The Sun. — London, England, 1829-10-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUi3LIC JOURNALS. That separate act_of the Russian and Turkish treaty which regulate's the future condition of the Principalities; has at length been published. The journals which communicate this document sub join a report, that his Imperial Majesty of Rus sia has notified a disposition to . modify some of the more oppressive articles of the general treaty. When the nature and amount of these modifica tions shall appear, it will be time enough to trouble our readers with a comment. In the mean time we have to do with the Moldavian and Wallachian article. The first clause pro poses the necessity of giving " to the admini stration, of these provinces a more durable basis, and one more in harmony with their true inte rests." This basis—durable and harmonious we acknowledge, since it is laid by a single hand, and made comformable to one undivided will— is as follows :—The two Hospodars are to enjoy their dignities for life, instead of for the more definite, if not more limited, period of seven years. They are to govern within their respec tive Principalities as they and their Divans may think proper, without the shadow of interference from the Porte or any of its officers. The Porte surrenders every thing on the left hank of the Danube,—soil, cities, fortresses,—even to the privilege of permitting so much as an individual Mahometan subject of the Sultan to reside there or to retain, beyond the term of 18 months, one foot of land, however fairly and lawfully acquired. Establishments of troops may be kept up by the Hospodars, independently of the Sultan, who is nevertheless (apparently in ridicule) still spoken of as their nominal Sovereign, and they are at liberty to draw sanatory cor dons (an ominous appellation !) when and where they please along the whole line of the Danube. The Turkish Government has been forced to relinquish all claim to those contribu tions in kind which it has hitherto received from the Principalities ; as an indemnification for which sacrifice, it is to be allowed an annual sum of money, the amount of which is to he deter mined " hereafter," but which, as well as the regular tribute, is not to commence until two years after the total evacuation of the Principali ties by the Russian troops,—an evacuation which is not to take place until after the last instalment of the heavy fine imposed upon Turkey by the conqueror shall have been liquidated,—that is to say, until after ten years, as the term provided by the treaty, which term it is the obvious tendency and seeming piirpose of this long suspension of all pecuniary aid from the Principalities to the Porte to protract, and with it the evacuation by the Russian armies. Finally, the Turkish Go vernment binds itself to confirm every administra tive measure which the Russians may have adopted during their military tenure of the pro vinces alluded to, " provided always, that such decrees do not in any way infringe upon the rights of Sovereignty vested in the Porte !" Sovereignty, forsooth ! We think that this last sarcasm, at least, might with more decency have been omitted. We have taken pains on former occasions, and we here repeat them, to put out of sight whatever questions others have appeared rather anxious to raise concerning the personal merits and character of the Emperor Nicholas, as developed in these recent treaties. The points most important for Europe to consider have no thing to do with his Imperial Majesty's 44 mode ration," a quality which may vary as the seasons ; but they have every thing to do with that position which Russia, whether through the moderate and peaceful, or ambitious and grasping spirit ofthe pre• sent Autocrat and his predecessors, at this mo ment occupies in Asia and in Europe, and on the confines of both. We find, that in the most courteous and polished language imaginable, the Court of St. Petersburgh has proceeded to an nounce to the world, through the medium of some grave documents called treaties, that Wal lachia and Moldavia no longer belong to Turkey, but the Czar of Muscovy,—that Turkey in Europe, no matter by what thin forms of circum locution the unpalatable truth may be disguised, —that Turkey in Europe has no independent existence, but is henceforth as substantially the slave and property of Russia, as the latter power would persuade us that Wallachia has a feudal Sovereign in the Porte. - The military occupa tion of Turkey and of the Principalities is in the hands of Russia ; their civil administration, in all its principal branches, is her's. Russian subjects are to enjoy, on both sides of the Danube, privileges from which Turkish subjects are excluded. The Sultan can neither exercise his nominal power, nor travel through his own nominal doininions, nor collect nor apply his own nominal revenue, but under " day-rules," as it were, from his keeper. Fine and imprison ment—if not hard labour—are the unfortunate Mahmoud's lot. Tree victis ! That the Chris tian inhabitants of Turkey lose nothing by the subversion of the infidel sway, it is every one's duty to acknowledge. Europe at large had an interest in the extinction of a barbarous and anti- Christian government. But Europe has like wise a solid interest in the establishment of such a successor to that Government as may comport with the public peace and safety. People speculate on a new Greek empire in Turkey, Whether a Greek or Latin empire is to us of little significancy, so that it be a Government not quite under the foot of Russia. But the evil is done, and the season of effectual inter ference to prevent it by surrounding States has for the present vanished ; nothing could exceed the indiscretion of an appeal to arms at this time