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

L to` AV . b etel livery in a year : yet the gaol was in such a state that if a prisoner were conned iii it, he must be put in irons for security. The Courts of Error appointed to review the decisions of a lawyer Judge (in those islands in which the Chief Justice is a barrister) are composed of a mi litary or naval Governor and three or five planters, and the latter, as is shows in the reports, when delay will serve a friend, can never make a court. That this is a faithful picture of the judicial sys tem of nearly all our Vest India colonies, (to say nothing of the enormous fees charged on legal proceedings in the public offices, as at Demerara, for instance), reference to the Parliamentary Reports will sufficiently establish. Jamaica, however, we must say, deserves to be exempted from this reproach, The Report of the Commis sioners on that island shows few instances of those abuses in the judicial system which so abundantly prevail in her sister colonies, and the measures of reform suggested are therefore few. The principal we believe to be, the appointment of a professional Chancellor from England, and of two barristers to act as Puisne Judges in the Supreme Court, in the room of the present As sistant Judges. We do hope that the evils enumerated will be corrected,—that the nuisance, as the Court of Chancery in the island of Mont serrat was voted, will be abated,—that the remedy will be applied, and will be delayed no longer. Though, from the nature of some of the dif ficulties with which they have to contend, (as where the Courts are established by confirmed acts of Assembly, &c.,) the Commissioners cannot always adopt the compendious wisdom of that Attorney-General, (we believe of Domi nica), who, when asked how to improve a parti cular Court ? replied, " Abolish it altogether !' yet we think that much good might result from carrying into effect many of the recommenda tions of the Commissioners. Such are the sug gestions for the appointment of professional Judges from England, the ascertaining by a de claratory law what acts and what parts of acts of Parliament shall be in force in the colonies, and extending to the plantations the benefit of such part of the English statute law as shall be considered advisable, to the latest possible period. The preparation of these, and of other necessary acts, of new tables of fees, of an improved code of practice, &c. should be set about immediately. A considerable portion of the reports is devoted to slaves and slave courts, and very properly, as forming three-fourths of the population subject to the laws, or to be affected by their administra tion. Slaves who, under any circumstances of slavery, should be subject to the same mode of trial as free persons, are tried differently in dif ferent colonies. Slaves labour under cruel dis advantages. A slave is under a personal disa bility, and cannot sue in any court of law or equity, not even in respect of injuries done to him by other slaves. A slave cannot prosecute in the criminal courts. He cannot enter into a recognizance, and can therefore only be bailed by free persons, when they can be found so far dis posed to assist him, which the master commonly is, and no one else. Slave evidence was not at that time admitted against freemen, white or black, even against wrongdoers. In those courts and cases where slave evidence was admitted, it very often was not upon oath ; and, as opposed to the unsuspected testimony of sworn witnesses, was consequently, to a certain extent, disregard ed. The Commissioners finally report their firm conviction, that the foundation of every im provement, both as regards the whits and black population of these colonies, must be laid in an impriived administration of justice, and in the admission of slave evidence.=afrie's Third Report.—lbid. Mr. Sheil's letter to the Editor of the Dub lin Evening Post, in refutation of the silly charge made against him, for accepting a re tainer from -Lord George Beresford, will be read with very general attention; The offence of which Mr. Sheil is accused amounts to this, that - he • has not been sufficiently actuated by hatred and vengeance against Lord George Beresford, and has not continued to carry on the war of party spirit against his Lordship and his family, after the object °Nile war had been gained.-- after the triumph had been won—after hostility had ceased- to bp wise to any public end, and to have any recommendation but-that of pure ma lice. Mr. Sheil's address, through the Dublin • Evening Post, to his countrymen, contains an animated representation of the degree to which, • and of the purposes for which, the Roman Ca tholic people ofireland had been excited by the popular leaders previously to the passing of emancipation. His reasoning upoit the good policy as well as right feeling of a forgetfulness - of old animosities afterwards, is equally striking and unanswerable. -What, in fact, but utter stupid blockheadism, could iethice any Ca tholic who has been relieved by the late Bill, to falsify the anticipations of hiS Protestant friends, who foretold -that it would be favolir • able to national tranquillity, and to confirm those of his enemies, who insisted that it would - have •no such conciliatory or kindly consequence, by either-Continuing the topics of ancient strife, or opening fresh sources of agitation and. disturb-, - ,ance, from the moment in whiL-11 that which.had so long—deluged the kingdom with factious hatred .was • : closed Thtil such - vicious at tempts will eventually faili—nay, that they have already proved in a great measure abortive,—We' -have -the concurrent authority of our Dublin correspondent, and of numberless well-informed . letters from all:parts of_lreland,4or asseverating. elsiternal . peace gains advocates every hour,— . for it is, a blessing to which no class of society, not even the lowest, can long remain insen sible,—though • drunken vanity, Or blind malig nity, may seek an imagined interest in procrasti -nating its arrival.