The Sun. — London, England, 1828-04-05 00:00:00

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MAGISTRATE ordered her to be remanded till Tues day next, for the purpose of Mr. Powell appearing. Thomas Chandler was charged by Smith, watchman of Cripplegate Without, with being drunk, falling foul of him, and giving him a small blow, by which he knocked his hat off. . The MAGISTRATE, upon Chandler expressing his sorrow for being drunk, ordered him to be discharged. A man of the name of Humphrey Johnson was brought before Sir PETER LAURIE, under the following circum stances : William Purshouse, residing at Greenwich, stated, that on Monday last he bought a horse from the prisoner at Rumford market, whisk was warranted sound, for which he paid him 10 guineas. Upon that examination he turned out to be glandered, and was not worth more than a guinea to kill. The prisoner had acknowledged he was employed by a respectable person residing at Westminster, to sell hire. The consequences might have been dreadful, for such was the nature of the disease, that 5001. worth of cattle might have been rendered valueless i❑ a very short time. Sir PETER LAURIE said, he conld not interfere, as Rumford was not in his jurisdiction ; but recosnmeuded Mr. Purshouse to take the prisoner to Lambeth-street, and inform him of the result. There were no less then IS or 19 cases in the list, but none of importance, consisting chiefly of drunken rows. BOW STREET. An application was made to Mr. Halls, the sitting ma gistrate, by Mr. R Fenn, of Charing-Cross, for assault war rants, against the following members of the Select Vestry of St. Martin's parish : —The Rev. G. Richards, Mr. Alexander Arnaud, Mr. W. Blew, Mr. .T Golding, Mr. James Grey, Mr. Wm. Finmore, Mr. Thos. Clark, Mr. H. Pouncey, Mr. W. Nettleton, Mr. Wm. Oakley, Peter Agar, and Mr. Thomas Cuss. Mr. Fenn stated that on the last Select Vestry Meeting, himself, and several other parishioners, had attempted an _ _ _ _ . entrance at the hour in which it was usually held, and him self and the others were severely handled, and expelled by a constable named Hugh Nettleton, and Peter Agar, a beadle. These persons he believed acted under the order of the Select Vestry then present, and for whose attendance he now applied for warrants, as aiders and abetters. Mr. HALLS sent for the constable and beadle, in order, as he said, to make further enquiries before he granted the warrants. Agar attended, and Mated that he had acted under the orders of Mr. Pouncey, and the other Churchwardens, who had directed him to admit none but gentlemen of the grlect Vestry. Alr. Fenn stated, that he had waited on Dr. Richards and other gentlemen of the Select Vestry, to state that the '"habitants determined, in pursuance of their rights to be p re sent in the vestry, to attempt an entrance en that occa i"n• Dr. Richards appeared to wish that no tumultuous attempt should be made, and he (Mr. Fenn) proposed that hi mself, Mr. Ackerman, and a few other respectable Wm- '' ta nte, should be admitted merely for the purpose of rais ing the question. On a former occasion, when the ad mittance was sought for, the vestry-clerk came out and told them that the vestry had adjourned, and they were then d efeated in that way. Mr. HALLS here put some questions relative to the as- Intuit, which was admitted to be as forcible only as their exclusion rendered necessary. He observed, that he could out enter into the question which Mr. Fenn appeared to wish to raise, but merely, as a Magistrate, could inquire as to the assault, and if necessary, hold the parties to bail. In the present case, however, he should not do so, as the c onstable appeared to have been performin g the duty pro scribed to him (whether rightly or not, it was not a ma gistrate's province to judge) by his superiors. Mr. Fern could indict him, or bring an action, if he thought fit. Mr. Thomas, the constable of Covent-Garden, here stated, that some time since himself and some other pa rishioners of St. Paul's, Covent-garden, brought an ac tion for a similar exclusion, judgment was suffered to go by default, and the inhabitants had since retained the right to be present. After some further conversation, Mr. Fenn withdrew with his friends, apparently ill satisfied with the termina tion of the application. Nettleton attended at the latter part of the application. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) FISH-MARKET, BILLINGSGATE. The market this day exhibited a fair slippy of fib'', with 4 moderate demand, at the following prices:— Prlnie Turbot, each lBs. Od. to 20s. Od. Ditto small, per do Mlle Cod-fish each 6 0 t 0 Inferior ditto Selman, per lb. Fine Whitings, per 15 2 0 6 0 Scate. each Haddocks, per dozen 8 0 12 0 Brill, each Fine Soles, per three pairs 1 0 6 0 Curnetts, each Mullets, cacti 1 6 2 0 Live Flounders, per quarteni LiVe Eels. per 516. .... ..... ... :3 0 3 6 Dutch Plaice, per basket Fine Lobsters, per score '2o 0 40 0 Inferior ditto .. . ........................... Fine Crabs (each) Fine Yarmouth Red Herrings, per hurvired 6 0 7 G Scotch ditto. Halibut, each ................ . 5 U 10 0 COVENT-GARDEN MARKET. There was a good supply at this morning's market, and the trade was dull. Most kinds of Vevetalle were much lower, Fruit pretty generally somewhat higher than on this day se'nuight. Pears and English Walnuts seem to ha ve disappeared. s. d. s. d. Potatoes (per cwt.) 26to 5 0 Cabbages (12 heads) 1 0 2 0 Horseßadish (bundle) 1 6 36' Celery 1 6 '2 6 Forced Asparagus lime°li Rhubarb 0 6 1 0 Carrots (12 bunches) 4 0 7 0 Turnips 2 6 2 6 ( oleworts or Greens 1 6 2 6 Leeks 0 9 1 6 Sea Kali (pummel 0 9 1 6 Radishes (d oz.) oz. s. d. s. d Spinage (half-sieve) 0 Gto 1 0 Apples, Common 3 6 4 6 Ditto, Choice 0 0 10 0 Sweet Oranges (100) 6 0 12 0 Seville Ditto l2 0 14 0 Lemons l2 0 14 (I Span. Chesnuts (peck) 5 0 11 0 French ditto 3 6 9 6 French Walnuts 3 0 6 6 Spanish Hazlennts 4 0 S 0 Grapes (per lb.) Brocoli Sprouts (bush )0 6 1 0 HAY MARKErS.... , 'At ST. .JA MRS'S. Load of 3li Trusses.) s Lowland Mead.Uay 3 5 to 5 Upland Ditto 4 0 5 0 kt Y 4l -grasa Hay 4 0 5 0 New Meadow Hay 3 15 4 10 Supply good, and trade stea SMITH S. • X. S. Clover May 4 Qtbs 15 Oat Itraw Wheat Ditto 1 It; 2 0 icly; prices fti on Thursday, FIELD. s. s. Lowland Mead. Hay 3 Ot o 3 15 Upland Ditto 3 15 4 15 liye_grass Hay 3 15 4 15 New Meadow Hay 3 10 4 0 A limited supply, and a bris X. S. X. 5. Cloy. Hay generally 4 sto 5 5 Do. extra tine 0 U 510 Oat Straw llO 112 Wheat Ditto.... 