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munity, of which the wants are supplied by pur chase from the cultivator of ~.tt he does not require for his own consuini. The condi tions of fhe implied' trust ire, that all that the earth or water nourishes must be distributed among the people, in the proportions indicated by, their ability to purchase. The attempt to monopolise any one production is anti-social, and justifiable on no other ground than that by which your purse is taken from you on the high way. It is impossible to conceive a g rosser tyranny than the assumption of this power by the English aristocracy, of excluding the majority of inhab4ants of the country from all right to ob tain, by purchase, a share of the animals raised in the country. If power be a justification of a Legislature, there is nothing which may not be jus tified. Whatever body has the power of legislating in a country ought to ask, when a measure is proposed—ls this such a measure as the people, if they knew their interests, would choose for themselves ? If it will notestand this test, it is tyranny, no matter whether the Government be Monarchy, Aristocracy, or Mongrel. Tried by such a test, a more monstrous tvranny than the Game Laws of England has never been forced upon an insulted nation. It is submitted to by the people of England, because it is imperative, as far as regards their exclusien. They know that, to enact that in a country in which money is all-powerful, and everything is bought and sold, Game shall not be marketable, is as absurd as to enact that water shall be deemed equal in valtie to wine, or a pound of Newcastle coal shall be deemed equal in- value to a pound of silver. The law merely remains as a memorial of the impotency and stupidity of the Legisla ture. The addition to the mass of crime pro duced by the means necessary to ensure the dis tribution of the game throughout society, the' deterioration of the peasantry, the sufferings of the iestruments engaged in violating the tyran nical law, are not of the class of grievances which come home to men's bosoms and impel them to action. The sufferings of poachere, the conver sion of thousands of labourers first into poachers, and lastly into thieves, is a questioe of humanity rather than of property ; and however admirable a subject humanity may be for a sermon or a speech, property alone brings men into the arena. Who cares for labourers—who cares for the needy victims whom the moneyed inhabitants of towns make use of to violate the Legislative monopoly ? A chance enthu siast here and there has perhaps persuaded him self into a belief that he cares for these poor creatures. Mr. Henry Drummond obseeved, is his speech at the Surrey Sessions, that " every. Iran who purchased a head of game should bear in mind that he 'was accessary to the crimes by which it was obtained—that he was, to a certain extent, a purchaser of human blood." We pro test against this doctrine. It is quite sufficient for men to answer for their own sins, without taking upon themselves the sins of others. The Legislature, and the Legislature alone, are ac countable to God and man for the crimes and the evils to which the Game Laws give rise. The people of a country may see defects in their Government, and may disapprove of the laws which are enacted ; but it is a question of dis cretion with them, whether they should hazard the peace of the country by forcible attempts tither to reform the Government or to resist its measures. If a people see that more might be lost .than gained by. such attempt, they are jus tified in remaining passive. But they are not called on to renounce the means by which they can, with safety to themselves, defeat unjust laws. This would be to add to the tyranny, and to renounce advantages to which they are en titled without any corresponding benefit. They must get on as well as they can ; under the Govern ment and under the laws of their country ; and their justification will he determined by the na ture of the measures which they oppose, and not by the name given to those who are the authors of the measures.—Morning Chronicle. IS has become part of the philosophical cant of the day to talk of the " interests of science" as opposed to the interests of morality. But that science which, instead of promoting, coun teracts morality, is a curse, and not a blessing to mankind. The Scotch murders—those enor mous, those portentous crimes, which, if we had only read of them in a " German tale of horror," would be supposed the fictions of an imagination peculiarly savage and depraved— evenehose murders, the atrocity of which defies an appropriate epithet, are palliated, nay, almost excused, by some writers, who affect an extraor dinary zeal for the interests of science," but who forget that the great end of science is to elevate our moral being, and to humanize the world. Such writers touch upon the crimes to which we have alluded with the most cautious delicacy, while they exhaust their indignation upon, the law which pueishes the profanation of the grave. They do not hesitate to say that the law is the cause of those crimes, and pretty plainly intimate that a repetition of them is to be expected, until the Legislature interferes, and either allows the contents of the churchyard to be carried off with impunity, or at least le galises the sale of the " bodies of the poor."