of day. The Greek treaty was identified with Mr. Canning. Had that Statesman lived, lie might have so played off the treaty of London against the more exclusive and selfish claims of the Russian Court, as to have delayed the attack on Turkey until a conjoint opposition of other States should have been organised to defeat it, or to alleviate its ill consequences. Had Mr. Canning lived, Russia would have been less ready to act against the known wishes and inte rests of Great Britain ; and what is of at least equal importance, France, whose tastes and feelings were with Mr. Canning, would have had no repugnance to second his schemes of de fensive policy for Europe. As it happened, Russia was filled with undue—we may add with unfounded—distrust of our intentions ; Tur'ssey, with confidence as unfounded in our support ; and the French Government, overpowered by the national prejudices against the new directors of British policy, withdrew itself from every plan of cordial and useful co-operation, Circumstances have done what men could with difficulty avert, in working out the results of the twelvemonth just expired.— Times. The splendid festivities of Sudbourne have given occasion to political speculation to an ex tent little contemplated by the Noble Owner when he looked for partakers of his magnificent hospitality in the distinguished members of all parties ; or, to speak more correctly, when he discarded party considerations altogether in the Selection of his guests. It is known that the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Huskisson were among the number of the persons who accepted the invitation of the Marquis of Hertford ; and from this perfectly fortuitous reunion it is un hesitatingly inferred, and industriously circulated that the late Colonial Secretary is to return to office, with the additional function of Leader of the House of Commons attached to his re-ap pointment. With respect to this great political movement, v. e shall dismiss it with a single re mark—there is not, and there never has been, a shadow of foundation for the assertion. •• he circumstances under which the two distinguished names already mentioned met at Sudbourne are so simple, that they would not have been worth alluding to in an ordinary case ; but as they have been much talked of, and exceedingly misrepre sented, we shall give them as succinct as possible. When the Premier was invited to Sudbourne, the Noble host thought it necessary (probably with a recollection of the occurrences which pre ceded the late Colonial Secretary's retirement), to inform him that Mr. Huskisson was an ex pected guest. The Duke of Wellington, acting upon a principle which he has invariably adhered to, of drawing a line between political and per sonal alienations, at once declared his perfect readiness to accept the invitation. _On this simple foundation has this enormous' political supersti ucture been erected—ex uno disce omnes. —.Morning Chronicle, The Hamburg Reporter has brought us the addition to the Treaty between Turkey and Russia, which regulates the future condition of the Principalities. In these days, when wonder succeeds rapidly to wonder, little time can be afforded to the indulgence of any one passion, and therefore we may conclude that the fear of Rusisa is now nearly on the wane. We know what it is to be a day too late with our country men, and therefore we lament exceedingly that our wish to have our stock of alarm in marketable time has not been compatible with that solid in vestigation into the subject of the probable ag grandizement of Russia, which, we flatter our selves, we are at length enabled to lay before our readers. Our neighbours the French, who are still better at taking large leaps than ourselves, have been peculiarly edifying of late on the sub ject of Russian greatness. But even they have shut their eyes too soon. They merely see in vision all Europe either Russian or Republican before the lapse of many years. But we see the whole world under the Russian Emperor ere long. And were, pray, are we to place the li mits of Russian aggression short of universal dominion ? One of our contemporaries (the Standard) observed a few nights ago, that " it has been profoundly remarked by Mr. Mill, in -his British India, that a nation which has be gun making conquests, thereby improves beyond ordinary calculation the power of persevering in her aggressions. She has the necessary arts, the army, the machinery, and the habit of con quest already—all of which are wanting to a people awakening from a state of peace." Now Russia has been at the trade of making con quests for considerably more than a century, constantly gaining and never losing, so that she certainly has the habit of conquest, if ever a nation had. According to the opinions of the wisest of our contemporaries, Turkey is already as good as devoured ;—Sultan Mah moud is indulged with just such liberty for a little while as a cat gives to a mouse she sports with. The question is, what State will she swallow next? The avalanche cannot be arrest ed in its descent; the obstructions it meets with only add to its momentum, and the extent of its subsequent ravages. Russia being stronger than any Power that can be opposed to her, can not be arrested in her career of conquest, and every fresh conquest facilitates the means of making future conquests. Conquer, then, she must and will ; but there is still room for con jecture as to the course conquest will take— ViThether will she finish her work in the East, and then begin where she has left off in the West, or go on with East and West at the same time ? It has been thought by many that though there can be little doubt of her success either in the West or East, Austria and Prussia, as was demonstrated