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ostentation and affectiou'—' a desire of the good opinion of others, a sense of shame, a dread of the hatred and contempt of the public;'—but he lessens the value of these by suggesting, that our regard for the sentiments of our fellow -creatures springs,' not from benevolence, but ' by association, from a sense of their ability to hurt or to serve us' —or, in other words, from what he contends against throughout as the adversary of Mr. Mill, pure se!fishness." The Examiner, two late numbers, entered warmly into this r. , ontroversy ; and the Standard of last night allows on the heels of the Es- winner " The. subject and state of the controversy to whir,:.we allude (say s our E ven i ng C ontemporary) . V he seen in our extract from the Examiner; it is bot, however, our purpose to meditate between the polemics, but to point to the obvious conclusion from their schism, which, if we mistake not, shows both parties in opposition to themselves as well as with one another. Both are indeed wrong, but with this difference :—the Westminster, or Utilitarian school, has been led astray by a primary error, and has been carried to extreme mistake by the zealous pursuit of truth in a wrong path; the Edinburgh, or Pyrrhonist school, on the other hand, has gone wron,,T, because it never cared for truth, and because the guides which it has implicitly followed—vanity, ambition, and self-interest in the lowest shape— have an intuitive bias towards falsehood. As the oracle of this school, the Edinburgh Review, is now has tening to oblivion, let us, before it is altogether for gotten, illustrate the inane doctrine, if we may call it doctrine, of that school, by one brief question.-- Opposed as the Review was to every existing insti tution in government, to every received doctrine in morals and religion, to all the acknowledged systems in the philosophy of mind and of matter, did it ever propose any substitute for any of the objects of its flippant censures ? No, it never did. The maxim with which the reviewer set out was, that the world always give credit for as much talent as is boldly pretended e and with this maxim—supported in a barbarous jejune style, measured and squared by the callipers and tenants of Hugh Blair, the poorest of all critics—they, the Reviewers, by the mere force of impertinence and sneering, contrived to disgust the whole body of fools in the nation, who almost always are the majority, with all that their wiser fathers loved, and all that had served as the means Gf their own happiness. " It was, indeed, a hungry but an ambitious en tertainment—the feast of some very notable pauper, where the absence of substance was supplied by management, and where the guests were reconciled to their penurious and distasteful fare, by bold and profuse sneering at the uncouth style in which the more solid and salutary viands of the 'Squire and Parson were served up. But this could not last for ever, and the Edinburgh Review, after living to do infinite mischief, died some ten years ago—died, we mean, to all purposes of influence; for now, though it is still printed, as we learn from the Westminster Review and Examiner, it is as little read as the Right Hon. Wilmot Horton's last Emigration pamphlet." The Standard professes to be an honest in quirer after the truth, and to admire the writers of the Examiner and the Westminster, be cause they also arc honest inquirers after the truth. Now with this earnest desire to discover the truth to which our Cotemporary lays claims, it does astonish us, we own, that he should have been so unsuccessful in his search as his repre sentation respecting the Edinburgh Review tin plies. Whatever the merits or demerits of that Review, there can be no question that it is ex tensively read and possesses extensive influence. If our Contemporary only discovered from this controversy that it still continues to be printed, he must have optics peculiar to himself. The rest of the article of our Cotemporary is exceed ingly curious. " The Westminster Review, with incomparably more talent than its predecessor, is unfortunately as much estranged from established principles in ethics and in state policy as the Edinburgh Review itself ; but it is honest, which the other never was, and its honesty gives the votary of true philosophy an ad vantage over it as great as that which, through their total want of talent, he enjoyed before over the Edinbusghers. " The Westminster proposes a system of moral and of state policy, which the Edinburgh never did. The scope and aim of this is comprised in the sen tence, The greatest happiness to the greatest num ber;'—rightly understood, a noble object, and worthy of all acceptation. But, as the Westminster School urlderstands and treats it, alike unworthy and impracticable. " If we do not misunderstand the doctrines of the Westminster, they would treat man as a mere mortal, something little, if at all, above the animated machines of the Cartesians. The happiness which they would provide for him they regard as referring to a mere mortal state—the means by which they would effect that happiness as having relation to mere mortal sanctions. But man is not a mere mortal ; he is designed for another state of exist ence. And if there be any proposition proved more certainly than another by the whole induction of hu man experience, it is that no discipline can fit a man for a temporal state of existence but that which will also fit him for eternity. And this is a proposition which might have been arrived at a priori, and which, indeed, was arrived at by wise Pagans— Cicero, for example, because no worldly sanctions can be proposed which may not, in many cases, be outweighed by worldly temptations. " The consequences into which the Utilitarians have been drawn by overlooking this eternal truth, some too disgusting, some too horrible to b e more particularly allud e to, present a striking reductio ad impossibile' in support of the wisdom of the Gospel dispensation. And