The Sun. — London, England, 1829-07-02 00:00:00

gift:—that the Crown and his Lord s hip present ingt by turns, the turn was not his Lordship' s but the Crown's, owing to the last in cum b ent having held it under a sequestration, or in some peculiar mode ; but the defect was afterwards re medied, and Dr. Madeley holds the living with his vicarage. With respect to that Staff' Officer of the Church, whose residence, dec or :l 4R to Herries, would prove so injurious to it, understand that the Right Hens Gentleman may tranquillize himself On this score, as Archdeacon Goddard has never held a visitation more than once a year, and often has not attended a visi tation even once. We understand, too, that the double duty which the Right Hon: Gentleman stated to be now constantly performed, in 24 out of 44 cases singled out i n th e A rc hd eaconry of Lincoh,, is precisely that sort of double duty to which the Bishop objected in the case of the Rev. Mr. Wray, namely, s'ervise once in the day and an Evening Lecture ; i. e. the reading of the Evening Prayers and a Sermon ) delivered at six o'clock. At Horncastle ) for instance, a town where there are four places of public wor ship besides the Church—namely, one for each of the Independents, Methodists, Ranters, and Baptists—Morning Pra) ers are read at elev en o'clock i n th e f orenoon , and Evening Prayers are read, and a Sermon or Lecture delivered, at six o'clock in the evening. At Louth, of which the population in 1821 was 6,014 (both Louth and Horncastle are now much more popti -iesus than in 1821), there are prayers and a vermon in the morning, at eleven o'clock ; no duty in the afternoon, but prayers and a sermon, or lecture, again at six o'clock in the evening. The place is full of Dissenters of most of the denominations, who have their places of public worship. Horncastle is about nine or ten miles from Bardney, and Louth about 19 or Wl ; and, with the exception of Lincoln, they are the nearest market towns. Gotho, a village five miles from Bardney, has Divine Service per formed only once a fortnight. But we will not travel over the list of 45 parishes, named to the Bishop by Mr. Wray, but content ourselves with asking his Lordship or Mr. Henries, as the two large market towns nearest to Bardney, where double duty is most required, are yet in state quo, to specify the parishes in the Archdeaconry (f Lincoln in which the alteration has taken place. We are not surprised that Mr. Wray has incurred a vast quantity of clerical Indira+, or: by the cour se h e h as a d opte d . The whole rookery of the Cathedral seems to be disturbed, and the country papers actually teem with their cawings. They evidently regard him as an un gracious bird towards the nest, and peck at him accordingly. One alleges that his " father sold penny rolls in the village of which he is Vicar !" Another accuses him of having some fifty years ago made up parcels of sugar-plums ! A third charges him with the sin of " keeping a saddle horse ;" and a fourth informs us that he cul tivates a small farm for the benefit of his family-4 , an occupation not more consistent with the Clerical profession, than his father having been a grocer !" The religion of these Reverend volunteers is rather of the world. They seem to think it dubious morality on the part of a poor Vicar ) that his father was a grocer ; but if this Christian doctrine be allow ed, what will they say to the positive impiety of theii Bishop being the son of a linen-draper ! We do not mention this offensively to the Bishop. His elevation is the more deserved, and the more splendid, that he owes it not to family, but to his own merits. But what have sugar-plums and saddle-horses to do with the vestion ? No one has denied that Mr. Wray was a needy man with a large family, and that in the midst of rich Clergymen and populous benefices, he alone was called upon to resign stipendiary duty. This is all that he complain ed of; and all that he asked was, that others might be put upon the same footing, &c. &c. If r , ranted, there is an end of the grievance ; if denied, he is justified in accusing his superior partiality. Mr. Henries defended the Bishop on two pleas—one of palliation, the other of justification. The palliation consisted, first, in Mr. Wray holding also the Living of Maltby : this is in his being a wealthy Clergyman ; even if such were the case, the partiality would still exist, as other Clergymen, still more wealthy, were exempted ; but, under the circumstances of Manby being, to the knowledge of the Arch deacon, a source of no profit to Mr. Wray, the partiality is obvious and glaring. As to the Bishop presenting (as a make-weight) Mr. Wray s son to th e C uracy — to claim merit for the Bishop on this score, is to charge him with an affectation of merit almost amounting to hy pocrisy. He had nothing to do with it, and if the truth must be told, A was Mr. Wray who presented his own son, being agent for the in cumbent, who is a lunatic.