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quillising, is quite general. There is not the smallest notice of any measures, either taken, or contemplated, with a view to put an end to the hostilities between the Russians and Turks. So much for his Majesty's speech. The Paris Papers of Monday, and the Gazette de France dated Tuesday, contain little that is possessed of interest. The Constitutionnel says, that neither M. de Polignac nor M. de Renneval will be the new Minister ; that M. de Portalis fills the office for the interim. We know of nothing which so much detracts from the power of writers as the practice of abusing or praising every measure, according to the source whence it originates. The French Journals are, we think, too much characterised by this disposition to praise or blame en masse. As an instance, the Constitutionnel attacks with great bitterness some new regula tions promulgated by the Director• General of the Indirect Contributions, respecting the mar riages of the supernumerary clerks, who must obtain the consent of the Administration. The Journalist, with indignant eloquence, commences by observing, that " Hitherto wise Governments have always favoured marriage; encouragements and favours were even granted to fathers of fa milies." Wise Governments may save them selves the trouble of encouraging what men are sufficiently inclined to do, if they can support families. The Director of the Administration of Indirect Taxes no doubt considers the allow ance of the Supernumerary Clerks not equal to the maintenance of a family ; and having little doubt that the French King will never be in want of subjects from any aversion to marriage, wishes to trust the gathering of the taxes to persona who can only maintain families by dia . honesty. Soldiers may also obtain the consent of their officers to marriage, but we never heard this regulation objected to.—Morning Citron. While the friends of Catholic Emancipatie,,, in this country are amusing themsclvea on the probability of the Duke of Northumberland be coming a convert to its nP..ceSsity and policy, and the Catholic agitator; in the sister kingdom are spouting every ;species of calumny against him, the Orange Press of that country teams with the most extraordinary and ridiculous anticipations of the benefits which will flow from his appoint ment. " Under the auspices of such a chief Governor," says one of them, " Trade cannot fail to improve daily, and ultimately flourish. His Grace's dignity, affability, firmness, and in dependence, will secure him against the assaults of faction : the wily promoters of agitation, and lovers of false popularity, will not be permitted to pollute his ear ; and an impartial administra tion of the laws will consequently flow from such a high-minded source. Ireland under such an Administration cannot fail to be restored to her propriety. All that is needed for the ac complishment of this great object is, a rigorous enforcement of the law, without fear, favour, or affection, and a proper impulse given to trade. The known impartial and established expendi ture of his Grace eminently fit him for these ends ; and we look with confidence to the consummation of peace, happiness, and pro sperity, under his I,enign influence." In continuation of su:sh sanguine anticipations of good, we only bay may half of what is expected be realised. His Grace of Northumberland, we hope, Is. both affable and dignified ; for both qualities will do much to conciliated the disaf fected ; and, we trust, also, that he has firmness and independence to secure him against the assaults of faction ; for in no country did faction ever reign with such unbounded license as in Ireland at the present moment, and in no country, in consequence, were firmness and in dependence so much required. But men who have been untried in such scenes are not the most likely to immortalize themselves in this way ; and our hopes, in consequence, of the Duke of Northumberland making a display of such qualifications are not over sanguine. The Orange Press of Ireland, however, might be forgiven, for indulging in this sort of twaddle ; for the new Viceroy is a Duke, and a Duke, every one knows, possesses graces to which a Marquis or a Commoner has no pretensions. But it is most unpardonable, and most melan choly, to find the same Papers attempting to persuade the people of Ireland that because his Grace possesses a large fortune " trade connot fail to improve daily, and ultimately flourish." His Grace's income, we dare say, amounts to 150,000/. or 200,0001.; and the expenditure of such a sum would undoubtedly be a fine penny among those of the Dublin people whose services might be required by the Lord Lieutenant ; but what is it, let us ask, when diffused among the whole of the people of Ireland ? Not a sixpence a-head ! and, there fore, unless his Grace of Northumberland dis cover other modes of " improving the trade, and promoting the prosperity of Ireland," we trust we may be forgiven fur despairing of their being effected by these means. No. If the Duke of Northumberland means to apply himself seri ously to the improvement of Ireland, he must adopt far other modes than that of merely spend ing money. He must be not only "firm and independent," so as "to secure him against the assaults of faction ;" but he must endeavour to reconcile the factions by whose discords Ireland is torn and ruined ; he must try to promote a spirit of kindness and mutual goodwill among them, instead of .the malevolent dispositions by which they are now governed ; to excite mutual confidence, and to divert their attention from the petty squabbles which now occupy it, to im proving the trade, the agriculture, and the Ma nufacture: of the country ; and, above all, its peace and tranquillity, without which neither can flourish. If his Grace can effect these objects, nothing in the shape of eulogy will re main undeserved by him ; but as to private fortune, however applied, doing anything for the permanent welfare of Ireland, it is, we affirm, neither more or less than mere nonsense.