here indeed is the tri umph of true philosophy—that is, of true religion. Whenever men set up the conclusions of mere human wisdom against the precepts of the Gospel, or against the legitimate deductions from those pre cept, they are sure to plunge into errors., which the voice of nature herself indignantly condemns. Nor is this to be considered as limiting the will of man, as to the form of government under which, or the frame of society within which he would live. No; the Gospel rule is not so strictly drawn, that an abundant choice is not open to him who will love mercy and walk humbly with his God. We are perhaps writing upon this subject out of season ; but we can assure our readers, among whom we hope we shall have the writers of the Examiner and the Westminster, that we do not write angrily. They are, like ourselves, honest inquirers after the truth; and against which we can never feel resentment; nor of them can we ever despair that they will come into the right path at last. In truth, we think we see, in the schism of which they are the leaders, something like that controversial spirit of the old philosophers, which opened in no small degree the way for the light of truth, and therefore to our re spect we almost add gratitude. And with this ac knowledgment we would take our leave, but we wish to subjoin compendiously the result of all our in quiries and considerations upon this subject That religion is not merely an essential ingredient in all schemes of civil polity, but the one essential element out of which such schemes, to be effectual, must be wrought; and that not merely projects against reli gion, like that of Mr. Malthus and some of those of the Utilitarians, but even those without religion, like Messrs. Peels and Hortons and Slaneys, must even, without a direct visitation of Providence, lead to temporal ruin.' " We have always understood that the supe riority of the Christian religion over every other consisted in its enjoining nothing which does not tend to promote the temporal happiness of man. We are taught to consider the Deity as delight ing in the happiness of his creatures ; and that wiiiL-h adds to. their happiness in this world can never surely be at variance with religion, rightly understood. What is there in the Christian re ligion that i s oppose d to any d octr i ne taug h t b y Mr. Malthus ? The Christian religion does not, surely, say that a man should act without prudence—that he should neglect those rules, by the observance of which alone he can hope to escape misery here. The ascetic notions which monks and visionaries entertained, from a mis apprehension of religion, have been long re nounced by the Christian world. The means by which it has been proposed to promote the temporal happiness of man may not alwa) s have been judicious ; but surely no one will seriously contend that any Government ought to have any other object than the promotion of the temporal happiness of its subjects. The length of our extracts prevents our entering further at present into the consideration of this subject.—Morning Chronicle. Rather more credit is claimed in certain quar ters for the withdrawing of the Government Candidate for Clare (if the fact be so), than the real merits of the case can fairly pretend to. An experienced Feeler was sent over, whose primary object unquestionably was to procure the return of Mr. Fitzgerald ; if that should be found utterly impracticable, as from the first we assert ed it would, the same confidential partisan had in his pocket a discretionary order to beat a re treat. Upon entering the enemy's country va rious mangeuvres were practised to effect the primary object ; but they having proved ineffec tual, nothing remained to be done but to adopt the rather mortifying alternative—and this is the conduct that calls forth such unqualified It would be a curious fact in the history of the Drama if it could be ascertained what is the total amount of the sums which the law has drawn from theatrical property within these last twenty years. At a rough guess we should be inclined to say that the average amount which law and litigation have drawn from all the Lon don theatres during that period, would have been sufficient to have defrayed the ordinary ex pences, such as actors, scenery, &c.—of a mode rate-sized one. People talk of being ruined by enormous salaries to stars and great actors. Though this may, and doubtless, in some few instances, has been overdone, yet it does not seem very unreasonable that those who attract the most money to the treasury should have the larger share of their own earnings. But if we were asked what it is has really rendered theatri cal property of late years so unproductive, we should say that it was owing to the enormous size of most of our modern theatres, and to the foolish state of litigation into which disappoint ment, wising from that course, has involved so many of them. That theatrical concerns are not fit subjects for Courts of Law and Equity, we have the highest living authority in the latter department for saying. Lord Eldon, unques tionably the greatest of modern Judges, when ever the concerns of a theatre came before him, uniformly recommended —nay, urged the parties to legislate and arbitrate for themselves ; advice which nothing but the most willful blindness or obstinacy could reject. In the case of Covent garden Theatre, the whole litigation is on the subject of an interest which is itself not worth the purchase of one year's costs ; yet, on this account, the time of the Court is to be taken up, deserving persons reduced to beggary, and the public curtailed in—if not ultimately, perhaps, deprived of—the source of rational amusement, which this temple of the legitimate drama has hitherto offered them. The whole subject affords a striking instance how little of common sense finds its way into the ordinary transactions of life ; and how heedlessly men rush upon their own ruin and that of others, when a little prudence, forbearance, and foresight, might avert the calamity.