The Sun. — London, England, 1829-12-29 00:00:00

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). 0 HAY M A RKETS.—( At per Load of 33 Trusses.) Coa t i t i - • ST. JAMES'S. N,, ~.'.- ear,*"4,169, Lowland Meadow Hay .£9 2 to £ 2 2 10 1.1 . "" " Hay 2 12 10 .: SA Old Ditto 215 3 8 „ne Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 lb 5 0 "over H ai 3 5 5 Oa t s - Paw' ..... ..£ 10 1 16 to £1 181 Wheat Straw 2 0 2 ;.! A great supply, and a dull trade ; prices as last quoted. SMITHFIELD. Eosrse heary Lowlaqd Meadow I - lay Zew Meadow Hay .t:2 n to £2 18 1 13 . 2 . sefulold Ditto 1 3 3 10 c t i 1 ,, 8 5 001 and Meadow an.l Rye-grass Hay 315 4 10 4 ) ,'„" Hay (extra fine)....£s 0 —Generally ;` " tr an' "1 10 to £1 14 I Wheat Straw 1 14 2 (I .--41• Ply raoderateltgood, trade very tlull, and prices stationary. CITY MARKETS.—(TWO O'CLOCK.) I ;catt..—The deliveries of Plantation Sugar last week Were limited, but still more business, on the whole, was traasacted than might have been expected. From the • IV eat India Docks there were taken 1,550 hhds. and N'tera. ; and, from St. Katherine's Docks, 62 hhds. for } "'nv consumption. The stock in the West India Docks '186,990 hhds. and 2,332 tees. Since Thursday last scarcely any thing has been done, and psies's, up to this • Morph, may be quoted nominally, as before. The same -14,44 `rration will apply to other descriptions a Sugar. PorrEg...—An opinion is indulged that business will tpereab shortly. - 1 4 1 e deliveries of Rust from the West India Docks, for -. 1 ? 1 ,1te consu mpt i on , were pretty l arge , v i z ., 460 p unc h eons and —3 hhds. For export, only 50 puns. and 17 bhds. ; e " taken ou t. Th e s t oc k i s a b ou t 23,000 puns. and 1 " 687 1111 4. No variation of moment has occurred in the I n the Sr= Market Cinnamon continues in demand P at the previnus advance. In BALTIC PIIODCCE there is little doing. Tallow is ' l i 4 atvcl at 355. 3d. per cwt. The delivery last week was '" 41 1 - 1300 casks, and there is now about 43,000 casks. The letters from St. Petersbugh do not contain any cont . ~tnercial information of interest. In the Hop market there is a little more business doing • and the holders are anticipating higher prices for choice ba The last accounts from India respecting the INnico "°l l being of an unfsionrable character, the dealers arc 1 ',"iting with increased interest to the result of the next ` 4lll tPany's sale, for which between 5000 and 6000 chests , ave been declared. The Indigos are now on show, and Defter.. prices expected. In the TEA, trade regular business is doing, and the deli yeries from the Company'. warehouses are reported to be large. On the prices obtained at the het sale there variation of cOmeequenee. rASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. fin? ,l,t• 00, tile •RRIVALS. The nuke of Manchester, in Park-place, from his seat, Kim bolton Castle; the Dowager Marchioness of Exeter, at her seat, at Roehampton, from the Isle of Wight; the Earl and Countess M Hardwick, at their seat, Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire, from Scotland; the Marchioness d'Hareourt and Miss d'Har. court, at Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albemarle-street, from O xfordshire; Samuel Smith, Esq. M.P. and Mrs. Smith, at their house in Berkeley-square, from their seat, Wood Hall Pa rks near Ware, Harts ; Sir Thom a s a nd L a dy F arqu h ar , a t their house in St. James's.street, from the Marquis of I lertford's s ' t, Sudburn, Suffolk; Colonel and Mrs. Armstrong, at Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Bath ; J. Cadwell, Esq. at ditto, (corn Canada; the Duke of Leeds, at his seat, Hornby Castle, Yorkshire, from a tour; Captain and Mrs. Mayrick, in Brook. street, from the Continen. ; Lord Francis Osborne, at his seat, Gog Magog, Cambridgeshire, from a tour; Mr. and Mrs. J. Ste phens, in A . ark.lane, from Brighton. DEPARTURES. Captain and Ntre. Hughes, in Grosvenor-street, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs. Rose, from Ellis's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Demerara ; •Captain and Mrs. Higgins, from. Dover-street, for Norfolk ; Mr. and Mrs. J. Jackson, from the Pulteney Hotel, Albesnarle-street, for Bath ; Captain Jones, from ditto, for Ox ford ; WilliaM Matthews, Esq. from the British Hotel, Jerinyn. Streit, for Dublin ; J: Norris, Esq. from ditto, for Oxford. Prince LEOPOLD left his residence at Clare rnont yesterday morning, and paid a visit to the Duchess "f Kim; at her apsrtmenta in the King's Palace, nt Ken- Royal Highness afterwards passed through London, on his stay to H4tfield, Harts, on a visit to the • M argontiand Marchioness of Sn.r.asaunr. tle eil of Elie • The Duke and Duchess of CUMBERLAND, attotnpanied by Prince GIORCIE, took an airing on Sun 'day; froth Kew to Bushy-park, to pay a visit to the Duke and Darheas of CLARENCE. Their Royal Highnesses re turned to Kew in the evening. . The French Ambassador, the Prussian Mi.' 'hlattr, the N e th er l an d s Mi n i ster, an d t h e Ri g h t. H on. Sir STRATFORD CANNING, had interviews with the Earl of AiNs . DNaN yesterday at the Foreign-office. COVENT -GARDEN THEATRE.-- Mr. G. riR24NETT, after an absence of, we believe, four years, re - appeared.on these boards in the character of the Earl of Essex, inJONES'S Leavy tragedy of that name. He Played the part.with spirit and intelligence, but the drama made no impression —not the finest acting of the finest actor of any age can now lend it interest. Its day is gone by. Mr. FAWCETT, the veteran comedian, at the end of the present season not only retires from the stage, but quite London, to reside in the country altogether. Last week the Marquis of HASTINGS had a - grand baths at Douningten Park, when his Lordship and friends killed 300 bead of game, in three hours and a half; the shooting was excellent, the party consisting of the following noblemen and gentlemen :—Lords Hater tuns and OSSORT ; the Honourable' Atatt.Ev, STANHOFE, and DUNDAS ; Messrs. CHESLYNS, RICHARD Gomm, and HOLDEN.