The Sun. — London, England, 1829-12-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS Times. On Saturday arrived tl.t Ni r xi cmlma il, ki ng . ing letters and papers from Vera Cruz to the 28th of September, together «i:1 tttt official despatch from Gercral Santa Anna of the 19th of the same month, detailing the operations which preceaed and produced the surrender of Barredas his troops. It appears that Santa fi,nding himself strong enough to make sure of the desired result, directed - his next in command to leave Altamira, and move so as to 4.11 i, off the communication between the Spa niards in the town of Tampico, rind in thefort at the Bar. This was effected on the 7th of September. Barradas was then summoned by the Mexican General, who allowed him tally 48 hours to decitiz whether he would surrender at discretion, or stand the alternative of being re fused Atli quarter. The Spaniard attempted to and gain time,—proposing twice, but in 'vain, to treat about evacuating the territory of the repuhfic. A tempest occurring, -which en dangered the field-works of the Mexicans, Santa Anna soon afterwards attacked the Spanish fort at the Bar, of which he gained possession after some sharp fig►.Ming, and the next morning the Spaniards agreed to capitulate. The loss in the • previous action is said to have been, on the side - - uf the vanquished, about 200 killed and wound td, and nearly 300 on that of the Mexicans. This disparity may have arisen from the Spaniards being furnished with cannon, of which the republican _ _ troops had none. The Spanish division marched out at the time prescribed, and laid down its arms, delivering tip also standards and stores, the officers only being permitted to retain their bwolds. Thus ignominiously ends the last wretched, though much hunted, effort of Ferdi nand against the most valuable portion Of Spa nish America—now lost to Spain for ever, but added, we trust, to the great community of free and gradually prospering nations. One point of infinite importance has been determined by the fate of this expedition,—namely, the utter bopelessms of any similar attempt hereafter. l-lad there been but the shadow of a Spanish patty in Mexico, Tampico was a spot well chosen for profiting by such an advantage. It was at an immense distance from any regular military force, but accessible to malcontents from all parts of the country, who might thus (had any malcon tents existed) have got the start of the Republi can troops, and had time to be completely armed and organized before the moment of contest could have reached them. But the event proves that whatever parties or factions might have sprung up among the Mexicans, from the ric% soil of young and uncultured freedom, in one respect and to one end theie was but a single party for the .national defence against their former tyrants. Some striking instances of generous devotion for their country have been communicated to us as illustrative of the general feeling. When the Governor of Guadanaxuato ordered the second battalion of local militia to march against the enemy, and the battalion was mustering for the purpose, another set of drums was heard beating to arms through out the town, which were discovered to be those of the first battalion, of which the men and officers, one and all, claimed " an equal right to defend their country as the second." — In the city of Mexico itself the same thing oc turned among the volunteers, and it is known that when the news of the Spanish invasion was first made public in that capital, while the chief Court of Justice happened to be sitting, every (deer of the Court, from the Judge to the crier, came forward at once. with a tender of their entire salaries to assist the Government until the crisis of danger should be at an end.— There is one matter worth observing with. regard to these affairs of Mexico—viz. the mean and tricky falsehoods which Spanish agents and par tisans at the Havannah, in France, and here in London, perpetually have recourse to, in the hope that any piece of malignant non sense, though it live but for a day, mat inflict sonic passing doubt or disparag,remem upon the cause of Peruvian liberty. First ; we were told that the Mexican General was a traitor; next, when that would not do, they boasted that a second expedition woul , l instantly sail for Tampico, which must render Barradas too strong to be attacked by the Mexicans. - Even when the news of Barradas's surrender reached this country by way of New York, falsehood the third announced to us that the fact was impos- Thle, because some Spaniard (Mr. 'Lea Ber mudez, perhaps) sent round a letter of the 18th of September from the Havannah, which made no mention of it. Again, when the official in telligence arrived on Saturday, a rider (in Fer dinand's lively) WAS tacked to it, modestly an nouncing that the king of Spain had sent ano ther expedition against Mexico, which had ac tually landed on the western coast or that of the PaciEc! and " was making great progress up the country,"—a tale which possessed about as much truth or common sense as that Fer dinand had laid siege to Pekin or St. Pe tersburgh. These stupid inventions cannot finally injure the free states of America, nor even when slanders are launched from similar motives against individual functionaries of the new Go vernments, will they set ve the purpose of their pro pagatorsan hour longer than until they shall have been exposed. It has come to our knowledge, that with a view to shut the ears of the British Foreign Minister against the new Mexican En voy in this