The Sun. — London, England, 1829-11-28 00:00:00

BOLIVAB. The Memoirs of Bolivar, by General Du coudray Holstein, ex-Chief of the Presidcia': Staff, have just been published by Messrs. Cob burn and Bentley. We have not room now foi a long notice of this amusing work ; but sonic of the anecdotes which be gives of the Libe rator are not very credible If wa are to believe Ducoudray, Bolivar, of whose personal Courage most persons have a high opinion, ha.• on some occasions proved a miserable coward. This will require proof; anti we give the follow ing anecdote from the work in question, in the expectaiion that it will soon be satisfactorily con tradicted :—" On the morning of the 2d of May, the squadron being not far distant from the three elevated rocks known by the name of the Three Monks (Los Tres Frailes), not far from the island of Margaritta, two Spanish men-of war, a large brig, and a schooner, were signalled. As our squadron had no colours at all, Brion ordered the Spanish flag to be hoisted on board each of our vessels, so that the enemy, believ ing it was his own long-expected squadron, took in sail and waited for us ; but as soon as they perceived their mistake, the captain of the schooner, which was a fast-sailing vessel, pressed sail and left his commander, whose brig did not sail so well. Both tried to escape, but too late. Brion changed his colours, and fired upon them. The brig was soon overtaken by our brig, a fine large vessel, armed with eight car ronades anti a brass 24-pounder swivel.— Three fast-sailing schooners were detached from the squadron in chase of the Spanish schooner, which was taken some hours after wards. It was the Spanish royal schooner Rita, with two 'arronades, 24-pounders, six S-pounders, and one 18-pound swivel, com manded by the Captain Don Mateo Ocampo, whu was mortally wounded in the combat. The royal brig was the Intrepido, with fourteen 8-pounders, and 150 men, sailors and troops, commanded by theßrigadier Don Rafael Inglesias, who was wounded, and then killed by our men, who took the vessel by boarding. They entered the cabin with drawn swords while the surgeon was dressing his wound, and killed him. The surgeon attempted to appease them, and he was : murdered too. Such was the horrid character of this barbarous war. Commodore Brion, who fought bravely, received a wound, which was fortunately of no dangerous consequence, and was promoted, after the action, to the rank of Admiral of the Republic of Venezuela. But bow did General Bolivar behave in this pretty hot and close action, which lasted more than four hours ? As soon as he heard that Brion had ordered the necessary preparations for attack, he took me - aside and spoke as follows: But, my friend, do you not think that the Spaniards will resist and fight to the last ?' To be sure they will,' replied I, laugh ing. Well, but do you think our schooner is strong enough to fight alone against those two powerful vessels ? (at the same time looking at them through a glass) : we are too distant and too far in advance, which renders it hnpossible for the remainder of our squadron to sunport us in the action.' That is true,' said t ' but we will take her - by boarding, which is the customary way to force Spanish vessels.' What, by boarding, do you think of such 4 folly ?' (Y pensez Zoo us 211071 cher anzi? c'est nn'tblie?) These were the very expressions of General Bolivar. But what is the best for me I to do ?' he continued. Do you not think that if I were wounded, or killed, our expedition would be totally lost, and Brion, the poor Brion, would have expended in vain all his fortune ?' ' I looked up, a , tonished ; it first occurred to me that he might be jesting; but when I saw that these strange questions were put to the in earnest I understood him, called Brion, and said, General Bolivar has made to me a just ob servation concerning you : he said, that he being wounded or killed in the action, you would lose • all our advances, as then the expedition would of course, be disbanded.' Well, General,' said Brion, turning to Bolivar, you will be safely placed with the Intendant Zea, to whom I have assigned a place in my cabin, (in which Bolivar, Brion, Zea, and myself; slept,) at the entry of the "powder-magazine, to hand the necessary cartridges.' As Brion said these words in an angry manner, Bolivar asked, But, my dear Brion, do you not think that Ducoudray ' s observation is just ? do you not think so F Oh yes, yes,' said Brion, and turned round. I was giving the necessary orders to our officers to arm with muskets and cartridges, when Boli var came hastily and took me by the arm, say ing, Now I have found an excellent place, bet ter than to be down in the cabin with old Zea' (who looked, in fact, much older than he was, and was the same man who died as Minister of Colombia in England). He showed me the long-boat, which, in armed vessels, is generally fixed over the cabia windows. He jumped in, called Garcia (his intendant), ordered his pis tols and sword, and told him to load two balls in each pistol, which Garcia did in my presence, looking at me and laughing. This position, which Bolivar chose for himself, was surely the safest place in the vessel ; then, in sitting as he did in the long-boat, his head and whole body were safely protected by the thickness and strength of the beam which supports the rudder of the vessel. He sat down in the boat, and requested the to take com mand of the officers, whom I provided with arms and ammunition ; and Brion intrusted the with the command of the volunteers, so that I had to survey the whole infantry of about 160 armed men. A strange contrast was afforded by H. Ballot, a respectable