The Sun. — London, England, 1835-06-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS Corporation Reform would have slept during the present year if the Tories had retained office ; or if forced on the consideration of the Cabinet of Sir Ro bert Peel, we should have been accommodated with "as little as needs be." Any measure from the Tories would have been concocted, first, to sustain the power of their own party ; secondly, to limit as much as pos sible its utility to the People. We are indebted, therefore, for this boon to the patriotic resolution of the majority of the House of Commons, which wisely withheld its confidence from a class of public men, who, whatever their hypocritical and time-serving pro fessions, had ever been the advocates of municipal cor ruption, and the opponents of Reform. The conduct of the Tories on this question is very remarkable. They denied the legality of th e C or poration Commis sion ; they advised the municipal authorities not to submit to its authority ; they libelled the Commission ers ; and lastly, they denounced the Reports. On the return of the Tories to office, no member of the Cabi net of Sir Robert Peel admitted the existence of abuses, or the necessity of any real change in the municipal institutions of the corporate towns. We required lot the results of the Corporation Commission— important and essential as they were previous to any legislative measure—to understand the notorious defects of the system, and the practicability of its re-- formation by the simple means of popular local go vernments, founded on the principle of representation, and subject to periodical elections of municipal officers. So far Robert Peel and his veteran corps of Tory Placemen might have admitted the principles of muni cipal reform, if they had been really the honest and intelligent Reformers which they would now wish us to believe they are. But though the Scotch Burghs Bill had become law, and a popular municipal govern ment had been given to the northern part of the island, not a syllable escaped the lips of the " Conservatives," that England, Wales, or Ireland, should participate in the rights of municipal self-government. Indeed, it would have ill-suited Sir Robert Peel, on the threshold of a dissolution of Parliament, in November last, to have issued any such proclamation against the self-elect and Tory Corporators of the municipal towns. It was far more expedient to call upon them for a last and dying political struggle on behalf of Toryism, and to delude them into the hope that the " Conservatives " were striving to save Corpora tions from the claws of the " Destructives." 'What, however, must be the astonishment and indignation of the Self-elect, to discover that they are abandoned to the scourge of reformation—that they are one and all to vacate office in the autumn, and to submit them selves to the- choice or rejection of their fellow-towns men—that their former partisans, who hitherto always shielded them from the effects of popular indignation, have now failed them in the hour of need ? The history of parties affords no parallel to such an instantaneous change of tactics. But Sir Robert Peel is an expert fugleman, and his followers ad mirable observers of his rapid signals for changes of position. To the astonishment and chagrin of numbers of the Tory Members in the House of Com mons, the complying Baronet, after learning the nature and extent of the Ministerial measure, admitted that " the time has arrived when it is of the utmost importance to the w e ll-b e i ng of society to establish a good system of municipal government ; ' and this emi nent political Conformer subsequently proceeded to admit that such a system ought to be based on the principles of a popular constituency and periodical elections. This curious diplomatic manoeuvre is equivalent to what, in sea-faring language, is known by the term of " box haul," a particular method of turning a ship about when the swell of the sea renders the gentler process of tacking impracticable. However disagreeable the motion, circumstances render it necessary that the Ex- Premier should " boxhaul" his party ; and the crew must act in obedience to the steersman. We are con fident, however, that the country will not be thrown off their guard by these practised hands at political conformity, but will bear in mind the past acts of the party. It was they who corrupted close Corporations; it was they who justified municipal abuses, and who, till last week, never betrayed a symptom of desire to reform those municipal institutions which they thus monopolized for purposes hostile to the liberties of the people. We are by no means desirous of refusin 4 the concurrence of Sir Robert Peel in the great labour of Corporation Reform, and we well know the advantages of his singular submission to public opinion. But we will never allow the mask to be worn in politics without endeavouiin L , to give an exhibi t i on of the naked f ace . Si r Robert Peel never was till this month an advocate of anq reformation in our munici pal system. If secretly he has entertained the opi nions he now professes, he has always acted in direct opposition to his principles. The Tories, if they be come converts to the new faith of their leader, which is doubted, will adopt the convenient creed of liberality, because they cannot afford to discard their leader, and know that without one they would powerless. We repeat, that we fear more from the treacherous aid of the Tories than we should apprehend from their oppo sition to the measure of Corporation Reform. Sir Robert Peel did not capitulate without conditions. On all the essentials of the Bill—on the franchise, on the periodical elections, on the popular control of the po lice, and on the transfer of die licensing system to the Town Councils, he cautiously abstained from all opi nion. An ingenious advocate in an opening speech seldom developes his case, and thus Sir Robert Peel plans a retreat if he should find his position untenable. The Tory journals, restrained by the pru dent course of the Right Hon. Baronet, modestly state that the measure may be rendered decent by the aid of the Conservatives. The Reformers know well the meaning of this indication of the Tory press. We have too lively a recollection of th e mu til ation o f t h e Reform Bill s , by the Tories not to be awake to their designs against Corporation Reform. We can clearly foresee 'what will be their aim, and we must warn the Liberal Members of the House of Commons to be prepared to counteract the machinations of the old partisans of municipal abuses. False frieads are most dangerous enemies, and the nation will not endure that the Tories shall be the self-appointed arbitrators of a liberal measure of legislation to which they are known to be in their hearts the most bitter foes. In the mean while we may congratulate the friends of liberal insti tutions on the general approval of the Ministerial plan. Lord Melbourne has fully justified, on this subject, the confidence placed in him by the country. We shall soon be delivered from the curse of local oligar chies, and the nuisance of close Corporations.