12 1 lif trade at lastiquoted prices. We understand that the snatch between Clinker and Radical is off, owing to Mr. WHITE'S having hurt his kne e in hunting. Sir BAPTIST H 'ex s was a great mercer at the Accession of Itmvs 1., and made a vast fortune by 'uPplyin g the Court with silks. He was first knighted, a nd afterwards created Viscount C AMR DEN. It is said faf, left his two daughters one hundred thousand pounds apiece He built a large Louse in St. .folut-street, for the Justices of Middlesex to hold their Sessions ; w hi c h , although HOW d em olished, still gives to the Sessions' Mouse the name of Hicks's Hall. NATURAL PIIENONIENON.--A whale has recently been taken'in Oyster Bay, exhibiting a most sin g"lu phenomenon. On cutting it up the blubber appeared of a blood red, and after boilin g , the oil, which is of very gia"'l quality, assumed the same colour. The fish exhibited 4° extraordinary appearance, externally, but turned out ':ven tuna of oil, specimens of which have been sent to t he 'acuity for analysis.-- Von Diemen's Land Paper. A. low phaeton, the property of Colonel SAL has attracted much notice within these few days at e Wet end of the town, from being drawn by two little N htti Ne and ponie s , n ot much larger than the common run of Wfoundl an d dogs. t s I EXTRAORDINA RY •LONGRVITY.—Amongst the pension ers w ho attended, on Wednesday, at the Head e t Office, to swear their quarterly atlidavits, was one ;;;); tine old man, who had reached his hundred and fifth od ' t Hs was in the full possession of all his faculties, e uad bee n receiving a pension as having served twenty a ,, 4r e Previou s t o , a n d in the first American War. To a l- 1 questions asked him, he said he had been by no means C ee"tetnious man in his younger days, and had always an early riser .— Dublin Evening Post. —GULAR ,IRCUMSTANCE.—A Corre }?°adent at A mpt hil l, i n B e df or d s hi re , i n f orms us th a t he 4 h 4 ‘" n in Quicksand's Wood, between Ampthill and s e*" c, "rd, a nest, in which a woodcock was sitting on four Igs• The eggs, he says, are larger than those of a rook, of a yellow colour with red spots. The bird sits very Close, and althou g h a great number of persons daily ap proach close to the nest, she is not at all distuibed. —Dor set Chronicle. RECEIPT STAMPS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR, —Observing that the inconvenieaee and vexation which exists with regard to Stamp Receipts, has caused numerous petitions from the chief mer cantile towns in the kingdom to the Legislature, and that in reply it has been urged that if this impos is taken off, the amount of the receipt to the revenue must be made up by some other tax, I take leave to suggest a plan by which I think that the Receipt Stamps could at least in part, if not entirely, be replaced by a Stamp oupForeign Bills of Exchange drawn on England. This would be, on the other hand, acting with reciprocity, as no Bill drawn from England on France, Hamburgh, and Holland, can be provided with acceptance before it is stamped ; and this tax would be a most proper and equitable one, as in most instances it would be paid by foreigners, and operate in the prevention of forgery. This ar rangement might be complained of as fettering trade, but under proper regulations, and the establishment of an office in the City, it might easily be arranged, so as to obviate any difficulty : what can be done in Hamburgh, France, and Holland, as well as in Prussia, it is easy to effect in this country. I am, Mr. Editor, Your's obediently, J. A. City, April 5, 1828. SELECT VESTRIES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—You will very much oblige me, and I trust add much to the cause of justice, by inserting in the Sun the following extraordinary case. About four years ago, in consequence of the re fusal of the select vestry of St. Martin's parish to render any account how they disposed of the church rates, proceedings at law were, for the purpose of obtaining that necessary information, commenced, in the form of a feigned issue, viz., James Golding wagered 10/. to 51. with Robert Fenn, that there had been from time immemorial, a vestry of the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,• composed of a certain number of select persons parishioners. This issue being signed by counsel on each side, according to regular course, proceeded on towards the day of trial. In the mean time, by an order of Court, I got possession of the vestry-books. The books at coned negatived the fact of the number being certain, and they likewise proved that the vestry was as frequent an open vestry as it was a select one. It was likewise in evidence, that at some periods the inhabitants chose 20, sometimes less, sometimes they chose 28 ; and it likewise ap peared in evidence, that those chosen, at times called in others to their aid. Thus stood the facts of the case, until a little before the day fixed for trial, when, through my solicitor, I received a summons to appear before the Lord Chief-Justice, for the purpose of obtaining, on behalf of Mr. James Golding, his Lordship's order to strike out of the issue the words " certain number," thereby leaving the question to be tried, " select persons" only: this his Lordship, at his;hoese in Russell-square, ordered to be done. The issue, as it at 'first stood, had been tried before Lord Kenyon in 1792 ; and it is reported at great length in Peake'sGases at Nisi Prius, page 156, where it is set down in his Lordship's oharge to the jury, that the plaintiffs must prove the num ber to be " certain," or they must find for the de fendant. The Jury found the number to be " forty-nine." In the present case my Lord Tenterden charged the jury, " That they had not to find whether there had been a vestry composed of a certain or definite number of persons parishioners, but whether there had been a vestry composed of select persons.' " The Court of King's Bench, in giving final judg ment, state, " That the opinion given by Lord Ken yon in 1792 was conformable to the issue then pre sented ; that the vestry was composed of some de finite number of persons,' whereas the present record raises