—Morning Herald. A Morning Paper of yesterday, attempts by an elaborate argument, to show that the present state of Ireland is not such as ought to disap point the expectations of those who advocated the Bill for the Relief of the Roman Catholics, upon the ground of its assumed tendency to pro mote and secure the tranquillity of that country, or to discredit the measure which they repre sented as the infallible source of peace and pros perity. We will extract from the article to which we allude a short passage, in which the whole spirit and substance of the argument is condensed :—" But," says our modest Contem porary, who accuses other men of impudence, " But though heads may be broken, or peasants shot, and the unfortunate policemen in revenge be murdered, the people of Ireland are what they were two years ago, minus their hatred of the Government." This flippancy of remark so inapplicable to the subject, and betraying as it does so complete a destitution of taste, feeling, and judgment, on the part of those who employ it, is but little calculated to make the King of England, or his loyal subjects, satisfied with the present condition of Ireland.— The Constitution of 1688 was not "broken in upon" in order that heads might continue to be broken, that peasants might be shot as usual, that unfortunate policemen might in revenge be murdered as before, that the people of Ireland might remain what they were two years ago. The object of the Bill, or rather we would say the apology of a measure which militated against the feelings of the people of England, was to allay the agitation of Ireland—to render Ireland a country in which men might reside who we re n o t absolutely tied to it—to present Ireland as an open, and fair, and attractive field for the em ployment of English capital—the object or the apology was that heads might not be broken, peasants not shot, policemen not murdered, the people of Ireland not the same that they were two years ago ; and the very enumeration there fore of our Contemporary is a proof that the measure which " broke in upon the Constitu tion of 1688" has produced consequences per fectly the reverse of those which were its osten sible objects and its only apology. But the sub terfuge to which our Contemporary resorts for shelter against his own terrible admissions is of a nature which should at least have admo nished him not to accuse any body of im pudence. The people of Ireland are the same after Roman Catholic Emancipation as before, " minus," he says, " their hatred of Govern ment." We do not understand the term " hatred of Government," if it implies any thing more than contempt and systematic disobedience to the law ; and in this contempt and disobedience the leaders of the Roman Catholics of Ireland are, we confidently assert, more conspicuous and determined at the present moment than at any former period. Was it the intention of the law to put down the Roman Catholic Association ? Is a permanent Association, meeting at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, an d proclaiming theirinten tion to interfere in all future elections in Ireland, any thing else but th e R o m a n Catholic Associa tion in a new form ? When until now was that hatred of Government s which consists in con- tempt and defiance of the law, so strikingly dis played ? When were the Agitators so bold ? When bad they the Catholic multitudes so completely under their controul ? When were the interests of the whole empire, the peace of Ireland, the respect due to the laws, the feelings, and wishes of the King of England and h is Ministers and his people, so resolutely or audaciously set at defiance ? The hatred of the British Go vernment now displayed by the agitators and demagogues of Ireland is more inveterate than ever, and exhibits a feature of malignity and danger which never until the present moment could have been perceived in it. The demonstra tion of that which we all along believed and proclaimed, is now perfect. Indulgence and concession, which we always said would aggra vate their hatred to the Government of England, have been tried to the utmost, and the dema gogues and agitators manifest a hatred of the English Government more intense and enter prising than before. The effect of the measures for the pacification of Ireland is to be found in the actual state of that country. To adjudicate to different parties their various proportions of blame is nothing to the purpose, unless it be • intended and understood as an indirect confession that the evils have in fact been aggravated which those measures were intended to extinguish, and that their authors and advo cates had not duly examined the element upo❑ which they presumed to operate. What is it to the King of England or to his loyal and affec tionate Protestant subjects to be told that the Orangemen of Ireland must share with the Roman Catholic demagogues and agitators the blame of the terrible disorders and convulsion which now prevail in that country ? They were told that by measures which broke in upon the Constitution of Great Britain, Ireland might be pacified ; and what have they found to be the effect of these boasted measures ? Can the facts be denied that Ireland is at this moment more disordered and convulsed than before ; or that now, for the first time within many years, the peaceable inhabitants of many parts of that country are earnestly invoking the blessings of martial law as a mild substitute for the lawless and intolerable violence to which they feel them selves exposed ?