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THE LONDON JOURNALS. TyanAvTA FIWM TIIE DAILY MORNING PAPERS, January 18'23. [THE TIMES.] All the late accounts from Paris have been - tinged with the gloomy colouring of the time and place whence they :originatd. That which we nave received since our last publication, con tained in the letters of Wednesday's date, is war like, and nothing more. It forebodes every Thing ; bot decides nothing. The answer of the Spanish Minister,' having supplied food for mind ration to the whole world, may now, it is to be feared, perform a different function, and serve as a pretext, to some of those who rule or pretend to rule the world, for breaking up every form of amicable intercourse with the Spaniards. En pursuance of this purpose, NI. Lagarde has been recalled. Let the immediate issue of this crisis be as unfavourable as it nty, the confidants of the war patty rather incline to discredit the intention of invading Spain with an army composed of Frenchmen. They talk of rendering liberal aid In arms •and money to the broken remnant of the -rebel forces, and encouraging them by all the expedients in their power. They talk further of selecting from among the Spanish renegadoes and another Regency—more dignified (0 than that of Urgel and of accrediting to it the Mi nisters of the Holy Alliance. How the whole series of inopostions made by the Holy Allies to :France, regarding the employment of German or Russian troops as auxiliaries, can be reconciled with the situation of the Bourbon ,Government, and with the temper of the French people, it would be at least premature to discuss. [MonMING 11 ERA 1.1).] We yesterday received the following letter up to and inclusive of the 6th of January, from our correspondent at Madrid. We give it as we received it, without making the least al teration MADRID, SATURDAY, JA 4.-1 7 011 r expresses arrived here last night with dispatches from the Courts of Paris, St. Petersburgh, Vienna, and Berlin, for their respective Ministers here ; and it is understood that in these dispatches notes were inclosed, which are to be presented to the Cabinet of Madrid . The llfonfteur, of the 27th, also carried by the French ceurier, containing the instructions which the French Government have forwaeded to Count de Legarde, the ambassador here. This do eument was published in the Espectador to-day, and although at first persons were inclined to take it in a warlike sense, yet when they coupled it with the fact of Montmorency's resignation, and considering the flattering terms in which it speaks of the iipanish nation, they considered that its purpose was pacific. — Others conceived that it was drawn up with the view of cover ing', as well as possible, the retreat of the French Cabinet .from the steps into which, perhaps, they had been urged by the passions of the Anti-Liberal party. By the same channel private letters front' Paris arrived here, which at tribute the victory of M. de Villae chiefly to the support which his representation received from the Duke of Wel lington. It had been positively determined at Verona, the lettera add, that the French Army of Observation should enter Spain as soon as the season would allow, and 'Montmorency pledged his Government to this unadvised resolution. His resignation, and the King's immediate acceptance of it, prove that his Majesty was chagrined at . the : pnduct of his Representative, and his name has already ; swiped a pre-eminence here in the catalogue of those rash and weak-headed Ministers who have been the bane of their" country ard the enemies of mankind. • [NEW TIMES.] We regret to say, that the complexion of yes day's intelligence left little hope that a conti nental war could be averted. England has done every thing in her power to maintain peace be tween the adverse parties ; but it is to be feared that her exertions will be in vain. We long cherished the idea that a moderate party might arise in Spain ; for we were too well assured that the predominance of a frantic democratic fac tion there must involve their country in all the horrors, of civil war, and then of inva sion. Unfortunately there has been no wisdom, there has been no patriotism, there has been no energy in Spain, capable of arresting the Revo lutionary torrent, or of standing midway be tween D e spotism and Anarchy. It is announced in The Elate of Wednesday that the Regency, exercising its authority in the name of King Ferdinand, will be formally recognised by Aus tria, Russia, and Prussia, us soon as their Am ,bassaders who have just left Madrid shall reach 'Paris. We know not on what authority this assertion is made ; but t if true, its conse qutmic,..i may be moat important. D utivsu French intelligence of Wednesday is, of no value. The Mode, that echo of Ultraism, swys, that France refuses the mediation of Eng land, and moreover that the Ministers of the Three Magnanimous, recalled from Madrid, are to — betake themselves to the itinerant Court of the Itegency• Both statements we believe to be un. true ; the first is most