The Sun. — London, England, 1823-06-26 00:00:00

--' LONPON-.IOUItNALS. DAILY , .E, meta from the. Morning Pqers, June 26. istoutstNo eosT.l The intelligence from Madrid,, professing to furniih an accurate, account of the transactions which preceded the removal of the Spanish,Mii-' resell - and ''G'everninetit. train Seville to' Cidiz,' deserves . :the.tiroit leriotts.attention. '.Admitting it•to. he true to the very letter, what, we would the legitimate inference to be deduced front' it ? ire he first place; it' proclaitris - loudly the litVfathonsi falsehood of the assertion that the King,was , in a state of captivity previous to the moinent. when this removal was propos ed to him, and iftanipsAtpon` 'the invaders the 'guilt of tide.' quiVtical pOrfitilyrind upon' those .Spaniards • who Isatie4hared or abetted. the usurpation at Madrid, that of 'unmitigated treason. So far from having been hitherto in captivity, it is now proved that the Chrtes i could not' `reduce him to: the` condition of a cartivrunless•under the imperious necessity arising' ant of a real alienation of the, Royal mind, or under the pretence to be drain from an'imputed , ''ibmation. And, indeed,' to what • othei conclusion , so- indulgent tis.that of the,inca pacity.ernnsoundness of the, King's mind, could the I4egislature 'be led by his refusal to concur in a theastfre,'the only one by which . his person could'hi rescued from the degradation of serving as a base'instrument and a fraudulent apology to the foes . iirSpanish independence ? Of the ope-' ration 'or thiii chatigeln.the situation of Spanish . affairs upon 'the 'etiridpct of England, respecting whiCh thelladriti evade manifests so much so licitude, it'WOUld`be premature to hazard a con jecture "befdre'' the occurrences reach us both in futler detail and Open less' suspicious' authority. T4t it is within:the . legitimate poiers of the Cortes IdPrevid'e for the : public safety in 'case of any disonalifying infirmity, whether physical or mental,• in the'Monarch en the Throne, cannot be - doubted. Its right to determine at What pre cisernoluent the exercise of this necessary power is demanded'by Circumstances, is equally unques tionable. It seems rather difficult, therefore, to perceive upon what principle a Power which has thug'far recognized the Government• of the Con stitutional King and Cortes of Spain,; can hesitate with respect to the continuance of its sanction, merely on account of a new development of the legal powers of the latter, or of the personal de ficiencies of the former, by whatever circum stances this development may have been occa sioned. That our Government will act upon this emergency as it' has upon every other, with that consistent) , whichis inseparable from good faith, we will net for a moment permit ourselves to doubt.' The presence of an English Ambassador at the Spanish Court has satisfied the impartial world, and illiserve the future historian for an unequivocal attestation, thatAlte Constitutional GoVertitnent Of ',3•Pain, up to the very period-or this' transaction, wus not that sort of imposture upon mantic:hid which its iniquitous . assailants, in 14 xtenuetticOir their`tyrannical . wickedness,.have falselY Pretended. It Is •the unblemished 'elm.; ratter ref Enkland, for high honour and unsophis. ticated good faith, that has imparted to this atter• tation all its value. And we do not hesitate to say, that the high character of 'England must be maintained ih Atli circumstances and at all ha zards, The character' of the English Govern ment is of un importance, not to England only, but to the world, paramount even to that of any issue dependant upon the Spanish contest. We ate • far from believing that the Spanish Cortes will' atternlit to practise any - delusion upon the ,flut if 'it, should do so, not even our de testation:of the cause 'to which the. Cortes of Spain is . oppesed• shall make us forgetful of what ii due to the honourof our country. Of impos ture or delusion, the Government of England' will never id any'circurnstancei stoop to be' the confederate. • ' [no KNING HER Ar. D.] The Lords' Coininittee on the Appellant Juris 7 diction has made its first Repori.. It is evidently the result of careful and extensive investigation, iced gives interesting views of the causes of delay and the means, of, preventing it henceforth. But its 'retiontrnetidation, or rather stiggestions, are rather tioubtfulli,,,and even ton generally made, and it is not quite dear that the alterations sped. fically ,proposed will go . an effective length in removing the grievance. It is atl important faCt, stated 'by the Committee, that it would take five years to go' 'throne) the 'appeals at present p e nding, supposing the wheel:of appellant liti. gation, during that time, to stand still.' The Coniniittee 'proposes to cheek the groWth of, ap peals, and to disengage the time-of the Lord Chancellori For the former purpose, , it is recom mended • that in Scotland (which produces a vastly great disproportion of appeals) an intermediate appeallshould be establiihed, in either,at three wftys 3 —the most. advisahle•of which, on the first. seems'th Ms ate, giving an appeal from ant one-rsectlotvatt- ifietCourt of Session to the wbOie C.:Can't-1111d malting the'iUriStiletiOn in Scotland final in soon! 