The Sun. — London, England, 1829-06-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Our readers will see, from the account of the proceedings yesterday in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, that the carrying into effect the new re- gulation, " that the Master of the Rolls should sit in the morning," has already led to something like a rebellion on the part of the Profession, Ishich threatens to assume, ere long, a very for midable aspect. In every country there is a su perior power ; and in this country that power is the Bar. The Profession literally rides the two Houses of Parliament, which are forced to exer cise their powers in such a way as shall best pro mote the interests of the Lawyers. If the new regulations tend to curtail the incomes of those who are at the head of the Profession, we should be very much inclined to doubt the success of the measure. They will fight hard against any diminution of income.--Morrong Chronicle. We have been very much gratified by the pe rusal of a very interesting quarto, just published, under the title of " Constantinople in 1828 ; a Residence of Sixteen Months in the Turkish Capital and Provinces ; with an Account of the Present State of the Naval and Military Power, and the Resources of the Ottoman Empire. By Charles Macfarlane, Esq." Mr. Macfarlane is an acute, discriminating traveller, and seems to have been exceedingly diligent in pursuing his inquiries into the condition and resources of Turkey ; and his work possesses an additional interest from the conjuncture at which it appears, for, as lie says, " whatever may be the value of . my observations, they are the latest made in Turkey (that are likely to meet the public eye) I believe, by two or three years ; and they will assist an examination of the real state of the Ot toman Empire as I left it in October, 1828." Mr. Macfarlane had many opportunities of see ing the new troops, both at Smyrna and other towns in Asia Minor, and at Constantinople, and his account is upon the whole favourable. " The regulars of Smyrna (he says) I have de scribed as an ill-looking set of fellows, unlike Turks ; and in my third chapter I have endea voured to account for the physical inferiority, which struck me equally at Constantinople, ex cept in a portion of the Guards that were picked men The tacticoes (new troops) arc generally short in stature, clumsily made, by no means robust, and abominably ill-visaged.' The good-looking Stamboolis (Constantinopo litans) certainly were of my opinion, and won dered where the Sultan had collected such a set of scarecrows. Such as they are, however, they almost invariably possess a valuable quality in a military view, which the rest of the Turks seem deficient in. They are extremely active, and quick , in all their movements. I several times saw tnem perform evolutions with a rapidity that astonished me, even with the vitesse in ma noeuvring of some fine European regiments, fresh in my memory. These, it is true, were Pot done neatly or symmetrically, but the result was obtained—lines were changed, squares solid or hollow formed, and the troops again deployed with celerity ; and if their style of step and march would pot satisfy the critical eye of an English or a German sergeant-major, there was nothing to be said against the promptness and regularity of their fire. lam speaking, it will be fenelerstood, of troops of the oldest standing, and more especially of the Imperial Guards. There were at the time from two to three thousand men at the capital in this advanced stage, the rest were bad indeed." Mr. Macfarlane accounts in this way for the general ugliness of the new troops :—" On carrying into exe cution his long-favoured plan for raising a disciplined army, the Grand Seignior directed the levies to be made among young lads, and principally in districts remote from the great cities of the empire; thus wisely insuring to him superior degree of docility, and running little fisic of his conscripts having the dangerous taint of Janisearyism amongst them. The re ader service, as may be well imagined, was not much affected ; and the better class of Turkish peasants bought off their sons from the officers and local authorities, who, in Turkey, are uni versally corruptible by bribes, to an extent per haps sinknown in any other country. The weight fell on the most degraded of the peasant cast, and foe the most part in poor mountainous rude countries, The Turkish people, when they first came in £ontact with the nations of l e. - I,urope, were remarkably ugly, and their great ;:ruprovement has been attributed to the inter marriages, once very frequent with women of different countries, where the standard of beauty is high. But immense portions of the original race that remained stationary in remote districts (particularly in the interior of Asia Minor,which has furnished so great a part of the levies) can have had no such opportunities of improvement, and may have retained their original Ta rta r ug li • ness." The appearance, we should suppose, is a very secondary consideration in an army ; the principle requisite being celerity of movement. When the Swiss were the crack troops of Europe, Macchiavcl observes, they were gene rally mean-looking fellows ; and a remark of the same kind is made by Philip de Comines, of the herdsmen who defeated Charles the Bold of Burgundy. These ill-favoured mountaineers are more likely to support the fatigues and pri vations of campaign, than the handsome Stant boolis. When the war broke out with Russia, Mr. Macfarlane says, and he gives proofs of his aSEetioll, the Grand Seignor's troops were rather below than above thirty thousand. He relates a