The Sun. — London, England, 1829-06-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. In a letter which we published in our journal of yesterday, warm reproaches were hurled upon a member of the Administration—a man of no great note certainly—on account of his 'canvassing for Mr. Bankes in the present contest for the Univer sity of Cambridge. These reproaches remaining unrepellea, it should seem but fair to conclude, even if we had no information on the subject, that the Government sanctions, or at least does not disap• prove of this conduct in one of its members, and that it is meant to afford a certain kind of support to Mr. Bankes. Now, if such a ecurse had been taken whilst the Catholic question hung in suspense, —if Government had at that critical periati lent its aid to secure the election of one who was opposed to their views, and resisted their operations at so important a crisis—the inference would have been undeniable that they were acting hypocritically, and that they did not wish for the success of their own measure, /But stow, what will be said of them, when, after the measure is rallied, they patronize their opponents in it ? Why, it is droll, certainly. nut we would only infer that they are of a forgiring disposition—that they don't bear ma lice ; and certainly, if their support of Mr. Bankes be as feeble and impotent (which is but just) as was his opposition to. them in the altair of the Catholic question, neither will we bear malice. The University and the public will forgive a Zeal which cannot in its nature be other than apparent and ostensible. Indeed, upon what grounds can the aid of his Majesty's Ministers be cordially afforded to Mr. Bankes 1) 'rile same ground, we answer, which Shy/ock ironically alleges for lending Antonio money— " Fair Sir, you spit on me on Wednesday last ; You spurned me such a day ; and for these courtesies ru lend yn' so much money." Sn nr..y the King's Ministers reply to Mr.Bankes— " pair Sir, you called os knaves the other d:S•; Said we were Papists, hostile to the State, Bent to subvert this happy t institution ; And for these courtesies well lend you aid !" We will not press this argument further, for ren sons which will be divined by the prudent and sa• gacious; but it is obvious that hi 3 Majesty's Minis ters (by the term Ministers, such only as are of any tmportance being meant) cannot be deeply of►:nded with those who oppose one that but yes terday heaped every term of obloquy upon them.— Certainly, they are his Majesty's Ministers still; but had the counsels of Mr. Bankes prevailed, they would have been driven from the helm months ago.-- Times. The state of the labouring population throughout the country formed the subject of discussion last night, in the House of Commons. This discussion was in some sort an episode in that on the Birming ham petition on the stagnation. It happens oddly enough, that the stagnation in France forms also part .of the discussion in the Chamber of Deputies, received last night. M. Lafitte observed—" It is a melancholy consideration, Gentlemen, but industry marches in some sort only from crisis to crisis, from suffering to suffering,. The producers of corn suf fered cruelly a few years ago, and their complaints were often introduced into our political discussions. Then the proprietors of vineyards were in a more fortunate situation : their profits even contributed not a little to stimulate a production, of which the abundance has become calamitous. The times are now changed : the producers of corn receive now indemnifications for their former sufferings, while the producers of wine are suffering in their turn. — Bread having risen, the people, already impo verished from the difficulty in finding work, have consumed less wine, which has added to the dis tress of the wine cultivators."—Mr. Peel also went into several of the causes of the stagnation, and then entered on the subject of the importation of labourers from Ireland. "Few persons (he said) had attributed enough to the importation of labourers from Ireland. A greater number of Irish labourers in the manufacturing districts were out of employ than people could imagine, and tha Magistrates re lieved them rather than pass them to their parishes, reflecting that as they had contributed to the pros perity of the places, they had a right to relief when in distress. When the passage was so low, and this country possessed a legal provision for the poor, it was impossible to check the influx of Irish la bourers, and this fact would suggest important altera tions in Me state of the law." These observations paved the way for the speech of Mr. W. Horton on the superabundant population of the country. — We agree with Mr. Horton as to the evils of a po pulation greater than can be employed, but we differ from bins as to the remedy, and subscribe cordially to the remark of Mr. iluskisson, that " for the State so undertake to carry the pauper population from this country to other lands, was a step sur rounded by difficulties greater than any he seemed to contemplate. In his (Mr. H.'s) opinion, the only wise and prudent system of emigration was that in which those who emigrated, carried with them the means and the capital necessary for their em ployment. It was only the connection of property with population that could render emigration useful to this country or beneficial to the colonists." Mr. W. Horton, referring to Shipley, observed—" From that place and its immediate vicinity 250 persons had been removed to Canada, and of course, the rest of the population had been greatly relieved from the pressure of a heavy burden. It had been_ said that the project he wished to promote would inevitably fail, because the vacuum thus created would be so speedily filled up that the benefit would scarcely be felt, inasmuch as it would be so transient. At all events, that vacuum had not yet