—illorning Post. It would appear from the following article, which we copy from an original and well- conducted northern paper, the Elgin Courier, that the gang of common informers have made their appearance within what may be denomi ❑ated its peculiar province. The informer made a narrow escape from some gentlemen who enter tained a due sense of his merits, and who, not withstanding their failure in convincing him of it in the practical mode usually adopted in that quarter towards any member of the fraternity, will, we doubt not, ere long, cool his courage in laying informations. The following is the article to which we refer : " We understand that informations were laid on Friday last against from fourteen to sixteen of our merchants, for selling patent medicines, stamped articles, &c. without the licence, by which all of them are subject to a penalty of twenty, some of them thirty, and others of them to one of fifty pounds. We have heard it stated, and have no doubt of the truth of the report, that an individual of the name of George M'Kain, was in every in. stance the informer. It is said that he called at the shops of those against whom he had laid informa tions, and bought Anderson's Pills, Aromatic Vine gar, Cephalic Snuff, Stamped Silver Plate, &c. &c. He is said to have tried to have laid informations against the great majority of our merchants ; but was only successful with the number above mentioned. The affair has excited much interest and conversa- ion in the place; and on Monday evening last, be- tweet) nine and ten o'clock, several hundreds of young men and others attended at his house, for the purpose, it is said, of furnishing him with an ex perimental proof of the opinion they entertain of his conduct. The Sheriff, however, opportunely interfered, and having admonished the persons so congregated together of the consequences of laying violent hands on McKain, they soon after quietly dispersed."—Morning . Advertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS COURT, JULY 7. CHAMPION AND MAW. This was a bill tiled by the plaintiff for an account of trinkets and jewels belonging to a testatrix at the time of her decease, and not specifically devised; also praying that all articles of jewellery bequeathed to Ann Champion by the testatrix, and not already made over to her, be delivered up by the defendant, who is the executor of the will. The MASTER of the ROLLS said, it appeared that the testatrix, after excepting some particular articles, bequeathed to the plaintiff all her other trinkets and jewels. That was a very indefinite expression; and if the plaintiff pressed for an inquiry as to what trin kets the testatrix died possessed of which were not specifically devised, the Court would grant the ap plication at the plaintiff's risk. ELSWORTIIY AND BIRD. This was a bill for the specific performance of an agreement. _ . . . _ - The case is simply this :—Mr. and Mrs. Bird are husband and wife. The plaintiff is Mrs. Bird's fa ther. Very unhappy disputes having arisen between Mr. and Mrs. Bird, a charge of cruelty was insti tuted by the latter against her husband, whom she accused of assaulting her, and confining her in a dark room. Mr. Bird was indicted for an assault on his wife at the Somersetshire Quarter Sessions, and found guilty. The Court recommended that an ar rangement should be made by the parties, with a view to prevent the occurrence of future disagree ments. In consequence of this recommendation an agreement was entered into on the part of Mr. and Mrs. Bird, and signed by their legal advisers. By this arrangement a separation was agreed on, Mr. Bird consenting to pay 50!. a-year for his wife's sup port to her father and brother as trustees; and it being also provided that all further litigation con nected with the transactions in question, or the al leged conduct of Mrs. Bird, should be discontinued. Mr. BICKERSTETH, for the plaintiff, who filed this bill in his character of trustee to enforce the contract for the maintenance of Mrs. Bird, said it was in evi dence that Mr. Bird had acquiesced in the arrange ment,' in consequence of which only a nominal punishment was inflicted on him by the Court upon his conviction. It would be sufficient to prove that the agreement (which had been fulfilled by the de fendant) was entered into by his consent and au thority. _ . Evi►lence was read on the part of the plaintiff, proving that defendant acquiesced in the arrange ment. The MASTER of the ROLLS said, from the evi dence adduced on the part of the plaintiff, it was clear that Mr. Bird finally acquiesced in the settle ment by which an allowance was provided for his wife's maintenance. There must, therefore, be a decree in favour of the plaintiff for the specific per formance of the agreement, and that decree must be with costs. The Master would settle what was due and prepare a proper deed for the payment of the al lowance as made by the agreement. DRURY AND ATKINS. This was a bill filed by the executors of the late Admiral Drury against Alderman Atkins, calling upon him to produce the accounts of certain transac tions which took place between the Admiral and himself in his capacity of a navy agent fr om 1787 , down to 1814 , the date of his employer's death, and aubsequeutly till a still later period, at which the affairs of the deceased were managed by the de fendant for the executors. His HONOUR, after stating that he should dismiss the bill ►with costs, so far as it sought to open the accounts generally, observed, he ►was afraid that he could not refuse an inquiry (if the plaintiffs ►would take it with costs) whether, according to the usage and custom of agents or merchants, Mr. Alderman Atkins was entitled to retain a sum of 40U1., re ceived by him in 1814, without bringing it to ac count till the time of the average of the insurance being settled or compromised, putting it to the Mas ter to state special circumstances. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JULY 7. DEL PONT V. DE TASTET. Mr. HORNE (with whom was Mr. Pemberton) appeared for the plaintiff. The circumstances of the case were these :—The plaintiff, who was a merchant at Madrid, sent produce to Lima through the agency of Braman() and Co., of Hamburgh. This took place in 1808, when England was at war with Spain, and when, consequently, all trade be tween Spain and her colonies was either cut off or rendered very insecure. This country, however, was in the habit of granting licences to the vessels of neutral states to carry on the trade ; and thus it happened that the plaintiff (Del Pont) sent his produce to Lima, through the agency of an Ham burgh house. The produce was sold for 1,3164 doubloons (being equal to 4,4461. 