The Sun. — London, England, 1829-11-24 00:00:00

THE SILK TRAM'. (From a t 'orrespontlent. ) The Liverpool newspapers announce the sale iu that town, on Friday, the 27th inst., of a very con siderable quantity of raw silk, amounting probably to upwards of 15,0001. The sales of this article have hitherto been limited to the London market, but the great extension of the silk manufacture in Maq chester, and also in Glasgow, Paisley, &c., has pro duced this attempt to extend the sale of the raw material. The local newspapers speak with exulta tion of this circumstance, and compare it to the in digo trade, which has recently grown up in Liver pool, and even to the cotton trade, on which the prosperity of Liverpool has been mainly founded. — In a national point of view, this circumstance is im portant as evidencing the increase and the real pro sperity of the silk manufacture in this country. The fact is, that for the last four months the demand for silk goods, and the consequent employment of the weavers, have been very considerable. — The weavers have been in full employment, at least those amongst them who were able and competent workmen, and the annual returns, when made, will show a very large, and probably greatly increased consumption of the raw mate rial. The prices of that raw material have been so low that large purchases have, it is said, been made in this country by French manufacturers. — This fact, which has been adduced as an argument against the present system, really rebuts one of the most plausible arguments hitherto brought to con trovert it. It has hitherto been argued that the English cannot compete with the French manufac turer, because the latter buys his raw material cheaper and better than the former; but this posi tion is disproved by the fact, as now asserted, that for at least some articles of consumption the French manufacturer has found it to his advantage to pur chase in the English market, which he can only do by outbidding—that is, by purchasing dearer than the English consumer. The fact of the increase of the English trade in silk is indisputable. The only plausible argument which can be raised against this fact is, that profits are small, and that wages are lowered. But it should be borne in mind, that it is the general state of the country, and of all trades, and not the particular state of any one trade, which regulates the rate of profits and of wages. In a trade where there is an increase of the use of the raw material, and consequently of the labour be stowed upon it, that trade must be, comparatively at least, prosperous. If wages and profits are at the same time lowered, that reduction must be owing to the force of competition, which has always a ten dency to reduce prices and profits to an average level, and which, in this case, make the silk trade less profitable, only because all trades are less pro fitable.—Times. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Sank stock s per Ceet. Red. , Ns , t ivi Old Annuit , es — s rer Cent. C0n5....52% 33i 2:: , 4 New Ditto — .t 4 per Cent )itt , Rel. 99 , A9 3 48 Ditto l4d. 70 OS pm. 1 per Cent. 1726 — Ditto 500 2d. 70 CS pm. t oer ( cnt. Ann '0.3!',%14 Ditto l'd. 70 FS pm. fottc.. , 51.3 Ditto Scrip — Ditto lid. 72 CS pm. Belk L. Ann. 19%34 , ri: r 1 k for Account — India Stock — j Irdia for Account c)iLto Bonds pm. (Cons. for Account 9 I 274 3 234 MR. WALKER AND THE POOR RATES, We insert a second letter from Mr. 'Walker, the Police Magistrate for the Whitechapel di. vision, which more than the first merits the con sideration of all those who are desirous of re forming the irregularities and improving the con dition of the poor. We would indeed invite particular attention to it ; and presume we may refer those who require farther information on the subject, to the high-spirited and active writer. What say St. Giles's, and St. George's, and St. Martin's-in-the-fields to Mr. Walker's statements ? " TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. " Police-office, Lambeth-street, Nov. 23, 1829, " SIR, —Having observed my name mentioned in the account; given by some of your cotemporaries, of the Police Association set on foot in the parish of \Vhitechspel, and those accounts containing many inaccuracies, I shall be obliged to you to insert the following statement. The plan which has been adop.ed, occurred to me some years since, and I only waited till I had sufficient authority to put it in practice under my own superintendence. It is simply this :—The old police remains as it was, and of 49 regular, and 19 supernumerary watchmen, not one has been dismissed, but a reduction to a certain extent is in contemplation. To three former patrol nine have been added, at Is. 6d. a night each, and their duty begins at dusk, and ends at ten, when the watchmen come on. The Association is composed of subscribers of one guinea, and of active members ; both classes are selected by ballot from the respectable inhabitants; the latter acting ender the directions of the legal authorities of the parish. Such of the police and resident Magistrates as may choose to countenance the Association are considered honorary members. Donations are re ceived for trio current expenses. There are nightly social meetings, and four of the active Members in rotation go round the parish every night, two and two, at uncertain hours, from half-past eight in the evening till six in the morning. The room is kept open for their accommodation, with newspapers; and refreshments are always to be had, for which they are allowed two shillings each. The duty of the active Members consists in superintending the watchmen, in taking care that there is no disorder in the public-housee, and that they are closed at proper hours, in visiting the watch-house, and ge nerally in preserving the peace of the parish. I have always been sanguine as to the effect which might be produced by the moral influence of such a system ; but the present Association, though not a fortnight old, and as yet but imperfectly organised, works with a facility and efficacy which quite ex ceed my expectation. The duty, which will not re cur above once a month, is found