been sup plied. When people talked upon this subject, they seemed to fancy that there would be an al most immediate importation of labourers into the place thus relieved, as if they would be brought at once, in a body, from Russia, or some nearer country, where there was a superabundant popula tion." No, not from Russia; but has not Mr. W. Horton heard of a country called Ireland, and of the facilities of passage, by steam-boats, from Ireland to England ? Why the voluntary emigration from Ireland to America, from the Pro testant population of the North of Ireland, in one year lately, according to the Rev. Mr. Seymour, was 25,000 souls, and 'yet they were never missed, If the eight or nine millions ,of Irish left, as they are, to a sort of wild liberty, be suffered to go on as they have done, they would every year add a far greater number to the redundant population than could be . removed in the same space. One or two agricul tural parishes may be closed against immigrants; but the great markets of labour, all the towns, will be constantly glutted with Irish lebourers, The evil must be stept at its source. The ,Irish landlord must be enlisted as an auxiliary in the work of di minishing the supplies in the market of labour. At present he has his rent paid out of the English Poor-rates, and out of the wages of the English labourer. But we shall revert to this subject.— Morning Chgnicle. Mr. Al4rman Waithman is perplexing himself to very little purpose, with a variety of details to show that the country has been losing more and more every year by its foreign trade. In the discussion on the Birmingham petition last night, he said " they were told the foreign trade of the country - had increased to a great extent. He was in a con dition to prove it had decreased for the last thirty one years; and he found, on comparing the last eight years with the seven preceding years, that the falling off in the export trade amounted to nine millions, not of official, but of real value." We will just put oue question to Mr. Alderman Waithman respecting his official and declared values, that even he may see the utter worth lessness of these figures for any inference from them as to the value of the trade of the country. In the account to which he refers, we find the official value of the exports for the last eight years 365,033,8711., and for the seven preceding years 2 61,627,6371., while the declared value of the exports for the last eight years is 285,748,5701., and of the &even preceding years 288,772,0901. — Now, if the Worthy Alderman will turn to the column of official value of Colonial and Portigh Produce imported and retained tOr - hotlie consump tion, after deducting the quantity re-exported, he will find the amount of tile last eight years' Imports 217,989,9981., and of the seven preceding years 127,900,3021. While, therefore, the declared Vab.e of the last eight years appors ft 4 affib . titit to less than the declared '-alive df the Exports for the seven pre years 1w some millions, we find the Imports of the last eight years exceed the Imports of the seven preceding years by no less than 90,080,6961. How does Mr. Alderman Waithman think these t i 0 millions were paid for ; if the Etports produced less in the last eight years than in the seven preceding years ? Swift made the whole cash of Ireland amount only to 500,000/.—and out of this every year the Irish remitted a neat million to England ; and had no other foreign trade brit the importation of French wines ; for whia they paid ready money; and what fleorge Falconer was pushed a little hard to explain how Ireland, without foreign trade, and with only 500,000/. could find a million every year for England, he said that England drew it from the blood and bowels of Irishmen. Has this balance of 90,000,0001. been extracted from the blood and . bowels of Englishmen ? How could Englishmen have imported without exporting to a torresponding extent ? The increase in the Imports' official value proves that the increase in the Exports' official value is most. factitious. As to Spitalfields and its mann. facture, they are doomed to destruction by the transference to the North. Mr. Peel showed that the factories in Manchester had nearly doubled in number and value during the last eight years.— Ibid. The House of Commons has, we believe, been twice " counted out" during discussions on the Ecclesiastical Courts' Bill, which is a Bill not to reform any of the many. abuses in those Courts, but merely to regulate the fees. " Quocumque modo RE3t." On each of these occasions Mr. Peel has not been a little severe upon Mr. Hume for taking advantage of the thinness of the House, to postpene, and, if possible, to defeat the measure. On one of these occasions the Right Hon. Gentleman described Mr- Hume's conduct as factious ; and on another he twits him with setting up his opinion in opposition to that of the House. Of the tirst of these accusa tions the country will judge; on the second we would say a word or two. We would only glance at the apparent absurdity of talking of the opinion of the House, when, literally speaking, there is "no House" to form an opinion. But we would remind Mr. Peel that there are more ways than one of expressing an opinion. It may be done in the negative as well as the affirmative--by ab sence as strongly as by presence. Now, what must the opinion of the House be pre sumed to be, when forty Members out of six hundred will not attend to give any ? Is it not a tolerable proof either that they consider the question one unworthy offittention, or one which they are ashamed to give their sanction to ? But why should Mr. Peel, of all men, complain of the thinness of the House, or upbraid Mr. Hume with taking advantage of it ;—Mr. Peel, who is the leader of the House, and under whose influence as a Minister of the Crown, if net at whose " beck and call," so many of the Members are supposed to be? Where were the Treasury circulars, where the Treasury whipper-in, upon the occasion ? If Mr. Hume's opposition were worth being angry about, why was it not rendered nugatory by Members be ing asked, or commanded to stay, for the purpose of defeating it? The truth, we believe, is, that the Bill itself is a mere job—one of those snug jobs which we are too much in the habit of seeing smuggled through Parliament towards the close of a Session ; and Mr. Hume's offence is, not that he has opposed himself to the opinion of the House, but that he has interfered at all in a matter, on which it was desirable that no opinion should be expressed.