 9 3 per Cent. Cons. shut Do., for Account, 941 5 Ditto Reduced, 93i FOREIG Brazilian, 67 Buenos Ayres, 26 28 Chilian, 27 29 Colombian, 22 Danish, 74i French, 5 per Cent. 1091 Ditto, 3 per Cent. 841 5i The fluctuation of Consols this morning is as follows —Opened at 95 buyers, afterwards sellers, were again done at 951 buyers, then 94/, and are at present 941 for the Account; the extreme fluctuation this week has been about 1 per cent. The decline of Consols to 944 was owing to a current report that the Office for receiv ing Life Annuities had stopped receiving until Monday ; this caused alarm to the speculators in the Funds, but on inquiring at the office, we find that they would not receive for a few minutes, until they arranged a new table of interest, from 31. ss. to 31. 45., owing to the high price of the Funds, and they continue to receive the Life Annuities as before. The moment the above was known at the Stock Exchange, the Consol market im proved from 944 to 95 for the Account. The private letters from Vera Cruz state, that two con ductors had arrived at Vera Cruz, one from Mexico with eight hundred thousand dollars, and the other from Tam pico, with four hundred and sixty thousand dollars for merchants' account. Accounts from Ancosta, in the Halifax papers received this morning, state, that by different affidavits, taken by Captain Bayside, it appears that great depression and con siderable injury to the fisheries have been committed by vessels from the American States. In the Foreign Market Mexican stock has been done at 2G, since which it has declined to 244 5.1. Shares had improved in the morning, but have also declined to the prices of yesterday; The report still prevails that the Emperor of Russia is dangerously ill, or has been poisoned ; but the well •in formed give no credit to the above report. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account, 94i. ( )The smugglers have been very successful in the port of Arundel during the present month, having, it is said, evaded the vigilance of the blockade force, and safely run nearly 1,000 packages of contraband spirits and light goods. Three empty boats, which had been abandoned by the smugglers after having landed their cargoes, have been seized by the preventive officers.—Sussex Advertiser. SUPPOSED MURDER.—On Wednesday last an Inquest was held at Walcot Poor-house, before Mr. UPHILL, Coroner, and a respectable Jury, touching the death of MARY BapoN, (wife of 111Jout: ANTHONY Bitoo g, a retail brewer, living at the top of Mark's, hill,) who was found on Sunday afternoon lying on the floor of her bed-room, with 4 piece of tape firmly twisted about four times round her neck, and life totally extinct. The Jury, after a lengthened examination, which lasted nearly e ight hours, re t urne d th e f o llowing verdict That MARY Baoom, on the twenty-ninth day of No vember, was found de:id, but whether by her own hands or by the hands of another person or persons, for want of evidence, the Jury cannot determine; but they strongly suspect, and are unanimous in opinion, that it has been committed by others, and not herself." We understand Opt the Magistrates intend to institute a further inquiry Herald, into the taws...Bath SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. -(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAT., DEC. 4.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrived from Lon don, the Robert Edwards, Sherburn, for New York ; Australia, Wright, for New South Wales; and his Ma- jesty's ship Alligator, and sailed for Portsmouth. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 4. —Wind S.S.E.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Galatea, from Havannah; and Countess of Harcourt transport, from Quebec and Cork. Sailed the Wanderer transport, for Woolwich. FALMOUTH, DEC. 3.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the Lady Wellington packet, from Tampico, sailed the 19th of September, Vera Cruz the 28th, and Havannah the 16th of October ; also the Opossum packet, from Bermuda, sailed the 30th of October, and from Halifax the 9th ult. ; also arrived the Isabella, Muir, from Cephalonia. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 3.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Jane, from Lisbon. BRISTOL, DEC. 4.—Arrived the Lullan, Rogers, from Smyrna ; Mary, Dawson, and Henry Carter, Moore, from St. Petersburgh. CLYDE, DEC. 3.—Arrived the Henry, Athol!, from Demerara; and Edward, Libby, from Virginia. DUBLIN, DEC. 2.—Arrived the Gilbert, Henderson, from Quebec ; and Glory, Pope, from St. Petersburgh• The Lady Cremona, Jameson, from Quebec, has arrived at Cork leaky. The Caledonia packet, Gambles, from Windau to Liver pool, was totally wrecked on Windau Bar the 10th ult., crew saved. The Margaretta, Hessen, from Dantz:c, drove on shore near Flamborough Head on Tuesday, without any person on board, and went to pieces. