The Sun. — London, England, 1829-01-05 00:00:00

WEST PORT MURDERS. The irritation and alarm excited in this city by the West Port murders is beginning to subs . de. Hare and his wife are still in close confinement, and there is a possibility that they may both be yet brought to the punishment they deserve. If, as was stated in our last, the public prose cutor can command evidence sufficient to satisfy a jury, that Hare, or any of his associates, has been access try to any other murders than those libelled in Burke's indictment, they will cert linty expiate the crimes with their lives: The silence and solitude of his cell have given the monster Hare an opportunity of reflection, and the latent sparks of feel ing and humanity are beginning to revive in his breast. He is fully aware, that a likeness of his horrid physiognomy will be taken, to excite the indignation and disgust posterity, and he seems resolved to prevent it so far as lies in his power. He is seen by gentlemen in authority only, and when any of them enter, he instantly muffles himself up in the bed -clothes, so that nothing more than his eyes and forehead can be seen. Yesterday he declined to avail himself of the felons' privilege of walking his time in the ward, and chose to want, or run the risk of wanting, his supper, rather than go for it to the gate like other criminals. His wretched wife also remains con stantly- in her cell, and maintains a dogged silence re specting the atrocities of their past lives. With respect to Burke, it is not likely that his name will again pollute our pages, till he ends his life on the scaffold. Indeed he would not have been mentioned at present, bad it not been that two circumstances were omitted in the harry of getting np our last report. It was mentioned already, that he denied when in the lock-up, that he was present at the murder of James Wilson, known by the name of " Daft Jamie," and he gave the following details When I was at work, Hare's wife came and told me that they bad a lad of the name of Daft Jamie in the house and were intending to "do him" for the doctors. She stated that she had already got a good deal of whiskey, and asked me to come and help to finish him. She told me to come in and ask if he had:got any whiskey, and if he said yes, I was to send for some more. I was detained with a shoe for about twenty minutes, and when I went to the door it was fastened ; but I was told by a female voice to stop about three minutes, and all would be over. When I got in I saw Hare, his wife, and another man I'll not name, and Jamie lying quite dead. The body was stripped, and when I looked at the clothes, I said these clothes will answer —, and they were sent to him." When asked if he had no compunctious visitings of na ture—no remorse—no stings of conscience—he replied that fox a long time after he had murdered his first vic tim, he found it utterly impossible to banish for a single hour the recollection of the fatal struggle—the screams of distress and despair—the agonising groans--and all the realities of the dreadful dee!. At night the bloody tra gedy, accompanied by frightful visions of supernatural beings, tormented him in his dreams; but he aitisnately became so callous, that a murder added but little to his mental anguish. It is something consoling to reflect that this revolting monster has been overtaken in his path of blood, and is soon to expire on the gallows.— Scotsman. THE WEEKLY DISPATCH.—The Proprie tor% of this Journal beg to acquaint the public, that not withstanding both Mr. Richard Taylor's steam-engine machines have been continually employed in printing the DISPATCH since Friday Evening last, the supply has been insufficient to answer the immense demand for that paper; and in order to accommodate those persons who have hitherto been disappointed in obtaining the first number of the ENLARGED SERIFS Or THE DISPATCH, and may still wish to obtain the same, together with the ENGRAVING, which is given (maws to every purchaser, the proprietors will continue the publication throughout the present week. ~_.Dispatch Office, 139, Fleet-street. - - - ,Several of the Portuguese officers embarked on hoard the transports last Wednesday, and it is expected the greater p:irt of the troops of the line will embark on Friday, shout: the weather prove favourable. No transports are as yet engaged for the conveyance of the volunteers or civilians.—Plymouth Journal. It is rumoured in the Court circles, that Dr. Bris, , ol, the domestic chaplain of the Duke of Wellington Nring the Peninsular war, is likely to succeed to the pre bendal stall in our Cathedral, now vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Professor G3isford.—. Woroester Journal. The quantity of coals shipped at Alloa, for Dundee, for the quarter ended loth October last, amouata to 5818 tons.— Caledonia: Mercury. We regret to hear that the typhus fever is at present raging to a considerable extent in Stornoway. It pervades, more or less, all claws, and has also extended to shelesser islands in the neighbourhood. -- Inverness Courier. We are happy to state that sickness is rapidly disappearing from among the population to the east of the city. Drentery, which prevailed to a great extent a short time ago, has now almost entirely subsided; and a case of fever seldom occurs.— Glasgow chronicle. We are sorry to observe, that the increase of prisoners in our county gaol, lately, has been so great as almost to exceed any former precedent. The number committed within the past week is :Id, and most of them for heavy offences.—Warwick Advertiser. A bittern was last week shot in Westmorland, which measured in length three feet four inches.—Caledo nian Mercury. A thrush was heard singing in Kennoway Den on Suuday—a rare occurrence on the last Sabbath of the year.—Caledonian Mercury. Dartmouth is to have a new Church, to be built in the centre of St. Petrox, and the present edifice at the mouth of the harbour, is to remain as a cemetery for the dead.— Western Times. ON-DlT.—The Lord Lieutenant's servants are ordered to prepare for a march in a fortnight. The Lord Chancellor has been closetted with the Marquis for the last two days. —Dublin Freeman's Journal. - The foundation-stone of his Grace the Duke of Athol'e new palace will be laid with due masonic honours, and a magnificent procession will take place on the occasion.