—Alfurning Herald. THREE MORE FIRES. Yesterday morning, at half-past eight o'clock, a fire broke out in a shed belonging to a green-grocer and coal-dealer, of the name of Crestield, in Petti coat-lane, which has been attended with the loss of considerable property. The flame communicated to a row where a stable was situated, and four cows, which were within it at the time, were burned nearly to a cinder. Bannister, a turn-cock, broke an open• ing through a partition in the hope of extricating them ; but his efforts proved unavailing, owing to the animals' alarm, who, on seeing him, rushed into that part of the building which was most perilous, and where the fire raged with the greatest intensity. The supply of water was expeditious and plentiful, and the flames were extinguished at a quarter past nine. We regret to say, that, in addition to the loss of property, a person who was rendering assist ance was so severely injured by the falling of a beam of timber, us to make it necessary to remove him to the London Hospital, where he at present lies in a precarious state. The premises and stock, we understand, are insured. _ _ _ Last night, between seven and eight o'clock, a fire broke out in a chandler's shop, kept by a person named Shepherd, in Rochester-row, Westminster, close to the guard-house. The fire commenced in the attic, and was proceeding with great rapidity, when the neighbours, with fire-ladders, after getting some of the furniture out, succeeded in extinguish ing the flames. The roof of the house was consi derably damaged. Yesterday afternoon, about a quarter before two o'clock, a fire broke out at Orange-street Chapel, Orange-street, Leicester-fields, which at first threat ened destruction to the whole building. The fire was first. discovered by some passengers who were passing the chapel, and a quantity of smoke was seen issuing from a large cellar which runs under the-chapel, and which is let to Mr Asler, of Chan dos-street, for the purpose of depositing wine. The alarm was soon given, and the parish engine of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields was first on the spot, and was soon followed by the engines from the Westminster and County Fire Office. A supply of water having been obtained, the firemen played with great effect into the cellar, and by their exertions saved the whole fabric from destruction, and got it under before the building was materially damaged. Considerable damage is done to the wine in the cel lar, but. the extent at present it is almost impossible to asogrtain. The danger was greatly increased by some wood which was also in the cellar. The stock, we understand, is insured in the County Fire Office. The fire is supposed to have originated from some men who were in the cellar in the morn ing with lights, and bad dropped some sparks, which had ultimately ignited the straw, &c. THE LATE ACCIDENT IN PALL-MALL.- Yesterday afternoon, an inquest was held at the Bell pub lic-house, Pall-mall, on view of the bodies of Ifaxar GREGG and Wm. ANDREWS, who were killed in Pall mall on Wednesday evening. Mr. E. TEGART, of 39, Pall-mall, attended the deceased immediately after the ac cident, and he pronounced their death to have been occa sioned by suffixation, the contusions on their bodies not being sufficient to have caused their instant dissolution.— Thomas STOWELL, a labourer, employed at the improve ments in Pall-mall, stated that the house where the acci-" dent happened was sold by auction to a Mr. HORTON, who engaged GREGG to pull it down. About five o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, witness was standing on a nine-inch wall adjoining the house, when the two de ceased persons were removing a large stone from the cornice forming the brick-work. The deceased were standing on the second floor, and the girder, which were the sole support of the floor, being very much decayed at both ends, gave way, and the deceased were precipitated into the lower part of the house. The stone also fell at the same time with the deceased. The CORONER inquired if any pre caution could have prevented the girders fiom giving way, and it was replied that no precaution could have prevented i the accident, as the girders were cmcealed by the wain scoting. The frequent accidents arising from taking down old houses were solely attributable to the labourers them selves, who were paid by the job for the work they per formed. A verdict of " Accidental Death" was then re turned, and a nominal deodand of One Shilling levied on the materials. gisOttiriNti iNIMA. (From the key Monthty Mdgazihe.) The essential quality in a hog-hunter is a good Month; without Whicit a racer would only come up to a hog to commence a series of evo lutions, like Trunnion's approaches to the church. Dogs are of no use in this sport; but we thought our greyhounds too valuable to be risked, after a very fie one had been hoisted ; and, to tell the truth, most of them had no great devotion to the business. Even our renowned Sir Du gald (so named from the titular of Drumth wacket), a wire-haired hero ; that we expected to engage all corners, cut some most extravagant capers round a hog, infinitely more indicative of his astonishment at the antagonist