—lbid.. • • The robbery of Mr. Serjeant D'Oyley's house in Argyll -street, of which we gave an account in our report from ° the Marlborough-street Office yesterday, seems one of the most daring and audacious that has taken place for some time. We do not attach much importance to the cir cumstance of the Serjeant's house being near the Police- office, and still less to its contiguity to the Earl of Aberdeen's, the Foreign Secre tary. Burglars, we apprehend, attach but very little respect to name, rank, or office ; and the contiguity to the Police-office during the night is, of course, of no more value or security than the fact of a man living next door to Westmin ster Hall or the Chief Justice. But the mode in which this robbery has been effected is of conse quence, and must, we should imagine, g' ,- e rise to much astonishment and remark. Here, in the course of the night, in a street which is neither a very public nor a very private one, has an en trance been made by breaking through the front wall in the area, so as to make a space large enough to admit the bodies of several persons 7 --a work which must, of necessity, haves occu pied much time and labour. Through the open ing thus m a d e the :thieves enter, ransack the p:2 inside or out being a whit the wiser. Even sup posing it to have been what is termed a " put up" robbery—of which we do not learn that there is any suspicion—we do not readily per. ceive how the front wall of a house is to be partly pulled down, and the police know nothing- of the matter. We thought that each man was to pass every point on his beat once in every ten minutes ; we thought they were not to cry the hour, that thieves might not know where they were. Yet, with all these precautions—and when the system has been just long enough at work, one would think, to be matured, without having fallen into lassitude, is a burglary committed quite as disgraceful as any, the blame of which was ever fixed upon the most sleepy of the old race of watchmen. We shall be curious to see how this affair is ac counted for. We believe, ourselves, that the new police are, in point of numbers, quite ina dequate for their night department, and that their labours are greater than the animal strength of most of them can bear. Of the system, in point of principle, our opinion is pretty well known. That opinion, though it remains un changed, we have not lately reiterated, willing to see how it would work ; but if thieves can, under its surveillance, break through the front walls of our houses, and carry off the spoil un molested, more persons than ourselves will be apt to imagine that we have only exchanged one imperfect safeguard for another more expensive, and quite as inefficient.—Morning Herald. The conduct of the High Sheriff of the county of Lincoln, in refusing to convene a Public Meeting of the Freeholders, for the pur pose of taking into consideration the Malt and Beer Duties, upon the requisition of a compe tent number of the Gentlemen and Yeomanry of the county, has exposed him to severe ani madversion and rebuke from many of our con temporaries.. While on the one hand we can not agree with those who appear to think it the bounden duty of the Sheriff of a county, upon every occasion when required so to do by a cer tain number of the respectable inhabitants, to convene a public meeting for the discussion of any political subject, we readily admit on the other that very peculiar circumstances only can fully justify his refusal. If he sincerely believe, for instance, the proposed meeting likely to en danger the peace of the county, he would no doubt be warranted in witholding his sanction to such a proceeding ; but we are at a loss to con ceive any other consideration which ought to induce a High Sheriff to adopt a line of con duct which must either operate to obstruct the exercise of the right of petition, or be, as in the present instance it is likely to prove, wholly in effectual. That no public benefit can be ex pected to arise from the discussion in popular assemblies of the merits of particular taxes, or of the existing system of taxation, may or may not be true, and however true, it can afford no justification to the Sheriff who refuses to con vene a Meeting of the. county over which he presides, since the question is one upon which he derives from his office no peculiar right or qualification to pronounce a judgment. His functions with respect to county meetings are merely ministerial ; and respect to the right of petition, not to speak of the courtesy which is always due to a respectable body of requi sitionists, seems to demand that they should be freely and impartially discharged, unless when a reasonable anxiety fur the ; public. pea3e,,Jhe conservation of which is the paramount duty of the. Sheriff, restrains and Controuls him.— Although we cannot commend' the-conduit' of the High Sheriff of Lincoln' we entirely concur in the opiniah . he ,has 'ex-. pressed, that it is inexpedient at Vie preAent ment to urge upon the Goverrimen . t or Legis-:: lature the repeal or mo , taxes. We think the c, fide in the disposition of ters to reduce the pub! lowest point that is conf the dignity, and the obli, that if any abatement found compatible with a dispensible objects, the in that particular mode likely to promote the gel consideration of all the ation, and of the mann they respectively intere, the community. Assuml m itring a given amount lieve is more certain than that popular assem blies convened in different districts of the king- , dom would arrive at very difFerent conclusions as to what particular tax might most advantage ously be repealed or reduced. 13ut it is not equally certain that the particular description, of relief, which might appear the most popular" when the national suffrages had thus been imp perfectly collected, would be precisely that which' a wise and prudent Legislature ought to adopt. The repeal or reduction of any tax whatever is no doubt a public benefit ; but in a complicated system of taxation, like that from which the British revenue is derived, to determine which particular impost may be remitted more bene ficially than any other, requires all the experi ence and sagacity of accomplished Statesmen, and a degree of minute, various, and compre hensive information, which is accessible to few indeed of those who can be expected to take part in the deliberations of ppular eseemblies.