The Sun. — London, England, 1823-07-31 00:00:00

TUT LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extracts from the Morning Papers, July 31. • [MORNING CHRONICLE.] The letters received yesterday from Paris were by -no ineani encouraging to the Bourbon cause, and the French Funds were consequently quoted as having experienced a depression, entirely at tributed to the bad news received from Spain, which the Government i nevertheless, carefully conceal from the public eye. Numerous-private communications from the army are, however, cir culated all over France, and produce a great sen sation. The hardships of the campaign, particu larly in Catalonia, are appalling to the Bourbon , noviciates in war. The mortality experienced in that province, both throtigh . sickness and the sword, is great, and yet they have not yet expe= rienced the favours of •the month of August. One private letter from Paris states, that the - sortie made by the Constitutionalists from La Isla, and of- which the Paris Papers give so flaming an account, was in its result quite the re verse of the' picture drawn for the public eye, and tact gradually a few • secrets respecting it And their way out. The sortie was made by a division not exceeding from four to five thousand. men, who fought with the greatest ardour. Their object was to destroy. certain works the French were raising, and their success was complete, the enemy. losing at least as many men as they did. After their operation had been completed, they withdrew, and entered their lines: These Partial sorties will continue till a more general moveinent is concerted with Ballastefoi and Lopez Banos, as much for the purpose of giving the men confidence, as to harass the enemy.— Operations on a grander scale are however pre paring, and with this view BallisterdS has en tered Andalusia, the theatre of his former exploits, and where he is so popular adiong .all classes of the inhabitants. Ile will operate on the rear of the enemy, and then, if we are not greatly de ceived, the position of the French in Andalusia, with, the Sierra Morena .also hetWeen them .and their centre, - Will he rendered very precarious.- , -. : The mOnient the' result of the Coruitna .business is known and the neighbourhood, the enthusiasm will. be immense. We yesterday al 'hided toa Portuguese party in faVour of the Con . stitution, assembling on the frontiers of Galicia, and we are now enabled to add, that further advices have been received, mentioning that the two brothers Cabreira, excellent officers, belonging to the Artiltery,, have ,gone off for this purpose, with half a Reffiinentrof, Ar tillery ; and that their example had been followed by General Pego, with a Battalion.of Infantry. grigadier Claudino and General Pamplona Monix have also embraced the same cause, and numbers of soldiers are deserting, in order. to join them. The fact is, the new Lisbon Govern ment, and the Madrid Regency, alike in their acts, and equally actuated by' personal revenge and the most liberticidal prinCiples,, are on the eve of sharing the same fate ; for the foundations on which the two structures are respectively built are rotten. The best part of the population or both countries has a desire of freedom, and will not allow their rights to' be trampled upon with' impunity. Let the protectioff.of a French' force be removed,- and we shall soon see in What an awkward situation bOth of the new Governments will be placed, as welt as the high diplomatists grandees,. and bloated clergy, who have sided with them. [New . TatEs.] The French Letters of Monday inform us, that the efforts , of Saturday afternoon in London to depress the Funds Were not without a corre spondent effect in Paris,. In truth, the, inter course by Expretises between the two capitals is now so rapid and constant that no great opera tion can take place o 0 the one Exchange with out being felt in little more then q 4 hours on the other.. Great exertions were accordingly, made in Paris to lower . the Itentes, but the result did not quite correspond to the.. wishes of the Parisian gears, although some small depression was pro duced. The prices on Monday afternoon were 11_8,1'011(1w ~ . .. , . French Five per Cents. 91 00. Ex. on London, 3m.25 55 ----=-- Scrip. l i f 2 ',remittal. Neapolitan Five 'ober Cents. 79 Exchange on London, 26 70 Spanish Bonds, 36 • .