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. BUCKBANK V. DILIVORTIf. The LORD Crixtic Emma. observed, in giving judgment, that the question in this case arose out of the bankruptcy of Dilworth and Co., who bad carried on the business of bankers, in Lancaster. They were the treasurers of the Lancaster Canal Company. The Canal Company was in.. corporated by an Act of Parliament in 1792. The Act gave the power of purchasing and holding lands for the purposes of the Company. As a corporation they held and now hold real property; and the profits arising from the concern were profits arising out of real estate. For the purpose of carrying on the consern, it became necessary to raise a certain sum, which was raised by the contributions of the shareholders: This the share holders were entitled to be reimbursed according to the provisions of the Act of Parliament, out of the subse quent profits of the concern. '1 hese profits to this ex tent, and in this view, were to be considered as resulting from real estate, and to be regarded as real property. Another clause however in the Act, completely con trouled this general rule, and declared that the shares s.nd the profits arising from them, should be con sidered as personal estate, and transmissible as such. It was contended at the bar that the shares were only to be considered as personal, for the purpose of trans mission to the personal representatives of shareholders. No such limitation was expressed by the Act ; nor could the Court assume that the Legislature had any such limitation in contemplation by the broad and general terms in which the provision was expressed. The consequence of this was, that the shares or property in such shares held by the bankrupts at the time of their bankruptcy, passed to the assignees. The question, how ever, in this case was, whether the shares held by Mr. Dilworth, at the time of his bankruptcy, were under the order and disposition of that gentleman at the period im mediately preceding his bankruptcy as the reputed owner? Upon the most minute examination the Court could give of the evidence, his Lordship could lay his hand upon no act or acts that deprived Mr. Dilworth of his character of a shareholder prior to his bankruptcy ; and, under such circumstances, he felt bound to decree that the shares of Mr. Dilworth passed to the assignees under the bank ruptcy. The appeal was dismissed, and the assignees ordered to have their costs out of the estate. A petition, also, for a releasing, which had been presented pending the present judgment, vas directed to be dismissed with costs. SWEET V. ARCHBOLD. The Loan CHANCELLOR said, that with respect to this application to dissolve the injunction that had been made yesterday, he bad read the papers and made up his mind on the various points. As to the piracy from the practice of the Court of King's Bench into the practice of the Court of Common Pleas, l►e had formed a very strong opinion ; as well as with respect to the supposed licence. These opinions, or the grounds of them, lie was unwilling to express, unless called on to do so by Mr. Archbold's Counsel (who had discretion enough not to make the call.) The Court was of opinion that there must be a trial upon the subject at law, particularly with respect to the effect of the licence; but his Lordship was quite sure that before the parties went into Court ►hey would come much nearer to a settlement among themselves than the amount would be of extra costs either party would have to pay ; and con sequently, that it would be infinitely more prudent for them to come to an arrangement than go to trial. The Council on both sides considered, after this intima tion from the Bench, it was probable that an arrangement would be come to out of Court, and resting here reserve to themselves the opportunity of mentioning the cause again to his Lordship, should it become necessary. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. JUDGMENT.-FRY V. LORD SHERBORNE. His HONOUR (theVice-Chancellor) gave a most elaborate judgment in this case; the question in which was, whether under the words of a settlement made upon the marriage of a gentleman of the name of Estcorrt Creswell with a Miss Wootton, their only child, a daughter, (under whom the plaintiff claimed) was entitled previous to her death to have a sum of 10,000/. raised as her portion under that settle ment. The Vice-Chancellor went through the facts of the case with great minuteness, citing and commenting upon several cases as authorities upoe which he acted in coming to the conclusion he did, that Miss Creswell clearly was entitled before her death to have her portion raised under the settlement, and that those claiming under her ought to have the 10,000/. which had been paid into Court by Lord Shelborne, who, it appeared, had become a purchaser of part of the Creswell estates. His Honour also directed that the costs of all parties should be paid by the trustees. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. NEWBOLD V. MASON AND OTHERS. This was an action to recover damages for an assault which the plaintiff alleged had been committed upon hina by the defendant. After evidence had been adduced to prove the assault, 14r:.Justice J. PARKS left it to the Jury to say whether they considered that the provocation given by the plaintiff was sufficient to justify the assault. The Jury, after a few minutes' consideration, found a verdict for the plantiff—Damages, 51. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY had an interview this morning with the Duke of WELLINazotr, in Downing-street. A correspondent, who gives his name and address, has sent the following statement :—Two ladies were yesterday afternoon walking together in the Strand, and an elderly man, of short stature, with a bundle under his arm, in appearance much like a Spitalfields weaver, followed close behind them, for a short distance, and from his mouth squirted over the silk dresses of both ladies an acid liquid, that entirely destroyed the colours of both their silk dresses. Within there few days many ladies dresses, have, we are told, been entirely spoilt in the same manner. Times. -- --- CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.- A meeting of the Philosophical Society was held on Monday evening, the Rev. Dr. TURTON, the President, being in the Cliair. Mr. ROTHMAN, of Trinity College, read a notice of an observation of the winter solstice at Alexandria, which is rewarded in Sifnaun, and which has hitherto not been understood, from its being spoken of by the author as an observation of au equinox. Professor WilEsvEu. continued reading his paper, " On the Causes and Characters of Pointed Architecture ;" and explained the influence of the pointed arch upon the other members of buildings, through which influence the Romanesque style was at last superseded by the very opposite forms of the Gothic. It was stated also that the transition from one of these styles to the other, which took place in Eng land by means of the early English style, was made in Germany by means of a very different one, which may be termed early German. Of this style the characters were given in some detail, and it was remarked that, among these, the invention of the flying buttress was of as much importance to the development of the Gothic style, as that of the pointed arch, Observations were also communi cated by Mr. MILLAR, of St. John's College, on the forms and angles of the crystals of boracic acid, indigo, and borate and bicarbonate of ammonia. After the meet ing, Professor SEOGNVICK gave an account of the geolo gical structure of the Austrian Alps, illustrated by the representation of a section traversing their chain, and passing from the plains of Bavaria to the calf of Venice. .OLD i3AILEY SESSIONS--(THIS DAY) OLD COURT. Michael Gander, aged 18, a young man of yt r r spectable appearance, was indicted for robbing his -I ° o w of silver spoons and other articles, value 131., the prop 7 of his landlady, Lydia M'Cullock. • 14 41, The charge against the prisoner was fully estab lis and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Serjeant AaAnts—A very clear case, Gent Thomas Knight, aged 18, was indicted for a rap e Elizabeth Wright. t , • The prosecutrix, a young woman of forbidding aPP; anee, stated that en Sunday afternoon, the 4th of 0c0"70:. she was passing across the fields, between Hamolere r t i • and Chiswick, when the prisoner jumped out of a lle"s"„ and seized her by the arm ; she resisted as much as sible, but be succeeded in effecting his purpose. mainder of the evidence was of a nature unfit for pub" c l s tion. From the extreme stupidity of the p ro secutrix ,* „,l the di ffi culty with which any answer could be extracm" her examination occupied nearly two hours. The prisoner was found Not Guilty. NEW COURT. Abraham Levey, an apprentice to Mr. Jacob n it, tailor and clothes salesman, Saint John's-street, w v , Smithfield, surrendered himself this morning, having D'-t, discharged, after three examinations before Mr. JAW, Hatton-garden, but understanding that his Master by' s Judge's warrant against him , to take his trial on a charg s of stealing 13 great coats, value 101.—Not 6uilty. i MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. Yesterday evening the Anniversary Meetinfnf Members of this Institution was held in the Theatre, Southampton-buildings . There were present Mr. 1 11 '' Brougham, Mr. Hume,• Mr. Spring Rice, Dr. Arnett , Dr. Birkbeck, &c. Dr. BIRKBECK presided, and addressed the Meeting itt some length, on the rapid progress of the Institutin which had completely answered any expectatio ns that coul have been entertained. It was :his pleasing duty to have to present two prizes that evening, awarded to Members of the Institute. The prizes were the gift of Dr. FeHo. we The Learned Doctor compared the Institute to an intense tual omnibus, which would not keep the traveler after knowledge outside by too high prices for admission. He defended institutions of this kind from the attacks of Th . ,' • • Irvine and the late Sir H. Davy, and said it was a ger fact that a Mechanics' Institute had been establisSEd nt. Oxford, to which the authorities rendered every assistance' ' He then stated that the Cemmitte had awarded the P 1.1.4 to Mr. Henry Poole, an operative stonemason, fore i s f , per on the pendteuns; and to Mr. John M'Duff, for a- • original and very ingenious machine for buhl-Workl: The President stated that the prize essay was replete so. information, and that the author bad never neglected n'" wa r k to attend to it, having drawn up his abstruse een,e• lations after he had finished the labour of the day. ;RI; President then, with an appropriate speech, presente n ej. purse of 101. 