—Nottin;hum Journal. Mr. EDWARD DAVIES, whose case has ex cited so much interest pending the inquiry which termi nated on Saturchy, it is said, has given instructions to has solicitor (Mr. Hozeza, jun.) to commence actions against Dr. BURROWES, Mr. HANLEY, Mr. BYEWATER, and others.--Morning Herald. The cold in the night between Sunday and Monday was very intense. A register FAHRENHEIT thermometer, in the higher part of the town, indicated 15 degrees, or 17 degrees below freezing. THE SERPENTINE.—Yesterday the ice par tially bore on the south aide; and one of the most adven turous akaiters was immersed to the waist, but he extri cated himself in time. The surface had improved ; but it *as only in those parts recently frozen. A few of the alttiters'wereof a better class thin those who were there net Sunday: we saw Mr. HERBERT, Captain LLOYD, Mr. MICELETNWAITE, and M. MARS, among the figure performers on the North Bank. There were few carriage., for the day was dreary and intensely cold. Some of the letters from Calcutta received on Saturday, state that the greatest confusion prevailed among th e merchants and other trading classes, in consequence of the extensive forgeries lately discovered. Eighteen lacks (Montt 1S0,0001.) is said in these letters to be their sup puled amount, ,Several Europeans were sufferers, some to a considerable amount, but none of the agency houses are of the number. No business had been done at the Treasury for three days, and dreadful discoveries were ex pected in the Moolusil treasuries, and at the other presi dencies. A great sensation had been excited at the Bazaar of Calcutta, but it was not unfavourable to private credit. Pepi r and Bank Stock, however, were at that moment quite unsaleable. The forgeries had been so skilfully executed that interest was often paid at the Treasury on false notes. No individuals were implicated besides the two or three natives mentioned this morning. Some curiosity has been excited to-day to learn in what manner the new Bank measure, fir the relief of the agricultural interest, has been received in the dis • tricts wkere branch banks have been formed, and whether advantage of it has been taken to any extent. Having made very particular inquiries on the subject, because we conetived it material in determining the actual degree of distress existing among the agriculturists, we can venture to state, on authority of the best description, that the offers of assistance from the branch banks have hardly in any ease been needed to. The remark of the managers of the branck banks to those who sought information from th e m was, that they had few or no applications, and that they -really found no agricultural distress to relieve. What-- , ever was wanted the local banks were perfectly ready and willing, -as in ordinary times, to furnish. We have rea son to believe that the official accounts transmitted to the parent establishment in London concur nearly in state ments tit the effect above described. This fact is of much imp.rtance 'when it is considered on what favourable terms the branch banks were authorized to make advances ; for the Directors in LOndon, in their desire to relieve AO implirtiiit a inancli of the national industry, bad deviated from their usual practice, and instructed the ,Managers of thiir • - proelneial : bankt Co lend 'on any description of secu rity at-3 per cent. Even title-deeds and leabeet were to 1* taken 'an' collateral-sectirityi.tle.berroWee in ad . duet* f' - - - yef; When "the offer it as insdep thei* was inumPno inrb to fake idifintage of it;:at a • period eta ttli lest- *lll4 41,044 I'am - 6'6i - ibis C 1 ass is usually at the highest..--Tines. EX-PARTE DAVIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sitt,-- 7 I find in reading this case, that your Re porter has stated " that a young man who joinvi in the applause was brought before the Coamosvioners and reprimanded." lam the person alluded to in your Journal, and I beg most unequivocally to state that I was not reprimanded, but the conduct of the Sheriff's officer was disgraceful. I only joined in the general applause when the verdict was returned, and which gave entire satisfaction to every person in the Court; when I was instantly seized by the officer who stood at my arm, only, as I have before observed, for joining in the • applause. Your early insertion and attention to this will be esteemed a favour by, Sir, your very obedient servant, Back-hill, Batton-garden, H. SIMMERS. Dec. 2S, 1529. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--- -, Having observed that you occasionally de vote a portion of your columns to topics connected with our nation:a church, I am desirous of inviting the consideration of your readers to a most important branch of the great question of Church Reform, which now engrosses so large a share of public at tention. As a minister of the establishment, and as de votedly attached to that part of its church militant here on earth, I cannot look upon those discussions in which the public mind is s-) engaged without in tense interest. It seems impossible to cast evert a hasty glance around our ecclesiastical horizon with out gathering from " the signs of the times " strong conviction that our church is fast approach ing a momentous crisis. Every appearance is big with this indication. The subject of Church Re form in its most comprehensive sense has been brought before the Christian world, and our rulers, spiritual and temporal, in an able work anonymously published, but usually, and I believe correctly, at tributed to the Rev. Mr. Berens. The more limited, but by no means less interesting question of the Revision of the Liturgy has been discussed in a systematic and detailed manner, and in a more re cent publication, by the Rev. R. Cox, Minister of Stoitehouse, Devon, a clergyman already known to the world as the author of several ,theological pub lications. To this work, Mr. Editor, I request permission to direct your attention, for the purpose of bringing this most interesting question before your readers. The method adopted by the author, is that of a cir cumstantial review of the Liturgy ; his object he a+on•s to be no other than