—Morning Chron. The following confession of imbecility from one of the principal organs of the Tories, is in structive. It is put into the mouth of Tickler, in the Nodes Ambrosiance of Blackwood's Magazine for July : " You may flatter yourselves as you please —my opinion is, that the utter want of talent, courage, and union, which has caused the present condition of the Tory party, will keep it where it is. With grief do I say it, I adhered to that party, boy and man, through evil report and through good report, fur sixty years, Sir—l served it zealously with tongue and pen, and bayonet and halbert too—and it never did any thing for me, Heaven knows—and I adhere to it still—l share its discomfiture-1 can not share your hopes—it is down, down, down, for my time, at.any rate. You are young men—you may live ;o see better times." This reminds us of the lamentation in the same journal a year or two ago, that the old Tories were fast disappearing from the stage without leaving any successors. The following strictures in the same article on our higher ranks are curious : " TlCKLER. — Brighthelmstone, when I knew it, ;as a pleasant fishing village--what like it is now, I know not ; but what I detest in the great folks of your time is that insane selfishness which makes them prefer any place, however abominable, where they can herd together in their little exquisite co teries, to the noblest mansions surrounded with the noblest domains, where they cannot exist without being more or less exposed to the company of peo ple not exactly belonging to their own particular sect. How can society hang together long in a country where the Corinthian capital takes so much pains to unfit itself from the pillar % Now-a-days, Sir, your great Lord, commonly speaking, spends but a month or six weeks in his ancestral abode; a►d even when he is there, he surrounds himself studiously with a cursed town-crew, a pack of St. James's -street fops, and May-fair chatterers and intriguers, who give themselves airs enough to turn the stomachs of the plain squirearchy and their womankind, and render a visit to the Castle a pet feet nuisance. " They seem to spare no pains to show that they consider the country as valuable merely for rent and game—the duties of the Magistracy are a bore— County Meetings are a bore— a farce, I believe, wits the mad—the Assizes are a ire, Unless its Leicestershire, where the noble sportsmen, from ell the winds of heaven ; cluster together ; and think with ineffable cortempt of the eld-fashioned chase, in which the great man mingled with gentle and simple, and all comers —spot ting is a bore, tintess regular bat tue, when a dozen locdlirg 'Murder pheasants by the thousand, withiiiit hearing the cock of one imps trici-mt fowling-piece —except indeed some dandy poet, or philosopher, or punster, has been admitted to make sport to the Philistines, In short, every thing is a bore that brings the dons into personal collision of any kind with people that don't belong to the world," We arc inclined to think that the country can very well dispense with the personages above alluded to, and that the element in which they can lire and move to great advantage is great cities. Except a man of fortune have a decided taste for agriculture, his time must hang upon his hands in the country ; and a hundred wants derived from his town habits will be constantly suggesting themselves, which he cannot gratify. Hence nothing is more natural than that in those months in the year when they are not in London, they should net be in the country. " I'll tell you what," says the writer of the same article, " do object to, and what I rather think are evils of modern date, or at any rate of very re cent growth. First ) I object to their living those months in the year, in which it is contra bonos mores to Jae in London, not in their pa ternal mansions, hut at those little bastardly abortions which they call watering places,— their Leamingtons, their Cheltenhams, their Brighelmstones."—The peculiar boast of Eng land is that the face of the country is covered with well-formed people of moderate fortunes, who are either engaged in agriculture, or mining, or some other pursuit by which they put money in their own pockets, and contribute at the same time to the benefit of the nation. As for the higher gentry, they know nothing of country matters, and their residence can be of no benefit to any one. As to the 'Magistracy, it is almost entirely in the hands of the Clergy, many of whom must reside in the country. Were it not for Clerical Magistrates, in many counties the people would be altogether without resident Ma gistrates ; and in all of them, without the Clergy, the unpaid system would be knocked up. In all barbarous nations the great are fond of the country ; but as their power of oppressing declines, they betake themselves to cities. Eng land may be said to be the last civilized nation. Her towns are almost all of yesterday's (late. France, Italy, and even Germany preceded her in having towns. All these countries, as well as England, had their rustic tyrants, who, in the progress of civilization, have betaken themselves to towns. We all know how completely the country was deserted by the French Noblesse at the time of the Revolution ; but Tasso, who visited France in 1571, complains of the taste of the Nobles of that day for the country. " But as I abhor (he says) this practice of the common people, so I do not praise that of the Nobles, each of whom lives in a retired manner in his castle, far from the crowds of cities. For not to mention that man is a social animal, fitted for civil life, and that solitude is of no use, except for the purpose of contempla tion, I may remark, that the Nobleman living for the most part with slaves and villains, ac customs himself to imperiousness and insolence. On the other hand, the low people of the cities having little connection with those in whom there is any elegance or polish, are confirmed in that baseness of mind and manners affixed to them by the means of their birth. I know that this prac tice is common in Germany, and other foreign countries ; and that it may be replied, that the Nobles often in Courts, and in visits to each other, may converse together. With this answer, however, I am dissatisfied ; and I suspect their dislike to towns arises from pride and unwilling ness to consider the Magistrates as their supe riors." What is it that we hear now every day, but that the Game Laws is necessary as a bribe to induce the country gentlemen to reside on their estates ? When bribes are necessary—we may he sure that all is not as it ought to be. The old English 'Squire resided in the country because he hated town, and because his darling pursuits were only to be enjoyed in the country. But he no longer exists. A 'Squire in the old English sense may now be found, perhaps, in Poland. Such an animal requires no bribe any more than an Irishman need be bribed to drink whiskey.