— There is no law more in unison with public feel ing, with the instincts of our nature, and with common decency,. than that which forbids the violation of the grave. If any alteration should be made in it, we trust-it will be to render the crime afelony, instead of a misdemeanour, and subject the ruffians who live by the beastly traffic to transportation for life, instead of being coH. fined a few months, as at present, and then let loose upon society, more hungry and ravening than ever. As to " legalising the sale of the bodies of the poor," the less that is said about it the better ; those who are Unfeeling or " philosophical" enough to sell the bodies of their relations can, it appears, easily manage to dispose of them at present, and transmute the produce into gin ; and those who retain the decent instincts that raise man, even in his humblest state, above the brute creation, are not to be, induced' by any law to purvey among their kindred for the' Surgical shambles. Let surgical students reform tlieinseives, instead of " reform, ing the law," by treating the dead body, when , under the knife, with less grossness a nd inde cency than they are in the habit of doing, and they may have more chance of a supply. Talk of prejudice, indeed ! when does a surgeon give up his own body for " the interests of science ?" Morning Herald. A prudent banker would not trust to his clerks, or even to his partners, for the safe keep ing of the securities belonging to the house or to its customers. From the very nature of things these. must be continually changing. An ac count of all deposits of the kind should be kept in a book expressly for that purpose, and checked A least once a month, if not oftener. If this had been done in Stephenson's case, the greater part of what has happened could not have oc curred. Sure, "under such a system, of imme• diate detection by his partners, this guilty man himself would, have been 'deterred from a com mencement of ii - course, in which, on the con trary, grown bold by laxity and impunity, he has, at length, brought ruin on himself, and so much loss and injury to others.—lbid. We have given, in another column, a length ened report of what may be considered the lay ing of the foundation stone of the Butchers' -Charitable Institution ; and we feel assured that there is no one among our readers, who has either a heat to feel for the miseries of others, or a mind to appreciate the progress and beneficent influence of Charity, who will weary in its pe rusal. As was well remarked at the Meet ing, if there be any one duty more sacred or imperative than another, next to that which we owe to the Great Author of all Things, it is that of employing the talents which have been conferred up - on us, and using the means which we enjoy, in ministering to the necessities of our less fortunate brethren. Such use and employment of them are at once a blessing both td the giver and to the receiver. They diffuse kindly feelings among those whom it is our duty to relieve ; while the gratification which they afford to those who bestow the gift may fairly be set down as inestimable, when compared with any other enjoyment which wealth could purchase. That the butchers of the metropolis are animated by such feelings is most honourable to them ; and the best answer which they can give to the calumnies which have been circulated to their prejudice, will be the complete establishment, and munificent. en dowment, of the Institution which they have now founded, and to the success of which we shall cheerfully contribute, by giving it every publicity in our power.--Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 111.kNSION.HOUSE. Yesterday the Justice-rooni was crowded during a great part of the. day, in consequence of the ap prehension and examination of four men, named Wheatley, Kite, King, and Young, charged with having broken into a►~d plundered Teddington Lock home, which stands on the Surrey side of the Thames, opposite to Teddington, on the night of the 21st of December, and plundered it of cash, wear ing -appal el, &e. . . _ Alderman WOOD sat with the LORD MAYOR dur-' ing the investigation, in which he took a very active part. The prisoner Young had voluntarily confessed his participation in the crime to the former. Mr. Savary (a respectable elderly man), keeper of the lock-house, stated, that on the night of Sa tardav, the 21st of December, between, he sup poseti, one and two o'clock, some men (he believed there were four) broke into his room. They had two lights, and one of them had a pistol in his hand, and said to him, " Your money, your money !" Another stood at the foot of his bed, and told him to get up out of bed. Only one eye of• each of them was visible; the rest of the features were covered with a handkerchief. One of the party began to rummage at a chest of drawers. Wit ness attended the robbers down stairs, and saw the room in great disorder. He had a bag with 44. in silver, and an Oxford bank-note for 10L; .and he was frightened at the idea of being ill-used if they thought he had no money. One of the robbers put his hand into his (witness's) pocket, and took out the silver and a small book, out of which the 10/. note fell and . 11. note. One of them said that the 10/. would not do for them, but a second said that it would, and picked it up immediately. Witness said that he had no more money, and was: then told to go up to bed, while a third stood to watch him going up. Witness afterwards, when he found they . were none, went down stairs, and ascertained that a cask with some gin in it had been taken, and that a leg of mutton, a case with two razors in.it, a blue coat, and several other articles were also missing. Young (the prisoner) was then a.ked whether he wished to make any statement ? He was, at the Lime time, informed, that if he intended to do so, he was to speak without conditions, and - take the whole risk of the statement upon his own head. After some little hesitation, be requeSted to be allowed time to consider, and he retired instist - fdy of an officer, who was strictly ordered, not to speak a word to him. Richard Humphreys, a lad about 16 years old, grandson to Mr. Savary, generally