conversation he had with a Russian DVG- mate, at Smyrna, which, he says, may throw some light on the feelings and real motive.; which induced the Cabinet of Saint Petersburgh to a fresh attack on Turkey Do you think (said this Gentleman), that Russia can stand by as a quiet spectatress, whilst Turkey is thus raising armies on every side ?" " But Russia has no right to interfere with the military, any snore than with the civil organization of a coun try that owes her no allegiance. The Sultan is only replacing with better materials, the troops he has suppressed." "We will wave the ques tion of abstract right, and look to circumstances s they stand. Russia has grievances, of which s h e may, sooner or later, be constrained to seek re d eee s from Turkey; nor is it to be expected that she can see with complacency, the progress of measures Turkey, that must render the ob taining of that redress more and more difficult— would it be prudent for the Emperor to wait like a hero in the fielci ,of chivalry, until the Sultan shall have put on 'll his 3rnis and appointments, and shall throw the gauntlet in his teeth ?"—lbid. We refer to our City article for a renewed ex posure of the dexterous tricks by which the financial juggles of Ferdinand have conjured large. sums of money into their bends from the pockets of their dupes at Paris. Hi 3 Catholic V''sllajesty, or his advisers, have displayed Tso small capacity in their Stock Exchange transac tions, both during the time of the Constitutional Government and since its overthrow. After confined merely to a re-instatement of the redeemed having replenished his coffers at the ex pence of debt, would add 50 per cent. to their present value, liberal eapitalistsafter having obtained the '; There appeared during last week, several para means of paying his household, and buying fire- graphs in the columns of the other papers, cal wood for his kitchen, by the confidence of the culated to throw discredit upon the present public in his constitutional engagements, he Bishop of Lincoln, as having reduced a clergy turns round and denies the va lidity o f th e bonds man in his diocess, named Wray, with a family on which money was advanced for the relief of of thirteen children, to a state of destitution, by his wants. He thus gets rid of his political a capricious exercise of episcopal authority. promises and his debts toge th er . H e then The observations of our cotemporaries were makes advances to the Ab so l u ti s t par ty for a founded on a pamphlet written by Mr. Wray Royal loan, and under pretence of paying it off; I himself. We have in consequence taken some creates rentes, which are equa lly wort hl ess as his i pains to investigate the circumstances of the Cortes obligations. Thus both parties are laid case, and shall immediately lay the result of our under contribution by his artifices ; thus people, inquiries before the public. It is very true , as with more money than sense, whether English Mr. Wray states, that the Bishop, by obliging or French—whether worshippers of legitimacy I him to perform double duty in his parish-church or friends of freedom—have been equally ren- of Bardney, forced him to relinquish the curacy dered tributary to his dishonesty. of Horsington ; but it is equally true that his " Tros Tyriusque milli nullo discrimine agetur." Lordship subsequently licensed Mr. Wray 's son Now it seems to be thought, both in Paris and to the vacant cure. Bardnev, also, may be a London, that the hocus pocus operation of the living of small value, of 601. or 701. a year ; but rentes is at an end ; and hopes are founded on Mr. Wray has omitted to state in his pamphlet, his necessities for further supplies, that he will and our cotemporaries were probabls unacquaint acknowledge his past debts. It would be un- ed with the fact, that the same gentleman •holds gracious to advise persons who despair of any also, in the same diocess, another living, that of redress not to accept payment unless the whole Manby, the annual value of which is between amount of their claim can be secured, but until 4501. and 500/. a year. And, lastly, the living King Ferdinand confesses insolvency, and tenders of Bardney itself, which is the patronage of the a composition with his creditors from inability to Bishop, is at the present time, and was when discharge his whole debt, the Cortes bondholders Mr. Wray was called upon for double duty, le would betray disgraceful meanness in listening to ga il y voidable, and is only retained by that gen any proposal to take any per centage on their deman through the Bishop's indulgence ! We claims. As they made a contract which was fui- think, therefore, that the public will conclude filled on their part, they ought to require its ful- with us, that Mr. Wray has no just cause to fillment on his. The use to which he applied complain of his diocesan. And here we would their advances, whether in paying off old debt wish the matter to rest. It is an unholy and un or in answering current charges, has nothing to edifying sight for clergymen to be tearing each do with their stipulated rights ; but if their other to pieces in pamphlets.—lbid. Royal debtor, on the ground of inability to pay The conduct of the Directors of the Bank of the whole, offers a part, they may then entertain the question of composition.