—lbid. The meeting of the Roman Catholic Asso ciation held the other day in Dublin, under the name of the " Catholic Finance Committee,' of which we gave a report, helped to throw some light upon the disinterested patriotism of the Roman Catholic " agitators," and to assist one in forming an opinion as to the manner in which the immense sums collected from the people, under the name of " Catholic Rent," had been expended. The meeting, it appears, was called at the instance of Mr. Eneas Macdonnell, who considers himself to have a claim upon the por tion of rent now remaining in hand, as arrears of the salary to which he was entitled in the ca pacity of agent to the " Catholic Association" in London, for the purpose, as it is rather ludi crously described, of " watching over the Press and both Houses of Parliament—to allow no slander to escape contradiction—to be in con stant communication with the Members of Par- liament—to peruse the debates, and set Mem bers right as to the true state of affairs in Ireland.' These, with other minor duties, formed the truly Herculean task which this appointment imposed on Mr. Macdonnell. To watch the whole of the diurnal and provincial Press, besides being in constant communication with Members of Parliament—and, moreover, engaged in corresponding with the Catholic Association, the Bishops, &c., and answering every paragraph and pamphlet that might appear against the " Catholic Association," or their cause—one would suppose to be an office too great and multifarious for any agent but one who combined in his own person the hundred eyes of Argus and the hundred hands of Briareus—looking in as many directions, at the same moment, as the one, and brandishing as many pens as the other. But prodigious as the labour was, it is certain that Mr. Macdonnell, at the desire of Mr. O'Connell and the Association in general, undertook to perform it : and no complaints were made from that time to the suppression of the Association of his services not having answered the expectations of those who had appointed him. He had asked 5001. a-year as his salary, though some of his friends thought he ought to have not less than 7001. The Finance Committee of the Association came to a resolution that he ought to be allowed 3001.; but we could not collect from the Report whether any step had been taken in consequence of that resolution, or whether the matter was left open for future consideration. Mr. O'Con nell asserts the fonner, and says Mr. Macdon nell has not only been paid all he was entitled to by his contract, but a gratuucus half-year's stuiicilig Melt IS a bop, salary into the bargain. Mr. Mactionnell dis claims the acceptance of 3001. a-year as his salary, and insists urn 5001. a-year as a quanti meruit ; and he uses this argument: —ln the year 1793 the Roman Catholics ap pointed three " Parliamentary Agents," one of them a Peer ; the .alaries were to be—one at 2,000 guineas, a second 1,500 guineas, and a third 1,000 guineas; and would the Catholics of Ireland now object to 5001. a year ? We must here observe that 4,500 guineas a year was a pretty liberal remuneration to a Peer and two Commoners for endeavouring to pro cure the removal of their own disabilities, and who, besides this pay, got the credit of patriot ism and disinterested public virtue. But Mr.Mac donnell let out, also, the fact that, under the late Association, one gentleman came to London, and received 801. for one month. This gentleman was stated at the Meeting to be the disinterested agitator IVlr.O'Gorman. Another, whose name did not transpire, he said, got 1201. for two months. How many more lived in this manner, by their patriotism, upon a public fund, collected, as Mr. O'Connell said, from the " poorest and most op pressed people in the world," we are not told. But these facts are sufficient to show that the Catholic Association was not inferior, in the " art of jobbing," to the oldest Corporation in the empire—that of London not excepted. Who can be surprised at the immense sums that were got rid of by the Association, when such were the mercenary wages of the " unpurchased" champions of Civil and Religious Liberty ? We do not wonder that so strong an opposition was made to the admission of Reporters to this Meeting. It was just the same sort of oppo sition, and on the same principle, that was made in the " enlightened and liberal" Common Council of the Corporation of London to the Press, when the City accounts were the subject of discussion the other day. Thus has " patri otism" its corruptions and its dread of publicity, as well as any of the venal systems which it at tacks and denounces.—Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A man named Smidmore was charged before Al derman ANSLEY with having knocked down a poor East India House pensioner in Leadenliall-street, and plundered him of a ticken bag, containing 11. 3s. 6d. Dyer, the pensioner, it appeared, had gone to re ceive his money at the East India House on Friday, and was observed by the prisoner, who saw that he was old and feeble, entering a public-house in the neighbourhood. The complainant's head being weak, a drop of gin soon got into ir, amras he came out of the public-house at about two o'clock in the broad day, the prisoner knocked him down by a blow in the face, seized his bag, and ran off at full speed. The old man, however, called out " stop thief !" as loudly as he could, and several persons followed the prisoner, who ran down St. Mary Axe and threw the bag into an entry, where it was picked up. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. Mary Hatpley, an incorrigible pauper about 16 years of age, was brought up, charged with having abused and insulted the churchwardens and overseers and other officers of the parish to which she belongs. This is unquestionably one of the most intolerable termagants that ever issued from a poor , house. In fact, she has always trusted to her tongue for a victory over the parish, and she has generally suc ceeded. A written character of this girl was produced. It was from the superintendent of one of those houses to which paupers are sent, called farm-houses, and it stated that there was rro possibility of controlling her; that so outrageous was her conduct, that the other paupers were absolutely determined to leave the house and take their chance for a morsel of bread in the streets, if she was not removed from amongst them. Indeed, it had been in contemplation to sign a round robin against her, but no more than two could write. The ALDERMAN ordered that she should go to the readmill for a month. " The treadmill be --," said she, and walked out of the room swearing that she would " sarve 'em out" in Bride yell. MARLBORO U GH-STREET. Sir G. FARRANT and Mr. DYER, the Sitting Magistrates at this office, yesterday were occupied nearly the whole of the day in the investigation of various charges of assault and other acts of miscon duct preferred by some of the officers of this office, and other constables, against coachmen, footmen, grooms, &c. belonging to several of the ladies and gentlemen who attended the grand aqua-horticultu ral breakfast, given at five o'clock on the evening of Saturday last, during a delightful thunder-storm, in the gardens at Chiswick. The principal.alleged delinquent on the occasion was the coachman of Sir Astley Cooper, and in the investigation of his case the evidence of a multitude of witnesses on both sides pro and contra was as conflicting and as directly opposed as any that was ever heard upon a trial in any of the courts of law amongst the Jewish people. On the one side there was the evidence of Mr. Dyer, jun., the son of the Magistrate, and a host of constables, who swore that from their own personal observation on the spot, they knew that the coachman had greatly tnis- conducted himself, and that not the slightest blame or cause of complaint could attach to the officer whom he was chargea with assaulting; and on the other side there was The evidence of the Earl of Iluntingdon, Mr. Cressvvell, the barrister, and a hall full of servants, who swore with equal confidence, that from their personal observation also on the spot, there was not the most distant ground fur complaint against the coachman, and that no hu man being could behave worse on such an occasion than the officer who was said to have been as saulted. After giving this contending evidence all the consideration it no doubt deserved, the Magistrate fined the coachman 31. for the assault. Several other livery servants were also fined in various sums. HATTON-GARDEN. Anne Keffard, a female who has frequently made her appearance at this office under similar circum stances, was brought up from Somers-town watch house, charged by Barrow, a watchman, with being found lying in Clarendon-square, between one and two o'clock that morning. The watchman stated, that he found the defendant lying on the pavement close to the Roman Catholic Chapel, in Clarendon-square. She was fast asleep, and had the tail of her gown thrown over her head. He roused her up, when she appeared stupid as if she had been intoxicated. She then became cla morous, abused him very much, and made a stout resistance, but with the assistance of another person he was enabled to take her to the watch-house. It appeared that this woman has been supported by the private charity of the Rev. Mr. Nerynchs, Roman Catholic clergyman, of Clarendon-square Chapel, and other benevolent individuals, whose bounty to her she constantly abuses in this way. Her habits are idle and disorderly, and she is greatly addicted to drinking. She is well known to the police of the district, and has been repeatedly taken up under the very same circumstances as she was now charged with. The Magistrates ordered her to find bail, and in default thereof she was commit ted to prison. BOW-STREET. On Tuesday Mr. Fenn, the bookseller of Char ing-cross, who has so repeatedly endeavoured to overthrow the Select Vestry of the parish of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, appeared before Mr. Ms snuu., the sitting Magistrate, and Mr. Rosissos, a Magistrate of Middlespx, for the purpose of obtain ing a summons to call upon the overseers of Saint Martin's to prgtiuce the vouchers of certain accounts which he found included in the parish expenditure. Mr. Fenn went on to state, that being called upon to pay his rates, he refused to do so, unless the ac counts in question were submitted to his inspection, and be conceived, that as an inhabitant of the pa rish, paying rates and taxes, he had a right to know how the overseers had fulfilled their trust in dispos ing of the public money. Mr. MINSHULL thought that Mr. Fenn, or any other inhabitant of the parish, was entitled to an in spection of the overseer's accounts, and asked Mr. Fenn if he had applied to the parish-officers upon the subject. Mr. Fenn had waited upon Mr. Rawlinson, clerk to the overseers, who told him that he was at liberty to inspect the books of the parish containing the gross amount of the various sums expended on ac count of the parish, and he might also see any par ticular account to which these sums referred : but was to consider this concession not