he was intro duced to, than of any intention he had to come , to close quarters with him. This worthy was of Arab descent, as were all our greyhounds. The English dogs have most speed : too much, in fact, while they arc well ; but their health is even more uncertain than our own. On this ground there were swarms of foxes ; and an English sportsman would not be shocked at our custom of coursing them, if he could see them. They are long, delicately formed little animals, with grey silvery coats, and hand some full brushes tipped with black. It is very pretty to come on an uninitiated one, standing half on the turn, with his little feet (tiff out, and his bright eyes shining in his sharp knowing look ing head, and to mark, as one tallies and slips at him, the momentary hesitation, and . then, as he ascertains we are coming towards him, the gallant, not to say contemptuous, flourish of his brush with which he breaks away. Even when the dogs begin to press him, he retains his confidence; and the dazzling quickness with which his glossy tip flashes in a turn or double, seems to justify it. Towards the close, however, he seems gradually to lengthen ; his brush droops almost to trailing, and his head is strained forward, as if to keep it as far as possible from the bare teeth and glaring eyes of the dogs, whose hot and gushing pants he almost feels upon hiscoat. As the business becomes hope less, he collects himself for a bite ; and though old dogs delay their pick till they can make it safely, few young ones seize without feeling to the very bone the death-set of his little teeth. We know if an earth is near, by the burst of re covered speed with which the fox takes off, and beautiful picks are often made at these moments. The dog, knowing it a last chance, makes a tre mendous bound, and catching the animal as he dives at the earth, rolls over and over with him in his mouth, from the reckless force to which he has abandoned himself. The speed of the fox is most uncertain. I once found one which, having beaten a brace of very good dogs, passed a dog-boy, who, seeing the state , of things, thought fit to slip a second, which ran him till they were knocked up also ; they were lobbing along, and losing ground every stretch, when the fox fell dead in front of them. The beauty of this sport is in the rapidity and frequency of the doubles ; but the dogs, unfortunately, soon learn to run cunning, and cut in upon them. Foxes are near most cantonments, and jackalls near all. I have sometimes mobbed the latter ; but I seldom thought their short run worth the risk of their bite. My favourite victims were the fawns. With them there is neither earthing nor squatting ; it is all fair play ; and the dogs kill, or their master gets a lesson in judging of the size of his game, which is a very essential acquirement. I have positively seen my three first-rate Arab dogs so beaten that they were fifty yards behind my horse ; aria when a lucky ledge of rocks has turned their game back upon them, and it has fallen, rather exhausted than pulled down, I have dragged it out from under or baween them without a scratch upon its skin, not one of them having strength to hurt it. Sometimes we rode at them without dogs ; but it is dreadful work for a single horse, and I have only succeeded, when alone, by forcing my horse over the fawn. A circumstance which occurred to mett owes show the sort of incident to which sport in India is liable, and to which, in my estimation, it half its charm. I galloped at a fawn that was browsing near its mother, and, as it often hap pens, my dogs laid into the doe. I, however, continued to ride after the young one, through a large herd of _antelopes, that came fast across us and carried off its mother. As we were passing through them, I hallooed to my dogs to attract them to the game I followed, and when at length I had succeeded in righting myself in my saddle (for I had necessarily turned to call them), I found two large wolves between me and the fawn, which they were running in very orthodox style. As we came up, one of them broke away from the game, and was followed by my dogs, till he slackened his pace and turned, when they, obeying my call, drew off, • and he lobbed away at a slow trot. On looking towards his com rade, I saw him running the fawn very beauti fully. Having found the first a coward, I con cluded his friend was no hero, and rode down to ' him ; but judge my surprise, when I state that he did net seem to notice either me or the dogs, but continued his pursuit, the greyhounds laying in alongside him, so that for several hundred yards this extraordinary trio might have been covered with •a spread blanket. At length the fawn tried a double on the wolf's side, and picked it up, but as I rode on him and shouted, lie dropped the game, and the dogs despatched it while lie stood looking on, about twenty yards before us. - I shall never forget irhen he saw me dismount and pick up the faWn—cock ing his ear, and laying his head on one side, as if he was considering what was to be done ; but he seemed fully to have made up his mind by the time I had remounted, as lie proceeded to make serious demonstrations of his intention to eat a dog. I had no arms, and co uld only keep him off by riding at him, an d sh o uting, which made him retire till I turned, when be would recommence his approaches. I had several ofthese bullying advances to make before my people rejoined me ; but the moment I seized myrifle he went off at speed. It was lucky the first left us, as well as that the wolf picked ; for had they continued together, or had my dogs seized the fawn first, I think one or both of them would inevitably have been killed. This was not the only time I found these rascals poaching. One morning a hare was so pressed by me, that it al most ran under my horse's nose, and the wolf brought up within about thirty