—_ Morning Post. In directing the attention of our readers to an article in another part of our paper, entitled " The History of the One Pound Notes," we own that we return to the subject of the cur rency with the same sort of feeling that we should continue a story which we had previously told, and only recollected that we had told when we had got half-way through it—we mean a fear of wearying our readers with an account of facts which must now be well known to them. The subject, however, is of far too great im portance not to justify us in returning to it again, and in endeavouring to make the public as thoroughly conversant with it, as a knowledge of it is indispensably necessary to a right under standing of our real situation. The Leeds Mer cury of Saturday last, though we believe it advo cated at the time, along with many other journals, the necessity of having recourse to a gold standard, does all but admit that the late interference with the currency has been productive of great embarrassent and inconvenience to mercantile men, and pro poses a reduction in the price of certain hill stamps, as a means of alleviating it.— This is all very good and very proper, and we doubt not that the increased transactions of the community world amply reimburse the Govern ment for the reduction of the duty, as well as prove a seasonable relief to the former ; but that relief would not be sufficient. The return to a metallic currency has increased the pressure of taxation at least one 1V Ul4ll .1111 V{. iViJ, 111111, 14 means of meeting it in a still greater ratio. In that year, as is shown by the table in the letter to which we refer, the pound note was only worth 14s. 5d., and could only procure to its holder 301bs. of beef—now it is actually what it pur ports to be, and will purchase 401bs! After reducing all the great departments of the public service to a peace establishment, the taxes for the ordinary service of the state ought therefore in justice to the ptiblic to have been reduced at least one-fourth ; and if twenty millions were then only necessary for the necessary expenditure of the state, the amount ought in April last, when the Small Note Suspension Bill came into operation, to have been reduced to fifteen mil lions,—for the plain reason that fifteen millions now of the present circulating medium, will pay for as much food and labour as twenty millions of the currency of 1813. This is a view of the question which we are most anxious to press upon the attention of our readers, and which, we trust, will be pressed upon that of his Majesty's Ministers, when Parliament meets. The Go vernment, without apparently making an ad dition to taxes on any article, has, in reality, by means of the recal of the small notes, added one-fourth to the amount of all taxes whatso ever : and yet the public wonders why money is scarce, and the taxes more difficult to be paid now than at any former period !—Morn. Adver. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. )dification , of any of _the : ) o u n tryAii . W'safely tn.; of his Xiejisq's "Mmis-! )Ic o -%:;', i , 1,,,,p 0t .. " . ~to• the isist• ,' , -- 7'L - ,safety i igati c f . ~ k: , '. ."Wate, and of - I " ~.,3'.: * should be a due t -- -.- - to these in- e re ', will be afforded wht i t i4 ll seem most ,-• 3ner after a full diffdpirit jeets of tax- )er at "d tee in which 'st die vats classes of ing tliii*Piaci ability of re l of taxes, nothing we be-, GUILDIIALL. Mr. Moore, of the firm of Wilson, Moore, and Robinson, silkmen, in Milk -street, attended before Mr. Alderman ANSLEY yesterday, to answer the complaint of one of their workmen named Fage. Fage had undertaken to weave 30 yards of velvet at 4s. per yard, in 37 days, commencing with the 3d of October last, and in default to forfeit Gd. a yard of his wages. He had not delivered the work at the time stipulated, but still he thought he was not liable to pay the forfeit, inasmuch as the default arose from illness, and not misconduct. He pro duced the certificate of a medical gentleman whom he had applied to, to show that he was incapable of pursuing his labour ; and said, that after some days' trial, the doctor said he could do no more for him, and he next had recourse to the skill of the doctor's wife, who cured every thing by the use of herbs. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY observed, that the master might perhaps have lost his market for the article through the delay in finishing it. Mr. Moore said that was the case. He knew what quantity of work could be done in a given time, and he knew when he should want particular goods. He had a right to contract in the way de scribed, because it was consented to as voluntarily on the part of the workman as of himself. This man was habitually idle, and he took the course of contracting with him as a remedy, giving him more than sufficient time for the work. If he had com pleted it at the given day, the work would have been worth Is. a yard more than now. It was a question of profit and loss with him, and he had in fact given Fage a premium to get the work finished in time for the demand for winter goods. If he had been unable to do it through illness, he must abide by his contract, and consider the loss as a part of his misfortune. His foreman had offered the com plainant 3s. 9d. a yard. Page said that he was willing to take the 3s. 9d.; but because he happened blindly to say it was hard to lose the other 3d., the foreman refused to pay him 3s. 9d. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY considered the man bound by his contract, and should dismiss the com plaint; but he hoped Mr. Moore would still give him the 3s. 9d., as it had been offered to him.— Complainant must, however, throw himself on the consideration and kindness of_ his emplpi,kr,.....-The men were too Ulitticrate and get a summons, and aggravate their masters.