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doubt,:b.en here unjust towards Mr. Peel. Lord Althorp, some years ago, proposed and laboured hard to effect the establishment of County Courts, on a plan far too narrow, no doubt, but still no small matter when we consider how woe fully the people of England are ridden by law yers. When even Cromwell, who could turn the Parliament out of doors, was yet unable to gain one inch of ground against the lawyers, whom he in his Scriptural phraseology termed the Sons of Zeruiah, Lord Althorp may well be excused fur his endeavour to propitiate that crafty and selfish race by the apparently insig nificant nature of his encroachments on their monopoly. The lawyers in the house were too cunning to meet his Lordship on the ground of hostility to his principle of placing justice within the reach of the people. The ground they took was the danger to which the liberties of the country would be exposed by the immense additional power which the nomination of so many local Judges would give to the Crown. However, when it was - seen that that scare-crow no longer frightened' the people, it was agreed between Lord Althorp and Mr. Peel that the latter should proceed with the Local Courts as a Government mea• sure. We do not believe that Mr. Peel has relinquished his intention to propose Local Courts, and we look to see some steps taken by him soon after the meeting of Parliament. Our fear is that, intimidated by the Lawyers, he will not dare to propose a remedy adequate to the evil. We cordially agree with our Contem porary, that the remedy wanted is merely " a recurrence to old principles, and a restoration of institutions nearly as old as English History. It is to revive the County Courts, to give them competent judges, and to enlarge very consider ably the jurisdiction of these Courts, both in law and equity." Our Contemporary is here in accordance with Mr. Bentham, in his petition for justice. " To Saxon Judicature," says Mr. 8., " suc ceeded that of Norman conquerors : to Saxon libe ralism, Norman absolutism. In Saxon times reigned in adequate numbers local judicatories; not only County-shires, but so to speak, still lesser Judge shires; Hundred Courts, Courts Leet, Courts Ba ron, and others. " Then and there, people or lawyers, made no difference ; language was the same. From the pre sence of the Judge, in any one of these small and adequately numerous tribunals, directly or indirectly, was suitor ever excluded ? No more than, in a pri vate family, contending children from the presence of their fathers. " Under the Norman Kings grew up Norman French-speaking lawyers. Whether in the metro polis or elsewhere, along with his horses and their grooms, one train of these domestics was always in attendance about the person of the King. To this train was given the cognizance of all such suits as from such varied distances, so various, and some of them so long, could be made to come to it. " Quartering himself upon vassal after vassal, the King was perpetually on the move : in his train moved a Judge or Judges. " To this train, whatever part of the country lie had to come from, every man who had any thing to complain of bad to add himself. To the place, wherever it was, that the train happened to be at, the defendant had to be dragged. When there, these same suitors there found a Judge or Judges, who, speaking a different language, could not or would not understand what they said. " The language of the Normandy-bred lawyers was a sort of French. The language of the country from whence they came these lawyers spoke ; the language of the country into which they were come they disdained to speak. The rules, such as they were, by which the procedure of these foreign des pots, in so far as memory served and self-regarding interest mild be guided, would, of course, be such as their own language gave expression to; rules which, as well as the rest of the language, were, to the vast majority of the suitors, unintelligible; meaning by suitors, on this occasion, not only those who were actually so, but those who, but for this obstacle, would have been, but could not be so— :wade/Nes they are called in French. In British India this state of things may with a particular degree of facility be conceivable. " Here, then, by a plaintiff, if he would have his demand attended to ; by a defendant, if he could be admitted to contest it—here were two sorts and sets of help-mates to be hired; interpreters to con vey what passed between parties and their advo awes, and between witness and Judge ; and advo cates to plead the cause on both sides. " Between Advocates and Judges, the connexion was m ot intimate. Like robbers acting together in gangs, and without license, these licensed, irresis tible, and torplinishable depredators, linked together by one common interest, acted as brothers, and styled one another by that name. " Thus circumstanced, they had but to take mea svite of the disposable property of the suitors, and divide ;t among one another, as they could agree. " In and by this confederacy, in a language in telligible seldom to both parties, most commonly to neither, or, what was worse, to one alone , was t he ma tter talked over and settled. As to the truth of what was said, how much was true, how much false, was not worth thinking about ; means of as certaining it there were none. Parties, while ex - bausting themselves in fees, either looked on and stared, or, seeing by attendance nothing was to be got but vexation, staid away. . By this our all-powerful judica tory (rlletropoldan it might have been styled, had the place of it been fixed) —by this oar great French speaking judicatory, the little local English-speaking . judicatories were swallowed up. P • ro • 3 "Wien in local judicatory, in which the plain tiff's demand being so clearly just, the defendant would have been sine to lose, a suit was depending, the Judges on each occasion, at the instance of the defenders, sent to the however distant judicatory au order to proceed no further, and to the defend ant an order to come, and along with the plaintiff to add himself to the team as above. This having been made the practice, and been extensively felt and universally seen to be so ; thus all over the kingdom was an end put to the business of all these Euglish.speaking and jasticesadministering judi catories." •We shall on a future day advert more pattt:cu , laxly to Mr. Ber,tham's proposed Courts.