13s. 11d. ster ling), and the doubloons were consigned by Bran.: tano and Co. to their agent De Tastet, in London, whom they directed to hold them for the plaintiff. A correspondence took place between the plaintiff and defendant, and the result was that the doubloons were sold for the above-mentioned sum, which the defendant agreed to hold for the plaintiff, allowing him in the mean time 44 per cent. upon it. Bren tano and CO. subsequently found that Del Pont owed money to a certain Spanish nobleman who was indebted to them, and, upon making this dis covery, they wrote to De Tastet, desiring him not to give up the money realized by the sale of the doubloons to Del Pont, but to hold it for them in discharge of the debt due from Del Pont to their debtor. The defendant had thought proper to obey their instructions, and therefore, after every other means had failed, the plaintiff had been com pelled, in 1822, to file this bill against the defend ant, in order to compel the restitution of that property which the latter thus unjustly withheld from the former. . The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, the money must be paid over to the plaintiff, with five per cent. interest upon it from the period at which it came into the hands of the defendant, to the time at which it had been lodged in Court under an order made by Lord Eldon at a former hearing of the cause. All the costs must fall upon the defendant. HUME V. SHEPHARD. This was a case in which a testator in his will had used the following words :—" After paying all my lawful debts and funeral expences, I bequeath to my son, James Sorrel, the sum of 400/.," &e. This son was an illegimate child, and at a former period the testator had entered into a bond to give him 400/. on his (the testator's) decease, or on his son's coining of age. It was now sought to recover upon the bond as a debt, in addition to the leaaey of 4001. in the will. A report was made to the Mas ter, who had reported that the bond was a debt, and the case was now heard on exceptions to the Master's report. The VICE-CHANCELLOR agreed with the Master, and confirmed the report.—Costs to be paid out o the testator's estate. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JULY 7. PEYTON V. THE GOVERNORS OF ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. Lord TENTERDEN, at the sitting of the Court, de livered the opinion of the Court in this case, which was argued the week before last upon a rule nisi to set aside the nonsuit. It was a special action on the case by the reversioner of the house, No. 109, Cheapside, against the defendants, as owners of the adjoining house, for an injury sustained by the plaintiff, in consequence of the defendants pulling down their house without shoring up or duly se curing the plaintiff's house. The Court were of opinion that the nonsuit was right, and therefore discharged the rule. After the delivery of this and another judgment by Lord TENTERDEN, Sir J. SCARLETT took the usual oaths on his appointment to the office of At torney- General. THE KING V. THE JUSTICES OF NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Mr. DENMAN obtained a rule nisi to change the venue in this case (in which an issue was directed a few days ago to try whether or not Newstead, for merly the residence of Lord Byron, was a township or ville), from Nottinghamshire to Derby or Leices ter, on the ground that great prejudice was likely to exist in the former county, and that many of the gentlemen who were liable to serve as special jurors had an interest in the question. LEE AND ANOTIIER V. THE AYR AND CALDER NAVI. GATION COMPANY. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for a rule nisi to set aside the award in this case. It appeared that the defendants, being desirous of extending the line of their canal, found it necessary to carry it through certain premises belonging to the plaintiffs, Messrs . . Lee and Watson. A barrister and two en gineers were appointed arbitrators, to determine as to the amount of compensation to be paid to the plaintiffs. By the award, the arbitrators had found that the plaintiffs were entitled to 13,0001. for damages, in which sum was included 2,6001., the amount of the plaintiffs' expenses in opposing the Company in Parliament. The Learned Counsel submitted, that this was an item riot within the scope of the award. The arbitrators had also awarded a seam of between 6,000/. and 7,0001. for costs, an amount which appeared to be enormous. The Master had expressed it as his opinion, that 1,200/. at least would be taken off on taxation. The COURT granted a rule to show cause why the award should not be set aside or the sums re &iced. DUNN V. MURRAY AND OTHERS. This case came before the Court ona question raised by the award of a gentleman at the bar, to whom the cause had, by an order at nisi prius, been referred. It appeared that the plaintiff had been em ployed as a reporter by the defendants, proprietors of a newspaper, and having been dismissed from their service in August, 1827, he brought an action for the atnount of his salary to the end of the year. The cause was referred to a barrister, who awarded a sum Of 631. to be paid to the plaintiff for twelve weeks' salary, at five guineas per week, from the 4th of August, 1827, when the dismissal took place, to the 27th October following, when the action was brought. The 631. having been paid, the plaintiff afterwards brought the present action to recover the salary w hich he claimed from the 27th of October to the end of the year. On the cause coming on for trial, the parties agreed to a reference to a barrister, who had now made his award, finding that the plaintiff had cause of action, unless the Court should be of opinion that the former action was to be considered as a bar to the second ; and