—Com- Viiiiir -dismissed. BOW.STREET. . The two pauper children whom the parish officers of - St. Martin were desirous of apprenticing to a chimney-sweeper, were again brought forward yes terday for thut purpose before Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS. Mr. MINsnuLL, before whom they ap. peered in the first instance, had expressed a strong opinion upon the practice of thus disposing of poor parish children, and Mr. Rawlings, clerk and soli citor to the churchwardens and overseers, took the opportunity of that Magistrate's absence to bring the matter before his colleagues. Sir R. BIRNIE inquired if the parish had given notice to the mother of their intention to bind her son to a chimney-sweeper? Mr. Rawlings replied that the mother had been made aware of the circumstance. The poor woman stated in reply, that as soon as she ascertained the intention of the parish, she went to the overseers upon the subject, but they would do nothing for her. She then presented herself before " the board," but there her objection was as little attended to, and in a day or two after her poor child was taken away from the workhouse, and fur nearly six weeks, although she applied almost every day to know what was become of him, she could get no satisfaction until by chance she heard that he was on trial with a chimney-sweeper. " For God's sake, your worship," added the poor woman, " save my child from being made a sweep, he is unfit for such a business. Only look at the miserably state he is in; . his head is swollen as big as a bushel measure, and he is altogether unlike the child he was only six weeks ago." Both Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS immediately declared that the boy should not be apprenticed against the wish of his mother, and the latter having returned her grateful thanks to the Magistrates for their humane determi nation, took her child by the hand and left the office. The other boy was then brought forward. He was an illegitimate child and an orphan. Mr. HALLS asked if, while he was on trial, the overseer had visited his master's house, for the pur pose of personally ascertaining that the boy was likely to be well done by?—Mr.Rawlings not being p4pared _to answer this question,-Mr. Halls'observed that-it was the overseer's bounden duty to have done so, and until the fact were ascertained, he should with hold his assent to the apprenticing of the boy. Mr. Snow, the surgeon, and his brother-in-law, Mr. Churchill, the barrister, waited upon Mr. Halls in:the course of the day, and inquired if Mr. Ashurst, the solicitor, had sent him the examina tion (which his clerk had promised to furnish) of the witnesses whose testimony had been taken at Finchley, with respect to the death of Mrs. Phillips. Mr. HALLS replied that a packet had been re ceived about half an hour before from Ashurst, which he supposed contained the documents in ques tion. Mr. Churchill wished to know whether the ori ginal examinations had been forwarded, or copies only ? Mr. HALLS, upon referring to the papers, said that they appeared to him to be partly originals and partly copies. The gentlemen thanked him, and withdrew. Persons, we hear, are now permitted to pass over the New London-bridge, for the purpose of ♦iewing the works, on payment of one shilling each. ROLLS COURT.—BAILY v. TAYLOR.---in this case, which was not concluded yesterday when wa went to press, and which was a bill filed by Mr. F. BAILY, author of several works on leases, annuities, &c. against the defendant, a bookseller in Holborn, praying an account of the receipts and profits of certain " tables" relative to the purchase of estates and annuities, published by the defen dant, and containing matter alleged to be pirated from the defendant's works ; which bill moreover prayed that the defendant might be restrained from publishing any except the first edition of such " tables," the publication of which had been authorised by the plaintiff; his Ho:4mm re fused to grant an injunction, and stated that the bill must be disnsisseil with costs. The will of the late General Thomas Garth was proved yesterday in the Prerogative Court of Can. terbury. It is dated the 12th of September, 1829, and describes the testator as of Grosvenor-place, in the county of Middlesex, and of Piddletown, in the county of Dorset. It bequeaths the fee-farm rents and profits of his estate at Northampton, now collected by Christopher Smyth, Esq., and devised to the testator by his sister, Elizabeth Garth, to his nephew, Thomas Garth, a Captain in the Royal Navy, his heirs and executors for ever. It be queaths an annuity of 3001. to the testator's niece, Frances Garth, spinster. It then proceeds, in a somewhat wordy manner, to direct that a moiety of an annuity or annual pension of 3,0001. secured to the testator by letters pa tent granted by his Majesty King Charles 11., and payable out of the revenues of the Duchy of Corn wall, and treasures in the Exchequer, which the testator, by a deed of settlement, dated the 17th of November, 1820, had settled on himself, and " in certain circumstances," on his son, Thomas Garth, with a power of appointment reserved to him (the testator), should be paid by the trustees to his said " beloved" son (the testator renouncing the power of appointment under the deed), during life, and after his decease, to the natural and law ful issue of his said son; and if he should leave no issue, then to the aforesaid nephew of the testator, Captain Thomas Garth, R. N., his heirs and executors. The instrument then bequeaths the house belonging to the testator, No. 32, Gros venor. place, which he purchased of Sir Henry Hardinge, to his said beloved son, Thomas Garth, and also the plate, household furniture, and per sonal effects in the said house, and in and about the estate at Piddletown. It then directs the payment of sundry legacies (one of 1004, for a ring, to Lady Drummond, the daughter of the testator's friend, Mr. Boone) to friends and servants ; and it con cludes with bequeathing the residue of the testa tor's property, real and personal, to his nephew, Captain Thomas Garth, R.N., who is appointed executor with John Fullerton, Esq., to whom a le gacy of 100/. is left. There is an interlineation in that part of the will which directs the disposal of the moiety of the annuity of 3,0004, but its object seems to have been to render the case more clear; it was made prior to execution. . DON MIGUEL.