by Sir Robert Wilson, being utterly unable to make an effectual resistance to her, she will nevertheless take the East as somewhat more easy than the West. Persia, it is allowed, is already almost a province of Russia. When Persia has been made entirely Russian, India must follow. Being augmented by India and Persia, how easy would it be to overrun China. As to Japan, its acquisition would be easy after the conquest of China. The other islands of Asia would soon be occupied. After such a vast accession of power, it is probable that France and England would be so paralysed with fear, that of themselves they would solicit the honour of being received as provinces of the great empire, on condition of retaining their privileges. We remember it was demonstrated a few years ago in an article in the Quarterly Review, attributed to Mr. Barrow, that the mo ment the Russians came in contact in America with the citizens of the United States, the latter, wouldlose their independence, as they would never be able to withstand the men with jackets and bayonets. The conquest of the rest of America would follow in due time. It is to be hoped, that after the incorporation of so many enlight ened nations into the Russian empire, the Go vernment would avail itself of the additional civilization thus placed within its reach. Of course it will not be so easy to govern the whole world from one common centre as to govern one of Mr. Bentharn's Panopticons. But, the im provements made in communications in our times rill be of great advantage to the Russian Power when supreme over all. As rail-roads will allow of travelling at the rate of thirty miles an hour, an order from Moscow will soon reach Pekin, .so that messengers may soon proceed from one extremity of the empire to another. Our English liberties will not be so safe under the Autocrat as under our Borough Lords ; but then the lovers of peace—and we have an espe cial eye to the Society of Friends—will have the consolation that unity of empire will neces sarily put an end to war. If civil war can only be prevented, we may count on perpetual peace. The Emperor would also allow the most ample protection to Missionaries, who at present are in much jeopardy among savage tribes, so that Paganism would soon be extinguished. It has been so often demonstrated that no opposition can be made to Russia, that we deem ourselves warranted iii taking two things for granted—the power to conquer ; and, as power implies a ten dency to exert itself, the will to conquer. We have iwt taken into our calculation any extraor dinary intedarence with the course of events — such as the Millenium of Mr. Irving, which, no I , doubt, may materially affect the We have oaten called the attention of our readers to the strange anarchy which prevails in this country in the a dministration or criminal law, Indolence and vindictiveness have the as cendancy by turns. In an account of the Devon shire County Sessions, the Chairman is reported to have said, " I beg to remark that there are thirteen or fourteen for extreme petty offences ; one for stealing a prayer-book, another a mat tock, &c., and for which petty offences the parties have already undergone an imprisonment, some of six weeks, and others two months ; but Ma gistrates are so situated, that if prosecutors per sist in their charges, they have no alternative but to commit; for, by acting otherwise, they might subject themselves to the serious charge of com pounding felony. It is a serious cost to the county, as I have no doubt the expenses in each will average from eight to ten pounds." As far as regards the prevention of crime, nothing can be of worse tendency than the allowing so much scope to individual caprice. These prosecutions for stealing prayer-books, &c., whether they origi nate in a spirit of avarice or a spirit of vindic tiveness, create a sympathy in favour of the ob ject of the criminal, who is looked on as a sort of injured person. A responsible officer, charged with the duty of prosecuting, should, for his own credit, exercise judgment in the se lection of his cases. This would, of course, prevent many a commitment which now takes place. The expence to the county in consequence of these trivial cases is not, of course, so im portant a consideration as the diminution of crime ; but still it is one of very considerable importance. We are pleased to see the manner in which the Chairman notices another im portant subject—the mode of treating pauper lunatics. " The Legislature," he observed, " had been careful to provide for their support in proper asylums, where a fair expectation may be entertained of removing their malady. On the contrary, in parish poor-houses they are not only insecure, but they become a jest and a scoff; and their misfortunes, instead of being ameliorated, are heightened and aggravated ; while, if properly, treated, the light of reason might again beam forth, and they might become useful members of society."