[THE TIMES.] Among our extracts from the French Papers will be found a bulletin from Guilleminot, which gives his version of the engagement of the 15th inst., on the heights before Coranna ; but he prudently stops ; . ; short with the proceedings of that day. Lorca, a fort towards the southern. extremity of Murcia, was captured by Molitor's division on the 13th. HO was. then many days' march in 'the rear of Ballasteros. It seems the Ultra-Royalist editors of Paris are not quite easy at:the indications which they have discovered of plots against the life of the Generalissimo : is this the precursor of a retreat from Madrid ? tile novelty 'of blockading ports must be et timely gratifying to the French Ministers ; for so fond are they of this new power, that they exercise it not only in reality, but in idea—not Merely against the SpOniards, but against them e-elves. It grippers from an article in'the Paris Papers, that the French Minister for Foreign Affairs officially notified on the 26th of July the blockade of Corunna and Ferrol.' Now the suc. cessive arrival of vessels for some days past from Coruntta, proves that there was no blockade Wits* they sailed, and it is difficult to suppose thit the 'French Ministers can have ascertained that they had a sufficient naval force off Corunna .witett they issued this notification. Besides, they have told us that Ferrol was in their possesskn. Do they mean, then, to blockade their own troops and their friends of the Faith ? or have they received intelligence that the force which en tered Fermi has already round it necessary to abandon a place nf . so much importance? , We insert a. paragraph from the National In. 014ga:or, (S another column of TILE SUN), which announces that Russia has not yet with drawn her ,pretensions on , the north-east coasts of the Pacific, but intimat e s th a t measures are in train . which it is hoped may lead to an " adjust cc merit satisfactory to the Emperor, and at the cc same time consistent with all the rights" of the United States. - There is of course not a syl lable here stated, nor elsewhere that we can yet discover, about a prospective - adjustment - between Great Britain and the Russians, respecting the claims put forth by the latter Power in the famous Ukase on the above subject, - aii'd .those British rights which it has so arrogantly threat ened . (Ibid.) ' [Barran PRESS.] The French Papers of :Monday Morning a n d evening. reached us yesterday, with our Corte spondent's*CommuniCations, by express : we giie also the . 24th Bulletin of the French army in Spain, which does not appear, in any of Monday's papers: this.doctiMent is signed, as usual, by Angouleme's Major. General - Guilleminot, and dated on the 22d, from Madrid.. it states that Bourck march e d on th e 15th, a t three 'o'clock in the morning, on.COranna, and re-established the bridge of Burgo, with such celerityi that his troops had passed over before mid-day.' At one o'clock, it goes on to say, they encountered theadvanced posts of the enemy, Which' occupied the heights that command the place, and drove them in at the point of the bayonet. The Spaniards, cording to this account,.. were afterwards sueces= sively driven from all their positions, and forced to shut themselves up within the walls of the town, which, notwithstanding a constant-cannon ade from the batteries, was completely invested on the land side by four o'clock ;--further this account does not go. When Guilleminot stated so much for the information of his Cabinet and France, he ought to have stated the result of _the inVestment too. ire should haie added, that after four'days of successive carnage mid hope less contest,. Bourck, with his diminished forces beaten and dispirite4 had retired on the 19th from before Comma, on' whose ramparts and re. doubts the Constitutional flag still waved trium. phant . that 1,200 men were ' c o ll ec ti n g ' to'. fol.' low the retreating enemy and hang on his rear ; and that 6,000 Constitutionalist regular troops were •cottbentrating near Vigo'and Orense; with whoin a' plan of operations would be immed la tely formed to haraSS the routed invaders, 'in the long and toilsome retreat which there was little doubt they would be compelled to undertake, after their signal di scom fit ure b e f ore t h e wills of Co runtia. Guilleminot's bulletin further states, that Molitor, after having made the necessary ,dlSpositions at Murcia, to strengthen the gar. 'Axons of Alicant and Carthagena, had conti rined'his movement against Ballasteros. The ad :vanced guard of the for Mer, under Loverdo,arrived before Lorca on the 12thi which place, it is stated, was taken by assault, and the garrison, of five officers and 530 soldiers, . made prisoners, with an alleged loss . to the French of three offi cers and 36 soldiers wounded, and one officer ,and' 'three soldiers killed.' Lorca is a place of very little moment, and had' we a true accoubt of its capture, we' should probably find it was much more feebly garrisoned than Guillerninot states, and that the loss of the French before its walls was' much heavier than the Bulletin - men , leus. f_DtiORWING' POST.] _ _ Paris Jeurnali to the 29th inst. 