'cases Inareafter.to he Secondary to this c the Cermnittee .proposes such an alteration in the proceedings in Scotland as !pithl exte . ";tl the Trisi by Jury beyond' its ac teal sith l orit.;-aud separate the heti :horn the law ,' saliva the latter only - should come , under the, edgnizioci: .dr•th . e' appellant's jurisdiction tittp . order to ,relleve the ‘l.oiti Chancellor, riglis puittorstrOpropoied tubereferredhence.: , forth .torthe':COurts in Westrrtinatfr-hell,lll some Instances-44s writs of error=-- tats discretion of the ChitrOltar. The rnast:ferPortinit . rectuntnen. , dation,.,however, --is, that, would, release hint from .the prescriptive 'honouctof presiding ov.er proieedings of ,the 'Hattie Of Peers. is, pro Posed that a new Prolocu t or , or' Sp eaker, should - 1e 'appoittted tiyitatitnt (rem the 4ittg, being not being a"Peer' or fi lam en t : Ins arrangement implying the absihace of the present Lord ChanCelior, • would riot ha Very' palatable, and is scarcely fair, to, the parties' Who hate ready' appealed from -Scotland7 and freland. , — iingliStrParties are scarc'ely in the - same prediee-. weat k It would be little short of impertinence give any judgment in.detail orthe recommends! Lions of. this Committee. But it may be' ted • to question their adequacy to 'meet the giant accumulation of business which - is (ntewled to he retturetrand necked. Considering the weight of `the' ' -bankruptcy and lunacy jurisdictieti, the, appeals' ficlrrr the Vice-Chancellor's Cotirt, the actual arrear cif business in . the Chancellor's own Court,and the progressive increase of Chancery stzits,'elmost Vain year to year, since the acces sion of his late Majesty, it is scarcely probable that the proposed alteration will go to any great, talent to an effectual, length in 'remedying the NEW TIMES.] From the, Paris Journals of Monday, and pri vate letters, we learn some of the circumstances under which ., the King of Spain was removed froth• Seville to Cadiz. On the 11th inst. the Orson* - milli% themselves the Cortes met at and it was resolved that an address shbtild be presented to the King, requesting him tol retire , to Cadiz " with. the Government" in 'twenty-four hours. The answer was a posi tive refusal. It was then determined that the King should be displaced, and declared in a state of mental incapacity ; and a Re gency, as it is styled, composed of three mem ! hers, was appointed. The Royal Prisoner, after being grossly insulted, was then conveyed by land to Cadiz. Here, if we are to be lieve the advices which have .been received, he was again declared to be competent to the exercise of his functions. This suspension or reason by human authority has at least the merit of novelty. With all the exalted notions Eng lislunen entertain of the powers of Parliament, they have never ventured to attribute to it such a suspending power as this. The event is im portant, principally as it shews clearly that the King is in a state of positive durance, and that no act which is put forth In his name can be considered as emanating from him. This fact has indeed been obvious for some months past to all unprejudiced persons, and now even those who cling most obstinately to de lusion can no longer shut their eyes to it.—Sir W. A'Court, who is stated to have offered his mediation in vain, remained at Seville after the departure of the King, having been accredited to his Majesty, and not to a Regency. The same course is said to have been followed by the Mi nisters of the United Statesi the Netherlands, and Sweden. [BRITISH PRESS.] The Constitutionnel of Monday, in an article of some length, remarks Most justly and strongly on the vile order lately given by the French police to Lady Oxford, Mrs. Hutchinson, and the Countess Bourck, to quit Paris. It asks, with how much justice was not Napoleon re proached for his exile of Madame De Steel, which. entailed so much odium on him? The great despot's unmanly war against an unpro tected woman is yet a disgrace to his memory, and a proof that Buonaparte feared his elevation lobe uncertain, when he trembled before a woman of ge. nius. Con'stitutionnel very pertinently remarks that if no English but Tories are suffered in Paris, France, in the way of trade and expenditure, mat • suffer a considerable loss. The principle is the' same as if' no French were suffered in London but those who were Ultras. A proscription of this sort woad interrupt the relations and intercourse between the two countries, and bring with it to France the most serious loss. The Government of the Bourbons must rest on a tottering foundation, indeed, of doubts and fears, when the banishment of . three most respectable ladies is considered ne cessary to its . preservation. Mrs. Hutchinson, who lived, we believe, more at Versailles than Paris, resided. for some years in France, principally to complete the educatiOn of her family. During her residence her house was open to the best society : she received at her soirees many of the most Ills. tinguished Members of the Chamber of Depu ties and men of letters in Paris. Her circle com prised' most of the eminent Liberals, both in the Chamber of Peers and that of the Deputies ; and, hence, probably, aroSe the hatred of a jealous and despotie police. Such a measure as this re flects' eternal 'disgrace on •the country where it originated . . 