certainly a fiction. The E ng libh Government is not more interested or More zealous in preventing a war than the Government of France. The Etoile is evidently the organ,' of Russia. In Charles the Second's reign French gold used to flow into England, but it was for Statesmen and Legislators. The cha racter of the aje is changed, and foreign foes of political improvement now direct their influence to the public press. It is a very offensive, if not an unparalleled instance of human degradation, that men should, for any rewards which foreign wealth can give, devote their services to the sub version of the throne and the annihilation of liberty in their native country. [MO►tNING CIIRONICLEd Flom the disavowal of the Government Pamphlet so soon after the appointment of Mr. F. Robinson to the Chancellorship of the Ex chequer, it may be infered that the financial views in it do not exactly coincide with his own. We have heard it indeed said, that the Right 'Honourable Gentleman used to be very merry occasionally on the subject of his Predecessor's Sinking Fund otierations.l Perhaps, then, he means to abandon the delusion, I though attended with the advantage of giving Mi nisters an available fund in their emergencies (an advantage urged for the first time in the Mi nisterial Pamphlet), and as the country has long been satisfied that debt can only be reduced by the application of a surplus revenue in extinction of it, he may think it no longer necessary to give complexity to the public accounts td nq pqrpose. however the day is near at hand when, in the language of the French showmen, " we shall see what we shall see." We have elsewhere given extracts from the Blade. The tone is decidedly warlike, and the movements of troops are in accordance with it. The opinion of influential persons at Paris is by no means, however, so decided. We have it from most respectable authority, that M. Chateaubriand stated distinctly 0 , 1 Wednesday to an English man of rank, " If your Government is sincere there will be no war, and if M. Villele go out there will be no war." It would seem from this that the French have still their suspicions as to the reality of the friendship of our Government for the Peninsula. The old King is almost driven to madness by the man. ner in which he is besieged, or rather perse cuted by the different parties. To a man like him, whose veal for the faith is understood never to have been very ardent, who loves tranquillity, and is by no means insensible to the good things of this life,even the chance of being obliged to set out again on his travels, should this very hazard ous expedition fail to be attended with the hoped for success, is by no means a pleasing subject for his contemplation.—We shall not, however, take up the time of our readers with unprofitable speculations on this subject.—W here accident may determine, it would be absurd to speak with confidence.—We shall merely further ob serve, that we have reason to believe men in office here still entertain a conviction that. there will not be war.—(fbiel.) [MORNING POST.] An Express arrived yesterday from Paris with he Etoile of Wednesday evening, the only Paper which made its appearance on that day. They would be of some importance, if any re liance could be placed on their correctness. But this Journal has put forth of late so many statements which have not been confirmed, that its claim to public confidence is destroyed. Amongst its new assertions is one that France had twice refused the proffered mediation of this country between her and Spain; and another that the Russian, Austrian, and Prussian Am bassadors were to be accredited to the Regency of Spain, as soon as they should arrive at Paris from Madrid. Bayonne Papers to the 17th inst. reached us at a late hour last night. They had hitherto displayed strict impartiality in the communi cation of intelligence from Spain ; but now that the balance - seems to incline in favour of war, they begin to follow the example of the other Journals, and 'to give a colouring of their own to the events which they record. — Opinions are united to facts, and facts them selves are made to undergo the alterations ne cessary to render them palatable to the prevail ing party, anti to arm it with the means of damping the secret hopes of some, and allaying the open apprehensions of others.