'reached its , night by express. They at length contain some official and private intelligence respecting the events' at Corunna. The former, however, does not come down to a later date th an th e 151 h, and cons e quently drily embraces the details of the action fought on that day, which we already knevi had ended by the Spaniards retreating' under the proteCtion of the works of the place. The latter cousists of a letter written from Corunna itself on the 16th, in which the occurrences of the preceding day are faithfully described, and the repulse of the French virtually admitted. For after saying that the firing had lasted seven hours; noadvan tage is claim e d, an d th e S pan i ar d s are allowed tP,h,ave retained their positions outside the town , replacing th e t roo p s t h at were f at i gued by fresh divisions. his alsoacknowledged th a t the fire of musketry and cannon had recommenced on the 16th and. was continued without interruption, and that the Governor,was determined to defend the place to the last extremity; a determination in which lie was zealously supported by the Commanders and troops lately returned from Asturias. It is evident, from the alt ere d t one w hi c h prevails in this letter and in the ' official Bulletin, that they were both written by men who knew the sequel, although they did not then record it, and who abstained from indelging in the confident boastings. which had marked all their former . accounts, because they felt that the issue could not be. long concealed, and that boasting would only create derision. Indeed most of the Ministerial. Journals, in order probably to prepare,thepub lic mind for the event, have faithfully, trans. lated the various letters .announcing the defeat and great loss of the French, .whi c h a pp eare d in the English Papers when the gratifying. Intel ligence first reached this country. lt would al most seem as if the moderate, party wereonce more reviving in France, and, had no objection to enforce the necessity of adopting its poljet, by an example so well calculated to ,prove .044 in. stead of drawing to a close, the contest'. ii the Peninsula was daily growing,MOre- ruinous and full of peril. [moammo itxnALn.] The violent Ultra party of Paris begins to be sick of the campaign in Spain, anti vents its spleen very freely upon some of. the. Generals who are detached from the immediate controni of the Duke of Angouteme, and upon the French - Ministry. The wonder is that they have been so long silent. It was expected that if the inva• skin had not a quick and complete success, the war party would turn round upon M.do Villele, and reproach him with his delays and tempo. rizing. By the dint of fabrication, reports of French successes in Spain, and the exaggera tions of the _Bulletins, however, they proofin' a syst em of imposition upon the world, which they were unwilling to dispel, until at length the truth is become too glaring. One of the Jour . . , nals of this party—it Part i san of war, and a zealous advocate for the Inquisition, treats as null all that has hitherto been effected by the French—" Some few chiefs," it says, 44 without power, have come to terms, but almost in dividually, or without profiting the Royal cause, or injuring that of Liberalism." -It then proceeds to say, that the 44 entrenched camps" which the .Constitutionalists may be said' to have in the different garrisoned for tresies,-, threaten disaster " . to.monarchy and society" unless French valour be aided by 44 Eu ropean policy;"—in other words, unless the troops of the Holy Alliance are called in to assist the French. Such was the impression in France of the aid of foreigners being solicited, that fo reign troops were reported tO be actually march ing through the French territory in, disguise ; and such the alarm of the French Ministry on the subject, that the Constitionnel of Friday, , which- Mentioned this iii'mour, was seized by the police. The campaign, it is stated now, was destitute:of plan.. Th e Mi n i sters did nothing but . 44 put- forth .their feelers" (. tatonner). A t . Madrid they expeCted that all would be ended by a 4efection—meaning, i .vp suppose, that of .General A.bishal. Next, say these Ultras, a denouement was expected at Seville. And, lastly, it was hoped that the Kink would he deliiered - by secret means. These secret means, it may be presumed, were the conspiracy discovered im mediately before the translation of the Go vernrnent.. to Cadit. Such are the representa dons that escape'these' partizans "of the invasion, now that their disappoint e d p ass i ons h ave b ecome ungovernable, and will no longer submit to the systein of false colouring nil' imposture which they had hitherto practised. They call loudly for the introduction of foreign troops—and for 46 bloody and' decisiie battles," without which monarchy and social, ordeit, : they say, must be wrecked; or, in other •:_words;* with which the French will be foiled in theii invasion of S'pern. Let but the French troops meet a few checks, and the situation of the French. Ministri will be far from enviable. The late .intelligence deci dedly encourages the hope of something