no such question; anti my Lord Tenterden, in giving this judgment says—" The jury were so informed by me at the trial!' I trust, Mr. Editor, that if any words in the above statement of facts appear unguarded, the pub lic will make some allowance when they consider hew distressing it is to be told, by an authority so much respected as the Court of King's Bench, that my cause was deficient in pleading, in consequence of the record not containing the words which a few weeks before had been struck out, against my con sent, by the authority above stated. Such, Mr. Editor, being the extraordinary discord ance of high legal authorities upon a subject of such immense importance,—and it really does appear from the above facts, that the law will bend to the case, when the case will not bend to the law,—that there is no snurity whatever in legal experiments—and such being the uncertainty of a verdict of " select persons," a verdict quite indefinite, and as his Lordship further told the Jury, that the question was not raised by whom the'persons were to be se lected, it is generally believed that such a verdict cannot, within the comprehension of any man's mind, mean any thing else than a vestry open to common rights,—a right the parishioners are now, under the unheard-of blows of an armed power, pre vented from enjoying. I am, Sir, your constant reader, Charing-Cross, April 4. R. FENN. SOCIETY of ANTIQUARIES of SCOTLAND. The Society met on Monday evening last, in their apartments on the Mound ; Sir Henry Jardine in the chair. The Right Hon. Lord Ruthven, John Kerr, Esq. Blytheswood-place, Glasgow, and Mr. Robert Fraser, pinto-street, Newington, were duly elected Fellows; and Lieut.-Colonel Snodgrass, and John Pearson, Esq., Nottingham, were elected Cor responding Members of the Society. Several gen tlemen were at the same time proposed for ad mission. The following papers were then read :- 1. Description of two ancient Camps on the Estate of Hay Newton of Newton, Esq. By Vim. Waring, Esq. F.S.A. Scot. 2. A short Account of a very ancient Building in the county of Kerry, called Staigh Fort. By James Edward 'Alexander, Esq. of the 16th Regiment of Lancers, Member of th© Royal Asiatic, and Cor responding Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 3. Notices, respecting the celebrated Broach of Lorn, by Mr. Drummond Hay, Secretary. Owing to the lateness of the hour, an account of certain bronze instruments found beneath a large rock near the summit of Roseberry Toppin, in Cleveland ; by the Reverend J. S. Faber, Rector of Long Newton, accompanied with drawings, was necessarily deferred till a future meeting of the So ciety.—Caledonian Mercury. The cost to the county of the apprehension and conviction of the DYONS, we understand, will be about four hundred pounds. We learn, that many of the faculty were particularly on the alert to obtain one or both of the b o dies.—She f field Courant. An infant, apparently about six months old, genteelly dressed, was found fast asleep at four o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday last, lying under the boundary wa ll of Wadha m College G ard en , near the Parks. The ' officers of the parish of Holywell having been apprised of the circumstance, directed that the child should be con veyed to the workhouse, and sent it by a man, who, as he passed through the Parks, showed it to s,weral persons, and inquired if they knew any thing respecting it. Near Wadham College he met a very respectable-looking wo man, to whom he put the same question ; she appeared exceedingly agitated, and soon confessed it was her child, and that she had placed it there ! The infant was given to her, and she went off very hastily, and as the messenger had no knowledge of her, the affair is thus involved in mystery. It appears probable that the unnatural mother had at first intended to abandon her offspring, but that re morse of conscience had touched her so deeply that she was on her return to the spot to fetch it back. How long the poor infant had lain there is not known—probably but a short time, as it was discovered so very near the public walk, and at the above hour of the day. The dress was a light grey coat, and a black beaver hat with a gold band and tassels... Oxford Journal, THE OMN IPRESENCE OF THE DEITY. We take pride to ourselves in being among the first, if not the very first, to introduce the high claims of Mr. Montgomery to public notice, and consequent approbation. His merits are new so acknowledged, that almost all our contemporaries pay them a willing and deserved tribute of admira tion. His Omnipresence of the Deity we have already noticed on two or three occasions, but cannot resist inserting the following honourable tes timony to the genus of its author, from our able contemporary, The Times, upon the appearance of a second edition of that promising work : " Mr. Montgomery's excellent poem on this awful and impressive subject has, not more rapidly than deservedly, arrived at a second edition. The work is dedicated, by permission, to the Lord Bishop of London, and is, in every respect, worthy the countenance and protection of that elevated dignitary. The author is, we understand, a vervil young man : but, in this production, he has displayed a depth and maturity of thought, a strength and justness of reasoning, which would do honour to any writer of the present day. His versification combines, in no ordinary degree, energy and , elegance ; his figures are beautifully appropriate—they are never introduced merely at the sag gestion of fancy, but are called in to illustrate some feeling of the mind, or some affection of the heart. A glowing spirit of fervid devotion distinguishes the whole work. In every page we find— ' Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.' " The author appears to have felt that he stood in the presence of Him whose greatness he was celebrating ; to Him he has prayed for inspiration, and from Him he has received it. He describes with felicitous effect the pre sence of the Deity in all times and places—in the glare of day, and in the darkness of night; in the storms of win ter, in the mild breath of spring; in the gorgeous glory of summer, and in the fruition of autumn. The all-seeing eye is never closed ; it penetrates our most secret thoughts; it views our most covert designs; it is fixed on us when we are born,—it marks us during youth, manhood, and old age,—and when the death-bed scene arrives, it is still fixed on us. The author has inculcated this principle with a force and vigour worthy of the theme; he calls on his fellow men, eloquently and affectionately, never to let the fact escape from their memory, that the Deity is ever pre sent ; and he argues, that where such a feeling exists, it must check the growth of evil, counteract the tendency of human nature to vice, and extend the empire of virtue. A purer body of ethics we have never read, and he who could peruse it without emotion, clothed as it is in the graceful garb of poetry, must have a very cold and insen sible heart. _ _ . " There are several small poems attached to the volume, which possess great merit. That entitled ' The Cruci fixion' cannot be read without emotion."