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nu cKS OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, DEC. 21. sank Stock .... ,St. Patr,ck lnsur. (per sh.) Consols, 3 per . ceir Gov. Stock ******* Royal Irish Ditto ck, 354 per cent WIA I National Ditto — Ditto, New * Patriotic Ditto — 4 G Per Cent ........ . ............ 101% I Hibernian Bank kn o.r *, n el'• 34 per cent.... 99 Li I Provincial Ditto — _ Canal Stoca . 45 Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock ....... . Imperial Mine C ity Deb. per cent ... . Mining Co. of Ireland — e ..._i_3allast Olti Deb. 4 ..e. Commercial Buildings — Uornrni" WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. g... 1-1 minutes after 2. I Evening .. 3) minutes after 2. Ir 4- 1) ri d • Zs, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1829. The French Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday have been received, but they contain little news. the following are extracts from German r aper, received this morning : ROME, DEC. 8. According to an article, dated from Florence, i r - I nserted i n the Allgemeine Zeilung, the Pope ,?II intervened in favour of the Catholics in the tt° , ll lttri Empire. We believe that we may posi contradict the news. It is certain that his Holiness has their situation greatly at heart. It is riot to h th -e expected that in the Sultan's want of money il a ` the Christians' who, without acting precisely lies reb e l s everywhere, received their fellow be cram With the mos t li ve ly d emons t ra ti ons o f j o y, will be t reate d, -after. the departure of the latter, Rh hwi l , t , h greater mild ness t h an t h e C at h o li c A rmen i ans, . t utile cruel persecution is well known, were, treated o,,efore th e distress was so great. We know how a rn , Usually helps him se lf w h en h e i s di s t resse d t ° —° "e7, what then may we not apprehend when 0 the usual motives desire of revenge is added ? 71 S : u ' d e shocks of an earthquake which, however, did tiß l age, h ave b ee n felt in th e d e l egat i on o f , rul n't• The Journal of this city a n n ounces th a t ' t e Go vernment i nten d s to purchase the collection t?' Etruscan antiquities (2,000 i n num b er ) belong 'rig to the Prince of Canino, which is now exhi lilted in the Gabrielli Palace. Among the English -44.11 now here is Mr. Charles Grant. AUGSBURG, DEC. 17. Bay 4 " Ordina nce h as b een pu bli s h e d o f t h e Ki ng o f a , r4t ) 0 29th Nov, relative to the introduction into titenecircle of the Rhi ne o f the Custern-house regular done tariff, agree d u p on b etween th e King 'lll of Bavaria and Wurtemburg, and the Princi palities of .Holienzollern. The Duchy of Brunswick I t ! said t o b e among the States now negociating with .me Cr own of Pi ussia for facilitating the tra ffi c be (Ween their s u bj ects , espec i a ll y as concerns t h e tr ansit of goods. BERLIN, DEC. 7. li e l 'esterday (S un d ay ) t h e Cl ergy o f t h e Evange al c ommunities in this city announced to their re hoillltive cong regat i ons t he comp l et i on of' a universal co Of Hymns, revised with the most scrupulous A fr : i ,and approved by the Minister of Ecclesiastical e „,„ : _ i i• Its introduction in the churches of this w - 7 8 , 14 1 , wh i i e h has long been the . subject o f . a general the'ls.to ppvide for a want sensibly felt, is fixed for rst burglar of February next year. • - • SEMLIN, DEC. 7. V arious report s are i n c i rcu l at i on respect i ng .t h e future administration of Servia. Among other, t h • i ngs it is -said th at t h e Customs,- which have hero been faimed t o t h e P ac h a o f Belgrade, will placed under the, management olthe- Servian h trsrument. 'The f or t re a ses.o f S erv i a w ill i n d ee d h ! t te Tuilish garrisons , but th ose w hi c h th ey h ave taut ith erto had, consisting chiefly of i n h a bit ants an d o f t t rs of famili es , are t o b e exc h ange d f or regu l ar t 4 "Ps, &c. Th ese c h anges , h owever , d o not seem „ 4/ P l eue the .Turkish inhabitants of S erv i a , an d ";_any f am ili es of all classes are pr e p ar i ng to remove Iturnelia and Bulgaria. Accounts from. Ad r i anop l e, o f 20th N ovember, t , that symptoms of the plague have ma n if este d "motives in that city. ST. PETERSBURGH, DEC. 2. (Fuosr A COMMERCIAL LETTER.) t o , tit merch an t s a re now directing their attention Ca t ue provi nces l ate ly acqu i r ed o n the South of the ti l le4 M l s, by the treaties with Persia and the Otto -11 Porte. The advantageous geographical posi th tio- e of those countries will soon give importance to irtrade with Persia. Some of our merchants ate already projected factories there, which will hrkloubtedly be established as soon as the return of trtkee.bas led to permanent tranquillity and order in gole countries. A • , Press of other matter has lately prevented °llrPbserving on the proceedings under DAVIES S Ip na . commission ; we, however noticed that D octor HASLAM was lately examined, who was B° Nl enough to inform the public that it is a c'tnnton practice to ,fig a lunatic !!—We do hot profess oless to understand what s, teennicany ineatht ' by ji g ging a lunatic,—,but the name of 14 • induced 3 LAIA muuceet us to refer to the Report of the p arliamentary committee in 1815, when we fu t , was a Mr., not Doctot HASLAM, who tr a4 ' -Nrannned before the Committee, and who was formerly managing Apothecary to the Old l )3 eth ---euer n Report, Hospital. Having referred to the P°rt, we extract the following from the IninUtes of evidence given before the Committee of the House of Commons : W i t.