— Morning Chronicle. The measure of Municipal Corporation Reform proposed by the Melbourne Cabinet is, so far as Lord John Russell is capable of expounding it, before the country. We have already stated our opinion, that it is a far more sober and rational measure than we ex pected from its authors, and until the details of the Bill are fully and fairly before us, we do not feel that we should be justified in predicating any more special judgment respecting it. That a measure of Corpora tion Reform which shall remove all that is objection able under the present system may pass into a law under the auspices of the present advisers of the Crown we do not deny ; but we declare our firm belief that, under their guidance alone, and without the practical knowledge and assistance of Sir Robert Peel and his friends, in every detail, neither that, nor any other measure can be framed by the present Cabinet. The very manner in which this Bill was introduced to the House of Commons and to the country, by the leader of the Whig Government, was such as to demonstrat e to every unprejudiced man the utter incapacity of the speaker, not only to frame an enactment, such as he described to be necessary, but to enunciate his own notions on the subject ; not only to manifest his inability to embody, in a practical form, the principles to which he desired to give effect, but to exhibit his powerlessness even to explain what those principles were. In fact, had there not been an abstract of the Bill in existence before Lord John Russell delivered his speech his auditors would have remained, up to this hour, in total• ignorance of even the principle of the measure he was endeavouring to explain to them. We never witnessed (and we have witnessed many of Lord Althorp's) so degrading an exhibition as that made by Lord John on Friday night. Forgetting that he was no longer the leader of a small section of an heterogeneous opposition, Lord Johnßus sell brought forward this extensive and important mea sure, not as a Minister of the King should bring it for ward, but enveloped in all the littlenesses ofparty politics, which he had not even the sagacity to see it should seem at least to be divested of—not as a great national mea sure, but as.a narrow party manoeuvre. So blinded, in deed, by party feelings was this most imbecile man, that he could not even perceive that the very selection he made of the boroughs by which he meant to illustrate the necessity of Corporation Reform was so grossly and glaringly partial that the veriest tyro in debate (much less so great a debater as Sir Robert Peel) must, in his reply, weaken, if not totally demolish the whole of his argument, so far at least as those selec tions illustrated it. No ; in every sentence uttered by Lord John Russell we could only perceive the petty, party politician ; there was no trace of the enlightened statesman, no vestige of the unbiassed Legislator, enacting measures for the goo(' of his country, and not for the advancement of his party. No—not even this quality, so necessary for a Minister to appear at least to possess, is to be found in the present leader of the House of Commons. But, if we turn to the speech of Sir Robert Peel, we may there indeed find, though we cannot in the speech of Lord John Russell, a statesman's and a patriot's view of that measure of Cor poration Reform which the country desires, but which the present Ministers of the Crown are, unassisted by him and his friends, unable to embody in a legis lative enactment—a measure which " will guard against the transfer of the system of abuse from one party to another party ; the sincere and real object of which shall be, not to take political influence from one party and give it to another, but to attempt to found a good and sound system of Corporate Reform, taking secu rity, as far as security on such a subject can be taken, that the really intelligent and respectable portion of the community of the town be called to the administra tion of the affairs of the Corporation." Such a mea sure, we do hope, that the country will eventually have ; but sure we are, that, without the aid of Sir Robert Peel and his friends, such a measure is not to be expected from the honesty of the Melbourne Ad ministration, nor from the capacity of Lord John Rus sell. We have ever, in common with all reasoning men, held the gift of oratory to be secondary to the possession of honesty ;—we have never set the quality of clearness in argument on a par with that of inte grity in purpose ; but what shall be said to the fitness of that man to be a Minister of the Crown, to whom nor -nature nor education have given words to express his meaning ;—who has neither sense to conceal the venality of his patriotism, nor sensibility _to feel the exposure of his imbecility ;—who is an O'Connell in the depravity of his politics, and a Hume in the po verty of his language ?—Morning Post. `We have already stated that we choose to withhold our opinion of the Corporate Reform Bill until we see it entire. At the same time, we do not consider our selves precluded from making any suggestions that may occur to us, especially as we are moved only by a desire to render the Bill as effective as possible for the annihilation of corporate abuses, and for the establish ment of a wholesome and popular system of corporate ..overnment. We wish to deal with the Bill in the most friendly spirit, having really at heart, what the Ministers profess to have, reform, or rather (what is wanted in this case) reconstruction, but not revolution, or that which must lead to revolution. In the first place we beg our readers to understand th a t t h e franchise Lord John Russell creates is not household franchise. There enters into his franchise an element which takes it altogether out of the class in which some of the claquers of the Ministerial press have placed it. The voter for the Town Council under Lord John Russell's Bill must h;tve been rated to the poor for three years, and if he be in arrear for six months he ;yin be disqualified. This is not in the legal, though it may be in the popular sense, household sqffrage. Upon this subject much may be said, and we think the public will constantly recur to the question, why take a different franchise from that which the Reform Bill has already provided ? It was the declared purpose of those who framed that Bill to embrace within the new political constituency, as nearly as might be, all the sound intelligence, independence, and trustworthiness ' of the realm. Nor is it to be denied, that in the opinion of most reflecting men the circle was made sufficiently comprehensive, and the influx of voters as great as was consistent with the good order of society and the well being of the Constitution. Then, let us ask again, why construct a different franchise ? If more capacious than that already existing, must it n o t i nc l u d e a por tion of materials , which were rejected three years ago, as not possessing the qualities of discernment, indepen dence, and the love of peace ? If it be merely coinci dent or coequal with the present franchise, cui Bono its enactment but to produce complexity and confu sion of principles in the working of our political system: Should this plan of inventing and employing a new test of municipal capacity in our towns have any hid. den purpose of hereafter exciting discontent among the corporate electors, inasmuch as that they have 'been manufactured into a species of political half-caste, and deemed unworthy of any higher vocation than the choice of petty local authorities, while their immediate friends and neighbours can generate Members of Par liament, the question assumes a different and, more angry shape. It is clear that the fresh difficulty thi , about to be raised would lead to a solution which is carefully kept in the background, viz., to the simplifi cation of the abstruse state of our internal system, by finally flinging down the barrier between the two classes of suffrage, and establishing for Members of Parliament that which is now proposed as a substra tum of the mere municipal representation. Now, if such a project as this be „contemplated, let it at least be avowed that the people of England, and in par ticular the existing constituency of the kingdom, may have time to make up their minds, and con sider how they ought to entertain a proposal so" seriously affecting the theory and principles, or it may be the wholesome operation, of the Reform Bill, which, at least in all that concerned the elective fran chise, was avowed by its authors, and understood by all, to be a fundamental and final measure of con stitutional policy. If from the description of the new electors, we turn to the powers