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known to the native of the East, whose retire- tnent would bring nothing but danger, by mark ing him as wealthy in the eye of his rapacious Governor. The double influence of the Turkish Government and Mussulman religion has pro duced such am universal hypocrisy, that there is scarcely a Mahomed.m (whose tranquil air as he smokes his pipe, reclining on the sofa, gives one an idea of the most perfect contempt and apathy) that does not suffer under all the agonies of envy, unsatisfied avarice, ambition, or the fear of losing his ill-gotten property. So much for the Go- vernment of an ancient ally. Those who enjoy the privilege of plundering may well fight despe rately for it ; but we cannot be astonished that the plundered should prefer a change.—lbid. We deprecate all comments in the public Press upon unfinished legal inquiries affecting the life or honour of any individual, as unjust and indecorous. A Court, or a Jury, are not competent to give an opinion upon the case before them until they have heard the whole of evidence ; and even then they should be **owed to form that opinion upon the evidence alone. In coming to a decision, they have to take into account not only the matter of the evidence, but the manner in which the witnesses gave their testimony. An Editor of a news pier, however, who has read a part of the (eVidence and seen nothing of the trial, too often takes upon himself to relieve both Court and Jury from the trouble of that reasoning process by which they endeavour to form a correct opinion Upon the matters in issue. We have 'en lied to make these remarks by the observa tiekles which we have seen in several Newspapers itlative to the proceedings of the Court-Martial on Capt. Dickenson—more especially by an article which appeared in a Morning Paper of yesterday, and which we cannot but characterise as equally obtrusive and Jesuitical. If the editor of the paper in question had not the intention of assisting the Court to a decision upon this complicated and important case, it is very strange that he could not restrain his pen for a few days longer, when his observations would not be liable to the imputation of forestalling a verdict, which now attaches to them, whether justly or not we cannot pretend to say. Certainly the obvious drift of his remarks was to raise a prejudice in the public mind against one of the parties who is deeply concerned in the result of the proceedings. We are aware that the members of the high and ho nourable tribunal before whom the case is tried, are not likely to be influenced by any thing that appears in a newspaper, while engaged in the performance of the sacred duty which they have to discharge between the country and the accused. We are confident that they will look to time evi dence alone, divested of all extraneous topics, and pronounce that decision which justice can sanction and their consciences approve ; but we protest, on principle, against the officious inter ference of newspaper partisans on all such occa sions. Some oracular personages are too fond of displaying their sagacity at the expense of the feelings of individuals and the interests of jus tice. Others become the organs of some secret influence, or of some person or party more soli citous to wound than courageous to avow them selves. But, whether the motives of those writers be innocent or impure, the proceeding is equally unfair, and the consequences dangerous. We have abstained all along from making a single remark upon what has transpired at the Court-martial in question. We felt it was not for us to hold the scales of justice between Cap tain Dickenson and his accuser. It is due to Sir Edward Codrington, who originally made the charges on which the inquiry has been in stituted, as well as to the Gallant Officer now upon his trial, that the decision of the Court should not only be pure, but that, in the eye of public opinion, it should be clear of the remotest suspicion of external influence.—Morn.Herald. If any good is to be expected from the new Police (and we are taught to look forward to a great deal), it surely must be as applicable to one part of the metropolis as to another ; and the exception of the city of London from its opera tion implies an absurdity and contradiction which we should not have thought its authors capable of falling into. No part of the metropolis stands more in need of protection than the city ; on the one hand, on account of its intrinsic importance both in point of property and character ; and, on the other, from the notorious fact that more serious depredations occur within it than any where else. Let any . one look at the state of Fleet-street, Chick-lane, Houndsditch,. and the very neighbourhood of the Mansion-house, in cluding that of the Bank and Royal Exchange, and say whether there is any part of the metro polis, not excepting the immediate vicinity of the well paid public office in Bow-street itself, which calls more loudly for a new system than this does. But time civic privileges, forsooth, must not be invaded ; and it seems more econ cileable to civic wisdom that the inhabitants should be plundered with impunity, than that Goo and Magog should lose one inch of their stature. The idea of this kind of exemption is as absurd as that which says that the King of England may not pass through Temple-bar without the leave of the Mayor, though every other man, woman, and child in the kingdom may do so at their free will and pleasure. But so it is, that in the new Police Act the City boundaries are marked out with a nicety which places parts of one and the same place under the new and old jurisdictions. Holborn, Hatton.garden, and