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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The official document which we here publish has reached England from India by way of Bordeaux. There is, however, no reason to doubt that it is an authentic notice issued by Lord William Bentinck, the Governor-General of India : NOTICE. The Governor-General inv i tes ihe comtnttnication of all suggestions tending to promote any branch of national in dustry; to improve the commercial intercourse by land and water; to amend any defects in the existing establish tnents ; to encourage the diffusion of education and useful knowledge; and to advance the general prosperity and happiness of the British empire in India. This invitation is addressed to all Native Gentlemen, Landholders, Merchants, and others, to all Eumpeans both in and out of the Service, including that useful and re spectable body of men, the Indigo Planters, who, from their uninterrupted residence in the Mofussil, have peculiar opportunities of forming an opinion upon some of these subjects. Communications to be addressed to the Private or Ali tary Secretary of the Governor-General. By command, A. DOBBS, Private Secretary. Government-bottle, Feb. 23, 1829. It is gratifying to see this fresh proof of the vigorous and active benevolence with which this able nobleman is applying himself to the duties of his high office. He does not indolently re pose on his hard and well-earned reputation ; he does not consider an appointment, with which the welfare of a hundred millions of people is connected, as a splendid or pleasurable sinecure, but as an office of awful responsibility, demand ing the exertion of his most earnest vigilance and most energetic perseverance. Perhaps it would not be possible, in the longest and most elabo rate treatise, to describe the duties appertaining to the office of Governor-General of India in more accurate and explicit terms than the short and simple sentences which constitute the ad dress to which we are referring. Every thing which relates to the moral or the political hap piness of the people is comprised in these few lines ; and not only does this comprehensive notice include every important topic of inquiry, but it is written in that spirit of frankness and courtesy which disarms 'distrust and prejudice, and conciliates hostility ; for it affects no mys teries of statesmanship, but declares openly the object intended, and invites cordially the co operation of all classes of the natives, who al most for the first time find themselves addressed in the language of confidence and respect. What the result of these investigations may be, we can not predict to the full extent : good must arise from any investigation honestly and intelligently conducted; but to produce all the good con templated by the noble author of the inquiry, it will be necessary that his successors for many years to come should be as sagacious, as active, and benevolent as himself. But let the good seed be sown, and we have no doubt of the ul timate beauty and usefulness of the plant, though untoward accidents may retard its growth. At all events, Lord William Bentinck has shown that he understands the theoretical duties of his office, aPd, if he lives, will, we have no doubt, show that he can execute what he plans. How much purer and more dignified is the reputation resulting from such an administration, than the fame which is sought by that bustling mania for conquest, or that extravagant ostentation, for which some of Lord William Bentinck's prede cessors have been but too remarkable !—Times. We publish the regulations, such as they really are, which have been adopted by the Honour able Benchers of the Inner Temple. It does certainly appear to us to he just and proper to require a specific degree of general attainment in those who are admitted to keep their terms as law students, as well as of legal knowledge in those who are called to the bar ; and this is all that these resolutions require : it would certainly be insolent and cruel to require a qualification in money. Degrees in the University may, we think, be admitted as a proof of competence, be cause they are not attained without proper exa minations. In truth, however, the graduate would have no occasion to dread a fresh exami nation on his admission as a student: so that the latter examination, we apprehend, is matter of indifference. But it may be said that no man can get learning without money. Very well: then the profession will generally obtain the same end, of receiving only persons of a certain rank in life by less invidious means than if money were made the direct test of competence. Learn ing we knew to be necessary,—money not. If a poor man has talent enough to acquire a know ledge of law, he will edgily acquire the know ledge here demanded as preliminary to his em bracing the profession of a lawyer. Our rule would not exclude men of remarkable genius and talent ; for we know, from a variety of instances, how such men obtain learning, when all the ad ventitious circumstances of birth and fortune are against them. For example, a man has been known to make his first step in literature by reading the open pages of books exposed in shop-windows, and this man afterwards became an honour to his country as an author, and was acquainted with all the men of rank of his day. Ought such a man to have been rejected from keeping terms because he was poor ? Undoubt edly not ; nor would he be by these rules. But the son of the most wealthy peer or commoner should be rejected if he wants learning. No one has a right to find fault if literary competence only be required. The rest, we presume, will generally follow. _ _ " Ingenuas didieisse fideliter artes Emollit