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monk at 'Ot? - r2i: for trial ; hut ii the Magistrates treithetecett nor will discriminate, is there no Te em* 4-'--Mornmg Chronicle. The-Cork Constitution of Tuesday has fur nished us with the proceedings of the second trial under the commission. Of the four wen put en their trial on Monday, one was acquitted, and the :Jury could not agree as to the other three. One Juror, tt Mr. Murroch, it seems, disbelieved all the witnesses who'were credited by the other eleven, and by the former Jury. to thd Opening speech, the Solicitor-General obriertied "It would be wrong of the not to , tAke this opportunity of correcting any misappre -IK.asien that may be abroad by omitting to re thee this conspiracy to its proper limits, and re snovit from the country at large a stigMa which attaches to but one small portion of it. This conspiracy does not extend much beyond the immediate treighbourhood of Donerailc. And t ettikee me as paradoxical that such a place— tor I have thought it my duty, since I came Ottwn on these trials, to inquire into the loceli ties—it strikes me as paradoxical that this spot, so fertile in itself, abounding with a tveathy IC `tide4 Gentry and numerous Magi.s.tracy, 1 , 4:..)u1d be the soot, of all others, selected for the existence and display of such abominable pro ceedings, If the conspiracy charged in the in tlictment be established, I cannot believe that in a Aistrict of eight or ten mile 3, with such a re sjetent Gentry, aided hy Arty-four Magistrates, it can be long suffered to exist, or that the moral force of the Gentry will not be arrayed." Time Petrony of Ormond, in the County of Tip pin-ary-,---the scene of the proceedings to which Ofe public attention was lately so much di ted—abounds also with resident Gentry. In deed, it was shown in the Evidence of the State of Ireland before Committees of the two Houses of Parliament, that the districts of all others the most disturbed—as Doneraile, in Cork, the ad- Iteltring districts in Limerick, and several parts of Tipperary—contained the greatest number of hestdent gentry. When the late Mr. Curweim 'visited Ireland, in 1813, he was peculiarly struck with the circumstance of the wretchedness of the inhebiamte increasing with the number of splen slid mansions. Speaking of " the valley of Li sneriek, so celebrated for its beauty and ferti lisi.te" he observes, " Opulence, in the vicinage of large commercial places is ever conspicuous in the neatness and elegance which characterise the competence or wealth of the respectable pos sessors, in the decorations of their country re tirements, And costly relaxations from the labour rq . business ; yet here, the cabins under their Windows, instead of partaking in the general good which fortune so liberally distributes, seem to suffer in an inverse ratio to her splendid dis pensations. This opinion cannot be more accu rately confirmed than by sta:ing, that on the examination of one of these wretched abodes, whim was no worse than its neigbours, we found its floor one foot below the surface of the road, from which it is entered by a door only three feet high ; the inside, from the bare ground to the top of the roof, four feet ; the length of the side eallsornine ; the width, six. This area, wholly destitute of all earthly comforts, gave shelter to two rational beings, and was their only Louse, though scarcely fit for the den of a wild beast. The plenty which surrounded this de riorahle hut, and the sumptuous display of other Then's habitations within its view, did but aggra. vete the melancholy feelings inspired by this scene of human misery ; on every side of which the must luxuriant crops were ripening for gene ral use, yet. dedied to those individuals whose . labours had contributed to their production. Let -the pleasures derived from passing through an interesting country be what they may— let the bounties of Providence be ever so abund antly spread before the eye ; yet, if these fail to promote the general walfare of our fellow creatures, the charms of nature or decorations of art, however entitled to admiration, become elrecled or entirely obscured." It would thus tcett) that the discontent is, generally speaking, in the ratio of the number of resident gentry. Every thing in Ireland is a puzzle, and this ammg the rest is one. What is the cause of the dis ress of the Melt peasantry ? The want of apital, and the excessive competition for, land, the possession of which is the condition of exist ence. The rent which is readily offered is by no means Incas:yeti by the value of the possession. The Bishop of Limerick tells us distinctly, that the rent always exceeds the ability of the tenant to pay. Have we not here a solution of the seeming paradox, that distress and discontent arc generally in the ratio of the number of resi dent gentry ? 'lie peasantry, every where tasked beyond their ability to pay, must every where be defaulters. Where the gentry arc thinly scat tered, their confidence in their strength to exact oppressive rents must be not so great as in dis tricts where they are in force. The legal power always exceeding the means of realization, the struggle under that power will be most effec tually maintained by the landlords, where their numbers are greatest. This system of excessive competition and excessive exaction must be ter minated. The law must kme rigidly enforced, but, a: the same time, means must be fallen on for time protection of the people from that neces sity for competing for land as a means of sub sistence. The whole history of Ireland proves that severity alone is not enough to ensure order in that country. 