as a matter of right, but of courtesy. Mr. Fenn added, that he would not accept of the offer upon these condi tions, as he conceived that he had a clear right to an inspection of the parish accounts. There was one item in the parish books which he conceived demanded explanation. The item was entered in this general way, viz. " Mr. Braithwaite paid 241. to Mr. Cuff." Now Mr. Cuff was the proprietor of the Freemasons' Tavern, and he (Mr. Fenn) supposed that this sum was paid for a feast, but how was the fact to be ascertained, if the overseer had the power to ►withhold from the parishioners the particulars of this bill ? As it appeared upon the book, the money might have been paid to Mr. Cuff fur a horse or for any thing else. Arr. ROBINSON observed that if he was one of the Magistrates to whom such an account was offered to be passed, he certainly should not have allowed it at all, if it came in the shape of a tavern bill. Mr. MINSHULL was as willing as any one to set his face against the abuse of parish feasts, but he could not go the length of saying that be should re fuse to pass a tavern bill under any circumstances. There might be occasions, although they certainly ought to be very rare, when such an expenditure would he allowable. Mr. ROBINSON said, that in his opinion it was highly improper to appropriate any portion of pa rish funds, which were chiefly raised for the main tenance of the poor, in defraying the expence of tavern dinners. He could never mction such a system. Mr. MlNstitiu, told Mr. Fenn that he would send for Mr. Rawlings, in orkr that he might explain the grounds upon which he had refused to show the parish vouchers. Mr. Rawlings was soon after in attendance, and after statimg that he had offered to allow Mr. Fenn to inspect the vouchers in question as 'a matter of courtesy and not of right, it was finally arranged that the matter should stand over until Tuesday next, when the overseers would be prepared to give a de finitive answer to the demand of Mr. Fenn. Yesterday, however, Mr. Fenn, accompanied by Mr. Purse, the silversmith, and another respectable parishioner, again waited upon Mr. MINSHULL for the purpose of obtaining a summons, calling upon the overseers to show cauFe why they should not be fined 5/. for having refused a parishioner his right to inspect the parish accounts. Mr. Fenn, after reading the clause in the Act of Parliament upon which he founded his present ap plication, proceeded at some length to argue in sup port. of it. . . Mr. Mrssnuu, asked if the accounts which Mr. Fenn wished now to inspect had been passed by the Magistrates in Petty Session? Mr. Fenn replied in the affirmative. Mr. MINsIiULL, as that was the ca;e, was afraid he could net grant the summons which Mr. Fenn applied for. Mr. ROBINsON concurred in the opinion. Mr. Fenn was aware that the Magistrates had no power under this Act of Parliament to compel the overseers to deliver their accounts. lie thought, however, that they could enforce the fine which the Act inflicted. A gentleman stated that a case bad been recently decided, in which an overseer of a parish was fined 1001. for having supplied the parish in which he served office with some article of food. The over seer, in that instance, had paid himself the amount of his bill, so that the account must have been regu lady passed. Mr. MlNsitum, remembered the case, which cer tainly bore upon the present question, and if Mr. Fenn would throw his application into the form of an information, he (Mr. Minshull) might feel dis posed to entertain it. Mr. Fenn had made some extracts of sums which he found entered in the parish books, and asked the Magistrates if they thought such entries as the fol lowing ought to be passed over without some ex planation :—" To walking the boundaries, .534 Christmas-boxes, 30/. Besides which he found two entries for buns for the parish children, when they were paraded to church on a particular occasion; one entry was 20/., and the other 101. Mr. MINStIULL said, that certainly Mr. Fenn had a right to press for the inspection of the accounts. Mr. Fenn and the gentlemen by whom he was accompanied then left the office, we believe with the intention of appealing to the Sessions. THAMES-OFFICE. Yesterday Captain Sampson Bragge underwent another examination before Mr. BAI4,ANTINE, charged with the wilful murder of Lewis Sinclair. A num ber of respectable persons, friends of the prisoner, were in attendance, and Mr. Harmer was also pre sent as his legal adviser. Upon the prisoner being placed at the bar, Mr. BALLANTINE inquired whether the chief mate of the Francis Watson was in attendance. Ellis, the officer, who had been engaged the whole of the previous night in collecting the crew together, answered in the affirmative. Mr. BALLANTINE directed him to be placed at the bar. Mr. Pete, Miller, the chief mate, was accordingly placed by the side of Captain Bragge, and the exa mination proceeded. Hugh Murray, the seaman who was examined on Tuesday, was again sworn to the truth of his depo sition on that occasion, to which he added, that the prisoner allowed each man of his crew a gallon of water daily, but he positively restricted the allowance of the deceased to one quart, and his allowance of biscuit to one per diem. The de ceased was several ,days lowered over the lee-side of the ship to scrape her side from morning till night, and upon one occasion he was kept out until twelve o'clock at night. The deceased was for two months treated in that manner. Upon one occasion, when the deceased was flogged across the windlass, the prisoner pulled his shirt off his back, and immediately after forced him over the ship's side to scrape, and after he had been flogged another time drove him up to the main-royal. Some time before the deceased