• A general " gathering" within the county is expected; particularly as it is understood his Grace himself, who has lo►:g been at the head of the fraternity in Dunkeld and in the county, intends being present at the ceremony.— Glasgow Chronicle. A cow was killed about three weeks ago by Mr. Gar:vtt, of Stratton St. Margarets, in this county, grazed by Nr. Woodford, of Snow.hill, near Swindon, and expected to have calveft some time in March last. She bad, however, passed over the period, and on opening her a calf was found weighing eight score, having the appear ance of a calf a year old. The cow fatted very well, and the beef proved to be very good.--Hants Advertiser. In Paisley, the New Year has been welcomed in by the usual festivities practised in the west of Scotland. Considering the depressed state of trade in that town at present, the petiole have enjoyed themselves pretty freely on this occasion.— await, Chronicle. Bedford-gaol and Penitentiary are very full ; and there are now upwards of 40 prisoners confined under the game laws. There is one from Woburn (Clare), who has taken up his usual winter-quarters for the twenty-first time. The offence of being found armed at night with intent to destroy game, &c. is punishable with transporta tion for seven yea's; but this sentence is seldom, if ever, carried into effect. —Bucks Gazette. During the reading of the prayers of St. Peter's Church, on Sunday last, a respectable-looking female sud denly gave two piercing shrieks, and sank down senseless on the floor. She was 4arnediately raised and carried out, when she was di s .-overed to be z oerson ruined Eddy, living as housekeeper to Mr. Ellis, it. the London-road. Medical assistance was at hand, but its applicatiu:t . Was in vain, as she breathed her last in about an hour and a from the time she was carried home. —Br ighton Herald. We forgot to mention before, that two sur gical instruments, a catling and a scalpel, were found in Burke's' house ; and from the quantity of blood with which the straw in the corner was deluged, there is every reason to believe that they have been occasionally used, though in a very peculiar manner. The latter ins*. ment is well known, and the former we will not describe. It is our conviction, however, that it was employed, in some cases, to ensure and hasten death, in a mode ana lagoua to that in which Pollock murdered his wife. We cannot go further, but the intelligent reader will easily divine the nature of the murderous operation to which we allude. Of course no external wound was inflicted, and no esternai trace of the infernal act visible, cave the blood which floured from the victim, and for which the ac.ientific process of destruction mentioned in our last will by no means account. The hmmorrhage consequent on suffo cation produced by compressing at once the respiratory organs and the trachea would in all cases be exceedingly small ; and there is no possible way of accounting for the quantity of blood on the straw, except by the horrific end unnameable operation to which we have rekletantly al 1-wiled.-- Caledonian 4lfercurb'. FOREIGN iNTET,LIGF.NCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazette de France of Saturday.) Pa ills, JAN. 2. —Our readers save yesterday what the Azotriun Observer has said of the pretended correspond ent of the Journal des Debats at Vienna. To-day it is the turn of another paper, which pretended that it had a letter, stating that accounts from Transylvat,ia, received at Vienna, announce that General Geismar, being surrounded on sides at the camp at Kulafat, had been obliged to surrender to the Turks. The Observer ad.'s that on the 2.2 d of December—that is to say, 18 days later—no such report hail been heard of at Vienna, and that, on the con. trAry, every body there knew that the Russian General, who had not even been attacked, still remained in his posi tions in Little Wallachia. The Observer cannot account for,this propensity to invent lies, but by ascribing it to some psor devil who does not know how to obtain authen tic news, and endeavours, however, to earn his pay as well ;is he can, Val ions accounts in the Augsburgh Gazette announce that the Turks, under the command of Omer Vrione, had sallied from Shumla, towards the end of November, to attack the Russians at Bazardjik; but the latter, who were on r:,eir guard, hai repulsed them. The Turks had re turned to their position. _ _ . By a singular concurrence of circumstances, the Pro vince of the line is the only ship before Algiers. All the other vessels of the squadron are now in our port (Tou lon). Some have 1,. ought despatches to our Government, the others are come to repair. The merchants have every reason to complain of so ri diculous a blockade, and the negligence of the Ministry is unpardonable. Negseiations are indeed spoken of, hut we ,1 not think they will_end favourably fur us. On the other hand, it is announced that the Algerine squadron has been dismantled, but in two or three days it might arm again and get out to sea. At all events, is it prudent to leave to one ship the care of blockading all Algiers? Let us hope that the Government will take speedy measures to repair this negligence, and to make the merchants easy. Several of the inhabitants of Verdun, creditors of the English prisoners of war for a sum of 3,500,000 francs, have been presented by M. Rauthier, their Consul, to the Count de la Ferronays, Minister of Foreign Affairs, who has promised to recommend their claims to the English Government. His Excellency has declared, that be had delivered an official hate on this subject to Prince Polig nac, French Ambassador at London. The claim of the inhabitants of Verdun has been supported by Messrs. Etienne de St. Aulaire and Desbassvns de Richentont, Deputies of the Meuse." FRENCH FUNDS.-Five per Cents., 107 f. sc. ; Three per Cents., 73f. 95c. Bank Stock, 1,300 f. ; Naples Stock, 77f. 30e. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 76Y. ; Spanish Rents Perpetuelle, 46f. Exchange on London, one month, 2M. 20c. ; three months, 25f. 10c. GERMAN PAPERS. BERLIN, DEC. 20.