that of obtaining from the Government and our Hierarchy " An improved Edition of an invaluable Publication." His phins for that purpose, with your leave, I shall now examine in the order observed in the work, and since he candidly avers " he has not the vanity to suppose theta]] his alterations will be deemed unobjectionable, much less that they will be regarded as the most sensible that might be proposed," he will doubtless rather court than shrink from fair discussion. Mr. Cox grounds his arguments in favour of a revision of the Liturgy, on the general principle, that the original compilers of that venerated form of devotion, so far from having completed the grand undertaking of reformation, confessedly left the illustrious work, so happily begun, to be carried on to perfection by their successors. The historical review of the progr►ss of the Reformation in England, from Henry VIII. to the Revolution, in proof and illustration of this position, is drawn with much truth, fidelity, and clearness. The real character of the Defender of the Faith has been seldom, if ever, more felicitously depicted than by Mr. C. in a clever antithetical sketch. " That tyrannical Monarch had separated from the Pope, but not from Popery.' The Protestant Who dared to deny the real presence in the sacra ment, was no less the object of his displeasure than the Papist who ventured to question his supremacy. To proceed too fast cr too slowly in the work of reformation equally excited his indignation; to fall short of or to exceed the royal standatd of ortho doxy,wasalike punished by this modern Procrastes." Inferring froin the facts in this historical epitome, that the Liturgy was never declined by its com pilers as complete, far less, as immaculate, the author urges a revision of their incompleted work, to be immediately undertaken. He regards the present juncture as most favourable to the attempt, when, as he declares, " We have Bishops inferior to none of the Reformers in piety, superior to them all in literary attainments, and abundantly better qua lified to revise and complete our Liturgy than those who originally framed it." Waiving any doubts which might be raised as to the accuracy of this view of present circumstances, I proceed to examine Mr. C.'s proposed alterations and emendations. A lively impression of the " long someness" of the service appears to have been 'a chief incentive to the author's projected revision. To obviate this prolixity, and to avoid repetition, are evidently among the objects nearest his heart. His plan for effecting the former of these objects is that of dividing the present morning service into two separate portions; thus providing a morning and afternoon ritual. The first to consist of the morning prayer (strictly so called), and the second of the communion service, both to undergo certain alterations. By this means the evening ser vice would be performed in the evening in churches where there are three services, obviating those repetitions which now necessarily arise from using the same service for afternoon and evening.: Another plan of abridgement is the cancelling of all repetitions. It is objected that the Lord's prayer occurs five, and not unfrequently six or seven, times in the morning service. This our author strenu ously urges should be used only once, and in like manner, he is anxious to confine the use of the Gloria Palri to the end of all the psalms, instead of repeat ing► it as at present, at the end of every psalm. Allowing the justice of many of the arguments ad duced in support of this opinion, I cannot regard them as sufficiently cogent to establish the position that every repetition should be avoided. " Vai❑ repetitions" we have the highest authority for avoid ing, but the words of our Lord himself, and the model of prayer which he left us, should surely be placed upon very different grounds from ever, - other portion of the Liturgy. And whether our reformers retained it merely because they found it in the three original separate services, or not, it appears highly desirable, and altogether expedient to record our veneration and deference for his divine autelogy by using it more than once. The same remarks, it is admitted, will not apply to the Gloria Patri. And yet there does seem a simple grandeur, a religious sublimity, in the frequent 'repetition of this laudatory recognition of the holy, blessed, and glorious Trinity. It is a constant ;memento to worshippers of the might and majesty ; of the triune Jehovah. Moreover, it bears a strik :ing and a gratifying affinity to Hebrew worship—to 'that ancient and venerable ritual which Jehovah l ihimself designed to institute—which Itmnanuel, God with us, condescended to employ. To many a mind it doubtless marks in a most impressive man ner the distinction between the holy and the com mon. Past ages have been disposed to veil the rites and ceremonies of the church in undue and supersti tious mystery. Now, the propensity of the times is 'to run into the opposite extreme—to level every distinction between the sacred and the profane—and to render the most solemn,' the most holy language of devotion, as familiar and as common as household words. While this proposed abridgment of the morning 4rvice, and the appointment of a separate service for the afternoon, have many solid advantages to recom 'mend their adoption, I am by no means so sanguine its the author appears to be, as to the facility of he execution of such a plan ; and I am far from ptiing satisfied, with him, that they are " inconsider ble..alterations ;" still less can I believe that they iwould be acknowledged as improvements by all. 'Nor is my assurance scarcely less than positive, that the writer who flatters him t "no tithe!, would be made on the r ta lie g , at,; jedices of Oa, most sensitive," by reele a cheage, has not duly c•ti• mated the strong hold %vhich eduea , ..!l, and association takes upon the mind, even of the most open and candid. Again, it doe 3 not seem satisfactorily made out that " the greater part, if not the wl n of thrse emendations, mi ? :lit be carried into t ffact by an au thority similar to that which appoints suitable prayers for the seasons, set apart for humiliation or thanksgiving; or ‘..