Charterhouse square, for instance, are partly in the city and partly in the county ; and while one side of each is to be guarded by the new gens-d'armerie, the other is to be pillaged, as heretofore, under the nose of sleeping watchmen. Furnival's-Inn, too, in Holborn, is in the same, or, rather, in a still more absurd predicament ; for, though this is an enclosed place, to which there is but one common entrance, the provisions of the new Police Act are only to • extend to " that part of Furnivars-Inn in the county of Middle sex." We mention these instances merely as striking proofs of the absurdity of these exemp tions and distinctions. One common object can only be attained by one common means ; and why the Civic Dogberries should be retained while those of the county are replaced by a more efficient body, it requires all the wisdom of Gotham to discover. If the Civic Body has no objection to the Duke of 'Wellington's helping them to rebuild London-bridge, why should they object to Mr. Peel's new Police protecting the inhabitants ? We hope the result will not be the driving the thieves into the city. If it should be, the citizens will know who they will have to thank for the favour, and will, too soon learn, to their cost, which is of the most value, empty privilege or substantial protection. Ai to the efficacy of the new system, we pledge no opinion—we wait to see it put to the test of actual experiment—but we say, that, if it be good for any thing, it should take under its protection the whole metropolis.—lbid. In another part of our Paper will be found a report of a meeting which was held on Monday last, at Oldham, for the purpose of taking into consideration the causes of the distress which is now felt throughout every part of the Kingdom, and the best means of remedying it. The meet ing was not numerous ; but the resolutions which it adopted were both pithy and sensible. Other meetings, we learn from our correspondents, are in embryo, and we doubt not, that if trade do nut speedily revive, the scenes which were witnessed in 1819, and 1826, will be again renewed. — That matters would come to this pass, in con sequence of the contraction of the currency, and the consequent augmentation of the pressure of taxation, coupled with other causes of a less im mediate character, we not only never doubted, but repeatedly predicted as the infallible results of the system which Government appeared determined to pursue. Our anticipations have now been partially verified, and we fear, that unless some improvement takes place in the trade of the country, his Majesty's Ministers will have to encounter a storm of much greater magnitude than has yet been experienced. The truth is, that though distress has often been prevalent among the labouring classes to a much greater extent than it now is, there is no period in our history during which it has lasted so long, or been so general among all classes. Every tradesman in the metropolis will vouch for the truth of this fact ; and every money lender can attest it by the high rate of interest which he now obtains for his money; but what is still more deplorable, there is no remedy with in the power of Government which it has not declared to be impossible to adopt. The army, it says, cannot be reduced—the navy cannot bear cur:ailment, and every other expellee has been brought so low in every department that the public business must suffer, if any additional re duction be made—yet reduction must be made, taxes shifted, or new channels opened for our commerce, else bad will come to worse, and worse to the worst—public meetings be ex changed for an insurrection, and insurrection for something more terrible still. The distresses of the people are evidently goading them on to measures which we shall not name ; and it would be too much to expect that in the midst of this calamity they should arrive at accurate conclusions respecting its causes. Great financial measures have been spoken of as likely to be brought forward in the ensuing Session of Parliament by the Duke of Wellington; but no financial measure which has not for its object a re lief from the various burthens which now press so heavily on the middle and lower classes of society, can be of any avail as a national relief. An in come tax would be merely a change oftaxation from one article to another—a tax on funded property a robbery on a certain class for the benefit of other classes ; and so also, we might add, of every other tax but that which shall take from the rich and leave those who live by their labour, whe ther of head or hands, to make the most of their exertions—in other words, of every tax, but a tax on property, for the sake of which the coun try has been brought to its present pass of misery and wretchedness. 'Whether his Grace is pre pared to present such a measure to the Lords and Commons we know not ; but quite sure we are that, in the first place, nothing else will avail, and, in the second, that if such a tax be not adopted, no one need envy his Grace the office which he now holds.—Morn. Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday a dancing-master, who superintends the Apollonicon and Terpsichorean Banquet, at Holborn. bars, appeared at the Justice room, at the desire of the Loan MAYOR, who had received certain intelli- gence about what usually took place at that place refined entertainment. His LORDSHIP told the dancing-master, who was also master of the ceremonies, that he had received a letter from a gentleman who resided in the neigh bourhood of the banquet, stating that males and females assembled at the rooms at night, and re tw:ined until four or five o'clock in the morning; that they were provided with mixed and plain liquors; that some of the ladies appeared dressed in men's clothes; and that, take it altogether, the Apollonicon and Terpsichorean banpact presented a scene of debauchery and riot. His Lordship's cor respondent added, that the young men who fre quented the rooms soon contracted habits quite in consistent with business, and that his own son, who was quite a youth, had been admitted gratis at 12 o'clock one night, when t he orgies were going forward. The master of the ceremonies said, that in what ever manner the rdt.ms might have been conducted by persons who had preceded him, he had encou raged no persons who were not respectable. The ladies and gentlemen were supplied with tea and coffee, but not with spirits. The LORD MAYOR—What ! not with gin ? The master of the ceremonies had never supplied any thing but the harmless and unexciting beverage he had spoken of. The dancing closed at half -past eleven o'clock. Mr. Cope, the Marshal, told the Lord Mayor that he had visited the rooms by his Lordship's orders, and he found 40 or 50 men and women there at four o'clock in the morning.—(Laughter.) After a long conversation, it appeared that the rooms were unlicensed. The LORD MAYOR—You must apply at the Quarter Sessions for a licence. The master of the ceremonies said that as he had taken the rooms, the injury to him, if the dancing was to be checked, would be most serious. His LORDSHIP said that nobody could object to the amusement of dancing, but in such places, and at such times, and to such persons, it would inevi tably lead to great mischief. The appearance of females in men's clothes proved what sort of indi viduals resorted to the rooms. The master of the ceremonies intends, we under stand, to apply for a licence at the next Sessions. Mr. Ellis, an intelligent parish officer of St. Ste phen's, Coleman-street, summoned the driver of Jones's omnibus, a rival to Shillibeer's omnibus, for having driven his vehicle violently through the street during the hours of divine service on Sunday last. The LORD MAYOR— What was the effect upon the congregation ?—The complainant said that while the omnibus was passing not a syllable the clergyman uttered was heard. The LORD MAYOR said that this was a case which be considered it his duty to punish. It showed a wanton disregard towards the feelings of others. His Lordship then thanked the complainant for bringing the matter before him, and fined the defendant ss. and costs. GUILDHALL Mr. Jones, an appraiSer residing in Carey-street, by the new Post-office, attended upon a summons for refusing to pay four quarters' tithes, due at Midsummer last. Mr. Jones's defence was that be owed nothing. He had but recently entered the premises under a distress, as agent for the Goldsmiths' Company, and he asked why the collector had not followed the outgoing tenant into another part of the city, as he had done with respect to another inhabitant who had lately removed.—The collector said the out- going tenant became bankrupt, and had referred him to the solicitor to the commission, from whom he could not obtain his demand, and he therefore looked, as he had a right by law to do, to the party now occupying, for all arrears. Mr. Jones—By whom are you employed to col lect this money ? Collector—By the trustees. Mr. Jones—The trustees ! explain that. Collec tor—By the trustees of the Rev. Mr. Hutchins. The rector's affairs are in a bad state. Mr. Jones said this was the answer he expected. He would try the question with the trustees whether he was liable to them for these arrears. One of the parties from whom this arrear was actually due, was now enjoying an income of 4001. a-year. And with regard to the rector, he must remark tliat if the parishioners wanted spiritual relief from him, they could not get it. Two parsonage-houses were pro vided for him, but one was converted into a cook's shop, the other into an oyster shop. " Well, it is a good thing," replied the collector, " that bodily reliefcan be obtained there."—(A laugh.) Sir P. LAURIE lamented that the duty of clergy men should be so discharged in any part of London. The collector pressing the Alderman to compel Mr. Jones to pay the arrear, Sir PETER would not proceed until satisfied it could not be obtained from the party who ought to pay it, and he issued a summons to the last occupiers. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Henry Hunt waited upon Mr. HALLS, and stated that he came to lodge an informa tion against one of his sans, who had set up a blacking, manufactory in Tottenham-court-road, and was en deavouring to obtain custom by waiting upon those persons who dealt with him (Mr. Hunt) for blacking, and representing that he was empowered by his father to receive orders. _ _ . Mr. Hunt then produced two bottles of blacking, one the manufactare of himself, and the other of his son; and drew the magistrate's attention to the label of the latter, which he said was a complete facsimile of his own, with the omission of the words " 52, Broad-wall, Blackfriars." Mr. HALLS asked Mr. Hunt if he had any proof that his son had vended a spurious article, and repre sented it as the same which he (Mr. Hunt, sem) was in the habit of selling. Mr. Hunt had a witness who was ready to depose to that fact. A person named Charles accordingly came for ward and deposed, that he kept a shop in Great Ormond-street, Queen-square. Some days ago Mr. Hunt, jun., called at his shop, and told him that his father, Mr. Henry Huut, had directed him to go round to his customers annually, for the pur pose of receiving orders. He then told witness that by dealing with him he would be allowed a greater discount than if he gave his orders to