'lt is worthy of the Bourbons and the present system; by which missionaries and Moudhards are equally patronized, and shows the 'stability of theittoasted Government. [tits -rtmEs.] We have but little to nthi to our intelligence of yesterday respecting the removal of the King of Spain to a more remote . and more secure, part of his Majesty's dominions. His Majesty, no doubt, " took it ,unkind "'in his loving subjects to make a traveller of him in spite of himself; and the enemies of Spanish independence may make what they can of the fact. To Cadiz he is gone. We stated yesterday that the Cortes, on the King's refusing to . march, declared Ins Ma jesty to be out of his mind. Monday varies theexpression with great felicity, and' 'mikes the Cortes declare that the King is " not in the enjoymetti of his moral qualities."-- Poor man! Mr. flume last night made , his promised MO , [ion for abolishing the office of Lord .I,,i,entenant 'of irabiod. After some debate, it was negatived without a divittion, Whether any advantage would accrue by the abolition of this expensive and thankless office; we apprehend that it Iv4l not be till after a long time, and many, discus slops, that such a result cat; be brought about. Meantime, it will be a matter of no small diffi. cult, to get any Nobleman of 1110 least , indepen dence Of character to accept a situation, so desti ttute of power, yet so exposed to obloquy, insult, 'and mortification. We are indeed surprised that any rnan, of• any „pretensions to spirit, can now hold'soch-ait office for day.—(ibid.) Tire American Payers present a somewhat ob. scare but interestiwg ticeount of a naval engage. meat `between a Spanish force and that of c . 9. loarbia blockading /sla Larga, in which the former were" to theinselves most ruinou t sly. victoyinut. But a Matter of nearer" importance to up relates to th&British commerce with the gnittld.States. 'l`lw Americans seem disposed to, ease up.by.nut. Ong promised I,lessings near usoviiiclA ,we are, yet, ,by our own policy, prey-anted . from• tasting. The duty of tonnage, as well as the irnport duty . upon British vessels from'Cinadi and our W,,est India Islands, entering the ports of the United itatesore to be removed. So far so good : but then the act of removal expects on our part not only the repeal of the same duties, but also reciuires that American vessels shall be allowed to enter the ports of British Colonies on the same terms as our own ships corning from the parent state. Here the promised good is dashed from our lips, for our Government' will hardly be disposed to relinquish all.preference over strangers, in the commerce with our own colonies and Mr. Can ning very properly informs . British merchants in America, by means of a letter to the Consul- General, that they are not immediately to calcu late upon any advantage from ,theproffered boon.---(lbid.) Noe:stria citaolsiceel The King of Spain seems to have been seized with a fit of temporary insanity, which rendered it necessary to have recourse to the measure pre scribed by the Constitution for such au Paver gency. The Cortes are said to have found them selves under the necessity of appointing a Regency for a short time in his stead. The insanity began to display itself on his being asked if he was willing to set out for Cadiz. As the enemies of his country were approaching fast to Seville and (there being no means of defending that city) would soon have obtained possession of his Royal person, had . he been in a sound mind he would of course have dreaded nothing so much as such a calarni. ty. If Buonaparte had effected his threatened landing in this country, to free the King and the people from the Oligarchy by which he said they were enthralled, and if his late Majesty - had manifested an inclination to throw himself into the power of the invader, his faithful Lords and Commons would no doubt have deemed this alone an indication of insanity,and following their precedent of 1789 appointed' a Regency for the temporary discharge of the duties of Sovereignty. In a limited Monarchy, we cannot contemplate the possibility of the Monarch warring against the Constitution which gives him his title to reign ; and to place a Sovereign evincing a hostility to the Constitution under which he acts, under restraint so long as the hostility continues, is as natural as it