—Times. England in offering a loan upon the recent issue of Exchequer Bills evidently tends to show the (FROM THE CITY ARTICLE.) It appears by the French letters of this morning spirit of accommodation by which they are ac that the subject of Spanish finance in general, and tuated ; while at the same time it demonstrates the fraud of the renter perpetuelles in particular, are the degree of caution upon which they act, and once more awakening a very lively interest in the the high value of the species of security upon monied circles of Paris, after having been suffered which alone they feel themselves justified to during five or six months to lie dormant. The cause of the excitement is sufficiently obvious : the the proprietary in makins , these advances. The period is approaching for the payment of the di v i - system usua ll y pursued by' the Bank has in turn dends, and there must be a renewal, consequently, been attacked, defamed, or eulogised, as suited of the experiment made in December last, whether the purposes of party writers, whether journalists an additional issue of rentes perpetuelles sufficient or pamphleteers ; but it cannot be denied brany for the purpose will go down on the Exchange of im artist man that in its actual degree of relation Paris. if not, the dividends, it is presumed , cannot p to the public, it as much regards the general be paid, and the two classes of Spanish creditors, the legitimate and illegitimate, as they are at present wants of the Money Market as any commercial designated, will be placed exactly on the same foot- company could do, consistently with the main ing. The juggle of the rentes perpetuelles has been tenauce of its institution and the due security of more than once exposed in this paper, but it may be profits. It is known that large payments were useful, as some time has since elapsed, to remind our made to the Exchequer at the time when the readers briefly of its nature. Since the overthrow dividends became due; and therefore commercial of the Constitution two descriptions of Spanish men encountered serious difficulties in meeting stock have been created under the names of Em prunt Royal d'Espagne and Rentes Perpetuates. their engagements. To relieve this pressure, the The first has grown out of the contract of Caleb- Bank has offered a loan upon Exchequer Bills at hard, near the close of the French invasion ; the last four per cent., and this is calculated to produce out of a mock conversion of the first, from a debt the double effect of upholding the value of our redeemable at fixed periods, into a "perpetual" public securities, and preventing a ruinous pres annuity. But for this expedient the "Royal Spa- sure upon pecuniary transactions. The amount nish Loan" would have become a lapsed contract, o f t h e loan is generally stated at two millions, and its success is almost entirely owing to the and advances may be had within any period of extraordinary talents in financial matters of M. six weeks, as the holder may require. This is Aguado, a Paris banker, who has amassed a highly seasonable, and if a further extension princely fortune by his ingenuity. He succeeded . 0 ) sn old be deemed necessary, we have no doubt chiefly by practising on the cupidity of the holders that the Bank will be ready to afford the requi of the Royal loan, to whom the transaction was made to assume so tempting an appearance, that site accommodation.—Morning Post. they concluded they had nearly doubled their annuity by it, on security, too, almost equally valid. M. Aguado on his part secured a real, not an imagi nary gain, as he received of the Spanish Govern ment the rentes perpetuelles at a price 50 per cent. below that artificial value he had contrived to esta blish for them in the Paris market. Such was his address, that a notice from the French Minister of Finance, in December last, to the agens de change of Paris, against negotiating them, and a warning to the public not to take them, was disregarded, and the bonds were got rid of by hawking them literally from door to door among the shopkeepers of the French capital. By these means, at least as there are the best grounds for believing, the existing diffi culty was surmounted, and the dividends were paid. Another crisis is now coming on; the French Go vernment, in alarm for the consequence-. of a panic, or monied convulsion, among the middle and lower classes of the metropolis, is repeating through vari ous channels the warnings given in December last ; the wealthy banker and his fiends are exerting themselves to get more of the worth less paper into circulation, and provide for the payment of the July dividends. Under all the cir• cumstances, every half year, of course, makes this an affair of greater difficulty. We have no means of judging how far it is likely to be got over in the present instance; but it is sufficiently clear that sooner or later the crisis must come, and that the loss must fall almost wholly upon the French, who are the chief if not the only holders of the rentes perpetuelles, all the address of M. Aguada and his agents having failed to get them into circulation here, or, as we believe, in any other part of Europe. The question would appear, at first sight, to be wholly destitute of importance on this side of the Channel, but it is far otherwise, since the crisis which would follow the nun-payment of the divi dends on the Spanish rentes peppetnelles must ne cessarily be the prelude to a reconsideration of the claims of every other class of creditors, inanding the much-injured holders of the repudiated Cortes bonds. Till they are in some way disposed of, no perma nent credit can be established for Spain in any part of Europe. It is in vain for the Spanish Govern ment now any longer to deny their at least par tial validity. There is an obligation at all events to the extent of the money actually lent, which was applied to the King's own use under a Government acknowledged by the whole of the Power 3 of Europe. But allowing for a • moment the plea that a pet Lion of