any other per son. Witness, after some hesitation, consented to take 1/. worth of blacking. Mr. HALLS asked if he agreed to take the blacking under the impression that it was the manufacture of Mr. Hunt, sen. ? The witness replied in the affirmative; and after some further observation, Mr. HALLS told Mr. Hunt that there was suffi cient evidence for an information, and directed him to take his witness to the clerk's office, in order to have it drawn up in form. Mr. Hunt regretted that he was compelled to adopt such a course towards his own son, and said he was quite willing to give him every opportunity of meeting the charge. The parties then retired, but in a few moments Mr. Hunt returned, and told the Magistrate that his witness had declined to give his evidence upon oath, consequently the information must fall to the ground. Mr. Hunt then withdrew. A watchman named Henry Ingram appeared be fore Mr. MINSHULL, to complain of the conduct of a man named Hull, who had acted as night con stable in the watch-house of St. Clement Danes, on Monday evening last, when he (the complainant) brought a person before him, whom he charged with having obstructed him in the execution of his duty. This person, whose name was thus entered in the watch-house-book, " J. Gillon, Esq.," after having been regularly charged by the complainant, had walked away from the watch-house by permission of Hull, who had not even taken the precaution of asking for his address. The consequence was, that the next morning, when the charge was ready to be investigated by the Magistrate, the gentleman who had been charged was not forthcoming, nor could Hull, the constable, give any other account of him than that he had all the appearance of a gentleman, and said he was an officer in the army. A silversmith, who lives next door to Mr. Acker man in the Strand, here stepped forward, and said he had great reason to complain of the conduct of Hull, the constable, for a burglary had been com mitted in his house while the watchman, who was now present, and another were engaged at the watch-house in giving charge of the person who had called himself " J. Gillon, Esq." The fact was, that there was every reason to believe that this per son had been concerned in the robbery, and had picked a quarrel with the watchmen on the bent for the purpose of drawing them away from the spot, in order to give his companions an opportunity of com mitting the burglary. Mr. MINSHULL observed, that there was.certainly very good reason for believing that the fact was so. He then asked if Hull, the constable, were present, and being told that he had declined to come for ward, a summons was immediately issued for his ap pearance, and Mr. Minshull expressed his determi nation to send a warrant after him if he failed to ap pear to the summons. The Magistrate then directed Hussey and Hans, the two watchmen, to use every exertion in their power to secure the individual who had been charged at the watch-house, and bring him forward, in order to answer for his conduct, which at present wore such a suspicious appearance. Last night Hull, the constable, appeared before Mr. MINSHULL, by whom he was called upon to account for his having permitted the person charged with having assaulted the watchman to leave the watch-house, without requiring any security for his appearance before the Magistrate in the morning. Hull said, in explanation, that he took the gentle man's word, believing him to be an officer in the army. He appeared to be in great distress at the prospect of being detained all night, and spoke of his wife and children, and the anxiety they would feel at his absence. Mr. MusTsHum. severely reproved Hull for his conduct, and said, if at any future time he was guilty of such culpable carelessness, the matter should most certainly be represented in the proper quarter. Ellis, one of the principal officers, stated, that he had examined the premises where the burglary had been attempted while the watchmen were off duty, and found that the thieves had nearly succeeded in breaking through a brick wall 36 inches thick, at the rear of the premises. They had penetrated to the last brick, when it is supposed that the barking of a dog, left for protection in the shop, .alarmed them, and they made off, leaving no trace whatever behind them. This occurred at about half-past one on Monday morning, at the very time when the two watchmen were engaged at the watch-house. Ellis stated that the thieves must have used some power ful implements for the purpose of breaking through the wall. Mr. Thomas, the newly appointed supervisor of police, waited upon Mr. MINSHULL, in company with two gentlemen, one of whom announced him self as Lieutenant Cromer, and the other said his name was Kelly. Mr. Thomas having introduced them to the Magistrate, said that they had waited upon him that afternoon, and complained of being robbed of 15 sovereigns at the house of the in famous Belasco, in White Hart-yard. Mr. MINSHULL told the gentlemen to describe the circumstances under which they had lost their money. Lieutenant Cromer said that his friend and him self were at the English Opera-house on Tuesday night, and were returning to thei r h ote l, w hen they were accosted by two girls, who induced them to go to Belasco's house, where they remained some time in their company. When about to leave the house, they found that one of them had been rob bed of 10 sovereigns, and that the other had lost five, besides several papers arid memorandums of great value to them. Upon discovering their loss, they made some noise in the house, upon which Belasco himself made his appearance, and expressed his regret for what had occurred, observing that if such a circumstance were made public, it would hurt the credit of his house.