— Morning Advertiser. Among, the improvements contemplated in the practice of the Common Law Courts, for the more simple and expeditious administration of Justice, it were well if the abolition of the absurd monopoly in the Court of Common Pleas were included. The throwing open of that " close borough" of the " Learned Sergeants," would he of great advantage to the public, and would be the cause, eventually, of relieving the Court of King's Bench of a part of its great arrears of term business. The public are never so well served by a monopoly as by an open competition. Where the latter prevails, men are apt to find their level—in the former, incapacity is too often artificially elevated into the situation that merit ought to occupy. It is preposte rous that the ablest men in the King's Bench cannot argue any motion whatever in the Court of Common Pleas in banco,and that whatever con fidence a client may have in his counsel who is not of the degree of the coif, he cannot employ him in that Court in any of the business of the term,while the Sergeants who monopolise the practice of that Court are as free to argue in the Court of King's Bench as in their own. Much has been said of late of the " reciprocity system"— where is it in this case ? What is the conse quence of this exclusiveness of practice in the Common Pleas ? It causes a vast accumulation of business in the King's Bench, because the open competition of that Court produces more professional excellence. This occasions the Judges of that Court to have fsr more than their fair quantum of labour, while the public business is proportionably retarded. The monopoly in the Common Pleas also has the effect of beget ting remissness on the part of the Sergeants to their client's affairs, who would find it indispen sable to be more punctual in their attendance if the Court were thrown open to the profession at large. An instance occurred on Monday last illus trating the great public inconvenience arising out of this system. At the close of the day Ulises were called on, in which two Ltarned Sergeants were concerned. It appeared that both these gentlemen had gone home. The Chief Justice Best, who is not accustomed to mince matters, where the public interests are sacrificed to any private objects of the profession, remarked that " it was impossible to do public justice if gen tlemen of the Bar, in that privileged Court, did not attend. The Court," he observed, " might as well be shut up, and he gave notice that in future, when gentlemen were absent, the Court would proceed with the business, as well as it could, without their assistance." This was plain language. The Chief Justice is accustomed to speak in this decided manner of abuses in the practice of the law; but, instead of "shutting up the Court," it would, perhaps, be better to try the experiment of throwing it completely open to the profession at large—then the Sergeants would. always be found at their posts.—Morning Herald. The Roman Catholic - Demagogues of Ire land, and the Protestants who espouse their cause, are busily engaged in negociatiug the con ditions of a new confederacy, intended to assi milate and combine them more completely than their common enmity to the Constitution now does. This we should have thought an unne cessary project, since the two parties to the me ditated treaty are now seen to work together with a degree of unanimity and zeal which no new arrangement, no new denomination, no new sym bol of union, can well increase for the promo tion of their common object, the overthrow of the British Constitution. The scheme, so far as it has yet been permitted to transpire, appears to be one which, under the name and appear ance of mutual concession and accommodation, will render the Pro-Popery Protestants who embark in it more than ever, if possible, the slaves of the Popish Agitators, lay and ecclesiastical. It is proposed that the name of the Association shall be changed from Catho lic to Irish ; that its meetings shall be some what less frequent than at present ; and, that the speakers shall be precluded from indulging in topics of a purely religious nature. These are the concessions which O'Connell, Sheil, and the other Popish Leaders offer ; and in return for which they expect that the Pro-Popery Protestants will unite themselves in a body to the Association, and not only, as they now do, promote its objects by their votes and speeches in Protestant and Constitutional Assemblies, but habitually, actively, and zealously, take a part in the proceedings of this Irish Asso ciation, and contribute their fair quota to all the agitation, the clamour, the frenzy, the wickedness, and the folly, of which it is intended to be, and doubtless will be, the source. The effect of a league of this nature upon the character and station of the Protestants who enter into it cannot for a mo ment be doubted. They will become the myr midons and slaves of O'Connell, or of whomso ever else may be from time to time the Popish Leader in virtue of the patronage of the Priest, and the support of the mob following implicitly that patronage. To this low state of degrada tion the Protestant advocates of Popery will be visibly sunk, for if they attempt to make head against the Popish authorities in an Irish Asso ciation formed under such auspices, and for such purposes, as that in contemplation, they will become the object of greater odium and more relentless persecution than even if they were Orangemen. They are persons for the greater part who would sink to any degradation rather than encounter these disadvantages, and of this their past conduct is a proof. They will then, indeed, be scarcely more degraded than they are now. The chief difference is, that their degradation will be then somewhat more conspicuous. The menials