The Sun. — London, England, 1829-09-23 00:00:00

from the Russian Commantler-in-Chief. He required no other reason fir suspending his march than to be told that, bj , an immediate ad vance to the capital, he would endanger, by popular tumult, the lives of the Sultan, of his family, and of the Christian residents. The same motives of humanity, moderation, and pru dence, may be expected to act on the mighty Sovereign who has now the destinies of Turkey and the peace of the world in his hand.—lbid. The enemies of free trade would put an end to all trade. If the advice of Mr. Sadler and his associates were to he followed, this country would soon cease to be the greatest commercial State in the world. This gentleman says— " Another cause of the present and long-con tinued depression of the commerce and manafac tures of the country I have already alluded to, and this also is attributable to the same school of econo mists—the bane of the country—l s mean the free trade system, as it is called.—(Cheers.)—Circum 'stance(' as this country is, having to sustain a so much heavier load of taxation, and paying dearer for the necessaries of existence, and subsisting its operatives—at least, till this fatal alteration—better than any other, it must be obvious that, in all these branches of industry where we have no count( rvail irg advantages—either fom the possession and re tention of the raw material, better machines, and superior skill—f-reigners must be able to undersell us, and consequently to deprive many of our home operatives of their work, and of their bread. The branches so circumstanced are aumerous and import ant. It is true there is, for the present, a protect ing duty, as it is called, imposed upon some of their articles, mis-calculated, as I presume to think, if it be meant as such ; while the circumstances of legali sing them at all has given a facility to smuggling, which it was promised at the time, either in igno rance or worse, that it would be put down, and which had overwhelmed, in many instances, the home market with foreign goods." So then nothing short of prohibition will satisfy these gentlemen. In France free trade is still more unpopular than in this country, as was pretty well evinced by the proceedings of last Session. Prussia seems to be the only great country, except our own, in which the Govern ment has yet ventured to relax the prohibitory system. Mr. Sadler may be sincere ; but we cannot bring ourselves to believe that one hun dredth part of those who are now declaiming against free trade believe v.hat they say, or have any other object in view than to embarrass Mi nisters. It is an old trick in this country to have recourse to pious frauds in matters of trade. We have a curious instance mentioned in a Re port in 1712, by Dr. Charles Davenant, to the Commissioners for the Public Accounts. While France and England carried on unrestrained trade with each otller, both benefitted by it. "It has never (he says) been popular to lay down that England was not a great loser by the French trade ; hut in inquiries of this kind truth should be more hunted after than popularity ; and I P31:all endeavour to set this matter in as true a light as the nature of it will admit of, and which lies so obscure for want of knowing right of mat tent fact. As to the importations and exporta tion of commodities between the respective king doms, so far is beyond contradiction, that all the while England flourished and grew rich by an extended traffic (which was by Queen Elizabeth's reign down to the year 1640), that the two countries did not load one another with prohibi tioas of, or high duties upon, each other's pro duct or manufactures ; which that country' cer tainly would have done that found itself any con siderable loser by their mutual dealings, which must have been seen and felt in so long a tract of time von J;now, about the year 1660 the face of af lairs in Europe changed ; the Spanish Mo narchy was declined, and France became the rising Empire. And it rose so fast as to beget just apprehensions to England for our future safety. In the mean time several good patriots perceiving the Court then fatally running into French interest and measures, and finding it would be difficult to engage the people (newly come out of a civil war) to follow and join with them in more national councils, by speculations ;nerdy political, concerning the progress of the yrench arms and power, they thought the best courts to awaken Englishmen was, to alarm them about the danger they were in to lose their trade ; and for this reason, nothing was so com mon as to cry, that England was undone by the prodigious over-balance the French had upon us. To this purpose divers estimates were delivered to King Charles the Second, to the Committees of Council, anil to the House of Commons ; Oa go metimes the Court gave in to this matter, when great stuns of money were to be asked in Parliament to carry on a vgorous war against Yrance, this over-balance was made use of ma 4icioualy by some who had a mind to defame the Government." Dr. Davenant, after showing how much both France and Eng land had injured themselves by these prohibi- Aens, has the following sensible reflections,which Alneaet appear as if addressed to the Sadiers of the present day :—" That a country whose wealth and strength very much depends upon dealings extended to all the known world, should, if possible, avoid losing its traffick with Any particular country. England may be looked aileon as a general merchant, who should be 0.0r4 with commodities to invite and please all -dealers ; and we should have a variety of geemis to sort our cargoes, which cannot be had, while there is such a gap as a total