—(A laugh.)—He then offered to compromise the matter with them, offer ing one of them a sovereign, and the other two, if they would say nothing about their loss. They,how ever, refused to accede to the proposed terms, and left the house. Mr. Thomas said, that the house which Belasco kept was one of the most infamous in the neigh bourhood, and scarcely a night passed that young men were not robbed and abused in it. He then submitted to the magistrate that the fact of Belasco having endeavoured to compromise a felony in his own house, was in itself an offence for which he had rendered himself liable to a criminal proceeding. Mr. Thomas then asked the magistrate if he would grant a warrant for the apprehension of Belasco. Mr. MlNsttuLt said he viewed the matter just as Mr. Thomas did, and should certainly feel no hesi tation in granting a warrant. A warrant was accordingly granted for the appre hension of Belasco. The young man named Sandford, who was charged upon suspicion of having been concerned in two burglaries at the premises of Mr. Edge, the solicitor, of Essex -street, Strand, was brought up for re examination, but as there was no evidence to sup port the charge, he was liberated. • QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday Elizabeth Lewis, a cvprian of the lowest grade, was placed at the bar before Messrs. MARRIOTT and GREGORIE, charged with a violent assault on Thomas Winslow, of No. 1, Dean-street, Westminster. Mr. MARRIOTT said it was a most gross assault, and ordered the prisoner to pay a fine of 40s. to the King. In default of payment she was com mitted for one month to the House of Correction. Elizabeth Olyett and Maria Norris, two of the same class as the last prisoner, were committed for one month to the House of Correction, for a similar assault on a young female, near the same place, on the same evening. Various complaints have lately been made by the inhabitants of the dreadful nuisance in St. Mar garet's church-yard; numerous robberies nightly take place there; and if a gentleman should happen to be intoxicated, he is decoyed into the Almonry, robbed, maltreated, and turned into the street, with but • little chance of detection. WORSHIP-STREET. John Lambeth, a green-grocer, residing in Globe fields, Bethnal-green, was brought before the Ma gistrate on warrant, charged with having excited a mob to assault a broker and his men who had been employed to distrain for rent. He was held to bail to appear at the sessions. MA RLBOROU Gil-STREET. CHARGE OF MURDER.—Yesterday a very inte resting young woman, named Seager, about eighteen years of age, was charged on suspicion of killing her infant child. French, a watchman, about nine o'clock on Tues day night, on going through Lloyd's -court, Crown street, saw in one corner a bundle. On going up he noticed marks of blood upon the envelope, and, en opening the bundle, he was shocked at finding the body of a new-born infant. He proceeded to make inquiries, when he was informed that the pri soner was known to be pregnant the latter end of last week, and although her accouchement had taken place no person had seen the child. Burke, another watchman, deposed that the pri soner came up to him about eleven o'clock at night, and asked how he was. She then asked him if he recollected her being pregnant. He replied in the affirmative, when she said that she heard that a child had been found tied up in a cloth in the court. She said that she had been delivered in the course of last week at a workhouse, but that her child was dead and buried. From these observations he sus pected that the child belonged to her. He asked her at what workhouse she was confined, but she declined giving any answer. Mr. ROE—Is there any further evidence ?—One of the witnesses replied, that the surgeons and the ife from the workhouse would be in attend ance in a short time. ' Just before the close of the office the surgeon and Mrs. Alle❑ attended. The latter stated that she had examined the prisoner, and was certain that, if she had ever been in the situation described by the witnesses, her accouchement had not taken place re cently, and the infant could not have belonged toher. Mr. ROE—In that case she must be discharged. GROSS ASSAULT.—Mr. James M'Lauren, a livery-stable-keeper, was charged with grossly as saulting Elizabeth Jones. The complainant is servant to Mr. Mivart, of .59, South Molton-street, and the defendant a lodger in the house. Upon the night of the 6th inst. all the family were out. About ten o'clock the defendant came home, and followed her down in the kitchen. He had not been there long before he proceeded ►o take improper liberties with her. She resisted, when he threw her down on the floor, and dragged her over the kitchen, and. injured her head and bruised her shoulder. He thus ill treated her for about an hour, when he left her and went out. Upon her muster coming home she stated what had hap pened; and stated it also to a friend of her's on the following day. The defendant denied the charge, and said it was got up to make money of him. Mr. ROE—I must send for Miss Mivart. The lady accordingly attended at the office, and corroborated the girl's statement in every particular. Mr. ROE here asked the complainant's friend whether she wished to have the case decided in stanter, or have it to go to the sessions. In the latter case the punishment would be much more severe, as Magistrates had only the power to fine him 51., or to commit for two months. The former mode of punishment was adopted, on which he was fined 51. for the first offence; and in default of payment he was committed for