would be in the crew of a ship on the ocean to impose restraint on a Master endeavouring by boring it to send them all to' the bottom. In Despotic StatesOn deed, where the Throne is surrounded only by slaves, who; dare not question the orders Which issue from its much mischief is often clone before the evil of insanity can' be remedied ; and the remedy itself is generally administered by the rude hand of an executioner,- as Alexander of Russia well knouts. But these unpleasant ex tremities are avoided in Constitutional States, where obedience is necessarily conditional, and there are existing authorities, to ascertain whe ther the mandates of the Monarch issue from a sound mind. ft is possible that the many calamities which the subjects of Ferdinand are now suffering in consequence of the invasion, may have been too 'much for his sensibility, and that, as often happens with violent grief, his senses may have been bewildered at the moment of decision. The shortness of the period during which it was necessary to impose restraint on him, inclines us to this last supposition. It would seem that immediately on reaching Cadiz he recovered his sanity, when he was again invested with all the powers of Royalty. Some people may suppose that King Ferdivand was criminal, but not insane, and that the Cortes had recourse to a fiction, in order to avoid the neces sity of adopting measures of severity. When we cashiered' King James, we had the grace to say that he abdicated the throne, though, God knows, abdication' was of all terms the last that was ap plicable to his conduct. The Spaniards on this sup position have used a fiction with a view to retain their King, as we used one to drive ours away. Sir A'Court waits for instructions from his Court, at Seville, having previously offered his me diation, proposing even to go in person to Ma drid. This offer of mediation was, we suppose, perfectly well understoed by the Cortes. They lit doubt suffer a grievous loss in his absence from Cadiz ; but we dare say they will be able to console themselves should they never see his face again. They know pretty Kell t h a t th e Govern ment of Sir William A'Court has not the inclina tion to do them any good ; while M. de Chateau briand has openly declared it has not the power to do France any GIICTNA-GREEN AND ANNAN.—We have been favoured with the following amusing description dip! Annan wedding by a gentleman who recently' . accompanied a pait of biUlmg ,turtle to this Scottish, altar of Hymeq :—" (3retna green affords such bad accorinnodation for travellers of that description, that it is likely -to lose Its once. great name of tying the connubial knot; yet still I have not a doubt but it is the Most expeditiom way of getting mauled; and therefore to those who are followed by their parents, it may still, immedi ately on the arrival of the couple at Atman, be becesilary to send for the plorost.rog oxy of 44 magistrates of the place, who will always come on e e a rlie st intelligence. ceremony that', passes is as follows i--To the gendeman- , -‘ port acknow. this woman to be you r w if e ?' I 40.' 'the lady—t' Do you acknowledge this man t o b e y o ur husband?' The laconic answer of I do,' rinds them to each other for life, and for which they pay the sum of seven shilli ngs: but mind, th is marriage, although binding, is not regular : and therefore it is necessary to send for thOlinister of the place ; b u t he, em informed, is; inffeneralt awaiting in en ail Joiningroarr,, inreact iness le abwil ve you from this which he takes canto te ll you you hhve cointu (tett. It may he necessary to give you %idiot descriptien of hitn.. Ile is a neat. made middle-sized old gentleman, with a good deal of reiigion stamped in ilia counten ance was' it not -rattier defaced by : a too great desire for the bins ale Scotland is remarked ter-. 7b be sure he has slight touch of th e Seoteh brogue, het then it is al ' Ways agreeable to English paapki. Mirk the style of a discourse 'delivered in the '11)110101T way t—' 'yer &We off; roam. tali auld a' bands,' and then, with closed eyes and uplifted-an:4N he says,' 0 L aird, let us p r ay,' 04.0. ; which done, he informs youof the clime you have committed,' by being married by a civil Magistrate--:.' Ye nutty dinna ken the consequence, ana -1 that the laa of. Scotland subjected than tu, a heavr,penelty, or - else ye mun be confined in the gaol .three and feed upon 'breed - anti however, 'water :' it is'in Icartv rto Mitigate the penalty, which is upwards of a 1.,. and xcecnditrgly. does, ,265: he then g ives y ou a cert i fi c ate of marriage, which runs as follows;—‘ - Theft do certify' that 111. of and No. of it the county a civil Magistrate for th e irreg ularity of their inatriage, were • resmarried by me, the Itliniscer of Annan, a n d iheiX marriage 'ordered, to be registered accord ing_to last. , (Signed ) Hnister, - Annan, -&e.' " concludes' the ceremony tat Annan -; ;and we all ninit,otqa; that 1t is An oast', antcel, 40 even - ,(tonsidi:!ing eircionatartece),:tv cheap way of kgetting married. No one,, sure, 'would grumble to - gisre-na. foi :be mirried;toarfieiatly *ten , it is to 'butione wife. —( Westmorland t7o weft. LAW. INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Just ASSAULTAND IMPRISONMENT: MARTIN mni,iVirit, Sv AvbU itakD Two_ .OTIIEna. This was an action against the defendants for asiaulting and falsely • imprisoning th e , plaintiff 's. wife. Mr. SCATILETT and Mr. PHILLIPS were for the plaintiffs, and Mr. AlAntitATT and Mr. PLATT for the•deferidants.