—Our latest accounts from Con stantinople are uninteresting, and almost all to be found in the Austrian Observer. The Porte was still animated with the same warlike spirit, and perhaps nothing but the sensible wart of money will briug it to entertain more conciliatory sentiments, though it does not show any em barrassment in this respect. The harmony between the representatives of the European Courts, which is now greater than ever, is of great importance, and cannot but be favourable to the Porte. The "Prussian Ambassador enjoys its confidence as well as that of his colleagues, and we therefore think the report not probable, according to which M. de Canitz is going to return borne. Our Cabinet is said to be by no means inactive, but, besides its efforts at Constantinople, to be disposed to 'use its influence with the Emperor Nicholas to induce him to modify the demands which are stated in his declara tion of war. It may be doubted, however, whether the Emperor will assent to this, or, indeed, whether he will listen to the proposal of a mediation, since Count Nessel rode is said to have addressed a note to the Great Powers, when he was lately at Odessa, declaring his Sovereign's resolution not to accept a mediation from whatever quarter it might be offered, and repeating the Emperor's previous declaration, that he would not sheath the sword till he had obtained entire satisfaction and indemnity from the Porte. These words would not, indeed, be very con solatory, especially as the firm character of the Em peror Nicholas would probably resist all proposals con trary to the interest of Russia, and the Sultan is equally indisposed to concession. The friends of peace Ile not, however, lose their courage, and the wisdom of our statesmen may perhaps find a way to reconcile all in terests. The Princes of the Royal Family, who were easily initiated into public affairs, might perhaps contribute to such a result. The last conferences . at London, if they do not satisfy the public in general, at least offered a basis for the negotiation of a general peace. The entire evacua tion of the Morea by the Turkish troops was known at Constantinople; but no great stress seemed to be laid on it. Orders are said to have been despatched for all the troop from the Morea to remain till further orders in the Pachaliks to which they have been conveyed by the Allies. IflesNa, Dac. 22.—Metalliques 915 i ; Bank Shares, 1,0951. Zeitunp, Dec. 28. LISBON PAPERS. The bullet:4;s of his 11ajesty's health, from the 12th to the 19th of December, announce, in the same terms as before, that no change has taken place. " Dec. 10, One o'Clock, " Having examined to-day his Majesty's fractured limb, we had the satisfaction to find that the bone was united, and the limb without any &fortuity. His Majesty, will continue to keep his bed for some days, in order that he is get up with perfect security. Pidaec of Queluz, Dec. 19, 1528." (Signed by the four Medical Attendants.) Dxc. 21.--iesterdzy being the first time since forty days that his Majesty Was totally free from indiseosition, the loyal Senate of this 4 city canspd a solemn Mass and Te Dcum to be performed in the church of St. Antonio. After Maw the Rev. J. A. de Macedo pronounced an eloquent discourse, arid in the evening the Senate House was illuminated, and also many parts of the city. DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS. TO THE ROYAL BOARD p TRADE. The Charge d'Affaires of Portugal at the Court of Rio de Janeiro having informed this office, by k despatch of the 27th September htst, that the Ma: quis Aracaty, Mini- I ster of Foreign Affairs, bad signified to him, on the part of his Majesty the Emperor of Brazil, that notwithstanding the changes which have lately taken place in them, the commercial relations would continue without any inter ruption, for tile mutual interest and convenience of the two countries, and that the said Charge d'Affaires would be ad mitted to treat in that Court of every thing concerning those relations whit+ subsist in conformity with the Treaty of the 29th August, 1925, the King our Sovereign has been pleased to order this information to be communicated to the Royal Boatd of Trade, ac., which I communicate to your Excellency to lay before the said Board. Viscount De SANTARENT. To Senhor Marquis De Torres Novas. Pal:lLe of Queluz, Dec. IS, 1829. It is not irue that the Officers of the Police have been, during the week, by order of their superior•, watching the movements of ope or two eminent actors who were on terms of intimacy with Mr, ,Stephenson, under the impression that these gentlemen knew of his retreat. The wily banker was too cunning to trust them with hi:, secret — these actors " tell all." - THE VALUE OF LAND.—The season for Auctions, which generally commences with the Meeting of Parliament, will soon put to the test the sound reason ing of those who believe the late advance in agricultural produce will necessarily enhance the value of land.'.-we think it must—but there is a still more powerful reason to be urged " the exceedingly high price of the Funds." It would be accounted in former times an anomaly that sod should pay a higher interest than the Funds, and yet Bac ,ii. fact, the latter being subject, on the bare whis per of war, 0 a severe diminution of capital, while the sa me cause woul'lNP gp instant increase the annual value of land in the same pr.opp:Pion. It appears to us that such a view of the ease txu.ist neeezwily incline the Fund. holders to invest (at least) a part of their iii,ealth in land. Our paper to-day promises to such very great Jack Johnstone, the late inimitable .co r m- dian, by his retirement from the stage, left his peculiar and exclusive department in the drama unoccupied. It is remarkable that the same state candlesticks which illumi nated the chamber in the house where Johnstone's re mains were deposited previously to their removal, were used at the funeral of Mr. GarriAk, lA*: he lay in state at his house on the Adelphi-terra,cß„ 'The fAther Mr. Page, the undertaker e mployed by Mrs. Walluek, con : ducted Garrick's funeral, and on that occasion employed in the procession 33 sets of horses, six horses in each set, besides private carriages, which included those of the most distinguished nobility and geMxy of the land. The line was unbroken from the Adelphiptermac to Westminster Abbey. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. 3 and 4.—Wind N. W.—Arrived from Lon • don, the Frances Maria, --, fur St. libes . ; Cobb, for Batavia; and Astrea, Brandlight, for ditto.