two months ; and for the second charge he Was ordered to find bail to prevent a repetition of his gross conduct to the poor girl, who is going to be sent to her friends. Yesterday a barge laden with goods was driven by the tisle against the framework under one of the arches of London Bridge, and sunk. The men hung by the timber until they were taken on board another barge, which came up soon after the accident. The practice of Macadamizing the pavement adjoining to churches and chapels has been for some years carried into effect throughout the parish of Marylebone, and obviates all the inconvenience occasioned by the noise so much complained of in other places of worship. A gentleman starting from Charing-cross was lately rather alarmed at hearing the coachman answer a cad, who questioned him on the subject of his having only one inside—" I shall soon have more, for I have got booked one Elephant and two Bricklayers"—(three passengers : one from the Elephant and Castle, and two from the Brick layers Arms.) We understand that the two years allowed for the use of the old weights and measures, under Mr. PEEL'S Act, are nearly expired, and the public must be cautious how they use any other than the Imperial, as there are pe nalties attached, of which no doubt the informers will avail themselves. The gilt and plated button-makers of Birming ham are suffering greatly from the disuse into which these articles, in consequence of the caprice of fashion, have Met!. In point of durability and appearance, the gilt button is certainly preferable to the covered one. We understand that an investigation of a se. rious nature has been going on at the Portsmouth custom house during the past week ; but in the present stage 01 the business it would be equally unwise and unjust to re peat the rumours we have heard.wPortsmouth Herald. AUSTRALIA. LETTER FROM SYDNEY. (Concluded from our Paper of the 4th inst.) The whole of this Report applies quite as much to Van Dienian's Land as to New South Wales. There is a slight difference of soil and climate between the two settlements, and a cer tain difference, of course, in some of the produc tions for which each is best adapted. Van Die man's Land, for example, yields better apples and wheat, New South Wales superior oranges and maize ; but in point of salubrity there is no difference ; and the quantity of valuable produce to be obtained from any given area is the same in both places. It is much to be desired that a second Volney should migrate to a new Ame rica, and furnish to the other worlds a philoso phical picture of our soil and climate. Mean. while I must explain why, independently of soil and climate, this account of our settlement may be taken as a description of the other. In fact, they are one and the same colony, peopled by emigrants from the same country, who came here in the same manner, and with the same disposi tions ; who use the same language, obey willingly or unwillingly the same laws ; have acquired the same habits, enjoy the same advantages, feel the same wants, indulge the same high hopes, and are fated to the same disappointment. Still, are not these settlements parted by the ocean ? No ; they are united by a strait. Water is every where the best of roads for bringing toge ther distant places. Without the great civiliza tion of England, London would be nearer to Hamburg than to Birmingham. Here, where canals are out of the question, and where the few roads of which I have boasted are due en tirely to a forced cheapness of labour, now coin ing to its aid, the operation of v,ater in contract ing absolute space is far more evident than in any part of Europe, The inhabitants of Hobart's Town and Sydney are nearer neighbours than two families in the district of Bathurst, who may be separate(' by only fifty miles of utireclaimed land. A farmer of Van Dieman's Land sells corn in the market of Sydney, whilst many a New South Wales farmer gror,s no more corn than will supply his family, because lie would be unable to remove a surplus quantity from his own barn. The shopkeeper of Launceston, again, can sell Chinese goods obtained from Sydney for less than the shopkeeper of Bathurst, who, on the map, appears nearer to Sydney by some hundred miles. In a word, ships, and water to float them on, are, to the inhabitants of new countries, what waggons, carriages, inns, and Macadam's roads are to you. Believe, then, that New South Wales and Van Dieman's Land are connected, not separated, by Bass's Strait. It is .true, however, that the English Gover nors of Australasia have begun to establish the old-fashioned institutions of coast-blockade in this,newest world, and so to convert that friendly bond the sea into a hostile barrier. As if their subjects were not criminal enough, or willing, perhaps, that those who have been brought here by smuggling should resume their old trade, they have bestowed upon us a " Commercial Sys tem ;" one of its provisions deserves to be known. For the declared purpose of forcing the northern settlers of Van Diemen's Land to buy and sell at the southern extremity of the island, it has been ordered that English goods imported from Port Jackson to Port Dalrymple, shall pay an extraordinary duty. But the object of this ab surd measure has not been attained. The dealers of Launceston would not travel across the island to deal at Hobart's Town. They pre ferred to give something more, and receive some thing less, in their own shops. The duty is paid, either to Government or to smugglers, and goods are exchanged as before. The sea, therefore, still enables countrymen and brothers living on either shore of Bass's Strait, to maintain an intimate connection. And it will continue