The Sun. — London, England, 1829-10-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We publish the official returns of the revenue for the years and quarters ended on the 10th inst. On the year there is a general decrease of about 146,000/. ; on the Customs, for the whole year, there is a deficit of nearly 400,0001., which has been within a trifle compensated during the last quarter by (it is said) a considerable influx of duty on imported corn ; but no materials for an exact comparison on that point between the two years or quarters can be held sufficient without having before us the return of what the respec tive corn duties have yielded. It is not with uti, any ground of satisfaction that the Customs should be raised by the receipt of duty on large importations of wheat, since it is nothing better than a direct tax on the subsistence ter the lower classes throughout England. In the Excise there has been a falling or! 'upon the quarter con siderably more than equivalent to that In the Customs for the entire year, being 446,000/. But in other hrte ee h es , as stamps, taxes, and mis rellaneoun, there appears an improvement both on ts i- ie year and quarter, viz. - Quarter. Year. Stamps. • • t ...E42,000 £129,400 Taxes - 34,300 69,500 Miccelleaeous ... 75,000 44,700 In the Post-office there is an increase of 9,000/. sipon the year, but, a falling off of 8,0001. on ihe quarter. It appears that the only quarter of the past year which exhibits an improvement in the Excise over the corresponding'onc of the year preceding is the first, viz., that ending on the oth of January, which e,ieicled 800,000/. above the corresponding quarter ending January, 1828; in each succeeding quarter there has been a failure in the taxes arising from articles of home •consumption, a circumstance not very surprising ttrbep It.'e consider the prevalence of idleness, PRl:ay forced by the failure of markets, in part voluntary, from the spirit of combination, during the whole summer. It may, of course, be at all times taken for granted, that any cause which throws the industrious classes out of work re dueee in the same ratio the productiveness of the • steise revenue. We are happy to learn that in this respect the hopes for the ensuing season have begun to improve, the fine spinners at Man cnester, who had been for six months in a " turn cut" against the masters, having recently re turned to their looms, and the above great centre of the cotton trade having again manifested its usual state of order and activity. There is, we believe, but little doubt that there has arisen in many quarters a more lively demand for the staple manufltctures of this country.—Tinics. Our readers will find, in another part of our impression, a report of the proceedings at the dinner of the Cheshire Whig Club, on Friday list. The first speaker was Earl Grosvenor, who alloried to the measure of emancipation, and ridiculed the absnrd expectations of those NVIIO CCpreised themselves astonished that Ireland, in stead of being the most degraded and discon tented, did not instantly become one of the most elevated and happy of nations. His Lord ship thought that " one measure was still abso lutely necessary, and without it it would be im possible to effect any permanent improvement in the condhion of Ireland ; be meant the intro diction of poor laws." After alluding to the state of slavery in the West Indies, his Lord. ship approached what to him was, he said, a sub ject of some delicacy—Parliamentary Reform. They bad heard (he said of a fair and a free Representation being the spirit of the Constitu tion ; but he had never heard any of the Com pany present advocate what was termed equality of Reeresentation. Such a doctrine, absurd as it was, he never expected to proceed out of the mouth of men in any consideration. They might as well expect equality of property, which all knew was created by a variety of circumstances. So it was that the varying circumstances of the country gave birth to avariety of Representatives. He, however, would say, that when Boroughs decayed, he thought it but just that the elective franchise should be transferred to those great and popu lous towns which were now unrepresented ; and when convicted of corruption, the franchise might with propriety be extended to the hundred. But undoubtedly it was desirable that the towns of Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham should send Members to Parliament ; and if such a Representation could not be obtained by the means to which he alluded, a distinct Act of Parliament ought to be passed by which the right should be conferred.' As to the panacea to which his Lordship attaches so much im portance, a representation of the various inte rests of the country, and the introduction of Re presentatives for two or three large towns, it really appears to us to be of very secondary im portance. In the present day there is no want of means for making known the sentiments of all classes of this country to Parliament. The peo ple of Leeds, and Manchester; and Birmingham, can never he at a loss, in these times of raeid diffusion of information, for channels through which to convey their sentiments to Parliament, on any matter in which they are particularly interest ed. What is the great object of a Constitution ? The protection of the persons and properties of the inhabitants of a country. Is that object an swered by our present Parliamentary Representa tion ? Certainly not. Would that object be answered by the transference of the franchise from a few decayed Burghs, and the throwing a few others open to the adjoining Hundreds, and the introduction of Representatives from a few of the large towns ? No. The property of the country would still be at the mercy of such men as the Duke of Newcastle, who would compel the Ministry to purchase their concurrence.