— Times, Aprill. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, APRIL s.—Saturday being the last day of Lent Term, the following Degrees were con ferred : BACHELORS IN DIVINITY. Rev. Thos. Arnold, late Fellow of Oriel, Head Master of Rugby School. Rev. George Dineley, Worcester. BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW. Rev. Henry John Divan, Wadham. MASTER. OF ♦RTS. Rev. William Latimer Neville, Queen's. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Walter John Trower, Christ Church. Lord Edward Thynne, Oriei. In the same Congregation the Rev. Joseph Dorn ford, M.A. Fellow of Oriel, was nominated a Public Examiner in Literis Humanioribits ; and the Rev. Robert Walker, M.A. Chaplain of Wadham, a Public Examiner in Distiplinis Matliematicis et Physicis. On Tuesday last Mr. Robert John Rolles was ad mitted actual Fellow of New College. Congregations will be holden for the purpose of granting Graces, and conferring Degrees, on the following days in the ensuing Term, viz. April 16, 24, and 30; May 8, 14, and 24. The following gentlemen of this University were lately ordained by the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry, at the parish church of St. Martin-in-the- Fields, London:— DEACONS. George Heron, B.A. Brasenose College. Bober* Isaac Wilberforce, Fellow of Oriel College. PRIEST. William Butterfield, B.A. St. Edmund Hall. ECCLESIASTICAL. PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Henry Worsley, D.C.L. Rector of St. La►vrence, Isle of Wight, has been appointed Prin cipal of the lately established College School near Exeter. His Majesty has presented the Rev. C. Words worth, M.A. to the dignity of a Prebendary in St, Paul's Cathedral, void by the translation of the late Lord Bishop of Llandaff to the See of Winchester. The Rev. James Barker to the Vicarage of Great Abington, Cambridgeshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. G. Barlow; patron, T. Mort lock, Esq. The Rev. F. Parry Hodges, Fellow of New College, in this University, has been instituted by the venerable the Archdeacon of Dorset to the .Bectory of Tarrant Rawston, alias Antioch, Dorset, on the presentation of Sir John Wildbore Smith, Bart. The Rev. Francis Severne, LL.B. has been in stituted by the Rev. Dr. Clutton, (as Commissary for tlae Lord Bishop of Hereford), to the Rectory of Abberley, in the county of Worcester, on the pre sentation of H. Bromley, Esq. of Abberley Lodge. The Rev. Thomas Pope, of Trinity College, Cam bridge, has been elected one of the Conducts of Eton, by the Rev. Dr. Goodall, the Provost. The Rev. C. James, brother of the new Bishop of Calcutta, will, it is said, succeed to the stall in Winchester Cathedral, vacant by the death of Mr. Bernard. FAIRS. YoRX PALM N FAlrt.—At this fair, on Thursday, there was a great supply of tears stock, but buyers being shy in purchasing, they fell in price five per cent. and those of an inferior description nearer ten. lu-calvers were a moderate supply, and a dull sale ; best fetched from 151. to 181. Fat beasts were rather scarce, and prime Beef sold at Gs. GI to is. per stone. There was plenty of Sheep (2500), and buyers bought freely secs in the morning at id. to per lb. but towards the close they became heavy in sale, and a trifle lower. The very unfavourabl:: state of the weather prevented considerable business from being transacted in the horse show, for good carriage, gig, and nag horses, were much in request, and an advance of ten per cent. took place upon the prices of Christmas ; indeed, it was evident that all kinds were much better to soil, and any thing useful would realize more money than of late. At DERBY CHEESE FAIR held on the 22d ult. there was a large supply. Best dairies sold briskly from 655. to 665. ; a few prime ones fetched Gls. to 68s. ; best coloured 6Ss. to 70s. ; inferior qualities were very heavy sale from 60s. to 635. per cwt. At WORCESTER FIRST SPRING FAIR, on Saturday, the supply of fat Cattle and Sheep was large, and the sale brisk, especially of the latter. Mutton averaged 7id. per lb., and Beef 611. A few prime Cows fetched Gtd. • KIDDERMINSTER FAIR, on Monday last, Was unusually well supplied with Cattle and Sheep, which sold readily; fat Cattle, 61d. ; Sheep, 7d. to 7id. ; lean stock and stores obtained good prices. At the late STOURBRIDGE FAIR the demand for good Horses was much greater than the supply, and very high prices were obtained. The Beast and Sheep Fair, on Saturday, was much lager than usual, and sales were ef fected at higher prices. CALLINGTON FAIR, OR Wednesday, was well supplied with Beasts and Sheep in excellent condition; but the sale was (lull. Two silver snuff-boxes were awaided as prizes to B. Snell, Esq. of Veighton, for the best Ox, and Mr. Trehune, of Northall, for the best fat Cow. SOMERTON, APRIL 2. —Our first spring FAIR yester day was more fully supplied with cattle of all descriptions than it has been for several years past. Sheep did not sell briskly, and there was a partial depression in the prices, compared with those obtained at sonic of the late fairs. Fat stock went off heavily, but nearly the whole of the poorer sort were sold early in the day. The late frosts have re tarded the growth of the grasses, but the graziers were notwithstanding prevailed on, by the prices lately obtained for fat stock, eagerly to buy up the grazing cattle, in the hope of again benefitting themselves. Our Wheat market was much depressed : from Gs. Gd. 