The Sun. — London, England, 1829-01-08 00:00:00

says, " being informed that the Judges had ex pressed their disapprobation of the injunctions he had granted, caused a docket to be made . t 4 every injunction, and the cause of it, which he had granted while he was ClanOrt'or ; and in viting all the Judges to 4.1.111 e with 'flint i t ; the Council Chamber ht Westininster, he in troduced the subif.et after dinner; when, upon full discussion of every one of them, the ,Ttitig• confessed 'ne could have acted ero tTherwise. He tken offered, that if the aitd g es of `spew Ccruit to whom it rnore especially 'be±.)ged, from their office, to reform the rigritr of the law, would, upon reasonable consideration, by their discretion, and as he thought they were in ton= science bound, mitigate and temper tht 't-Igour of the law--no more injunctions 4iould be granted by him. To this they '?vould make no engagement ; upon which he told them, that as they themselves forced him of necessity to issue ip' j unctions to relieve the people's injuries, thy could no longer blame him. We are informetf, that afterwards, in a confidential - conversation, he accounted for the backwardness of the Judges in the following manner t-'-That they saw how, by the verdict of a Jury, they might tratAg'i'e all difficulties and odium from atitsgves to the Jurors, 'which they considemi as their great defence tend security ; whtl-eas the Chancellor was obliged to stand alone the assault of every malignant observation." Responsibility, as is well known, diminishes in the ratio in which it is shared by numbers. Hence Committees of the House of Commons were, by their own ad mi4liion, guilty of acts of horrid injustic e ant i corruption, from which the iadividuUls rf which they were composed would ! , eitarately have shrunk. In like manner, sys Wieve, the Chan cellors of this country, ur.cheeked and uncon trouled, and, what is 'more, dependent for their situation on the e. - ,price of the Crown, have been less suspeetrd of corruption than the other Judges. \Ve do not mean to say that Juries can ra present be diTensed with ; but a time, we hope, will come, when the safety of ere sub ject may be rceoncileable with an shier tribunal. —lllorniv, Chronicle. is evidently h tine same situation, and for the eulteiliement, he will be only liable to transpon tation. Such, in a few words, appears to be the legal state of the case, but his apprehension would nevertheless be the means of recanting some pao of the property with which he has at+..'(...z;difecl', The bankers a 5 h tyo t ki 'lnatter acutely atA ba7e 'efe4 with great zeal and tiroinrittide to beilig Stephenson to justice; awl 'Weha. Ito doubt the public will derive consi &fable advantage from the 'e'lrcumstance as it has occurred. It it proper to state that a per son takinp can t xehequer-bill can always have it 'endorsed to him, and such bill being *hat is termed ear-snarled, cannot be divested either by felony or fraud. Such a security may always be reclaimed, and followed into *hateYer hands it may have passed.. It is in fact ina lienable except by the party himself or herself, as the taxre may be, and its value is recoverable even in case of being burnt or destrOYed, if the person claiming it can proVe it was specially en dorsed. Such t irecaution would save thou san big Post. It will be seen, from what is stated in another part of our Paper, that a confession of the dread ful atrocities committed by Burke anti Hare has at length been procured Itott the former, and that he lays the greater pint of the blame of them. ttpon the latter. By what IaVF, or for *hat reason, such a wretch is Witllheld from the hands of justice, we awn ourselves incompetent to form the , . slightest judgment. It is true that he Vaned King's evidence against his asso ciate in a trial for three murders; but it is stated on the word of Burke himself, if the word of a dying murderer be worth any. thing., that he was accessary along with him to the perpetration of about thiity ; and why should not the evidence against him for some one of these ateetities be gone into ? Surely the Lord Advocate did not go the length in his eattmunications with Hare, of promising him a free pardon for all the murders which he had committed, on condition of his giving such evi dence as would convict Burke, We are not aware, however, of any other ground on which the Lord Advocate could avoid initging the horrible wretch to trial ; and we therefore confidently trust that something will be done by him to satisfy the public that the sword of justice neither sleeps or rusts in the scabbard. It appears to us also, as indeed it must appear to every one, that something more than a mere exposure of those who received the bodies of the murdered persons must - take place, before the public .can be satisfied that full jus tice has been done. If the least attention was paid to the state of the bodies, by those who acted as receivers, they must have been aware that they were deprived of life by violence, and if so they must be considered as even much more culpable than the perpetrators. We are glad to perceive, however, that a Meeting of the College of Physicians in Edinburgh, which will, undoubtedly, throw some light on the aubject has been summoned, and that another of she College of Surgeons is speedily to follow. The public look to these meetings, not only as a means of tranquillizing it on the subject of the murders,a nd preventing their repetition ; but of exposing those who have been guilty of dis gracing it, and bringing them to justice ; and we think too well of the high character of both to harbour a doubt that they will shrink from the performance of such a great and public duty. —Morning Advertiser. All men are bound to reverence and respect the laws ; but, to be reverenced and respected ; the laws should