— The outward-bound have sailed, except the Maria anti Margaretha. Remain the Astrea and Maria. POUTSM °NTH, JAN. 3 awl 4.—Wind N. to E.—Ar rived limn Loadon, the Corinthian, Chadwick, for New York. Sailed the Duke of Manchester, Hood, for Jamaica; General Palmer, Thomas, for Madras; his Ma jesty's ships Ranger, Nimrod, Perseverance, and the whole of the outward-bound, except the Andromache, Law, for Calcutta ; General Palmer, Thomas, for Madras, Lord Melville, for New South Wales, and two others. PLYMOUTII, Jar. 3. --Wind N.W.—Sailed the Faith, Robertson, for the Mauritius ; Belinda, Robertson, for the Cape; Dryad, killock, for Calcutta, and the outward bound. FAt 7.tottztt, JAN. 2 and 3.—Wind N.W. and N.N.W. —Arrived the Henry Alexander, Pyke, from Gallipoli ; Stanmer packet, from Lisbon, in 11 days. Sailed the Nimble, Broad, for the Mauritius ; Maria, Steel, for ditto; Mellish, Vincent, and Elizabeth, Collins, for New South Wales; Velocity, Brook, for Lima; James Long, Lughrie, and Oscar, for Rio Janeiro, and the outward bound. • LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1829. The news of Lord ANGLESEA'S recall has, as might have seen expected, struck the Catholic party with dismay. They see in it symptoms, if not of the downfall of their hopes, at least of theiel-etrograde movement, and will, of course, be proportionably excited. Meanwhile they have, through the medium of Mr. O'CONNELL, done Lire arooL, JANUARY 2. —Wind W. N. W.--High water 10 minutes past eight.—Arrived the Eriu, , from Waterford ; Lady Normanby, Summers." from Dublin ; John Robinson, , from ditto ; The tis, Townley, from Dublin. Sailed—The Nimrod, Hadgley, for Charleston ; Elira heti], Punton, for Jamaica ; Amelia, Cook, for Jamaica ; Milby, Eden, for Pernambuco ; St. Lucia, Rawling, for St. Lucie. JANUARY S.—Wind W.S. W.—Arrived the Kremlin, Wood, New Orleans ; Ellen Clare, Roberts, from' Mes sina ; Lady Maxwell, M'Call, from Port William ; Ed ward, Cargill, and Dinorwick, Hannah, from Kircudhright ; Eliza, Kirk, from Cork, Sailed—The Marie Victoire, Vibert, for Jersey; Bal four, , for New Orleans; Harlequin, - , for Naples ; Bolivar, 111‘Go wan, for Africa ; Betsy, Shaw, for Gibraltar ; Belvidera, Nabb, for Baltimote ; Goro, , for Savannah. the amplest justice to the dexterously impartial conduct of the Viceroy. They have appreciated his full value, both as a man and as a Minister, and expressed themselves towards him in terms of such fervent, yet respectful affection, that so long as a manly heart beats within him, his Lordship can never forget them. The Eagle, from Liverpool to Dingle, was run on board of and sunk, the 27th ult. ; crew saved. It will be observed that we have taken for granted the fact of his Lordship's dismissal or resignation, for this particular reason, that though it be not officially announced, yet that his letter is so diametrically opposed in spirit to the Duke of WELLINGTON'S, that it is impossible they can longer act in concert to gether. .The Duke says to the Catholics, " bury your question in oblivion," the Marquis re joins, " do no such thing, for it is impossible; continue to press your claims zealously, but le gaily and submissively, or, depend upon it, an ungenerous advantage will be taken of your for bearance." Under these circumstances, it is manifest that one must have given way ; either the Duke or the Marquis must have recanted— a supposition too extravagant to be even dreamed of. Meanwhile Ireland, we presume, is to be once more given over, so far, at least, as Mini sters can do so, to the Ascendancy Men. Once more are we to witness the rabid orgies of the Brunswiekers; the exultation of the Beresfords, the sufferings of the deeply-injured Catholics. But most earnestly—from a firni conviction of the consequences that must ensue—do we en treat the Government to beware how they play or tamper with the sensibilities of Ireland.— It is dangerous for children to play with edge-tools : it is still more dangerous for Ministers, from a paltry earnestness to pre serve themselves in place, to neglect the intreaties and insult the sorrows of a nation of indignant slaves. In Ireland a spirit has been awakened which no brute force can allay. If, during the rebellion of 98, when two coun ties only were disaffected, the flower of the English troops had the greatest difficulty in putting down the insurrection, what must be the addition to their labours when a whole nation is in arms ; a nation not :scattered or split into factious, but organised to a man, panting for re venge, and determined to be free THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TwEr.rs o' CLocr. The boisterous state of the weather has prevented any arrival from France or Holland this morning, and two Mails from the latter place are now due. A Flanders Mail has, however, arrived, by which we learn that a loan for the Russian Government, of 6,000,000 of guilders, about 500,000/, has been contracted for by the house of Hope and Co., at 99, and at this rate it already bore a premium of 1 per cent. In the City this morning there was a current report that Stephenson, the fraudulent Banker, had escaped from Bristol in a small vessel on Tues day morning, and it was understood with the intention of taking his chance of getting on board some larger vessel; it was also added that a close pursuit had commenced after him ; how far this statement is correct we cannot say, but it is to be lamented the exertions hitherto used for his apprehension have not been more successful. The private letters from Lisbon con6rm the accounts front thence that Mr. Matthews, the British Consul-General, had called a meeting of the British residents at his own house (and not at the English church as stated), in which he informed them the Miguelite Government had given no reply with in the period limited of 30 days, in conformity with his instructions, which demanded reparation for the wanton acts of persecution which had taken place against British subjects, and more particularly that which re quired the release Of Mr. Alenly, who still remains in prison, and he therefore considered it his duty to warn them to place their persons and property in safety.