The Sun. — London, England, 1841-09-06 00:00:00

GREAT ANTI-CORN-LIW MEET- $ ING AT KETTERING. (From the Le.:*cesterthire 21crcury.) ),1 Tuesday evening, August 31st, a public meeting wt,r, convened in the 11.Jy's British School-room, in this ton, with the view of discussing the injurious effects of the Corn-laws, and the benefit which would result fr.nii their repeal. The room, although large, was crowded to excess, and great numbers were unable to gain admission. At no time throughout the proceedings, were there less than one thousand persons present. Mr. W. Toiler was unanimusly called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN, after a neat and apposite speech, called upon the Rev. J. JENKINSON, who rose, and moved the following resolution :—" That this meeting considers the existing Corn and Provision Laws, to be unjust in principle, and cruel in their operation, and therefore pledges itself to employ every legitimate means of obtaining their total and immediate repeal." The resolution was then carried unanimously. The Rev. W. ROBINSON (who as well as Mr. Jenkin son attended the Anti-Corn-law Conference from this town) next addresred the meeting in an eloquent and uncompromising speech, which we regret we are not able to present to our readers: He was listened to through out with die most lively interest, and, at intervals, warmly cheered. He declared himself satisfied with nothing less than a total repeal, and concluded by pro posing that tile following petition be presented to both Houses of Parliament : The Petition of the Undersigned, being Inhabitants of Kettering, in the County of Northampton,— " SHOWETH—That in the opinion of your Petitioners, one main cause of the distress at present existing in this country, is to be found in the laws restricting the supply of provisions. " That to your petitioners it seems evident that in a country so limited as the United Kingdom, and with a population increasing at the rate of a thousand a day, a tax on bread is in the highest degree impolitic, is a sin against God, and cruel to the poor ; the more especially as such tax is almost entirely paid, not to the service of the state, but to the landholders. " That your petitioners therefore pray your Honour able House to remove without delay all . prohibitory duties on corn and other provisions, and to give entire freedom to trade in all its branches." Mr. ROBERT WALLACE (an extensive farmer in the neighbourhood) seconded and supported the petition, and made some very just and liberal remarks, and de clared himself a total and immediate Repealer. The petition was put from the chair, and carried una nimously. A vote of thanks was then warmly passed to the Rev. W. Robinson and the Rev. J. Jenkinsoe, for their aid and sympathy in attending the Conference, and a vote of thanks to the chair, and the meeting separated. So unpopular has the Corn-law become in this neigh bourhood that there is no person, Whig or Tory, to be found who has the hardihood to defend it publicly. In the course of the proceedings the Chairman read the following statement respecting the Preston Union : In 1836 there were 4,725 individuals on the poor- rate, and in 1841 there were 7,299. In 1836 the Dispensary Report contained 1,911 recipients, and in 1840 there were 3,072. In 1838 the number of deaths in Preston Union amounted to 1,269, and in 1841 they amounted to 1,739, being an increase of 462. This excited the attention of the Registrar-General, who wrote to the Clerk of the Union to inquire the cause, and received the following answer : " The cause is, in a very great measure, insufficiency of food, which has tended to engender death among the labouring class, who have been exposed to high prices for provisions (and those of an inferior kind) whilst in the receipt of decreasing wages. " JOSEPH THACKERAY." CORN-LAWS AND COMMERCIAL REFORM. On Wednesday last a meeting, which was fully and most respectably attended, was held at the King's Head, Cumberland market, for the purpose of forming an Anti- Corn-law Association for the western division of the parish of St. Pancras. The necessary resolutions were proposed and carried. A liberal subscription was entered into, and the meeting adjourned till Thursday, the 9th of September, at Lawson's Rooms, Gower-street, when a large meeting is expected, and the presence of the Members for the borough, Sir Charles Napier and Sir Benjamin Hall, is anticipated. CHELSEA. — Last evening a very respectable meeting took place at the Manor-house, Chelsea, for the purpose of hearing Mr. Peter Taylor, jun., continue his exposi tion of the evils of the Corn-laws. Mr. Taylor addressed the meeting at great length and with much force. KENT.—On Thursday evening a meeting was held of the inhabitants of Dartford, for the purpose of enrolling members in the Anti-Corn-law Association, and adopt ing measures for agitating the town and county against the Bread-tax. In consequence of the great concourse of persons, being far beyond what could be contained in the Town Hall, the meeting was adjourned to an open space, where about 1,200 persons assembled. Mr. Sidney Smith, who was received with loud cheers, proceeded to address the meeting. He coneTetulated them on the progress of the question, and stated that in six months it had gained the position of a Cabinet ques tion, was recommended from the Throne, and had gained an accession of one hundred Members in the House of Commons. He observed that the resignation of the Whigs had fairly sunk the existence of the vory names Whig and Tory, and had annihilated the old classifica tions of party. The Duke of Buckingham had been invited into the Cabinet, which was just a declaration of war against the free traders, and the struggle was sim plified into a contest betwixt the Government and the country. It was the great cause of Bob Peel versus John Bull, and they all knew that when John fairly saw whom he was to fight, he never was long in knocking. ;lint down. He called the meeting to witness that mo derate fixed duties were rejected with scorn by Rich mond, the Cabinet-maker, and that total and immediate reVeal was the only safe, as it was the only just and true gfnund for the people to occupy. He also felicitated • them on the accession of the religious community to their ranks, and was glad to learn that 700 ministers, after their return from the Manchester Conference, had each called crowded meetings in their several localities, to give an account of what had occurred. Mr. Smith then lectured for about two hours and a half, and con cluded amidst three times three cheers. After a few ob servations from Mr. Robins, and a vote of thanks to Mr. Smith and to the Chairman, the great meeting broke up, Afnidzt three cheers for the Queen, and threelgroans for the Duke of Buckingham. EstiEL—An Anti-Corte law Association has been re centiy formed at Walthamstow. Mr. Sidney Smith lec tured hi the British School there on Wednesday evening. The meeting was also addressed by .T. F. Gibson, Esq., Mr. Sutton, and Mr. Clarke. The Rev. Baptist Noel's pamphlet has created a prodigious effect in this quarter. ANTI-MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION.—Last Wednesday eveoing a meeting took place at the Temperance Hotel, .Aldeusgate-street, to consider the formation of a Metro politan Young Man's Anti-Monopoly Association similar to tile Association at Manchester. It was unanimously resolved, " That a public meeting should be held at Finsbury Cliape;, South-place, on Thursday next Sop. tembtr 9, at half-pact seven for eight o'clock precisely, to carry out the resolution above referred to ; ' and a working Committee was appointed, with power to add to their numbers, to take measures for calling the meetiere Subscriptions were collected in aid of the objects of the Society. ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT LYNN. A meeting of upwards of 300 inhabitants, convened by public notice, was held on Monday evening last, at the Freemasons' Tavern, to consider the propriety of a petition to the House of Qo=lloll3 for the repeal of the Corn-laws. The Hey. Mr. HAMILTON ended an able speech by joining in a resolution before the meeting, " appr oving of the acts and resolutions of the Conference of Christian . 31inisters recently hell in Manchester, on th e su bj ect o f the laws which restrict the supply of food to the people." A commercial gentleman in the body of the meeting, s t a ted that he came from Leeds, that seeing an advertist merit for a public meeting on the subject of the Corn. laws, he felt himself constrained to attend it. He was enabled fully to confirm the statements which had been ma de as to the distress so universally existing, not only amo ngst the labouring classes, but the wholesale and re tail dealers a s well. He had lately b een at H u ll , Lin coin, Boston, and other large towns, and the universal cry is, "We have no trade." On the part of the suffer ing weavers of Yorkshire, he thanked the meeting finr the sympathy they exhibited in their distresses. A petition embodying these sentiments, and pray int* a re peal of the bread -tax, was moved by B. 'rrenowath, and seconded and carried unanimously by the meetine., who agreed with the chairman, that in the absence of' D .Mr. Hume from Parliament, no one would be so proper' to present it to the House of Commons as Arr. Cobden, the newly-elected Member fur Stockport.— Norwich Mercury. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. —The general half -yearly meeting of this Company took place on Thursda y , in the large room of the newly erected station, Temple Needs, Bristol. The principal matters were as follow :—The total amount of receipts for the half-year ending the 30th of June last was 187,780/, 16s. 2d., and the expe nse s were for the same Period 84,3801 . o s. 7d., being nearly 45 per cent. on the receipts. The number of passenger s convoyed was 659,537 for an aggregate number of 15,587,798 miles. Total profit is 110,330/. 