-hich occasionally directs, that an additional name should be inserted in our prayers for the Royal Family." To alter the fame-work of our Liturgy, so far as to'leake three services out of two, is surely a matter of far greater weight, and involving consideration of much deeper interest than the temporary appointment of a suitable prayer for a fast or thanksgiving day, or the interpolation of an additional name in the prayers for the Royal Family. While in the same page Mr. Co: depre cates any intention of proposing alterations which should have a tendency to unsettle the minds of the people, or to diminish their attachment to our ve nerable Liturgy, I can scarcely suppose so important a change as that conteraplated, could be entrusted to this summary method of procedure without in curring the charge of rashness—thus exciting a pre judice against the undertaking, which only refers to the method of conducting ir. Having trespassed so largely upon your indul gence, I shall not venture in my present letter be yond those topics which are comprehended within Mr. Cox's introductory chapters, but shall, with your permission, resume the subject in a future number. A COUNTRY CLERGYMAN. , near Plymouth, Devon, Dee. 23. TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Your correct remarks upon the imperfec tions of the laws of this country induce me to lay before your readers, through your valuable columns, a view of the Court of Chancery, which does not appear to have presented itself to you. A bill is filed, which, after due delays in excep tions, references for imperfections, amendments, and other et-cetera, is answered—wittiesses are exa mined, and at an expense of from one to ten thou sand pounds, the cause is, at the end of four or five years, brought to a hearing—the plaintiff obtains a decree, with a reference to the Master—he sees the money almost within his hands, and is frantic wiih joy—the fool !! ! He gets into the Master's office, fresh evidence is produced, two or three years more are consumed, 500/. more are expended, the f‘iss ter probably reports there is nothing due to him, and the plaintiff has to pay the costs ! So much for his decree! But we will suppose the Master reports that every farthing ha seeks to recoN er:is due to him— his joy is again excessive, he fancies he has only to go back to the Court to get the Master's report con firmed, and to melte his money—poor maniac ! ! ! he dors not dream of exceptions being filed to the Master's report. This hangs the cause up for another year at least—new briefs must be prepared and de livered, and another 5001. expended. At length the exceptions are argued, and perhaps allowed— the_cup of bliss is dashed from the mouth of the dreamer of happiness, and he finds himself awake in a prison for the costs. It mny be observed, the exceptions may be allowed in part, and it may be referred back to the Master to correct his report. Another year or two, at least, consumed—another 5001. expended—the cause comes back to the Court with a report which strips the suitor of all his hopes, and ho is thus plunged in distress and ruin. 'We will, however, assume that the report is fa vourable—it is coVirmed—and although the man and his family hare suffered ten, fifteen, or twenty years of torturing anxiety, he is grown old, and, with his family, reduced almost to starvation and beggary by the draining Chancery suit; but he is now about to receive what he has been for so many years unjustly kept from the enjoyment of; and although he is worn out with constant harrazsing, his heart and spirit are broken and bowed to the earth by the long and expensive isuit, and the pri vations to which he has been subject in consequence of it ; he has, however, the :consolation of hoping And expecting that his family will enjoy the fruits of his wretched and tedious perseverance—stop— an appeal is filed—the suit is again hung up for two or three years—another 50W. must be raised and expended: and here again he runs the risk of a reversal of all the former judgments, and even at this stage his claim may be crushed, and the plain tiff end his miserab!e existence in a gaol, with the knowledge that his family are miserable homeless wanderers and beggars in the street—rendered so b♦ his attempts to obtain justice in a Court of EQUITY ! ! I assure you, Sir, I have not by any means co loured this picture highly; I have assumed that the suitor would be able to find money to carry on the suit—l have not taken into consideration the deaths of parties and bills of revivor consequent thereon— the issues and trials at law which may be directed by the Court—the numerous motions arising out of the suit which it may from time to time be necessary to make—the different tricks to which the practice of this Court allows a defendant to resort, in order to delay a plaintiff and put him to enormous and use less expense—the want of ability or application on the part of some of the Vicers of the Court, not excepting some of the Masters themselves—the dif ficulties of getting before the Masters more than about twice a week, and then only for an hour at a time, so that the Master can catch the merits of the cause but by bits and scraps, and consequently can not possibly acquire a clear and comprehensive know ledge of the case—l say I have not taken into con aideratien these, and a thousand other disadvantages, discouragements, and delays, arising in the course of a hostile and prolonged suit—l have set forth a comparatively smooth and straight-forward case. That such a Court is a disgrace to this country cannot be denied, and that a man must be an idiot who would not at once sacrifice almost his last shil ling rather than plunge into the vortex of such a Court, is a fact equally clear; but how is it to be remedied—by lopping off some of the fringes ? No; by a commission directed to LAWYERS, who have been all their lives immured in the Courts of Law or Equity, whose minds are warped, and their hearts hardened by the repeated, nay, constant scenes of distress and injustice, which they witness, and in which they are engaged?