- The plaintittwas a,paper hanger, in Regent-street, Oxford street, "and the defendant Mr. Weaver, was a feather-dresSer, in Tottenham-court-road. The other defendants, Wright and Williams, were officers of the peace, the one beir ,, a constable and the other a watchman. It appeared that the plaintiff's wife had sent some feathers to the defendant,_ Mr. eaver, to be dr,;ssed, and on the evening of the 21st December last she called at his ~shop, and accused him. of .changing her property and substituting other feathers instead of her own.; An alter cation ensued—ii crowd gathered round the door—the constable and the watchman were called in—hands were laid on Mrs. Martin, and.she was sent to the .watch-house, whence, after a short confinement, she was liberated. The defence set up was that Mrs. Martin had grossly mis behaved Herself, abused Mt. Weaver in the twit opprobrious ' terms, bred a riot in the street, and after every attempt had been made to pacify her, the constable and watchman thought it their duty to take her to the watch-house for disorderly con. duct, and after a very short detention she was. discharged. The CHIEF JUSTICE told the Jury that the defendants, Williams and Wright, were intitled to a verdict, the action not having heed brought within three months, and as to the de fendant Weaver, they would determine upon the conflicting evidence whether any assault had been committed. The Jury. immediately found their verdict for the defendants. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jusrte 25. THE FIRE IN 'WATLING-STREET. TIIUILTXL7.. BEAUMOST. This was an action to recover 1,9001. from the County Fire office, on a policy of insurance against fire. The plaintiff was a warehouseman In the city ; the defendant was the Secretary of that office. The fire by which the lose' had. arisen happened on Sunday, the 26th of January last, in Watling-street. The defence was two-fold in its nature-- drat, that the goods in the warehouse, on which the policy had been effected, did not amount to the sum claimed ; and, secondly, that the warehouse had been wilfully set on fire. The first witness was the plaintiff's brother, and he swore 1 1 that he had been entrusted by the plaintiff with the care of the warehouse, but that he had, Without the knowledge of his bro ther, slept away from the warehouse for some tune; that on the night iti question he went to a friend, whom he subse quently took to the Opera ;- and he positively swore that he knew nothing of the lire until ten in the morning, when a washerwoman brought the Intelligence to the house where be slept. 'Other witnesses were called for the purpose of proving the value of the goods to haver been equal to the amount now claimed. The Counfel forithe defendant, after stating the nature of the defence, proceeded to call witnesses to answer the case thus made out for the ,ptaintiff. The firs( part of the evi dence consisted of a schedule and petition of the plaintiff; under which he sought, not long before the fire, to take the benefit of the InsolVent Act, and these were put in for the purpose of sheaving that at the time stated he was . not in a con. dition to have effected the purchases sworn to' with his own j money. The second point of defence was attempted to be made out by callingtwo,witnesses, the first of whom was the mistress of the house where the plaintiff's brother went to sleep on the morning its question: This woman swore that she was in the room where the plaintiff's brother and his mistress were sitting a short time previous to the fire—that he was telling the lat ter of the circumstances of his distressed situation, when she said, " Well, really, if I was you I would sell off all the goods, and set fire to the warehouse;" to which he answered, " Now, Mary, don't talk so; for if any body was to hear you, and such a thing was to happen, they would say that I did set fire to it." The Witness further swore, that she let the plaintiff's brother into her house at a quarter to five o'clock in ; the morning of the fire ; that he then went to bed, and did not stir out of the house until ten o'clock in the morning, when he was informed that his warehouse was on fire, on which be dressed himself very deliberately, greased his boots, and went out. The second witness on this part of the case swore, that the plaintiff' s b rot h er had asked bun to have a house tak en in his name, which. the other was to furnish, go it