— This, it was naturally supposed, would bring the point to an issue between the two Governments; and it will now be seen how far the British Government will take mea sures to avenge the studied insults which have been so la vishly heaped on his Majesty's subjects, in violation of the existing treaties.' There was still a report of Miguel's death, and that the bulletin which was issued of his amended health was merely to keep every thing quiet, for at the sailing of the packet, on the 23d, considerable alarm exiated among the adherents of the absolute party. Consols opened to-day at 87i 4, and have remained at the same rate to the above hour, with little or nothing doing. No business is doing in the Exchequer market ; the premium is nominally tiS 69, and on India Bands 72 74. The Ki . eign Funds are in an equally dormant state, and no alteration has taken place in prices. The following are the quotation!. In Shares no business, or any variations. Three per Cent. Consols, shut ; Ditto, for Jan. 21, S7i a ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 844 j; India Stock, shut ; B:ink Stock, 209 10 ; ludia Roads, 72 4 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, tiS 9 pm. . . FOIIEIGIN.-Brazilian, 64 ; Buenos Ayres, 47 8 ; Chilian, 22i 3 ; Colombian, 23 1 ; 63 , French, Five per Cent. 1064 ; Three per Cent. 73 ; Greek, 16 17; Mexican, Five per Cent.. 254 64 ; Ditto, Six per Cent., 324 8 ; Peruvian, 1'74 184 ; Portuguese, 534 a ; Russian, 95 1 ; Spanish, 10 I t. Mxnxs.—Anglo Mexican, '774 5 die. ; Brazilian, 87 9 pm. ; Bolanos, 95 105 pm. ; Colombian Mines, 134 124 dis.; Real Del Monte, 160 per share; United Mexican, 234 211 TWO O'CLOCK. The French Papers of Friday, . and the Gazette de France of Saturday, do not contain any news of particular interest. The accounts from the late theatre of war are, as usual, very contra dictory, partaking of the wishes of the respective channels through which they emanate, rather than from any regard for truth. Under these circum stances we may expect to be occasionally amused with reported losses of the Russians, both by sea and land, till the season arrives for opening the campaign in due form. The blockade of Algiers has dwindled down to one ship ! This ridiculous inefficiency of force has excited the natural alarm of the French merchants, for the safety of their ships. The French Government should either enforce the blockade rigorously, or abandon it altogether. An ineffective blockade will only serve to pro voke the contempt of the Algerines, while it be trays the French merchants into a false security. Consols for a moment were 87i, sellers. Cope, the City Marshal, proceeded to Devonport last night, accompanied by two of the banking clerks of Re mington and Co, in search of Stephenson. THREE O' CL 0 CK. Consols, S7l f. PETTY SESSIONS.--(THIS DAY.) Mr. PLT ILVIS, Captain Toxins/sox, and Mr. BECKETT, the Magistrates, held an adjourned Petty Sessions this morning at the Workhouse, Little Gray's-inn-lane, for the purpose of hearing the C 1929 of the occupiers of Cham bers in Lincoln's-inn, who still persist in their refusal to pay the Poor Rates demanded of them by the Parish of St. Andrew, Holborn. About eleven o'clock, the time ap pointed, the roam was considerably crowded with Bar risters and Attorneys who had been summoned, all of whom complained that the present proceeding was harsiland unjust. Several of them had purchased their Chambers several years since, and had never been called upon -to pay rates, and they were now taken by surprise. Mr. SMI iv, Counsel for the parish, said he must repel with indignation what was alleged against the parish as to the claim being unjust, and the proceedings vexatious ; it was quite the reverse ; and be was mere surprised to hear his Learned friends (Mr. Pemberton, Mr. Phillimore, and others), say they were taken by surprise, when the claim had never ceased being litigated for these last six years." A warm and somewhat angry discussion then enstmed, which at length ended by the Magistrates again adjourning time Sessions until Friday next, when 14 cases, in which the parties have been summoned ever since the 22 , 1 of Sep tember, among whom are the Lord Chancellor, the At torneysCieeerel, and several distinguished barristers, will be decided. There appears to be little prospect pf any compromise between the parties; the occupiers of chambers semi 07 termined to dispute the ground, inch by inch, with the parish, in every individual case, and they threaten to try the validity of every single rate that hag, or may hereafter, be made. The parish perceiving this :disposition, on Thursday het summoned the whole of the persons whom they con Sider ought to pay the rates, amounting to no less a number than one hundred and fifty individuals, all of the legal profession. It appears that part of Lincoln's-Inn belongs to the parish of St. Clement Danes, and that many years since they had a similar dispute with time then occupiers of chambers in that parish, but in 1773 the parish obtained a verdict in their favour, ever since which that part of the Inn, has regularly paid the poor-rates; and the parish of st. Apilyaw are determined to compel the other party like wise to enekriisnte towards the support of the poor, and complain of the dete r ips ined sod yexatious manner in which the claim is resisted ; they wished the W4n)e of the cases look out for hm, sza that if he has not actually to be decided by any five or six that could be agiee; nags:., left the country, the chalices arg ,c,lai increasing b u t no, say the Society of Lincoln's Inn, we will dispute ,ly every single case on its own merits, and if you distrain, against him. I ,fire will each of us replevy ; thus the case at present stands. Lisbon Gawites to the 23d December have been received. They state that a bulletin has been issued, signed by four physicians, 4nnpuncing the complete recovery of Don MIGUEL. The fracture had re-uuita without leaving any deformity ; and a few days would, 'it was expected, enable MiGuEt. to leave his bed with perfect security. If all this be true his . :Ilajesty is not dead yet. The same course of tyranny is daily exercised towards the subjects of this ptintry as to those of Portugal. It is rep oKe4 tlpg some clue of STEPHEN.. SON'S course has been obtAspe(l in the Bristol Channel. He is said to have embarked on Tuesday from Aris.tpl. Several cutters and sloops of war are on the PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank stock . :3 pet Cent. nevi... 3 pur Cent, Cons 11.:, per Cet.t. Ditto Ned 4 per Cent. _ . Ditto, lrziki : l6:s!