—(ibitt.) CITY, FILIDAY EVENING. The Consuls for the February account, which closed last night at 77k, opened this morning at 774, and ad' winced during the day to 774; but when the gloomy news from Paris were made public they fell to 784, and closed at this price. A report that several line of battle ships were getting ready for sea, assisted in rendering the depression more complete. Amongst the holders of Foreign Securities the panic is very great. Thetlecline . in the French Reines is at least 4 per cent. since yesterday, and there is no confidence in their maintaining even the closing price of this day, which was only nominal at 79. The Scrip of the New Spanish Loan, and the Bonds of the same nation of 1821, are fully three per cent. lower, and no sales of any consequence can be effected in them. It is rumoured that . , the French Government has guaranteed the Loan to the Re. geney of Spain, and that his Holiness the POPE has granted a divine dispensation, permitting this Regency to give security om the lands of the Church for this money, to be employed in the holy cause of the Inquisition, indulgencies, bigotry; and ignorance. Although the Emperor ALEXANDER appears to have for gotten his loans in England, the possession of his bonds de prives Englishmen of the same convenient want of memory. These Securities have this day fallen fully 4 per cent., and the holders are very anxious to get out even at a heavy loss. The Bonds of his PRUSSIAN ,MAJEsTY have also undergone a still greater depression. Several articles of commerce are dearer this day on the Royal Exchange, in consequence of the prospect of war. Saltpetre has risen 2s. per cwt. :The improvement on hemp is fully:W. per ton, and it is not unlikely that there may be a considerable de mand for Small Cord:, for Various purposes, before the termina tion of this threatened legitimate war. " Very little- business is doing ingrain, for home-consumption, in consmuenee of the se vii.ity of the weather; the chance of,exportation, however, be comes stronger, which renders the holders of bonded grain more sanguine that events may yet save them a heavy loss on the quantity of this description now in granary. British spirits coining from the proper quarter fully maintain their extraordi nary high prices, hut those' who intrude Irish spirits on the Eng lish market, in vain attempt to make sales at 10 to 15 per cent. under the arranged prices. If sales could only be made, the Irish distillers would have pretit enough even at a greater re duction in the value, but at present they cannot be effected.— ( Morning chronicle.) Ftar.---It was stated yesterday, upon the au thority of a guard of one of the north country coaches, passing through Biggleswade, early on Thursday morning, that a fire was blazing at Woodley Cottage, the seat of L. W. PoTrtgratt, Esq.; and that after the destruction of the house, the stabling had caught fire. It, however, turns out, that the fire broke out in the stabling, at two o'clock in the morning, through the carelessness of a youth, in setting fire to some straw in the loft where he slept. The stables and roach house were in a short time a heap of ruins, and a strong easterly wind communicated the flames to the house, the interior of which ►vas totally destroyed. It had been purchased and fitted up by the owner last spring in an elegant style, and was insured for a trifling sum only. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN. 24. Second day of Term WILLIAMS V. ALTENUURY, IN TUE MATT ER OF BAD DINGTON COLLIERY.—JUDGMENT. The Loan CHANCELLOR, as lie had promised, gave judg_ ment in this case, which had been before the Court for some days past. It was in the nature of an appeal from an order of t he Vice-Chancellor. A sale had been decreed by the Court, in 'execution of the trusts of a will, of a colliery, and farm apurte nant. The first sale had miscarried in consequence*of a reser vation being made to the agents of the trustees and others to bid for the property. A second sale was ordered, at which a Mr' Bourne had become the purchaser for a sum smaller, than that which had been bidden on the first occasion. This was ac counted for by reason of a mistake having been detected in the quantity of coal lying under the land, which was less than had been advertised. The trustees were discontented with the sale to Mr. Bourne and sought to have the biddings opened again. It was alleged that a Mr. Thorne, forMerly an Officer in the Navy, but now described as a coal and iron master, was wil -1 ling to have given at the sale, and was still ready to give, a larger sum than that which Mr. Bourne had bought at, and he had paid 9001. into Court as a deposit. Upon this circumstance the trustees chiefly relied as a reason why the bidding should be opened. It did appear upon the hearing before the Vice- Chancellor that a man in very obscure station had been employed to bid as. an *tit, and that if lie bad been de clared the purchaser, he would have been totally unable to fulfil his contract. This fact had been much insisted upon as evidence that the biddings were not made bona fide. His Honour had , thought that the biddings should not be opened, and in this opinion his Lordship agreed with him ; but the Vice-Chancellor grounded his opinion upon the makfides which infected this transaction, and he thought that if Mr. Thorne had been really a bidder on his own account that he might have opened the biddings : in this his Lordship differ ed from the Vice-Chancellor. It had been the uniform prac tice otall the Chancellors sittin in that Court during his Lordship's practic-, from 'Lord Apsiey downwards, to regret every time they had occasion , to open biddings. Though he joined entirely in the same feeling, he did not think he should ;be justified in