country, and so to place difficulties in the way of his negotiations, the most clumsy calumnies have been circulated against M. de Gorostiza,—as that he was a person of bad character, an obscure adventurer, and (for a climax to the whole) a man of low birth That such tales should have been traced to Ferdinand's people, is not at all surprising : but a man of genius is of all countries, and an ad mirable writer belongs to every age. Lord Aber deen, himself a man of letters, is, we should think, likely to feel respect far a person of such a stamp. M. de Gorostiza is among the most ce lebrated authors of the Spanish drama, having occupied himself from his youth upwards in com posing dramatic works, in prose and verse, which have unifottnly commanded the warmest applamse i l among Spaniards. He was born at Vera Cruz,. of which his father, an officer of high distinction, and head of an ancient noble faMily of Biscay, was Governor. He was brought up as Page of Honour to Charles IV.; he joined the Consti utional party in Spain ; emigrated in 1823 ; was persecuted like the other exiles ; then of ered his services to his own native Go-ernment the Mexican), which gladly- accepts , 1 them, named him Consul-General in Holland, net Charge d'Affaires at_the Court of Belgium, and finally, in consideration - of his various services, 31inister to that of St. James's Regard for the cause of freedom in America, which is identified with that of its servants, and for that of literature and genius every where, has induced us to render, on the best authority, this brief vibute to common justice, for in M. de Go- .ostiza personally we take no further interest.— Ile Sun observes, with regard to what we said on Saturday on the subject of Mr. Const's expla nation—"As the Chroniclecopied the report from The Sun, we can assure our liberal cotemporary that the Report was correct to the letter—and we also assure him, from a little experience of what has taken place at Quarter Sessions, that the practice of recalling a culprit after sentence, and honouring him . with a second but more durable proof of Magisterial vengeance, . did not originate in the present instance. However, ..ve are now glad that the intention of the Chair man was not divined by our Reporter, as the circumstance may be the means of preventing such mistakes in future." We were aware that the practice of recalling a culprit after sentence, and adding to the punishment, was far from un common ; and several years ago we animadverted on the conduct of Mr. Justice Park, who, on a prisoner, sentenced to transportation for seven year?, making use of some offensive language, altered the sentence to double the number of years. We are glad, however, to find that Judges and Magistrates are beginning to have a new light on the subject, Mr. Broderick said on Friday, that " he must confess he was astonished on reading the Report in the newspapers. He had known the Chairman often lessen the sen tence, but never add to it :" and Mr. Alley said that " any gentleman who knew the Chairman must have instantly been convinced that the report was not true." From the great respect we entertain for Judges and Magistrates, if we thought there was any probability of their re lapsing into the practice of punishing a contu melious expression used towards themselves by an; additional seven years' transportation, or even a longer term, we should re commend the having recourse to such head pieces as were used in the Richmond Peniten tiary, Dublin, two or three years ago, which en tered the 'month, and kept the most unruly tongue perfectly quiet. A humane and consi derate Judge might in that case, before proceed ing to pass sentence, observe, " As I am now as fully in possession of all the circumstances of this case as I can be, and my judgment is not now warped by any personal insult from the pri soner, before I deliver the sentence of the Court, I think it necessary to allow him the benefit of the silencing machine till he be withdrawn, lest he should be tempted, on hearing his sentence, to utter language which might induce me to yield to the dictates of passion, and alter a seven years' transportation to transportation for life." Whether what fell from Mr. Const, and the horror expressed by M essrs. Broderick and Ailey, will so far weigh with Judges and Magistrates as to cnablo theta to dispense with mechanical means for the furtherance of humanity and the preservation of judicial respectability, remains to be seen. Speaking of Mr. Justice Park re minds us of something regarding that Judge in an indorsement by Mr. Serjeant Wilde, on a brief, copied by Mr. Michael Scales in the letter to Mr. Peel, in the Chronicle of Saturday. Mr. Michael Scales had, it seems, 13 witnesses to disprove the assault with which he was charged. " I very much regret (says Serjeant Wilde) the result of this cause, particu. tarty as I think it was produced by a misconcep;- lion on my part. From the remarks of the Judge upon the plaintiff's case, I had no doubt but his Lordship had taken a view of the case very much in the defendant's favour ; and that was confirmed by the Judge interrupting me very early in my ad dress to the Jury, saying, ' Surely, Brother Wilde, you do not think it necessary to call witnesses for the defendant in such a case as this. In deference to the Judge, and in the belief that, in his Lordship's opinion, the plaintiff's case did not require an answer by evidence, I conceded, and stated that I should not call witnesses. To my surprise afterwards, the Judge summed up in favour of the