*i [4 ink 1... Ann l9 9-16 .i 1 India Steck shut 1 Ditto Bond.: .. ..... ..... 74 pm. 1 DAY AT ONE o'cLocu. ;South Sea Stack — 961 i 7 'Old Annuities shut New Ditto Ex. Bills, X-1,000 2d. 68 70 pm. -;Ditto 500 2d. fie '7O inn. Ditto Small . 2d. 68 70 pm. 'Ditto Commercial — pm !Bank tbr ACSOUrit for Account ,Cons. for Acct B7l FEWER OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds 6/14 .Peruvian Bonds ... . — Bueit GE Ayres Bonds 'Portuguese Bonds — Cbilian Bonds 'Prussian, Old Colombian Bonds .. — 'Ditto, New Ditto, 0 24 . R. 41211 — Danish Greek Bonds 1i23 Ditto, 1925 —'French Rentes, 51,. c. Mt 25c. Guatiniala — -- Exchange ...... 25f. 30c. Mexican Bonds - 3 per cent Ditto, 1825 — Exchange ...... —ll. —e. PKICES OF SHARES THIS DAT AT ONI o'cLocr, Paid. Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £Y7 4 c United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) 38 Per Share, 12V, i r ...0. • ,<,, '-", - - r -- 4l b 1 1 ---:-„,,,,,, x „,...,_,„, t ., - LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(THIS DAY.) INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. Thomas Hunt, a dandified young man, the person who a winter or two ago drove Mr. Henry "Junes blacking-cart over the Serpentine River in Hyde-park for a wager of 100 guineas, was brought up this morning on his petition to be discharged. The insolvent, during his examination by the Commissioner, repeatedly took snuff, and conducted himself with the utmost nonchalance. There being no opposing creditor, the insolvent, after• undergoing a short examination, in the course of which nothing particular was elicited, was ordered to be discharged. • Elizabeth Smith, a respectable young female, very gen teelly attired, a school-Mistress, obtained her discharge. - It appeared that she had been unfortunate in her endeavours to gain a respectable livelihood in teaching the young idea how to shoot, and had now nothing. to live upon except the allowance from her father. THE MAR KETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE. The arrivals of mr:st descriptions of Grain during last week were moderate, but of Foreign Wheat it was again very large. The quantity of Flour was not considerable. There is a good attendance of country buyers here to-day, and Wheat of good quality rather exceeds the terms of last Monday, other kinds are unaltered in value. Barley sells very heavily, unless the quality be superior, and Prices are unaltered. Beans and Pease rennin as last quoted, with a fair demand for the former. Good sweet Oats find buyers, and well support their prices, other kinds still continue to meet a dull sale. The Flour trade con tinues heavy. PRICKS ON BOARD OF SHIP Wheat, tied (old) -4. -s. Beans, Small (new)... --s. White (old)..; 9. S. --.- Red (1828) ... 525. 675. - Tick (new)....335. Fine 6os. 635. • (old) ....ft% -- Superfine.. 665. 70s. - Harrow (new) 38s. --.....White (lM). 565. 6Bs. Fine . 70e. 73s Brank 255, -- Superfine.. 765. SOS. Oats, Feed 225. --Foreign tree :Xis. 90s. Rye - Poland ' 24 ,8 Barley New :335. 345. New 20s. --, Fine 36s. 3sls. - Potatoe 255. - Superfine Malt - 60s. 6(s. - Scotch £9s. - line 68s. 70s. -- Irish 20!‘.. 23s Pease, Grey 38s. 40s. Alaple 4ls. 425. -- White -- Boilers Flour Town (per sack) 70s 755; -- Seconds 60s. 665. North Country 58s. 635. Bran ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WERE. 4.4 , re W C C:2 "g ht, -1 .., P i 4 2 2 s - From Whence. (7 e ,'. l F F. :-.• et :1 = <a , ' f ' ' . : 4 ........... •-.-- .....••••••• •—....... ••••••••••• .....- 9,r,5. Qrt. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks. Aldborongl- d 138 116 Alemouth — 570 , Boston Clay 57 830 , Colchester 259 34 105 '7l 197 160 60 11 Harwich A Leigh 293 93 168 271 138 50 ", Maldon l'2l 43 85 289 16 Grangerocuth Hull — 215 40 Ipswich — 105 '7Bl 80 '74 454 Kent 419 439 23 180 341 318 559 Lynn — 60 '759 68 Newcastle 143 995 Poole lO 6 Southwold Spalding — 330 200 Wells SO 520 • Weymouth Woodbridge 2l 232 '75 24 21 14' Yarmouth ~. 1997 1285 3614 Aberdeen — 570 10 Banff — 2790 Dunbar Inverness lO 497 1698 4826 5438 8525 1241 824 6200 I 'mu Galway — 1526 L- Limerick Waterford ..... FOREIGN. Amsterdam 1570 Antwerp 111 1 .44 60 80 Archangel Bogense — 1150 Bremen 958 620 209 691 50 Brussels ..... Carolienziel lOO 100 215 Dantzic Eckenforde — 410 Hamburgh Karabecksmind 685 New Y(srk 1100 Ostend 1290 Petersburgb 2023 Riga — 205 Rostock 336 -- 130 Rotterdam - Roll en Spain Wismar lllO --- Total AGGREGATE Rye,l423—Tares; QUA N 1 475-' TITY 0 .Linseec Ilitard, I IF OTH 'EIL IP' riliS OF ed, 12— PULS] ,Brank :,1091 11, 0• Se. . Is, '215. SMITHFIELD MARKET. At this day's market, which exhibited throughout a good time of year supply, Beef and Mutton went off heavily at a depression of from 2d. to 4d. per atone ; Veal and Pork, at Friday's prices. thICES PELL sTorrit OF $1.113. TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to s. .1.1 Inferior Beasts 2 4 2 8 Second quality ditto 3 2 3 4' Prime large Oxen 4 4' 4 8 Prime Scots, Ste-- 4 6 4 8 Inferior Sheep 2 8 3 2 Second quality ditto 3 2 310 Coarse.woolledilitto 4 2 4 8 Sw.itlidownWethers 4 8 5 2 s. d. to s. d. • Large Lambs 0 U 0 0 Prime small ditto 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 4 8 5 2 Prime small ditto 5 4 5 8 Large Hogs 4 8 5 4 Small Porkers 5 4 5 Suckling Calves 12s tofids. each. Quarter old Pigs 16s to 20s. cacti. SUPPLY, AN PER. CL Beasts. I Sheep. 2,658 19,3`30 1 O About 1800 01 the beasts came K'S STATEM Calve,. Pigs. 1`74 140 up the different North Roayid ; shout 46n from the western and midland districts ; about MO from Norfolk, Sufiblk, Essox, and Cambridgeshire about SO from gent and Sn,,ex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c., in the neighbourhood of London. NEWOATE AND LEADENH ALL MARKETS. At pt stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d. s. a. to s. d. Beet 2 4 4 0 Veal Mutton 2 6 4 2 Pork COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE MARKET —Jan. 3. We had a moderate supply of Wheat to-day from the farmers, for which the sale was heavy, Lut at little change frosii last week's prices. The supply of country Oats was lurge, and the sale of common very dull, at a decline 'of Is. to 2a. per quarter, bat the potatoe sold readily on full as good terms as last Saturday. Fiue Barley meets buyers, but the, middling and inferior parcels are almost unsale able. Malt very dull. Little has been done this week in Rye. Pease and Beans as our last. New. Old. Wheat, Northumberland '7os. 84s. --- Norfolk and Sutlblk 60s. 745, , --- Berwick and Scotch...." ........ 