The Sun. — London, England, 1829-08-04 00:00:00

,sere are ways and means . .by which so complete A catastrophe as shutting up the house may be avoided. We would put it to the good sense and right feelings of one of the parties, with what satisfaction he is likely to witness the ruin of the property which the hand of his own father may be said to have, in a great manner, created ; and to the other, whose good-nature is as proverbial among his friends as his pro fessional reputation—how the close of a long life is likely to be benefited by suffering even. the imputation, whether just or unjust, of being in any way the occasion of a national loss, such as that we are unwillingly contem plating. It is said jocularly of one profession, that they are too wise to take the medicine which they prescribe to others. It may, with out ai.:y disguise, be said of another, that its members ought to know well how little palate able their remedies are to their clients, to render the law that which its professors can prudently apply to their own concerns. Without knowing more than the world at large knows of the mat ter in question, we are quite sure that there is nothing about it which might not have been settled ten times easier withow: law suits than with them. If the litigation, then, in which the theatre is involved, has been, as we assume it 'to be, the real source of the mischief, it follows, by a very simple process of plain reasoning, that, to remove the evil, the first step is to get rid of the cause : " Sublata calm, tollitur effectus." But, says one party, " am I to lose my appeal to the House of Lords ?" And, " Am I," says the other, " to abandon my account before the Master?" To both we answer " Yes," and for this plain reason, " because you will get nothil)g by persisting in them." And for this still stronger reason, that there was nothing in the first instance in which a fair arbitration would not have given you a better remedy, both then and now, than all the Courts in the kingdom can ever assign you.—lbid. It is asserted that Lte advices from the seat of War have given occasion to the Cabinet Council which sat on Sunday, and continued its delibe rations for an unusual length of time. It has been long more than suspected that the profes sions of moderation put forth a little ostenta tiously by Russia, do not command implicit credit with the Cabinet of St. James's ; and that in this natural, and perhaps salutary diffidence, the Members of the French Administration fully participate. The result of the deliberations of Sunday cannot of course be more than the sub ject of conjecture ; but be they what they may, we are pretty certain that they formed the subject of an immediate communication to Paris. The course of military operations affords at best but uncertain data tbr political speculations ; and the accounts from the banks of the Danube are so deficient in circumstantial details, and in some points so obviously inaccurate (we might say irreconcilably so), that any inferences from them must be taken with extreme caution ; at the same time there is no question but that the sys tematic aggressions of Russia, and her skilful and extensive combination of military and politi cal manceuvres, naturally lead to the conclusion that her object is something more than a tempo rary occupation of frontier territories or captured fortresses. Whatever mistrust the power, am bition, and territorial and commercial cupidity of Russia are calculated to inspire, it is at least satisfactory to be able to give an assurance almost amounting to certainty (and this, in the present instance, we are empowered to do from an authority entitled to all deference), that the most entire harmony of views and unity of ob jects continue to characterise the diplomatic re lations of Great Britain and France. There are rumours in circulation of certain discoveries which have brought to light a secret treaty calcu lated to excite considerable alarm ; but as these rumours do not appear to rest upon sufficient • authority, we have not thought it necessary to do more than allude to them.—Morning Chronicle. Mr. O'Connell has been returned for Clare without opposition. In his speech he has indi cated the nature of the labours to which he in tends to devote himself in Parliament ; and we have no doubt he will keep his word. The be setting sin of Parliament is the want of energy. It has been objected to the Americans by a re cent exquisite traveller, that they are in want of a class who know how to spend. We are in no want of any such class. We have a class pecu liarly gifted in the art of spending. Unfortu nately the spenders are, from the nature of things, averse to labour; and hence the British Legislature is' a great collection of faineans, into which two or three laborious men find ad mission at a time of life when they are incapa citated from exertion ; and with the tribe of lawyers, who enter Parliament as they enter a Court of Law, to speak for those who send them thither, and who seldom utter a word which has not reference to their own profit or advancement. Mr. O'Connell intends to de rote himself exclusively to his Parliamentary duties. He brings with him that indefatigable love of labour which is the result of long and which is so rare among men born rich as to be cried up as a miracle when noticed.