14s. 6d. , 63,590/ 16s. Bd. of which had to be app li e d to the payment of interest, and the remainder to be applied as a divi dend. The Directors had th ere f ore d ec l are d a divi dend of 3/. per cent. per annum. The receipts since the opening of the line throughout (° the Ist July) showed an average on four successive weeks of 14,844/. I ls. per week. The total amount of capital required is 6,150,0001., independent of a Plant to work the two lines (Great 'Wiestern Union and Bristol and Exeter), which was esti mated at 150,0001. more. After expressing their regret that the t - expenditure should have exceeded their estimates, the DirecteTs recommend an issue of loan -notes to the amount of 550,000/. The several resolutions adopting the report, authorising the - issue of loan notes, and sanctioning the reduction or the Board of Directors, were subsequently passed; and the meeting, which was very fully att e nd e d, seearated. jvEW JEWS' SYNAGOGUE.—The foundation stone of a Jews' synagogue was laid on Thursday se'n night, at Bath, by J. Abraham and B. Samuel, the elder of the Jews' congregation. The usual ceremonies were performed by the Very Rev. Wolf ; the erection being an memory of their late much respected benefactor and friend - , Moses Samuel, Esq., late of this city. The day happening to be the birthday of Prince Albert, all the additional prayers were, according to the invariable prac tiA of the Jews on such commemorations, read by the otficlting minister with that loyal fervour which has eve .characterised the Jewish people. CONSECRATION OF TILE CITY OF LONDON and TOWER HAMLETS CEMETERY. On Saturday the City of London cad Tower Hamlets Cemetery, situated on the right hand side of the Mile end-road, about a mile on the eastern side of the Mile end-gate, was formally consecrated, by the Bishop of London, previous to its being opened fir the reception of bodies. Though the weather was exceedittely unfavour able,. owing to the heavy and unremitting rains, the at tendance was numerous and respectable. The temporary chapel, in which the ceremony took place, was densely crowded. Among those present we observed the Lord Mayor, Mr. Sheriff' Farncombe, Mr. Sheriff Gibbs, Mr. Deputy Alderman Green, and various others. About twenty minutes to three the Bishop of London arrived (having previously robed at the house of Mr Francis, one of the Directors), and proceeded imme• diately to the consecration of the ground. One of the Directors of the Company having presented a petition for the consecration to the Right Rev. Prelate, the latter caused the petition to be read, which having been done by the Re , :istrar, the Rev. Mr. Williams, the Bishop's Chaplain, proceeded to read the 39th and 90th Psalms, and that portion of the 19th chapter of the Gospel of St. John which relates to the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. After the Right Rev. Prelate said prayers— One of the Directors of the Company (Mr. Deputy Alderman Green) presented his Lordship with the Act of Parliament, and the deeds of conveyance of the ground, after which the Right Reverend Prelate directed the sentence of consecration to be read. This having been done, the Bishop signed the document, and directed the Registrar to register it, together with the petition. The company present, with very few exceptions, then knelt down, when the Right Reverend Prelate read a prayer composed for the occasion. The Bishop concluded the ceremony of consecration by pronouncing the apostolic benediction ; on which the company separated, the largest portion of them adjourn ing to a neighbouring marquee, in which a cold colla tion was provided. The number of persons who sat down to the collation was about 200, among whom were a great number of fashionably-dressed ladies. Mr. Alderman Deputy Green presided on the occasion. The Chairman, after most of the company had partaken of refreshment, rose to propose the health of the Right Rev. Prelate. The toast having been drunk with great ap plause, The Bishop of LONDON rose to return thanks. He greatly approved of public cemeteries in the suburbs of large towns, both on the ground of the health of the in habitants, and on that of public decency. The only difficulty which ever occurred to his mind on the subject was, that the necessary effect of these cemeteries must be to cause interments to be removed from those parishes in towns in which the deaths take place, and consequent ly deprive the clergymen of those parishes of the burial fees which they would otherwise receive. As the repre sentative and guardian of the interests of the clergymen of the metropolis, he felt it right to allude to this cir • cumstance, as the greater part of the living of many of the clergy was derived from burial fees. He was happy, however, to say, that by a recent Act of Parliament pre vision had been made for insuring some allowance to the clergy in cases where bodies were removed from their pa rishes to be interred in public cemeteries. The Directors of the Company whose cemetery bad been just consecrated, had, he was happy to say, acted with liberality towards those clergymen who would be deprived of their usual burial fees by its means ; and though the remuneration was not all that could be wished, still he was pleased to witness the liberality the Directors had displayed. It was quite as much as could be expected—(Hear, hear) — and the clergy mustbe satisfied with a small remuneration. The Right Rev. Prelate then quitted the grounds. It was stated on his departure, by a gentleman present, that he (the Bishop of London) intends to bring in a Bill in the ensuing Session of Parliament to prevent any further interments in - the City of London. The City of London and Tower Hamlets Cemetery embraces an extent of thirty acres of ground, and pro mises, when finished, to be very tastefully laid out. The first interment took place yesterday afternoon, very shortly after the ceremony of consecration had taken place. ALLEGED NECESSITY OF THE CORN-LAW, TO COUNTERACT THE UN EQUAL PRESSURE OF TAXATION ON AGRI CULTURISTS. (From the Spectator.) Having in our paper the week before last reviewed the general arguments in favour of a restrictive Corn-law, we now proceed to those which have a special refererce to the actual condition of Great Britain. The argu ments of this secondary class are generally put some thing after this fashion—" Admitting, for argument's sake, that the Free Trade. doctrines are true in the ab stract, the trade in grain in this country is an exception able case." It is asserted by the advocates of a restrictive Corn law, that there is a peculiarity in the condition of our agricultural interest, when compared with the condition of other classes of society, that would render it advis able to extend to them the protection of a law restricting or prohibiting the importation of foreign grain, if such a law did not already exist. And this peculiarity is said to consist in that interest's bearing more than its due proportion of national taxation. Even thouo;h it were proved that it did, the question would still remain—ls a restriction upon the importation of foreign grain the best way of redressing the ineqr-lity of the pressure of taxa tion ? Would it not be better to revise our system of taxation with a view to render its pressure more equable, than to subject the whole population to scarcity by Act of Parliament ? The agricultural interest consti tutes the majority in both Houses of Pa.liament : it has the power of adjusting the burden of taxation according to its views of justice and expediency, or even its likings. If the agricultural interest do indeed bear more than its fair share of taxation, the remedy is in its own hands— it can equalize the pressure of taxation. If the power of taxing were in the hands of some other class, there might be reason in putting up with a substitute for jus tice ; though, even in that case, the compensating power of a law, which, by impoverishing all classes of the com munity (the agricultural class among the rest) rendered them all more sensible of the burden of taxation, might be questioned. But, waiving these considerations, we proceed to the question—ls it true that in this country the agricultural class bears a heavier burden of taxation than the other classes of the community ? This part of the subject cannot be passed over, though it has been too often discussed to admit of 'any novelty, beyond a passionless resume of exhausted statements. Five classes of burdens are enumerated by those who answer this question in the affirmative as bearing exclu sively, or with greater weight, upon the agricultural, in terest—Land-tax, Tithes, Highway-rates, Poor-rates, and Church-rates. Let us see the bearing and amount of each of these burdens separately. 1. The Land-tax. The Land-tax in England was fixed during Queen Anne's reign, in round numbers at 4s. in the pound ; the total rental of England being assumed to be 10,000,000 L; and consequently, the total amount of the tax being then 2,000,0001. per annum. Pitt gave the landlords the option of redeeming this tax at the same rate, notwithstanding the immense increase of rental in a century ; and they have availed them selves of the advantage to an extent that has reduced the amount brought annually into the national coffers to something short of 1,200,000/. The rental of all Eng land is at present estimated at 40,000,0001. In Scotland the amount of Land-tax was fixed in the reign of Queen Anne likewise at 4s. in the pound ; the estimated annual rental of that burden being then 200,0001. The amount of Land-tax paid in Scotland is consequently. 