1t is time we varied the expe riment. le mercy to the people themselves, the . law should be rigidly enforced, because property is the creature of observance of law. No man will emlsark capital in cultivation in a country in which he is at the mercy of Committees of Con spirators. But if the people are unprotected, severity- begets only recklessness and desperation. In another part of our columns will be found a report of the trial of four other prisoners under the Special Commission now holding at Cork, witneiy, Edmond Connors, Patrick Lynch, Michael Wallis, and Timothy. Barrett. When the Cork Papers were published, from which we extract an account Of the proceedings, a verdict liad been returned only as to one of the pri soners, Barrett, who had been acquitted—the fate of the other three still remained in the ba lance—the Jury having been in deliberation on their case from about eleven o'clock on Monday I,ight until the papers went to press. The de 14v of the Jury in returning a verdict was un derstood to have arisen from one of the twelve h9lding out for an acquittal against his eleven iellows, who were agreed on a conviction. The reason avowed by the dissentient Juryman was that Ite.could not place any reliance upon the tester cmy of the approvers—and, certainly, great caution ought always to be used in receiving as truth . the evidence of men who come into Court tiOli.ca with tlie.very crimes of which they accuse others. A man depraved of mind, chargedwith AClir..e, and feeling his life in peril, having at t h e jikine time a con s ciousness of crime without a sense or contrition, would naturally endeavotn to save his own life by the sacrifice of that of any other man upon whom he could fasten the charge of a participation in his guilt with an) hope of being believed. In such predicament all approvers stand, or, as they are more techni cally designated, King's evidence, . for the old doctrine relative to approvers, properly so called, has become obsolete in practice. Such testi mony, though admissible in law, ought never to be affirmed by the decision of a Jury, unless.corro borated in certain particulars by unimpeachable witnesses, who cannot be supposed to act in con cert with the approvers. If the evidence of the latter. were to be thrown entirely cut of conside ration, then it would he next to impossible ever to obtain a conviction against persons who en gaged in secret confederacies of crime, and the very iqfinry of conspirators would constitute their protection. On the trial of Leary, who appears to hare been the rustic Cataline of this sanguinary conspiracy, and whose trial, with that or three of his accomplices, took place in the preceding week, the Jury were so perfectly sa tisfied with the proof of the existence of the conspiracy to murder Mr. - Bond Low and his two brother Magistrates, that they returned their verdict of guilty in a few minutes; and no ra tional being doubts now of the reality of this most atrocious project. But it does not follow that, because Leary and his three accomplices were guilty, that any other of the prisoners had any participation in their guilt ; and the con trary, according to the humane maxim of the English law, is to he presumed, until their cri minality shall have been ascertained by the ver dict of the Jury to whom the law has given them in charge. Whatever may be the result, th.xe trials possess a painful interest, as showing the extensive and almost incredible demoraliza tion of the peasantry of the South of Ireland. The admissions made by the approvers, espe cially i'Vowlan, upon cross-examination, exhibit an awful state of hardened depravity of heart-- of habitual and atrocous familiarity with crime. Nowlan said, " I went out to shoot Mr. Low, and yet lam a conscientious man." " I would shoot any gentleman in the country." " I can not swear how many, I swore to commit murder." " I never would have - informed but to save my own life." Certainly to believe any thing falling from such a wretch against the lives of others ought to require strong corroboration as to ma terial facts from witnesses whose characters were without taint, and whose testimony was beyond suspicion.—Morning Herald. In the. controversy which has taken place be tween the Earl of Mountcashel and the Bishop of Ferns,-respecting the necessity of a reform in the Church of Ireland, one most important point has been overlooked—we mean the enormous expence of the establishment, compared with_the few who are benefited by it, and the evils neces sarily resulting from the existence of such a sys tem. Any arguments, we are aware, which we might ,produce on this topic will have no effect either on- those who are interested in maintain. ing existing abuses, or those whose prudish zea lotism would not permit them to correct the abuses of a system, lest the system itself should be overturned ; but it is, nevertheless, but jus tice to the people of Ireland that the sources of the evils under which ;bey labour should be made known, and that if they are not redressed, igno rance of them may slot fairly be alleged as the cause. Be it known, then, that in Ireland there are only out of a population of about eight mil lions of souls, about one million who listen to the exhortations of the Ministers of the Church of England, or derive any benefit from their mi nistrationS, and that although the remaining seven millions are all Catholics, or Protestant PiSsenters, who maintain their . own churches, and pay their own pastors, the whole are made to contribute to the maintenance- of •the Church of -England in Ireland, into which they never enter, and to support the extravagance of its clergy, whom they never see in an official capa city, except in the shape -of a tithe proctor, who exacts his clues without mercy, and not unfrequently turns the poor peasant out of doors rather . than depart without them. Now the reason of every one tells hint that such a state of things ought not 'to exist ; and the reason of the Irish peasant—poor, savage, and irritable as he is—tells him in stronger language than it would be proper to 'employ, that it is nothing short of tyranny to burthen him with the. maintenance of