mores, nec sinit esse feros," The following is the substance of the resolutions relating to the admission of persons in the Inner Temple, which came into operation on July 10, 1829 : " Resolved, that it is expedient to exclude, as far as may be possible, from admission to the bar, per sons whose education and previous habits of life do not afford sufficient testimony of the integrity and learning which are essential to the dignity of a liberal profession, and the best titles to the respect and con fidence of the public. " Second, That with a view to effect this desir able object, no person be hereafter admitted a student of this society, without a previous examination by one barrister of the society, to be named for that purpose by the Masters of the Bench, and a certi ficate, to be signed by the examiner, of the compe tency of the candidate for admission in classical at tainments and the general subjects of a liberal edu cation. " N.B. There is no order which requires a pe cuniary qualification."—Thid. The Standard of yesterday observes, with re ference to our remarks respecting Popery - " Our respected contemporary's surprise at our infatuation, and the arguments by which he jus tifies that surprise, are altogether superfluous. We never said that Popery and Anarchy were identical. We know as well as any one that Popery and she most exact and unrelaxing despotism (the logical contradictory of anarchy) are perfectly compatible; nay, that they have an elective attraction between them. We know too, what the examples cited prove, the possibility of improvement in the me chanical arts, under despotisms as ferocious as the Popish Government of Philip the Second, or_ that of any o f gin Italian soparchs or Vugacctueo. Wo know this from the oldest and most authentic his tory, viz., the Book of Genesis, where we read that the Egyptians, the most learned and magnificent nation then, or perhaps since, existing, lived and im• proved under the rod of the Pharoahs. All this we know, aq we hope it is knt9/ti to every man, woman, and child in Britain; though we trust few of them would ti . Cept Flemish skill with Flemish cruelty, Italian art with Italian baseness, and Egyptian mag , nificence with Egyptian bondage. " What we did say was, that Popish ascendancy, or even a strong Popish influence, was inconsistent with the institutions suitable to a government of law; and that the attetinpt to Unite principles so dis cordant could produce nothing but anarchy—and the Morning Chronicle cites against us examples of simple despotism ! We thought, indeed, that tVe had guarded ourselves against any nitkoneeption 'on the point, when we atlinitted that, even concurrently with a Popish influence in Ireland, civil institutions might be maintained there, by permanent and over bearing force; as such institutions were in fact maintained there during the eighteenth century, and to the happiness of all, though by force and force only." Once for all we must own that we are unable to understand all these nice distinctions between governments of law and simple despotisms, un der which men make improvements in the me chanical arts. We fear our contemporary has allowed himself to use words without much re gard to their meaning. Whenever the arts flou rish in any country, and men embark money in extensive undertakings, with a view to profit, we may be pretty certain that they are living under a government of law. Despotism is not unfrequently used to signify things the most op posite to each other ; and hence Prussia and Turkey are often both called despotisms, just as Poland and Geneva were both called Republics. It is obvious that a term which embraces such opposites is worth nothing. In a country in which the law is not enforced there can be no accumulation of property, for property invites to aggressions ; and it is impossible that the chief can make free with persons and property without conceding the same license to those on whom he depends, as they must be conci liated in some way or other. Property, there fore, always supposes security and law, and where property is extensively distributed, there must be a strong public opinion, the grand re straint on the disposition to misgovern. There is not a man in Prussia, who, in times of general tranquillity, does not feel himself as secure with regard to person and property, as any man in England can feel himself. He knows that he lives under a Government of law, and that what ever influence the King may have in altering existing laws, or enacting new laws (and the King only chooses the functionaries by whom the Go vernment is carried on), so long as the law exists it must be respected by the King as much as the meanest subject. The Government of a civilized country must act in accordance with the opinion of a great portion of the people. It may act unwisely--it may act unjustly, but it cannot long set the opinion of the people at defiance. During times of danger, real or imaginary, all Govern ments act arbitrarily. The supreme power, whether vested in the Aristocracy or Oligarchy as in England ; or a King and Council, as in Prussia, will set aside Habeas Corpus's or other laws for the protection of the subject, and seize on all whom it dreads. The greater the danger the greater will be the liberty taken with the law. But these are periods of constitutional derange ment. The physician can only drive out one disease by the creation of another. If our con temporary look into the History of Lombardy and the History of the Netherlands, he will find that the industry of the people took root under very different Governments from the ferocious Popish Government of Philip the Second, and that that Government greatly injured it• In the works of Count Peter Verri will be found an instructive account of the gradual decay of Milanese industry, from the mo ment that the inhabitants were placed under the caprice of Spanish courtiers. It was under the mild government of the House of Burgundy that Florentine and Lombard merchants and ar- tisans formed establishments in the Netherlands, and when that wealth was possessed by the in habitants, of which we have such fascinating de scriptions in Philip de Comines ; and it was only when the ferocious despotism of Spain pressed on the country, that the prosperity ex perienced a decay. In fact, so far from Popery having been hostile to the ascendancy of Law in Europe, it is to Popery that we owe the culti vation of Law at all during the middle ages.