40,0001. ; the annual rental is now 4,000,000/. In Ire land there is no Land-tax. The pressure of the Land tax upon the agricultural interest may therefore be easily estimated:— Annual Rental. Land-tax. Eng1and.........£40,000,000 Scotland 4,000,000 Ireland 13,000,000 Total... 61,000,000 1,240,000 The Land-tax of Great Brit a in i s a t ax u p on ren t, pa id by a part only of the landowners of Great Britain ; and the ratio borne by the amount of the tax to the rental of the country is somewhere about sd. in the pound. In return for this the landowners are exempted from the Probate and Legacy duty. The annual value of all the real property of Great Britain, under the assessment for the Property-tax in 1814-15, was valued at about 60,000,000/. ; the annual value of all other property at rather more than 116,000,0001. Assuming that the proportions continue unaltered, it follows, the annual amount of the Legacy-duty on personal property being about 2,200,000/.. that the annual amount on real estate, if exigible, would be about 1,138,0001. Th e exempt i on, therefore, from the payment of Probate and Legacy duty enjoyed by the landowners, more than compensate them for the burdens of the Land-tax. 2. Tithes. Tithes are not a tax paid by the land owner. Tithes are as much the property of the person to whom they are paid, as the rent is the property of the landowner. All lands paying tithe have been held from time immemorial, on the understanding that the tithe of the annual produce does not belong to the landowner. In buying and selling land, the tithe is constantly excluded from the estimate of its value. Doubts are entertained as to whether the right to tithes is absolutely in the Church, or held by it of the. State upon certain conditions, the right of property being in the State—but the land lords' they certainly are not. The landlords, however, have contrived to acquire possession of the tithes in a good many instances. In England and Wales one third part of the land is tithe-free ; and of the remainder of the tithes one-fourth belong to laymen ; in other words, one half of the land pays no tithes. In Scotland a portion of the tithes is held by laymen, frequently by the owners of the land. When the tithe is paid to a lay impro priator, it is clearly of the same character as the fines or quit-rents paid by copyholders to the lord of the manor ; it is not a tax to the State. When tithe is paid to the Church, the only difference consists in its being paid to a corporation instead of an individual. The landowner has no more title to reckon his tithes among his public burdens, than the farmer his rents, cr the merchant the interest he pays upon the burrowed money he trades with. 3. Highway-rates. All the great lines of road in the kingdom are maintained chiefly by the money levied at the turnpikes from those who use them. There are many exemptions from the payment of tolls in favour of the agricultural interest ; none in favour of other classes. The farmer oz farming landlord pays no toll for manure, or for horses going to the farrier, or for cattle going to pasture. For a circle of considerable radius round all our towns—along all the great lines of mercantile traffic—the chief burden of supporting the highways is borne by the non-agricultural classes. On all turn pike road* the agricultural class pays for the use of them at a lower rate than other classes. If parish-roads are made and maintained at the expense - of parishes, streets are paved, watered, lighted, and kept clean, at the expense of the townsmen. In both cases, the road is made and kept up by the parties who make the most use of it. And this consideration leads us to the true view of the question : if Highway-rates are paid for making and repairing roads, full value is given for the money paid. The gain which those who pay the rates derive from the diminished expense of conveying their goods to market in consequence of the roads being kept in good travelling condition, is at least worth what they pay. If these highway-rates were not paid, the wear and tear of the, agriculturist's horses, and the loss of time — incurred in struggling to market along unmade tracks, would take more out . of his pocket than the High way-rates do. Highway -rates, paving, and lighting rates, and turnpike-dues, are the means that have been fairest' upon for the purpose of apportioning as nearly as possible the share of the expense of maintaining roads paid by each individual to the use he makes of them. If a great number of our road-trusts have run in debt, and if our landowners and their tenants be responsible for these debts, they incurred that responsibility by taking upon themselves the sole management and bungling it. 4. PO'Cir-rates. This is an unlucky topic for those who maintain that the heavier burdens borne by the landed interest entitle them to a monopoly of the grain -market at home. The new Poor-law was stoutly supported by the landlords, and the new Poor-law has materially di minished the amount of their assessment to the poor. They ought to abate proportionally the amount of pro tection they claim in the shape of a restricted duty on imported grain : are they prepared to do this ? But let us examine their allegations More narrowly. It is not agricultural property alone, but every kind of im moveable property, that is liable to the Poor-rates. That the expense of supporting the poor under the old law was greater in agricultural parishes than in towns, was owing in no small degree to the worse management which pre vailed in the former, and the ,vicious principles upon which relief was administered. No one is entitled to claim relief for expenses incurred by his own misma nagement. Again. were it not for the constant drain of population from the agricultural di s t r i c t s t o supply the demands of th great manufacturing towns for labour, the Poor-rates of the rural parishes would be much heavier. A considerable pro ' portion of the employed labourers of our manufactur ing towns would, but for these marts of industry, have been rural paupers ; and few if any of these immigrants from the agricultural districts are sent back as burdens to their native places when they become unfit for labour or unable to obtain if Allowance must be made by the agriculturists for the large number of paupers taken off their handy by the manufacturers. Lastly, the Scotch agriculturists pay literally no Poor-Cates, and the Irish agriculturists have only paid for a year or two a trifle not worth naming. The estimated annual rental of Scotland and Ireland is about 17,000,000.—within a trifle of halt of the estimated annual rental of England. The annual amount of Poor-rate paid by the holders of one-third of tl-e mu mil rental of the empire is less than a farthing in the poand. The discreparicy between the amount of Poor-rate paid by the owners of the remaining two-thirds and the other classes of society has been ma terially diminished by the operation of the new Poor law ; and from the apparent excess which still remains, must be deducted the labourers born in agricultural dis tricts who find employment and even support from the Poor-rate in our towns. 5. The Church-rates are not paid exclusively by the landlords and their tenantry. The shopkeepers pay the Church-rates in towns, as the landlords and their tenants pay them in the rural parishes. The whole country contributes to the upholding of the Irish churches. And if the heritors of Scotland are held bound to build and repair churches and manses, this is a very inadequate return for the amount of tithe which they contrived to appropriate to thenielves. It appears from'this examination, that four out of the five cases of alleged excessive pressure of public burdens upon the landed interest—Land-tax, Tithes, Highway rates, Church-rates —are utterly untenable ; and that the fifth, tho VOQr-rite, has been much exaggerated. In re lation to this tax It must lopt in mind, that the excess of pauperism of, which they complain is in no small degree occasioned by the Corn-law itself. By creating an artificial scarcity, it makes paupers. And it must also be remembered, that in addition to the exemption from Probate and Legacy duty, which we brought forward as a set-off against t Land •tag, and the exemptions from turnpike dues, ther;• :.re yet remaining several exemptions from taxes to which other classes are which go to compensate any possible excess of Poor-rate to which the agricultural classes may be liable. All horses engaged in husbandry are exempted from the duty paid upon all other horses engaged in labour. The agriculturist may keep as many shepherd's or herdsman's dogs as he pleases without tax; the . artisau or shopkeeper cannot keep a watch-dog without paying a duty. The farmer's dairy is exempted from the window tax ; and by this means many agriculturists escape that impost altogether, although they inhabit houses that would render any non-agricultural occupant liable to it. Upon the whole, therefore, the nearest possible ap proximation we. can make to the comparative.pressure of taxation on the agricultural class, and on the other classes of society, would lead us rather to believe that they -are under-taxed than that they aro o:er-taxed. At the same time it is clear that an artificial scarcity— rendering all classes of the community poorer—never could enable an over-taxed class to bear its burdens more easily. EVENING SUN. OPEN PARKS. One of the last acts of the late Ministers was to throw open the Regent's Park ; and, that they might gild their setting