'to 6s. 10d. were the prices offered for the prime samples; Barley sold from 3s. 3d. to 3s. GJ. ; Oats 2e, tic!. to 2s. 10d. INUOMM ". "-' SINKING FUND. EXTRACTS FROM AN ESSAY ON THE SUPPOSED ADVANTAGES OF A SINKING FUND. BY LORD GRENVILLE. CHAPTER L, Section I.—Necessity of aSurphis Revenue for the Support of a Sinking Fund. Under no circumstances can any Sinking Fund be productive of real benefit, except where the ordi nal.) income of the State has been carried to an amount permanently exceeding its current expendi ture. The veriest prodigal may annually discharge a part of what he owes ; but if, on the whole, he expends within the year much more than he receives, he will find, at its close, his incumbrances not les sened, but considerably increased. To reduce debt is the only object of a Sinking Fund. Section 2.—lnutility of borrowed Sinking Funds. Can it be profitable to any man to buy up in the open market his own engagements, with money raised at the same moment, and in the same market, by a, corresponding issue of similar securities'.' Would not the mere fact of his resorting to such an _ . operation be more likely -to injure than to improve his credit ? To reduce debt by borrowing to the same amount, on terms of equal or greater disadvan tage, is a manifest fiction in finance. Section 3.—lnefficacy of Sinking Funds operating in War. No Sinking Fund can truly exist, except in pe riods of peace. In war, no man expects that our income will ever equal our expenditure ; how, then, can it afford an excess of millions for the reduction of debt? Whatever surplus may have been created for that purpose in peace, a new war will at once absorb; and, in that moment, vanishes all possibility of benefit from the Sinking Fund. Section 4.—Opposition of these Principles to those of our present Sinking Fund. Though first established in peace, and founded in an assumed surplus of revenue, it has been nomi nally continued through long periods of war ; and, during the far greater part of the more than forty years of its existence, it has been either wholly or partially supported by loans heaped on loans. CHAPTER 11., Section I.—The direct Benefit de rived from this Fund consists in the release of pre ♦iously appropriated taxation. Our public debt consists not in capital, but in annuities; and all reductions of it are therefore re- Auctions, not of capital, but of annuities. That debt is continually spoken of as if it were composed of the nominal amount of our public securities ; but it is really composed only of the annual payments gua ranteed by those securities. Nothing is debt except what some person may, in justice or in equity, de mand; and no one can claim from the nation any part of the principal of our public funds. The an nual income which the stockholder derives from them is all which, in any sense, is his right; but that right is inviolable. The State has not borrowed his money at interest, under an obligation of repay ment, but has sold to him an annuity. To such a transaction the words loans and debts, capitals and interests, are not strictly applicable. It would now, indeed, be a vain attempt to banish even from our technical language a verbal inaccuracy so gene ral and so long established. But, in the study of our national finance, the distinction itself is of much importance. It has been very generally dis regarded, and its neglect has greatly complicated these discussions, which for the public interest could not have been made too simple. In private concerns we find no such confusion. There, when annuities are intended to be sold, that purpose is so expressed ; when money is lent, under an obligation of repayment, the S um advanced constitutes its prin cipal ; its interest is computed at the rate truly agreed upon by the parties; and its repayment at such periods, definite or indefinite, as they have sti pulated, extinguishes the debt. In our public loans, on the contrary, we create an imaginary capital, to which we assign a fictitious rate of interest. A mil lion of money is advanced to us at a real interest, suppose of six per colt. ; but we grant in return for it two millions of stock, bearing an assumed interest of three per cent. And we reserve to the State a right of extinguishing that interest by a money-pay ment, not of one million, but of two. The substance of such transactions, and their relative advantage to the contracting parties, may, indeed, be presumed to be little, if at all, varied by these embarrassed forms.— Competition, wherever it freely operates, has a natural tendency as certainly and as correctly to regulate exchange in these, as in any more simple dealings. But the fiction, if nugatory, is not therefore harm less. What fiction was ever harmless in finance ? Many are the false reasonings, numberless and mon strous the projects of injustice, which originate only in the misconception of these facts. What invidi ous comparisons do we not daily hear between the sums actually advanced to the State by its creditors, and the much larger amount of debt supposed to have been created in their favour ! Had it been re membered that our debt consists only in annui ties, no such error could have been committed. On this imaginary capital, swelled to whatever amount, the stockholder has no claim. It serves only to express the price at which the State may, at its own convenience, redeem its engagements. And this is an advantage reserved only to the debtor. By the State it has been sometimes used to lower the rate of these annuities; as when, on a general fall of interest, the Five per Cents, have, by a tender of repayment, been reduced to four, or the Four per Cents. to three. But when interest rises, the stockholder has not, like the private creditor, a corresponding right of enforcing, by a demand of re payment, the proportionate increase of that annuity, which, as we have seen, constitutes his whole pro perty in the debt. Section 2.—The effective operations of this fund are supported only by surplus taxation. Section 3.--The reductions of debt thus effected are mere exchanges of equivalents. Section 4.