better worthy of their cause than the Spaniards, have yet performed. , No intelligence of any interest arrived in the course of yesterday, at. least by Paris Journals, excepting, if it, deserve to be excepted, a paragraph in the Etoile of Sunday, which states, that the fire at Madrid, mentioned previously as accldentalovas the work of assas sins, and aimed at the life of the Duke of An-, goulerne, who 'regularly, at a particular hour, attended prayers in this church, Ills Royal' Person, however, was in no Very imminent peril, for the fire did not break out until an' hour after 'he had concluded his tlevotiorii and retired. It is stated that a great number 6 persons were taken up on suspicion, which may be easily believed. The same Etoile says, that Morillo and his troops were moving with shOtits - of " Live Ferdinand !" -to St. Jago of Comp Os. tella. 13nt the illOOeur annouked some days since, that iVlorillo and his troops were mardiing at the head of the French to attack Corunna These diserephncies,' however, are teo coMlnon to' excite any surprise; POLICE INTELLIGENCE. . ROW-STREET.---Yesterday Sir RICHARD BEDNIK alld OEOUOE ROWLAND MIN/MULL, Esq., the Magistrates of this Office, were occupied during the principal part of the d a y in the heating of a c h arge preferred by the Rev. Abel Brett Brereton against Mr. James ilbbott also a member of th e Esta blished Church, for an offence coininitted against the Acts of Parliament 39 and 40 Geo. M., in unlawfully pawningcertain books, the property of the complainant, without being autho rised by him so to do. After some violent diseussion on the subject, Mr. Abbott was ordered to restore the books to Mr. Brereton, and was convict e d n the penalty of 51. anal ,costs. Mr. Abbott strongly protested igainit the decision of the worthy Alagistrates ; and at the n stance of his legal adviser appealed against the order and con. viction, and found sureties to prosecute the same at the ensu ing Middlesex Session, when the affair will be definitively settled. _ . QUEEN.SQUARE.—Yestprday .11tliou Dyson, sus. petted of the murder of Eliza Anthony, was again brought up and underwent a iung examination before Mr.'illattimalin and Mr. Warm • • John Ray, 8, Stratton‘ground, watchman at the Speaker's house, deposed, that on Friday night h e went. on d uty as usual , on the terrace before the speaker's house; about two o' c l oc k on Saturday morning he heard the cry of murder, _ which was repeated two or three times; the sound appeared to issue from under Westminster-bridge, and to the best of his judg ment was a man's voice; directly afterwards he heard the same voice exclaim, " Eliza, my dear 1 Eliza, my dear I help, help!"—The prisoner, on hearing those words, was so over come, that he fell backwards% a swoon ; a chair was then brought him, and in a short time he. recovered a little. • Mrs. Bel l examined by the MaciisTuaTE.—Did you go with the prisoner and Eliza Anthony to the Theatre on Friday evening ?—No, I did not ; I went only as far as Brewer-street with them, when the prisoner prevailed upon me to return. How did they obtain the money to go to the Theatre with ? By pawning a waistcoat belonging to the prisoner. William Williams, green-grocer, No. 11, Sherland-street, Golden -square„ deposed - that the prisoner took lod g i ngs i n his house on the 17th May last, where he resided, with .Eliza Anthony, whom he Supposed to be his wife ;, while with him properly, and paid the r e nt they Conducted themselves very regularly for the first four weeks, but paid none afterwards, although he had often asked for It. On Friday ev e nin g , be tween five and six o'clock, he went to the prisoner's apartment for his rent, when he found Eliza Anthony there with a little girl : the prisoner was not present: he asked Eliza Anthony, if she co u ld l et hi m have t h e rent : she told him that Dyson was out endeavo ur i ng to get 'money to pay it, and that if t h e rent was not paid they would quit the lodging that evening. lie told her she might leave, and take her things with her, it she liked; and pay bun when they could, as they were in distress, he did not wish to be hard with them ; he then went away, and about half-past seven he saw Eliza Anthony leave hiti house with the little girl, and saw no more of .her; about on o'clock, Mrs. Bell came to the apartment, and took away two large bundles of clothes. On Saturday afternoon, about Half-past seven, the Prisoner called at his house, apparently much agitatedi and told hint that Hliza had diowned herself under Westminster Bridge; that he saw her float. down the stream, and endea voured to s ave h er, but, could not. Mrs. Bell called the next morning, and repeated the same thing. The priSoner was remanded till Saturday. The body has not yet been found. • ANOTHER MAN OF THE WOODS.