intermission of commerce, with a country abounding in so products, natural and artificial, as France bas always been." The trade between England l and France, which, from Michaelmas 1662, to ;Michaelmas: 1663, was—lmports, 6 , 17,706/. ; Exports, 375,0651. ; had, from Christmas, 1701, to Christmas 1702, Millen to—lmports, 47,8961.; Exports, 2,266/. The opponents of Free Trade would have all the countries of Europe closed against each other in this way. — .Morning Chronicle. A Military Court Martial, which, from the vecniier circumstances under which it was held, excited ae much observation in that branch of eervice more immediately interested, as the one ieeently terminated at Portsmouth did in its pe ' earlier department, has just terminated at Lime rick. The finding of the Court is not yet pro mulgated. Colonel Bayley, against whom the charges have been preferred, is an officer of old standing, and had latterly commanded all the Reserve Companies, or what is professionally called the depot of his regiment. At the last half-yearly inspection, these Companies were re ported deficient in the improved manoeuvres re cently adopted, and an intimation was given to the Commanding Officer that he would be per mitted to retire by the sale of his Commission. This intimation was ostensibly grounded on the deficiency already mentioned. - Colonel Bayley at once declined the proposed retirement, and demanded a Court-martial ; his demand was complied with, but accompanied by a very un common departure from precedent, as a set of charges were framed having reference principally to Imputed acts of undue aeverity, which in the previ ous stages of the proceeding had never been hinted at; while the .original accusation of neglect in promoting an efficient field discipline was alto gether abandoned. This is the peculiarity of the case to which we alluded, and of which we are assured by the very best military authorities, there has been hitherto no example. Until the finding of the Court shall have been confirmed and promulgated, we shall hazard no observa• tion bearing on the charges ; but we may men tion, that we know the affair has caused much embarrassment at Head-quarters ; and that the most confidential Employe at the Horse Guards has declared, that it will be a lesson to him never to attempt an act of kindness toward an unwill ing subject, since the alternative proposed and rejected was resorted to from motives of good feeling, which proved entirely thrown away. The sentence of the Court•martial will decide whe ther the veteran Field Officer, or the of -handed Secretary was in the right. As we have already intimated, the interest excited in the military circles, by an investigation instituted under such singular circumstances, has not been exceeded even by that which accompanied the late naval expose at Portsmouth.—lbid. The Meeting at Cork to promote a Reforma }ion of the Church Establishment deserves parti cular attention. Attached as we are to the interests of the Protestant faith, we do not close our eyes to those defects in the system of national worship which mar its beauty, impair its strength, and make it, in some respects, more conform able with the ambitious inventions of man than the pure tnodel of Christianity. We are not among those who overlook the necessity of ac commodating an established religion to the cir cumstances of society, and who strain perpetu ally after some visionary form of ideal improve ment. But while we would have religion con form itself to the frame and condition of society, we would not have it make any compromise with the vices which it is its duty to denounce and extirpate. Let it preserve those orders which are adapted to time various ranks of the so cial state, and those forms which are the ex ternal symbols of authority ; but let it keep itself free from the defilement of avarice, and the cor rupting influence of power. Is it so at present ? With all our habitual veneration for the Esta blished Church, we must say it is not. Do we complain of time riches with which the Church is endowed by the liberal bounty of the State, for the maintainance of the ministers of religion ? By no means ; but we complain of their ex tremely unequal distribution. Do we complain, 1 as Burke says, that " Religion should raise her mitred head in palaces ?" No ; but we object to her not maintaining her Christian dignity, but contaminating herself with the intrigues of earthly ambition. The Church—even the reformed Church—has been for a long time past too fluni liar with the State, and too neglectful of the Altar. Worthy and good men haVe there been at all times in her service—patterns of learning and lights of religious truth ; yet has the prevailing influence of corrupt patronage and political traffic too much confounded a great portion of her Clergy with the secular pursuers of worldly vani ties. Such conduct has lowered that moral authority which, more than the ceremony of or dination or the wearing of cassock or mitre, should be time grace and support of their pastoral charge. 