The Sun. — London, England, 1835-02-13 00:00:00

CHAIiC.ERY COURT-(TIIIS DAY). Mr, JAcoB bing GIBBS V. HOOPER. ar - . . concluded his arguments in this case, which occupied the attention of the Court the whole of yesterday, The LORD CHANCELLOR, without calling on Mr. Knight to tePIY, said he thought there were so many doubts attending the case, that a new trial was necessary, to ascertain the legitimacy °f Mrs. Anderton, and directed an issue to be tried at the neat Assizes fJr the,county of Worcester. KING'S BENCII-(TIIIS 'DAY.) . AT BAI?.-NOVEL CASE. At ten o'clock TßlAL Lord. Chief Justice DENMAN, Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE, Mr. Justice PATTISON, and Mr. Justice Wn— LIAM% took their seats. THE KING V. ANTROBVS. It will b e i n the recollection of our readers, that a dispute arose between the Sheriffs of the county and city of Cheste:, as to their respective rights to carry into effect the ex t reme sentence of the law upon Garside and Mose:4, the two men convicted of the murder of Mr. Ash respited 7.:( s evera l t i mes, the t;on. After ha v i ng b een 'llals were ultimately b roug h t , Upon th e mot i on of die then Attorney-General, bef ore th e I Jud ges of this Court by whom an order was mad e f or execut ng the see:item; passed edupotliem by the Learned Judge be gore venom they had been tried, and which was carried into effect by the Marshalsea of the Court of King's Bench, as sisted by the Sheriffs of the county of Surrey. The AT TORNEY- G ENERAL (Witt; whom were Sir J. CAMP -31 ELL and Mr. WIGHTMAN) said—lt was his duty to state the circumstances under which the present case was brought be fore them. The object of the information filed by his learned predecessor was to ascertain whether it be hot the duty of the defendant, who was sheriffof the county of Chester, to obey the order of the Judges under a Commission of Oyer and Terminer, and execute the sentence passed by them upon the prisoners 'tried before them. The question was not whether some ether p?rsons are bound to do it, either exclusively or in common w2t h the defendant, but simply w h et h er b e was b ound to o b ey the ord er o f the Court. He believed, that in point of fact, the circumstances would be found to be extremely short, and In point of law, extremely simple. He should premise, that although the present proceeding had assumed the form of a p r osecution, it was but due to the defendant to state, that it wirapurely an in qu i ry i nto a matter rather of civil than of cri nn 1 responsibility, The defendant was a gentleman of the nighest respeetubility and hon our , an d it was rat h er t h e misfor tune of the, law of England, that the present was the only lile de of trying the question which he about to submit to He, however, thought it right to g a ake this explana lierm.because the appearance of a criminal prosecution might r hurtful to the feelings of the defendant or his friends. By :•', l O common law, which was well known, as it was among ;_ne elementary maxims of legal knowledge, the Sheriff was la ve d to execute and obey the lawful commands of the Judges, dto him befogged the execution of the sentence of the l aw. It was the office of the Court, if the occasion should tappear to call for that interposition, to point oat to the Sheriff hY parti cu l ar spot within his jurisdiction, and command him Nre to p er f orm the last solemn ditties of his office, with rcs ilect to the person sentenced. That was perfectly well known, L a " e _d, an instance occurred not many years since, when a murder had been committed' in the shop of Mr. Bothwick, a gun rai,aker and the criminal was sentenced to be executed oppo tl.oe the spot where it had been committed. In confirmation !, t his, he might observe that not on one, but on many occa h3l:ns within the last thirty or forty years, it had been the duty e the Sh er iff s o f the county of Chester, to obey the order of bodies Court 'and in o b e di ence to t h at or d er to suspen d t h e C __dies of criminals i n c h a i ns , i n suc h part o f t h e county as t h e ourt directed. It was undoubtedly true that within the me rory o f any living person, the Sheriff of the county of Chester _ad not any any criminal—that duty had been always per lenned by the Sheriffs of the city of Chester—and the mode 'was this. The criminal was tried in the county Court, and and When the day arrived for carrying the sentence into exe thcution, lie was taken to the kounda-ics of the jurisdiction of e county, an d handed over by the Constable of the Castle to e Sheriffs of the city of Chester, and by them the sentence the law was carr i ed i nto effect. But although the Consta . le of the C ast l e was the person by whom the criminal was handed.... over, the Sheriff of the county was a p ar ty th ere t o . Sheriff s the fact of the d u ty h av i ng t een per f orme d b y t h e beingof the city arose cut of the circumstance of Chester ping a walled town, and that, in earlier times, it was conve nient to execute criminals within the walls; or whether it arose from the fact that the Court of Great Session of Chester lere iseci a jurisdiction over th e Sh er iff s o f th e c ity, and had a right to order them to do execution ; or whether the citizens the Chester en j oye d ;some lands or franchises ` dependent upon execution of that duty, he would not stop to inquire ?° fact was that, for very many yarn, the Sheriffs of the Ci ty had done execution on the criminals sentenced by the by o f General Session of Chester. That was done "Y a rule of the Court, ordering the Sheriffs to do u ex ecution, p rec i se l y i n the same ma nner as t h e C ourt o f g's B enc h had ordered execution os be done upon the two ti ha PPY men whose crimes had elven to that investiga aen. It would be one branch of his argument to show, that it ho ugh the Sheriffs of the city migl it be called upon, the an though of the county -were also bourn 1, if required to do so; Shynt all event s , w h en th e City Slneriffs had refused, the c tiffs of the County were then bouts , to discharge this duty. the many inconveniences that existed in the administration of aunt y Civil and criminal law in the Principality of Wales and the ti ntY of Chester, under tlis old syst sm, led to the passing of le Act of Parliament in the year 1830. Upon the passing of thatthe Act the authority of the Court of King's Bench became „ e same over the county of Che ster,, as it was over the other -°llnties o England.fßythe ,Ztge IV. and I s t Willi am IV., c h ap . 7, th a t aut h or i ty was firmed ; and by the 14th section, all the Courts, legal and eSnitable, ci v il an d cr i m i na l, silliest formerly exercised ju g within the County Palatine, were abolished. ;"jen the Judges first went down, and held their Court of Oyer rTerminer, matters went on ji ast as usual. On one or two o asions p ersons were sentence( 1 an d execut i on was done by , Sheriff s o f t h e c i ty as usual ; b ut b y w h at author i ty the fudges h a d ordered execution tt be done by persons without their jurisdiction he (the Afton ey-General) was at a loss to l i e !h nuer stand. At length a dote bt arose as to whether the riffs of th e Cit y owe d any a ll eg i ance to t h e J u d ges , w h o Z l l ,* sat under a comm i ss i on o f Oyer and Terminer, and this stiolut Was somewhat serious in point of law, because it was ngly supposed that if the Cif y Sheriffs were not under an °l)ligation to do so, they were committing a high offence a g ai nst the l aws . Th e act wi looked into, and the City ch earned friends on the other side • would probably rely upon the nstruction of the 19th section , of the act, but he (the Attor- Y-General) contended that hi a view of it was what he had stat ed and that this would la 3 borne out by the opinion Ctheir Lordships. The legs .1 argument was within a very h ll th e A c t t o w hi c h he alluded placed the county of la ester upon the same footing a s the other counties of Eng and in th ese t h e county sl ieriff was bound to obey the ttier of the J u d ge . Th e f acts w hi c h h e s h ou ld h ave to l ay bou nd und er the m were, first, that thi 3 sheriffs of the county were und er this Act to obey t 1 ie orders of the Judges, and tbshould h ave no difficulty i ns atisfying them that this was _e tr ue construction o f th e A c t . H e sh ou ld nex t p rove th e ie!ord e f too conviction of the t' wo unfortunate men, and the dealendar as signed by the Judg, a and served upon the defen ralfitss and his answer thereto ; and finally, his neglect and Court, to do execution. It al ppeared by the rolls of the ,"i le tl r a, which went so far back as . the year 1690, the county j ) , "is were in the habit of atter. tiding executions, and apply thg for the. payment of expenses i ncurred thereby. He should h e n submit the matter to their Lordships and the jury, and was satisfied that they could m o or of t any doubt of _ e s e r esponsibility of the defender it, or of his right to obey the vrtr of the Judges in such cases s. th The record of the conviction of Garside and Mosely was eil put in and rea d. 