70s. 74.. --s. —s. I --,--- Dantzig SOs. 9:.?.g -4. 11 f:1 1 1:and Suffolk ...40s. 42s 365. 50s. —s —s. 96s 40s g n n' g dN a So n ur d Feeding . . 32q 3Ss. •••••• -- s. —9 * 4k .625. 665. ...... ..... 9 . .....S. _ .._ ..._ _ .. 131 vßiayaerilt,:yr:N,ooorvrcirerfifrflt,lid:aia and star, Beans, Small 403. 425. ...... —h. ..". ---- Tick —s. —5....... —B. —s. Pease, White 445. 495. -- Gray Oats, N , rth oroberland, Potatce ... 27s. 28s..••••• —s. —s. Feed 19s. 205...... —s. —s. -,--• Foreign —B. —s. Flour, Fine (per sack) MANCHESTER CORN MARKET.-J, ?. a. During the present week the transactions in sales of Grain have been small. We have had a retail demand for Flour, and in Malt very little passing. Our market was rather throng this morning, with a small show of samples of fine Wheat, this article fully supports last week's rates. There is a small demand for Grinding Barley, and the best samples of Oats are held at prices fully as high as kialtirday last. Boiling Pease are not much in request, and having a large show of Beans, the article is dull. The Malt trade continues dull, and may be noted Is. per load cheaper. The best descriptions of Flour are as last noted in price, with a rather better demand. Oatmeal is steady in pi ice. Custom3ry Bushel. Quar. of 8 Imp Bush. Wheat (704) O. d tp s. ti. s. d. to s. d. English, 6 12 0 82 0 bli ---- Fine 11 ii 79 2 82 9 ----Second Runs—.lo 0 11 0 72 0 '79 2 ------ Scotch & Welch 11 0 11 9 '79 2 84 '7 Irish, Fine Old 10 6 11 0 '75 7 '79 2 3 10 9 73 9 '77 4 --- Inferior 9 0 10 01 64 9 '72 0 Foreign, Flee ll 6 12 2182 9 B'7 '7 Barley (601 b ) English, rthe Irish 5 4 Inferior for grinding 5 0 Oats (451 b.) English, Pine Poland.., 4 2 Sonia, Potatoe .. 4 Irish, tor Mealing 4 1 Provender--...... 4 3 Foreign., Old 4 Pease (Imp. Bush.) Blue, (boilers)... '7 0 '7 352 0 64 0 White (ditto) licans (Imp. Qr.) • 4. U. to a. 4. (Pe{ Sack 2801b5.) s. d. to s. d. English, Fine-- 48 l 50 0 Plonr„Norfolk and --- Inferior., 46 0 48 0 S)iliblk,Firie 53 0 61 0 Irish, 41 0 43 0 Yorks.,Fine 48 0 60 0 Foreign 47 0 50 0 Seconds 51 0 52 0 Malt (per load of 6 Imp. Bush.) Irish, Fine— (Y) 0 61 0 Nottingham, fine— 50 0 52 (1 Superfine 63 0 (15 0 Yorkshire 0 50 0 —Heatedbr stale 52 0 51 0 Irish and Inferior— 36 0 42 0 Per load of 2401 b. Pia Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Oatmeal, Englisn— 37 0 39 0 Flour,Notts. Fine 60 0 61 0 --Scotch & Irish 38 0 40 0 Sup. 63 0 61 0 Feeding 27 0 31 0 63 6 9 43 4 46 9 . 36 Ift 7 34 . 13 36 4 4 6 4 4 4 3 4 6 31 1 33 7 31 1 32 4 30 5 81 8 31 8 33 7 29 10 31 1, 40 4 2 g . a . g • '>: c, t g a .—. s Pr =',z , . ; We regret to learn, that the small : poz,. is prp, vailing in the village of Culver. —Sheffield Nereary. ROWLAND STEPHENSON. Three years ago, Rowland Stephenson, the banker, made an offer of marriage to a celebrated and most de servedly popular vocal performer (who still remains a me ritorious spinster), which the modest young lady very pro perly declined. The rich banker had long been her patron, and gradually became enamoured of her person. She, • however, with excellent judgment, .stated her objections to - originate—first, in the dispai ity of their ages; secondly, Mr. Stepheuson's Inge family • by a previous wife; and, lastly, her own attachnient to her father, her sisters, and her brother, as insuperable bar, to such a union.—Sunday Times. - Rowland Stephenson delighted in the society of public men, especially in the company of actors. Mr. and Mrs. Yates, Mr. Liston, Mr. Mathews, and Mr. Arnold, were fox-years his occasional guests, both at his residence in town, and his three country houses. These gentlemen . kept their respective accounts at his banking-house : we hope they are not material sufferers. It is, however, rumoured that one of them will be a creditor for nearly two thousand pounds, and another for five hundred pounds. —Sunday Times. The Times yesterday, speaking of Mr. Rowland Ste phenson, says—" Few of his private friends, of whom there are many in the city, seem to he at all aware what his pri vate habits of living were; but among the servants about his own immediate neighbourhood, it was so notorious that he regularly kept the carriage out all night, that engage ments in his service have been declined on that account.— His attendance at businetr.in the city was nevertheless tole rably regular ; but those who hail any to transact with him have remarked that his manner was careless and absent, • He appeared to have no head, nor thoroughly to under stand any thing that was proposed to him. Hence be got the character of a bad banker, a man not competent to transactions of that nature .; but not the slightest suspicion • of his honour or honesty existed in any quarter." [From some private knowledge of the person in' ques tiou, we can easily account for his appearing not readily to comprehend what was proposed to him. - The truth is, his mind was weigbed down by his dreadful situation. How he got rid of the money he has stolen we profess ourselves unable to account, bop we do not believe that he fre quented any of the west end of the town Hells. As for his carriage being out late at night, that is accounted for by • the fact that he was never easy unless in society, of some kind or other. He appeared to dread returning home, , as if he feared to be alone. He once informed the writer of this article, that for many years he had not enjoyed two hours connected sleep in die night—and that he was ac customed to get up and read, to while away the time.].... The News. There is a paragraph in the Journal des Debats of Thursday, respecting the arrest of a person en deavouring to find the Bilassoa, with much money on him, powder, ball, &c. and a great knife, whose name and • country cannot be discovered. If it was not impossible that Mr. Stephenson could be at the Bidatisoa in time for • such a paragraph to reach the Journal des Debate' office on Wednesday, people would have bees disposed to suppose this stranger to be the above•named