—lbid. The Belfast Northern Whig - observes, with reference to some observations in the Chronicle, and in the Dublin Evening Post, on the sub ject of Martial Law : " We repeat what we have already asserted, that had the Proclamation lately issued by the Privy • Council been promulgated ten days sooner, the greater part of the unfortunate events which took place on the 13th of this, month would have been prevented. We repeat, that, if the Irish Govern ment, even now, are determined to do their duty, and to insist that the Magistracy shall do theirs, the tranquillity of the country can be restored and main-' tained without having recourse to martial law. Pa radoxical as it may appear, we assert that the Irish people have a peculiar respect for the law ; and that when justice is done them, it requires nothing but • firmness and decision on the part of the Executive t) make the power of the law absolute and supreme. My Lord (said a Colonel of Militia, with whom, perhaps, the Evening Post is acquainted), if your Lordship insists that this man shall be hanged at the time and place you have appointed, I tremble for the consequences; the yeomanry corps of which he was a member, are loyal, hut I cannot answer for their conduct;- and the excitement of the people of that neighbourhood is so great, that I fear an at tempt will be made at a rescue,' These words, or words to that effect, were addressed to a Judge of the land, when every attempt had proved fruitless to save the life of o:ie of the gallant Colonel's yeomanry corps, who had been convicted of the murder of a poor Roman Catholic boy, perpetrated under cir cumstances of the most atrocious and revolting nature. ' Call over the Grand Jury,' said the Judge, rising from his scat. The list was called over, and some of the members did nut answer to their names. Call them under the penalty,' re peated the Judge; and the list was called over again and again, under a regularly increasing fine, till all the members were present. ' Gentlemen,' said t h e j u d ge , ' one of your members has dared to tell me that in the province of Ulster, in the county Afmtigh, the laws cannot be administered, and that a murderer cannot be brought to justice. I have given orders that the person convicted of this bar barous murder shall be executed on Portadown bridge, within a short distance of the spot where the deed was perpetrated ; and I shall take care that he shall be guarded to the place of execution by the yeo manry, under the command of the gentleman who has presumed to address such language to me.' These were the words, the memorable words of a man, whose conduct as a Judge we have met with no great temptation to praise ; and they were not rashly spoken : they were fulfilled to the very letter. Let the Irish Government act with similar decision —let those who have the administration of the common law be told that it must be enforced; and again we reiterate, we want no martial law—no In surrection Acts—no curfew bells to be tolled in the province of Ulstler. That the Yeomanry should be disarmed we admit to be necessary; and yet we are as much opposed to the disarming of Protestants ss the Standard pretends to be. That the Magis tracy should be looked to, and the mode of select ing and impanelling Juries revised, we readily grant; and we think, too, that the Police, since the country must support this unconstitutional force, ought to be rendered more efficient ; and that in the present state of Ireland, it might even be made useful. We would not gosdge that a part of the heavy taxation to which the country is subjected, should be appro priated to the payment of Stipendiary Magistrates; but they should be—and there is something humi liating in the admission—they should be strangers in Ireland . These changes, however, can be brought about by regular legislative enactments. In the mean time, the North of Ireland is returning to a state of tranquillity. Firmness and decision on the part of the Government will prevent any further overt acts, which would lead to a breach of the public peace. The Orangemen—even the dregs of them—are not the bloodhounds' and blood-thirsty miscreants that some would represent them. They would not be half so bad as they are, were they taken out of the hands of these Orange Magistrates, who first incite them to mischief, and then issue warning denunciations against them, when they proceed a step too far." We copy from the same Paper the account of the state of the county of Tyrone, to which we alluded on Saturday ; and we must own, that in the heavy accusations against the Presbyterians, and the particular exemplification in the case of the Rev. Mr. Bridge, we see enough to make us somewhat distrustful of the validity of the grounds on which our cotemporary founds his hopes of returning tranquillity. The Irish people, we are told, have a peculiar respect for the law, and " when justice is done them, it re quires nothing but firmness and decision on the part of the Executive to make the power of the law absolute and supreme." We believe this. The disputes of the rich man have seldom refer- . ence to matters with which his happiness is es sentially bound up. But the trifle for which a poor man enters a Court of Law is often to him the cause of welfare or ruin. Hence the eager ness with which a poor man carries on his suit. When justice is fairly administered, the poor man naturally respects the law more than the rich man does; for he feels that the law is pecu liarly tire protection of the weak. But, then, in proportion to his respect for the law, when the law is administered fairly, must be his angry feelings when the law is converted into an engine of oppression. Now, in the North :of Ireland the Magistrates are Orangemen, those who chose Jurors are Orangemen ; and we observe that the Juries will neither convict Protestants nor acquit Catholics. The Catholics must be strangely con stituted if they do not find in such Magistrates and Jurors an additional reason for taking justice into their own hands; and thus that which ought to promote tranquillity becomes a means ofextending Buds and violence. The cause of the feuds in the North of Ireland lies much deeper than re ligion. The speech of the Rev. Mr. Seymour, to which we have often alluded, shows that the constitution of society in