French gentlemaa of 64 years of age, who, together with his young son of 16 years old, put themselves voluntarily under my orders, in spite of Brion's and my re presentations that they should go down into the cabin, and assist Mr. Zea. Both, full of ardour and courage, refused positively, and said, that this was a post of honour, and that they would not have any other assigned to them. In corn paring the behaviour of Ballot, father and son, who exposed their lives, voluntarily, for the wel fare of a country in which they were not born, and to which they did not come in order to fight, with that of a military chieftain, already famous, who now, placed at the head of an ex pedition, withdrew himself in such a curious manlier, when he should have taken the com mand of us all, we have surely a very charac teristic trait of what I have already said of !;olivar." The late Duke of YORK, having repeatedly asked " Who is Mrs. CAMAC ?" " What is Mrs. CA MAC ?" " Who was Mrs. CAMAC ?" and finding it im possible to obtain any more satisfactory answer, than that she was Mrs. CAMAC, lived in Mansfield-street, and slept in her diamonds--produ ce d the following, which apparently says all that can be said on the subject of this " fashionable lady . i7—'-g " There goes Mrs. '‘Caulic, Whose name's speliVihe saw, both forward and back." ii.•• Court /outwit • DAY AT ONE O'CLOCX. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS 3 .nk Stock : 216 t per Cent. Red. - • 93% 4 ,i':ei ' per Cent. C0n5.....- • VI M !,‘, is; per Cent. - /itt) Red.' 99% 100 99% per Cent Ann ' 03 ' 1 4% 61t,', 1Q26 iitto Scrip - 42nk 1.. Ann... 193 ?itto 30 years ndia stuck 2206 227 itto Bonds 69 68 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, .£1,006 2d. 67 0: pm Ditto lld. 67 66 pin. Ditto ZOO 2d. 68 66 pm Ditt0............... Id. 6S 66 pm. Ditto Small Ditto..... ....... Ild. 68 66 pm. Bank for Account India for Account Cons. for January ...94%%1414 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Lustrian Bonds ,razilian Bonds ... ...... 67 1 ,414 7 PerUvian Bonds , uenos Avres 80nd5......... Portuguese Bonds ' hilian Bonds — Prussian, Old • 'olombian Bonds — Ditto, New itto, 1924. itto, anish 7116 Spanish, 1821 117 reek Bonds 1823 itto, 1825 — French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. 3uatimala — I— Exchange —f. 4ex ican Bonds lB ; ----- 3 per cent. —f. —c. httn, 1825 23 2% 3 :-- Exchange —l. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share 13razilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O 69 70 Real dcl Monte Mining Co. £46o United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) £lO% Liverpool and Manchester Railway 90 160 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, NOV. 'l5. Bank Stock Consols, 3 per cent. ...... 91 74 : Royal Irish Ditto - ;ov. Stock, 3% per cent. 98 National Ditto — Ditto, New — Patriotic Ditto — I per Cent 10 1 ,4 Hibernian Bank 2O Gov. Deb. 3!,/, percent.... 9844 Provincial Ditto — Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock — Imperial Mine City Deb. 4 per cent Ballast Office Deb. 4p. c. Commercial Buildings — COURSE OF EXCH. ‘insterdarn C.F 12 8 Ditto, at sight 12 51 tottcrdam 2 U 12 8 Antwerp 12 8 Hamburg AI. B. I t 1 Altona ....... ..... 11 Paris, 3 days' sight ...—..25 95 Ditto ° U '26 20 Bordeaux 25 20 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. 51.1511 l'etersburgh, ruble, 3U. 10 0 Vienna, effective ff. 2 M. 10 15 Trieste do 10 15 Madrid 36 Cadiz 16 Bitboa Barcelona 36 Sev , fle G:bralt it 41% MA. Arrived. Due. O America 0 O Brazil O Buenos AyrcE 0 O Carthagena... lt I Dublin 0 O Flanders 0 1 France 0 O Gucrnsey&Jersey Arrived. Due. 1 Hamburg 0 O Holland O Jamaica 0 O La Guayra 0 O Lisbon 0 O Mexico O Sweden O Waterford HIGH WATZ% AT LONDON BRIDCZ TO-MORROW. Morning... 46 minutes after 3 f Evening ...13 minutes after 4, TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mr. Piiii.urs has sent us a long letter on the subject of the late mysterious death of Mrs. Puii.mrs ; to which we shall merely reply, desiring to venture an opinion neither one way nor the other—that the best explana tion that can he given is a thorough public investigation of the whole affair. rbr LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1829. Despatches were received at the Colonial Office this morning from Major-General F. PONSONBY, Governor of Malta, and also from Sir GEORGE DON, Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar. The Austrian Observer of the 16th November, contains the particulars of the late action be tween the Greeks and Turks in Eastern Greece, the result of which was a convention (inserted in The Sun of yesterday) for the evac . ua l tiOti of Livadia by the Turks. From the account there appears to have been more powder than shot ex•' nended in the battle, for. he Greeks only lost three men killed and twelve wounded, while the Turks lost a great nutnber—so great that they could not be counted in the smoke:— VIENNA, NOV. 15. The following is the Report given in the Uni •crsal Gazelle of Greece of October 7, of the last Hairs between the Turks and the Greeks, in : " After the last attacks of the enemy in Livadia this is the town of Livadia, not the country of Livadia), the General, Demetrius Ypsilanti, occu pied with the regiments under his command the strong position of Petra, in order to hinder the enemy from advancing to the other parts, and thus to protect as far as possible the other provinces. The enemy, whose troops, regular and irregular horse and foot, amounted to 7,000 men, had posted themselves on the 22d of September at the distance of a cannon-shot from that position, and prepared to attack it, which they did t.,n