plaintiff, for which I cannot ac count ! I had what appeared to me a very good case for the defendant, well supported by testi mony ; and I shout(' undoubtedly have called my witnesses, and, as I verily believe, should have obtained the verdict for the defendant, had I not misconceived the Learned Judge's impres sion. What the Judge could mean by appeal. ing to me to know if I could think it necessary to call Witnesses in such a . case, if he thought the plaintiff's case proved, I do not know." The Judge, however, had his reasons, no doubt, though Mr. Serjeant Wilde could not discover them. Mr. Scales says, that in his address to the Jury the Learned Judge exhorted them " to teach this dogmatical butcher how to behave him self in a sacred place (a Vestry Meeting), who had put his arm round Bilton (the plaintiff) and grasped him with the grasp of a bear. Mr. Justice Park is known to have ;e cause of religion very tnuch at heart, ant pro bably thought it better that Mr. Serjeant Wilde should lose his cause than that the cause of re ligion and the sanctity of vestries, which are identical, should be lost. '1 he Learned Judge, however, must have managed matters very skil fully to outwit so able a tactician as Mr. Serjeant Wilde. Mr. Bentham maintains that justice is the very last thing which the Judges of the country attend to. A bribe, he observes, could not indeed be received in a direct way by a Judge without his putting himself in the power of the bribe giver ; but where it is not the Judge, but a connection- of the Judge that receives the benefit, there is no danger ; and according l y he I says, on a question in which the ruling one or the sub-ruling few are concerned, an English Judge will commit injustice to any amount in favour of that side. "In the case of an alleged libel, for example, against a Government func tionary, as such—what man is there that expects that the Chief Justice will fail to do his utmost to procure the conviction of the alleged libeller? Or on prosecution of a Justice of Peace, to screen him from punishment ?" However this is a delicate subject, and we will leave it.— Morning Chronicle. The columns of our Irish contemporaries are still engrossed with the controversy between Lord Mountcashel and the Bishop of Ferns. There is no lack of zeal upon either side. But too much has been said, perhaps, on such questions as whether 'the union of Wexford, or some other union, has been rightly or improperly created ; or the Vicar of Iniscarra or some other parish, absent from his cure with or without reasonable excuse. These details are evidently matters for inquiry ; but not for an inquiry of this sort. Lord Mountcashel has done well in directing public attention to the state of the Irish Chum and, as no rational mall can now question t . existence of gross abuses in that church, his Lordship has, perhaps, had enough of wrangling with Doctor likington, who is known as the most persevering and tiresome of pamphleteers, and had better apply his industry to the prepa ration of a case fit to be laid before Parliament. 'lle petition which has been already prepared under Lord Moutitchaslitni auspices is a judici ous paper ; and it will be well if the proofs to sustain its averments are made ready with the like good sense. It may be remembered that our Dublin Correspondent, some time since, noticed as one of the most striking effects of Catholic Emancipation, that the Irish_ Protes tants were beginning to bestir themselves against the Tithe System, the sectai ian feelings which hitherto kept them quiet having been by that measure considerably weakened. Of the pro gress of this' spirit a recent meeting at Hills boro', in the north of Ireland, affords a speci men. The Incumbent of that parish has been, for some time, engaged in disputes with the Landholders, and the meeting was held for the purpose of making an endeavour to effect a set tlement. The Marquis of Downshire was in the Chair; and the names (Archer, Wright, Bradshaw, &c.) of the persons who took part in the proceedings, prove them to be all Pro testants. The Incumbent (Mr. Mant) is the brother of the Bishop of the Diocese, and him self the Archdeacon. He refused, though in , vited, to attend the Meeting ; and in reply to a proposition, conveyed to lam in the shape of a message, from the assembled parishioners, said, " that his Bishop (his own brJther !) would not allow him to accept the sum ffe'red," which was 5001. per annum, being nearly 2001. more than the sum received by the former incumbent. When we find a Noblematiof Lord Downshire's moderate temper taking part against a Clergyman, there can be little doubt that the demands of the Parson arc exorbitant; but Mr. Mant's language and deportment, as stated by the speakers at the Meeting, indicate in themselves anything. rather than a conciliatory spirit. 