— The Priests possessed all the knowledge of the . times, and were assiduous students and practisers of Law, which was a source of great emolument to them. Europe unquestionably owes much of its civilization to the establishment of another power in the hands of the priests, which served as a check to that of brute force. Bishops, as well as Barons, were sometimes, indeed, so far corrupted by the times, that they lived by high way robbery ; and we have of this a notable ex ample in an Archbishop of Cologne, who having built a castle, in a situation whence its support could not be obtained, and a question having been put to him as to his views, observed, that it could easily be kept up, as it stood beside four highways. But the power of the Catholic Church was often more beneficially employed ; and the supremacy asserted by the Pope over Monarchs, on the ground of his being the representative of the Roman Emperors, was one of the most efficient means in reclaiming Europe from barbarian anarchy. Popery can, no doubt, be very well dispensed with now ; when we have built our house, we pull down the scaffold. But having taken pains to make Ireland a Popish country, and chosen to govern the inhabitants not by law, but by force, it is rather carrying the joke too far, to throw on poor Popery the blame of the results which necessarily flow from the system of coercion and violence. The evils of Ireland are all traceable to the inhabitants being without that which alone secures obedience to law—the possession of property. The law is the enemy of the natives, and they are the ene mies of the law.—Morning Chronicle. The Belfast Northern Whig, in a valuable article, which we must postpone to a future day, gives some distressing details of the working of Orangeism in the county of Tyrone. Murders are daringly committed in open day, and it is ex pected that all Protestants should aid each other by force and fraud, in setting the law at de fiance. To such a lamentable extent has demo ralization proceeded among the Presbyterians, that a venerable clergyman, the Rev. John Bridge, Seceding Minister of Castle Caulfield, has been compelled by the Presbyterian Synod of Ireland, at their late meeting at Armagh, to abandon his sacred office, because he refused to perjure himself to save a murderer. " The Synod" says the Northern Whig " bowed to the tyranny of faction, and decreed that the con gregation of Castle-Caulfield should choose an assistant and successor to Mr. Bridge, and that the former should receive the stipend and-portion of the Government bounty. To the credit of the Synod, however be it told, the great majo rity of the Ministers voted against this unjust decision; bit the Orange faction were upon the al'e'rt—the Elders mustered strong—the Synod was bullied, and the Minister was punished for obeying the precepts of his divine Master !" Sit murders had been committed in the course of one year before the house of Mr. Bridge; pre vious to the case as to which he *as required to perjure himself. " Priest Bridge, Papist Bridge, were the usual expressions they made use of, when speaking of a man whose only offence was, that he would not commit the soul-condemning offence of perjury, to save the life of one of their brethren.' " There was a time (adds our con temporary) when the Presbyterian Church was uncontaminated by such pollutions. There was a time when the secession body, of whom we have been speaking, would not have admitted a sworn party man into its communion. But Ichabod, Ichabod ! the glory of my house is departed !' With the exception of the covenan ters the contagion of party spirit has infected every part of the Presbyterian body." The same paper remarks, that however humiliating the ad-' mission, the stipendiary Magistrates " should be strangers in Ireland !"—lbid. Though Ireland, it is quite notorious, does not pay any thing like her f;ir share of the joint taxation of the two countries, it is equally clear that those who manage such matters are not over scrupulous as to the amount which she draws from the joint stock. She is, in some respects, like a junior partner, who, though bringing but a small capital into a concern, draws nevertheless as largely from the business as if he were the larger contributor. We do not deny that, on the other hand, England is a gainer, in some re spect, by the expenditur e o f I r i s h incomes - in this country—a gain, however, which is far more than overbalanced by the military and other ex penditure which the absenteeism which brings the money here unfortunately causes. But not only does Ireland not pay her proportion while she receives more, but the latter embraces heads, and is allowed to wanton in a total disregard of economy, unknown in any of the more numerous departments of the mother country. Why Schools, Hospitals, Lunatic Asylums, l3ook Clubs, and various other institutions of a half public half-private character, should be main tained out of the public taxes in Ireland, while in England similar institutions neither derive nor