— You may vary the Representation as much as you please, the character of a public body must depend on the majority; and if you still leave to a number of families to control the people, you do nothing. Newark is not a, decayed Bo rough, it contains nearly ten thousand inhabit ants, but circumstances place the inhabitants in the power of the . Duke of Newchstle. How many t other towns, of considerable size, are ult. der the dominion of other individuals ? We • hold all these nostrums of variegated representa tion to be downright quackery. Aelnitt such a suffrage as should be identified in interest with the community, and there would be no diffi culty in finding channels of communication be tween all classes of men and the Representatives in Parliament. Raise your qualification, if you please; the country will be represented if the property of the country be represented. But allow the fundamental vice to remain in your Constitution which. allows a few families to com mand the majo r ity, an d y ou ma y patch and patch for ever; every one of the evils which have created the desire for a reform in the Representation will remain. Lord Grosvenor must be aware that a majority in the House of Commons is returned by a smaller number of individuals than the number constituting that .ritajerity., Suppose that a majority of the fepresentatives were named directly by the King, instead-isf being re turned by Borough Proprietors, and that the Minority were as variegated as the heart of man could desire, would his Lordship call such a Re presentation a security against abuse ? But of what importance is it to the nation that a majo rity of the Representatives are returned by two hundred, or returned by one ? In the one case, their proprietors would be at the mercy of one— in the other case, at the mercy of two hundred. The different speakers in their turn glanced at the various subjects which now occupy the pub lic mind. Mr. Wood very happily ridiculed the absurdity of those who would render England prosperous by cutting off' intercourse with other countries. " The Alarmists, driven (he said) from their religious monopoly, wish to make it appear that prosperity would be found in framing resti ictions on commerce. We confess we are rather disappointed at no allusion having been made to the proceedings at Newark. How can men call themselves Reformers, and talk of the necessity of retrenchment, and yet blink the con siderations which the proceedings at Newark so forcibly suggest ?—Morning Chronicle. Though no one will be found to doubt the firmness of the Duke of Wellington's nerves, we confess that the present aspect of affairs, both at home and abroad, is sufficient, we should ima gine, to make even his Grace shrink within himself a little, at the singular situation in which he finds himself to stand, in the face of his own country and of Europe. If the fame of any living man was above all others to be envied, it was that of the Duke of Wellington ; if the si tuation of any public man was ever more than any other unenviable, it is that of his Grace.— Some wiseacre who presided at a City feast the other day is reported to have said, "It is but too true that the difficulties of the country are great, but the Duke of Wellington is the man to carry us through them." Certainly, if a name would do it, the Duke's is " a tower of strength." But the same poet has said, " what is there in a name ?"—the truth of which the Administration of the Duke of Wellington has hitherto but too feelingly proved. When the country saw the Duke of Wellington called to the head of affairs, it had a right to expect, and did expect, that his Grace would have renounced the errors of his pre decessors, and bent his great mind to the one object of rescuing it from the difficulties in which the mistaken policy of the Canning and Goderich Administration, and the theories of Messrs. Huskisson and Peel, had involved it. But no—on assuming the reins the Duke ap pears to have considered, that there was but one road which the Government machine could travel, and only one jog-trot pace at which the hacks which drag it along could go ; and has been quietly contented to let the whole have their own way, apparently regardless of the precipices and quagmires to which that road must inevi tably lead, and has at length reached. When the Duke cashiered Mr. Huskisson he had a fair opportunity of dismissing his policy along with him ; and when his Grace found the means to induce Mr. Peel to abandon the great prin ciple of his public life, his abandonment of his currency principles too could have been no very difficult matter to bring about. There are those who excuse the Duke's apparent supineness at the dangers and difficulties of the country, by saying that he waits till matters come to a crisis. God knows that crisis seems pretty nearly arrived : but we would not libel the Duke's high name by for a moment giving in to any such opinion. The Duke's error, if we may be allowed to say so, lies in a want of political courage ; in a fear lest, in renouncing the errors of others, he should appear to be embarking on a sea of expediency and of experiments, inconsistent with the staid and settled maxims which ought to characterise the measures of Government. But the age of expediency and experiment is that which his Grace has to overturn ; and the sooner it is re nounced the better. No timidity, no courtesy, must be allowed to stand in the way of that re• turn to sound principles, the departure from which has brought this once-flourishina country to the brink of ruin and dismay. What Mr. Pitt used to call " experience and the evidence of facts" are come upon the country with astounding force ; and the Government cannot much longer, if it would, remain inactive and unmoved by such experience as is daily breaking in upon every class of the community.—Morn ing Herald. A BLACK 11A RE.—Mr. REID, of this place, preserver of birds, &c. has now in his possession a black hare, which was shot near Newark-upon-Trent; and a fine specimen of the hoopoe (upupa epopa) a bird very rarely seen in this country : it wi,s shot in the neighbour hood of Doncaster.