of Popery they are already, and why should they refuse to wear the badge and livery of a servitude they willingly endured. We trust to the wisdom and vigour of the Legislature for the adoption of prompt and effectual measures to abolish and suppress for ever all Associations ill Ireland, under what ever name, of which the object or the tendency is to exercise the political power of the Roman Catholics. But while we await these measures in the fullest confidence that they will be re sorted to, inasmuch as their necessity becomes every day more evident, we cannot but re joice when we hear the leaders of an As sociation inimical to the Constitution make that confession of weakness and apprehension, which is implied in their anxiety to change its name and constitution ; and we rejoice the more when we perceive that the meditated change is rot calculated, whatever its projectors may in tend or believe, to increase the power of the Association, or to promote the cause of Popery; but on the contrary, to impair the one and ob struct the other. The Protestants who are em barked in pursuit of the same unconstitutional and ruinous object with the Roman Catholic Association, - so long as they keep aloof from it, and appear to act independently of it, pos sess some small degree of influence, and claim at least the privilege of being heard in more re spectable and constitutional assemblies. But let them once enter into in open and avowed alli ance with the men who are and must remain the leaders of the Association, and this influence and this privilege will of course be at an end.-- Morning Post. COMPROMISE WITH THIEVES.—TWO Dutch mails that came in with two bac% and bad in them 5,0001., or, as some say, 10,000/. of Spanish coined and uncoined gold, for some of our merchants in London, were robbed very lately near Guildford, by some sparks, who no doubt had intelligence of the purchase beforehand ; and it is noti fied, that if the persons will produce and refund their prize, they shall have both his Majesty's pardon, and HU into the bargain. April, 1686.—Ellis Correspondence. IRRlTATlON.—Excitability is essential to th e continuaance of life. The effect of excitation on the nerves, as every where else, is to produce a movement of contraction. If this movement, which in a healthy stat e is repeated a certain number of times in a certain period, becomes quicker excitation changes its name, and becomes irritation and a malady. Simple irritation differs from in flammation in that the latter particularly affects the cellu lar systems and the blood vessels, and leads to a train of disorders which irritation alone never produce*. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN 28. THE KING V. PETER JONES. Mr. BROUGHAM shewed cause against a rule for a criminal information against the defendant, ob tained by Mr. Pollock. The rule was obtained upon affidavits, stating that the defendant, who was a linen-draper In Chester, had, upon various occasions between 1824. and 1826, used insulting and menac ing language towards the complainant, Mr. Murrell, a Magistrate of the county, sometimes in the pre sence of female branches of his family, and always under aggravated circumstances; and that upon the 24th of November, 1826, he wrote hi►n a letter, couched in terms calculated to incite the party to whom it was addressed to a breach of the peace. It was headed " Great Sir," and went on to express the writer's contempt for Mr. Murrell's threats, as well as for his person. Allusion was made to im putations thrown out upon Jones being an unquali fied sportsman, and it concluded by offering, if Murrell could find a single person, and laying his hand upon his heart, should say that he was an honest man, he (Jones) would give up his cause." It was also sworn that Jones had applied the offen sive term " coward" to the applicant, and that he had invited him to salute a particular part of his person in a way unpalatable to a man of taste and a gentleman. The Learned Counsel now submitted that the case upon the other side omitted several important facts, and was imperfect, as it began too late. He then read passages from several persons, speaking to offensive language used by the com p!ainant towards the defendant, upon many occasions between 1824 and 1826. It appeared from them that Mr. Murrell was an apothecary, and that the dif ferences between the two parties arose out of the Game Laws. Mr. Murrell was in the habit of brand ing the defendant as a most notorious poacher, and of calling him a - scoundrel, and other such names. Mr. Brougham was proceeding with the reading of the affidavits, which set out with these expressions, when Lord TENTERDEN observed, it was quite clear, from the language used by these parties to each other, that, if there had been the least disposition on either side to break the peace, abundance of provocation and of opportunity had been long ago afforded them.— (Laughter.) The rule must be discharged, and in the usual way : we say nothing about costs. YATMAN V. SIR H. W. WILSON. Mr. DENMAN moved for a rule to show cause why a submission to arbitration, entered into by the de fendant, should not be made a rule of Court. He moved upon affidavits which stated that, in June 1826, Sir Henry Wright Wilson carried on a contest far the representation of East Retford, at which Mr. Yatman acted as his agent and solicitor. A re turn was made, which was referred to a Committee of the House of Commons; and, throughout these proceedings, the plaint iffdefrayed the expenses, which were very considerable. The amount of his bill was 2,oool.