the 24th. We do not describe this glorious action, because we be lieve our readers will prefer the following extract from the report of the General to the Governmen t:— " At day-break, on the 24th of September, the Turks having - a small detachment in their fortified camp, advanced in a body against Petra, bringing with them four cannon, to destroy the entrench ments. The cavalry formed at the foot of Petra in two lines. The regular infantry divided into two columns of equal strength, advanced against the en trenchments of the second Chiliarch and of the Pen taksiarch, by Skurtanioti. The latter received them outside of the entrenchments. The action began; the cannonade continued without intermis sion.' Thr hundred regular infantry and cavalry occupied the neighbouring village of Vustemiti, in order to cover the rear of the column advancing against Skurtanioti. All the Albanians marched against Dias.elo. The auxiliary corps of the garri son was obliged to occupy another eminence on the side of Vustemiti. The Albanians advanced impe- tuously to within ten paces of the intrenchments.— kt that moment, Chiliarchs Dyovusnoli and Krie sioti, came up with the greater part of their troops, and attacked the Albanians just as they were going to storm, under the command of Asian Bey. By this, and the brave defence of the intrenchments, the attack was defeated, the Albanians repulsed, and after an action of two hours, the Turks were com pelled to abandon their positions, and to take flight amidst a heavy and incessant fire from the Greeks. At the same time S. Milios, the commander of the garrison, attacked the enemy at Vustemiti, and drove them away with loss. " This glorious victory so far rewarded the bra very of the corps ; but the safety of the Turks is to be ascribed to their numerous cavalry and the grape shot of their cannon. Their loss in killed and wounded, especially among the Albanians, was great, as they afterwards confessed. Among the killed was a Hekatontiach of the regular troops and two Albanians, standard bearers. The Greeks had three men killed and twelve wounded. The trophies of the victory arc two standards and a great number of prisoners; who were afterwards exchanged for Greek peasants who had been made prisoners. " The whole Turkisli army has to-day left Lu rupi, together with the garrison of Livadia, under the command of the Tufectschibaschi of Rumelia. He is followed by the whole of the 4th regiment, _ _ _ _ and the C'hiliarch N. Kriesidi with 200 men more, with orders to occupy Fontana as soon as it should be evacuated. " I consider it a; my duty to represent to your Excellency the good conduct and bravery of the officers and men. All the measures taken in this critical F,ituation were duly executed. The inhabit ants arc beginning to return to their flecks. Your Excelle►►cy's Commissioner (Count Augustin Cap° cll.stria) is 'awned every thing. Ny. Aid-de- 'l. ~(~'.y.Ri;lii:.aYl:.l:.. .NGE YESTERDAY. ILeghorn 4714 Genoa 26 5 Venice 4 7 14 Malta 4314 Naples . 3934 Pale! mo per es. 119 Lisbon Oporto 43 Rio Janeiro , Bahia 2638 , --------------- 13venos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight ,Cork BULLION, PER OZ. s. (1. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New 1)oubloon , 0 0 0 New Dollars Silver, bars, standard 0 0 0 camp, N. Kanussa, will deliver the the two 'Turkish standards to your Excellency. I am, Sc. "D. YPSILANTI KOLOINIUTA." " Sept. 2S, 1529." The Gazelle adds, " the defeat of the enemy would have led to their destruction, either by arms or famine, had they not obtained a convention b) which they evacuate part of Eastern Greece, and march without obstruction to Thessaly. By the desire of Otzak Agar, it was agreed that the sick in Kurupi, &c., should be removed without obstruction, as neither the General nor the Greek troops wish for bloodshed, though they ardently desire the freedom and security of the pro vinces of Eastern Greece, which are in a deplorable state, and which would not be relieved by the de struction of the enemy, but by his retreat from them; and it is only then that the inhabitants can begin to rebuild their huts and till the ground, in order to procure, at length, their daily bread, and no longer be obliged to subsist merely on grass (herbs), and sometimes to be unable to find even that." The last accounts from Egina say that Jacovaki Rizo (one of the Secretaries to the last National Assembly at Argos) was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in the room of Spiridon Tricupi ; and that the seat of Government would be shortly removed from Egina to Napoli di Romania. We had intended to have made some remarks upon the monstrous conduct of the Chairman at the Westminster Sessions yesterday in altering the sentence passed on a boy from seven years to transportation for life, but the cutting, yet just comments in the . Chronicle of this morning save us the trouble. The article will be found under the usual head. Sentence a boy only 14 years old to transportation for life, merely be cause he retorts upon the Judge !