--Doncaster Gazette. AN AGED HEBREW COUPLE.—In Coventry there has lived, for many years, an aged couple of the name of Gmes. The poor old man is now about 100, and his wife is about 97. In his younger days he made trunks for sale, but latterly he has been unable to follow his usual avocations, and has been under the necessity of applying for parochial relief. There are but few of the descendants of ABRAHAM in Coventry, and those few not the most affluent, consequently they are unable to render the old couple the assistance which they need. They make use of COHEN'S house as their Synagogue, on their Sabbath. Mr. J. GRANT, one of our Directors, has lately been to Lon don, and called on Mr. ROTHSCHILD to relate the history of this venerable couple, when that distinguished indivi dual not only gave Mr. GRANT two sovereigns for them, but expressed himself much obliged to that gentleman for bringing the case under his notice.— Coventry Herald. MIGRATORY BIRDS.—At this season of the year, the departure and arrival of migratory birds attract the notice of the attentive observer of the operations of na ture. During the summer months the copses, and hedge rows, the pastures, and the woods, teem with the varie ties of the feathered creation, and offer to the ornithologiq delightful subject matter for instruction, reflection, or scientific research. Nor has the eye of genius disdained to glance upon so delightful a science,—a science slow, in deed, in its growth, founding itself on the results of con tinued observation, and perfecting itself, if to perfection it can ever arrive, in the progress of years. The eye of ge nius disdains not to glance at and enno bl e b y its scientific cl issification the observations of less gifted individuals of various times and in various places : and hence the use fulness of notices, in a provincial journal, trifling perhaps in themselves, of local occurrences, and appearances in na tural history which contribute to that aggregate mass of facts to be afterwards systematised for the instruction and delight of mankind. Although the habits, instincts, and enjoyments of migratory birds, are during their summer or winter visits, pretty accurately known, of that starring, mysterious, and powerful impulse which guides their ar rival at or departure from our shores, little positive infor mation has transpired. Wherever their destination, in what m inner and by what signs they are guided in their migrations, their flight across our island generally takes place during the stillness and safety of night. The fact has been observed repeatedly; and as serving to mark the season of flight, it may be noticed that on Friday last, at half-past ten o'clock at night, an immense body of migra tory birds, presumed to be swallows, the rushing action of whose flight was remarked by an intelligent inhabitant, passed over this town in an easterly direction. Indeed this and the other delightful tribes of summer visitants have now departed, with the solit try exception of the latest brood of the chimney swallow, which still lingers in me lancholy fittings around det tched dwellings. Of the migratory birds which (October 7) have arrived in this neighbourhood to share the winter enjoyments which our island affords, we may enumerate the following :—The redwing, woodcock, lieldfare, mountain finch, short-eared owl, merlin hawk, siskin (frin;illa spinus), -grey wagtail, sad the ash-coloured plarilse...Poncaster Gazette. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, OCT. 10.—His Majesty's ship Galatea, Captain Charles Napier, C.B. arrived at Barbadoes on the 10th of August—all well. She had the misfortune to lose a man overboard at sea in the night ; cast adrift the life-buoy, but unluckily in the hurry, without lighting it, and both men and buoy were lost. The Galatea intended to remain at Barbadoes until the 16th, and then proceed to Jamaica, calling at Martinique. On the 28th of July, in lat. 15. 19. N. long. 30. 20. W., sha spoke the Garland, bound to Liverpool. The Algerine, 10, Commander Talbot, arrived on Wednesday, from Chatham. She will proceed in a day or two to Rio de Janeiro. The Herald yacht, Captain Maxwell, is hourly expected here to embark Mr. Turner, as Envoy-Ex traordinary from this country to the Republican Government of Colombia ; he will be landed near Santa Martha. Colonel Dashvvood and family alto proceed in the same ship, as Consul-General for that country, for the protection of British trade, and will be landed in the Gulf of Dolce. The Sparrowhawk, 18, Commander Thomas Gill, is expected hourly from the Eastward, to anchor at Spithead, prior to her departure for the West Indies. The Henry Porcher transport, Lieut. Binstead, agent, will sail on Monday for Cork, to take on board, in conjunction with the Lord Suffield and Stentor transports, the 53d regiment for Gibraltar. These vessels will then from the latter garrison take the 73d Regiment to Malta; from Malta they will con vey the 95th Regiment to Corfu, and from Corfu they will bring tha 28th Regiment to England. The Joseph Green transport, Lieut. Robinson, agent, arrived on Sunday, with stores and invalids, from Halifax and Bermuda. She sailed on Wed nesday for Deptford. The Wanderer transport may be daily expected with stores and invalids, from Halifax and Bermuda. The Pearl, 18, Commander Blake, went out of harbour on Wednesday, and sailed to-day to resume her station under the orders of the Commander-in- Chief at Cork. The Harlequin yacht of Lord Vernon sailed in company, to try her relative rate of sailing with this class of men of war. The Onyx, 10, Lieut. Boteler, sailed on a cruize yesterday, and returned to-day. The Highflyer, tender to the Hyperion, arrived from Newhaven on Monday. The Lightning steam-vessel proceeded on Tuesday to the River. Yesterday sailed the Speedy cutter, on a cruize. The Vigilant ketch arrived on Wednesday from Plymouth, and returned