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lowing observations by Captain Haill, fliereiore, in which he endeavours to trace the absence of Primogeniture and of Aristocracy to a levelling principle in the people, is a curious instance of a disposition to look a great way off for what lay at his feet. " The Law of Primogeniture," li e says (primogeniture was only the law in so me of the slave states), " was abolished long g3O ; and though there be at present no positive legib!dive enactment against as definite a dis posal of property by descent as in England, the general feeling of the American community is so decidedly hostile to a:‘ , such settlements, that in practice they are rarely if ever attempted. The property of the parent, therefore, is generally divided equally amongst the children. This di vision, as may be supposed, seldom gives to each sufficient means to enable him to live inde pendently of business ; and, consequently, the same course of money-making habits, which belonged to the parent, necessarily descends to the son. Or supposing there be only one who succeeds to the fortune, in what way is he to spend it ? Where, when, and with whom ? How is lie to find companionship ? How ex pect sympathy from the great mass of the people lie mixes amongst, whose habits and tastes lie in totally different directions ? " When this language is held in America, the facts are too obvious to be denied; it is asked how it happens that the same thing does not occur with the money-making classes in England ? The ready answer is, that the attendant circumstances are suf ficiently different to prevent like consequences merchant, or any other professed man of business in England, has always before his eyes a large and per manent money-spending class to adjust his habits by. He is also, to a certain extent, in the way of communicating familiarly with those who, having derived their riches by inheritance, are exempt from all that personal experience in the science of accu mulation, which has a tendency to augment the dif ficulty of spending money well. Sometimes this acquaintance with the Aristocracy, whether it be of wealth or of rank, arises from circumstances of birth, more frequently from alliance, and still oftener from talents or knowledge, or from some of those inci dents which the intermixture of all classes in Eng land, in spite of their marked distinctions, perpetu ally give rise to. At all events, while he goes on acquiring property, the man of business learns al most as well, though more gradually and insensibly, how to spend his money as if he had been born and bred in one of those classes whose peculiar province it is to distribute, not to accumulate, the riches of the country. At length, when he thinks he has made enough to entitle him to retire from his la bours, he at once enters the permanently wealthy ranks, amongst whose members he is always sure of finding sympathy and companionship, whatever be his tastes or his future views. " Any such accumulation and distribution of pro perty, however, in America, is abhorrent to the feel ings of the inhabitants, and of course entails, un equal divisions, or every thing like primogeniture, are not to be dreamt of. They will scarcely allow the words to be whispered in consideration; one might as well speak of a coronet, or a close borough, or any other abomination ! I remember hearing, when I was in Virginia, of a gentleman whose elder sons had displeased him so much, that he left all his fortune to the youngest. The public, however, were so universally scandalized at this act of injus tice as it was termed, though the father had earned all the money himself, that he, after a year or two of miserable badgering, was compelled, for the sake of a quiet life, to divide bis property amongst his disinherited children. It is by no means difficult to point out whence all this springs. It is the legiti mate offspring of those levelling or equalizing prin ciples already discussed. In all countries it may be observed, the great mass of people are without dis posable property, and live, as it is well called, from band to mouth. This is decidedly the case in Ame rica ; for though it be easy for a man to keep him self and his family alive by bodily labour, the great majority of the whole population possess little more than enough for that purpose. Generally speaking, very few persons amongst them have ady spare pro perty or surplus revenue—they have no fortune, in short, which requires care and ingenuity to dispose icr purposes beyond the immediate wants of life. When, therefore, the democratical principle is fully established in a society so constituted, and all the elections are brought under the absolute controul of the people at large, the legislators chosen by them must, as a matter of course, be made up chiefly of persons almost without fortune." The idea of creating an Aristocracy in Ame rica seems to have haunted particularly Captain Basil Hall. " I remember once (he says), before I had much acquaintance with the subject, ask ing a well-informed person whether he did not think it possible, by some device of entails, or of rank or station, to interpose a counteracting force to this popular torrent, it) order to check some of the evils of such a wide-spreading de mocracy. He smiled at my entire ignorance of tie feelings of the Americans on these subjects, and assured me that any such thing as I alluded to, or in the remotest degree approaching to an aristocracy, ether of wealth, or title, or station, or even of talents or experience, was absolutely out of the question ; And, wa s fully as incon sistent with the whole spir;t of their system, as an equal division of property wolihi be with that of England." In all these remarks of Captain Basil Hall, there is displayed a lamentable igno rance of human nature. The idea of entails and aristocracy could never have