be equal and just in Omit' opera tion. Cain there, we will ask; be hhy thing like justice in a law which eotedOttins a poor fellow to the payment of a tine of 1001., or five years' service in the Navy, for smuggling a single pound of tobacco, when it is quite notorious that no solidi number of our women of fashion pride themselves on being attired in smuggled goods, and when a Chief Justice's carriage was searched, some few years ago, for what were then mildly called his lady's peccadillos, but without entailing any such consequences ? Mr. Hobler, the Mansion-house Clerk, gave a still more apt illustration of the inequality of the law on the occasion we allude to, when he said, " Yes, my Lord, a Banker and M.P. may de fraud people of thousands and thousands of pounds, and it is then doubtful whether there is any law to touch him ; but a poor simple fel low is to be imprisoned for five years by a sum mary process, without even the benefit of an appeal to a Jury, and that merely for the paltry duty on a pound of tobacco:' We do not say that the Revenue ought not to be protected ; still less that a noisome foreign weed is not a fit object of taxation ; but there is such a prin.. eiple as "de minimis non otrat ;" and to look upon such a trumpery affair as this, and visit it with such disproportionate consequences, does infinitely more harm, by the bad effect it has on men's minds, than any good which The followin g transaction has excited a very it can even in its conse q uenc e s p ro d uce t o great sensation in this city, and has induced a the Revenue. The fault here seems to be, suspicion, that some miscreants disposed to imi that no discretion is lodged with the Magis- tate the Edinburgh murders are lurking about trate ; but that the mere fact of possession being our habitations. On Monday evening week, proved, extenuating circumstances, amounting between eight and nine o'clock, three men, even to an utter ignorance of all guilt, are of no avail ; and a cold-blooded Officer of Govern . hahited as - sailors, called . at the shop of Mrs. Whitehead, a huckster, Walmgate, and en ment is able to say to the Magistrate "Do us ti •, " euiredlif she could inform where they could pro and he must do it. All penalties and punish- cure . lodgings ? She pointed them to a house ments should be, in some degree, proportioned on the opposite side of the street ; but they told to the offences ; at any rate should not be so her they had already been there and had not disproportioned as to make every one sensible•of, succeeded. She then mentioned to them another and dissatisfied with, their operation. If the house in Paver's-lane, in Walmgate, the way to possession of a pound of untaxed tobacco he so which they affected not to know. Wishful to heinous an offence in a common sailor so as to render them all the assistance that civility could esbject him to a penalty which all the world suggest, she offered her son,a fine child ten years knows he cannot pay, or to five years of bon- of asse, to accompany them and show them the dage, surely the possessor of smuggled silks and way ° . Whether it was that some gloomy appre laces should share a similar fate ; and then the pension bad arisen in the mind of the child, or laws, pinching those who can alter them, would there was something repulsive in the appearance of the strangers, eve soon assume, we suspect, a milder charact e r. say, la d s cannot but t Tn all cases of Revenue, a doubling, trebling, or objected to undertake the mission, and it was not quadrupling of the duty, would be film enough ; • until the peremptory command of his patent had and, in that case, if a tar, thinking to treat his been issued, that he left the protection of her friend on shore with a pound of cheap tobacco, home for the company of these unknown wan is caught tripping, why let him pay four times deters. When they had arrived in the lane, the amount of the duty which it otherwise would which is a retired and lonesome spot, one of the have paid to the Revenue ; and, we warrant it, villains suddenly seized the youth, and ex-' Jack will be shy, for the future, of treating his ii send at so high a rate . B u t t o t a lk o f 1001. claimed, "Is this the door ?" whilst he applied a large plaster, seemingly a composition of pitch to a poor fellow who, probably, never possessed and tar, to the mouth of their astonished guide. a hundred shillings, is like asking him to pay I n off the National Debt ; which said debt, by the endeavouring to avoid the violence that was offered him, he averted his head from his assail. bye, requiring excessive duties, is the root of ant, and this act caused the greater part of the the evil.—Morning Herald. plaster oi fasten upon his cheek, thus preserving Every effort has been made, but hitherto in- once half of his mouth free for respiration ; and, effectually, to apprehend the delinquent Stephen- providentially, a girl happened to be standing on son and his accomplice Lloyd. Too much some stairs, in an opposite passage, and was wit praise cannot be given to the Government for ness of the horrid transaction. She called out to the great activity of their exertions; and we feel them to know what they were going to do with assured that the Banking and Mercantile por- the lad ? When they hastily tore off theplaster s tion of our countrymen duly appreciate them. and ran away. The child was severely hurt by With respect to the property belonging to St. the violence of this operation, and so strongly Bartholomew's Hospital, o f which Stephenson adhesive had the composition been, that some of was Treasurer, converted by him to his own use, it remained on his cheek three days after this oc the offence appears to be no more than a breach currence. 