expect any such support, we never could com prehend. At any rate, if taxation is to maintain all or any of them, it should be a local taxation, and not taken from the general purse. We will take, for instance, the metropolitan county of Middlesex, which may be supposed to contribute more largely to the general taxation than any other. The county of Middlesex is called upon at this moment to raise 100,0001. or some such enormous sum, for the erection of a Lunatic Asylum ; yet, though the county of Mid dlesex bears all that as a local charge, it has contributed its share to the payment, out of the Consolidated Fund, of no less than 107,0001. to the Richmond Lunatic Asylum in Dublin ; and that while the absentee landlords of that and every other part of Ireland draw larger rents from that country, owing to the absence of that share of local taxation which the English landowner is subject to. But as an instance of the careless manner in which public money is wasted in Ireland—even in small mat- ters—we would call attention to the one article of Stationery, under which head nearly 2,0001. is expended in one year, in the alleged supply of it to the Lord Li e t enan t' s h ous ehold. We say alleged supply, for so far is the allowance beyond what some of the establishment either want or expect, that 4571. is given in one year, in money, to such footmen, cooks, and scullions of the establishment who probably cannot write, and therefore do not require pens, ink, paper, or sealing-wax. And to so gross a height is this paltry abuse allowed to be carried, that in one year, on account of changes in the household, these compensations, though professed to be annual, were paid three times over. The Corn tnittee which has lately examined and brought to light these abuses recommend that the one we have here alluded to should be discontinued. Recommend, indeed Why should it require a Committee to discover or to recommend that a system of public plunder should cease? What a precious state of supervision must exist in public departments or households, when a dirty system of cheating and plunder can go on, and which is merely recommended to be discon tinued ; and which, to our apprehension, is much the same as if so many pickpockets, in stead of being consigned to the tread-mill, were recommended to be less dishonest for the future? We know of no difference between robbing the public and plundering individuals ; though, from its frequency and impunity, we cannot but suppose that there is a convenient conscience in some quarters, which renders the other a venial offence in the eyes of those who commit it, and of those whose duty it is to check, if not to punish it.—Morning Herald. SUMMER ASSIZES. NORFOLK CIRCUIT-BUCKINGHAM, JULY 30. RAY V. JOYNSON AND OTHERS. Mr. 1 AYLoR stated the case on the part of the plaintiff. It was, in substance, an action brought to recover compensation in damages for an injury sus tained by the plaintiff, in consequence of the defend ant having made an excessive distress on his farm for rent arrear. The plaintiff had been for some years tenant to the defendant, Joynson, of two farms, one situate in the parish of Bradenham, the other at Risborough, in this county. The Jury found for the defendants. Mr. Baron Gaßßow finished the business in the Crown Court on the second day of the assizes, and nothing of the least public interest occurred in any of the cases, which were very few. GAINSBOROUGH, THE PAINTER.—One of his acquaintances in Bath was Wriastmax, the public carrier, a kind and worthy man, who loved GAINS BOROUGH, and admired his works. In one of his land scapes he wished to introduce a horse, and, as the carrier had a very handsome one, be requested the loan of it for a day or two, and named his purpose: his generous neigh bour bridled it and saddled it, and sent it as a present. The painter was not a man to be outdone in acts of genero sity ; he painted the waggon and horses of his friend, put his whole family and himself in it, and sent it well framed to WILTSIIERE, with his kind respects. It is considered a very capital performance. From 1761, when Garris- BOROUGH began to exhibit his paintings at the Academy, till his removal from Bath in 1774, WILTSHBRE was an nually employed to carry his pictures to and from London ; he took great care of them, constantly refused to accept money, saying, " No—no—l admire painting too much," and plunged his hands in his pocket to secure them against the temptation of the offered payment. Perceiving, how ever, that this was not acceptable to the proud artist the honest carrier hit upon a scheme which pleased both. " When you think (said he) that I have carried to the value of a little painting I beg you will let me have one, Sir ; and I shall be more than paid." In this coin the painter paid WILTSHERE ; and overpaid him. His son is still in possession of several of these pictures, and appre ciates their value. Many of GAINSBOROUGH'S produc tions not so worth il y dis po s ed of.— C unn i ng ham's h POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Antoni Antonio, the Italian Doctor of Civil and Ecclesiastical Law, who was a few days ago brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having armed himself with tt brace of pistol:, with ‘vhich he con templated mischief to spmehddy; was confronted with his *ife befdte his Lordship, acid . 