yards, and scoured off when I prepared to fire. lat once saw seven make an inburst on a herd of antelopes, but without success. These animals lob on—l know no term so expressive- of their gait—at a sort of canter, which they can increase to a de gree that has baffled every attempt I have seen made to touch them. ne must have been use ful auxiliaries to them, as the wounded deer be came their sure prey. Chief Justice BEST, besides his judicial pen sion, is to receive, it is said, 4000/. a year as Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords. tOPIIOI4 INTELLIGENCE-, FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazettt de Prance, June S.) PA is, JUNE de Palmella left Paris the day before yesterday, to return to London, from which place it is said that he will proceed to the island of Terceira, where he will establish a Re gency in the name of Donna Maria Gloria. It is very probable that M. de Palmella will go from the island of Terceira to Brazil, according to instructions which he is to receive at London front the Queen Donna Maria and Count de Barbacena. The Journal du Commerce says that the measure of establishing a Regency in Terceira is said to be approved by the Cabinets of France and England— and that a Convention on the subject has been signed by the two Courts. The Monileur of to-day contains, in the official part, an Ordinance of the King relative to the orga nization of the general Staff, in fortified places. Yesterday, on Change, a list of Ministers was cir culated, which an intrigue would put in the place of the present Ministry. In this list we find two Mi nisters of War, and two of Finance, doubtless to rea- lize the plan announced by the Journal des Debats, of raising the number of Secretaries of State to fotw teen, as in England. (From the Journal du Commerce of Mond y. ) PARIS, JUNE I.—Letters from Madrid announce that the inscription of 80 millions has been placed in the hands of M. St. Priest, our Ambassador at Madrid, in conformity with the Treaty signed on the 30th Dec. last, in that capital. These letters add, that the Spanish Government has placed at the disposal of its banker in Paris, all the quicksilver at Seville and Almaden, which amounts to 20,000 quintals, in order to meet the payments of the interest for the first half-year. There have been various other accounts of the manner in which this quicksilver was to be em ployed. We shall see whether the present account is correct. We were unfortunately correct when we an nounced on the 2d ult. that the next average price of corn would probably shew a rise, the table fixing the prices of corn published by the Minister of the Interior, states the general average of all France at 24f. 50c. per hectolitre for wheat. Last month the price was 22f. 45c. The data on which the price is founded, are up to the 15th May. Since that time prices have fallen in many places, and as the appearance of the harvest is in general good, we may flatter ourselves that the next average price will be more satisfactory than that which we new publish. (None of the Papers contain any more recent news from the theatre of war.) FRV.CH FUNDS —Five per Cents. 1081. 107 f. 90c. ; Three per Cents.79f. 90c. ; Bank Actions, 18721. 50c. FOHERIN FUNDS.—Neapolitan Rentes, Cert. Fal. 87f. 20c. 15e. ; Spanish Renter, 6i ; Royal Spanish Loan, ; Royal Redeemable, 99 f. ; Interminable Spanish Annuities, 521 ; Haytian Loan, 515 f. 495 f. NEWS FROM THE THEATRE OF WAR. BERLIN, MAY 50. WARSAW, MAY 26.---The' campaign on the Danube has commenced with the investment of the important fortress of Silistria, which has been exe cuted with equal energy and success. " The head-quarters were removed some time ago to Czernowodv, Count Diebitsch having collected many troops there, advanced on the 13th May at the head of 21 battalinns, 16 squadrons of cavalry, and some regiments of Cossacks, by way of Kuz goun towards Silistria. The great road by way of Rasserat was still under water, in consequence of the overflowing of the Danube, and the troops had difficulties of all kinds to overcome Li consequence of the badness of the roads, but the idea of marching against the enemy caused them to bear all hardships with the greatest zeal. " On the 17th of May, at three o'clock in the morning, the corps reached the village of Almalui, five wersts from Silistria, without having fallen in with the enemy on their march. Here the Com inander-in-Chiefdi vided his corps into three columns: the right under Lieut.-General Bartholomey, the centre under Major-General Laschkiewitch, and the left under Lieut.-General krassowsky. The first fell in with the enemy, about 5,000 strong, who occupied some entrenchments which were erected last year, two wersts from Silistria. A brisk attack made by a regiment of Cossacks, tinder the eye of the Commander-in-Chief, upon a mass of Turkish cavalry posted upon the heights, was the signal for a general battle. The infantry, which quickly fol lowed, attacked with equal zeal ; the enemy . was broken, and, in less than a quarter of an hour, driven from all the works which he occupied on that point: the centre column followed this example, but the left column met with greater resistance ; and, as it had a longer march to make, it did not wive till two o'clock in the afternoon. General krassowsky having given his troops an hour's rest, led them against two strong redoubts which were advanta geously situated, and which were taken in a mo ment. The Turks, who were driven back at every point, now thought of only getting back into the fort ress. " Our flotilla on the Danube, commanded by Rear-Admiral Patiniotti, supported these move ments, so that the investment of the very extensive fortress of Silistria was not only effected in a single day, but the troops advanced within the distance of cannot shot of the walls. In the following night our Cossacks took a Turkish