—Men whose whole lives have been devoted to learn the QUIBBLES and tricks of their profession, and in applying them for the benefit of their client be his cause ever so un just,—and totally regardless of the ruin, distress, and desolation they deal around them ?- 2 I say, are such men likely to discover and apply a remedy ? No, no, let a commission be directed to some men of liberal and expanded minds, NOT LAWYERS, with power for them to call for and examine lawyers and other persons if they please; and I, for one, shall be greatly surprized if they do not destroy the old and INFERNAL machine of the Courts of Chancery, and erect one of a much less complicated and less expensive nature—where:patronage, expense, and delay will no longer be the ruling principles—but where a man will have an opportunity of stating his .case and obtaining a final decision with as little (or less) delay and expense as he now experiences in bringing his cause to an issue and termination in a Court of Common Law. fIUMANITAS. The accounts of the Duke of DEVONSHIRE'S Christmas festivities at Chatsworth are totally devoid of truth. His Grace is now in London, and intends, accord. ing to annual custom, shortly to ♦isit his pleasant resi dence at Kemp-town, in Brighton. Notwithstanding the absence of the Duke from Cliatsvrorth, the poor in the parishes contiguous to the chateau are, during the holy. days, feasting upon his bounty. Two fat oxen are.killed every week for six weeks, cut up, and distributed to the indigent, together with a fair proportion of bread.—Morn ing Paper. ; INTELLIGENCE. T I ERSALL'S. The h•stin;, , wos not very intererting, nor era. the atturnlaiwe by any Means r. rncrous. The only b. t% worth naming w, Tr :)00/. I, 7 en \Vat Tyler net Zucharell!, and 500 even War Ty 1...; age, Sal eel , . We subjoin a list of tlte average priveA :it the close of the room : T:SitRY. 8 to 1 agst Sir Mit; - k Woorl'.. the. Mummer 9 to 1 apt Mr. Petre's 171:imswicher 12 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Cressida colt 13 to I sgst Sir M. Wood's Cetnq „ . 14 to 1 agst Lord Cavendish's Mouse cost 17 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Mahmoud 20 to 1 agst Mr. Ramsbottinn's Zuch•:rclli 20 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Sal colt 20 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Wit Tyler 25 to 1 agst Lord Tavistock's Costar! colt 25 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur 25. to 1 agst Lord Sli;o's Brine 25 to 1 agst Lord Egremont's Brother to Grampus 30 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Manche 40 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's The Major OAKS. 6 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Motiche 9 to 1 aget Lord Queensberry's Sister to Emma 9 to 1 agst Mr. Stonehewer's Leeway filly 13 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Filagree f. 16 to 1 agst Mr. Maherley's Zebis 17 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Shumla ST. LEGFR. 9 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Raby 14 to I agst Mr. Petre's Brunsw•icker 16 to 1 agst Mr. Richardson's Sir Nicholas 16 to 1 agst:Duke of Leeds's Lady Motaray 22 to 1 aget Mr. Petre's Reginald 25 to 1 agst Colonel Cradock's The Bnb:r. HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS FOR. THE PRESENT WEEK. His Majesty's Stag-hounds, on Monday, at Maidenhead Thicket; and Friday, at Slough—at Half-past Ten. Lard Kintore's Hounds, on Tuesday, at Nuneham ; Thursday, at Wytham ; and Saturday, at Tar Wood. Mr. Meynell'a Hounds, o❑ Monday, at Hoarcross ; Thursday, at Sudbury; and Saturday, at Blythbury—at Ilalf•past Ten. The Badsworth Fox Hounds, •n Tuesday, at Kings ton; Thursday, at Stapleton Park ; and Saturday, at Bal ton-bridge—at Half-past Ten. The Kempstone Hounds, on Monday, at Wicken Castle acre ; Wednesday, at Mileham ; and Friday, at West Lex ham—at Eleven. Mr. O'Kelly's Hounds, on Monday, at the Kennel, Tuesday, at Knowle ; and Thursday, at Bryanston—Jt Half-past Eleven. The Brookside Harriers, on Monday, at Newmarket- Hill ; *Wednesday, at Ashcombe, the alternate Wednesday at the Kennel ; and Friday, at Telscombe Tye—at Half past '('en. Mr. H. K. Sampson's Hound, on Monday, at West dean ; Thursday, at Bourne ; and Saturday, at Mr. Ade's, Duttles—at Ten. The Brighton Harriers on Monday, at Patcham ; Wed nesday, at the Rare Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke—at lia!f-past Ten. The East Kent Hounds, on Monday, at Paddiesworth ; Wednesday, at Deane-park ; and Friday, at Ashley—at Ten. The Conock Harriers, on Monday, at Ell Barrow ; and Friday, at Ilaskings's Penning—at Eleven. The Craven Hounds, on Moday, at Foxfield-gate ; Wednesday, at Sandleford-house ; Friday, at Catmore ; and Saturday, at Anvil Farm—at Half-past Ten. Sir Richard Sutton's Hounds, on Monday, at Kettle thorpe ; Thursday, at Branston Wood ; and Saturday, at Skellingthorpe—at Eleven. Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Riby- Cross-roads ; Wednesday, at Burnham ; Friday, at Cux wold ; and Saturday, at Hendale Lodge—at Eleven. The Worcestershire Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Stan ford -court; and Fliday, at Stone Bow-turnpike—at Half past Ten. Tlae Shropshire Fox Hounds, on Monday, at Cruck ton -hall ; Wednesday, at Halston ; and Saturday, at Acton Burnell—at Half-past Ten. The Cheshire Hounds, on Monday, at Prover ; Wed nesday, at Appleton-hall ; Thursday, at Barrington Heath; and Saturday, at Mere—at Half-past Ten. Mr. Jolliffe's Hounds, on Monday, at Chipstead Chula ; Wenesday, at Horse-hills; Thursday, at Chalelron ; and Saturday, at Reigate-hill—at Eleven. The Montgomeryshire Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, at Mrlford Village; and Friday, et Bryndetwen-bridges— at Ten. The Surrey Fox Hounds, on Monday, at the Half Moon, Godstone-road ; Thursday, at the Cricketors, Addington; and Saturday, at Worms Heath—at Half-past Ten. The East Sussex Fox Hounds, on Wednesday, at the Rocks; Thursday, at Framfield ; and