slept at the lock house c,n Saturday night. On the night in question he heard a noise in the middle of the night. His cousin, a boy seven years old, was with him in bed in a landing at the top of the stairs. Witness thought it was his grandfather ho head coming to bed, but on looking through the curtains he saw the hand of a man with a pistol in it. • Ile immediately covered himself up in bed, for he was mach frightened. He heard speaking or whispering in the next room. Cooke, the Kingston-on-Thames officer, went on Sunday morning to the house of one William Strud wick, at Whitton, in Middlesex, in search of a family token, knowing it to be the property of Mr. Savary, of Teddington-loek. Strudwick• said, that he had bought the token of Young (the prisoner) for a pint of beer. Witness then apprehended Young, who denied the transaction, but afterwards acknowledged that lie had got the token from the lock-house on the night of the robbery, and that he, Wheatly, Kite, and King were concerned in the robbery. On Monday witness apprehended Kite and King, and Wheatley was apprehended by another officer, Young (th' prisoner) here re-entered the jus tice room, and said that he was ready to make a disclosure of all he knew of the robbery, and having been again informed that he could not be proniisecL any exemption froth punishment if he criminated himself, he stated as follows : I live at Twickenham, and know those three men at the bar, Wheatley, Kite, and King, from their infancy. On the Saturday night before Christmas day, the three came to me, and told me there was a good. concern to be done well. Wheatley said they were going to rob the lock-house at Teddington. We all went together to the water-side, and we went into a punt which was fastened to a peter-boat, and went across the water to the place. When we landed, we went to the lean (a sort of shed) of the lock-house. It was then near 12 o'clock. There were iron bars in the window, but we forced out the frame alto,,, , setht r, and Wheatley and Kite went in, and handed King and me out some bottles of gin and gingerbread. They then came out, and we went to the other end of the house, and broke through a brick wall into the other lean, so that we could unlatch the door; but there was nothing there but fowls, and we took none. We then went to the back-door of the house, and made a hole with a centre-bit large enough to put in the arm. Wheatley worked the centre-bit, and made a variety of small holes, which he broke into a large one. We then entered the house, - and found '4. keg of girl and a leg of mutton in the kitchen. We struck a light with flint and steel and tinder, which I carried with rne, and we lighted a candle. We then went to a door at the foot of the stairs, which was also fast, and Wheatley made another hole with the centre-bit. We undid the door, went into the office, and found a family token in the desk, which we broke, open with a crow-bar that Wheatley carried with him. We broke open two cupboards, but found nothing in them. We then went up another flight of stairs, and into a room, and searched the drawers, and Kite took out three shawls and a cloak, and Leghorn bonnet. (Here Kite cried out, " Oh, its false, gen tlemen, its false:") We then went to Mr. Savory's bed-room, but found the door locked inside. Wheat ley and Kite, immediately upon finding it fast, forced it open with their bodies, and entered. Kite went up to the bed and said "Your money or your life," holding a pistol to Mr. Savary's head. We were all of us disguised. Wheatley took a metal watch, and we rummaged the room, while Kite l•eld the pistol over the bed. King stood guard over the children's room. I thought I heard the children cry, but did not,exactly hear what they said. I was standing otftside. Kite desired Mr. Savary to get up and go down and get the money for us. Mr. So vary did get up, and went with Kite and Wheat ley into the office, and I stood at the door. Mr. Savary went to the corner cupboard, and said, " You have got the money." " No," said Wheatley, and Mr. Savary took a bag of silver out of his pocket, and a 11. note, and a 101. note. I did not hear any threat used. After he gave the money, we went down stairs, and Kite told Mr. Savary to go to bed, and that. he would return in ten. minutes to see that he. was in bed. Kite waited till the rest of us were in the boat, and then joined us. We then went to my house, and carried with us all that we took away. We put the gin and other things into Mrs. Gos ling's furze pit until Friday night. King and Wheatley went to London with the money and the watch, and returned at night and divided the money. I had 11. .ss. for my share. On Friday night we divided the gin in mugs, and Wheatley had the cask and the Leghorn bonnet. King had the blatiket and sheet and a new pair of water-lig:it.. Kite had the shawls and the cloak. I had nothing but the division of the money and the copper medal, Kite, when he saw the 101. note, threw it down, and said it would not do ; but Wheatley said it would. The LORD MAYOR—Were you satisfied at this division of the property ? Young—No, not quite. Au officer said he found two bottles of gin, a picklock-key, and a tinder-box, in Young's house. He found at King's house a blanket and sheet; and at Kite's house he found a razor, a ruler, and the outside of a shawl. Auether officer found a. blue coat at the house of a man named Alexander, and produced it. Alexander said, that Wheatley had worked for him, and left the coat for him to take care of. Mr. Savary identified the coat. He also identified much of the other property. The prisone►s were then all remanded. GUILDHALL James Martin was brought up for final examina tion yesterday, charged with stealing a bull, the pm perty of Mr. Johnson, of the Manor-farm, Highgate; and