'lr. Lloyd, Clerk of Assize, was then' examined, and de 10t1 to his h av i ng served a cop' .r of the Calendar (signed by „..t. Justice Parke, before whom the prisoners had been tried) ZZ 1 : 0 , 1 1 the d e f en d ant. T he defendant said he was prepared ~ti his answer, and handed it i witness, which witness im- Ziately d e li vere d to M r. Just; ice Parke. (The letter was t il t in and read. It s t a t e d t h at t h e d e f en d ant h av i ng some e ms as to his right to obey s' ich an order, refused to see exe cution I don e u p on t h e cr i m i na l 3, unt il hi s r i g h t or li a bili ty ..a .a. tl been set forth and ascertains, L) Mr. Justice Parke then "isvitness a respite for the prix oners. fo r e copy of the Calendar was then put in, but Mr. MAULS, hi _ the defendant, objected, as no notice had been served upon j ec 4 , l .to prOduce the Calendar sic ned by the Judge. The ob ten`lon was overruled, and the C alendar was read, which sens di re " the two prisoners to be h anged by the neck, and was eted to the Sheriffs of Cheste r. Ai Au in our ie'lg witness was cross-exami: led at some length by Mr. w , but there was nothing na: it elicited. o ' shall give th e result, shoul d the case terminate in time, Second Edition. t)c, C HEQUER COM tT.-(THIS DAY.) n GARDNER V. WIL JAMS, CLERK. this cause being called on seIfMACLE, for the defendant ' : said that he must throw him uP, °ll his Lordship's goodnes 6 for the Attorney-General. of the and Mr. Wig•htirian, we e for the defendant, and all b kr - Tio were at that moment ern ;aged in the important trial at • 4uen going on in the King's r ench. this r• THESSIGER said the plaint iff was very anxious to go ; 4 _, 4 ; a the fourth time they hat 1 come down, and did not like '', l l l l to be throw n over hadsittings. is co e Jury also said they att ended now four days at great ca H i ti lvetti ° ll co, and trusted they mild now be relieved. s L..ORDSHIP said all he cot ild do was to take the next it the parties were ready ii a it. ,1,,e witnesses in it had not art •ivcd, and I . g0141..ne CHIEF BARON said he was ; sorry, but the paper must be ; throughcom regularly. THESSIGER then said the a ction was brought to recover g4,ciPetisation in damages for a libel. The plaintiff was . a . wh o n ert and bad lived as such in the service of the defendant, ss io ,, w ils vicar of the parish of I tendon. The defendant had th at 'n°ood a jury from his own ra ills in life, expecting probably r,‘'ey would more readily give him a verdict than a common spcof but he trusted implicitly to them, and had no fear of any Airs estil -rt' The plaintiff had Hs , ed as gardener in the service t o Ns; lools, th e w id ow of Col . Nichols ; after that he went '°o with the defendant, and on being discharged from that hi kr. e pe> 1 1 1 5 wife havinn• liv - eti for a . long time in the service of a isetoaret that gentleman know ring the plaint . iff at once took t ftes ± ,.. "Is service without main ing any entiniry ' into his cha . - ag, s 4 41 dernand was made br • the plaintiff for a balance of Vost ob 'lle to h the the defends at, that was on the loth . of r ' and o 12th, Mr. 1 ) ( !arce was surprised to receive --~-._ LIST 0 ONS. uds of everY ctory to the tains lists of ►eir politics' ) supported, who came t° 3f votes the] he 4ate an( ,iry attach ; all Martin pointed out? saving of th e ternal natur e sire, on the Thus, while ith storm ana shaking W 1 led by a fe ll of serenity-- how partial reternaturallY s udde n ' , Mr. Mart , - even in 0 15 )they blelio sh ount are made ty° )st prominen' of the sP ec ' at on ce. >ss f/ 41 0' CL 0 Ck ije he close of fluctuation I, • the Ace° °° ,, that any tra v v , after the el lons. • the Acc°li; 0 to .2'2 ; 44. f . !,ulation 0 41 ; reached s v i ti maintaine cl ,ber darn. 10°' Ther e i 4 re the Sp [ling :---SP Stock 92i rick. 1, male reden, with Lisbon, iLll e p o t° is that r ll . 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';' 1 in b`, a letter couched in these terms, " Sir, as I believe you are well aware that Gardener was discharged from the ser vice of Mrs. Nichols and myself for dishonesty, and I L have reason to suppose that many of the flowers of which I have been robbed are growl* in your garden. When can I see you ?" That was the case of the present action. The defendant had pleaded a justification to the first part of the libel, and by it was bound tb prove that the plaintiff had been so discharged for dishonesty. He dared him to the proof, and had no fears for the result. He would probably have an opportunity of •addressing them again ' • in the mean time he would ca ll hi s w i tnesses, an d re l y upon the Jury. then called William Charsley, parish-clerk of Hendon, said4:e knew the plaintiff and defendant. Plaintiff was now living with Mr. Pearce, before that time he lived three or four years with Mr. Williams, and before that with Colonel Ni chols, and after his death with the Colonel's widow. A letter put into his hand, the signature to which was in the hand writing of Mr. Williams.—(Thc letter was put in and read : • it was the one referred to in Mr. Thessiger's address.) Cross-examined by Mr. WIGIITMAN— Had some conversa tion with the plaintiff, who told him that he had nothing to do with the action ; his master had to pay all the expenses, and he should never trouble his head with it. Had often heard him say that the defendant had been a very good friend cf his. Mr. Pearce, the plaintiff's master, said the plaintiff had b een in his service sinc e M a y, 1833. He had made no application to the defendant for Gardner's character before he received the letter which had been read. Ho had nothing at all to do with the action further than as a witness, and was not liable for one farthing of the expenses. Cross-examined—Knew the plaintiff had been living with Mr. Williams before he took him into his service. He (wit ness) had also brought an action against Mr. Williams, because he considered that he was libelled also in the same letter. His attorney was the same who was conducting the present action. Knew from the plaintiff he had brought another action, against the present defendant for wages. The plaintiff received from him 351. a year, and he was boarded in the house. Had heard that the plaintiff had lived with Mrs. Nichols, but did not know for what he was discharged. Re-examined.--Mrs. Gardner had been keeping witness's house for a considerable time before the plaintiff came into his service. Mr. Hurley (the plaintiff's solicitor) proi , ed a 'demand for 141. 95., for wages due to the plaintiff. It was made on the 3d of October, and an action was brought for the amount in the following November. Mr. WIGHTMAN then addressed the jury for the defendant. He very much regretted the situation in which he was placed by the absence of his Learned Friends, who were to have led - him. He said he would prove his case, and then con-. fidently rely upon getting a verdict. The action was evi dently not that of the plaintiff; but of Mr. Pearce, who also had an action for the very same letter. He trusted the Jury would not gratify the revenge of Mr. Pearce, in putting costs into the pocket of his attorney—he it was who the mover of the whole ease. He then called William Nichols, a moneyer at the Mint. Was son of Mrs. Nichols, in whose service the plaintiff had lived. Portlierly she .had attended as a witness when the cause was not called on. She had died since last term. Plaintiff lived in her ser vice . for four years. One Sunday morning he saw a man named Milburn in the garden, carrying a large butfdle. Another Sunday morning, in October, 1828 or 1829, be and a constable stopped three men with onions, apples, and cabbage plants upon them. They were taken to Mr. Williams, who is a Clerical Magistrate. Witness sent for Gardner, where, being in company with them, they said