that part of the country is radically vicious. According to him, 25,000 Protestants were in one year forced to emigrate from his neighbourhood. The Catholics have lower ideas of comfort, and are, consequently, willing to cultivate the land for a smaller reserva tion of produce to themselves than the Protest ants will consent to live on. Hence tire land lord, while in his capacity of Orange Magistrate, he is stimulating the Protestant yeomen to the indulgence of malignant feelings against the Catholics, in his capacity of landlord prefers 30s. from a Catholic, to 15s. from a Protestant. The Protestants are exasperated, because they see themselves driven out by the Catholics. Re ligion would be less than nothing, were it not that it serves to mark the two races of native Irish, and the descendants of British settlers. — The Protestants and Catholics are, therefore, like rats on a well-known piece of mechanism, in vented for the destruction of these animals, struggling for a footing on a plank, precipitation from which is a watery death. The introduction of Poor Laws into Ireland would serve as a check against the excessive competition for land, which is productive of such dreadffil ex cesses. Till the landlord finds himself restrained is his desire to profit by competition for land, by the dread of the burdens entailed by a super abundant population, there can be no real peace in the country. The quarrels between the Orangemen and Ribbonmen are but symptoms of the internal disease. In the last number of the Quarterly Review, a John Denson, of ' Waterbeach, is introduced in an article on the condition of the English peasantry, who says of Ithe English labourers, that " their groans if not loud are deep ; and but small as their incomes, when necessitated to apply, the parish funds have prevented them from proceeding to acts of open ' violence. Think you, ff they had no Poor Laws to protect them when out of employ, that they would—that they could stiffer their wives and little ones to perish wills hunger ?" The tranquillization of Ireland is by no means an af fair of such easy execution as some people may imagine. We ought, however, to prescribe prin cipally for the disease itself; and not the symp ' toms. However, it is clear, that partial Magis trates, and partial Sheriffs and Jurors must greatly aggravate the evil. We would prescribe a severe impartiality towards all parties ; and as, according to the Northern Whig, justice is not, at present at least, to be expected from natives of Ireland, we would, as much as possible, ex clude them .from all places which enable them to injure each other.-H/bid. Captain Basil Hall found the people of North America exceedingly litigious, end therefore, with his usual sagacity, concluded that cheap law was a great evil, The Captain is one of that class of philosophers who content them selves with the surface of things. Captain Hall, no doubt, imagines that if you shut the doors ef the Courts on litigants, you extinguish the pas sions that lead to litigation. In the evidence, taken by the Parliamentary Commissioners on the Scotch Courts, there are some very happy observations by Mr. Robert Forsyth, Advocate, on the subject of litigation ; " Observe (he says) that I account it the duty and the interest of Government to grant great indul gence to the public in relation to the administration of justice ; or to act by art and or notof m iriin by power. t Do tt not fall into the dangerous error Alien men are put to silence, and withdraw their disputes . from aversion to the Tribunal, whether well or ill founded, the Judges are at liberty to con gratulate themselves on getting quit of trouble. — Litigation, like every thing human, has inconve nience and evil incident to it. But it is the best remedy hitherto discovered for worse evils. It is the physic that prevents the fever. If men do not get their complaints listened to, and justice done in a way that seems to themselves, or their neighbours satisfactory, the peace of the community is under mined, and angry passions are fostered Look to Ireland. Look to our own country, before the improvement of our institutions, and a fair admi nistration of justice had succeeded in quieting the pe2ferviduo2 ingenium Scotorum, when feuds and private war filled every corner of the country. The same passions exist in every age. No barrier is adequate permanently to confine them ; but they may be gradually evacuated by the cooling phlebotomy of litigation in an acceptable form ; deliberate fair, not too expensive to deter litigants." In an able pamphlet, published some months ago, by Mr. Glassford, one of the Parliamentary Commissioners for Irish Education, it was re marked that the Irish, through want of employ ment, suffered greatly from ennui, and that to that cause we must attribute the avidity with which they grasped at whatever furnished matter of excitement. This is the secret of the factions of the Hens and the Magpies, and the hundred other factions by which all parts of Ireland are disturbed. There is a proverb that the head of an idle man is the Devil's garret. Hence the luxury to an Irishman of a row. In all countries where time hangs on men's hands there is a strong disposition to quarrel, and as Mr. For syth observes, litigation is the least mischievous way in which such a disposition can display itself. In this way the Civil Bill Court in Ire land has been found productive• of the greatest benefit, by enticing the people from that species of wild justice to which we give the names of revenge and retaliation. Now, if Captain Hall had possessed the least sagacity, he must have discovered that the Americans are litigious, for the same reason that they are troublesomely inquisitive, because they have abundance of leisure. The Courts do not make them litigi otrs, but the disposition