expired, he became deranged, and re peatedly roared out for the doctor. There was no doctor on board, awl the prisoner said the deceased was making game of him, and beat him with a cap stan-bar on his side, left hip, and breast. The de cease:l gradually got worse, and became completely mad, and continued roaring for the doctor. Witness recollected one Sunday seeing some of the black fellows, by direction of Miller the other prisoner, blowing the fumes of oakum and boiling tar into the part of the forecastle where the deceased was lying, and which compelled the unfortunate man to come upon deck to avoid suffocation. As he was coming up the forcastle hatchway, the prisoner let fall the grating upon the coinings, which cut the deceased's Eris through. I pon several occasions the deceased —( here the witness described several involuntary acts of the unfortunate man, after he was beaten, which were of a nature that we cannot describe.) A few days before his death, the deceased became quite mad; and on the day of his death he said, " Ah ! there is the Doctor ; he is looking down the forecastle, calling me." He then came upon dcek, and pointing to something, endeayoured to reach it; Murray—l never beat him : he was beat often enough without my beating him. Charles Bateman knew the deceased to have only a biscuit allowed him during the 24 hours. He was repeatedly flogged, and pickle afterwards thrown over his wounds. He knew the deceased was treated very badly by the prisoners and the black fellows. Witness had seen him shivering upon deck in a state of great distress and misery. He heard him exclaim, " Oh, my God! 'Oll, Oh !" The poor fellow used to steal down into the forecastle, but was driven upon deck whenever the captain discovered it. He confirmed the evidence of Mur ray in every particular. He had also seen the cap tain compel the deceased to shoulder a capstan-bar and act like a soldier. The captaiu had often flogged him round the deck. George Courtnay, another seaman in the Francis Watson, stated that the deceased had been refused any allowance from the ship. Thomas Clark was boatswain of the Francis Watson; he had seen the deceased flogged with a birch broom and ropes by the captain's orders. The deceased was no seaman, and skulked below. When the forecastle was smoked, it was done to ot.lige the deceased to come upon deck to do his duty. John Brown, the cabin-boy, smoked the fore castle by the captain's orders, to kill the cock roaches. He was ordered to bring brine or pickle for the deceased's back. The captain also ordered him not to give the deceased any water. He thought the deceased was smoked by the crew to make him come upon deck. Cross-examined by Mr. Harmer.—After the fore castle was smoked, the deceased came upon deck. 'This was the whole of the evidence against the prisoner. • Captain Bragge, in his defence, said the charge was false in every particular. Mr. Harmer had a few observations to make to the Bench relative to Captain Bragge's case. lie submitted that nothing had been adduced in the evi dence that afforded any thing like a proof that Sin clair's death had been occasioned by the ill-treatment of the Captain. There was not a tittle of evidence to show that any bones had been broken or any vio lent bruises inflicted by any of the floggings he had received, and there was nothing, he thought, in any of those floggings that could be considered as at all likely to produce such consequences. The punishment which it was thought necessary to in flict on the deceased, was merely done with cords, with a birch, or with a stocking filled with sand. Now, there was nothing. in those modes of ad• ministering the punishment at all of a dangerous character. The deceased was perhaps a dull, stupid, obstinate person, and the crew fumigated the ship to drive him out of his skulking place in the fore castle. He might have been reduced to such a state of helplessness or sickness as that described by the act of God, and in that situation refused to do his duty in the ship, and have gradually relapsed into a state of idiotism, which produced his death. As to the alleged violence, it was, he submitted, nothing more than the oplinaly and necessary coercion re quired for the protection of the vessel, and to keep the crew to their duty. Under all the circum stances, he thought there was nothing to warrant the committal of Captain Bragge upon the charge of murder. It was very probable that the man was of a diseased constitution when he entered the ship. Mr. BALLANTINE said it had been proved, that when the man entered the ship he was neither dis eased nor sick. He upon the evidence felt it his duty to send the prisoner before another tribunal. If the witnesses had spoken the truth, a clear case of murder had been made out against the prisoners. Mr. Harmer said, if it were the intention of .the Magistrates to commit the prisoners, it would be useless to offer bail. Mr. BALLANTINE said - the charge was too serious a nature for him to take hail. They might, if they pleased, apply to the Court of King's Bench. Mr. Harmer thought the madness of the deceased was a proof of some previous disease. Mr. BALLANTINE said that was unlikely; the un fortunate man's constitution gradually sank, and his mind went in a few hours after, shortly before his death. Captain Bragge wished to make some observa tions, but was checked by his solicitor, who told him he had better reserve them for another place. Mr. BALLANTINE had no 'objection to listen to any application for bailing the mate. • Mr. Harmer did not appear for the mate. He, however, asked him if he had any bail ready. Miller—l kave not any, but I have a clear con science. Both prisoners were then committed to Newgate, and the witnesses bound over to prosecute them for feloniously and maliciously murdering Lewi3 Sin clair on the high seas, w;thin the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS COURT, JULY 1. SPITALL V. SMITH. This was a bill filed by the plaintiff, who had been second mate of a South-sea whaler, against the defendant, who was the proprietor of the vessel. The plaintiff charged in his bill that he was entitled to remuneration in consequence of having performed the duties of first mate as well as his own, and prayed that an account of the profits of the voyage might be taken, and his share of those profits decreed. The MASTER of the ROLLS thought that the claim on account of services rendered by the plaintiff as first mate could not be allowed, but ordered a reference to the Master to take an account of the profits of the voyage. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JULY I. GLASSINGTON V. THWAITES AND OTHERS. This case came before his Honour on a demurrer. The plaintiff having amended his bill, made a person named Ratcliffe a party to it. Ratcliffe demurred, and the demurrer having been argued, The Vicli-CHANcil.t.ort was of opinion that the demurrer should be allowed, but at the same time gave the plaintiff leave to amend his bill again. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 1. EX-I'ARTE I'ITT. Mr.. CLARKSON applied for a rule nisi for a writ of mandamus directed to the proper authorities of the parish of S;. Paul, Covent-garden,commanding them to elect a surveyor of the pavements of that parish.— Rule nisi granted. THE VAUXHALL-BRIDGE COMPANY V. CHRISTALL AM) ANOTHER. This was an action by the proprietors of Vauxhall bridge to recover damages for au injury done to the bridge by a vessel belonging to the defendants, who were ship-breakers at Battersea. It appeared by the plaintiff's witnesses, that in November, 1826, the defendants were bringing the vessel in question up the river, and that, having ar rived near Vauxhall-bridge, as she was making for the third arch, the tide, which was running strong, caught her, turned her head round, and carried her against the bridge, in consequence of which, six or seven feet of the outer extremity of one of the iron ribs were broken off, as were also a cross brace, mid one of the vertical pieces. The railway was also so shaken, that the joints became opened. It was stated that at the time in question, the vessel was being warped up with one kedge and one cable only, although two was necessary for a vessel so large as this was, in order to let go one, in case the other gave way. It was also stated, that there were not a suf ficient number of men on board to bring up so large a vessel; and that there was only one skiff a-head instead of two, which there ought to have been. It was the opinion of the witnesses, that if the vessel PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, at the Orrtuz, 112, STRAND ; LONDON. he staggered along the deck, and tell. When he was raised up, he breathed his last; and the next morning his body was sewn up in canvass, and hove overboard. The deceased expired on •the . l3th ult., off Scilly. Cross-examined by Mr. Harmer—Witness never beat the man upon any occasion. Prisoner Miller—Yes, you did : you frequently beat him. had been properly managed, she might hare gone through the arch safely. ft appeared also, that - the defendants at first agreed.to_pay for the repairs, and appointed a surveyor on their part to meet the sur veyor of the Company, for the.parpose of estimating the amount, which was ultimately settled at 4181. 3s. 7d.; but the defendants Afterwards offered to pay 1501. in full, and stated that they considered that a liberal offer, as their establishment at Batter sea existed before the erection of the bridge, which ought not to have been built of such fragile materials us to break when a vessel accidentally struck against it. For the defendants it was contended, that the damage had been occasioned by unavoidable acci dent, and was not attributable to any want of proper management or skill on the part of the defendants or their servants. The Jury, after a few minutes' consideration, found for the plaintiffs—Damages, 4481. 3s. 7d. ARCHES COURT, JULY I. lIARRIS V. HARRIS. This was an appeal brought by Mrs. Harris from the sentence of the Judge in the Consistorial C o urt of London, (Dr. Lushington), in a cross suit bet veers the appellant and her husband, Capt. Harris, of the Royal Navy, charging each other with acts of adultery; in which the Court below held that Mrs. Harris had not proved her case, and that Captain Harris had proved his allegations sufficiently to en.. title him to a divorce. As the case has been so recently and so hob( before the public, it is needless to repeat the detail{ of the argument. The sentence will not be given till the co-Its and alimony shall have•been paid by tbs husband, which has not been done. THE MARKETS. COA 1. !11,1 11 K 1. Adair's 28.4.6.1. Walls cud Newinarch... 295. 64 Iltnitnont, 75 6 Ditto 6 Bishop's Main 2-1. 6 Ditto 29 6 Boundary 26 0' Ditto Ndrthoroberland 27 1 Dean's _ Felling Main —24 6 Ditto Perkins and Co. 27 0 1-le itoii • • /febtitirn Blain 27 3 27 9 Killinmvortli 29 6 24 3 Newburn. 27 9 ()rd's 23 9 PeiaW Pontop Windsor..---.. 24 6 24 6 Tat3it•ll Tantield Le , . 24 9 -- 26 9 Williogton 6 IVallsEntillewicke&Co. SO 0 Walls litrt Brown's 27 0 Ditto Ilrown 'ls unser.— 27 0 I)itto Ilurraton t 7 6 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 27 0 Ditto Carr anti Co. 20 3 Ditto Cramliogton—, 25 9 I)itto 119,14 ----. 27 0 Slaps at market, 1711,,i--2.11:1 Ditto Russell's .......—... BO 6 Ditto Walker ..----. 30 0 Fawcett Main,, . ,,,......,,, 26 0 Latubton's Primrose .... 23 3 Nes/tans Main---,....., 2T 9 Russell's Lv0n'5........... 23 9 Walls Viol iletton---- 31 0 Walls End Lambton.... 