—These results have in no degree been varied by the application of compound interest to the operations of this fund. This whole matter of compound interest is, in deed, not a discovery in finance, but a mere ques tion of numbers. We are told how much debt will in a given period be redeemed by a given annuity, successively increased in a given ratio. And what is this but a problem purely arithmetical ? It de pends on no principle of political economy. It leaves untouched that which is, in such a case, the main object of inquiry for any practical result. These sums may be accurately calculated according to their prescribed data ; we may by law appropriate such payments to the Sinking Fund, whenever we have the means of making them. But from what source will they be derived, and by whom will their charge be borne ? On these questions the account ant is silent ; can the statesman, therefore, overlook them ? They are the very tests of the whole be nefit of his system, and decide in no small degree on the possibility of its practical application. As fast as any such fund accumulates, the annual taxation must also accumulate from which it is to be defrayed. If, instead of Price's two hundred millions of globes of geld, each of so many thousand miles in dia meter, we could suppose his fund to have increased only up to as many ounces of the same metal, the taxes to be levied for it in a single year would fall little short of the nominal capital of our present debt! CHAPTER 11L—On the attempted Permanence and repeated Interruption of this System. Section I.—The expected Benefits of a Sinking Fund at Compound Interest depend on its un varied Accumulation. The first Sinking Fund, with all its strong Parlia mentary declarations and enactments of perpetuity, was speedily diverted from its purpose. That of 1786 was again, with studied, but vain solicitude, " fortified as much as possible against alienation." Such were the words, such the hopes of Mr. Pitt ; but in its real operation his system has now little more of substantive existence than that which it re placed. And from these repeated failures there lIMMINii arises an almost irresistible presumption against the practicability of the design itself. Section 2.—Provisions adopted for giving Perman ence to the Sinking Fund of 1786. The law considers this stock not as cancelled, no! even as redeemed, in the common sense of that word, but as transferred from the stockholder to the Sink ing Fund. That Fund, however, wo know, has not any substantive existence; it is a mere creature of our minds, an official form in which the State conducts one portion of its affairs. The nation is the true owner of these annuities. It has re-pur chased them from its creditors with the public mo ney ; and it now pays them to itself with one hand, and receives them from itself with the other. They are called interests, but interests of a debt redeemed. A manifest contradiction of terms ! Section 3.—Actual failure of these endeavours. Section 4.—Causes of this failure. Many, who will readily disclaim all hope of direct public benefit from a Sinking Fund, whether in peace or war, at simple or at compound interest, will nevertheless firmly cling to its continuance o r renewal.. They will admit, perhaps, without hesi tation, that a nation can no more profit by thus trafficking with itself in its own Securities, and buying debt with debt, and money with money, than an individual could by shifting his purse from one pocket to another, or his bank-notes from the upper drawer of his cabinet to the lower. Many have insisted, and still insist much on its good effects, in raising and upholding the price of Stocks. Whatever raises the price of Stocks ren ders them comparatively a less profitable employ ment of money, and tends therefore to divert capital into other investments until the natural level be re stored. SPORTING INTELLIORNCE. WOLAISLEY HUNT RACES.-Armr. 2. The Stewards were, T. STONOR, jun., and H. HAY WARD, Esqrs., and, under their superiutendauce, good sport was provided. A Silver Cup, value 50 guineas, was woo by Mr. Hard ing's Jack-of-Works, beating Mr. Musgrave's Kenilworth and four others, in heats of two miles each. A Cup, value 50 guineas, the gift of J. Fane, Esq., M.P., was won by Mr. Wiggins's ch. in. beating three others. The Subscriptions for next year's Cups are already more than usually numerous. HUNTING APPOINTNIENTS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. His Majesty's Stag-hounds will meet on Monday, at Farnham Common; Thursday, at Princes Risborough— at half-past 10 o'clock. The Crareu Hounds, on Monday, at Mr. Dundas's Lodge ; Friday, at Grotto Coppice—half-past 10. The Brighton Harriers, on Monday, near Patcham ; Wednesday, near the Race Course ; Friday, near the Dyke—quarter before 11. The Lewes Brookside Harriers, on Monday, at New market Hill ; Wednesday, at Ashcombe (the alternate Wednesday at the Kennel, Ilford) ; Friday, at Telescuu►be Tye—half-past 10. The Woreeetesshire Fox-hounds, en Monday, at Croorne Perry Wood ; Thursday; at The Cliffey-10. Mr. Dansey's Hounds, on Tuesday, at England's Gate:; Friday, at Bacho Hill-9. Earl Fitswilliaufs Hounds, on Monday, at Fineshade-10. Lord Yarborough's Hounds, ou Monday, at Roston Wood ; Wednesday, at Newsham Chace ; Friday, at Us sleby House ; Saturday, at Roston Wood-11. Mr. Foljambe's For-hounds, on Monday, at Clay Bridges; Tuesday, at Scotgrove Wood; Wednesday, at Lea; Thurs day, at Kingsthorpe—half-past 10. Mr. Muster's Hounds, on Monday, at Norton Woods ; Wednesday, at firanston Wood; Friday, at Skellingthorpe— half-past 10. Sir Jacob Astley's Hounds, on Monday, at Thema thorpe ; Wednesday, at Bintry ; Friday, at East Basham— half-past 10. The Shropshire Hounds, on Tuesday, at the Wrekin— half-past 10. The Derbyshire Deer-hounds, on Monday, at Skegby ; Thursday, at Hoguaston Whin—half-past 11. GRAND COCKING MATCH. The main this week between the counties of Middlesex and Suffolk (Fleming feeder for the former, and Hardwick for the latter) drew each day a numerous attendance to the New Pit, in Millhank. Fleming had the advantage throughout, not only the excellence of his birds, but in his setter, .Porter, whose style of handling was decidedly superior to Gu►nm's in every respect. The match was for 10 sous. a battle, and 200 for the odd, and was con • eluded late on Thursday night, as follows : FIirATING. HARDWICK. Tuesday 3 Wednesday . 