the following day. The Winchester, 52, and Volage, 28, have been commissioned this week—the first at Chatham, for the flan-ship of Rear-Admiral Griffith Colpoys, for the West Indies; and the latter at this port, for the Halifax station. • The Catherine Stewart Forbes, with 200 con victs for Sydney, under the charge of Dr. M‘Ter nan, will sail to-morrow for Spithead. The James Pattison, with 200 male convicts, recently sailed for the same destination, from Dublin, under the superintendence of Mr. Gilchrist, Surgeon, R.N. Arrived on Tuesday the Joseph Green, from Archangel, for Chichester; on Thursday the Se sostris, Yates, for Bombay. The latter will sail to morrow. This morning arrived the Bee, Buckpitt, for Madeira anti Mauritius; and this evening the Lady Holland, to embark passengers for India. Sailed on Wednesday the Lady Blackwood, Dibbs, with goods and passengers for Sydney. A Correspondent desires us to mention, what we believe is the fact, that the trial of speed between Lord Vernon and Lord Yarborough's yachts, al luded to in our last, was perfectly acei,!ental. In justice to the Falcon, he states, it should be known the latter was out of trim, was too much by the stern, and altogether too light. Her copper was off about the bows, and her bottom exceedingly foul; added to which, her sails, from being exposed to constant bad weather, were in a very bad condition, The weatherly qualities of the Harlequin must be great, as from her rig her yards can be braced con siderably sharper than any other square rigged ves• sel, and she can lie a point or a point and a half nearer the wind thereby. The Comptroller of the Navy, Sir T. Byam Mar tin, M.P., and Sir Robert Seppings, with G. Smith, Esq., Secretary of the Navy Board, who arrived on Saturday evening on an official visit, have given their attendance daily at the Dock-yard. Among the points to which the Board have chiefly directed their attention, are the recent adoption of sonic mea sures relative to the internal economy of the Dock yard, suggested by their Secretary; and a new plan of fitting the magazines of ships of war, sub mitted to them by the Hon. Captain Elliott, and upon which the magazine of the Edinburgh, now under repair, will be fitted. The Board will return to town on Tuesday. The gates of the Dock-yard at Brest, which have heretofore shut out foreigners whose object was to scan the efficiency of that establishment, arid borrow hints from it, have, by permission, recently been thrown open to one of the Surveyors of our Navy, Mr. Tucker, and another Member of the Board. A very interesting experiment has been tried during the last week, in this Dock-yard, to deter mine the relative strength of two anchors; one, the l anchor commonly used in the Royal Navy, some time since invented by Mr. Pering, late clerk of the check of Plymouth Dock-yard; the other recently invented by Lieutenant W. Rodgers, R.N. The chief peculiarity in the new anchor is that the shank is made hollow, and has a wooden core, six inches in thickness, extending nearly its whole lenth. Over the wood are placed two iron plates three-eighths of an inch in thickness, and the whole are firmly hound together by strong hoops. A shackle has also been substituted for the usual ring, and the shank so formed that the stock may be unshipped with the greatest facility. The weight of Pering's anchor was 30 cwt. 3 qrs. 41b. ; that of Rodgers', in cluding the oak, 29 cwt. 0 qrs. 19 lbs. The mode of trial adopted was by first placing two strong tim bers parallel to each other at some distance apart, and each resting against the walls of two store houses. The anchors were hooked to these timbers by their palms, arid the timbers were so formed that the whole surface of the palms laid closely agains them. The perpendicular distance of the upper part of this bearing from the middle line cf the shank was about 2 feet 1 inch each. The anchors were hove towards each other, by means of 'two threefold purchases, passing through blocks lashed to their rings; and the falls led away to two cap stans, each manned by 40 men. On the first day, after having hove about twelve minutes, the main purchase, an eight-inch cable, broke. The next day a nine-inch hawser, with powerful blocks, having been substituted, the trial was re newed, when Rodgers' anchor broke in the fluke nearly at the middle, between the throat and the upper part of the palm ; but from the appearance of the fracture, it was universally attributed to a defect in the workmanship rather than the prin ciple. The anchor was then turned over, so that the other fluke was hooked to the timber, and on Thursday a farther trial took place, when,after heav ing about eight minutes, the shank of Pering's an chor broke asunder, at about two feet from the throat. The fracture shewed the iron to have been united in the most perfect manner. From the re sult of this day's experiment, there could exist no doubt of the superior s'rength of the hollow shanked over the common anchor, when subjected to a strain nearly in the direction of the shank. Had it been possible to have applied the purchase so as to have produced a powerful transverse strain on the shank, such as takes place at sea in tripping the anchor, we conceive its superiority would have been more fully displayed. It is also to be regretted that, from the method of trial adopted, we cannot ascertain how much greater a strain the new anchor might have sustained. Great credit is certainly due to Lieutenant Rodgers, for the ingenuity he has dis played, and we cordially congratulate him on the successful issue of the experiment. Th ere st ill cer tainly exist minor objections in the m i n d s o f marry experie n c e d Naval Ofhcerg, which we conceive would be best removed by a lengthened trial at sea. Next week we will subjoin a few particulars of for mer experiments with which we have been favoured, which our limits will not at present admit Of. The Lords of the Admiralty have recently order ed the expences of the whole of Capt. Dickenson's witnesses at the late Court-martial to be paid by the Treasurer of the Navy. The 47th Foot marched into the Dock-yard on Wednesday morning from Chichester, and embarked immediately afterwards for the Royal Albany Bar racks, Newport.