The Sun. — London, England, 1829-07-07 00:00:00

UNITED-STATES. ;We have extracted from one of the American Papers the following statement relative to the public debt of the United Skates;— There was some increase of 1°1791 75,169,971 debt in each of the six years, ex -1796 81,642,272 cept 1794, in which there was a reduction of it. r The debt was increased in con sequence of the military prepara tions against France, to 1801, when Mr. Jefferson's administra— tion commenced. Increased in 1804, by the pur -1 chase of Louisiana. Mr. Jef ferson's administration ended 4th March, 1809. The debt was at its lowest amount in 181$, in Mr. Maddi son's administration, and preced ing the war. 1799 '77,399,909 1801 82,000,167 1803 74,731,922 1804 85,353,643 1809 56,732,379 1810 53,156,532 1812 45,035,123 1813 55,907,452 1816 123,016,375 War and war debts. Highest amount in 1816. Mr. Monroe's administration. Rapid reductions since 1816, the receipts from the customs and other sources being large. • Increase because of the pur chase of Florida, and short re ceipts from the customs, &c., in 1820-21, &e. Mr. Monroe's ad- L ministration ends. ) , 1826 81,054,059 Mr.. Adams' administration 182 8 67,475,622 commences 4th March, 1825, 182 9 58,362,135 and ends 3d March, 1829. la the four last years there was applied to the public debt:-- - For interest... 14,930,454 principal 30,373,188 1817 1,15,807,505 1820 91,015,566 1821 89,987,427 1822 93,546,676 1825 83,788,432 45,303,652 d011ar5—(11,325,910 dot , Jars annually.) • • The standing appropriation for the payment of Principal and interest is only ten millions' a year, but at the end of Mr; Monroe's administration, the Treasury was ih . arreari with the sinking fund, its operations having been suspended by the pressure ou the Treasury in 1820 and 1821. The average Payment of interest in the last four years, was . 3,732,500 ........................... . Of, principal ' 7,593,250 .... • .. .. .. ..... ... . But ~. the reduction of interest, because of the ex tinguishment of principal in the last four years, will, for the next four, allow an annual average of two millions more for the payment of principal. And, as 30,373,188 dollars of principal were paid off in 1825, 1826, 1827, and 1828, so, at the same rate, 38 millions may be paid in 1829, 1830, 1831, and 1832 . But it. is not probable that so large a sum ca n be used. The debt, as it stood on the first of January last, may be thus briefly stated: , -- ;, 3 per cent. stock, (revolutionary debt) re deemable at pleasure 6 Per cents. of 1814 and 1816 do. 5 Per cent. stock, (sub. to bank of U.S.) do 7,000,000 Ditto of 1820 redeemable in 1832 999,999 Ditto of 1821 ' Ditto exchanged 1832' 56,704 4 / Per cents. of 1824 Ditto exchanged 1824 ...... 1833 & 1834 4,454,727 D itto, ditto 1825 ... .. 1829 & 1830 1,539,336 b 8,362,135 Total at 3 per. cent. at 44 dit to at 5 ditto at 6 ditto From the aggregate Deduct Thes per cents.. payable in 1835...4,735,296 5 i dittO ......... 1823 & 1834...4,154,727•• 9,190,028 Dollars 49,172,112 The expediency of paying off the Three per Cents. Will only be considered if the Treasury shall over now, even when the taxes shall be much reduced; and the Stock that forma a part of the capital of the " l ank of the United States can hardly be regarded as a debt, the Bank stock being worth upwards of amtl ltoltmore than the United States stock issued fe • or t. These together. make 20,296,249 dollars, i av ing for probable operations in the current four y e ars, rather l ess th an 29,000,000 o f ca pit a l, to re d°l4 ' which ; at th e rat i o o f th e l a st four years, we 1 1 • all liars about 38,000,000, or 'an apparent excess of 9,0 00,000 dollars. rA VY OF THE UNITED STATES. The N . L; - '!"'Y of the United States consists of seven ' 4 .'l)* of the line , seven frigates of the first class, mur frigates of the second class 'twelve sloops of War and seven schooners. The oldest vessels are t il e fri gates United States, Constitution, and Con :4'l4l4°n, all built in the year 1797. There are now buildin g in the United States, seven ships of the fine and six frigates. Of the rank of Lieute- I litnta and. upwards there arc 325; Surgeons and Surgeons' Mates, 97; Pursers, 41 ; Chaplains, 9; Midshipmen, 445 ; Sailing Masters, 30; Boatswains, 17 ; Gunn e rs, 19; Carp e nt ers , 13 ; S a il- ma k ers , 14. In the Marine Corps there are, one Colonel, nine Captains, and thirty-nine Lieutenants. The oldest officer in the navy is John Rogers, President of the oard of Commissioners of the Navy. He entered the serviee in March, 1798. His present commission is dated .sth March, 1799. There are fifteen Navy agents, seven Naval Storekeepers, and eight Naval Constructors. The estimates required for the navy during 1829, are 3,006,277 dollars. We understand that Miss J3YFELD, who has, ia her first season, gained such well-deserved celebrity as a `iotalist, in the metropolis, is engaged to appear at Liver among other places, during the summer. She makes Cr first appearance at Liverpool on Monday. We have l o ' l°4 4 that her re fi ned science will be duly appreciated that Second English metropolis. There arc a t p resen t i n Walcot workhouse, Bath, 9 7 paupers, 25 of whose united ages amount to 1832 Oar% averaging above 77 years each ; eleven of them are males, and fourteen females. Among the females are two a gfd 92 years, and one 100.—County Chronicle. The late rains, hough they have done some e in jmrY to the backward drops of hay, have been most bene -44:41 to the turnips, oats, and barley. Yesterday morning,. as Mr. SAMUEL SAN bricklayer, of Nortb-street, in this city, was pro tveding.to his work, at Iloldgate, when he had arrived very near that village, without any previous symptoms of In dispOsition, he suddenly dropped down dead.