10s. to Mr. Poole, who was loudly cheer The working model of the machine of Mr. M‘Duff then t xhibited, and commented on by the President , was worked by the former. By this process buhl-wory ing is rendered more perfect and speedy than by any t'aod before devised, and several beautiful specitnecs exhibited. The President handed over the prize W t inventor, amid loud cheers. ore' Mr. BitoUGIIA sr addressed the Meeting shortly, 011,,wvot posing a vote of thanks to the President. It covn. now be doubted but that the greatest advantage would te e suit, and had resulted, from such institutions. the n 4 The thanks of the Meeting to the President we re unanimously carried. by Or' Other Resolutions were then passed, introdu .- mess ' Spring Rive and Mr. Hume, connected with the bto of the evening, after which the Meeting adjourned. LITERATURE. • THE GEM. In accidentally turning to this agreeable Arr. al the other clay, we were much amused le nu, theory which Miss Mitford has appended, the form of a note, to her lively sketch of Miss Wren," to the effect that little men a 01,15, surpass big men in the vivacity of their suil u .i an n t s h oi a mn t ihtteoaltysfaasvun,pcitefhruialot:itsgh quality. ie w tny i i. t o F ish : jai l s i it u T.he o woct i a i , , thougha e spirits, o f encu - ' is better still, is more likely to meet with ragement than detriment from the r ecolle tt.t°ll9 of the reader. " Saturday Night" is a c lever description of a school-boy's torture s, on the ?e l ' , casion .of that most unwelcome, purgatort" hebdomadal ablution: We regret that we had not space to quote it. " The Coquette" is a lively poetical illustration of an admirable ea' graving by Humphreys, from the well-knoWil original painting on that subje ct by C1101°,13; Lord Nugent's tale of the " Man a nd Lioness" is amusing in its incidents ; its °l g o defect is that too much is made of it. It overloaded with verbal ballast. Mr. C. Reit, ding, one of the editors of the " NevilVlouth Magazine," contributes some energetic stanzas the the subject of " Hannibal's Passage r of . Alps ;" in one occurs the apt and for cible pression, " War's hot simoom." The " L°ll,ei. letter" is a well-executed engraving , equallY:-.0 illustrated by some stanzas from the pert Of - 0 anonymous writer, who, however, need not been ashamed to mention his name. nut bYthe the best engravings in " The Gem" " Gipsy Belle," by Duncan, from a pain ti tai, Leslie; and the "Infant Bacchus," by ...i.d*/°....204.' from the much-admired original by 13 a nd Both these are first-rate embellisbnie nts : t by both have been faithfully illustrated, th e " - The Delta, and the last by T. K. Hervey be st latter gentleman has contributed one of th e poems he ever yet composed. THE BRITISH NATURALIST. LoKnox , 1 7,„ . This volume, which is full of pertinen"i i i valuable information, has been abr id g ed d ril l cti larger works on the same subject , with a 5 0 1 that does credit to the judgment and pra se , knowledge of the Editor. Nothing refillY ` l to ful has been omitted ; the wide sto re of anirro. and even inanimate nature, have apparent l i "f le d" at the Editor's disposal, and he has amplY 'tdoos himself of them all. We wish his No r ' success that it really deserves. A CONCISE DIGEST OF THE LAW, 1151: AND CUSTOM, RELATING TO THE C , 115 - SIERCIAL AND CIVIL INTERCOURSE Of'l4'cg,.. SUBJECTS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND fnits' —PAItIs, 1529. e The subjects of which this publication tr_,#io s6 o are so useful, and at the same time so praetioh their nature, so manifold, and so indisPen c f to the major part of the community- 01 1 t 4 10 9 land, from the Prince to the peasant, ra now-a-days—that we cannot doub t it will I)e liee n ceived with applause by the public. It has " drawn up with no slight judgment and ability Mr. Okey, Barrister of the Inner Temple' ca tion: DONCASTER R OBB ERY.--All aPPJ-. tQ vas made yesterday (Friday) to admit Isatan S/4joitice i )4il, when, altar perusing tha depositions, AR. tle°. BAYLEY decided, that from the nature o f the evi (Weed, he felt it impossible to admit the prisoner,44ol' he was therefore taken away i n custody of 141r * : 00 e chief •hief officer of police, Doncaster, to be forthwiw 17 ' to York Castle, to which he stands fu ll y colur°- trial at the next Assizes.