—/bid. An Evening Contemporary is extremely anxious to have it believed that, in the late cor respondence between the Bishop of Ferns and Lord Mountcashel, the former bears away the palm both in style and argument ; observing, as to the first, in rather a flippant way, that his Lordship " was born to a coronet," and had not to make his way to reputation " through learn , ing's steep and rugged road." Though it is not usual to measure epistolary style by the severe rules of criticism, we cannot help thinking that, as a composition, the Noble Lord's letter is that both of a scholar and a gentleman, and will bear to be measured against the Bishop's in any scale which can be applied to either ; while, in point of argument, the noble Lord has immeasurably the advantage. Without meaning any disrespect to the Bishop, or to treat him with any of that unmerited coarseness which lie has received at other hands, we think it cannot be denied that the whole jet (gist ?) of the Bishop's argument goes to defend the enormous amount and the un equal distribution of the Church Revenues of Ireland as a mere right of their pos sessors, with little or no reference to the spiritual advantages or disadvantages derivable from them. Lord Mountcashel, on the con trary, treats the Church property, as every rea sonable man must treat it, as a trust in the hands of the Clergy for the benefit of their flocks. Viewed in this light, how little has the Protes tant flock in Ireland been benefited by the enor mous means the Church possesses for their ad vancement and its own protection ! That " the labourer is worthy of his hire" is a scriptural pre cept, of the most apt and 'universal application ; but in its application to the Church revenues, both in Ireland and England, but especially in the former, it is reversed, and he who labours most has the least share of the reward. Will any one believe that, had Church preferment in Ireland been wisely bestowed, and its revenues justly distributed, Protestantism would have remained nearly stationary for more than a cen tury ? And will any one be now bold enough to declare that, when its main bulwark and pro tection has been taken away, it can be expected to go on in safety without those internal repairs which, if resorted to long since, would have ren dered external props useless ? The Bishop, in geniously enough, reminds Lord Mountcashel that " four-fifths of the profits of the Bishops lands are in the hands of their tenants," We were not aware that the value of Church leases to the laity was quite so great as this ; nor do we believe, if the value of the fines be taken into the account, that it is; but we are well aware that the distribution of these leases among the great landowners is (to the discredit of the Church be it spoken) one of the main holds which it has had upon their interested support. We say that it is to the discredit of the Church that such should be the case, because we feel that the Church and religion are disparaged when they do not put forth stronger claims to support than any which are to be found in mere self-interest. It is the corruption and abuse of things good and noble in their own nature which oftener produce their destruction than the efforts of external ene mies. Unfortunately, even religion has not been exempt, in any age or country, from this prevail ing tendency to engender and fall into abuse ; and we leave it to the good sense of mankind to say whether those are its real friends who would justify its errors at all hazards, or those who, like Lord Mountcashel and the Reformers at Cork, would protect the goodly edifice by timely repair and judicious alterations.--Morning Herald. The Marquis of Hertford has invited another party of fashionables, among whom are some gentlemen nearly connected with Ministers, to spend a few days at Sudbourne, to partake of the sports of the field. There is no nobleman who studies more the comfort of his guests than the Marquis, whose hospitalities are of the first order, and distinguished by the best taste. Sud bourne might be said to be " Liberty Hall," where every guest amuses himself as he thinks fit, without any of those formal and ceremonious restraints too common at the select parties of the aristocracy. Judging from the recent visitors to Sudbourne, and the parties at present invited, it is conjectured that these meetings are not alto gether unconnected with politics, from which arises the rumour in the fashionable circles, that the Marquis of Hertford is speedily to be created a Duke, whose ample fortune will enable him to support a Dukedom, as he does his present title, with suitable magnificence and splendour.— Morning Advertiser. AN EXTRAORDINARY BARGAIN.--AS for tunate a purchase in picture-dealing as we have heard of for several 3ears, was made a few weeks since by Mr. CnA ALES YOUNG, son of Mr. YOUNG, auctioneer, of Rom sey, Hants, who obtained an original painting of the Roman School for a mere trifle. The production was one of the beautiful pieces of the renowned CLAUDE LORRAINE, which Mr. Y. recognized at a broker's shop in London, and pur chased fur 31. ! A few days ago the landscape was trans ferred to a connoisseur for 600 guineas, at which price it is considered a bargain. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday the LORD MAYOR was a considerable time occupied in hearing a case of much interest and Jitliculty. The Justice-room was crowded to excess. The Committee of Bankers being concerned in the prosecution, Sir William Curtis and Mr. Gates, the solicitor to the Committee, attended. A young man, named Emanuel, was put to the bar, charged by Mr. Gates with having uttered a forged 51. note to a fashionably dressed girl of the town, named Johnson. The note was one of the Birmingham bank, and was made payable at Messrs. Elanbury's, in the city, where the, forgery was first detected. Mrs. Johnson lived with her husband, who is a harp and pianoforte-maker, in Exeter-street, Strand. Her husband did not always live at home. The prisoner on Friday the 9th of October, knocked at the door while she and her husband's father were in the parlour, and asked for Miss King, a lady who had lodged at the house. Being told that Miss King had left the house, and seeing the parlour door open, he said, " You might as well ask me in;" which the servant accordingly did, and he threw down a shilling for some gin, the old gentleman having said that he could take a drop. The prisoner then asked her to go up stairs with him, and when they were in the drawing-room, after a little