The Sun. — London, England, 1828-11-17 00:00:00

sPITITT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS . (FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.; Our Paper of Saturday contained an invitation to a meeting this evening, at the London Tavern, at six o'clock, to consider of the best means of afford ing immediate relief to the suffering Refugees of Spain, Portugal, and Italy. Of these unfortunate strangers, no fewer than one thousand are in a state of extreme destitution; many of them literally with out bread. The season of the year, too, adds to the suffering‘ of these natives of more genial regions than our own. Th e p l a i ts unva rnished stateme n t of the condition o f t h ese i n dividttOls, of the b est families in their own countries, who nobly sacrificed themselves in an attempt to improve the constitu tion of their respective nations,. is Safficient to induce • the people ofEngland.to contribute to their relief, each individual according to his means. . Many of them, too, were the companions in arms of British soldiers, at a time when England summoned the natives of the Peninsula to make common cause with her against France, and owe perhaps, t o the lessons then taught them, and the example constantly before them, the desire of im provement which was ultimately the cause of their ruin. When we reflect on the consequences of our interference with the Peninsula--that we deprived the Spaniards of the regeneration which Joseph meant to have effected for his own security, and let loose on them Ferdinand and the Priesthood, while we had familiarised them with notions irreconcile able with subjection to their old Government; we cannot but think it would have become the Govern meet to have acted towards the poor exiles with more liberality. Blit we trust private beneficence will supply the place of the public aid. Let it not be said that these unfortunate strangers shall be al lowed to perish of hunger in a country the most powerful and wealthy in Europe—that in a city where luxury presents i tself to the eye wherever we turn, and an extravagance prevails unexampled in the history of the world, nothing could be spared for the discharge of so sacred a claim on our charity.— No man, whatever may be his political principles, ought to allowhimself to entertain any other feeling on such an occasion as the prpsent than that these poor exiles are in a state of extreme destitution. Even should lie dieapprove of their attempts to regene rate their respective countries, let him remember that he is himself a fallible being, and that he hopes in that day when we must all render an account of our actions 4ustice will be tempered to himself with mercy. Our own opinion is, that the poor Spaniards owe their present destitute condition to their huma nity and consideration for their opponents. Had they cut down with an unsparing hand these oppo nents, and imitated the energ t;c conduct of the ter rorists in France, they might at this day have been triumphant. When the advocates of liberal opi nions in the two Houses of Parliament praised them I for their magnanimity, we lO o k e d f oorwar d to t h e fate which has befallen them. But their leniency, though it has stood in the way of their success, ought not to stand in the-,way-of the compassion which is due to their wants and their sufferings. (FROM THE TIMES.) The inhabitants of London, we have never for a moment doubted, will not hear unmoved the cries of misery from these poor Spanish exiles. The hand of mercy has even now begun to extend itself. The appeal which necessity has wrung from us on their behalf melee the hearts of the high and gentle, as well as the kindred sympathies of those who them selves have known what it is to feel the unappeased gnawings of hunger. The meeting this afternoon at the London Tavern will, We have reason to be lieve and trust; be attended by numbers of humane individuals, whose example cannot fail to act eaten sively.upon the great mass of society. The distin guished authorities of the city can never do them selves or their stations more honour than by proofs of their coscurrence in the pious object of the meet ing. In tile mean time, we have received more than 50 letters from charitable persons since our last pub lscation ; and we earnestly beseech the public atten tion to some specific modes which have been pointed out towards facilitating and realizing the relief which we supplicate, and which, seeing what we have teen, even the stones, if they could speak, would join us in praying for. Ist. - A great and useful principle to lay down would be that of extending the source of the ssbseriptidn as far as possible, by bringing the scale of it within the reach of the greatest num ber of charitably disposed individuals, It would on that account be very desirable to set on foot local committees of respectable housekeepers in as many quarters of the metropolis as might be found practi cable, the members of which should visit, in parties of not less than three well, all the houses in success. sion in their respective districts, and ask such con tributions as the residents might be pleased to grant, not exceeding the sum of ss. This plan, which would presi heavily on none, has the further advan tage of being easily, as no doubt it would be promptly, imitated in many other populous places besides London, and the sums so raised might be remitted to some of those benevolenthanking-houses in London which we have already mentioned. 2d. A second and most appropriate method of serving this deeply interesting object might, in our opinion, be fitly recommended and intrusted to the chari table spirit of the parochial and other clergy throughout England, each reverend gentleman, whe ther of the Established or Dissenting Church, ap pointing some one day for his congregation to con tribute their alms at the church-door after service, as in the case of charity-sermons, though we would not trespass upon the clergy so far as to exact from them a sermon directed to this especial purpose.