__ 4 one of the cells of the lower gallery we saw 411 Norris ; he stated himself to be 55 years of 11 14 - ::" : (1 - that he had been confined about 14 years : fr o - I n consequence of attempting to defend himself hi4lilWhat he conceived the improper treatment of 4 _eoper, he was fastened by a long chain, which i tt , s hi "l? thrOugh; a partition enabled the keeper, by g into the next cell, to draw him . close to the N at , th e pleasure; tn . prevent.this, Norris muffled thr tl nAin with ' straw, so as to hinder it passing Wks pgh the wa ll : th at - h e a ft erwar d s was confined fie manner we saw him, namely, a stout iron ring h ii r ivetted round hi s neck, from which a short t 1 0,," Passed to a ring, made to slide upwards or Awards on an upright massive iron bar, more lii,ix'eeet high, i ns ett e d into -the, wall. Round Vt t ZdY a strong iron bar, about two inches wide, Proi;: N i e tted. On each side the bar was a circular sitei t —t '°o, which, being fashioned to, and enclosing T h . Ohio arms, pinioned them" close io his side. tri t . l4 s waist bar' was secured by two similar bars, 1 4 1 1.' 1 ' Passing over his shoulders, were rivetted to ti tt ,'"liat.bar both before and behind. The iron %I I : ro und his neck was connected to the bars cm his b4rs uld ers by a double link. From each of these 4 6 a tao?ther short chain passed to the ring on the t o r icut iron bar. We were informed he was enabled th e himself, so as to stand against the wall, on i t il oW of his bed, in the rough bed in which he lAf i utit it was impossible for him to advance from the of th t o Which the iron bar is soldered, on account 4,0 1 6 shortness of his chains, which were only 12 k w es g It was, 1 conceive, equally out of his bs e kf to repose in any other position than on his fl o u t , th e pro j ect i ons w hi c h , on eac h s id e of t he fo r h , , sb ar, enclosed his arms, rendering it impossible li,•,; tli to be on his s ide, even if the length of th e i rom his neck and shoulders would permit it. he s r t :ght leg w as c hain e d to the trough, in which t han had remained encaged and chained more it, tin tss . elve years. To prove the unnecessary re tl;.t I nflieted on this unfortunate man, he inform ed ik dr w at , h e had , for some years , been able to with arms from the matilielett -which encom. IL' th em. He then withdrew one of them, and observing an expression of surprise, be said, that when his arms were ‘vithdriwri he was compelled to rest them on the edges of the circular projections, which was mare painful than their keeping within. Hi s position, we were informed, was mostly lying down ; and that, as it was inconvenient to raise himself and stand upright, he very seldom did so; that he read a great deal of books of all kinds,history, lives, or any thing that the keepers could get him : the newspaper every day, and conversed, peifectly coherently, on the passiug topics and the events of the war, in which he felt particular interest. On each day that we saw.him he discoursed coolly, and gave rational and deliberate answers to the different questions put to him." Was this jigging a lunatic ? As Englishmen, it is with feelings of the deepest pain and humiliation we record that the above is only one of the enormities proved be fore Parliament, to have been committed in the Nineteenth Century, in our Lunatic Hospitals and receptacles—enormities. the truth of which -might well be doubted, had they not become matter of history, and did they not rest on evi dence that -is indisputable. The public, however, Will be relieved by a knowledge that the New Bethlehem Hospital, is under better regulations and other management. Mr. HASLAM is not managing Apothecary, and Dr. HASLAM is not Physician to that establishment. 'We cannot help recalling the attention of our readers to the police case from Finchley, which has lately so strongly fixed the anxiety of the public. The inquiry it appears has terminated in so far as the Magistrates of Bow-street are concerned ; whether the public will be as easily satisfied as those very worshipful Gentlemen we may be allowed to entertain very strong doubts. A very strange discrepancy, which we observe in the opinions of one of them, does not incline us to place very implicit reliance on his particular opinions. On Tuesday he reads a very un learned lecture to the Doctors concerned in the case, advises them to beware of the use of opium in particular circumstances, hints at the possi bility of a very small dose of that drug, assisted by wind, weather, or some other nonsense, hav ing effected .the dreadful result. On Wednesday he avows that from the very beginning he believed that the poor woman had compassed tier own death. Passing over the injustice of such an opinion to the poor victim of the barbarity, or ignorance, or carelessness of some one, how will this Magistrate stand excused to the Doctors whom he accuses on Tuesday ofgross ignorance, while on the Wednesday lie allows that his sus picions took quite another direction? In justice to all parties, and likewise to the public, all the documents should be published. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAT.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK This being Christmas-day it is kept as - it close holiday, with the exception of the Post-office. Ttio French mails have arrived, but we have no other arrivals of consequence. By the above conveyance the, private letters &u Lisb on state that some cOmmOtions took place at the Marine Ar senal, owing to the workmen being destitute of provisions ; but disturbances of a more serious ,natore had occurred on the lst of December The commercial letters from Constantinople state, that the commerce there would have greatly improved were it not for the high charges for the importation of merchan dise. Several cargoes of corn were purchased from Odessa by the Turkish Govemment. The Emperor of Austria has ordered that Venice shall be declared a free port from January 1, 1830. THE KING'S COURT. Ills MAJESTY held ‘a Court at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, at his Palace at Windsor, which was attended by:tile LORD CHANCELLOR, the Fit st Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home and Foreign Depart ments, &c. The Recorder of London was introduced into tl.e . presence of the KING in Council, and made his re port of the convicts capitally convicted at Justice-hall, in the Old Bailey, of the case of JOHN TISLEY alias HARRIS (from the June Sessions), and the six unreported at former Council from the September Sessions, and also the whole of the October Sessions, when the law was ordered to take its course upon WILLIAM NEWITT (for sheep stealing), Titoxas MomAs MAYNARD, for forgery on the Excise department ; STEPHEN SANDFORD and WIL LIAM LESLIE, for a burglary in the house of Mr. STULTZ, in Clifford-street, who were ordered for execution on Thurs day next. The report occupied the attention of the KING in Council between three and four hours; it com menced before four o'clock, and did not conclude till be tween seven and eight o'clock, some of the trials being of considerable length. His MAJESTY gave audiences to the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WELLINGTON, and Mr. SECRETARY PEEL. The Duke of WELLINGTON, the Earl of Amiume, and the Earl and Countess of VERULAM, took their leave of Prince Laororm on Wednesday evening at his residence at Claremont, where they had been stay ing on a visit to his Royal Highness for some days, and proceeded to their - respective residences. His Royal Mighness came to town yesterday morning, and visited the Duchess of KENT and the Princess VICTORIA, at their residence in the King's Palace, at Kensington. His Royal Highness returned to Claremont in the afternoon. Lord GLENGALL'S new cOtnedy of the " Follies of Fashion "; is,.":it.eppears; to be published imme diately. We understand that it is intended, to be adopted by several of our leading fashionahles, for their private theatricals, during the present festive season. THE COURT JdUßNAL.—lndependently of various other papers of peculiar attraction for the fashion able world, next Saturday's Number of this new and popu lar Weekly Journal, will contain a most humoious article, entitled "The Christmas Musings of a Younger Brother;" and another Paper relative to that mysterious Society, " The Exclusive," whose proceediuge were veiled in such im penetrable secrecy, - until the appearanee of the Novel which bears their-name. Some weeks ago Mrs.. WARD, wife of Mr. G. WARD, •landlord of the Barge, in • this town, being afflicted with a severe pain in the face, purchased a penny worth of laudanum, most of which she used. The small quantity which remained, and which was not more than a tea-spoonful, was kept in a wine glass which stood upon a chest of drawers in Mrs. WARD'. bed-room. Between twelve and one o'clock on Sunday morning one of Mr. WAnn's children, an engaging boy, about three years old, somehow obtained access to the glass, and tasted of the laudanum, but finding it nauseous went to a domestic, and spitting some out, told her had taken nasty stuff. She immediately surmised what he had done, and going to the place discovered a few drops missing. The child was put to bed, and from tie very trifling quantity he swallowed it was hoped that no serious consequences would ensue. But this hope was unfortunately fallacious, for a drowsi ness crept on him, and at four o'clock he went to sleep ; it was the sleep of death ! Hour after hour passed on, but still the deep slumber continued unbroken—the healthful sleep changed into a feverish torpor, the symptoms became alarming, and surgical assistance was called in ; the medi cal gentleman succeeded for a moment in rousing the child, but it relapsed again into sleep, and expired about midnight. An inquest was held upon the body yesterday, befode Cuarturs RICE, Esq., Mayor, and the jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death.—Roston Gazette. ACCELERATION of the LONDON MATT,. On Saturday a Meeting was h, IA ►n the Coined Chamber of the conveners of Committees of public bodies in Edinburgh and adjoining counties, inte rested in the acceleration of the London mail—the Lord Provost in the Chair. Among the gentlemen present were, Baron Sir Patrick Murray of Och tertyre, Sir John Dalrymple of Consland, Sir John Hay of Smithfield and Hayston, Adam Hay, Esq. M.P., Sir Henry Jardine, Mr. Gibson Craig of Riccarton, Mr. Trotter of Ballendean, Mr. Hope Vere of Craigiehall, Andrew Clephane, Esq. She riff of Fifeshire, Mr. Heriot of Ramornie, Mr. Sandeman: of Springlands, Perthshire; Mr. Small Keir of Kininmont, Mr. A. Murray, advocate, Mr. Clerk Rattray, Mr. Nairne of Claremont, Mr. Mackenzie, Depute Keeper of the Signet, Mr. Allan, Master of the Merchant Company, the con veners of the other public bodies in the city, &c. The LORD PROVOST said, he understood they were met to consider the best mode for accelerating the mail from London to Edinburgh, and the con sequent necessary acceleration of all the cross mailS. As he had not hitherto taken part in any previous proceedings, he suggested that some gen tleman better acquainted with the subject should state to the Meeting what had already been done in reference to it. Mr. ALLAN said, he had been present at most of the Meetings held in Edinburgh, and would state shortly how the matter now stood. The'acceleration of the London mail was a subject which had en gaged the attention of the public bodies for ten years past, but it was only recently that it had been brought into a tangible shape. Various