to litigiousness finds the Courts an excellent safety valve. In a densely peopled country, where time is of great value, from the multiplicity of demands on it, men have an aversion to litigation. If you make justice ever so cheap, it will be dear to them, in so far as they cannot afford time for it. To any man engaged in business in this metropolis, a law-suit is one of the greatest curses imaginable. He shuns it at the expense of great sacrifices. But if litigation were made more expensive here, the effect would be, to impose, in addition to the loss of time, a great sacrifice already, another great sacrifice in money. An evil disposed man wishing to annoy another, would count on this additional expellee as a means. The love of li tigation diminishes regularly with civilization. The people in the country are much more liti gious than the people in towns. All this is easily accounted for. It was observed by Mr. Cobbett in one of his Rural Rides, that he did not know how people in the country could pass their time were it not for the Game Laws and the numberless quarrels and dissensions to which they give rise, and which furnish a constant sub ject for discussion. But a Sciolist like Captain Hall, takes no account of the differences in the nature of things. He laments the absence of Aristocracy in the woods of America, and thinks, because justice is cheaper in America than in England, and the people of the former country arc at the same time more litigious than the people of the latter, that the litigiousness is the result of the cheap justice, and that a denial of justice is all that is necessary to make men peaceable as angels. We have had too many philosophers already of his stamp in England, and unfortunately with more power to do mis chief than he possesses.—lbid. CORONERS' INQUEST. Yesterday afternoon a Coroner's inquest was held before Mr. THOMAS STIRLING, Coroner, at Carter's, Southampton Arms, Camden -town, on view of the body of John Robins, a little boy between nine and ten years of age, who was drowned on Friday after noon, between four and five o'clock, in the Regent's canal. Willam Bryan, of No. 13, Frederick -mews, Re gent's Park, a lad thirteen years of age, deposed that he was bathing in tie canal near the York and Al bany-bridge, Regent's-park, when he observed the deceased on the opposite side of the canal, waving the water• with a stick, and suddenly saw him fall into it. Witness swam immediately across to his assistance, and succeeded in laying hold of him, but had not strength enough to keep him up, and the deceased sank, but rose twice afterwards. Witness then dived after him, but could not find him. A woman was standing on the bridge, and seeing the deceased drowning, called to a gentleman who was riding over the bridge at the time to assist, and who immediately dismounted and plunged into the canal, and took the deceased out, and conveyed him to Mr. Green, landlord of the York and Albany, Park street, Camden-town. CORONER—Who was the gentleman that acted so humanely ? Witness—The Duke of Leinster. CORONER—I really do not know which has most credit, the Duke or you. CORONER—Was the deceased bled ? Witness — Yes, and he bled very freely. He was not quite dead when he was taken out of the ‘t titer, but died in a minute or two afterwards. The Jury, after viewing the body of the deceased, returned a verdict of " Accidental Death," and highly praised the noble and humane conduct of the Noble Duke. The greatest activity, we understand, has been displayed during the last two or three weeks at all the dock-yards. Ships of war have been surveyed, additional stores taken in both at Portsmouth and Plymouth, and, in a word, every arrangement made to render our naval force effective whenever it may be necessary to call it i n to action. The great number of Russian ships of war in the Mediterranean is said to have given rise to these measures. AN M. P. AND HIS MISTRESS.—Last week in the Court of Exchequer, Dublin, Mr. BERNARD, M.P. for the King's County, was sued by a woman for the maintenance of his illegitimate child, of which she was the mother. Mr. N. BENNETT was Counsel for the plaintiff, and Mr. G. BENNETT for the defendant. Mr. HACKETT,- MT. B.'s partner in a bank, was examined for plaintiff. Mr. N. BENNETT—Look at the boy, Sir, and tell me if he be like Mr. BERNARD ?—lndeed, to tell you the truth, I don't think he is. Is he not a fine boy ? He certainly is. The Judge—The Jury think, Mr. BEN NETT, yen ought not to press that point, for the likeness between the boy and the witness is very strong.—(Laugh ter.) Mr. N. BENNETT— that is reasonable enough, Mr. HAcErrr, for you and Mr. BERNARD were partners in trade.—(Loud l a ughter.)—Witness—But we kept se parate accounts on that head. The boy himself was exa mined, awl said my name is GEORGE BERNARD; about two years ago I went to father for some money for mother to buy clothes; I said, 4' How are you, father?" and he said, 44 How do you do, boy ?" I told hint what we wanted, and be gave me 30i. About eight months ago my mother and I were in Birr ; she ask e d my f at h er f or money, he said he would give none. My mother said she would take me over to his lady, who was in her carriage in the street. He then gave her 21. and said he would settle with her that day week ; I am fifteen years old, and aye a verdict f a o l twa theys p l i l v a e i d n t i w ty it for 501. mother. The Jury g SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Sean o' Croce THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Crown Office, Aug. 4, 1829. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR LIAMENT. COUNTY OF WICKLOW.-Ralph Howard, of Bushy park, in the said county, Epq., in the room of the Hon. Granville Leveson Proby, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Whitehall, July 25. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Richard Carline, of Shrewsbury, in the county of Salop, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Whitehall, July 28. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Caesar, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancester, Gent, to he a Mas ter Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. War-Office, Aug. 3, 1829. 10th Reg. of Light Dragoons—Cornet G. Vandeleur to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Oliver, who retires. Hon. P. Moreton to ha Cornet, by purclut.se, vice Vande leur. July 9. 13th Ditto—W. M. Julius, Gent. to be Cornet. by purchase, vice Terry, who retires. July 9.—Serjeant Major J. O'Reilly to be Quartermaster, vice Taggart, de ceased. Dec. 25. 16th Ditto—Cornet E. H. Donnithorne, by purchase, vice Torre, who retires. Nov. 11.—Lieut. R. Dighton, from half-pay 71st Foot, vice Jones, deceased, to be Lieu tenants. July 9.—F. T. Meik, Gent. vice Donnithorne; to be Cornet, by purchase. July 9. 3d Regt. of Foot—Lieut. J. L. Lavoine, from the Cape Corps, to he Lieutenant, vice Deane, appointed to the 67th Foot. July 9. Bth Ditto--W. Lay, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hamilton, promoted. August 4. 9th Ditto—Capt. A. Champain to be Major, by pur chase, vice St. Clair, who retires; Lieut. A. Ogle to be Captain, by purchase, vice Champain ; Ensign J. Don nelly to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ogle; and F. Lushington, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Don. nelly. July 16. 13th Ditto—Brevet Lieut.-Col. Sir R. Moubray, from half-pay of the Sicilian Regiment, to be Major, vice Ever ard promoted. Aug. 4.—Lieut. W. Sutherland to be Captain, by purchase, vice Fenton, who retires. Ensign W. Rawlins to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Suther land. Oct. 27. P. D. Strene, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Rawlins. July 9. • 14th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon S. Lightfoot, from the 47th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice 13attersby, who exchanges. Dec. 13. kith Foot—Capt. R. A. Cuthbert, from the half-pay, t,t be Captain, vice 'f. Bonnor, who exchanges, receiving the difference. July 9. 16th Foot—Lieut. H. 11. F. Clarke, from the 47th Foot, to be Lieutenant. Jan. 6. Ensign D. Campbell, from the 47th Foot, to be Lieutenant. Jan. 11. 18th Foot—Ensign C. A. Edwards, from the 31st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Thorokl, who retires. July 9. 22d Foot—To be Captains—Capt. J. Ralph, from the half-pay, vice R. Vivian, who exchanges, July 9 ; and Capt. J. Emerson, from the half-pay, vice Ralph, who retires. July 16. 23d Foot—J. 0. E. Tucker, Gent, to be second Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Bunyon, promoted in the 30th Foot. July 16. 26th Foot—To be Lieutenants:—Lieut. W, B. Staff, from the 30th Foot. Dec. 3. Lieut. A. Carthew, from the half-pay of the 64th Foot, vice J. Guthrie, who ex changFs. July 9. 30th Foot—Capt. J. Acland, from half-pay 9th Foot, vice 0. W. Gray, who exchanges, July 9 ; Lieut. E. N. Macready, by purchase, vice Acland, who retires, to be Capt dos ; July 16. Second Lieut. C. S. Bunyon, from the 23.1 Foot, vice Macready; Ensign Hon. R. Boyle, from the 68th Foot, vice Frizell, who retires, to be Lieu tenants by Purchase ; July 16. 31st Foot—H. Pigott, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Edwards, appointed to the 18th Foot. July 9. 33d Foot—Lieut. J. G. Rogers, from half-pay 45th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice W. S. Norton, wbo ex changes. July 9. 38th Foot—Lieut. A. Campbell to be Captain, with out purchase, vice M'Dunald, dec. ; Ensign T. Southall to he Lieutenant, vice Campbell. Sept. 25. Gent. Cadet H. Bites, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Southall. July 9. Lieut. G. Greene to be Adjutant, vice Campbell. Sept. 25. 41st Foot—Capt. G. Carpenter, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice A. M'lntyre, who exchanges, receiving the difference. July 9. 42(1 Foot—Lieut. J. Guthrie, from half-pay 64th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice W. Duff, who exchanges ; Lieut. W. 1). Macfarlane, to be Adjutant, vice Duff. July 16. 45th Foot--Lieut. D. Tupper, from the half-pay, to be Lieutenant, vice T. Chadwick, who exchanges. July 9. 47th Foot—J. Watson, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Campbell, promoted in the 16th Foot, July 16; and Assistant-Surgeon R. Battersby, from the 14th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Lightfoot, who exchange!. Dec. 13. 49th Foot—Lieut. J. P. Meik, from the 30th Foot, to be Lieutenant. Jan. 6. 51th Foot—Lieut. J. G. Beavan to be Captain, with out purchase, vice Kelly deceased. Aug. 7. 54th Foot—Ensign A. C. Anderson, from the 69th Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Beavan. July 9. 57th Foot—Lieut. W. Edwards, from the 7th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice IL Shadforth, who re tires upon the half•pay, receiving the difference. March 21. Lieut. J. Gray, from the 89th Foot, to be Lieu tenant, vice Edwards, who retires upon half-pay 89th Foot. March 22. 59th Foot—Lieut. W. Fuller to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Collins, who retires. July 9. Ensign and Adjutant D. Calder to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fuller. July 16. 60th Foot—Lieut. A. Viscount Fincastle, from the 67th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice J. Archer, who retires upon half-pay Royal African Corps. July 9. 6:3(1 Foat—Assistant-Surgeon W. Mi!igen, 111,D., from half-pay 60th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Daly, deceased. July 9. 