sun with the lustre of one popular deed, they did not wait for completing the fences. The breadth of sward thus added to the public pleasure-ground is considerable —some sixty acres ; but this, added to what was pre viously open, falls far short of the two hundred acres that Lord Teignmouth stated was available out of the two hundred and eighty-six that the Park contains. Nevertheless it is very nearly all that remained unappro priated ; without revoking agreements with a few indi viduals, who have been favoured at the expense of the public : with the public Tories and Whigs have alike broken faith in this instance. The space now thrown open is the large tract of grass lying between the grounds of the Marquis of Hertford's villa and the broad gravel-walk, and extending from the Zoological Gardens to the ornamental water. A light and ele gant suspension-bridge, with a flagged foot-way, crosses the canal between the Marquis's grounds and the en closed garden in front of Hanover-terrace; and the views from this bridge of the villa and gardens, and the lake, are very pretty ; gates of entrance are opened at various other points ; and gravel-walks, leading from them in a serpentine direction, will facilitate the passage across the Park, and contribute to the convenience of promena ders. A very liberal margin is allowed to skirt the pri vate grounds of the villas; but as these are railed off only by open wire fences, the range of view is quite as exten sive as may be, and the parterres and plantations form a pleasing boundary to the scene. When the walks are finished, the turf levelled, a group of trees planted here and there, a few more scats erected, and the communica tion opened with Primrose Hill, now become public pro perty, the Regent's Park will be the most healthful and delightful place of recreation in the metropolis. The Green Park, too, now shows the good effects of those operations that in their commencement alarmed the jealous apprehensions of the Londoners for their favourite grass thoroughfare. The new-dressed turf now wears its freshest verdure after the soaking of sum mer rains, which made passengers sensible of the value of the firm gravel-walks : the benches placed at fre quent intervals are an additional c.mifiirt ; besides being neat-looking and substanti a l, th e y afford no temptation to the idle and mischievous to deface them, as they con sist only of a flat seat without back or arms. While on this track, let us step out to Kensington Gardens, and admire the improvements that have already increased the healthfulness of that attractive spot, by causing a free circulation of air, and will here after contribute greatly to the beauty of the foliage. The thinning of the groves and the felling of many large trees that were unsound along the walks have given a nakedness to some parts ; but the filling-up of hollows, the removal of hedges and other obstructions, the extensive plan of drainage, and the substitution of vigorous saplings for decayed old trees, are advantages that will be appreciated more and more every year; the parterres ofshrubs and flowers, bordering the path running parallel to the Kensington-road, make it a beautiful pro , menade; and the flourishing plantations along this and the other side are even now ornamental. Let us not forget, either, the formation of Victoria Park at Hackney, for the benefit of the East-end of the town and the residents of the Tower Hamlets especially, in recounting the good deeds of the " Woods and Forests" under the Whig regime.—Spectator. LOUGH CORRIB BY MOONLIGHT. As the inhabitants from all quarters were collected at the jubilee in the wood, Lough Corrib was more than usually %till and solitary. The quiet gurgle of the waters, and the occasional twitter of the lake-birds as our little bark glided along the sedgy banks, were the only sounds that disturbed the deep quiescence which prevailed. Guided by tie lights as our pole star, we proceeded steadily onwards in our course ; and though the current wag against us, the Etesian wind of the sea son blew strongly up the stream, before which we were now floating in moonlight and silence. The glittering coruscations of the bonfires in the distance reminded us of those night fairs which it is the custom of the Egyp tians at cortaifl seasons of the year to hold upon the Nile ; and the fair lake aloeris itself, when at the zenith of her glory, with all her pavilions, pyramids, and Paisleys rising from the bosom of her waters, could not have appeared brighter in the eyes of the young wor shippers of itii>i - than the broad and Majestic Corrib seemed to us as wo gaily floated along her green and moonlit banks. _ If; thought we, as our airy bark crept silently along— if these lone shores want the luxurious groves of the orange and acacia, with the superb lotus trees which adorn the scenery of the Nile—if they want the shade of the tamarisk and palm-tree, with the rich perfume of the cedar, which flourish along the banks of that sacred river—they are, on the other hand, decorated with the lovely arbutus, whose green foliage never deserts them till a cheering vernal sun spreads a new umbrageous mantle over the whole tree ; and when we recollect that this beautiful evergreen bears its bright foliage through all the seasons, that its flowers, so exquisitely delicate, of one year and fruit of the preceding are pre , sent at the same time, it may be asked what more could 1 Elysium offer? It may be said, after Homer— " The stern winter smiles on this auspicious clime, The fields are florid with unfading prime." There are besides, scattered along these banks, groups of the wild ash and willow, whose pliant boughs, interlaced with each other, may he seen gracefully bending over the dark waters of the lake ; and, as ascending the stream, the long green slopes under the pale light of the moon wore successively presented to our view, we inwardly asked ourselves, " Where, 0 where is there verdure of the richness and softness of this ?" Yet this is the cow: try, lovely as it is, that there has been a ban upon for ages ! This is the land, to be born in which is or was almost a crime !—Old Sporting Magazine for Sep tember, At Marlborough-street Police-office, on Fri day, William Grant, the conductor of the Bayswato omnibus, No. 3,073, was charged with assaulting Ann Clark, under the following circumstances :—The com plainant, accompanied by two children, got into de fendant's omnibus in Coventry-street, but finding there was a child inside which had the hooping-cough, she be came alarmed for the children, and requested to be let out, which Grant refused until she had paid the full fare, and altiough one of the passengers said she had not ridden any distance, he persisted in his demand, and en her attempting to leave he tore her shawl off, and a locket that she wore was thrown down, and her brooch entirely lost. Defendant denied all this, The Magistrate said the complainant had been grossly ill-treated, and although she did not charge him with robbery, the disappearance of the brooch was suspicious, more particularly as the locket was found under the omnibus. He then fined him 51. and costs, which was paid. A NEW INCOME TAX.—It may be confidently relied upon, that it is the intention of the New Ministry to possessing imposeoassg 0 gr in ad 3 ua oi te . d_ su nciay income-tax immediately, on all persons TUE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1841 THE NEW MINISTRY. The first Cabinet Council of Sir Robert Peel's Admi nistration assembled at the Foreign-office on Saturday, at three o'clock. The summonses for holding the Coun cil were issued to all the members of the'Cabinet on Fri day. night. I 'Most of the new Ministers transacted official business at their respective offices on Saturday morning. Sir James Graham, Mr. Goulburn, and Lord Stanley were early in their attendance. On Friday, shortly after the return of the Earl of Aberdeen from Claremont, a messenger was despatched from the Foreign-office to Wynyard Park, requesting the attendance of the Marquis of Londonderry in town. We understand that the messenger was instructed, in case the Noble Marquis should have left Wynyard Park before his arrival to participate in celebrating the coming of age of Sir C. W. Wynne, that he was immediately to follow him. In the course of the morning several of the Cabinet Ministers visited Sir Robert Peel in Whitehall•gardens. The Earl of Shaftesbury had also a long audience of the Right Hon. Baronet. Sir William Rae had an interview with Sir James Graham, at the Home Office, on Saturday morning. We may state, we believe, with certainty, that Sir William has received the appointment of Lord Advocate for Scotland. THE RAPACIOUS RATS AND RENEGADES. The seals of office have passed from the hands of the Melbourne Administration into the hands of its sup planters. The leading Members of the new Cabinet have long been before Cie public ; to use a common, but ex pressive phrase, they are " better known than trusted." Their previous reputations will anything but advance their claims on public confidence. A leading Tory journal of Thursday, bidding high for the organship, .introduced the new Administration to the public with the following flourish of trumpets : "It would be idle in us to claim for a Cabinet thus constituted the confidence of the country. There is not one of its members who is not already well known to the people of England, or who has not by his past conduct in public life earned for himself a high place in their confi dence and esteem. We need only add that the appropria tion to each individual member of the Cabinet of the position in the Administration which each is destined to fill, has been accomplished