persons and churches which to him arc as useless as the mosques and dervishes of the East -Hence, much of the disorganized state of society which still exists in Ireland—hence the riots, and partial insurrections, and midnight murders and assassinations of which we so frequently hear—and hence, in . a ward, the hatred which exists between .the Orange and the Catholic por tion of the population of Ireland, and the barba rism which, like a leprosy, infects the people of one of the finest countries in the world. In another part of our Paper will be found a tabular view, sufficiently correct for general purposes, of the expense of Church establishments in differ ent countries, from which it appears that more is levied in Ireland per head for the support of the Church, than for that of any similar establish ment in any other country in the world and when to the sum which is there mentioned is superadded the. expense of the Catholic chapels and Clergy, we thiiik the wonder is, not that Ireland has - been so much distracted, and so much disgraced by murder and- bloodshed, but that the system which led to it should have been permitted to exist so long. We had just written the above, when the proceedings of the Special Commission at Cork, in the case of the Doneraile conspirators, which will be found elsewhere, reached us—proceedings to which we need not point the attention of our readers—for their character is of that stamp which cannot escape observation—and proceedings which prove, beyond a doubt, the existence of feelings, and of a state of society, such as was never known in any other part of the world. Crimes without number are perpetrated in every coun try, however highly civilized or righteously go verned ; but they rarely occur without the ex istence of some palliating motive. -In the case •of the Donerailc conspiracy, however, there is not only no assignable motive for one of the most abominable conspiracies to murder innocent men which was ever imagined, or attempted to be carried into execution ; but we even find one of the witnesses on the trial, and one of the con spirato!it before it, make the following unblush ing declarations respecting his principles (?)and intentions : " I took my oath that I would shoot Mr. Creagh. and undoubtedly I would have done so, only for hurting my leg ; I went out to kill Mr. Low, and only that Mr. Neagle was with him I was ready to shoot.l►im. I would shoot twenty, thlrty, or forty of them—would rather kill the police than the King's troops - ; I would shoot all the gentlemen in the county of • Cork, and yet I ant a conscientious fellow. It was a damnable crime for me to take an oath to murder a gentleman, and I took it with all my heart; I would hare shed the young lady in the carriage; I would not spare her—(a thrill of hor ror passed through the Court at this observation) I am swearing to save my life, and I would not an swer a word only to save myself. I could not tell how many oaths took—l don't know if I took a❑ hundred oaths—l took the book, blessed myself, and swore—l often flied into houses, and would kill the people if could; there were more deter mined vilWns than I was. I might have sworn an hundred persons to commit murder." The country in which " an hundred persons can be sworn to commit murder," is assuredly not an enviable one, in any point of view ; and after the disclosures which have been made onrr the trial in question, and the frightful picture of disorganization, of total absence of moral feeling, and of the first and strongest dictates of human nature, regard for the lives of other, no wonder need be entertained that the Irish. aristocracy arc glad to court the protection of English society, and English laws ; no wonder that the country is steeped in poverty and ignorance, and that the capitalist, though his capital be lying useless beside him, will not put forth his hand to relieve its distresses, by giving employment and plenty. While any portion of the people of Ireland con tinue to be characterised by such barbarity of disposition, Ireland must remain poor and ig norant ; diffuse widely, on the other hand, the benefits of education, render the people moral, and the resident safe from assassination, and there is nothing to prevent her rich soil, her healthful climate, and naturally shrewd and .quick-sighted people, from adding to the wealth and strength of the country to an extent of Which at present no conception can be formed. The country is now evidently overspread with crime, and criminal dispositions, as with a gar ment ; and until that garment has been removed and ignorance of. the first elements of religion and morality given place to sound knowledge, no improvement of its condition can be expected.— Morning Advertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCE: COURT OF KING'S BENCH, OCT. 30. TIIIRLEWAY V. SPOTTISWOODE, ESQ. AND OTHERS. Mr. CAMPBELL stated that this was an action against the Sheriffs of Middlesex, and an officer of theirs named Levi, to recover damages fur illegally taking the plaintiff's - goods in execution. The Sheriffs were mere nominal parties on the record, and in case of their being called on to pay damages, they _would have their remedy over ag:,shstatm Levi, the other defendant, who was one of their bound bailiffg, and whose improper conduct it was that had given rise to the present action. The com plaint against. this William Levi wac, that he, on the 31st of July in the last year, entered the plain tiff's house, under an execution against Mrs. Thirleway, the plaintiff's wife, and persisted in keep ing • possession from that time until the 11th of November following, though he well knew that the goods which he had seized were those of the plain. tiff; and that Elizabeth Thirleway, against whom the execution had issued, was the plaintiff's wife. The _facts of the case being proved in evidence, the Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, 