—The Phila. following st a t ement del his G aze tt e , of June 30, received this morning, contains the It is stated in a letter from a traveller in llatavia, that a savage has been found in the woods of the island, who must, it is theught, have lost himself in the earlier Part of -hie, youth, lie now seems to be about 10 years of age, yet speaks no articulate language, but bellows like a br u t e ; or rather bark s , as hi s voice is like that of a dog. lie runs on all-roars, and a% soon as he perceives any human being, he climbs up a tree like a monkey, and springs from one branch to another. When he-sees either a bird or game, he catches at it, and very seldom misses, his prey. As yet he has not been able to accustom himself to the usual mode of living and food of the human specks." • been cut eta; John White convicted of being n rogue and , vagabond, and-wi t h f a l se l y preten di ng th at hi s tongue had sentenced to be i m p r i sone d fore the Mayor of Exeter, an d Mr. Alderman Floud, and was underwent an examination - on .Saturday kat, be. (11/frcd.j three months to harelabour,— SPIT A L FIE LDS WEAVERS. Yesterday a meeting, Consisting of from three to four thousand Journeymen Silk Weavers, was held at the Three Colts Tea Gardens, Hackney, for the purpose of adopt ing such measures as under existing circumstances might seem necessary. At three o'clock, Mr. IJATITAAt being called to the Ch a i r , read the Requisition, s i gne d b y the Inhabitants of the Pariah, for convening the Meeting. Mr. E. JONES regretted that the meeting was held in the open air, because he was afraid that all his brother tradesmen would not hear the few observations which he, as a Member of their Acting Committee, should feel it his duty to make respect ing the late arduous struggle in which they had been engaged, and out of which they came victorious. It was stated in the notice announcing this meeting, that the whole of the proceed. ings upon the late business would be laid before them ; but he thought that statement rather too loose, as it could not be ex pected that at a meeting like the present' the details of ten weeks continued labour could be entered into ; and indeed it was un necessary to do so, as the proceedings of the Committee were daily laid before the Trade during the progress of the late Bill. After making this statement, he thought there was little occasion for him to say more than to congratulate the Journeymen Weavers upon the glorious result of their late struggle, and upon the present aspect of their affairs—an aspect different from that of alarm and dismay which was apparent when he and his brother Committee-men were appointed ; but, thank God ! that Bill which threatened to deprive them of the value of their labour was defeated, and the gloom and dismay which then was visible on the countenances of the Weavers had disappeared.—(Hear, hear !)—When the Committee first visit ed the MeMbers of both Houses of Parliament, the hemisphere was blaelt and gloomy. Every Member of the gouge of Com mons to whom application was made was decidedly against them. Under these circumstances the Committee were determined to exert themselves to the.utmost to fight' the. battle—not like a dunghill cock, but to fight in game style—determined to die or to win. They did fight the battle in game style, and the result was glorious. The Committee then applied to the House of Lords, anti in that Honourable House they found more friends than in the House composed of the Representatives of the Na tion, among whom were the Representatives of the Weavers, but who refused to their constituents the common rights of English men—the common right of freemen—to adduce evidence to re. fute facts stated in the allegations of a petition then before that Honourable House.—(Hear, hear !)—ln the other House of Parliament the prayer of the Committee was heard, and evi. dence which to this day remained unrefuted—evidence which the ingenuity of the Masters' Counsel could not shake—was given, and their Lordships, to their everlasting credit, believed that evidence, and rejected the Bill.--(Hear, hear !)—lnd ee d the Maste r s th emse l ves did not o bj ect to the evidence, but said before their Lordships, that their wish was to advance the wages of the Weavers.—(Laughter.)—lndeed they went so far as to say, that they called for the repeal more to be nefit the Journeymen Weavers than themselves—(Hear, hear ! and laughter)—that they never wished to decrease the wages of , the Journeymen, w h ose i nterests t h ey cons i dered to be blended with their own. If their Lordships were to be lieve the Masters, their principal ground of objection to the pre sent law was, that the Journeyman was not as well rewarded as he ought to be.—(Laughter.)