be gave the things to them and the charge was with drawn. Gardner did not say anything on the occasion. He withdrew the charge at Mr. Williams suggestion—he - said it %you'd ruin the gardener. He was discharged from Mrs. Nichols service immediately. -.7 Cross-examined— Gardener attended voluntarily at Mr. Williams's, and he entered that gentleman's service in two weeks after. Mr. Williams did not apply to his mother for a character. John Warren, constable of Hendon, remembered Mr. Wil liams being ill in the winter of 1832. Knew that lie had some very choice flowers in his garden. Was present when Mr. Williams discharged the plaintiff. Heard Mr. W. say, " I took you out of charit , " with a dishonest character ; I have seen you carry several parcels from my premises, and some things are amissing which are under your care, and I shall discharge you with a dishonest character." Plaintiff said pay me my wages, the defendant said, " come in and I will do so.' They then went in doors, and when they came out again the defendant again said, " I might have done it last Thursday, when I saw you carry aw ay a large bundle." Cross-examined—Wm; not present at the beginning of the conversation. They were both warm, and Mr. Williams spoke very loud. Peter Carty was gardener to defendant before the plaintiff. He was present when Mrs. Nichols made the charge against the men, and Mr. Williams said it would be a pity to ruin Gardener's character. He once called at Mr. Williams', and walked round the garden. With plaintiff. Ile saw some pinks in pots, which the defendant had bou g ht o f a florist, to whom he had given them after he had taken them from Mrs. Nichols when he left. In June last he saw Gardener, who said be had nothing to do with the action—it was his master's—and he did not care whether it was won or lost. Mr. THESSIGER then addressed the Jury in reply. His LORDSHIP summed up, and The Jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 5/. COMMON-PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) BOYLE V. TOOKE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a young woman of the age of twenty, against the defendant, a pub lican residing at 'Hammersmith, to recover damages for in juries sustained by her in consequence of being knocked down by the defendant's gig, whilst he was driving it. The plaintiff, it appeared by the evidence, was coming along the Edgware-road, at half-past nine o'clock at night, on the 29th of last July, and was crossing the road where it meets the New-road, in order to join some of her friends on the opposite side, when she was knocked down by one of the shafts . of the defendant's gig, who was driving down the New road at what the witnesses described as a moderate pace. The only witness who saw the accident, said that the de fendant could not stop his gig, as there was an omnibus coming along which would have taken the gig and upset it, if it stopt. He further stated that he did not think any blame attached to the defendant, as the accident occurred from the plaintiff running round the horse, in stead of waiting till the defendant had passed, and then passing by the regular crossing. The defendant drew up ►mmediately, and assisted to convey the plaintiff to the nearest surgeon's shop, where he ordered her to be taken all proper care of, and left his card, promising to pay all expenses'whieh the case might require. The only seeming injury which the plaintiff received was a bruise on the arm, but she had received some internal injuries which confined her to her bed for about two months, and which for some time rendered her recovery doubtful. It was for com pensation for those injuries that the present action was brought. The CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the case to the Jury, and told them the" only question for them to try was, whether the accident was occasioned by the plaintiff running carelessly in front of the gig, so as to render it nearly impossible for her to escape, or whether the defendant: was driving p.t such a rate, or in such a manner, as to render him action able for the accident that had occurred. The Jury, after a few minutes consideration, returned a verdict for the defendant. - There was another action, brought by the father of the plaintiff against the defendant, in order to recover compen sation for the loss of his daughter's services ; but the Counsel agreed to withdraw a Juror in both actions—thus leaving each party to pay their own costs. SOUTHWARK REFORM DINNER.—Great pre parations are being made for conducting the dinner intended to be given to John Humphery, Esq., and W. Harvey, Esq., by the electors of Southwark in a very magnificent style. The large room at the New London Bridge Tavern, which is 74 feet by -32, has been fitted up as a tent, and splendidly adorned with the national and City flaps, Mr. -Humphrey's banner as Sheriff of London, &c. Several musical gentlemen of talent are engaged. The dinner will be provided by Mrs. Harvey, of the -Three Tuns ; and the Committee are bestowing the greatest care tc. ensure the comfort of the company, which is the more necessary, as we understand that the demand for tickets already greatly exceeds the number that can be accommodated. Mr. Grote, Dr. Lushington, Mr. flume, Major Beauclerk, Mr. Tennyson, Sir Samuel Whalley, and .Colonel Evans have already accepted the invitation to attend the din ner ; and others of the Metropolitan Members are expected in addition to the Members for Southwark. HANOVER, FEB. 2.—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge set out yesterday with a numerous suite, to pay a visit to the Prince of Schaumburg Lippe, at Backe burg. We hear that the Duke and Duchess, with the Prin cesses, will go to England at the beginning of the next month, to be present at the confirmation of Prince George. Symptoms of change on the Irish Judicial Bench have exhibited themselves in the striking of the approaching circuits. The four following out of six have been promul gated :—Home Circuit—the Chief Justice and Baron Smith ; North-east—Judge Johnson and Baron Pennefather ; Lein ster—Judge Moore and Baron Foster; Munster—Judge Crampton and Mr. Serjeant Green. The appointment of Mr. Serjeant Green as one of the next-going Judges of Assize has created considerable surmise as to contemplated arrange ments, for at present none of the Judges are in bad health. The members of the Church Commission held a meeting at three o'clock yesterday afternoon at the office of the Commissioners for Building Additional Churches. The same Commissioners (including Sir Herbert Jenner) attended as were present at the meeting held on Wednesday. SCIENCE IN RUSSIA.—In one of the last sittings of the Academy of the Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburgh, it -was resolved that a sum of ten thousand rubles (nearly 5001.) should be appropriated to the purchase of the manu scripts, copper-plates, and herbarium of the late Marshal Von Bibberstein. The Academy also approved of the application of a similar sum towards the first year's expense of an " Archmographical Journey through the Russian Dominions." The same meeting gave its sanction to the acquisition of a collection of birds, in which the Zoological Museum is at present deficient. • One of the neatest compliments on record is that paid by Lord Camden to Fox, that " hi s gr ip e was immortality, and he knew that posterity would pay it." VIE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, FIA-I,BRUARY 13, 1835 COURT CIRCULAR. His Excellency Count Pozzo di Burge. the Russian Am bassador, left town at ten o'clock yesterday morning, for the Palace at Brighton. The Duke of Wellington also left town yesterday morning, for the Pavilion, to present his Excellency to the King. Baron Bulow, the Prussian Minister, arrived i n town on Wednesday night, from Dover, direct from Berlin. His Ex cellency visited some of the Foreign Ministers yesterday, and also transacted business at the Foreign Office. Sir Henry Hardinge (Chief Secretary for Ireland) arrived in town yesterday morning, from Dublin. The Members of the Church Commission held a meeting at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Office of the Commissioners for building additional Churches. The same Commissioners (including Sir Herbert Jenner) attended as were present at the meeting held on Wednesday. The Commissioners of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich (Civil Department) held a meeting yesterday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. There were present—Viscount Low ther, Lord Granville Sotnerset, Messrs. Creevy, Locker, and Tierney. Sir Robert Peel bad a dinner party last evening, at his resi dence in Privy Gardens. The party consisted of gentlemen in different departments of the Government. The Cabinet Ministers dined with Sir Robert Peel on 'Wednesday evening. We have authority to state that there is no truth in t.!e statement which has lately been circulated, as to the inte resting situation of her Majesty the Queen.