—Hampshire Telegraph. DEVONPORT, OCT. 10.—The Badger, 10, Cap!. Rowley, is fitting at Chatham, and will he attached to the North Sea station. Ninety tubs of contraband spirits were recently picked up on the North Sea station, by the Basilisk cutter, Lieut. W. B. Watts, Commander. Iu Hamoaze—St. Vincent, Kent, Orestes, Py lades, Royalist, Leveret, Calypso, and Meteor steamer. In Barnpool—Undaunted. A PPOISTMENTS. — Captain C. J. Austin, and Lieutenants G. 'l'. M. Purvois and John T. Warren, to the Winchester; Lieut. Charles Wilson Ross, to the Victory ; Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Surgeon, and Mr. Joshua Brookes, Assistant-Surgeon, to the Volage ; Lieut. J. B. Cragg, to the Semiramis; Capt. Hugh Pigot, Commander Vincent Newton, Lieutenants Samuel Holland, Charles Edmunds, Charles Bell, W. John, and A. H. C. Capel, and Mr. Joseph Bas•an, Assistant-Surgeon to the Tala vera ; Commander Henry Bourne, Lieutenants E. B. Stuart, James Tuson, William Forrester, arid Edward B. Tinling; M. E. F. Bromley, Surgeon, Mr. C. Burney, Master, and Mr. George Davis, Purser, to t he Donegal; Lieutenants W. G. C. Lydiard, and Launcelot Harrison, to the Ganges. Commander Henry Bourne (1813), who distin guished himself under Sir J. Brenton, and was severely wounded in the service, is appointed to the Donegal, 78, the guard-ship at Sheerness. Major-General the Hon G. A. C. Stapylton, Chairmen of the Victualling Board, and Commis sioner F. Edgecombe, with M. W. Clifton, Esq., Secretary, arrived here on. Monday, on a visit of inspection, The Commissioners held a Board on Wednesday, at the Royal Naval Hospital, whence they proceeded to the new works at Cremill Point, where the foundation-stone of the principal store house was laid by General Stapylton.—Devonpori Telegraph. HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS FOR TUE PRESENT REES. ler Communications under this Head—accounts of Hunting Exploits " BY' BLOOD AND PlRLD " —are particularly requested. His Majesty's Stag Hounds, on Monday, at King's Beech Hill ; and Friday, at Broom-hill Hut—at Half past Ten. Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Peak's Closes; Wednesday, at Cadney Village; Friday, at Hain ton House ; and Saturday, at Fox Dale's—at Eleven. H. Jolliffe's, Esq.'s Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Plates Green; Wednesday; at Kingswood Gate: and Saturday, at Hermitage—at Eleven. The Surrey Fox Hounds, on Mondry, at Worms Heate ; Thursday, at the Rose and Crown ; and Saturday, at Locks Bottom—at Half-past Ten. The Sasderstead Harriers, on Monday, Vi'ednesday, and S.turday, at the Kennel—at Ten. The Upto❑ Harriers, on Tne•d+y, at the Green Dragon, Corse Lawn—at Ten. Mr. Dansey's Hounds, on Wednesday, at Wisthicle Vil lage ; and Friday, at Brockhall Turnpike—at Ten. The Blackmoor Vale Hounds, on TneatLiy, at Stock Howe; and Saturday, at Pea Forest. Nir. Codringtou'a Hounds, on Monday, at the Wh►at Sheaf, Littleton—at Ten. Earl Fitzwilliam's Hounds, on Monday, at Kilnhurst Bridge ; Tuesday, at Wombwell Wood ; and Thursday, at Lunn Wood—at Ten. The Brighton Harriers on Monday, at Pateham; Wed nesday, at the Race Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke—at Ha!f-pact Ten. The Breok4de Harriers, on Mond,iy, at Newmarket- Hill and Friday, at Hoddern - House—at Half-past Ten. Pheasant shooting has commenced in this neighbour hood, so far as quantity of game is concerned, under un favourable auspices. The preserves were thinned to a considerable extent last season ; and this circumstance, coupled with the destruction to the young broods, occa sioned by the moisture of the summer, will tend to dimi nish the pleasure which the shooter derives from a sport so invigorating and delightful.—Doncaster Gazette. W are authorised to state that Lord Newark and George Savile Folj anbe, Esq. are appointed Stewards of Doncaster Races for the ensuing year, and not the Marquis of Wor cester and the Hon. E. R. Petre, as has been announced. —lbid. A meeting of several of the Nobility and Gentry of Ox ford, connected with Sir Thomas Mostyn's Hunt, was held at the King's Arms Inn, Bice:4er. on Friday, the 2d inst. ; when, in consequence of Sir Thomas having signified his intention of giving up the hounds, a subscription was en tered iuto to enable Mr. Drake to undertake the manage ment of the same. From the high respectability of the spouting gentry who attended en the above occasion, we have no doubt the Hunt will be kept up with spirit. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREE P. Elizabeth Jones and Elizabeth Willianzs were brought, on Saturday morning, before Mr. HALLS, by one of the new police, charged with having been extremely disorderly. They are well-known cha racters in the Strand. Elizabeth Williams had nearly bitten oil his finger. She was sentenced to one month's hard labour, and the other, a young Cyprian of 16, to fourteen days. Margaret Hand, a noted procuress, was also brought up—(on her entrance the whole office was in laughter at her immense size). It appeared that on Friday night she was order ing the girls who frequent the Strand, to walk on. Mr. HAIA.S observed to her, that women of her dimension were enough to block up the Strand, and prevent the new police from performing their duty ; and wished to know whether she might per chance have obtained a situation in that corps, by ordering girls about ?