insures', and then get away the goods, and set fire to it. Witness rejected the proposal at once. On his cross.examination he admitted having continued in the service of the person whom he thus accused some time after this proposal, and that he did not threaten to tell of this until after the plaintiff's brother had put off the payment of some money due to him. fie then threatened to tell in order to , get his money. r In reply , to this evidence the plaintiff called two witnesses, the finitof whoin 'swore that he was in company with the plain_! tiff's brother from seven o'clock in the evening of the 25th of January until nearly five the next morning, when he quitted hint as had been described; and as witness passed the florae (luards, the clock struck five. The second witness deposed to having raised a sum of more than 1,0001. it) order to enable the plaintiff to go into business. In the course of the examination of one of the plaintiff's wit tmes, Mr. Serjeant Toddy, who held a brief in the cause, asked when the plaintiff disappeared from Norwich? Mr. J ustice Park, seeing the witness hesitate, said—l do not think that is a proper question to be put to a. 'witness. To " disappear" means, in the way in which you have used it, to depart clandestinely. Now there is,not the slighest imputa ration of the plaintiff' e having done so. Mr. Sergeant Taddy—My Lord, I do not think the ',Ord bears such an interpretation. Mr. Justice Park..4t does, in my comprehension, and I do not think you have put the question fairly to the witness. hlr a . n S i e i r n j i c ) a u n ta t t T io i n id . ely—My Lord, I do not think . I dese rve such Mr. Justice Park--Imputation, Sir ! Ido not know what imput ing; n a ineya tilianngd t desire u th . a , t r y h o a u t w i s i . ) n t ottheelisaragya foranie wth Counselim pu tot address the Bench. Mr. Sergeant Taddy—Nor is that the way for a Judge to re prove an Advocate. Mr. Justice Park—l know my duty as a Judge, Sir. Mr. Sergeant 'faddy- And I know mine as an Advocate, my Lord; nor will I be directed by any one in my duty. Mr. Justice Park—l protest you will oblige me to exercise my power, Sir. Sergeant Taddy—yonr Lordship may do just what you please. Mr. Justice Park seemed at first much agitated, but after wards said--Sir, I shall show:the forbearance of a Christian Judge, in not exercising my power. Mr:Sergeant Taddy—Vour Lordship may display what for bearance, or exercise what power you please. lam ready to submit to whatever you may determine, and lam quite indif ferent ea to, the result. Mr. Sergeant Lens was rising, apparently with the intention of mediating between the parties, when he was stopped by Mr. Sergeant Taddy, who sait-:-" I beg, Brother Lens, you will not say anything ; 1 must .defend my own conduct frotn, imputation and the consequences myself." Justice Park- 4 - Brother Lens base right tube heani in addressing the Court." . Mr. Serjeant Toddy—" Not while lam in possession of the Court, my Lord, examining a witness." JumiCe rit; l 4 m intaioatiadignifieds ilence,.andthecause proceeded. The Jury, after having beard the evidence very fullyand ably summed up to them by his Lordship, returned overdid-foe the plaintiff: Damages, 1,9001. The trial lasted from ten o'clock in. the morning until half. past six .in the evening. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-ST REET.--Yemerday James Hayes, alias BUTS dough; Was brought before Kr. Illrwiiistrt.r., charged with at :tetrrptivg to murder's woman of the name of Mary Taylor. The prisoner, it appeared, had - . ozzliabited with the above-named woman for a long time past; but a few days ago, she was obliged to' leare Mtn in conietinenre of his hrutartreat mutt, and his repeated threats to murder her. She, went to her mother's where, yesterday morning, he found hit, and accused. her of having . deacited hlin to live with another man of the name of Leary. She denied it t and he knocked her down, cutler with a pocket knife, and afterwards beat her with the , hg of a mahogany table, which he broke up for the purpose, until She was senseless. Her mother received a stab in the throat in endearoiiring . to defend hei.—NenrgeS3n's assistant pronounced the Unfortunate woman to her in is very precarious state,- although nut in iintriediate danger.—The prisoner in hilt defence said she was unfaithful to hint, and moreover had robbed him; and he could not bear it. He was remanded.— NiTilliain Mires wax finally examined on therges,of uttering'fOrg, - .4 rive. pound Bank.notes. SIMPLE REMEDY SOR BLIGUT.