conversation, handed her a 51. note, as she believed, folded up, and told her to order a bottle of wine and change. The servant brought the bottle of wine and change, and the prisoner offered her half a sovereign, but finally gave her a sovereign, as she objected to the moiety of it as not her usual compliment. He went away, after giving the servant a shilling for herself. Mr. Elias Isaacs, of St. Mary Axe, as solicitor to the prisoner, cross-examined the witness with the permissio►► of the Lord Mayor. Had you ever seen the prisoner before that day ? The witness, who had been reprimanded for her levity in the direct examination by the Lord Mayor, here dropped tears with amazing facility. She would not, she said, swear falsely; and she was sure she was not mistaken in the person. You are in the habit of meeting gentlemen ? Yes, certainly. And you know the prisoner was the man ?—He certainly was. Mr. Gates—Did not the prisoner know you yes terday when you took the officer in search cf him ? He did. He was sitting in one of the alcoves on Waterloo-bridge, and I went up to him and said, " I think you know me," and he smiled, and said he did ; " and you have been at my house, I think," said I, and he said he had. _ _ _ , Mr. Isaacs—This is nothing, my Lord, but a mis take. Ido not impute any vicious motive to the young woman, but she has certainly, I can prove it beyond question, mistaken my client for another person._ _ . .. . Mr. Gates—Look at this strong circumstance. The utterer of the forgery asked for Miss King, and the prisoner was not only found in the neighbour hood in which she lived, but he was actually seen by the officer who went in quest of him at her lodg ings, at No. 19, William -street, Waterloo-road, pre viously. Elizabeth Scrivener, servant to Mrs. Johnson, let in the prisoner at dusk, on the 9th of October, and confirmed her mistress's account of the transaction. The change she brought to him consisted of four sovereigns, a half sovereign, and some silver. She kept Gs. to pay for the bottle of wine, for which she gave 3s. 6d. She was sure the prisoner was the man, and she remarked that he was very like young Mr. 510n...n. Mr. Isaacs—Did any thing take place between you and Mr. Johnson below stairs, when you took down the 5/. note ? Witness—Nothing; I only told him I had got a Si. note to change. Mr. Sprules, the owner of the Bell, in Exeter street, took the note from the last witness on the 9th instant. He was not in the habit of giving change of notes, but did not like to turn away a good customer. He thought the gas was not alight at the time. Mr. Bewick, agent to Messrs. Wroughton, Scho field, and Co.'s bank, Birmingham, believed the note not to be genuine. He believed it to he a for gery, for he never saw one of the notes without be ing signed by one of the partners. Thought it was struck off from one of the genuine plates. John Forrester went to the house of Miss King, in William -street, Waterloo-road, to look for the utterer of the forgery, and saw the prisoner there. He and Mrs. Johnson afterwards waited in the neighbourhood, and as two or three men passed, witness asked Mrs. Johnson whether the guilty per son was amongst them, to which she replied in the negative. The moment, however, she saw the pri soner, she pointed to him as the person. She then went up to him and said:a few words, at which he laughed and said " Yes." Mr. Isaacs—We have no disguise, my Lord; and the prisoner will speak for himself. He has wit nesses to prove the correctness of what he has to say. The prisoner declared that he was not the person he was represented to be. He never had the note in his possession, and he knew nothing about it. His business was that of a jeweller tallyman, and he was daily employed in collecting the money for which he supplied the articles from his house in Whitechapel. He happened to have au accurate recollection of what happened on the day of the ac cusation of uttering the forgery. He had, agreeably to an invitation he had given, received a visit from two ladies, who had come from Richmond to see him and spend the holiday. They arrived on the Friday, and dined with him at half-past three. He went out at half-past four; called at several places, all of which he had marked down in his book. Being lf the Jewish persuasion, the holiday com menced with him at half-past five, and he returned at five, and remained to meals until eight o'clock, when he and the ladies went out together. Mr. Gates submitted that he had made out a case. he LORD MAYOR said, that if the prisoner proved the statement to be correct, he should not be sent to Newgate. Mr. Isaacs said, that even if the prisoner were the utterer, no case had been made out against him : there was no proof of guilty knowledge. Mr. Gates said, that the possession, with the denial of it, wai proof of guilty knowledge. The prisoner then called Eve Lyon, his housekeeper. She stated that the prisoner had been out very little on Friday, on ac count of the arrival of her nieces on a vis►t. He never went out of the house after five o'clock. There was here some confusion as to the exact pe riods at which he left the house, and, as far as our reporter could collect, a slight variance between the statement of the prisoner and the evidence of the female. The LORD MAvoR should hear the remaining evi dence for the prisoner on a future occasion, and if satisfied with it, would not destroy the young man by sending him to Ne nate. The prisoner was then remanded. Mr. Goldsmidt, the merchant, and other men of eminence in the city, soon after came to the Justice room, and said they were never snore surprised than at hearing of such a charge against a young person whose whole life had been most irreproachable, who had been intrusted with