'What the ultimate intentions of these of trust and confidence, and although an act of villains might be, we du not pretend to say, but the most heinous description, does not render it is evident, that had the plaster taken the effect him liable to any penal consequences. With the intended suffocation must very shortly have respect to the Exchequer Bills, we have already been the result. The dark mystery of the trans shown to our readers, upon the best legal au- action is further heightened fiom the fact haying thority, that a bona fide holder can demand pay- I since been ascertained, that these men bad meat for them, hooever illegally or improperly actually engaged lodgings prior to their applica the person making the sale may have come by tion to Mrs. Whitehead, where they had gone them. If the Bills or Bonds were left with f with the infamous preparation in their posses him as a naked mere deposit, his selling or sion, after a long inspection of her residence from pledging them would only amount to a breach of the opposite side of the street. On Tuesday confidence. But Mr. Peel's Act, commonly k morning, the same three wretches had the effron known as the Embezzlement Act, makes it a tery, though in a different dress, to exhibit them felony to misappropriate securities of this &scrip- selves in Walmgate, singing in the middle of the tion, delivered to a Banker under a special 1 street, as distressed seamen. The child, White written •authority,- to . k6ep‘ • - there for rs theoahead,'saw them, au•d, immediately pointed them oveitia's use, or •to -hold' them aubjeat; atees tea Sas 41e Men . WhO . 144,j r ijnaed him :the his 'disposal. Unforttniately,• hosStotii . night. - They s soon saw. that:theicasera, very rarely that this airecantissii is taketoln dee 'noticed, _anct that fear which ever. saccompansea liyering such securities, • either t6.batikerit 'or tts• conSeibuSsguilt, induced theth to ,makelospeetly: brOkers.' When this is • 110V - die-le, we lisvelse- fli fit on t e Iltill road.o--- York -Conran!: •• foiOshowi tha.foWero t''' • tratiallao dies lasnalier s oSi - , • • ands the right of purehasers' to l 'eaovetooptin 0,1113 day , last week o aaraiesmatean. Aberdaeo s therm:' We have heard; it asked, what: lite-seat • onicsming to his shop:after breakfast, found a pans ,of lot ie 'Or tie offeriet• committed Seephee oino• Valais* one windows.. broken, but as he -iniard attiihnt . ed the oiscurnstatice to ace . ider4, : wis . sv2Y does it amount (legally speakiiio s a wystlioassa , arbit'F'h! . wad' exploited. to his surprise, when, some twee eftea m ime than an act of bankriaptey , ? , • tng i to - pick:4M a last lii his back-shop, a pact partridge re he is onl hi over • R e ,,d, ; ;; o viartinosthrougleaspane of the hank window, 612 A a tin takititai - 14 itte"iitstoncrs4lo/•=sifecttd its Cakdon iiawaffrae s ‘et ow/ MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. OW-STREEt. Mr, Alico'ck, gold 'and "ilve'r re4iier, of Cox's cutrt, Little Pritani; ca fte to this Office on tistur ithy, 'find 14ernied the Magistrates, that gt,consdq !:ble quantity of plate had been .offered for sa)e at his house, on that day, Under cire:rngtances which excited his suspicion, and that he bad induced the men who brought it, and who gave his name Thos. Thompson, at present lodging at the Hope Coffee house, Henrietta-street, Manchester-square, to leare it till the Monday. Instructions were immediately given to Taunton, the officer, to ascertain, if pos sible, whether the property had been the produce Of a theft or robbery ) And b ciimphthig the re maining tharikt bf a Partially effaced: Crest and arms \d.h those described an adVertisement in the " Hue and Cr y," it was ascertained that the property belonged to it 'Mr. ktwall, residing in Andover, in Hampshire. A despatch was imnie diatcl* sent off to that gentleman, and in the mean time Taunton was on the look-out for the party who had brought the plate to Mr. Alleock's, and who hail not called for it on the Monday as he had pro mised. On Tuesday evening Taunton met a man answering the description, at a public.house, near Manchester-square ; and took him into custod)P. He was brought to this Office yesterday ; Mr. 'Et-all and Mr. Allcock were in attendance at the same time. The moment Mr. EtWall saw the prisoner he re cogniied him aS William Tibbs, who had lived as footman in his service some five or six years ago. The prisoner seemed greatly confused and agi- Wed at the sight of his former master. Mr. Adcock was then sworn, and deposed that the prisoner was the person who had brought the plate to his home on the Saturday. It consisted of silver bottle-stands, forks, table, dessert, • and tea spoons, sauce-ladles, fish-slice, &c., weighing in all 255 ounces. Priioner described them as belonging to several persons in the country, who were anxious to dispose of them for any price that could be got for them. Ile said he could not tell whose was the crest marked on some of them. Mr. Etwall identified the property as his.- His house at Andover had been broken open and robbed of them on the night of the Bth or morning of the 9th Dec. The articles produced had been kept in a secret drawer under the sideboard, which of course the prisoner must have known during his residence in the house. On being asked what he had to say for himself, the prisoner, whose emotion was extreme, replied in a fuint voice that ill health, and the unfortunate situ ation in which he stood, rendered him incapable of making any exertion, even to defend himself. After the pause of a moment, he added, (his voice almost choked by increased agitation,) " I have deceived this worthy gentleman, who had always acted to wards me like a kind and indulgent master, and if the forfeit of my life can make any atonement for my crime, I shall willingly resign it. Mr. HALLS, after complimenting Mr. Allcock for the very proper and tradesman-like manner in