100/. OLD BAILEY, OCT. 30. C. Lane and J. Claylon Were indicted for stealing a fowl and tame chicken, from one Leonard Bald win, and from one John Baily, a baker, near the Portland-road. C. Lane was a well-dressed lad, of about twelve years of age, of genteel appearance, and whose juvenile looks gave a character of a boyish and truant indiscretion, rather than of a felony, to the . transaction. Ilk companion was about two years older, and of a more common appearance. Mr. C. PIIILLIPS took an objection to the two prisoners being included in the same indictment, which was overruled by the Court. • It appeared that the boys bad taken the fowls in open day light, in order to make them fight ; and when they were apprehended the birds were alive and fluttering, and making a noise under the arms of the juvenile bailers of these two intended combatants. The whole prosecution seemed to create a great disgust in the Jury and the audience, that two such boys should have been confined in a gaol, and subject to a legal process for such a juvenile trespass. The prisoners had•been committed to gaol ky Mr. Grif fiths, at High -street, Marylebone,, on the 17th of October, and Emil, consequently, been confined 14 days, As soon as Bally, the baker, and Baldwin, the ptiblican, hail given evidence, the Jury exprersed their wish that the case should not be proceeded in, and the indictment was consequently withdrawn. The Learned Judge (ARABIN) dismissed them, advising them not agairsto set other persons' cocks to fight ; and the younger boy, with a school -boy simplicity, replied that he would not. Thomas Miller was indicted for robbing his master, George Watkins, a coal-merchant, of Isle worth,' of 36 bushels of coals.—Verdict, Guilty. William Johns was convicted of stealing from his ready furnished lodgings two sheets, value 10s., the property of Rebecca Chievell. SURREY SESSIONS.-KINGSTON, OCT. 30. • Gabriel Lamb, a stout young man, was convicted of assaulting William Marr, an old man upwards of 70 years of age. The CHAIRMAN sentenced him to pay a fine of 20s. to the King. The defendant paid the money immediately, and left the Court. The prosecutor then had to pay the fees of Court, which he n•as unable to do, and he was placed in the dock till he could raise the money. This mottling these Sessions terminated, having commenced on Monday morning. Nine prisoners have been sentenced to be transported fur life, viz.: —Thomas Jones, John Davis alias Phillips, Eliza beth Temple, Benjamin Webb, Thomas Lake, Mary Anne Lewis, James George, Charles Spradbury, and James Fianna. Two to twenty-one years' trans portation, viz., Daniel and James Cartwright, brothers, who were sentenced to seven years' trans portation upon each of three indictments.—Three to fourteen years' transportation, viz. :—Henry - Lincoln, Charles Stuart (two indictments—seven years upon each), and William Edmunds. Five to .seven years' transportation, viz. : John Johnson alias Epworth, William Evans, James Briggs, James Foulks, and John Tyce. Eleven were sentenced to six months' hard labour, two to three mouths', two to one mouth's, and four to fourteen days. PLUCKING FOWLS ALIVE.—A Liverpool Paper states that a woman was lately seen plucking a living fowl in one of the mark-to, regardless of the agonizing cries and convulsive struggles of the tortured sufferer—and that the cruel and disgusting practice is by no means uncom mon. The Editor threatens to keep a look-out for such offenders, and to summon them before a Magistrate, and publish their milts. A most distressing accident occurred in this town on Monday night, at a little after nine o'clock. A woman of the naive of GLovzie, who resides in King. street, and whose only neighbour was absent at the time, left the house for a few minutes, for the purpose of pur chasing a whitening brush. Her only chill, about three years of age, was dressed in i* night clothes, though not in bed, and was amusing, i self on the floor near a tab'e, on which a lamp was left burning. During the mother's ab sence, which was not long, it endeavoured to help itself to a bit of bread which was lying on a book-case above the table, and while thus employed, its night gown had come in contact with the flame of the lamp. In an instant, as is believed, the little innocent was all in a blaze, and most unfortunately no one heard its piercing cries, or was ne.kr to offer aid at the critical moment. Before the mother. returned, her darling was no more, being literally burnt to death,---a eight that almost drove her to distraction... Dumfries Courier. 11IDDLESEX SESSIONS, OC T. 30. A number of appeals were heard this morning apinst convictions at the instance of informers against-the proprietors of stage coaches. A great deal of ingenuity was exercised for several hours by the gentlemen of the bar in putting new readings on the clauses of Acts of Parliament, but the-steady out-and-out swearing of the informers defeated their utmost exertions, and secured the affirming of the convictions. Joh,: lifalland, a young man of 22, was indicted for assaulting William Henry Phibbs, on the 22d of September List, with intent to murder, or do him sonic bodily harm; and in another count the pri soner was charged with a common assault. The Jury immediAtely found the prisoner Guilty on both counts of the indictment. sentenced to six months' imprisonment, and to find sureties to keep the peace for 12 months, himself in 1001. and two others in 50/. each; but the prosecutor having expressed his determination to memorialise the S:cretary of State on his behalf, The CHAIRMAN said that he was afraid, from the nature of the offence, that the application might prove vain. It was stated E►y the prisoner's father that a young man had hanged himself in the prisoner's house about four months ago, and that his mind was so much unhinged by the occurrence, that he had been addicted to drunkenness ever.since. George 