Thomas Wentworth, on suspicion of receiving the same, knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Harmer attended for the prosecution, and Mr. C. Phillips and an attorney for the prisoners. Martin had carried on the business of a cow keeper, on Kennington-common, reputably, for some years. He had purchased largely from Mr. Johnson, and paid honourably; so that latterly Mr. Johnson had not scrupled at giving him credit to large amounts.. On the sth of June, Martin bought a bull of him; but, in October, he complained that the bull had become lazy, and Mr. Johnson agreed to let him have another in exchange, Martin volun teering to keep the first bull for a few weeks till the prices advanced, as a compensation for the difference in the value of the two beasts. Mr. Johnson was to fetch him away whenever he liked; and shortly before Christmas he gave Martin notice, that he should send for the bull on the sth of Ja nuary. On the 3d, however, Martin deserted his premises, and disposed of his cattle, a portion of which he had purchased of Mr. Johnson with bills not yet due. The bull in question, which became Mr. Johnson's property in 'October, was" exposed for sale in Smithfield on the •oth instant by Went worth, who refused to part with it, or satisfy any inquiries, and was therefore appl'ehended. Before the Magistrate, Wentworth said he had purchased the bull from Martin, and Mr. Harmer was prepared to show, by persons residing near him, that he was in such straitened circumstances, that it was quite improbable that he should have made such a pur chase. ;Th.. Harmer said Mr. Johnson was not an ing prosecutor, but he (Mr. Hurmer) bad dotibts whether Martin could-properly be comcnitted for stealing, there being_ no change of ,possessien after the bull was lawfully in the hands of the prisoner. Mr. Phillips dwelt on the same point, viz. that as the buil remained in Martin'lt possession after it be came Johnson's property, Martin _could, not be charged with taking from Johnson. Mr. Beresford (the chief_clerk) concurred with Mr. Harmer and Mr. Phillips, but Mr. Payne, the assistant clerk, advised the Ma gistrate that the case might be held to be of the class where a bailee converts goods to .his own use after the . contract of bailment had determined (as when a canier opens a bale of goods and takei a part, it is a larceny, because, by this tortirous,, act the contract of bailment is determined.—Ket. 82, 83) ; and Mr. Alderman- ANSLEY appearing ign to decide that the case was not one of felony. Mr. Phillips proposed that his client should be held to bail by two magistrates, and Mr. Harmer and Mr. Alderman ANSLEY concurring, it was agreed the prisoners should come up to be bailed, on Satur day next. Robert Roberts, formerly a law-clerk, was finally examined, charged with stealing a bundle of,up parel and other articles, the property of Mary Ann Chandler. The prisoner, who is a married man, had been paying his addresses to the proseeutriz three years, and having flied a time for leading her to the altar, called a day or two before for her clothes, that he might send them down into Norfolk, where the wedding was to take place. Having obtained these, she saw him no more till he was in custody. The pawnbrokers produced a part of the property, but could not identify the prisoner. There was a second charge, of stealing a watch from a young widow named Hovelly, to whom he had been paying his addresses and promising mar riage, during a great portion of the time he was courting the first complainant. On the• 10th May she was going to her sister's, and at his instance left the house before hire, allowing him to lock up the doors. Finding he did not follow, she returned, missed her watch, and discovered in its place a written admission that he had taken it from distress. .She pardoned this, and had contributed largely to his support since April ; but learning through the news papers that he was married, and how he had misled Mary Ann Chandler, she determined to prosecute him for his baseness. The prisoner declined saying any thing on either charge, and was committed on both. - " BOW-STREET. Yesterday Sir R. BIRNIE took occasion to ob serve that •he had lately received several anonymous letters, assuring him in the most positive terms that the plan for obtaining subjects for the dissect ing knife, as exposed by the trial of the monster Burke at Edinburgh, was also practised in this me tropolis. Mr. BECKETT, a county Magistrate, after look ing over the anonymous correspondence, said, he had no doubt whatever of the truth of the statement they contained. The unaccountable disappearance of several persons lately almost confirmed it. Sir Astley Cooper, in his evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons, described resurrection men as the vilest dregs of society, and capable of committing any act of atrocity if paid for it. Sir R. BIRNIE said, that there could be but one opinion as to the character of resurrection-men. He, however, could scarcely bring himself to believe the statements contained in the letters addressed to him. If those statemen:s, however, were capable of proof, - the persons by whom they had been made ought to lose no time in coming publicly forward for the pur pose of having the matter legally investigated, in order that the parties implicated should be punished as they deserved. Mr. BECKETT concurred in this opinion, and the conversation dropped. Grubb, the person who formerly kept a house of entertainment in Bow-street, which was chiefly fre quented by flash characters, and who lately o p ene d an establishment of a similar character in Long-acre, appeared to answer to an information preferred against him by Mr. Brekner and Mr. Salter, two re spectable inhabitants of Long-acre. The information charged the defendant with keeping a disorderly house, and suffering dancing therein, contrary to th-• 25th Geo. 11. Mr. Brekner and Mr. Salter having sworn to t' :e truth of the notice, describing Grubb's as a dis orderly house, it was handed to the overseers, who immediately charged a constable with the custody of Grubb. _ Sir. R. BIRNIiI then said, that it now only re mained for Grubb . to enter iuto recogniaances to meet the charge at the Sessioni. For this purpose the parties 'retired to the clerk's office, but returned soon after, when Mr. Salter said, that as Mr. Grubb had pledged himself to.close xhe premises, perhaps all further proceedings might•be dropped. - Sir R. BIRNIII—But what securitthave we that Grubb will keep his word ? Grubb—Sir Richard, I pledge my word and honour as a man. ..