— Morning Chronicle. The condition of the houseless poor in this inclement season calls for the active sympathies of all the friends of humanity. We are glad to find that benevolent persons are exerting them selves to procure the means of shelter and pro tection for the destitute human beings who are leading a life of helpless, vagrant mis w ery, a out the streets and suburbs of LOild",11, ithout the means of procuring a better lodging than what an outhouse or brick-kiln can afford. Our police reports, from day to day, bear melancholy evi tlenee to the state of forlorn wretchedness in which a great portion of the poor of this wealthy and luxurious metropolis contrive to drag on an existence, to which the condition of the savage in the wilderness is happiness itself. We trust that those opulent individuals who have heard the cries and succoured the miseries of fugitive foreigners, will not, in this season of calamity, neglect their perishing countrymen. The cha rities of England shed lustre on the national character ; but, among the institutions of benevo lence which adorn this metropolis, we hope there will not be wanting, at least, a winter asylum in . - every parish, for those, the most destitute of our fellow-creatures, who, under all the severity of the elements, have not where to lay their heads. —Morning Herald. An Evening Contemporary states that " no thing can equal the disgraceful state of dilapida tion, mutilation, and filth, in which all the clois ters, and much of the interior of Westminster Abbey are at present." Though this, if it be the case, will excite but little surprise, it must, we should imagine, increase the indignation which the public naturally feel, first, at their exclusion from a free view of the interior of this interest ing structure ; and, secondly, that the building itself, and its valuable treasures, on both of which so much public money has been expend ed, should fall into a state so disgraceful to those who have the charge of them, as well as to the national character. There is one point of view to which we are anxious to bring the attention of those who have the charge of this building ; that is, duty and self-interest, which, both as men of education and of the world, they cannot but be alive to. This edifice is dedicated to religion — to the honour and worship of Almighty God. We have all heard of another Temple being made the resort of money-changers, and the receptacle of sundry other pollutions ; and we all know who it was that cast out such abomination from his Father's house. If not the receptable of money-changers tho principal use to which this superb Temple is put is that of money-taking, to which even the regu lar forms of Divine Worship are made subser vient ; for to attend these the congregation must creep in at a little obscure door in a corner, lest by opening its splendid portals even on the Sab bath day, too much of the interior should be seen for nothing. But referring to the alleged state of the interior, and the duty of those who have the charge of it, for what, we would ask, is the money for showing the Cathedral taken ? or for what are its Prebendalb revenues due, but, among other things, to maintain the structure Nor is it because Parliament has dedicated large sums of the public money to the same purpose, that this duty is the less incumbent upon those who themselves " live by the Altar" to maintain it. We wish to see the Clergy, in all their de partments, free from just grounds of repro.:ch. It is their manifest interest to be so ; and though this mode of handling the subject may not beat the moment the most agreeable to those whom it concerns, we are sure that, in thus urging it, we are most essentially serving (as it is our ob ject to do) both the cause of religion and its In the last number of the Quarterly Review there is an excellent article, entitled " Home Colonies," or the Anti-Pauper System, in which an attempt is made to prove that the poor rate might be greatly diminished, and the able bodied poor very profitably employed either in fanning poor soils, or bringing into cultivation waste lands. The author of the article has brought much knowledge of his subject to bear upon the question, and reasoned upon it in a manner which appears to us equally ingenious and accurate. Assuming as the basis of his argument, what is indeed the fact,—that the effect of British machinery, aided by the grow ing rivalry of continental nations, since the peace, has been to produce more goods of all kinds than a profitable market could well be found for—and that great numbers of the work ing classes have, in consequence, been thrown out of employment, he proceeds to state his— " Conviction, which no argument that readily presents itself to our minds can shake, that no mea sure can afford our labouring classes substantial re lief which falls short of producing an entire change in the character of their industry—which does not transfer their labour from