—Application refused. ARCHES' COURT, Jaw. 28. Charles Arthur Bedford, Esq. and John Box, Esq. were this day admitted, with the usual forma lities, of the number of procurators-general exercent in this Court, by virtue of rescripts from his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. HAMERTON V. HAMERTON. Dr. LUSHINOTON again moved, that the conclu sion of this cause might be rescinded, for the admis sion of a further allegation on behalf of the husband, setting forth additional facts to prove adultery com mitted by Mrs. Hamerton at Paris. He grounded his motion on an affidavit of Major Hamerton, stat ing, that during the residence of Mrs. Hamerton in the Rue Neuve St. Augustine, in that city, she had been visited by Mr. Bushe, and that the additional facts led to the conclusion that adultery had been committed by them, which facts had recently come to his knowledge. The COURT declined rescinding the conclusion at present. The motion might stand over till next Court-day, to give time to the other party to read the affidavits, when they might be heard in oppo sition. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 28. Richard Jackson was opposed, on his application to be discharged, by Mr. D. PoLtocx, on behalf of Messrs. Wilmot, Goodall, and Ce. bankers, of Coventry. The insolvent, who is upwards of 80 years of age, stated that his son banked with the opposing cre ditors for several years to a considerable amount. In the beginning of last year, his son was applied to by Messrs. Wilmot and Co. for 3001. they having, as they stated, a demand against him to that amomit. He disputed this debt, but the creditors said, that if the insolvent would give: a promissory note for 3001. he should hear no further about it, and he con sequently did so, on his son assigning over his pro perty to him, which lie valued at 500/. Shortly , after this the insolvent was arrested, and was com mitted to Warwick gaol, having antecedently dis posed of the property assigned to him by his son, for 2801., and with that sum paid several creditors. After remaining four months in Warwick gaol he bailed out, and sold his stock in trade as a farmer for 1701., and after paying a few trifling debts, ex • pended the residue for his support ; and in Novem ber last, surrendered to the King's Bench PrisOn in discharge of his bail. The only creditors of any consequence in the insolvent's schedule were the opposers. . . . Mr. POLLOCK handed in several affidavits, from which it appeared, that on the insolvent's son as signing his property to his father, it was valued at .500/., and in a month after only produced 2001, and consequently the auctioneer was of opinion that some had been concealed. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER Was clearly of opinion that a case of fraudulent making away with property had been established, and ordered the insolvent to be remanded for 10 calendar months. CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Saturday last an Inquest was held at the Roebuck, Great Dover-road, on the body of Mr. James Barfoot, a student of medicine be longing to one of the Borough Hospitals. who destroyed himself by taking prussic acid. It was proved on evidence that he was subject at times to fits of nervousness and despondency, the Jury therefore returned fur verdict that " the deceased had destroyed himself by taking prussic acid, being at the time in an unsound state of mind." On Thursday last a case of gross outrage %las investigated at Lincoln, which is likely to prove of serious consequence to the party implicated. A youth, named ' Robert Fish, a labourer in Eustgate, was chervil by Mary Ruston, a young woman in the service of Captain Lucas, whose house is a short distance from the town on the mid to Nettleliam, with a violent assault. 'I he assault took place on the previous Monday night last, the complulnant fciing from home fetching beer from the Dolphin public house ; and the watchman and others who ran to the spot, on heariag her cries, were in time to see the fellow escap ing in a very suspicious condition. He was fib) , corn mitind to the city gaol for the ensuing Assizes, on a charge of " violently assaulting" the complainant. The young woman is about 23 years of age.---Boston Gazette. A DELICATE SPECIMEN OF TORY SENSI BILITY.—At the Annual Meeting of a Benevolent Society, held in Denbighshire a few days ago, and comprising wriongst its members tl.e leading gentlemen of the county, it was proposed to nominate his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex as Patron of the Institution—a feeling- prompted by the liberal, kind, and condescending manner in which his Royal Highness contributed to the eclat of the late Eistedd-forl at Denbigh, &c. A Tory, from an English county, at present vegetating in Wales, eonnutio foil:cuts stabili, took alarm at the intimation, and whispertsl to his neighbour, who was to bring forward the 'notion, that it was more than his finely attuned Tory sensibility could endure, to hear the nomination of such a Whig Patron, &c., and he, therefore, begged to receive a hint before the thing came on, in order that he might leave the room pro tern pore, which he accordingly did. It is to be observed that there were several other high Tories in the room, who haul, however, sufficient nerve to hear the awful sound without emotion ; but they were gentlemen of long stand ing in the county, endued with native bravery, and conse quently, not at all likely to follow the example of their nouveau renu ranaway.