large sums, and was pointed out as an example of industry and integrity by some of the best men. BOW-STREE I'. Upwards of 70 night charges were disposed of yesterday by Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS. A gentleman came to complain to Sir R. BIR NIE of having been defrauded of Is. by one of the toll-takers at the Middlesex side of Waterloo-bridge. It appeared that the gentleman took a hackney coach for the purpose of driving to the Surrey aide, and passing through the gate at the Strand side of the bridge, he tendered a shilling to the toll-keeper to pay the toll. The man took the shilling and said it was a bad one, and then handed to the gentleman a crooked shilling, which was base. The gentleman immediately declared that the shilling which he ten tiered to the toll-keeper was good, and, moreover, that it was not a crooked shilling; whereupon the toll-keeper accused the gentleman of attempting to pass bad money, and the watchman of the bridge threatened to take him into custody upon the charge, and no doubt would have done so, but that the gen tleman told him at his peril to lay his hand upon him. The gentleman having given the toll-keeper a good shilling, placed the one which had been passed upon him in a piece of paper, and determined to seek redress. The coachman told him, he said, that the same trick had often been practised upon other coachmen and himself by the same individual. Sir R. BIRNIE asked the gentleman if he felt quite sure that the shilling which he handed to the toll-taker was a good one.—The gentleman replied that he was convinced it was. At all events it certainly was not a crooked one. Mr. HALLS advised the applicant to consult the officers of the Mint on the subject. Sir R. BIRNIE, however, advised the gentleman to apply, in the first instance, to the Bridge Com mittee, which would by no means exclude him from pursuing any other course which he might afterwards think fit to adopt. Mr. Levy, lessee of the tolls on the Hammersmith road, was summoned by the owner of the new Om nibus, which runs from London to Hammersmith, for having taken more than his legal toll. A professional gentleman attended for the owner of the Omnibus, and Mr. Levy appeared in person to defend the charge. It appeared that the sum of five shillings was de manded and paid, for four times on the same day that the vehicle in question passed through the de defendant's toll-gates. Mr. Levy endeavoured to prove, by referring to the Act, that he was justified in this charge, but it having been proved that he was entitled to no more than four shillings and three half-pence, he con sented to wave his claim, and ultimately agreed to take three shillings per day until the Ist of January for the toll of the Omnibus. Sir R. BIRNIE hoped that the new act of Lord Lowther would provide for Omnibuses and Locomo tive Carriages. Mr. Levy—Oh, yes, Sir Richard, that it does, and for steam-coaches too. We are likely to have some fun upon the road when those come into play. The parties then retired. MA RLBORO U G H-STREET. Yesterday a Mr. Adams, the proprietor of an es tablishment called the " Protector Office," for pro viding situations for servants, in Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, appeared before Sir G. FARRANT, the sitting Magistrate, charged with assaulting a young female, who said that her name was Harriet Lau rence, a c► rious sketch of whose history came out in the course of the investigation. It appeared by the statement of the complainant herself, who is rattier a pretty-looking girl, as well as that of Mr. Adams, that she quitted the neigh bourhood of Shrewsbury, of which she is a native, a few months ago, to seek her fortune in London, having been discarded by her friends in consequence of her having fallen a victim there to the seductive arts of a gentleman► of some fortune in that part of the country, and that while on her travels up to town, she chanced to meet on the coach which car ried her away from the scene of her disgrace, one Mr. Harris, who paid her a good deal of travelling attention, and got from her the history of her mis fortunes, and her object in coming to London, — namely, to get into service in some household esta blishment. On their arrival in town, Mr. Harris and herself stopped at the Bull-and-mouth hotel in the city, where Mr. Harris very kindly ordered that she should not be permitted to want for any thing until she should be provided wi►h a situation; and to attain this latter object, Mr. Harris also made ap plication on her behalf at the office of Mr. Adams, and paid there the necessary fee for undertaking her case. After stopping some time at the Bull and- Mouth, where a bill was incurred to the amount of about .51., which Mr. Harris very generously and un conditionally paid, she was taken into the house of Mr. Adams, and slept with Mr. Adams's daughter, for her better protection, until she should be supplied through the office with the situation that was sought after for her in some family ; and Mr. Adams was the more solicitous, he said, about her, because Mr. Harris told him that he knew all the girl's con nexions and relatives in the country, who were, he said, very respectable, and that she herself was a young female of the most unblemished reputation. In a little time a situation was procured for her, and when she was quitting Mr. Adams's house to take possession of her new place, she left some papers in the care of Mrs. Adams, that no accident might be-, fal them, as she prized them very dearly. She did not, however, it seems, remain long in her new si tuation, and it was found necessary to procure a second for her, which she also quitted very soon, and, in short, " Lunnun toon' seemed to have turned her head altogether away