31 0 Walls End Lyons...--. 28 0 Walls End Stewart's ... 31 6 Iltissel Ps Het ton's W.E. 30 9 Cowisett ;............29,........... 0 Hartley :.....,... 30 0 Felling Main Trader.-- 24 6 Pontor, Trader --. 2! 0 Tyne small 17 0 netton small ---.... 17 9 Old Etherley small ....... 15 3 Laintston small 18 0 Londonderry small--. 19 0 Ilusstll's small ........-- 18 0 0 sold, 126 -Unsold, 5334. couNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING TIIE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bean g. s. to R. 58 82 6s) 74 72 82 56 '74 58 80 54 8t; 43 '74 54 83 64 84 62 80 65 84 56 '76 60 84 56 '76 54 78 66 80 65 87 48 8 56 80 44 83 60 80 72 83 s. to s. 32 38 29 37 3/ 36 32 39 30 33 36 40 32 36 30 35 28 45 32 42 24 33 30 36 32 37 36 59 37 40 3t 38 40 42 33 37 33 37 32 38 34 • 36 36 40 8. tO S. 21 32 24 28 24 36 26 34 22 25 26 38 24 34 28 30 36 40 28 31 22 30 18 32 24 35 2% 34 28 32 22 •32 30 38 24 32 21 30 24 36 26 34 24 32 ~ S. - 42 .7.: 4 6 - 4I 54 46 4I 40 c;0 , - i =:. -1 i* :...- 45 - _ 46 - 49 _. 44 --- 0 - - it. d. to d. 6 6 '7l 6' 9 6 11 Per Quarter. Abingdon—....., Ando' , cr. Birmingham— Bridpott ..,--....."... Cirencester --- Faringdon--- Guildford Henley Hereford Highworth Maidenhead ..... Oakingham Reading Salisbury Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury Uxbridge Wantage Warminster Worcester—..—. CHELTENHAM MARKET.—June 30. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. . - Pes lb. Wheat Barley Oats 4 0 5 0 Veal ........ ... Beams 4 9 5 0 Lauds Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork Hay 3/. 10s. to 3/. 15s. per ton. LBWES MARKET.—June 30. • - White Wheat (per quarter) £3 J 2 0 to £3 18 0 Red ditto .3 11 ~0 &HY; 0 Barley Oats, New 1 2 0 ' ' 1 5' 0 Pease ' 1 17 0 2 0 0 Oil Cake. New l2 '0 .01)er-thousand. HULL MA RKET.—.June - 30, The trade here during the week has continued in a verf depressed state, and prices of m os t d escr iptions of Gram have been almost nominal. To-day we have 'again hut ,+ very small show of farmers' Wheat, the best 'runs' of WhiCb . were bought by the milleri at a reduction of 2s. per (oar' ter from last week's currency ; secondary qualities unnir tired. The best fresh samples of foreign Wheat' are held more firmly, and there was evidently a. better 'clispositio o to purchase than for the last week or' tie° back ;- 'the little business done a decline of 2e. . per quarter was sub' milted to ; we have no inquiry for the secondary quill" ties. The demand for • free Oats is very "limited at late prices ; for those under lock we have ao inquiry whit' ever. In Barley nothing doing, either •free. or' in bond. Beans are dull sale, and where sales are Made ls, to 2' lower is taken ; bond parcels nominal. Rapeseed and seed without alteration. Wheat, Old —s —s -4 Wow -e. 565. ASS. Foreign —s. 60s. b0nd.....-4. -.4. Oats, Poland • —s rOs. 245. 01d......... —5„...-8„ 265. Small or Feed —e. 12e. 18s.• - 218. Foreign —s. 225. 245. ...... .... Barley, Norf. & Sut —a 265. 2Rs. Linc: & Wold 28s. 306. Foreign —s. N 30e. g • Beans 345. 365. 38e. Foreign tSs. Pease, AVhite —s. 365. 40s. Grey —s. 30e. 318. Tares —a. 345. 365. F0reign......... 28s. 325. -.4. Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last —4. 26/. 291. DUMFRIES MA._ s. d. s. d. s. d. 5. d- Wheat, Imp. Bush 8 9to 9 0 Butter. 160 z............. 0 fil too Barley 4 0 4 4 Eggs, dozen 0 0 0 0 Oats 2 7 3 4 Beef, per lb. ' 0 4 0 3 Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 2 3 2 6 Veal 8 4 0 "j. Potatoes, vitt. :KETS.. , ..June 24. CATTLE.--The number was 1303, not many of whiel were about the same as those of Cattle on the Sande to-del :h were left aver. The price' e of last week. BIRTHS. On the 30th ult. in Hertford-street, May-fair, the lady, of J. H. Cotterell, Esq. of a daughter. On the 28th ult. in Duke-street, Westminster, the 'ell of F. Palgrave, Esq. of a son. On the 27th ult. Mts. Arthur Davis, of Deptford, of daughter. In the Mauritius, on the 19th March, at the villa 0 1 her brother, John Cookney, Esq. the lady of T. Hooper, E.q. of a daughter. MARRIED. On the Ist inst. Robert Harrison, Esq. of Hackney, to Miss E. Witty, of Driffield. On the Ist inst. at St, Marylehone, Edmund Skiers , Esq. M.D. to Rosa, third daughter of the late Mr. Fe Lloyd, of Harley-street. On the Ist inst. in the Tower, S. Chambers, E NT to Susan, fourth daughter of the late V. J. Lloyd, Esq. of the Ordnance Department. On the 27th of May, at Malta, Wm. Hearn, Esq. t° sewed daughter of W. B. Simonds, Esq. of Caversham Rectory, Reading. On the 29th ult. at Southampton, James Newlyn, Esq' to Harriet, daughter of the late M. Foott, Esq. of Clap' ham-common. On the I,t inst. at St. Luke's, John Dean, Esq. late of the Madras Medical Establishment, to Miss Mary Penelope of Fin-bury-square. At St. Mary's, Bryanstone-sqoare, Lord Thngliam 10 the. Lady Anne Brudenell, youngest daughter of the Earl of Cardigan. DIED. On the 25th nit. at Solarium' Lodge, Worthing, Marl Louisa, third daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Clayton, aged two years. On the 19th ult. the wile of Mr. Gordon, tailor, of Southampton-street, in her 2Sth year, leaving eight dren and a husband to deplore their irreparable loss. On the 29th lilt. at Stoke Newington Parsonage, a ged 78, the Rev. George Ga , kin, D. D., Prebendary of rector of Stoke Newington, and of the united parishes .3 1 13enel, Graccchurch, and St. Leonard, Ea.stcheap. On the 30 , h ult. aeed 24, Philippa, only daughter of S. Lowden, Esq. of Thames Ditton. On the 26th inst. Mary, edest daughter of the late Mr , A. Robinson, of Hatton-garden. On the Sth of March, at Port Louis, 'Mauritius, Lieut.' Cad. 0. ilardinge, 99th refit. On the 27th ult. aged 89, from the accidental bursting of a pistol, Daniel Leonard, Esq. formerly Chief Justice of Bermuda.