6 Wednesday Thursday 5 Thursday 19 1 15 Majority for Fleming, on the main, four battles ; in the byes Hardwick was four a-head. The Grand Match for 1000 sovs., between Sir Belling ham Graham and Mr. H. Wormald, will be fought at York in the Spring Meeting. Fleming feeds for Sir Bel lingham, and Nash for Mr. Wormald. GRAND PIGEON SIIOO'FING. The admirers of pigeon shooting had yesterday the finest treat of the season. It had been previously announced, that a grand match would be shot for a single barrelled gun, besides a variety of other matches. In consequence of this announcement, a number of people assembled, at twelve o'clock, at the King's Head, Stratford, and pro ceeded thence:across several meadows to a very fine piece of ground near Hackney. After waiting some time, the per sons who were assembled, amounting to about 500, began to suspect that the whole was a hoax ; but the cognoscenti saw there was some scent, and did not despair. About two o'clock intelligence was brought that Clayard, the pigeon-faucier, had arrived at the King's Arms. The crowd, to ascertain the truth of this, instantly set off; and too many going over a plank which had been placed across a ditch, some of them fell in, but soon scrambled up the bank out again. At length the pigeons, upwards of six dozen, arrived on the ground, and with them a great number of sportsmen. The first match was between Mr. Rae, a gentleman belonging to the Red House Club, and Mr. Allan, at three birds each, twenty-one yards distance from the trap, charge not limited, the bounds marked at one hundred yards from the trap ; the birds, the best Blue Rocks. Betting was 5 to 4on Mr. Rae, who killed all three of his birds in fine style. Mr. Allan killed his first and second bird, but the latter bird fell out of bounds, and therefore lost him his match. The second match was be tween Mr. Willoughby and Mr. Frederick, at six birds each, twenty-one yards distance, charge not limited, for 50 guineas. Mr. Frederick fired first and killed his bird, which fell at about one hundred and ten yards ; a dispute then arose, as the bounds had not been named in this match ; it was ultimately decided, that they should be one hundred yards, and the match should be begot: again. Mr. Frederick then killed his second, third, fourth, and fifth, his adversary having only killed three out of his six. Mr. Frederick was declared the winner.—A second match then took place betweez the same parties for the like suns, at three birds each, when Mr. Frederick killed all three, beating his opponent by a bird.—A match took place after between Mr. Willoughby and a gentleman, whose name was understood to be Harris, at three birds each ; this was decided in farqur of Mr. Harris. Mr. Adam Arrow smith, the great Essex shot, appeared ce the ground ; but as no one liked to be beat without a chance, no match took place. Several minor matches followed, and Lat six o'clock the company departed, well satisfied with the day's sport. Wednesday last died, at his residence at IfFley, Mr. ROBERT Buss, formerly a bookseller in this city, but who retired from business a few years ago : he has since been actively concerned in the management of the Gas Works, and was highly respected for his strict integrity. — Oxford jolting/. Miss MACAULEY, who attracted last Sunday such a full audience to hear her Sermon on the Primitive Church of Christ, is, we find, to enter en a full career o f pulpit oratory. Certainly, if delivery and the powers fif elocution be sufficient for the task, and it were appro priate to her sex, she is admirably fitted for it. She preaches next Sunday evening, we understand, on the Resurrection. GREENWICH FAIII.—TIie greatest bustle has prevailed at Greenwich during the week, in m a ki ng t h e necessary preparations f or the approaching fair, which com mences or, Monday next. The Crown and Anchor booth l w a s h t i c y l e i a e r s , c o i t n ed a t c h c e o u as n t t o n o i f s h i nt s e n u t n o p t r e t e k e e d v en it t i e t d ors le a n t g G th re a e n n d w i ic h l:, , splendour with which it was got up, is in active prepara tion. We understand that no obstruction will be made to those persona, this year, who may wish to enter the Park and have a tumble down the hill, .. p _ IRELAND.-LENT ASSIZES. CORK, AIARCH 31. (From the Cork Mercantile Chronicle. ) Owen Ryan, a small and rather well-locking man,. stood indicted for having violated the person of Eliza Phair. Eliza Phair (a modest well-looking young woman) stated, that she had been a servant in the family of Alderman Bagwell, of Charlotte-quay, in this City, on the 6th of last October, and that she has been a servant in the same family during the last six years.; that the prisoner was an outside servant in the same family, and that his business generally confined him. to the stable, which was at the rear of the dwelling.. house; that on the 6th of last October, which was a wet day, the prisoner told her, in her master's kitchen, that her sister was outside in Queen street, waiting for her, and that she would not go away without seeing her; that she accordingly put on her cloak and bonnet, and went into Queen-street ; Queen-street is near Char lotte-quay, and the passage to the stable is through it; when witness had got into Queen-street, the prisoner was before her, who told her that her sister had got into the stable to avoid the rain; witness went to the stable door and called her sister, where on prisoner seized witness by the throat, threw her on straw which was in the stable, tvith some of which he covered her, after which he had his will of her; on being seized by prisoner, witness cried out " Nancy, Nancy," meaning one of the servants in the kitchen; that was all she was able to say, the string of her bonnet having nearly choked her from the ill-treatment of the prisoner.—Witness swears that what had been done to her was done against her consent; that she made every possible resistance; that the prisoner had never taken any liberties with her before; that there had existed but the mere common-place intimacy of fellow-servants among them, and that the prisoner was reputed to be a married man. After the prisoner had effected his object, he told her that " he had been long bent upon her, and that he would suffer the gallows for her."