-- 3d. A third mode of assistance, at this dreary season, is that of givin g old clothes to the half-naked fa milies of the exil es. A letter on the subject, froM t h e proprietor of tile London Repository, Gray's inn-road, points out one place , which may be fixed upon as a maga zine, Or in any other way turned to the use of the charity, and where the liberal proprie tor states dant the accommodation which he offers will be gratis. . s ome trustworth y persons may, of course be found by the Co mmi t tee, even amongst the Spaniards themselves, who would take charg e of the articles transmitted. Although the Ministry does not, from some political consideration we p ies sume, think proper to aid these unfortunate victims of an anti-English despotism from the public funds, it is not in nature that the chief of that Ministry should look with any but kind and sympathetic feelings at the • efforts of public benevolence to relieve them, when he is not called upon to share the burden of such benevolence. The Duke of Wellington must be, personally, a friend to the Spanish Cortes, and to their constitutional ad herents. The noble estate of the Sota di Roma, which before his Grace became its proprietor had been one of the finest domains of the Crown, and reckoned to produce an income of at least ,2,9,01904 per ann um , was sett l e d on t h e Duke of Well i ngtO by the Cortes.. Ferdinand had no merit.but that of not recalling this munificent national donation. The liberal part. of the Spanish nation, therefore, were so far his Grace's benefactors. It is difficult to sup-, pose that this interchange of kindness could exist without producing, as doubtless it has done in his Grace, many cordial s ent i ments towards the Con stitutional Spaniards., Were his Grace's name for even Si. to a ppear at the head o f the new subscrip tion, what service would it not render, and with the destitute beings what blessings from could it not be received ? It is by wistake that the Portu guese are joined to the Spaniards in, the advertise ment, as objects of public charity. The subjects of Don Pedro, refugees in England,. are, fortunately for themselves and families, enjoying their Sove reign's bounty. A correspondent, who signs himself " An Irish man," seems hurt at the comments made in this paper some ten days ago, upon the relation between land lord and tenant in Ireland, and upon the general character of the former class of his countrymen. We had suppose , ], and our correspondent must pardon us for still believing . , that the opinions which we then felt it our duty to state had been too well founded in truth and notoriety, p admit Of any reasonable objection.. Of the " mass" of Irish landlords, we repeat,—and there is neither haste, nor passion, nor ignorance of the subject in this our unqualified re proach,—but with reg ird to the mass of Irish land lords, it is an established admission by all observant visiters of their country, and all judicious inquirers into the state of it, that the system of treatment pursued towards their tenants has been most im politic, most barbarous, and disgraceful. It is ascer tained to be a practice throughout the whole south and central parts of Ireland, for the landlords to exact from the wretched peasants a price for small patches of uncultivated land, under the title of con acres, more than it is possible for the pro duce of that land to repay; and when a poor crea ture haS, by indefatigable toil, reclaimed the ground from a state of nature, it is turned over, with simi lar adjoining fractions, to the more responsible oc cupier of a larger farm, and the original improver expelled. It is a practice undeniable throughout every part of Ireland, to let an extensive farm to the highest and often the most desperate bidder,without the leaSt consideration for the old family, who may have held it during 40 or 50 years, and who, in ad country without commerce, are thus cast out to tit ter idleness and misery, or driven, as we sometimes see them, to the most atrocious projects orrevenge. It has been since the year 1793 a practice, as is ac -1 knowledged, throughout Ireland, to tempt youths into premature and ruinous marriages, by fixing them on spots of bog or mountain, upon a rack-rent lease of some freehold description, that they may give 40;. votes as their landlords order them, and so increase the saleable stock on the estate. It is not - a practice, but an instinct, of the Irish land lords, to think of their unhappy peasantry but as of creatures born to mud-cabins—to dry potato diet, diversified by an occasional failure of the potato crop,—to rags, degenerating into frequent nakedness,—to ignorance and servility, and hope lessness of comfort; and then to exclaim that " they are used to it, and want nothing better." Of these and similar practices, instincts, and melancholy abuses of a superiority which ought .to make itself felt no otherwise than in acts of patriarchal benevo lence and protection, the fruits are, what we behold. The people are alienated from their natural chiefs who have deserted them. The first political ques tion which arises is made an easy topi , l for inflaming a previous discontent, mite materials of which have been drawn from the perverted relations of private life, and, morally speaking, a civil conflict may be said to rage perpetually from north to south of Ire land., If there be landlords who are conscious of their own exemption from the charges thus brought against their body, we wish them to enjoy the full consciousness of such comparative virtue. If our correspondent be one of the good, as we have no rea son to question, since he resents the stigma so feel ingly, we are most happy to acquit and honour him. But still he is one of a very limited number of exceptions. We recede not from the generalit of the' accusation. (FROM THE MORNING HERALD.) The extraordinary committal, from Bow -street, a :ew days since, of a man for stealing a manuscript-- itself, probably, a thing of no value, but on which he had what the lawyers call — an — evident lien--has excited, we bear, a good deal of animadversion.