from servitude, and she therefore gave it up as a bad " spec." Before her next visit to Mr. Adams, it appeared that it came either to his knowledge or that of Mrs. Adams, by means of the papers or otherwise, that the complainant was no better than she should be, and that she was not all the description of person Mr. Harris had represented her to be, who, it turned out, knew nothing whatever of her beyond the coach adventure; and when she called the other day at Mr. Adams's house for her papers, Mr. Adams, as she alleged, assaulted her violently, and flung her down the steps of his street•door. Mr. Adams entirely denied the assault, and pro duced two witnesses who fully confirmed that de nial ; he merely, he said, told her that she was a good-for-nothing hussey, for that she had imposed upon him as to her character, and desired her to quit the house; on her refusal to do which, he certainly laid hold of her gently by the shoulder, and put her outside the street-door. As for his refusal to give her the papers, he said that arose from his having been lately written to by Mr. Harris who introduced her, not to part wtth the papers until she should have repaid the .51. which he (Mr. Harris) had disbursed for her at the Bull and Mouth. One of the papers, indeed, Mr. Adams said, showed clearly what sort of character the girl was ; for this document proved to be nothing less than a note of hand for 50/. from the gentleman who had se duced her, as she said, in the country, as the price of her dishonour. Mr. Adams here handed in this document to the Magistrate to look at; but on its being subsequently laid upon the bench, the com plainant took it up, folded it very carefully, and put it into her pocket This note of hand, she said, which was payable by instalments of 101., was not given as the pur chase of her reputation ; but after that reputation had been blighted, this document was giver► by her seducer to restore her peace of mind as far as 501. could go to effect that object. As for Mr. Harris, she said, he had no claim whatever either on her papers or herself, for she had, since he paid the Si., met him by appointment, and gone with him in his gig on an excursion to the country, a short distance from town, where she fully satisfied him that he had no right any longer to consider her as his debtor. Sir G. FARRANT said, that he thought Mr. Adams had satisfactorily disproved the assault, and therefore the warrant was dismissed; but he would recommend Mr. Adams to give up her papers to the girl. Mr. Adams said, he had no wish in the world to detain them, and only did so because be was de ' sired by Mr. Harris, of whom, however, he knew nothing, either by address or otherwise, and would now therefore, as the Magistrate advised it, give up all the papers in his possession. Mr. Adams having handed over the papers to the girl, she examined them, and said that there was one letter missing, which was from her uncle, with whom she had lived in the country, and which letter she prized above andn the she rest,eho should b i e t v i' was thesor sorry, t s he e had ever written to her, and probably ever would write. There was also, she said, an English gram- Pnar, belonging to her, and an umbrella at Mr. Adams's house, said, to lose the grammar, because a friend of her'i hai written some " Latin" in it for her. _ _ Mr. Adams said, that he knew nothing about, these articles, but if they were at his house, she, should have them by sending for them. The parties then left the office. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Oc,•r. 26. Henry Jarvis was charged with assaulti n g, wit h intent to ravish, Miss Louisa Damenberger. This case must be in the recollection of our readers, it having been examined into at Worship street, and fully reported under the head of Police , in this and other papers. The charge originally preferred was for a capital offence. A. great deal of conflicting evidence was given, and in the result the defendant was held to bail. On the case being called on yesterday, Mr. ADOLPHUS rose, and stated that it was the wish of the prosecutrix to abandon all proceedings.. He understood they had been at the young man almost every day since that of the alleged occurrence, wanting him to marry the girl, and under that cir cumstance he thought it would be best to let the case drop. The CHAIRMAN called the prosecutrix forward, and having ascertained from her that she did not wish to proceed, directed the Jury to acquit the defendant. On the defendant quitting the bar, the prosecu trix went up to him, and some conversation, appa rently of a friendly nature, took place between them. , Some short time after one of the witnesses, who had'been bound over in this case, addressed the Chairman, and asked for his expences. He said he was a poor man with a family, and had lost nine days in attending at the police-office about this case. The CHAtnittAN said lie was sorry for him, but could do nothing for him. The parties had come to , an understanding, and the young lady had received a sum of money to prevail en her to believe nothing had happened. He had better apply to her, a nd see whether she would allow him any part of the money. SURREY SESSIONS, OCT. 26. The Grand and Traverse Juries having boo sworn, the CHAIRMAN shortly addressed the Grand Jury, and regretted that the calendar was so heavy, yet he was happy there was nothing of a very hei nous nature which would be submitted to their coa• sideration. The calendar contains 74 prisoners„ A youth named Henry Lincoln, aged 17, was, indicted for stealing a pocket-handkerchief from the person of a gentleman named Boyton, on the 24th of last month. The prisoner pleaded guilty, and the CHAIRMAN sentenced him to fourteen years' transportation. Elizabeth Temple, a woman of the town, ss' indicted for stealing on the 27th September, from the person of George Evans, a watch and appen dages, his property. The Jury found the prisoner guilty. The CHAIRMAN said that street-robberies by pros titutes were of late so frequent, that it was necessary an example should be made to deter others, and the Court sentenced her to be transported for life. A miserable looking woman, named Ann .111Tor ?wick, was indicted for stealing 12 cheeps' trotters, the property of her employer, Robert Beverley, a fellinonger, on the 19th ult. The case was fully proved, and the prisoner sen tenced to three months' hard labour at Guildford. James Briggs was indicted for stealing a quantity of iron and steel, on the 23d of September, the pro perty of Charles and Thomas Hood. The Jury found the prisoner guilty.