it was not applied to the support of a rebellion against the King's au-1 thority, , what will be said to the validity of the application of another portion of it, which was em ployed in buying up and cancelling the previously exiSting debt of Spain, the vouchers for which at this day lie seemely o:noshed in the Bank of Eng. land ? Neither the creditoes DOi' the contractors had any thing to do with the " rebellion," as it is termed by the Royal party, of the Cortes, but their rights derived from the extinction of the old debt are cer tainly iadieptable even by Ferdinand's Govern ment; and if the csediters wider the Cortes loans were told that they must give up eery ethee and become possessed only of that extinguished debt, receiving of course the at rears of interest due upon it, their situation would be materially altered for the better. It is net tp2Apt, to offer any opinion that they ought to accept of such a composition in the ^lace of their more extended and just claims, but to direct the attention of the creditors to a fact whi h has only recently transpired, and of which very few of them ere probably aware. It is not accurately known what is time amount, nominally, of this de posit of redeemed legitimate Spanish Stock in the Bank of England ; but assuming it to be one-sixth and we believe it is not less, •of the whole of the loans raised under the Cortes, it may be taken to represent a capital, in stock, of 3,000,000/. sterling. Assuming 50 per cent. to be its marketable value, kor that is about the quotation of rentes perpetuelles in Paris, it would he worth 1,500,000/. ; to which adding 900,0001. for six years' intprest ; at 5 per cent., now in arrear, the total value would be 2,400,0001. The price of the Cortes Bonds in this 9 per cent., which , assuming the market is only nominal debt to be 18,000,0 001 ., makes their total value 1,620,000/ e and the composition, therefore, if DREADFUL ACCIDENT. JERSEY, JUNE 16.—An awfully fatal event took place on Sunday evening last at Havre des Pas. A party consisting of twelve persons, including a child • two years old, embarked for a cruise in a small boat, with mast and sail, about half-past four in the after noon, arid on returning a little before seven o'clock, one of them, Geo. Horman, (who is among the saved) climbed up the mast to tie it to a handker chief for a 11.1 g. Thomas Marett (since drowned) got up after him, and when he was about half-mast high, the boat was overbalanced, capsized, and sunk. This happened at about 100 yards from the rock called the Crabiere, or a quarter of a mile from the beach. Six out of the twelve were unfortunately drowned, the names of whom are George Falle, Jane Marett Falle (wife of the former), Thomas Marett (brother of the latter), Abraham Lettocq, George Hessey, and John Falle. A lad about 16 years of age, of the name of Desveaux, not only saved himself, but was the means of preserving the lives both of a man of the name of Le Rossignol, and of the infant (Falle) ! He contrived in a gal lant and most praiseworthy manner to afford them suth assistance as kept them, particularly the latter, from being quite exhausted, till the arrival of a boat from the shore, about a quarter of an hour after the accident, and which belonged to Francis , Gottrel, whose name should be mentioned with commenda tion. The child was faintly struggling and almost gone. Six were happily rescued and brought ashore. A nian, named Duheaurse, with great hu manity and promptitude, went in another boat and picked up the bodies of Falle, Lettocq, and Hessey, which were then placed on the rocks, where some delay was occasioned by crowding and curiosity; but through the exertions of Mr. Charles de St. Croix, and a few others, they were carried to the beach, and immediately became the objects of the most zealous anti skilful medical attentions of Dr. Day, assisted by Dr. Martin. Drs. Struve, Poing destre, and King, arrived shortly afterwards. All endeavours, however, to restore animation, were fruitless ; principally, no doubt, from the length of time the bodies had been in the water, partly, per haps, from the extremely inconvenient circumstances of the place. It was past nine o'clock before re storative means could be used, and the event took place, as mentioned above, before seven ; no beds, and scarcely a blanket, to be procured. We should not omit mentioning, that notwith standing the rescue of the child, its safety is ulti mately to be attributed to the judicious care of Dr. Day, as death might otherwise have ensued from the state of exhaustion in which it was brought to land. It i 3 now an orphan. One of the boats of A, De St. Croix, Esq. a lways ready on these occasions, afterwards picked up the body of Falle's wife, and another boat picked up Marett the same evening. Yesterday morning the boat of George Moss recovered the body of John Falle (no relation, we understand, to the former), the last of the melancholy group. A Coroner's in quest was held on the bodies yesterday at two o'clock in the afternoon. The lad Desveaux de posed to most of the facts already stated; also that there was no wind—it was a perfect calm—most of the men on board were intoxicated—the boat had almost upset once or twice before. Such is the account we have to give of the awful catastrophe. It is reported, also, that Mrs. Falle had evinced great anxiety to be of the party, arid from a little accident which previously occurred' had expressed much fear lest they should go without h; r. Poor Lettocq, who was foreman in the brick yard of Mr. Daniel Jolin, h as l e f t seven young chil dren. The spot where the calamity happened was but a short distance from the rock fatally celebrated for the second shipwreck of Destouches. The Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of " Acci dentally Drowned." —Jersey British Press. Lord Viscount DUNCANNON, M.P. for the County Kilkenny, 4cornpinn4 by his family and suite, from a tt e nding his Parliamentary duties in London , and arrived at Duntnore , last evenin g , b y the steam p acket, pAsed through this City to his seat, Bessborough House, cotintv Kilkenny.