—(From the Plynzouth Journal.)--We know not altogether what degree of credit is due to the following intelligence said to have been con tained in a letter received by the Staxmer packet, which arrived on Monday last from Lisbon, by a Portuguest emigrant resident at Falmouth : it is proper to observe that letters to the 24th ult., received from Lisbon by the Por taguese gentlemen resident i❑ this town, are totally silent as to the intelligence said to have been received at Fal mouth. The following are the particulars :—Don MI GUEL left Lisbon for Villa Vicosa, (Villa Vicesa, in the province of Alentejo, is very near the frontiers of Spain, and from this place two roads lead into Spain, one by Elvas the other by Olivenca), on a hunting expedition, accompanied by a battalion of riflemen, a park of artillery of six guns, strong detachments of regular infantry, and police cavalry, his households, and a train of 200 horses and mules. It is rumoured that he proceeded through the province of Alentejo to the frontiers of Spain ; and that two vessels laden with treasury were to proceed forth with to some port in Spain. Rumour adds that AliouEL carried with him the sum of 29,000 milreas, being the entire contents of the Royal Treasury at the period of his departure. The same letter states that the QUEEN Dow- AGER was to leave LISBON on the 3d instant (Thursday) for Spain, in order to be present at the marriage of her brother FERDINAND. Letters from Oporto by the same packet acquaint us that the garrison of Valencia had de serted, taking with them some state prisoners who were in that fortress ; and that on the usual evening muster of the 4th Regiment of infantry, stationed at Oporto, 75 men were found to be missing. We shall look with con siderable anxiety for a confirmation of the above intelli gence, which we cannot but regard as very apocryphal in its present shape; it would be a worthy termination of the perjured Usurper. NEW DISCOVERIES IN MEDICINE,—Of the superior efficacy of the Bladder Podded Lobelia Herb, Dr. ANnaaws, an eminent physician of Glas gow, in a letter published in the Glasgow Medical Journal, states that he has found no medicine so effectual in allaying asthma and clearing the air vessels of viscid phlegm, as the Lobelia Lijlata. Mr. Gonnos, of Hull, has published several cases of Spasmodic Asthma, in which the Etherial Tincture of it acted like a charm, the first dose affording great facility of breathing in a fow minutes, Dr. REECE, in Isis late Treatise on the peculiar Anti-Asth matic properties of this herb, clearly slims by reasoning and experience that from its quieting effect on the par vaguin, the part of the nervous system (evidently the seat of Asthma) that it is the most efficacious remedy that has been discovered for Asthma and winter cough. For the first discovery of the mild but efficacious tonic properties of the Round Leaf Cornel we are also indebted to the Translantic Physicians. This stomachic and con stitutional tonic medicine, Dr. ROBINSON' in his valu able " Practical Treatise on the Proper Diet, &c. of Elderly and Weakly Subjects," and also Professor IvEs and others, from its uniform grateful and strengthening effects on the stomach, &c., termed the natural tonic of the human race. The last edition of Dr. ROBINSON'S " Treatise on the Round Leaf Cornel " contains several cases of local and general debility, in which the remedy fully succeeded after the Peruvian Bark, the Sulphate Quinine, and otht r tonic medicines, had failed.— Ga zette of Practical Medicine for Nov. 1829. A TRUE TIIOUGYI ROMANTIC TALE.—A young Lothario a few years since fled to the 'West Indies, and from thence to New York, in the United States of North America, at which latter city, landing a pennyless refugee, he was compelled to seek employment in hoeing turnips, whereby to pay his passage, and redeem his lug gage ; he then wandered into the state of Virginia, where, though a hapless alien, the family of the high sheriff kindly received him, and soon admitted him to matrimony with an interesting daughter. On receiving a marriage portion the happy pair sailed for England, and were received with all due honour by the bridegroom's family in Huntingdon shire, with whom they continued to live until misfortune drove them to lodgings in London, where hereditary insa nity separated them : be being forcibly taken against her will to an asylum, and she left with a pittance of 10s. per week from his family, to which she, in deep distress and destitution, recently came one evening, but was refused admittance, the domestic mansion being closed against her. Yet would she not quit it, until a very late hour, (when she was forced away by the constable,) being determined rather to. perish on the cold stones of the door, not colder than the living stones within ! A public-house humanely received her for the remainder of the night, and the next day she was lodged with the family of a poor cotter. Thus circumstanced, she applied to Ex-Sheriff TusoatrsoN, who generously pitied and relieved her with whatever his hos pitable mansion could afford, and at length caused her hard case to be brought before the bench of magistrates at St. Ives, where the Rev. R. TILLARD, and the Ex-sheriff FRYER have nobly considered her miserable necessities, and afforded Ler all needful protection, as well as a free passage to her respectable family and friends in America : all of whirls boons, however, she refused with a high minded, Virginian disdain, being firmly resolved on never forsaking the destinies of, nor returning without her much loved, though unfortunate husband I—The parish officers of Somersham, who attended with this unhappy ' stranger in a strange land, were then ordered to receive her under their protection. She has since suddenly dis appeared, and it is supposed has gone to visit her partner in Bedford asylum.