— We are as loth as the law is to judge severely of Magistrates for an error in judgment; but yet where such want of judgment affects the liberty of a fel low -creature, and may perhaps influence his future destiny, we are neither so candid nor so squeamish as to think that there is a mantle which ought to screen even the ermine from the reproach which such errors bring along with them. But we are, perhaps, in some degree instrumental in producing the very faults which we complain of. It has been remarked, anti we think not untruly, that, ever since the Press has been in the habit of giving the proceed ings before the London Magistrates with the minute ness it has of late years done, the Magistrates themselves seem to have fallen into it, as if it were a trap that had been set,for them, and are continu ally doing, for the sake of effect, that which, if there were no such effect before them, would be disregarded, and more substantial matters attended to. If a Magistrate, instead of attending to the matter before him, really condescends to think bow his bad jokes and witticisms will tell in the next morning's papers, of course he must lose sight of the merits of the matter before him, and will even per sist in an error, rather than the Journals shall convict him of inconsistency. All this, if it be so, is very bad; and, if the Press is chargeable with producing it, the result shows, at the same time, what very weak minds it has to act upon. The observation is, unfortunately, too well-grounded as a general one, to be particularly applicable to any particular case, or any particular set of Magistrates. Ad verting, again, to the particular case which gave rise to these remarks, we would observe that the facts of it lay in a nut-shell, though, from the extraneous matters introduced into it, it has swelled in the re port to an unusual length. Those facts are simply these :—The accused, who appears to be a kind of literary cobbler, applies to the accuser for a job, who employs him to botch or to repaira manuscript, without making any specific agreement for remune ration. On returning it, the man of letters requires a guinea for his labour, which the employer refuses to pay. Hereupon the literary workman refuses to give up the article till he is paid. The Magistrates deem such detention a felony and commit him to prison for what they are pleased to deem a theft. The converse of this seems to us too clear to admit of argument; and we hope to hear that the man, though committed under a mistake to prison, has been discharged, and that a remuneration has been given him for the wrong which appears to have been done to him ; for, if this be not a wrong, we know not what is. Even were the demand an enormous one, it was a matter over which the Magistrates had no control—but who, we must say, seem to have assumed At power, which it is fit they should be taught they do npt and ought not to possess. ( FROM TH E MORNING POST.) The manner in which his Majesty's Ministers ave been received on two recent and important oc casions, must serve materially to prove, if proof libeller s n e c e ss ar y, th e u tt er unwort hi ness o f t h ose who would fain represent them as not pos sessing the entire confid ence o f t h e nat i on . Th e s . d and int e lli gen t p ort i on o f t h e Ci t i zens o f Lon don, the wealthy, the influential, an d th e l oya l, -have placed in imperishable record th e i r sense o f the benefits which strattiio:ne n a a t n i nation l y i assn derived doing, have from c n t i n t! present Admi n i . ehave so unceasin g l y firmed the 'opinions which offered to the puwie. That this emi nently deserved can not in common confidence is o we look to th e n ard t o t h e other Powers whether fairness f or a p si o n i g ie l y e momen t pursue d I) e doubted, with reg of Europe, or to the improving national revenue. our, policy has respect 6 1. 1) toc e °f y . :°h'hcireae have i e ° most cautious reasoners : the . rous spirit of that clop:. intermeddli:tg Ivhieh :ts so ardently acte4 on . by men now no more ; and a wise system of nortißtcrference has saved us from the incalculable mischief or re war. Wisest ap v:oifiitdaiorntsdioe, What course Russia may now pursue it would be impossibl e to conjecture; but that she has had mere on her hands than she originally contemplated, is beyond all ques tion of doubt, The Turks, to use a common phrase, have taken the fight. out of her; and if bribery 05 i the one hand, and the utoAt _perfidious treachery 0„ the other, had not secured Vamt t 9 the Autocrat, the " number of his days" would not : be . ciiiiicalt to calculate. The repcTrt of the fall of S ili.stri-.4 we know to be unfounded. Next then comes the dues tion--has the war ended ? For the present at least it must be ; the Russian treasury if not exhausted, is nearly in the extreme, and the recruiting,. however easy of accomplishment in a barbarous and despotic Qoutitry, cannot be rendered available without the sinew of war being forthcoming. Equipments can not be had without money or credit, and we rather suspect the Russian eredit is not at this moment at a premium. It is notorious that efforts to raise small loans have proved difficult'; and adding to this the i mm ense ex of the late war, we think w e are * The Kildare-street Club is here alluded to. In the rules of the Club, one black bean is equivalent to seven white ones in the ballots. Lord William had 29 black beans against him—a number, amounting to a clear majority of the voters. Lord Errol,' immediately on learning the result of the ballot, went to the Club-house, and struck out his name from the list of members. The Earl of llfiltown has also withdrawn, with several others. It is supposed that the Duke of Leinster, the Marquis of Downsbire, and several other noblemen and gentlemen will follow the example. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Mr. Williams, of the New Post-office coffee-house, again attended at this Justice-room on Saturday to complain of the conduct of the military who were engaged to " swell the parade" of the Lord Mayor's' show, or rather to give vent to his wounded feelings, in consequence of Mr. Alderman Ansley having termed him " a violent Demagogue," and attempted to throw discredit on his statement to Sir Peter Laurie. As might be expected by those who knew . Mr. Alderman Ansley (who was again sitting for Mr. Alderman Thorpe), Mr. Williams was not allowed to make a speech, but in detached sentences, as he could thrust them in. He stated that he felt the delicacy of his situation, from the respect due to the Magisterial chair, when he had to falsify what had fallen from the worthy Alderman himself; but it was with astonishment he had observed in the papers of that morning, that his Worship had ven tured to come down to that Justice-room, with a feeling that was sufficiently obvious, to deny what a citizen, though corroborrted by one of the City Offi cers, had publicly stated. Surely lie could not have recollected that other persons who had eyes were present as well as himself. He should now request a summons or a warrant, under Taylor's Metropolis Act, against the serf,eant of the company for riding on the footway, in order that he (Mr. Williams) might have an opportunity of verifying upon his oath the statement he had made to Sir Peter Laurie. The soldiers rode down the pavement, on both sides of the way, from Creed-lane to Fleet-rcarket, frightening the ladies into the shops, and turning other persons into the carriage -way. His feelings, as a citizen, were roused at such overbearing con duct, and he was sorry that a person could be found in the country who would justify it. From the correctness with which the complaint to Sir Peter Laurie had been reported, he presumed the account of what his Worship had said was equally correct, and his Worship might conceive what he felt on reading the newspapers of that morning. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY said, the statement in the Times of what he had said was correct, and he would repeat, that he regretted that any demagogue should come there and make a flaming speech, traducing the military, where they really were not to blame. They ought not to be villified when they came into the city and behaved so extremely well. He had not contradicted what Mr. Williams had. said, but had only stated, that when he saw the soldiers (which was when they were coming off the pavement) they were conducting themselves in a very orderly quiet manner. He had not heard any conversation on the pavement, but he had not de nied that Mr. 'Williams might have heard what he represented. What lie meant to deny was, that they were drunk, or had occasioned the stoppage. These were unfounded imputations. He had cer tainly intended nothing offensive to Mr. Williams, for he knew nothing of him. If they did go down the pavement, there being no other way, what harm did they do ? " Terrified the unarmed people," replied Mr. Williams. " They drove me off the footway." Mr. Alderman ANSLEY , continued—lt was ex tremely improper for any officer to seize the bridle of a horse with an armed soldier on it; and from Fogg'the Marshalman's own statement to him, the soldiers made no observations till irritating language had been ,addressed to them. " Was it not so, Fogg ?" asked the Alderman. Fogg respectfully begged to be excused from say ing another word upon the subject. " You told me so, I am sure," said the Alderman. Yes, the people were the first to speak," replied Fogg. we will not ask you any more about it," replied the Magistrate; and Mr. Williams retired without the summons, seemingly but little satisfied with the interview. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. On Saturday, a young man, named John Jennings a servant out of place, who was taken into custody some days ago upon suspicion of having been con cerned in the robberies committed at Lord Hart land's house, in Grosvenor-place, was brought before Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate, for final exami nation. It appeared, that in consequence of some infor mation which Goddard, the officer, - received, that the prisoner , had been seen in the company of a man named Burn, who is supposed to be the principal in these robberies, and who, as weljas the prisoner, had at one time lived in Lord Hartland's service, while Burn was offering for sale some cut-glass claret jugs, of the precise description that had been stolen from Lard Hartland's house, the officer went in pursuit of the l''' i er, having failed in apprehending Burn, .who is sup posed to have gOne to Ireland to escap e justice, and succeeded' in - meeting with him at a o p tri ub ce li r c- f h o o r :::; :rl O ttlos u lttri s;a di r ei e ffs h eor it fe ig npt the prisoncr, several pawnbrokers' duplicates were found on him by the ' illiar t t on going ro p p a e ". r l t i y b: p o l k e e d r g s ed an ; d bnt in specting this I) i ea 1 .-- if i : n. q , 9 6 p n a ,, rt of it turned out to ‘. there was .nothing, articles a wn , the pawned by to him upon that d by the' prisoner, cobbfearlocosngen.rsteoiimLotooin':bring g home not steering far wide of the mark when we state that Russia would readily accede to a negociation. This being assumed as the case on the part of Rusiia— what is likely is likely to be the course, which the Porte will pursue The Turks lost their fleet by the glorious tripartite victory at Navarin, they have lost Varna by treachery, on their sea coast they. a re closely watc h e d by a combined French and Russian fleet ; and, under such circumstances, if again at tacaed, will they again show fight As far as we have the means of judging, we think—we say, they %rill; but if their internal resources have been broken up, or nearly so, whatever their courage may be, negociation must become their policy as well as that of Russia. (FROM THE NEWS.) The Marquis of Anglesea, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, seems to be in a fair way of experiencing the fate of all his recent predecessors—of being hated by one portion of the Irish, and despised by the other : hated by the Orangemen because he will not join them in persecuting the Catholics; and de spised by the Catholics, because he has consented to assume a Government without stipulating for the power of administering impartial justice in it. Th e Orange men , h owever, are far more bi tter in their con duct towards him than the Catholics. The latter give him credit for good intentions, but regret th a t such a m an s h o uld so f ar h ave compromised his in. dependence, as to accept of office on the terms of not being able to carry those intentions into effect. The former let slip no opportunity of personally in sulting him; and though among the most abusive of these men are to be found several living under and upon the Very Government of which he is the . ostensible head, yet he possesses neither the power of reproof or dismissal. By their influence a few days ago Lord William Paget, one of his sons, was blackballed, in an attempt to become a member of one of the most distinguished of the Clubs of Dublin*—and, at a great Orange dinner in that City, at which Lord Longford (the Duke of Wellington's brother-in-law), presided about a fortnight ago, the loudest hisses accompanied the proposing the health of the Lord Lieutenant, as one of the toasts. Under such circumstances it is not surprising that reports of an intention, on his part, to resign, have been in circulation-- , ,the wonder is, that a man of spirit could have submitted so long to such degradations. A charge of assault, arising out of the late coal