the manufactories in which they starve, to the soil of the country, on which, we entertain no doubt, they might be made to subsist in comfort, at least, if not ►n affluence. This proposi tion may appear paradoxical, as we hare already ad mitted that even our agricultural population is su perabundant ; i: may sound somewhat strangely that we should propose pouring more water into a vessel which, upon our own show►ng, already overflows. • " With regard, however, to the idle hands which now press upon the resources of country parishes, it may be observed, that their want of employment arises from the faulty organization of the district, and from the defective cultivation which the occu piers bestow upon the soil. Every intelligent per son, conversant with the state of agriculture in this country, will acknowledge that scarcely one farm can be met with on which a vast addition of manual labour might not be employed, to the great benefit not only of the labourer, but also of the occupier.— But laying for the present cut of our consideration the number of unemployed hands which a better system of tillage undoubtedly would absorb, we ven ture to reiterate what we have already more than once stated, that we possess in our numerous waste and uncultivated districts a source of employment which cannot be speedily exhausted." We never have befriended schemes of emigra tion at the expellee of the country. They have always appeared to us very excellent contfivances for enriching a few individuals, benefitting those emigrating, and saddling the country not only with a great additional burthen for the present, but also with the prospect of increased pressure in future. If more hands have been trained to manufacturing employments than can now find a vent for their industry, the natural remedy— especially if the country does not produce a sufficient supply of agricultural articles—would seem to be, to turn the overplus of population upon tl►e land, which, although it might not afford much remuneration for the labour and ca- • pital bestowed upon it, would, at all events, un der due regulation, be made to supply abund ance of the first necessaries of life to the labouring man and his family, whose principal support is now derived from the parish funds. The experiment has indeed been most success fully tried on the Continent upon the poorest soils, and in the most unfavourable situations ; and if on the Continent, why should it not also succeed here " It is not a little singular,'' says the writer, " that notwithstanding the millions annually squandered in this country, on the maintenance of the poor, and whilst this lavish waste of resources hiss been going on for centuries, no rational or consistent attempt should have hitherto been made to enable the able bodied pauper to maintain himself by husbandry. l i From the time of Queen Elizabeth down to the present period, every effort seems to have been made to force the industry of the country into a manufac turing channel. So completely has this prejudice become ingrained into the habits and feelings of the commi4i4y, that even your present overseer, whose whole life has been passed at the plough-tail, never dreams the labour of the unoccupied pauper at his elbow could be rendered productive otherwise than if employed ot: some branch of manufacture. It never enters into his calculation, that this sturdy idler might be made to earn his own subsistence by the use of a spade. It has even, we believe, got • into the head of some of our political economists that to exact from paupers any species of productive labour in return for their maintenance, is positively injurious to the industrious classes. They urge, forsooth, that this adds to the supply of labour, al ready too abundant in the market; but here is a shallow fallacy. They forget that the food con sumed by the pauper diminishes the funds for the employment of labour, in at least as great a ratio as the idleness of the pauper diminishes competition in the labour market. _ _ " It seems to us to admit of no question, that the experiment, which has answered in every respect in the Netherlands, would, if fairly put to the test on any of our thousand and one wastes, succeed equally here. Every undertaking must have a beginning ; and we earnestly call upon the wealthier inhabitants of some particular district, or even county, to com bine their efforts. In many parts of the country, manufacturing workhouses already exist, for the reception of paupers belonging to several parishes. These institutions are annually attended with a vast expense. The value of the manufacturing labour executed in them seldom bears the proportion of one to a thousand, when compared with tbe cost of maintaining them. They are moral pest-houses, for the encouragement of idleness and profligacy, where, at a great charge to the public, a host of outcasts are reared and trained for a career of mi sery. For these costly and demoralizing establish ments, which the English poor dread even more than imprisonment or transportation—for That pauper-palace, which they hate to see.' we would fain see substituted a district or county colony, where every able-bodied human being out employment might find both work and subsistence. If such an experiment were set on foot in any part of England, and conducted with a due attention to its necessary details, its success would, we think, be certain. It must, however, be added, that with out a rigid adherence to these details, any attempt of the kind would run great risk of miscarrying. " It will, perhaps, be said that, upon our own showing, a considerable outlay of capital will be required in the first instance ; it will be necessary to provide the means