entered into the head of any man at all acquainted with America. In the United States a system of equality prevails, because where there is a Boundless territory, land is of no value, except where slavery is allowed. All this talk of democracy, of equality, of aristocracy, and so forth, is quite idle. The fact of the possession of land: equal in fertility to those already grant ed, necessaf.qv puts an end to all.schemes of aristocracy, excecj, when the labourers can be made property. Captain Basil Hall is an in g ious man. He may hereafter institute a oe n comparison between the people of Loo Tchoo and the people of England, or the people of New Zealand and the people of Holland. We have no objection to his pictures of Loo Tchoo, of South America; but we object to his compa risons of the Americans to an old people like the English. The Legislators of the United States may be ignorant,lut we do not see how adding corruption to ignorance could mend mat ters. The Americans and English have hardly anything in common, but speaking the same language and living on the sea board. W e are quite satisfied with our own country, and would rather live in England than in the United States of America. But our preference is not founded on the silly grounds urged by Captain Basil Hall.— ornln Chronicle. The country is again inundated with rumours of expected cf:oges in the Administration. One report states a noyai duke is determined to oust the Government of the Duke of Wel lington altogether ; another, that the Royal dis iike to Lord Grey has been overcome, and th4lt the Whigs are coming, one and all, into office ; a third, that the old Tories are about to return to power ; a fourth, that Mr. Huskisson has declared that he will never hold office under a Chief who cashiered him so abruptly and un ceremoniously ; and nearly all these reports make it a sort of co l ndOiou tisat Mr. Peel should be sacrificed, either on the one hand or the other, to the wrath of his former friends or his former enemies. We do not know what truth there may be in all or any of these reports ; but this we know, that their existence, uncontradicted, is injurious to the interests of the country, both at home and abroad. Foreign powers more especially, look with doubt, indecision, and want of confidence, towards a country, the Govern ment and the policy of which may have been changed since the date of the last despatch ; and that such has been the state of this country, since the calamity which befell Lord Liverpool, any one who takes the most cursory review of its subsequent Administrations will readily perceive. For our own part, we should say that, looking round the country, and surveying the present race of public men, as far as their talents have been developed, we see nothing which the country would be likely to gain at the present moment by the change ; and that, unless the proposed advantages are very striking and apparent, they could not counterbalance the inconveniences that, in the very nature of things, must arise from the vacillation, either real or apparent, which must, of necessity, accompany a change either of men or measures. lhe Duke of Wellington, from his character and his talents, and by the ready straightforward manner in which he approaches most subjects, seems the man best qualified to direct the affairs of the country ; and, though his Administration might doubtless be strength ened in some of its minor points, we do not see how it could be wholly remodelled to more ad vantage out of any of the known parties which at present exist. With regard to Mr. Peel, whatever may be the feelings as to his apparent versatility of conduct on the Catholic Question in some quarters, there can be no doubt, we imagine, that, as far as the Duke of Wellington is concerned, his Grace would be eternally dis graced were he to abandon Mr. Peel on that score.—Morning Herald. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. At the Court at St. James's, the 16th day of July, 1829, PRESENT, The. King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. Whereas by an Act, passed in the sixth year of his present Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act to regulate the trade of the British possessions abroad," it is, amongst other things, enacted, that certain ports, therein particularly mentioned, in the Island of Jamaica, and in the pro vinces of Nova Scotia, Canada, and New Brunswick, and in the island of Ihrhadoes, shall be free warehousing ports for the purposes of the said Act; and it is further enacted, that it shall be lawful for his Majesty in Council, from time to time, to appoint any port in his Majesty's posses sions in America to be a free warehousing port for the purposes of the said Act ; and that every such port, so appointed by his Majesty, shall be a free warehousing port under the said Act, as if appointed by the same, in as full and ample a manner in all respects as any of the ports thereinbefore mentioned are free warehousing ports ap pointed by the said Act. And whereas his Majesty doth deem it expedient, that the port of St. John's, in the island of Newfoundland, should be appointed a free warehousing port for the pur poses of the said Act, his Majesty doth therefore, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, and in pursuance and exercise of the powers in him vested in and by the said Act of Parliament, order and appoint, that the said port of St. John's, in the island of Newfoundland, shall be a free ware housing:port for the purposes of the said Act : And the Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, and the Right Hon. Sir G. Murray, one of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may re spectively appertain. C. C. GREVILLE. St. James's, July 16. - - This day the Chevalier Dedel had a private audience of his Majesty, to deliver his credentials as Minister Plenipo tentiary at this Court from the King of the Nettie' lands, during the temporary absence of the Ambassador ; to which audience he was introduced by the Earl of Aber deen, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Fo reign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Knt., Master of the Ceremonies. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. John Pike and James Clarke, Frith-street, Soho, up holsterers, from July 21 to 31, at the Court of Commis sioners. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. William Turton and Thomas Penn, Wesebromwich, Staffordshire, ironmongers. BANKRUPTS. Elizabeth Stephens, Merthyr-Tydvil, Glamorganshire, shopkeeper, to surrender, July 30, 31, and Aug. 23, at one, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol. Evans, Stevens, and Co., Gray's-inn-square, London ; Haberfield, or Gre gory and Smith, Bristol. John James, Lombard-street, bill-broker, July 24, 31, at twelve, and Aug. 28, at eleven, at the Court of C o mmissioners. Fisher, Walbrook-buildings, Walbrook. William Murrell Christy, Stanhope-street, Clare-market, cheesemonger, July 24, 31, at ten, and Aug. 28, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Dods, Northumberland street, Strand. Antonio Pedro Fortunato, Liverpool, merchant, Aug. 6,7, and 28, at nine, at the York Hotel, Manchester. Hurd and Johnson, Temple ; Higson, Bagshaw, and Hig son, Manchester. George Hummerston, Epping, shoe-maker, July 28, at ten, 131, and Aug. 28, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners, Wilde, Rees, and Humphry, Queen-street, Cheapside. Joseph Grindrod, Leads, cheese-factor, Aug. 3 and 5, at five, and 28, at two, at the Roebuck Inn, Leek, Staf ford. Holmes, Frampton, and Loftus, New-inn, London ; Brittlebank, Isshborne, Derbyshire. Francis Stinton, Droitwich, Worcestershire, draper, July 27, 28, and Aug. 28, at eleven, at the Star and Garter Inn, Worcester. Hilliard and Co., Raymond buildings, Gray's-inn; Godson, Worcester. Samuel Dingley, Warwick, builder, Aug. 20, 21, and 28, at seven, at the office of Tibbits and Son, North Gate street, Warwick. White, Old-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, London ; Tibbits and Son, Warwick. Edward Millett, Fleet-street, coffee-house-keeper. July 21, at three, 31, at oQe, arul Aug. 28, at two, at the Cour of Commissioners. Stedutan and Southby, Throgmor t ton-street. William Goldsworth Tucker, Exeter, watch.maker, July 30, at ape, 31, and Aug. 28, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Armstrong, St. John's-square. James Rowbotham, great Surrey-street, Surrey, hat manufacturer, July 24, 31, at ten, and Aug. 29, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Burfoot, wing's Bench walk, Temple. Christopher Lancaster, Old Accrington, Lancashire, cotton-manufacturer, Aug. 11, at six, 12, at ten, and 28, at twelve; at the Hotel, Blackburn. Milne and Parry, Temple ; Neville and Eccles, Blackburn. George Shageworth, Wilmslow, Chester, victualler, Aug. 4,5, and 28, at on, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Appleby and Charnock, IfaymQuA,-building's, Gray's Inn; Gratrix, Wilmslow. George Dixon and Henry Anderson, Bishop.itakckland2 Durham, wine-merchixts, Aug. 10, 11, and 28, at eleven, at the Talbot Inn, Bishop-Auckland. Griffith, Gray's- Inn-squaa e, London ; Trotter, Durham, John Lloyd, King's-place, Commercial-road, hop-seller, July 24, 28, and Aug. 2C, at one, at the Court of Corn missioners, Farrar, Doctors'-Commone. Robert More, DeAop s t ree t, Shadwell, distiller, July 31, at one, Aug. 7, at eleven, and 29, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Hill and Mend, Gr a y' -in t o. and Edward Smith, Liverpool , butcher, Au g . 10, g 7, 2i, at one, at the Clarendon -buildings, Liverpool. Row.- linson, itlverpool. Henry Cooks, Northampton , watch-maker, July 24, 31, and Aug. 28, at elven, at the Court of Commis s:oners. Spyer, Broad-street-buillings- Thomaa William Smales, Aldersgate-street, stationer, July 28, 31, at pleveu , and Aug. 28, at one, tit the of Comnaissioners, Watson and Bro u g hton, Fal con-nuare. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS COURT, Jui.r 16. ST. JOHN V. STIRLING. This was a bill filed for the specific performance of an agreement. It appeared that General St. John (the plaintiff) formerly purchased an annuity of 1,0001. from Sir Thomas Champneys. This annuity was subsequently reduced to 9001. a-year. The defendant (Sir Wal ter Stirling) proposed to purchase ir, and his agent treated with General St. John's agent with that view. After considerable negotiation, and several letters having been written on the subject, an agree ment was entered into on the part of the defendant, stipulating for the purchase of the annuity at a cer tain price. Difficulties having been started by the defendant with respect to completing the transac tion,:the present proceeding was instituted. His HONOUR held that the defendant's agent had been fully authorized to enter into the contract for the purchase of the annuity. This was evident from Sir Walter Stirling's letter on the subject. With regard to the statement that the title v,as in dis pute, such was not the fact. The monies in the hands of the receiver had been impounded on ac count of some dispute as to the priority of another incumbrance on the estate, hut the title to the an nuity was not questioned. The decree must be for the specific performance of the agreement, with costs. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 16. WRIGHT V. KING. This was an action for false imprisonment. From the statement of the Attorney-General and the evi dence, it appeared that the plaintiff was a carpenter and builder, in the neighbourhood of Euston-square, and was employed by a person residing at Hayes, in Middlesex, to sell bricks for him on commission. At the latter end of the last year the plaintiff had a quantity of bricks consigned to him at Gainsborough wharf, near the Regent's-park-basin, and on their ar rival he gave orders for their disposal. The defendant called on the plaintiff, and made some inquiries re specting the price of the bricks, with a view, as it was supposed, to make a purchase ; but he afterwards represented to the foreman at the wharf that the bricks had been stolen, and desired him not to let them be taken away from the premises without his (the defendant's) orders. On Monday, the 24th of November last, the defendant went to the constable of the parish, and instructed him to take the plaintiff into custody for buying and selling bricks belonging to him (the defendant), he (the plaintiff) knowing them to have been stolen. The constable then went, accompanied by the defendant, and took the plaintiff into custody. Verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 501. GEALE V. CAVE. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated that the plain tiff in this case was a waiter at the Grand Hotel in Covent-garden, and the defendant, Mr. Henry Wil liam Cave, was a gentleman who had resided at that house. The plaintiff's claim was 9/. 6s. 6d. for money paid on the defendant's account. It would appear that in the latter end of 1827 the defendant had made an engagement with a cousin of his (Mr. Robinson, a surgeon,) to go to Cambridge, and the plaintiff was desired to hire for them a horse and gig, the expense of which was to be borne equally between them. The gig was accordingly procured, and was engaged by the parties for a fortnight or three weeks. The charge for the hire was 11/. 18s. a moiety of which had been paid by Mr. Robinson, but the defendant had neglected to pay his share, and therefore the present action was brought to re cover the amount, and also 3/. 7s. 6d. the amount of several small sums paid for the defendant's washing bills, and for some shirt collars and cravats for the defendant. A verdict was taken for the plaintiff for 9/. Gs. Gd LOMI V. TUCKER. Mr. GURNEY (with whom was Mr. Busby) stated that the plaintiff was Dr. Lomi, and the defendant, Mr. Andrew G. C. Tucker, was an attorney resid ng in Devonshire. He was a man of large fortune and being desirous of making a grand display of pic tures in a gallery which he was forming, he had pur chased of the plaintiff some very valuable produc tion, among which was a picture by Julio Romano, which was charged at 3001., and two by Poussin at 951. The plaintiff's bill amounted originally to several hundred pounde, but the balance now claim ed was only 3G/. 10s. A person of the name of Jeffery was called to prove part of the case, and his cross-examination by Mr. J. Williams created a good deal of laughter. Mr. WILLIAMS—I suppose those two pictures for which 951. are charged, were no more painted by Poussin than by you or me. Witness—Exactly so; but they are good pictures. Mr. WitxrAms—What are they good for ? Wit ness—For a gallery. Mr. WILLIAMS—Did the defendant, Dr. Tucker —I believe he is called doctor as well as the plaintiff —did he suppose that they were painted by Pons sin ? Witness—l presume so. Mr. WlLLlAAts—Where is Dr. Lomi now ? Wit ness—ln Florence, I believe. Mr. WlLLlArsts—ls he a physician. Witness — Yes; a doctor in physic. Mr. WILLIAMS—Indeed ! Has he ever practised in England? Witness—l believe only to amuse himself.—(Great laughter.) Mr. WILLIAMS—Then he has not resided much in this country ? Witness—No; he would not bring his money to spend here, but brought over his pictures.—(Continued laughter.) Mr. WILLIAMS addressed the jury for the de fendant, and said the question was, whether the plaintiff had not been already overpaid for the trash which he had imported from Italy. The object of his visit, or rather visitation, in London, was to gull the English people with sham Italian pictures, and the defendant had been his dupe, having bought, as original, two pictures at least which were not the productions of the master they were represented to be.—The Jury found for the defendant. PEEK V. KING. This was an action against the same defendant as in the preceding action at the suit of Mr. Wright; and the cause of action, as in that case, was for falsely imprisoning the plaintiff on a charge of having taken bricks and tiles from a field at Hayes, the proper!), of John Prieston Tarrest. Verdict for the plaintiff —Damages, 501. There was a third action against the same de fendant, at the suit of a Mr. Walker, arising out of a similar transaction, but the parties did not, appear. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JULY 16. IZOD V. SIR C. M. LAMB, BART. Mr. JERVIS (with whom was Mr. Starkie) stated the case. This was an action brought by Mr. James Izod, an auctioneer at Brighton, to recover from the defendant, Sir Charles Montolieu Lamb, Bart., High-Sheriff of the county of Sussex, the sum of 2221. lls. 6d. for making a false return to a writ of fi. fa. The plaintiff had obtained a judg ment against a Captain M'Nielage, of Brighton, for the sum of 2531. 