67th Foot—To be Lieutenants—Lieut. C. J. Whyte, from half-pay Cape Corps, vice J. Hanna, who exchanges, receiving the difference. July 8. Lieut. C. A. Deane, from the 3d Foot, vice Lord Fincastle, appointed to the 60th Foot. July 9. 68th Foot—W. F. V. Graham, Gent., to be Ensign by purchase, vice Boyle, promoted in the 30th Foot. July 16. 69th Foot--Ensign E. S. James to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Evans, promoted. July 16. T. be Ensigns—A. Sutherland, Gent., without pur chase, vice Anderson, promoted in thes4th Foot. July 9. St. G. Lowther, Gent., by purchase, vice James. July 16. 83d Foot—J. Goodrich, Gent. to he Ensign, by pur chase, vice Pole, who retires. July 16. 97th Foot—Capt. L. Macquarie, from half-pay 57th Foot, to be Captain, vice J. L. Muttlebury, who exchanges. July 9. _ _ Cape Mounted Riflemen—Lieut. W. Russell, from the Royal African Colonial Corps, to be Lieutenant, rice La voinc, appointed to the :Id Foot. July 9. UNATTACHED. Brevet Lieut. Col. C. H. Hastings, Impecting Field offi ce r of a Recruiting District, to be Lieutenant Colonel, without purchase. July 9. . - Lieut. J. T. Evans, from the 69th Foot, to be Captain of Infantry, by purchase. July 16. Ensign J. J. E. Hamilton, from the Bth Foot, to be Lieutenant of Infantry, by purchase. Aug. 4. The u nder-mentioned officer, having brevet rank supe rior to his regimental commission, h as accepte d promo tion t uponTo be Lieutenant - Colonel of Infantry —Brevet Lieut.- Col. M. Everard. from the 13 th Foot. Aug. 4. The under-mentional Lieutenant, actually servi n g u p on 25th a i- 12 a hpr i f f 6 y according to th e G enera l O r d er o f t h e full-pay in a regiment of the line, whose commission is dated in the year 1808, has accepted promotion"upon half pay, according to the General Order of Dec. 27,1826 : To he Captain of Infautry—Lieut• J. Peach, from time 47th Foot. Aug. 4. IFtEVET. Col. G. W. Phipps to be Al ijor-General in the Army. July 19. 3111101tANDA. The appointment of Lieut. Edwards, from the 7th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant in the 40th Foot, vice Thorn hill, who retires upon half.pay, receiving the difference, stated to have taken place on the 218 t March last, has not taken place. Lieut. C. Boyd, half-pay 90th Foot, has been allowed to retire from the Service by the sale of his half-pay- Aug. 4. The commissions of the under-mentioned Officers are dated on the 14th May, 1829, instead of 28th July and 26th Aug., 1628:—Ens;gn C. Montgomery, of the Sd Foot; and Ensign T. De W. Richardson, of the 59th Feot. The Christian names of Mr. Duff, who was appointed to an Ensigney in the 92d Foot, on the 4th June last, are Alexander Thomas 'Wharton. The appointment of Lieut. W. H. Lawder, from half pay 32d Foot, to be Lieutenant in the Ceylon Regiment, stated to have taken place on the 22d ult. has not taken place. The Christian names of Ensign Hon. - Craven, of the 67th Foot, are George Augustus. The half-pay of the under-mentioned Officers has been cancelled from the 4th instant, inclusive, upon their re ceiving a commuted allowance for their commissions:— Quartermaster J. Mackenzie, half-pay 4th West India Regiment. Ensign J. Thomas, half-pay 45th Foot. Ensign W. A. Clarke, half-pay Newfoundland Veteran Companies. Ensign J. O'Donnell, half-pay 16th Foot. Ensign W. 11. de Daubrawa, half-pay Unattached. Lieut. W. L'Estrange, half-pay 11th Foot. Lieut. J. Young, half-pay 51st Fdot. Lieut. R. M'Swiney, half-pay Royal Corsican Rangers. Lieut. J. Bushel, half-pay sth West India Regiment. Lieut. E. S. Flinter, half-pay 97th Foot. Lieut. D. La Touch, half-pay 30th Foot. Lieut. J. Conran, half-pay Ist Foot. Ensign J. Campbell, half-pay York Light Infantry Vo lunteers. Ensign G. Smith, half-pay, Unattached. Ensign H. Spratt, half-pay 72d Foot. Ensign J. Carroll, half-pay Royal Newfoundland Fen cible Infantry. Lieut. W. Tait, half-pay 97th Foot. Second Lieut. P. Campbell, half-pay 95th Foot. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Robert English, Bath, cabinet-maker. George Tucker, Liverpool, broker. John Willis, Liverpool, broker. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. Job Barker, High Holborn, straw-hat-manufacturer, from Aug. 7 to Sept. 25, at eleven, At the Court of Com missioners. William Plenty, West Smithfield, iron -founder, from Aug. 7 to Aug. 11, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Thomas Wilkilison, I3ishopsgate-street Without, hatter. Joseph Giles, Leeds, stuff-merchant. BANKRUPTS. Theophilus Perceval, Bruton, Somerset, silk-throwster, to surrender Aug. 29, 31, and Sept. 15, at eleven, at the Blue Ball Inn, Bruton. Dyne, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; Dyne, Bruton. Jonathan Syms, jun., Trowbridge, Wilts, clothier, Aug. 14, 15, and Sept. 15, at one, at the Castle and Ball Inn, Bath. Titnbrell, Trowbridge; Egan and Waterman, Essex-street, Strand. _ . Joseph Gardner, I,isson-grove, Middlesex, victualler, Aug. 7, 14, at twelve, and Sept. 15, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Carlon, High-street, Marylebone. Richard Dafter, Twertcn, Somerset, farmer, Aug. 7, 14, at one, and Sept. 15, at twelve, at the Court of Com missioners. Richardson, Dyer's-buildings, Holborn. Beaumont Hodgson, Manchester, Inatiolder, Aug. 17, IS, and Sept. 15, at nine, at the York Hotel, Manchester. Appleby and Charnock, Raymond-buildings, Gray's-Inn, Londoil ; Whitehead, Manchester. John Joynes, Nottingham, lace-manufacturer, Aug. 10, 14, Sept. 15, at eleven, at the Blades Head Inn, Notting ham. Fearnhead and Campbell, Nottingham ; Hurd and Johnson, Temple, London. James Gastrell, Bristol, haberdasher, Aug. 20, 21, and Sept. 15, at one, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol. Bush acd Ptideaux, Bristol ; and Holtne, Frampton, and Loftus, New-Inn, London. Isaac Had Wen, John Sandeman, and John Longlands Cowell, Liverpool, merchants, Aug. 7, at ten, 21, at