which he had acterl, ordered the witness to be bound over, arid the prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for the burglary, from whence he will be removed for trial to the county in which the offence has been committed. M.k/tYLEBON'E. Frederick or James Burn, alias Davison, was brought up to answer a charge preferred against . him by Mr. Hocken, of Great Portland-street. It appeared that the prisoner called at Mr. Hoc ken's, under pretence of looking at the apartments, which he was employed to engage for an uncle and servant, and being shewn into the front parlour, while the servant called her mistress, who was up stairs, he proceeded to ransack a cupboard of some plate contained in it, but was overheard by a lad in the adjoining room, who contrived adroitly to lock him in till his mistress came down, when, an officer being sent for, it was found he had replaced the property in the cupboard, but in a very confused state, and being known to the officer as a bad cha racter, he was brought to this office. Mrs. Collard, of Great Castle-street, also identi fied the prisoner as having stolen a pair of sugar tongs from her house under similar circumstances, some time since. The prisoner was remanded till Friday next, to give an opportunity for further charges being brought against him. He is a young man, about tire feet eight inches high, dark sallow complexion, a quantity of black hair fashionably dressed about his face, wears a dark olive-green coat, and fawn-coloured trousers, with light shoes. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday Thomas Lloyd was brought up for final examination before Mr. MARRIOTT, charged with being concerned in the late daring burglary, at the Bull and Mouth Inn, when Government stamps to an immense amount were stolen. The examination of the prisoner has been hitherto strictly, private. Mr. Timms, a solicitor, from the Stamp-office, at tended for the prosecution, and Mr. Wooler for the prisoner. Mr. Timms addressed Mr. Marriott, and said, that he had not been able to bring forward any further evidence against the prisoner, but he submitted there was quite sufficient already produced to send him for trial. Mr. MARRIOTT desired the clerk to read the evi dence over which was taken on the first examination. William Dutton stated, that he closed the beok ing-office at the Bull and Mouth Inn at ten o'clock at night, on the 3d September ; the packages of stamps were then in the office. John 'Blisset stated, that about half-past five o'clock on the following morning, he opened the office, and saw several boxes out of their places. There was a hole in the floor, and, on examination, he found three bales of stamp.; out of eight missing. John Edwards, guard to one of the Worcester coaches, stated, that on the morning of the robbery he tried to light the gas, but found that the pipes had been injured and a quantity had escaped ; he went into the stables, which are under the office, and lead into Bull and Mouth -street; he found the corn-hinn had been removed, and the stables broken opea ; there «as a hole broke through the flooring above the stables. This witness produced several bags , , which were found over the windows in the office, it is supposed to prevent the thieves from being seen; also a crow bar, a handkerchief, and a bludgeon, found in the stables. Thomas Salmon, a packer at the Stamp-office, proved that the packages of stamps produced were the same he had packed on the 2d of September. Mr. Thomas Allen, belonging to the Stamp office, stated, that on the 2d of September eight packages of stamp's were sent to the Bul and Mouth Inn, directed "on his Majesty's service," to Mr. Blackburn, the stamp-distributor at Manchester; the next morning he was informed that three of the packages had been stolen. Thomas Ranger, a porter at the Bull. and Mouth Inn, stated that he was frequently in the habit of going to the Sta Mp-office. The packages were de livered to him as directed, and placed in the office under a desk which was about five yards from the hole which had been made by the thieves in the floor. William Woodberry, an officer of this establiSh ment, stated that he stepped the prisoner at Ken sington about half-past 12 o'clock on Monday, the 22d December, driving a horse and cart, with two .3 a treny's inside. a .Hc asked,the.prisoper what 'he had loot, n,the_ -cttri,,whQ replied' tloit h4c)beelt,em ployed by. tA‘p men 'to fetch thp, ,tlllP4s 4 ,yih`emArc" ;ditt.not know, arnl he was to 4neet theta further op l the- rbad,l• Witness. took-, .him ~into, cuitody, and,,, ought , him tol the :offiee.- On the:road the, • soVee st ild.te-ripiorto meet- , the .mete at - Valuktll.. igge. On arriving at , tlfe ofrce,°tlti - trunksl , .vie r e4 opkied iti thie Mesiertger" , sl4s6M:: ittid teriteined , the •stamps Whiell'hait' 'been prod!fectl'..' The' ‘prilstitfer -I.a th4f if f t: t the. Vauxhall-peti t and man 7111tned - ' Georg% 'dressed, in a black coat ar41)1,91 44 shui, 40,. L ji e _Fogy% ~who 'pa _envioied 1.6 vent there Itttordb;glF ; but ould lite of uo t t loh perspn The Nrties.iyere the!' bound . over to pp:* . ecuie the plisonerfor feloniously stealing A quantity of pipers and. parchment containing valuable stamps, the prOp'ert!-. d his Majesty, and he was fully com mitted for trial. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a Bow-street patrol brought three women to this office in custody, and handed the fol lowing paper to the Magistrate (Mr. SWABaY), setting forth the offence with which they were eharged t—" Mr. - John Hurst chargei Bridge! illondq With stealing a silver watch, Value 162. and two gold seals and a ring, value IL, and also charges Anne Perkina and Sophia C7arki• with being aces`-- series to the felony." the complainant, a respectable-lool4n4man, then proceeded to give the subjoined very extraordinary story of the manner in which he had lost his watch and seals. He said, that on the preceding night he had an appointment with a " respectable' female at a.house of a certain description, not far from this office. They retired to a chamber together, and had not been long in bed before they heard footsteps in the room, and on drawing aside the curtains his female friend saw by the light of the candle the pri soner Monday, whose back was turned towards her, and who was in the act of quitting the apartment when she was observed. He (the complainant) instantly rose from the bed, and going towards the mantel-piece where he had placee his watch and setds previously to undressing himself, diScovered they had been taken. On this discovery he dressed Itm - self as soon as possible," ran down stairs, and. finding the prisoners together on the ground floor, he called the patrol who was passing when the affair happened, and gave them ; into custody. Mr. SIVABEY—Where is this respectable female you say that accompanied you to this brothel—is she in attendance ? Defendant—No, Sir ; I did not bring her with me. She is, Sir, I can assure you most respectably connected, and came up to town from the neighbourhood of Tunbridge, to make pur chases. She was no doubt alarmed at what occurred, and is now gone into the country. Mr. SWABEY—Can you identify either of those women as having taken your property ? Complain ant—l cannot, Sir; but I can speak positively as to having seen them on the premises after the robbery was committed. The lady who was with me can speak positively, I am confident, to Monday; and if -you will have the goodness to remand them, I shall be enabled to produce her by to-morrow; she will have no hesitation in attending when she is informed that her presence will be required to punish these criminals. The MAGISTRATE expressed considerable surptiAe on hearing the complainant press for the detention of the women under such circumstances, and in quired whether it was likely the person whom he denominated the " respectable female," could be able to speak accurately to any . oae of the prisoners —for, by his account, it appeared that his bedfellow had only seen the back of one of them in the room, and at the time there was no doubt she must have been a good deal flurried; besides, added the Ma gistrate, if this person is respectable, as you describe, don't you conceive her attending to give evidence, under such circumstances, would blast her reputa tion for ever. Complainant—lt is a hard case I should lose 201. worth of property all in a moment. MAGISTRATE—Some men would lose every thing before they would drag forward a female in such a case; besides, said the Magistrate, I can't see that her evidence can be of any avail, not having dis tinctly seen the parties who committed the robbery. The watch was Jost in a brothel, added the Magis trate, and those who frequent such places deserve to suffer for their indiscretion. The complainant still expressed a wish that the women might be remanded, saying that he should write for his female friend. MAGISTRATE--A pretty exhibition you would both make if such a case went to the sessions; but there is no evidence against those women, and I shall discharge them. The prisoners one and all declared their innocence of the offence; the house in which they were taken into custody was what is termed a house of accom-; modation, and various couples had access to it as well as themselves ; there were plenty of other people, men and women, there besides them, when the alleged robbery was committed. MAGISTRATE (to the prisoners)--I discharge'you, because there is no evidence against you, and not under the impression that you are innocent of the offence With which you are charged. Two young men, Named chant and White, were charged with stealing a quantity of lead from an un finished house belonging to Lord G. Seymour, in York-street, Blackfriars-road. From the evidence, it appeared that the prisoners were employed paint ing the interior of the house in question, and some days previously to their haling been engaged at the work, the lead in question was deposited in a spare cupboard. That morning it was missed: soon after which both the prisoners were apprehended toge ther, with the lead in their possession, carrying it away; it was alleged, for the purpose of disposing of it. They were committed. On Tuesday last two gentlemen were riding at a pretty smart pace on the road from Crieff to Perth, one of whom was mounted on the horse which belonged to Dr. Miller, late of Methven. On approaching the Methven toll bar, which is five feet high, and shut, the spirited animal becoming impatient of restraint—of his own accord, and without the least intention of the rider, at one powerful leap cleared the toll-bar, sad continued his course as if no obstruction bad been in his way. The gentleman, who is unquestionably a finished rider, belongs to the law, and intends, it is said, to consult some of his professional bre thren, in order to ascertain how far a person circum stanced as he was, is liable to be charged the regular toll duties, for it is understood that this is a method of avoid ing toll-bars, Which, at the passing of Turnpike Acts, the LPgi..lature, with all their wisdom, had never contem plated.-- Caledonian Mercury. • _ _ WINE DRINK ING.—A moderate use of wine ,has been sanctioned by the wise and good in all ages. Those who have denied its virtues are those who have not been able to drink it.' Asclepiades wrote upon wine, the use of Which he introduced with almost every remedy, observing, that the gods had bestowed ne mere valuable gilt on man; even the surly Diogenes drank it; for it is said of him, that he liked that wine best which he drank at other people's cost-.