— York. Herald. • rairlop Fair on Friday was stripped of its usual attractions by-the wetness of the weather, which " I not, however, (Imp the ardor of the London thieves,. o . ampetnbled there in undiminished numbers. When Lord ELLENBOROUGH was Lord Chief Justice, a labouring bricklayer was called as a wit. when he came up to be sworn his Lordship said to 7' l ' Really, witness, when you have to appear before 7' 48 Court, it is r oar bounden duty to be more clean and,j aunt in your appearance." " Upon my life," said the 1 7 311 e'es, " if your Lordship comes to that, I'm thinking ~ _`l ll every bit as well dressed as your Lordship." " How r_ mean, Sir?" said his Lordship, angrily. " Why , 1 ` 1... 1 th," said the labourer, " you come here in your w0rk ...6 °lathes, and I'm come in mine."- - Sharpe's London A, LAW PROCEEDINGS.----HONEST PROFIT,— ' on Indigestion, on the laws of Vital Functions, and on '• The tedium of proceedings in the Court of Chancery was Febrile Diseases; DANIEL on Meteorology; SMITH on r A elle yed a little the other day by Mr. MowEscus COp.. Forensic Medicine ; UwiNs on Indigestion ; Ms NE's ' ti eing a Bristol solicitor's bill, for writing on a bankruptcy MedicAl - Logic; THOMAS on Digestive Organs; HAREl ecnumission, two volumes folio 1 This, he stated, to have sow on Spinal Diseases ; HUTCHINSON'S Surgery ; Bust • been swelled to such an enormous s!ze by a curious pro- sows on Insanity, aed Dr. JAMES JonssoN ' s various t, Which he designated by the name of post briefing. 'moils. 'Thomas - Throtawoon married the daughter of e plan is, to charge for as rainy briefs, Icc. as the con- Dr. WAucti, the eminent Minister of the Scotch Church. B ciestce of the solicitor will allow ; and if any of them He was an abstemious liver, and domestic in his habits. t° lll 4l be demanded, they areto be manufactured to crder I , He has left behind him an amiable wife and six fuse child ''ir• MoNnutrs instanced one - document, which was ren, who deeply deplore his loss. * tines on ' paper made several years after its date. This ~.., h ti oderstood to be according to , the lex loci of Bristol. r RIENDLY SOCIETY OF LICENSED VIC e Loan CuAlwattos observed, that if such a lex ion TuALLx xs.-Yesterda y a General Q uarterl y Meetin g of did "ISt, it was un f o rtunate the punishment of the pillory the Friendly Society of Licensed Victuallers took place at Was abolished, ' the Schoo!- house , Keunington-lane. THE ARMY. TIM THIRD DATTALIoN OF THE GRENADIER GUARDS. The third battalion of the Grenadier Regiment of Guards was inspected yesterday morning in Hyde-path, by General Lord Hill, Commanding in Chief. Lord Hill, on his arrival on the ground, attended by his staff, and accompanied by several General Officers, rode forward to the right of the line, passed down the front, and round the rear, and subsequently took his station in front of the centre:of the line. The battalion then took close order, wheeled back by companies into open column right in front, and marched past in slow and quick time. The battalion, on its arrival on its original ground, per formed the following evolutions and movements :- 1. Right company to the front, and closed on the leading oosnpany. • 2. Advanced in close column, wheeled to the left, marched diagonally to the left, charged front and wings, and deployed on the leading eorppany. The Light Infantry covered the movement. S. Advanced in line, the tglit.lnfantry was sounded to wheel to tbi t ight, liaiiielby files from the left of compa nies, to the-front, front turn, and formed line on the leading company. 4. Retired from the left, covered by the right, and formed line on the left company. 5. Changed direction on the centre, left thrown back. 6. Advanced in line. 7. Retired in line, and formed square on the centre, seven companies. 8. Retired in double column of subdivisions on centre, the right company remained entire, halted, fronted, and formed line to the right. 9. Advanced by double columns, of subdivisions, from the centre. 10. Retired by subdivisions from the centre, and formed line on the original ground, and fronted. On the conclusion of these movements Lord Hill rode forward, and addressing Lord Salteun, who commanded, expressed himselfhighly gratified at the distinguished manner in which the evolutions were executed by the battalion. Lord Hill, attended by his staff, then left the ground. A detachment 'belonging the' 6 . 3 d Regiment of Foot marched on the 4th inst. from Chatham to Deptford, for the purpose of embarking av , a guard on board the Larking convict ship, for New South Wales. • The Duchess of KENT entertained the Duchess Of CLARENCE, the Duchess of SAYE WEntaa, and a select.party, to dinner yesterday, at her residence in the King's Palace, at Kensington. Prince LEOPOLD gave a grand dinner yester day to a numerous party of the nobility and gentry, at Marlborough-house, Pall-mall. The Duchess of KENT and the Princess Vic- TORIA. visited the Princess AUGUSTA yesterday, at her re• sidence in the King's - Palace, St. James's. The Duke of CUMBERLAND honoured Earl MANYERS with kis company to dinner on Sunday, at his residence in Portman-square. There was - a select party to meet his Royal Highness. The Queen of PORTUGAL came to town yes terday morning, from her residence at Laleham. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY and the LORD PRIMATE of IRELAND bad a conference with the Duke of WELLtricroN yesterday morning at the Treasury. Prince ESTERHAZY, the Austrian Ambas sador, and Prince POLIGNAC, the French Ambassador, had interviews with the Earl of AzEauxzx yesterday at the Foreign Office. It has already been announced that Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE is engaged upon a portrait of the young Queen of PORTUGAL. Her MAJESTY yesterday morning came to town from Laleham, about twelve o'clock, and gave Sir THOMAS a sitting of nearly two hours, for the completion of the picture. The Duke of WELLINGTON has recently paid more than one unexpected visit to the new London Bridge, about the progress and completion of which, as well as those of the approaches, his Grace takes an extra ordinary interest. VAUXHALL GA RD E NS.