— Waterford Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. James Livett, the owner of the boat No. 355, appeared before Sir J. PERRING yesterday upon a summons, upon the complaint of John Smith, Esq., of Bedford-row, for abusing him and misbehaving towards him, he being then his fare, on Monday last, at the Tower stairs. The complainant, who is a barrister, came over from the superior courts, opposite the justice-room, in his professional costume. He stated that he hired the defendant's boat at Greenwich, making a bar gain that he should start directly with him and his lady for 25., instead of waiting for other passengers, and charging only 6d. a head. A poor woman who was standing on the beach waiting for a passage to the Tower, overhearing the bargain, lamented that she should be compelled to walk to town, but com plainant said be should not object to her coming into the boat, and she accordingly took her place and paid her 6d. Defendant then started, but soon neared a vessel in the middle of the river, to take in more passengers. Complainant protested against this in fraction of the bargain, but defendant persisted, and took on boarda plumber and a quantity of lead. Com plainant said he should now consider the boat a coin mon passage-boat, and pay the defendant accordingly, as he had broken through the contract. Upon land ing at the Tower, complainant gave him first his ad dress, and then Is. Defendant immediately began to swear, and insinuated that he was a swindler, or had not money enough to pay his fare, in which case he would be satisfied if complainant would leave some article with him as a pledge for the other shilling. The water-jack, too, assisted in abusing complainant, and advised that he should be given into custody. Finding the defendant determined to oppose by force his departing until he had paid the other shil ling, he complied, and took the present step to punish him. These watermen calculated (and rightly in nine cases out of ten) that their miscon duct would go unpunished, because the person ag grieved could not spare the time to seek the remedy. Defendant denied that he had used ill language, and said the complainant gave him leave to take up any passengers he could meet with on his way. He begged the gentleman's pardon for having offended him. Mr. Smith repeated that he hired the whole boat for the whole distance. As the defendant, however, now seemed sensible of his misconduct, he would not press for a fine. Sir J. PF.RRING said it was true, no doubt, that the watermen escaped their deserts as often as Mr. Smith had stated, and the public were indebted to that gentleman for taking the trouble to complain ;. but for the sake of that public he could not yield to Mr. Smith's wish farther than to mitigate the fine to 20s. The defendant was fined 20a. and costs. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JUNE 18. Yesterday a Meeting of Magistrates of Middle sex was held at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, which was very fully attended. FRANCIS CONST, E-q. in the Chair. EXPENSES OF OLD BAILEY PROSECUTIONS. Sir P. LAURIE gave notice of his intention at the next Court day, to move for the appointment of a Committee to ascertain how far it would be prac ticable to have two Grand Juries sitting at the same time during each Sessions, and to report thereon at the following Court. His reason for doing this was to obviate the delay and inconvenience that arose at the Old Bailey in consequence of one Grand Jury not getting through their bills sufficiently quick ; as a proof of which he would mention that at the last Sessions Lord Tenterden was occupied in trying a trumpery case of stealing an iron pot, there being no bills brought down from the Grand Jury in those cases which were of greater importance. This plan would also diminish the expence of witnesses, who were frequently, by the contrivance of constables and others, kept waiting four or five days before the Grand Jury, whereby the county rate was swelled to an enormous degree. The expences of the present Sessions would, he understood, far surpass those of any preceding Session. Mr. FLOWER said, those expences were not alto gether attributable to the circumstances just men tioned. In the late prosecution of the woman Hib ner, the sum of one guinea each was allowed by Mr. Shelton, the clerk of the arraigns, for the loss of time of the poor workhouse childrrn, who gave evi dence against her ! What claim could they possibly have for loss of time ?