15s. 6d. ; and the execution having been put into the hands of the sheriff to levy for that amount, he made a return that M'Nielage had no goods within his jurisdiction. The defence was, on the part of the Sheriff (who was only the nominal defendant), that the good.; were the separate pro perty of Mrs. M‘Nielage, who was living apart from her husband. After swi4ence had been adduced, the LORD CrIEF BARON directed the jury to find a verdict for 2221. I Is. 6d., giving the defendant's C ounse l liberty to more a full Court to enter a non Suit. lipspAp V. 11!NDE„ This was an issue directed by the Conn daring the last Term, to try whether a warrant of attorney for 1,0001. was, or was not, signed by the defendant, who alleged it to be a forgery. Judgment had been entered up on the warrant of attorney, and a mo tion vas made to set aside the judgment on the ground or Ore EyarFant x being a forgery, and the present issue was in consequence directed, in order to try the question. Mr. CAMPBELL stated the case. The plaintiffs were bankers at Plymouth, a►ad had in their service a person named Heal, as a clerk, who embezzled money from them to the amount of 1,0001. Some time after, Mr. Thomas Husband, a son of one of the bankers, saw Heal in London, and in conse quence of that interview, Mr. Heal said he would give security for the money to the plaintiffs. Soon afterwards he told Mr. Husband that Mr. Hinde would be security that the 1,0001. would be paid in five years, and told him to prepare a warrant of at torney, which Mr. Hinde would execute. This was done, and Mr. Hinde did execute it, as he should clearly prove by several witnesses who would depose to the hand-writing. After a long trial, the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. COURT OF DELEGATES, JULY 16. SIR LUMLEY SKEFFINGTON, BART. V. WHITE. This was an appeal from the judgment of Sir John Nichol!, pronounced in the Prerogative Court in July, 1828, in a suit instituted by Sir Lumley for the revocation of a grant of administration, obtained by Mr. White, the nominee of Sir Charles Flower, Shaw, and others, the creditors of the late Alder man Ro%vcroft. It appeared that on the death of the late Thomas Hubbert, Esq. (the maternal uncle of Sir Lumley), his two sisters, Lady Skeffington and Mrs. Donovan, renounced their preferable claim to the grant of administration in favour of Mr. Alexander Hubbert, the natural son of the intestate, who afterwards entering into partnership with Al derman Rowcroft, the estate in question came into his hands. The Alderman then transferred the estate to his creditors, who recently effected a sale for a considerable sum of money to the present Lord Mayor; but to enable their so doing it became necessary, in consequence of the death of Mr. Alex. Hubbert, to obtain another grant of administration, the revocation of which was the subject of the pre seat appeal. The Judges, by their decision, reversed the judg ment of the Court below, condemning Mr. White in costs of both suits. DOUGLAS V. DOUGLAS. This was a suit for divorce by reason of adultery, promoted by Mrs. Mary Douglas against her husband Mr. Richard William Glow Douglas. The adultery was alleged to have been committed with a person named Julia Bree. Dr. PHILLIMORE, for the husband, said, that he could make no opposition to the suit, the adultery being fully proved.—Separation granted. COURT OF REQUESTS, JULY 16. A very dashing young woman, named Jane Smith son, was summoned before the Commissioners of the hundred of Ossulston, on the complaint of a poor man named Edward Forbes, to chow cause why she refused to pay him the sum of 11. ss. 9d. for meat, drink, and lodging, supplied her, the said Jane. The dashing exterior of the defendant, and the miserable plight of the plaintiff, excited much notice, and the developement of the facts connected with the affair produced no small degree of interest. Forbes stated, that about twelve months ago he lived with his family in the town of Birmingham, where he worked as a journeyman tea-tray-manufac turer; but work being extremely slack, he deter mined to leave the town. Just before his departure the defendant came to his house in the greatest state of distress and wretchedness, and requested he would give her shelter for the night, and said, although she had then no money or means to repay him for his kindness, she would, when she arrived in London, transmit him some remuneration, as there she had some friends living in great respectability. Witness took compassion upon her, and agreed to take her in. She continued with him for some days, always partak ing of whatever food he could provide for his family, and when they left Birmingham she accompanied them on the journey to London. Upon their arrival she left him in Holborn, promising to meet him in the even ing and settle with him, but from that time till within these three weeks he had never seen her.— He then learned that she had either got married to a respectable man, or that she was cohabiting with him, and lived in Lisson-grove. He had waited upon her repeatedly, and solicited payment; but she always put him off, saying that Mr. G—was out of town, and that she was without cash, and could not pay him. He was a poor matt, he said, and had sought this mode to recover the debt. The CHAIRMAN asked him how long the defend ant boarded and lodged with him in Birmingham ? Forbes said that she was with him for a fortnight before he left for London. CHAIRMAN—How (lid you travel?—Forbes—We walked every step of the way, Sir; and whenever I and my family halted to take refreshment, the de fendant always shared with us. CHAIRMAN—How did you manage at night ? Did you go to bed, or did you walk all night ?—Forbes —We went to bed; and I always paid for the bed for the defendant. CIIAIRMAN—Upon my word this is rather a sin gular case. Forbes assured the Chairman, that however sin gular it might appear, it was nevertheless true. The defendant was then called upon to answer the complaint. She appeared to treat it with very considerable indifference, and said that she was not aware that she owed the plaintiff any money. He certainly had behaved very kindly to her, but she had made ample acknowledgment to him for his kindness. Forbes declared he had never received the least acknowledgment, unless that of ingratitude. The CHAIRMAN asked the defendant in what manner she had made the plaintiff an acknowledg ment for his humanity. The defendant here hung down her head, and did not answer the question. The CHAIRMAN reiterated the same question, when The defendant, with the greatest impudence imaginable, said, " Well then, I will tell you, Sir : I was in a great measure the means of supporting him and his family upon our journey to London." CHAIRMAN--How