--This attractive place of summer resort was last night filled with company. A new vaudeville, entitled A Day up the River, was brought out, in which Messrs. Cook - a; WEErrs, G. SMITH, and WILLIAMS, performed, - and which was re ceived with much. applause. The night's amusements terminated, as usual, with fire-works. COBURG THEATRE.7--A new. piece, under the catching title of: Vidocq, the French Thief-taker, was produced 'last night at this Theatre. It is very amusing,•and full of incidents, which are strung together with more dramatic effect than we thought the pleasing volumes from which the piece is takeß, , were capable of affording. Mr. H. WILLIAMS personated the Thief taker,--and went through his part with infinite spirit and Vivacity. The house, as usual, was crowded, and the drama well received. ASTLEY'S AMPHITHEATRE.—The Duke Of WELLINGTON, the Marquis of WORCESTER, the Earl of JERSEY, and about seventy other distinguished indivi duals, honoured this Theatre with their presence last night. The Duke was soon recognised, though his visit was un expected,- and received, as such a man should be, with shouts of acclamation by the audience. The play was the Battle of Waterloo, and the Duke seemed much pleased with the Duke's achievements on the stage. His magna nimity too was unbounded, for he clapped Napoleon re peatedly. The audience, however, seemed to think the stage Duke by fir the most likely Duke of the two, be made so much mere noise, and looked so fierce. He seemed, in fact, as if he could not merely have killed, but absolutely eaten the French, horses and all. Lieutenant-Colonel MONGE, of the grena diers of the French Guard under NAPOLEON, who followed the_Emperor to Elba in 1814, died lately at Paris in the hospital of St. Louis, after a long illness and a state of blindness. This officer, being of a very enterprising character, was employed by Narontow, after his return from Elba, on a most difficult and perilous mission. It was, to make his way in the greatest secrecy to Vienna, to carry off MARIA LOUISA and her son and bring them to France. The letter which was to serve as his credentials Ind procure his recognition contained merely the following words—" Place every confidence in this brave man. He has all.mine. Give yourself up to hiat and follow him. N." Moues spoke German. He set off for Vienna, where by the help of disguises he succeeded in arriving, afterlueurring numerous dangers. He had to pass through -many corps of the Allies and Austrians, the vigilance of which was not easily eluded, to say nothing of the diffi culty he experienced in preserving the order which was to be proof of his mission. He was at last on the point of executing his arduous task, when the Austrian police obtained some information of the scheme, and he was obliged to fly.. He escaped the pursuit, and got back to France slim* before the battle of Waterloo, in which he fought gallantly. - Since the restoration he never was employed, and being totally destitute of resources, he was - reduced to a state of great distress, and worked as a com mon labourer. He was only 50 years of age when he died.—Paris. Paper. 'Mr. THOMAS .UNDERWOOD, of - the firm of T. and . G. UsnsawooO, booksellers, in Fleet-street, who died last Wednesday of a pulmonary consumption, ought not to be consigned to his grave, without one parting word to his memory, - by an old friend: He was a man of the soundest and purest integrity in all his dealings; his word was his bond, neither of which was he ever known to violate. He first entered the London world under Mr. JOHN MURRAY, afterwards kept a bookseller's shop near St. Bartholomew's Hospital Gate, in West Smithfield ; and when Mr. MURRAY removed to his houSe in Albe marle-street, THOMAS UNDERWOOD, in partnership with his brother GEORGE, the present very respectable survivor becartielis successors, and by their extreme assiduity and attention, greatly extended the business, especially in the medical department. From this shop emanated Paris on Diet, and his Pharmacologia ; ARNar on Physics ; FiiRBES on the Diseases of the Chest ; GRAY'S Supple ment-to the Pharmacopoeia, and his Elements of Phar macy; BRAND'S Manual of Pharmacy; THOMPSON'S Con spectus, and his edition of Dr. Cermeres Works; PHILIP MR. JEREMY BENTHAM. The Examiner of Sunday publishes the following letter from Mr. Bentham in reference to an ar ticle which appears in the last number of the West winster Review : " Queen's-square-place, Westminster, July 1, 1829. " that mixture of pride and pleasure which may be imagined, I heard read that article in your last Examiner, headed The Utilitarian Philosophy and The Edinburgh Review :' but as the lines glided across my ear, there was one which struck me as pregnant with a misconception, such as, if not properly obviated, might, to' a degree beyond my power of measurement, be productive of injurious consequences : this is, that the article in the West minster, as it stands,. has me for its author : enza natesfrone are the words; and thereupon I am de signated. As to misrepresentation, intended or not intended, it is altogether out of the question; but the plain truth is as follows : " Hearing in general terms that in an article in an Edinburgh - Revit.v4 the Greatest Happiness Prin ciple had been hardly dealt with, I either offered or consented (I forget which) to furnish, and did ac cordingly furnish, a few pages composed of memo• randums, forming a sort of history of that principle from its birth to the present time—a heap of rough materials which, were I ever to see them in the form, whatever it may be, that has been given to them bythe Editors, I should expect to find employed to much better advantage than by the original compiler they had been or could have been. bo much as to that part of the article in the Westminster. But as to anything which in that article might have been said of the Edinburgh, and as to any thing which in the Edinburgh may have been said to The disadvantage of any individual—on neither of these topics, in that or any other paper of mine, has- anything been at anytime said by me. " Neither of the one article nor of the other has time as yet permitted me to take cognizance, other wise than , as above; •nor is its ever doing so very probable.