eleven, and Sept. 15, at twelve, at the Court of Commis sioners. Nettleship and Bicknell, Grocers'-hall, London. Henry Askham, Norfolk-street, Strand, tailor, Aug. 7, at twelve, 18, and Sept. 15, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Bromley, Gray's-inn-square. Charles Theophilus Hall, Portland -terrace, Saint John's wood-road, Middlesex, builder, Aug. 7, 14, and Sept. 15, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Hensmon, Bond-court, Walbrook. Thomas Spencer, Davies-street, Berkley square, builder, Aug. 7, at one, Sept. 1, at three, and 15, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Fisher and Lake, Bury-street, St. James's. William Elston, John-street, America-square, corn facto,r, Aug.. 7, is, and Sept. 15, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Burford, Muscovy-court, Tower-hill. Thomas Wilkinson, otherwise Thomas John Cave Wil kinson, Bishopsgate-street-without, hatter, Aug. 7, 14, at one, and Sept. 15, at twelve, at the Court of Commis sioners. Cobb, Copthall-court, Throgmor ton-street. Richard Clarke, Northampton, boot and shoe-manufac turer, Aug. 7, at twelve, 14, and Sept. 15, at eleven, at at the Court of Commissioners. Carter and Gregory, Lord Mayor's Court Office, Royal Exchange. John Batetia Qualiotte, Great Castle•street, Oxford market, confectioner, Aug. 11, at eleven, IS, and Sept. 15, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Ashurst, Newgate-street. Thomas Brooker Knott, Broadstaire, Isle of Thanet, plumber, Aug. 6, at nine, 7, at eleven, and Sept. 15, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Jones, Crosby square, London. Benjamin Ridge and Edward Ridge, Birmingham, fac tors, Aug. 14, at one, 18, at eleven, and Sept. 15, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Hyde, Ely-place, Holborn. THE ARAI Y. The following movements of the Foot Guards will take place to-morrow The lgt Battalion of the Grenadier Guards will leave Dublin for Portman-street Barracks. The 2d Battalion will move from Portman-street to Knightsbridge. The 3d Battalion from the King's News to Windsor. The 2d Battalion of the Coldstream Guards from the Tower to Westminster. The Ist - Battalion of the 3d Guards from Knightsbridge to the Tower. The 2d Battalion from Windsor to the King's Mews. The 17th Foot will arrive at Chatham, from Rochdale,' on the 17th inst. The 56th Foot will arrive at Weedon en the 14th. The depot of the '77th is at Clonmel ; and the depot of the 86th at Fermoy. The 34414 Foot embarked at Woolwich, on the 50th, for Quebec. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. ROW-STREET. A gentleman named Warner, who lives at N 0.32, Gower-street, was summoned by the driver of the hackney-coach No. 798, for refusing to pay him the fare. It appeared from the coachman's statement, that the defendant and a friend took the complainant's coach at the corner of Regent-street, with directions to drive them with all speed to East Acton, where they were engaged to dinner. They stipulated with tile complainant that he was to wait for them where they dined, and said they should return by half-past eleven or twelve o'clock, as they could not be certain to half an hour. For this they agreed to give the coachman 155., and he con sented to take it. Having set them down at East Acton at a quarter past six, he waited for them until past one o'clock in the morning, when he took them up again, and drove them to Oxford-street. Here he demanded IBs., but the defendant refused to pay him more ,than the 15s. for which he had contracted. Sir R. BIRNIIt Said that the coachman's demand was fair and reasonable. He had been detained for more than two hours beyond the stipulated time, and had a right to the additional 3s. Mr. Warner insisted that the coachman had broken his agreement, and was-only entitled to re ceive 15s. He had consented to drive himself and friend to East Acton, to wait for them there, and drive them into town again for that sure. No men tion was made as to what hour they should return. Sir R. BIRNIE said he knew nothing of agree ments made by coachmen. The Act of Parliament was silent upon the subject, and no coachman had a right to keep an agreement if he were a loser thereby. M r . Warner—Then, Sir Richard, am I to under stand that hackney-coachmen are not bound to per form a contract whereby they agree to take a certain sum of money for a stated service ? Sir R. BIRNIE—I tell you, Sir, I know nothing of such agreements. You must pay the full de mand and costa. LUDICROUS. EVENT. ,1 THE ARTIST AND THE COUNTRYMAN. The following laughable story, though the circumstance happened some time ago, has 11 04 ,, that we know, yet got into print. It will Olt some amusement to the lovers o f fu n . At t,h,l time when the disclosure of th e a t roc iti es ofilt! monsters Burke and Hare painfully engroasen: the public attention, an artist residi ng i n the 10 1 * mediate neighbourhood of Soho-square had oCd, casion to advertise for a man servant, who, addition to the usual requisites " honesty atn i sobriety" was to be " from the country." One morning a raw country lad presented himself a candidate for the vacant situation, and we ll shown into the artist's painting room. One readers of course know that this apartment in an., artist's house is in general very gloomy, the lie', being admitted only through a small portion 0 ' I the upper part of one window, whilst all the other casements, if there be any, are kept per' lectly closed. Upon being left alone in this dark room, (for the artist, whom we shall call Mr. W., was not present), some feelings of easiness began to steal .upon the countryman e mind, whose vague and incipient apprehensione were not diminished by a closer observation 0 1 , the apartment. The first object that arrest his attention was the easel, which unluckily hap pened at this