vested in them, and to their absolute control over the finances and police of the borough, , as well as of the charitable institutions connected with it, there seems ample work for earnest discussion when the House shall get into Committee on the Bill, if not for extensive alterations in some of its most important clauses. These points we are now precluded, by want of space and time, from dealing with. Upon the whole, this Bill, regarded as a grand flash manoeuvre of the Whigs, as a deadly missile launched against all moderate statesmen, or a lever, whereby the whole weight of Conservative and inde pendent politics throughout Great Britain was to be prized up, hurled aloft, and dashed to pieces irrecover ably—as such, we repeat, as a death-blow to the Con servatives, this attempt has already proved abortive. The Conservatives have substantially more to gain than the Whig-Radicals by municipal reform. There are more Derbys, Nottinghams, and Portsmouths, in the field than Aldburghs and Orfords. The proposi tion has been received by Sir R. Peel in the right spirit—that of a high-minded statesman, and an ho nest citizen of a free country. If the Whigs, after the vapid and petty-spirited speech of Lord John Russell, fancy that a dissolution on grounds 4ce this will serve them, they may try, though we are not so unfriendly as to offer them such hazardous counsel.— Tinter. The plan of Municipal Reform, as introduced by Lord John Russell, has not yet come before us in that authentic shape that would enable us to speak de cidedly as to its merits in detail. We must wait for the printed Bill, but in the Mean time we may say a word or two as to the great principles involved in the measure, leaving its particular provisions open to future observation. To the principle of self-election we have always been opposed, and to all exercise of irresponsi ble power, whether it concerns the government of a town or an empire, or the administration of the affairs of the poor. The self-election principle, and the close borough system of Government, are the result of a long practised system of usurpation upon our an cient municipal Constitution--a Constitution which was framed on exactly the opposite principle to that of the new-fangled principle of centralisation which our pseudo -patriots have learned from the Bourbon despots, for it was founded on the principle of local VIE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JUNI 8, 1835. government, in conformity with the maxim of that admirable plan of civil polity by which the wise founders of the British Monarchy were guided, that the supreme Government should do nothingfor the peo pie, except what the people could not do for themselves. On the very opposite to that maxim our centralising Doctrinaires proceed—men who, with much assump tion of superior knowledge, are but ignorant and con ceited pretenders ; patriots by profession, but tyrants in principle—who seek in themselves and their own party to concentrate all political power ; who pursue their own purpose of. selfish-aggrandisement by any path, however crooked, though it lead through the wreck of those institutions under which civil liberty, the human intellect, the sciences and arts of civilised life, have prospered more than they ever did beneath any form of ,government that the world has ever seen. Now the first thing that strikes us in Lord John Russell's plan of Corporation Reform is the large stride which it makes towards the advancement of the centralising sys tem, by vesting in the Ministers of the Crown the power of appointing all the Recorders, or Judges, of all the boroughs in England. This is also another step towards making the Bar of England dependent upon the Ministers of the Crown. A great deal has been done in that way already by the multiplying of Commissionerships, which are chiefly bestowed, not for professional qualification, but subservient party opinions. In abolishing the close government of the boroughs, and giving the inhabitants the power of governing themselves, nothing more is done, if that power be judiciously regulated, than re storing the ancient principle and practice of our Anglo- Saxon Constitution. But why should they who, in that respect, abolish usurped power, seize that very opportunity to filch from the public the right of ap ' pointing those local Judges which has been vested in Municipal Governments from time immemorial ? We would propose, as indeed we have already suggested, that a select body, themselves to be elected by the burgesses for life, but subject to removal for proved misconduct, incapacity, &c., or for a term of years, should have the appointment of Recorders and Town Clerks, the former of which officers should be elected for life, but liable also to removal for such misbeha viour or imbecility as ought to disqualify for the ad ministration of justice. Thus on the one side the evils of popular election with regard to judicial functionaries would be avoided, and on the other the too great in crease of the influence of the Ministers of the Crown. Yet we should not wonder to see a large proportion of the Tories join the Whigs as to that part of their project of Municipal Reform which has reference to the appointment of Recorders, for the very same reason that we object to it—viz., the great augmentation which it would give to Ministerial power anepatronage. As to the right of voting in the Corporation, we think that if the municipal franchise be extended so far be yond the Parliamentary franchise as is at present pro posed, some better protection ought to be afforded to the rights of property than any which the Bill is said to contain. Ihe Municipal Governments of this coun try, as originally constituted, and.before they were im paired and altered by encroachment and abuse, were each an epitome of the Constitution at large ; the principle of mere democracy was not recognised in these local Governments any more than in the collec tive Government of the State. All these institutions were in harmony with the great design of a mixed and balanced Government, constituted of different orders, and impelled by one united action. Let the fantastic patriots of France talk of a " monarchy with Republi can institutions ;" such a Monarchy is a chimera, if by Republican be meant purely democratic institutions. Every man who meddles with the reform of our sys tem, should well understand its great design, or he may destroy where the object should be to renovate and restore. That architect is surely not qualified to repair and restore an ancient building who does not understand the principle of its original construction.-- Morning Herald. We are gratified to perceive that the able and lucid speech of Lord John Russell on Corporation Reform, is already published in the shape of a pamphlet, which we trust will be read by every person interested in Municipal institutions : as from the abuses exposed— the remedies to be applied—and above all, ,the great. principles embraced in the Noble Lord's admirable essay, as it may be justly called, render this document one of no ordinary importance. In our hasty and necessarily limited comments of Saturday, we omitted to notice some important provisions of the Bill—such as the vesting in the Crown the power to grant charters, in conformity with the principles of the 13iil, to such towns as may hereafter desire an incorporate Municipal body—the uniformity of the system, which is at once to be established in one hundred and eighty three towns which already enjoy, or rather are afflicted with, Corporate Governments. The new Corporations are to be the trustees of the charities already coutioled by the existing bodies—the power. of granting licenses is to be withdrawn from the local Magistrates, and vested in the Towns' Council, a change which, we think, must give general satisfaction to the whole country. All exclusive trading is to be abolished — all clauses in existing charters at