Saturday, at Dit ching-hill—at a Quarter to Eleven. Mr. Berkeley's Hounds, an Tuesday, at Claphlm Turn pike ; Thursday, at Sharnbrook ; and Saturday, at Clifton Spinneys—at Half-past Ten. The Hambledon Hounds, on Wednesday, at Basing park; and Friday, at Botley-gate—at Half-rst Ten. Lord Anson's Hounds, on Monday, at Shuckburgh-bill ; Wednesday, at I)unchurch Kennel ; Thursday, at Deep dale; and Saturday, at Frampton Wood—at Eleven. FOX HUNTING. On Friday last the fox which was taken in this town on Friday, the lfth instant, was " turned down" before the Fourborough hounds in a field near Pengreep, when he started off at a pace which would lead to a supposition that he was fully aware of the fleetness of his pursuers. Seventeen minutes were allowed him before the hounds were laid on, when they opened in full cry, and after a run of four hours and forty-seven minutes, during which they passed through twelve large parishes, poor Reynard was run into and killed upon the rocks between Blackhead and the Lizard, having been completely " done up" just before the Lizard lights were displayed. This was one of the finest fox hunts that ever wok place in Cornwall. It is supposed the run was upwards of 50 miles, and the greater part of the sportsmen, on reaching their homes, must have ridden 80 miles at least. —Falmouth Packet. PEDESTRIANISM. Shepherd, the Yorkshire runner, who is matched to run ten miles and a quarter within the hour, on Monday next, on the York-road, from Tadcaster, has been matched to run Corporal Deasley, of Leeds, four miles for 1201. to 1001. in the neighbourhood of Leeds, on the 11th of next month. Should the Corporal be removed to this city prior to that day, the race will be contested on Knaves mire.— York Herald. EXTRAORDINARY SHOULDER OF MUT TON.—On Saturday last a shoulder of mutton, weighing 43 pounds, was baked by Mr. PILCHER, of Gravel-lane, Blackfriars-road, who had to cut off about eight pounds before it could be got into the oven. AIRS. MONTFORD.—GAY wrote his well known ballad of Black-eyed Susan upon this cele brated actress, who was cotemporary with CIBSER. After her retirement from the stage, love, and the ingratitude of a bosom friend, having deprived her of reason, she was placed in a receptacle for lunatics. One day, during a lucid interval, she asked her attendant what play was to he performed that evening, and was told Hamlet. In this tragedy she had always been received with rapture as Ophelia. The recollection struck her forcibly, and with that cunning which is so often allied to insanity, she con trived to elude the care of the keepers, and got to the theatre, where she concealed herself till the scene in which Ophelia enters in her insane state. Then she pushed on the stage, before the lady who had performed the previous part of the character could come on, and exhibited a more perfect representation of madness than the utmost exer tions of mimic art could effect. She was, in truth Ophclia herself, to the amazement of the performers, and to the astonishment of the audience. Nature having made this last effort, her vital powers failed her. On going off she exclaimed, "It is all over." She was im mediately conveyed back to her place of security, and in a few days after, " Like a lily drooping, " Bow'd her head and died." —Stamp/weight's Literary Miscellany. The population of Liverpool, including sea men, is now estimated at 180,000 souls. M. de C., son of a Gentleman formerly a Counsellor of the Parlement, upon coming of age, inhe rited a fortune of 350,0001., proceeding from the jointure of his mother, who was dead. Within thirteen days after the property fell into his hands, he squandered away 133,000 f. In this short space of time he changed his horses and carriages twenty times, bought sixty coats, sixty waistcoats, sixty pair of pantaloons, &c. At the instance of his family, a Conseil Judiciaire was appointed •to take the remainder of the property in trust, and prevent him disposing of it at his will, but , at 25 years of age the pro perty was restored to him by the decision of a superior tribunal.— Galignani's Messenger. SPIRIT OF THN PUBLIC JOURNAL& The country gentlemen, as appears from some letters which have reached us, do not like to be told, or rather, we suspect, do not like the world ,generally to he of opinion, that they ought to re duce their rents. They plead, that if they re duce their rents any more, they cannot support the same relative rank in corriparison with other glasses of society. On this apprehens!th!, or pretence, .Ne has's , nothing further to remark, than that it is better for gentlemen to diminish somewhat of the number of their equiptlge.tt and domestics,—better for them to lack a little lustre, than to retain their pomp at the enor mous price of trampling down the whole agricul tural population of England. And of whom are the squires jealous ? They are in a posi tion which, if held with temper and dignity—rte mean a different kind of dignity from that which belongs either to accumulated riches or to pro fuse expense—gives them incalculable advan tages over every order of men in the British Empire. Professional men, in the receipt of even the most liberal incomes, live, proverbially, in a manner the reverse of parsimo nious or sparing, and still their modes of extra vagance are not such as afford them that first attribute of elevated station—a fixed and lasting, as well as general influence over others. They reside in toy% us where thousands rival or eclipse them ; they have spacious dwellings, of which, whether they rent or purchase them, they are isolated masters, not connected with any sur rounding neighbourhood or tenantry—not de ; riving influence from their establishment, be it ever so bulky, except over the individuals coin posing it, not even over the tradespeople who supply it with daily matters of consumption.