'We were disposed to believe the Irish Parsons not so griping and unreasonable as they have been represented but, at all events, it is clear that the usefulness of a Ministry must be very much impaired by con stant squabbles with their parishioners, and in stances every now and then recur of conduct which does not tell to the advantage of the Church. A Mr. Jacob, who has written a very sensible letter to the Bishop of Ferns (in which, by the bye, he proves the Holy Father to be capable of sophisticating a little), mentions that some time since when the culture of mangel wortzel was introduced through the exertions of an Agricultural Society, into his Lordship's diocese, and a demand of tithe therefore made, Which being resisted, was enforced, by process, in the Bishops' Court; the Judge of that Court, in giving judgment, declared that if " ink bottles grew on trees, he would have them tithed." Everything that yields. an annual in crease is, no doubt, tithable ; but the claim is very ungraciously made in the case of a crop, introduced, for the first time, under the encou ragement, ,of a bounty, as was this mangel wortzel ; and, at all events, the rights of the Church are not likely to be the better respected for being stated in such terms as those employed by this Clerical Judge. Mr. Jacob also states, that for tithe due to Dr. Elrington from a parish of which, as Bishop, he enjoyed the profits, pro cess was actually instituted in the Diocesan Court against a half crazy mendicant, a widow, living in a hovel with a small garden attached to it ! We have no doubt that as great, if not greater, severity is shown by impropriators ; but, in the case of the latter, men resign themselves to the evil as one which admits of no remedy or The High Sheriff of the county of Lincoln has, it seems, refused to call a meeting " to consider the propriety of petitioning the Legis lature on the subject of the Malt and Beer Taxes," which he is stated to have been urged to do by a Requisition " more respectably signed than any one ever presented to any Sheriff." When a man determines to do wrong, the next foolish thing is to give his reasons. This the officer in question has done, and more absurd reasons for absurd conduct we never re- ember to have heard of. He says that he" is convinced that the exigencies of the country must, during the recess of Parliament, irre• sistibly have'drawn the attention of his Majesty's Government to the state of the kingdom in all its classes, and he therefore feels averse to any measure which has a tendency to embarrass them, by claiming any particular description of relief till the country shall have been made acquainted with the result of the deliberations of those who may be considered as having the whole con nected subject before them." This is precious jargon, truly! We had thought that the right of petitioning the Legislature in all its branches was the sacred birth-right of an Englishman, and that public meetings, held under the sanction of the constituted authorities, was the best and most legitimate mode of collecting public opi nion. We - thought, too, we were old fashioned enough to have heard that pub lic opinion, if it did not absolutely con troul, at least guided, the acts of a po pular Government. Above all, we had been led to suppose that the opinions of those hest acquainted with any subject were the most valuable. But all these antiquated maxims vanish " into thin air" before the superior in tellect of the Lincolnshire Sheriff, who puts an extinguisher upon the rights of the freeholders of that influential county with as much non chalance as if his " sic volo sic jubeo" were the fiat of absolute wisdom: We trust, ho wever, that neither the freeholders of Lincolnshire, nor of any other county, will be deterred by this pompous insanity from exercising their Consti-' tutional right of addressing the Legislature upon the appalling dangers which surround them. Those dangers arc of too urgent and alarming a nature to be stifled by, or sacrificed to, the igno rance, the caprice, or something worse, of any public functionary. There never was a time when it was more desirable that counties, towns, and even parishes, should meet and make their voice heard. An honest Government must wish to know the real sentiments of the coun try ; nor can any such Government feel, we should think, otherwise than insulted by a time serving subserviency such as the instance which we allude to exhibits, by means of which the very silence of the people probably would be construed into an approval of measures which the Government itself only wants the voice of the people to back it in rescinding. We wonder whether the Lincolnshire Sheriff is a Whig. We suspect him to be a Whig of the modern school, from his slavish reliance on the " wisdom of Go vernment," and his distaste for the petitions of the people.—Morning Herald. What a stupendous, what an incomprehen sible machine is man ! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment, and death itself, in vindication of his own liberty, awl the next moment be deaf to all these motives whose power supported him through his trial, and inflict on his fellow-men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in re bellion to oppose.---Jelfers"' LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Dm 5. EX•PARTE BATSON IN RE REMINGTON. The arguments in this case were resumed. The question at issue between the parties is, whether a debt of 10,0001., admitted to be doe to Mr. Batson, is due from the firm of Remington and Co., or hum Rowland Stephenson only. The application now made to the Court was for leave to expunge the proof of the said debt against the joint estate of the firm, on the ground that Rowland Stephenson only, and not the firm, had contracted it. Mr. HORNE, in suppirt of the application, said that Mr. Batson, who alleged himself to be a creditor to a very large amount of the banking-house in ques tion, is a person of considerable fortune, residing in Cambridgeshire. The proof against which the pe tition was presented amounted to 10,000/., but the extraordinary fact connected with this case was, that Mr. Stanwick Batson declared himself to be a creditor of Remington, Stephenson, and Co. to the extent of 21,000/. and a fraction, although he had only proved 