—(Hear, hear.) '1 he conversation dropped, Sir Peter Laurie stat ing that when the Committee was appointed he would state the particulars of his plan. At the request of the Chairman, the clerk read the report of the Committee of Accounts, and for General Purposes. It stated that pursuant to the directions of a former Court, the Committee had advertised for, and received tenders for the erection of a new prison for vagrants, within the boundary wall of the House of Correction, and that they had accepted the contract of Messrs. Dixon, of Horse ferry-road, their tenders being the lowest. The sum limited by the Collet was 10,000/., and Messrs, Dixon had offered to erect it for 8,400/. The report of the visiting Magistrates of the House of Correction was then read :-758 prisoners were confined there on the 12th inst., of whom 10 were in the infirmary ; eight prisoners had died from natural causes, since the 12th of April. The report submitted to the Court contained a new set of rules and regulations for the government of the prison, and concluded by stating, that in pursuance of an order of this Court, they had investigated the claims con tained in the memorial of Mr. Vickery, the present Governor, who had tendered his resignation, and re commended that a superannuated allowance of 2001. a-year be paid to him. The Rev. Dr. OwEN asked upon what principle they could allow Mr. Vickery a pension of 2001. a year. A very long discussion took place upon this sub ject, when Mr. HALLS and Mr. Serjeant PELL stated, that the Act of Parliament only authorized the county to grant a superannuation allowance to gaolers and keepers of prisons, not exceeding one third of the salary of their successors, and as no successor had been appointed to Mr. Vickery, and consequently no salary fixed for the successor, that part of the report relating to Mr. Vickery's pension was adjourned for discussion on a future day. •-It was referred to the Committee, to consider the propriety of fixing a certain sum as a salary to the future Governor of the House of Correction, in lieu j'of all emoluments. Yesterday evening a most alarming and de structive fire broke out in the sugarmanufactory of Messrs. JACOBS and thrinicn, in Back Church-lane, White chapel, which, notwithstanding the utmost exertions of the firemen of various engines that attended on the first alarm, and a plentiful supply of water, was completely burnt to the ground. The damage sustained altogether amounts to between 7,000/. and 5,000/. It is not known how the fire originated, but it is imagined that the overheating of a stove cau►ed the calamity. We have heard the Fremises were insured, but much below the damage sustaine4. This is about the seventh or eighth sugar-house that has fallen a victim to the de vouring element within less than two months. Immense crowds of pickpockets were collected, but their opera tions were checked by a strong body of the Lambeth street police. On Wednesday the body of a young female was discovered lying in the mud of the Thames, nearly Op posite the steps on the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge, when the tide receded. The body, which was conveyed to the Waterloo chuff ch, appears not to have been long mersed in the water, although it would have been a hope less task to attempt to restore life by the usual method. In the course of the day it was ascertained that the de ceased had lived in the service of a family in Paradise street, Lambeth, and that she left home on the morning of the (lay she was found drowned, saying that she should be hack again in a short time. An inquest was held yeater= day on the body, and evidence was adduced of the girl having been in a low desponding way for some time pre viously; but as to by what cause ber state of mind was I produced, none of the witnesses were enabled to say. A verdict of " Found Drowned" was returned, A DUEL IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY. Amongst a number of masterly passages in Sir Walter Scott's last novel of " Anne of Geierstein" is the following spirited description .. . of a single combat between the hero of the piece and a young Bernese : Having hastily traversed the fields and groves which separated the Landamman's residence from the old castle of Geierstein, he entered the court-yard from the side where the castle over looked the land ; and nearly in the same instant his almost gigantic antagonist, who IbOked yet more tall and burly by the pale morning light than he had seemed the preceding evening, ap peared ascending from the precarious -bridge beside the torrent, having reached Glietstein by a different route from that pursolL, -by the Englishman. The young champion of Berne kistd, hanging along his back one of those huge'-handed swords, the blade of which measured five feet, and which were wielded with both hands. These were almost universally used by the Swiss; for, besides the impression which such weapons were calculated to make upon the array of the German men-at-arms, whose armour was impenetrable to lighter swords, they were also well calculated to defend mountain passes, where the great bodily strength and agility of those who bore them, enabled the combatants, in spite of their weight and length, to use them with much address and effect. One of these gigantic swords hung around Rudolf Donnerhugel's neck, the point rattling against his heel, and the handle extend ing itself over his left shoulder, considerably above his head. He carried another in his hand. " Thou are punctual," he called out to Arthur Philipson, in a voice which was distinctly heard above the roar of the waterfall, which it seemed to rival in sullen force. " But I judged thou wouldst come without a two-handed sword. There is my kinsman Ernest's," he said, throw ing on the ground the weapon whieh he carried, with the hilt towards the young Englishman.