courier, sent by the Paella of Silistria to the Grand Vizier at Shurnla, to inform him of the investment of the place, and earnestly begging assistance. " The loss of the enemy on the 17th May, may be about 400 or 500 men killed and wounded ; ours is about 150 men killed and wounded. The bridge built at Kalarasch, the completion of which was delayed by the overflowing of the river, will be finished in two or three days, and as well as the bridge at Ilirsowra, will facilitate the com munication with the left bank of the Danube. The communication of the besieging corps with Bazard jik, Kosludgi, and Pravadi, are fully secured, and the detachments sent put to scour the country have only met with a few straggling panics of the enemy. " Admiral Greigh having been informed at Size boli, of the appearance of the Turkish -fleet in-the Black Sea, hastened with the squadron under his command to go and meet it." AMSTERDAM, JUNE 2.—EXCIIANGF. ON LONDON. —l2 10, to 12 07 5-10; two months 12 02 5-10, to 12.—Amsterdant Courant, June 3. The reports inserted in various papers of the occupa tion of Bald•hik and Kowarna, and the re-taking of Size boll by the Turks, are sufficiently refuted by the above ac count.—Prussiart State Gazette, May 80. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3.—High water 13 nainntes past twelve o'clock.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Clarence, from Pernamlmco; James Cropper, Garey, from Virginia ; Carricks, Walker, from Demerara ; Ann Pa ley, , from Lisbon ; Arotava, Smith, from Pa lermo ; Ebenezer, --, from Genoa; Fortitude, —, from Messina ; Ann, --, from Rotterdam ; Charlotte, from Barcelona. CLEARED OUTWARDS.-The Anue, Toole, for Barba does; Alfred, Rees, for Harnburgh ; Hope, —, fur Labrador ; Sappho, Wallace, for Jamaica ; Livingstone, Pearce, fur Calcutta ; and Mary Ann, Waugh, fur Cape Hayti. Such was the influence of the renowned MA VOMET PACHA'B wife over him (an influence which she never abused), that whatever she required was instantly granted. "It is enough," he used to say ; "by my two eyes if she requires it the thing must be done, be it through fire, water, or stone." ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN.—Yesterday the Act of Parliament which this parish has recently ob tained for the government of its affairs, came into operation for the first time, when a Committee of M ana gement, consisting of twenty-seven of the parishioner*, was im mediately appointed. MOTIVES OP SIR. WALTER SCOTT FOR NO2 ACKNOWLEDGING 11131sELF THE AUTHOR OF THE WAVERLI NOVELS. We extract the following highly interesting passage from Sir Walter Scott's preface to his collection of the Waverley Novels. He is speak ing of the reasons why he kept his authorship of these admirable Works concealed :-- " I am sorry (he says) I can give little satis faction to queries on this subject. I have al ready stated elsewhere that I can render little better reason for choosing to remain anonymous than by saying, with Shylock, that such was my humour. It will be observed that I had not the usual stimulus fur desiring personal reputation, the desire, namely, to float amidst the conversa- ion of men. Of literary fame, whether merited or undeserved. I had already as much as might have contented a mind more ambitious than mine ; and, in entering into this new contest for reputation, I might be said rather to endanger what I had than to have any considerable chance of acquiring more. I was affected, too, by none of those motives, which, at an earlier period Of my life, would doubtless have operated upon me. My friendships were formed—my place in society fixed--my life had attained its middle course. My condition in society was higher, perhaps, than 1 deserved, certainly as high as I wished, and there was scarce any degree of literary success which could have greatly altered or improved my personal condition. - I was not, therefore, touched by the spur of ambition, usually stithulating on such occasions ; and yet I ought to stand exculpated from the charge of ungracious or unbecoming indifference to public applause. I did not the less feel gratitude for the public favour, although I did not proclaim it— as the lover who wears his mistress's favour is his bosom, is as proud, though not so vain of possessing it, as another who dis plays the token of her grace upon his bon net. Far from such an ungracious state of mind, I have seldom felt more satisfaction than when returning from a pleasure voyage, 1 found Wa verley in the zenith of popularity, and public curiosity in full cry after the name of the author. The knowledge that I had the public approba tion, was like having the property of a hidden treasure, not less gratifying to the owner than if all the world knew that it was his own. Another advantage was connected with the secrecy which I observed. I could appear or retreat from the stage at pleasure, without attracting any personal notice or attention, other than what might be founded on suspicion only. In my own person, also, as a successful author in ano ther department of literature, I might have been charged with too frequent intrusions on the public patience ; but the author of Waverley was in this respect as impassible to the critic as the ghost of Hamlet to the partizan of Marcellus. Perhaps the curiosity of the public, irritated by the exist ence of a secret, and kept afloat by the discus sions which took place on the subject from time to time, went a good way to maintain an un, abated interest in these frequent publications. There was a mystery concerning the author, which each new novel was expected to assist in unravelling, although it might in other respects rank lower than its predecessors. I may perhaps be thought guilty of affectation, should I allege as one reason of my silence, a secret dislike to enter on personal discussions concerning my own literary labours. It is