awarding a sum of 52/. to be paid to the plaintiff for his salary from the 27th of October, 1527, to the end of the year. Mr. F. POLLOCK (with whom was Mr. Richards), for the defendants, submitted that the present action l i could not be maintained. The question turned upon the form of the declaration in the first action, and the award made by the arbitrator in that action. The declaration alleged that the plaintiff had been em ployed by the defendants to report for them the t proceedings o f the Court of King's Bench, and also report in t he House of C ommons for the space of One year, front February, 1827, at an annual salary, at the rate of five guineas per w ee k ; an d t h at the plaintiff continued ttotottl until the the 4 d tuttiyoff August,orlieh he 1 1 2 i a 7 d , b een so employed when h e was dismissed with out any just cause. Th e arbitrator by his award found that the plaintiff had good cause of action, and had sustained damage to the amount of 631., which sum he directed to be _ paid to him, " as the amount of compensation accruing up to the 27th of October, 1827." Under these circumstances, the question slow was, whether the plaintiff was not precluded from recovering any thing in this action. The arbitrator, in assessing the amount of damages in the first action, was not necessarily bound to give the whole year's salary. It was competent to him to take all the circumstances into consideration, and to award such a sum as he should consider would be sufficient to compensate the plaintiff for being dismissed from Isis situation before the end of the year. There being a special count in the declaration, the arbitrator might, if he had thought proper, have given, by way of damatre, a sum beyond that which had accrued up to the 27th of October. Mr. CAMPBELL, for the plaintiff, observed, that there had been no plea of judgment recovered in this case, and it was, therefore, open to the arbitra tor to inquire whether the plaintiff had been satisfied by the damages awarded in the former action. The plaintiff had declared on a contract by which he was employed for a year, and having been dismissed be fore that period, he was entitled to the whole year's alary, just the same as he would have been had he continued in the employ of the defendants till the end of the year. The arbitrator had, however, merely assessed the amount of compensation up to the 27th of October, when the first action was brought. That fact appeared by the terms of the award, and salary having become due weekly after that time until the end of the year, the plaintiff was entitled to recover it in this action. The COURT took time to consider of the case. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JuLT 7. IN RE JEFFEREYS. Mr. Sergeant MEREIVETHER showed cause against a rule obta►ned by Mr. Sergeant Wilde calling on the Vestry-clerk of the parish of St. Andrew, Hol born, to show cause why a writ of privilege should not issue on behalf of Mr. Jeffereys, to exempt that gentleman from serving the office of overseer of the poor of the above parish.—Judgment deferred. THE MALT TRADE. Yesterday the conference appointed by his Ma jesty's Government to be held between Commis sioners on the part of the Board of Trade and a Deputation from the General Body of Maltsters of the kingdom, took place in the Board-room of the Excise-office, in Broad-street. The conference began about eleven o'clock, and lasted until about two o'clock in the afternoon. Various details were laid before the Commis sioners, sheaving the injurious tendency of the law for regulating the manufacture of Malt. The details were attentively listened to by the parties deputed by Government, and a Report will be drawn up, embodying the evidence given by th e Deputation from the Malt Trade. This document is to be forwarded to the Treasury, to have the opinion of his Majesty's Government on the measures of relief suggested by the trade. From what passed at the conference, there is every reason to suppose that Ministers are extremely anxious to do all in their power to get rid of the ob jectionable clauses of the new Act, and of which the maltsters have so loudly complained. The answer of Government on the subject is ex pected in a week or ten days. The Deputation withdrew with feelings of much gratification at the great attention paid them. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) Sun.art. -The request for Moscova.des revived con siderably last week, the sales were estimated at 2,700 hhds. and trs. ; the prices were a shade lower, particularly in the qualities suitable for refining, which have for a length of time been firm, and have rated high in proportion to the other descriptions. The stock of Muscovades is 8,271 hhds. and trs. more than last year, the deliveries are 2,922 Iyls. and trs., being '719 hhds. and trs. less than in the corresponding week of last year. At the close of the Market this day the estimated sales (including the Barbadoes) were 600 hhds. and trs. In Refined Goods there is little varia t;on ; the scarcity of low goods continues, but the demand is languid : the late prices are maintained. Fine goods are heavy, and some p•irecis are offering on lower terms. Molasses are quoted at a small reduction. There was not the slightest alteration in the Refined Market this afternoon. FOREIGN SUGARS.-There was a general wish to pur chase strong Havannah Sugars last week, but as the offers were made at rather lower prices, the holders deter mined on refusing the biddings ; from 600 to 700 boxes yellow Havannah of good colour sold at 31s. a 325. ; the Bahias of last year's import about 100 chests sold, brown to yellow, 225. ; white Havannah and Brazil continue much inquired after, but there are no sales of any extent. EAST INDIA Stmans.-The Mauritius Sugar last week went off with more briskness, and generally at higher prices. Brown, low, and middling, 455. a 475. 6J. ; fine 48s. 6d. a 51s. ; Yellow, low to good, 495. a 51s. ; fine 61s. 6d. ; gray 465. a 565. WEST INDIA MOLASSES.