with the unanimous concur rence and to the entire satisfaction of all." A mighty change has passed over the visions of Tory seers. We have before us a host of very differently-con structed articles,upon the Premier and his colleagues— all printed in leading Tory papers within the last twelve months. We shall indulge in a few extracts. First, then, as to the - Premier himself. No longer since than August, 1840, the following denunciation of Sir Robert Peel appeared in the Herald—now among the loudest in his praise ".This is not the time to forget that no party ever trusted Sir Robert Peel without being betrayed by lam. His name is closely identified with nearly every mis chievous measure of the last quarter of a century. Sir R. Peel betrayed the industry and agriculture of the country by his fatal Currency Bill of 1819. Sir R. Peel betrayed the Church by the part he took in passing the Romanist Emancipation Act. Sir R. Peel most foully betrayed the great interests of the Conservative party by his conduct during the present session on the Privi lege question. And now we have, as the result of a commission issued by him five years ago, a regularly or ganized scheme of spoliation brought to bear upon the Church, and destined, if ever acted upon, to sweep it from the catalogue of our national institutions I " The public will recognize in this condensation of Sir Robert Peel's crimes against Toryism, the text of the letters of Catholicus, recently published in the Times ; the elaborate arguments of the British Critic, urged to the same result ; and the appeals of the Standard to the " Conservative democracy," to select " other leaders ;" as those- in whom they had trusted had proved traitors to the Protestant cau se . The f o ll ow i ng were among many similar intimations, employed about the same time by the Standard to alarm the time-serving Peel and his then supporters, now his colleagues, into the support of Orange Protestantism : The knowledge that the Conservative democracy will be obeyed by those who assume to represent and to lead them in Parliament, will go far to produce union among Conservatives in both Houses, by eft couraging those who, however they may have acted, have all along wished to act right, and by, teaching to such as.would distract the party by their personal engagethents, or their impracticable prejudices, that they must be content to submit or to retire." Again : " Let it once be known that the Conservative masses will take their own business into their own hands, and all ,things in the party will be speedily arranged as we can wish ."' Of Lord Ellenborough, a member of the new Cabinet, and the holder of an important and prominent post in the Government, the same faithful chronicler observed—(the extract is from an article on his Lordship's support of the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill) :—" This man should really spare Conservatism the misery of having to bear at once the scandal of his sinecure, and the disgrace of his association !" We might multiply quotations of a similar description. We reserve ourselves, however, for future occasions, of which plenty will arise.—Sunday Paper. COUNTY COURTS.—There has been just I printed for the House of Lords a Bill (presented by the Lord Chancellor, and read for the first time on the 27th ult.), entitled " An Act to improve and extend the juris diction of County Courts." The passing of this Bill will be productive of many advantages to the community at large. The present constitution of County Courts is extremely defective and unsatisfactory. There is no pre cise or specified time for their being held, and they have only authority to hold plea of personal actions when the debt or damage cloth not amount to forty shillings. The under-sheriff, too, is the person who presides in them, and although these are generally a very efficient set of men yet it may happen, and frequently does, that not being accustomed to complicated cases, he finds himself rather perple - :ed and puzzled by the statdments and counterstaterr ents of the cunning attorneys who have to manage matters for their respective clients. By the new Bill twenty-five Judges are to be appointed by the Lord Chancellor, with salaries varying from 8001. to 1,5001. per annum, all of them to be either barristers of seven years' standing, or attorneys of ten. The Judges are to be invested with summary juris diction in personal actions, when the amount is under five pounds ; when it is above that suns, the plaintiff or defendant is entitled to call for a jury to decide. As the passine. b of this Bill will no doubt multiply to a gr ea t extent the business of the County Courts, so it will bring much additional business to the county attorneys, to whom a wide field for practice, and which promises to afford them a no very scanty harvest, will be thus Sud denly opened. It may be thought, perhaps, that too great patronage will be thus given to the Lord Chancel lor, and that the salaries of the Judges are somewhat too large. But these are the only objections that can be brought against it. In all otli , ?,r respects it is worthy of the earliest consideration of both p ar ti es — as we ll Torres as Whigs. Upon the author.of the Bill (Lord Cotten ' ham) the Times of Friday has bestowed a very hand some eulogium ; and well, indeed, it may have done so. There are few—perhaps, no Chancellor has ever , retired from the woolsack so universally esteemed for his urbanity, his mildness, his untiring attention to bu siness, and the many eminent benefits which, in some of the new rules that he has n:ade, he has conferred upon the Court over which for so many years he has presided. Very great excitement prevails at the present moment in Hamburgh, ow i ng to t h e ca pt ure , by an Eng lish cruizer, of a vessel under the Hatnburgh flag, on suspicion of bei ng engaged in the slave tra d e . ALARMING FIRE.--on Friday morning, about a quarter before six o'clock, a fire was discovered raging in the extensive granaries of Mr. Alexander Bell, Win chester Wharf, Bankside, Southwark. The fire origi nated in the drying kilns, on the second story of the building, and considerable damage was sustained. The prethises are insured in the York and North of England Insurance Offices. An extensive dyehouse adjoining the granaries sustained some damage. The Duke of Wellington receives annually as Pensions out of the Consolidated Fund, 8,9261. Con.. stable of the Tower, 9501. Colonel of Rifle Brigade, 2381. Colonel of Ist Regiment of Foot Guards, 2,6951. Lord Warden of Cinque Ports, 29a In addition to the interest on the grants made to his Grace by Parliament. THEATRICAL CHIT-CHAT.—A lady who, under the aristocrat name of Walpole, many years since appeared at Covent -garden Theatre in the " Irish Widow," and, for a season, sustained a high reputation in the histrionic art, is about to return to the stage under the auspices of the indefatigable 'Webster. The new grand melo•dramatic water-piece. called " Grisselle ; or, the Night Dangers," recently brought out, and having such an attractive run at Sadlers 'Wells, is from the pro lific pen of the veteran Moncrieff. It was intended Co vent-garden should open with a translation of the above mentioned piece, and portions of the scenery were actu ally painted, but the management on hearing of the success of the Well's version, abandoned this intention. It is quite certain that Charles Kernble and Mrs. But ler (Fanny Kemble). will return to the stage during the approaching season, and the first Shaksperian revival will be " Henry the Eighth." Miss Adelaide Kemble will also make her appearance in the course of the approaching season. Knowles's new play is to be called "The Banker." It i s f oun d e d on a mo d ern case o f forgery ; but the action is made to pass as far back as the reign of Charles I. The interest is powerful, though somewhat melo-dramatic, and the denouement unexpected and striking. • A sow of the half.bred species, belonging to Joseph Bell, of Ellenborough, lately littered the extra ordinary number of 19 rigs, all of which are doing well, SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FRO3I TOE DAILY FAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—Yesterday was a grand day for the Tories, and the dreams - of power which they have long indulged are at last substantially realized. The official seals, which, like the air-drawn dagger of Macbeth, have so long, with " the handle towards the hand," been hover ing above the heads of the leading Conservatives, are at length firmly in their clutch—visions of Treasury boxes, and bundles of papers tied together with red tape, are no longer • " False creations, " Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ;" but are now as sensible to the touch as to the eye ; and Sir Robert Peel, instead of starting up under an attack of nightmare, and screaming for a Treasury messenger, has at length substantially under his com mand the whole troop of underlings in the employment of Government. It would be unfair to ask, at this mo ment, what the new Ministers mean to do ; for, in the first flush of triumph at having been really installed into place, it is probable, that, so far from knowing what they mean to do, they are not quite aware of what they are actually doing ; and as excessive joy is said occasionally to place a man in some uncertainty as to " whether he is standing on his head or his heels," we suspect that many of the new Cabinet are in the condition when it is diffi cult to determine which happens to be uppermost. We should be rather inclined to say that the head had lost its proper pre-eminence, and that the heels had gained the ascendancy, when the new. Cabinet galloped off post haste from Claremont, leaving their Royal Mistress, as the Standard tells us they did, to eat her dinner alone, after the Sovereign had made it a special request—not a command, as her Majesty might have done--that her recently appointed advisers should stay and dine with her. They must indeed have been intoxi cated with pleasure when they committed such a gross breach of etiquette as that which their evening organ im putes to them ; and history will record the fact, that the first act of an Administration that had forced itself on the Crown, without invitation at all, was to prove its contempt for the Royal wish by rudely refusing to comply with the first personal request . that the Sove reign had the unprecedented condescensiff to make to her Tory Ministers. But they had got their seals, and, like children with a new toy, they must go home to play with them. As to Sir James Graham, he could not rest a moment, but must drive to Downing-street ; and the Earl of Aberdeen also " transacted business" at the Foreign Office, which, as the Government apart ments were all being swept and scrubbed, must have been got' through amid the din of pails, brushes, and charwomen. STANDARD.