—Stamford News. Great quantities of pollock were seen last week off the northern parts of Scilly. Above 1000 of those fish are said to have been caught by the boats of Brye and Tresco. The weather has been remarkably fine for some time, but is now changed to stormy.—Plymouth Journal. THURTELL'S COMRADE.-JOSEPH HUNT, the notorious comrade of THURTELL, who was trans ported for life fur the prominent part he took in the min , • der of W 5 RE, and who was stated to have died on his passage to New South Wales, is still living, and in excel lent health. Various other stories have been circulated about his death, which are all fabulous. He is, from the last accounts from that colony, employed in the Bathurst district, about 100 miles f rom Syd ne y, by the Govern ment,as a posting-messen ger , th e d u ty of which office is toc c onvey letters and despatches from one station to another. His average journey is about thirty miles per d a y, which is considered very heavy work, over a moun tainous country, Where his fatigues are of course no ordi nary task. CONSISTORY COURT, DEC. 11. MUSKETT AGAINST MUSKETT. This is a suit for divorce, promoted by Mr. Joseph Salisbury Musket t, of Ingwood-hall, Norfolk, against Mary his wife, on the ground of adultery committed by her with Mr. Richard Hanbury Gurney. The parties married in 1812. In 1817, after the birth of a daughter, a separation took place, in conse quence of the discovery of certain clandestine meet ings of Mrs. Muskett with Mr. Gurney; and in 1818 an action of orbit. con. was brought by Mr. Muskett against Mr. Gurney, which was tried at Thetford in that year, when a verdict went for the defendant. Subsequent to that period,—namely, in the present year, Mrs. Muskett eloped with Mr. Gurney, and has cohabited with him in Montague square. The libel now offered for admission was founded upon this last transaction between the parties; but in a variety of articles, the antecedent transactions, which had been the subject of the action at law, were introduced, and these articles were now objected to by Dr. Addams and Dr. Chap man, on behalf of the wife, and defended by Dr. Dodson and Dr. Blake on the part of the husband, on the ground that they led up to the act of adultery now charged and exculpated the husband from any charge of laciws or neglect. Dr. LUSHINGTON said, that the questions for the consideration of the Court were, first, whether these particular articles, pleaded in their present detail, were necessary to establish the guilt of the wife; and, secondly, supposing them inadmissible on. that ground, whether they were requisite in order to clear the husband's character from imputation. Now it was admitted, on the part of the husband, that he was in possesion of no additional evidence of any act of adultery prior to that which forms the ground work of the present suit ; and therefore, the articles were inadmissible on that ground. As to Mr. Muskett, the Court would not impute any guilt to the husband because he separated from his wife, unless he could be proved to have been negligent, or in collusion. Considering, then, that- the articles objected to were unnecessary for either object, he should direct them to be reformed by compressing them into a narrow compass. WINTER ASSIZES. HOME CIRCUIT.-CHELMSFORD, DEC. 11. CHARGE OF RAPE. Michael Sullivan, a labourer, aged 22, stood capi tally indicted for a rape upon Eliza Butterfield, at West Ham, in this county. It appeared from the statement of the prosecutrix herself, as well as the statements of other witnesses, that she had been drinking to intoxication, and that at the public-house where she and the prisoner and another woman were carousing together, a dispute arose which of the women had the best leg. The women showed their legs, and the prisoner decided in favour of the prosecutrix, and afterwards left the house with her. It was doubtful whether the wo man had consented, but there appeared to have been no force beyond disgracefully taking advantage of the drunken condition of the girl. The Jury therefore, at the Judge's suggestion, acquitted the prisoner. LONDON ADJOURNED SESSIONS, DEc.ll. Thomas Keene was indicted for assaulting Sarah Scharratt, with intent to violate her person. The prosecutrix stated that she lived servant in the family of Mr. Smith, a corn-factor, in Basing hall-street. The prisoner was employed in the ware. house, when the defendant caught her round the waist and carried her up stairs into the loft. He then threw her on a sack and took liberties with her. Cross-examined by Mr. C. PHILLIPS—She gave him some bread and cheese in the kitchen after wards, and drank a glass of gin with him. The presecutrix's sister proved that she com plained to her of the defendant's treatment. Mr. C. PHILLIPS made an able address to the Jury for the defendant. The: Jury found; the defendant guilty of a com mon assault only. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the New London Price Current of yesterday) SUGAR.—The Sugar Market during the week has been rather languid ; the purchases are more limited than usual, but no general reduction in the price can be stated ; the estimated sales are 2,200 hhds. and trs. At the close of the day the prices of all the middling descriptions of Sugar must again be stated fully Is. lower during the week ; the low brown and fine rate now higher in pro portion than the middling qualities. Trinidad and other Sugars a little coloury, sold at 465., and fair yellow at 481. In the Refined Market there is little alteration this week; the inferior lumps are again a shade lower; the grocers only purchase small parcels fur their immediate wants. The export to the north of Europe is nearly sus pended, as the accounts from Hamburg and Holland state the frost had set in severely. We quote inferior lumps 6d. a Is. lower than last week; the other descriptions arc un varied. Molasses in demand, and 6d. higher. EAST INDI♦ SUGAR.—There has been more demand for East India Sugars, and the advance of Is. a Is. 6d. on the late India House sale has been more freely realized. Siro{ll parcels of Mauritius and Siam Sugars early in the week realized full prices at public sale. This day 2,812 bags Mauritius were offered, only a middling pareel of Sugar, the whole sold readily at very full prices. FOREIGN SUGAR.