—Having lifted her up from the place where she lay, prisoner went back into the kitchen through the yard, which connected the dwelling-home with the stable. Witness returned the way she came the prisoner was in the kitchen before her, and 101 W, else ; no words passed between them ; she mentioned the circumstance of her violation the following day to John Leary, the man servant ; he was married, and rather elderly, and she had particular confidence in him. _ John Leary corroborated the evidence of Eliz,l Phair. The Jury brought in a verdict of " Guilty." The Foreman then said, that at the earnest desire of his brother Jurors, he had to recommend the prisoner to mercy, in consequence of his previous goo►i character. The COURT applauded the humane motives that dictated the recommeniation—but notwithstanding: it could hold out no hopes to the prisoner of a favourable result, it would not interfere with any application that might be made elsewhere. The Learned Baron then sentenced him to be executed —but did not name the day, as he will do that before the close of the Assizes. Jeremiah Herlihy was given in charge for burg- lariously entering the house of William Duane, 'at Walsh's-town, on the night of the 14th of October, and forcibly carrying off and ill-treating Ellen Cow hig, with an intent to make her marry him. Ellen Cowhig sworn— She was comfortably dressed, apparently not more than 20 years old, soft in the countenance, and mild looking. She was examined by Mr. Sergeant GOOLD, and swore that she was a widow, with one child, her husband hav- ing died about nineteen months ago, leaving her in possession of some property ; that she has been lat terly living with her father at Walsh's-town ; that on the night of the 19th of last October, her fathei'.; house had been broken into by a number of men who were variously armed, and fired shuts into a room, whether she and her father had repaired, and when they discovered that she was " the widow,'! took her almost in a state of nudity outside, and put her on a horse before the prisoner, who was waiting there, and who in that situation rode off; she swore positively that she was taken forcibly out of her father's house ; she was taken forcibly to one Sul livan's; thence to a place which she believed to be in the county Limerick, and from that to the residence of one Herlihy, in the county of Kerry ; that during the eight days which intervened be tween her abduction and the arrest of the prisoner at Iderlihy's, the prisoner had frequently urged her to marry him, and that he had several tunes ,threatened her, and had also repeatedly defiled her against her will. She swore that she had never given any en couragement to the prisoner to come to her father's house, and that she had seen him but twice in het life, and that during the week, preceding the 19th of October. Such was substantially the evidence of the prosecutrix. In identifying the prisoner she manifested an evident reluctance., William Duane, the father of the prosecutrix, John Duane, her brother, and Bridget Duane, the wife of John Duane, all of whom had been in the house on the night of the attack, corroborated all the circumstances as detailed by the prosecutrix, in re ference to the bursting in of the door ; the firing, and the abduction. William White, a Policeman, deposed to his having arrested the prisoner at Herlihy's, in Kerry. The prisoner told him that he was the man who had taken away the widow. The Jury, without leaving the box, returned verdict of Guilty. After a short pause, his Lordship pronounced the awful sentence of the law on the unfortunate cul prit, who is a well-looking young man about 25 years of age. The Paris Court of Assize, on Monday, was employed in trying the persons who robbed Mademoise/le MARS, the celebrated actress, of her jewels last autumn. The jewels were valued at 150,00(1 francs, or about 6,000/. It will be recollected that the robbers were arrested at Geneva. Great interest was manifested to see Made moiselle MARS, when she appeared to give her testimony. The verdict was not given on Monday. The appearance of the celebrated actress alone gave interest to the trial. STATE OF TRADE AT FROME.—A manu facturer has favoured us with the following information : —" The trade here is brisk iu superfine cloths but i❑ the second cloth, which used t o be much firs, r, the principal part of our manufacture (and chiefly ° lii iu s wade of British Wool), it was never more depressed ; in fact, the demand for such goods in the London Market is so trifling that we cannot sell the article without submit i: n i untiliti regtailw..d prices etehse of f ta f t o e i n e te ig u n t tiug to a loss. The reason is obvious ; we can produe e . for less money ; and g l o c o at i n fortomfinifloraenigyup;odns' in my connexion who will pur chase a coarse cloth in preference to a fineone, when► offered w a s are advanced, there will be little chance of any great demand for goods from British Wools upon the gene ral scale; the consumption of cloth among the wool growers in this country must be so trilling, in comparison with the other classes, whoi.e chief concern is to get the belt article for the least money."—Sherburne Journal. NEW VOLCANO NEAR BAKU.----We learn from a letter• of M. GAMBA, French Consul at Telli, at oi 3 the ir. slaitnrrenpßriteleA. r, I, M i y s r respecting the earthquake of December last, that a ni.c volcano has burst out not far from Baku. It was pr . ,:- ceded by a violent tempest. In the morning was hoard, about four leagues to the north-west of the town, :,• noise resembling that of cannon; and soon after a colinuu of fire of extraordinary height, appeared in the air, and continued burning for several hours. It then dis appeared, or rather shrunk, into a small flame, rising about two feet above the surface of the earth, and co vering a space of about GOO feet long by 450 broad. This eruption continued for about twenty-four hours, and was accompanied, front the beginning, by subterranean noises resembling thunder, while large stones and column.) of boiling water were hurled into the sky. At the end of that time it ceased, and the crater closed up ; but the fire still lingers in the soil, and flames burst up wherever the earth is disturbed. It is well known that the Ghebres have a fire-temple near this spot, where the eternal tire is still nourished ; but it seems that the relies of the volcanic flames, which area red and odourless, in no respect re semhle the Chebres fire,--London Weekly Reriew. - Vhirz