—This might appear problematical to the Meeting ; but they would find in the Masters' evidence, Out they stated the prices to have been settled by the Figure and Flower lireavers, and that the great misfortune was, these per sons overlooked the interests of th e grea t b o d y o f Plain Weavers. These statements made no impression upon the Committee,who said they who'd stick to their old maxims, under which they throve for half a century, and would rather have the settlement of their prices in their own hands, than hand it over to any other, however honourable they might be. He should now conclude, by congratulating the Meeting upon the happy result, and by declaring in the name of the Committee, that as their labo urs were at an end, the Committee was no More. • Mr..loriEs.—lt was intended at this call of the trade to lay before the Meeting an account of the expenditure, and of the proceeding(' upon the late Bill ; but as the Committee of Ways and Meanehad not as yet been able to wind up their accounts, and as the accounts of the Actin_g, Committee had not been yet audited, it was thought more advisable to wait until those ac. &tints shall have been audited.—(Hear, hear!) CuTTEtt considered, it would be mere waste of time to present the accounts until after having been audited, and he should therefore propose that auditors should be elected for that purpose. —(No! No !) It r. JoxE9 approved of this proposition. Mr. HOMEWOOD thou ht if better that the question should be put to th e Meeting. AVas it their wish that the accounts should be audited, or submitted to them immediately ? Having said so much, he could not sit down without bearing testimony cip b : a e r Atemtvilet)le proved, i c ot eor u Nei moret notlEaeas satisfactorilybthaut be s ieoh selected, sri tto to the indefatigable eXertions of the Committee-men, than whom was w ou h l i dd ch they were elected. than n d tahney st ate me nt termination o f f h hs,e theirea business. they ye couldbetter t n o o appointa n y th e Fin an ce interest whatever in the account. Mr. GrtuhEox was sorroy to differ from Mr. Jones; but he thought one of the ptinciple objects in calling this Meeting was to investigate the accounts, and he should therefore propose that auditors be chosen immediately. Mr. PEYTON said, it waufknown to the meetiag that, exelu. sively of the two Committees mentioned, there was a Committee of Inspection. Within the two or three last days this Committee inspeqted all the accounts, and lie thought it would save time and trouble to appoint them as auditors.—(No, no!}—Then he should propose that to this Committee be added Messrs. Dunn, Russell, Dyer, and Terry. Mr. Enstowns having regretted that any thing like differ. ence of opinion should exist after the glorious termination of their late struggle, seconded the motion. After some alterations having been made in the motion, tuaac Grugeon, John Davies, John Beddy, James Fox, and JOhn Terry, were elected i n addition to the Committee of In spection, as Auditors. Mr. GUDGEON said, nothing but a strong feeling for the interests of the trade could induce him to offer himself to so large a meeting. lie remembered that at the time the Bill was brought into Parliament, one Editor said that the Weavers were alone andlriendless in Parliament, but the state of things wet now altered, and to that Committee was due the credit of bringing them so gloriously out of the struggle. Their Committee trod ground which was never before trodden by a Committee of Mechanics; they went to the Members of the House of Commons, all of whom they found opposed to their prayer, but the conduct of the Weavers was such as, if not to convert the Minsters in the House of Commons, at least to neutralize their opposition. His Majesty's Ministers in the House of Lords bore testimony to the loyalty of the Weavers, and lie trusted that upon all occasions they would prove that they deserved the character for loyalty which Lord llarrowby gave them. Some of the petitioners re lied for success upon the Members of the Lower House, but if they were to look at the names of their opponents, they would find among them Brougham, Hume, and the other would-be patriots of that class ; and among their supporters—Harr ow b y , Westmorland, and the Lord Chanc e ll or , whose friendship and support of the Journeymen w ere obtained by their worthy Soli. citor, Mr. Brutton. Although he must say that the Lords re jected the measure, he could not pass by the fact that Mr. Bus. kisson silently abandoned his opposition. He considered the Weavers pledged to the House of Lords to appoints Committee to meet their employers to come to an arrangement, and in the Resolutions which he should propose, there was one for the ap pointment of a Committee. The following Resolutions were then read by the mover : Resolved, That this Meeting views with concern the un 'dement feeling manifested by some of our employers towards their journeymen. " Resolved, That we consider our interest and the interest of our employers as Inseparable, and the present unpleasant feeling injurious to both. " Resolved, That in order