—a notion adopted by the oinopholous Mostly, who, when asked, " What wine, do you drink, Doctor ?" answered, " Port at home, claret abroad I" Hippocrates, the father of physic, recommends a cheerful glass ; and Rha'es, an ancient Arabian physician, says no liquor is equal to good wine. Reineck wrote a dissertation De Potu Vines°, and the Learned Dr. Shaw lauded the " juice of the grape." But the stoutest of its medical advocates' was Tobias Whitaker, physician to. Charles the Second, who undertook to prove the possibility of maintaining life from infancy to al age, without sick ness, by the use of wine. It must, however, he remem bered that Whitaker was cordially attached to wine, anda greater friend to the vintner than to the apothecary, having as utter a dislike to unpalatable medicine as• the most squeamish of his patients: therefore Dr. Toby's evidence must be taken with caution, independently of the courtly spirit that might have led him to adapt his theories to the times. It has been questioned whether the use of wine was known to the antediluvian world : but there can be no doubt, in the corrupt state of man, that wine would have its share in his debasement, and it may he very strongly in ferred, from the circumstance that Noah planted a vine ran!, and, moreover, " that he dr an k o f t h e w ine, and swan.drutOtett"•iGetra , ,ift ,, p) - ;7, 1 acl stain in the character o f plan wbp,,,was,t.".perfec ‘ t, in„his, "genfrationr . , and ? which also Ptpxte s ille, perigd : p( the Nvc'r l 4. the ,very. best (11..99, nye ko,ble Into, error an „ c am, But the.antrwrity : androKiety,, o t a 4 e .:aiririking uI H no) r iPt4tfc-- ...A;4.,Arch,1340:4 Atitcm 1 3 . • fie ;$ 61 4 , -*. Nwedt b.O yeafa witukl,a od, , er ePstbqk, w ; (10 cue ..patae,;., eA l ta.viettjpn is about: , quaratity: Sir 1 .4 .7 44. 4 4T' TernPic . ,7 lB ° P l CMts i tkv_,( l 23vi l lit ,rude, ar~tl II ;propriety_ !o,,thr.r 'ctrink ope r f e sya Or, `; ,l, Sefile,l4!),* coe,Ca.acCiPP ro:*. l l.)sc)4 l . a 4404; but. ire fatV 1 1:01 p Rafter/Y. J r:xoP l / 1 , si , l4 1.1.411,—,.;7.", e.tt-4 StPPO§ED 14liRbER, •, : . It liar been known for a few dais in Dublin, that a gentleman from America, who was the bearer of Catholic Rent from that country, has disappeared in a very extraordinary manner. It is known that he carried with him a small box, in which it was, supposed a large auto of money was contained. He was seen leaving the packet boat with the box, and it is said that he re turned with the box, when he went to the packet for his watch, which he had forgotten after him, and the boatmen who carried him . front the quay say that he fell iiitd th e These Men have beeti tal6n tqi, and are in confinement. A trunk which he had left after him was examined in the presence of the Magistrates, Mr. O'Hagau sen., Mr. Dwyer, and other gentlemen, members of the Association. It appears that the unfor tunate gentleman, whose body is missing, was the Rev. Mr. Sweeny, who was last- year enrolled a citizen of America. He was the bearer of a letter to a lady in Cork, and also Of a large package to the Right Rev. Dr. Doyle. His vestments were found in his trunk, and alSo a letter respecting the Rev. Gentleman himself, in the hand-writing of the Right Rev. Dr. - England, Bishop. , of Charleston. Many strong circum stances have already appeared to throw light on this suspicious affair ; but more perhaps may . be elicited by its publicity. Any one Who can give inform4ion should communicate with Mr. Ful lam, 40, Mary-street ; or Mr. Dwyer, Corn- Exchange. -On the evening of Wednesday, the 17th; the unfortunate gentleman landed, and the trunk with his clothes, &c. was found at the house of a man named Power, of Sir John Rogerson's-quay.—DuLlin Morning .Register. Since writing the above we understand that the body of the ill-fated gentleman has been dis covered. A gold watch and some small foreign coins were found on his person. The body was deposited ia College-street Police-office, where an inquest will be held this day. LAW INMLLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S PtzN(',l4; J. LIGHT C. THE STEAM NAVIGATION COMPA?iI4-. Mr. Common Sergeant DE:!6IAN stated, that this was an action to recover compensation of damages for the loss of a barge belonging to the plaintiff, which had been run down in the Thames by a steam-boat belonging to the Steam Navigation Company. On the 28th November, 1827, the plaintiff's barge was en its way from London to Gravesend, laden with dung, when, at about half past five in the evening, the master perceived the AlOitntaitiiy'r steani-boat ; belonging to the defend tititsi approaching him. The wind was south west, and the tide tad been rising about tta hour, to that the strength of it off Greenhith.e, vesai then were, was on the north or Essex steam-boat was coming up with_ the tide; .th.e barge was tacking across the river; and: the:inaster of it perceiving the steam-boat had left the .north shore,. and was crossing slant-ways so ay to come direatly upon him, hailed the steam-boat,. Which had no light at the mast head, find bid her go astern of him ; this lit did hve or silr titres, but rite .one answered his hail, and the steam-boat purinied its Ceurs6till it came in violent contact with the barge, having the instant before ran foul of a brig. The barge after. a short space sank, and the master, his mate, and his wife, got rn board the steaM-boat._ For the defence a number of the .crew of the Mountaineer were called, who stated that they hailed the barge repeatedly ; that its master returned no answer, and that he might hare borne-up as he was desired, which would have prevented the accident. The COMMON SEFtdEANT—hdring replied .on the defendant's case, Lord TENTERDEN was beginning to sum up, when The Foreman said that , the Jury had made up ;heir minds. • I.ord TENTERDEN—Wnat is your verdict, gentle. men ? Foreman--For the. plaintiff, my Lord. The verdict,was entered accordingly. The pies tion of damages it had been agreed should be settled out of Court. • . CONCORDAT IN HOLLAND. THE HAGUE.