—the thing is too disgraceful to be endured ;—it is a stretch of despotism which we are sure Mr. PEEL will not permit to be carried into ef fect. Where is the boasted protection of Eng lish Law, if its power can be so perverted to gratify the petulant vengeance of an offended Judge ? The liberty of the subject is indeed in danger, if personal anger be suffered to usurp the merciful serenity of the judgment seat. Even the King of ENGLAND himself could not transport a man for life under such circumstances, and yet the Chairman of the Westminster Ses sions has done it ! The proverb saith, that a word spoken in anger maketh the heart sad. We hope it will prove so, and that repentance may spring out of sorrow. DISSECTION of the TWO-HEADED 01111' There is no surer sign of quackery than the attributing of evils, arising out of many circum stances, to one sole cause, and prescribing ac cordingly for their•cure one single remedy. Mr. COBBETT, judging that sufficient:dissatisfaction was abroad at the state of the country to insure him an audience to whom he might announce the dreadful intelligence that their ruin was irre trievable, assembled together some hundred per sons on Thursday, and delivered a highly comi cal oration, the substance of which was that the general distress is increasing to so frightful an extent, that few people can for the . future ex pect to, have a leg of mutton on their table more than twice a year, and that we - have been reduced to thiS deplorable condition by that wicked Act of Parliament which has deprived us of the blessings of One Pound Notes ! Of our near approach to starvation we had indeed been pre viously warned by several Ultra-Tory politicians ; and although the latter are by Ito means agreed with the Radicals upon the causes of our distress (the former attributing it to the Catholic Relief Bill and the Free Trade System), yet Messrs. SADLER and COBBETT lament in strains equally lugubrious the degraded and miserable state into which Old England has been brought by the ignorance and profligacy of her rulers. The coarse humour of Mr. COBBETT is in finitely more entertaining to us than the solemn cant of Mr. SADLER ; but independently of the notoriety of the political tergiversations of the former orator, his declamations can never be of any weight, because he never supports them by proofs, but assumes both cause and effect, and then proceeds to condemn. We do not want to be told that the depreciation of coinage is highly inconvenient, and is often the cause of injustice; nor that Louts XIV. and other foreign Princes have been much censured for tampering with their currency. Any one would suppose that the Parliament which passed PEEL'S Bill was wholly ignorant that, if the circulation of a country is suddenly reduced by one half, the debts and taxes subsequenly paid - in the same money will, in fact, have been paid twice over. Mr. COBBETT informs us that, in ignorance and folly, such a reduction has usually been effected, and itinc dice Lacrymca for the de funct One Pound Notes. Those who are de sirous of satisfying themselves of the solid grounds of objection to the continuance of the Small Note system, should refer to the Debates of February, 1826, and June, 1828. In Mr. GOULBURN'S speech on the latter occa sion, will be seen how vastly over-rated has been the supposed effect of this measure ; for during the five years ending with 1826, the average value of the Small Notes issued by the Country Bankers throughout the whole kingdom, was only five millions sterling, and during the last of those years the gradual withdrawal had reduced the issue to little more than one million. Now, to say nothing of the gold and silver coinage, of the bills and promissory notes used in trade, and of the country bankers' large notes, the above sum is a mere trifle, compared to the paper cir culation of the Bank of England alone, which, I on a weekly average of the year ending the 6th of April, 1828, was 21,549,318/., and had for several years previous been near 21,000,000/. , 1 We refer ' h9WeVer, t 9 the authentic statements quoted by the CHANCELLOR of the ExcHE- QuEn on the occasion alluded to, as the best refutatio❑ of this attempt to magnify mole-hills Ito mountains. We do not dispute that the reduction of the circulation, even to a small amount, has had its effect upon prices; but the measure was a choice of evils, in which the greater inconvenience was properly made to give place to the smaller. We well recollect the fallacies that were urged about the policy of keeping the money of the country constantly increasing, which cannot apply to the paper-money system, because that has for many years been kept on a footing very much exceed ing the circulation that is really necessary for our commerce. Caution is always good, but Mere has been no want of it in this matter ; and we can conceive no more serious charge against he Government than to have suffered, by their non-interference, a repetition of the distressing scenes that occurred throughout the country in 1826, and of the losses sustained by those classes who could ill afford so severe a privation, when they found that country bankers' notes, in which they had been accustomed to confide, turned out suddenly to be mere waste paper. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. 11PORTA NT MERC.A NTILE JUDGMENT-GOLDING V. O'NEIL. The Loan CHANCELLOR gave jud:ment in this case on coming into Court, which he said he had given all the attention to in his poorer, the question depending on the decision of the Court being, in his opinion, one of the first importance to the mercantile world. This was a question (said his Lordship) with respect to the proof of a debt under a commission of bankruptcy issued against O'Neil and Martin as partners. — The circumstances of the transaction were these : O'Neil, on his separate account, and not in his partner ship character, ervered into a contract with Golding, who was the owner of a vessel. It was a contract by charter party, by which Golding undertook that the vessel should proceed from Newfoundland to Charlotte Town ; that it should take in a cargo of timber there ; that it should then proved with such cargo to Limerick, and de liver the timber there to the assignees of O'Neil ; then that the amount of freight should be paid half