-..—. Sir R. BIRNIH—So you say; but I prefer your entering into bail to taking either your word or honour. The Act of Parliament must be complied with. _ _ The parties again retired, when Grubb entered into his own recognizance in 201. and two sureties in 104 each, to meet the charge at the Sessions. LAW INTELLIGENOR. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT-JAN. 15. WOODYBTT AND REATHCOTB. This case was a motion for the removal of a re ceiver, which had been appointed by the Court, of the profits of a certain mineral estate, of wbich Mr. neathcote, M.P., is proprietor of •two-thirds, and -his sister, Mrs. Woodyett, of one-third. The order for a receiver was obtained by the trustees of the marriage -settlement of Mrs. Woodyett, and by the other parties interested under that settlement, on the ground that Mr. Heathcote had mismanaged the estate, and misrepresented the value of it, in order that he might purchase the one-third for less than it was worth. Several affidavits had been filed by Mr. Heathcote in contradiction of these charges. The VICE-CHANCELLOR would not go through the voluminous evidence which it had been thought necessary to put upon the record. Though Mr. Heathcote was owner of two-thirds:, still the parties interested in the one-third had a right to protection, and he thought that he could not refuse to appoint a receiver. Considering the whole of the circum stances, he did not feel himself called upon to say any thing with respect to costs. The Seal, which has now lasted two days, will, in consequence of the great arrear. of motions, be con tinued to-morrow (this day). PREROGATIVE COURT, JAN. 15. KENNY AGAINST DUNBAR. This was A proceeding in which the executoref an executor of an executor of a testator, who died in the West Indies, was • cited to show cause why probate of a will, dated in 1755, obtained in 1760, should not be recalled ; and another will in favour of an only child (a minor ,at the testator's death, but now an aged woman), should not,be proved in its stead. Betore the argument was commenced, Sir J. tcitoun interposed, and retnalked, that this attempt to rip pp proceedings .after such a lapse of time, by way of experiment, could not be countenanced by the Court. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. lb. On Wednesday Samuel Carridge eame up to be heard on his petition, but was opposed by a creditor named. Holman ; when, from . the circumstances which were deduced during the examination, it ap-. peered to the Court that be had made away with considerable. property; and *.thereby. defrauded :his creditors. Upon this ground. the Court adjudged him to be .confined . for a period of eight calendar , months.within the walls of the .prison. When the above-named insolvent, Carridge (who, it is surmised, had been. favoured with a friendly arrest for the purpose of enabling him the more rea dily to take the benefit of the Act), arrived at his old quarters, .he found that his friend who had ar rested him had left his discharge at the prison gate. It was to late to obtain a detainer against him that evening, and as the warrant for his bping kept in prison was not expected,till the morning, ,there was :10 authoiity to detain him; he therefore paid his gate fees, and as : a discharged prisoner walked , eff, probably laughing at the eight months' sentence of the CommiSsioners.. • This day Mr. HEATH, on behalf of Mr. Holman, the insolvent'a opposing creditor, applied, on an affidavit, detailing the above facts, to have the adju dication on the insolvent's ease stayed, he being at present out of custody. _ The COURT had no power to grant the application. ADMIRALTY SESSIONS, JAN. 15. At the Admiralty Sessions, which commenced on Monday, the calendar contained the natne of William Fidlei, who was indicted for having. stolen some sugar from the store of a vessel, on board of which he was employed in an official' capacity. • Sir C. - KontNsoN, in his charge to the grand jury, made particular allusion to this case, and obcerved upon it as follows . :—" Gentlemen,—l am happy to inform you, that such has been the conduct of the maritime population of this country since the last sessions, that the calendar contains only one case of felony. I have not seen the depositions in that case, but from what I have heard, I have reason to believe that no indictment will he preferred. The charge is, that the accused , took 251 b. of sugar from on board a West Indiaman, but the master and owners are of opinion that, supposing he did take it, there wasno felonious intention, and it appears that the, charge was preferred by some of the crew, and the Magistrate was bound to act upon their evi dence. If the 'fact be that the party is innocent, it is much to be lamented that he should hare been so long a time in custody, because those who were con.;. vinced of his innocence should have put in bail fer his appearance. In the course of the day, the Grand Jury made a return of " ignoranzus," and the