to perform that office ; for though, no doubt, the duty in question may for a time lengthen the commer cial distance between New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, just as an extra duty on port wine, imported any where but at Leith, would lengthen.the. commercial distance between Lisbon and Southampton, still men die, and their ab surdities perish ; whilst the principles of justice and reason are eternal, and the world's know ledge of them increases from day to day. Why am I so angry with our rulers for treat ing these districts of Australia as " natural ene mies ?" Because lam an apostate from their view of the subject. I did not think of pulling the mote out of their eye till I had cast the beam out of my own. On my passage to this place, by way of North America, I built many castles in the air. I then intended to settle in Van Diemen's Land, because I fancied that its insu lar position and small extent would render it, not merely foreign, but also superior, to New South Wales. All the land, thought I, in that beautiful Island, will soon be appropriated. The people will increase rapidly, and will be unable to spread. The proportion between people and territory will be like that of our old country. Labour, there fore, will be plentiful, and, perhaps, even cheap ; at least, there will not be a scarcity of dear labour. Division of labour will follow. That will cause, as, indeed, nothing else can cause, great production. Wages being moderate, the employer of labour will take a large share of a great produce. This will cause accumulation ; and the accumulated produce of labour is wealth. Wealth will bestow leisure ; and leisure will be stow knowledge. Wealth, leisure, and know ledge mean civilization. Schools and colleges will be established. The arts and sciences will flourish, because artists and discoverers will be paid and honoured. Abstract truth will be sought, because its pursuit will be rewarded ; and this will make philosophers. A little Island of the Southern Ocean will produce painters, sculptors, poets, orators, and friends of mankind. A nation will be born free, under a Grecian sky, and will be highly instructed. Being a new people, they will reject the prejudices, whilst they improve the accumulated knowledge, of other worlds ; and, at length, it will be fairly decidedly whether or not man can reach per fection. Moreover, my estate of ten thousand acres will yield a rent of ten thousand pounds a-year ! This was my foolish dream. Its basis was delusion, which vanished in America. I be came acquainted with a citizen of New York, whose eldest son was still a youth at college. His father wished that he should continue his studies for three years longer, and it was pro posed that he should afterwards visit Europe, to gather knowledge that might make him useful to his country. The boy was in love with a neigh bour's daughter, and not much inclined to study. He asked his father's leave to marry and become a ma n ; that is, to make nails for his coffin, by making children whilst yet a child, and to smoke, drink, and choose a side in the paltry, but vio lent, party politics of the State. The father ob jected, mentioning the affectionate reasons that weighed with him ; and the son asserted, what. in America is called the dignity of human nature , by departing with his neighbour's daughter, and settling in the back woods, 1200 miles from home. Afterwards, on the banks of the Illinois , I met with a labouring man, who was always tipsy without ever being drunk. Enervated by dram-drinking, he had not the courage to obtain a bit of forest and settle ; but he could earn seven shillings a-day by his labour. When I spoke to him, he complained of low wages. I , At New York, friend," said I, " five shillings a-day are thought quite enough." " I know that," he an swered ; I was born there, and came here to get eight shillings a-day, which, I was told, was the lowest rate hereabouts." It turned out that be never worked for more than three days in the week, and that, in order to obtain twenty-four shillings a-week by three days' labour, he' had made a circuitous voyage of some thousand miles from the place where he was born, and where he could have earned thirty shillings a-week by working every day. These, and many similar instances of the Mi' grating habits of the Americans, opened mY eyes. I saw a people without monuments, with out history, without local attachments founded on impressions of the. past, without any love o f birth-place, and without patriotism—unless men constantly roaming over immense regions may be called a country. I saw Europeans, the only visitors at the grave of Franklin, and heard Ame ricans laugh at Englishmen for admiring the other founders of America. I learned that, with a new people, restlessness is a passion, in satiable whilst any means of indulging it remain ; a disease, incurable but by cutting away its source. What a blessing, I exclaimed, for the present race of Americans, if the Pacific should overflow all the land that separates it from the, Mississippi ! And then it occurred to me , that my hopes of Tasmania were a dream, vihiell c;iuld not come true, unless the rest of Australr sia were swallowed by the sea. What had been my delusion ? I had fancied that the vor eg • which surround Van Diemen's Land would Pr e ; vent its inhabitants from spreading ; and .th at I would produce, what never der and never can, exist without it, civilization• know, now, that it is easier to migrate from the,,.. coast of Van Diemen's Land to the Souther and Eastern coasts of Australia, which praent a line of many thousand miles, than from seer, interior parts of the island to others not fie/ miles distant. I believe, therefore, that Ne lf South Wales and Van Diemen's Land are on e land the same Colony, and that they will become' ! at the same time, districts of one and the same icountry, remaining equally barbarous till the yel l. 2,000, and becoming afterwards equally civilized , lif the world should last so long. THE MARKETS. COAL MART' Adair's 295. 