in cash, and the other half in a good Bill of ' Ex change on London at a date not exceeding four months. The vessel proceeded on her voyage, and deli vered her cargo at Limerick, in pursuance to the charter party. The half of the freight was then paid in cash, and a bill was given for the other half drawn by the person who represented O'Neil, on O'Neil and Company (not on O'Neil alone), London, to the master of the ship, who remitted it to Golding, the owner, at Liverpool. When the bill was :received by Gelding, it was sent in the usual course of business to the house, where O'Neil and Martin, under the firm of O'Neil and Co., carried on their business. It was left at that house in the usual course for acceptance. After it had remained there for several hours, Guiding himself, or his brother, called for the bill again, and received it hack, accepted, front a clerk in the house. Now the question is, whether this bill, under these circumstances, can be proved under the joint commission againstO'Neil and Martin. There is no prin cip'e more clear than this, that where there are partners, and one of those partners enters into a contract upon his own account, he cannot pledge the partnership funds, or give a partnership acceptance in discharge of his contract so as to bind the firm. In this case, Golding knew that the con. tract WO a several contract—that it was a contract in the name of O'Neil only, and not of O'Neil and Co. When, therefore, Golding accepted of a bill drawn on O'Neil and Co. in discharge of that debt, he knew O'Neil and Co. were not liable for it. He took it, therefore, on his own responsi bility, and the only doubt I have had in this case arose from the circumstance of the bill, after it had been drawn on O'Neil and Co., and received by Golding, having been left in the usual course at the house of O'Neil and Co. for acceptance; and after having been so left, having been received back by Golding front a clerk in the house, ac cepted by O'Neil and Co., Gilding not knowing that the acceptance was in the:land-writing. of O'Neil ; but upon consideration I do not think that that circumstance varies the case. I do not think it in cludes Martin, who was the party to this , contract, and ought not to have been bound by it. If it bad been known by Golding that his acceptance was in the hand-writing of O'Neil, it is perfectly clear that Golding could have had no claim on the joint estate, and the responsibility of knowing it or of not knowing it rested with him. As it turns out, it was the acceptance of O'Neil, and without the authority or knowledge of Martin, whose estate ought not to have been bound. Under these circumstances, I think the Commissioners did right in refusing to receive this proof; I think the Vice-Chancellor did right in refusing to order the Com missioners to receive the proof, and I now confirm that decision of his Honour's. A gentleman behind the bar asked on behalf of the re spondents for the costs. Mr. HORNE opposed this application, on the ground that the question could not have been disposed of without having come to his Lordship. The LORD CHANCELLOR considered, that as the cities- tion was one of such nicety, importance, and difficulty, the parties had acted properly in bring it before him, therefore he should give no costs. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. JUDGMENT.-JOHNSON V. DIGBI. His HONOUR gave judgment this morning in this case. The question arose upon an annuity in the will of the tes tator, by which he gave his money in the English Funds to certain persons, and the question was, whether that de scription meant 3 per Cent. Consols. The case had been originally heard before the Alaster of the Rolls, a reference was made to the Master, and exception taken to his report finding the words used by the tes'ator meant his 3 per Cent. Consols. The case came before the Court yesterday upon the exceptions. The Vice-Chancellor agreed with the Master, ordered the exceptions to be overruled, and the costs of all parties to be paid in the cause. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. GAINSFORD V. MARSHALL. Mr. Crum applied to have the defendant in this case discharged out of custody, on the ground that the plaintiff being obliged by the Lords' Act to pay him 3s. 6d. a week, and such sum being due every Mondry, that the plaintiff paid the last instalment by a bad shilling and a good half-crown. The money had been paid by a servant of the plaintiff to Charles Jones, the turnkey of White cross-street prison, where the defendant is confined. The plaintiff states, that the turnkey on receiving it rung and examined it, and said it was all right. It appeared, how ever, by the affidavit of the turnkey, that what he said only related to the quantity and not the quality of the mo - ne y. That when the defendant received it, he found the shilling to be a bad one, and the turnkey insisttd that it was the identical money he received of the plaintiff's ser vant, and allowed himself to be searched, and he had no other money about him. The Learned Counsel therefore hoped that the Court would think proper to order his dis charge, as he had already been imprisoned for a year. Mr. THESSIGER, for the plaintiff, contended that the turnkey having been decided by this Court to be in such cases, the agent of the debtor, ought to have objected to the money on receiving it. He also had affidavits which stated that the shlling given was good. The COURT decided, that the turnkey ought to have objected, and that as there was conflicting testimony it would not be proper to discharge the prisoner. The rule must therefore be discharged, with casts. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. ADAMS V. MERRIDENV., Mr. Baron Gausow pronounced the judgment of the Court, on a rule obtained some time since calling upon the Master to review his taxation of costs. The Learned Baron said, it would be recollected that this was an action of libel brought by the plaintiff, a highly respectable Ma gistrate, residing in the county of Warwick, against the defendant, who was proprietor of the Coventry Herald, when the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff with 201. damages. The defendant feeling disatisfied with his verdict, be applied to have the judgment arrested, and this Court being of opinion, that the inuendos set forth in the declaration were not sufficient to support an action of libel, they ordered the judgment to be reversed; against this de- CI" the P 144144. PPPeAled t 9 a Wirt of Yaw - , Act tin . _ result 'of that application was, the judgment of this' Court was reversed. On the bill of costs being re ferred to the Master for taxation, that officer refused to allow the plaintiff's costs in error. It had been argued at great length, and with much ability, that the Master had used a sound discretion ; but the Court, after the most mature consideration, were of a different opinion. It was the judgment pronounced in this Court which drove the plaintiff to a superior one, and that Court hul decided that our judgment was wrong ; it was therefore only fair that the plaintiff should . have his costs. It is the opinion of the Court that the rule must be made absolute, calling upon the Master to review his taxation. Rule made absolute. A gentleman behind the bar applied on behalf of the Sheriff of Wo:cestershire for the authority of the Cout t not to make a return to a writ of fieri farina, on the ground that he (the sheriff) did not consider himself pro perly indemnified. After a long argument on the duties and liabilities of a sheriff, The COURT held that be was bound to nuke a return, for it ccuhl never be supposed that a sheriff, when he received the King's writ, could re fuse to execute it, on the ground of his not being indem nified. Besides, a refusal on such grounds would in many cases amount to a total denial of justice. Suppose a man had a great number of debtors who he was obliged to sue, would it not be a grievous calamity that in every instance he should be obliged to give security ; the law was quite difficult enough for a poor man to obtain redress, without throwing other obstacles in the way. It was the opinion of the Court a sheriff must risk all liabilities in the per formance of his public duty, except under very peculiar circumstances. In the present instance the application must be refused. . _ Mr. Baron Vat:OIJAN said it was. now the opinion of the Judges that the Courts had always been too indulgent towards sheriffs.—Application refused. The Court afterwards heard motions of no public in terest. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. FOX V. CLIFTON AND OTHERS. In this case, which was an action brought against the defendants as shareholders in the Imperial Distillery Com pany, and in which action the plaintiff obtained a verdict, a rule was obtained a few days since for a new trial. Mr. Serjeant ADASIS, and other Counsel, were heard at great length this morning in support of the rule. The arguments were not concluded when our Reporter left. ADMIRALTY COURT. THE MADONNA D'IDRA. The KING'S ADVOCATE passed the judgment of die Court in this case in favour of the Crown. The _Ma donna d'ldra was captured during the war hetween Great Britain and Turkey, in 1807, by a British ship of var, and carried into Malta, where the Yice-Admiralty Court condemned the vessel. The vessel was loaded and owned by a subject of the Ottoman Government, and the proceeds now sought to be placed in the Court were above 6001. Sir CnarsToviirn RoniNsom asked how it was that so long a delay had occurred in getting the papers from Malta. The REGisiRAR, said that there were many cases in the Court at Malta, and the papers relative to the Ma donna d 'ldra could not be forwarded earlier. The COURT granted the application made by the King's Advocate. The Court then adjourned. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWILLIE 0' aocr. The Bears, who have been so roughly handled the last account, are now on the qui vice, and advancing, with great caution, in their future speculations. The Consol market, which left off yesterday at 91 for money, arid 94 1 for the account, opened at the same price this morning, but soon after the market became rather fidgety, and Consols receded to 94 for the account, with little business transacting; they may at present be quoted at 911 1, and 94. if for money. The rise which took place in Consols late yesterday afternoon was owing to the notice sent down from Government, in regard to :he reduction of the interest of the Exchequer Bills to three-half pence per day. The following is the substance of the above notice : New bills bearing an interest of three halfpence by the day upon every 1001. and dated the 18th of December, may be obtained in whole or in part pay- Meni . Of principal, upon stating the required amount on the list delivered on or before the said 14th day of December, which new Bills, with the interest on the Bills exchanged, will be issued on the 19th day of December. A hint is given by some of the speculators this morning that in a few days %re shall hear of some other financial operations on the part of Government, but this may only be a ruse de guerre to keep the market alive. In the Foreign market little business is doing at present. We are again without the arrival of any ship letters, but a Malta Mail has arrived, brought by the Pigeon, sailed from Gibraltar on the sth of November, and from Cadiz on the Ilth. We have already received accounts from Gibraltar of the above date through the French Papers, therefore it cannot bring any intelligence of importance. Accounts from Gibraltar of sth November state that M. Cera pliiii, Cotnmander of the Spanish Garde de Costa at Algesiras, to prevent the smuggling, which is actively carried on at present at Gibraltar, sailed in a small vessel to the above fortress, when he perceived a smuggling vessel, which he took without resistance tinder the batteries of the fort, which only fired a few guns. I.IvERPooL, Nov. H.