—She said that she only told them not to interrupt her in her walks. Mr. HALLS said, you see the new police will in terrupt you, and if women of your dimensions were sent often to prison, we should have our prisons soon stopped up; however, this time you may go, on paying the fine of one shilling, and don't again appear at this office, or else you will be sent to hard labour, as your avocation is well known. A great number of disorderly cases came before the Magistrate, who observed that he was sorry to say that, where there was one man brought up for intoxication, there were at least twenty females, principally girls of the town ; and he was happy to see that the new police had, in the short time they have been on duty, cleared the streets of more than one-half of those unfortunate wretches. TRICKS OF INFORMERS,--Edward Skinner, the owner of the cart, No. 262,917, was charged by flnggett, the informer, with not having the num ber on his cart. The defendant admitted that the number was not o►► at the time stated by the informer, but said, that when the cart left his house in the morning there was a board nailed upon► it, on which his name and number were painted, but which was evidently forced off during the morning, and, as he verily be lieved, by one of the informer's gang, in order to enable him to lay the present information. The board was brought back to him in the course of the day by a person who stated that he found it in the street. Mr. HALLS convicted the defendant, but said he would take off the fine, if he could prove that the board was on at the time the cart left his house in the morning. HATTON-GARDEN. James Walker, a costermonger, of most forbid ding appearance, and who supported himself with a crutch, was charged by Forbes, a street-keeper of St. Sepulchre Without, with cruelly and wantonly beating a poor hall;starre•! •,- . with the said crutch, It appeared that h e was dri ving a curt through SmithAeid•bars, in a state of intoxication, and the poor animal not being able to go so fast as he wished, he commenced beating it with his crutch', about the ribs and head in so cruel a manner, that Mr. Glover, a respectable tradesman, living on the spot, and other persons, interfered. His conduct became then so violent that a mob collected, which he immediately proceeded to disperse with his crutch, and actually knocked a boy down with a violent blow on the back. Forbes was then sent for, and he was given in custody, and the pony and cart taken to the green-yard. Mr. ROGERS ordered him to pay a fine of lOs. for cruelty, and in dt fault committed him to the House of Correction for ten days. The defendant was then moved by Lee, the gaoler, - muttering threats, " not loud but deep," against Forbes, who also accompanied him out ; but who, in less than three minutes, returned into the office with the blood streaming from his right ear, and a very severe contusion immediately beneath it. Forbes then informed the Magistrates that when they had got Walker within u few paces of the lock-up place, he suddenly turned round and ex claiming, " There, you struck him a tre mendous blow under the ear with his fist, which knocked him against the wall on the other side of the yard. Walker was again brought up, and fined a further sum of forty shillings. Not being able to pay the money, he was committed for one month, and ordered to find good bail for his future behaviour. - ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE.—An apple-woman who had been sitting with her basket of fruit at Clerkenwell-green, was brought before Mr. LAING, in custody of Catman, a constable of Islington, and charged by him, under the Street Act, with ob structing the footway pavement. Mr. LAING discharged the defendant, but ordered that the fruit should ' - be forfeited and taken to the workhouse. Carman, loaded with the basket which contained between 4s. and ss. IA orth of apples and nuts, pro ceeded to Clerkenwell workhouse, followed by the poor woman, still anxious to take a last and linger ing look of all she possessed in the world ; when as they entered Crawford-passage together, she caught hold of the basket and protested that she would not submit to be robbed, and struggled to recover the only means she bad to keep herself and her chil dren out of a workhouse. The constable instantly laying down the basket, took the poor creature again into custody, and bringing her back to the office, charged her with an assault. Mr. LAING fined her, in the penalty of 205., and in default of payment, ordered her to be committed to the House of Correction. Samuel Moss, tailor, of No. 108, Hatton-garden, came forward and stated that be witnessed the transaction, and never saw anything in his life so cruel as the conduct of the constable to the defend ant. She never attempted to strike him, but he violently siezed her by the throat, holding her till she was actually black in the face, and then beat her with his stick across the shoulders, until the stick fell in fragments out of his hand. During the struggle the poor woman's bonnet fell off, and was lost in the crowd. Witness, indignant at the con stable's behaviour, and pitying the wretched woman, attended to state these circumstances. Mr. LAING asked the witness if he knew that the defendant had been previously charged before him with another offence. Mr. Moss replied in the negative. Mr. LAING—Then she shall find bail, and in de fau't thereof she was locked up. THAMES POLICE-OFFICE. A decent-looking man, of middle age, who gave his name John Hamilton, was charged with swind ling a number of shopkeepers, in the following manner :—Upon being brought to the office, there was a host of chandler's-shopkeepers, and other petty tradespeople attending, who, the moment they clap ped their eyes upon him, exclaimed, " Oh ! that's him—that's the willin." lie looked at them with a very unaltered countenance, and exclaimed," Poor mistaken people !" and mistaken surely they were to be diddled by such a fellow. It was stated by some of the persons in attend ance, that a night or two since the prisoner was observed to enter several shops, as if in a great hurry, and having obtained some article, he darted off, saying, " Set.d round the corner to my house, and I will pay—l am in a hurry