1 he consequences are seen in the growth of infidelity on the one hand, and the extension of schism on the other. While the truths of Divine Revelation are but languidly advocated by the Ministers of our religion, who can wonder that the insidious poison of infidel doctrines is daily working its moral ravages through theless-informed classes of society ? Who can wonder that new sects of strange wor shippers are continually starting up under the preaching of fanatics, who spread the excitement of wild delusion, in place of the sober consola tions of a reasonable faith ? Lord Mount cashel, whose speech on the state of the Church is a very important one, says, " the Clergy ought to do good—they are paid for it —yes, lavishly paid. No doubt time Clergy of the Church of England, as in all other Churches, exhibited a variety of shades—there were some excellent pious good characters amongst them, men pos sessed of real religion—and whose efforts in the cause of Christianity proved their anxiety and labour for the maintenance of the Church, of which they were the representatives. He could wish most fervently that others would copy after them, and, in place of living for themselves, as their conduct too much and too deplorably proved, live for those by whom they were in the first place paid, and for whose eternal concerns they had solemnly pledged themselves," The time has come when it is necessary that the Clergy of the Established Church should hear this language, and that from their best friends.— There is an incidental good arising from the change which has lately been wrought in the Constitution of this country, and it is that the Church is thereby thrown principally for support upon her own moral resources. The Priests of Rome, both in Ireland and this country, are indefatigable in promoting the interests of their communion. Opposed as we are to the doc trines which they propagate, we must do them the justice of saying we admire the zeal and activity which they display in support of their system. Their exemplary attention to the duties and in terests of their church ought to be an example to the clergy of our Establishment. No doubt, in these countries, the Romish priesthood, when politics do not engross too much of their time, are more remarkable for the faithful and zealous performance of the duties of their office than their brethren in the Roman Catholic countries on the Continent ;—and why ? they have no opulent and luxurious establishment here, as there is in Popish States—on the contrary, they have undergone a course of adversity which has had something of a purifying effect upon the cle rical character—and, besides, they arc conscious of being under the jealous surveillance of public opinion. The clergy of the Church of England must now look mainly to opinion for their support and protection. We must have a church militant, and not a church dormant. In order that the good may be worked to so ciety which the church is capable of effecting, she must purify herself—she must get rid of those unsightly blemishes upon her charac ter and fame, which are like spots upon the vestal's wise, " the worse for what they soil." One of the topics of' reform which was strongly alluded to at the Meeting was the " pluralities," a luxuriant source of moral mischief and reproach to the Church. Another was the mode of ap pointing Bishops, on which Lord Mounteashel says, " The appointment to a Bishopric in this country is generally the result of political mo tives. The gift lies in the King, but time King is seldom suffered to exercise it ; the Minister of the day has his projects to be supported, and, looking round bin], he selects the man posses se d 1 of the greatest Parliamentary interest, to whom he says, ' do you support me in the House of Commons with your Parliamentary interest, and I shall give you the investment of the nat va cant Bishopric.' " This is a traffic as notortou as it is detrimental and indecorous. It the heads of the Church are not appointed to their high station on account of their superior piety, learning, virtue, and was dom, but are chosen on the principle of poli tical subserviency, it is quite natural that a corrupting influence should descend to the sub ordinate ;classes of the establishment, and that too many of the inferior Clergy should adopt other means of recommending themselves to the dispensers of patronage and preferment than the simple exercise of the Christian virtues. We have alluded to the riches of ae Church, but not in an invidious sense, for we do not think the 'Church is too rich, and we have always been of opinion that, if any portion of the property of the Church were confiscated by the State, the people would not be gainers by it. Land which is tithe-free brings at present a higher price than that which is not, so that the advantage goes into the cofFers of the landlord—and so would the whole value of the tithes, if they were taken from the Church to-morrow. What we insist upon is, that, to make the riches of the Church truly available to the purposes of religion, they must be so distributed as to afford a respectable competence to the whole body of the working Clergy, while enough is left to the dignitaries of the Establishment to support their rank with re spectable, but not with luxurious liberality. How does the Noble Earl whom we have before quoted express himself upon this subject ? He says, " What is the state of the working portion of the Clergy all this time—those men upon whom the duties of the parish were made to devolve ? Zealous, laborious, talented, and pious, they were, for the greatest part, from their circumscribed salaries, unable to afford to their children that education which their own high minds would suggest. Were they not, in the correct sense of the word, gentlemen ? yet all who heard him must know that in hundreds of instances the Curates of the Church of England—the exemplary, educated, unpresuming Curates of the Church of England —were left much worse off than a Rector's com mon servant." This is a state of things which must not continue. The Church has resources enough to provide respectably for all its Clergy ; and it will not always be endured that the lives of two orders of its Clergy should exhibit the scandalizing contrast of pompous affluence and sordid poverty. There are other topics which we cannot, at present, enter into ; but we trust the spirit of reformation which is abroad will not cease until the Church, which is the depositary of the Christian faith, shall also display the ma jestic simplicity of the Christian religion,— Morning Herald. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday Mr. NEWMAN, the Coroner pro tem., and a highly respectable Jury of the inhabitants of Farringdon within, assembled in the Committee room of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Eleanor Thompson, aged 49. . - James Thompson, the husband of the deceased, was a hair-dresser, and lived at No. 25, Cock-lane, West Smithfield; he had been married to the de ceased about 12 3ears, and she had borne him three children, two of whom died about 12 months ago, within a shot t period of each other. His wife be came dreadfully afflicted in her mind at the loss of her infants, upon whom she Gloated, and ever since she had laboured under a strong aberration of intel lect, and had some short time before taken a large potion of poisf , n, but its effects were speedily coun teracted by the assistance of a medical gentleman. She had co sooner recovered from this attempt, when she rus!ied into the street with six razors opened in her hands, and proceeded across Smith field, here she was stopped by some friends who knew her, and brought her home in safety. On Sunday last he went out in the morning, leaving her at home ; she, requested he would return as soon as he possibly could, as she felt very unwell. lie did return early, at about four o'clock, when, on going up stairs, he found her lying upon the floor, when life was found to be quite extinct. She was a particularly sober and industrious woman, and was respectably connected. CORONER—Did you discover any weapon or any poison in the room ? Witness—No, Sir, I did not. I found this letter. It was addressed to Mr. Will. mott, Chelmsford, Essex:— "My dear Brother,—l am surprised you did not answer my letter I sent to you, but I suppose you think me not worthy of the trouble, but perhaps yo❑ think I ant not so had as I u•as. I was forced to be exposed to so many women whilst I was in the hospital, that my husband has thought so little of me ever since that I cannot live. My dear brother, I have a wish, which I hope you will fulfil, pray don't let me be buried by the workhouse ; pray let the hospital have me rather than let me be buried by the parish ; but look, brother, you have not seen me for a long tune. I see my dear father, Oh God! that deprives me of my senses, brother help to spare my dear children, to separate then' from me was a crime, I cannot bear it any longer. God has wished I shall not have one chid more than another May Heavirn bless my young Lord Adolphus, may he prosper and be hapdy, but I cannot. My dear lady did get roe a place, but I did not take it, which was my down fall—but Illy dear brother I don't know what I did—l cannot say any more. My dear brother, I hope you are well. My child died last night, and I cannot bury it. I wish you would. God bless you, my dear brother, lam your lovirg sister, " ELEANOR THOMPSON." CORONER—Who does the unimppy woman mean by young Lord Adolphus? Witness—She alludes to young Lord Adolphus Londonderry, whom she nursed. Mr. George Soulsby, had math, a post mortem ex amination of the stomach, and there could be no doubt but she had taken some corrosive matter, which had destroyed the intestinal canal, and had caused death. The Jury returned a verdict that the deceased poisoned herself in a state of insanity. Yesterday an inquisition was taken before Mr. CARTTAR, at the sign of King Henry VIII., High. street, Lambeth, on the body of Joan Freeman, aged 67. — William Exdale, of Doughty-place, Lambeth, knew the deceased by sight only. On Saturday evening, about eight o'clock, he came into his shop and asked for a pennyworth of pudding, with which he served hirr.; the deceased said, " I always buy a piece of pudding as I come by your shop," and was in the act of biting the pudding when he suddenly fell backwards and expired. Mr. Thompson, a surgeon, stated that the dc ceased died by the rupture of a blood vessel. Verdict," Died by the visitation of God." Another inquisition was taken, before Mr. IltGcs, at the Light-klorseman, Orange -court, Leicester square, on the body of George Gardner, aged 32. John West, a coal porter, stated that between 11 and 12 o'clock on Monday morning witness was standing near the arched entrance to Great Scotland yard, when deceased came up, apparently in good health, and said " John, how are you ?" and almost in an instant fell backwards and expired. Verdict—" Died by the visitation of God." We understand that it is intended to have a preliminary meeting of the manufacturers of this town early in the ensuing week, preparatory to a public one, for the expressing to Ministers the present distressed state of the manufacturing interests of the country, and particularly av regards BirM ingh a tn. —Birm inewn Journal, POLICE INTELLIGENCE, MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday a practice, which has for some time existed amongst the sheriffs, was complained of in the Just ice-room by Mr. Mohler, jun., who appeared upon the part of a prosecutor to demand a sum of money to which the sheriffs laid claim as forfeited to them by the conviction. The circumstances were as follow :—A young man, named De Witt, was tried for robbing Mr. Boutellier, a clerk in an assurance-ofiice, of 75 sove reigns. Mr. Cope, the Marshal, and Daniel For rester, apprehended the thief, and found secreted in the kitchen of his father's house 20 sovereigns, nine of which had been marked, for the purpose of lead ing to the detection of the robber. No doubt what ever