of maintaining the colonists while tilling the ground during at least one year; and it may be urged, probably, as an additional ob jection, that this amount of capital must be with drawn from the general capital of the country ; and that the gain of one spot will be counterbalanced by an equivalent loss in another district. This seems, at the first blush of the matter, to be a formidable objection ; but when closely analyzed, it will, we apprehend, entirely vanish. The question is, not whether it may be expedient to transfer a certain capital from a branch of industry, in which it is now productive, into another department—but whether it be expedient to render productive, both to the owners and the public, a certain amount of capital which is now utterly wasted and yields no return to anybody. We speak of the enormous capital an smelly squandered upon the maintenance of able bodied paupers. The food consumed by this class of persons is pure and unalloyed loss; for all the purposes of the experiment which we thus earnestly recommend, the proper application of this wasted capital would be more than sufficient; and surely the advantage to the parish, from the adoption of this system, would be immediate and palpable. Supposing even that some fifty quartern loaves, ad vanced to the transplanted pauper for his mainte nance during the first year as an agricultural la bower might not be repaid—(in the Netherlands it is repaid, and that with interest) —still this one loss would be a mere feather in the scale, when com pared with the long series of annual losses sustained by the owners and occupiers of land under the pre sent system. In the event of success, this man re quires no further assistance : the crop raised by his own industry constitutes the capital, or supply of food, required to subsist him afterwards. But, if lie be allowed to consume his fifty quartern loaves in idleness, there is nothing reproduced at the end of the year; and, therefore, every subsequent year, as long as he remains unemployed, it will be neces sary to furnish him from the parish stock, with an equal supply of food, to be in its turn wasted and lost. All that is required is, that those who now throw away their capital upon the unemployed la bourer, should combine to lay it out in a manner which would enable the same man to raise food for himself by the sweat of his ova brow." In the spirit, as well as in the reasonings in these extracts we cordially concur. About eight millions a year are expended in this country upon the maintenance of the poor, one half of whom are able-bodied, and only require to be set to work, under due regulation and superin tendence, in order to be made to earn their living comkrtably ; and why the half of such a sum should not be destined to the promotion of useful industry, instead of being applied to the promotion of idleness and profligacy, we really can see no good reason. We regret that our limits will not permit us to give the examples of the species of colonization to which we have adverted, and which are carefully detailed in the Quarterly Review ; but they are too interesting to bear abridgement, and we trust, from this slight notice of them, that the whole subject will meet with the attention which it so amply merits.—Mor ning Advertiser. ~. ~':. , LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 26. TIANBURY V. KIRKLAND AND MILNE. The full particulars in this trial we gave yesterday, but which was not concluded when we went to press. The VICE-CHANCELLOR. ordered that the defendants re-invest the money as prayed, and also that an account of the dividends be taken from the time that Mr. Charles Kaye absconded. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 26. EX-PARTE ELI AS SMART. Mr. STARKIE moved for a writ of habeas corpus, directed to the gaoler of Doncaster, to bring up Elias Smart, who had been committed to his custody on a charge of robbery at the betting-rooms at Don caster. The Learned Counsel stated that his client was a respectable person; he kept an eating-house in London,and was also a fislimonger,and occupied pre mises in Bridge-street, at a rent of 3601. The object of the present application was to have him admitted to bail. The Learned Counsel stated a variety of facts from the affidavits made in support of the ap plication; but as it was intimated that the publica tion might impede the course of justice, we refrain from reporting them. Mr. DoDsoN was instructed by the committing :Magistrates to suggest to the Court, in case the ap plication were acceded to, that the depositions, when the party should be brought up, should not be made public. Probably the Court would allow the case to be heard at chambers. The Court assented. AGE, AN ARTICLE THAT CANNOT BE STOLEN.-The Marshal de BassomrtEax asked one of his officers " how how old he was?"—" I cannot tell exactly," said the Captain, " but I am either thirty-eight or forty eight." " How is it," answered the Marshal, " that you are so ignorant of a concern that every person finds plea sure in knowing ?"—" Why," said the Captain, " I keep an exact accodnt of my rents, and what is owing to me, for fear of being cheated, but I never trouble my head about my years, because nobody can rob me of them." On Monday se'nnight a party of friends at Leighton Buzzard partook of an excellent dinner, and spent the afternoon pleasantly together, in a large cask, which had bees made for a respectable innkeeper of that town, celebrated for the goodness of his ale. It holds 1.300 gaffing, is sufficiently capacious to bold 15 per sons, and is the largest ever made in that place. 