7'tirner, aH ill-lcoking elderly man, the ostler at the Fox-under-the-Bill, Highgate, was in dicted for assaulting Elizabeth Tames, with intent to violate. _ _ The particulars of this case have been recently be fore the public. The prisoner went to the bed room of the prosecutrix, a screant in the same house; and, as it came out from her evidence to day, suc ceeded, under the threat of knockirg her teeth down her throat if she made a noise, in completely erect- ing his purpose. When ad:et] why she did not alarm the family, the prosecutrix said be covered her mouth with .his hand, and pressed the other on her chest ; and the next morning, on observing her eyes red from crying, he told her she tray a fool to cry, as he had been - with many servants like her; and if any thing happened he could give her a dose of physic, or a box of pills, to make all right again. The CHAIRMAN saidthe prisoner was a brute, and he thought there was almost enough in this evidence to warrant an indictment for the capital offence. Mr. ALLEY addressed a few observations to the Jury by way of explanation of the prisoner's conduct, rather than as a defence; and the Jury having pro nounced a verdict of Guilty, the prisoner was sen tenced to six months' hard labour in the House of Correction. _ A number of the new Police appeared at different times to-day to give evidence, Blla - the general pro priety of the course they had adopted with regard to the detection of offenders, as well av the clearness of their testimony, presented a milted contrast to ancient watchmen, and several times drew forth the commendations of the Chairman. - - THE ENFIELD BURGLARS. Yesterday, at twelve o'clock, Henry Dodman Wood and Thomas Scales, the two youne . men who were apprehended on Tuesday evening last with a quantity of housebreaking implements in their pos session, underwent an examination before the Rev. Dr. CRESWELL and - GUTTERSON, Esq., two of the Magistrates for the counties of Middlesex and Herts, at the office of Mr. Sawyer, the Magistrates' clerk for the division of Enfield, on suspicion of being the principals engaged in the extensive rob beries committed in the houses of Henry Carrington Bowles, Esq., Major Moody, George Rougemont, Esq., and several other gentlemen, in Cheshunt, • Enfield, and their vicinity. Watkins, an officer of the Bow -street mounted patrol, stated that on Tuesday evening last, while on duty in the Green-lane, Enfielsl, he observed the prisoners drive up in a fashionably built one-horse chaise to the door of the Jolly Butchers public house. Having some suspicion that one of them, Wood, was the man who was wanted for the rob bery committed in the house of Mr. Rougemont, in Herts, he stopped the chaise, and asked him if his name was WTood. He denied its being so, and gave another, btu haying some knowledge of his person, and :comparing it with the description in the bills ;foaled for his apprehension, he found them to cor respond, am! with the assistance of Mr. Watson, the landlord of the Jolly Butchers, he secured and handcuffed both him and his companion. On effect ing this he searched them, and found on the person of the prisoner Scales a quantity of skeleton keys, a phosphorus box and matches, and a complete set of housebreeking implements, all .of which he then produced. Besides these he discovered four pack ages of powder,which he had ascertained to be com posed of ?lux vonuca, a bottle of oil, and a bottle of laudanum, and in the gig he found more house breaking implements, and a piece of boiled bullock's liver carefully wrapped up hi paper. Dr. CitEswELL here asked if the liver had been exanined, in order to ascertain if it was impreg• limed with any poisonous matter. • Watkins had not as yet submitted it to auy test, but from a casual examination he did not think that it f;as; at the same time it was his belief that it was the intention of the prisoners to place the ?lux vondra on it. In continuation he• said that though the prisoners. refused to give him either their name or address, he, by (Ming on them a ticket for the hire of the horse and gig from a Mr. Mady, a livery stable-keeper in the neighbourhood of the Coburg Theatre, and a duplicate, discovered that they lived and cohabited with two notorious prostitutes in Lock's-fields, Surrey. . . George Rougemont, Esq., deposed, that on the sth instant the prisoner Wood was in his service as footman. Ott the morning of that day he came to town, leaving hint with two other servants in charge of his country house at Bury-green; and on his re turn in the evening he learned that he had absconded. On examination of the plate several articles were missing, though he had a short time before, in con sequence of the numerous robberies in the neighbour hood, given him directions to lock it .up and guard it carefully. On the same morning he sent him with 15/. to pay a bill of 141. ss. Gd. to a Mr. O'Brien; but he had converted the balance to his own use, and never accounted for it. Mr. O'Brien proved haring received the 15/. from the. prisoner, and having given to the p:isoner, en closcd for his master, the sum of 14s. Gd. This being the chief evidence at present adduce(/ ' Dr. CRESWELL first addressed the prisoner, Wood, and told him, that from the testimony then before him, two distinct offences, though of a minor de scription—the one the embezzling his master's pro perty, and the other for stealing his house-Frien— weri dearly establisher!, and on th e s e he felt it hs duty to commit him for trial. The prisoner was then removed from the office ; and Settles was brought in, Nvlicn the Roc. Magistrate informed him that he and his brother Magistrate had come to a determination, instead of dealing with him summarily under the vagrant laws, to send him before a jury of his • country fer a misdemeanour. The prisoners were then removed in custody of Watkins and a posse of the local constables. SINGULAR DREAM.