---Your's sincerely, " JEREMY BENTHAM." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The betting yesterday was general rather than heavy, nor was it so definite as might have been looked for at the period, the Newmarket July Meeting being next week. The Mummer is the only horse backed outright for the July Stakes, the others being talked of in lots. Lord Lowther's. lot are Sapio, Verdict, and Envoy ; Lord Exe ter's Advance colt and Miss Cantley filly ; these may be quoted at about 4to 1 each lot. The Duke of Grafton's Pawn colt and Zinc filly at 5 to 1, and Lord Cleveland's Waltz colt at about 6 to 1; but all these are merely spoken of, not backed. The King is stated to have pur chased Lady Sarah and Murphy for 3,500 guineas ; the report, however, is not looked upon as authentic, and the betting is little influenced by it., NEWMARKET JULY STAKES. 4 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's The Mummer. LIVERPOOL GREAT CUP. Even On Velocipede : not p. p. SOMERSETSHIRE STAKES (BATH). 4 to 1 aget Popsy 7 to 1 agst Jocko 5 to 1 agst Liston S to 1 agst Brownlock -- , 7 to 1 aget Alcaston 12 to 1 agst Jour de Noces S to 1 aget Helas (the King's). GREAT ST. LEGER. 6 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Voltaire (taken) 9 to 1 agst Lord Lanlford's Sir Hercules (taken) 9 to 1 agst Hon. E. Petre's Rowton 10 to 1 apt Mr. Forth's Frederick 11 to 1 agst Mr. Riddell's Lawn Sleeites 14 to 1 agat Mr. Gibbeson's Lady Sarah 15 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's The Exquisite (taken) 20 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Apollonia 20 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Stotforth 22 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Pilgrim 25 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Minster 25 to 1 agat Lord Sligo's Felt 50 to 1 agst Bonassus 60 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Clotilde We are sorry to hear that Conolly, the jockey, lies in a very dangerous state from brain fever, arising from pre mature removal to Newmarket alter his accident at Hampton. TROTTING IN HARNESS. On 'Friday week Mr. Jeremiah Needham, of the Red , Lion Inn, Salford,: did his much-talked-of match of driving his bay mare Sloven fourteen miles within p the hour, on the road from Buxton to Bullocksmithy. The mare performed her task in excellent style, having' full four minutes to spare; and Mr. Needham has announced that he can get her backed for_ a handsome amount to perform sixteen miles in the hour.—Manclaester Advertiser. THE GRAND SCULLER'S MATCH. The much-talked-of, and twice postponed match, be tween eight of the best watermen on the river, for a purse of sovereigns subscribed for by the Noblemen and Gentle men of the Red-house Club, Battersea, took place yester day, and the interest it excited, and the numerous assem blage of the aquatic fancy, of high and low degree, which it caused to congregate, has been rarely equalled, certainly never surpassed. Three o'clock was the hour announced for the first heat to take place, and between that time and four o'clock about 2,000 spectators had assembled, and the stairs and the shore for a considerable distance on either side of the Red-•house were densely crowded with boats of all descriptions, amounting in number to nearly 200. The afternoon was extremely windy, indeed so much so that many boats, between Vauxhall and Battersea, were swamped by the violent swell of the water, and the persons in them immersed in the river to the imminent danger of their lives. A female and six other persons hail a narrow escape by the sinking of their boat off the Red-house. Fortunately, however, a skiff picked the whole of them up ; and in every instance, as far as we could ascertain, by the prompt assistance which was at hand, no lives were lest. About half-past four the following men took their respec 7 tive stations, from buoys moored off the Red-house, to row round a boat near Battersea-bridge, down the Surrey shore, round a boat off Nine Elms, and back to the Red-house:— William Noulton Lambeth Scarlet John Cobb John Harris Bankside White Charles Campbell Westminster ...Light Blue. On the pistol being fired, Campbell took the lead, fol lowed by Cobb ; Harris and Noulton being stem-apd-stem for some distance, when a galley fouled Harris, and he was consequently thrown out of the heat. Campbell con tinued the lead, Cobb being second in coming down, and Noulton about eight or ten boats' length in the rear. When the latter was near the Red-house he was also fouled, and although the pistol was fired for the other two to return, they rowed their distance. Mere began the first and grand dispute. About half an hour after. the above heat the following men started for the second : James Parish Stiand-lane Pink John Mitchell Ditto Green John Williams Waterloo Yellow , John Goatley Temple Stripes Mitchell took the lead, followed by Parish and Goatley. A great alteration, took place near the boat at Battersea, Williams passing. Parish and Goatley, and coming down scull and scull with Mitchell. Goatley's boat could not live in the grcit swell of the water, and be was obliged to give in. It would be impossible to describe the treat which was witnessed on the coining in of the three boats ; a sheet would have covered them. Mitchell was coming along first, with Williams close on his quarter, and Parish about two boats' length astern ; but, on their nearing the Red house, Parish came up with Williams, and by a quick stroke or two, succeeded in getting inside, thus popping his boat's nose a-head in time to become second in the beat. Williams, however, disputed the heat, and here commenced dispute the second. After nearly two hours' dispute among those concerned, it was decided that the first heat should be rowed again. Cobb would not agree. to this, and the three others pre pared to row it, but nothing could bring bring the match to a determination. EARL FITZWILLIANI.