—A change in the cost of producing corn may have occurred since 1828, and such a change would be as good a reason for modifying the scale of protecting duties 'as a change in the value of money. Whether a change in the cost of production has occurred since 1828, we are not in a condition to say with any certainty; but if it has, it must be plain that the scale of duties necessary for protection in 1828 is not necessary in 1841. The purpose of every such scale is to protect agri culture from deterioration, and to encourage its advances; whatever goes beyond this is unjust, and injurious in more ways than one to agriculture itself, as it would not be difficult to show; but for our present purpose it is suffi cient if we have explained that a preference of certain definite pecuniary arrangements, several years ago, is no proof of an opposition to other duties at present, while the principle of complete protection is maintained. It is, however, unnecessary to say more of the Corn laws, because the present Conservative majority was, in fact, elected mainly with a view to maintaining the principle of these laws, for which the Conservative ma jority- of the 24th of May unreservedly declared itself. Upon the Corn-law question, therefore, there is not the most remote danger of a division among Conservatives. Ireland —but here the chances of Conservative division are, if possible, still less to be anticipated. We give below gratifying proof of the absence of such danger. There is indeed in the defensive position of a Conservative party, and more particularly of a party resisting great and terrible evils, a principle of union which can scarcely exist to the same extent in any other party. Such a party having no aggressive purposes, can have no motive for a separation which the surrounding peril proves to be fatal. Were the Conservatives now to divide, they know who would succeed to power, and what are their designs—not the Whigs, from whom mischief might be apprehended ; in moderate mea sures, they are extinct—but the motley crowd of free traders, Infidels, Radicals, and political Romanists, agreeing in nothing but in seeking the destruc tion of whatever the Conservatives hold dear. The next change of Ministry in this country will, if men hold to their present temper, be a change from monarchy to republicanism in Great Britain, and a dissolution of the empire. This it is which distinguishes our present state and duties from what they were at any former pe riod ; and we have, happily, another distinction. Leaders of parties are as prone to mistakes as the humblest of their followers ; and though we believe Sir Robert Peel to be as able, honest, and upright a Minister as ever go verned the country, we claim for him no infallibility, and we rejoice to see that he is not exposed to the tempta tions to error before which some of his predecessors have stumbled. COURIER.—There are few things in this world so thoroughly evil to the core, as, when thoroughly sifted and examined, not to be found capable of yielding some proportion of good. As in the physical world, the meanest and most malignant creatures have their proper uses, if we could but discover them, so events and occurrences in the political world, which short-sighted mortals are wont to look upon as portending nothing but disaster or cala mity, too often prove the means of multiplied benefits to the nation, and of its ultimate safety. Thoughts of this kind naturally suggest themselves to our mind when we contrast the former palmy state of the party lately in power with their present crippled condition. Far be it from us to indulge in shouts of unseemly triumph over the vanquished ; the defeated are entitled to commiseration—the fallen .to forbearance ; but never theless a salutary lesson of political wisdom may be read in the causes that have led not only to the over throw of the late Cabinet, but to the utter prostra tion of the Whig party. The most conclusive proof that the Whig Ministry had far outlived its allotted term of life, is, we think, to be found in the fact that in the first division that took place in a Parliament con vened at their own time, and under their own auspices, they found themselves in a minority of 91 ; and that party in the State which lately claimed for itself the dignity of power, and assumed the re sponsibilities, can now hardly muster strength enough to present a tolerably decent front in opposition. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. THREE POLL ONE.—A respectable man, named Wood, was charged by City policemen, 646, 669, and 645, with having assaulted them. The policemen stated that the defendant was in Bi shopsgate-street the night before in a state of intoxica tion, and that he suddenly went up to two women who were walking quietly together, and tripped one of them so that she fell like a log. One of the policemen asked the woman who was thus ill-treated whether she would give the defendant in charge; to which she replied that she would not, as he was drunk. The defendant then went on and the women Mowed him, and he abused them dreadfully, and annoyed the whole neighbourhoo::. Upon being expostulated with, he attacked the police men, who found it necessary to secure him and take him to the stationhouse, where he tore the coat of one and violently assaulted the rest with hands and feet. The defendant declared most solemnly that the state ment just made was in all the leading features false. He was passing soberly and quietly along Bishopsgate-street, when one of the two women alluded to put her arm round his . neck and asked him to give them some drink. He pushed her away—they both followed him, abusing him in the most filthy manner, and he called to one of the officers to take them in charge. The policeman refused to take them in charge, and he (defendant) said that he would report the policeman who refused to do his duty. This was the signal for all sorts of maltreatment ; a desperate attack was made upon him by the three police men, who dragged him to the station-house, beat him with their staffs and put handcuffs on him, although he had never committed an assault upon anybody. lie ad mitted he resisted when they were putting the handcuffs upon him, but who could endure such an indignity ? and he positively asserted that one of the policemen was with the girls and was quite familiar with them. The women did not make their appearance. The LORD MAYOR asked the policemen whether they Were correct in stating that the defendant struck them all ? They all answered in the affirmative, and said that they never had so violent and uncontrollable a man. The Defendant—lll take my solemn oath before God that I never struck a blow. The LORD MAYOR-Have you any witnesses ? The Defendant—No, my Lord. I was by myself, and I could not have witnesses in a station-house. The LORD MAYOR—I am here to take evidence, and those three men swear that you assaulted them. You must find bail. The Defendant—What evidence can a man who is walking home by himself be expected to have against a set of policemen who take the part of prostitutes, and handcuff him and beat him desperately? My hands are cut to pieces by these men, and it is only necessary for three or four of them to get together and trump up any story. It is really a dreadful abuse. The LORD MAYOR—You must find bail. If you have any complaint to make against the policemen, you must go to the City Police Commissioner. The defendant found bail immediately. We have not heard whether the Commissioner entered into the inquiry. BOW-STREET. SHAMEFUL IMPOSITION.