—About three weeks before the accident happened to the mail at aingsdown Ilill, by which Mr. CHARLES WEBB, the coachman, lost his life, a young female, to whom he paid his addresses in Oxford, dreamt that he was thrown from the box in con sequence of the upsetting of the. coach, and killed on the spot—an event which was unhappily A paper has commenced at Paris under the title of the Times. Its politics,like that of nearly all the French Journals, are liberal and constitutional. fly the prospectus which we have seen, it would appear to be es tablished by a kind of joint stock company, in,which nearly all the liberal members of the Chamber of Deputies are shareholders. TURKISH SOLDIERS. The following extract from the Appendix to Mr. Mac Farlane's work on Constantinople, which has just appeared, will be found interest ing at the present moment. To dwell upon the causes. of failure, after the disastrous result has become known, may seem like locking the stable door after the steed has been stolen, but in the statement here -Made it will be seen how much the Turks were taken at a disadvantage in the late invasion, and how unjust would be any conclubion unfavourable to their prowess in the field, from the almost inevitable reverses of the inexperienced, half-disciplined levies, which only since the extinction of the Janissaries the Sultan was enabled hastily to gather together to oppose the advances of the enemy :--- _ " Nor 'were the effects of the campaign of last year innocuous to the Turks ; some portions of i their army suffered on their own territory from defects in the commissariat department, similar to those so fatal to the invaders; whatever may have been the deficiencexof their Generals, and the defects of their plan of campaign, the Rus sians are • not troops to be met with impunity ; the losses of the Osmanlis were- considerable, and were of so much the more'consequence, as they fell heavily on the Tacticoes or regulars— the cherished corps raised with;.so much diffi culty, which was to be the nucleus of a disci plined arm, and . an example and an incentive to the IVEussulmen people. I have described the Tacticoes as I saw them, and it will not excite surprise that a number of these boys sunk under mere fatigue ; and that on one or two occasions, when they were charged by the Russian infantry, they were at once born down by superior phy sical strength. " Their general good conduct, their discip line, their superior alertness, and even their bra very in the presence of the enemy; conferred honour on the Sultan's essay, and proved, very satisfactorily, that these Youthful, half-instru,ted Tacticoes, might be made in time most efficient soldiers. Had there been no other argument to adduce than this, it ought to have sufficed to change the tenour 'of Mahmoud's conduct, to have led him to listen to the advice of those Who are anxious for any thing rather than for the subversion of his empire—to see the necessity of conforming to the proposals of the allied nations of Europe, thereby to obviate a Russian attack until a few years had given strength and expe pience to has infant army. But even now (September, 1829), after the most serious re verses, the Sultan is as perverse in a ruinous system of politics, and as blind to his true bite rests, as at the end of 1827, when Mr. Stratford Canning, for the last time, exposed them in a lutninous and (to all but him) convincing man ner.* The obstinacy of the •Turks is, indeed, proverbial—to judge from my own experience of them, I should say the proverb is most justly applied—the quality exists in its utmost vi gour in the mind of Mahmoud—from his self willedness and obstinacy have proceeded all time good and ell the evil that have marked his reign, and from them may yet proceed an extent of evil to the Ottoman empire, beyond our powers cif calculation. That his obstinacy, however, in the present case, has been fostered by the sug gestions of the 'Austrian cabinet, and by a con viction in his own bosom, that England and France would, under any circumstances, inter fere in his favour, whenever the Rusams drove him 'to extremities, I can readily believe from what I have• heard and seen myself at Constan tinople, nor can I suppress a regret that the po pular tone (particularly in England) for some months past, should have been of a nature to confirm him in his opinion, even while we are still uncertain of his adhesion to the treaties of London, drawn up in the best spirit, for the welfare of Greece, and the integrity of the,rest of the Turkish dominions." • " The arguments of the distinguished British Ambas sador were convincing to alt but Mahmood; and I I've this assertion on the information of those who were in the habits of daily Intel course with - the members of the Divan, and with the principal Turks of Constantinople. An Ef fendi, of the highest rank, in assenting to all the argu ments used by one of my friends, said to him, If you and I had to settle this business, it would be done forthwith; but who shall convince or turn the obstinate Sultan ?' Yct,-probahly, this very min would, in the Council and in the presence of his violent master, confirm and echo the decisions of which he saw the peri! and absurdity, and this from a regard to own interest or saftly.—Such are the blessings of a barbarous and despotic system !" MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONI)ON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Clirrent of yesterday.) SUGAR.—The Sugar rilarket has been rather languid all the week, but there is no further reduction in the Prices; the estimated sales at the close of this day were 2,200 hhds. and tees. In Refined Goods the purchases this week are not so extensive as during th . e one preced ing, yet they are considerable, and the prices are little varied. The. demand for export Sugar continues this afternoon, but, owing to the earnestness of the sellers, the prices are to-day. a shade lower, particularly lumps. EAST INDIA Sucans.