—Save the water in which potatoes lire boiled, and when cold Wash the tree with it.' A brtish 'l* tile hest' thihk.kir t h e im p ose: t h e a l ters . tion in the appearance - of the tree in a kW' hours is astii .7 • • DREAnFUL AFFRAY 114 - Wf3I i PteROSS:STREET PRISON. Upon the application of Mr. Spencer the Governor of the Whitecross-street prison, Mr. Al iennan . \Vat - rum...sr, (the Magistrate upon the rota for the we e k at the, GuildhaleJustice-room), accompanied by the City Solicitor, and Mr. Bertsford, the Magistrates' clerk, attended yesterday morning at the prison, to investigate the particulars of a dread ful affray which had occurred among the prisoners the night previous, in which several persons had been wounded, a n d is feared some of them dangerously. The Sheriffs being engaged at the Sessions at the Old Bailey, Mr. Clarke, the Under Sheriff, attended to assist in the proceedings. The affray, it appeared, had originated on account of th e performance of a ceremony terme r caning," well-known in all of the debtors' prisons; the object and manner of perform ing which was fully explained in the course of the evidence...... The person charged was a very powerful Irishman, describing himself as a Captain Frederick Kelly. John Duncotnb Bentham stated, that it was the custom in the gaol, and had been so, he believed, from its first erection, for the prisoners in every separate ward to call upon every new corner into their ward to subscribe the sum of 16 shillings to the expenced of the ward, for coals, wood, swabbers, and on failure of payment, or giving some property to the steward of the ward as security for that sum, to cat" him.— y igh th t, e to persons tast t o covering " cat" This operation was alwayi done by th e p r i soners o f a different done b n ward. He was not in the sam e w ar d w i t h Captain Kelly, and had h . been w h i a i s h k asked, therefore , explained * o Tuesdayn a themselves with the bed-rugs as a disguise, and proceeding in a body. after the hour of bed-time, an d taking some part of the individual's property—his coat, hat, shirt, or otherwise, which was detainedEtill he paid the amount. O n p rocee di ng to Kelly's ward, he had been aware of what was about to be done, and fastened the door. A slight force burst that open, and Kelly was asked quietly to pay his dues ; he said he could nor then. but he had given security for them to Mr. Foster, the steward of the ward. This, upon inquiry, was found to be false; the discovery of course incensed them, and they were proceeding to " cat" some of his property, when he offer them his anuff-box,- which, he said, had cost him a guinea. The steward, upon looking at it, refused to take it, as not of sufficient value: Capt. Kelly then became extremely violent, took up a quart pot, and swore " by the Holy Jesus" he would break the head of any one who attempted to approach him. Robert Cauch, a prisoner, wrested the pot from him, upon which Kelly drew his penknife, and with dreadful imp recat ions vowed he would stab the first man who dared to touch him. Upon this there was a push forward, and one or two of the foremost were shoved upon Kelly, who immediately struck in all directions with his knife, and wounded several. He was at length over-, powered, the watch called, and the Governor alarmed, who had him conveyed to the strong room for the night. The same story, varying only in a very few unimportant par ticulars, was stated by several other witnesses, all of whom. agreed that no hands had been laid upon Captain Kelly when he stabbed Cauch, the latter having only been pushed farwarde upon him. John Sutton, the individual most severely wounded,:said no violence was attempted toward Capt. Kelly, that he himself sen• sorted with him, desired him not to be in a passion, and to give them his coat, and they would return it back again. He how• ever, refused with many oaths, brandished his knife, and said, " C ome on, lam ready for you." By the shove from behind, he (Sutton) fell upon one of the beds, face downwards, when he received two deep stabs from the knife in Captain Kell 's hand, one in the kidneys, and the other on the !shoulder. Be side Cauch, Kitson and Davison were also wounded. Several other witnesses were called to prove that this violence on the part of Captain Kelly was premeditated; that be knew he was to be " ratted" that night, and on going up to bed had said he would rip the guts out of any body that attempted it. Mr. liradd, the surgeon, had examined the state of the wounds of the four persons hurt in the affray, and was happy to say, that though severe there were none of them mortal. Capta Kelly in the affray had also been hurt ; there was a contused wound of some length on his forehead ; but the bone had not been injured. Mr. Spencer, the Governor, produced the knife used by the Captain, a small pen-knife,° which must have been used with great violence, the blade alone not being of sufficient length to inflict so deep a wound as that on the loins of Sutton. A part of the haft must also have entered his body. Captain Kelly appeared by no means anxious to enter into any defence of his conduct, seeming to think himself fully jus tified in resorting to such means to defend his property, and asked with much warmth, what right had they to force into his room, and rob him of his property ? They had, he said, taken. away his hat and his shirt, and he claimed to have them re stored. Mr. Alderman