-11forning Paper. The bets yesterday on 'Change were 3 to 1 against Sir C. M. Sutton. We bet our morning contemporary (the Morning Post), provided the Post will pay the bet; 10 to I. Morning Advertiser. SIR ROBERT PEEL—Gave an official dinner to his colleagues in office on .Wednesday evening. All the Ministers were present, except Sir George Murray, Master- General of the Ordnance, and Sir Henry Hardinge, who had not then arrived from Ireland. The Right Hon. Baronet en tertained another distinguished circle at dinner yesterday evening. The party consisted of Gentlemen in different de partments of the Government. Cards are issued for another grand entertainment on Monday next. DEATH OF LORD DARNLEY.—We are concerned to state that the Earl of Darnley, who it will be remembered some days since was reported to have met with an accident by a blow from an axe which separated two of his Lordship's toes, departed this life on Wednesday, at three o'clock, at his scat, Cobham Hall. It appears that tetanus was induced from the effect of the wound, and it was found necessary to call in Sir Benjamin Brodie, who, accorrnAnied by Mr. Buckley Bolton, consulting surgeon to his .Lordship,proceeded to Cobham Hall on Tuesday last, and on their arrival sent off for Dr. Farr ; but the symptoms increased rapidly, and, in defiance of every remedy that could be suggested, ultimately proved fatal. His Lordship expired in the 40th year of his age, leaving his Countess, with five children, the eldest of whom, now in his eighth year, succeeds to the, title and estates. The rumour of a want of unanimity in the Cabinet still prevails, and is very generally credite'd. The materials of which it is composed do not augur by any means durability, and both inexperience and a total deficiency of talent present but a very gloomy prospect to the country, at a crisis when it is absolutely necessary that the affairs of the nation should be conducted by men of wisdom and sound sense, and not by fribbles, impotency, and self-sufficient Ministers. The fatal precipitancy that urged the dissolution of the late Ministry was i'l calculated to win the favour or the confidence of the people. It is very probable that in a very few weeks there will be a dislocation of the existing Ministry, but tint a disso lution of Parliament. It is expected that the attendance on the 19th inst. will be greater than on any former occasion, so that it may be prudent for the 'Members of the H ouse o f C ommons to secure their conveyances to town in due time. There will necessarily be a great rua on the roads, and little dependence to be placed on obtaining seats in the mail-coaches and stage-coaches, unless previously taken. The Clerks of the House of Commons will take their seats early in the forenoon of Thursday, the 19th, in the House, where it is expected that 600 Members at least will have assembled before twelve o'clock, to elect a Speaker, as there will be no delay in th e i r being sworn in, before the elec tion, as had been the case formerly. The proposers and seconders of Sir Manners Sutton and the Hon. J. Abercromby will address Mr. Ley, the First Clerk ; and it is expected that every Member who can possibly attend, will be present on the important occasion. The constituency. will be anxious to know how their Representatives vote, an accurate list of whom will, no doubt, be published for their information, stating for whom they voted, so as to be a guide to their constituents at any future election. HAMPSTEAD.—The Committee of Electors a Ilampstead, who last week gave a dinner at the Castle, to Joseph Hume, Esq., in celebration of his re-election to Par liament, on Wednesday evening, also gave a ball - and supper at ;he above tavern, in honour of the ladies of the electors of their district. At nine o'clock dancing commenced, at which time the assembly of persons was very numerous, and highly respectable. At one o'clock the company sat down to a very elegant supper, which.did great credit to the landlord, Mr. Hayter, for the liberality and good taste evinced on the occa sion. The health of Joseph Hume, Esq., wa's drunk with three times three. The greatest harmony prevailed, the com pany being in the height of conviviality and happiness, which continued until the dawn of day (six o'clock), when dancing ceased. SIR GEORGE MURRA•Y.—The ex-Member for the County is not to be utterly shut out from the Collective Wisdom. Mr. Praed, the newly elected Tory Member for Yarmouth, is generously to accept of the nominal stewardship of the chalky hills that intersect the counties of Herts and Bedford, and, in this way, vacate his seat in favour of the Gallant Baronet. The demi-god of the fastidious Conserva tives of Perthshire is to be metamorphosed into the honourable Member for the few curers of herrings and mackerel of &fish ing station of the river Yare. The Duke's right • arm will re present Yarmouth suitably enough. Among the topographical peculiarities of this small town, gazetteers tell us there is " a lofty steeple, which, every way it is viewed, appears ()rooked." The intended representative of Yarmouth will add to it another oblique attraction, which may to faithless M.. P. s, subserve the useful purpose of a beacon. Sir George Murray is a spire among the Tories ; but, look at him, from whatever point of the political compass, and, like the towering steeple of Yar mouth, be " appears crooked."—Dundee Advertiser. ST. ANNE'S SOCIETY SCHOOLS.—Yesterdav the annual meeting of this admirable Society took place at the London Tavern, the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor in the chair. The report stated, the Committee of Management announced that both in the financial and the domestic affairs of the charity there was cause for congratulation. Since the foundation of the charity its benefits had been bestowed upon many hundreds of children from all parts of the world, who would otherwise, either by the death or the misfortunes of their parents, have been deprived of education, clothing, and a home. These ad vantages were extended now to 200 children, 139 of whom are wholly provided for by the Society. Although the finances would not authorize the admission of more than the usual number of applicants at the present election, the Committee had been, since the report was made in last' August, enabled to pay off the further sum of 800/. of the 1,8001. at that time due, and to relieve the institution from a burden of debt aggre gately amounting to 1,3721. 4s. 10d. SIR E. SUGDEN.—We hear.much that pleases us of the language and observances of Sir Edward Sugden in the Chancery Court. The strictness he'employs on all occasions —the bounds he sets even to the talk of the Bar—has told well already, not only in economizing time, but the ffinds of suitors. As yet no one who has ever sat in his Court has ren dered himself more remarkable for sameness towards all per sons with whom he has to deal, whether they be . counsel or clients.---Dublin Register. • Mr. J. R. Russell, the nephew of a titled British Admiral, and of most respectable connections in the county of Waterford, lately fell by the hand of a 'hired assassin in the streets of Lisbon.—Cumberland Packet. PLURALITIES.—As the friends and supporters of the Established Church, we are happy to record the following instance of disinterestedness and sense of duty of a clergyman. The Rev. C. E. North, Rector of Child Okeford, and of the Isle of Portland, finding that he could not perform the du ties of both parishes, voluntarily sent his resignation of the living of Portland to the patron, the bishop of Winchester, whoimmediately appointcd the Rev. J. Harrington as Mr. North's successor, under a promise of residence. To this con tition the new Rector willingly consented, and as there had not been, from time immemorial, a parsonage-house, imme diately purchased a recently built house in the centre of the island, and brought his wife and family to reside in it. The islanders have now full duty twice every Sunday in the church, which is filled with a very attentive congregation.