refusing to do so upon all occa sions . when their practice had been opposed to their convic tions upon this subject. All the objections which applied to disturbing sales in general were multiplied with regard to collieries.. There were few, perhaps there were no circurn , stances which should justify re-opening such sales. The value of this sort of property was exposed to so many fluc tuations, and liable to be affected Ly so many unexpected events, that such a measure might be most injurious to the parties interested. A stoppage among the workmen, a frost, a flood, and a thousand other circumstances, to which landed and other property were not liable, made coal mines always a hazardous, mercantile speculation. His Lordship instanced case in which a colliery sold originally for 36,0001. had been reduced by successive openings of biddings to 6,000/. • it af terwards rose to 15,000/., and at that price was finally sold. It was for these reasons, for the difference between collieries and almost every other property, that he was of opinion the bid dings should never be opened. The Court had regard not to the interest of bidders, but to those of suitors, and upon the general principle of protecting the latter interests his refusal was founded. The facts of the case were not such as to induce any departure from it. He had no doubt that Mr. Thorne was a very honourable man, but it did not appear very clearly by what means he had been transformed from a naval officer, to au iron and coal-master ; the former agent clearly not a tit purchaser. The case, however, was one in which he should make no order respecting the costs, but would order that the bidding should not be opened, and that Mr. Thorne should have back the 900/. which he had deposited. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JAN. al. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS.—IN TUE MATTER OE LADY CHARITY. This was a petition presented by certain lessees on a farm under the controul of this charity, and it prayed a reference to the Master to ascertain if any, and what reduction should be made in the rents paid on these lands. The petition stated, that at present a rent of about 450/. was paid, and that in con sequence of the tall in the prices of agricultural produce, the rent ought to be considered as much too large. • The VicE-CuAIICELLOIt said, he could not listen to this ap. plication, a s emanating front the lessees of the charity. lithe trustees had thought proper to petition, then the Court would be induced to pay some attention to the application. , Mr. CHINO, WhO appeared for the lessees, observed that there would be considerable difficulty in the trustees petition ing, as they were all. of them persons of great rank, and I must of them abroad. One of them was his Royal High ness the Duke of Cumberland, who was now out of the kingdom. Air. Kai (aim, for the trustees of the charity, said, that the trustees, so far from desiring to petition the Court, had been earnestly requested to resist the present application. A great number of schools, in different parts of the kingdom, under the controul of the charity, had petitioned the trustees to re sist it. The VICE-CliAricELLon certainly could not attend to any petition on the part of the lessees of the charity. With respect to the casts, the VICE-CHANCELLOR di to pay them, unless it was proved by V/43 made with the approbation of raflithecettilistttleideeisa.ptettihistioanrepr COURT OF XING'S BENCH, JAN. 24. ARTICLES OF THE PEACE. Mr. ADOLPHUS moved, on behalf of a person named Steel, and two others, to exhibit articles of the peace against three persons named Lucas. The applicants appeared on the floor of the Uourt, and were sworn to the truth of the articles.; which were then read. It appeared that Mr. Steel was a silversmith, in Oxford street, and that the other deponents were shopmen in his employ. The principal defendant, Mr. Lucas, was a timber-merchant, occupying adjoining premises, and the disputes arose respect. ing a right of way claimed by Mr. Steel m the intermediate passage. This right had been contested in an action at law, and had been decided in favour of Mr. Steel; but Mr. Lucas would not allow him peaceably to enjoy his privilege. The articles set forth several acts of violence committed on Mr. Steel and his servants, accompanied with circumstances which induced them to believe that their lives were in danger from the conduct of Mr. Lucas and his family. The COURT thought they ought to receive the articles as against Mr. Lucas and his son, but refused them as against the third defendant. Mr. AnoLPitus asked the amount of bail which the defend. ants must obtain ? The COURT. replied, that it was not usual to direct this in the present stage of the proceedings. THE KING v. TILE JUsTrCEs Or WARWIcEsiILitE AND THE OUARDIAN's or TILE POOR OF TIIE PARISH OF BIR MINGHAM. This case, which stood in the peremptory paper, came on this day to be heard. The circumstances out of which it arose, as ',disclosed by the affidavit of Willicon-Phipsen, were as follows;—In