—The Cotton market is exceedingly film, and if, any alteration the prices are rather higher again this week, although the business doing is not to so great an extent. The sales yesterday were 2,500 to 3,000 bales ; 200 Bahias, Gd. a qd.; 700 Maranhams, Gfd. a 7d.; 250 Egyptians ; and about 300 Orleans, from 6i-d. to lid. Letters have been received from Constantinople of the Ist November, tranquillity then prevailed there ; the Blonde was towed by a steamer to the Arsenal, in which Sir Robert Gordon intended to give a grand fete in consequence of peace. ENGLIS Bank Stock, 215 16 i FUNDS. 13i per Cent. 99-i 100 India Stock, 226 7 Ne‘v 4 per Cent.: 103i_i S per Cent. Cons. 94i Do., for Account, 94/ 1- Ditto Reduced, 93 FOREIG 4 per Cent. 1826 1051 India Bonds, 67 69 Exchequer Bills, 65 66 I FUNDS. Greek, 284- Mexican, 22i 23 Peruvian, lb Portuguese, 50 51 Brazilian, 66i 71 Buenos Ayres, 25 27 Chilian, 24 26 Colombian, 20i 21 Daniell, '74i- French, lb per Cent. 1081 §-I- Ditto, S per Cent. 84i 4 Prussian, Russian, 109 110 Spanish, 1121. TWO O'CLOCK. The British Market has been in a very unsettled state during the whole of the morning. Consols in the early part of the day were at 94* for the Account, after which they reached 94 owing to two eminent brokers having purchased about 200,000/. Consols; but, contrary to the general ex pectation, Consols immediately receded to 94*, instead of a further improvement, and at present. they are 94ft for the account, and 91 to for money, there being still a continuance of cue half per cent. The extreme fluctuation to this hour is about three-eighths per cent. In the Foreign Market little doing, except in Brazil stock, which is not so good as in the early part of the day. Spanish is also rather worse. THREE O'CLO cr. An Express has arrived from Paris this morning, bringing accounts that Prince Polignac" has obtained the interest of most of the departments in his favour, and there is no doubt that at the opening of the next Sessions he will obtain a great ntijority." The French Funds come higher, 84f. 60c., and on the next day it was expected they would reaeh 85c. Consols for Account, 94} REMARKABLE FACT.—In the storm on Wednesday morning, ris Mr. BuTLER, of the Durham Ox, Mansfield, was standing in his doorway, next the town street, a partridge actually settled on one of his shoulders, and suffered him to take it from its new perch !—Not tiligliam ,Review. (FROM OUR rams CORRESPONDENT.) " PARIS, NOV. a " Nothing has yet occurred since the recent te°' dification of the Ministry to disturb the serenitY °f our political horizon; but in the mean time the se' vans of Paris are busily occupied in metaphysi cal and physiological discussions, excited by the suddet t death of the extraordinary bieephalous infant, calle d , il Ritta-Christina. It will scarcely be believed the !, such men as Cuvier, Geoffroy Saint Hilaire, "" Serres, the celebrated anatomist, should have .11111 the greatest difficulty in obtaining the permission the authorities to verify the existence of the curie ° phenomena presented by the constitution of this singular being. There is, it seems, a rule, Pl . scribing interment, in particular cases, wit h '" twenty-four hours after death, which it was e l ,fi tempted in this case to enforce; but it is du e to the liberality of M. (le Chabrol, the Pr e ': feet of the Seine, to acknowledge, that as ee' °U. ' as he was informed by M. de Saint Hilaire, of the claims of science, he hastened to give the necoll';4 sary orders to delay the interment. Had the death taken place in an hospital, there could have been 0 such difficulty. The dissection look place yeSt erd- ' (lay, in presence of Messrs. Cuvier, Saint Hilair e ' Portal, Dumereil, Lisfranc, hart, Castel, Breschth the two Dubois, and a few of their personal friends, in the amphitheatre of Lv Piti6, the operations he r ; ing been conducted under the superintendence of M. Series. " It was mentioned by M. Saint Hilaire, that the celebra!ed Laplace had been much occupied in the latter years of life with the study of human bicepheli• His attention had been directed to their existence) by the historical researches, of Messrs. Serrev: and Saint Hilaire, but he entertained many doubts as to the truth of statements of this nature recorded in history, or rather of the single statement, whi c h was worthy of much confidence, with respect to the double man, who (lied at the age of 28, at the Court of Jame. the Third of Scotland. How much would be have been interested,' exclaimed M. Saint Hilaire. ' with our Ritta-Christina I How much would he have been distressed, as we are now, to see a Or ject for such important study lost by our own aegr gelled' One reflection should, however, cons ° us, which is, that the short life of Christina -pitta has not been altegether lost to science. It has bee" prolonged for eight months and seventeen days, Attu has only ceased by a concurrence of circumstan ces which should not have existed. " The body has been placed in spirits of and was preserved as well as possible, so that