WAITIIMAN observed, that as Captain Kelly knew what the object of the parties was, and that It was lust their intention io do him any bodily harm, he could not, under the circumstances be justi fi ed in making use of a deadly weapon, and he ( itfr. Alderman) was quite sure, that upon reflection Captain Kelly would have felt great sorrow if death had ensued through his violence. If any injury had been sustained by him, or if he had been apprehensive of any attack upon his property, he should have appealed to the Governor for ' or redress, and if not protectionsatisfied with his conduct,. the Magistrates of the city might hays: been appealed to, and the l aw was open to him. His violence, therefore, was as unne cessary as it was dangerous. A commitment was made out against Captain Kelly, who, it was understood, expected to have been liberated as a debtor in. the course a a few days. The reason for the term " catting" was explained to be, that the time for thus enforcing these dues was always night, and the signal for assembling together for the purpose was the mewing like cats. n OA X.—Yesterday morning,a somewhat stoma. in i wn n i in f t, tahoaxagainst egatspnoi ntwr reports, s t ,tith il Tm la ah: y e, ed ontoinwn o tcoh tf enf u oAs p re o :somb n ume th naect e ehd eport b b e. e t f s o g re " , li t ad o fie o e ur n d w el or tig th ed ir llibilityinofththeewapuyboflicruwnas fiewanw guineas, , more-especiallya person nrasto aesxhthibeigut hims elf Ttohethbeaiatmuoll'asnrteadioflay increased by certain Intelligible hints, as to a breakfast to be given on the occasion. The Murraygate WAS all astir; while the Cowgate and the adjacent streets chewed how deeply and general)/ expectation had been excited. Every gig, and alarms *Very decayed hack was engaged ; Mr. Cash. was entered for every vacant seat in the mail coach ; and at an early hour the road was crowded by persons pushing along on foot, ne expos., Ing themselves to the perils of shattered vehicles and horses, to witness the feat. Even the country round poured forth its natives; persons of both sexes, who have no taste for the beauty of a summer morning, • were seen, by six o'clock, rubbing their eyes, and pressing towards the foul-mile stone ; some were even a-foot berore that time, and had taken their post at Clay people looked upon each other, and wondered why they h_ road.st, raised For u a u p n o l t e r i d i y in k p e a s ti an cn d ce st t i oo les k , t t h o e com pia m ee s o n f il cu e v n i o e s vi tr o , f i t na h; il come there. Aleanwhile,; an attempt was made to extend the. that thefeat war performing flarther on ; but the suspicion of our townsmen r e e s i tri um an in , g and to gi t v o i w n ; ou wi t tlicoat, vest, _ and that deception, other notael.r t to be was not of ia a ont i ty r i trig right;. some btgau to compare notes, • • and r put to rest. Conjectures went abroad found that the accounts which they had received, espe cially with regard to the breakfast, did not agree with each. other. Still they were ashamed to admit that they had been., im upon. Excuses began to be framed by them for being soul stir ; one person said he was accustomed to take a wallc, to the country of a morning, and was not aids way ; another. took his usual ride in the same direction; a third had some message to carry to a friend who had summer quarters; eile. ther.had to breakfast with some lady tot whom he patiok attentions; while a fifth was absolutely obliged to call upon tall , cousins . who were in bathing quarters at Droughty. erry. In short, the meeting seemed to have taken place by sheer aCCi" dent. To cloak their chagrin, the parties separated thriugh this country, every one with a look of business ; and ;bout nine o'clock, many a weary wigin might be seen entering the town from the Seagate and other id:ls—for kw took tha duvet road - covered with dust and sweat, digesting their - disappointrneet instead of their breskfest.—f.Dertiee ("perk, 19 ) " • • COAL-MARKET, Jtswg 26. Ships at 6larket. Ships sold 121 Newcastle - 2t Sunderland 0 Scotch Coal Prim 34$ to 421 t0,407i. to On Wednesday, tht With itmt., the 1.0y,0f. Richt 4 Samuel Whit; of Lincoln's Inn, and of laidhorough-stFc, Burton- t, of a daughter. On the 2ist inst. , iqrs. Qarlyie MVO Circus, Edini burgh, of a son. -* • Dar). Yesterday, after a ling er i ng and painful p Air. 139. h I A, Roberts, 4e years cellar:van at the Jeruatlent, Co ff ee. Lieu aged 47 , years, lie wits an indu s t r i om , upright, a nd (ARMIN. servant, leaving a wife and two young children to lament his lol ur gi Lately, aged 96, Joseph Mason,. Foni.,„ottiarjouve, fing n O r ` 4 one of the most eminent graziers to Craven. •It is not retneTr bared that ever he had a slay'A sik,kpestspravipso to that whiff ` caused his dissolution, and he retained,l4 • faculties . to the la m . trelbetat of his existence. -.- MOW and Pupli*theaTfoiTti ss i7p j fai lt — r - m eo m it ; s t o w Orrs;s, 112,. Strand. ,by J. 8,,-C,kustAAA Y w~?V; i r