applications to the Post Office had been made from Edinburgh, but the principal one was in the shape of a memo rial and petition to the Lords of the Treasury, from all the public bodies and bankers of the city, for ward on the 20th of December last. That petition was a long one, and contained a variety of matters. It requested that Government should interfere not only in procuring an acceleration of the mail from London to Edinburgh, but also that a second or night mail should be established—and likewise some alterations made on the roads which that mail should travel. The petition was transmitted by their Lordships, along with various others on the same subject, to his Grace the Duke of Manchester, Postmaster-General, and a report was made by his Grace, a copy of which was sent to Edinburgh. This report, however, being applicable to all the memorials transmitted to the Treasury, it was diffi cult to discover in how far it was applicable to the petition sent from this city. It complained of the expence of a double mail which had been proposed in the Edinburgh petition, but stated that the mail at present travelled some parts of the road so as to cover ten miles per hour. Consequently, when his Grace's report reached Edinburgh, the committee of public bodies resolved again to present themselves to the Lords of the Treasury, with a petition con fined entirely to the acceleration of the present Edinburgh mail; and as his Grace had admitted that on some parts of the road it already travelled at the rate required, the petitioners prayed that it might be made to proceed at the same rate through out. the whole road. By this means, the mail would arrive in Edinburgh in forty hours from London, and, if allowed to come directly by way of Wooler, that road being nearly twenty miles shorter,.two hours more would be saved : by this route it would be in Edinburgh by ten o'clock forenoon. In this event, six. hours of business might be had for an swering letters from London, on the same day . they were received, and thereby greatly curtail the course of post between the two cities. To this last appli cation no answer had yet been received, and he (Mr. Allan), therefore, thought, the Meeting might solicit the influence of Lord Melville to ob tain the sentiments of the Treasury upon the subject. Sir JOHN DALRYMPLE said Lord Rosslyn, Lord Aberdeen, Lord Melville, and Sir George Murray were all favourable to the views of the Meeting ; and he lately, also, had assurance of support from the Duke of Buccleuch and bir George Warrender. But as. no answer had--yet-been received-to the last petition from the public bodies,it would be a matter for the consideration of the Meeting whether they should immediately take further steps on the sub ject. In the mean time he (Sir John) begged to state that some excellent observations upon the Duke of Manchester's report had been drawn up by two Members of the county of Edinburgh Com mittee, in his absence, namely, by the Earl of Rosebery and Mr. J. A. Murray, advocate, and for warded to the Lords of the Treasury, which he would take the liberty to read to the Meeting. The following _seemed to be the most important points alluded to in that document:— In reference to the Duke of Manchester's ob jection of " unprecedented speed," the Committee expressly denied that any such was required, and stated that all that was sought for, was, that the mail should travel throughout the whole road at the same rate at which it already did through a considerable part of it ;—that no double mail from London was contemplated by the petitioners, but only a branch mail to Edinburgh from Morpeth or Newcastle by Wooler, so as to secure one by Ber wick and another by Wooler. With regard to the objections founded on the interests of the revenue, the Committee thought it quite un tenable, and that it could not be argued with justice or propriety that the Post Office, unlike every other source of public income, was not to be charged with the expellees of its own receipt;— that the Post Office was established for regulating the conveyance of letters only, and had nothing to do with that of passengereand parcels, which ought to be abandoned, if instead of forwarding, it served to interfere with the primary object of public ac commodation. As to the objection with regard to timing the mails, the Committee observed, that at 10 miles an hour the mail would reach Edinburgh, by the present road, in 40 hours, which was all that was asked for, and should the present contractors object to this, the Committee expressed a belief that the difficulty would be instantly removed by throwing open the contracts to general competition. The Committee then remark, that the views of the Edinburgh petitioners being now clearly under stood, both by the inhabitants of York, and by the interests on the Alnwiek, Berwick, and iladdington road, all opposition had ceased from those quarters, so there was no longer foundation for the objections urged-by his Grace on that head. The Committee denied that any injury or inconvenience would be sustained by any one place, by the prayer of the Edinburgh petition being granted; on the contrary, not only the city of Edinburgh and the adjacent country, the south of Scotland, and the north of - England, derive material benefit by the acceleration -of the mail, but great advantage would also accrue in the communication with all those parts of Scot land north of the Forth and Tay. The Committee, in conclusion, stated, that they felt themselves the more called upen to press for the proposed change, in consequence of the removal of the Boards of Ex cise and Customs from Edinburgh, by which the principal part of the business in both these depart ments was now conducted