— " Look stranger that thou disgrace it not, for my kinsman will never forgive me it thou dost. Or thou mayst have mine if thou likest it better." The Englishman looked at the weapon with some surprise, to the use of which he was totally unaccustomed. " The challenger," he said, " in all countries where honour is known, accepts the terms of the challenged." " He who fights on a Swiss mountain, fights with a Swiss brand," answered Rudolf. " Think you our hands are made to handle penknives?" " Nor are ours made to wield scythes," said Arthur ; and puttered betwixt his teeth, as he looked at the sword, which the Swiss continued to offer him—" Usam .non habeo, I have not proved the weapon." " Do you repent the bargain you have made ?" said the Swiss ; " if so, cry craven, and return in safety. Speak plainly, instead of prattling Latin like a clerk or a shaven monk." " No, proud man," replied the Englishman, " I ask thee no forbearance. I thought but of a combat between a shepherd and a giant, in which God gave the victory to him who had worse odds of weapons than falls to my lot to day. I will fight as I stand ; my own good sword shall serve my need now, as it has done before." " Content !—But blame me not, who offered the equality of weapons," said the mountaineer. " And now hear me. This is a fight for life or death—yon waterfall sounds the alarm for our conflict. Yes, old bellower," he continued, looking back, " it is long since thou hast heard the noise of battle ; and look at it ere we begin, stranger, for if you fall, I commit your body to its waters." " And if thou fall'st, proud Swiss," answered Arthur, " as well thy presumption leads to de struction, I will have thee buried in the Church at Einsiedlen, where the Priest shall say masses for thy soul—thy two-handed sword shall be displayed above thy grave, and a scroll shall tell the passenger, Here lies a bear's cub of Berne, slain by Arthur the Englishman." " The stone is not in Switzerland, rocky as it is," said Rudolf scornfully, " that shall bear that inscription. Prepare thyself for battle." The Englishman cast a calm and deliberate glance around the scene of action—a court-yard, partly open, partly encumbered with ruins, in less and larger masses. " Methinks," said he to himself, " a master of his weapon, with the instructions of Bottaferma of Florence in his remembrance, a light heart, a good blade, a firm hand, and a just cause, might make up a worse odds than two feet of steel." Thinking thus, and imprinting on his mind, as much as the time would permit, every circum stance of the locality around him which promised advantage in the combat, and taking his station in the middle of the court-yard where the ground was entirely clear, he flung his cloak from him, and drew his sword. Rudolf had at first believed that his foreign antagonist was an effeminate youth, who would be swept before him at the first flourish of his tremendous weapon. But the firm and watchful attitude assumed by the young man, reminded the Swiss of the deficiencies of his own un wieldy implement, and made him determine to avoid any precipitation which might give an ad vantage to an enemy who seemed both daring and vigilant. He unsheathed his huge sword, by drawing it over the left shoulder, an operation which required some little - time, and might have offered formidable advantage to his antagonist, had Arthur's sense of honour permitted him to begin the attack ere it was completed. The Englishman remained firm, however, until the Swiss, displaying his bright brand to the morn ing sun, made three or four flourishes as if to prove its weight, and the facility with which he wielded it—then stood firm within sword-stroke of his adversary, grasping his weapon with both hands, and advancing it a little before his body, with the blade pointed straight upwards. ^ The Englishman, on the contrary, carried his sword in one hand, holding it across his face in a hori zontal position, so as to be at once ready to strike, thrust, or parry. Englishman !" said the Switzer, after they confronted each other in this man ner for about a minute . e'r S tireik " The longest sword should strike first," said t l Arthur ; and the words had not left his mouth when the Swiss sword arose, and descended with a rapidity which, the weight and size of the weapon c onsidered, appeared portentous. No parry, however dexterously interposed, could have baffled the ruinous descent of that dread ful weapon, by which the champion of Berne had hoped at once to begin the battle and end it. But young Philipson had not ovei.estitnated the justice of his own eye, or the activity of his limbs. Ere the blade descended, a sudden spring to one side carried him from beneath its heavy sway, and before the Swiss could again raise his sword aloft he received a wound, though a slight one, on the left arm. Irritated at the failure and at the wound, the Switzer heaved UP his sword once more, and availing himself of i s strength corresponding to his size, he discharr towards his adversary, a succession of blobot downright, athwart, horizontal, and from left t° right, with such surprising strength and veto* that it required all the address of the young Englishman, by parrying, shifting, eluding , . °1 retreating, to evade a storm, of which every 111 ,.; dividual blow seemed su ffi cient to cleave a so!' rock. The Englishman was compelled to g io ' ground now backwards, now swerving to th e one side or the other, now availing himself of th e fragments of the ruins, but watching all the t while, with the utmost composure, the w omen t when the strength of his enraged enemy fur, become somewhat exhausted, or when, by so* improvident or furious blow he might again lal f himself open to a close attack. The latter ° these advantages had nearly occurred, for, in 6e , middle of his headlong charge, the Swi t t e stumbled over a large stone concealed among w long grass, and ere he could recover himself, re:o ceived a severe blow across the head from Il antagonist. It lighted upon his bonnet , tPe lining of which inclosed a small steel cap , 6° that he escaped unwounded, and springing renewed the battle with unabated fury, thou it seemed to the young Englishman with br eo :, somewhat short, and blows dealt with ow' caution. They were still contending with equal A l br tune, when a stern voice, rising over the chn of swords, as well as the roar "of waters, Calir, out in a commanding tone, On your liva7 forbear !" SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. WEDNESDAY, Run 17.