—Morning Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A decision was given by Sir PETER LAURIE at this Justice-room yesterday, affecting the monopoly enjoyed by the members of the Fellowship of Car men, of plying fur hire in the City. A carman was summoned for taking lip a load of furniture at No. 72, Aldermanburv, and carrying it out of the City, he not being duly licensed by the Governors of Christ's Hospital, contrary to the rules made by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, in quarter sessions, pursuant to an Act of Parliament. One of the clauses of the order of sessions enacts, that no person shall drive any cart for hire in the City of London, without licence from the Governors of Christ's Hospital ; and the owner shall pay a yearly rent of 17s. 4d. for every cart, &e.; and if any one offend in the premises, he shall forfeit, for every offence, 40s. The present complaint was laid by an officer belonging to Christ's Hospital. Mr. Holder, jun., attended on behalf of the de fendant, and objected that the magistrate had no authority in the case. The rules set forth, that they were made conformably to the act of Parliament, but, on reference to the act, it would be found that the magistrates were authorised merely to make re gulations for the town carmen : they were not em powered to make the regulation which his client was charged with infringing. Sir PETER LA;URI - E, under the advice of the clerks, held the objection to be fatal, and dismissed the complaint. BOW-STREET. A respectable looking woman, who stated that she lived at No. 1, Pancras-road, came before Mr. BALLS, to state that an old woman, who had come from thz country about a fortnight ago, to pay a visit to the applicant, had most unaccountably dis appeared on Tuesday week, and had not since been heard of. She went on that day to visit some friends Who lived beyond Chelsea, and in the evening she was seen as far as Chelsea College, on her way to the applicant's house. The poor woman was 71 years of age, and it was much to be feared that she had been unfairly dealt with. Her friend.; were in the greatest possible alarm respecting her, and had used every exertion, but in vain, to discover her re mains, as they conceived that nothing but death could have caused her absence. Mr. HALLS directed that the patrol at Chelsea should be apprised of the circumstance; and he also desired that an officer should go round to the diffe rent hospitals and poor-houses that side of the town, in case the poor woman should have met with an accident, and been conveyed to one of them. MARYLEBONE. On Tuesday night, Joseph Roberts, a young man decently dressed in the habit of a groom, was brought before Mr. GRIFFITH, to answer the following charge. Peter Free, Esq., of Hyde-park-place West, com plained that the females of his family had been re peatedly insulted in a manner most offensive by the prisoner, and he, in order that he might bring him to justice, remained at home on Friday, for the pur pose of watching him. About one or two o'clock he saw the prisoner walking up and down a path in Hyde-park, which is opposite his house, and not much frequented, and when any lady came near a window, he made a most disgusting exposure of his person. Mr. Free ran over to Cumberland-gate, a►►d desired the keeper to follow and secure him, but the keeper said he could not leave his duty, and another opportunity to apprehend him did not occur till Tuesday afternoon. The prisoner said he was a groom out of employ, and went into the Park on Friday to pass away his time. If any thing like what he was charged with took place, it was accidental, and occasioned by ne cessity; he had no recollection of it, and he waa sure he had no wish to insult any one. He had been in London about 18 months, during which time he was in the service of two or three stable-keepers, and before that he lived with the Earl of Surrey, in Oxfordshire, two years and a half. Mr. GRIFFITH said, to complete the charge, it was necessary to have the evidence of one or two ladies, whose feelings had been outraged by his con duct, and who had witnessed a repetition of it. Mr. Free said they would come forward, although it was a very unpleasant task, rather than suffer such a miscreant to escape. Their statements were taken yesterday by Mr. GRIFFITH in his private room, and the prisoner was sentenced to three months' hard labour (that is, to work at the tread-mill) in the House of Correction. MARLBOROUGH.STREET. Amongst the applications to Mr. ROE for relief from the parish of St. Giles was a follower of Thespis, named Daniel O'Leary, who had experi enced a singular reverse of fortune. .He said he was al years of age, and he was born at Bordeaux, where his father was an officer in the Irish Brigade, in the service of France. The Revolution drove him to this country, and he embraced the theatrical profession, in which he sustained the comic caste of character with considerable success, and he brought up his eldest son also to the stage. About nine years ago his mother-in-law died, and left him some property upon condition of his abandoning the " sock and buskin." He unfortunately embarked his ca pital in setting up a boarding-school, which failed, and he then returned to the stage. His last ap pearance before an audience was six weeks ago at Stowe, in 'Buckinghamshire, where the Manager (Mr. Lawrence) became insolvent, and the troop dispersed. He came to London, with his wife and five children, in hopes of obtaining an engagement at one of the Theatres, and he applied to Mr. Ellis ton for employment, as his wife had been for some years a pupil of Mrs. Elliston's, who taught her dancing. Mr. Elliston, however, had declined to engage him, and he had been equally unsuccessful with the- other Managers. He now wanted 2/. to get down to Ballam, in Norfolk, where his wif e ' s friends resided.—Mr. Nangle, the Overseer, gave the unfortunate actor an order for bread and cheese and soup for himself and family, and promised that the Board would take his case into consideration. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday John Langford, was examined before W. BENETT, Esq., on a charge of rape. Jane Shaw, an interesting young woman, deposed, the prisoner has kept my company about three weeks, and had promised me marriage ; on Tuesday night, the 20th instant, I went to his house by his own request, for the purpose of arranging the marriage; I had been in the room a short time when he locked the daor, tin ew me on the bed, and abused my per son ; he kept me in his bed-room all night ; I re sisted and called out murder, but no one came to my assistance. Mr. James Brown, son of James Brown, senior, the proprietor of the Turk and Slave, Brick-lane, Bethnul Green, stated, I was at the prisoner's house on the night of the 20th instant, where I saw the witness Shaw sitting on the prisoner's knee, and kissing him ; I told her the consequences if she stopped with hist, she did not try to get away, but appeared very friendly with him; about twelve o'clock the same night, the prisoner's brother was knocking at the door for about an hoar, and no per son came, or made the least noise. If she had called out, I mast have heard her. Shaw--Did you not call the prisoner a villain, for not putting up the banns, and marrying me? (Laughter.) Mr. Brown—l did. Shaw—Yes, and you kissed me yourself. Mr. Brown.—l know I did, and v►anted yon the!' to leave the house. Shaw—l tried to get away from the villain, and he would not let me. Though Sharp, I was not sharp enough for him. (The prisoner was here re moved a short distance from the witness or his face would have been pretty well scratched.) Prisoner---D— it all, why don't you sit down and rest yourself ? Shaw—Oh you wretch, you villain, (holding her fist at him.) Prisoner--Now then it is my turn—she got into my bed, and I did not push her out again. Mr. BENETT—Mr. Brown's statement alters the case materially. The prisoner must be discharged. COURT OF LIEUTENANCY. Yesterday a Court of Lieutenancy was held at the Guildhall, in the city, upon a subject of con siderable importance. This Court exercises a ,ju risdiction, amongst other things, over the City Militia. Some of the Members of the Corporation con stitute this Court, which, as it is very seldom occu pied with business, rarely assembles more than once a-year. PROPOSITION FROM THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. The Court received a proposition from the Duke of Wellington, statiMg, that as the City Staff ap peared to be supported with some inconvenience to thu Citizens of London, and as there was no proba bility that advantage would arise to the military service from continuing it in its present condition, the Court would act with wisdom in reducing it still more. It appears that citizens are elected triennially to serve in the City Militia, and an expellee of some moment is necessarily incurred by the appointment, the fees arising from which are called trophy money. This has been sometimes complained of as quite unnecessary, and indeed it will appear to he so, to any one who has beheld the City Militia for these last dozen years. The Duke of Wellington, it is supposed by some politicians in the city, has taken umbrage, together with his colleagues, at the reception which Mr. Peel's communication on the subject of doing away the necessity of having warrants backed in the city, met with in the Court of Aldermen. Their in ference from this refusal of the city to agree in the suggestion of the Secretary of State is, that several little modes of exhibiting the feeling of the Govern ment will be adopted to the annoyance of the Cor poration. Others say, that this suggestion of the Duke of Wellington is made to show how pacifically inclined his Grace is, and how little chance there exists that a war will break out during his administration, if there did, the City Militia must, they guess, be put into immediate requisition, and much injury might be done to the service by disbanding or re ducing. it. The Court, after having deliberated upon the pro position, determined to concur in it, and measures will, we understand, be immediately taken to effect a further reduction of the Staff. It is, it has been said, the wish of the Duke to reduce the Staff to a mere skeleton. The only in dividuals who have a personal interest in keeping up this military establishment are Sir C. S. Hunter, the Colonel, and Alderman Joshua Jonathan Smith, the Lieutenant-Colonel, of the Militia. THE COAL TRADE OF THE TYNE AND WEAR. The combination—no, that is not the word, for Sir Matthew White Ridley says he knows of no such combination—then the understanding, for we will not stop to parley about a word—the under standing among the Coal-owners of the Tyne and Wear to restrict the quantity of coals wrought in the pits and carried to market, expired naturally with the last year. No less than three meetings have been held as to the renewal of this agreement; and it has not yet been decided on. The last meet- ing was a committee meeting held on Saturday, but it ended like the rest in smoke. The cause of this difficulty in clubbing together on this occasion, we understand, is to be found in Lord Durham's making a demand for a greater share in the vend than he has hitherto had. To make the matter more intelli gible to persons unacquainted with the subject, we may observe, that the whole produce of the coal mines on the Tyne and Wear is called the basis— this basis may be said, for example, to be divisible into five parts, two of which are assigned to the Wear, and three to the Tyne. The owners, then, of the different collieries, according to their magnitude or importance, lay claim to their portion of the quantity to be wrought and sold. Lord Durham, of course, in the last year's division, had his quantum stated; hot we hear that the Committee of Coal•owners would not let him send that quantity to market as he chose, but as they chose, in order that the market might not be too well supplied ; or, in other words, that the price might not be allowed to get down. Nay, they went so far, we have been informed, as not to allow his Lordship to have his quantum in any way. The consequence is, that Lord Durham not only now wamts to have the same stock allowed for sale that he had last year, but he has increased his de mand, and desires, moreover, to have the balance of last year added to it. This, of course, the rest of the Coal-owners are very unwilling to accede to, for as only a limited quantity altogether is to be sent to market, what Isis Lordship gets more than usual they must get