even in the outset to be very light, and disorder is already disappearing as if by magic. On Saturday and last night, which are usually the worst night; in the week, the only charges brought to the police-office were two men for being drunk in the streets, and three boys and a negro for sleeping under a pent-house---no robbery or other offence. The parish contains a dense popu laation of 30,000, and one of the worst quartere in the metropolis. I have myself been round several times, and on every occas'on have been surprised at the quietness, the extreme civility, and prompt obe dience which, with one solitary and trifling excep tion, I have every where experienced. Even in the lowest lodging-houses (where beds are to be had from 7d. down to 2d.), several of which I visited at the dead of the night, accompanied by some mem bers of the Association, all was quiet and orderly, and we did not hear a rude expression. One of the gentlemen present, who resoembers the houses for many years, was forcibly snuck le;ith the great improvement that had taken place, and particu larly with the circumstance that in no instance eveie there two males in the same bed, whereas formerly there used to be often as many as six. I will here take occ tsion to correct a statement in one of the papers, of an intention to root out these lodging houses. Though to the eyes of those nursed only in affluence, the scenes we saw would have been at first considered appalling scenes of misery, yet on examination we found no appearance of hanger or cold, and heard no compLlint, except from a writer of begging letters, who, I learnt, decamped the next morning; and I am more and more persuaded from each suereeding day's experience, and the best opportunities of judging, both on the bench and off, that the quantity of . ;Jistress really existing is grossly exaggerated, and that such exaggeration has a most pernicious effect. I will conclude with stating my firm conviction, that the Police Association on the one hand, and the strict mode adopted of administer ing the poor laws on the other, are able together to produce a rapid and signal diminution of crime, dis order, and pauperism in tile parish of Whit echapel ; and that similar effects may be produced throughout the land by the magistrates and parochial authori ties only acting in concert, instead of in opposition, as is unfortunately but too generally the case.--1 am, Sir, your obedient servant, 4. THOMAS WALKER." IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE.-Sir CIIAS. FLOWER' Bart. has arrived in Dublin,— Water/. Chron. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Aust . ( in( Bonds — Neapolitan — Brazilian Bonds 665,E Peruvian Boads Buenos Ayres Bondi — Portuguese Bonds — Milan Bonds — Pcuss,on, Old ( olombian Bonds — Ditto, New — Ditto, 1821 9 1. W. Rus. il.n Danish - 4% ~,, Spanish, 1821 934 10 ';re-Ai Eon& 182" — Dit( 0, 1825 '6% 7M French Rentes, sp. c. 10Sf. 25c. Guatimala — Exchange 2sf. 75c. Mexican Bonds — I— 3 per cent....... —f. —c. Ditto, 1'325 ' 4 1 ;434 ----- Exchange —t. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imp. Mm. Co. (iss. at U. pm.) £•2O Ditto National lO General Mining Association United Mex. Min. Co. firs. at 2/. pm.) £39% Alliance Marine Insurance Comp 5 Guardian Assurance Co lO 12%1E 1514 25% ET) • dit 4111 s LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 24, 1829. The Paris Papers of Sunday morning have been received at a late hour this afternoon. They are filled with the trial of the Journal de Rouen, for repeating the publication after the Paris prints, of the resolutions of the Society in Brittany for resisting the levy of taxes not duly authorised by law. The accusation was divided into three branches —lst, Provocation to diso bedience to the law ;-2d, A formal attack against the constitutional authority of the King ; and 3d, Excitement to hatred and contempt against the King's Government. The result has been an acquittal, from which the Nlinistry will probably take warning, and abstain from the prosecution of the other cases. The judgment of the Court is in the following terms : " As to the first and second articles : Seeing it is not established that Visinet and 13andry, the one as Editor, and the other as responsible conductor of the Journal de Rouen, have been guilty of provoking to the disobedience to the laws, or of a formal attack on the constitutional au- Caority of the King. "As to the third article relative to excitement to hatred and contempt against the King's Government: Seeing that this offence cannot be inferred from the simple announcement in their Journal of the 13th September, 1829, of an Act of Association which appears to have been made in the ci-devant province of Brittany, provid ing for an event which has not been realized, and which from our Constitutional guarantees cannot be realized. " Seeing that if the editor of the Journal has not been so circumspect as to identify himself with the liberty of the press, 0 holsomely understood, yet it does not follow that the incriminated article is so characterized as to ex cite to hatred or contempt against the King's Govern ment, from whence it follows that there is not room to apply to him, or to the responsible conductor, any penal infliction. " On these principle* the tribunal having heard the Pro cureur du Roi, in support of the accusation, and Visinet and Bandry, in their defence, acquits them from the pur suit of the public prosecutor, withdraws the seizure of Nos. 256 and 257 of the Journal de Rouen, and orders their restitution." The Prince DE POLIGNAC is said to be con templating another change in the structure of the Cabinet, since the revival of the office of Presi dent of the Council, by the nomination of an efficient officer, with the title of Under-Secretary of State, in each of the seven departments of the Ministry ; and it is said, that in pursuance of this plan, the Count DE MARCELLUS, late Minister at Lucca, has already been appointed to the department of Foreign Affairs, under the Premier himself. Objections will, of course, be taken to this measure by the Opposition Journals, which will treat it, perhaps, as a new instance of the Prince's predeliction for the system of the British Cabinet—as a❑ indication of aristocra- tical feeling on the part of the present members of the Ministry—or perhaps even as a proof of their personal incapacity. Frankfort Papers, of the 17th instant, contain some strictures upon a long article in the Allge 'wine Zeilung, on the treaty of peace between Turkey and Russia. The tendency of both the critic and the reviewer is favourable to the con- tinuation of peace in Europe, by the cultivation of commercial relations with the East, and the erection of Greece into an independent State.