in London; and, as the mail at present arrived in Edinburgh after these offices were shut, great public inconvenience must frequently arise, from a lapse of 17 hours after the arrival of the post, before any business could be transacted. Sir va ti JOHNthat th e rece i pt o f t h ese ob . - ser oisha d t b e e n e said, id, acknowled ge d b y Mr. Pl anta i re a letter, dated September 19, b ut no answer to t h em had yet been received. He (Sir John) l'ad talked over the matter, a day or two ago, with Lord Rose bery, who expressed his regret that he would not be able to attend this meeting. His Lordship took a de,p interest in the matter, and would attend to the subject when in London, His opinion, however, was, that they should not press the subject farther at present, but that it would be advisable to appoint a small Committee, and to have another meeting before the assembling of Parliament, to consider ‘vhat was then best to be done,' In this hP (Sir John) coincided, and, in the mean time, offered for 0, - approval of the Meeting a series of resolution., ,‘ were to the following effect : " That it is of die eatest importance to the best interests of the cfmwry, t lint the mail should be trans mitted from London to Edinburgh with the greatest speed, consistent with safety, and along the best line of communication. " That if tic improvements in forwarding the mail, sugge,ted in various memorials that have been presented to the Postmaster-General, and the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury, were adopted on the whole of the present line, it might arrive at Edin burgh at twelve o'clock noon, and a general delivery of letters take place at one o'clock. " That the answer not having yet been received from the Treasury to the memorial presented by the Lord Provost, the Conveners of the different public bodies, and by the banks and all the bankers of Edinburgh, on the 21st August last, and to the me morial by the county of Edinburgh, some farther ap plication should be made, and that a Committee should be appointed, consisting of the Conveners of the respective Committees named, and to be named, by the different burghs and counties, and the following noblemen and gentlemen :—The Earl of Rosebery, the Lord Register, Sir George Clerk, Sir Patrick Murray, Sir John Hope, Sir John Hay, Mr. Galloway, and John A. Murray, Esq. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh and Sir John Dalrymple, to be joint Conveners; five, with one of the Con veners, to be a quorum, with power to add further members to the Committee, and to take such measures as they may deem expedient for the ob• ject in view. " That a general meeting be held in January, to which all the Royal Burghs and Counties interested in this improvement shall be invited to send Com missioners, and that any answer which may be "re ceived from the Lords of his Majesty's Treasury shall be submitted to that meeting. "'That an application should be made to Parlia ment to appoint a Commission for the improvement of the road from London by York and Newcastle to Edinburgh. That these Resolutions shall be forwarded to Lord Melville, Earl of Aberdeen, Earl of Roislyn, and to Sir GeOrge Murray." Sir JOHN HAY, in seconding the Resolutions, said, he thought they were conceived in very pro per terms, and displayed great moderation. " The Resolutions were then put seriatim, and unanimously approved. Thanks were voted to the Lord Provost, and the meeting separated.—Edin burgh Courant. THE IMPROVEMENTS AT CHARING- CROSS AND IN THE STRAND. The (ollowing is an Official Statement to the sth of January, 1829, of the Receipts and Expendi ture of Monies, part of the New Street Fund, for the Improvements now in progress at Charing cross and in the Strand : X. 5. d, X. s. d. 409,179 10 0 3,714 0 0 17,719 7 01 121,065 18 3 419 2 0 RECEIPT. Produce of 400,1001. Exchequer Bills, advanced by the Commissioners for the issue of Exchequer Bills upon Loan Prod - nee of Old Materials Deposits upon Sales of Estates previously to such Sales being corn- £: s. d. pleted Repaid of these Deposits 21,842 10 0 Produce of Sales completed 121,125 19 9 Discount allowed upon im mediate Payment of Purchase Monies GO 1 0 Miscellaneous Receipts EXPENDITURE. Brought forward from last lieturn Amount paid for Property s. d. for Improvements at Charing Cross and in the Strand 475,875 1 4 Ditto ditto, Downing-st t,483 18 0 Ditto ditto, King-street 1,320 0 0 Gratuities to Tenants at Will Payment on account of Compensation to a Lessee rebuilding at his own ex pense, and agreeing to pay an in creased Rent to the Crown Law Charges, and Charges of Archi tects, _ Surveyors, and others, em -1,193'661. in the Valuations and Pur chases, by Priva'e Contract, by re ference to Arbitration, and by the Verdicts of Juries Rents paid to the Holders £. s. d of Property required for these Improveinenrs, in cases where the Interest of the Tenant has been purchased in the first in stance 10,375 9 10 Deduct :—Rents receiv ed from Tenants in the Line of these Im_ provements in cases where the Interest of the Landlord has been purchased in the first instance l,OOB 4 6 Payments to make good deficiencies in Land Tax and Parochial Rates' Interest on Purchase Monies Salaries Office Incidents Auditors, Treasury, and Parliamen- tary Fee. Exhumation of Bodies from St. Mar- tin's Church-yard Repayments to Exchequer Bill Loan] Commissioners Miscellaneous Payments Balance In hand, Jan. 5, 1829 LOWTHER. .W. DACRES AD. 483,67819 4 4,!12710 0 6,06310 01 15,361 15 SI 9,361 5 41 397 3 6 498 16 1 2,081 10 3 193 11 0, 74 10 8 1,907 14 21 16,250 0 399 9 1553,106 1 9 3,182 17 11 1542,209 19 4 7 : 713 4 4553,1(16 1 H. DAWKINS HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS FOR