— Western Luminary. _ _ MADRID, JAN. 21.—Yesterday being the birth day of the Infanta Maria Louisa, sister of the young Queen, a splendid Drawing-Room was holden. The Queen Regent presided. Her Majesty appeared in a dress fashioned after the model of the times of the celebrated Queen Isabel, the protectress of Columbus, and her graceful looks and manners captivated the goodwill of many of her censors and enemies. The British Minister, Mr. Villiers, attended with the Secre taries and Attach4s of the Embassy. Mr. Loftus Otway was presented, this being the first Court holden since his arrival in Madrid. ENGLISH AND 'FRENCH FISHERMEN.—The Memorial Dieppois of the Bth instant has the following:— " Fifteen or sixteen English fishing-boats from Colchester have entered our port for the purpose: of fishing oysters at Cape d'Ailly. Our authorities take no measures for keeping them away, nor do our fishermen complain, which may be con sidered a new example of toleration and good neighbourhood towards the inhabitants of the English coast, who, in a recent inquiry relative to the state of their fishery, bitterly complained of the fishermen of Dieppe, Boulogne, and Calais for having fished on their coasts." ST. MARY-LE-BONE BANK' FOR SAVINGS.-- The Fifth Annual General Meeting of this Institution was held on Tuesday, the 10th of this month, at the office, No. 76, Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square —the Right Hon. Lord Radstock in the chair. It appeared, from the reports read to the meeting, that the progress of this 'Bank continues to be of the most rapid and satisfactory' description. No less than 2,088 deposit accounts having been opened in the last year ; 4,948 deposit accounts remainedopen on the 20th of November last, and upwards of 69,6001. was then invested with the Com missioners for the reduction of the National Debt. This amount has since risen to nearly 74,000/., and is rapidly on the advance. ELECTION OF SCOTTISH PEERS. • EDINBURGH, FEB. 10.—This day the election of Scottish Peers took place in the Portrait Gallery, Holyroed House, L which, at an early hour, was crowded to excess by the fashion ables of Edinburgh. The Rev. Dr. Grant, one of the Mi nisters of St., Andrew's Church, and Dean of the Chapel Royal, opened the proceedings of the day by prayer, after which the proclamation of his Majesty, commanding the Peers of Scotland to assemble, to nominate and choose their 16 re presentatives to sit and vote in the House of Lords was read. THOMAS THOMSON,' Esq., one of the principal Clerks of Session, Depute Lord Clerk Register, called over the list, when there appeared present : The Duke of Buccleuch Earl of Leven Marquis of Tweedale Selkirk Lothian Aboyne Earl of Crawford (Clannan) Hopeton Rothes Viscount Arbuthnot Morton Lord Forbes I Eglinton Saltoun Home Elphinston Strathmore t Colville Lauderdale I Elibank Stirling Belhaven Airly ; II uthien The Peers present having taken the oaths to Government, the following voted by proxy : The Duke of Lennox by the Lord Earl of Rosebery by Lord El- Elphinstone phinston Marquis of Abercorn by the Earl Viscount Falkland by the Earl of Morton Rothes Earl •of Aberdeen by the Earl of Viscount Strathallan by Lord Morton Forbes Earl of Glasgow by Lord Colville. Lord Gray by Lord Saltoun Signed lists were produced from the ; Duke of Hamilton Earl of Dundonald Duke of Gordon Earl of Kintore Duke of Argyll Earl of Breadalbane Duke of Montrose Earl of Dunmore Marquis of Queensberry Earl of Stair Earl of Errol Viscount Stormont Earl of Marr Viscount Kenmure Earl of Buchan Viscount Dumblane Earl of Caithness Lord Cathcart Earl of Haddinton Lord Sinclair • 1 Earl of Galloway Lord, Somerville Earl of Kinnoul ' Lord Torphichen Earl of Dumfries _ Lord Cranston Earl of Elgin Lord Reay Earl of Wemyss ' Lord Forrester Earl of Dalhousie Lord Rollo Earl of Carnwath Lord Kinnaird Earl of Balcarras 1 The Earl of LAUDERDALE, on the claimant for the Crawford Peerage offering his vote, said he could not listen to the vote tendered without reflecting on the consequences of votes being received at this time, as, since the P eers o f S co tl an d l ast sa in _ _ _ _ this place choosing their Representatives, a Noble Person, or a person claiming a Peerage, had been liberated from arrest, by A judgment of the Court of Common Pleas, in consequence of having been allowed •to vote in such an assembly as the present, under the impression, no doubt, that the peers of Scotland had come to a judgment as to his claim. The Peers had nothing to do with the question ; and he (Lord Lauder dale) considered that it was the duty of the clerks to prevent any question in future arising in a Court of Law from the con sequences of such a vote as he (Lord L.) had already stated. His Lordship then produced his protest, which being read over was adhered to by several Noble Lords. It had for its object to prevent any Court of Law allowing the precedent being established of freeing from arrest a claimant for a Peerage, on the ground that he had voted at the election of Peers. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH protested against the votes being received. On the Earl of "stirling's (claimant) vote being called for, Lord LAUDERDALE said he did not mean to trouble the meeting with a second protest against the present title ; but stated that he saw no reason for recalling any thing he had already said. The Duke of BUCCLEUCII protested against the reception of vote. The Earl of STIRLING begged to ask if the Noble Duke had his patent in his pocket ; as for the same reason he (the Earl of Stirling) would object to his vote.—(Laughter.) The votes being summed up, the following were elected to sit and vote in the House of Lords : Votes. i Votes. The Marquis of Tweedale 60i Viscount Arbuthnot Earl of Morton s6' Viscount Strathallan 53 Earl of Home .51 Lord Forbes .57 Earl of Elgin .57 Lord Saltoun 62 Earl of Airly Lord or i nd Belhaven Rollo the 54 Lord Gray Earl of Leven ,..57 Lord Sinclair 47 Earl of Selkirk .52 Lord Colville Earl of Orkney 46'Lord Reay .51 The undermentioned Peers had votes as follows : Earl of Rothes Earl of Marr Lord Elphinstone .I Lord Elibank l The return having been made 3sl L ceedings were closed with a prayer by Dr. Lee. In the afternoon their Lordships sat down to a sumptuous dinner in the Royal Hotel, Prince's street (Gibb - s), the Mar quis of Tweeddale in the chair, having on his right the Lord Provost, and on his left Lord Forbes. Lord Saltoun acted as crouper, having on his right Lord Elphinstone, and on his left Sir Archibald Campbell of Succoth. And among those pre sent (not Peers) were observed Sir F. W. Drummond, Sir Patrick Walker, Mr. M'Donald, of Staffa, Sir John Hay, ;M. P. for Peebles, Lord Ramsay, Lord Fincastle, Principal Baird, Drs. Grant and Lee, Captain Keith, of Chesterhall, Messrs. L'Amy, senior and junior, Captain Sharpe, Captain Barclay, Captain Arrow, and many other distinguished per sonages. ANTI-TORY ASSOCIATION. r (Abridged from the Dublin Morning Register of Wednesday.) Yesterday a meeting of the members of this society was held at the Great Rooms, Corn-Exchange ; Dr. MULLEN in the Chair. Mr. O'CONNELL rose, amid loud applause, and said, it will be my duty to start for London on Friday, as I wish to be there on the 17th, and have the 18th to arrange about the choice of a Speaker. If we succeeded in that, it will be idle for the Orange Tories of England to think they can manage the business of the country, The popular cause has received an impulse such as it never got before.--( Hear, hear.) The Whigs now are of a different character from what they were before. Every man must see that our only reliance is upon popular support and strength. We cannot and must not trifle or play with the feelings of the people—still less can we afford to lose their confidence.—( Hear, hear.) They are the enemies of the people who surround the King. I do not allude to his Consort, but to his servants. The Whigs can have no support against the Court faction, but in the popular voice. Two-thirds of them are radicals, and there is no measure of salutary reform they would not carry if we could but displace the Tories, and replace them by a ministry whose only basis of support would be and could only be in popular opinion.