— France and England are especially called on to come forward to promote these desirable objects. The Allgemeine Zeitung remarks upon what The Sun stated some time ago that Russia was forming a Greek navy, in order to establish herself as a naval power in the Mediterranean—and that such could not be the case " only if the Greeks found them selves exposed to the constaut enmity of Eng land." This may be so, but we have still our doubts of the sincerity of Russia, whose policy has hitherto evinced a decided but very natural tendency to obtain a naval footing in the Medi terranean. In doing this, we cannot altogether blame Russia ; but we think that England ought to look to her own interests:— AUGSBURG The Supplement to the Allgenteine Zeitung of the 16th and rith Nov. contains another long ar ticle on the Treaty of Peace between Russia and Turkey, dated from the Isar, Nov. 12. The writer says—A new organisation of Europe is what is chiefly required in our times, and it would be more advis able to endeavour to supply this want than to esti mate the disease of the age with the notions of a balance of power which is no more, and to apply false remedies. We consider this organisation as possible, without any ne‘',essit.y for disturbing the frontiers of the States of Europe: Erst of all, it seems indispensable that France should be in 11;4 - - mony with its!df; that the Government should be sincerely reconciled with the nation ; that it should strengthen itself by taking 4vantage of the re sources which its energies offer, rerLowe a ruinous contest against them, and appear in Europe as a power at peace with itself." If France is once so resolved, it will find an op portunity in Spain and Portugal to do service to those unhappy countries, to free them from the burden of monkish power, and enable them again to take an honourable place iH the councils of Europe. The writer would have Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, become of more im portance in the general system, by judicious corn. mercial alliances with each other, and with Get- many. Austria, by paying due attention to the in terests of its commerce, as „connected with the East, might gain such advantages, and such a mani fest increase of strength, as to counterbalance all the advantages acquired by Russia. "In general nego ciations for the regulation and improvement of the commerce of the East, seem to us of the greatest importance, to insure the beneficial results of peace. This we think of more consequence to Europe than endeavours to obtain a diminution of the contribu lion to be paid by Turkey. Lastly, it is to be wished that England, in accordance with its own well understood interests, would assist in earnest, and with decision, to effect the political situation of Greece. It is called upon to do this, because the advantage of a new marine in the Mediterranean would be shared by England, for that this marine would become a forced ally of Russia, as The Sun lately observed, would have to he apprehended only if the Greeks found them selves exposed to the constant enmity of England. " Austria has nothing to fear from the independ ance of Greece, for what French Papers say of the danger to be apprehended from the vicinity of free Greeks to Italy, is only liberal phrases, for Austria has it in its power by animating Italian commerce to reduce Carbonarism of every description to its original significance. France too, the writer thinks, Auld under these circumstances derive ample benefits from a Greek State. Turkey is undoubtedly reduced to incurable debility, and no regeneration of that coun try is to be hoped ; but if the East, invigorated by the opening of the command of the Danube, and a creation of a new State in Greece; if indus try, order, and wealth return to these countries, to which nature has been so bountiful, they will afford to every commercial nation gains hitherto un known, give new guarantees to the peace of Europe, and participate in the reverse of the balance of power. All the states of this quarter of the globe will share in the new life that will animate the Mediterranean, and even the Barbary States, Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor will be drawn by the greater extension of a safe commerce into the pale of civili• zation." FRANKFORT, Nov. 16.—Exchange on London, wo months, 1504. It is stated in letters from Vienna, of the 10th of November, that the PORTE does not cease to assure Count DIEBITSCH of its good intentions to cultivate the greatest friendship with Russia, and that the PORTE will do all in its power to fulfil the stipulations of the Treaty of Adrianople. Frequent communications are going forward be tween the head-quarters of the Russians and Constantinople ; Russian officers and Turkish couriers are daily passing each other between these two points, and it is reported that an inter view is going to take place between the REIs EFFENDI and the Russian Commander-in- Chief. There are at Constantinople con tinual conferences between the Turkish Ministry and the English Ambassador. We have letters from Odessa this morning of a later date than those received yesterday. The plague had caused great alarm, and shipments of goods had been suspended for fear of accidents. We have Gibraltar Papers of the sth instant. A Spanish guarda costa had made prize of a vessel under the walls of the fortress, notwith standing two guns had been fired at her, and had carried her prize into Algesiras. The packet remained at Gibraltar, detained by contrarpvinds Letters have been received by way of Bour deaux from Vera Cruz, of the 14th Sept., nine days later than the last accounts, stating that General SANTA ANNA was before Tampico, with upwards of 10,000 men, and receiving daily reinforcements; the Spaniards were com pletely blockaded in Tampico. The Vice- President of NlExico had assembled upwards of 10,000 men, and was ready to march to any point, should the Spaniards make another at tempt with a new expedition. Several hundred thousand dollars, for mer chants' account, were waiting for a ship to bring them to their destination. Favourable accounts have been received from .he Boleras Mining Company. It is reported in the city that letters from Glasgow have been received, announcing a fire in that city, which had destroyed 5,000 bags of SHIPPING IN TELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Nov. 23.