10,000/. before the Commissioners. It appeared, according to the statements of Mr. Bat son, that he had advanced a number of small sums to the firm of Remingtorrand Co. up to the 24th of June, 1825, and that finding they then amounted' to 10,000/., he took a security for the whole sum in the shape of a draft or order, which was to bear an interest of four and half per cent. This draft Was an order on demand, signed by Stephenson for himself and partners. Now the partners swore dis tinctly that they had not the slightest knowledge of, or where in the least privy to, this transaction, al though Stephenson had thus pledged the firm to it as a transaction of all the partners. It was alleged by Mr. Batson, that in addition to the 10,000/. of which the Commissioners had allowed the proof, he had lent Stephenson a further sum of 10,0001., for which he had received his own pro missory note, and, as a collateral security, the bond of a Mr. Thomas Horner, also for 10,0001. This transaction was also dated from the 25th of June, 1825,and it was agreed by Stephenson to pay for it an interest of 5 per cent.; Stephenson, according to Mr. Batson's account, having represented it also to be for the use of the firm, although they now de clared themselves as ignorant of that transaction as of the former one. In addition to these sums, there was a promissory note or receipt for a further ad vance of 1,5001., al-o signed by Stephenson. The bankrupts in their affidavits admitted that Batson had regularly banked with them for a great number of years, but they swore that a sum of 1,2001. and a fraction was the whole amount for which he ap peared to stand a creditor in their Looks at the time the commission issued. Mr. KNIGHT opposed the application. Mr.Bat son had not given up a farthing of his claim of 21,2421. against the joint estate of the bankrupts. He had, it was true, been allowed to prove 10,000/t on one security ; but it was expressly declared in the order, that this was without prejudice to the other claims, which remained Gver for further con sideration. The VICE-CHANCELLOR was clearly of opinion that the accuracy of the statements on both sides could only be satisfactorily investigated before ajury, and he therefore directed an issue to try whether any and what sums were due from the firm to Mr. Batson, at the date of the commission, beyond the sum of 1,2421. 193. 9d , admived by the assignees. lie should at the same time make an order for the examination of Mr. Batson and of the bankrupts on the trial of this issue. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. .5. WILLIAMS AND ANOTHER V. SHIERS. The question in this cue was, whether certain securities deposited with the defendant by his son, Nicholas Shiers, were deposited bona fide in r..spect of a debt which the latter owed to the defendant, or as a voluntary preference in fraud of the other creditors, and in contemplation of bankruptcy. The action, which was in trover, was brought by the as signees of Nicholas Shiers, to recover a deed of gua rantee and two bills of exchange. _ _ The Jury found for the plaintiff's on the bills of ex. change, and for the defendant on theguarantee deed, CHIPPINDALE V. THURSTON. This w•as an action by the executor of a person named Richard Holmes, to recover the amount of principal and interest due on a joint and several promissory notes for 500 d, given by the defendant as surety for Thomas Evans to Holmes, on the 30th of July, 11319. The defendant having pleaded the Statute of Limitations, evidence was given to show that Evans had given credit to the testator, Holmes, for interest on the note down to 1825. he plaintiff then, under his Lordship's direc ! tions, was nonsuited, with liberty, however to move, DUPES V. KEELING AND ANOTHER. This was an action for money had and received. The amount claimed was 61. Is. 6d. Mr. GURNEY stated that the plaintiff in this case was a boot and shoemaker. The defendants (Messrs. Keeling and Neck) were attornies, resid ing at—he begged the Jury would observe the ad .dress—No. 41, Lime-street, Leadenhall-street. He recommended the jury to take down the address, not with a view to their employing those persons, but in order that they might avoid them, and put their friends on their guard against their practices. If there was one house in the city of London which was a greater nuisance than another, it was the house of these defendants, who were what was called " discounting attornies." Such characters were in any pace a most horrible nuisance, and he, (the Learned Counsel) should be extremely glad if the verdict of the jury in this case should have the effect of causing it to be abated. The plaintiff had been induced, for the accommodation of a friend, to become a party to a bill of exchange which became due on the 13th of May, in the present year. On that day the bill was presented for payment and not being taken up immediately, a notice was left in the name of the defendants, stating that the bill (which was for 10/. only) was then due, and lay at their officein Lime-street. This notice was a printed form, filled up with the amount of the hill, and the name of the party. The plaintiff being unfortunately not quite ready with the 101. on the 13th of May, the worthy gentlemen, the defendants, on the 15th, issued three writs upon the bill, one against the drawer, another against an endorser, and the third against the ac ceptor, the present plaintiff, Mr. Dupen. In order to stop the proceedings as soon as . possible (tire writ being returnable on the 18th May), he request ed his attorney (Mr. Cox) to go to the defendants and pay the debt and costs. The attorney accord. i ng ly waited on the defendants, who gave him a short account of the costs, but refused to part with the bill. In the course of the conversation Mr. Cox was given to understand that there were two other writs out upon the bill. After conferring with the plaintiff, Mr. Cox paid 12/, the amount of the debt and costs in the action against the drawer. This was on the 16th May. In the course of the same day Mr. Cox knowing that there would be a great increase of expenses if the proceedings were pu t an end to im me di ate ly, sent an d p a id the C( o ) t sts in the other two actions, the whole (in the three actions) amounting to Q/. and a fraction—a sum, which if the costs bud been taxed by the master in the regular way, would have been reduced by at least one-third. But there was an objection to having them taxed, as a taxation on the part of the present plaintiff, Dupen, would have been vir tually an acknowledgment that Saunders was a person w ho had a right to sue on the bill. The plaintiff b e i n g satisfied that the use of that name (Saunders) was all a trick, called on the defendants, through Mr. Cox, to say who and what Mr. Saunders wag, and where he resided. They, however, declined to furnish the information, and he (the Learned Coun sel) believed that there was in reality no such per son as Mr. Saunders. Mr. ARCHBOLD addressed the Jury for the de fendants, who, he said, were highly respeetablv uttornies, after which James Saunders was examined, and the July found for the plaintiff—Datnages, 61. ls. Gd. BOARD OF EXCISE, Dec. 5. MIXING AND COLOURING RUM. Mr. John Henry Fisher, a licensed ictualler in Tooley-street, Borough, was charged with having in his possession a quantity of colouring, for the pur pose of adulterating beer. An Excise officer on the 22d of June found in the defendant's 31)44 cellar, a boule containing a quart of colouring, such as is made use of in adulterating beer. The defendant said it was spruce, but on tasting it he discovered its quality. As the defendant had had in a puncheon of rum, containing 100 gallons, the week before, and as the material he found could be used to colour rum, be exatoined the puncheon, and found that its contents had been divided. When the defendant re ceived the rum it was 30 per cent. above proof; part of it was in that sate when he (the officer) discovered it, and the remainder had been mixed and discoloured. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said that the rum, when he received it from the docks, was • extremely strong, and to reduce it to the saleable strength, he mixed 60 gallons of water with it ; this would make it too pale, and he used the co!ouring to bring back its former complexion. He denied having used the stuff to adulterate beer. The Commissioners fined the detendant 5/. for having the colouring in his possession. Jacob Moses, late a tobacco and snuff-dealer, at No. 6, St. George's-circus, Southwark, was charged with adulterating a quantity of snuff. Three scuff-dealers, who examined the mixture in question, which passed for snuff, proved that it was half genuine snuff and the other half lamp black. The defendant was fined .50/. John Duggan, a young man about 18 years of age, was fined 20/. for selling goods by auction at a house in Leicester-square, without having given no tice to the Excise. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, DEC. 5. Richard Badoock,late a warehouseman in Wood street, Cheapside, was opposed by Mr. Nichols on behalf of Messrs. Spenseley and Lynch. He was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. .Llin Spencer, a porter, formerly employed as a carman about the warehouses of the East India Company, was brought before the LORD MAYOR on Saturday, charged with having stolen a chest of black tea, No. 492, from the Company's yard, on the 3d of October. . Mr. Roberts, an officer in the employment of the Company, saw the prisoner eater the yard on Sa turday, the 3J of October, a few minutes before three o'clock, and go to the place where the single chests are deposited; witness asked him for his per mit, which he produced; it was taken out in the name of Forster; supposing that all was correct, he took no further notice, but made the entry in his book. Mr. Forster, a grocer in Tooley-street, had sent an order to Mr. Watkins, the tea-broker, on the 2d of October, to clear a chest of black tea for him, and that he did not know the prisoner, nor had he ever seen him before ; when Mr. Watkins sent for the tea, on the 3d, he found it had been taken away. The LORD MAYOR asked how permits were ob tained for the removal of goods from the Company's stores ?—Mr. Watkins saiJ, that on purchasing the tea, a paper called the request paper was sent down to the yard, and left in the box, which was easily accessible to persons in the yard. Any person who got possession of the request paper, could imme di itely get a permit, on presenting it at the proper office. Such V% as the course in the present instance. The prisoner, who was known to the Company's office's, possessed himself of the request paper, took out the permit, and carried off the chest of tea on his knot. _ The locker, the porter, and other persons em ployed about the yard, identified the prisoner as the person who carried away the chest of tea on the 3d of October. The prisoner was committed, and the parties were bound over to prosecute. What gives importance to the above case is the fact that many thefts of the same kind have been perpetrated