gentleman. The lady of a celebrated Baronet, eminent in science, and extremely partial to good living, being told by a very particular friend that he was sorry to see the health , of the Baronet in so delicate a state, replied hastily, but feelingly, " How can any man expect to be well whodines • three hundred and sixty-five days in the year ?" The mail bag from Alton to Winchester, was dropped on Tuesday morning between the above places. On the loss being discovered, it was immediately adver tised, and a reward offered to the tinder. No tidings of it were, however, received till Thursday, when it was dis covered, that a shoemaker of Alresford Cwe believe of the name of Ward) had been trying to pass some of the notes contained in the letters, the numbers of which were for tunately known, and payment of them stopped. The bag contained notes to the amount of 651. with a bill at sight on Glyn and Co. for 201. the whole of which, we hear, has been recovered.—Hants Advertiser. The grave-digger at Balfron lately discovered that the grave of a man, named RlcKean, had been dis turbed, and on examining, the relations found the corpse sitting, or rather leaninc , upon its elbow, half out of the coffin. The covering of the head and face bad been re moved, leaving them exposed, and the neck was twisted about. The effect upon the spectators was appalling. It is supposed that the body was beginning to became putrid, which had iuuced the exlininators to abandon their prey.— .. Glasgow Chronicle. COWES, JAN. 3.—Our noble Commodore hoisted his broad pendant on his turrets at Apnldireombe few days before Christmas, and immediately threw open his doors according to the fashion of the good old English times, when hospitality was so prominent a feature in the national character. To give a description of his entertain.. ments would far exceed the limits of our journal, and we must at present content ourselves with observing, that their splendid and extensive scale is beyond what any in the Island have before witnessed ; and althongh we have - read of such things in times long past, and we are well aware of the noble spirit of the wealthy Baron, we did not anti cipate so unbounded a display of liberality, which we un derstand will he coutinued till the 15th inst. when his Lordship will proceed to Liticolnabire,—,linnis Advertiser, On Christmas murning, Mr. John Spence, Bulkello, was presented with ten fine chickens, by one of his hens. She had, under a bay stack, at this inclement season, hatched her brood unknown to any one, and mada her first appearance with them in the kitchen no the above morning. This is the ninth time the same hftn has hatched this season, and the produce has been one hundred and twenty-five chickens.— Caledonian Mercury. We .regret extremely to learn that the Edin burgh Professional Society's Concerts, which have, for the last three or four years, been carried a with egos/ plea. sure to the public, and credit to the musicians of this me— tropolis, are now to be discontinued in consequence of the very discouraging state of their subscription list, and from having lost about 2001. by their concerts last year...— Edinburgh Advertiser. We are told that the 1, - leeligarpe op the heath, ip the vicinity of Pagshot-par . and the Military College, is much destroyed, to the great regret of many gentlemen in the neighbourhood, who have attempted to increase tha breed. It is not, perhaps, generally known, that by the 13th Geo. 111. c. 55. persons ass prohibited from killing • or having in use or possession, any heath fowl, commonly called black game, between the 10th of December and the 20th of August, under a penalty of 20/. for the first offence, and for the second and every subsequent offence 30/. ; half to the informer and half to the poor, to be re covered by information before one justice.— Hants 'Ad vertiaer. DEATH OF STAMP SLITTONCOOKE.—Died in the Marshalsea Prison, on Saturday week, James Stamp Sutton Cooke, husband to the celebrated Mrs. Cooke, now under sentence of transportation in Newgate. Cooke laid claim to the Stafford Peerage, and served th? terionto Sir George Jerninghani, now Lord Stafford, with eject- . meu4, for Whick 4r Was tried at Gloucester, and received nine months' imprisonment in the House of Correction. • He was afterwards arrested for a small sum, which b e in g unable to pay, lie was obliged to go to the Marsh a l s e a , where he died, after a confinement of one m on th. Th e J uodryf andetu returned wdaas interred verdi on Tuesd iy " Diedby th e Visitation of G last, St, GTorgp'4 Church, io the Borough. _ SICKNESS IN EDINBURGH.—W e have seen a paragraph in a provincial paper, in which it is stated, among other things, that Edinburgh is at present suffer ing from a sort of pestilence, and in particular that typhns fever is raging to such an extent, that t . , e gdinbi ag )i Academy and other principal school have in consequence been shut up. This is a ridiculous and mischievous es aggeration. It is no doubt true that sickness has pre vailed to a considerable extent, and that there have been numerous cases of fever, chiefly among the upper classes of society, which is a very unusual occurrence at this season of the year ; but no school has been shut up, except on account of the Christmas recess, and all the other state merits paragraph in question are either altogether . m ts in untrue or greatly exaggerated. , -- Caledonian Mercury. THE WESTPORT MURDERS.--It is Dow certain that no further proceedings .are'to be taken against the persons concerned either as principals or necessaries in the late murders ; at least, we, have seen a document issued from a high quarter, the gist and I,Jeafirq of > villa: f.l lead directly to this infprepee. !it the mater cannot p oss ibl y be'allovo to rest here. The united voice of so ciety calls loudly for further, deeper, and fuller investiga tion ; and if the Public Prosecutor refuse to obey that call, and redeem his pledge to probe and sift the whole system of iniquity to the bottom, there is another place where the universal cry for justice, which now rings throughout the land, will be listened to and respected, and where even that high functionary himself may le called to account for the mode in which he has exercised the almost unlitnitO, certainly undefined, powers of his office.— Caledonian Mercury.