—High water 11 minutes Pet eleven o'clock.—Wind W.—Arrived the Congress, Lir body, from Barbadoes ; Elizabeth, Nelson, from DI rara ; Isabella, —, from Antigua ; Richard, D O L from Memel; Julia, Desser, from Antwerp; Sleben der, from Quebec. CLEARED OUTWARDS.--The Dyson, Kendall , Rio Janeiro ; Coquet, —, for Quebec ; Mary, Sal t° for Barcelona; Wilhelmina, Peters; for Elsineur ; Thooll Dempsey, for Monte Video. Passed Holyhead, inward bound, the Lorton, fri l St. Domingo. Passed Point Lynas outward bound, the Cumberl British ship. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WOlis lAll) PI 1 al 1,13 it, Lein itr.s4s. LOW -- « heat. I Barley. I Oats. I mo , Yer Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to N. t° $ Blandford '73 41 33 —"„‘ Brigg 75 17 —7, Chard 56 76 32 38 24 30 Huntingdon._,.,.,. 66 '7O 26 31 17 23 Long Sutton...—. -58 72 17 28 # Louth 7O 77 21 26 20 26 Lynn . 56 '7O 28 32 18 26 97 Newark .. 6l '72 29 34 22 30 Nottingham Peterbormigh 511 79 37 40 19 25 3' Plymouth ~«.,.... 70 80 26 41 24 29 3 Pontefract — 76 39 23 Sleafonl Uppingliam Wisbech...---. 60 '7O 25 18 26 36 / LEEDS CORN MARKET.—June 16. The supply of Grain has been smaller tha n last , 0 and but few buyers from the country. The be" , g o samples of New Wheat may he noted full Is. per o,ic lower, and if sales have been effected of other diF, tions of New and Old Wheat, a reduction of full Po'o quarter must have keen submitted to. In Barley , 0 1 Shelling, Beans, and Pease, no material alteratioc , co noted. The same may be said of Malt, FlOur, and seed. , 1* Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe —Mealing, Foreign 12d.t0 13d....English 13d. to2Blt s. Ni t°4 4 Shelling 335. to 351. P°', • l l Rapeseed, English. 281. to 301 Foreign --I. to --I. P e / _______ LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—June 16., 11 The trade this morning was again very languil44,il the few sales effected were at a decline on the criou' A of this day se'nnight of sd. to 6d. per bushel : some ' I lots of freshly-imported Dantzic Wheat were sold 10s. 3d. to 10s. fid. per 701 h. A heavy fall of 1 164 , night, with the probability of more, caused a chec o the improvement in prices of Spring Grain, and 1 , which on Saturday readily commanded Id. per'btobf vance, with difficulty realized last Tuesday's rates. change in the value of Barley. Beans are fully D I quarter higher. Flour was Is. and Oatmeal 6 d'' sack cheaper. WHEAT, English, White, per '7olb. Red - t i i. to 1 : .e a l' ---. Scotch, Welch, and Manz -- Irish, White A 6 9 Red 8 6 Ia ---- Foreign p 9 0 i OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 s , ---- I r i s h 1-- Foreign 3 4 44 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 36 0 4 --- Scotch and Irish, per 6Ulbs -- Feeding 4lO 46 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4l 0 41 Irish, 1.. c. -- Foreign Passe, English, per Imperial quar ter 3 0 T. Foreign not7u, English, per 280Ib. 53 0 -- Irish 5O 0 2 : OATMEAL, English and Irish, per '24olbs '33 0 1 ii INkes CORN, per 44Ulti. 44 0 . 1 , RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT or GRAIN for the Wee ending June 15. Wheat. \ Oats. 1 B ( a ) rley Qrs. Qrs. _ r 5. Foreign, Hes Irish, &c. Sclo• ":i 8,104 8,629 SS:3 99 I 1,4_,.... BIRTHS. On the 19th inst. the lady of J. Heath, Esq. of I 3Vj bury-place, of a daughter. On the 17th inst., at Cornwall-terrace, Regent s Mrs. R. Durant, of a son. On the 14th inst. at Walton House, Cumberland lady of W. P. Johnson, Esq. - of a son. On the lSth inst., in Gloucester- place, the /3 11 1 1 Gurdon, Esq. of a son. f On the 15th inst. the lady of E. Cayley, Egg' °- ford, of a son. MARRIED. On the Nth inst. Andrew Henning, Esq. ° f Newington, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Mr' Bremeyer. On the 17th inst. the Rev. H. Hoper, of P ° . ., ' r 1: Co n+ to Sarah, only daughter of the Rev. R. C, of Cow fold. • On the 17th inst. Thomas Wave, Esq. of 101,1 road, solicitor, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter o f W. Esq. Kingsland-road. On the 17th inst. Robert Lugar, Esq. of Great, borough-street, to Susannah, eldest daughter of John Coles, Esq. DIED. On the I 1 th instant, the lady of the Re v ' -et Slocoek, Rector of Wasing, Berk', and Minstel Paul's, Southsea. On the 17th inst. at the Royal Hospital, Greto Mrs. White, relict of the late Captain W. Whit e, aged '76. On the 14th inst. Patrick Lynch, Esq. of do ll Galway. On the 7th inst. at Marazion, Joseph Fisher, IS Sunderland. On the 16th iast. at Dulwich, aged 69, deeplY Mr. T. Porter. Ch On the 14th inst. at Frestbury, near Miss Rooke. Iv Woodh !ar Huddersfield, An X O 6 Litely at .louse, dow of the late John Whitacre, Esq. younge 4l :h, of Samue' Walker, Esq. formerly o f Alasbroufr Rotherhal t. r In land of Antigua, in the 67th year 0- Thomas &Cotland, Esq., late Registrar Of I) ,.., eei° Scotland was the eldest son of John Scotland, rAiiif the most respectable merchants of that island At an early age Mr. Scotland obtained a corn army, and was for some years employe d in actS in North America and the West Indies. lle 611e10, high and responsible situations under Governive, 1801 he was appointed Collector of the Custoegoi Thomas's, which was then in possession of thei e ft and was afterwards Paymaster-Genera l of the. Jamaica. - 3 / 4 , 1/ ... 6 j 1 . 8 MTV" and Pususnas by MURDO Y OUI, Oryteir, lit, STaAwa,