less. The coal trade is now open, therefore, till the understanding is renewed again. We have. repeatedly expressed our opinion on this subject, and we do it once more most unequivocally. We think the combination among the Coal-owners— for that is the nature of their union, whatever they call it—we think the combination is bad in every re spect ; it is bad for the Coal-owners themselves, be cause they do not receive so much money as they would otherwise do, if the trade was open and they sent more coals to market—it is bad for the working class of people, for fewer are employed than would otherwise be, and those are less constantly em ployed than they would be, and consequently get less wages; it is bad for the trading part of the com munity, the shopkeepers in Newcastle, Sunderland, and Shields; for as there is less business there is less money, and, more evidently still, it is bad for the ship-owners and all dependent on them ; for by this system of restriction, much fewer vessels are employed than might be, and those that are em ployed are not near so well paid for their freights as they should and would be, if the coals were reduced in price. But, above all, the system of restriction is to be reprobated, because it proceeds on the sup position that the people of London and elsewhere can get no coals except from the Tyne and Wear. No fallacy can be more gross. Their sending only a limited quantity to market does a serious injury, then, to our port, while it is doing a great service to Stock ton and other ports, which supply the wants we should have been supplying. Whatever may be done, therefore, it is perfectly clear to us that it is the decided interest of the public at large that' the combination should end, and not be again renewed. River 'Wear Vend of Coals, sworn to before the Commissioners of the River Wear, January 21, 1829, from the 30th of June to and with the 31st of December, 1828 :—M. J. Davison, Esq. 12,559 chaldrons; Lord Durham 29,358 ; Ditto, for New bottle Colliery 43,306 ; The Marquis of London derry 73,856; William• Russell, Esq. and Co. 3,722; Ditto for North Hetton 20,026; W. Sto bart, jun. Esq. 14,578 f ; the Hetton Coal Com pany 55,161; Thomas Wade, Esq. 9,554; Total 267,120 i. The total vend in 1827 was 493,670; ditto, 1828, 501,0671; increase in the year 7,3971. —Tyne Mercury. The number of prisoners in France now un dergoing punishment is 20,300,—vi5., men : for crimes, 4,700 ; for misdemeanours, 9,600. Women : galleys, 1,000 ; solitary confinement, 1,800 ; lighter penalties, 3,200. —Paris Paper. The Captain of an American vessel was lately drowned, and the following curious means were adopted to find his body :—Two 24-pounders, charged with small shot, were fired over the surface of the water where the body was supposed to be. It was supposed that the shock given to the water by the simultaneous detonation of the two cannons, would cause the body to float ; but though the experiment has sometimes been successful, it was not so in this instance. Several things were brought to the surface of the water, which proves that the body must have floated away.—Journal du Havre. On Saturday, as an old woman was passing along the shore at Leith, she was struck on the pit of the stomach by a snow-hall, thrown by some mischievous boys. She with difficulty got into a shop near the place, where she fell down, and almost instantly expired.— Edenburih Batwing Courant. PARISIAN FASHIONS. WALKING Dftess.—A black silk redingote; corsage is tight to the shape behind, and disposed o front in three deep folds, which are continued to th , bottom of the skirt on each side. Sleeve of thl usual form, with an ermine cuff reaching nearly hal way to the elbow. Deep collar, and large pelerill of ermine. A chapeau denzi capote, of Bishop blue velvet ; the crown is low; the brim is closer and more of a poke shape than any of the bonnet that have yet appeared. BALL DaEss.--A dress of rose-coloured crept areophane, over a satin slip to correspond. Cor sage a point, cut excessively low round the bust made to sit close to the shape, and finished by a veil broad fall of blond lace, which is so arranged as tt form epaulettes; short full sleeve; a rich white sill cordeliere goes round the waist, and falls from the point in front. The skirt is trimmed by a very brow bias of crepe areophane, edged round the top b) five or six narrow cords of satin. A wreath of foliage composed of white satin riband is arranged in wave upon the bias. THE MARKETS. COAL Al A It Adair's Charlotte 34 6 Heaton .M.......«. 37— 9 Hnlywell . 35 0 Killingworth .. 37 6 ',Canfield --.. 35 0 WallsEndBcwieke&t7o. 38 0 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 37 0 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 36 3 Ditto (7ramlington—....... 33 2 Ditto Hilda 36 0 Ditto Newcastle— 33 9 Ditto Northumberland 36 6 Ditto Perkins and Co. 35 9 Ditto Peareth . 34 3 Ships at market, 78t4—Sh1 K Kr.—Tan. 29 Walls end Newmareti... 365. 6 ,1 Ditto „ 33 6 Ditto Russell's 30 0 Neshani Alain _ Russell's Lyon's 36 2 Z , ringwell al k hand Hetton—..... 40 0 Walls End Lyons 36 6 W. E. Hetton damaged 36 0 Silkstone and Co. 3k 0 Walk End Nutt 27 6 Walk End Elgin 37 0 'Canfield Trader...---. 34 0 Small Coal Walls End small —....—1 R 0 ips sold, 29%--Unsold, 49%. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DUItINO TOM WEEK• • Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. a. to a. a. to a. a. to a. r. Abingdon—. (kc.i 84 35 42 SS 42 3 6 And0ver.,.,,„....., 74 SS Birmingham--- 72 82 32 36 24 36 48 Bridport .'"4l 74 ,2 39 29 34 Cirencester --- 60 80 33 39 21 26 4 4 Faringdon— 54 86 36 40 28 38 46 GuildtOrd 44 81 36 45 24 36 53 Hen ley 55 80 31 43 23 3/ —.. 0 Hereford . 61 84 38 45 36 40 8 0 Highworth 80 39 42 28 34 56 Maidenhead --.. (5) 84 3'4 42 2R 314 Oak ing ham 56 76 80 96 18 4 4 Reading .....—......—. 50 94 27 41 18 32 Salisbury--...—.. 81 92 31 41 21 32 46 .„ Southampton .--. 