of late; no less than fifteen chests of tea having been stolen in a similar manner within the last three Months. It seems (though the goes. tion has never been tried) that the purchaser is the loser, the Company insisting that they have done with the article the moment it is passed into the yard. BOW-STREET. Ford, the head-gaoler of this office, on Saturday night stated to Mr. HALLS, the Magistrate, that in consequence of information obtained from Sandford (who is under sentence of death in Newgate, with a man named Leslie, for a burglary committed by them in the premises of Mr. Stoltz, the tailor,) he had discovered a great deal more of the valuable pro perty yr bleb had been stolen by Sandford, a man named Stevens (who is not in custody,) and others, iu the house t f Mr. Edge, of Essex -street, Strand, about three months ago. Mr. HALLS told the officer to produce the property ; and Mr. Edge, ,who was in attendance, identified it. Fold found the goods pledged at the shops of different pawnbrokers, who had given them up to him. Mr. Edge produced a letter written to him by the convict Sandford, im ploring him (Mr. Edge) to use his humane exer tions to save him from capital punishment. He stated, as a ground for a remission of the sentence, that but for him (Sandford,) on the night of the robbery, he (Mr. Edge) would have been murdered by Stephens, who had repeatedly threatened to put him to death ; and who was the author of a letter received by Mr. Edge since the robbery was com mitted, which contained a similar threat. Mr. HALLS praised Ford for the exertions he had so successfully used in discovering the stolen pro perty, and expressed a hope that Stevens would not long escape justice. MA tiLBOROU GH.STREET. Augustus Thompson, a lad about twelve years of age, was charged with wilfully attempting to set fire to the premises, No. 23, Sherrard-street, Golden square. Mr. DYER said that the boy's conduct was wicked in the extreme, but in consequence of his tender age he could not be made the subject of a criminal proceeding. The prisoner's father was then bound over for his good behaviour, and be was discharged. MARYLEBONE.OFFICE. A NEW POLICEMAN COMMITTED.—Juseph Sharp, a person of respectable appearance, and 'Valiant Hart, a policeman of Division D. No. 133, were charged with a fraud. Mrs. Bennett, whose husband keeps the Coach and Hor,es public-house, Welbeck-street, Caven dish-square, stated, that between seven and eight o'clock on Friday night, in the absence of her hus band, she received a note reldressed to him, brought by a boy, and signed in the name of Marshall, who keeps the Union public-house in the neighbourhood. It commenced " Dear Bennett," and requested the accommodation of four or five pounds in silver or small change. She put two half-sovereigns, and thirty shillings in silver, into a piece of paper, and gave it to the boy, with which he went otf. Having Some doubt, she sent a servant to watch the boy. The servant stated, that the boy, inste.td of going towards Mr. Marshall's, went the contrary way. A policeman and another person (he believed they were the prisoners), met the boy, and he gave them the money. They stopped at a shop and looked at the money, and then walked en. Witness fol lowed,- but suddenly lost sight of them in Bird-street. Another witness stated that he was at Bennett's house on Friday, and saw the two prisoners there drinking ; he listened to their conversation, and heard sharp say to the policeman he was going into the city, and would have the letter ready, and be back about seven o'clock. The policeman said, " don't think we shall have quite time for it ;" to proved vo tini t ti which Shin p " 0 yeR, we shall; ril back at seven, and the letter shall be ready." , The po b a 9 b Y o n o t f t 1e Bennet B ;r'r 7i.nt stated that he lost sight of the persons : whom the boy gave the money, both the prisaser " t s, ; ( 9cee' entered his master's house. - The prisoners were committed for ma ' I• forged note that had been lately sent t o snothe : publican, for a similar purpose, was sh own to Ik% Magistrates, and it was evidently in the sam e han' writing as that sent to Mr. Bennett. QUEEN-SQUARE. Cbarles Hamilton, a young man of respectobli,ei appearance, was placed before the Magistrate, a charged himself with stealing a watch. - A police" constable said that he met the prisoner in 1 0 1,i street, Westminster, on Friday evening. fle g°, he had stolen a watch from a waiter at Sell° Coffee-house, Lincoln's Inn-fields, and insistedh 00 being taken into custody.—The prisoner, iveil asked the reason of making such an accusatioa against hitn.elf, said it was perfectly true, an d 11° had committed the• theft for the purpose of berg transported. Ills family were respectable ;h t e ta ha to ' disgraced them by his conduct; he had g o bad 'company, and all he wanted was to b e ttar. sported, that he might reform. Mr. WHITE said, he thought he might be aLle At° reform without being transported, and remodel' him until next week. The driver of Mr. Cloud's Hammersmith Onin k bus was fined .51., for conveying a gentleman fil l° Somerset-house to Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. OLB BAILEY, DEC. 5. John Brannan was put io the bar, to plead l. indictment, charging him with stealing a I,d 000 indictment,note, the propery of Joseph Bowman and Richer W , new Winter.—The prisoner pleaded Guilty. , a Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE asked him if ne h the consequence of that plea?