unfortunate gentle man' was discharged. Upon minute inquiry, we have ascertained that Mr. Fidler acted as commander of the vessel during the illness of his, brother, and in consequence of his enforcing discipline, some foreign sailors took um brage, and upon arriving in port they preferred the charge alluded to, for which it has been sworn that there was not the least possible pretension. The unfortunate Man has been in confinement for nearly five months. In the early part of November he went up to the Judges' Chambers in order to put in bail, and lie did so upon an affidavit that he had made a purchase of the sugar for his private use. The Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench said that the prisoner might go at large upon his finding security in the sum of 801. The accused proposed his brother as one of his sureties, who lives not far from Brandenburgh-house. The brother, who is a divine, observed, that although . fully convinced of his brother's innocence, he shnttld decline entering into the required recognizances : the consequence was, that the prisoner was remanded. Colonel and Mrs. Beaumont, of Bretton-hall, have generously made a grant of an acre and a half of land to the inhabitants of Cleckheaton, in the parish of Birstal, i n a very eligible situation, as a site and cemetery for the ne w church intended to be built in that village by his Ma jesty's commissioners for building churches in populous d istri cts. —Hull Packet. By the Pensacola Gazelle of October 28, we have received the Message of the President of Florida to th e Legislative Assembly of that State.. The only an nouncements in it not purely of local interest are, that next year the ce n s u s of the population of Florida will war rant its admission as a state into the national Union, and that the culture of the sugar was extending so much, and thriving so well, as to afford a hope that in a few years sugar would be the staple of Florida. THE WCW CLUB MOUSES IN WATER' . •. . • ~ - -, L00,1)14984 •, r t • John Hunter, e . man apparently about 28 years ._ of age, of respectable appearance, was indicted for It generally understood that ,Mr.:Nash, as the canting and procuring to be forged an acceptance to Architect of Regent-street, was intrusted. with a bill of exchange for 501., purporting to be the the designsdesigns of the internal elevatiOd'of the'UAite acceptance of George Henry Hunter. Service Club-house . as well as that of the;Athi 'lleum Club, which . ' were .to be . as much, as pol.': Mr. James Morley resides in Sidmouth-street, Gray's-inn-lane, and keePs a grocer's shop; had !, Bible symmetrical and uniform.; .. Withlespect tb ' known the prisoner fox many years; .he called, on witness .hi Noieinbecia‘t, 'and - milked him if be the internal arrangements, Mr. Nash had . -th6so knew of a house and shop-to be disposed of; gavel of the tnited Service Club-lionii.onlypi4iiice4 him the addreis of one he bad in the neighbourhood. to his charge.: while Mr. Burton,. was, ,_Select-as • He went ,to look ;at it, and returned . the same slay, the Architeet of the interior of Atha' Viii.-i,tness.,o,..- first' 'inspected Mr. Nash's design's; ' they" were and said it would exactly suit him .. He theta pro- nmum,• and of its external - decorations -only} posed to give's - lAll of exchange . for 40i., the amotih_nt. When the building committee of the - latter Club which- witness asked for the. shop r . . struck' with the absurdity of a propopm . . jected to that mode of payment, • and on his saying - . , portico,- that the bill would be the acceptance • .of his' cousin, George Henry Hunter, Esq., a respectable merchant which N was. to be attached. to the . sideL next ta ' in Cateaton-street, city, witness told the prisoner he Pall all of each building, having the .ettnie would prefer seeing Mr.. Hunter before he took the proportions and dimensions, .althotigk the, front - - bill, and prisoner thereupon proposed that they. age towards that street of the 'one - be jiiaili should go together to his cousin's the neat morning, d ou bl e t h a t .of the other building. At'a : bon- Witness accordingly went there, and saw the prisoner ference with the CommissiOners of W oo d s a n d a at the door, and was informed by him that his eau- Forests, this incongruity being p o i n t e d . out by sin was not then at home. They proceeded to- noble Lord, well• known-for his-taste' in . of the buildingcommitteo the arm; gether into the counting-house, and on the pri was- ob= . sorter's asking what time. his cousin would re- and an active member turn, some person in the office said, " Not be- of, the Athenteuna, - a positive - promise, fore one o'clock." Witness returned home, and, saw tained from Mr. Nash, that the portico should be. the prisoner again in the afternoon, and was in- . doneawayaltogether in theelevation of biatlx ehabr, , formed by him that he had seen his cousin, and houseS., Some .little delay having occurred. in the clearing of the ground belonging to'the ins Athenaeum, the - erection!" of the Unitted'Service' that he had agreed to accept the bill on the follow ing morning. Prisoner then proposed to get a Club.:house was proceeded in tong enough hefpre: stampiand that witness should drawon Mr. Hunter for 504 instead of 401. 2 -as he wanted the difference, that of the opposite Club; to show that its Ar . • . , • chitect meant not to ad here h is promise ; for and• he offered to take it and get accepted himself.' to • , up started that. delightful specimen of double 'Witness drew the bill and gave it to the prisoner, who shortly after: brought it back With an accept? ance upon it, purporting to be that of Mr. George .portiCoi (where none was to have existed vvhich. Henry. Hunter. Witness gave him the 101.. differ- the public have been- staring at fur the last few . ence, and said be would give him possession of the months; while the Pall-mall front of the Athe. shop in two days. Before the prisoner -ment away, . nmum exhibits no su c h d ecora ti on . En amoure d he assured him that, the bill was accepted by his of his own con ce pti on , it i s p oss ibl e th a t M r . cousin, whom they had called.