was entertained that the 20 sovereigns were also the property of the prosecutor, and the prisoner was convicted. Mr. Cope still held the 20 sove reigns in his hands, but was required by Mr. nob ler, jun. who had conducted the prosecution, to de liver up to him the amount for his client. Mr. Cope had, however, received a caution from the Under-Sheriffs not to hand over the sovereigns to the prosecutor, as the Sheriffs considered them their own property. This order very much perplexed the Marshal, who wished to get rid of the sovereigns, hut was apprehensive of being made responsible in a Court of laW if he attempted to act in the case. He therefore held the money in order to have the judgment of the Lord Mayor on the matter. Mr. Hobler jun. said, that the conduct of the Under-Sheriffs, in persevering in their demand, was not warranted by law, and he hoped that the Lord Mayor would discountenance it altogether. The LoRD MAYOR had no doubt at all in his mind, as to the Injustiliable nature of the deten tion of the property. The prosecutor had most certainly a right to the sovereigns, both marked and unmarked, which had been found. Mr. Cope felt greatly embarrassed 1:y the double demand made upon him. The Sheriffs:considered themselves entitled to money in consideration of the conviction of the prisoner, and the prosecutor claimed it upon the plea that the prisoner had robbed him of a great deal more. He (Mr. Cope) wished to be relieved from the troublesome responsibility. The LORD MAYOR said, that in his shrievalty a shopman at Flint's was convicted of having robbed his employers of goods to a considerable amount; 1001. in money was found on the prisoner's person, and the moment the trial was concluded the Sheriffs ordered the money to be handed over to Mr. Flint, as it was considered that the property of which that gentleman had been plundered had been converted into the money. The Judge, upon the occasion, stated that Mr. Flint was certainly entitled to the whole of the money. Mr. Sheriff Copeland afterwards entered the jus tice-room, and the LORD MAYOR addre,sed him upon the subject. The Sheriff stated, that the prosecu•or V-a s no doubt entitled to whatever property he could iden tify, and there were nine of the sovereigns to which he could swear: those nine the prosecutor should certainly have, but he believed the Sheriffs were the owners of the rest. The LORD MAYOR thought that such a doctrine would very serionNly interfere with the administra don of justice. No man would go to the trouble of prosecuting if his property were merely to be 011113- ferred from the thief to the Sheriff. It did not sig nify to the prosecutor to which of them his property should be allotted. Mr. Sheriff Copeland, after some further conver sation with the LORD MAYOR, said he would take care that strict justice should be done in this case. BOW-STREET. Yesterday William Banks, James Smith, Samuel Cottrell alias Emery, and John Johnson, five men charged upon suspicion of having been concerned in the burglary and outrage committed in the house of the Rev. William Warrington, of West Monkey, in November last, were brought forward, in order to be re-examined before Sir R. BIRNIE. The exa mination was appointed for ten in the morning, but it did not commence until one o'clock, the delay having been occasioned by the non-arrival of the Rev. Mr. Warrington and his lady, in consequence of which, the case being incomplete without their evidence, the final examination was postponed until Friday next. Mr. Adolphus was also expected to have been present to conduct the prosecution, by di rection (it was said) of the authorities of the Home Mice. The Learned Gentleman, however, was not present, and the case against the prisoners was con ducted by Mr. Isaacs, who became connected with it in consequence of information given by Joseph Barnett, the Jew " fence," now in Newgate under sentence of transportation for life, for whom Mr. Isaacs appeared upon his trial at the Old Bailey. Harriet Eliza Smith stated, that she was wife to Edward Smith, now is convict under sentence of death in Newgatc. Some time in November last she was in a public-house, called the Two Brewers, at the corner of Playhouse-yard, Whitecross-street, The prisoners, Smith, Banks, and Cottrell, were there also. The prisoner Smith asked her husband if he would go to the place. Sir R. BIRNIE—What place ? Witness—Where they were going that night. Smith asked my hus band to go with him in something. Sir R. BIRNIE—And did he do so? Witness — Yes; they all went away together, and when they returned the next day they brought with them a brown coat and a broach. The prisoner Cottrell here exclaimed that it was an infamous thing that a woman, whose husband had been cast for death, should be allowed to come for ward, and swear men's lives away. The witness continued her evidence, and stated, that the prisoner Smith said in her hearing that " Fanny had made the balls all right," by which she understood that he meant pistol-balls. Sir R. BIRNIE—Who is Fanny ? Witness re plied that she did not know. [lt may be necessary to mention here, that at the time of the burglary the Rev. Mr. Warrington had in his service a young woman named Fanny, who was suspected of having extracted- the balls from her master's pistols, previous to the entry of the thiever. Fanny was taken into custody on suspicion, and underwent several private examinations; but al though nothing transpired to warrant her further de tention, she is still suspected of having " put up" the robbery.] Sir R. BIRNIE asked if the witness thought she should know the brooch again, which she had seen at the public-house in the possession of the prisoners ? The lirooch