10 nCeoitnt was given iiy the lady, which excited universal nstd nishment. The following is a brief statement of the case : Mrs. Antonio said that she was a Limerick wo man, and had her Irish husband; who wds a waiter at the great inn there, anti *ith Whoin She lived very happily. The doctor one day walked into the inn, and calling her Irish husband aside, told him that he (the doctor) had just arrived from London, and that he happened to be out of cash, but ex pected a remittance every moment of money due to him in England. This story was believed, arid the waiter became responsible to a certain extent for the doctor's diet and lodging, but finding that his cus tomer's friends in England were not very punctual, he took him home, where he might live more fru gally. As the doctor was a good scholar, tuitions were at once provided for him, but still no money arrived, and he was very fond of good living, so that the family began to feel the incumbrance to be serious. The doctor at last induced them to take a house, upon his assurance that he would pay the rent. The first quarter approached with great ra pidity, but no money appeared, and then the doctor said that he would go off to London, to his friend Prince Esterhazy, to whom he had lent the cash.— (Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—And did you believe all this ? Mrs. Antonio (with the greatest simplicity). —God knows best, your Lordship, we believed every word of it. But money was wanting. Well, we were afraid to let the doctor go by himself, and my husband was not able to leave his business, so my mother and I thought it would be best for us to go, and off we set for Dublin along with him. The doctor said, that he was much in want of a wife (a laugh), so we gave a little party in Dublin, and asked some ladies to tea, to give him his choice, but he was very desirous to make us drink, and he pre vailed upon my mother to take some mixture, which soon put her to sleep, but 1 would not take any.— Well, off he ran to a ship that was going to Scot land, and off I ran after him. The LORD MAYOR—What I and left your mother asleep ? Mrs. Antonio—Fast asleep. So the ship sailed, and didn't stop till we came to Scotland.— (Loud laughter.) Well, I was afraid to leave him, because I knew that if Prince Esterhazy paid him, he wouldn't pay us except I was along with him ; but he suddenly took it into his head to marry me. The LORD MAYOR—To marry you! and you having a husband living in Limerick ? Mrs. Anto nio —Yes; he told me that if I refused he would expose me to my husband, so I agreed to be his wife, and the: ceremony was performed by a Scotch clergyman. The LORD MAYOR—Come, come, you ran away from your Irish husband with him, and now you are tired of him ? Mrs. Antonio—l'll take my oath, your Lordship, that I never ran away from my Irish husband; I have written to him, and expect him every day. The LORD MAYOR—Did not you sleep along with this Ecclesiastical Doctor before you married him ? Mrs. Antonio (with great vehemence)—Never ! I'd lose my life first. What ! sleep with a man with out marrying him ? The Lord knows I wouldn't do any such wicked thing.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—WeII, how did he treat you ? Mrs. Antonio—Oh, then, God knows, I wish I never saw his face: he's a shocking man. The LORD MAYOR—Has he beaten you ? Mrs. Antonio—No, he never struck me, but I am sure he will destroy me. He is in possession, he says, of an imperceptible poison, and he has threatened to use it upon me, if I leave him ; but I will leave him, for I find it's all a lie about the money, and there is not the least use in marrying him.—(Loud laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—How did he get those pistols ? Mrs. Antonio—l gave him the last sove reign I had in the world, and he went and pur chased them with it. The LORD MAYOR—And who paid the passage money, and all the incidental expences ? Mrs. An tonio—Why, my Lord, you see my Irish husband was a little too liberal with his money when he car ried it about him, so he used to give it to me; and we had put by 40 sovereigns of his savings. Well, I took the sovereigns. The LORD MAYOR—What all ? Mrs. Antonio— Every one, your Lordship, because you see we wanted to get the money from Prince Esterhazy, to pay the rent, which was fast coming round. So I paid all the expellees. Mr. Hobler—And who discharged the matrimo nial expenses. Mrs. Antonio—l did. I paid the Scotch Minister; but I found the Doctor did not want a wife at all at all.—(Loud laughter.) Dr. Antonio—l paid for the marriage. I did pay a great deal of money; I did spend my money in Limerick, along with my wife's other husband ; but she shan't be his wife no more—never no more, me.—( Laughter.) Mrs. Antonio—l won't have any thing to do with you, 1 tell you. The LORD MAYOR—Upon my word, Doctor, you have acted very unlike a professional gentleman. Not content with running in the poor man's debt, you ran away with his wife and seduced her. Mrs. Antonio would not allow that she had been seduced; she could, she declared with an appealing look to the whole room, produce the certificates of both her marriages.—(Loud laughter.) The LORD MAYOR believed the woman's state ment, and believed that she considered in marrying the Doctor she had committed no offence. His Lordship declared that in the course of his life he had never heard of so singular a proof of credulity and simplicity. During the whole of this conversation this female spoke without the slightest hesitation, and with an air of sincerity which it was impossible to question. The LORD MAYOR thought that the case was one in which Government ought to interfere, by send. ing the Doctor, by virtue of the Alien Bill, to practice at home. Mr. Hobler observed that Government would not, in all probability, act upon the Alien Bill, ex cept in cases of political offence. The doctor was then sent to the officers of White chapel parish, with directions that a very sharp eye should be kept upon so dangerous a person ; and Mrs. Antonio, who seemed shocked upon hearing that she had done wrong, was discharged. Mr. Henry