—We - have the pleasure to find that the tranquillity of Wentworth has restored the health of this venerable nobleman, and that his Lordship is so much recovered as even to meditate a journey to Ireland during the summer.—Leeds Mercury. Lord DALHOUSIE and Sir SYDNEY BECK wyrn, the two new Commanders-in-Chief in India, are. both at Portsmouth, awaiting the sailing of the ships which are to . take therm to their respective destinations. 1-11 Grace the Duke of NORFOLK will so journ at Arundel Castle, until the middle of the present week, when he will leave for his new residence at - Cowes, late in the occupation of Mr. HALLIDAY, the banker, in St. James's-street. Lord and Lady Suaafy, and a few friend', are staying at Arundel Castle...—Sussex "Myer. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday, a case came on before the LORD MAYOR, which in some degree illustrates the errors of the present police system, and shows the neces sity for a radical reform in many of the details. A !nail named Weller, was charged under the f Uorring circumstances : _ _ Mr. Britton, a gentleman who resides at Clap ham, stated,that on Monday last, in the afternoon, he was Passing along Gracechurch-street towards London-bridge, he observed the defendant driving two fine spirited horses in a cart in the same direc tion. Defendant drove up, to all appearance inten tionally, against a stage-coach at the moment a gentleman was stepping in, and it was a miracle that serious mischief was not committed. Defend ant drove on, quite careless as to the consequences, until he reached Fish-street-hill, where he drove, aidently in the same spirit, against another coach and broke the splinter bar. Witness, seeing that the public incurred great danger from the wanton conduct of the defendant, called to some officers who were at hand, and directed a constable to take him into custody, stating at the same time that he should attend next day to complain, and giving the constable his card. Upon appearing at the Mansion house next day, however, he learnt that the man who bad acted so offensively was not in custody. As he considered that the officer who took upon himself the power of discharging the prisoner from custody, had, by so doing, usurped the power of the Magistrate, Mr. Beaton considered himself bonnd ; to-have the affair properly investigated. He had heard from the officer whom he had given the directions to, that there were five others of the police aiding and assisting in the appreheusioa of the accused, who, notwithstanding, contrived to get away. • '1 he Bridge-keeper (oritof the officers concerned) said, that the man had 'been safely deposited in the watch-house by another' Officer, whilst he (the bridge-keeper) went after the horses and cart, for the purpose of taking care of them. He did not consider the defendant to be in his charge at all. When he took hold of the horses, he noticed-the brother-in law of the master of the defendant, whom lie knew, and he delivered the horses and cart to that gentle man. The defendant, however, contrived to get out of the watch-house, but how on earth he managed to do so nobody could tell. The LORD MAYOR said, that this -was a,. most bungling way of doing business, that the, person charged could not amongst so many officers be kept An safe custody, and the cart and horses, instead oferig sent to the green-yard, were given up at the Nis cretion of the officers. The Bridge-keeper said, he thought the other city officers ought to be responsible..for the escape of the defendant. The other city officers thought that the ward officer was responsible. Every one of them did all they could to shove the business off his own shoulders upon those of the bridge-keeper or the ward officer, who in their turn endeavoured to prove that they had performed their duty to the uttermost. In fact, if the statement of all of them were to be credited, it was as much their duty to keep the de fendant in safe custody, as it was the Lord Mayor's. The LORD MAYOR said that this was one of the cases which reflected such disgrace upon the police. For the sake of the public it was most necessary that persons charged with offences should not haVe the option of walking off at their pleasure. The Bridge-keeper said he had known the .de fendant six or seven years, and believed him to be a very civil,' unoffending person when sober. No suspicion was entertained that he would run away on the occasion of the charge, and how he got away was the wonder. The LORD MAYOR asked the defendant whether be had any objection to mention how he contrived to get out of the hands of so many officers and through the bars of the watch-house. Weller said that he had been taken hold of be cause a bit of an accident, what he couldn't help, came across him. He was in doubt whether he would let them take him or not, and if he hadn't Seen his master's brother-in-law,' who would take care of tfie horses, he'd if he would ha' let a dozen on 'em lock him up in that ere vetch us.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—But, being in the watch house, how did you contrive to disappear ? De fendant—Vy, your Worship, you see ven I was alone I looked about and I sees a vindor at the top of the vatch-us, and so I goes up, and as it vas open I puts out my head, anti my body followed arter. NoW, says Ito myself, if I leaps into that 'ere road, where the people walks, these here hoffi cers will see me again, but if I leaps into that 'ere river, vy your Lordship, they would'ut see none o'nie.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—And so you leaped in the water ? Defendant—No, your Lordship, I leaped into the mud; and if they had seen me aterwards, they would'm ha known me, because your worship I w ant clean by no means.