to remove the same, and promote the interest of all, we do hereby declare our readiness to ap point a Committee to meet a Committe of Masters, to adjust and settle any difference that may exist, in a way that shall be for the true interest of all part es. " Resolved, That h aving three times made this offer we cannot he expected to d o more ." , Mr. REDDY seconded the Resolutions, which were then put and carried unanimously. A Committee, consisting of the late Acting Committee, to meet the Masters' Committee, was then chosen; but some of the members having declined. to serve it was agreed th at th e election of a Commit tee s h ould not t ake place until they had ascertained whether the Masters were ready to meet them. On the otion of Mr. GABBLE the thanks of the meeting were voted m to Messrs. Ball, Balance, and Bennet, and the other Master Manufacturers who exerted themselves in support of the Journeymen.---(Cheers threetimes three.) Mr. GABBLE; proposed 'a vote of thanks to Mr. Brutton, their Solicitor against the Bill, for his unwearied and rode; fatigable exertions in their cause. Air, lio MEWOOD, in secondin g th e mot i on , sa id t h at Mr. B.'s statue in bronze ought to be - provided by the trade, as a testimonial of their sense of his exertions, and to hand to their children the extraordinary circumstance that in 18'23 the cause of the Spitaltield 'Weavers was conducted by a Lawyer and an honest man.—(Cheers.) The Thanks of the Meeting were then voted unanimously to Robert Bruttoth Es9.--(Cheer, three times three.) Mr. BJtUTTON, in returning thanks, said that he was happy that his exertions met the approbation of his clients, and. it would depend upon the conduct of the Weavers themselves whether his etertions upon a future occasion should lead to so favourable a result. Thanks were then voted to the Rev. JostUa King, Rector of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, and to Messrs. Homewood and Young, Afembers of the acting Committee. Thanks of the Meeting having been voted to the Chairman, the Meeting we's dissolved at half-past six o'clock. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. CIVIL SIDE. : -GAUDNIL V. WELLARD. This was an action brought by the plaintiff; who was Vicar of East Dean, for an obstruction which had been made against his alleged right of . way by a certain path from the Vicarage-- house to the church: The Jury found a verdict for the defendant, negativing th ha e' Clergyman's right of passing and rePassing by the path question. DURHAM, MownAv, JULY 28. At ten o'clock this morning Mr. Justice BAYLEY and Mr. Justice Rotator)) commenced the business of the Assizes— the former in the Criminal, and the latter in the Civil Court, —After the Grand Jury were sworn, (Sir Henry Hardinge,. G.C.8., Foreman), Mr. Justice BAYLEY - proceeded to charge them upon the nature of their duties. He commenced by con gratulating the county upon the small number of criminal offences which their present calendar contained, and then ob served upon the ndture of the law as applicable to the particular cases which were to come under their observation, and the re cent alteration in the penal code,_ which mitigated the severity of former statutes. The Learned Judge afterwards dwelt upon the utility of giving employment to persons confined within the gaols of the county ; he understood, he said, that these prisoners were not generally e m pl o y e d, b ecause the nature of the prison affbitled facilities only for one species oflabour. Ile knew that an opinion prevailed, how far persons before trial were legally liable to be put to work, and it was no part of his duty to state an opinion upon the general law as applicable to such a question ; but lie might be permitted to say, that it was extremely desirable, in a moral sense, that no pains should be spared to cultivate the ern ployment of prisoners under all circumstances. Upon one point there could beno doubt--that all who were willing to work before trial,should have the m ean s supplied to them of exerc i sing their in - dustry in a suitable manner. 11 , ith respect to others who had not the same industrious propensities, the magistracy might consider whether the gaol subsistence, supplied to prisoners at the ex-. pence of the county, might not be more or less rendered to them, according to their willingness to be Idle or employed. It was most desirable that those of the labouring classes of so siety, whose misfortune it was to be immured within the walls of a prison, should not contract while there, either from their own inactivity or through the bad example of the idle, thos e habits of indolenc e an d i nact i v i ty, w hi c h , should they return to Society, would cast them forth upiin the community worse members than when they were first committed. He strongly recommended to the Grand Jury to provide all possible means of affording employment, at all events, to such prisoners as were willing to work before trial.