the year 1819, a person named 11'illiran Inas tans was removed with his family from the parish of Aston to Birraingham, by order of Justices, and received parochial relief. In a short time he obtained a bituation its reporter to a provincial newspaper, and thus acquiring a respectable sti pend, ceased to be chargeable to the parish, and continued to reside at Aston. After he had followed this occupation for a month, and had ceased during that time to receive any money from the overseers, he was apprehended, without any previous intimation, while taking notes of the proceedings at the public office in Birmingham, and taken before Mr. Spooner and Mr. Price, two Magistrates for the county of Warwick, on a charge of returning to the parish of Aston without a certificate, after his removal to that of Birmingham. He urged that he wits no longer a pauper, and sought no assistance from any one ;. but the Magistr a te s t oo k on t h e mselves to convict him of the alleged offence, and committ e d him for a month to Warwick gag_ To: this prison he was Conveyed, and was not permitted to communicate with hisemployer or his family ; and his family, of`.course, treated became chargeable to the parish. Vi'hen the trans. reu action or ,Lgeneral eame known, it excited a very feeling that Pittston% had b een trea with harshness, and :his employer, Mr. George Edmonds, who at that time was the conductor of a newspap er at Bi rm ingham, published strictures on the conduet of the M ag i s t rate s. A prosecution was subsequently commenced against Mr Edmonds for a libel, which was con. ducted by Messrs. Spurrier and Ingleby, solicitors, of Binning.. ham ; and at the trial, Mr. Edmond*, being advised that be could not in law d e f en d his observations, permitted a vertlicrof guilty to pass against him. In the interval, betereen the con viction and the time when judgment could be pi ft meet. ing of the r a t e d inhabitants of the parish of- in liam was held , for the purpose of passing the..aceaffris of the ' g late constables , of the parish ; when, to the astonishment of the great . body of the meeting, the hill of Messrs.. Spurner and Ingleby for the costs of the prosecution of Mr. Edmonds, amounting to no less a sum than 297/. 14s. 3d., was presented, and its allowance claimed as a part of the expenses of the parish, The parisioners, however, feeling that their opinion had never been taken on the propriety of prosecuting for this libel on the Magistrates, and that they had no concern in the business, refused to pass or allow the claim. In the subsequent term Mr. Edmonds was called . up for judgment, but, on the suggestion of the Court, no judgment was passed, but his own recog nizinces were taken to appear and receive sentence, if called on. In the January following another meeting of the rated inhabi tants of . Birmingham was held, and the account of Messrs. Spu nd Ingleby was again presented, with an addition of i d 98k, l . for subsequent costs, making a total of 3961. 19s. 9d. Or l occasion the supporters of the . prosecution prevailed ; thi 'bill was admitted by a small majority of the parties assem bled, and on the 29th of January the same was allowed by the bmiirdians and overseers of the poor of the parish of Birming ham. Against this allowance Mr. Phipson, a rated inhabitant of the parish, appealed, and his appeal came on to be heard at the last Easter sessions for the county of Warwick. After hear ing the case, the Magistrates retired for about an hour; and on their return into Court, the Chairman stated that the appeal was dismissed. The Counsel for the appellants then asked for a case, on which the opinion of the Courtof King's Bench might be taken on the legality of the allowance; to which the Chairman replied, that the Magistrates would grant a case, on condition that the appellants would pay all the respondent's costs ; but that if these costs were not paid, no case should be granted. Upon this singular decision an application was made to the Court of King a Bench for a certiorari, to remove the order of Justices made on the dismissal of the appeal ; when the Court granted a *rule to show cause why such certiorari should not issue, or why a mandamus should not be directed, com manding the guardians and overseers of the poor to make up their accounts and submit them to two Magistrates, in the course prescribed by the general law relative to such accounts. This rule came on to be argued to-day. The merits of the case did not at all come into discussion, but the argument was directed to the question ; how far the Court had junsdiction to interfere, with reference especially to the 23 Gee. 111. c. 54, by which the local government of the poor in Birmingham is directed. The COURT ultimately decided; that the rule for the certio. rari should be enlarged, and that the mandamus should issue. The right, therefore of the guardians of the poor to allow this item of 3961. 10s. 9d. for the proscution of a libel on two Ma. gistrates, will again be subject to scrutiny. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 24. FALSE IMPRISONMENT. COOKE v. WHITE. Sergeant PEL L stated the csse.—At the time the transaction took place the plaintiff was an infant, and apprentice to a Mr. Pitts, residing at Lambeth. On the night of the 24th of Au. gust last the defendant called at the house of 'the plaintiff's mother, and:gave plaintiff in charge of a watchman, for having been concerned in a burglary, shortly before committed on the premises of the defendant; the plaintiff' was accordingly car ried to the watch-house, and there detained until the following morning, when, being taken before the Sitting Magistrate at Union Hall, he was immediately discharged, there not having been the slightest pretence for the charge preferred by the de fendant against him. Joseph - Weaver—ls a watchman, his beat is in the Lambeth New Cut; on the 24th of August last, the defendant requested witness to accompany him to the house of plaintiff's mother, in, Robert-street, Lambeth,marsh ; it was about 11 o'clock ; wit ness went with defendant, who knocked at Mrs. Cooke's door, and on her answering, asked for her son ; she said he was in bed ; defendant requested to see him on particular business; plaintiff got up immediately; defendant asked him to go to his house with him ; he did so ; defendant then charged plain tiff with having robbed his house ; plaintiff said he had warned defendant of the intended robbery from a stispicious conver sation he had . overheard between some persona in a skittle ground, but denied having had any thing to do with them, of he should not have told defendant of the conversation. An officer then entered the room and asked plaintiff for one of his shoes, which lie immediately took off and gave him ; the officer and defendant then went with the shoe to the back part of the house, and when they returned, defendant gave plaintiff in charge to the officer, who not having handcuffs, tied a handker chief round his wrists and took him towards the watch-house. Plaintiff was asked to give up the namesof the persons between whom the conversation passed, which he had overheard and re lated to defendant; plaintiff expressed his willingness to do so if he knew their names, which he 'denied being acquainted with. Cross-examined by Serjeant Vett7ollAlti..--Believes plaintiff lives near defendant ; defendant's house had been robbed a few nights before to the amount of 601. or 001. • plaintiff told de fendant that his reporting the conversation he had overheard as a warning, did not agree with the probability of his having been concerned in the robbery. Ann Cooke.--Is mother to the plaintiff'; her son is 20 years of age ; he is an apprentice to a gold and• silver chaser; re members defendant coming to her house on the night of the 24th of August last (witness corroborated the evidence of the watchman); her son was asleep at the time; it was a Saturday night; he was detained in custody until the Monday morning following. Thomas Batsford was with plaintiff on the night in ques tion, at the Nelson's Head, in IsTelson-square, Blackfriars-road ; it was a Meeting of odd fellows ; accompanied him on his way home as far as the Cobourg Theatre; it was about half-past eleven o'clock. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant VAututax.—Has been an odd fellow for eight months ; knew the hour from having heard the watchman call the half hour ' • witness believes the ff ,piainti to have been the only odd fellow taken up that night— diought it very odd. William Pitts—ls the master of the plaintiff, who has been his apprentice for six years and a half, during which time he has conducted himself with great propriety. Mr. Sergeant VAUGHAN would not deny the imponance of the present case to the character of the plaintiff; but he thought, that when the Jury had heard the case, they would have a very different opinion of the bearing of its merits.-- No malice had been imputed, much less proved, against the defendant ; and it would seem that he could not have acted as he did towards the plaintiff but in error; for if not 1 to malice, to what other cause could the charge made against the plaintiff be attributed, if not to error in the defendant ? Much emphasis had been laid upon the communication made by the plaintiff to the defendant, as having been made immediately after it had been overheard, but he should prove that such communication was not made until a fort night after it was known ; and what was the inference to be drawn from that circumstance ? Why it was this—that the Plaintiff was the associate of certain fellows (not the Odd Fel lows that had been alluded to), and a party with them to a proposed burglary; he, however, thought proper to split, and save himself tram all ill consequences of his evil associatio n , by disarming the plaintiff' of all probable ground of suspicion of being concerned in the actual commission of the robbery. ' At a quarter past three o'clock the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 301. Ills Lordship directed that the name of the landlord be for wattled to the Licensing Magistrate