—In Foreign Sugar no sales were re ported this week. COFFEE.—The quantity of Coffee brought forward this week has been very limited, being confined to the British Plantation descriptions; the good quality clean suitable for the home trade, has gone off at full prices, and the fine rather higher, but all the unclean and inferior quali ties were very dull, and the great proportion was taken in. There were no public sales of Coffee this forenoon ; purchasers of Brasil still appear, good ord. about 325. 6d. RUM, BRANDY, AND Her.LAxDs.—There have been large sales of fine Jamaica Rum, about 600 puns. in 10 days, 2s. 10d. a 3s. 4d. ; the purchases of Leeward*. hare been 16 over at ls. 10d., and 8 over at Is. 9d. ; proofs and over at Is. Bd. In Brandy or Genera there is no alteration. llF_str, FLAX, AND TA r,Low.-The Tallow Market early in the week had the appearance of firmness. Several vessels with Tallow had been lost, and some ships were expected to be shut in for the winter at Peteriburgh ;' the market has since rather given way. Hemp is firm. Flax little varied. IRISH PRovisroxs.-There is no alteration in Beef or Pork,-Butters are more in demand, on account of the cold weather, and the fine Carlow in particular, on ac count of the severe frost in Holland; the chief purchases lately have been in the inferior descriptions of Irish. In Bacon there is little alteration. TOBACCO.-About 200 hhds. ord. Tobacco have been sold, but the prices have not transpired. TEA.-The sale finished this day ; fine Twankays sold dearer than last sale, other kinds much the same ; Hysons from 2d. to 44. per lb. higher. Twankays, common, 2s. lid. a 2s. 3d. ; good, 2s. 3id. a 2s. sd. ; fine, 2s. 7id. a 3s. 84. ; Hyson Skin, 2s. lid. a 3s. 54. ; Hyson, com mon, 3s. 9d. a 3s. 11d. ; middling, 4s. id. a 4s. 84. ; fine, 4s. 114. a ss. 11p. SPICES.-There is more demand for Spices, but no actual sales to any extent are yet reported. COTTON.-The Cotton Market is steady, but there is no briskness in the trade. The purchases for the week ending last 'dela inclusive, consist of 1,610 Surat, 3i-d. a 111. ; 10 Bourbon, 711. ; 20 Madras, sitl. ; 30 Bowed, sd. ; 110 Bengal, 3id. a 411. The letters from Liver pool this morning state the Cotton Market heavy, and th prices rather lower. SALTPETRE.-There is more demand for Saltpetre; the prices are without variation. RICE.-In Rice there is no alteration. This day 1,000 bags good fair Bengal 9s. 6d. a 10s. 611. Isna - to.-Thete are few sales of East India Indigo to report ; the market is unvaried. The next sale, it is ex pected, will consist of 5,000 to 6,000 chests, only a small proportion is yet declared. The accounts from Calcutta direct, arc to the 11 th July, the Indigo crop, it is sup posed, would be an average ; the general estimate 100,000 inaunds ; but a letter through Bombay, of the 18th of July, states there were considerable fears entertained re specting the whole crop. The public sale of 170 serons Guatemala Indigo yesterday, sold about Sd. to 6d. loWer, about one-h ilf of the quantity was disposed of. FKUI.T.---AbOUt 700 brls. of new red Smyrna Raisins quoted last week, the importers en Monday 13 0 sales having accepted 415., at which price they n 0 0,.. tinue on tap. In new Currants there is no alto doe" trade continuing to take them as they are wanted . , ll %,,i's but pick the finest parcels. The price of new veT s a Raisins has been advanced to 495., but none h ave 0 94 taken off at present at that price. New Turkey U s Figs continue to be inquired after, but the finest the have been nearly all taken out of the Market. finer descriptions of new Fruit there is only a limited i'll ness doing. The French Fruit to-day was n early taken in. ROP S. —Dec 1 • • 9 P. Kent Pockets PRICES OF 61 6s. 71. 1 10s. UP o i , Sussex Ditto litsex Ditto —.. 64 6s. 71. Os. to Ph o p Fartham Ditto, Fine O/. Os, 131. Os. to 151. oj. Seconds .............. M. Os. 10/. Os. to la (0 . Kent Bags ...... 61. Os. '7l. 7s. to g j oi. Essex Ditto Sussex I)itto 71.61. os 6s.. t t :_ ...............81. 61 . 0, PRICE OF POTATOES.—Dec. 11. Kidneys 4/. Os. to 01. Os. per tv — Scotch Reds 4l. Os. to 0/. Os. ditto. Oxnobles and Shaws 2/. ss. to 31. 3s. ditt°' PRICE OF OIL. .0 3 0 ° Rape Oil, brown ........—. 411. Os. —.... Refined ~... 0 Linseed Oil --.........—.—..... ..... .......r..• , i II Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ...............• ' 6 'o Rape Cake, per t0n...,—.. ___ .. __ ••••••••••__.............d PRICES OF LEATHER. tl. Per lb. d.Per lb. ds o g ~ 1 Butts ' io to r.61b.... 18i 19i Tanned Horse Hides.. i'' 91 Ditto (i 0 to 661 h.— 21 22 Spanish Ditto .............. 19 Dressing Ilides.—...—. 11 16 Per dozen. Ait Fine Coach Llides -- 18 19 Calf Skins... 36 to VW. 1 6 ft Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. H 16 Ditto ..50......... to 701 b. 1 7 fi Ditto.--. 15 to 501 b 16 18 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 1 9 91 Ditto - WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—Dec. Hay --- 455. Od. to 90s. Od. I (lover Od. to 1 05 g. Ms. Oct. to 365. Od. RAW HIDES. Per Stone. I. ( I: °et, Per Stone. S. d. to 8. (1. Best Heifers& Steers 3 03 4 I Orcliti4Ty 2 Middlings 26210 Ma I__±e_t , Cal 6 Opp. SHEEP SKINS. . Os. Od. to 05. Od. to 31• Downs ls. 341. to is. 9d. PRICE OF TALLOW, SO Town Tallow 40s. Od. Yellow Russia 375. Od. White 335. Od. Soap Ditto 3ss. (3d. Melted Stuff' 325. NI Ditto Rough , 20s. Od. AP, &c. per 1121 b. —.Dec• 1.,a, Yellow 140. v o l . LT:" N. Whir - _ , Graves .--.4••••••••••,•••reervoor go7i. Good 3 • PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone e t 81b. —.Dec . 11 2 . Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as fon°,1 1 0 :- : Candles, per doz. Bs. Od. to Os. Od. Moulds, per doZeS"'•••• '''^ COAL MARK Adair's Dean's Primrose—......—. 3.3 0 Felling Main 32 0 35 0 Killingworth 37 6 Kenton West» 37 0 Peiaw 33 3 Tan ti eld Townley. 33 6 Willington W) lain Walls End Bell and Co. 38 3 Ditto Burraton 37 3 Ditto Bensham 31 0 Ditto Clarke and C 0.... 