—Bresnan, fter moment's hesitation, answered that he did . Mr. ADOLPHUS, in a very low tone of voice, ad' dressed the Judge. We understood him to 01,. to 5.7 that he had been desired by the prosecutors to re" quest the Court to show the prisoner all the o°ll that was within its power. What the prisoner, done, was an act of the moment, and certainly un' great temptation. The prisoner was then removed from the bar' e Solomon Israel was indicted for a rape upon person of J K ane night. Jane Knight, being only 11 years old last b tember, was examined by Mr. Justice LITTLIgD;ti: as to the propriety of her being examined 01 1 e From the evidence of the litt:e girl, it 811' 6 “ . „, that a person, whom she believed to be the pri'n asked her to go on an errand; when she reP cji- i ' to his room, he committed the offence laid to h.ot' charge, threatening her in the event of her 1 10 , 1 %, an outcry. She did not tell any one what had I Tie pened from the Tuesday to the Friday, w ile " told her mother, her aunt, and a Mrs. Cain': i gic she was, in consequence, examined by a Ined ke vg man. After the Friday she became ill , sod her bed. the : c l:ild n: said that the appearances might haveM Butler, the surgeon who examilr " natural causes, unconnected with violation; and in his opinion, whatever had taken place, " 4, sufficient to bear out what the law requires to est i Wish the capital charge. ; The Jury, after a minute's deliberation, actill'ti e the prisoner. NEW COURT. Joseph Powell, a hackney-coachman, was charg with having stolen a watch, with its append i g:: and a purse, containing 30 shillings, from the Pe ll , , of Mr. Goodear, a gentleman of fortune, residise arisen tr..o_, Cnr The COMMON . SERJEANT minutely s c our e , the evidence, and the Jury, after some u— gr'--i consideration, found the prisoner Not LIVERPOOL, DEC. 5. It appears, from the brokers' statements, that th e r import of cotton into Liverpool , fr om the Ist for January to the 30th of November, amounted 623,333 bags. against 589,278 during the e el; ondent periol of the last year. The sales , from I' commencement of January to the end of Noremberi reached 691,630 bags. The stock, on the 301, November, was estimated at 214,200 ba g s ' 00 / - 1828, it was estimated at 299,900. The oper a t during the preceding week have been insigniicallL compared with their extent during the month November. The sales amounted to 8,450 bags on of at a fall of id. per lb. in Maranhams, and x tie to Id. in Sea Islands. To-day the demon ( ' 13 very dull, the sales not exceeding 1,000 bags at• l th previous currency. The arrivals from foreign p ar la , owing to a change in wind, were numerous tn'""td and ate likely to be still more numerous to'nW rr° ,rb i e r if the wind should continue in the south-west. iq.'"f Manchester steamer, which grounded in Dublin during the gale of Tuesday night week, and Wh;p. was got off without much damage, foun dere t u ,to Thursday night, on her passage from Dubilii, Liverpool, in consequence of a leak. T he e c- 14 were fortunately rescued from a watery grav; t bs the Ballinastoe steamer, which had aceompanie" t-s§ Manchester front Dublin. The i 3 llanchester):ch worth 12,0001., and is the second steamer is her owners have lost this year. The Undergraduates of Queen's Cv ik ijege J: Cambridge, as a testimony of their respect O r r - , lr. KING, who has been mmy years Tutor of that `lAllece and is the Moderator for the present year, have v(*-tta.sl sum of three hundred guineas for a whole-length P°l.- of that gentleman, and Sir WILLIAM BESCIVrt able Cambridge for the purpose of painting this 1100°°* tribute of esteem, fri. ndsh;p, and gratitude. M r MIMED AND PuDLIsitED BY MURDO Irl9'. TIM SUN °NMI, 112, STRAW), Let's4l° BITHS. On the 4th inst. in Ha par street, Red Lion -e e' Mrs. Coles, of a son. of . On the 6th inst. Mrs. Moves, of Doughty-street, daughter. On the 3d inst. at Dagenham, the lady of the Fe'' L. Fanshawe, of a son. 10 11 On the 4th inst. at Palmer'a-green, Southgate, the of I. Walker, Esq. of a son. 10 ° ' , On the 3d ins . . at Cambridge, the lady of W. of Esq. of Jesus College, of a daughter. Id/ On the 3d inst. 'at Hassington-hall, Suffolk, t he . J. Gun'on, Esq., of a s o t. J I On the sth inst. in Sloane•strect, the lady of kis, Blood, 68th Regt. of a son. , 0 0 , On the 2d inst. at Blackheath Park, the la d y , " Gordon, Esq. of a son. foe On the Ith inst. at the General Post-office, Me g ' • ling, of a son. MARRIED. fog; On the 3d inst. at Gillingham, Frederick Luc''.,lol; of the Paragon, Kent-road, to Jan.!, only child of 1/'1 r' eel Lock, Esq., of Brompton, Kent. On the sth inst. at St. George's, Hanove r-s q al 1 , 0 W. Griffith, of Lower Eaton-street, snrgeon, to i tt widow of the late Julius Edward Fisher, Esq. ; 0 0. On the sth inst. at Hackney, Daniel Lay, I: 0 1"J fo" the Grove, solicitor, to Eliza, second daug hter 01' Esq., both of the same place. DIED. ,Ith On the 3d inst. at Padworth, Berks , i n the 'opa" of his age, William Stephens, Esq. universally es and particularly regretted by his numerous friend 6-00 7 On the 2d inst. aged 20, W. Elworthy , youngest R. Were, Esq. of Poole, Dorset. Ale On the 4th inst. at Pentonville, Mr. J. H. ar in his 49th year. of On the 2d inst. Louisa Emily, twin clang-ter Daniell, of Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square. AO"' On the 2d inst. at Fort-lodge, Margate , El e t a r r eldest daughter of John Plummer, Esq. aged On the 2d inst. at Holyland's Hotel, Dl"e'''heoba' Strand, Isaac Delamare, Esq. aged 87, late of C Herts. ales On the 3d inst. Mary, the wife of Mr. of Streatham, Surrey. -galas