—Wind E. by S.—Arrived the Carlisle, Huntingdon, from Memel ; and De Stadt, Rotterdam, from Batavia. Arrived from London, The Para packet, Potter, for Para; and Harbury, Cork, for Trieste. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 23.—Wind N.N.E.—Ar rived his Majesty's ship Netley, from Plymouth. CLYDE, NOV. 21.—Arrived the David, M'lntosh, from Antigua; Oxford, Davidson ' from Liebau ; Eldon, M'Alpin, from Bay Chaleur ; Forth, Hunter, and Lord Byron, from St. John's, N. B.; Flora, Rouls, from St. 'Andrews ; and Alexander, Miller, from Sicily. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 22.—Arrived the Defrania, M‘Lintoch, from Antigua. DUBLIN, Nov. 21.—Arrived the Mary Digby, Simpson, from Quebec; and Columbine, Miller, from Smyrna. BELFAST, Nov. 21.—Arrived the Agnes, Salter, from Trinidad ; Prince Regent, James ; and Sir Watkin, Sanderson, from Quebec; Brilliant, Pater, from St. Andrews, N. B. ; and Elizabeth, Judd, from Halifax. DARTMOUTH, Nov. 22.—Arrived the Alliance, —, from Labrador. WARREN POINT, Nov. 22.—Arrived the Rega lia, Lotherington, from Quebec. ABERDEEN, Nov. 21.—Arrived the Highlander, Elliott, from Bay Chaleur ; Magnet, Anderson, and Venue, Nied, from Quebec; and Aberdeenshire, Budd, from Miramichi. The Wellington packet, from Falmouth, arrived at Vera Cruz the 7th of September. The Maria Louise, Barlhache, of Quebec, was wrecked on the coast of Labrador; crew, and ma terials saved. cotton. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CLocr. In the case of the Spaniards who have lately vio lated the frontiers of France by arresting some indi viduals, it is said that the affair will be treated di plomatically, and that the Prefect of the Eastern Pyrenees has given notice on the subject to Count Espagne. The new Queen of Spain arrived at Perpignan on the 10th Nov.; all due honours were paid to her Majesty. It appears that the Austrian Government have appointed Consuls for Greece, as well as for Mol davia and Wallachia. THE FUNDS. If we are informed ;Drrect the Bulls are making the greatest exertions for the total defeat of the Bears on the settling day, by providing themselves with a great reserve of money to enable them to take all their stock on the above day (Thursday next) ; this certainly will prove a mortal blow to the unfortunate Bears, who have been taken by surprise. As the extreme fluctuation of this account is already four per cent. those who have not a strong purse must evidently take to their heels. Consols, which !eft off yesterday at 921 for the present account, and 931 for January, opened with an improvement this morning, at 92i 93, and 931 i for next time, and a further rise is expected to take place. In the Foreign market little doing as yet. ENGLISH FUNDS. 31- per Cent. 99i New 4 per Cent., 1031 4 per Cent. 1926 India Bonds, 67 69 Exchequer Bills, 68 69 FUND 3. Greek, 271 Mexican, 22 A- Peruvian, 15 16 Portuluese, 50 Prussian, Russian, 109 i Spanish, 9i _I Bank Stock, 2131 141 India Stock, 225 6 3 per Cent Cons. 921 3 Do., for Account, 931 Ditto Reduced, 92 1 1 FOREIG Brazilian, 66+ Buenos Ayres, 25 27 Chilian, 24 25i Colombian, 201 Danish, 74 French, 5 per Cent. 10"49 Ditto, 3 per Cent. 84 TWO O'CLOCK. Consols reached in the course of the morning 93* 4 for the present account, since which a reac tion has taken place, owing to some of the Bulls having realized, and at present the market has not so good an appearance as in the early part of the morn ing, and Consols may be quoted at 92 for this ac. gount, and 93; for January. In the Foreign market there is little doing a' present. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Account, 93i LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. JUDGMENT.—MENDIZABEL V. HULLETT. The LORD CHANCELLOR disposed of the question that arose in this case, on the substance, merits, and form of the plea that had been put into this bill. The question was, whether the plea was to be considered a sufficient answer to the bill. The treaties and documents mentioned in the pleading had been so often before the Court that his Lordship did not think it necessary to enter into them in detail, for the purpose of chewing the grounds on which the Court proceeded. Treaties in 1814 and 1815 were entered into between France and Spain, by which France undertook to raise a fund of 1,800,000 francs or rentes, for the purpose of paying off the claims the Spanish sub jects had on the government of France. This sum was to be divided into two parts, the one was immediately to be (as it was) paid, one to the Government of Spain, and the other was to remain in the hands of the Commissioners to he appointed (as they were) by both Governments. The money was raised and thus disposed of. Things stood in this way till April, 1822. At this period, by another convention, France withdrew about the half of this sum, and the remainder was to be paid to such person or persons as the King and Government of Spain should direct. Jr. pursuance to this arrangement, this large sum was paid over to Machado, the Consul General and agent of the King of Spain. In 1823, the King and Government of Spain directed Machado to transfer the sum. Accordingly Machado realised the property and came to England with it. The Cortes, in the s ane year, passed a law, au thorising the King