•to sae on the morn- Nash had not the courage to suppress that fea ing before. Witness then asked the prisoner to in dorse the bill. He requested him to: put his mark in ture his own building which he had beet on it, as he could not then : see to write,: Witness compelled to relinquish in th a t o f th e Athenaeum; 'passed the bill to a Mr. Hale, in Judd -street, but and thus has he departed from the assurance, • it was returned to him as a forgery. Witness then given at the Board of Woods and Forests to my caused the prisoner to be apprehended. Lord L— and F—, of strictly preserving Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKsON--Did not the uniformity of design in th e t wo b u ildi ngs know that the prisoner was blind. He could not have which are to form so con s pi cuous an ornament been so, as he saw the money when he placed it on to the termination of his o wn s t ree t. Th at M r . the counter. '1 he prisoner is a musician, and he Nash himself must now' re gre t ever having upon de knew that he was near-sighted. agreed. , we Mr. George Henry Hunter examined—ls a ware- viated from the plan originally . house-man in Cateaton-street. Had known the pri- feel perfectly convinced; fo r mos t assuredly the. soner at the bar many years; was a third cousin o f .presence of such a pair of porticos not only his. The acceptance to the bill of exchange now pro- exposes him to the damning pasquinade inter duced is not witness's hand writing, nor did he give rogatory. of old, " Care colonne cheflie- ma p" - the prisoner at the bar any authority to accept the but has damaged -the architect's reputation As a bill in his name. _ man. of taste. • • OLD BAILEY, JAN. 15. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—The prisoner has not been blind since his biith, but he has been very near-sighted, and obliged to grope his way about. He could not read nor write, and was brought up as a blind musician, under Mr. Purkis, I,vhois also blind. He thought that from his man ner of life he could have had no knowledge of bills of exchange. . Mr. Jos. Jackson . lives at No. 102, St. John's street ; the prisoner applied to him the beginning •of December, to write his name across the bill for him, as he was nearly blind; asked him his name, and he replied " Ceorge Henry Hunter." The ac ceptance on the bill of exchange produced is wit ness's handwriting : had written something for the prisoner before. The prisoner, when called on for kis defence; ad mitted.tbathe had got Mr. Jackson to accept 'the bill for him; but said he did not knoir *hat beyias doing at the time... • • • Ishe Jury returned • verdict of Not Guilty. • Robert Richardson, aged 28, was indicted for stealing a waistcoat, value -10 s., the 'property of Mark Benjamin and Co., clothes-salesmen, iu We would fain now say a word or two to Mr. Burton, the clever Architect of the Athenteum, respecting the frieze or fascia of has reliefs, which he has introduced in that.building.. That it is totally misapplied, is not the worst _part o f the transaction. Its position, at an elevation of nearly, fifty feet from the pavement, when it ii notorious that the original was wrought of such dimensions as would suit an elevation of not quite thirty feet, under - the portico , of the Par thenon; bespeaks a much greater want• of judg ment ; and must alone mar the intended effect of so beautiful a production of the imaginative genius of Grecian sculpture.— Weekly.".peview:: SHIPPING INTELLI9ENCIL LIVERPOOL WI DN DAY, _JANVAYY. 1 C.—Wind N.1L. , •-'-e-TAg4 water 49 minnteS past ; .frec. , -.. , Arrii-sd the Reit;* lvri froM lierbics;. A:znyiti;3lk.. E . Y.S . zus , from Now York ; Henry Tyke,. Blimp' from New , ' , Orktausf , :Coral, —, from New Orleans; 'Oarolioe; Lore, from Buo no Ayres;. Draw, —7 , --. from Baltimore; Trantiet , from Newport; Vlaarding Hoop, Vslitt frost Rotterdam. Maryleborn;. - • • The Jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner Guilty. At five o'clock the COMMON-SERIEANT informed the Jury, that in consequence of the Recorder hav ing gone to Windsor to attend his Majesty's Coun cil; to make his report, the Court must be adjourned, as Mr. Sergeant Arabin would preside in the Old Court ; and it was adjourned accordingly until nine o'clock to-morrow, this day. Sailed—The Ceres, Miller, for Leghorn';: Belle. fur New Orleans ; Sir James Kettipt, Martin, fur &wan nah ; Wilberforce, Dench, for Trieste; , Wi ll iam Macdo nald, M ' Leod, for New Orleins ; Heary'Kneeland, for Nevi:York ; Kremlin; Wood; for 'Ftoilton ;"` die, for Derbyhaven; Ats/anto, Cubblzi, rcir - Derbyhavea Al'lntoah, fur Genoa. TUE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN 'DIARKE'I'S ,, , DURIN O 4 THE WEEK W heat. Barley. Oats. SURREY SESSIONS, JAN. 15. Mary Herdy and Mary Shea were indicted for ,having, on the 19th of Novernber, stolen from the person of James Bul'Winkle a sovereign, and 16s. Gd. his property. The prosecutpr ' who had an impediment in his speed], said that he met the two females on Fish street-hill, about nine o'clock in the evening of the day in question, and took them ire a wine-v•ults; and gave them something' to drink. He got in liquor, and knew little mere until lie found himself in the watch-house in Guildford-Street, Southwark, , the next morning. When he treated t he pruioners, he changed one sovereign out of two. The women then took each arm , and led him along into Union street, near Union-liall; there he fell down, and the prisoners took his money ;it was sate till then. He had been,drinking brandy and water. Cross-examined by Mr. itoss.