— The disposable money of professional men and merchants is seldom vested in landed pur chases until they have ceased to be lawyer, merchant, &c , and have become " squires" themselves. Their cash is usually placed in some public fund, or out on mortgage ; from it they draw nothing but the means of domestic luxury, the eclat of which extends no further than their town acquaintances. In London, or Liverpool, or Bristol, they hold their respective stalls, whether of industry or of social pleasure. Beyond these they arc as little known and thought of as a soldier on furlough, or an old watchman off his accustomed beat. If a country gentleman complains of it as a grievance, that when he comes to London he cannot maintain that sort of eminence which is among the vulgar ascribed to certain modes of expensive living, the proper question to ask such a man is—What brings you to London with a view to the ostentation of fine living ? " But I am in Parliament," an swers the country gentleman. Very well, then you have better means of distinction, even while in the capital, than by wasting in wanton profu sion here, what you wring from the sufferings of your own natural dependents and neighbours. Attend diligently to the public business in the House of Commons, give honest votes, watch the application of the public money, hunt out jobs, be au active committee-man, keep up an assiduous correspondence with your county town or bo . rough, be known as a useful Member of Par liament, and confine vour taste for hospitality to the house of your fathers, which you ought to look upon as exclusively your home. The received, and as we think it, the unfounded notion is, that the families of country gentlemen ' have been driven from their mansions to wretched boxes in watering-places, or abroad, because the rise in prices was such that they could not ex hibit the same generous habits as their ancestors. The fact is, that an undue proportion of the re venues of country gentlemen has of late years been spent during London winters in a rivalry of metropolitan dissipation, so that they never left town until their purses were emptied, and when they did go it was to economize, which they were ashamed to do at the " Hall," the" Castle,' or the " Abbey," which former generations of proprietors had made the scenes of noble festi vity, not of frugal pinching. Let it not be sup posed that we blame country gentlemen for bringing their families more or less to London. For purposes of useful intercourse with society more varied and cultivated than is to be met with elsewhere, an occasional visit to the capital may be among the real wants of life ; but it will not do to make a second, or, in deed, an exclusive home, of London, and to be a country gentleman also. His real im portance is in the neighbourhood of his own castle ; there he is, what King James called him, a " great ship in a river," while on the London ocean he is but an insignificant speck. As " lord of the soil," and licenser of all its occu pants to inhabit there, the owner of an estate of 2,000 acres is a greater man than the holder of five times its purchase-money in the 3 per Cents.; for he has an immoveable stake in the land, and has a known place among his people. If he does justice to these . " his people,"—if he sym pathizes with their wishes, feels for their priva tions, and does not regard them merely as chan nels through which to drain all the produce of human labour for his own selfish enjoyments, no matter how few steeds are in his stalls, or how plain his liveries, or how unassuming, if cordial, his reception of a neighbour, that " country gentleman" need not fear any loss of personal dignity. But see how unreasonable are the landed interest in their calculation ! They tell us the interest of the debt must be paid. Un questionably. God forbid this country were so disgraced, as to pay any thing while that remained unpaid. But if the taxes be wisely distributed, surely their pressure would be equal on all classes of equal means, and if all bore but their just proportion, no man would lose his station in life, because rank is relative, and each would keep the same relation to his neighbour. When the country gentlemen complain, what right have they to do so ? They pay no tax for which they do not force an indemnity from the mercantile and monied world. Look at the single article of impost on the transmission of personalities by will, a burden from which land is wholly exempted. See again how the price of every article produced from com mercial and manufacturing industry has fallen, or at least in how few cases, and to how small extent (compared with the raw produce of the soil), they have risen, while bread, the staff of life, is artificially kept up by laws the most bar barous and abominable ! But we conclude by saying, that it is not with the landlords a mat ter of choice whether they will or will not lower the rents of their estates : when they can no longer find tenants at the old rents, they must consent to reduce them. It will be better to take a moderate return from occupiers who feed themselves off the land, than out of no re turns to support the same occupants as paupers. —Times. We lay before our readers, in another column, the last Report of the Committee of Magistrates of the county of Surrey, appointed to consider of the best means of carrying into execution the Statute for preventing fraud in the sale and de livery of Coals in and near the metropolis, as far as they relate to Surrey. They will find in it a melancholy proof of the almost general depravity of all those who deal in coals. The list of lie tections of frauds and irregularities. is long and disheartening. We are no great fiends of the unpaid; but it will be seen by this Report that the prosecutions instituted by order of the tie paid are miserebly supported by the paid. For in :stance, we find the following statement : " And we loather report, that M. Turquand, one of the principal Meters, represented to 11S, that with tegerd to the case of Joseph Taylor, who is stated in the last Report to have given is. 6d. over and above the . amount of the metage to Hugh Bliss, a labouring meter, an information was laid against him, and he convicted there of; but having made some explanation of, and excuse for leis conduct, the ;Magistrate did not inflict any pewits' beyond the payment of the costs