was here handed to her, and after examining it she said it was something like the one she had seen before, but not having it in her hand, she could not swear positively to it. The prisoner Cottrell said the whole case against the others and himself was got up by Mr. Isaacs, to save Barnett from being transported. It was nothing less than a vile conspiracy. Benjamin Somersby, the boy in the service of a fishmonger at Ilamptomcourt, met a horse and a chaise early on the morning of the robbery. The chaise was driving towards town, and three or four men (one of whom was the prisoner Banks) were in it. Sarah Barnett, wife of the convict Barnett, now in Newgate under sentence of transportation, stated that her husband, Who carried on the business of a dealer, and she were living at No. 10, Fore-street, Finsbury-square, about ten months ago, when Banks came one morning to their house, and offered for sale the brooch now produced. He had with him at the time a brown coat, which he also offered to sell, but her husband would not buy it. Martha Trevallion and Ann Hewett, in the ser vice of Barnett, corroborated the evidence of the last witness, with respect to the offer of Banks to dispose of the brooch and coat. Mr. Isaacs said, that this was all the evidence that could be produced at present. Sir R. Butsta then told the prisoners, that as he was determined to commit them, another examina tion would do them no harm. They would be brought up again on Friday next. Mr, Corder, the vestrrelerk of St, Paul's, Covent Garden, appeared before Mr. HALLS, in support of a summons, calling upon Mr. Beajamen, a dealer in cut-glass, residing in Bow -street, to show cause why a warrant of distress should not be levied upon his goods for an arrear of poor-rates which he (Mr. Benjamen) had refused to pay. Mr. Corder stated that Mr. Benjamen had been summoned before a committee of parishioners, ap pointed by virtue of their new Act of Parliament, for an arrear of rates, the greater part of which had been incurred during the life-time of the late collec tor, Mr. Lee, upon whose death it was discovered • that the arrears now claimed were due by Mr. Ben jamen. This, however, he had thought proper to deny, alleging that he had paid ali arrears to Mr. Lee before his death. Upon being required to pro duce his receipts, he raid he had lost them in Fe bruary last, when his house was undergoing some repairs. He then produced to the committee two affidavits, deposing to the truth of the statements he had made, and stating that a person named Har ris was in his shop at the time he paid his arrears. Mr. Corder now asked Mr. Benjamen if Mr. Harris were present ?—Mr. Isaacs, for Mr. Benja men, replied in the negative. Mr. HALLS asked if Mr. Benjamen bad been summoned for the arrears, which were now the subject of inquiry, before the death of the late col lector ?—Mr. Corder replied, that Mr. Benjamen had riot been summoned, but he had been applied to by Mr. Lee. Mr. HALLS then said that Mr. Lee had not, as it appeared to him, used due diligence in recovering the rates in question.: It was his duty to have issued a summons to compel Mr. Benjamen to pay his rates, and having failed to do so, he (Mr. Halls) was of opinion that the arrears could not be recoverable now. He meant those arrears that Mr. Lee had had an opportunity to recover. After some altercation between Mr. Corder and the Magistrate un this point, the ease was dismissed. 111 A RLBORO U GH.STREET. Yesterday a young man, named Alm Caterer, was brought from St. Giles's watch-house, before Sir G. FARRANT, the sitting Magistrate, charged with the following robbery : Mr. William Pond, an aged gentleman, residing in the county of Kent, stated that about four o'clock in the afternoon of Monday last, he was passing along Holborn, when the prisoner, whom he had never, to his knowledge, seen before in his life, came up to him, and accosting him, asked him how all friends in the county were. Witness replied that they were all very well; and begged to know who it was that was so kind as to inquire after them, that he might tell them when he returned home. The prisoner replied, that he was from that part of Kent near to where he (Mr. Pond) resided, and then mentioned the names of several persons with whom he (Mr. Pond) was acquainted in the country; and believ ing from this that the prisoner must surely be the son of some country neighbour, he asked him into a public-house to have something to drink. After having had some spirits and water at the public hearse, they adjourned to another, and from there to • a third, until at last he (Mr. Pond) was so overcome by what he had taken, that he could tell nothing more of what had happened until he found himself in the watch-house, about eight o'clock the same evening. A witness, named Lodge, between six and seven o'clock on Monday evening, was passing through Museum-street, Bloomsbury, when he observed the prisoner walking with the prosecutor, Mr. Pond, holding him by the arm, and leading him along, Mr. Pond being evidently in a very advanced state of intoxication. Witness seeing that the prisoner was perfectly sober, while his companion was so much the reverse, suspected something wrong, and going up to the prisoner, he asked him who the old gen tleman was, and what he was doing with him.— To which the priSoner replied, that the old gentle man was his father, and that he was conducting him home to his own house in Russell-square, where he resided. Witness, from the great difference of ap pearance in the parties, was not at all satisfied that what the prisoner said was the truth, and he deter mined to watch the prisoner's movements at a dis tance, while at the same time he himself kept out of sight; and they had not proceeded many yards farther, when witness observed the prisoner, after looking about to see that he was not watched by any one, draw the prosecutor's watch, &c., from his fob, and, after examining it, to see what sort it was, replaced it again where he had drawn it from.