the following anatomical details were perfectly setts ' factory : " There were two hearts, isolated and free fro I° each other, but placed in a single envelope or per'. cardium, the hearts touching only at the poiete' while the bases were perfectly free. This touchl of the two hearts was for an extent of six or eig d lines, the point of the organ in Ritta being Pla ce d at the left side, as in ordinary cases, while that is the heart of Christina was at the right. I" position the right ventricle of the heart of Itit, t° the flattened and compressed, which accounts f or stoppage of was only the cir - cul a at s ion ngle liver, inc of her blood. onse Ve nce hi evidently of the union of the liver of each on the median line, which proves that there were two lobe of spigel and two gall vessels perfectly distinct. all " There were also two stomachs, and tNo 511) intestines or first passages which were united ter! or twelve inches before their entrance into the coeeoe l ,' The mecum, as well as the large intestines, which appeared more particularly to belong to Christina, were single. " There were two distinct matrices, the one site" ated as usual behind the bladder, the second he L i v g, separated from the first by the rectum, and ell e ' • intestines. " The pectoral cavity was divided by 1 7t r h , e r d es ia u p lt h e r d ag fr m om the a centr e mediastine, joined below by a single i te e P ot b r o gn if line o li f v t . w h h e ic m h ed l i i u k m e the juts. This circumstance, very interesting in of the twllf, became particularly so, from its affording a p robe. le explanation of the almost instant death of Chrlet i l after her sister had ceased to live; for the half ° the diaphragm being paralyzed, and its continuity still existing, it is easy to understand how the con . tractile action of the other half should have suddenly been arrested. " The opening of the body of Christina-Ritta hits, not furnished any very precise idea of the nature of the disease by which death was produced. A slig l4 adhesion of the posterior part of the pleura of the right side with the emphysema of the lungs iedi" cated the existence of an inflammation of that mete brane, but neither intense nor extensive, a nd eet such as could have produced immediate death:" Death might rather, perhaps, have been imputed t° a considerable accumulation of feculent mutter the rectum. Nothing could have been more eat/ than to have removed this accumulation which b° produced such an unfortunate result. A slight all e jj dent would certainly have sufficed; but no medi c , assistance had been culled, and Christina-Ritta he" died for want of help, in the midst of Paris, je, t l city where so many celebrated physicians waif, have been happy to have lent their assistance of for object so highly interesting to men ; ence. But the relatives seemed to have bee f . ignorant of the facility of procuring relic e i embittered, no doubt, by the refusal tilted had experienced from the authorities, and pre v .,,, c t i c from leaking application by the distress lo "„„ - s es that refusal had plunged them. The remot e : — ay of the disease by which death was produce'', of doubtless be traced to the delicate constitu t t te r Rive, and to exposure to the first colds of w — ,,i t h in apartments very imperfectly heated. It wa e % e l. difficulty that Ritta supported the fatigue of tr ,"o. ling, while her sister seemed to suffer no sort °L convenience. In the towns where they wer e received, and where they could stay a long. Ritta recovered her health with surprising rapitll'iril so rapidly that M. St. Hilaire says he has obserlbei nothing equal to it in an isolated being, and asc ri . aa , it to the support received from her sister Chrieto, who being endowed with a very robust ore tion, had no doubt greatly contributed to these ° ea den restorations. Their stay at Lyons had b e l a very favourable to their health. They seemed well on their arrival in Paris, although Ritta peered to be fatigued ; but here, when the sever ie of the season required the greatest care , the re cO l tives, deceived in their hopes by the interfereo,eia", the authorities, were reduced to a mode of liiclus consistent with the care which was necessary Or preservation of their child. It is known that Ritta only was unwell, !ma t oi l)° , Christina, whose health was good to the eot i '•,,ter suddenly struck dead at the moment when her 5' the expired. The perfect health of Christina toe more surprising when it is considered that the .I'o. mulation or interruption to which the death %ea cribed, was situated in that part of the intest'io which was common to the two sisters, but it t° be be remembered, that an interruption which toeY o o slight and indifferent to a well constituted and s oa re vigorous body like that of Christina, might b e Tho Otis to one so debilitated as that of her s ister• o il heart of Ritta, compressed by that of Christinotitoif otherwise straightened in its movements , foua d o ced incapable of reacting against the congestion pc.grest by the very considerable interruption in th e intestine. " During the life of Christina-Ritta, the WI, whether she had two hearts or only one l' e :aoll e agitated,but has not been resolved. The stetliv-cbial had only indicated a single heart, and the b te e te arteries seemed to beat simultaneously in I nt tlf, subjects. The existence of a single heart ;Or two seemed at first therefore probable, but to 0 :0 6 the close of the disease another op ini V a tit adopted. The pulsations were no longer t Or d those of Ritta being much more frequent thao_llll of Christina. The inspection of the cavityl:oo breathy 1144 shewn that thew were in fact /IV° •