'l•he party sipped their beverage out of a stone pot which holds a gallon. Wednesday morning last an eccentric little fellow, who was employed in assisting to convey the mail front Newark to Tuxford, was thrown from the top of the coach, and received such severe injury as to occasion hia death in a short time. Ile was one of the sporting gentry who got up the last prize fight near Newark, and it is feared that the accident which occasioned his death arose from his being intoxicated at the time when it occurred. Thus drunkenness generally goes hand in hand with prize fighting to debase and demoralize those who are silly enough to be gratified by such an absurd and blackguardly excitement, A PLAN for IMPROVING the CARRIAGE PAVEMENT of the METROPOLIS. BY LIEUTENANT J. 11, BROWN', ROYAL NAVY. Having observed the unsafe and disgraceful state of the pavement of our public streets, and even where Macadamizing has been adopted, the repairs continually required, and the constant accumulation of mud and dust, I have given the subject much attention for the last few years, and I am induced to propose a plan to remedy the defect. I must premise by observing, that the founda tions of most of our streets are, of necessity, bad ; as, independent of the nature of the soil, the ground has been so often dug up, and turn ed over, for the purpose of levelling, forming and repairing sewers, laying down gas, water pipes, &c. &c. ; that although the paving should be executed in the best manner, it is impossible that it can remain in the position placed ; for the water, after a glut of rain, passes down be tween the joints of the stones, the foundation, composed of earth, rubbish, &c. speedily be comes a puddle, softer in some parts than in others, a great portion of which works and churns up between the joints, and allows the stones to sink under the first heavy carriage that passes, forming pools for the reception of more rain, and daily becoming worse, until it is necessary to relay it ; when, after a short time, the same thing happens over again, thus causing an endless expense to the different parishes. The plan I suggest is, that, after the founda tion has been formed in the necessary shape, and the surface rolled or rammed hard, the pav ing stones, dressed so as to fit close together, should be laid or set in a thick coat of good mortar, and the joints grouted with cement ; the whole mass would thus become a solid body, and the rain would be effectually prevented from penetrating to the foundation, which would re main dry and firm in the position it was origi nally placed. 1 recommend this in preference to any other artificial foundation, such as broken stones, sand, gravel, &c. ; for, provided it was sufficiently firm to bear the weight of the paving stones and carriages passing, nothing would displace it until worn out. The stones must be grooved on the surface about a quarter of an inch deep, to prevent horses slipping ; and if scored diagonally, it would obviate any jar or jolt that could be an ticipated from the wheels of a carriage passing over them at right angles. This scoring could be renewed when necessary, by providing light screens on wheels, inside of which the men could work on any part with hammer and chisel, pro tected from danger. Carriages would run over this pavement with far less friction, and as little noise, as they Now do over a Macadamized road ; and this great advantage would be gained, that, whereas the one is constantly wearing in holes and wanting repairs, never looks finished, and covers the inhabitants and travellers with mud and dust, (the only change) a pavement laid down on this principle would last for many years without further expense or trouble ; and as no mud could work up from the foundation, consequently no dirt could accumulate, but what fell from the horses ; and the small, but gradual and even wearhag away of the surface, it could be kept by sweeping as clean as a barn-door ; the expense of watering in summer would also be saved. This plan would be attended with little more cost than the old mode of paving, the difference being the dressing the stones, and substituting mortar for gravel ; certainly, considerably cheaper than the method adopted in many parts, of lay ing a foundation of Macadamized stones. And to prevent the necessity of ever disturbing it for any purpose after it was once made, I would construct culverts* along the sides of the streets, under the part now occupied by the surface gut ters, large enough to contain the branch water • pipes, gas-pipes, or indeed, any thing that could be conveyed through pipes in or out of the houses. The tops of those culverts should be of cast-iron, about four feet long, and each length, if necessary, (or wherever a joint or communi cation was required) should lift on or off at pleasure. The inspector or workmen could thus, at all times, have easy access to the pipes, without interfering with the street or house ; and any accident could be amended cheaply and promptly, (the men having day-light and room to work) without the expense and annoyance of breaking up the pavement, which could never be properly replaced. The upper surface of those cast-iron lengths should be hollowed into the form of a gutter, in order to carry the rain water from the street to the grating which communi cates with the sewer ; and the bottom of the cul vert would convey any water that leaked through • the joints, in the same manner. For a new pavement, I would recommend the best material (granite) to be used, as the cheapest in the end ; but in relaying a street, the same stones may be used, after being dressed or cut to the necessary form. I consider the best pro poi tions to be eight inches long, five inches wide ; and a foot, or as much more as conveni ent, deep. If it was