time to have no canvass upon it to denote its use, and which to his excited imagi` nation appeared an instrument of torture. Car vying his investigation furth e r, h e perceiv e d in , a corner of the room a canvass cloth spread over an object which from its form evidently could he nothing but a human body. This w as whe t artists call a lay figure—a perfect representation of the human figure, which they employ as model when it may be inconvenient or unnecer sary to procure a living model. It now ne' cuffed to the poor fellow that he had been de' coyed into the house for the purpose of beins Burked," and that th e canvass c l o th cov ere the body of some wretched victim who had Ps; been murdered and not yet removed. Fillet wit! , this horrid idea, he endeavoured to open the door by which he had entered, but found 1 fastened. He then crept softly to another door,, which was glazed, and covered with a curtain' Drawing the curtain aside he beheld a spectacl e which seemed to offer the verification of hi s worst fears. He saw Mr. W. in the ante-worth holding in his hand a large knife, covered wit h blood, and a dish full of the vital stream stand; ing by him. Mr. W. was mixing up lake, 0 0 the knife he used was a pallette-knife. Whe n the countryman recovered from the momentary stupor into which this horrid spectacle had thrown him, he determined to attempt his escape from n place which he conceived to be no better than human slaughterhouse. Watching, therefore, the opportunity when Mr. W's back was turned,' lie opened the door suddenly, rus h e d ou t, struc k the artist a blow on the head, which brought him to the ground, and then, passing out by anothe r door, made his way down stairs with all the speed in his power. Mr. W., who happens to be deaf as well as to labour under an impedimen t ,. in speaking, was not aware o f th e prox i m ity 0 1 ' the countryman, until he felt th e bl o w who a knocked him down. In falling he broke th e plate containing the colour, which becam e smeared over his hands and clothes. Mr. W'' conceiving that the man had been robbing pursued him instantly down stairs, and overto 4 him in the passage, where a struggle ensued b e i tween them. Th e countryman , w h o sup pose that his life depended upon his exertions a t Oa t moment, put forth all his energies, and heal overcome the artist, he ran out into the stree t screaming " Burke" and " murder." I n the . scuffle some of the crimson from Mr. W.'s pet; ton was communicated to that of the clown, an', , gave some colour to the dreadful cries which h, e . uttered. Of course a mob soon follow e d at heels, until, overpowered by terror and exhans: tion, he sank down in Soho-square. At tine moment the artist ran up, and was about to oil! him. The sight of this tormentor " st ee ped in the colours of his trade," and his knife "un mannerly breeched in gore," threw the poi countryman into fresh agonies. He appealed to the bystanders for protection against the a rtist' who he said was in the habit of killing a doze n men every day, and now wished to despatch 1 Appearances were against th e ar ti s t. H e 0 1 , immediately seized, and cries of " B ur k e him resounded on all sides. Some of the crowd, il l the height of their indignation, proposed to sacra' five him on the spot with hi s o w n k n if e ; but others, more knowing, thought it better that, I ° t the sake of example, he should undergo O D ceremony of trial previous to execution • ' death, however, with or without law, was a ;hill determined. Nothing can be imagined great er than the astonishment of the artist at being taken into custody under such ext rao rdinell e circumstances, and unfortunately being, as befo re stated, a ffl icted with an impediment in his spool his abortive attempts at explanation were Tooke; upon as so many proofs of his guilt. He we t being dragged off to Bow-street, when some ° his neighbours interfered on his behalf, and e 0" deavoured to explain the mistake. With coo' siderable difficulty the mob was persuaded t ° carry the artist to his own house ; but it was 1) 0, till a deputation from the crowd had inspecte d the premises and tasted the colour, to 85t' themselves that it was not blood, that he was sel • at liberty. KINROSS.—As the fishermen upon Loc h ' Leven were drawing their nets on Monday the 21st insta n t : found something heavy detaining the meshes; ha ul s ing their nets nearer they brought up, to their surprise, .h corpse of ARTHUIt CONLAT, a travelling hardware WT. chant, who has resided for some time in Dunfermline. P o was seen last in a house at the south end of this town, g in the evening of the Thursday before, when he left 04 1 , on purpose (as he said), to go to Kelty, which i 5 a b°ll. five miles distance. His wife died some time ago, an d has rather been in a desponding state of mind aince•" Fife Herald. BIRTHS. On the Ist inst. nt Creedy, Devon, (the seat of S ir Humphry Davie, Bart.,) the lady of Lieut.-Colonel re" guson, of a daughter. On the Ist inst. at Sandhurst, the Right Hen. La d ( Harriet Paget, of a daughter. On the 29th ult. at Stamford-hill, tho lady of W ° H. Hooper, Esq. MARRIED. On the 3d inst. at Woodford, Alexander More, f s „; of South-street, Finsbury, to Elizabeth, second ( laugh, of the late William Goodman, Esq. of Burley-house , o ' B Leeds. £l. • On the Ist inst. at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, R. k Davis, Esq . eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Davis, of Pend°lP; Worcestershire, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the 111 C. Stable, Esq. Bedf4d-streeti DIED. On tlae 31st ult. at Lambeth, William Gilpin, 4. aged 48. r On the 3d inst. suddenly, Anne, the wife of 1 1 . 1. ' Lee, jun. Chiswell-street. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG ) At ale OFTICR 11; efiAANR, Low"