--As the business of the Con cordat is one of some interest in England, and reports are current here that your Govern ment means to follow the example of our's, and cope to some understanding with the Pope, you will like to be told that the difficulties which have so long impeded the settlement of this per plexing matter are gradually passing away. The first legitimate Catholic Bishop, since the Con cordat has been solemnly consecrated by the Bishop of Treves, on his being appointed to the See of Namen (Namur). Great had been the complaints, and loud the clamours of the Fle mings, that they had been left so long without their spiritual fathers. For many years the Bel gic Sees have been vacant, with the exception of the Primate's—the Archbishopric of Mechlen. Namen is the first in rank and extent of the Episcopal Sees, containing 334 parishes or con gregations in Namur, six in Liege, and 424 in the great dukedom of Luxemburg. Doornick is next in rank, embracing 419 parishes in the province of Henegouwen. Then follows Ghent, with 296 parishes is East Flanders, 248 in West Flanders, 39 in Zeeland. Liege has 325 parishes in Liege, 315 in Lemburg, one in Noah Brabant, six in Namur, and 11 in Lux emburg. There is a small independent Bishop's See, consisting of only six congregations, in Kamerjik. There are, besides these, the old Bishopric of Roermonde, whose authority takes the title of Vicar-General—a Vicar-General being attached to every See. Nineteen congre gations in North Brabant are under the govern ment of a Commissary, and are called a Com missariat. There are two Vicariats, that of Hertogenbosch and Antwerp. In all the Nor thein Protestant Provinces the principal Catho lic Ecclesiastical authority is called an Arch priest. The Archpriestships are— Of Gelderland, with 55 congregations Holland and Zeeland 135 Utrecht 56 Friesland LaHand , yssel and Dreutlie Groningen II Twente • 29 27 Over _ yssel Clee f e too.aurnttthifrle°oo;: All these are the orthodox Roman Catholic d assemblies ; but there are three episcopal sta-, tions, which have been filled by .Jansenist Bishops, whom the Pope has refused to recog nise, but who, notwithstanding, are recognised by the Government of the Netherlands, are re ported in all the official returns, and receive their salaries from the Government. These are the Archbishop of Utrecht and the Bishops of Haarlem and Deventer. A very activ e ey sdrys-iteeotaaryxtsriysoc insistingncaasgotihoi m—o e elaintkcb) that oi e eat: i iii n tlrad,isti l hgil a evnu d iagrise t tttt a blihy k teel e ier i st i :sua p aeei l lar a de c i occupying best their o f all, receiving. their emuluments. The King is assuredly not a little afraid of the Catholics. He knows that he is not popular among them ; but he . mistakes the cause. It is not . because they are Catholics, but because they are Belgians, who hate Holland, and the sway of a Hollander ; nor are the Belgians and the Hol landers likely to amalgamate into harmony. The late prosecutions of the government, directed solely against the 'Flemings, are exciting strong animadversions, and, instead of silet.cing discon tent, will feed and fan it. The newspaper articles, which the Ministers are so warmly pursuing, are really very weak and harmless; and quite unwor thy of notice. The King set up the Collegium Phtloso phiun: as a nursery, for well-affected Catholic PrieFts, and the Bishop of Treves has reported very favourably of it. He did. more, he attended the students at their dinner, and himself read the grace and prayer for the King and the country, _giving all present his episcopal blessing. The Pope, too, has approved of the said Coilegium ; and, as the best evidence of his gracious good pleasure, he has taken from it four youths, whom he means to educate in the Theological Semi nary at Rome. These grand events have de lighted the Belgiums, while the Batavians hang their heads. " Sunshine is come again," says one. " The tiger's paw is upon us," retorts another. The truth is, both are wrong. In these days, events are much less influential than they are supposed to be. • To do or to undo leaves the world much where it was. Legisla tovs and , Gov.ernments fancy they are omnipotent ; but' thercim !do very :little.— Opinion -40...• c ioil wb~t crtn W, and-Wlifttshirtst be ;- anti at),Qn,`a ter alt, has `little to Ad' "but 16 :fothAi' wheie; : opiii3Ori)pa4 ? ..; .. ~ T. hisier; me#!'thig - city; the dar after Ctigetiaii x -(141 . fairiliee tini(itih tif 1816P3' yew's: thust beeti ghttr:tb` , ...fer so \ titiieldratrqiiiiifitli...ilxiier Alfriefl:". l '; ~ ~ ~v~l HULL 11 ARK ET.--Ji There has been a ............. ..... _ e-ai whichco is un try buyers; -'::,: th;s day's mark e t, the damp parcel, of which the principal,._- moderate chew of farmers'. Wheat - to, . part consisted, was dell sale, the best dry samples, however,, w e r e t aseo off at last week's rates; we have a large chew . u q .e ua h l a i i t l y st o r fgenerally.fine. and .., a considerable business would have been transacted had lit 4 holders submitted to any less prices, thi s so t b e i ng the caie.... we consider the prices of last week to h ave b een f u ll y realized- -'-' on the business done. The best runs of malting Barley of ffo i r n eign good .W conditionlieat the ; are in rather more demand and sell at late, prices, but the light inferior quality are very difficult to quit, but we do not alter our quotations. Bats, Beans, and Pease continue] as inanimate es ever, 'and each article remains quite sta tionary. Rapeseed and Linseed are held firmly at our quotations. Wheat, Old 765. 803. —s. Now --s. '74s. WC, Foreign --e. 74e. 78.4. Oats, Poland —s. 245. 