—(Cheers.) I will be in London on the 17th, at the very latest, in order to make the necessary arrangements ; and here again I declare that I will go there at the sacrifice of every point of minor difference, and will not introduce the question of Repeal or anything else, that could divide us, but confine myself entirely to routing the common enemy.—( Hear, hear.) That is my plea. I avow it before my constituents, who, I trust, will still continue to be so despite the threats held out of deafening the result of their triumph in electing me as their representative.—(Cheers.) The worst men in Parliament are decidedly military men. There are a few good ones in the H ouse . B e i ng constant l y under influence, they act in perfect obedience to orders. The advantages of military education have been talked of, but I look upon it as the worst feature in standing armies, that they have always educated the youth and gentlemen of the country in the worst of all doctrines, that of absolute obedience to orders. Beyond military discipline, it is the protecting power of despots and tyrants, without which liberty must prosper. They will be the canker and the bane of this coun try, if the people do not resolve and be determined to no longer continue in power such an administration. If they succeed in their wishes on this point, we will have an opportu nity of discussing this question of military government in the presence of another administration.—(Hear, hear.) Sir, there is another thing, that every man in Ireland should reflect upon—lt is the clear Orange feature, putting into the employ ment of the administration (and the Dissenters of England cannot shut their eyes to the fact either,) the enemies of the people. Goulburn has been restored to office, their bitter and decided foe. They cannot forget that Gregory, who was put out of the Castle, because it was thought as long as Gregory remained, nothing like justice could be done, is now restored and made a Privy Councillor. Lefroy has been made a Privy Councillor ; and lastly, the most determined enemy the Ca tholics ever had, a smooth-goingly but exceeding determined and truculent foe Shaw, the Recorder, has also been made a Privy Councillor. The administration has committed to his hands the calumniating of the Whigs. They have used him as their mainspring against the Whigs, and he was accordingly glorified. To be sure, he was too young to be Attorney-General. But mark his maiden step. When only three years a barrister he accepted a judi cial office, and consented to be a judge, and now he would not consent to be Attorney-General. But he well knew that he might not be three weeks Attorney-General. Did you ever hear that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ? _He was not goose enough to look for two birds that he had not got, when his maiden modesty would secure to him one that he had got. The feature of the present Administration in this country is every where to give dominion to the Orange party. Even the underlings are all Orange. To such a height has the system been carried, that the Evening Mail actually blushed through her columns at its extent, and said that they were not so much Orange as Mr. O'Connell thought, and that some liberal appointments should be made.—( Hear.) What state must we be in when even the Evening Mail is ashamed of the Orange domination that is exercised over us ? We have arrived at a time when a wall of separation is inevit able. On one hand are the liberal Protestants and the Ca tholics-:-on the other, the Orangemen. For shortness, I shall call the two first Christians—the other Orangemen. The country is, then, divided into two parties—the Christians on the one side, and the Orangemen on the other. There is now no middle party—no choice between the two.—( Hear, hear.) very man must range himself vt ith either ; and, as for my part, though my taste be bad, I prefer ther Christians to the Orangemen.—( Hear, hear, and laughter.) This being the case it is is incumbent upon me to take a de cided part against the Orangemen. I see no reason why I should not, and why we all should not, for they are exceed ingly truculent. I have spent the last five years in fruitless endeavours to reconcile them. I did not utter one word of abuse against them. - I thought to bring them over, but I might as well attempt to coax with success the sucking tiger or the full-grown lion.—( Hear, hear.) In numbers they are ' vastly inferior to the Christians, and have no chance, unless. like the Orangemen of Cavan, as it is alleged of them when k in Kells, where five of them, with daggers, attacked an unfor , tunate Catholic,,and put him to death.—( Hear, hear.) That . being the state of the country, it is incumbent on us to take the strongest measures to alter the system by which it is kept in such thraldom. I mean to propose that we shall call upon every parish, barony, and county in Ireland to meet as speedily as possible, and prepare petitions to Parliament, with two objects--first, the total extinction of tithes in name and nature—( loud cheering)—next, praying the House to address his Majesty to dismiss his present ill-advisers.—( Hear, hear. ) Let us have two millions of signatures to a petition, calling on the Parliament to call on the King to dismiss his present advisers, and if not, to refuse the supplies.—(Loud cheers.) Every account from England fills us with pleasure and delight, and tells me of approaching triumph—that the Tories will soon be scattered, and that a new Administration will be esta blished upon a broad basis.—( Hear, hear.) It may be thought that I am soliciting, office or truckling to power, when I say, in the presence of my constituents, that I am ready to form a member of the new Administration.—( Loud cheers.) I wish to give a full experiment to a British Parliament, and to know whether they can legislate as effectually for Ireland as an Irish Parliament would. They say they can. I don't think they can. However, lam disposed to give them a trial and fall back upon my own resources, whets I shall have demon strated the inability of any other 'than an Irish Parliament to do justice to the Irish nation. It is the strongest conviction of my mind, and the most determined decision of my judg ment, that nothing can eventually and effectually secure Ire land, but a Parliament in College-green.---(Loud cheering. ) Mr. O'Connell said, that in order to effectuate this plan, it ought to be impressed upon the mind of every Irishman, and this. Association ought particularly to impress it upon the minds of their Representatives, that it was necessary for the present to forgot the faults and follies of the Whigs. Who was more vindictively persecuted by the Whigs than he was? He was made the subject of a ridiculous prosecution by Lord Anglesey, through which he found it as easy to break as if it had been a cobweb:. He was also prosecuted under Lord Wellesley:s Government. He, however, freely forgave them ; and if he did not forget it, it was because it rejoiced him to reflect that the men who then persecuted and oppressed the people were obliged now to rely upon them in their extremity. He did not despair of his country he had stronger hopes than ever of seeing her prosperous arid happy. Mr. O'Connell concluded by moving, that the Association call upon the coun ties, baronies, and parishes in Ireland to prepare petitions to Parliament for the total abolition of tithes, and the expulsion from power of the present Administration ; and that the Asso ciation will give every legal assistance to the oppressed people of Ireland. Mr. M. CosTEnt.o seconded the motion. The resolution was put from the Chair, and passed unani. mously. The meeting then adjourned to Thursday next. THE MELIORATIVE REFORMERS. To the MIDDLING and INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES of GLOU• CESTERSHIRE, and the COUNTIES ADJACENT. - - - hi assuming the title of " Meliorative," it will be seen that we wish to contradistinguish ourselves from those who, with recklessness of spirit, greedily seize upon every op portunity of trampling under foot the e stabli s h e d i ns ti tut i ons of the country, merely because they are established, and on the other hand, from those who, with blind devotion to the idol god of custom and usage, would uphold every institution, how ever replete with imperfections or ignorance, merely because it is an established one. The former have been justly branded with the name o " Destructives," and the latter have as justly earned the title of " Conservatives," being as tenacious of preserving what is bad as of retaining what is good of the elements of the Constitution. From each of these parties, we hope to be distinguished ; and he who, as another Hampden, wishes no other change than what may conduce to the ultimate benefit of the community, (more especially of the " middling classes," who have not re ceived any amelioration from the " Reform Bill,") may fairly be entitled henceforth to invest himself with the novel appel lation of the " Meliorative." A man's opinion was his own, his due And just possession, whether false or true." / A VOICE FROM THE COTS-WOLDS.s February 13, 1835. * Sheep-walks. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Sheridan Knowles's play of the 'The. Wife was last night per formed for the first time at this house. Mr. Wallack appeared as Julian St. Pierre, and played this difficult part with just discrimination and with much feeling. The part of Mariana was played by Miss E. Tree. She has often performed the character, but she never better earned the praises of the audi ence than she did last night. She is not a powerful actress, but there is an enchanting modesty and delicacy, and, when the occasion calls for it, dignity in her manner, which attracts the heart and enchains the - mind far more than mere physical power ever didor ever can do. The curate, Antonio, found a grave, steady, and imp r es s i ve re p resen t a ti ve i n M r . G. Ben nett. Mr. Warde's Ferrardo commanded much approbation. It was not merely a judicious but a spirited performance. The play went off exceedingly well. SHIPPING-(THIS DAY). ( FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL,FEB. 2. —Wind N. W.—Arrived from the River and sailed the Isabella, Partridge, for Jamaica; Rosalind, Jager, for Madeira ; Albion, Burrell, fqr Leghorn ; Britannia, Mit chell, for Cadiz ; Tom and Jessie, Fleming, for Leghorn ; Ida, Passimer, for Jamaica; William Hull, Fleining. for Trieste ; Coriolanus, Fox, for Barbadoes ; T rue Love, -Cdul ton, for Cape Coast Castle ; and Hebe, Dalt, for St. Vin cents. Arrived his Majesty's ship Athol, from Jamaica, for, Woolwich, and remains. PonrsmouTti. Fin; 12.—Wind S. S.W. to N. N. E. PLYMOUTH, Fan. 11.—Wind S.W. FALMOUTH, FEB. 11. —Wind W. S.W. to W., moderate breezes and squally.--Arrived the Monarch (steamer), from Lisbon, sailed 6th instant. LivEnrom., Fan. 11.—Wind S. W.---Sailed the Hindoo, Atkin, for Calcutta. &TANGA T E CREEK, FEL 11. —Arrived the Kilmarnock, Caldwell, froom Tarracona. POOLE, FEB. 1 I. —Arrived the Louisa Hannah, Bell,- from Newfoundland. DARTMOUTH, FEB. 11. —Arrived off port the Cleopatra, Huet, from Van Diemen's Land ; and the Demerara Planter, Willis, from Demerara. MARGATE, FEB. 1 2.—Arrived. the Fairlie, Agar, from Ba tavia, bound to Amsterdam, disabled and leaky, having ex perienced a severe gale off the Texel, and must proceed to London to repair. The Blenheim, Watson, -, Bridlington, assisted in, being leaky, after throwing part of her cargo overboard, having struck in coming out of the Tees. The Wallace, Fonlk, bound to Philadelphia, was aground near Markbeggar on the 11th inst. The Brothers, M'Mann, bound to Dublin, has put back to Liverpool, having been aground on the East Hoyle. The Matilda, from St. Domingo, put into Nassau with damage, having paited from her moorings on the Bth ult. The Bonne,, Mere of and for Nantes, was lost in Mississippi previous to the 21. ult.—Crew saved. The Agnes, Hock, from Gotenburg to Grangemouth, is on shore at Skagon. The Duke of Braganaa and Don Pedro ( Portuguese frigates), the ,Don Pedro (brig of war), his M a j es ty' s s hi ps panuN and Pantaloon, from Falmouth, arrived at Lisbon previous to 6th instant. The Meteor steam-packet arrived on the 6th instant, from Fahnouth. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of nearly all kinds of Grain this week are very large, and of Flour considerable. The Wheat trade continues ex tremely heavy, and hardly maintains the terms of Monday. In Barley, Beans, and Peas, there is no variation. Oats meet buyers very slowly, and are rather lower than on Monday. The St raw trade continues excessively dull. A GIRIVALS. Wheat I Barley. that English Trish Foraig,l -830 9,480 sacks SMITHFIEL This day's supply way pretty dull, at the following D MARKET. good, and the trade was rather PRICES PER STONE OF 231 TO SINK TUE OFFAL S, s d. to s. d. s d to s d. letetior Bests •) 0 2 ? Welk)]* Sheep...... Second quality ditto -, 4 ° 8 Second quality ditto Prime large Oxeit,... ..... 3 8 3 8 Coarsc-woolled ditto Prime Scots, &c...........:1 It) 4 0 t.'outlidown Wethers Large coar, Calves ...... 3 0 410 Large Hogs 0 8 3 4 Prime small ditto 5 0 '.) 4. Small Porkers ...... .. 3 8 4 0 Suckling Ca!res each —.12 +, SO sul Quarter old Pigs each 8 I, P 2 0 surrix, AS PER CL' Beasts Sheep 4118 I :FTRK'S STATE.; ENT. Calves. Pigs 134 I 380 NEWGATE AND LEA At per stone, " _ S d to s 11. s d. too d Beef, inf,rior 2 U " 2 Mutton, inferior -- middling " 4 2 6 --- middling 2 8 3 0 -- pri:»e latee 2lO 3 0 - prime 'i 4 :3 9 -... prime small 1 2 3 4 Pork, large 2 4 3 0 Veal 3 0 4 li -small 1 4 4 0 DENHALL MARKETS, .y the Carcisi. An old correspondent of ours, who is a notorious Stringer* at times of tolerable bad puns, _observed, upon reading the name of the gentleman w h o p res id e d at the West Surrey Conservative dinner on Tuesday last, at Guildford, that it was a very appropriate appointment, as they might have ran Miles ere they' could have met any-other man who could so well have suited them to a T (tea), or have provided better gunpowder to fire off, to Barelay's STOUT. " Tea man. In 1830, when the ambitious Edward 111. assumed the title of King of France, so popular was the war in conse quence. that the Parliament, described as " the Prelates, Earls. Barons, and all the Commons of the realm," gave him the ninth lamb, the ninth fleece, and the ninth sheaf, to be taken by two years then to come : and of cities and boroughs the ninth part of their goods and chattels. Towards - the end of December the winter set in with unusual severity at Athens and its vicinity. This had added eonsidetably to the inconveniences felt f ro m th e wan t of accommodation in the shape of lodgings in the Grecian capital. The Ambassador from Austria had arrived there, and a journal was about to be started in the German and Greek languages. INDIAN ARMY. s We copy the following items of military intelligence from the India papers last received ; and well may we echo the Mo j eussil Mbar, when it sacs, " We do not consider these eternal courts-martial as indicating a vigorous govern- ment of the army." COURTS MARTIAL AT MA DR A S.—Extract of a private letter.—" Some singular Courts Martial are to be held here shortly. Colonel Sir E. K. Williams, K. C. 8., H. H. M. 41st Regiment, Major Watkins of the Cavalry, and Colonel Conway, the Adjutant-Gel - sera], are all to be tried. You have of course seen the trial of Lieut.-Colonel Par don, H. M. 41st Regiment, on charges preferred against him by Colonel Sir E. K. Williams. The Court have adopted a course in relation to it, very similar to that ob served in the case of Captain Wathen of the Hussars, and have censured the prosecutor." COLONEL CONWAY.—Amongst the most serious charges against this officer, and for which he is about to be arraigned before a military tribunal at Madras, there is one, we are told, which relates to the trial of Lieut.-Colonel Smythe, ssf the Bth Regiment Madras Light Cavalry, held. at Vizagpa-- tam in the course of last year. It seems that this officer was tried on charges of a very serious and shocking cha racter, to which it is not necessary more distinctly to allude, and received at the liands: of his judges " a most full and most honourable acquittal?' • Nevertheless the Commander in -Chief, Sir R. O'Callaghan, in the exercise of his preroga tive, did make and cause to be published sundry remarks on the proceedings of the Court, which left Colonel Smythe's fame in a very equivocal and distressing position. These remarks we have sought for in a copy of the Madras G. 0. for last year, and we may add, that, we hear Colonel COD way is accused .of having been much influenced by their spirit in his bearing towards Lieut.-Colonel Smythe, and that Lieut.-Colouel S. accordingly addressed a •memorial to Lord Wm. Bentinek, which has led to. the institution of the proceedings in question.