Rees, Finsbury-square, attended by summons to answer a complaint made against him, before Mr. Alderman ANSLEY (who sat for the Lord Mayor), as surgeon to the City Institution for Diseases of Children, in Devonshire -street, by Mr. Wood, a wine -merchant, whose house is immediately opposite the institution. Mr. Todd, Mr. Wood's solicitor, stated that the number of children with their mothers, who went there for relief, was so great as to obstruct the free passage of the street, and was an absolute nuisance to his client, whose business was greatly impeded by it; he was willing to admit the great utility of the charity, as well as the abilities and attention of Mr. H. Rees, by which it had acquired so much reputation. Mr. Charles Phillips, the barrister, who at tended at the request of the Committee, stated, that the City Institution was at first a City station of the Royal 'Universal Infirmary for the Diseases of Children in Waterloo-bridge road, to which Mr. Rees was appointed the surgeon. From the great number that applied for relief, and the consequently increasing expense, the parent infirmary was obliged reluctantly to abandon this station, which has from that time been supported by the voluntary contribu tions of a few individuals, who resolved on establish ing it as a distinct charity under its present title ; but, notwithstanding their exertions, the surgeon, who was devoting half his time to it, had been I obliged to supply the deficiencies, amounting annu ally to nearly 1501. Mr. Phillips considered it a peculiarly hard case for a man to be forced to ap pear to answer a dtafge for a nuisance when 10,000 children had been relieved *Wan the last three years almost at his own expense. He thistEdi h6W-; ever, it would be the means of obtaining the sup.; port of the corporation and of a benevolent public, so as to be enabled to remove the dispensary to a more eligible situation, particularly as the whole an cost for relieving 5,000 patients would not ex ceed 300 i., and he liop€d that the treasurers (Messrs. Vere and Ward, bankers) Would eXperience the effect of this application. Upon the understanding that the committee would use every exertion to obtain funds for the removal of the... institution, Mr. Wood's solicitor withdrew his complaint. GUILDHALL. The drivers of the Hammersmith stage edatiiesi Nos, 3,696 (Powell's), and 3,635 (Cloud's) at- tended before Sir P. LAURIE yesterday upon sum mons, for driving furiously through Ludgate-hill and Fleet-street. Sir PETER LAURIE having ascertained that it was their first appearance at this office, fined them only five shillings each, but he assured th6m that upon repeating the offence the penalty would be increased to five pounds. ROW.STREET. On Thursday eveninga respectable-looking woman was brought hi custody before Sir R. BIRNIE, by George Crow, a Surrey constable, charged upon suspicion of having unlawfully pawned forty-two towels and a table-cloth, the property of her master, Lord Amelius Beauclerck, uncle to the Duke of St. Alban's. Crow stated that a robbery had been committed at the house of a Mr. Francis, in the Kent-road, and in consequence of information he received, he went that morning to search the lodgings of a woman named Jane Tingley, who was suspected of having stolen the property. In searching a tea caddy in her room, he found two duplicates, one for this ty-six towels pledged for 175., and the other for six towels and a table-cloth, for 15s. Suspect ing that this property had been dishonestly come by, he (Crow) questioned the woman Tingley re specting it, and she at once acknowledged that the towels and table-cloth were given to her to pledge by the housekeeper of Lord Amelius Beauclerk. Upon receiving this intelligence, he (Crow) pro ceeded to his Lordship's residence in Margaret street, Cavendish-square, where he found the pri soner ; and, under the impression that she had stolen the property from her master, he took her into custody. The prisoner appeared considerably hurt at the charge, and declared that it was totally false. She had lived, she said, for twenty-eight years in the service of Lord Amelius Beauclerk, and was never accused of any dishonest act before. The fact was, that the towels and table-cloth had been cast off by his Lordship, and as such became her perquisite. The woman, Jane Tingley, having represented to her that she was in great distress, she lent her the towels and table-cloth to pawn, for her temporary relief. Sir R. BIRNIE asked Crow if he had apprized Lord Amelius Beauclerk of the circumstances under which his servant was accused. The constable replied, that his Lordship was out of town, but expected to return in the course of that afternoon. Sir R. BIRNIE observed that he could not think of sending the accused to prison after the explana tion she had given. It was the duty of Crow to have taken the woman into custody upon whom he found the duplicates, and not to have arrested the prisoner. The Magistrate then told her that she might go where she pleased, upon condition of her coming forward in the morning, in order that she might be confronted with the other woman, whom he ordered Crow to apprehend. Yesterday morning Crow again appeared at the office before Mr. MINSHULL with the woman Jane Tingles in custody. Upon being questioned respecting the duplicates , found in her possession, she declared that the house keeper of Lord Beauclerk had given her the articles to pledge upon her own account; and the reason she assigned for being obliged to raise money upou her master's property was, that his Lordship, upon leav ing town, had neglected to leave her money for board wages. Mr. MINSHULL observed, that this statement was direct at variance with that which the housekeeper had given to Sir Richard