of the District. CONSISTORY COURT, JAN. 24. EIAWKINS AGAINST MACKIE, FALSELY CALLED DAWKINS. This was a cause of nullity of marriage promoted by the husbandatgainst the wife, by reason of her having, at the time of her marriage with the party ymponent, a former husband, who was then still living. .1%0 defence was made for the wife. Dr. LuS)IINGTON having read the evidence both as to the fact ofmarriage and the identity of the parties. Sir C. Rom zisox asked him how he meant to deal with the sealed paper that had been brought in ? (This paper contained the deposition of Mackie, the first husband, to the facts above stated.) Dr. LUSIIINGTON apprehended it might either be carried into the Registry in its present state, or be destroyed. He re collected a case in the Prerogative Court, in which the former course was pursued in respect of the deposition of a wife who had been examined to her husband's interest. The Couwt' said, the dout;ifn - tliepresent case arose, be- Cause the witness was the first husband, and was now deceased. The Court's predecessor, however, in a former case, did admit such a paper de belie ease." The fact was, that there might be most important evidence contained in such a deposnion which the Court could not get at from any other source. Dr. LutitttNGTOx reminded the Court, that in all prosecu tions for bigamy, it was customary to allow the second wife or the second husband to be examined, in order to prove the in jury ; but the first husband; or the first wife was excluded from giving evidence. Sir C. ROBINsON then recapitulated the circumstances of the case, which merely went to establish the facts of the first and the second marriage; the identity of Elizabeth Mackie, with Elizabeth, falsely called Hawkins; and the dates of the two marriages. The first , marriage of the party with Mr. Mackie took place in 1809. The second or pretended marriage With Hawkins in 1820. Abundant evidence was adduced to show that at this latter period Mackie was still alive: and upon the proofs adduced, the Court felt itself bound to pro nounce the sentence of the law, that the marriage of Elizabeth Mackie with Hawkins was null and void. bINOtILAIt REMEDY roa lIOOPING COUGH.— Dr. Archer, an American Physiciani has announced, that the hopping-cough may be certainly -cured by vaccinating the pa tient in the second or third wee k after the commencement of the disease.—(Noureau Journ. de Med. Sept. 18'224 SUICIDE. Thursday evening at T. STIPILTSG, Esq., at the house of Messrs . S umestreet Co4erell, Oxford-street, on the body of Mr. T homas Ste t Inquest was held hefe street, aged 27, a silversmith and pawnbroker residing diet John Williams, shopman to Messrs. Stonest reet an tereil, depos e d th a t he h a d of late observed many an nary things about deceased, his conduct had b een ver y str o a n he frequentl ordered them to do one thing, and in a d t afterwards co y ntradicted it. On Tuesday night, about halt been absent since half-past eight ; eleven o'clock, he let the deceased in perfectly sober, he locked the street door and afterwards went into his lien, t , " was in the shop. Deceased shortly afterwards came pis.,; taking up a bunch of keys, proceeded to unlock the a U . and took something out, but what, witness could not (sitarY2 passing by the bed again, he, as usual, wishedbiln when he was let good night, and then went up stairs. Witness thout: conduct very strange in unlocking the windote--1 stance he never did before. On the foilowisg 0 7 1 ", (Wednesday) about five or ten minutes past eigh t z. went up as usual into deceased's bed-room far d ie d and found the door wide open ; on going in, i ec not there; thinking he might be in the water - c loset, in that direction, but found the door leading to It ld he then went into a room leading to the ch:'" o f but could not see the deceased there, on account he shutters being closed ; thinking his se'areh frt" ess ' c r quainted the fotetnan, who desired him to look 1 11 °__ cularly in the drOwing room, and opened the shutteri so, he saw the deceased sitting in an arm chair, with IT. sidering him to be asleep, he went up, leaning on the table, and his head resting on his kan', l L. he thought that to be the case. Witness was hattedo 'f1;; wake him, on going into the drawing-room heltd nouv., the shoulder, took him by the arm, and at last loud ; finding he could not make the deceased move, fq:""; round and saw a pair of _pistols lying on the table (,'s loaded), and a bottle half full of laudanum labellea' then considered he had taken part of it, a sent for who came within ten minutes. Mr. Jonas Hall Pope, of Somerset surgeon, stated, that he had been in the ceased professionally for some years past, not required his attendance for some in He was called on Wednesday mornini see the deceased, who was then in a and told the r n found a bottle half full of laudanum, it was manifest that deceased had sr. Witness rendered him every assistance di vomiting was produced, and the content: mined, from which it plainly appeared taken ; finding it was of