—Englishman. • Mr. J. Dickenson, (late Captain J. Diekensou), whose arrival at Madras, from the Mauritius, we mentioned in our last, landed, we understand on Saturday, and is now a pie soner in the Main Guard ie the Fort. His capture has, we believe, put some of the good folks living in the East Indies into rather a state of anxious agitation—what for, it is not for us to say. It is however, we hear, almost certain that he will be handed over to the Supreme Court, and if so the trial will in all probability come on next Sessions. Strange rumours are afloat—of sayings and doings, of quakings and tremblings. Now that he is fairly taken, it is feared that Mr. D. will out ..sith a great deal more thaw. he will be thanked for saying. It is feared we shall have the secrets of the prison house dragged before the public view, and certain customs and usages brought forth which are said to have existed to a fearful extent. Be all these things, however, as they may, we would beg the reader to come to no conclusion from what we have said, do say, or may say, of the guilt or innocence of the defendant. All that appears against him up to this present moment is that he bolted from Bangalore, and that he has been struck off . the strength of the army as a deserter.—Madras Gazette, Aug. 16. Comers MARTIAL AT AG/lA.—We last week gave an account of the state of military ferment at Meerut : we now give a - settlement of Military Courts at Agra. I. A General Court Martial, of which Col. Parker, Artillery, is President. 2. A General Court Martial, Pre sident, Lieut.-Col. Paul. 3. A District Court Martial, President, Major Debnam. 4. A District Court Martial. Eight officers have been ordered to Agra to form a third General Court Martial for the trial of the Sergeant-Major of 11. M. 13th Light Infantry, and another, on charges ex hibited against them by Lieut. Brownrigg, 11. M. 13th Light Infantry, over whom is pending the sentence of time General Court Martial, No. 1. We think itewould be expedient to raise skeleton regi ments, and send a shoal of cadets from England. that there may be sufficient officers for the numerous Courts Martial all over the country, and for the current military duties of the. posts and stations. We do not consider these eternal Courts Martial as indicating a vigorous government of the army.—Mojitssil Mbar, July 5. Lteter.-Coe. DENNIE.—A court-martial is ordered to assemble at Cawnpore to try Lieut.-Col. Dennie, C. 13., of H.M. 13th Light Infantry, on charges preferred against him by Lieut. and Adjutant Brownrigg, of the same regi ment. He is charged with clandestinely absenting himself from .duty, leaving the corps for many days together without. a commander, &e. &c.—Caietitta Paper. The court-martial for the trial of the Quarter-master of the 13th; commenced its sittings on the 22d August. Some of the charges exhibited were of such a nature as should have prevented their being- brought forward. An applica tion was made by Col. Mamie to, the President. and Mern hers of the Court for leave to assist the two serjeants, but refused on the plea of the Colonel being under arrest. This objection was considered unanswerable against the prisoners, but of no weight on the part of the prosecutor, Lieut. Brownrigg, he being not only under arrest. but under actual sentence. COURTS M ARTI A L.—Sevel'al Courts Martial are to be held at the Presidency as soon as the officers to whom they relate shall have arrived from their respective stations. The Officers in question are Major H. D. Coxe, 27th N. I; Lieut. Nitres, 33d N. 1., and Lieut. Wiggins, of the ith Light Cavalry. The charges against Major H. D. Coxe, - 25th N. - I. are, we hear, not .publishing and not complying with, inane= diately on their receipt at an out-post, certain Orders re moving him from the command of the post ;- making remarks on the operation of these orders, and disrespectfully cavilling at them ; proceeding two days in advance of a party under his eommend returning to Regimental Head- Quarters ; and making further animadversions on the Ope ration of Col. Simpson's orders.—Englishinan, Aug. 13. Coma MARTIAL.—A Court Martial assembled yester day morning, at Fort William, for the trial of Lieutenant John Dixon Nash, 33d Regiment, N. Aug. 28. DocToßs WOOD AND .1 ACOIL—We perceive by the Ge neral Orders issued by the Commander of the Forces, that Mr. Surgeon Wood and Mr. Assistant-Surgeon Jacob of the Artillery, have been removed from their situations in that Regiment, and punished,—the first by being posted to a corps now at Agra, hut under orders for Mhow,—the se cond by being transferred to do duty in the hospital of the 3d Buffs (under a Surgeon) for having addressed disre spectful and groundless complaints to the Medical authori ties, commenting on the bad quality of the imedicincs and instruments issued from the Government dispensary for the use of the troops under their medical charge. Exalt Atilt DI IS Alt Y CHARGE.—Courts Martial rise on our sight in as rapid succession as the visionary progeny of Banquo did to the Thane of Cawdor, and for all we can judge they are likely to be as endless. In the midst of the most Nick(' security, our military friends may be astounded with the intelligence of some impending accusations, and an immediate trial. The newest ease which report states is to come on-Abe tapis, is for the commission of a very novel crime, the infre quency of which, as good Christians, we are bound to de plore. Captain S ,of Neemutch, we understand, ex erted himself very much in collecting subscriptions for the erection of a church, and this, hi' some constructive process of his Commanding Officer, has been declared a military offence, and the Captain is now under arrest, previous to undergoing trial. The whole circumstance, as well as the crime are of so extraordinary a nature, that we hesitated to attach credence to them, until they were authenticated by authority on which we can rely. The apology of the sailor who single and unaided took the Spanish fort might, we conceive, with great propriety, be made by Capt. 5 ; and, on his promising to build no more churches, as the sailor did to take no more castles, he might safely lie " permitted to return to his duty."— Mofassil likhbar. tstarrs-M ART/ AL.—Licut.-Colonel Hunter, of the Ben gal Native Infantry ; Lieut. O'Hanlan, of the Ist Regt. Light Cavalry ; and Assistant-Surgeon Strom, of the 51st Native Infantry, are ordered t o be tried by C our t mart i a l. MmLITAIty CDR ONICL E.—Letters from Cawnporc give us several items of military intelligence, of which we give a summary :—" Conductor Quintal has been tried by a de tachment Court-martial, for neglect of Magazine duties, and sentenced to one month's suspension. A case of high in subordination lately occurred in the Horse Artillery ; a private having thrown a large stone at the officer of the day, and nearly knocked him off his horse. The Hospital Steward of his Majesty's 16th Foot is in confinement, on a charge of ill-using a Native, and discharging (fortunately without doing any serious mischief) a musket at him. Every one is on the qui vive respecting the trial of Colonel Dennie, which commences early this month.—Englishazan of August. Some months ago a vessel bound from Rotterdam to Leith anchored in Musselburgh Bay, and a boat was sent on shore with a request that . a respectable physician in the place would visit the captain, who was sick. On reaching the ship, the doctor found him very ill, suffering, as he said, from a sur feit of mussels. The physician prescribed, and was informed next morning that his paient was dead. He was buried in Musselburgb churchyard, in the clothes and boots which he usually wore, and it was generally understood that be had fallen a victim to cholera. The-vessel afterwards proceeded to Leith, and took a cargo back to Holland. A few days ago informa tion was received that the mate of the vessel had been appre hended there on suspicion of having poisoned the unfortunate captain, and on the authority of the Sheriff the body was ex humed, for the purpose of examining the stomach of the de ceased. This was accordingly done a few days ago. Owing probably to the humidity of the soil in which the body of the stranger was deposited, decomposition had not proceeded so far but that the contents of the stomach could be easily pro cured, and these were accordingly carried away by the medical gentlemen to whom the Sheriff had granted his authority, for the purpose of undergoing a chemical test. The result is as yet unknown.—Edinburgh Observer.