—Up to 3 o'clock (post hour) Mr. Justice Bayley had been occupied with petty cases of felony devoid of public interest, The business of the other Court was quite te u r n p i a n n ter o e f s th tin e g da : y M e r n . gag Ju ed stic in e Htroylirongyil trehasspbaessencaduusrienugndthere greaa local act. The late Duke of ItoxnuucliE was one of three surviving officers, who formed part of the 88th regiment, in the year 1759, when it was raised in the Highlands o f Scotland. He was. then Captain limes. In the two following years he served with them in several actions under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick. DESTRUCTION OF THE WHITBY THEATRE Br FlRE.—This building was entirely consumed by fire on Friday morning. SCOTT'S Company had performed on the evening of Thursday, and the Theatre closed about eleven o'clock, soon after which the performers quitted the house, and' every thing was considered safe. Soon after one o'clock it was discovered, however, that the building was on fire, and such was the ascend ancy of the flames, that before four o'clock the Theatre was entirely consumed,.the wails only being left standing. The Company, say, hav e l o st th e w h o l e o f t h e i r dresses, Ike,. with about 801. i n mone y. It i s no t kn own h ow the accident originated. we regret to EXECUTION g:;! , JOHN RADFORD, AT EXETER.. —The awful sentence of the law was this morn: ing inflicted upon John Racybrd, alias Bright, for the murder of Sarah Downe. From the time of his condemnation, this wretched young man re. signed himself to his fate with becoming resigna tion, and met his end with a degree of fortitude seldom witnessed. He was only 24 years old, well formed, and the bloom of health sat upon his cheeks—even on the drop, no alteration was visible in his countenance. He repeatedly bowed, to the great concourse of persons who were assembled, praying God to bless them, and re quested his parents might be informed he died: happy-- Alfred, of Monday.)—The same Paper, in an accound of Radford's confession, which he dictated on Friday, states, that Sarah Downe fell into the river in consequence of a push which he gave her in a fit of anger, and that he went down into the water, and endeavoured to get her out, but it being dark, he could not find her. It also appears that he denied to the last having ever had any , criminal connexion with her. COAL-MARKET, JULY 30. Ships at Market. Ships sold 15 Newcastle -13 f - 5 Sunderland - - 3 . Plies. 37s 3.1 to 43s Rd 37s Od to 445 tit IRTH S. On Sunday, th e 27th ins ß t., a Bognor, the. Lady of Charles Ellis Heaton, Esq., of Mortimer.street, of a daughter. At Castlecraig, on the 22d inst. th e Hon. Lady Gibson Car. michael, of a son. MA RED. On the 29th in s t., at St. Ann ßl 's, I. rehouse H. T. Robinso n , Esq., to H arr i et , t hi r d daughter of, r. Christopher 'autism, Litnehouse, On the 29th inst., at Enfoni church, Thomas E., Bates, son of the late Isaac Bates, Esq., of Kennington, in Surrey, to Lucy, daughter of Andrew 13aden, Esq., of .Enford, in the county of Wilts. DIED. On the 30th inst, at Weilezt-place, Lambeth, Ann, wife of James Tod, builder, aged 40. On Thursday, the 28th inst., Mrs. Montgomery, of Brent ford, in the 81st year. On Sunday, the 27th inst., At Bath, Charles henry Dubois, Esq., aged 78. At Greenock, on the 3d inst., John Gardner, at the advanced age of one hundred and three years. lie was a native of Craw fordsdyke, and was born in the year 1720. Early in life, he was a merchant seaman ' - but was imp resse d i nto Ins Majesty's navy and s erve d on board the Eolua, of thirty-two guns, and 220 men, commanded by Captain (afterwards Admiral) John Elliott, when that gallant officer fought and captured the French oshfii*PthLee Isillelaorfes:l:l.l3elleisle, of forty-f our guns , an d 276-men,under the command of M. Thurot, on the 28th of March 1760, Urinted and Published for the Pnorantfrois, at the Sutf- OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B. CARSTAIRS. LEWES, JULY 29.—CHowx SIDE. John Jima stood capitally indicted for committing a rape upon Sarah Hampton, a young girl 13 years of age. The unfortunate girl was the daughter ofa small farmer, who was in the employ of the Earl of Chichester. The prisoner was employed to milk cows, in company with the girl, and on one of these occasions, viz. the 27th of May last, between six and seven o'clock in the evening, theprisoner succeeded in effecting his base in tent i ons . From the simplicity and backwardness of the girl in deposing to the fact, to an ex tent sufficient to authorize the Jury in finding a verdict, the effect of which would have been to take away the life of the prisoner, the Learned Baron directed the Jury to find a verdict of acguittal. HIS LORDSHIP reprimanded the prisoner in very strong terms before he left the bar.