convictions at this office, was preferred by Thomas Lawder, a labouring coal-meter, against Mr. llezz jamin Somerville, an extensive coal-merchant and wharfinger, residing at the Vauxhall-wharf, near Vauxhall-bridge. The complainant stated, that on Tuesday last he went to the defendant's wharf with Gill, the officer. for the purpose of pointing out a coal-dealer named Samuda, against whom a summons had been issued for practices similar to those recently heard at this -office, and who, it appeared, dealt with the defend ant. On their entrance into the office on the wharf, they inquired for the person whom they wanted, but the individual to whom the application was made, suspecting their business, refused to give them any information on the subject, merely saying that Mr. Samuda was not there, and that he only occasionally called at the wharf, as other dealers were in the habit of (Icing. Shortly afterwards the defendant walked into the office, and having been apprised of the business the officer and complainant had come upon, he also refused to communicate where Mr. Samuda was to be found. The officer then pro duced the summons, and presenting it to the de fendant, observed that he should leave it there, and requested that it might be handed to the individual for whom it was intended, when he called there. The moment Mr. Somerville got the summons into his hand he flung it on the ground, saying that if it ! was left there he should use it for a certain purpose. The complainant then mentioned the expression used by the defendant. The summons was then taken off the ground by the officer, who placed it on the desk, remarking, that it was his duty to leave it there; upon which Mr. Somerville snatched up the summons, and tearing it in pieces, threw it on the ground, trampled upon it, ar►d seizing complainant by the shoulders, pushed him violently out of the office, and served the officer preciseiy in a similar manner. Gill, the officer alluded to, confirmed the above statement. The defendant, who is a Quaker, declared that the complainant, as well as the officer, had given an incorrect relation of the affair. lie then proceeded to state, that when the summons was shown to him, he remarked that he had nothing to do with it, ad ding, that Mr. Samuda only called occasionlly at the wharf, and that his place of abode was unknown to him. With this explanation, however, the parties were not satisfied; and when he (defendant) ordered them off his premises, they refused to, go, and ultimately flung the summons into the office, saying that they should leave it there. He certainly felt indignant at such conduct, and finding they were not disposed to leave the office when ordered, he might have placed his hands gently upon them for the purpose of enforcing his request. With regard to the expression attributed to me, said the defend ant, I deny having used it, but, said he, casting a look of contempt on those who made the charge, the expression is worthy of the lips from whence it has proceeded. The defendant called a witness in his behalf, but it appearing that he had not witnessed the com mencement of the transaction, his evidence was of , --- little avail. _ ------- Mr. HONE said that the assault had been distinctly sworn to by two persons on their oaths. It was evident from the whole proceeding on the part of the defendant on this occasion, that he harboured an angry feeling towards the complain ant i n consequence of what had so recently transpired at this office re lative to the discoveries made into the abuses of the coal trade. If, said the Magistrate, you made use of the expression attributed to you, and which has been sworn to, I can only say that it was gross and a b om i na bl e; but, leaving that out of the question, you had no right to assault either of these men in the The was then summarily decided without e xe cution of a duty they we re b ound to perform. sending to the Sessions, two Magistrates being present, who convicted the defewlant in a penalty of 31. and costs. ---- -- A great number of official warrants have lately received:the Royal signature. _ . The will'of LUKE HANSARD, printer to the House of Commons, has been proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury. , s personal property is estimated at ninety thousand pounds, besides freeholds. He seems to have made a most equitable division of his wealth amongst his family; be has left an immense number of legacies to pertons employed il2 his large printing establish- Meta. Even bis apprentices ar e remembered in his however, were two handsoMe silver dessert spoons, bearing the crest of a blackamoor's head and the cipher S., and as it was strongly suspected, from the very unsatisfactory manner in which the prisoner attempted —to account for the possession of them, that these spoons were stolen, Goddard set about endeavour ing to trace opt an owner for them, nor was he long at fault in doing so; for as he was passing along ford-street, he stepped into the first silversmith's shop he met, to inquire if they could inform him who the maker of the spoons was, as the makers are generally known to each other in the trade, and he found that he happened to pitch by mere accident upon the very shop that had supplied them, and he learned that they were made for Martin Stapylton, Esq., a gentleman of large fortune in Yorkshire, whose town residence is No. 18, Manchester 7 square. When the prisoner was apprehended, he said that these spoons were made a present to him by a friend of his named James Murphy, a gentleman's servant, who had lived with a Mr. Benyon, in Yorkshire; but where he was to be found now, the prisoner said he could not tell. Mr. Stapylton and two of his servants attended on Saturday, and identified the two spoons as be longing to Mr. Stopylton, and as having been missed from a set about a month ago; and there was also missing, the butler said, a gilt silver dessert spoon from another set, bearing the same crest and cipher. The two servants also recognized the prisoner as having been in the habit of coining with their con sent occasionally to Mr. Stapylton's house, and as sisting them in cleaning up the plate, &c., and this they said they permitted the.prisoner to do because he was in distress, and that he was a friend of the footman,*whose name is " James Murvey;" they admitted that the prisoner had access to the whole of the plate and other property on several occasions, and these spoons • were missed about the time that the prisoner was last at the house. The MAGISTRATE asked the prisoner if the foot man was present ? [James Murvey was the person of whom he spoke on a former day as having given him the spoons.] He replied, that he was not. The man to whom he alluded was named James Murphy, and had lived with a Mr. Benyon. Mr. Stapylton's footman said, that he had lived with a Mr. Benyon, of Yorkshire, but although he had given the prisoner permission to come to Mr. Stapylton's house, and occasionally gave him some food there, he never gave the prisoner any spoons or other property, or any permission to remove or pledge any. Mr. Stapylton said, that he thought it a very fa vourable circumstance in the prisoner's case, that he did not steal more, or,the whole of the plate to which it now turned out, by the very culpable negli gence of the servants, he had full access, although he (Mr. Stapylton) was totally ignorant that such a person was in the habit of coming to his house at all. Mr. DYER said that the great misconduct of ser vants in families in this respect was mainly the cause of the frequent robberies that take place. The prisoner was then fully committed for trial. Mr. Stapylton wished to state that he had in one of the newspapers been erroneously called "Captain Stapylton," whereas he is not in the army at all : he certainly was in a Light Dragoon Regiment many years ago, but had long quitted the service. MARYLEBONE. On Saturday, John Hale and Warboys, Paddington coachmen, were charged with driving furiously in the New-road, on the 6th inst.,and they were convicted each of them in a penalty of 2/. lOs UNION-HALL. LAW INTELLIGENCE. So strong are the easterly winds in the .Irish Channel, that die Post-office steam-packet from Dublin, which should have reached Liverpool early on Saturday morning did not arrive until six o'clock at night. The mails and other coaches that left town on Wednesday evening, owing to the extraordinary dense fog, were two or three hours proceeding the first stage, parti cularly along the Western Road; and to those who were at all near them, they presented the most remarkable ap pearance At each horse's head, particularly with the mails, there was a ►iaan holding the rein in one hand, and a lighted torch in the other. Each guard had also a lighted flambeau, and continued to sound his bone. The Bristol mail—one of the extra-fast mails--was more than half a day behind time, owing to the delays experienced near London. SADDLEWORTII.—TIIe disputes which un fortunately have subsisted between the master menthe ' turers and their workmen are, we regret to say, still un settled. There are, however, no fresh acts of violence to record ; and, from the temperate and judicious exertions of many respectable manufacturers, and individuals uncon nected with trade, the restoration of harmony may be shortly anticipated. We have been favoured with a sight of an address to the weavers' union, on the part of those gentlemen, which is admirably adapted to the work of con ciliation. The document was communicated confidentially, or we should have felt pleasure in placing it in our co lumns ; but tie respectable individuals from whom it emanates, deserve, as we hope they will soon receive, the grateful thanks of a reconciled community. The griev ances of the weavers, we are bound to state, ap pear to be any thing but fictitious. Independently of the illegal practice of many , masters paying wages by checks upon the shopkeepers, whith of itself is a gross fraud upon the workman, many of them, certain of the American merchants, as they are termed, resort to the most dishonest practices in measur ing the work of the weaver. To such an extent has this been carried, that tve have been assured on the most re spectable authority, so much as two or three woughs in a piece of th;rty woughs have been thus fraudulently ab stracted frOm the weaver's earnings. A wough is about two yards and a half. Another grievance is that many of the masters do not and will not ticket the work when taken out, with the price to be given for it, as is usual with respectable houses. We shall no longer dwell on this unfortunate business, than by expressing our sincere hope that the grievances complained of may be abated, and that the operative weavers will bear in mind that the strength of a cause, and the durability of an union, entirely depend on a peaceable demeanour and the absence of any 1 , illegal attempts at dictation. owever complete the failure of the Leeds Brunswick Club .Meeting, held on Monday last, may be considered, and however pitiful and pusinanimotts the ex pedient °Leaning a meeting of the inhabitants on one side, without daring to hear what could be advanced on the other may be thought, an idea is meant to be inculcated that the town of Leeds is opposed to the Catholic Claims, and it is highly expedient that this false conclusion should be removed. Till the public agitators set themselves to work to disturb the peace of the town, and to convey a false impression of its sentiments, the friends of civil and religious liberty were quite disposed to leave the decision of the Catholic Question to the wisdom Of Parliament and the progress of events, without any public inter ference on their part. But now when a declaration has gone forth as from the town of Leeds, the object of which is to overawe the Government and to menace even the KING with exclusion from his Throne, if he dares to act in opposition to the opinion of these Clubbists, the time has arrived when the real voice of the inhabitants should be heard, and we hope and believe that our fellow townsmen will see it to be their duty, without delay, to present a requisition to the Mayor, requesting him to call a meeting of the inhabitants at large, not of any particu lar party or cabal, to take into consideration the propriety of voting a loyal and dutiful address to his MAJESTY, as. curing hint of their inalienable attachment to his person and family, as well as to the principles which placed that family on the Throne of these realms ; and, also assuring him that so far from that attachment being abated, or those principles shaken by granting an equality of civil. rights to all classes of his Ma•- jesty's subjects, without any regard to their religious opinions, that measure would produce union among the people, and if carried into effect in favour of his MA- JEsry's Roman Catholic subjects, would greatly tend to secure harmony and peace in Ireland, and to give strength• and stability to the Qovernmont. Of the result of a Leeds Meeting convened for this object we have no doubt, and its effect would be to arrest the progress of these pestife rous combinations in every part of England, the tendency of which is to introduce into this country those violent agitations which hostile and conflicting Clubs have 'otro dueed into Ireland. In the latter country there has been some difference of opinion to which side the, original aggression is to be attributed, but in England it must be universally acknowledged that all the mischief' W hi c h may arise out of these Associations is entirely imputable to the Brunswick faction.