can that be possible, when you were in such great distress. Defendant—W e ll then, if I must be plain, I must. (She then described in what manner she had obtained the means of sup plying food for this man's family.) CHAIRMAN—Oh, fie, fie, you ought to be ashamed of yourself, if your story be true, to make such an admission. Forbes declared most solemnly that she spoke an untruth. The CHAIR➢fAN said he believed him, and that he did not think there was a word of truth in her statement, which was most abominable. The defendant was ordered to pay the debt and costs at Bs. per month. OLD BAILEY, JULY 16. NEW COURT. The following pleaded guilty to indictments charging them with larcenies :—Thomas Haw kins, Moses Miers, John Thompson, George Hodgkins,Chas.Denes, Joseph Benton, and Emmett, A nn Roach was acquitted, and the following were found guilty :—James Harris, Peter Corvel, James Davies, Thomas Bonning, Wm. Ellwood, Richard Hudson, Emma Markwell, Charles Tupp, Eliza Bright, and Eliza. Waters, The latter prisoner was found guilty on two indictments, for roblling her master. Mr. Sergeant ARABIN said he should send her out pf the country. An Insolvent Debtors' Conn will be held at Hortihan3 on the 2fith instant.—Brightp7; Gazette. The breed of the partridge is likely to be vory great this season: there have been seen m a ny coveys a lready on the wing, and the dry weather and the back ward grass crop will prevent many nests from being de stroyed.--13riyhton Gazette. THE AVRILL, OR WOODWORM. Resting myself one excessively warm day on a projecting block of moor-stone rock on the shore of the Rideau Lake, I took a large clam shell that was lying beside me bleaching in the sun, and pitched it into the pellucid waters. My eye followed it as it sunk zig-zag fashion to the bottom, which seemed to be about twenty feet down ; but on trying it with our sounding ap paratus it astonished me to find the depth forty two feet. How much deeper the eye could have pursued the object there is no saying, as it seemed to increase in size the deeper it went. While pondering on this matter one of our Ca nadian party brought me a large black worm out of the wood in the hollow of his hand ; the same I had often seen before, but never having had leisure to examine him minutely I now set about that very important matter. He was four inches and a quarter long, one quarter of an inch in thickness, had sixteen legs on each side of his belly, making in all thirty-two ; the body was of one thickness from end to end. The tail and head were rounded in the same manner only in the head there seemed to be a mouth, wimble shaped—no doubt set round with cutting edges, if a microscope were brought to assist the vision, as it can bore holes into trees that are in a cer tain state of decay as neatly as any gimlet, hence its French name of avrill. On minute exami nation we also found that it had eight vertebral, or divisions, with four legs to each. The trees which this singular animal seems to admire are those which have been deprived of their bark by age ; it crawls into them first at some crack, or at a hole from which a knot has fallen out ; for be it known that when a tree gets shrunk from the want of sap the knots, being of a hard sub stance, do not shrink so much, but generally either drop out, and leave a hole behind them, or a vacant space partly round between them and the tree ; the reverse being the case when it is young and growing, the knots are then formed by being acted upon by the pressure of timber that keeps swelling about them. Once in this strange worm keeps boring holes to the outer rind, and through it ; for, although the tree has no bark, a hard casement encloses the rotten interior. Now, this would seem to be done for the purpose of introducing moisture, and promoting the decomposition, as nature seems as anxious to encourage decay as growth, and this certainly, does it. A capillary action is brought about by these worms, and moisture conducted through the tree. Were no holes made the casement alluded to would remain for many years, being rendered almost as hard as stone, by the dry weather and heat of the sun. This worm and the woodpecker are never at work on the same tree ; the season for the bird is before the bark falls off, which it greatly pro motes ; that of the worm after. The movements of this worm are not very quick ; when laid down on a warm horizontal rock it travelled about at a yard in a minute. One of the Canadians, unknown to me, took it up and threw it a little way into the lake, where the water was about ten feet deep. This rather displeased me ; the poor fellow, seeing this, was as sorry as myself; so we went down on the lower ledge of the rock, and, what was to me extremely curious, we beheld the avrill crawling slowly on the bottom beneath the deep water. In about five minutes time it reached the bottom of the rock, and continued very slowly to clamber up to the surface, in doing which it seemed to have great difficulty, and was frequently about to relinquish its hold, and fall again to the bottom. Had the lake at this time been the least agitated it would not have succeeded in ascending the face of the rock. At length it came ont very much exhausted, having been be neath the water about twenty minutes. How it can live in such a situation so long I leave it to anatomists to judge ; and how it knew the way direct towards the shore, instead of steering its course farther out, is also a mystery. It must have seen the rock rising up from the water, or the small declivity of the beach might have given it some information as to this. I am thus minute, for worms and their ways are things not suf ficiently attended to by us, although they get our bodies to themselves at last. The manner in which they work out their holes is very curious ; the borings are passed beneath the belly, in a hollow between the rows of