now." In one of those flights, with a couple of Yarmouth bloaters, he was stopped by the watchman, taken to the watch house, and in his pockets was found a collection of articles of almost every description. Around his body was a leathern belt, in which five sovereigns and some silver were concealed, and he had fifteen shillings in his pocket. Mr. BALLANTINE asked if there was any evidence of fraud against the prisoner. Here an old woman bustled through the throng— Yes, your Worship, I charges him ; he comes to me and sail he was mate of a ship, and borrowed eighteen-pence, had a dozen of eggs, and four rash ers, amounting to three-and-sixpence. He said, when he got the things, it was all right, and he went to get change of a 201. note, as he said, but I never laid eyes upon till now, your Worship. Mr. BALLANTINE—What a foolish old woman you must be to give credit to a vagabond fellow whom you never saw before. Second shopkeeper—Sir, I was foolish enough to be done out of some pork sausages and pig's fry in this way by this very man. He ran into my shop some months since, and said, " Dear me, Mr. King, these sausages and that pig's fry looks delightful; let me have a pound of the sausages and a dish of the fry, it will please the old woman. Send round to my house, and I'll pay you ; I have no change. Egad, A'll surprise the old woman."—Well, I served him, considering from his respectable appearance that he was a tradesman. bird shopkeeper, a grocer—He diddled me out of some sugar, a cake of chocolate, and some coffee, in the same way; he came without a hat into my shop. Fourth, a publican (from the body of the crowd) —Yes, he left his hat at my house. He came in, drunk a glass of brandy and water, and suddenly darting from his seat, said, " Bless me, that's the postman; he ran out, pointing to the door, saying, "lake care of my hat. Postman ! Postman.' " Sure he never came back; and the hat, why, your Wor ship, it was not worth two-pence. Fifth, a baker—He entered my shop !wady in the same way, took a couple of French loaves, and saying he lived round the corner, desired me to send for the money, but upon inquiry I found I was—" Done," responded a voice in the crowd; that was from —, a butcher, who said, " about four months since he tried it on with me for some veal cutlets, but it was no go." Sixth, a merry little Irishman—An please your Worship, he came into my little shop, and said he liked the look of my salt fish ; sure, lie purchased half a cod, and tould me to call upon him for the money ; but the receive the helfpennyll ever got from him. Wayling, the officer—Why, your Worship, this ere chap was here before for trying on the very same game. He had thirty-four or thirty-five sovereigns in the belt about his body then, and said he had just come from America. Deverell and Ames, two of the Shadwell officers, also recognized him, and the office-books being exa mined, it was found that be gave upon that occa sion the name of Samuel Aldridge. Adams, a constable, was sent to make inquiries, and he returned from a lodging held by the prisoner in Rotherhithe, with two boxes filled with cloches, tea, sugar, coffee, soap, biscuits, tobacco, dried fish, red herrings, bacon; salt, &c. The prisoner was rigidly exan:ined by Mr. BAL LANTINE, but gave no account of himself that could be relied upon. Mr. BALLANTINE considered him a rogue and va gabond within the full legal scope and meaning of those terms, and therefore committed him to three months' hard labour in the House of Correction— and to prevent the county being put to any expencb Wheat. Barley. a. to 5. to s. 38 - 35 iY Xi 41 tit ! :J2 36 67 1 39 73 50 71 133 42 s, rl. 8. d. b. J. S. d. 98 104 48 54 88 11 3 00 00 70 93 36 46 90 113 00 00 83 86 53 54 90 100 40 00 ;130 20 0 11 0 17 0 0 0 110 80 100 00 106 S 0 J 0 170 22 0 jl3 0 14 3 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—Oct 9. The supply of Wheat here to-day is large, bbtlr frail" the farmers and up the river : the finest samples , of 0 14 are Is. per quarter lower, am! other descriptions, witty all sorts of New, are offering at a decline of 2s. per Val: ter, at which reduction the millers buy very sparingly, Ow the market clones excessively dull. Oats are very hesoie and scarcely maintain the rates of last Friday. Barley has met extremely dull sale, and may be considered gs' per quarter lower for the best descriptions, and more aspoo the damp inferior samples. Beans go off very slowly, and . aro Is. per quarter lower Malt is Is. per load cheaper., Wheat, Rod, Norfolk and Suffolk 50s. 544. to 60s. fine 631.. New 475. 56a. fine 555. to Ws Whit:.‘ Old 545. 58s. to 635. tine 67 New 49x. 6:1; to Eii: ii;;;iiiv - Foreign, Red t7B. 53a. to 58s. fine 635. Ntibite .545. 58a. to R3s. fine Mop Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 284. to 324. fine 3401 - Lincolnshire 284. to 335. fine 355. -- Yorkshire Wold 2Bs. to 31s. fine 335. - Foreign --s. to --s. fine --O. Beans, Old '32s to 38s. fine 438, - New 375. to 395: fine 401. Oats, Potato 23s. to 274. fine 245.' - Poland 204. 225. to 264. fine 216; - Friesland and Small ... .... .. ... lBs. 20s. to 295. fine 248 -- Mealing ll3id. to 13d. per Stone. Shelling 294 to XX Od. per Load. Malt Xs. 43. fine 445. per Load. Rapeseed en the prisoner's account, he ordered the 51. and silver found in his possession to be forwarded to the Governor of the prison to pay for the prisoner' , maintenance. _ . The prisoner looked agbast.—What ! take nil money ! oh, leave me my money, said he. Mr. BALLANTINE--.NO, not one fraction of it, you will not want it at the tread-mill. The prisoner's jaw dropped, and his dismayed look clearly indicated that be &tight the defend° , of his money the " unkindest cut Of all."—He wso removed, and as he passed to the lock'•Up room, be was " bonnetted" by the butcher. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DURING LAST WELY. rer Quarter. Carlisle Carmarthen-, Hcsham Penrith Winchester - Per Bushel. Coventry Newcastle (Staff.) North aterton Swansea %Vara; Per 8011. Barnarcicastlo Durham Richmond Stockton —.... LtO%' 36 -" oo so 411 4Z 4 s.d. 5D ad 60 It 50 CF. 0 8% 00 00 73 16 o o JO 106 11 4 11 o 10 00 06 'CH MARKETS. SCOI Wheat. Barley Oats. I Beans. MOM OI Aberdeen ...... 58 76 23 34 27 29 32 V, Berwick— 35 52 24 95 15 18 j2B 30 36 o' Coldstream 39 45 24 25 16 19 25 27 Cupar 73 SO 30 so 24 27 27 32 ""! Dundee— 70 76 34 38 27 31 52 St •*" Elgin 70 82 21 27 24 27 19 21 Inverness—. 72 'di 301 23 26 19 20 40 ." Kelso 37 52 24 25 17 18 27 28 Kirkaloy...... 62 77 33 38 26 32 30 3t • Perth 72 80 26 29 18 23 28 32 r - j- 'lll, size of the measure varies throughout the countrj; HADDINGTON CORN AI Art KET.—Oct. 9. A large market of Barley, 240 quarters, and all sold% top down Is., and average 4d. A middling supply 4 " Oats-114 quarters sold, 8 unsold ; top up Is. and ale" rage 3id. Wheat has hroto,,,ht the same top as last and up 7i-d. on the average. Beans are down on 1 01 average Is. SI Wheat. Barley. Oats. First Bos Od 3Ss Od SOs Od Second 63s Od 3.5 s Od 24s Od Third Thom were 252 qrs. of Wheat in market, 69 Unsold.-0 Gre) 3/. 3s. A vela; Pease. Beano 40s ad 39s o ,l _, 38a Od 37. u 2, 37s Od 3ts U O , A . 3 whereof were so,- CO RNWA ',I MA RKETS. 10.14ths. vio.—Wlicat (arcr,.ge) 21s. 9tl.—Barley, 12s.—Oats, DS ph IlimaToN—Wheat, 225. (kl.—Barley, 12s. Id. ST. Ausi ELL—Wheat, 218. to 25s.—Barley, 133. to 11c-00 N. to 103. Bon m IN— Wheat (average) 225. 6d.—Barley, I Is. Od.—Oats, La UNC EsroN—Wheat (average) 30s. Od.—Barley, 13s. 10s. o,l.—Beef, (+l.—Mutton, 6d. • LISK E A /in--. W h eat, 235. t, 2 6d.—Barley, I Is. 6d.—Oats, to 10s. 3d. ST. CeLusus—Wheat, 19s. to 226.—Barley, Ils. to 125.--Be e4 and Mutton, 41d. to 6d.—Veal and Lamb, Od to 6d. PENZANCH—Wheat, 225. to r3s.—Barley, to 13s. Oa tM _,.• Ss. to 10s. Od.—Beef and Mutton, sid. tosd.—Pork, 4d. to uo , Butter, 9d. per lb. MINING I NTELLIGENCH. Tons. Ct . Quantity of Copper Ore sold at 1r eiruth last Thursday 9,614 0 Average Produce 7% Quantity of fine Copper o‘ l l Amount of 5a1e.;14,1611. 17s. Od.—AverageStandaril.ll3l.46. As proofs, among many, that excessive tax"' ton defeats itself, it may he mentioned that, at this ti ol6 when the duty on French wines is 6s. a gallon, the duce to the Revenue is great er titan when it was I Is. WI; and that the duty on coffee, at Is. a pou n d, p ro duced, r 1823, 393,7081., whereas, when reduced in 1825 to 61 "' the amount was 426,187/. •. RATHER OMINOUS.— I n th e do c k - y ar ds a ,. Whitby, there are at present ten or twelve ships on w; stocks, one of which is expressly destined for the Ct i : trade, and belongs to th e gent l eman w i t h w h o m SADLER resided while iu that town. At the head of Sb large and beautiful vessel, may he seen the bust of th e I v "' nerable Lord ELnox, as if about to le a d th e wa y i n brew hr.; down the restraints which now impede our coinrilerr with the East —Dorchester Gazette. TORRINGTON —On Thursday last a inst,i i° monial disappointment look place in an adjoining palms Early in the morning the clerk, sexton, and ringers °I A in attendance; all was hurry and bustle at the little ink the village, preparing a breakfast suitable to the hyniffof occasion, where the loving couple soon met. The ' O4 arrived in a chaise, and the gentleman on horseback; b oo oh ! disaster, the breakfast was atountermandeti: parties walked together, and held a short conversationor the green near the church : the lady adjourned I °_, J r vehicle, and the gentleman to hi s s t ee d ; th e l a tter F - )0 ingly giving up the prize with as mush indifference l o it would a China orange; and if the lovers continued o il route, it would be impossible they could meet again they arrived at the opposite side of the globe. CO r str has not gained possession of facts ; but the hay iterated from fickleness, on the ground of her bet s !_ h e.b companied with much lu ggage , a pp aren tl y h er ward (7.. e., BIRTHS. On the 9th inst. in Clarges-street, the lady of LI1"ell Col. Sir W. Herries, K.G FL, of a eon. On the 9th inst. Mt, at Addington, Surrey, ' Carter, of a daughter. e tb ') buff On the Sth inst. at Braywick Grove, Berks . ', t s of the Rev. S. N. Cobb, Rector. of Ighthatn, I ' 6 " `- daughter. MARRIED. On On the 10th inst. at Trinity Church, y l e Captain R. Fletcher, of the Grenadier Guard s, to •w'. Judith Baillie. On the iith inst. at Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire , *st; Satchell, of New Mihnan-street, - Guilford-street, to tilda, second daughter of James Edwards, Esq. 01 former place. (of On the Sth inst. at Walworth , Mr. E. Tolbotd,4o, Shrubbery Cottage, Romford, to Elizabeth Penelope , ner, of Walwortg. On the 6th inst. at Glotteesier, R. W. Eastwick, rte, of Hans-place, Sloane-street, to Miss Hopwood, of Ge ° street, Euston-square. _t. DIED. On the 11th inst. Mr. George Young, of Blike rjgl'- Portman-square, in the .53d year of his age. i t On the Bth inst. at Freshford-house, Somerset, --,1 James James, But of Langley-hall, Berkshire, is • 71st year. ffi r On the 9th inst. at Kensington, Charles kins, Esq. aged 69. EAST INDIA.—DHATHS. WV yorf At Calcutta, Aptil 18, L. R. Burke, Egg' - ' Survey S or General's Office, aged 53. te coO sjia At ucheena, Feb. 8, Capt. J. B. G00d 4 . , - • ing 15th Regt. Native Infantry. /1,01.4 0 ' •lir In camp, on the route to Mhow, Feb. 2 9, "-' if Waugh, 10th Regt. Light Cavalry. the ;di At Masulipatam, March 15, Ellen Norris, -s °- 1 . Lieut. N. Burrard, Ist European Regt. I the •° At flowrah, April 12, Mr. D. Linde' ° Comploy's Marine, aged 22. ' ag ed ". At Ca!eutta, April 10, Mr. J. Higgingo' e d 50. 0 At Calcutta, April 10, Mrs. J. Stuart, tf..lie Slill ' At 1/;z1p::::ri, MarehL),. , -................. Aiiss F• aged 27. _,-----"'-- --- Al PRINTED AND PUDLISIIED BY_,MURD ° - or . WE SUNOr /IC; HS, STAAZ{DP Leg 9 Oatg, $. to s, 122 29 19 TO 23 19 23 a. d. a. d. 30 43 39 40 33 40 40 4 6 30 32 33 40 30 46 60 70 70 86 60 76