9d. Beaumont 2B 6 Heaton 32 0 Holywcll., 29 3 Killingworth 31 3 Kenton West 30 0 Liddell's 26 0 Petaw ..........0**•••••••• 29 6 Percy East Pontop Windsor 27 6 Tantield --...-.. 31 0 Tanfield 23 6 T.,wnley 27 6 Willington Wy lam ••••••••• 29 3 Walls End Bell and Co. 31 6 Ditto Bell Hobson &Co. 32 6 Ditto Bewicke and 0... 33 0 Walls End Boundary 26 9 Walls End Brown's 30 6 Ships at market, 106%-Sl :gr.—Sept. 14. 64. Walls End Newmarch.. 6 Ditto Burraton 3 .„. 1 Ditto Clarke and Co.-. 3 V 0 Ditto Carr and C 0..... Ditto Cramlington.....-. xP 0 Ditto Hilda 30 9 Ditto Hotspur.------: 29 _ 5 Ditto US Ditto Northumberland 1 9 9 0 Ditto Perkins and C 0... SI, 0 Ditto Bidden's.. 2 2 -•0 Ditto Russell's 0$ Eden Main •••••••••••• 31 9 . , Walls End Hetton—,... 3. 3 0 Wall's End Lumley.... 3 1 0 Walls End Lyons...-. 3 9 _, Walls End Stewart's .. ag,, 0 Hartley r; 0 Hetton small lips sold, 46%---Uniold. 61 N MAItKETS DURING "I'HE WEED COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THK W ` EEC Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beal* Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. a. to 1. 5. , 41 53 82 32 38 21 32 Andover-----. 69 82 3'7 39 23 25 Birmingham--. 72 82 32 36 24 36 ;6 ISridport -- 56 '74 32 39 26 34 Cirencester ---. 53 76 30 36 23 26 40 11 Faringdon----. 51 86 36 40 26 38 -- 44 ' Guildford 43 74 38 40 24 33 -- 40 Henley _ 54 83 30 35 29 30 60 Hereford 64 84 38 45 36 40 Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 51 Maidenhead —.... 65 84 29 3S 22 30 -- 0 1 Oakingham 56 76 30 36 18 32 42 Reading .- 60 82 32 37 24 34 -- •56 Salisbury . 58 76 36 42 24 34 48 Southampton —.... 54 78 37 40 28 32 49 Stroud Tewkesbury 65 87 40 42 30 38 •-• Uxbridge --.. 48 81 32 35 23 31 49 • Wantage---.—.—. 50 78 30 37 22 30 3 9 Warminster ..--..... 48 78 32 38 28 32 51; Windsor.. 6O 82 96 40 94 39 44 Worcester 7O '75 36 40 24 32 CHELTENHAM MARKET.--Sept. 15. 6. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Per lb. d. Wheat Barley Oats Beans 4 9 5 6 Lamb Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork ...... ...... 0 Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley Oats Beans 4 9 5 6 Pease 5 0 8 0 Hay X. li I Veal Lana) Pork ...... ... ...... —.... 10s. to 3!.155. per ton. LEWES MARKET.—Sept. 15. a • 0 White Wheat (per quarter) £3 2 0 to £3 u 0 Red ditto 3O 0 9 0 ° 0 Barley Oats, New 1 1 0 1. ! 0' Beans 1 17 0 0 v_ a d. puspi,„. Oil Cake, New 12 0 0 per thol HULL MARKET.—Sept. 15. este The weather has been very unsettled during e bi week, and the harvest operations have been ehro' s frequent heavy tains; there is yet a good deal of Wilrl e at in this neighbourhood; to-day the shim of New ' l .O was trifling compared with what was shown last 1 0 1 14 ; day, and the prices of last week were maintained C i r r ir for Old Wheat we have more inquiry, and this ds 6l o o , tion is held firmly at our quotations, with some little to ness passing; upon the whole the market presents si ce s appearance. in Oats there is very little passing, and P n oti remain unaltered. Barley, none offering., -Bessl,- 'is Pease are held at more money, but very little d0,1Pb .. .j them. We still r e main without buyers for lock corn,'" prices nominal. Wheat. Old OW —.O. 60s. 645. Wow ......-4. 4.54. j , ......_.- Foreign --s. 635. 665. ......1n bond... —4. — 4 i* - 68 . - Oats, Poland —s. 20s. 245. Old .-.6. ....4.,* Small or Feed.... —s. 12s. 185............ Foreign --s. 265. 243. Barley, Norf. & Sut. ... —s 265. 28s. Line. & Wold .-4. 986 , igt Foreign •......•... .4 , 9. Beans 345. 365. 38s. F0reign......... --al. '' , oo. Pease, White --6. 31s. 365. Grey —s. 5'.,00. Taros —s 345. 365. F0reign......... •••• 44 f:, - / - # Rapeseed, in tiond none. ...... ... Free, perlast & DUMFRIES MARKETS.—Sept. 9. 6 1. NQ I s. Q i Wheat, Imp. Bush 7 3to S 3 Butter, 160 z........... O n 0 0 , 0, t o , Barley 4 4 4 6 Eggs, dozen .... ..... ..... n" 6 ") Oats 3 0 3 3 Beef, per 1b ..—........ ~ 4 f f o, Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 2 4 2 6 Veal...-. ...... ..... . ..... ,t , 8 Q, Potatoes. cwt. CATTLE. — The number of Cattle on the San ill , A _ -rl i was 673, not above two-thirds of which were ac". 7 0 0 the buyers might almost be said to get them at the' prices. ~.• BIRTHS. Al of On the 15th inst. in Wilton-crescent, 1" the la- , Wrangham, Esq. of a son. _A 0 - f# On the 15th inst. in Cavendish-square, the liP'Y M. Shaw Stewart, of a son. A tter4 On the 15th inst. Mrs. E. Harper, of No rfo lk . of a son. l'Utddhslll On the 15th inst. at Hackney, Mrs. Wm. of a son. MARRIED. Esq On the 16th inst. at Hackney, J. A. HankeYf . .. 4hte r Fenchurch-street, to Sarah Andrews, second (10 W. Jameson, Esq. of Clapton. ury , On the 16th inst. at St. George's, Bl oom ' Efartiel' C. Brackenbery, Esq. of Spilsby, Lincolnshire, t 0,71,00 eldest daughter of the late J. Williamson, Esq• toek-square. 0 be d , . , j ,t On the 15th inst. Csptain Case, R.N. , F, ,-'210(1 Miss Hallett, daughter of the late J. Hallett, r'sq* cock, Devon. DIED. S On the 14th inst. at Paddington, the Rev. Dr. Cr aged 68. Herta, G. Sw ais4 On the 14th inst. at Broxbourn. Esq. formerly of Cornhill. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED D T MURDO YOUNG, TILE OFFICE, 112, STAAND, LONDON. ith C f 4, ''n 441 deSire "o f ' k °,: ~...v.14 . 11 / 4 11( T~ liar Ise, wil A' , .140 le