-In West India Molasses there is no alteration. COFFEE.-The arrivals of Coffee last.week were very ex tensive; besides the West India supplies, we had 3,000 bags Brazil and 7,500 bags East India, but no parcels were forced on the Market, though the request for parcels offer ing a shade under the Market currency was considerable ; the Jamaica went off heavily, principally to the Shippers, fine 765. a 77,4 641., the ord. sold on rather lower terms ; fine Dutch sold at high prices, 765. a 795., the lower qua lities were neglected, Dominica sold at full prices for ex port; good ord. Havannah sold 355. a 355. 6d. ; good to fine ordinary, Brazil 85s. a 365. 6d. There were three public sales of Coffee this day, 382 casks ; the whole were Jamaica, with the exception of two lots Dominica, a large proportion good ord. sold 40s. a 425., fine ord. 435. a 455, fine fine ord. and ord. mid. 475. a 525. The demand for Coffee increases considerably; the prices are very firm. "CorroN.--Cottons are steady, but the demand for ex port is in some measure suspended on account of the ap proaching India House Sale; it is expected to be increased to 10,000 bags. The sales are, 2,170 Surats at 3hd. a 300 Spanish at bid. ; and 20 Bengal at 4hd. Hors.-The accounts from the Hop Plantations conti nue most unfavourable, the wedk plants are giving way under the load of vermin, and the strong give symptoms of the effect of the poison. The duty has again fallen to 45,0001. a 50,000/., and the prices in the market are again 3s. to ss. per cwt. higher ; the sales are, in Kent pockets, 105 s a 1155., bags 90s. a 105.1. ; Sussex pockets 105 s. a 112 s. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The Rum market is very dull, and the prices have again given way Id. to to 2d. per gallon ; s rme fine strong, about 200 puncheons, Jamaica, of a favourite mark, but old import, sold at 3s. 6d. ; some Leewards, about proofs, sold Is. 10d , and several parcels free on board at 2s. The public sale of Wednesday last, 150 puncheons Leewards, only abbut 10 puncheons sold ; 46 and 47 over, I.rown colour, fair flavour, middling bright sold 3s. 2d. ; the pale and cloudy were all taken in at Ss. Id. and 35.:2d. In Brandy several ' sales for export are reported at former prices. Geneva continues neglected. The Government contract declared for 100,000 gs. Ruin, on the 14th instant, had no effect whatever on the market prices. lime, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—The Tallow market has been heavy, but without any marked alteration in price. In Hemp or Flax there is little variation. Letters from Petersburgh are dated 20th ult. Exchange 10d. 21-32. Tallow 97 to 98. FRUIT.--.Tile prices are unvaried, the sales reported are very limited. SALTPETRE.—There are mare inquiries for Saltpetre, the prices are a shade higher and more firm. IRISH PROVISIONS.—The prices of India Pork are a shade higher, in the other descriptions and in Beef there is no alteration. Butters are offered on lower terms, on account of the fine rains, without bringing forward the purchasers. In Bacon there is no change worth report. ins. Arrivals last week 2,450 firks. Irish, 7,199 casks Foreign Butter. Bacon 1,611 bales. PIMINTO.—By public sale this day, 550 bags Pimento, the best 6Z -d. a 7i-d. ; the prices are id. a id. lower. INnrco.—As the sale at the India House approaches, the interest in the Market for Indigo increases ; a large parcel belonging to the speculators has again been disposed of, but neither the prices nor exact quantity have tran spired ; it is reported both at 340 and 480 chests at Is. 2d., and also at Is. Gd. per lb. discount on the Octo ber sale. Tobacco.—The purchases of Tobacco are confined to small parcels to the trade, and about 50 hhds. good rich black Virginia for export at 41d. TzA,..-The East India Company will give out the de &oration for September sale to-morrow, pending which there is very little moving in the Market. RICE.-Rice is heavy and rather lower. _ _ MINING INTELLIGENCE.-Sales at Redruth last week. Quantity of Copper Ore sold 3,288 tons; average produce ' B?, f . Quantity of fine Copper 277 tons 17 cwt. Amount of sale 20,8301. ISs. 6d. ; average standard 106/. 4s. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 1 Beans. '----. Per Quarter. s. to s. a. to s. a. to s, a. to a. Boston — 61 16 39 Gainsborough .... — 61 2S 38 -- Grantham ...—.... 64 60 32 35 27 31.; 34 40 Grimsby . CO 68 22 28 IS 25 30 40 Horncastle 6O 69 24 23 20 24 38 40 Lincoln ., ,—...—. 6) 65 24 26 40 Spilsby 6O 64 .26 23 18 26 36 40 Stamford.-- -,. 57 11 21 24 39 43 York...—. 7O 8.) 20 36 20 29 38 44 NORWICH. July 4. Wheat (per qr.) Ws. als. 10s. Beans (per qr.)...... ., Barley °its 2us. 265. 235. Flour, fine (per sack; • 35 , . 38s. • 358.:;88. c) 3ls. 535. CANTERBURY, July 4. Our market was thinly attended, and very few good Wheats offered; the prices asked were nearly the same as last week, but towards the close they gave way for White, but Red WhsatS maintain their price. Little doing in Spring Corn. Beans nearly unsaleable at any price, the crops looking so favourable. Wheat, whits 699. to ;Os. red )34. to Ms. Barley, Malting 325. to 365. Oats Beans 325. to 34.3. Pease 32s. to 395. EXETER 51A RKETS.—JuIy 3. Beef (score) los. 6d. lli. Pd. Wheat (bus he1)...05. Ztutton (114 ) 0 4—o 51 Batley 4 Ve :1 and i limb ....0 4i-0 6 Oats PorY 0 s—o 7 Beans ..