to apply this money to ether than the original purposes, his Majesty indemnifying his sub jects in respect of their claims in another way. By virtue of this authority, the King and Government of Spain entered into a contract with the plaintiff that he should pay over money for the general services of Spain, and receive as an equivalent bills of exchange drawn upon Machado, in respect of the fund in his hands. The money was advanced, the bills drawn and presented to Machado. Machado refused to accept the bills, contending that the King and Government of Spun had no right to dispose of the property in such a way ; and also that be himself was entitled to it. The bill stated that Machado was to be considered as a trustee of this property, having received the money as agent of the Government of Spain. Machado was a Spanish subject, and the whole of the claimants were also of that character. Millet stood in the same si tuation that Machado did, being Machado's agent. The plea stated that the money was irrevocably to be appro priated to the discharge of the Spanish subjects' claims ; that, according to the laws of Europe and the usages of Spain, it could not be applied in any other way, and that the King had no right to make a law for a different appropriation. It was impossible, in his Lordship's opinion, that any sum of money could be said to be irrevocably appropriated to any particular purpose in any country where the laws, &c. of that coun try were to be controulled by the Legislature. It was not denied that a law had been passed for the different appro priation of this money, and it was impossible therefore that this plea could be regarded as an answer to the bill. If such a law was passed in Spain, this country would give effect to it under such circumstances—the plea would have to be overruled, with costa, COURT OF KING'S BENCH. ALLEGED MURDEIt.-THE KING U. WM.:ATKINSON AND WM. MILNER, These defendants had been committed to York Castle on the Coroner's Inquisition, for the wilful murder of Thomas Holmes on the 26th of October last, at Skirlow Moor, in the county of York. Mr. J. WILLIAMS now applied to the Court to admit the defendants to bail. It appeared by the depositions be fore the Coroner, that the defendants were both game keepers to Sir W. Ingleby, and that the deceased was a labourer. The latter was, at eleven o'clock on the above night, in company with two other lahourers, named Mot ley and Thackery, going to the house of a farmer, who had appointed them to come and receive their harvest wages. Holmes and Thackery were going first, and had a lurcher with them, but no instrument for the purpose of killing game. The two defendants suddenly rushed out upon them ; the night was very dark, and a scuffle en sued, in which Thackery was knocked down and stabbed with some short sharp instrument, and he heard Holmes cry out that he was stabbed and killed. The two Motleys came up and joined in the fight, one of them having only a small stick, and the other of their party having no of fensive weapon; but they were ultimately, however, obliged to run away, for fear of being killed. Holmes went to a neighbouring house, where be arrived at one o'clock, and knocked violently. The occupier, John Wetheral, thought some one was trying to break in, and would not admit him, although Holmes told him he had been out night-hunting, and was badly hurt. He begged them to assist him in getting to Shaw Mill. Another man kindly offered to assist him, and, finding he could not walk, got a cart, and took him to Shaw Mill, where he died the next day. When about half way to Shaw Mill, Holmes cried out violently that his bowels were coming out, and begged his conductor for God's sake, to let him get out of the cart and die on the road. Witness saw that his bowels were protruding. Mr. Cooper, surgeon, attended Holmes at four o'clock in the morning, and found his intestines, which were violently inflamed and partly mortified, protruding. He had a wound about two inches long, slanting downwards i❑ the lower part of the abdomen. Holmes told him that he had been out poach ing with the two 'Motleys and Thackery, and had been stabbed in a struggle with the keepers. The deceased died in a few hours after witness saw him. The defendants produced an affidavit from their master, Sir W. Ingleby, in which he stated that Atkinson had been in his service seven years, and Milner one year, and that he had known both defendants for several years before as well behaved and humane men. The COURT ordered them to be di.ebarged out of cus tody, upon their entering into their ows recognizances for 400/. each, and finding two sureties for 1001. each Bail was immediately put in. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. EIAVES V. - Mr. Serjeant RUSSEL obtained a rule some time since, calling upon an attorney, residin4 in the country, to chew cause why he should not deliver up a deed to be cancelled. It appeared from the affidavits that a poor man of the name of Elwes went to the attorney, and wished hint to dispose of an interest which he derived under a will, but which was not payable until a person of the name of Thompson di e d. The attorney said he wou'd write and enquire into the circumstances. Some time after this Elwes was in formed that nothing had been heard resrcting it, but that lie (the attorney) was willing to enter into an agreement for the purchase, which, after some further negociations were agreed to, and the poor man executed a deed, assigning over to the attorney his life interest for t h e sum of nineteen guineas. The affidavit further stated, that at the time Elwes was induced to sign an agreement for the sale of this property, he was in a state of intoxication. Shortly after the execution of the deed the person, daring whose lifetime the money was to accumulate, died, and steps were taken to pay the money, which then amounted to nearly 200/. Elwes, on ob taining this information, applied to the Court, and ob tained a rule, calling upon the attorney to show cause why the deed thus obtained should not be given up. Mr. Serjeant WILDS this morning showed cause against this rule, and contended that as the defendant supposed Elwes' interest was onlya contingent one, nineteen guineas was a fair price ; and his not being the attorney of the plaintiff, the Court could not call upon him to give up the deed. There were affidavits of two of the defendant's clerks, which stated that Elwes was quite sober at the time the deed was executed, and that it was not at eight o'clock in the evening, but early in the afternoon. Mr. Serjeant RUSSELL was heard at some length in support of the rule. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—We are not at all satisfied whether the attorney knew that Elwes had a vested inte rest in the property, or that he supposed it was only a con tingent one. Our opinion of the part he has acted must entirely depend upon that, we shall therefore refer it to the prothonotary to make further inquiries. The Attorney, who was in Court, here addressed their Lordships, and said, he hoped the Court would express an opinion that there was no imputation resting on his character. Mr. Justice PARK—lndeed, we shall do no such thing. Attorney—l am anxious to set myself right and vindi cate my character ; I will therefore consent to deliver up the deed to Elwes, on his paying me back the 19 guineas with interest, and the costs of this application. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE said he thought this a very fair offer. .-.. ...... Mr... Serjeant RUSSELL assented to these terms, and a rule to that effect was ordered to be drawn up. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. STUACH V. GRINDALL. Mr. Cox applied in this case that the depositions of a lady, in a declining state, might be read on the trial of an ejectment, provided her health would not allow her to attend, and be examined vine voce. Mr. Grindall was en titled to a large property in the funds under the will of the original testator, the plaintiff asserted that the will had been improperly obtained, and filed his bill for an in junction to restrain Grindall from getting possession of the property. Upon the case coming on before the Court the plaintiff undertook to bring an action; an injunction was g+•anted ; several ejectment' were brought, and it was at the OW of ORO Of these ejectments the evidence of this old lady, given in the cause, was: sought to be read. The Court made the order directing Mr. Coe's clients to pay the costs. SPARROW V. SPARROW. Mr. RoLFE moved that the defendant, who was in Court might be taken to the Fleet under a writ of rebellion, for not having paid certain monies ordered by the Court. The defendant was handed over to the keeper of the Fleet. EXCHEQUER CHAMBER. The LORD CHIEF BARON sat in Equity this morning in the Exchequer Chamber. His Lordship was engaged the whole morning in hearing arguments in the part heard cause of Master v. Fletcher, which does not possess the least feature of public interest. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. HADBT V. SANDERS AND OTHERS. Mr. RICHARDS showed cause against a rule which had been obtained to set aside an inquisition, or to show cause why the verdict should not be reduced from 401. to 201. It was action of trespass, in which the defendants suffered judgment to go by default. The plaintiff was the owner of a close at West Bromwich, Staffordshire, situated about sixty yards from his house, in which the trespass was committed, which was of a nature calculated much to hurt his feelings, and the Jury being of that opinion returned the following verdict:—f o We find 29/. damages for the injury done by the trespass, and 201. for the injury in flicted upon the plaintiff's feelings. Mr. Baron GARROW.—" Perhaps, Mr. Richards, you had better consent to have the verdict reduced to 201." Mr. RICHARDS could not at present consent to such a course ; the trespass was of an aggravated nature, and the aggressor did perfectly right in drawing the attention of the Jury, and pointing out to them particular cases where large sums had been given in consideration fur injury done to the feelings. Mr. Baron GARROW-4 think it very unusual in a Judge to say to the Jury in such and such a case, heavy damages were given, the general and proper plan is, to advise them to give temperate damages. You had better agree to reduce the verdict. Mr. RICHARDS afer a few other observations assented, and the rule was made absolute to reduce the verdict from 401. to 201. YZSTERDAT. PEARSON' V. SIR HENRY HOUGHTON, BART. Mr. KNIGHT said this case, which his Lordship was well acquainted with, now came before the Court in the nature of exceptions to the defendant's answer to the bill. The circumstances of the case were these :—ln the year 1778 a great number of persons had leases of some pro perty in Lancashire granted to them for a long term of years, by the late Sir Henry Houghton, the present de fendant's father, which leases were still unexpired. During the lapse of time, and in the progress of wealth and machinery in that part of the world, the lessees had built on the land, and otherwise improved it so extensively, that it was now become of the large annual value of 16001. Latterly, however, the present defendant, as the heir-at-law of his late father, had sought to obtain pos session of this large and valuable property, alleging that the tenants had broken the covenants of the leases, and he hail caused notices of ejectment to be served upon all of them. The plaintiffs, of whom there were a great num ber (the present tenants in possession), consequently filed a bill in e,quity against the defendant (who had already been restrained from proceeding in his actions at law by an injunction), requiring him to show under what title he claimed possession of the property ; and also to disclose the breaches of covenant which he charged against the plaintiffs. In answer to this bill, the defendant had re plied that he was heir-at-law to his father, who died in 1799, and that a deed of appointment had been given him by his father in 1794 ; as to the breaches of cove nant, he had merely furnished a copy of all the covenants. These answers, the learned Counsel submitted, were not sufficient, and be therefore took exceptions to them. Mr. SHARPE followed on the same side. Mr. Jamas (with whom was Mr. PARKER) contended that the answers furnished by the defendant were quite sufficient, and all that the Court could require of him. The LORD CHIEF BARON said that he thought the an swers were not sufficient, and therefore he allowed the exceptions, and gave the plaintiffs liberty to amend their bill, without prejudice to the injunction. POLICE.