necessary to use different sizes, they must on no account be mixed, but worked into separate lengths or patches of pave- ment. Although Macadamizing is undoubtedly a great improvement on eur roads, it can never come in competition with this mode of paving for streets, or great thoroughfares, which has all the advantages of strength, cheapness, beauty, durability, and cleanliness. June 25th, 1829. Since making the above observations, I have noticed that this method has been partly adopted in different streets in town ; that is, so far as dressing the stones and grouting the joints, a considerable step towards improvement ; but this of itself is not sufficient, for if a stone rests on earth, gravel, or broken stone, for the bed, it is liable to be disturbed by the shock of a heavy carriage passing, in which case the grouting in the joint will crack, aHd admit the wet to the foundation, causing all the mischief I have al ready described. Another very bad practice I h ave observed, is that that of ramming the stones, to bring the pavement to a level, some days after it has been grouted, and in reality destroying the benefits to be deri ve d f rom it, as good mortar or grouting should set and get hard, in a very short time after it is first applied, and the ram ming cracks the joints again ; besides, all the foundations I have seen are porous, and although being for the most part of broken stones, they w ill not work or churn up, as the gravel does (which accounts for the mud we wonder to see • Ihe mains as they are at present constructed, may run through the centre of the street ; as they would seldom or ever want to b e disturbed, and they could be inspected when the pavement was worn out, and in the progress of relaying; or they cou ld run a l ong th e s id e s, if the culverts were made large enough ; of course the size of the side culverts or gutters, depend on the situation and the quan tity of water reitar t d t o b e oweveyea. in the streets that are so often swept) ; still, they allow the water to pass through them to the real foundation below, causing the pavement to sink into inequalities, as may be now seen in Fleet -street, which was done at a great cxpence about two years ago. By bedding the stone in mortar, properly placed in the situation it is to remain, then grouting the joint, and allowing it to set hard, without afterwards ramming or disturbing it, the pavement will remain immoveable and water tight, until fairly worn out, and save all the ex pence of an artificial foundation of Macadamized stones, or other matter. Now, when we con sider the labour of digging out, and carting away, eighteen inches or two feet deep of earth, and replacing it with another material to be pro vided, prepared, and carted also ; such expence, which I maintain is all unnecessary, and which must make the principal item in the cost of pavements I have lately seen, may all be saved by this plan. A grand objection to a Macadamized pave ment, in this and every cold climate, is, that a severe frost setting in after wet, does incalculable injury, owing to its porous state ; now, as no water can penetrate beneath the surface of this pavement, if properly made, this serious fault is obviated. I trust the strength and cheapness of this plan, as compared with all others I have seen, will induce some one, having the power, to grant it a trial, and I have no fear for the result. I have observed that the most useful inventions are the most simple and obvious when once made known ; and often, from their very simplicity, take away from the merit' of the inventor ; we may instance steam, gas, &c. &c. As I publish my sentiments a►ul observations, and the result I have come to, after much trouble and atten tion, without any sinister motive, I trust I may escape the imputation of having promulgated a plan which any one could suggest ; should such casuists be found, I refer them to the story of Columbus breaking the egg. September, 1829. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. M. and J. Dancey, Turners Hie], Worth, Sussex, car eenters. J. D-nnet, Drury-lane, ironmonger. P. Groves, Jermyn-street, commercial-agent. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. John Parnell, jun. and William Parnell, Bristol, cop persmiths. BANKRUPTS. George Mattison, Camberwell, tavern-keeper. J. Jones, Pultney-mews,Somerset, livery-stable-keeper. W. Richarson, Tottenham-court-roil, ironmonger. Anne Maria Carver, Leicester, spinster. J. Christopherson, Liverpool, merchant. R. Rabbitts, Hestesbury, Wilts, fames. J. Parker, Manchester, commission-agent Edward Boys, jun, Canterbury, spirit-dealer J. S. Sweeting, Ludgatesstreet, fancy warehouseman. T. and T. Oriel, Poland-street, Oxford-street, tailor G. Ford, Frome Selwood, Somersetsbire, linen-draper. J. Glover, Derby, tailor. J. Aldred, Outwood, Lancashire, dealer. J. Galley, Wheelock, Cheshire, cheese-factors. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL FEMALE FoLLlES.