— They then proceeded on towards Bedford-square, witness still watching, until they came to a place called Caroline-mews, down into which the pri- • soner led Mr. Pond, and there again the witness saw the prisoner draw the prosecutor's watch from the fob, and put it—not back, as before, to where he had taken it from, but—into his own fob. Witness then called to the watch patrol, who happened to be passing at the time, and told him what he had seen, and haxing pointed the parties out to the patrol in the mews, they were taken to the watch-house. The prisoner, in his defence, said that the prose cutor gave him the watch to take care of, as he found himself so very tipsy that he was afraid he should lose it, and denied altogether having taken it out of the gentleman's fol►, as stated. Sir G. FARRANT told the prisoner that he must make out the best story he could before a jury, and committed for trial. MARYLEBONE. Mr. Church, of Shouldham-street, Marylebone. was charged by Johnson, the informer, with selling exciseable liquors, and permitting them to be drank upon his premises, contrary to the statute. A witness of the informer, named Brookes, stated that on the evening of Monday, the 14th of this month, he was served by Mrs. Church with half a pint of cider, and he drank it upon a stone leading to the door, and covering part of the area, and she made no objection. Mr. HOSKINS did not think it right to examine Mrs. Church upon oath, but he heard her statement. Brookes had been pointed out to her by her hus band as an informer two months ago. She bad since seen him in this office, and was so well acquainted with his face, that she should know him under any disguise. She was certain iti!;e did Hot serve him with cider as above, stated, for she had made up her mind never to serve him at all. Johnson said Mrs. Church might, after all be de ceived, and he requested that both his witnesses might be examined separately ; and it appeared that with a foul-weather coat on his back, and a large shawl over his chin and mouth, Brookes assumed the appearance of a wstchrnan. Mr. Church's solicitor said, if Mr. Hoskins would permit it, he would bring respectable witnesses to show that Brookes was not worthy of credit. In a former case he had sworn that he was served by s. Church between seven and eight o'clock in the evening of the 11th of September, and when that was heard, not knowing what might be advanced, they were unprepared with evidence to contradict it, but now they could do it effectually. Mr. and Mrs. Bolton, of South Lambeth, swore, that on the I Ith of September, Mrs. Church was in their company on the other side of the river, from two o'clock in the afternoon until nine o'clock at night ; and a lady visiting at Mr. Church's house in Shouldham-street, stated that Mrs. Church was ,absent that day from one o'clock, or a little after, till past ten at night. After hearing these contradictions, Mr. HOSKINS said he found himself in a situation most unpleasant. Ultimately he said the case was not proved to his satisfaction, and dismissed it. WORSHIP-STREET. A pale-faced, r ed-baked yo u th, c h arge d M rs. Brooks,to wliom he was appre nt i ce d, w i t h an as sault. The case excited much m err i ment f rom t h e 1ac1..-a-daiical mariner in which the boy detailed the circumstances, and from the bustling anxiety of his father to impress on the Magistrates the importance of the charge. " Now, Billy," said the father, " blow your nose, and tell his Worship." Billy then stated—After I'd eat my dinner on Saturday, I went and fetched some cat's meat on a skewer. My mistress says, "take it into the coal hole ;" and I took it into the coal-hole. When I got it there, she told me to pull it off the skewer, and because I didn't, mistress blow'd me up. " Why, I thought she assaulted you," said Mr. WA Lk. R " Oh," said the father, " wait, your Worship, " the most serious part is to come. She actually struck Billy a most violent blow on the head, which knocked over a sarspan of water, which was biting on the fire. The truth is, my son has not strength in his nerves." Mrs. Brooks here interposed, and assured the Ma gistrate that although Billy appeared so simple be fore them, yet he had the gift of a saucy tongue. I admit boxing his ears for his impudence; upon which he chose to leave my business and go home to his father. Ile came back a day or two after, with his Either, and I then told him that, as he had stopped away for his own pleasure, he should now keep away for mine; and I refused to let him enter. " Yes, your Worship," said the. father, " and all this crier I paid 201. premium, and bound him seven years to learn hair-dressing►. The MAGISTRATE said that the business was too foolish to be further proceeded with ; and dismissed the case. A desperate ruffian, named John Carney, was charged with a number of assaults. The watchman stated that this man was the terror of that sink of iniquity, George-yard. He was known as a notorious thief, and had been convicted at. the Old Bailey. The prisoner's denial of being a thief deserves some notice for its candour : " Vy, I own I vas a thief vonce—but now I gets my living in suite another different sort o'vay. " how is that ?" asked Mr. WALKER—" Vy, if I must tell the truth, I gets it by brandy smuggling." " Why that's very like thieving," returned the Magistrate.