Birnie en the previous evening. He then directed the constable to wait upon Lord Amelius Beauclerk as soon as he should arrive in town, to ascertain from his Lordship if his housekeeper had any authority to pledge the arti cles in question. The circumstances of the case furnished ground for strong suspicion. The prisoner was then allowed to depart. It is but fair to state, that the housekeeper was in attendance at the office, and ready to be examined before the arrival of Crow and his prisoner. After waiting some time, we believe Sir It. Birdie told her she had no occasion to remain any longer, as the other parties had not appeared at the hour appointed An old man, a butcher, was charged by a soldier of the Foot Guards with obstructing him upun his duty. The soldier was accompanied to the office by the Deputy Marshal of the King's Household at St. James's, who complained that he was obliged to come forward in person to support the charge, a Bow-street officer, named Pace, having declined to interfere. The defendant having expressed his regret for what had happened, was suffered to depart upon apologising to the soldier. Herring, the conductor of patrol, soon afterwards appeared before the Magistrate, with the serjeant of the regiment, to explain why Pace had declined in terfering in the business. The police-officers gene rally understood that they had no power to take a party into custody, charged with an assault, unless they happened to see the assault committed. Pace had not seen the soldier either pushed or struck, and therefore declined to take charge of the de fendant. QUEEN-SQUARE. John Dobbs, an elderly personage about three score, with a most cadaverous-looking countenance, was brought up in custody before W. A. A. WHITE, Esq. and approached the bar with his hands crossed and his eyes uplifted to the ceiling, in Manner some thing like a malefactor mounting the scaffold, to answer the charge of his better half, Mrs. Jane Dobbs, a woman about thirty years of age, who had complained of his frequent ill usage. Mr. WHITE—Why, Dobbs, you have been here before for beating your wife, if I recollect right ? " Yes, your Worship," replied Dobbs, sighing deeply, " she has had me here before; that was before we were married, and I was sent to prison for beating her. Ah, I was a happy man once I." Mr. WHITE—How came you to marry such a man; Mrs. Dobbs. You knew his temper before you married him ? " Why," replied the wife, "he wrote to me such a number of letters when he was in prison, about love, and said as how he woald be a father to me as well as a husband, and take care of my children that I had by my first husband ; and then he said in his letters that he should die if I did not have him, and what could I do ? He over persuaded me, and I have been miserable ever since." " And se have I," responded Mr. Dobbs, with another heavy sigh; " but I hope your Worship will not send me to prison this time, and I will try to mollify her for the future." Mr. WHITE—I can't conceive how you could have him ? I suppose he beat you into liking him ? I am sure I don't know. It was all through his deceitful letters when he was in prison for beat ing me. He must have used some charm, I think," replied the wife. " He does worse than beat me, uses me in a most brutish manner that I can't speak it. Mr. WHITE—In what way ?—" Why," replied the wife, " I go to work from six o'clock in the morning until nine at night, and he does no work at, all; and when I come home he will strip metr it ! naked, and ill-use me."' Mr. WHITE—I can't help a husband striPP in g his wife ; you knew what he was before you ma Y vied him. The ‘vife now related a long story about s. gea r rel stir had with her husband on the previous 411 1' when he struck her first. Dobbs, in his defence, said that the grand fel li/ with him was, that he was many years older tbs° his wife and should advise all old men never t ° marry a young wife. He had led a miserable life ever since he was married, and people interfered be'. tweet! them, and that made matters worse; an d ': then they had a few words, and then it ended Wit" a few blows; but for all that he loved his wife bet' ter than he loved his life. Mrs. Dobbs—There, your Worship, he says h e loves me, there is a bit of a specimen of his deceit‘ ful ways,—he has such a tongue when he likes,'" he's afraid of going to prison. That's just the fi n° kind of language he used to me that made m e COo' sent to have him, and now he has brought me t° the brink of the grave. husband. "Come an angry word again." ,N,Vcoorsmheip,:nyi'lLamreoslll;ifrovhe,eril; nreepveliredsptgaiell° Mr. WHITE.—WeII, mind you don't, Mi., discharge you this time? " Thank your Worship," replied the husbae ° with glee. "Depend on it there will be no mor e complaint. I'll mollify her after this." The 10114 pair then retired. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 31. WELLESLEY V. THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT. On this petition being called on, The LORD CHANCELLOR said he had considered the matter which had been in discussion before hin t ' and was of opinion that the children of Mr. Welles' ley had, better not pass the ensuing vacation at Ser gry. He thought they had better go to the eg ir side, and perhaps East Bourne was as convenient ° place as could be selected for that purpose. 