—ln East India Sugars there are no sales worth reporting. FOREIGN SUGARS.—There are no sales of Ilavannah Sugars; the purchases of Brazil descriptions consist of small parcels of low white Rio, 275. up to 325. 6d. for ►mid. yellow 18s. a 205.; brown 15s. a 175., low white Pernams 255., mid. 285., very low old Bahia 275., brown 17a. a 188., 50 hltrls. Porto Rico 235. 6d. a 245. COFFICE.—The British Plantation Coffee hati gone off languidly this week. On Tuesday there was some appear ance of a decline, the finer qualities being taken in at low rates, and .the bidding being considerably under the Matket currency; yesterday, however. several parce's sold at the former currency. Brazil Coffee sold Is. lower on Tues day, good ord. 31s. 6(1. and 325., fine ord. mixed 325. 6(1. ; there have been few sales of other Foreign or East India Coffee this week. There were no public sales this (lay ; large parcel of Brazil is stated to he taken by private con tract at higher prices than the public sale ; mid. 31oeha sold 95a. a 102 s. ord. 555. a 655. _ _ _ Rnat, BaaNnY, AND HOLLANDS.-The Rum Market continues very dull; the purchases are confined to small precis of Leeward., proofs and low Jamaica at former priers. Brandy and G( neva are unvaried. FLAX, AND TALLOW.—'fallow is dull, and still continues declining. Hemp and Flax are heavy. The letters from St. Petershurgh are dated 13th inst. Exchange 1011. 11 16. Tallow 97 to 98. SALTPETRE.-There is more demand for Saltpetre. Woor..—The public sale this day finished et too late an hour for a report ; it was going oft briskly at full prices up till half-past three o'clock. FRUlT.—Although as. yet there is but very little demand for any descriptions of new Fruit, the quantity being brought forward by public sale is very Inc. This week there have keen five sales, consist tg of common Spanish Fruit, Turkey Fruit, and Currants, as follow but:s and 60 crtls. new Zante and Cephalonia Currants, of which only part were sold, the butts at 80s., and crtls. at 81s. 23,722 drums new Turkey pulled Figs of various qualities, of which only about 5,000 drums were taken off, the greater part at 505., but a few small parcels of fine quality brought from 555. to 60s. 935 drums Sultana Rai.ins, part of which were s,ll On Monday at 655., hut on Tuesday the price fell to 60a. 171 Ws. red Raisin.; which brought 41s. to 455:, 303 brls. black Smyrna, of fine quality, partly 9.)1,1 365. a 375., and 42 brio. Eleme at 525. Of the Valentia Fruit nearly the whole o: the cargo of the Ebenezer, consisting of 3,800 boxes a 1,000 half-boxes, was sold on Tuesday, the prise in the early part of the s de being 495. to 50s. for boxes, but towards li o n ff l' ere c d o , nsi b s u ti t ng the of the end 48'. and 491. for half-boxes; on the following day 5,947 boxes anal 876 half-boxes Valentia, and 1,489 a r:r a t i s Ti l yn e l s n , i a were b p u a y r e t rs o f each had stockedof the fi themselves the day previons, and, scarcely a lot was dis posed of excepting the baskets Denim, a/few lots of which sAI at 375. For Muscatels there ii a little inquiry, but the buyers at present take off only the finest marks. Isnico.—We give the particulms of the Eist India !loose Sale. The Marl“t by private contract is and many parcels (but not estensive ones) have been taken since the sale to complete orders, at a premium of about 3d. per lb. ; the Makot may IT stated %trimly, but wlthout • briskness. The Spanish Indigo, at the public sales have gone off at full prices. Ott.s —These L 4 little alteration in common Oils. Sperm ather lower. Sricrs.—ln Spk.: a :here is no variation. Ilor.3.—The Hip Market is exceedingly dull. TOE Cco.—The irquiri , s after Tobacco continue, about 200 Idids. are rltorted t•eli. CocifiNEAL.—The Cochineal at public sales was nearly all sold; of which a large proportion is for export; tii& riot's were well supported, the blacks, in some instances, a t•hirle lover. SILK.—The tiilk sale at the East India House cntn• tnencel on Monday, the prices were 5 to 71 per cent• above last sale ; there have been ronsid,•rable fluctuation' , since in price, I,nt at the close of the ask this afternoon. th 2 Coinpany's sold from 5 to 7-); per cent. higher than last sale, but in fay:sequence of the private China's B enin:: rather staler last sole prices, most of the Proprietors with- , drew their Silks from sale. COTTO N.-The Cotton 31.0 ket is steady; the - purchase% for the week ending last night inclusive, consist of .120 13engal, 44. a 4441. ; 610 Surat Ni-1. a 41d. ; 130 Nett, Orleans 51 , 1. a 3FI; 200 American (public sale) bid. 3 ; 90 Egyptian 61d. lti..c there is no alteration. Tr.a..—Common Congoter look very heavy in the Mar' ket, s well as Twankays, but good Congous continue to command a swa!l premium. Kent rockets &_:11, ~,ex PRICES OF HOPS.-,Oct. 3/. 7i 124. N. to 10/ 1044 7, 7 s. St. to 8 1 . 154. Emsux Ditto 71. 10.4. - 61. 0.. ti• 164 04. l'atill.ant Ditto, Fine 0/. 04. lU. 0, to 101 104. _ Seconds —... 01.. 06. 1 0. 04 to 1 I-/ Kent 143g -17:.,..er.: Ditt... V. Os. tit. Os to 9/. 11.:. 6'. 15s. 7/. 12s to 8/. Os. Sussex I)Itto 71. os. 8/. OA. to 9.f. Os. Oltt I)uty lalit at .£38.000. PRICE OF YOTATOES.—Oct. New Wrtre V/. se. to 31. WA. per torl4 PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown ........--. 421. 04. —.—... Refined ......144 0 Lin.ced Oil Linseed Oil Cako At the Mill,. per thousand ...—.........—.. 11 10 R 414, Cake, per ton PItICES OF LFATHE:L. , • Per lb. (1. to d. Per lb. • d. tod; ' flotts—..--%0 to :A1b.... 161 19i Tanned Elorse Hides... 16 2,, , , 1) , Ito.--C11 to (Alb... 21 22 Sptnish Ditto «......... 2$ .z' • t)remLing lloleF —.......... 11 16 l'er dozen. Fine Coach 1 , 1 iile‘...— 18 19 Calf 5kin5....36 to 44)%b.• 16 2g Clot, liltICA, 3.5 to .ttilb. 141 16 Ditto .........541 to 791 b. 23 219 ,..,, : 1itti0.....