—On Saturday Thomas Green the keeper of a marine -store shop, in Clement's-lane, appeared to show cause why he detained two metal spoons, the property of Sarah Cain. The complainant stated that she was a widow, and having been ill for several weeks, she was compelled to pledge a variety of articles, in order to procure f oo d f or herself and children. About a month since she took the spoons in question and some other things to the defend ant's shop. and he advanced her one shilling upon them, and for which she paid him twopence a week interest. At the expiration of a month she went to relieve theni, when the defendant gave her up the other articles, but denied all knowledge of the spoons. Mr. JARDINE inquired whether the defendant was a pawnbroker ? The complainant replied in the negative ; but said he was in the habit of advancin,, money to po or peop l e lik e herself, on various articles brought to him, and for which he charged interest. He did not give them any dupli cate, but entered a list of the articles deposited with him in a book, which was kept by himself. On one occasion he advanced her 2s. 6d., for which he charged her sd. a week interest ; and she paid him 4s. 2d. for ten weeks' interest (a tolerable per centage!). Mr, JARDINE said the defendant had got himself into a serious scrape by acting as a pawnbroker, without being licensed so to do. The complainant said it was a common practice with marine store-shop keepers and others, who took advan tage of the misfortunes and necessities of poor people, and advanced them money on articles, charging fur in terest the amount she had first stated. Mr. JARDINE said the defendant's charge for interest was most exorbitant, and a shameful imposition on poor persons like the complainant. He was not aware that such ieamous frauds were practised on the poor, and would do all in his power to put a stop to them. The defendant declared that he never advanced money on goods. He bought them, and if the parties chose to re purchase them at the expiration of a week, or any other time agreed upon between them, he allowed them to do so on their paying him a trifle for warehouse-room. With regard to the complainant's spoons, he had never seen them. Complainant having called a witness who was present when she delivered the spoons to the defendant, and proved that fact, the defendant called a witness who act ed as his assistant, who swore she did not see the spoons among the things brought to her master's shop by the complainant. In answer to a question from the worthy Magistrate, she admitted that the defendant was in the habit of buying goods for a limited time, such as a week or a month, and when he re-sold them he charged the par ties for warehouse-room. Mr. JARDINE said the defendant's cunning would not shield him from the penalties to which persons were lia ble who practised as pawnbrokers without being duly li censed. He then ordered the defendant to pay complain ant the value of the spoons. and also the costs of the sum mons, which he reluctantly did. Mr. JARDINE then directed the clerk to take down the names and addresses of all the parties, with a view to ul terior proceedings against the defendant, and at the same time expressed his determination to put down such an abominable system of imposition as that prac tised by him. There are scores of these pawn-shops in London, where the business is carried on openly, and under the very noses of the police, who, however. take no steps to put them down. By the Pawnbrokers' Act (25 George III.) it is Qnacted, that every person who shall exercise the trade of a pawnbroker shall take out a licence, and renew the same annually, under a penalty of 501., and that all persons who shall receive any goods, &c., by way of pawn or pledge, for repayment of money lent thereon, shall be deemed pawnbrokers. THAMES-OFFICE. CRIM. CON. EXTRAORDINARY.—THE BLACKSMITH AND ins WIFE. —Dim id Rowland, a blacksmith, was brought before Mr. Broderip for final examination on a chargg of stealing property to a large amount, belonging to James Ruggett, of Bristol. The prosecutor is a striker in a blacksmith's shop at Bristol, and the prisoner, who occupied a room in his house, was a fellow workman. On the 10th of August, the prosecutor's wife left her home, and when Ruggett came home on the evening of that day, he found that two pigs, worth 71., had been removed from a stye and sold by his wife for 41.; she had also taken away two suits of clothes belonging to him, a tea caddy, a green box containing property worth about 501., and other articles. The prosecutor told his friends that he had lost his " old woman" as well as his pigs, and they all sympathised with him except the prisoner, who laughed, 'end said it was a good job, and that Ruggett ought to be delighted he had got rid of such a wife. On the following Monday, the 10th, the prisoner left Bris tol by the railway, and the prosecutor ascertained that his wife had only left the city an hour previous, and that she was joined by the prisoner at the Bath station, and they both set off for London in the same train. Ruggett could hear no tidings of his wife until Saturday last, when he was informed by letter that she was living with the prisoner in Park-street, Limehouse. IW came up to London immediately on the receipt of this intelli• gence, and was passing the King's Head public-house in Limehouse on Tuesday evening, when he saw the prisoner in the tap-room, and at once gave him into custody. The only articles found in his possession be longing to the prosecutor were a handkerchief and a knife, which he identified, but Ruggett's wife, with the most unblushing effrontery, said she had given them to her paramour, and that she took the pigs and other property from her husband's premises to support " Davy," and that she dearly loved him. Mr. Broderip was much disgusted with the woman's conduct, and said she was an adulteress, and he would not hear anything she had to say. Mrs. Dowley, a lodging-housekeeper, in Park-street, Limehouse, said the prisoner hired lodgings for himself and Mrs. Ruggett, whom he called his dear Mrs. R., on Wednesday, the 18th ult., and brought a good deal of property to her house, which had been seized by the po lice since the prisoner had been in custody. The prisoner, in defence, said th knife and handker chief found upon him were given hifu by Mrs. Ruggett, and that she ran away with him instead of his running away with her. Mr. BRODERIP said he should commit the prisoner for trial on the principle of law, that if a man and the owner's wife jointly take away the husband's goods, it may be felony in the man, though he was acting jointly with the wife. The " dear Mrs. R." cried bitterly, and hung over " her dear Davy" for some time on hearing the decision. POLICE CORRECTIONNELLE. The heart of a man is as tough as a flint, and as hard as the nether millstone. The heart of a woman is an inex haustible fountain of love and tenderness. At her tenth year the young girl loves her mamma ; at twenty, the youthful epousee doats, or is presumed to (loot, on her husband ; at fifty, the lady on the decline seeks solace in the love of God ; at sixty, the poor old widow, or vecille fille, loves to distraction her poodle, cat, nor par roquet, but en revanche she has a fine collection of pigeons, and concentrates upon them all those sparks of lingering attention which yet find a resting place in he*. ame refroidie. At the rear of the apartment which she occupies in the Faubourg St. Martin she has constructed with true ornithologic intelligence, a long and commo dious aviary for her cherished pets, which are thus per mitted to enjoy a sweet, a peaceful, and above all, a com fortable existence. Dame Tonnard each evening, having first assured herself that her winged prisoners want for nothing, closes their doors and windows, and early next morning comes to restore them to liberty, a privilege of which they avail themselves with much more prudent forbearance than the bulk of mankind. After having fluttered during the allotted period from roof to roof,and journeyed from house to house, they return at dewy eve to the maternal nest, and enjoy that repose and security which is only to be found under .the shelter of the Penates. _ In front of Madame Tonnard's apartment there lives an old employe, named Lebuis, who has purchased by 30 years' service the right to rise at whatever hour he pleases, and do exactly as he likes from morning to night. Lebuis has also his petite passion—a passion as harmless and innocent as that of his fair neighbour. Lebuis culti vates, trains, and tends throughout the entire length of his three windows a garden of eight good feet by 14 inches. There the fragrant honeysuckle caresses with the amorous embraces of its picturesque branches the graceful jassmine and majestic . dahlia. Not an h our i n the day passes without Lebuis visiting his floral trea sures, and, according to their momentary necessities, ex posing them to the rays of the sun or sheltering them from his too great intensity; while, regularly as the shades of evening descend, with a carafe of filtered water he imparts new life and freshness to drooping, leaf and withered stem. Upon that rarity, a fine day, in the late lugubrious July. Lebuis perceived with the clairvoyance of a true horticulturist, by certain infallible signs and tokens, that his flowers had been rudely visited during his temporary absence, pecked, deranged, defiled. He lay in ambush, and was not slow to perceive a plump-breasted pigeon disporting amongst the leaves of his delicate treasures, and turning up the earth beneath them With its beak, in the hope of finding there some grains of seed suited to its appetite. He easily seized the indiscreet rover, and the first movement of his indignant soul was to twist the bird's neck ; but, moved with compassion at the sight of the graceful creature, whose plumage glittered in the sun like a collar of sapphires and emeralds, Lebuis abandoned his avicidal project. Determined, neverthe less, to prevent the recurrence of so dire a disaster, lie attached to the pigeon's neck a piece of writing, upon which his complaint was engrossed in due form, and let it loose. That same evening, Dame Tonnard, having proceeded, according to custom, to inspect her little aviary before going to bed, was not a little astonished to perceive a paper suspended to the neck of ona of them. With a tremulous hand and fluttering bosom she unfolded the billet (could it be a billet doux?), and read as follows "Madam--I have the honour to acquaint you, that if you do keep y ou r pi geons f rom ravagei n n, c g i te I shall mye garden, should I catch them h erea ft er w i t hi n my eat them boiled aux petits pois. " Your humble servant, " F 1 This horrible threat made DameLEBUIS Tonna ' rd 4m sl P ' y r like an aspen. passed a sl eep l ess night in reflecting nv on the conduct which it was befitting that he should pur sue in such an emergency ; and the night, this time an evil counsellor, i ns pi re d' her with the following reply, which she despatched to her ruthless neighbour by her carrier pigeon : " Monsieur—You are an impertinent fellow to dare to threaten my bi r d s ; and if you kill them, Y" will be an old assassin. —Your servant, " VEUVE TONNARD." Lebuis's reply was conceived in these terms " Madame Tonnard—You are an old fool, the worse for being old. If your birds return to-day, they shall be digested to-morrow.