11i8 Lordship therefore wished to know if there • vo' any objection to that place. Mr. Wellesley had no objection whatever to aci place of his Lordship's selection. He then pre' ceeded to call the attention of the Court to tha othir part of his petition, which it had been settle d should stand over until this day. The se coai prayer of the petition was, that the injuncti° ll of the Court, by which he was restrained fr' i , having any intercourse with his children lit, in the presence of their tutor, might be r . .,` scinded. It was for the purpose of affording th e that instruction which no tutor could afford to thew' that he desired to have access to them. It was t , exercise over them the influence which his charaen as tbeir father—which his knowledge as a mall / the world—which his perfect acqttaintance their dispositions had possessed him of, that he 0 5 sired to communicate with them. No tutor cow,' know what he, who had observed them from th ejr infancy, knew of their capacities and natural die sitions ; no tutor could feel as he felt respectil them, nor have that intense anxiety which he 0 4: for the welfare and future conduct of these ell:d dren, who were to continue his name in the vrtir` v i and in whose happiness his own was most deep interested. It was not, however, upon these gen t e j ral grounds, although he felt they wer e so power' t that they defied all attack, that he placed his preeel i j application. It was because he had had practicr proof that the manner in which his children's cation had been conducted, was so defective . ag l require immedi a t e c h ec k an d a lt erat i on ; an d b e caor" he could prove to demonstration, that while under h i ; superintendance they had been i n a course of rall l advancement, and that their progress since he been deprived of intercourse with them, had t a only not gone forward, but had, in fact, retrogror, Up to the time at which his sons' had been and his care, they had both displayed considerable acut e ; ness, considering their years, and had made a fv 7 ; sonable progress in their studies. Of hi s e ldest he had a right to say more, without incurring t ",i' d imputation of that partiality which sometimes Ma",' a father a very bad judge of his children's rea l 61: ',1 rite. He remembered one instance which that chi had given, when eleven years old, of the a dvanc e ; ment he had made. He had been in conversati o with a literary friend of his (Sir George Dallas) one who was then his friend, and who was now rtC enemy, but who yet was not so much his enemy h i ; that he would vouch for the truth of this fact. discussion arose at table about a passage in Gibboal• Sir George had expressed a high, he (Mr. W e ; lesley) thought even an exaggerated, opinion of t, h " i boy's proficiency. By way of putting him to oli o test, he was asked to translate the passage, and was then able to put it into very tolerable LatintP rid into very good French. He (Mr. Wellesley) WS / suffer' death if that child could do so now. Had hi not then a right to say that his boy's educati ° r had been neglected, and that he wanted some ofil t influence to direct it than that of a tutor ? gc had been said,--said in the broadest and 11 ' ° ''d offensive, and, he would add, the mos t tindeserY e A manner, that his (Mr. Wellesley's) own err% had rendered him unable, and had deprived IP, of the right to exercise this influence. He vi; ready to meet that charge, and to deny and dispr,° ll , it. He knew he had committ e d m an y errors; 11 had paid the penalty of all of them,—he had gi t more than the penalty of most of them ; and wel l 0 was for other men that they had better fortune the 4 he had encountered, and that their misconduct 1 0 e . , not been raked up and exaggerated and mister!: rented as his had been. Mr. SOLICITOR GENERAL opposed the petitioe. Mr. Wellesley replied. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the Court 1... d AA power to decide upon statements made at the 1 . 0 ; nor could it pay any attention to them, excepting e j far as they tended to elucidate, and were c onfirni t i n by the depositions of witnesses duly sworn. .`,, therefore felt bound to confirm th e f ormer orderv.l far as it related to Mr. Wellesley's intercourse It. his children, and he repeated his directions s° the place at which the infants were to pass the 'I" cation. Mr. Wellesley, accompanied by his friends, t 1 withdrew. The case lasted till past six o'clock. pn Mr. PAYNE, of Ruishton, began reaping Friday, and Mr. HALL, of Obridge, near this O h ; (Taunton), also commenced on Monday. At H01ce0 1 46 .' 4 near Wellington, and at Bishop's Lydeard, the wheli t i„ -- ;, vest has begun ; and, th e p resent fi ne weat h er con tiour; s the reaping-hook will be in active operation throug u i lt the county in the course of this week. That the wn would prove an average crop, we stated in our last, °f t, can now add, with grea t con fid ence , th a t th e qua lity ° eat , grain will be u nexce pti ona bl y fi ne . B ar l ey w ill b e !aloe" ably deficient.— Taunton Courier. BIRTHS. On the 26th ult., at Mothecombe, Devonshire, the - ady of Captain W. Harris, 16th Lancers, of a son, still-bo r t On the 26th ult., the lady of H. J. Montefiore t Albemarle-buildings, Stoke, near Devonport, of a ion; A s On the 29th ult., at Laughton, Sussex, the wife of "- Rev. H.daughter. On the 31st ult. o , in Bloomsbury-square, Dils. Wi lt. field, of a son. MARRIED. On the Both ult:, by the Rev. Mr. Willtnottp is t S :o . Pancras New Church, John Savery, Esq., MasanSt a ., Anne Maria Turner, eldest daughter of C. Turner, A. R. A., of Warren-street, Fitzroy, square. DIED. At Thorpe, Anne, the wife of General Scott, and via - P ter of the late Sir E. Blackett, Bart. c•l;ea. On the 14th ult., at Calais, after a severe illness' teeth, the wife of R. G. Cunningham, Esq., of 1H Kennedy, county of Wicklow, aged 35. rtathr On the 29th ult., at her house in Edward-street, Mrs. Wren, relict of C. Wren, Esq., Newcastle •up O D -1 / in the 72d ar of her age. On the 9 th ult., aged 50, Mr. J. Nnnneley r Lei PAINTED and Pilaus'= by MUR.DO YOUNG, 11 ' - OFFICX, 11,4 SilAtibi LOWitell• Y„ r