--.45 to 51111) 17 19 Ditto —......711 to NW. 20 za Otto l9 29/ Small Seal's. tirueolTlitt 120 21 Y hi A RKE ( lover 0.1. to 1154- u"• (kl. to 40c. NV A PEI.. HA ll'y 3(4 eal. to 925. 0,1 Straw. tt W 11 (DES. Per Stone. %.ei. to e. d. Pet Stone. s. d. to e. Ele,t 1 reit:rs Staer.3 4 3 8 Ordinary 2 4 Nii,litniqts _ 2 8 3 0 blatket Calf. f; flecwch• SHEEP SION& Os. Rt. to Os. Od. I 4t. to is. 9J• Downs Od.to IN. 4d. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP &c. per 111114--Oct. 30. ---- Town Tallow 0,1. Yellow Yellow .11,:tvsia---.«3Ss. 11,1. White.... 39.0.1. Soap Yis. hi. Graves —....—........--. 16s. (4. Melted 335. OA. Good vu• I)itto (Id. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of BU.--Oct. 30. Price of Tallow (as gate,l Iv the Tallow Meltera) PRICE OF 11e price of store CandleA. in t Candice, pc!' doz. 86. Od. to 0, nct. CANTLES, :he retail shops, is as follwrs . I N.:clads. perd44en .-9a. ft .COAL M It Adair's 325. 9d. I)ean's Prirnro,e--- 3o 9 Felling 30 Alain 1/3 0 32 3 ki II lig ort ~....,......,.:33 9 .Denton Wc.t 33 0 Liddell's :ti 0 Oral's 11cdhugli 30 3 Percy East ------ 28 if Pciimp Windsor----. 30 3 31 0 I'antield _ 31 0 Tanfiela Lea 3O 6 1V) lain --. 33 0 %Val 15 Endllew i c Ice& Co. :15 3 Walls Entl Brown's 34 0 1)ilto Brown's unscr.—.. 3d 0 Ditto Bensliain —.. 33 0 t Kr:P.—Oct. 31 • Walls Snit Newmareh.. Ditto Pearetii.. „ . Ditto Perkins and Co..— 33 v_ 1 tto l's " Ditto _ 36 6 Ditto Walker, . 34 : 4 Eden Main :C1 0 Lainbron's Primrose _ 31 t Russell's 31 ;2 Walls Mut ilettan .37 o' W.llll F.rut Lambton 37 , Walls End 1 .yons 3l 0 Walls End Stewart's 37 2 Russell's Hetton's W.E. 36 )". Wade's 26 v Wade's Eden 0 , I%lyth 26 v Cowpett 29 ° Hartley —....—... . 31 0 Landaliipping .- 5O \V. K Greenw. Hosp... 23 W. E. Carr Trader..... 31 3 Laintiton sin4ll —....—. 22 ° Walls End small —. yg 0 ips sold.' BV / 4—Unsold. 6 Ditto Clarke tool Co. 34 6 Walls End Carr and Co. 31 9 Ditto Crainliiigton-- 30 6 Ditto liilda Ditto Not thumberland 34 0 ships at market. 14.5—5hl COUNTRY CORN DIARKE I WheaL Per Quarter. 56 66 tiasing.tnke 158 76 Bath 152 72 Briagew:oer 64 72 Chesterfield 46 62 Derby ---- 57 60 -- Devizes --. 56 12 14m...ter ---. CO 70 Dorchester.,,—.,.,. 3 76 Exater-----. fit 76 Gloticester...---.. 56 74 Iltingerford 47 '7B 57 Newbury 44 75 Romsey (k) 66 szhatlestiory 1 70 Viepton Mallet 60 74 Sherburne----, 62 74 70 56 76 l'er lictsbel. ti. rt Slmcwhbury 7 6 9 4 "I'S DURING THE WEEK• Barley. 49 48 L% 40 30 39 36 40 3! 36 37 40 :it) 26 36 39 :la 44 32 40 33 3 2:1 35 26 23 Oats. 25 30 19 28 26 32 90 25 26 3 6 18 31 24 34 13 22 20 28 5) 23 17 NI 22 2(S 24 32 21 23 24 28 s..d. et. d. 56 70 Beans. 42 3 6 4') 4 5 40 54 4t 35 41 4V) 4l 43 4/1 4s 4g 44 00 . 4g 40 4 ' ; 54 44 44 rt 4 4 ,, s. 11. N. 00 00 32 44 32 40 •if; 3 , 1 o. 4. F.. d. 5 68 SCOTCH I'iIARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Oct. 28. We had a large supply of Wheat to-day, which'lor readily ; top 765., current from 48s. to 725. - A 13_ Ntipitly i.f fluky, sales briAl, and prices as last week ; 385., current from 299. to 365. A large supply of Oa ti '' sold readily ; hest 278. 6d., current from 90s. to 2 66 ':: A middling supply of Pease and Beans, sales dull, and 1 4 7,, dawn ; hest 41.4.. current; from .345. to 295. Wheat. Barley. .I Oats. Pease: First 76i 04 38s 04 27i 64 41s Od Second 72i Od 3fts Od I 26s 0d 39s 04 Third exicss or ritOVISIONS. &c. Reef, per lb. Os. 314. to Os.e4. Fresh Butter,lb.oB.94. to s. 6 0 3 0 6 Salt 0 7 Il Veal 0 5 0 9 Ditto, per vat. 56 6 r nrk ______ 0 5 0 7 Eggs, per dos. I 0 • 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 1 0 2 0 OatStraw(kti.) 6 6 0 n 0 Tallow, cwt.... 32 6 31 0 Wheat Ditto... 7 0 I," 6 Qtiartern Loaf 0 1 1 1 011 Barley Ditto .. 0 ' 0 P o t a toes. Falb. 0 4 0 0 Hay, per Bt..— 0 6 .0 BeR "o• 414 0! 39. 314 vu EDINBURGH MEA M A RK ET. —Oct. 27. e g, Oatmeal at to-day's mark We had a small supply of which sold readily at last we! Per Sack of 18011). Imp. First Oatmeal £2 0 0 Second ditto 1 1S 0 Itarleynteal 1 14 i' l'easeineal 1 10 01 Pot Barley—No. I. per cw•t. 14! :ek's prices. l'er Stone of lllb. InIN ! First Oatmeal .... £ 0 g u Second ditto Barleymeal C Peascmeal k.--‘2,1, ICA —3d. 13%.-I'til../ GLASGOW COHN HA ItKE I'.—Oct. 28. There has been rather more business doing in our GrO ma . ket at lower prices. B . 6' Wheat, per glint% s. d. s.d. I Oats, per ',Mit). s. d• ,i 0 British, Oil 320 to 31 0, Tri.h ...__—..... new canatlo, free 33 0 31 0 1 Beans, per 2604 b. 0 Iti:sh Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish English — 0 0 lease, Scottish ... 17 0 ' • in I) Sottish - 25 0 26 0 Oatmeal, per 1101 b. 15 0 0 Irish - 220 250 Flour, per 25)1b.... 52 V A " PIINTID AND. PUBLONED BY MURD9, Y 77EZ BE2 Otrtcz, 11E, STicalts, BIRTHS. of On the 29th inst. at Bayforribury, H er ts, the WI BAer, of a son, o f On the 25th inst., at Gopsill, the Countess Howe' a s On the 25th inst. at Leeds Csatle, tie la ly of 1 / 1 6. Bl the, Esq. of a ton. MARRIED. On the 29th inst. at Exeter, W. Tucker , Esq. o f „ i t lotte-streei, Ihoom.bury-square, to Sophia, Y (3° ' Laughter of W. Cede, Esq. of Exeter.' 0.1 the 27th inst. at Alortitner, Berks , G. Morristo4o'' of Barnet, Herts, to 111,ry Anne, fourth daughter of B:rton, of the former place. DIED. At e the 29th inst. at Lee l'iace, Kent, Emily, the of 11. E , pinasse, Esq. • .1' On the 30th inst . : at his residence in Kentish..to trOt Hall, Esq. rot(' On the 29th inst. Mrs. L. Minnitt, of MilbanU•'- Westminst2 9thg i er, aed 96. ;tkitOf On the nst. at Islington, Mr.. Joseph VV.• aged 55. On the 29th inst. in Queen-square, Bloomshu'iWi'e zabeth, the third daughter ut the late John Lottee e ! aged 17. sf . „P r , ' On the 29th inst. in Chug s street, Lo u is a ; w - dtr of the Rev. I'. C. Rea I ; having survived the death youngest son only 48 lumrs. On the 29th inst. at his father's in Nlontigu-s 9 *l. '. , W. Willis, Esq. of Aldenhani, aged S 3. ' AAI