- ..6 Turkeys (each) 0 o—o 0 Butter (1k) 0 Ducks (cuuple) —.3 o—4 6 Klgs (16) 0 Pow:s `, o—3 6 Potatoes (peek) ...1 9d. 10s. 6d. 6 —.5 0 3—3 8 0-6 6 8 —.O 10 0 —1 0 2-0 0 Cei ESTEIL—Wheat, per 751 b. I IL lid. to I Is. 9d. , Bat ley, 38 qrts. 55. Gd. to ss. 9d. ; Oats, 491 b. 3s. 3sl. to 4s. Od. NANTIVICIL—Wheat, per 751 b. !Is: Od. to Its. 6d. ; B a rl e y, 38 qrts. ss. 9d. to Gs. Od. ; Oats. SCIb. 4s. Od. to 4s. 3d. GLASGOW MARKETS. (From the Glasgow Herald of Monday.) The demand for RAW SUGARS has been very steady all the week ; the sales amount to 850 hhds. and trs., and prices are without alteration. - No sales made in COFFEE, GINGER, or PIMENTO. RUM remlins very flat; nominal price of Jamaicas, 16 0.P., 3s. 4d., and Leewards, Is. 9d. a 2s. for Proofs. The demand for COTTON has been limited; only 676 pack ages have been sold, and there is no alteration on last week's prices. The particulars are 13 Sea Island at 13 .1.; 22 Stained do. at 71d. a Bd. ; five Bowed do. at 41 Bowed Georgia at 6id. a qd. ; 153 New Orleans at si-d. a 6d. ; 232 Egyptian at 7d. a Sp. ;58 Porto Rico at Bid., 152 Surat, at Sill. a 4d. In DrEwoons there has beet' nothing done, and prices are without alteration. ASSIES are in very limited demand ; the trifling sales were at S3s. 6d. for partially stained, and 345. for sound Pots, and Pearls 335. 6d. No sales made in TOBACCO. For TA [.LOW there has been a better demand-60 casks were sold at 39., and small parcels in retail at 40s. a 40s. 6d. FISH Ott.s ate tlull—Wha!e 231 and Ceti 221. 10s. a 231. per tun, old measure. The arrivals of GRAIN have been limited this week, with the exception of Foreign Wheat from the east coast, of which there has been a considerable quantity. The trans actions in Wheat have been principally confined to new Foreign Red, of which rather extensive sales have been effected. In other descriptions there has been little done, and prices of all qualities are is. per boll lower. The de mand for Oats, Maley, Beans and Pease has been very limited ; the inconsiderable sales effected were at a reduc tion of Gd. a Is. per boll. -- - - DUB LI N MARKET NOTE.--FRIDAV, July 3. From . T o M. P. 223 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 30 0 43 0 31 10!‘ 0 Pere l6 stone 0 0 0 8 itar ley 1(1 stone 10 0 0 0 1,808 0at5..,..,,...,,,,„,,,,...... I I stone 9 0 15 0 12 2 7,993 Cwt. Flour—. 9 stone 6 6 0 26 0 993 0atmea1..,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, 11 stone 11 0 18 0 13 934 Sold to IZakers only. 5,806 Cwt. F10ur...,,,,,, . 17 0 28 0 21 7% Average price of Wheat and Flour 555. Od. per sack. Receipts of Flour, 10,505 1 Firsts, —..... from 225. Od. t o 28 s . Od. Sales of Do. 7 Seconds, .M.. ,, from 15‘. Od. to 21s. Od. '9"' "3 Thirds,-- from .os. Od. to 14s. Od. PRICE OF BREAD. Quartern Loaf, 41b. soz. 10,1. I lialf-quartern, 21tr. sd. BRITISH EXPORTS. OF THE UNDERMENTIONISD A.lll - EXPORTED FROM LIVERPOOL, ISIVE. STATEMENT OP THE QUANTITIES CLES OF BRITISH MANUFACTV, FROM JUNI: 26 TO JULY 3 INCLU Pieces. Yards. Cotton 163,973 3,061,029 Linen 623 513,631 Blanketing 4OO 14,191 Carpeting --- 12,736 Kerseymeres - Sail Cloth t!.4" Dos. Cotton Hose 3,209 Worsted Hose Cotton Handkerchiefs 4,980 Cotton Braces 250 Hate ......... .......... Hardware ..£16.406 Earthenware £5,676 Salt White Bushels 14.9,272 , alt Rock 31,280 Tons. Cwt. Chal. Coal Iron FlannCl Ends. Woollen Stuffs-1,792 177 Worsted StutTh 3,296 220, Calicoes ---- Baize 790 Inf. Woollens-4,410 1,891 Cotton Thread 4,7251 b. Cotten Yarn —69,213 £— CATTLE. AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE IMPORTED INTO LIVERPOOL FROM JUNE 29 TO JULY 4 , BOTH [LAYS INCLUDED. Cows. I Calves. Sheep. I Pigs. IHorses,l Mules. 688 I 437 I 2767 44:11 I 24 1 4 COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. DI POI:TEA. Same pe- This riod last year. year. • Bags. &c. 366,877 39,517 i 26,4C9 (829 EX PORTED. IPreviouj- ly this year. Liverpool 41:4,951 London 480513 Glasgow Total expo! ted m Same period 1828.., Bags, 66 1,290 52,962. 35,213. Bags, &c. 20159 90,721 237 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. MoNDAY, Jur.r 6.--High water 17 minutes past two o'clock. --Wind N.W.—Arrived the Newcastle, Harwood, from Bahia ; Boston, Finlay, from Charleston ; Pelorus, Goodwin, from Sicily ; Jane Haddow, from Charleston ; Gulnare, Griffiths, from ditto; Ran ger, Atkinson, from Jamaica ; Komanoff, -----, from Miramichi ; Lady Helen Mar, Arkle, from ditto; . Han nab, Mackie, from Jamaica; Sir Won. Starner, Brough, from Dublin. CLEARED OUTWARDS.-The Norval, Boyd, for La Guayra ; Cohnbia, Kirkwood, for Madeira ; and Dispatch, Crabb, for Naples. Passed Holyhead, inward bound, the Richard Walker, from Jamaica ; St. George, from Havre ; and the Barton, from 13a rbadoeq. BIRTHS. On the Ist inst. at Hatford, Berke, the lady of the Rev. S. Paynter, of a daughter. On the 2d inst. at Roebuck, county Dublin, the lady of J. T. Boileau, Esq. of a son. O❑ the sth inst. at Barnes, Surrey, the lady of C. H. Blake, of a daughter. On the 6th inst. at Hoboro-Snod.land, Kent, the la•ly of T. Poynder, jnn. Esq. of a daughter. On the 21st ult. at Florence, the lady of Col. Should ham, of a son. MARRIED. On the 7th inst. at. All Souls', Mary-la-bonne, Mr. C. Ashman, of Grelit Portland street, to Miss E. Randall, of Wandsworth ; when the parties, being members of the church c ommon l y k nown as "Free-thinking Christiana," presented the usual protest against the celebration of mar riage by a religious instead of a civil form. On the 6th inst. at Westminster, Mr. H. Boys, of Marsham.street, to Caroline, fourth daughter of the late Mr. J. Corner, of Tufton.street. • On the 6th inst at Kingston, near Portsmouth, Cape. E. Rich, R.N., son of the late Sir C. Rich, Bart. of Shirley House, Hants, to Sophia, youngest daughter of Capt. G. Angelo, of Hill, Southampton. On the 4th inst. at Clifton, Capt. W. D. Dalzelle, late of the Madras army, second son of A. Dalzelle, Esq. of Barbadoes, deceased, to Jane, eldest daughter of J. Beef's Esq. of Demerara. DIED. At Genoa, on the 27th ult. J_ Smithson, Esq. after a few days' illness. On the 6th inst. Catherine, youngest daughter of tha Rev. Dr. Povah, Burton-eretcebt, aged 16. On the 4th inst. Elizabeth, the beloved wife of George Lowther, of Old Brompton. On the 7th inst. in Orchard-street, Portman-square, Anne, relict of Thomas Skelton, Esq. of Bradford! Yorkshire. On the 7th inst. at Pentonrille, in his Bth year, after a few days' illness, Thomas Willia:n, ton of Mr. Thos. Pearson, of Bishopsgate. PRINTED and PususnEn by IVIURDO YOUNG, at tbd Orricx, 112, STAAND I LOIMON. 0 , hill tee , the tde t whi dir e dee, Car 8u th Bye chi a tee, 1 4 1 Arm '2