in every case a dangerous intercourse for an author to be dwelling con tinually among those who make his writings. a frequent and familiar subject of conversation, but who must necessarily be partial judges of ' works composed in their own society. The habits of self importance, which are thus acquired by authors, are highly injurious to a well-regu lated mind ; for the cup of flattery, if it does not, like that of Circe, reduce mere to the level of beasts, is sure, if eagerly drained, to bring the best and the ablest down to that of fools. This risk was in some degree pre vented by the mask which I wore ; and my own stores of self-conceit were left to their natural course, without being enhanced by the partiality of friends, or adulation of flatterers. If I am asked further reasons for the conduct I have long observed, I can only resort to the explanation supplied by a critic as friendly as he is intelligent, namely, that the mental organization of the no velist must be characterised, to speak craniolo gically, by an extraordinary developement of the passion for delitescency ! I the rather suspect some natural disposition of this kind ; for, from the instant I perceived the extreme curiosity ma nifested on the subject, I felt a secret satisfac tion in baffling it, for which, when its unim portance is considered, I do not well know how to account. My desire to remain concealed, in the character of the author of these novels, sub jected me occasionally to awkward embarrass ments, as it sometimes happened that those who were sufficiently intimate with me would put the question in direct terms. In this case, only one of three courses could be followed. Either I must have surrendered my secret—or have re turned an equivocating answer —or, finally, must have stoutly and boldly denied the fact. The first was a sacrifice which I conceive no one had a right to force from me, since I alone was con cerned in the matter. The alternative of ren- dering a doubful answer must have left me open to the degrading suspicion that I was not wil ling to assume the merit cif tlkere was any) which I dared not absolutely lay claim to ; or those who might think more justly of me, must have received such an equivocal answer as an indirect avowal. I therefore consider myself entitled, like an accused person put upon trial, to refuse giving my own evidence to my own conviction, and flatly to deny all that could not be proved against me. At the same time I usually quali fied my denial by stating that, had I been the author of these works, I would have felt myself quite entitled to protect my secret by refusing my own evidence when it was asked for to accomplish a discovery of what I desired to conceal. The real truth is, that I never expected ' or hoped to disguise my connection with these novels from any one who lived on terms of in-' titnacy with me. The number of coincidences which necessarily existed between narratives re counted, modes of expression, and opinions broached in these Tales, and such as were used by their author in the intercourse of private life, must have been far too great to permit any of my familiar acquaintances to doubt the identity betwixt their friend and the author of Waverlev ; and I believe they were all morally convinced of it. But while I was myself silent, their belief eould not weigh much mere with the world than that of others ; their opinions and reasoning were liable to be taxed with partiality, or con fronted with opposing arguments and opinions ; and the question was not so much, whether I should be generally acknowledged to be the author, in spite of my own denial, as whether even my own avowal of the works, if such should I tut & be made,..wadd sufficieNt put me in puted possession of that character." - I - In the remaining portion of this inter e paper, Sir Walter refers to the rumours ton his brother, Mr. Thomas Scott,. of the regiment, who had once entertained 3 ilw"" tion of entering upon a similar field of liter f but who never had the least connezion.wit h refor g ' Waverley Novels. " The volumes, the pal (he continues) to which the present page I.th ° a preface, are entirely the composition 0 , 4 a; author by whom they are now ac know „.: Lel' is i with the exception, always of avowed qu a and such unpremeditated and involuntary- °P giarisms as can scarce be guarded againsthtii i li, one who has read and written a great deal.. original manuscripts are all in existence , sir entirely written (horresco referens) in t4 e .0. : thor's own hand, excepting during the 1,„) $ 1 1 1818 and 1819, when, being affected -0, severe illness, he was obliged to employ tue:,. sistance of a friendly amanuensis." NOTORIOUS SWINDLER. The lady who robbed Mr. Lantier of a svoti'L by l ordering it to be sent to a house in Nortb o s; land-buildings, and receiving it of the porter:stioei door, telling him she would call and pay. his ° si t s as noticed in this Journ a l), is found to be a NS I Lucilla Ann M'Hobbs. Since her committil toij robbery she had applied at the Hall for relief. S na , to g the officer that her father was a merchant, lately at Bridgewater, and married (a second time) to • housekeeper ; that she was induced to le av l . 