legs. These, being strong, move about the dust of the rotten wood. The hollow is not unlike the groove of a gimlet. In Plymouth Sound there is a ma rine worm, about three-quarters of an inch thick, and about the same length as the avrill, which bores holes through the limestone rocks in the bottom of the Sound, where the salt water is from forty to twenty feet deep. I have seen many of these stones so bored, that when inspect ing the bottom with a diving-bell for a good foundation to a sea-wall that was about to be erected we found acres of it bored as with a wimble to a considerable depth ; even many of the limestone blocks that compose the break water in the Sound are bored like a sieve, and actually devoured by this worm. It succeeds in making these holes by putting a quantity of sand before its head, When it works away like a mar ble cutter, making a circular aperture. It may not be proper, perhaps, to say that this worm will gnaw the breakwater so that the damages may take some cash to repair; this work keeps sinking every year ; perhaps it may be mainly attributed to that cause. Thus do we see very insignificant animals perform wonders. The interminable forests of America are cleared of their dead timber by a worm that grinds its hard particles, when the friability of the substance absorbs moisture, and decomposition rapidly ensues. We observe the bottom of the ocean changed in a strange man ner, and the hard rocks reduced to powder ; the sand, in due time, after shifting about from one coast to another, becomes consolidated again somewhere else by meeting with minerals of a plastic composition. In short, look where we will, the constant transition of nature is suffi ciently obvious.—Mactaggares Canada. ItKET.-4uly 15. d . d. Veal Pork 4 0 5 0 4s. 4d. to ss. Od. Quarter old Pirril2s. to 15e. each. A moderate supply, and a dull trade. LARGE PERCH.—Friday there was caught in Castlesemple Loch, the property of Major HARVEY, $ perch of the following dimensions—from the shoulders to the belly, full six inches, and from the mouth to the point of the tail 16 inches. It weighed two pounds 13 ottneel• —Edinburgh Advertiser. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.--Yesterday evening, about seven o'clock, a most frightful accident be fel a fine little boy, about three years of age, son of 111 e• J A cxsorr, mercer, No. 11, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden. Mr. JACKSON was from home on business, and Mrs. J. is now in her accouchement, and the unfortunate child wao therefore left to the care of the servant. About the time above stated the child was observed by the neighbours op posite standing at the second.floor window, which was wide open, and no person standing near it. In a few minutes after the little creature looked out, overbalanced itself, AO shocking to relate, fell into the street, a height of 6() feet- Several persons who saw the accident ran forward ad picked up the little sufferer in a gore of blood, and ran with it into the shop. Mr. Fool's, the surgeon, w . .,s s called in, but a ll hi s exert i ons were use l ess , as th e ch ild was quite dead. BIRTHS. On the 16th inst., in Poland-street, the lady of E4W . Leech, Esq. surgeon, of a daughter. On the 7th inst. at Glanrafin, near Mold, the lady 01 R. W. Lloyd, Esq. of a son. On the 15th inst. in Portland-place, the lady of Jones, Esq. of a son and heir. On the 10th inst. the lady of Charles F. Biggs, Esq• of Blackheath, of a daughter. At the Earl of Egremont'i, in Grosvenor-place, the lady of Col. G. Wyndham, of a daughter. On the 16th inst. in Burton-crescent, the lady of W. Wastell, Esq. of a son. _ MARRIED. On the 16th inst. at Hackney, Mr. T. Rutt, of Man chester, to Sophia, second daughter of the late Mr. S. Shepheard, of Hackney. On the 16th inst. at St. James's, Westminster, Mr. S. Dyer, of Creech, near Taunton, to Amelia Georgians , daughter of Mr. Greening, of Broad-street, Golden-sq. On the 15th inst. at Newnham, the Rev. H. Brom field, son of the Rev. T. Bromfield, Prebendary of Lich field, and Vicar of Naptun and Grandborough, Warwick shire, to Sarah, second daughter of the late H. Hickman , Esq. of Newnharo. At Hereford, the Rev. F. H. Brickenden, Vice Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, to Miss Anne Coyle. On the 16th inst. at Denham, Bucks, T. Upton, Bo:1- second son of John Upton, Esq. of Ingmire Hall, We moreland, to Eliza, second daughter of Benjamin Way, of Denham•place, Esq. DIED. the beloved l t e li v e ed l4 w th ife in e s f t ilr inGrettt Surre a y i _____ Parisian theatre, met with the most flattering success, andandW, Bryan, ' Public - W s4ti a .e l ll w t' or l :h tar S y u A rr n e ll y ' r Ledger newspaper. to Mr. Richards, Proprietor of the An elephant, which has been performing at a _ sister . came forward ~ lone after the fall of the curta r i e n e , amid s s t t loud th nptsopaPatl, Ann, eldest daughter of the Bei. appl tuse, in gratitude for which he madeth t b h o e w rar o isian e J. Hatchard, vicar of St. Andrew's, Plymouth. audience ! Such is really the statement of On the 12th inst. Mr. Abraham Delvalle, late of Surrey' critics. street, Strand. In the autumn of 1826, a straggling pheasant On the 15th inst. in the 17th year of hi s a g e , Dougla ; made his appearance in a small valle y of the Grampians , Ommanuy, fourth so n o f W m . R o th ery , E sq . o f V er non. the first of his tribe wh o had ventured so far north in that p lace, B loomsbury. Y On the 15th inst. in Northurnherle44.otre e t, Mrs. S. Particular district. Fo r some time be was occasionally observed, and the act u a l p resence of this rarer atns w a s D over, of Kensington, aged 57, disputed by many. Winter's wants, ho7ever, brought On the 15th inst. at 13 a ld oc k, H er tf or d s hi re , th e Rev. C. d him more frequently into notice, and, in ue season, . Anderson, of Cloahurn, Nll. pm pr oofs more unequ ivocal became rife. When the chicken On the 14th inst . Fr ances H enr i e tt a , w if e o f B. Gs l b r roods came forth, and began to assume a shape alui Rouviere, Esq. of Y a t e l y , H ants. f o r no small admiration was excited by pertain stately, I Y son of George Carr Glynn, Esq. On the 13th inst. in Southwark, Capt. ThomaS BY" 1 - :,: ta il ei i, game -looking birds, standing forth amongst Hinton, R.N. aged 72. On the 14th inst. George, third son of Mr. G. Wright? doubts of the Aldgate. chanticleer effectually vanished. The hylirids partaking On the 15th inst. at Hastings, Riversdale Robert, third PAINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, at tis• ....,_,- __...