—He reckoned his money after he left the wine -vaults. He was very , drunk, but he had, his ideas about him. (A laugh.) He would not undertake to say that every shilling (Ha not appear double. (A laugh.) He was just able to stand, and at length fell down. His recol lection was going from him, but it was not going so fast as his feet. (A laugh.) His allowing the women to take each an arm did not mean that he was bound to go home and sleep with them. (A laugh.) When a man had been drinking,. and had taken • little too much, it did not follow that he was bound to steer his course homewards... Joseph Kenriek, formerly a constable of Guild ford-street watch-house, - but who now described himself to be a gentleman, saw the two *prisoners searching the prosecutor's pockets. Cross ak - examined.—He could not- swear - that the women Were searching the prosecutor's pockets. Be had been a constable ; he did not leave voluntarily, he was discharged. *Mr. Ross--What for? Ketirick- ! -For doing my duty. (A laugh.) Mr. Ross—Yes, that is what all constables get discharged for. You said that you were a gentle. man you know -? Kenrick—Yes, and so I am. The night constable found the money on the prisoners. Henly said the prosecutor had given her the silver to go home with him. The prosecutor was very drunk. He _must have lost his senses for a considerable time. - - A former conviction of Henly, for a similar offence, was put in and read. The prisoners declined saying any thing in their defence. The Jury, after a few moments' consultation, found the prisoners " Guilty." The CHAIRMAN sentenced the prisoner Henly to be transported for life; and the prisoner Shea was sentenced to twelve months' hard lab Our in the House of Correction. David Mutton was charged with having, on the 9th of December, embezzled the sum of 21. 12s. 11 the property of John Spratley, in whose employ he was engaged. The Jury returned a verdict of " Guilty ;" after which The CHAIRMAN sentenced the prisoner to be :ransported for 14 years. It appears, on examining the tide.tahles for the current year, that the te a floods will rise very consi derably higher during this year than they have for the 14 preceding years, and may thereby do very serious injury if not attended to. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Jan. 13. The imports of the past week have , much exceeded the local demands of the trade, which have been more than usually limited. At thi3 morning's market' there Was a very thin attendance of either town or country millers, and the Wheat trade continued in the same dull state as previously noted. We cannot, however, vary our quota tions. Good heavy Oats were saleable at a reduction of Id. per bushel,, but. for other qualities there were no buyers. WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. I i s . 08 . t o ifi ti. 08. Red ---------- ----'--- . Scotch, Welch, and Manx --- Irish, White ...... ..... lO 9 11 0 .........----„,—. Red • lO 0 IP 9 .---- Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 4 9 4 3 .---- Irish ....... 310 '3ll • . ---- Foreign ....... • 3 9 310 BARLST, English, Malting, perlmp. quarter 42 0 46 0 --- Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. ... Feeding . ............ „, 5 8 5 0 BRANS, English, per Imperial quarter ... ....... --- , lrish, &c. —. Foreign PHASE!, English, per Imperial quarter 4B 0 • 51 0 --,--- Foreign ' 46 0 48 0 FLOUR, English, per 2801 b ••--- Irish ' 54 0 59 0 °Ararat., English and Irish, per 24011* 37 .0 39 0 Inmate Coax, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPOUT OF GRAIN for the Weer ending Jan. 12. Wheat coals:lliarley Flour. Oatine..l. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign, llrls Irish,i &AL Loads. 0 3,84. 5,800 1,353 10)06 1,125 2,082 a to 8. 83 tSb .79' 5• 176 00 'l6 CO '7B CO '74 56 - •76 74 86 58 78 77 85. .7(i 80 75 80 '64 78 s. to a. 28 2$ —al 82 89 28 :a 26 - 34 26 34 26 .44 - 43 S 7 40 .39 - 39 50 32 25 40 11. to .g. 91 9.599 ,—• 18 . 2 30 17 - • 111 lg xs 14 34 18 31 IS 25 20 28 26 24 18 32 IS 24 WI. '4a 3IF 41' as 4.11 • •is SS 41 a SS SS 4s S 4 so se 4.7 S'7 451 50 4 7 8 35 150 30 38 ' "Per Quarter. Blzaldford Brigg ' Chard Long SoOvn„..;— Louth VIAININI.P.II. Newark Nottingham Peterborough Plytnouth Pontetratt-4—.... Sleatbni Uppinghiun isbech . BIRTHS. On the 14th inst. Mrs. William Mallon, of Devonshire street, Portland-place, of a son: On the 13th inst. the lady of J. 11. Merivale, Woburn-place, , of a (laughter. MARRIED. On the 12th inst. at' Rickmansworth, Herta, by the Rev. J. C. Clutterbuck, James William, second son of Thomas Clutterbuck, Esq. of Micklefield-hall, to Caroline Frances, fourth daughter of H. Bache, Esq. of Linaters. On the Bth inst. at Greenwich, by the Rev. J. Mathews, M.A. James Turner, Esq. of Crowle, in the count); of York, to Elizabeth Cawdell Barker, only daughter of Mr. Barber, of Baldock, Herts._ DIED: On the 13th inst. at his house in Gay-street, Bath, the Rev. Head Pottinger, Vicar of Compton, Berks, aged 69. On the 13th inst. at Crosby-square, Joseph Salonsons, Esq. in the 27th year of his age, leaving a wife with three infant ch ildren. On the 13th inst. at Waddon, Surrey, the residence of his son, in the 69th year of his age, Edw.Fawkes, late of Great Cmu'aerlaid-street. On the 18th ins. in his 90th year, Mr. Rich. BirketS, of the Terrace, Upper Clayton. On the 7th inst. at Little Hallingbury, Essex, age4l four years, John Palmer, son of Captain J. C. Whiteman, of the Hon. •East India Company's Service. On the 10th ina. Herbert, the infant fon of. Mr. Wood ward, of Peckham-grove, Surrey. . - Paurria and by.AltigpQ YOUNG, at s Swii;(4, LONDQ.N.