THE PRESENT WEEK. His Majesty's Stag-hounds, on Monday, at Thorp ; and Thursday, at Two-mile Brook—at Half-past Ten. Mr. O'Kelly's Hounds, on Monday, at 13ryanston ; Thursday, at Spetisbury ; and Saturday, at Knowle—at Half-past Eleven. _ _ The East Sussex Fox Hounds, on Thursday, at Tels eombe Tye; and Saturday, at Westnieston—at a Quarter to Eleven. The Holdernese Fox Hounds, on Thursday, at Hum bleton ; and Saturday, at Sunderlandwick—at Eleven. Sir T. Sykes's Fox Hounds, on Wednesday, Stamford bridge ; and Saturday, at Castle Howard Inn—at Teu. The Somersetshire Subscription Fox Hounds, on Satur day, at Bagliorough-house. The Blackmeor Vale Hounds, on Saturday, at Nether Compton Lodge-gate. The Duke of Rutland's Hounds, on Thursday, at Hol well ; and Saturday, at Ropsley Kennel—at Half-past Ten. The York and Ainsty Fox Hounds, on Thursday. at Pill Moor; and Saturday, at Strensall—at Half-past Ten. The Hurworth Fox Hounds, on Friday, at Croft-bridge —at:Ten. The Sinniugton Fox Hounds, on Saturday, at Lockton —at Nine. The fiorthumberland Fox Hounds, on Saturday, at Weldon -bridge—at Ten. The Haydon Hounds, on Saturday, at Fourstones—at Nine. The Iforpeth Harriers, on Saturday, at the Kennel— at Ten. The Marquis of Cleveland's Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Aldburgh ; Thursday, at Watlass Lime• kilns ; and Satur day. at York• gate—at Eleven. The Hambledon Hounds. on Wednesday, at Botley gate ; and Saturday, at Stephen's Castle Down—at Half isist Ten. - The New Forest Hounds, on Wednesday, at Norley En closure ; Thursday, at New-park ; and Saturday, at Den sham Wood—at Half-past Ten. The Vine Hounds, on Wednesday, at Paul's Wood; and Saturday, at Mapledurwell Hatch—at Ten. Mr. A. Smith's Hound., on Tuesday, at Everley ; Wed nesday, at Aslimansworth ; and Thursday, at Tidworth house—at Eleven. Sir John Cope's Hounds, on Wednesday, at Stanford street ; and Thursday, at the Red Lion, Basildon—at Half, past Ten. - The Conoek Harriers, on Monday, at Imber Furge a and Saturday, at Redbone.gate—at Eleven. The Craven Hounds,. on Wednesthy, at Savernake house ; Thursday, at Denford-house ; and Saturday, at Ashridge—at Half-past Ten. Mr. Itieksted's Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Whitmore ; and Saturday, at Willow-bridge—at Half-past Ten. Mr. Bulteel's Fox Hounds, on 'Tuesday, at Yarnicknole Wood-gate ; and Saturday, at Train Brake--at Ten. The Cottesmore Hounds, on Monday, at Seaton Wind mill ; Tuesday, at Owston Wood ; Thursday, at carllly Windmill ; and Saturday, at ',it* Why,at a Quarter before Eleven. Lord Yarbo rough's Hounds, on Monday, at \Welsh).- hogse ; Tuesday, at Gozbill Cross-lanes ; Tliutsday, at Ormsby-tnill ; and Saturday, at Roxton Wood—at Eleven. SPIRIT OF TFIli PUBLIO JOURNALS. We stated yesterday our opinion without dis guise, that the first in this train of prosecutions for libel against a member of the London Press, was fully provoked and fairly instituted, and that the verdict was on the part of the jury un avoidable. Not so of any of those alarming Mininisterial prosecutions which have followed. The business of Wednesday commenced with the trial of an information against the Morning Journal, for a libel on his Majesty. And what was the nature of this libel? The writer stated first, that the King had " treated the Duke of Wellington with more than marked coolness." Well, what of that ? Was it never said or written but by the editor of the Morning Jour nal ? If true, was it a crime in George IV. ? If false, was it worth while to rake up, six months afterwards, a piece of gossip discredited from the first by all who were acquainted with the fact, and long since forgotten by the general mass of the community ? The rest of the " libel" was in substance, that the King com plained of his imperious Minister having made him too unpopular to admit of his exhibiting his Royal person to his people ;--that the Duke of Wellington, besides being an imperious, was also a most ambitious and dangerous Minister ; —and that the Sovereign, being subdued by the ascen dancy of this imperious, ambitious, and danger ous Minister, and being kindly and fondly at tached to his subjects, and anxious to see them all prosperous and happy, must be a great ob ject of pity to them, the people, because he could not mingle with their public entertainments,—that is, we presume, because he could not go to the play. Now here is a pretty piece of nonsense, to make the ground of a state prosecution ! The simple person who wrote it began without knowing how he was to end, and finished with out remembering_ how he had prefaced his lamen tation. He tells us first, that the King had treated the Duke of Wellington with " more than marked coolness ;" and yet that so de cided was the ascendancy of the imperious Mi nister, to whom his Majesty had afforded such proof of his scornful displeasure, as to entitle his Majesty to the commiseration of his subjects! We did not know, until the Jury of Wednesday informed us, that it was a libel to affirm. the unpopularity of the King,. or his want of spirit to act independently of his Ministers. To us it would be a topic of sincere congratulation that the King of England, having once chosen his Ministers, inasmuch as he does not share the re sponsibility of his advisers, should. not attempt to controul their power in any other mode but by dismissing them, and that from affairs of the highest importance to the meanest—from the demolition of a penal code to the erection of a palace, he should leave all to his official coun sellors, acting under that peril to which the con stitution has subjected them, of being punished when they act amiss, whether in the treatment of a vast political question, or in a contract for