36 6 Walls End Carr and Co. 36 6 Ditto Crainlington—..... 3-1 0 Ditto Linda 37 0 Ditto Ilotspur—...— 37 6 Ships at market, 57!.4-811: t 11. • .I W D ) t t a; . t t r o o l s D v v N k.' e c o n a r d l ; k h l 6. Ditto Perkins and Co.- fA: Ditto Russell's I: 6 Lambton's Primrose •-• 6 Russell's Lyon's 4,/ 3 Walls End Hetton.....-- - 9 3 5° 6 Walls End Ly0n5......--• 7,i 0 Ditto re-shipped......-* 0 Walls End Stewart 's n: 9 Russell's Hetton's W. 6 Cowpen Culm 35 6 Hartle) si 6 „„. 0 Tyne small : 1 6 H e bburn small :p . g 0 Beamish S. Moor smit.t7. l ips sold, 52--Unsold. °A WEA R. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING TH% s Wheat. Barley. I Oat Ashburn 4 5. 4 3 6 64 8 2 36 0 3 4 8 0 4 : 6, .a Per Quarter. 272 5 :... . 42 Basingstoke —. 48 72 24 37 l'7 ,41 go L'' Bath Chesterfieldßridgewater ... . 50 40 : 0 4 2 34 7 33 40 20 14 7 3 3 6 ., . 450 Bristol l6 SO 4. 4 50 64 34 40 g s 4 0 ..., go Derby . 60 64 34 57 re. 0 r L 4,5 Devizes --....... 56 72 22 39 1,..! 28 *,,, s D° Do i r i c c h as e t s e te r r= 48 60 65 70 28 25 3 35 4 z .l 2 ' 17 4 ... z. - --- 4 : Exeter---...... .. 68 72 40 22 „ g " -- 42 Gloucester . 56 76 40 46 20 ~Q . " 34 0 , Huugerford .—.... 46 '74 20 38 16 ..' .... 4 ,,,` Leice5ter............. 61 34 -- '*:, go r. Newbury...--...... 40 78 19 36 15 3 - 4 ou Romsey Shaftesbury --....— 66 35 3 2 V i 5 6 Sliepton Mallet .... 52 64 30 42 22 28 7r, 52 Sherborne .. 60 69 30 36 22 30 4. 51 Taunt0n............ 65 -- 37 20 ..• 55 Yeovil—_ 56 64 32 36 22 26 36 a. ii . Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s . d. s. d. s. d. 00 Shrewsbury....... 90 10 0 40 6 0 49 '7 6, 0 0 ~ SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET. —Dee• 9 . o il Our supply of Wheat to-day was large, a nd the dtenl6s,,, brisk, and Is. up on the top of last week ;le and current from to 325. A large lS su s. pi t :ly 6 o l f B. oa A ts, Gd. down of last; best 335. 6(1., current 11.° i — bat day' pporte. fair op. prices ; best 245., current from 18s. to 0 23. . A ,, e9 t 34 5 . , ply of Pease and Beans, and prices as last ; current from 265. to 325. 13 0 '4 Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Pease. 31; First 63s Od 33s Pd ts Od 34s Od tits Od :Ws 0,1 I .225 Od 32s Od .rs 0 ,1 Third PRICES OF rßovlsioNs, Ac. Beef, per lb. Os. 4d. to 05.5(1. Fresh Butter,lb.os.Bd. to ' 0 10 Veal cvit 56 0 Mutton O3l 0 5 Salt 0 8 60 0 0 6 010 Ditto, per . 0 Pork 0 4 0 4 Eggs, per doz. 1 0 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 1 0 '2 0 OittStraw(ky.) 6 0 0 Tallow, cwt.... 0 0 35 0 Wheat Ditto... 6 6 A 6 Quartern Loaf 0 9 010 Barley Ditto 0 0 0 Potatoes, 0 4 0 0 Hay, per 0 6 smwahlilcshu:ly of Bfiaar 26.. - - EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET.—Dec.& We had a large supply of Oatmeal at to-day. ros. 0 $l. which sold heavily at Is. cheaper on the sack, but teration in the retail from last week's prices. Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Per Stone of 141 b. I 0 q First Oatmeal £l 16 0 First Oatmeal .......... 1 0 Second ditto 1 14 0 Second ditto .....»••••• e B a rleymeal 1 10 0 8ar1eymea1......... ...... 0 Peascineal 1 S 0 Peasemeal .............. Pot Barley—No. I, per cwt. 145.-2 d, 165.-3 d. GLASGOW CORN MARKET.—Dec. 9. bir New Wheat in demand ; Old Wheat firm. A fair - ga oo° sine's done in Barley and Oats. No alteration to k '-- 'and Pease. a ° 13 6 Wheat, pei 2101 b. s. d. s. d. Oats, per Y64lb. 1, . ,:to I A British, old 32 oto 310 Irish l6 v je 11 9 —... new - , j Canada, free . . ... ....., o 470.° Irish Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish_ .. ..... _. .... t"- A • 0 English 25 0 28 0 Pease, Scottish ... ;I'o 40 Scottish 24 0 26 0 Oatmeal, per 1 40Ib. ~ ....4 Irish 22 0 24 0 Flour, per 2801 b.... a u ". Li S i 5 THE FINCIILEY CASE.-Mr. d not at all pleased with the slight notice which app" ; the our last journal, and has written an angry l e tter 0' cloc k is Times, denying that he was at home at seven ~t 11 0 the evening of his wife's death ; and further, t--40g, having been at the Torrington Arms on the same el 0 0 in company with the women of doubtful charartertociel too contemptible to reply to." Relative to the fir 0 'l" ...„et we have only to say, that Mr. GEORGE PRIC tioneer of Highgate, whom Mr. Pittwrs ko° W. „ 3 v ber' well, declares, that " on Friday, the 4th of Sere-", at-seven o'clock- in the reeling, Ls saw Ur. come out of his house, and go towards the-Torn/0o Arms ; that immediately afterwards Mrs. PHlLLlrsive for out, and called to Mr. Pumas, who returner'. #Ol sonic conversation together, she returned to the hou l ,f' On Mr. PHILLIPS went towards the Torrington Arni e ' T or the second point, with regard to the females at th e , Of rington Arms, we shall not be so ungallant as to u1,./Ats disagreeable terms respecting them ; but Mr. 1)14,1.1, was certainly dancing with' one of the ladies, "'"nfor unheeded messenger arrived from the house of his /till tur.ate wife. Should the inquiry be gone into, te';gitif be proved at Bow-street on Wednesday next. Thane off is now in the hands of the Magistrates, and we ~ to hope that the guilty may be punished, and that nocent may triumph. —Lancet. BIRH. On the Sth inst. at OrtonT-on-the-Hill, Lek-estebro the lady of the Rev. S. Crowther, of a son. MARRIED 3 01 ,1 9 , On the 10th inst. at Greenwich, Mr. J. F. L .„ io ito' s ' Blackheath, to Eliza Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. "'- to of the same place. •la On the 10th inst. at Lambeth, Mr. E. F. Je°/'' Miss Core, of Newington. Pac" At Salisbury, Mr. Elford, aged 24, to Mrs. - aged 56. DIED. Ite c" On the Sth inst. the Rev. Walter Birch, M. • d f of Stanway, Essex, and Stanton Bernard, Wilts, ° l3 nierly Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. At Aston Clifton, the wife of G. R. Minsbull, one of the Magistrates of Bow-street Police Office' oetiff i On the 11th inst., at Pentonville, Mr. J. S' of aged 25. ". At Brighton, on the 10th inst. Alex. Da visoot Swarland 111 ark, Northumberland. ecl P /14'11 On the aged 71. 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