variance with the present Bill, to cease—and, in fine, the municipal power is to be vested where it ought to be, in the in telligent and resident body of citizens. There is one clause, however, which we think will require consi derable modification in Committee, namely, the qua lification of the occupiers of houses rated three years for the benefit of the poor, and " the payment of all rates due for six months before the revision. With regard to the first, the test is indefinite of due qualification, as one man may occupy newly-built premises, and be for three years excluded from the freedom of a citizen, and another by taking a house rated for three years, though only a temporary resi dent, may acquire his freedom by the payment of six months' 'rates, therefore, we have no doubt this will be altered in the Committee ; and with regard to the pay ment of the rates, we decidedly obj ec t to its being the sine qua non of qualification, as when the governing body have the power of enforcing payment, and when there is a permanent property for i t s li qu id a ti o n, the rights of freemen, either in regard to the general or corporate franchise, should not be affected by the pay ment or non-payment of that which may be enforced, or what is sometimes worse, even deferred at the option of a factious collector. The most remarkable feature in the debate, however, was the avowed coincidence of Sir Robert Peel in the views—the enlarged, en lightened views put forth by the Noble mover. We are never disposed to scrutinize too closely, nor cavil at the motives of any individual, even of Sir Robert Peel—who comes forward to support any great ques tion of national justice ; but we trust the . public will bear in mind the principles of policy admitted by all parties in the House on this occasion. These prin ciples involve almost the whole elements of rational liberty, and if these principles be adhered to and acted upon, the perfect regeneration of the country must be the inevitable consequence. On this subject we will not at the present enlarge, but shall watch with vigilance the progress of the Bill, as we confess we have little confidence in the sincerity of hasty con versions, and suspect that there are some parts of this Bill too good to be permitted operation by the Tories without either an open or covert opposition. Sir R. principl e o f t h e Bill i s no most determined, rmine p d r , e u ce n d d e e s rha th n e d hd P ou e o e stb l i ' it s i t y g a —enpetroreal prelude tdh a e s e s t e od n e t ltu t i o lsem i thev calm whiche storm—and. we therefore say to all true Reformers, " Be up and be doing—register —register —no faith is to be placed in those who have hitherto always been your enemies."—Morning Advertiser. MEMOIRS OF LORD BOLINGBROKE.—..« Boling broke (says the Literary Gazette) seems to have possessed no tame medium in his character. His tremendous powers rush on in one tumultuous torrent, of which, although able to direct the course, he cannot temper the impetuosity. His superiority thus manifested, and under no restraint, rendered him the object of fear, hatred, and admonition. The two v o l umes which stirred us to these reflections are from the pen of George Wingrove Cooke, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and are ably and eloquently done. The condensation of the hitherto widely diffused notices relating to Bolingbroke into so comprehensible a shape, is of itself a public service ; and when we add, that the author has been governed by a strict impartiality, both with regard to men and things—that he is neither the pitiful apo logist for, nor the malignant exaggerator of, a great man's de fects, he secures to himself if not our unqualified approbation, at least our entire respect." An experiment is about to be made in the city of New York, of paving the streets with wood, after the Rus sian manner. COURT OF CHANCERY. The VICE CHANCELLOR, and Mr. Justice BOSANQUET sat as Lords C o m m i ss i oners t o day. IN THE MATTER OF THE ACT OF THE 6TH OF ANNE. Mr. ROMILLY made an application to their Lordships this morning of rather a singular nature, under the statute of the 6th of Queen Anne, entitled a Statute for the discovering and production of persons supposed to be dead. The application was for an order of the Court upon a person named Manning, residing in Long-lane, West Smithfield, to produce on the 22d of the present month, at the parish church of St. Bartho lomew the Great, the body of John Hughes. From the affida vit it appeared that the present Lord Kensington, at the death of a person named Hughes, was entitled to cer tain estates. That Noble Lord had applied to Mr. Manning, who was the father-in-law of Mr. Hughes, in the year 1823, to know where Mr. Hughes resided, and he was then informed that he was living at Stafford. Lord Kensington made application there, but could obtain no infor mation. Since that period he had made repeated applications to Mr. Manning, who refused to tell him whether Mr. Hughes was dead, or, if living, where he resided. Under such cir cumstances Lord Kensington had no other alternative but to make the present application. The VICE-CHANCELLOR—I believe, Mr. Romilly, this ap plication is strictly within the Act. Mr. ROMILLY—It is, Sir. The VICE-CHANCELLOR—Then take the order. LORD KENSINGTON V. MADDEN. Mr. ROMILLY, under the authority of the 6th of Anne, which gives the Court power to compel the production of per sons, who are supposed to be concealed for purposes of fraud, applied for an order to compel William Madden, of 26, Long lane, in the City of Westminster, to produce before the peti tioner, Lord Kensington, the bodies of John Hewse and Ellen Oliver, who are the alleged survivors of certain lives in a lease granted by the first Lord Kensington in 1777. The affidavit in support of the petition stated that the defendant, William Madden, was at present in possession of two houses, No. 56 and 57, Long-lane ; that he held the premises under a lease of lives ; that the whole of the lives were supposed to be extinct, but that he asserted two of them to be still living in Stafford shire; and that Lord Kensington, who is entitled to the fee simple of the property on the extinction of the lease, had not been able, after the most diligent inquiries, to find the persons named in the lease, at the places to which he had been referred by the defendant, and where he asserted they were now living. The petition, under these circumstances, prayed that the de fendant should be compelled to produce the lives mentioned in the lease on a certain day, in the Church of St. Bartholomew the Great. Their Lordships directed the order to issue. ROLLS' COURT. ATTORNEY GENERAL V. SHEARMAN. This was an information filed by His Majesty's Attorney- General, at the relation of certain Trustees of Charity Lands, in the parish of Oakwood, against six of their co-Trustees, and two persons of the names of Henry and Isaac Last, who were the lessees of part of the Charity in question, for the purpose of having a lease, dated in 1826, set aside ; and that Mr. Shearman, one of the trustees, might be compelled to account. In the year 1449, certain lands in this parish were given upon trust, to apply the rents and profits in the first place for the benefit of the poor of the parish, for the repair of the church, and for the mending of high-ways. This property continued to be applied in this manner, until the year 1813, when twelve new trustees were appointed who executed a deed by which it was agreed that the trust property should be applied in the first place to the repair of the parish Church and for the support of the poor-house. In 1826, the last lease being about to expire, a meeting of the trustees took place for the purpose of considering whether or not it ought to be renewed. At that meeting proposals were made by two persons to take the land, one for 701. the other for 621., and the trustees came to the resolution that the land was worth 255. per acre, and that it ought to be let at that price. Pro ceedings were taken for drawing up the lease to that effect, when it came to the knowledge of the other trnstees that Mr. Shearman and five of the trustees had granted a new lease to Mr. Last for fifteen years, at the rent of 521. Under these circumstances Mr. Pemberton, who appeared for the relators, submitted that the lease was invalid, and ought to be set aside. Mr. Pemberton and Mr. Anderdon appeared in support of the information ; Mr. Barber and Mr. Richards for the de fendants. The MASTER of the ROLLS postponed his judgment. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. THE KING V. THE OUSE BANK COMMISSIONERS. This was a mandamus issued under the authority of the Court of King's Bench, and directed to the defendants, com manding them, according to the provisions of the Act, to put in repair the banks of the river, and to widen the water-ways of the bridges thereon. A very large sum, upwards of 46,0001., had been levied for this purpose, but the repairs had not been made, and a mandamus was accordingly issued. Sir W. FOLLETT now read the return made by the defen dants to the writ, which he contended was insufficient and bad. The Commissioners stated that they had executed such repairs as should be, or were, necessary ; and that, with re spect to widening the water-ways, they could not do so without taking down the foundations of the bridges, and that they had no authority to do so, the bridges not being within their ju risdiction, or under their control. The Learned Counsel con tended that these large sums of money having been raised and paid over to the Commissioners, they were bound by the pro visions of the Act, to do all the repairs that were necessary, which, upon their own showing, they had not done. The ATTORNEY. , GENERAL argued that the defendants had done every thing within their power to comply with the pro visions of the Act. It was argued on the other side that they should have widened the water-ways, but his Learned Friend ( Sir William Follett) had not pointed out in what way they could do so. Ile had not shown how the Commissioners could undertake the repair of these bri4gss over which they had not the least authority, and the attempt to do which would subject them to an action of trespass. On these grouuds he contended that they could not make any other return to the writ than that they already had done. Mr. ANDREWS replied. The Connr in delivering its judgment, observed that the answer of the defendants to the writ of mandamus was almost unintelligible. They set forth that they had made " all such works as should be or were proper and expedient." The Court did not think this a fit return to the King's writ—they had returned nonsense, and called upon the Court to make sense of it. They had refused to widen the water ways, on the pound that they could not do so without taking down the foundation of the bridges ; but it did not lie in their mouths to make such a return, because they had obtained money to do that, and if they could not, they had deceived the Legislature. But it appeared that they not only had the right to do so, but that some of the Ouse Bank Commissioners were actually the owners of these bridges—that some of the parties to whom the writ is directed are the persons who possess absolute authority over these bridges. For these reasons the Court was of opinion that the return is bad, and that a peremptory mandamus ought to issue in this case. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. SIMPSON V. CLARKE. This was an action by the holder against the acceptor of a bill of exchange, who pleaded that he accepted the bill with out consideration,/ that the drawer endorsed it over without consideration, and that the plaintiff gave no consideration for it. To this plea the plaintiff replied that he gave full consi deration for it to the last endorsee, whose name was Carter. The cause was tried before Mr. Baron Gurney, at Guildhall, at the sitting after Hilary Term last, when it appeared that the drawer had endorsed the bill to a person named Walker, who endorsed it over to Carter, and that Walker was indebted to the plaintiff in the sum of 561., and that the plaintiff paid the balance between that sum and the amount of the bill to Carter, which was 201. 18s. As the evidence was at variance with the replication, which set forth that the plaintiff had given consideration for the bill to Carter, the Learned Judge directed a verdict to be entered for the plaintiff, with liberty to move to enter a nonsuit, or to reduce the damages to 201. 18s. A rule to show cause why there should not be a nonsuit, or why the damages should not be reduced accord ingly, having been obtained, Sir F. Pollock and Mr. Channel showed cause.---Rule absolute, to reduce the damages. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. EiHULTZ V. ASTLEY. The Court was engaged, from the time it sat until its rising, in hearing the arguments of Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE and Mr. MAULE against a rule nisi, obtained last term, to set aside the verdict in this cause. It will be recollected that an action was brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, to recover the amount of three of his acceptances, for 5001. each ; and that the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff upon two of them. The defence was that the three bills, together with seven more of a similar amount, were fraudulently put into circulation; and that the defendant never received value for any of them. Mr. Sergeant SPANKIE went at length into the facts of the case. Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT was about to reply, in support of the rule, when The Ctuar JUSTICE said that as it was then so late, the Court could not hear him, but that he might proceed with his argument on Monday. Monday, however, being an inconvenient day for Sir W. FOLLETT, at his suggestion the Court fixed the case for Thursday. SECONDARIES' OFFICE. LIBEL--NUTT V. SMITHSON. This was an action for damages at the instance of Mr. Nutt, a solicitor in Canterbury, against Mr. Smithson, proprietor of the Kentish Gazette, for se vera l a ll eged libels affecting the character of the plaintiff, that appeared some time ago in that newspaper. Mr. PHILLIPS stated that the plaintiff, who is Coroner of the county of Kent, had been sworn into the situation of Sheriff deputy at the last election for that county, and had taken a solemn oath to do justice in the performance of the duties of that office. That he had performed these duties conscienti ously there could be no doubt, this being admitted by his most bitter political enemies. The Learned Counsel then read the pass ages from the Kentish G azette . T he first was dated the - 24th of February last, and was in these words :—" Civis' is quite correct. Messrs. and Nutt have for ever disqualified themselves as deputy returning officers for the city of canter bury. The history of the rotten votes polled by the Blues at the election would unfold a tale,' which our fastidious respect for the penal statutes precludes us from narrating." The second was contained in the same paper of the 10th of March last, and consisted of the petition of Mr. Lushington. This petition, which Mr. Phillips described as a " tissue of libels," stated, among other things, that " the said John Nutt and acted as deputies with gross partiality in taking the poll, for the purpose of forwarding the interest of Frederick Villiers, to the injury of your petitioner, illegally, and in violation of the freedom of election, by rejecting, and refusing tolreceive upon the most frivolous and contradictory grounds and pretences the votes of many persons who were duly registered and enti tled to vote at the said election; that the gross partiality of the said John Nutt and in taking the poll is obvious, from their having admitted on the poll for the said Frederick Vil liers numerous voters to whom precisely similar objections ex isted, without the slightest possible difference, as to the voters of your petitioner." The Learned Counsel delivered a long and eloquent address to the Jury, in which he complained-- in very strong terms—of the injury which these libels were likely to do his client, both in his moral and professional cha racter. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 501. COURT OF THE DEAN AND CHAP- TER OF ST. PAUL'S. JUDGMENT-BELCHER V. BELCHER, This was an action at the instance of Captain E. Belcher, of the Etna, against Diana, his wife, to compel a restitution of conjugal rights. It was resisted on the part of the Lady, who prayed the Court to grant a separation, on the ground of cruelty. The facts of the ease have been for some time before the public. The Learned JUDGE delivered his judgment at some length. After a most deliberate consideration of the case, he was clear that by law he was bound to pronounce that Mrs. Belcher had failed in her proofs, and it was his duty to order her to return to mutual co-habitation, for which purpose she was allowed till the session of Michaelmas Term. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATTON GARDEN. On Saturday, immediately on Mr. Rogers taking his seat on the bench, he addressed Inspector Wilkinson, of the E division, and intimated that he had that day received a letter, stating that a murder was suspected to have been perpetrated upon the body of a girl by her own sister, with whom she re sided. The letter, it appeared, had been first forwarded to Mr. Rawlinson, the Magistrate of Marylebone-office, who, in consequence of the circumstance happening in the district of this office, forwarded the letter to Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers read the communication as follows : " Sir—l am very sorry to inform you that the death of a child took place on Sunday night last, in consequence of the cruel treatment of her sister, Mrs. , of , New road, and she is going to have it interred without an inquest being held on the body. If you send to see the child, she is most shocking to look at. " MRS. MASON, " Draper's-place, New-road. " To Mr. Rawlinson, Marylebone Police-office." Mr. ROGERS said that after such a communication it was highly essential to prosecute rigid inquiries about the neigh bourhood, and he directed Inspector Wilkinson to proceed in stantly for that purpose, and handed to him the letter, with instructions to give information to Mr. Stirling, the Coroner, if there were proper grounds for suspicion. The Inspecter left the office, but he did not return during the hours of business, and we consequently cannot tell the re sult of his inquiries. MARLBORO UGH-STRRET. Saturday Mr. Sloane, of the well-known firm of Sloane and Co., Ironmonger-lane and Argyle-place, appeared before Mr. Chambers and Mr. Saunders to answer a charge of assault brought against him by a person of the name of Mullins, the proprietor of a rival " Medical Establishment," lately set up in Jermyn-street, under the firm of " Cooper and Co." Mr. CHAMBERS—What are you, Mr. Mullins ? Mr. Mul lins—l am of the same profession as the defendant. Mr. Sloane—lt is not true—you are a labouring bricklayer. I am a surgeon. Mr. Mutlins—l am as much a surgeon as you are. I ma naged the medical department of your establishment for five years, and within the last ten months I brought you upwards of 6001. Mr. CHAMBERS-Six hundred pounds in ten months 1 why, what sort of a business do you carry on ? Mr. Mullins—lt is for the cure of certain diseases. Mr. CHAMBERS-Oh, I see, you are rivals in business ; but I can tell you what, I will not have you break the peace in your attempts to outdo each other in the sale of quack medi cines. Well, let me hear how the assault took place. Mr. Mullins then stated, that while he was in a butcher's shop on Thursday last, the defendant came in, and after some angry words, he struck him. Mr. Mullins added, that it was not the first time he had been assaulted by Mr. Sloane, who apparently felt exceedingly sore at his having commenced bu siness on his own account. Mr. Sloane—This man happened to marry a distant rela tion of mine, and some years ago he came to London in a state of miserable destitution. I took compassion on him, and en gaged him to open the door, as servant, to my patients. Be fore he became my servant he was a labouring bricklayer in the St. Katherine Docks. Mr. CHAMBERS-And pray, let me ask you, what use you had for a labouring bricklayer in your medical establishment ? Mr. Sloane—He was only a servant. He never saw patients, or dispensed medicines. Mr. Mullins—l did; I prescribed for them, and took money from them, which I handed over to you. lam as good a sur geon as volt Mr. Sloane—l deny it. I served five years in Liverpool Infirmary, and lam a regular surgeon. You are only a labour ing bricklayer. A witness named O'Hara came forward, and said that the alleged assault took place in his shop. The parties had high words together, and fought, but he could not say who struck first. When the complainant Mullins first entered his shop he addressed him, and said that he (Mullins) was Messrs. Cooper and Co. Mr. CHAMBERS—Did Mullins say thai he was Cooper and Company? Witness—Yes, he did. Mullins—l deny it. A good deal of recrimination ensued between Mullins (who from his brogue was evidently a production of the Emerald Isle) and Mr. Sloane, the result of which was, that Mr. Chambers directed the defendant to put in bail, which was done, and the parties retired. MARYLEBONE. Mr. Smith, a licensed victualler at Maida Hill, accompanied by a mechanic named Jarritt, attended for the purpose of the latter swearing to an affidavit relative to the case of the convict Williams, who is ordered for execution on Tuesday next. The affidavit was to the effect that a plot was formed to bring a similar charge against the deponent to evade some rent owing, and that he preferred losing his rent tc; running the hazard of so alarming a charge being made against him. The Magistrates declined signing the affidavit. Mr. Rawlinson considered it highly libellous ; and Mr. Smith left the office to have another interview with the Under-Sheriff. LAMBETH- STREET. John Young, a Custom-house officer, was charged with the following offence :—Six months ago, in a fit of jealousy, he swallowed a large quantity of laudanum, with the intention of destroying himself. Dr. Read, of Mount-place, Whitechapel road, was called in, and, by means of the stomach-pump, re moved the poison, and recovered the patient. So ungrateful, however, was Mr. Young for the Doctor's kindness, that he refused to make him any remuneration, and it was only by suing him in the Court of Requests that payment of the bill was obtained. Some time afterwards a stone was flung through Dr. Read's window, but the offender was not caught. On Friday evening the outrage was repeated, and the prisoner was laid hold of and taken into custody. A young woman proved that the prisoner was the person who threw the stone, which he, of course, denied. The Magistrate convicted him in the penalty of 55., or five days' imprisonment for the wilful damage, and ordered him to find bail for his future good'conduct. THAMES POLICE. The office was crowded with persons connected with the Watermen's Company and Steam Navigation, to hear the complaints made against the masters of the Greenwich, Fairy, and Naiad steamers, who were charged with navigating their vessels at a greater speed than five miles an hour within the stipulated distance. Evidence was given to prove that the steamers in question went on certain days at a far greater speed than allowed, and that the Greenwich vessel performed the entire distance in twenty-seven minutes, being at the rate of more than ten miles an hour. Many objections were started by the solicitors for the defendants, and counter-evidence