of the proceeding." We suppose Joseph Taylor was a respectable man, in Alderman Brown's sense of the word, and see ;snow the in flueitee of respect ability on nagietrate.s. We no tice .tiro the following statements:—" Tur quand further reported to us, that as he was re:inn ing home on the 6th August, he observed a waggon of coals stopping at the house of a Mr. Cradock, of Denmark Hill, the sacks of which were evidently deficient in measie s • that he in formed Mr. Cradock of it, when, after a great deal of difficulty, they obliged the carman to measure two sacks; the first was found to con tain but a trifle more than two bushels, and the other, which the carinao selected out, yielded but a little more than two and a half bushels, after he had resorted to all manner of tricks itt placing the coals in the bushel ; that he f, Mr. Turquand) then endeavoured to persnaoe .4r. Cradock to have a regular re-measurement . of the whole, but he declined, on the ground hat one of the renders (who are Messrs. naneeck and Chillman, of the City Wharf, Upper Thames-street) was a friend of hie, and he was unwilling to expose them, or render him liable to any penalties, but he refused to take the remainder in that load, and also in an other load which appeared more deficient than the former. That Mr. Turqused fur ther stated, that on the Bth of August he re ceived a notice from Mr. H. G. Stahlschinidt, of the Belvidere Wharf, to re-measure eighteen sacks of coals which had been ineesurcti by Thomas Bradstock, a lebouring meter, and which were stated to be um -measure, ht which, on a correct re-rneasuren , cnt, were foto to be deficient by two bushels ; the mercloo t acknowledged the correctness of the re-incesure ment, and said he had been hitherto completely mistaken as to what a bushel of coals was. In consequence of the want of skill evinced by Bradstock in this transaction, he (Mr. Tur quand) directed him to place himself tinder another meter for instruction during a suspen aion of two days, but which he neglected to do ; and on being remonstrated with, resigned office." What admirable simplicity we have be-e. —Really the golden age seems to have returned in England. But how lucky is this dealer in coals, who did not know anything of a measure till he was instructed by Mr. Turquand, that he did not in his innocence give double or triple measure to his customers instead of :short mea sure ! The poor man might have been ruieed without having the least suspicion of it. as in the case of drunken men, there is a Pro vidence watching over these unsuspecting men, so that they generally, without intending it, do more harm to their neighbours than to them selves. In spite of the exertions of the Surrey Magistrates, and with all these regulations, we fear it will be found impossible really and effec tively to protect the public. The respectable men are too many for the public. There is al ways some piece of the machinery which will not work—either the person defrauded will not prosecute, or the Magistrate will not convict, or he quashes. The machinery, therefore, would seem to be really ineffective, and useless for the protection of the public ; and we must arrive at the conclusion, whether we will or not, that the public must continue to be defrauded, as asses continue to be beat, notwithstanding the well meant exertions of Surrey Magistrates, and our friend Mr. Martin.—Morning Chronicle. ln the concluding portion of that most inte resting and instructive work," The Memoirs and Correspondence of Thomas Jefferson," which has just issued from the press, the following passage occurs, in a letter to James Madison, dated 28th August, 1789 :—" I must now say a word on the Declaration of Rights you have been so good as to send are ; I like it as far as it goes, but I should hare been for going fur ther. For instance, the following alterations and additions would have pleased me :—Article 4: The people shall not be deprived of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish any thing but false facts, affecting injuriously the life, liberty, property, or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the Confederacy with foreign:nations. " The United States had a narrow escape, under the Presidency of Adams, from the mischievous system of interference with opinion,under which we are still writhing. At that time Jefferson may be said to have been the guardian angel of the New World. He coun teracted, in every way, the noxious principles of Mr. Adams, and at last was as successful as he he could wish. During the period of the struggle (26th Jan. 1799) he thus writes to Eldridge Gerry:—" I am for free commerce with all nations ; political connections with none, and little or no diplomatic establishment. And I am not for linking ourselves by new treaties with the quarrels of Europe ; entering the field of slaughter to preserve their balance, or in joining in the confederacy of Kings to wariagainst the principles of liberty. I am for freedom of re ligion, and against all manoeuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another ; for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitutions to silence by force, and not by reason, the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents. And I am for encouraging the progress of science in all its branches ; and not for raising a hue and cry against the sacred name of philosophy ; for awing the human mind by stories of raw head and bloody bones into a distrust of its own vision, and to repose implicitly on that of others; to go backwards instead of forwards to look for improvement ; to believe that government, religion, morality, and every other science, were in the highest per fection in ages of the darkest ignorance, amid that nothing can ever be devised more perfect than *bat was established by our forefathers." Jef ferson saw that the Press was the engitie by which the salvation of his country could alone be achieved. Writing to Madison, .sth, February, 1799, he observes, " The public sentiment being now on the creel', and many heavy circumstances about to fall into the Republican sae) we are