54 '7B 37 40 28 34 —a" Stroud Tewkesbury Uxbridge 55 81 36 42 28 32 48 Wantage . 50 74 28 91 26 34 4 6 Warminster 52 1)0 :0 41 29 35 4 9 Windsor 56 80 34 4.0 22 28 b 8 Worcester 72 80 54 40 28 36 CHELTENHAM MARKET.—Jan. 21. Per Bushel. a. d. to s. d. Per lb. d. to d. Wheat Barley Oats Beans 4 9 6 6 Lamb 0 0 Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork 6 Hay 3/. 15a. to 41. 4s. per ton. LEWES MARKET.—Jan. 27. White Wheat (per quarter) £4 4 0 to .£4 6 0 Red ditto 3 16 0 4 0 0 Barley Oats, New 1 2 0 1 4 0 Pease 0 0 0 2 0 0 Oil Cake, New l3 0 0 per thousand. HULL MARKET.—Jan. 27. Since our last reports we have had very severe weather , so much so as to close all the inland communication with this port ; we have consequently had a kind of holiday market, the principal transactions have been between the farmers and the millers, for the consumption of the town--- there was a fair supply of Wheat, which was taken off at last week's prices ; the holders of foreign Wheat hold firmly under the expectation of better prices being shortly oh tained. Barley continues exceedingly bad to sell, and al most altogether out of demand, indeed the alteration in the weather does not produce any alteration in the demand for any spring corn, which keeps as inanimate as ever. Rapeseed and Linseed also remain without alteration in value or demand. Wheat, 01(1 Foreign —5.745. 755. Oats, Poland —s. 2Is. 211 s. Small or Feed.— —s. ISa. 21s. - Foreign —s. Ns. 2t3e. Barley, Norf. & Suf.... —s stir. Xis. Line. & \Vold —S. Mg. 37.- Foreign —ss. 40s, 4Y!- Bean.; 42s. I ts. 45, Foreign . l'ease, White —s. 4Ss. 50s. Grey" 44 4- Taros —s. 405. 503. Foreign 34s. 40.. ---A ltapeseecl, in Isond none. Free, per last... —l. 321. RS• DUMFRIES MA. s. d. s . d . s. d. Wheat, Imp. Bush... 8 6t09 0 Butter,l6oz 0 oto o Barley 4 6 4 9 Eggs, dozen 0 0 0 Oats 2 6 3 0 Beef, per lb. Flour, I Üb. - Oatmeal 2 3 '2 4 Veal 0 4 0 0 Potatoes, cwt. ...... 0 0 10 Quartern Loaf OB 0 9 CATTI,e.—We had a very good show of drove cattle, principally Galloways, and they were much superior to last week. Their total respective numbers were as follows , viz.:-308 three-yr-olds and upwards, 34 two-yr-olds , 10 Highland Stirks, 11 Cows, and 41 Queys. As the have stated, the show was really an excellent one, and the plump and sleeky skins of the Galloways bespoke no scar city of fodder where they came from. We are sorry, hoer ever, to say, that dealing was far from being brisk, and fully 160 were left unsold, and those which were sold, We are informed, had to suffer a reduction. The best lot brought 12/. ss. ; the second best, 121. ; the third, 1 11. ; the fourth, 10 guineas. Several small lots sold at within a few shillings of 10/. and a number of other lots brought from Si. to 9/. 103. per head. PORK.—Our market to-day, in point of numbers, did not run so far as last week, although the pigs which were exposed sold even better than they have done for the last few weeks. The show amounted to 228 carts. Dealing commenced very early, and was carried on with vigour till the whole was disposed of. Prices, at the beginning of the market, were the same as last week, viz.—from ss. 10d. to 6s. Id., but after a few carts had been sold off, the sellers being of opinion that the show would not be a large one, stood out for an advance of price, which, after a little consideration, the buyers agreed to. Bali nese was then carried on speedily at from 6s. to 6s. 4d. per stone of 161b5., for good pork of middling weight; and ss. 4d. to ss. Bd., for sow and other inferior caresses. The market was evidently'the best we have had this ses son, and the contented and smiling faces which the poorer classes wore on concluding a bargain for the sale " o' their bit pig," evinced the truth of what they said, that this was nae ordinar' day wi' the swine." RKETS.—Jai. 2L BIRTHS. On the 27th instant, at his house in Guilford-street, the lady of George Faith, Esq., of a daughter. At Wootton-Bassett, the ltdy of the Rev. Thomas ff. Ripley, of a daughter. On the 26th instant, at Upper Edmonton, the lady of the Rev. James Lloyd Wallace, of a son. On the 27th instant, the lady of Richard Lake, Esq., 01 Keppel-street, of a daughter. On the 2Sth instant, at Upper Clapton, Mrs. Robert Dodgson, of a son. On the 22d instant, at Tunbridge, Lady Hardinge, of 8 , daughter. MARRIED. On the 27th instant, at Trinity Church, St. Maryle' bone, by the Rev. John Ayre, M.A., Lieutenant John Wainwright, R.N., eldest son of the late Captain Wain wright, C.D., Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Samuel Powell, Esq., of Up per Harley-street. On the 244 b instant, at St. John's, Hackney, Mr. Her. court of Upper Eaton-street, Grosvenor-place, to Susannah Madalina, (laughter . of John Charles, Esq. of Mosley-street, Manchester. DIED. On the 24th instant, at his father's residence, Marlow' place, Backs, Mr. David Alexander Fleming, Whitochapelt aged 44. On the 25th instant, at his brother's house, Oxford street, David Jearrad, Esq., of the Royal Staff Corps. On the 27th instant, Hugh Drummond, Esq., of the Colonial-office, second son of John Drummond, E sq ., of Charing-cross. On the 27th instant, at the house of Richard Whitfield, Esq., Southwark, Henry Golding, Esq., of Peckham-ryes Surrey, aged 71. On the 28th instant, William Dixon, Esq., of Bedford place, Hackney, aged 67. On the 27th instant, suddenly, Bridget, the wife of Ed ward Sharpe, Esq., York-place, Portman-square, one of the Magistrates for the county of Middlesex, and formal,' Chief Justice of the island of St. Vincent. At Caprinton-castle, lair Wm. Cunninghame o of Ca• printou, Bart. On the 3d of November last, at Jamaica, John Shear), Esq. late Major of the Sussex Militia. At Mr. Barclay's, Teddington, Middlesex, Mr. R o bert Smith, aged 73, greatly respected fur an honest and faithful service of 51 years in the family. PRIN.= and PUBLISHED by 3IURDO YOUNG, at al* Suiq Orrzcz, 112, STRAND ; LONDON*