—" Yes, but your Vership knows," said Carney, with a knowing grin, " that its not trans portable." He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment ; and a female, with whom he cohabited, to one month. THE NEW POST-OFFICE. The preparations for commencing the business of the Post-office department in the new building were yesterday evening completed to a great extent, a nd workmen were employed to a late hour to make all ready for transacting public business this morning. The guards and others connected with the mail• coaches assembled yesterday evening ut the new Post-office, to receive instructions preparatory to their proceeding on their journey. Among other new regulations is one to the effect that none ado guards shall leave the new office, after they come Q 0 duty, until the departure of the muds. Last night, so great was the pressure of the crowd around the entrance in St. Martin's-le-Grand, that officers were called in to keep the doorway clear, ill order to afford flee ingress and egress to those COw fleeted with the establishment. Throughout the whole of the night the books, papers, and other of ficial et ceteras, have been conveyed from Lombard• street to the new office, in order that every thing may be rendered complete for the general busines 4 of to-day. Great numbers of persons, and among them were many individuals of rank, visited the establishment last evening. The whole of the lower offices were again lighted up last night. FRYS AND CHAPMAN'S BANKRUPTCY. Yesterday a meeting of the creditors under the commission of bankruptcy issued against Messrs. Frys and Chapman took place at the .Bankrupt's Court, Basinghall-street, before the Commissioners of the Ninth List, Messrs. Trebeck, Smith, and Holroyd. The meeting was held for the proof of debts, and for the declaring of a dividend on the se" veral estates of the bankrupts. The Court wag much crowded, and many members of the Society of Friends were present. A great number of debts' were proved, varying in amount from a few shillings to 2,0001.: the latter was proved on the estate of Joseph Fry. A lodging-house-keeper from Hastings made hie appearance and tendered his claim; it was a m oo due by the bankrupt Chapman, for board and lodg ing at the watering-place, and for which the chtimau g had received a cheque. The landlord had held the cheque over until the failure of the bank. The land' lord was required to prove on the ground that none of his claim, for which the sum named in the cheque was a part, had been satisfied. The Commissioners allowed the proof. Roscoe, a solicitor, said, he appeared for the, creditors of Messrs. Cochran and Robertson, e` America and Liverpool, merchants and rnrnrng agents. He exhibited a long and heavy accodufj showing a claim of 128,0001. (as was stated), an entered into a long detail of the way in which t , e debt had been contracted. Ile begged to prove el : the separate estates of the bankrupts. before SPY division of the funds took place. Mr. YOUNG, solicitor, contended that Mr.itos— f was not entitled to prove on the separate estates 0 the bankrupts, and quoted Lord Hardwicke as a d authority in point : some of the debts exhibited be been already paid. The Commissioners having consulted togeth er :r. Mr. Commissioner TREBECK said, we are of eril-te nion that proof cannot be admitted on the see' estates of the bankrupts. oul j Mr. Commissioner SMITH said, the Court e i 0 0 not put off the creditors by locking up the fun° such a question. •. Mr. RoscoE gave notice, that he should to diately file a bill in Chancery against the F' 66 the amount of 25,000/. as balance of accounts. ov a A Quaker, named WM. GROUNDY, P rege bill* himself to prove a debt of 5001. due on an co o d He mode an attack on Mr. Young, the solici tor,' the latter called the Quaker an impudent fellow.oo Mr. GROUNDY softly replied that he knew he ker ) impudent.—(Loud laughter.)—He (the Ol s bee n had refused to take notes for gold, and he Ls" thought impudent for so doing.—(A laugh.) , s i.. len T ci After some further discussion, and an investlag_ i n t e g AirGroiltici3r, Commissioners en h d ad disallowedso e d i t tli h c e u p l t r y e f. ti t i . tion of the balances in hand on each separate c , s te L; i t e st e : . 0, s eb rt e l ate, 3 dividends S.c ! d . in e e d pound eclared on JosephlVilliamFFury: in the pound; and on Jonathan Chapman 0 e , 10s. is the pound. The Court then adjourned. ss . ' Two persons have been for some toe Pop engaged with a diving bell at llolyhead, in bri?g" l l ,oi dollars which had been sunk in the ship Enterpr ae h i s el‘ year. ago. The dollars are generally coated with s bo tl oxide, which, when removed, exhibits the coinage ir e ' entire. BIRTHS. td On the 20th inst. at Kingston-grove, Oxfordshire' lion. Mrs. W. Rodney of a son mid he'r. On the 21st inst. at ' Stoke e winiton , Ml s ' W. Barker, of a so. erei On the 19th n inst. at Ewell, the lady of C a p t. Leal of a son. MARRIED. W' On the 22d inst. at Marylebone, H. --11 , r ga Esq. of 1331sbant-house, Cambridgeshire, to 3 ' 3 7 p r t' the youngest daughti:r of Augustus Browne, E vonshire-place. q. _hoof° Oa the 22d inst. at the Friends' Meetiog k _hOlf Bishopsgate-street, Riehrrdson, of De nil3 ..,d r Key to Sarah, only daughter of the late George Etb' Hoxton. DIED.I ad On the 22d inst. at his residence in the Nrauxur;or°o3' Mr. Christopher Henderson, formerly of Long Carlisle, Cumberland, in the 63d joil o g e st,son - v ear of ag , e :f Mr.. / ‘ On the 21st inst. Valentine Friedman, of Burton-crescent. TI d On the 21st inst. at Camberwell, Mr. W. the thecelebrated artist, aged 56. On t inst. at Ulster -place, Riehard„ the sots Mr. R. J. Lane. PAINTED AND PUBLISHED BY AIURDO yoUli t THE OrrICE, 112; .STRAND ,L 1,10014