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR thought that the watch-house appeared to be just worthy of those who superin tended it, and who had not the sense to secure a prisoner even when under lock and key. His Lord ship having ascertained that the defendant was drunk when he drove so outrageously through the streets, fined him five shillings, the only penalty his Lord ship could inflict, as the person whose coach had been injured was not in attendance to make a charge Which would subject the fellow to a more severe punishment. Mr. Britton submitted that the conduct .of the officers deserved strong animadversion. It appeared to him that the power of the Magistrate was fre quently usurped by persons of this kind. 'I he LORD MAYOR thanked Mr. Britton for the great trouble he had taken to follow up this matter for the sake of the public. The attention of the police should be much sharpened. If, indeed, things of the kind described were to be repeated, it would be, better to get rid of the police as an useless expense. It is necessary to observe that the officers com plained of are all steady and active men, and have never been complained of before. The fact is, the' system is so excessively loose, and the officers have so Many Capricious and ignorant directors, that it is no wonder there should be frequent mistakes as to p tlle w i e ra rs. ture of the duties as well as the extent of the BOW-STREET. Yesterday evening a labouring man named Daniel Recidini, was brought 'before Sir R. BIRNIE, by Joseph Dickinsbn, a constable of Old Brentford, charged, upon the warrant of Mr. Stirling, coroner, with the manslaughter of a man named John Dwyer. According to the statement of - the constable, it appeared that a quarrel arose between the prisoner and the deceased on Sunday fortnight, and they went to decide their difference in a garden at the rear of the house where the prisoner resided. The deceased struck the first blow, was knocked down, and while on the ground, according to the evidence taken before the Coroner, the prisoner kicked him twice upon the breast; and in consequence of the injuries he received, he died in a few days after at Old Brentford. An inquest was held upon his body on the 27th tilt., and an adjournment took place to the Ist instant, in order to give time for the pro duction of a person named Jackson, who it appeared was a witness of the injuries which the deceased had received. Upon his evidence the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the prisoner, who was taken into custody yesterday evening, at six o'clock, at his residence Mill-lane, Deptford, and brought to this office, in order to be committed to Newgate. The prisoner having been identified by the con stable as the man against whom the warrant had been issued, was fully committed by Sir R. Birnia, to take his trial it the next sessions at the Old Bailey. MARLBOROU GH-STREET: Yesterday a dirty-looking fellow, who gave his name Thomas Davis, was brought from the watch house of-st. Giles s parish, before Sir G. FARRANT, the sitting magistrate, charged with the following atrocious robbery :-- A decent elderly female, named Joyce, the wife of a tradesman, stated that on Smithy morning last she went to attend early prayers at the Roman Ca tholic chapel in Duke-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields, belonging to the Sardinian Embas-:y ; and while on her knees in prayer, she perceived some person's hand under her dress, evidently feeling for her pocket, which however, happening to be placed considerably more in front than those conveniencies generally are worn, it was not readily accessible to a strange hand. On turtling round to see who it was that thus took the liberty of fumbling about her dress, she observed the prisoner, who knelt close by her side, and seemed at the time in earnest prayer, cautiously withdrawing his hand from her pocket-hole, but as she was satisfied that he had not succeeded in getting at the pocket itself, she affected at the time not to notice him ; still, how ever, keeping her eye upon him until she saw him in a few minutes make a similar attack upon the pocket of a Mrs. Hennesey, who was kneeling on the other side of him ; and Mrs. Hennesey's pocket being, it appeared, of lese difficult access, the pri soner succeeded in abstracting its contents without in the least degree disturbing the devotions of its owner. Witness, however, on seeing the prisoner draw his hand with something in it from Mrs. Hen nesey's pocket-hole, asked Mrs. Hennesey if she had any money in her pocket, and on her answering in the affirmative, witness told her that she had been robbed of it, and at the same time seized the pri soner by the collar, as did also Mrs. Hennesey, and held him until the beadle of the chapel, on hearing the disturbance, came up, and took the prisoner into his charge. The lieadle said, that on taking charge of the pri soner, he found in his hand the purse now produced, with 4s. 6d. in silver in it, and on searching him further he found in' one of his pockets a sovereign and six half-crown pieces, and in another pocket he found a second purse, which-he produced; in which was a half-sovereign. Mrs. Hennesey said, that the pursefpund in the prisoner's hand, with 4s. 6d. in it, belonged to her, but when she entered the chapel she had in the purse, besides the 4s. 6d., a sovereign and six half crown pieces. She did not, she said, perceive that Hany attempt was made to pick her pocket, until Mrs. ! Joyce gave the alarm. Another female, named Donnelly, said, that the second purse found upon the prisoner, with the half sovereign in it, belonged to her, and was safe in her pocket when she entered the chapel. She did not, she said, miss it,or suspect that she had been robbed until the alarm was given about the spot where she was kneeling, which was also close to the prisoner. The prisoner said that he had nothing to urge in his defence, and was fully committed for trial. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday Samuel Walker and John Wilkinson Were charged with having endeavoured to break into the house of Mr. George Read, a tradesman re siding in the Commercial-road. The prisoners are of that class which are, in the slang vocabulary, called " swell cracksmen , " and were dressed in a style which could scarcely have been expected in burglars. Mr. Read stated, that in the morning, at about half-past four o'clock, his son came to his bed-room, and alarmed him, saying that lie heard a noise in the adjoining house, which he believed to have been oc casioned by thieves trying to force their way into his premises. He immediately got up, and having placed a watchman at the front and rear, hastened to ascertain what was the matter. On going into the next house, which was uninhabited, he found the prisoner Walker lying on the•stairs endeavouring to secrete himself, and he gave him into custody. After doing so, he looked over the building, and dis covered that an aperture three inches wide had been made to the depth of 10 inches in the party-wall of 13 inches, which separated it from his house. The other prisoner, Wilkinson, was caught while en deavouring to make his escape. Mr. Miller, the chief•oficer, said that being in formed of the attempt, he had'exlmined the premises, and found underneath the bricks which had been removed a long canvass bag, which was placed there no doubt to prevent any noise being made while the burglars were at their work, and also to con , vey away such property as they might be able to abstract. Stamford, the night constable, produced a dark lantern, a jemmy, a ripping -chisel, a phosphorus-box, and watches, which he found on the person of the prisoner Walker, on his being brought to the watch house. A watchman proved the apprehension of Wilkin son, and added, that after he was taken to the watch house, he laid claim to a hat, which he had drop ped, in endeavouring to escape, and which was found in the adjoining garden. The Magistrate asked whether any property had been stolen from the house in which the prisoners were discovered. Mr. Read replied no : in fact there was nothing for them to take. The prisoners, when called on for their defence, declined entering upon any, and were consequently committed to take their trial. The second gang, after these prisoners were re moved to the lock-up room, Thomas Saunders and Eduard Swift, were charged with a burglary and robbery in the house of Mr. Lark, a tobacconist, in the Whitechapel-road. It appeared that several attempts having been lately made to rob Mr. Lark's premises, the inmates were constantly on the watch to discover the offenders. On Sunday night Mr. Archer being from home, he left his brother, together with a per son named Archer, in care of the premises, and they, suspecting that another effort would be made in his absence, concealed themselves in the kitchen to find out the thieves. They had not been long there, when the prisoners entered the house by means of skeleton-keys, and just as they had got in. Swift called out to the other prisoner, " It's all right, bolt the door." On hearing this they rushed from their hiding-place, and seized Swift in the par lour, on whose person a bundle of halfpence, the wrapper of which was identified by the prosecutor, together with some skeleton keys, *ere discovered. His companion, Saunders, made his escape through the front-door, but being pursued by Archer was se cured, and placed in the watch-house. -In his flight Ise dropped several house-breaking implements, among which was a new crow-bar constructed on a rather novel principle. The prisoners offered no defence, and were com mitted to Newgate. FATAL RIOT AT MANOR-HAMILTON.- . We have learned that a dreadful riot took place on Wednes day last, at Manor-Ilamilton, in which Orangemen and Catholics were the combatants. It is stated that four per sons were killed, and several others wounded. The parti culars of this melancholy affair have not yet reached us.— Dublin Morning Register. The following anecdote, illustrative of paren tal affection in the feathered tribe, is deserving of notice:— A boy in Dunfermline having robbed the nest of an ox-eye of its young, carried them . home to the house of his friends in Woodhead-street, and lodged them in a cage. They had not been long there, when the people were surprised by the appearance of two birds fluttering round the house, apparently anxious to get in. The window was opened and the cage placed on the outside, when the parent birds immediately approached and seemed delighted with the sight of their offspring. They have since continued, at shot t intervals, to visit them with supplies of worms.— Caledonian Mercury. THE NIGHTINGALE.—About ten weeks since, JosEnt ROBERT WILSIIERE, of Huntingdon, suc ceeded in capturing a nightingale, which was brought to take its food in the usual way, and soon became a fine songster. A few days since, oberving some feathers off the neck of the bird, on examining it, they found a rusty pin had protruded about au inch ; this must have been swallowed with the bait when taken, and what appears almost incredible, it did not occasion the songster any perceptible inconvenience. The pin was extracted, and the bird is still doing well.--Macclesfield Courier. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have observed for some weeks, with more amusement than surprise, the manoeuvres of the factious journals in this country whenever they take occasion to animadvert upon the state of Ireland. There is nothing more certain than that one of the chief arguments for emancipation was the general disposition among the Irish people to regard the want of it as a grievous and provoking wrong. The Duke of Wellington declared that the bulk of the people of Ireland were organized throughout the whole country as one inseparable body, becoming every hour more heated and exasperated against the law which de graded them, and against the Protestants, whose presumed representatives, the Orangemen, wound ed them by unceasing menaces and insults.