—Zeeds Mercury. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 15. GOODACRE V. WILKINSON. This was an appeal from the decision of the Vice- Chat.cellor, upon a bill filed by Goodacre against Wilkinson, to compel the specific performance of a contract : that contract related to the sale of the next presentation to the living of Presteign, Wilkin son agreeing to give 7,0001. for it on receiving from Goodacre the same title which Goodacre derived from Lord Oxford, Lord Harley, and Mr. Moore, a trustee for the payment of the debts of Lord Oxford. `lt was alleged in the bill that That title had been of fered and refused; and in the answer it was asserted that the title was incomplete and .insufficient—that Lord Oxford had no right to sell the next presenta tion to the living, and that the contract was in viola tion of the Act of 32 Henry VIII., passed to pre vent maintenance and champerty. The Vice -Chan cellor dismissed the bill with costs. Messrs. PEPYs . and KNIGHT were heard in support of the appeal, and contended that the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor was not warranted, either by the facts or by the law of the case. The contract was clear and specific---that Wilkinson should give 7,0001. for the advowson, on having transferred to him the title Goodacre received from Lord ,Oxford, Lord Harley, and Mr. Moore. Messrs. SUGDEN and TINNEY, .on the other side, submitted that the Vice Chancellor had arrived at a correct conclusion. The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that the judg ment of the Vice-Chadellor proceeded very much on the relation of Mr. Moore to the parties. He would look into it with more attention, and give his judgment on a future day. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 15. LI BEL..-.REX V. THWA ITES. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was called upon to support his rule for a criminal information against the defendant, for a libel on M. Rocaftierte, the Mexican Minister. A great many of the topics urged by Sir James Scarlett had nothing to do with the case. The question was, whether the defendant had not published a personal libel on the character of of M. Rocafuerie, so as to entitle him to have a cri minal information filed. If this publication had been an argument for the purpose of recommending pru dence and caution with respect to the dealings in the South American Securities, the defendant would have been blamed by nobody—certainly not by him. Sir J. Scarlett talked of these loans having been made to the South Americans in order to foster the rising spirit of liberty in those States; but he thought that such topics would have been better addressed to another set of auditors. Here' was a Mr. Lewis, who stated in his affidavit that he was employed in collecting all possible information, whe ther from reports or otherwise, about the 'South American Loans, for the purpose of publication ; and there were Mr. Layton, Mr. Jackson, and two others, stockholders, and Mr. Andrans, an insurance broker, all of them, very likely, respectable then; but, without at all meaning s to question their re spectability, he might say that the profits to be de rived from speculation in these securities were pro bably their main consideration, without caring much whether those profits were derived from fostering the spirit of liberty, or from a contrary source. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was interrupted here with a notice that he would be further heard of Monday. The Judges, at twelve o'clock, went to the Ex chequer Chamber. STIIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. . • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14.—Wind S.S.E. 21 minutes past fnur.—Arrii'ed the Am New York ; Dalhousie Carle, Walton, from nix, Weeks, from Oporto ; Cainoens, Haraia Ellen Jenkinson, Blundell, from Smyrna; Rotterdam. CLEARF.D „OPTIVART)B.,--The Sublime, Baltiinore; , Bretnen Packet, Stonier, for B terprise; for Messina. SATURDAY, Nov. 15.--Wind Heighington, Pott, from Barbadoes; Albe from Jersey ; Eliza and Jane, Bowen, front loony, from Drogheda. CLEARED OUTWARDI.---The Tagus, Berry, Lady Amherst, Phillips, for Genoa; St. Nei, for St. Petershurgh ; William, for Ni New England, Deane, for New York ; Speed' Honduras. EAST INDIA. The Norfolk, Redman, from Bengal, off sailed from Calcutta, June 1, Saugur, Juste Helena, Sept. 10. H. M. ship Champion, from Penang, at P, sailed June 16, Mauritius, Aug. 10, St. Helen, and Ascension, 24th ditto. The London, Fotheringham, from Batavia June) to Loudon, 17th Sept. lat 2. 50. S. b W., having sprung her mainmast off the Maur; Passengers per Norfolk, from Bengal—Mr. Adlingtou, and three children; Mr. and Mire. aml child; Messrs. Blunt, Berra, Jackson, Mot.._ Rummin ; Mr. ()gamy, died 19th June, of dropsy ; Wilson, Miss Alsop, Capt. Fairfax, Lieut., Rlair,,lo l servants. Arrivals at Bengal—The Exporter, Huize, f r om burgh, the 3d May; Poyreebot, Malulain, from Na' the 29th. Arrivals at the Mauritius —The Ceylon, 'from _ and the Stentor, Fairweather, from Portsmouth, 05 Ist of August. Ships spoken with--The Simpson. from Loodoo rg ', Bombay, 19th Sept. lat 3. N. long. 20 W. ; the 66 0 , Canning, fr om Li verpoo l to New South Wales, Sept. lat. 9. 5. N. long. 20. 34. W. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS A NCE , Lnn, PAM, in ditto; F' un, from diet' Agatha, o° 4 P r Stenson, Bremen ; Yard, P 1 4.6 _Arrived [bat, r riP,F 4t : 13, ditto; 4.7' -wee,. R aga is b o a, r Trede :Notes 3a 1/ Y, for L ta N e w Orl esvii edy, Lake, 4( 'tertai toe rei day. cti cularl nou l i al° is to Portai ie 8, OP Ptoit Portslooll,4,; grope, ma , Sept. I" 4113, at 111 i (saildds , long 15. . sa niurni tritiu and Itl ii rb Cat Wouteleit ropey • 10: from IV tNc, m Naote, 0° giv e by th out Londoa; venib: uth, on e L 4 uctir' L. n don expire S IIIR 14 g, 2 Api DURING LAST WEEK, Wheat. Barley. Oats. WO' Per Quarter. s. to s. S. to s. s. to s. s. Carlisle -- 32 - 25 - Carmarthen 75 -32- 19 - Hexham- 64 70 27 33 18 25 50 4 4 Pe Morpeth 64 76 38 44 19 56 40 , nrith - 68 ! Sheffield '7O 84 136 50 24 35 48 b o Winchester 65 96 36 40 24 27 42 Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. d. r, d. s. d. s. d.F. d. Coventry Newcastle (Staff) 12 0 12 2 '7 0 7 2 4 9 5 0 7 0 ti Stafforderton - 8 0 10 0 4 0 4 3 2 3 2 6 5 0 i"j 12 0 1.2 2 00 '7 040 49 80 o Swansea 8 9 93 40 4 6 2 6 3 2 0 0 ," 9 0 10-0 46 5 6 30 50 54 " Per 8011. 1 Barnareleastle......, 17 0 21 0 9 0 9& 5 8 7 4 001 - D arlington 19 0 24 0 96 10 0 48 '7 0 10 0 !! Durham 176 20 0• 8 0 96 56 8 6 11 6 I ',; g Wolsingliam 170 20 6 86 90 60 76.00 WAKEFIELD. Nov. 14. There is only a moderate supply of Wheat, both from the farmers and up the river here to-day, hut the prices a t Liverpool beim , now comparatively lower than at 'b ig market, and the millers not being disposed to ju t° stock, waiting to see the effect produced by the Wheat ja bond being liberated at a low duty, have purchased vet/ sparingly at a decline of 2s. to Si, per quarter, and up t ° the close of the market very little business has been done. Oats are very dull, and prices rather lower. The bes t Barley is rather cheaper, and there is no demand for th e light descriptions at any tolerable price. Beans partake 0 1 the general dulness, and very few can be sold to-day. Wheat, Red, NOrfolk and Suffolk 70s. to '79s. fine 834. ----- Lincolnshire 72s, to 78s. fine SOS' Yorkshire, &c 73e. to 775. fine 188. White Foreign, Old 6Bs. to 765. fine 16s. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ....... 365. to 41s. tine 435. --- Lincolnshire 39s. to 435. tine 45e. --- Yorkshire Wold 4ls, to 435. tine 455. Beans, Tick 4os. to 448. fine 455. Small 37s. to 455. fine 469. Oats, Poland and Potato 22s. to 31s. fine 335. - Friesland and Small 22s. to 28s. fine 293. Mealing l4d. to 16d. per Stone. Shelling Malt Rapeseed 302:4 Os. 3 11. - s 3 fineta ?J o 39 5.10 ~8s e r r Liaddt SCOTCH MARKETS: HADDINGTON CORN MARKET.—Nov. 14. Barley maintains the same top, and has advanced about un sold on ni , the in a r v ei average j. Oats 143 quarter s areup 2s: on e were B:hl,tiaaLltdopl,l and down 2d. on the average ; 210 quarters sold, 34 unsold and unreturned: The supply of Wheat was limited to-day ; top price down 2s. average up ls. W. Of Pease 44 quar ters were in the market, and of Beans 51 ; the averages of both are,down. • Wheat. First Bls Od Second Third There were 230 qrs. Barley. ' Oats. Pease. Beans. 444 Od 32s Od 3:3s Od 4os Grd 40s Od '27s Cd 32A Od 34s Od 28s (3d 22 (hi :30s Od Od of Wheat in market, . 99 whereof were sold. 16 Unsold.-15 Grey 3/. 15s. 1 AveraJ 3-12ths 11 kinds 01 sold brisl Grain at ,ly at last beans. 4O Oct 36s Od 30s Ott J MARK ipply of al ra general DALKEI There was a vet this day's market, week's prices. ETH CORI ry large st which i Wheat. Barley. Oats. ['cage. First Bos Od 41s 6,1 30s Od I 40s Od Second 70s Oct 36s Od 24* Od :30a al CORNWALL MARKETS. TRURo.—Wheat (average) 30s, Od.—Barley, 14s.—eats, I Is. 4 d- HecaroN—Wheat, 20. 7 d.—Barley, 15s. Od. Ausrtm.—Wheat, 28s. to 32s.—Barley, 14s. to 158.—0at9, Its. Od. to 14a. BoomlN—Wheat (average) 30s. 04.—}larloy, 15s. Od.—Oats, LA tINCESTON—Mh eat (average) 28s. Od.—Barley, 13s. 6a—oats, 12s. Od,-Beef, 6d.—Mutton, LISKEARD-- Wheat, 275. 3d.—Barley, 14s. Od.—Oats, 12s. to Oa , (Id. ST. Comm—Wheat, 30s. to 34-s.—Barley, 13.4. to 14s.—Beef, and Mutton, 5d to 50.—Veal and Lamb, Od to scl. PENZANCE—Wheat, 29e. to 31s.—Barley, 14s. to 16s.—Oats, 10s. to 12s. Od.—Beef and Mutton, bd. to Od.—Pork, ?id. to Od.-- Butter, I Id. per lb. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday 2,904 0 Average Produce B4 0 Quantity of tine Copper Amount of Sale, 18,6081' . 12s. 6tl.—Average Standard, 1114 ss. Od. Last Friday the drivers of 314, 441, 609, and 771, were brought up to the Hackney Coach Office, Essex street, by SHAW, the constable, and fined ten shillings each, for obstructing the way at the Adelphi Theatre. One of the drivers was fined an additional ten shillings fur being impertinent. , A patent has recently been taken out for what the ingenious inventor calls an expansion shoe, for the use and comfort of that noble animal the horse. It has a joint in the middle, and it is the general opinion of the veteri►tary surgeons in the Metropolis, that this discovery will greatly facilitate the speed, and at the same time conduce greatly to the safety of both the horse and his rider. BIRTHS. On Wednesday, the 12th instant, in Welbeek-street, the lady of George Palmer, Esq. of a son. At Down House, near Gloucester, the lady of G. Dowdeswell, Esq. of a son and heir. The lady of Adam Hodgson, Esq. of Breckfield-lodge, of a son. MARRIED. On the 15th instant, by the Rev. J. Pt Wood, rector of St. Peter's, Cornhill, John Ley Gibbs, Esq. of Genoa, to Ellen Maria, eldest daughter of John Gamble, Esq. of Finsbury-square. Immediately after the ceremony, the happy cauple set off for Italy. On Thursday, the 13th instant, at Longbridge Deverill Church, by the Rev. John Langley, the Rev. Henry John Crump, of Weymouth, to Susanna, third daughter of Wro. Hubbard, Esq. of Crockerton, Wilts; and at the same time and place, Mr. Edward Jackson Everett, of Heytes bury, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Wm. Hubbard, Esq. On Saturday, the loth instant, at St. Pancras New Church, by the Rev. Joseph Brackenhury, Captain Hugh Nurse, R. N., to Amelia, daughter of the late Colonel Bulkeley. DIED. On the 14th inst., Mr. John Felton, of Strangeways, near Manchester. He was the agent of Weatherby's Racing Calendar, and a man well known and c steemed in the sporting world. On th e 12th inst., at Knockbraxborg, David M'Cullock, Esq., of Torhousekie, Stewartry of Galloway. On the 12th instant, at Hagley, in Worcestershire, George Fulke, Lord Lyttleton, in the 66th year (This age. He is succeeded in his honours and English estate by his half-brother, Wm. Henry, now Lord Lyttleton. Mr. C. L. Quelle, 19, Ludgate-hill, aged 78. On Saturday, in the Commercial -road, Waterloo-bridge, Isabella, the eldest daughter of Mr. Charles Moore. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, at 09 SUN oFfyR, Ligfficm• Night