—Not at at , l?Lo E ur u s u eirvsrEt,mploye." The correspondence ended here e ” re I,triv manyotsothefoqutotazhel; a very p re t t y one as it stocx days, from one window to the other the neighbours ex changed the most injurious reproaches, to the great an noyance of all the adjacent inhabitants, whose repose this intestine war most grievously disturbed. Accord ingly, those who were Most litigiously disposed amongst them set on the pair to make the Commissary of Police of the trivial difference. This counsel was r th as e h jg i u y d foellowed ; and a reciprocal complaint having been lodged before the Procureur du Roi, the affair was discussed at the Police Correctionnelle, where both part i es a ppeared at once as plaintiffs and defendants. Th e Tribunal, having heard with admirable patience the r eproaches and recriminations of the rival parties, in consideration of the common category of " faults on both sides," dismissed the partis dos a dos, having first taken care to warn them how they went to law for the future, by making them share the costs equally between them. PEDESTRIANISM.—ThurIow had accomplished one half of his task at Richmond-hill Gardens, at twelve o'clock on Tuesday last, and . has now completed 570 out of 1,000 miles in 1,000 successive hours. He shows no symptoms of distress, but expresses full confidence of being able to finish his arduous undertaking.—Norfolk Gazette, EVENING SUN T H COUNT %Vhezt Beans. I Pease- Per Quarter. s. to s. Itexitam 74 80 Slorpeth t;B 81 Pen nth fiS Sheffield Winchest r 70 79 Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. Carmarthen 4. 4 7 cowbriage_. 7 9 8 0 iwanses 7 6 8 4 a. S. S. to s. 4 In 21' 2i 2t $. to et. 46 e. LO S. 46 36 31 3i; ..tS 40 28 33 s. d. s. d. 00 40 00 4(• 40 44 z 0 2(1 s. d. s. d. 00 23 00 0 II '2, 0 30 45 40 42 s. d. s.d 56 0u 50 53 50 60 ; Barnardcastl , 15 Durham 'l6 II t2O 30 93 64 76 9. 1 r 90 100 6 li 6 50 90 h 9 au 00 10t; 90 HO 0 2n, II 0 60 6 0 100 9 6 110 90 1(0 0 19 61 9 0 9i. 60 70 1 0 0 11 6 8 0 100 WAKEFIELD CORN MARhEI Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk ...... -s, 665. to 638. fine :Os. ---- Lin. and Cam -s. 6.',8. to 664. fine 67 . ----- Yorkshire -8. 56.3. to 60,. fine 64. --- White .----. Foreign, tied -s. 625. to 67.. fine 70 . White -s. 675. to OS:. nne 704. Barley, Norfolk and Suffslk . Lincolnshire -- Yorkshire Wold - Foreign Beans, New - Old • .. . Oatil, Potato -...-.- Poland -s -s. to ti., fine 305. -..... Friesland and Small -5. -s. to 211 s. fine 235. --- healing Shelling ............................". .............. 275. to 29. Od. pet Lou j Ma1t................ •.......... ...5. 393. fine 435. per Lose Rapeseed ....... .... ..... -1 0s 311.05. 361. Os. per Last NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. Red. White . Wheat, Northumberland 6Bs. 7ls - Norfolk and Sutfolk 723 Ilk 744. 70.. - Berwick and Scotch 62s. 70. i...... -1. 763. - Foreign 7og. 744.-.... 72.763. Ryv, Norfolk and Suttolk - Foreign 29 s . 36. IL - 5 . ... 6l Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Sufililk -s. -5....... ....I. -8. i f - Grinding and Feeding 3lg. 365...... -s. -s. L, Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk 5:18 625....." -s. -r. r' Beans, Small ... 388. 405....... -s. -s. - - Tick ......... 40s. 418 -8..-11. Pease, White 4OB. 425. .... ... ...... - Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ..... .... 28. 218....._ - Richmond... hi Stockton --- Feed .--Foreign Flour (per sack) s6s. 571 — S. HULL CORN MARKET Whit( (per Quarter) 72s. 765. 18s. lied 7os. 7-Is. 7tss. Foreign ?is. 765. 78s. Malting 2os. 3U5...25. Grinding O-s :Vs. :03. ~., Oats, British Foreign (in bond) Us. 20s. 225. ir Beans 36s. 38s, 42 8 : ..' Pease, Grey ',Hue and White Slis. 383.1 Di. 525. sns. Otis, —s. 575, 63-. , —l. 331. 351. Wheat, Barley. Linseed Flour R apes ee per sack).... ed per 10 qi uartcrs).... Beans. o.ttrit 4•• tbcrdeen Berwick Coldstream Cupar (Fife) Dunbar Elgin Inverness Kelso Kirkaldy Perth ry• The 60 to 70 27 to 28 21 to 25 —to 45 5i 22 25 18 20 30 33 47 36 22 24 17 19 s 30 48 65 *26 31 .18 22 21 26 59 05 25 28 21 24 37 38 58 60 26 17 22 25 IP 59 48 60 23 25 21 2.4 :12 33 43 5:1 24 '27 17 20 30 22 54 66 29 35 20 25 45 48 60 67 38 40 25 35 41 44 are of the measure varies throughout the CI HADDINCIrON CORN MARKET. 1 Wheat. 1 Barley. 1 Oats. 1 Sens l 82s 0.1 1 as. 6d 21 2 6 01 1 44s Ota ... .0. luntry. First Pease. 42s Od Od —s Od 78s Od 3:is Od 255 Od 42: KI .0s Oil SC Ott 203 04 40i Od Average 3L 16s. lid 4.1204. DALKEITH CORN MARKET. 1 Wheat. Bailey. 1 Oats. Pease. , sits iu Vs 01 ; 28s 01 41s Od ns Od : 4s 3d I As 4d 4.1 s Od 70s at 271 Od lb , 8 4 —; 6,1 GLASGOW CORN Mt RKET. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. 1 Oat; per 2641 b. dritish, old 366 to 40 0 lrt.b ............ ......... view 32 U .36 0 British Second Third First Second Third Bean+. 441 OiII 422 Od 334.9 d a. d. IR 0 to G. ( 410 Canada, free — 0 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b English 0 30 6 Scottish 25 0 27 0 Irish SOINBURGH CI Wheat. Barley. First /Ns. Od 38s. Od. Second '76 0 SS 0 third Average price of Wheat. PRICKS OP PR( Os. sd. to Os. tad. . 0 5 0 7 0 7 010 P0CK,.......•*••••• 0 5 0 7 24 0 100 236 22 0 22.6 17 6 44 0 Beans, per 26011,, English Scottish Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, per 1!.311) Flour, per 2801 h )RN MARKET. Oats. 1 Means, Pears. 30s. 4d. 45g. Oil. 454 (os 27 0 41 t 1 43 0 22 0 40 0 40 0 51. 16s. W. )VISIONS, 4C. Freshßutter, lb. I: 04 to 14.14 Salt Ditt0.............. 0 10 n I 1 Ditto, per ciii t... 93 0 90 0 Beet, per to. Mutton Veal Eggs, dos... 9 Lamo, par qr. ..... 1 6 4 6 rallow, cwt......... 49 0 42 0 Vartern Leaf ...... U 84 0 9 Fetat0e5.1.11b....... 0 0 0 4 E MA Rl' COR Bartoy. N MAR Oats KETS. n 4 O'aiSieaw(kpl.),.. 6 6 Wheat Ditto„.., 5 6 7 0 Barley Ditto 6 • 7 0 Hay, 0 IL 1 EDINBUROH MEAL MARKET Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. Per Stone ot 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £2 0 (.. First Oatmeal r AO second ditto,.,,_ B trleymeat. ........... .—... 1 10 0 Barleyeateal ......... .......... 11 P.nsemeal I $ 0 Peasemeal Pot Barley from 30s. to 455. per sacK R g V g 1 g 1 g CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barley. ) ...—_—___l () !t! . ..„.... s. d. to t. d. s. d. to s. d. 1 s. Truro —. 0 10 0 —0 311 —0 21 1 Helstone St. Austell — 0 7 7 0 31— 0 3SI IandMITI 0 8 8— 0 4 4 0 3 w„ • :',lskeard 0 7 6 0 3 6 0 3 • Launceston — 0 9 - 3 • 0 3 li . 0 2 0 , Camelford 9 0 10 0 3 0 3 4 2 6 2 • Penzance. ..... .. MINING I NTELLIGEW CE. Tons.Cwt.O . 2uantity of Copper urea so ld a t R e d ruth hit week... 4,036 0 0 Average Produce .......... ..... . 6% 2 , lantity of tine Copper ... 301 13 . 0 Amount of sale. 26.91:0 .15s. rd —Average Standard, 128/. t.. od. THE AUGUST METEORS.—It appears that th• observation of the meteors usually seen in August vas tills year prevented by the brightness of the moonlight. No. 39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY. OPPOSITE THE YORK HOTEL, AND No. 76, KING WILLIAItfr STREET, ClTY.—Major -General Sir Howard Elphinstone beg. leave to say that the Spectacles he has now had some time in 10 1 es have fully redeemed the assurance of the Messrs. S. and B. Solo mons as to their excellence, and baring found so muck contort and advantage from their use, far preferable to every other kind of Glasses which he has been in the constant habit of making use Or for a great number of years.-IS, Norfelk.street, Park-lane, the IRO of November, 1840.—General Browne Clayton feels desirous to e' press the comfort and advantage he has derived at his advanced AO of 70 years, and after two years' trial, from the use of Messrs. K ass B. Solomens' newly-invented Spectacles; their valuable invention fully merits the patronage they have received of the Royal Pare/ and so many individuals of high distinction, as well as of the nuts.' rous scientific and eminent medical practitioners.—London, Fob. lath, 1841. Address, Addington Hall, Lancashire.—The Messrs. S. and B. 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Ri c h ar d V avaso ,te, Rec tor ° Stow, Gloucestershire, to Caroline, second daug:Ater o f the 1 1 Lieutenant-General Nir Hen ry Maghull Met yin, Vavaour, Spaldington and Melbourne, York, Bart., awl siiter of the Pre sent Baronet. DIED. On the 26th of June, at Riesbock , Ca t e of Good Hoe' Maria Ireson. wife of Mr, R. Cl arence . On the 27th ult., in Arlingtem-street, the Hon. Go o r g s h Berkeley Molyneux, Lieutenant-Colonel eatnnmanding the Hussars, aged 42. On the 30th ult., at Edward's.terrace,. Pentonville, . as 0* ifs Whitehead. On the Ist inst., at Torquay, Devon s 3T r. A. maidand, eldest son of Mr. T. Maitland, of the East Irtcl'a House. London: Printed and P u bli s h e d by .MURDO YOU/ !O+ ° f No. 112, Strand, at The Sim Offoeg, No. 119, s h audi ls the e.ouuty of Aliddlesex, Monday, ftteraber 6,154/ ITCH M BaTley. ARKET Oats. Wheat. 33 to 28 • ss