— - " The Government," cried the Duke of Wel- . lington, " cannot go on if this state of things be perpetuated." The Orange faction could not understand such language. They did not conjec ture what government it was, for the safety of which, or rather for its wholesome and beneficial influence, the Prime Minister expressed his appre hensions. In the blindness of their vain-glorious arrogance, the Orange faction were persuaded that the real and habitual principle of Irish government—that is, the principle of political monopoly and oppression, or in other words, their own Orange Government,—would flourish everlastingly if the penal laws were to endure ;- at least they felt conscious that the repeal of those laws would be incompatible with the con tinuance of such a party government, and they turned a deaf ear to the Duke of Wellington when his Grace alluded to his Majesty's Go vernment as that which could no longer go on. What was _then the condition of the country ? It was not disturbed by any local excesses, by any individual outrages, by tumults, by nightly assemblages, by parochial or county conflicts at fairs. The hangman at that season, which to the sagacious eye of the Duke of Wellington seemed so fraught with peril,—the hangman's office was a sinecure as complete as that of Lord of the Bedchamber. The gaols were empty, the Judges had only to felicitate the grand jurors on the absence of all indication of a contempt for property, or a thirst for blood, amongst the peasants. A stranger travelling through any district, however uncontrolled by troops or constables, would have said that Ire land was the most tranquil island in Europe. Yet the Duke of Wellington knew better than to look only at the surface of things he judged that this was a dangerous and hollow silence. He saw that the force of the nation was condensed, not para lizech—that the order and composure which reigned every where were those of high disci pline and matured preparation ; but that respect and obedience were yielded to other authorities than those of law, and that the physical and me chanical repose was but one among many instru ments of the most extraordinary political pt4er that ever threatened to demolish or undermine the institutions of any Commonwealth upon re cord. This for Ireland was a state of prelimi nary spasm—a natural forerunner :to the more stormy phenomena of convulsion. It was an evidence of disease, not of enjoyment or content ; land for the final tendencies of such a condition which were leading the empire by daily advances to utter imbecility and ruin, the Duke of Wel lington saw, what others had seen long' before,- that the reception of Catholics into the Consti tution was a remedy at once the most prompt and .effectual ; because it removed an obstruction to time working of all other remedies, by giving thcse Catholics who.. could influence their fellows a sympathy with the State, instead of . aii antipathy to it, and leading them to promote the public peace and enforce the laws, instead of devising means to disturb society, and to embarrass the established Government. The Duke of Wel lington, we repeat, judged wisely when he consi dered the high-wrought regularity of the people of Ireland in the demeanour of man to man as an unnatural condition for a lively and barbarous people. Their ordinary habits were those of coarse impulse and excitement. Their an cient practices, which had never been ci vilized or reformed by the conciliatory Minist r y of mild or impartial legislation, exhibited the extremes of savage violence and vengeance to wards each other; but they implied not one par ticle of disaffection to the supreme power of tho monarchy. The agitators of 1798 saw this, and repressed for a time the appetite for common place confusion, that they might glut it on the vitals agitators of thestate of ls 2 itself. So So downwards more s h wei.e legitimate convinced, that so long as private strife should . be suffered to distract the feelings of the multitude, they never could be trained to a unanimous and vi gorous co-operation for any great public object. The end was attained. The mystic league was dissolved. The posse comitatus of emancipation was dismissed, and the peasantry; little imbued with the permanent tastes.or habits of politicians, have relapsed into the old characteristic predilec tion for holiday meeting—flags, feuds," patrons,' ' cudgellings, whiskey, broken heads among them selves, and battles with obnoxious policemen. Is this, then, an honest ground of attack upon the Catholic Bill ? But is it less than the most daring impudence, for those who foretold that emancipation would do no good, to quote ac counts of bloodshed, nay, of atrocious murder, in the Irish newspapers, when the lives lost were exclusively Papist lives, and the perpetrators of . . whatever butchery has occurred s ere%Orangemen or policemen, and no others? The Borris-o kane transaction is still to be inquired into ; but the fact that Catholics there were the sufferers calls for no inquiry to confirm it. - Nor are wo now disposed to join the vulgar outcry against the violence and cruelty of policemen. Since the army was "withdrawn from the out stations, and the greater number ofdetachments called in to the head• quarters of their corps, the maintenance of the King's peace at fairs, and other meetings, has been committed to the constabulary power. This, as now managed, is a severe and trying service. InStead of having an officer and a score of dis• ciplined soldiers to resort to, whose very appear ance was enough to intimidate all rioters, and therefore to prevent all bloodshed, the serjeant of police is unw commanded to show himself with four or five of his men, in the midst of assemblages of more than twice as many thou sands. The early part of the day passes over, in many cases, without mischief ; but when old recollections of local hostilities begin to be quickened by the use and abuse of whiskey, and when opposite families or factions have recourse to stones and bludgeons, the police are forced to act upon their orders, to take aggressors into custody, and to part the enraged. Then it is that the hardship of these men's situation shows itself ; their office is odious, and provokes uni versal resentment, while the feebleness of their numbers inspires the multitude with contempt. Both parties of combatants join to assault the peace-makers; these, again, are compelled to