—(THIS DAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. ROBBERY OF TIIE 1,0001. BANK NOTE.—This morning Brennan, the porter, who was in the employ of Messrs. Winter, Bowman, and Co., was placed at the bar on the charge of stealing a 1,0001. note. Evidence was adduced on the part of the prosecutors which fully brought home to the prisoner the crime for which he is detained.—He was fully committed. The French Ambassador and the Hanoverian Minister had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN yes terday, at the Foreign Office. Despatches from his MAJESTY, at the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park, for the Duke of WELLINaTox, were received in tAwn yesterday morning. They were immediately forwarded by a messenger to his Grace, at the residence of Mr. PEEL, in Norfdk. _ _ The Duchess of KENT, accompanied by the Princess VIcToRIA, and attended by Lady CuAßLorra Sr. MAtin and Baroness LEHZEN, left her residence in the King's Palace, at Kensington, yesterday morning, and proceeded to Kew, where her Royal Highness visited the Duchess of CUMBERLAND. After the Duchess had re turned to Kensington, the Duke and Duchess of CUM BERLAND came to town in their carriage-and-four. Their Royal Highnesses remained at their residence in the King's Palace, St. James's, till six o'clock, when they returned to Kew. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER left her resi dence in Bagahot Park, yesterday morning, on a visit tc the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, at Bushy Park. A very interesting and - successful preparatory trial took place yesterday se'nnight, at Woolwich Dock Yard, of a " Life Boat," invented by Lieutenant Copal:, of the Royal Navy, which met with decided approbation. On his principle, any boat used for ordinary purposes may be converted, in a few minutes, into a life boat, which will neither sink nor upset; and into which, if a sea breaks, it will again run out, without leaving her in the least de gree water-logged ! Were the galleys to he so fitted be longing to the Revenue and Preventive Services, a com plete line of Life boats would he established around the coast, well adapted for passing through surfs, and for pul iing to windward. To render her more complete. many important appendages are said to be connected with the principle on which this boat is fitted.—The ingenious projector is the patentee of the lile-preserv, r adapted for carriiivs.-.=,liampsh ire Telegraph. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). HAY MARKETS.—( A t per Load of 36 Trusses.) ST. JAMES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay 12 2 to 1 13' \Taw Meadow flay 9 • Useful Old Ditto 215 3 4 la Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 10 s 5 ~ Clover Hay 3 10 - 0 Oat Straw £1 14 to £1 16 I Wheat Straw... 1,- 1 19 e .A , • Straw 2s. per load lower than last quoted ; in prices o f H a y alteration. A great supply, and a very dull trade. SMITHFIELD. £2 11 " Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay .£1 IS N} 2 16 Mew Meadow Hay 1 16 Q 6 Useful Old Ditto 2 19 0 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 6 ' a 10 Clover Hay (extra fine)...Xs O... Generally Oat Straw £1 Bto £1 12 I Wheat Straw 1 12 . Supply good, trade very dull, and prices as last quoted. CITY MARKETS, (TWO O'CLOCK.) SUGAIL.-There have been some fresh arrivals of Plan" tation Sugars, and the stock in the West India Docks yee terday was 42,379 hhds. and 2,931 tees. The delivery last week was 2,555 hhds. and 176 tees. Since Thurs day the Sugar Market has been fl it. Good Jamaican. S t ' Kitt's, and St. Vincent's, are quoted 61e. to 635. ; finer ' 645. to 68s. ; middling, 545. to 594. ; and good brow° ordinary, 495. to 51s. per cwt. In Foreign Sugars there is an increased demand. Yellow Havannah is from 275. to 295. ; and brown from 245. to 265. per cwt. The arrivals of Mauritius are small, and as there were delivered last week 2,551 bags from the West India Docks, for home consumption, and 643 bags for export, the stock is not higher than 40,170 bags. In Refined Goods more business would be done if the refiners would give way." The present prices of lumps and loaves are abou t 50. 1° 7s. per cwt. cheaper than at this period last year. _ A: COFFEE.--The advance last week in good and fine oil nary Jamaican is nearly maintained. The stock is shc t, 1,000 hhds. less than last year. Brazil Coffee is fly offered at from 325. to 325. 6d. for good ordinary. 4 , Rum.-The delivery last week was 574 puns. and 8 hhds., of which about 400 puns. were for home consume' tion, a proof that the demand has increased, many of the holders having met the buyers. The stock in the Wes g The importations this year are about 2,700 puns. India Docks yesterday was 25,254 puns. and 1,957 tees. than in the last season up to the same period. Jr: 11 .1 10 to 14 per cent. over proof, are 21. Id. to 2s. ' to 28 per cent. 0.P., 2s. 3d. to 2s. sd. ; and $ 0 to per cent. 0.P., from 2s. 10d. to 3s. 6& per cent. Strong Leewards, 2s. 4d. to 2s. 7d. per gallon. In other Colonials there have been no bargains of Co e ' sequence this week. OILS.-The demand is steady, and the following s re ,. the prices :-Greenland, naked, 291., Sperm 681., P e ' Seal 30/., ditto Brown 281. per tun. Pale Rape 431. Pe r tun, Linseed 221. 10s. per old tun. BALTIC PRODUCE.-The commercial letters from 5 ; Petersburgh to the Bth inst., quote Tallow at 90 anil rubles, and shipped off 166,000 casks. The Londota price is 355. 