pro duced ; but the Magistrates considered the case against Dowse, the master of the Greenwich, clearly made out, and fined him 40s. and costs. In the other cases a promise was given that the offence should not be repeated, and the infor mations were withdrawn. In the course of the proceedings, Mr. BRODERIP stated that an action had been brought against him by the Star Company for acting on the bye-law of the Watermen's Company which was signed by Judge Vaughan, but he (Mr. Broderip) should continue to act upon that law until set right by a higher authority. Several gentlemen spoke of the exceedingly dangerous navi gation of steamers, and hoped the public would receive some protection. UNION-HALL. John Humphries, a broker in the Clapham-road, was charged with throwing a Mr. Clarke out of a window. Mr. Clarke had heard a female call out murder, and her shrieks were such as to make the complainant believe that she was in danger of her life, and he entered the house to render her assistance, but had not been long there before the defen dant caught him by the collar, struck him for presuming to enter his house, and ultimately put Mr. Clarke out of the window by which he had entered the house. Fortunately he received no serious injury. The defendant said the female was his lodger, and while remonstrating with her upon some impropriety of conduct, she began to scream out murder without his laying a finger upon her. Ho subsequently heard Mr. Clarke, and being ignorant of the business he had there, he certainly put him out of the window. 111 r. Clarke said he did not wish to be vindictive, and if the defendant would make a public apology, and give something to a charity, he should be satisfied. Defendant agreed, and was discharged. EMI GRA TlON.—Total emigration this season from Greenock to New York, 668—t0 the British Colonies, 342. MUTINY AT SEA. nth A mutiny of a most serious character broke out in then° b, of November last on board the barque Manly, Cap tain Davies, master, while at sea, and which was put down Tido most extraordinary manner. The vessel sailed from IA u s t, on a whaling expedition to the South Seas in Augtst, the with a crew of twenty-five men, but in consequence of mutiny was obliged to put into Buenos Ayres, from sill, she arrived last week in the St. Katherine's Dock. The le lowing particulars have been gleaned from the journals of 1 . T . , ship, and from copies of the depositions taken before 7; British Consul at Buenos Ayres, with a sight of Which io have been favoured :—lt appears that some dissa tisfeet. evinced itself among the crew in the beginning of NOWT,. when preparations were about to be made for killing 0 ,...b 1i 0 d On the night of the 19th some of the hands came a f t ' a ce demanded a larger allowance of grog. The Capta in rd - s y them an extra glass, as the night was stormy. The !lel:, 0, he informed them he could not give a regular double att f ance of spirits until they commenced taking seals, but t's:, should have an extra glass on stormy nights, when reefing to r r e , sails. The men appeared satisfied, but the next day tbey fused to have the allowance of spirits which was served, ° to t The steward informed the Captain of this, and intimetentske a design existed on the part of the officers and man t° , l se the command of the ship, and throw him overboard. hours afterwards, White, the chief officer came into the 0 ': ' ' ng and said the dissatisfaction among the men was itter e n asi o and he did not know what to do with them. Thomas "thal fellow, the carpenter, however, informed the Captain, 'oc k, White was the chief cause of the excitement. At 1 0 o'e e. P. M., on the 21st, the steward informed the Captain smi.,Tht thing was wrong forward, and that the crew were only "pit ing the first favourable opportunity to seize the abir: ots io the 22d, the spirits were again refused by the crew. '-' 4 „,,ed Davies then prepared for the worst, and secretly re, tri ," s oo six barrels of gunpowder, each weighing 100 lbs. , . an n in ,"ded rounds of cartridges, into his state room. He • then ' ; ‘ - t two pistols. At eight o'clock, P. M., White, tan _A - the pears had been in consultation with the crew, ente r t hat cabin. The steward having heard words to the effec t re . they would make a fine ship of the Manly," bad beforaero ported these words to the Captain, who, on White aPP e E jer, told him to look at his pistols, and, pointing to the gIMI X ;; ot ilil told him if any attempt was ma d e t o t a k e th e s hip, be to bs blow up every soul on board. White advised him no t rash, and said he would s t an d by hi m . O n S u nday t he est White told the crew the Captain would blow up the ninil e,, i t s day if he did not find land, a n d th e y h a d b e tter securh, him at once. At midnight William Burwood came on 'To and was heard to say that they had better seize the Cl oc k, when he came on deck at eight o'clock. At four 0n an d A. M., Burwood appeared with a draws dirk in his W u ' gb told the man at the helm he meant to run the Captain tb;bite if he made any resistance. It was then resolved that Ac es should go below and seize the Captain, and that on glig. signal the second and third mates shoul d proceed to his no ance, secure the Captain's hands and feet, and thrr, as overboard. The Captain having full information of 014 ' t he going on from the steward, determined, rather ship should be taken, to perish with all on board. Aw - , n d commending his soul to God he locked up the comPanit his observed the three mates, one of whom had a rope,..': t he hand ready to secure him. The Captain then hold en o ther muzzle of one pistol into a barrel of powder, and the no pistol in his right hand, prepared to meet them. Wi li r t n e tin came down, but appeared thunderstruck when the ti"c o ch pointing his pistol towards him, declared if he moved an tog he would blow his brains out, and discharge the oth er r into the powder. White appeared petrified with in ar :with the Captain remained in this position several minute s the pistol ready cocked, observing that the slightest P r whits on the trigger would send them all into the air. t he begged for mercy, and the Captain drove hint wi ,.„A til hil° muzzle of the pistol into a state room, where be a fter in. The second mate came down soon after to inn% the White, and, on receiving a similar reception, ran 1 1 ,r ar on companion, and fell against his brother, who was 5t ,01 ,`.70 1 the hatchway, with the rope destined to tie the Cars7 O f bet, and foot. The Captain, finding the ship was going nti ;,i 0° course, went on the deck with the steward, well art°d to found some of the men inclined to relent. He threate..: shoot the first man that disobeyed orders, and restrie ted e e p r, crew to a particular part of the vessel. Hearing, h 4 t ; i7 ou ght that the crew were still disposed to seize the ship vh , b it e e,tte • avord, the it best to run the ship into Buenos Ayres. interim, was released. The Captain, carpenter, an'd Ste ward' $ kept watch, well armed. Burwood, the second m ate w' ite confession of his guilt, whi c h tended to implicate ,'" t he the ringleader of the mutiny. On the 7th of December his vessel arrived in the river Plata, and anchored close to his i ) ,, 0 , Majesty's ship North Star, Captain Vernon Harcourt, tdeirea mender. An inquiry then took place , from which it apg van that the mutineers intended to have taken the vessel to .I.tio da Cuba. The depositions were taken before the Nree Consul at Buenos Ayres and Captain Harcourt, an d the tool, officers, George White, William Burwood, Joseph Bu r B e st, together with John Breyman, boat-steerer, and Heil gob were instantly placed under arrest on board the .Mort a to from whence they are expected shortly to arrive in custol o , take their trial at the Admiralty Sessions. The proceen 208 against the other men were dropped, from the gre at expePsi, attending their removal to England, with the nece ssar y e til dente ; but Captain Harcourt undertook to detain them o °. o the departure of the Manly. The conduct of Captain Davi be in this trying affair has been spoken of at Llo)d's and in t City as above all praise. The Manly is a fine vessel, and there was every prospect of a profitable voyage. She was former!! a 14-gun brig, and was well provided with arms and arnindll" tion, which is supposed to have excited th© Crew to mutiny , i s being well adapted for a piratical expedition. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OP AN INFANT AT r l4/1 :: HAM.—CORONER'S INQUEST.—During the week a very C0E19,'4 derable excitement has prevailed at Clapham, in consequent., of a woman, of the name of Austin, having been t ake be f°oo Mr. Purcell, one of the magistrates at Clapham, o n sus e l d of being concerned in the death of a new-born male 010 , ;i, which her own daughter was the reputed mother. Thl 7,0 lived at Clarke's-buildings, Union-street, and it Ivan : u nc le to the neighbours that the daughter was enciente. On °, 11 4 , - e re las she was taken ill, and she had been delivered , an d ""010 being no infant in evidence, the parochial authorities rile, promptly informed, when Thomas Read, one of the be male after making inquiries, found the body of a new-bancl child immersed in soil in the back premises. The end child mother of the deceased was immediately taken into cu s i i, be when, after undergoing an examination before Mr. puree' tot resolved to detain her until the result of a Coroners n i l the should be known. On Friday an inquisition ir,as S e i: 8. 4 Union Ars, Union-road, Clapham, before klr',.:."" vibe° a most res p ectpable Jury, some being parochial orac e '"' tbo it was deposed by several witnesses that the roltherm, end deceased, who is a single woman, was in the fau li q sc ;';oicti' that she was taken ill on Sunday, but no midwife a t ` e den ieti Read, the Beadle, stated that the grandmother at _ 6 ., fi rst ,h that any birth had taken place. Mr. Powis, the psi stiq;boi.hrniti geon, stated his opinion to be that the child After a long examination, the Jury returned a v erdict': A ce to the child was found dead, but that there was no evi°l9.ii pre' prove whether it was born alive or not." The paris h secute for concealing the birth. DIED. CO P On the 4th inst., at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, Charles Cox Bingham, of the Royal Artillery, aged 62. .• thin . On the 4th inst., at Cl a pham, ag e d 17, Amelia SeP w of daughter of John Thor n t on , E sq . W e ' of On the 2d inst., in his 50th year, Mr. Matthew whites Richard-street, Islington, son of the late of Mr. 31 ' of Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. 11. e At Alverne-hill, Penzance, John Armstrong, Esq., his Majesty's sth Regiment of Dragoon Guards. On the 29th ult., at Langley, Mrs. Newcomen. the On the Ist inst., at Thorpe-place, Surrey, Frederick Lsee youngest son of the late Rev. John Leigh Bennett, aged jo. 1 0e" On the Ist inst., at Bushey Rectory, Herts, the Rei; dew, 8.D., late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford, ag ed Col e On the 4th inst., at Lewisham, Mary, the wife of Samue l Brown, Esq., in her 60th year. &abaci' On the 24th inst., in camp at Narekalapully, nes t ' at Captain William Bouchier Coxe, 43d Regiment Mar t i, - 0 Infantry, Deputy-Assistant Quarter-Ma s ter-General 0 ' Riche'" ern Division of the Army, and fourth son of the late Re c. Coxe, of Bucklebury Vicarage, Berks, aged 30. • r't pa tisb At Jersey, aged 87, Mr. John Perchard, of St. Savl eu e a 130 , At Wood-hill, near Sheffield, Francis Fenton, Esq. , ag Mr. Joseph Bowtell, of Braintree, Essex aged 83. 00 0 ' On the 4th inst., at Sydenham, at the residence of Ho/ Esq., Mrs. Dorcas Grives. 0,00 11, On the sth inst., Marmaduke, youngest child of W Es On the sth i , of Clapham. a b the Onst., at Brighton, in her 75th year, Ser ' ••. A if of of P. W. Thomas, of Highbury-grove. c hild At Brookfield, Isle of Wight, John Bernard, the only the Rev. Augustus Hewitt, aged two years. T On the sth inst., Edward Clark, the infant son of J. bert, Esq., Dean-street, Soho. iff ,„, Gra ce 'L On the 6th inst., at Chestnut-grove, Kingston, ..' 0 d 13. Kent, youngest daughter of Robert Thomas Kent, Esq.', a t On the 6th inst., in the Wandsworth-road, Jas. Den' a feieti' aged 75, founder and father of the Commercial Travellers p o lni On the 2d inst., at his seat Belle-vue, near LiverrL Leigh Philips, Esq., Lieutenant R.N., only son of the late ei"" Philips, Esq., of Mayfield, near Manchester. Pew On the 4th inst I' ~ at Hove, near Brighton, the Chevali er of Mian, agd 48. On l the 3d e inst., James Webster, Esq., of Shoulden-ho uae ' near Deal, Kent, in his 51st year. of n London : Printed and Published by MURDO witl 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strait:4lo the of Middlesex. URSt Chaiteei the Cieditopi c . 11 1 the county ' 47 fApril, 1834 ; land prove I ters of thi 1316 1 dings, Chi will peromptor Dated Jane E/ THE C INI That as, in 4 it' . indispensa b cleared wit Posited thereit unsold, and w] chants, which deposit three limns rent 11114 of December ; beat, shall ha toast be remo on or before I completed. BRI rriilE 11 CO3 HAVRE, wi turning every Navigation as natal, EV] informatio,n of Mr. Col& Atoka ; at ti • the Company Grentral St • THE SHOR o r r i"( CON CUSTO] CALAIS- as follows :- 13, at noon, day, returnin BOULOG is follows : • QUIN now Eleven, mor every Sunda Paseengerl bath for Cali The Gene llar y for 111 Margate, an( Every info cross ; Mr. Regent-arm Lombard-str General S. RAMBURA NOVE THE COY KETS JOI and WILLI. int Purr e y i ng y, h:: to Hamburg The Lobe Lae large B 1 ANDFX Lubeck for till the 22d Deck is only to reach St. There is Copenhagen between Lu Passenger Charing-cr( Eagle, Rep Loinbar . The Gen regularly fi ihgate, at General THE R ri RE vor Gl PACKET, - - Passengers by these vf advantages. and other powerful S lies, leave t ROTTE day and $, Wednesda) The we } and RAM ANT W: Sunday an Sunday an , able route cheapest. 32 hours, and a most t• Cologne 0 STE night. Jilerthe turn's, 61, the Spree( the Coup For free Minories. The Ge regularly 1 lad from : Generi LIB i arriving i Ireland. HOLY Evening. LEER Dominate! BIEN pendent and the MAN( Baton, Morningg EDIN Combed, Mesa peal their con' SIRE ton and I Evening, NOTI reduced every Af BAT' BRIG Southern CIIEI Norwich Uppingh tictall ROY , lierefok Stafford, The I from thi BLUE: INN, V eonveye( PAR: and Ind: BE which a wholesal FRAN] City. BE moved 1 WARE The BENJJ STOCI Horticu Cricket effactua may be A P of dinir Mart New al Fruit 7 Roßes, I.l* Rooms A it 908, P TO Chemi powder Ginger Water Is. pig dozen NJ Powd4 others Inn Seidli "set v. I,loe BIRTHS. theise of On the 4th inst., at Wellington-crescent, Ramsgste) Lieut.-Colonel Gummer, Madras Army, of a daug,Later. srd Allo-- ° ft At Chideock, Dorsetshire, the wife of the Rev. Rich r Beadon, of a still-born girl. Af.P"' On the 4th inst., at Eastbourne, the lady of Dr. a daughter. 11 " On the 4th inst., Mrs. Henry TurriCr, of Well-stree t ' of a daughter. vo eif re per,'" or On the 28th ult., at the Parsonage, Havering atte h i c h the lady of the Rev. R. R. Faulkner, of a daughter , I I vived its birth only 24 hours. MA RR Ili; D. WO of On the 6th inst., at St. James's Church, Thomas Arm s to Mir; Ap Enniskillen, in the county of Fermanagh, E, only daughter of John Slater, Esq., of Thanet, Kent. il ogeur On the 6th inst., at St. Andrew's, Holborn, Thome s " Esq., of Hatton-garden, to Sarah, relict of the late Thee• Esq., of Upper North-place. go" a d eb On the 4th inst., at St. James's Church, Bath, Thom, see° son of Jacob Watson, Esq., of Bridgewater, to En'.73011. o f daughter of William Nias, sq., of Westmoreland-plac e On the 6th inst., at St. Mary-hill Church, Mr. S. Kwe Bishopagate-street, to Sarah, second daughter of the George Norton, of Wansford, Huntingdonshire.