20s. Old —4...4. SOS. —....- Small or Feed.....—s. IS& 21s. .-.4...-6 Ws. Foreign —s. Me. 265. —4 -4...4; Barley, Norf. & taut .....s We. 88a. Line. & Wold —a. 365. 395. ----- Foreign — • —II. 40s. 425. Beans 425. 41s. 4.50. Foreign ..... ......4. s. -4. Pease, White . —s. 48e. SOs. Grey - —I. 40s. 42. e. Tarns —a. 40s. sns. Foreign... ...... 344. 40,. —4l. '. Rapeseed,. in Itend none. ...... —. Free, per lat.., —4. gm su . -- , .......-. ... ....... .- HOUOSINORTII V. HUNTER. • This was an action on two bills of exchange, one for 5,0001., and the -other for 4,3991., accepted by the defendant. 'The bills were drawn at Calcutta, and were not stamped. In the defence it was con tended that tbese hills were the second part of a set, the first part of which had been -accepted and paid, and that, therefore, they were to be considered as English hills when the defendant accepted them, and ought accordingly to have been- - stamped. The point concerning the stamp wa s reserve d f or _ the con;ideration of , the Court, and. the jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 10,6671., being principal and 'interest of the bills from the time of • their becoming due. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. :7. Alfred Williams • was opposed on his application • to be discharged by a Mr. Gillett. The insolvent carried on the business of a baker, in Hatton-wall. In May last he `disposed of his businesii and premises to a Mr. Clarke, for 3001., and with the, money he paid a debt of WU due to his brother, another debt to nearly the same amount due to a Mr. Perring, and the remainder he expended .in paying.the rent and taxes of his house. It also appeared that he put Mr. Gillett to unnecessary expense, in defending the - : proceedings which Mr. Gillett hadcommenced against him.—He was sentenced to •eight months' impri sonment. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR; Adair's 339.6 d. Bunion 35 9 Dean's Primrose -- 33 Forrest 35 0 1-lebieurn Main 37 0 Hot 35 6 3'd Pelaw Pontop Windsor ---... 31 0 Uaworth 33 0 Townley 33 0 Willington 37 3 Wylam 33 0 WallsEndßewicke&Co. 38 3 Ditto Bell Robson &Co. 37 3 Ditto Brown's 3fl 9 Ditto Carr and 34 0 Ditto Clarke and Co. 30 0 Ditto Cramlington.— 31 - 0 81,mm at market, 16534—.-Sld K ET.—Jan. % Wa kniiisatspur 04: Walls Znd Newmarch..4. 87 0 Ditto Hilda 36 0 Ditto Northumberland 37 0 Ditto Peareth.----- 38 t Ditto Perkins and Co. 37 8 - Ditto Riddell's*. 97 6 Ditto Russell's SS 0 • Ditto Walker 39 0 Wade's Springwall unit' 32. 0 Wall, Find sio Walls End litewart's 39 fitimiell'sHetton'sW.E. 38 6 Coalmen 81 ,Hartley 31 0 Silkstone Field and Co. Fi. 6' Walla End. Bean 21 0 W. E. Perkins Bean 26 0 Walls End Elgin 35 0 ps 40---Unsol.l. 125%. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK _ 1 Wheat. 1 Bayley.l 04u. Bean!. . , . ................... Per Quarter. s. to a. s, to 6. - .' 4 .. s. 10 r. p. a. Abingd0n.„........... 68. 84 35 42 r- _35 42 - 56 Andover...--- 14 - -- '36 ::::. .:.. - - Birmingham........ 72 .82 :V , 36 t 24, ...3E --. 40- Bridport --- 56 74 i 32 30 . 26 .34 „..,, 54 Cirencester ---. 60 80 3 39' 24 ' 28 . - 4.4 Faringdon— 54 86 36 . .40 26 ~, 38. ... 46. Guildford .-.....--. 4S 84 nss 45 24 36 • ..,. sz, Henley----..-- 55 80 31 43 ' 31 , .".... 4.9 Hereford ....----... 64 •84 38 43 j 3fi .40 ~- .. 60, ,-: Highworth --- .62 80 32 42 28 34 - 5,6 Maidenhead 191 84 SS ' 42 28. sr .:;..;. '. • ..... Oakinghain ..:„....„. 56 76 30 3ti 22 34 :-.. 44: • Reading .--......-... GO 99 32 41 .. 23 35 - - Salisbury—.—. 84 re 2 34 48 24 28 ... 46 Southampton ........ 54 18 40 42 x . 23, 32 -, 56 '• Stroud —„.-. 60 80 38 36 1 28 34 -: ,44 . Tewkesbury ....... 36 78 40 42 • 30 33 -..... 16 Uxbridge ............ 55 84 36 48 28 82 - t- 48 , Wantage---.... AO 74 28 34 26 34 '*- '46 Warminster..,...... 50 80 :"2 45 96 . .34 .- -, 48 .• ' Wind50r................. 56 80 I . 32 42 26 36. ' ,-- . 1,6 Worcester---. 74 81 32 40 ,28 :• - at,. -:, , • ..... BIRTHS. On the 4th inst., at Penenden-heath, Maidstone, the lady of Lieut.-Col. Tod, of adiughter. On the 7th inst., Mrs. John easenove, of Hampstead, of a eon. On,the sth inst., Mrs. V. Thompson, Glocestier-plsee, of a son. OA the 6th inst., in Bernard-street, Russel-square, the wife of Lieut. Beazeley, R. N. of a daughter. On the 9th of August, 1828, at Point de Gale, Ceylon, the Lady of Dr. R. Sillery, Medical Staff, of a daughter. ,- DIED. On the 29th ult., at Thremhall Priory, Essex, in the • 87th year of her age, the Baroness de Feilitsach, sister of the late Jacob Houblun, Esq., of Hallingbury.place, iu the said county. On the 6th inst., at her house in Sidmouth-street, Mecklenburgh-square, aged 31, after a protracted and painful illness, borne with great resignation, Mrs. F. H. Duncan, widow of John Duncan, Esq., late Sd member of the Medical Board, Madras. On the 28th July, at Calcutta, George Burt, Esq., aged 2E3, sth son of the late Adam Burt, Esq., M.D., of the Hon. Company's service, and brother-in-law of E. J. Hop kins, Esq., M.D.; of Queen-square, St. James's-park. In December last, the vessel in which he had taken a • passage from Corfn having been wrecked off the coast of Italy, Lieutenant John P. Cumming, of the 88th Regiment of Font, eldest snit of Major-General Cumming, of the 11th Light Dragoons. On the 45,th iilst,,,qt Dotchester, Sarah, wife of Thomas Fitbetrlgle.) tu.l.s 1_ ,)1 ..11 .., t4.9„qt,i,ißst u; at r . est4od," .. ,llatnstesd„..Aaras,.. Bepley pf plac,e, 'and of: Y/td rnst . br,si n NYfiteftl i r in, his piiirt it.4 . i.:;/ • : • 1 * ff On t ai!t u deHiflingtfok . - - Marla; . ydnugfilt sitter) , oe , da i gf tru!rAtafil,ta ivitiewittratiare; au! bas:; in o h , ,1•3011 , 219 p fet STI Ceill Ai Fttletlgitiii ol o llll '4 l) ° ~Y Ia UN C4 OI§ I -- - I. AciSkArTord4oo4 o B, fittiegtalp Lotirivvi hirm?.? 4 - vvtr4l. 14:!i411(114,