-- l*a.aregeanodf thlisenpiyheca.osaansttitcaltiaiernac,taeru, useful and a a n s d t a h g e re y eaarhelee variety goodl i economical manne i i s ib ' r our poultry andyarrd.s.....mgayuaber•steerci;trireodurinnaalovier3;tersimicp4lieture. Omer, 112, STRAND, LONDON. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEVC. Wheat. Barley. Oats. BeanS., Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. g. 1 0 Blandford '72 40 Brigg _ 63 68 21 24 16 26 Cambridge 68 IS Chard 56 '76 32 38 24 30 42 . a . '" Huntingd0n............ 61 '7O 28 38 19 23 31 Long Sutton--.... 54 63 17 22 35' Louth Lynn 5B 66 28 32 18 28 36 3 2, Newark 64 '7O 30 36 24 28 40 Nottingham ..... .. 67 78 34 40 26 32 43 Peterborough . 56 '7B 37 40 18 25 3'7 41 Plymouth 66 78 32 39 24 30 Pontefract . 70 39 23 7 Sleaford 66 72 30 33 22 24 50 44 Uppingham Wisbech 54 64 18 24 36 .1" LEEDS CORN M A RKET.—JuIy 14. The supply of Wheat has been large again to-day, O . greatest part foreign ; the supply of other kinds of Grain small, except Beans which have been a fair supply. Fine New Wheat has been taken off freely at lsst Tuesdai l price, and rather more demand for other descriptions °I, , New and Ohl that is fresh. Barley nominal. Oats an ° Shelling have been sold on the same terms as Wit web' ' Beans and Pease dull sale at last week's price. In IVIA Flour, and Rapeseed, no material alteration in price. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffhlk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe —Mealing, Foreign lid. to 13d....English 12%c1. to I4d. per t^ Shelling 335. to 3.5.. per loaa• Rapeseed, English, 271. to 291 Foreign, —l. to —l. per lAA LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE—JuIy 14. At this morning's market fresh parcels of foreign SJ I the choicest Irish Wheats met a moderate demand, at 0 advance of about 2d. per bushel on the quotations of bol t Tuesday, but there was little or no inquiry for the info' nor description. Oats were held at a similar advance► and for some very choice Irish Ss. 6d. per 451 b. iva ° realized ; the sales were, however, to a very limited ex tent. Barley was fully Sd. per 6011). dearer, and very little offering. No change in the value of either Fleer or Oatmeal. WHEAT, English, White, per '7olb. Red —• Scotch, Welch, and Mani .."•..•......• 10 0 10 6 Irish, White 9 6 10 0 Red 8 6 9 6 Foreign 9 0 10 0 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 7 3 0 Irish Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 32 0 36 0 —..—.— Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. Feeding 4 4 5 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 43 0 Irish, &c. Foreign PRASE, English, per Imperial quarter ..... 38 0 41 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 5O 0 52 0 Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 29 0 31 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per imperial quarter .. . . _ IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Weed ending July 13. Wheat. I Oats. I Barley Flour. Oatmeal. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 1 I Foreign, Brie Irish, &c. Scks . toads. 8,429 4,550 114 3 ,381 1,268 1,423 GLASGOW RETAIL 8eef.......per lb N. 4d. to Os. 9d. Mutton 0 4 0 "I Veal 0 6 0 8 Hams 0 5 0 64 Lamb per. qr. 1 6 4 0 quarternLoaf... 0 9 0 11 Hour, per stone 2 0 3 4 Rye 1 6 1 8 MARKETS.—JuIy 13. Oatmeal, per at. 2s. Od. to 20. 6a• Peasemeal 2 0 3 Pot Barley, cwt 13 0 17 0 Pearl ditto.... IB 0 24 0 Grey Pease 12 0 14 0 White ditto 12 0 14 0 Blue ditto l2 0 20 0 SOUTHALL MARKET.—JuIy 15. This day's market having been largely supplied, 0 ,1 not very numerously attended either by London or cowl' try buyers, each kind of meat met with a very dull sale, at the following prices per stone of 81b. to sink the offals Beef 28.10(1. to 45. Od Veal 45. Od. to ss. 04 ' I Mutton 3 0 4 0 Pork 310 410 Lard) ~,.,,,..,,,,...4 5 . .,,.,,,..,,,,...4 5 . A.... A . .. ss. Od. The foregoing quotations are Beef, Mutton, and Veal,.* Lamb and Pork 4d., per stone lower than on this day se'nutgb' Much of the supply left the market unsold. HAI LSHAM MARKET.—JuIy 15. Beef*. Se. 9d. to 48. Od. 4e. 4d. to 4s. 011• I 4 0 4 6 Pork U 0 0 0 - • . Lamb 4s. 4d. to 45. A great supply, and a very dull trade. STEYNING MARKET.—JuIy 13. Beef-, 39.6 d. to Is. 4tl. Veal ................-... 46. Al. to.4s. 6 4- Mutton ..,... r.3 8 4 6 I P0rk...—:,...... 0 0 -0 •ik Lamb _ 4d. 4d. to 59. 4d. A moderate supply. and a dull trade. ____ ARUNDEL MARKET.—JuIy 14. 3s. 2d. to 48. 2d. I Veal 4a, Oa. to 4s. 4d• Mutton 3 4 4 4 I Pontl 0 0 0 0 Lamb 4s. Od. to 58. 2ti. A good supply, and a dull trade. CHICHESTER M ARK ET.—July 15. Beef—. - :Is. 0.1. to 48. 2d. I _ 4s. Od. to 4s. 41. Mutton 3 0 4 4 or 0 0 0 0 Lamb _ 4e. Od. to 55..0d. Store Sheep and Store Beasts were in increased demand, at ra ther improved juices. A good supply, and with fat Stock a very dull trade. RUMFORD Mi I d. to s. d. Reef 3 0 4 2 Mutton 3 0 4 0 Lam!, Suckling Calves from 14s. to 305,; --! / CITY 1N r i II Iv; it),l A ( -.AN( o'clock Th e plied 11 of into, Referel Pet Ar Julr IrAi atin, e gitiraf, lot In, arld I►lenta, Ware-1 l'i Pertip r Thm. l an , vsott/ ar e; voll, bo o row P r i, —___