brick and mortar. To assume that the Kitig must be conscious of a sudden access of unpopu larity because he does not show himself at public places, betrays the most deplorable ignorance of his royal habits, or else artfully insinuates that he must for many years have felt himself an object of public odium—because, with very few excep s Lions, it is years since his Majesty has " mingled with the entertainments bf his people," or ex hibited his Royal person in the metropolis, even when resident therein. This signification, how ever, of the silly paragraph alluded to, the libel hunters have not ferretted out, though the real satire contained in the play-going apostrophe was, if it had any meaning, less a libel against .his Majesty than against the nation itself, inasmuch as it inferred that the people of England had the ill luck to be unpopular with his Majesty ! It was at best a sorry theme for a prosecution. The next trial was for an alleged endeavour, on the part of the same Morning Journal, to bring the King's Government generally, together with the Houses of Lords and Commons, into con tempt. We do not hesitate to affirm, that if prosecutions on such charges as this be multi plied, and juries be found weak enough, or so unmindful of the public interest as to encou rage them, there is an end of all free dis cussion in this country, and, with it, of the sole security for the enjoyment of every other privilege. It has been admitted by the Attorney-General, that the British Govern ment stands " upon opinion ;" and what does tins; able advocate and lawyer mean by such a position ? is is • of .opinion which Sir James Scarlett assigns as the bulwark or foundation of this Government? If he dis avows, as of course he will, this absurd and un attainable requisite of a unanimous opinion in favour of the Government, or, in other words, the Administration of the day, then what means the punishment of an effort, through the medium of discussion, to attach blame, even the highest degree of blame; to such a Government ; and does it not call upon the promulgator of such an opinion to correct his language, by contending that the British Government stands on the "suppression of all opinions but one ?" As for any vehemence of declamatory phrase, which a writer at a hot political crisis may be led by his temper to indulge in, we conceive that the Go vernment acts ill its part when it metes out, and strains with too niggardly a hand, the length of tether which a political partisan solicits. One of the reproaches cast upon the accused in the libel prosecution now referred to, is that they brought no specific charge against the Govern ment, but dealt only in vague abuse. Is it not strange that such a topic should be insisted on for such a purpose ? If the charge was vague, and the language violent, would not the mischief occasioned by it be proportionately s mall, and the remedy more appropriately sought for in the • superior influence • of a 'reasonable and loyal press, and in the contempt of all 'wise men for such boyish intemperance than in a prosecu tion for libel ? Lord Lyndhurst prosecuted be cause he was made the subject of a direct, telligible, and tangible accusation, . The Mittis ..s '— sters, as a body, prosecute because' there .19 direct or tangible charge. Is thi s ef no people hold i n reve l' But it is asked,—can the_ .eistent ? rence any Goyesmiien. which is d a ily attac k e d and scand a li ze d, i n . the newspapers? Yes, if the sally: Government be upheld and vindicated, intelligence, e v li g a e p n e c r and they intellectoil beyond all al acnodmpll numbers the preponder a nt b o d y o f t h e press, i n numbers and of 49 the present one has uniformly. b een, by other t i h n ey th b e e those who read them, and whose opinions they principally form. Besides, shall we be told that it is a matter of right for a Ministry to be " held in reverence" by the people ? If in uniform and unvarying reverence, then must their policy be perfeet, and their wisdom infallible, for other wise no newspaper forbearance, however das tardly, .or applause however eloquent, will pro cure them the reverence demanded. On the other hand, if this odious pretext of " tendency" to bring a Government into disgrace, unaccom parried by any facts or other demonstrations of a seditious character, be once admitted by juries, and familiarized to th e p u bli c m i n d, as a proper ground whereon to convict our fellow-citizens, the construction of what it is which constitutes or implies such tendency will assuredly become wider with each successive trial. Contemptuous and fierce expressions, like those employed in the present instance, may be regarded as the Apology for a verdict of guilty in December, 1829 ; but juries of 1840 will be told that the mildest terms of disapprobation are sufficient to generate in the King's subjects a want of due re verence for his Majesty's official servants. The fact is, however, and we exult in saying so, that the re-action has begun. The impolicy of these pro secutions has, we doubt not, already impressed itself on the minds of Ministers, with the con sciousness which they cannot avoid admit ting, that they but work up the Morning Journal into a political martyr. The Attorney- General could hardly not be serious in preferring the commencement or course of the eighteenth century, at least on the score of sobriety and temper in its public writers, to the period at which we live. Why, the age of' Addison, and for fifty years later, was one of irrepressible licentiousness in the Press. Hardly a writer took up his pen on politics without uttering the most outrageous libels. Has Sir James Scar lett never heard of the Draper's letters? or the political effusions of