—Yesterday Matilda Morgan, a young woman about two and twenty, with no thing peculiarly interesting in her appearance, was brought before Mr. Alderman VENABLEs, charged with being found in the street at an unseasonable hour of the night. She said that she arrived in town only last Fri day from the neighbourhood of Cirencester, in Gloucestershire, where, in a weak moment, she listened to the faithless vows of a son of Neptune, and accompanied him to the metropolis, where the knot indissoluble was to be spliced forthwith. But as soon as they got to town the tar slipped his cable, and left poor Matilda to steer by herself her course among the shoals anti quicksands of this " first-rate" of cities. She raised a trifle by pawn ing a few articles of clothing which she had brought with her. This kept body and soul together until Tuesday night, when the watchman found her in the state already described. The Alderman ordered her to be taken back to the Compter, and a few necessaries given her; after that she will be sent home at the city's expence. Elizabeth Williams, only 16, and possessing at tractions of no ordinary calibre, was also brought up for re-examination. This young heroine was found on the night of the 6th, in a state of great destitution, by Seeger, one of the officers of Aldersgate, and, appearing to have but just began the march of crime, he conveyed her to the Compter. She stated that she was a native of Bristol, and was induced to leave her widowed mother on the representations of a female much older than herself, who painted to her young imagination all the good fortune that awaited her in London. They spent a week on the journey to town, where the unfortunate creature was immed►ately inducted into one of these sinks of infamy, and was pursuing her v►c►ous career only three days when Seager encountered her. She gave her mother's name and address at Bristol, and a letter was sent to her by the direction of the Al derman, the girl being in the interim taken care of at the Compter. A►► answer was received yester day from the mother, stating that her mental feel ings have been intense since the disappearance of tier daughter on the 27th of October. On that day a female took her out on pretence of getting her a situation, but instead of which she was put into a coach for London, and accompanied thither by a gentleman. The mother added, that her poverty prevented her coming up for the girl, but if she came home she was ready to receive her. The prisoner denied the fact of being accompa nied from Bristol by a gentleman, but admitted being met by one in London. The Alderman feared he was only holding out a dangerous precedent in burthening the city with the expense of sending back young women who had quitted home so improperly; still, he saw no other course left open to him, as, if he discharged them, and let them loose again upon the town, their ulti• mate ruin was inevitable. Miss Williams was then sent back to the Comp ter with her companion in folly, and orders given to send both to their respective homes. UNION-HALL Yesterday a Mr. John Pilkington Crampton, re cently arrived in town from Manchester, attended before Messrs. IioNE and ELYARD, against a man named Stevens, who, with others, plundered him of 101. at curds en the preceding night. It appeared that Mr. Crampton, who is a perfect stranger to London and its ways, imprudently ac companied a low woman to her lodgings: here he met four ill-looking fellows, who induced him to sit down to cards, while they plied him with drink to such extent that he was almost stopified : he however, recollected the circumstance of being fleeced of his money by the four men, one of whom was the prisoner, and he also swore that in his be lief the prisoner's intention was further to rob him. Stevens was committed to Brixton for three months. At this time there are at Eton College the unprecedentcd number of 620 beye. THE LATE GALES. CANTERBURY, Nov. 25.—At an early hoer Yt: terday morning, a smart breeze sprung up frown north-east, and soon increased to a frightful stare awfully agitating the sea. The shipping in ,; Downs, for the most part, released their cables, ran to sea, while others, less fortunate, have be en, gulphed and totally lost, with their crews. At; early hour in the morning, the General Pai l " 600 tons, from Madras, arrived off Deal, having e t ; countered severe weather two days. It wa s 6°° , perceived by the boatmen that their assistance 0 required, and with that alacrity which usually c h ; racterises those brave men when the lives of t h i o st fellow-creatures are is jeopardy, no time vas before a launch was effected. Launch succeede launch, until the whole of the boats belongiog its the town were tossing about and contending vi", the rough sea, like so many vessels e ngaged i" 9 contest. The ship having been wrecked, i t ‘ ll ,l found that three cables had been parted with, it ti that the passengers were in a dreadful state of tdir fl3 : but it was deemed prudent not to remove theni,; but to get the vessel's head before the wind iliac' to escape the Goodwin Sands. Fortunately, theiTio deavours were successful, and in a short time she t he well until she made the Margate Roads. Here an e c°.l difficulty presented itself, or rather a series of diii' c ' o 4 ties; the wind blew with terrific force, anchorlesst I t in the crew exhausted with fatigue, the C a ptain) to whose praise the passengers all concur, sPc' ke w several Margate boats, and she was taken in ° 1 By this time the valuable cargo was at the merelii°o the waves, unless immediate steps were taken, t Captain and Pilot therefore determined up on ning her aground, which was accomplished in a sel skilful manner, after many hazardous efforts, $ Whitstable, where she now lies safe from hag!' The boats of the town were in immediate requi e . le tion ; and without a single loss of life, the Capts t !' and passengers wer e l an d e d about five o'clock in the afternoon, and at six o'clock the Whole reache Canterbury, and took u p a t em porary abode at ths Lion Inn, where every attention was bestowed Mr. Minter, the proprietor, and about eight ne le r , they departed for the metropolis. The pass en g e ho speak in terms of affection of the Captaie , behaved with the greatest courage and coolligi' and evinced every disposition to alleviate their 4181;,' and render every comfort consistent with trying situation. The same evening a vessel, supposed to beli -e , with buffalo hides from the Cape of Good 1 1 1 7 .,;,' was off Deal, in the greatest distress, and nfit 'i, half a mile of the town, the crew being lashed the rigging. Grievous as it may seem, the Inigho.ll waves presented an insurmountable barrier to I , sistance; and the ill-fated crew, with the were engulphed, with, we understand a pilot rbe taken in from some port. It is probable by to- 01°- row her name may be traced. THE MARKETS. SOUTH A I,L MARK E T. —Noy. 25, or In our market of to-day, which Wail tolerably I C'' r i m e plied throughout, but thinly attended by buyerst. l3 4 , o f small Mutton met with a somewhat briMk, other 10_a per meat with a very dull sale, at the following price' stone of 81b. to sink the otTals:— c o a to 43 . 