9d. to 365. per cwt. The delivery last Wee k was 2749 casks. The COTTON Market has not been materially infiueneel by the extensive business doing at Liverpool. wore DOVER, Nov. 23. Arrived from CALis his Majesty's steam packet, 5 416- mander, Captain Hamilton, with his Serene Higbee ° Prince Leopold, accompanied by Sir Robert Gardiner. His Highness was received by the Commandant of the Garrison, Colonel Gosset, and a Guard of Honour from Royal Brigade, under the command of Maj or Logan) sr' landed undr a salute from the Western Heights. He ift ceeded for London early in the afternoon with Sir Ho""" Gardiner and Sir H. Seton, and was again saluted. a ll The lodging the summer, continue to be for the most houses here, which have been wel l filled e d , par t ocemr the and we Lye reason to think will remain so du ring ~s s winter. Lords Dunally, Orford, Byron, Sir ,i.O Tyrwhitt; Ladies Mordaunt, Ryecroft, Catharine I,°"' &c. &c. are of the number of visitors that continue W (*. cupy houses on the Marine Parade. On the night of Saturday, the Ist of 1.4 5 ," vernber, a burglary was committed in the house Of NEWMAN, Esq., near Salisbury. Much property tea carried off, but fortunately, a few days since , t he burglar was detected and fully committed for trial at the Dalt Wilts Assizes. a ln ATTEMPT TO MURDER.—A few days "- - e„ 1 a man named MARSHALL, who keeps a small hode'la warehouse, in a fit of intoxication attempted to murder - watchman, named GASICELL, and a surgeon narneel J ra ' ; He has been lodged in the Old Bailey, until be' wounded individuals are pronounced out of danger' c Lieut. CHARLES HENRY ACHERI.Y7 Majesty's ship Ocean (son of J. H. AenEaLva barrister), now in the Mediterranean, and forming a p f" ,, of the fleet under Sir PULTEN EY MALCOLM, IRIS bee presented by the Paella of SMYRNA with a firtnin! sprinkled with gold dust, which em p owers him to travel through every:part of the Turkish dominions. —Morn Pap. It is quite true that Mr. G RANBY CAL, camar has commenced proceedings i n the Ecclesiastics' Court against his wife.— Globe —The lad y , we believe, ia Miss LOVE, a singer at one of the Theatres.— Times. The Spaniards having lately intruded on t he ire": French territory, by sending armed men be y ond the tiers, to arrest some individuals , i t i s announced that do! affair is to be treated diplomatically, and that the Prefec,; of the Pyrenees Oriectales has informed Count d'Ess'aGt" of this circumstance, that he might stop any subsequ e° measures against the persons who have been arrested.-' French Paper. Westminster Abbey and m dilapidation,uch of, the interiormutilation, a o n f d filth i Nothing can equal the disgraceful state °, n sent.—Morning Paper. On Monday, a fine specimen of green P e , was gathered by a gentleman of Sheffield, in his o° o g 6 den, sufficiently large for the family dinner. lso e The new Comedy announced at Drury' is from the pen of Lord GLENGALL. t i n es' A very brilliant meteor was seen on V e ,b t ee day evening in this city, by a gentleman, for a bout ' . OO bablieythare ecja°tiePtreel minutes. It moved slowly' in the heavens in d v ire ' Li t 0f from south to north, when it burst in two, and 1° - ° sight.— Carlisle Patriot. , e n. t in There is some prospect of an impro ce ',„ the Bath road out of Worcester, by which the i t ; e 1 ;; gst i e dangerous hill immediately after passing the Turn will be avoided, by carrying the road along the 1 0 ° 1) 40' to the right, and uniting it with the old line at $ O , O O. which will admit of a very gradual aseent.—athydaY, A melancholy accident occurred on pro" on hoard the ship Eliza, of Greenock, as she svAalhlie ceeding down the river, on her voyage to Janial ea ' t off the Bay of Quick, one of the boys had been Sep t r e h for the purpose of loosing the mizen top-sail , but before to could do so, he had to loose and trace , o r m akef a a . s oall' another part of the rigging—the top-mast- stu dding t i it boom. Through some accident, he lost hold of it, ai', o came down endways, and struk Mr. ALEXANDER 13iit who was standing on deck, on c the head. w i t h such We t l l i jo as to penetrate the brain, and literall y to force on boat right eye. He was immediately p u t into the ship „I his and sent ashore, but bef ore he was landed lie breath e o f last. He was a young man, about 25 veers of ag e ' ag e steady habits; he was Master of the Trusty lugg ut a steam-boat, and had gone on board the Eliza for the P ia pose of bidding farewell to his brother, a seaman belle. to that ship, when the unfortunate occurrence took Pa . In the Gazette des Trihunaux there Pe, curious trial for crim. con., in which a M. Cean T j a y his wife and her paramour sentence d to three monthf tor' prisonment, after a trial which excited a good deal 0 hthe riment in the Court from the nove l mode in Win e. al* plaintiff obtained conclusive evidence of the offenc nee.day st COROT hid been from home, and return ed one fi stator one o'clock, when, having waited some time in the b room for his spouse, he thought of proce e ding to heurroale ro. Hing. fd the door locked, and bei n g. 0 11 to om t au av answer oun from within, he bethoug ht hiln t , 0 0, looking through the key-hole, when to his bor ro v . el °` amazement he saw two persons in his bell ! i ns dp - r 3 , , taking any immediate steps to dislodge the intr u i ; ttr quietly went down four pair of stairs, and ask ed t n a e svi t " two persona whom he met on the street to asc e l ; oo o or ' him, and be witnesses of his misfortunes and ( 1 ° la ud' The three, after some parley', mounted to 11 an` (1° room, when the invader was again sumnionned , d o b i , der. After much knecking, Madame GIRO' oPen`cao , door, protesting there was no other person in tl ! e M. COROT ' S key-hole survey had, however, told Inn",aoo,, wise, and lie was resolved that his two witnesseeae,aige,i not have been called in vain. On searching the P we e 0 1 0 r ial i the paramour waa discovered, to the confusion, - f ee - l eo both the dame and himself. Mad. C. made figh t " t aa lj 'thr nate on her vigilant spouse in Court, called 00 ilex Ode of and we it. hr t. The male defend .nt, who La! at v o ll a ca e e ttl' lady by his military mustachios, prote sted his j Ve t la te But at o the injury lie was doing to M. COROT tines were of no avail. Ile was not only fa . nter ti cs. months' imprisonment, but to a fine of 10°