1 0 boarding-school with her father's clerk, first b il ge obtained, by a cheque on her father, 87/.; 0 311 ', 06 , paramour procrastinated the marriage unti l oti money was all expended ; that he then left he. Worcester, quite pennyless and forlorn, pronliro to meet her at a sea-port in Wales, where her fat,,, l a ), vessels frequented ; that she then arrived in I;i',i) without the means of getting food ; that het S ee had sailed for Quebec ; that she was only ' ol ,h e teen years of age, and would, on her attainingihis, age of twenty-one, have a fortune of 20,0001. that; a h p e p t a o r o e k n t t l h y e artless getle ta l e so ‘ t s o •o h n is u h p o o t r i t se t , h t e o from Dame Fortune's frowns—and it was at the officer's house that she was taken into eust ati4 „ 6 o,' the above-named charge—when, upon inves4 a r k - 0, it was found that her benevolent friend the o ; r. had been imposed upon by a string of false artfully spun into the. resemblance of real tra Miss Lucilla, it appears, is the daughter of peor; - io rents, and lived as a servant at Bridgewater; a 2/ aged about 26, and a native of Bristol. Abut° . t oe years ago she was found crying over her.bit ter ont :to on the steps near York House,, and Was i-- otYr Bristol, and thence, upon credit of a similes` to Bridgewater, where, instead of her great tel',l - found an officer, who apprehended her I TO oer, protect charge of felony upon poor persons; but, not fir the trouble and disgrace of a • prosecution, ta7 3 o Lucilla connived to escape whipping, Came °!r t ifie got a gold ‘vatch as above described, went t° 4 0) bridge - Omitting that a regiment was. lying ; c hoek got in debt, talked of parlour-boarding at ejv for 150/. per annum, of her guardian bei li t g , pected in pursuit of her, &c., and came then, — Bah, vOitre she imposed on the officer a$ afa c r„ rle and was apprehended as above described: .. So . d fault of evidence the Ala g istrates again din:Ot her, with a severe reprimand, which. had 1. Ihe effect upon her, that within a few hours afte r told her tale to a poor country girl, whom o° l 'o the Gravel-walk, persuaded her to go and lire her, and got from her VAL—Bath Jountie• • THE MARKETS. ors DURINO COUNTRY CORN 81±ttKKI'S DUKIN O j r "' • , "‘i • • B.B l*- Wheat-• Barley. Oats , • o . ••• ••••••••••• • Per Quarter. e. to. 8. e. 0 , e. to Itlandferd 73 41— gj Brigg » 65 72 25 30 , 13- 90 3 2 l. Cambridge 75 30 19 Chard . 56 '76 32 38 24 SO Hunting — don—. 66 70 37 31 17 •ES r,„, Long Sutton 5O 72 17 ES •, 0 Louth 68 72 25 31 18 2S 6i 72 28 32 18 26 Ti. Newark 66 78 30 20 31 19 -' 40 " . 'O. .ra Nottingham Peterborough 3i3 78 37 40 18 Plymouth 72 81 38 25 Pontefract... — '76 89 2 S 5 Sleaford 70 76 30 93 22 24 Uppingham 68 82 :30 36 18 E 5 Wisbech 160 74 24 18 Uppingham Wisbech ______ i t LEEDS CORN MA RKET.—June 2. •,... ( IS i There has been a fair supply of Wheat up to . tw - de ly . F' market, a great proportion of it foreign, the Instw . re other kinds of Grain has been small. , Fine friin ce elk Wheat with difficulty supported the prices of 13 _ 1 5 ,10, 19 other descriptions of New and Old may be 'now' opt`' 2s. per quarter lower than last week. In Barley: ni 0$ terial alteration. Oats id. per stone higher, II brisk sale. Shelling Is. per stone higher, but the u r 60: limited. Hard New Beans Is. per quarter hig i ;oo! no amendment in the damp samples of New, also , 4 WS . ' and Pease. There has been rather more demand " :• I l z ,h l: a lo t, ur Ni n w o ro T k ar n i n a d tio s n u . ffolk l , ta 6 p o e th s . eed d_u . l . l o sale. atos,„l: 0 1 0. 6 , i York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfollcand Suffolk l7ll. t ° TV. Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 32 . * G r i n di ng Beans 63lb. ....... ........... .... to 9 17 * sl• Oats, I'otatoo A_ lAA. —Mealing, Foreign 12d. to 13d....English 13d. to 1)11:01n, Shelling .535. to 3 511 :, Rapeseed, English. 281. to 90/ Foreign, —l. to.."'" • Of BIRTHS. On the 4th inst., inllryan;on-square, the W ' Joseph Hume, Esq., M.P. of a eon. Pr 084 t r Oa the 3d inst., at Willenhall House, Eas - . o f - Hertfordshire, the lady of Thomas Wyatt, Esq . ' tenth child, of a eon. 0 0 At Blunt House, Croydon, Mrs. Christopliet of a daughter. ' PO' On the let inst. at Grove-hill, Camberwell' Lawrence Thsborough, of a daughter. iaor 0441, On the 30th ult., the lady of. John o nct Torrington-strret, of a daughter, who survived b • ut " days. MARRIED. I l e l/16 :1 ' On the 2Sth ult. at Donington, Lincolnshire, t " 0101 - J. Wilson, 13. A., to Francis, eldest daughter of R ' of al. On the t?.d inst., at Rothley, J. Parker, Es 4" vt 'ovr eoln'e-iou, to Mary, daughter of T. Babingtot Rothley-ten - ride, Leicestershire. 0 0 : On the 2d inst. at Walcot church, Batb, ,Jr' / Lte• •' wine-merchant, to Miss Mary Ann Deson, both or t7otti' At Eccles, John Slack, Esq.. of Mancheste r, to fel/' daughter of George Gardner, Esq., of thel ~ t ,e tiltton. brbte On the 4th inst. at Camberwell New OW, r o ' so- o f Rev. H. G. White, M.A., Mr. John Bayley, °' - igert well, to Eliza, eldest daughter of Mr. Samuel F('" St. George's East. lfs" rw it On the 2d inst., at Christchurch, by the Re v ' Brock Gerrard, the eldest eon of Lieutenant' Ds Gosselin, to Amelia, youngest daughter of the is t r pre / Tupper, Esq., of Haute Ville, in the Island of 6 ° o , fc o f, On the 4th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-gol°,10:0,I R. Taylor, jun., of Charing-cross, to Marl. 1 1°7 daughter of the late William Parker, Esq. , of tj Mews, Pimlico. t r4 . ' of ijoi DIED. On the 31st lilt., John George Evetta, FAT' - f bio cuffee-house, in his 73d year. On the 28th ult., at Hereford, in the 60tb , o age, Anthony Taylor Peacock, Esq. of I" On the 23d ult., Sir John Forbes Drumm ° w et thornden, Bart., Captain in the Royal Nary. -e t On the 26th ult., at Aslicomb, Sussex, M arg Or, wife of Francis Banhurd, Esq. On the 3d inst., at Red Lion-street, Clerlien James Mendham, wine-merchant, aged 68 Year% ' P' U. On the 3d inst., at Cheshunt, aged 10 Y ea — t, only child of Mr. James Coahead, of Regent-sturroo eeriet On the 3d inst., at East Horsley, William C ' in the 71th y of his age. On the 30th ear ult., at Caddy, Lancashire, kla`c" d tle, Esq., in the 101st year of hie age. „or h On the 2d inst.. in Broad-street, Golden-ell- Ku t o, 38, Mary, wife of Edwin Martin Van Mitc .<s t o , the 27th inst. at his residence in Tokelib° London, Thomas Monday, Esq. in his 82d Year' _-vto - o PRINTRD and PuinistlED by MURDO °FM!, 11 9 , STRAND, LON1)40.