4d ' Beef.--- 24.4 d. to 3s. B,IV cal 1 •' ' • ~./4 Mutton 3 0 4 6 Pork The foregoing quotations are Mutton from 2d. t o,—, v ric 2d. to 4d. per stone higher than on this day .e'unigh t Beef and Pork no alteration. A considerable numb = r and Sheep left the market unsold. f teas" LEWES M A RKET.—Nov. 24. to 0.41. Beet 2s. Sd. to 3g. Sd. I Veal ocu 4 Mutton 3 0 44 1 York SlO Supply gond, and trade dulL • • --- RUM FORD MARKET.—Nov. 25. . ' 41. 1. d. toe. d. d • ' 4. .4 Beef 2 8 8 8 I Veal Mutton 2lO 310 Pork Suckling Calves from 12s. to 30s. ; Quarter old Pigsl2s to 11 6upply good, and trade dull. WRIO' COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING TH r Wheat. B ...... Barley. I Oats. I _.,.....' ........................ , T o S. :i Per Quarter. a. to 1. 2. 2. I. 10 IL' Blandford --.......— 61 38 25 5 1 c 156 Brigg— . 43 55 25 33 13 9 , 4 , .-- iiii Cambridge--... 59 30 —. _,.,1 1 a ,g, Chard --.... 56 70 Wit gg 24, su_. gt) -- q o Huntin — gdou.—. 56 Cf 7 24 34 17 .4 : 31 . ' - oti Long 5utt0n...,..... 46 50 16 3 3 503 "r i a Louth, . 46 50 23 30 17 3 .1 Lynn. 46 63 21 33 16 94 •io 4 4 Newark --- 51 61 30 37 IS 29 4 15 40 Nottingham —. 56 63 St 40 31 2 9 5 . 7 4i Peterborough -- 56 70 37 40 IS 2 5 Plymouth 56 72 32 29 40 27 ,,, 1 "-- 41 , Pontefract, . — 61 34 7 0 Slea for,' „ 46 56 30 33 lo 01 1 33 r" Unpinghain ......... .50 tig 30 34 i2O 4• 1) Wisbech . 42 56 1 16_21 There has been a small supply LEEDS CORN MARKEL—Nov. 34 . 1 v ili d been a good supply, other articles only s mall. i , New Wheat has been taken off freely at an advance °,, for to 2s. quarter, and there has beta a better deralo“.l, other descriptions of New at about Is. per quarter Tly of Wheat. Bariei v io vance. Best samples of Malting Barley with dif 6ctj oo. supports last week's price, other descriptions le• ° l ip% lower, if sales have been effected. Good New 3 16i .bir Oats id. per stone higher, and a better demand for e bi o descriptions of New and Old. For Shelling there jp been a better demand, and in some instances 6d• t ° ler y per load advance has been obtained. In Beans n° SO, lion. There are no New Pease at market. Jo Flour, and Rapeseed, no alteration. a. -1 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. , ' $ York. and Lincoln. 601 b. P Barley, Norlidk and Suffolk -- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire 54. - Grinding Beans fs3lb. Oats, Potatoe -Mealing, Foreign 10d. to ll!d....Engiisli 10d. to 1 22 • 'toe Shelling .S.s. to 301 ; l'ej r l ,o ,'" Rapeseed, English, 271. to au . Foreign --1. to --'• f" - -...' . ---° LI VERPOOL COIIN EXCHANGE.-IC°v• . 0 1° 4 '0 6j . WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red 3 JO 4 ---. Scotch, Welch, and M a n z --- Irish, White g 0 9 . --..-- Red 7 4 IL ) i ---- Foreign 9 3 5 9 5 g Oars, English, Welsh, and Scotch, uer 451 b , 3 0 ----- Irish -- Foreign B A RLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter S3 9 i 6 ---- Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. ... ----- Feeding 4 0 45 0 Ilium, English, per Imperial quarter SS 6 41 9 --- Irish, Sic. -- Foreign Passe, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 41 0 Foreign FLouit, English, per ESOlb Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 9401bs 24 0 0 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter 0 e s MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending NOV. Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. IForeign, Brls 'lrish, &c. Sc- 19 ' Sr ° 5,751 14,00'7 1,605 ;-,. 1.1,524 1 1,104 A person, on viewing the Siamese Yee e s :i; the Egyptian-hall, observed that they formed a riew;fir human nature, for they could not be called either or single. • A case of crint. con. is set down for troiy which a young gentleman holding a luerative ce the Middlesex Magistrates figures as the defendant. °' BIRTHS. On the !4th inst. at Castle Bromwich, the 02°°' Bradford, of a daughter. On the 26th iost. in Upper Seymour-streets t he J. Currie, Eeq. of a eon. On the 28th inst. the lady of N. S. ChauacYs of ston-square, of a daughter. MARRIED. 9 4:1 On the 25th hint. at Lynn Regis, George 08 Zero to Catharine, fourth daughter of the late Edsc• Eeq. of Middleton, Norfolk. .10/ DIED. On the 231 inst. at Sawbridgeworth, Miss For 0 1 daughter of the late Capt. Forbes, of Shrewsbnl• diger On the 23d inst. Laura Booth, youngest c lau° so o ‘ the Rev. Ilenry Rule Sard, Esq. of Balcornbes aged four years. rrh° tel On the 23d inst. at Reading, in his 70th ye n s ",:„ 0 4" ,, Sowdon, Esq. and senior Alderman of the m- 01 of, Reading. ;o l bet'' On the 26th inst. at Lewisham, Kent, E. l of garet, relict of Henry Ledger, Esq., aged 63. On the 25th inst. Hannah, the wife of Mr. 0, Cl On wife onamo. et On the inst. at Leamington, Jane, t he IV Crawfurd Antrobus, Esq., M.P. On the 24th inst. at his house, James's -place' ney-road, Geo. Weir, Esq. in his 77th year' PAINTED ADD PUBLISHED MURDO "SI% TAU SUN OFJ7ICII 7 119, EnteArly, 1.4"°-