--Sentence deferred. DOCTOR DODDRIDGE'S PRIVATE COR' aEsrownvicx.—The success which has attended the publi cation of this work has equalled the anticipations excited on its first announcement. It is always interesting to be made acquainted with the private character, and to be admitted to the private moments and thoughts of cele brated Personages. In the present work this privilege ie accorded to the reader, and although the Author of the Family Expositor appears in a new' light, the effect wilt be to increase, if possible, the feelings of reverence a nd affection with which his memory is cherished by the pious and the good. On Monday last, the University of Glasgow conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on JOHN Dr mocr, Erg. of the Grammar School of that city, formerly Rector of the Grammar School of Kelso, author of a " Life of George III.," and of improved editions of " Caesar," " Sallust," " Ovid," &c. &c.—Scotsman. BYDROPHOBIA.—About six weeks ago a child, four years old, was bit in the cheek by a dog, not at the moment supposed to be in a rabid state, in the Island, Limerick. At the time a poultice was applied to the wound, and all promised well, until Wednesday lot , when the child asked its mother for a drink of water , which, upon being produced, occasioned violent spar"' The little sufferer was immediately taken to the County Infirmary, where, every hour, despite of all medical aid, the symptoms became snore alarming, and on Saturday evening the sufferer was removed by its parents. To re— lieve it from its dreadful suffering, on Sunday night it was smothered between beds.—Limerick Evening Post. NAVAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION.--On - Wednesday last a number of warrant-officers met is Portsea to take into consideration the merits of this So ciety. Lieutenant G. V. SIMMONS, R.N., Secretary of the Institution which is established at Devouport, at tended. The rules of the Society being read a discussion of some length followed, when they met the unqualified approbation of the Meeting, and an auxiliary at this port . to the Institution was formed. Mr. MANEY, carpenters Royal Naval College, Portsea, was appointed SecretarY• This Society is for the purpose of granting annuities W e the wives and children or other relations at the decease 01 its members, after the payment of a certain sum, accord' ing to age, for four years, insuring a sum at death, me dical attendance, and a weekly allowance during sickness, and sum as annuity in old age; attached to it is a savior bank, to receive the savings of the members. Its members are warrant and petty officers, seamen, and marines, of /?i; Majesty's fleet ; as well as those serving in vessels to" boats, attached to all the civil departments of his Majesty $ navy and revenue service ; and when we contemplate the vast body who thus become :eligible to join the Society' for the great majority of whose families there is no pub provision, we cannot but look forward to the great $ vantages likely to arise horn such a small risk, tending 11 ' it will to soothe the minds of the brave defenders of oti r country in the hour of danger and of death, with the as surance that those they lore most dearly will have some resource to meet the exigences of pressing want, and ulti mately cause the widow's heart to rejoice, and the orphao'd tear of gratitude to drop to the memory of those who have provided for them.--Hampshire Telegraph. BIRTHS. On the 26th inst. in Charles-street, Berkeley-squarer Lady Julia Hobhouse, of a daughter. On the 21st inst. at Havre-de-Grace, the lady of tif• Ernest de Maraise, of a daughter. On the 25th inst. at Knott's-green, Leyton, Mrs. Bar-. clay, of a son. At MaJras, on the Qd June, the lady of J. Bainbridg e, Esq. of a son. On the 23d inst. at East Acton, Mrs. F. Wall, of • daughter. DIED. On the 24th hest. James Patterson Matthews, the 10 ' fant son of Mr. A. Matthews, surgeon, of Lower Gorge street, Chelsea, aged five months. On the 24th inst. at Northwick-terrace, Henrietta AO' wife of the Hon. J. Stewart. On the 24th inst. Sarah, the wife of Mr. J. Sexton, of the Pigeons, Brentford, aged 37. At Madras, on the llth June, Mrs. E. S. Bainbridge' the lady of J. Bainbtidge, Esq. aged 31. ref On the 24th inst. in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-sq" J. Henderson, Esq. aged 72. age /0, Lately Mr. J. Bird, corn-factor, Bridgewater, . 4e r Within a few hours of his demise, he sent for an h is to take an inventory of his property; having done sot oi a next enquiry was, " What will you charge me for s o. e d the goods after my death ?" The terms having been o r` t i o s on he died in a few minutes after, maintaining even t' be laNt moment of his life, the same mercenary dispoir. l° had ever been noted for. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY 11.IURDO YOUrA THE S'll7l OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDOS. • I ]