no use to offer ness left him about twelve ; circulation , sided, although his breathing was good ; hours afterwards. Witness did not know the state of deceased's stomach, but fron he certainly must have taken more than laudanum ; deceased, he saki was not ii laudanum from him, but 51Mohnson of the Jury) could explain it. Ilr. Johnson said decased had been a. he had had laudanum before of him for poisons for jewellery ; and he had no I where he knew the persons. James Charles Hay, foreman to D. Cotterell, stated, that on Tuesday even came home, a brilliant ring lay in the nests, and which could not have gone that evening ; witness was surprised whi dead in the room to find die ring on hilefir firm belief the deceased took it. The' talk about his affairs apparently much believed was in consequence of a r business, and his having lost a very a money the deceased lost was his father quently talk about it very vehement' lately fallen into great depression of mid The Jury being satisfied, viewed the the drawing-room ; beside the deceased Porteus's Commentaries on Death ;"—" whom every Foe forsakes;"-.." I woo tl passage, it appeared he had recently bi return into the Jury Room, the Carol dence, and the Jury, after a short con: verdict--" That the deceased put an en: taking laudanum, being at the time mental derangement. On Friday last, Sir JAMES MA been observed in the passage of of the Court Session, the Lord the Court that Sir JAMES sho, within the Bar, which was df and Sir JAMES took his sea WALTER SCOTT. The worthy there until Mr. JEFFREY had c which occupied the Court thr gore Chronicle.) - - - COAL-MARKET JAN. JAN. % Pi et. # Shir at Market. Ships sold .41 00 ° .11 59 Newcastle - - 251 - ', i t egi I° , j 15 Sunderland - - 7i - 'l . / ...-- 0- ' _...„.-/ COURSE OF EXCHANGE, JoluarY ". t ° i Awstetdant li ' Ditto, at Sight i , Rotterdam Antwerp .... , it 6 i .. , 9 Hamburgh Altona Paris,B Day's sigot iS 6 ", Ditto B 6' lourdeaux, ditto Frailliforton the Main ..... .• • • 157 4/i Madrid 36 f; Cadiz Bilboa . s.,lri Barcelona • .. Seville :0 Gibraltar 4t , Leghorn ............................... ~. , 7 0 Ge 1.14 lB----Venice, Ital. I. • ~,, , Nlalta Palermo ............ ...... .. ...... .................... 111 I° ' Lisbon ...... ... .......... 511 1 Oporto ................................ 43 Rio Janeiro .. .... • • . 00 1 ' OubliS .•.. 9i C or k qi :'r •, ' BULLION. Portugal Gold, in Coin Foreign Gold, iu Bart ................. New Doubloons ............ Nei*. Dollars ........................ 4 . • Silver in Bars, S tan d a rd............... mans. On the 20th instant, in the Royal Circus ,at Captain J. G. C owe ll, I st R o y a l s , of a dsugL te r r ii,u o On the 22d instant, at her f a ther's house/ I' . lady of Captain J. N. Burton, of a daughte:2......„.... MARRIED. On Jan. 24, at Ellaston, in the -countto„c,A,oo; Rev. George Hake, Chaplain to his Royal - "7 fiar4 of York, John Buller Yanle Bulle r , hisil. , °' Of ,:,1 c to ci° ll t li S ss hanl tai l za l. eonnty of Devon, and of DilbornHall, coantyo Elisabeth, daughter of Thomas IVilson., l ,lts t i Park, Staffordshire, and Bank .11aIl, in " I " go caster. , 1 ,,, tto to On th e 23d instant, at St. Giles's Chow' , "l. of . f street. . .4,1 i On the 19th inst. at Tenterden, Mr. John 1,01,zi in the morning, the great bell was t ° " Ann,A., seSatconnudedallutigebhtaerrdso73lr;.ses,°- Elizabeth Browne. On this occasion, instead ° l 14 tl' rung the bride,ibr one /um r its the rteniNg• DIED• L.,„thaa'r' leou n n On tbe 234.1 instant, in tbe ogo'' , ir 6 o Bertie, wife of Vice=Admiral Sir . Tlia os daughter of the late Peregrine Bertlei Essex.,On Tuesday, the 21st instant aged 49 3lr' sen., of Monument-yard. On Thursday last, at his reideLente 4t () fa r Thomas Adams , of High Holborni . b: " t I . I r w d n d v Lambeth, y, t e a rid iAs.tanti Birs' and Published for the PitornlVl°lt7,4lo:ll4' rot Printed ()Nice, No. 112, Strand, byC.O deceased moyc on the table inch I danum labelled; is bi it, a surgeon vas OW et street, Portmsn-sqa the habit of attentlint Past. The ileetw du e months before n i ng about nine O'OP 3 a dying stat WO e. I s and from the syloPt4 swallowed the ot her is ce that could bey cutOoP i tents of the mach e axed laudanum Oil Iller any more MOO, P.! on had then nesor 'od; he expired AO t know any thing telo from what %IS h a n an 01.1111% ant s IT ; lot the hobit on (one of the on t a customer for ootilli i for chilblains, Alt, no hesitation tog 4," ) Messrs. Storesuce.; ven ing, before the i e window, marked i'L'l„ e before' he esor me when. he saw hiol .finger, freq.and it wss deceased vota h distressed, which Partner he former!! y considerable suoidi ether's, and he lyti h e deec oi " ently. T mind. 11 the body, wilicb 'toed on a table,dlC `ere Friend to 'OO thee, Death ; ; 0 1 ly b een reatlintl. the eroner suoutloloPaa consultat i o n, w , 00 n end to his trtltivot ime in a store • MAcKrooSo "- * of the rentVlW )rci PP. Es ots l ,,n should be BiJ done accot a" seat opposite to' by Kni g 1. tet° d concluded three hour`' ~-