Steele, whom he alludes to ? or of Pope? or Gay ? or Defoe ? or Dennis ? Why from Bolingbroke to Junius the country was overrun with libels ; the wisest Ministers " stood upon opinion," and despised them. Some took another course, and were despised. The present Ministry have less to to fear from opinion (we conscientiously believe) than almost any of their predecessors for the last thirty years. Why do they discard this natural and most powerful ally ? Why resort to the official prosecutor, who never yet in any age saved a feeble Ministry from contempt, er added authority to a strong one ? Two more prose cutions of the same parties were b, ought on yesterday, and verdicts of guilty found. The first was quite unworthy of him on whose behalf it was instituted. It is painful to see the Duke of Wellington less alive to his own real dignity than others would be for him. The last trial was for a personal charge of specific corruption, and rests, as we stated before, on totally dis similar grounds.--Times. We have two more trials, and two more con victions to announce ; one in the case of the Morning Journal, the other in that of the Atlas. The subject of the first trial wss a let ter in the Morning Journal to the Duke of Wellington, purporting to have been written by John Litton Crosby, A.M., Minister of Syden ham, Kent, and Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Curnbeiland. The language of this letter is offeAsive in its terms certai.dy, inas much as the writer arraigns the Duke of Wel lington " of the grossest treachery to his coun try, or else the most arrant cowardice —or, if you please, treachery, c o w ar di ce , an d art ifi ce united ;" and he charg e s hi m , moreover , w ith entertaining the design of obtaining the Sove reignty of theSe realms for his own house, by effecting a marriage between his son and the Princess destined apparently to suc ceed to the Throne. This letter, it seems, gave great offence to his Grace, who went himself before a Grand Jury. Sir James Searlett appears to have been sensible that this part of his Grace's conduct stood in need of some justification ; and by way of' an argumentum ad hominem to any writer in a Newspaper who should be of opinion that his Grace would have lost no laurels by displaying a little less sensitiveness on this occasion, lie ob serves, " it has happened to me more than once, I may say more than twenty times, in the course of my professional duties, to have had the great honour of being consulted by Gentlemen con cerned in publishing newspapers ; and I have found that even they, who of all others are the most liberal in their opinions, and most averse to prosecution for libel, when they have 'oeen the subject of attack have felt in the ir. ost deli cate manner possible on the subje c t," Thi s may be true, without saying much Por the Duke of Wellington ; because no person ever thought of maintaining that any man, whatever his sta tion in society, should sit quietly down under imputations seriously affecting his character. So far from this, a sen s ibilit y to. the op;:, i i on o f others is the best security ove ml have difference the good eontl'a,b z...,); e id , .„) 4 %, sovce for i ety. being ßut alivethere is to a whatat eris dierence betw een seriously affects cha racter, and being h -tin by trifles. There is not a greater nuisance in society than a person who is always on the look-out for affronts, and who is so thin-skinned as to take fire at provocation, however absurd, We remember, in our s choolboy days, a man who had—what he deemed a — 4 -fortune—a note exceedinn- the usual magnitude, film _ 4 g never observ e d b oys sketching a nose with chalk ••-pit but, he flew into a passion, conceiving himsett tn. ject of attack. The Duke of Wellington is the Prime Minister of this great empire ; ad, a such, ought to possess more than t k4 oxdi nv r share of judgment. Now how arc wo to, re cile with the judgment his G rae zoughtto - con possess the extraordinary sensitive.ness he has she., vrn th 'occasion of It letter, no one imputar: • r e on in w uch could possibly lower him in th e or., • mon of any him-, man being possessed of ordinal sense ? To talk of the cowardice of his Grace '; s as absurdit will be hereafter to talk of k•,* (s comm and of temper. Language is full ambiguity, We say the .fear of the 1.40 P., w h en we wish to denote the der to live righteously. When his Grace said he dreaded ni ;,ling so much as civil war, the fear in that case could not be imputed tc!. 'aim as a matter of reproach. A fear or cowardice, in that respect, is very differes‘ from that degree of Approhenaion for nP ona safety which induces a to C- man from to shri , o- • om the uanger which it is hi s d u ty . The language of the letter is bad taste ; it is turgid and blustering; but it can injure no one in public estimation but the writer. Of all men in the world, the last surely who can be affected by the term cowardice is the Duke of Wellington —a man who must have had nerves of iron, to display an intrepidity almost unexampled in the critical circumstances' in which he was placed on several occasions. The only expressions with respect to which there can be any difficulty, are —" Who ever suspected, or who ever presumed to accuse your Highness of mercy—of compas sion—of moderation, or of any of those more kindly or tender sympathies which dis tinguish the heart of a man from that of a proud dictator and a tyrant ?" Without wish. ing to say that his Grace is not merciful, eo „,_ passionate, and moderate in the extreme, and distinguished for his -kindly and tein:er - s)inpi thies, we should wish to have better authority than that of Sir James Searlett, hehire assent ing to the proposition that " wherever there